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Silvan Reservoir
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The Silvan Reservoir is located in Silvan about east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It has a capacity of . The reservoir is operated by Melbourne Water.
Operations
Silvan is an off-stream storage reservoir, meaning that most of the water is sourced from other reservoirs as the actual catchment area of for Silvan is small. Water for Silvan is transferred from Upper Yarra, O'Shannassy and Thomson (via Upper Yarra) reservoirs.
In turn, Silvan directly supplies water to many of Melbourne's eastern suburbs as well as other off-stream storage reservoirs, including Cardinia and Greenvale.
History
A severe drought in 1914 forced the government to search for a new water supply to handle Melbourne's ever-increasing needs. Construction took place between 1926 and 1931. It was officially opened on 7 July 1931. The reservoir was long, wide, creating a reservoir that is deep.
In 1983, the wall started to show cracks and remedial works were undertaken. The picnic ground was added to the Silvan Reservoir Park at this time, which is now managed by Parks Victoria.
References
External links
Melbourne Water website - Silvan Reservoir
Reservoirs in Victoria (Australia)
1931 establishments in Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Duncan%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201977%29
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Andy Duncan (footballer, born 1977)
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Andy Duncan (born 20 October 1977) is an English footballer who played as a centre-back.
He started his football career at Manchester United, but made no appearances and was loaned to Cambridge United on 9 January 1998. The loan was turned into a permanent move in April 1998 for a fee of £20,000.
By the end of the 2006–07 season, Duncan had made 328 appearances for United, scoring 11 times. In May 2007, he was released on a free transfer by the club. In July 2007 he was appointed to a part-time role working on the public relations/commercial side of the club and is responsible for promoting the club in an ambassadorial capacity. He has also signed as a player for Chelmsford City in the Isthmian League.
References
External links
1977 births
Sportspeople from Hexham
Living people
English footballers
Association football defenders
Manchester United F.C. players
Cambridge United F.C. players
Chelmsford City F.C. players
English Football League players
Cambridge United F.C. non-playing staff
Footballers from Northumberland
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Vera Valentina Benrós de Melo Duarte Lobo de Pina (born October 2, 1952), also known as Vera Valentina Benrós de Melo Duarte Lobo de Pina and Vera Duarte Martins, is a Cape Verdean human rights activist, government minister and politician.
Biography
Duarte was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. She spend her first years of school in Cape Verde. She studied abroad in Portugal at the University of Lisbon.
She returned to Praia in Cape Verde and became a counsellor judge at the Supreme Court. She later became and advisoress to the President of the Republic.
Duarte was the recipient of the inaugural North–South Prize in 1995, along with musician, Peter Gabriel. The North–South Prize is awarded annually to recipients in the field of human rights by the North–South Centre of the Council of Europe. She is also a founding member of the Lisbon Forum.
Duarte is the only Capeverdean to have the U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry won in 2001.
Duarte co-founded and chaired the National Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship of Cape Verde in 2003. Most recently, Duarte has served as the Cape Verdean Minister of Education.
Works
Poems
1993 – Amanhã amadrugada
2001 – O arquipélago da paixão
2005 – Preces e súplicas ou os cânticos da desesperança
2010 – Exercícios poéticos
Novels
2003 – A candidata (The Candidate)
Essays
2007 – Construindo a utopia (Constructing Utopias)
References
Cape Verdean human rights activists
Government ministers of Cape Verde
Cape Verdean poets
1952 births
Living people
Cape Verdean women writers
People from Mindelo
Cape Verdean women poets
Cape Verdean novelists
Women novelists
20th-century poets
21st-century poets
21st-century novelists
Women essayists
21st-century essayists
20th-century women writers
21st-century women writers
21st-century judges
21st-century women politicians
Women government ministers of Cape Verde
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Philippine%20University%20-%20College%20of%20Business%20and%20Accountancy
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The Central Philippine University College of Business and Accountancy, also referred to as CPU CBA, CPU College of Business and Accountancy or CPU Business and Accountancy, is one of the academic units of Central Philippine University, a private university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1935 as the College of Commerce, it is one of the leading business schools in the country on the national performance of accountancy, real estate and civil service board exams; designations; accreditations; and notable alumni it produces.
The CPU College of Business and Accountancy has been designated by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) as National Center of Excellence in Business Administration.
An undergraduate degree granting school, the academic programs it offers include Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Advertising, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, and Real Estate Management.
The school's programs has been accredited Level III and IV by the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities (ACSCU-ACI). The school likewise offer post-graduate professional business programs through the CPU School of Graduate Studies. Its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has been adjudged as one of the best MBA programs in the Philippines.
The college maintains overseas academic programs jointly being offered in the universities and colleges in China and Vietnam the university has partnerships with. The Vietnamese higher learning institution of Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration is a fine example that has produced graduates abroad in the undergraduate programs of Accountancy and Business Administration.
Academic Programs
The CPU College of Business and Accountancy confers baccalaureate and post-graduate academic programs in accounting and business studies. A National Center of Excellence in Business Administration by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) for Western Visayas, some of its academic programs has been designated LEVEL IV by notable accrediting agencies, the highest level of accreditation that can be granted to individual programs in the Philippines. All of its undergraduate programs are offered in a four-year baccalaureate curriculum, while the post-graduate studies are offered through the CPU School of Graduate Studies.
Undergraduate studies
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Bachelor of Science in Accounting Technology
Bachelor of Science in Advertising
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (with majors in Business Management, Financial Management and Marketing Management)
Bachelor of Science in Economics (defunct)
Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Management
Bachelor of Science in Real Estatement Management
Graduate studies
The professional/post-graduate programs of the CPU College of Business and Accountancy are offered under the umbrella of the CPU School of Graduate Studies.
Master in Business Administration (MBA) (non-thesis and thesis)
Doctor of Management
Facilities
The CPU College of Business and Accountancy (CPU CBA) is housed with its dean and college's offices at the New Valentine Hall, a 3-story structure. Several plans for the college to have its own building, called the CBA Building, has been conceived by its administration and alumni.
The library of the college which it share with the Central Philippine University College of Law, the CPU Law and Business Library, is now housed at the Henry Luce III Library, the main library of Central.
Athletic facilities for CPU-CBA's Physical Education subjects and sports team training of the CPU-CBA Phoenix, is held at the CPU Gymnasium, the CPU Swimming Pool, the CPU Track and Field and Big Field, CPU Tennis Courts, CPU Student Center (for Table Tennis), CPU Baseball Field, CPU Halfmoon Field, and CPU Basketball and Sepak Takraw courts.
The university's dining halls and student union halls, are where the dining and lounging facilities of the college are located, in which CPU-CBA shares with other CPU's schools and colleges.
Notable alumni
Peter Irving Corvera, Undersecretary of Department of Interior and Local Government (Philippines).
Kaki Ramirez, Filipino actor.
Horacio Suansing, Deputy Commissioner of Bureau of Customs (Philippines) and Sultan Kudarat 2nd District congressman.
Estrellita B. Suansing, Nueva Ecija 1st District congresswoman.
Louise Aurelio Vail, first winner of the Binibining Pilipinas pageant to place at Miss Universe in 1965 (a semi-finalist of the latter).
Footnotes
External links
cpu.edu.ph/college-of-business-and-accountancy (Official website of CPU College of Business and Accountancy)
facebook.com/OfficialCPUCBA/ (CPU CBA Provincial Council Official Facebook page)
cpu.edu.ph (Official website of Central Philippine University)
Universities and colleges in Iloilo City
Graduate schools in the Philippines
Business schools in the Philippines
Protestant schools in the Philippines
Baptist schools in the Philippines
Educational institutions established in 1935
Institutions founded by the Rockefeller family
1935 establishments in the Philippines
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Willesden TMD is a railway locomotive Traction Maintenance Depot situated in Harlesden, north London. The depot is visible from the West Coast Main Line, to the south-east of Willesden Junction, on the way into London's Euston Station. The depot code is WN.
History
The original locomotive servicing facility at Willesden was on the south side of the main line, west of the station, which closed in 1965. It was replaced by the present facility.
Shed Layout
The depot was designed in the 1960s, to service electric locomotive classes AL1 to AL6 (TOPS classes 81 to 86) and subsequently class 87s, and consists of six parallel shed roads (each holding four locomotives inside the shed) and several arrivals and departure sidings externally. There is also a road that runs round to the north of the shed and this provides access to the fuel siding, (which for many years was used only for the occasional fueling of diesel shunters), and also to the DC lines of Willesden Junction Low Level station, which is used to move multiple units from the shed onto the North London Line after servicing.
The arrival and departure sidings contain two connections to the West Coast main line onto the up slow. At the east end of the depot, there is a trailing crossover to permit access onto the down slow when coming off depot.
Facilities
These include offices, a workshop and reasonably large stores. The workshop contains high quality facilities for pantograph overhaul, tap-changer overhaul and brake equipment test and servicing.
In more recent years, especially since the loss of AC electric locomotives, the fuel siding was promoted to other train operators as a facility at Willesden and a means to generate some revenue, this meant for instance that Gospel Oak to Barking Line DMUs did not need to travel to Bletchley TMD and back each night for 'A' examinations and fuelling which could instead be carried out at Willesden.
Allocation
Class 09
Class 378
Class 710
See also
List of British Railways shed codes
References
Railway depots in London
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Brent
Willesden
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Michael Young (baseball)
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Michael Brian Young (born October 19, 1976) is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since 2014, Young has worked in the Rangers’ front office as a Special Assistant to the General Manager (Jon Daniels). Originally a second baseman, the versatile Young was a five-time All-Star at shortstop, once at third base, and once as a combination designated hitter / utility infielder. He was the 2005 American League (AL) batting champion.
Young played baseball in high school at Bishop Amat Memorial High School and in college at University of California, Santa Barbara (UC-Santa Barbara). He was originally drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 1994, but elected to return to college and was eventually drafted in 1997 by the Toronto Blue Jays. After spending several seasons in the minor leagues with the Blue Jays, Young was traded to the Rangers, where he spent over a decade. While with the Rangers, Young set several club records in offensive statistical categories, including runs scored and total bases. In 2016, Young was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. In 2019, Young's No. 10 was retired by the Rangers.
Early life
Young attended Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, California, followed by the University of California, Santa Barbara, to which he later donated money to refurbish the school's baseball field.
Young was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 25th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft but did not sign. Three years later the Toronto Blue Jays selected him in the fifth round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft. Young signed with the Blue Jays, who traded him in 2000 with pitcher Darwin Cubillán to the Rangers for Esteban Loaiza while Young was still in their minor league system.
Professional career
Minor leagues (1997–2000)
Young made his professional debut in 1997 with the St. Catharines Blue Jays in the New York–Penn League (NY-Penn) (short-season A). Among his achievements in the NY-Penn League were a 16-game hitting streak, tying for fifth in the league with 48 RBIs, and tying for third in the league with 136 total bases. In 1998, he spent the season with the Hagerstown Suns of the South Atlantic League. Playing second base, he led all players at his position in fielding percentage. 1999 would be an all-star season for Young. Playing for the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League, he earned spots on both the midseason and postseason all star teams by leading the league in doubles and finishing fourth in batting average and hits, .313 and 155 respectively. After the regular season, he played for the Rancho Cucamonga Surfers in the California Fall League. He split 2000 between Double-A and Triple-A and, on July 19, was traded to the Rangers with Darwin Cubillán for Esteban Loaiza. The Rangers purchased his contract on September 27 and he played the final five games of the season in the majors making his debut as a pinch runner. Though he began 2001 in Triple-A, he was recalled to the majors on May 25 and did not return to the minors at all during the season.
Texas Rangers (2000–2012)
Young reached the Majors briefly in 2000, playing 2nd and getting two at-bats. He hit .249 in 106 games as a second baseman in 2001. In 2002, Young placed second in fielding among second basemen with a .988 fielding percentage. In 2003, Young was 3rd in the league in hits with 204, and led all second baseman with a batting average of .306. Young had a fielding percentage of .987.
After signing a new contract, Young moved to shortstop, filling the hole left by the departure of regular Ranger's shortstop Alex Rodriguez in 2004, to make room for newly acquired second baseman Alfonso Soriano. He was second in the American League in hits with 216 and at bats with 690, fourth in runs with 114, and ninth in batting with an average of .313. He spent 89 games hitting in the leadoff spot, the last time in his career that he hit leadoff prior to 2013.
Young won the AL batting title in 2005 with an average of .331, and was first in MLB in hits with 221. He was second in AL in at bats with 668, and his 114 runs were fifth-best in the AL. Young also established a career-high in home runs with 24. Young's 91 RBIs placed him second among all shortstops in the AL.
On February 14, 2006, Young and Rangers teammate Mark Teixeira were selected to the United States roster for the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
At the conclusion of the 2006 MLB All-Star Game held at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Young was awarded the Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVP Award after hitting a game-winning two-run triple in the ninth inning. Young led the American League in fielding percentage at shortstop with .981. Young also played all 162 games of the 2006 season, had 217 hits and topped 100 RBI for the first time in his career.
In March 2007, Young agreed to an $80 million contract extension that would have kept him with the Rangers until 2013.
Young finished the 2007 season with a batting average of .315, which led the Rangers and was 11th-highest in the AL. Young also led the Rangers with 94 RBIs and was second among all shortstops in the AL. Young was second on the team and tied a career high in stolen bases with 13. Young's 201 hits were 4th in the AL, and marked the 5th consecutive 200-hit season, joining Ichiro Suzuki and Wade Boggs as the only players to do so since 1940 and just the second middle infielder, along with Charlie Gehringer, to have accomplished that feat.
Young played in the longest All-Star game in history. He drove in the game-winning RBI at the 2008 MLB All-Star Game after four hours and 40 minutes of playing time. Also, in 2008 Young won the Gold Glove at shortstop for the American League.
In 2009, Young moved to third base to make room for shortstop prospect Elvis Andrus. The Rangers did not consult Young on this, and he requested a trade. He subsequently rescinded the request. On April 19, 2009, Young hit his first career walk-off home run, off Royals pitcher Kyle Farnsworth. Young was voted on the AL 2009 All Star team by the players.
On June 16, 2010, Young hit a ground ball up the middle to collect his 1,748th career hit, and pass Iván Rodríguez to become the Rangers' career leader in hits. On defense, in 2010 he tied for the AL lead in errors by a third baseman, with 19, and had the lowest fielding percentage among them, at .950.
During the 2010–11 offseason, Young said that the Rangers had "misled and manipulated" him and requested a trade. The Rangers, having acquired free agent third baseman Adrián Beltré, planned to have Young be the team's primary designated hitter as well as a utility infielder, and see time at first base for the first time in his career. He was a 2011 American League All Star.
On August 7, 2011, Young hit an infield single against Josh Tomlin of the Cleveland Indians for his 2,000th career hit.
In 2011, Young batted .338 (3rd in the American League) with 11 home runs, primarily splitting his time between DH (69 games), third base (40 games), and first base (36 games). He tied with Adrián González for the AL lead in hits (213), and was 5th in RBIs (106) and sacrifice flies (9), 8th in on-base percentage (.380), and 10th in doubles (41).
After Young struggled in the 2012 season, the Rangers asked Young if he desired a trade as they planned to cut his playing time for the 2013 season. Young did not request one, though the Rangers began to pursue a trade, and eventually traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Since being traded in 2012, the Rangers had not issued Young's uniform number 10 to any player or coach. On June 18, 2019, the Rangers announced they would retire Young's number 10 jersey in August.
Rangers career rankings
At the time of his departure from the team, Young lead the Rangers in several stat categories including games played (1774), hits (2178), doubles (406), triples (55), runs scored (1057), at bats (7221), strikeouts (1132), extra-base hits (632), and total bases (3210). He was third all time in runs batted in (RBIs) with 962 and sixth all time in home runs with 172. He also held several single-season records including most multi-hit games (70 in 2004), most hits (221 in 2005), doubles (52 in 2006), and at bats and plate appearances in 2006 (691 and 748 respectively).
Philadelphia Phillies (2013)
Young agreed to waive his no-trade clause and on December 9, 2012, was traded to the Phillies in exchange for pitcher Josh Lindblom and minor league pitcher Lisalverto Bonilla. The deal reunited him with former teammates Laynce Nix, Cliff Lee and Mike Adams. The Phillies were monitoring Young for some time prior to his acquisition. Their former Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt said, "we got a Derek Jeter kind of player on our team all of a sudden ... He's two or three Michael Young years away from being a Hall of Famer, first ballot maybe." Phillies general manager Rubén Amaro, Jr. and manager Charlie Manuel also were fond of Young and made him a target headed into the Winter Meetings. Once they agreed to a deal, Young had to approve it, which he did, later mentioning that he would only have done so to go to a winning team like the Phillies. The Phillies viewed Young as a stop-gap to get them to top prospect Cody Asche.
In 126 games with the Phillies, he hit .276 with 8 homers and 42 RBI. However, the Phillies did not turn out to be the "winning team" that Young had expected. On August 31, the Phillies' record stood at 62–74, and they were games out of first place and 14 games out of the last available playoff spot. He was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Upon leaving Philadelphia, Young released a statement in which he thanked the Phillies and said that he "had a blast" playing in Philadelphia and that he would recommend it "in a heartbeat" to any other player. Phillies players, namely younger players such as Darin Ruf and Cody Asche, commented that they loved having a veteran like Young to whom they could look up and seek advice from. Ruf said, "He was the type of guy to come up to a younger guy like myself or Cody and tell us a thing or two about what he thinks we need to do and how he thinks we could prolong our careers. He was just a great teammate to have around."
Los Angeles Dodgers (2013)
On August 31, 2013, he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor league pitcher Rob Rasmussen. In the last year of his contract, Young again waived his no-trade clause in order to join his hometown team for an expected playoff run. Young was acquired to be a backup infielder and provide a veteran presence on the team. Young made his Dodgers debut on September 1, 2013 pinch hitting in a game against the Colorado Rockies. He appeared in 21 games for the Dodgers at a variety of positions and hit .314.
After initially considering some offers as a free agent, Young chose to announce his retirement from baseball on January 31, 2014.
Career statistics
In 1970 games over 14 seasons, Young posted a .300 batting average (2375-for-7918) with 1137 runs, 441 doubles, 60 triples, 185 home runs, 1030 RBI, 90 stolen bases, 575 bases on balls, .346 on-base percentage and .441 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .979 fielding percentage playing at all four infield positions. In 43 postseason games, he batted .238 (36-for-151) with 11 runs, 10 doubles, 3 home runs, 19 RBI and 5 walks.
Post-playing career
On November 5, 2014, Young was hired by the Texas Rangers as a special assistant to general manager Jon Daniels. He played a key role in the offseason acquisition of Ian Desmond in 2016.
On July 30, 2016, Young was inducted into the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame in a pregame ceremony before the team's matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
Young was eligible to be elected into the Hall of Fame in 2019, but received less than 5% of the vote and became ineligible for the 2020 ballot.
On August 31, 2019, the Texas Rangers retired Michael Young's #10.
Personal life
Young's mother is of Mexican descent. Young met his wife Cristina, also Mexican-American, while in high school. They have three sons named Mateo, Emilio, and Antonio respectively. Young is a cousin of former WBO Light Welterweight boxing champion Zack Padilla. Another of his cousins, Jason Young, also played minor league baseball.
Young is also a philanthropist. He and his wife are sponsors of the Wipe Out Kids' Cancer campaign. In 2006, Young began the Young Heroes Scholarship Program, and in 2010, the Michael Young Family Hispanic Scholarship Program was established. In July 2011, Young and his wife announced the launch of the Michael Young Family Foundation, a charity which supports the involvement of children's health in all areas: physical social, mental, and educational. Young is represented by baseball agent Dan Lozano.
Young is a two-time winner of the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award winning in 2008 and 2011. He is one of only four players who have won multiple times (John Smoltz, Jim Thome and Curtis Granderson). Young's hobbies include billiards and golf.
See also
List of Major League Baseball batting champions
List of Major League Baseball hit records
List of Major League Baseball retired numbers
References
External links
Michael Young at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
Michael Young at Baseball Almanac
1976 births
Living people
American baseball players of Mexican descent
American League All-Stars
American League batting champions
Baseball players from California
Dunedin Blue Jays players
Gold Glove Award winners
Grand Canyon Rafters players
Hagerstown Suns players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVPs
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball shortstops
Major League Baseball third basemen
Oklahoma RedHawks players
People from Covina, California
Philadelphia Phillies players
St. Catharines Stompers players
Tennessee Smokies players
Texas Rangers players
Tulsa Drillers players
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball players
World Baseball Classic players of the United States
2006 World Baseball Classic players
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Diakourouna
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Diakourouna or Diakourouna Nerisso is a small town and commune in the Cercle of San in the Ségou Region of Mali. In 1998 the commune had a population of 6,779.
References
Communes of Ségou Region
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What's the Difference
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What's the Difference may refer to:
What's the Difference?, book by John Piper
"What's the Difference" (song), song by Dr. Dre
"Eyelash Curlers & Butcher Knives (What's the Difference?)", song by Jeffree Star
What's the Difference (TV movie), 1986 TV movie about IVF starring Debra Lawrance
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Fast Tracks is a racing game designed for the Commodore 64 by Mark Turmell and published by Activision in 1986.
Gameplay
The game involves running into other cars on the track. Each time a player bumps another car off the track, the car returns to the start of the lap, and two seconds are removed from the final time. Of course, if the player leaves the track he will have to restart the lap.
A map editor is also available in the game, which can be saved onto the disc. Seven circuits are built-in.
Reception
Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Race tracks, that you create, can be sent to friends who don't even have the game. They can then try to beat your best times. This game offers a lot of variety and plays nicely. It comes in a close third to the Racing Destruction Set from EA and Pole Position."
See also
Racing Destruction Set
Rally Speedway
References
External links
1986 video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Racing video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the United States
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Northshield Rings
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Northshield Rings is a prehistoric site, a hillfort near the village of Eddleston and about north of Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is a Scheduled Monument.
Description
The fort, on a rounded hill a short distance south of Portmore Loch, has well-preserved defences. There is an inner rampart, north-north-west to south-south-east by , enclosing an area of . There are two ramparts outside this. There are three entrances, in the north-west, south and south-east. Within the inner enclosure, seven slight depressions have been found, of diameter , thought to be the sites of timber round-houses.
The inner rampart rises up to above the interior, and above an external ditch. The outer ramparts are more substantial, with external quarry-ditches, providing a defence up to deep. It is thought that there were at least two phases of construction; it has been supposed, since the space between the inner rampart and the outer defences is up to wide, which would not be there if defences had been strengthened working outwards, that the outer ramparts were built earlier.
References
Hill forts in Scotland
Archaeological sites in the Scottish Borders
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Scottish Borders
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Canyon Blaster is an indoor roller coaster at the Adventuredome theme park in Winchester, Nevada. It features back-to-back vertical loops and corkscrews, and ends with a helix inside the mountain that takes up a large portion of the park. It is proclaimed as the world's largest indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew coaster. It's a copy of the original Python roller coaster in Dutch theme park the Efteling.
Canyon Blaster features two six-car trains that seat four passengers in two rows per car. When it originally opened it operated with seven-car trains. In 2001, the trains were re-painted in a dark blue and deep purple heliochrome paint but changed to white and green livery somewhere between 2010 and 2011.
It is the second Arrow coaster to be built for an indoor amusement park. The first was Chicago Loop at Old Chicago in Bolingbrook, Illinois, later relocated to Canobie Lake Park as an outdoor coaster named Canobie Corkscrew.
Ride experience
The train departs from the loading zone and get pulled up the lift. After that, the train drops a bit and curves and makes the 66 ft. drop, entering the double loops. Afterward, the train turns right into the double corkscrews. Then the train goes into the double helix and pulls back into the station.
Typically a single train is used while the other comes out during busier times.
In media
Baby Geniuses - part of fictional "Joyworld" theme park, Sly starts the ride with two scientists on board and restraints still open. Both fall from the ride.
Criss Angel Mindfreak (Season 3 Episode "Rollercoaster") - a train "goes through" Criss' body while he stands on the track after the corkscrews and Criss ends up in the front seat.
References
Roller coasters in the Las Vegas Valley
Roller coasters introduced in 1993
1993 establishments in Nevada
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Lacus Felicitatis
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Lacus Felicitatis (Latin fēlīcitātis, "Lake of Happiness") is a small patch of the lunar surface that has been inundated by flows of lava, leaving a level patch with a lower albedo than the surrounding ground. It is located in Terra Nivium, an area of continental ground to the north of the Mare Vaporum. About 70–80 km to the northeast of this area are the Montes Haemus, along the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis.
The selenographic coordinates of the centre of Lacus Felicitatis are 18.5° N, 5.4° E, and it has a maximum extent of 98 km. In outline it has a bent shape, with a wing to the northwest and another to the east. The border is somewhat uneven, and it is surrounded by rugged lunar surface.
Three tiny craters within this formation have been assigned names by the IAU. These are listed below.
Ina is a semi-circular depression that is only about 30 m deep and is difficult to image from the Earth.
In November 2006, it was suggested that Ina was the result of a gas eruption in the last 10 million years.
References
External links
Ina
Felicitatis, Lacus
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7th Quebec Legislature
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The 7th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from June 17, 1890, to March 8, 1892. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Honoré Mercier was the governing party for most of the mandate. The party was also known as the Parti national which composed previously of Conservative dissents that formed a new party, the Parti National. However, Mercier was dismissed by the Lieutenant-Governor Auguste-Réal Angers due to a scandal and the final months of the Assembly was led by Charles Boucher de Boucherville of the Quebec Conservative Party. Due to the minority status of the government in the final months, an election was immediately called.
Seats per political party
After the 1890 elections
Member list
This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1890 election:
Other elected MLAs
No MLAs were elected during by-elections in this mandate
Cabinet Ministers
Mercier Cabinet (1890-1891)
Prime Minister: Honoré Mercier
Executive Council President: Charles Langelier (1890), David Alexander Ross (1890–1891)
Agriculture and Colonization: Honoré Mercier
Public Works: Pierre Garneau
Crown Lands: Georges Duhamel
Attorney General: Arthur Turcotte (1890), Joseph-Emery Robidoux (1890–1891)
Secretary and Registry: Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1890), Charles Langelier (1890–1891)
Treasurer: Joseph Shehyn
Members without portfolios: Arthur Boyer
De Boucherville Cabinet (1891-1892)
Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville
Agriculture and Colonization: Louis Beaubien
Public Works: Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
Attorney General: Thomas Chase Casgrain
Provincial secretary: Louis-Philippe Pelletier
Treasurer: John Smythe Hall
Members without portfolios: Louis-Olivier Taillon, John McIntosh
References
1890 election results
List of historical Cabinet Ministers
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Khairi Nazarova
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Khairi (sometimes Khairy) Nazarova (; 2 July 1929 – 10 May 2020) was a Tajikistani actress who was active during the Soviet era.
Biography
Nazarova was born in Khujand into the family of a merchant. From 1942 until 1951 she was active as a singer and dancer at the People's Theater in Qurghonteppa. She also began to act during this time; among the roles which she essayed were Zuhro in Tohir and Zuhro of Said Abdullo; Oikhon in Left-Field Tricks by Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi; and Raihon in The Five-Som Bride by M. Urdubodi. In 1951 she was discovered by the director of the Lahuti State Theater and Academy of Dramatic Arts, Yefim Mitelman, who invited her to work there. She came to know performers such as Muhammadjon Qosimov, Asliddin Burhonov, and Tuhfa Fozilova, and she began to learn the intricacies of her craft. Among the roles for which she was known were Kumri in Dil Dili Zainab, by Shamsi Qiomov and A. Moroz; Nigina in Rudaki, by Sotim Ulughzoda; Masha in The Chimes of the Kremlin, by Nikolai Pogodin; Arkhonta in Fighters, by S. Karas; and the title role in Zebunisso, by Qiomov and Sherali. She also tackled roles in King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, among other Western plays. Nazarova also appeared in a number of films for Tajikfilm, including My Friend Navruzov (1957), Excellent Duty (1958), and The Twelve Hours of Life (1964). She also dubbed parts in over three hundred films. During her career, Nazarova traveled to Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, Tunisia, France, Italy, Malta, India, and Egypt. In addition to acting she also worked as an instructor. For her work she was named a People's Artist of the Tajik SSR in 1964. She later retired to Dushanbe. She also wrote reminiscences about her career.
References
1929 births
2020 deaths
Tajikistani stage actresses
Tajikistani film actresses
Soviet stage actresses
Soviet film actresses
People from Khujand
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Wiesław
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"Wiesław" is sometimes transliterated as "Wieslaw", in the absence of L with stroke.Wiesław () is a Polish masculine given name, of Slavonic origin, meaning "great glory" or "all glory". It is the shortened, more common, form of the personal name Wielisław. The feminine counterpart is Wiesława .
Individuals named Wiesław may choose their name day from the following dates: May 22, June 7, November 21, or December 9.
People with the name or its variants include:
Wiesław Ochman (born 1937), Polish tenor
Wiesław Jaguś (born 1975), Polish speedway rider
Wiesław Perszke (born 1960), Polish long-distance runner
Wiesław Michnikowski (1922–2017), Polish cabaret performer
Wiesław Rosocha (born 1945), Polish graphic designer
Wiesław Tarka (born 1964), Polish ambassador to Croatia
"Comrade Wiesław", unofficial nickname of Władysław Gomułka (1905–1982), Polish communist and the actual head of state 1956–1970
See also
Stary Wielisław (old Wielisław''), a village in Poland
Polish name
Slavic names
References
Polish masculine given names
Slavic masculine given names
Masculine given names
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Muskoka (electoral district)
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Muskoka was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1882 and from 1904 to 1925. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was also a provincial electoral district represented in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1955 to 1987.
This riding was first created from part of Victoria North and from areas that until then were unrepresented.
It initially consisted of the Townships of Morrison, Ryde, Muskoka, Draper, Oakley, Wood, Monck, Macauley, McLean, Medora, Watt, Stephenson, Brunel, Humphrey, Cardwell, Stisted, Chaffey, Christie, Monteith, McMurrich, Matchitt, Ryerson, Spence, McKellar, McDougall, Ferguson, Carling, Hagerman, Croft, Chapman, Ferrie, Mackenzie, Wilson, Brown, Blair, Mowat Cowper, Conger, Parry Island, Parry Sound, Aumick Lake Territory, Maganetawan, and all other surveyed townships lying north of the North Riding of Victoria, and south of the Nipissing District.
The electoral district was abolished in 1882 when it was redistributed between Muskoka and Parry Sound, Ontario North and Simcoe East ridings.
It was re-created in 1903 from Muskoka and Parry Sound riding, and consisted of the territorial district of Muskoka.
The electoral district was abolished in 1924 when it was merged into Muskoka—Ontario riding.
Electoral history
1872–1882
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MPPs
Robert James Boyer, PC (1955–1971)
Frank Miller, PC (1971–1987)
See also
List of Canadian federal electoral districts
Past Canadian electoral districts
External links
Library of Parliament website: 1872 to 1882
Library of Parliament website: 1904 to 1925
Defunct Ontario federal electoral districts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruggio
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Maruggio
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Maruggio (; ) is a village and comune in the province of Taranto, Apulia, southeast Italy. The village is located in a natural depression from the Gulf of Taranto, in the north-west part of Salento peninsula and it's one of the villages of South Italy where the Greek dialect Griko is spoken.
The nearest villages are Torricella at , Sava at , Manduria at and Avetrana at .
Territory
The territory of Maruggio extends for on a level land, with some low-rise hills in the north part of the territory, which reaches a maximum elevation of .
There are no rivers, except a little creek, the Canale del Curso, near Castigno, in the western part of Maruggio's territory.
The coast extends for , and it is mainly sandy but with rocky parts near Acquadolce Cirenaica and Monaco Mirante.
History
Maruggio was founded by Gorgolano, the Byzantine governor, with the union from the ancient hamlets of Castigno, Olivaro, Albano, Roselle and San Nicolò. After a period under the Knights Templar, from 1317 to 1819 it was ruled by the Knights of Malta. In 1819 it became an autonomous commune.
Economy
Tourism is the main wealth source. Tourism is developed especially along the coast, in the village of Campomarino, that is very famous for its clean sea, for the wonderful beach and in particular for the harbour, that is only along the coast between Taranto and Porto Cesareo. But the economy is tied up to the agriculture too. In fact Maruggio is famous for the oil and wine Primitivo.
Main sights
*Mother Church (15th century, rebuilt after the 1743 earthquake)
Church of San Giovanni Battista fuori le Mura (late 15th century)
Church of Sant'Eligio (late 16th century)
Church of Annunziata
Church and convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (16th century). It has a cloister with Baroque frescoes depicting histories of Saints.
Palazzo dei Commendatori, former castle of Knights of Malta
Church of Santa Maria del Tempio
Caniglia's Palace
Covelli-De Marco's Palace
Longo's Palace (16th century)
Armieri's Palace (17th century)
Massafra's Palace (19th century)
Morleo's Palace (19th century).
References
Cities and towns in Apulia
Localities of Salento
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Mark Carter
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Mark Carter may refer to:
Mark Carter (rugby) (born 1968), New Zealand former rugby football player
Mark Carter (footballer) (born 1960), English former footballer
Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter (1922–1994), English publisher and politician
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Champatpur
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Champatpur is a village in Lalganj block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 8 km from Lalganj, the block and tehsil headquarters. As of 2011, it has a population of 685 people, in 122 households. It has no healthcare facilities and does not host a permanent market or a weekly haat. It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Behta Kalan.
The 1951 census recorded Champatpur as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 313 people (148 male and 165 female), in 62 households and 50 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 344 acres. 14 residents were literate, all male. The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Sareni and the thana of Sareni.
The 1961 census recorded Champatpur as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 381 people (187 male and 194 female), in 68 households and 61 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 344 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Champatpur as having a population of 490 people, in 91 households, and having an area of 134.76 hectares. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.
The 1991 census recorded Champatpur as having a total population of 529 people (272 male and 257 female), in 94 households and 94 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 135 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 89, or 17% of the total; this group was 47% male (42) and 53% female (47). Members of scheduled castes made up 40% of the village's population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded. The literacy rate of the village was 46.5% (162 men and 84 women). 142 people were classified as main workers (all men), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 387 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 78 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 64 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 0 household industry workers; 0 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0 construction workers; 0 employed in trade and commerce; 0 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 0 in other services.
References
Villages in Raebareli district
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Jason Bargwanna
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Jason Eric Bargwanna (born 26 April, 1971) is an Australian motor racing driver. Best known as a Supercars Championship competitor, Bargwanna raced in the series for 25 years, the pinnacle of which was winning, with Garth Tander, the 2000 Bathurst 1000 in a Garry Rogers Motorsport prepared Holden Commodore. Bargwanna was the Driving Standards Observer for the Supercars Championship from 2014 until 2016.
Career history
Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category. He made his Bathurst 1000 début while still a teenager in 1990 and won the 1992 Bathurst 1600 cc class at 20, with his cousin Scott, however a lack of funding limited his motor sport participation for the next few seasons and he pursued a career in the financial sector.
His career finally started to move forward in 1995, racing in the Australian Formula Ford Championship. He impressed in his seven-year-old Reynard, racing against younger drivers with the latest cars from Van Diemen and Swift and against drivers of the caliber of Jason Bright and Mark Webber. His 1995 showing allowed him to attract the budget to run a campaign with late model equipment in 1996 and he finished second in the championship to Van Diemen's factory supported driver, David Besnard. He also represented Australia in the EFDA Nations Cup in both 1995 and 1996. A move to Formula Holden resulted in second place in the 1997 Australian Drivers' Championship with SH Racing.
V8 Supercars
As a member of the Holden Young Lions V8 Supercar program in 1997, he surprised many by taking provisional pole position in a 1987 Holden Commodore at the Bathurst 1000 Classic only to damage the car engine beyond repair in a race day warm up. His career further advanced in 1998 with a move full-time to Garry Rogers Motorsport, where he stayed for five years. Bargwanna is best known for winning the 2000 Bathurst 1000 with Garth Tander for that team. He also scored two round wins at the Winton event in 1999 and 2000 and at the inaugural championship round supporting the Gold Coast Indy 300, the V8 Supercar Challenge, in 2002.
In 2003, Bargwanna switched to Ford and drove for Larkham Motor Sport from 2003 to 2005. In 2006, Larkham Motor Sport merged with WPS Racing, the team folding immediately prior to the 2008 season and leaving Bargwanna without a full-time drive. He did however co-drove a Holden Commodore (VE) for Rod Nash Racing alongside Tony D'Alberto in the 2008 Phillip Island 500 and the Bathurst 1000 endurance races.
Bargwanna joined Tasman Motorsport for 2009 and, following the closure of that team at the end of the season, he joined Kelly Racing for 2010. He was also voted in the top 50 all time Australian Touring car drivers in 2010.
In 2011 Bargwanna drove a Brad Jones Racing Commodore alongside his junior open-wheel rival, Jason Bright.
In 2014, Bargwanna was appointed as the Driver Standards Observer for the Supercars Championship. Bargwanna left the post at the end of 2016.
New Zealand V8
In late 2011, Bargwanna left the V8 Supercars Australia and joined the New Zealand V8. He resulted runner-up in the 2011/12 season behind Angus Fogg, collecting a round win and podiums in the six rounds driving a Tulloch Ford Falcon. The team switched to a Holden Commodore for the 2013 season. The driver won nine out of 15 races and got the TLX title.
TCR
In 2020, Bargwanna was to make his debut in the TCR Australia and TCR Asia Pacific Cup driving a Peugeot 308. Both series were cancelled due to the Corona Virus Pandemic. In 2021, he and his son Ben, debuted in the series. Jason scored his first win at Phillip Island
Personal life
Borg-Warner is married to Debra and has two children Jake and Ben and lives in Nar Nar Goon, Victoria. His father, Harry Borg-Warner, himself owns an Australian racing driver, owns and operates a mechanical repair shop in the Southern Sydney suburb of Engadine. His uncle Alf and cousin Scott are also national level race drivers. Bargwanna attended Heathcote High School in Sydney. Borg-Warner owns two Hungry Jack's franchises in Hastings and Pakenham, Victoria. Jason also owns 1 Red Rooster outlet in Pakistan.
Career results
† team result
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results
TCR Australia results
(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
External links
Driver DataBase profile
Racing Reference profile
News articles, pictures & videos on Motorsport.com
News Articles on Speedcafe.com
1972 births
Supercars Championship drivers
Formula Ford drivers
Formula Holden drivers
EFDA Nations Cup drivers
Sportsmen from New South Wales
Living people
Bathurst 1000 winners
Toyota Racing Series drivers
Australian Touring Car Championship drivers
Racing drivers from Sydney
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Hung Shih-han
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Hung Shih-han (; born 18 January 1990) is a Taiwanese badminton player who competed at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. In 2008, she won the Hellas International Series tournament in the women's singles event after beat Dimitria Popstoikova of Bulgaria. In 2014, she also won the Vietnam International Challenge tournament.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's singles
Women's doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament
References
External links
Taiwanese female badminton players
1990 births
Living people
Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
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Raji language
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Raji is a small Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal and Uttarakhand, India. Speakers were until recently nomadic.
Distribution
Raji is spoken in the following areas of southwestern Nepal:
Bheri Zone: Surkhet, Banke, and Bardiya districts
Seti Zone: Kailali District
Mahakali Zone: Kanchanpur District
It is also spoken by Raji people of Uttarakhand, India, primarily living in Pithoragarh district.
In Pithoragarh district, Rastogi (2015) reports that Raji is spoken in the hamlets of Kimkhola, Bhogtirua, Ganagaon, Chipaltara, Madanbori, Kutachaurani, Altodi, Jamtadi, Khirdwari and Chakarpur.
Dialects
Khatri (2008) divides Raji into 3 main regional dialects, for which he also provides word lists.
Barabandale: spoken in Jyotinagar, Katasi, Lalbojhi, Kuti, Bhuruwa, Solta, Khairehi, and Keodi of Kailali District; Sundarpur, Bandevi Sibir, Daiji, krishanpur and Chela Sibir of Kanchanpur District; and Rajigaun, Galfa, and Babiyachaur of Surkhet District.
Purbiya: Shankarpur, Machhagadh, Baniyabhar, Rambhapur, Dhakela, Dhadhawar, Sanoshree, Gulariya Municipality and Phanphena of Bardiya District.Also Speak in Chhinchu of Surkhet District.
Naukule : Spoken in Jhil and Kuchaini of Chaumala, Shankarpur of Masuriya, Jarahi of Sadepani, Dhangaghi Municipality and Manera. All are located within Kailali District.
References
Raji–Raute languages
Languages of Nepal
Languages of Uttarakhand
Endangered languages of India
Dhakal, Dubi Nanda. 2019. A Raji-English Lexicon (Languages of the world / Dictionaries 72). (2019). Muenchen: Lincom Europa (Germany).
Dhakal, Dubi Nanda. 2021a. Raji Grammar (in Nepali). (2078 VS, 2021). Kathmandu: Language Commission.
Dhakal, Dubi Nanda. 2021b.The Raji-Raute link explained. Journal of Nepalese Studies. Vol. 14.1, 66-91.2021.
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Penicillium amagasakiense
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Penicillium amagasakiense is an anamorph fungus species of the genus of Penicillium. The Glucose oxidase of Penicillium amagasakiense has been studied in detail because of the use of Glucose oxidase in biosensors and fermentation fluids.
See also
List of Penicillium species
Further reading
References
amagasakiense
Fungi described in 1960
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Slype
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The term slype is a variant of slip in the sense of a narrow passage; in architecture, the name for the covered passage usually found in monasteries or cathedrals between the transept and the chapter house, as at St Andrews, Winchester, Gloucester, Exeter, Durham, St. Albans, Sherborne and Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. At St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, it is, with the chapter house, one of only two remaining rooms.
References
Rooms
Church architecture
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Nepal Leprosy Trust
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The Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT) is a Christian charity, based in Richmond, London, that provides services to people affected by leprosy in Nepal.
It was founded in 1972 by Eileen Lodge, a British nurse, who had emigrated to Nepal in the 1950s to work with the International Nepal Fellowship (INF). The Nepal office headquarters is in Tutepani, Lalitpur-14. In 1996 it established Lalgadh Leprosy Services Centre, a hospital in Lalgadh, Dhanusa district in the southeast part of the country.
The Self Care Training Centre run from the hospital is a service for patients who have been damaged by leprosy, as they learn how to live without feeling in their hands or feet or other problems.
The NLT Kathmandu office shelters people with leprosy (and other disabled, poor and marginalized), provides them skill-based/capacity-building training, and employs them in its handicraft production project, which produces handicrafts, especially for the export market. NLT is also a member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), WFTO-Asia, and Fair Trade Group (FTG) Nepal.
The headquarters staff, led by Kamal Shrestha, the CEO of NLT, also provide a range of support services for the various projects of NLT, especially for the hospital in Lalgadh out of which many projects are run. This involves sourcing equipment and supplies in Kathmandu, liaising with the various government departments involved, organising and hosting NLT Executive Board meetings that have to take place periodically, and overseeing funds coming from abroad, ensuring their safe distribution to the various projects.
References
External links
Official website
1972 establishments in the United Kingdom
Charities based in London
Christian charities based in the United Kingdom
Development charities based in the United Kingdom
Foreign charities operating in Nepal
Lalitpur District, Nepal
Leprosy in Nepal
Organisations based in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Organizations established in 1972
The Vineyard, Richmond
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Broseley Estates Limited
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Broseley Estates Limited, also referred to as Broseley Homes, was a housebuilder based in Leigh, Lancashire which operated from the 1950s until the 1980s.
History
Broseley's roots trace back to the 1950s when Daniel Horrocks began his career as an estate agent; he formed a partnership with Alf Smith (of Culcheth) Ltd and two others, and started building small developments of houses and refurbishing commercial properties in the south Lancashire area. In 1960 the various development companies were merged into the Broseley Investment Company, with Royal Exchange holding 26%. In 1961 Metropolitan Railway Surplus Lands also acquired a 20% holding; after further changes in shareholdings, Guardian Royal Exchange (as it had then become) finally achieved majority control in 1970.
During the 1960s Broseley expanded in the north-west and then, through the acquisition of Frederick Powell & Sons Limited, in the south west. By the end of the decade it was building up to 1500 houses a year. The expansion continued in the 1970s with new regions in Scotland, the north east and the south east. By the early 1980s, Broseley's output was around 4500 houses a year, making it the fourth largest housebuilder in the country.
In 1986 and 1987, Horrocks suffered a series of heart attacks. After 25 years, Guardian Royal Exchange decided that, without Horrocks, it did not wish to continue running a housebuiding company. GRE retained the commercial property business but sold Broseley Estates to Trafalgar House in December 1986 for £71 million, where it was integrated into Trafalgar House's Ideal Homes. Brian Bennett, Broseley's longest serving employee (then regional director for Lancashire), moved to Ideal Homes as land director.
Developments
Perhaps Broseley's most famous development was the housing used in Channel 4's Brookside television series from November 1982.
Broseley developed one of the largest UK housing estates at Croxteth Country Park in West Derby, Liverpool, constructing around 1000 new homes in a 7-year period, this was the largest private development in Europe at the time. It was also one of the first developers in Milton Keynes (where it sponsored a brass band, known then as Broseley Brass).
Several LDDC housing developments in London Docklands were built in the early 1980s by the company, the first sites were: Birch Trees in Cypress, Beckton and Nelson Reach off Redriff Road in Surrey Quays. Other developments included Spirit Quay in Wapping, Greenland Quay and Tower Bridge Wharf.
Divisions
Broseley Estates' main Head Office was based on Lord Street Leigh. It took the full block with boundaries on Lord Street, Bold Street, Vernon Street and Bond Street Leigh Lancashire. The building still stands today. In 1986 the company had regional offices at: Leigh, Airdrie in Scotland, Thornaby-on-Tees and Wakefield in Yorkshire, Liverpool, Nottingham, Luton, Bracknell, Stratford in London and Exeter. The Clubhouse stood on Holden Road, Leigh, next to the Broseley Football Club pitch.
Some Broseley houses and developments built in the 1980s
References
Housebuilding companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
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Brown Grey River
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The Brown Grey River is a river of New Zealand. It is an upper tributary of the Grey River, flowing from the slopes of Mount Kemp, close to the township of Springs Junction, and flowing southeast for before reaching the upper Grey River.
See also
List of rivers of New Zealand
References
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand
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Tan Boo Liat
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Tan Boo Liat (, 1875–1934) was a wealthy Singapore philanthropist. He was the son of Tan Soon Toh (), grandson of Tan Kim Ching and great-grandson of Tan Tock Seng.
Educated locally, he was a member of the Singapore Volunteer Infantry and was among the contingent present at King Edward's coronation. As a descendant of the illustrious Tan Tock Seng family, he was the head of the Hokkien Chinese community in Singapore, and chairman of the Pok Chek Keng () Temple's Committee of Management, which the temple was built as the Tan clan association. He was also a strong supporter of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, being a member of the Singapore T'ung Meng Hui along with Lim Boon Keng and Dr. S. C. Yin and a president of the Singapore Kuomintang. He headed the Fukien Protection Fund together with Tan Kah Kee collecting $130,000 during a nine-month campaign.
He was a trustee of the Anglo-Chinese School's Boarding School, and together with Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Sir Song Ong Siang and a few other Straits-born Chinese leaders, he initiated the Singapore Chinese Girls' School. He also proposed the establishment of the Tao Nan School
He had a stable of a dozen racehorses. In 1898 his famous horse, Vanitas won the Viceroy's cup in Calcutta, India, the first time that a horse from the Straits Settlements or the Federated Malay States won this trophy, earning Tan Boo Liat $100,000.
He had strong commercial links to Thailand and was honoured by the King of Thailand, two of the things he had in common with his famous grandfather Tan Kim Ching. In 1920 he was awarded the title Phra Anukul Sayamkich.
He owned Golden Bell Mansion (built 1901) on Pender Road at the Mount Washington side of Mount Faber, Singapore. Dr. Sun Yat-sen stayed there on 15 December 1911 as did his wife and daughters (February 1912). After Tan Boo Liat's death in Shanghai in 1934 the house was sold. It is currently occupied by the Danish Seaman's Mission.
His daughter, Polly Tan Poh Li, married Seow Poh Leng after the death of his sister, Lilian Tan Luck Neo, Seow's first wife.
References
Further reading
Singapore: days of old - "A special commemorative history of Singapore published on the 10th Anniversary of Singapore Tatler."—Cover—published by Illustrated Magazine Publishing Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong), 1992, ,
The Singapore house, 1819–1942, by Kip Lin Lee, Gretchen Liu, Published by Times Editions, Preservation of Monuments Board, 1988, ,
A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya, 1800-1911 Volume 11 of Southeast Asia Publications, by Chʻing-huang Yen, Published by the Oxford University Press, 1986
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumes 50-51 by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Malaysian Branch, Singapore, Published 1977
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumes 56-58 by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Malaysian Branch, Singapore, Published 1983
A portrait of Malaysia and Singapore (Oxford progressive history) by Ding Eing Tan Published by the Oxford University Press, 1978, ,
Parliamentary papers, Volume 61 By Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Item notes: v. 61 - 1909, Published by HMSO, 1909
Singapore: a pictorial history, 1819-2000 by Gretchen Liu, published by Routledge 2001, ,
Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Volume 12 by Cambridge University Press, Published by McGraw-Hill Far Eastern Publishers, 1981
Journal of Southeast Asian history, Volume 2 By University of Singapore. Dept. of History, University of Malaya (Singapore, Singapore). Dept. of History, Item notes: v. 2 - 1961
The 1911 revolution: the Chinese in British and Dutch Southeast Asia (Asian studies series) by Lai To Lee, Published by Heinemann Asia, 1987, ,
Studies in the Social History of China and South-east Asia - Essays in memory of Victor Purcell, edited by Jerome Ch'en & Nicholas Tarling, Cambridge University Press, 1970, Standard Book Number 521 07452 5
A History of Singapore By Ernest Chin Tiong Chew, Edwin Lee, Southeast Asian Studies Program (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), Oxford University Press, 1991, ,
Reconstructing identities: a social history of the Babas in Singapore by Jürgen Rudolph, Published by Ashgate, 1998, ,
Tanjong Pagar, Singapore's cradle of development by Tanjong Pagar Citizens' Consultative Committee, Published by Tanjong Pagar Constituency, 1989, ,
Plague fighter: the autobiography of a modern Chinese physician by Lien-tê Wu, Published by W. Heffer, 1959
Index to the correspondence of the Foreign Office for the year ..., Part 4 by Great Britain. Foreign Office, Published by Kraus-Thomson, 1969
Community and politics: the Chinese in colonial Singapore and Malaysia by Ching-huang Yen, Published by Times Academic Press, 1995, ,
Wayang: a history of Chinese opera in Singapore by Gretchen Liu, Kuan Wah Pitt, Angelina Phillips, National Archives (Singapore) Published by the National Archives of Singapore, ,
Street names of Singapore by Peter K. G. Dunlop Published by Who's Who Pub., 2000, ,
The first 150 years of Singapore by Donald Moore, Joanna Moore Published by Donald Moore Press; [distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich., 1969
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Singaporean people of Chinese descent
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Nate Hill (artist)
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Nate Hill (born September 6, 1977) is an American performance artist based in East Harlem, NYC.
Biography
Hill makes socially engaged work using public space – both online and offline – supporting himself with a separate career. Opting mainly to present work outside of the traditional art-world context, he engages with what he describes as the “non-gallery-going” population. Some of Hill's most well-known works have been Death Bear, White Power Milk, and Trophy Scarves. Hill has been featured in numerous publications including Vice, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Wall Street Journal, BlackBook, and The New York Times.
Hill's art is often confrontational, described as "[poking] holes into people’s ideas of comfort and [forcing] them to negotiate how far they are willing to go." He adapts personas in social spaces such as Twitter or Tumblr that address issues of race, class, and power.
Hill was a Blade of Grass Artist Fellows in 2013.
References
External links
Sociopath.Online, current official Nate Hill website
American performance artists
Living people
1977 births
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Lennart Sandin (November 26, 1919 – June 5, 1991) was a Swedish bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s. He finished seventh in the four-man event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
References
Bobsleigh four-man result: 1948-64
Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
1919 births
1991 deaths
Swedish male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders of Sweden
Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics
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Love Changes
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Love Changes is the fourth studio album from Kashif. The album was released in 1987 on Arista Records.
Background
The album includes the hit singles "Love Changes" with Meli'sa Morgan, "Love Me All Over", and "Loving You Only". Vocal trio Exposé provided most backing vocals; the track "Fifty Ways (To Fall in Love)" featured background vocals performed by Whitney Houston. The song "Love Changes" was originally sung by R&B group Mother's Finest in 1978, and covered again in 2005 by R&B artist Jamie Foxx, and hip hop artist Mary J. Blige.
The album was digitally remastered in 2012 by Funky Town Grooves and included six bonus tracks.
Track listing
2012 Funky Town Grooves bonus tracks
References
External links
Love Changes at Discogs
1987 albums
Kashif (musician) albums
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Diane V. Grendell (born March 16, 1945) is a current member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the people of the 76th district since 2019. A Republican, Grendell's district includes Geauga County as well as portions of Portage County. Previously, Grendell served as a judge on the Ohio Eleventh District Court of Appeals. She was elected to this position in 2000 in 2006 and 2012. She previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives in a similar seat from 1993 to 2000. She is married to former state legislator and Judge Tim Grendell.
In 2019, state Representative Sarah LaTourette resigned from her seat to take a position in the non-profit sector. Ohio House Republicans appointed Grendell to succeed her. She was supported by Larry Householder and a committee that he handpicked, against the recommendation of the Geauga County GOP Executive Committee. She was sworn in on May 29, 2019. On the same day, Grendell voted for House Bill 6, for which Householder was ultimately arrested by the FBI as part of an alleged $61M bribery and racketeering scheme.
Being connected to Householder allowed Grendell to raise over $500,000 in her campaign against Frank Hall, who raised only $11,000. She defeated Hall in the primary by 2,734 votes.
Grendell’s campaign received $395,000 from the House Republican Campaign Committee, a group alleged by the FBI to be controlled by Householder to funnel money from First Energy to his allies.
Grendell won re-election in November 2020, defeating Democrat Garrett Westhoven.
COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Grendell has been a vocal critic of public health measures intended to limit the spread of COVID-19. In September 2020, she proposed a bill to cancel the state of emergency and all public health restrictions. She stated that “the flu is far higher, far higher, and we don’t wear masks for that.” The Ohio Department of Health show an average seasonal flu death rate of 0.1% and a COVID-19 death rate of 3-4%. Three months after Grendell proposed her bill, average COVID-19 cases in Ohio had increased by more than 10x.
In November 2020, Grendell appeared in a photograph with a large group of other Republican state representatives, standing close together and not observing social distancing guidelines. Most, including Grendell, were not wearing a face mask.
In December 2020, The Geauga Maple Leaf stated that several sources were reporting that Grendell and her husband, Judge Tim Grendell, had contracted COVID-19. When reached by phone for comment, Grendell said, “no comment” and hung up. It is not known if she adhered to quarantine guidelines.
References
External links
Representative Diane Grendell (official site)
Profile on the Ohio Ladies Gallery website
Living people
Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Ohio
Ohio Republicans
1945 births
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
American women nurses
Ohio state court judges
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Dagrofa
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Dagrofa A/S is a Danish retail company with a market share of around 20% in Denmark as of 2008. The company controls distribution to franchise stores operating under the SPAR, Meny and Kiwi brands in Denmark and owns 43 own stores itself.
In 2013, NorgesGruppen bought a 49% share in Dagrofa from Skandinavisk Holding (owner of Scandinavian Tobacco Group).
In April 2017 Dagrofa announced that all Kiwi stores in Denmark would close. 30 stores will continue under the SPAR or Meny brand.
References
Retail companies of Denmark
Companies based in Ringsted Municipality
Danish companies established in 1983
Retail companies established in 1983
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Horace S. Racine (September 13, 1905 – 1994) was a Canadian politician, who represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1967 as a Liberal member.
Political Office
Racine's first attempt at political office was an unsuccessful effort to secure a position on the Ottawa Board of Control in the 1962 municipal election. He finished sixth in a field where the top four finishers became Controllers.
One year later, he ran and won in the provincial general election in 1963, defeating the incumbent PC MPP, Jules Morin. During his first term in office, he served on variety of Standing Committees as a member of the Opposition during one of the John Robarts majority PC governments. In the 1967 general election, Racine lost to his predecessor, Jules Morin, and he retired from politics.
Background
Prior to being elected, Racine, with his partner Albert Landreville, founded a funeral home called Maison Funéraire Racine, Landreville, in the Francophone section of Ottawa known as Lower Town. In 1947, he merged that operation with another funeral home and the joint venture became known as Maison Funéraire Racine Robert and Gauthier. Racine served as the President of the Ottawa District Funeral Service Association from 1947 to 1948.
In 1944, Racine was also one of the founders of a service club in Ottawa known as Club Richelieu, designed to provide a Francophone alternative to Rotary International and Kiwanis. He served as a Director of the Club from 1945 to 1951 and as its President in 1950. The idea of a French-speaking service club proved popular in other Francophone areas in Canada, the U.S. and Europe and the concept started in Ottawa is now known as Richelieu International and boasts almost 70 clubs in North America and Europe. Racine served as a Director of Richelieu International from 1953 to 1957. He was active in other voluntary organizations, including the St-Jean-Baptiste Society of Ottawa (Secretary General in 1936 and, subsequently, President); Chairman of the Liberal Club of Ottawa East (1953–1957); Founder of Patro-Ottawa and its President in 1957 and he was a Member of the "Assembly Cartier 4th Degree" of the Knights of Columbus.
Secretary General (1936) généraral then president of the St-Jean-Baptisite Society of Ottawa, founding member (1945) and Chairman (1950) of the Richelieu Club of Ottawa-Hull and Director of International Richelieu (1953–1957), Chairman of the Liberal Club of Ottawa East (1953–1957) Founder of Patro-Ottawa, he was President in 1957 and is a member of the Assembly Cartier 4th degree Knights of Columbus.
Racine received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 for his public service.
Racine was married twice, first, on May 2, 1929, to Mary Alma Quinn and, second, to Alice Carruthers on May 10, 1975. He died at St. Joseph Hospital, Ottawa, in 1994, and he is buried in Notre Dame Cemetery, on Montreal Road in Ottawa.
Election results
Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected)
References
External links
1905 births
1994 deaths
Ontario Liberal Party MPPs
Politicians from Ottawa
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The 1988–89 Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey team represented the Harvard University in college ice hockey. In its 18th year under head coach Bill Cleary the team compiled a 31–3–0 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the fourteenth time. The Crimson defeated Minnesota 4–3 in overtime to win the championship game at the St. Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Season
After spending the previous year playing for the US National Team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau returned to Harvard and led a very experienced team that was looking to being the Crimson its first national championship. MacDonald was named team captain and placed on the top line along with Bourbeau and C. J. Young. Over the course of the season Harvard was led by its upper-classmen, with nearly two thirds of the game-to-game roster coming from the veterans. However, the Crimson got major contributions from underclassmen as well. Sophomores Peter Ciavaglia and Ted Donato earned their place on the second line with the former leading the team in scoring. In net Bill Cleary decided to go with a goaltending tandem with the two freshmen Allain Roy and Chuckie Hughes alternating starts.
Fast Start
The Crimson began the year with five wins against different conference opponents, though none were particularly strong squads. The first real test for Harvard came against Hockey East powerhouse Boston College where the two Boston-area rivals battled into overtime where the ivy-leaguers took the game. In the three succeeding games Harvard absolutely pounded their ECAC opponents, scoring 27 goals and routing the competition. Harvard ended 1988 with a pair of games against New Hampshire teams. After an overtime win over UNH the Crimson smashed long-time rival Dartmouth 10–0, Harvard's only shutout of the season.
Number One
Harvard began the second half of its season in early January and looked to have lost a bit of a step during their three-week break; they continued to win games but their massive goal differentials had vanished. Just when it looked like they were vulnerable, however, the Crimson soundly beat previously-undefeated St. Lawrence and claimed the #1 ranking. The 15–0 Crimson were off to their best start since the depression but couldn't build on their lead for another two weeks. When they finally returned to the ice at the end of the month their offense was nowhere to be found against their arch-rival Yale and Harvard suffered its first loss of the season. The Crimson recovered for the next two games, winning easily against two of the conference's worst teams, before heading to the Boston Garden for the start of the Beanpot.
Beanpot champion
Despite Harvard's success throughout the 1980s the program hadn't won a Beanpot semifinal since 1981 and they wouldn't have an easy task in the first game as they faced Boston College who were looking for revenge after the earlier loss. Once more the squads fought a close game but Harvard was able to come out as the victor once more, setting up a championship showdown against Boston University a week later. In the meantime Harvard played a pair of road games and suffered their second loss of the season, losing in overtime to 3rd-place Colgate. The Beanpot championship came two days after the loss and Harvard's forwards ran roughshod over the Terriers, scoring nine times to win the match and give the program its ninth Beanpot title.
Harvard faced a bit of a gauntlet in the final two weeks of the regular season, going up against two of the top teams in the conference, but Harvard was able to sweep both weekends and cement its 4th-consecutive ECAC title.
ECAC Tournament
Harvard began the conference tournament by hosting Rensselaer in the best-of-three quarterfinals and won two games handily. The Crimson headed back to Boston Garden for the championship rounds and found themselves in a touch match against the upstart Vermont Catamounts. They fought to a 2–2 draw after regulation and when the sixth-seed team were the ones to find the back of the net Harvard headed to its third consolation game of in four years. While they won the match against Cornell, Harvard's loss in the semifinal gave the top eastern seed to Maine despite the Crimson's 27–3 record.
NCAA Tournament
The slightly lowering of their ranking still gave Harvard a first-round bye in the national tournament, allowing the Crimson to wait at home for their opponent. In late March Harvard played their final home games of the season against defending national champion Lake Superior State and the difference between the two could not have been greater. While Harvard was a fast-skating finesse team, the Lakers were a hard-nosed checking group that relied on their All-American goalie Bruce Hoffort to bail them out on the penalty kill. Harvard's goaltending tandem were able to keep LSSU from scoring much in the two games, allowing the Crimson to win both games and advance to their fourth Frozen Four of the decade.
In the semifinal Harvard faced the team that had stopped them from winning the 1986 championship in Michigan State. The senior class for MSU remembered the win over Harvard and leading-scorer Bobby Reynolds remarked:
"Thank God we're not playing Minnesota."
The relief over facing the Ivy-leaguers was soon erased when Harvard scored twice in the first while Allain Roy stood on his head to make a spectacular save on Reynolds' wrap-around chance. In the end it was the boys from the east who skated away with the victory in front of a mostly-MSU cheering 15,000.
Title Game
The championship game pitted two teams who had been desperately trying to win the title over the previous decade but came up empty each year. While Harvard wore their home whites it was Minnesota who had a sellout crowd cheering for them in their backyard of Saint Paul. Just prior to the game Lane MacDonald received the Hobey Baker Award, giving both teams a national player of the year (Robb Stauber had won the award in 1988). Both teams were anxious to win the championship and came out flying at the start of the game. Minnesota got on the board first with a fairly soft goal from the stick of Jon Anderson. In Harvard's zeal to tie up the game they took three consecutive penalties in the first period but the penalty kill, which had been good all season, stood strong and prevented Minnesota from extending its lead.
In the second in was Minnesota's turn in the box and the Gophers received three straight minors to start the middle frame. In the second power play for Harvard, Ted Donato fired a shot from the point and the puck sailed past Stauber's glove to tie the score. Four minutes later, just after the Gophers killed off the third penalty, Lane MacDonald managed to get behind Minnesota's defensemen and cut across the front of the net before beating a sprawled Stauber to give Harvard its first lead. Three and a half minutes later Minnesota finally broke through on the power play and the two teams skated into intermission tied at 2.
Minnesota had the balance of power in the third but it was Donato who found the back of the net first, giving Harvard the lead with just over 7 minutes to play. The Gophers fought furiously to tie the score and managed to do just that on their third power play of the period. In overtime Minnesota nearly won the game when a shot from Randy Skarda beat Chuckie Hughes' blocker but it hit the post square and bounced straight back. A few minutes later Harvard won a faceoff in Minnesota's end and Brian McCormack shot a puck from the point. It rebounded off of Stauber and, while Peter Ciavaglia was being tackled by Skarda, Ed Krayer picked up the puck, skated a few feet towards the corner and backhanded a puck that eluded Stauber. The overtime goal silenced the partisan crowd while the cheers from the Harvard squad echoed throughout the building.
Awards and Honors
Ted Donato's two goals in the final games helped him win tournament MOP honors, and he was joined on the All-Tournament team by Kevin Sneddon, Lane MacDonald and Allain Roy. MacDonald's Hobey Baker award was the third for Harvard in a seven-year span and he was the only member of the team to make the AHCA All-American East First Team though linemate C. J. Young made the Second Team. MacDonald was also ECAC Player of the Year and an All-ECAC First Team member. Young, Allen Bourbeau and Peter Ciavaglia made second-team all-conference. As they had been equally critical to the team's success all season, it was fitting that Allain Roy and Chuckie Hughes shared the goaltending spot on the All-ECAC Rookie Team.
Head Coach Bill Cleary remained behind the bench for one more season before becoming the Athletic Director, leaving the '89 season as crowning jewel of his illustrious career.
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(W2) Minnesota vs. (E2) Harvard
Players drafted into the NHL
1989 NHL Entry Draft
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1989 NHL Supplemental Draft
See also
1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
List of NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions
References
Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey seasons
NCAA men's ice hockey Frozen Four seasons
NCAA men's ice hockey championship seasons
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Twitching motility is a form of crawling bacterial motility used to move over surfaces. Twitching is mediated by the activity of hair-like filaments called type IV pili which extend from the cell's exterior, bind to surrounding solid substrates and retract, pulling the cell forwards in a manner similar to the action of a grappling hook. The name twitching motility is derived from the characteristic jerky and irregular motions of individual cells when viewed under the microscope. It has been observed in many bacterial species, but is most well studied in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Myxococcus xanthus. Active movement mediated by the twitching system has been shown to be an important component of the pathogenic mechanisms of several species.
Mechanisms
Pilus structure
The type IV pilus complex consists of both the pilus itself and the machinery required for its construction and motor activity. The pilus filament is largely composed of the PilA protein, with more uncommon minor pilins at the tip. These are thought to play a role in initiation of pilus construction. Under normal conditions, the pilin subunits are arranged as a helix with five subunits in each turn, but pili under tension are able to stretch and rearrange their subunits into a second configuration with around subunits per turn.
Three subcomplexes form the apparatus responsible for assembling and retracting the type IV pili. The core of this machinery is the motor subcomplex, consisting of the PilC protein and the cytosolic ATPases PilB and PilT. These ATPases drive pilus extension or retraction respectively, depending on which of the two is currently bound to the pilus complex. Surrounding the motor complex is the alignment subcomplex, formed from the PilM, PilN, PilO and PilP proteins. These proteins form a bridge between the inner and outer membranes and create a link between the inner membrane motor subcomplex and the outer membrane secretion subcomplex. This consists of a pore formed from the PilQ protein, through which the assembled pilus can exit the cell.
Regulation
Regulatory proteins associated with the twitching motility system have strong sequence and structural similarity to those that regulate bacterial chemotaxis using flagellae. In P. aeruginosa for example, a total of four homologous chemosensory pathways are present, three regulating swimming motility and one regulating twitching motility. These chemotactic systems allow cells to regulate twitching so as to move towards chemoattractants such as phospholipids and fatty acids. In contrast to the run-and-tumble model of chemotaxis associated with flagellated cells however, movement towards chemoattractants in twitching cells appears to be mediated via regulation of the timing of directional reversals.
Motility patterns
Twitching motility is capable of driving the movement of individual cells. The pattern of motility that results is highly dependent upon cell shape and the distribution of pili over the cell surface. In N. gonorrhoeae for example, the roughly spherical cell shape and uniform distribution of pili results in cells adopting a 2D random walk over the surface they are attached to. In contrast, species such as P. aeruginosa and M. xanthus exist as elongated rods with pili localised at their poles, and show much greater directional persistence during crawling due to the resulting bias in force generation direction. P. aeruginosa and M. xanthus are also able to reverse direction during crawling by switching the pole of pilus localization. Type IV pili also mediate a form of walking motility in P. aeruginosa, where pili are used to pull the cell rod into a vertical orientation and move it at much higher speeds than during horizontal crawling motility.
The existence of many pili pulling simultaneously on the cell body results in a balance of forces determining the movement of the cell body. This is known as the tug-of-war model of twitching motility. Sudden changes in the balance of forces caused by detachment or release of individual pili results in a fast jerk (or 'slingshot') that combines fast rotational and lateral movements, in contrast to the slower lateral movements seen during the longer periods between slingshots.
Roles
Pathogenesis
Both presence of type IV pili and active pilar movement appear to be important contributors to the pathogenicity of several species. In P. aeruginosa, loss of pilus retraction results in a reduction of bacterial virulence in pneumonia and reduces colonisation of the cornea. Some bacteria are also able to twitch along vessel walls against the direction of fluid flow within them, which is thought to permit colonisation of otherwise inaccessible sites in the vasculatures of plants and animals.
Bacterial cells can also be targeted by twitching: during the cell invasion phase of the lifecycle of Bdellovibrio, type IV pili are used by cells to pull themselves through gaps formed in the cell wall of prey bacteria. Once inside, the Bdellovibrio are able to use the host cell's resources to grow and reproduce, eventually lysing the cell wall of the prey bacterium and escaping to invade other cells.
Biofilms
Twitching motility is also important during the formation of biofilms. During biofilm establishment and growth, motile bacteria are able to interact with secreted extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) such as Psl, alginate and extracellular DNA. As they encounter sites of high EPS deposition, P. aeruginosa cells slow down, accumulate and deposit further EPS components. This positive feedback is an important initiating factor for the establishment of microcolonies, the precursors to fully fledged biofilms. In addition, once biofilms have become established, their twitching-mediated spread is facilitated and organised by components of the EPS.
Twitching can also influence the structure of biofilms. During their establishment, twitching-capable cells are able to crawl on top of cells lacking twitching motility and dominate the fast-growing external surface of the biofilm.
Taxonomic distribution and evolution
Type IV pili and related structures can be found across almost all phyla of Bacteria and Archaea, however definitive twitching motility has been shown in a more limited range of prokaryotes. Most well studied and wide spread are the twitching proteobacteria, such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Myxococcus xanthus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nevertheless, twitching has been observed in other phyla as well. For example, twitching motility has been observed in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis, as well as the gram-positive firmicutes Streptococcus sanguinis.
Other structures and systems closely related to type IV pili have also been observed in prokaryotes. In Archea, for example, bundles of type IV-like filaments have been observed to form helical structures similar in both form and function to the bacterial flagellum. These swimming associated structures have been termed archaella. Also closely related to the type IV pilus is the type II secretion system, itself widely distributed amongst gram-negative bacteria. In this secretion system, cargo destined for export is associated with tips of type IV-like pseudopili in the periplasm. Extension of the pseudopili through secretin proteins similar to PilQ permits these cargo proteins to cross the outer membrane and enter the extracellular environment.
Because of this wide but patchy distribution of type IV pilus-like machinery, it has been suggested that the genetic material encoding it has been transferred between species via horizontal gene transfer following its initial development in a single species of proteobacteria.
See also
Gliding motility
Pilus
Swarming motility
References
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Gary Sabaugh (born October 24, 1957) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Italian Stallion, who has competed in North American independent promotions throughout the 1980s and 1990s including stints in both the World Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance, specifically Jim Crockett Promotions and World Championship Wrestling.
He is also the co-owner of the Charlotte-based Professional Wrestling Federation and its wrestling school with longtime rival George South. Among the wrestlers he and South have trained over the years include Henry Godwin, Ron Killings and the Hardy Boyz. He was instrumental in bringing the latter to the WWF in 1994.
Professional wrestling career
Gary Sabaugh, also known as the pro wrestler The Italian Stallion, has had many television appearances in the NWA, WCW, WWF, Georgia Championship Wrestling with WTBS, Florida Championship Wrestling, and New Japan Pro Wrestling. In addition to a 23-year-career in professional wrestling, Sabaugh was also a sitcom actor and stunt man.
Jim Crockett Promotions
Teaming with Buzz Sawyer and "Pistol" Pez Whatley against Bob Roop and NWA National Tag Team Champions Ole and Arn Anderson on May 11, he would face a number of veteran wrestlers throughout 1985 including Terry Flynn, Black Bart, and appeared at the first Starcade '85 losing to Thunderfoot#1 on November 28. Two days later, he also teamed with Rocky King against The Midnight Express on November 30, 1985.
Teaming with Koko B. Ware during the first annual Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Tournament in April 1986, they were defeated in the opening round by Buzz Sawyer and Rick Steiner.
The following year, he and Ricky Lee Jones lost to Ronnie & Jimmy Garvin in the opening rounds of the second annual Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Tournament on April 11, 1987.
In his third appearance at the Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Tournament, he and Kendall Windham would defeat Green Machine and Terminator by forfeit on before losing to Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard in the quarterfinals in April 1988.
World Championship Wrestling
Sabaugh continued working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which was Jim Crockett Promotions renamed after the latter's sale to Ted Turner in November 1988. Sabaugh would wrestle members of The Varsity Club facing Mike Rotunda in late 1988 and team with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and Nikita Koloff in a 6-man tag team match against Rotunda, Rick Steiner and Al Perez on September 25 before losing to Steve Williams at Clash of the Champions IV on December 7, 1988.
During that year, he was the wrestling advisor for the short-lived sitcom Learning the Ropes and, along with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, was a stunt double for the Lyle Alzado's character The Masked Maniac.
He would team with Brett Sawyer and The Nasty Boys in an 8-man tag team match against Johnny Ace, The Terminator and Southern Force on March 11, 1989.
Later career
Appearing less often during the early 1990s, making an appearance on WCW Power Hour teamed with Reno Riggins against The Fabulous Freebirds on January 19, he was absent from WCW television for much of 1991. This may be due to Sabaugh and wrestler George South having founded the Professional Wrestling Federation in 1990. Originally based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Promotion ran shows in the old Crockett territories in North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia until its closure in 1999. Sabaugh and South would continue their decade long feud while in PWF, which involved female wrestlers Mad Maxine and her mother Mama Maxine for a time, trading the PWF heavyweight title several times and at one point forming a tag team with South, winning the tag team titles before they began fighting each other again.
At the same time, Sabough continued working for other companies. His WCW appearances increased in 1992, and included a bout for the World Tag Team Championship on September 15 in Macon, Georgia, teaming with Ricky Nelson in a losing effort against Steve Williams and Terry Gordy. He would contest the following year for the Television Championship, losing to "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff on April 3, 1993, and twice more for Tag Team Championship, partnering with Chris Sullivan on April 6 and Rex Cooper on April 27, losing both times to The Hollywood Blonds. Sabaugh's last appearance for WCW would be with George South in a tag team match against Kent & Keith Cole at a house show at the Brushfork Armory in Bluefield, West Virginia on August 20, 1993.
Sabaugh would also wrestle for a time in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s. Though he would never get higher than lower mid-card status, he did help a very young Matt & Jeff Hardy break into the WWF as jobbers. Though the Hardys would make $150 per appearance as jobbers, Sabaugh would charge them $100 per appearance. According to Matt Hardy in the 2008 DVD Twist of Fate: The Matt & Jeff Hardy Story, Sabaugh ended up leaving the Hardys stranded in Charlotte, North Carolina where the three were supposed to meet before traveling to a show in Macon, Georgia. In the process, Sabaugh left the Hardys to fend for themselves, but still wanted to collect the $100 per appearance fee from the boys. Matt later told Bruce Prichard about what happened, and the WWF would contact the Hardys directly thereafter for jobbing before the two would eventually sign with WWF full-time in 1998. Sabaugh was released afterwards partially due to the incident.
Sabaugh's last match would be a successful defense of the PWF Heavyweight against George South on March 29, 1997 at The Armory in Greer, South Carolina.
Championships and Accomplishments
Pro Wrestling Federation
PWF Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
PWF Tag Team Championship (4 times) with Ron Garvin and George South
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him # 213 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 1994
References
External links
Profile at Online World of Wrestling
1957 births
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Professional wrestlers from North Carolina
Professional wrestling jobbers
Sportspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
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opened in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1990. The permanent exhibition, which tells the history of Fukuoka, is arranged in eleven sections, including those focussing upon the King of Na gold seal (National Treasure), the Kuroda clan, and the Hakata Gion Yamakasa.
See also
Fukuoka Art Museum
List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Fukuoka)
References
External links
Fukuoka City Museum
Fukuoka City Museum at Google Cultural Institute
Museums in Fukuoka Prefecture
Fukuoka
City museums in Japan
Museums established in 1990
1990 establishments in Japan
Tourist attractions in Fukuoka
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Napoleon Bracy Jr. is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives, where he represents Mobile County, Alabama. In May 2017, he opposed the bill for the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, which would make it harder to remove Confederate monuments in Alabama; he argued, "People that sponsor bills like this don't care about me."
References
Living people
Dillard University alumni
Alabama Democrats
Members of the Alabama House of Representatives
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American politicians
20th-century African-American people
African-American state legislators in Alabama
21st-century American politicians
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Dietrich Hans Borchardt (14 April 1916 – 6 June 1997) was an Australian librarian and bibliographer.
Career
Born in Hanover, Germany, to Jewish parents, Borchardt escaped Nazism via Italy and emigrated to New Zealand. There he studied at Victoria University, Wellington, and graduated with a BA in 1944 and an MA in 1947. He gained a library diploma from the New Zealand Library School.
He was Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Otago Library in 1949 to 1950. He was appointed as deputy librarian (1950–52) and then chief librarian (1953–1965) at the University of Tasmania. He also tutored in modern languages at that university.
In 1965 Borchardt was appointed foundation librarian at La Trobe University where he worked until he retired in 1981. The library was named the Borchardt Library after him on his retirement.
Writing
Borchardt wrote many reference works and bibliographies on Australian studies, including his Australian Bibliography: A Guide to Printed Sources of Information (1963; updated in 1976), his Australian Bibliography (3rd edition, 1979), his Australia: A Guide to Sources (1987), and his Australian Official Publications (1979).
He also wrote extensively on editing, printing, the book in Australia, the growth of librarianship in Australia, and on the literature on philosophy and psychology, statistics and government publications, including his Checklist of Royal Commissions (1958–78).
Public service
Borchardt was founding editor of the journal Australian Academic and Research Libraries (1970–84), a foundation fellow of the Library Association of Australia (LAA), and a long-term member of the Standing Committee of AACOBS (Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services) and convenor on the Working Party on Bibliography.
He was also actively involved with the Committee of Australian University Librarians and the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. He played a leading role in the International Federation of Library Associations.
Borchardt periodically contributed to the library scene in other countries. In 1964 he spent a period as a UNESCO library expert in Ankara, Turkey. in 1968 and 1973 he was a visiting professor of librarianship in the United States. On another occasion he advised on developing library services in Indonesia.
Borchardt did a lot of work facilitating access to Australian government information by developing the La Trobe University Library government publications collection and writing publications (checklists, bibliographies and surveys), and submitting to and appearing before the Joint Committee on Publications of the Commonwealth Parliament.
Awards
The Library Association of Australia made Borchardt a Fellow in 1964 and gave him an H.C.L. Anderson Award (awarded for outstanding service to the library profession) in 1978. His achievements as a librarian, bibliographer and a scholar were recognised with the award of a Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee medal in 1977. In 1982 he was made Member of the Order of Australia "for service to librarianship, particularly in the field of bibliography"
References
1997 deaths
Australian bibliographers
Members of the Order of Australia
University of Tasmania faculty
1916 births
Australian librarians
New Zealand librarians
University of New Zealand alumni
La Trobe University faculty
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to New Zealand
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Australia
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Vicente de Carvalho is a middle-class neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro (city)
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Capital and the Debt Trap is a research monograph by Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants. The first four chapters provide a general summary of the economic instability afflicting the international economy at the time of publication (2011), noting that cooperatives have on average performed better than traditional for-profit corporations. The next four chapters describe four different cooperatives in four countries. The final chapter provides a summary. Cooperatives seem on average to last longer and be more responsive to the needs of customers and the communities in which they operate, because their shared ownership and participative management generally makes labor more flexible while reducing the incentives of upper management to maximize short-term performance at the expense of the long term.
The 2007–2012 global economic crisis and cooperatives
The 2007–2012 global economic crisis is described as "The Mother of All Crises" with substantial wealth destruction for most people (ch. 1). The causes are attributed in part to three traps: consumption, liquidity and debt (ch. 2). Another contributor is the separation of ownership and control in modern corporations (ch. 3). This separation creates perverse incentives for senior managers to do things in their own short-term interests at the expense of the performance of their companies, stockholders, employees, and the communities in which they operate. This is particularly true when senior executives can make millions of dollars in based on the short-term performance of their companies without having to return that money if the company subsequently fails due to behavior that is short sighted at best and often fraudulent. In many cases, this includes corruption in government described in Republic, Lost. This corruption has led to substantial deregulation of many industries, especially finance, which even extended to the "de facto decriminalization of elite financial fraud," in the words of William K. Black. Black was a lead litigator during the Savings and Loan (S&L) crisis of 20–25 years ago. As that crisis was building between 1980 and 1989, leading industry executives like Charles Keating spent lavishly on political campaign contributions. They were able to translate those contributions into actions by politicians that prevented regulators from filing criminal referrals. After the collapse of Ponzi schemes run by executives like Keating, regulators were finally allowed to investigate seriously and file thousands of criminal referrals
that led to over a thousand criminal convictions of key S&L insiders. Black insists that the 2007–2012 global economic crisis is roughly 70 times worse than the S&L crisis. However, in the current crisis, regulators have yet (as of late 2012) to file substantive criminal referrals in spite of substantive evidence of massive fraud by leading finance industry executives and the organizations they controlled.
Cooperatives, by contrast, have fewer problems with perverse incentives, because their ownership and control structures follow legal mandates promoted by the International Co-operative Alliance. These generally involve many more people in critical decisions (ch. 4). "[C]ooperatives tend to have a longer life than other types of enterprise, and thus a higher level of entrepreneurial sustainability. In [one study], the rate of survival of cooperatives after three years was 75 percent, whereas it was only 48 percent for all enterprises ... [and] after ten years, 44 percent of cooperatives were still in operation, whereas the ratio was only 20 percent for all enterprises." (p. 109)
Case studies
The Natividad Island Divers' and Fishermen's Cooperative, founded in 1942, has survived over-exploitation of the marine habitat from which they extract their livelihood in part by partnering with researchers who help them improve their management of all their resources (ch. 5).
Ceralap is a French company producing ceramic insulators, founded as a private company in 1921. Beginning in 1989, they were purchased by a variety of international firms, the last of which worked to transfer their production to a different legal entity in a lower-wage country and bankrupt what was left. Beginning in 2002, the workers became aware of this trend, organized, prevented the transfer of some specialized equipment, and raised the capital needed to buy the company and convert it into a cooperative (ch. 6).
The Desjardins banking cooperative was founded in 1900 to provide financial support to French Canadians, who lacked adequate access to banking services, previously in the hands of anglophone Canadians. It has since grown to become the largest association of credit unions in North America, helping their members survive the Great Depression and other financial problems.(ch. 7)
The Mondragon Cooperative Group is one of the largest cooperatives in the world. It was founded in 1956 to support entrepreneurial ventures by graduates from a technical school in the Basque region of Spain. Three years later, they established the Caja Laboral credit union to help its members finance further cooperative efforts. It has grown relatively steadily from its founding, surviving successive waves of globalization that bankrupted many weaker Spanish companies. It has done this by developing a rigorous entrepreneurial approach while focusing on sustainable jobs, education and training to support society more generally.(ch. 8)
Cooperatives and stable economic growth
In sum, the long-term interests of society are not well served by the neoliberal economic model that seems to dominate the international economy currently, because it seems to produce perverse incentives and economic bubbles that too often destroy wealth, at least for the vast majority of people. Cooperatives, on the other hand, have shown themselves to be more steady and stable mechanisms for creating wealth for greater numbers of people. "Cooperative banks build up counter-cyclical buffers that function well in case of a crisis," and are less likely to lead members and clients towards a debt trap.(p. 216) "Housing cooperatives, whether organized around home rental or ownership, considerably contribute to avoiding housing bubbles, such as that of the sub-prime in the" United States that was a major source of the 2007–2012 global economic crisis. "[H]ousing crises have been weaker or non-existent in countries where the housing cooperative system is particularly strong, such as Germany or Norway.(p. 217) ... [D]emocratic checks and balances, if properly managed, have proven not to be a cost but ... a long-term strategic investment."(p. 221)
Notes
References
2011 books
Cooperatives
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Mashkovtsev
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Mashkovtsev may refer to:
Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929—1997) — Russian writer
Mashkovtsev (volcano) — volcano in Kamchatka (Russia)
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The Sydney Football Club Prague, commonly known as Sydney Prague or just Prague, was a former association football club formed in 1951 by predominantly Czech Australians, which participated in the NSW State League from its foundation in 1957 until its amalgamation with Yugal at the beginning of the 1973 season.
Sydney Prague were one of the most successful sides of the late 1950s and early 1960s, consistently finishing high in leagues and cups. Prague were one of the first club sides to bring fast, attacking European style play to Australia, due to the influx of European ex-international players to the club in the late 1950s. Formemost was the hiring of the Austrian Leo Baumgartner in 1958, who became the foremost star Sydney soccer with his arrival.
History
Prague was the home of many Australian and ex-European representative footballers throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Prague was instrumental in the strengthening of Australian football throughout its time, and had strong player and coaching links with the Australia national football (soccer) team.
In 1950 Vivian J (Jimmy) Chalwin, a former English amateur player came across a number of Czech boys playing soccer at Rushcutters Bay and ended up playing regularly with them every Sunday afternoon. After a few weeks Jerry Vilimek asked Chalwin if he thought they could form a team and enter a competition. On J. Chalwin's initiative a first meeting was held at the Y.M.C.A. and shortly afterwards the Sydney Football Club Prague was formed and two teams were nominated to play in the N.S.W. Metropolitan League. The first general meeting was held in the Premier Restaurant, Kings Cross, and J. Vilimek was elected President; J. Chalwin, Vice-President; V. Profanta, Secretary; J. Baca, Treasurer and W.R. Ball Public Relations Officer. Mr Stan Slavik who provided the first boots, Jerseys and balls was made Patron of the Club. Chalmers, who held a coaching certificate from the English FA, served also as coach for the first four years. Chalwin was also a successful businessman and known to arrive to his coaching appointments in his Rolls Royce. He also coached the club in 1960.
In its first year they almost finished as premiers, being beaten in the final. In 1952 the Club won its first trophy, the Metropolitan Cup and in 1953 they won the Metropolitan League. One of its most notable players was Milos Muller who was a prolific goal scorer and headed the goal-scoring list year after year. He scored a total of 378 goals for his Club and in 1955 scored 55 goals. Milos Muller was Prague's first Australian International when he as a centre-forward was chosen to play in the Australian team to play South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground in September 1955.
From 1951 to 1953 S.F.C. Prague was basically an all Czech team which included players such as M. Muller, K. Lender, O. Toula, P.Janovsky, V.Vohanka, J Horinek, F. Dubai and J. Polivka. Also in 1953 the Committee was enlarged and Mr K. Rodny became President; Mr Garden, Vice-President; J. Bruna, V. Sarka, Z. Hofer, O. Pick and J. Prazak also joined. Finally in 1955, Prague, after winning the Metropolitan League twice, was promoted to the Southern League, and won it outright by beating Sydney Austral in the final. Prague's first year in the State League was rather disappointing as the team finished near the bottom of the competition although most games were lost by an odd goal. Despite this, the team was enjoying the reputation of being the fairest team in the competition and playing the continental short passing game.
In January 1957 Prague, became one of the foundation clubs of the N.S.W. Federation, rebuilt the team, released many players to nearer clubs (without any transfer fees), signed new players such as goalkeeper Ron Lord, Ken Hiron, Erich Schwartz. Also new players like Les Scheinflug and Geoff Geddes combined well with the rest of the team, where old-timers Muller and Otakar "Otto" Toula still played. Prague gained notable victories against strong clubs like Canterbury, Gladesville and finished the season near the top of the table.
In March 1958 Austrian Internationals Leopold Baumgartner and Karl Jaros joined Prague from FK Austria Vienna and later they were followed by Andy Saghi, Erich Schwartz, Walter Tamandl, Herbert and Erwin Ninaus.
Legacy
Prague were the first Australian side to fully sponsor a tour by an overseas club., in 1964 guaranteeing Swiss champions FC Basel a sum of £1785 in an attempt to persuade Basel's then Czech coach, Georges Sobotka to accept a position at Prague. Although Sobotka went on to coach the Switzerland national football side, the tour was a success, turning over more than £5000 and paving the way for future overseas tours of Australia. The game ended in a 2–2 draw.
In 1965, Chelsea F.C. manager and former Scotland international, Tommy Docherty was offered a guest stint with Prague in a friendly against VFB Stuttgart after taking the '64–'65 League cup with Chelsea. Docherty, still a registered player at the time, accepted and was granted permission by Chelsea. Docherty was to return to Sydney in the early 1980s, as coach of Sydney Olympic and South Melbourne.
The fixture was deemed a great success, with over 6,000 people cramming ES Marks Athletics Field for a high quality encounter, Stuttgart taking the tie 3–1. In an interesting turn of events, Stuttgart's coach at the time, Rudi Gutendorf returned to Australia four years later and took up a position coaching the national side during Australia's qualification bid for the 1978 World Cup.
Achievements
NSW State League
Regular Season Premiers (4): (1959, 1960, 1961, 1963)
Champions (1): (1959)
Runners up (1): (1960)
AMPOL Cup
Winners (6): (1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969)
Federation Cup
Runners up (1): (1958)
Former players
Alick Jeffrey, Striker and Doncaster Rovers legend. Former President of Doncaster Rovers FC.
Ron Lord, Australian goalkeeper (1951–1964).
Geoff Sleight, Australian forward (1965) who played in Australia's first World Cup team.
Roy Blitz, Australian forward (1965–1968).
Gary Manuel, Australian striker who went on to play for Australia in the 1974 World Cup (1969–1975).
Ray Rootsey, Australian Sweeper (1970–1974).
Brian Green, Coach of the Australian national football team (1975–1976).
/ Leo Baumgartner, Former Austrian international (1955–1957) who played for Australian in a friendly visit by Everton in 1964. Immigrated to join Prague in 1958 as player-coach until February 1960. Went on to coach Prague (1972–1973).
/ David Zeman, Australian defender involved in Australia's 1970 World Cup campaign (1969).
/ Jimmy Rooney, Australian midfielder (1971–1980) involved in the 1974 World Cup.
/ Herbert Ninaus, Austrian (1958 World Cup) and later, Australian international winger.
/ Les Scheinflug, Australian midfielder (1959–1968) and coach of the Australian national team (1981–1983 and 1990–1994).
/ Raul Blanco, Coach of the Australian national football team (1996–1997).
Wim van der Gaag, Dutch forward
Former managers
Jozef Venglos, Held various high profile coaching roles including Australia, Czechoslovakia, Aston Villa and Celtic.
Harry Brophy, Arsenal (1936–1938) defender and coach of Australia (1954–1955).
Štefan Čambal, Manager and player for Czechoslovakia, who played in the 1934 FIFA World Cup final against Italy.
References
Defunct soccer clubs in Australia
Prag
Soccer clubs in New South Wales
1957 establishments in Australia
1973 disestablishments in Australia
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Tom McLean (footballer, born 1876)
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Thomas Alexander McLean (7 July 1876 – 14 August 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
He played VFL football with Geelong while studying to become a doctor and while a resident doctor at Geelong Hospital, before commencing private practice in Traralgon.
McLean played for Traralgon in 1905 and 1906 and would later become President of the Traralgon Football Club.
McLean also played 11 first eleven games of Premier Cricket with the University Cricket Club.
Notes
External links
Tom McLean's profile at Collingwood Forever
1876 births
1948 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Collingwood Football Club players
Geelong Football Club players
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Vasitis nodosa is a complication experienced in approximately 66% of men who undergo vasectomy. It is a benign nodular thickening of the vas deferens, in which small offshoots proliferate, infiltrating surrounding tissue. It can be mistaken for low-grade adenocarcinoma by pathologists, and is implicated in late vasectomy failure.
See also
Salpingitis isthmica nodosa
References
Contraception for males
Sterilization (medicine)
Male genital disorders
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Constantia is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 4,973 at the 2010 census.
The Town of Constantia is located in the southeastern part of the county. Located with the town is a hamlet and census-designated place also named Constantia.
History
The town was first settled circa 1793 and was known then as "Rotterdam." Francis Adrian Vanderkemp and Marc Isambard Brunel were two of its citizens. The Town of Constantia was created from part of the Town of Mexico in 1808. In 1825, the town was reduced by the formation of the Town of Hastings, and was reduced again in 1839 to form the Town of West Monroe.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 99.6 square miles (258.0 km2), of which 56.9 square miles (147.3 km2) is land and 42.8 square miles (110.8 km2) (42.93%) is water.
The southern town line is the opposite shore of Oneida Lake, which is the border of Madison County. The eastern town line is the border of Oneida County.
The Erie Canal, runs through the town, using Oneida Lake as a waterway.
The north boundary is marked by the south edge of the Tug Hill Plateau.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,141 people, 1,893 households, and 1,398 families residing in the town. The population density was 90.4 people per square mile (34.9/km2). There were 2,351 housing units at an average density of 41.3 per square mile (16.0/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.29% White, 0.21% Black or African American, 0.66% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.08% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.33% of the population.
There were 1,893 households, out of which 37.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.1% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.11.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.7 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $39,932, and the median income for a family was $45,373. Males had a median income of $31,276 versus $23,299 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,818. About 6.2% of families and 9.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.7% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.
Communities and locations in Constantia
Bernhards Bay – A hamlet on the shore of Oneida Lake.
Cleveland – The Village of Cleveland is on the northern shore of Oneida Lake, on Route 49.
Carroll Corners – A location between Gay Corners and Dutcherville.
Constantia – The hamlet of Constantia is on the shore of Oneida Lake on Route 49. The community was incorporated as a village in 1837, but abandoned that status in 1923.
Constantia Center – A hamlet northwest of Cleveland.
Doris Park – A hamlet on the shore of Oneida Lake, southwest of Constantia village.
Dutcherville – A hamlet north of Nicholsville.
Gayville – A hamlet north of Constantia village.
Halls Corners – A location east of North Constantia by the northern town line.
Nicholsville – A hamlet northeast of Constantia village.
North Constantia – A hamlet north of Gayville.
Panther Lake – A hamlet and resort north of Bernhards Bay.
Panther Lake – A lake located by the hamlet of Panther Lake.
References
External links
Town of Constantia, NY
Historical information about Constantia
Towns in New York (state)
Syracuse metropolitan area
Towns in Oswego County, New York
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Peter Hirsch (microbiologist)
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Peter Hirsch (born 1928 in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a microbiologist who received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg. After spending nine years in the US he was asked to found an Institute of General Microbiology at the University of Kiel, Germany. He has made many contributions to the study of microbiology. The genus Hirschia, a type of hyphal bacteria, is named after him.
References
1928 births
Living people
German microbiologists
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Arthur Gore defeated Sydney Smith 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 in the All Comers' Final, but the reigning champion Reginald Doherty defeated Gore 1–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, 6–3 in the challenge round to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1899 Wimbledon Championships.
Draw
Challenge round
All comers' finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
External links
Gentlemen's Singles
Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles
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Xanthophorus
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Xanthophorus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in South Asia.
Species
Xanthophorus andrewesi (Jacoby, 1903)
Xanthophorus balyi (Jacoby, 1903)
Xanthophorus carinatus Jacoby, 1908
Xanthophorus flavopilosus (Jacoby, 1887)
Xanthophorus fuscipennis Jacoby, 1908
Xanthophorus laevicollis Jacoby, 1908
Xanthophorus lemoides (Walker, 1858)
Xanthophorus montanus Jacoby, 1908
Xanthophorus nepalicus Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999
Xanthophorus nigricollis Jacoby, 1908
Xanthophorus nigripennis (Jacoby, 1900)
Xanthophorus pallidus (Jacoby, 1903)
Xanthophorus seriatus Weise, 1922
References
Eumolpinae
Chrysomelidae genera
Beetles of Asia
Taxa named by Martin Jacoby
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Seeling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charlie Seeling (1883–1956), New Zealand rugby league and union player
Charlie Seeling Jr., New Zealand rugby league player and coach
Charles R. Seeling (1895–1951), American cinematographer, film producer and director
Heinrich Seeling (1852–1932), German architect
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The Lobedu or Balobedu (also known as the BaLozwi or Bathobolo) are a southern African ethnic group within the Bapedi Group. They are initially known as Bakwebo (wild pigs). The name "balobedu" means "the mineral miners" lobela / go loba - to mine , their ancestors are part of the great mapungbuwe early civilization. They have their own kingdom, the Balobedu Kingdom, within the Limpopo Province of South Africa with a female ruler, the Rain Queen Modjadji.
The population of Balobedu numbers around 20000 In Ga modjadji. It is estimated that around 10% of Sepedi speakers are of Lobedu ethnicity. Their population is distributed in around Ga modjadji and ga sekgopo regions of Limpopo. Some are found in Gauteng as labour migrants especially in Tembisa and Alexandra townships. The second largest majority of Bapedi people living in Tembisa are Balobedu, after Mapulana.
Language
Their language is known as Lobedu, Khelobedu, which is a dialect of Sepedi. Khelobedu is grammatically similar to other Sotho–Tswana languages. Mutual intelligibility between these TshiVenda dialects and Khelovedu is so high that speakers of these Venda dialects can effectively communicate with Khelobedu speakers without difficulty. A TshiGuvhu speaker can understand a Khelobedu speaker so easily, or vice versa, Khelobedu could easily have been classified as a Venda dialect or an independent language. For example, Sepedi have a higher mutual intelligibility with Southern Sotho and Setswana than with Khelobedu.
Most Khelobedu speakers only learn to speak Sepedi at school, as such Sepedi is only a second or third language and foreign to them like English and Afrikaans. Until recently, Khelobedu existed only in an unwritten form because it's a Mixed language of Tshivenda and Sepedi and the standard Sepedi language and orthography was usually used for teaching and writing. As of 2018, a Khelovedu dictionary is being compiled and a specific Khelobedu orthography is also in the process of being developed.
Subgroups
There are three sub-groups of the Lobedu:
Balobedu ba Ga-Modjadji (BaLobedu ba ga Modjadji), which is the main group of BaLobedu and is led by the Royal House of Modjadji, which is the main royal house for the other groups.
Balobedu ba Ga-Sekgopo (Balobedu Ba Ha Sekhopo), which are located at Ga-Sekgopo Village. They separated from the main group of Balobedu in the late 1700s when the first female ruler of Balobedu was crowned.
Balobedu ba Ga-Mamaila (BaLobedu ba Ha Mmamaila), which was founded by Prince Mmamaila elder brother of Modjadji I, who objected to being ruled by women. He was one of the eldest sons of the last male rulers of BaLobedu, King Mokodo Mohale of the Royal House of Mohale of BaKwebo as BaLobedu where then known. This tribe is located at around Ga-Mamaila and Sekhosese township an area known as Boroka which means north in Khelovedu.
Origins
The Balobedu originally migrated south from present day Zimbabwe to their present location in South Africa. The central tribal village is Khethakoni in the district of Balobedu. These Kalanga migrants consisted of the Mokwebo, who are the ancestors of all wild pig clans (ba ana golove/ba bina kolobe) like Mamabolo Ramafalo and Modjadji, the Nengwekhulu, who are ancestors of all elephant clans (Ditlou) and the Ramabulana, ancestors of the other elephant clans (Ditlou), are also uncles of the Nengwekhulus. All BaLobedu are descended from these three groups BaKwevho, Nengwekhulu and Ramabulana. The rest of the people are descendants of East Sotho or BaLaudi refugees and indigenous South Venda groups like BaNgona. As a results the most common animal totems among BaLobedu are the wild pig (Goloe/Kolobe) and the elephant (Dou/Tlou).
The wild pig clans (Dikolobe) are the Modjadji, Mohale, Modika, Mahasha, Mabulana, Mokwebo, Mampeule, Molokwane, Malepe, Thobela and Ramafalo all this are descendants of the ancient Mokwebo (wild pig) royal house. All Chiefs in Bolobedu are of the wild pig clans with the exception of the chiefs of Taulome who are Dinoko (porcupines). The elephant clan are Rabothata, Selowa (Khelowa/Tshilowa/Shilowa), Shai, Matlou (Ma₫ou), Mabulana and Maenetja, these are the descendants of the ancient royal house of Nengwekhulu.
The BaLobedu are more closely related to the Lozwi Kingdom started by Dlembeu. As they were migrating southward, another splinter went South-East. The Northern Lozwi or Lozi are found in the present day Western province of Zambia. They settled alongside the Zambezi River Banks day establish it as Musi-oa-tunya (storms that thunders), present day Victoria falls. They have the praise lines Sai/Shai and Dewa, and call themselves the people of Thobela, which is the same as the Lozwi/Kalanga. The rainmaking powers of Queen Modjadji are also synonymous with the Njelele Shrine in SiLozwi (in present-day Matabeleland, Zimbabwe) and it is therefore accepted that there is an intertwining of their history with the rest of the Lozwi. Lozwi carry the history of rain making as the current Lozwi king Mike Moyo, who is also gifted with rain making. Linguists have listed Lobedu together with Kalanga, Nambya (a dialect of Kalanga), Venda, Lemba, Shankwe, Nyubi and Karanga, as a language of the Lozwi, and consequently connects them to their history. Their rainmaking history is tied to that of the Banyai in northern Matabeleland and. Kalanga in southern Matabeleland and there are two areas called Njelele in Matabeleland.
Traditions
Balobedu do traditional dances called khekhapa for women and dinaka for men.sekgapa and Dinaka is a traditional dance of same of Bapedi speaking people covering such areas as gaSekhukhune, gaDikgale , ga maake , ga sekororo and Bolobedu.
Balobedu have a male initiation ceremony called Moroto. The female initiation ceremony is called Dikhopa.
Balobedu have their own way of praising and talking to their God through Dithugula. They sit next to a traditionally designed circle in their homes and start calling the names of their ancestors.
Traditional rulers
The Lobedu have female rulers known as "Rain Queens". The queen is believed to have powers to make rain. The Balobedu Kingdom consists of a number of small groups tied together by their queen. On 12 June 2005, Queen Makobo Modjadji died, leaving no clear successor acceptable to all members of the Queen's Council. The late queen's brother has served as regent since then.
The area of Balobedu consists of around 150 villages and every village has a male or female ruler who represents Modjadji, the rain queen.
The Rain Queen was historically known as an extremely powerful magician who was able to bring rain to her friends and drought to her enemies. Visitors to the area always brought her gifts and tribute, including cattle and their daughters as wives (though their role is more akin to what those in the West would call ladies-in-waiting), to appease her so that she would bring rain to their regions. The name Lobedu is thought to derive from this practice, referring to the daughters or sisters who were lost to their families. The rain queen extends her influence through her wives, because they link her politically to other families or villages.
The Rain Queen was referenced in literature as a basis for H. Rider Haggard's novel She.
List of rulers of Balobedu
Queen Maselekwane Modjadji I (1800-1854)
Queen Masalanabo Modjadji II (1854-1894)
Queen Khesethoane Modjadji III (1895-1959)
Queen Makoma Modjadji IV (1959-1980)
Queen Mokope Modjadji V (1981-2001)
Queen Makobo Modjadji VI (2003-2005)
Prince Regent Mpapada Modjadji (2007-2021)
King in waiting Lekukela Modjadji (2021)
Notable people
Stanley Kgatla, former Platinum Stars defender; born in GaRamotshinyadi Village
Candy Tsa Mandebele, musician
Lebogang Manyama, Cape Town City FC midfielder
Andrew Rabutla, former Bafana Bafana and Jomo Cosmos defender; born in GaRamotshinyadi Village
Tebogo Monyai, former Black Aces, Moroka Swallows and University of Pretoria FC defender; born in Ga-Abel village
Further reading
Krige, E. Jensen and J. D. Krige. The Realm of a Rain-Queen: A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society. London: Oxford University Press, 1943.
External links
"Bantu", GovernPub.com.
Seleti, Yonah. Turning Points, SouthAfricanHistoryOnline.
"The Balobedu of Modjadji".
The Lobedu: A North Sotho Tribe
Sotho-Tswana peoples in South Africa
Monarchies of South Africa
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Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein was a Belarusian-born Canadian and American Yiddish poet and screenwriter.
Biographical details
Shumiatcher was born on October 21, 1896 in Gomel to parents Judah and Chasia as one of eleven siblings. (Katz gives her birth year as 1899.) She and her family emigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1911. All members of the family worked to support the household; they also had boarders in their house. Shumiatcher worked as a waitress and at a meat-packing plant until 1918, when she met and married Peretz Hirschbein, a New York Yiddish playwright, when he was on tour in Calgary.
Shumiatcher had her son, Omus, in 1934 in New York. He would grow to become a prominent concert producer. Shumiatcher moved to Los Angeles in 1940 where her husband had an offer to write film scripts, of which one was produced. Her husband died in 1948 from lateral sclerosis, after which Shumiatcher primarily gave lectures. She eventually moved back to New York, where she died in 1985.
Career
Herschbein exposed Shumiatcher to the Yiddish literary community, which inspired her to start writing in Yiddish as well. The couple settled in New York, but traveled extensively around the world, going through places such as the South Pacific, Asia, and Eastern Europe. In the 1920s they lived in Warsaw, Poland, where Shumiatcher's poetry was well received and published in modernist journals of the time. One such journal based in Berlin took its name, Albatros, from one of her poems.
Shumiatcher wrote groundbreaking poems addressing pregnancy and motherhood following the birth of Omus. She also wrote about widowhood and grief following her husband's death. Other themes reflected eros, nature, and politics. Although she did not write much after 1956, her later works are more highly regarded. Some of her poetry has been translated by Myra Mniewski.
She appears in Ezra Kerman's anthology of Yiddish female poets and is included among a group of Litvak women poets whom Dovid Katz credits with "building" Yiddish poetry outside Eastern Europe.
Selected works
In Tol (1920)
Pasn Likht (1925)
In Shoen Fun Libshaft (1930)
Ale Tog (1939)
Lider (1956)
References
Jewish women writers
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian women screenwriters
Canadian women poets
1899 births
1985 deaths
People from Gomel
Writers from Calgary
Belarusian emigrants to Canada
Jewish Canadian writers
20th-century Canadian women writers
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
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Farm Credit System Assistance Board
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The Farm Credit System Assistance Board was a temporary board created by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (P.L. 100-233, Title II) and responsible for approving Farm Credit System lender requests for federal financial assistance. Members of the Board consisted of the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Treasury (or their appointees), and an agricultural producer with financial experience.
References
United States Department of Agriculture agencies
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Bruce Turner (field hockey)
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Bruce Alexander Turner (5 August 1930 – 30 March 2010) was a New Zealand field hockey player and cricketer.
He represented New Zealand in field hockey between 1950 and 1962, including at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He represented Manawatu in hockey, and in 1976, when New Zealand won the Olympic gold medal, he was one of the national selectors.
He played 15 first-class cricket matches as an opening batsman for Central Districts between 1952 and 1956. He also represented Manawatu in the Hawke Cup from 1952 to 1968.
In 1956, Turner married netballer Thelma Trask, who represented New Zealand in 1948, and the couple had three children. Bruce Turner died on 30 March 2010.
References
External links
1930 births
2010 deaths
Sportspeople from Palmerston North
New Zealand male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players of New Zealand
Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
New Zealand cricketers
Central Districts cricketers
Cricketers from Palmerston North
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Boyd's Theater and Opera House
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Boyd's Theater and Opera House was a theater and opera house at 1621 Harney Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It was demolished in 1920 and the property redeveloped for the then owner's department store business.
History
The first Boyd's Opera House in Omaha was built in 1881 at 15th and Farnam Streets by James E. Boyd. In addition to serving as Nebraska's governor and Omaha's mayor, Boyd was a successful railroad and real estate developer. One of the first celebrities to appear at the original Boyd's was Oscar Wilde in 1882. After the original Boyd Opera House burned twelve years later, Boyd built his new 2,000-seat theater and opera house at 17th and Harney Streets.
The new five story theater was constructed on an iron framework with a pressed red brick exterior. There was retail space on the street level, and office space within the interior. The total cost of construction and furnishings was $250,000. The Boyd Theater's stage was 78 feet wide, 40 feet deep and 60 feet high. The curtain drops were 26 feet by 46 feet. The proscenium was modeled after an ornate arch in the Taj Mahal. The theater was decorated in tones of sage green and soft tones of olive to complement the electric lighting throughout.
There were 17 full sets of scenery when the theater opened on September 3, 1891. The first play presented on the house's stage was Alabama, with Thomas F. Boyd as the theater's manager. One particularly elaborate production of Henry V required the theater to accommodate 10 train cars of armour, 200 trunks of costumes, 167 professional actors and 21 full sets. Once local actors were added to the production, the cast ultimately rose to 300. The Boyd Theater was capable of handling even productions of this size.
Some of the most prominent actors of the time appeared on the Boyd Theater's stage. English Shakespearean actors Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry appeared twice in Omaha. The first time was April 20 and 21, 1900 with the productions of Merchant of Venice, Nance Oldfield and The Bells. Their second appearances occurred on December 31, 1901 and January 1, 1902. Other toasted performers to grace Boyd Theater's stage included: Otis Skinner, E. H. Sothern, John Drew, Walker Whiteside, Robert B. Mantell Joseph Jefferson, Leslie Carter, Julia Marlowe, Ethel Barrymore and Maude Adams.
A man bled to death in the wings of the Boyd Theater during one performance, with no one in the audience the wiser. A song and dance man, Jim Mulligan, died after being stabbed by Arthur Sprague, a stage manager, after making an offensive comment about Mrs. Sprague.
In 1905, Sarah Bernhardt appeared on the Boyd Theater stage in La Tosca. Bernhardt traveled with her own custom railway car. Also traveling with her on the train was her own carriage, a team of black horses, and a French coachman and hostler. The entire city knew when Bernhardt was in town.
Omaha-born pianist Frances Nash, who would later marry Edwin Watson, friend and senior advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often performed at Boyd's Theater.
The man primarily responsible for the quality and the variety of the shows appearing on the Boyd Theater's stage was William J. Burgess. Burgess had been involved in theaters since the age of 12. He initially came to Omaha to manage the Grand Opera House and later managed the original Boyd Theater. When the Creighton Orpheum Theater opened, he served as its manager for two years. Once that theater joined the Orpheum Circuit, he took over the management of the second Boyd Theater and set about making it the premier live theater venue in Omaha. He introduced the first mail-order tickets in town and strived to book the premier acts. He even opened an acting school for fledgling dramatists. But even Burgess's efforts could not sway the audiences changing tastes towards motion pictures and the rising costs of mounting a live stage production.
In 1914, Boyd's Theater was sold to the Burgess-Nash Company for $231,000. Initially they continued to manage it as a theater, but as the competition from talking movies increased, the company eventually closed the theater. The last performance in the theater was on February 2, 1920. It was demolished in 1920 and the property redeveloped for their department store business. Currently, the property houses the Omaha Public Power District's downtown office.
References
External links
1882 Photo of Original Boyd's Opera House
Postcard of Second Boyd's Theater and Opera House
Alternate Postcard of Second Boyd's Theater and Opera House
Razing of Boyd's Theater
Theatres in Omaha, Nebraska
Theatres completed in 1891
History of Omaha, Nebraska
Downtown Omaha, Nebraska
Demolished buildings and structures in Omaha, Nebraska
Buildings and structures demolished in 1920
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Kadir Bal
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Kadir Bal (born 11 January 1966) is a Turkish bureaucrat, diplomat, and engineer. He is currently a Board Member at SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş., and was previously the Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of the Economy of the Republic of Turkey.
Early life and education
Kadir Bal was born to Osman and Asiye Bal as the youngest of four children in the town of Yahyali in Kayseri province on 11 January 1966. The male head of the Bal family, Osman, previously worked as a rural taxi driver, and currently owns a glassware store, where Kadir helped his family by working in their store and shining shoes in his youth.
After graduating as a mechanical engineer from Middle East Technical University in 1989, he received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa in 2000.
Career
Bal entered the Ministry of Economy, then the Undersecretariat of Treasury and Foreign Trade in 1991, and served as a foreign trade expert until 1997, when he served as Deputy Commercial Counsellor in the Embassy of Turkey, Ottawa until 2000. After serving as Head of Department in the General Directorate of Imports, he served as Deputy General Director of Imports until 2008, where he served as Chief Commercial Counsellor in the Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C. for four years. After briefly serving as Acting General Director of Agreements and as General Director of Imports, he was the Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey from April 2017 until his retirement from public service in April 2020. He is currently an Executive Board Member at SASA Polyester A.Ş., a producer of polyester staple fibers, filament yarns, polyester-based and specialty polymers and intermediates.
Personal life
Bal speaks Turkish and English fluently, and currently resides in Ankara. He is married to Nur Ayferi, and has two children: Mustafa and Ayşe Rana.
References
1966 births
Living people
Middle East Technical University alumni
People from Kayseri
Turkish diplomats
Turkish economists
Turkish engineers
University of Ottawa alumni
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Dom Bess
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Dominic Mark Bess (born 22 July 1997) is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England.
Early and personal life
From Sidmouth in Devon, Bess joined Somerset's academy when he was 16. He went to spend time at Darren Lehmann’s Adelaide academy in 2015. He has attributed his career as a spinner to the shorter run up required compared to fast bowling: "I was always a little porker when I was younger, so I never took the long run-up," he said. "I always took five or six steps and just trotted in." He was also a keen rugby player in his youth, playing fly-half, and attributes former Somerset fitness coach Darren Veness as the biggest influence on his strength and conditioning improvements.
Cricket career
Domestic career
On 3 July 2016 Bess made his first-class debut for Somerset during Pakistan's tour of England. He failed to take a wicket (ending with match figures of 0-128) and scored a combined 25 runs. He made his T20 debut for Somerset in their final game of the 2016 season against Hampshire on 29 July 2016 in which he took bowling figures of 1-31 and scored a solitary run.
Championship debut
Bess took 13 wickets in the later stages of the 2016 County Championship. He was included in the team for his first Championship game against Warwickshire. His first two championship wickets were Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell, and he took career best figures of 6-28 from 16 overs in the first innings, and finished with match figures of 8-59 off 27 overs. Bess also featured heavily in Somerset's last game of the season against the already relegated Nottinghamshire as he took his second career five wicket haul with 1st innings figures of 5-43 from 22.5 overs including a spell of 5 consecutive maidens, giving him match figures of 5-77 from 32.5 overs. He also scored 41 runs in Somerset's first innings.
At the end of the 2016 season, Bess signed his first professional contract with Somerset agreeing a two-year deal; keeping him at the club until the end of the 2018 season. In the 2017 season Bess took 36 wickets in Division 1 of the county championship at an average of only 23.42. On 8 May 2019, Bess went on loan to Yorkshire for a month. In August 2020, Bess confirmed that he would be leaving Somerset at the end of the season, subsequently it was announced that Bess had signed a four-year contract with Yorkshire.
International career
Having previously represented England at U-19 level, Bess was included in the England Lions squad in the summer of 2017 for a match against the touring South Africa A team, though he did not play. He was then selected for the Lions squads for the winter tours to Australia and the West Indies. He took 5/88 on his England Lions debut, in Antigua.
Called up after an injury to his county teammate Jack Leach, Bess made his Test debut for England against Pakistan on 24 May 2018 at Lord's. Though he shared a century stand with Jos Buttler in England's second innings – making a score of 57 – Bess failed to take a wicket or stop his side succumbing to a nine-wicket defeat. However, in the second Test of the series, Bess took his first Test wicket, of Imam-ul-Haq. Overall in the match, he took 3 wickets and contributed 49 with the bat, as a nightwatchman. England went on to win the match by an innings and 55 runs.
In January 2020, in the third Test against South Africa, Bess took his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket. On 29 May 2020, Bess was named in a 55-man group of players to begin training ahead of international fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, Bess was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies. On 4 July 2020, Bess was named in England's thirteen-man squad for the first Test match of the series.
References
External links
1997 births
Living people
English cricketers
England Test cricketers
Somerset cricketers
Sportspeople from Exeter
Devon cricketers
People educated at Blundell's School
North v South cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics
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Tonga at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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Tonga competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. The nation won its first ever Olympic medal at these Games.
Medalists
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Women
Field events
Boxing
Men
Weightlifting
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
1996 in Tongan sport
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nintendo%203DS%20Wi-Fi%20Connection%20games
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This is a list of WFC compatible games on the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Whilst many titles will implement the use of Nintendo Network service, Nintendo-published titles in particular, other titles will be supported by various third-party online services.
Released WFC compatible 3DS games
Notes
See also
List of Nintendo 3DS games
List of Nintendo 3DS Download Software
List of DSiWare games and applications
List of Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection games
List of Wii Wi-Fi Connection games
3DS Wi-Fi Connection games
Video game lists by platform
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2nd Maryland Regiment
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The 2nd Maryland Regiment origins were authorized on 14 January 1776 in the Maryland State Troops as seven independent companies. From 7 to 14 March 1776 the companies were organized from various counties from the eastern region of the colony of Maryland. From 6 July to 15 August 1776 the companies were assigned to the main Continental Army and officially adopted on 17 August 1776. In January 1777 the seven companies were organized as the 2nd Maryland Regiment with one additional company added. On 22 May 1777 the regiment was assigned to the 2nd Maryland Brigade in the main Continental Army. On 12 May 1779 the regiment was re-organized to nine companies. The 2nd Maryland Brigade was reassigned to the Southern Department on 5 April 1780. On 1 January 1781 the regiment was reassigned to the Maryland Brigade of the Southern Department. The regiment would see action during the New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth, Battle of Camden and the Battle of Guilford Court House. the regiment was furloughed 1 January 1783 at Charleston, South Carolina and disbanded on 15 November 1783.
References
Further reading
External links
Bibliography of the Continental Army in Maryland compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
Maryland regiments of the Continental Army
1776 establishments in Maryland
1783 disestablishments in Maryland
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2016 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship
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The 2016 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship was the 23rd edition of the tournament, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The champion will qualify for the 2017 Junior World Championship.
Competing nations
The following national teams will participate in the tournament:
Competition format
The championship will consist in a single Round-Robin pool between the six teams, the champion will be determined from the ranking after the round.
Competition
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Final standing
Awards
Players who received individual awards:
Most Valuable Player
Best Setter
Best Outside Hitters
Best Opposite
Best Middle Blockers
Best Libero
References
External links
CSV official website
Women's South American Volleyball Championships
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Volleyball
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Youth volleyball
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Daniel Freire
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Daniel Freire (born 29 December 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film actor.
He entered film in 1993 in Un Muro de silencio and has appeared in over 15 films including Las Aventuras de Dios 2000 in which he portrayed Jesus Christ and Arizona Sur in 2004.
In 2005 he appeared in 27 episodes of the Spanish TV series Motivos personales.
He has lived in Spain since 1999.
Filmography
"Amar es para siempre" (2014-actualidad)....Aquilino González
Adius Amoto ....Gervasio (2011)
Doctor Mateo .... Tomas Pellegrini "Tom" (2008-2011)
Un ajuste de cuentas (2009) .... Josito Fernández
MIR .... Dr. Javier Lapartida (2007-2008)
El síndrome de Ulises (1 episode, 2008)
Ese beso (2008)
Hermanos & detectives (1 episode, 2007)
El niño de barro (2007) .... Comisario Petrie. / The Mudboy (International: English title)
Arizona sur (2007)
Masala (2007) (TV)
Límites naturales (2006)
Motivos personales .... Daniel Garralda (2005)
Aliteración (2005)
Machulenco (2005) .... Víctor
Interior (noche) (2005) .... Emilio
El mono de Hamlet (2005)
Laura (2004/I)
Catarsis (2004) .... Enrique
Matar al ángel (2004) .... Sabino
Una pasión singular (2003) .... Blas Infante
Ana y los siete (2002) TV series .... David (unknown episodes, 2002-2004)
El refugio del mal (2002) .... Martín
Impulsos (2002) .... Jaime. / Impulses (International: English title)
Lucía y el sexo (2001) .... Carlos/Antonio. / Lucia et le sexe (France). / Sex and Lucia (International: English title)
Sagitario (2001) .... Gustavo
Las aventuras de Dios (2000) .... Jesus Christ. / The Adventures of God (International: English title)
Balada del primer amor (1999)
El milagro de Sara Duval (1998)
Canción desesperada (1997)
El censor (1995) .... Hombre Basural. / The Eyes of the Scissors (International: English title)
Un muro de silencio (1993). / A Wall of Silence (International: English title). / Black Flowers (International: English title)
Self
La mandrágora .... Himself / ... (6 episodes, 2005-2009)
3 i més (2006) TV series .... Himself (2007)
Versión española .... Himself (1 episode, 2005). / Episode dated 29 April 2005 (2005) TV episode .... Himself
La noche con Fuentes y cía. .... Himself (1 episode, 2005). / Episode dated 24 April 2005 (2005) TV episode .... Himself
XVIII Premios Goya (2004) (TV) .... Himself - Presenter: Best New Actress & Best Costume Design
Jimanji kanana .... Himself (1 episode, 2003). / Episode dated 10 August 2003 (2003) TV episode .... Himself
Lo + plus .... Himself (1 episode, 2002). / Episode dated 18 December 2002 (2002) TV episode .... Himself
El Che (1997) .... Alejandro. / El Che - Ernesto Guevara: Enquête sur un homme de légende (France: poster title)
Archive Footage
52 premis Sant Jordi de cinematografia (2008) (TV) .... Comisario Petrie
Maquillando entre monstruos (2007) (TV) .... Carlos/Antonio
External links
1961 births
Living people
People from Buenos Aires
Argentine male film actors
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The Distinguished Conduct Medal was a decoration established in 1854 by Queen Victoria for gallantry in the field by other ranks of the British Army. It is the oldest British award for gallantry and was a second level military decoration, ranking below the Victoria Cross, until its discontinuation in 1993 when it was replaced by the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. The medal was also awarded to non-commissioned military personnel of other Commonwealth Dominions and Colonies.
Institution
The Distinguished Conduct Medal was instituted by Royal Warrant on 4 December 1854, during the Crimean War, as an award to Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the British Army for "distinguished, gallant and good conduct in the field". For all ranks below commissioned officer, it was the second highest award for gallantry in action after the Victoria Cross, and the other ranks equivalent of the Distinguished Service Order, which was awarded only to commissioned officers.
Prior to its institution, there had been no official medal awarded by the British Crown in recognition of individual acts of gallantry in the Army. The Meritorious Service Medal, established in 1845 to reward long serving Warrant Officers and Sergeants, was awarded several times up to 1854 for gallantry in action, although this was not the medal's main purpose. One earlier award specifically for acts of gallantry by other ranks was the unofficial Sir Harry Smith's Medal for Gallantry, instituted by Major General Sir Harry Smith in 1851. Although the British government initially disapproved of Sir Harry's institution of the medal, it subsequently paid for it and thereby gave it recognition, but not official status.
The Distinguished Conduct Medal was awarded with a gratuity, that varied in amount depending on rank, and given on the recipient's discharge from the Army.
Since January 1918 recipients have been entitled to the post-nominal letters DCM.
A bar to the medal, introduced in 1881, could be awarded in recognition of each subsequent act of distinguished conduct for which the medal would have been awarded.
During the First World War, concern arose that the high number of medals being awarded would devalue the medal's prestige. The Military Medal was therefore instituted on 25 March 1916 as an alternative and lower award, with the Distinguished Conduct Medal reserved for more exceptional acts of bravery. Around 25,000 Distinguished Conduct Medals were awarded during the First World War, with approximately 1,900 during the Second World War.
Eligibility
The Distinguished Conduct Medal could also be awarded to military personnel serving in any of the Sovereign's forces in the British Empire, with the first awards to colonial troops made in 1872, to the West India Regiment. Members of the Indian Army remained ineligible since they could receive the Indian Order of Merit and, from 1907, the Indian Distinguished Service Medal.
From September 1916, members of the Royal Naval Division were made eligible for military decorations, including the Distinguished Conduct Medal, for the war's duration. Otherwise, it remained an exclusively Army award until 1942, when other ranks of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Navies and Air Forces of the Dominions and Colonies also became eligible for distinguished conduct in action on the ground.
In 1979 eligibility for a number of British awards, including the DCM, was extended to permit posthumous awards. Until that time, only the Victoria Cross and a mention in dispatches could be awarded posthumously.
Adoption
In May 1894, Queen Victoria authorised Colonial governments to adopt various military medals for award to their local military forces. The Colony of Natal and the Cape Colony introduced this system in August and September 1894 respectively, and the Transvaal Colony followed in December 1902, while Australia, Canada and New Zealand also adopted the medal. However, only the Natal and Canada versions were finally awarded, both in the King Edward VII version.
A territorial version of the Distinguished Conduct Medal was approved for the Union of South Africa in 1913, but was never awarded. More than 300 members of the Union Defence Forces were awarded the applicable British versions of the decoration during the two World Wars.
In 1903 specific African Distinguished Conduct Medals were established for the King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force. These were superseded by the British Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1943.
These colonial Distinguished Conduct Medals were of the same design as the British version, with an additional territorial or unit inscription on the reverse, in a curved line above the regular inscription.
Discontinuation
In the aftermath of the 1993 review of the British honours system, which formed part of the drive to remove distinctions of rank in respect of awards for bravery, the Distinguished Conduct Medal was discontinued, as was the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal and the award, specifically for gallantry, of the Distinguished Service Order. These three decorations were replaced by the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, to serve as the second level award for gallantry for all ranks of all the Arms of the Service.
After the Second World War, most Commonwealth countries created their own honours system and no longer recommended British awards. The last Distinguished Conduct Medal awards for the Canadian Army were for Korea. The last Australian DCM award was announced in the London Gazette on 1 September 1972 for Vietnam, as was the last New Zealand award, announced on 25 September 1970. Canada, Australia and New Zealand replaced the DCM in the 1990s, as part of the creation of their own gallantry awards under their own honours systems.
Order of wear
In the order of wear prescribed by the British Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, the Distinguished Conduct Medal ranks on par with the Distinguished Conduct Medal (Natal) and takes precedence after the Air Force Cross and before the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal.
Description
The medal was struck in silver and is a disk, in diameter and thick. The suspender of all versions is of an ornamented scroll pattern. The manner of attachment of the suspender to the medal varied between medal versions and, on early versions, allows the medal to swivel.All medals awarded bear the recipient's number, rank, name and unit on the rim.
Obverse
There were eight variants of the obverse:
The original Victorian obverse shows a Trophy of Arms, designed by Benedetto Pistrucci, incorporating a central shield bearing the Royal Coat of Arms without any inscription, as also seen on early Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. From 1902, after the accession of King Edward VII, the effigy of the reigning monarch replaced the trophy of arms, with the respective titles of the monarch inscribed around the perimeter:
King Edward VII – "EDWARDVS VII REX IMPERATOR".
King George V, bareheaded – "GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP:".
King George V, crowned – "GEORGIVS•V•D•G•BRITT•OMN•REX•ET•INDIÆ•IMP•". Issued for awards in the 1930s.
King George VI – There were two versions, with those inscribed "GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR OMN REX ET INDIAE IMP:" awarded during the Second World War and immediately after, and "GEORGIVS VI DEI GRA: BRITT: OMN: REX FID: DEF:" current from the late 1940s. This second type was awarded, instead of the Elizabeth II version, to Canadians during the Korean War.
Queen Elizabeth II – Two versions, with those inscribed "ELIZABETH II D:G:BR:OMN: REGINA F:D:" awarded in the mid-1950s and "ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F.D" awarded thereafter until 1993.
Reverse
The reverse of all versions is smooth, with a raised rim, and bears the inscription "FOR DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT IN THE FIELD" in four lines, underlined by a laurel wreath between two spear blades.
Bars
The bar for a second or subsequent award is straight and also of silver. Bars awarded between 1881 and mid-1916 bear the month and year of the subsequent award, while those awarded after mid-1916 bear a laurel-spray and no date. In undress uniform or on occasions when only ribbons are worn, a silver rosette is worn on the ribbon to indicate the award of each bar.
Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and dark crimson, with a 10 millimetres wide navy blue band in the centre.
Recipients
All awards of the Distinguished Conduct Medal were notified in the London Gazette and, during the First World War, citations were generally also included.
From 1854 to 1914 3,529 medals and 13 second award bars were awarded. Of these, about 808 medals were awarded for the Crimean War and 2,092 for the Second Boer War, with some of the latter being the Edward VII version. During the Boer War, six medals were awarded posthumously and six dated bars were awarded, three of them to recipients who had won their first Distinguished Conduct Medal in this war.
For the First World War, 24,620 medals as well as 472 first bars and nine second bars were awarded, with 46 further awards for the period 1920–39.
For the Second World War, 1,891 medals and nine first bars were awarded.
Post War, a total of 153 DCMs were earned between 1947 and 1979, including 45 to Australian and New Zealand forces for service in Vietnam. A further 25 awards were made after 1979, nine for service in Northern Ireland, eight for the South Atlantic, and eight for the Gulf War, including a number of retrospective awards up to 2006.
Honorary awards of the Distinguished Conduct Medal were made to members of allied forces, including 5,227 for the First World War and 107 for the Second World War. (Lists of WW1 awards to allied forces are kept in country specific files within the WO 388/6 series at Kew, and were published in 2018.)
Australia
Beginning in the Second Boer War, the Distinguished Conduct Medal has been awarded to 2,071 members of the Australian Army and to three members of the Royal Australian Air Force. Thirty first Bars were awarded, all to members of the Army and the majority for actions during the First World War. The last award to an Australian was made in 1972, arising from the Vietnam War.
Canada
The medal was first awarded to a Canadian on 19 April 1901. Altogether, there were 2,132 awards to Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force personnel, 38 first Bars and one second Bar.
Malaysia
The medal was instituted in the State of Penang in 1959 and conferred on individuals who have exhibited competence or achieved praiseworthy deeds in any field. The recipient must posses good conduct and character. Post-nominal letters PKT.
New Zealand
Between 1899 and 1970, 525 awards of the Distinguished Conduct Medal were made to New Zealanders.
South Africa
More than 300 Distinguished Conduct Medals were awarded to South Africans during the two World Wars.
See also
Distinguished Conduct Medal (Natal)
West African Frontier Force & King's African Rifles Distinguished Conduct Medal
Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms
Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal
References
Further reading
Military awards and decorations of the United Kingdom
Courage awards
Military decorations and medals of South Africa
Military decorations and medals of South Africa pre-1952
1854 establishments in the United Kingdom
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Tim Page (born 1947), is an Australian actor, scriptwriter and singer. After emigrating from his birth country New Zealand in 1973 he was cast as Henrik Eggerman in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music but he later became best known for playing Dr Graham Steele in the Australian television series The Young Doctors throughout its entire run from 1976 to 1982. By the time of the final episode his character had risen from lowly intern to hospital superintendent.
In addition to acting, he has also worked as a script writer on episodes of The Restless Years and Neighbours.
Stage and musical performances
Page's cabaret show based on songs associated from Shakespeare Out Damned Spot! has been successfully toured throughout Australia.
He played Baron Tusenbach in Chekhov's Three Sisters for the QTC and has continued his association with Sondheim musicals having played Pirelli in Sweeney Todd for the MTC, Zangara in Assassins and Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into The Woods. Most recently he played Andre in The Phantom of the Opera, Warbucks in Annie and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
In the late 1980s he appeared in a number of musicals in London's West End. He was in the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1989–90. He was also in Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 1991. He recorded with the BBC Radio Orchestra and had seasons at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company and at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. in 2014, he appeared in the musical Annie.
In the 1990s he appeared in My Fair Lady with Anthony Warlow, Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera, Chess, Assassins and appeared in the TV series Water Rats and All Saints. His films include Passion, Lilian's Story (with Ruth Cracknell), The Everlasting Secret Family, The Road From Coorain, The Wreck of the Stinson and plays Dr Gene Seward in the 2015 film Lead Me Astray.
Page has played Bialystock in The Producers, Georges in La Cage Aux Folles and the Bishop of Basingstoke in Jekyll and Hyde which toured Korea and Taiwan. GMS cast him as John Utterson in their 2012 production of Jekyll and Hyde. He won a Best Actor Star Award for his portrayal of Danforth in The Crucible.
Page has sung with opera companies on both sides of the Tasman and for the London Savoyards. Most recently he has appeared in Aida and The Girl of the Golden West for Opera Queensland.
In 2013 he was asked by the Central Coast Conservatorium to direct the opera Help! Help! The Globolinks! by Gian Carlo Menotti and also to begin a Triple Threat Music Theatre Course. He is partnered in these endeavours by Allan Royal.
In 2014 Page wrote a new English translation of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" to go with Central Coast Opera's production which he also directed. In 2016 he again directed and wrote a new English performing version of Bizet's "Carmen" which was a popular hit for Central Coast Opera. In 2018 he was cast as Benoit and Alcindoro in the same company's "La Boheme" and also sang the role of Spoletta for Central Coast Lyric Opera's production of "Tosca". In 2021 he is producing a moved concert version of "La Traviata" in support of the Crestani Scholarships, a charity working for better outcomes for cancer patients. His most recent musical theatre roles have been Mayor Shinn in "The Music Man", Dr Dillamond in "Wicked" and Les Kendall in "Strictly Ballroom" all produced by GMS.
References
External links
Australian male television actors
New Zealand emigrants to Australia
Living people
1947 births
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Dale Smith (February 6, 1928 – January 15, 2017) was a rodeo performer and administrator.
Rodeo career
Competition
Born in Safford, Arizona, Smith was a two-time team roping world champion. He finished second once a mere $13 away from a third title. Smith was the first cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo in three events in the same season. He was also the first to qualify in a total of four events.
Administration
Smith served three non-consecutive stints as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association president. Among his initiatives, he instituted the 100-point system in bull riding.
Honors
Dale Smith is a 1995 inductee of the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He is a 1979 inductee of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Smith was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
References
1928 births
2017 deaths
ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees
Roping (rodeo)
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The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) 131 Class and 137 Class were two closely related classes of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed by Peter Drummond, of which a total of 12 were built in 1913-15 by the North British Locomotive Company (NBL) at its Queens Park works and by the G&SWR at its own Kilmarnock works. Originally built as the 131 and 137 classes, as a result of renumbering they became known as the 331 and 325 classes in 1919, before passing to the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) on its formation in 1923, where they were given power classification 3P.
131 Class
The appointment of Peter Drummond as locomotive superintendent of the G&SWR at the end of 1911 resulted in significant changes in the design of subsequent locomotives, as Drummond was an 'outsider' to the G&SWR with little affinity for the established Kilmarnock design principles and a preference for much larger locomotives than the railway was then operating. In many ways Peter Drummond's designs mirrored those of his elder brother Dugald on the London and South Western Railway, including a preference for big engines and the eschewing of superheating in favour of smokebox steam driers. The first products of this approach on the G&SWR were the 279 Class 0-6-0 goods engines of 1913, and next off the NBL production line were six 4-4-0 passenger locomotives of the 131 Class.
The 131 Class shared many of the attributes of the 279s. Just as the 279 class were Britain's heaviest 0-6-0s at the time of their construction, the 131s were Britain's heaviest 4-4-0s at the time. They were delivered to Greenock (Princes Pier) and Ayr locomotive sheds for use on passenger services from the Clyde coast towns into Glasgow, but their performance was initially disappointing for such large engines and there were various reliability problems. They were generally lacking in speed and this was especially pronounced when climbing gradients, so by the end of 1916 all six locomotives were allocated to Ayr for use on the relatively level Ayr-Glasgow line. As they were used on relatively lightweight passenger trains the coal consumption was acceptable and the defective big end design did not give quite the same trouble as on the 279 class, but overheating of the bogie axleboxes was a constant problem. It was suspected that the bogies were carrying an incorrect amount of weight, but identification of the problem was hindered by the fact that the locomotives were too heavy for the weighing machine at Kilmarnock works.
137 Class
The shortcomings of the 131 Class led to two important changes for the next batch of passenger locomotives. Although very similar to the 131s in most respects, the new 137s featured superheating and improved feed-water heating arrangements. These alterations would have added to the weight of the locomotives, but no official weight was ever published for the 137 class in their original condition. It has been suggested that one locomotive was sent to the NBL to be weighed, but that the G&SWR suppressed the figure. Estimates based on the official weight of engine and tender combined and on later LMS official weights after modifications suggest that the locomotives would have weighed approximately 64 tons 1 cwt as built. Amongst British 4-4-0s only the later LNER D49 and SR Schools classes were heavier.
The modifications were successful, and the 137s were a great improvement over the 131 class, being fast and very economical in coal and water. Unfortunately the deficiences of the axleboxes and the big ends had not been rectified, and this prevented the locomotives from being regularly employed on G&SWR's heaviest and important express trains on the Glasgow to Carlisle line. Instead they spent most of their lives on second tier services, although their speed and hill-climbing abilities were useful on the steeply graded lines to Stranraer.
LMS service
The superiority of the subsequent 137 class led the LMS to rebuild five of the 131 class with superheating in 1923-31, leaving only no. 14511 with a saturated boiler, which it retained until withdrawal. Although all of the superheated engines were capable of good, economical performance the reliability problems were never fully overcome, and as a small group of only twelve locomotives they were deemed to be non-standard by the LMS. They were therefore withdrawn and scrapped between 1934 and 1937, having outlasted all of the other G&SWR tender engines except the 403 Class moguls.
Locomotive numbering and histories
source
References
4-4-0 locomotives
131
NBL locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1913
Scrapped locomotives
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Tephrosia chrysophylla, commonly known as scurf hoarypea is a species of flowering plant. It is in the genus Tephrosia and family Fabaceae. It is a perennial dicot. It has red flowers and compound alternating leaves.
References
chrysophylla
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Halle (Westf) station
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Halle (Westf) is a railway station located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is on the Osnabrück–Brackwede railway. The train services are operated by NordWestBahn.
Train services
The following services currently call at Halle:
References
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
Halle (Westfalen)
Buildings and structures in Gütersloh (district)
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1886
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Iowa's 17th House of Representatives district
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The 17th District of the Iowa House of Representatives in the state of Iowa.
Current elected officials
Matt Windschitl is the representative currently representing the district.
Past representatives
The district has previously been represented by:
Murray C. Lawson, 1971–1973
John C. Mendenhall, 1973–1975
Roger Halvorson, 1975–1983
Del Stromer, 1983–1989
Stewart Iverson, 1989–1995
Russell Teig, 1995–2003
Bill Dix, 2003–2007
Pat Grassley, 2007–2013
Matt Windschitl, 2013–present
References
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Harriet Monroe
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Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, first published in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson and others, Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early twentieth century poets provides a wealth of information on their thoughts and motives.
Biography
Monroe was born in Chicago, Illinois. She read at an early age; her father had a large library that provided refuge from domestic discord. In her autobiography, A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World, published two years after her death, Monroe recalls: "I started in early with Shakespeare, Byron, Shelley, with Dickens and Thackeray; and always the book-lined library gave me a friendly assurance of companionship with lively and interesting people, gave me friends of the spirit to ease my loneliness."
Career
Monroe graduated from the Visitation Academy of Georgetown, D.C., in 1879. She was later recognized as a very talented author for her age. Her prose piece published in 1899 in the Atlantic Monthly, The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, was considered better poetry than her most notable poem, I love my life.<ref>Love Song no 254 The New Poetry Anthology, 1957 Love Song 254 </ref>
Driven by fears of posthumous anonymity, she proclaimed after graduation her determination to become "great and famous" as a poet or playwright. In the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Judith Paterson quoted her as saying, "I cannot remember when to die without leaving some memorable record did not seem to me a calamity too terrible to be borne." She afterward devoted herself to literary work. Monroe in her biography said, 'I have sense of consecration that made me think I would prefer art to life'.
Though Century magazine published her poem, "With a Copy of Shelley," in 1889, she became disillusioned by the limited earnings available for poets, saying: "The minor painter or sculptor was honored with large annual awards in our greatest cities, while the minor poet was a joke of the paragraphers, subject to the popular prejudice that his art thrived best on starvation in a garret." She became a freelance correspondent to the Chicago Tribune, and was commissioned to write a commemorative ode for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America.
Her financial hardships were alleviated after she sued the New York World for publishing the Colombian ode poem without her consent and she was awarded $5,000 in a settlement.
With help from publisher Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, Monroe convinced one hundred prominent Chicago business leaders to sponsor the magazine Poetry by each committing to fifty dollars for a five-year subscription. The $5,000, coupled with her own settlement, was enough to launch the magazine on September 23, 1912, while upholding its promise to contributors of adequate payment for all published work. Monroe was editor for its first two years without salary, while simultaneously working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune. By 1914, the magazine work became too much for her to accomplish while working other jobs, so she resigned from the Tribune and accepted a salary of fifty dollars per month from the magazine. For more than ten years she maintained herself on this stipend, raising it to one hundred dollars per month in 1925. Her extensive papers and correspondence as editor of Poetry magazine, illuminate the authorial process and the birth of modern poetry.
Don Share, who became editor of Poetry in 2013, writes that Monroe seemed to have a "sixth sense" about the poetry she published. Monroe, herself, wrote and preferred poems rooted in 19th century tradition, but in her magazine, "that countervailing sixth sense allowed her to make literary history. She invented a box, you could say — and promptly set to work thinking outside it. Her magazine was, therefore, like she was: unpredictable, difficult, and infuriating," but she never wavered in her assessment of progressive American culture as a democratic triumph.
She continued editing the magazine until she died in Arequipa, Peru, at age 75, while on her way to climb Machu Picchu. The high altitudes reportedly triggered a cerebral hemorrhage, which caused her death.
Monroe was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and is mentioned in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. In 2011, Monroe was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
Family
Monroe was the sister-in-law of Chicago architect John Wellborn Root, and wrote his biography.
Works
cantata for the opening of the Chicago Auditorium (1889)
Columbian Ode composed for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition, with George Whitefield Chadwick (1892)
Valeria and other Poems (1892)
John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (1896)
The Passing Show - Five Modern Plays in Verse (1903)
Dance of the Seasons (1911)
You and I - Poems (1914)
The New Poetry: Anthology of 20th Century Verse (1921)
Poets And Their Art (1926)
A Poet's Life - Seventy Years in a Changing World (1938)
Notes
References
External links
Monroe Family Papers at the Newberry Library
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Magazine
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at The Modernist Journals Project (searchable digital edition from October 1912 to December 1922)
Harriet Monroe Memorabilia at the Newberry Library
PennSound: 1932 recordings of Harriet Monroe
Example of a Monroe book review
, full text, at Google books
2 short radio episodes Mountain Hemlock and The Water Ouzel'' by Harriet Monroe from California Legacy Project.
Guide to the Modern Poetry Collection of Miscellaneous Manuscripts 1920-1964 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
Guide to the Harriet Monroe Papers 1873-1944 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
1860 births
1936 deaths
American women poets
American magazine editors
American literary critics
Women literary critics
Writers from Chicago
American women non-fiction writers
Women magazine editors
American women critics
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Boverton () is a village located to the east of Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales.
History
Boverton was founded during the reign of William the Conqueror in England. It is thought that he himself founded Boverton as a farming community beneath his mighty castle. However, Robert Fitzhamon is credited with founding the castle here, Boverton Place, during the 12th century. The castle was rebuilt around 1587 by Roger Seys, a land owner and attorney general of Wales. Boverton Place was an "impressive" fortified manor house of considerable size.
The Seys family, prominent in Glamorgan throughout the 17th century, moved out in the late 17th century and it fell into decay in the following century. Local legend states the castle is haunted by the Black Lady who was spotted by men working on the castle in the early 19th Century. She was described as a tall, shadowy figure dressed in mourning clothes.
Landmarks
In present-day Boverton there is a brook, several housing estates, a fish and chip shop, post office, hair salon, gentlemen's barbers, veterinary surgery and The Boverton Castle pub.
Gallery
References
External links
Boverton Castle pub website
Villages in the Vale of Glamorgan
Llantwit Major
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Angela King (environmentalist)
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Angela King (born 27 June 1944) co-founded Common Ground, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Sue Clifford in 1983. She was Friends of the Earth's first Wildlife Campaigner for England. She went on to be consultant to the Nature Conservancy Council until Common Ground was founded in 1982/3.
Sue Clifford and Angela King have been at the forefront of cultural campaigning in the environmental movement and environmental awareness raising in the arts since they founded Common Ground in 1982/3 with Roger Deakin. With Clifford, she has written and edited a variety of books to help people be more expressive about and be more active within their own locality. She is co-author of England in Particular ‘a celebration of the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive’.
Books
Trees Rivers and Fields (2001)
England in Particular (2006)
The Apple Source Book (2007)
Community Orchards Handbook (2011)
References
British environmentalists
British women environmentalists
1944 births
Living people
British women activists
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The Kill (disambiguation)
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"The Kill" is a song by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
The Kill may also refer to:
The Kill (novel) or La Curée, a novel by Émile Zola
"The Kill", a song by Joy Division from Still
See also
The Kill - Deer Hunting in the Grand Jura Forests, a painting by Gustave Courbet
Kill (disambiguation)
The Kills (disambiguation)
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Garra sindhi
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Garra sindhi is a species of cyprinid fish in the genus Garra endemic to the Wadi Andhur in Oman.
References
Garra
Fish described in 2016
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Anne Marie Tiernon
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Anne Marie Tiernon is an American journalist. She currently anchors at NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana, alongside Scott Swan at 5:30 p.m.
Early years
Tiernon graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in business and from Northwestern University with a master's degree in journalism.
Career
Tiernon started her career at WMBD-TV 31 in Peoria, Illinois, in 1989 . Then in 1991, she headed to Indianapolis where she began reporting for WISH-TV's 11 p.m. newscast and anchored the CBS affiliate's 5:30 p.m. newscast, with colleague Scott Swan. From 2000 to 2004, Tiernon was a news anchor at WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the anchor of the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts, alongside veteran anchor Dave Wagner. Since 2004, Tiernon has been at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she co-anchors the NBC affiliate's newscasts at 5:30 and 6 p.m..
Personal life
Tiernon, a Fort Wayne, Indiana, native, is married to marketing executive Terry Tiernon. They have three children, 2 girls and 1 boy.
References
External links
Anne Marie Tiernon Biography
WTHR-TV
Living people
Television anchors from Indianapolis
Television anchors from Cincinnati
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women television journalists
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Northwestern University alumni
21st-century American women
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is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 47,911 in 24,749 households, and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Annaka is located in the southwestern portion of Gunma Prefecture at the very northernmost point of the Kantō Plain, bordered by Nagano Prefecture to the west. The Usui Pass connects Annaka with neighboring Karuizawa, Nagano.
Mountains: Chausuyama (596m), Mount Myōgi (1103m)
Rivers: Usigawa, Tsukumogawa
Lakes: Sakamoto Dam, Nakagi Dam
Surrounding municipalities
Gunma Prefecture
Takasaki
Tomioka
Shimonita
Nagano Prefecture
Karuizawa
Climate
Annaka has a Humid continental climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Annaka is 13.9 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1227 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.5 °C.
Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Annaka has remained relatively steadily over the past 50 years.
History
Annaka is located within traditional Kōzuke Province. During the Edo period, central Annaka was the jōkamachi of Annaka Domain, a feudal domain held by the Itakura clan under the Tokugawa shogunate. The area also prospered from its location on the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto. Post stations located within the borders of modern Annaka were: Itahana-shuku, Annaka-shuku, Matsuida-shuku and Sakamoto-shuku.
Annaka Town was created within Usui District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889, with the creation of the modern municipalities system after the Meiji Restoration. On March 1, 1955, Annaka merged with neighboring Haraichi, Isobe, and Itahana towns, and Higashiyokono, Iwanoya, Akima, and Gokan villages. It was raised to city status on November 1, 1958. On March 18, 2006, the town of Matsuida, merged with Annaka. Usui District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
Government
Annaka has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 20 members. Annaka contributes two members to the Gunma Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Gunma 5th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.
Economy
Annaka is a regional commercial center and transportation hub. Toho Zinc operates a large plant in the city, as does Shin-Etsu Chemical.
Education
Annaka has 12 public elementary schools and five public middle schools operated by the city government, and two public high schools operated by the Gunma Prefectural Board of Education. There is also one private combined middle/high school.
Transportation
Railway
JR East – Hokuriku Shinkansen
JR East – Shin'etsu Main Line
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Highway
– Masuida-Myogi IC, Usui-Karuizawa IC, Yokogawa SA
Local attractions
Ruins of Matsuida Castle
Yanase Futagozuka Kofun, a National Historic Site
Isobe Onsen
Kirizumi Onsen
Asazuma Art Museum
Myogi Sanroku Art Museum
Usui Pass
Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park
Sister-city relations
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada, friendship city since December 16, 2005
References
External links
Official Website
Cities in Gunma Prefecture
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Floriano River (Paraná)
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The Floriano River is a river of Paraná state in southern Brazil.
See also
List of rivers of Paraná
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Paraná (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20history%20of%20George%20Forbes
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Electoral history of George Forbes
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This is a summary of the electoral history of George Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1930–35) and Member of Parliament for Hurunui (1908–43).
Parliamentary elections
1902 election
1908 election
1911 election
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election
1931 election
1935 election
1938 election
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Forbes, George
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Corticibacterium is a genus of bacteria from the family Phyllobacteriaceae with one known species (Corticibacterium populi).
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Phyllobacteriaceae
Bacteria genera
Monotypic bacteria genera
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Tifallili Creek
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Tifallili is a stream in the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi.
Tifallili is a name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "tall dead tree".
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Rivers of Alabama
Rivers of Sumter County, Alabama
Rivers of Mississippi
Rivers of Kemper County, Mississippi
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Alonzo E. Deitz
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Alonzo Edward Deitz (1836 in New York – 1921) was an American lock manufacturer who founded the A. E. Deitz lock company in Brooklyn, New York in 1861. Deitz held two patents for innovative locks with a distinctive pin tumbler arrangement parallel to the longitudinal axis of the key. His steam-powered factory with 60 employees was established at Clymer Street in Brooklyn, adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Hundreds of different models were available in published catalogs, including padlocks and locks for doors and drawers. Deitz locks were exported worldwide during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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External links
Example Of A. E. Deitz Padlock
A. E. Deitz Lock-sets In Furniture
Silver Medal Award for 1881 Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston
19th-century American inventors
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David Nathan (1816–1886) was one of the first Jewish settlers in New Zealand and became an early colonial shopkeeper there. His marriage to Rosetta Aarons in 1841 was the first Jewish service held in New Zealand.
Born in London, Nathan migrated first to Australia in December 1839 and then for New Zealand on the Achilles, leaving Sydney for the Bay of Islands in February 1840. He set up a store, first in Kororareka (present day Russell), then in Auckland when it became the capital in place of Okiato (Old Russell) in the Bay of Islands. On 31 October 1841 he married Rosetta Aarons, the widow of Captain Michael Aarons.
In 1843, with fellow early settler John Israel Montefiore, he secured a grant of land on the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street for a Jewish section of the Symonds Street Cemetery, Auckland.
As his business prospered, he traded in kauri gum and tea and operated a bond store. He was a founder member of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, established in 1856, and president in 1868. He was a trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank from 1864 to 1885 and vice president from 1878 to 1882, was an early commissioner for the port of Auckland, and served on the city council in 1854–55. He set up L.D. Nathan and Company for his sons, Laurence David Nathan and Nathan Alfred Nathan, just before he retired from business in 1868.
Nathan served four terms as president of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, between 1853 and 1883, and in 1884 laid the foundation stone of the synagogue on the corner of Princes Street and Bowen Avenue.
David Nathan died at his home, which he had built in 1863 in Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland City, on 23 August 1886.
See also
History of the Jews in New Zealand
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1886 deaths
Businesspeople from London
New Zealand Jews
New Zealand businesspeople
People from Auckland
New Zealand merchants
New Zealand bankers
Burials at Symonds Street Cemetery
Jewish New Zealand history
English emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand people of English-Jewish descent
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Taung Kalat
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Taung Kalat () is a Buddhist monastery and temple complex located on Mount Popa in Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The site is built on a tall volcanic plug, and is one of several prominent nat spiritual sites in the vicinity of nearby Mount Popa.
Description
The temple complex is located on top of a volcanic plug; this rock formation was formed by geologic activity around Mount Popa, an extinct volcano. The site is a popular pilgrimage destination, and is considered a source of nat spiritual energy. The 777 steps leading up to the monastery were once maintained by U Khandi, a famous Burmese hermit.
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Buddhist temples in Myanmar
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Blanche Baker (painter)
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Blanche Baker (1844–1929) was a Bristol-born English watercolour artist who specialised in landscape paintings. She trained at the Bristol School of Art, and went on to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy and with the Society of Lady Artists and the Camsix Art Club. She taught drawing in London schools, and her work documents extensive British and European travel. In 1902 she was elected a full member of the Bristol Academy.
Early life
Blanche Baker's father, William Baker, was born in Bristol in about 1820 and in 1840 married Mary Anne Crispin, whose mother was from Devon. They lived in Trenchard Street, in central Bristol. Initially he was a plasterer, then a builder. Ellen Blanche Baker was their third child and was christened at the Society of Protestant Dissenters in Lewin's Mead, Bristol, on 15 September 1844.
‘[William] came into some money from his father and succeeded in amassing a tolerably fair fortune’ – by 1861 he was a successful builder and contractor, employing 160 men, and at some point he also acquired a saw mill at Canon's Marsh, Bristol. The Baker family moved to Sneyd Park Villa in a wealthier part of Bristol. This was a substantial property with ‘lawns, gardens, a conservatory, stables and one and a half acres of land’ plus an adjacent farm. On the date of the 1861 census Blanche Baker was not actually in residence at Sneyd Park Villa, although the census indicates that she is one of nine siblings. Her grandmother Betsy Crispin had lived with them for several years, and there were live-in servants.
Following her general education, Blanche attended Bristol School of Art (established in 1853 as ‘Bristol School of Practical Art’ and later accommodated within the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts's grand building that had been opened in 1958. The School of Art would become the Royal West of England Academy Schools). She ‘graduated’ in 1864, winning a prize for Outline of Flowers – a work which qualified for the only National Medallion to be awarded to Bristol School of Art in that year. Meanwhile, in 1863, in the competitions that Bristol Rifle Club held annually in Sneyd Park, Blanche had taken second prize in the Ladies Rifle Match – 100 yards, seven shots with Prussian needle rifles. ‘These novelty, but interesting matches attracted, of course, a great gathering of both sexes.’
In 1865 Mary Baker, Blanche's mother, died at the age of 46. There were three girls under the age of 10 to be looked after, and presumably much of the running of the household now fell to Mary's older daughters Rosa, 23, Blanche, 20, and Kate, 16. The oldest boy, Herbert, 21, had followed his father into the building business.
Artistic success and a family crisis
The acceptance of a watercolour drawing, Greenfell Lane, Gloucester, by the Royal Academy in 1869 seems to have been a turning point for Blanche's artistic career. In early 1870 she had a one-person show in Bristol – 70 watercolours (some framed and others unframed) – and in the summer of that year The Turnstile was selected for the Royal Academy. Blanche would sign her pictures with her initials, BB – suited to the small dimensions of most of her work and perhaps also conveniently gender-neutral.
The Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts opened a public exhibiting space in the spring of 1870, and Blanche exhibited regularly at its Winter Exhibition for the next twenty years. The choice of watercolour as Blanche's preferred medium and of landscape as her preferred genre was common among ‘lady artists’, but the Bristol Academy did have traditional links to ‘Bristol School’ landscape painters such as William Muller, Francis Danby, J. B. Pyne and John Syer – active in the early nineteenth century – whose Bristol Society of Artists it had incorporated. In 1876 Blanche was elected an Associate of the Bristol Academy.
Around this time her father ‘made the acquaintance of the wife of the Rev. Mr Wilkinson, on the death of whom he conceived the idea of marrying the widow, and communicated this fact to his family, who however were greatly opposed to the match.’ Nevertheless, the marriage to Mrs Gertrude Blanche Wilkinson, age 44, went ahead in April 1877. The extent to which the changed circumstances at Sneyd Park Villa may have prompted Blanche to move from Bristol is not known, but a brief item in the Western Daily Press of 17 January 1878 noted that ‘Miss Blanche Baker has retired from the committee of the Boys’ Home in consequence of having left Bristol.’
The second marriage of William Baker proved even more calamitous than the family had feared. Mrs Gertrude Blanche Baker, in her mid-forties, was an ‘exceedingly improper person, for she was addicted to drink’. She behaved in an ‘unbecoming and indecent way’, committing adultery with the Sneyd Park Villa coachman (Wheeler) and the carpenter (Owen). Newspaper accounts from 1880 explain that her behaviour brought about ‘insanity’ and the necessity for William to be ‘removed to a lunatic asylum’. The Baker siblings took the unusual, but understandable, step of forming a committee and filing for divorce on behalf of their father, who was deemed incapable of representing himself. With adultery having been proved, a decree nisi was issued in July 1880 and a final decree in March 1881. The family now had the possibility of holding on to some of William's assets.
Although Blanche was said to have left Bristol in 1878, at the time of the 1881 census she was living with her sister Laura on the farm adjacent to Sneyd Park Villa. However, a few years later she had moved to the outskirts of London – to Spring Cottage, Hanwell, Ealing, near where her father was living in a small private asylum, Wyke House, in Isleworth.
Teaching
Blanche had apparently left Bristol to teach art in a London school, partly inspired by a collection of essays on education by the philosopher and social theorist Herbert Spencer. By coincidence, her sisters Rosa and Mabel Baker would be managing house for Spencer in the late 1880s and ‘we told him how the reading of this book [Education] by [Blanche] had induced her to take the post of art mistress in a London school, and had led to our leaving the country to join her in town.’ It may have been Spencer's ideas on what was later termed a ‘child-centred’ approach to education that resonated with Blanche. The earlier reference to her serving on the committee of a boys’ home seems to suggest social concern on her part and an awareness of the lack of opportunities for underprivileged children at this time before education had become nationally compulsory.
Becoming established
Blanche's strength of personality and independence are further evidenced in an 1884 classified advertisement in The Times: ‘Sketching Tours – Miss Blanche Baker, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, will give LESSONS to ladies travelling with her on the Thames during the months of July and August.’ Assuming that this enterprise went ahead, it was interrupted by her father's death on 16 August 1884. Blanche and her elder brother, Herbert Baker – who was now running their father's business at Canon's Marsh Steam Saw Mills – were the two executors of the will. When probate was finally settled later in the year, William Baker's personal estate was worth about £5,311 (equivalent to about £627,000 in 2017) with a resworn amount of £14,938 in November 1884 (about £1,690,000 in 2017). Sneyd Park Villa was advertised for sale in the following year.
In early 1885 Blanche exhibited at a ‘Loan Exhibition of Women’s Industries’ at Clifton, Bristol. Later in 1885 she had 11 watercolours in the Winter Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, ‘ transcripts of quaint buildings The Dutch House, Bristol; Clovelly and Mary-le-Port Street, Bristol’.
In 1887 she exhibited three watercolours – Clovelly Pier, Clovelly and Bristol Streets – with the Society of Lady Artists (SLA) in London. The Society's purpose was ‘to gain acceptance for women artists by giving them the opportunity to exhibit their work. Membership was granted to women who had exhibited with the Society and who earned their livelihood through art.’ The Society's name changed to the more assertive Society of Women Artists in 1899.
Cabbages and The Thames from Streatley were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888, and by the end of the year Blanche had moved back to Bristol, living at Leworthy Lodge, Stoke Bishop. In the Winter Exhibition of the Bristol Academy ‘A Weedy Pond affords a glimpse of a retired spot, where the quiet beauty of nature has been well observed, and, modest in its dimensions, it is a most successful study.’ In the following year The Thames and The Float, Bristol were exhibited in London with the SLA, and in 1890 Summer and November and Back of the Old Home (perhaps a view of Sneyd Park Villa) were shown at the Royal Academy. That was also the year of a joint exhibition with the landscape painter Edward Wilkins Waite at Messrs Frost and Reed in Queens Road, Bristol. In the census of 1891 Blanche, 47, gave her profession as ‘artist – landscape painting and teacher’
Home Life with Herbert Spencer
One might assume that the settlement of William Baker's estate would have left the members of his family ‘comfortably well off’, so it is somewhat surprising that Blanche's sisters Rosa and Mabel Baker (writing in 1906) reflected on 1889 as beginning as a year ‘of gloom and sadness to us … Misfortunes had come to us, as they come to so many, unforeseen and unsuspected, none the less hard to bear because they were not the first we had experienced.’ They make it clear that a significant aspect of their distress was through ‘money losses’.
In 1889 Herbert Spencer, now 69 and a controversial and much celebrated public figure, had grown tired of staying in lodging houses. ‘I have taken a house in St. John’s Wood and am going to have three maiden ladies to take care of me!’ he wrote to a friend. These ‘maiden ladies’ were initially Rosa and Mabel Baker – Blanche's older sister and a younger sister, although the reference to ‘three maiden ladies’ indicates that from the outset Blanche was to be part of the ‘arrangement’, brought about by a mutual friend, and by the time of the following year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she too was living at 64 Avenue Road, NW.
Some years after Spencer had died, Rosa and Mabel Baker – using the pseudonym ‘Two’ – published a memoir of their time with him: Home Life with Herbert Spencer. This is a warm portrait of Spencer, and also gives an insight into the relationship between the sisters:
[Blanche] had not seen us since our instalment in Avenue Road, and she was evidently surprised at the unexpected subjects that had already begun to interest as. We were talking of something we had just read in one of Mr. Spencer’s books, and quite innocently used one or two long words not formerly in our vocabulary. A look of awe appeared on our sister’s face, and then, as the discussion continued in the same strain, she slowly and gradually disappeared under the dining-room table.
Blanche's move to London saw her broadening her exhibition base: in 1893 The Only Customers and A Deserted Farmhouse were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Dublin. In 1895 she exhibited A Cornish Roadside at a loan exhibition in Hampstead, and, maintaining her links with her home town, at Bristol Academy she showed ‘a little picture … a sketch of a thatched homestead and meadows. It is called The Home Fields and it is carefully worked, almost too careful; but very sunny and full of light.’ Blanche was elected an Associate of the Society of Lady Artists in 1894, and there was a further Bristol exhibition in 1896: ‘An attractive collection of watercolour drawings by Miss Blanche Baker, a Bristol lady, is on view at Messrs Frost and Reed Gallery, 47 Queens Road.’
Around 1894 Spencer, who was spending an increasing amount of time away from London, gave warning that he was planning to terminate the arrangement at 64 Avenue Road, but wrote warmly, ‘The remembrance of times spent with you and your sisters during 1889, ’90, ’91 and ’92 will always will always be pleasant to me.’ Despite this warning, however, Spencer did not act to evict the sisters until 1897, and by then he took a more negative view of their relationship. There were disagreements about expenses, and he complained that ‘the house is occupied by the [Baker] family, yourselves and relatives; and when I am home the social intercourse and the administration give the impression that 64, Avenue Road is the residence of the Misses [Baker] where Mr. Spencer resides when he is in town.’
European travel and a family home
At some point after the sisters left Avenue Road in 1897 they moved to the northern outskirts of London, to Sneed Cottage, an eight-room house in Totteridge Lane, Whetstone, near Barnet. The name may have been an example of the Bakers’ self-deprecating humour – ‘Sneed’ was the local Bristol pronunciation of ‘Sneyd’. Having been brought up in the grander ‘Sneyd Park Villa’ of their youth, they now lived in Sneed Cottage.
Towards the end of the century Blanche broadened the subjects of her work as she travelled to Europe – France, Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy and Spain. Lake at Lucerne, for example, was exhibited with the Hampstead Art Society at the Conservatoire, Eton Avenue, in 1896.
In 1899 Blanche had a significant exhibition of 42 watercolours at the Modern Gallery, 175 Bond Street. Like the 1890 exhibition at Bristol, it was a joint exhibition with Edward Wilkins Waite. Some of the titles suggest higher ambitions than her usual parochial subjects: ‘Where skies make azure of our earth-born greys’ commands her highest asking price, of 15 guineas, and ‘Where cattle tread the soaking soil’ is 10 guineas – both prices a step up from the 8 or 9 guineas that are usually listed for her Royal Academy works. There were a number of views of Switzerland, including the dramatic alpine summit The Jungfrau. England was represented by works depicting Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Guildford, Somerset and Yorkshire. Some titles – such as Blackberry Gatherers and The Bean Gatherer – suggest more of a human presence than was usual in her work. There were also four flower studies: Roses, Murillos, Tulips and Freesia.
Into the twentieth century
The 1901 census provides a snapshot of life in the Baker sisters’ new home. Blanche's sister Mabel, 39, was the ‘head of the household’. She was an ‘examiner of domestic economy’ in a school. Blanche, 56, was described as ‘an artist (painter) and Teacher of Drawing. School’. They lived with their sister Rosa, 60, and their brother William, 41, who was a clerk at the Stock Exchange. They were supported by one domestic servant living in.
In the summer of that year The Forester’s Garden was selected for the Royal Academy, and in the following year Blanche was elected to be a full member of the Bristol Academy. Further European travel is evidenced in another West End exhibition, in February 1904, this time at McQueen's Gallery, where she showed 30 watercolours in a joint exhibition with Margaret Kemp-Welch. This exhibition included nine views of Venice and three views of the French Alps near Mont Blanc.
Also in February 1904, at Walker's Gallery, New Bond Street, there was an ‘inaugural' exhibition of the Camsix Art Club. Initially this was a group of seven women artists who took their name from the Essex farmstead where the artist Bertram Priestman ran a summer school which they attended. It is likely that Blanche Baker contributed to that exhibition, and she certainly exhibited with the Camsix the following year at Alpine Club Hall, in 1907 at the Modern Gallery, in 1908 at the Goupil Gallery and in 1911 at the Baillie Gallery.
From My Window was selected for the Royal Academy in 1910 and A Cherry Orchard the following year. In the 1911 census, Blanche, now 66, described herself as ‘artist and teacher. Secondary school’ – suggesting that education was a significant part of her identity. By now the sisters’ younger brother, William, was no longer living with them at Sneed Cottage.
Later years
By 1918 the Baker sisters were living in a different property in Whetstone – in the High Road – which they also called Sneed Cottage. One of the last of Blanche's works for which there are records was a commission in about 1923 to create a miniature version (4.5 cm x 3.1 cm) of her c.1899 alpine watercolour The Jungfrau for Queen Mary's Dolls' House (currently in the Royal Collection). Queen Mary – as the Princess of Wales – had visited a Camsix exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1908.
Sometime after Rosa died, in December 1925, Blanche and Mabel Baker moved to Fareham, near Portsmouth. Blanche died at Belmont Nursing Home, Alverstoke, Hampshire, on 12 December 1929, aged 85 years. Mabel was executor of her estate, valued at £1,907 13s. 6d.
References
1844 births
1929 deaths
Artists from Bristol
English women painters
19th-century British painters
20th-century British painters
20th-century British women artists
19th-century British women artists
19th-century English women
19th-century English people
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Central African Republic at the Olympics
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The Central African Republic has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held between 1984 and 2020, as well as its first appearance in 1968. The country, however, has yet to win an Olympic medal. No athletes from the Central African Republic have competed in any Winter Olympic Games.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
See also
List of flag bearers for the Central African Republic at the Olympics
Central African Republic at the Paralympics
External links
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Jaraguá Esporte Clube, usually known simply as Jaraguá, is a Brazilian football club from Jaraguá, Goiás.
History
Founded on 2 February 1929, Jaraguá only played amateur championships until 2001, when it first appeared in the second division of the Campeonato Goiano. The club later went back to inactivity until 2007, when it appeared once in the third division and finishing last in its group.
Back to an active status for the 2017 third division, Jaraguá won the competition unbeaten, suffering only one goal during the whole tournament. In the following year, the club narrowly avoided relegation in the second tier.
In October 2019, the club was crowned champions of the year's second division, achieving a first-ever promotion to the top tier.
Honours
Campeonato Goiano Segunda Divisão: 2019
Campeonato Goiano Terceira Divisão: 2017
References
External links
Federação Goiana de Futebol team profile
Futebol Nacional team profile
Association football clubs established in 1929
1929 establishments in Brazil
Football clubs in Goiás
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The Carnegie Group brings together the science ministers and senior officials from the G8 nations and some others including the European Commission in meetings, possibly every six months or every year. The location of meetings rotates from country to country.
The Carnegie Group of Science Advisers to Presidents and Prime Ministers was established in 1991 by William T. Golden, businessman, chairman of the Board of the American Museum of Natural History and long-time adviser on national science policy issues in the US, and D. Allan Bromley, a Canadian-born physicist who was the national science adviser to President George H.W.Bush. It has met twice yearly since its creation, but since 2009 meets annually. Members of the Group alternate in hosting the meetings. The Carnegie Group, an informal group designed to bring together the science ministers and advisors of the G8 countries and the EU to discuss issues of mutual concern and interest, has been faithful to the original design envisioned by its founders. But it is also a group that has adapted to changing circumstances and to the growing importance of the emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. Recent meetings of the Carnegie Group have been adjusted in order to engage these countries and address key regional and global questions and challenges of shared concern.
The format of the Carnegie Group meetings has also had to be flexible. In meeting on weekends, rotating locales and hosts, it still functions as an informal gathering, with no official record kept of the proceedings. However it has also been cognizant of the need to respond to emerging issues while continuing to focus on major global problems where science can provide sustainable solutions. Members of the Group have also articulated a desire to exert more influence in raising the profile of science and science issues at the G-8 summit level. The growing importance of the G-8 (and now G-20) summits along with the close links between those agendas and the topics discussed by Carnegie certainly underlines the value of the Group. Indeed, the continued need to address major subjects such as capacity building in Africa, climate change and energy futures, global health and pandemics, and large scale research infrastructure have all required the collective knowledge and wisdom of its members. South Africa has offered to host the 38th Carnegie Group meeting in 2011, the first time the Group will be meeting outside of the G8. Five short history volumes describe the agenda, issues and origins of the Carnegie meetings written by members of the Carnegie Group, with the latest volume published in December 2010. (see Science Advisers to Presidents and Prime Ministers-Volume V, A Brief History of the Carnegie Group, 2005-2007, by Arthur J Carty and Paul Dufour)
Currently, there are 14 participating parties included Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The name Carnegie Group also refers to an unrelated company.
Recent Meetings
September 28–30, 2017
44th meeting, November 4–6, 2016
43rd meeting, November 20–22, 2015, Gurgaon, India
October 2010, London, Ontario, (Canada)
October 2009, Kazan (Russia)
June 2008, Okinawa, (Japan)
December 2007, Bath, Somerset (UK)
References
Group of Eight
21st-century diplomatic conferences
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Elizabeth Zamora
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Elizabeth Zamora Gordillo (born May 11, 1993 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan taekwondo practitioner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 49kg competition, but was defeated by Thai opponent Chanatip Sonkham in the bronze medal Repechage match.
References
External links
Guatemalan female taekwondo practitioners
1993 births
Living people
Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Guatemala
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo practitioners at the 2015 Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Guatemala
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Guatemala
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in taekwondo
Pan American Games competitors for Guatemala
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The Dark Wave
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The Dark Wave is a 1956 American short documentary film directed by Jean Negulesco about a young girl with severe epilepsy. The short stars Charles Bickford and features Nancy Davis, the actress who would later become First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan. It was made in cooperation with the Variety Club Foundation to Combat Epilepsy (a predecessor of the Epilepsy Foundation), who received the profits.
The Dark Wave was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Documentary Short and the other for Best Two-Reel Short.
Cast
Charles Bickford
Nancy Davis
Cornell Borchers
See also
List of American films of 1956
References
External links
1956 films
1956 short films
American films
English-language films
American documentary films
20th Century Fox short films
Films directed by Jean Negulesco
1956 documentary films
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Pettowa Paraka (born 16 November 1993) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian professional rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition. He is mainly a loosehead prop, although he can play all three front row positions.
Family and early life
Paraka's family are from the village of Baiyer in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. He was born in the provincial capital of Mount Hagen. Paraka was introduced to rugby union when he moved to the Gold Coast in Australia for his secondary education at The Southport School where he was a boarding student. He was selected for the Australian Schoolboys rugby team in his final year at Southport in 2011.
Rugby career
Paraka joined Easts Tigers Rugby in 2012 and was a member of the club's Premier Rugby grand final winning team in 2013. He was selected for the Australia U20 team that competed at the IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa in 2012.
In 2013 he was invited into the Queensland Reds wider training squad. Paraka played for Reds A in the 2014 Pacific Rugby Cup, starting in all four matches as the teams's loosehead prop. Later that year he joined the Brisbane City team in the inaugural National Rugby Championship. He scored two tries in the grand final match against Perth Spirit to secure Brisbane's championship win in 2014.
After having been named on the bench twice for the Reds in 2014 without making it onto the field, Paraka made his Super Rugby debut on 14 March 2015 for the Reds against the Brumbies in Brisbane.
References
External links
Brisbane City profile
itsrugby.co.uk profile
1993 births
Papua New Guinean rugby union players
Australian rugby union players
Queensland Reds players
Brisbane City (rugby union) players
Rugby union props
Living people
Rugby union players from Brisbane
People educated at the Southport School
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Cheshmeh Kareh
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Cheshmeh Kareh () may refer to:
Cheshmeh Kareh, Sonqor, Kermanshah Province
Cheshmeh Kareh, Khorramabad, Lorestan Province
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Sylvie Mamy
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Sylvie Mamy, born in Besançon, is a French writer and musicologist, Docteur d'État ès lettres, and research director at the CNRS.
Distinctions
Prix des Muses 1997 (for "La Musique à Venise", Paris, BnF, 1996).
Grand Prix des Muses 2012 (for "Antonio Vivaldi", Paris, Fayard, 2011).
Bibliography
Monographs ans essays
Reconnaissance des Musiques Modernes, Brussels, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), 1977.
Il Teatro alla Moda dei rosignoli. I cantanti napoletani al San Giovanni Grisostomo (Merope, 1734), series "Drammaturgia veneta", Milan, Ricordi, 1984.
Les grands castrats napolitains à Venise au XVIIIe''', Liège, Mardaga, 1994.
La musique à Venise et l'imaginaire français des Lumières, d'après les sources vénitiennes conservées à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1996. This work was awarded the Prix des Muses in 1997 "for the best musicological study".
Les castrats, Que sais-je? n° 3417, Paris, PUF, 1998.
Antonio Schinella Conti, Lettere da Venezia a Madame la comtesse de Caylus 1727–1729, Con l'aggiunta di un Discorso sullo Stato della Francia, series Linea Veneta, n° 17 (Venice, Fondation G. Cini), Florence, L. S. Oslchki, 2003.
Balades musicales dans Venise, Paris, Nouveau Monde, 2006.
Passeggiate musicali a Venezia, translation of the previous work in Italian, 2006, Trévise, Vianello Libri
Antonio Vivaldi (monograph), Paris, A. Fayard, June 2011. This work was awarded the Grand Prix des Muses in 2012.
Claudio Ambrosini, un compositeur vénitien du XXIème siècle, Paris, L'Harmattan, July 2013.
Literary works
L'Allée de Mélisande. Les jardins et la musique, essai poétique, series "Arts et Sciences de l'Art", Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
Lettre d'une virtuose vénitienne, texte poétique, Venice, Rapport d'Etape, 2005.
Veronica Franco. Ma vie brisée de courtisane, novel, series Amarante, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2012.
Paris, Carnet d'été (poetry), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2014.
Translations
1992: Encyclopédie de la musique, series Encyclopédies d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, Hachette, (original : La nuova enciclopedia della musica, Garzanti, 1983).
2014: Un jardin à Venise, translation by Frederic Eden, A garden in Venice (1903), Paris, L'Harmattan
Articles and studies
Trois thèmes pour servir à une réflexion sur la vie musicale d'aujourd'hui, Brussels, Union européenne, Division X "Problèmes du Secteur Culturel", July 1975, 91 p.
Pour un théâtre européen de musique vivante, Bulletin mensuel d'information du Comité national de la musique, June 1975.
"Le Triomphe des Mélophilètes. Congiunzioni di Parnaso", L'invenzione del Gusto, Corelli e Vivaldi, Milan, Ricordi, 1982, p. 93–101.
"L'œuvre de Giuseppe Sarti conservée à Paris", Revue Française de Musicologie, 1987, t. 73, n° 1, p. 107–12.
"À propos d'un fonds de musique française des XVIIe and XVIIIe à la Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon", Revue Française de Musicologie, 1987, t. 73, n° 2, p. 253–62.
"I rapporti fra opera e ballo a Venezia nel Settecento", La danza italiana, 5/6, Rome, Theoria, 1987, p. 17–33.
"L'Italie au cœur" (about Giulio Cesare by Haendel), Avant-Scène Opéra, Paris, April 1987, p. 86–91 ; reissued in December 2010.
"L'importation des solfèges italiens en France à la fin du XVIIIe", L'opera tra Venezia e Parigi", under the direction of M.T. Muraro, Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1988, p. 67–89.
"Une théorie italienne adaptée au goût français. L'enseignement du chant italien en France de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la Restauration : transmission ou transformation ?", Transmission et réception des formes de culture musicale, Turin, EDT, 1988, p. 198–213.
"Tradizione del canto a Napoli. Giuseppe Aprile", Musicisti nati in Puglia ed emigrazione musicale tra Seicento e Settecento, under the direction of D. Bozzi and L. Cosi, Rome, Torre d'Orfeo, 1988, p. 281–98.
"Il mondo del teatro," Amadeus, Milan, Rizzoli periodici, De Agostini, October 1991, addendum to n° 23 devoted to Vivaldi, p. 42–48.
"Le printemps d'Antonio Vivaldi revu et corrigé à Paris par Nicolas Chédeville, Michel Corrette et Jean-Jacques Rousseau", Informazioni e Studi vivaldiani, Milan, Ricordi, 1992 (13), p. 51–65.
Articles "Anfossi, Caccini, Cavalli, Bianchi, Italie, Le chant italien en France", Dictionnaire de la musique française au XVIIIe, sous la direction de M. Benoit, Paris, Fayard, 1992.
Articles "Gazzaniga, Porpora", extraits de Encyclopedia Universalis, Dictionnaire de la Musique. Les compositeurs, Paris, Albin Michel, 1998, p. 304–06, 618-19.
"Le Congrès des Planètes, une sérénade de Tomaso Albinoni exécutée à l'ambassade de France à Venise, le 16 octobre 1729", Giovanbattista Tiepolo, Nel terzo Centenario della nascita, under the direction of L. Puppi, Quaderni Venezia Arti, Venise, Il Poligrafo, 1998, p. 205–12.
"Le Stabat Mater au Concert Spirituel", Studi Pergolesiani -Pergolesi Studies, under the direction of F. Degrada, La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1999, p. 233–50.
"Les Fêtes Vénitiennes", Teatro nel Veneto. La scena immaginata, under the direction of C. Alberti (University of Venise), Milan, F. Motta, 2002, p. 38–63.
"Drammaturgie dello spazio nei multimedia : teatro musicale, circo, opera, internet, CD-Roms e installazioni video", Drammaturgia, under the direction of S. Ferrone, University of Florence, département des arts du spectacle, issue devoted to the "Drammaturgie dello spazio. Teatro. Musica. Cinema" directed by S. Mazzoni, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2003, p. 449–66.
Articles "Castrats ; Cimarosa ; Dramma semi-serio ; Paer, Paisiello, Spontini, Tragédie lyrique", Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe, under the direction of J.-M. Fauquet, Paris, Fayard, 2003.
"L'invention de l'opéra ballet à sujet comique", Un siècle de Deux cents ans ? Les XVII et XVIII siècles : Continuités et Discontinuités, under the direction of J. Dagen et Ph. Roger, series "L'Esprit des lettres", Paris, Desjonquères, 2004, p. 231–247.
"Il panorama operistico. Il Mondo novo", Amadeus. Il mensile della grande musica, special issue devoted to the opéra Tito Manlio by Antonio Vivaldi, Milan, De Agostini-Rizzoli periodici, April 2004, p. 6–10.
"Charles-Ferdinand Ramus. Poeta visionario", Amadeus, L'Histoire du Soldat d'Igor Stravinsky, Milan, De Agostini-Rizzoli periodici, December 2005, p. 16–17.
"Les Français à Venise. Des témoignages controversés", Le Carnaval de Venise d'André Campra, series "Regards sur la musique", under the direction of J. Duron, Brussels-Wavre, Mardaga, 2010, p. 13–28.
"Antonio Vivaldi aux prises avec des danseurs indisciplinés", Passi, tracce, percorsi. Scritti sulla danza italiana in omaggio a José Sasportes (dir. A. Pontremoli, P. Veroli), Rome, Aracne, 2012, p. 113–28.
"Venise, Opéra !", in D. Gachet and A. Scarsella, Venise'', coll. "Bouquins", Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 2016, p. 428–40.
References
External links
Sylvie Mamy
Sylvie Mamy on L'Harmattan
Sylvie Mamy on Maison des écrivains et de la littérature
Sylvie Mamy on France Culture
Les manuscrits musicaux vénitiens en France au siècle des Lumières : Copie et réception on thèses.fr
Sylvie Mamy on BnF
People from Besançon
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Oleh Andriyovych Ilyin (; born 8 June 1997) is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for Kolos Kovalivka.
Career
Ilyin is a product of the FC Chornomorets Odesa and Dnipro Youth Sportive School systems. In June 2017 he was promoted to the main-team squad of FC Dnipro and made his debut for this team in the Ukrainian Second League.
In February 2018 he joined the Ukrainian First League side FC Kolos Kovalivka.
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1997 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Odessa
Ukrainian footballers
FC Dnipro players
FC Kolos Kovalivka players
Ukrainian Premier League players
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Karl Meyer
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Karl Meyer may refer to:
Karl Meyer (activist) (born 1937), American pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister
Karl Meyer (aviator) (1894–1917), World War I flying ace
Karl Meyer (biochemist) (1899–1990), German biochemist
Karl Meyer (businessman) (1888–1971), Norwegian businessman, stockbroker and fascist
Karl A. Meyer (born 1958), Swiss Artist
Karl E. Meyer (1937–2019), American journalist
Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884–1974), Swiss-born American pathologist
Karl Meyer class seaplane tender, a Second World War-era ship
See also
Karl Mayer (character), a fictional character on the U.S. TV series Desperate Housewives
Karl Mayer (poet) (1786–1870), German poet
Carl Meyer (disambiguation)
Carl Mayer (disambiguation)
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Ras al-Bassit (), the classical Posidium or Posideium (, Posidḗion), is a small town in Syria named for a nearby cape. It has been occupied since at least the late Bronze Age and was a fortified port under Greek and Roman rule. Herodotus—although not later classical geographers—made it the northwestern point of Syria. Its beaches have a distinctive black sand and are a popular resort destination within Syria.
Name
"Raʾs" () is the Arabic word for "head", used for headlands and capes. "Bassit" is a transcription of its former name Posidium, as standard Arabic is only able to voice bilabial stops. The Roman name Posidium or Posideium was a latinization of the Greek name Posideion, meaning "[place] of Poseidon", the Greek seagod. It was known as "Bosyt" under Ottoman rule.
The Syrian municipality is also known as simply Al-Bassit.
Geography
Ras al-Bassit is a small cape on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located about south of Mount Aqra, the highest mountain on the Mediterranean's eastern coast, and about north of Latakia, modern Syria's principal port. As Mount Aqra—the Phoenician Sapan, Biblical Zaphon, and classical Casius—marked the coastal border between the regions of Cilicia and Syria under the Persians, Ras al-Bassit functioned as a kind of border town at times. Ras al-Bassit is located, however, about south of the later Syrio-Cilician border at the line between the Syrian Gates in the Nur Mountains and Myriandrus on the coast.
Local sealife include crustaceans, molluscs, sea turtles, and dolphins.
History
The oldest known settlement at Ras al-Bassit was a Bronze-Age outpost with a fortified citadel established by Ugarit between 1550 and 1200BC. It traded extensively with Cyprus and Phoenicia and survived Ugarit's destruction by the Sea Peoples. It was eventually abandoned or destroyed in the early Iron Age.
Greek legends credited the establishment of Posideion to the wandering Argive king and seer Amphilochus or his identically-named nephew. Both supposedly lived during the generations that fought in the Trojan War; the actual Greek colony at the site seems to have been established during the 7thcenturyBC. It marked the northern border of the 5th Satrapy of the Persian Empire at the time of Herodotus, but archaeologists have found that the town was destroyed at some point in the 5th or 4thcenturiesBC. Because of the discrepancy between Herodotus's account and other classical descriptions of the Syrio-Cilician border, some historians have disputed the identity of Herodotus's Posideion with the later Roman Posidium and present Ras al-Bassit.
Alexander the Great's decisive battle at Issus occurred nearby in 333BC, after which his empire administered and hellenized the area. After Alexander's death in 323BC, the territory fell to the Diadochi warlord Seleucus. Posideion was apparently rebuilt with a fortified acropolis under his reign at some point after 312BC, when the existing settlement was razed by Ptolemy.
Under Roman rule, it appeared in Strabo's Geography. The Roman emperors Hadrian and Julian may have used Posidium's port, as they are recording having climbing the nearby Mount Aqra to perform sacrifices. The town thrived during the late imperial and early Byzantine periods, after the city was refortified in the 3rd century. Several other building projects, including an expansion of the port and erection of several large villas, were subsequently undertaken. In the 6th century, a church complex was built at the foot of the acropolis.
The site was largely abandoned following the Muslim conquest of the area in the 630s. The First Crusade led to the establishment of the Principality of Antioch in the area in the 1090s. At some point in the 12th or 13th centuries, a new smaller chapel was erected within the Byzantine church's ruins. The Egyptian sultan Baibars reconquered the area in the 1260s. The port was still used by Venetian ships as late as the 16th century but was abandoned by all but the local fishermen by the 19th.
A French excavation led by Paul Courbin between 1971 and 1984 revealed the former Ugarit and Greek ruins. Quebecois excavations conducted by Montreal University and the Rimouski's provincial university since 2000 focused on the late classical and medieval ruins at the site. Ruins uncovered by the expeditions have been left uncovered and unprotected between seasons, mixing with the modern marina and countryside.
In the early 1970s, the Ministry of Tourism seized ownership of the entire Syrian coast to a distance of , offering only nominal compensation. Little was done by the ministry to develop most of the coast for tourists but, although most people still claimed ownership of their land, the murky legal status hindered any other development whatsoever into the 21stcentury. A side effect was the relative conservation of Syria's Mediterranean forests. Ras al-Bassit, however, was a model area that saw construction of several hundred chalets and, in 1991, a small hotel run by the Syrian Workers Union. That hotel began operating year-round in 2001, and a second hotel run by the Farmers Union began operation in 2005.
As part of the trend towards limiting and improving tourist and conservation areas while permitting more development elsewhere, around Ras al-Bassit were declared a protected forestry area by the Ministry of Agriculture on 29 May 1999. Annual tourist visits to the area reached 150,000 by 2004; most were Syrians from Aleppo or Damascus, some were Jordanians, and very few were from non-Arab states.
Religion
Apart from the ruins of the medieval church, there is a shrine to StGeorge (Al-Khuder) just north of the town. Most of the population are conservative Alawite Muslims.
Education
Local villages and farms have elementary schools and the town itself has a middle school. High school students travel to Zeghreen, away. Teachers come from other areas and university graduates are few in number.
Economy
Prior to the current civil war, locals' income depended on fishing, agriculture, and tourism. Most of Al-Bassit's agriculture depends on citrus and olive trees. Locals protect their orchards from wild boars. Tourist income derived in large part from boat and chalet rentals.
See also
Seleucia-by-the-Sea, Antioch's main port during antiquity
St Symeon, Antioch's main port during the Crusades
Latakia (Laodicea-by-the-Sea), Syria's present main port
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MAQREB - Mission archéologique canadienne à Ras el Bassit
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Another Century's Episode 2
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, abbreviated as A.C.E. 2, is a third-person mecha action video game produced by Banpresto and developed by From Software. It is the sequel to the popular 2005 game Another Century's Episode. It was released for the PlayStation 2 on March 30, 2006.
On November 29, 2007, Banpresto released A.C.E. 2 Special Vocal Edition as a follow-up to the heels of A.C.E. 2s sequel, Another Century's Episode 3: The Final. This version includes vocal theme songs for each of the featured animated series in the game.
Plot
A.C.E.2 is not a direct sequel to its predecessor, as it involves its own original plot, as well as covering events that already happened in A.C.E., albeit differently. This is not an unusual occurrence, as Banpresto has done this with most entries in the Super Robot Wars franchise; most of the games in that series are not connected by an established continuity (exceptions include the Super Robot Wars Alpha games and the titles in the Super Robot Wars classic timeline), with remakes or updates abounding.
However, there are some links back to A.C.E. in the sequel. The Ark series, including the main character's Gunark, use as their power source the super-volatile substance E2, which was introduced in the first game. Additionally, most of the A.C.E. original enemies return, this time with a backstory, while in A.C.E. they were simply there to add to the challenge.
System changesFaster Combat: A.C.E. 2 delivers and portrays high-speed mecha combat better than its predecessor.Pilot Cut-Ins: The game will feature the pilots in both 2D and cel-shaded 3D forms, while in A.C.E. their only presence was in sound bites played while launching and during certain battles.More Weapons: Each unit can also have up to seven weapons, which can be set by the player; this allows the player to separate the units primary ranged weapon and melee weapon, unlike the previous game.Improved Support: While A.C.E. allowed the player to have other units support him/her during a stage, their presence was limited to occasional voice clips. A.C.E. 2 will have the other units actually appear during the stage as computer-controlled allies.Combination Attacks: The player will be able to perform special combination attacks where their team members combine their skills with incredibly devastating (and cinematic) results. Certain combinations of characters will result in team-ups from the anime involved, such as Brain Powerd's Chakra Extension and Nadesico's Double Gekigan Flare. Some combinations of characters (such as the major characters from Macross and Endless Waltz) get new combinations. If the player uses three unrelated characters for a combination attack, they simply perform a generic all-out attack.Favorites System: Much like recent entries into the Super Robot Wars series (specifically MX and J), A.C.E. 2 features a system by which the player can designate one of the featured series as their favorite. The units from the favored series may be upgraded more than they would normally, potentially making them the strongest units in that player's game.
Control types
Like the previous game in the series, A.C.E. 2 features two different set-ups for the controller: shift and select type. However, unlike A.C.E., neither of these set-ups will be a "simple mode" for first-time players. Instead, the two different set-ups will simply represent different ways of using the many weapons available to the player.
Flight controls
The player can also choose to modify the controls for plane-type units, such as the Re-GZ, the Valkyrie's Fighter Mode and the transformations of machines like Layzner MK II and L-Gaim MK II. Flight Mode is the standard control system, where the player controls roll and pitch with the Left Analogue Stick, and can bank with the L1 and R1 buttons. Easy Mode has the analogue stick control both roll and pitch. Flight Reverse Mode''' reverses the natural set-up for altitude, so that tilting the analogue Stick down causes the machine to dive, while holding it up makes the machine climb.
Featured series
Six of the series from A.C.E. return in A.C.E. 2, joined by five new ones (although one of the new series, Endless Waltz, is the sequel to one of the series that did not return from A.C.E. and Gundam Wing). Additionally, three EX Series are included, although their involvement in the game's story is not as significant as the other series (excluding Wings of Rean, which is announced to join the series in later promotion video, and have its ONA released after the game). A grand total of 106 playable mecha from the fourteen anime represented, as well as the originals, are playable.
In addition to the fourteen series, A.C.E. 2 includes new original characters and mecha, designed by Takuya Saito and Junya Ishigaki, respectively. The heroes of the game are Tak Kepford (voiced by Daisuke Kishio) and Marina Carson (voiced by Naomi Shindou), and they pilot transforming mecha called Gun Arks.Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's CounterattackPlayable Mecha
RX-93 Nu Gundam (pilot: Amuro Ray)
RGZ-91 RE-GZ (pilot: Amuro Ray)Aura Battler DunbinePlayable Mechas
Billbine (pilot: Sho Zama)
Dunbine (pilot: Marvel Frozen)
Non-Playable Mechas
Leprechaun (pilot: Jerryl Coochibi)
Wryneck (pilot: Todd Guinness)
Zwarth (pilot: Black Knight a.k.a. Bern Burnings)
Galava (pilot: Black Knight)Blue Comet SPT LayznerLayzner (pilot: Eiji Asuka)
New Layzner (pilot Eiji Asuka)
Layzner Mk-II (pilot Eiji Asuka)Brain PowerdNelly Brain (pilot: Yuu Isami)
Hime Brain (pilot: Hime Utsumiya)
Yuu Brain (pilot: Yuu Isami)
Quincy Baronz (pilot: Quincy Issa)Metal Armor DragonarXDFU Dragonar-1 Lifter (pilot: Kaine Wakaba)
XD-01SR Dragonar-1 Lifter (pilot: Kaine Wakaba)
XD-01SR Dragonar-1 Custom (pilot: Kaine Wakaba)
XDFU-02 Dragonar-2 Lifter (pilot: Tapp Oceano)
XD-02SR Dragonar-2 Custom (pilot: Tapp Oceano)
XDFU-03 Dragonar-3 Lifter (pilot: Light Newman)
XDFU-03 Enhanced Dragonar Lifter-3 (pilot: Light Newman)
MAFFU-09 Falguen MAFFU (pilot: Meio Plato)Heavy Metal L-GaimL-Gaim (pilot: Daba Mylord)
Novel D.Sserd (pilot: Gaw Ha Leccee)
BatshuuThe Super Dimension Fortress MacrossVF-1 Valkyrie (pilot: Hikaru Ichijyo)
VF-1J Armored Valkyrie (pilot: Hikaru Ichijyo)
SDF-1 MacrossMacross: Do You Remember Love?VF-1S Strike Valkyrie (pilot: Roy Focker)
VF-1A Valkyrie (pilot: Maximillion Jenius)
Queadluun-Rau (pilot: Millian Jenius)Martian Successor NadesicoAestivalis (pilot: Akito Tenkawa)
Aestivalis Custom (pilots: Ryoko Subaru, Izumi Maki, Hikaru Amano, Nagare Akatsuki)
NadesicoMobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust MemoryRX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes" (pilot: Kou Uraki)
RX-78GP01Fb Gundam Full Vernian "Zephyranthes" (pilot: Kou Uraki)
RX-78GP02A Gundam "Physalis" (pilot: Anavel Gato)
RX-78GP03 Gundam "Dendrobium Orchis" (pilot: Kou Uraki)
AMA-002 Neue Ziel (pilot: Anavel Gato)Mobile Fighter G GundamGF13-017NJII God Gundam (pilot: Domon Kasshu)Gundam Wing: Endless WaltzXXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (pilot: Heero Yui)
XXXG-01D2 Gundam Deathscythe Hell (pilot: Duo Maxwell)
XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms (pilot: Trowa Barton)
XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock (pilot: Quatre Rabera Winner)
XXXG-01S2 Altron Gundam (pilot: Chang Wufei)
OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese III (pilot: Milliardo Peacecraft)Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of DarknessBlack Selena (pilot: Akito Tenkawa)
Aestivalis Custom (pilot: Ryoko Subaru)
Alstroemeria (pilot: Genichiro Tsukiomi)
Yatenkou (pilot: Hokushin)The Wings of ReanNanajin (pilot: Asap Suzuki)
Aka-Nanajin (pilot: Asap Suzuki)
Oukaou (pilot: Shinjiro Sakomizu)
Music
The game's opening theme is "Glorious" by Rina Aiuchi; its ending theme, also performed by Aiuchi, is "Precious Place".A.C.E. 2 follows the musical style of its predecessor, using remixes of themes from the featured anime along with several new songs composed for the game. However, A.C.E. 2 uses much more faithful remixes of the songs borrowed from anime, while A.C.E. used more rock and roll-styled remixes.
The theme songs for each series are:Aura Battler Dunbine - "Dunbine Tobu, Senka no Tsume Ato"Blue Comet SPT Layzner - "Melos no Youni ~Lonely Way~"Brain Powerd - "In My Dream"Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz - "White Reflection"Heavy Metal L-Gaim - "Kaze no No Reply"Macross: Do You Remember Love? - "Do You Remember Love?"
Note: Through Macross's "Do You Remember Love?" appears in the vocal version as a plot of story, it is not selectable by player.Martian Successor Nadesico - "You Get to Burning, Go! Aestivalis!"Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness - "Main Motif Nadesico"Metal Armor Dragonar - "Yume Iro Chaser"Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - "The Winner, Assault Waves, Rising Operation Stardust"Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - "Sally"Mobile Fighter G Gundam - "Flying in the Sky, Moeagare Toushi, Waga Kokoro Meikyo Shisui"The Super Dimension Fortress Macross - "Dog Fighter, Destined Battle"The Wings of Rean - "Wings of Rean BGM"
The August 2007 issue of Famitsu announced a special vocal version of A.C.E. 2, which will be released on November 29, 2007. Like its sequel, A.C.E. 3, the theme songs of each respective series will be replaced by their original vocal themes.Aura Battler Dunbine - "Dunbine Tobu"Blue Comet SPT Layzner - "Melos no Youni ~Lonely Way~"Brain Powerd - "In My Dream"Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz - "White Reflection"Heavy Metal L-Gaim - "Time for L-Gaim"Macross: Do You Remember Love? - "Do You Remember Love?"Metal Armor Dragonar - "Yume Iro Chaser"Mobile Fighter G Gundam - "Flying in the Sky"Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - "Men of Destiny"
Prequels and sequelsAnother Century's Episode, released in Japan on January 27, 2005Another Century's Episode 3: The Final, released in Japan on September 6, 2007Another Century's Episode: R, released in Japan on August 19, 2010Another Century's Episode Portable'', released in Japan on January 13, 2011
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Action video games
Banpresto games
Crossover video games
FromSoftware games
Japan-exclusive video games
Video games about mecha
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
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The Odisha Official Language Act, 1954 is an Act of Odisha Legislative Assembly that recognizes Odia "to be used for all or any of the official purposes of the State of Odisha."
History
Article 345 of the Constitution of India empowers the Legislature of the State to adopt 'any one or more of the languages in use in the State or Hindi as the language or languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes' of the concerned State. But it provides for the continued use of English for the 'purposes within the state for which it was being used before the commencement of the Constitution', until the Legislature of the State otherwise provides by law. Orissa is the first state to be evolved on the basis of language. So The Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 was enacted in 1954.
Development
Despite the enactment, the implementation has not been done in a mass scale for which people of Odisha have voiced to ensure the use of Odia language in all official correspondence. The hunger strike by activist Gajanana Mishra was a prominent step in this direction was one such significant instance.
Salient features
The Orissa Official Language Act, 1954 is the Orissa Act 14 of 1954 which received the assent of Governor on 1 October 1954 and was published in the Orissa Gazette on 15 October 1954.
Important Sections
Section 3A
This section has been inserted by the Amendment Act 1963 which states about Continuance of English language for use in Legislature:
Amendments
The 1963 Orissa Official Language (Amendment) Bill makes provision for continuing use of English in addition to Odia for transaction of business in legislature of the state of Orissa.
One new amendment was added to this act under Amendment Act 12 of 1985.
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Odisha state legislation
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What It Is? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 1
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What It Is? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 1 is a live album by drummer Ed Blackwell. It was recorded in August 1992 at Yoshi's in Oakland, California, and was released by Enja Records in 1993. On the album, Blackwell is joined by saxophonist and flutist Carlos Ward, cornetist Graham Haynes, and bassist Mark Helias. The album, which is the companion to What It Be Like? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 2, is one of Blackwell's last recordings; he died in October 1992.
Reception
In a review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "Despite his failing health, Blackwell's skills on his drum kit were razor-sharp when he got on the bandstand for this headliner's gig... just two months before he passed away. Everything clicks -- the band is tight, powered by the supple bass of Mark Helias, while saxophonist/flutist Carlos Ward and trumpeter Graham Haynes play inspired, almost possessed improvs and written lines... this particular volume is his best work as a leader, and a great example of where modern jazz in the '90s landed. A must-buy for all."
Writing for Modern Drummer magazine, Mark Griffith commented: "Ed Blackwell Projects Volumes 1 and 2 are amazing examples of Ed's chanting and rolling style of drumming. But these last recordings are as much life lessons as drum lessons. At the end of his life Ed was very ill. His kidneys were in complete failure. Simple things like moving around were often a real chore — let alone playing the drums. Still, he traveled across the country to make a gig in San Francisco, where he made these two records. On each track, his drumming snaps and crackles with youth and excitement. There is absolutely no indication that he was less than two months away from the end."
Track listing
"Introduction" – 0:25
"'Nette" (Ward) – 8:24
"Pettiford Bridge" (Ward) – 12:47
"Beau Regard" (Helias) – 13:02
"Thumbs Up" (Helias) – 10:58
"Mallet Song" (Ward) – 3:19
"Rosa Takes A Stand (For Rosa Parks)" (Ward) – 11:55
"Applause" – 0:35
Personnel
Carlos Ward – alto saxophone, flute
Graham Haynes – cornet
Mark Helias – bass
Ed Blackwell – drums
References
1993 live albums
Enja Records live albums
Ed Blackwell albums
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Aubrey Tingle
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Aubrey Tingle is professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and chair of the board of directors at the Maternal, Infant, Child and Youth Research Network. In March 2001, Tingle was appointed the first president and CEO of The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR).
Prior to his position at MSFHR, Tingle was assistant dean of research in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, and vice president of research and education at the Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia. He also played a leadership role in building the Research Institute for Children's & Women's Health at the Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, and was its inaugural executive director. In addition, he was a founding member of the National Alliance of Provincial Health Research Organizations (NAPHRO) and was co-chair from 2004 to 2006.
Education
Tingle received his pre-med training in zoology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in 1963 and his MD from the same university in 1967, when he received the Gold Medal in paediatrics. He received his PhD in immunology from McGill University, Montreal in 1973.
Career
His areas of special professional interest are immunology of viral infection, auto-immune disease, immune deficiency disorders, research administration and strategic planning. The focus of his research has been the relationship between persistent viral infection and the development of disease. His enquiries have used, as a model, a connection between rubella, rubella immunization, and auto-immune arthritis.
He was Executive Director (1993 – 2001) of the BC Research Institute for Children's & Women's Health (formerly known as the BC Research Institute for Child & Family Health)
In May 2001, he was appointed as the first president and CEO of the newly established Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR).
Awards
The Paediatric Chairs of Canada (PCC) awarded him the inaugural Paediatric Academic Leadership Clinical Researcher Award. for " excellence in leadership and innovation in fostering multiple environments that have advanced child and youth health research in Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia, and across Canada."
The Canadian Federation of Biological Societies (CFBS) Political Advocacy of Science Award was presented to Dr. Tingle in 2004.for " leadership in the development, launching and stewardship of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. H"'
In 2007, Tingle received the British Columbia Biotechnology Award in the category of Leadership. LifeSciences BC credits Tingle, the president and CEO of the provincially mandated Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (from 2001 to 2008), for having "an unprecedented impact" on strengthening publicly funded research, in British Columbia."''
Aubrey J. Tingle Prize
The Aubrey J. Tingle Prize was created to honour the important role Tingle played as founding president and CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research from 2001 until his retirement in June 2008. The prize is given to a British Columbia clinician scientist or scholar practitioner whose work in health research is internationally recognized and has significant impact on advancing clinical or health services and policy research — as well as its uptake — to improve health and the health system in BC and globally.
The inaugural prize was awarded to Dr. Julio Montaner in 2010; subsequent recipients have been Dr. Michael Hayden (2011) and Dr. Bruce McManus (2012).
Current activities
Chair, Board of Directors, Maternal Infant Child and Youth Research Network
Member, Board of Directors, Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, C.H.I.L.D Foundation
Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Human Immunology Network
References
Canadian pediatricians
Members of the Order of British Columbia
University of British Columbia faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Canadian physicians
21st-century Canadian physicians
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