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Tenth Five-Year Plan
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Tenth Five-Year Plan may refer to:
The Tenth Five-Year Plan (People's Republic of China), began in 2001 and ended in 2005
The Tenth Five-Year Plan (India), began in 2002 and ended in 2007
The Tenth Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union), began in 1976 and ended in 1980
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HMS Eglantine
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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Eglantine :
an sloop launched in 1917 and sold in 1921
, a launched and transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1941
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Homer L. Ferguson High School
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Ferguson High School was a high school in Newport News, Virginia, United States. It is named for Homer L. Ferguson, who was president of Newport News Shipbuilding from July 22, 1915 until July 31, 1946. It was operated by Newport News Public Schools. The building opened as Warwick Junior High School in 1957 and became Ferguson High School in 1961.
The school closed in 1996, and was used by adjacent Christopher Newport University until the early 2000s. The former site of Ferguson High School on Warwick Boulevard is now the site of Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts, a theater and concert hall, on the campus of Christopher Newport University.
Notable alumni
Larry Bethea, played for the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL
Aaron Brooks, NFL player; played for the Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints, and the Oakland Raiders
Patricia Goodson, concert pianist
Dan Henning, former football coach at Ferguson; former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons (1983–1986), the San Diego Chargers (1989–1991) and of the Boston College Eagles (1994–96)
C. Larry Pope, former President and CEO of Smithfield Foods
Michael Vick, plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers; also starred for the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons before playing for the New York Jets; attended Ferguson and transferred to Warwick High School in his junior year after Ferguson closed
References
Defunct schools in Virginia
Educational institutions established in 1957
Educational institutions disestablished in 1996
High schools in Newport News, Virginia
1957 establishments in Virginia
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Agat () is a Russian male first name. While "Agat" is simply a Russification of certain Western European names (all of which derive from the Greek word agathos, which means good, kind), it was also one of the newly created names documented in the 1920s and 1930s, given after agate, a semi-precious stone.
References
Notes
Sources
[1] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005.
[2] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005.
Masculine given names
Russian masculine given names
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Castellania Coppi
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Castellania Coppi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria. As of 1-1-2017, it had a population of 92 and an area of . It was known until 2019 as Castellania, and renamed by the Piemont regional council in recognition of the cyclist Fausto Coppi in preparation for the centenary of his birth.
The municipality of Castellania Coppi contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Mossabella and Sant'Alosio.
Castellania Coppi borders the following municipalities: Avolasca, Carezzano, Costa Vescovato, Garbagna, Sant'Agata Fossili, and Sardigliano.
Notable Castellanesi
Castellania Coppi is known as the birthplace of, and was renamed in honour of, two famous racing cyclists: Angelo Fausto Coppi (1919–1960) and his brother Serse Coppi (1923–1951).
Demographic evolution
References
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
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"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" is a song by Canadian rock band Nickelback. Lead vocalist Chad Kroeger wrote the lyrics while the entire band composed the music. It was released on March 15, 2004, as the third single from their fourth studio album, The Long Road (2003). It reached the top 40 in Australia and the United Kingdom, topping the latter country's rock chart. It was also successful in Canada, peaking at number 26 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Top 30 chart and number four on the publication's Rock Top 30 listing.
Music video
The music video for "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" is the last known Nickelback music video to feature former drummer Ryan Vikedal. He was later replaced by former 3 Doors Down drummer Daniel Adair.
The music video shows the band playing in what looks like a warehouse, where a light is shown floating around them, as well as what appear to be high school couples in various settings throughout the first half of the video. As the video continues, the couples are distracted by the light which has spread around them. The various groups follow the mysterious light to the warehouse that the band is playing in, and become captivated by both the light and the band for the duration of the video. The video ends with Nickelback disappearing with the mysterious light.
Track listings
US promo CD
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 3:51
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 4:15
Radio ID – 0:03
Radio ID – 0:04
European enhanced maxi-single
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 3:50
"Where Do I Hide" – 3:42
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 4:15
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good"
Dutch CD single
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 3:50
"Where Do I Hide" – 3:42
Australian maxi-single
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 3:51
"Leader of Men" – 3:44
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" – 4:15
Personnel
Nickelback – music, production
Chad Kroeger – lead vocals, guitar, lyricist
Ryan Peake – guitars, vocals
Mike Kroeger – bass guitar
Ryan Vikedal – drums
Joey Moi – production, engineering
Randy Staub – mixing
Ron Burman – A&R
Bryan Coleman – management
Charts
Release history
References
2003 songs
2004 singles
Nickelback songs
Roadrunner Records singles
Song recordings produced by Joey Moi
Songs written by Chad Kroeger
Songs written by Mike Kroeger
Songs written by Ryan Peake
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Washington's 11th legislative district
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Washington's 11th legislative district is one of forty-nine districts in Washington state for representation in the state legislature.
The district includes southern Seattle, Renton, Tukwila, and a portion of Kent.
The district's legislators are state senator Bob Hasegawa and state representatives David Hackney (position 1) and Steve Bergquist (position 2), all Democrats.
See also
Washington Redistricting Commission
Washington State Legislature
Washington State Senate
Washington House of Representatives
Washington (state) legislative districts
References
External links
Washington State Redistricting Commission
Washington House of Representatives
Map of Legislative Districts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPMC%20Harrisburg
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UPMC Harrisburg
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UPMC Harrisburg is a 409-bed urban hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) system. The hospital serves as the hub for the UPMC network, providing the most advanced care to the residents throughout southcentral Pennsylvania.
UPMC Harrisburg features:
• A state-of-the-art Labor and Delivery area with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
• World-class cardiology care through UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute.
• The region’s premier kidney transplant center.
• Advanced pediatric care with UPMC Children’s Harrisburg in partnership with nationally recognized UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
• Leading-edge care in neurosciences, women’s care, comprehensive stroke care, and more.
This campus is also home to the Alex Grass Medical Sciences Building, which includes:
• Bone, Joint, and Spine Institutes
• Laboratory services
• Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Select Medical rehab services
UPMC Harrisburg has earned the Magnet® designation.
The hospital is a teaching facility providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services. Specialties include women's health, cardiovascular care and orthopedic, stroke, and rehabilitative services. Physician residency programs exist on-site for family practice, internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, and general surgery.
In November 2020 UPMC announced the opening of the new pediatric unit at UPMC Harrisburg. The new unit was opened in partnership with the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and consist of 26-pediatric-beds. The unit treats infants, children, teens, and young adults age 0-21. The unit is named "UPMC Children’s Harrisburg" and features telemedicine connections to the main hospital in Pittsburgh.
In May 2021 UPMC announced the renaming of UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg to UPMC Harrisburg, effective May 24.
See also
List of hospitals in Harrisburg
References
External links
Hospitals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Hospitals in Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh
Teaching hospitals in Pennsylvania
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Ocellularia aptrootiana is a species of corticolous lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Sri Lanka, it was formally described as a new species in 2014 by lichenologists Gothamie Weerakoon, Robert Lücking, and Helge Thorsten Lumbsch. The type specimen was collected from Mahailluppallama (Anuradhapura, North Central Province) at an altitude of . Here, in a low-altitude, dry, semi-evergreen forest, it was found growing around a water tank. The specific epithet aptrootiana honours Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot, "for his important contributions to tropical lichenology and his help with the research by the first author". Ocellularia aptrootiana has a grey, smooth to uneven or cracked thallus up to convert in diameter. The ascospores are hyaline, ellipsoid in shape, contain seven septa, and measure 20–25 by 6–7 μm. Secondary chemicals present in the lichen include psoromic acid, subpsoromic acid, and 2’-O-demethylpsoromic acids.
See also
List of Ocellularia species
References
aptrootiana
Lichens of Sri Lanka
Lichens described in 2014
Taxa named by Helge Thorsten Lumbsch
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
Taxa named by Gothamie Weerakoon
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North Sumatra () is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is the fourth most-populous province after West Java, East Java and Central Java. The province covers an area of 72,981 km2. According to the 2020 population census, the province had a population of 14,799,361.
History
The last seafarers that made it to Sumatra were the Dutch. A government of North Sumatra named Gouvernement van Sumatra with the area covering the whole of the island of Sumatra, was headed by a governor who was based in the city of Medan.
After independence, the first session of the National Committee of Regions (KND), Sumatra was then divided into three sub-provinces namely North Sumatra, Central Sumatra and South Sumatra. North Sumatra province itself was an amalgamation of three administrative regions called Residencies namely: the Residency of Aceh, the East Sumatra Residency, and the Residency of Tapanuli.
With the publication of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia (R.I.) No. 10 Year 1948 on April 15, 1948, it was determined that Sumatra was divided into three provinces, each of which has the right to organize and manage their own household, namely: North Sumatra, Central Sumatra Province, and South Sumatra Province. The date of 15 April 1948 was subsequently determined as the anniversary of North Sumatra Province.
In early 1949, the reorganization of government took place in Sumatra, with the decision of the Government Emergency R.I. No. 22 / Govt / Emergency Government on May 17, 1949, which abolished the post of Governor of North Sumatra. Furthermore, the Government Emergency Decree R.I. on December 17, 1949, established the Province of Aceh and Tapanuli Province / East Sumatra. Then, with a Government Regulation in lieu of Law No. 5 Year 1950 on August 14, 1950, such provisions were lifted and reshaped North Sumatra Province.
Act R.I. No. 24 of 1956, promulgated on December 7, 1956, established an autonomous Aceh Province, independent of the Province of North Sumatra.
Geography
The province of North Sumatra stretches across the island of Sumatra, between the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca. It borders the province of Aceh on the northwest and Riau and West Sumatra in the southeast. It has an area of 72,981 km2. The province contains a broad, low plain along the Strait of Malacca on which the provincial capital, Medan, is located. In the south and west, the land rises to the mountain range that runs the length of Sumatra; the mountains here are dominated by Lake Toba, formed from the caldera of an ancient volcano. Several large islands in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra are currently part of North Sumatra, most notably Nias Island and the Batu Islands.
There are 419 islands in North Sumatra province. The outer islands include the island of Simuk (Nias), and the island of Berhala in the Strait of Sumatra (Malacca).
The Nias archipelago consists of the main island of that name and other smaller islands in the vicinity, located off the coast of western Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The administration center is located in Gunung Sitoli.
The Batu Islands consist of 51 islands including four major islands: Sibuasi, Pini, Tanahbala, Tanahmasa. Pulautelo is the administrative center on the island of Sibuasi. The Batu Islands are located to the southeast of the island of Nias. Other islands in North Sumatra are Imanna, Pasu, Bawa, Hamutaia, Batumakalele, Lego, Masa, Bau, Simaleh, Makole, Jake, and Sigata, Wunga.
In North Sumatra, there are currently two national parks, the Gunung Leuser National Park and Batang Gadis National Park. According to the Ministerial Decree, No. 44 of 2005, the forest area in North Sumatra today covers 3,742,120 hectares (ha), which consists of a Natural Reserve Area/Natural Conservation Area covering an area of 477,070 ha, 1,297,330 ha of protected forest, 879,270 ha of limited production forest, 1,035,690 ha of permanent production forest, and 52,760 ha of production forest that can be converted.
However, the figure above is only de jure. In reality, the forests are not as large as the figures suggest. A lot of the forests are damaged, due to encroachment and illegal logging. So far, over 206,000 ha of forests in Sumatra has experienced changes in function. As many as 163,000 ha were converted to plantations and 42,900 ha were transmigration areas.
Governance
The administrative center of North Sumatra is located in the city Medan, governed by a governor. Earlier, North Sumatra was included in a single Sumatra province when Indonesia became independent in 1945. In 1950, North Sumatra Province was formed including the former residencies of East Sumatra, Tapanuli, and Aceh. In 1956, Aceh split off to form a separate Aceh Province.
Administrative divisions
North Sumatra is currently subdivided into 25 regencies and 8 autonomous cities (formerly municipalities), listed below with their populations at the 1 May 2010 Census, the 1 May 2015 Intermediate Census, and the 2020 Census. these in turn are sub-divided into 444 districts, which in turn are further sub-divided into 6,110 villages.With proposals under consideration to create three new provinces from parts of the present North Sumatra, these regencies and cities are grouped below according to the putative new province in which they are situated:
Nias Islands Region
This region contains the substantial island of Nias and various small offshore islands, including the Batu Islands to the south which form part of South Nias Regency.
# South Nias Regency includes the Batu Islands.
Tapanuli Region
East Sumatra Region
Demographics
Population
North Sumatra recorded a population of 12,985,075 in the 2010 national census, making the 4th most populous province in Indonesia, with a sex ratio of 99.59 men per 100 women. The 2015 Intermediate Census gave a total of 13,923,262, while the 2020 Census gave a total of 14,799,361.
Ethnic groups
North Sumatra is a multi-ethnic province. The Malay people are regarded as the native people of this province. The Javanese reside around Deli Serdang Regency, including Medan, while the west coast of the province is mainly inhabited by Pakpak, Mandailing and Minangkabau people. The central region around Lake Toba, is predominantly inhabited by Bataks. The Nias people reside mostly in Nias Island and the surrounding islands. With the opening of tobacco plantations in East Sumatra during the Dutch East Indies era, the colonial government employed many contract labourers for plantations. The newcomers were Chinese and Indian migrants, who were welcomed in Sumatra.
Bataks make up 44.95% out of the population, including Batak Karo and Mandailing. The Javanese come second with 30.62%, the Malays add up to 5.92% and the ethnic Chinese comprise 5.75%. Nias people make up around 4.10% and the rest are Minangkabau (2.66%), Acehnese (1.27%), ethnic Indian (0.80%) and other ethnic groups (1.15%)
The distribution of the tribes, clans, and ethnic groups in North Sumatra is as follows:
Batak Toba : throughout North Sumatra.
Batak Karo : mostly in Karo Regency, and Deli Serdang.
Batak Mandailing: East coast and west coast region.
Batak Pakpak : majority in Dairi Regency.
Malay : around the east coast.
Nias : mostly in Nias Island, with a small population around the west coast.
Javanese : Mostly resided east coast area, majority in Medan, Deli Serdang, Serdang Bedagai and Labuhan Batu.
Chinese Indonesian : urban areas such as Medan, Deli Serdang, Binjai, Tanjungbalai and Pematangsiantar.
Minangkabau people : mostly in Medan and Mandailing Natal.
Indian Indonesian : several districts around Medan, Binjai and Deli Serdang.
Acehnese people : Medan, Binjai up to northern parts such as Langkat.
Languages
In general, the widely used language is Indonesian. The Malays around Deli Serdang and Langkat mostly speak Malay language, which is similar to Peraknese Malay language. The Javanese people, especially around rural and plantation areas, use Javanese in daily conversation, while the urban Javanese mostly speak Indonesian.
The Batak people speak Bataknese, which is divided into four dialects (Silindung, Samosir, Humbang and Toba), while Batak Karo people use Karo language and the Batak Mandailing people around South Tapanauli, Padang Lawas and Mandailing Natal speak Mandailing language. Nias language is spoken among Nias people.
Mostly ethnic Chinese in North Sumatra are fluent in Hokkien with Zhangzhou dialect mixed with Malay/Bataknese/Indonesian words, while for Chinese around Labuhan Batu area using Quanzhou dialect that has similarity with Bagansiapiapi Hokkien. The small Teochew and Hainanese speakers are also exist. Majority Indians in and around Medan speaks Tamil. The Acehnese people speak Aceh and Gayo language.
Religion
More than 95 percent out of all residents are either Muslim or Christian; the remainder are Buddhists, Hindus, or follow folk religions such as Confucians, Parmalim, and Taoists. These are the recognized religions of North Sumatra:
Islam: especially embraced by the Malays, Minangkabau, Javanese, Aceh, Mandailing, Angkola, and partly Toba, Karo, Simalungun and Pakpak
Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism): especially embraced by Batak Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Nias, Pakpak and partly Batak Angkola, Chinese and Indian
Buddhism: mainly embraced by Chinese in urban areas
Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese folk religion: predominantly embraced by Chinese in urban areas
Hinduism and Sikhism: especially embraced by Indian in urban areas, there are also small Batak Karo people that practising Hinduism in rural areas
Traditional religion such as Parmalim/Pemena: embraced by most of the Batak tribe centered in Huta Tinggi, Laguboti district, Toba Samosir Regency
Economy
Energy
North Sumatra is rich in natural resources such as natural gas in the area of Tandam, Binjai and petroleum in Pangkalan Brandan, Langkat which has been explored since the days of the Dutch East Indies. Besides that, in Kuala Tanjung, Asahan, there are the company named PT Inalum (abbreviated of Indonesia Aluminium) that engaged in ore mining and smelting of aluminium which is the only one in Southeast Asia.
The rivers that disgorge in the mountains around Lake Toba is also a natural resource that is potential enough to be an exploited to resource of hydropower plants. Asahan hydropower which is the largest hydropower plant in Sumatra Island is located on Porsea in Toba Samosir Regency.
Moreover, in the mountains there are many geothermal hot spots were very likely to be developed as a source of thermal energy or steam that can then be transformed into electrical energy.
Agriculture and farming
The province is famous for its plantation area, until now, the plantation economy of the province remains to be excellent. The plantations are managed by private companies and the state. SOE Plantation area is located in North Sumatra, among others PT Perkebunan Nusantara II (PTPN II), PTPN IV and PTPN III.
Besides North Sumatra is also famous for its plantation area. Until now, the plantation economy of the province remains to be excellent. The plantations are managed by private companies also the state. North Sumatra produces rubber, cocoa, tea, palm oil, coffee, cloves, coconut, cinnamon, and tobacco. The plantation is spread in East coast area such as Deli Serdang, Serdang Bedagai Langkat, Simalungun, Asahan, Labuhan Batu, and also around west coast: Central and South Tapanuli.
The size of rice farming. In 2005 the total area of 807.302 hectares of crops stay, or down about 16.906 hectares compared to 2004 reaching vast 824.208 hectares. The productivity of rice plants in 2005 was able to be increased to 43.49 quintals per hectare ranges from 2004 are still 43.13 quintals per hectare, and the rice crop fields change into 26.26 quintals of 24.73 quintals per hectare. In 2005, the rice surplus in North Sumatra reached 429 tons from about 1/2/27 million tonnes of total rice production in this area.
The size of rubber plantations. In 2002 the total area of rubber plantations in Sumatra is 489.491 hectares with a production of 443.743 tonnes. While in 2005, the area under rubber decreased or stayed 477,000 hectares with production also dropped to only 392,000 tons.
Irrigation: The size of technical irrigation entirely in North Sumatra is 132.254 ha that covers an area of 174 irrigation site. A total of 96.823 ha at 7 Irrigation area is very critical damage.
Agricultural Products: North Sumatra produces rubber, cocoa, tea, palm oil, coffee, cloves, coconut, cinnamon, and tobacco. These commodities have been exported to many countries and contributing huge foreign exchange for Indonesia. In addition to commodities, North Sumatra is also known as a producer of horticultural commodities (vegetables and fruits); e.g. Medanese Orange, Deli Guava, Cabbage Vegetable, Tomato, Potato and Carrot generated by Karo, Simalungun and North Tapanuli. The horticultural products have been exported to Malaysia and Singapore.
Sumatra Mandheling and Sumatra Lintong coffee beans are grown in North Sumatra and largely exported to the United States. Mandheling is named after the similarly spelt Mandailing people located in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The name is the result of a misunderstanding by the first foreign purchaser of the variety, and no coffee is actually produced in the "Mandailing region". Lintong on the other hand, is named after the Lintong district, also located in North Sumatra.
Banking
In addition to national banks, state banks and international banks, currently there are 61 units of Credited Peoples Banks (BPR) and 7 Credited Sharia Bank (BPRS). Data from Bank Indonesia showed, in January 2006, the Third Party Funds (TPF), which absorbed BPR reached Rp253,366,627,000 (around US$19 million) and loans reached Rp260.152.445.000 (around US$19.5 million). While assets reached Rp340,880,837,000 (US$25.5 million).
Mining
There are three leading mining company in North Sumatra:
Sorikmas Mining (SMM), main base around South Tapanauli with gold as main commodity
Newmont Horas Nauli (PTNHN).
Dairi Prima Mineral
Industry
North Sumatra has several industrial sites, mainly around Deli Serdang. Medan Industrial Area () stands for KIM is the main industrial complex in Medan.
Sei Mangkei Industrial Area
Sei Mangkei Industrial Area, also known as Sei Mangkei - Integrated Sustainable Palm Oil Cluster (SM-ISPOIC), is located in Simalungun Regency and was formally opened on 12 June 2010. Four companies have joined in this area, with investment costs totaling up to Rp1.5 trillion ($176 million). In April 2011, three other companies also joined in the Sei Mangkei area. They are Procter & Gamble Co for making CPO derivatives of cosmetic raw materials, Ferrostaal AG and Fratelli Gianazza SpA.
Export and Import
North Sumatra export performance is likely to increase from year to year. In 2004 the foreign exchange earnings reached US$4.24 billion, up 57.72% from the previous year from the sector.
Coffee exports from North Sumatra reached a record high of 46.290 tonnes with Japan's main export destination countries during the last five years. Sumatra coffee exports also listed as the top 10 highest export products with a value of US$3.25 million or 47200.8 tons from January to October 2005.
Of the garment sector, garment exports tend to fall in January 2006. The results of special apparel industry down 42.59% from US$1,066,124 in 2005, to US$2,053 in 2006 in the same month.
Import export performance of some industrial products showed a decline. Namely furniture fell 22.83% from US$558,363 (2005) to US$202,630 (2006), plywood down 24.07 percent from US$19,771 to US$8,237, misteric acid down 27.89% from US$115,362 into US$291,201, stearic acid dropped 27.04% from US$792,910 to US$308,020, and soap noodles down 26% from US$689,025 to US$248,053.
Export performance of agricultural imports also decreased the essential oil dropped 18 percent from US$162,234 to US$773,023, seafood / shrimp, coconut oil and robusta coffee also dropped quite dramatically to 97 per cent. Some commodities were increased (a value of over US $ Million) is cocoa, horticulture, arabica coffee, palm oil, natural rubber, seafood (non shrimp). For the results of the molding industry, vehicle tires and rubber gloves.
Tourism
North Sumatra has lots of travel destinations. According to Ministry of Tourism, North Sumatra is ranked on the top 10 most visited province in Indonesia. There are various kinds of tourist destinations that could be found throughout the province, Berastagi is best known as a hilly place with a cooler temperature as the whole province is in tropical region. Lake Toba is also a popular travel destination. Toba is a large volcanic lake which has an island inside of it, Samosir Island. Nias Island and other several islands nearby named Batu Islands is a popular spot for surfing. The capital itself, Medan, has many places of interest, mainly for its historical sites. The city is also known for its variety of cuisine. The list below is the most known places of interest in North Sumatra:
Medan is the capital of North Sumatra province with a diverse crowd population of tribes and religions in unity. There are many historical tourist objects to spot and various great cuisine to taste in Medan.
Lake Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world. Located in the centre of North Sumatra, the lake can be reached via Parapat (Simalungun regency), Tongging (Karo regency), and Balige (Toba Samosir regency).
Samosir Island is a volcanic island in middle of Lake Toba, It is a popular tourist destination due to its exotic Batak history and the vistas it offers. The tourist resorts are concentrated in the Tuktuk, Tomok, Simanindo, and Pangururan areas.
Bukit Lawang known for the largest animal sanctuary of Sumatran orangutan (around 5,000 orangutans occupy the area), and also the main access point to the Gunung Leuser National Park from the east side.
Nias Island is an island off the western coast of Sumatra. Nias is an internationally popular surfing destination where many international surfing competitions are held. The best known surfing area is Sorake Bay, close to the town of Teluk Dalam, on the southern tip. This is enclosed by the beaches of Lagundri and Sorake. Tourists can visit the island by plane from Medan, or by ferry from Sibolga.
Bawomataluo village is a settlement in Teluk Dalam of the South Nias Regency of Indonesia. The village was built on a flat-topped hill, the name Bawomataluo meaning "Sun Hill", and is one of the best-preserved villages built in traditional style.
Berastagi is a small highland town located 63 kilometres to the south of Medan, and is a popular weekend destination for city dwellers due to its chilled and fresh mountain air.
Dolok Tinggi Raja has a unique soil colour is white because it is located in a limestone hill that resembles snow, and also in the middle of this area there are lakes with hot blue-green coloured water, located in Tinggi Raja, Simalungun.
Lumbini Natural Park is a Buddhist Theravada-style temple that is similar to Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar located in Berastagi.
Dua Warna Waterfall is a two-coloured waterfall located in Sibolangit, around 30 km from Medan city.
Poncan Island is a resort including a beach, located on west offshore of Sibolga city.
Berhala Island is a 2.5 hectares island located in the Malaka Strait near the boundary of Indonesia and Malaysia. It is a popular place for snorkeling and watching turtle nesting. Visitors can reach the island via boat from Sergei in the Serdang Bedagai regency.
Sipisopiso, one of the highest waterfalls in Indonesia, is located near Tongging in Karo regency, about 1 hour drive from Berastagi.
Simalem Resort, is a 5 star resort located around 8 km from Munthe village, Karo Regency. This place is the good place for sightseeing the whole Lake Toba from top of the hill.
Taman Iman, Indonesian name for The Garden of Faith located in Sitinjo village, Dairi around 10 km away from Sidikalang, it is a religious garden with dioramas from 5 religion of Indonesia (Islam, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Confucian).
Bahal temple, an ancient Buddhist monastery located in Padang Bolak, Padang Lawas Regency, around 3 hours journey with car from Padangsidempuan. The temple is believed to be constructed between the 11th to 13th century AD.
Sigura-Gura Waterfall located in Porsea, Toba Samosir Regency, this is a waterfall that has a height that reaches 250 metres.
Rahmat International Wildlife Museum and Gallery, is a natural history museum in Medan. The museum displays various taxidermy collections of wildlife from the smallest to the largest according to the habitat.
Tangkahan is a tourist site situated at the edge of the Gunung Leuser national park, around 20 km due north from Bukit Lawang, The main tourist draw at Tangkahan is the presence of Sumatran elephant.
Salib Kasih, Indonesian name for Love Cross, located in Tarutung. The development objective of this cross-shaped monument is to commemorate the service and dedication of Dr. Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen which is a missionary from northern Germany. This Parks built on Dolok (Hill) Siatas Barita.
Lingga is one of the village in the Karo Regency. Located at an altitude of about 1200 m above sea level, approximately 15 km from Brastagi and 5 km from the Kabanjahe. Linga is unique Karo traditional house and village that has been built an estimated of 250 years ago, but still sturdy.
Tanjungbalai is an old city situated approximately 180 km from Medan, the capital city of Sumatera Utara. In fact, it holds the last train station from the capital city. You can enjoy range of seafood and modern dishes at traditional restaurants and modern ones. The town boasts its sea produces such as fish and clams in various species. There is some sections of this town that still bears historical building established in the Dutch colonial. The cost to come to this town is the cheapest by train spending around 4 hours. You can either do a day trip or stay for a week to get a better look at the once busiest Dutch financial district in the east coast of Sumatera Utara.
Transportation
Airports
The modern Kualanamu International Airport was opened on July 25, 2013 and is located almost 40 kilometres from Medan. The airport replaces the old Polonia International Airport. It serves flights to several Indonesian and Malaysian cities, along with flights to Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia. In passenger numbers, Kualanamu is the fifth largest airport in Indonesia.
Other airports in North Sumatra are:
Lasondre Airport in Batu Islands
Binaka Airport in Gunung Sitoli, Nias Island
Aek Godang Airport in Padang Sidempuan, South Tapanauli Regency
Sibisa Airport in Ajibata, Toba Samosir Regency
Ferdinand Lumban Tobing Airport or Pinangsori Airport in Sibolga, Centra Tapanauli Regency
Silangit Airport, in Siborong-Borong
Seaports
North Sumatra has an international seaport at Belawan, near Medan and is now preparing to have a new seaport at Kuala Tanjung, in Batubara Regency, for about Rp1 trillion ($114 million) budget.
Road
In North Sumatra, there is 2098.05 kilometres down a state-road, which pertained only steady 1095.70 kilometres or 52.22 percent and 418.60 kilometres or 19.95 percent in a state of being, remaining in a state of disrepair. While of 2752.41 kilometres of provincial roads, which is in a state of steady length 1237.60 kilometres or 44.96 per cent, while in a state of being 558.46 kilometres, or 20.29 percent. As damaged roads length 410.40 kilometres, or 14.91 percent, and the damaged length 545.95 kilometres, or 19.84 percent.
There are 28 km toll road in named as Belmera Toll Road in Medan, connecting from Belawan to Tanjungmorawa, passing east side of the city, the government also on going to built a 62 km Medan–Kualanamu–Tebing Tinggi Toll Road and 17 km Medan–Binjai Toll Road. A project to built toll road from Tebing Tinggi to Parapat and also from Tebing Tinggi to Kisaran also in proportion.
Rail
Regional Division I North Sumatra and Aceh or Divre I is regional railway from Aceh to North Sumatra operated by Kereta Api Indonesia, but only in-operation railway are from Binjai to Medan (Sri Lelawangsa), Medan to Pematangsiantar (Siantar Express), Medan to Tanjungbalai (Putri Deli) and Medan to Rantau Parapat (Sribilah), there are an underconstruction rail way to Banda Aceh in Aceh province also to Pekanbaru, Riau province. Medan also has it first airport rail link in Indonesia, called Kualanamu Airport Rail Link. It connects the city to Kualanamu Airport.
See also
List of people from North Sumatra
References
External links
North Sumatra Government
Provinces of Indonesia
Andaman Sea
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Kenneth Stuart Stringfellow (born October 30, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer. Best known for his work with The Posies, R.E.M., and the re-formed Big Star, Stringfellow's discography includes more than 200 albums.
Early life and education
Stringfellow was born in Hollywood, California. His father, a television executive, relocated the family frequently as his career developed, and Stringfellow went to elementary schools in New York, Chicago, and Detroit. After his parents divorced, in 1978, he moved to Bellingham, Washington. In high school, Stringfellow, who had learned to play piano at nine and guitar at 11, met Jon Auer, with whom he would later form The Posies.
Stringfellow attended college at the University of Washington, where he and Auer remained in touch, trading cassettes of songs.
Career
The Posies
In 1988, Stringfellow and Auer began playing together as The Posies and self-released their first album, Failure, which included some of the earlier material they'd written separately. Immediately after the record's release, Stringfellow left the University of Washington to focus on the Posies full-time.
Failure was well received by the press and put into regular rotation at college and commercial radio stations, prompting Stringfellow and Auer to quickly assemble a full band. Adding Mike Musberger on drums and Rick Roberts on bass, the Posies made their live debut in May 1988, two weeks after the release of Failure. The album was subsequently reissued by the Seattle-based independent label, Pop Llama. An expanded version of Failure with eight bonus tracks was reissued by Omnivore Recordings in 2014.
Following a series of dates with The Replacements, Hoodoo Gurus, and They Might Be Giants, among others, the Posies were signed by DGC, a Geffen Records imprint. Dear 23 was released on DGC in September 1990, with the album's lead single "Golden Blunders" appearing in the Top 10 on the college radio charts.
The band's next record, Frosting on the Beater, was released in 1993 and included the song "Dream All Day", which hit No. 4 on the modern rock charts and No. 17 on mainstream radio. In addition to extensively touring the United States, the Posies toured internationally and developed large followings in Europe, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere. Their final record for DGC, Amazing Disgrace, was released in 1996.
The Posies broke up in 1998, but reformed in 2000 for an acoustic tour and have since recorded three more albums, Every Kind of Light in 2005, Blood/Candy in 2010 and Solid States in 2016. Jon Auer and drummer Frankie Siragusa told radio station KUOW that they had left the band in August 2021 as they learned of allegations from 3 former girlfriends (Holly Munoz Nixon, Kristine Chambers et Kristi Houk ) that Stringfellow had been abusive.
Big Star
In 1993, Stringfellow and Auer were recruited to join Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens for a Big Star reunion; Stringfellow and Auer performed and recorded as members of Big Star until Alex Chilton's death in 2010. They both reunited with Big Star's Jody Stephens for at least one of the ongoing series of "Big Star's Third" concerts, in November 2014.
R.E.M.
In 1997 Stringfellow began a long association with R.E.M.:
Stringfellow performed with the band on world tours in 1999, 2003, 2004, and 2005, and appears on several R.E.M. records, including the Man on the Moon soundtrack, Reveal, and Around the Sun.
Side projects
Although the Posies were Stringfellow's main project during much of the 1980s and 1990s, he also performed and recorded with Sky Cries Mary (a band he founded with Auer in 1989), Lagwagon, Saltine, White Flag, and The Minus Five.
Stringfellow co-wrote and recorded several songs with Scott Miller's band The Loud Family in the mid-1990s, appearing as a guest guitarist and vocalist on their albums The Tape of Only Linda (1994) and Interbabe Concern (1996). He would later produce and perform on Miller's posthumous Game Theory album Supercalifragile (2016).
In 2003, Stringfellow and Auer released Private Sides, a six-song split EP on Arena Rock Recording Co./Rykodisc. As a sideman, Stringfellow has worked with Brendan Benson, Cali, Snow Patrol, and others. Beyond North America and Europe, Stringfellow has also collaborated with Senegal band Waflash.
In 2007, he formed The Disciplines with members of the Norwegian pop band Briskeby. The Disciplines released two records, Smoking Kills in 2009 and Virgins of Menace in 2011.
In March 2015 he announced a country album with Holly Muñoz.The album was a response to Willie Nelson's 1975 album Red Headed Stranger.
The Boston Globe commented that it was a " fascinating left-field listen" noting "the gorgeous back-and-forth dueting of Stringfellow and Munoz". Willie Nelson's daughter Amy Nelson also called the album "amazing" on her Instagram feed and thanked them on behalf of the Nelson family.
Solo recordings
Stringfellow has released four solo albums: This Sounds Like Goodbye (1997, on the Hidden Agenda label), Touched (2001, on Manifesto Records), Soft Commands (2004, on Yep Roc Records), and Danzig in the Moonlight (2012). Released on Lojinx (Europe), Spark & Shine (US) and Target Earth (Japan), Danzig in the Moonlight featured Charity Rose Thielen and Margaret Cho. In 2008, he also released an EP of cover songs, The Sellout Cover Sessions Vol. 1. He has toured extensively in support of each of the albums.
Production work
Since 2005, Stringfellow has been increasingly involved with production in his studio in Bothell, and has composed film music and string arrangements. He has produced albums for Damien Jurado, The Long Winters, and Carice van Houten.
In 2016, he produced and performed on the final Game Theory studio album, Supercalifragile (2017), a collaborative project that completed the unfinished album Scott Miller had been working on at the time of his death.
Stringfellow has composed soundtracks for short films such as The Kitchen Party and Bunker.
Personal life
Stringfellow is married to Dominique Sassi Stringfellow; they have a daughter, Aden. He was previously married to The Fastbacks' bass player Kim Warnick.
Sexual misconduct allegations
Allegations of sexual misconduct against Stringfellow by 3 former girlfriends from 2015 to 2018 (Holly Muñoz Nixon, Kristine Chambers and Kristi Houk ) were made public in an October 2021 article by Seattle public radio station KUOW. Stringfellow denied the allegations.
Ken Stringfellow and his wife Dominique Stringfellow published a joint statement to the station : ‘As a family, we view sexual assault as a very serious issue. As an ethically non-monogamous married couple, we are particularly attuned to the importance of consent and communication in relationships. Over the years, Ken has had consensual and respectful sexual relationships with other women, including the women making the allegations. Our commitment to each other made room for him to do that. While we categorically deny these allegations, we respect these women and do not intend to speak negatively about them’’ . Ken Stringfellow added : ’I would never want to harm anyone with whom I have a relationship – sexual or otherwise. Consent has been the foundation of every sexual relationship I’ve had, and violence has never been a part of any of those relationships. It simply is not who I am as a person who respects women.’’
Jon Auer from The Posies quit the band in August after speaking for nine hours with Kristine Chambers who had made allegations and informed Stringfellow that he no longer planned to work with him. Drummer Frankie Siragusa also resigned from the band via his Facebook page. Following the publication of the allegations, Jody Stephens, lone surviving member of Big Star, published a statement and removed Stringfellow from forthcoming tribute performances.
Selected discography
Solo
This Sounds Like Goodbye (1997)
Touched (2001)
Soft Commands (2004)
The Sellout Cover Sessions Vol. 1 (2008)
Danzig in the Moonlight (2012)
I Never Said I'd Make It Easy: a Ken Stringfellow Collection (2014, initial Australian release)
with The Posies
Failure (1988)
Dear 23 (1990)
Frosting on the Beater (1993)
Amazing Disgrace (1996)
Success (1998)
In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In (2000)
Alive Before the Iceberg (2000)
At Least, At Last (Box Set) (2000)
Dream All Day: The Best of the Posies (2000)
Nice Cheekbones and a Ph.D. (2001)
Every Kind of Light (2005)
Blood/Candy (2010)
Solid States (2016)
with Big Star
Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 (1993)
Big Star Story (2003)
In Space (2005)
Other
with R.E.M.
Man on the Moon OST (1999)
Reveal (2001)
In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (2003)
Perfect Square (2004)
Around the Sun (2004)
R.E.M. Live (2007)
with The Disciplines
Smoking Kills (2009)
Virgins of Menace (2011)
with Jon Auer
Private Sides (2003)
with Sky Cries Mary
Until the Grinders Cease (1989)
Don't Eat the Dirt (1990)
with The Loud Family
The Tape of Only Linda (1994)
Interbabe Concern (1996)
with The Minus 5
Old Liquidator (1995)
Let the War Against Music Begin (2001)
Down with Wilco (2003)
with Lagwagon
Double Plaidinum (Fat Wreck Chords, 1997)
with Chariot
I Am Ben Hur (1998)
with The Orange Humble Band
Assorted Creams (1998)
Humblin' (Across America) (2001)
Depressing Beauty (2015)
with Saltine
Find Yourself Alone (1999)
Reveal Love (1999)
with Bootsy Holler (as "Twin Princess")
The Complete Recordings (2000)
with White Flag
On the Way Down (1999)
Eternally Undone (2001)
History Is Fiction (2002)
Piangi Con Me (2006)
with Holly Muñoz (as Ken and Holly)
The Record: A Country Concept Album (2015)
with Big Fresh
"The Voices", on Sweeps EP (2018)
References
External links
1968 births
American punk rock guitarists
Arena Rock Recording Company artists
Living people
Singers from California
People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
R.E.M. personnel
Big Star members
The Minus 5 members
American punk rock singers
The Posies members
American multi-instrumentalists
American alternative rock musicians
American rock keyboardists
Alternative rock guitarists
Alternative rock singers
Lojinx artists
Power pop musicians
Guitarists from California
Lagwagon members
20th-century American guitarists
21st-century American guitarists
20th-century American singers
21st-century American singers
Geffen Records artists
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The Coldest Journey was a 2013 Commonwealth-supported expedition to Antarctica with the aim of becoming the first team ever to cross the Antarctic land mass during the polar winter. The endeavour aimed to raise more than $10 million for Seeing is Believing, a global charitable initiative which aims to eradicate avoidable blindness in developing countries. The team used cloud-based web technologies to connect with schools across the world as part of an educational programme designed to inspire a new generation towards high achievement. The project also performed scientific research and collected climate and weather data from Antarctica during the expedition to further the understanding of the effects of climate change on the polar regions.
Team
The expedition had three main components: the Ice Team, led by Brian Newham after Expedition Co-Leader Sir Ranulph Fiennes had to pull out due to injury, the Marine Team led by Anton Bowring (Expedition Co-Leader), and the Operations Team led by Tristam Kaye (Global Operations and Programme Manager).
The Ice Team was made up of Brian Newham (leader (formerly traverse manager)), Robert Lambert (expedition doctor), Ian Prickett, Spencer Smirl (lead mechanic/driver), and Richmond Dykes (mechanic/driver).
On 25 February 2013, Fiennes abandoned the expedition and was evacuated to Princess Elisabeth Station, due to frostbite suffered while attempting to fix a ski binding without gloves at . The rest of the team set off from Crown Bay on 21 March 2013 under the leadership of Brian Newham. They had until the September equinox to complete the traverse successfully in winter. Most of the expedition was carried out in complete darkness and in temperatures as cold as or lower.
Journey
The team detected many crevasses on its way to south pole. The progress was very slow and the team covered only (of a planned ). It found a crevasse field extending up to 100 km and the team concluded that it was too dangerous to attempt to cross these crevasses with heavy equipment. On 18 June 2013 the team officially halted its expedition to cross Antarctica and decided to focus the remainder of the time on scientific experiments.
References
External links
The Coldest Journey
Antarctic expeditions
United Kingdom and the Antarctic
2013 in Antarctica
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The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.
The institution includes the traditional Church Music Institute founded in 1919 by Karl Straube (1873–1950). The music school was renamed ″Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy″ after its founder in 1972. In 1992, it incorporated the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig.
Since the beginning there was a tight relationship between apprenticeship and practical experience with the Gewandhaus and the Oper Leipzig, as well as theaters in Chemnitz (Theater Chemnitz), Dresden (Staatsschauspiel Dresden), Halle (Neues Theater Halle), Leipzig (Schauspiel Leipzig) and Weimar (Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar).
The university of music and theater is one of 365 places chosen in 2009 by the Cabinet of Germany and the Office of the Representative of German Industry and Trade for the campaign Germany – Land of Ideas.
History
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the composer and Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, founded a Conservatory in the city of Leipzig on 2 April 1843. It was financed by a senior civil servant of the Kingdom of Saxony, the Oberhofgerichtsrat Heinrich Blümner (1765–1839), who provided King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony with 20,000 Thaler.
The music school's home was in the first Gewandhaus (in the Gewandgäßchen/Universitätsstraße street at the city center, today the city's department store is based there). The musicians of the Orchestra were obligated to act as teaching staff, a tradition that was unbroken until German reunification in 1990.
In 1876 the school got permission to change its name to Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig, Royal Conservatory of Music of Leipzig. The new premises at Grassistraße 8 were inaugurated on 5 December 1887. They were built 1885–1887 by the architect Hugo Licht (1841–1923) in the music quarter of Leipzig, south-west of the city center. The benefactor was the pathologist Justus Radius (1797–1884).
Not until 1924 was the Royal Conservatory renamed into Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig, six years after the fall of the Kingdom of Saxony.
In the summer term of 1938 343 male students were enrolled at the Landeskonservatorium. This made the Conservatory the fourth biggest music school in the German Reich after the Universität der Künste Berlin (633 students), the music school of Cologne (406 students) and the school for music and theater of Munich (404 students).
The Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) was the school's director from 1939 until 1945.
The school was again renamed 8 June 1941 to Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst, Public College for music, musical education and performing arts. In 1944 the school remained closed due to the Second World War.
Once again, the school was renamed 1 October 1946 to Mendelssohn Academy and 4 November 1972, on the occasion of its founders name, to Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music.
The Saxon University Constitution Law (Sächsische Hochschulstrukturgesetz) of 10 April 1992 confirmed the College of Music to Leipzig and expanded it with the annexation of the Hans Otto College of Theatre (Germany's first College of Theatre) to form the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Theatre.
The new Great Hall was inaugurated 2001 and 2004 awarded by the Bund Deutscher Architekten, a German architects union. The college's second premises were opened 2002 and there's an orchestra academy in co-operation with the Gewandhausorchestra since 2004 in order to support top musicians.
Names
1843–1876: Conservatorium der Musik
1876–1924: Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig
1924–1941: Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig
1941–1944: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Musikerziehung und darstellende Kunst
1946–1972: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik – Mendelssohn-Akademie
1972–1992: Hochschule für Musik "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy"
1992–: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
Notable people
Notable alumni
This is an assortment of notable alumni: (See also :Category:University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni)
Emil Büchner (1826–1908), German conductor and bandmaster
Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916), German conductor, composer, and pianist
Jakob Grün (1837–1916), Austrian violinist
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer
Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912), Ukrainian composer, pianist and music educator
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian composer
Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), German music theorist, music historian, music educator and music lexicographer
Émile Sauret (1852–1920), French violin virtuoso and composer.
Johannes Helstone (1853–1927), Surinamese composer, pianist and writer.
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), American composer, of the 'Second New England School'
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer
Fritz Steinbach (1855–1916), German conductor
Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer
Christian Sinding (1856–1941), Norwegian composer
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer
Bertha Tapper (1859–1915), Norwegian pianist and editor
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish composer and pianist
Joseph Hirschbach (1860–1897), Musical Director, Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco
Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), Italian pianist and composer
Felix von Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer
Anna Diller Starbuck (1868-1929) composer and pianist
Alfred Hill (1869–1960), Australian composer, conductor and teacher
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer
Gertrude Förstel (1880–1950), studied piano, but was remembered as soprano
Carl Adolf Martienssen (1881–1955), German pianist and music educator
Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969), German pianist
Leo Funtek (1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor
Hermann Keller (1885–1967), German church musician und musicologist
Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), German choir director und composer, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist
Johannes Weyrauch (1897–1977), German composer
Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German organist, choir director and composer
Wilhelm Weismann (1900–1980) German composer and musicologist
Franz Konwitschny (1901–1962), German conductor
Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), German organist, music teacher, cantor of the Thomanerchor
Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), German composer and choir director
Hugo Distler (1907–1942), German composer and church musician
Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor
Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist and harpsichordist
Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), Hungarian American Hollywood film composer
Anne Macnaghten (1908–2000), British violinist and pedagogue
Herman Berlinski (1910–2001), German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor
Sina Berlinski née Goldfein (1910–2011), German-born American pianist and piano teacher
Robert Köbler (1912–1970), German university organist
Martin Flämig (1913–1998), German choir director, Protestant state-church music director, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor
Heinz Wunderlich (1919–2012), German organist, academic and composer
Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005), German pianist and organist
Karl Richter (1926–1981) German choir director, conductor, harpsichordist, organist
Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor
Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), German composer, organist
Götz Friedrich (1930–2000), German director
Gerhard Bosse (1922–2012), German violinist and conductor
Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (1930–2012), German piano teacher
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 1934), German Bach scholar
Siegfried Thiele (born 1934), German composer
Harry Kupfer (1935–2019), German impresario
Annerose Schmidt (born 1936), German pianist
Peter Sodann (born 1936), German actor
Christoph Schroth (born 1937), German director
Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer
Ludwig Güttler (born 1943), German trumpeter
Rosemarie Lang, German singer
Jürnjakob Timm (born 1949), German cellist
Freya Klier (born 1950) German author, director
Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), German actor
Georg Christoph Biller (born 1955), Thomanerkantor
Ulrich Böhme (born 1956), German organist
Matthias Eisenberg (born 1956), German organist
Tom Pauls (born 1959), German actor and cabaret artist
Steffen Schleiermacher (born 1960), German composer and pianist
Michael Schönheit (born 1961), German organist and conductor
Irina Pauls (born 1961), German choreographer
Tobias Künzel (born 1964), German pop singer
Simone Kermes (born 1965), operatic soprano
Frank-Michael Erben (born 1965), German violinist
Ralf Stabel (born 1965), German theatre scholar / dance scholar
Sebastian Krumbiegel (born 1966), German pop singer
Matthias Goerne (born 1967), German singer
David Timm (born 1969), German pianist, organist, choral conductor and jazz musician
Nadja Uhl (born 1972), German actress
Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929), American author, editor, anthologist, translator, suffragist
Notable faculty
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), German composer, pianist and Music Director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Founder
Adolph Brodsky (1851–1929), Russian violinist, later Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music
Ferdinand David (1810–1873), German violin virtuoso and composer
Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977), Austrian composer
Karl Davydov (1838–1889), Russian cellist
Niels Gade (1817–1890), Danish composer
Friedrich Grützmacher (1832–1903), German cellist
Moritz Hauptmann (1792–1868), German composer and writer; Thomaskantor
Diethard Hellmann (1928–1999), German organist and choral conductor
Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902), German composer
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer
Julius Klengel (1859–1933), German cellist
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer
Fabien Lévy (1968– ), Composer
Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor
Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso
Oscar Paul (1836–1898), German musicologist and writer
Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German composer, organist, cembalist, conductor, Thomaskantor
Max Reger (1873–1917), German composer, conductor, pianist and organist
Carl Reinecke (1824–1910), Danish composer, conductor, and pianist
Julius Rietz (1812–1877), German cellist, composer and conductor
Ernst Friedrich Richter, German music theorist; Thomaskantor
Wilhelm Rust, German musicologist and composer; Thomaskantor
Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer
Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853), German composer and conductor
Gustav Schreck, German music educator and composer; Thomaskantor
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist, teacher, and composer
Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
Hans Sitt (1850–1922), German violinist and composer
Karl Straube, German Organist and choral conductor; Thomaskantor
Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer
Wolfgang Unger (1948–2004), choral conductor, director of Leipziger Universitätsmusik
Kolja Lessing (born 1961), German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher
Institute of Church Music
The Institute of Church Music (Kirchenmusikalische Institut) was refounded 1992. The institute has a prominent role in Germany because of Max Reger (1873–1916), Kurt Thomas (1904–1973) and Günther Ramin (1898–1956). It offers programs in church music, chorus conduction and organ. It offers research masters in those subjects as well.
The Institute of Church Music was founded by Karl Straube (1873–1950) in 1921 and 1926 it became part of the Saxon Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
Administration
Rectors of the university:
1843–1847: Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
1849–1881: Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (1805–1881)
1881–1897: Otto Günther (1822–1897)
1897–1902: Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
1902–1907: Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922)
1907–1924: Stephan Krehl (1864–1924)
1924–1932: Max Pauer (1866–1945)
1932–1942: Walther Davisson (1885–1973)
1942–1945: Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977)
1945–1948: Heinrich Schachtebeck (1886–1965)
1948–1973: Rudolf Fischer (1913–2003)
1973–1984: Gustav Schmahl (1929–2003)
1984–1987: Peter Herrmann (1941–2015)
1987–1990: Werner Felix (1927–1998)
1990–1997: Siegfried Thiele (born 1934)
1997–2003: Christoph Krummacher (born 1949)
2003–2006: Konrad Körner (born 1941)
2006–2015: Robert Ehrlich (born 1965)
2015–2020: Martin Kürschner (born 1954)
2020– : Gerald Fauth (born 1959)
Departments
Bologna process
Since 1999 the school is adapting to the Bologna process. As of 2008 the adjustment to the Bachelor's degree and Master's degree system is being organized. The education program with major in school music is since the winter term of 2006/07 already adapted to the Bologna process and as such leads to a bachelor's degree. The programs of the Institute of Church Music were changed to the beginning of the winter term 2008/09 and until the winter term of 2010/2011 all programs have to be adapted to the Bologna process.
Orchestra
The school has its own symphony orchestra under the conduction of Ulrich Windfuhr until 2013 and Matthias Foremny since 2014.
Departments
Faculty I
Wind instruments and percussion instruments
Conducting and correpetition
Singing and musical theatre (e.g. opera)
String instruments and harp
Faculty II
Early music
Piano
Musical composition and music texture
Musicology, music education and languages
School music education
Church Music Institute
Faculty III
Dramaturgy
Jazz, pop music and musical theater ("musical")
Acting
Students
A total of 813 students were enrolled at the college in 2007 (375 males and 438 females). There were 260 (32%) international students enrolled at the time. They come above all from Poland, Russia, South Korea and China. Thirteen of them are scholarship holders of the German Academic Exchange Service, this makes the school the best one on the scholarship holders list out of every German Music Colleges.
Contests
The Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre organizes many music contests. The Lions-Club Leipzig hosts the Albert-Lortzing-Förderpreis Singing Contest with a €2,500 prize. Furthermore, the college organizes a contest for ensembles and the recognized Young Concert Artists European Auditions together with the Young Concert Artists (YCA), New York.
The school leads among all German colleges of music with a total of 470 public events yearly.
See also
Music schools in Germany
Further reading
In German
Whistling, Karl W.: Statistik des Königl. Conservatoriums der Musik zu Leipzig 1843–1883. Aus Anlass des vierzigjährigen Jubiläums der Anstalt. Breitkopf & Härtel. Leipzig 1883.
Das neue Königliche Konservatorium der Musik in Leipzig. Erbaut von Baurath Hugo Licht daselbst. Architektonische Rundschau. Leipzig 1886.
Vogel, C. B.: Das Königliche Conservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. Felix Schloemp. Leipzig 1888.
Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 1843–1893. Königliches Konservatorium der Musik. Leipzig 1893.
Königliches Konservatorium der Musik Leipzig: Festschrift zum 75-jährigen Bestehen des Königl. Konservatoriums der Musik zu Leipzig. Am 2. April 1918. Siegel Verlag. Leipzig 1918.
Das Königliche Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 1893–1918. Königliches Konservatorium der Musik. Leipzig 1918.
Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. 85. Studienjahr 1928/29. Eigenverlag. Leipzig 1928.
Seidel, Christine: Namhafte Musiker als Musikerzieher am Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig von der Entstehung am 2. April 1843 bis zur Jahrhundertwende. Staatsexamensarbeit. Leipzig 1953.
Hochschule für Musik Leipzig. Gegründet 1843 als Conservatorium der Musik von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Herausgegeben anlässlich der Festwoche vom 17. bis 24. April 1955. Leipzig 1955.
Wehnert, Martin (Hrsg.): Hochschule für Musik Leipzig. Gegründet als Conservatorium der Musik. 1843–1968. Leipzig 1968.
Forner, Johannes: Mendelssohns Mitstreiter am Leipziger Konservatorium. Verlag Neue Musik. Berlin 1972.
Forner, Johannes: 150 Jahre Musikhochschule 1843–1993. Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig. Festschrift. Verlag für Kunst und Touristik. Leipzig 1993.
Zandt, Herman S.J.: Der Einfluß des Dessauer Musikinstitutes und des Leipziger Konservatoriums auf die niederländische (protestantische) Orgelkunst. Landesverb. Hagen 1993.
Rosenmüller, Annegret: Zur Geschichte des Kirchenmusikalischen Institutes von der Gründung bis zur Wiedereröffnung 1992. Materialsammlung anhand von Akten des Archivs der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Leipzig 1999.
Goltz, Maren: Das Kirchenmusikalische Institut. Spuren einer wechselvollen Geschichte. Dokumentation der Ausstellung "Das Kirchenmusikalische Institut" im Rahmen der Wandelausstellung zum Bach-Jahr 2000 in Leipzig. Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". Leipzig 2001.
10 Jahre Fachrichtung Alte Musik. Festschrift. Rektor der Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Leipzig 2001.
Reisaus, Joachim: Grieg und das Leipziger Konservatorium. Untersuchungen zur Persönlichkeit des norwegischen Komponisten Edvard Grieg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Leipziger Studienjahre. Eigenverlag. Norderstedt 2002.
Nedzelskis, Adelbertas: Der litauische Künstler M. K. Ciurlionis in Leipzig. Der Studienaufenthalt des Meisters am Königlichen Konservatorium 1901–1902. Ed. Bodoni. Berlin 2003.
Goltz, Maren: Studien zur Geschichte der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig von 1843 bis 1945 mit einem Ausblick bis zur Gegenwart. Hausarbeit. Berlin 2003.
Krumbiegel, Martin: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Eigenverlag. Leipzig 2004.
Jäger, Andrea: Die Entwicklung eines Bestandserhaltungskonzeptes für den historischen Sonderbestand der Bibliothek der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Diplomarbeit. Leipzig 2004.
Wasserloos, Yvonne: Das Leipziger Konservatorium im 19. Jahrhundert. Anziehungs- und Ausstrahlungskraft eines musikpädagogischen Modells auf das internationale Musikleben. Georg Olms Verlag. Hildesheim 2004.
In English
Phillips, Leonard Milton Jr.: The Leipzig Conservatory 1843–1881. UMI Dissertation Publishing. Ann Arbor, Michigan 2001.
VanWart, Helen: Letters from Helen. Sybertooth. Sackville, New Brunswick 2010.
Notes
References
Sources
External links
Home page
Leipzig-Encyclopedia (in German)
Buildings and structures in Leipzig
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Drama schools in Germany
Public universities and colleges in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1843
Education in Leipzig
Felix Mendelssohn
1843 establishments in Germany
1843 establishments in Saxony
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Richard Greenham (also Grenham) (1535?–1594?) was an English clergyman of Puritan views, well known for his strong Puritan doctrine of the Sabbath. His many sermons and theological treatises had a significant influence on the Puritan movement in England.
Life
He was probably born about 1535, and went at a late age to the University of Cambridge where he matriculated as a sizar of Pembroke Hall on 27 May 1559. He graduated B.A. early in 1564, and was elected Fellow, proceeding M.A. in 1567. His Puritanism was moderate: he had scruples about vestments, and strong views about such abuses as non-residence, but was more concerned for the substance of religion and the co-operation of all religious men within the Church than for theories of ecclesiastical government. His name, 'Richardus Grenham,' is appended with twenty-one others to the letters (3 July and 11 Aug. 1570), asking Lord Burghley, the Chancellor, to reinstate Thomas Cartwright in his office as Lady Margaret's divinity reader. Daniel Neal's statement that at a subsequent period he declared his approbation of Cartwright's 'book of discipline' (1584) is somewhat suspect; but John Strype says he was at one of Cartwright's synods.
On 24 November 1570 he was instituted to the rectory of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. He used to still preach at St Mary's, Cambridge, where he reproved young divines for engaging in controversies, as tantamount to rearing a roof before laying a foundation. In his parish he preached frequently, choosing the earliest hours of the morning for sermon before the work of the day. He devoted Sunday evenings and Thursday mornings to catechizing. He had some divinity pupils, including Henry Smith. During a period of dearth, when barley was ten groats a bushel, he devised a plan for selling corn cheap to the poor, no family being allowed to buy more than three pecks in a week. He cheapened his straw, preached against the public order for lessening the capacity of the bushel, and got into trouble by refusing to let the clerk of the market cut down his measure with the rest. His unworldliness meant that his wife had to borrow money to pay his harvestmen. Richer livings were steadily declined by him. Nevertheless, he was not appreciated by his flock.
He was cited for nonconformity by Richard Cox, bishop of Ely; Cox asked him whether the guilt of schism lay with conformists or with nonconformists. Greenham answered that, if both parties acted in a spirit of concord, it would lie with neither; otherwise with those who made the rent. Cox gave him no further trouble. His 'Apologie or Aunswere' is in 'A Parte of a Register' (1593), p. 86 sq. On the appearance of the Marprelate tracts (1589) he preached against them at St. Mary's, on the ground that their tendency was 'to make sin ridiculous, whereas it ought to be made odious.'
His friends were anxious to get him to London. He resigned his living about 1591, having held it for about twenty years—he told Warfield, his successor, 'I perceive noe good wrought by my ministerie on any but one familie.' He settled as preacher at Christ Church, Newgate.
In 1592 (if Marsden is right) appeared his 'Treatise of the Sabboth,' of which Thomas Fuller says that 'no book in that age made greater impression on peoples practice.' The second of two sonnets (1599) on Greenham by Joseph Hall, is a tribute; it was the earliest of the Puritan treatises on the observance of the Lord's day, more moderate than the 'Sabbathvm' (1595) of his step-son Nicholas Bownde, who borrowed from Greenham.
Greenham was one of the most famous and well known Elizabethan Puritan ministers of his time, and close friends with other great Puritan divines, such as Laurence Chaderton, Richard Rogers, and William Perkins. Greenham had a significant influence on the rise of English Puritanism through his many sermons and theological treatises.
Death
Samuel Clarke says Greenham died about 1591, in about his sixtieth year, while Fuller says his death was unrecorded, because he died of the plague which raged in 1592. It is mentioned by Waddington that on 2 April 1593 Greenham visited John Penry in the Poultry Compter. Henry Holland implies that he survived the affair of Lopez, February–June 1594.
Works
Greenham's Workes were collected and edited by H.H., i.e. Henry Holland, in 1599; a second edition appeared in the same year; the third edition was 1601, reprinted 1605 and 1612 ('fift and last' edition). 'A Garden of Spiritual Flowers,' by Greenham, was published 1612, and several times reprinted, till 1687. It is doubtful whether Greenham himself published anything, or left anything ready for the press.
Of his 'Treatise of the Sabboth,' which had been circulated privately, Holland found three copies, and edited the best. It was originally a sermon or sermons; and the remaining works (excepting a catechism) are made up from sermon material, with some additions from Greenham's conversation.
Family
He married the widow of Robert Bownde, M.D., physician to the Duke of Norfolk, but had no issue; his step-daughter, Anne Bownde, was the first wife of John Dod.
References
Notes
External links
Attribution
1535 births
1594 deaths
16th-century English writers
16th-century male writers
16th-century English Puritan ministers
English evangelicals
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
People from Dry Drayton
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The Breda CC.20 was an Italian heavy bomber prototype of 1929 designed and built by the Breda company.
Design and development
Ing Arturo Crocco and Ing Julio Constance designed the CC.20 -- "CC" for the surnames of the two engineers—which was Bredas first monoplane bomber. The seven-seat trimotor mid-wing monoplane CC.20 was powered by three Isotta Fraschini Asso 500 engines and had a powerful defensive armament of one cannon and seven machine guns.
The CC.20 prototype first flew in 1929 and test flights showed it to be very slow with a short range; Breda abandoned the project.
Operators
Specifications
1920s Italian bomber aircraft
CC.020
Trimotors
Mid-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929
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Athronges
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According to Josephus, Athogod or Athrongeus (, Athrongaíos) was a leader of the Jews during the insurrection under Herod Archelaus. Athronges led the rebellion against Archelaus and the Romans.
History
Josephus wrote of him
"Athronges, a person neither eminent by the dignity he possessed. For he had been a mere shepherd, not known by anybody. But because he was a tall man, and excelled others in the strength of his hands, he was so bold as to set up for king. A thing to do more than ordinary injuries to others, that, although he risked his life, he did not much care if he lost it in so great a design.
He had four brothers, who were tall men themselves, and were believed to be superior to others in the strength of their hands, and thereby were encouraged to aim at great things, and thought that strength of theirs would support them in retaining the kingdom. Each of these ruled over a band of men of their own (for those that got together to them were very numerous). They were every one of them also commanders; but when they came to fight, they were subordinate to him, and fought for him. After he had put a diadem about his head, he assembled a council to debate about what things should be done, and all things were done according to his pleasure. So, this man retained his power a great while; he was also called king, and had nothing to hinder him from doing what he pleased.
Together with his brothers, he slew a great many of both of Roman and of the king's forces, and managed matters with the like hatred to each of them. They fell upon the king's soldiers because of the licentious conduct they had been allowed under Herod's government; and they fell upon the Romans, because of the injuries they had so lately received from them. But in process of time they grew more cruel to all sorts of men, nor could anyone escape from one or other of these seditions, since they slew some out of the hopes of gain, and others from a mere custom of slaying men.
Once, they attacked a Roman company at Emmaus, soldiers who were bringing grain and weapons to the army, and fell upon Arius, the centurion, who commanded the company, and shot forty of the best of his foot soldiers. The other Romans panicked after this slaughter, left their dead behind them, and were saved by Gratus, who came to their assistance with the king's troops that he commanded. Now these four brethren continued the war a long while by such sort of expeditions, and they much grieved the Romans; but they did their own nation also a great deal of mischief.
Afterwards they were subdued; one of them in a fight with Gratus, another with Ptolemy; Herod Archelaus took the eldest of them prisoner; while the last of them was so dejected at the other's misfortune, and saw so plainly that he had no way now left to save himself, his army being worn away with sickness and continual labors, that he also delivered himself up to Archelaus, upon his promise and oath to God to preserve his life. But these things came to pass a good while afterward."
The rebellion of Athronges against the Roman authorities may have lasted for almost two years. Josephus states how the four brothers met their fate, but he is silent on the end of Athronges himself.
See also
Jewish Messiah claimants
References
Flavius Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 2.60
1st-century BCE Jews
1st-century Jews
Pastoralists
Jewish rebels
Jewish messiah claimants
Jewish–Roman wars
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Sweet Rebecca is the eighth studio album by Australian country music singer Beccy Cole. It was released in April 2015 and peaked at number 19 on the ARIA Charts.
For the first time, Cole has written on every one of the album's 12 tracks. Cole said; "For me, every time I write songs it's a very cathartic experience, because I write about my life. I think the more honest you are, the better the song is going to be."
Cole toured Australia in support of the release.
Critical reception
Aneta Grulichova from The Music AU said; "Banjos, guitars and incredible vocals are what listeners will find. Lyrically the album is engaging, telling the story of her journey through life; however some are very slow, though heartfelt. "Sweet Rebecca" is nostalgic as she compares her younger and older selves, while "Tea For Three" and "Broken Soldiers" are very moving. "Bumcrack" is an upbeat entertaining track – the title pretty much says it all. Cole is classic country, honest and with a sense of humour, though a few more upbeat songs would’ve been nice."
Track listing
"Sweet Rebecca" – 3:18
"Damn Fool!" – 3:16
"Treehouse" – 3:01
"Precious Times" (featuring Sara Storer & Gina Jeffreys) – 3:40
"Happy 16" – 4:16
"I Love You" – 4:57
"Broken Soldiers" – 4:16
"I'm Easy" – 4:35
"Tea for Three" – 3:46
"Off My Chest" – 3:52
"Songs Remember Me" – 4:14
"Bumcrack" – 2:57
Charts
Sweet Rebecca become Cole's highest charting solo release to date and first ARIA top twenty album.
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
2015 albums
Beccy Cole albums
Self-released albums
Albums produced by Shane Nicholson (singer)
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Alibabayum 41 Kallanmaarum is a 1975 Indian Malayalam film, directed by J. Sasikumar and produced by M. J. Kurien. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Bahadoor, KP Ummer, Vidhubala, Adoor Bhasi and Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair in the lead roles. The film has musical score by G. Devarajan.
Cast
Prem Nazir as Alibaba
Jayabharathi
Vidhubala
K. P. Ummer
Bahadoor
Adoor Bhasi
Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair
Sreelatha Namboothiri
T. R. Omana
T. S. Muthaiah
Jyothi Lakshmi
Meena
Vijayalalitha
Soundtrack
References
External links
1975 films
Indian films
1970s Malayalam-language films
Films featuring an item number
Indian fantasy films
Films directed by J. Sasikumar
1970s fantasy films
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Ulriken Elite is a Norwegian basketball team. It was formed in 1970 by a group of pupils at Ulriken secondary school. Ulriken play their matches in Haukelandshallen in Bergen. The kits are red and white and the coach is Jay Anderson. The team played in the Norwegian top tier BLNO for several years, but withdrew in 2011.
Honours
Norwegian Championship
Winners (4): 1994, 1999, 2000, 2007
External links
Ulriken Elite
Basketball teams in Norway
Sport in Bergen
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Diomedes Díaz Maestre (26 May 1957 – 22 December 2013) was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. His nickname, "El Cacique de la Junta" ("The Chieftain of La Junta"), was given to him by another vallenato singer, Rafael Orozco Maestre, in honor to Díaz's birthplace.
Diomedes Díaz is the biggest record seller in the history of vallenato, exceeding 20 million throughout his career, due to this, he was awarded with gold, platinum and diamond records, unique in Colombia until 2008. In 2010 he won the Latin Grammy in the "Cumbia / Vallenato category". Loved and idolized by many, Diomedes' followers adopted the nickname "diomedistas", while Diomedes called them his "fanaticada".
His personal life was marked by family instability, controversial friendships, ups and downs with the consumption of alcohol and drugs, accidents, financial and legal problems, especially the death in strange circumstances of Doris Adriana Niño.
Biography
First Years
Diomedes Díaz was born and raised on a farm called "Carrizal" on the outskirts of La Junta Township that belongs to the Municipality of San Juan del Cesar, La Guajira. His father, Rafael María Díaz, and his mother, Elvira Maestre, were poor. His childhood was spent helping his parents and eight brothers with farm duties, while he was musically influenced by his locally renowned uncle, Martín Elías.
First compositions
According to the journalist Alberto Salcedo Ramos, when Diomedes was a child, he acted as a scarecrow to protect the cornfields from birds and, to avoid getting bored, he sang and exchanged songs as a barter with indigenous people from the neighboring farm in exchange for coffee.
Diomedes' first love, a young woman named Helida, was the one who inspired him to compose his first songs. Diomedes was also trying to dabble in singing, but by way of derision he obtained the nickname "El chivato" (the little goat) for his voice during puberty. He also learned to play the guacharaca and sing verses. Eventually, his uncle decided to help him train his voice and compose songs; Diomedes mastered his vocal training and was invited to perform at parties. From Carrizal he was taken to Villanueva to study in elementary school at the "Liceo Colombia". During his stay in Villanueva, a childhood friend accidentally stoned him in the right eye while trying to get mangoes from a tree, he lost the sight in the affected eye.
Diomedes worked as a gardener to help with his livelihood, and then, dropped out of his studies to be a messenger for the Radio Guatapurí station with Manuel Pineda Bastidas being the manager, who gave him a bicycle to run errands for him, but Diomedes never learned to use it. He alternated his job with his studies at the "Colegio Nacional Loperena", night shift, where he finished the penultimate grade.
Diomedes' intention of working at Radio Guatapurí was, once inside, to make friends with the announcers and Disc jockeys so that they could play the album that contained his song "La negra", which had recently been recorded by Luciano Poveda and Jorge Quiroz. Diomedes stayed on Radio Guatapurí for eight months, but due to delaying running errands because of not knowing how to ride the bicycle, he was dismissed.
From his friendship with Rafael Orozco, came the recording of the song "Cariñito de mi vida", which consolidated Diomedes as a composer and Orozco as a singer along with the accordionist Emilio Oviedo. Through a greeting in the song "Cariñito de mi vida", Rafael Orozco coined and immortalized Diomedes the nickname "El Cacique de La Junta".
Diomedes continued exercising several trades, but always trying to interact with vallenato artists, even working as a prop, picking up wires and adjusting the sound of the microphones of "Los Hermanos López group". On the advice of his uncle Martín, Diomedes began to dabble in singing. The accordionist of "Los Hermanos López", Elberto López also allowed Diomedes to sing the last songs of their live performances. In 1975, Jorge Oñate and Colacho Mendoza recorded the song "Razón Sentimental" for him on the album "Los dos amigos".
Participation in "Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata" (1975)
In 1975, Diomedes participated in the contest "King of unreleased song" of the vallenato legend festival occupying third place with his song "Hijo agradecido". The concourse was won by Julio Oñate Martínez with the theme "La Profecía". This festival took place between April 26 to 30.
According to his friend Jaime Hinojosa Daza, Diomedes was going through financial difficulties and sold a bundle of lemons in the Valledupar market to buy a cassette and with a borrowed recorder he composed the song. The cassette was presented to the organizers of the contest, then he left to Carrizal because he did not have money to stay in Valledupar, so he heard the results of the competition through Radio Guatapurí, so he knew that they gave him third place. The next morning he went to Valledupar to claim the award. His then-girlfriend "la Negra" Sarmiento kept the trophy they gave him as a prize, which she still keeps.
the same year, Jorge Oñate and Colacho Mendoza recorded Diomedes' composition called "Razón profunda" on the album "Únicos".
In the "Rey Vallenato Professional Accordion" category, the accordion player Nafer Durán was the winner, who contacted Diomedes, through the then artistic director of Codiscos Emilio Oviedo, to make a recording together.
Nafer Durán (1975)
One month after the Vallenato Festival, Diomedes and Náfer Durán with his accordion recorded in Medellín the LP "Herencia vallenata" under the Codiscos label, album that included the song of Diomedes' authorship "El Chanchullito", composed to his sentimental partner Patricia Acosta.
Náfer included three songs made by him, "Pobre negro" "Teresita" and "La invitación". Although this musical production did not have too much success, it served to make Diomedes known has a singer. In those years, the vallenato music market was domained by Jorge Oñate, Los Hermanos López and Los hermanos Zuleta.
Elberto "El Debe" López (1976-1977)
Then with "El Debe" López, they recorded the LP's "Tres canciones" in 1976, and "De frente" in 1977. Diomedes initially traveled from Valledupar to Bogota, where the producer Gabriel Muñoz of CBS (now Sony Music) made him a six minutes audition with the theme "Cristina Isabel", and when he noticed Diomedes' talent, decied to contract him.
For the album "Tres canciones" Diomedes included two of his songs, "Celos con rabia" and "Tres canciones".
Regarding the LP "De frente", Díaz included two songs composed by him, "La pollita" and "Mi profecía".
In 1977, Diomedes hired Dagoberto Suárez as his manager, who would remain in the group until 1985. This same year, Juan Piña and accordion player Juancho Rois recorded the album "El fuete", in which they included Diomedes' song "La morriña". Jorge Oñate and "Colacho" Mendoza also recorded compositions from him; the song "Noble corazón" on the album "SIlencio" and the song "Mañana primaveral" on the LP titled "En la cumbre".
Juancho Rois (1978)
Diomedes Díaz would achieve recognition in 1978 with the album "La locura", which he recorded with accordion player Juancho Rois, also native from the municipality of San Juan del Cesar.
Diomedes recorded two songs from his authorship; "El alma en un acordeón" and "La carta"; they also included a song written by his uncle Martín Maestre entitled "Me mata el dolor".
According to El Heraldo, this album with Juancho Rois was one of the successes of his musical career. Despite the success they achieved with this album, Juancho Rois was bothered by Diomedes' personality and there were personal differences within the group, so Rois decided to leave.
"Colacho" Mendoza (1978-1984)
Diomedes would consolidate his regional success with accordion players such as Nicolás "Colacho" Mendoza, and then towards the interior of Colombia in the early 1980s, especially due to the deployment that his record label gave them, CBS which included commercials on the national chain. By this time, in Bogota had already consolidated Binomio de Oro, made up of his friend Rafael Orozco and the accordion player Israel Romero, so there started a competition in the market with them. The union of Diomedes with "Colacho" occurred after a proposal from Diomedes, in which the manager Dagoberto Suárez intervened, who contacted the musician during a party in the south of La Guajira.
The first album by Diomedes and "Colacho" was "Dos grandes" which was released in 1978. Diomedes included a song of his authorship entitled "Despedida de soltero". The song "El gavilán mayor" was recorded by Diomedes to honor his friend Raúl Gómez Castrillón, alias "Gavilán Mayor", who was one of the first marijuana traffickers or "marimberos" that the North Coast of Colombia had.
The following year, in 1979, Diomedes and "Colacho" recorded the album "Los Profesionales", which included the song "El limoncito" by Martín Maestre; Diomedes included two songs of his authorship, "El profesional" and "El 9 de abril". This same year, Diomedes and Colacho made their first appearances on "El Show de Jimmy" on Do Re Creativa Tv, returning to the program in 1980.
The third musical production with "Colacho" was published in 1980 and titled "Para mi fanaticada". Diomedes included his songs "Para mi fanaticada" and "Mi casa risueña". According to El Heraldo, this album with Colacho Mendoza was among the successes of Diomedes' musical career.
During the same year, Diomedes and "Colacho" recorded the LP, "Tu serenata" with two songs made by him, "Tu serenata" and "Penas de un hogar".
The album "Con mucho estilo" was recorded in 1981 with a song by Diomedes dedicated to his father Rafael María Díaz entitled "A mi papá" and another called "Bonita" inspired in his wife Patricia Acosta.
In 1982, Diomedes and "Colacho" recorded the album "Todo es para ti", in which Diomedes incorporated two songs of his own, "Te quiero mucho" and "Una de mis canciones".
The following year they recorded the album "Cantando" and Diomedes recorded two songs made by him entitled "Cantando" and "Te necesito", while "Colacho" included the song "Alma enamorada" of his authorship.
Diomedes' last musical production with "Colacho" was "El mundo" in 1984, Diomedes included three songs of his own; "Mi muchacho" inspired in Rafael Santos Díaz, "Señora tristeza" and "La Rasquiñita". Diomedes sent a greeting on the theme "El mundo" to Ricardo Palmera, before he later became the head of the FARC and assumed the alias of "Simón Trinidad ".
Gonzalo "Cocha" Molina (1985-1987)
After six years of being a musical couple with Colacho Mendoza, in 1985 Diomedes formed a musical group with the accordion player Gonzalo Arturo "El Cocha" Molina. Their first record production together was titled "Vallenato". Diomedes incorporated three of his songs; "Dos claveles", "Camina" and "El gallo y el pollo". This last song was composed by Diomedes in honor of "Cocha Molina".
On August 30, 1985, Diomedes and "El Cocha" received a gold record from CBS Venezuela, for the millionaire sales achieved. The award was given to him during a presentation on "Super Sábado Sensacional", at the Venevisión studios.
The following year, in 1986 Diomedes and "El Cocha" recorded the album "Brindo con el alma", Diomedes recorded three songs of his authorship; "Ayudame a quererte", "Brindo con el alma" and "Sin tí". In the las one, Diomedes sent a greeting to the drug trafficker Samuel Alarcón, a member of the Cartel de la Costa, also in the song "Sin medir distancias" he mentioned his friend, the drug trafficker Felipe Eljach.
In 1987, the musical production "Incontenibles" was recorded, and Diomedes incorporated three themes of his authorship; "Por no perderte", "La excusa" and "Tu cumpleaños". In 2015, the song "Tu cumpleaños" became so popular in Colombia, according to data from the Spotify application, that it was heard more than the traditional Happy Birthday To You song and it became a classic song in birthday celebrations.
Juancho Rois (1988-1994)
In 1988 Diomedes rejoined the accordionist Juancho Rois and they recorded the album "Ganó el folclor", Diomedes recorded two songs of his authorship; "La batalla" and "Rayito de amor". Diomedes appeared again in "El show de Jimmy" on Do Re Creativa Tv and this time alongside Juancho. They would return to promote their albums on the show in a 1989 broadcast.
"El cóndor herido" was recorded in 1989 by Diomedes and "Juancho", including three songs by Diomedes; "El cóndor herido" composed to his wife Patricia Acosta, "El besito" and "Mi compadre".
In 1990 Diomedes and Juancho recorded the album "Canta conmigo" with the song "Lucero espiritual" by Juancho Polo Valencia, Diomedes recorded three songs of his own entitled "Noche de amor", "Las notas de Juancho" and "Adiós lunarcito".
The following year, in 1991, Diomedes and Juancho recorded the musical production entitled "Mi vida musical", Diomedes recorded two of his songs entitled "Mi ahijado" and "Mi vada musical".
The album "El regreso del cóndor" was recorded in 1992 by Diomedes and Juancho, this one included a song of his own entitled "Yo soy el que te quiere", while Diomedes recorded two of his songs called "El regreso del cóndor" y "Mis mejores días".
In 1993 they released the album "Título de amor" with two songs by Diomedes; "Mi primera cana" and "Título de amor"; and Juancho included his song "Dejala". Diomedes and Juancho Rois received a gold record from their Sony Music label for having sold over 600,000 copies of the album Titulo de amor, making it the best-selling musical production by Diomedes and Juancho.
At this time, Diomedes paid $45 million COP (In 1993, one dollar had an average value of 786.54 COP) to a dentist to have a diamond embedded in one of his posterior teeth. The diamond was 4.61 mm by 2.70 mm, 0.39 carats in weight, was imported from India to Colombia for and it cost 20 million pesos, a diamond that would become one of Diomedes' most distinctive characteristics. Diomedes had been mocked by announcers, seeing the singer without a tooth on the cover of the album "Tres canciones".
This same year, Diomedes received an honorary degree from the 'Hugues Manuel Lacouture' school located in La Junta, nevertheless, he arrived late to the ceremony when there were no more attendees.
In 1994, Diomedes and Juancho once again generated best-sellers with the album "26 de mayo", exceeding the figure of 150 thousand copies sold and 450 thousand ordered by music stores. Diomedes' own song were "Buenas tardes", "26 de mayo" and "La doctora". Juancho included his songs "¿Por qué razón?" and "Yo soy Mundial", which was recorded in a tropical rhythm in honor of the Colombian football team during the qualifying rounds for the World Cup in the United States that year.
Diomedes and Juancho managed to fill Madison Square Garden in New York and filled stadiums in Colombia and Venezuela.
The union ended with the untimely death of Juancho Rois on November 21, 1994, in a plane crash in Venezuela while they were on tour, but Diomedes was not in the airplane. There are two versions; one that affirms that Diomedes missed the flight and another that the singer did not want to go, because he was invited to a party where some drug traffickers had offered a lot of money to him.
Iván Zuleta (1995-1998)
After the death of Juancho Rois, Diomedes formed a musical partnership with the young accordionist Iván Zuleta, who was only 18 years old, but belonging to the dynasty of Emiliano Zuleta Baquero, composer Héctor Zuleta Díaz and Los Hermanos Zuleta. With great talent for singing verses and skilled in the accordion, in 1995 Iván Zuleta recorded with Diomedes the album "Un canto celestial" with which he paid tribute to the late Juancho Rois. This album included the songs "Un canto celestial", "Gracias por quererla" made by Diomedes and "No comprendo" by Juancho Rois.
In 1996 they recorded "Muchas gracias" Juancho Rois included his song "Aunque no quieran", while Diomedes included two of his songs; "Muchas gracias" and "Corazón callejero".
In 1997 Diomedes and Zuleta recorded "Mi biografía" with the theme "Entre placer y penas" by Diomedes. At this time Diomedes recorded the song "Ron pa' to' el mundo" with the salsa singer Joe Arroyo for the album Super Bailables del Año under the Sony Music label. In 1997 Diomedes interrupted his musical career due to the scandal that surrounded the death of Doris Adriana Niño, suffered Guillain-Barré disease and was a fugitive from justice.
The album "Volver a vivir" was recorded in 1998 by Diomedes and Zuleta with the themes "Volver a vivir" and "Puro amor" by Diomedes; According to Iván Zuleta, he and Diomedes managed to sell two and a half million copies in their five musical productions, receiving a diamond disc, 35 platinum discs, and 10 platinum sextuple.
Franco Argüelles (1999)
In 1999, being a fugitive from justice in the case of Doris Adriana Niño, his lawyers, headed by Evelio Daza, succeeded in getting court to temporally exonerate Diomedes from the security measure, alleging that the singer suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome. Diomedes was held at his home in Valledupar, rather than a prison cell.
At the end of 1999, Diomedes recorded at his home, the album "Experiencias vividas" with accordionist Franco Argüelles, with a song of his own entitled "Experiencias vividas" and Franco with his composition "Lo que no hago yo". A greeting to Colonel Ciro Hernando Chitiva, Commander of the Police in Cesar caused controversy, due to the judicial problems that Diomedes faced and the effusiveness that the singer showed in a vallenato greeting in the song "Cabeza de hacha" in which he mentioned it " My colonel Ciro Hernando Chitiva. National insignia! ".
In mid-2000, Fiscalía General de la Nación (Prosecutor's office) determined that Diomedes had recovered from the illnesses related to Guillain-Barré syndrome, so he had to return to jail, but before being captured Diomedes escaped. He took refuge in three farms "Las Nubes" and "La Virgen del Carmen" that he owned and in another called "El Limón" owned by his former manager, the businessman and former councilman of Valledupar, Joaquín Guillén. At the time, there were doing strong presence the paramilitary groups under the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), for which it was stated that Diomedes was under the protection of the organization outside the law, also his fans were silent and did not report their sightings of the artist in the region.
Cocha Molina (2002)
In 2002, Diomedes and "El Cocha" rejoined and recorded the album "Gracias a Dios", Diomedes recorded three songs of his own: "Woman of the soul", "Gracias a Dios" and "Consuelo".
Juancho de la Espriella (2003)
While in prison, in 2003 Diomedes recorded the album "Pidiendo via" together with accordion player Juancho De la Espriella, who took time apart from his partner Silvestre Dangond to carry out the record production with Diomedes.
Diomedes recorded his voice in a room that they allowed to use inside the facilities of the Valledupar Penitentiary and Judicial Prison for three days and the recording of the album lasted between two and three months in some studios a few blocks from the jail and was at position of Juancho and the other members of Diomedes' musical group. In the album they included two songs by Diomedes entitled "La mujer mía" and "A mitad del camino".
Franco Argüelles (2005)
In 2005, Diomedes and Franco Argüelles recorded the album "De nuevo con mi gente" recorded with two songs by Diomedes; the themes "Siempre serás mi novia" and "El perdón"; a song by Argüelles entitled "El amor de las mujeres".
On November 19, 2005, the Government of Valle del Cauca and the Cali Mayor's Office vetoed Diomedes Díaz after the singer consumed cocaine while he were performing a presentation in the Cali bullring. For his part, Germán Ortegón, Diomedes Díaz's artistic entrepreneur, explained that the alleged bag of cocaine was nothing more than a stamp of the Virgen del Carmen that someone from the public passed to him. The incident was considered as a warning by the local administration to other interpreters. These kinds of scandals were frequent in the artist's life.
On February 22, 2006, in Santa Marta, according to Johnny Bennedetti who hired Diomedes Díaz, the singer did not appear for a presentation, causing disturbances to the point of almost destroying the premises. According to the artist's representative, José Zequeda, the person responsible for the presentation did not make the payment on time as agreed.
Iván Zuleta (2007)
In 2007 Diomedes returned to record with the accordionist Iván Zuleta, the album was called "La voz". Diomedes included two songs of his authorship called "Las vainas de Diomedes" and "No se molesten".
The sudden separation between Diomedes and Zuleta occurred when Iván Zuleta decided to form a musical couple with the singer Iván Villazón, who separated of Saúl Lallemand, which generated the anger of Diomedes and the generation of several verses that caused "Piques" (Improvisation of vallenato verses) between both groups, but in the friendly sense of vallenato folklore. Diomedes joined accordionist Alvarito López. In presentations that the two groups made together, Diomedes called the new duo of Iván Villazón and Iván Zuleta "Los tal-Ivanes ".
Álvaro López (2009-2013)
In 2009, Diomedes recorded the album "Listo pa 'la foto" with Alvarito López, which was the winner of the 2010 Latin Grammy Award. Diomedes and Alvarito defeated the other nominees; Omar Geles and Alex Manga with the album "Prueba superada"; Jorge Oñate and Cristian Camilo Peña with "Te dedico mis triunfos"; Poncho Zuleta and Cocha Molina with "El nobel del amor"; and Binomio de Oro of Israel Romero with "Vuelve and pica ... el Pollo". The album included the songs "Señor maestro" of the authorship of Diomedes Díaz. Also in 2009, Diomedes recorded an album with two CDs entitled "Celebremos juntos" with various singers and accordion players as a tribute to his musical life.
In 2011, Diomedes and Alvarito recorded the musical production titled "Con mucho gusto", Diomedes included one of his songs, entitled "Amor bogotano". Díaz recorded several tracks in October 2012 for "Fiesta Vallenata", but the album was not released.
Diomedes and Alvaro López recorded again in 2013, publishing the album "La vida del artista". This album, once again, only included one song from Diomedes, called "El hermano Elías". During this year went viral the video of the interview that the journalist Ernesto McCausland made with Diomedes in 1991 about death and the background related to the song of his authorship entitled "Mi ahijado". In the interview Diomedes spoke philosophically about life and death, and prophesied his burial. The video was uploaded to YouTube in 2008 by the journalist, and gradually became massively popular with Internet memes and other parodies in 2013.
A month before dying, Diomedes finished the recording of the album "Entre Díaz y canciones" on November 28, 2013, with the collaboration of his sons Martín Elías and Rafael Santos Díaz, Alvarito López, Juancho De la Espriella, "El Cocha" Molina, Rolando Ochoa and Carlos Huertas Jr. This CD was released under the Sony Music label on May 26, 2015, and reached 20 thousand copies sold at launch.
Personal life
He was born on a farm called Carrizal in the town of La Junta in the municipality of San Juan del Cesar. In the early years of youth and adulthood, his personal life was marked by family instability, controversial friendships, ups and downs with the consumption of alcohol and drugs, accidents, financial and legal problems, especially the death in strange circumstances of Doris Adriana Niño, and health problems. He professed love for his closest children and narrated part of his life through his compositions.
Of humble and peasant extraction, he grew up in poverty and managed to amass a great fortune. He was disinterested from the money he received from his record earnings, royalties from his compositions, the sale of vallenatos greetings on his records, gifts given to him by drug traffickers, wealthy fans, and profits he received from his farms and other investments.
He was generous to his followers and strangers, however, due to food demands for his numerous children, problems and legal breaches, he spent much of his fortune on drugs, alcohol, women and lawyers. There was also people who took advantage of the closeness and trust with Diomedes to get large sums of money from him.
Díaz was a fervent devotee of the Virgen Del Carmen something that he highlighted in his recordings and live performances, he also promised to make her a church, however he died before fulfilling that promise.
Family
His maternal grandparents were José Maestre and Eufemia Hinojosa.
Diomedes was born on May 26, 1957, in the town of Carrizal, La Guajira, in the home of Rafael María Díaz and Elvira Maestre Hinojosa "Mamá Vila", from whose union ten children were born; five men and five women. His siblings were: Gloria María "Golla", Rafael Gregorio, Avelina del Carmen "Chama", Rosa Leonor "Ocha", Abel Antonio, Elizabeth "Icha", Elver Augusto, Juan Manuel and Elvira Luz.
Diomedes Díaz had romantic relationships with several women, with twelve of whom he had 28 recognized children. The following are the women with whom Diomedes had recognized children:
Death of Martín Maestre
Diomedes was involved in the accident in which his uncle and mentor Martín Maestre died on August 1, 1979. Diomedes was driving a truck that collided with a pile of sand in the middle of the road, in the place where the roundponit would be built with the monument "My piece of Accordion", north of Valledupar. The group of people in the truck came from Patillal where they had been on a celebration. Martín lost his life when he was thrown out of the vehicle and hit the ground with his head violently, while Diomedes and other companions were injured.
In honor of his uncle, Diomedes baptized one of his sons with his name; Martín Elías, who died in a car accident under the same circumstances as his uncle Martin Maestre, both at age 26.
Guillain Barré syndrome
In April 1998, Diomedes suffered numbness in parts of his body while he was in Bogotá preparing the recording of a musical production. Diomedes was hospitalized and tests showed a positive result for cocaine, but that, this was not related to the diagnosis of the Guillain-Barré syndrome determined by physicians.
Diomedes was treated by the cardiologist Rony López and the physiotherapists Carlina de Pantoja and Antonio Bolaño Mendoza, who applied physical and respiratory therapies, while the recovery process took place in Valledupar where the warm climate helped the treatment.
Death
Diomedes Díaz died in Valledupar on December 22, 2013, due to a cardiorespiratory arrest at 6:15 p.m. when he was resting in his bed. According to Diomedes' partner, Consuelo Martínez, Díaz was sleeping and Consuelo noticed that the artist was not moving, so she called an ambulance and was transferred to a clinic where it was confirmed that his death was due to "natural causes". He was buried in a massive funeral on December 25 at the "Jardines del Ecce Homo" cemetery in Valledupar.
His last public appearance was on Friday, December 20, 2013, two days before his death. Diomedes Díaz said goodbye to the year at the Trucupey nightclub in Barranquilla, where he went with his musical group. After his death, several legal disputes began over his inheritance.
Doris Adriana Niño
Homicide
During the night of 14–15 May 1997, Díaz was having a party in his apartment in Bogotá, when a friend, Doris Adriana Niño, was murdered. According to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, some people at the party, including Niño, consumed drugs, but it is not clear if she was involuntarily forced to take drugs or did so voluntarily. The report says that Niño was raped, and had an argument with a pregnant woman at the party, Luz Consuelo Martínez. Niño died that night, and her body appeared on the outskirts of Bogotá, near the Village of San Onofre, municipality of Combita, (Boyacá Department).
Legal proceedings
Díaz was captured by order of the Attorney general's office on 3 October 1997, and was given house arrest after proving he was suffering from Guillain–Barré syndrome. On 11 August 2000, a judge ordered Díaz transferred to jail, considering that his illness had been considerably overcome. When authorities went to his house to complete the transfer, Díaz had escaped and found refuge with an illegal paramilitary group headed by Rodrigo Tovar.
During the trial, Díaz was tried as an "absent inmate"; the judge concluded that Niño had a great amount of drugs the night she died, but the Attorney General's Office determined that her death had been caused by provoked asphyxiation. The Colombian Bureau of Legal Medicine determined that she had died from pressure put over her mouth and nose. On 20 August 2002, after a year and a half of evading house arrest, Díaz turned himself in to authorities in Valledupar, accompanied by two of his lawyers. On 21 August 2002, a Colombian Superior Tribunal reduced his jail term from 144 to 37 months; Niño's family protested that the sentence was too low. He had already spent a year in jail and had two years pending before his escape. According to the trial, Díaz did not commit unintentional homicide (homicidio preterintencional), in which the aggressor wants to induce damage but ends up causing death, as the previous judge had ruled. Instead, it was determined that he had committed involuntary manslaughter (homicidio culposo), which according to Colombian law, is less severe than unintentional homicide.
Criticism of trial
Doris Adriana Niño's family, especially her brother Rodrigo, criticized the lenient treatment given to Díaz by authorities as he expressed in statements after Díaz turn himself in:
Scandals
On 22 November 2005 the local government of Cali vetoed all performances by Díaz in the city after the singer allegedly used cocaine while performing onstage. Although video images proved the contrary, the Cali City Hall gave notice to all entertainment businesses that the government was not going to issue any permits for the use of public areas where Díaz would be scheduled to appear. The incident was considered a warning by the local administration to other performers.
On 22 February 2006, Díaz was scheduled to sing in the city of Santa Marta. According to the businessman Johnny Bennedetti who hired Díaz, the singer did not show up for the event, causing a mob to almost completely destroy the venue, "La Tremenda". According to Díaz publicist José Sequeda, the people in charge of the event did not deliver on time the full payment as was established in the contract. He said that he had given Diaz part of the money as initial payment. As a result of the mob, 25 microphones, liquor and money were stolen and sound system equipment was damaged.
Discography
1976 Herencia Vallenata, featuring Nafer Durán.
1976 Tres Canciones, featuring Edelberto López.
1977 De Frente, featuring Edelberto López.
1978 La Locura, featuring Juancho Rois.
1979 Dos Grandes, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1979 Los Profesionales, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1980 Tu Serenata, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1980 Para Mi Fanaticada, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1981 Con Mucho Estilo, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1982 Todo es para ti, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1983 Cantando, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1984 El Mundo, featuring Colacho Mendoza.
1985 Vallenato, featuring Cocha Molina.
1986 Brindo con el Alma, featuring Cocha Molina.
1987 Incontenibles, featuring Cocha Molina.
1988 Gano el Folclor, featuring Juancho Rois.
1989 El Cóndor Herido, featuring Juancho Rois.
1990 Canta Conmigo, featuring Juancho Rois.
1991 Mi Vida Musical, featuring Juancho Rois.
1992 El Regreso del Cóndor, featuring Juancho Rois.
1993 Titulo de Amor, featuring Juancho Rois.
1994 26 de Mayo, featuring Juancho Rois.
1995 Un Canto Celestial, featuring Iván Zuleta.
1996 Muchas Gracias, featuring Iván Zuleta.
1997 Mi Biografia, featuring Iván Zuleta.
1998 Volver a Vivir, featuring Iván Zuleta.
1999 Experiencias Vividas, featuring Franco Argüelles.
2002 Gracias a Dios, featuring Cocha Molina.
2003 Pidiendo Vía, featuring Juan Mario de la Espriella.
2005 De Nuevo Con Mi Gente, featuring Franco Argüelles.
2007 La Voz, featuring accordion player Iván Zuleta.
2009 Celebremos Juntos
2009 Listo Pa' la foto
2011 Con Mucho Gusto, featuring Alvaro Lopéz
2013 La Vida del Artista, featuring Alvaro Lopéz (This was his last album; released a few days before his death).
2014 56 años, 56 éxitos, una historia (Posthumous solo project)
2015 Entre Díaz y canciones, featuring Martín Elías and Rafael Santos Díaz (Posthumous solo project, accompanied by their sons)
Awards and nominations
Latin Grammy Awards
Diaz received a Latin Grammy Award and three nominations.
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| 2010 || Listo Pa' la foto || Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album ||
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| 2012 || Con Mucho Gusto Caray || Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album ||
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| 2014 || La Vida del Artista || Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album ||
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References
External links
Discography of Diomedes Díaz
1957 births
2013 deaths
Latin Grammy Award winners
People from Valledupar
20th-century Colombian male singers
Sony Music Colombia artists
Vallenato musicians
21st-century Colombian male singers
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Mudikandam is a village in the Srirangam taluk of Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Demographics
As per the 2001 census, Mudikandam had a population of 898 with 437 males and 461 females. The sex ratio was 1,055 and the literacy rate, 45.18.
References
Villages in Tiruchirappalli district
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Hibbertia cistiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a small, erect to low-lying shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers usually with four or six stamens arranged in a single cluster.
Description
Hibbertia cistiflora is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of and has wiry branches. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets and are sessile and there are usually three or four triangular bracts long. The sepals are joined at the base, the outer lobes oblong, long the inner lobes egg-shaped and long. The petals are yellow, broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long with two lobes. There are usually four or six stamens in a single cluster on one side of the glabrous carpels.
Taxonomy
This species was described in 1826 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in Systema Vegetabilium and given the name Pleurandra cistiflora from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber, but the name was illegitimate because it had already been used by Ludwig Reichenbach for a different species. In 1956 Norman Wakefield changed the name to Hibbertia cistiflora in The Victorian Naturalist.
In 1995 Hellmut R. Toelken described two subspecies, cistiflora and rostrata and in 2012 a third - subsp. quadristaminea. All three were published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Hibbertia cistiflora N.A.Wakef. subsp. cistiflora has flowers with six stamens and leaves with scattered tubercles and a central vein not protruding and the tip of the leaf, flowering mainly from August to October;
Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. quadristaminea Toelken has flowers with four, sometimes five stamens, and leaves with few tubercles and a central vein that does not protrude at the tip of the leaf, flowering from August to October;
Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. rostrata Toelken has six stamens and a central vein that protrudes up to beyond the tip of the leaf, flowering mainly from September to November.
Distribution and habitat
Subspecies cistiflora is widespread in the Sydney district and the Blue Mountains where it grows in heath, but has been recorded as far north as Werrikimbe National Park and from Braidwood to Nerriga in the south of New South Wales. Subspecies rostrata grows in heath on or near the tops of ridges in the Grampians of Victoria. Subspecies quadristaminea is found in low heath on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales.
References
cistiflora
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
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Charles Mayer (28 January 190112 November 1971) was a Canadian journalist, sportsperson and politician. He made a name in journalism as a sportswriter and municipal reporter with the newspaper La Patrie, and the magazine Le Petit Journal. He was the French-language publicist for the National Hockey League, and a radio sports commentator for the Montreal Royals and the Montreal Canadiens. He later became a press secretary for horse racing in Montreal, then was president of the Canadian Boxing Federation and vice-president of the National Boxing Association. He served six years on the Montreal City Council and campaigned for the city to host a Major League Baseball team and the Summer Olympic Games. He was one of the inaugural appointees to the National Fitness Council of Canada, was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1971, and was posthumously recognized with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1985 for his career as a hockey journalist.
Early career
Charles Mayer was born on 28 January 1901, in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated from Université de Montréal in 1922 and went into journalism briefly with Le Canada, then was a sportswriter and municipal reporter for La Patrie from 1922 to 1933. He then covered sports while writing for the magazine Le Petit Journal beginning in 1933, and was named its executive sports editor in 1952. He also reported on municipal politics in Montreal.
Mayer began French-language broadcasts of the Montreal Royals baseball games in 1945, and was the sports commentator for World Series broadcasts in French on radio and television from 1944 to 1966. He was part of the Canadian delegation to the 1948 Summer Olympics hosted in London, and broadcast 15-minute event summaries daily.
Mayer was the French-language publicist for the National Hockey League, and oversaw the minor NHL game officials for more than 20 seasons in Montreal. He established and hosted the French-language equivalent of the Hot Stove League on radio broadcasts for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the regular selector for the three stars, and chose team captain Maurice Richard as the first, second, and third star of a playoffs game in which he scored five goals against the Toronto Maple Leafs on 23 March 1944.
In 1949, Mayer published a book on the history of the Montreal Canadiens entitled L'Épopee des Canadiens, which sold more than 100,000 copies.
1950s and 1960s
Mayer served as the press secretary for horse racing at the Richelieu and Blue Bonnets raceways in Montreal during the 1950s. During the 1960s, he became the statistician at Blue Bonnets, and a horse show steward after he completed courses at the Jockey Club in the United States.
La Soirée du hockey made its television debut on 11 October 1952, and Mayer was one of the guest panelists for the Hot Stove League, along with Émile Genest and Jacques Beauchamp. He covered the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver and broadcast daily reports in French.
Mayer was elected to two terms on Montreal City Council and served from 1954 until 1960. He openly campaigned for Montreal to bid for a Major League Baseball franchise, and hosting duties of the Summer Olympic Games. He was the owner and publisher of the Sunday newspaper, Samedi-Dimanche, from 1957 to 1959, and later worked as a freelance sports columnist which included a return to La Patrie.
While on the city council, Mayer was vice-president of the Montreal Athletic Commission which oversaw the sport of boxing in Quebec. He was president of the Canadian Boxing Federation from 1955 to 1956, later served as vice-president of the National Boxing Association, and was a boxing judge at the Olympics and other events. After losing his seat on city council and the Montreal Athletic Commission, he proposed a change in election procedures in his attempt to be eligible for the presidency of the National Boxing Association.
Mayer was one of the first group of 29 people named to the National Fitness Council in January 1962, with the task of advising the Government of Canada on implementation of a new fitness and amateur sport program. In February 1962, the council endorsed a plan for a Canadian sports festival to be held every four years, which eventually became the Canada Games. Mayer felt the concept could be used to select the Canada men's national ice hockey team in advance of the Winter Olympics. Mayer served on the council until 1964.
Later life and honours
Mayer served as vice-president of the francophone sports club Palestre Nationale. He was made one of the club's lifetime governors and represented the province of Quebec on the selection committee for Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He was part of the Canadian delegation to the International Olympic Committee meeting in 1970, when hosting duties for the 1976 Summer Olympics were awarded to Montreal.
Mayer was made an honorary member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in February 1971, and was inducted into the builder category of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in May 1971.
Mayer died on 12 November 1971 in Paris, France, shortly after arriving on a flight to begin a vacation. He had been married to Marie Reine Lambert and fathered one son. Mayer was interred at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. He was posthumously recognized with the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1985, in recognition of his hockey journalism career as chosen by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
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1901 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Canadian journalists
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian politicians
Baseball people from Quebec
Boxing judges
Boxing people from Quebec
Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
Canadian colour commentators
Canadian columnists
Canadian magazine journalists
Canadian male journalists
Canadian political journalists
Canadian press secretaries
Canadian radio sportscasters
Canadian sports executives and administrators
Canadian sportsperson-politicians
Canadian sportswriters
Canadian television sportscasters
Elmer Ferguson Award winners
French Quebecers
Journalists from Montreal
Minor League Baseball broadcasters
Montreal Canadiens announcers
Montreal city councillors
Olympic Games broadcasters
Olympic officials
People in horse racing
Sportspeople from Montreal
Université de Montréal alumni
World Boxing Association
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Enkhbayar
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Enkhbayar () is a Mongolian personal name.
Notable people bearing this name include:
as proper name
Nambaryn Enkhbayar (born 1958), Mongolian Prime Minister in 2000–2004, and President of Mongolia in 2005–2009
Jargalsaikhany Enkhbayar (born 1977), a Mongolian international footballer
as patronymic
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Erpeli () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Erpelinsky Selsoviet, Buynaksky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 3,412 as of 2010. There are 33 streets.
Geography
Erpeli is located 14 km west of Buynaksk (the district's administrative centre) by road, on the Shuraozen River. Verkhny Karanay and Nizhneye Ishkarty are the nearest rural localities.
References
Rural localities in Buynaksky District
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Silvia
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Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest Silva and its meaning is spirit of the wood. The mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus.
In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the Aminta written by Torquato Tasso.
People
Queen Silvia of Sweden
Evelyn Silvia, American mathematician
Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator
Silvia Barbescu, Romanian painter
Silvia Bellot, Spanish motor racing official
Silvia Cambir, Romanian painter
Silvia Cartwright, New Zealand Viceroy, jurist
Silvia Ciornei, Romanian politician
Silvia Fuselli, Italian footballer
Silvia Heubach, German-American mathematician
Silvia Intxaurrondo, Spanish journalist
Silvia Laidla, Estonian actress
Sylvia Miles, American actress
Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Spanish singer
Silvia Puppo Gastélum, Mexican politician
Silvia Madetzky, German female discus thrower
Silvia Marcovici, Romanian violinist
Silvia Sorina Munteanu, Romanian singer
Silvia Navarro, Mexican actress
Silvia Njirić, Croatian tennis player
Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress
Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short-story writer
Silvia Radu, Romanian sculptor
Sylvia Rivera, American LGBTQ+ activist
Silvia Rodgers, writer and political activist
Silvia Saint, Porn star
Silvia Seidel, German actress
Silvia Sommer, Composer and pianist
Silvia Stroescu, Romanian gymnast
Silvia Tcherassi, Colombian fashion designer
Silvia Adriana Țicău, Romanian politician
Stephen Silvia, American academic
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, Peruvian-American explorer and mountaineer
Other
Silvia, Cauca, a municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia
Nissan Silvia, an automobile sold in Japan
Silvia is the name of two plant genera:
Silvia in family Orobanchaceae
Silvia in family Lauraceae
Silvia anacardioides, S. polyantha, and S. rondonii have been moved to Mezia itauba
Other species have been moved to genus Mezilaurus
Rhea Silvia, Roman mythology
gens Silvia, legendary family in Roman mythology
Silvia, a character in William Shakespeare's play Two Gentlemen of Verona, is the love interest of protagonist Valentine
Silvia, a character in the Viewtiful Joe series
"Silvia" (song), a song by the Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow
SILVIA, Symbolically Isolated Linguistically Variable Intelligence Algorithms, is an artificial intelligence platform technology created by Cognitive Code
See also
Sylvia (disambiguation)
Italian feminine given names
Romanian feminine given names
Bulgarian feminine given names
Estonian feminine given names
Spanish feminine given names
Swedish feminine given names
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Jackviper
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Jackviper (often written as "JackViper") is an English hard rock band formed in London, England in 2005 and active until 2009. Jackviper has supported Vixen and both incarnations of L.A. Guns on national UK tours.
Jackviper is the first unsigned band in history to have a full song pre-loaded onto 500,000 Creative Zen V MP3 players, in addition to making an endorsement deal with Marshall Amplification. Jackviper has been featured twice in international metal magazine Metal Hammer, which describes the band as having "The speed of Motörhead and the intensity of Guns N' Roses".
The band's influences include Mötley Crüe, Guns N' Roses, Nine Inch Nails, Love/Hate, Motörhead, and Beautiful Creatures.
History
Kiss, Ferlanger, and Shredder met while studying at music college in London, and Eddie Shredder studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, US, where Steve Vai also studied.
Jackviper recorded their first EP, Sleazy Listening within months of forming. Shortly after they were asked to provide the soundtrack to the Axl Rose DVD: The Prettiest Star. Their second EP, Another Dirty Threesome was well received, with the song MerryGoRound named ninth best of 2005 on Sleazeroxx.
Jackviper recorded their third EP, Murder 1 early in 2006. A song from their live set featured on the Murder 1 EP, "Go Fuck Yourself" was featured on PureRawk's compilation Unsigned and Unleashed. The EP was voted 'Best EP of 2006' by users of the website. In February 2006, Jackviper appeared on US rock label Perris Records' Hollywood Hairspray 5 compilation. Creative Zen pre-loaded the song "Spider to the Fly" on 500,000 V MP3 players for the system's launch in Europe and Russia.
Jackviper's song "Walk the Line" was included on Perris Records' Worldwide Network CD. The CD, including work by members of Yes, Survivor, Dangerous Toys and Celtic Frost, was released in February 2007. The band then began work for the soundtrack to the David A. Prior horror movie, Zombie Wars.
The band toured while promoting the single release "Devil May Care" on 1 October 2007. The band released an EP entitled Bullets for the Faithful shortly after, including "Devil May Care" on the track list.
In June 2008, vocalist Jay R departed from the band, citing "musical differences" as the reason. The band subsequently announced the permanent replacement lead vocalist was to be David "The Dominator" Domminney from The Dean Howard Band.
In August 2010, it was announced via the band's MySpace page that they were on indefinite hiatus following the departure of vocalist David Domminney to join Australian Pink Floyd Show. Eddie Shredder now performs with A New Tomorrow, Dan Ferlanger lives in Berlin and performs with a number of bands including Jim Kroft, Jay R has since emigrated to Queensland, Australia and is now the lead singer of Snake Bite Whisky, and Mister Kiss' whereabouts are currently unknown.
Touring
Jackviper has toured as an opening support act. These include one of the incarnations of the L.A. Guns in Germany, and with Robin Black, ex-Warrior Soul frontman Korey Clarke, Vixen and House of Lords in the summer of 2006. In October 2006, Jackviper toured the UK with Slunt. In January 2007, Jackviper toured in the UK with L.A. Guns.
The band has been touring numerous regional music/entertainment festivals in the UK during the summer of 2007 and has also travelled to Los Angeles for the annual Crüe Fest (a tribute festival to Mötley Crüe) at the Whisky a Go-Go on Sunset Strip. The band was invited to play the first New York Crüe Fest on 11 November.
Press coverage
In April 2006, Metal Hammer, ran a half-page article on Jackviper.
In October 2006, Metal Hammer placed Jackviper's song "Spider to the Fly" on their covermount CD along with other bands such as Trivium and Wednesday 13.
Band members
Eddie Shredder – Guitar
Mister Kiss (a.k.a. Davey Kiss) – Bass
Dan Ferlanger – Drums
Previous members
Jay R – Lead Vocals (2005–2008)
David Domminney – Lead Vocals (2008–2009)
Discography
The band released a total of four EPs. Track listings are included.
Sleazy Listening EP (2005)
Released for free download on the band's website
"Whiskey Town"
"Junkie Queen"
"Dog Days"
Another Dirty Threesome EP (2005)
"Crashed By You"
"Tears of Pearl"
"MerryGoRound"
Murder 1 EP (2006)
"Go Fuck Yourself" was released for free on the band website
"Go Fuck Yourself"
"Walk the Line"
"Blown Away"
"Murder City Blues"
Bullets for the Faithful EP (2007)
"0800 F*CKYOU"
"Devil May Care"
"Spider to the Fly"
"Grab Some Brass"
"Hit The Floor"
References
External links
Official website
Official Myspace
Interview with Jackviper on SleazeRoxx
Musical groups from London
English glam metal musical groups
English hard rock musical groups
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Michael S. McLean
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Michael S. McLean is a retired director, editor and producer on movies and TV shows such as Stargate SG-1, Freebie and the Bean, Vega$, and he won an Emmy for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years.
He was born on December 27, 1942, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has two children, and is currently retired.
References
External links
Living people
American film directors
American film producers
American film editors
1942 births
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Joseph-Hermas Leclerc
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Joseph-Hermas Leclerc (12 July 1877 – 4 October 1945) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec in Drummond County and became an industrialist by career.
Leclerc served as an alderman of Granby, Quebec for 6 years, then was the community's mayor from 1933 to 1939.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Shefford riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. After his second term in the House of Commons, Leclerc did not seek further re-election in the 1945 federal election.
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External links
1877 births
1945 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Mayors of places in Quebec
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Quebec municipal councillors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Moran%20%28comedian%29
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George Moran (comedian)
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George Moran (October 3, 1881 – August 1, 1949) was an American minstrel show performer who worked in blackface. He worked with Charles Mack as the Two Black Crows from 1921 to 1930. He also portrayed Native Americans in comedy films.
Biography
He was born on October 3, 1881 in Elwood, Kansas as George Searcy. He died on August 1, 1949 in Oakland, California.
Selected filmography
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) as Indian Chief
My Little Chickadee (1940) as Milton, a Native American
Alias the Deacon (1940) as Taciturn Indian
References
External links
1881 births
1949 deaths
Blackface minstrel performers
Vaudeville performers
20th-century American male singers
20th-century American singers
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Montgomery City, Missouri
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Montgomery City is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,811 at the 2020 census.
History
Montgomery was platted in 1853, taking its name from Montgomery County. A post office called Montgomery City has been in operation since 1857.
The Sylvester Marion and Frances Anne Stephens Baker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Geography
Montgomery City is located at (38.976812, -91.505026). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,834 people, 1,141 households, and 711 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 1,279 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 92.6% White, 3.6% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 1.9% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.6% of the population.
There were 1,141 households, of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.8% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.7% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.97.
The median age in the city was 35.3 years. 26.6% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.4% were from 25 to 44; 24.7% were from 45 to 64; and 14.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,442 people, 1,032 households, and 666 families living in the city. The population density was 858.6 people per square mile (332.0/km). There were 1,162 housing units at an average density of 408.5 per square mile (158.0/km). The racial makeup of the city was 94.19% White, 3.81% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.25% from other races, and 1.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.33% of the population.
There were 1,032 households, out of which 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were married couples living together, 11.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.4% were non-families. 31.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.2% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,446, and the median income for a family was $38,063. Males had a median income of $28,906 versus $17,857 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,735. About 10.9% of families and 14.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.7% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Public education in Montgomery City is administered by Montgomery County R-II School District.
Montgomery City has a lending library, the Montgomery City Public Library.
Notable people
Montgomery City was the hometown of Ray Moore, the creator of the comic strip "The Phantom".
Former mayor Jeff Porter was elected in 2018 to the Missouri House of Representatives from the 42nd district.
References
External links
Historic maps of Montgomery City in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri
Local Government Website: http://www.montgomerycitymo.org/
School District: http://mc-wildcats.org
Montgomery County R-II High School Alumni: https://web.archive.org/web/20110714184127/http://mc-wildcats-alum.ning.com/
Cities in Montgomery County, Missouri
County seats in Missouri
Cities in Missouri
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Grady Jarrett
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Grady Jarrett (born April 28, 1993) is an American football defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Clemson.
Early years
Jarrett attended Rockdale County High School in Conyers, Georgia, where he was a two-time All-state selection. A four-year starter on both sides of the ball, he had 198 tackles, 63 tackles for loss, and 27.5 sacks over his last two years. He was a three-time All-regional selection on defense and second-team All-region on offense as a senior, as well as a three-time selection as the team's top defensive player after compiling 101 tackles (31.5 for loss) and nine sacks. He also played in the North-South All-Star game in Georgia and Florida Maxx Scout All-Star Bowl; in the two games combined, he had 17 tackles, seven tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and three caused fumbles.
In addition, Jarrett was also a member of the school's wrestling team; he was fourth in the state as a junior and won the state heavyweight title as a senior. Also a top performer in track & field, Jarrett won the state title in the shot put as a senior with a throw of 15.46 meters (50-6).
Jarrett was rated by Rivals.com as a three-star recruit. He was rated the No. 41 defensive tackle in the nation by Scout.com. He committed to Clemson University to play college football.
College career
Jarrett attended Clemson from 2011 to 2014. As a true freshman, he appeared in nine games, making two tackles. As a sophomore, Jarrett started 11 of 13 games. He had 49 tackles and had two sacks. As a starter his junior season, he had 83 tackles and two sacks in 13 games. He again started all 13 games during his senior season, recording 73 tackles and 1.5 sacks and was named first team All-ACC in recognition of his successful senior season.
Professional career
Jarrett was drafted in the fifth round (137th overall) by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2015 NFL Draft. Atlanta traded two draft picks to the Minnesota Vikings to move up and take Jarrett, giving up their 146th and 187th picks.
2015
Jarrett came to terms with the Atlanta Falcons on May 9, 2015, signing a four-year $2.527 million contract. As a rookie in 2015, Jarrett played in 15 games, finishing the season with 24 tackles, four tackles for loss, two quarterback hits, and one sack. Jarrett recorded his first professional sack on December 12 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
2016
In 2016, Jarrett played all 16 games, starting 14. Jarrett finished the season with 48 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, nine quarterback hits, and three sacks.
During Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots, Jarrett sacked Tom Brady three times, which tied a record for most sacks in a single Super Bowl game. In addition, Jarrett had five total tackles in the 34–28 overtime loss.
2017
In 2017, Jarrett started all 16 games, recording a career-high 55 tackles, 15 tackles for loss, 13 quarterback hits, and four sacks.
2018
In Week 15 of the 2018 season, Jarrett recorded seven tackles, two sacks, and a forced fumble in a 40–14 win over the Arizona Cardinals, earning him NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Jarrett finished the 2018 season with then career-highs in both sacks and forced fumbles, with 6 and 3, respectively. Pro Football Focus ranked Jarrett 17th on the PFF Top 101, finishing the season with a 91.0 grade, tied for the best in the league for an interior defensive linemen.
2019
On March 4, 2019, the Falcons placed the franchise tag on Jarrett. Jarrett signed the franchise tag on April 22, 2019. On July 15, 2019, Jarrett signed a four-year contract extension worth $68 million with $42.5 million guaranteed, making him the third highest paid defensive tackle in the league. In Week 1 against the Minnesota Vikings, Jarrett recorded his first sack of the season on Kirk Cousins in the 28–12 loss. In Week 8 against the Seattle Seahawks, Jarrett recorded a team high 8 tackles and sacked Russell Wilson once in the 27–20 loss. In Week 9 against the New Orleans Saints, Jarrett had 2.5 sacks and five quarterback hits in the 26–9 upset win. In Week 16 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jarrett had one sack and three tackles in the 24–12 win. In Week 17 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jarrett recorded one sack in the 28–22 overtime win. Jarrett finished the 2019 season with a career-high 7.5 sacks and 69 tackles, as well as 11 tackles for loss and 2 forced fumbles.
On December 17, 2019, Jarrett was invited to his first Pro Bowl. On January 3, 2020, Jarrett was named second-team All-Pro.
He was ranked 91st by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020.
2020
In Week 1 against the Seattle Seahawks, Jarrett led the Falcons with 1.5 sacks on quarterback Russell Wilson during the 38–25 loss.
On December 20, 2020, Jarrett was selected to his second Pro Bowl.
NFL statistics
Regular season
Postseason
Personal life
His father, Jessie Tuggle, played in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons from 1987 to 2000 and his brother Justin Tuggle is currently a member of the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League. He also has a close relationship with Ray Lewis who he refers to as "uncle" though they are not related biologically.
Jarrett's home in Conyers, Georgia partially burned down during the second day of the 2015 NFL Draft. There were nearly 50 people, including friends and family members at the home at the time of the fire. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire was believed to be electrical. The Atlanta Falcons drafted Jarrett the next day and immediately sent him Atlanta Falcons gear.
References
External links
Atlanta Falcons bio
Clemson Tigers bio
1993 births
Living people
People from Conyers, Georgia
Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area
Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
American football defensive tackles
Clemson Tigers football players
Atlanta Falcons players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
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Giacomo may refer to:
People
Giacomo (name), including a list of people with the name
Other uses
Giacomo (horse), a race horse, winner of the 2005 Kentucky Derby
Giácomo (film) (1939), Argentine film written by Armando Discépolo
United Office Building, also known as Giacomo, a skyscraper in Niagara Falls.
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Djenné-Djenno (also Jenne-Jeno; ) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Niger River Valley in the country of Mali. Literally translated to "ancient Djenné", it is the original site of both Djenné and Mali and is considered to be among the oldest urbanized centers and the best-known archaeology site in sub-Saharan Africa. This archaeological site is located about from the modern town, and is believed to have been involved in long distance trade and possibly the domestication of African rice. The site is believed to exceed in area; however this is yet to be confirmed with extensive survey work. With the help of archaeological excavations mainly by Roderick and Susan McIntosh, the site is known to have been occupied from 250 BC to 900 AD. The city is believed to have been abandoned and moved where the current city is located due to the spread of Islam and the building of the Great Mosque of Djenné. Previously, it was assumed that advanced trade networks and complex societies did not exist in the region until the arrival of traders from Southwest Asia. However, sites such as Djenné-Djenno disprove this, as these traditions in West Africa flourished long before. More recently, it has been concluded that the egalitarian civilization of Djenne-Djenno was likely established by the Mande progenitors of the Bozo people, which spanned from 3rd century BCE to 13th century CE.
Origins
Similar settlements had already begun to form somewhat earlier at the site of Dia, also in Mali along the Niger River, from around 900 BC, and reached their peak around 600 BC.
With the help of archaeological excavations, radiocarbon dates have been collected showing that people first settled at Djenne-Jeno permanently in about 250 BC. This first occupation of the site (which lasted from 250 BC to 50 AD) is known as Phase I and is some of the earliest evidence for iron production in sub-Saharan Africa. This initial phase is not associated with the Later Stone Age, and there has never been an occupation from this period at the site, or evidence for it has never been found. Until 250 BC, the area surrounding Djenné-Djenno was either uninhabited or visited by nomadic groups that stayed for short periods. Geomorphological data show that the region consisted mostly of swampland at that time. Groups only began permanently occupying the area after a dry episode in which annual flooding receded and decreased the size of the swamps. Faunal remains at the site from this occupation have included catfish and Nile perch but mostly cow, leading to the assumption that this first phase might be associated with hunter-gatherer or pastoral modes of subsistence. During this period there is no evidence for rice production, however it is believed that these people might have been rice producers, even though no definitive evidence has been discovered yet.
The considerable commonalities, absent in modern North African cultures, are present and able to be found between Round Head paintings and modern Sub-Saharan African cultures. Saharan ceramics are viewed as having clear likeness with the oldest ceramics found in Djenne-Djenno, which have been dated to 250 BCE.
Phase II is defined by a larger population and definitive evidence for the mass production of rice. The borders of the site expanded during this period (possibly covering 100,000 square meters or more). Other developments include the presence of permanent mud brick architecture, including a city wall, probably built during the latter half of the first millennium AD using the cylindrical brick technology, "which was 3.7 meters wide at its base and ran almost two kilometers around the town". It is inferred from this that rice domestication might have led to higher population, or higher populations led to the domestication of rice in this period. Phase III dates from about 300 to 900 AD and is believed to have an even higher population based on crowded cemeteries. The site also has evidence for a more intensive occupation through deep house deposits, possibly from multiple generations. Since there is no evidence for a fourth phase, it is expected that towards the end of Phase III the city experienced a slow decline in population and eventually a total abandonment. However, very little is known about why this decline happened, and more research is needed.
At the end of the site's occupation stood a large tear-shaped mound (also known as a tell) consisting of layer upon layer of occupation that had built up over time. This tell was surrounded by 69 hillocks, and created by its people through the building and rebuilding of their houses. Throughout the site's occupations, pottery fragments are abundant. Some of the more interesting clay artifacts begin in Phase II with terra-cotta statuettes and representations of humans and animals on pottery. These statuettes are important to the understanding of Phase II because along with this art, the first evidence for large-scale rice cultivation and population rise. All of these attributes are commonly associated with complex, state-level societies. It is believed that these artifacts posed ritual function as opposed to a domestic function. Some of these clay figurines are similar to those made by modern Fulani pastoralists for children, which might be evidence for the importance of domesticated cows at the site. One human statuette in particular has been the cause of much debate. It was found on a house floor around small bowls full of suspected offerings. Two others have been found in similar context 11 kilometers away from the site of Djenné-Djenno and it is hypothesized that they are the representations of a household spirit, as ancestral cults are known to have flourished in the area as late as the 20th century.
Terra-cotta figurines from the Inner Niger Delta region
Djenné-Djenno is famous for its terracotta figurines which depict humans and animals including snakes and horses. Before the site's excavation in 1977, many of these figurines were in circulation, being sold as tourist souvenirs and fine art to the West on the black market. During this time, Mali was experiencing famine; and it was unlikely for many to be upset about any money that came into the country. The sale of cultural antiquities has been illegal since 1970, with the creation of the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, yet conflict between ownership and control of artifacts still remains a problem in the region as well as in many other parts of the world. Other sculptures in West Africa have faced similar challenges. In Nigeria, Nok culture figurines dating back as far as 800 BC also became popular in black market trade in the 1990s. Little scientific work has been done on these figurines, as most of them are in circulation around the globe today. Recently, from Djenné-Djenno, in Timbuktu cultural property has also been threatened. Ethical battles over antiquities are hard to define as "the conflicts are multifaced, questions of innocence and guilt often – through not always – hard to pin down." Art dealers and collectors depend on such trade, while the looting of artifacts from archaeological sites destroys their historical context and integrity. It has been suggested by many to have a blackout of information on those figurines that were not excavated scientifically, which primarily includes black market items, as it is believed that drawing Western attention to these items would increase their market value. This could also hurt art historians and dealers, however, as it would be difficult for them to know how to distinguish artifacts from fakes.
Agriculture and urban organization
Historically, the Inland Niger Delta has been an ideal location for the mass production of staples such as rice, millet and vegetables due to its predictable floods and summer rains. Many believe this area was the leader in African rice domestication, however more research is needed. Along with this, evidence for domestic cow, sheep and goat cultivation is present at the site. The land surrounding Djenné-Djenno lent itself to such high-yielding crops due to its mixture of highland and floodplain soils at different elevations that allowed floodwater farming of rice. Moreover, the Djenné-Djenno site lies in close proximity to dune landscape, which allows for necessary recreation needed for keeping cattle in floodplain environments. Overall, the diversified sources of food provided food security that allowed for permanent settlement in a region of volatile climate. It is believed that this food production, especially that of African rice, was one of the main contributors to population rise in the city of Djenné-Djenno and was widely exported to nearby centers (including Timbuktu). Many believe that domestic rice was introduced from areas outside the Delta, but the idea that it could not have been manipulated all over the region should not be rejected without further evidence. It is hypothesized that after the decline in aquatic resources we see being exploited in phase I, people adapted by cultivating rice, causing this population explosion.
The Djenné-Djenno urban complex consists of 40 mounds within a four-kilometer radius. The configuration of the mounds helped “segmented” communities to surmount the ecological challenges caused by the volatile weather patterns characteristic of the Middle Niger. The fact that the mounds were disjointed allowed communities to specialize their trade while the relative proximity of the mound facilitated the exchange of goods and services between these communities. It is believed that instead of a ruling elite, Djenné-Djenno split power between corporate groups and this can be seen with the clustered organization at the site. This means that unlike places like Egypt, Djenné-Djenno was not highly stratified and evidence for a very wealthy ruling class has never been found. This urban configuration incentivized peaceful reciprocity between the communities, which in turn caused the communities to specialize further leading to the prosperity of the community as a whole. It is hypothesized that clusters held people of similar ethnic groups and craft specializations, which would set the city up for extensive trade and growth.
Trade
It is suspected that Djenné-Djenno grew to such a vast size as a result of regional and local trade. For many years, it was assumed that complex societies, art and long distance trade came to this region with the Arab arrival in the seventh and eighth centuries. Archaeological evidence however supports that Djenné-Djenno was part of a pre-Arab trans-Saharan trade network. It has been hypothesized that the city grew as a trade center due to its location on the southern portion of the agriculturally productive region of the delta. It was likely that rice produced in this region would have been a valuable trade for Saharan commodities such as salt, copper and dried fish. Djenné-Djenno would have been an excellent middle ground between traders from North Africa and the Mediterranean and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. No doubt the towns proximity to other large urban centers such as Timbuktu also helped this trade network thrive. Specifically, glass beads found at the site have been dated to as early as the third century BC and appear to originate from Asia to the Mediterranean Near East. Copper ornaments have also been found in early Phase II deposits, which shows these trade networks date to earlier than previously thought. These discoveries lend support to the existence of sporadic contacts between West and North Africa throughout the first millennium AD.
Notes
Sources
Further reading
Link is to a file of the complete issue. It contains poor images.
Link requires subscription to Aluka.
External links
Archaeology of West Africa at Rice University
Old Towns of Djenné: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Djenné
Mopti Region
Former populated places in Mali
Archaeological sites in Mali
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Train speed optimization
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Train speed optimization, also known as Zuglaufoptimierung, is a system that reduces the need for trains to brake and accelerate, resulting in smoother and more efficient operation.
While train speed optimization needs some technical infrastructure, it is more of an operational concept than a technical installation. One can relatively easily implement train speed optimization using for instance cab signalling (e.g. using ETCS), but the presence of a cab signalling system does not necessarily mean that it uses train speed optimization. Train speed optimization may also be implemented using conventional signalling.
Conventional signal operation
Usually, trains are allowed to run at the maximum speed the track allows until the distant signal of next occupied block. This is inefficient in many cases, because this way the train comes to a halt in front of the red signal and has to accelerate again from zero.
Advantages using train speed optimization
If the train slows down much earlier, given the right timing, it reaches the distant signal just when the home signal switches to green, and so does not need to stop. Thus, wear on the brakes is reduced and the train uses less energy. But the main reason, especially for trains that accelerate slowly, is that the train passes the home signal at high speed, compared to the conventional case where the train often has to accelerate from standstill. This effectively increases track capacity, because the time it takes for the train to run from the distant signal (that has just turned green) to the home signal is often much less than the time it takes for a train to accelerate from the home signal.
Equipment
For a train speed optimization system to work, it is necessary to have a signalling system which is capable of displaying several different speeds, for instance 40, 60, 90 km/h and the full line speed, which also requires a train protection system that is able to handle these cases (cab signalling may replace these installations). Further, the track must be equipped with inductive loops that detect the presence of trains with sufficient precision (or other means of detecting the positions of the trains). Finally a computer system is needed that is able to reasonably predict the movements of the trains for the next few minutes.
Train speed optimization in practice
The expensive and complicated installations usually only make sense for heavily used routes.
Swiss Federal Railways:
Lenzburg-Killwangen (since 2000)
Zurich-Altstetten
Around Olten (installed 2004, current status unknown)
Probably other places (Zürich S-Bahn?)
External links
Train speed optimization: SBB's funnel into Zurich
Rail technologies
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Antoin is an Irish masculine given name that is a derivative of Antonius that is commonly used in Ireland. It may refer to:
Antoin McFadden, Gaelic footballer
Antoin Miliordos (1924–2012), Greek alpine skier
Antoin Sevruguin (1851-1933), Iranian photographer
Tony Rezko, an American businessman
See also
Antoine, a given name
Antolin (name)
Anton (disambiguation)
Antonin (name)
Antoun
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XHHO-FM is a radio station on 97.7 FM in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. It is owned by Radio S.A. and carries its Máxima format.
History
XEHO-AM 910 received its concession on February 7, 1957. It was owned by Josefina María de García de León and broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 250 night. XEHO was bought by Radio Son, S.A. (in 1972), Sistemas Publicitarios y de Mercadotecnia de Obregón, S.A. de C.V. (in 1992), and Fantasía Musical 58, S.A. de C.V. (in 2004). By the time of the latter acquisition, XEHO had moved to 580 kHz.
The current concessionaire was created in 2011, the same year that XEHO was cleared to move to FM as XHHO-FM 97.7.
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Radio stations in Sonora
Mexican radio stations with expired concessions
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Mabel Cañada Zorrilla
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Mabel Cañada Zorrilla (Bilbao, 1952–present) is an antimilitarist and pacifist founder of the ecovillage of Lakabe, a town recovered in Navarra 40 years ago and integrated into the Iberian Ecovillage Network.
Biography
Mabel Cañada was born in the Santutxu neighborhood of Bilbao in 1952. Daughter of Ángel, a Burgos glassmaker and Isabel, a Balmasedana who dropped out of nursing to care for her father, is the second of five sisters and two brothers. Mother of 4 people, active in groups such as the Conscientious Objection Movement (MOC), the feminist movement, and groups against large infrastructures such as nuclear power plants or the Itoiz reservoir in Navarra.
She was one of the founders of the community of Lakabe (Navarra) in 1980, an abandoned town that was squatted and recovered, in which coexistence is based on self-management, self- sufficiency, self-consumption, mutual support, and assembly operation.
Cañada has been trained in ways to create collectivity, to express oneself in a group, to live in community, to implement structures that allow horizontal decision-making, in process facilitation, experimental education and non-violent communication. It has also been formed in other communities such as Findhorn.
Since 2004 she has been a facilitator of change processes, performs situation diagnoses for social groups, accompanies them in their own processes and teaches courses and workshops.
References
Women environmentalists
Spanish environmentalists
1952 births
Living people
People from Santurtzi
People from Navarre
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Forestvale is a rural locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Forestvale had a population of 47 people.
Road infrastructure
The Warrego Highway passes to the south.
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Maranoa Region
Localities in Queensland
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RiskMetrics
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The RiskMetrics variance model (also known as exponential smoother) was first established in 1989, when Sir Dennis Weatherstone, the new chairman of J.P. Morgan, asked for a daily report measuring and explaining the risks of his firm. Nearly four years later in 1992, J.P. Morgan launched the RiskMetrics methodology to the marketplace, making the substantive research and analysis that satisfied Sir Dennis Weatherstone's request freely available to all market participants.
In 1998, as client demand for the group's risk management expertise exceeded the firm's internal risk management resources, the Corporate Risk Management Department was spun off from J.P. Morgan as RiskMetrics Group with 23 founding employees. The RiskMetrics technical document was revised in 1996. In 2001, it was revised again in Return to RiskMetrics. In 2006, a new method for modeling risk factor returns was introduced (RM2006). On 25 January 2008, RiskMetrics Group listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: RISK). In June 2010, RiskMetrics was acquired by MSCI for $1.55 billion.
Risk measurement process
Portfolio risk measurement can be broken down into steps. The first is modeling the market that drives changes in the portfolio's value. The market model must be sufficiently specified so that the portfolio can be revalued using information from the market model. The risk measurements are then extracted from the probability distribution of the changes in portfolio value. The change in value of the portfolio is typically referred to by portfolio managers as profit and loss, or P&L
Risk factors
Risk management systems are based on models that describe potential changes in the factors affecting portfolio value. These risk factors are the building blocks for all pricing functions. In general, the factors driving the prices of financial securities are equity prices, foreign exchange rates, commodity prices, interest rates, correlation and volatility. By generating future scenarios for each risk factor, we can infer changes in portfolio value and reprice the portfolio for different "states of the world".
Portfolio risk measures
Standard deviation
The first widely used portfolio risk measure was the standard deviation of portfolio value, as described by Harry Markowitz. While comparatively easy to calculate, standard deviation is not an ideal risk measure since it penalizes profits as well as losses.
Value at risk
The 1994 tech doc popularized VaR as the risk measure of choice among investment banks looking to be able to measure their portfolio risk for the benefit of banking regulators. VaR is a downside risk measure, meaning that it typically focuses on losses.
Expected shortfall
A third commonly used risk measure is expected shortfall, also known variously as expected tail loss, XLoss, conditional VaR, or CVaR.
Marginal VaR
The Marginal VaR of a position with respect to a portfolio can be thought of as the amount of risk that the position is adding to the portfolio. It can be formally defined as the difference between the VaR of the total portfolio and the VaR of the portfolio without the position.
Incremental risk
Incremental risk statistics provide information regarding the sensitivity of portfolio risk to changes in the position holding sizes in the portfolio.
An important property of incremental risk is subadditivity. That is, the sum of the incremental risks of the positions in a portfolio equals the total risk of the portfolio. This property has important applications in the allocation of risk to different units, where the goal is to keep the sum of the risks equal to the total risk.
Since there are three risk measures covered by RiskMetrics, there are three incremental risk measures: Incremental VaR (IVaR), Incremental Expected Shortfall (IES), and Incremental Standard Deviation (ISD).
Incremental statistics also have applications to portfolio optimization. A portfolio with minimum risk will have incremental risk equal to zero for all positions. Conversely, if the incremental risk is zero for all positions, the portfolio is guaranteed to have minimum risk only if the risk measure is subadditive.
Coherent risk measures
A coherent risk measure satisfies the following four properties:
1. Subadditivity
A risk measure is subadditive if for any portfolios A and B, the risk of A+B is never greater than the risk of A plus the risk of B. In other words, the risk of the sum of subportfolios is smaller than or equal to the sum of their individual risks.
Standard deviation and expected shortfall are subadditive, while VaR is not.
Subadditivity is required in connection with aggregation of risks across desks, business units, accounts, or subsidiary companies. This property is important when different business units calculate their risks independently and we want to get an idea of the total risk involved. Lack of subadditivity could also be a matter of concern for regulators, where firms might be motivated to break up into affiliates to satisfy capital requirements.
2. Translation invariance
Adding cash to the portfolio decreases its risk by the same amount.
3. Positive homogeneity of degree 1
If we double the size of every position in a portfolio, the risk of the portfolio will be twice as large.
4. Monotonicity
If losses in portfolio A are larger than losses in portfolio B for all possible risk factor return scenarios, then the risk of portfolio A is higher than the risk of portfolio B.
Assessing risk measures
The estimation process of any risk measure can be wrong by a considerable margin. If from the imprecise estimate we cannot get a good understanding what the true value could be, then the estimate is virtually worthless. A good risk measurement is to supplement any estimated risk measure with some indicator of their precision, or, of the size of its error.
There are various ways to quantify the error of some estimates. One approach is to estimate a confidence interval of the risk measurement.
Market models
RiskMetrics describes three models for modeling the risk factors that define financial markets.
Covariance approach
The first is very similar to the mean-covariance approach of Markowitz. Markowitz assumed that asset covariance matrix can be observed. The covariance matrix can be used to compute portfolio variance. RiskMetrics assumes that the market is driven by risk factors with observable covariance. The risk factors are represented by time series of prices or levels of stocks, currencies, commodities, and interest rates. Instruments are evaluated from these risk factors via various pricing models. The portfolio itself is assumed to be some linear combination of these instruments.
Historical simulation
The second market model assumes that the market only has finitely many possible changes, drawn from a risk factor return sample of a defined historical period. Typically one performs a historical simulation by sampling from past day-on-day risk factor changes, and applying them to the current level of the risk factors to obtain risk factor price scenarios. These perturbed risk factor price scenarios are used to generate a profit (loss) distribution for the portfolio.
This method has the advantage of simplicity, but as a model, it is slow to adapt to changing market conditions. It also suffers from simulation error, as the number of simulations is limited by the historical period (typically between 250 and 500 business days).
Monte carlo simulation
The third market model assumes that the logarithm of the return, or, log-return, of any risk factor typically follows a normal distribution. Collectively, the log-returns of the risk factors are multivariate normal. Monte Carlo algorithm simulation generates random market scenarios drawn from that multivariate normal distribution. For each scenario, the profit (loss) of the portfolio is computed. This collection of profit (loss) scenarios provides a sampling of the profit (loss) distribution from which one can compute the risk measures of choice.
Criticism
Nassim Taleb in his book The Black Swan (2007) wrote:
Banks are now more vulnerable to the Black Swan than ever before with "scientists" among their staff taking care of exposures. The giant firm J. P. Morgan put the entire world at risk by introducing in the nineties RiskMetrics, a phony method aiming at managing people’s risks. A related method called “Value-at-Risk,” which relies on the quantitative measurement of risk, has been spreading.
References
Harry Markowitz, "Portfolio Selection", Journal of Finance, Mar., 1952.
Peter Zangari, RiskMetrics Technical Document, 1996.
Matthew Pritzker, The Hidden Dangers of Historical Simulation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2001.
Jeremy Berkowitz and James O'Brien, "How Accurate Are Value-at-Risk Models at Commercial Banks?", Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jun., 2002), pp. 1093–1111.
Jorge Mina and Jerry Xiao. Return to RiskMetrics – the Evolution of a Standard, 2001.
Chris Finger. How historical simulation made me lazy, RiskMetrics Research Monthly, April, 2006.
Gilles Zumbach, A gentle introduction to the RM 2006 methodology, RiskMetrics Working Paper, November 2006.
Alan Laubsch, Risk Management: A Practical Guide, 1999
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External links
Actuarial science
Financial risk modeling
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Lee Roy Mitchell
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Lee Roy Mitchell founded Cinemark Inc., and was its chief executive officer from 1987 to December 2006.
Life and career
Mr. Mitchell was the president of Cinemark, Inc. from 1987 to March 1993 and chief executive officer of Cinemark USA Inc., from 1987 to December 2006. From 1985 to 1987, he was the president and chief executive officer of a predecessor corporation. He has worked in the movie theater business almost 45 years. Within Cinemark, he has held the positions of chair, vice chair, executive director, and director at one or more of the Cinemark subsidiaries. He serves as a Director of Texas Capital Bank; National Association; and Dallas County Community College. He served as a Director of Texas Capital BancShares Inc. (TX), a holding of Texas Capital Bank N.A from June 1999 to May 17, 2011. He has been on the board of directors of the National Association of Theatre Owners since 1991. He has been a director of National CineMedia, Inc. since October 2006 and National CineMedia LLC since July 2005. He served as a Director of Cinemark Inc. since 1987.
Awards
2011 Named to the Texas Business Hall of Fame
2015 Russell H. Perry Free Enterprise Award from Dallas Baptist University
Honours
2016 : Commander in the Order of the Crown, by Royal Decree.
References
Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
Film exhibitors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Orin Isaacs
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Orin Isaacs is a television and film
music composer/producer, best known as the musical director, bandleader and bassist on Mike Bullard's late-night talk shows Open Mike with Mike Bullard and The Mike Bullard Show. Orin is also known as the musical director, bandleader and bassist on Canadian Idol. Orin also conducted the 20-piece Canadian Idol Orchestra for the Big Band Standards episodes of Canadian Idol.
Isaacs' composing and production work can also be heard on The Launch, Big Brother Canada, Never Ever Do This at Home, The Amazing Race Canada, Chopped Canada, Top Chef Canada, The People's Couch, Ice Road Truckers, But I'm Chris Jericho, Intervention Canada, Undercover Boss Canada, Canadian Screen Awards, Match Game, Hockey Night in Canada, Project Runway Canada, Canada Sings, Canada's Got Talent, Canada's Smartest Person, The Jon Dore Television Show, Divine Design, Soul, Are You Smarter Than a Canadian 5th Grader?, Divine Restoration and Canada's Worst Driver 2, as well as numerous Canadian television specials like the 2015 Pan Am and ParaPan Games, 2006 Torino and 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games and Award shows like the Junos, Genies, Geminis, NHL, CFL and Canada's Walk of Fame.
He has also composed music for three National Film Board productions, Jane and Finch Again, Shinny and Flemingdon Park, as well as the theatrical film My Father’s Hands. Most recently he composed the music for Breaking Brooklyn and The Documentaries Mr. Jane & Finch & Cool Black North which he not only composed the music but was also featured.
As a bandleader and/or bassist, Isaacs has worked with Mariah Carey, Martina McBride, Natasha Bedingfield, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kid Rock, Roger Hudgson, Lionel Richie, Patti Labelle, Richard Marx, Paul Shaffer, George Clinton, Deborah Cox, Brett Michaels, Macy Gray, David Cox, Rich Little, Dennis Deyoung, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Anne Murray, Martin Short, Burton Cummings, and William Shatner.
Isaacs released his debut album, "Where I'm From" on Moca Music in 1999, and was the featured musical guest on the episode of Open Mike with Mike Bullard on the day of its release.
He has received an Eva Award, The Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence, Urban Music Industry Special Achievement Award, The Reel Black Award for composition, a Men of Excellence award and a spot on The Men on the Move calendar as well as several awards for his active community service.
References
External links
Swing Low Productions website
Orin Isaacs' album, Where I'm From, on Amazon
Canadian blues guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
Canadian record producers
Canadian rhythm and blues musicians
Canadian television personalities
Black Canadian musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Toronto
20th-century Canadian bass guitarists
21st-century Canadian bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
20th-century Canadian male musicians
21st-century Canadian male musicians
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In Hindu mythology, Lokaloka means " Realm of the Mortals" is an enormous mountain belt believed to be ten thousand yojanas in breadth, and as many in height. Its name means "a world and no world". It features in Puranic cosmography as the dividing line between the known world, consisting of seven concentric island continents or dvipas and seven encircling oceans, and the dark void of nothingness.
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Locations in Hindu mythology
Hindu cosmology
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Paul Garrett Blazer (September 19, 1890 – December 9, 1966) was President and CEO of Ashland Oil and Refining Company (Ashland, Inc.) located in Ashland, Kentucky.
Early life
Blazer was born on September 19, 1890, in New Boston, Illinois to Presbyterians David Newton Blazer and Mary Melinda Blazer (née Janes). Blazer's father's childhood home was station number three on the Underground Railroad that began at Quincy, Illinois and was described as being on "the avenue to freedom in Canada for runaway slaves from Missouri and Kentucky and hundreds of them passing through to freedom were harbored at the Blazer home." Blazer's father, his father's brother and father's sister were school teachers. His father left the teaching profession as a school principal and subsequently became the publisher of the nearby Aledo Times-Record regional newspaper.
At the age of 12, Blazer began selling magazine subscriptions for The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal, and he eventually hired a full-time secretary. Blazer was a star on his high school football team and a track star in high school and in college. After high school, he enrolled at William & Vashti College in Aledo, Illinois. After one year of college, Blazer joined the Educational Division of Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as manager of its school subscriptions. His responsibilities included devising advertisements that ran in the Saturday Evening Post.
While in Philadelphia, Blazer became active in the progressive Bull Moose Party and former President Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful campaign for the 1912 Republican Party presidential nomination. Blazer ended up on the platform with President Roosevelt for his April 10 whistle-stop train tour stop in Philadelphia. Blazer left Curtis Publishing and Philadelphia in 1914, and returned to his magazine business in Illinois. On a Curtis Publishing scholarship, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, earning an associate degree in Philosophy in 1915. The scholarship was conditional on maintaining 400 magazine subscriptions. Blazer further expanded his subscription business when he purchased a renewal subscriptions business with 960 customers in 1914 and another renewal subscription business in 1916 with 1900 customers from a Curtis distributor in Chicago, further expanding his magazine business in Chicago and into Milwaukee. While attending University of Chicago, Blazer was the student coordinator for the student sports program and business manager of the Cap & Gown yearbook staff. Under his direction they achieved record income.
In 1917, during World War I, Blazer entered the 123rd U.S. Army Hospital Unit organized by the university, received a medical discharge due to an accident later that year. He worked a short time for Chittenden Press in Chicago before going to The Great Northern Refining Co. as advertising manager. He quickly moved into the sales department and in 1918 became sales manager.
In April 1917, Blazer married Georgia Monroe, whom he had met at the University of Chicago. The Blazers had three children: Paul Garrett Jr., Doris Virginia, and Stuart Monroe. In 1939, Governor Happy Chandler appointed Mrs. Blazer the first woman trustee on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. In 1962, Blazer Hall was opened as the Georgia M Blazer Hall [dormitory] for Women in tribute to her 21 years of service on the board. She also served on Kentucky's Council on Public Higher Education.
Oil industry career
In 1920, Paul Blazer went to work as vice president of the Great Southern Oil & Refining Company in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1924 he joined the Swiss Oil Company of Lexington and was in charge of constructing and managing the operations of Ashland Refining Co. in Ashland, Kentucky. Blazer's work managing the company meant that from 1924 to 1957 he was regarded as head of the Ashland family.
In 1930, Blazer became Vice President of the newly established Independent Petroleum Association of America, a position he held for ten years. During Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first presidential term in the summer of 1933, J. Howard Marshall, a young assistant solicitor from Yale Law School working for Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, launched on a Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry. The oil industry sent representatives, including Blazer, to Washington D.C. Blazer served as chairman of the United States Department of the Interior's Petroleum Code Survey Committee on Small Business Enterprise, referred to as the "Blazer Committee". (1933–1936).
While working for the Department of Interior Blazer lobbied the Department of Interior's New Deal agency, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), for Kentucky projects, including Ashland's new sewers, new public library and a concrete athletic stadium.
Blazer later became a charter member of the Petroleum Industry Council for National Defense. While Roosevelt was giving his Declaration of War speech before the joint session of the United States Congress in Washington D.C., Blazer was several blocks away in preparations for war meetings. After the 1941 outbreak of World War II and the United States imminent inclusion many members of the Council, including Blazer, went to work for the Petroleum Administration for War Council (PAW) as "dollar-a-year men" again under the Secretary of Interior Ickes, Director Ralph K. Davies and now Solicitor J. Howard Marshall. Its purpose was to "mobilize most effectively all resources and abilities of the petroleum industry to deal with the emergency conditions under which the industry must operate, and to provide a competent, responsible and representative body." July 11, 1941, Secretary Ickes appointed Blazer to District 2's General [oversight] Committee, the Supply and Distribution Committee and Chairman of the District 2 Refining Committee. He served from Council's official creation December 31, 1941 to its dissolution December 6, 1946. During this period the Department of Interior disbursements for the construction of aviation gasoline facilities amounted to $235,836,850.80, which included the 1942 $6,000,000 expansion of the Catlettsburg refinery.
Blazer was on Kentucky Governor Simeon S. Willis' WWII Postwar Planning Commission and he was the Chairman of the Transportation Committee. He later served as Chairman of the unsuccessful state legislative mandated campaign for a Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1946–1947).
Blazer was a director and member of the American Petroleum Institute and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He served as a director the Cincinnati Branch Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1945–1950) and served two years as chairman (1949 and 1950).
The National Petroleum Council (US) was established in 1946 at the request of President Harry S. Truman to represent industry views on Department of Interior matters relating to oil and natural gas. Blazer served on the council from 1946 to 1957.
Blazer kept Ashland Oil and Refining Company active in the Ohio Valley Improvement Association (OVIA) which was located in the Cincinnati Federal Reserve Bank Building.
Blazer and Hull were prominently involved in the implementation of the Department of Interior's and the United States Army Corps of Engineers' 1953 $200,000,000 Ohio River Navigation Modernization Program, the first such projects since 1929. The projects approved construction of 19 new dual locks and high-lift dams (current list of locks and dams of the Ohio River). The Program contained eight new projects in the portion of the Ohio River owned by Kentucky, and contained the rare structural plans for a bridge over the top of the Greenup County, Kentucky dam. The Greenup Dam is just down river from Ashland was known at the time as The Paul G. Blazer Dam, received site priority. and was built in the 1950s without completion of the bridge top.
Blazer appeared before the U.S. Congress on several occasions testifying on proposed regulations affecting the oil industry and in 1956 testified against a proposed tax on use of the nation's waterways. Blazer, at age 70, was elected chairman and president of the newly established National Waterways Conference in 1960 and re-elected as Chairman in 1961.
In 1964, Blazer became the 34th inductee of the Oil Hall of Fame by the National Petroleum News (NPN) magazine.
Support for education in Kentucky
Blazer recognition and awards (1946–1960)
University of Kentucky, Lexington KY: 1948 recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
Centre College, Danville KY: Honorary degree (1950); and in 1953, Blazer filled the vacancy on the Centre College Board of Trustees caused by the death of his longtime friend Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Other recognitions included:
the alumni citation of Useful Citizen (public service) by the University of Chicago in 1949 for his leadership in the call for Kentucky's Constitutional Convention, –
an honorary degree from the University of Kentucky, Lexington KY in 1952 –- The Kentucky Citation for "distinguished service in the field of Business and Scholarships in Higher Education" from Transylvania College (Transylvania University) in 1954—Kentucky Press Association's 1954 "Kentuckian of the Year", referred to as "a strong supporter of education"
Citation of Honor for "his outstanding contributions to mankind" from Indiana Technical College (Indiana Institute of Technology) presented at the dedication of the Dana Science Building in 1958 -– Honorary Degrees from Marshall University, Huntington WV in 1958, Pikeville College, Pikeville KY in 1959 and Wilberforce College, Xenia/Wilberforce OH presented at the dedication of the Margaret Ireland Dormitory for Women in 1962.
Blazer served on The American Sunday School Union board of "Honorary Vice-Presidents" until his death in 1966. Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee dedicated Jesse Stuart's lifetime bibliography to Blazer as "Benefactor of Education and a Friend and Admirer of Jesse Stuart" in 1960., and Kentucky State College in Frankfort, KY dedicated The Paul G. Blazer Library on March 6, 1960.
Influenced by his family's abolitionist heritage and in his relationship with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson on the social importance of racial integration in education, the Kentucky State College library was Blazer's first acceptance of a public naming request. Blazer's personal contributions to Kentucky State College initiated the student loan fund in 1950 and his May 29, 1960 Kentucky State College commencement address on integration and educational advancement was recorded in the June 28, 1960 United States Congressional Record.
School naming request (1957)
In 1957 Blazer again played a significant role in the Ashland area's higher education opportunities with his work towards the University of Kentucky taking over the teaching and day-to-day operations from the Ashland Independent School District's Board of Education for the Ashland Junior College.
The Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster occurred February 28 barely two months after Blazer's acceptance of the Ashland School Board's request to name the new high school after him. 26 school children and the bus driver died when a school bus plunged into the Big Sandy River outside of nearby Prestonsburg, KY. At the time, it was the deadliest bus accident in United States history.
Death
Blazer died on December 9, 1966, at the age of 76.
The Stuart Blazer Foundation (1952–1975)
After 20 years of Ashland area grants, the Stuart Blazer Foundation was terminated in the 1970s. On the recommendation of Paul and Georgia's son Paul Jr. and daughter Doris, one half of the remaining funds paid for the initial restoration of the Paramount Movie Theater (Paramount Arts Center) in Ashland (associated with Paul Jr.) and one half of the remaining funds paid for the building and one year's operation of The Ashland [public] Tennis Center before being given to the City of Ashland (associated with Doris).
The Blazer family funded the Blazer Lecture Series at the University of Kentucky in memory of their son Stuart.
References
"E Pluribus Unum!" "One Out of Many" An Oil Company Grows Through Acquisitions, An Address at Lexington by member Paul G. Blazer, American Newcomen Society, copyright 1956
Blazer and Ashland Oil: A Study in Management by Joseph L Massie, University of Kentucky Press, 1960
The Exception: The Story of Ashland Oil & Refining Company by Otto J. Scott, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1968
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, James T. White Publishers, 1976
The KET Story: A Personal Account by O. Leonard Press, 2008
Paul G. Blazer: Personal files, Boyd County Public Library (Ashland, KY) - The Blazer Education Fund file (1938–1957) - Ashland Community College file (1956–1957) - Paul G. Blazer High School file (1958–1962)
"The Kentucky Encyclopedia edited by John E. Kleber" The Kentucky Encyclopedia page 87 Blazer Page 37 Ashland Inc.
Bibliography
Books
External links
The Kentucky Encyclopedia
1890 births
1966 deaths
People from Ashland, Kentucky
People from Mercer County, Illinois
University of Chicago alumni
Pennsylvania Progressives (1912)
American chief executives of energy companies
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2009 Orix Buffaloes season
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The 2009 Orix Buffaloes season features the Buffaloes quest to win their first Pacific League title under their current franchise configuration.
Regular season
Standings
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| 1 || April 3 || @Hawks || 8 - 0 || Wada (1-0) || Komatsu (0-1) || || 30,106 || 0-1-0
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| 2 || April 4 || @Hawks || 2 - 5 || Kondo (1-0) || Oba (0-1) || Kato (1) || 28,827 || 1-1-0
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| 3 || April 5 || @Hawks || 2 - 1 (10) || Kamiuchi (1-0) || Kawagoe (0-1) || || 29,576 || 1-2-0
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| 4 || April 7 || @Lions || 8 - 3 || Kishi (1-0) || Kaneko (0-1) || || 24,011 || 1-3-0
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| 5 || April 8 || @Lions || 2 - 10 || Yamamoto (1-0) || Ishii (0-1) || || 10,001 || 2-3-0
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| 6 || April 9 || @Lions || 13 - 6 || Nishiguchi (1-0) || Hirano (0-1) || || 9,813 || 2-4-0
|-align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 7 || April 10 || Marines || 10 - 8 || Katsuki (1-0) || Shimizu (0-2) || || 27,827 || 3-4-0
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| 8 || April 11 || Marines || 5 - 2 || Kondo (2-0) || Kobayashi (0-1) || Kato (2) || 30,444 || 4-4-0
|-align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb"
| 9 || April 12 || Marines || 4 - 1 || Kishida (1-0) || Ono (0-1) || Kato (3) || 31,597 || 5-4-0
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| 10 || April 14 || @Fighters || 7 - 8 || Kaneko (1-1) || Tadano (1-1) || Kato (4) || 17,548 || 6-4-0
|-align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
| 11 || April 15 || @Fighters || 11 - 5 || Kikuchi (1-0) || Motoyanagi (0-1) || || 17,579 || 6-5-0
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| 12 || April 16 || @Fighters || 7 - 1 || Takeda (1-0) || Nakayama (0-1) || || 20,702 || 6-6-0
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| 13 || April 18 || Eagles || 0 - 7 || Iwakuma (2-1) || Kondo (2-1) || || 20,598 || 6-7-0
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| 14 || April 19 || Eagles || 15 - 0 || Kishida (2-0) || Rasner (1-1) || || 21,561 || 7-7-0
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| 15 || April 21 || Lions || 1 - 7 || Kishi (3-0) || Kaneko (1-2) || || 10,326 || 7-8-0
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| 16 || April 22 || Lions || 6 - 3 || Yamamoto (2-0) || Ishii (0-2) || || 10,805 || 8-8-0
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| 17 || April 23 || Lions || 2 - 1 || Kato (1-0) || Onuma (0-1) || || 10,586 || 9-8-0
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| 18 || April 24 || Fighters || 0 - 11 || Darvish (3-1) || Komatsu (0-2) || || 18,724 || 9-9-0
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| — || April 25 || Fighters || colspan=6|Postponed (rained out)
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| 19 || April 26 || Fighters || 11 - 3 || Kishida (3-0) || Sakakibara (0-1) || || 13,223 || 10-9-0
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| 20 || April 28 || @Marines || 3 - 4 || Kato (2-0) || Sikorski (2-2) || || 13,198 || 11-9-0
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| 21 || April 29 || @Marines || 3 - 5 || Kaneko (2-2) || Watanabe (0-3) || Kato (5) || 24,756 || 12-9-0
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| 22 || April 30 || @Marines || 5 - 2 || Ito (1-1) || Kikuchihara (0-1) || || 12,212 || 12-10-0
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| 23 || May 1 || @Eagles || 12 - 2 || Nagai (3-0) || Nakayama (0-2) || || 12,262 || 12-11-0
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| 24 || May 2 || @Eagles || 7 - 3 || Iwakuma (3-1) || Komatsu (0-3) || || 20,246 || 12-12-0
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| 25 || May 3 || @Eagles || 8 - 4 || Koyama (1-1) || Kishida (3-1) || || 20,619 || 12-13-0
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| 26 || May 4 || Hawks || 8 - 5 || Kondo (3-1) || Loe (0-4) || Kato (6) || 30,252 || 13-13-0
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| 27 || May 5 || Hawks || 2 - 1 || Kaneko (3-2) || Houlton (2-2) || || 31,639 || 14-13-0
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| 28 || May 6 || Hawks || 1 - 5 || Otonari (1-2) || Yamamoto (2-1) || || 30,960 || 14-14-0
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| 29 || May 8 || @Fighters || 10 - 1 || Darvish (4-1) || Nakayama (0-3) || || 26,638 || 14-15-0
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| 30 || May 9 || @Fighters || 3 - 2 || Fujii (2-1) || Komatsu (0-4) || Takeda (7) || 26,308 || 14-16-0
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| 31 || May 10 || @Fighters || 7 - 2 || Takeda (2-1) || Yoshino (0-1) || || 28,156 || 14-17-0
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| 32 || May 12 || Lions || 5 - 6 || Kishi (6-0) || Kondo (3-2) || Onodera (2) || 10,502 || 14-18-0
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| 33 || May 13 || Lions || 3 - 8 || Ishii (2-3) || Yamamoto (2-2) || || 10,454 || 14-19-0
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| 34 || May 14 || Lions || 1 - 3 || Nishiguchi (3-1) || Kaneko (3-3) || Onodera (3) || 10,229 || 14-20-0
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| 35 || May 15 || Fighters || 2 - 4 || Darvish (5-1) || Nakayama (0-4) || Takeda (8) || 11,405 || 14-21-0
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| 36 || May 16 || Fighters || 3 - 7 || Fujii (3-1) || Komatsu (0-5) || Takeda (9) || 21,965 || 14-22-0
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| 37 || May 17 || Fighters || 6 - 0 || Mitsuhara (1-0) || Takeda (2-2) || || 19,467 || 15-22-0
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| 38 || May 19 || Carp || 1 - 9 || Otake (3-1) || Kondo (3-3) || || 9,887 || 15-23-0
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| 39 || May 20 || Carp || 10 - 3 || Yamamoto (3-2) || Maeda (2-5) || || 11,107 || 16-23-0
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| 40 || May 22 || Tigers || 8 - 3 || Kaneko (4-3) || Ando (3-3) || Kato (7) || 23,433 || 17-23-0
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| 41 || May 23 || Tigers || 3 - 7 || Atchison (3-1) || Vogelsong (0-1) || || 28,031 || 17-24-0
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| 42 || May 24 || @Giants || 6 - 8 || Hirano (1-1) || Tono (2-3) || || 42,110 || 18-24-0
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| 43 || May 25 || @Giants || 6 - 2 || Takahashi (3-1) || Kondo (3-4) || || 40,057 || 18-25-0
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| 44 || May 27 || @Swallows || 5 - 4 || Matsuoka (3-0) || Katsuki (1-1) || Lim (15) || 12,014 || 18-26-0
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| 45 || May 28 || @Swallows || 4 - 0 || Tateyama (6-0) || Mitsuhara (1-1) || || 7,348 || 18-27-0
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| 46 || May 30 || BayStars || 6 - 4 || Kaneko (5-3) || Glynn (2-6) || Kato (8) || 11,217 || 19-27-0
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| 47 || May 31 || BayStars || 3 - 0 || Hirano (2-1) || Kobayashi (1-5) || || 14,857 || 20-27-0
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References
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Carrer d'Aragó, Barcelona
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Carrer d'Aragó is a major thoroughfare in Barcelona, one of the widest and busiest roads of the districts it cuts through, especially Eixample but also Sant Martí. Its creation was passed in 1863, and was part of Ildefons Cerdà's urban plan, appearing as L Street in 1867, even though that name was never approved. Instead, another name, a reference to the Crown of Aragon, was proposed in 1863 by Víctor Balaguer, who was commissioned by the city council to rename all the streets in the area. Its Spanish-language rendition, Calle de Aragón, was the official designation back then. It starts in Carrer de Tarragona and it becomes Rambla de Guipúscoa at the intersection with Carrer de Lope de Vega.
Notable buildings
Església de la Concepció. A Gothic church dating from the 13th to the 15th century originally located in Via Laietana (district of Ciutat Vella) and moved to Carrer d'Aragó in several stages from 1869 to 1879.
Mercat de la Concepció - Eixample's oldest market, built on 1888 by Antoni Rovira i Trias.
Eixample district council see, built in 1893 by Pere Falqués Urpí.
Transport
Railway
From the 1930s to the 1950s, the street was crossed by trains on open-air railtracks. Nowadays there's an open railway station between the intersection of Aragó with Avinguda Meridiana and the one with Carrer del Clot called El Clot-Aragó.
Metro
On one hand, line L3 of the Barcelona Metro has two stations in different areas of Eixample: one is at the very beginning of the street, by Carrer de Tarragona, called Tarragona. The second one is Passeig de Gràcia, under the street of the same name. Its original name, however, was Aragón, and was a separate station in the metro network.
On the other hand, the eastern part of Carrer d'Aragó is the passageway though which L2 runs. Its stations include Clot, interconnected with El Clot-Aragó railway station, served by L1 and L2, and the L2-only stations Bac de Roda, Sant Martí and, if counting Rambla de Guipúscoa as part of the same road, also La Pau.
See also
List of streets and squares in Eixample, Barcelona
List of streets and squares in Sant Martí, Barcelona
Illa de la Discòrdia
Rambla d'Aragó, Lleida
References
External links
BCN.cat
Barna21.com
Afc.cat
A blog
Streets in Barcelona
Eixample
Sant Martí (district)
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The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building operated by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. It is located in the Loop, across Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park. Originally the central library building, it was converted in 1977 to an arts and culture center at the instigation of Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg. The city's central library is now housed across the Loop in the spacious, postmodern Harold Washington Library Center opened in 1991.
As the nation's first free municipal cultural center, the Chicago Cultural Center is one of the city's most popular attractions and is considered one of the most comprehensive arts showcases in the United States. Each year, the Chicago Cultural Center features more than 1,000 programs and exhibitions covering a wide range of the performing, visual and literary arts. It also serves as headquarters for the Chicago Children's Choir. MB Real Estate provides events management for the center.
Architecture of the Chicago Cultural Center
The building was designed by Boston architectural firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge for the city's central library, and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) meeting hall and memorial in 1892. The land was donated by the GAR and the building was completed in 1897 at a cost of nearly $2 million (equivalent to $ million in ). It is organized as a 4-story north wing (77 East Randolph entrance) and a 5-story south wing (78 East Washington entrance), 104 feet tall, with masonry walls faced with Bedford Blue Limestone on a granite base, and designed in a generally neoclassical style with Italian Renaissance elements. It is capped with two stained-glass domes, set symmetrically atop the two wings. Key points of architectural interest are as follows:
Randolph Street entrance and stairway - Entrance with doric columns, mahogany doors, and entry hall with coffered ceiling and walls of green-veined Vermont marble. The curving stairway is faced with Knoxville pink marble, and features mosaics and ornate bronze balusters.
Washington Street entrance, lobby, and grand staircase - Arched portal, bronze-framed doors, and a 3-story, vaulted lobby with walls of white Carrara marble and mosaics. The staircase is also of white Carrara marble, set with medallions of green marble from Connemara, Ireland, and intricate mosaics of Favrile glass, stone, and mother of pearl. The stairway to the 5th floor was inspired by Venice's Bridge of Sighs.
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial - A large hall and rotunda in the north wing. The hall is faced with deep green Vermont marble, broken by a series of arches for windows and mahogany doors. The rotunda features 30-foot walls of Knoxville pink marble, mosaic floor, and a fine, stained-glass dome in Renaissance pattern by the firm of Healy and Millet.
Sidney R. Yates Gallery - replica of an assembly hall in the Doge's Palace, Venice, with heavily ornamented pilasters and coffered ceiling.
Preston Bradley Hall - A large, ornately patterned room of curving white Carrara marble, capped with an austere 38-foot Tiffany glass dome designed by artist J. A. Holzer. The Cultural Center states this to be the largest Tiffany dome in the world.
Past exhibitions
Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930 was a display of art by Ukrainian artists, such as Sukher Ber Rybak, Vsevolod Maskymovych, and Oleksandr Bohomazov to name a few. Crossroads was organized by the Foundation for International Arts and Education with the National Art Museum of Ukraine. It is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Kyiv Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program. The exhibition ran from July 22, 2006 - October 15, 2006.
"Rush More"
In 2017, Kerry James Marshall was commissioned to produce an inaugural mural entitled “Rush More”. Located on the west façade of the cultural center, the piece is an homage to women who have contributed to the culture of Chicago.
Portrayed are:
Washington painted the mural on a scale rendering of the building. The piece was then transposed to the actual façade by the muralist Jeff Zimmerman. Financing for the project was made possible by the non-profit, Murals of Acceptance and through philanthropic donations from David Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Marc Benioff, and Lynne Benioff.
See also
Chicago architecture
List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago
References
External links
High-resolution 360° Panoramas and Images of Chicago Cultural Center | Art Atlas
Buildings and structures in Chicago
Central Chicago
Cultural centers in Chicago
Organizations based in Chicago
Culture of Chicago
Grand Army of the Republic buildings and structures
Chicago Landmarks
Government buildings completed in 1897
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago
Former library buildings in the United States
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Tourist attractions in Chicago
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Papaver gorgoneum is a species of flowering plants of the family Papaveraceae. The species is endemic to Cape Verde. It is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.
Distribution and ecology
Papaver gorgoneum is restricted to the islands of Santo Antão, São Nicolau and Fogo. It grows in humid and sub-humid zones, mainly between 800 and 1,400 m elevation.
References
gorgoneum
Flora of Fogo, Cape Verde
Flora of Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Flora of São Nicolau, Cape Verde
Endemic flora of Cape Verde
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The Foundation for Civil Society Development (Russian: Фонд развития гражданского общества) is a non-governmental organisation whose main focus of research is in the fields of politics, regional development and contemporary media.
Its ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between academic research and practical politics, to ensure that its work is relevant and that the conclusions are easily applicable.
Leadership
The foundation is headed by Konstantin Kostin (born September 17, 1970 in Pushkin, Moscow region) — Russian political Consultant. Up to May 2012 — deputy head of the internal politics of the presidential administration of Russia.
After leaving the Kremlin Kostin remains in good relations with the first Deputy head of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, is his Adviser.
Mr. Kostin told Izvestia daily the essence of his foundation: 'We align ourselves closely to the RAND Corporation, a leading research ‘think tank’ in the USA. We are an institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis'.
Vision
Observers noted that the Kremlin changed the format of cooperation with the expert community: it was decided to attract specialists to work on government projects special funds-operators. It was emphasized that it is connected with the desire of the authorities to independent information in the analysis, including the electoral behavior of the Russians.
Director of Fund of effective policy Gleb Pavlovsky believes that Konstantin served as one of the most important links in view of the Kremlin with the realities. Political analyst notes «the incredible efficiency of the head of the new structure. The sense of the FCSD, in the opinion of Pavlovsky, is as follows: ‘we are talking about a relatively independent structure that is affiliated closely with the office of internal policy, but still it does not’.
According to the Director of the National Energy Security Fund Konstantin Simonov, an Appointment of Konstantin Kostin head of the Civil Society Development Foundation ‘creates a very good tradition, when such a high-ranking official did not jump out of one chair into another, but goes out from the midst of state administration to join an environment of «intellectual management», even more, to the nourishment of the political system’. In our country, says Simonov, there is a lack of thoughtful and reliable analysts, because quite often analytical structures do not do what they have to'. In this sense, an expert believes, the Kostin’s Fund could be a producer of meanings for the Kremlin’.
The establishment of the Fund welcomed the Deputy of the State Duma, political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov, who in an interview with PRAVDA.Ru, in particular, said: 'I have suggested to create a Fund for the support of civil society, because in this respect, Russia is lagging behind all the developed Western countries. And we have the level of support for our civil institutions from outside of Russia is more, than inside Russia. Therefore, I believe'.
Activity
The Foundation implements scientific and research projects as well as distributes grants for other NGOs and R&D organizations covering the similar themes.
Research
The Fund released five major reports in 2012-2013:
August 2013 – Research: '2013 Elections of Governors and Head of Regional Administrative Centres: campaign scenarios and forecasts'
May 2013 – Research: President Putin’s Year: results and prospects
May 2013 - Report: Filtering Content on the Internet: Challenges, trends and techniques. An Analysis of International Practice
March 2013 – Report on the Development o Civil Society in Russia
Dec. 2012 - The New protest movement: myths and reality
Oct. 2012 – Elections under new rules: main result and trends
Oct. 2012 - Elections under new rules: intrigues and forecasts
Sept. 2012 – RuNet today: research on the Russian Internet
Away from the Kremlin to the created Fund in May 2012, Konstantin Kostin in an interview to the magazine «Expert» predicted the development of the political activity in Russia for the period 2014–15 years: «Starting from 2014 is a series of very complicated regional elections," he said. "And if our opposition leaders will pass from spells and outdated slogans to real political work, right now realize that this is for the regions, and begin to act, then in 2014-2015 years they have somewhere will have good chances».
In a number of research, conducted by the Fund, a report on protests 2011-2012 is eminent. Kostin said that street policy is a global trend, which will be actual in Russia, but the «new protest wave is over», and the social groups, once united in December, «no longer feel a sense of community».
The objectivity of the research of the Foundation, as well as the estimates and statements of its head was confirmed by the expert community, the participants and the leaders of the protest movement.
The study, the article by Kostin in the «Moscow news» and a series of interviews by Kostin to various mass media on how the protest was seen from the Kremlin, among which, first of all is an interview to Gazeta.ru are of special interest for experts and historians.
Projects
New media research
The Foundation is launching new, large-scale project researching new media in Russia, using software from the Crimson Hexagon system – an analytics platform which automatically scans and sorts online content. The research will focus on a study of current social and political issues. This would essentially be an alternative in Russia to both "Medialogia" and the once popular – but now defunct - "Yandex Top blogs". The Fund contends that under the Crimson Hexagon scope is to be not just opposition, but authorities as well.
Atlas of political consultants
The Foundation is creating an ‘Atlas of political consultants'. This document will be a sort of handbook – a detailed list of reputable political consultants. It will be composed only of those political consultants who have been successful over the past ten years in election campaigns in Russia. This document will help to reduce the number of pseudo political consultants in the run-up to the Single voting day on 8 September.
Rating of Russian regions
August 2013, the FDCS released first issue of a Rating of social well-being in the regions The research is based on data from the “Public Opinion” Foundation (FOM) and shows that Russian regions can be rated according to the peoples’ satisfaction levels with their current living situations - taking into account their attitude towards the authorities and protest potential. A person’s sense of social security does not directly depend on the economic situations and living standards of that particular region. FDCS plans to monitor the dynamics of social well-being and to identify key parameters that affect its change.
The head of FOM, Aleksander Oslon, said that he was satisfied with the interpretation by the "geo-rating" method which has been in use for almost a decade and which is used primarily by the Presidential Administration. He is quoted as saying that "The Foundation for Civil Society Development utilises a clear and simple methodology: percentages are converted into points and summarised”.
Social science teachers conference
The Foundation designed a social science teachers conference as a long term project. The main task ahead according to Mr. Kostin was to create a platform for meaningful and interesting discussion on political agendas and also the exchange of ideas between specialists, politicians and civil servants. Welcoming the very fest Conference Kostin expressed his confidence that the conference would help identify the most promising ways forward for further study and research and would lead to a series of lectures on modern day regional and federal politics with a view to creating teaching and learning aids for the younger generation. The conference involved lectures and discussions on the following topics: the latest teaching methods of social sciences; modern political sociology; the interaction between state and civil society; the development of Russia’s political system.
Official data
The Foundation for Civil Society Development (FCSD) was conceived on June 4, 2012.
Founders
The founders were: Russian Public Policy Fund, Institute for Public Planning an independent non-commercial organization, OPORA ROSSII the All-Russian public organization for SME, MediaSoyuz All-Russian public organization of mass media professionals.
Board
The Members of the Board are: K.N. Kostin (Chairman of the Board @ CEO), A.Yu. Trubetskoy, S.R. Borisov, V.A. Fadeev, S.V. Stoyalova.
Expert council
Expert council members are: Leonid Davydov, PHD in Political Studies, Chairman of the Board for VTSIOM (Head of the Expert Council); Stanislav Yeremeev, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Saint- Petersburg State University; Leonid Polyakov, Head of the General Political Science Chair SU- HSE; Valeriy Fadeev, Director of the Institute for Public Planning, Expert Magazine, Editor-in-chief.
References
Konstantin Nikolaevich Kostin, Press portrait on Yandex.ru
Konstantin Kostin, Selection of news stories on Vedomosti.ru
External links
http://www.civilfund.ru
https://www.facebook.com/civilfund
https://twitter.com/civilfund
Think tanks based in Russia
Organizations based in Moscow.
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Cassinia arcuata
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Cassinia arcuata, commonly known as drooping cassinia, biddy bush, Chinese scrub, sifton bush and Chinese shrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub, sometimes a small tree with sessile, linear leaves, and heads of up to two hundred brownish flowers arranged in pyramid-shaped panicles. In New South Wales, the species is known as Cassinia sifton. In disturbed areas, C. arcuata can become weedy.
Description
Cassinia arcuata is a densely-branched, erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of but sometimes to , with densely cottony-hairy branches and sometimes a curry-like aroma. The leaves are linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under. Up to two hundred heads are arranged in pyramid-shaped panicles long with involucral bracts about long in four whorls around each of two or three brownish florets. Flowering mostly occurs from January to May and the achenes are long with a pappus of twenty-two to twenty-eight bristles long.
Taxonomy and naming
Cassinia arcuata was first formally described in 1818 by Robert Brown in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.
Cassinia sifton Orchard has been confused with C. arcuata and the National Herbarium of New South Wales lists only C. sifton as occurring in New South Wales. Plants of the World Online list both species as occurring in New South Wales.
Richard Hind Cambage used the name "Sifting Bush" for this species in 1902, comparing the fallen florets to "the 'siftings' which are blown away from grain by a winnowing machine". That name has since been corrupted to 'Sifton bush' in the mistaken belief that it referred to a person named Sifton.
The National Herbarium of Victoria considers C. sifton to be "widespread and common" in Victoria and that records prior to 2017 refer to that species.
Distribution and habitat
According to the Australian Plant Census, C. arcuata occurs in Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. It grows in mallee and woodland, and invades disturbed areas.
Use in horticulture
Drooping cassinia is an easily cultivated plant. It requires well-drained soils, grows in full or partial shade, but does not tolerate salt winds and is not long-lived.
References
arcuata
Asterales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Eudicots of Western Australia
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
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Ahn Joon-soo
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Ahn Joon-soo (); born 28 January 1998) is a South Korean football player. He plays as a goalkeeper for Busan IPark in the K League 2.
Career
Ahn Joon-soo joined Cerezo Osaka in 2016. On September 10, he debuted in J3 League (v Tochigi SC).
Club statistics
Updated to 27 December 2018.
Honours
International
South Korea U23
AFC U-23 Championship: 2020
References
External links
Profile at Kagoshima United FC
Profile at Cerezo Osaka
1998 births
Living people
South Korean footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Cerezo Osaka players
Cerezo Osaka U-23 players
Kagoshima United FC players
South Korea under-20 international footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of South Korea
People from Uijeongbu
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Waad Al-Kateab
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Waad Al-Kateab (; born ) is the pseudonym of a Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist. Her documentary, For Sama (2019), was nominated for four BAFTAs at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, winning for Best Documentary, and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. Her coverage of the Battle for Aleppo won an International Emmy Award for Current Affairs & News for Channel 4 News. The pseudonymous surname Al-Kateab is used to protect her family.
Al-Kateab was included in Times 100 Most Influential People in 2020.
Biography
In 2009, 18-year-old Al-Kateab moved to Aleppo to study economics at the University of Aleppo. In 2011, when the Syrian Civil War broke out, she began reporting on the war for Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom. She elected to stay and document her life over five years in Aleppo as she falls in love with Hamza – her friend-turned-husband, a doctor – and gives birth to their first daughter, Sama ("Sky") in 2015, which became the basis of For Sama. For covering the Siege of Aleppo, she won an International Emmy for her reporting, the first Syrian to do so. For Sama, directed with Edward Watts, won the Prix L'Œil d'or for best documentary at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, receiving a six-minute standing ovation. At the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, For Sama became the most nominated documentary in the history of the British Academy Film Awards with four nominations, winning for Best Documentary. Al-Kateab was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020. Two women from Syria made the list - the other was the plant virologist Safaa Kumani.
After fleeing Aleppo in December 2016, Al-Kateab, her husband, and their two daughters reside in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
InsideAleppo.com
1990s births
Living people
People from Aleppo
Syrian documentary filmmakers
Syrian journalists
Syrian women journalists
Syrian film directors
Women documentary filmmakers
Syrian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Syrian women activists
Women television journalists
Women war correspondents
International Emmy Awards Current Affairs & News winners
University of Aleppo alumni
BBC 100 Women
Time 100
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten%20Island%20Yankees
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Staten Island Yankees
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The Staten Island Yankees were a minor league baseball team located in the New York City borough of Staten Island from 1999 to 2020. Nicknamed the "Baby Bombers", the Yankees were the Class A Short Season affiliate of the New York Yankees and played in the New York–Penn League at Richmond County Bank Ballpark along the waterfront in St. George. The Yankees won six New York–Penn League championships (2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2011).
History
The Watertown Indians were brought to Staten Island in 1999 in a deal brokered by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Watertown Indians were renamed Staten Island Yankees and the Yankees affiliation was transferred from the Oneonta Yankees to the renamed Staten Island Yankees, the Oneonta Yankees became a Detroit Tigers affiliate and were renamed Oneonta Tigers. The Staten Island Yankees played their first two seasons at College of Staten Island Baseball Complex before moving into the Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the 2001 season.
The first SI Yankee to reach the major leagues as a New York Yankee was pitcher Jason Anderson, pitching in relief in an 8-4 Yankee win over the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. The first Staten Island Yankee to reach the majors for any team was Wily Mo Peña, who broke in with the Cincinnati Reds.
On March 26, 2006, the Staten Island Advance reported that the teams' majority owners, the Getzler family, were considering selling their 51% share of the team, and were asking for between three and five million dollars. The New York Yankees purchased the Getzler's interest in the team and in return hired Mandalay Sports Properties to run the day-to-day operations of the team. Part of the agreement was that the New York Yankees and Mandalay become equal partners and Mandalay now owns 50% of the Staten Island Yankees.
In 2006, the Yankees were managed by Gaylen Pitts, noted for frequently being ejected from games. In a game on August 25, 2006, Pitts was ejected and then returned to the field in sandals after a batter was hit by a pitch in the 9th inning of a 21–6 victory over the Brooklyn Cyclones.
In 2007, the Yankees were managed by Mike Gillespie, who led the 1998 USC Trojans to a College World Series championship. Gillespie led the Baby Bombers to their third consecutive playoff appearance before losing to the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2007 NYPL Playoffs, 2 games to none.
Former Florida Gator coach Pat McMahon had managed the Yankees for the 2008 season.
Former major league catcher Josh Paul had managed the Yankees for the 2009 season and returned for the 2010 season.
Due to Dave Eiland taking a leave of absence, manager Josh Paul was summoned to fill in as the New York Yankees bullpen coach during which time former major leaguer Jody Reed filled in as the interim manager for the Staten Island Yankees.
On June 20, 2016 the team launched a campaign to rename the organization starting with the 2017 season. On September 8, 2016, the potential names were whittled down to 5, with an online vote beginning on the team's website from that date; the candidate names were the Bridge Trolls, Heroes, Killer Bees, Pizza Rats, and Rock Pigeons. Ultimately, the team decided to retain the Yankees moniker but to call itself the Staten Island Pizza Rats for select games as an alternate identity.
Prior to the 2020 season, it was announced that the team would be shuttered when the MLB/MiLB agreement ended at the conclusion of the 2020 season under a proposed plan calling for the Short Season Class A designation to be eliminated. The start of the 2020 season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic before ultimately being cancelled on June 30. On November 7, 2020, the New York Yankees announced that they were withdrawing from Staten Island, but they would seek to place a team from the independent Atlantic League at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in 2021.
Year-by-year record
Notable alumni
Since their inception in 1999 the Staten Island Yankees have amassed a total of 42 players who have reached the major leagues not including players who have played for the team while on a rehab assignment.
The Following players have made rehab appearances with the Staten Island Yankees.
Orlando Hernandez (2001)
José Contreras (2003)
Kevin Brown (2004)
Steve Karsay (2004)
Felix Rodríguez (2005)
Octavio Dotel (2006)
Jeff Karstens (2007) - Only former SI Yankee to return on an MLB rehab assignment
Darrell Rasner (2007)
Jonathan Albaladejo (2008)
Phil Hughes (2011)
Mascots
The original Staten Island Yankees Mascot was Scooter the "Holy Cow." A combination of New York Yankees shortstop Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto and his commentating catch phrase "Holy Cow!" Scooter debuted for the Staten Island Yankees when the franchise relocated from Watertown, New York, in 1999. In summer 2003, the Baby Bombers debuted Scooter's sisters Red and Huckleberry (or "Huck"). Scooter and his sisters were a staple at SI Yankee games, leading fan rallies and between-inning on-field games. The cows were known to have a The Three Stooges-like relationship in which Red and Huck often teamed up to trick and trap Scooter
Retired numbers
6 - Brett Gardner
17 - Robinson Canó
19 - Jason Anderson
41 - Chien-Ming Wang
42 - Jackie Robinson
References
External links
Statistics from Baseball-Reference
Baseball teams established in 1999
Baseball teams disestablished in 2020
Defunct New York–Penn League teams
Professional baseball teams in New York (state)
Sports in Staten Island
New York Yankees minor league affiliates
Defunct baseball teams in New York City
1999 establishments in New York City
2020 disestablishments in New York (state)
2020 in New York City
History of Staten Island
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Regional hospitals of Ghana
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Ghana, since it independence from the British on 6 March 1957, has made great strides towards improving its health care facilities and the services offered in them. The Ghana Health Service, the health policy implementer of the Ministry of Health, has over the years developed the health care services offered to Ghanaians in the initial then (10) but now sixteen (16) administrative regions of the country.
The 10 regional hospitals
The regional hospitals in Ghana are tabulated below.
References
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Coorooman, Queensland
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Coorooman is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorooman had a population of 87 people.
History
The locality was named after its former railway station on the Emu Park branch line, which in turn took its name from the creek, which is believed to be an Aboriginal word coorawan meaning kangaroo.
Geography
The many branches of Cawarral Creek permeate the locality, forming much of the southern boundary, part of the eastern, and draining the interior.
Road infrastructure
The Emu Park Road runs through from south to north.
References
Shire of Livingstone
Localities in Queensland
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Gwen Somerset
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Gwendolen Lucy Somerset (née Alley, 16 November 1894 – 31 October 1988) was a New Zealand teacher, adult education director, educationalist and writer.
Early life
Somerset was born in Springfield, New Zealand in 1895. She was the second of seven children of Frederick Alley and Clara (born Buckingham). Her brother Rewi Alley later became famous for his development work in China. Another brother, Geoff Alley, played rugby union for New Zealand as an All Black, and was later National Librarian.
The family moved to Amberley when Somerset was three, and her father became headmaster of the local high school there. When Somerset was 14, the family moved again, to Christchurch and she began to attend Christchurch Girls' High School. Two years later she became a pupil-teacher at a Christchurch primary school, and simultaneously took classes at Canterbury University College.
Career and professional life
In 1921, Somerset attended a Workers' Educational Association (WEA) summer school in Oxford, New Zealand and met James Shelley, a professor of education at Canterbury University College. She was inspired by his ideas and said that this course changed her life. She went on to apply for a teaching position in Oxford. Her teaching methods were unconventional - she started the day with singing and dancing for example, as she found that many of her pupils worked hard on their family farms and needed relaxation at school. She also removed the teacher's table and chair in her classroom as symbols of authority and sat on children's chairs herself. As there was little reading material for the younger children, Somerset started to write her own booklets. School inspectors and the headmaster supported her and her new ideas, and in 1923 she was promoted to Infant Mistress.
Gwen married Crawford Somerset in Christchurch in 1930, and in 1936, the couple jointly received a Carnegie Fellowship and attended the First World Conference in Early Childhood Education in England.
After one more year in Oxford, the Somersets moved to Feilding at the invitation of L.J. Wild, principal of Feilding Agricultural High School, and became co-directors of the Feilding Community Centre for Further Education. They ran classes for adults, showed films from the National Film Library, and established the Feilding Community Players amateur drama group. Somerset also branched out into pre-school education by setting up a play group for children under the age of five years.
In 1947 the Somersets moved to Wellington as Crawford had been appointed to the Department of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. Gwen decided to specialise in early childhood education and in 1949 was elected the first president of the New Zealand Federation of Nursery Play Centres (now Playcentre). She wrote I Play and I Grow, which is still used as a reference and guide for Playcentres today, and a number of booklets as well as editing the Playcentre Journal. Gwen also became active in the WEA and in the Free Kindergarten movement, and lectured on child development at the Wellington Free Kindergarten Training College. She was also active on the National Council of Women of New Zealand, the YWCA and CORSO.
In the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours, Somerset was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pre-school and adult education, and in 1975 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Victoria University of Wellington, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from that institution.
In 1988, she published her autobiography, Sunshine and Shadow.
References
1894 births
1988 deaths
New Zealand schoolteachers
New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
People from Springfield, New Zealand
People educated at Christchurch Girls' High School
University of Canterbury alumni
20th-century New Zealand educators
New Zealand writers
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Actinodaphne johorensis
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Actinodaphne johorensis is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
johorensis
Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Dilutive security
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Dilutive securities are financial instruments—usually stock options, warrants, convertible bonds—which increase the number of common shares if exercised; this then reduces, or "dilutes", the basic EPS (earnings per share).
Thus, only where the diluted EPS is less than the basic EPS is the transaction classified as dilutive.
Compare Accretion (finance).
Some examples of dilutive securities are convertible debt, convertible preferred stock, options, warrants, participating securities, two-class common stocks, and contingent shares.
The concept of dilutive securities is often a purely theoretical one, since these instruments will not be converted into common stock unless the price at which they can be purchased will generate a profit. In many cases, the strike prices are set above the market price, so they will not be exercised.
References
Corporate finance
Mergers and acquisitions
Embedded options
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Gerry Mays
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Gerry Mays (18 July 1921 – 20 March 2006) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played for Hibernian, St Johnstone, Dunfermline Athletic and Kilmarnock, and then managed Ayr United. Mays appeared for Kilmarnock in the 1957 Scottish Cup Final and 1952 Scottish League Cup Final, and for Dunfermline in the 1949–50 Scottish League Cup Final.
External links
Gerald Mayes, www.ihibs.co.uk
1921 births
2006 deaths
Sportspeople from Wishaw
Scottish footballers
Association football inside forwards
Hibernian F.C. players
St Johnstone F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Kilmarnock F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish football managers
Ayr United F.C. managers
Scottish Football League managers
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The 1948 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 15th edition of the men's singles championship.
Richard Bergmann defeated Bohumil Váňa in the final, winning three sets to two to secure the title.
Results
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
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Madig
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Madig was an Iranian king who ruled in present-day northern Iraq. He is mentioned in a historical text called the Book of the Deeds of Ardashir son of Babak.
Origins
Although he is called a “Kurd” in the book, the word was used as a social term during this period, designating Iranian nomads, rather than a concrete ethnic group.
According to James Boris, the word first became an ethnic identity in the 12th and 13th century.
Biography
According to the Book of the Deeds of Ardashir son of Babak, Ardashir I, after having defeated the Parthian Artabanus V, began subduing the vassal-states of the fallen Parthian Empire. With reinforcements from Zavul, he invaded the domains of Madig, but was repelled by the latter. However, Ardashir later returned with an army of 4,000 men, and defeated Madig in a night attack. The Book says the following thing:
References
3rd-century Iranian people
Zoroastrian rulers
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Rafael Osuna defeated Frank Froehling 7–5, 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1963 U.S. National Championships.
Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Rafael Osuna is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.
Chuck McKinley (semifinals)
Roy Emerson (fourth round)
Dennis Ralston (quarterfinals)
Rafael Osuna (champion)
Ken Fletcher (third round)
Bobby Wilson (quarterfinals)
Eugene Scott (third round)
Ham Richardson (third round)
Draw
Key
Q = Qualifier
WC = Wild card
LL = Lucky loser
r = Retired
Final eight
Earlier rounds
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
1963 U.S. National Championships on ITFtennis.com, the source for this draw
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) – 1963 U.S. Championships Men's Singles draw
U.S. National Championships (tennis) by year – Men's singles
Mens
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Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 1991 strategy video game in the Populous series for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS-based computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions. Populous II is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game Populous and is one of the company's most notable games.
Like its predecessor, Populous II is a god game, where the player is guiding his people in battle against the followers of an enemy god. Whereas Populous only generally alluded to undefined deities, Populous II is specifically set under the backdrop of Greek mythology. The player is a demigod, one of Zeus's countless children with mortal women, and has to battle one Greek deity at a time until finally facing his father. Zeus has promised to let the player into the Pantheon on Olympus if he can survive all the battles.
A data disk was also released for Populous II, titled Populous II: The Challenge Games. This was set in Japanese mythology instead of Greek, and had each level as its individual challenge, slightly in the style of a puzzle game.
A Sega Mega Drive version was released as Two Tribes: Populous II in 1993 ported by PanelComp and published by Virgin Interactive.
Gameplay
Populous II is considerably more versatile and has a great deal more "divine intervention" effects than the original game. Populous would only bestow eight powers on the player but the sequel, Populous II has twenty-nine (30 in PC version). These are sub-divided into six categories of effect: earth, water, wind, fire, plants and people. The six categories are linked to a global "manna meter" which needs to be filled to a certain level to enable specific powers for usage. Manna is generated by population existing over time - the larger the population, the more manna is generated. Use of a power will deplete a set amount of manna and repeated use of the more devastating powers will empty the manna reservoir.
Similar to the "knight" effect in Populous, each effect category includes a "hero", allowing the player to transform his or her leader into one of six legendary figures in Greek mythology who will wander around the map attacking enemies or perform some other nefarious act.
If either side controlled a certain percentage of the map, usually 75%, ancient Greek monsters would be unleashed upon the map, such as the Colossus or Medusa, which would wander from one side to another leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. This was usually seen as a cue to hurry up and complete the map because the monsters were indestructible and were indiscriminate in who they killed.
Upon the successful completion of a map, the player will be awarded between one and five small experience points depending on scale of victory, number and types of powers used and length of battle which can then be used to boost capabilities in any of the six categories. This will improve accuracy and duration of powers and reduce the amount of manna needed to activate abilities.
The game features 1000 maps and the player would advance to the next map depending on performance in the battle - an exceptional performance would allow the player to skip several maps; a more unsatisfying performance would bring the player no farther than three or fewer maps.
One of the effects in the plants category is a deadly fungus that is planted on the ground, changing its shape and killing anyone who steps on it. Although the manual does not explain how it grows, it is easy to see that its shape changing obeys the rules of Conway's Game of Life.
Populous II: The Challenge Games
The data disk introduced 500 new maps to conquer and one additional divine intervention.
Beside a new Japan inspired graphics style there is also a new play mode with 42 levels (challenges), slightly resembling a puzzle game.
Development
The Amiga version of Populous II began development in March 1991, and was released in November 1991. British gaming magazine The One interviewed Peter Molyneux, the designer of Populous II, for information regarding its development in a pre-release interview. Populous II was in the design stages before its predecessor Populous had finished playtesting, and The One states that "[the] game has effectively been developing for more than two years, although actual keyboard work only began in March." Populous II doesn't reuse code or assets from Populous, and Molyneux expresses that he holds the design philosophy that "You can't call anything a sequel unless it's totally rewritten, because otherwise it's really just a data disk - and we've already done enough of those." While the final product lacks assets from Populous, Populous II's development began with Populous being ported to a newer computer to be used as a framework. Due to the new city-building aspect present in Populous II, The One states that "there's a very strong possibility that you will be able to export these cities to Sim City and play around with them there", a feature absent in the final game.
Memory restrictions were a notable limitation in Populous II's development, and Molyneux expresses that as a result, 1MB Amigas have more animation than MB Amigas, and all sprites are compressed. Finding gameplay roles for two Greek gods in particular was noted as a difficulty; Aphrodite and Dionysus, due to determining what their spheres would translate to in-game. In response to criticisms of Populous regarding players being unable to recover when the opposition is winning, a feature wherein the player's followers create temples - even in enemy territory - was added, with the inclusion of this 'random' element intended to require players to change strategies as necessary. Populous II incorporates a total of 35 effects, as Molyneux expresses that "People were always saving [resources] for a volcano or earthquake". Greek and Celtic mythology, as well as the Bible, were used as references for Populous II's effects. Populous II's icon-based UI was changed due to the addition of new effects, and Molyneux states that "There just wasn't enough space on screen: at one point we had icons which were four pixels by eight wide - how do you distinguish a whirlpool from a whirlwind in that?" As a result, effects were split into five categories - earth, air, fire, water, and people, albeit Molyneux expresses his reluctance in doing so, stating that "That isn't my favorite option - because when you're playing a game, everything should be fully accessible all the time - but it was the best compromise we could come up with."
To maintain a user-friendly UI despite the amount of icons, The One states that "the team is optimising the distance between the icons so that the most used should be closest to the edge of the screen and it should take the smallest amount of time possible to move from item to item." Molyneux cites work on previous Bullfrog titles as learning experiences that contribute to design choices made in Populous II, stating that "Flood taught us how to draw quickly onto the screen ... Powermonger taught us about databases and design and Populous taught us how to program". The initial graphics for Populous II were created by Molyneux, but was then taken over by graphic artists Gary Carr and Paul McLoughlin. Populous II's backgrounds and sprites were created using DPaint 3 and a custom-built graphic editor created by Glenn Corpes - this custom editor allows the artists to test sprites in the game without the need to continually change the game's code. Populous II's music and sound effects were added late in development - initially Charles Callet, the composer for Powermonger was to do the soundtrack, but this was changed due to 'unreliability', and another factor in the delay was Molyneux's self-professed 'perfectionism'; he states that "We want the music and sound effects to be a really big part of the game. I think that, in general, game music is underplayed ... What we're going to try to do with the in-game music for Populous II is make it more informative, so as the action starts speeding up, the music starts changing tempo with it." At this stage in development, Populous II was stated to run at 17 frames per second, with Molyneux purporting that "a game that would have taken 20 minutes in the original would now take something like 20 seconds! We'll have to slow it down."
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1992 stated that "Populous II is an elaborate program that is instantly absorbing and addictive", and later named it one of the year's best strategy games. In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games the magazine gave the game three-plus stars out of five. Super Gamer gave the SNES version an overall score of 82% writing: "An attractive update of the original with a much smoother control system. A huge challenge, although it’s somewhat repetitive." In 1995, Total! ranked the game 85th on its Top 100 SNES Games stating: "A lot like Populous only with a '2' on the end. If you liked Populous then, yes, you’ll love this.
References
External links
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods at the Hall of Light
1991 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Bullfrog Productions games
DOS games
FM Towns games
Electronic Arts games
Games commercially released with DOSBox
God games
Imagineer games
Classic Mac OS games
Multiplayer null modem games
NEC PC-9801 games
Populous (series)
Real-time strategy video games
Sega Genesis games
Sharp X68000 games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video game sequels
Video games based on Greek mythology
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in antiquity
Video games set in Greece
Video games with expansion packs
Video games with isometric graphics
Virgin Interactive games
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Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms
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The Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms is the Sri Lankan government ministry responsible for the “rehabilitation of detainees and integration into the society and rehabilitation of victims of violence and effected properties and enterprises by following methodologies of good governance, using financial and human resources efficiently and productively and by proper supervision and co-ordination of the departments and other institutions under the ministry.”
List of ministers
The Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.
Parties
See also
List of ministries of Sri Lanka
References
External links
Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms
Government of Sri Lanka
Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms
Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms
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Shubha Mudgal
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Shubha Mudgal (born 1 January 1959) is an Indian singer of Hindustani classical music. Her repertoire includes the genres of khyal, thumri, dadra, and Indian pop. She has received the Padma Shri in 2000.
Early life
Shubha was born in Allahabad into an academic family. Her parents, Skand Gupta and Jaya Gupta, were both professors of English literature at Allahabad University, and both of them had a deep interest in Hindustani classical music and kathak. Shubha's paternal grandfather, P. C. Gupta, had also been a professor at Allahabad University.
Education and musical training
Shubha grew up in Allahabad and after finishing school, attended St. Mary's Convent Inter College. As children, she and her sister were sent by their artistic-minded parents to a dance class to learn kathak. However, her interest in dance was never great and the fact that she attended a non-descript dance-class in the neighbourhood did not conduce to high levels of accomplishment. She once replied to a dance examiner's routine query of "Aap kis gharaane ki Kathak naachti hain? (what is the style/school of Kathak to which you belong?)" with the retort, "Hum apne gharaane ki Kathak naachte hain (I dance my own style of Kathak)". She later switched to Hindustani classical music as her vocation of choice while maintaining the same individualistic attitude. Her first traditional teacher (guru) was Ramashreya Jha in Allahabad.
After completing inter-college, Shubha moved to New Delhi and enrolled at Delhi University for her undergraduate studies. In Delhi, she continued her musical education under Vinay Chandra Maudgalya, who was the founder of Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a school of fine arts located in Maudgalya's residence in Connaught Place. Apart from being an outstanding classical musician, Maudgalya was also an accomplished lyricist who wrote the song "Hind Desh ke Niwasi", used in the animation film Ek Anek Aur Ekta by Vijaya Mulay.
After graduating from Delhi University, Shubha continued her training under Vasant Thakar in Delhi, and more informally with other established singers as Jitendra Abhisheki, Naina Devi and Kumar Gandharva.
Performing career
Shubha Mudgal started performing as a Hindustani classical singer in the 1980s, and gained a certain reputation as a talented singer. In the 1990s, she started experimenting with other forms of music, including pop and fusion varieties. She says, "I believe in music. Khayal and Thumri are my favourites, but that does not mean that I should not experiment with other forms. Why should I curtail my musical urges? ..... I want to allow the artist in me to come through. If you are a musician, how can you say, 'this one is from devotional poetry, so I am not going to sing it."' In addition to her recordings and concerts, she briefly ran a website called raagsangeet.com aimed at lovers of Indian classical.
Mudgal sang the title track of Star Plus's serial Diya Aur Baati Hum along with Kailash Kher. She also sang on the soundtrack of the film Mystic India.
In 2019, she also turned into a fictional writer with her debut book titled 'Looking for Miss Sargam: Stories of Music and Misadventure'.
Awards
Mudgal's awards include:
the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for "Amrit Beej"
the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music at the 34th Chicago International Film Festival for her music in the film Dance of the Wind
the Padma Shri in 2000
the 2016 Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award for her outstanding contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill
Personal life
Shortly graduating from Delhi University, she married Mukul Mudgal, son of her guru Vinay Chandra Maudgalya. It is by this marriage that she acquired the surname Mudgal which she uses professionally. Her husband, who was also an accomplished musician, chose not to pursue music as a profession, but instead became a lawyer and jurist. He retired as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and thereafter headed the Mudgal Committee.
The Mudgals had one son together, namely Dhaval Mudgal, who is a lead singer in the Delhi-based band Half Step Down.
Shubha is now married to Dr. Aneesh Pradhan.
Discography
Ali More Angana (1996)
Classically Yours (1999) ISBN D4HV2718
Ab Ke Sawan
Pyar Ke Geet (1999)
Mann Ki Manjeree
Kisson Ki Chadar (2003)
Shubh Deepavali (2005)
Anand Mangal
The Awakening (2006)
Jahan-E-Khusrau (2007)
No Stranger Here (2012)
Tamil songs
"Vaaraai En Thozhi" - Arasiyal (1997)
"Thaiyya Thaiyya" - Uyire (1998)
"Five Star" - Five Star (2002)
"Kanaa Kaangiren" - Ananda Thandavam (2009)
References
Sources
Maheshwari, Belu (4 February 2001). Shubha spreads magic, again!. Spectrum.
Ghosh, Ritujay (27 July 2006). Shubha charmed by Sufi music. HindustanTimes.
"Mythical India"
External links
Official website
Shubha Mudgal in Dance with the Wind
Diwali 2008 Sunnyvale, US concert updates at UPANA
Indian women classical singers
1959 births
Living people
Hindustani singers
Musicians from Allahabad
Delhi University alumni
Indian women playback singers
Indian film score composers
Bollywood playback singers
Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
20th-century Indian singers
Indian women pop singers
Women Hindustani musicians
Singers from Uttar Pradesh
20th-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian singers
Women musicians from Uttar Pradesh
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Grete Meisel-Hess
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Grete Meisel-Hess (18 April 1879, Prague - 18 April 1922, Berlin) was an Austrian Jewish feminist, who wrote novels, short stories and essays about women's need for sexual liberation.
Meisel-Hess lived in Vienna from 1893 to 1908. She viewed both anti-Semitism and anti-feminism as signs of degeneration which needed to be overcome by progressive politics.
She wrote for Franz Pfemfert's journal Die Aktion.
Works
Die sexuelle Krise. Eine sozialpsychologische Untersuchung, 1909. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as The sexual crisis: a critique of our sex life, 1917.
Die Intellektuellen [The Intellectuals], 1911
Sexuelle Rechte, 1914
Betrachtungen zur Frauenfrage, 1914
Die Bedeutung der Monogamie, 1916
References
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1879 births
1922 deaths
Austrian women writers
Austrian feminists
Jewish women writers
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Hyundai Nishat Motors
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Hyundai Nishat () is a Pakistani automobile manufacturer and joint venture between Hyundai and Nishat Mills, based in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Hyundai Nishat is the authorized assembler and manufacturer of Hyundai vehicles in Pakistan and began production from its Faisalabad plant in 2019.
History
Hyundai returned to Pakistan in 2017 by partnering with Nishat Mills, a subsidiary of Nishat Group. Hyundai used to assemble cars in Pakistan until 2004, when their local partner Dewan Farooque Motors went bankrupt.
Hyundai Nishat Motor signed an investment agreement with the Ministry of Industries and Production under the Automotive Development Policy 2016-21. The intent of the government is to shake up the Japanese-dominated car market and loosen the grip of Toyota, Honda and Suzuki, who assemble cars in Pakistan with local partners.
Industry Competition
Kia Lucky Motors, MG JW Automobile and Changan Automobile are also launching new models keeping competition alive for Hyundai. In response to the competition, Hyundai Pakistan is expected to hike production by 100 percent in the first quarter of 2021.
Product Competition
Hyundai Nishat Motor launched Elantra sedan in March 2021. Elantra will give tough competition to Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic.
Hyundai Nishat Motor launched Santa Fe mid-size SUV to give tough competition to Kia Sorento and Toyota Fortuner.
Products
Locally Manufactured
Hyundai Elantra (sedan)
Hyundai Sonata (luxury sedan)
Hyundai Tucson (compact crossover SUV)
Hyundai Porter H-100 (light commercial vehicle/light truck)
Imports
Hyundai Grand Starex (minivan)
Hyundai Santa Fe (mid-size SUV)
Hyundai Ioniq (hybrid compact car)
Discontinued
Hyundai Santro (city car)
Hyundai Shehzore (light truck)
See also
Automotive industry in Pakistan
References
External links
Hyundai-Nishat
Hyundai Motor Company
Nishat Group
Car manufacturers of Pakistan
Pakistani companies established in 2017
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies
Manufacturing companies based in Lahore
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2017
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Adobe Premiere Pro
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Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a successor of Adobe Premiere (first launched in 1991). It is geared towards professional video editing, while its sibling, Adobe Premiere Elements, targets the consumer market.
CNN was an early adopter of Adobe Premiere Pro. Also, in 2007, certain BBC departments adopted Premiere Pro. It has been used to edit feature films, such as Deadpool, Gone Girl, Captain Abu Raed, Terminator: Dark Fate and Monsters, and other venues such as Madonna's Confessions Tour.
History
Premiere Pro is the successor to Adobe Premiere and was launched in 2003. Premiere Pro refers to versions released in 2003 and later, whereas Premiere refers to the earlier releases. Premiere was based on ReelTime, a product acquired from SuperMac Technologies Inc. and was one of the first computer-based NLEs (non-linear editing system), with its first release on Mac in 1991. Adobe briefly abandoned the Mac platform after version 6 of Premiere. Up until version Premiere Pro 2.0 (CS2), the software packaging featured a galloping horse, in a nod to Eadweard Muybridge's work, "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop".
Features
Premiere Pro supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 × 8,192 resolution, at up to 32 bits per channel color, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample-level editing, VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. Premiere Pro's plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows. When used with CineForm's Neo line of plug-ins, it supports 3D editing with the ability to view 3D material using 2D monitors, while making individual left and right eye adjustments.
Premiere Pro can be used for all common video editing tasks necessary for producing broadcast-quality, high-definition video. It can be used to import video, audio and graphics, and is used to create new, edited versions of video which can be exported to the medium and format necessary for the distribution. When creating videos using Premiere Pro, various videos, still images and audio files can be edited together. Titles and motion graphics can be added to videos and filters can be applied along with other effects.
Premiere Pro was very well received at launch in the film and video industry, seeing use in films such as Superman Returns, Dust to Glory (for video capture processing), and also in places such as Madonna's Confessions Tour.
Workflow integration
After Effects
Through Adobe Dynamic Link, compositions from Adobe After Effects may be imported and played back directly on the Premiere Pro timeline. The After Effects composition can be modified, and after switching back to Premiere Pro, the clip will update with the changes. Likewise, Premiere Pro projects can be imported into After Effects. Clips can be copied between the two applications while preserving most clip attributes. Premiere Pro also supports many After Effects plug-ins.
Premiere Rush
Video projects in Premiere Rush can be opened in Premiere Pro to add more complex edits and views.
Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop files can be opened directly from Premiere Pro to be edited in Photoshop. Any changes will immediately be updated when the Photoshop file is saved and focus returns to Premiere Pro.
Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator files can also be opened directly in Premiere Pro. These files are generally vector files, which means that they are mathematical paths that can expand or decrease with any zoom level.
Adobe Story, OnLocation and Prelude
The Premiere Pro workflow takes advantage of metadata in the script of video production. The script is created in or brought into Adobe Story, then passed to Adobe OnLocation to capture footage and attach any relevant metadata from the script to that footage. Finally, in Premiere Pro, speech recognition can match the audio to the dialogue from the script in the metadata. Clips can be searched based on their dialogue in Premiere Pro, and can be sent to Adobe Encore to make searchable web DVDs. Encore was discontinued with the release of Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Prelude replaces OnLocation in CS6 and above.
Others
There are other integration functions, such as Edit in Adobe Audition, Dynamic Link to Encore, and Reveal in Adobe Bridge. In June 2020, Adobe launched a stock audio offering for Premiere Pro users.
Extensions
Various extensions are available for Premiere Pro, provided by third parties. These include music libraries and graphic elements. Extensions open in their own panel within the Premiere Pro interface.
Adobe Premiere family
The Adobe Premiere family is a group of applications and services made by Adobe Inc. for the use of professional non-linear video editing. Several features of the Adobe Premiere family are non-linear video editing, metadata and ingest logging, media output encoding, and more.
Current applications
Dynamic Link is a workflow that integrates After Effects with Premiere Pro and with the discontinued Encore, allowing files to be transferred between the two without re-rendering.
Elements Organizer is the digital asset management app for Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. It is able to organize all your photos and video projects all in one place.
Media Encoder is a tool to output video files in order support more audiences and to lessen the file size.
Prelude is an ingest and logging tool for tagging media with metadata for searching, post-production workflows, and footage lifecycle management. Adobe Prelude is also made to work closely with Premiere Pro.
Premiere Elements is a video editing software application published by Adobe Systems. It is a scaled-down version of Premiere Pro and is tailored to novice editors and consumers. The entry screen offers clip organization, editing and auto-movie generation options. Premiere Pro project files are not compatible with Premiere Elements projects files.
Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a successor of Adobe Premiere (first launched in 1991).
Premiere Rush is a simplified pro-quality video app for mobile devices, developed by Adobe and available through Creative Cloud. It replaced Premiere Clip as the mobile video editing application by Adobe Inc. today.
Discontinued applications
Encore (previously called Encore DVD) was a specialized DVD authoring app, which converts the output of Premiere Pro and After Effects to a format suitable for DVD and Blu-ray players. Files are automatically transcoded to MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video and Dolby Digital audio. It was discontinued along with Fireworks on CS6.
OnLocation was a direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software. It was soon replaced by Prelude in Adobe Creative Suite 6.
Premiere was a former video editing software developed by Adobe Systems. It was first launched in 1991, and its final version was released in 2002. It was replaced by Premiere Pro, a rewritten version of Adobe Premiere.
Premiere Clip was a timeline based video editing software on mobile platform. It is no longer supported for new and upcoming users since September 17, 2019. Extended support for all active customers lasted until March 17, 2020.
Premiere Express was a rich Internet application for simple editing of digital video files. The release was announced on February 21, 2007.
Premiere Limited Edition (LE) was a video editor for novice video editors and hobbyists. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options. It was instead replaced by Premiere Elements in September 2004.
SpeedGrade is a tool for performing color corrections and developing looks for Premiere projects. SpeedGrade was discontinued on August 22, 2017, but can still be used by subscribers at the time. Features from SpeedGrade are now found in the Lumetri Color Correction feature in Premiere Pro.
Story was a screenwriting and film/TV pre-production online application which integrates with the Premiere family. It allows users to create scripts for movies and TV shows.
Ultra is a discontinued chroma key compositing app, which removes the background of video usually recorded on a blue or green screen and combines it with another video background. Ultra was only available in the CS3 package. It was later incorporated into Premiere Elements and Visual Communicator. Later versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects have had built-in chroma key compositing features.
Version Cue was a revision control system for maintaining multiple revisions of works among teams. It was removed from the Creative Suite after CS4.
Release history
Notable films edited on Adobe Premiere Pro
Act of Valor
A Liar's Autobiography
Avatar (daily and basic edits in conjunction with Avid Media Composer)
Captain Abu Raed
Deadpool
Dust to Glory
Gone Girl
Hugo (except VFX work)
In a Heartbeat
Monsters
Red Obsession
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Staten Island Summer
Superman Returns (for the video capture process)
The Social Network (only conforming)
Thunderbirds Are Go
Ticket to Ride (by Warren Miller Entertainment)
TimeScapes
Waiting for Lightning
Wayland's Song
World War II from Space
Nancy
Terminator: Dark Fate
See also
Adobe Premiere Elements
Adobe Premiere Express
Adobe Creative Suite
Creative Cloud controversy
List of video editing software
Comparison of video editing software
References
External links
Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro
Video editing software
Video editing software for macOS
Video editing software for Windows
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Charles William Key, PC (8 August 1883 – 6 December 1964) was a British schoolmaster and Labour Party politician. Coming from a very working-class background, the generosity of a family friend made it possible for him to get a start in life and train as a teacher; he entered politics through Poplar Borough Council, and was elected to Parliament to replace George Lansbury. Serving in junior posts during the Attlee government, he remained in Parliament until the age of 81.
Poverty of upbringing
Key was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, where his father worked in the brickfields. At the age of six, his father died and he was brought up by his mother alone; the family were very poor and not only did his mother have to work as a charlady, Key himself was needed to work on deliveries for a local draper. The family were largely dependent on poor relief under the Poor Law: in later life Key often remembered collecting 1s. 6d. and two quartern loaves of bread, being two-fifths of a pound. He claimed to have promised his mother at the age of nine that he would get into Parliament and repeal the Poor Law.
Teaching profession
While Key was attending the village school, and doing well, his mother took in lodgers to help make ends meet. One of the lodgers was a young chemist, who decided to take responsibility for helping him develop his talent, and provided enough funds for Key to continue his education at the Mile End Pupil Teachers' Centre and to get practical training at a school in South Hackney. Key then won a Queen's Scholarship to go to the Borough Road Teacher Training College. There he qualified as a teacher and went into work in a school in Mile End.
Municipal affairs
During the First World War, Key served in the Royal Garrison Artillery as a Corporal. After the war, he became Headmaster of schools in Hoxton and Poplar. While working in Poplar in 1919, Key (who had joined the Labour Party in 1906) was elected to Poplar Borough Council from Bromley North West ward, part of a Labour majority on the council.
Poplar was a very left-wing Labour council. Key was not among the most left-wing (he professed himself as a loyal subject of the King), but he was fully supportive of the campaign to improve the lives of the poor of the borough: in 1925 he was to write that most of the population "live on the verge of destitution". He saw the effects that poverty had on the children at his school. Poplar's high spending to help the poor led to ever-rising rates, which became an extra burden on local householders.
Rates strike
In this situation, in 1921, the Poplar Labour councillors decided to act to relieve the burden and to make a political protest by refusing to collect the rates on behalf of the London County Council and other Metropolitan bodies. Key himself, as Chairman of the Public Health Committee, moved a resolution to refer the estimates back to delete the contribution to the LCC. Poplar had a legal duty to collect the rates, and the LCC obtained a judgment requiring payment. Key argued to continue the protest, because the LCC and government had failed to fund promised schemes in the borough.
To enforce payment, the LCC and Metropolitan Asylums Board issued writs against 30 Poplar councillors and Aldermen; however, somewhat inexplicably, Key was not among those proceeded against. The 30 were committed to prison, while Key was made Deputy Mayor to act in the absence of the Mayor (Sam March) who was to go to jail. He was a key organiser of the successful campaign to get the councillors released, and subsequently wrote pamphlets telling the history of the campaign. The rates strike secured a more effective system of easing the burden of LCC rates on poorer boroughs and making borough rates produce the same revenue for councils.
Municipal service
Poplar held out on other causes, including a minimum wage for its workers of £4 per week; this policy was ruled unlawful by the House of Lords in 1925. Key moved a resolution to reluctantly comply, under protest, with the Lords' judgment. In the municipal years 1923–24, 1926–27 and 1932–33 he served as the Borough's Mayor, and he was also elected as a Poor Law Guardian in 1925, serving until the Guardians were abolished in 1931.
Parliament
On the outbreak of war in 1939, Key left teaching to become a civil defence worker in London and deputy controller of civil defence in Poplar. When George Lansbury (Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bow and Bromley division of Poplar) died in 1940, Key was elected at the Bow and Bromley by-election to follow him; he was opposed only by a Communist candidate in the byelection. From 1941 until the end of the war, Key was Regional Commissioner for the London Civil Defence region, with special responsibility for shelters.
Government minister
In Clement Attlee's post-war government, Key was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. He shared responsibility for passing the National Health Service Act with Aneurin Bevan; the contrast in their styles, with Bevan's exuberant manner of speech differing markedly from Key's homespun wisdom, was noted. Unfortunately it was Key's successor, John Edwards, who had the honour of finally abolishing the Poor Law.
Minister of Works
In February 1947, Key was promoted to be Minister of Works, where he had to deal with the rebuilding of the House of Commons chamber and settling the layout of the Festival of Britain. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1947, which entitled him to be referred to as "The Right Honourable Charles Key".
One of Key's responsibilities was to ensure a steady supply of building material for the building of public housing. In 1948 he made the acquaintance of fraudster Sidney Stanley and was consequently summoned to appear before the Lynskey Tribunal investigating corruption among Ministers. No accusation against him was substantiated. When the two Poplar constituencies were combined into one at the 1950 general election, Key was selected there and comfortably elected; however, he left the government immediately afterwards on grounds of age.
Later career
In 1953 Key was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Poplar, an award which made him very proud. He remained a backbench MP although his attendance and frequency of speeches declined; in 1963 he was one of the MPs highlighted by the television programme That Was The Week That Was for not having spoken at all in the Chamber since the 1959 general election. Key had announced his retirement in December 1961. He acted as a scrutineer in the ballot for the Labour Party leadership in 1963.
References
Obituary, The Times, 9 December 1964
M. Stenton and S. Lees, "Who's Who of British MPs" Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981)
Noreen Branson, "Poplarism 1919–1925: George Lansbury and the Councillors' Revolt" (Lawrence and Wishart, 1979)
External links
1883 births
1964 deaths
Heads of schools in England
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951
People from Chalfont St Giles
Schoolteachers from Buckinghamshire
UK MPs 1935–1945
UK MPs 1945–1950
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Otoki is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Banie, within Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Banie, south-east of Gryfino, and south of the regional capital Szczecin.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
References
Otoki
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2022 River Plate Montevideo Season
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River Plate will take part in Uruguayan Primera División and 2022 Copa Sudamericana.
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Summer 2022
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Top Scorers
Last updated on Mar 1, 2022
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Last updated on Mar 1, 2022
Primera División
Apetura 2022
League table
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Winner advances to the group stage (URU 2).
References
River Plate Montevideo seasons
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Orinoeme dunni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1976.
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Beetles described in 1976
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Jus antiquum is a period in the legal history of the Catholic Church, spanning from the beginning of the church to the Decretum of Gratian, i.e. from A.D. 33 to around 1150. In the first 10 centuries of the church, there was a great proliferation of canonical collections, mostly assembled by private individuals and not by church authority as such.
Ancient Church Orders
At no time, and least of all during the earliest centuries, was there any attempt to draw up a uniform system of legislation for the whole of the Christian Church. The various communities ruled themselves principally according to their customs and traditions, which, however, possessed a certain uniformity resulting from their close connexion with natural and divine law. Strangely enough, those documents which bear the greatest resemblance to a small collection of canonical regulations, such as the Didache, the Didascalia and the Canons of Hippolytus, have not been retained, and find no place in the collections of canons, doubtless for the reason that they were not official documents. Even the Apostolic Constitutions (q.v.), an expansion of the Didache and the Didascalia, after exercising a certain amount of influence, were rejected by the council in Trullo (692).
Thus the only pseudo-epigraphic document preserved in the law of the Greek Church is the small collection of the eighty-five so-called “Apostolic Canons” (q.v.). The compilers, in their several collections, gathered only occasional decisions, the outcome of no pre-determined plan, given by councils or by certain great bishops.
These compilations began in the East. It appears that in several different districts canons made by the local assemblies were added to those of the council of Nicaea which were everywhere accepted and observed.
In the East
Greek collection
The first example seems to be that of the province of Pontus, where after the twenty canons of Nicaea were placed the twenty-five canons of the council of Ancyra (314), and the fifteen of that of Neocaesarea (315–320). These texts were adopted at Antioch, where there were further added the twenty-five canons of the so-called council in encaeniis of that city (341).
Soon afterwards, Paphlagonia contributed twenty canons passed at the council of Gangra (held, according to the , in 343), and Phrygia fifty-nine canons of the assembly of Laodicea (345–381?), or rather of the compilation known as the work of this council. The collection was so well and so widely known that all these canons were numbered in sequence, and thus at the Council of Chalcedon (451) several of the canons of Antioch were read out under the number assigned to them in the collection of the whole. It was further increased by the twenty-eight (thirty) canons of Chalcedon; about the same time were added the four canons of the council of Constantinople of 381, under the name of which also appeared three (or seven) other canons of a later date. Towards the same date, also, the so-called Apostolic Canons were placed at the head of the group. Such was the condition of the Greek collection when it was translated and introduced into the West.
In the course of the 6th century the collection was completed by the addition of documents already in existence, but which had hitherto remained isolated, notably the canonical letters of several great bishops, Dionysius of Alexandria, St Basil and others. It was at this time that the Latin collection of Dionysius Exiguus became known; and just as he had given the Greek councils a place in his collection, so from him were borrowed the canons of councils which did not appear in the Greek collection—the twenty canons of Sardica (343), in the Greek text, which differs considerably from the Latin; and the council of Carthage of 410, which itself included, more or less completely, in 105 canons, the decisions of the African councils. Soon after came the council in Trullo (692), also called the Quinisextum, because it was considered as complementary to the two councils (5th and 6th ecumenical) of Constantinople (553 and 680), which had not made any disciplinary canons. This assembly elaborated 102 canons, which did not become part of the Western law till much later, on the initiative of Pope John VIII.(872–881).
Final form
Now, in the second of its canons, the council in Trullo recognized and sanctioned the Greek collection above mentioned; it enumerates all its articles, insists on the recognition of these canons, and at the same time prohibits the addition of others. As thus defined, the collection contains the following documents: firstly, the eighty-five Apostolic Canons, the Constitutions having been put aside as having suffered heretical alterations; secondly, the canons of the councils of Nicaea, Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Gangra, Antioch, Laodicea, Constantinople (381), Ephesus (the disciplinary canons of this council deal with the reception of the Nestorians, and were not communicated to the West), Chalcedon, Sardica, Carthage (that of 419, according to Dionysius), Constantinople (394); thirdly, the series of canonical letters of the following great bishops—Dionysius of Alexandria, Peter of Alexandria (the Martyr), Gregory Thaumaturgus, Athanasius, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Amphilochius of Iconium, Timotheus of Alexandria, Pope Theophilus of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, and Gennadius of Constantinople; the canon of Cyprian of Carthage (the Martyr) is also mentioned, but with the note that it is only valid for Africa. With the addition of the twenty-two canons of the ecumenical council of Nicaea (787), this will give us the whole contents of the official collection of the Greek Church; since then it has remained unchanged. The law of the Greek Church was in reality rather the work of the Byzantine emperors.
Nomocanon
The collection has had several commentators; we need only mention the commentaries of Photius (883), Zonaras (1120) and Balsamon (1170). A collection in which the texts are simply reproduced in their chronological order is obviously inconvenient; towards 550, Johannes Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople, drew up a methodical classification of them under fifty heads. Finally should be mentioned yet another kind of compilation still in use in the Greek Church, bearing the name of nomocanon, because in them are inserted, side by side with the ecclesiastical canons, the imperial laws on each subject: the chief of them are the one bearing the name of John Scholasticus, which belongs, however, to a later date, and that of Photius (883).
In the West
The canon law of the other Eastern Churches had no marked influence on the collections of the Western Church, so we need not speak of it here. While, from the 5th century onwards a certain unification in the ecclesiastical law began to take place within the sphere of the see of Constantinople, it was not till later that a similar result was arrived at in the West. For several centuries there is no mention of any but local collections of canons, and even these are not found till the 5th century; we have to come down to the 8th or even the 9th century before we find any trace of unification. This process was uniformly the result of the passing on of the various collections from one region to another.
North African collections
The most remarkable, and the most homogeneous, as well as without doubt the most ancient of these local collections is that of the Church of Africa. It was formed, so to speak, automatically, owing to the plenary assemblies of the African episcopate held practically every year, at which it was customary first of all to read out the canons of the previous councils. This gave to the collection an official character. At the time of the Vandal invasion this collection comprised the canons of the council of Carthage under Gratus (about 348) and under Genethlius (390), the whole series of the twenty or twenty-two plenary councils held during the episcopate of Aurelius, and finally, those of the councils held at Byzacene. Of the last-named we have only fragments, and the series of the councils under Aurelius is very incomplete. The African collection has not come to us directly: we have two incomplete and confused arrangements of it, in two collections, that of the Hispana and that of Dionysius Exiguus. Dionysius knows only the council of 419, in connexion with the affair of Apiarius; but in this single text are reproduced, more or less fully, almost all the synods of the collection; this was the celebrated Concilium Africanum, so often quoted in the middle ages, which was also recognized by the Greeks. The Spanish collection divides the African canons among seven councils of Carthage and one of Mileve; but in many cases it ascribes them to the wrong source; for example, it gives under the title of the fourth council of Carthage, the Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua, an Arlesian compilation of Saint Caesarius, which has led to a number of incorrect references. Towards the middle of the 6th century a Carthaginian deacon, Fulgentius Ferrandus, drew up a Breviatio canonum, a methodical arrangement of the African collection, in the order of the subjects. From it we learn that the canons of Nicaea and the other Greek councils, up to that of Chalcedon, were also known in Africa.
Rome
The Roman Church, even more than the rest, governed itself according to its own customs and traditions. Up to the end of the 5th century the only canonical document of non-Roman origin which it officially recognized was the group of canons of Nicaea, under which name were also included those of Sardica. A Latin version of the other Greek councils (the one referred to by Dionysius as prisca) was known, but no canonical use was made of it. The local law was founded on usage and on the papal letters called decretals. The latter were of two kinds: some were addressed to the bishops of the ecclesiastical province immediately subject to the pope; the others were issued in answer to questions submitted from various quarters; but in both cases the doctrine is the same.
Dionysius Exiguus and his collection
At the beginning of the 6th century the Roman Church adopted the double collection, though of private origin, which was drawn up at that time by the monk Dionysius, known by the name of Dionysius Exiguus, which he himself had assumed as a sign of humility. He was a Scythian by birth, and did not come to Rome till after 496, his learning was considerable for his times, and to him we owe the employment of the Christian era and a new way of reckoning Easter. At the desire of Stephen, bishop of Salona, he undertook the task of making a new translation, from the original Greek text, of the canons of the Greek collection. The manuscript which he used contained only the first fifty of the Apostolic Canons; these he translated, and they thus became part of the law of the West. This part of the work of Dionysius was not added to later; it was otherwise with the second part. This embodied the documents containing the local law, namely 39 decretals of the popes from Siricius (384–398) to Anastasius II. (496–498). As was natural this collection received successive additions as further decretals appeared. The collection formed by combining these two parts remained the only official code of the Roman Church until the labours undertaken in consequence of the reforming movement in the 11th century.
Dionysio-Hadriana
In 774 Pope Adrian I. gave the twofold collection of the Scythian monk to the future emperor Charlemagne as the canonical book of the Roman Church; this is what is called the Dionysio-Hadriana. This was an important stage in the history of the centralization of canon law; the collection was officially received by the Frankish Church, imposed by the council of Aix-la-Chapelle of 802, and from that time on was recognized and quoted as the liber canonum. If we consider that the Church of Africa, which had already suffered considerably from the Vandal invasion, was at this period almost entirely destroyed by the Arabs, while the fate of Spain was but little better, it is easy to see why the collection of Dionysius became the code of almost the whole of the Western Church, with the exception of the Anglo-Saxon countries; though here too it was known.
The other collections of canons, of Italian origin, compiled before the 10th century, are of importance on account of the documents which they have preserved for us, but as they have not exercised any great influence on the development of canon law, we may pass them over.
In Gaul
The Dionysio-Hadriana did not, when introduced into Gaul, take the place of any other generally received collection of canons. In this country the Church had not been centralized round a principal see which would have produced unity in canon law as in other things; even the political territorial divisions had been very unstable. The only canonical centre of much activity was the Church of Arles, which exercised considerable influence over the surrounding region in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Quesnel collection
The chief collection known throughout Gaul before the Dionysio-Hadriana
was the so-called collection of Quesnel, named after its first editor. It is a rich collection, though badly arranged, and contains 98 documents—Eastern and African canons and papal letters, but no Gallic councils; so that it is not a collection of local law. We might expect to find such a collection, in view of the numerous and important councils held in Gaul, but their decisions remained scattered among a great number of collections none of which had ever a wide circulation or an official character.
Local councils
It would be impossible to enumerate here all the Gallic councils which contributed towards the canon law of that country; we will mention only the following:—Arles (314), of great importance; a number of councils in the district of Arles, completed by the Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua of St Caesarius; the councils of the province of Tours; the assemblies of the episcopate of the three kingdoms of the Visigoths at Agde (506), of the Franks at Orleans (511), and of the Burgundians at Epaone (517); several councils of the kingdoms of the Franks, chiefly at Orleans; and finally, the synods of the middle of the 8th century, under the influence of St Boniface. Evidently the impulse towards unity had to come from without; it began with the alliance between the Carolingians and the Papacy, and was accentuated by the recognition of the liber canonum.
In Spain
In Spain the case, on the contrary, is that of a strong centralization round the see of Toledo. Thus we find Spanish canon law embodied in a collection which, though perhaps not official, was circulated and received everywhere; this was the Spanish collection, the Hispana.
The Hispana
The collection is well put together and includes almost all the important canonical documents. In the first part are contained the councils, arranged according to the regions in which they were held: Greek councils, following a translation of Italian origin but known by the name of Hispana; African councils, Gallican councils and Spanish councils. The latter, which form the local section, are further divided into several classes: firstly, the synods held under the Roman empire, the chief being that of Elvira (c. 300); next the texts belonging to the kingdom of the Suevi, after the conversion of these barbarians by St Martin of Braga: these are, the two councils of Braga (563 and 572), and a sort of free translation or adaptation of the canons of the Greek councils, made by Martin of Braga; this is the document frequently quoted in later days under the name of Capitula Martini papae; thirdly, the decisions of the councils of the Visigothic Church, after its conversion to Catholicism. Nearly all these councils were held at Toledo, beginning with the great council of 589. The series continued up to 694 and was only interrupted by the Mussulman invasion. Finally, the second part of the Hispana contains the papal decretals, as in the collection of Dionysius.
From the middle of the 9th century this collection was to become even more celebrated; for, as we know, it served as the basis for the famous collection of the False Decretals.
Great Britain and Ireland
The Churches of Great Britain and Ireland remained still longer outside the centralizing movement. Their contribution towards the later system of canon law consisted in two things: the Penitentials and the influence of the Irish collection, the other sources of local law not having been known to the predecessors of Gratian nor to Gratian himself.
Penitentials
The Penitentials are collections intended for the guidance of confessors in estimating the penances to be imposed for various sins, according to the discipline in force in the Anglo-Saxon countries. They are all of Anglo-Saxon or Irish origin, and although certain of them were compiled on the continent, under the influence of the island missionaries, it seems quite certain that a Roman Penitential has never existed. They are, however, of difficult and uncertain ascription, since the collections have been largely amended and remodelled as practice required. Among the most important we may mention those bearing the names of Vinnianus (d. 589), Gildas (d. 583), Theodore of Canterbury (d. 690), the Venerable Bede (d. 735) and Egbert of York (732–767); the Penitentials which are ascribed to St Columbanus, the founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio (d. 615), and Cumean (Cumine Ailbha, abbot of Iona); in the Prankish kingdom the most interesting work is the Penitential of Halitgar, bishop of Cambrai from 817 to 831. As penances had for a long time been lightened, and the books used by confessors began to consist more and more of instructions in the style of the later moral theology (and this is already the case of the books of Halitgar and Rhabanus Maurus), the canonical collections began to include a greater or smaller number of the penitential canons.
Irish collection
The Irish collection, though it introduced no important documents into the law of the Western Church, at least set canonists the example of quoting passages from the Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. This collection seems to date from the 8th century; besides the usual sources, the author has included several documents of local origin, beginning with the pretended synod of St Patrick.
The false decretals
In the very middle of the 9th century a much enlarged edition of the Hispana began to be circulated in France. To this rich collection the author, who assumes the name of Isidore, the saintly bishop of Seville, added a good number of apocryphal documents already existing, as well as a series of letters ascribed to the popes of the earliest centuries, from Clement to Silvester and Damasus inclusive, thus filling up the gap before the decretal of Siricius, which is the first genuine one in the collection. The other papal letters only rarely show signs of alteration or falsification, and the text of the councils is entirely respected. From the same source and at the same date came two other forged documents—firstly, a collection of Capitularies, in three books, ascribed to a certain Benedict (Benedictus Levita), a deacon of the church of Mainz; this collection, in which authentic documents find very little place, stands with regard to civil legislation exactly in the position of the False Decretals with regard to canon law. The other document, of more limited scope, is a group of Capitula given under the name of Angilram, bishop of Metz. It is nowadays admitted by all that these three collections come from the same source. For a study of the historical questions connected with the famous False Decretals, see the article Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals; here we have only to consider them with reference to the place they occupy in the formation of ecclesiastical law. In spite of some hesitation, with regard rather to the official character than to the historical authenticity of the letters attributed to the popes of the earlier centuries, the False Decretals were accepted with confidence, together with the authentic texts which served as a passport for them. All later collections availed themselves indiscriminately of the contents of this vast collection, whether authentic or forged, without the least suspicion. The False Decretals did not greatly modify nor corrupt the Canon Law, but they contributed much to accelerate its progress towards unity. For they were the last of the chronological collections, i.e. those which give the texts in the order in which they appeared. From this time on, canonists began to exercise their individual judgment in arranging their collections according to some systematic order, grouping their materials under divisions more or less happy, according to the object they had in view. This was the beginning of a codification of a common canon law, in which the sources drawn upon lose, as it were, their local character. This is made even more noticeable by the fact that, in a good number of the works extant, the author is not content merely to set forth and classify the texts; but he proceeds to discuss the point, drawing conclusions and sometimes outlining some controversy on the subject, just as Gratian was to do more fully later on.
Systematic collections
During this period, which extended from the end of the 9th century to the middle of the 12th, we can enumerate about forty systematic collections, of varying value and circulation, which all played a greater or lesser part in preparing the juridical renaissance of the 12th century, and most of which were utilized by Gratian.
Regino
We need mention only the chief of them—the Collectio Anselmo dedicata, by an unknown author of the end of the 9th century; the Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis, compiled about 906 by Regino, abbot of Prüm, and dedicated to Hatto of Mainz, relatively a very original treatise.
Burchard
The enormous compilation in twenty books of Burchard, bishop of Worms (1112–1122), the Decretum or Collectarium, very widely spread and known under the name of Brocardum, of which the 19th book, dealing with the process of confession, is specially noteworthy. Towards the end of the 11th century, under the influence of Hildebrand, the reforming movement makes itself felt in several collections of canons, intended to support the rights of the Holy See and the Church against the pretensions of the emperor. To this group belong an anonymous collection, described by M. P. Fournier as the first manual of the Reform.
Anselm Deusdedit
The collection of Anselm, bishop of Lucca, in 13 books (1080–1086); that of Cardinal Deusdedit, in 4 books, dedicated to Pope Victor III. (1086–1087); and lastly that of Bonizo, bishop of Sutri, in 10 books (1089).
Ivo of Chartres
In the 12th century, the canonical works of Ivo of Chartres are of great importance. His Panormia, compiled about 1095 or 1096, is a handy and well-arranged collection in 8 books; as to the Decretum, a weighty compilation in 17 books, there seems sufficient proof that it is a collection of material made by Ivo in view of his Panormia. To the 12th century belong the collection in the MS. of Saragossa (Caesaraugustana) to which attention was drawn by Antonio Agustin; that of Cardinal Gregory, called by him the Polycarpus, in 8 books (about 1115); and finally the Liber de misericordia et justitia of Algerus, scholasticus of Liége, in 3 books, compiled at latest in 1123.
But all these works were to be superseded by the Decretum of Gratian, who by his work would inaugurate what would become known as the Jus novum period of the history of canon law.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Caparros, E. et al., "Code of Canon Law Annotated: 2nd ed. rev. and updated of the 6th Spanish-language ed." (Montréal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2004).
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1992 Armenian Cup
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The 1992 Armenian Cup was the first edition of the Armenian Cup, a football competition, since the Armenian independence. In 1992, the tournament had 31 participant, none of which were reserve teams.
Results
First round
Malatia received a bye to the second round.
The matches were played on 4 and 6 April 1992.
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Second round
The matches were played on 14 and 16 April 1992.
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Quarter-finals
The first legs were played on 27 April 1992. The second legs were played on 6 and 7 May 1992.
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Semi-finals
The first legs were played on 18 May 1992. The second legs were played on 22 May 1992.
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Final
See also
1992 Armenian Premier League
External links
1992 Armenian Cup at rsssf.com
Armenian Cup seasons
Armenia
Armenian Cup, 1992
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Prasinohaema semoni
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Semon's green tree skink (Prasinohaema semoni) is a species of skink found in New Guinea.
References
Prasinohaema
Reptiles described in 1894
Taxa named by Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans
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Bangladesh Coast Guard currently operates 167 surface ships and craft. Most of them are small coastal patrol vessels. The coast guard ships use the prefix "CGS" before the name of the ships which stands for "Coast Guard Ship".
Offshore patrol vessels
Inshore patrol vessels
Fast patrol vessels
Coastal patrol vessels
Riverine patrol craft
Harbour patrol boats
Small craft
Under construction
See also
List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy
List of historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy
Bangladesh Navy
Bangladesh Army
Bangladesh Air Force
References
Lists of military equipment
Ships of the Bangladesh Coast Guard
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Sergey Victorovich Ulyanov
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Sergey Victorovich Ulyanov was born on 5 December 1946 in Engels, Saratov region, USSR.
Biography
1971 — graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University on the specialty Electro-Mechanical Engineering and Automation Control Systems;
1974 — got PhD from the Central Institute of Building Construction (Moscow) on the specialty Dynamic of Building Construction on Earthquake Excitations;
1992 — got State Dr. of Physics and Mathematics Sciences from the Institute of Physical and Technical Problems (Moscow) on the specialty Quantum and Relativistic Dynamic Control Systems;
1974 — 1992 prof. at Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation;
1993 — 1996 prof. at University of Electro-Communications(Japan);
1996 — 2007 worked at Yamaha Motor Company(in Tokyo and Milan offices);
1998 — 2003 prof. at University of Milan (Milan);
Since 2007 — prof. at International University of Nature, Society and Man (Dubna);
Since 2009 — alternate president of Science park of Dubna;
Since 2010 — science project manager in company PronetLabs.
Scientific interests
Research Interests: Intelligent control systems by complex random systems with variable structure; intelligent toolkit for robotics, fuzzy controllers; hardware and software for fuzzy controllers; intelligent mechatronics; biotechnology; face recognition system; quantum and relativistic control system; soft computing; quantum algorithms and quantum soft computing.
He is the member of Editorial board in many International Journals as Soft Computing, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering; chairman of many sections in International conferences; scientific coordinator of International projects between United States, Italy, Japan and Russia.
Worked with: Lotfi A. Zadeh, B. N. Petrov, Rafig Aliyev and other.
Industrial activities
designed fuzzy control system for mobile robots and manipulators in Institute of Physical and Technical Problems (Moscow) and in University of Electro-Communications;
assisted to the develop electro-pneumatic PID-controllers on Integrated circuit for Intelligent systems wall climbing robot for the decontamination of Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, painting, fire-fighting operations;
participant in the development intelligent semi-active car suspension;
one of the inventors apparatus for artificial lung ventilation based on electro-pneumatic PID controller;
developed software and hardware interfaces for fuzzy CPU together with ST Microelectronics (Italy-France) and fuzzy control system intelligent mobile robot.
Science achievements
He published more than 40 books and 250 papers in periodical journals and proceedings of conferences in different scientific domains.
He is inventor of more than 30 patents (robust intelligent control and quantum soft computing) published in USA, EU, Japan and China.
Notes
S. V. Ulyanov on PronetLabs website.
S. V. Ulyanov on International University of Nature, Society and Man «Dubna» website.
1946 births
Living people
Russian engineers
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Presidential line of succession may refer to:
Brazilian presidential line of succession
Dominican presidential line of succession
Philippine presidential line of succession
Sri Lankan presidential line of succession
United States presidential line of succession
Uruguayan presidential line of succession
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Sabulopsocidae is a family of lice in the order Psocodea. There are at least two genera and two described species in Sabulopsocidae.
Genera
These two genera belong to the family Sabulopsocidae:
Moapsocus Schmidt & New, 2004
Sabulopsocus Smithers, 1969
References
Further reading
Psocomorpha
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Timothy A. Chey
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Timothy A. Chey is an American film producer, writer and director. Among his films are Fakin' da Funk, Gone, Impact: The Passion of the Christ, Suing the Devil, The Genius Club, Live Fast, Die Young, Final the Rapture, Epic Journey, Freedom, David and Goliath, and Slamma Jamma.
Biography
Chey was educated at Harvard Business School and Boston University School of Law doing a joint J.D./M.B.A. He earlier attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and then got accepted to USC Film School as an undergrad.
Chey has been interviewed on Fox Morning News, NBC News, TBN, Entertainment Tonight, Lamb and Lions, Good News TV. His work has been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, VIBE TV, MTV, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, TNT, USA Networks, the Dove Awards, MovieGuide Awards, People, and The New York Times.
Personal life
Chey is a devout Christian. When not making films, Chey is active in helping with the prison ministries, nursing home ministries, and speaking at colleges, churches, and film festivals. Chey worked as a lawyer before pursuing film full-time and still does pro bono law for charities like the Union Rescue Mission. He and his wife have two children and divide their time between Los Angeles and Honolulu.
Films
In 1997, he wrote and directed Fakin' da Funk about a Chinese boy growing up in an African-American neighborhood,. starring among others Pam Grier, Bo Jackson, and Nell Carter for USA Networks. The film was nominated for the Golden Starfish Award at the 1997 Hamptons International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 1997 Urbanworld Film Festival. The film was the highest-rated movie on USA Networks in 2000.
In 2002, Chey finished the feature film Gone, a movie about three lawyers who deal with the Rapture. While working with films at USC, Chey was the recipient of the prestigious "Spirit of the Independent" award for Best Director.
In 2004, Chey flew around the world to make the feature documentary Impact: The Passion of the Christ that looked at the impact of the movie The Passion of the Christ around the world. "Impact" had its debut in Dallas at the American Film Renaissance festival.
In 2006, he finished writing and directing The Genius Club. starring Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, Jack Scalia, and Paula Jai Parker. In 2008, he finished his fifth film, Live Fast, Die Young, about an A-list star who dies at a Hollywood party and a group of 10 Hollywood insiders seeking redemption in the aftermath.
In 2010, he wrote and directed Suing the Devil (starring Malcolm McDowell, Tom Sizemore, Rebecca St. James) about a guy who sues the devil for $8 trillion. The film was awarded the 5 Star Dove Award. The film was one of the most illegally downloaded indie movies in history.
In 2012, Chey wrote and directed Final the Rapture in four countries.
In 2012, Chey embarked on a 31-country (including Japan, Brazil, Argentina, China, United Kingdom, Egypt, Dubai, Peru, Hong Kong, et al.) journey for The Epic Journey, a film that shows people whose lives were changed by God. The film premiered on prime-time television on Daystar TV reaching over 80 million households. The film was submitted to Guinness World Records for most countries filmed in a movie.
In 2013, Chey also wrote and produced Freedom, based on the early life of John Newton. The film stars Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler, and Sharon Leal. The film premiered on Showtime Network to 55 million homes on prime-time.
In 2014, Chey wrote, produced and directed David and Goliath that was shot in North Africa and finished in studios in London.
In 2016, Chey produced and directed "Slamma Jamma" that was released nationwide in theaters in 281 cities on March 24, 2017. The film was the third-widest release in the nation. The film stars 5-time slam-dunk champion Chris Staples, Michael Irvin, Jose Canseco, et al. The film is about a man who finds God in prison and wins the national slam dunk competition against all odds.
In 2017, Chey is producing and directing "The Islands" which is the biggest movie on Hawaii history and is based on the incredible true stories of Hawaii's beginnings from Captain Cook's arrival to King Kamehameha's unification wars through the chaotic last months of the monarchy of Queen Liliʻuokalani. The film was scheduled to release on 3,000 theaters in November 2018, but that release date has been repeatedly pushed back and is now slotted for September 2019.
Awards
5 Star Dove Award for The Genius Club (starring Trica Helfer, Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore).
5 Star Dove Award for Suing the Devil (starring Malcolm McDowell, Tom Sizemore, Corbin Bernsen).
4 Star Dove Award for Freedom (starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., William Sadler, Sharon Leal).
Filmography
References
External links
Tim Chey Official Website
10 Questions for Tim Chey
Tim Chey filmography at NYTimes.com
Tim Chey filmography at Spout.com
Living people
American screenwriters
American film directors
American film producers
Boston University School of Law alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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George Mason (priest)
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George Mason (died 1562) was a Canon of Windsor from 1560 to 1562.
Career
He was appointed:
Rector of St Mary, Matfellon, Whitechapel 1553–1555
Rector of Bradwell-juxta-Mare, Essex
Rector of St Mary Abchurch 1555–1556
Vicar of St Mary's Church, Luton 1558–1562
Chaplain of the Queen's Chapel Royal
He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1560, and held the stall until 1562.
Notes
1562 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Year of birth missing
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Fay Sargent (born Mary Gertrude Hannan, 16 January 1890 – 23 December 1967) was an Irish singer, actor, and journalist.
Life
Sargent was born 16 January 1890 at Manor Street in Waterford. She was the only child of Terence Hannan and Mary Daly. Her father died when she was an infant, leading her mother to move to England with her. They lived with her uncle, the Rev. Richard Hannan, at a parish at Lamley Moor, near Durham. There she was schooled in a French school and Loreto nuns. From a young age she was involved with the Gaelic League in London, possibly influenced by her cousin Richard Barry O'Brien. It was through her involvement in his movement she met her husband, Philip Armfield Sargent, a timber merchant. They married in London on 16 September 1908 when she was 17. Philip was an English Quaker, but had strong sympathies with Irish nationalism and was involved in the events of Easter 1916. After that he was possibly held in Lewes naval prison until June 1916 when he was transferred to Frongoch camp, north Wales.
The couple moved to Ireland a number of years after their marriage, living at 124 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin in 1915. Sargent toured the country on behalf of the Gaelic League, singing traditional Irish songs. She began acting in 1918 in the Abbey Theatre and silent films, under the name "Dymphna Daly". She played the part of Mrs Golder in John MacDonagh's The Irish Jew at the Empire in 1921, alongside Jimmy O'Dea. In the years that followed she appeared in a number of O'Dea's revues, but did not act full-time as she felt it was not compatible with her family commitments.
She described herself as "drifting" into journalism, but it is her regular column in The Herald that she was best known. Her column appeared from 1920 until 1940, and featured the phonetically written conversations of Dublin characters called Mrs Casey, Mrs Byrne, and Mrs Win-the-war. These characters were used for radio sketches in 1928, where she performed with Joan Burke on 2RN. Owing to the success of the characters they were featured at fancy dress balls. Her other broadcasting work included adaptations of classic children's stories, and performing in some of John MacDonagh's radio plays. She returned to the Abbey in 1956 for St. John Greer Ervine's Boyd's shop, and in 1958 for a small part in Micheál Mac Liammóir's adaptation of The informer at the Gate.
Sargent died suddenly on 23 December 1967 at home at 49 Mespil Road, Dublin. She was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery.
Roles
Film
Cruiskeen Lawn (1922)
This Other Eden (1959)
Boyd's Shop (1960)
Stage
The Informer (1958)
References
1890 births
1967 deaths
People from Waterford (city)
19th-century Irish people
Irish silent film actresses
Irish stage actresses
Irish film actresses
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Christopher Kibanzanga (born 22 January 1967) is a Ugandan politician. He is the State Minister for Agriculture in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016, replacing Vincent Ssempijja, who became Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. As of 2017, Kibanzanga is the serving Member of Parliament representing Bughendera County in Bundibugyo District.
Kibanzanga was first elected to the Parliament of Uganda in 1996. In 2001 he joined Reform Agenda, which later became Forum for Democratic Change, before defecting in August 2015. He has served as the Shadow Minister of Information and National Guidance in the Parliament of Uganda and as Shadow minister for the Presidency and Anti-corruption; in March 2010, he was the acting Leader of the Opposition.
In 2011, having represented the constituency for ten years, Kibanzanga chose not to stand again in Busongora South and ran instead for the district (LC 5) chairmanship, losing to incumbent Mawa Muhindo. He belongs to National Resistance Movement political party.
See also
Cabinet of Uganda
Parliament of Uganda
References
Living people
Kasese District
Members of the Parliament of Uganda
Government ministers of Uganda
People from Western Region, Uganda
1967 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Forum for Democratic Change politicians
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The 2022 Chile Open (also known as the Chile Dove Men+Care Open for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 24th edition of the Chile Open, and part of the ATP 250 of the 2022 ATP Tour. It took place in Santiago, Chile from 21 through 27 February 2022.
Champions
Singles
Pedro Martínez def. Sebastián Báez, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Doubles
Rafael Matos / Felipe Meligeni Alves def. André Göransson / Nathaniel Lammons, 7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–3).
Point and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
*per team
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of February 14, 2022.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Nicolás Jarry
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Alejandro Tabilo
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:
Yannick Hanfmann
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Gonzalo Lama
Juan Ignacio Londero
Renzo Olivo
Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Nicolás Kicker
Withdrawals
Roberto Carballés Baena → replaced by Nicolás Kicker
Casper Ruud → replaced by Bernabé Zapata Miralles
Dominic Thiem → replaced by Daniel Elahi Galán
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of February 14, 2022.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Tomás Martín Etcheverry / Juan Ignacio Londero
Gonzalo Lama / Alejandro Tabilo
The following pairs received entry as alternates:
Sergio Galdós / Juan Pablo Varillas
Yannick Hanfmann / Fernando Romboli
Zdeněk Kolář / Nikola Milojević
Withdrawals
Before the tournament
Roberto Carballés Baena / Federico Coria → replaced by Sergio Galdos / Juan Pablo Varillas
Marco Cecchinato / Carlos Taberner → replaced by Zdeněk Kolář / Nikola Milojević
Marcelo Demoliner / Luis David Martínez → replaced by Miomir Kecmanović / Luis David Martínez
Máximo González / Nicolás Jarry → replaced by Yannick Hanfmann / Fernando Romboli
During the tournament
Facundo Bagnis / Jaume Munar
Federico Delbonis / Guillermo Durán
References
External links
Chile Open
Chile Open (tennis)
Chile Open
Chile Open
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Jacquiline Louise Lambie (born 26 February 1971) is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She was a Senator for Tasmania from 2014 to 2017, and was re-elected in 2019.
First elected as a member of the Palmer United Party (PUP), she received national prominence for her intense grassroots campaign and subsequently her display of aggressive and vociferous parliamentary behaviour, championing issues concerning foreign affairs, veterans' affairs, youth unemployment and the criticism of Islam. After persistent internal divisions, Lambie resigned from the PUP and sat as an independent before forming her own political party.
Attempting to seek Liberal preselection after joining the party in 2011, and previously working as a staff member of Labor senator Nick Sherry, Lambie joined the Palmer United Party (PUP), led by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. She was elected to the Senate at the 2013 federal election. Her term began in July 2014. In November 2014, Lambie resigned from the Palmer United Party to sit in the Senate as an independent.
In May 2015, Lambie formed the Jacqui Lambie Network political party with herself leader. She was elected to a six-year term in her own right at the 2016 federal election (a double dissolution). In November 2017, she was revealed to hold Australian-British dual citizenship, having inherited British citizenship from her Scottish-born father. As part of the parliamentary eligibility crisis, she announced her resignation on 14 November 2017. After a recount, she was expected to be replaced by Devonport Mayor Steve Martin, who had been second on the JLN ticket in the 2016 federal election. He survived a challenge to his own eligibility, on a different constitutional ground, but refused to step down so as to create a casual Senate vacancy to which Lambie could be appointed. She expelled him from the party for disloyalty.
Early life
Lambie was born in the town of Ulverstone in north-western Tasmania. Her parents separated when she was 13, and she was raised in a public housing estate in Devonport, attending Devonport High School until she left at Year 11.
Military career
Australian Army (1989–2000)
Lambie enlisted in the Australian Army in 1989. She completed her recruit training while unknowingly pregnant with her first child, a fact the army took four months to recognise.
After basic training, she was assigned to the Royal Australian Corps of Transport in 1990. She remained with the Transport Corps for five years before being transferred to the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police, where she worked for another five years, achieving the rank of Corporal.
During a field exercise in July 1997, Lambie sustained a back injury resulting in long-term detriments to her spine. After physiotherapy and medical interventions, she was unable to regain operational fitness and was discharged on medical grounds (thoracic pain) in 2000. This prompted her to pursue a claim for a military pension from the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA).
She has since been an advocate for veterans with the Returned and Services League of Australia and involved in fundraising with the Burnie Chamber of Commerce, the Country Women's Association and Rotary.
Dispute with the Department of Veterans' Affairs (2000–2006)
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) initially rejected her application for compensation, but subsequently approved it and put her on a military disability pension. She later applied for compensation for depression related to her back pain, which was also initially rejected. The DVA hired a private investigation firm to conduct five hours of surveillance on her activities within her home. On the basis of this surveillance, the department concluded that she was a malingerer, cancelling her military pension and coverage of her medical care.
Lambie fought the department's conclusion for five years, during which time she was accepted for a Centrelink disability pension. In 2006, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was about to rule on whether the video evidence was admissible in her case when DVA abandoned its use of the video and accepted that Lambie was entitled to compensation. The tribunal's Deputy President, Justice Christopher Wright, concluded that "it is likely that even greater improvement would have been achieved a long time ago if her medical treatments, which were initially funded by the respondent, had not been terminated in 2001".
Political career
Early political career (2008–2012)
Lambie's political involvement began in 2008 when she began working for Tasmanian Labor senator Nick Sherry.
In November 2011, she joined the Liberal Party of Australia and later decided to run for preselection for the Division of Braddon. However she subsequently left the Liberal Party, saying that the Liberals are a "boys' club", and she joined to "infiltrate" them to see what she could learn about politics.
In 2012, Lambie sold her house to help fund her run as an independent, before turning to the newly formed Palmer United Party founded by billionaire Clive Palmer as she said "I just didn't have the money like the big players did for advertising."
Senate (2013–2017, 2019–present)
In the 2013 federal election, Lambie won Tasmania's sixth Senate seat as a candidate for the Palmer United Party, receiving 6.58% of first preference votes. She has credited the final result of her win to "the big man upstairs" – referring not to Palmer, but to God: "Once it gets to that point, it's up to God upstairs. There's not much else I can do about it."
On 24 November 2014, Lambie resigned from the Palmer United Party, announcing that she would remain in the Senate as an independent. Lambie's resignation followed several weeks of disagreements with party leader Clive Palmer.
In April 2015, Lambie applied to register a political party called the Jacqui Lambie Network. In May 2015, the party was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission, with Lambie as its leader. She was re-elected to the Senate in the 2016 Australian federal election under the banner of her own party, the Jacqui Lambie Network.
On 14 November 2017, Lambie announced her resignation from the Senate, after revealing she held both British and Australian nationality, prohibited under Section 44 of the Australian Constitution. She stated in her resignation that she wished to return to federal politics, and that if Justine Keay was forced to resign from her seat of Braddon over her citizenship status, that she would consider running, but did not nominate for the 2018 Braddon by-election.
In 2018, the High Court ruled that Devonport Mayor Steve Martin would replace Lambie as Senator of Tasmania. Lambie expected Martin to immediately resign, which would have cleared the way for her to be appointed to fill the resulting casual vacancy and return to the Senate. She claimed that "personal morality" and loyalty dictated that Martin stand down. A party spokesman contended that Tasmanians intended for Lambie to hold the seat, and there was "an opportunity for that vote to be restored" if Martin resigned. When Martin refused to do so, Lambie expelled him from the party. In a letter to Martin, Lambie accused him of failing to uphold the JLN's values of "mateship, respect and integrity".
She was re-elected to the Senate in the 2019 Australian federal election. In the midst of the debate of the government bill Ensuring Integrity Bill in Parliament, Lambie threatened to vote for the bill if John Setka, the secretary of the Victorian branch of Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), did not resign as head of the branch. She even invited Setka over to her Tasmanian home for Sunday roast, in a bid to convince Setka to resign. She eventually voted against the bill after her amendments were rejected by the government.
Political views
Higher education
In 2020, Lambie opposed the Liberal Party's university reform bill due to her belief it would harm the mental health and economic opportunities of low-income students. She made her position clear in when addressing the Senate, saying she would "refuse to be the vote that tells poor kids out there … no matter how gifted, no matter how determined you are, you might as well dream a little cheaper, because you're never going to make it, because you can't afford it".
Foreign policy and defence
In August 2014, Lambie expressed her belief that China could invade Australia: "If anybody thinks that we should have a national security and defence policy which ignores the threat of a Chinese Communist invasion – you're delusional and got rocks in your head ... The Communist Chinese military capacity and level of threat to the western world democracies is at an unprecedented and historical high." Her comments incurred a rebuke from the Premier of Tasmania Will Hodgman. She later added Indonesia as a potential military threat. Lambie has made comments suggesting her support for potential reintroduction of national service, stating "It's time to teach [our youth] some respect, loyalty and honour."
In October 2015 she declared her opposition to the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement, saying she considers the Chinese government to be "push[ing] totalitarian ideologies", "anti-democratic" and "a bully, thief, liar and international human rights abuser".
In October 2014, Lambie stated in a radio interview with ABC Radio National that she liked Vladimir Putin, saying: "I think he has very strong leadership. He has great values. He's certainly doing his bit to stamp out terrorism and I guess you've got to pay the man for that." In February 2015, Lambie called for the reintroduction of the death penalty for Australian citizens who leave the country to become foreign fighters.
In October 2016, she called for a pre-emptive pardon for any defence personnel accused of war crimes against the Taliban or Islamic State, on the grounds that Taliban and Islamic State fighters were not entitled to the protection of the rules of war or international human rights because of their "subhuman behaviour and vile, disgusting culture and ideology".
Islam
In September 2014, Lambie announced plans to introduce a private member's bill aimed at banning the burqa in Australia. However, constitutional expert Professor George Williams described the law as "unworkable, it would frankly be a bit silly". She also attacked supporters of Islamic sharia law, describing them as "maniacs and depraved humans" who will not stop committing "cold-blooded butchery and rapes until every woman in Australia wears a burka". However, when asked to explain her understanding of sharia law in an interview, she was unable to and instead said "it obviously involves terrorism". According to ABC political reporter Andrew Greene, some commentators described the interview as a "train wreck". In February 2017, she introduced a private member's bill which would amend the Criminal Code Act 1995 to make it illegal to wear full face coverings in public places when a terrorism threat declaration is in force, unless it was necessary for certain purposes.
In January 2017, she said that Australia should follow Donald Trump's lead in his order to restrict entry of citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries to the USA. She called for deporting from Australia all Muslims who supported Sharia law, as well as deporting everyone on the ASIO terror watch list, or at least charging them with treason or sedition.
In an interview with ABC News in 2018 Lambie distanced herself from her previous views on Sharia law, stating that she "didn't want to be divisive" and that she was influenced by "a previous advisor that was really driving that in". Following her involvement in the TV show Go Back to Where You Came From in 2018 where she was placed in a Syrian warzone, Lambie shifted towards a pro-refugee stance, stating that "the discussion [about accepting more refugees] needs to be on the political table".
The Greens
In October 2013 she criticised the Australian Greens, accusing them of having "destroyed all hope in Tasmania" and saying that the party should be subject to a Senate inquiry over the state's high unemployment rate. In July 2015 she likened The Greens to Islamic State in that "both those groups would like us to go back and live in the dark ages ... They'd like us to go live back in caves with candles and eat tofu."
In 2020, Lambie worked alongside the Greens in criticising a bill that would 'weaken' political donation laws.
Raising alleged abuse within the army
In February 2016, Lambie raised the matter of former soldiers who claim to have suffered abuse, calling for an inquiry into cover-ups and Lieutenant General David Morrison's involvement.
Policies
Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide
In response to a Change.org petition organised by Julie-Ann Finney, whose son David Finney took his own life after a crippling battle with Post-Traumatic Stress injury, Lambie called for a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide. the petition had over 400,000 signatures.
On 5 February 2020, the Morrison Government announced their intention to appoint a National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention to inquire into the deaths by suicide of serving and former ADF members.
Lambie criticised the Government's plan in a Dissenting Report, noting that "The families of veterans who have taken their own lives support a Royal Commission. The institutions who are being blamed for those suicides support a National Commissioner." Two bills related to the Commissioner were introduced into Parliament by the Attorney-General on 27 August 2020, the "National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention Bill 2020", and the "National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020". Magistrate Bernadette Boss was appointed as the first (interim) National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention on 1 October 2020.
On 22 March 2021 both chambers of Parliament passed motions in support of the royal commission. On 8 July 2021 a Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide in Australia was established.
Political donations
Jacqui Lambie introduced a Bill to the Australian Senate in February 2020 that proposes to tighten political donations laws. The bill seeks to amend current laws that permit political donations under $14,300 to not be disclosed. Lambie has proposed lowering this threshold to $2,500.
The bill also proposes to introduce electoral expenditure accounts for organisations that run political campaigns. This will compel parties and others to disclose the source of any money they spend on their electoral campaigns.
Australian manufacturing
In early 2020, Lambie started a campaign to support Australian manufacturing with concerns about Australia's reliance on foreign imported products, she believes these concerns are a threat to Australia's economic sovereignty; magnified with the advent of COVID-19.
Foreign interference
Lambie has said on her website "It’s about time that the people in Parliament woke up to China’s attempts to infiltrate our economy and our democracy." Her concerns are echoed by Duncan Lewis, formerly the Director-General of Security at ASIO. There is ongoing debate over whether Liberal MP Gladys Liu's ties to the Chinese Communist Party are appropriate, with the Labor party arguing she may not be 'fit and proper' to sit as an MP.
Television
Personal life
Lambie is single, with two children. She gave birth to her first son Brentyn at age 18 in 1989, the product of her relationship with a high school boyfriend, after her enlistment for the Army. She met John Milverton while working in the Royal Australian Corps of Transport. They began a de facto marriage, where Milverton formally adopted Brentyn, and also went on to have another son, Dylan, born in 1992. Milverton and Lambie separated shortly before her discharge from the Army in 2000. In August 2015, she went public with her 21-year-old son's battle with methamphetamine addiction. She has also stated that she was addicted to pain medication and attempted suicide once.
Lambie lives in the city of Burnie, on the North Coast of Tasmania. She has jokingly described her perfect man as having "heaps of cash" and "a package between their legs". Her comments were met with much ire, and she later declared it to be her most embarrassing moment.
In 2014, Lambie described herself as "Catholic; I'm religious" — citing it as a reason for rejecting an invitation to visit a Sydney mosque.
Aboriginal ancestry
In her first speech to Parliament in 2014, Lambie stated that, through her mother's family, she shares "blood, culture, and history" with Aboriginal Australians, as a descendant of Mannalargenna, an Aboriginal Tasmanian leader. She later provided a family tree to Australian Story claiming descent from Margaret Briggs, a granddaughter of Mannalargenna who married into the Hite family. In 2002, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal had ruled that descent from Margaret Briggs was sufficient to meet the Aboriginal ancestry requirements for ATSIC elections. However, Lambie's claims of Indigenous descent have been questioned by several sources including Australian Story, the Tasmanian Pioneer Index, and members of the Aboriginal community in Tasmania. Clyde Mansell, chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, stated they were "absolutely outrageous and scandalous". Another Tasmanian elder, Roy Maynard, said that "she's identified as Aboriginal, she’s got that right as far as I’m concerned", and criticised Mansell for doubting her claims. The Parliamentary Library of Australia includes Lambie on its list of Indigenous parliamentarians.
References
External links
Official Party website.
Summary of parliamentary voting for Senator Jacqui Lambie on TheyVoteForYou.org.au
1971 births
Living people
Australian anti-communists
Australian critics of Islam
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania
Women members of the Australian Senate
Independent members of the Parliament of Australia
Palmer United Party members of the Parliament of Australia
People from Burnie, Tasmania
Australian Army soldiers
Australian Roman Catholics
Women in the Australian military
Australian people of Indigenous Australian descent
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
Australian people of Scottish descent
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series) participants
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Linars is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
Population
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Communes of the Charente department
References
Communes of Charente
Charente communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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The Interstate 264 Berkley Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that crosses the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. It carries Interstate 264 (I-264), U.S. Route 460 Alternate (US 460 Alt.), and State Route 337 (SR 337) across the river, connecting the Berkley neighborhood south of the river with downtown Norfolk to the north. The toll-free facility is one of only a small number of movable bridges on the Interstate Highway System, and is the first of two in the Hampton Roads region, predating the High Rise Bridge. It is named for the former Town of Berkley that is now a part of the City of Norfolk.
History
There have been several incarnations of a Berkley Bridge. An earlier Berkley Bridge was built before 1922, east of the present one, along Main Street. A replacement for that span, in the present location, was completed in 1952 as part of the original Norfolk–Portsmouth Bridge-Tunnel project between the city of Portsmouth and Norfolk. The project was funded with toll revenue bonds. When the bonds were fully repaid, the tolls were removed.
In 1991, during an expansion of I-264, the Downtown Tunnel was expanded to four lanes and a parallel Berkley Bridge was built, bringing the total Berkley Bridge capacity to eight lanes. This construction included a new interchange for Interstate 464 which connects the Berkley area with Interstate 64 in the independent city of Chesapeake.
Description
I-264 Eastbound
After exiting the Downtown Tunnel, and while crossing the bridge, all traffic for I-264 East has to immediately merge right with the two lanes of bridge on-ramp traffic from I-464 traffic in order to continue on I-264 E, while SR 337 Alternate(Waterside Drive) and St. Paul Boulevard traffic has to merge left for the left exit. Traffic for westbound US 460 Alt./SR 337 (Tidewater Drive) will use the left of the I-264 lanes to exit left immediately after the aforementioned split.
I-264 Westbound
On the Berkley side, I-264 and US 460 Alternate turn west through the Downtown Tunnel (under the Southern Branch of the river), while Interstate 464 begins, heading south, and SR 337 uses I-464 to reach surface streets.
Pedestrian Traffic
There is a pedestrian walkway on the eastern side of the bridge. It is suitable for walking or bicycling and offers a view of Downtown Norfolk and the Elizabeth River. It is separated from the roadway and is fenced in.
In 2014, news outlets in Hampton Roads showed YouTube video from bicyclist Kelley Howell showing where she was struck by a bridge tender's personally owned vehicle that, according to VDOT was traveling legally on the walkway en route to shift change. The cyclist was not seriously injured, however after the investigation, VDOT no longer allows the bridge tenders to drive on the walkway for their shift change, and in addition, will require the use of spotters when VDOT vehicles are required to drive on the walkway.
See also
References
External links
Bridges completed in 1952
Road bridges in Virginia
Movable bridges on the Interstate Highway System
Bascule bridges in the United States
Transportation in Norfolk, Virginia
Former toll bridges in Virginia
Interstate 64
U.S. Route 60
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Heinz Sames (10 July 1911 – 1943) was a German speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was killed in action during World War II in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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1943 deaths
German male speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters of Germany
Speed skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters from Berlin
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Stephan Aarstol is an American internet entrepreneur and author of the book The Five Hour Workday.
Life and early career
Aarstol grew up in Bellingham, Washington. In September 1999, Aarstol developed a web portal for the medical imaging community. In 2003, he launched a venture producing and selling high-end poker chips. Aarstol quit his day job the following year, by which time his venture was generating $50,000 per month.
Tower Paddle Boards
Aarstol founded Tower Paddle Boards in 2010. Aarstol pitched his business on Shark Tank in 2011. Mark Cuban made an offer and invested $150,000 for a 30% stake in Aarstol's company.
In 2013 and 2018, Aarstol was featured as one of Shark Tank's biggest winners by People Magazine. In addition to selling beach products, such as sunglasses, snorkels and surfboards, Aarstol is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tower Life Magazine, a biweekly publication that discusses beach lifestyle.
His company, was ranked San Diego’s number one fastest growing private company in 2014. Jeff Bezos' 2015 annual letter to stockholders singles out Aarstol and his company. Aarstol was featured on ABC's Beyond the Tank in January 2016.
In November 2016, Harvard Business School professor Thales S. Teixeira published a case, study on Aarstol and Tower Paddle Boards titled “Selling on Amazon at Tower Paddle Boards”. Aarstol has given several talks, at Harvard Business School on the topics of e-commerce and Amazon's role since its publication.
The Five Hour Workday
In June 2016, Aarstol published The Five Hour Workday, a book about switching his company to a five-hour workday and the benefits this change yielded in productivity.
References
21st-century American businesspeople
University of San Diego alumni
21st-century American writers
Western Washington University alumni
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The JUNKER Group is a company group consisting of the brands JUNKER, LTA, and ZEMA. It manufactures machines for CBN and corundum grinding, and filtration systems for industrial air purification.
History
Erwin Junker founded his company, Erwin Junker Maschinen- und Apparatebau, in 1962. In 1977, the first sales offices were opened in Germany and the USA. In 1980, LTA Lufttechnik GmbH, a manufacturer of filtration systems, was founded in Achern, Germany. In 1992, Erwin Junker acquired three Czech manufacturers of grinding machines and the JUNKER Group was formed. In 1995, JUNKER opened a Technology Center in Nordrach. This represented a crucial step in the development of the Group and underscored its commitment to Germany as a center for technology. That same year, LTA Lufttechnik GmbH became part of the JUNKER Group. In 2003, a branch office was established in Shanghai. In 2007, the Czech locations merged to become Erwin Junker Grinding Technology a.s. with headquarters in Mělník. This site was expanded several times over subsequent years. In 2009, the JUNKER Group opened a Sales and Service office in India. This was followed by a Sales and Service office in Brazil two years later, the branch office in Russia in 2012, and the branch office in Mexico in 2014. The Brazilian grinding machine manufacturer ZEMA Zselics Ltda. also became part of the company group in 2015. The JUNKER Group headquarters is in Nordrach, near Offenburg, Germany.
In addition, production sites can be found in Mělník, Holice, Čtyřkoly und Středokluky (Czech Republic). There are further Sales and Service offices in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and the USA. In May 2015, the Erwin Junker Technical Academy was opened in Holice to train qualified workers. This also includes the Erwin Junker Hotel and the Quickpoint Restaurant. In 2016, the Erwin Junker manufacturer foundation was set up. In the same year, the LTA Industrial Air Cleaning company was founded in the United States and the following year LTA Industrial Air Cleaning Systems s.r.o. was founded in the Czech Republic. This also includes the Erwin Junker Hotel and the Quickpoint Restaurant. In 2016, the Erwin Junker manufacturer foundation was set up. In the same year, the LTA Industrial Air Cleaning company was founded in the United States and the following year, 2017, LTA Industrial Air Cleaning Systems s.r.o. was opened in the Czech Republic.
Innovations
JUNKER has been shaping grinding technology since 1962 with patented processes and innovative technologies. A few years after the company was founded, JUNKER launched a world first, the first fully automatic flute grinding machine for thread taps, onto the market. In 1978, JUNKER laid the foundation for later developments with the introduction of CBN high-speed grinding machines. In the mid-1980s, the company entered into the automotive industry with groundbreaking inventions. For example, in 1984, JUNKER invented the QUICKPOINT machine. With this new point grinding, it was suddenly possible to handle a variety of different contours in just a single clamping operation. The computer-controlled grinding wheel moves along the programmed contour with pinpoint accuracy and machines almost any material from plastic to carbide. In 2003, JUNKER launched the first CBN high-speed grinding machine for complete machining of crankshafts in a single clamping set-up onto the market (the JUCRANK machine model). Another milestone was reached in 2008 with the JUCENTER machine model. The CBN high-speed grinding machine combines two stations (additional machining options) under one hood.
Business areas
The JUNKER Group operates in the following business areas: machines, services, technology and equipment. Grinding machines for high-precision metalworking represent the largest proportion of sales.
Awards and distinctions
The JUNKER Group has over 80 patents and has been presented with numerous awards. These include the VW “Formula Q” quality award (1998) and being named “Leader of Technology” by Tianrun (2012) and Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. (2013). In Shanghai, the JUNKER Group was presented with the “Best Supplier Award” by SAIC General Motors Co., Ltd. (every year from 2014 to 2017). The company also received the “Global Supplier Award” from Robert Bosch GmbH in 2015 and an award from Getrag B.V. & Co. KG in 2017. Just one year later, JUNKER was honored with the "Best Supplier Award" by Zhejiang Geely Automobile Parts & Components for the "extension of the production capacity". In 2019, a second award followed. In March, JUNKER received the highest honor, the "Excellence Award", as the only European machine supplier. This award is as much a sign of recognition as it is an important customer reference for the JUNKER Group.
Technical Academy, Holice
In 2015, the JUNKER Group founded the Technical Academy in Holice, Czech Republic, as a response to the shortage of technically trained workers in the labor market there. In June 2017, the first year group completed their two-year training.
References
External links
www.junker-group.com
www.junker-akademie.cz
www.hoteljunker.cz
German companies established in 1962
1962 establishments in West Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossano%20Cathedral
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Rossano Cathedral
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Rossano Cathedral (, Cattedrale di Maria Santissima Achiropita) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Rossano, a frazione of Corigliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Maria Santissima Acheropita. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, and previously of the Bishops and Archbishops of Rossano.
History and description
The cathedral was built in the 11th century, with substantial reconstruction in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a central nave and two side-aisles, terminating in three apses. The bell tower and the baptismal font date from the 14th century, while the other artworks and furnishings are of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Maria Santissima Acheropita
The cathedral houses an ancient image of the Madonna Acheropita, an image of the Madonna and Child supposedly discovered in the cathedral plaster and not painted by human hand, which is dated to somewhere between about 580 and the first half of the 8th century.
Rossano Gospels
In the sacristy in 1879 was discovered the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis ("Rossano Gospels"), a Greek evangeliary of the 5th or 6th century of Middle Eastern origin (probably Antioch), which was probably brought to Rossano by a monk taking refuge from the Arab invasions of the Middle East during the 9th and 10th centuries.
The manuscript comprises 188 leaves of parchment dyed purple containing the Gospels of Matthew and Mark and the Epistula ad Carpianum (a letter from Eusebius of Caesarea to a Christian named Carpianus). Although it is mutilated and anonymous, the manuscript is perhaps the most representative testimony of the Byzantine connections of Rossano. The texts are in gold and silver ink, with 15 miniatures showing the most important moments in the life and preaching of Jesus.
References
External links
Website of the Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati: Cattedrale Maria SS.ma Achiropita
Museo Diocesano e del Codex, Rossano: cathedral
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy
Cathedrals in Calabria
Churches in the province of Cosenza
Buildings and structures in Rossano
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aren%27t%20You%20Dead%20Yet%3F
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Aren't You Dead Yet?
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Aren't You Dead Yet? is the fifth album by metal band Carnal Forge. It is the final Carnal Forge release with Jonas Kjellgren.
Track listing
"Decades of Despair" - 3:02
"My Suicide" - 3:54
"Burn Them Alive" - 4:26
"Waiting for Sundown" - 3:14
"Exploding Veins" - 4:08
"Sacred Flame" - 2:33
"Inhuman" - 3:28
"Final Hour in Hell" - 3:07
"Totally Worthless" - 4:23
"The Strength of Misery" - 3:25
"Ruler of Your Blood" (Japanese bonus track) - 3:32
B-sides
"God's Enemy #1"
Line up
Jonas Kjellgren - Vocals
Stefan Westerberg - Drums
Jari Kuusisto - Guitar
Petri Kuusisto - Guitar
Lars Lindén - Bass
Notes
2004 albums
Carnal Forge albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi%20%28Nikos%20Karvelas%20album%29
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Taxi (Nikos Karvelas album)
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Taxi is the second studio album by Greek singer-songwriter and record producer Nikos Karvelas, released by Minos in 1983. It is composed entirely of English-language material.
Track listing
External links
Official site
1983 albums
Albums produced by Nikos Karvelas
Concept albums
Minos EMI albums
Nikos Karvelas albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorita%20de%20la%20Frontera
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Zorita de la Frontera
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Zorita de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located 54 kilometers from the city of Salamanca.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granta%20%28disambiguation%29
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Granta (disambiguation)
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Granta is a literary magazine and publisher.
Granta may also refer to:
Places
Lada Granta, Russian car model
River Granta, a stretch of the River Cam, England
Granta Park, science, technology, and biomedical park near Cambridge, England
Granta, Alberta
Other uses
A reserve boat of Cambridge University Lightweight Rowing Club
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15%20of%20the%20Best
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15 of the Best
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15 of the Best is a compilation album by Canadian Country singer Anne Murray. It was released by Liberty Records in the spring of 1992. The album peaked at number 62 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Track listing
Chart performance
References
1992 compilation albums
Anne Murray compilation albums
Liberty Records compilation albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skumalasph%20Indian%20Reserve%20No.%2016
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Skumalasph Indian Reserve No. 16
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Skumalasph Indian Reserve No. 16 is an Indian Reserve of the Sto:lo people in the area of the City of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Located six miles northwest of downtown Chilliwack and 468.40 ha. in area, it is jointly administered by five band governments, which are:
Aitchelitz First Nation
Kwaw-kwaw-Apilt First Nation
Skway First Nation
Skwah First Nation
Squiala First Nation
See also
List of Indian Reserves in Canada
References
Indian reserves in the Lower Mainland
Chilliwack
Sto:lo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Fine%20Day%20%28band%29
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One Fine Day (band)
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One Fine Day is a German rock band from Hamburg, Germany. The band has charted at the national charts once.
Band members
Hendrik - Guitars
Marten - Vocals
Marco - Bass
Erik - Drums
Former band members
Roman - Guitars
References
External links
Official website
German rock music groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Seguros%20Bol%C3%ADvar%20Open%20Pereira
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2013 Seguros Bolívar Open Pereira
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The 2013 Seguros Bolívar Open Pereira was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Pereira, Colombia between 25 March and 31 March 2013.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings are as of March 18, 2013.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Juan Sebastián Cabal
Felipe Escobar
Paolo Lorenzi
Eduardo Struvay
The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:
Toni Androić
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Iván Endara
Federico Gaio
Jozef Kovalík
David Souto
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of March 18, 2013.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Sam Barnett / Kevin Kim
Nicolás Barrientos / Eduardo Struvay
Felipe Escobar / Carlos Salamanca
Champions
Singles
Santiago Giraldo def. Paul Capdeville, 6–2, 6–4
Doubles
Nicolás Barrientos / Eduardo Struvay def. Facundo Bagnis / Federico Delbonis, 3–6, 6–3, [10–6]
External links
Official Website
Seguros Bolivar Open Pereira
Seguros Bolívar Open Pereira
2013 in Colombian tennis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Grouper%20%281804%29
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HMS Grouper (1804)
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HMS Grouper was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. Grouper was wrecked off Guadeloupe in 1811. This schooner was the only Royal Navy ship ever to use the name.
Service
She was commissioned at Bermuda under Lieutenant Provo Hughes for the Leeward Islands. In 1807 her commander was Lieutenant Charles Chester Fitch. On 8 June 1807 Grouper captured the schooner Sophia.
On 26 July 1807 His Majesty's schooners Grouper and captured the schooner Atlantic.
On 12 August 1809 she came under the command of Lieutenant James Atkins. Grouper participated in the capture of Guadeloupe and its dependencies in February 1810 and was engaged in the protection of trade. In 1847 her surviving crew members would qualify for the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe".
Wreck
Grouper was wrecked on a reef off Guadeloupe on 21 October 1811. At 5am she struck a reef three miles northwest of Carret Island, which lies to the west of Baie-Mahault. Her crew made rafts of the wreckage and abandoned Grouper. One marine drowned but the rest of the crew survived as she went to pieces after daybreak. Some fisherman rescued Atkins from a piece of wreckage after he had been knocked about for some five hours. When rescued he was insensible from lacerations he had suffered.
The subsequent court martial on 7 February 1812 reprimanded Atkins for his want of caution in letting Grouper lie too close to land. However, the board blamed the loss on the neglect of Midshipman Angus McLeod, the officer of the watch. He had neglected to post a look-out and had continued to sail though his orders were to lay-to. McLeod was not punished as he had deserted, along with the quartermaster of the morning watch, when the survivors were landed at Pointe-à-Pitre.
In June 1812, after the injuries he sustained on Grouper, the wounds he had suffered as Acting Master on , and 12 years in the West Indies, Atkins returned to England as a passenger on . On 14 November Atkins was appointed to the 74-gun , which had been launched in April.
Footnotes
Notes
Citations
References
Gossett, William Patrick (1986) The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. (London:Mansell).
Grocott, Terence (1997) Shipwrecks of the revolutionary & Napoleonic eras. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books).
Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot).
1804 ships
Ballahoo-class schooners
Maritime incidents in 1811
Shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea
Ships built in Bermuda
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