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Grimberg
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Grimberg is a toponymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Anders Grimberg, Swedish football manager
Arenda Grimberg (born 1978), Dutch cyclist
Carl Grimberg (1875–1941), Swedish historian
Fabian Grimberg (born 1962), Argentine footballer
Steven D. Grimberg (born 1974), United States District Judge
Tina Grimberg (born 1963), Ukrainian-born Canadian rabbi
Vanessa Grimberg (born 1993), German swimmer
See also
:nl:Grimberg, a manor near Almelo, Netherlands
Grimberg, a former village, now central neighborhood of Lohmar, North Rhine-Westphalia
Port Grimberg, named after the nearby former Castle Grimberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
Grimbergen, Belgium
Grinberg (surname)
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Edna Jaques
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Edna Parliament Jaques (17 January 1891 – 13 September 1978) was a Canadian poet. Born in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised on a homestead in Saskatchewan, by the 1950s, she was "possibly the best-selling poet of her generation."
Biography
When Jaques was born, her father was a ship's captain on the Great Lakes. In 1902, when Jaques was 11, the family moved to a homestead about southeast of Moose Jaw. The family homestead later became the town of Briercrest, Saskatchewan: "Mrs. Jaques had chosen the name after the wild roses growing on a ridge nearby and agreed to the use of the name for the village." Peachey House in Briercrest was renamed the Brier Rose Cultural Centre in 2012 in Edna Jaques's honour.
After high school, wanting to see the world, Jaques travelled west, working as an itinerant seamstress to pay her way; in Calgary, she stopped. There, in 1918, she wrote a poetic response to John McCrae's "In Flanders' Fields", which was to become her most famous poems. Recognizing Jaques's talents, the editor of the Calgary Herald offered to pay for her to attend university. Still wanting to travel, though, Jaques convinced the editor, instead, to pay for her passage to the West Coast, where she worked as a stewardess on a coastal steamer before attending business school. After a short stint with the Vancouver Province, she returned to Saskatchewan. She married farmer William Ernest Jamieson (1889–1942) on 30 November 1921, in Moose Jaw. The couple settled on a farm near Tisdale, Saskatchewan, but four years later Jaques moved back south with their only child, a daughter, Joyce (1923–2011).
Edna and Joyce moved to Victoria, BC, where she worked as a stenographer from 1929 until 1935 as well as continuing to contribute articles and poems to newspapers and magazines. In addition to her writing, Jaques began lecturing to women's groups. Beginning in 1929 with a presentation to the Canadian Club in Moose Jaw, she subsequently toured across Canada lecturing for that organization. Her first book of poetry—Wide Horizons—was published in 1934, followed soon after by Drifting Soil (1934), inspired by the dusty bowl of the prairie provinces at the time. In 1935, with the assistance of Nellie McClung, who also lived in Victoria, Jaques published My Kitchen Window, her first real success. During the Depression, her books—sold at 25¢ each—were a necessary income. Times were hard; in 1937, she published an article in Chatelaine, describing the difficulties women in the prairies at that time faced.
In 1935, Jaques sent Joyce—now 12 years old—back to Briercrest, while she engaged more completely in her public lectures and other work for women's institutes. In 1939, she was operated on for a spinal tumour. During the Second World War, she worked for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board in Ottawa, as well as spending some time working in a factory in Toronto, where she "operated a fifteen-ton powder press." Following the war, she settled on "three acres of land" on the shores of Lake Ontario, about 30 km west of Toronto.
Interviewing Jaques in 1952, the year she was ranked "one of Canada's most popular women," journalist Janice Tyrwhitt observed that "what Robert Burns was to Scotland ... Edna Jaques is to Canada ... the voice of the people. Her poems — as she says herself — are clad in print and homespun and the rough weave of common folk." In 1976, she was proclaimed Woman of the Year by Bill Davis, premier of Ontario. She died in Toronto on 13 September 1978.
Literary production
As a young girl, Jaques was "constantly jotting down rhymes on scraps of paper," which led to her being known as the "scrapbook poetess of the West" (in 1934, author and politician Nellie McClung wrote an article about her friend Edna Jaques entitled "The Scrapbook Poet"). Her first poem was published in the Moose Jaw Times in 1904, when she was 13 years old.
Jaques's poem "In Flanders Now", first published in the Calgary Herald, was later "printed on a card along with the Belgian National Anthem [and] was sold throughout the United States at 10¢ a copy and raised one million dollars for war relief." It was also recited at the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in 1921 and a copy placed in the memorial chapel.
Jaques was a prolific poet. She wrote 10 volumes of poetry as well as considerable contributions of poetry and articles to newspapers and journals. For 30 years, the Saskatchewan Farmer magazine published a poem of hers every month, and over the space of 20 years, the Vancouver Province was publishing 10 of her poems per month. Jaques was one of "Canada’s best-selling poet[s,] with an annual sale of five thousand volumes." Her total poetic outputs is calculated at over 3000 poems, and at the time of her death, her books are said to have sold over 250,000 copies.
Volumes of poetry
Jaques published the following volumes of poetry:
Wide Horizons (Moose Jaw, SK: Moose Jaw Times, 1934)
Drifting Soil (Moose Jaw, SK: Moose Jaw Times, 1934)
My Kitchen Window (Toronto: Allen, 1935)
Dreams in Your Heart (Toronto: Allen, 1937)
Beside Still Waters (Toronto: Allen, 1939)
Britons Awake (Toronto: Allen, 1940)
Aunt Hattie's Place (Toronto: Allen, 1941)
Verses for You (Moose Jaw, SK: Moose Jaw Writers’ Club, [1941])
Roses in December (Toronto: Allen, 1944)
Back-Door Neighbors (Toronto: Allen, 1946)
Hills of Home (Toronto: Allen, 1948)
Fireside Poems (Toronto: Allen, 1950)
The Golden Road (Toronto: Allen, 1953)
References
1891 births
1978 deaths
People from Collingwood, Ontario
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian women writers
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Santa María del Mar (Castrillón)
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Santa María del Mar (officially Santa María del Mar - El Puerto) is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in Castrillón, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.
References
Parishes in Castrillón
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Meggott
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George Meggott
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George Meggott (1669–1723), of Stoney Lane, St. Olave's, Southwark, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Southwark in 1722–1723.
References
1669 births
1723 deaths
People from Southwark
British MPs 1722–1727
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4shared
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4shared, also known as 4shared.com, is a file-sharing website.
Features
4shared supports the WebDav, FTP, and SFTP protocols, in addition to having a web interface. 4shared is a freemium service, with significant usage limitations on non-paying users, such as a daily bandwidth limit of 3GB.
History
In 2011, 4shared was ranked the largest file-sharing website, beating out others such as Megaupload and MediaFire.
The site was labelled as a notorious market in 2016: "While 4shared provides legitimate file-storage services, the site also facilitates the streaming and downloading of high volumes of allegedly pirated videos, music, books, and video games."
In 2019, 4shared's Android app was discovered to be serving invisible advertisements to users, and automatically signing them up for unwanted services. The app was replaced with a non-malicious version on April of the same year, after being removed on Google Play.
See also
Megaupload
Openload
References
File sharing services
Notorious markets
Internet properties established in 2005
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Nizhal Thedum Nenjangal
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Nizhal Thedum Nenjangal is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language film directed by P. S. Nivas, starring Rajeev, Vijayashanti and Vadivukkarasi.
Cast
Rajeev as
Vijayashanthi as
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
References
External links
1982 films
Indian films
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
1980s Tamil-language films
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Blur: The Best Of
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Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food Records. It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album includes 17 of Blur's 23 singles from 1990 to 2000, plus non-single, "This Is a Low". A special edition of the CD version included a live CD. The DVD/VHS version contains the videos of Blur's first 22 singles. The album, which has had enduring sales, hit number 3 in the band's native UK in the autumn of 2000, while denting the US charts at number 186. The cover is by artist Julian Opie. The painting of this Blur album can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
The album received a positive critical response. Of the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator website Metacritic, the album holds an overall approval rating of 88%.
On the chart ending 7 March 2009, it was reported by Music Week that the album passed over one million unit sales in the United Kingdom.
A proposed title for the album was Best Blur Album in the World Ever, in reference to the compilation album series The Best... Album in the World...Ever! (which often contained songs by Blur).
Track listing
Disc one
All tracks written by Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree.
Disc two (Limited Edition)
Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 11 December 1999.
"She's So High" – 5:24
"Girls & Boys" – 4:21
"To the End" – 4:08
"End of a Century" – 3:00
"Stereotypes" – 3:27
"Charmless Man" – 3:31
"Beetlebum" – 6:09
"M.O.R." – 3:09
"Tender" – 6:20
"No Distance Left to Run" – 4:09
VHS/DVD
"She's So High"
"There's No Other Way"
"Bang"
"Popscene"
"For Tomorrow"
"Chemical World"
"Sunday Sunday"
"Girls & Boys"
"Parklife"
"To the End"
"End of a Century"
"Country House"
"The Universal"
"Stereotypes"
"Charmless Man"
"Beetlebum"
"Song 2"
"On Your Own"
"M.O.R."
"Tender"
"Coffee & TV"
"No Distance Left to Run"
Both the CDs and the DVD were released together as a box set in the United States in November 2007, but this release has since been removed from distribution.
Personnel
Blur
Damon Albarn – lead vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, backing vocals on "Coffee and TV" and "Tender", xylophone on "To the End"
Graham Coxon – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Coffee and TV" and parts of "Tender", clarinet on "End of a Century" and "To the End"
Alex James – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dave Rowntree – drums, percussion, backing vocals, drum machine on "On Your Own"
Additional personnel
Blur – production
Jack Clark – mixing
Al Clay – mixing
Jason Cox – engineering
Tom Girling – assistant producer
Stephen Hague – producer, engineer
Ben Hillier – producer, mixing
Jeff Knowler – assistant engineer
Damian LeGassick – programming
Steve Lovell – producer
Gerard Navarro – assistant engineer
William Orbit – producer, engineer
Jeremy Plumb – art direction, design
Steve Power – producer
Iain Roberton – assistant engineer
Andy Ross – engineer
John Smith – producer, engineer
Sean Spuehler – programming
Stephen Street – producer, engineer
Greg Williams – photography
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Certifications
References
External links
Blur: The Best Of at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
2000 greatest hits albums
Blur (band) albums
Albums produced by Stephen Street
Albums produced by William Orbit
Parlophone compilation albums
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Hussainabad (Sindh)
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Hussainabad (), also known as Gidu Bandar is a town in Hyderabad city in Sindh, Pakistan near the Indus River. Hussainabad is the local name of the town. Pakistan's oldest mental hospital is also here.
Notables
Captain Abdul Shakoor Shaheed participated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and earned medals including "Nishan E Jurat."
Geography
Mehran Park is near the Indus River (Sindhu Darya).
Shopping
Zeeshan Plaza River is about 0.6 kilometer from the Indus. It is the town's largest Plaza. Ali twin towers will be larger, comprising 8 storeys.
In Wapda Colony a hospital is located near a park, jogging area and national bank.
Recreation
Fishing is popular for species including Palla fish (Ilish).
References
External links
Neighbourhoods of Hyderabad, Sindh
Hyderabad District, Pakistan
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List of Westminster Abbey organists
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This is a list of Westminster Abbey organists. The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as "Westminster Abbey", is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional site for the Coronation of the British monarch and many former kings and queens are buried there.
Organists
1559 John Taylour
1570 Robert White
1574 Henry Leeve
1585 Edmund Hooper
1621 John Parsons
1623 Orlando Gibbons
1625-1644 Richard Portman
1660 Christopher Gibbons
1666 Albertus Bryne
1668 John Blow
1679 Henry Purcell
1695 John Blow (re-appointed)
1708 William Croft
1727 John Robinson
1762 Benjamin Cooke
1793 Samuel Arnold
1803 Robert Cooke
1814 George Ebenezer Williams
1819 Thomas Greatorex
1831 James Turle
1882 Sir Frederick Bridge, CVO
1918 Sir Sydney Nicholson, MVO
1928 Sir Ernest Bullock, CVO
1941-1945 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO (Acting)
1941 Sir William Neil McKie, MVO
1963 Douglas Guest, CVO
1981 Simon Preston, CBE
1988 Martin Neary, LVO
1998-1999 Martin Baker (Acting)
2000 James O'Donnell
Sub Organists
1860 Charles Sherwood Jekyll
1875 Sir Frederick Bridge CVO
1881 Henry Davan Wetton
1896 Sir Walter Galpin Alcock MVO
1917 Stanley Roper CVO
1921 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO
1941 Vacant
1946 Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO
1954 Derek Holman CM
1956 Robert Henry Charles Palmer
1962 Simon Preston CBE
1967 Tim Farrell
1974 Sir Stephen Cleobury CBE
1978 Christopher Herrick
1984 Harry Bicket
1988
1988 Andrew Lumsden
1992 Martin Baker
1998 Philip Scriven (Acting)
2000 Andrew Reid
2004 Robert Quinney
2013 Daniel Cook
2017 Peter Holder
Assistant organists
Charles Jekyll 1875
W.J. Winter 1886–1895
Walter Alcock 1896–1916 (later knighted, and Organist of Salisbury Cathedral)
Hugh Marchant 1947–1950
Hugo Limer 1950–1959
Rilford Trafalgar 1959–1984
David Bruce-Payne 1968–1974 (later Director of Music at Birmingham Cathedral)
Christopher Herrick
Geoffrey Morgan 1978–1988 (later Sub-Organist at Guildford Cathedral, now Organist of Christchurch Priory)
Miles Quick 1989-1991
Stephen Le Prevost 1991–2001 (currently organist and director of music at the Town Church in St-Peter-Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands)
Simon Bell 2001–2002 (later Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral and subsequently Director of Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey)
Daniel Cook 2003–2005 (later Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, Organist and Master of the Choristers at St Davids Cathedral, Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, and subsequently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral)
Ashley Grote 2005–2008 (later Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral, now Master of Music at Norwich Cathedral)
James McVinnie 2008–2011
Martin Ford 2012-2015
Matthew Jorysz 2016-
Organ Scholars
James Cryer
Jonathan Dimmock
Adrian Lenthall
Simon Morley (became Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral, thence Organist of Ripon Cathedral)
Geoffrey Styles (became Organ Scholar at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford)
James Cryer
Nick Murdoch
Jane Watts 1981-1982
Richard Moorhouse 1990–1992 (Organist and Master of the Choristers at Llandaff Cathedral)
Meirion Wynn Jones 1992–1993 (Assistant Organist at Brecon Cathedral)
William Whitehead 1993 - 1994 (became Assistant Organist at Rochester Cathedral)
Louise Reid (née Marsh) 1994 - 1996
John Hosking 1996–1999 (Assistant Organist at St Asaph Cathedral)
Iestyn Evans 1999–2000 (Director of Music, St James's, Spanish Place, London)
Simon Bell 2000–2001 (Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral and subsequently Director of Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey)
Justin Luke 2001–2002
Daniel Cook 2002–2003 (Organist and Master of the Choristers at Durham Cathedral, Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral and subsequently Organist of St Davids Cathedral)
Richard Hills 2003–2004 (Organist of St Mary's, Bourne Street, London)
Ian Keatley 2004–2006 (Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)
Simon Jacobs 2006–2007
Benjamin Chewter 2007–2008 (Assistant Organist at Lincoln Cathedral and subsequently Assistant Director of Music at Chester Cathedral)
Léon Charles 2008–2009 (See http://leoncharles.co.uk for more details)
Samuel Prouse 2009–2010
Edward Tambling 2010-2011 (Assistant Director of Music, St James's, Spanish Place, London)
Andrej Kouznetsov 2011-2012 (Organist, St John's Cathedral (Brisbane))
Peter Holder 2012–2014
Jeremy Woodside 2014-2015
Matthew Jorysz 2015 - 2016
Benjamin Cunningham 2016-2018 (Assistant Director of Chapel Music, Winchester College)
Alexander Hamilton 2018-2020 (Assistant Director of Music, Wells Cathedral)
Charles Maxtone-Smith 2020-
References
Abbey organists
Westminster Abbey
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Paramphilius trichomycteroides
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Paramphilius trichomycteroides is a species of loach catfish found in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone. It grows to a length of 5.9 cm.
References
Amphiliidae
Freshwater fish of West Africa
Fish described in 1907
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Panis angelicus
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(Latin for "Bread of Angels" or "Angelic Bread") is the penultimate stanza of the hymn "" written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the feast, including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.
The strophe of "" that begins with the words "" ("bread of angels") has often been set to music separately from the rest of the hymn. Most famously, in 1872 César Franck set this strophe for tenor voice, harp, cello, and organ, and incorporated it into his .
Other hymns for Corpus Christi by Saint Thomas where sections have been separately set to music are "" (the last two strophes begin with "") and "" (the last two strophes begin with "").
Musical settings
The text was set as a motet by several Renaissance composers including João Lourenço Rebelo. In the seventeenth century, Marc-Antoine Charpentier set H.243 in 1670-75. Later romantic era settings include those by André Caplet, Saint-Saëns, and, best known of all, the setting by César Franck.
Text
Panis angelicus
fit panis hominum;
Dat panis cœlicus
figuris terminum:
O res mirabilis!
Manducat Dominum
pauper, servus et humilis.
Te trina Deitas
unaque poscimus:
Sic nos tu visita,
sicut te colimus;
Per tuas semitas
duc nos quo tendimus,
Ad lucem quam inhabitas.
Amen.
Thus Angels' Bread is made
the Bread of man today:
the Living Bread from heaven
with figures dost away:
O wondrous gift indeed!
the poor and lowly may
upon their Lord and Master feed.
Thee, therefore, we implore, O Godhead, One in Three,
so may Thou visit us
as we now worship Thee;
and lead us on Thy way,
That we at last may see
the light wherein Thou dwellest aye.
Amen.
References
External links
Sacris Solemniis in the Catholic Encyclopedia discusses the merits of a number of translations.
"Bread of Angels", Gregorian Chants
Archival sheet music for "Panis Angelicus", Oliver Ditson Company, 1901.
, Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Franz-Paul Decker, 21 September 1978, Montreal
by Louis Lambillotte
Works by Thomas Aquinas
Compositions by César Franck
1872 compositions
Eucharist in the Catholic Church
Latin-language Christian hymns
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Transcription
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Transcription refers to the process of producing a copy of something piece by small piece, including:
Genetics
Transcription (biology), the copying of DNA into RNA, the first step in gene expression
Bacterial transcription, the generation of RNA transcripts of the genetic material in prokaryotes
Eukaryotic transcription, the process of copying the genetic information stored in DNA into RNA in eukaryotes
Transcription (journal), an academic journal about genetics
Transcription factor, a protein that controls the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA
Linguistics
Transcription (linguistics), the representations of speech or signing in written form
Orthographic transcription, a transcription method that employs the standard spelling system of each target language
Phonetic transcription, the representation of specific speech sounds or sign components
Speech transcription
The process of converting spoken words into text, such as in:
Medical transcription, the process of converting a health professional's notes into a text document
Transcription (service), a service or business that converts speech into text
Transcription (software), software that aids the conversion of speech into text
Other
Transcription disc, a sound recording made during broadcasting for internal use by the broadcasting organization
Transcription (music), the notation, copying and/or rescoring of music for a particular instrument or ensemble, or for the purposes of analysis
Piano transcription, a common type of music transcription
Transcription (novel), a 2018 novel by Kate Atkinson
See also
Transcript (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alb%27swissTV
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Alb'swissTV
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Alb'swiss TV is an Albanian news television station based in Geneva, Switzerland. Alb'swiss has been present in the field of television media since 2015. The station is a general information broadcaster that embraces the coverage of social, cultural and political issues. Alb'swiss has been characterized by a simplicity of language, inclined to report the news by respecting journalistic ethics, monitoring information sources, and constantly searching for the truth. This approach has placed in a respected position in the media landscape.
Alb'swissTV Official
History
This online television station in Switzerland was founded in 2015
TV programs
Revista televizive
News Show Swiss
7 Dite
Diaspora ne Zvicer
References
Television networks in Albania
Mass media in Tirana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1762%20in%20art
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1762 in art
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Events from the year 1762 in art.
Events
Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed after thirty years of work, with Nicola Salvi's design being modified by Giovanni Paolo Panini.
The art collection of Joseph Smith, former British consul in Venice, including many works by Canaletto, is sold to King George III of Great Britain for the Royal Collection.
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens is published.
Horace Walpole begins publication of Anecdotes of Painting in England, based on George Vertue's manuscript notes.
Paintings
Thomas Davies – An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara
François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
Nathaniel Hone – Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon Philip Sherard and Captain William Tiffin at the Battle of Brücke-Mühl
Allan Ramsay – Portraits of George III of Great Britain; Queen Charlotte; and the Countess of Elgin
Joshua Reynolds – Portraits of Sir Charles Spencer; the Earl of Shaftesbury; Emma, Lady Edgcumbe; and Ostenaco, Mankiller of Keowee
George Stubbs (some dates approximate)
Lion Attacking a Horse (two versions)
Mare and Foals belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke
Mare and Foals with an unfigured background
The Marquess of Rockingham's Scrub with John Singleton up
Molly Longlegs with a jockey
Scrub, a horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham
Whistlejacket
Whistlejacket with the head groom Mr Cobb and the two other principal stallions in the Wentworth stud
Johann Zoffany
The Garden at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick taking tea
The Shakespeare Temple at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick
Births
February 29 – Eberhard Wächter, painter (died 1852)
June 16 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (died 1844)
August 10 – Arthur William Devis – English portrait and historical painter (died 1822)
October 4 – William Sawrey Gilpin, watercolour painter (died 1843)
December 30 – John Emes, British engraver and water-colour painter (died 1810)
date unknown
Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (died 1817)
James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832)
Giovanni Battista Ballanti, sculptor (died 1835)
Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (died 1794)
Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (died 1837)
Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist (died 1832)
Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver (died 1841)
Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (died 1835)
William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (died 1836)
Deaths
January 11 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (born 1695)
April 2 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes (born 1688)
July 16 – Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara (born 1698)
July 20 – Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period (born 1698)
July 27 – Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor (born 1698)
August 31 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1707)
October 22 – Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna (born 1684)
November 18 – Agostino Veracini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1689)
date unknown
Joseph Antony Adolph, Moravian painter (born 1729)
Jean-Baptiste Gilles, French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours (born 1680)
Andreas Møller, Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting (born 1684)
Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (born 1700)
References
Years of the 18th century in art
1760s in art
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H topology
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In algebraic geometry, the h topology is a Grothendieck topology introduced by Vladimir Voevodsky to study the homology of schemes. It combines several good properties possessed by its related "sub"topologies, such as the qfh and cdh topologies. It has subsequently been used by Beilinson to study p-adic Hodge theory, in Bhatt and Scholze's work on projectivity of the affine Grassmanian, Huber and Jörder's study of differential forms, etc.
Definition
Voevodsky defined the h topology to be the topology associated to finite families of morphisms of finite type such that is a universal topological epimorphism (i.e., a set of points in the target is an open subset if and only if its preimage is open, and any base change also has this property). Voevodsky worked with this topology exclusively on categories of schemes of finite type over a Noetherian base scheme S.
Bhatt-Scholze define the h topology on the category of schemes of finite presentation over a qcqs base scheme to be generated by -covers of finite presentation. They show (generalising results of Voevodsky) that the h topology is generated by:
fppf-coverings, and
families of the form where
is a proper morphism of finite presentation,
is a closed immersion of finite presentation, and
is an isomorphism over .
Note that is allowed in an abstract blowup, in which case Z is a nilimmersion of finite presentation.
Examples
The h-topology is not subcanonical, so representable presheaves are almost never h-sheaves. However, the h-sheafification of representable sheaves are interesting and useful objects; while presheaves of relative cycles are not representable, their associated h-sheaves are representable in the sense that there exists a disjoint union of quasi-projective schemes whose h-sheafifications agree with these h-sheaves of relative cycles.
Any h-sheaf in positive characteristic satisfies where we interpret as the colimit over the Frobenii (if the Frobenius is of finite presentation, and if not, use an analogous colimit consisting of morphisms of finite presentation). In fact, (in positive characteristic) the h-sheafification of the structure sheaf is given by . So the structure sheaf "is an h-sheaf on the category of perfect schemes" (although this sentence doesn't really make sense mathematically since morphisms between perfect schemes are almost never of finite presentation). In characteristic zero similar results hold with perfection replaced by semi-normalisation.
Huber-Jörder study the h-sheafification of the presheaf of Kähler differentials on categories of schemes of finite type over a characteristic zero base field . They show that if X is smooth, then , and for various nice non-smooth X, the sheaf recovers objects such as reflexive differentials and torsion-free differentials. Since the Frobenius is an h-covering, in positive characteristic we get for , but analogous results are true if we replace the h-topology with the cdh-topology.
By the Nullstellensatz, an morphism of finite presentation towards the spectrum of a field admits a section up to finite extension. That is, there exists a finite field extension and a factorisation . Consequently, for any presheaf and field we have where , resp. , denotes the h-sheafification, resp. etale sheafification.
Properties
As mentioned above, in positive characteristic, any h-sheaf satisfies . In characteristic zero, we have where is the semi-normalisation (the scheme with the same underlying topological space, but the structure sheaf is replaced with it's termwise seminormalisation).
Since the h-topology is finer than the Zariski topology, every scheme admits an h-covering by affine schemes.
Using abstract blowups and Noetherian induction, if is a field admitting resolution of singularities (e.g., a characteristic zero field) then any scheme of finite type over admits an h-covering by smooth -schemes. More generally, in any situation where de Jong's theorem on alterations is valid we can find h-coverings by regular schemes.
Since finite morphisms are h-coverings, algebraic correspondences are finite sums of morphisms.
cdh topology
The cdh topology on the category of schemes of finite presentation over a qcqs base scheme is generated by:
Nisnevich coverings, and
families of the form where
is a proper morphism of finite presentation,
is a closed immersion of finite presentation, and
is an isomorphism over .
The cd stands for completely decomposed (in the same sense it is used for the Nisnevich topology). As mentioned in the examples section, over a field admitting resolution of singularities, any variety admits a cdh-covering by smooth varieties. This topology is heavily used in the study of Voevodsky motives with integral coefficients (with rational coefficients the h-topology together with de Jong alterations is used).
Since the Frobenius is not a cdh-covering, the cdh-topology is also a useful replacement for the h-topology in the study of differentials in positive characteristic.
Rather confusingly, there are completely decomposed h-coverings, which are not cdh-coverings, for example the completely decomposed family of flat morphisms .
Relation to v-topology
The v-topology (or universally subtrusive topology) is equivalent to the h-topology on the category of schemes of finite type over a Noetherian base scheme S. Indeed, a morphism in is universally subtrusive if and only if it is universally submersive . In other words,
More generally, on the category of all qcqs schemes, neither of the v- nor the h- topologies are finer than the other: and . There are v-covers which are not h-covers (e.g., ) and h-covers which are not v-covers (e.g., where R is a valuation ring of rank 2 and is the non-open, non-closed prime ).
However, we could define an h-analogue of the fpqc topology by saying that an hqc-covering is a family such that for each affine open there exists a finite set K, a map and affine opens such that is universally submersive (with no finiteness conditions). Then every v-covering is an hqc-covering.
Indeed, any subtrusive morphism is submersive (this is an easy exercise using ).
Notes
References
Suslin, A., and Voevodsky, V., Relative cycles and Chow sheaves, April 1994, .
Algebraic geometry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against%20the%20Grain%20%28Acoustic%20Alchemy%20album%29
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Against the Grain (Acoustic Alchemy album)
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Against The Grain, Acoustic Alchemy's 8th album, was released on 11 October 1994 under the GRP label.
Despite having only ten tracks, Against the Grain manages to notch up a total play time of 53 minutes because of the band's experimentation with some longer, more drawn out tracks.
The most successful effort from this release was "Lazeez", one of two tracks from this album to appear on the compilation album, "The Very Best Of Acoustic Alchemy" (2002).
Track listing
Personnel
Nick Webb - Steel String Guitar, 12 String
Greg Carmichael - Nylon String Guitar
Iain McArthur - Programming, Keys (Tracks 1 & 6)
Rainer Bruninghaus - Piano, Keys (Track 3)
John Parsons - Dobro (Track 1,7), Electric Guitar
Paul Harriman - Bass
Bert Smaak - Drums
Luis Jardim - Percussion
Phil Todd - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute
Terry Disley - Keys (Track 4,9)
Jerry Douglas - Dobro (Track 5)
Mike Herting - Keys (Track 7)
References
Acoustic Alchemy albums
GRP Records albums
1994 albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Thing
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Hot Thing
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Hot Thing may refer to:
"Hot Thing", a song by Prince from the album Sign o' the Times (1987)
"Hot Thing", a single by Gaye Bykers on Acid (1989)
"Hot Thing", a song by Big Star from the album Big Star, Small World (2006)
"Hot Thing", a song by Talib Kweli from the album Eardrum (2007)
"Hot Thing", a song by Usher included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of the album Looking 4 Myself (2012)
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Joanna Troikowicz
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Joanna (Balladyna) Troikowicz born 1952 in Kraków, is a Polish-Swedish sculptor, designer and painter. Since 1977 she has lived and worked in Sweden.
Education
1967 - 72 - LSP - College of Fine Arts, B.A, Cracow, -title technician decorator, extra diploma in Sculpture
1972 - 77 - Akademia Sztuk Pieknych - Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Sculpture, studio prof. M. Konieczny, Diploma- M.A
1975 - 77 - Studium pedagog. przy ASP, Teachers Training College for Artists, Cracow
1977 – 80 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sculpture
Awards
Winner of the Grand Prix, of the Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art (FIDEM), 1998, Haag, Holand,
Innovation Prize- 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Medal of Seixal, Portugal, 1999,
“Selezioni di Merito”- XIV Biennale Internatzionale Dantesca “Dante Europeo”, Ravenna, Italy, 2003,
Teaching
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, project assistant, research in concrete, manager of a stone cutting project at Broby, Skåne, plaster workshop -supply teacher 1981–83, curses in concrete, Employed at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts 1980 – 85
Art School in Örebro, sculpture, drawing, April, May, 1985, Feb.1998, Sept.1999
Art College- Konstfackskolan, course in concrete- Nov. 1986 course in patina plaster, and concrete March- Dec.1987
Art School “Forum”, Malmö, 1987- 1991
Teacher at the International Symposium of Medal Art- Kankaanpää, Finland, May 1999
Teacher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), architecture, construction- Feb. 2000
Teacher at Art School (Folhögskolan), Åland, 2001, 2002
Public Commissions
Sculpture in the park, Ostrowiec, Poland 1974
Sculpture for Military Hospital, Cracow 1975
Entrance to Spånga Health Centre 1985
Two entrances in buildings, Södermalm, Stockholm 1986, 1987
Yard in Södermalm, Stockholm 1987
Decoration –wall for the Metro Station “Globen”(competition) 1988, made 1989
Entrance to Solna Health Centre 1990
“Rydaholm’s Ell”, sculpture for Rydaholm, Värnamo Municipality 1991
Five sculptures “Playing Cards” for Älvsjöbadet, Stockholm, 1991, made 1992
Sculpture “The Anchor” for Hanninge Hospital 1994
“The Realm of the See”, reliefs in marble of nine entrances at Hammarby's new housing estate, Stockholm, 1994, made 1995
Represented:Art Medal World Congress. Congresso Mundial De Medalhistica FIDEM XXIX 2004, Seixal, Portugal -catalogue for International exhibition.
Muzeum Sztuki Medalierskiej, The Modern Museum of Medals, Wroclaw, Poland, 1979
Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm's City Council
Örebro City Council, The County Art Council's
Kungl. Myntkabinettet, (The Royal Coin Cabinet), Stockholm
The British Museum (Department of Coins and Medals), London, Great Britain
Museum Minci a Medali, Kremnica, Slovakia, 2000
Private Collections
Poland, Sweden, Finland, Japan, France, Italy, Slovakia, USA,
References
1955 births
Living people
Modern sculptors
Polish sculptors
Swedish women sculptors
20th-century Polish women artists
21st-century Polish women artists
20th-century Swedish women artists
21st-century Swedish women artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marvin%20%28politician%29
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John Marvin (politician)
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John Marvin (September 2, 1678–February 2, 1776) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1734, and May 1738.
He was the son of Matthew Marvin, Jr. and Mary Brush.
In 1708, he was appointed town collector of the town of Norwalk.
On December 14, 1711, he was chosen surveyor of highways.
On December 18, 1712, he was on a committee to obtain a teacher for the school.
He was chosen as a selectman in 1706, 1713 and 1719.
He served as a constable in 1717.
He served as fence viewer in 1721 and 1729.
He served as a "lyster," in 1724.
In 1734 and 1738 he represented Norwalk in the General Assembly. In 1718, he, along with others was chosen to lay before "a wise and judicious committee" the "surcomstances of ye town in their present differences respecting the meeting-house." In 1734, along with Joseph Platt, he was appointed to lay out the land granted by the town "in ye plain before Lt. Lee's door," for St. Paul's Church.
On November 18, 1737, he gave a lot of land eight rods square to the "Presbiterian or Congregational church of Wilton, on which to erect a meetinghouse." He confirmed this by deed on May 6, 1738, in which he said "among the congregation are some of my children," naming his son John as one.
On January 21, 1752, he bought for £2400 the farm previously owned by his son John in Sharon, and settled there not long afterward.
References
1678 births
1776 deaths
Connecticut city council members
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut
People of colonial Connecticut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Roberts%20%28swimmer%29
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Ronald Roberts (swimmer)
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Ronald Roberts (11 December 1922 – 19 June 2012) was a British swimmer. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.
He also represented England at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He won the 1953 and 1955 ASA National Championship 110 yards freestyle titles and the 1953 ASA National Championship 220 yards freestyle title.
References
1922 births
2012 deaths
British male swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Lincolnshire
Swimmers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Brickner
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Jordan Brickner
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Jordan Brickner Gragnano (born October 3, 1990) is an American ice hockey defender, currently playing with the Connecticut Whale of the Premier Hockey Federation (formerly the NWHL). One of the longest-tenured players in PHF history and a consistent top-pairing defenceman for the Whale, she is currently ninth on the league's all-time games played list. She competed in the league's 1st NWHL All-Star Game. In 2020, she was honored with the 2020 NWHL Foundation Award.
Career
Growing up, Brickner played on both boys' and girls' teams until she reached high school. She then attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where she played for the school's varsity girls' hockey team, serving as the team's co-captain in her senior year. During high school, she also played for the Connecticut Stars of the Connecticut Hockey Conference.
In 2009, she began studying at Colgate University, where she played for the Raiders women's ice hockey programme. In 2011, she transferred to the University of Wisconsin and played her final two years of college eligibility with the Badgers women's ice hockey program. Brickner finished her collegiate career with a total of 43 points in 140 NCAA Division I games. She was named to the All-WCHA Academic Team in 2013.
After graduating, she moved to Austria to play for DEC Salzburg Eagles in the European Women's Hockey League. After one year in Austria, she moved to Switzerland to play for HC Lugano of the Swiss Women's Hockey League A (SWHL A).
When Dani Rylan founded the National Women's Hockey League in 2015, Brickner returned to North America to sign with the NWHL's Connecticut Whale. She scored 12 points in 18 games in the NWHL's debut season, being named to the 1st NWHL All-Star Game.
After scoring seven points in the first ten games of the 2019–20 season, she was sidelined due to injury and missed the rest of the season. Hanna Beattie was named as her replacement for the 2020 NWHL All-Star Game. She was named a recipient of the 2020 NWHL Foundation Award for her contributions to growing and improving hockey culture.
In August 2020, she re-signed with the Whale for the 2020–21 NWHL season. She was the 100th player to sign for the season.
See also
List of Connecticut Whale (PHF) records
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
American women's ice hockey defensemen
People from Lake Forest, Illinois
Ice hockey players from Illinois
Connecticut Whale (PHF) players
Colgate Raiders women's ice hockey players
Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey players
American expatriate ice hockey players in Austria
American expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20Effects%20of%20Neurotrauma%20Consortium
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Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium
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The Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium or CENC is a federally funded research project devised to address the long-term effects of mild traumatic brain injury in military service personnel (SMs) and Veterans. Announced by President Barack Obama on August 20, 2013, the CENC was one of two major initiatives developed in response to the injuries incurred by U.S. service personnel during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The project is jointly funded in the amount of $62.175 million by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The CENC is led by Dr. David X. Cifu of the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Background
In short, critical gaps exist in the literature, with a paucity of prospective, controlled studies on late-life outcomes and neurodegeneration after mTBI and related basic science research. These research gaps are particularly prominent in the injuries and difficulties seen in combat-exposed populations. The existing research, although suggestive, is not rigorous or robust enough to allow for a clear understanding of the relationships, risks, and potential effective interventions for mTBI, chronic symptoms, and neurodegeneration. To date, no controlled prospective longitudinal study has examined the late-life cognitive, behavioral, systemic, and functional effects of TBI of any severity. Given the absence of prospective studies, the association between TBI and early neurodegeneration is merely theoretical, and the actual risk factors and rate/extent of physiologic and clinical decline over time are unknown. It is also unclear whether a single TBI may be enough to begin a degenerative cascade in select individuals or whether a critical number (dose threshold) of TBIs is needed to “prime” the central nervous system for degeneration. As the majority of TBIs in the military are mild, prospective studies of cognitive outcomes from mild injury are necessary to determine the long-term risks posed to SMs and Veterans. The potential link between mTBI and the development of early dementia is a significant concern for not only at-risk SMs, Veterans, and their families, but also for DoD and VA resource planning, given the high service utilization in the DoD and VA health systems associated with dementia.
Given these gaps in scientific research and knowledge, the military- and Veteran-specific issues involved, and the importance of a uniform approach to this critical set of problems, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly issued a request for proposals to fund a 5-year, $62.175 million project to address these concerns. After a competitive application process, a consortium led by Virginia Commonwealth University prevailed and was announced as the recipient of the award by President Obama on August 20, 2013. At the time of the award, this was the single largest grant ever awarded to Virginia Commonwealth University.
The Consortium
The mission of the CENC is to fill the gaps in knowledge about the basic science of mild TBI (also termed concussion), to determine its effects on late-life outcomes and neurodegeneration, to identify service members most susceptible to these effects, and to identify the most effective treatment strategies. The CENC is a multi-center collaboration linking premiere basic science, translational, and clinical neuroscience researchers from the DoD, VA, academic universities, and private research institutes to effectively address the scientific, diagnostic, and therapeutic ramifications of mild TBI and its long-term effects.
Oversight
The CENC has oversight from a Government Steering Committee (GSC). Members of the GSC are DoD/VA appointed and is composed of both government representatives and non-government subject matter experts. The GSC approves all studies to be conducted, recommends new studies, and identifies existing and new requirements as they arise. The GSC is the overall main governing and management committee for the project and the committee through which the DoD and VA interact and collaborate with the CENC. The GSC determines all major scientific decisions, and clinical studies proposed by the Consortium Committee proceed into the implementation stage only with the approval of the GSC.
References
2013 establishments in Virginia
Injuries of head
Neurotrauma
Research projects
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakki
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Nakki
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Nakki may refer to:
Näkki, a water spirit in Finnic mythologies
Nakki (crater), a crater on Callisto
Nakki Lake, a lake in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20business%20schools%20in%20Canada
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List of business schools in Canada
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The following is a list of business schools in Canada, organized by province.
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Integral%20PC
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HP Integral PC
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The HP Integral PC (or HP 9807A) was a portable UNIX workstation computer system produced by Hewlett-Packard, launched in 1985 at a price of £5450. It was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (running at 8 MHz) and ran the HP-UX 1.0 operating system.
Hardware
The Integral PC was a mains-powered portable computer with a 9-inch amber electroluminescent display with a resolution of 512×255 pixels or 80×28 characters. It also incorporated a 710 kB 3.5" floppy disk drive and an HP ThinkJet ink-jet printer. Standard memory capacity was 256 kB ROM plus 512 kB RAM, expandable to 1.5 MB. Expansion slots and an HP-IB bus were also included. The mechanical design was based on the ideas of the de facto standard HP-85.
Within the Integral PC CPU, RAM, ROM, memory management, I/O buffering, system timing and keyboard interface are integrated on a single logic-board. All peripheral units and the 14 connections are built using independent boards. Each board is smaller than a letter sized sheet. To make it easier to check the boards, each board contains an own timer. The I/O-board (with two connections for optional addons) the keyboard-interface, the "Human Interface Link" HP-HIL and the power supply can be checked and tested independently.
The graphics processor of the Integral PC (GPU) was custom made and could drive an electroluminescence display or nearly every kind of monitor. The processor provides a graphical subsystem which is simple to use to drive a bitmapped display. The GPU was able to draw lines, rectangles and alphanumerical characters by hardware. Additionally it provides a hardware cursor and the display-RAM-interface.
The electroluminescence-display was based on thin-film-technique developed by HP and other companies.
Software
The Integral PC was unusual in that the HP-UX operating system kernel resided in the ROM, which also included the HP Windows graphical user interface and the Personal Applications Manager (PAM). HP-UX commands and utilities were supplied separately on floppy disk, with separate disks for standard Unix commands (including the C shell), utilities, diagnostics and system programming resources. There was an add on ROM that provides HP-BASIC. Using the ROM, the integral PC was ready to run BASIC simply by switching on the system.
See also
HP Roman-8 (character set)
References
Integral PC
68k architecture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fikri%20S%C3%B6nmez
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Fikri Sönmez
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Fikri Sönmez (widely known as Terzi Fikri ("Fikri the Tailor")) (1938 - 4 May 1985) was a Turkish socialist politician, who served as the mayor of Fatsa district of Ordu Province between 1979 and 1980.
Early years
He was born in the Chveneburi (Muslim Georgian) village of Kabakdağı in Fatsa, Turkey. After the primary school, he started to work as a tailor in a workshop. He moved to Istanbul, he joined the Workers Party of Turkey (TİP) in the 1960s. He took part in protests against the Turkey visits of the United States Sixth Fleet since 1969 on the side of Dev-Genç (Revolutionary Youth). From 1972 to 1974, Sönmez was imprisoned for his support to the Turkish revolutionary activist Mahir Çayan. After 1975, he joined political activities in the cities of Ordu, Giresun and Samsun.
Mayorship
After the death of Nazmiye Komitoğlu, who was the mayor of Fatsa from the Republican People's Party (CHP), he ran for the vacant seat as an independent. After his election as the mayor, he split Fatsa into eleven regions and created people's committees. He made campaigns against the violence against women, the poor infrastructure in Fatsa, gambling, diseases because of the bad conditions in the town. Because of his success in the town, he got support from different political movements in the town.
He was blamed creating a new state inside the Turkish Republic by the Justice Party (AP). On 11 July 1980, Turkish military conducted an operation against the town. Fikri Sönmez was arrested and put into prison. He died of a heart attack in Amasya penitentiary on 4 May 1985.
He was survived by his wife Nurten Sönmez, he married in 1962, and his sons Naci and Yusuf.
External links
A history of social struggles in Fatsa (1960 - 1980), Boğaziçi University, Kerem Morgül
References
Turkish communists
Turkish socialists
1938 births
1985 deaths
Prisoners and detainees of Turkey
Mayors of places in Turkey
People from Fatsa
Turkish people of Georgian descent
Prisoners who died in Turkish detention
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymourville%2C%20West%20Virginia
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Seymourville, West Virginia
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Seymourville is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Seymourville is north of Petersburg.
References
Unincorporated communities in Grant County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persegaf%20Arfak%20Mountains
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Persegaf Arfak Mountains
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Persegaf stands for Persatuan Sepakbola Pegunungan Arfak (en: Football Association of Arfak Mountains). Persegaf Peg. Arfak is an Indonesian football club based in Arfak Mountains Regency, West Papua that competes in Liga 3 and play their home match at Irai Stadium.
References
Football clubs in Indonesia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Scalawagons%20of%20Oz
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The Scalawagons of Oz
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The Scalawagons of Oz (1941) is the thirty-fifth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and continued by his successors; it is the second volume in the series both written and illustrated by John R. Neill.
A weak plot and the lack of a compelling villain make The Scalawagons of Oz one of the most random and disorganized of the Oz books.
Bell-snickle analysis
The antagonist of Neill's plot is a mysterious monstrosity called Bell-snickle. (The term "villain" is an overstatement, since the creature is mostly a pest, or as the Wizard calls it, a "nuisance.") It first appears as "a large bluish-green object, flat as a buckwheat cake, and rolling along on its edge like a cartwheel." The creature does have arms and legs, as well as facial features; it wears bells on its ears, explaining at least one portion of its name. (The thing has no apparent relation to the Belsnickel of Christmas lore, except their common nomenclature.)
Neill gives no account of Bell-snickle's origin and no explanation of its nature or abilities. The creature prides itself on being a "mystery," and attacks anything that shares that designation. It has the egotism and petulance of a spoiled child.
The plot
In Scalawagons, Neill exploits two characters he introduced in his previous book, The Wonder City of Oz, Number Nine and Jenny Jump. Jenny is the book's protagonist, though the story begins with Number Nine, who is now an assistant to the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard has a tendency to disappear suddenly, as he pursues various projects. His latest project is the creation of a new form of transportation for the Land of Oz. In a red-domed facility atop Carrot Mountain in the Quadling Country, the Wizard has established a factory to build scalawagons, intelligent cars that can also fly. They spread their running boards like wings. In his illustrations, Neill makes them resemble the "kiddie cars" of amusement-park rides; their heads are in turrets on their roofs.
The Wizard makes Tik-Tok the superintendent of the scalawagon factory. The scalawagons are conscious, but not very smart; Tik-Tok pounds sense into them with a rubber mallet. His new duties wear on the mechanical man, however, and he runs down sooner than expected. A blue-green buckwheat cake named Bell-snickle finds the factory; bent on mischief, the monster knocks the stationary Tik-Tok out a window. Bell-snickle ignores Tik-Tok's warning signs, and fuels the scalawagons with "flabber-gas" (apparently a pun on the word "flabbergast"); they quickly fly away. In the disorder, Bell-snickle is soaked in the fluid; blown up like a balloon, he/she/it sails away into the sky — and disappears from the plot for ten chapters. "Flabber-gas" is a liquid — "gas" as in gasoline — but has the effect of lighter-than air gasses like hydrogen and helium.
The palace of Glinda is located not far away; from her Great Book of Records Glinda learns of the scalawagons' existence and their escape. A party sets out to investigate, consisting of Jenny Jump, The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Sawhorse. The four are quickly involved in chaotic adventures, complicated by the Sawhorse's tendency to race off uncontrolled, and involving a menagerie of beings that includes "Lollies" and their "Pops," water spirits and kelpies, talking animals and a grumpy grandfather clock. Jenny Jump uses her fairy powers to take to the air and meets a group of fairy bell-ringers called the Nota-bells. When Number Nine joins Jenny, they find and wind up Tik-Tok, and eventually locate the scalawagons flying over the Deadly Desert and herd them back to Oz.
Bell-snickle returns to cause more trouble. It comes to dominate a stand of walking talking trees, and drives them toward the Emerald City in a vain attempt at conquest. At the gate of the city, the Tin Woodman terrifies the trees with his axe, and the threat is quickly disposed of. Bell-snickle is captured, and is cowed into agreeing to a new way of life: Jenny runs the monster through the turnstile of her style shop until it is reduced to a rubber stamp. Ozma also uses the converted monster as a stopper, to stop trends she doesn't approve. The Nota-bells are given quarters in a high tower of Ozma's palace, where they supply pleasant music to the city below. The story ends with a great party and dance.
Puns
Baum introduced pun-dependent humor into the Oz books from the start of the series; Neill carried punning farther than any other Oz writer. The prose in Scalawagons is often a tissue of puns; a few of the puns are not terrible. In the course of her adventures, Jenny Jump lands in a field of conscious and talkative potatoes; they are ruled by a spud named Dick — he is their "Dick Tater." Late in the book, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman enjoy "a game of squash" — which they play "with ripe bananas and brickbats."
References
External links
On The Scalawagons of Oz
Oz (franchise) books
1941 fantasy novels
1941 American novels
1941 children's books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catena%20%28biblical%20commentary%29
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Catena (biblical commentary)
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A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary.
The texts are mainly compiled from popular authors, but they often contain fragments of certain patristic writings now otherwise lost. It has been asserted by Faulhaber that half of all the commentaries on scripture composed by the church Fathers are now extant only in this form.
History
The earliest Greek catena is ascribed to Procopius of Gaza, in the first part of the sixth century. Between the seventh and the tenth centuries Andreas Presbyter and Johannes Drungarius are the compilers of catenas to various Books of Scripture. Towards the end of the eleventh century Nicetas of Heraclea produces a great number of catenae. Both before and after, however, the makers of catenae were numerous in the Greek Orient, mostly anonymous, and offering no other indication of their personality than the manuscripts of their excerpts. Similar compilations were also made in the Syriac and Coptic Churches.
In the West, Primasius of Adrumentum in the former Roman province of Africa in the sixth century compiled the first catena from Latin commentators. He was imitated by Rhabanus Maurus (d. 865), Paschasius Radbertus, and Walafrid Strabo, later by Remigius of Auxerre (d. 900), and by Lanfranc of Canterbury (d. 1089). The Western catenae have had less importance attached to them. The most famous of the medieval Latin compilations of this kind is that of Thomas Aquinas, generally known as the Catena aurea (Golden chain) and containing excerpts from some eighty Greek and Latin commentators on the Gospels. Thomas composed the parts of his Catena aurea treating the gospels of Mark, Luke, and John while directing the Roman studium of the Dominican Order at the convent of Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.
Similar collections of Greek patristic utterances were constructed for dogmatic purposes. They were used at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, at the Fifth General Council in 553, also apropos of Iconoclasm in the Seventh General Council in 787; and among the Greeks such compilations, like the exegetical catenae, did not cease until late in the Middle Ages. The oldest of these dogmatic compilations, attributed to the latter part of the seventh century, is the "Antiquorum Patrum doctrina de Verbi incarnatione".
Finally, in response to homiletic and practical needs, there appeared, previous to the tenth century, a number of collections of moral sentences and paraenetic fragments, partly from Scripture and partly from the more famous ecclesiastical writers; sometimes one writer (e.g. Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, especially John Chrysostom whom all the catenae-makers pillage freely) furnishes the material. Such collections are not so numerous as the Scriptural or even the dogmatic catenae. They seem all to depend on an ancient Christian "Florilegium" of the sixth century, that treated, in three books, of God, Man, the Virtues and Vices, and was known as τα ιερά (Sacred Things). Before long its material was recast in strict alphabetical order; took the name of τα ιερά parállela, "Sacra Parallela" (because in the third book a virtue and a vice had been regularly opposed to one another); and was attributed widely to John Damascene, whose authority was defended (against Loofs, Wendland, and Cohn) by K. Holl in the above-mentioned "Fragmente vornikänischer Kirchenväter" (Leipzig, 1899), though the Damascene probably based his work on the "Capita theologica" of Maximus Confessor. The text of these ancient compilations is often in a dubious state, and the authors of most of them are unknown; one of the principal difficulties in their use is the uncertainty concerning the correctness of the names to which the excerpts are attributed. The carelessness of copyists, the use of "sigla", contractions for proper names, and the frequency of transcription, led naturally to much confusion.
Printed editions
From the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, various catenas were published. However no modern editions exist, and there are severe textual problems in editing them.
Among the editors of Greek catenae was the Jesuit Balthasar Cordier, who published (1628–47) collections of Greek patristic commentaries on St. John and St. Luke and, in conjunction with his confrère Possin, on St. Matthew; the latter scholar edited also (1673) similar collections of patristic excerpts on St. Mark and Job. The voluminous catenae known as Biblia Magna (Paris, 1643) and Biblia Maxima (Paris, 1660), edited by J. de la Haye, were followed by the nine volumes of Critici Sacri, sive clarissimorum virorum annotationes atque tractatus in biblia, containing selections, not only from Catholic but also from Protestant commentators.
An important collection of the Greek catenae on the New Testament is that of J. A. Cramer (Oxford, 1838–44), online at archive.org. See also the twenty-eight volumes of the Migne commentary in his "Scripturae sacrae cursus completus" (Paris, 1840–45).
For the Byzantine collections of ethical sentences and proverbs of (Stobaeus Maximus Confessor, Antonius Melissa, Johannes Georgides, Macarius, Michael Apostolios) partly from Christian and partly from pagan sources, see Krumbacher, pp. 600–4, also .
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Bibliography and manuscript indications.
A very full list of catenae is given in
For the catena manuscripts in the Vatican, see and and .
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Trevi
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Trevi may refer to:
Places in Italy
Trevi, Lazio, one of the official rioni or districts of the modern city of Rome
Trevi, Umbria, a comune in Perugia province
Trevi di Terni, a frazione of Terni, in Perugia province
Trevi nel Lazio, a comune in Frosinone province
Other uses
TREVI, an internal security group formed by the European Council
Trevi Fountain, a famous fountain in Rome
Lancia Trevi, an automobile
Gloria Trevi, born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz, February 15, 1968 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, a Mexican singer and songwriter
The Trevi Collection, 14th episode of the American television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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East 122nd Avenue station is a MAX light rail station in Portland, Oregon. It serves the Blue Line and is currently the 16th stop eastbound on the Eastside MAX branch. The MAX system is owned and operated by TriMet, the major transit agency for the Portland metropolitan area.
The station is located at the intersection of East Burnside Street and NE/SE 122nd Avenue in Portland's Hazelwood neighborhood. This station has staggered side platforms which are located past the cross street in each direction so that trains can pass through the intersection before stopping. The station was renovated from December 2017 to June 2018, with temporary platforms placed opposite the usual platforms.
Bus line connections
This station is served by the following bus line:
73 - 122nd Ave
References
External links
Station information (with eastbound ID number) from TriMet
Station information (with westbound ID number) from TriMet
MAX Light Rail Stations – more general TriMet page
Park & Ride Locations – TriMet page with information on E. 122nd/Menlo Park lot
MAX Light Rail stations
MAX Blue Line
1986 establishments in Oregon
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1986
Railway stations in Portland, Oregon
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Spy Line
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Spy Line is a 1989 spy novel written by British writer Len Deighton. It is the second novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Spy Line is part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, being preceded by Spy Hook and followed Spy Sinker. This trilogy is preceded by the Game, Set and Match trilogy and followed by the final Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy. Deighton's novel Winter (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory to some of the characters.
Plot summary
The novel starts with Bernard Samson in hiding in Berlin after the events in the first book of the series. He is soon found by the SIS and is invited by Frank Harrington to sit in on a debriefing of an undercover agent, where it is revealed that Erich Stinnes has been smuggling drugs into East Germany.
Bernard is eventually recalled to London, and sent on a mission to Vienna to pick up a package from a stamp auction. This is revealed to be a Russian passport, which he uses to meet his wife Fiona, whom it is now revealed is a double agent (It is not made clear for how long Bernard knew this).
Finally, Fiona attempts to escape from East Germany, whereupon Erich Stinnes, and Fiona's sister Tessa are both killed. Bernard and Fiona escape back to the other side of the wall and are transported to America for debriefing.
1989 British novels
Bernard Samson novels
Hutchinson (publisher) books
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Wang Na (synchronized swimmer)
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Wang Na (; born January 27, 1984) is a Chinese former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was on the team that won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics, which was China's first ever Olympic medal in the sport.
Retired at the age of 25, Wang Na was immediately named one of the two head coaches of the Chinese national team in 2009, becoming the youngest head coach in the team's history. Also hired as a head coach was her former teammate Zhang Xiaohuan, and together the two rookie coaches guided Team China to three golds at the 2010 Asian Games. She left her coaching position in 2011, probably when she was preparing for her pregnancy.
Personal life
Wang Na married badminton player Cai Yun in 2010. She gave birth to a daughter in 2012, and to a second child in probably late 2014. (Before them, Wang Na's teammate Hu Ni and Cai Yun's doubles partner-turned-coach Zhang Jun married in 2006.)
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1984 births
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Olympic bronze medalists for China
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Artistic swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games
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Al Hayl Fort is located in the Wadi Hayl, to the West of Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates. Constructed in 1932 by Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamdan Al Sharqi, the fort formed his principle residence for the following two decades. Consisting of a fortified courtyard house and an associated watchtower with commanding views to the East and West of Wadi Hayl, Al Hayl Fort overlooks the old village of Al Hayl, of which many buildings have now been restored. The village was abandoned in the late 1970s following the resettlement of its inhabitants to a new village further down the wadi, a seasonal watercourse, and protected by the Al Hayl Dam. The village was traditionally settled by members of the Kunud tribe (In 1908, Lorimer described the village, which he named 'Hail' as being located 'inside the hills behind Fujairah' and consisting of 'around ten houses of Jalajilah and Kunud'), with evidence that the area has been settled since the Umm Al Nar period, with Umm Al Nar tombs and Iron Age petroglyphs both found in the area. A number of these are now being threatened by ongoing construction in the area.
Construction
In 1932, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamdan Al Sharqi constructed the fortified house, a mosque, a majlis and the watchtower. The house was constructed by the Bin Shamal family, builders who worked in Kalba and Fujairah, as well as a builder by the name of Bin Shambi. The buildings are all constructed of gabbro/dolerite rocks bound with a soft mud mortar and faced with plaster. To the interiors, a gypsum plaster was used. The woodwork of the buildings was mangrove with hardwood planking.
The watchtower at Al Hayl was originally constructed as a residence for Sheikh Abdullah's younger brother, Suhail, who later moved to a house in the Wadi Furfar.
Al Hayl Fort has often been referred to as a summer house, however it was Abdullah bin Hamdan Al Sharqi's residence until he moved to a house constructed in Mirbah in 1958.
References
Forts in the United Arab Emirates
History of the United Arab Emirates
Fujairah articles
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Hill-Rom
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Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (branded as Hillrom) is an American medical technology provider that is a subsidiary of Baxter International.
History
Hillrom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., and was formerly a part of Hillenbrand Industries until that company split its medical equipment division from their casket business in 2008. Their headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois.
John Groetelaars is the President and CEO. In 2019, Hill-Rom rebranded itself as Hillrom. The rebranding emphasized the company’s transition from its history of developing hospital beds and medical devices to a focus on digital health products and software that support connected care across the healthcare continuum for the digital health market.
In September 2015, Hillrom bought Welch Allyn Inc. Hillrom continued to use the Welch Allyn brand name for some of its patient monitoring and diagnostic equipment.
In 2018, Hillrom updated its hospital bed model to include EarlySense’s vital-sign bed sensors to monitor patients’ heart and respiratory rates. The built-in sensors sit under the mattress and are not attached to the patient. They check vital signs 100 times a minute and alert nurses to any possible issues.
In April 2019, Hillrom acquired Voalte. The acquisition gave Hillrom control of a connected care system that supplies voice, alarm, and text communications for 220,000 clinicians at different healthcare organizations. Voalte became a cornerstone of Hillrom’s Care Communications product line. Before its rebrand, Hillrom also developed and produced medical equipment under the names of its previous acquisitions: Welch Allyn, Mortara, Trumpf Medical, Allen Medical, and Liko. Another acquisition, Aspen Surgical, was sold in 2019.
In January 2020, Hillrom acquired Excel Medical Electronics, a clinical communications software company. Excel Medical expanded Hillrom’s digital health offerings with predictive analytics and software that assimilates real-time patient data.
Hillrom’s Centrella bed won the 2017 Stanley Caplan User Centered Design Award. Hillrom developed the bed after studying patients in 29 hospital units. In June 2020, Hillrom released a remote vital signs monitoring product to help with COVID treatment. The Welch Allyn Spot Vital Signs 4400 device connects to the Hillrom Connex app to relay patient data securely to physicians through a phone.
Hillrom development teams practice contextual inquiry and an immersion process. This development process requires them to spend time in environments and situations in order to understand the reality of clinical practice, workflow, and patient experience.
In 2020, Hillrom adapted its respiratory health device MetaNeb to help treat COVID-19 patients. MetaNeb is typically used on patients with pneumonia. It attaches to a ventilator and helps to clear the lungs from mucus secretions. In April 2020, Atlanta’s Emory University reported the successful use of MetaNeb with coronavirus patients on ventilators.
In September 2021, Baxter International announced it would acquire Hillrom for $12.4 billion. The acquisition was completed in December 2021.
Services
Care Communications: Hillrom provides a secure communications platform that connects healthcare professionals with patients. The platform uses voice calls, alarm notifications, and text alerts.
Patient Support Systems: Hillrom offers different products to support patient care, such as smart beds and patient lifts.
Front Line Care: This includes a diverse range of products used by frontline care providers to diagnose and manage patient health issues, such as ventilators and vital signs monitoring systems.
Surgical Solutions: The company provides a line of surgical products, including surgical and examination lights, gyn/uro/pal products, surgical tables, and orthopedic and spine products.
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Manufacturing companies based in Chicago
1929 establishments in Indiana
Health care companies established in 1929
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Md Korban Ali
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Md Korban Ali (1924 – 23 July 1990) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former deputy Speaker of Parliament.
Early life
Md Korban Ali was born on 28 January 1924 at Kandipara, Lohajang, Munshiganj. In 1947 hr graduated from Dhaka University with a masters in Economics and 1950 completed his law degree there. After which he joined the Dhaka district bar.
Career
In 1950 he joined the Awami Muslim League. He had been active in the Bengali language movement. From 1953 to 1955 he was the organizing secretary of the central committee of Awami League. He served as the president of Dhaka district Awami League from 1954 to 1958.In 1954 he was elected to the East Bengal Provincial Assembly from the united front. From 1955 to 1958 he was deputy chief whip of the Provincial Assembly. He was active in the Six point movement and Mass Uprising Day of 1969. He was the chief of the election monitoring and publicity cell of Awami League in the general elections of 1970.
At the start of Bangladesh Liberation war he crossed into India. He served as the political adviser to the Acting President of the Mujibnagar Government. From 1972 to 1974 he was the senior vice president of Bangladesh Awami League. In 1973 he was elected to parliament. In 1975 he was made the Minister of Information and Broadcasting. he was a central member of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League He was jailed for two years after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975. In 1979 he lost a parliamentary election. In 1981 he was elected to the Awami League presidium council. He joined the cabinet of Hussain Mohammad Ershad as the Minister of Jute and Textile and later he was the Minister of Public Works and Urban Development.
Death
On 23 July 1990 he died in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
References
Awami League politicians
1924 births
Deputy Speakers of the Jatiya Sangsad
1990 deaths
1st Jatiya Sangsad members
3rd Jatiya Sangsad members
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Rhee Wall
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The Rhee Wall is a former watercourse in Romney Marsh in Kent. It is long and runs from Appledore, on the north-western edge of Romney Marsh, south-east through Snargate, Brenzett and Old Romney, to New Romney near the coast. The Rhee Wall forms a boundary between Romney Marsh proper, to the north-east, and Walland Marsh to the south-west.
It consists of two parallel earth banks, from 50 to 100 metres apart, the ground between being raised above the marsh on either side.
It was built in the 13th century: a watercourse was constructed from Appledore to Old Romney, which was extended in 1258 to New Romney. The purpose was to wash away silt from the harbour at New Romney; there were sluices to control the flow at Appledore, Snargate and New Romney. However, the silt at New Romney continued to accumulate. After the South England flood of February 1287, the harbour at New Romney was completely blocked, and the River Rother, which had flowed into the sea here, was diverted away. The Rhee Wall has not contained water since medieval times.
It has since been used as a dry causeway above the marsh. In the present day, the B2080 road follows the route of the Rhee Wall from Appledore south-east to Brenzett; the route continues south-east to New Romney as part of the A259 road.
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Geography of Kent
Medieval Kent
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Timeline of Mannheim
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mannheim, Germany.
Prior to 19th century
1606 - (fortification) construction begins.
1607 - Mannheim granted town privileges by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine.
1660 - Synagogue built.(de)
1688 - Manheim taken by French forces during the Nine Years' War.
1689 - Fire.
1701 - Almshouse (predecessor of university hospital mannheim) founded
1706 - founded.
1720 - Residence of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine relocated to Mannheim from Heidelberg.
1729 - Population: 15,760.(de)
1731 - Mannheim Palace Church built.
1756 - Jesuit Church, Mannheim built.
1759 - Mannheim Palace completed.
1766 - Population: 24,190.(de)
1771 - Town Hall built.
1774 - Mannheim Observatory tower built.
1775 - Deutsche Gesellschaft in Mannheim active.
1779
(arsenal) built.
Mannheim National Theatre founded.
1782 - 13 January: Premiere of Schiller's play The Robbers.
1788 - Palais Bretzenheim built.
1794 - French in power.
1795
Mannheim besieged during the Campaigns of 1795 in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Austrians in power.
19th century
1803 - Mannheim becomes part of the Electorate of Baden.
1806 - Mannheim becomes part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
1819 - March: Writer August von Kotzebue assassinated.
1828 - Mannheim Harbour opens on the Rhine river.
1837 - newspaper begins publication.
1840 - Heidelberg-Mannheim railway begins operating.
1849 - Political unrest during the Baden Revolution.
1855 - (synagogue) built.
1859 - Heinrich Lanz AG machinery manufactory in business.
1876 - Mannheim Hauptbahnhof (train station) built.
1880 - Population: 53,465.
1891 - active.
1895 - becomes part of Mannheim.
1896 - Population: 94,160.(de)
1897 - Käfertal becomes part of Mannheim.
1899 - becomes part of Mannheim.
1900 - Population: 141,131.
20th century
1900s-1940s
1905 - Population: 162,607.
1907
Industriehafen Mannheim (harbour) opens on the Neckar river.
(city archives) established.
Kunsthalle Mannheim (exhibit hall) built.
SV Waldhof Mannheim (sport club) formed.
Population: 173,424.(de)
1910 - becomes part of Mannheim.
1911
(church) built.
Population: 200,285.(de)
1912 - built.
1913 - and Sandhofen become part of Mannheim.
1914 - (choir) formed.
1919 - Population: 229,576.
1924 - Mannheim Hospital (now University Hospital Mannheim) opened on the banks of the river Neckar
1925 - "" art exhibition held.
1926 - Airfield established at Neuostheim.
1929 - becomes part of Mannheim.
1930
, , , , become part of Mannheim.
Population: 271,833.(de)
1938
November: Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.
(district) formed.
Eisstadion am Friedrichspark (ice rink) built.
1940 - Bombing of Mannheim in World War II begins.
1945 - July: United States Coleman Army Airfield begins operating.
1946 - newspaper begins publication.
1947 - United States military Benjamin Franklin Village established.
1949 - office established.
1950s-1990s
1955 - Free Voters established.
1957 - National Theatre Mannheim rebuilt.
1959 - Rhine Bridge rebuilt.
1961 - Population: 313,890.(de)
1967 - University of Mannheim established.
1970
(courthouse) built.
Population: 332,378.(de)
1972 - (bridge) opens.
1975
Fernmeldeturm Mannheim (communication tower) erected.
National (garden show) held in Mannheim.
1976 - Federal electoral districts , , and formed.
1979 - Odeon cinema opens.
1987 - built on the .
1991
(city hall) built.
Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway begins operating.
1992 - Revised federal electoral districts and formed.
1994
5 December: Aircraft crashes into the Fernmeldeturm.
Carl-Benz-Stadion (stadium) opens.
1995 - Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque built.
21st century
2002 - Revised federal Mannheim (electoral district) formed.
2003
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg (music school) established.
memorial erected on the .
2004 - (business office) opens.
2005 - SAP Arena opens.
2007 - Peter Kurz becomes mayor.
2010 - Population: 313,174.(de)
2011 - closes.
2014 - 25 May: held.(de)
See also
History of Baden-Württemberg state
History of Baden territory (in German)
Other cities in the state of Baden-Württemberg:(de)
Timeline of Stuttgart
References
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
in German
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2007-2009 (3 vols)
External links
Items related to Mannheim, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Mannheim, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
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Alexander Sergeyevich Orlov () is a contemporary Russian historian and an author of several handbooks. He is a specialist on socio-political history of Russia in the 18th century, in the history of science and in education about that period.
He graduated at the historical faculty of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) in 1965 and in defended his candidates-thesis on the theme "Unrest in the Urals in the 1750s and 1760s and the expedition of Prince Alexander Vyazemsky" in 1971. His thesis was supervised by M.T. Belyavsky. He has worked at the historical faculty since 1968.
He is director of the historical museum of the MGU since 1995.
References
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of History. Biography of Alexander Orlov
Living people
Russian historians
Moscow State University alumni
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Senator Pate may refer to:
Louis M. Pate Jr. (born 1936), North Carolina State Senate
Paul Pate (born 1958), Iowa State Senate
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Iuliu Jenei (23 December 1939 – 19 September 2019) was a Romanian football central defender. Ienei was the first player that reached 300 appearances for Steagul Roșu Brașov in the Romanian top-league Divizia A.
Honours
Steagul Roșu Brașov
Divizia B: 1968–69
References
External links
Iuliu Jenei at Labtof.ro
1939 births
2019 deaths
Romanian footballers
Association football defenders
Liga I players
Liga II players
CSM Câmpia Turzii players
FC Politehnica Timișoara players
FC Brașov (1936) players
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Amit Mishra may refer to:
Amit Mishra (born 1982), Indian cricketer
Amit Mishra (cricketer, born 1991), Indian cricketer
Amit Mishra (cricketer, born 1988), Indian cricketer
Amit Mishra (singer) (born 1989), Indian singer, songwriter and voice actor
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Christian Fuchs
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Christian Fuchs (; born 7 April 1986) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Major League Soccer club Charlotte FC and is the former captain of the Austrian national team.
He began his senior career as a teenager at Wiener Neustadt before signing his first professional contract at 17 with SV Mattersburg, challenging for the Austrian Football Bundesliga title and taking part in European competitions. In 2008, he left for Germany, signing for VfL Bochum. After a season on loan at 1. FSV Mainz 05, he signed for FC Schalke 04 in 2011, where he contested the UEFA Champions League but suffered a serious knee injury. In 2015, he signed for Leicester, winning the Premier League in his first season at the club.
A full international for a decade starting from his debut in 2006, Fuchs earned 78 caps for Austria, making him their eighth-most capped player of all time. He played for the nation at UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2016, captaining them for the first time in 2010 and on a permanent basis from 2012, before retiring from international duty in 2016.
Club career
Early career
Born in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria, his father was an amateur goalkeeper. He began as a forward at local team SVg Pitten before moving to 1. Wiener Neustädter SC at the age of 11. At the age of 15, while still an amateur and at mainstream school, Fuchs played for their senior team. When he was 17, he signed his first professional deal at SV Mattersburg, a team who despite coming from a town of 6,000 drew league record average crowds of 17,000, came third in the Austrian Football Bundesliga and played in European competition.
Prior to UEFA Euro 2008, he joined the German side VfL Bochum. He later described it as a useful move to play regularly while attracting attention from bigger teams. In 2010, he was signed on loan by 1. FSV Mainz 05, a newly promoted team who ended the season in the top five.
Schalke
On 6 June 2011, Fuchs signed a contract until 30 June 2015 with Schalke 04. The transfer fee is reportedly undisclosed by Schalke's sport and communications manager Horst Heldt. Fuchs was assigned the number 23 shirt, previously worn by Danilo Fernando Avelar.
In his time at the team from Gelsenkirchen, he competed in the UEFA Champions League, but suffered a long-term knee injury.
Leicester City
On 3 June 2015, Leicester City announced the signing of Fuchs on a free transfer, signing a three-year deal with the Foxes effective from 1 July. Signed under previous manager Nigel Pearson, Fuchs didn't have a regular spot in new manager Claudio Ranieri's squad until October. Fuchs made an appearance in Leicester's third round League Cup tie against West Ham United, providing an assist for Andy King's extra time winner. Following a 2–5 loss to Arsenal on 26 September, Ranieri elected to shake up his defensive back four, inserting Fuchs and teammate Danny Simpson in place of Jeffrey Schlupp and Ritchie De Laet, respectively. Fuchs made his first Premier League start the next week against Norwich.
In his first season, Leicester finished as champions on odds of 5,000–1, making Fuchs the first Austrian to receive a Premier League winners' medal since Arsenal's Alex Manninger in 1998. Following the insertion of Fuchs into the lineup on Matchday 8, Leicester City led the Premier League in clean sheets along with Arsenal, with 15. Fuchs himself led the league during this period in successful tackles with 77, while finishing second in interceptions with 98.
Prior to signing for Leicester, Fuchs had an offer to play in the United States, where his family live, but he turned it down. He said in March 2016, "My intention is to play in the US. I have come [to Leicester] for three years. I decided that I would sign one last contract in Europe, when I left Schalke, then go to the US."
On 21 October 2016, Fuchs signed a new contract with Leicester, keeping him with the club until June 2019. The next day, Fuchs scored his first goal for Leicester against Crystal Palace, volleying home a corner-kick clearance by Christian Benteke for the team's final goal in a 3–1 victory.
In May 2019 he signed a new one-year contract with Leicester. On 18 June 2020, Leicester announced that Fuchs had signed one-year extension.
On 21 May 2021, it was announced that Fuchs would be leaving Leicester at the end of the 2020–21 season.
Charlotte FC
On 7 June 2021 it was announced that Fuchs was to join Major League Soccer expansion side Charlotte FC, who are expected to enter the league in 2022. On 27 July 2021, Fuchs joined USL Championship side Charlotte Independence for the remainder of the season.
International career
Fuchs made his debut for Austria on 23 May 2006 in a friendly match against Croatia, replacing Stefan Lexa for the final six minutes of the 1–4 loss at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna.
He was part of the Austrian international squad as they co-hosted UEFA Euro 2008 alongside Switzerland. He made only one appearance in the group stage elimination, playing the entirety of the 1–0 loss to Germany in their last match of the tournament.
On 11 August 2010, in the absence of regular skipper Marc Janko, Fuchs captained his nation for the first time in a 0–1 friendly loss to the Swiss in Klagenfurt. That 17 November, he scored his first international goal, equalising in a 1–2 home friendly loss to Greece.
Fuchs received the armband on a permanent basis at the behest of manager Marcel Koller on 13 August 2012. He played all 10 games as they qualified for UEFA Euro 2016, the first time they did so, and featured in every minute of the group stage elimination in France. Afterwards, he retired from international play with a total of 78 caps, declaring "I am very proud of the 10 years that I have spent with the national team. I did everything with passion and, as I said, I am very, very proud."
Personal life
Fuchs' wife Raluca Gold-Fuchs, with whom he has a stepson, son, and daughter, is a businesswoman formerly of Goldman Sachs. She lives with their children in Manhattan and Fuchs sees them once a month. He runs a public relations company and a football academy in the same city, and plans to move there permanently after his football career.
The Leicester Mercury described Fuchs as "not your stereotypical footballer...[he] has more strings to his bow than an orchestra". He is noted for his online video series "No Fuchs Given", a play on his surname and the English-language obscenity "fuck"; the series consists of himself and teammates doing unusual football-related challenges, such as him and Robert Huth shooting the ball as hard as possible at each other's backsides. He also has a stated dream to become an NFL placekicker and has demonstrated his skills on the BBC's NFL coverage. His surname "Fuchs" is the German word for "Fox".
Career statistics
Club
International
Source:
International goals
Score and result lists Austria's goal tally first.
Honours
Schalke 04
DFL-Supercup: 2011
Leicester City
Premier League: 2015–16
FA Cup: 2020–21
Austria U17
UEFA European Under-17 Championship third place: 2003
Individual
kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2010–11, 2011–12
References
External links
Christian Fuchs – Official Website
1986 births
Living people
People from Neunkirchen District, Austria
Austrian footballers
Association football fullbacks
1. Wiener Neustädter SC players
SV Mattersburg players
VfL Bochum players
1. FSV Mainz 05 players
FC Schalke 04 players
Leicester City F.C. players
Charlotte FC players
Charlotte Independence players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Bundesliga players
Premier League players
Austria international footballers
UEFA Euro 2008 players
UEFA Euro 2016 players
Austrian expatriate footballers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Expatriate footballers in England
Sportspeople from Lower Austria
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Denied area is an intelligence term of art describing an extremely hostile operational environment with heavy surveillance.
The United States Department of Defense defines a denied area as "an area under enemy or unfriendly control in which friendly forces cannot expect to operate successfully within existing operational constraints and force capabilities."
When a reference is made to a friendly force denying an area to the enemy, such as a reference to friendly forces employing area-denial weapons, the intent is to create an area in which the enemy cannot operate without extreme risk.
Land mines can be used as area-denial weapons, and some modern semi-autonomous or remotely controlled artillery units can serve this purpose as well. In theory, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons can also serve this purpose, for varying lengths of time, though such weapons have not yet been used for this purpose in major wars, although such weapons have been used for other purposes.
Some effective tactics for creating a denied area do not require a significant continuing commitment of personnel or additional material. For example, once a minefield is in place, no upkeep is required unless a significant percentage of the mines have been detonated or destroyed—no residual force commitment is required. This is why a denied area may well exist behind enemy lines when, if it were secured by friendly forces on the ground, it might be considered a forward position. When hostilities end, these areas can be very dangerous and expensive to clean up, assuming that one of the combatants is willing to. (see UXO, bomb disposal, land mine, and the contamination concerns for unconventional weapons).
A dirty bomb is a potential option for an area denial weapon that might be more accessible to small paramilitary or terrorist groups.
See also
Area denial weapons
Scorched earth
References
Military terminology
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The Hyundai Starex is a van built by Hyundai. First-generation models were known in Europe as the Hyundai H-1 and as the Hyundai H200 in the Netherlands. For the second generation, Australian and UK market models are sold as the Hyundai iLoad (cargo version), in Australia as Hyundai iMax and the UK as Hyundai i800 (people mover versions). European models are differentiated as the Hyundai H-1 Cargo (cargo version) and Hyundai H-1 Travel (people mover version). In the Netherlands, it is called Hyundai H300, in Malaysia, only as Hyundai Starex Royale with Minivan, while the people mover version of the H300 is sold only for fleets.
First generation (A1; 1997)
The Starex succeeded the Hyundai Grace (also known as the H100) in most countries. Like the Hyundai Grace, the first generation A1-series Starex was available in a wide range of configurations, including minivan (MPV), minibus, van, pick-up, taxi and ambulance. For the very first 1997 models, it used the derived 2.5-liter 4D56 SOHC 8-valve non-turbo diesel engine with and at 2500 rpm. These first generation models were initially restricted for sale to the domestic South Korean market, but were eventually exported to a number of countries in Southeast Asia and some parts of Europe.
For the 1998 model year, a gasoline engine was offered, a Mitsubishi derived 4G64 at 5250 rpm with of torque at 4000 rpm. The diesel engine now comes with a slightly more powerful Mitsubishi derived 4D56 non-intercooled turbo diesel engine with at at 2000 rpm. Available in two trim levels, SVX and Club, and a number of body styles (commercial panel van, and pick up (Libero)). A long wheelbase (12-seater) "Jumbo" and short wheelbase (seven- and nine-seater) "RV" was also available. First introduced to this model are luxurious features like side lower body cladding with two-tone paint scheme (SVX, Club), optional dual sunroof (Club), side body "Tetris style" decals (Club), chrome slant grills, rear tailgate handle opener cover (Club), cream moquette upholstery (Club), optional high-tech head unit with television screen and six-disc CD changer (Club) for domestic models, power windows and antenna (SVX, Club) an Aisin Seiki Co. sourced four-speed automatic transmission with electronically controlled transmission (ECT) and overdrive switch and differently styled "star" 15-inch alloy wheels with exposed lug nuts (Club). For safety, it also features limited-slip differential (LSD), anti-lock braking system (ABS) and driver side airbag. This models was exported to a number countries and proved a big hit to some car markets like the Philippines where at that time was imported via gray market. It gained instant popularity for comfortable sedan-like drive, availability of automatic transmission, expansive interior space and thickly bolstered seats. Its main advantage was being priced lower than its twin, the Mitsubishi Space Gear, yet it packed more features and factory accessories like front bull bars, top basket loader, and a rear ladder. For the following year in the Philippines, the gasoline engine version was dropped due to unusually high gasoline consumption, but still made available for other markets.
For the 1999 model year, it gained the more powerful 2.5 SOHC 8-valve turbo diesel intercooled engine that has an output of at 4000 rpm and of torque, most notable feature is the addition of a hood scoop for the intercooler feed, different upholstery color scheme, blacked-out B-pillars (Club) and a top dashboard center binnacle with temperature, altimeter and a compass for 4x2 and 4x4 Club variant.
The 2000 to 2002 model version, also known as the "millennium" model, retains the previous engine specs while it made available for its domestic market, a Mitsubishi derived 2,972 cc 6G72 V6 gas engine with at 5000 rpm and of torque at 4000 rpm. This models features updated exterior and interior trims for the SVX and Club models, with features such as multi-reflectorized clear headlamps and jewel-like treatment for the tail-lights, differently styled front bumper over riders, front door "SVX" decals, black and gray interior color scheme with more durable upholstery material, and differently styled alloy wheels for the SVX and Club models.
For the 2003 to 2004 model, a more powerful power plant was made available, a new 2.5 DOHC 16-valve common rail direct injection turbo diesel engine that had an output of and of torque. It retains the previous model's interior and exterior styling features and received a new digital climate control for the higher Club model.
The 2005 to 2007 offered much more with a new front fascia, with features such as squared "bug" eye headlights, an extended bumper to accommodate the oversized square radiator grills with three vertical chrome bars and squared fog lamps. Also new was differently finished rear tail-lights and bumpers, integrated radio antenna, digital odometer and trip meter and (depending on the market) an updated multimedia head unit with flip-down ceiling-mounted screen. The engine was a Sirius 2.4-litre DOHC 16-valve MPi engine that had an output of at of torque, carry-over 2.5-liter DOHC 16-valve common rail direct injection turbo diesel engine that had an output of at of torque and a 2.5-liter SOHC eight-valve turbo diesel with intercooler engine that has an output of at 4000 rpm and of torque but now with ETC. The interior features upgraded upholstery, a number of cup holders located at the back seats, and an easy to wipe and clean rubberized floor matting. Top-of-the-line (Gold) models features a leather interior an overhead console and immobilizer. Aluminum accents, split, folding seats, all power features, digital climate control, key less entry and DVD player with six speakers are standard.
The Starex is also produced in China under the name JAC Refine by Anhui Jianghuai Automobile from March 2002 to 2015 under the Hyundai licence. It is very successful, with a market share of about 20 percent. From 2003 to 2008, it has consecutively won "Year's MPV" and "The Best Official Car" from 2004 to 2008. In 2007, it was granted "The Best MPV" and "The Best MPV for Government". The Refine is available with a 2.0 litre turbo or 2.4 litre petrol engine and a 2.8 litre turbo diesel engine mated to a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic gearbox. 1.8 litre petrol and turbocharged diesel variants along with the 1.9 litre turbo diesel arrived in 2012, 2013 and 2015 respectively as well as a six-speed manual gearbox for 1.8 and 1.9 litre diesel.
Hyundai Libero
Between 2000 and 2007, Hyundai manufactured a pickup version of the A1-series Starex. Known as the Hyundai Libero, it was meant to replace the Hyundai Porter in the lineup. They were equipped with a 2.5-liter diesel engine (in normally aspirated and turbocharged forms) or 3.0-liter Sigma gasoline V6, and came in a multiple body styles, including pickup and flatbed. It was sold in The Netherlands as Hyundai H300 Pickup.
Second generation (TQ; 2007)
Powertrain
The second-generation vehicle was introduced as the Grand Starex with larger dimensions and much stronger CRDi engine. The engine is a 2.5-Liter CRDi In-Line 4 cylinder engine delivering at 3,800 rpm with of torque between 2,000 and 2,500 rpm.
In 2012, Hyundai updated their diesel engines slightly for the UK and Australian models. Chief among the changes is the addition of a new six-speed manual gearbox in place of the old five-speed unit, improving official fuel economy by 0.5 litres per 100 km to 8.0L/100 km.
This comes at a cost, however, with Hyundai ditching the variable geometry turbocharger from the engine in favour of a less-potent waste gate set-up, resulting in substantially lower power and torque outputs than before.
The new engine/manual gearbox combination will produce official figures of 100 kW and 343Nm, down from 125 kW/392Nm, although the new model hits its peak torque earlier, arriving from a low 1500 rpm.
Five-speed automatic versions of the iLoad diesel get a substantial hike in torque output, with the engine retaining the variable geometry turbocharger but now producing figures of 125 kW and 441Nm (up from 125 kW/392Nm).
The trade-off is a narrower peak torque-band, with the maximum available between a narrow 2000 and 2250 rpm (previously 2000 and 2500 rpm).
Despite the beefy boost, claimed combined fuel consumption has dropped at an even larger rate than the manual, now returning 8.8L/100 km (previously 9.5L/100 km).
Regions
In the UK, the passenger model is sold as the i800 and is available in two variants, the SE and SE Nav, both available with either manual or automatic transmissions both with the 2.5l CRDi diesel engine. The panel van is marketed as the iLoad.
In Malaysia, the second generation Hyundai Starex was launched in May 2008 with 11 seats. In August 2009, the Starex was updated and now known as the Hyundai Grand Starex Royale. Updates included a new grille, body-coloured wing mirrors opposed to black, addition of a rear windscreen wiper and a new in-car-entertainment roof-mounted system. In July 2011, the Starex was updated yet again. The changes this time included a revised chrome grille, the addition of LED daytime running lights, side skirting, revised front and back bumpers and a new rear spoiler with built-in stop light. The second row of seats gained swivel functionality, the instrument cluster was revised and electronic stability programme or ESP and a GPS navigation system became standard equipment. This July 2011 update was available with in a sole GLS variant with an optional premium package being available. In March 2014, the Starex in Malaysia received yet another grille update and was now available with two variants: Base and Deluxe. For 2017, the Starex received yet another revised front end which included a revised front grille and front bumper. The update also brought along revised side cladding, gloss back panelling on the rear taillights and revised rear bumper with exhaust cut outs. During the 2018 Kuala Lumpur International Motorshow or KLIMS, the Starex was facelifted. But the facelift consisted only of only a new front end design and was now available with a sole Executive variant. The second generation Hyundai Starex was first launch in Malaysia in May 2008 and subsequently received 5 updates in August 2009, July 2011, March 2014, December 2016 and in November 2018 respectively.
In the Philippines, the Starex is called the Hyundai Grand Starex. The Grand Starex was launched in December 2007 for the 2008 model with four new variants. GL (ten-seater and twelve-seater, both have manual transmissions), GLS (ten-seater, with a five-speed automatic transmission) as well as the Top-of-the-line Gold (10-seater). In 2014 Hyundai Philippines released the Grand Starex Platinum, a more Executive class. The Grand Starex is one of the best selling vans in the Philippines.
In Indonesia, the second generation Hyundai Starex is available as the Hyundai H-1, and was introduced in 2008, with three options: GLS, Elegance, and XG. At first, only gasoline engines were available for H-1. The diesel engines came in February 2010, when Hyundai decided to produce H-1 in Indonesia for ASEAN market.
In Thailand, the second generation Hyundai Starex is marketed as the Hyundai H-1. It comes in three variants, the Touring, Executive and Deluxe. All come with 12 seats. The Executive and Deluxe were badged as "Maestro" until a minor change in 2011. The facelift H-1 was launch in Thailand in August 2018. In 8 November 2021, the H-1 Elite NS was released and limited to 300 units.
The Grand Starex "VIP" variant is based on H-1. Features include seven seats with second-row "Double VIP" seats that can electrically control seat inclination and leg support and 19-inch TV and DVD player. They are available in late 2010. In late 2012, the Grand Starex "Premium" became available with sliding "Double Super VIP" seats on the second row and a DVD player with a smaller 10.2-inch screen.
Facelift (2018–present)
Hyundai gave a second facelift to the Grand Starex in South Korea, having new Urban and Limousine models. It has the cascading grille design but has differences on interior design. The standard version uses the same cockpit as the old model while the Urban version has the floating touch display and four-spoke steering wheel like most Hyundai vehicles. Special vehicle options (ambulance, school service, camping) are also revised for the vehicle. For right-hand drive models, only the exterior is updated. The interior remains unchanged.
The Hyundai Grand Starex was discontinued in South Korea on 18 March 2021, succeeded by the Hyundai Staria.
Awards and accolades
Best Large MPV - CIMB Autoworld Car of the Year Awards 2010
References
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2000s cars
2010s cars
2020s cars
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Cars introduced in 1997
Commercial vehicles
Hyundai trucks
Starex
Minibuses
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Dominic Yobe (born 4 August 1986) is a Zambian footballer. His elder brother Donewell is also a professional footballer.
Yobe represented Swedish Örgryte between 2004–2007 before signing with AC Oulu. He helped the team to win promotion to Veikkausliiga. On his first Veikkausliiga season in 2010, Dominic was named team captain. In November 2010 he signed a two-year contract with the reigning champions HJK. Yobe's contract was terminated in March 2011 after he was suspected of being involved in a match fixing scandal along with his brother and several other players. He was convicted to a seven-month suspended sentence for bribery.
References
External links
AC Oulu Profile
Veikkausliiga Hall of Fame
1986 births
Living people
Zambian footballers
Veikkausliiga players
Allsvenskan players
Zambian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Finland
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Örgryte IS players
AC Oulu players
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
Association football midfielders
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Blessed Mosè Tovini (27 December 1877 – 28 January 1930) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and was both the nephew and godson of Blessed Giuseppe Antonio Tovini.
He was beatified on 17 September 2006 in Brescia.
Biography
Mosè Tovini was the eldest of eight children to Eugenio Tovini and Domenica Malaguzzi. His childhood education was spent in Breno and he would later move in with his uncle Giuseppe Antonio Tovini in Brescia at the age of nine in order to continue his studies.
He had his First Communion on 14 November 1886 and felt a religious call to the priesthood at this time. His father opposed his desire to become a priest and enrolled him in high school in Bergamo where he was often bullied. He returned home and his father at last allowed him to follow his religious vocation. He moved back to his uncle and began his studies as a priest in Brescia.
After the death of his uncle in 1897 he left his studies and enlisted in the Italian military where his personal piety had a profound effect on his fellow soldiers. He became a sergeant and was discharged from his duties on 31 October 1898. After this, he returned home and resumed his studies for the priesthood. This led to - at the age of 22 - his ordination on 9 June 1900.
Tovini was sent to Rome to continue his studies and had degrees in mathematics, philosophy and theology by 1904. He returned to Brescia after this where he started teaching at the seminary, and later jointed the Congregation of Oblate Priests. Tovini later travelled to Rome, where he attained a degree in dogmatic theology.
He received an exemption from the draft of World War I and he continued to teach in Brescia. He ministered to the sick during the Spanish flu epidemic and assisted veterans after the war who cut short their studies for the priesthood. He was also made the rector of the seminary in 1926, holding that post for the rest of his life. He continually emphasized a devotion to the Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the pontiff as the pillars of a priestly life.
Beatification
Tovini was praised for his holiness and it resulted in calls for his beatification. The formal introduction of his cause for sainthood came on 15 October 1981 and commenced on a diocesan level that spanned from 1981 to 1982. The Positio was submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1995. Pope John Paul II recognized that he had lived a life of heroic virtue and named him to be Venerable on 12 April 2003.
The miracle required for his beatification was investigated on a local level before it was submitted to Rome. Pope Benedict XVI approved the miracle on 19 December 2005 and it led to the beatification on 17 September 2006. One final miracle is required for his canonization.
References
External links
Hagiography Circle
Saints SQPN
1877 births
1930 deaths
Italian beatified people
Beatifications by Pope Benedict XVI
20th-century venerated Christians
Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II
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Mormyrus longirostris
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Mormyrus longirostris, commonly referred as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, is a medium-sized ray-finned fish species belonging to the family Mormyridae. It was originally described by Wilhelm Peters in Monatsberichte der Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1852.
This species grows to a maximum length of and can weigh up to . The dorsal fin is more than twice the length of the anal fin. The dorsal origin is nearer to the tip of the snout than to the caudal fin base.
Ecology
It primarily feeds on weeds and insects, but also on small vertebrates, such as small fish and fish eggs. They hunt using electricity and can give a mild electric shock to defend itself.
Range and habit
M. longirostris can be found in abundance across the plains of Africa in freshwater habitats, including the lower and middle Zambezi, lower Sabi and Ludi rivers and in the Luapula-Moero-Bangwelo (Zambian Congo system). It inhabits the Ruvuma and Rufiji rivers in Tanzania, lakes Malawi, Tanganyika and Rukwa and other eastward-flowing rivers in Tanzania.
The species lives in caves and muddy areas with soft bottoms. It hides in weeds and characteristically forms small shoals.
Life history/behavior
Active mostly at night, it breeds during the summer rainy season, moving upstream in rivers after water has receded, with migrations at irregular intervals. Females carry 10,000–70,000 eggs at a time.
Relationship to humans
The fish is harvested for food with bait and hook.
References
External links
Mormyrus
Freshwater fish of Africa
Fish described in 1852
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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List of London workhouses
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This is a list of workhouses in London. In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End
Aldgate workhouse
Bethnal Green workhouse
Bow workhouse
Camberwell workhouse
Chelsea workhouse
Christchurch workhouse
City of London workhouse
Clapham workhouse
Clerkenwell workhouse
Cripplegate workhouse
Forest Gate workhouse
Fulham workhouse
Greenwich workhouse
Hackney workhouse
Hampstead workhouse
Hanwell workhouse
Holborn workhouse
Islington workhouse
Kensington workhouse
Lambeth workhouse
Lewisham workhouse
Mile End Old Town workhouse
Newington workhouse
Poplar workhouse
Saffron Hill workhouse
Shoreditch workhouse
Southwark workhouse
St Andrew, Holborn workhouse
St Ann's, Limehouse workhouse
St George in the East workhouse
St George, Hanover Square workhouse
St George-the-Martyr workhouse
St Giles & St George workhouse
St Giles, Cripplegate workhouse
St Luke workhouse
St Margaret & St John, Westminster workhouse
St Martin-in-the-Fields workhouse
St Marylebone workhouse
St Olave's Poor Law Union workhouse, Rotherhithe
St Pancras workhouse
St Paul, Covent Garden workhouse
St Saviour's workhouse
Stepney workhouse
Strand workhouse
Tooting workhouse
Training Ship Goliath workhouse
Wandsworth and Clapham workhouse
Wapping workhouse
West London workhouse
Westminster workhouse
Whitechapel workhouse
References
18th century in London
19th century in London
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Pa Di is a Southwestern Tai language of the Chinese–Vietnamese border. There are about 300 Pa Di speakers in Muong Khuong District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, who are classified as ethnic Tày by the Vietnamese government. Pa Di tonal splits are similar to those of Standard Thai.
Jerold Edmondson reports about 300 speakers. However, Bùi Quốc Khánh (2013) reports 3,000 Pa Dí people living in 19 natural villages in Mường Khương, Tung Trung Phố, and Nậm Chảy communes of Mường Khương District.
References
Bùi Quốc Khánh. 2013. Tri thức dân gian trong canh tác vây lúc nước của người Pa Dí ở Lào Cai. Nhà xuất bản Thời Đại.
Ngô Đức Thịnh (1975). "Mấy ý kiến góp phần xác minh người Pa Dí ở Mường Khương (Lào Cai)". In, Ủy ban khoa học xã hội Việt Nam: Viện dân tộc học. Về vấn đề xác định thánh phần các dân tộc thiểu số ở miền bắc Việt Nam, 287-305. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học xã hội.
Tai languages
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Boynitsa
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Boynitsa (, ; also transliterated Bojnica, Bojnitsa, Boinitsa, Boynitza, Boinitza, Boinica, etc.) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of Boynitsa Municipality, which lies in the western part of Vidin Province. The village is located 35 kilometres west of the provincial capital Vidin and 250 kilometres northwest of the national capital Sofia, in the immediate proximity of the Serbian border.
The Bulgarian word boynitsa means "arrow slit", although the Slavic root boy commonly exists in words related to fighting, and -itsa is a common Bulgarian placename suffix.
Municipality
Boynitsa municipality covers an area of 166 square kilometres and includes the following 8 places:
External links
Boynitsa municipality page at the Vidin Province website
Villages in Vidin Province
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WJMS (590 AM, "US 59") is a radio station broadcasting a full-service format of classic country music and talk. Licensed to Ironwood, Michigan, it first began broadcasting November 3, 1931 with 100 W power. It was called "The Voice of the Iron Range."
References
Sources
Michiguide.com - WJMS History
External links
JMS
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1931
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Canoelands is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Canoelands is 60 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire and The Hills Shire.
Geography
Canoelands is a small hamlet near Glenorie, consisting of some 80 houses and 247 people extending out towards the east from Old Northern Road. Canoelands is between the hamlets of Forest Glen and Maroota and is 10 km north of the village of Glenorie and 20 km south of the village of Wisemans Ferry. By road, Canoelands is 55 km north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The landform of the area is on Canoelands Ridge, a high, undulating, dissected plateau of Hawkesbury Sandstone with many steep gullies covered with dry sclerophyll forest, predominantly tall varieties of hardwood trees of the genus Eucalyptus. It has an area of 60 km2 and is surrounded on three sides by the Marramarra National Park, a wilderness area of 11,759 ha.
Mount Blake lies some 2 km east of the eastern end of Canoelands Road. The geodetic survey station there is 270.3 m above sea level. This makes it one of the highest natural points between the northern side of Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury River. The highest point at 278m is at 49 Canoelands Rd. All drainage from the area is into the Hawkesbury-Nepean Basin.
History
Aboriginal culture
The area was inhabited by Indigenous Australians of the Dharug-speaking tribes. To the west they join the Boorooberongal clan (which extended to Windsor) and the Cattai clan (extending to Richmond) and to the south they joined the Bidjigal people around Castle Hill. To the east they joined the large Eora-speaking tribes which covered the coastal area. Within Canoelands there are many Aboriginal rock carvings in caves and on rocky outcrops. These are all under the care of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
European settlement
In early times, it became a timber-getting area for Sydney. The treefellers found tall stringybark gumtrees (E. cephalocarpa) with large, uniform patches of bark missing. These pieces of bark were cut out with stone axes and used by the local Aboriginal people to make canoes to use on the Hawkesbury River. Such trees were aptly named canoe trees.
As the trees were used for mill logs, none remain in the area but preserved specimens may be examined at other places, e.g., in the Pioneers Park at Griffith, New South Wales.
The area was originally named "The Canoe Grounds" and is shown as such in a Gregory's Directory of 1946. Some time after that it became known as "Canoelands". This name was officially gazetted in the NSW Government Gazette dated 12 November 1993 and had its boundaries specified and officially designated as a suburb of Sydney in the NSW Government Gazette No.145, dated 1 December 1995.
The first landholding in the Parish of Marramarra, which includes Canoelands, was of on the northern side of Marramarra Creek below Mount Blake. It was purchased by John Blake for one pound and ten shillings on 6 June 1835. The land had been advertised for sale by auction in an advertisement dated 13 December 1834.
Transport
Old Northern Road was convict-built and is a major connecting route stretching north for 34 km from Baulkham Hills to Wisemans Ferry. The suburb has two other roadways: Canoelands Road which is a 9 km long cul-de-sac, and Marra Avenue which is a 2.2 km long cul-de-sac. The former is bituminised for most of its length and the latter has a wholly bituminised surface.
Picturesque rural, mountain and city views can be had from many locations along these roads. The first and still the only street light in the suburb was erected on the corner of Old Northern and Canoelands Roads on 6 June 1994. At first it was only activated by the headlights of approaching cars but this proved to be quite erratic. After a month or two this was abandoned and it was lit as at present, from sunset until sunrise.
Rural areas
Canoelands is at the far northern end of the Hornsby Shire Council's coverage and has the Local Government land usage classification of Rural Lands. Holdings must have a minimum area of 10 ha which cannot be subdivided and only one dwelling may be erected on each. However, the erection of necessary agricultural buildings is permitted.
Industry in the area consists of four commercial plant nurseries and three large stonefruit orchards. The orchards are largely covered by synthetic netting to minimise the depredations of grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) which attack the fruit trees when carrying fruit. The fruit grown are peaches, nectarines and plums. There is also some cashcrop market gardening such as tomatoes, snowpeas and zucchini from time to time. Apiarists bring their beehives when the orchards are in flower for their bees to gather honey and assist in the pollination and setting of fruit.
A very large nursery exists nearby on the western side of Old Northern Road but as this roadway forms the boundary between two Shires, it is situated in the Shire of Baulkham Hills and is not technically in Canoelands, but in Glenorie. There is an aggregate quarry and a sandstone quarry in the area. The Hawkesbury sandstone is a basically cream-colored sedimentary rock with colorful patterns of red, orange, yellow and white. It was once used to build houses but is now used as dimension stone and sawn stone, principally for landscaping architecture or as feature panels in housing. The area also contains some lenses of white and blue shale, the former being used as an admixture with clay to make blonde housebricks.
Services
No shopping facility is available in Canoelands, the nearest being in Glenorie or in the major regional shopping centre of Castle Hill, some 32 km to the south.
The Canoelands Rural Fire Brigade station and the local optical fibre telephone exchange are both located at the corner of Canoelands and Old Northern Roads. The area has single and 3-phase electricity, natural gas, telephone and broadband services online but is without reticulated water or sewerage, residents relying on rainwater tanks and dams for water and on septic systems for sewage disposal. Many homes have stand-by diesel-powered generators to safeguard the operation of their water supply pumps and refrigeration in case of power blackouts. One residence is fully solar-powered. The Sydney-Newcastle oil/gas pipeline runs along a good length of Canoelands Road before turning north to go under the Hawkesbury River and has two radio-controlled valve stations in Canoelands.
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Roxane Wilson is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Water Rats, Stingers and The Alice. She was born in Durban, South Africa to an Italian mother and an English father. She lives in Los Angeles with her children.
Biography
Early life
Roxane was born in Durban in 1965 to an Italian mother and an English father. Her father was also an actor, trained at the Old Vic in London.
In 1972, Roxane moved with her mother to Sydney via London. Her stepfather is Ian "Peewee" Wilson, leader and founding member of the Australian rock and roll band The Delltones.
After a couple of years in suburban Sydney, touring with the band, her family moved to Eungai Creek, New South Wales on the mid-north coast, where they maintained a fifty-acre farm, growing organic vegetables.
Career
Roxane Wilson started her career at an early age with modelling. In 1981 she signed with the Chadwick Models agency in Sydney.
In 1983 she extended her modelling career to New York, where she signed with Wilhelmina Models and lived for three years. During her time in New York she studied acting at HB Studio and the Meisner technique with Robert Modica.
On return to Australia, she began her career as a professional actress. In 1991 she furthered her training by attending full-time study at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Roxane works extensively in film, television and theatre. She has also made television appearances as a presenter for the AFI Awards and as a guest on the Good Morning Australia, Donnie Sutherland's "Sounds", "In Melbourne Today" (GTV 9) and Bert Newton Show.
She has also worked as a tutor and as a private acting coach at Screenwise, Out of the Blue and ATYP.
In 2014 she appeared in the Australian Theatre Company's Los Angeles production of Holding the Man opposite Cameron Daddo, Adam J. Yeend and Nate Jones; the production was directed by Larry Moss and received strong critical praise.
Filmography and theatre
References
External links
Sue Barnett & Associates, Roxane Wilson's biography
Roxane Wilson's biography on the official Punishment website
1965 births
Living people
Australian television actresses
Australian film actresses
People from Sydney
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John B. Riley (born 1943/1944) was an American politician who served as mayor and commissioner of Opa-Locka, Florida.
Biography
Riley was born in Gadsden, Alabama and attended the University of Maryland. He worked as chairman of the Opa-Locka Housing Authority. In 1982, Riley ran for one of three seats available on the City Commission. Eight candidates were reduced to six after the primaries. Running against commissioner Helen Miller, commissioner Donna McKenna, John Hennessey, Vance Philipps, and Guillermo Lazo, he was narrowly defeated in the April election coming in 4th place behind Miller (who became Opa-Locka's first female mayor), McKenna (who became deputy mayor), and Lazo (the city's first Latino commissioner). When commissioner Willie Logan resigned after winning election to the Florida House of Representatives, Riley won a special election on November 2, 1982 to serve out the remainder of Logan's term (through April 1984) on the City Commission defeating Stuart Susaneck, Vince Cooper, Gloria Giardino (wife of former mayor Candido Giardino), and George Lipkins.
In the April 1984 general election with three seats on the five man commission being contested, Riley was the top vote getter earning him a 4-year term on the commission, the first two of which he would serve as mayor. The two remaining seats were won by his political allies Brian Hooten and Stuart Susaneck, both white, which ended Black control of the commission (the preceding mayor, Helen Miller, being the only remaining Black commissioner). Riley faced a $1,000,000 budget deficit. While mayor, he was able to balance the budget, began the process of developing a downtown district through rezoning, and completed the restoration of city hall. He also unsuccessfully proposed that the city shift to a strong mayor form of government although the City Commission did approve the direct election of the mayor (previously, the top vote getter won a 4-year stint as commissioner with the first two years of the term as mayor).
Riley resigned from his position as mayor effective November 4, 1986 so he could run for re-election as mayor (otherwise he would have to finish out his remaining two-year term as commissioner). Riley's popularity suffered after he was accused of accepting a bribe related to the relocation of a flea market, overspending his expense account, and not paying his water bill. In the October 1986 mayoral primary, he finished fourth against Republican Kenneth Bowens, former Opa-Locka police chief Robert B. Ingram, former commissioner and police chief Robert Knapp, and former mayor and current commissioner Helen L. Miller. As no candidate won a majority, a run-off election was held in November between Miller and Ingram with Ingram as the victor. It was the first election where the voters directly elected the mayor.
In November 1998, he unsuccessfully ran for one of three open seats on the City Commission losing to incumbent Myra Taylor and newcomers, Bobby Bradley and Derrick Miller. In November 2002, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor losing in the primary to Alvin Miller and Myra L. Taylor (Taylor went on to win). In September 2004, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor in a special election on September 7, 2004 after mayor Myra L. Taylor was removed from office by governor Jeb Bush; he received 33.52% of the votes compared to Joseph L. Kelley with 44.47% of the votes. In November 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the City Commission. In November 2018, he again ran for mayor but lost in a 4-way race against Rose Tydus, Dorothy "Dottie" Johnson, and Matthew Pigatt. Pigatt won the contest.
References
1940s births
Mayors of places in Florida
African-American mayors in Florida
People from Opa-locka, Florida
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Uhura's Song
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Uhura's Song is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Janet Kagan published in 1985. Kagan was asked to produce an outline by editor David G. Hartwell, after he read the manuscript of her novel Hellspark. She was unfamiliar with Star Trek and needed to research the series whilst writing Uhura's Song. She subsequently proposed two sequels, but they went unwritten as they featured original characters introduced in Uhura's Song.
Plot
Lt. Uhura's friendship with a cat-like diplomat from Eeiauo becomes vital when a plague threatens the population. The songs they shared are key to the cure. When the plague begins to infect humans starting with Dr. McCoy, the crew of the Enterprise must work to decipher the songs and cure the plague.
Development
Janet Kagan was first introduced to Star Trek: The Original Series by her younger brother during the original run of the show. She was invited to submit a proposal for a Star Trek novel by David G. Hartwell, to whom she had submitted her novel Hellspark in his capacity as editor of Pocket Books' original-SF line Timescape; though Hartwell liked the novel, Timescape did not accept novels from previously-unpublished authors – but the Star Trek line did, and Hartwell suggested it as an avenue for qualifying as a published author. (Hellspark was ultimately released in 1988 by Tor Books, to which Hartwell had moved on in the meantime.) At the time she had not seen an episode of the show for some seventeen years. She researched the series, and due to it being shown in broadcast syndication, she was able to record late-night re-runs using her videocassette recorder. She had committed to provide a ten-page outline plus a thirty-page sample to Hartwell within a week, and whilst watching the recorded episodes, she realised that Uhura had not been featured prominently and that Nichelle Nichols had never been given any memorable lines.
Kagan did remember Nichols in a NASA promotional film, and desired to "give Uhura the plum role she deserved". She was keen to have the characters sound like a real proposal for a Star Trek episode. Hartwell approved the outline, and Kagan reached out to family members and friends for more information on the series such as tapes and books and wanted to know what they had never seen in Star Trek but wanted to. She had three months to turn in a first draft, and during that time she watched the entire series. During that period, Hartwell had left Simon & Schuster for Tor Books, and Kagan subsequently wondered how the book would have turned out differently had Hartwell stayed on to edit. A similar Uhura-focused book had been published two books prior, entitled The Tears of the Singers.
Following the successful publishing of the book, Kagan outlined two sequels to the novel, both featuring her original characters from Uhura's Song. She submitted her outlines to the new editor once the office had stabilised after Hartwell's departure, but discovered that the policy was that authors were not allowed to bring back original characters from previous books, and so the sequels went unwritten.
Reception
Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer, in an article for Tor.com about the appearances of Uhura in Star Trek novels, described the plot of Uhura's Song as "undisputably weird". She described the book as an "epic coming-of-age journey" with "lots and lots of ballads". She did say that she felt that there were numerous Mary Sue-type characters in various guises throughout the book. In Star Trek: Adventures in Time and Space, published in 1999, Uhura's Song was described as one of the two defining novels alongside The Tears of the Singers which "gave Uhura the chance to expand her range beyond hailing frequencies".
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
Novels based on Star Trek: The Original Series
1985 American novels
1985 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
American bildungsromans
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Rueil-la-Gadelière () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department
References
Communes of Eure-et-Loir
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Somaliwood
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Somaliwood is an informal name for the Somali film industry that has developed in Columbus, Ohio, where a large Somali diaspora exists. Following the model of Bollywood, the name is a portmanteau of the words "Somali" and "Hollywood", the center of the American film industry.
Overview
The earliest forms of public film display in Somalia were Italian newsreels of key events during the colonial period in Italian Somaliland. Growing out of the Somali people's rich storytelling tradition, the first few feature-length Somali films and cinematic festivals emerged in the early 1960s, immediately after independence. Following the creation of the Somali Film Agency (SFA) regulatory body in 1975, the local film scene began to expand rapidly. In the 1970s and early 1980s, popular musicals known as Riwaayado were the main driving force behind the Somali movie industry. Epic and period films as well as international co-productions followed suit, facilitated by the proliferation of video technology and national television networks.
In the 1990s and 2000s, a new wave of more entertainment-oriented movies emerged in the Somali diaspora. Referred to as Somaliwood, this upstart cinematic movement energized the local movie scene, in the process introducing innovative storylines, production techniques and advertising strategies. The latter include cross-media marketing, with tie-in film soundtracks featuring prominent Somali music artists. Popular movies from Somaliwood include the Somali language slasher thriller Xaaskayga Araweelo, the action comedy Rajo, and Warmooge, the first Somali animated film. The young directors Abdisalam Aato of Olol Films and Abdi Malik Isak are at the forefront of this quiet revolution. In 2010, the Somali director Mo Ali also released Shank, his first feature film set in a futuristic London.
See also
List of Somalian films
Somali Film Agency
Hollywood-inspired names
Notes
References
External links
Director Abdisalam Aato’s films on Myspace
Olol Films Website
History of Cinema in Somalia
Jilaa
Cinema of Somalia
Somali-language films
Somali-American history
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Homosaces
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Homosaces is a genus of moths in the family Cosmopterigidae.
Species
Homosaces anthocoma Meyrick, 1894
Homosaces arvalis Meyrick, 1910
Homosaces nyctiphronas Meyrick, 1931
Homosaces pelochares Meyrick, 1934
Homosaces podarga Meyrick, 1914
Homosaces sanctificata Meyrick, 1936
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Cosmopterigidae
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Tippi McCullough
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Tippi Lynn McCullough (born October 1963) is an American politician who is a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 33rd district in Pulaski County.
Background
McCullough was raised by her mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where she graduated from Lake Hamilton High School in 1981. McCullough received her associate degree in physical education from Garland County Community College. She then completed her bachelor's degree at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, on a basketball scholarship as a first-generation college student. After graduating with a B.S.E. in physical education and English, McCullough received an M.S.E. in English from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She taught English and basketball at Kingston High School in Madison County, Arkansas, and later at Mountain Pine High School in Garland County, Arkansas. McCullough is the first woman to become president of the Arkansas Basketball Coaches Association.
In January 2014, McCullough began teaching English at Little Rock Central High School after she was fired from her job of 14 years as a teacher at Mount St. Mary Academy in 2013 after marrying her partner Barbara Mariani. Although her relationship with Mariani was well-known of at Mount St. Mary, the school stated that McCullough's marriage violated a morality clause in their contract. This experience encouraged McCullough to become more involved with politics; in 2014, she became president of the Stonewall Democrats where she became more familiar with Arkansan Democratic politics.
2018 campaign
McCullough, a Democrat, ran as the 33rd District Representative for the 92nd Congress in the Arkansas House of Representatives. The seat was previously filled by Warwick Sabin who ran for mayor of Little Rock. Her opponent in the primaries was fellow Democrat Ross Noland, an attorney and non-profit director at the Buffalo River Foundation.
McCullough's primary policy focus during her campaign was education. Her almost two-decade-long experience as a teacher had exposed her to the '"struggles'" of students, "whether it was because they were homeless or hungry or suffering abuse." Her involvement with the Arkansas Education Association had opened her eyes to other issues in the educational system as well. McCullough also objected the unchecked expansion of charter schools and supported more funding for public schools and teachers.
Aside from education, McCullough supported the preservation of War Memorial Park as a green space and opposed Governor Asa Hutchinson's tax cuts on wealthy residents.
McCullough was elected unopposed in the general election on November 6, 2018, after defeating Noland in the May primaries.
Political career
McCullough is currently serving her first term in the Arkansas House as the representative from District 33, which represents portions of Pulaski County. She serves on the House Revenue and Taxation Committee and the House Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs Committee.
References
1963 births
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Arkansas Democrats
Lesbian politicians
LGBT state legislators in Arkansas
Living people
Members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Women state legislators in Arkansas
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Turtle Lake
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Turtle Lake may refer to:
Canada
Turtle Lake (Temagami), in Ontario
Turtle Lake (Saskatchewan)
Turtle Lake Monster, cryptid that allegedly lives in the lake
Turtle Lake (Vancouver Island)
Georgia
Turtle Lake (Tbilisi), or "Kus Tba"
United States
Turtle Lake (Beltrami County, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake (Cass County, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake (Douglas County, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake (Grant County, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake (Polk County, Minnesota)
Turtle Lake Township, Beltrami County, Minnesota
Turtle Lake Township, Cass County, Minnesota
Turtle Lake Elementary School, Shoreview, Minnesota
Turtle Lake, Montana
Turtle Lake, North Dakota
Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, a village
Turtle Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin, a town
Turtle Lake, Walworth County, Wisconsin, a CDP
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The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (English: Automobile Club of the West), sometimes abbreviated to ACO, is the largest automotive group in France. It was founded in 1906 by car building and racing enthusiasts, and is most famous for being the organising entity behind the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race. The ACO also lobbies on behalf of French drivers on such issues as road building and maintenance, the availability of driving schools and road safety classes, and the incorporation of technical innovations into new vehicles. It also runs a roadside assistance service for its members.
History
The ACO's history begins with the Automobile Club de la Sarthe, the ancestor of today's ACO, which was founded in the town of Le Mans. In 1906 that group included Amédée Bollée and Paul Jamin, winner of the 1897 Paris-Dieppe race in a Léon Bollée tricar. With the help of the larger Automobile Club de France they organised a race on local public roads, on a 65-mile triangular course connecting Le Mans with Saint-Calais and La Ferté-Bernard. The 12-lap race, titled the Grand Prix de l'ACF, was held over two days and won by Ferenc Szisz driving a Renault, This race, the first Grand Prix, would eventually become the French Grand Prix.
After World War I, the ACO turned its attention to designing a shorter circuit on public roads to the south of the city. The organisation's chief secretary Georges Durand, together with magazine editor Charles Faroux of La Vie Automobile and tyre manufacturer Emile Coquille, came up with the idea for a 24-hour race. The first Le Mans 24 Hours was held on 26 May 1923. The very first entry was lodged with the ACO by John Duff on a Bentley.
World War Two and aftermath
The Le Mans circuit was occupied by the Royal Air Force in 1940 and then by the Germans at the end of that year. Le Mans was liberated in August, 1944, but it was almost five years before the 24 Hours took place again.
Following the war, the grounds of the ACO and the circuit were in ruins, bombed by the Allies and further destroyed by the Germans. The ACO set about the task of reconstruction, aided by Government Minister and Sarthe députée Christian Pineau who provided the first millions. In addition the ACO launched a loan. In 1946 the British Racing Drivers' Club opened a "Le Mans Fund" for the benefit of the ACO, raising a grand total of £358 and 11 shillings, to assist with the rehabilitation of the facilities at the Le Mans circuit.
Rebuilding of the circuit started on February 7, 1949, and the first post-war event at Le Mans was held on 25–26 June of that year. Pineau, standing beside Charles Faroux, gave the starting signal. Two new spectator stands were named for racing drivers and resistance fighters Robert Benoist and Jean-Pierre Wimille.
1955 Le Mans disaster
During the ACO's 24 Hours of Le Mans event in 1955, an accident occurred which killed 84 people, regarded as the worst accident in motorsport history. It led to many actions by the ACO to subsequently change buildings and the procedures used at the circuit, as well as to redesign the pit lane and front stretch where the accident occurred. It also led to a change of ACO rules for the type of cars permitted in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the following years, as well as applying a fuel-consumption formula.
Presidents
Adolphe Singher (1906–1910)
Gustave Singher (1910–1947)
(1947–1951)
(1951–1973)
Raymond Gouloumès (1973–1992)
(1992–2003)
(2003-2012)
(2012-)
Racing
The 1967 French Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on the Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans, on July 2, 1967. Motor Sport called it "The Grand Prix of the Car Parks." It was an innovation not repeated.
The ACO is responsible as a ruling body for race series, specifically sportscar series. The ACO has run or backed the following races or race series:
Current
24 Hours of Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans Moto
Le Mans Classic
French motorcycle Grand Prix
FIA World Endurance Championship
Asian Le Mans Series
Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup
European Le Mans Series
Michelin Le Mans Cup
FRD LMP3 Series
UK LMP3 Cup Championship
Former
1000 km of Le Mans
American Le Mans Series
European Le Mans Series
Japan Le Mans Challenge
Intercontinental Le Mans Cup
Formula Le Mans
Le Mans Autumn Cup
World Sportscar Championship
See also
Fédération Française du Sport Automobile
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
References
External links
Official site
Auto racing organizations in France
Sports car racing
Automobile associations
1906 establishments in France
Auto racing teams established in 1906
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BBCH-scale (other brassica vegetables)
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In biology, the BBCH-scale for other brassica vegetables describes the phenological development of vegetables such as brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli using the BBCH-scale.
The phenological growth stages and BBCH-identification keys of other brassica vegetables are:
1 For broccoli
2 For brussels sprout
3 For cauliflower and broccoli
References
BBCH-scale
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayward%20S.%20Ablewhite
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Hayward S. Ablewhite
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Hayward Seller Ablewhite (September 11, 1887 – July 1964) was an American bishop. He was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Marquette, now the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, serving from 1929 to 1939. He was convicted of embezzlement and served nine months in prison in 1939.
Early life and education
Ablewhite was born on September 11, 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of James B. Ablewhite and Annie Seller. He was educated at University School in Cleveland, before studying at Kenyon College from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He also enrolled at Bexley Hall, the divinity school of Kenyon College, and earned his Bachelor of Divinity in 1915. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1930. Ablewhite married Inez Fillmore on June 17, 1915.
Ordained Ministry
Ablewhite was ordained deacon in 1915 by Bishop William Andrew Leonard of Ohio, and priest in 1916 by Bishop Boyd Vincent of Southern Ohio. He served as curate at the Church of the Advent in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1915 and 1917, and then rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Columbus, Ohio between 1917 and 1919. In 1919, he became rector of St James' Church in Piqua, Ohio, while in 1926, he became rector of St Philip's Church in St. Louis. In 1928, he was chosen to be the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in Marquette, Michigan.
Bishop
During a special diocesan convention held in Grace Church, Ishpeming, Michigan on December 17, 1929, Ablewhite was elected Bishop of Marquette on the second ballot. He was consecrated on March 25, 1930 in St Paul's Cathedral by Bishop Hugh L. Burleson of South Dakota. On June 2, 1937, the diocese changed its name to Northern Michigan, hence Ablewhite became the first bishop to be styles as the Bishop of Northern Michigan.
Embezzlement & Imprisonment
On March 23, 1939, Ablewhite resigned his bishopric after $99,000 shortage was recorded in the accounts of the Diocese of Northern Michigan. He was indicted with defalcation and embezzlement in October 1939 and was sentenced with a sentence of one to ten years in prison. He was released after serving nine months in state prison in Jackson, Michigan.
References
External links
Hayward S. Ablewhite collection, 1840-1928
1887 births
1964 deaths
Kenyon College alumni
20th-century American Episcopalians
Episcopal bishops of Northern Michigan
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This standing stone is located in the townland of Clontead More, north of Coachford village. It is not depicted on the 1842 or 1901 surveyed OS maps.
The Irish Tourist Association survey of 1944 describes it as a 'dolmen' on a farm in Clontead Mor, 0.5 miles from Coachford. Consisting of a single boulder of c. 3 ton in weight and lying flat in the corner of a field, it was alleged to have been thrown by the giant Mushera from his lair on Mushera Mountain. The 'marks of his fingers' were said to be still visible.
The Archaeological Inventory of county Cork describes it as being on a south facing slope, in pasture, sub-rectangular in plan, with a height of 1.12m and long axis NE-SW.
Single upright stones are common in Ireland and not necessarily of one time period or serving the same purpose. Some mark prehistoric burials, others had commemorative or ritual functions, and some served as boundary markers along ancient routeways. Those with a NE-SW long axis suggest affinity with stone rows and pairs, and may date to the Bronze Age.
The standing stone is located on private property, and is not accessible to the public.
References
External links
OS Discovery Series map (maps.osi.ie)
acrheritage.info
Megalithic monuments in Ireland
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Chigusa
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Chigusa (written: , or in hiragana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
, Japanese voice actress
, Japanese painter
, Japanese professional wrestler
, Japanese actress
Chigusa Busujima , character in Yandere Simulator
Chigusa (written: ) is also a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese basketball player
Japanese feminine given names
Japanese-language surnames
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Maggie Culver Fry
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Maggie Culver Fry (1900-1998) was the tenth poet laureate of Oklahoma, appointed in 1977 by Governor David L. Boren. Fry wrote her first poem at the age of 10 and now has more than 800 stories, poems, and articles published.
Fry's maternal grandfather, George Deerskin Waters, traveled to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears and was a member of the Cherokee Senate. Fry lacked a high school education but nevertheless published three books of poetry, along with fiction and magazine articles. She also an instructor at Claremore Junior College and traveled the state conducting workshop in high schools and colleges.
From 1955 to 1965, Fry served as personal secretary to Senator Clem McSpadden. Her book, The Umbilical Cord, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1995 Fry was named poet laureate emeritus when her health forced her to stop writing and in 2015 she was inducted into the Claremore Hall of Fame.
Fry died in 1998 and is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore.
Bibliography
The Witch Deer: Poems of the Oklahoma Indians. Claremore: Claremore Junior College, 1955.
The Umbilical Cord. Muskogee: Oklahoma Printing Company, 1971.
Bucksin Hollow Reflections. Muskogee: The Five Civilized Tribes Museum, 1978.
A Boy Named Will: The Story of Young Will Rogers. Bluestem, 1979
Sunrise Over Red Man's Land. Claremore: Rogers State College Press, 1981
Cherokee Female Seminary Years: A Cherokee National Anthology. Claremore: Rogers State College Press, 1988
See also
Poets Laureate of Oklahoma
References
1900 births
1998 deaths
Poets Laureate of Oklahoma
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Gary Parkinson
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Gary Anthony Parkinson (born 10 January 1968) is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
In 2006, he was appointed Head of Youth at his former club Blackpool, a role he occupied until he suffered a severe stroke in September 2010, leading to a diagnosis of locked-in syndrome.
Career
Playing career
Early career: Everton and Middlesbrough
Thornaby-born Parkinson started his career as a junior at Everton in 1985 before signing for Middlesbrough, who were then in the Second Division, on 17 January 1986, although they were relegated at the end of the season to the Third Division. Parkinson's first team debut came in the following season on 23 August 1986 in a 2–2 home draw against Port Vale which was played at Victoria Park, Hartlepool. With Middlesbrough on the verge of extinction, the official receiver had locked the club out of Ayresome Park. However, they went on to win promotion as runners-up under Bruce Rioch's management. In the 1987–88 Middlesbrough won a second promotion in two years, winning a promotion/relegation play-off against Chelsea after finishing in third place in the Second Division. Chelsea were then replaced by Middlesbrough in the First Division. The following season though he was relegated with Middlesbrough back to the Second Division. In the 1989–90 season he played in the Full Members Cup final (then known as the Zenith Data Systems Cup) as Middlesbrough lost 1–0 to Chelsea at Wembley. He was part of the team that won promotion again, finishing as Second Division runner-up in the 1991–92 season. The following season, he was a member of the Middlesbrough squad in the inaugural Premier League season as Middlesbrough once again lasted just one season in the top flight and were relegated.
In October 1992 he spent a short time on loan with Southend United who were then in the First Division. He made a total of 265 appearances in all competitions and scored eight league goals while at Middlesbrough.
Bolton Wanderers
Later that season, he followed former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch, when on 2 March 1993 Rioch signed him on a free transfer for Bolton Wanderers, who were then in the Second Division, and who promoted at the end of the season. However, Parkinson made only three league appearances for them, with just one start after failing to displace the long serving Phil Brown. He was transfer listed by Rioch along with three other first team players in September 1993
Burnley
He signed for Second Division club Burnley the following season on 27 January 1994. Burnley were promoted to the First Division through the play-offs at the end of the season. They beat Stockport County in the play-off final at Wembley, with Parkinson scoring the crucial winning goal that sealed their promotion. Burnley were though relegated the following season. On 18 November 1995 in a 3–1 defeat against Shrewsbury Town at Gay Meadow Parkinson tore a hamstring and was out of action until the new year.
Preston North End
On the eve of the 1997–98 season he signed for Burnley's Lancashire rivals Preston North End for £50,000. He became a regular in the team, but 18 months later he injured his cruciate ligament and needed an operation which kept him out of action for twelve months. He had made just one league appearance in the 1998–99 season and missed Prestons promotion as Second Division champions in the 1999–2000 season. He returned to action the following seasons as the club played their first season back in the second tier of English football for the first time in twenty years under manager David Moyes, with a return to action coming in December 1999.
Blackpool
On 22 March 2001 he signed for Preston's West Lancashire rivals Blackpool, then playing in the Third Division, for a fee of £20,000. He made 24 league appearances for the Seasiders winning promotion to the Second Division through the play-offs in the 2000–01 season, the fifth promotion win of his career. He was released at the end of the 2001–02 season and went on to play part-time with Northern Premier League (NPL) club Stalybridge Celtic on 17 August 2002. However, his stay lasted just two weeks, playing in four matches before leaving on 30 August. He also played part-time with fellow NPL club Rossendale United, whom he signed for on 11 February 2003.
Coaching career
After retiring from playing football Parkinson studied for his UEFA coaching badges, and also worked for an organisation called SpeedMark, who employ ex-pro footballers to help schools raise money through football. Parkinson left SpeedMark in June 2006 to become the Head of the Youth Department at Blackpool, in charge of all youth team affairs. The youth team compete in the Football League Youth Alliance, North West Conference. In the 2007–08 season he won the Lancashire FA Youth Cup with Blackpool on 28 April 2008 when they beat Wigan Athletic 2–0 at Bloomfield Road.
Masters football
In June 2003 Parkinson played for Middlesbrough in the annual Northern Masters football tournament at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, scoring two goals. He appeared again for Middlesbrough in the 2004 Northern Masters.
Honours
As a player
Middlesbrough
Zenith Data Systems Cup Runner up: 1989/90
Burnley
Second Division play-off winner: 1993–94
Blackpool
Third Division play-off Winner: 2000–01
League Trophy winner: 2001–02
As a coach
Blackpool
Lancashire FA Youth Cup winner: 2007–08
Personal life
Parkinson has three children with his wife, Debbie.
He suffered a stroke on 6 September 2010. After being admitted to Royal Bolton Hospital, he was transferred to Salford Royal hospital two days later. Five days later, the Blackpool team, who all wore undershirts with messages of support for Parkinson, dedicated their 2–0 win at Newcastle United to Parkinson. On 18 September it was confirmed that he had locked-in syndrome, one of the most severe consequences of a stroke.
He is now back at Royal Bolton, where he has been reviewed by a neuro-rehabilitation specialist.
References
External links
Parky's official website
Gary Parkinson profile at blackpoolfc.co.uk
1968 births
Living people
People from Thornaby-on-Tees
English footballers
Association football defenders
Everton F.C. players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Southend United F.C. players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Preston North End F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players
Rossendale United F.C. players
English Football League players
Premier League players
Northern Premier League players
Blackpool F.C. non-playing staff
Footballers from North Yorkshire
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Ryan Atkins (born 7 October 1985) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for York City Knights in the Betfred Championship and formerly England at international level.
He previously played for the Bradford Bulls in the Super League, and on loan from Bradford at the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the top flight. Atkins joined the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on a permanent deal and later joined the Warrington Wolves in the Super League.
Background
Atkins was born in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England.
He played rugby league for his local team Stanningley and rugby union for Bramley Phoenix.
Playing career
Bradford Bulls
Atkins began his career with the Bradford Bulls but failed to make a first-team appearance before joining Wakefield Trinity Wildcats midway through 2006's Super League XI.
Warrington Wolves
He signed for Warrington Wolves on a three-year deal in September 2009, following Richie Myler from Salford City Reds.
Atkins played for Warrington Wolves in the 2010 Challenge Cup Final victory over Leeds Rhinos.
He played in the 2012 Challenge Cup Final victory over the Leeds Rhinos at Wembley Stadium.
He played in the 2012 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Leeds Rhinos at Old Trafford.
He played in the 2013 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.
He played in the 2016 Challenge Cup Final defeat by Hull F.C. at Wembley Stadium.
He played in the 2016 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.
York City Knights
On 15 September 2020 it was announced that Atkins would join York City Knights for the 2021 season.
On 13 November 2020 the RFL announced a 3 month ban for Atkins for placing a bet on former club Wakefield Trinity
International career
His impressive club form earned him a call-up and was named in the England training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.
Honours
League Leaders' Shield: 2
2011, 2016
Challenge Cup: 2
2010, 2012
References
External links
Profile at warringtonwolves.com
SL profile
1985 births
Living people
Bradford Bulls players
English sportspeople of Grenadian descent
England national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league players from Pudsey
Rugby league wingers
Wakefield Trinity players
Warrington Wolves players
York City Knights players
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I Won
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"I Won" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Future. The song was released on April 8, 2014 as the fifth single from his second studio album, Honest (2014). "I Won", a hip hop song, was produced by Metro Boomin and features a guest appearance from fellow American rapper Kanye West. The song features Future and Kanye West rapping about their respective fiancées, Ciara and Kim Kardashian, who they see as their "trophy wives". Following its release, the song peaked at number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Ciara later broke off her engagement to Future due to infidelity on his part. Kardashian and West are in the midst of a divorce as of February 2022.
Background
"I Won" by Future was produced by Metro Boomin and features a guest appearance from fellow American rapper Kanye West. The song features Future and Kanye West rapping about their respective fiancées, Ciara and Kim Kardashian. Overall the song is about the rapper's fiancées being their trophy wives. Future takes control of the song's first part, performing romantic and sexual bars through a massive layer of auto-tune.
West starts his verse by mentioning his daughter North West saying, "You grew up on J. Lo, Timberlands by Manolo now, till one day I put an angel in your ultra sound." Later in his verse West cleverly insults Kardashian's exes Reggie Bush and Kris Humphries simultaneously with the line, "I made it over NBA, NFL players so every time I score it’s like the Super Bowl". As ever, West appears fully aware of the reaction he's bound to receive when he says "If people don’t hate then it won’t be right." Kanye West also makes reference to his infamous music video for his single "Bound 2" and Kardashian's sisters and mother. The latter reference closing his part of the song with West saying, "You could look at Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney and Khloe, All your mama ever made was trophies, right?", praising Kim and all her sisters as beautiful.
In an April 2014 interview with Pitchfork, Future spoke of the song saying, ""I Won" is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy—to show that and know it in yourself and be confident—because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning. I'm not teaching motherfuckers how to love."
Promotion
To promote the song, Future released an online game to go with the song on May 7, 2014. The concept of the game is to click on either Future or Kanye West to make them throw gold chains at the women walking across the beach in their view. If the player hits the women with the chain they become trophies similar to the single cover. Upon its release, the video was criticized by writers for major publications as sexist. Gaby Whitehill of Gigwise stated, "'I Won' saw Future and Kanye boast about how attractive their respective spouses - Ciara and Kim Kardashian - are, calling them "trophies". Now, you too can turn grown adult women into inanimate objects with the 'I Won' video game! To gain points, carelessly toss chains at bikini-clad women as they saunter across the beach, and turn them into a gold cup. Brilliant. Play it below, if you really hate yourself/women that much." Lauren Duca of Huffington Post said, "That warranted a conversation about an intersectional understanding of marriage. The horrifyingly sexist video game that Future released this week as a companion to the song? That really only warrants a conversation about the next available time you can take a shower."
Music video
The music video for "I Won" was filmed on a picturesque California beach and was directed by Hype Williams in March 2014. Speaking of the video with Hot 97 later that month, Future said, "It’s incredible. We on the water, we on the beach, and it’s beautiful women. We made [them] look like the old Hype Williams video girls, when video girls were stars back then." The clip was released on April 17, 2014. In the black-and-white video West and Future "serenade a slew of curvaceous models striking sexy poses on a private beach." Noticeably, both Ciara and Kim Kardashian do not appear in the music video.
Critical reception
"I Won" was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Chris DeVille of Stereogum called the song excellent and praised the production.
Chart performance
"I Won" sold 19,276 copies in its first week in the United States according to Nielsen Soundscan, which ended on April 13, 2014. It would be highest debut on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart that week. The single peaked at number 98 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent only a total of 3 weeks on the chart. On December 16, 2015, the song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 digital copies in the United States.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
2014 singles
Future (rapper) songs
Kanye West songs
Epic Records singles
Songs written by Kanye West
Music videos directed by Hype Williams
Black-and-white music videos
2013 songs
Songs written by Theron Thomas
Songs written by Timothy Thomas
Songs written by Future (rapper)
Song recordings produced by Metro Boomin
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Seth Parusnath (born 30 August 1994) is a South African soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Lamontville Golden Arrows.
References
1994 births
Living people
South African soccer players
Sportspeople from Durban
Association football midfielders
Lamontville Golden Arrows F.C. players
South African Premier Division players
National First Division players
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Kandel is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Kandel may also refer to:
Kandel (Verbandsgemeinde), a municipality in Germany
Kandel (mountain), a mountain in the Black Forest, Germany
Kandel (surname), including a list of persons with the name
Kandel, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
See also
Kandle (disambiguation)
Candel (disambiguation)
Candle (disambiguation)
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Młodojewo-Parcele is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupca, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
References
Villages in Słupca County
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Convergence within the field of computer science, is a phenomenon in evolutionary computation. It causes evolution to halt because precisely every individual in the population is identical.
Full convergence might be seen in genetic algorithms (a type of evolutionary computation) using only crossover (a way of combining individuals to make new offspring). Premature convergence is when a population has converged to a single solution, but that solution is not as high of quality as expected, i.e. the population has gotten 'stuck'. However, convergence is not necessarily a negative thing, because populations often stabilise after a time, in the sense that the best programs all have a common ancestor and their behaviour is very similar (or identical) both to each other and to that of high fitness programs from the previous generations. Often the term convergence is loosely used. Convergence can be avoided with a variety of diversity-generating techniques.
References
External links
Foundations of Genetic Programming
Evolutionary computation
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Lake Rondaxe is a lake located northeast of Carter Station, New York. Fish species present in the lake are atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, brook trout, yellow perch, and black bullhead. There is no public access.
Locations and tributaries
West Lake – A small 32 acre lake located south of Lake Rondaxe. West Lake empties into Lake Rondaxe. Fish species in West Lake include brook trout, white sucker, bullhead, rock bass, smallmouth bass, and yellow perch. Carry down access located on east shore.
Mountain Pond – A small pond located east of Lake Rondaxe. Mountain Pond empties into Lake Rondaxe.
References
Lakes of Herkimer County, New York
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Predrag Pašić (born 18 October 1958) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or as a forward.
Club career
During his career, he played for hometown club Sarajevo and German clubs VfB Stuttgart and TSV 1860 Munich. Pašić won the 1984–85 Yugoslav First League with Sarajevo and that same season was named Yugoslav First League Player of the Season.
International career
Pašić played for the Yugoslavia Olympic team, winning a gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. He made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in a March 1981 friendly match against Bulgaria and has earned a total of 10 caps, scoring 1 goal. He was a non-playing squad member at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and his final international was a March 1985 World Cup qualification match against Luxembourg.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
''Scores and results table. Yugoslavia's goal tally first:
Honours
Player
Sarajevo
Yugoslav First League: 1984–85
Yugoslavia Olympic
Mediterranean Games: 1979
Individual
Awards
Yugoslav First League Player of the Season: 1984–85
References
External links
Profile at Reprezentacija.rs
Les rebelles du foot (2012), documentary produced and hosted by Eric Cantona
1958 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sarajevo
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association football midfielders
Association football forwards
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
Competitors at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Games medalists in football
1982 FIFA World Cup players
FK Sarajevo players
VfB Stuttgart players
TSV 1860 Munich players
Yugoslav First League players
Bundesliga players
Oberliga (football) players
Yugoslav expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in West Germany
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Germany
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Afghanistan–India relations refers to the diplomatic relations between India and Afghanistan. They had been historical neighbours, and share cultural ties through Bollywood and cricket.
The Republic of India was the only South Asian country to recognize the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in the 1980s, though relations were diminished during the 1990s Afghan civil war and the Taliban government. India aided the overthrow of the Taliban and became the largest regional provider of humanitarian and reconstruction aid to the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Indians are working in various construction projects, as part of India's rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. Pakistan alleges the India's foreign intelligence agency R&AW is working in cover to malign Pakistan and train and support insurgents, a claim rejected strongly by India.
Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Afghanistan's ambassador to India, in April 2017 pointed out that India "is the biggest regional donor to Afghanistan and fifth largest donor globally with over $3 billion in assistance. India has built over 200 public and private schools, sponsors over 1,000 scholarships, hosts over 16,000 Afghan students." Relations between Afghanistan and India received a major boost in 2011 with the signing of a strategic partnership agreement, Afghanistan's first since the Soviet invasion of 1979.
A major shift in India's position on Afghan Taliban was reported by a top Qatar official in June 2021, revealing that an Indian delegation quietly visited Doha to meet Taliban's leadership. This is a major shift that was several weeks in the making in the first half of 2021, and likely involved Qatari mediation between India and the Taliban. India hasn't recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
History
Relations between the people of Afghanistan and India traces to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Following Alexander the Great's brief occupation, the successor state of the Seleucid Empire controlled the region known today as Afghanistan. In 305 BCE, they ceded much of it to the Indian Maurya Empire as part of an alliance treaty. The Mauryans controlled the area south of the Hindu Kush, and during this period Hinduism and Buddhism prevailed. Their decline began 60 years after Ashoka's rule ended, leading to the Hellenistic reconquest of the region by the Greco-Bactrians. Much of it soon broke away from the Greco-Bactrians and became part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom. The Indo-Greeks had been defeated and expelled by the Indo-Scythians in the late 2nd century BCE. Much of Afghanistan has been influenced by Buddhist, Hindu and Zoroastrian cultures until the arrival of Islam in the 7th century. But despite many Afghans converting to Islam, the Muslims and Hindus lived side by side. Many of the kingdoms that ruled over present-day Afghanistan between the 8th century BCE and the 10th century A.D like the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Mauryan Empire, Indo-Scythians, Huns and at last the Kabul Shahis were made up of adherents of Greek polytheism, Zoroastrianism (Mainly in the Northwest) and Buddhism-Hinduism (Mainly in the Southeast).
Between the 10th century to the mid 18th century, northern India has been invaded by a number of invaders based in what today is Afghanistan. Among them were the Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Khaljis, Suris, Mughals and Durranis. During these eras, especially during the Mughal period (1526–1858), many Afghans began immigrating to India due to political unrest in their regions.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Khan Sahib were prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement and active supporters of the Indian National Congress. Although the NWFP became part of Pakistan in 1947, active Pashtun support for the Indian freedom struggle led to great sympathy in India for the cause of Pashtun autonomy and freedom. The Indian government continued to support Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in lobbying for greater Pashtun freedom in the NWFP. Indians are working in various construction projects, as part of India's rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, although the Indian intelligence agency RAW is accused by countries such as Pakistan of working to malign Pakistan and train & support insurgents. These workers are estimated to be anywhere between 3,000 and 4,000. Indian nationals stationed in Afghanistan have often faced continuous security threats in the country, with kidnappings and many attacks (such as the February 2010 Kabul attack) deliberately carried out on them.
In January 1950, a five-year Treaty of Friendship was signed between the two countries in New Delhi. Other than affirming "everlasting peace and friendship between the two Governments", the treaty provided for establishment of diplomatic and consular posts in each other's territories.
India recognized the new Republic of Afghanistan on July 19, 1973. Indian foreign minister Swaran Singh visited Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan in October that year, and Khan visited India in March 1975. On July 7, 1974, the two countries signed a trade protocol.
Soviet occupation to Taliban regime
India was the only south Asian nation to recognise the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union's military presence in Afghan territories, and provided humanitarian aid to President Najibullah's Government in Afghanistan. Following the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces from Afghanistan in 1989, India continued to support Najibullah's government with humanitarian aid. After its fall, India together with the international community supported the coalition government that took control, but relations and contacts ended with the outbreak of another civil war, which brought to power the Taliban, an Islamist militia supported by Pakistan. The Taliban regime was recognized only by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha monuments by the Taliban led to outrage and angry protests by India. Similarly the Taliban's move in 2001 to require Afghan Hindus to wear identification patches, reminiscent of Nazi policies, was heavily criticised by India. In 1999, the hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 landed and stayed in Kandahar in Afghanistan and the Taliban were suspected of supporting them.
India became one of the key supporters of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.
Since 2001
During the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, India offered intelligence and other forms of support for the Coalition forces. After the overthrow of the Taliban, India established diplomatic relations with the newly established democratic government, provided aid and participated in the reconstruction efforts. India has provided $650–750 million in humanitarian and economic aid, making it the largest regional provider of aid for Afghanistan. India's support and collaboration extends to rebuilding of air links, power plants and investing in health and education sectors as well as helping to train Afghan civil servants, diplomats and police. India also seeks the development of supply lines of electricity, oil and natural gas. Also to give Afghan students scholarships.
The Indian Army's Border Roads Organisation constructed a major road in 2009 in the remote Afghan province of Nimroz, connecting Delaram to Zaranj. This has proved a viable alternative route for the duty-free movement of goods through the Chabahar port in Iran to Afghanistan. Key to India's strategy in Afghanistan is to build up transportation links that bypass Pakistan, helping reduce the Afghan economy's dependence on Pakistan.
In 2005, India proposed Afghanistan's membership in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Both nations also developed strategic and military cooperation against Islamic militants. Owing to the killing of an Indian national by Taliban militants in November 2005, India deployed 200 soldiers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to provide security for Indian nationals and the projects supported by India. Afghanistan strengthened its ties with India in wake of persisting tensions and problems with Pakistan, which was suspected of continuing to shelter and support the Taliban. India pursues a policy of close collaboration with countries such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Iran in order to bolster its standing as a regional power and contain its rival Pakistan, which stands accused of aiding and abetting Islamic militants in Kashmir and other states of India.
Three memorandums of understanding (MOUs) for strengthening cooperation in the fields of rural development, education and standardisation between the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and Afghan National Standardisation Authority were signed between Afghanistan and India during Hamid Karzai's visit to India in April 2006. An agreement providing $50 million to promote bilateral businesses between Afghanistan and India was signed during the visit of the Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta between 29 June – 1 July 2006. During the same year, India raised its aid package to Afghanistan by $150 million, to $750 million. In 2007, Afghanistan finally became the eighth member of SAARC.
In July 2008 the Indian embassy in Kabul was attacked by a suicide car bomb – the deadliest attack in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. The bombing killed 58 people and wounded 141. Senior Indian Army officer Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was entering the embassy gates in a car along with V. Venkateswara Rao when the attack took place. Both were killed in the blast. The Afghan government's official position implies that Pakistan's ISI was involved in the attack. This position has found support in recent leaks of classified information by WikiLeaks. In the aftermath of the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul, the Afghan Foreign Ministry quoted India as a "brother country" and the relationship between the two as one which "no enemy can hamper".
During the 15th SAARC summit in Colombo, further pledges were made by India for ongoing and forthcoming projects. In August 2008, Afghan President Karzai visited New Delhi further strengthening bilateral relations.
On 18 October 2009, the Indian embassy in Kabul was attacked again by a car bomb, little more than a year after the previous attack. The attack killed at least 17 people. Another attack took place at the Arya guest house where Indian doctors were staying, resulting in the death of 18 people. India's pledge to rebuild Afghanistan has reached a total of $2 billion in May 2011 after Manmohan Singh arrived to Kabul for a two-day visit. In the same year India donated 250,000 tons of wheat to Afghanistan as part of humanitarian assistance program.
According to a 2010 Gallup poll, which interviewed 1,000 adults, 50% Afghans approved of the job performance of India's leadership and 44% disapproved with 6% refusing to answer. It was the highest approval rating of India by any other country in Asia. According to the survey, Afghan adults are more likely to approve of India's leadership than Chinese or U.S. leadership.
The September 2011 assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani was condemned by India, which stated that, "Tragically, the forces of terror and hatred have silenced yet another powerful voice of reason and peace in Afghanistan. We unreservedly condemn this act of great brutality," and reiterated peace efforts. India promised to stand by the people of Afghanistan as they prepare to assume the responsibility for their governance and security after the withdrawal of international forces in 2014. In October 2011, Afghanistan signed its first strategic pact with India. The military assistance would include training of Afghan security personnel. During his visit to India, Karzai told the media that "This strategic partnership is not directed against any country. This strategic partnership is to support Afghanistan." He also stated that "Pakistan is our twin brother, India is a great friend. The agreement we signed with our friend will not affect our brother." He also added that "However, our engagement with Islamabad has unfortunately not yet yielded the result that we want." Both sides launched a Partnership Council, as the apex body to implement the Strategic Partnership Pact in May 2012.
On 22 May 2014 the Indian consulate in Herat was attacked by 3 militants equipped with AK-47s, RPGs, hand grenades and suicide vests. "Our premises have been repeatedly attacked by those who do not support India's development work in Afghanistan. The attack will not dilute India's development assistance and its contribution to rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan," India's ambassador to Kabul Amar Sinha said at the time.
On 24 December 2015, India donated three Mi-25 attack helicopters (with an option to send one more in future) to Afghanistan as part of the bilateral strategic partnership to counter the Talibans. The next day, 25 December, Indian PM Narendra Modi visited Kabul to open the newly constructed Afghan parliament opposite the ruins of the Darul Aman Palace, which has been built by India for $90 million. Modi said "It will stand as an enduring symbol of the ties of emotions and values, of affection and aspirations that bind us in a special relationship". President Ghani tweeted "Though, India and Afghanistan need no introduction, we are bound by a thousand ties… We have stood by each other in the best and worst of times".
On 4 June 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani formally inaugurated the $290-million Salma Dam with a capacity of 42 MW power generation. Water from the dam will also serve irrigation purposes. The dam is expected to help Afghanistan capitalize on opportunities that will open up once the India backed Chabahar project, linking the port in Iran to Central Asia's road and railway networks, is completed.
On 15 August 2019, on Indian Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi extended greetings to Afghanistan who were due to also celebrate Afghan Independence Day, the 100th year, four days later.
While Taliban announced the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 2021, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is still internationally recognized.
Re-established Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Dozens of refugees from Afghanistan arrived in India following the takeover of a majority of the country by August 2021. India hosts about 16,000 refugees according to United Nations figures from 2020. There are approximately another 18,000 undocumented Afghan refugees. Following the return of the Taliban, a new category of visas to fast-track applications for Afghan citizens seeking entry into India was initiated. The evacuation has been codenamed Operation Devi Shakti ().
By 10 August 2021 India had closed all its consulates and shifted personnel to Kabul. Following partial evacuation of these personnel from Afghanistan, the Kabul embassy remained functioning with reduced capacity. The Kabul Embassy was evacuated on 17 August 2021.
Amidst a worsening humanitarian situation, India started sending aid to Afghanistan in December 2021. India will handover the aid, part of a larger regional and global effort, to the World Health Organisation present in the region. Land routes from India to Afghanistan are via Pakistan, and accordingly India-Pakistan have discussed necessary modalities. India's wheat diplomacy to Afghanistan continues its decade old practice to support the larger regional and global effort to reduce food insecurity in the country.
Economy
India seeks to expand its economic presence in Afghanistan as the international coalition was fighting the Taliban withdraws combat forces through 2014. A focus area was transport connectivity and economic collaboration with countries in Central and South Asia. India had already invested $10.8 billion in Afghanistan as of 2012. More such projects were likely to come up after NATO's withdrawal. This included setting up iron ore mines, a 6 MTPA steel plant (by SAIL—Steel Authority of India Limited), an 800 MW power plant, hydro-electric power projects, transmission lines and roads. India helped Afghans in the reconstruction of Salma Dam in the Herat province. Besides producing 42 MW power, this Indo-Afghan friendship dam provides irrigation for 75,000 hectares of farmland in the Chisti Sharif district.
India and Iran were set to ink a transit agreement on transporting goods to landlocked Afghanistan. The Indian government was investing more than US$100 million in the expansion of the Chabahar port in southeastern Iran which would serve as a hub for the transportation of transit goods. As a goodwill gesture, India had also constructed a new Parliament complex for the Afghan government at a cost of . This building was inaugurated on 25 December 2015. Since Pakistan had refused land access, India and Afghanistan had established two air corridors to facilitate bilateral trade.
Infrastructure projects in Afghanistan
New Parliament building
The foundation stone for the new Afghan Parliament was laid in August 2005 by the last king of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah, in the presence of Hamid Karzai and Manmohan Singh. India's Central Public Works Department (CPWD) was the consultant for the project and the contract was awarded to an Indian infrastructure company in 2008. The new Parliament building is corralled in a 100-acre plot in the famous Darulaman section of Kabul. It sits next to historical landmarks such as Amanullah Khan's Palace and the Queen's Palace.
The construction work on the $220 million dollar building was initially slated to be complete by 2012, in 36 months. The deadline, however, was pushed back due to challenging work conditions, shortage of skilled workforce and precarious security environment. More than 500 laborers had worked on the building, most of them Indian nationals. The main attraction of the building is a bronze dome of 32 meter diameter and 17.15 meter height is considered to be the largest dome in Asia. The big dome covers the assembly hall and the small dome is over the entrance lobby. In front of the building, there is a water body with nine cascading fountains. Inside the building, a 20-feet fountain, made of green marble imported from Indian city of Udaipur, has been installed.
On December 25, 2015, during a state visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new Parliament building was inaugurated along with President Ashraf Ghani.
Afghan-India Friendship Dam
Salma Dam, officially the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam project located on the Hari River in Chishti Sharif District of Herat Province in western Afghanistan. The Afghan cabinet renamed the Salma Dam to the Afghan-India Friendship Dam in a move to strengthen relations between the two countries. The hydroelectric plant produces 42 MW of power in addition to providing irrigation for 75,000 hectares of farmland (stabilising the existing irrigation of 35,000 hectares and development of irrigation facilities to an additional 40,000 hectares of land). The dam was opened on 4 June 2016 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
Military
Since 2011, around 700 Afghans train in India every year in institutions such as the National Defence Academy, Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy, Infantry School in Mhow and the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram.
Embassy and consulates
India in Afghanistan
India operated an Embassy in Kabul and consulates in Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif.
The Indian embassy and consulates in Afghanistan had been targeted by terrorists repeatedly.
India had evacuated its Embassy in Afghanistan four times.
Afghanistan in India
Afghanistan operated an Embassy in New Delhi and consulates in Mumbai and Hyderabad.
See also
Indians in Afghanistan
Afghans in India
Hinduism in Afghanistan
Buddhism in Afghanistan
Sikhism in Afghanistan
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
References
Further reading
" My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal" by Avinash Paliwal
Marsh, Brandon. Ramparts of Empire: British Imperialism & India's Afghan Frontier 1918–1948 (2016)
Pant, Harsh V. (2012). India’s Changing Afghanistan Policy: Regional and Global Implications. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.
India and Neighbors
India
Bilateral relations of India
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Giovanni Corrieri
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Giovanni Corrieri (7 February 1920 – 22 January 2017) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Corrieri won 7 stages in the Giro d'Italia between 1947 and 1955.
Corrieri died on 22 January 2017 at the age of 96 in Prato, Tuscany.
Major results
1945
Giro della Provincia Di Reggio Calabria
1947
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 12
1948
Tour de France:
Winner stages 18 and 21
1949
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stages 10 and 19
1950
Tour de France:
Winner stage 5
1951
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 9
1952
Sassari - Cagliari
1953
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 7A
1954
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 9
1955
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 7
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Official Tour de France results for Giovanni Corrieri
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2017 deaths
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Paul Muenzer
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Paul W. Muenzer (February 26, 1932 – October 14, 2014) was an American school administrator and politician who served as the 12th Mayor of the city of Naples, Florida, from 1992 until 1996. He has been credited with cleaning up the city's governments during his tenures as Mayor and a member of the Naples City Council. Muenzer, who was a former high school principal, was a member of the Republican Party.
Biography
Paul Muenzer was born in Elmore, Ohio, on February 26, 1932, to Frank and Marie Muenzer. He graduated from Elmore High School and obtained a bachelor's degree from Miami University. Muenzer, who grew to 6 foot 4 inches and approximately 280 pounds, played football for the Miami Redskins (now known as the Miami RedHawks) while in college. Meunzer then obtained a master's degree in education from Bowling Green State University.
Career
Muenzer began his career as a teacher at schools in Oak Harbor, Ohio, from 1954 to 1959 and Maumee, Ohio, from 1959 to 1969.
In 1969, Muenzer and his family moved from Ohio to Naples, Florida, to accept a new position as an assistant principal of discipline at Naples High School, where he worked from 1969 to 1973. He then served as principal of Gulfview Middle School, also in Naples, from 1973 to 1983. Muezner was eventually promoted to facilities planner of the Collier County School District, which he held from 1983 to 1988.
Naples city government
Muenzer resigned from his job with the Collier County School District in 1988 to run as a candidate for Naples City Council. At the time, the city council was considering a proposal which would have extended the city's commercial zoning area into Muenzer's Sixth Street North neighborhood. He decided to run for office after being denied the opportunity to speak on the issue at a city council meeting. According to his daughter, Mary Reeve, "By the time he walked from City Hall back to our house [from that meeting], he had decided he was going to run for council and fix things."
Muenzer was elected to the city council in 1988. During his tenure on the city council, Muenzer and other council members uncovered approximately one million dollars in Naples city funds said to be "forgotten" in an account in Jacksonville Bank. Muenzer also uncovered a pattern of bribery at City Dock in downtown Naples and discovered nearly 2,500 broken water meters in the city. The investigation and controversy surrounding the broken water meters resulted in the resignation of both then Naples Mayor Rudd Crawford and City Manager Frank Jones in 1991.
In 1992, Muenzer, a Republican, was elected unopposed as Mayor of Naples. In a 1996 interview with the Naples Daily News, he listed his attempts to crack down on crime in the River Park neighborhood of Naples as both his biggest accomplishment and disappointment as mayor. Mayor Muenzer and the city pressured rental property owners to make improvements by issuing code citations. He also partnered with landlords to strengthen the rules and punishments for tenants in the neighborhood's apartment buildings. His moves received some criticism, but Muenzer retained the new policies.
Paul Muenzer served one four-year term as mayor from 1992 to 1996. He retired from office in 1996 and was succeeded by incoming Mayor Bill Barnett. He declined ensuing offers to run for the Collier County commissioner, citing a desire to spend more time with his grandchildren and retire from politics.
In addition to city politics, Muenzer was a member of the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Board from 1988 to 1996, including a stint as its chairman from 1995 to 1996.
Muenzer died at his home in Naples, Florida, from pancreatic and liver cancer on October 14, 2014, at the age of 82. His death was announced during a Naples City Council meeting the next day. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several months before. He was survived by his wife, Barbara Muenzer; three children, Dean Muenzer, Mary Reeve and Joanne Muenzer; and three grandchildren. He was buried in the Naples Memorial Gardens.
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Mayors of places in Florida
Florida city council members
American school principals
American school administrators
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People from Elmore, Ohio
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Malik Gabdullin
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Malik Gabdullin (, ; 2 January 1973) was a Soviet-Kazakh philologist, professor, and writer. A veteran of the Second World War, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his bravery in battle.
Early life
Born on , in the village of Pukhalskoye (now in Zerendinsky district, Akmola region, Kazakhstan). Nationality – Kazakh. He is a direct descendant of Kanai Kuttymbetuly, a Kazakh biy, one of the leaders of the Kazakhs of the Middle Zhuz, a major commander, chief adviser to Abylai Khan and a public figure of the 18th century. Belonged to the Middle Zhuz, subgenus Karauyl of the genus Argyn. From the age of 14 he was brought up in the family of the famous Kazakh writer Sabit Mukanov.
After graduating from the Abai Kazakh Pedagogical Institute in 1935 he entered military service, where he remained until 1937. He then got a job at the newspaper "Socialist Kazakhstan", and later became deputy editor of the newspaper "Kazakhstan pioneer" before moving on to be a researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of the KazFAN of the USSR before returning to the Abai institute to begin his postgraduate studies.
World War II
In 1941-1945 he participated in the Great Patriotic War as part of the Panfilov Guards Division.
In January - March 1942, in the battles near the town of Kholm, Novgorod Region, Gabdullin led a group of soldiers. In a battle with the prevailing enemy forces, they knocked out 2 tanks with grenades, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy and captured 12 people. Gabdullin was wounded in battle, but did not leave the battlefield. For this feat, senior political instructor Malik Gabdullin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 30 January 1943.
Post-war career
After the war, he was engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities. Director of the Institute of Literature and Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1946-1951), Rector of the Abai KazPI (1953-1963), head of the folklore department of the Institute of Literature and Art named after M. O. Auezov of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1963-1973). The main topic of Malik Gabdullin's research is the heroic epics, folk songs, aitys, fairy tales, proverbs and sayings of the Kazakh people.
He took part in the preparation and publication of the multivolume history of Kazakh literature. His scientific work "Kazakh heroic epic" was awarded the prize named after Shoqan Walikhanov in 1972. Author of a number of works of the genre of fiction: «Мои фронтовые друзья» (1947), «Золотая звезда» (1948), «Фронтовые очерки» (1949), «Будни войны» (1968), «О друзьях, товарищах» (1969), «Грозные годы» (1971). Some of the works were published in Russian, translated by I.P. Shchegolikhin.
Gabdullin was a member of the CPSU since 1940 and was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd-4th convocations.
Gabdullin had a daughter, Maidan Malikovna, granddaughters Amin and Madina, great-grandchildren Malik, Jamilya, Ilyas and Maya.
Awards
Medal «Gold Star» (Hero of the Soviet Union) (30.01.1943)
Order of Lenin (30.01.1943)
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Patriotic War first degree
Two Order of the Red Star (17.01.1942
USSR medals
Memory
Malik Gabdullin is the hero of the story «Рождение эпоса» (The Birth of the Epic) published in the collection of war stories by Boris Polevoy « Мы - советские люди » (We are Soviet People) (1948).
By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 465 dated May 7, 1993 and the order of the akim of the Kokshetau region No. 1-39 dated September 4, 1995, the Malik Gabdullin Museum was opened in the city of Kokshetau.
On April 21, 1999, a school in the Karasai district of the Almaty region was named after Malik Gabdullin (before that, the school named after Nikolai Chernyshevsky).
In the cities of Almaty, Nur-Sultan, Kokshetau, Derzhavinsk (Zharkainsky district of Akmola region) there are Gabdullin streets.
In the homeland of Gabdullin in the village of Zerenda (Zerenda district, Akmola region), there is a street and a school named after Malik Gabdullin, as well as a three-meter monument
In the city of Kokshetau there is a school number 3 named after Malik Gabdullin
Kokshetau Technical Institute is named after Malik Gabdullin.
In 2015, in Kokshetau, on the eve of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the victory, a monument to Gabdullin was unveiled.
References
External links
warheroes.ru
Биография М. Габдуллина на сайте Государственной детской библиотеки им. С. Бегалина
Heroes of the Soviet Union
1915 births
1973 deaths
People from Akmolinsk Oblast (Russian Empire)
Military leaders of World War II
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Bring It on Home is a covers album by Joan Osborne, released under Saguaro Road Records on March 27, 2012. It was her first album in five years. The record is co-produced with guitarist Jack Petruzzelli and consists entirely of blues and R&B covers. The album also includes tracks originally made famous by American blues masters, such as Sonny Boy Williamson ("Bring It on Home"), Muddy Waters ("I Want to Be Loved"), as well as recordings originally released by some of the best-known R&B performers, including Ray Charles ("I Don’t Need No Doctor"), Al Green ("Rhymes"), and Otis Redding ("Champagne and Wine").
The first single was "Shake Your Hips", released in January 2012 on iTunes. Osborne toured to support her album in March 2012 and was slated to do so again in the spring of 2013. Bring It on Home was nominated for a 2013 Grammy award in the Blues category.
Track listing
Reception
The album was generally well received. Reviewer Steve Pick at About.com wrote: "Joan Osborne just gets better and better as a song interpreter, and this collection of blues and R&B just might be her finest recording to date." Thom Jurek was even more positive, writing at Allmusic, "This isn't a reverential recording; it's authoritative; she makes these songs her own. Bring It on Home carries Osborne's mature voice in a way that's never been heard from her before. Her abilities as an interpretive singer prove her an extension of these [blues and R&B] traditions, not merely a torch bearer for them."
Chart performance
References
Joan Osborne albums
2012 albums
Covers albums
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Pocola, Bihor
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Pocola () is a commune in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania with a population of 1,571 people. It is composed of five villages: Feneriș (Fenyéres), Petrani (Pontoskő), Pocola, Poietari (Kisfenyéres) and Sânmartin de Beiuș (Belényesszentmárton).
References
Pocola
Localities in Crișana
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Pi Fornacis
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π Fornacis (Latinised as Pi Fornacis) is the Bayer designation for a binary star system in the southern constellation of Fornax. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.360, which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye on a dark night. With an annual parallax shift of 11.08 mas, it is estimated to lie around 294 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an interstellar absorption factor of 0.10 due to dust.
This system is a member of the thin disk population of the Milky Way galaxy. The primary, component A, is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III. It has an estimated mass slightly higher than the Sun, but has expanded to more than nine times the Sun's radius. The star is roughly five billion years old and is spinning slowly with a projected rotational velocity of 0.9 km/s. Pi Fornacis A radiates 57.5 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 5,048 K.
A companion, component B, was discovered in 2008 using the AMBER instrument of the Very Large Telescope facility. At the time of discovery, this star lay at an estimated angular separation of from the primary along a position angle of . The preliminary orbital period for the pair is 11.4 years, and the semimajor axis is at least 70 mas. The orbit is highly inclined to the line of sight from the Earth.
References
G-type giants
Binary stars
Fornax (constellation)
Fornacis, Pi
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Courtney Webb
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Courtney Anne Webb (born 30 November 1999) is a cricketer and Australian rules footballer from Launceston, Tasmania. A right-handed batter and right-arm medium-pace bowler, Webb currently plays for South Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and for the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
Cricket
Webb made her WNCL debut for Tasmania in the first match of the 2017–18 season, scoring four runs with the bat and finishing with bowling figures of 2/28 in a seven-wicket loss to Western Australia. Ahead of the 2020–21 season, she declined to re-sign with Tasmania and instead accepted an offer to play for South Australia.
In February 2018, Webb was selected in the under-19 national women's squad, set to tour South Africa during April. She was named vice-captain of the 50-over team which played in a tri-series against South Africa Emerging Women and the England Women's Academy.
Women's Big Bash League
Webb signed with the Melbourne Renegades ahead of WBBL04. She debuted on 8 December 2018 at the Junction Oval in a six-wicket win against the Adelaide Strikers, though she was not required to bat. Her most significant contribution of the season came on 29 December at Docklands Stadium, when she scored 21 not out and helped the Renegades narrowly defeat the Melbourne Stars with one ball to spare. It was just the second one-wicket victory in the league's history.
The Renegades re-signed Webb ahead of WBBL05. She delivered a breakout performance on 17 November 2019 against the Sydney Sixers at Drummoyne Oval by scoring 34 not out, hitting a six off the final ball to clinch a two-wicket victory and earning Player of the Match honours.
Although her team struggled throughout WBBL06, Webb was again recognised as one of the league's rising stars—an unbeaten innings of 54 runs from 33 balls at Sydney Showground Stadium on 15 November 2020 helped secure a super over victory against the previously undefeated Melbourne Stars, earning her a second nomination for the Young Gun award. Webb's ability in the field also garnered attention, particularly after claiming a spectacular diving catch at North Sydney Oval against the Sydney Sixers which was praised by commentators as one of the best of the tournament. Capping off a strong campaign, she was named the Renegades' Player of the Season.
In June 2021, Webb re-signed with the Renegades for another two seasons.
Football
Webb played two matches for in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. After being passed over in the 2017 national draft, Webb was ultimately drafted by Carlton with their third selection and the 17th overall pick in the rookie draft. She made her debut during round four of the 2018 season in a 73-point loss to the at VU Whitten Oval.
In April 2019, Webb was delisted by Carlton. Despite injuries and the struggle to balance two sports, it was reported she would continue to play football at local level for Launceston and hadn't ruled out attempting to return to AFLW in the future.
References
External links
Courtney Webb at Cricket Australia
Courtney Webb at Melbourne Renegades
1999 births
Australian rules footballers from Tasmania
Australian women cricketers
Carlton Football Club (AFLW) players
Cricketers from Tasmania
Living people
Melbourne Renegades (WBBL) cricketers
People from Launceston, Tasmania
South Australian Scorpions cricketers
Tasmanian Tigers (women's cricket) cricketers
Sportswomen from Tasmania
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John Shurley (died 1631)
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Sir John Shurley (1568 – 25 April 1631) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625.
Shurley was the son of Thomas Shurley of Isfield, Sussex, by his first wife Anne Pelham, daughter of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton, East Sussex and Anne Sackville; and great-grandson of John Shurley (died 1527) who held the office of Cofferer to King Henry VIII. Sir George Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, was his younger brother. Through his mother he had a useful family connection to Elizabeth I: his grandmother was a first cousin of Anne Boleyn. He matriculated on entry to Hart Hall, Oxford on 22 June 1582, aged 14. He was a student of the Middle Temple in 1591. He succeeded his father in 1579 and was knighted on 11 May 1603.
In 1593 he was elected MP for East Grinstead, in 1597 for Steyning and in 1604 for Bramber. He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1616–17. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Sussex.
Shurley died at Lewes at the age of about 62. He had married firstly his cousin Jane Shurley, daughter of Sir Thomas Shurley, and secondly Dorothy Goring, daughter of George Goring of Danny House, Sussex and Mary Everard, and widow of the wealthy ironmaster Sir Henry Bowyer. Her husband praised Dorothy as being "the kindest of stepmothers" to his children by Jane. He was survived by five daughters from his first marriage but had no surviving son, and Isfield passed to his brother George's son Robert, and later by marriage into the Radcliffe family. Sir John's best known daughter was Jane (died 1666), who married as her third husband the leading statesman Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles.
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1631 deaths
Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford
Members of the Middle Temple
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High Sheriffs of Surrey
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Wire data
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Wire data is the information that passes over computer and telecommunication networks defining communications between client and server devices. It is the result of decoding wire and transport protocols containing the bi-directional data payload. More precisely, wire data is the information that is communicated in each layer of the OSI model (Layer 1 not being included because those protocols are used to establish connections and do not communicate information).
Relevance
Wire data is the observed behavior and communication between networked elements which is an important source of information used by IT operations staff to troubleshoot performance issues, create activity baselines, detect anomalous activity, investigate security incidents, and discover IT assets and their dependencies.
According to a March 2016 research note from American IT research and advisory firm Gartner, wire data will play a more important role than machine data for analytics in the future: "While log data will certainly have a role in future monitoring and analytics, it is wire data—radically rethought and used in new ways—that will prove to be the most critical source of data for availability and performance management over the next five years."
Real-time wire data streams are also important sources of data for business and operational intelligence teams. In these types of scenarios, wire data is used to measure order transactions for real-time reporting on transaction volume, success, and failure rates; tracking patient admission rates at hospitals; as well as reporting on the weights and measures of airplanes prior to take-off.
Distinction between wire data and system self-reported data
Wire data is distinct from machine-generated data, which is system self-reported information typically in the form of logs sourced from elements like network routers, servers, and other equipment. Unlike those forms of machine-generated data, which are dependent on the logging configurations of those devices, wire data is defined by wire and transport protocols. There is a small amount of overlap between wire data and machine-generated data but also significant differences. For example, web server logs typically record HTTP status code 200 responses, indicating that a web page was served to a client. However, web servers do not log the transaction payload and so would not be able to show which HTTP status code 200 responses were for pages with a “service unavailable” message. That information is contained in the wire data or transaction payload and is not logged by the server.
Examples of information derived from wire data
Structured transactional data passed over HTTP, including information encoded using SOAP/XML
SQL transaction details, such as errors, methods used, and stored procedures executed
Unique customer IDs, handset type, and credit-control details defined by AVPs and Commands contained in Diameter transactions
Cross-tier (web, database, storage, etc.) transaction metrics parsed by unique session IDs or other GUID
Correlation of network transfer time and server processing time
TCP mechanisms such as Nagle delays and throttling
HTTP metadata including user-agent, session ID, status code, and IP address
HTTP page content including page title, user ID, and transaction values
Methods of analyzing wire data
Traditional methods of capturing and analyzing wire data include offline network packet analyzers. Newer approaches receive a copy of network traffic from a port mirror (SPAN) or network tap and reassemble those packets into full per-client sessions and transaction streams, analyzing the entire transaction payload in real time and generating metadata on those transactions without storing the actual packets.
Bibliography
Will Cappelli, Gartner: "Use Data- and Analytics-Centric Processes With a Focus on Wire Data to Future-Proof Availability and Performance Management," March 2016
Will Cappelli, Gartner: “Data Growth Demands a Single, Architected IT Operations Analytics Platform,” September 2013
Will Cappelli, Gartner: “How ITOA Relates to Other Analytics-Driven Disciplines,” November 2013
References
Information technology management
Network performance
System administration
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Walter Lowrie House
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Walter Lowrie House may refer to:
Walter Lowrie House (Princeton, New Jersey), the official residence of the president of Princeton University
Sen. Walter Lowrie House, a historic home in Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania
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Dennis C. McCoy
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Dennis C. McCoy is a former American politician who served in the Maryland House of Delegates and was the chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation.
Background
McCoy attended Baltimore parochial schools and received a BS at University of Maryland in 1965. Three years later he graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law with a J.D. In 1973 he earned an MBA from Loyola College. McCoy Was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1968.
In the legislature
McCoy was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1974 and represented Legislative District 44 (D), Baltimore City until 1986. He was a member of the Ways and Means Committee, the Special Joint Committee on Transportation and chaired the Joint Committee on Clerks of Court. McCoy was also chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation from 1979 to 1986.
Past general election results
1982 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – 44th District
Voters to choose three:
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|Curt Anderson, Democratic
|17,692
| 30.4%
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|Anne S. Perkins, Democratic
|16,765
| 29.5%
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|Dennis C. McCoy, Democratic
|16,687
| 29.0%
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|A. Hairston, Republican
|2,528
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|Benjamin Jones, Republican
|2,390
| 3.9%
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|Armstead Jones, Republican
|2,281
| 3.3%
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List of territorial disputes
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Territorial disputes have occurred throughout history, over lands around the world. Bold indicates one claimant's full control; italics indicates one or more claimants' partial control.
Ongoing disputes between UN member/observer states
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Territory disputed between Canada and the United States
Oceania
Ongoing disputes involving states outside the UN
Ongoing disputes within a state by internal entities
Antarctica
The Antarctic Treaty System, formed on 1 December 1959 and entered into force on 23 June 1961, establishes the legal framework for the management of Antarctica and provides administration for the continent, which is carried out through consultative member meetings. It prevents new territorial claims of all signatories (except the U.S. and Russia) for as long as the treaty is in force. However, it is not a final settlement; parties can choose to withdraw from the System at any time. Furthermore, only a minority of states have signed it, and it is not formally sanctioned by the United Nations. Thus, Antarctica remains the only part of the planet any (non-signatory) state can still lay claim to as terra nullius (on the grounds of it not having been part of any existing state's legal and effective territory).
Historical disputes, subsequently settled
Africa
Americas
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
Notes
See also
Demilitarized zone
Dependent territory
Frozen conflict
List of border conflicts
List of countries and territories by land and maritime borders
List of sovereign states
Lists of active separatist movements
Neutral territory
List of administrative divisions by country
Territorial claims in the Arctic
Territorial disputes in the Persian Gulf
List of internal boundary disputes in the Philippines
References
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Territorial disputes
Territorial disputes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolotely
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Smolotely
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Smolotely is a village and municipality in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
References
This article was initially translated from the Czech Wikipedia.
Villages in Příbram District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Ball
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Doug Ball
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Doug Ball is a Canadian photojournalist.
Famous photos
Robert Stanfield's fumble. Doug Ball 1974 photo of Conservative Leader/candidate fumbling a football is said to have cost him (and the Conservative Party) the election. The Canadian Press sent the picture across Canada where the photo was played on many front pages.
Pierre Trudeau's pirouette. The 1977 photo show Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind an oblivious Queen Elizabeth II at a G7 summit Conference in London, England. This photo is arguably the most famous photo of Trudeau. "The picture, we have been led to believe, expresses his maverick anti-conformism, his democratic disdain for aristocratic pomp."
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Canadian photojournalists
Canadian photographers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Heinrich%20Schmelzer
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Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
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Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1623between 29 February and 20 March 1680) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 1630s, and remained composer and musician at the Habsburg court for the rest of his life. He enjoyed a close relationship with Emperor Leopold I, was ennobled by him, and rose to the rank of Kapellmeister in 1679. He died during a plague epidemic only months after getting the position.
Schmelzer was one of the most important violinists of the period, and an important influence on later German and Austrian composers for violin. He made substantial contributions to the development of violin technique and promoted the use and development of sonata and suite forms in Austria and South Germany. He was the leading Austrian composer of his generation, and an influence on Heinrich Ignaz Biber.
Biography
Schmelzer was born in Scheibbs, Lower Austria. Nothing is known about his early years, and most of the surviving information about his background was recounted by the composer himself in his petition for ennoblement of 1673. He described his father as a soldier, but in another document, the 1645 marriage certificate of Schmelzer's sister Eva Rosina, he is listed as a baker. Schmelzer does not mention his father's name, but Eva Rosina's marriage certificate does: Daniel Schmelzer. At any rate, it remains unclear where and from whom Schmelzer received primary music education. His activities before 1643 are similarly unknown–the composer is first mentioned in a document dated 28 June 1643, relating to his first marriage. He is referred to as a cornettist at St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna. The date of his arrival to Vienna is unknown, but he probably worked at the court chapel in the late 1630s, in the employ of Ferdinand II and, after 1637, Ferdinand III. Schmelzer's colleagues at the chapel included such distinguished composers as Johann Jakob Froberger, Giovanni Valentini, and Antonio Bertali.
Schmelzer was officially appointed court violinist in 1649. Our knowledge of his position, duties, and activities is incomplete. He apparently rose to prominence as a violin virtuoso, as well as a composer, and enjoyed a close relationship with Emperor Leopold I, who was a well-known patron of the arts and a composer himself. Schmelzer started publishing his music in 1659. He was appointed vice-Kapellmeister on 13 April 1671. On 14 June 1673, after the composer petitioned for ennoblement, the Emperor raised Schmelzer to the ranks of nobility; Schmelzer now added von Ehrenruef to his name. Eventually, after his predecessor Giovanni Felice Sances had died, Schmelzer became Kapellmeister, on 1 October 1679. Unfortunately, he fell victim of the plague early in 1680, and died in Prague, where the Viennese court moved in an attempt to evade the epidemic.
Four of his children are known: (26 November 1653 – 13 October 1701), a composer; Peter Clemens Schmelzer (28 June 1672 – 20 September 1746), a lesser composer; Franz Heinrich Schmelzer (born 27 June 1678), a Jesuit priest; and George Joseph Schmelzer (dates unknown).
Music
Schmelzer attained a high reputation in a field (violin playing and violin composition) which at the time was dominated by Italians; indeed, one traveler referred to him in 1660 as "the famous and nearly most distinguished violinist in all Europe". Schmelzer's Sonatae unarum fidium of 1664 was the first collection of sonatas for violin and basso continuo to be published by a German-speaking composer. It contains the brilliant virtuosity, sectional structure, and lengthy ground-bass variations typical of the mid-Baroque violin sonata.
Schmelzer was the foremost Austrian composer of instrumental music of his day, and had an important influence on the Austrian violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704), who is believed to have been one of Schmelzer's students.
Selected works
Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinando III, 1657
Duodena selactarum sonatarum, 1659
Sacroprofanus Concentus, 1662
Sonatae unarum fidium seu a violino solo, 1664
Die musikalische Fechtschul, 1668
150 suites, vocal works, and Christian music
Sacred music
Ad cocentus o mortales ad triumphos – SSATTB, 2 violins, 3 violas, 2 cornets, 2 clarini, 4 trombones, violone, bc
Compieta – SATB, 2 violins, vc, cornets, 2 trombones, violone, bsn, bc:
"Cum Invocarem"
"In te Domine"
"Qui habitat in adjutorio"
"Ecce nunc benedicite"
"Te lucis ante terminum"
"Nunc dimittis"
Currite, accurrite, caeli et terra – SATB, 2 violins, 3 violas, violone, bc
Die Stärke der Liebe (Sepolcro)- SSATT, 2 violins, bc
Hodie lux tua, sancti fulgebit – SATB, 2 violins, 3 violas, violone, bc
Inquietum est cor meum – SATB, 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, bc
Le memorie dolorose – SSATTTBB, 2 violins, 4 violas, 2 gamba, bc
Missa Dei patris benedicte – SSAATTBB, 5 violas, 2 clarini, 3 trombones, violone, bc
Missa Jesu crusifixi – SSAATTBB, 2 violins, 4 violas, 2 clarini, violone, bc
Missa Mater purissima – SATB, 3 violas, cornets, 3 trombones, violone, bc
Missa Natalis (Kyrie & Gloria) – SSATTB, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 clarini, 4 trombones, violone, bc
Missa Peregrina in honorem Sancti Rochi – SATB, 3 violas, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, violone, bc
Missa pro defunctis (Kyrie, Sanctus & Agnus) – SATB, 3 violas, bc
Missa Sancti Joannis – SATB, 2 violins, 2 violas, 3 trombones, violone, bc
Missa Sancti Spiritus – SSATTB, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cornets, 2 clarini, 4 trombones, bc
Missa Sancti Stanislai – SATB, 2 violins, 3 violas, bc
Missa Tarde venientium in honorem Sancti Wenceslai – SATB, 2 violins, cornet/trombone, violone, bc
Nos autem gloriari – SATB, 3 violas, vc, violone, bc
O Jesu summa charitas – SATB, 2 violins, 2 violas, theorbo, bc
Sileat misericordiam tuam, o bone Jesu – SATB, violin, 3 violas, violone, bc
Terra triumphans jubila – SATB, 2 violins, gamba, violone, bc
Vesperae brivissimae de beatissimae virgine et de apostolis – SATB, 2 violins, vc, cornets, 2 trombones, bsn, bc
"Dixit Dominus"
"Laudate pueri"
"Laetatus sum"
"Nisi Dominus"
"Lauda Jerusalem"
"Credidi"
"In convertendo"
"Domine probabasti me"
"Magnificat"
Vesperae solemnis pleno coro – SSAATTBB, 2 violins, 5 violas, 2 cornets, 2 clarini, 3 trombones, violone, bc
References
External links
Video
Sonata Quarta by Schmelzer, performed by Chatham Baroque
1620s births
1680 deaths
17th-century Austrian people
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
Austrian classical musicians
Austrian classical composers
Austrian Baroque composers
17th-century classical composers
Austrian male classical composers
17th-century male musicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent%20Capelluto
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Laurent Capelluto
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Laurent Capelluto (born 16 March 1971) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1999.
Filmography
External links
Living people
Belgian male actors
Magritte Award winners
Belgian male film actors
Belgian male television actors
21st-century Belgian male actors
1971 births
Belgian people of Italian descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Crews
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Bill Crews
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Bill Crews (born July 12, 1952) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Melbourne, Iowa, from 1984 through 1998. Crews came out at the LGBT Equality March on Washington, D. C. in 1993, where he attracted national attention as a result of hate graffiti on his Melbourne house.
Political career
Crews was an attorney working in the office of the Iowa state governor when he was approached to run for mayor, having moved to Melbourne just three months earlier. At the elections held the following year, Crews won all 57 votes cast. He was re-elected in the 1987, 1991, and 1995 elections.
During Crews' service as mayor of Melbourne, the city built a new fire station and library, improved water and sewer infrastructure and increased cash reserves.
Formerly a moderate Republican, he claimed "I was a Republican from before the fundamentalists took over the Iowa party. I believe in progressive, fiscally responsible government. I am now a registered Democrat. I'm pro-choice; I've always been."
Crews ran for the Iowa Senate in 1992 but lost by just 57 votes. After moving to the District of Columbia, Crews served two terms as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (SMD 6C07) in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Crews also served as the Zoning Administrator for the District of Columbia from 2005 through 2007. Crews was once again elected as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in 2010.
Personal life
Crews' father, a United Methodist minister who fought for social justice, was killed in a car accident in 1973. Bill Crews was also active in the United Methodist church after coming out, until 1998 when he relocated to Washington, D.C. with his husband.
Further reading
Ken Yeager, Trailblazers, Profiles of America's Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials (New York, 1999)
References
1952 births
LGBT Christians
Gay politicians
LGBT mayors of places in the United States
LGBT Methodists
LGBT people from Iowa
Living people
Mayors of places in Iowa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Could%20Be%20with%20Anyone
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I Could Be with Anyone
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I Could Be With Anyone is an EP released by Kevin Devine in support of his fifth album, Brother's Blood, and his winter 2008 tour with Manchester Orchestra. The title track is featured on Brother's Blood, while the other 3 tracks are exclusive to the EP. Both "She Stayed As Steam" and "What's Keeping Us Young" were previously available to stream on Kevin's MySpace page, however, the EP features a new version of "What's Keeping Us Young".
On June 5, 2009 the video for "I Could Be With Anyone" premiered on Spinner.com, featuring "a series of couples both real and staged in various stages of their relationships."
The title track was later covered by Manchester Orchestra on a split EP with Devine, entitled I Could Be the Only One. The band's lead vocalist Andy Hull describes the song as "...an incredibly real and painfully-depressing song. I've loved this tune since the moment I heard it."
A full band version of "She Stayed as Steam" featured as a bonus track on international version of Brother's Blood and would later be released as the title track of the She Stayed as Steam EP.
Track listing
I Could Be With Anyone
The Weather Is Wonderful
She Stayed As Steam (Demo)
What's Keeping Us Young
References
Kevin Devine EPs
2008 EPs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euseius%20rotundus
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Euseius rotundus
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Euseius rotundus is a species of mite in the family Phytoseiidae.
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rotundus
Articles created by Qbugbot
Animals described in 1973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%20Martins
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Jorge Martins
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Jorge Manuel Martins da Silva (born 12 August 1954), known as Martins, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Football career
Martins was born in Alhos Vedros, Moita, Setúbal District. During his professional career, which spanned nearly 20 years, he played for F.C. Barreirense, Vitória de Setúbal (three spells), S.L. Benfica, S.C. Farense and C.F. Os Belenenses, appearing in more than 600 matches as a professional, 310 in the Primeira Liga alone.
Martins was a participant at UEFA Euro 1984 and the 1986 FIFA World Cup, as a backup to Manuel Bento in the former – he was also his reserve during his two-year spell at Benfica – and third-choice in the latter behind Bento and Vítor Damas. He never gained a senior cap, however.
Honours
Primeira Liga: 1980–81
Taça de Portugal: 1980–81, 1988–89
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1980
External links
1954 births
Living people
Portuguese footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
F.C. Barreirense players
Vitória F.C. players
S.L. Benfica footballers
S.C. Farense players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
UEFA Euro 1984 players
1986 FIFA World Cup players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20County%2C%20Nebraska
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Franklin County, Nebraska
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Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,225. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was formed in 1867 and organized in 1871. It was named for Benjamin Franklin.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Franklin County is represented by the prefix 50 (it had the 50th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Geography
Franklin County lies on the south line of Nebraska. Its south boundary line abuts the north boundary line of the state of Kansas. The Republican River flows eastward through the southern part of Franklin County.
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.03%) is water.
Major highways
U.S. Highway 136
Nebraska Highway 4
Nebraska Highway 10
Nebraska Highway 44
Adjacent counties
Kearney County - north
Webster County - east
Smith County, Kansas - southeast
Phillips County, Kansas - southwest
Harlan County - west
Phelps County - northwest
Demographics
As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 3,574 people, 1,485 households, and 1,021 families in the county. The population density was 6 people per square mile (2/km2). There were 1,746 housing units at an average density of 3 per square mile (1/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 99.24% White, 0.28% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.08% from other races, and 0.34% from two or more races. 0.64% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 63.5% were of German, 6.8% American, 6.6% English and 5.7% Irish ancestry.
There were 1,485 households, out of which 28.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.40% were married couples living together, 6.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.20% were non-families. 29.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.87.
The county population contained 24.50% under the age of 18, 4.50% from 18 to 24, 23.60% from 25 to 44, 23.50% from 45 to 64, and 23.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 92.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.00 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $29,304, and the median income for a family was $34,958. Males had a median income of $26,192 versus $18,214 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,390. About 9.70% of families and 13.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.20% of those under age 18 and 9.40% of those age 65 or over.
Communities
Bloomington
Campbell
Franklin (county seat)
Hildreth
Macon
Naponee
Riverton
Upland
Politics
Franklin County voters have been reliably Republican for decades. In no national election since 1964 has the county selected the Democratic Party candidate (as of 2016).
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Nebraska
References
External links
Nebraska counties
1871 establishments in Nebraska
Populated places established in 1871
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus%20macracantha
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Crataegus macracantha
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Crataegus macracantha, commonly called large-thorn hawthorn and aubépine á épines longues, is a woody flowering plant native to North America. It is the most widespread North American hawthorn, and highly variable, so it has often been split into other species.
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macracantha
Plants described in 1838
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