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Łukowice Brzeskie (German Laugwitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Skarbimierz, within Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately west of Skarbimierz, west of Brzeg, and north-west of the regional capital Opole.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).
The village has an approximate population of 654.
References
Villages in Brzeg County
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Amy Ashmore Clark
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Amy Ashmore Clark (May 6, 1882 – January 9, 1954) was a Canadian-born American songwriter, composer, and businesswoman, "equally popular and successful as a writer of lyrics for other people's music, and a writer music for other people's lyrics", despite being unable to read or write music. She also appeared in musical comedy and vaudeville, worked in music publishing, and at several magazines.
Early life
Amy Ashmore was born in Toronto, Ontario.
Career
Clark wrote songs in various genres: hymns, ballads, novelties, "every kind of song except ragtime", noted one publication. She did not read or write music, but she did play piano. She was a member of ASCAP. Titles of her songs (either as lyricist or composer) included "The Flowers are Calling, Sweetheart", "My Rosary for You", "Where You Are is Paradise", "Long Lost Mama, Daddy Misses You", "Toys are Not Only for Children", "And So Your Soul was Born", "With Love He Cleanses Every Sin", "Laddie Dear", "Rockabye Rose", "The Heart of You", "Lambie Love" "I'm Telling the World That I Love You", "You and I", "To You", "Just a Cloud", and "I am One with Thee". One of her songs (co-written with Florence Turner-Maley), "In a Little Town Nearby", was used in theatres during showings of the silent film The Bond Boy.
Clark appeared in musical comedy and on vaudeville as a performer, and worked for music publishing companies. In 1918 she was described as the head of the concert department at Artmusic, Inc. She was also an advertising director, on the editorial board of the Junior League Magazine and business manager of another magazine, The Younger Set.
In 1931 she testified in court, in a scandal case involving theatrical manager A. L. Erlanger and his common-law wife, Charlotte Fixel.
Personal life
Amy Ashmore married a vaudeville performer, Alexander Clark. They had a son, Alexander Clark Jr. (1901-1995), who became an actor and, later, theatre editor at Vanity Fair magazine. Her husband died in 1932, and she died in 1954, aged 71 years, in New York City.
References
External links
Florence Turner Maley and Amy Ashmore Clark, "In A Little Town Near By" (1921). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Score 3622, University of Maine.
William C. Polia and Amy Ashmore Clark, "My mother : (was the greatest gift that Daddy gave to me)" (1920). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Score 1213, University of Maine.
1882 births
1954 deaths
American women songwriters
American women composers
Musicians from Toronto
People from Old Toronto
Vaudeville performers
ASCAP composers and authors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariam%20Yahia%20Ibrahim%20Ishag
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Mariam [Meriam] Yahia Ibrahim Ishag or Maryam Yaḥyā Ibrahīm Isḥaq (مريم يحيى إبراهيم إسحق, born 3 November 1987 in Al Qadarif state, Sudan), is a Sudanese religious freedom activist and public speaker. Meriam Ibrahim was arrested during her second pregnancy for apostasy and gave birth to a girl in prison on 27 May 2014. Mariam Ibrahim's case is part of a wider problem of persecution of Christians in Sudan.
Meriam Ibrahim was born to a Muslim father, who left her Ethiopian Orthodox mother to raise her from early childhood. She was raised in her mother's faith and married a Christian man; the marriage certificate has been published. Meriam Ibrahim was reportedly turned in to the authorities by one of her relatives, who claimed Mariam was committing adultery by marrying Daniel Wani, a Christian. She was sentenced to death on 15 May 2014, for allegedly committing apostasy from Islam, meaning that she was accused of changing religion from Islam to a different (or no) religion. Although Meriam Ibrahim said she has always been a Christian, the prosecution claimed she should have followed the faith of her absent father, and demanded, with the support of the judge, that she abandon her Christian faith, and assent to belief in her father's faith, Islam.
She was given three days to convert, but refused, arguing that she had been a Christian all her life, and could not rescind or alter her genuine personal faith at the request of a court. Her husband, Daniel Wani, appealed the sentence on both of their behalf. On 24 June 2014 Meriam Ibrahim was released on the order of a Sudanese appeal court. The following day, as she and her family were to board a plane to the United States, they were arrested and taken from the airport to Khartoum for questioning following a tip-off to the police by her half-brother. The US Ambassador was summoned in protest at the granting of an exit visa, described by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry as 'a criminal violation'.
Meriam Ibrahim was freed again on 26 June 2014 and took refuge in the United States embassy with her family. After extensive negotiations to enable her to leave Sudan, Meriam Ibrahim arrived in Rome on 24 July 2014 on an Italian government plane.
Background
Because Islamic law does not allow marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men, Meriam Ibrahim's marriage to a Christian man was considered void by the court, based on its belief that she should not have been raised as a Christian, or chosen that faith. Therefore, the court argued that, although a lifelong Christian, she should notionally be treated as a Muslim, and that the marriage to the Christian man was not valid. She was therefore also sentenced to receive 100 lashes for adultery, in spite of the sexual relations having been only with her husband, with the flogging to be administered some time in advance of being hanged. Moreover, her 20-month-old son was also imprisoned, and was initially denied all contact with his father, who would never have been permitted to raise him. Three of the boy's four grandparents – both his paternal grandparents, and his maternal grandmother – were Christian from birth, as were his parents – but the authorities have stated that as the absentee maternal grandfather that he never met was a Muslim, he therefore could not legally be raised by his Christian father.
In response, Meriam Ibrahim said that she has always been a Christian and never committed apostasy. Her half-brother, Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah, admitted he had instigated the charges against her and maintained she should be executed. Meriam Ibrahim's husband and her lawyers have alleged that her half-brother and half-sister had turned her in because they wanted to take over Meriam Ibrahim's successful businesses, which included a hair salon, agricultural land and a general convenience store in a shopping mall.
Prison and family conditions
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was held in Omdurman Federal Women's Prison with Martin Wani, her 20-month-old son. Visitors were Initially not allowed; when her husband finally saw Meriam Ibrahim, she was shackled and had swollen legs. Muslim scholars visited her daily reciting the Koran and trying to pressure her to convert.
Vital medical treatment was refused, and Meriam Ibrahim was denied transfer to a hospital even though she was 8 months into a difficult pregnancy. Even during childbirth, her legs were kept shackled to the floor and there were fears the baby girl might be permanently disabled due to this. The shackles were removed after the birth.
Mohamed Jar Elnabi, a lawyer representing Meriam Ibrahim, said police and the judge prevented her husband, Wani, going into the court. Elnabi said Wani is wheelchair-bound due to muscular dystrophy and "totally depends on her for all details of his life, he cannot live without her". Speaking about the couple's son Martin Wani, Elnabi said, "The couple's son is having a difficult time in prison. He is very affected from being trapped inside a prison from such a young age, he is always getting sick due to lack of hygiene and bugs." Reports that Meriam Ibrahim may be freed were subsequently officially denied. However, on 24 June 2014, Meriam Ibrahim was released on the order of a Sudanese appeal court. The following day, as she and her family were to board a plane to the United States, she and her family were arrested and taken from the airport to Khartoum for questioning. Authorities stated that she was not under arrest, but that the police wished to question her about the validity of a travel document provided to her by South Sudan. Daniel Wani claims in a report from Christian Today the family and supporters were violently handled, the lawyers were beaten and thrown out of the airport. Following their release, the family spent a month in the U.S. embassy in Khartoum.
Defense lawyers
Meriam was represented by five lawyers: Mohaned Mustafa Elnour, Osman Mobarak Musa, Thabit Elzobair Suliman, Elshareef Ali Mohammed, Mohamed Abdunabi. The case has also been taken to the African Commission on people's Human Rights.
Reactions
The United Kingdom government described the sentence as "barbaric" and a UK minister was "truly appalled", noting that Sudan breached international human rights obligations. The United States government was "deeply disturbed" and also called on Sudan to meet its obligations under international human rights law. A joint statement from embassies of Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United States before sentencing also expressed "deep concern", urging "justice and compassion". Daniel Wani, Mariam's husband, has expressed disappointment at a lack of U.S. resoluteness, at the consulate level: "Considering I am an American citizen, I am disappointed with the American Embassy's position from the beginning of the whole case." The lengthy public silence of both President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry on their case drew widespread criticism. Kerry broke this silence on 12 June, after bipartisan lobbying.
Christian groups have been campaigning for Meriam Ibrahim but Islamic extremists also lobbied according to prominent newspaper editor Khalid Tigani.
A lawyer for Meriam Ibrahim said the case would, if necessary, have gone to Sudan's highest Constitutional Court. Sudan's 2005 interim constitution officially guarantees freedom of religion.
The Information Minister of Sudan, Ahmed Bilal Osman, appeared to comment on the court case prior to the appeal, when he said: "It's not only Sudan. In Saudi Arabia, in all the Muslim countries, it is not allowed at all for a Muslim to change his religion."
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a British-based group working for religious freedom, said Ms. Ishag's case is the latest amongst "a series of repressive acts" against religious minorities in Sudan.
World Council of Churches general secretary, Dr Olav Fykse Tveit considers the sentence unjust and reminds president Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese constitution guarantees all citizens the "right to the freedom of religious creed and worship".
Amnesty UK's Individuals at Risk Campaigner, Kathy Voss, stated: "There are now three innocent people in that cell. The way Meriam has been treated is sickening, and it has appalled the world. This really is the stuff of nightmares."
British Conservative MP Liam Fox said: "Religious tolerance is something that the UK should be promoting at every opportunity. We need to ask ourselves whether it is acceptable to be giving taxpayers' money in aid to states which allow treatment such as that handed out to Meriam Ibrahim."
In May 2014, the embassies of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern" about the case, urging Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion. The European Union called for revocation of the "inhuman verdict" and John Kerry urged Sudan to repeal laws banning Muslims from joining other faiths.
Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan wrote, "There is no value in worship performed in the absence of free choice and volition."
Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director Sarah Jackson said: "Today's ruling is a small step to redressing the injustice done to Meriam."
The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, mentioned Ibrahim's case in his speech at the European Parliament. After that, The EU passed a Resolution condemning Sudan over treatment of Meriam Ibrahim.
Wider problems
Some have argued that this case may serve as a distraction against complaints the Sudanese people make about their government. Mohamed Ghilan, an expert in Islamic jurisprudence, claims, "The punishment has little to do with religion and serves as a political distraction. This is a ploy by the Sudanese regime to appear as 'defenders of Islam' to mitigate their corruption". Sudan has been noted by the Corruption Perceptions index as being one of the world's most corrupt. However execution is widely prescribed as an appropriate punishment for women and men leaving Islam in Saudi Arabia and in on-line Islamic websites, commonly citing a well attested quotation of Muhammed to Ibn Abbas, "Whoever renounces his religion, kill him." It has, for example, been a view commonly held by young Muslims in the UK, as well as Meriam's own family.
Departure from Sudan
After Meriam and her family took refuge in the US Embassy, the Italian government offered help to speed up the process of getting U.S. passports, given its good relation with Sudan, and vice-minister for foreign affairs Lapo Pistelli flew to the Sudanese capital to that end. Two weeks later vice-minister Pistelli accompanied the family back to Italy on a government plane which took off from Khartoum, and they were welcomed in Rome by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.
Pope Francis had expressed "his gratitude and joy" to the Italian Government when he was informed by Renzi of the family's arrival. Later in that day, Meriam and her family met the Pontiff at his residence of Casa Santa Marta in Vatican City for about half an hour, during which she thanked the Catholic Church for their support and prayers, while the Pope thanked her and her family for their "courageous and constant witness of faith".
Current situation
The family lived in New Hampshire in the United States for 25 months and moved to Virginia where they live now. Meriam Ibrahim is advocating for other victims of religious persecution and women who face gender based violence and domestic abuse. She is the co-founder and director of Global Mobilization at Tahrir Alnisa foundation.
See also
Freedom of religion in Sudan
Freedom of conscience
Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
References
1987 births
Living people
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians
Human rights abuses in Sudan
Sudanese Christians
Sudanese prisoners sentenced to death
Sudanese women
Apostasy in Islam
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Sudan
2010s in Sudan
Persecution of Christians by Muslims
Prisoners sentenced to death by Sudan
Sudanese emigrants to the United States
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Loge (moon)
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Loge or Saturn XLVI is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 26 June 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.
Loge is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,142,000 km in 1314.364 days, at an inclination of 166.5° to the ecliptic (165.3° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1390. It has a rotation period of about hours.
It was named in April 2007, after Logi, a fire giant from Norse mythology.
References
Institute for Astronomy Saturn Satellite Data
IAUC 8727: Satellites of Saturn June 30, 2006 (discovery)
MPEC 2006-M45: Eight New Satellites of Saturn June 26, 2006 (discovery and ephemeris)
IAUC 8826: Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn April 5, 2007 (naming the moon)
Norse group
Moons of Saturn
Irregular satellites
Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard
Astronomical objects discovered in 2006
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Harmonic coordinate condition
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The harmonic coordinate condition is one of several coordinate conditions in general relativity, which make it possible to solve the Einstein field equations. A coordinate system is said to satisfy the harmonic coordinate condition if each of the coordinate functions xα (regarded as scalar fields) satisfies d'Alembert's equation. The parallel notion of a harmonic coordinate system in Riemannian geometry is a coordinate system whose coordinate functions satisfy Laplace's equation. Since d'Alembert's equation is the generalization of Laplace's equation to space-time, its solutions are also called "harmonic".
Motivation
The laws of physics can be expressed in a generally invariant form. In other words, the real world does not care about our coordinate systems. However, for us to be able to solve the equations, we must fix upon a particular coordinate system. A coordinate condition selects one (or a smaller set of) such coordinate system(s). The Cartesian coordinates used in special relativity satisfy d'Alembert's equation, so a harmonic coordinate system is the closest approximation available in general relativity to an inertial frame of reference in special relativity.
Derivation
In general relativity, we have to use the covariant derivative instead of the partial derivative in d'Alembert's equation, so we get:
Since the coordinate xα is not actually a scalar, this is not a tensor equation. That is, it is not generally invariant. But coordinate conditions must not be generally invariant because they are supposed to pick out (only work for) certain coordinate systems and not others. Since the partial derivative of a coordinate is the Kronecker delta, we get:
And thus, dropping the minus sign, we get the harmonic coordinate condition (also known as the de Donder gauge after Théophile de Donder):
This condition is especially useful when working with gravitational waves.
Alternative form
Consider the covariant derivative of the density of the reciprocal of the metric tensor:
The last term emerges because is not an invariant scalar, and so its covariant derivative is not the same as its ordinary derivative. Rather, because , while
Contracting ν with ρ and applying the harmonic coordinate condition to the second term, we get:
Thus, we get that an alternative way of expressing the harmonic coordinate condition is:
More variant forms
If one expresses the Christoffel symbol in terms of the metric tensor, one gets
Discarding the factor of and rearranging some indices and terms, one gets
In the context of linearized gravity, this is indistinguishable from these additional forms:
However, the last two are a different coordinate condition when you go to the second order in h.
Effect on the wave equation
For example, consider the wave equation applied to the electromagnetic vector potential:
Let us evaluate the right hand side:
Using the harmonic coordinate condition we can eliminate the right-most term and then continue evaluation as follows:
See also
Christoffel symbols
Covariant derivative
Gauge theory
General relativity
General covariance
Holonomic basis
Kronecker delta
Laplace's equation
Laplace operator
Ricci calculus
Wave equation
References
P.A.M.Dirac (1975), General Theory of Relativity, Princeton University Press, , chapter 22
External links
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HarmonicCoordinates.html
Coordinate charts in general relativity
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Miloje Preković (, born 7 June 1991) is a Serbian football goalkeeper who plays for Dinamo Samarqand.
Club career
Košice
He made his debut for Košice in a home fixture against Spartak Trnava on 27 April 2011. In this match he had conceded three goals.
Honours
Mladost Lučani
Serbian First League: 2013–14
References
External links
MFK Košice profile
1991 births
Living people
People from Aranđelovac
Serbian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
OFK Mladenovac players
FK Mladost Lučani players
FK Sloga Kraljevo players
FC VSS Košice players
FK Iskra Borčice players
FK Inđija players
FK Voždovac players
Slovak Super Liga players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players
Serbian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
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NA-123 (Lahore-I)
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NA-123 (Lahore -I) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Area
The area includes some of the oldest parts of Lahore, behind the walled city including areas like Matchus Factory, Saeed Park, Qaiser Town, Kot Shahabud Din, Yousuf Park, Wandala Road, Lajpat Road, Jia Musa, Qila Muhammadi, Kot Begum, Sabzi Mandi, Ravi Road, Saggian, and Shahdara.
Members of Parliament
Since 2018: NA-123 (Lahore-I)
Election 2002
General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Saqib Nawaz Sarwani an Independent candidate won by 25,484 votes.
Election 2008
General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008.
Election 2013
General elections were held on 11 May 2013.
Election 2018
General elections were held on 25 July 2018.
Other contestant parties and candidate as Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan won 23,962, and Independent candidate Faraz Hashmi won 971 votes, Wahid Ahmad won 414 votes, Zaman Ali won 290 votes, Amjad khan won 123 votes, and Humayun Akhtar khan won 70 votes.
See also
NA-122 (Sheikhupura-IV)
NA-124 (Lahore-II)
References
External links
Election result's official website
NA-118
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Larmes de Héros is the second, and last studio album by French heavy metal band Sortilège released in 1986. After this album, the band decided to disband.
History
With the success of Métamorphose, Sortilège was able to participate in several music festivals in France, Germany and the Netherlands, alongside some of the greatest names of hard rock. After that, it was clear that Sortilège became one of the best French heavy metal bands of its time. But the Parisians were still angry at their record company, dissatisfied with the way they were distributed. The second LP, Larmes de Héros, was published in 1986. Like its predecessor, it was recorded in Germany. An English version was recorded at the same time, intended primarily for the German market (but in fact it was the French version that sold best in Germany).
On this second LP, Sortilège proved they were not a group designed to keep running in place, quite the contrary. Larmes de Héros is very different from its predecessor. The music here is much more mature, it is felt even in the texts. Listening to this album feels like that Sortilège paid particular attention to their new songs.
With Larmes de Héros, Sortilège recorded a perfect album. While the music is less aggressive, the melodic aspect is absolutely unstoppable. Christian Augustin never sang as well, it really reaches the heights on this album, perfectly served by Stephane Dumont being more inspired than ever in creating good riffs.
Alas, Larmes de Héros received many critical acclaims, the public response was less enthusiastic, part of the public haven't accepted loss of aggressiveness. Tired of the lack of public support, difficulties encountered in relation to record companies, the members decided to disband. A sad end for a group that had just released the masterpiece of French heavy metal.
Bonus tracks on album are English versions of Le Dernier Des Travaux D'Hercules, La Hargne Des Tordus, Mourir Pour Une Princesse and Marchand D'Hommes
Track listing
Bonus tracks
Personnel
Christian Augustin - vocals
Stéphane Dumont - lead guitar
Didier Demajean - rhythm guitar
Daniel Lapp - bass
Bob Dumont - drums
External links
http://metal.nightfall.fr/index_608_sortilege-larmes-heros.html
Preview: SORTILÈGE – 1986 – LARMES DE HEROS
1986 albums
Sortilège (band) albums
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Diocese of Myitkyina
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Diocese of Myitkyina may refer to:
the Anglican Diocese of Myitkyina (Church of the Province of Myanmar)
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina
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Perrine, Florida
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Perrine, Florida was an unincorporated community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, about midway between Miami and Homestead. It is at The community was named after Henry Perrine, who in 1839 had been granted a survey township of land in the area by the United States Congress in recognition of his service as United States Consul in Campeche, Mexico, and to support his plans to introduce new plants from tropical countries into cultivation in the United States.
While waiting to hear if Congress had approved his grant, Perrine took up residence with his family at Indian Key, Florida, in 1838. This location was considered safer than the southern Florida mainland, as the Second Seminole War was still in progress. On August 7, 1840, Indians attacked Indian Key. Several people were killed, including Perrine, but his family escaped.
Perrine's son, Henry Jr., and one of Perrine's business partners, Charles Howe, made various attempts to exploit the grant, with little success. Eventually homesteaders began to encroach on the grant, and in 1886 families that had started farms in the grant area formed a squatters union to fight eviction from their farms by the Perrine heirs. Two railroad companies, including the Florida East Coast Railway, joined with the Perrine heirs, and the courts eventually awarded to the squatters, to the Perrine family, and each to the railroad companies (part of the original grant had been sold earlier).
The community that became known as Perrine started as a railroad camp during the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway extension from Miami to Homestead. The first school in Perrine was opened in 1909. The community developed in a segregated fashion, with the area to the east of the railroad all white and the area to the west of the railroad all black. Perrine incorporated as a city in 1948. A black mayor was elected a year later. The all-white city council and the first mayor requested the Florida Legislature to dissolve the city, and it did.
Perrine was a Census-designated place (CDP) in the 1990 U.S. Census, with a counted population of 15,576. In the 2000 Census, Perrine was divided into two CDPs: East Perrine and West Perrine. East Perrine, which had a population of 7,079 in 2000, became part of the incorporated municipality of Palmetto Bay in 2002. West Perrine had a population of 8,600 in 2000, and 9,460 in 2010.
Population history from the U.S. Census Bureau
1950: 2,859
1960: 6,424
1970: 10,257
1980: 16,129
1990: 15,576
Climate
Perrine has a tropical monsoon climate (Am), according to the Köppen climate classification.
Education
Miami-Dade County Public Schools operates area public schools.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami operates area Catholic schools. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary-St. Richard School is in Cutler Bay, It was formerly known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, and previously it was in the Cutler Ridge CDP but had a Perrine postal address.
References
External links
1990 U.S. Census Map: Overall map of Miami-Dade County and Closeup of Section 15 showing Perrine CDP
History of Miami-Dade County, Florida
Former census-designated places in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Former municipalities in Florida
Former census-designated places in Florida
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Gallon smashing is the act of spilling a gallon of liquid (3.78 L), usually by breaking its container (hence 'smashing'), in a manner that appears to be accidental. The act often involves throwing a gallon of milk onto a grocery store aisle, then falling, getting members of the public to help the 'smasher' get up, and sometimes having difficulty returning to a standing position. The act is generally done as a "prank" meant to share on the internet, and so typically recorded on camera.
History
Gallon smashing gained popularity in 2013 after three teenagers from Vienna, Virginia posted videos of the act on their YouTube channel. The videos received more than three million views before being taken down. Teenagers around the world mimicked the act, posting dozens of filmed incidents online.
In March 2013, the Fairfax County Police Department charged the teens with seven counts of disorderly conduct and destruction of property. That same month, a teenager from Sussex County, New Jersey was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct after a video of him gallon-smashing was posted on Facebook. Citations for misdemeanor criminal mischief and theft were also issued in Butte, Montana in March 2013. Following the arrest in New Jersey, a spokesperson for Wakefern Food Corporation claimed that the company was taking steps to combat the trend.
Gallon smashing has led to several cases of actual injuries, usually as a result of the participant or unwitting members of the public slipping and falling after the liquid is spilt, while the act of throwing heavy gallon bottles during challenge attempts has also resulted in participants damaging shelving and refrigerator units in supermarkets. In the United Kingdom, one attempt resulted in the vandal receiving a broken jaw.
The viral nature of gallon-smashing has been compared to the Harlem Shake, planking (people lying face-down in public settings), and Tebowing.
See also
Milk chugging
Plastic milk container
References
2010s fads and trends
2013 YouTube videos
Challenges
Internet memes introduced in 2013
Viral videos
Vandalism
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Ashimi or Hashim bin Umar al-Kanemi (1840s-1893) was Shehu of Borno from ca.1885 to 1893.
Reign of Ashimi
Ashimi became Shehu of Borno in 1885 at the death of his brother Ibrahim Kura. As it had already been the case for his two predecessors, his reign was marked by an intense political and economical crisis in Kukawa. A French army officer who met Ashimi in 1892 believed that he had little direct involvement with the running of the kingdom; he also reported that the Shehu seemed pious, rather scholarly, and was someone who hated the thought of war.
In 1893, Ashimi lost two battles against Rabih az-Zubayr who was trying to invade Borno. His nephew Kyari, who was chosen to become the new Shehu, assassinated him in N'galagati near Geidam.
Dynasty
Footnotes
Bibliography
Adeleye, Rowland, Power and Diplomacy in Northern Nigeria: 1804-1906, the Sokoto Caliphate and Its Enemies (London: Longman Group, 1971).
Amegboh, Joseph, and Cécile Clairval, Rabah: Conquérant Des Pays Tchadiens, Grandes Figures Africaines (Paris: Dakar ; Abidjan : Nouvelles Éditions Africaines, 1976).
Barth, Heinrich, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (London: Longman, 1857).
Brenner, Louis, The Shehus of Kukawa: A History of the Al-Kanemi Dynasty of Bornu, Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973).
Cohen, Ronald, The Kanuri of Bornu, Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Holt, 1967).
Flint, John Edgar, Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria, West African History Series (London: Oxford University Press, 1960).
Hallam, W. K. R., The Life and Times of Rabih Fadl Allah (Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1977).
Hallam, W. K. R., ‘Rabih: His Place in History’, Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 15-16 (1993), 5-22.
Horowitz, Michael M., ‘Ba Karim: An Account of Rabeh’s Wars’, African Historical Studies, 3 (1970), 391-402 .
Lange, Dierk, 'The kingdoms and peoples of Chad', in General history of Africa, ed. by Djibril Tamsir Niane, IV (London: Unesco, Heinemann, 1984), pp. 238–265.
Last, Murray, ‘Le Califat De Sokoto Et Borno’, in Histoire Generale De l'Afrique, Rev. ed. (Paris: Presence Africaine, 1986), pp. 599–646.
Lavers, John, "The Al- Kanimiyyin Shehus: a Working Chronology" in Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs, 268, Bd. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1993: 179-186.
Mohammed, Kyari, Borno in the Rabih Years, 1893-1901: The Rise and Crash of a Predatory State (Maiduguri Nigeria: University of Maiduguri, 2006).
Monteil, P. L., De Saint-Louis À Tripoli Par Le Lac Tchad Voyage Au Travers Du Soudan Et Du Sahara, Accompli Pendant Les Années 1890-1892 (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1895).
Nachtigal, Gustav, Sahara und Sudan: Ergebnisse Sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika (Berlin: Weidmann, 1879).
Palmer, Herbert Richmond, The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (London: John Murray, 1936).
Tilho, Jean Auguste Marie, Tilho Mission, and France Ministère des Colonies, Documents Scientifiques De La Mission Tilho (1906–1909) (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1910).
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Kanuri Studies Association
Bornu Empire
History of Nigeria
Royalty of Borno
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Randolph County Courthouse or Old Randolph County Courthouse may refer to:
Old Randolph County Courthouse (Arkansas), Pocahontas, Arkansas
Randolph County Courthouse (Arkansas), Pocahontas, Arkansas
Randolph County Courthouse (Illinois), Chester, Illinois
Randolph County Courthouse (North Carolina), Asheboro, North Carolina
Randolph County Courthouse and Jail, Elkins, West Virginia
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Li Henan
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Li Henan (; born 1943) is a former Chinese table tennis player and coach. She was one of the four members of the Chinese team that won China's first women's team gold medal at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships in Ljubljana.
Biography
Li was born in Shanghai, and was chosen into the Chinese national table tennis team in 1960. At the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, she was a member of the Chinese teams (together with Lin Huiqing, Zheng Minzhi, and Liang Lizhen; coach Rong Guotuan) that defeated Japan to win the women's team championship for the first time in the history of Chinese table tennis.
She also won the bronze in women's doubles with partner Liang Lizhen. In the 1966 Chinese National Table Tennis Championships, Li won the gold medals in both women's doubles and mixed doubles. After retiring from her playing career, she became the head coach of the national women's team and trained future world champions Zhang Deying and Jiao Zhimin. She later moved to the United States.
See also
List of table tennis players
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
1943 births
Living people
Table tennis players from Shanghai
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Chinese female table tennis players
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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Gina Mosbrucker
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Gina Rae Mosbrucker, previously known as Gina McCabe, (born 1963) is an American politician who has served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives since January 1, 2015, when she was sworn in 11 days ahead of most new Washington state legislators. She was elected in 2014 to succeed retiring Republican Charles Ross.
Early life
Born Gina Mosbrucker, she is a fourth-generation resident of Klickitat County, Washington.
Career
Mosbrucker runs the Goldendale Quality Inn and Suites Hotel and a performing arts studio in her hometown of Goldendale. She is a former vice president and director of the Goldendale Chamber of Commerce. For sixteen years, she went by her husband's surname "McCabe", but after divorcing her husband in April 2018, reverted her surname to "Mosbrucker".
Awards
2021 City Champion Awards. Presented by Association of Washington Cities (AWC).
References
1963 births
Living people
People from Goldendale, Washington
American hoteliers
University of Washington alumni
Washington (state) Republicans
Members of the Washington House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Washington (state)
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Clark College alumni
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Mohammad Amin Asadi
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Mohammad Amin Asadi (, born 24 December 1998) is an Iranian Football Striker who currently plays for Iranian football club Machine Sazi in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
Club career
Persepolis
Asadi joined Persepolis in summer 2017 with a contract until 2021.
Career statistics
Honours
Persepolis
Persian Gulf Pro League (2): 2017–18, 2018–19
Hazfi Cup (1): 2018–19
Iranian Super Cup (2): 2018, 2019
AFC Champions League runner-up: 2018
External links
Mohammad Amin Asadi at IranLeague.ir
References
1998 births
Living people
Iranian footballers
People from Qom
Persepolis F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Association football forwards
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Heidemarie Wycisk
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Heidemarie Wycisk (born 2 February 1949) is a German athlete. She competed in the women's long jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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1949 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
German female long jumpers
Olympic athletes of East Germany
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(-)-gamma-cadinene synthase ((2Z,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate cyclizing) (, (-)-gamma-cadinene cyclase) is an enzyme with the systematic name (2Z,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate diphosphate-lyase ((-)-gamma-cadinene-forming). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction:
(2Z,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate (-)-gamma-cadinene + [diphosphate]
This enzyme is isolated from the liverwort Heteroscyphus planus.
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External links
EC 4.2.3
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T. Markus Funk is an American attorney, law professor, and author best known for the prosecution of several high-profile mob figures during his career at the United States Department of Justice, his role in co-leading the internal investigation into former Ohio State University team physician Dr. Richard Strauss, and trial victory on behalf of the Costa Rican citrus industry. He is currently a partner in the law firm of Perkins Coie, where he since 2015 has served as the Firmwide Chair of the firm's global White Collar & Investigations Practice.
Education and early career
Funk was raised in Germany before attending school in Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois in 1992. He went to Northwestern School of Law where he earned his J.D., graduating in 1995. He later received a Ph.D. (“DPhil”) in law from the University of Oxford.
Prior to his career at the Department of Justice, Funk taught law at the University of Oxford. He also served as a law clerk for Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Morris S. Arnold as well as U.S District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry.
U.S. Department of State
Between 2004 and 2006, Funk worked for the U.S. Department of State as the Section Chief in Kosovo following the Kosovo War. He represented the U.S. at diplomatic negotiations and headed the restructuring of Kosovo's justice system after the war. He was given the Superior Honor Award by the Department in recognition of his service in Kosovo and also authored the Kosovo Trial Skills Handbook which was published by the United States Department of Justice in 2006 and at the time was the Kosovo Supreme Court's most cited-to authority.
U.S. Department of Justice
Funk worked for the United States Department of Justice under U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for 10 years. During his time with the DOJ, he prosecuted numerous high-profile cases, including those of mobsters, white collar criminals, Roman Catholic priests and deacons, and company CEOs.
As an Assistant United States Attorney, Funk also prosecuted Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, Frank Calabrese, Sr. and other high-ranking mobsters as part of Operation Family Secrets, an FBI investigation into 18 homicides and various other crimes committed by the Chicago Outfit between the 1960s and 2000s. The investigation was considered one of the most extensive racketeering cases of its kind and was labeled as one of the most important criminal investigations in American history by National Public Radio (the 1995 movie “Casino” was based on the charged criminal activities). During closing arguments of the trial, Calabrese told Funk, "You're a fucking dead man." Calabrese and all of his thirteen co-defendants were convicted.
Funk also prosecuted former U.S. Marshal John T Ambrose for leaking information to mob figures about the location of a protected witness. It was the first case of its type involving a U.S Marshal violating the security of the Witness Protection Program. Ambrose was assigned to guard Nicholas Calabrese, the first "made" member to ever testify against the Chicago outfit. Ambrose was charged and later convicted with leaking information about Calabrese to other mob figures.
Funk also prosecuted mobsters Joseph Scalise, Arthur Rachel and Robert Pullia for their involvement in a conspiracy to rob cash from the First National Bank of La Grange in 2010. The three men, already famous for their 1980 involvement in the theft of the 45-carat Marlborough diamond from Graff's jewelry store, had planned to rob an armored vehicle at the bank and had stolen vehicles and stashed guns to use in the robbery. All three were convicted.
At the time of his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chicago Sun-Times described Markus as a "street-smart prosecutor with an Oxford pedigree."
Private practice
Funk left the Department of Justice in 2010 to become a partner at the law firm of Perkins Coie. He specializes in internal investigations and white collar criminal defense, and in 2011 co-founded the firm's corporate social responsibility and supply chain compliance practice. Since 2015 he has served as the Firmwide Chair of the Firm's White Collar & Investigations Practice. He also co-led the internal investigation into former Ohio State University team physician Dr. Richard Strauss, and along with his team achieved trial victory on behalf of the Costa Rican citrus industry.
Teaching and writing career
In addition to teaching at the University of Oxford, Funk has taught law at the University of Chicago Law School, Northwestern School of Law, Loyola, Denver University School of Law, and the University of Arkansas Little Rock. He currently co-teaches a class on bribery and forced labor in company supply chains at the University of Colorado School of Law
Throughout his career, Funk has authored over 100 scholarly articles, updates, and book chapters and has written nine books.
Bibliography
2021, Rethinking Self-Defence: The 'Ancient Right's' Rationale Disentangled[FTM(1] , Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing
2019, From Baksheesh to Bribery: Understanding the Global Right Against Corruption and Graft, Oxford University Press
2016, The ABA Compliance Officer Deskbook, The American Bar Association
2014, Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: A Guide for Judges, Federal Judicial Center
2012, Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses, Rowman & Littlefield, (Second Updated and Expanded Edition, 2016)
2012, The Haiti Trial Skills Manual, American Bar Association
2010, The Darfur Trial Skills Manual, American Bar Association
2010, Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court, Oxford University Press, (Second Updated and Expanded Edition, 2015)
2006, The Kosovo Trial Skills Handbook, United States Department of Justice
Awards and recognition
Funk has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognition throughout his career. A Fellow of the American Law Institute, he was given the Attorney General's Award (John Marshall Award) for his work on Operation Family Secret. He is the only person to have received both the Department of Justice's Attorney General's Award and the State Department's Superior Honor Award. In 2013, he was named Lawyer of the Year by Law Week Colorado, and in 2012 he was named Colorado's top Corporate/Compliance Lawyer. In 2014, the ABA awarded Funk the Frank Carrington Crime Victim Award (given to the person or organization who has done the most for victims of crime).
See also
Operation Family Secrets
Chicago Outfit
References
External links
Perkins Coie profile of T. Markus Funk
T. Markus Funk on High Beam Research
T. Markus Funk on Google Scholar
Living people
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
American lawyers
Academics of the University of Oxford
American male writers
University of Illinois alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People associated with Perkins Coie
German emigrants to the United States
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Ivan Ostojić (; born 26 June 1989) is a Serbian football defender who plays for Russian club Baltika Kaliningrad.
References
External links
Profile MFK Košice
1989 births
Living people
Serbian footballers
Association football defenders
FK Dolina Padina players
FC VSS Košice players
Spartak Myjava players
Karmiotissa FC players
FK Dukla Prague players
FK Radnički Niš players
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
FK Javor Ivanjica players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
Slovak Super Liga players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
Cypriot First Division players
Czech First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Serbian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Expatriate footballers in Finland
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Finland
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Sportspeople from Pančevo
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Colonization Road is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michelle St. John and released in 2016. Hosted by comedian and activist Ryan McMahon and starting in his own hometown of Fort Frances, Ontario, the film explores the impact of Ontario's historic colonization road system, which formed the basis of the province's contemporary highway system, on First Nations people. Some towns and cities in the province still to this day have a street named Colonization Road, and the film led some of them to debate changing their road's name.
The film had a theatrical premiere in October 2016 at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, before airing on CBC Television's documentary series Firsthand on January 26, 2017. At the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, it received a nomination for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program.
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External links
2016 films
Canadian films
Canadian documentary films
Documentary films about First Nations
Documentary films about road transport
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James "Spanish" Blake, Anglo-Irish merchant, soldier, and spy, born after 1560, died 20 February 1630.
A member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Blake was the second son of Walter Blake (died 1575) and Juliana Browne. His grandfather and brothers served as Mayors of Galway; his elder brother, Valentine Blake (1560–1634) was created a baronet in 1622.
In 1587, Blake was trading in sack and acquavite from Spain. The following year, he worked salvaging material from ships of the Armada wrecked on the Irish coast. He moved through the world of international intrigue as an agent for, variously, the Irish, English, French and Spanish during the Nine Years War in the 1590s.
He has been named as the assassin of Red Hugh O'Donnell in Spain in 1602. He was in the company of O'Donnell at the time of his death, and offered his services to Sir George Carew for the plot.
References
Old Galway, Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942.
Spanish Blake, in Irish Leaders and Learning Through the Ages by Paul Walsh, ed. by Nollaig Ó Muraíle, 2003.
Dictionary of Irish Biography, p. 584, Cambridge, 2010
Martyn, Adrian (2016). The Tribes of Galway:1124-1642
1635 deaths
People from County Galway
Irish spies
People of the Nine Years' War
Irish soldiers
16th-century Anglo-Irish people
17th-century Anglo-Irish people
Year of birth unknown
16th-century spies
17th-century spies
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Stenoglene nivalis
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Stenoglene nivalis is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Orientale), Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.
The wingspan is about 61 mm. The forewings are snow-white and very hairy, with the antemedian band, basal band, postmedian band and a band of coalescent rings greenish grey.
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Moths described in 1917
Janinae
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Cyrtinus bordoni
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Cyrtinus bordoni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Joly and Rosales in 1990. It is known from Venezuela.
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Cyrtinini
Beetles described in 1990
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C. Palanimuthu
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C. Palanimuthu is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate from Attur constituency in 1977 and 1984 elections and as an Indian National Congress (Indira) in 1980 election.
References
Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu
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Toshihide Migita
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, also known as Oju Toshihide or Toshihide was a Japanese artist, creating work in traditional ukiyo-e prints and painting in the Western syle.
Migita was apprenticed to Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. He also studied with Kinisawa Shimburō (1847–1877), who was an artist who had trained in Britain.
Starting in 1877, his work was published in newspapers and magazines. His portraits of kabuki actors (yakusha-e) were well known.
His , in triptych format are considered to be important historical documents. This work documents Japan's participation in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.
See also
War artists
Notes
References
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301
Ukiyo-e artists
1862 births
1925 deaths
19th-century Japanese painters
20th-century Japanese painters
20th-century printmakers
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Ethmiopsis prosectrix
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Ethmiopsis prosectrix is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1935. It is found in China (Shanghai, Zhejiang).
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Ethmiopsis
Moths described in 1935
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Fritz Flachberger
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Fritz Flachberger is the name of
Fritz Flachberger (athlete) (1912–1992), Austrian high jumper
Fritz Flachberger (rally driver) (1948–2014), Austrian–Namibian winner of the 1995 African Rally Championship
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Tess of the Road is a 2018 fantasy novel by Rachel Hartman. A companion novel to Hartman's previous books Seraphina and Shadow Scale, the novel follows the story of Tess Dombegh, a younger sister of Seraphina. While some characters from the previous novels make appearances in the book, Tess of the Road is not a direct sequel to those novels, but is the start of a new duology. It was published by Random House on February 27, 2018. Tess of the Road was nominated for the 2018 Andre Norton Award and the 2018 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.
Synopsis
The main character of the story Tess of the Road is Tess Dombegh. Tess is the younger sibling of Seraphina, the main character of the previous books by Rachel Hartman, along with her twin sister, Jeanne. She is (supposedly) the younger twin, and thus her role in life is to help her sister find a good husband and live a proper life. Tess is often the scapegoat of the family, and her mother often blames her for everything that goes wrong. Tess helped her sister arrange to marry Lord Richard Pfanzlig, and her sister invited her to stay with her as a nursemaid. The brother of Lord Richard, Brother Jacomo, hates Tess for reasons unbeknownst to her in the beginning, although it becomes clear that he hates her because he is a follower of St. Vitt, who damns premarital sex, and Tess had a bastard son. Tess's mother is also a follower of St. Vitt, and that is the reason she hates Tess so much. During Jeanne's wedding night, Tess got drunk and punched Brother Jacomo in the nose. She then was sent to live with Seraphina for a few days while they decided what to do with her. It is revealed at this time that Seraphina was pregnant. Seraphina hints that Tess should run away instead of joining the convent of St. Loola, which is what her mother wanted. Tess reluctantly runs away, and runs into her old friend Pathka. Pathka is a quigutl. He was a female quig when Tess first met him, but he changed his sex as he could likely no longer bear eggs. It is revealed that Tess saved his life, because when he was laying his egg, it got stuck, and she pulled it out. She then taught herself the Quigtul language, Quootla, and became friends with Pathka. Tess decides to pose as a man to be afforded more freedom during her journey, and adopts Jacomo's name as a way to gain favor with people. She walks with Pathka, and they try to find a world serpent, which are deities that the Quig worship. They make many stops along the way to Anathusia, one of the world serpents. She faces trials both inner and outer, and makes many friends. In the end, she just keeps walking.
Background
Reception
Tess of the Road has been received positively by critics, and has been awarded four starred reviews. Booklist commented "First in a duology, this is a perfect example of a familiar fantasy trope being given new dimension through empathetic characters and exquisite storytelling. At first appearing bitter and self-pitying, Tess reveals compassion, courage, and resilience on her journey, which is as emotional and spiritual as it is physical." Kirkus Reviews said "Angry, bitter Tess has reason for her feelings but is not always easy to walk with, and the slow reveal of her past makes for a compelling read on the ways in which girls—in the quasi-Renaissance Goredd and also in the real world—are taught to take blame on themselves even when others are culpable. Fortunately, the Road has answers ("walk on"), and by the end Tess has faced her past and can look forward to another volume of adventure, discovery, and changing her world." Bulletin'''s review states that "her story is also a rousing adventure set in a richly drawn world, and the novel’s conclusion sets up a sequel that promises to have every bit as much excitement, and a healthy dose of political intrigue as well. Newcomers to Hartman’s work will be every bit as enthralled as her fans with this companion novel to Seraphina (BCCB 9/12) and Shadow Scale." Shelf Awareness writes "Fully human Tess's life has been constrained by shame and the medieval expectations of others. Her growing awareness of the inequality and unfairness she has been subjected to, along with an unfolding sense of herself and her potential, will captivate any reader. Tess's ultimately unquenchable spirit and her struggles and adventures are a delight."Tess of the Road'' won the 2019 Young Adult Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and the 2018 Cybils Award for Young Adult Speculative Fiction, and was nominated for the 2018 Andre Norton Award and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
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External links
Rachel Hartman (official)
2018 American novels
American young adult novels
Random House books
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Long Time Coming
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Long Time Coming or Long Time Comin' may refer to:
Albums
A Long Time Comin', by the Electric Flag, 1968
A Long Time Coming, by Wayne Brady, 2008
A Long Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come), by Evelyn "Champagne" King, 1985
Long Time Comin', by Shenandoah, 1992
Long Time Coming (Jonny Lang album) or the title song, 2003
Long Time Coming (Ready for the World album) or the title song, 1986
Long Time Coming, by eLDee, 2004
Songs
"Long Time Coming" (Cheap Trick song), 2017
"Long Time Coming" (Delays song), 2004
"Long Time Comin, by Bruce Springsteen from Devils & Dust, 2005
"Long Time Comin, by Florida Georgia Line from Life Rolls On, 2021
"Long Time Coming", by Humanzi, 2006
Television
"Long Time Coming" (Homeland), an episode
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Gramacks (or "Les Gramacks") was a Cadence-lypso group from Dominica.
Biography
The band is from Saint-Joseph, a village from Dominica. The lead singer Jefferson "Jeff" Joseph and keyboard player McDonald "Markie" Prosper along with the other members were former students of the Dominica Grammar School and St Mary's Academy, hence the name Gramacks. The band rose to fame in the early seventies and eighties with hits like “Mis Debaz”, and “Soukouyant”.
Gramacks and Exile One were influential figures in the promotion of cadence-lypso in the 1970s. They were an inspiration for the French Antilles band Kassav and the emergence of zouk in the 1980s. The full-horn section kadans band Exile One led by Gordon Henderson, and Gramacks (led by Jeff Joseph) introduced the newly arrived synthesizers to their music that other young cadence or compas bands from Haiti (mini-jazz) and the French Antilles emulated in the 1970s.
Gramacks rose to prominence in the 1970s to the early 1980s with a Super Bowl performance. They headlined the first World Creole Music Festival in Dominica in 1997. Creative differences and financial mismanagement caused the band to break up with members pursuing individual solo projects. Jeff Joseph later formed Volt Face and Gramacks New Generation.
Jefferson "Jeff Joe" Joseph
Jeff Joseph "Jeff Joe" of Saint Joseph, Dominica was the leader and founder of Dominica's cadence musical group "Gramacks". His musical career with Gramacks began in the early 1970s in Guadeloupe.
The late Joseph will be remembered for his energetic performances of songs such as ‘Soucouyant’, ‘Soleil Trop Chaud’, and ‘Woy Mi Debas’. Many of his recordings were done in the Debs Studio in Martinique. Joseph is known for adding various Caribbean styles to his musical identity such as reggae, calypso and mostly cadence or compas music. Joseph was lead member Gramacks New Generation and a founding member of the Antillean group Volt Face along with Georges Decimus; one of the founders of Kassav in the 1980s.
Joseph was one of Dominica’s goodwill ambassadors and he played a part in the promotion and marketing of the World Creole Music Festival. At the 13th World Creole Music Festival in Dominica, compas musician "Sweet Mickey" (who would serve as Haiti's president between 2011 and 2016) gave tribute and recognition to Joseph on a Dominica source video interview for his influence on his music. At the 15th Annual WCMF, he was honored by Dominica's bouyon music band "Triple Kay International" during their performance for his influence on the band.
Musicians
Singer : Jeff Joseph and Georges "Soul" Thomas
Guitarist : Anthony "Curvin" Serrant
Bassist : Anthony "Tepam" George
Drummers: Elon "Bolo" Rodney
keyboard player : Mc Donald "Mckie" Prosper
Trombone Player : Anthony "Bone" Pierre 1976-1980
Trumpet Player : Bill "Billo" Thomas 1974-1976
Discography
Gramacks
Gramacks
Symbol of determination in Paris
Gramacks international
Wooy midebar
African connection
Leurs derniers succès
Gramacks and Hippomène
Politik anthology
La vie disco
Ka allez haut
Paroles en bouche pas maître
Roots Caribbean Rock
The Gramacks featuring Jeff Joseph
Pa ka gadé douvan
Creole mix : maxi single
Party party / Hot music : 2 titres
Make you dance
The Gramacks
Gramacks 1974-1976
The very best of
Gramacks Best of
Gramacks New Collector
Get Up
Gramacks new generation
Gramacks New Generation
Jeff Joseph and Gramacks New Generation
Live
Best of Gramacks New Generation Live
Live à St Joseph
Gramacks forever
Get Up
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Pölöskefő () is a village in Zala County, Hungary.
Notable residents
Ferenc Mező, poet & Olympic gold medalist
References
Populated places in Zala County
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Juan del Campo (died 1344) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of León (1332–1334), Bishop of Oviedo (1328–1332), and Bishop of Cuenca (1327–1328).
Biography
On 8 Aug 1327, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope John XXII as Bishop of Cuenca.
On 27 Sep 1327, he was consecrated bishop by Bertrand de La Tour, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati.
On 7 May 1328, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope John XXII as Bishop of Oviedo.
On 2 Dec 1332, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope John XXII as Bishop of León.
He served as Bishop of León until his death on 24 May 1344.
References
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Justice League: Injustice for All
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Justice League: Injustice for All is a video game, released in 2002 by Midway Games for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It is largely based on the Justice League animated television series, including its character portrayals, and artistic style. It features many levels and alternate characters can be playable.
Plot
The following villains unite as the Injustice Gang in order to defeat the Justice League, by teaming up with the Imperium.
Lex Luthor
The Joker
Cheetah
Star Sapphire
Shade
Solomon Grundy
Ultra-Humanite
Felix Faust
References
External links
2002 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Video games based on adaptations
Injustice for All
Video games based on the DC Animated Universe
Superhero video games
Injustice for All
Saffire games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States
Video games set in Hawaii
Video games set in New Mexico
Video games set in Thailand
Video games set on the Moon
Video games set in Russia
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2005 Abierto Mexicano Telcel
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The 2005 Abierto Mexicano Telcel was both a men's and women's tennis tournament on the 2005 ATP and WTA Tours that was held in Acapulco, Mexico. The tournament was held from February 21 to February 27.
Finals
Men's singles
Rafael Nadal defeated Albert Montañés 6–1, 6–0
It was Nadal's 2nd title of the year and the 3rd of his career.
Women's singles
Flavia Pennetta defeated Ľudmila Cervanová, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3
Men's doubles
David Ferrer / Santiago Ventura defeated Jiří Vaněk / Tomáš Zíb 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Women's doubles
Alina Jidkova / Tatiana Perebiynis defeated Rosa María Andrés Rodríguez / Conchita Martínez Granados, 7–5, 6–3
External links
Official website
Men's Singles Draw
Men's Doubles Draw
Men's Qualifying Singles Draw
Women's Draws
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
February 2005 sports events in Mexico
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The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.
In women's singles, Mexican Paola Longoria was the defending champion, and she successfully defended her title by defeating Rhonda Rajsich of the USA in the final. Longoria didn't lose any games en route to the title, including a straight games win in the semi-finals against Maria Jose Vargas, who was playing for Argentina after previously competing for Bolivia.
Unlike Longoria, Rajsich was pushed to tie-breakers twice in the early rounds, as she needed three games to defeat both fellow American Aubrey Kirch (in the second round) and Colombian Cristina Amaya in the quarterfinals. Indeed, Amaya had match point on Rajsich, but couldn't convert it. But in the semi-final, Rajsich beat Samantha Salas of Mexico in two straight games.
Tournament format
The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.
Round robin
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Pool I
Elimination round
References
2014 Racquetball World Championships
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RHOQ
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Rho-related GTP-binding protein RhoQ is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RHOQ gene.
TC10 is a member of the RAS superfamily of small GTP-binding proteins (see HRAS, MIM 190020) involved in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake.[supplied by OMIM]
In melanocytic cells RHOQ gene expression may be regulated by MITF.
Interactions
RHOQ has been shown to interact with EXOC7, GOPC, PARD6B, WASL, CDC42EP2, TRIP10 and CDC42EP3.
References
Further reading
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Lawrence Schiffman
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Lawrence Harvey Schiffman (born 1948) is a professor at New York University (as of 2014); he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies (from early 2011 to 2014). He had previously been Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and served as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is currently the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies. He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature.
Education
Schiffman was a graduate of Great Neck North High School. He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His senior thesis was devoted to the use of Psalms in the Qumran Hodayot. His PhD thesis eventually became his first book, The Halakhah at Qumran.
Memberships
Lawrence Schiffman is also a member of the University's Center for Ancient Studies and Center for Near Eastern Studies. He served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2000 to 2003. During the academic year 1989/90 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of a research group dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a member of the academic committee for the Summer, 1997 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the 2008 60th anniversary conference, both held in Jerusalem. Schiffman is a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and a corresponding fellow of the Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been chairman of the Columbia University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible. He is a member of the board of the World Union for Jewish Studies and the Society for Biblical Literature where he served as chairman of the Qumran section. He is also a member of the Enoch seminar and of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch. He is also chairman of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) and led an IJCIC delegation for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in June 2013, according to the World Jewish Congress.
He served on the academic panel of The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's Sinai Scholars Society Academic Symposium, and as a scholar-in-residence at The National Jewish Retreat.
Film appearances
Schiffman was featured in the PBS Nova series documentary, "Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls," as well as in four BBC documentaries on the scrolls, the McNeil-Lehrer program, and a Discovery special. He appears regularly in the popular educational series, "Mysteries of the Bible," which appears on Arts and Entertainment (A&E), and more recently, in the four-part series "Kingdom of David" on PBS.
Visiting professorships
Schiffman served as director of New York University's program at the archaeological excavations at Dor, Israel, from 1980 to 1982, in conjunction with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Israel Exploration Society. He has served as visiting professor at Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Duke University, Shier Visiting Distinguished Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Toronto, the Johns Hopkins University, the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, the Luce Visiting Professor at the University of Hartford and the Hartford Seminary, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Queens College and Yeshiva University.
Contributions to the field of Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1985, Schiffman helped organize a Dead Sea Scrolls conference at New York University, where the field of Dead Sea Scrolls became organized as a separate field in Judaism in Late Antiquity.
He also played a role in the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that led to the full publication of the scrolls and to the decision of the Israel Antiquities Authority to make them fully available to the academic community. He focuses in his research on showing that the Dead Sea Scrolls are Jewish texts and do not have far-reaching and dramatic implications for the study of Christianity.
In 1992/3 Schiffman was a fellow of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia where he was part of a research team working on the unpublished scrolls. Together with a colleague, he served as editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000). In 1991, he was appointed to the team publishing the scrolls in the Oxford series, Discoveries in the Judean Desert. He edited the journal Dead Sea Discoveries for ten years. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Center for Online Judaic Studies in New York.
In 2011, Schiffman was a consultant for the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit which showcased the significance of the scrolls at Discovery Times Square. The exhibit, entitled "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times," brought artifacts from the biblical and Second Temple period to New York City. Some of these artifacts (including scrolls) had never been exhibited outside of Israel before.
In 2020, a Festschrift was published in his honor by former students and colleagues. The volume, entitled From Scrolls to Traditions, contains 20 articles on the Biblical period, Second Temple period and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Works
Thesis
Books
– general publication of his thesis.
– (in Hebrew)
Edited by
Awards
2014: co-Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category with Louis H. Feldman and James L. Kugel for editing Outside the Bible.
References
External links
NYU: Lawrence H. Schiffman
YUTorah Online: Dr. Lawrence Schiffman
Journal Henoch website
Enoch Seminar website
Center for Online Judaic Studies
Professor Lawrence Schiffman video lectures
How to Study a Dead Sea Scrolls Text
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American Orthodox Jews
Dead Sea Scrolls
New York University faculty
Brandeis University alumni
University of Hartford faculty
Yeshiva University faculty
Great Neck North High School alumni
1948 births
Living people
Historians from New York (state)
American male non-fiction writers
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The MBLE Épervier () was a 1970s Belgian battlefield reconnaissance system which included an X-5 air vehicle, a launcher and a drone control centre. It served with the Belgian Army until 1999.
Design and development
Originally the Épervier system was designed to meet a NATO requirement and in July 1969 the Belgian Government decided to fund the development programme, a cooperation contract with Manufacture Belge De Lampes Et De Matériel Electronique (MBLE)(fr, nl) was signed in early 1971. Early prototypes of the drone (designated X-1 to X-4) were flown to prove the concept and at the end of the 1972 in to 1973 the system underwent an operational evaluation, it proved an ability to photograph a target up to 70 km (43 miles) away in either guided or programmed mode.
The X-5 air vehicle is an unmanned monoplane drone powered by a Lucas TJ 125 turbojet, and built under contract by Fairey SA. It has a truncated delta wing with endplate fins and a central fin. The X-5 can carry 70mm day or night cameras and infra-red line-scanning equipment which can transmit real-time data.
The launcher is a short orientable ramp, the drone is recovered by parachute. The Drone Control Centre has all the equipment to for guiding and tracking the air vehicle. The system also has a mobile photographic processing and interpretation unit.
Operational history
Following further evaluation and testing the Épervier entered service with the Belgian Army in 1977 and served until 1999.
Operators
Belgian Army
Specifications (X-5)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
1970s Belgian military reconnaissance aircraft
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Amatsukami
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is a category of kami in Japanese mythology. Generally speaking, it refers to kami born in, or residing in, Takamagahara.
Amatsukami is one of the three categories of kami, along with their earthly counterpart , and .
Modern Shinto no longer makes the distinction between Amatsukami and Kunitsukami. According to Yijiang Zhong the distinction was made by the writers of the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki to formulate a political discourse.
Mythology
Amatsukami refers to kami residing in Takamagahara, along with kami who were born in Takamagahara but later descended to Japan. In the mythological event of kuni-yuzuri, the descendants of amatsukami descended to pacify the world, which was occupied by the kunitsukami. In Shinto practice, there is no clear distinction between amatsukami and kunitsukami, as their definitions change with time and in different source materials.
List of amatsukami
Kotoamatsukami
Amenominakanushi
Takamimusubi
Kamimusubi
Umashi'ashikabihikoji
Amenotokotachi
Kamiyonanayo
Kuninotokotachi
Toyo-kumono-no-kami
Uhijini and Suhijini
Tsunuguhi and Ikuguhi
Ōtonoji and Ōtonobe
Omodaru and Aya-kashiko-ne
Izanagi
Shusaishin
Amaterasu
Others
Ame-no-oshihomimi
Ninigi
Takemikazuchi
Omoikane
Ame-no-Koyane
Ame-no-Uzume
Ame-no-Tajikarao
Tamanooya
Futodama
Ame-no-Wakahiko
Ame-no-Hohi
References
Shinto terminology
Shinto kami
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Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
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Jemez Pueblo (/ˈhɛmɛz/; , ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,788 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The CDP is named after the pueblo at its center. Among Pueblo members, it is known as .
Geography
Jemez Pueblo is located at (35.610435, -106.727509).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
It seems that a significant part of the Jemez Pueblo population originates from the surviving remnant of the Pecos Pueblo population who fled to Jemez Pueblo in 1838.
The Jemez speak a Kiowa–Tanoan language also known as Jemez or Towa.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,953 people, 467 households, and 415 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 957.0 people per square mile (369.6/km2). There were 499 housing units at an average density of 244.5 per square mile (94.4/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 0.41% White, 99.13% Native American, 0.31% from other races, and 0.15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.95% of the population.
There were 467 households, out of which 39.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 35.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.1% were non-families. 9.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.18 and the average family size was 4.45.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 35.0% under the age of 18, 11.1% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.9 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $28,889, and the median income for a family was $30,880. Males had a median income of $20,964 versus $17,262 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $8,045. About 27.2% of families and 25.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.1% of those under age 18 and 34.6% of those age 65 or over.
Ethnobotany
They consider Carex sacred and use it in the kiva.
Jemez runners
As much as 70% of the 1,890 Jemez people were living on their reservation lands in the early 1970s. Though by then an increasing number were switching to wage-earning work rather than agriculture, the residents continued to raise chile peppers, corn, and wheat, to speak their native language, and to maintain customary practices.
Running, an old Jemez pastime and ceremonial activity, grew even more popular than it had been before World War II. Prior to the advent of television at Jemez, tales of running feats had been a major form of entertainment on winter nights. Races continued to hold their ceremonial place as the years passed, their purpose being to assist the movement of the sun and moon or to hasten the growth of crops, for example. At the same time, they became a popular secular sport. The year 1959 saw the first annual Jemez All-Indian Track and Field Meet, won by runners from Jemez seven times in the first ten years. A Jemez runner, Steve Gachupin, won the Pikes Peak Marathon six times, setting a record in 1968 by reaching the top in just 2 hours, 14 minutes, 56 seconds.
Notable people
Cliff Fragua, Jemez sculptor
James Madalena, former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives
Benny Shendo, member of the New Mexico Senate
Mary Ellen Toya, (1934–1990), artist
Evelyn M. Vigil, artist
See also
Pueblo People
Jemez Historic Site- Formerly Jemez State Monument
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Pueblo Revolt
Jemez River
National Register of Historic Places listings in Sandoval County, New Mexico
References
Further reading
Sando, Joe S., Nee Hemish: A History of Jemez Pueblo, Clear Light Publishing (2008), trade paperback, 264 pages,
External links
Pueblo of Jemez website
Walatowa Visitor Center
Census-designated places in Sandoval County, New Mexico
Census-designated places in New Mexico
Albuquerque metropolitan area
Indigenous languages of the North American Southwest
Pueblo great houses
Native American tribes in New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places in Sandoval County, New Mexico
Pueblos on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
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Rudolf Pap (born 16 November 1991) is a Hungarian-born award-winning animator and model.
He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1991 and he is most famous about his exceptional skills in 2D animation. He was discovered in 2009 when he won an international competition held by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
Discovery and childhood
He was born 16 November in Budapest as an only child. He was raised in Érd. He began to draw very early - his biggest inspirations were Disney films, Andersen paintings, anime, fashion and famous artists like Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki and Gábor Csupó. Then he started to try to do animations when he was 10 - inspired by Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball.
During this time he developed his skills both as an animator and background painter into professional level although he never attended any art school - he taught himself only from books.
He both writes and creates his products.
Competition winning and international career beginnings
In early 2009, Pap decided to make his first own cartoon, but because he wouldn't be able to dub it he decided to create a music video.
He started to work on the video for "Speakerphone", then he sent a 20 second long preview to the singer's management. Soon after that an international competition was announced by Kylie Minogue for her "Speakerphone" track. Pap finished his video and submitted along with a lot of other submissions internationally but in the end he won the contest with his first work and at the age of 19.
On 4 October his music video premiered in Hollywood before Minogue's concert in the Bowl. The video can be seen on her official website.
In 2014 he entered to several Film festivals with his first short film, 'Closer the Animation', which is available from 20 May at the same year.
Media attention
After the premier in Hollywood, the Hungarian media discovered that a Hungarian contestant had won - then the next few weeks Rudolf Pap was the main new in several magazines and television programs.
Next to the big attention, Pap received a lot of offers for music videos both from Hungary and internationally.
He told in an interview on Viva TV he already picked the two best offers - one from Hungary and one from Russia.
In mid October he was invited to Kecskemét (the Hungarian basis of animation) to premier his video first in Hungary in a local cinema.
To bring something new to this event, Pap created a short film - a crossover with the characters of his two biggest inspirations - Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball. The short film called Cross Tale and its trailer were shown on the Hungarian MTV on October - after that, Pap got an offer for dubbing if he would make a decent cartoon from Cross Tale. Because of this Pap converted the short film into a teaser trailer - to not reveal the story of Cross Tale. According to this trailer, he will make an OVA and it will premiere in 2010.
In the August issue of AS Magazine there was an interview with him, where he said that he has some difficulties with the rights, so the progress of the project is slowed down.
In 2011 he won the "Most Anticipated New Artist" award at the Swiss Animation Awards.
Other projects
Next to being an animator he is a university student and has been a model for 2 years. He was discovered in 2009 by his agent in a restaurant while he was with one of his friends. Since then he signed to Visage Models and working internationally.
He was the cover model for the 2010 fashion exhibition "Face killed the reality" in Prague and featured in the May issue of In Style Magazine.
At the end of 2010 he was featured in various international editorials and was one of the face of Hungarian label, Poster Urban Outfit FW2010.
According to some of his interviews and his DeviantArt account he is making a comics series called "Snow Petals" - The first chapter was released on 28 May in Animestars Magazine, followed by the second in August. Currently he is searching for publishers internationally.
References
Hungarian animators
1991 births
Living people
Film people from Budapest
Models from Budapest
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A. G. W. Sango (born 1868) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and school founder in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was one of Muskogee's most prominent African-American leaders.
Life
Sango was born a half mile north of Muskogee by the Arkansas River. He received a 160 acre allotment and worked as a teacher.
Sango organized and led the Creek Citizens Bank and served as treasurer of Sango Baptist College, a school for African American Creek he organized.
Sango was the first editor of the Muskogee Sun, which launched in 1893. He also served as president of the Muskogee Businessmen's League.
In 1921, Sango was suspended from practicing law for six months.
Sango was a Republican.
References
19th-century American journalists
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
African-American journalists
19th-century American lawyers
20th-century American lawyers
African-American lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
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Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007.
Wiley-Blackwell is now an imprint that publishes a diverse range of academic and professional fields, including biology, medicine, physical sciences, technology, social science, and the humanities.
Blackwell Publishing history
Blackwell Publishing was formed by the 2001 merger of two Oxford-based academic publishing companies, Blackwell Science (founded 1939 as Blackwell Scientific Publishing) and Blackwell Publishers (founded 1922 as Basil Blackwell & Mott, Blackwell Publishers from 1926), which had their origins in the nineteenth century Blackwell's family bookshop and publishing business. The merger created the world's leading learned society publisher. The group then acquired BMJ Books from the BMJ Publishing Group (publisher of the British Medical Journal) in 2004. Blackwell published over 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in 2006, across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects.
On November 17, 2006, John Wiley & Sons announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing. The acquisition was completed in February 2007, at a purchase price of £572 million. Blackwell Publishing was merged into Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to create Wiley-Blackwell. From June 30, 2008, the journals previously on Blackwell Synergy were delivered through Wiley InterScience.
See also
List of journals published by Wiley-Blackwell
References
External links
Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1922
Companies based in Oxford
Commercial digital libraries
Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
American companies established in 1922
American digital libraries
Wiley (publisher)
1932 establishments in the United States
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Gergő Gyönyörű (born 12 March 2001) is a Hungarian football midfielder who plays for OTP Bank Liga club Debrecen.
Career statistics
References
External links
profile
2001 births
Living people
People from Debrecen
Hungarian footballers
Association football midfielders
Debreceni VSC players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
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Axel Leonard Melander (3 June 1878 Chicago – 14 August 1962 ) was an American entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.
His collection is shared between the German Entomological Institute and the Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University. He was a professor at Washington State University and City College of New York.
References
External links
Hany Abdoun Bio
American entomologists
Dipterists
Hymenopterists
1878 births
1962 deaths
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Harvard University alumni
Washington State University faculty
City College of New York faculty
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Debre Sina is a town in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Located in Semien Shewa (North Shewa) zone the town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2630 to 2830 meters above sea level. Although the district was named after this town, the administrative center of the Debre Sina district is located in Mekane Selam. Debre Sina is located along Ethiopian Highway 2. Just west of Debre Sina, the national highway reaches its highest point at 3120 meters above sea level. Just below the top of the Termaber pass, a tunnel was constructed by the Italians in 1938. The highest elevations along this escarpment reach beyond 3300 meters.
Hydrologically, Debre Sina is located in the Afar endoreic basin. Just to the west of Debre Sina, the Termaber pass crosses the continental divide into the Jamma River and Nile basin.
History
20th century
During the Italian occupation, the Termaber Pass was referred to as the "passo Mussolini".
References
Further reading and external links
Populated places in the Amhara Region
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Andressa Alves da Silva (born 10 November 1992), commonly known as Andressa Alves or simply Andressa, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Roma under the management of Alessio Sundas. She previously played for Barcelona of the Spanish Primera División. She won her first cap for the Brazilian national team in 2012 and has represented her country at multiple World Cups.
Club career
Andressa transferred from Centro Olímpico to Ferroviária in May 2013. In November 2013, Andressa left Ferroviária to sign for 2013 Copa Libertadores Femenina winners São José.
In November 2014 she ended her stay in São José and signed a contract with NWSL team Boston Breakers. Ultimately she never joined the Breakers as she was instead called into Brazil's residency camp for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. During the World Cup, French club Montpellier announced that they had concluded the transfer of Andressa.
Andressa left Montpellier after one season, signing for FC Barcelona in June 2016. She left the Spanish club in 2019. Andressa then moved to Italy and signed for Roma on the 15th July 2019. Her performances for club and country led to her being shortlisted for the FIFPro World 11 award in September 2019. Andressa made her debut for Roma as a wide forward, but was soon re-positioned in deep midfield for the rest of the Serie A 2019-20 season. In her second season with the Italian club, Andressa frequently switched roles between deep midfield and attacking midfield depending on the opponents Roma were facing. She has been relied upon by Roma as one of the chief playmakers in the team, choosing to extend her stay with the club with a new contract in May 2021.
Two days after she signed her contract extension, Andressa would start for Roma in the 2021 Coppa Italia final against AC Milan. Roma won the match on penalties and Andressa helped Roma win its first major trophy.
International career
After representing Brazil in the 2010 and 2012 editions of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Andressa made her senior debut at the 2012 Torneio Internacional Cidade de São Paulo de Futebol Feminino.
At the 2014 Copa América Femenina, Andressa scored the second goal in Brazil's 6–0 rout of Argentina. At the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored the only goal in Brazil's group match against Spain, which secured her team's place in the second round. After Brazil's subsequent elimination by Australia, she remained in Canada as part of the winning Brazilian team at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
International goals
Style of play
Barcelona described Andressa as: "a left-footed player who can slot in anywhere on the left hand side of the park, and who is especially attack-minded in her approach to the game". It was also noted that she is versatile enough to play on the right or as a centre-forward, and that she is relatively experienced for a 23-year-old after playing international football for four seasons.
Andressa uses her ability to shield the ball in possession all over the pitch, appearing in a number of roles for both club and country. She has played as a full-back at senior level for Brazil, as well as a deep-lying midfield playmaker for Italian club Roma. Her dribbling ability with the ball makes her elusive when opponents try to close her down, and her ability to pick out the right pass means her teams frequently trust her with playmaking responsibilities in order to keep her side in control of the game. Andressa also shows notable ability when it comes to direct free-kick attempts on goal, as well as calm under pressure from the penalty spot.
Personal life
Andressa is married to Francielle.
References
External links
Profile at Montpellier HSC
Andressa Alves – 2015 Pan American Games profile
1992 births
Living people
Brazilian women's footballers
Brazil women's international footballers
Associação Desportiva Centro Olímpico players
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Women's association football forwards
Expatriate women's footballers in France
Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
Brazilian expatriate women's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in France
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Montpellier HSC (women) players
Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Primera División (women) players
FC Barcelona Femení players
Olympic footballers of Brazil
Division 1 Féminine players
A.S. Roma Women players
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Pan American Games medalists in football
Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
LGBT association football players
LGBT sportspeople from Brazil
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
FIFA Century Club
21st-century LGBT people
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Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Sculpin, named in honor of the sculpin.
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The Kawasaki P-1 (previously P-X, XP-1) is a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft developed and manufactured by Kawasaki Aerospace Company. Unlike many maritime patrol aircraft, which are typically conversions of civilian designs, the P-1 is a purpose-built maritime aircraft with no civil counterpart and was designed from the onset for the role. It has the distinction of being the first operational aircraft in the world to make use of a fly-by-optics control system.
The P-1 has entered service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as a replacement for the P-3C Orion. On 26 March 2013, the JMSDF took delivery of the first two operational P-1 aircraft. Export customers are also being sought for the type as part of a general loosening of Japanese military export restrictions.
Development
Observing that its fleet of P-3C aircraft had been in service for some time, the JMSDF began searching for a replacement maritime patrol aircraft. Since other similar aircraft produced abroad did not meet the JMSDF's requirements, the development of a purpose-built indigenous aircraft became necessary. The Japanese Defense Agency (JDA) submitted the domestic development of a P-X maritime patrol aircraft as part of its April 2001 – March 2006 Five-Year Defense Plan. In 2001, following its earlier proposal, the Kawasaki Aerospace Company received prime contractor status for the P-X program, as well as the adjacent C-X program for a next generation cargo aircraft; this selection process occurred almost 30 years since the previous large-scale domestic development of an aircraft in Japan.
The P-X shares some components with the C-X, later designated as the twin-engined Kawasaki C-2, another indigenously developed aircraft to replace the Kawasaki C-1 and C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft. Although the P-X and C-X designs were originally independent, it was decided that having common components to both designs would be useful. The JDA mandated that the two aircraft share identical body components; common components include the cockpit windows, outer wings, horizontal stabilizer, and other systems. Internal shared parts include the auxiliary power unit, cockpit panel, flight control system computer, anti-collision lights, and gear control unit. Due to the different roles of the two aircraft, they remain distinctly separate. The sharing of development resources had allowed for a large reduction in overall development costs which, when including the C-2, were reported in 2007 as being .
In addition to a level of commonality with the C-2, one proposed derivative of the P-1 is a civilian airliner, the proposed project has typically been referred to as the Kawasaki YPX. If development is pursued, the YPX would make extensive use of technology and components of the P-1, such as the wingbox, empennage, and fuselage.
An indigenously produced turbofan engine, the IHI Corporation F7, was also developed to power the P-X. By April 2004, the JDA had completed a successful evaluation of five XF7 research engines, by which point it was viewed as being the sole candidate powerplant for the P-X program. In May 2005, the IHI Corporation received a contract for an additional seven XF-7 test engines from the JDA following the completion of initial tests in December 2004, four of these engines were to equip the first flight test aircraft. The Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC)-equipped F7 engine had a bypass ratio of 8:1, which was reported as being substantially higher than rivals such as the General Electric CF34-8E.
In April 2004, Japan and US extended discussions on potential cooperative efforts on the P-X and US Navy's Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) programmes; options ranged from terminating the P-X program to participate in the US-led MMA program to incorporating some of the MMA's technology onto the P-X to reduce costs. The Japanese Defence Ministry ultimately opted to persist with the P-X program, stating that: "there was a possibility that foreign aircraft would not satisfy the required capability and there was a possibility that foreign aircraft would not meet the required period of introduction...it is necessary to domestically develop the aircraft". In addition to the P-1, studies were also conducted into the use of ship-based UAVs to support maritime aviation activities.
Since 2014, Japan has been making approaches to other nations for prospective export sales of the P-1. New Zealand was the first country to which the P-1 had been offered in what had been referred to by a Japanese official as a "one on one fight with Boeing's P-8 patrol plane." The P-1 was offered in conjunction with the C-2 to give New Zealand the advantage of commonality for their patrol and transport aircraft. On 9 July 2018 New Zealand selected the P-8 Poseidon instead.
Japanese officials have claimed that the P-1 is a more capable, albeit more expensive, aircraft than the Boeing P-8 Poseidon; in comparison to the P-8, the P-1 has a greater range, a larger bomb bay, and has been purpose-built for the maritime patrol mission. Prior to 2015, the P-1 was being procured at a typical rate of one or two aircraft deliveries per year; in 2015, this changed to a bulk order for 20 P-1s as part of a measure to cut the aircraft's unit costs. By October 2016, 10 P-1s had been delivered to the JMSDF, with 60 or more aircraft needed to replace Japan's P-3C fleet; production will rise to about five annually.
Design
The Kawasaki P-1 is a purpose-built maritime patrol aircraft equipped with four engines. The P-1 is powered by four podded IHI F7-10 turbofan engines underneath the low-set wings. The four-engine low-wing loading design adopted for the P-1 results in a flight profile with better maneuverability and stability at low-speed, low-altitude flight and allows the aircraft to continue its mission in the event of a single engine failure. As well as greater operational survivability, the high-bypass engines provide for quiet, fuel-efficient operation. The P-1 has reduced transit times in comparison to turboprop-powered competitors, and the turbofans are quieter, making it more difficult for submerged submarines to detect it acoustically.
The P-1 is equipped with many newly developed technologies and features, particularly in terms of its avionics and missions systems. One such key feature is the use of a fly-by-optics flight control system, which essentially replaces standard metal wiring with optical fiber cables. This has the effect of decreasing electro-magnetic disturbances to the sensors in comparison to more common fly-by-wire control systems. The P-1 is the first production aircraft in the world to be equipped with such a flight control system. Various onboard systems are provided by Honeywell, which is the largest non-Japanese supplier to the project, such as the auxiliary power unit, environmental and pressurization control systems, ram air turbine, sonobuoy dispensers and elements of the avionics.
The P-1 is equipped with various sensors to enable the aircraft to perform its primary purpose of detecting submarines and surface vessels; these include the Toshiba HPS-106 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar which uses a total of four antennas to provide 360 degree coverage, and Infrared/Light detection systems for surface detection. The P-1 is also furnished with a CAE Inc.-built magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) embedded into the aircraft's tail, along with deployable sonobuoys, which is used for the detection of submerged submarines. Sophisticated acoustic systems are also used for this purpose. The P-1 has an artificial intelligence (AI) system to assist TACCO operations; similar to the SH-60K, this advanced combat direction system directs the TACCO operator to the optimal flight course to attack a submarine.
A large bomb bay housed within the main fuselage, similar in size to that of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod's, contains the bulk of the aircraft's munitions. The bomb bay is supplemented by a total of eight external hardpoints mounted on the wings. Weapons available on the P-1 include torpedoes, mines, depth charges, air-to-surface missiles (ASMs) (such as the US-built Harpoon), or bombs. Armaments are managed by a Smith Aerospace-built stores management system, which includes a newly developed Universal Stores Control Unit (USCU) capable of accommodating hundreds of different munitions, including future ones and precision weapons. Multiple radar warning receivers provide all-round awareness of missile threats, which is combined with a defensive countermeasures suite.
Operational history
On 31 August 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Defense revealed that they would procure four production airframes. The request in the FY2008 budget was , the unit price for each aircraft at US$141.5 million. In 2013, the ministry ordered two units for ¥44.5 billion. These P-1s were reported to possess increased detection/discrimination capability, flight performance, information processing capability, and strike capabilities as a successor to the existing P-3C fixed-wing patrol aircraft.
In June 2007, Kawasaki rolled out the XP-1, a prototype for the P-X program. The rollout had been delayed for three months due to the discovery of defective rivets provided by a US supplier which required remedial repairs to be performed. On 28 September 2007, the XP-1 conducted its maiden flight from Gifu Air Field, Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan; this flight lasted about one hour and ended successfully. The P-X was redesignated XP-1 at this time. By March 2010, Kawasaki Heavy Industries had delivered four XP-1 maritime patrol test aircraft to Japanese Ministry of Defense; the company also stated its aim for type certification to be achieved in time for the formal delivery of the first two aircraft by the end of March 2012.
On 8 August 2011, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that two aircraft used for ground testing had developed tears in various parts of the craft, including the fuel tank and central part of the fuselage. In response, modifications to reinforce the affected areas were planned. By October 2012, the problems had been reportedly resolved. On 26 March 2013, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force took delivery of its first pair of P-1s, ahead of a planned two years of test flights. On 14 May 2013, these aircraft were grounded after one developed an unstable combustion condition in some of its engines during mid-flight.
During efforts to sell the aircraft to the UK, a pair of P-1s (one of Air Development Squadron 51 and one of Air Patrol Squadron 3 were present for the 2015 Royal International Air Tattoo, one aircraft performing a flying display while the other was on static display; this was the first time that any Japanese military aircraft had performed in a European flight display. After its UK appearance, the P-1s proceeded to the Japan Self-Defense Force Base Djibouti at Ambouli International Airport, Djibouti, to continue with operational trials within tropical and desert climates.
In November 2016, two P-1s in New Zealand to celebrate the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary took part in damage surveys after the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake along with P-3 Orions of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the United States Navy.
In June 2017 a P-1 appeared at the Paris Air Show.
In August 2017 Air Patrol Squadron 3 became the first all P-1 operational squadron.
In December 2018, the Japanese Ministry of Defense alleged that a Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyer of the South Korean Navy locked its separate target illumination radar onto a P-1 belonging to Air Patrol Squadron 3. The South Korean Navy stated that it had used the radar of an optical camera system and not a fire control system. The incident led to a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea.
Potential operators
France
In 2018 it was reported that Kawasaki was offering the P-1 to France to replace its Breguet Atlantic aircraft.
Thailand
In 2016 it was reported that Thailand is considering purchasing the aircraft.
Vietnam
There have been reports that Vietnam is considering buying used P-3 Orions from either the JMSDF or the US Navy or the Kawasaki P-1.
Failed bids
Germany
The P-1 was reportedly offered to Germany as a replacement for its P-3C Orion aircraft in 2018. However, in September 2020, Germany was no longer considering the P-1 due to concerns the aircraft would not be able to achieve military type certification within a required five years time frame.
United Kingdom
In January 2015, it was reported that Tokyo was holding a series of defence talks with the United Kingdom to ascertain a possible sale of P-1s to the Royal Air Force to replace their recently retired fleet of Hawker Siddeley Nimrod patrol aircraft. The proposal was part of a wider initiative to lower restrictions on Japanese military exports. It was claimed that Britain may consider jointly manufacturing the type, and that the nation could retain rights over related radar and sensor technologies. On November 23, 2015 the UK announced it would buy the Boeing P-8 Poseidon instead of the Kawasaki P-1.
New Zealand
New Zealand requested information on the P-1 and Kawasaki C-2 to meet the country's patrol and transport aircraft needs. This request was met with unclassified information in September 2016 and a more detailed proposal including purchase price, manufacturing arrangements, and maintenance complete by mid-2017. This put the P-1 in direct competition with the P-8. On July 9, 2018 it was announced that New Zealand had selected the P-8.
Operators
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Air Development Squadron 51 (2013–present)
Air Patrol Squadron 3 (2015–present)
Variants
XP-1: Prototype, later reclassified as UP-1 and assigned to Air Development Squadron 51
YPX: A cancelled two-engine airliner variant
Specifications (XP-1)
See also
References
External links
Kawasaki P-1 webpage
Technical Research and Development Institute, Ministry of Defense (Japanese)
Pictures of Kawasaki XP-1
P-1
2000s Japanese patrol aircraft
Quadjets
Low-wing aircraft
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Tabernaemontana corymbosa is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is found in Brunei, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Glossy green leaves and faintly sweet scented flower. Flowers continuously all year. Frost tolerant. Grows to about 2metres. Likes full sun to part shade. A number of cultivars are available.
Chemical composition
Multiple compounds of different classes such as Iboga alkaloids and Bisindole alkaloids have been isolated from this plant. Alkaloids such as conodusine A-E, conolodinines A-D, conophylline, conophyllinine and taberyunines A-I are present in which many shows antiproliferative and cytotoxic actions.
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corymbosa
Least concern plants
Flora of Asia
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Irina Gabashvili (15 August 1960 – 23 March 2009) was a Georgian-born Soviet gymnast. She began gymnastics at age 10 and was coached by Neli Saladze. She was the 1979 World individual all-around bronze medalist.
Personal life
Born in Tbilisi, Gabashvili began gymnastics at age 10 and was coached by Neli Saladze. She was the 1979 World individual all-around bronze medalist. She earned a degree in history from Georgia State University and later a degree in physical culture education. Her sister, Eka, was a decade younger and a Georgian national junior high jump champion in 1985. Eka's coach, Serge Maevski, became a good friend of the family, then a good friend of Irina's. Romance blossomed, and they married on 7 April 1984. Their son, Dmitri, was born in 1986 after she had retired from competition.
In 1993, Irina was offered a position of coach for the Malaysian rhythmic team. She took the team from last place in 1994 to first place in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She spent seven years coaching the Malaysian gymnastics team, which won the team gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She moved to the U.S. in May 2000. Gabashvili coached in the United States from 2000 to 2008 and was a coach at Westside Gymnastics Academy in Portland, Oregon along with Wuling Stephenson and Bettina Megowan.
Marriage
She was married to Serge Maevski and had a son, Dmitri Maevski.
Death
Irina Gabashvili was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. She underwent chemotherapy, but the cancer eventually returned. She died on 23 March 2009 in Vancouver, Washington, aged 48. A memorial service was held at Holy New Martyrs of Russia Orthodox Church in Mulino, Oregon.
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1960 births
2009 deaths
Soviet rhythmic gymnasts
Rhythmic gymnasts from Georgia (country)
Deaths from breast cancer
Deaths from cancer in Washington (state)
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On 14 September 2015, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – in cooperation with the National Defence Forces (NDF) and the Al-Ba'ath Battalion – launched a fresh offensive inside the Aleppo Governorate's southeastern countryside in order to lift the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham's (ISIS) two-year-long siege of the isolated Kuweires Military Airbase. This offensive was later complemented by another effort starting mid-October further south, which would be aimed at cementing government control over the main logistical route to Aleppo from central Syria.
The main objective of the offensive was to lift the siege on the Kuweires Military Airport, and relieve the hundreds of soldiers locked into the Kuweires pocket for almost three years, as well as to give significant depth to the main line of communication to the Syrian and allied forces in the province from the south. Also there is a possible long-term goal of cutting the Aleppo–Raqqah highway and thereby bisecting ISIL in Syria.
Preparations
The origins of the planning of operations in the Aleppo area could be traced back to Gen. Qasem Soleimani's visit to Moscow in July 2015. Gen. Soleimani was reportedly sent to Syria by the supreme leader of Iran himself, Ali Khamenei, in order to discuss military matters with his Russian counterparts and coordinate a joint escalation of forces in Syria.
Military advisers, including high ranking generals from Iran's Quds force began deploying to Latakia, and soon moving to the points of engagement throughout the country in order to plan the coming ground offensives which would be augmented by Russian air-power. With so many Iranian generals patrolling and reconnoitering the front-lines of the Syrian civil war, three of the aforementioned were soon killed in action including a very senior Guards member, Gen. Hossein Hamadani, who was deputy to Qasem Soleimani.
The offensive
Beginning on 15 September, the government forces launched attacks along the north-western rim of the al-Jaboul Lake in an attempt to drive the ISIL militants back towards the besieged air-base of Kuweires in eastern Aleppo. The offensive began with the Army and National Defense Forces taking control of the two hilltops at Tal Na'am and Tal Sab'in, which are located just north of Lake Jabboul.
However, ISIL was able to regroup not long after and launch a counter-attack in which they gained some of their lost territory and checked the rapid advance of the government forces. On 22 September, the intervention of the Syrian Air force enabled the ground forces to regain the initiative and continue their advance by capturing Salihiyah after sharp engagements with ISIL militants around the town and later gain Tal-Rayman in the drive east towards Kuweires.
Before dawn of 24 September 2015, the Russian Naval Infantry went into battle for the first time since their deployment to Syria, Debka file's military and intelligence sources reveal. The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade fought with Syrian Army and Hezbollah special forces in an attack on ISIL forces at the Kweiris air base, east of Aleppo.
On 4 October, the Russian Air Force attacked ISIS along the Dayr Hafir Highway, and the Thermal Plant. This allowed the government forces to enter the village of Ayn Sabil. A Syrian Army source claimed that 75 militants in the Aleppo governorate were killed in Russian airstrikes in the past two days.
On 16 October, government forces and Iraqi militia, reportedly captured the town of Al-Nasiriyah, following fighting that they claimed killed 25 ISIS fighters. They then advanced to the town of Barayjeh, some 7 km from Kuweires.
On 17 October, the military reportedly captured the village of Huwaija. By the next day, government forces took more areas, bringing the total of captured villages since the start of the offensive to five.
On 19 October, government forces captured the village of Bkayze, about seven kilometres from the air base, as well as two other villages near the base. They also captured parts of Dakwanah. The following day, the military seized parts of the Tal Sbi'ein area.
On 21 October, government forces took control of the Tal Sbi'ein area, including its hill, and two days later Dakwanah as well, bringing them to within four kilometers of the air base.
On 9 November, government forces captured the town of Sheikh Ahmad, two kilometers from the air base, setting the conditions for a final assault towards the airport.
On 10 November, government forces lifted the siege of the Kuweires air base after three years. Subsequently, the Army captured the villages of Rasm 'Abboud and 'Umm Arkileh near the airport, as a mass ISIL retreat from areas east of Aleppo. On the next day, the military, in coordination with its allies, captured the villages Jdaydet Arbin and Arbid in the vicinity of the Kuweires airbase.
In the last 24 hours of the fighting around the military airport, 60 ISIL militants, more than 20 Syrian soldiers, 13 Iranian and 8 Hezbollah fighters were killed.
On 13 November, government forces advanced 4.5 km along the Aleppo-Raqqa Highway, seizing the chemical production facility and positioned themselves at the Sisako Factory. On 16 November, the air base was officially declared secured after the Army seized the village of Kaskays. This marked the beginning of a new military offensive with the aim of expanding the buffer zone around the airport.
See also
Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
Operation Northern Storm
Operation Canopus Star
Operation Rainbow
Aleppo offensive (October–December 2015)
References
Military operations of the Syrian civil war in 2015
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Aleppo in the Syrian civil war
Dayr Hafir District
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Syrian government
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving Hezbollah
Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving Quds Force
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Ivan Kakovitch (December 9, 1933 in Kiev, USSR – December 22, 2006 in Paris, France) was an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He wrote the Assyrian manifesto and the novel Mount Semele.
An ethnic Assyrian, Ivan's family fled the Assyrian homeland in Iraq, during the Simele massacre of August 1933. The massacre would be a topic that Ivan would be obsessed with all his life.
In 1938, at the age of 5, Ivan’s family moved to Kazakhstan, where he began primary school. In 1944, the family moved again, but this time back to an Assyrian community in Tehran, Iran. In Iran, he attended San Louis French Parochial school, with his two brothers, Thoma and Shurik. In 1956, at the age of 23, Ivan traveled to France and studied classical literature. A few years later, he moved to Strasburg, to further his education in the classics. In 1959, at the age of 26, Ivan moved to Washington, D.C., and obtained work at the Berlitz School of Languages. He taught Russian, French, and Persian. He also worked at the Voice of America simultaneously, interpreting and translating in Russian, French, and Persian. Ivan was also unique within the Assyrian community for his atheist belief system. As he expressed in his famous novel, Mount Semele, Ivan could never conceive the fact that there was yet another life after this one.
Ivan became well known in the late 1970s, when he wrote the Assyrian Manifesto; a blue print for the formation of an Assyrian interim government. Ivan presented the manifesto at the yearly Assyrian congress gathering in Chicago. Political groups such as the Assyrian Universal Alliance and the Bet Nahrain Democratic Party were enthusiastic and supportive of Ivan's blueprint. It was decided at that meeting that Ivan would be sent back to Washington to set up an office for the International Confederation of Assyrian Nation (ICAN). Many of the Assyrian political organizations did support the ICAN office financially, but after just a few short months, Ivan was told that they could not support the project financially anymore.
Residing in Cypress, California, Ivan finally finished writing the story he was obsessed with from birth, writing the novel Mount Semele in 2001. The Simele Massacre of the Assyrian people, impacted not only Ivan’s family, who were forced to flee their village in Iraq, moving from country to country, but affected Ivan’s own personal life, as well.
On December 21, 2006, while vacationing in France, Ivan died surprisingly, despite not having too many health problems throughout his life. He was interred on Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Bibliography
Mount Semele (Mandrill, 2001)
1933 births
American people of Iraqi-Assyrian descent
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Joey McFarland (born April 30, 1972) is an American film producer and the founder of McFarland Entertainment, a content development and production company for both film and television. He was previously vice chairman of Red Granite Pictures.
Life and career
Joey McFarland is an American film producer. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he attended DeSales High School and the University of Louisville.
In 2010, with producing partner Riza Aziz, McFarland co-founded Red Granite Pictures. In 2011, Variety named McFarland to their list of Top 10 Producers to Watch.
McFarland's first production under the Red Granite banner was the romantic comedy, Friends with Kids. Written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, Friends with Kids also stars Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd. In 2012 McFarland went on to executive produce the dramatic thriller, Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker and directed by Scott Cooper.
Next McFarland produced The Wolf of Wall Street. The Wolf of Wall Street is based upon Jordan Belfort's best-selling novel of the same name. The book was adapted into a screenplay by Terence Winter. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew Mcconaughey, Margot Robbie and was directed by Martin Scorsese. Released on December 25, 2013 by Paramount Pictures, The Wolf of Wall Street is a box office success and garnered critical acclaim - including a Golden Globe win for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy for star Leonardo DiCaprio and five Academy Award nominations including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture for which McFarland received a nomination.
In 2013, McFarland completed production on Horns, a supernatural thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and directed by Alexandre Aja. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Joe Hill and was released October 31, 2014 by Dimension-RADiUS.
McFarland was also a producer on the sequel Dumb and Dumber To, directed by Pete and Bobby Farrelly. The film featured Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels again playing Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, respectively, and was released on November 14, 2014 by Universal Pictures. It opened number one at the box office to generally negative reviews.
McFarland was executive producer on the film [[Daddy's Home (film)|Daddy's Home]] directed by Sean Anders and John Morris. Shot in New Orleans, it re-teamed Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg for the first time since 2010. Red Granite Pictures co-produced and co-financed the film with Paramount Pictures, in association with Gary Sanchez Productions. Paramount Pictures was also the worldwide distribution partner. The film was released on December 25, 2015.
McFarland produced Papillon, a remake of the 1973 film of the same name based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film starred Charlie Hunnam as Henri Charrière ("Papillon"), and Rami Malek as Louis Dega. It premiered in September 2017 at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Papillon was released August 24, 2018.
In 2018, he formed the independent production company for both television and film called McFarland Entertainment.
1MDB scandal
In 2019, McFarland agreed to voluntarily surrender to the US government a series of luxury goods allegedly bought with money that could be traced back to the Malaysian 1MDB state fund.
FilmographyHe was producer for all films unless otherwise noted.''
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The 20th Panzer Division () was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II. It was created from parts of the 19th Infantry Division.
The division fought exclusively on the Eastern Front, taking part in the battles of Moscow and Kursk. It eventually surrendered to US and Soviet forces in Czechoslovakia in May 1945.
History
The 20th Panzer Division was formed on 15 October 1940 after the decision had been made to weaken the existing German tank divisions to create new ones. The new division drew units from various active and reserve units, among them the 19th Infantry Division which had been converted to a tank division itself, having become the 19th Panzer Division.
Attached to Army Group Center, the division participated in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa and remained in the front echelon of attack during the series of advances on Minsk, Smolensk and took part in Operation Typhoon, the failed attack on Moscow. It remained on the central front during the winter of 1941–42, engaged in defensive operations and retreat. In March 1942 it was withdrawn to Bryansk for refitting and a rest after heavy casualties during the winter that lead to disbanding of a number of its units.
The 20th Panzer Division, consisting of just one of the nominal three tank battalions, remained in the central sector of the Eastern Front, taking part in the capture of Voronezh in mid-1942 but otherwise engaged in defensive operations. It took part in the defence of Orel in the winter of 1942–43 and, in July 1943, was part of the northern spearhead during the battle of Kursk. The rest of 1943 was spent in a long retreat between Orel, Gomel, Orsha, and Vitebsk.
The 20th Panzer Division spent the winter of 1944 fighting in the Polotsk, Vitebsk, Bobruisk and Cholm areas. Having suffered heavy losses during the Red Army's Operation Bagration, the division was sent to Romania for refitting in August 1944. In October, the division was sent to East Prussia, and then sent to Hungary on 6 January, 1945, to partake in the Garam (S:Hron) battles raging in northern Hungary. It then retreated through Breslau, Schweinitz and Neisse in Silesia (now part of Poland). The division was transferred to Görlitz (east of Dresden on the post-1945 German frontier with Poland). On 19 April 1945, the division was involved in a counteroffensive west of Görlitz in the direction of Niesky, but disengaged three days later and retreated west. It counterattacked again in the Bautzen area, succeeding in relieving the local garrison at heavy cost to Soviet forces. By 26 April 1945, the division was situated northwest of Dresden; by 6 May it retreated south across the Czechoslovakian border. Some divisional elements surrendered to the Red Army near Teplice-Sanov (northwest of Prague), whilst the rest, including elements of Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20. surrendered to the U.S. Army at Rokycany, (between Prague and Plzeň); they were handed over to the Soviet forces.
Organization
The organisation of the division:
1941
Schützen-Brigade 20
Schützen-Regiment 59
Schützen-Battalion I
Schützen-Battalion II
Schützen-Regiment 112
Schützen-Battalion I
Schützen-Battalion II
Kradschützen-Battalion 20
Panzer-Regiment 21
Panzer-Abteilung I
Panzer-Abteilung II
Panzer-Abteilung III
Artillerie-Regiment 92
Artillerie-Abteilung I
Artillerie-Abteilung II
Artillerie-Abteilung III
Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 92
Pionier-Battalion 92
Nachrichten-Abteilung 92
1942
Panzergrenadier-Regiment 59
Panzergrenadier-Battalion I
Panzergrenadier-Battalion II
Panzergrenadier-Regiment 112
Panzergrenadier-Battalion I
Panzergrenadier-Battalion II
Panzer-Regiment 21
Panzer-Abteilung I
Panzer-Abteilung II
Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 92
Panzer-Artillerie-Abteilung I
Panzer-Artillerie-Abteilung II
Panzer-Artillerie-Abteilung III
Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20
Heeres-Flak-Artillerie-Abteilung 295
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 92
Panzer-Pionier-Battalion 92
Panzer-Nachrichten-Abteilung 92
Commanding officers
The commanders of the division:
Generalleutnant Horst Stumpff, 13 November 1940 – 10 September 1941
Oberst Georg von Bismarck, 10 September 1941 – 13 October 1941 (acting)
Generalmajor Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 14 October 1941 – 30 June 1942
Generalmajor Walter Düvert, 1 July 1942 – 10 October 1942
Oberst Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 10 October 1942 – 30 November 1942 (acting)
Generalmajor Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 1 December 1942 – 11 May 1943
Generalleutnant Mortimer von Kessel, 12 May 1943 – 1 January 1944
Oberst Werner Marcks, 1 January 1944 – 1 February 1944 (acting)
Generalleutnant Mortimer von Kessel, 2 February 1944 – 5 November 1944
Oberst Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, 6 November 1944 – 31 December 1944 (acting)
Generalmajor Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, 1 January 1945 – 8 May 1945
References
Bibliography
Windrow, Martin. "The Panzer Divisions", Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1982,
Cornish, Nik. "Images of Kursk", Brassey's, 2002,
External links
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
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"Is the glass half empty or half full?" is a proverbial phrase, used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for pessimism (half-empty) or optimism (half full), or as a litmus test to simply determine an individual's worldview. The purpose of the question is to demonstrate that the situation may be seen in different ways depending on one's point of view.
See also
Cooperative principle
Cognitive bias in animals
Framing effects (psychology)
Framing (social sciences)
Less-is-better effect
List of cognitive biases
Silver lining (idiom)
References
Motivation
English-language idioms
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Ruth Badger (born March 1978) is a British businesswoman, best known as the 2006 runner-up in the second series of the UK version of reality TV show The Apprentice, in which contestants compete for a £100,000-a-year job working for British business magnate Sir Alan Sugar. She has also presented her own TV show, Badger or Bust, and done various other TV work.
Badger has her own consultancy firm, Ruth Badger Consultancy Ltd, with offices in Salford Quays, Salford, and runs North West Money, a company which provides finance for homeowners.
Biography
Born in Wolverhampton, Badger was educated at Wodensfield Primary School in Wednesfield and then at Our Lady & St Chad RC comprehensive school, leaving in 1995 with 3 GCSEs. She then worked as a civil servant at her local Jobcentre. During this period she also worked as a barmaid at several pubs in Wolverhampton and as a steward at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. After several years as a civil servant, she started working in the finance industry, earning "National Employee of the year" awards with GE Capital in Wolverhampton. Ruth went on to greater success in 2002 with Compass Finance Limited near Manchester. She played a fundamental role in its stock market flotation, increased turnover and achieved an executive-level position at the young age of 24.
The Apprentice
Prior to appearing on The Apprentice, Badger worked as a senior management executive for Compass Finance.
Despite being on many losing teams, Badger excelled in many of the task challenges, most notably the car sales in week six and the flat-letting in week nine (although she was on the losing team on both occasions). She was brought into the boardroom on four occasions and had altercations with fellow contestants Mani Sandher in week five and Syed Ahmed in week ten.
During the airing of The Apprentice Badger came to the attention of the British press. She is openly lesbian and has now divorced her husband who sold their story to the tabloids.
Badger appeared on The Apprentice spin-off show The Apprentice: You're Fired! on 27 May 2008 following Michael Sophocles, and again on 5 November 2014 during the show's 10th series.
National Television Awards nomination
Badger was nominated for a National Television Award, for which she competed against fellow The Apprentice contestant Syed Ahmed and Big Brother 7 housemate Nikki Grahame, amongst others. Badger failed to make it through to the second stage of online voting and the award was eventually won by Grahame.
The Big Idea
Badger featured on The Big Idea on Sky One in 2006, which gave "budding entrepreneurs" the chance to showcase their inventions. Viewers and a studio audience eventually chose a winner who was given a £100,000 investment to build and market their idea. The winner was Cyclaire, which was one of the products backed by Ruth Badger.
Badger or Bust
Badger was the star of her own show, Badger or Bust, on Sky One, which started on 8 May 2007 and finished in autumn 2007. In this show she used her sales expertise to help failing businesses.
Television and other appearances
Badger has also appeared on episodes of Big Brother's Little Brother and as a panellist on Channel 4 show 8 Out of 10 Cats. On 4 December 2008, Badger appeared on the BBC show Bargain Hunt Famous Finds against socialite Tamara Beckwith. Badger also appeared on the BBC quiz show Pointless Celebrities, where she made it to the semi-final.
See also
List of residents of Wolverhampton
References
External links
Ruth Badger Consultancy
The Apprentice
Badger or Bust
1978 births
Living people
People from Wolverhampton
English businesspeople
English women in business
LGBT people from England
LGBT businesspeople from the United Kingdom
The Apprentice (British TV series) candidates
Participants in British reality television series
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List of television shows set in Las Vegas
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This is a list of television shows set in the Las Vegas Valley:
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|| 2021 || || CSI:Vegas || CBS || || Crime drama series, based on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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|| 2014 || || Strip 'N rip || Discovery Channel || || Steve Darnell customizes cars and specializes in rat rods .
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|| 2010 || || American Restoration || History || Leftfield Pictures || Chronicles the daily activities at Rick's Restorations, an antique restoration store, with its owner Rick Dale, his staff, and teenage son, as they restore various vintage to their original condition. A spin-off of Pawn Stars .
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|| 2013 || || Bad Ink || A&E || Sharp Entertainment || Reality series following tattoo artist and musician Dirk Vermin, owner of Pussykat Tattoo in Las Vegas.
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|| 1977 || 1977 || Blansky's Beauties || ABC || || Sitcom canceled after only 13 episodes. The series was a spin-off of Happy Days.
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|| 2005 || 2005 || Caesars 24/7 || A&E || || Reality show.
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||2012 || || Casino Confidential ||TLC || || Reality television program showing behind the scenes at Binion's Casino in Downtown Las Vegas
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|| 2004 || 2006 ||Celebrity Poker Showdown || Bravo|| || Texas hold 'em tournament
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|| 1982 || || Clive James in Las Vegas || London Weekend Television || || Clive James
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|| 2012 || || Counting Cars || History || Leftfield Pictures || Reality series chronicling the daily activities at Count's Kustoms, an automobile restoration and customization company. A spin-off of Pawn Stars.
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|| 1986 || 1988 || Crime Story || NBC || || starring Dennis Farina
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|| 2000 || 2015 || CSI: Crime Scene Investigation || CBS || || Crime drama series
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|| 2010 || 2011 || The Defenders || CBS ||CBS Productions|| starring Jerry O'Connell and James Belushi. Canceled after one season.
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|| 2004|| 2005 || Father of the Pride || NBC || DreamWorks || 13 episodes. Cancelled after one Season.
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|| 1992 || || Hearts Are Wild || CBS || || on Saturday evenings set at the Caesars Palace
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|| 2006 || || Heroes || NBC || || Features a fictional casino called "The Corinthian", owned by mob boss Daniel Linderman; characters of Niki Sanders, D. L. Hawkins, and Micah Sanders are from Las Vegas
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|| 2006 || || High Stakes Poker || GSN || || Poker series focusing on cash games rather than tournaments
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|| 1985 || 1985 || Jem || NBC || Hasbro, Marvel Productions, and Sunbow Productions || The Holograms are scheduled to play a concert at a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. When they discover that the Misfits are their opening act, they start to worry. The Misfits bring along Ashley and use her to lure Aja away, hoping that if Aja isn't there, the Holograms can't play and the Misfits will headline instead. Fortunately, Aja comes back in time, and they perform. Unfortunately, while the girls are on stage Eric Raymond's goons steal the money from the concert and frame Jem. Stormer and Ashley team up to tell the truth, and Jem's name is cleared.
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|| 2003 || || Lucky || FX || || Starring John Corbett
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|| 2011 || 2011 || The Lying Game || ABC Family ||
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|| 1990 || || Married... with Children || Fox Network || || Season 4, episode #16 "You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 1" and episode #17 "You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 2"
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|| 2009 || || Pawn Stars || History || Leftfield Pictures || Produced at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, 713 Las Vegas Blvd S
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|| 2007|| || Poker After Dark || NBC || || late night poker television
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|| 2002 || 2003 || The Real World: Las Vegas || MTV || || Reality television program
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|| 2011 || 2011 || The Real World: Las Vegas (2011) || MTV || || Reality television program
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|| 2009 || || Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel || truTV || || Reality series of goings on at the Rehab pool party at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
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|| 2014 || || Queen of Hearts || NBC || || Crime drama series
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|| 2007|| || The Surreal Life: Fame Games || VH1 || || Reality television program featuring past contestants of The Surreal Life|-
|| 2011 || || Tanked || Animal Planet || || Produced at Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, 3451 W . Martin Ave. Suite C
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|| 1962 ||1966 || Teenbeat Club || KLAS-TV || ||Interview and Dance Show Production with Steve Miller and Keith Austin, hosts
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|| 2005 || 2005 || Tilt || ESPN || ESPN Original Entertainment || Miniseries set in Las Vegas at the fictional World Championship of Poker (an obvious allusion to the World Series of Poker, covered by ESPN)
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|| 2002 || 2003 || Vegas Showgirls: Nearly Famous || || ||
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|| 2011 || || Vegas Strip || truTV || || Reality television program showing law enforcement officers patrolling the Las Vegas Strip
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|| 1978 || 1981 || Vega$ || ABC || || starring Robert Urich
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|| 2012 || 2013 || Vegas || CBS || || Premieres September 25, 2012; Tuesdays at 10:00
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|| 2007 || - || What Makes it Tick || Fine Living Network / Cooking Channel || NorthSouth Productions ||
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|| 2003 || - || World Poker Tour || Travel Channel, NBC || || several episodes
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|| 2015 || - || The Player (2015 TV series) || NBC || ||Thriller/Drama starring Philip Winchester. Wesley Snipes and Charity Wakefield.
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Miniseries, specials or individual episodesLucy-Desi Comedy Hour "Lucy Hunts Uranium"What's New, Scooby-Doo? "Riva Ras Regas"Rugrats "Vacation"Ben 10 "Tough Luck"iCarly "iLost My Head in Vegas"Timeless "Atomic City"Modern Family "Las Vegas"''
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Raine Storey (born 3 June 1995) is a Canadian artist known for her paintings, illustrations and multi-disciplinary designs.
Life and work
Raine was born to Sue and Chris Storey and grew up in Fenelon Falls, ON. Her mother is the daughter of the British-born Canadian artist Derek Woodhead and is a nationally decorated police officer. Storey consistently cites her grandfather as the chief influence on her work, stating in 2013 that, "He pushes me the most". She commented again in 2017, calling her grandfather, "a talented artist" who she is "closely tied with".
As a 15-year-old Fenelon Falls Secondary School student, Storey founded Raine Storey Illustration, taking private commissions, while selling her creations.
In 2013, Storey was awarded the Loran Award, the largest Canadian post-secondary scholarship, worth $100,000, for the funding of her entire undergraduate studies. Storey is the second visual artist to have received the award. As a Loran Scholar, Storey attended Queen's University in Kingston, ON within the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.) program, coupled with a minor in the History of Art. At Queen's, Storey was also the Graphic Director of the Queen's International Affairs Association.
In 2014, Storey held an exhibition in Toronto, entitled "Fashionably Illustrated". The following year, Storey spent the summer working in Quito, Ecuador as an art therapist. In Spring/Summer of 2016, she travelled to Sydney, Australia working largely on printmaking, including examples of lithography on silk.
Storey's most recent work is currently being displayed at Paul Lafrance's L'Artisan Gallery in Nautical Village in Pickering, Ontario. In a television interview Paul Lafrance and his wife Janna highlighted one of Storey's hand-painted silk scarves, while talking about the promotion of a new generation of artists.
References
External links
Raine Story Illustration
1995 births
Living people
Canadian women painters
Canadian printmakers
Artists from Ontario
21st-century Canadian artists
21st-century Canadian women artists
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Ann Frances Jarvis Greely (October 15, 1831- October 22, 1914) was a women's rights activist, abolitionist, business owner, and suffragist in Maine. Greely was one of the first women to own a business in Ellsworth, Maine (and in the state itself). She started a series of women's rights lectures in 1857, and was active in the women's suffrage movement in Maine. Greely helped support the Unitarian Church in Maine. In 1895, she was given the legal right to practice medicine.
Biography
Greely was born in Ellsworth, Maine on October 15, 1831. Greely attended private schools and Reverend Peter Nourse's school. Greely was likely influenced by Nourse to become a Unitarian Universalist. Greely was part of the First Unitarian Society in Ellsworth, founded in 1865. She was later involved in the building of a Unitarian Church in Ellsworth, which was opened in August o 1867.
Greely opened her own millinery store, named "Old Stand" in 1851. She was one of the first women to open her own business in Ellsworth and one of the first businesswomen in Maine. In 1853, she married Everard H. Greely, and Ann Greely continued to operate her own business.
Greely attended the Seneca Woman's Rights Convention in 1848. In 1857, Greely, her sister, Sarah Jarvis, and Charlotte Hill, created a committee that organized lectures on women's rights in Ellsworth. That March, Susan B. Anthony was one of their speakers and she gave a lecture to a crowded room at Whiting Hall. Greely was also an abolitionist and supported the temperance movement.
In 1873, Greely was at the organizing meeting of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA). She was involved in writing and signing many different women's suffrage petitions to the Maine Legislature. She also likely wrote opinion columns under the pen name, "Qui Est."
Greely also earned a special certificate to practice medicine in 1895. However, she never "engaged in general practice." She did act as a nurse to friends, family, and animals. She died on October 22, 1914.
References
Sources
1831 births
1914 deaths
People from Ellsworth, Maine
Businesspeople from Maine
American Unitarians
American suffragists
American abolitionists
American women's rights activists
19th-century American businesswomen
19th-century American businesspeople
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Jeremy Staunton (born 7 May 1980) is an Irish rugby union fly-half and Fullback, having retired in 2012 while playing for English club Leicester Tigers in the top level of English rugby, the English Premiership. He has also played at every level for Ireland.
He was educated at St Munchin's College Limerick and University of Limerick.
Staunton began his rugby career with his local team Galbally RFC in Co. Limerick, Ireland. Later, he played for Garryowen Football Club in the All-Ireland League before earning a contract with Munster in 1999, at the age of 19. He enjoyed five successful seasons with Munster, playing in both the fly-half and full back positions, helping Munster to win the Celtic League in February 2002. Seeing his opportunities limited behind Ronan O'Gara he joined Harlequins in the summer of 2004 before moving on to London Wasps in the summer of 2005. He was part of the Wasps side that won the Powergen Anglo-Welsh cup in 2006, the Heineken Cup in 2007 and the English Premiership in 2008, beating Leicester. He then joined Leicester in the summer of 2009 where he proved a very successful signing and helped to win two further Aviva Premiership titles for the club, playing in the 2010 final, as well as the LV Cup in March 2012 shortly before his retirement.
Staunton earned his first Irish cap on 11 November 2001 against Samoa, scoring a try on his debut international appearance. He earned a further two caps on the Irish tour to Japan in 2005 and also toured New Zealand and Australia with Ireland in June 2006, earning another cap. In June 2007, prior to the Rugby World Cup, he started at Fly-half for Ireland on their tour of Argentina.
Staunton is now a teacher of Mathematics and Technical Graphics in Castleknock College co. Dublin.
References
External links
Munster Profile
St Munchin's College
Leicester Profile
London Irish profile
Wasps profile
Jeremy Staunton ercrugby profile
Jeremy Staunton RBS profile
1980 births
Living people
Irish rugby union players
Ireland international rugby union players
Rugby union fly-halves
Munster Rugby players
Garryowen Football Club players
Wasps RFC players
London Irish players
Harlequin F.C. players
Leicester Tigers players
People educated at St Munchin's College
Ireland Wolfhounds international rugby union players
Rugby union players from County Limerick
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Umm 'Ajra (), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 31, 1948, as part of Operation Gideon. It was located 4 km south of Baysan and the 'Ayn Umm 'Ajra provided the village with water.
History
The village had three khirbas: Tall al-Shaykh al-Simad, Hajj Makka, and Sursuq. In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Sheik Semad a "Small ruined Mukam of modern masonry."
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Umm 'Ajra had a population of 86 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 242, still all Muslims, in 48 houses.
In the 1945 statistics the population of Umm 'Ajra was 260 Muslims, while the total land area was 6,443 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 2,688 dunums for cereals, while a total of 203 dunums were classified as non-cultivable land.
1948, aftermath
Shif’a, a farm built in the 1950s, is on village land. Kfar Ruppin is located east of the village site, Ein HaNetziv on the western side, and Avuqa (established in 1941, abandoned in 1952) to the north, none are on village land.
In 1992 it was described: "The site and lands are cultivated. The remains of date palm trees can be seen, scattered across the northern side of the site."
References
Bibliography
External links
Welcome To Umm 'Ajra
Umm 'Ajra, Zochrot
Survey of Western Palestine, map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
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Krešo Ljubičić (born 26 September 1988) is a German-born Croatian footballer. He is a player-coach with German fifth-tier Hessenliga club Hanau 93.
Club career
In 2007–08, he joined Eintracht Frankfurt coming from their youth academy where he got regular experience at Eintracht Frankfurt U23. In June 2009, he moved to Hajduk Split after his contract in Frankfurt expired.
On 3 February 2021, he joined Hanau 93.
Career statistics
References
External links
Krešo Ljubičić at Sportnet.hr
Krešo Ljubičić at eintracht-archiv.de
1988 births
Living people
Croatian footballers
Croatia under-21 international footballers
Croatia youth international footballers
German footballers
German people of Croatian descent
Association football midfielders
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Eintracht Frankfurt II players
HNK Hajduk Split players
NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac players
FC Winterthur players
FC Hanau 93 players
Bundesliga players
Croatian First Football League players
Swiss Challenge League players
Oberliga (football) players
Croatian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
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Capture of Río Hondo
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The Hondo River was a settlement owned by the Kingdom of Great Britain since the early 18th century. In 1779, the Spanish repeatedly attacked the British settlements in British Honduras. The Hondo River was targeted, but the British were never driven out. However, they abandoned their colony until 1783.
References
Belize History
Conflicts in 1779
Hondo River (1779)
Hondo River (1779)
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Ebelle "Eugène" Ferdinand Ekéké (born 30 May 1960) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He appeared for the Cameroon national team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. He famously scored to give Cameroon the lead against England in the quarter finals, before eventually losing 3–2.
Born in Bonabéri, Cameroon, Ekéké played most of his club football in France, at RC Paris from 1982 to 1986, during which period he played for Cameroon in the 1984 Olympic Football competition, alongside many of the team who would later play so well at the World Cup six years later. Ekéké spent the 1986–87 season at K.S.K. Beveren, in Belgium, before returning to France to Quimper for a couple of seasons, before his move to Valenciennes FC, for whom he was playing when he was called up for the 1990 World Cup.
After he retired from playing, Ekéké established a football academy in Douala and was appointed president of l’Union Camerounais des clubs amateurs de football (UCCAF).
Ekéké is now based in Douala, occasionally commenting on matters regarding the Indomitable Lions in the local media.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
People from Littoral Region (Cameroon)
Cameroonian footballers
Association football forwards
Cameroon international footballers
Olympic footballers of Cameroon
Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1988 African Cup of Nations players
1990 African Cup of Nations players
1992 African Cup of Nations players
Africa Cup of Nations-winning players
Racing Club de France Football players
K.S.K. Beveren players
Quimper Kerfeunteun F.C. players
Valenciennes FC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Belgian First Division A players
Cameroonian expatriate footballers
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in France
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
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Matt Jarvis (psychologist)
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Matt Jarvis (born 1966) is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. He currently teaches psychology education at Totton College and freelances as an author and trainer, including for the Science Learning Centres. Jarvis is best known as a British author of psychology textbooks, including both introductory student texts and professional-level texts for teachers.
Teaching 14-19 Psychology: issues & techniques, published by Psychology Press (formerly Teaching post-16 Psychology, published by Nelson Thornes), is the standard text for UK Initial Teacher Training and master's degrees in the teaching of psychology. Angles on Psychology, currently published by Oxford University Press, is endorsed by Edexcel for their psychology A-level. Psychology for WJEC AS-level is endorsed by WJEC
Bibliography
Jarvis M (1999) Sport psychology. London, Routledge
Jarvis M (2000) Theoretical perspectives in psychology. London, Routledge
Jarvis M, Russell J, Flanagan C & Dolan L (2000) Angles on psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes
Jarvis M (2001) Angles on child psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Russell J & Jarvis M (2002) Key ideas in psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Jarvis M, Putwain D & Dwyer D (2002) Angles on atypical psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Russell J & Jarvis M (2003) (Eds) Angles on applied psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Jarvis M (2004) Psychodynamic psychology: classical theory and contemporary research. London, Thomson Learning.
Jarvis M, Russell J & Gorman P (2004) Angles on psychology 2nd ed. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Jarvis M (2005) The psychology of effective learning and teaching. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Jarvis M (2006) Teaching post-16 psychology. Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.
Jarvis M (2006) Sport psychology: a student handbook. London, Routledge.
Jarvis M (2007) Psychology for WJEC AS-level. London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Jarvis M, Russell J & Collis D (2008) Angles on psychology 3rd ed. Haddenham, Folens.
Jarvis M, Russell J & Lawton J (2008) Exploring psychology. Haddenham, Folens.
Jarvis M, Russell J & Collis D (2009) Angles on psychology for A2 level 2nd ed. Haddenham, Folens.
Russell J & Jarvis M (2011) WJEC AS psychology 2nd ed. London, Hodder Education.
Jarvis M (2011) Teaching 14-19 psychology: issues & techniques. London, Routledge.
Duffy K & Jarvis M (in press) Handbook of teaching psychology. London, Routledge.
References
External links
Matt Jarvis' website
Book review in The Psychologist magazine
British psychologists
British textbook writers
1966 births
Living people
British academics
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The Ribeirão Auiia is a river of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil.
See also
List of rivers of Mato Grosso
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Mato Grosso
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McNeece is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Francis McNeece Whittle (1823–1902), American Anglican bishop
Jimmy McNeece, American boxer
Tom McNeece (born 1958), American boxer, brother of Jimmy
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Ponchatoula is the second-largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,559 at the 2010 census and 7,545 at the 2020 population estimates program.
Etymology
It is speculated that the name is derived from the Choctaw words Pashi meaning "hair" and perhaps itula or itola meaning "to fall" or "to hang" or "flowing" in the Choctaw language
History
William Akers
Ponchatoula was originally established as a small fishing village around 1820. Then in the year 1839 a man named William Akers moved into town and purchased over 1000 acres from the United States Federal Government. William began farming and harvesting the local virgin pine timber and pulling the logs to a nearby sawmill with teams of oxen. According to some sources William Akers had several Native Americans working in his timber crew and they provided the name Ponchatoula. It was the Native American way of expressing the beauty of the location, with beautiful Spanish moss hanging from the large oak trees.
As more settlers arrived in the area William began selling his land to those families. Then on February 12, 1861 Ponchatoula incorporated as a town. William Akers was appointed as the first mayor and is credited with founding the town. In the 1880s Akers reported that he had sold nearly 700 acres of land and only had about 300 acres of land remaining. He was a leader in the Temperance movement and fought hard to keep alcoholic beverages out of Ponchatoula. He was also a member of the local Masonic Lodge and was very active in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Early 20th century
The train depot which was destroyed during the Civil War was rebuilt in 1895 as the area began to recover from the Civil War. At the turn of the 20th century Ponchatoula began to transform from the lumber industry into a commercial farming community. The main street began filling up with beautiful brick buildings as shops, banks and restaurants were built to accommodate the growing population. The main crop grown by the local farmers was the strawberry. Many of the families who were major farmers during this era, which lasted about eighty years, have their last names engraved on a large plaque in front of city hall.
Geography
Ponchatoula is located at (30.439162, -90.442507) and has an elevation of . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
Ponchatoula is located along Interstate 55 and Louisiana Highway 22, equidistant from New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In the early 1900s, Ponchatoula was one of only two ways to reach New Orleans by land, thus earning the moniker "Gateway to New Orleans."
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 7,822 people, 2,863 households, and 1,726 families residing in the city.
2000 census
As of the 2000 census, there were 5,180 people, 1,984 households, and 1,372 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,226.7 people per square mile (473.9/km2). There were 2,175 housing units at an average density of 515.1 per square mile (199.0/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 62.20% White, 36.83% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.15% from other races, and 0.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.85% of the population.
There were 1,984 households, out of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.2% were married couples living together, 23.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.16.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.8% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $22,244, and the median income for a family was $29,583. Males had a median income of $30,285 versus $18,952 for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,157. About 27.9% of families and 31.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 46.9% of those under age 18 and 15.1% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Tangipahoa Parish School System operates public schools:
Ponchatoula High School (near Ponchatoula)
Ponchatoula Junior High School
Martha Vineyard Elementary School (near Ponchatoula)
D. C. Reeves Elementary School
Tucker Elementary School
Perrin Early Learning Center
Visitor attractions
Ponchatoula hosts Louisiana's Strawberry Festival each April and an Oktoberfest each autumn.
The town is noted for its many antique shops along Pine Street (LA 22), open year-round. Eleven of the Ponchatoula Commercial Historic District buildings are determined to be historically significant and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ponchatoula is small, but it has a number of attractions including a sign on the outskirts of town with how many miles it lies from South Dakota's Wall Drug store.
Across Highway 22 from Hardhide is the Collinswood School Museum, a former one-room schoolhouse which exhibits local artifacts and quilts. Between the school museum and the tracks stands the Strawberry Train, which is a steam engine and single passenger car roped off in such a way that children can safely climb into the engine and the car.
The Chamber of Commerce office is located on Highway 22 at the railroad tracks and has information about these and other sights in Ponchatoula and the surrounding area.
Strawberry Festival
The first Strawberry Festival was held in April 1972 on the first block of North 6th Street and was co-sponsored by the Ponchatoula Jaycees and the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce. The first festival was small and only had 11 booths. It was a two-day event beginning with a baseball game between Southeastern Louisiana University and Wisconsin State. Today it is the second largest event in the state, after Mardi Gras. During the 1980s the local economy changed to tourism, when farming no longer earned enough to sustain the town. The mayor at the time devised a plan to open antique shops where former businesses had been located. There are still about six of these shops in operation. This gave the town a second nickname, "America's Antique City."
Notable people
Irwin Davis, football player, coach, and administrator
Dennis Paul Hebert, Sr., state representative for Tangipahoa Parish, 1972-1996
Michael I. Jordan, researcher in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Steve Pugh, politician and florist, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (2008–2020)
Trevante Rhodes, actor, sprinter
Bernie Smith, baseball player
Irma Thomas, singer
Reggie Walker, football player
Earl Wilson, baseball player
See also
Hammond, Louisiana
Manchac, Louisiana
Ponchatoula High School
Ponchatoula Creek
USS Ponchatoula (AOG-38)
USNS Ponchatoula (T-AO-148)
References
External links
City of Ponchatoula - Official Website of the City of Ponchatoula, LA
The Ponchatoula Times
Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce
Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival
MyHammond–MyPonchatoula directory
Cities in Louisiana
Louisiana African American Heritage Trail
Populated places established in 1820
1820 establishments in Louisiana
Cities in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
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Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. In continuous operation since accepting its first patient in December 1842, the hospital was founded as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, and was also known as the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville State Hospital during its long history. By the 1960s the facility had grown into the largest mental hospital in the world (contending with Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in New York). Its landmark Powell Building and the vast, abandoned 1929 Jones Building stand among some 200 buildings on two thousand acres that once housed nearly 12,000 patients.
The CSH complex currently encompasses about , a pecan grove and historic cemeteries, and serves about 200 mental health patients. As of 2016 the facility offers short-stay acute treatment for people with mental illness, residential units and habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities, recovery programs that require a longer stay, and specialized skilled and ICF nursing centers. Some programs serve primarily the central-Georgia region while other programs serve counties throughout the state.
History
In the first decades of the 1800s there was a movement in several states to reform prisons, create public schools, and establish state-run hospitals for the mentally ill. In 1837, the Georgia State Legislature responded to a call from Governor Wilson Lumpkin, by passing a bill calling for the creation of a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum." Located in Milledgeville, then the state capital, the facility opened in 1842.
Under Dr. Thomas A. Green (1845–1879), care of patients was based on the "institution as family". This modeled hospitals to resemble an extended family. Green ate with staff and patients daily and abolished chain and rope restraints.
The hospital population grew to nearly 12,000 in the 1960s. During the following decade, the population began to decrease due to the emphasis on deinstitutionalization, the addition of other public psychiatric (regional) hospitals throughout the state, the availability of psychotropic medications, an increase in community mental health programs, and many individuals moving to community living arrangements. During FY2004-FY2005, the hospital served more than 9,000 consumers (duplicates counted) - from nearly every Georgia county.
In 2010, the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities announced that the hospital would be closed, but it has not been; instead, it has become the state's treatment and custodial center for justice system referrals and commitments.
See also
List of hospitals in the United States
List of hospitals in Georgia
References
Sources
Book, Constance Ledoux, and David Ezell. "Freedom of Speech and Institutional Control: Patient Publications at Central State Hospital, 1934-1978." Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 106-26.
Cranford, Peter G. But for the Grace of God: The Inside Story of the World's Largest Insane Asylum, Milledgeville. Augusta, Ga.: Great Pyramid Press, 1981.
Graham, Paul K. Admission Register of Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1842-1861. Decatur, Ga.: The Genealogy Company, 2011.
External links
A recent photoessay on the abandoned Walker building at Central State Hospital.
Article on the history of Central State
Psychiatric hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)
Buildings and structures in Baldwin County, Georgia
Historic American Buildings Survey in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a contraction (portmanteau) of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odor. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid-20th century. This kind of visible air pollution is composed of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxide, ozone, smoke and other particulates. Man-made smog is derived from coal combustion emissions, vehicular emissions, industrial emissions, forest and agricultural fires and photochemical reactions of these emissions.
Smog is often categorized as being either summer smog or winter smog. Summer smog is primarily associated with the photochemical formation of ozone. During the summer season when the temperatures are warmer and there is more sunlight present, photochemical smog is the dominant type of smog formation. During the winter months when the temperatures are colder, and atmospheric inversions are common, there is an increase in coal and other fossil fuel usage to heat homes and buildings. These combustion emissions, together with the lack of pollutant dispersion under inversions, characterize winter smog formation. Smog formation in general relies on both primary and secondary pollutants. Primary pollutants are emitted directly from a source, such as emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal combustion. Secondary pollutants, such as ozone, are formed when primary pollutants undergo chemical reactions in the atmosphere.
Photochemical smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes. These pollutants react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. In certain other cities, such as Delhi, smog severity is often aggravated by stubble burning in neighboring agricultural areas since 2002. The atmospheric pollution levels of Los Angeles, Beijing, Delhi, Lahore, Mexico City, Tehran and other cities are often increased by an inversion that traps pollution close to the ground. The developing smog is usually toxic to humans and can cause severe sickness, a shortened life span, or premature death.
Etymology
Coinage of the term "smog" is often attributed to Dr. Henry Antoine Des Voeux in his 1905 paper, "Fog and Smoke" for a meeting of the Public Health Congress. The 26 July 1905 edition of the London newspaper Daily Graphic quoted Des Voeux, "He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as 'smog'." The following day the newspaper stated that "Dr. Des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog." However, the term appears twenty-five years earlier than Dr. Voeux's paper, in a column in the 3 July 1880, Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel. On 17 December 1881, in the publication Sporting Times, the author claims to have invented the word: "The 'Smog' - a word I have invented, combined of smoke and fog, to designate the London atmosphere..."
Causes
Coal
Coal fire can emit significant clouds of smoke that contribute to the formation of winter smog. Coal fires can be used to heat individual buildings or to provide energy in a power-producing plant. Air pollution from this source has been reported in England since the Middle Ages. London, in particular, was notorious up through the mid-20th century for its coal-caused smogs, which were nicknamed 'pea-soupers.' Air pollution of this type is still a problem in areas that generate significant smoke from burning coal. The emissions from coal combustion are one of the main causes of air pollution in China. Especially during autumn and winter when coal-fired heating ramps up, the amount of produced smoke at times forces some Chinese cities to close down roads, schools or airports. One prominent example for this was China's Northeastern city of Harbin in 2013.
Transportation emissions
Traffic emissions – such as from trucks, buses, and automobiles– also contribute to the formation of smog. Airborne by-products from vehicle exhaust systems cause air pollution and are a major ingredient in the creation of smog in some large cities.
The major culprits from transportation sources are carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2), volatile organic compounds, and hydrocarbons (hydrocarbons are the main component of petroleum fuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel). Transportation emissions also include sulfur dioxides and particulate matter but in much smaller quantities than the pollutants mentioned previously. The nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds can undergo a series of chemical reactions with sunlight, heat, ammonia, moisture, and other compounds to form the noxious vapors, ground level ozone, and particles that comprise smog.
Photochemical smog
Photochemical smog, often referred to as "summer smog", is the chemical reaction of sunlight, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere, which leaves airborne particles and ground-level ozone. Photochemical smog depends on primary pollutants as well as the formation of secondary pollutants. These primary pollutants include nitrogen oxides, particularly nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and volatile organic compounds. The relevant secondary pollutants include peroxylacyl nitrates (PAN), tropospheric ozone, and aldehydes. An important secondary pollutant for photochemical smog is ozone, which is formed when hydrocarbons (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) combine in the presence of sunlight; nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is formed as nitric oxide (NO) combines with oxygen (O2) in the air. In addition, when SO2 and NOx are emitted they eventually are oxidized in the troposphere to nitric acid and sulfuric acid, which, when mixed with water, form the main components of acid rain. All of these harsh chemicals are usually highly reactive and oxidizing. Photochemical smog is therefore considered to be a problem of modern industrialization. It is present in all modern cities, but it is more common in cities with sunny, warm, dry climates and a large number of motor vehicles. Because it travels with the wind, it can affect sparsely populated areas as well.
The composition and chemical reactions involved in photochemical smog were not understood until the 1950s. In 1948, flavor chemist Arie Haagen-Smit adapted some of his equipment to collect chemicals from polluted air, and identified ozone as a component of Los Angeles smog. Haagen-Smit went on to discover that nitrogen oxides from automotive exhausts and gaseous hydrocarbons from cars and oil refineries, exposed to sunlight, were key ingredients in the formation of ozone and photochemical smog. Haagen-Smit worked with Arnold Beckman, who developed various equipment for detecting smog, ranging from an "Apparatus for recording gas concentrations in the atmosphere" patented on 7 October 1952, to "air quality monitoring vans" for use by government and industry.
Formation and reactions
During the morning rush hour, a high concentration of nitric oxide and hydrocarbons are emitted to the atmosphere, mostly via on-road traffic but also from industrial sources. Some hydrocarbons are rapidly oxidized by OH· and form peroxy radicals, which convert nitric oxide (NO) to nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
(1) R{.} + O2 + M -> RO2{.} + M
(2) RO2{.} + NO -> NO2 + RO{.}
(3) HO2{.} + NO -> NO2 + OH{.}
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitric oxide (NO) further react with ozone (O3) in a series of chemical reactions:
(4) NO2 + hv -> O(^3P) + NO,
(5) O(^3P) + O2 + M-> O3 + M(heat)
(6) O3 + NO -> NO2 + O2
This series of equations is referred to as the photostationary state (PSS). However, because of the presence of Reaction 2 and 3, NOx and ozone are not in a perfectly steady state. By replacing Reaction 6 with Reaction 2 and Reaction 3, the O3 molecule is no longer destroyed. Therefore, the concentration of ozone keeps increasing throughout the day. This mechanism can escalate the formation of ozone in smog. Other reactions such as the photooxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO), a common secondary pollutant, can also contribute to the increased concentration of ozone and NO2. Photochemical smog is more prevalent during summer days since incident solar radiation fluxes are high, which favors the formation of ozone (reactions 4 and 5). The presence of a temperature inversion layer is another important factor. That is because it prevents the vertical convective mixing of the air and thus allows the pollutants, including ozone, to accumulate near the ground level, which again favors the formation of photochemical smog.
There are certain reactions that can limit the formation of O3 in smog. The main limiting reaction in polluted areas is:
(7) NO2 + OH{.} + M -> HNO3 + M
This reaction removes NO2 which limits the amount of O3 that can be produced from its photolysis (reaction 4). HNO3 is a sticky compound that can easily be removed onto surfaces (dry deposition) or dissolved in water and be rained out (wet deposition). Both ways are common in the atmosphere and can efficiently remove radicals and nitrogen dioxide.
Natural causes
Volcanoes
An erupting volcano can emit high levels of sulfur dioxide along with a large quantity of particulates matter; two key components to the creation of smog. However, the smog created as a result of a volcanic eruption is often known as vog to distinguish it as a natural occurrence. The chemical reactions that form smog following a volcanic eruption are different than the reactions that form photochemical smog. The term smog encompasses the effect when a large number of gas-phase molecules and particulate matter are emitted to the atmosphere, creating a visible haze. The event causing a large number of emissions can vary but still result in the formation of smog.
Plants
Plants are another natural source of hydrocarbons that could undergo reactions in the atmosphere and produce smog. Globally both plants and soil contribute a substantial amount to the production of hydrocarbons, mainly by producing isoprene and terpenes. Hydrocarbons released by plants can often be more reactive than man-made hydrocarbons. For example when plants release isoprene, the isoprene reacts very quickly in the atmosphere with hydroxyl radicals. These reactions produce hydroperoxides which increase ozone formation.
Health effects
Smog is a serious problem in many cities and continues to harm human health. Ground-level ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide are especially harmful for senior citizens, children, and people with heart and lung conditions such as emphysema, bronchitis, and asthma. It can inflame breathing passages, decrease the lungs' working capacity, cause shortness of breath, pain when inhaling deeply, wheezing, and coughing. It can cause eye and nose irritation and it dries out the protective membranes of the nose and throat and interferes with the body's ability to fight infection, increasing susceptibility to illness. Hospital admissions and respiratory deaths often increase during periods when ozone levels are high.
There is a lack of knowledge on the long-term effects of air pollution exposure and the origin of asthma. An experiment was carried out using intense air pollution similar to that of the 1952 Great Smog of London. The results from this experiment concluded that there is a link between early-life pollution exposure that leads to the development of asthma, proposing the ongoing effect of the Great Smog.
Modern studies continue to find links between mortality and the presence of smog. One study, published in Nature magazine, found that smog episodes in the city of Jinan, a large city in eastern China, during 2011–15, were associated with a 5.87% (95% CI 0.16–11.58%) increase in the rate of overall mortality. This study highlights the effect of exposure to air pollution on the rate of mortality in China. A similar study in X'ian found an association between ambient air pollution and increased mortality associated with respiratory diseases.
Levels of unhealthy exposure
The U.S. EPA has developed an air quality index to help explain air pollution levels to the general public. 8 hour average ozone concentrations of 85 to 104 ppbv are described as "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups", 105 ppbv to 124 ppbv as "unhealthy" and 125 ppb to 404 ppb as "very unhealthy". The "very unhealthy" range for some other pollutants are: 355 μg m−3 – 424 μg m−3 for PM10; 15.5 ppm – 30.4ppm for CO and 0.65 ppm – 1.24 ppm for NO2.
Premature deaths due to cancer and respiratory disease
In 2016, the Ontario Medical Association announced that smog is responsible for an estimated 9,500 premature deaths in the province each year.
A 20-year American Cancer Society study found that cumulative exposure also increases the likelihood of premature death from respiratory disease, implying the 8-hour standard may be insufficient.
Alzheimer risk
Tiny magnetic particles from air pollution have for the first time been discovered to be lodged in human brains– and researchers think they could be a possible cause of Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers at Lancaster University found abundant magnetite nanoparticles in the brain tissue from 37 individuals aged three to 92-years-old who lived in Mexico City and Manchester. This strongly magnetic mineral is toxic and has been implicated in the production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals) in the human brain, which is associated with neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease.
Risk of certain birth defects
A study examining 806 women who had babies with birth defects between 1997 and 2006, and 849 women who had healthy babies, found that smog in the San Joaquin Valley area of California was linked to two types of neural tube defects: spina bifida (a condition involving, among other manifestations, certain malformations of the spinal column), and anencephaly (the underdevelopment or absence of part or all of the brain, which if not fatal usually results in profound impairment). An emerging cohort study in China linked early-life smog exposure to an increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, in particular oxidative stress.
Low birth weight
According to a study published in The Lancet, even a very small (5 μg) change in PM2.5 exposure was associated with an increase (18%) in risk of a low birth weight at delivery, and this relationship held even below the current accepted safe levels.
Areas affected
Smog can form in almost any climate where industries or cities release large amounts of air pollution, such as smoke or gases. However, it is worse during periods of warmer, sunnier weather when the upper air is warm enough to inhibit vertical circulation. It is especially prevalent in geologic basins encircled by hills or mountains. It often stays for an extended period of time over densely populated cities or urban areas and can build up to dangerous levels.
Canada
According to the Canadian Science Smog Assessment published in 2012, smog is responsible for detrimental effects on human and ecosystem health, as well as socioeconomic well-being across the country. It was estimated that the province of Ontario sustains $201 million in damages annually for selected crops, and an estimated tourism revenue degradation of $7.5 million in Vancouver and $1.32 million in The Fraser Valley due to decreased visibility. Air pollution in British Columbia is of particular concern, especially in the Fraser Valley, because of a meteorological effect called inversion which decreases air dispersion and leads to smog concentration.
Delhi, India
For the past few years, cities in northern India have been covered in a thick layer of winter smog. The situation has turned quite drastic in the National Capital, Delhi. This smog is caused by the collection of Particulate Matter (a very fine type of dust and toxic gases) in the air due to stagnant movement of air during winters.
Delhi is the most polluted city in the world and according to one estimate, air pollution causes the death of about 10,500 people in Delhi every year. During 2013–14, peak levels of fine particulate matter (PM) in Delhi increased by about 44%, primarily due to high vehicular and industrial emissions, construction work and crop burning in adjoining states. Delhi has the highest level of the airborne particulate matter, PM2.5 considered most harmful to health, with 153 micrograms. Rising air pollution level has significantly increased lung-related ailments (especially asthma and lung cancer) among Delhi's children and women. The dense smog in Delhi during winter season results in major air and rail traffic disruptions every year. According to Indian meteorologists, the average maximum temperature in Delhi during winters has declined notably since 1998 due to rising air pollution.
Environmentalists have criticized the Delhi government for not doing enough to curb air pollution and to inform people about air quality issues. Most of Delhi's residents are unaware of alarming levels of air pollution in the city and the health risks associated with it. Since the mid-1990s, Delhi has undertaken some measures to curb air pollution – Delhi has the third highest quantity of trees among Indian cities and the Delhi Transport Corporation operates the world's largest fleet of environmentally friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. In 1996, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) started a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court of India that ordered the conversion of Delhi's fleet of buses and taxis to run on CNG and banned the use of leaded petrol in 1998. In 2003, Delhi won the United States Department of Energy's first 'Clean Cities International Partner of the Year' award for its "bold efforts to curb air pollution and support alternative fuel initiatives". The Delhi Metro has also been credited for significantly reducing air pollutants in the city.
However, according to several authors, most of these gains have been lost, especially due to stubble burning, rise in market share of diesel cars and a considerable decline in bus ridership. According to CUE and System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFER), burning of agricultural waste in nearby Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh regions results in severe intensification of smog over Delhi. The state government of adjoining Uttar Pradesh is considering imposing a ban on crop burning to reduce pollution in Delhi NCR and an environmental panel has appealed to India's Supreme Court to impose a 30% cess on diesel cars.
Beijing, China
Joint research between American and Chinese researchers in 2006 concluded that much of the city's pollution comes from surrounding cities and provinces. On average 35–60% of the ozone can be traced to sources outside the city. Shandong Province and Tianjin Municipality have a "significant influence on Beijing's air quality", partly due to the prevailing south/southeasterly flow during the summer and the mountains to the north and northwest.
United Kingdom
London
In 1306, concerns over air pollution were sufficient for Edward I to (briefly) ban coal fires in London. In 1661, John Evelyn's Fumifugium suggested burning fragrant wood instead of mineral coal, which he believed would reduce coughing. The "Ballad of Gresham College" the same year describes how the smoke "does our lungs and spirits choke, Our hanging spoil, and rust our iron."
Severe episodes of smog continued in the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly in the winter, and were nicknamed "pea-soupers," from the phrase "as thick as pea soup". The Great Smog of 1952 darkened the streets of London and killed approximately 4,000 people in the short time of four days (a further 8,000 died from its effects in the following weeks and months). Initially, a flu epidemic was blamed for the loss of life.
In 1956 the Clean Air Act started legally enforcing smokeless zones in the capital. There were areas where no soft coal was allowed to be burned in homes or in businesses, only coke, which produces no smoke. Because of the smokeless zones, reduced levels of sooty particulates eliminated the intense and persistent London smog.
It was after this that the great clean-up of London began. One by one, historical buildings which, during the previous two centuries had gradually completely blackened externally, had their stone facades cleaned and restored to their original appearance. Victorian buildings whose appearance changed dramatically after cleaning included the British Museum of Natural History. A more recent example was the Palace of Westminster, which was cleaned in the 1980s. A notable exception to the restoration trend was 10 Downing Street, whose bricks upon cleaning in the late 1950s proved to be naturally yellow; the smog-derived black color of the façade was considered so iconic that the bricks were painted black to preserve the image. Smog caused by traffic pollution, however, does still occur in modern London.
Other areas
Other areas of the United Kingdom were affected by smog, especially heavily industrialised areas.
The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, in Scotland, suffered smoke-laden fogs in 1909. Des Voeux, commonly credited with creating the "smog" moniker, presented a paper in 1911 to the Manchester Conference of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain about the fogs and resulting deaths.
One Birmingham resident described near black-out conditions in the 1900s before the Clean Air Act, with visibility so poor that cyclists had to dismount and walk in order to stay on the road.
On 29 April 2015, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the government must take immediate action to cut air pollution, following a case brought by environmental lawyers at ClientEarth.
Mexico City, Mexico
Due to its location in a highland "bowl", cold air sinks down onto the urban area of Mexico City, trapping industrial and vehicle pollution underneath, and turning it into the most infamously smog-plagued city of Latin America. Within one generation, the city has changed from being known for some of the cleanest air of the world into one with some of the worst pollution, with pollutants like nitrogen dioxide being double or even triple international standards.
Santiago, Chile
Similar to Mexico City, the air pollution of Santiago valley, located between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range, turn it into the most infamously smog-plagued city of South America. Other aggravates of the situation reside in its high latitude (31 degrees South) and dry weather during most of the year.
Tehran, Iran
In December 2005, schools and public offices had to close in Tehran and 1600 people were taken to hospital, in a severe smog blamed largely on unfiltered car exhaust.
United States
Smog was brought to the attention of the general U.S. public in 1933 with the publication of the book "Stop That Smoke", by Henry Obermeyer, a New York public utility official, in which he pointed out the effect on human life and even the destruction of of a farmer's spinach crop. Since then, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has designated over 300 U.S. counties to be non-attainment areas for one or more pollutants tracked as part of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. These areas are largely clustered around large metropolitan areas, with the largest contiguous non-attainment zones in California and the Northeast. Various U.S. and Canadian government agencies collaborate to produce real-time air quality maps and forecasts. To combat smog conditions, localities may declare "smog alert" days, such as in the Spare the Air program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the United States, smog pollution kills 24,000 Americans every year. The U.S. is among the dirtier countries in terms of smog, ranked 123 out of 195 countries measured, where 1 is cleanest and 195 is most smog polluted.
Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley
Because of their locations in low basins surrounded by mountains, Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley are notorious for their smog. Heavy automobile traffic, combined with the additional effects of the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles/Long Beach port complexes, frequently contribute to further air pollution.
Los Angeles, in particular, is strongly predisposed to the accumulation of smog, because of the peculiarities of its geography and weather patterns. Los Angeles is situated in a flat basin with the ocean on one side and mountain ranges on three sides. A nearby cold ocean current depresses surface air temperatures in the area, resulting in an inversion layer: a phenomenon where air temperature increases, instead of decreasing, with altitude, suppressing thermals and restricting vertical convection. All taken together, this results in a relatively thin, enclosed layer of air above the city that cannot easily escape out of the basin and tends to accumulate pollution.
Los Angeles was one of the best-known cities suffering from transportation smog for much of the 20th century, so much so that it was sometimes said that Los Angeles was a synonym for smog. In 1970, when the Clean Air Act was passed, Los Angeles was the most polluted basin in the country, and California was unable to create a State Implementation Plan that would enable it to meet the new air quality standards. However, ensuing strict regulations by state and federal government agencies overseeing this problem (such as the California Air Resources Board and the United States Environmental Protection Agency), including tight restrictions on allowed emissions levels for all new cars sold in California and mandatory regular emission tests of older vehicles, resulted in significant improvements in air quality. For example, air concentrations of volatile organic compounds declined by a factor of 50 between 1962 and 2012. Concentrations of air pollutants such as nitrous oxides and ozone declined by 70% to 80% over the same period of time.
Major incidents in the U.S.
26 July 1943, Los Angeles, California: A smog so sudden and severe that "Los Angeles residents believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare."
30-31 October 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania: 20 died, 600 hospitalized, thousands more stricken. Lawsuits were not settled until 1951.
24 November 1966, New York City, New York: Smog kills at least 169 people.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
In the late 1990s, massive immigration to Ulaanbaatar from the countryside began. An estimated 150,000 households, mainly living in traditional Mongolian gers on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, burn wood and coal (some poor families burn even car tires and trash) to heat themselves during the harsh winter, which lasts from October to April, since these outskirts are not connected to the city's central heating system. A temporary solution to decrease smog was proposed in the form of stoves with improved efficiency, although with no visible results.
Coal-fired ger stoves release high levels of ash and other particulate matter (PM). When inhaled, these particles can settle in the lungs and respiratory tract and cause health problems. At two to 10 times above Mongolian and international air quality standards, Ulaanbaatar's PM rates are among the worst in the world, according to a December 2009 World Bank report. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that health costs related to this air pollution account for as much as 4 percent of Mongolia's GDP.
Southeast Asia
Smog is a regular problem in Southeast Asia caused by land and forest fires in Indonesia, especially Sumatra and Kalimantan, although the term haze is preferred in describing the problem. Farmers and plantation owners are usually responsible for the fires, which they use to clear tracts of land for further plantings. Those fires mainly affect Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and occasionally Guam and Saipan. The economic losses of the fires in 1997 have been estimated at more than US$9 billion. This includes damages in agriculture production, destruction of forest lands, health, transportation, tourism, and other economic endeavours. Not included are social, environmental, and psychological problems and long-term health effects. The second-latest bout of haze to occur in Malaysia, Singapore and the Malacca Straits is in October 2006, and was caused by smoke from fires in Indonesia being blown across the Straits of Malacca by south-westerly winds. A similar haze has occurred in June 2013, with the PSI setting a new record in Singapore on 21 June at 12pm with a reading of 401, which is in the "Hazardous" range.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reacted. In 2002, the Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution was signed between all ASEAN nations. ASEAN formed a Regional Haze Action Plan (RHAP) and established a co-ordination and support unit (CSU). RHAP, with the help of Canada, established a monitoring and warning system for forest/vegetation fires and implemented a Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS). The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) has issued a daily rating of fire danger since September 2003. Indonesia has been ineffective at enforcing legal policies on errant farmers.
Pakistan
Since the start of the winter season, heavy smog loaded with pollutants covered major parts of Punjab, especially the city of Lahore, causing breathing problems and disrupting normal traffic.
Doctors advised residents to stay indoors and wear facemasks outside.
Pollution index
The severity of smog is often measured using automated optical instruments such as nephelometers, as haze is associated with visibility and traffic control in ports. Haze, however, can also be an indication of poor air quality, though this is often better reflected using accurate purpose-built air indexes such as the American Air Quality Index, the Malaysian API (Air Pollution Index), and the Singaporean Pollutant Standards Index.
In hazy conditions, it is likely that the index will report the suspended particulate level. The disclosure of the responsible pollutant is mandated in some jurisdictions.
The Malaysian API does not have a capped value. Hence, its most hazardous readings can go above 500. When the reading goes above 500, a state of emergency is declared in the affected area. Usually, this means that non-essential government services are suspended, and all ports in the affected area are closed. There may also be prohibitions on private sector commercial and industrial activities in the affected area excluding the food sector. So far, the state of emergency rulings due to hazardous API levels was applied to the Malaysian towns of Port Klang, Kuala Selangor, and the state of Sarawak during 1997 Southeast Asian haze and the 2005 Malaysian haze.
Cultural references
The London "pea-soupers" earned the capital the nickname of "The Smoke". Similarly, Edinburgh was known as "Auld Reekie". The smogs feature in many London novels as a motif indicating hidden danger or a mystery, perhaps most overtly in Margery Allingham's The Tiger in the Smoke (1952), but also in Dickens's Bleak House (1852) and T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
The 1970 made-for-TV movie A Clear and Present Danger was one of the first American television network entertainment programs to warn about the problem of smog and air pollution, as it dramatized a man's efforts toward clean air after emphysema killed his friend.
The history of smog in LA is detailed in Smogtown by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly.
See also
Smog tower
Asian brown cloud
1997 Southeast Asian haze
2005 Malaysian haze
2006 Southeast Asian haze
2013 Eastern China smog
2013 Northeastern China smog
2013 Southeast Asian haze
2015 Southeast Asian haze
Atmospheric chemistry
Contrail
Criteria air contaminants
Emission standard
Great Smog of London
Haze
Inversion (meteorology)
Nitric oxide
Ozone
Umweltzone
Vog
References
Upadhyay, Harikrishna (2016-11-07)"All You Need To Know About Delhi Smog / Air Pollution – 10 Questions Answered", Dainik Bhaskar. Retrieved on 7 November 2016.
Further reading
Brimblecombe, Peter. "History of air pollution." in Composition, Chemistry and Climate of the Atmosphere (Van Nostrand Reinhold (1995): 1–18
Brimblecombe, Peter, and László Makra. "Selections from the history of environmental pollution, with special attention to air pollution. Part 2*: From medieval times to the 19th century." International Journal of environment and pollution 23.4 (2005): 351–367.
Corton, Christine L. London Fog: The Biography (2015)
1900s neologisms
Pollution
Air pollution
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is a part of the Dharmaśāstras, an Indian literary tradition that serves as a collection of legal maxims relating to the topic of dharma. This text is purely juridical in character in that it focuses solely on procedural and substantive law. Known as the "juridical text par excellence," the is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance. Its focused nature has made the text highly valued by rulers and their governments, in Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, likely as an aid of carrying out their dharma of justly ruling the country.
Recensions
Today there exist three recognized versions of Naradasmriti, also called Naradiya Dharmasastra. First, there is the “minor” recension, consisting of 879 verses and referred to by the siglum D. Next comes the recension known by the siglum P and consisting originally of 550 verses. Jolly later edited the text to contain verses from the “minor” recension as well, bringing the total to 1028 verses. The third version comes from the Newārī manuscripts and the and goes by the siglum NMS, containing 870 verses. Each recension is unique not only in length, but content as well. For example, in P, an entire chapter is found of which no other manuscript makes mention. One of the most thoroughly studied differences is that of the variation in naming of Ordeals. The NMS, seen as the oldest of the three texts, lists only two ordeals in the standard chapter on “Nonpayment of Debt” but contains an addendum which lists five more ordeals. The Vulgate also lists five ordeals but manuscript P adds two more, bringing the total to seven.
Source and Authority
One recension claims that “Manu Prajāpati originally composed a text in 100,000 verses and 1080 chapters, which was successively abridged by the sages Nārada, Mārkandeya, and Sumati Bhārgava, down to a text of 4,000 verses.” , according to this recension's claim, represent the ninth chapter, regarding legal procedure, of Manu’s original text. This connection may enhance the prestige of because some traditional texts state Manu pronouncements on dharma is above challenge. However, Lariviere notes that it is clear from the critical edition and examination of other ancient documents that this explanation of Nāradasmṛti's origin is a myth, and was added later.
Naradasmriti was an authoritative document not only in Indian subcontinent, as well as when Hinduism flourished in southeast Asia. A 12th-century inscription in Champa empire of Jaya Harivarman, in what is now modern Vietnam, declares that its court officials were "expert in all dharmasastras, especially Naradiya and Bhargaviya".
The divine sage Nārada is known as the messenger of the gods, transmitting divine will to the people of the earth. Although not known for being an expert in dharma, he has been portrayed as an instructor of law and politics.
Author
Lariviere argues that there was “no single ‘author’ of this text" but rather, either an individual or a group who compiled all of the verses attributed by a particular community to the sage Nārada. Examination of the scripts of the original manuscript determines that the manuscripts were written in the South of India while the Newārī manuscript came from Nepal. The recensions D and P appear to have been found throughout the subcontinent but rarely in Nepal or Kerala.
Date
Similar to all ancient Indian texts, specific dates for the authoring of the continue to elude scholars. Varying arguments have been made and evidences cited but no decisive conclusions have been made. The best timeframe which can be provided is somewhere between 100BCE and 400CE.
In 1876 manuscript D of the was translated by the German scholar, Julius Jolly, making it available to legal scholars in Europe for the first time. The work was readily accepted in Europe due to its style, content, and structure which was similar enough to Roman legal texts of the time that the scholars felt comfortable dealing with it. Karl Marx even used this translation as a reference for his Asiatic Modes of Production.
In 1879, Jolly translated manuscript P.
In 1989, Lariviere revisited the text and produced a critical translation which includes evidence from the NWS manuscripts, as well as D and P, which Jolly used.
Structure
The structure of the is based on the eighteen titles of law, which are also mentioned in the Manusmṛti but with some variation in names. The text begins with a brief introduction into law and the courts before delving into these 18 titles, devoting a chapter to each. The way in which this text is written makes it clear that the author(s) was appealing to a community of practitioners, interested in directly applying the law to every day cases.
Matrka (Prolegomena)
Vyavaharah
Bhasa
Sabha
Vyavahārapada (18 Titles of Law)
Nikşepa
Sambhūyasamutthāna
Dattāpradānika
Vetanasyānapākarma
Asvāmivikraya
Krītānuśaya
Samayasyānapākarma
Dāyabhāga
Sāhasa
Dyūtasamāhvaya
Notes
References
Olivelle, Patrick. "Dharmasastra: A Literary History"
External links
Naradasmriti, English Translation
Naradasmriti, One of the three known distinct versions of the Law Book (in Sanskrit)
Nāradasmṛti: IAST-Translit, A SARIT Initiative, The British Association for South Asian Studies and The British Academy
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Ancient Indian literature
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Peter Dickson (27 August 1945 – 27 June 2008) was an Australian representative rower. He was a four time national champion who won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Club and state rowing
Dickson was born in Sydney and attended the Shore School where he rowed in the Shore first VIII in 1962 and 1963. He played rugby at school, was selected in the GPS first XV selection side in 1963 as a second rower. He later played first grade rugby for the Gordon Rugby Club in Sydney. His senior rowing was done at the Leichhardt Rowing Club.
In the five seasons from 1964 to 1968 he was selected in New South Wales state eights which contested the King's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta. Those New South Wales crew were national champions in 1965, 1967 and 1968. At the 1966 Australian Rowing Championships in a composite SRC/SUBC crew Dickson, John Ranch, Chris Stevens, Alf Duval and cox Brian Thomas won the Australian coxed four title.
International representative rowing
Dickson was chosen to represent Australia in a Trans-Tasman regatta against New Zealand in 1965 rowing in the six seat of the men's eight. That crew placed second in both of its match races. In 1966 Dickson was selected to stroke the Australian men's coxed four which competed at the second ever World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia and placed eighth. In 1968 he was seated at five in the Australian men's eight which won the silver medal at the Mexico Olympics.
Personal and professional
Peter Dickson's father Richard Dickson was the chairman of Brambles Industries from 1962 to 1977. Peter worked in sales and marketing in the medical technology division of Johnson & Johnson in Sydney. He later took to farming on a family property in Oberon. He died aged 62, from posterior cortical atrophy a degenerative brain disorder.
References
External links
Peter Dickson's profile at Sports Reference.com
Notice of Peter Dickson's death
Leichhardt Centennial History (Kavanagh) at Guerin-Foster
1945 births
2008 deaths
Australian male rowers
Olympic rowers of Australia
Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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The Gagarin Mountains (; ) are a linear group of mountains, trending in a north–south direction for between the Kurze Mountains and the Conrad Mountains of the Orvin Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
The Gagarin Mountains were mapped by cartographers of the Norwegian Polar Institute, using aerial photographs and surveys taken by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1956–60. They were remapped from surveys and air photos by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960–61, and named for Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin.
See also
List of mountains of Queen Maud Land
References
External links
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land
Orvin Mountains
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Yeison Murillo Mena (born 15 November 1993) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Deportivo Riestra.
Career
Murillo played for Estudiantes between 2015 and 2017, making his debut for them on 19 July 2015 during a Primera B Nacional home defeat to Patronato. In total, Murillo made thirty-seven appearances in three seasons with the club. On 18 August 2017, Murillo moved across the second tier to Deportivo Riestra. He participated in fourteen fixtures in the 2017–18 Primera B Nacional as they suffered relegation to Primera B Metropolitana; a division that saw him appear in thirty-two of their thirty-eight 2018–19 league fixtures.
Career statistics
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References
External links
1993 births
Living people
People from Quibdó
Colombian footballers
Association football defenders
Colombian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Colombian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Primera Nacional players
Primera B Metropolitana players
Club Sportivo Estudiantes players
Deportivo Riestra players
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Jiangnan sizhu () is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from the Jiangnan region of China.
Name
The name Jiangnan sizhu (江南丝竹 pinyin: Jiāngnán sīzhú) is made up of two parts. Jiangnan is the traditional name for the area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze river in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and northern Zhejiang. Sizhu, literally "silk and bamboo," refers to string and wind musical instruments, silk being the traditional material from which strings have historically been made in China, and bamboo being the material from which the Chinese flutes such as the dizi and xiao are made. The term sizhu by extension also came to refer to instrumental music in general, especially that played indoors. Other sizhu traditions also exist, particularly along China's southeastern coastal regions of Fujian and Guangdong.
History
The term sizhu is a 20th-century term that refers to the folk ensembles that first appeared in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911/12) dynasties and have continued to the present day. Many regional variants exist, but the most influential has been the Jiangnan sizhu, which in the 19th century became established south of the Yangtze River, especially in the cities of southeast Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang provinces. By the early part of the 20th century, Shanghai had become the centre of sizhu activities; the city's elite organized numerous amateur clubs that played for social functions and for their own entertainment. The Shanghai sizhu became the basis of the modern Chinese orchestra in the mid-20th century.
Instruments
Instruments typically used in Jiangnan sizhu include plucked, bowed, strummed and struck string instruments; flutes and sometimes also mouth organs; and small percussion instruments. The most commonly used instruments are:
Dizi – transverse bamboo flute, most commonly with traditional equal distant finger holes which does not produce an equal temperament, although the equal-tempered dizi is standard with professionals
Xiao – end-blown bamboo flute, as with the dizi, equal distant finger holes are preferred with the equal-tempered type standard with professionals
Erhu – two-string vertical fiddle, standard erhu D4, A4 tuning. A second erhu is sometimes used, known as fanhu (反胡) or fan erhu (反二胡), meaning "counter fiddle" or "cross fiddle"; it has thicker strings tuned a minor third (B3, F4#) or fourth (A3, E4) below the leading erhu
Pipa – pear-shaped lute with four strings, uses standard tuning of A2, D3, E3, A3. Although G2, C3, D3, G3, a whole tone lower, is sometimes used, with other string instruments also tuned a tone lower
Yangqin – hammered dulcimer, smaller than the large professional solo type, has range of two octaves and a fifth; D3 to A5
Sheng – free-reed mouth organ, most commonly with 17 pipes
Sanxian – plucked lute with three strings, the small "southern" type is used, tuned to D3, A3, D4.
Qinqin – plucked lute, tuned to D3, A3, (optional 3rd string is tuned to D3)
Wooden clapper (guban) and small drum (biqigu, diangu, or huaigu)
Several other instruments sometimes are also used:
Zhonghu – two-string fiddle, larger and lower pitched than the erhu
Ruan – plucked lute with four strings
Liuqin – small plucked lute with four strings
Guzheng – plucked zither with movable bridges
Pengling – a pair of small bells
As in an Irish traditional music session, the instrumentation is not fixed, and so may vary according to the musicians who are available for a particular performance. Usually only one of each instrument is used, and an ensemble can range from as few as two to as many as ten or more musicians, with the erhu, dizi or xiao, pipa, and yangqin being the core instruments. Players may sometimes switch instruments between pieces.
Repertoire
Eight Great Pieces
At the centre of the repertory are the Eight Great Pieces (Ba Da Qu, 八大曲) or Eight Great Famous Pieces (Ba Da Mingqu, 八大名曲):
Hua San Liu 花三六 (Huā Sān Liù, "Ornamented 'Three Six'")
Huan Le Ge 欢乐歌 (Huān Lè Gē, "Song of Joy")
Man Liu Ban 慢六板 (Màn Liù Bǎn, "Slow 'Six Beats'")
San Liu 三六 (Sān Liù, "Three Six")
Si He Ru Yi 四合如意 (Sì Hé Rú Yì, "Four Together as You Wish")
Xing Jie 行街 (Xíng Jiē, "Walking in the Street", "Wedding Procession," or "Street Procession")
Yun Qing 云庆 (Yún Qìng; "Cloud Celebration")
Zhong Hua Liu Ban 中花六板 (Zhōng Huā Liù Bǎn, "Moderately Ornamented 'Six Beats'"; also called 薰风曲 Xūn Fēng Qǔ, "Warm Breeze Tune") (Witzleben p. 61)
The repertoire is based on old melodies such as "Lao Liu Ban" (Old Six Beats), also called "Lao Ba Ban" (Old Eight Beats), which are elaborated to create new pieces such as "Zhong Hua Liu Ban" (Moderately Ornamented Six Beats), the latter of which is the most important piece of all the pieces derived from "Lao Liu Ban" (Old Six Beats) (Jones 276).
Other pieces
These are other pieces that are played by Jiangnan sizhu music clubs. It includes pieces that were originally instrumental solos, music from narrative genres, and sizhu pieces from Jiangnan and other areas.
Zhong Liu Ban (also called Hua Liu Ban, 花六板)
Kuai Hua Liu Ban (快花六板)
Kuai Liu Ban (快六板; also called Kuai Hua Liu, 快花六)
Lao Liu Ban (老六板)
Man San Liu (慢三六)
Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye 春江花月夜 (Chūn Jiāng Huā Yuè Yè, "Spring River Flower Moon Night") adapted from an ancient pipa solo in 1925 by the Datong Music Club.
Deng Yue Jiao Hui 灯月交辉 (Dēng Yuè Jiāo Huī, "Lanterns and Moon Exchanging in Brilliance"), ensemble piece from the Jiangnan area (Hangzhou)
Han Jiang Can Xue 寒江残雪 (Hán Jiāng Cán Xuě, "Cold River and Remnants of Snow")
Huai Gu 怀古 (Huái Gǔ, "Thinking of the Past"), originally from Fujian Hakka (Kejia) music.
Ni Chang Qu 霓裳曲 (Ní Cháng Qǔ, "Rainbow Skirts"), ensemble piece from the Jiangnan area, said to be from Hangzhou
Xu Hua Luo 絮花落 (Xù Huā Luò, "Catkin Flowers Falling"), derived from Lao Liu Ban.
Yang Ba Qu 阳八曲 (Yáng Bā Qǔ, "Yang Eight Tune"), also called Fan Wang Gong 凡忘工 or 梵王宫 (Fàn Wáng Gōng, "Fa as Mi") or 梵皇宫 (Fàn Huáng Gōng), ensemble piece from the Jiangnan area. The last fast section was arranged by Nie Er into the piece "Dance of the Golden Snake."
Zhe Gu Fei 鹧鸪飞 (Zhè Gū Fēi, "Flying Partridge"), from Hunan, commonly played as a dizi or xiao solo.
New Jiangnan sizhu compositions include:
Chun Hui Qu 春晖曲 (Chūn Huī Qǔ, "Spring Sun")
Hao Jiangnan 好江南(Hǎo Jiāngnán, "Good Jiangnan")
Social context
Jiangnan sizhu is generally considered to be a folk tradition rather than a professional one, and is most often performed by amateurs. It is typically performed in informal gatherings, often at tea houses. By the mid-20th century, it had also entered the curriculum of China's conservatories, where it continues to be performed by large ensembles of traditional instruments in fully scored arrangements.
Notable musicians
In the second half of the 20th century, a quartet from China playing Jiangnan sizhu repertoire as well as newly composed pieces comprised four men: dizi player Lu Chunling (1921–2018), pipa player Ma Shenglong (马圣龙, 1934–2003), yangqin player Zhou Hui (周惠, 1922–2011), and erhu player Zhou Hao (周皓, b. 1929). They brought the style to new audiences and performed together for many years.
Related genres
Shanghai opera, which was developed in the mid-20th century, has a musical style and accompaniment that is closely related to Jiangnan sizhu.
Reference and further reading
Jones, Stephen (1995). Folk Music of China. Oxford: Clarendon Press OUP.
Witzleben, J. Lawrence (1995). "Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press
External links
Photos of Jiangnan sizhu in Shanghai
Where to find Jiangnan sizhu music in Shanghai
Video
Video of "Huan Le Ge".
Chinese styles of music
Chinese folk music
Chinese culture
Chinese words and phrases
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Erik Haaest
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Erik Haaest (14 March 1935 – 23 January 2012) was a controversial Danish journalist and author.
Haaest was born on 14 March 1935 in Hundslev on Funen to tenant Sigurd Hansen and wife Esther née Andersen and baptized Erik Hansen in Kølstrup church on 22 April 1935.
On 23 March 1953 he changed his name to Erik Haaest.
On 20 December 1962 Haaest formally left the Church of Denmark.
Haaest's father was an active member of the Danish resistance. After the war, his father refused to accept any awards from Denmark's post-war government, because many officials who had collaborated with the Germans, were still unpunished, in positions of power and were now posing as anti-Nazis. Haaest was intimately familiar with the subjects of Danish resistance, and Danish pro-Nazi collaborators.
On 18 July 2007 the newspaper Information wrote that Haaest in September 1977 had published a pamphlet asserting that the nazi concentration camp gas chambers never existed and that the Diary of Anne Frank was a forgery. This caused the Danish Arts Council to be condemned since it had funded Haaest's research into Danes who had served in the SS. Information subsequently brought a retort from Haaest where he claimed to have been deliberately misquoted and referred to the allegations as an outrageous lie made to discredit and sabotage his authorship regarding Danish pro-nazi collaborators.
References
External links
Haaest's homepage
1935 births
2012 deaths
Danish journalists
20th-century Danish writers
20th-century Danish male writers
Holocaust deniers
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The Apostolic Vicariate (or Vicariate Apostolic) of Vientiane (; ) is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church located in northern Laos.
As an apostolic vicariate, it is a pre-diocesan jurisdiction, entitled to a titular bishop, and it is exempt, i.e., not part of any ecclesiastical province and instead directly dependent on the Holy See through the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Apostolic Vicariate's episcopal cathedral see is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Vientiane, one of the country's largest churches. Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun is its apostolic vicar.
Statistics
The vicariate covers 74,195 km² in the civil Laotian provinces of Houaphan, Xiangkhoang, Vientiane Province, Vientiane Prefecture and most of Bolikhamsai.
As per 2014 it pastorally served 14,947 Catholics (0.7% of 2,216,558 total) in 23 parishes with 5 priests (1 diocesan, 4 religious) and 24 lay religious (4 brothers, 20 sisters).
History
The vicariate dates back to the Apostolic Prefecture of Vientiane and Luang-Prabang, which was created on June 14, 1938, by splitting off the northern part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Laos.
On March 13, 1952, it was elevated to an Apostolic vicariate and renamed Vientiane after its largest city, the Laotian national capital.
The northern part around Luang Prabang was split off on March 3, 1963, to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Luang Prabang, which since then has often been held in personal union with Vientiane or by an Apostolic administrator.
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Vientiane and Luang-Prabang
Giovanni Enrico Mazoyer, O.M.I. (1938-1952)
Apostolic Vicars of Vientiane
Etienne-Auguste-Germain Loosdregt, O.M.I. (1952-1975)
Thomas Nantha (1975-1984)
Jean Khamsé Vithavong, O.M.I. (1984-2017)
Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D. (2017–present)
Coadjutor Bishop
Jean Khamsé Vithavong, O.M.I. (1982-1984)
Auxiliary Bishop
Lionello Berti, O.M.I. (1962-1963), appointed Apostolic Vicar of Luang Prabang
See also
List of Catholic dioceses in Laos
Sources and external links
GCatholic, with Google satellite photo
Catholic hierarchy
Apostolic vicariates
Roman Catholic dioceses in Laos
Religious organizations established in 1938
Vientiane
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
1938 establishments in Laos
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Heisei Fūzoku
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, also known as Japanese Manners, is a studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Ringo Sheena and conductor and violinist Neko Saitō, released on February 21, 2007. The vinyl record version and the DVD "Daiginjou" were released on April 25, 2007. This album serves as the sound track for the movie .
Background
Ringo Sheena initially intended to create a highly produced, computer-based sound for the soundtrack and went as far as to record some instrumental demos. However, director Mika Ninagawa demanded songs with lyrics, so she decided to record orchestrated versions using Neko Saitō's arrangements, which he had previously written for her concerts. Though she originally intended to make this album with Tokyo Jihen, drummer Toshiki Hata broke his leg and thus only the other band members were able to participate. Ukigumo played guitar on "Gamble" and wrote "Oiran", while Ichiyō Izawa played piano on "Gamble" and Seiji Kameda arranged "Yokushitsu".
The song "Karisome Otome (Tameikesannoh Ver.)" was recorded in September 2006.
Track listing
All tracks written by Ringo Sheena and arranged by Neko Saitō, except where noted.
Notes:
"Papaya Mango" is a cover of Rosemary Clooney's 1957 single "Mangos."
"Scars" is a cover of Tokyo Jihen's "A Scar of Dreams" (, Yume no Ato).
Credits and personnel
Song
Ringo Sheena (#1-14)
Shiina Junpei (#13)
Conductor
Neko Saitō
Orchestras
(#1)
(#2, 6, 9)
(#3)
(#4, 11)
(#5, 7, 8, 12)
(#10)
(#13)
Ringo Sheena×SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS (#14)
Violin
Neko Saitō (#8)
Electric guitar
Ukigumo (#1)
Piano
Izawa Ichiyou (#1)
Drum machine
Ringo Sheena (#4, 11)
Nobuhiko Nakayama (#7)
Heisei Fūzoku Daiginjō
, (English title: Japanese Manners Premium) is a video DVD album by Ringo Sheena and Neko Saitō released on April 25, 2007 by Toshiba EMI / Virgin Music.
Every song from the album Heisei Fūzoku has animated graphics by spirited designers that were inspired by the album's songs.
Track listing
Notes
References
External links
Jrawk review
Ringo Sheena albums
2007 albums
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Subhash Chandra Agrawal
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Subhash Chandra Agrawal (born 10 January 1950) is an Indian businessman and right to information activist. He holds the Guinness World Record for having written the most published letters to newspaper editors.
Early life and education
Subhash Chandra Agrawal was born on 10 January 1950 in Delhi to Om Prakash Agrawal and Padmawati. He finished his schooling from Anglo Sanskrit Victoria Jubilee Senior Secondary School, Daryaganj. He attended Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (mechanical engineering). He earned his post-graduate diploma in marketing and sales management from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He wanted to join the Indian Administrative Services (IAS), but his uncle "forced [him] to join the family business, [and] crushed [his] dreams of becoming an IAS officer".
Letters and right to information
Agrawal wrote his first letter to the editor of the Hindi newspaper Dainik Hindustan about a bus conductor of Delhi Transport Corporation who did not issue tickets but asked passengers to pay for them. He then raised concerns about the irregular timings of the Taj Express with the Ministry of Railways. He had written 3,699 such published letters as of 31 January 2006, which is a Guinness World Records entry "for the most published letters written to newspaper editors over an individual's lifetime".
He has utilised the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) as a tool to combat corruption in India. The Central Information Commissioner brought the office of Chief Justice of India under the purview of the RTI Act after Agrawal's application. This decision was subsequently upheld by the High Court of Delhi in 2010 and the Supreme Court of India in 2019.
Controversy
Agrawal has been criticised for overuse of RTI instead of pressuring authorities into putting information on their websites without resorting to CIC. But other activists feel that Agrawal’s impact outweighs the criticism he attracts.
Personal life
Agarwal is married to Madhu Agarwal, a social worker who herself holds the Guinness World Record for having written the most published letters (447) in newspapers in a calendar year (2004). His wife and nephew help him by sharing their ideas. Subhash Agrawal reads six newspapers daily and watches news on television, but not cricket. He lives in Dariba, Chandni Chowk, Delhi.
References
Living people
1950 births
Businesspeople from Delhi
Faculty of Management Studies – University of Delhi alumni
Right to Information activists
Delhi Technological University alumni
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Motherland Party (Mongolia)
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The Motherland Party (, ), sometimes also referred to as Mongolian Democratic New Socialist Party (, ) is a political party in Mongolia. It was founded by the owner of the Erel group, Badarchiin Erdenebat. There is a considerable overlap between employees of the Erel group and members of the Motherland party, and the party is popularly also known as Erel party. The party was a member of the 2004 Motherland Democratic Coalition, and held four seats in the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2008. It failed to win any seats in the 2008 parliamentary elections. From 2006 to 2007, the party also held two seats in government: Badarchiin Erdenebat was Minister for Fuel and Resources, and I. Erdenebaatar was Minister for the Environment.
1992 establishments in Mongolia
Political parties established in 1992
Political parties in Mongolia
Social democratic parties in Asia
Socialism in Mongolia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larbi%20Z%C3%A9roual
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Larbi Zéroual
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Larbi Zéroual (born 14 January 1971) is a Moroccan long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
References
1971 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Moroccan male long-distance runners
Olympic athletes of Morocco
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthrosporella
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Arthrosporella
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Arthrosporella is a fungal genus in the family Tricholomataceae. It is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Arthrosporella ditopa, found in South America. The genus was described by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1970.
Singer originally described the single species in 1950 for an agaric he and a colleague had collected in Tucumán Province, Argentina. He placed the new species in the genus Armillariella, which he considered to be the correct name of Armillaria. However, he later came to realize that the species was unusual due to being found with joint teleomorphic and anamorphic forms, both of which produced arthrospores (a type of conidiospore). Thus he erected a new genus for the species in his 1970 treatment of tribe Omphalinae for the Flora Neotropica series, also describing its anamorph as Nothoclavulina ditopa. The species and genus remain known from only the type collection, and more specifically the Nothoclavulina, the agaricoid half having been lost.
In 2005, it was announced that new species had been discovered that belonged to the genus, but further study indicated that they represented separate genera not closely related to Arthrosporella (as was first thought), and they were described in 2007 as Arthromyces and Blastosporella, the former in the Tricholomataceae, the latter in the Lyophyllaceae.
See also
List of Agaricales genera
List of Tricholomataceae genera
References
External links
Fungi of South America
Tricholomataceae
Monotypic Agaricales genera
Taxa named by Rolf Singer
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Zone 4 (record label)
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Zone 4 is an American record label created as a joint venture between the producer Polow da Don and Interscope Records.
History
The label was launched in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 16, 2007. Polow started with four acts – Keri, Rich, YV and i-15 – and added a fifth act in 2008 – the YouTube/Myspace artist Dan Talevski. In July 2009, Ester Dean was added to the roster and in the fall Jared Evan was signed. Polow signed Roscoe-Dash in January 2010.
Talevski left Zone 4/Interscope in September 2011.
Polow is as the company's chairman. Mia A. Welsh (general manager), Krista Michalski (project manager) and Robert "Kaspa" Smith (marketing) oversee the daily business for Zone 4, Inc.
The label's first release was Rich Boy's first album, Rich Boy. Its second release was Keri Hilson's first album, In a Perfect World..., followed by Keri Hilson's second album, No Boys Allowed on December 17, 2010 and Lloyd's fourth album, King of Hearts'', on July 5, 2011.
Artists
Current artists
Keri Hilson
Veronica Vega
Summerella
Former artists/producers
Chanel West Coast
Jared Evan
Lloyd
Rich Boy
Roscoe Dash
Mishon Ratliff
The Audibles
Exchange Student
I15
KING
Betty Idol
Ayo & Teo
MDMA
Rocky Diamonds
Laron
Deonte
Chili Chil
Ester Dean
Bando Jonez
Kane Brown
Discography
External links
Zone 4 inc website
Zone 4 inc Twitter page
Polow Da Don Twitter
References
Record labels established in 2007
American record labels
Labels distributed by Universal Music Group
Hip hop record labels
Contemporary R&B record labels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmosoma%20vesparia
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Cosmosoma vesparia
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Cosmosoma vesparia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Maximilian Perty in 1834. It is found in the Amazon region.
References
vesparia
Moths described in 1834
Taxa named by Maximilian Perty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Vanhaecke
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Michel Vanhaecke
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Michel Vanhaecke (born 24 September 1971) is a Belgian former cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Major results
1989
10th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
1991
1st Vlaamse Havenpijl
1992
2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
7th Overall Paris-Bourges
1993
3rd Cholet-Pays de Loire
5th Binche-Tournai-Binche
7th A travers le Morbihan
7th Omloop van het Houtland Lichtervelde
8th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
10th Brussel-Ingooigem
1994
1st Omloop Schelde-Durme
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
8th Scheldeprijs
8th Overall Tour du Limousin
1995
3rd Paris-Camembert
6th Veenendaal-Veenendaal
7th Road race, National Road Championships
7th Tour de Berne
1996
4th Omloop van de Westhoek
1997
1st Le Samyn
1st Brussel-Ingooigem
2nd Hel van het Mergelland
6th Omloop van de Westhoek
7th Road race, National Road Championships
1998
8th Ronde van Overijssel
8th GP Stad Zottegem
8th Druivenkoers Overijse
1999
1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
1st De Kustpijl
2nd Dwars door België
2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Nokere Koerse
2nd Hel van het Mergelland
2nd Rund um Düren
3rd Leeuwse Pijl
5th Druivenkoers Overijse
7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
7th Scheldeprijs
8th GP Rik Van Steenbergen
9th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
9th GP Eddy Merckx (with Bert Roesems)
10th Le Samyn
2000
1st GP Stad Zottegem
1st Druivenkoers Overijse
2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
2nd De Kustpijl
3rd OZ Tour Beneden-Maas
4th GP Rudy Dhaenens
5th Schaal Sels
6th Gent-Wevelgem
6th Brussel-Izegem
6th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
7th Nokere Koerse
10th Time trial, National Road Championships
2001
1st Nokere Koerse
1st Vlaamse Havenpijl
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
4th GP Stad Vilvoorde
6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
6th Omloop van de Westhoek
7th Overall Tour de la Somme
9th Brussel-Ingooigem
2002
3rd Omloop Het Volk
4th Scheldeprijs
4th Druivenkoers Overijse
7th Veenendaal-Veenendaal
8th GP Rudy Dhaenens
9th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
10th Paris-Brussels
2003
1st Stage 4 Course Cycliste de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques
7th Druivenkoers Overijse
2004
5th Le Samyn
6th Schaal Sels
7th GP Rudy Dhaenens
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Belgian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists of Belgium
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Bruges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylobacterium%20organophilum
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Methylobacterium organophilum
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Methylobacterium organophilum is a facultatively methylotrophic bacteria from the genus of Methylobacterium which was isolated from sediments from the Lake Mendota in Madison in the United States. Methylobacterium organophilum can degrade methanol.
References
Further reading
External links
Type strain of Methylobacterium organophilum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 1976
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyloglucan%20endotransglucosylase
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Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase
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Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (XET) is an apoplastic enzyme found across the plant kingdom. The enzyme catalyzes the endotransglucosylation of two xyloglucan polysaccharides, effectively 'stitching' them together.
Function in planta
XET is thought to promote cell expansion by breaking the xyloglucan cross-links between cellulose microfibrils before reforming them, potentially now linked to another microfibril.
References
EC 3.2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefa%20Y%C4%B1lmaz
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Sefa Yılmaz
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Sefa Yılmaz (born 14 February 1990) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Gençlerbirliği.
International
Sefa was eligible to play for the German Football Association, but switched permanently to the Turkey national football team.
External links
Player profile at MSV Duisburg
Sefa Yılmaz at kicker.de
1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Berlin
Turkish footballers
Turkey international footballers
Turkey B international footballers
Turkey under-21 international footballers
Turkey youth international footballers
German footballers
German people of Turkish descent
VfL Wolfsburg players
MSV Duisburg players
Kayserispor footballers
Trabzonspor footballers
Alanyaspor footballers
Gaziantepspor footballers
2. Bundesliga players
Süper Lig players
Association football midfielders
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Queen Inseong
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Queen Inseong (7 October 1514 – 6 January 1578), of the Bannam Park clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and queen consort of Yi Ho, King Injong. She was Queen consort of Joseon from 1544 until her husband's death in 1545, after which she was honoured as Queen Dowager Gongui (공의왕대비).
Biography
Lady Park was born into the Bannam Park clan on 7 October 1514 to Park Yong and his second wife, Lady Kim of the Uiseong Kim clan. Lady Park became Crown Princess Consort in 1524 when she was 10 years old to Crown Prince Yi Ho (the future King Injong).
Her mother was given the royal title of "Internal Princess Consort Munso of the Uiseong Kim clan" (문소부부인 의성 김씨, 聞韶府夫人 義城 金氏) and her father was given the royal title of "Internal Prince Geumseong, Park Yong" (금성부원군 박용, 錦城府院君 朴墉) when she became Crown Princess.
In 1544, when her husband became king, Crown Princess Park moved from Gyeongbok Palace's Jaseon Hall to Gyotaejeon Hall (교태전, 交泰殿).
One year later, when her husband died on 8 August 1545, she became Queen Dowager Gongui and the king's younger half-brother became King Myeongjong since the royal couple did not have any children. But he also died on 3 August 1567 without issue, and so his half-nephew, King Seonjo, became king that same year.
Queen Inseong died 11 years later on 6 January 1578 in Gyeongbok Palace's hall, Gyotaejeon, at the age of 64.
Titles
7 October 1514 - 1524: Lady Park, daughter of Park Yong, of the Bannam Park clan
1524 - 1544: Crown Princess Park (빈궁 박씨, 嬪宮 朴氏) or (왕세자빈 박씨, 王世子嬪 朴氏)
1544 - 1545: The Queen Consort (왕비, 王妃)
1545 - 1578: Queen Dowager Gongui (공의왕대비, 恭懿王大妃)
Posthumus title: Queen Inseong (인성왕후, 仁聖王后)
Family
Parent
Uncle - Park Hae (박해, 朴垓)
Uncle - Park Gi (박기, 朴基)
Cousin - Park Gan (박간, 朴諫)
Aunt - Lady Park of the Bannam Park clan (반남 박씨, 潘南 朴氏)
Uncle - Yi Gi (이기, 李技)
Father − Park Yong (1468 – 1524) (박용, 朴墉)
Uncle - Park Ham (박함, 朴圸)
Uncle - Park Yeon (박연, 朴堧)
1) Grandfather − Park Chi (1440 – 1499) (박치, 朴耒)
2) Great-Grandfather − Park Kang (박강, 朴薑) (? - 1460)
3) Great-Great-Grandfather − Park Eun (박은, 朴誾) (1370 - 1422)
4) Great-Great-Great-Grandfather − Park Sang-chung (박상충, 朴尙衷) (1332 - 1375)
5) Great-Great-Great-Great-Great - Grandfather − Park Yoon-mu (박윤무)
5) Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather − Park Su (박수)
4) Great-Great-Great-Grandmother − Lady Yi of the Hansan Yi clan (한산 이씨)
3) Great-Great-Grandmother − Lady Ju (주씨, 周氏); (주언방의 딸) daughter of Ju Eon-bang (주언방, 周彦邦)
1) Grandmother − Lady Seong of the Changnyeong Seong clan (창녕 성씨)
Mother − Internal Princess Consort Munso of the Uiseong Kim clan (문소부부인 의성 김씨, 聞韶府夫人 義城 金氏) (1490 - 1550); Park Yong's second wife
1) Grandfather − Kim Ik-gyeom (김익겸, 金益謙)
1) Grandmother − Lady Nam of the Uiryeong Nam clan (의령 남씨)
Stepmother - Lady Kim of the Gwangju Kim clan (증 정경부인 광주 김씨, 贈 政敬夫人 光州 金氏)
Step grandfather - Kim Geo (김거, 金琚)
Sibling
Younger half-brother − Park Chun-jeong (박춘정, 朴春丁)
Younger half-brother − Park Pyeong (박평, 朴平)
Younger half-sister − Lady Park of the Bannam Park clan (반남 박씨, 潘南 朴氏)
Brother-in-law − Yi Jang (이장, 李鏘)
Consort
Yi Ho, King Injong (10 March 1515 – 7 August 1545) (조선 인종) — No issue.
Father-in-law - King Jungjong of Joseon (16 April 1488 – 29 November 1544) (조선 중종)
Mother-in-law - Queen Janggyeong of the Papyeong Yun clan (10 August 1491 – 16 March 1515) (장경왕후 윤씨)
References
Notes
16th-century Korean people
1514 births
1578 deaths
Royal consorts of the Joseon Dynasty
Korean queens consort
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Watts
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Liz Watts
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Liz Watts is an Australian film producer best known for Animal Kingdom (2010). With Vincent Sheehan and Anita Sheehan and she formed Porchlight Films. More recently, she struck an overall deal with Matchbox Pictures.
Select Filmography
Martha's New Coat (2003)
Jewboy (2005)
Little Fish (2005)
The Home Song Stories (2007)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Laid (2011–12) (TV series)
Lore (2012)
Dead Europe (2012)
The Rover (2014)
Jasper Jones (2017)
Mary Magdalene (2018)
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
References
External links
Watts, Liz in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
Australian film producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichomeris%20synergastis
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Dichomeris synergastis
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Dichomeris synergastis is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Ponomarenko and Park in 1996. It is found in Korea.
The wingspan is . The forewings are greyish yellow, darker towards the distal part and with a large, distinct dark brown spot near the base, as well as two hardly visible discal dots. The hindwings are brownish grey.
References
Moths described in 1996
synergastis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratviel
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Pratviel
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Pratviel (; ) is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.
The name of the settlement – Prat Vièlh in Occitan – means "old meadow".
See also
Communes of the Tarn department
References
Communes of Tarn (department)
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2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri
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Overview
District 1
Incumbent Democratic Congressman William Lacy Clay, Jr. faced no difficulty in seeking another term in this liberal, St. Louis-based district over Republican Mark Byrne and Libertarian Robb Cunningham.
District 2
Though confronted with a powerful Democratic wave, incumbent Republican Congressman Todd Akin easily won a third term over Democrat George Weber and Libertarian Tamara Millay.
District 3
Freshman incumbent Congressman Russ Carnahan, a Democrat, had an easy time in winning a second term in this fairly liberal district based in the southern portion of St. Louis.
District 4
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Ike Skelton, seeking his sixteenth term in this conservative, west-central Missouri-based district, overwhelmed Republican candidate Jim Noland, Libertarian nominee Bryce Holthouse, and Progressive Party candidate Mel Ivey and was victorious.
District 5
Coming from a surprisingly-close election in 2004, freshman incumbent Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat, easily defeated Republican nominee Jacob Turk to win a third term in this fairly liberal district based in Kansas City.
District 6
In this conservative, northwest Missouri district, incumbent Republican Congressman Sam Graves easily dispatched with Democratic nominee Sara Jo Shettles, Libertarian candidate Erik Buck, and Progressive candidate Shirley Yurkonis to win a fourth term in Congress.
District 7
Incumbent Republican Congressman Roy Blunt, the House Majority Whip, found no difficulty in winning a sixth term in his very conservative district located in southwest Missouri.
District 8
In the most conservative district found in Missouri, incumbent Republican Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson coasted to re-election, swamping Democratic nominee Veronica Hambacker and Libertarian nominee Branden McCullough.
District 9
This district, based in "Little Dixie," located in northeast Missouri, has a strongly conservative bent and incumbent Republican Congressman Kenny Hulshof sought and won a sixth term against several opponents.
References
Missouri
2006
2006 Missouri elections
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Riddell%20%28footballer%29
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James Riddell (footballer)
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James Hamilton Riddell (6 February 1891 – 1952) was a Scottish footballer who played for Rangers, Dumbarton, Clyde, Partick Thistle, Kilmarnock, St Mirren, Millwall, Fulham, Wigan Borough and Caernarfon.
References
1891 births
1952 deaths
Scottish footballers
Dumbarton F.C. players
Partick Thistle F.C. players
Clyde F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
Kilmarnock F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
St Mirren F.C. players
Association football midfielders
Footballers from Glasgow
People from Gorbals
Ashfield F.C. players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEED%20%28organization%29
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SEED (organization)
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SEED is a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy. It was initiated in 2001 by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). Under the name SEED Initiative it was presented as an “Example of Excellence” partnership inter alia by UNEP and BMUB at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 where it was also registered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a Type II Partnership. SEED was originally conceived as an acronym for Supporting Entrepreneurs for Environment and Development.
Programme approach, goals and objectives
SEED works for social and environmental entrepreneurship in two ways:
through direct support to enterprises, particularly those in the start-up phase, to scale up or replicate their activities in a way that helps local economies or communities while promoting the sustainable management of natural resources, enhancing ecosystems and reducing poverty.
promoting a more enabling framework by providing to national and international policy makers the results of research into the impacts of, and barriers and enablers faced by, social and environmental enterprises; and convening symposia in Africa to bring together practitioners at the grassroots with a wide range of policy makers.
SEED helps to deliver solutions through cooperation between small and large businesses, local and international NGOs, women's groups, labour organisations, public authorities, and UN agencies, as well as other actors working in the field of sustainable development. It seeks to grow capacity on the ground and creates a conduit for investment partnerships, and for disseminating good practice and lessons learned.
SEED is also a member of the Green Economy Coalition (GEC), which includes a range of organisations and sectors from NGOs, institutes, businesses and trade unions. The GEC is based around the vision of a resilient economy that provides a better quality of life for all within the ecological limits of the planet, and to accelerate the transition to the new green economy.
The SEED Awards Program
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to find the most promising, innovative and locally-led start-up social and environmental enterprises in countries with developing and emerging economies. The independent SEED International Jury of experts selects enterprises which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability while contributing to a greener economy.
In light of the 2011 SEED Awards, Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director, described the importance of the SEED Awards in the following manner:
"The SEED Award winners are shining examples of what can be achieved through the lens of the Green Economy and with very little in terms of funds but an extraordinary amount of innovation and hard work. The challenge […] is how to scale-up and accelerate the kinds of transitions that SEED represents. Companies have a lot to gain from partnering with civil society and public sector initiatives in order to catalyze change."
Applications for the SEED Awards are generally open for enterprises in a developing country or country in transition, which is working in partnership with others to generate economic, environmental and social benefits. Eligibility however varies depending on the award type for which an enterprise wants to apply. In many instances start-up social and environmental enterprises need access to knowledge, expertise and networks as much as financial support. SEED meets this need by offering winners a package of individually tailored support in addition to a monetary prize. This package comprises business and technical support, access to expertise and networks, and international profiling to foster sustainable business growth.
Previous SEED Award winners have included enterprises working in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental technologies, natural resource management, sustainable consumption, waste and recycling, health, water and sanitation, biofuels, information and communications, education, food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, renewables and microfinance.
Over the last ten years SEED has awarded more than 200 social and environmental enterprises in developing countries with a SEED Award - enabling collaboration and peer learning. In September 2015, SEED issued a 10 Year Flagship Report titled "Turning Ideas into Impact" which tells the story of SEED and is built on an extensive survey with 175 SEED Award Winners, showcasing key lessons learnt from working with them.
In 2015, the SEED Awards had a special focus on Africa, with 25 awards given to enterprises in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
History and Growth
The first SEED Awards were presented between 2005 and 2008.
In 2009, 20 Award Winners were selected out of nearly 1100 applications from 97 countries. The 20 SEED Award winners each received business planning support and subsequently 5 were selected as Gold Winners; they received additional tailored capacity building, a financial contribution and were networked and profiled at high level events in their own countries, and internationally. SEED has since increased the number of Awards with between 35-55 annually, all receiving tailor-made support packages.
Co-funded by the EU, and in partnership with the UNEP Green Economy Initiative, a special focus on Africa was introduced from 2010 onwards with the aim of supporting African countries looking to encourage green and sustainable economic sectors and socially responsible initiatives. The project was originally piloted in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa and is now extended until 2015 in Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Gender equality has been a mainstream goal throughout the SEED programme. In 2011 SEED reinforced this commitment by partnering with UN Women in introducing of the first SEED Gender Equality Award which specifically aimed to support outstanding women-led or women-owned enterprises that contributed to women’s empowerment and fostered gender equality. The partnership has since been joined by UNIDO.
In 2013 SEED entered into a partnership with the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) which saw the establishment of an award category specifically targeting enterprises that address climate change mitigation and adaptation: the SEED Low Carbon Awards. This category targeted 5 countries (Colombia, India, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam), identifying and promoting climate-smart enterprises through tapping into the pool of innovative ideas for addressing climate change at the local level.
On 30 June 2015, after 8 years at the helm of SEED, Dr. Helen Maquard stepped down as executive director. Under her leadership, SEED has evolved from a biennial awards scheme into a multi-component programme for action on sustainable development and the green economy.
SEED Partners
Founding Partners of SEED are United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Since April 2013 SEED is hosted by the German Think-and-Do Tank adelphi research gGmbH. Further partners of SEED comprise Conservation International, the European Union, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Government of Flanders, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women UN Women (UN Women), the US Department of State and the international Law firm Hogan Lovells.
In 2011 Hisense International Co. became SEED’S Corporate partner when they entered into a partnership agreement with UNEP to promote and strengthen the brand profile and global positioning of the SEED Awards; committing to a three-year commitment 2011-2013. In 2013 the agreement was extended for an additional three years.
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Edith Mary Rudd (née Lewis; 14 February 1882 – 7 May 1967) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse. She served in both World War I and World War II, and received the Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross in 1961.
Early life
Rudd was born in Northampton, England, the daughter of George Llewellyn Lewis and Mary Hunter née Littlejohn. She trained as a nurse at Whanganui Hospital in the North Island of New Zealand.
Career
Rudd worked as a nurse at Rostrevor Hospital in Gisborne, in the North Island of New Zealand, until 1915, when she enlisted with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service. In December that year she sailed from Wellington on the ship SS Marama. She served in Egypt until 1918, nursing soldiers injured on the Western Front. On returning to New Zealand, Rudd continued nursing and from 1921 to 1941 she was Matron of Wairau Hospital in Blenheim. She also became involved with the New Zealand Red Cross, joining the Marlborough branch in 1925.
Rudd served as a nurse again in World War II, as Matron of the New Zealand Hospital Ship Maunganui from 1941 to 1945. Rudd and the Maunganui sailed from Wellington to Suez in April 1941 with a group of 20 New Zealand nurses. She became known as the "Momma of the Black Dressing Gown" as she wore a black silk dressing gown to make her night rounds during blackout conditions on board the ship. By the end of Rudd's service, in 1945, the ship had carried more than 5,600 patients. Rudd spent some time in 1945 and 1946 nursing at Trentham Military Hospital in Wellington on her return to New Zealand.
In 1952, Rudd became president of the Marlborough branch of the Red Cross. In 1963, she published her memoirs, titled Joy in the Caring.
Honours
In the 1944 King's Birthday Honours, Rudd received the highest military nursing award, the Royal Red Cross (First Class). In 1953, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In 1961, she was presented with the Florence Nightingale Medal by the Red Cross.
In 2013, Rudd's Florence Nightingale Medal was loaned to the Marlborough RSA for display in its rooms.
Personal life
In 1927, Rudd was engaged to a Mr Nees, chairman of Wairau Hospital. Rudd married William George Rudd in 1946.
Edith Rudd died in Blenheim on 7 February 1967 and is buried at Omaka Cemetery.
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Merrick Glacier () is a steep tributary glacier just east of Sennet Glacier in the Britannia Range in Antarctica, descending southwestward to enter Byrd Glacier at the west end of Horney Bluff. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in association with nearby Byrd Glacier, for , a cargo ship (Central Group of Task Force 68) of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, led by Admiral Byrd.
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Glaciers of Oates Land
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Cove is a remote hamlet located on the northwestern shore of the sea loch Loch Ewe, and 8 miles northwest of Poolewe in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Geography
Cove overlooks the Isle of Ewe on Loch Ewe to the southwest. The nearest major town is Ullapool, from where there are ferry sailings to the Outer Hebrides.
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Populated places in Ross and Cromarty
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