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Mary Blood Mellen
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Mary Blood Mellen (1819–1886) was an American painter who was one of several individuals (including William Bradford, Benjamin Champney (1817–1907), and George Merchant Jr.) who studied under Fitz Henry Lane (also called Fitz Hugh Lane). Mellen is one of a number of women painters associated with the Hudson River School of artists in nineteenth-century New England. Her paintings often included landscapes and maritime images. Though she spent time in New York and Connecticut, Mellen lived primarily in Massachusetts, and many of her paintings find their source in the Massachusetts and Maine landscapes and seascapes. In 1840, she married the Rev. Charles W. Mellen, a Universalist minister at a number Massachusetts churches prior to his death in 1866.
As a copyist, Mellen created studies and copies of the work of her friend and mentor Fitz Henry Lane. According to Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, "When [Lane] called at her residence to see the latest copy of [one of his paintings], the [Lane] and the copy were brought down together..." evidently as a lighthearted challenge to Lane, to spot which was his original. As a talented painter in her own right, Mary created numerous compositions of her own as well. Her paintings include a landscape of the Blood family home (presumably her childhood home), a representative seascape entitled Shipwreck on the Beach (1870s), and a painting that portrays ships at sea as well as a pastoral New England countryside entitled Field Beach (c 1850s). Like Lane and others associated with the Hudson River artists, Mellen painted in the luminist style popular in mid-nineteenth century America.
Biography
Mary Blood was born to Reuben Blood Jr. and Sally Taylor a couple from Sterling, Massachusetts. Though she had two older brothers, Mary was the eldest daughter and there was a considerable gap of twelve years before the next of her four younger siblings were born. In Sterling young Mary would learn to paint in watercolors. Her talents must not have gone unnoticed, for within a few years she was studying at the Frye Academy in nearby Bolton, Massachusetts, a school established in 1823 by Thomas Fry (a local Quaker) as a co-educational preparatory school. An examination of census reports from those years indicate that Mary was something of an intellectual and artistic standout in the family. None of her siblings appear to have risen from the labor class of the day.
In the 1830s, the family relocated to Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, and by 1839 a young Universalist minister, Reverend Charles W. Mellen, would arrive to act as pastor in the neighboring town. Reverend Mellen came from a family of farmers from nearby Phillipston. He and Mary must have made one-another's acquaintance quite early, for in 1840, after just a year spent living in neighboring towns, the young pair married. Charles was an eligible bachelor at the time, and with the two only a year apart in age, Charles had the proper "taste and culture... to take a lively interest in [Mary's] efforts at oil painting...".
For the next few years Charles' itinerant ministering meant that the duo were more-or-less constantly on the move. In 1846, while living in Foxborough Mary gave birth to a daughter, Amanda. The infant would live for only 48 hours. The couple never had any other children, and Amanda's gravestone reads, "Our short-lived flower returned unto God."
It is unclear how the Mellens first became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, but by 1845 the young couple was living just south of Boston; a time when Lane's reputation in the city was growing considerably. Charles' brother William Grenville Rolland Mellen was also a Universalist minister, and during the late 1840s was acting as pastor at the Second Society of Universalists in Cambridge. It is likely that the couple would have spent time in the city socially, visiting Charles' brother. It is not difficult to imagine a woman with Mary's artistic and cultural inclinations taking advantage of the opportunity to explore New England's cultural Mecca. The Boston Athenæum would have been a likely destination. At that time it boasted the largest art collection in New England. Lane's work would have almost certainly been on display during those years, and it is possible that Mellen became acquainted with him first through his work in this way. The next few years involved more travel for the Mellens, including a brief stint in Glen Falls, New York.
In 1855 Charles' brother William was invited to become the minister of the First Universalist Church on Middle Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts. William moved with his wife and children to a small rented house near the eastern end of Main Street, an area which would have overlooked Lane's recently build granite house on Duncan Point. That same year, Charles and Mary resettled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. While most of Mary's surviving work is undated, the Lane paintings she copied generally date from about 1855 onward. Her brother-in-law's relocation to Gloucester that same year suggests that she may have begun taking regular excursions to Gloucester from Weymouth. While the details of their professional relationship are mostly undocumented, it is known that they had collaborated, as evidenced by a small 1850s painting entitled Coast of Maine, now in the collection of the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, which is signed by both artists on the backside of the canvas. Mellen and Lane are also known to have traveled together in 1859 to the old Blood family home in Sterling. Both artists painted a rendition of the scene, with the two paintings depicting a different season.
By 1861 the Mellens were living in Dorchester, Massachusetts, with a short commute to Gloucester. A few years later in 1864, the couple again relocated to Taunton, Massachusetts, roughly 40 miles south of Boston. The next two years proved a difficult time for Mary as she would learn of Lane's passing in 1865, and would also lose her husband unexpectedly in 1866.
Following her husband's death, she relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, moving in with her sister-in-law, also recently widowed. Census reports from this period reveal Mary's occupation as an "artist", a distinction that had not previously been made during her time painting with Lane. Widowed and childless, this may indicate the realization of her identity as an artist in her own right. It was, at the very least, her primary source of income during those years. She is known to have owned a number of Lane's paintings, and was still engaged in creating copies. However, there is evidence suggesting a unique body of work of her own, including a series of moonlight pieces, thought to either have been a series based on a lost and unknown Lane, or perhaps "her own creations done during a time of protracted mourning for the two men who played such significant roles in her life."
In the ensuing years she moved between Taunton and her family home in Sterling, where she succumbed to typhoid in 1886. Her death certificate again specifies her occupation as an artist and several obituaries commented on her skill as a painter and the popularity of her work. Her will, which was drawn up in 1882 specifies to which niece and nephew each of her original Lanes should go. She also specified that Lane's nephew Fitz Henry Winter should receive a painting by Lane, as well as a portrait of him that was in her collection.
References
1819 births
1886 deaths
19th-century American painters
Hudson River School painters
American women painters
American landscape painters
Luminism (American art style)
Painters from Massachusetts
19th-century American women artists
People from Sterling, Massachusetts
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Croydon Cenotaph
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Croydon Cenotaph is a war memorial, in Croydon, London, England. It is located outside the Croydon Clocktower arts complex (historically Croydon Town Hall), on Katharine Street in Croydon.
The cenotaph, made from Portland stone, was designed by James Burford ARIBA and was unveiled on 22 October 1921, to commemorate local victims of the First World War.
It is framed by two bronze statues of seated figures by Paul Raphael Montford, cast at the M. Maneti foundry. One depicts a soldier of the East Surrey Regiment, dressing his own wounded arm; the other a woman holding a child in her left arm and a letter in her outstretched right hand: her distress is evident, and "[w]e must presume that the news of her husband's perhaps fatal wounds has just reached her". The figure of the soldier was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1921.
The cenotaph's inscription reads:
The dates "1939 ⋅ 1945" were added after the end of the Second World War. The lines "AND IN MEMORY ... SINCE" were added in 1997.
The cenotaph was granted Grade II listed status on 19 November 1973, both in its own right and as part of a group of municipal buildings, legally protecting it from unauthorised modification or demolition. Its status was upgraded to Grade II* on 27 July 2017.
A roll of honour is kept in the library.
References
Cenotaphs in the United Kingdom
Paul Raphael Montford
East Surrey Regiment soldiers
World War I memorials in England
World War II memorials in England
Military memorials in London
Bronze sculptures in the United Kingdom
Grade II* listed monuments and memorials
Buildings and structures completed in 1921
British military memorials and cemeteries
Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Croydon
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Tiffin, Iowa
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Tiffin is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,512 at the time of the 2020 census. F. W. Kent County Park is located just to the west of Tiffin, and is a popular site for outdoor recreation in Johnson County, being noted for its lake, camping facilities, resident whitetail deer herd and wild turkeys, and its cross-country ski trails through rolling acres of oak and hickory forest.
History
Tiffin was platted in 1867. The name was a transfer from Tiffin, Ohio, the former home of Rolla Johnson, who owned the town site.
Geography
Tiffin is located at (41.706432, -91.661471).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,947 people, 800 households, and 488 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 848 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 92.0% White, 2.5% African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.5% from other races, and 3.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.6% of the population.
There were 800 households, of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.5% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 39.0% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.04.
The median age in the city was 31.2 years. 27.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 37.3% were from 25 to 44; 19.8% were from 45 to 64; and 6.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 975 people, 440 households, and 268 families living in the city. The population density was 326.2 people per square mile (125.9/km). There were 457 housing units at an average density of 152.9 per square mile (59.0/km). The racial makeup of the city was 95.18% White, 1.95% African American, 1.33% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other races, and 1.03% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.36% of the population.
There were 441 households, out of which 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.9% were non-families. 29.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.75.
23.1% are under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 40.8% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $42,381, and the median income for a family was $47,969. Males had a median income of $30,857 versus $25,542 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,222. About 3.7% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under age 18 and 7.0% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Tiffin is a part of the Clear Creek–Amana Community School District and houses Tiffin Elementary School, Clear Creek–Amana Middle School, and Clear Creek–Amana High School.
References
External links
City website
Cities in Johnson County, Iowa
Cities in Iowa
Iowa City metropolitan area
1867 establishments in Iowa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Hotel%20Budapest
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Continental Hotel Budapest
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The Continental Hotel is a hotel in Budapest, Hungary. The hotel is located on the corner of Nyár and Dohány streets, near the old Jewish quarter and the Klauzál Square market.
History
The history of Continental Hotel dates to the early 20th century, when the first baths were built on site in 1827, then washed away in the Great Flood of 1838, but the building which still remains standing dates back to 1910. The current premises of the hotel used to be home of the former Hungaria Bath, one of the most important spas of Pest and later to those of Budapest, and to the contemporary Continental Hotel which was opened in the Nyár utca wing. In 1970, Continental Hotel closed its doors and during the 1980s the building which served as a hotel and spa for many years in the past, became in a perilous state. Then after many years of negotiations and controversies of demolishing the building, in the summer of 2004, the National Office of Cultural Heritage ordered the interim protection of buildings at risk in the area of the former Pest Jewish ghetto, including the Hungária Bath. On February 7, 2005 the remaining section of the spa was declared a listed building. Finally, on April 7, 2009, after years of neglect, ZeinaHotel Ltd promoted a 50 million Euro construction project to revive the accommodation.
Location
Continental Hotel is located in the heart of Budapest, near the junction of Nagykörút (Grand Boulevard) and Rákóczi út.
References
New hotel for BudapestTagungsWirtshaft Online November 3, 2009.
Work on new 4-star hotel moves aheadBudapest Times October 26, 2009 - November 1, 2009.
HUNGARY: Continental Hotel Zara Opening June 2010I&Mi October 2009.
External links
Continental Hotel Budapest Website
Hotels in Budapest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdatomis%20dognini
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Rhabdatomis dognini
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Rhabdatomis dognini is a moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by William D. Field in 1964. It is found in Mexico.
References
Moths described in 1964
Cisthenina
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Sebastian Mai
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Sebastian Mai (born 10 December 1993) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for side Dynamo Dresden.
Career
Mai began his career with Dynamo Dresden, before joining Chemnitzer FC in 2013. He made his 3. Liga debut for the club in October 2013, as a substitute for Kolja Pusch in a 1–0 defeat to Wacker Burghausen. At the end of the 2013–14 season, he signed for FSV Zwickau, along with team-mate Toni Wachsmuth.
Mai rejoined Dynamo Dresden on a free transfer in the summer of 2020, signing a two-year contract with the club.
Personal life
His father Lars (born 1970) was a member of the Supervisory Board of Dynamo Dresden from November 2013 to September 2017. His younger brother Lukas is also a footballer.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Dresden
Association football defenders
German footballers
Dynamo Dresden II players
Chemnitzer FC players
FSV Zwickau players
SC Preußen Münster players
Hallescher FC players
Dynamo Dresden players
3. Liga players
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Apporasa
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Apporasa is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, the blues. The genus is monotypic containing only Apporasa atkinsoni, the crenulate oakblue. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Description
The following description is taken from Charles Thomas Bingham's Fauna of British India, Butterflies, vol 2, (1907).
Male
Upperside, forewings and hindwings: medially and obliquely crossed by a very broad pure white band that is broadly edged on its inner and outer margins by dark blue and does not extend on the forewing above vein 6, just above vein 3 it projects outwards for a short distance whence the inner margin of its dark blue edging is carried obliquely to vein 6; the extreme bases of the wings black; the costal margin of the fore and the terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings broadly black; on both wings a light iridescent blue suffusion from base outwards. Underside: snow white. Forewings and hindwings: the following jet-black markings: Forewing: two broad more or less parallel streaks from base extended obliquely to the costa, the outer of the two apically curved and on the costa coalescent with the inner streak; costal margin very narrowly edged with black; an anterior, postdiscal, outwardly oblique, short bar, slightly clavate (club shaped) posteriorly, extends between the costa and vein 5; opposing this there is between the dorsum and vein 3 a similar but erect and apically non-clavate bar; beyond these there is an inner and outer transverse complete subterminal series of spots followed by an anteciliary slender black line; the spots of the inner subterminal series quadrate, of the outer linear, the posterior two of the former very large; lastly, a single detached postdiscal spot in interspace 3 very close to the inner subterminal line of spots. Hindwing: a curved short basal band not extended to the costa, a spot touching it in the middle on the outer side and a discal transverse band twice widely interrupted, the middle portion shifted outwards, the lower portion with a spot on its outer margin joined to it; subterminal and terminal markings as on the forewing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen with a median longitudinal white line.
Female
Upperside: similar to that of the male but the median white transverse band across both wings broader, extended on the forewing up to vein 7 and with no inner edging of blue or iridescent light blue irroration (speckling); the black at the bases of the wings and on the margins not so intense in shade, more of a brownish black. Underside: ground colour and markings very similar, the basal two oblique bands on the forewing generally farther from one another than in the male.
Larva
"The caterpillar, which feeds on young shoots of Zizyphus jujuba, is of the woodlouse form but flattened. Its texture though apparently smooth is, if looked at with a lens, found to be thickly covered with white hairs: its colour is greenish white with a faint green dorsal band." (Davidson, Bell & Aitken.)
Pupa. "Similar in shape to that of Castalius rosimon, Fabricius, but smaller and narrower. It is of a bright apple-green with a darkish green line down the centre. There are some small red dots on the edges of the wing-cases." (Davidson, Bell & Aitken.)
Range
Manipur to southern Myanmar and Thailand.
See also
List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
References
Butterflies of Asia
Arhopalini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
Monotypic butterfly genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Franklin%20Hoover
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Charles Franklin Hoover
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Charles Franklin Hoover (1865–1927) was an American physician born in Cleveland, Ohio, who read medicine at Harvard. He worked in Vienna under Neusser, and in Strasbourg with F Kraus before returning to Cleveland. He was appointed Professor of Medicine in 1907. His main interests were in diseases of the diaphragm, lungs, and liver.
Two medical signs are named for him:
Hoover's sign (leg paresis)
Hoover's sign (pulmonary)
References
1865 births
1927 deaths
Harvard Medical School alumni
Physicians from Cleveland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Socialist%20Workers%27%20Party%20of%20Norway
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National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway
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The National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (, NNSAP) was a minor extraparliamentary political party in Norway. The party was founded in 1930, and dissolved in May 1940.
History
Ideologically modelled on the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), and espousing a pan-Germanic current, many members of the party, and notably the founder and first leader Adolf Egeberg had organisational and personal ties to the NSDAP and the SS. Founded as a Nazi "cell" in 1930, the party gained financing from Eugen Nielsen, publisher of Fronten, from 1932 until a schism in 1934 due to conflict over Nielsen's primarily anti-Masonic focus, with the party seeking to develop its national socialist ideology.
In early 1933 the NNSAP saw a surge of Oslo gymnasium students joining the party, and according to the rival communist Mot Dag movement the NNSAP briefly became the leading student organisation in the city. The party had around a thousand members at its height, but was quickly overshadowed by Nasjonal Samling (NS), which was founded by Vidkun Quisling in May 1933. Several of the party's original and early members, including Egeberg, as well as Egil Holst Torkildsen, Stein Barth-Heyerdahl and Eiliv Odde Hauge at some point left the party to join NS. The surge in the NNSAP had reportedly played a key role in pushing forward the formation of Nasjonal Samling itself, because Egeberg had allowed Walter Fürst to use the NNSAP's development and threats of contesting the 1933 parliamentary election as pressure against Quisling (then a member of the Farmers' Party), who initially hesitated to form a new party. The NNSAP was led by Yngvar Fyhn from 1935 until 1940, when he followed suit and joined NS.
Despite being modelled on the NSDAP, the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway has been described as a relatively loosely organised association. During the German occupation of Norway, former members of the NNSAP were considered to be the most able Norwegian agents for the German secret services. Many former members who later joined NS continued to be more pro-German, and less loyal to Quisling.
See also
National Socialist Movement of Norway
References
Political parties established in 1930
1930 establishments in Norway
Political parties disestablished in 1940
1940 disestablishments in Norway
Nazi parties
Defunct political parties in Norway
Far-right political parties in Norway
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Julia Le Duc
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Julia Le Duc is a Mexican photo journalist based in Matamoros, the Mexican town across the border from Brownsville, Texas. She has covered the American border crisis as a correspondent for La Jornada, and her photograph of the Salvadoran father and his 23-month-old daughter lying face down in the water of the Rio Grande after attempting to swim over to Brownsville became world news on 24 June 2019.
She claimed, "I was drawn to the girl's arm on her father... It was something that moved me in the extreme because it reflects that until her last breath, she was joined to him not only by the shirt but also in that embrace in which they passed together into death."
References
Living people
Mexican photojournalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20%28surname%29
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Prince (surname)
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Prince () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alan Prince (born 1946), professor of linguistics
Arthur Prince (disambiguation), several people
Ashwell Prince (born 1977), South African cricketer, first non-white man to captain the South African cricket team
B
Bevin Prince (born 1982), American actress
Bob Prince (1916–1985), American radio and television sportscaster, and commentator
C
Charles Prince (born 1950), American former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup
Christian Prince (1971–1991), American Alumni of Yale
D
Dania Prince (born 1980), Honduran regional center of Southern Honduras, and international beauty queen who has held the title of Miss Earth 2003
Darius Prince (born 1990), American football player
Derek Prince (1915–2003), Bible teacher whose daily radio programme reached a worldwide audience
Derek Stephen Prince (born 1969), American voice actor
Dawn Prince-Hughes (born 1964), anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist
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Epiphanny Prince (born 1988), American professional women's basketball player
Erik Prince (born 1969), founder and sole owner of the private military company Blackwater Worldwide
Eric Prince (1924–2003), English retired footballer
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Faith Prince (born 1957), American actress and singer
Frankie Prince (born 1949), Welsh former footballer
F. T. Prince (1912–2003), British poet and academic
G
Gerald Prince (born 1942), an academic and literary theoretician
Gina Prince-Bythewood (born 1969), American film director and writer
H
Harold Prince (1928–2019), American Broadway theatrical producer, and director
I
Isaiah Prince (born 1997), American football player
J
Jerome Prince (legal scholar), American attorney, academic administrator, and legal scholar
Jerome Prince (politician), mayor of Gary, Indiana
Jerry L. Prince, American engineer working at Johns Hopkins University
John Prince (disambiguation), several people
Jonathan Prince (born 1958), American actor, director, screenwriter, and movie producer
Josh Prince (born 1988), American baseball player
Joseph Prince, a pastor and IT consultant
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Karim Prince (born 1974), American actor
Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 1987), footballer
Kiyan Prince (1990–2006), English footballer
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Louis Le Prince (born 1841, vanished 1890), French inventor who shot the first moving pictures on paper film
Louis Le Prince (composer) (died 1677), French priest and composer
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Mary Prince (c. 1788–after 1833), slave born in Bermuda whose autobiography was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in the United Kingdom
Miguel Augusto Prince (born 1957), Colombian football manager and former player
Morton Prince (1854–1929), American physician who specialized in neurology
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Paperboy Prince, American artist, community activist, and politician
Percy S. Prince (1882–1930), American college sports coach
Peter Prince (born 1942), British novelist
Prairie Prince (born 1950), American rock drummer
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R. J. Prince (born 1995), American football player
Richard Prince (born 1949), American painter and photographer
Robert Prince (video game composer), video games music composer
Roland Prince, Antiguan jazz guitarist
Rolf Prince (1928–2017) chemical engineering professor
Ron Prince (born 1969), African-American college football coach
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Scott Prince (born 1980), Australian rugby league footballer
Sedona Prince (born 2000), American women's basketball player
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Tayshaun Prince (born 1980), American National Basketball Association player with the Memphis Grizzlies
Tom Prince (born 1964), American former Major League Baseball catcher
Tommy Prince (1915–1977), one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers
Fictional characters
Title character of the Franco-Belgian comics series Bernard Prince
Diana Prince, secret identity of the DC Comics character Wonder Woman
Eileen Prince, a witch and the mother of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter book series
Isambard Prince, main antagonist in seasons 3 and 4 of the TV series Lexx
Martin Prince, a nerdy elementary school student in The Simpsons TV series
References
See also
Price (surname)
Prince
Prince (given name)
Princess
Prinz
English-language surnames
Occupational surnames
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Raghunathganj II
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Raghunathganj II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Jangipur subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Jot Kamal, a census town in Raghunathganj II block, is located at
Raghunathganj II CD block lies in the Rarh region in Murshidabad district. The Bhagirathi River splits the district into two natural physiographic regions – Rarh on the west and Bagri on the east. The Padma River separates Murshidabad district from Malda district and Chapai Nawabganj and Rajshahi districts of Bangladesh in the north. The Rarh region is undulating and contains mostly clay and lateritic clay based soil. As the Rajmahal hills slopes gently down from adjoining Jharkhand it forms the Nabagram plain at the lowest edge of its elevation in this region. The eastern slope of the region is characterised by the existence of numerous cliffs and bluffs.
Raghunathganj II CD block is bounded by Suti I CD block in the north, Lalgola CD block and Shibganj Upazila in Chapai Nawabganj District of Bangladesh, across the Ganges, in the east, Sagardighi CD block in the south and Raghunathganj I CD block in the west.
Murshidabad district has a 125.35 km long international border with Bangladesh of which 42.35 km is on land and the remaining is riverine. There are 9 blocks – Samserganj, Suti I, Suti II, Raghunathganj II, Lalgola, Bhagawangola I, Bhagawangola II, Raninagar II and Jalangi - along the Bangladesh-India border.
The Rarh region or the western part of the district is drained by the right bank tributaries of the Bhagirathi, flowing down from the hilly / plateau region of Santhal Pargana division in neighbouring Jharkhand. The Farakka Barrage regulates the flow of water into the Bhagirathi through the feeder canal. Thereafter, it is fed with the discharge from the Mayurakshi system. About 1,800 km2 of area in the neighbourhood of Kandi town is flooded by the combined discharge of the Mayurakshi, Dwarka, Brahmani, Gambhira, Kopai and Bakreshwar – the main contributor being the Mayurakshi. Certain other areas in the western sector also get flooded.
A major problem in Murshidabad district is river bank erosion. As of 2013, an estimated 2.4 million people reside along the banks of the Ganges alone in Murshidabad district. Between 1931 and 1977, 26,769 hectares have been eroded and many villages have been fully submerged. 1980-1990 was a decade of erosion for this district and during the decade Giria, Sekhalipur, Khejustala, Mithipur, Fajilpur, Rajapur, Akheriganj, Parashpur villages were badly affected.
See also - River bank erosion along the Ganges in Malda and Murshidabad districts
Raghunathganj II CD block has an area of 140.91 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 6 gram panchayats, 117 gram sansads (village councils), 63 mouzas and 56 inhabited villages. Raghunathganj police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Giria.
Gram panchayats in Raghunathganj II block/ panchayat samiti are: Barashimul Dayarampur, Giria, Jotekamal, Kashiadanga, Laxmijola, Mithipur, Sammatinagar, Sekendra, Sekhalipur and Teghari I.
Demographics
Population
According to the 2011 Census of India, Raghunathganj II CD block had a total population of 265,336, of which 131,236 were rural and 134,100 were urban. There were 135,723 (51%) males and 129,613 (49%) females. Population in the age range 0-6 years numbered 46,739. Scheduled Castes numbered 23,242 (8.76%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 86 (0.03%).
As per 2001 census, Raghunathganj II block has a total population of 192,505, out of which 94,325 were males and 98,180 were females. Raghunathganj II block registered a population growth of 24.14 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 23.70 per cent. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.
Decadal Population Growth Rate (%)
Sources:
The decadal growth of population in Raghunathganj II CD block in 2001-2011 was 37.82%, the highest amongst all the CD blocks in the district.
The decadal growth rate of population in Murshidabad district was as follows: 33.5% in 1951-61, 28.6% in 1961-71, 25.5% in 1971-81, 28.2% in 1981-91, 23.8% in 1991-2001 and 21.1% in 2001-11. The decadal growth rate for West Bengal in 2001-11 was 13.93%.
The decadal growth rate of population in neighbouring Chapai Nawabganj District in Bangladesh was 15.59% for the decade 2001-2011, down from 21.67% in the decade 1991-2001.
There are reports of Bangladeshi infiltrators entering Murshidabad district.
Census towns and villages
Census towns in Raghunathganj II CD block were (2011 population figures in brackets): Giria (17,131), Mithipur (15,260), Jot Kamal (7,685), Osmanpur (10,512), Sahajadpur (23,280), Khodarampur (7,277), Donalia (6,081), Teghari (25,058), Krishna Sali (10,742) and Bara Jumla (11,074).
Large villages in Raghunathganj II CD block were (2011 population figures in brackets): Lal Khandiar (1,223), Giria Kismat (7,153), Sekendara (21,668), Mukundapur (4,009), Jot Sundar (4,207), Putia (4,984), Kul Gachhi (11,292), Jamra (4,692), Bahara (12,862), Kasia Danga (14,025) and Dighir Pahar (4,468).
Literacy
As per the 2011 census, the total number of literate persons in Raghunathganj II CD block was 133,722 (61.17% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 72,849 (65.03% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 61,233 (57.45% of the female population over 6 years). The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 7.59%.
See also – List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate
Language and religion
In the 2001 census, Bengali was mother tongue of 98.3% of the population in Murshidabad district, followed by Santhali 0.8%, Hindi 0.4%, Telugu 0.2% and Urdu 0.1%.
In the 2011 census Muslims numbered 217,502 and formed 81.97% of the population in Raghunathganj II CD block. Hindus numbered 47,403 and formed 17.87% of the population. Others numbered 431 and formed 0.16% of the population. In Raghunathganj I and Raghunathganj II CD blocks taken together, while the proportion of Muslims increased from 66.72% in 1991 to 67.39% in 2001, the proportion of Hindus declined from 33.20% in 1991 to 32.61% in 2001.
Murshidabad district had 4,707,573 Muslims who formed 66.27% of the population, 2,359,061 Hindus who formed 33.21% of the population, and 37, 173 persons belonging to other religions who formed 0.52% of the population, in the 2011 census. While the proportion of Muslim population in the district increased from 61.40% in 1991 to 63.67% in 2001, the proportion of Hindu population declined from 38.39% in 1991 to 35.92% in 2001.
Murshidabad was the only Muslim majority district in West Bengal at the time of partition of India in 1947. The proportion of Muslims in the population of Murshidabad district in 1951 was 55.24%. The Radcliffe Line had placed Muslim majority Murshidabad in India and the Hindu majority Khulna in Pakistan, in order to maintain the integrity of the Ganges river system In India.
Rural poverty
As per the Human Development Report 2004 for West Bengal, the rural poverty ratio in Murshidabad district was 46.12%. Purulia, Bankura and Birbhum districts had higher rural poverty ratios. These estimates were based on Central Sample data of NSS 55th round 1999-2000.
Economy
Livelihood
In Raghunathganj II CD block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 4,541 and formed 3.90%, agricultural labourers numbered 8,438 and formed 7.25%, household industry workers numbered 43,428 and formed 37.34% and other workers numbered 59,910 and formed 51.51%.
Infrastructure
There are 36 inhabited villages in Raghunathganj II CD block. 100% villages have power supply. 35 villages (97.22%) have drinking water supply. 12 villages (33.33%) have post offices. 25 villages (69.44%) have telephones (including landlines, public call offices and mobile phones). 18 villages (50.00%) have a pucca approach road and 6 villages (16.67%) have transport communication (includes bus service, rail facility and navigable waterways). 2 villages (5.56%) have agricultural credit societies and 4 villages (11.11%) have banks.
Agriculture
From 1977 onwards major land reforms took place in West Bengal. Land in excess of land ceiling was acquired and distributed amongst the peasants. Following land reforms land ownership pattern has undergone transformation. In 2013-14, persons engaged in agriculture in Raghunathganj II CD block could be classified as follows: bargadars 1,029 (4.17%), patta (document) holders 6,765 (27.41%), small farmers (possessing land between 1 and 2 hectares) 1,302 (5.27%), marginal farmers (possessing land up to 1 hectare) 7,150 (28.97%) and agricultural labourers 8,438 (34.18%).
Raghunathganj II CD block had 22 fertiliser depots, 1 seed store and 48 fair price shops in 2013-14.
In 2013-14, Raghunathganj II CD block produced 31,471 tonnes of Aman paddy, the main winter crop from 10,177 hectares, 384 tonnes of Boro paddy (spring crop) from 114 hectares, 141 tonnes of Aus paddy (summer crop) from103 hectares, 2,875 tonnes of wheat from 1,000 hectares, 32,052 tonnes of jute from 2,002 hectares, 83 tonnes of potatoes from 30 hectares and 160 tonnes of sugar cane from 2 hectares. It also produced pulses and oilseeds.
In 2013-14, the total area irrigated in Raghunathganj II CD block was 1,499 hectares, out of which 60 hectares were irrigated with tank water, 239 hectares with river lift irrigation and 1,200 hectares by other means.
Beedi industry
As of 2003, around 400,000 workers were engaged in the prime area locations of beedi making, a household industry, in Farakka, Samserganj, Suti I, Suti II, Raghunathganj I and Raghunathganj II CD blocks. The majority of those working are women and children. Almost all households are engaged in this activity.
See also – Beedi Workers of Murshidabad (in Hindi). Lok Sabha TV feature
Silk and handicrafts
Murshidabad is famous for its silk industry since the Middle Ages. There are three distinct categories in this industry, namely (i) Mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing (ii) Peeling of raw silk (iii) Weaving of silk fabrics.
Ivory carving is an important cottage industry from the era of the Nawabs. The main areas where this industry has flourished are Khagra and Jiaganj. 99% of ivory craft production is exported. In more recent years sandalwood etching has become more popular than ivory carving. Bell metal and Brass utensils are manufactured in large quantities at Khagra, Berhampore, Kandi and Jangipur.
Banking
In 2013-14, Raghunathgaj II CD block had offices of 8 commercial banks and 2 gramin banks.
Backward Regions Grant Fund
Murshidabad district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the Backward Regions Grant Fund. The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. As of 2012, 272 districts across the country were listed under this scheme. The list includes 11 districts of West Bengal.
Transport
Raghunathganj II CD block has 5 ferry services and 2 originating/ terminating bus routes.
State Highway 11A, running from Raghunathganj to Bhagawangola passes through this CD block.
Education
In 2013-14, Raghunathganj II CD block had 97 primary schools with 16,519 students, 13 middle schools with 1,511 students, 3 high schools with 4,600 students and 8 higher secondary schools with 20,430 students. Raghunathganj II CD block had 407 institutions special and non-formal education with 24,104 students.
In Raghunathganj II CD block, amongst the 36 inhabited villages, 3 villages did not have a school, 22 villages have more than 1 primary school, 21 villages have at least 1 primary and 1 middle school and 7 villages had at least 1 middle and 1 secondary school.
Healthcare
In 2014, Raghunathganj II CD block had 1 block primary health centre and 1 primary health centre with total 25 beds and 6 doctors (excluding private bodies). It had 28 family welfare subcentres. 6,683 patients were treated indoor and 107,434 patients were treated outdoor in the hospitals, health centres and subcentres of the CD Block.
Raghunathganj II CD block has Teghari Block Primary Health Centre (with 10 beds) at Teghari and Mohammadpur Primary Health Centre at Adikantapur (with 10 beds). The Subdivisional Hospital at Jangipur (with 250 beds) is outside the CD block.
Raghunathganj II CD block is one of the areas of Murshidabad district where ground water is affected by a high level of arsenic contamination. The WHO guideline for arsenic in drinking water is 10 mg/ litre, and the Indian Standard value is 50 mg/ litre. All but one of the 26 blocks of Murshidabad district have arsenic contamination above the WHO level, all but two of the blocks have arsenic concentration above the Indian Standard value and 17 blocks have arsenic concentration above 300 mg/litre. The maximum concentration in Raghunathaganj II CD block is 875 mg/litre.
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Community development blocks in Murshidabad district
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The Hi Rhythm Section was the house band for hit soul albums by several artists, including Al Green and Ann Peebles, on Willie Mitchell's Hi Records label in the 1970s. The band included the three Hodges brothers, organist Charles Hodges, bassist Leroy Hodges and guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, together with pianist Archie Turner (or Michael Allen) and drummer Howard Grimes (or Stax Records drummer Al Jackson Jr., on most singles until his death in 1975). Many recordings also used The Memphis Horns - Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love - of Stax fame, usually with Willie's brother James Mitchell arranging and (Perry) Michael Allen - piano (Alt). The recordings were made at producer Willie Mitchell's Royal Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Band history
The Hodges brothers began playing together in their father's band, the Germantown Blue Dots, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Leroy Hodges then formed his own band, The Impalas, and came into contact with Memphis trumpeter and bandleader Willie Mitchell. Younger brother Teenie Hodges, then an aspiring bass player, was unofficially adopted by Mitchell in the mid-1960s, and became a member of his regular band, soon joined by Charles and Leroy. Mitchell also recruited first Al Jackson, and later Howard Grimes, from the Stax house band, and used his stepson Archie Turner as an additional keyboard player.
In the late 1960s, Mitchell and his band cut back on their touring schedule, to focus more on studio work. The Hi Rhythm Section's distinctive, warm, swirling soul sound was a major ingredient in the success of the label through the 1970s. Three members of the Hodges family played guitar, organ and bass for the group; their naturally closeknit, familial warmth brought a unique, intuitive groove to the group's sound. Along with contributions by other outstanding contemporary 1960s and 1970s Memphis studio sessions bands, such as the Mar-Keys, the Packers, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the Hi Rhythm Section helped define the sounds of the classic Memphis soul music genre. By the mid-1970s, they had appeared on nearly 20 gold and platinum albums and countless chart hits for Al Green, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson, Otis Clay and others.
The Hodges brothers, with Grimes, recorded the 1976 LP On the Loose as Hi Rhythm.
The band dissolved after Hi Records was sold in 1977, but regrouped as a touring band in 1979. Through the 1980s and early 1990s, the Hodges brothers toured with singers Albert Collins and Otis Clay, and periodically regrouped with Grimes and Turner. Charles Hodges left in the 1990s, becoming an ordained church minister. In 1994, the album Perfect Gentlemen was released, featuring a fourth Hodges with the addition of Fred on keyboards as well as Percy Wiggins on vocals, issued on Velvet Recordings of America as by The Hodges Brothers.
Other band members still played together, sometimes with Jackson's cousin Steve Potts on percussion, providing their unique backdrops for Syl Johnson on the Delmark Records CD Back in the Game (1994), and the Mitchell-produced Al Green comeback I Can't Stop and its follow-up for the Blue Note label in 2003 and 2005. They also toured with Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, and featured on her 2006 album The Greatest. In 2016, the group was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
Canadian singer Frazey Ford recorded her 2014 album Indian Ocean songs "September Fields" and, "I'm Done", at the Royal Studio, - the Hi Rhythm Section backing her with their unmistakeable signature Memphis sounds.
The Royal Recording Studio in Memphis is now included on the same tour with the landmark studios of Stax and Sun.
Members
Teenie Hodges – guitar (died 2014)
Charles Hodges – organ
Leroy Hodges – bass
Howard Grimes – drums (died 2022)
Al Jackson Jr. – drums (died 1975)
Archie Turner – piano
(Perry) Michael Allen – piano (Alt)
James Hooker – piano (aka James H. Brown Jr.)
Discography
On the Loose (1976)
Perfect Gentlemen (1994) – recorded as The Hodges Brothers
Somewhere Out There (2012) - Deering and Down
I Can't Stand the Rain (1974) -Ann Peebles
References
External links
History of Hi Records
(Perry) Michael Allen
American instrumental musical groups
American session musicians
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Myiarchus is a genus of tyrant flycatchers. Most species are fairly similar looking and are easier to separate by voice than plumage.
Myiarchus flycatchers are fairly large tyrant-flycatchers at 16–23 cm (6.3–9 in) long. They are all partially crested with a brown to gray back and head, a rufous to blackish tail and yellow to pale underparts (only exception is the rufous flycatcher with rufous underparts). They typically forage by perching on an open branch and looking outward and downward for prey, which primarily consists of insects. Once it spots a potential meal, the flycatcher rapidly and directly flies at the insect, which is normally on the exposed upper surface of a leaf or twig. It hovers briefly before the insect before grabbing it in its beak and flying away to typically a new perch.
The genus contains 22 species:
Rufous flycatcher, Myiarchus semirufus
Yucatan flycatcher, Myiarchus yucatanensis
Sad flycatcher, Myiarchus barbirostris
Dusky-capped flycatcher, Myiarchus tuberculifer
Swainson's flycatcher, Myiarchus swainsoni
Venezuelan flycatcher, Myiarchus venezuelensis
Panamanian flycatcher, Myiarchus panamensis
Short-crested flycatcher, Myiarchus ferox
Pale-edged flycatcher, Myiarchus cephalotes
Sooty-crowned flycatcher, Myiarchus phaeocephalus
Apical flycatcher, Myiarchus apicalis
Ash-throated flycatcher, Myiarchus cinerascens
Nutting's flycatcher, Myiarchus nuttingi
Great crested flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus
Brown-crested flycatcher, Myiarchus tyrannulus
Grenada flycatcher, Myiarchus nugator
Galapagos flycatcher, Myiarchus magnirostris
Rufous-tailed flycatcher, Myiarchus validus
La Sagra's flycatcher, Myiarchus sagrae
Stolid flycatcher, Myiarchus stolidus
Lesser Antillean flycatcher, Myiarchus oberi
Puerto Rican flycatcher, Myiarchus antillarum
References
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Bathysauropsis is the only genus in the lizard greeneye family, Bathysauropsidae.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
Bathysauropsis gracilis (Günther, 1878) (black lizardfish)
Bathysauropsis malayanus (Fowler, 1938)
References
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The Bewdley by-election of 1869 was held on 11 March 1869. The Parliamentary by-election was called due to the voiding of the 1868 election of the incumbent MP, the Conservative Party's Richard Atwood Glass. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Cunliffe.
On petition Cunliffe was unseated and his liberal opponent Augustus Anson was declared elected. He was re-elected in the 1874 general election.
References
1869 elections in the United Kingdom
1869 in England
19th century in Worcestershire
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Worcestershire constituencies
Bewdley
March 1869 events
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Calamandrana is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Asti.
Calamandrana borders the following municipalities: Canelli, Cassinasco, Castel Boglione, Nizza Monferrato, Rocchetta Palafea, and San Marzano Oliveto.
People
Giulio Cesare Cordara (1704–1785), historian and writer.
Twin towns — sister cities
Calamandrana is twinned with:
Kisapostag, Hungary
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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WSHY is a radio station licensed to Lafayette, Indiana, United States, located at 1410 kHz on the AM dial. WSHY broadcasts at a power of 1,000 watts during daytime hours and 60 watts at night. The station broadcasts using a two-tower directional antenna 24 hours a day. WSHY is owned by Star City Broadcasting (a joint venture between Waypoint Media and Vision Communications) as part of a cluster with Fox/NBC affiliate WPBI-LD, ABC affiliate WPBY-LD, and sister radio stations WBPE, WYCM and WAZY-FM. All six stations share studios and offices at 3824 South 18th Street in Lafayette, with WSHY's transmitter also located at the site.
Until April 2013, it was a 24-hour-a-day simulcast of FM sister station, WBPE, 95.3 Bob-FM. The simulcast was broken precisely at the top of each hour for station identification and throughout the year for Purdue University women's volleyball, baseball, and softball broadcasts. Through the simulcast of WBPE, WSHY also carried Purdue University women's basketball.
History
WSHY first signed on the air as WAZY on November 28, 1959. It was joined by FM sister radio station WAZY-FM on October 1, 1964. Both radio stations were owned by WAZY Radio Inc., J.Edward "Ed" Willis was Owner, President and General Manager.
On March 1, 1970, ownership of both radio stations transferred to Radio Lafayette, Inc. (Group Owner: the Peoria (IL) Journal-Star newspaper) with F. Patrick Nugent serving as vice president and general manager. The radio station format was shown as Contemporary, simulcast on both AM and FM. By the 1975 Broadcasting Yearbook, WAZY was shown as programming a Contemporary/Top 40/Rock format.
By 1978, WAZY-FM had moved from the original 96.7 mHz frequency to 96.5 mHz, with a resulting increase in power from 3,000 watts to 50,000 watts. By 1980, WAZY-AM was being programmed separately from WAZY-FM. The format was Adult MOR.
Lightfoot Broadcasting acquired WAZY, now using the call letters WFTE on January 7, 1982. The format shifted from MOR to Country. The station also aired Notre Dame football games during this period.
On July 4, 1984, ownership of WFTE was transferred from Lightfoot Broadcasting to Lafayette's First Assembly of God Church. As a result, the format was flipped to Contemporary Christian music with a mix of Bible teaching, talk, and music. Callsigns were also flipped at this time to WCFY (We Care For You).
Artistic Media Partners acquired WCFY on September 30, 1998. Call letters were changed back to WAZY and the station launched with a News/talk format, which brought the format back to Lafayette 7 months after crosstown stations WASK-AM/FM dropped the format in favor of oldies.
As a talk station, "News/talk 1410 WAZY" carried programs such as Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, and Jim Rome. The station also carried a short-lived local talk program hosted by Rick Mummey. A live audio feed of CNN Headline News covered all other dayparts.
The news/talk format was short-lived. It lasted a little less than 2 years following very low ratings. In 1999, the format was dropped and 1410 kHz began simulcasting WAZY-FM's Hot adult contemporary format. In 2000, the simulcast with WAZY-FM was dropped and the station began simulcasting WGBD's alternative rock format.
Later that year, in September 2000, the station broke away from WGBD's simulcast to run an Adult standards format via Westwood One. A year later, 1410 WAZY changed network affiliations, but remained adult standards with Jones Radio Network's Music of Your Life. In August 2002, the callsign were changed to WLAS, but the format remained for about a month before the station flipped to a full-time simulcast of Artistic Media Partner's country outlet, WLFF, now WBPE.
On May 3, 2007, WLAS changed their call letters to WSHY and on December 6, 2007, the format was flipped to Adult hits to coincide with WLFF's flip to the format.
In August 2008, a local investment group headed by local media host, Jeff Holmes, acquired a limited marketing agreement of the frequency to bring the news/talk format back to the Lafayette market after a 10-year hiatus. "Newstalk 1410 WSHY" signed on quietly after stunting with C-SPAN Radio in late September 2008. Programs heard on the station at the time included Imus in the Morning, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Jim Bohannon, and George Noory. Newstalk 1410 also aired an hour of local talk programming in the afternoon drive initially hosted by Holmes called "The L-Town Hour" as well as a weekend oldies show. In 2009 while maintaining the talk format, the station's name was tweaked to "Fox 1410" due to their affiliation with Fox News Radio.
The news/talk format was short-lived, however. After only a year, the format and the LMA agreement were dropped and WSHY returned to the hands of Artistic Media Partners. At this point, WSHY's programming returned to a simulcast of WBPE (95.3 Bob-FM).
On April 1, 2013 WSHY split from its simulcast of WBPE 95.3 and changed their format to sports, branded as "Fox Sports 1410".
Artistic Media Partners sold its Lafayette stations to Star City Broadcasting, owner of WPBI-LD (channel 16), in 2016. The transfer to Lafayette TV, LLC was completed on January 3, 2017.
On July 23, 2018 WSHY changed their format from sports to news/talk, branded as "104.3 The Patriot" (simulcasting on FM translator W282CJ 104.3 FM Lafayette).
Programming
WSHY programs an entirely network-driven lineup from Salem Radio Network (Hugh Hewitt live and Dennis Prager and Mike Gallagher during the overnights) and Premiere Networks (The Glenn Beck Radio Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show and The Buck Sexton Show). Tony Katz's regionally syndicated show is carried in the late-night time slot.
Sister station WGGO in Salamanca, New York has shared WSHY's program lineup and branding since 2019, without Katz's show and with local commercials and weather forecasts inserted.
See also
WAZY
References
External links
FCC History Cards for WSHY
SHY
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Indiana
Waypoint Media
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Tambovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia:
Tambovsky District, Amur Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Amur Oblast
Tambovsky District, Tambov Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Tambov Oblast
See also
Tambovsky (disambiguation)
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Farley's Eatery & Pub was a restaurant in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, and was considered a staple of Scrantonian culinary culture. Farley's promoted itself as having "the best steak and seafood in downtown Scranton." Farley's Eatery & Pub closed in 2012 after 30 years of business. At the time it closed, it was described as one of the oldest businesses in downtown Scranton.
In recent times, it garnered fame from being mentioned on television series The Office. The series, set in Scranton, made reference to the restaurant in a 2005 episode in which it was suggested that the losers of an office warehouse basketball game would buy the winners dinner from the pub. Actor Steve Carell, who portrays Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom, said in the DVD commentary that he would personally fly to Scranton to "cut the ribbon" if Farley's were to place a "Michael Scott Burger" on their menu. The burger was later added.
References
External links
Farley's Official Website
Restaurants in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic states
Restaurants disestablished in 2012
Restaurants established in 1983
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Robert E. "Rob" Meyerson is an American aerospace engineer and executive known for his role in the development of reusable rocket launch systems.
Meyerson is the founder of Delalune Space, a management consulting firm providing advisory services to the aerospace, mobility, technology, and financial sectors. He is currently an Operating Partner at C5 Capital, the executive producer for AIAA ASCEND, and a board director or advisor to numerous organizations.
He is the former president of Blue Origin.
Career
Delalune Space
Meyerson is the founder and CEO of Delalune Space, a management consulting firm providing advisory services to the aerospace, mobility, technology, and financial sectors. He is also an operating partner at C5 Capital, executive producer for AIAA ASCEND, and board director or advisor to numerous organizations.
Axiom Space
In 2021, it was announced that Meyerson, an operating partner at C5 and former Blue Origin president, would be joining Axiom's board of directors and that Axiom Space had raised $130m in a new round of funding.
Meyerson stated that Axiom Space is a force in the space sector, and it would become a centrepiece of the C5 Capital portfolio and enhance the vision for a secure global future.
Blue Origin
Meyerson joined Blue Origin in 2003 as program manager later becoming the first company president. Working with company founder Jeff Bezos, Meyerson grew the company from 10 to 1500 people. Under Meyerson's leadership, Blue Origin developed the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, and the New Glenn system for orbital human and research flights, as well as the manufacturing and test capabilities that enable these programs. He also developed Blue Origin into a liquid rocket engine supplier, creating and selling the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine and the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine to other companies.
From January to November of 2018, Meyerson was the senior vice-president in charge of the Advanced Development Programs business unit.
Kistler Aerospace and NASA
Before joining Blue Origin Meyerson was a senior manager at Kistler Aerospace Corporation responsible for the development of the K-1 reusable launch vehicle, the landing, and thermal protection systems of a two-stage reusable launch vehicle, as well as all technical activities related to Kistler's Space Launch Initiative contract with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Meyerson launched his career as an aerospace engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) from 1985 to 1997 working [3] on human spaceflight systems, including the aerodynamic design of the Space Shuttle orbiter drag parachute, as well as the overall design, integration, and flight test of a gliding parachute for the X-38 Crew Rescue Vehicle, a crew return vehicle designed to return astronauts to earth from the International Space Station. Meyerson began with NASA in 1985 as a cooperative education student at JSC.
Personal, education, and awards
Originally from Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, Meyerson earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Houston.
Meyerson has been a long-time advocate for outreach programs that provide work experience and sponsors Blue's internship program, which has inspired and encouraged many university-level students to pursue careers in the aerospace industry. In December 2016, Meyerson gave the commencement speech at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
He is a trustee at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, a former member of the board of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and is a member of the Leadership Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan and a member of the Visiting Committee for the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at the University of Washington.
He is an AIAA Fellow, and a former member of the Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technical Committee. He was awarded the Space Flight Award by the American Astronautical Society in 2016. This award is given annually and is the highest award bestowed by the AAS.
Meyerson was inspired by the Apollo program and also by launching model rockets as a child. For his 5th birthday, he received a cardboard mock-up of the Apollo Lunar Module and remembers playing inside of it. He later found the ingredients for rocket fuel in a cigar box that had been placed in the rafters of his childhood home by his two older brothers.
Quotations
"Competition is a good thing (…) It keeps you sharp and it keeps you focused."
“Having the opportunity to grow a team from 10 people to more than 1,200 has been a very proud accomplishment for me. Hiring them, motivating and challenging them, developing them into engineers and leaders, and then watching them accomplish historic achievements has been uniquely satisfying and very special.”
“Start with passion for mission. Has the candidate demonstrated his or her passion for working in the space field? This is foundational, so no amount of judgment, intelligence, or experience can overcome a lack of passion for our mission.”
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People in the space industry
Living people
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Houston alumni
People from Southfield, Michigan
American aerospace businesspeople
American technology chief executives
NASA people
Blue Origin people
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Southfield High School alumni
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Huwiler Tower
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Huwiler Tower () is the smallest of the four outer town wall towers in the city of Zug (Switzerland). Its exact age is unknown, but cannot be later than 1524/25. The tower was known for a long time as the "Hof" tower, and was called that until it was acquired by a citizen named Huwiler (a.k.a. Huwyler) in 1697. Huwiler tower was part of the defense system and the city wall, but as Zug was actually never under siege.
In 1870 the tower was auctioned and purchased by a private owner. Today the Huwiler tower stands in the pleasant surroundings of the art museum gardens in the "Hof im Dorf" property, and of the newly laid-out "Daheim Park" formerly known as Huwiler's meadow. The Corporals' Association Zug (UOV) has been the tenant of the tower since 1974, and its members have lovingly and authentically restored it.
External links
Tower Site
The Huwiler Tower
References
Towers in Switzerland
Zug
Buildings and structures in the canton of Zug
Noble families
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Coșteiu-Chizătău Canal
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The Coșteiu-Chizătău Canal is a canal in Timiș County, western Romania. It diverts water from the river Timiș to the Bega. It is also fed by the small rivers Biniș and Glavița. It was constructed in 1757–1758.
References
Canals in Romania
CCosteiu Chizatau Canal
CCosteiu Chizatau Canal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20Combined%20Counties%20Football%20League
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1998–99 Combined Counties Football League
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The 1998–99 Combined Counties Football League season was the 21st in the history of the Combined Counties Football League, a football competition in England.
League table
The league featured 20 clubs from the previous season, along with one new club:
AFC Wallingford, joined from the Chiltonian League
Also, Netherne changed their name to Netherne Village.
External links
Combined Counties League Official Site
1998-99
1998–99 in English football leagues
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Bertrand's ballot theorem
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In combinatorics, Bertrand's ballot problem is the question: "In an election where candidate A receives p votes and candidate B receives q votes with p > q, what is the probability that A will be strictly ahead of B throughout the count?" The answer is
The result was first published by W. A. Whitworth in 1878, but is named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand who rediscovered it in 1887.
In Bertrand's original paper, he sketches a proof based on a general formula for the number of favourable sequences using a recursion relation. He remarks that it seems probable that such a simple result could be proved by a more direct method. Such a proof was given by Désiré André, based on the observation that the unfavourable sequences can be divided into two equally probable cases, one of which (the case where B receives the first vote) is easily computed; he proves the equality by an explicit bijection. A variation of his method is popularly known as André's reflection method, although André did not use any reflections.
Example
Suppose there are 5 voters, of whom 3 vote for candidate A and 2 vote for candidate B (so p = 3 and q = 2). There are ten possibilities for the order of the votes cast:
AAABB
AABAB
ABAAB
BAAAB
AABBA
ABABA
BAABA
ABBAA
BABAA
BBAAA
For the order AABAB, the tally of the votes as the election progresses is:
For each column the tally for A is always larger than the tally for B so the A is always strictly ahead of B. For the order AABBA the tally of the votes as the election progresses is:
For this order, B is tied with A after the fourth vote, so A is not always strictly ahead of B.
Of the 10 possible orders, A is always ahead of B only for AAABB and AABAB. So the probability that A will always be strictly ahead is
and this is indeed equal to as the theorem predicts.
Equivalent problems
Rather than computing the probability that a random vote counting order has the desired property, one can instead compute the number of favourable counting orders, then divide by the total number of ways in which the votes could have been counted. (This is the method used by Bertrand.) The total number of ways is the binomial coefficient ; Bertrand's proof shows that the number of favourable orders in which to count the votes is (though he does not give this number explicitly). And indeed after division this gives .
Another equivalent problem is to calculate the number of random walks on the integers that consist of n steps of unit length, beginning at the origin and ending at the point m, that never become negative. Assuming n and m have the same parity and n ≥ m ≥ 0, this number is
When m = 0 and n is even, this gives the Catalan number .
Proof by reflection
For A to be strictly ahead of B throughout the counting of the votes, there can be no ties. Separate the counting sequences according to the first vote. Any sequence that begins with a vote for B must reach a tie at some point, because A eventually wins. For any sequence that begins with A and reaches a tie, reflect the votes up to the point of the first tie (so any A becomes a B, and vice versa) to obtain a sequence that begins with B. Hence every sequence that begins with A and reaches a tie is in one-to-one correspondence with a sequence that begins with B, and the probability that a sequence begins with B is , so the probability that A always leads the vote is
the probability of sequences that tie at some point
the probability of sequences that tie at some point and begin with A or B
Proof by induction
Another method of proof is by mathematical induction:
We loosen the condition to . Clearly, the theorem is correct when , since in this case the first candidate will not be strictly ahead after all the votes have been counted (so the probability is 0).
Clearly the theorem is true if p > 0 and q = 0 when the probability is 1, given that the first candidate receives all the votes; it is also true when p = q > 0 as we have just seen.
Assume it is true both when p = a − 1 and q = b, and when p = a and q = b − 1, with a > b > 0. (We don't need to consider the case here, since we have already disposed of it before.) Then considering the case with p = a and q = b, the last vote counted is either for the first candidate with probability a/(a + b), or for the second with probability b/(a + b). So the probability of the first being ahead throughout the count to the penultimate vote counted (and also after the final vote) is:
And so it is true for all p and q with p > q > 0.
Proof by permutation
A simple proof is based on the beautiful Cycle Lemma of Dvoretzky and Motzkin.
Call a ballot sequence dominating if A is strictly ahead of B throughout the counting of the votes. The Cycle Lemma asserts that any sequence of A's and B's, where , has precisely dominating cyclic permutations. To see this, just arrange the given sequence of A's and B's in a circle and repeatedly remove adjacent pairs AB until only A's remain. Each of these A's was the start of a dominating cyclic permutation before anything was removed. So out of the cyclic permutations of any arrangement of A votes and B votes are dominating.
Bertrand's and André's proofs
Bertrand expressed the solution as
where is the total number of voters and is the number of voters for the first candidate. He states that the result follows from the formula
where is the number of favourable sequences, but "it seems probable that such a simple result could be shown in a more direct way". Indeed, a more direct proof was soon produced by Désiré André. His approach is often mistakenly labelled "the reflection principle" by modern authors but in fact uses a permutation. He shows that the "unfavourable" sequences (those that reach an intermediate tie) consist of an equal number of sequences that begin with A as those that begin with B. Every sequence that begins with B is unfavourable, and there are such sequences with a B followed by an arbitrary sequence of (q-1) B's and p A's. Each unfavourable sequence that begins with A can be transformed to an arbitrary sequence of (q-1) B's and p A's by finding the first B that violates the rule (by causing the vote counts to tie) and deleting it, and interchanging the order of the remaining parts. To reverse the process, take any sequence of (q-1) B's and p A's and search from the end to find where the number of A's first exceeds the number of B's, and then interchange the order of the parts and place a B in between. For example, the unfavourable sequence AABBABAA corresponds uniquely to the arbitrary sequence ABAAAAB. From this, it follows that the number of favourable sequences of p A's and q B's is
and thus the required probability is
as expected.
Variant: ties allowed
The original problem is to find the probability that the first candidate is always strictly ahead in the vote count. One may instead consider the problem of finding the probability that the second candidate is never ahead (that is, with ties are allowed). In this case, the answer is
The variant problem can be solved by the reflection method in a similar way to the original problem. The number of possible vote sequences is . Call a sequence "bad" if the second candidate is ever ahead, and if the number of bad sequences can be enumerated then the number of "good" sequences can be found by subtraction and the probability can be computed.
Represent a voting sequence as a lattice path on the Cartesian plane as follows:
Start the path at (0, 0)
Each time a vote for the first candidate is received move right 1 unit.
Each time a vote for the second candidate is received move up 1 unit.
Each such path corresponds to a unique sequence of votes and will end at (p, q). A sequence is 'good' exactly when the corresponding path never goes above the diagonal line y = x; equivalently, a sequence is 'bad' exactly when the corresponding path touches the line y = x + 1.
For each 'bad' path P, define a new path P′ by reflecting the part of P up to the first point it touches the line across it. P′ is a path from (−1, 1) to (p, q). The same operation applied again restores the original P. This produces a one-to-one correspondence between the 'bad' paths and the paths from (−1, 1) to (p, q). The number of these paths is and so that is the number of 'bad' sequences. This leaves the number of 'good' sequences as
Since there are altogether, the probability of a sequence being good is .
In fact, the solutions to the original problem and the variant problem are easily related. For candidate A to be strictly ahead throughout the vote count, they must receive the first vote and for the remaining votes (ignoring the first) they must be either strictly ahead or tied throughout the count. Hence the solution to the original problem is
as required.
Conversely, the tie case can be derived from the non-tie case. Note that the number of non-tie sequences with p+1 votes for A is equal to the number of tie sequences with p votes for A. The number of non-tie votes with p + 1 votes for A votes is , which by algebraic manipulation is , so the fraction of sequences with p votes for A votes is .
Notes
References
Ballot theorems, old and new, L. Addario-Berry, B.A. Reed, 2007, in Horizons of combinatorics, Editors Ervin Győri, G. Katona, Gyula O. H. Katona, László Lovász, Springer, 2008,
External links
The Ballot Problem (includes scans of the original French articles and English translations)
Bernard Bru, Les leçons de calcul des probabilités de Joseph Bertrand, history of the problem (in French)
Probability problems
Enumerative combinatorics
Theorems in combinatorics
Probability theorems
Articles containing proofs
Voting theory
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Arthur K. Smith
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Arthur K. Smith (born August 15, 1937) is an American academic. He served as the president of the University of Utah from 1991 to 1997. At the time of his appointment, he was the first non-member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to hold the position. He was previously the vice president for academic affairs, provost and acting president of the University of South Carolina, and vice president of administration of the Binghamton University. Smith is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (1959). He later attended the University of New Hampshire and Cornell University and earned a master's degree in comparative and international politics, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy. He entered the academic profession as a professor of political science at Binghamton. After serving as the president of the University of Utah, Smith then served a dual role as chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston from 1997 to 2003, and later returned to teaching, as professor of Latin American politics at the University of Houston.
References
Cornell University alumni
Chancellors of the University of Houston System
Presidents of the University of Houston
University of Houston faculty
1937 births
Living people
Binghamton University faculty
Presidents of the University of South Carolina
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DXCC-TV
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DXCC-TV, channel 10, is a television station of Philippine television network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios are located at Don Apolinar Velez St., Cagayan de Oro City. This station currently operates on a low powered signal.
See also
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
Television stations in Cagayan de Oro
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation stations
Television channels and stations established in 1968
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Miss Panamá 2011
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Miss Panamá 2011 the 45th Annual Miss Panamá pageant was held in the Atlapa Convention Centre, Panama City, Panama on Thursday 26 May 2011.
After 23 years, the Señorita Panamá pageant, organized by Medcom Corporation, was finally cancelled. A new organization took over in 2011 with the official name of the contest being "Miss Panama" directed by Marisela Moreno.
About 12 contestants from all over Panamá competed for the prestigious crown. Señorita Panamá 2010, Anyolí Ábrego of Veraguas crowned Sheldry Sáez of Herrera at the end of the event as the new Miss Panamá Universe. At the same event, Paola Vaprio Miss World Panama 2010 of Panamá Centro crowned Irene Núñez of Veraguas as ""Miss World Panama.""
The Winner competed in the 60th edition of the Miss Universe 2011 pageant, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Was also selected the Winner of the title Miss Panamá World, giving her the right to represent the country in Miss World 2011 was held in London on November 6, 2011.
Final Result
Placements
Special awards
On 5 May 2011, was celebrated the National Costume contestant called Descubre Tu Interior. The winner costume represent Panamá in Miss Universe 2011.
Special Awards
Presentation Show
At the Preliminary Competition all contestants competed in the Swimsuit and cocktail dress categories as part of the selection for one of the 5 finalists who will be revealed during the beginning of the two-hour live telecast of the Miss Panamá 2011 Pageant live on Telemetro. This Preliminary Competition also called The Runway and the Council of the Misses celebrated on 4 April 2011, where the former beauty queens were invited to observe the performance of all output gateway to choose only one candidate to consider now ready to join the Top 5 of the Grand Final. After hearing a question also, each of the jurors wrote in a paper the name of the region or province that is the candidate of your choice. That it was more options for the Council, would be selected the night.
Candidate choice: Sheldry Sáez - Miss Herrera
Preliminary Interview
Held on Wednesday May 25 to Miss Panama candidates were qualified in swimsuit and personal interview.
Judges
Amelia Vega - Miss Universe 2003 from Dominican Republic
Lorena Castillo de Varela, wife of vice president and chancellor of the Republic of Panama.
Dr. José Agustín Espino, plastic surgeon Organization official Miss Panama.
José Pablo Ramos, director of the National Lottery.
Andres Badra, commercial director MEDCOM.
Marina Rodriguez, Director of Renova Spa Hotel RIU Plaza.
Christian Serrano, representative Swarovski Elements
Contestants
These are the competitors who have been selected this year.
Historical significance
Herrera won Señorita Panamá for second time.
Panamá Centro & Veraguas placed again in the final round for consecutive year.
Los Santos returned to make the cut to the finals after two years 2009.
Election Schedule
Tuesday April 4 presentation Show.
Wednesday May 25 competition of interview with the juror.
Thursday May 26 Final night, coronation Miss Panamá 2011.
Candidates Notes
Marielena González Peña participate in the national pageant Bellezas Panamá 2009.
Tatiana Campagnani in 2010 she was part of the Cycle No.1 Miss Model of the World where she was selected as the Miss Model International.
Sue Eveling Guerra participate in the national pageant Miss International Panamá 2006.
Keshia Leis participate in the contest Miss Mundo Panamá 2010. She was the First Runner up.
Keity Mendieta won "Chica Modelo" (a model search) contest in 2008. On June 28 it was announced that she will represent Panamá in the 2011 Miss International pageant which was scheduled to be held probably in China in October, 2011. On November 6, Keity placed as 4th runner up in the Miss International 2011 pageant.
Sheldry Sáez in 2007, won the Wilhelmina Model Search Panamá. Sheldry Placed top 10 in the Miss Universe 2011 Pageant celebrated in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Marisel Medina participate in the contest Ford Model Super Model of the World Panamá.
Irene Núñez was Miss Tourism International Panamá 2009 and participate in the Miss Tourism International 2009 in Malaysia. She was Semi-finalists (top 10).
References
External links
Panamá 2011 official website
Miss Panamá
Miss Panama Facebook
Señorita Panamá
2011 beauty pageants
2011 in Panama
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Zecca
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Zecca, Italian for "mint", may refer to:
People
Adriano Zecca (1923–1983). Italian professional football player and coach
Alfredo Zecca (born 1949), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, former archbishop of Tucumán
Ferdinand Zecca (1864-1947), French film director
Jean-Michel Zecca (born 1968), Belgian-Italian presenter of Belgian TV
Other
Papal mint, located in Vatican City
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, the mint of the Italian Republic
Zecca of Venice
See also
List of mints
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Whitworth
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Whitworth may refer to:
Places
Whitworth, County Durham, a former civil parish in England
Whitworth Hall, County Durham
Whitworth, Lancashire, a town in England
Whitworth Art Gallery, an art gallery in Manchester, England
Whitworth Gardens, Manchester
Whitworth Hall, Manchester, part of the University of Manchester
Whitworth Park, Manchester
Whitworth Street, Manchester
Whitworth, Quebec, an Indian reserve in Canada
Whitworth Ridge, Prince Charles Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica
People
Whitworth (surname)
Whitworth Porter (1827–1892), English major general
Whitworth Wallis (1855–1927), first director of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Other uses
Whitworth rifle, a British made rifle used by the Confederacy in the American Civil War
70-pounder Whitworth naval gun and 120-pounder Whitworth naval gun, naval guns made on a similar principle
Baron Whitworth, two titles in the Peerage of Ireland
Whitworth University, a private, liberal-arts institution in Spokane, Washington
Whitworth Park Academy, a secondary school in Spennymoor, County Durham, England
Whitworths, a dried fruit, home baking and snack products company
British Standard Whitworth (BSW), a specification for screw fasteners
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Tom Langdon
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Thomas Langdon (born 9 June 1994) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
State football
Langdon played junior football with Prahran and with Glen Iris Gladiators, in the Yarra Junior Football League. He nominated for the 2012 AFL draft, but wasn't selected. The following season, he was named co-captain of the Sandringham Dragons. In 2013, Langdon played six games in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Sandringham and was named twice in the best.
AFL career
He was recruited by the Collingwood Football Club with the 65th overall selection in the 2013 AFL draft. He featured in all three senior pre-season games, averaging 15 disposals and 2.3 rebound 50s a game, followed by making his debut in the opening round of the 2014 season, against Fremantle at Etihad Stadium, where he was named as one of the best players despite the 70 point loss, tallying 24 disposals. In the seventh round, Langdon was selected as an AFL Rising Star nominee, following a best on ground performance in Collingwood's 34 point over old rivals Carlton when he collected 23 disposals. After the season, Langdon won the Harry Collier Trophy as Collingwood's Best First Year Player. He was also selected for the 22 Under 22 team, a feat he repeated in 2015. At the end of the 2018 season, both Sydney and Fremantle showed interest in Langdon, hoping to sign him, but in the end he signed a three-year contract extension with Collingwood. In the ninth round of the 2019 season, Langdon injured his knee halfway through Collingwood's 41 point win over St Kilda, Nine weeks later, after trying to rehabilitate, he underwent knee surgery, ruling him out for the rest of the season. A timeframe for his return wasn't determined by the pre-season of the 2020 season, and Langdon considered retirement. After not playing any games during the 2020 season Langdon announced his retirement at the end of November.
Playing style
Langdon can play as a defender or as a midfielder. He has a significant advantage when the ball is in the air due to his balance, game sense, and being able to read the ball in flight. He also has the ability to mark strongly overhead and a fluent kick.
Personal life
Langdon's younger brother, Ed Langdon, plays for Melbourne. Before being drafted to Collingwood, Langdon barracked for Richmond. In 2013, Langdon started studying business arts at Monash University. He is currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University.
Statistics
Statistics are correct to the end of the 2020 season
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2014
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
| || 8 || 22 || 0 || 5 || 248 || 213 || 461 || 110 || 70 || 0 || 0.2 || 11.3 || 9.7 || 21.0 || 5.0 || 3.2
|- style="background-color: #eaeaea"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2016
| || 8 || 5 || 2 || 1 || 49 || 47 || 96 || 16 || 13 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 9.8 || 9.4 || 19.2 || 3.2 || 2.6
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018
| || 8 || 23 || 1 || 1 || 229 || 229 || 458 || 130 || 58 || 0.04 || 0.04 || 10.0 || 10.0 || 19.9 || 5.7 || 2.5
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019
| || 8 || 9 || 0 || 1 || 70 || 91 || 161 || 45 || 18 || 0 || 0.1 || 7.8 || 10.1 || 17.9 || 5.0 || 2.0
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! 89
! 3
! 11
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! 814
! 1701
! 470
! 234
! 0.03
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! 19.1
! 5.3
! 2.6
|}
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
Collingwood Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Sandringham Dragons players
People educated at Melbourne Grammar School
Sandringham Football Club players
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Tahir, Beypazarı
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Tahir is a village in the District of Beypazarı, Ankara Province, Turkey.
References
Villages in Beypazarı District
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Baltimore Lead Paint Study
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The Baltimore Lead Paint Study was a controversial clinical study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in poor Baltimorean neighborhoods during the 1990s. The purpose of the study was to investigate the health effects of lead paint in children and the effectiveness of lower cost techniques in abating lead content in residential properties. Upon discovery of the study, the study ended at the turn of the millennium and met extensive criticism for issues regarding the target population, a significant portion of which were African American children, and patient ethics such as consent regarding children and health risks when exposing subjects to cheaper but less effective health conditions. The backlash culminated in class action lawsuits against KKI by Ericka Grimes and Myron Higgins, two of the subjects representing on the order of a hundred affected children without adequate care.
Background
Lead has a long history of being used in paint up until recently due to its role in maintaining a paint's color and increasing durability. Lead's toxicity was established as a valid concern that modern medicine in the early half of the 20th century could address with public health measures in the United States. In 1951, Baltimore was the first city to ban the use of lead paint in new housing, starting a move towards abating the amount of lead use at home. Twenty-seven years later, in 1978 the Consumer Product Safety Commission laid down a nationwide ban of lead-based paint for residential use in the United States.
The Kennedy Krieger Institute is a branch of Johns Hopkins that provides medical care, rehabilitation, and research, especially emphasizing research geared towards children with learning and physical disabilities arising from neurodegenerative disorders. Lead's effects on the nervous system manifests into reduced cognitive ability, especially in children. Once lead paint was made illegal, many properties that were painted with lead still remained, especially in Baltimore, eventually leaving the painted walls that were not properly remodeled to decay and thus allow lead to be released as chips or dust, increasing risk of ingestion for future renovators and inhabitants. Thus it became of interest to study how residential properties with lead could be removed, and inevitably how to abate lead without incurring high expenses for removal.
Study description
To investigate how well various techniques in abating lead content reduced the prevalence of lead poisoning in low income neighborhoods, KKI sought to treat properties with these different methods and observe how much lead accumulated in young children when living in these properties. In total, several housing properties were categorized into five levels of abatement. Starting in 1993, KKI helped landlords abate apartments partially or with less expensive techniques graded by these levels. In total, 107 properties were categorized into five groups by degree of repair made to the property. KKI also actively found new families to live in these apartments, bringing the total number of children evaluated to 140, and even offered incentives for doing so. To quantify the effectiveness of each level of abatement, the researchers measured lead content of homes and took periodic blood tests over a two-year period. If the repairs were effective, the lead concentration in properties with higher degrees of abatement or built without lead would be less than properties with less repair and the lead content in young children would not increase as much or at all. Follow up measurements were to be made every couple of years after to track how the lead concentration changed in children.
Aftermath
After the study ended, many poor, African-American children ended up with neurological disabilities as a result, often incurring permanent nervous damage. Therefore, the study was not beneficial for the children themselves in terms of their health. In addition to having to cope with the impacted health of their children, parents also felt deceived by KKI team by being shown housing without full details behind the lead treatment quality of the properties they stayed in. Thus, criticism was made that both the children and parents were exploited by the study. Comparisons were made to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study due to the similar affected demographic groups, in terms of race and class, lack of clear and explicit consent to participate in each study, lack of adequate care provided during each study, and the long-term, devastating impact of the study's condition on the subject's quality of life. Parallels between arguments on the implications and benefits of the research for each study followed suit, strengthening the idea that among other social and economic fronts, minorities also faced discrimination in the context of medicine.
KKI saw extensive repercussions over the study. A class action lawsuit for deliberate exposure and negligence was filed against KKI in 2001. The Johns Hopkins Internal Review Board was criticized for allowing the study to proceed in spite of federal regulations on using children as patients in studies. The defense argued that the study did not actually put the subjects at risk since the administrators of study only reduced lead content and collected blood rather than explicitly inducing lead poisoning in children and that the parents ultimately still had the choice to live elsewhere.
The study supposedly had some merit, mainly regarding the takeaways that could be made based on the results. The results brought the benefit of understanding that lead paint quality/condition was more harmful than concentration of lead in paint due to increased likelihood of ingesting paint or dust from decaying paint. The growing criticism raised the concern that if zero risk was required in public health research then many problems could not be rigorously addressed, leaving the public collectively at risk. It was argued by the defense that the target population itself would still have a higher chance of exposure to lead poisoning regardless whether the study was implemented or not. Therefore, any of the techniques that proved effective and low cost would benefit more of the population in the long run. Thus, risk exposure guidelines could be revised as a sort of compromise. The idea of minimal risk to the patient was revisited and questioned to what extent a study's procedure incurred risk, leading to changes in guidelines on how studies are conducted such as the degree of parental knowledge of study and more attention on current guidelines to avoid oversight of what minimal risk is acceptable.
See also
Lead abatement in the United States
References
Clinical trials
Health disasters in the United States
Human subject research in the United States
African-American history in Baltimore
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Castrisch railway station
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Castrisch railway station is a railway station on the Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér railway of the Rhaetian Railway in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It serves the village of Castrisch in the municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
Services
The following services stop at Castrisch:
RegioExpress: hourly service between and .
Regio: limited service between Disentis/Mustér and or Scuol-Tarasp.
Gallery
References
External links
Railway stations in Graubünden
Railway stations opened in 1903
1903 establishments in Switzerland
Rhaetian Railway stations
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Campus life at Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis has varied programs and events for students.
Student organizations
Washington University has over 300 registered undergraduate student organizations on campus. All are funded by WUSTL's student government, the Washington University Student Union, which has an approximately $3.6 million annual budget that is completely student controlled and is one of the largest student government budgets in the country. Known as SU for short, it sponsors large-scale campus programs including WILD (a semesterly concert in the quad), free copies of The New York Times, USA Today, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch through The Collegiate Readership Program; the Assembly Series, a weekly lecture series; and the campus television station, WUTV and the radio station, KWUR and Filmboard. The Office of Student Activities provides advisors, leadership training, counseling, and other support to the student groups on campus.
The university is home to one of the largest collegiate Relay For Life in the country, raising over $200,000 last year in total donations. Additionally, there are over 50 community service groups on campus such as a Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter.
There are 10 national fraternities and 8 national sororities on campus; there are also 8 national black Greek organizations which have citywide St. Louis chapters. 9 of the fraternities have houses on the Danforth Campus, while none of the sororities have houses by their own accord. Approximately 30% of Washington University students participate in Greek Life. Greek Organizations are governed by the principles of Arete, which focuses on Integrity, Loyalty, Philanthropy, Responsibility, Friendship, and Intellectual Curiosity.
Washington University Student Union
The Washington University Student Union is the undergraduate student government of Washington University in St. Louis.
Founded in 1967, Student Union carries out three major activities: representing student interests; registering, funding, and supporting student groups; and planning campus-wide events. It is divided into three branches: the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The Student Union Executive Branch comprises 5 elected individuals, who are the student body officials - the President, Vice President of Administration, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Programming, and Vice President of Public Relations - who are charged with managing and allocating the budget, being the point of contact with University administration, and leading and setting the direction for Student Union. The Legislative branch includes the Treasury and the Senate. The Treasury of the Student Union hears appeals for finances from various student groups. Approximately 300 student groups on campus are registered SU groups, utilizing a large portion of the over $2 million budget. Recent resolutions of the Senate include improving Wi-Fi capabilities, improving relations between Alumni & Development and the Career Center, adding new capabilities to student ID cards, forming a LGBTQA task force, requiring all professors to distribute course syllabi and midterm grade progresses, and increasing the minimum wage of university workers. The SU Judicial Branch includes a Constitutional Council comprising a Chief Justice, four Associate Justices, and one Alternate. The Election Commissioners also fall under the Judicial Branch of Student Union. SU also publishes Bearings, the unofficial student handbook, and its supplemental website.
Music
There is a large interest in A cappella music on campus, spawning groups such as After Dark, The Amateurs, The Aristocats, Deliverance, The Ghost Lights, The Greenleafs, More Fools Than Wise], The Mosaic Whispers, The Pikers, SensAsian, Staam, The Stereotypes, and Sur Awaaz. An umbrella organization known as ACAC (A Cappella Advisory Council) oversees auditions for its member groups each fall. Many of these groups are continually selected for national collegiate a cappella compilations, such as BOCA and Voices Only. The Stereotypes have also made it to the top 8 groups of the Midwest for the past three consecutive years in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella and represented the Midwest as its sole competitor at the International Competition at Lincoln Center in 2011 where they placed 4th and received the award for Outstanding Arrangement.
Another student-run music group, the Wash U Pops Orchestra (a.k.a. "WU Pops"), was founded in the '07-'08 school year in the spirit of traditional pops orchestras. It has grown significantly enough since founding to have spawned two chamber groups. The full orchestra performs at least once a semester, with the chamber groups performing many smaller gigs both on and off campus.
The university also has a Department of Music that, in addition to providing concentrated study for music majors, also provides instrument and voice lessons to students. There are also a number of instrumental groups and ensembles in which students may participate.
Other student organizations, such as the Social Programming Board bring in popular musical acts for Walk In Lay Down and lesser-known independent performers. Recent WILD performers include Karmin, Chance the Rapper, Wolfgang Gartner, and Matt Kearney.
Residential life
75% of undergraduate students choose to live on campus. Housing is guaranteed for a student for all four years if a student chooses. Most of the dormitories on campus are located on the South 40, named because of its adjacent location south of the Danforth Campus and its size of . It is the location of all the freshman dorms as well as several upperclassman dorms, which are occupied almost exclusively by sophomores. The majority of freshman dorms consist of double rooms; two double rooms share one connecting bathroom. Upperclass dorms are available in 4-person, 6-person, and 8-person suites and apartment-style units. All of the dorms are co-ed. In coming years, the university will be allowing upperclass students the option of mixed-gender housing, whereby any combination of males and females can live in the same suite if they so choose. The university is nearing the end of an era of replacing older residence halls with newer construction. In 2007, The Princeton Review rated Washington University in its top 20 list of schools whose dorms are "like palaces."
The South 40 is organized as a pedestrian-friendly environment where residences surround a central recreational lawn known as the Swamp. Wohl Student Center, the Habif Health and Wellness Center (Student Health Services), the Residential Life Office, Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning, University Police Headquarters, various student owned businesses (e.g. the laundry service, "Wash U Wash", and the baseball, softball, and intramural fields are also located on the South 40. Also in 2007, The Princeton Review rated the university as 4th on its rankings for Best Quality of Life for students.
There are nearly 20 dining locations on the Washington University campus. In addition to a Subway restaurant, nearly all locations are operated by the catering service Bon Appétit Management Company. The cafeteria within the law school is operated by Aramark Corporation, and the Einstein Bros. Bagels branch within Simon Hall is independently operated. The university is one of the few that offer an abundance of Kosher food items available at the majority of dining locations on campus. The dining facilities and quality of food are consistently ranked highly by The Princeton Review.
Residential Colleges
Residences on the South Forty ("the Forty") are subdivided into smaller groups: residential colleges ("res colleges"). A live-in university staff member—the residential college director ("RCD")—organizes social events within his or her residential college, comprising several houses, administratively a single unit. When originally organized, residential colleges consisted of a freshman dormitory and an upperclassman dormitory, though, currently, only five of the nine meet these criteria. Within each residential college, an elected group of students plans community-building activities and events. The Congress of the South 40 oversees the residential college Councils and plans a popular event "Residential College Olympics" each spring.
Residential Colleges include:
Wayman Crow (Howard Nemerov and Nathan Dardick Houses)
Robert S. Brookings (Arnold J. Lien and Kate M. Gregg Houses)
William Greenleaf Eliot (WGE) (Elizabeth G. Danforth, Ethan A.H. Shepley, and Butron M. Wheeler Houses)
Park/Mudd (Helen Ette Park and Mudd Houses)
JKL (Thomas G. Rutledge, Carl A. Dauten, and Shanedling Houses)
HIG (Herbert F. Hitzeman, Chester Myers, and Frank E. Hurd)
Thomas H Eliot (Thomas H. Eliot House and Eliot B Houses)
Lee/Beaumont (John F. Lee and Louis Beaumont Houses)
USoFo (Helen F. Umrath and South Forty Houses)
Liggett/Koenig (John E. Liggett and Edwin C. Koenig Houses)
Each Residential College includes the following amenities:
Residential College Director
Faculty Families - A professor that has an apartment inside the Residential College
Faculty Fellows/Associates - Faculty members who are paired with freshman floors. They have dinner with their floors weekly, make occasional visits and participate in floor programming
Residential Advisers - Junior and Senior student leaders chosen to serve as Peer Mentor, Advocate for Social Justice, Campus Partner, Programmer, Residential Life Team Member and Administrator. They complete hundreds of hours of training to learn how to serve their residents and maintain the integrity and cohesiveness of the community.
Residential Peer Mentors - Students who serve as tutors for large freshman classes (Calculus, Chemistry, Writing, Physics, etc.)
Washington University Student Associates (WUSA) - Upperclassmen who assist freshmen with the social transition to college
Residential Peer Health Educators - Upperclassmen who are trained to answer questions about, and implement programs to educate freshmen on the health transition in college
Residential Computer Consultants - Upperclassmen who are trained to fix common computer problems
Rooms - Freshmen are typically housed in suites of two doubles joined by a bathroom while upperclassmen live in suites of four singles joined by a common area and two bathrooms
Computer Labs - PC and Macintosh computer stations and print release stations (print charges are first deducted from budget given until exhausted and then from prepaid accounts called Campus Card Points)
Wireless Internet access throughout the dorms, in addition to wired ethernet and cable television hookups in each room
Lounges - Each floor in the residential houses has common lounges with couches, tables, small kitchens and televisions
Kitchens - Each residential house contains a full kitchen
South Forty Center
The South Forty Center is a mixed-use facility consisting of dining locations, a small auditorium, fitness center, convenience store, lounges, and residences on the upper floors. The dining location, known as Bear's Den, which includes stations such as the Cherry Tree Cafe (coffee and baked goods), Ciao Down (pasta and pizza), Grizzly Grill (burgers and other "American-style" food), WUrld Fusion (Indian inspired Global cuisine), L 'Chaim (fresh, Kosher meals), OSO Good (Mexican fare, such a tacos and burritos), and Sizzle & Stir (Mongolian-style stir-fry). The center also features convenience store, "Paws 'n' Go". More commonly known to students as "Bear Mart", the store serves as a miniature grocery store, selling snacks, drinks, fresh fruit and vegetables, and frozen meals, as well as baking goods. The area also features a soup and salad bar. The South Forty Center also houses the work-out facilities for the South 40, as well as Residential Life and Dining Services offices, and student residences on the upper floors.
North Side
Another group of residences, known as the North Side, is located in the northwest corner of Danforth Campus. Only open to upperclassmen and January Scholars, the North Side consists of Millbrook Apartments, The Village, Village East, and all fraternity houses except the Zeta Beta Tau house, which is off campus. Sororities at Washington University do not have houses by their own accord. The Village is a group of residences where students who have similar interests or academic goals apply as small groups of 4 to 24, known as BLOCs, to live together in clustered suites, as well as non-BLOC students. Like the South 40, the residences around the Village also surround a recreational lawn as well as its own student center.
Greek life
Washington University in St. Louis has eleven fraternities and nine sororities on-campus.
Washington University Interfraternity Council
The Washington University in St. Louis Interfraternity Council is responsible for overseeing the ten fraternities on campus, including:
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Kappa Sigma
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Chi
Sigma Nu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Theta Xi
Zeta Beta Tau
Washington University Women's Panhellenic Council
The Women's Panhellenic Council at Washington University oversees the eight member sororities that reside on campus, including:
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
A Cappella
There are 11 a cappella groups on WashU's campus, specializing in everything from contemporary rock and pop music to jazz standards and Disney songs. A cappella groups on campus include After Dark, The Stereotypes, The Amateurs, The Pikers, The Aristocats, More Fools Than Wise, The Ghost Lights, The Mosaic Whispers, The Sensasians, Staam, and the Greenleafs.
Honoraries
Lock & Chain Sophomore Honorary
Lambda Sigma
ThurtenE Honorary
Chimes Junior Honorary
Mortar Board
Luminescence Honorary
References
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Frieda is a 1947 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Mai Zetterling. Made by Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios, it is based on the 1946 play of the same title by Ronald Millar who co-wrote the screenplay with Angus MacPhail. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jim Morahan and Michael Relph.
During World War II, a German woman rescues an English prisoner-of-war. He decides to marry her, though he does not actually love her. Following the war, the couple settle in Oxfordshire. Frieda has to deal with both anti-German sentiment in post-war Britain, and with her unrepentant Nazi brother.
Synopsis
Frieda (Mai Zetterling) is a German woman who helps English airman Robert (David Farrar) to escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp as the Second World War nears its end. She loves him; he is only grateful to her. In a church between the Russian-German lines, however, Robert marries her, so that she can obtain a British passport. Together they eventually arrive in his Oxfordshire home. Frieda meets his family: his mother, his small stepbrother Tony, Judy (Glynis Johns), the attractive widow of Robert's brother, and Aunt Eleanor (Flora Robson), a figure in local politics and vehemently anti-German.
At first, the townspeople are bitterly hostile to Frieda, and Robert is forced to give up his job as a schoolteacher. Gradually, however, the ill will subsides, and she is accepted, except by Eleanor. Frieda is befriended by Judy, who, unknown to Robert, is now also in love with him. As Robert settles into a new life, working with Frieda on a farm, he begins to lose his prisoner-of-war heaviness. He sees Frieda in a new light. But then they see a film dealing with the horror of Bergen-Belsen and Frieda fears their marriage will not survive its revelation of her countrymen's cruelty. But Robert clings on to what they have established between them.
Suddenly, an ex-German soldier appears—Frieda's brother Richard (Albert Lieven). Thinking he had been killed, Frieda is initially overjoyed. He had been captured and allowed to volunteer for the Polish Army. However, she soon realises that he has remained a Nazi at heart, his wedding present to Frieda being a swastika on a chain. In a pub, he is denounced as one of the guards at a concentration camp. To Robert, in private, he admits the truth of this accusation, and claims that Frieda had known and approved of his actions. They fight, and Robert now revolts against everything German as vile and polluted.
Frieda, fearing that she has lost Robert, attempts suicide, but, just in time, Robert reaches her and the shock brings him to a realisation of what he risked losing. He perceives that his faith in her was justified. Even Aunt Eleanor comes to believe that her sweeping anti-German prejudice was wrong: "You cannot treat human beings as though they were less than human—without becoming less than human yourself."
Cast
Reception
Box office
The film was the ninth most popular film at the British box office in 1947. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1947 Britain was The Courtneys of Curzon Street, with "runners up" being The Jolson Story, Great Expectations, Odd Man Out, Frieda, Holiday Camp and Duel in the Sun.
The film was released in 1948 in the United States to excellent box office results.
References
External links
Frieda at BFI Screenonline
Review of film at Variety
1947 films
1947 drama films
British films
Ealing Studios films
English-language films
British black-and-white films
British World War II films
Films directed by Basil Dearden
Films produced by Michael Balcon
Films set in Poland
Films set in Oxfordshire
British drama films
British films based on plays
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Pseudofusicoccum kimberleyense is an endophytic fungus that might be a canker pathogen, specifically for Adansonia gibbosa (baobab). It was isolated from said trees, as well as surrounding ones, in the Kimberley (Western Australia).
References
Further reading
Sakalidis, Monique L., Giles E. StJ Hardy, and Treena I. Burgess. "Endophytes as potential pathogens of the baobab species Adansonia gregorii: a focus on the Botryosphaeriaceae." Fungal Ecology 4.1 (2011): 1–14.
Sakalidis, Monique L., et al. "Pathogenic Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Mangifera indica in the Kimberley region of Western Australia." European journal of plant pathology 130.3 (2011): 379–391.
Burgess, T. I., et al. "Movement of pathogens between horticultural crops and endemic trees in the Kimberleys." (2009): 36.
External links
MycoBank
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Richea victoriana is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae that is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is similar to Richea continentis, with differences including the presence of prominent leaf scars on the stems and inflorescences that are less than 12 cm long and have a hairless stem. The species was first formally described in 1995 in Muelleria based on plant material collected from the Thomson River headwaters. It occurs in wet areas in the vicinity of the Baw Baw plateau and the Blue Range.
References
victoriana
Ericales of Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
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Thomas Russell (1836 – 15 August 1911) was a Scottish businessman and politician. He was a partner in the Saracen Foundry, established by his brother-in-law Walter Macfarlane, and bought the Ascog House estate in Bute. He also built a Glasgow city house at 5 Cleveden Road, completed in 1887, and developed housing in Ascog.
Russell was Member of Parliament for in 1880. He was also Liberal MP for Glasgow for a few months in 1885. He was returned unopposed at a by-election.
The seat was abolished at the next general election.
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1911 deaths
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Metropolitan Park is a station on the Red line of Kaohsiung MRT in Nanzih District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The station is a three-level, elevated station with one island platforms and four exits. It is 171 meters long and is located at the junction of Gaonan Highway and Cingnong Road.
Around the station
Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park
Taiwan Railways Administration Nanzi Station
National Kaohsiung Marine University
Gaonan Highway
Kaohsiung Blood Center
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External Links
KRTC Metropolitan Park Station
2008 establishments in Taiwan
Kaohsiung Metro Red line stations
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Alan Henrique Costa (born 30 October 1990) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Indian Super League club Bengaluru, on loan from Série B club Avaí.
Career
Bengaluru FC
In July 2021, Costa moved to Indian Super League outfit Bengaluru FC on a Two year loan deal from Avai. He debuted for the club on 15 August in a 1–0 win over Maldivian side Club Eagles, in 2021 AFC Cup playoffs. He later appeared in all three group stage matches against ATK Mohun Bagan, Bashundhara Kings and Maziya S&RC.
He made his ISL debut on 20 November against NorthEast United FC in a 4–2 win. He scored his first league goal in the next match against Odisha FC on 24 November, but they lost by 3–1.
Honours
International
Campeonato Gaúcho: 2013, 2014, 2015
Recopa Gaúcha: 2016
Vitória
Campeonato Baiano: 2017
Avaí
Campeonato Catarinense: 2021
References
External links
SC Internacional profile
1990 births
Living people
People from Araraquara
Associação Ferroviária de Esportes players
Association football defenders
Brazilian footballers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Esporte Clube São Bento players
Sport Club Internacional players
Esporte Clube Vitória players
Coritiba Foot Ball Club players
Centro Sportivo Alagoano players
Avaí FC players
Bengaluru FC players
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Tongdŏk station is a railway station in greater Tanch'ŏn city, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Kŭmgol Line of the Korean State Railway. It was opened on 30 March 1943 along with the rest of the Yŏhaejin–Tongam section of the line. Originally called Hamnam Kwangch'ŏn station (Chosŏn'gŭl: 함남광천역, Hanja: 咸南広泉駅), it received its current name in 1945.
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Joe Alton Delaney (; October 30, 1958 – June 29, 1983) was an American football running back who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set four franchise records that would stand for more than 20 years. His nephew is Terrace Marshall Jr.
He was a two-time All-American athlete for the Northwestern State Demons football team, as well as a track and field star. Delaney played two seasons with the Chiefs and was chosen as the AFC Rookie of the Year in 1981 by United Press International.
Delaney died on June 29, 1983 while attempting to rescue three children from drowning in a pond in Monroe in northeastern Louisiana. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizen's Medal from U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan. While not officially retired, his jersey number while playing for the Chiefs, No. 37, has not been worn since his death.
Early life
The third of Woodrow and Eunice Delaney's eight children, Delaney was born in Henderson, on October 30, 1958, and attended Haughton High School in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Discouraged by his father from pursuing his dreams of playing football, Delaney became the starting wide receiver by his junior year at Haughton. Major Division I schools that scouted him included Grambling State, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana State.
Delaney played for Division I-AA's Northwestern State Demons from 1977 to 1980. After telling his coach of his willingness to play football at the collegiate level, Delaney switched to the running back position. He went on to be an All-American selection in 1979 and 1980. While at Northwestern State, Delaney met his future wife, Carolyn, and they had two children by his senior year.
On October 28, 1978, Delaney carried the ball 28 times and gained 299 yards for Northwestern State against Nicholls State University with 263 of the yards coming in the game's second half. Delaney's rushing stats in the second half of the game are an NCAA record. In the same game, he scored four touchdowns, one of which was on a 90-yard run, as he led his team to a 28–18 victory.
Delaney finished his career at Northwestern State with 3,047 yards rushing, 31 touchdowns, and 188 points. In 1980, his senior season, he was ranked eighth in the nation in all-purpose rushing yards. On November 22, 1980 he played his last game at Northwestern State and the school retired his jersey, number 44, at halftime. Delaney was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
At Northwestern State, Delaney also starred in track. In high school, he ran the 100 yard dash in 9.4 seconds and was on the Northwestern State track and field team, which won the NCAA 400-meter relay in 1981. He holds the school 200 meter dash record with a time of 20.64 seconds.
Professional career
Delaney was selected in the second round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs. United Press International named him Rookie of the Year of the American Football Conference for the 1981 NFL season after he rushed for 1,121 yards, set four club records, and averaged 80.9 yards a game. Delaney's effort helped propel the Chiefs to a 9–7 record, the team's first winning season since 1973. In his rookie season, he was selected to the Pro Bowl after setting Chiefs records for most yards in a season (1,121), most yards in a game (193 vs. Houston), most consecutive 100-yard-plus games (three) and most 100-yard games in a season (five).
After coming off the bench to record 101 rushing yards in his initial NFL action at New England, he ran for 106 yards and registered 104 receiving yards in his first professional start against Oakland. In the Chiefs' October 18, 1981 game against the Denver Broncos, Delaney broke loose for a 75-yard touchdown run, but an offside penalty caused the play to be restarted from five yards back. On the second play after the penalty, Delaney scored an 82-yard touchdown, the longest rushing play from scrimmage in the 1981 NFL season.
Following Delaney's record-setting 196-yard rushing performance against the Houston Oilers on November 15, 1981, Oilers defensive end (and future Pro Football Hall of Famer) Elvin Bethea was quoted in saying:
A strike by NFL players and an eye injury limited Delaney's playing time in the 1982 NFL season. He underwent surgery to repair a detached retina, and only registered 380 rushing yards in the eight-game shortened season, which the Chiefs finished with a 3–6 record. Delaney averaged 4.6 yards per carry, 9.1 yards per reception, and registered 1,811 all-purpose yards during his career with three touchdowns.
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Death and legacy
Delaney had a lifelong history of helping others, and once paid for the funeral of a former teacher whose family could not afford a proper service. On June 29, 1983, Delaney, who was living in nearby Ruston, went with friends to Critter's Creek, an amusement center at Chennault Park in Monroe, Louisiana. While reportedly discouraging swimming children from venturing too far out in a pond, Delaney dove in to save three children who were screaming for help, floundering in a water hole left by recent construction work. The water hole, which covered two acres and was six feet deep, was not intended for swimming but to add to the park's aesthetics. Despite his inability to swim, Delaney nevertheless tried to rescue the children. One child managed to get out of the water without harm and another was taken to an emergency room where he later died; police recovered the body of Delaney and the remaining child. The amusement park has since been closed to the public.
Three thousand people attended Delaney's burial and memorial service on July 4 which was held in the sweltering heat of the Haughton High School gymnasium. Many fanned themselves with fans provided from the funeral home to combat the oppressive heat. President Ronald Reagan honored Delaney with the Presidential Citizens Medal on July 15, and it was presented to Delaney's family by Vice President George H. W. Bush. Reagan's words were:
For the 1983 NFL season, the Chiefs honored Delaney by wearing a circular patch bearing a gold eagle and the number 37 on the upper-left chest of their uniforms. Haughton High School also made a park, Joe Delaney Park, in his memory. The NCAA posthumously awarded Delaney the NCAA Award of Valor in 1984. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen presented the Louisiana State Civilian Bravery Award to Delaney's family following his death.
Delaney's heroism is honored through an award for one of the NFL's best running backs who also demonstrates admirable character and unselfishness, traits that were embodied by Delaney. The award is given annually by ProFootballTalk.com.
Northwestern State's football permanent team captains award, the Joe Delaney Memorial Leadership award, is named in his honor, as is the annual spring football game ("Delaney Bowl") and a golf tournament that generates support for the athletic program. A permanent shrine honoring him sits under the home stands at Northwestern State's Turpin Stadium and his number 44 jersey hangs in the football offices. In Virginia, the Delaney Athletic Conference took its name to honor his memory in the fall of 1983, and today 13 Virginia private high schools comprise the DAC.
A group of Chiefs fans in Kansas City formed the "37Forever Foundation", which works with the American Red Cross to provide swimming lessons for underprivileged children. The Kansas City Chiefs unofficially retired Delaney's jersey number 37 following his death, and he was elected to the team's Hall of Fame in 2004. His name is included in the Chiefs' ring of honor at Arrowhead Stadium. Delaney is also the uncle of LSU wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr.
See also
List of American football players who died during their careers
References
General
Althaus, Bill (2007). The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Kansas City Chiefs: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments in Kansas City Chiefs History, Triumph Books.
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1983 deaths
American Conference Pro Bowl players
American football running backs
African-American players of American football
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
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Deaths by drowning in the United States
Kansas City Chiefs players
Northwestern State Demons football players
People from Longview, Texas
People from Haughton, Louisiana
Sportspeople from Ruston, Louisiana
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Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway's Class A-3 was a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive switchers.
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Operational history
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0-6-0 locomotives
ALCO locomotives
Steam locomotives of the United States
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
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Dynamite Steps is the fifth full-length album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers. It was released on February 14, 2011 worldwide, and a day later in the United States via Sub Pop on CD and double 12" white-colored vinyl.
The Sub Pop pre-order for Dynamite Steps includes a two-track CD-R featuring two unreleased Twilight Singers tracks, "Don't Call" and "Ballad of Pure Thought". The band marked the album's release with in-store performances at Amoeba Music on February 15, 2011 (Los Angeles) and February 17, 2011 (San Francisco).
The band performed the first single "On the Corner" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Track listing
"Last Night in Town" – 4:44
"Be Invited" – 3:15
"Waves" – 4:02
"Get Lucky" – 4:12
"On the Corner" – 4:26
"Gunshots" – 3:43
"She Was Stolen" – 3:15
"Blackbird and the Fox" – 2:53
"Never Seen No Devil" – 3:02
"The Beginning of the End" – 3:15
"Dynamite Steps" – 6:45
Personnel
Greg Dulli – vocals (all songs), guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10), piano (1, 2, 5, 6, 7), synth bass (1, 3), mellotron (1), bass (2), drums (2, 10, 11), Rhodes (3, 5, 10, 11), electric guitar (7), Prophet (7)
Joseph Arthur – vocals (6, 9), harmonica (9)
Joshua Blanchard – dobro (9)
Ani DiFranco – vocals (8)
Amy Farris – violin/viola/cello (4)
Scott Ford – bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11), vocals (4)
Petra Haden – violin (4, 9), vocals (9)
David Henderson – drums (1)
Chris Jordan – piano (4)
Mark Lanegan – vocals (2)
Leta Lucy – vocals (10, 11)
Nick McCabe – guitar (2)
Steve Nalepa – synth (1), strings (7)
Mike Napolitano – timpani (7)
Rick G. Nelson – violin (2, 8), cello (8)
Dave Rosser – guitar (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11), vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 8), acoustic guitar (7)
Carina Round – vocals (10)
Mathias Schneeberger – guitar solo (1), guitar (5), bass (9)
Jon Skibic – guitar (1, 10, 11), bass (10)
Cully Symington – drums (3, 4, 7, 8)
Gene Trautmann – drums (5)
Greg Wieczorek – drums (6, 9, 11), vocals (6), percussion (9)
References
The Twilight Singers albums
2011 albums
Sub Pop albums
Albums produced by Greg Dulli
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Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
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Pampulha (Portuguese: Região Administrativa da Pampulha) is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is one of nine administrative regions of Belo Horizonte, and occupies in the northeast of the city. It has a population of 145,262 and a population density of 3.08 per square kilometer. The center of the Pampulha is occupied by Lake Pampulha, an artificial lake constructed in the early 1940s by Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, later president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. The Pampulha administrative region is further subdivided into 29 neighborhoods (bairros), one of which is also called Pampulha.
Otacílio Negrão de Lima, mayor of Belo Horizonte in the early 20th century, dammed a small streamed called Pampulha in 1936 for flood control and augment the city water supply through the creation of a reservoir. The resulting Lake Pampulha became the site of an urban development project by Juscelino Kubitschek. Kubitschek called on the young architect Oscar Niemeyer to create a series of buildings; Niemeyer was joined by the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and numerous artists to create site now considered the earliest and most important example of Modernism in Brazil.
In July 2016 the area around the lake became an UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Pampulha Modern Ensemble (Conjunto Arquitetônico da Pampulha).
Transport
Belo Horizonte/Pampulha – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport is in the area.
Education
The Santa Amélia section formerly housed the Escola Japonesa de Belo Horizonte (ベロ・オリゾンテ日本人学校) a.k.a. Instituto Cultural Mokuyoo-Kai Sociedade Civil, a Japanese day school.
References
Populated places established in 1943
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Wiska Waqi
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Wiska Waqi (Aymara wiska wool rope, waqi part, portion, "rope part", Hispanicized spelling Huiscahuaque) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District. Wiska Waqi lies northwest of Hatun Waychawi.
References
Mountains of Cusco Region
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International Meridian
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May refer to
any of the Prime Meridians that have been used, are used, or are proposed
Greenwich Meridian established by the International Meridian Conference
IERS Reference Meridian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Township%2C%20Camden%20County%2C%20Missouri
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Jackson Township, Camden County, Missouri
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Jackson Township is one of eleven townships in Camden County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 663.
Jackson Township was established in 1841, and named after Andrew Jackson.
Geography
Jackson Township covers an area of and contains no incorporated settlements. It contains one cemetery, Auglaize.
The streams of Coon Creek, Dry Auglaize Creek, Honey Run and Wet Glaize Creek run through this township.
References
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
External links
US-Counties.com
City-Data.com
Townships in Camden County, Missouri
Townships in Missouri
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Cycles Devinci
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Cycles Devinci is a Canadian bicycle manufacturer established in Chicoutimi, Quebec in 1987. In addition to a full line of road, mountain and hybrid bicycles, it also manufactures the BIXI-brand of bicycle used in bicycle sharing schemes in cities such as Montreal and Toronto.
History
Two engineering students from Chicoutimi, Quebec, founded Devinci Bikes in 1987. Road biking entrepreneur, Felix Gauthier, purchased the company in 1990, moving the brand into its contemporary role as an international player in both road and mountain bike manufacturing. Under Gauthier the brand has grown its U.S. and international distribution channels. Gauthier has since taken over full ownership of the business.
In 1994, Gauthier founded Devinci's Research and Development Division. This led to the creation of Optimum frames, Ollie Freeride bikes, the Cx, and instrumented bikes.
In 2001, the firm moved from its 800-sq.-foot space to a larger, modernized plant. Over the next five years it built dual-suspension bikes with needle bearings, Cx road bikes with carbon monocoque frames, and introduced its Cyclocross product line. In 2004, the firm's Ollie model won 26 Magazine's "Freeride Bike of the Year" award.
In July 2010, Barclays Cycle Hire commenced operations with 5,000 bicycles and 315 docking stations distributed across the City of London area. There are now 10,000 Bixi rental bikes in use in London, now operated under the name Santander Cycles.
In 2009, Canada Economic Development allocated funding to help Cycles Devinci acquire equipment and reorganize its plant to produce Bixi bicycles for Stationnement de Montréal and the Société de vélo en libre-service.
References
External links
Official site
Manufacturing companies based in Quebec
Saguenay, Quebec
Cycle manufacturers of Canada
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1987
1987 establishments in Quebec
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Rich King (basketball)
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Thomas Richard King (born April 4, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round (14th pick overall) of the 1991 NBA draft out of the University of Nebraska. Born in Lincoln and raised in Omaha, King was a high school standout in Nebraska. A 7'2", 260-lb. center, King played four seasons with the Sonics, appearing in a total of 72 games and averaging 1.9 ppg. King's professional career was cut short by injuries, undergoing 6 surgeries over his 7 years in the NBA.
After his playing career ended, King continued to reside in Seattle, working in real estate. He now works for Amazon as Director of Business Development for their Amazon Alexa division. He has expressed interest in becoming a minority owner in the Seattle NBA team if one returns to the city.
NBA career statistics
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References
External links
Basketball-Reference.com: Rich King
1969 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Nebraska
Centers (basketball)
Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball players
Seattle SuperSonics draft picks
Seattle SuperSonics players
Sioux Falls Skyforce (CBA) players
Sportspeople from Lincoln, Nebraska
Sportspeople from Omaha, Nebraska
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The Jersey Triad
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The Jersey Triad was a triumvirate stable active in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from mid-to-late 1999. The group consisted of Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow. Their name came from the members being billed from New Jersey (although Kanyon was actually from New York).
History
Formation
Shortly after Slamboree in May 1999, Diamond Dallas Page formed an alliance with fellow New Jerseyan Bam Bam Bigelow and began feuding with Perry Saturn and Raven for the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
On the May 31, 1999 episode of Nitro, Page and Bigelow sent Raven to the hospital after a severe beating, leaving Saturn alone to defend the Tag Team Titles, which Page and Bigelow won later that night with help from Chris Kanyon replacing Raven in the match and turned heel on former ally Raven, costing the team the championships by letting Page pin him.
Page, Bigelow, and Kanyon became known as the Jersey Triad after Kanyon officially joined them on the June 7, 1999 episode of Nitro, when he turned on Saturn after Chris Benoit and Saturn defeated Page and Bigelow.
Page and Kanyon lost the Tag Titles to Saturn and Benoit on the June 10 episode of Thunder but the Triad regained the belts three days later at The Great American Bash on June 13, 1999, after Kanyon pinned Benoit.
"Freebird Rule"
Due to an affiliation with then "WCW President for Life" Ric Flair, the Triad was permitted to defend these titles in any way possible using the Freebird Rule- any two of the three wrestlers could defend the tag team titles at any time. This even saw the Triad switching members during a title defense, the rule being one member had to be on the floor at all times.
On July 11, 1999 at Bash at the Beach the Jersey Triad defeated Benoit and Saturn again to retain their Tag Team Titles.
The team held the titles until Road Wild where Kanyon and Bigelow would lose them to Harlem Heat on August 14, 1999. In the same night Chris Benoit defeated Diamond Dallas Page to retain his WCW United States Championship, despite interference from Kanyon and Bigelow
Break up and aftermath
The group broke up shortly after Fall Brawl in September 1999, after Goldberg pinned Page. Diamond Dallas Page continued feuding with Hogan again, joining Sid Vicious and Rick Steiner in a team effort to take on Hogan, Sting, and Goldberg. Soon after that feud ended Page turned into a hero again and feuded with both Kanyon and Bigelow before the year ended. Both Page and Bigelow feuded with Kanyon during his Chris "Champagne" Kanyon gimmick.
Page and Kanyon would eventually reunite as a tag team in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the WCW Invasion storyline, as they were both members of the Alliance in 2001. The pair held the WWF Tag Team Championship once.
Championships and accomplishments
World Championship Wrestling
WCW World Tag Team Championship (2 times)
World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment
WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Page and Kanyon
See also
The Diamond Exchange
The Fabulous Freebirds
The Insiders (professional wrestling)
The Triple Threat
References
World Championship Wrestling teams and stables
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Mario Giardini
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Mario Giardini (4 December 1877 – 30 August 1947) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1918 to 1933.
Biography
Mario Giardini was born on 4 December 1877 in Milan. He was ordained a priest on 24 September 1904. He was a member of the Barnabites and early in his career worked as a parish priest and master of novices for his order.
On 21 November 1921, Pope Pius XI named him titular archbishop of Edessa and Apostolic Delegate to Japan. He received his episcopal consecration on 8 December 1921 from Cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari. He called a provincial synod to address the question of Catholic participation in Shinto ceremonies and the first Japanese bishop, Januarius Kyunosuke Hayasaka, was appointed in 1926. Both were steps in the local hierarchy gaining its independence from the Paris Foreign Missions Society. Negotiations toward the establishment of diplomatic relations made progress but were blocked by Buddhist opposition in parliament. When his successor, Edward Mooney, was appointed on 30 March 1931, Giardino remained in Japan until Mooney arrived from India and then remained for ten days to share information.
On 16 May 1931, Pope Pius XI appointed him Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo. He retired from this position on 5 February 1940. He continued to work reviewing clergy for the Vicariate of Rome.
He died on 30 August 1947 at the age of 69.
Notes
References
External links
Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Mario Giardini
1877 births
1947 deaths
Clergy from Milan
Apostolic Nuncios to Japan
Diplomats from Milan
Bishops of Edessa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20York%20Collegiate%20Institute
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East York Collegiate Institute
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East York Collegiate Institute (East York CI, EYCI, or East York), formerly East York High School is a Toronto high-school located in the former borough of East York at the corner of Coxwell and Cosburn Avenues. It was part of the East York Board of Education until 1998 when the board became part of the Toronto District School Board. Its motto is "Honos Per Ministrium" (Honour through Service).
History
Established in 1927 and designed by architect George Roper Gouinlock, son of George Wallace Gouinlock, the Collegiate Gothic school was originally known as East York High School, but it soon merged with a local vocational school and extended the building capacity; it gained its current name a decade later. Additions such as the auditorium, double gym, and classrooms were added during the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1988, East York Collegiate received major renovations such as the new wing in the north and south, and a second double gym costed at $9.9-million in a similar manner to Scarborough's R.H. King Collegiate Institute during their renovations in 1976. Save for the entrance arch, the original school and components of the building were demolished and now serve as a parking lot. The modern school was designed by architects Page and Steele.
School life
Sports & Athletics
EYCI has an athletics program, with strong showings by its Senior Boys' Football team, Senior Boys' Hockey team, Varsity Girls' Hockey team (who made it to OFSAA last year), as well as both the Junior and Senior Boys' Soccer squads. Historically from the 1950s to the 1980s, the school was a perennial powerhouse in Canadian-rules Football (York League) and Baseball (TSSAA). The Senior Boys Cross Country team also qualified for OFSAA in the Fall of 2009 and 2010. Girls Junior Basketball team 09/10 won the city championship.
East York is one of the few high schools to have a Flag football team. The Varsity Girls' Flag Football team has been very successful since forming in 2007, winning silver in their first year and gold for the next two years in the TDSSAA Regional finals. They currently have made the TSSAA City Championships during their 2008 and 2009 seasons, winning gold and silver respectively.
Co-curricular programs
Robotics
Since 2002, East York Collegiate Institute has been involved with the FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics, an international competition in which professionals and high school students are teamed together to solve an engineering design problem in an intense yet cooperative way. In 2002, the East York FIRST Robotics Team won the Highest Rookie Seed Award in recognition of the Highest Placed Rookie of Robotics in Canada [7]. In 2011, East York's Team 907, placed in the Semi-Finals at the Greater Toronto Area Regional and placed twice again in the Semi-Finals at Greater Toronto Regional East and the Greater Toronto Regional West in 2012. East York also won the Creativity Award for their 2012 Robot.
Outreach
East York's Outreach initiative emphasizes local and national opportunities that take an experiential learning and community service approach. East York's Team 907 has many growing outreach projects in Toronto including mentoring the younger Robotics Teams located in the Greater Toronto Area.
Middle School feeders
Feeder schools for East York Collegiate include Cosburn Middle School, Westwood Middle School (formerly Westwood Junior High), D.A. Morrison Middle School (formerly Oak Park Junior High) and G.A. Brown Middle School (formerly St. Clair Junior High).
Notable alumni
Sharon Bruneau, bodybuilder and actress
Rich Butler, former baseball player
Rob Butler, former baseball player
Ben Chin, news anchor
David Collenette, former Cabinet Minister
Chris Diamantopoulos, actor
Mike Del Grande, former Toronto City councillor
Tony Featherstone, former NHL player
Mike Holmes, home contractor and television show host
Argiris Karras, actor
Chris Kotsopoulos, former NHL player
Peter Mahovlich, former NHL player
Nelson Martin, former CFL football player and coach
Joe Motiki, TV actor, host and radio announcer
Cam Newton, former NHL goalie
Tim Sims, actor and comedian
Glenn Smith, former NHL player
Still Life Still, indie rock band
Barry Stroud (philosopher)
Brandon Tanev, NHL hockey player
Christopher Tanev, NHL hockey player
Steph Tolev, comedian
Nick Volpe, former football player
Elizabeth Weir, lawyer and former leader of the New Brunswick NDP
Mike Wilmot, comedian
Theo Zagar, former professional soccer player
See also
List of high schools in Ontario
References
External links
East York Collegiate Institute
TDSB Profile
High schools in Toronto
Schools in the TDSB
Educational institutions established in 1927
1927 establishments in Ontario
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Spas Dzhevizov
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Spas Dzhevizov (; born 27 September 1955, in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a forward. For the Bulgarian national team he featured in 20 games and scored 3 goals.
Between 1976 and 1984 Dzhevizov played in 205 matches and scored 96 goals for CSKA Sofia. Dzhevizov won the top Bulgarian league, the A PFG, four times (all with CSKA), as well as the Bulgarian Cup, two times (all with CSKA). He led the league in scoring during the 1979–80 season with 23 goals.
Following his playing career, Dzhevizov became a manager of clubs in Bulgaria and Cyprus, including CSKA Sofia and Alki Larnaca.
Honours
CSKA Sofia
A Group: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983
Bulgarian Cup: 1981, 1983
AC Omonia
Cypriot League: 1985, 1987
Individual
Bulgarian League Top Scorer: 1980 (with 23 goals)
Cypriot League Top Scorer: 1987 (with 32 goals)
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
Bulgarian footballers
Bulgaria international footballers
Bulgarian expatriate footballers
PFC Botev Plovdiv players
PFC CSKA Sofia players
AC Omonia players
PFC Minyor Pernik players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Cypriot First Division players
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Bulgarian football managers
AC Omonia managers
PFC CSKA Sofia managers
Sportspeople from Plovdiv
Association football forwards
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Banana Lake
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Banana Lake or is a natural freshwater lake in southeast Lakeland, Florida. Before 1860 this lake was called Mud Lake. A family homesteaded at the lake and planted bananas, amongst other types of fruit. By 1890 the lake was known by its current name. Banana Lake is in a suburban area. Residential areas and agricultural areas surround it. To the southwest is Little Banana Lake. Lake Stahl is to the northwest. Just to the north of Lake Stahl is the Sanlan Golf Course, which also borders Banana Lake.
On the south shore of the lake is Banana Lake Park, which has an address of 5002 Tillery Road. This park contains picnic shelters and tables, a paved walking trail, restrooms, a playground, a boat ramp and a fishing pier. A parking lot is at the west side of the park. Boats can reach Lake Stahl via a canal that connects the two lakes.
References
Lakes of Polk County, Florida
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Gustav Merkel
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Gustav Adolf Merkel (November 12, 1827, Oberoderwitz, Kingdom of Saxony – October 30, 1885, Dresden) was a German organist and composer.
Having been given some lessons by Schumann in his youth, Merkel spent most of his career in Dresden, concentrating on organ-playing from 1858. A Lutheran himself, he nevertheless held an appointment at the Catholic Cathedral of Dresden from 1864 until his death. During the same period he taught the organ at Dresden's Conservatory.
His compositions include nine organ sonatas (which have been recorded several times, as well as occurring quite often in organ recitals), of which the first sonata (Op.30) is written for two organists, and several dozen miniatures (some of them based on Protestant chorale melodies). In these works, his style is broadly conservative, very much influenced by Mendelssohn, and with similarities to the output of his younger contemporary Josef Rheinberger. He also produced choral and piano pieces; his salon piece "Schmetterling" ("Butterfly"), Op. 81, No. 4 is particularly well-known.
Further reading
Paul Janssen, Gustav Merkel: Ein Bild seines Lebens und Wirkens (Leipzig, 1886).
Magdalene Saal, Gustav Adolf Merkel: Leben und Orgelwerk (Frankfurt, 1993).
External links
1827 births
1885 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century German composers
19th-century German male musicians
German Romantic composers
German male classical composers
German classical organists
German male organists
People from Görlitz (district)
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
Pupils of Friedrich Wieck
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Mogowo
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Mogowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nasielsk, within Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Nasielsk, north of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, and north of Warsaw.
The village has a population of 600.
References
Mogowo
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Gérard Klein
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Gérard Klein (born 1937), known also as Gilles , is a French science fiction writer with sociological training.
He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction series Ailleurs et Demain published by Robert Laffont and of the Le Livre de Poche science-fiction imprint.
In his novella Les virus ne parlent pas ("The viruses do not speak"), he imagines that viruses have created all living beings in the same fashion that human beings have created computers, and for the same reason: to improve their efficiency.
Klein used the pseudonym "Gilles d'Argyre" for his novels published by Editions Fleuve Noir for their series Anticipation.
Several of his novels were published in translation by DAW Books in the United States.
Bibliography
Agent Galactique [Galactic Agent] (under the pseudonym of Mark Starr) (1958)
Embûches dans l'Espace [Ambushes in Space] (co-written with Richard Chomet & Patrice Rondard under the pseudonym of François Pagery) (1958)
Le Gambit des Étoiles (1958; transl. as Starmasters' Gambit, 1973)
Les Perles du Temps [The Pearls of Time] (1958)
Chirurgiens d'une Planète [The Planet Surgeons] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1960); revised as Le Rêve des Forêts [A Dream of Forests] (1987), Argyre's saga volume 1
Les Voiliers du Soleil [The Solar Sailors] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1961), Argyre's saga volume 2
Le Temps n'a pas d'Odeur [Time Has No Scent] (1963; transl. as The Day Before Tomorrow, 1972)
Le Long Voyage [The Long Journey] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1964), Argyre's saga volume 3
Les Tueurs de Temps [The Time Killers] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1965; transl. as The Mote in Time's Eye, 1975)
Un Chant de Pierre [A Song of Stone] (1966)
Le Sceptre du Hasard [The Scepter of Chance] (under the pseudonym of Gilles d'Argyre) (1968)
Les Seigneurs de la Guerre (1971; transl. by John Brunner as The Overlords of War, 1973)
La Loi du Talion [The Law of Retaliation] (1973)
Histoires Comme Si... [Stories As If...] (1975)
External links
1937 births
French science fiction writers
French speculative fiction critics
French speculative fiction editors
French speculative fiction translators
Science fiction editors
Science fiction critics
Living people
French male novelists
French male non-fiction writers
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Stocks for the Long Run
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Stocks for the Long Run is a book on investing by Jeremy Siegel. Its first edition was released in 1994. Its fifth edition was released on January 7, 2014. According to Pablo Galarza of Money, "His 1994 book Stocks for the Long Run sealed the conventional wisdom that most of us should be in the stock market." James K. Glassman, a financial columnist for The Washington Post, called it one of the 10 best investment books of all time.
Overview
Siegel is a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a contributor to financial publications like The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The New York Times, and the Financial Times.
The book takes a long-term view of the financial markets, starting in 1802, mainly in the United States (but with some comparisons to other financial markets as well). Siegel takes an empirical perspective in answering investing questions.
Even though the book has been termed "the buy and hold Bible", the author occasionally concedes that there are market inefficiencies that can be exploited.
Siegel argues that stocks have returned an average of 6.5 percent to 7 percent per year after inflation over the last 200 years. He expects returns to be somewhat lower in the next couple of decades. In an article presented at the Equity Risk Premium forum of November 8, 2001, Siegel states:
Outline
The book covers the following topics.
The Verdict of History: Stock and Bond Returns since 1802, Risk, Return and the Coming Age Wave and Perspectives on Stocks as Investments.
Stock Returns: Stock Averages, Dividends, Earnings, and Investor Sentiment, Large Stocks, Small Stocks, Value Stocks, Growth Stocks, The Nifty Fifty Revisited, Taxes and Stock Returns, Global Investing.
Economic Environment of Investing: Money, Gold, and Central Banks, Inflation and Stocks, Stocks and the Business Cycle, World Events Which Impact Financial Markets, Stocks, Bonds and the Flow of Economic Data.
Stock Fluctuations in the Short Run: Stock Index Futures, Options and Spiders, Market Volatility and the Stock Crash of October 1987, Technical Analysis and Investing with the Trend (here Siegel claims that the use of a 200-day moving average to analyze investments does not improve returns nor reduce risk for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but it seems to benefit the NASDAQ index), Calendar Anomalies (Siegel accepts seasonality in the stock market).
Building Wealth Through Stocks: Funds, Managers, and 'Beating the Market', Structuring a Portfolio for Long-Term Growth.
According to Siegel's web site the next edition will include a chapter on globalization with the premise that the growth of emerging economies will soon out pace that of the developed nations. A discussion on fundamentally weighted indexes which have historically resulted in better returns and lower volatility may also be added.
Principles
The data below is taken from Table 1.1, 1.2, Fig 1.5 and Fig 6.4 in the 2002 edition of the book.
This table presents some of the main findings presented in Chapter 1 and some related text. Stocks on the long term have returned 6.8% per year after inflation, whereas gold has returned -0.4% (i.e. failed to keep up with inflation) and bonds have returned 1.7%. The equity risk premium (excess return of stocks over bonds) has ranged between 0 and 11%, it was 3% in 2001. Also see where equity risk premium is computed slightly differently. The Fed model of stock valuation was not applicable before 1966. Before 1982, the treasury yields were generally less than stock earnings yield.
Why the long-term return is relatively constant, remains a mystery.
The dividend yield is correlated with real GDP growth, as shown in Table 6.1.
Explanation of abnormal behavior:
The low stock return during 1966–81 (and high gold return) was due to very high inflation.
The equity risk premium rose to about 11% in 1965, however that should be unsustainable over a very long term.
In Chapter 2, he argues (Figure 2.1) that given a sufficiently long period of time, stocks are less risky than bonds, where risk is defined as the standard deviation of annual return. During 1802–2001, the worst 1-year returns for stocks and bonds were -38.6% and -21.9% respectively. However, for a holding period of 10-years, the worst performance for stocks and bonds were -4.1% and -5.4%; and for a holding period of 20 years, stocks have always been profitable. Figure 2.6 shows that the optimally lowest risk portfolio even for a one-year holding, will include some stocks.
In Chapter 5, he shows that after-tax returns for bonds can be negative for a significant period of time.
Criticism
Some critics argue that the book uses a perspective that is too long to be applicable to today's long-term investors who, in many cases, are not investing for a 20–30 year period.
Furthermore, critics argue that picking different start and end dates, or different starting valuations, can yield significantly different results. Over certain long term periods, assets such as bonds, commodities, real estate, foreign equities or gold significantly outperform US stocks, usually when the starting valuation for stocks is significantly higher than the norm.
Economist Robert Shiller of Yale University, wrote in his book Irrational Exuberance (Princeton, 2000) even a 20 or 30 year holding period is not necessarily as risk-free as Siegel implies. Purchasing stocks at a high valuation based on the CAPE ratio can yield poor returns over the long term, as well as significant drawdowns in the interim. Shiller also notes that the 20th century, on which many of Siegel's conclusions are based, was the most successful century for stocks in the short history of the United States and such performance may not be repeated in the future.
In 2019, Edward F. McQuarrie has published results showing that while the stocks outperformed bonds during 1943-1982, the return from stocks was about equal to the bonds during 1797-1942. After 1982, the bonds have slightly outperformed the stocks. McQuarrie also noted Siegel relied heavily on earlier flawed interpretations of Frederick Macaulay's seminal The Movements of Interest Rates (1938), thus Siegel "under-estimate[d] 19th century bond returns" by about 1.5%. The yield on 10 Year Treasurys bottomed in early 1940s and then peaked at 15.6% in late 1981, and the long term decline in rates has continued.
Publication history
See also
Stock picking
List of valuation topics
Capital asset pricing model
Value at risk
Fundamental analysis
Technical analysis
Fed model Theory of Equity Valuation
Undervalued stock
Case-Shiller index
References
Finance books
1994 non-fiction books
2007 non-fiction books
McGraw-Hill books
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Panormus or Panormos () was a harbour on the east coast of ancient Attica. Panormus was captured by Alexander of Pherae during the latter's expedition in Attica. The Athenian admiral Leosthenes defeated Alexander, but Alexander escaped from being blockaded in Panormus, took several Attic triremes, and plundered Piraeus.
Its site is located near the modern Panormo.
References
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
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Anarchism in Mexico
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Anarchism in Mexico, the anarchist movement in Mexico, extends from Plotino Rhodakanaty's organization of peasant workers in the 1890s, to Ricardo Flores Magón's activism prior to the Mexican Revolution, to the punk subcultures of the 1990s.
Origins and early movement
The Mexican anarchist movement originated in the mid-19th century, a product of both Mexico's unique historical development and European influences. Utopian ideas and movements went back further. Vasco de Quiroga attempted in the 1530s to create Thomas More's Utopia in two communities, while the priest and senator José María Alpudre tried to start another socialist community of Freemasons in 1825. In 1828, the English socialist Robert Owen requested permission from the Mexican government to start a utopian colony in Texas. Melchor Ocampo, a Mexican radical, while in exile in New Orleans read Charles Fourier and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and translated a chapter of the latter's Philosophy of Poverty.
The Greek-born philosopher Plotino Rhodakanaty, like the famed anarchist Mikhail Bakunin of aristocratic descent, arrived in Mexico in February 1861 and was the first advocate for anarchist ideas in the country. He had participated in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and then in Berlin come into contact with Hegel, Fourier, and Proudhon's ideas. Upon arriving in Mexico, he concluded that traditional Mexican peasant villages were already implementing Fourier and Proudhon's ideals. These communities, however, were under threat from hacendados and the government and Rhodakanaty sought to organize them and build a network of socialist agrarian colonies. He wrote the pamphlet Cartilla Socialista, the first socialist publication in Mexico, to gain supporters in this struggle. It argued that humankind was essentially good, but was corrupted by private property, social inequality, and exploitation. He failed to gain adherents for his agrarian colonies. He took on a teaching post and started the Group of Socialist Students (Grupo de Estudiantes Socialistas), which followed Bakunin's teachings. It included Francisco Zalasota and Santiago Villanueva who would be leaders in agrarian and urban labor struggles, respectively. After the 1871 Paris Commune, Rhodakanaty's group turned its focus to urban workers and founding a proletarian anarchist movement. While Rhodakanaty's moral outreach did not reach beyond young artisans and peasants, he inspired Julio López Chávez to lead a peasant rebellion in the late 1860s.
In the mid-19th century, workers' organizations confronted inadequate working conditions. Mutualist groups offered members compensation for unemployment, medical leave, and old age, and focused on providing equal social provisions to workers rather than critiquing capitalism. Separately, anarchist groups, who blamed capitalism and the state for workers' ills, encouraged worker protest, as influenced by the European anarchist movement. Anarchists organized the country's first industrial strikes. Mutualist groups were hesitant to strike, but eventually joined. The strikes, mostly for wages and working conditions, were primarily in textile and mining industries.
Mexican Revolution
Ricardo Flores Magón was the preeminent figure in early 20th-century Mexican anarchism and a progenitor of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. He wrote the newspaper Regeneración with his brother Enrique. Their movement of followers were known as the Magonistas.
Anselmo L. Figueroa was a Mexican-American anarchist political figure, journalist and member of the Organizing Council of the Mexican Liberal Party (MLP). He was imprisoned in the United States between 1911 and 1914 due to violations of U.S. neutrality laws. He published Regeneración, the official newspaper of the MLP, before and after his imprisonment. At the time of the uprisings, Regeneración generated about US$1,000 per week in subscription fees. Even after covering its publication costs, several hundred dollars per week were made available for MLP revolutionary causes. Smaller sums of money were received from outside donors to the organization. Regeneración was published until 1918. It was distributed in Mexican communities in the United States and used in literacy lessons there, as books were often scarce.
Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza was an anarchist and feminist activist, typographer, journalist and poet born in San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico. While many women contributed in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 by fighting alongside their husbands, others wrote against the injustices of the Díaz regime. In May 1901 she found an anti-Díaz newspaper called Vésper. She attacked the clergy in Guanajuato and wrote against foreign domination in Mexico. She also wrote against the Díaz regime and criticized Díaz for not carrying out the requests and needs of the people. As a result, her newspaper was confiscated and she was also put in jail several times by Díaz between 1904 and 1920. She established a new newspaper called El Desmonte (1900-1919) and continued her writings. She translated the works of Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon to Spanish. She was also a Caxcan Indian from the state of Durango.
The Mexican Anarchist Federation
The Mexican Anarchist Federation (sp: Federación Anarquista Mexicana) was a Mexican anarchist organization that existed from December 28, 1945, until the 1970s. It appeared as the Anarchist Federation of the Center joined with the Anarchist Federation of the Federal District. It published the periodical Regeneración. It received the energy of recent Spanish anarchists who sought refuge in Mexico escaping from Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
Shortly after its establishment it gained the attention of the Mexican police forces and the Mexican government after some Spanish exiled anarchists along with members of the Mexican Anarchist Federation were arrested after trying to rob a truck that carried large amounts of money from a beer industry. Also linked to the Mexican Anarchist Federation was the Libertarian Youth (sp:Juventudes Libertarias) and the publication Tierra y Libertad.
Present day
Formed in 1997, the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magón" (CIPO-RFM) is a grassroots organization based on the philosophy of Ricardo Magón.
See also
Emiliano Zapata
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
References
Bibliography
External links
Insurrectionary Anarchism in Mexico
Political movements in Mexico
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Rod Smith (born January 10, 1992) is an American football running back who is a free agent. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2015. He played college football at Ohio State.
Early years
Smith attended Paul Harding High School, where he received All-state and player of the year honors as a senior. He graduated after rushing 1,000 times for a SAC conference career rushing record of 6,625 yards and 66 touchdowns.
As a senior, he also was an All-conference basketball player and was a part of the state's runner-up 4 × 100 metres relay team.
College career
Smith accepted a football scholarship from Ohio State University as a highly rated recruit. As a redshirt freshman, he appeared in 10 games, opening the season against the University of Akron with 18 carries for 74 yards and one touchdown. The next week against the University of Toledo he started to show a fumble problem, diminishing the coaching staff confidence in him. His production was limited the rest of the season behind Dan Herron, Carlos Hyde and Jordan Hall. He registered 29 carries for 116 yards and one touchdown, while playing mainly on special teams. He was also suspended after missing the team flight to the 2012 Gator Bowl.
As a sophomore, he was a backup behind Hyde and Jordan, appearing in 12 games with 32 carries for 215 yards and two touchdowns. He led the team in kickoff returns (13), total return yards (303) and return average (23.3). His best game came against Penn State University, tallying 4 carries for 48 yards.
As a junior, he was suspended for an undisclosed offseason incident for the season opener against the University at Buffalo. He fell back in the running back rotation behind Hyde, Jordan, Dontre Wilson and Ezekiel Elliott. He recorded 22 carries for 117 yards (5.3-yard average) and one touchdown.
As a senior, he missed most of spring camp for academic reasons. He still emerged as the team's goal line running back behind sophomore starter Elliott, posting 24 carries for 101 yards and 4 touchdowns, while also contributing on special teams. On October 27, he was dismissed from the football team after a failed drug test and decided to declare for the NFL Draft. He finished his college career with 549 rushing yards on 107 carries with ten touchdowns.
Professional career
Seattle Seahawks
Smith was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Seattle Seahawks after the 2015 NFL Draft on May 2. He was waived on September 5 and signed to the practice squad the next day.
On October 10, he was promoted to the active roster to provide depth while running backs Marshawn Lynch and Fred Jackson recovered from injuries. He played in one game against the Cincinnati Bengals, rushing for five yards on two carries. He was released on October 13.
Dallas Cowboys
2015 season
On October 14, 2015, he was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Cowboys. He became the third-string running back after Joseph Randle was released on November 3. He appeared in 10 games, playing mainly on special teams and having one kickoff return for 26 yards.
2016 season
In 2016, Smith was moved to fullback during OTAs, although he did not have the traditional size and body. He competed with converted linebacker Keith Smith for the position and both made the team, although Rod was used only for special teams purposes. On November 3, after injuries to Morris Claiborne and Barry Church, the Cowboys were forced to release him to make room for cornerback Leon McFadden. Smith was re-signed to the practice squad two days later. At the time, he was tied for second on the team with four special teams tackles.
2017 season
Smith signed a reserve/future contract with the Cowboys on January 16, 2017. In 2017, he returned to running back behind Ezekiel Elliott, Alfred Morris, and Darren McFadden. During the preseason, he was moved up to third-string because of his improved play and production on special teams. On September 17, in week 2 against the Denver Broncos, Smith had his first two carries with the Cowboys, which went for eight yards during a 42–17 defeat.
When Elliott was suspended for six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy, Smith ended up earning more playing time behind Alfred Morris. On Thanksgiving Day against the Los Angeles Chargers, Smith scored his first professional touchdown on a 2-yard rush. He finished the game with 41 rushing yards, a rushing touchdown, and seven receiving yards. During Week 13 against the Washington Redskins, Smith ran for 27 yards and a touchdown as the Cowboys won by a score of 38–14.
In the next game against the New York Giants, Smith had 47 rushing yards and a touchdown along with 113 receiving yards, including an 81-yard touchdown reception, helping secure a 30–10 win. In Week 15 against the Oakland Raiders, Smith rushed for 13 yards and a touchdown as the Cowboys narrowly won by a score of 20–17.
When Elliott returned from his suspension in Week 16 against the Seattle Seahawks, Smith's productivity dropped since he only rushed for 10 yards in that game. He was declared inactive for the last game against the Philadelphia Eagles, after battling an illness and a sore back. Smith finished the season with 55 carries for 232 yards, 4 rushing touchdowns, 19 receptions, 202 receiving yards, one receiving touchdown and 5 special teams tackles (tied for fifth on the team).
2018 season
Smith wasn't a factor on offense as the backup running back, but maintained his role as a core special teams player. His most action on offense came in the season finale against the New York Giants, registering 12 carries for 35 yards and one touchdown, when starter Ezekiel Elliott sat out to rest for the playoffs. His numbers decreased from the previous season to 44 carries for 127 yards and one touchdown. He was second on the team with 10 special teams tackles.
New York Giants
On May 8, 2019, Smith signed with the New York Giants. He was placed on injured reserve with an adductor injury on August 31, 2019. He was released from injured reserve with an injury settlement on September 10.
Tennessee Titans
On October 8, 2019, Smith signed with the Tennessee Titans. He appeared in 3 games and was declared inactive in 2 contests, playing only on special teams and had one tackle. He was released on November 12.
Oakland Raiders
On December 10, 2019, Smith was signed by the Oakland Raiders, reuniting with special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, who served in the same role with the Cowboys. He appeared in 3 games, playing only on special teams and had 2 tackles.
On March 25, 2020, Smith was re-signed to a one-year contract. He was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list by the team on August 6, 2020. He was activated from the list on August 18. He was released on September 1, 2020.
New York Giants (second stint)
On September 8, 2020, Smith was signed to the New York Giants practice squad, reuniting with offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, who was his head coach with the Cowboys. On September 29, 2020, Smith was released from the Giants practice squad, to make room for another former Cowboys running back (Alfred Morris).
Carolina Panthers
On August 5, 2021, Smith was signed by the Carolina Panthers. He was released on August 17, 2021.
NFL statistics
Regular season
Postseason
Personal life
Smith's younger brother, Jaylon, is currently a member of the New York Giants' practice squad. Rod also played for the Giants in 2019.
References
1992 births
Living people
Players of American football from Fort Wayne, Indiana
American football running backs
Ohio State Buckeyes football players
Seattle Seahawks players
Dallas Cowboys players
New York Giants players
Tennessee Titans players
Oakland Raiders players
Las Vegas Raiders players
Carolina Panthers players
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Ulrich Wille
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Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille (5 April 1848 – 31 January 1925) was the General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control.
Nomination as general
At the dawn of the First World War, Switzerland confirmed its will to remain neutral and to avoid the conflicts which were going to set Europe ablaze.
However, Switzerland was divided between the German-speaking Swiss who favored the Central Powers, and the French and Italian-speaking Swiss whose opinions tended to support the Allied Powers.
As a Germanophile, close to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wille benefitted from the pro-German current and the disparity within the Swiss Federal Council, which counted only one member from the French areas.
In 1914, upon the outbreak of war, a general mobilization of all military forces was issued. Wille, then a Colonel, was named General of Switzerland by the Federal Parliament on 8 August 1914 with 122 votes, against 63 votes for the other candidate, Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg. Von Bernegg would soon assume the rank of Chief of the General Staff and become a reliable partner of Wille's.
The opponents of the general described him as "militarist" whereas his partisans saw in him a chief ready to manage an army in mobilization thanks to his pedagogical talents. Wille decided to concentrate the bulk of his forces (238,000 men and 50,000 horses) close to the borders, particularly in Ajoie and Engadine.
Political issues
The mandate of Wille was rife with political problems. A scandal occurred in the French-speaking area of Switzerland when Wille proposed to the Federal Council on 20 July 1915, to enter the war on the side of the Central Powers. Thereafter, the "Colonels' Affair" in 1916 also had a great repercussion. Two Swiss colonels had given German and Austro-Hungarian diplomats specimens of the "Staff Gazette", a confidential journal, and Russian messages deciphered by Swiss cryptanalysts. The affair risked Swiss neutrality since it implied collusion with one of the belligerents. Wille decided to condemn the two colonels to 20 days' detention, an unsatisfactory sentence in the eyes of the pro-Allied party.
The confrontation between French-speaking Switzerland and German-speaking Switzerland widened. The Germanic newspapers supported the German actions in Belgium, whereas the French ones highlighted the resistance of the Allied forces against German troops.
The economic situation was poor and many strikes occurred, reaching their apogee with the Swiss general strike from 11 November to 14 November 1918. In a note dated 10 November 1918, Wille announced his concern for the rise of Bolshevism and the internal disorders to come in the country:
But he added that it was necessary to avoid violence:
Meanwhile, Wille had to manage the pandemic of the Spanish influenza, which affected the troops and the recruit schools. In order to combat the spread of the epidemic, enlistment of new recruits was delayed.
Personal life
Ulrich Wille's family was from La Sagne in the Canton of Neuchâtel. One of his ancestors settled in Hamburg and renamed the family name, "Vuille", to the more German "Wille". Ulrich's parents were journalist and politician François Wille (1811–1896) and novelist Eliza Wille-Sloman (1809–1893). They were liberals and, due to their disillusion by the failed German revolutions of 1848–49, they left Hamburg for Switzerland with their newborn son Ulrich. They settled in Meilen in the Canton of Zürich, where Ulrich grew up in Mariafeld, the family estate.
Wille was married to Countess Constanza Maria Amalia Clara von Bismarck (1851–1946), the daughter of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a distant relative of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
His eldest son, also named Ulrich Wille, followed his father's footsteps in the military, ultimately becoming a Corps Commander. Wille Jr. also managed to keep his father's pro-German tendencies throughout his career, including during the Second World War. This would contribute to his tensions with the next Swiss General, Henri Guisan.
His daughter Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, who was married to silk tycoon Alfred Schwarzenbach, was an Olympic horsewoman and prolific photographer. His granddaughter was the renowned author, traveler, and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
External links
References
1848 births
1925 deaths
People from Meilen District
Swiss generals
Military leaders of World War I
Military history of Switzerland
Swiss people of World War I
ETH Zurich faculty
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"Heaven 'N Hell" is the fourth and final single released from Salt-n-Pepa's fourth studio album, Very Necessary. In the United States, it was released alongside "None of Your Business" as a double-A sided single. The song samples "Think About It" by Odell Brown & the Organ-izers, "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss and "Heaven and Hell is on Earth" by 20th Century Steel Band. "Heaven 'N Hell" became a top-30 hit in Australia and New Zealand.
Track listing
Australasian CD single
"Heaven 'N Hell" (remix)
"Let's Talk About AIDS"
"Shoop" (Ghetto Lab Radio Edit)
"Heaven 'N Hell" (Carron Hall Mix)
Charts
References
1993 songs
1994 singles
London Records singles
Salt-N-Pepa songs
Songs about Heaven
Songs about hell
Songs written by Hurby Azor
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Bobbie Smith and the Dream Girls were a Detroit-based American girl vocal group during the 1950s and 1960s. They are best known for "Duchess of Earl", which was released in early 1962 as an answer song to Duke of Earl. The group's original lineup consisted of sisters Bobbie Smith and Sheena Carson, and two of their friends, Kay Green and Tina LaGora. In late 1961, LaGora became pregnant and took a leave of absence from the group. During this time, Louvain Demps of Motown session group The Andantes was hired to perform in LaGora's stead. It was during Demps' brief tenure that "Duchess of Earl" was recorded. After the record's release, LaGora returned to the group and Demps devoted herself full-time to The Andantes, who, by 1962, were quickly establishing themselves as Motown's premiere session group.
Members
Bobbie Smith – lead vocalist (1959–1963)
Sheena Carson (1959–1963)
Kay Green (1959–1963)
Tina LaGora – soprano (1959–1961, 1962–1963)
Louvain Demps – soprano (1961–1962)
References
American girl groups
Musical groups from Detroit
1950s establishments in Michigan
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Tsui Fang-hsuan (born 8 March 1984) is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner. She won a bronze medal in heavyweight at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Asian Taekwondo Championships, and a bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Taekwondo Championships.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Taiwanese female taekwondo practitioners
World Taekwondo Championships medalists
Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists
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National Pest Management Association
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The National Pest Management Association (NPMA), is a non-profit trade association founded in 1933 that represents the interests of the professional pest management and pest control industries in the United States.
The NPMA is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and maintains a staff of technical, public policy, and member services professionals.
Mission
As stated in its 2013 mission statement, the NPMA “supports members in being professional, knowledgeable, and profitable through education, industry leadership, public policy initiatives, and market development resources.”
Organization
The policy-making body of NPMA is governed by the board of directors. As of 2013, it has a current membership of more than 7,000 pest management companies.
Activities
Benefits of membership include access to accredited continuing education, technical resources, pest management research and reporting, and business service discounts. There are three staffs entomologists who respond to member inquiries. Its technical department provides pest identification and treatment recommendations. The NPMA government affairs staff provides consultation on legislative and regulatory issues that impact pest management companies.
Community relations
As the NPMA’s consumer education arm, the Professional Pest Management Alliance (PPMA) educates home and business owners about health and property risks associated with pests. It has developed educational resources such as PestWorld, an information repository on pest identification and management, and PestWorld for Kids as a scholastic resource.
NPMA also funds scientific research in entomology within the area of community pest control through its affiliated Pest Management Foundation. It also provides expert research on pest populations and treatment options, most notably tracking the uptick in bed bug infestations and efficacy of management initiatives.
Public policy
NPMA represents the industry in Congress and before federal agencies, and also in state legislatures and agencies. Its policy work is focused on pesticide regulation, environmental protection, workforce safety, and integrated pest management.
NPMA developed GreenPro, green pest management certification program, available to pest control companies, in 2009. As of June 2013, more than 140 companies nationwide have been designated as GreenPro. This program has been nationally recognized by organizations that promote integrated approaches to reducing and eliminating pest populations, including: Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC), EPA Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) and the Green Restaurant Association (GRA).
NPMA also maintains Pest PAC, a political action committee to advocate for the pest management industry at the forefront of congressional thinking.
References
External links
National Pest Management Association (Official Member Website)
PestWorld (Official Consumer Website)
PestWorld for Kids (Official Early Childhood Education Website)
What Is IPM? (Official IPM Consumer Education Website)
Quality Pro (Official Certification Website)
Professional associations based in the United States
Trade associations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Fairfax, Virginia
Organizations established in 1933
Pest control organizations
501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations
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Nóirín is an Irish given name. Notable people with the name include:
Nóirín Ní Riain (born 1951), Irish singer, writer, teacher, and theologian
Nóirín O'Sullivan
Nóirín Kelly, a contestant on Big Brother (British series 10)
Irish-language feminine given names
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Jason Tesson
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Jason Tesson (born 9 January 1998) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .
He had his first professional victory in 2021, when he won stage 2 of the Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine in a sprint ahead of Elia Viviani.
Major results
2019
2nd Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
2020
1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships
4th Paris–Tours Espoirs
6th Road race, European Road Championships
7th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
2021
1st Overall À travers les Hauts-de-France
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 2 Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2nd Grand Prix de la Somme
3rd Route Adélie
4th Grand Prix du Morbihan
6th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
6th Paris-Chauny
8th Grand Prix de Fourmies
8th Paris–Bourges
References
External links
1998 births
Living people
French male cyclists
Sportspeople from Angers
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Bush are a British rock band formed in London, England in 1992. Their current lineup consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Gavin Rossdale, lead guitarist Chris Traynor, bassist Corey Britz, and drummer Nik Hughes.
In 1994, Bush found immediate success outside the UK with the release of their debut album, Sixteen Stone, which is certified 6× multi-platinum by the RIAA. They went on to become one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1990s, selling over 10 million records in the United States and 20 million records worldwide.
Despite their success in the US (especially in the mid-1990s), the band were considerably less popular in their home country and they have enjoyed only marginal success there.
Bush have had numerous top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts and one No. 1 album with Razorblade Suitcase in 1996. The band broke up in 2002 but reformed in 2010, and have released four albums since then: The Sea of Memories (2011), Man on the Run (2014), Black and White Rainbows (2017), and The Kingdom (2020).
History
Formation and Sixteen Stone (1992–1995)
After leaving his band Midnight, Gavin Rossdale met former King Blank guitarist Nigel Pulsford at a Wembley performance by Baby Animals supporting Bryan Adams in November 1991. The two musicians became friends over a shared appreciation for several artists, including Big Black, The Fall, Pixies, and The Velvet Underground. They formed a new band which they called Future Primitive. Describing the early sound of the group, one British record label executive said years later, "They weren't what they are today – they were a little like the more commercial side of INXS". To complete the lineup, the pair recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and drummer Robin Goodridge joined in mid-1993 shortly before Bush were signed. While still known as Future Primitive, the band released the song "Bomb", later to be featured on the band's debut, as a single through Rossdale's own Mad Dog Winston Records.
In 1993, the band was signed by Rob Kahane, who had a distribution deal with Disney's Hollywood Records. The band completed recording its debut album Sixteen Stone in early 1994. However, the death of Disney executive Frank G. Wells eliminated a supporter for Kahane, and executives at Hollywood deemed Bush's album unacceptable for release. Consequently, the bandmates took jobs performing menial labour. Interscope Records ultimately decided to release the album, and at the end of 1994, Kahane sent an advance copy of the album to a friend at influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, which added the song "Everything Zen" to its rotation.
On the Billboard charts (North America), Sixteen Stone peaked at No. 4 on the Heatseekers and Billboard 200 charts. The album spawned two Top 40 singles. After about six months of promotion for Sixteen Stone, the album began to sell well, once "Comedown" and "Glycerine" struck America. Additionally, "Little Things" and "Machinehead" both charted well in North America.
In Canada, the band were initially forced to release Sixteen Stone under the name BushX, as the 1970s Canadian band Bush still held the rights to the name Bush in the Canadian market. The dispute arose after the British band's lawyers threatened to intervene to prevent the Canadian band from reissuing its 1970 album, although it was entirely between the bands' lawyers as Rossdale and Domenic Troiano, the leader of the Canadian band, both expressed a willingness to negotiate a solution. In 1997, after the band's second album Razorblade Suitcase also bore the X, Rossdale and Troiano directly negotiated an agreement under which the British band were allowed to drop the X in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund. Both Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase were then reissued without the X.
Razorblade Suitcase (1996–1998)
In late 1996 Bush released the first single "Swallowed" from their second album titled Razorblade Suitcase. The song spent seven weeks on top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart. This was followed by single "Greedy Fly". The album hit number 1 in America and placed high in many European countries. Razorblade Suitcase featured American recording engineer Steve Albini, a move which was viewed negatively by critics. Albini had worked with Nirvana on their final studio album, In Utero, three years before. Bush later released the remix album Deconstructed. The album saw Bush re-arranging their songs into dance and techno stylings. The album went platinum less than a year after release.
The Science of Things (1999–2000)
Following the completion of touring, Rossdale went into seclusion in Ireland, where he worked on material for the group's next album, periodically sending demo tapes of his works in progress to his bandmates. The group finally convened to record in London in August 1998, where the band reteamed with Sixteen Stone producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.
The release of The Science of Things was stymied by a court battle between the band and Trauma Records. The case was settled in early 1999 and the album was finally released that October. The Science of Things was a major departure in several forms from Bush's first two albums. Like the multi-platinum successes of Bush's first two albums, this album also reached platinum status. Also, while the band's previous albums were strongly influenced by grunge, The Science of Things featured some electronic music influences in addition to the sound defined by Bush's earlier work. For example, although lead single "The Chemicals Between Us" had a prominent guitar riff, it also had many electronic elements usually found in dance music. Although the album had a few hit songs, it failed to chart in the top 10.
The band's performance at Woodstock '99, however, helped The Science of Things achieve platinum status despite its slow start. Three singles were released from The Science of Things, most notably "The Chemicals Between Us", which spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks and peaked at No. 67 on the US Hot 100. "Warm Machine" was the second single released. "Letting the Cables Sleep", the third single, reached No. 4 on the Modern Rock Tracks and also received considerable airplay, and appeared in an episode of the medical drama series ER.
Golden State and breakup (2001–2002)
In October 2001, now on the Atlantic Records record label, Bush released its next album, Golden State. While the album attempted to return to the simple, catchy sound of the band's debut, it failed to achieve the same commercial success as the band's previous releases. Several singles were released, most notably the hit "The People That We Love (Speed Kills)", but none were mainstream successes. The album was the band's least successful, selling only 380,000 copies in the US. "The People That We Love (Speed Kills)" was used in the game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. In January 2002, Pulsford retired after the release of Golden State to spend more time with his family. Chris Traynor filled in for him for the subsequent tour, which would turn out to be Bush's last for eight years. Due to declining record sales and a lack of support from Atlantic Records, Bush disbanded in 2002. In 2005, a greatest hits album called The Best of '94–'99 and a live album called Zen X Four were released.
Post-breakup (2003–2010)
Gavin Rossdale formed a new band, Institute, in 2004, serving as their lead vocalist and guitarist, just as in Bush. Chris Traynor also joined the band, as lead guitarist. In addition to playing in Institute, Traynor also joined the reunited metal band Helmet in 2004 on bass; he quit the band in 2006. Institute released one album, Distort Yourself, but failed to achieve much commercial success in spite of opening for U2's Vertigo Tour at some shows. Institute broke up in 2006 and Rossdale then embarked on a solo career. In 2007, he covered the John Lennon song "Mind Games" for the Lennon tribute album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. His first solo album, Wanderlust, supported by leading single "Love Remains the Same", was released in June 2008. Rossdale also ventured into acting, appearing in the films Zoolander, Little Black Book, The Game of Their Lives, Constantine, How to Rob a Bank and others.
Robin Goodridge recorded with the British rock band Elyss in 2004, although they have not released any new material since. In 2006, Goodridge began drumming for indie rock band Spear of Destiny, and appeared on their 2007 album, Imperial Prototype. During the summer of 2008, he toured the UK with British rock band Stone Gods after their current drummer Ed Graham reportedly fell ill. On 29 July it was announced that Graham had left the band and on 6 October 2008, the band's website announced that Goodridge had joined the band. Nigel Pulsford has spent most of his time since leaving Bush raising his children with his wife. In an interview with Blender, Gavin Rossdale admitted that the likelihood of a Bush reunion was "very high". He then added "quite high". In a November 2008 interview, Rossdale revealed that he had tried to contact the other members of Bush, "I reached out to them".
Reunion and The Sea of Memories (2010–2013)
On 22 June 2010, it was announced that Bush would play their first show in eight years at the second-annual Epicenter Music Festival in Fontana, California on 25 September 2010. A new album, then-titled Everything Always Now, was also announced as well as a new single "Afterlife". Founding members Nigel Pulsford and Dave Parsons both decided not to rejoin the band.
Pulsford's and Parsons' successors were Chris Traynor and Corey Britz respectively. Traynor had also stood in for Pulsford during the Golden State tour. The new line-up played seven shows in 2010, performing songs from Bush's previous four albums as well as a new song, "Afterlife".
Gavin announced on radio that their new album had been named The Sea of Memories and was released in September and managed to peak at No. 18 on the Billboard Top 200. The first single of the album, "The Sound of Winter" was released in July 2011 and reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. On 19 November 2011, Bush performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV. The episode included an interview with program host, Nic Harcourt. Their song "Into The Blue" was featured on The Avengers soundtrack album released on 1 May 2012. They toured with Nickelback on their Here and Now Tour.
Man on the Run (2014–2016)
On 26 March 2014, it was reported that Bush had begun recording their sixth studio album with producer Nick Raskulinecz. Gavin Rossdale announced on 18 August 2014 that the new album, Man on the Run, was available for pre-order in both digital and deluxe edition CD form. A day later, the band revealed that the lead single from the album would be "The Only Way Out". In November 2014 the band announced tour dates for the early months of 2015 beginning on 30 January. In June 2016, Bush released a music video for the new song "People At War".
Black and White Rainbows (2017–2019)
In January 2017, it was reported that Bush had mastered and completed work on their seventh studio album. On 6 February 2017, the band announced the title, release date of 10 March 2017, and track listing for their seventh studio album, Black and White Rainbows. The lead single from the album, "Mad Love", was released the same day.
On 2 April 2018 a tour of the United States of America, called Revolution 3 Tour, was announced for the summer. They performed as co-headliners with Stone Temple Pilots and The Cult.
Rossdale also revealed that he was working on some material called "heavier" than the recent productions in anticipation of a forthcoming band album.
The Kingdom (2019–present)
In May 2019, Bush set The Mind Plays Tricks on You as the title of their new studio album, tentatively due in early 2020.
Drummer Robin Goodridge departed from the band in 2019. With Goodridge's departure, Rossdale became the only original member of Bush remaining in the band.
On 10 May 2019, it was announced that a song, "Bullet Holes", would feature in the film John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. The song and music video were released on 17 May 2019. Rossdale claimed in late May that the new album, featuring songwriting from Tyler Bates, was influenced by Bush's presence on music festivals dominated by primarily metal bands, and that he had been specifically listening to System of a Down during the writing process for the new album.
On 3 March 2020 the band released a new single, "Flowers on a Grave" and announced their new album was re-titled The Kingdom. The album was released on 17 July 2020.
Musical style and influences
Bush have been described as post-grunge, grunge, alternative rock, and hard rock. One of the first bands to be described as post-grunge, Bush were labeled almost pejoratively as such. Matt Diehl of Rolling Stone described Bush as "the most successful and shameless mimics of Nirvana's music". In the book Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, Chuck Klosterman wrote, "Bush was a good band who just happened to signal the beginning of the end; ultimately, they would become the grunge Warrant". In the book Accidental Revolution: The Story of Grunge, Kyle Anderson wrote about Bush's album Sixteen Stone, writing:
Bush have noted Nirvana's music as a key influence in their work, but remained insistent that their style is original. Talking to The Morning Call in February 1996, lead guitarist Nigel Pulsford remarked "Nirvana was a big influence. They acted as a catalyst, put the guitar band back in vogue and inspired us to perform". Of the similarities in the music of the two acts, Gavin Rossdale told Rolling Stone that he "hoped" there was an element of Nirvana in Bush but also that felt he "had [his] own thing". In 2011, Rossdale proclaimed Pixies as "the most influential band" to him. In addition, members of Bush have cited artists including The Beatles, Big Black, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, PJ Harvey, Hole, Hüsker Dü, Jane's Addiction, My Bloody Valentine, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, The Replacements, Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, Soundgarden, and Neil Young as influential or inspirational.
Band members
Current
Gavin Rossdale – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1992–2002, 2010–present)
Chris Traynor – lead guitar (2002, 2010–present), backing vocals (2002)
Corey Britz – bass, backing vocals (2010–present)
Nik Hughes – drums (2019–present)
Former
Nigel Pulsford – lead guitar, backing vocals (1992–2002)
Dave Parsons – bass (1992–2002)
Robin Goodridge – drums (1993–2002, 2010–2019)
Touring musicians
Sacha Puttnam – keyboards, piano, backing vocals (2002)
Sibyl Buck – bass (2012, 2013)
Timeline
Discography
Sixteen Stone (1994)
Razorblade Suitcase (1996)
The Science of Things (1999)
Golden State (2001)
The Sea of Memories (2011)
Man on the Run (2014)
Black and White Rainbows (2017)
The Kingdom (2020)
Awards and nominations
American Music Awards
Grammy Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Movie Awards
References
External links
Allmusic entry
MTV biography
Atlantic Records artists
British post-grunge groups
English alternative rock groups
English grunge groups
Musical groups established in 1992
Musical groups disestablished in 2002
Musical groups reestablished in 2010
Musical groups from London
Sony Music Publishing artists
English hard rock musical groups
Musical quartets
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Wong cilik literally means 'little people' in Javanese, the language of the Javanese people, Indonesia's largest ethnic group. It is a term that refers to a social class in traditional Javanese society that corresponds to commoners in medieval European societies, as opposed to priyayi, the elite, aristocratic class.
References
Social history of Indonesia
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West Carleton was a township municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It was located in the rural parts of what is now the City of Ottawa, west of Kanata. Its northern boundary was the Ottawa River.
The township was created in 1974 with the amalgamation of three townships: Torbolton, Fitzroy, and Huntley. In 2001 it was amalgamated with Cumberland, Gloucester, Goulbourn, Kanata, Nepean, Osgoode, Ottawa, Rideau, Rockcliffe Park and Vanier to form the new city of Ottawa.
According to the Canada 2016 Census:
Population: 21,547
% Change (2011–2016): +6.2%
Dwellings: 8,596
Area (km²): 630.95
Density (persons per km²): 34.2
Mayors
1974-1977 Donald B. Munro
1978-1982 Frank Marchington
1982-1984 Donald B. Munro
1984-1990 Eric Craig
1991-1994 Roland Armitage
1995-2001 Dwight Eastman
References
1974 establishments in Ontario
Former municipalities now in Ottawa
Former township municipalities in Ontario
Populated places disestablished in 2000
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2019 Penn Quakers football team
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The 2019 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Ray Priore and played its home games at Franklin Field. It was a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5, 3–4 in Ivy League play to tie for fourth place.
Previous season
The Quakers finished the 2018 season 6–4, 3–4 in Ivy League play, to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.
Preseason
Preseason media poll
The Ivy League released its preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Quakers were picked to finish in fifth place.
Schedule
Game summaries
at Delaware
at Lafayette
Dartmouth
Sacred Heart
at Columbia
at Yale
Brown
Cornell
at Harvard
Princeton
References
Penn
Penn Quakers football seasons
Penn Quakers football
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Vechec () is a village and municipality in Vranov nad Topľou District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1402.
Geography
The municipality lies at an altitude of 184 metres and covers an area of 17.271 km². It has a population of about 2331 people.
External links
http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html
Villages and municipalities in Vranov nad Topľou District
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Quercus wislizeni, known by the common name interior live oak, is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in many areas of California in the United States continuing south into northern Baja California in Mexico. It generally occurs in foothills, being most abundant in the lower elevations of the Sierra Nevada, but also widespread in the Pacific Coast Ranges ─ where since 1980 it has been known as a separate species Quercus parvula ─ and the San Gabriel Mountains. It was named for its collector, Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (1810–1889).
Description
It is a large shrub or tree growing to tall, although where it is common in the low elevation Sierra foothills it seldom exceeds . The dark-green leaves ─ appearing grayish from a distance ─ are usually small, long, thick, and often spiny-toothed at higher elevations, particularly on young trees. The male flowers are on catkins, the female flowers in leaf axils. The acorns are long, and mature the second season (about 18 months) after flowering.
Nomenclature
Although originally published by Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle as "wislizeni", some sources, e.g., Jensen in Flora of North America, mistakenly spelled the specific epithet "wislizenii." Correct spelling is with one "i," per ICN article 60C.2. Wislizenus' specimen was thought by de Candolle to have been collected in Chihuahua, Mexico. However, German-born American botanist Georg Engelmann later corrected the location to the American fork of the Sacramento River near Auburn, California.
California physician and botanist (and one of the founding fathers of the California Academy of Sciences) Albert Kellogg described an oak in an 1855 publication as Quercus arcoglandis (spur acorn oak), apparently the same species as Q. wislizeni. This clearly predates French-Swiss botanist de Candolle's 1864 name, and if confirmed to be this same taxon would have priority. More investigation is needed to resolve this taxonomic conflict.
Currently there are two recognized varieties of interior live oak:
Q. wislizeni A. DC. var. wislizeni (1864)
Q. wislizeni A. DC. var. frutescens Engelm (1878). This is an invalid taxon. Engelmann's Q. wislizeni var. frutescens description is virtually identical to de Candolle's Q. wislizeni, while Engelmann's Q. wislizeni description most closely matches Kellogg's Q. morehus.
Ecology
The interior live oak is a red oak (section Lobatae) in the California Floristic Province (series Agrifoliae). Q. wislizeni hybridizes with California black oak (Q. kelloggii) (= Quercus × morehus, Abram's oak). All California red oaks show evidence of introgression and/or hybridization with one another.
A common alliant tree is gray pine (Pinus sabiniana).
Uses
Deer browse the tree's foliage. Humans use the wood as a fuel source.
References
Bibliography
External links
C. Michael Hogan (2008) California Buckeye: Aesculus californica, GlobalTwitcher.com, N. Stromberg ed.
wislizeni
Trees of Baja California
Flora of California
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Plants described in 1864
Trees of Mediterranean climate
Garden plants of North America
Drought-tolerant trees
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Lorenzo Tedesco (born 30 December 1990) is an Italian lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota with the lightweight men's four.
References
1990 births
Living people
Italian male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Italy
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Hans Hahne (18 Mar 1875, Piesdorf–2 Feb 1935, Halle (Saale) ) was a German physician and prehistorian.
Life
Hans Hahne was born the son of a sugar manufacturer. He attended school in Artern and after 1885 in Berlin and Magdeburg, where he graduated in 1894 from the Domgymnasium. At the Universities of Jena, Munich, and Leipzig, he studied natural sciences and medicine and received his MD in 1899. This was followed by specialist training in Bern, Berlin, and Leipzig. In 1902 Hahne settled in Magdeburg as an internist and neurologist, but closed his practice in 1905 to devote himself to prehistory and early history .
In the years 1905-1907 Hahne studied prehistory under Gustaf Kossinna at the University of Berlin. From 1907 he became assistant at the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hannover, where he was appointed assistant director in 1908. At the same time he was an adjunct professor at the Leibniz University Hannover. In 1912 Hahne was appointed director of the Halle State Museum of Prehistory. In World War I he was exempted from military service due to a heart and liver disease. At the University of Halle, he received his doctorate in February 1918 with his thesis "Die geologische Lagerung der Moorleichen und Moorbrücken als Beitrag zur Forschung der erdgeschichtlichen Vorgänge der Nacheiszeit " ("The geological stratification of bog bodies and bog villages as a contribution to the research of geological processes of the post-glacial period"). He was appointed professor in May and habilitated in November 1918 at the University of Hannover in prehistory (Prehistoric Archeology). In 1921 Hahne was appointed associate professor, in November 1933 full professor; shortly afterwards he was appointed rector of the University of Halle. As a "Volkish" scientist, he also incorporated anthroposophical influences into his theories. Before 1933 Hahne joined the National Socialist Party and was Deputy District Culture Warden (Gaukulturwart), Director of Training in Racial Science (Rassenkunde) in Gau Mitteldeutschland (Saxony) of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt). In February 1934, Hahne suffered a severe stroke with paralysis on his left side, which hindered him so much that he had to turn over most of his duties to colleagues.
Hans Hahne died on 2 February 1935 in Halle.
Hahne's research interests were bog archeology and bog bodies, such as the "Bernuthsfeld Man".
References
1875 births
1935 deaths
People from the Province of Saxony
Archaeologists from Saxony-Anhalt
Prehistorians
Leipzig University alumni
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Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He first emerged as a serious thinker when he joined Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani, Gholamreza Rashid-Yasemi and Abdolhossein Teymourtash to found one of the first literary magazines to be published in Iran, called Daneshkade, in 1918. He subsequently published many articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran.
Saeed Nafisi's relatives include Moadeb Naficy, the guardian and doctor of the Shah of Iran (Reza Pahlavi); and Moadeb's son Habib Nafisi (Naficy), a senior statesman, founder of Iran's labor laws, U.S.-Iran Attache, and founder of multiple technical universities in Tehran, Hamid Naficy, a noted scholar of Media and Cultural Studies, Siamak Naficy, an anthropologist, as well as acclaimed author, Azar Nafisi, a niece of his.
Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul University, Cairo University and San José State University.
Life
The son of Ali Akbar Nazem-ol-Atebba, who was a famous physician, Nafisi was born in 1895 in Tehran. He started his early education in a school founded by his own father, and finished high school in the Eliye school, the only high school at that time. Next, at the age of 15, he went to Switzerland and continued his education in the university of Paris. After his return to Iran, he started teaching French and working in the Ministry of Welfare. Later he also worked alongside Malek-o Shoara Bahar in a magazine.
Later, as well as teaching French in high schools, he taught in other schools, such as political and economic schools, and he also taught in the Literature faculty and Law faculty of Tehran University since its foundation. He also taught outside Iran, in Beirut, Cairo, etc.
He was a member of the Academy of Iran (Farhangestan-e Iran).
Personality
He was greatly fond of books, and he spent almost all his money on books, even depriving himself of some his other needs. He thought that books should be published and be available to people, so that people can read and learn. He used collect everything that had a connection to books and literature. In his last years, he collected Russian books about Iran.
It is said he had a hard temper, but that he had a kind heart, and he would calm down quickly. He would write honestly which would sometimes disturb others.
See also
Persian literature
Iranian Studies
External links
The Mystic Poetry of the Sufis - (excerpt from Nafisi, S., The Aryan Path, June 1950) republished in Theosophy World June 2004.
Iranian literary scholars
Iranian writers
Persian people
People from Tehran
1895 births
1966 deaths
20th-century Iranian people
Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Iranian male short story writers
Researchers of Persian literature
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The following events occurred in February 1970:
February 1, 1970 (Sunday)
At least 236 people were killed, and 360 injured in Argentina's worst railroad disaster. The high speed luxury train "La Mixta" was north of Buenos Aires at the end of a trip from Tucuman, and carried about 400 passengers in 21 rail cars. Ahead, a commuter train that was crowded with 1,000 passengers in 10 crowded cars, had stalled on the same tracks, but there was no signal to warn the luxury train, which was moving at before impact. Most of the casualties of the wreck were on the commuter train.
Voting took place in Costa Rica for a new President and for the 57-seat Asamblea Legislativa, the unicameral legislature. Former President José Figueres Ferrer, who had served from 1948 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1958, was elected to a four-year term over former President Mario Echandi Jiménez, and Ferrer's National Liberation Party won 32 of the 57 seats in the Asamblea.
Born: Malik Sealy, American pro basketball player in the NBA, 1992–2000; in the Bronx, New York (killed in auto accident, 2000)
February 2, 1970 (Monday)
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sent the annual government budget proposal to Congress, sharply curtailing the American manned space program and raising the amount to be spent for welfare programs. The amount of money budgeted to government programs for the 1971 fiscal year was a little more than 200 billion dollars USD. Fifty years later, the budget for FY 2020 would be 23 times higher, at 4,700 billion dollars ($4.7 trillion)
Died: Bertrand Russell, 97, British philosopher, anti-war activist and logician; 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
February 3, 1970 (Tuesday)
NASA made its second, and more successful launch of a rocket with electrostatic ion thrusters, as it put the SERT-2 probe into a polar orbit around the Earth The SERT-2 was sent up from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:50 in the evening local time. On July 20, 1964, the first SERT (an acronym for Space Electric Rocket Test) operated for 31 minutes. SERT-2 remained in orbit for more than 11 years, and its two mercury engine thrusters successfully operated for 3,781 hours and 2,011 hours (157 days and 84 days)
Born:
Warwick Davis, 3'6" English film actor; in Epsom, Surrey
Keith Carney, American ice hockey player with 1018 NHL games over 18 seasons from 1991 to 2008; in Providence, Rhode Island
Died: General Italo Gariboldi, 90, Italian military officer who commanded the Italian Royal Army in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II; Governor General of Libya in 1941
February 4, 1970 (Wednesday)
All 33 passengers and the four crew of Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 707 were killed when the HS 748 airliner crashed during a three-stop flight between Paraguay and Argentina. The turboprop plane took off from Asunción earlier in the day and was on its way from Corrientes to Rosario, away. Roughly from Rosario, the plane flew into a turbulent cloud bank and, within seconds, plunged to the ground near the village of Loma Alta.
Shareholders of American Motors Corporation approved AMC's purchase of the Kaiser Jeep Corporation, manufacturers of the civilian and military Jeep vehicles
Died: Louise Bogan, American poet and former United States Poet Laureate (during 1945–1946)
February 5, 1970 (Thursday)
The value of a share of Poseidon NL, an Australian nickel mining company, soared to a record high on the Australian Securities Exchange and what would prove to be its peak price of A$275.00 Australian dollars ($308.00 in U.S. dollars at the exchange rate at the time of A$1 to US$1.12) The stock opened the day at A$225 and a rush of buying increased the price dramatically before the ASX asked Poseidon for further information; when Poseidon replied that drilling had commenced at Windarra and that "A report will be made at the end of March", prices began to drop. Investors who had bought the stock in September, when it was priced at 80 cents per share ($US 0.90), made a fortune in the months after the company had announced a major discovery of a nickel deposit at Mount Windarra, near Laverton, Western Australia. By March 23, the stock price had dropped to $131.79 and was at $74 by the end of April and $46 at year's end.
February 6, 1970 (Friday)
The village of Angmagsalik (now called Tasiilaq) in Greenland was leveled by hurricane-force winds when it was struck by a piteraq, a powerful winter wind; ten buildings were destroyed, and the rest in the town of 800 sustained damage of some sort, but the residents were prepared to take shelter and no injuries or deaths were reported. The Tasiilaq event had the highest speed winds ever recorded for such an event, reaching 90 meters/second — .
Aeroflot Flight U-45 crashed in the Soviet Union's Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan) during its approach to Samarkand after a flight that had originated in Tashkent. Only 14 of the 98 people on board survived. A misreading of the radar data by an air traffic controller in Samarkand led to prematurely clearing the Ilyushin Il-18 airliner for descent, and the plane impacted on a mountain slope on the Zarafshan Range at an altitude of . Consistent with Soviet policy at the time, the accident was not mentioned in the media.
The dollar became the official currency of the popular tourist destination of Bermuda as the British Overseas Territory abandoned the pound and converted to decimal currency. The Bermudian dollar was given for the old money at the rate of 8 shillings, 4 pence which was the exchange rate for the British pound. Conversely, a Bermudian pound was worth $2.40 in Bermudian currency. The United Kingdom would go to decimal currency on February 15, 1971.
February 7, 1970 (Saturday)
Professional golfer Doug Sanders was struck on the head with a golf ball during the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, California, after being hit by an errant shot made by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew. Sanders had won the Desert Classic during the PGA Tour in 1966 and had been grouped with three celebrities, Agnew, Bob Hope and former movie star and U.S. Senator, George Murphy. Bruce Devlin of Australia would go on to win the PGA event.
February 8, 1970 (Sunday)
Four days after running aground on Cerberus Rock within Chedabucto Bay off of Nova Scotia, the oil tanker SS Arrow broke apart and began spilling its cargo of petroleum into the Nova Scotian waters. The discharge of of oil (over 11 million liters or 3 million U.S. gallons) and befouled of coastline. It remains the worst oil spill in Canadian history (the spill caused by the 1988 sinking of the supertanker Odyssey was from Nova Scotia and drifted away from Canada).
Born:
Alonzo Mourning, American pro basketball player and Hall of Famer who played 16 seasons in the NBA from 1992 to 2008; in Chesapeake, Virginia
Stephanie Courtney, American comedienne and actress best known as "Flo", the spokesperson for Progressive Insurance in more than 100 TV commercials; in Stony Point, New York
February 9, 1970 (Monday)
An explosion in the kitchen of the Venezuelan merchant ship Pampatar, and the subsequent fire and panic in the evacuation, killed 24 of the 27 sailors on board. The ship was 10 miles off of the coast of La Guaira; the captain, Luis Martinez, survived and reported that some of the crewmen who jumped overboard had been attacked by sharks while awaiting rescue.
Born: Glenn McGrath, Australian cricket bowler; in Dubbo, New South Wales
February 10, 1970 (Tuesday)
An avalanche of snow killed at least 39 young skiers as it smashed into the bottom floors of a chalet at the Alpine resort of Val-d'Isère in France. At 8:05 in the morning, as residents were having breakfast, more than 100,000 cubic yards of snow and debris swept down the crest of the Le Dome mountain of the Vanoise massif range. Residents had only seconds to get out after a tremendous roar heralded the approach of the debris.
Born: Ardy Wiranata, Indonesian badminton player and 1991 Badminton World Cup men's singles champion; in Jakarta
Died: Tobias Geffen, 99, American Jewish Orthodox rabbi who certified Coca-Cola as kosher after the company revealed the secret ingredients to him in 1935, and had made minor changes on his recommendation.
February 11, 1970 (Wednesday)
Japan became the fourth nation (after the Soviet Union, the United States and France) to launch a rocket and a satellite into orbit, as it sent Ohsumi skyward from the Uchinoura Space Center near Kimotsuki on the island of Kyushu at 1:25 in the afternoon local time (04:25 UTC)
Born: Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish heavy medal guitarist; in Umeå
February 12, 1970 (Thursday)
February 13, 1970 (Friday)
The first heavy metal album, Black Sabbath went on sale in Britain. Black Sabbath had been formed in the English city of Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist and chief songwriter Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, drummer Bill Ward, and bassist Geezer Butler. Within weeks, the debut record would be the eighth bestselling rock album on the British charts, and would be released in the United States on June 1.
Joseph L. Searles III became the first African-American broker to trade on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. As a member of the NYSE, Searles became a general partner in the investment firm of Neuberger, Loeb and Company.
The first print edition of The Irish Post, which has the largest circulation of a British newspaper for Great Britain's Irish community, was published.
FH Serpentis, described as "the nova among the best observed in the whole history of astronomy" and "the first observed in almost every part of the electromagnetic spectrum" was discovered by Japanese astronomer Minoru Honda, roughly 2,934 years after the event (based on its estimated distance of 900 parsecs).
Sixty-eight civilian workers were killed Egypt, and another 98 injured, after Israeli Air Force bombers dropped napalm and delayed fuse bombs on a scrap metal factory. The IAF raid had intended to strike military targets near Abu Zaabal, north of Cairo, and hit the factory by instead. The early morning raid occurred while many of the employees were eating breakfast before beginning their shifts. In an unprecedented move, Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan disclosed that at least one of the IAF bombs had a 24-hour delay, and asked the International Red Cross to notify the Egyptian government immediately.
February 14, 1970 (Saturday)
North Korea released 39 of the South Korean 46 passengers that it had held after the hijacking of a Korean Air Lines airplane and allowed them to return to South Korea at the DMZ in Panmunjom. The other seven passengers, both stewardesses and the pilot and co-pilot were not allowed to leave and, 49 years later, their fate remained unknown
The British rock band The Who performed a concert at the 2,100 seat University of Leeds Refectory in England. Recorded at the concert, the record album Live at Leeds was described by Nik Cohn of The New York Times as "the best live rock album ever made" and by another critic as "one of the gold standards in live rock & roll"
The best-selling novel of 1970, Love Story, was released by Harper & Row on Valentine's Day, after readers had gotten a preview of excerpts in the February 1970 issue of The Ladies' Home Journal. In 1969, author Erich Segal had written the screenplay for a film that would be released at the end of 1970 by Paramount Pictures, and the studio hired him to right a novelization of his script in order to generate advance publicity.
Born:
Simon Pegg, English film and TV actor and comedian; in Brockworth, Gloucestershire
Sean Hill, American ice hockey defender who played 17 NHL seasons from 1991 to 2009; in Duluth, Minnesota
Died:
Arthur Edeson, 78, pioneering American cinematographer who (in 1929) developed location filming of sound pictures by concealment of microphones
Harry Stradling, 68, American cinematographer and winner of two Academy Awards (in 1945 and 1964)
Sasha Siemel, 80, Latvian-born adventurer and explorer in South America
Herbert Strudwick, 90, English cricketer with 1,493 dismissals, third highest in first class cricket
February 15, 1970 (Sunday)
All 102 people were killed in the crash of the Dominicana Airlines jet that was taking them from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. Shortly after its takeoff from Santo Domingo toward San Juan, the twin engine DC-9 airliner lost its right engine. As the pilot was preparing to return to the airport, the left engine failed as well and the plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea. An investigation later determined that water had leaked into the aviation fuel, causing the engines to fail. The Puerto Rican women's volleyball team was killed in the crash, as was the first Dominican world champion boxer, Carlos Cruz, who held the lightweight championship during 1968 and 1969.
Born: Shepard Fairey, American artist and designer; in Charleston, South Carolina
February 16, 1970 (Monday)
In a professional bout to determine the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world, World Boxing Council champion Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis, holder of the World Boxing Association, in the fifth round of a fight at Madison Square Garden in New York.
February 17, 1970 (Tuesday)
U.S. Army Captain and physician, Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, told police at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, that a "hippie-type band of three men and a blonde girl" had invaded his apartment and stabbed his pregnant wife and his two daughters to death. According to MacDonald, who had stab wounds, the blonde girl mumbled "Acid is groovy"; "Kill the pigs"; and "Hit 'em again", then scrawled the word "pig" in blood on the headboard of his bed. Detectives with the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) doubted Dr. MacDonald's story. Within six weeks of the killings, CID began interrogating MacDonald as a suspect. The Army confined him to quarters and relieved him of duty, and, on May 1, the U.S. Army would arrest him and charge him with the triple murder. As of the end of 2018, MacDonald remained imprisoned after a federal appellate court affirmed the a lower court denying him a new trial
Born: Tommy Moe, American alpine ski racer and 1994 Olympic gold medalist; in Missoula, Montana
Died:
Dr. Peyton Rous, 90, American virologist and 1966 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate for his finding that cancer could be transmitted by a virus
S. Y. Agnon, 81, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli novelist and 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
Alfred Newman, 69, American film score composer and conductor, and winner of nine Academy Awards
February 18, 1970 (Wednesday)
After five months, the trial of the "Chicago Seven" – American antiwar activists Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner – concluded with a federal district court jury acquitting the group of charges of conspiracy to foment the rioting that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Froines and Weiner were acquitted of all charges, while the remaining five were convicted of crossing state lines in order to incite a riot. On February 20, Judge Julius Hoffman (no relation to Abbie Hoffman) sentenced each of the convicted men to five years in prison and a fine of $5,000, as well as ordering them to pay the costs of their prosecution, while defense attorney William Kunstler was sentenced to four years and 13 days imprisonment for contempt of court. After Kunstler stated that "I think it is wrong legally and morally" to issue sentences so quickly after trial, Judge Hoffman replied, "To say I am morally wrong can only add to your present troubles." On February 28, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the men to be released from jail, on bond. On November 21, 1972, their convictions were overturned by the appellate court.
Born: Raine Maida, Canadian singer and musician, frontman of Our Lady Peace, in Weston, Ontario
February 19, 1970 (Thursday)
Eleven children and five women were killed by a group of United States Marines in the village of Son Thang in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province. Four members of a patrol unit of the 1st Battalion of the 7th U.S.M.C. would be court-martialled on charges of murder and two would be convicted in separate trials. Private Michael A. Schwarz would originally be sentenced to life imprisonment, reduced to one year at hard labor by his commanding general, while Private Samuel G. Green's five year prison term would be commuted to one year.
In separate resolutions, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate voted to prohibit federally-required desegregation busing, the federal court practice of ordering individual school districts to revise their sub-district boundaries maps so that African-American students would be taken by school bus to predominantly white schools rather than the closest school geographically. The House vote was 315 to 81 and the vote in the Senate was approved by voice vote rather than roll call vote. The press noted at the time that "Neither the Senate nor House amendments, even if signed into law, would stop federal courts from requiring busing."
Major League Baseball pitcher Denny McLain was suspended indefinitely, a week after Sports Illustrated broke the story of his involvement with gamblers and a day after testifying before a federal grand jury. MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who announced the decision, later decided on a ban until July 1, the first 71 games of the 162 game MLB season. McLain, who had won 31 games for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 and helped them reach and win the World Series, had won his second consecutive Cy Young Award four months earlier.
Died: Talmadge "Tab" Prince, 32, American race car driver, was killed in an accident at the Daytona International Speedway while competing in the second of two qualifying races in preparation for the 1970 Daytona 500. Prince lost control of his 1969 Dodge on the 21st of 50 laps, when his car blew its engine and went into a spin, into the path of another driver, Bill Seifert
February 20, 1970 (Friday)
After the first mission of the supersonic D-21 TAGBOARD drone failed on November 10, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made improvements to the computer software of its inertial navigation system, and "flew a completely successful test mission to validate the software" and a new "'fail-safe' feature" to allow "positive control of the drone's flight path" on aerial reconnaissance missions.
The House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Georgia unanimously approved the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a day after the state Senate had done so and almost 50 years after the amendment had granted American women the right to vote. The amendment had taken effect on August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th of the then 48 U.S. states to approve it. The Georgia legislature had previously voted against ratification on July 24, 1919. Louisiana and North Carolina would follow in the next 15 months, while Mississippi would not get around to giving its ratification until March 22, 1984.
Died: João Café Filho, 71, the 18th President of Brazil (1954 to 1955)
February 21, 1970 (Saturday)
All 47 people aboard Swissair Flight 330 were killed when the Convair 990 jet was damaged in midflight by a terrorist bomb. The flight departed Zurich at 1:14 in the afternoon, bound for Tel Aviv and, seven minutes later, the bomb's barometric pressure mechanism triggered the explosion in the cargo hold when the Convair reached an altitude . The pilot, Karl Berlinger, turned the plane back toward Zurich upon detecting the loss in cabin pressure, and the crew realized there was fire at 1:26 before smoke filled the cabin. By 1:33, the plane was so full of smoke that the crew couldn't see the instruments and Berlinger radioed his last message to the tower (in English)— "We are crashing. Goodbye everybody." The jet crashed in the Unterwald forest, at Würenlingen, went into a dive, and impacted at a speed of , obliterating the plane and everyone and everything onboard.
An end to the draft of young American men into the military was recommended by a special commission chaired by former U.S. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr., in a report presented to President Nixon. The 15 member commission recommended that the United States shift to a force of volunteers, and that the existing draft law not be renewed after its expiration on June 30, 1971. However, Nixon would reverse his position and ask Congress to extend the draft for two more years, signing the legislation to do so on September 28, 1971
Died: David H. Stahl, 49, judge on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals since 1968, died of carbon monoxide poisoning at his Pittsburgh home in Brookline. A coroner's investigation concluded that Judge Stahl's death had been accidental, the result of closing the door of his garage after driving home.
February 22, 1970 (Sunday)
Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old boy from Australia, fell to his death from an airliner after trying to stowaway inside the wheel well of the DC-8 jet. Sapsford had climbed in and was lying on top of a door to the wheel compartment, which opened at an altitude of when the wheels of the Japan Air Lines jet were retracting. The incident was witnessed by 350 people watching from an observation deck at the Sydney International Airport, and was photographed by one of the bystanders who was testing a new camera; the picture would be reprinted in newspapers around the world.
Voters in Senegal overwhelmingly approved a new constitution for the West African republic, re-establishing the position of Prime Minister of Senegal almost seven years after it had been abolished in a 1963 referendum. Officially, 94.3% of the registered voters turned out to cast ballots and all but 6,349 of the 1,162,060 votes were in favor of approval. Four days later, president Léopold Sédar Senghor appointed Abdou Diouf as the new prime minister.
Died: Edward Selzer, 77, American film producer who oversaw production of the Loony Tunes series of Warner Bros. cartoons from 1944 to 1958; winner of five Academy Awards
February 23, 1970 (Monday)
The Co-operative Republic of Guyana was created as the South American nation of Guyana, independent since 1966, commenced a presidential form of government at midnight. Sir Edward Luckhoo, who had been the Governor-General as representative of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, took office as the first President of Guyana, pending election of a permanent occupant of the ceremonial post. Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, a proponent of the concept of government assistance to cooperatives of employee-owned farms, banks and mining companies, continued as the actual head of government.
February 24, 1970 (Tuesday)
Separate avalanches killed at least 36 people in the European Alps. In Switzerland, snow swept down a mountain into the village of Reckingen, destroying an army barracks and killing 29 people, most of whom were officers in the Swiss Army. The onslaught of the 30 feet of snow decapitated several of the soldiers. A separate avalanche in France struck the Hotel du Gran Signal in the ski resort of Villard-de-Lans, killing at least seven guests.
Joseph Franklin Sills, a 49-year-old convicted robber in Texas, was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. A jury in Dallas had recommended the sentence after convicting Sills for the armed robbery of $73.10 from a Dallas dry cleaners, and meted out the punishment after being told that he had 20 prior felony convictions. Other juries in Texas would follow in recommending similarly long imprisonment time, primarily as a protest against Texas law, which allowed convicts to be eligible for parole after 20 years or after one-third of their sentence had been served, whichever came first.<ref>"Dallas Juries Issuing 1,000 Year Sentences", Latrobe (PA) August 24, 1970, p8</ref> Mr. Sills's sentence would be upheld on appeal.
Born: The Kienast quintuplets, Amy, Sarah, Abigail, Ted and Gordon, in New York City. The Kienast quints were the first in the United States whose mother had used fertility drugs, and only the second set ever to be born in the United States.
Died: Conrad Nagel, 72, American film, radio and television actor
February 25, 1970 (Wednesday)
A routine in an episode of the children's TV series Sesame Street'' was performed for the first time and would soon become a best-selling record, as the muppet character Ernie sang "Rubber Duckie" (with Jim Henson supplying the voice) as an ode to the rubber duck bathtub toy. The latex toy duck had been invented by sculptor Peter Ganine, who applied for a patent on December 29, 1947 and received U.S. Patent No. 153,514 on April 26, 1949. The song itself was written by Jeff Moss and arranged by Joe Raposo.
After a speech by Attorney William M. Kunstler at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a crowd of demonstrators rioted in the Isla Vista section of town near the campus, and burned down a branch of the Bank of America. A 17-year old demonstrator was quoted nationwide, after telling an Associated Press reporter that the crowd attacked the bank branch "because it was there. It was the biggest capitalist establishment thing around."
Died: Mark Rothko, 66, Latvian-born American abstract expressionist artist, by suicide
February 26, 1970 (Thursday)
National Public Radio (NPR) was incorporated to be a provider of commercial-free news and programming to American public radio stations. It would first go on the air on April 20, 1971.
Hey Jude, the second-to-last marketed Beatles album, went on sale worldwide. Along with the title song "Hey Jude" (which had been released as a single 45 RPM record in 1968), the offerings were singles that had never been compiled before on a long playing 33 RPM record album.
Born: Linda Brava (Linda Lampenius), Finnish classical concert violinist; in Helsinki
February 27, 1970 (Friday)
The first Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) Conference in British history opened at Ruskin College at Oxford, with about 500 women from 15 groups in the United Kingdom gathering to discuss common goals. From the three-day gathering came demands for equal pay, equal opportunities for education and jobs, free contraception, the right to abortion of a pregnancy, and 24-hour child care
February 28, 1970 (Saturday)
The Hindu kingdom of Nepal was the scene of the royal wedding of Crown Prince Birendra to his second cousin, Princess Aishwarys Rajya Laskhmi. The ceremonies in Katmandu, which had started the day before, concluded with the marriage to be pronounced at 4:45 in the morning, a time calculated by the royal astrologers based on the horoscopes of the Prince and the Princess Birendra would become King of Nepal in 1972 upon the death of his father, and would reign until June 1, 2001, when he, Queen Aishwarya, and most of the royal family were killed in a murder-suicide carried out by their son, Crown Prince Dipendra.
Sixty-one of 70 Christian pilgrims from Sri Lanka drowned, when the boat they were on capsized and sank after their departure from Jaffna. The group was on its way to the island of Katchatheevu to celebrate a festival at the shrine of Saint Anthony of Padua.
The first-ever theft of lunar soil was carried out at the banquet hall of the upscale Bullocks Wilshire store in Los Angeles, where it had been on display for 300 guests attending a fundraising dinner. The sample, part of Moon Rock No. 50 brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts, was unguarded and the display of the rock had not been authorized by NASA. The lunar sample had been on loan to the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics since November. The LAPD recovered the purloined vial of dust two days later after receiving an anonymous phone tip that it had been dropped into a mailbox
Born:
Noureddine Morceli, Algerian track athlete, who, between 1994 and 1996 was the fastest man in the world, with the records for fastest 1500, fastest 3000m and fastest mile; in Ténès. In 1993, Morceli became the first person to run a mile in less than 3 minutes and 45 seconds (3:44.39), a mark that stood until 1999
Rupert Hamer, British journalist and war correspondent who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan (d. 2010); in Norwich, East Anglia
Died: Marie Dionne Houle, 35, one of the four surviving Dionne quintuplets, after a brief illness. In 2019, two of the quintuplets— Annette Allard and Cécile Langlois— would celebrate their 85th birthdays.
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Situationism may also refer to:
A term incorrectly applied to the ideas of the Situationist International, an international political and artistic movement active from 1957 through 1972
Situationism (psychology), a current started in 1968 which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations
Situational ethics, a Christian ethical theory developed in 1963 by Episcopal priest Joseph Fletcherthe, according to which the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system when it occurs
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Chuk Yuen Estate () is a public housing estate in Kowloon, Hong Kong, located north of Wong Tai Sin and underneath Lion Rock. Its site was formerly the Chuk Yuen Resettlement Area.
It is divided into Chuk Yuen (North) Estate () and Chuk Yuen (South) Estate (). The two estates have eight blocks each, and were all built in the 1980s. In 1999, some of the flats were sold to tenants through the Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 2.
At the centre of these buildings is a shopping mall, hosting a McDonald's, 7-Eleven, Circle K, three bakeries, a street market, Watsons, a dim sum restaurant, two supermarkets and a sports centre. Beside the mall are two parks: one with a fish pond and a waterfall and the other with basketball courts and football fields.
Pang Ching Court () and Ying Fuk Court () fall under the Home Ownership Scheme courts near Chuk Yuen Estate, completed in 1991 and 2001 respectively. They each have one block.
Houses
Chuk Yuen (South) Estate
Chuk Yuen (North) Estate
Pang Ching Court
Ying Fuk Court
See also
Chuk Yuen
Public housing estates in Wong Tai Sin
References
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Hong Kong Housing Authority - Chuk Yuen (North) Estate
Hong Kong Housing Authority - Chuk Yuen (South) Estate
Public housing estates in Hong Kong
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Sujit Choudhry is a lawyer, legal scholar, and expert in comparative constitutional law.
He is also an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. For over 20 years, he has been an advisor for constitution building, governance and rule of law processes, including in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine and Yemen. He has lectured or spoken in three dozen countries. As a leading expert on the Canadian constitution, Sujit has published over 100 articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports. His work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts across Canada.
In 2016 Choudhry stepped down from his position as dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law after sexually harassing an executive assistant. The case resulted in Choudhry paying a $100,000 settlement but retaining his position on the faculty.
Early life
Choudhry was born in New Delhi in 1970. He went to the University of Toronto Schools for high school. He received a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University in 1992, a B.A. (with first-class honors) in Law from the University of Oxford's University College, in 1994, before attending the University of Toronto, graduating with an LL.B. (with honors) in 1996, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1998. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and had a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University and the William E. Taylor Memorial Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Scholarship
Choudhry is an author of the books The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, Dilemmas of Solidarity, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, Constitution-Making, Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions and Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions.
Choudhry co-authored a report titled "Semi-Presidentialism and Inclusive Governance in Ukraine" with Thomas Sedelius and Julia Kyrychenko which was presented in April 2018 before Ukrainian constitutional experts in Kyiv. He is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.
Sexual harassment complaint and lawsuit
In March 2015, when Choudhry was dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, he was accused of sexual harassment by his executive assistant, Tyann Sorrell. Chaudhry did not dispute that the conduct had occurred, but only disputed how often the conduct occurred. The university's office for the prevention of harassment and discrimination concluded that Choudhry's behavior had violated campus sexual harassment policies.
In March 2016, Sorrell filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Choudhry in the Alameda County Superior Court, and against the Regents of the University of California for their failure to respond effectively to her complaint against Choudhry. Choudhry thereafter went on an indefinite leave of absence from his position as dean, but continued to remain a member of faculty. His return to the Berkeley campus in September 2016 as a member of faculty was met by student protests. The lawsuit resulted in settlement agreements, under which Choudhry agreed to pay a total of $50,000 to Sorrell's attorneys, a contribution that his lawyer William Taylor called "relatively minimal." Choudhry also agreed to pay $50,000 to charities of Sorrell's choice.
Academic service
Choudhry was the first person of Indian origin to be named dean of a top US law school, and the first I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law at Berkeley's School of Law. He was also a recipient of the Trudeau Fellowship and the South Asian Bar Associations of Southern California (SABA-SC) and Northern California (SABA-NC) each awarded him the "Trailblazer Award".
In 2010, the Trudeau Foundation awarded Choudhry a Trudeau Fellowship. The South Asian Bar Association of Toronto named Choudhry Practitioner of the Year in 2011. In 2015, the South Asian Bar Associations of Southern California (SABA-SC) and Northern California (SABA-NC) each awarded Choudhry the "Trailblazer Award".
Choudhry is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions. The Center for Constitutional Transitions partnered with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on preparing a set of thematic research reports on constitutional design for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) post Arab Spring. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has cited Choudhry's work in its reports.
In 2005, Choudhry helped to draft a letter to the Canadian Parliament arguing that a proposal to outlaw same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
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Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology.
Food science brings together multiple scientific disciplines. It incorporates concepts from fields such as chemistry, physics, physiology, microbiology, and biochemistry. Food technology incorporates concepts from chemical engineering, for example.
Activities of food scientists include the development of new food products, design of processes to produce these foods, choice of packaging materials, shelf-life studies, sensory evaluation of products using survey panels or potential consumers, as well as microbiological and chemical testing. Food scientists may study more fundamental phenomena that are directly linked to the production of food products and its properties.
Definition
The Institute of Food Technologists defines food science as "the discipline in which the engineering, biological, and physical sciences are used to study the nature of foods, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing, and the improvement of foods for the consuming public". The textbook Food Science defines food science in simpler terms as "the application of basic sciences and engineering to study the physical, chemical, and biochemical nature of foods and the principles of food processing".
Disciplines
Some of the subdisciplines of food science are described below.
Food chemistry
Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of all biological and non-biological components of foods. The biological substances include such items as meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, and milk.
It is similar to biochemistry in its main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, and protein, but it also includes areas such as water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, food additives, flavors, and colors. This discipline also encompasses how products change under certain food processing techniques and ways either to enhance or to prevent them from happening.
Food physical chemistry
Food physical chemistry is the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the application of physicochemical techniques and instrumentation for the study and analysis of foods.
Food engineering
Food engineering is the industrial processes used to manufacture food.
Food microbiology
Food microbiology is the study of the microorganisms that inhabit, create, or contaminate food, including the study of microorganisms causing food spoilage. "Good" bacteria, however, such as probiotics, are becoming increasingly important in food science. In addition, microorganisms are essential for the production of foods such as cheese, yogurt, bread, beer, wine and, other fermented foods.
Food technology
Food technology is the technological aspects.
Early scientific research into food technology concentrated on food preservation. Nicolas Appert's development in 1810 of the canning process was a decisive event. The process wasn't called canning then and Appert did not really know the principle on which his process worked, but canning has had a major impact on food preservation techniques.
Foodomics
In 2009, Foodomics was defined as "a discipline that studies the Food and Nutrition domains through the application and integration of advanced -omics technologies to improve consumer's well-being, health, and knowledge". Foodomics requires the combination of food chemistry, biological sciences, and data analysis.
Foodomics greatly helps the scientists in an area of food science and nutrition to gain a better access to data, which is used to analyze the effects of food on human health, etc. It is believed to be another step towards better understanding of development and application of technology and food. Moreover, the study of foodomics leads to other omics sub-disciplines, including nutrigenomics which is the integration of the study of nutrition, gene and omics.
Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy is a subdiscipline of food science that seeks to investigate the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur in cooking. Its program includes three axes, as cooking was recognized to have three components, which are social, artistic and technical.
Quality control
Quality control involves the causes, prevention and communication dealing with food-borne illness.
Quality control also ensures that product meets specs to ensure the customer receives what they expect from the packaging to the physical properties of the product itself.
Sensory analysis
Sensory analysis is the study of how consumers' senses perceive food.
Careers in Food Science
The five most common college degrees leading to a career in food science are: Food science/technology (66%), biological sciences (12%), business/marketing (10%), nutrition (9%), and chemistry (8%).
Careers available to food scientists include: food technologist, research and development (R&D), quality control, flavor chemistry, laboratory director, food analytical chemist, technical sales.
The five most common positions for food scientists are: food scientist/technologist (19%), product developer (12%), quality assurance/control director (8%), other R&D/scientific/technical (7%), director of research (5%).
By country
Australia
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia. CSIRO maintains more than 50 sites across Australia and biological control research stations in France and Mexico. It has nearly 6,500 employees.
South Korea
The Korean Society of Food Science and Technology, or KoSFoST, claims to be the first society in South Korea for food science.
United States
In the United States, food science is typically studied at land-grant universities. Some of the country's pioneering food scientists were women who had attended chemistry programs at land-grant universities (which were state-run and largely under state mandates to allow for sex-blind admission), but then graduated and had difficulty finding jobs due to widespread sexism in the chemistry industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Finding conventional career paths blocked, they found alternative employment as instructors in home economics departments and used that as a base to launch the foundation of many modern food science programs.
The main US organization regarding food science and food technology is the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, which is the US member organisation of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST).
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Publications
Books
Food Science is an academic topic so most Food Science books are textbooks.
Journals
Notes and references
Further reading
Wanucha, Genevieve (February 24, 2009). "Two Happy Clams: The Friendship that Forged Food Science". MIT Technology Review.
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American Son is a 2008 drama film directed by Neil Abramson and starring Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz and Matt O'Leary. The film follows a young man, Mike (Cannon) as he returns home to Bakersfield, California for Thanksgiving leave. Mike faces telling his friends and family of his nearby deployment to Iraq while dealing with a troublesome home life.
It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Plot
A 19-year-old who has enlisted to go to Iraq falls in love with a girl, but is afraid that he might not come back alive.
A young Marine named Mike (Nick Cannon) is shipping out for uncertain fortunes in Iraq, and has 4 days left to visit back home in Bakersfield California. The story is about his parting relationships with his best friend Jake (Matt O'Leary), a new girlfriend Christina (Melonie Diaz), his mother Donna (April Grace), and father Eddie (Chi McBride) over these 96 hours. None of these people initially knows he's shipping out, and each of the significant other's reactions to this news, one-on-one with Mike, make up the bulk of the story. The story also gives some insight into Mike's motives as to why he enlisted in the first place.
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Vitālijs Dolgopolovs (born 3 October 1973) is a retired Latvian football midfielder.
References
1973 births
Living people
Latvian footballers
FK Liepājas Metalurgs players
FK Ventspils players
Association football midfielders
Latvia international footballers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead%20%28James%20Reyne%20song%29
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Hammerhead (James Reyne song)
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"Hammerhead" is the second single from Australian rock musician James Reyne’s debut self-titled solo studio album, released in 1987.
The track featured uncredited backing vocals by Olivia Newton-John.
Reyne reflected on the song saying: ""Hammerhead" was not necessarily about me, but let's say I thought I knew what I was talking about. I wrote it with Simon Hussey; the music Simon and I wrote together and I wrote the lyrics. From memory it seemed to come quite easily. I shouldn't make too much about the fact that it's about drugs. It can be taken many ways. It was an exercise in trying to write a song about that subject but to also make it that it could be about a relationship. It's a song about a relationship. And whether that relationship is with a substance or a person, it's an obsessive relationship".
Track listings
CD / Cassette Single
"Hammerhead" - 4:46
"Coin in a Plate" - 4:14
7" Promo Single
"Hammerhead" (7" Edit) - 4:19
"Burning Wood" - 2:43
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
External links
References
1987 songs
Capitol Records singles
James Reyne songs
Songs written by Simon Hussey
Songs written by James Reyne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abas%20%28name%29
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Abas (name)
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Abas is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with this name include:
Abas (sophist), an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician
Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troia from which Maurus Servius Honoratus (ad Aen. ix. 264) has preserved a fragment
Abas I of Armenia (?–953), king of Armenia from 928 to 953
Abas Amin (born 1996), Somali footballer
Abas Arslanagić (born 1944), Bosnian handball player
Abas Basir (born 1968), Afghan academic and politician
Abas Ermenji (1913–2003), Albanian politician and historian
Abas Ismaili (born 1967), Iranian cyclist
Elisha Abas (born 1971), Israeli pianist
Salleh Abas (1929–2021), Malaysian chief justice
Stephen Abas (born 1978), American wrestler
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadiusz%20Ry%C5%9B
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Arkadiusz Ryś
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Arkadiusz Marek Ryś (born June 18, 1988) is a Polish footballer, currently plays for Garbarnia Kraków.
Career
Who began his career at UKP Zielona Góra before moving to AJ Auxerre in June 2005, after four years left Rys the club had a trial with SO Châtellerault in July 2009 and signed later for GKS Katowice.
Position
He plays as central defender or central midfielder.
References
External links
Skynet
Biography
1988 births
Living people
AJ Auxerre players
GKS Katowice players
Polish footballers
Polish expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in France
Polish expatriate sportspeople in France
People from Zielona Góra
Sportspeople from Lubusz Voivodeship
Association football defenders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick%20M-1%20Tiny%20Champ
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Warwick M-1 Tiny Champ
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The Warwick M-1 Tiny Champ is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Bill Warwick
and first flown on 1 May 1960.
Design and development
The M-1 is a single engine, strut-braced, high wing, open cockpit, conventional landing gear-equipped aircraft. Doors and a rear window can be installed to create an enclosed cabin. The design won outstanding aircraft design at the Experimental Aircraft Association Airshow in 1960.
Specifications (M-1 Tiny Champ)
References
External links
Image of the W-1
Homebuilt aircraft
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Taktra%20Rinpoche
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3rd Taktra Rinpoche
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Ngawang Sungrab Thutob (; ) (1874–1952) was the third Taktra Rinpoche, (Wylie transliteration: sTag-brag, also Takdrak, Tagdrag, etc.) and regent of Tibet. As regent, he was responsible for raising and educating the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. In 1941, he succeeded the fifth Reting Rinpoche, Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen. The Reting Rinpoche later rebelled, was captured, and died imprisoned in the Potala Palace under mysterious circumstances.
State-controlled media in China claims that Thutob was responsible for the death of the 5th Reting Rinpoche, the teacher of 14th Dalai Lama and previous regent. They praise Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen as a patriot and devout Buddhist while calling Ngawang Sungrab Thutob as a "pro-Britain, pro-slavery separatist." Reting Rinpoche, regardless of his political leanings, will be remembered for discovering and enthroning the current, 14th Dalai Lama.
4th Taktra
In 1955 (or 1954), the 4th Taktra or Dagzhag (dharma name: Tenzin Geleg; ; ) was born. He was recognized by the Dalai Lama in 1958 (or 1957). His name was given by 14th Dalai Lama. One or two years later, Dalai Lama fled to India.
Even though mass media in China evaluate Ngawang Sungrab Thutob negatively, 4th Taktra studied under the Chinese curriculum. He became a member of the 6th council of the Buddhist Association of China and the Vice President of Tibetan Sub-Association of Buddhist Association of China. He was quoted by Chinese press to have pejoratively labeled the Dalai Lama's supporters as the "Dalai Group" and said of them:
References
1952 deaths
1874 births
Regents in Tibet
Tibetan Buddhist monks
19th-century Tibetan people
20th-century Tibetan people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franji%C4%87
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Franjić
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Franjić is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mario Franjić (born 1962), Bosnian bobsledder
Ivan Franjic (born 1987), Australian soccer player
Petar Franjić (born 1991), Croatian footballer
Petar Franjic (born 1992), Australian soccer player
Ivan Franjić (born 1997), German-Croatian footballer
Bartol Franjić (born 2000), Croatian footballer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Seiko%20Super%20Tennis%20Hawaii
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1984 Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
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The 1984 Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii, also known as the Hawaii Open, was a men's tennis tournament played an indoor carpet courts at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 11th and last edition of the tournament and was held from September 24 through September 30, 1984. Unseeded Marty Davis won the singles title and earned $20,000 first-prize money as well as 100 Grand Prix ranking points which elevated his ATP ranking from 80th to the mid-50s.
Finals
Singles
Marty Davis defeated David Pate 6–1, 6–2
It was Davis' 1st singles title of the year and the 2nd of his career.
Doubles
Gary Donnelly / Butch Walts defeated Mark Dickson / Mike Leach 7–6, 6–4
References
Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
Seiko Super Tennis Hawaii
Hawaii Open
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Beaumont
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Kathryn Beaumont
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Kathryn Beaumont (born 27 June 1938) is a British-born American former actress and singer. She is best known for providing Disney animated films with the voices of both Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (1953), for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1998.
Early life
Kathryn Beaumont was born to Evelyn and Kenneth Beaumont in London on 27 June 1938. Her mother was a professional dancer, while her father was a singer.
Career
Beaumont made her feature film debut in It Happened One Sunday (1944), which drew interest from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who offered her a contract. She recalled: "MGM was planning to have films with British characters and British-type stories. However, as ideas come and go, they must have shelved the idea because they brought me over and put me under contract, then nothing happened." In spite of this, she did play small parts in MGM's On an Island with You (1948), where she did a Jimmy Durante impression in front of Durante's character, The Secret Garden (1949) and Challenge to Lassie (1949).
After Beaumont had relocated to Los Angeles, Walt Disney Pictures began auditioning young British actresses to portray Alice in their animated version of Alice in Wonderland (1951). Beaumont auditioned and received the role, working under voice director Winston Hibler. Disney subsequently cast her in the voice role of Wendy Darling in their following feature, Peter Pan (1953). In addition to providing her voice, Beaumont also served as the performance model for both characters for live-action reference to help the animators. When performing as Wendy, Beaumont was suspended in the air to simulate flight, although Beaumont had a fear of heights. Walt Disney personally cast Beaumont after seeing the film, On an Island with You. Beaumont reprised her voice acting role as Alice in two episodes of the animated series Disney's House of Mouse (2001–2003) and as both Alice and Wendy in the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts. In 1998, Beaumont was awarded a Disney Legend award for her voice work on the films Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.
In 2010, Beaumont retired from acting; the roles of Alice and Wendy were taken over by Hynden Walch.
Personal life
After completing Peter Pan, Beaumont graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of Southern California, where she graduated with a degree in education. Upon graduating from college, Beaumont worked as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles for 36 years.
Beaumont has been married to her husband Allan Levine, since 1985.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1938 births
Living people
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from London
Audiobook narrators
English voice actresses
English child actresses
English child singers
English women singers
English film actresses
English television actresses
English video game actresses
RCA Victor artists
Schoolteachers from California
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players
University of Southern California alumni
British emigrants to the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah%20Faisal%20Colony
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Shah Faisal Colony
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Shah Faisal Colony (), founded as Drigh Colony (Drigh Village Refugee Colony) is a residential and commercial area in Karachi, Sindh province of Pakistan.
History
It is founded in 1952.
It is located in Shah Faisal town of Korangi district.
The area is named after the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Drigh Colony was the previous name of this area.
It is the house of Drigh Colony railway station.
References
Neighbourhoods of Karachi
Shah Faisal Town
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giannis%20Fivos%20Botos
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Giannis Fivos Botos
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Giannis Fivos Botos (, born 20 December 2000) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Eredivisie club Go Ahead Eagles, on loan from AEK Athens.
Club career
AEK Athens
On 27 June 2018, Botos signed a professional contract with AEK Athens. On 19 January 2020, he made his debut in the Superleague in a 3–0 home win game against AEL coming on as a second-half substitute replacing the scorer of the second goal Nélson Oliveira at the 68th minute.
Botos is the first footballer in the history of AEK Athens, born after 2000, who has scored in an official game, at 4–0 away victory over Apollon Larissa at 31 October 2018.
Loan to Go Ahead Eagles
On 30 December 2020, he joined Go Ahead Eagles on loan until the summer of 2022. In May 2021, Go Ahead finished second in the Eerste Divisie, earning promotion back to the Eredivisie after four seasons in the second tier.
He made an impressive match on 28 August, as he scored, to help his team seal an 2–0 win over Sparta Rotterdam. He was voted man of the match for his performance.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
Soccerway Profile
2000 births
Living people
Greek footballers
Greece under-21 international footballers
Greece youth international footballers
Super League Greece players
Eerste Divisie players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Go Ahead Eagles players
Greek expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Association football midfielders
Sportspeople from Athens
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londa%20Larmond
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Londa Larmond
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Londa Erica Larmond (née, Larmond; born September 3, 1975) is a Canadian gospel musician and worship leader, who is an urban contemporary gospel and Christian R&B recording artist, under the Christian pop umbrella. She started her music career, in 1999, with her first studio album, Love Letters, releasing in 2001. She is a GMA Award and a June Award nominee, and a Covenant Award winner.
Early life
Londa Erica Larmond was born on September 3, 1975, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Jamaican parents, Ethan and Evan Larmond, where she was raised with three brothers, David, Wayne & Jason. She started honing her craft by singing and performing at seven years old. Larmond sung for George W. Bush, when he was president and Jean Chrètien, when he was Prime Minister.
Music career
Her music recording career began in 1999, while her first studio album, Love Letters, was released on June 19, 2001, from EMI Gospel. She was nominated for Urban Album of the Year at the 2002 GMA Dove Awards and Best Gospel Album at the 2002 June Awards, for her album Love Letters, while winning Traditional Gospel Song of the Year at the Covenant Awards in 2006, for the song "Wonderful". In October 2010, Londa recorded her sophomore, album Great Things, live and released it in 2011. She's a triple-crown winner of the Canada Glass Awards.
Personal life
She resides in Toronto, with her 2 sons, Marquese and Miguel Moncrieffe. Larmond is the worship leader at Rhema Christian Ministries.
Discography
Guest Appearances
Caught Up (November 1995, Faith Chorale Gospel Music Incorporated)
Life Is (November 3, 1998, EMI Gospel)
The Experience (March 7, 2006, Alliant)
Studio and LIVE albums
Love Letters (June 19, 2001, EMI Gospel)
Great Things (June 2011, Independent)
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Black Canadian women
Black Canadian musicians
Canadian people of Jamaican descent
Musicians from Toronto
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly%20Dangerous
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Slightly Dangerous
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Slightly Dangerous is a 1943 American romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. The screenplay concerns a bored young woman in a dead-end job who runs away to New York City and ends up impersonating the long-lost daughter of a millionaire. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Charles Lederer and George Oppenheimer from a story by Aileen Hamilton. According to Turner Classic Movies film historian Robert Osborne, one sequence early in the film – in which Lana Turner's character does her job at the soda fountain while blindfolded – was actually directed by an uncredited Buster Keaton.
Cast
Lana Turner as Peggy Evans / "Carol Burden"
Robert Young as Bob Stuart
Walter Brennan as Cornelius Burden
Dame May Whitty as Baba
Eugene Pallette as Durstin
Alan Mowbray as an English gentleman
Florence Bates as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
Howard Freeman as Mr. Quill
Millard Mitchell as Baldwin
Ward Bond as Jimmy
Pamela Blake as Mitzi
Ray Collins as Snodgrass
Gordon Richards as Garrett, the Butler
Emory Parnell as Policeman
Box office
According to MGM records the film earned $1,579,000 in the US and Canada and $672,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $4,776,000.
References
External links
1943 films
American black-and-white films
English-language films
Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
1943 romantic comedy films
American romantic comedy films
American films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films with screenplays by Charles Lederer
Films scored by Bronisław Kaper
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite%20shield
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Termite shield
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A termite shield is a sheet metal fabrication used in light frame construction to reduce the movement of termites from the soil into wood framing members such as floor joists and studs. Although there are several types of non chemical termite barriers now in use, termite shields are the original.
Materials
Termite shields can be made up of various materials. One type of termite shield is made from various sheet metals including galvanized steel, terne, copper, or aluminum. The metal is formed to fit between the top of the foundation wall and the bottom of the wood sill plate. The edges of the termite shield are typically hemmed, extended slightly beyond the face of the wall, and turned down to form a drip edge which diverts water running down the face of the wall and reduce the movement of subterranean termites from the soil up into the wood framing members. Termite shields will not protect a building from termite activity, but help make termite activity more visible.
Lately, granite and Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shield can be installed into tiny brick open spaces where termites can enter the building surrounding the whole perimeter of the property. The termite shield is too thick for the termites to chew and penetrate the material forcing the termites to migrate into the open where they can be more easily eradicated. The benefits of using this type of material is that they are sustainable to the environment being awarded Environmental Choice Declaration from the Environmental Labelling Association. Other benefits include being cheaper than metals, and can be coupled with other shield protection systems.
Problems
One problem with termite shields is the gaps which exist at seams and at openings where steel reinforcing bars penetrate the metal shield. Since many species of subterranean termites can enter through openings >1/20 Inch (1.27 mm), these gaps must be sealed with a sealant known to block termites. Additionally, termite barrier sealant should be used underneath the shield, so termites are forced to go to the exterior of the structures.
Other materials
There are two other materials called "termite barriers" rather than "termite shields" which have been evaluated by the International Code Council. One is a waterproofing membrane, and the other is a wire mesh. (See Termite barriers)
References
Building
Insect control
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Neal%20%28cricketer%29
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John Neal (cricketer)
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John Howard Neal (18 October 1926 – 18 April 2012) was an English cricketer. Neal was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Ditchling, Sussex and educated at Hurstpierpoint College.
Neal made his debut for Sussex in the 1950 Minor Counties Championship against Essex. Neal played a further two Minor Counties Championship matches from 1950 to 1951. Neal made a single first-class appearance for Sussex against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1951. In Sussex's first-innings, he scored 5 runs before being dismissed by Malcolm Hilton. In their second-innings, he was dismissed for 23 runs by Alan Wharton. This was his only major appearance for Sussex.
Neal died in hospital on 18 April 2012 after a short illness.
References
External links
John Neal at ESPNcricinfo
John Neal at CricketArchive
1926 births
2012 deaths
English cricketers
People educated at Hurstpierpoint College
People from Ditchling
Sussex cricketers
Wicket-keepers
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