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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny%20Levy
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Ronny Levy
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Ronny Levy (; also spelled Roni; born 14 November 1966) is an Israeli football manager, and a former international player. Levy, who played as a defensive midfielder, won championships with both Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Haifa.
Playing career
Levy started his career as a striker in the youth teams of Maccabi Netanya. He was a prolific scorer and was promoted to the first team in 1985. After five seasons in the shadow of then domestic superstars Oded Machnes and David Lavi, he was loaned to Bnei Yehuda in the transfer window of season 1989–90, where he won his first championship title.
After two years back in Maccabi Netanya, Levy transferred to Maccabi Haifa in 1992 where he was positioned as a defender. After a few games his role was changed to defensive midfielder, the position he would occupy until the end of his playing career. Levy played a major role in Maccabi Haifa's championship in the season of 1993–94 Liga Leumit. He retired from playing in 1997 due to a serious injury of his knee.
International career
He has sixteen international caps with the Israeli national team.
As a manager
With retirement, Levy was given a coaching position in one of Maccabi Haifa's youth teams. After two years in the youth department, he was made assistant manager of the first team, under the management of Eli Cohen. Cohen resigned his position in the last stages of the 1999–2000 season, and was replaced by Levy for a few games. At the end of the season, Levy returned to the youth department, this time as head coach of the first youth team for the next three years, where he was very successful, making both cup and league titles in his last year there.
As the season of 2002–03 ended, and manager Itzhak Shum left the club to go to Greek club Panathinaikos, Levy was given the position of first team manager. His appointment met serious doubts from both news media and fans, who suggested he was not experienced enough to fill the position. Despite the initial uncertainty, Levy won three domestic championships in a row in his first 3 years of managing Maccabi Haifa (2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06), one Toto Cup Al (2006), and a qualification to the UEFA cup group stage in 2006–07.
Levy was one of the first managers in Israeli football to use computer software as a tool for measuring the players' performance and a means for tactical analysis. In 2006, Levy received a "manager of the year" award from both major Israeli newspapers, 'Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv. After seasons 2006–07, 2007–08 which were considered as failure after failing to challenge for the title, finishing 5th in both seasons, he decided to leave the club and was replaced by Elisha Levy.
On 22 December Levy signed with Maccabi Petah Tikva for a year and a half. One 22 November after less than a year with the Petah Tikva side Levy decided to quit.
On 31 December 2009 Levy signed with Unirea Urziceni for a contract worth $600,000 to manage the team for a year and a half. His first game in charge was against Liverpool at Anfield in the UEFA Europa League on 18 February 2010 where the visitors lost 1–0.
On 17 January 2011, Levy signed with Beitar Jerusalem.
On 10 June 2011, Steaua Bucharest presented Ronny Levy as the new head coach of the team. He was fired on 30 September 2011 after a draw against AEK Larnaca in the UEFA Europa League. The next day, 1 October, he signed a contract for a year with Anorthosis Famagusta.
He was sacked on 1 April 2013.
On 6 December 2013, Levy made his return to Beitar Jerusalem.
On 14 January 2015, Levy signed with Maccabi Netanya.
On 18 May 2015, Levy made his return to Maccabi Haifa, signing a three-year contract.
On 26 October 2016, Levy made his return to Anorthosis Famagusta after signing 18-month contract. He left the club in September 2018.
Statistics
Honours
As a Player
Israeli Premier League (2):
1989–90, 1993–94
Israel State Cup (2):
1993, 1995
Toto Cup (1):
1993–94
As a Manager
Israeli Youth Championship (1):
2002–03
Youth State Cup (1):
2003
Israeli Premier League (3):
2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06
Toto Cup (3):
2005–06, 2007–08, 2019
Liga I:
Runners-up (1): 2009–10
Israel State Cup (1):
2016
References
1966 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
Maccabi Netanya F.C. players
Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players
Maccabi Haifa F.C. players
Israeli footballers
Israel international footballers
Israeli football managers
Maccabi Haifa F.C. managers
Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. managers
FC Unirea Urziceni managers
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. managers
FC Steaua București managers
Anorthosis Famagusta FC managers
Maccabi Netanya F.C. managers
Footballers from Netanya
Expatriate football managers in Romania
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
Israeli expatriate football managers in Cyprus
Association football midfielders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Black%20%28cryptographer%29
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John Black (cryptographer)
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John Richard Black, Jr. is a cryptologist, programmer, and professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on computer security. He graduated with a BA in computer science from CSU East Bay in 1988 and completed his PhD in cryptography at UC Davis with Phillip Rogaway in 2000. He has taught at CU-Boulder since 2002.
Black has been involved in the invention of several cryptographic algorithms including UMAC, PMAC, OCB, and CMAC as well as algorithms related to Format Preserving Encryption. In 2004, he worked with students Martin Cochran and Ryan Gardner to defeat the security mechanisms of the Internet Chess Club.
Notes
External links
John Black's home page at CU-Boulder
Five Questions for John Black
Living people
Modern cryptographers
American computer programmers
University of California, Davis alumni
Computer security academics
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diandrolyra
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Diandrolyra
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Diandrolyra is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family.
Species
Diandrolyra bicolor Stapf - Espírito Santo
Diandrolyra pygmaea Soderstr. & Zuloaga ex R.P.Oliveira & L.G.Clark - Bahia
Diandrolyra tatianae Soderstr. & Zuloaga - São Paulo, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo
References
Bambusoideae genera
Endemic flora of Brazil
Grasses of Brazil
Bambusoideae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale%20Shopping%20Center
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Hillsdale Shopping Center
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Hillsdale Shopping Center, or simply Hillsdale, is a shopping mall in San Mateo, California, United States, currently anchored by Macy's and Nordstrom. Featuring over 130 stores and restaurants, it is at the intersection of Hillsdale Boulevard and El Camino Real or CA-82, adjacent to the Hillsdale Caltrain Station and the former site of Bay Meadows Racetrack. It is owned by Bohannon Development Co.
History
Developer David D. Bohannon acquired from Burleigh H. Murray in the Beresford (later called Hillsdale) neighborhood in 1939-40 and began developing the area, starting construction on the Andrew Williams Grocery Store at the corner of Hillsdale Boulevard and El Camino Real in 1941. Sears selected the Hillsdale site for one of its earliest suburban stores in 1948, and the Hillsdale Shopping Center master plan was completed in 1952; Bohannon was reportedly inspired by the recently completed Westlake Shopping Center in Daly City. In December 1954, Hillsdale Shopping Center opened as an open-air center, featuring Sears (completed in 1949) and the first suburban branch store of Macy's San Francisco, later adding Emporium in 1962. Sculptures by Benny Bufano were commissioned for the mall in the 1950s. By 1970, Hillsdale had more than 150 stores. Through the 1960s and 70s, Hillsdale Shopping Center marked the northern end of a popular Friday night cruise route along El Camino Real for young drivers.
Competition with Fashion Island
In 1982, faced with competition from San Diego-based developer The Hahn Company's San Mateo Fashion Island shopping center less than two miles to the north, Hillsdale underwent a major renovation under the leadership of Bohannon's daughter, Frances Bohannon Nelson. The outdoor shopping center was leveled and replaced with a modern two-level enclosed mall, encompassing Macy's and The Emporium along with two new anchors: Mervyn's at the mall's north end and Northern California's first Nordstrom.
Fashion Island struggled from inception and gradually lost tenants until its closure in 1996. Bridgepointe, an outdoor power center and office park, sits on the former Fashion Island site.
Changing anchors
In 1995, the merger between Emporium parent company Broadway Stores and Macy's led to the closure of the mall's Emporium anchor. Sears traded its building across from the mall for the former Emporium building, and moved into the mall proper in 1996.
The next major change for the property came in 2008 with the bankruptcy and subsequent liquidation of Mervyn's. The building was subdivided between three major tenants: The Cheesecake Factory and H&M on the building's ground floor, and Forever 21 occupying the building's second level and part of the first. The mall's Crate & Barrel store, which had opened in 1996, became outmoded with the opening of larger stores in San Francisco and Palo Alto and shuttered in 2011. Paul Martin's American Grill opened in the former Crate & Barrel in 2013.
North block reconstruction
The next renovation at Hillsdale started with a March 2013 planning document, filed with the city of San Mateo, detailing plans to replace Sears with a three-story Target, adding a nine-screen luxury cinema, and relocating the food court from its location in the Sears/Cost Plus Building north of 31st Street to the second-story bridge over 31st; the bridge links the north Sears Building with the main mall building between 31st and Hillsdale. The plans also included a new building at the northwest corner of El Camino and 31st, to be built when a tenant was secured. In December 2013, however, Bohannon put the proposed project on hold, citing changing market conditions. Although Sears stated they had no plans to close the store at the time the plans were made public in 2013, the company later announced in 2016 the April closure of the Hillsdale store.
Because Target pulled back, the 2013 proposal, which would have reused the existing Sears building north of 31st, was re-imagined and re-introduced in November 2014. Also partly in response to public and official feedback, Bohannon presented a modified version of the 2013 plans in February 2015, dropping the idea of building a three-story Target in favor of a bowling alley and fitness center, as the mall sought to be an experiential destination, pivoting away from retail space, in the face of competition from online shopping. Planning officials asked Bohannon to consider incorporating housing as a mixed-use project, but a spokesman for the company said San Mateo's height restrictions made it unfeasible. The plans were approved in March 2016. Sears closed in April 2016. Demolition of the former Sears building started on August 25, 2016.
Construction on the replacement North Block buildings, which are planned to achieve LEED Gold certification, is expected to continue through fall 2018, with the luxury cinema scheduled to open in late 2017. Estimated completion dates were updated to spring 2019 in March 2018, with the new dining area set to open on November 17, 2018.
Hillsdale remained independently owned by the Bonhannon family until late 2021, when real estate firm Northwoods Investors took a stake in the property with the intent of remaking the mall into a mixed-use project.
Anchors
Macy's ()
Nordstrom ()
Former Anchors
Mervyn's () - closed in October 2008
Sears () - closed in April 2016
References
External links
Bohannon Pitches A New Vision for North Block of Hillsdale Mall - February 2015
Shopping malls in San Mateo County, California
Shopping malls in the San Francisco Bay Area
Shopping malls established in 1954
1954 establishments in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoshan%20Yunrui%20Airport
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Baoshan Yunrui Airport
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Baoshan Yunrui Airport (, ) is an airport in Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
The runway is .
Airlines and destinations
See also
List of airports in the People's Republic of China
References
External links
Yunnan Airport Group
Airports in Yunnan
Transport in Baoshan, Yunnan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudeutreta%20baccharidis
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Pseudeutreta baccharidis
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Pseudeutreta baccharidis is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Pseudeutreta of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
Argentina.
References
Tephritinae
Diptera of South America
Insects described in 1910
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie%20Mahfoud
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Elie Mahfoud
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Elie Mahfoud (Arabic: ايلي محفوض, born March 14, 1968 in Beirut) is a Lebanese lawyer, author, politician, MP, head of the Change Movement (حركة التغـيير) and a member of the secretary-general of the March 14th alliance which he belongs to since October 2006, before which he used to be an FPM official since 1987. He is close to the Lebanese Forces.
Biography
He was born in Beirut on March 14, 1968, to a Christian family from the town of Andaket in Akkar, North Lebanon. He is married to Maria Abu Shakra and they have two sons, Michel and Marc.
He grew up with his family in Furn El Chebbak. He received his primary education at the Frère College, and then moved to the Mont La Salle College in Ain Saadeh, he then joined the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Lebanese University and obtained a Bachelor of Laws, then joined in 1993 the Beirut Bar Association as a graduated lawyer in Reda Al-Khazen's office.
He was mentored by Said Akl and in 1985 founded the Change Movement, which registered as a Lebanese party on December 29, 2010. Mahfoud belongs to the Maronite politics and considers the Lebanese Forces and its leader Samir Geagea the closest to him, also opposes the Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement.
During the civil war period from 1986 to 1989, he volunteered in the Red Cross as a paramedic. He participated rescue operations in military battles of Jbaa and Jarjoa, which It was between Hezbollah and the Amal movement.
He has published hundreds of articles in many Lebanese newspapers, and has thousands of positions, statements, statements, television and radio interviews and in the written press. He also published a number of political books like: "We and the Cause", "From the Phoenicians to the Aounists", "Otherwise Lebanon Would End", "The Deception of theCentury", "With Thirty pieces of Silver".
References
Maronite politicians
March 14 Alliance
Lebanese University alumni
People from Akkar Governorate
1968 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20governors%20of%20Jigawa%20State
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List of governors of Jigawa State
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This is a list of administrators and governors of Jigawa State.
Jigawa State was formed in 1991-08-27 when it was split from Kano State.
See also
States of Nigeria
List of state governors of Nigeria
References
Jigawa
Governors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undead%20and%20Unwed
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Undead and Unwed
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Undead and Unwed is a paranormal romance novel by MaryJanice Davidson. It is the first adventure of Elizabeth Anne "Betsy" Taylor in the Undead series after her transformation into a vampire. The book was released on March 2, 2004 through Berkley Books and was on the Maclean's bestseller list for April 4, 2004.
Plot summary
Betsy Taylor—former model, newly unemployed secretary, 30, and still single—wakes up after being flattened by a Pontiac Aztek in a tacky coffin wearing cheap knock-off shoes. Her mother is glad she is back, albeit as a vampire, but her stepmother is enraged that Betsy has reclaimed her designer-shoe collection. With a wealthy best friend and a newly acquired doctor pal who is not susceptible to her formidable allure, she sets out to right wrongs but is abducted by Nostro, a tacky 500-year-old vampire who rules the undead roost. It seems that Betsy is an anomaly: a vampire who doesn't burn in sunlight, can fight the urge to feed, and is not repulsed by religious articles, all of which may make her the prophesied Queen of the Vampires. Teaming up with gorgeous vampire Eric Sinclair, who is in her opinion a major pervert, she takes on Nostro and his minions.
Characters
Major characters
Undead and Unwed features the following characters.
Elizabeth Anne "Betsy" Taylor: Betsy is a normal unemployed woman until she is hit by a car and wakes up a vampire.
Eric Sinclair: Eric is infatuated by Betsy and has plans for the newly risen vampire. He is also quite fond of Betsy himself.
Jessica: Best friend to Betsy, Jessica is rich and devastated by her friend's untimely death. She is quick to accept Betsy being a vampire.
Marc: a doctor Betsy meets on top of a building when she saves him from attempting to kill himself. Although he finds her attractive, he informs her that she is not his type as he is gay.
Tina: is Eric's maker, best friend, and second in command. She is protective of Eric and quick to help Betsy. She gave up on men a long time ago.
Nostro: is a short-tempered 500 year old vampire who currently controls the vampires.
Other characters
Nick Berry: Nick was Betsy's dream guy until she died and was reawakened as a vampire. After a very bad sexual encounter, Betsy decides things are over with Nick.
The Fiends: a group of feral vampires who were starved of blood when they were turned into vampires. These vampires were created by Nostro and reverted to animals.
Dennis: Sinclair's male vampire companion and butler. Gay.
Karen: Sinclair's human ladyfriend and meal, whom Betsy has a deep connection with.
Reception
Critical reception has been mostly positive. Kliatt gave the audiobook for Undead and Unwed a favorable review, writing that "Wu adds a bevy of emotions to Betsy's otherwise repetitive one-shoe note, making her both likable and amusing."
References
2004 American novels
Novels by MaryJanice Davidson
Undead series novels
American vampire novels
American romance novels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderaz-e%20Rahbar
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Murderaz-e Rahbar
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Murderaz-e Rahbar (, also Romanized as Mūrderāz-e Rahbar) is a village in Sarrud-e Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 390, in 72 families.
References
Populated places in Boyer-Ahmad County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20%28The%20Funk%20Is%20Everywhere%29
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Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere)
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Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) is a studio album by Afrika Bambaataa, released in 1986 by Tommy Boy Records.
Reception
From contemporary reviews, Melody Maker reviewed the album in 1986 giving it a negative review, finding it redundant, cliched, and boring. Robert Christgau commented that the album was while the album "musically this tops the UTFO albums", and that Christgau was "grieved to report that only "Kick Out the Jams" overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with—it's got Bill Laswell all over it."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) liner notes.
Afrika Bambaataa – production (A1, A3, A4, B2, B4)
Eric Calvi – production (A2)
Gavin Christopher – production (A3)
Jason Corsaro
Craig Derry
Lee Evans – production (A1, B1)
Anton Fier: drums, percussion
Bernard Fowler: vocals
Fred Fowler
Grandmaster Melle Mel: Vocals
Robin Halpin
Michael Hampton
Michael Jonzun – production (B2)
Steve Knutson
Bill Laswell – production (A4)
Keith LeBlanc – production (B2, B4)
Vince Madison
Skip McDonald – production (B2, B4)
Cindy Mizelle
Paul Pesco: guitars
Screamin' Rachael
Rae Serrano – production (A1, B1)
Nicky Skopelitis
Rob Stevens
Pat Thrall: guitars
Doug Wimbish – production (B2, B4)
Bernie Worrell: keyboards
Release history
References
References
External links
Afrika Bambaataa albums
1986 albums
Tommy Boy Records albums
Albums produced by Bill Laswell
Albums produced by Keith LeBlanc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanuki%20Mountains
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Sanuki Mountains
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The are a mountain range running along the southern border of Kagawa and the northern border of Tokushima prefectures on the island of Shikoku, Japan.
The highest peak is at 1059.9 m.
Parts of the mountains are included within the Ōtaki-Ōkawa Prefectural Natural Park.
References
External links
(Mt.Ryūō)
Mountain ranges of Kagawa Prefecture
Mountain ranges of Tokushima Prefecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadibek%20T%C3%BCgel
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Sadibek Tügel
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Sädibek Tügel (, Sädıbek Tügel; born 23 February 1955) is a Kazakh writer and publicist, who's a member of the Writers' Union of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was candidate for the Uly Dala Qyrandary movement in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election.
Early life and education
Tügel was born in the village of Amangeldi in East Kazakhstan Region. In May 1973, he was drafted into the Soviet Armed Forces where he served in East Germany. In 1982, he graduated from the correspondence faculty of journalism of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. From 1988 to 1990, he studied full-time at the Almaty Higher Party School, where he received a degree in political science and sociology.
Career
Tügel began his career as a mechanic at the Alma-Ata cotton-spinning factory. He worked as a translator-correspondent of the Ulanskiy district newspaper Rastsvet - Orken, an instructor of the Organizational Department of the executive committee of the District Council of People's deputies, the First Secretary of the Ulansky District Committee of the Komsomol of Kazakhstan, then as the head of the Organizational Department of the Ulansky District Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
From 2002 to 2004, he worked as the head of the International Press Center of Astana, then the general director of the information agency “Astana Dauysy”. In 2004, Tügel became the head of the Senate Department of the Parliament. Since January 2006, he has been engaged in creative and social activities. Tügel is the vice president of the Federation of National Equestrian Sports and since 12 October 2011, he's been serving as a chairman of the political organization Uly Dala Qyrandary.
2019 presidential campaign
On 22 April 2019, Tügel announced his bid for presidency for the Uly Dala Qyrandary, making him one of the first candidates to do it. He was registered on 3 May 2019 by the Central Election Commission after gathering more than 122,000 signatures.
Tügel ran in issues of the Kazakh language, protection of the rights of women and children, as well as to preserve and popularize traditional Kazakh values. He advocated for free education as well as protection for those affected by environmental disasters. He also proposed to introduce the death penalty for pedophiles and corrupt officials, as well as a ban on the lease and sale of Kazakh lands to foreigners. On 3 June 2019, Tügel suggested a ban on Kazakh women from marrying foreigners. He called international marriages "a moral crime" and recommended to solve the issue by changing the "Law on Marriage". Tügel won only 0.92% of the vote, earning a last place in the race.
References
1955 births
Living people
People from East Kazakhstan Region
Kazakhstani writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Larned
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Charles Larned
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General Charles Larned (ca. 1787–August 13, 1834, Detroit) was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician. He fought in the War of 1812 and was Attorney General of Michigan Territory.
Biography
Early life
Charles Larned was a native of Pittsfield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Berkshire County Sheriff Simon Larned, who was born in Connecticut and, during the American Revolutionary War, was Colonel of the 9th Regiment United States Infantry, and aide-de-camp to General Washington. Larned graduated from Williams College in 1806 and then studied law in Kentucky in the offices of Henry Clay.
Military career
During the War of 1812, while Larned was dining with a group of prominent citizens in Shelby County, Kentucky, word came to the group from Governor Isaac Shelby that General William Henry Harrison was in danger of being overwhelmed by British General Henry Procter and his Indian allies. One of the group, Colonel Owen, undertook the organization of a regiment, including Larned and commanded by Governor Shelby himself, to reinforce Harrison's troops. Many of the regiment were slaughtered by the Indians after surrendering to the British, in an event known as the River Raisin Massacre. Larned himself survived and soon rose to the rank of major, and later participated with the regiment in the Battle of the Thames.
While stationed in Detroit, Larned, along with eighty others (including General Lewis Cass) learned of General William Hull's plan to surrender Detroit to the British without a fight. The men signed a document, found among Larned's personal papers, agreeing to seize Hull and depose him in order to prevent the surrender. Hull learned of the plan and instead sent Larned and many of the others south to Ohio to meet a supply convoy. While returning to Detroit, they received word that Hull had surrendered and they were to become prisoners of the British.
Practicing law in Detroit
After the war, Larned began practicing law in Detroit, and served as Attorney General of Michigan Territory during the Black Hawk War, under Territorial Governor George B. Porter. In 1813 he married Sylvia Easton Colt. He served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Michigan from 1821 until his death.
He survived the cholera epidemic that swept Detroit in 1832. When cholera returned in 1834, Larned worked to alleviate the suffering of others, at one point going without sleep for 48 hours straight. In the end, he succumbed to it and died August 13, 1834. Charles C. Trowbridge, Mayor of Detroit paid tribute to him, saying he left "a family, a city, and a State in mourning." He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery. His wife died August 24, 1845.
Commemoration
Larned Street in Detroit is named after him.
Notes
References
American militiamen in the War of 1812
Burials at Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)
Michigan Territory officials
Regents of the University of Michigan
1834 deaths
History of Detroit
Year of birth uncertain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Beach%20%28novel%29
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On the Beach (novel)
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On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war the previous year. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.
Shute's initial story was published as a four-part series, The Last Days on Earth, in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, in April 1957. For the novel, Shute expanded the storyline. The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008.
Title
The phrase "on the beach" is a Royal Navy term that means "retired from the Service." The title also refers to T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines:
Printings of the novel, including the first 1957 edition by William Morrow and Company, New York, contain extracts from Eliot's poem on the title page, under Shute's name, including the above quotation and the concluding lines:
The 2000 film ends with a quote from Walt Whitman's poem "On the Beach at Night", describing how a father comforts his small daughter who is frightened as an approaching cloud bank blots out the evening stars one by one. Although Whitman's poem resembles the plot of Shute's novel, the book does not reference it, as it does Eliot's poem.
Plot
The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom by Egypt. Because the aircraft used in these attacks were obtained from the Soviet Union, the Soviets were mistakenly blamed, triggering a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union by NATO.
There is also an attack by the Soviets on the People's Republic of China, which may have been a response to a Chinese attack aimed at occupying Soviet industrial areas near the Chinese border. Most, if not all, of the bombs included cobalt to enhance their radioactive properties.
Global air currents are slowly carrying the lethal nuclear fallout across the Intertropical Convergence Zone, to the Southern Hemisphere. The only parts of the planet still habitable are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the southern parts of South America, although they are slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning as well. Life in Melbourne continues reasonably normally, although the near-complete lack of motor fuels makes traveling difficult.
People in Australia detect a mysterious and incomprehensible Morse code radio signal originating from the American city of Seattle, Washington. With hope that someone has survived in the contaminated regions, one of the last American nuclear submarines, USS Scorpion, placed by its captain, Commander Dwight Towers, under Australian naval command, is ordered to sail north from its port of refuge in Melbourne (Australia's southernmost major mainland city) to contact whoever is sending the signal. In preparation for this journey, the submarine makes a shorter trip to port cities in northern Australia, including Cairns, Queensland, and Darwin, Northern Territory; no survivors are found. Two Australians sail with the American crew: Lieutenant Peter Holmes, naval liaison officer to the Americans, and a scientist, Professor John Osborne.
Commander Towers has become attached to a young Australian woman distantly related to Osborne, named Moira Davidson, who tries to cope with the impending end of human life through heavy drinking. Despite his attraction to Davidson, Towers remains loyal to his wife and children in the United States. He buys his children gifts and imagines their growing older. At one point, however, he makes it clear to Moira that he knows his family is almost certainly dead, and he asks her if she thinks he is insane for acting as if they were still alive. She replies that she does not think he is crazy.
The Australian government provides citizens with free suicide pills and injections so they can avoid prolonged suffering from radiation poisoning. Periodic reports show the steady southward progression of the deadly radiation. As communications are lost with a city, it is referred to as being "out."
One of the novel's poignant dilemmas is that of Peter Holmes, who has a baby daughter and a naive wife, Mary, who is in denial about the impending disaster. Because he has been assigned to travel north with the Americans, Peter tries to explain, to Mary's fury and disbelief, how to kill their baby and herself, by taking the suicide pill should he not return from his mission in time to help. The bachelor Osborne spends much of his time restoring and subsequently racing a Ferrari racing car that he had purchased (along with a fuel supply) for a nominal amount following the war's outbreak.
The submarine travels to the Gulf of Alaska in the northern Pacific Ocean, where the crew determines that radiation levels are not decreasing. This finding discredits the "Jorgensen Effect", a scientific theory positing that radiation levels will decrease at a much greater rate than previously thought, aided by the weather effects, and potentially allow for human life to continue in southern Australia or at least Antarctica.
The submarine approaches San Francisco, observing through the periscope that the city had been devastated and the Golden Gate Bridge has fallen. In contrast, the Puget Sound area, from which the strange radio signals are emanating, is found to have avoided destruction because of missile defences. One crew member, who is from Edmonds, Washington, which the expedition visits, jumps ship to spend his last days in his home town.
The expedition members then sail to an abandoned navy communications school south of Seattle. A crewman sent ashore with oxygen tanks and protective gear discovers that although the city's residents have long since perished, some of the region's hydroelectric power is still working due to primitive automation technology. He finds that the mysterious radio signal is the result of a broken window sash swinging in the breeze and occasionally hitting a telegraph key. After a brief stop at Pearl Harbor, the remaining submariners return to Australia to live out what little time they have left.
Osborne takes his suicide pill while sitting in his beloved racing car. When Mary Holmes becomes very ill, Peter administers a lethal injection to their daughter. Even though he still feels relatively well, he and Mary take their pills simultaneously so they can die as a family. Towers and his remaining crew choose to scuttle the Scorpion in the open ocean, fulfilling a naval duty to not leave the unmanned vessel "floating about in a foreign port", after her crew succumbs to suicide or radiation poisoning. Moira watches the submarine's departure in her car, parked atop an adjacent hilltop, as she takes her suicide pill, imagining herself together with Towers as she dies.
Characterisation
The characters make their best efforts to enjoy what time remains to them, speaking of small pleasures and continuing their customary activities. The Holmeses plant a garden that they will never see; Moira initially acts as a socialite – drinking and partying excessively – but upon meeting Towers takes classes in typing and shorthand; Osborne and others organize a dangerous motor race that results in the violent deaths of several participants; elderly members of a "gentlemen's club" drink up the wine in the club's cellar, debate over whether to move the fishing season up, and fret about whether agriculturally destructive rabbits will survive human beings. Towers goes on a fishing trip with Davidson, but they do not become sexually involved, as he wants to remain loyal to his dead wife, a decision Moira accepts.
Government services and the economy gradually grind to a halt. In the end, Towers chooses not to remain and die with Moira, but rather to lead his crew on a final mission to scuttle the submarine outside of Australian territorial waters. He refuses to allow his imminent demise to turn him aside from his duty to the US Navy, and he acts as a pillar of strength to his crew.
Typically for a Shute novel, the characters avoid expressing intense emotions and do not indulge in self-pity. The Australians do not, for the most part, flee southward as refugees but rather accept their fate once the lethal radiation levels reach the latitudes at which they live; most of them opt for the government-promoted alternative of suicide when the symptoms of radiation sickness appear. In any case, as is made clear within the text, radiation poisoning is also starting to appear as far south as Christchurch, New Zealand, so any such flight would have been pointless.
Reception
Historian David McCullough, writing for The New York Times, called On the Beach "the most haunting evocation we have of a world dying of radiation after an atomic war." The San Francisco Chronicle called it "the most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." Daily Telegraph called it "Shute's most considerable achievement", and The Times stated that it is "the most evocative novel on the aftermath of a nuclear war." The Guardian commented that "fictions such as On the Beach played an important role in raising awareness about the threat of nuclear war. We stared into the abyss and then stepped back from the brink." The Los Angeles Times described the novel as "timely and ironic... an indelibly sad ending that leaves you tearful and disturbed", and The Economist called it "still incredibly moving after nearly half a century."
Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction called the book "an emotional wallop. It should be made mandatory reading for all professional diplomats and politicians." Isaac Asimov said, "Surely to the science fiction fan—as opposed to the general public—this must seem very milk-and-watery. So there's a nuclear war to start the story with—and what else is new?"
The novel does not realistically describe the effects of a global nuclear war, which were poorly understood at the time. Notably, the novel does not portray any form of nuclear winter. In the survival manual Nuclear War Survival Skills, Cresson Kearney describes the novel as "pseudoscientific" and "demoralising", arguing that it and similar works perpetuate the myth that any large-scale nuclear war would inevitably wipe out all human life. This myth, argues Kearney, is dangerous as it discourages people from taking precautionary measures that could save lives in the event of a nuclear attack, in the mistaken belief that any precaution is futile.
Adaptations
On the Beach (1959 film) is a feature film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire.
On the Beach (2000 film) is a made-for-television film starring Armand Assante, Rachel Ward, and Bryan Brown.
Classic Serial: On the Beach (November 2008), BBC Radio 4 broadcast a full-cast audio dramatization in two-hour-long episodes, as part of their Classic Serial strand.
See also
The Last Ship, a 1988 novel with similar themes
References
External links
This updated, online version of the published work, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction (1987), contains extensive discussion of Shute's book.
1957 British novels
1957 science fiction novels
Fiction set in 1963
Anti-war novels
Australian post-apocalyptic novels
Post-apocalyptic novels
Novels set during the Cold War
Novels by Nevil Shute
Novels set in Melbourne
Submarines in fiction
Novels set during World War III
Heinemann (publisher) books
British novels adapted into films
British post-apocalyptic novels
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Donji Ribnik () is a village in the municipality of Ribnik, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
References
Populated places in Ribnik
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Manuel "Manolo" Jiménez González (born 12 September 1960) is a Spanish football manager.
Career
Jimenez was born in Madrigalejo, but raised in Benidorm. He started in the Benidorm CD coaching youth football. His big break came in the Hércules CF. Got promoted to La Liga in 1995–96. Hércules did not renew for return to the top flight, and had two more chances in the second level with Albacete Balompié and Real Jaén CF. In Albacete was sacked at 5 league matches. At Real Jaén in 2 times down the third level. He also had a second time on Hércules CF and fell to third level. After the third level trained in Hércules, Benidorm and UE Figueres. In the 2008–09 season was the sports director of Alicante CF and arrived several days to train the team in the second level, being sacked because of disagreements with the policy. He is currently the coach of the Valencian Community on UEFA Regions' Cup.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
People from the Province of Cáceres
Spanish football managers
Hércules CF managers
Albacete Balompié managers
Real Jaén managers
UE Figueres managers
Alicante CF managers
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Colin Eggleston
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Colin Richard Francis Eggleston (; 23 September 1941, Melbourne – 10 August 2002, Geneva) was an Australian writer and director of TV and films. He began his career making police dramas for Crawford Productions.
Select credits
A Day in the Life of Robin Beckett (1963) (Short Film)
Doctor Who (1967) (TV series)
Homicide (TV series)
Ryan (1969) (TV series)
The Long Arm (1970) (TV series)
Matlock Police (1973–74) (TV series)
Division 4 (1974) (TV series)
The Box (1974) (TV series) – writer
The Bluestone Boys (1976) (TV series) – writer
Bluey (1976) (TV series) – writer of ep "The Whole of Life", "The Changeling"
Fantasm Comes Again (1977)
Chopper Squad (1977) (TV series)
Long Weekend (1978)
Nightmares (1980) – producer
Bellamy (1981) (TV series)
Airhawk (1981) – producer
The Little Feller (1982)
Innocent Prey (1983)
Sky Pirates (1986)
Body Business (1986) (TV movie)
Cassandra (1987)
Outback Vampires (1987)
Unmade films
Academy (announced 1983) – a film about a secret academy of killers
References
External links
Colin Eggleston at AustLit
Australian film directors
Australian film producers
Australian screenwriters
1941 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Australian screenwriters
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1373 Cincinnati
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1373 Cincinnati, provisional designation , is an asteroid in a comet-like orbit from the Cybele region, located at the outermost rim of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was the only asteroid discovery made by famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble, while observing distant galaxies at Mount Wilson Observatory in California on 30 August 1935. The rather spherical X-type asteroid has a rotation period of 5.3 hours. It was named for the Cincinnati Observatory.
Orbit and classification
Cincinnati orbits the Sun in the outermost asteroid belt at a distance of 2.3–4.5 AU once every 6 years and 4 months (2,311 days; semi-major axis of 3.42 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.31 and an inclination of 39° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its official discovery observation at Mount Wilson in August 1935.
Cincinnati, a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population, is located in the orbital region of the Cybele asteroids, the last outpost of an extended asteroid belt beyond the Hecuba-gap asteroids. Due to its high inclination, and contrary to all other Cybele asteroids, Cincinnati is the only one that is above the center of the ν6 secular resonance with Saturn. The asteroid's high inclination and eccentricity also results in a Tisserand's parameter (TJupiter) of 2.719, which makes it a true asteroid in cometary orbit (ACO) for having a TJupiter value below 3.
Naming
Recommended by the Minor Planet Center, this minor planet was named after the Cincinnati Observatory, whose staff provided most of the orbit computations. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().
Physical characteristics
In the SMASS classification, Cincinnati is a Xk-type, a subtype that transitions from the X-type to the uncommon K-type asteroids, while the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer classifies it as a metallic M-type asteroid. By 2014, Cincinnati is the only of three Cybele asteroids for which a spectral type has been determined; the other two are 522 Helga and 692 Hippodamia, an X- and S-type, respectively.
Rotation period
In January 2018, a rotational lightcurve of Cincinnati was obtained from photometric observations by Henk de Groot. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 magnitude (). The low brightness amplitude is indicative that is asteroid is rather spherical than elongated in shape.
Alternative period determinations were made by French amateur astronomer René Roy (5.274 h; Δ0.21 mag) in August 2004 (). Two more lightcurves were obtained by Brian Warner at this Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado, United States, in August 2004 and August 2010, who measured a period of 4.930 and 5.28 hours with an amplitude of 0.11 and 0.14 magnitude, respectively.
Diameter and albedo
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's WISE telescope, Cincinnati measures between 19.4 and 19.8 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.15–0.16, while the Japanese Akari satellite determined a diameter of 22.16 kilometers with an albedo of 0.12. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 27.9 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.5.
Notes
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center
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Nowe Szczepankowo
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Nowe Szczepankowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Śmigiel, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
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Nowe Szczepankowo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graven%20%28surname%29
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Graven (surname)
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Graven is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heather Graven, atmospheric scientist
Henry Norman Graven (1893–1970), American judge
Otto Frank Graven (born 1975), South African racing driver
Philip S. Graven (1892–1977), doctor and psychoanalyst
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Closer to Heaven (film)
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Closer to Heaven (; lit. "My Love by My Side") is a 2009 South Korean film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, starring Ha Ji-won and Kim Myung-min.
Plot
Lee Ji-soo is a twice-divorced funeral director, and no stranger to death or loss. She reunites with old friend Baek Jong-woo when he arranges for funeral services for his deceased mother. Jong-woo has been battling Lou Gehrig's disease since he was a teenager. The two fall in love and get married. As Jong-woo's symptoms continue to worsen and he begins to lose control over his body, he lashes out at Ji-soo. Despite her hurt, all Ji-soo wants is to stay by his side and hope for a cure.
Cast
Ha Ji-won as Lee Ji-soo
Kim Myung-min as Baek Jong-woo
Nam Neung-mi as Joo Ok-yeon
Im Ha-ryong as Park Geun-sook, Choon-ja's husband
Choi Jong-ryeol as Ok-yeon's husband
Shin Shin-ae as Jin-hee's mother
Im Jong-yoon as Bae Seok-joong
Im Hyung-joon as Bae Seok-won
Im Seong-min as Choon-ja
Son Ga-in as Seo Jin-hee
Jang Won-young as Mr. Choi
Hong Seok-yoo as Elder Son
Kim Yeo-jin as Professor Son Young-chan
Kim Kwang-kyu as Kook Dong-sik
Jung Eui-chul as Yoo Seung-wook
Son Young-soon as Jong-woo's mother
Yoo Seung-mok as Ex-husband Kim Eun-ho
Kim Young-pil as Jong-woo's friend, Wook-joong
Kim Young-hoon as Jong-woo's friend, Kwan-young
Choi Yo-han as Jong-woo's friend, Jae-ho
Jeon Soo-ji as Kim Jong-do's wife
Yoo Ji-yeon as Head nurse
Kang Shin-il as Lee Hak-cheon, Ji-soo's father (cameo)
Sol Kyung-gu as Kim Jong-do (cameo)
Song Young-chang as Therapist (cameo)
Seo Hyo-rim as Reporter (cameo)
Release
Closer to Heaven was released in South Korean theaters on 24 September 2009, and it topped the box office chart for 3 consecutive weeks. It was the first melodrama to surpass the 2 million admissions mark since Maundy Thursday in 2006. Closer to Heaven received a total of 2,153,068 admissions at the end of its run, making it the 10th highest grossing film of 2009.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2009 films
2009 romantic drama films
Films directed by Park Jin-pyo
Korean-language films
South Korean films
South Korean romantic drama films
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Bugtussle, Kentucky
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Bugtussle is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. It is located in the southern part of the county, immediately north of the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. Kentucky Route 87 connects the community with Gamaliel to the northeast and Lafayette, Tennessee, to the southwest (the highway becomes Tennessee State Route 261 at the border).
Bugtussle was so named on account of doodlebugs being frequent there. The community has been noted on lists of unusual place names.
References
External links
Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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1946–47 Scottish Division A
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The 1946–47 Scottish Division A was the first season of competitive football in Scotland after World War II. It was won by Rangers by two points over nearest rival Hibernian. Kilmarnock and Hamilton Academical finished 15th and 16th respectively and were relegated to the 1947–48 Scottish Division B.
League table
Results
References
Scottish Football Archive
1946–47 Scottish Football League
Scottish Division One seasons
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Mirza Faizan
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Mirza Faizan is an Indian aerospace scientist who developed the Ground Reality Information Processing System (GRIPS).
Faizan attended St Karen’s School, Patna, and graduated from Patna University, followed by work in master of computer application at Manipal Institute of Technology, and in embedded systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He then worked for Defence Research and Development Organisation, Satyam Computers, Honeywell, Airbus-France and on aerospace projects in the US.
Faizan is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He currently lives in Texas, US.
References
Scientists from Patna
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Patna University alumni
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The Gurkha Welfare Trust is a British charity (Reg. Charity No. 1103669) established in 1969. It is the principal UK charity for the provision of aid to Gurkha ex-servicemen and their dependants in their homeland of Nepal, and increasingly in the UK and elsewhere.
Nepal has limited industry, agriculture and infrastructure. It also lacks an effective public social welfare system. This means that the work of the Trust is critical in improving conditions for ex-servicemen and their dependants, who are often unable to work through age, illness or injury.
The Patron of the Trust is the Prince of Wales. The Trust has three Vice Patrons; Field Marshal the Lord Bramall of Bushfield KG GCB OBE MC JP DL, Field Marshal Sir John Chapple GCB CBE DL and Joanna Lumley OBE.
Each year, by tradition, all serving officers and other ranks in the Brigade of Gurkhas contribute a day's pay to the Trust.
History
In 1969, it was realised that a great number of Gurkha soldiers and their dependants or widows in Nepal faced destitution in old age. Many of these soldiers had served in the Second World War; however they had not served the 15 years needed to qualify for an army pension. Unlike their British counterparts who could rely on the welfare state in old age, the Nepalese Gurkha had no such safety net.
In recognition of the country's debt of honour to these soldiers, a public appeal – organised by British Gurkha officers – raised £1m to establish The Gurkha Welfare Trust. It began to create a network of bases in Nepal to distribute financial aid to retired soldiers who had met with disasters such as landslides and floods. The Trust also bought land for ex-Gurkhas to become subsistence farmers and provide enough food to support their families.
In an arrangement that endures to this day, the Trust agreed a deal that its administrative costs would be largely met by a grant in aid funding from the Ministry of Defence.
Activity in Nepal
Today, the Trust's field delivery arm – The Gurkha Welfare Scheme – employs around 400 staff members in Nepal. Its footprint includes 21 operational bases (Area Welfare Centres) across Nepal that are run by former Gurkhas, as well as one in Darjeeling, India. Each day, elderly veterans come to these centres with their health and welfare needs. Every quarter, a steady stream of Gurkha veterans walk anything up to two or three days to claim their pensions.
The Trust pays a monthly stipend to around 5,800 needy Gurkha ex-servicemen and widows in Nepal who do not receive a military pension (15 years' military service is required to earn such a pension). Medical treatment is also provided for them and their dependants. In addition, hardship grants are awarded to alleviate destitution following fire, flood and other natural disasters. The Trust runs two Residential Homes in Pokhara and Dharan, offering full-time care for some of its most vulnerable pensioners.
In addition to its relief work for Gurkha veterans, the Trust also invests in Community Aid projects for the wider Nepalese population. It has built 137 new schools and runs an extensive renovation programme for dilapidated schools, improving access to education for over 550,000 Nepali children since the programme began in 1989. Enhancements in existing schools include tap stands, libraries and science laboratories.
The Trust also runs an extensive Rural Water and Sanitation Programme in Nepal, supported by DFID. Clean water supply systems and sanitation schemes are introduced to around 120 villages across the country each year, drastically reducing sickness rates and labour hours in those communities. To date, over 300,000 people in around 1,400 villages have benefited from the Trust's water projects.
With funding from the Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association, the Trust organises eight annual open medical camps, performing thousands of dental extractions and cataract operations while offering free GP and gynaecology checks, performing minor surgery and distributing free medication. Around 14,500 Nepali people benefit from these camps each year.
Activity in the UK
Following a change in legal status in 2009, many Gurkhas who retired pre-1997 chose to move to the UK on a permanent basis. The Trust runs two Gurkha Welfare Advice Centres in Salisbury and in Aldershot to assist Gurkha pensioners in their transition to life in the UK. The Advice Centres also provide outreach surgeries in communities where there are significant Gurkha populations.
North American branches
Gurkha Welfare Appeal (Canada) was active between 1973 and 2004.
Gurkha Welfare Trust Foundation (USA) was established in 1978 by Ellice McDonald Jr.
Nepal earthquakes in 2015
Following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015, The Gurkha Welfare Trust was among the first relief organisations to respond to the disaster, making use of its extensive local footprint to deploy patrol teams including mobile doctors. The teams distributed emergency financial, medical and material aid such as food and shelter in affected regions across the country.
In the UK, the Trust launched an Earthquake Response appeal. In the longer term, the charity committed to rebuilding the 1,100 homes for the Gurkha veterans and widows who were left homeless. It also pledged to build and repair hundreds of schools and water projects in affected areas.
The Trust's response was supported by troops from the UK Brigade of Gurkhas, predominantly of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers, who assisted with relief distribution and reconstruction projects.
Gurkha 200
2015 marked the bicentenary of Gurkha service to the British Crown. In recognition of this historic milestone, various commemorative events took place throughout the year to celebrate the Gurkhas’ contribution to the British Army and raise funds for The Gurkha Welfare Trust.
A number of commemorative expeditions were planned in 2015. On 9 June, hundreds of serving soldiers took part in a fundraising Pageant organised by The Gurkha Welfare Trust, attended by the Queen and other members of the royal family.
The Gurkha 200 campaign was supported by a number of celebrities, including Joanna Lumley and Dan Snow, who narrated at the Gurkha 200 Pageant on 9 June. Lumley, whose father served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, is a Vice Patron of the Trust.
All proceeds raised through the Gurkha 200 campaign were dedicated to The Gurkha Welfare Trust's welfare and relief activity in Nepal.
References
External links
The Gurkha Welfare Trust
The Gurkha Museum
British veterans' organisations
Brigade of Gurkhas
Gurkhas
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The northern schiffornis (Schiffornis veraepacis), is a species of Neotropical bird.
Distribution and habitat
It is found from southeast Mexico to western Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Description
It is medium-sized, about 24 cm (9 in.) long.
Taxonomy
The northern schiffornis has traditionally been placed in the manakin family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae, where now placed by SACC.
The species was split by the AOU in 2013 from the species complex thrush-like schiffornis.
References
northern schiffornis
Birds of Central America
Birds of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
northern schiffornis
northern schiffornis
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The 1988-89 Los Angeles Clippers season was their 19th season in the NBA, and their 5th season in Los Angeles. The Clippers won the Draft Lottery, and selected Danny Manning from the University of Kansas with the first overall pick in the 1988 NBA draft, then selected Hersey Hawkins out of Bradley University with the sixth pick, but then traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers for Charles D. Smith from the University of Pittsburgh, and acquired rookie guard Gary Grant from the Seattle SuperSonics. However, Manning would only play just 26 games due to a right knee injury, as the Clippers finished last in the Pacific Division with a 21–61 record.
Second-year forward Ken Norman showed improvement, averaging 18.1 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game, while Manning averaged 16.7 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game, and Smith provided the team with 16.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. In addition, Benoit Benjamin averaged 16.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game, while Quintin Dailey contributed 16.1 points and 1.3 steals per game, Grant provided with 11.9 points, 7.1 assists and 2.0 steals per game, and second-year forward Reggie Williams contributed 10.2 points and 1.3 steals per game. Following the season, Dailey was released to free agency.
For the season, the Clippers changed the jersey number colors on their road uniforms from blue to white. These uniforms only lasted for just one season.
Draft picks
Roster
Roster notes
This is forward Eric White's second tour of duty with the franchise after playing briefly for the Utah Jazz. He previously played for the team in March and April in 1988.
Regular season
Season standings
z - clinched division title
y - clinched division title
x - clinched playoff spot
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Player statistics
Awards and records
Charles Smith, NBA All-Rookie Team 1st Team
Transactions
The Clippers were involved in the following transactions during the 1988–89 season.
Trades
Free agents
Additions
Subtractions
Player Transactions Citation:
References
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Virginia de' Medici (29 May 1568 – 15 January 1615) was an Italian princess, a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess of Modena and Reggio.
Regent of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio in 1601 during the absence of her husband, she was able to protect the autonomy of the city of Modena from the attacks of the local Podestà and Judge. Her husband's infidelities increased her already erratic behavior and led to a permanent mental illness, which lasted until her death.
Life
Early years
Born in Florence on 29 May 1568, Virginia was the illegitimate daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his mistress Camilla Martelli. Her paternal grandparents were the famous condottiere Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and his wife Maria Salviati (in turn the granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent) and her maternal grandparents were Antonio Martelli and Fiammetta Soderini, both members of the most important families among the Florentine patricians.
Virginia was born after the formal resignation of her father of the government on behalf of her half-brother Francesco. Cosimo I contracted a morganatic marriage with Camilla Martelli on 29 March 1570 on the advice of Pope Pius V, and this allowed him to legitimize their daughter on the principle of per subsequens. Since that time, she lived with her parents at the Villa di Castello during the summer and in Pisa in winter. Cosimo I's older children resented their father's second marriage, and after the death of the Grand Duke in 1574, they imprisoned Camilla in the Florentine convent of Murate.
Despite the controversy about her illegitimate birth and ambiguous position in the Grand Ducal house, Virginia's older brothers began negotiations with the House of Sforza of a marriage between her and one of his members. In 1581 she was betrothed to Francesco Sforza, Count of Santa Fiora, but the wedding didn't take place because the groom chose the ecclesiastical career and became a Cardinal. After this, it was decided to arrange her marriage with a member of the House of Este with the purpose to improve the relations between both families and break the isolation of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from the other Italian states. Virginia's half-brother Cardinal Ferdinando has agreed with Cardinal Luigi d'Este for the marriage of his nephew and Virginia. In addition, the second wife of Grand Duke Francesco I, Bianca Cappello, also played a big role in the conclusion of this alliance.
Marriage and issue
In Florence on 6 February 1586 Virginia married Cesare d'Este, son of Alfonso, Marquis of Montecchio, in turn the illegitimate (but later legitimized) son of Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara. To celebrate this event was represented the comedy "l’Amico Fido", written by Giovanni de' Bardi and with the lyrics of Alessandro Striggio and Cristofano Malvezzi, and in Ferrara the poet Torquato Tasso dedicated a Cantata to the newlyweds.
The union produced ten children, six sons and four daughters:
Giulia d'Este (1588–1645); died unmarried.
Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1591–1644), Duke of Modena from 1628; married Princess Isabella of Savoy and had issue.
Laura d'Este (1594–1630), twin with Luigi; married Alessandro I Pico, Duke of Mirandola and had issue, ancestress of Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Modena.
Luigi d'Este, Marquis of Montecchio and Scandiano (1594–1664), twin with Laura, General at the Imperial army; died unmarried but had illegitimate issue.
Caterina d'Este (1595–1618); died unmarried.
Anna Eleonora d'Este (1597–1651); a Poor Clare nun under the name of Sister Angela Caterina and later Abbess of the Monastery of Santa Chiara of Carpi.
Ippolito d'Este (1599–1647), Knight of the Order of Malta and Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre; died unmarried.
Niccolo d'Este (1601–1640), Captain at the Imperial Army; married Sveva d'Avalos, no issue.
Borso d'Este (1605–1657), Colonel at the Imperial Army and later General in the French Army; married Ippolita d'Este (illegitimate daughter of his brother Luigi) and had issue.
Foresto d'Este (1606–1639), Captain at the Imperial Army; died unmarried.
At the end of February 1586 Virginia and Cesare arrived in Ferrara. They stayed at the Palazzo Diamanti, a gift of Cardinal Luigi d'Este, Cesare's uncle, who later bequeathed him all his possessions. One year later (1587), Virginia became in Marchioness consort of Montecchio after the death of her father-in-law.
After the extinction of the legitimate line of the House of Este with the death of Duke Alfonso II on 27 October 1597 without issue, Cesare inherited the headship and all the possessions of the family; in consequence, Virginia became in the Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess consort of Carpi, Princess of the Holy Roman Empire, Duchess consort of Chartres and Montargis, Countess consort of Gisors, Viscountess consort of Caen, Bayeux and Falaise. However, the rule over Ferrara was short-lived: although Emperor Rudolf II recognized the rights of Cesare over Modena and Reggio (both Imperial fiefs), Pope Clement VIII didn't recognized Cesare's succession in Ferrara (nominally a Papal fief) on grounds of doubtful legitimacy. On 15 January 1598 the Duchy of Ferrara was officially abolished and returned to the Papal States, despite Cesare's attempts to obtain the help of the major European powers. Cesare, with his family and court, were forced to move to Modena, who became in the new capital of the dynasty. In 1599 Cesare obtained the Lordship of Sassuolo, but in 1601 the Parlement of Paris stripped him of all the domains and titles in the Kingdom of France.
Mental illness and death
In 1596, the first signs of madness were manifested in Virginia, who suffered from this condition until her death. Nevertheless, she coped with her motherly duties with her numerous offspring and showed herself as a clever and far-sighted ruler when in January 1601, in the absence of her husband (who was in Reggio) the heavily pregnant Duchess took the position of Regent. During this time she stopped the attempts of the Podesta and Judge of Modena to deprive her of the government. However, Virginia was unable to control her unpredictable anger fits: when in March 1608 her confessor, the Jesuit Jerome Bondinari claimed that she was possessed by the devil, the Duchess violently attacked him with shouts and nearly beat him to death with a stick. After this, exorcism sessions were held in her, during which it became clear that Virginia's mental illness was caused by the fact that she was married against her will, and worsened due to the infidelities of her husband. The attempts of expulsion the demons in her finally originated that Virginia became completely insane. She only recovered her sense on the day of her death; in her deathbed, she blessed all her children and died peacefully.
Virginia died on 15 January 1615 in Modena aged 46; there were rumors that she was poisoned by her husband. The memorial service, who was held on 27 February at Modena Cathedral was celebrated by the Jesuit Agostino Mascardi. She was buried in the crypt of the House of Este in the Church of St. Vincent in Modena.
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Notts County Ladies F.C.
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Notts County Ladies Football Club was a women's football club based in Nottingham, England. Like the club's male affiliate Notts County FC, they played their home games at Meadow Lane.
Notts County Ladies were created in 2014 when Lincoln Ladies were relocated from Lincoln to Nottingham and rebranded. The club were originally formed in Lincoln in 1995 and also spent a period known as Lincoln City Ladies while affiliated to Lincoln City. Sincil Bank and other smaller venues staged the club's matches during their time in Lincoln. The club was named OOH Lincoln Ladies from 2008 until 2010, due to sponsorship from Ray Trew's OOH Media PLC.
The club withdrew from the FA WSL 1, the top tier in the English women's football league system, two days before the start of the FA WSL Spring Series on 21 April 2017.
Lincoln Ladies
Lincoln Ladies FC were founded in 1995 and began playing in the East Midlands Combination League. The club was promoted in each of the following seasons, bar one, until reaching the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division in 2002. This feat was achieved with the same core group of players. The team finished as league runners-up in four successive seasons (2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10) and reached the semi-final of the FA Women's Cup in 2007–08.
A five-year sponsorship deal with former Lincoln City F.C. board member Ray Trew in June 2008 led to the club's change of name to OOH Lincoln Ladies. Trew had previously sponsored the club through his SportsTV company, and made available extra funds for signings such as England internationals Kay Hawke and Amanda Barr to assist the club's promotion bid.
In November 2009 the club announced a bid to join the FA WSL. If successful the club planned to divide home games between Sincil Bank and current home, Ashby Avenue. In 2009–10 they had taken second place in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division to Liverpool LFC, after finishing second to Sunderland WFC, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool LFC in the three previous seasons.
On 22 March 2010 Lincoln were announced as one of the eight FA WSL teams for the inaugural 2011 season, which was televised on ESPN. In August 2010 the club signed Jess Clarke and Sophie Bradley for their FA WSL campaign. In the same week Sue Smith also joined from Leeds United. Weeks before the start of the new competition, Lincoln made another major signing with the capture of Casey Stoney from Chelsea.
Stadia
Lincoln Ladies FC ground-shared with Lincoln United F.C. at Ashby Avenue after summer 2009. Before that the club spent three seasons playing in Collingham, Nottinghamshire at the Station Road ground, which became a "fortress".
In 2002–03 the club played their home games at Sincil Bank and became the first women's club to play a full season at a professional Football League stadium.
On 7 January 2013 the club announced that they would play their fixtures for the 2013 FA WSL at Sincil Bank.
Supporters
Lincoln Ladies FC claimed to have had one of the largest fanbases of any female club in England. The FA Women's Cup semi-final in 2008 attracted 3,000 fans to Sincil Bank, while over 1,500 attended other high-profile home matches. By the last two seasons in Lincoln, 2012 and 2013, average home attendances had slumped to 526 and 269 respectively.
Lincoln City Women
In 2019, Nettleham LFC rebranded to Lincoln City Women F.C. and became the new team affiliated with Lincoln City F.C. They are often mistaken for Lincoln Ladies but held no connection to the original team.
Notts County Ladies
Move to Nottingham
On 26 April 2013, the club said it would become Notts County Ladies from the 2014 season onwards, but did not reveal logistics of the presumed move to Nottingham. This has not been without controversy. There was talk of creating a wholly new team in Lincoln as a consequence; in 2019, Lincoln City F.C. adopted a team in the FA Women's National League. A link with a male club was necessary to meet the criteria for the new two tier FA WSL. Angry supporters in Lincoln compared the move to the 2003 relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes.
Folding and relaunch of women's team
The club withdrew from the FA WSL 1, the top tier in the English women's football league system, two days before the start of the FA WSL Spring Series on 21 April 2017. The club created a new women's team for the 2018–19 season as Notts County Women F.C.
Colours and badge
The playing colours of Notts County Ladies FC were black and white striped shirts and white shorts. The club also used the same badge as their affiliate club.
Stadia
The rebranding to Notts County for the 2014 season entailed a relocation to Meadow Lane, Nottingham.
Former players
For details of former players, see :Category:Notts County L.F.C. players.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Women's FA Cup:
Runners-up: 2014–15
FA WSL Cup:
Runners-up: 2015
As Lincoln Ladies F.C.:
FA Women's Premier League Northern Division:
Runners-up (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
Lincolnshire FA County Cup:
Winners (7): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10
See also
List of women's association football clubs in England and Wales
Women's football in England
List of women's association football clubs
References
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Notts County F.C.
Association football clubs established in 1995
1995 establishments in England
FA WSL 1 teams
FA Women's National League teams
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The 2021 Dubai Women's Sevens was held as two rugby sevens tournaments on consecutive weekends in late November and early Decemberthat year. They were played as the tenth international season of the Dubai Women's Sevens, following the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournaments were the opening events of the 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.
Due to ongoing impacts of the pandemic, the first event was played behind closed doors on 26–27 November 2021 with no spectators allowed, but the second event was played in front of full crowds on 3–4 December at The Sevens stadium in Dubai. Two pitches were used in Dubai, which allowed matches in overlapping time slots to be played. As only ten women's teams instead of the usual twelve competed in both tournaments, a format based on two pools with five teams in each was used.
Australia won back-to-back titles in Dubai, defeating Fiji in the final of both tournaments.
Format
The ten teams at each tournament were drawn into two pools of five teams. A round-robin was held for each pool, where each team played the others in their pool once. The best teams from each pool played off in the Cup final for the gold and silver medals, and the second best teams from each pool played off in the third place final for the bronze medal.
For the lower classification matches, the third best teams from the pools played off for fifth, the fourth best played off for seventh, and the last two teams in each pool played off for ninth place.
Teams
The ten national women's teams competing at both tournaments in Dubai were:
Core teams eligible to play but not participating at Dubai were:
England, who were represented by Great Britain for the first two tournaments of the 2021–22 Series, before competing again as a separate national union for the remainder of the series.
New Zealand, who did not participate in Dubai due to the challenges of COVID-19 travel logistics.
Dubai: Event I
The first tournament was held with no crowd in attendance at The Sevens stadium in Dubai on 26–27 November 2021. Australia won the tournament, defeating Fiji by 22–7 in the final.
All times in UAE Standard Time (UTC+4:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:
Key:
Pool A – Event I
Pool B – Event I
Playoffs – Event I
9th place final
7th place final
5th place final
3rd place final
Cup final
Placings – Event I
Source: World Rugby
Dubai: Event II
The second tournament was played with spectators in attendance at The Sevens stadium in Dubai on 3–4 December 2021. Australia won the tournament, defeating Fiji by 15–5 in the final.
All times in UAE Standard Time (UTC+4:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:
Key:
Pool A – Event II
Pool B – Event II
Playoffs – Event II
9th place final
7th place final
5th place final
3rd place final
Cup final
Placings – Event II
Source: World Rugby
See also
2021 Dubai Sevens (for men's teams)
References
External links
Tournament site
World Rugby info – Event I
World Rugby info – Event II
2021
2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
2021 in Emirati sport
2021 in Asian rugby union
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Römer is a lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the Sinus Amoris in the northeast section of the Moon. It was named after Danish astronomer Ole Rømer. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the Montes Taurus. It was unofficially named as Ataturk by astronomer Hugh Percy Wilkins in his lunar map, possibly due to the fact that the Montes Taurus (or Toros Daglari in Turkish) are located in Turkey. To the west-northwest is the crater-bay Le Monnier, on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.
The rim of Römer has relatively high walls with a terraced inner surface. There is a small craterlet on the north part of the floor, and a large central peak at the midpoint. Römer has a ray system, and due to these rays, it is mapped as part of the Copernican System.
To the northwest of the crater is a prominent system of rilles named the Rimae Römer. These follow a course to the north from the western rim of the crater, and have a combined length of about 110 kilometres.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Römer.
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.
Römer K — See Franck (crater).
Römer L — See Brewster (crater).
References
Impact craters on the Moon
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The British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) is the national association for swimming coaches in the United Kingdom.
History
The organisation was formed in 1965. Many swimming coaches in the UK have qualified through the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association, now Swim England), via the Coach Education Certification Course. Other parts of the UK are represented by Scottish Swimming, Swim Wales and Swim Ireland. The BSCA was incorporated as a company in January 2010.
Function
It represents swimming coaches in the UK. It holds an annual 2-day BSCA Conference each year in late September. It holds the annual BSCA Awards. It works with British Swimming (former Great Britain Swimming Federation), who govern the sport in Great Britain.
The organisation is headquartered in Worcestershire. It is represented on the International Council for Coaching Excellence and the World Swimming Coaches Association.
See also
Swimming clubs in Kent
Swimming clubs in London
References
External links
BSCA
1965 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Worcestershire
Physical education in the United Kingdom
Sport in Worcestershire
Sports organizations established in 1965
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Rexford is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 197.
History
Rexford was founded in approximately 1887. It was named in honor of a member of the Rexford family who died in a fire that engulfed the family home. They were some of the first settlers in the area and had been there for years.
The first post office in Rexford was established in August 1888.
In 1923 the town of Rexford elected a three-year-old as mayor. He held that office for five months before they realized that he was incapable of running an entire township.
Geography
Rexford is located at (39.470512, -100.743975). Rexford is located along U.S. Route 83 about 20 miles north of Interstate 70. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. The region has occasional, significant blizzards when the entire area can be without electricity. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Rexford has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 232 people, 84 households, and 52 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 104 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 74.1% White, 0.4% African American, 0.4% Native American, 23.3% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 26.3% of the population.
There were 84 households, of which 47.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.2% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.1% were non-families. 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.71.
The median age in the city was 31.5 years. 36.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.6% were from 25 to 44; 15.5% were from 45 to 64; and 14.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.0% male and 50.0% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 157 people, 78 households, and 41 families residing in the city. The population density was 602.7 people per square mile (233.1/km). There were 105 housing units at an average density of 403.1 per square mile (155.9/km). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.91% of the population.
There were 78 households, out of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.4% were married couples living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.2% were non-families. 44.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.01 and the average family size was 2.74.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.2% under the age of 18, 3.2% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 26.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $40,156, and the median income for a family was $39,688. Males had a median income of $34,375 versus $24,375 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,301. About 4.7% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.
Education
School unification consolidated Menlo, Rexford and Selden schools forming USD 316 Golden Plains. Golden Plains High School is located in Rexford. The Golden Plains High School mascot is the Bulldog.
Rexford High School was closed through school unification. The Rexford High School mascot was also the Bulldog.
See also
Philip Houston Bed and Breakfast
References
Further reading
External links
Rexford - Directory of Public Officials
USD 316, local school district
Rexford city map, KDOT
Cities in Thomas County, Kansas
Cities in Kansas
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USS Hassayampa was a in service with the United States Navy, and the United States Merchant Marine from 1955 to 1991. A veteran of the Vietnam and First Gulf War, she served for 36 years before being laid up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in California. Her keel was laid on 13 July 1953.
Ship History
Between July 1955 and May 1958, Hassayampa made three deployments to the Western Pacific, providing logistics for the United States 7th Fleet. In June 1958 Hassayampa joined the 1st Fleet at San Francisco to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the cruise of the Great White Fleet around the world. On 16 July 1958, Hassayampa returned to Pearl Harbor and resumed regular duties.
In September 1958, Hassayampa, deployed with the 7th Fleet to prevent invasion of Chinese offshore islands and convoyed Nationalist transports during the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis. At one point, in December 1958, Hassayampa had the unfortunate experience of being close-in to an aviation mishap when a pilot from a nearby aircraft carrier lost control of his aircraft and crashed into the sea astern of the ship. Only a portion of a wing tank, a section of the windshield and some debris from the cockpit were recovered.
Between 1959 and 1961 she made three additional deployments to the Western Pacific continuing her services to the 7th Fleet including a 1960 visit to Perth and Adelaide, Australia to participate in Australia's 18th celebration of the Battle of Coral Sea. In May 1962, Hassayampa supported units of the 7th Fleet moving Marines into Thailand to prevent flare-up of trouble in Laos.
Vietnam War
During the period 25 April 1962 through 31 December 1962, fleet tankers Hassayampa, , , and were deployed during atmospheric nuclear testing off Johnston Island and Christmas Island in the Pacific, code named Operation Dominic. Hassayampa was involved in tests named Chama, Housatonic, Checkmate, Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish.
On 23 January 1963, Hassayampa deployed to the Far East to resume duty with the 7th Fleet. On 2 April 1963, Hassayampa and the aircraft carrier established a new underway replenishment record for AO/CVA class ships by achieving a transfer rate of 9,857 barrels of fuel oil per hour. During the same replenishment, Hassayampa and the guided missile destroyer established a new record for oilers and cruiser/missile destroyers by achieving a transfer rate of 7,485 barrels of fuel per hour. On 6 April 1963, Hassayampa and Constellation broke their previous record by achieving a transfer rate of 10,247 barrels of fuel oil per hour. Finally, on 15 April 1963, Hassayampa and Constellation again broke their own record by achieving a transfer rate of 11,246 barrels of fuel oil per hour. Returning to Pearl Harbor 15 June 1963, Hassayampa underwent a modernization overhaul from October 1963 to January 1964.
She again sailed for the Western Pacific 12 March 1964. On 31 March 1964, she joined a Navy carrier task force from Subic Bay, Philippines for operations in the Indian Ocean. On 4 April 1964, the Concord Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral R. B. Moore and composed of the aircraft carrier , the destroyers , , and Hassayampa, entered the Indian Ocean from the Pacific and began a 6-week goodwill cruise which carried it near Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Malaysia, the African Coast and into ports along the way for good will visits, until returning to Subic Bay 16 May 1964.
Hassayampa remained in the Far East until mid-September 1964. During that time she refueled ships off Japan and in the South China Sea. During the Tonkin Gulf crisis in August 1964 Hassayampa provided at-sea logistics support for the ready ships of the U.S. Pacific and 7th Fleets. After completing her deployment, the busy fleet oiler arrived Pearl Harbor 29 September 1964.
Resuming Far East duty in April 1965, Hassayampa operated in the South China Sea and supported the American efforts in the region. During this time, Hassayampa acted as an integral replenishment vessel in support of Operation Market Time which was a joint effort between the U.S. Navy and the South Vietnamese Navy in an effort to stop the flow of supplies from North Vietnam into the south by sea. Mobility and the endurance sustained by underway replenishment forces resulted in maximum use of 7th Fleet carriers for retaliatory raids, for strikes in support of troops ashore, and for attacks against the enemy lines of communication. Naval air operations were of particular importance in the days before adequate airfields could be built ashore, and the ability of task forces to operate in nearby Tonkin Gulf permitted effective and efficient air operations against targets in North Vietnam. According to Navy reports, Operation Market Time was very successful but received little credit. Eventually, all the supply routes at sea became non-existent which forced the North Vietnamese to use the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Hassayampa returned to home port Pearl Harbor on 16 December 1965, thence serving as a recovery logistic ship during the Gemini 8 space shot in mid-March 1966 in unison with the destroyers , , , , , , , landing helicopter dock , minesweeper , and auxiliary vessels , and . The following year in June, Hassayampa was among the vessels assigned to participate in the Gemini 9 space shot.
Sailing again for the Far East 5 June 1966, during the next five months Hassayampa maintained a busy schedule refueling escort vessels and aircraft carriers of the Pacific and 7th Fleets including Constellation, , , , and .
During an underway replenishment operation in the western Pacific with Constellation to port and the destroyer to starboard, in July 1966, Constellation needed to turn into the wind to launch a COD, so all three ships turned in unison to accomplish that task. At a point when the carrier's launch could take place and Constellation stopped turning, Hassayampas rudder stuck and she continued to turn. Eventually, wire rope and fitting began to break and whip all about due to the increasing separation between the two ships. As Hassayampa continued to turn and before her rudder could be righted, the ship had a brief encounter with Vogelsang to starboard, which had ceased her turn in unison with Constellation. Upon completion of necessary replenishment exercises, Hassayampa was forced to put into Subic Bay for repairs.
On 8 September 1966 during Task Group refueling operations, the Soviet Intelligence Trawler Gidrofon closed the formation and placed herself in close proximity to Roosevelt. At that point, the carrier that was refueling alongside Hassayampa directed the destroyer to intervene and "shoulder" the intruder away from the formation. During a 2-week period in November 1966, Hassayampa refueled 67 ships. Prior to returning to Pearl Harbor 16 December 1966, Hassayampa had refueled 367 ships in the Western Pacific.
On 2 October 1967, during replenishment operations with the destroyer to starboard, Buck suffered a steering casualty at 1903 that necessitated her to execute an emergency breakaway. During the next few moments, while Buck came into contact with Hassayampa, Buck’s port anchor was pushed thru its side. Upon regaining steering and a return to composure, Buck headed for Subic Bay for emergency drydock repairs that took about 30 days to accomplish.
In another incident, during the early-mid 1960s, Hassayampa had an incident during a midnight replenishment operation. The following is a narrative from Robert Werner, Communications Officer of , as obtained from :
"The collision while refueling from the USS Hassayampa off Da Nang about midnight. We were hooked up and fueling when our radar which showed an unknown contact with a good right bearing drift suddenly painted four contacts showing no lights with about 200 yards separation between each about 2,000 yards ahead. Captain Coston waited for less than a minute expecting the Senior CO on the oiler (in tactical command) to effect breakaway, and then, with no response from Hassayampa, took tactical command himself and ordered emergency breakaway. I think we used axes to cut through either the span wire or hoses and rolled heavily to starboard. Only seconds later we saw looming about 200 yards ahead one of the four contacts, a barge cabled apparently to other barges, invisible at night with no lights. The oiler cut through the cable between the last two barges, but we had nowhere to go and plowed into (I think) barge number 2. It put a big hole in our bow which the DCA, Ltjg. Wright Nobel Rodman plugged with mattresses. Scared the piss out of me."
Hassayampa remained with the 7th Fleet into the late 1960s with further deployments including Operation Sealords. Operation Sealords, launched on 8 October 1968, was intended to disrupt North Vietnamese supply lines in and around the Mekong Delta. As a two-year operation, by 1971, all aspects of Sealords had been turned over to the South Vietnam Navy.
Apollo Program
Continuing her service in the Western Pacific, Hassayampa served as replenishment vessel during the Apollo 11 recovery mission where she was on hand for replenishment duties for the carrier and support vessels , , , and . On 22 July 1969, Hassayampa refueled Hornet just prior to Hornets recovery of the Apollo 11 space capsule. The command module "Columbia" splashed down about south of Johnston Island at 12:50 GMT 24 July 1969. Hassayampa participated in the recovery of the spacecraft Yankee Clipper, facilitating with Underway Replenishment Operations as needed.
Racial Tensions
Hassayampa continued to operate out of Pearl Harbor well into the 1970s in support of the 7th Fleet off Southeast Asia. July, August, September and October 1972 found Hassayampa facilitating the heavy cruiser and other naval ships in combat action throughout southeast Asia—and continued that stance well into the 1980s. In 1972, racial tensions erupted aboard several naval vessels, including Hassayampa. As a result, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, instituted new race relations programs and made significant changes to Naval Regulations to address many of the issues raised by black sailors regarding racial injustice in the Navy.
Continued Operations, August 1973
In early August 1973 Hassayampa had just started shipyard availability when ordered to support two specially configured Military Sealift Command (MSC) ships (USNS Corpus Christi Bay and ) that were observing French nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll, southeast of Tahiti. 6 days later, the ship arrived at Pago Pago and refueling operations took place on 6 August and 11 August 1973. Hassayampa returned to Pearl Harbor on 17 August to continue shipyard availability. Three weeks later, Hassayampa received orders to return to Pago Pago to again refuel the MSC ships due to repeated delays of the French testing and the MSC vessels running low on fuel as a result. On 6 September 1973, Hassayampa proceeded at to accomplish this, meeting up with Corpus Christi Bay, underway, and began what turned out to be a 42-hour UNREP. Corpus Christi Bay had no alongside UNREP capability so Hassayampa streamed a hose to Corpus Christi Bay as she maintained her station astern, rather than alongside. Seven Hassayampa crewmen were heloed over to help secure and operate the refueling station. Both vessels steamed at bare steerage way (). Hassayampa returned to Pearl Harbor on 24 September 1973 and was nominated for a National Defense Transportation Unit Award.
Transfer to Military Sealift Command
On 17 November 1978, USS Hassayampa, Captain Roger Box, USN, along with his Executive Officer, LCDR R. T. Sloane, USN, transferred the ship to the Military Sealift Command, where she began her second life as USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145) under the command of Captain Gottfried C. Krull.
In 1981, working in conjunction with the submarine , Hassayampa was instrumental in securing the rescue of 87 Vietnamese refugees drifting at sea in an open boat off the coast of South Vietnam. While en route to Singapore to safely offload the 87 refugees picked up by Barbel, Hassayampa came upon an additional boat with 104 refugees. Several years later, on 8 May 1984, Hassayampa spotted a teak fishing boat that was adrift and located from the nearest island and south of Saigon. On board was a group of 20 Vietnamese refugees. In all, Hassayampa had now facilitated in the rescue of 211 Vietnamese Boat People.
September and October 1983 found Hassayampa entwined in Russian politics and foreign intrigue when she accompanied United States Coast Guard cutter , the rescue salvage ship and the fleet tug in search and salvage efforts surrounding the wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 that was brought down by Russian aircraft. In addition, there were also three Japanese tugs chartered through the U.S. Navy’s Far East Salvage Contractor (Selco)—Ocean Bull, Kaiko-Maru 7, and the ill-fated Kaiko-Maru 3. These vessels, which housed navigation systems equipment, had the assignment of towing sideways scanning sonar designed to detect objects at the bottom of the sea such as the wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Additionally, there were several U.S. naval combatants and logistical support ships. In addition to the above ships, there were numerous Japanese Maritime Safety Agency (JMSA) patrol boats and South Korean vessels. Additionally, there were scores of Russian vessels navigating the area. On 17 October 1983, Rear Admiral Walter T. Piotti, Jr., was placed in command of U.S. Seventh Fleet Task Force 71 which was overseeing search and salvage efforts. Commander Piotti’s assessment of the enormity of this naval undertaking was: “Not since the search for the hydrogen bomb lost off Palamares, Spain has the U.S. Navy undertaken a search effort of the magnitude or import of the search for the wreckage of KAL Flight 007.
FLEETEX '85
During November 1984, U.S.N.S. Hassayampa was a participant in FLEETEX 85, a major exercise involving five aircraft carrier battlegroups and sixty-five ships from various countries. At one point during a consolidation operation with M/V Falcon Champion, a giant wave struck both vessels and forced Hassayampa seven degrees to port causing a near-collision between her and Falcon Champion. A significant amount of material damage was suffered by Hassayampa, in addition to three crewmembers having to be air-lifted at maximum helo range, to the aircraft carrier , two of which were further air-lifted to Japan for emergency medical treatment. By 1987, Hassayampa was well-versed in war effort management and was operating with Battle Group Echo.
Throughout the late 1980s, Hassayampa played an integral role in Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf peace keeping efforts and worked in harmony with naval and military operations including Operation Earnest Will, Operation Nimble Archer, and Operation Praying Mantis.
Ship's Disposal
In 1991, she was removed from active naval service and placed in reserve in the Susin Bay Reserve Fleet in California. In 1994, she was struck from the Naval Register and awaited disposal. On 1 May 1999, she was transferred to MARAD and in April 2014 she was sold for scrap. She was removed from the National Defense Reserve Fleet for cleaning on 29 May 2014 at Mare Island and was removed from Mare Island on 11 June 2014. On 26 June 2014, she arrived at All Star Metals in Brownsville, Texas. Scrapping is expected to be complete by 2015.
Ship awards
References
External links
USS/USNS Hassayampa (AO-145) (T-AO 145) Site maintained by Terry Kuehn, crew member 1960-1963
USS/USNS Hassayampa (AO-145) (T-AO 145) Complete rendition of Ribbons and Awards
USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145) at navysite.de
NavSource-USS Hassayampa
Hassayampa (archived copy taken Sept 25, 2015)
Neosho-class oilers
United States Navy Arizona-related ships
1954 ships
Ships built in Camden, New Jersey
Ships of the United States Navy
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Motinggo Busye was born in Lampung on November 21, 1937 and died in Jakarta on June 18, 1999. He was a prominent Indonesian writer and former chief editor of Penerbitan Nusantara. In the early half of the 1970s, Motinggo Busye also worked as a film producer. His most famous film is Bing Slamet Dukun Palsu (1973).
List of works
Malam Jahanam (novel, 1962)
Badai Sampai Sore (drama, 1962)
Tidak Menyerah (novel, 1963)
Hari Ini Tak Ada Cinta (novel, 1963)
Perempuan Itu Bernama Barabah (novel, 1963)
Dosa Kita Semua (novel, 1963)
Tiada Belas Kasihan (novel, 1963)
Nyonya dan Nyonya (drama, 1963)
Sejuta Matahari (novel, 1963)
Nasehat buat Anakku (compilation of short stories, 1963)
Malam Pengantin di Bukit Kera (drama, 1963)
Buang Tonjam (legend, 1963)
Ahim-Ha (legend, 1963)
Batu Serampok (legend, 1963)
Penerobosan di Bawah Laut (novel, 1964)
Titian Dosa di Atasnya (novel, 1964)
Cross Mama (novel, 1966)
Tante Maryati (novel, 1967)
Sri Ayati (novel, 1968)
Retno Lestari (novel, 1968)
Dia Musuh Keluarga (novel, 1968)
Sanu, Infita Kembar (novel, 1985)
Madu Prahara (novel, 1985)
Dosa Kita Semua (novel, 1986)
Aura Para Aulia: Islamic poems (1990)
Dua Tengkorak Kepala (1999)
1937 births
1999 deaths
Minangkabau people
Indonesian writers
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Vittorio Grigolo
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Vittorio Grigolo (correctly Vittorio Grigòlo, born 19 February 1977) is an Italian operatic tenor.
Early life
Grigolo was born in Arezzo and raised in Rome. He began singing by the age of four. When he was nine years old he accompanied his mother to have her eyes tested and, hearing someone singing from another room, he spontaneously began his own rendition of "Ave Maria". The singer, the optician's father, was so impressed that he insisted Grigolo have an audition for the Sistine Chapel Choir as soon as possible. Young Vittorio was chosen to become part of Sistine Chapel Choir as a soloist. He then studied for five years at the Schola Puerorum at the Sistine Chapel. At age 13 he played the Pastorello in a performance of Tosca at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, where he shared the stage with Luciano Pavarotti and was given the nickname 'Il Pavarottino'. When 18, Vittorio joined the Vienna Opera Company. He became the youngest man to perform in Milan's La Scala at age 23. He also raced Pre-3000 Formula cars for a while until an accident limited his opportunities in this field.
Allegations of inappropriate behavior
In September 2019 Grigolo was dismissed firstly by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden on the grounds of inappropriate behavior during the Royal Opera's tour in Japan. His contracts with the Metropolitan Opera were subsequently also cancelled.
Repertory
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo, I Due Foscari, Un Ballo in Maschera, Luisa Miller, Messa da Requiem, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Corsaro;
Gaetano Donizetti: L´Elisir d’Amore, Don Sebastiano, La Favorita, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia & Lucia di Lammermoor
Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly;
Charles Gounod: Faust, Roméo et Juliette;
Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle, Stabat Mater;
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo, Così fan tutte;
Jules Massenet: Werther, Manon;
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story;
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann;
Awards
The European Commission of the EU granted Grigolo and Romano Musumarra a European Border Breakers Award, along with the record company, authors and publishers, for recording the highest sales for a debut album in 2006 within the European Union, but outside of its country of production.
Nominations
Grammy Award 2008 for Best Musical Show Album - West Side Story
Discography
Albums
Singles
DVD
Recorded at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy. A live performance of tracks from his album, as well as a few additional pieces. The DVD was recorded specifically for the Great Performances series on PBS TV USA.
Grigolo plays Cassio in Giuseppe Verdi Otello recorded at Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona 2006
Appearances
'Camillo de Rossillon' in La vedova allegra at Roma Opera House, Rome December 2007
'Rodolfo' in La bohème at the Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington, D.C. September 2007 and at Zurich Opera House, October/November 2009.
Stabat Mater by Rossini at Sydney Opera House Australia, May 2007
'Alfredo' in La traviata at Roma Opera Theatre April 2007, at Théâtre Antique d'Orange, Les Chorégies d'Orange, 11 & 15 July 2009, at La Fenice September 2009, Deutsche Oper Berlin September 2009/March 2010
'Cassio' in Otello at the Liceu, Barcelona February 2006.
'Il Duca de Mantova' in Rigoletto at Hamburg State Opera, September/October 2005.
'Don Carlos' in Don Carlos at Geneva Opera House, June 2008.
'Edgardo' in Lucia di Lammermoor at Zurich Opera House, September 2008.
Rigoletto, live from Mantua, 2010 RAI film version of Rigoletto, performed live on location in Mantua, Italy and broadcast simultaneously in 148 countries.
'Rodolfo' in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, October 2010. It was his debut with the company.
'Corrado' in Il corsaro at Zurich Opera House, November 2009/January 2010.
'Hoffmann' in Les contes d'Hoffmann at Zurich Opera House, March/April 2010.
'Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2013
'Rodolfo' in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2014
'Hoffmann' in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, January/February 2015
'Romeo' in "Romeo et Juliette" at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2017
'Nemorino' in "L'Elisir d'Amore" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2017
References
External links
Grigolo's official website
1977 births
Living people
Italian operatic tenors
Opera crossover singers
People from Arezzo
Singers from Rome
21st-century Italian male opera singers
20th-century Italian male opera singers
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Misha Black
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Sir Misha Black (16 October 1910 – 11 October 1977) was a British-Azerbaijani architect and designer. In 1933 he founded with associates in London the organisation that became the Artists' International Association. In 1943, with Milner Gray and Herbert Read, Sir Misha Black founded Design Research Unit, a London-based Architectural, Graphic Design and Interior Design Company.
He was born in 1910 in Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) into a wealthy Jewish family. From 1959 to 1975 Black was a professor of industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London, England. During his tenure at the Royal College of Art, he became President of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) from 1959 to 1961. He was also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, and winner of the Minerva Medal, the Society's highest award. He was knighted in 1972. Between 1974 and 1976 Black was President of the Design and Industries Association.
Notable works
Black is remembered largely for his iconic design of the Westminster street name signs, the external styling of British Railways Southern Region British Rail Class 71 electric locomotives of 1958 and Western Region British Rail Class 52 diesel locomotives of 1961. He also designed the London Underground 1967 Stock that was used on the Victoria line between 1967 and 2011. On 27 July 2003 at Salisbury station, preserved Class 52 D1015 named Western Champion was unveiled carrying temporary Sir Misha Black nameplates.
Black is often credited for designing the black/brown/orange/yellow moquette originally used by London Transport and also the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in the late 1970s onwards; whilst he commissioned the fabric it was actually the work of noted textile designer Jacqueline Groag.
Publications
Personal life
Black played an active part in UNESCO. His brother was the philosopher Max Black.
Legacy
Black is commemorated in The Sir Misha Black Awards, created in 1978 by the Design and Industries Association, the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI), and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was influential in framing the educational discipline of Industrial Design (Engineering) in the UK at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and also the foundation of the academic discipline of design research by facilitating the Professorial role offered to Bruce Archer in the first Department of Design Research at the RCA. Recipients of the Sir Misha Black Medal include prestigious design educators such as Max Bill (1982), Ettore Sottsass (1999), Santiago Calatrava (2002), Margaret Calvert (2016) and Professor Birgit Mager (2020). The Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education, first awarded in 1999, was given to Arts University Bournemouth in 2016 and the University of Brighton Design Archives in 2018.
See also
College of Medallists
References
Further reading
External links
Black's moquette design for London Transport
Selected Writings
Sir Misha Black Awards
Royal Designers for Industry & Britain Can Make It
20th-century British architects
Chartered designers
Academics of the Royal College of Art
1910 births
1977 deaths
People from Baku Governorate
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom
British Jews
Architects from Baku
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
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Anne Stallybrass
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Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass (4 December 1938 – 3 July 2021) was an English actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The television roles for which she is best known are Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and Anne Onedin in The Onedin Line (1971–1972).
Biography
Stallybrass was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on 4 December 1938, to Edward Lindsay Stallybrass (1905–1990) and Annie Isobel (née Peacock) Stallybrass (1911–1981), who wed in 1933 in Hackney, London. She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Westcliff and spent three years training at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Drama Gold Medal. She began her professional acting career by spending several years in repertory, gaining experience in Folkestone Kent, with the Arthur Brough Players, before moving to Nottingham and then to Sheffield.
The television roles for which she is best known are: Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), and Anne Onedin in The Onedin Line (1971-1972), written by Cyril Abraham. In 1973 she appeared as a narrator in five episodes of the BBC children's television series Jackanory. Other major roles include Anna Strauss in The Strauss Family (1972), Susan Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978 adaptation), and Muriel Thomas in The Old Devils (1992). From 1995 until 1998 she played Eileen Reynolds in ITV's period police drama Heartbeat. She portrayed Queen Elizabeth II, for Diana: Her True Story (1993), the made for TV mini-series from Andrew Morton's biography. Being a monarchist, she was initially unsure about taking the role, although her family used to tease her for bearing a resemblance to the monarch. She appeared in Midsomer Murders “Strangler’s Wood” (1999) as Emily Meakham. She was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress; for her portrayals of Anne Onedin and Anna Strauss.
Personal life
Stallybrass married twice and though was unable to have children. She described this as "something I have learnt to live with. I take great joy in my three godchildren and have kept in touch with all the 'television children' I have had. She met her first husband Roger Rowland in Nottingham; the couple wed in 1963, but separated after nine years of marriage and later divorced. Peter Gilmore's second marriage broke up not long after and the friendship between the two Onedin Line actors gradually developed; they fell in love and began to live together. In 1987, after ten years, the couple married and remained together until Gilmore's death in February 2013. They lived in Barnes, London, and owned a cottage, named Onedin House, in Dartmouth, which was used as a film location for scenes in The Onedin Line.
She died on 3 July 2021, at the age of 82.
References
External links
Site dedicated to the actors Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore, gilmore-stallybrass.eu; accessed 31 July 2015.
1938 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
English film actresses
English television actresses
People from Barnes, London
People from Westcliff-on-Sea
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from Essex
Actresses from London
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Joanna Penberthy
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Joanna Susan Penberthy (born 1960) is a Welsh Anglican bishop. Since November 2016, she has served as the Bishop of St Davids in the Church in Wales. She was the first woman to become a bishop in the Church in Wales, when she was consecrated a bishop on 21 January 2017.
She has ministered in the Church of England and the Church in Wales: she has served as a deaconess in the Diocese of Durham and the Diocese of Llandaff, as a deacon in the Diocese of Llandaff, the Diocese of St Asaph, and the Diocese of St Davids, and as a priest in the Diocese of St Davids, the Diocese of Bath and Wells, and the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. Her final appointment before being raised to the episcopate was as Rector of the Benefice of Glan Ithon in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon (2015 to 2016).
Early life and education
Penberthy was born in 1960 in Swansea, Wales. She was brought up in Cardiff, and was educated in the city at Cardiff High School, a comprehensive school. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981; as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1985. In 1983, she entered St John's College, Nottingham, an Evangelical Anglican theological college, to train for ministry. During this time, she also studied for a Master of Theology (MTh) degree, which she completed in 1984.
In addition to her full-time ministry, Penberthy undertook part-time study in quantum physics. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in July 2019 by the University of Nottingham. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Reading the "Paradoxical Book of Bell": a case study in theology and science".
Ordained ministry
In 1984, Penberthy was licensed a deaconess in the Church of England. From 1984 to 1985, she served as a full-time deaconess at St Andrew's Church, Haughton-le-Skerne in the Diocese of Durham. She moved to Wales in 1985, and began her ministry in the Church in Wales. From 1985 to 1989, served as a full-time deaconess in the Benefice of Llanishen and Lisvane on the outskirts of Cardiff and in the Diocese of Llandaff.
In 1987, Penberthy was ordained a deacon; the Church in Wales had ordained women to the diaconate since 1980. From 1987 to 1989, she was also a non-stipendiary minister in the benefice of Llanishen and Lisvane. From 1989 to 1993, she was a non-stipendiary minister in the benefice of Llanwddyn (St Wyddyn) and Llanfihangel-yng-Nghwynfa and Llwydiarth in the Diocese of St Asaph; her husband served as its Vicar during this period. From 1993 to 1995, she was a non-stipendiary minister in the benefice of St Sadwrn's Church, Llansadwrn with Llanwrda and Manordeilo in the Diocese of St Davids; her husband was vicar of this benefice from 1993 to 2010. From 1994, she was also a Provincial Officer in the Division for Parochial Development and Renewal; this was an appointment focused on evangelism.
In 1997, Penberthy was ordained a priest; this was the first year that the Church in Wales ordained women to the priesthood, making her one of the first female priests in the province. She continued working for the Division for Parochial Development and Renewal until 1999. From 1999 to 2001, she was Priest-in-Charge of St Cynwyl's Church, Cynwyl Gaeo with Llansawel and Talley in the Diocese of St Davids. She was made Vicar of the benefice in 2001. She was an Adult Education Officer for the Diocese of St Davids between 2001 and 2002, and Warden of Readers for the diocese between 2002 and 2010. In February 2007, she was made a Canon of St Davids Cathedral, the first woman to be appointed a canon at that cathedral.
In 2010, Penberthy returned to England, leaving behind her benefice and canonry. From 2010 to 2011, she was Priest-in-Charge of the benefice of Charlton Musgrove (St John) (St Stephen), Cucklington and Stoke Trister in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. She was made Rector of the benefice in 2011. In July 2015, it was announced that she would be leaving the diocese to return to Wales. On 8 September 2015, she was inducted as the Rector of Glan Ithon (a benefice consisting of Llandrindod Wells (Holy Trinity) (Old Parish Church) and Cefnllys with Diserth with Llanyre and Llanfihangel Helygen) in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.
Episcopal ministry
On 2 November 2016, it was announced that Penberthy had been elected the next Bishop of St Davids. She is the first woman to be elected a bishop in the Church in Wales. Her election was confirmed on 30 November 2016, thereby legally becoming the 129th Bishop of St Davids. She was consecrated a bishop on 21 January 2017 during a service at Llandaff Cathedral, the last Bishop consecrated by Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, before his retirement. She was enthroned at St Davids Cathedral on 11 February 2017.
A social media post from a personal Twitter account in March 2021 which said "never, never trust a Tory" led to significant online criticism, from the public and other clergy, including from Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. On 2 June 2021 she issued an apology on the Bishop of St Davids website in which she stated that she "trust and have trusted many Conservatives and know there are many honourable people in that party". It was announced on 21 June 2021 that Penberthy would be taking a month's sick leave, the Archdeacons' letter referring to the recent controversy. The announcement was subsequently amended to read that she would be on sick leave until the end of September, then until the middle of October, and then until the end of October. She began a phased return to work on 1 November 2021.
Personal life
Penberthy is married to Adrian Legg who is also an Anglican priest. They have four children. In 2015, whilst serving as rector within the diocese of Bath and Wells, she stood as Labour candidate in the Blackmoor Vale ward of South Somerset District Council. She came in last place, out of five candidates, polling 275 votes (5%).
References
1960 births
Living people
20th-century Welsh Anglican priests
21st-century Welsh Anglican priests
Church in Wales clergy
Church of England priests
People educated at Cardiff High School
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Alumni of Cranmer Hall, Durham
Bishops of St Davids
Female Anglican bishops
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim%20School
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Slim School
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The Slim School was a British Families Education Service co-educational secondary school located in the Cameron Highlands, Malaya. Established in 1951 and named after Field Marshal Lord Slim, it educated children of British military families from the ages of 11 to 17. It closed in December 1964.
Its founding headmaster was Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) William Harrison.
External links
Unofficial website
Defunct schools in Malaysia
British international schools in Malaysia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazinotus%20sibogae
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Pazinotus sibogae
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Pazinotus sibogae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Distribution
References
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1911
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murad%20Fatiyev
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Murad Fatiyev
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Murad Fatiyev (born April 2, 1999) is an Azerbaijani judoka.
He is the bronze medallist at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Tbilisi and is scheduled to represent Azerbaijan at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Azerbaijani male judoka
Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka of Azerbaijan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanon%20Wakeshima%20discography
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Kanon Wakeshima discography
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This is the discography of Japanese singer and cellist Kanon Wakeshima.
Albums
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
Digital Single
Kanon x Kanon singles
Best Album
Music videos
Kanon x Kanon music videos
Guest contributions
Featured on the track "Halloween Party" by Halloween Junky Orchestra (2012)
External links
Kanon Wakeshima Discography (Sony Music Japan)
Discographies of Japanese artists
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X-tigi Mobile
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X-Tigi Mobile is a Hong Kong-based smartphone manufacturer that was founded in 2006, the company has research & development center and factory located in China. X-Tigi service network is available in most African countries (especially Kenya and Ghana) since it entered the African market in 2009.
X-Tigi mobile phones were known for power-bank phones that could last weeks in Africa. In 2017, the company launched its first 4G LTE smartphone—Inspire 3, that supports fingerprint reader at the back in Africa.
In 2017, X-Tigi is now in partnership with over 10,000 retailers in Africa (especially Kilimall, Jumia), competing with the share value of Samsung and Tecno, Infinix.
X-Tigi Kenya
X-Tigi started business in Kenya since 2009, meanwhile some new flagship smartphones with specification of 64GB ROM plus 4GB RAM such as X-Tigi A1 plus were launched, which made X-Tigi brand compete with the share value of Samsung and Tecno, Infinix in Kenya.
In 2016, X-Tigi started cooperation with Jumia Kenya, which made X-Tigi goods reachable online in Kenya.
X-Tigi Ghana
X-Tigi entered into Ghana in 2007, then its rapid expanding makes X-Tigi Ghana one of the famous mobile brands in Ghana.
X-Tigi Offices have been established in at least 3 cities up to 2017 in Ghana.
X-Tigi Cote d'ivoire
X-Tigi started business in Cote d'ivoire since 2010, and X-Tigi brand became in partnership with Jumia Cote d'ivoire In 2016, which makes X-Tigi goods both available online and offline in Cote d'ivoire market.
X-Tigi Tanzania
X-Tigi first showed its brand in Tanzania in 2016, and then grow fast with offices established in main cities such as Dar es salaam, Mwanza, Arusha, etc.
X-Tigi in other African countries
In the past ten years, X-Tigi Mobile has set its brand shown in many other African countries, namely, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Togo, Senegal, Cameroon, Benin, Rwanda and so on, with more than 30 million handsets sold.
References
External links
X-Tigi A1 Plus First Impressions – Performance Specs at a Budget
5 Things to Love About the All New X-TIGI A1 Plus
"Jumia by the Numbers: Smartphones Account for 45% of All Items Sold on Jumia, Infinix Top Brand in 2015",Jumia, Kenya. Retrieved 2016-05-25
"Meet the X-Tigi Inspire 3"techweez.com. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
"How to watch 3D movies on the X- TIGI Vision6",Tuko News,Kenya. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
"X-TIGI Vision 6 Review; Virtual Reality Experience at a Budget",androidafrica.co.ke. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
"XTIGI S1550 Smartphone Launches Online in Kenya",www.kenyabuzz.com. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
Mobile phone companies of Hong Kong
Chinese companies established in 2005
Hong Kong brands
Electronics companies established in 2005
2005 establishments in Hong Kong
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Robert Johanny
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Robert Johanny was a sailor from Austria, who represented his country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
References
Sources
Sailors at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 12' Dinghy
Olympic sailors of Austria
Austrian male sailors (sport)
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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Twrcelyn Rural District
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Twrcelyn was a rural district in the administrative county of Anglesey, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The district took its name from Twrcelyn, one of the ancient cwmwds or medieval subdivisions of the island.
The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Anglesey Rural Sanitary District. The district consisted of the following civil parishes:
The rural district was abolished in 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 amalgamated Twrcelyn with the other local authorities on the island to become the district of Ynys Môn - Isle of Anglesey.
External links
Twrcelyn Rural District Council records'' (Archives Network Wales), accessed January 23, 2008
Rural districts of Wales
History of Anglesey
1894 establishments in Wales
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Bucky F*cking Dent
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Bucky F*cking Dent is a 2016 novel by actor David Duchovny which focuses on a father-son relationship and baseball.
Plot
A Yankee Stadium peanut vendor moves in with his father, a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, who is fighting off cancer long enough in hopes of seeing the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the 1978 playoffs.
Reception
The novel received generally favorable reviews. Joseph Salvatore in the New York Times stated, "Duchovny hits an unexpected home run." Micah Pollac, in the Washington Post, noted, "Duchovny’s tone makes the ride a pleasure. He dips into the waters of love, death, fatherhood, marriage and sex, but he doesn’t go too deep. You enjoy the swim without becoming a prune."
References
2016 American novels
Baseball novels
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Thompson Sound, British Columbia
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Thompson Sound is an unincorporated locality on the east side of the sound of the same name, which is in the area of Tribune Channel and the Broughton Archipelago in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada.
References
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Central Coast of British Columbia
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Liang Jinrong
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Liang Jinrong (; born May 21, 1960) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster.
In 1997, he became China's 7th Grandmaster.
He has played for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League.
Career
He gained the GM title in 1997. He was National Chess Champion twice in 1995 and 2000.
He competed for the China national chess team for a total of seven times at the Chess Olympiads (1978–1986, 1990–1992) with an overall record of 70 games played (+23, =30, -17); one World Men's Team Chess Championship (1989) with an overall record of 3 games played (+0, =2, -1); and eight Men's Asian Team Chess Championships (1979–1983, 1987, 1991–1999) with an overall record of 41 games played (+25, =13, -3).
He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2536 in January 2000.
See also
Chess in China
References
External links
Liang Jinrong - New In Chess. NICBase Online.
FIDE Chess Player card - Individual Calculations
Chessmetrics Career Ratings for Liang Jinrong
Elo rating with world rankings and historical development since 1990 (benoni.de/schach/elo) for Liang Jinrong
1960 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Guangzhou
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Atlantic Gateway (Virginia)
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The Atlantic Gateway is a planned infrastructure improvement project in Virginia that will expand transportation routes leading into Washington, D.C. from Virginia. It includes road and rail components, and construction is planned to take place through the end of the 2010s and into the early 2020s.
Funding
The budget for the entire project is estimated at $1.4 billion, and is funded by a mix of federal, state, and private sources. $710 million comes from the state's transportation budget, while rail operator CSX Transportation and toll road operator Transurban will jointly contribute $565 million and the federal government, through its FASTLANE program, issued a $165 million grant.
Road improvements
Tolled high occupancy lanes on Interstate 395 will be extended about north from their current terminus just inside the Washington Beltway to the Pentagon, while similar lanes on Interstate 95 will be extended about south into Fredericksburg. I-95's crossing of the Rappahannock River will also see additional capacity added. The I-395 work is scheduled to be completed in 2019, while I-95 construction will continue into 2020.
Rail improvements
Two sections of additional mainline trackage will be added to the CSX line running south through Virginia. A fourth track will be built from Long Bridge, which crosses the Potomac, south to Alexandria, and an third track will be built between the Franconia–Springfield station and Occoquan River crossing. CSX will transfer an abandoned right-of-way between Petersburg and the North Carolina border, a critical link in the planned Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor, to the state of Virginia. Early design and engineering work of a replaced or rebuilt Long Bridge to increase rail capacity out of Washington will also take place, through actual construction remains unfunded. Most rail construction is to take until 2020, though some minor improvements to the corridor will be completed sooner.
References
Transportation in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Transportation in Stafford County, Virginia
Transportation in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Mitigating evidence
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Mitigating evidence is evidence that is provided (usually by the defendant in a criminal trial) in order to try to establish the presence of mitigating circumstances. The presence of mitigating circumstances can reduce the punishment imposed for the offense. The case of the Oregon v. Guzek dealt with the issue of whether alibi evidence not introduced at trial could be introduced in the sentencing phase of a death penalty trial as mitigating evidence.
References
Evidence law
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Gimlet (eucalypt)
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A gimlet is one of nine species of eucalypt in the genus Eucalyptus, series Contortae. These species are mainly characterised by having smooth, shiny, fluted trunks. The most widely distributed of the gimlets, is E. salubris which is found throughout the south-west of Western Australia, other than in coastal areas and wet forests. The other eight species have a narrower distribution in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The only gimlet that is a mallee is E. effusa which forms a lignotuber from which it can resprout after fire. The other eight gimlets are mallets, do not form a lignotuber, are killed by fire and regenerate from seed. These species are E. campaspe, E. creta, E. diptera, E. jimberlanica, E. ravida, E. terebra, E. salubris and E. tortilis.
References
Eucalyptus
Plant common names
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Parantica aglea
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Parantica aglea, the glassy tiger, is a butterfly found in Indomalayan realm that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Description
Two subspecies are recognized but neither form is constant either in markings or in habitat. In the British Museum collection there are specimens of true Parantica aglea aglea from Myanmar, and others, inseparable from typical Parantica aglea melanoides, from Mysore.
Subspecies Parantica aglea aglea
Ground colour fuliginous black with subhyaline bluish-white streaks and spots. Forewing: vein 11 anastomosed with vein 12.
Upperside: forewing—interspace 1 with two comparatively long, broad streaks united at base, truncate exteriorly; cell with a very broad, somewhat clavate streak traversed by two fine black lines; basal spots in interspaces 2 and 3; an irregular discal series of three spots and two elongate streaks and a subterminal series of spots, the two series curved inwards opposite apex of wing, the latter continued along the apical half of the
costa; finally a terminal row in pairs in the interspaces, of much smaller spots. Hindwing: interspaces la, lb with broad long streaks from base; interspace 1 and cell with two streaks united at base in each, the pair in the cell with a short streak obliquely between their apices, an outwardly radiating series of broad, elongate, inwardly pointed spots in interspaces 2–8, followed by somewhat irregular rows of subterminal and terminal spots. Underside similar, the markings and spots sometimes a little ill-defined and blurred.
Antennae black; head and thorax black spotted with white; abdomen blackish brown, ochraceous beneath.
Male secondary sex-mark in form 2.
Subspecies Parantica aglea melanoides
Northern and eastern form. Differs as follows: Wings on the whole longer and narrower; hyaline markings, especially in interspace 1 of forewing and in cells of both forewing and hindwing, very much broader. In many specimens the black ground colour in these spaces is reduced to a mere slender black line enclosed in the subhyaline marking. On the underside the streaks are often much blurred and diffuse.
Wingspan 70–100 mm.
Distribution
Subspecies Parantica aglea aglea: Sri Lanka, the Western Ghats north to Pune and the Niligiris.
Subspecies Parantica aglea melanoides: the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal; Sylhet; Assam; Cachar; Chittagong; Arrakan; Burma and Tenasserim.
Life cycle
Food plant
Tylophora carnosa.
Tylophora pauciflora
Eggs
White pearl-shaped eggs are laid under the leaves .They hatch after about three days.
Larva
Dark claret brown, two round chrome-yellow spots on each segment, with scattered smaller bluish-white spots between, clustering into and forming a conspicuous line along the sides; legs and ventral surface purplish black, the tentacula, placed as usual on the 3rd and 12th segments, claret brown.
Pupa
Green, spotted with silver , black and gold; much constricted behind the thorax.
Range
Western Ghats, north-east India , Sri Lanka and Malay peninsula.
See also
Danainae
Nymphalidae
List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
References
External links
Sri Lanka Wild Life Information Database
A
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
Insects of Myanmar
Lepidoptera of Nepal
Butterflies of Sri Lanka
Taxa named by Caspar Stoll
Butterflies described in 1782
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Serginho (footballer, born 1986)
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Sérgio Antônio Borges Júnior (born 4 August 1986, in Contagem), commonly known as Serginho, is a Brazilian footballer who most recently played as a defensive midfielder for Confiança
Club career
Serginho was born in Contagem, Minas Gerais. A Villa Nova youth graduate, he moved to Atlético Mineiro in 2006, and made his senior debuts in the following year's Campeonato Mineiro.
Serginho made his Série A debut on 21 July 2007, in a 0–4 away defeat to Vasco da Gama. After a short loan spell at CRB, he established himself as a starter for Galo, and scored his first professional goal on 24 August 2008, netting the first in a 4–0 home routing of Atlético Paranaense.
On 27 May 2013 Serginho was loaned to fellow top division club Criciúma, until the end of the year. On 14 January of the following year he extended his loan for a further season.
On 23 January 2015 Serginho joined Vasco, in a season-long loan deal.
On 10 May 2018, Serginho helped Akhisar Belediyespor win their first professional trophy, the 2017–18 Turkish Cup.
Career statistics
Honours
Atlético Mineiro
Campeonato Mineiro: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013
Akhisarspor
Turkish Cup (1): 2017-18
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
People from Contagem
Brazilian footballers
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Association football midfielders
Clube Atlético Mineiro players
Criciúma Esporte Clube players
CR Vasco da Gama players
Sport Club do Recife players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Al-Wasl F.C. players
Akhisarspor footballers
Coritiba Foot Ball Club players
Süper Lig players
UAE Pro League players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Lester
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Edward Lester
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Edward Lester may refer to:
Ted Lester (1923–2015), English cricketer for Yorkshire
Edward Lester (Middlesex cricketer), English cricketer active 1929–31
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PDMI
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PDMI (Portable Digital Media Interface) is an interconnection standard for portable media players. It has been developed by CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) as ANSI/CEA-2017-A standard Common Interconnection for Portable Media Players in February 2010. Chaired by David McLauchlan from Microsoft, the standard was developed with the input or support of over fifty consumer electronics companies worldwide.
Development and history
CEA-2017-A is the new revision of the earlier ANSI/CEA-2017 standard adopted in July 2007, which used a proprietary serial protocol based on Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) in-vehicle network; the 2007 revision has seen only marginal use in actual devices. New CEA-2017-A devices are not compatible with devices manufactured under the 2007 revision.
PDMI connector is intended to serve as a common interconnection between docking devices and displays and portable/nomadic devices with media playback capability. Intended host devices include docking stations for home A/V equipment, in-car entertainment systems, digital media kiosks, and hotel/in-flight entertainment systems, where PDMI aims to replace the ubiquitous iPod cradle connector.
PDMI uses a 30 pin receptacle with approximate size of 2.5 mm by 22 mm; a cradle-style connector is also defined. The PDMI connector includes the following electrical interfaces:
2-lane DisplayPort v1.1a with AUX Channel, Hot Plug Detect, and 3.3 V power line
USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and USB On-The-Go
Analog stereo line-out for legacy audio
HDMI CEC for remote control
High output power line from both host and portable device
DisplayPort component provides data rate of 4.32 Gbit/s and supports up to 1080p60 video and 8-channel audio playback on an attached display device, as well as EDID and display control commands. DisplayPort signal can be converted to HDMI format using active converter circuitry in the dock or external signal conversion adapter powered by 3.3 V DisplayPort power.
Power supply from both the host (docking station) and portable device allows for supporting the portable device with power and battery charging, as well as supporting accessories from the portable device.
USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed", USB 2.0, and USB On-The-Go support file transfer and device control, as well as device-to-device intercommunication.
Devices that use PDMI
The first mass-production device from a major manufacturer to incorporate PDMI is the Dell Streak, a tablet device running the Android operating system version 1.6 through 2.2.
Pinout
References
External links
Purchase Standards
CEA-2017 Rev A, Common Interconnection For Portable Media Players (PDMI), $75.
CEA-2017.1 Rev 7, Serial Communication Protocol For Portable Electronic Devices, $156.
Slides
DisplayPort Technical Overview; Slides; May 2010, contains slides about PDMI
Announcements
CEA Announced Portable Media Connection Standard
CEA may spawn standards effort for handhelds
Audiovisual connectors
Digital display connectors
USB
Electronics standards
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2010
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Elisabeta Știrbey
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Elisabeta Știrbey (1805–1874), was a princess consort of Wallachia.
She was the daughter of Elenei Brâncoveanu (1787–1809) and Grigore Cantacuzino-Pașcanu (1779–1808) and married Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei in 1821. From 1825, they lived in Bucharest, where their palace at the Calea Victoriei became a center of social life, where she became known for the grand balls she regularly arranged. She was also a noted philanthropist. In 1839, she had French educational work by Jeanne Campan translated to Romanian, and in 1843, she founded the first Romanian language school for girls.
References
Oana Marinache, Reședințele Știrbey din București și Buftea, Editura ACS, București, 2013
1805 births
1874 deaths
19th-century Romanian women
Romanian philanthropists
Royal consorts of Wallachia
Elisabeta
Elisabeta
19th-century philanthropists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull%20%28surname%29
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Hull (surname)
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If the surname Hull is of topographical origin, it may derive from the Old English hyll, denoting a "dweller on or by a hill" (making it a Middle English West Country and West Midlands variant of Hill), or from a Welsh term for a rough, uneven place. It may also be of locational origin, e.g., Kingston upon Hull on the River Hull in Yorkshire, or derive from the personal name Hulle, a pet form of Hugh. The name spread from the British Isles throughout the Anglosphere.
The first notable bearer of the name in North America, a brother of the Rev. Joseph Hull, was George Hull (1590–1659) of Crewkerne, Somerset, who in 1630 sailed on the Mary and John from Plymouth, Devon, in cooperation with the Winthrop Fleet, and helped in the Puritan founding of Dorchester, which he represented at the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hull later surveyed lands for the new Colony of Connecticut, including Windsor and Wethersfield; helped found Fairfield; and served as a representative to the General Court and as assistant to his good friend Roger Ludlow, who appointed him associate magistrate for towns along the shoreline.
Notable people with the surname Hull include:
Alan Hull, English musician and songwriter
Blair Hull, American businessman and politician
Bobby Hull (born 1939), Canadian ice hockey player
Brett Hull (born 1964), Canadian–American ice hockey player; son of Bobby Hull
Brian Hull, American voice actor, impressionist, and YouTuber
Charles Henry Hull (born 1864), American economist and historian
Chuck Hull (born 1939), American inventor of stereolithography
Caesar Barrand Hul (1914–1940), Southern Rhodesian World War II flying ace
Clark L. Hull (1884–1952), American psychologist
Cordell Hull (1871–1955), U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
Dennis Hull (born 1944), Canadian ice hockey player; brother of Bobby Hull
Edith Maude Hull (1880–1947), British writer, author of the novel The Sheik
Edward Hull (1823–1906), English illustrator and watercolorist
Emmett J. Hull (1882–1957), American architect
Everett Hull (1904–1981), American musician, inventor of the bass amplifier, and founder of Ampeg
Francesca Hull, cast member in British TV series Made in Chelsea
Frank Montgomery Hull (1901–1982), American entomologist
Gertrude Hull (1866–1947), American educator
Gordon Ferrie Hull, American physicist
Harold Hull (1920–1988), American professional basketball player
Henry Hull (1890–1977), American actor
Isaac Hull, early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
James L. Hull, American Medal of Honor recipient
Jane Dee Hull (1935-2020), American educator and politician, governor of Arizona
John Hull (disambiguation), several people
John Hull (1624–1683), English colonist; Treasurer and mintmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Hull (1761–1843), English physician, obstetrician, and botanist
John A. Hull (1874–1944), Judge Advocate General (1924–1928) and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1932–1936)
John A. T. Hull (1841–1928), American lawyer and politician from Iowa
John C. Hull, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1925–1928 and First Securities Director 1930–1936
John C. Hull, Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
John E. Hull (1895–1975), U.S. Army general
John H. E. Hull (1923–1977), English theologian and writer on religion
John M. Hull, Australian-born professor of religious education at the University of Birmingham
Joseph Hull (1595–1665), English colonist and clergyman in New England
Josephine Hull, American stage and film actress
Katherine Hull (born 1982), Australian golfer
Kay Hull, Australian politician
Laurens Hull (1779–1865), American physician and politician from New York
Merlin Hull, U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
Rae Hull, Canadian journalist
R. F. C. Hull (1913–1974), British translator of the works of Carl Jung
Rod Hull (1935–1999), English entertainer
Ross Hull Canadian actor and TV personality
Ross A. Hull Australian-American radio engineer
Stephen A. Hull, American politician
Thomas Hull (disambiguation), several people
Thomas Hull (1728–1808), English actor and dramatist
Warren Hull (1903–1974), film actor and TV personality
William Hull (disambiguation), several people
William Hull, American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812
William Hull (1820–1880), English watercolor landscape and still-life painter, illustrator, and etcher
William Lovell Hull (1897–1992), Canadian minister, missionary, author, and spiritual counselor to Adolf Eichmann during his imprisonment
William Roper Hull (1856–1925), Anglo-Canadian rancher, meat packer, businessman, and philanthropist
William Winstanley Hull (1794–1873), English liturgical writer and hymnologist
William "Billy" Hull (b. 1912), Ulster loyalist activist and politician
Xiea Hull, model, teacher, author and psychologist from Antigua and Barbuda
References
English-language surnames
Lists of people by surname
Surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Woolman%2C%20Lord%20Woolman
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Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman
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Stephen Errol Woolman, Lord Woolman, (born 16 May 1953), is a Scottish legal academic, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.
Early life
Woolman was educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh and studied law at the University of Aberdeen. He was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh from 1978 to 1987, serving as Associate Dean from 1981 to 1984. He published the first edition of his work on Contract in 1987, being admitted to the Faculty of Advocates the same year.
Legal career
Woolman served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Office of Fair Trading (1991 to 1995), the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence (1991 to 1995), and the Inland Revenue (1996 to 1998). He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1998 and served as Advocate Depute from 1999 to 2002. He was keeper of the Advocates' Library and a trustee of the National Library of Scotland from 2004 to 2008, and chairman of the Scottish Council of Law Reporting from 2007 to 2008.
He was appointed Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session, the Supreme Courts of Scotland, in 2008, as Lord Woolman. He sits in the Inner House of the Court of Session. He is also President of the Scottish Tribunals. He was formerly deputy chairman of the Boundary Commission for Scotland (2009 - 2015)
Publications
Woolman on Contract, 1987 (6th ed. 2018) W. Green & Sons. ()
Personal life
Lord Woolman married Helen Mackinnon in 1977, with whom he has two daughters.
See also
List of Senators of the College of Justice
References
1953 births
Living people
People educated at George Heriot's School
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Members of the Faculty of Advocates
Scottish Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel 1901–2000
Woolman
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Baksa, Hooghly
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Baksa is a census town in Chanditala II CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Baksa is located at .
Kharsarai, Tisa, Kapashanria, Jaykrishnapur, Purba Tajpur, Begampur, Baksa, Panchghara, Chikrand, Janai, Pairagachha, Naiti, Barijhati, Garalgachha and Krishnapur, all the census towns form a series from the northern part of Chanditala II CD Block to its southern part. The only municipality in the area, Dankuni, located outside the CD Block, occupies the south-east corner of the entire cluster.
Urbanisation
Srirampore subdivision is the most urbanized of the subdivisions in Hooghly district. 73.13% of the population in the subdivision is urban and 26.88% is rural. The subdivision has 6 municipalities and 34 census towns. The municipalities are: Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality, Konnagar Municipality, Serampore Municipality, Baidyabati Municipality, Rishra Municipality and Dankuni Municipality. Amongst the CD Blocks in the subdivision, Uttarapara Serampore (census towns shown in a separate map) had 76% urban population, Chanditala I 42%, Chanditala II 69% and Jangipara 7% (census towns shown in the map above). All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Gram panchayat
Villages and census towns in Baksa gram panchayat are: Baksa, Duttapur, Khoragari and Madhabpur.
Demographics
As per 2011 Census of India Baksa had a total population of 6,432 of which 3,196 (50%) were males and 3,236 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 600. The total number of literates in Baksa was 4,767 (81.74% of the population over 6 years).
Dankuni Urban Agglomeration
As per the 2011 census, Dankuni Urban Agglomeration includes: Dankuni (M), Purba Tajpur (CT), Kharsarai (CT), Begampur (CT), Chikrand (CT), Pairagachha (CT), Barijhati (CT), Garalgachha (CT), Krishnapur (CT), Baruipara (CT), Borai (CT), Nawapara (CT), Basai (CT), Gangadharpur (CT), Manirampur (CT), Janai (CT), Kapashanria (CT), Jaykrishnapur (CT), Tisa (CT), Baksa (CT), Panchghara (CT) and Naiti (CT).
Transport
The nearest railway station, Janai Road railway station, is from Howrah on the Howrah-Bardhaman chord line and is a part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system.
Education
Baksha Bindhyabasini Niharbala Vidyalaya is a coeducational higher secondary school at Baksha. It has arrangements for teaching Bengali, English, Sanskrit, history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and education.
References
Census towns in Chanditala II CD Block
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Montdurausse
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Montdurausse (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
See also
Communes of the Tarn department
References
Communes of Tarn (department)
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William Brace
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William Brace (23 September 1865 – 12 October 1947) was a Welsh trade unionist and Liberal and Labour politician.
Early life and career
Born in Risca, in the coal-mining district of Monmouthshire, he was one of six children of Thomas and Anne Brace. Brace briefly attended school before starting work at the local colliery, aged 12. He later worked at Celynnen and Abercarn collieries He soon involved himself in trade union activities and politics and in 1890 was elected the local agent for the Monmouthshire Miners' Association. He was also elected to Monmouthshire County Council.
Trade Union career
Brace was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britain's colliers, an issue in which he clashed with William Abraham (Mabon). Following the Welsh coal strike of 1898 the Miners' Association became part of the new South Wales Miners' Federation, and Brace was elected its first vice-president. He was later to the union's president from 1912 to 1915.
Parliamentary career
During the early years of the twentieth century, there was considerable debate within Welsh Liberal Party circles around the selection of working men as Liberal candidates. This had intensified after the election Keir Hardie as the first independent Welsh Labour MP in 1900. Hardie made outspoken attacks on nonconformity and the Liberal establishment and this made even moderate labour leaders such as Mabon appear suspect in the eyes of local Liberal associations. In 1903, Brace presented his name for the South Glamorganshire constituency, held since 1895 by a Conservative landowner. Only after considerable pressure from the Liberal chief whip, Herbert Gladstone, did the Liberal Association in the constituency agree to adopt Brace as their candidate.
At the 1906 general election he was elected as a Liberal-Labour member of parliament for South Glamorganshire, holding the seat at the next two general elections. He continued taking the Liberal whip for some years, despite the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which sponsored him, having affiliated to the Labour Party in 1909. During the First World War he held the post of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1916. When the South Glamorganshire seat was abolished at the 1918 general election, he was elected unopposed to represent the new Abertillery seat, this time as Labour Party MP.
Later life
He resigned from the House of Commons in 1920 in the wake of a bitter dispute within the miners' unions. Brace was criticised over his failure to support the "Datum Line" strike while he was equally critical of the "wild" union leaders who were determined to bring about conflict in the coalfields. He decided he could better serve the interests of the coal miners by taking up the position of Labour Advisor to the Ministry of Mines.
His brother George Brace borrowed money from him and other family members to form Brace's Bakery.
Brace married Nellie Humphreys in 1890. The couple had had two sons and a daughter. The younger son, Ivor Llewellyn Brace, became
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei.
William Brace died after a long illness at his home in Allt-yr-yn, Newport in October 1947 aged 82.
References
Sources
Books and Journals
Images
1865 births
1947 deaths
Leaders of British trade unions
Welsh Labour Party MPs
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Liberal-Labour (UK) MPs
Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs
UK MPs 1906–1910
UK MPs 1910
UK MPs 1910–1918
UK MPs 1918–1922
People from Risca
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Pozzitive Television
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Pozzitive Television is a production company formed by producers Geoff Posner and David Tyler in 1992. Pozzitive have won awards including six BAFTAs, two Golden Roses at Montreux, multiple British Comedy & RTS awards, seven Sony Awards and two International Emmys.
About
Pozzitive Television was founded by Geoff Posner & David Tyler. Since then, Pozzitive has worked with major comic talent in the UK, including Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan, and Armando Iannucci.
Pozzitive has earned a reputation as one of the leading indie production companies in the UK - from producing the very first independent comedy ever to air on Radio 4, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, to the recent success of Cabin Pressure, which became the first radio sitcom to be named 'Comedy of the Year' in 2014.
Recent productions
Radio
The 3rd Degree, series 1–10, 2010–2020.
Agendum, series 1–2, 2017-2019
British Troll Farm, pilot, 2019
Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off... Article 50
The Hauntening, series 1–3, 2017-2020
Jack & Millie, series 1–2, 2017-2020
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, series 1–4, 2012–2019.
Little Brexit, 2019
Shush!, series 1–2, 2015-2017
Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, series 1–4, 2014-2020
When Jeremy Hardy Spoke To The Nation
Previous productions
Radio
The Cabaret Upstairs, 1985.
The Big Fun Show, 1987.
Dial M For Pizza, series 1 and 2, 1987–1988.
Hey Rrradio, pilot, 1988.
Live on Arrival, pilot, 1988.
Radio Active, series 6 and 7, 1986–1987.
The Woody Allen Reader, 1988.
At Home with the Hardys (also known as Unnatural Acts), 1987–1990.
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, series 1–10, 1993–2014.
Crown Jewels, series 1 & 2, 1995.
King Stupid, 1998.
The Very World of Milton Jones, series 1–3, 1998–2001.
The 99p Challenge, series 2–5, 2000–2004.
Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, series 1–5, 2002-2019
The House of Milton Jones, 2003.
Another Case of Milton Jones, series 1–5, 2005–2011.
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, series 1–4, 2005–2008.
Deep Trouble, series 1 & 2, 2005–2007.
The Castle, series 1–4, 2007–2012.
Cabin Pressure, series 1–4, 2008–2013.
The Genuine Particle, 2008.
Bigipedia, series 1 & 2, 2009–2011.
Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up, 2009.
My First Planet, series 1–2, 2012–2014.
Strap In - It's Clever Peter!, series 1, 2012.
The Lentil Sorters - series 1, 2015
The Brig Society, series 1–4, 2013-2016
John Finnemore's Double Acts, series 1–2, 2015 - 2017
Television
John Sessions's Tall Tales, 1991
The Doug Anthony All Stars, 1992
Introducing Tony Ferrino - Who? And Why? - A Quest, 1993
The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon, 1993.
The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, 1994.
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video - "Three Fights, Two Weddings & A Funeral", 1994.
The Marriage of Figaro, 1994
Paul Calf's Video Diary, 1994.
Coogan's Run, 1995.
The Big Snog, 1995
Lights, Camera, Magic, 1995
Cows, 1997.
Harry Enfield and Christmas Chums, 1997
Dinnerladies, series 1 & 2, 1998–2000.
Stephen Fry's 'Live From The Lighthouse', 1998.
TLC, 2001.
Gash, 2003.
The Strategic Humour Initiative, 2003.
The Comic Side of 7 Days, series 1 & 2, 2004–5.
Little Miss Jocelyn, 2006
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off... To Glastonbury, 2007.
Music Hall Meltdown, 2007.
Saturday Live Again!, 2007.
One Night Only, 2008.
Notable awards
The 3rd Degree
Rose D'or Radio Game Show - Winner (2015)
The 99p Challenge
Sony Award Silver - Winner (2004)
Agendum
BBC Audio Drama Awards, Best Scripted Comedy - Nominee (2018)
Another Case of Milton Jones
Chortle Awards, Best Use of Stand Up on TV or Radio - Nominee (2009)
British Comedy Awards, Best British Radio Sitcom - Winner (2010)
British Comedy Awards, Best British Radio Sitcom - Nominee (2011)
Sony Award Silver - Winner (2011)
Writers Guild Award - Nominee (2012)
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Sony Award Bronze - Winner (2006)
The Brig Society
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Finalist (2014)
Writers' Guild Award - Winner (2014)
BBC Audio Drama Awards - Best Scripted Comedy (Live Audience) - Nominee (2015)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Silver Award Winner (2015)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Finalist (2016)
BBC Audio Drama Awards - Best Scripted Comedy - Nominee (2017)
Cabin Pressure
Writers' Guild Award - Nominee (2009)
Writer's Guild Award - Nominee (2010)
Writer's Guild Award - Winner (2011)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy Drama - Nominee (2011)
British Comedy Awards - Best British Radio Sitcom - Winner (2011)
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards - Best Radio Show - Nominee (2012)
British Comedy Awards - Best British Radio Sitcom - Winner (2013)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy Drama - Nominee (2014)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy (Studio Audience) - Nominee (2014)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Bronze Award Winner (2014)
British Comedy Awards - Best British Radio Sitcom - Winner (2014)
British Comedy Awards - Comedy Of The Year - Winner (2014)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Gold Award Winner (2015)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy Drama - Nominee (2015)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Actor in an Audio Drama - Roger Allam - Nominee (2015)
Crown Jewels
Sony Award Bronze - Winner (1996)
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Geht Zum FussballWeltmeisterschaft Weg
Sony Award Silver - Winner (2006)
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off "Article 50"
BBC Audio Drama Awards - Best Scripted Comedy - Nominee (2020)
The Hauntening
Writers Guild Awards - Best Radio Comedy - Nominee (2020)
Jeremy Hardy Feels It
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Finalist (2018)
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
Sony Award Bronze - Winner (1995)
Writers' Guild Award - Nominee (1995)
Sony Award - Nominee (2004)
Rose D'Or Radio Comedy Award - Nominee (2014)
John Finnemore's Double Acts
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy Drama - Nominee (2015)
British Comedy Awards - Best British Radio Sitcom - Winner (2015)
Writers Guild Award - Winner (2016)
ARIAS Best Fictional Storytelling - Nominee (2017)
Writers' Guild Award - Nominee (2017)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Scripted Comedy - Nominee (2017)
BBC Audio Drama Award - Best Actress - Nominee, Julia McKenzie (2017)
Tinniswood Award for Best Audio Drama Script - Special Commendation (2018)
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now
Rose D'Or Radio Comedy - Nominee (2015)
Writers' Guild Award - Nominee (2017)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Finalist (2018)
BBC Audio Drama Awards - Best Scripted Comedy - Finalist (2020)
Radio Production Awards
Best Entertainment Producer - David Tyler - Nominee (2010)
Best Entertainment Producer - David Tyler - Nominee (2011)
Best Entertainment Producer - David Tyler - Winner (2013)
Best Comedy/Entertainment Producer - David Tyler Nominee (2014)
Best Comedy/Entertainment Producer - David Tyler - Winner (2015)
Special GOLD Award - David Tyler - Winner (2015)
Best Comedy Producer - David Tyler Winner (Bronze, 2017)
Gethin Thomas Award for Best Comedy Producer - David Tyler - Nominee (2018)
Shush!
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Bronze Award Winner (2016)
Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Finalist (2014)
New York International Radio Programme Awards - Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy programme - Silver Award Winner (2016)
BBC Audio Drama Awards - Best Scripted Comedy (Sketch Show) - Nominee (2018)
The Very World of Milton Jones
British Comedy Award - Best Radio Comedy - Nominee (1998)
Sony Award Bronze - Winner (2008)
References
External links
Official site
Pozzitive Television at IMDB
Mass media companies established in 1992
Television production companies of the United Kingdom
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Haskill Nunatak
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Haskill Nunatak () is an elongate nunatak, high, standing west of Dyrdal Peak in the southern Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert E. Haskill, a radioman at Ellsworth Station in the winter of 1957.
References
Nunataks of Queen Elizabeth Land
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QNS
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QNS is a clinical laboratory abbreviation for quantity not sufficient.
This indicates that either:
There is not enough specimen for the lab tests ordered to be performed.
In the case of Vacutainers or other tubes with pre-added anticoagulant, the amount of blood invacuated into the tube at the time of phlebotomy was insufficient to attain the correct blood:anticoagulant ratio. This can cause false results in assays such as coagulation assays (causing falsely increased clotting times) or blood cell differentials (causing a false increase in poikilocytes, particularly burr cells.)
In either case, the most common and feasible way to correct the problem is to simply recollect the specimen.
According to Dr. Luna , QNS stands for "fill desired chemical up to predetermined volume" with regards to chemical preparation. Quantity not sufficient implies that the final volume of diluent is not sufficient for molecular testing.
Medical diagnosis
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Priozersky District
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Priozersky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the north, Vsevolozhsky District in the south, and Vyborgsky District in the west. In the east, the district is bounded by Lake Ladoga. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Priozersk. Population (excluding the administrative center): 42,859 (2002 Census);
Geography
The area of the district is elongated from north to south along the shore of Lake Ladoga. It completely belongs to the catchment area of Lake Ladoga, with the biggest river being the Vuoksi. The landscapes are typical for Kartelian Isthmus, with the hilly and rocky terrain covered by coniferous forest, and with many lakes. The biggest lakes in the district are Lake Vuoksa, Lake Sukhodolskoye, and Lake Otradnoye. Konevets Island on Lake Ladoga also belongs to the district. Forests occupy 63% of the area of the district.
History
The territory of the modern district was originally settled by Karelians around the 1st century CE. It was a part of the Kievan Rus' from the 9th to 12th century. After that, it was a part the Novgorod Republic. Most Karelians were converted to the Russian Orthodox faith during Russian rule. Russians built the fortress of Korela, which was a nucleus of modern Priozersk. The territory passed hands many times during the 16th and 17th centuries between Russians and Swedish, until it was finally claimed by Russians in 1711 during the Great Northern War. During Swedish rule in the area, the town was known by its Swedish name Kexholm, which in Russian became Keksgolm. In the 18th century, it was a part of Saint Petersburg Governorate, and later of Vyborg Governorate, which in 1812 was included in the newly created Grand Duchy of Finland as its Viipuri Province. It became part of independent Finland, when the former Grand Duchy declared its independence in December 1917. During the Interwar Period, the location was known by its Finnish and Swedish names; Käkisalmi (Finnish) and Kexholm (Swedish).
The area was ceded from Finland to the Soviet Union as a result of the 1939-40 Winter War. It was retaken by Finland during the 1941-44 Continuation War, regained by Soviet troops in 1944, and formally ceded to the Soviet Union in 1947. Nearly all of Finnish residents evacuated the area, which was repopulated by Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. Place names were changed in 1948 to remove remaining Finnish names in the district.
Keksgolmsky District with the administrative center in Keksgolm was established in March 1940 as a part of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelian ASSR). On March 31, 1940, the Karelian ASSR was transformed into the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. On November 24, 1944, Keksgolmsky District was transferred from Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic to Leningrad Oblast. On October 1, 1948, the district was renamed Priozersky, and Keksgolm was renamed Priozersk. On February 1, 1963 the district was abolished and merged into Vyborgsky District; on January 12, 1965 it was re-established.
On May 16, 1940, Rautovsky District with the administrative center in the suburban settlement of Rautu was also established. It was a part of Leningrad Oblast. On October 1, 1948, the district was renamed Sosnovsky and on January 13, 1949, all localities whose names originated in Finnish were renamed using Russian names. In particular, Rautu was renamed Sosnovo. On December 9, 1960, Sosnovsky District was abolished and split between Roshchinsky and Priozersky Districts.
Economy
Industry
Industry in the district is dominated by the treatment of granite, timber production, and food production.
Agriculture
The main specializations of agriculture in the district are meat (beef and pork) and milk production, as well as trout farming.
Transportation
The Saint Petersburg – Hiitola railroad crosses the district from south to north passing Sosnovo, Priozersk, and Kuznechnoye. There is passenger service from the Finland Station of Saint Petersburg. Another railroad, connecting Vyborg with Hiitola via Kamennogorsk, serves as a stretch of the border with Vyborgsky District.
The road network in the district is relatively well-connected and provides access to Vyborg, Sortavala, and Saint Petersburg. In particular, the A129 highway connects Saint Petersburg and Sortavala and runs through Priozersk.
Culture and recreation
Some remains of the pre-1917 Russian culture, including the Korela Fortress in Priozersk and the Konevsky Monastery at Konevets Island, survive. Much of the remnants of the Finnish presence was destroyed. The district is the most popular with tourists part of Karelian Isthmus.
The district contains 64 cultural heritage monuments of federal significance (33 of which are in Priozersk) and additionally 70 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The great majority of these monuments belong to the Korela fortress and the Konevets Island.
References
Notes
Sources
Districts of Leningrad Oblast
Karelian Isthmus
States and territories established in 1940
States and territories disestablished in 1963
States and territories established in 1965
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Emily Flake
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Emily Suzanne Flake (born June 16, 1977) is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time and many other publications. Her weekly comic strip Lulu Eightball has appeared in numerous alternative newsweeklies since 2002.
Personal life
Flake was born in Manchester, Connecticut. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her influences include Winsor McCay, Harold Gray, Shel Silverstein, and Bruce Eric Kaplan
Education
She received a bachelor of fine arts in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.
Awards
In 2007, Flake won a Prism Award for her book These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves.
Bibliography
Lulu Eightball (Atomic Book Company, 2006)
These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves: A Love/Hate/Love/Hate/Love Letter to a Very Bad Habit (Bloomsbury, 2007)
Lulu Eightball Volume 2 (Atomic Book Company, 2009)
Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting (Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
That was awkward : the art and etiquette of the awkward hug (Penguin Publishing Group, 2019)
References
External links
American female comics artists
Living people
1977 births
The New Yorker cartoonists
American women cartoonists
People from Manchester, Connecticut
Artists from Connecticut
American cartoonists
Maryland Institute College of Art alumni
21st-century American artists
21st-century American women artists
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G.I. Joe: Ninja Battles is a film that was released on DVD in late 2004, as part of the Ninja Battles set of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero figures. In it, the history of the Arashikage Clan, as well as the history of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow's rivalry, are examined through a series of trials. Scenes from both G.I. Joe: Spy Troops and G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom are used, with a brief period of new animation at the end of the movie.
Plot
Narrated by the Iron Master, the story takes place in the Iron Master's forge. Tiger Claw has just earned his name, and so Iron Master explains how the war between the Arashikage Clan and the Red Ninjas began, by telling the origin of the rivalry between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow. The story is told in flashbacks, to the first time that Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow faced off against each other, when the Hard Master put them through four trials. The trials end with Storm Shadow joining Cobra, blaming Snake Eyes for the demise of his family.
Duke, who had been standing in the shadows with Snake Eyes during the Iron Master's story, steps forward to tell Tiger Claw that someday Storm Shadow will learn the truth about his family, and be welcomed back into the Arashikage Clan. Storm Shadow then appears to challenge Snake Eyes and Tiger Claw, who reveal that Kamakura and Jinx are there to back them up. Storm Shadow then reveals allies of his own, in the form of Slash, Slice, and Shadow Strike. The ninjas all battle in Iron Master's forge, until the villains finally escape. Duke then offers Tiger Claw membership in the G.I. Joe Team, and he accepts.
The four trials
Mizu
"Mizu" - The Trial of Water: Water is considered to be "shifting, formless, taking the shape of whatever confines it". The trial is designed to test a ninja's understanding and mastery of strategy. Hard Master gives each ninja a bowl of water, and each must get the other's bowl without taking it from the other's hand. Tiger Claw realizes that the strategy is cooperation, so that both may complete the task, by giving their bowl to the other. Instead, Storm Shadow chose to take the water bowl from Snake Eyes by tripping him, which was considered an act of weakness by the Hard Master.
Tsuchi
"Tsuchi" - The Trial of Earth: Earth is considered to be "solid and supportive, resisting change, but giving strength". The trial is designed to test a ninja's use and understanding of force alone. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow stand atop wooden poles, and Snake Eyes is the first to realize "to defeat your enemy in battle, first defeat the battleground". He causes Storm Shadow to fall first, who turns in anger to consult the ninja named Shadow Strike, not knowing that Shadow Strike has been watching the trials as a Cobra spy.
Kaze
"Kaze" - The Trial of Wind: Wind is considered to be "forceful or subtle, striking from all directions, but always unseen". The trial is designed to test a ninja's understanding and mastery of bladed weapons. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow face each other with swords on a rope bridge. At one point, a rope is cut and Storm Shadow loses his sword, as he almost falls over the edge. Snake Eyes reaches to help him up, but Storm Shadow throws a shuriken at him, which causes Snake Eyes to fall off the bridge. Storm Shadow wins, but the Hard Master shows his disapproval by breaking Storm Shadow's sword, which further angers Storm Shadow. In this continuity, it is revealed that Hard Master is considered to be Storm Shadow's father.
Hi
"Hi" - The Trial of Fire: Fire is considered to be "a force of creation when used wisely, but a force of destruction when unleashed". The trial is designed to test a ninja's senses, and demonstrate understanding and mastery of fire in all its forms. For this trial, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow descend to a dungeon filled with mirrors. They are each given a laser pistol to use as a tool, but are expected to use their senses to determine what is real and what is illusion. While they are fighting, Shadow Strike uses this opportunity to signal Cobra Commander, who also arrives at the dungeon. Not knowing that others are there, Hard Master is shot by Cobra Commander and killed. Storm Shadow believes that it is Snake Eyes who shot the Hard Master, and so he leaves to join Cobra, convinced that Snake Eyes has betrayed the Arashikage Clan.
Cast
Tiger Claw - Brian Drummond
Iron Master - John Novak
Storm Shadow - Ty Olsson
Duke - John Payne
Jinx - Venus Terzo
Kamakura - Kevan Ohtsji
DVD
There is a variation in the DVD case - it was available either as a standard DVD case, or as a cardboard box. Extras included are a Spy Troops trailer, a Valor vs Venom trailer, and a Valor vs Venom music video.
Toys
The Ninja Battles set included a Battle Arch, a Valor vs. Venom comic, and the DVD, along with a 5-pack of figures (Storm Shadow, Tiger Claw, Snake Eyes, Shadow Strike, and Black Dragon Ninja). The Black Dragon Ninja does not appear on the DVD, but does appear in the comic book, which has a plot completely different from the DVD.
References
External links
G.I. Joe (franchise) animated films
Ninja films
Japan in non-Japanese culture
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Clostridium algifaecis is a Gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Clostridium which has been isolated from decomposing algal scum from the Lake Taihu in China.
References
Bacteria described in 2014
algifaecis
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Mrozy () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Sierakowice, west of Kartuzy, and west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
The village has a population of 224.
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Acri (Calabrian: ) is a town of 19.949 inhabitants in the northern part of Calabria region in southern Italy. Since 17 September 2001 Acri has had the "status" of city.
Acri's coat of arms is represented by three mountains surmounted by three stars, with the words: "Acrae, Tri Vertex, Montis Fertilis, U.A. (Universitas Acrensis)".
The oldest known heraldic coat of arms of the city of Acri is present on the door of the church and convent of San Domenico, a stone coat of arms made in 1524, together with the coat of arms of the feudal families of the time, the princes San Severino da Bisignano.
The etymology of the word Acri could derive from the Greek ακρα (Akra) which means peak.
Physical geography
Territory
The urban center is located at 720 mt (2,360 ft), near the Sila. Its territory extension is 200.63 km2 (77.46 sq mi). It dominates the Mucone valley and the Crati valley.
Main rivers: Mucone, Calamo, Duglia.
In the period 2006-2015 it was found to be among the municipalities where more cases of forest fires occurred by hand
of unknowns.
Climate
The climate is Mediterranean, characterized by harsh winters, during which snowfalls can occur, and summers of dry heat. Although it varies a lot from the city center to the more distant suburbs.
Politics
Mayor: 2000 – 2005: Nicola Tenuta.
Mayor: 2005 – 2010: Elio Coschignano.
Mayor: 2010 – 2012: Gino Trematerra.
Mayor: 2012 – 2013: Luigi Maiorano.
Mayor: 2013 – 2017: Nicola Tenuta.
Prefectural Commissioner: 2017 – 2017: Maria Vercillo.
Mayor: 2017 – : Pino Capalbo.
Monuments and places of interest
Civil architectures
The Castle
The castle of Acri, also known as Rocca dei Bruzii, was a defensive work, probably erected in the Brutian era, of which only a splendid tower remains today, which is the symbol of the city.
It is located in control of the territory, on the edge of the territory controlled by the powerful Sybaris at the time of Magna Graecia. The hypothesis of bruzia construction now seems fully supported by the various archaeological finds dating from the Eneolithic to the final Bronze Age, found all around the old city of Acri.
Later it was a Roman fortress, as described in a marble plaque in Latin (found in 1890), with the inscription "XII LEGIO", and small portions of mosaics, probably Greek, found near the castle.
The shape of the castle was originally trapezoidal with three towers placed in the highest part, and the fourth placed in the lowest level of the defensive walls to control the drawbridge or the machicolation gate.
The defensive walls surrounded the entire citadel of the Pàdia district.
The surrounding walls of the castle have a diameter of about two meters in the highest part of the perimeter, while the walls of the lower level were described as having a diameter of about four meters.
Visible until the early twentieth century, the cistern for water supply in the event of a siege was located north of the existing tower: it was about two floors high (that is, six meters high) and twenty wide.
In 1999 several coins of Greek origin were found in the walls of the castle, including some from Sybaris, others from Thurii, and only one from Crotone, now in possession of the Archaeological Superintendence of Sibaritide.
Palaces
Palazzo Sanseverino-Falcone
Belonging to the powerful Calabrian family of Sanseverino, it was built starting from the 17th century by Giuseppe Leopoldo Sanseverino X prince of Bisignano.
As for the builder of the building, it is certain that it is Stefano Vangeri from Rogliano who worked until 1720, the year in which, in all probability, he also took care of the finishing of the building.
The building stands on four floors, the ground floor and the first floor, housed a sort of guardhouse of the prince. The east wing of the ground floor is characterized by a large hall (Sala delle Colonne). In the center of the room there are eight stone columns, with capitelli of late sixteenth-century style, which some believe reused from a previous building, possibly a church.
The second floor, also known as noble floor, where the family resided, is made up of several halls, where frescoes stood out, which although partially deteriorated are still visible.
The third floor was used for the servants and kitchen.
Palazzo Padula
Owned by the poet Vincenzo Padula, it was built in an area that was originally isolated and devoid of buildings. On the portal of the palace he had two feathers and an inkwell sculpted, a symbol of the coat of arms of his family.
The palace was equipped with loopholes, suitable for placing firearms, to defend itself from possible attacks by brigands, very frequent in that period.Today the palace gives hospitality to the Municipal Library and the Museum of rural civilization.
Palazzo Julia
Datable to the 15th century, it was always the property of the Julia family, who inherited it from father to son. It was built in two different eras: the first period is dated in the sixteenth-sixteenth century and the second at the end of the eighteenth century. The building stands on three floors, and has a very rich library, consisting of over five thousand volumes, with texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and some rare ancient editions.
Palazzo De Simone-Julia
The building bears the name of the family that owned it, the De Simone and his heirs, the Julia. The palace was built in the early seventeenth century and is located in the historic center.
Palazzo Spezzano
Ancient noble residence of the eighteenth century, palace of the Spezzano noble family.
Palazzo Astorino Giannone
Originally the palace was inhabited by the Astorino family, in 1700, and later by the Fusari family. The Giannone family, coming from Bitonto in province of Bari, largely transformed the building, as an ancient country mansion. Inside there are still furniture and paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a library made up of thousands of ancient volumes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Palazzo Civitate
This ancient palace belonged until 1800 to an ancient and noble family, the Civitate originally from San Marco Argentano, which moved to Acri in 1400. The building stands on three floors, plus the cellars located on the south side: nothing remains of its original splendor, following the transformations carried out by the various owners that followed one another. The only part that has remained unchanged and is truly interesting is the entrance door with the coat of arms of the Civitate family, which remains as it was in antiquity and three iron cages called `` caggiarole in the local dialect. These are ancient cages placed on the wall in front of the Azzinnari square, by the Napoleonic army, where the heads of three famous bandit leaders were placed, guilty, according to the accusation, of the kidnapping and killing of the three sons of the Civitate family, between 1720 and 1730.
Religious architecture
Church of the Madonna del Rinfresco, built by the parish priest Giacomo De Piris in 1521.
Church and convent of San Francesco di Paola. Dated between the 16th and 17th centuries.
Basilica of Sant'Angelo.
Church of Santa Chiara built in 1420.
Church of the Annunziata, whose first historical mention is 1269, in the ancient church now transformed into a sacristy, a Byzantine-Gothic style fresco was recently discovered depicting the deposition of Jesus Christ on Golgotha by an unknown artist, at the bottom words in ancient Gothic .
Church and convent of the Capuchin Fathers of 1590.
Church of San Nicola Ante Castillum (San Nicola of Mjra) Rebuilt in the early 15th century, probably built around 10th-11th century. In the consolidation works, part of the old original structure of a previous church was discovered, dating back to around the 8th century. In the audience of Bishop Ruffino, mention is made of the reopening to worship after the terrible earthquake of 1080–1081, and the consecration of five Greek rite priests.
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, 1269. During the works in 2004 and subsequently in those of 2007, numerous discoveries were made on the building, which date the church with certainty to the early Christian period.
Church of Santa Caterina probably built around 1500. Partly destroyed by the earthquake of 1638.
Church of San Nicola da Belvedere of ancient Greek rite, located in the ancient Casalicchio district. It is present in the audience of Bishop Ruffino da Bisignano, with a description of its reopening for worship, after the terrible earthquake of 1080, of this church for the first time in 1070 on the occasion of the gift that the Queen Giovanna d'Angiò gave to Count Simone Cofone of Acri and Padia.
Economy
The Acre Pig Reproduction Experimental Center (ARSA) focuses its activity on the breeding of black pigs and support for activities ranging from production to processing, such as the experimental activity relating to the typification of Calabrian delicatessen. The related activities are: recovery, enhancement, breeding and dissemination of local pig farming, with particular attention to the Calabrian black pig. Pig production is important and feeds the locally renowned charcuterie industry.
There are artisanal businesses, small industrial companies in the area.
It also produces and exports wine, oil and livestock.
Infrastructure and transport
The main connection road is SP660 which connects Acri with the motorway A2 ( Reggio – Salerno )and the Sila National Park, another important road is the SP177 which connects Acri with the road SS106 ( Reggio – Taranto ) and the Corigliano-Rossano City. Road accident risk: the danger is high along the SP 660.
Sports
Sports facilities
"Pasquale Castrovillari" Municipal Stadium with a capacity of 5000 seats.
Football
The main team of the city is Calcio Acri which plays in the Calabria Promotion championship.
In addition there is also the 5-a-side football team called Calcio a 5 Acri which plays in the provincial championship of the CSI
Rugby
Also present is the rugby team, "Rugby Acri" which in recent years has achieved important successes on the regional scene.
History
The origins of the city of Acri have long been debated among scholars, and in general attributed to the ancient people of the Osci, later supplanted by the Bruzi and Lucani.
The prehistoric settlements
The discovery of the archaeological site of Colle Logna in Acri, by prof. Giuseppe Palermo, took place in 1996. The excavations in Colle Logna archaeological site started in 1998 by the Archaeological Superintendence of Calabria, Sibari Excavation Office, in agreement with the European Protohistory Department of the Università "La Sapienza" di Roma. A human settlement was discovered on the western slopes of Colle Logna. The most ancient artifacts found were dated to the beginning of the middle Neolithic (6350 +/-50 BC) while the most recent are recognizable as manifestations of the ancient Bronze Age (2800-2100 BC).
In 2002, a second site was identified in the locality of Policaretto (in the municipality of Acri). The two settlements are placed opposite each other. Identical materials have been found but in the second in greater quantities, and perhaps, according to experts, even older. The extension of the second settlement must have been considerable, including several hill peaks.
In July 2002 a third excavation campaign started in the Policaretto locality.
Among the findings on the site we note the discovery of ovens for the processing of ceramics, Bruzia pottery and the remains of a Roman villa, dated to the 2nd-1st century BC.Other findings in the area include obsidian and flint arrowheads, fragments of local pottery, Osca or Bruzia, remains of archaic Greek pottery, small bronze objects, and various Greek coins, now in custody at the National Archaeological Museum of Sibaritide .
So, in summary,between the Eneolithic and the Late Bronze Age, a human settlement was present in the territory of Acri.
Pandosia
" Pandosia Bruzia " is an ancient city mentioned by ancient historians and probably located in the territory of Acri.
Pandosia is described by the historian Strabo (VI 1, -5) as the ancient capital of the people of Enotri, therefore it must have been an important center between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, in a more recent age it is remembered because the King of Epirus Alexander the Molosser was murdered near the river Acheron, which flowed in its vicinity.
In the historic center as well as in Acri's surroundings, considerable archaeological finds analyzed with carbon 14 have highlighted the constant presence of the area starting from the Pre-Eneolithic up to the Iron Age, furthermore subsequent discoveries show the frequentation up to the Classical Age.
Acri in Roman times
Acri opposed the dominion of Rome but, after the battle of Canne, sided with Carthaginians and then had to surrender in 203 BC.
His desire for freedom was revived between 73 and 71 BC. when, together with the neighboring municipalities, supported the revolt of Spartacus, encamped in the territories called Campo Vile near the municipality of Bisignano, during the third servile war .
Procopius tells us that the Acri's fortress later passed to the Emperor Justinian. In 542 we have news of the strenuous resistance that the city of Acri opposed to the Ostrogoths, led by Totila, who conquered the city, using hunger and thirst, sacked it, destroying much of it, and perpetrating horrible violences.
Acri in medieval and modern times
In the first half of 650 and at the end of 670, to escape an intense epidemic of malaria, the inhabitants still remaining in nearby Thurii moved to Acri. The demographic increase involved a clear improvement of productive activities: it was a period of general well-being.
From the Longobards to the Normans
With the arrival of the Longobards in the Crati valley, Acri immediately became their Gastaldato, of considerable economic importance, this at least until 896, when it was occupied by Byzantines first and then by Saracens.
Once freed, three other Saracen raids are documented in 945, 1009 and 1200.
In the first period of the arrival of the Normans, led by Roberto il Guiscardo Acri and the city of Bisignano, the two stronger cities in the Crati valley were repeatedly attacked and sacked; at the end of the war, Guiscardo, to maintain and consolidate power, bestowed wide privileges on the nobles.
And in the year 1074-1075 he granted to count Simone Cofone (count of Acri and of Pàdia) large portions of the Sila territory, at the time partly ancient possession of the Cistercian monks of the monastery called dei Menna, and partly of Count Cofone.
Between 1084 and 1086 A.D. the conflict of interest resulted in a bloody war. The truce, which provided for the count of Acri to retain possession of the lands, but with the obligation to pay tribute to the monks, turned out to be a chimera. Other disputes followed one another and the convent was attacked and also the neighboring ones, and it continued in such a bloody way, that the Pope Urban II excommunicated all the participants, and the Norman magistracy sentenced them to five years in prison and the payment of five thousand pounds of gold and silver to the adversaries of the monks, who got the lands back.
Meanwhile, in that period the slow but progressive work of Latinization wanted by the Normans continued, but in an environment strongly linked to the Byzantine cult, in fact it should be remembered that San Nilo da Rossano between 982 and 987 founded the monastery of Saints Hadrian, Natalia and Demetrius in the territory of Acri, the most consistent center of the Basilians in Calabria. Near the monastery arose the Picitti, Schifo and Poggio districts, later absorbed over time by the Albanian village of San Demetrio Corone.
The monastic order of the Cistercians played an important role in the spiritual life of the time in the territory of Acri, they built the monastery known as the SS. Trinity de Lignos Crucis . This monastery was built between 1153 and 1195 and housed the Abbot Gioacchino da Fiore probably destroyed during the last incursion of the Saracens into the territory around 1220–1240. The monastery was important for the development of the culture of silkworm and in various other craft activities, such as the leather tannery and factories.
The earthquake of 1185
In the History of Bisignano , it describes the earthquake which occurred in the ancient diocese of Bisignano, and mentions that under the government of Guglielmo II between 1184 and 1186 the Calabria was shaken by terrible earthquakes and various centers of the presila were damaged or completely destroyed, and that in 1185 Acri was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake. To this was added the devastation caused by hunger and cholera following a long drought, which aggravated the situation of the survivors. Only after several months of work, mainly due to landslides, was it possible to open a communication route to be able to bring wagons and reach the most isolated areas of the territory. Other documented earthquakes were those of 908; 10 December 968; 990; 24 May 1184; 24 October 1186; 27 March 1638; 1712; 1738; 14 July 1767; 5 February 1783; 1787; 10 December 1824; 8 March 1832; 12 October 1835; 24 April 1836.
The cholera and plague epidemics
In addition to cholera between 1184 and 1186, it is known for sure that Calabria, and especially Cosenza, was prey to various epidemics that halved the population then existing. Documented is the plague of 1348, the successive ones of 1422, 1528, 1575, 1656, 1638, 1738 and lastly the Spanish, which occurred in the early century, which according to the census cost the lives of about a thousand citizens.
Acri in 1300
In 1300 the number of state-owned cities, that is, not fiefdoms to private families and remained in possession of the crown, was not small.
The Sangineto and the Sanseverino demanded the restitution of the territories acquired by the Diocese of Bisignano, according to them usurped by the bishops and abbots.
Between these lands and these fiefdoms there was Acri, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Bisignano, who was forbidden to consider them fiefs of the Church, since for the precedents arranged by Charles I of Anjou, the aforementioned territories and the relative castles fell within the sphere of competence and pertinence of the barons.
The bishop's stubborn refusal not to give up the lands and not wanting to renounce the alleged feudal rights, unleashed the powerful baron's revenge.
The riots, reprisals and violent and bloody clashes between the various suitors were continuous, the most significant and dramatic occurred in 1339.
The Baron Ruggero II Sangineto, taking advantage of the confusion that reigned in Bisignano at the time, was able to complete his design: from Corigliano a group of armed on horseback, he reached Acri, and dragging hungry and needy common people with him, eager for looting and booty, they headed for Bisignano.
On 28 June 1339, the eve of the feast of St. Peter and Paul, they entered the city of Bisignano and killed both the Bishop's personal guards and family members, and all those who defended him.
Finally, the dying bishop was mercilessly dragged and tied to the tail of the Sangineto horse.
With other convicts he was taken to a place, called Scannaturu , probably located behind the current church of San Domenico.
The unfortunate bishop by now lifeless was condemned to be beheaded, immediately carried out, as for all the other condemned who suffered the same fate.. Nel XIII secolo, Carlo I d'Angio riconfermo la Platea della Diocesi di Bisignano che il colto e saggio vescovo Ruffino (1264-1269) aveva stesa, dopo la restituzione dei beni e dei feudi effettuata dal d'Angiò, comprendente anche i rioni di Cucumazzo, San Tommaso e Umale in Bisignano, con la giurisdizione feudale e baronale sugli abitanti di questi quartieri che divennero sudditi della corte vescovile.
Similmente fu fatto per i Casali di San Lorenzo di Acri, di S. Benedetto Ullulano, Mosto (Santa Sofia), Appio(San Demetrio), Pedalato, Sellattano e Pietramala.
A questi si aggiungevano le terre del Castello di Acri, con i Casali di Macchia, Pietramorella, Duglia, San Giacomo d'Acri, San Lorenzo, San Benedetto di Acri, San Nicola del Campo (san Nicola da belvedere); il Castello della Noce (Luzzi e Acri), con i Casali di Noce Maggiore e Minore; il Castello di Luzzi con il Casale di San Elia ed il Monastero della Sambucina; ed il Castello di Rose...(Rosario Curia).
F. Grillo, Sulla successione della Contea di Corigliano, registri cancelleria di Carlo III di Durazzo, Napoli 1887; reg. Angioino, 5. F. 107.
R. Curia, Bisignano, nella storia del Mezzogiorno, Cosenza 1985
Gaetano Nobile Gallo, Cronistoria della Città di Bisignano, Cosenza 1902
Frederick II, the Angevins and the Aragonese
During the reign of Frederick II the city enjoyed a period of relative tranquility and considerable economic prosperity, it became an important center in the silk trade, until the arrival of the Angevins and then of the Aragonese, who considerably weakened the city's economy with their heavy taxes.
In 1462 the Duke of San Marco Argentano, Luca Sanseverino, bought the city of Acri and Bisignano from the tax authorities, by concession of the king Ferrante I d'Aragona, for the sum of 20,000 gold and silver ducats.
In the same year the city of Acri, which remained loyal to the Angevins, underwent a terrible siege by the Aragonese troops, who, failing to conquer the city, through the collaboration of a traitor, a certain Milan, indicated to the enemy troops the signals of the guards of the outposts, and who at the appointed time in the middle of the night opened the gates of the city.
The heroic commander of the city guards, Nicolò Clancioffo, in the square of the castle, was sawed alive by the loins, and his body divided into four pieces and exhibited on the four towers of the castle.
From a document of the notary Marsilio Aliprandi of 1479–80, it is stated that many properties in the Parrieti, Padia, Picitti and Castello districts were sold as vegetable gardens, because the houses were burned, now in ruins, and there were not enough men to rebuild the said neighborhoods.
We do not have complete news of 1462, but it is assumed that in that war the city lost about two thousand inhabitants, including part of the armies that followed the viceroy Grimaldi, who, together with a few of his own, was able to escape from the dungeons of the Castle di Acri, and then take refuge in the nearby Longobucco.
Acri from 1492 to 1499
From 1492 Acri passed under the Aragonese governorate. On the descent of Charles VIII, the prince of Bisignano set off to meet the king, while the count of Acri and the marquis of Squillace, fled and refugees in Sicily. Their possessions were confiscated by King Charles, then donated to a certain D'Aubugny loyal to the Angevins, allies of Charles VIII, but when they knew that all the lands had been donated to D'Aubugny, they supported again the Aragonese. The city of Acri sided with the king Frederick of Aragon, loyalty which cost to Acri year another siege (1496-1497) with modern siege weapons, the sacking of the city by the Angevins, the almost complete destruction of the castle, of some important noble palaces and the chiefs of the people, the nobles Placido and Sebastiano of the powerful Salvidio family, were killed and torn to pieces and their bodies thrown into manure.Padre Giovanni Fiore, Della Calabria Illustrata, Soveria Mannelli: RubbettinoCapalbo, "Memorie Storiche"
The expulsion of the Jews
In 1511 by decree of king Ferdinand I the Jews, important figures in the economy of the city, inhabitants of the ancient ghetto of the Judeica. The local economy deteriorated considerably. The place where the ghetto was still today is called Judeica, located near the torrente Calamo, outside the fortified walls; the presence of the ghetto in Acri is documented before the year one thousand.
Brigandage in Acri
The Raid of the Jaccapitta Gang
In 1806, Acri had to undergo the incursion of a horde of brigands who, intending to go to nearby Bisignano, stopped in the city.
It was a strong group of 3,000 men who, following Jacapitta, had descended with the intention of destroying the city of Bisignano, coming mostly from the Cosenza woods and the hamlets around Cosenza.
Plundered Acri, and committed themselves to terrible acts of cruelty, they headed for their destination.
But when they reached Bisignano they found the forces of Bagnanich and those of Benincasa, supported by the entire population.
Thus they withdrew towards the mountains of Acri.
On 30 August General Verdier left with a detachment of 1,500 men, joined by the Bisignano garrison.
The brigand Jaccapitta hid in the surrounding countryside and was found.
In Acri, in chains, Jacapitta entered, the ferocious brutal and bloodthirsty brigand who had cruelly attacked the tortured bodies of the victims of Acri, even staining himself with heinous acts of cannibalism.
Bound and dragged into the square, he was placed in the middle of four fires. The Jaccapitta, cursing and cursing, jumped from one stake to the other, trying to escape the torture, while the bystanders hit him in the legs with crackles. Exhausted, at last, with a savage cry he collapsed into the flames that reduced him to ashes.Oggi piazza Monumento, dedicata a Gianbattista Falcone.
The Band of King Coremme
In August of the same year, coming down from the mountains of Acri, the brigand chief Antonio Santoro, known as Re Coremme , tried to take Bisignano.
He was an illiterate peasant, but shrewd and extremely brave.
Once the Bourbon resistance in Calabria ceased, he had organized a formidable band with which he intended to continue, in his own way, the war against the French.
Assaulted Acri during the night, and, having bent the administrators to his will, he moved from this new base to sow death and terror to defeat his enemies "the anti-Bourbon revolutionaries", supporters of the French.
In his attempt he was taken by surprise by the troops of General Verdier who managed to disperse the band.
Santoro, now in a hasty flight, having lost all contact with the bulk of his men, came across the civic squad of Santa Sofia d'Epiro commanded by Giorgio Ferriolo.
It was 13 August 1806 and Santoro was captured together with his small staff, made up of his brother and some trusted men. Locked up in an isolated cell, the Santoro managed to escape, reaching Acri at night.
Acri from the Unification of Italy to 1950
The history of Acri starting from the administration of Vincenzo Sprovieri, who, at the beginning, had raised great hopes in the people of Acri.
These expectations were soon disappointed, as Sprovieri renounced the promises made in 1848 by establishing a despotic power. Sprovieri, if on the one hand he managed to eradicate the phenomenon of brigandage, on the other he used the immense state property owned by the municipality, to win the benevolence of councilors, councilors and voters, leaving the so-called "acritan plebs" .
Subsequent administrations made no changes to Sprovieri's line, continuing to plunder the state property, regardless of the complaints made by the local newspapers of the time, to the competent authorities, actually conniving.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the situation of the town had little changed compared to the Risorgimento period. In recent years, the first and only electricity company was born in Acri, which will then supply public and private electricity, but which brought few benefits to the majority of the population, but many useful to its operators. Also in these years, social assistance was born with the creation of a hospital, a hospice for the poor and a boarding school thanks to the activity of Francesco Maria Greco to whom he also goes the merit of having moralized the clergy of Acri.
During World War I, 1,518 Acresi left for the front. The postwar period was characterized in Acri by the outbreak of cholera, by massive social demonstrations due to the high cost of living and the lack of work.
In 1927, with the unfortunate advent of fascism, the administration podestarile of Paride Manes begins, followed by those of Filippo Sprovieri, Angelo Giannone and by Pasquale Talarico which ended in 1943.
On the work of the Podestà administrations, the words written by the Podestà Talarico to the Prefect of Cosenza apply that "in Acri there was, in the 40s, a sad administrative situation, a no less sad moral situation of the population who still lived under a regime feudal without the fascist civilization having even appeared to lighten the minds and soften the hearts of most of the citizens ".
At the outbreak of World War II, 1,352 Acri citizens left for the front.
With the fall of fascism, the municipal administration was governed by the prefectural commissioners who were unable to respond to the lack of food and the scarcity of work.
A turning point took place, with the election as mayor of Saverio Spezzano, in 1946, who kept faith with the commitments made during the electoral campaign, ensuring the people of Acri bread, work but also "balls and mesh "," that is rigor and legality.
A difficult year for Acri was 1948, due to a strong political conflict, for the occupation of the lands, in particular the Pietramorella wood.
Population
Traits
The highest population density is in the main town: Acri. The old age index instead indicates a concentration of the same in rural areas, as well as for the incidence of elderly couples. The incidence of highly-medium-specialized professions and education level is higher in the main urban center.
Ethnicities and foreign minorities
According to ISTAT as of 31 December 2018, the foreign resident population was 721 people. Top ten nationalities:
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Others: Afghanistan, Iraq 7, Tunisia 5, Russia Federation, Latvia, Bangladesh 4, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso 3, Austria, France, Liberia, Spain, Hungary, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Venezuela, Gambia 2, Denmark , Netherlands, Switzerland, Pakistan, Guinea, Algeria, Angola, Sudan, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines Argentina, Moldova, Ivory Coast.
Culture
Most people in the town of Acri are part of the Christian religion, and, as a result, follow Christian customs along with traditional Italian ones. They also celebrate nights such as White Night, Pink Night, and Red Night, which is shopping & economy correlated activities each with their own customs. For example, on White Night, shops & restaurants are open throughout the night and performers are often arranged to perform.
Languages and dialects
The dialect of Acri is a Romance language, it derives from the spoken Latin, even if it retains traces of stratifications of the languages of the dominations that followed.
Among the main characteristics of the Acri's dialect, compared to Italian:
-Added "EA" in the endings of words and verbs (e.g. accattatu in calabrian becomes accatteatu in acrese)
- the transformation of the vowels "O" and "E" of Italian respectively into the vowels "U" and "I" (peres., vinu = wine; pani = bread);
- the transformation of the letter "B" of the Italian into "V" (vasciu = bass); however when the "B" is preceded by the "M" it assumes its sound (progressive assimilation: gamma = leg);
- singular characteristic of the Acri's dialect is that of changing the consonant "L" followed by a vowel into "D"; e.g. in Calabrian "mela" becomes "mida", in the acrese dialect: "midu"; "luci" (light) becomes "duci".
In general, Acri follows the Calabrian dialect that is common in Calabria & Southern Italy.
Museums and Libraries
Municipal Library in the Padula Palace.
MACA Acri Contemporary Art Museum in the Palazzo Sanseverino-Falcone .
Museum of the Beato Angelo in the premises of the convent of the Capuchin Fathers.
Museum of rural civilization in the Padula Palace.
Media
Television
EATV founded on 1 December 2016, Channel 623 of digital terrestrial.
Radio
Radio Acheruntia, founded in 1977.
Demographic evolution
Demographic trend
People
Giovanni Battista Falcone, an Italian patriot, protagonist of the Sapri Expedition
Vincenzo Padula, poet
Luca Antonio Falcone, better known as Saint Angelo of Acri, who is a popular figure in the town
Charles Atlas, bodybuilder and trainer
Francesco Maria Greco , priest
Silvio Vigliaturo, glass artist and painter
Marcello Guido, deconstructivist architect
Angelo Arciglione, pianist
References
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East Side High School was a senior high school in Cleveland, Mississippi, within the Mississippi Delta region. It was a part of the Cleveland School District and the building itself remains such as a middle school. In September 2017, it was merged into Cleveland Central High School.
As of 2016, it was an all-black high school. Historically African-Americans lived in the eastern part of Cleveland. Their teams were known as the Trojans.
History
It opened as a segregated black school, Cleveland Colored Consolidated High School.
For a long period B. L. Bell, known as "Professor Bell," served as the principal of the historic black school. He became an informant, for the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a pro-segregation state agency of Mississippi, during the Civil Rights Movement. Bell received $100 (about $ according to inflation) on a monthly basis to establish a network of African-American informers by 1959, as that year Bell had proposed establishing a spy network to Governor of Mississippi James P. Coleman. Bell also recorded NAACP meetings in his area, sending the information to the commission. Bell denied being paid by the commission when he was openly accused of disloyalty in NAACP meetings. Charles C. Bolton, author of The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980, wrote that the suspicion against him made Bell an ineffective informer. B. L. Bell, Jr., the man's son, stated in a 1996 interview that his father believed black teachers and students were not "qualified enough" for white schools, and this is why he believed his father would cooperate with the commission.
From 1988 to 1997 Leroy Byars served as the principal. He was the American football coach previously, from 1972 to 1987. The American football field at East Side High was named after him.
The Cleveland School District made several failed attempts to encourage white students to enroll at East Side High. In the 1990s the Cleveland School District established magnet programs to East Side High. At another point it established a "Freedom of Choice" program to allow all students in the school district the ability to attend a different school instead of a neighborhood school. In 2012 the school district opened an International Baccalaureate at East Side High. Despite these efforts East Side High remained almost all black.
In 2015 the school had 360 students, and all but one were black. all of its students were black. As of 2015 some black students normally assigned to Cleveland High chose to enroll in East Side High because at East Side they had a better chance of joining sports teams and other extra curricular activities with limited spaces. Some black parents sent their children to East Side because they feared they would not be treated well at Cleveland High. Some white students took select Advanced Placement (AP) courses at East Side High, but did not enroll there.
Litigation in the district's desegregation suit, first started in 1965, was still pending, so consolidation with Cleveland High School was still a possibility. The president of the district's school board, a black man named Maurice Lucas, stated in 2015 that he believed some black members of the Cleveland community would oppose consolidating the schools since they were alumni of East Side High and do not want to see it disestablished.
In May 2016 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi ordered the school district to consolidate the schools in order to achieve racial integration. This meant East Side consolidated with Cleveland High, which as of that year was 47% black and 45% white. The former Cleveland High School will house all high school students, while the former East Side High School will house all middle school students.
The final high school graduation ceremony was held in 2017.
Programs
As of 2015 the district lawyers stated that school offered two workshops for preparing for the ACT test. Muave Sanders, a 12th grade (senior) student who is black and who was a plaintiff against the school district in a desegregation lawsuit, stated that he did not receive ACT test preparation.
Campus
the school did not have lockers. The school did have a weight room. Sanders stated that the weight room in Cleveland High "makes ours look like a baby weight room."
Culture
At every graduation, members of the graduating class from 50 years prior attended to see a new generation graduate.
References
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East Side High School
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Schools in Bolivar County, Mississippi
2017 disestablishments in Mississippi
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Susan McLain
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Susan McLain is an American politician. A Democrat, she currently serves as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from District 29, representing Cornelius, Forest Grove, and parts of Hillsboro. She served as a councilor for Metro, the regional government covering the urban portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties, for 16 years, first winning election in 1990. She was an unsuccessful candidate for Washington County commissioner in 2006. She was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2014, defeating Republican Mark Richman.
Personal life
McLain earned a Bachelor of Science degree in teaching from the Oregon College of Education (known as Western Oregon University since April 22, 1981) in 1971. She retired in June 2014 from Glencoe High School, where she started teaching in 1980, the year the school opened. Prior to that, McLain taught at Hillsboro High School, from 1975–1980. Both schools are in the Hillsboro School District.
In 2011, McLain was awarded the Hillsboro School District's Crystal Apple Award for excellence in education. She continues to coach Glencoe High School's Speech and Debate team in her retirement.
McLain is widowed, with four children and five grandchildren. Although she taught in Hillsboro, she lives in Forest Grove with her family and attends church in Cornelius, other communities in her House district.
Political career
McLain was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in November 2014, representing House District 29. She was sworn into the House on January 12, 2015, and appointed by House Speaker Tina Kotek to serve on four committees: the House Committee on Transportation and Economic Development, the House Committee on Education, the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Government Effectiveness, and as the Vice-Chair of the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
References
External links
Legislative website
Campaign website
Living people
Members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Metro councilors (Oregon regional government)
Oregon Democrats
Politicians from Hillsboro, Oregon
People from Forest Grove, Oregon
Western Oregon University alumni
Women state legislators in Oregon
Place of birth missing (living people)
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American women educators
21st-century American politicians
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Hampshire refers to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in New Hampshire. As of 2019, the LDS Church reported 8,872 members in 21 congregations.
Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.61% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Granite Staters self-identify themselves most closely with the LDS Church. The LDS Church is the 6th largest denomination in New Hampshire.
History
Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson arrived in New Hampshire in 1832 as missionaries and stayed for 26 days and baptized 20 people.
In 2006, Bryson C. Cook was called as stake president of the Concord, New Hampshire stake.
A regional gathering including members from New Hampshire was held in 2019 with 12,000 people gathered at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts to listen to M. Russell Ballard.
Stakes and Congregations
As of February 2022, New Hampshire had the following stakes and congregations:
Concord New Hampshire Stake
Ascutney Ward
Bedford Ward
Canterbury Ward
Colebrook Branch
Concord Ward
Hanover Ward
Laconia Ward
Lebanon Ward
Manchester 1st Ward
Plymouth Ward
Randolph Branch
Wolfeboro Branch
Exeter New Hampshire Stake
Derry Ward
Exeter Ward
Georgetown Ward
Portsmouth Ward
Sanford Ward (Meets in Maine)
Somersworth Ward
Nashua New Hampshire Stake
Keene Ward
Lowell 1st Ward (Meets in Massachusetts)
Merrimack Ward
Nashua 1st Ward
Peterborough Ward
Lowell 2nd Branch (Portuguese) (Meets in Massachusetts)
Nashua 2nd Branch (Spanish)
Heritage Park YSA Ward (Meets in Massachusetts)
Mission
New Hampshire Manchester Mission
See also
Religion in New Hampshire
References
External links
Newsroom (New Hampshire)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints official site
ComeUntoChrist.org Latter-day Saints visitor site
Christianity in New Hampshire
Latter Day Saint movement in New Hampshire
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Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena is a tragicomic opera in five acts composed by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti to an Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. The libretto is based on the episodes set in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain in Book I of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote. The opera premiered on 6 February 1719 at the Hoftheater in Vienna and proved to be one of Conti's most successful ones. It has had several revivals in modern times beginning in 1987 at the Buxton Festival.
Background and performance history
The opera's librettists, Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, had written the librettos for many of Conti's Vienna operas, either individually or jointly. On this occasion they remained quite faithful to the text and basic story recounted Book I of Don Quixote where he travels to the Sierra Morena mountains and has a series of encounters with the wily inhabitants and two pairs of unhappy lovers. Described in the libretto as a tragicomedia per musica (tragicomedy in music), it is essentially a parody of the opera seria genre and its heroic arias.
Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena premiered at 6 February 1719 at the court theatre of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. The title role was sung by Francesco Borosini, who created the leading tenor and baritone roles in many of Conti's operas. Although generally described as a tenor, Borosini had an extraordinarily wide vocal range spanning bass to tenor. Conti's wife, Maria Landini, sang the lead soprano role of Lucinda. The staging was designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena. The production also included two comic intermedi following Acts 2 and 4 and three ballets with music by Nicola Matteis, the Younger—Dance of the Peasants (at the end of Act 1), Dance of the Puppeteers (at the end of Act 3), and Dance of the Servants (at the end of Act 5).
The opera was an immediate success and was performed 25 times in Vienna between its premiere and 1737. It also had performances in Braunschweig in 1720, 1721, and 1738 and in Hamburg in 1720 and 1722. A shortened form of the libretto was used for a set of intermedi performed in Spain in 1728 and an anonymous libretto published in Germany in 1739 as Amor medico, o sia Don Chisciotte draws heavily on Zeno and Pariati's work. It is not known if the latter was ever performed.
The opera's first performance in modern times was at the Buxton Festival in 1987, where it was sung in English translation with Neill Archer in the title role. It was staged again at the 1992 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with René Jacobs conducting and Nicolas Rivenq in the title role. On that occasion it was performed in the original Italian but like the Buxton production it was heavily cut. It has had several revivals since then, both staged and in concert version, including a fully staged production at the Caramoor Festival in 2004.
Roles
Synopsis
Setting: The woods and a local inn in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain during the 17th century.
Act 1
Don Chisciotte and Sancio are travelling through the Sierra Morena mountains. In the woods they encounter a rocky clearing with a cave and a fountain in front of it. It is the home of the young knight Cardenio who gone mad after his best friend Fernando stole his beloved Lucinda. Cardenio first attacks Sancio and then Don Chisciotte who he thinks is Fernando. Still pining for his idealized love Dulcinea, Don Chisciotte decides that he too should become mad from love and begins to act out scenes from Orlando Furioso. Don Chisciotte's friend Lope arrives with his companion Ordogno. They want to bring the Don home and convince Sancho to help them by making Don Chisciotte believe that Dulcinea is pining for him and wants him to return. Dorotea, who had been betrothed to Fernando before he fell in love Lucinda. laments his perfidy. However, Lope tells her that Lucinda had managed to escape from Fernando before the marriage could take place. Overjoyed, Dorotea and Cardenio promise to help Lope and Ordogno in their plan to bring Don Chisciotte home. The act ends with a dance of the Sierra Morena peasants.
Act 2
Fernando's guards have found Lucinda. He once again asks her to marry him but she refuses. Alone, Don Chisciotte sings of his love for Dulcinea and how he much he is suffering from their separation. Sancio arrives and recounts how with the aid of magic he was able to fly to Dulcinea who told him that she wants only one thing—Don Chisciotte's return. Lope confirms Sancio's story. Dorotea then appears disguised as the "Queen of Micomicona" accompanied by her "squire" (Ordogno in disguise) and her "tutor" (Cardenio in disguise). She asks Don Chisciotte's help to regain her throne which has been usurped by the giant "Pandafilando". The road to "Micomicona" will pass through Don Chisciotte's homeland, La Mancha. As a gesture of thanks for his help and a token of her "love", she will make him the lord of La Mancha. Don Chisciotte promises her his help but not his love. At a nearby inn, Sancio encounters the serving woman Maritorne who tries to seduce him, but he rejects her advances.
Act 3
Cardenio rejoices in his reunion with Lucinda but she urges caution. Still a prisoner of Fernando, she plans to escape that night. At the inn, Don Chisciotte meets Rigo the barber. He mistakes Rigo's shaving bowl for the magic helmet of Mambrino (a character in Orlando Furioso) and steals it. Rigo vows revenge. Mendo, the innkeeper, presents a puppet show involving a royal couple pursued by Moors. Don Chisciotte, upset by the couple's impending death, takes out his sword and cuts the heads off all the puppets. The act ends with a dance of the puppeteers.
Act 4
In a sleep-walking sequence Don Chisciotte believes he sees the giant Pandafilando. He takes out his sword and begins wildly destroying Mendo's bottles of red wine. He then shows Mendo the giant's severed head, which turns out to be a cooking pot. Don Chisciotte is now convinced that he has been the victim of sorcery. Lucinda escapes Fernando's guards and is reunited with Cardenio. Fernando bursts in an angrily draws his sword. Dorotea throws herself between him and Cardenio. Lucinda and Cardenio exclaim that they would rather die than be separated. Fernando is now torn between his love for Lucinda and a sense of duty and loyalty to Dorotea. Maritorne summons Don Chisciotte to his window and asks him to grasp her hand, otherwise she will die. He climbs on a stool to reach her but Rigo pulls it away leaving Don Chisciotte dangling desperately from the window.
Act 5
Dorotea tells Fernando to go ahead kill her so there will be no further obstacles to his passion for Lucinda. Dorotea's generosity reawakens Fernando's old love for her and he decides to marry her after all. Ordogno shows up disguised as Pandafilando and defeats Don Chisciotte in a duel. He sentences Don Chisciotte to return to La Mancha and shuts him up in a cage which will take him there. Don Chisciotte 's friends now explain their ruse to him, but he interprets everything that has happened as the result of sorcery. As he is taken away in his cage, the final chorus warns the audience not to make fun of him because there are many people even crazier than he. The act ends with a dance of the hotel servants dressed in various masks and disguises.
Recordings
There are no complete commercial recordings of Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, but excerpts appear on the following:
Three Baroque Tenors with Ian Bostridge and the English Consort conducted by Bernard Labadie (contains Don Chisciotte's aria "Qui sto appeso"). Label: EMI Classics
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Sventurata Didone with the Neue conducted by Christoph Hammer (contains the opera's overture). Label: ORF
References
External links
Complete libretto printed for the 1719 premiere
Video extract from the 2005 production at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music on France Musique
Operas
1719 operas
Italian-language operas
Operas by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti
Operas based on Don Quixote
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is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from October 13, 1997 to December 22, 1997 every Monday. It enjoyed a very high rating of 30.8% and features music by Cagnet. The theme song was "Shiawase na Ketsumatsu" (幸せな結末; "A Happy Ending") by Eiichi Ohtaki.
Cast
Takuya Kimura as Katagiri Teppei
Takako Matsu as Uesugi Riko
Norika Fujiwara as Takagi Erika
Masaaki Uchino as Katagiri Soichiro
Risa Junna as Mizuhara Sanae
Ryuuta Kawabata as Yoshimoto
Characters
Katagiri Teppei is a talented advertisement designer and a playboy with an egocentric attitude and dislike for mediocrity. He starts a relationship with Riko but still misses his past girlfriend Sanae.
Uesugi Riko is a secretary who works in the same department as Teppei. Hoping to become more independent, she moved away from her family in Nagano to Tokyo. She has a lot of spirit and eventually becomes part of a love triangle.
Takagi Erika is a flight attendant and Riko's best friend. While she secretly likes Teppei, she frequently gives helpful advice to Riko to help her maintain her relationship.
Katagiri Soichiro is a prosecutor and Teppei's brother. He is very serious in his doings unlike Teppei, and thus Soichiro is his brother's role model. He was engaged to Sanae, Teppei's former girlfriend, but he meets his own past girlfriend and develops an affair with her later on in the story.
Mizuhara Sanae is a translator of Mandarin and Japanese. She was Teppei's high school sweetheart. She became engaged to his brother Soichiro, but later finds herself falling in love with Teppei again.
Yoshimoto is Teppei's high school friend, who falls in love with Riko at first sight, and is rejected by her.
Summary
Love Generation, as the title suggests, revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship as squabbling colleagues before falling in love. Katagiri Teppei is a talented designer and very popular among women. Unfortunately, Teppei, who despises conformity, is forced to move to the sales department for his egocentric behavior. Throughout the series, he is forced to adapt to the new working environment, which includes cutting his precious locks of hair to create a neater and more professional image. As he struggles to adapt, he meets Uesugi Riko. While she does not like him at first, she eventually falls for him. However, Teppei runs into his high school sweetheart Mizuhara Sanae, and discovers that his ex-girlfriend is now engaged to his brother Soichiro. Riko is there to console him, and this eventually blooms into a romance. Not long after, however, Sanae realizes she still has feelings for Teppei, and thus creates a love triangle. To make the matter even more complicated, Soichiro starts to have an affair with his past girlfriend.
Symbols
Crystal apple
Teppei's apartment has many unusual items such as a Thai artifact, a 30-year-old refrigerator that is no longer manufactured, and a crystal apple. The meaning behind the apple is that there is only one true love, between Adam and Eve, that is. A crystal is very fragile, and when one would look in it, his or her views would appear upside down. The apple is seen upside down for the 10 of the 11 episodes. At the last episode, however, the apple is no longer upside down. The apple was also on the album cover of Love Generation's soundtrack.
True love never runs smooth
This advertising poster appears over and over again in the drama, with a model depicted holding a crystal apple. The message "True love never runs smooth" is based on the quote from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Scene 1: "The course of true love never did run smooth", and symbolizes the relationship between Riko and Teppei, which constantly faces struggles from when they meet for the very first time to the love triangle. This advertisement is visible everywhere, from the park to Teppei's 30-year-old refrigerator, as "True love never runs smooth" is the unofficial tagline of this TV series.
External links
Love Generation - The Dog Shed
SMAP Wonderland Love Generation
Extensive plot for each episode
1997 Japanese television series debuts
1997 Japanese television series endings
Japanese drama television series
Fuji TV dramas
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David Felmley
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David Felmley (April 24, 1857 – January 24, 1930) was an American educator best known for his thirty-year-long tenure as the sixth president of Illinois State University, then known as Illinois State Normal University.
Personal life and early career
David Felmley was born on April 24, 1857, near Somerville, New Jersey. In 1868, his family moved to Perry, Illinois. In 1873, Felmley enrolled in Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. Later, at the age of nineteen, he began at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1881. He then became the superintendent of schools in Carrollton, Illinois following his graduation. In 1887, Felmley married Auta Stout, although she died in July 1921.
In 1890, when John W. Cook became the president of Illinois State Normal University, Felmley took over his position as the professor of mathematics. When Arnold Tompkins departed ISNU in 1900, Felmley was chosen as the next president of the university. He was a charter member of the Rotary Club and the College Alumni Club in Bloomington, and was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon, and Pi Kappa Delta. He was elected the first president of the National Council of Normal School Presidents. He was remarried in March 1928 to Jennie Green. He had three children, Mildred, John, and Mrs. A. B. Meek, who was married. Felmley was a member of the National Society for the Scientific Study of Education during his time at ISNU. He was also a member of the State Teachers’ Association and was elected its president in 1901.
Presidency at Illinois State Normal University
Felmley served as the president of ISNU for thirty years and was the one who set its course as a teachers college until the 1960s. Felmley believed that everyone deserved a high school education, even those who did not plan to attend college or university. Felmley wanted the school to focus on pedagogy and professional teacher preparation, and was thus unconcerned with faculty credentials.
Fight for normal schools
One of Felmley's main concerns, as well as his main point of conflict with the University of Illinois, was the position and existence of normal schools in Illinois. They suffered from persistent underfunding and were at risk of being relegated due to other state universities and private colleges offering teaching degrees. Felmley argued that the teachers colleges and normal schools, which often recruited and educated students from less privileged backgrounds, were the best institutions for training secondary school teachers. Felmley led the charge to turn normal schools in Illinois into four year baccalaureate institutions.
Political influence
Felmley’s political affiliation and influence defined his time at ISNU. He was the first Democrat to hold the office of president at the university and supported the right of the faculty to hold and express their individual political beliefs. It was also suspected by former president John W. Cook that Felmley’s vocal support of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 led to the delay in his presidency after Cook’s resignation.
His political beliefs also influenced his hiring of faculty. In 1927, Felmley hired John A. Kinneman to join the university faculty despite the controversy that surrounded Kinneman’s outspoken support of the West Chester State Normal School’s Liberal Club and his defense of their meetings that led to him being fired.
Changes implemented
In 1907, ISNU was converted into a four-year baccalaureate institution, issuing bachelors of education degrees to its graduates. The university also began to offer more specialized curriculums for teachers in agriculture, manual arts, domestic science, and commerce, along with adding new programs to home economics and industrial arts. New buildings were also constructed on the campus, known today as Edwards Hall, Fell Hall, McCormick Hall, and Moulton Hall.
Felmley supported the adoption of the metric system, reform of the university calendar, and the use of simplified spelling in all university publications.
Faculty
Felmley oversaw the beginnings of a more diverse faculty, hiring several Latino instructors to teach Spanish and potentially the first Jewish faculty member as well. He also fought for increasing the salaries of faculty at the university after World War I due to post-war inflation and the disparity in salary between ISNU and the University of Illinois.
Students
One of the main issues Felmley confronted was enrollment. The enrollment rate of the university was a consistent issue, especially after more normal schools opened in DeKalb, Macomb, and Charleston. Enrollment was also strongly affected by World War I, which saw low numbers of men in the normal department and extracurricular activities replaced by civilian war service, such as volunteering with the Red Cross.
After ISNU became a four-year institution, Felmley only intended four year programs to have men enrolled in them. Felmley did not see the point of offering elementary school teachers more than two years of education at ISNU, as the vast majority of them were younger women who he believed would “not remain in the work longer than five years."
Death
Shortly before his death, Felmley submitted his resignation as president of ISNU to the Normal School Board due to his physical health. Felmley had been dealing with prolonged illness for about fourteen months prior to his death. His condition had been considered critical in the week before his death, and in the hours before his death he was unconscious.
Felmley died on January 24, 1930 in his home in Normal. After his death, ISNU students volunteered to guard his body as it lay in repose on campus prior to burial. He was buried in Carrollton City Cemetery in Carrollton, Illinois.
Legacy
To this day, Felmley is the longest-serving president of Illinois State University. There is a building named after him on campus, the Felmley Hall of Science.
References
External links
David Felmley | Milner Library, Illinois State University
"A History of the Illinois State Normal University" by John W. Cook
David Felmley Presidential Papers, 1857–2005 | Dr. JoAnn Rayfield Archives at Illinois State University
Felmley Hall of Science | Maps – Illinois State University
1857 births
1930 deaths
Presidents of Illinois State University
University of Michigan alumni
People from Somerville, New Jersey
Academics from New Jersey
People from Pike County, Illinois
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Rich Whitney
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Rich Whitney (born April 21, 1955) is an American politician and civil rights attorney who was the Illinois Green Party's nominee for Governor of Illinois in the elections of 2006 and 2010. During the 2006 campaign Whitney received endorsements from several newspapers, including the Rockford Register Star, Southwest News-Herald, and State School News Service. In that year's election Whitney received 361,336 votes for 10.4% of the vote, a strong finish for a third party. In the 2010 election his share of the vote was 2.7%.
Personal history
Whitney was born in Connecticut in 1955 and lives in Carbondale, Illinois. He is a civil rights attorney with degrees from Michigan State University and Southern Illinois University's School of Law. He was a member of the Socialist Labor Party from 1975–1993 and at one point edited "The People," the party's national newspaper. He resigned from the party in 1993 and no longer identifies with socialism.
Whitney was involved in nationwide legal battles to regulate tobacco advertising, on behalf of the public health community, including the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and Public Citizen. Whitney also is one of the founding members of the Illinois Green Party and wrote a significant portion of the Party's platform. In July 2021, Whitney resigned from the Green Party due to "a mob of dogmatic, self-righteous authoritarians" within the ranks.
2002 and 2004 Campaigns for State House of Representatives
In both 2002 and 2004, Whitney ran for the Illinois House of Representatives for the 115th District (Carbondale) seat. In 2002 Whitney finished 3rd of 3 running for one seat gaining 2,150 votes for 6% of the total vote. In Whitney's second attempt for elected office he managed 3,859 votes for 8.3% of the total vote.
2006 run for Governor
On June 26, 2006, the Illinois Green Party filed a nominating petition including signatures of more than 39,000 Illinois voters, collected within a 90-day period. New political parties are required to collect 25,000 signatures within this period to get onto the ballot in Illinois, while established parties need only 5,000 according to state law. The petition measured approximately 19 inches thick.
According to the Illinois State Board of Elections, within 2 hours of filing, a copy of the petition was requested by Mike Kasper, General Counsel and Treasurer of the Democratic Party of Illinois, at 6:00pm. One week later, on July 3, objections to the petition were filed, claiming that many of the signatures were not genuine or did not belong to registered voters.
Green Party officials stated that the objections seemed to have been made at random, without actual examination of any records. The objections included signatures that the Greens had already crossed out; and in some cases objections were made to the 11th signature on a page, even though each page contained only 10 signatures. Even Whitney's own signature on the petition was challenged.
The hearing process involved 12 or more election judges consistently working full-time for several weeks. Each party also provided a matching number of members to sit with the election judges, during the workday, as they examined thousands of signatures, either overruling or sustaining each objection. Objections were assumed valid, and automatically sustained, unless a Green Party representative was present before each election judge to compare signatures and present a defense.
Following the hearing, the State Board of Elections' Hearing Officer, Barbara Goodman, recommended that the Green Party's candidates be placed on the ballot and stated that the case was "extremely straightforward." The Board's examination confirmed that the Greens collected thousands more than the required number of signatures for ballot access.
On Election Day, Whitney ran third, receiving, 361,336 votes for 10.4%. Incumbent Governor Rod Blagojevich won the election, receiving 1,736,731 votes, for 49.8%. State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka ran second, with 1,369,315 votes for 39.3%.
By receiving more than 5% of the total vote, Whitney's candidacy allowed the Green Party to become an established political party statewide, according to Illinois state election law. This status provided the party with several new advantages, such as lower signature requirements for ballot access, primary elections, free access to additional voter data, the ability to elect precinct committeemen, run a partial slate of candidates at any jurisdictional level, and slate candidates without petitioning. The only other statewide established political parties are the Democratic and Republican parties. It is rare for a new political party to become established statewide in Illinois, the last to do so being the Solidarity Party in 1986 and the Progressive Party before that.
2010 run for Governor
On July 15, 2009, Whitney announced his candidacy for the Green Party's nomination for governor in 2010.
Whitney's campaign platform included raising income taxes, lowering property taxes, legalizing and taxing marijuana, and putting a tax on some of the trades at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange. Whitney said even a tiny tax on the billions of dollars traded on the Exchange could amount to big money for the state. In a March 2010 interview, Whitney stated, "I think most people in Illinois are actually in favor of an income tax increase."
Like California Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells, Whitney also proposed putting state tax revenues and pension contributions into a state bank. In a March 11, 2010, article in The Nation, Whitney said, "Instead of using state funds as a means to further enrich private banks, a state-owned bank could earn additional revenue for the state while at the same time help spur economic development in Illinois."
According to a poll conducted from June 12–13, Whitney was at 9%, and by August a poll showed that 11% of respondents approved of him. But a poll in September showed a decline to 8%, and by late October his numbers were as low as 4%. (Poll results are summarized in the article Illinois gubernatorial election, 2010.)
Whitney called for open debates to include all candidates, and stated in an interview:
"The idea of debate is to get all of the points of view on the table, and let the voters decide," Whitney said. "I'm very happy to put my ideas to the test of more than just two opponents. Again, I think the public is the winner when that happens."
In October 2010, CBS News reported that Whitney's name was misspelled on electronic ballots as "Rich Whitey". The problem affected 20 Chicago wards that were predominantly African-American. It was estimated that 10% of all votes would be cast electronically.
Results in the 2010 election showed that Whitney
finished with 99,625 votes (2.7% of the total), placing fourth: ahead of Libertarian Lex Green but behind Scott Lee Cohen, who ran as an Independent.
See also
Illinois Green Party
Green Party of the United States
Illinois gubernatorial election, 2006
Illinois gubernatorial election, 2010
References
Notes
Sources
Rockford Register Star endorsement
Southwest News-Herald endorsement
State School News Service endorsement
Whitney letter of resignation from SLP p.97-99
SLP leader "outs" Whitney
Candidate confirms past Socialist ties
External links
Whitney for Governor (Official Website)
Rich Whitney for Governor on MySpace
A look at Rich Whitney, Green Party candidate for governor
"Don't Fear the Spoiler: Why it's (probably) safe to vote Green for governor" (Chicago Reader, Oct. 2006)
"The Five Percent Rule" (Conscious Choice, Oct. 2006)
Rich Whitney Illinois Green Party Gubernational Candidate Speaking at a press conference during the 2008 Green National Convention
Rich Whitney, Green Party Governor Candidate, Announces Budget Proposals (Huffington Post, March 11, 2010)
1955 births
Living people
Illinois lawyers
Illinois Greens
Michigan State University alumni
People from Carbondale, Illinois
Politicians from Bridgeport, Connecticut
Southern Illinois University School of Law alumni
Socialist Labor Party of America politicians from Illinois
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Alan Costello
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Alan Costello is a Gaelic footballer from County Mayo. He has played for the Mayo county team and, currently, for the Sligo county team. He was part of the Mayo team that made it to the 2004 All-Ireland Final but lost out to Kerry. He joined up with the Sligo county team after moving to the county. Since then he has won consecutive National League titles: Div 4 in 2009 and Div 3 in 2010. Receiving a GPA All Star nomination in 2010. He also played for the IT Sligo college team and won Sigerson Cup medals with it in 2004 and 2005.
References
Costello all set to face native county - HoganStand
Champions stroll through - HoganStand
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Coolera-Strandhill Gaelic footballers
Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers
Sligo inter-county Gaelic footballers
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Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology is the official publication of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP).
This scientific journal publishes eight issues per year focusing on research in psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.
Current Editor:
Paul Frick, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Founding Editor:
Herbert C. Quay, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
External links
Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP)
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Website
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Editorial Board
Publications established in 1973
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Abnormal psychology journals
Developmental psychology journals
Child and adolescent psychiatry
8 times per year journals
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Conference Challenge Trophy
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The Conference Challenge Trophy is a knockout cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League for both the National Conference League and Conference League South clubs.
Results
External links
Challenge Trophy at The RFL website
Rugby Football League
Competitions
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Mikael Dorsin
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Mikael Frank Dorsin (born 6 October 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Starting his career with Djurgårdens IF in the late 1990s, he went on to represent RC Strasbourg, Rosenborg, and CFR Cluj before retiring from professional football in 2016. A full international between 2001 and 2010, he won 16 caps for the Sweden national team and was a part of their UEFA Euro 2008 squad.
Club career
Dorsin started his career at minor-league IFK Lidingö. After that he played for Djurgårdens IF (until 1999), Spårvägens FF (1999), Djurgårdens IF (2000–2003), RC Strasbourg (2003–2004), Rosenborg BK (2003–2007) and CFR Cluj, before he returned to Rosenborg in August 2008. On 27 May 2016, he decided to hang up his boots at the age of 34 due to a long-term knee injury.
International career
Dorsin played 16 matches for Sweden national team and was a squad player at Euro 2008.
Personal life
He is the younger brother of Swedish comedian and actor Henrik Dorsin.
Career statistics
Honours
Djurgårdens IF
Allsvenskan: 2002, 2003
Swedish Cup: 2002
Superettan: 2000
Division 1 Norra: 1998
Rosenborg
Norwegian League: 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2015
CFR Cluj
Romanian League: 2008
Romanian Cup: 2007-08
Individual
Årets Järnkamin: 2000
References
External links
National caps for Sweden
1981 births
Living people
Swedish footballers
Sweden international footballers
Sweden under-21 international footballers
Sweden youth international footballers
Rosenborg BK players
RC Strasbourg Alsace players
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players
CFR Cluj players
Liga I players
Expatriate footballers in Romania
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Norway
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Swedish expatriate footballers
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Allsvenskan players
Superettan players
Eliteserien players
Ligue 1 players
UEFA Euro 2008 players
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Cohaesibacter marisflavi is a gram-negative, catalase-negative, oxidase-positive rod-shaped bacteria from the genus of Cohaesibacter.
References
External links
Type strain of Cohaesibacter marisflavi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2011
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LMA Manager is a football management video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Developed primarily for consoles, the franchise differs from the PC-based Football Manager and Championship Manager series by focusing on visual details such as a fully 3D match engine, although still maintaining the realism and level of detail craved by fans of the genre - a unique combination when the series was first released.
The series has different titles in different regions: LMA Manager in the UK (named after the League Managers Association), BDFL Manager in Germany (basically the German equivalent of the LMA), Manager de Liga in Spain, Football Manager Campionato in Italy, and FC Manager - La Passion du Foot in France since the 2006 edition (the French edition of the series was previously named Roger Lemerre - La Sélection des Champions after the former coach of the French national team).
LMA Manager
The first LMA Manager video game was released in 1999 for the PlayStation, featuring 8,000 players and 294 clubs in 32 countries.
LMA Manager 2001
The second LMA game was released - also on PlayStation - in March 2001. Two versions were released, one for the English leagues as before, and another specifically covering the Scottish Premier and Football Leagues. The in-match action is presented by former footballer turned BBC analyst Alan Hansen. Sometimes this version gets caught in between the retro style of the original game, and the 2002 version. Although practically the same as the 2002 version, this contains some differences in the in-match play, and is famed for wingers cutting inside to shoot from ridiculous angles, and goalkeepers who tend to tip shots just inside the far post, making this an often frustrating game. There are also a few mistakes on the game, such as Birmingham City's Bryan Hughes being 29, instead of his proper age at the time, which was 24. It is also occasional for defenders to pick up the ball in their own penalty box, and proceed to kick it out like a keeper, as well as people scoring from their kick-off.
A slight difference from the original is the length of gameplay - this version finishing after 30 seasons in football management while the previous version finished after 50 seasons.
LMA Manager 2002
LMA 2002 was the final version in the series to be released on PlayStation, launched on 2 November 2001. Although principally just an update from the 2001 version, the game did prove to be quite a stepping stone from the LMA of old and the LMA seen today.
The first PlayStation 2 incarnation went under the same name when released in April 2002. A significant update from PS1, it allowed players to manage in one of six European leagues, all of which were processed by the game simultaneously (the top two divisions in Italy, Spain, Germany and France were added, in addition to the existing top four divisions in England and Scotland). On the PS2, matches played out in full in a 3D match environment, followed by post-match highlights voiced by famous BBC presenter Gary Lineker alongside the returning Hansen. The game play advanced in this game from the 2001 version, in particular the in-match style. Players tend to shoot early, from around thirty yards, rather than enter into the penalty area.
LMA Manager 2003
Originally slated for release in October 2002, but releasing ultimately on 15 November 2002, this was the first edition to be released on Xbox, alongside the PS2 release. The version added no additional leagues and contained minor enhancements from the previous game.
LMA Manager 2004
The next in the series was released on 12 March 2004 on PS2 and Xbox, and added a variety of enhancements to the match, as well as new commentary in the post-match highlights voiced by renowned commentator Barry Davies and analysed by Lineker and Hansen as before. New 'Fantasy Team' mode (replacing the 'Challenge Mode' in earlier games) whereby users could build up a team from scratch using a preallocated budget, based loosely on the popular fantasy football game. Once the user had compiled a squad and selected a team name, stadium and kit, the newly created club would compete in one of the leagues in the game. Another new feature in this version was the option (on Xbox only) of issuing tactical instructions to your team via the Xbox Communicator headset during a match. A second edition of the game was released, updating the squads from the January 2004 transfer window.
LMA Manager 2005
LMA 2005 was released on PS2 and Xbox on 31 October 2004, and chief amongst the enhancements was the addition of the Dutch and Portuguese leagues and English Football Conference division, the first new playable leagues to be added since 2002. Another unique feature was the option to download a mid-season player roster update via Xbox Live or the PlayStation online service, the second edition release had the updated squads by default at the expense of the online features. PS2 owners with access to an EyeToy camera could take a photo of themselves, which would appear on various newspaper articles seen in the game (for example, a celebration photo after winning a trophy, or an unhappy image after being sacked by their club).
Manchester United Manager 2005
At the same time as the normal version of LMA 2005, a special themed edition was also released on PS2 and Xbox, entitled Manchester United Manager. As the name suggests, this version was tailored around Manchester United, and contained various photos and video clips of the club. However, the game itself was unchanged from LMA, allowing players to manage any club, not just Manchester United.
LMA Professional Manager 2005
Released alongside LMA 2005 and Manchester United Manager, this version was notable for two reasons - it was the first game in the series to be released on PC, and the first developed externally (by Kuju rather than Codemasters). The change of platform required a redesigned interface, with the straightforward joypad-based navigation of PS2 replaced by a mouse-driven control system more similar to a graphical user interface such as Microsoft Windows. Each screen the user progressed to was housed on a separate window, which made finding one's way from section to section rather awkward.
Content-wise, the PC version contained the same playable leagues, 3D match engine and transfer system as the console version, although there were extra non-playable countries added from around the world to bolster the transfer market.
LMA Manager 2006
LMA 2006 was released on 18 November 2005 for PS2 and Xbox, with a further three playable divisions included from Dutch and Portuguese leagues, as well as further enhancements to the 3D match, transfer market and player training setup (including playable 3D Training Matches for the first time). In keeping with the series' visual roots, a new option allowed players to create a 3D model of their manager, who could be seen pacing along the touchlines during a match or featuring in one of the new video headlines (introducing a new transfer signing to the press, for example) included in the game world's TV station.
This game provided the most complex transfer processes yet, with the ability to swap players and give instalments. However, the game limits you to only having four transfers made via contract clauses (i.e. 10% sell on clause or £75,000 to be transferred after fifteen appearances). Using contract clauses, you can usually pick the player up for a cheaper transfer fee than what you would if you didn't use a contract clause, but after you've used all four and try to use another, it will say that the club who the player currently plays for cannot afford to let him go. Once you sell anyone you have used with a contract clause, you may then buy a player using another contract clause.
After the third-party conversion of LMA Professional Manager 2005, a second PC version was being developed by Codemasters themselves and was scheduled for release in Spring 2006 alongside the first seventh-generation iteration on Xbox 360. However, these versions' development slipped back, making LMA Manager 2007 a tri-format release.
LMA Manager 2007
This was released on 22 September 2006 on PS2, PC-DVD, and Xbox 360, with transfer updates available for download. Like other versions of the PC, it uses a graphical user interface like LMA 2005. Its main theme is "Hands Open", by Snow Patrol. The lack of subsequent titles, and the fact that the PC version of LMA 2007 would not run on Windows Vista and Windows 7 due to its use of a StarForce DRM, and its limited availability on 7th generation games consoles, meant as of 2009 the LMA series became effectively defunct.
LMA Manager 2008
LMA Manager 2008 was developed by Glu Mobile and released on mobile on January 23, 2008.
References
1999 video games
Association football management video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
PlayStation 2 games
Electronic Arts franchises
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video game franchises
Windows games
Xbox games
Xbox 360 games
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Bentley Common
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Bentley Common is a village in Warwickshire, England. For population details see Merevale.
External links
Villages in Warwickshire
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Manuel Carranza Murillo
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Manuel Carranza Murillo (born 9 May 1983) is a Salvadoran professional football coach.
References
1983 births
Living people
People from La Libertad Department (El Salvador)
Salvadoran footballers
Salvadoran football managers
Association footballers not categorized by position
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Harold Walker (cricketer)
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Harold Walker (12 June 1918 – 12 November 2000) was an English cricketer. Walker was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Desborough, Northamptonshire.
Walker made his only first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against Essex in 1947. He opened the batting in this match, scoring a single run before being dismissed by Bill Dines, while in their second-innings he scored 7 runs, before being dismissed by the same bowler.
He died at Kettering, Northamptonshire on 12 November 2000.
References
External links
Harold Walker at ESPNcricinfo
Harold Walker at CricketArchive
1918 births
2000 deaths
People from Desborough
English cricketers
Northamptonshire cricketers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Basketball%20Association%20%281969%E2%80%931974%29
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Continental Basketball Association (1969–1974)
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The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was an American semi-professional basketball league that operated from 1969 to 1974.
Founded in 1969, the league originally began from an idea to keep the football players from the Central States Football League in shape during the offseason. The Continental name was chosen over Central States Basketball League so that it would be more inviting to potential teams outside of Illinois and Wisconsin, where the football league was based. The CBA played using National Basketball Association rules, which included a 24-second shot clock. Each team played a 20-game schedule, divided into 10 home games and 10 away.
The six inaugural teams in 1969–70 were located in Illinois (Decatur, Peoria, Rockford and Waukegan), Michigan (Grand Rapids) and Wisconsin (Waukesha). The Waukesha team began the season based in Cudahy, Wisconsin, but moved mid-season due to lack of fan support. Though they were on top of the league's standings, the Medalist Mods were second to last in attendance. Waukesha went on to win the league title that season.
During the 1970–71 season, the NBA Milwaukee Bucks entered a player-development agreement with the CBA Milwaukee Muskies. The Bucks ended the relationship the following season and the Muskies folded as a result. The Chicagoland Travelers (originally named the Northwest Chicagoland Travelers) also folded after the 1970–71 season because they failed to come up with the $20,000–$30,000 in annual operating costs.
The CBA folded after its 1973–74 season.
References
External links
Continental Basketball Association 1969-70 to 1973-74 at APBR.org
Defunct professional sports leagues in the United States
Sports leagues established in 1969
Sports leagues disestablished in 1974
Basketball leagues in the United States
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Matches of Polish men's volleyball national team conducted by Daniel Castellani
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List matches of Polish men's volleyball national team conducted by Daniel Castellani, who was head coach of Polish national team from January 17, 2009, to October 25, 2010.
Achievements
Polish men's volleyball national team
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2021 Superrace Championship
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The 2021 Superrace Championship (commercially known as the 2021 CJ Logistics Superrace Championship) was a South Korean motor racing series for stock cars, production cars and prototypes. It was the 16th season running for the championship and the 15th season both partnered by CJ Group and raced under the moniker Superrace Championship. The championship was contested individually between 5 classes; Super 6000, Kumho GT, Cadillac CT4 Class, Kolon Motors (BMW) M Class & Radical Cup Korea.
Calendar
Mid-season calendar changes
The 3rd round of the championship held at Korea International Circuit was postponed due to the Korean government announcing measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading across the country. As a result, the revised calendar included a double-header hosted at Korea International Circuit at the end of the season taking place on the 20th and 21st of November. The 3rd round took place at Inje Speedium, which also held the annual Gangwon International Motor Festa. The event was also held without spectators and with on-site quarantine in accordance with the government's plans to strengthen social distancing.
Teams and drivers
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance 6000
Since 2020, all teams are currently using the Toyota GR Supra powered with a General Motors 6.2L LS3 V8 engine capable of producing 460 horsepower.
Mid-season changes
On August 26, series tire supplier Nexen Tire announced the arrival of a new racing team. Named 'N'Fera Racing', the team held a launch ceremony in Seoul and confirmed that they will debut at the 3rd round of the championship held at Inje Speedium, selecting Hwang Do-yun as their driver.
On November 5, ONE Racing announced that its main driver, Kwon Jae-in, will not contest the 5th and 6th rounds held at Everland Speedway due to personal reasons. As a result, Kumho GT1 drivers Jang Hyun-wook and Lim Min-jin will replace him for the weekend and race the car on the 5th and 6th rounds respectively.
Kumho GT
Cadillac CT4
Kolon Motors BMW M
Season summary
Championship standings
Drivers championships
Scoring system
Super 6000
Kim Jong-kyum won the Super 6000 title for the third time in his career, after winning back-to-back titles in 2018 and 2019.
Notes:
– Driver did not finish the round, but was classified as they completed more than 75% of the race distance.
Teams championships
Super 6000
The teams championship is decided upon points scored by two drivers per team after each race. Teams with 3 or more drivers have 15 days before each race to select two drivers to add their points towards their final tally.
AtlasBX Motorsports won the teams' championship to add to the three titles they won in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Notes:
– Driver did not finish the round, but was classified as they completed more than 75% of the race distance.
References
External links
Motorsport in South Korea
Sports car racing series
Touring car racing series
Superrace Championship
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Lorry (disambiguation)
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Lorry is the British English term for a truck, a large motor vehicle.
Lorry may also refer to:
People
Anne-Charles Lorry (1726–1783), French physician
Lorry Sant (1937–1995), Maltese politician
Fiction
Jarvis Lorry, a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities
The Lorry, a 1977 French film
Lorry (film), Indian Malayalam film released in 1980
Lorry (TV series), Swedish comedy series from 1989
Transport
Lorry (horse-drawn), a horse-drawn low-loading trolley
Lorry, or a mine car in the US: an open gondola (or railway car) with a tipping trough
Other uses
Lorry, Frederiksberg, a historic building complex in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lorry, the online handle of Michael Lawrie
See also
Lory (disambiguation)
Lori (disambiguation)
Loris (disambiguation)
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Arteriolosclerosis
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Arteriolosclerosis is a form of cardiovascular disease involving hardening and loss of elasticity of arterioles or small arteries and is most often associated with hypertension and diabetes mellitus.
Types include hyaline arteriolosclerosis and hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis, both involved with vessel wall thickening and luminal narrowing that may cause downstream ischemic injury.
The following two terms whilst similar, are distinct in both spelling and meaning and may easily be confused with arteriolosclerosis.
Arteriosclerosis is any hardening (and loss of elasticity) of medium or large arteries (from the Greek arteria, meaning artery, and sclerosis, meaning hardening)
Atherosclerosis is a hardening of an artery specifically due to an atheromatous plaque. The term atherogenic is used for substances or processes that cause atherosclerosis.
Hyaline arteriolosclerosis
Also arterial hyalinosis and arteriolar hyalinosis refers to thickening of the walls of arterioles by the deposits that appear as homogeneous pink hyaline material in routine staining. It is a type of arteriolosclerosis, which refers to thickening of the arteriolar wall and is part of the ageing process.
Associations
It is associated with aging, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and may be seen in response to certain drugs (calcineurin inhibitors).
It is often seen in the context of kidney pathology. In hypertension only the afferent arteriole is affected, while in diabetes mellitus, both the afferent and efferent arteriole are affected.
Cause
Lesions reflect leakage of plasma components across vascular endothelium and excessive extracellular matrix production by smooth muscle cells, usually secondary to hypertension.
Hyaline arteriolosclerosis is a major morphologic characteristic of benign nephrosclerosis, in which the arteriolar narrowing causes diffuse impairment of renal blood supply, with loss of nephrons. The narrowing of the lumen can decrease renal blood flow and hence glomerular filtration rate leading to increased renin secretion and a perpetuating cycle with increasing blood pressure and decreasing kidney function.
Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis
This is a type of arteriolosclerosis involving a narrowed lumen.
The term "onion-skin" is sometimes used to describe this form of blood vessel with thickened concentric smooth muscle cell layer and thickened, duplicated basement membrane. In malignant hypertension these hyperplastic changes are often accompanied by fibrinoid necrosis of the arterial intima and media. These changes are most prominent in the kidney and can lead to ischemia and acute kidney failure.
Cause
It can be caused by malignant hypertension.
References
External links
Vascular diseases
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Stacy Prammanasudh
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Stacy Prammanasudh (born September 23, 1979) is a retired American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour from 2004 to 2013.
Amateur career
Prammanasudh was born in Enid, Oklahoma, to an American mother and a native Thai father who immigrated to the United States from Thailand. She was raised in Oklahoma, and attended the University of Tulsa where she won the Stanford Pepsi Intercollegiate from 1999 to 2001 and was a three-year Academic All-American, from 2000 through 2002. Prammanasudh was also a First-Team All-American from 1999 through 2002. She was the recipient of the Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award in 2001, which is given to one of the top female collegiate golfers who excels in academics. She finished her senior season ranked second in the nation and won 10 collegiate events throughout her college career. This is the second-most in the school's history, behind only Nancy Lopez's 11 titles.
Professional career
After graduating from college in June 2002, Prammanasudh joined the Futures Tour. In the fall of 2002, she competed in the LPGA Qualifying School, finishing tied for 24th, which earned her non-exempt status on the LPGA Tour for 2003. Competing on both the Futures Tour and LPGA Tour in 2003, Prammanasudh won two Futures events and finished in the top-10 in nine other events. She won the Futures Tour Player of the Year award, which earned her fully exempt status on the LPGA for 2004.
Her first win on the LPGA Tour came in 2005 at the Franklin American Mortgage Championship.
Until 2007, Prammanasudh's father, Pravat "Lou" Prammanasudh, a native of Thailand, served as her caddie. He retired in 2007 and her husband Pete Upton caddied for her until her retirement in 2013.
Professional wins (4)
Futures Tour (2)
2003 (2) Frye Chevrolet Classic, Lincoln Financial Futures Golf Classic
LPGA Tour (2)
Results in LPGA majors
^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = withdrew
"T" = tied
Summary
Most consecutive cuts made – 5 (2009 LPGA – 2010 LPGA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)
Team appearances
Professional
Solheim Cup (representing the United States): 2007 (winners)
Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2006, 2007
References
External links
American female golfers
Tulsa Golden Hurricane women's golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Solheim Cup competitors for the United States
Golfers from Oklahoma
American sportspeople of Thai descent
Sportspeople from Enid, Oklahoma
Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Enid High School alumni
1979 births
Living people
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Dodgeville Chronicle
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The Dodgeville Chronicle is a newspaper published in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. It is read throughout Iowa County, Wisconsin and surrounding counties. The chronicle also publishes a small newspaper, the Democrat-Tribune, for Mineral Point.
See also
List of newspapers in Wisconsin
External links
The Dodgeville Chronicle. Home page.
Iowa County, Wisconsin
Newspapers published in Wisconsin
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Suspension & Displacement
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Suspension & Displacement is the fourth studio album by Djam Karet, released in 1991 by HC Productions.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from Suspension & Displacement liner notes.
Djam Karet
Gayle Ellett – electric guitar, seven-string guitar, guitar synthesizer, keyboards, tape, percussion
Mike Henderson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, acoustic twelve-string guitar, keyboards, percussion
Chuck Oken – drums, electronic drums, synthesizer
Henry J. Osborne – five-string bass guitar, keyboards, percussion
Production and additional personnel
Rob Dechaine – engineering, mixing, production
Djam Karet – production
Dave Druse – illustrations, design
Release history
References
External links
Suspension & Displacement at Bandcamp
1991 albums
Cuneiform Records albums
Djam Karet albums
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Dan Hunter (chef)
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Dan Hunter is an Australian chef. He owns and operates Brae restaurant in Birregurra, Victoria, which was ranked 44 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants, 2017.
Hunter started his career as a dishwasher, and worked in Australia and Britain before getting a job at Mugaritz restaurant in Spain where he was chef de cuisine. He returned to Australia and worked for six years as head chef of the Royal Mail Restaurant in Dunkeld, Victoria, before starting Brae in 2013.
Hunter has been named Chef of the Year in both The Age Good Food Guide (2012 and 2016) and Australian Gourmet Traveller (2016).
References
Living people
1970s births
Australian chefs
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Belvidere School, Shrewsbury
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Belvidere School is a coeducational secondary school located in the Belvidere area of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Belvidere draws 11- to 16-year-olds mainly from the surrounding areas of Monkmoor, Belvidere, Underdale, Abbey Forgate and Cherry Orchard. It is sited in grounds bordering open fields down to the River Severn The school performs well in local school sport competitions.
The school became a Technology College in 2003, specialising in Technology, Science and Mathematics. In 2008 it received a second speciality as a Training School.
Previously a community school administered by Shropshire Council, in January 2019 Belvidere School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Central Shropshire Academy Trust.
Notable former pupils
Jonathan Anders (cricketer, born 1971)
William Davies (cricketer, born 1972)
Billy Jones (footballer, born 1987)
References
External links
Belvidere School official website
Schools in Shrewsbury
Secondary schools in Shropshire
Academies in Shropshire
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Francisco Antonio Gavidia Guandique (1863 in San Miguel - 24 September 1955 in San Salvador) was a prominent Salvadoran writer, historian, politician, speaker, translator, educator and journalist. His poetry evolved from romanticism to a reflective direction and conceptual character. He was greatly influenced by French poetry of the time and he introduced Rubén Darío to adapt the Alexandrian verse to the Castilian metre in addition to entering the story, poetry and essays. The trajectory of his poetry is similar to the one of his theater, as he demonstrates in his dramas Jupiter (1885), Ursino (1889), Count of San Salvador or the God of the things (1901), Lucia Lasso or the Pirates (1914) and the Ivory Tower (1920), and the dramatic poem Princess Catalá (1944).
Childhood
A son of Francisco Antonio Gavidia and of Eloisa Guandique de Gavidia, was born in the municipality of Cacahuatique, today Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador. Due to the loss of the original birth certificate, there was a debate about the year of his birth. According to Hugo Lindo, the year 1865 was chosen because there were indications that supported this theory, but there are other data that approach the year to 1863. In fact, according to a Decree of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador, the latter is recognized as the date of his birth.
Due to the death of his mother, when it counted on 8 years of age, Francisco Gavidia moved to the property of his father located in the north of the San Miguel department of San Miguel, in the present municipality of Ciudad Barrios. In 1880, he obtained the Bachelor's degree in Sciences and Letters, and then moved to San Salvador where he entered the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of El Salvador. However, he left the race after a year, to become a self-taught.
Links with Rubén Darío
By 1882, he was a member of the literary group "La Juventud" and already showed a strong interest in French verses. It was in that same year, according to numerous sources, that knew to Rubén Darío. Both developed a strong friendship until the point that in 1890, Gavidia was godfather of weddings of Darío.
Career
Countless books in Spanish and French passed through his hands. In order to recover from the illness caused by overwork and mental fatigue resulting from his intense intellectual activity, he was sent to Paris by order of the president Rafael Zaldívar.
Gavidia had a large cultural heritage and was able to find a place in the city of Gavidia. It mentions that he dominated perfectly the German, French, English, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, besides the Mayan-Quiché language for which he got to develop a grammar in order to popularize the language. He also developed a language, called "Salvador", which sought to become universal, but received very little support from the intellectuals of his time, despite everything, Gavidia published some poems in "Los Argonautas" "Language Salvador", among which stand out "The Argonauts" and "A Marconi".
The year 1887 contracted marriage with the daughter of the journalist Carlos Bonilla. A year later, he founded the newspaper "El semanario noticioso", which was published every Thursday, as well as the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of San Salvador. After the overthrow of the general Francisco Menéndez Valdivieso, Gavidia exiled of the country and continued his journalistic activity in Costa Rica, where he was director of "La Prensa Libre" between 1891 and 1892; and later in Guatemala worked like co-redactor of "El bien público" of the city of Quetzaltenango.
When he returned to El Salvador, he served as editor of the Diario Oficial (1894), Director of Primary Public Education (1896) and Minister of Public Instruction (1898). In 1895 he founded the Parliamentary Party, and also served as a professor at the Normal School of Ladies, the National Institute of Men, and the University of El Salvador. He founded the magazine Los Andes. From 1906 to 1919, he held the position of titular director of the National Library Francisco Gavidia. In 1912, he became a member of the Ateneo of El Salvador.
Works
The work of Gavidia reaches encyclopedic proportions. He worked in poetry, theater, history, music, essay, pedagogy, philosophy, politics, journalism, literary criticism and translation. His vast knowledge was nurtured from classical literature, siglo de oro español the Golden Age, French culture and his language, and the reading of German, Italian and Oriental authors. He came to create a new language to be universally understood, which had the name "Salvador Language". In addition, he was a precursor in the treatment of indigenous issues and ideologist of the unionismo centroamericano.
In a country whose art received a strong European influence, Gavidia honored the Salvadoran identity and ethnic values, broke with that pattern and from there, other writers decided to follow that literary line. One can observe its influence in artists like Salarrué, Claudia Lars and Arturo Ambrogi. He introduced the story with a literary identity typical of its reality, an amalgam of pre-Columbian Indian themes such as legends and myths, is also considered the precursor of Salvadoran theater. Between its dramaturgy stands Ursino, the tower of ivory and Jupiter. The longing for identity, freedom and justice is also reflected in his poetry, which at the time many failed to assimilate because the desire to universalize Salvadoran idiosyncrasy was a fact not understandable for his time and for his peers.
Already in his work "Versos", he uses some of the main characteristics of vocabulary, rhythm and poetical metre that, soon after, would encode and to devote masterfully Rubén Darío. Subsequently, Gavidia evolved in the particular modulation of his own poetic voice, until he came to the cultivation of a conceptual reflection that reaches its maximum splendor in the poem entitled "Sóteer o Tierra de preseas" (1949), a modern epic song that, to a large extent, constitutes his masterpiece and his great literary legacy.
But between that initial romantic stage and this profound lyrical introspection of his age provecta fits a copious creative production and essay that went through many different stages and was contagious of multiple aesthetic trends.
Indeed, Gavidia himself was able to evolve from a late romanticism (or a pre-modernist glimpse) into dramas such as "Jupiter" (1885) or "Ursino" (1889), to a conceptual epic manifested in the dramatic poem entitled La princesa Citalá (1944). On average, there are some plays as different from one another, such as Conde de San Salvador or El Dios de las Cosas (1901), Lucía Lasso o Los piratas (1914), La torre de marfil (1920) and Héspero (1931).
Some of his works are:
Poesía (poetic booklet, 1877).
Versos (poetry, 1884).
Ursino (theater, 1887).
Júpiter (theater, 1895).
The encomendero and other short stories (1901)
Study and summary of the Discourse on the method of Descartes, (1901).
Traditions (on the homonymous work of Ricardo Palma, 1901).
Count of San Salvador or the God of Las Casas (novel, 1901).
1814 (ensayo, 1905).
Works (volume I, 1913).
Modern History of El Salvador (two volumes, 1917 and 1918).
Songbook of the XIX Century (1929-1930).
Tales and narrations (1931).
Hesperia (theater, 1931).
Speeches, studies and conferences (1941).
La princesa Citalá (theater, 1946).
Tale of sailors ' (1947).
Sóteer or Land of Preseas'' (1949).
Achievements
He is also known for being the advisor of the poet Rubén Darío, a pupil who shared sorrows and joys with the Salvadoran teacher, and who knew the experiment of Gavidia to adapt the Alexandrian verse to the Castilian metric, which gave rise to the modernist renovation of Spanish American poetry. Dario wrote in his autobiography:
The Salvadoran government declared Francisco Gavidia as "Salvadoran meritísimo" in 1933 and in 1939 the city of San Miguel paid him a tribute that included the baptism with his name of the theater of the city. In 1937, Gavidia was a member of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of El Salvador, Dependency of the League of Nations and in 1941 the University of El Salvador granted him the Doctorate Honoris Causa. At the end of his life, he was awarded the highest national award in El Salvador, the order "Jose Matías Delgado", which he received from the hands of President Oscar Osorio in his sickbed at Rosales Hospital, a few days before die.
See also
Vicente Acosta
Arturo Ambrogi
Afro-Salvadoran
Román Mayorga Rivas
Salvadoran literature
List of Central American writers
References
Bibliography
External links
Biography and Selection of poems
Gavidia en palabravirtual.com
Universidad Francisco Gavidia, El Salvador
Francisco Gavidia in the memory of Ricardo Lindo
de Francisco Gavidia
1863 births
1955 deaths
Salvadoran male writers
Salvadoran educators
Salvadoran aviators
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Risealeaana "Risi" Pouri-Lane (born 28 May 2000) is a New Zealand rugby sevens player.
Pouri-Lane attended Motueka High School where she graduated in 2017. She joined the Black Ferns Sevens in 2018.
She won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
See also
List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals
References
2000 births
Living people
New Zealand female rugby sevens players
New Zealand international rugby sevens players
Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players of New Zealand
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
People educated at Motueka High School
Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand
Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
Olympic rugby sevens players of New Zealand
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