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Shi Yafeng
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Shi Yafeng (; March 21, 1919 – February 13, 2011) was Chinese geographer and glaciologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology".
Life
Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu on March 21, 1919. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University. He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.
He was a researcher, vice-director, director, honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Works
monograph: Glacier Conspectus of China (Shi et al., 1988)
monograph: Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China (Shi, 1992)
References
1919 births
2011 deaths
Chinese geographers
Chinese glaciologists
East China Normal University faculty
Educators from Nantong
Hohai University faculty
Lanzhou University faculty
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing Normal University faculty
Nanjing University faculty
People from Haimen
Scientists from Nantong
Zhejiang University alumni
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Alexandre Daigle
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Alexandre Daigle (born February 7, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A highly touted junior prospect, Daigle was drafted first overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators. After recording a modest career high of 51 points in three separate National Hockey League (NHL) regular seasons, Daigle briefly retired from hockey at age 25, but returned to the NHL two years later. Though he played 10 seasons in the NHL and four in the NL, he failed to live up to the high expectations put forth when he was drafted first overall, and is therefore regarded by many to have been a draft bust.
Playing career
Amateur career
As a youth, Daigle played in the 1988 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Laval, Quebec.
NHL career
Leading up to the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, Daigle was considered a "can't miss" prospect and NHL superstar-in-waiting. The Senators were even accused of deliberately losing games late in the 1992–93 season, their first in the NHL, in order to guarantee the first overall selection and the right to draft him. This prompted an investigation by the NHL, who soon implemented a draft lottery to prevent such things from happening again. The Senators subsequently finished last place overall in the 1992–93 league standings, thus securing the rights to the first overall pick.
As the draft approached, the Quebec Nordiques, who were hosting the event, were reportedly so eager to draft the next Quebecois superstar that they were rumored to have offered star players such as Owen Nolan, Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, and draft picks, but Ottawa management disregarded all offers. The Senators selected Daigle first overall, ahead of future Hall-of-Famers Chris Pronger and Paul Kariya. He subsequently received the largest starting salary in league history (five years, $12.25 million), leading to the introduction of a rookie salary cap a few years later. Regarding his draft position, Daigle uttered the now infamous comment, "I'm glad I got drafted first, because no one remembers number two". Chris Pronger, selected with the second pick by the Hartford Whalers, was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.
Daigle initially seemed destined to live up to the pre-draft hype, scoring 20 goals and 51 points in a rookie season in which he had little offensive support. However, he was never able to reproduce his junior dominance, and the superstardom the Senators and the league had hoped for never materialized. He scored 20 or more goals twice – in his rookie year and in 1996–97, never registering more than 26 goals in a season. He was frequently criticized for lack of effort and motivation, with his lucrative long-term contract perhaps partially to blame. He seemed interested in the limelight, appearing in a full-page ad dressed in a nurse's uniform.
Russian center Alexei Yashin outplayed Daigle in every season that they were teammates in Ottawa. Both entered the league in the 1993–94 season and were promoted as future stars of the franchise, displayed on the cover of the Senators' yearbook and media guide. Management, however, supported Daigle over Yashin, touting him over Yashin for the Calder Memorial Trophy (though Yashin ended up receiving a nomination instead of Daigle). After management continued to support Daigle despite his subpar performance, an angered Yashin held out in the 1995–96 season unless his contract was renegotiated to pay him at a level similar to Daigle's. Head coach Rick Bowness and assistant coach Alain Vigneault were fired on November 21, 1995, after demoting Daigle to the fourth line.
On September 25, 1996, Daigle was removed from a team flight when, while chatting with a flight attendant aboard USAir Flight 1948, he leaned over to Trevor Timmins (then the Senators' Director Of Team Services) and said, "Watch out for your bomb there" while motioning towards Timmins' laptop computer. Upon hearing Daigle's comment, the flight attendant notified the captain, who immediately contacted USAir ground control, and police were subsequently notified. What Daigle did not know was that then-U.S. President Bill Clinton was also on the Pittsburgh International Airport's tarmac at the time, resulting in a heightened level of security. Daigle was not prosecuted for the incident, but was fined $300 and barred from boarding the connecting flight to Tampa with the rest of the team.
During the 1997–98 season, after four and a half seasons, 74 goals and 172 points in 301 games played, Ottawa finally soured on Daigle and traded him to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for prospect Václav Prospal and another first-round bust, Pat Falloon. With the Flyers, Daigle scored 31 points in 68 games. In January 1999, Philadelphia traded Daigle to the Edmonton Oilers, who later that same day traded him to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Alexander Selivanov. Daigle played only 32 games for the Lightning, collecting six goals and six assists for 12 points. The New York Rangers then acquired Daigle as a reclamation project, sending cash to the Lightning, but they too realized the one-time junior superstar was not living up to expectations and waived him at the end of the season. In 58 games with the Rangers, Daigle recorded just 8 goals and 18 assists for 26 points.
Daigle found himself out of hockey by the age of 25. No one was willing to take a chance on the under-achiever, and in fact, Daigle admitted he had no desire to play the game anymore. In an interview on Radio-Canada, he said he never wanted to play hockey, but stuck to the game because of his talent. Instead, he became interested in the entertainment business and the opportunity to be a celebrity. He played hockey in a small league in Los Angeles with Cuba Gooding Jr. on Jerry Bruckheimer's team, the Bad Boys, and created an event promotion company, Impostor Entertainment, with former Montreal Expos pitcher Derek Aucoin. Their first project was a concert featuring Sheryl Crow during the Canadian Grand Prix Formula One auto race in Montreal.
Following a two-year absence from hockey and in need of a steady paycheck, Daigle decided to attempt an NHL comeback. In mid-2002, he contacted numerous teams looking for an invitation to training camp, ultimately signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Daigle would lead the Penguins in pre-season scoring, earning himself a spot on the Pittsburgh roster to start the season. Despite his impressive training camp, Daigle was unable to continue his success into the regular season, ultimately spending the better part of the season with the team's AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. After his contract was not renewed by the Penguins, Daigle signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild in the offseason.
After arriving in Minnesota, Daigle impressed the Wild coaching staff enough to earn a roster spot for opening night. Over the course of the 2003–04 season, Daigle managed to match his career high point total, finishing the campaign with 51 points (20 goals and 31 assists) to lead the team in scoring. During this season, he was also the Wild's nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, given annually to an NHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. On March 6, 2006, Minnesota waived Daigle and reassigned him to the team's AHL affiliate, the Houston Aeros. Daigle did not play a game for the Aeros, and was subsequently loaned to the AHL's Manchester Monarchs on March 13, 2006, in exchange for forward Brendan Bernakevitch.
Post NHL-career
Aware that his NHL career was over, Daigle set his sights on Europe. On May 5, 2006, he signed a two-year contract with Davos, a top team in the Swiss National League A, and inked a two-year extension with them in December. During his three complete seasons playing in Davos, the team won the league championship on two occasions. In a little over three seasons with Davos, Daigle played 137 games, tallying 46 goals and 94 assists for 140 points (averaging a little over one point per game).
On October 26, 2009, Daigle was loaned to the SCL Tigers in exchange for Oliver Setzinger. Daigle played 25 games with the SCL Tigers in the 2009–10 season, with 7 goals and 17 assists for 24 points. Daigle ranked seventh on the team in points while playing in fewer than half as many games as the team's other top scorers.
On March 23, 2010, Daigle and Davos agreed to have his contract reduced from five years to three years, making him a free agent after the 2009–10 season.
Post-playing career
Since the completion of his European hockey career, Daigle works in the movie industry, running studios for MTL Grandé.
Personal life
Daigle lives in Montreal with his wife and their three children.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards
1991–92: CHL – Rookie of the Year (Canadian Major Junior)
1991–92: QMJHL – Second All-Star Team
1991–92: QMJHL – Michel Bergeron Trophy (Top Rookie Forward)
1992–93: CHL Top Draft Prospect (Canadian Major Junior)
1992–93: QMJHL – Mike Bossy Trophy (Top Draft Prospect)
1992–93: QMJHL – First All-Star Team
Transactions
June 26, 1993: Ottawa Senators 1st round draft choice (1st overall) in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
January 17, 1998: traded by the Ottawa Senators to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Václav Prospal, Pat Falloon and Dallas' 1998 2nd round draft choice.
January 29, 1999: traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Andrei Kovalenko.
January 29, 1999: traded by the Edmonton Oilers to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Alexander Selivanov.
October 3, 1999: traded by the Tampa Bay Lightning to the New York Rangers in exchange for cash.
August 13, 2002: signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
September 30, 2003: signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild.
May 5, 2006: signed a 2-year contract with Davos.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Canadian people of French descent
French Quebecers
Hartford Wolf Pack players
HC Davos players
HC Forward-Morges players
HC Fribourg-Gottéron players
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Manchester Monarchs (AHL) players
Minnesota Wild players
National Hockey League first overall draft picks
National Hockey League first round draft picks
New York Rangers players
Ottawa Senators draft picks
Ottawa Senators players
Philadelphia Flyers players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
SCL Tigers players
Sportspeople from Laval, Quebec
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Victoriaville Tigres players
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins players
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1925 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
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The 1925 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 38th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1925 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 6 September 1925, between Galway and Tipperary. The Connacht men lost to the Munster champions on a score line of 5-6 to 1-5.
Match details
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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Finals
Galway GAA matches
Tipperary GAA matches
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
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Peter Andreas Thejll (born 1956) is a Danish astrophysicist and climate researcher. His research in solar variation helped provide evidence of the greenhouse effect on the Earth's climate in the late 20th century. In particular, his study with Knud Lassen on Northern Hemisphere land air temperature showed that the rise of 0.4 degrees Celsius since 1980 could not be accounted for by the solar cycle, solely. Climatologists have pointed to this finding as a " piece of evidence for greenhouse warming".
Thejll received his undergraduate education at the University of Copenhagen. He received an M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Delaware.
Thejll was a Carlsberg Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute and worked at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. Thejll currently is a senior scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen. He is currently involved in the creation of a global automatic system to observe the Earth's reflectivity – albedo – using observations of the earthshine on the Moon. Such data can be used for climate change studies and calibration of satellite data as the measurements deliver independent data on the albedo. A telescope is now installed on Hawaii at the Mauna Loa Observatory. The Swedish research agency VINNOVA is funding this project.
References
He has two children.
External links
The Sun-Climate Resource Page
Publications by Peter Thejll
Danish physicists
University of Copenhagen alumni
University of Delaware alumni
1956 births
Living people
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Trevor Welch
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Trevor Welch is an Irish sports commentator who worked for TV3 from 1998 until 2012.
He continues to covers TV3's live coverage of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League and up to April 2012 he was the regular presenter of the sports news on TV3 News. From 1998 until 2009 he was the main presenter of nightly sports programme Sports Tonight until it was cancelled due to budget cuts.
Welch also hosted sports gameshow A Game of Two Halves which broadcast for one series in 1999 and League of Ireland highlights show Eircom League Weekly from 2002 to 2007.
As of 2020, he is a presenter on the Cork-based radio station Cork's 96FM.
References
Living people
Irish association football commentators
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Imper
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Imper may refer to:
A village in Plăieșii de Jos commune, Romania
An abbreviation for imperative mood in grammar
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Randy Castillo
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Randolpho Francisco Castillo (December 18, 1950 – March 26, 2002) was an American musician. He was Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and later as drummer for Mötley Crüe, from 1999 to his death in 2002.
Early life
Castillo was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was inspired to take up the drums after seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.
Randy's first rock band in Albuquerque was a hard rock cover band, "The Wumblies," which later moved to Denver, Colorado before breaking up in 1980. Randy Castillo was a mixed-race Apache Native American.
Career
In 1984, Castillo was hired to play drums for Lita Ford and was featured on her Dancin' on the Edge album. Ford introduced Castillo to her boyfriend, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, and Nikki’s bandmate Tommy Lee. Shortly after the “Dancin’ on the Edge” tour, Lee called Castillo from a party he was at with Ozzy Osbourne and told him Ozzy was looking for a new drummer. Despite being unable to audition right away due to a broken leg he suffered while skiing, Castillo was hired by Osbourne a couple months later and ended up staying with the Ozzy Osbourne band for ten years, recording five albums with Ozzy during that time: The Ultimate Sin (1986), No Rest for the Wicked (1988), Just Say Ozzy (1990), No More Tears (1991), and a double-disc live album, Live & Loud (1993).
After recording Ozzy's live album in 1993, he joined the short-lived Bone Angels, followed by Red Square Black. Castillo also briefly returned to Osbourne's band in 1995 for a tour, and played drums on several tribute albums during this time. He played with Ronnie James Dio on a cover of Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" on the Alice Cooper tribute album "Welcome To The Nightmare (An All Star Tribute To Alice Cooper) " and performed all drumming duties on a star-studded Def Leppard tribute album titled Leppardmania. The album featured John Corabi (Angora, The Scream, Mötley Crüe), Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt, Quiet Riot), Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot), Joe Leste (Bang Tango), and Jani Lane (Warrant, solo artist), among others. Guitar and bass duties were handled by Jerry Dixon and Erik Turner of Warrant, and Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns.
In 1999, after Lee had left Mötley Crüe, Sharon Osbourne called Castillo and suggested he join the band, which he did without audition. He'd previously briefly played with Vince Neil as a touring drummer for the Vince Neil Band, and was an old friend of the band. His only recording with the band, 2000's New Tattoo, was somewhat of a return to the classic Mötley Crüe sound. However, fan reaction was mixed and the album was not as successful as the band was hoping it would be. Still, there was excitement over the upcoming tour due to the revival in interest of many '80s hard rock acts, and the band geared up for their "Maximum Rock" tour with thrash metal legends Anthrax and Megadeth.
Death
Several weeks before Mötley Crüe was set to tour the New Tattoo album, joining Megadeth and Anthrax on the Maximum Rock Tour, Castillo became ill while performing with his mariachi side project Azul at the Cat Club in Hollywood. Immediately after the show Castillo took a cab to nearby Cedars Sinai Hospital where he collapsed as he was being admitted. The doctors discovered a duodenal ulcer that had ruptured his stomach and performed emergency surgery that saved Castillo’s life. With Castillo out of action, Hole drummer Samantha Maloney filled in for the tour. In October 2000, while taking time off from Mötley Crüe to recover from his surgery, he discovered a small lump on his jaw and a month later, after it had grown to roughly the size of a golf ball, he sought treatment and was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a common form of cancer that is not usually fatal if it is discovered early but can spread rapidly if left untreated. The cancer went into remission in mid-2001, and he was rumored to be rejoining Osbourne's solo band for that summer Ozzfest tour (along with Geezer Butler on bass), though these rumors were later revealed to be untrue.
Within a few months the cancer returned, and a few days after returning to the doctors, Castillo died on March 26, 2002 aged 51. During the final weeks of his life, Castillo had been working with ex-Ozzy Osbourne and Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez on a new band and was in the process of hiring a singer.
Equipment
For much of his career, Castillo exclusively used Tama drums (DW Drums from the late 1990s until his death), Remo drum heads, Zildjian cymbals, and Pro-mark drumsticks.
Drum setup circa 1987:
Drums: Tama Artstar II:
22" bass drum (x2)
8" rack tom
10" rack tom
12" rack tom
14" rack tom
16" floor tom
18" floor tom
14" x 8" Artwood Snare
Cymbals: Zildjian:
20" A Platinum China Boy High
13" Z Dyno Beat Hi-Hats
8" A Splash
10" A Splash
19" A Platinum Crash/Ride
8" A Splash
19" Z Crash
14" Z Dyno Beat Hi-Hats
24" Z Heavy Power Ride
20" A Platinum China Boy Low
Discography
The Mud
Mud on Mudd (1970 UNI Records)
Mud (1971 UNI Records)
The Offenders
The Offenders (1980)
Lita Ford
Dancin' on the Edge (1984)
Ozzy Osbourne
The Ultimate Sin (1986)
No Rest for the Wicked (1988)
Just Say Ozzy (1990)
No More Tears (1991)
Live & Loud (1993)
Red Square Black
Red Square Black "EP" (1994)
Bret Michaels
A Letter From Death Row (1998) (On Song "I'd Die For You")
Mötley Crüe
New Tattoo (2000)
References
External links
Randy Castillo memorial site
Randy Castillo memorial site at the Wayback Machine
Randy Castillo Unofficial site
1950 births
2002 deaths
American heavy metal drummers
American heavy metal singers
Burials in New Mexico
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from squamous cell carcinoma of skin
Musicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mötley Crüe members
Vince Neil Band members
The Ozzy Osbourne Band members
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
20th-century American male singers
20th-century American singers
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Thomas Crompton
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Thomas Crompton may refer to:
Thomas Crompton (died 1601), English MP for Steyning, Radnor, Leominster and Beverley
Thomas Crompton (died c.1607), English MP for Newton (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency) and Newport, Isle of Wight
Thomas Crompton (died 1608), English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1609
Thomas Crompton (died 1645) (c.1580–1645), English MP for Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency) 1614, 1621 and 1628
Thomas Crompton (Parliamentarian), English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1647 and 1660
See also
Thomas Compton, American football player
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1997 Thailand Soccer League
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The 1997 Thai Premier League consisted of 12 teams. The bottom club would be relegated to the Thailand Division 1 League. The club that came 11th would play in a relegation / promotion match against the club that came second in the Thailand Division 1 League
Defending Champions Bangkok Bank would enter the next edition of the Asian Club Championship.
The league was also known as the Johnnie Walker Thailand Soccer League 1997.
Member clubs locations
Bangkok Bank
Bangkok Metro Administration (rename from Stock Exchange of Thailand FC)
Tero Sasana (Singha Tero Sasana)
Sinthana
Royal Thai Police
Port Authority of Thailand
UCOM Raj Pracha
Royal Thai Air Force
Royal Thai Army
Royal Thai Navy
Thai Farmers Bank
TOT
Final league table
Promotion/Relegation Playoff
The club that came 11th would play in a relegation / promotion match against the runner-up in the Thailand Division 1 League
February 17 and February 20, 1998
† Royal Thai Police relegated to the Thailand Division 1 League and Osotsapa promoted to the Thai Premier League in next season.
Season Notes
Royal Thai Air Force were docked three points at the end of season for refusing to play Sinthana in Suphan Buri earlier this season.
Singha Tero Sasana changed the club's name to Tero Sasana.
Tero Sasana represented Thailand in the 1998–99 Asian Club Championship following withdrawals by Royal Thai Air Force, Bangkok Bank and Port Authority of Thailand, all for economic reasons; Sinthana qualifier for the 1998–99 Asian Cup Winners Cup after winning the Singha FA Cup.
Last year's runners-up, Stock Exchange of Thailand, played as Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) owing to a change in sponsorship.
Queen's Cup
Thai Farmers Bank won and retained the Queen's Cup trophy for the 4th year running. This was the 26th edition of the competition.
For the first time, no foreign teams took part, owing to the poor economic situation.
Thawan Thammaniyai of Thai Farmers Bank won the Most Valuable Player award.
Thailand FA Cup
Sinthana FC won the Thailand FA Cup for the first time, but it is unclear whom they beat in the final.
Asian Representation
Bangkok Bank represented Thailand in the 1997–98 Asian Club Championship, where they would fail in the first round, beaten by Chinese opposition in Dalian Wanda.
Royal Thai Air Force made the second round of the 1997–98 Asian Cup Winners Cup, where they were beaten by near neighbours PSM Ujungpandang of Indonesia after beating Melaka Telekom of Malaysia in the first round.
Annual awards
Coach of the Year
Piyapong Piew-on - Royal Thai Air Force
Player of the Year
Seksan Piturat - Sinthana
Top scorer
Worrawoot Srimaka - 17 Goals BEC Tero Sasana
Champions
The league champion was Royal Thai Air Force. It was the team's first title.
References
Thailand 1997 RSSSF
External links
Official Website
Thai League 1 seasons
Thailand
Thailand
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United Nations International School of Hanoi
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The United Nations International School of Hanoi is an international school in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1988 with the support of the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam (UNDP) with the aim of providing an education to the children of UN staff and others.
It is one of two UN schools in the world, with its sister school, United Nations International School, located in Manhattan and Queens, New York. It now caters to the children of diplomats, aid workers, businessmen, and other expatriates living and working in Hanoi. UNIS is regarded as of the most prestigious international schools in Asia. Classes range from pre-school to high school, and the IB Diploma is available to students in grade 11 and 12.
As of May 2018, there were 1123 students with 66 nationalities speaking 44 different languages. The school maintains a 20% cap for any one nationality, which was put in place in order to maintain a truly international and culturally diverse atmosphere.
There are teachers from 27 different countries with 88% from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. Class sizes at UNIS Hanoi range from 16 to 22 students depending on the grade level with mostly 8 classes per grade level.
History
For many years, the school has been housed in a small building attached to the Hanoi-Amsterdam campus (a local Vietnamese high school). In 1999, the campus was moved to the UN buildings in Van Phuc; in 2004 the school was finally moved to the long-awaited, custom-built campus located in a new area on the outskirts of Hanoi called Ciputra Hanoi Estate. In 2012, the school opened its sports center that included two full-sized covered basketball courts, weight/dance rooms, and several multipurpose classrooms. Along with the opening of the sports center, a new center for the arts was also opened that included among many facilities, including a new theater and a recording studio.
When the school was founded in 1988, there were less than 10 students in the first class. Since the late 80s, the school has seen significant growth. Up until 1999, there was no 12th grade. The demographic has changed significantly in the past 5 years, as only a handful of Vietnamese children used to attend the school.
UNIS now offers the full International Baccalaureate program, from the primary level to the Diploma Programme in high school—the first school to do so in Asia. The school is also accredited by the European Council of International Schools, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Council of International Schools, East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools and Western Association of Schools and Colleges while having affiliation with the Asia Pacific Activities Conference.
Curriculum
The curriculum is international, drawing upon English language programs and the framework provided by the International Baccalaureate Organization. The School has adopted the IB Programmes: Primary Years (K-5), Middle Years (Grades 6-10) and in Grades 11-12, the School has adopted the IB Diploma Programme. Participation in the IB Diploma Programme is available to all students at UNIS Hanoi.
Instruction in the world and home country languages, the arts, physical education, and English-as-an-Additional Language supplement a core curriculum. UNIS Hanoi has a learning support and counseling program at all grade levels. There is an extensive co-curricular programme of sports and activities and a strong commitment to service-learning, reflecting the spirit of the UN ideals and principles. The School has a fully resourced library and media center. and has a strong commitment to integrating technology throughout the curriculum with a one-to-one personal computer tablet program for all students from Grades 4-12 and mobile computer labs for students in Discovery through Grade 3.
Extracurricular Activities
UNIS divides its extracurricular activities into two main groups: "After School Activities - ASA" and "Community & Service - C&S or CAS"
UNIS competes internationally at the varsity and junior-varsity levels in football, basketball, volleyball, competitive swimming, tennis, and badminton through the Asia Pacific Activities Conference.
UNIS also provides opportunities in the arts through APAC in band, orchestra, theatre, and choir.
Administration
Head of School: Jane McGee
Elementary Principal: Megan Brazil
MS/HS Principal: Jeff Leppard
Affiliations
UNIS Hanoi is affiliated to, or members of the following organisations:
United Nations International School (New York)
East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools (EARCOS)
European Council of International Schools (ECIS)
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE)
Mekong River International Schools Association (MRISA)
Asia Pacific Activities Conference (APAC)
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
References
External links
Educational institutions established in 1988
High schools in Hanoi
International School of Hanoi
International schools in Hanoi
MRISA Schools
1988 establishments in Vietnam
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Cimiez (; Italian: Cimella) is an upper class neighborhood in Nice, southern France. The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast. Cemenelum was an important rival of Nice, continuing to exist as a separate city till the time of the Lombard invasions. The ruins include an arena, amphitheater, thermal baths, and paleochristian basilica.
During the Belle Epoque, Cimiez became a favourite holiday resort of European royalty: Victoria, Edward VII, George V, and Leopold II stayed in Cimiez.
Close to the ruins is the Excelsior Régina Palace where Queen Victoria spent part of her long visits to the French Riviera.
From 1974 to 2010, the Nice Jazz Festival was held on the grounds of the Roman Ruins in July each year (since 2011 the festival moved to the Place Masséna).
Also here can be found the Cimiez Monastery and church that have been used by the Franciscan friars since the 16th century. The church with a baroque altar from the seventeenth century and a marble cross from 1477 houses the paintings Pietà (triptych from 1475), Crucifixion (1512) and Deposition (1515) by the Italian medieval artist Ludovico Brea. On display are also more than 300 documents and works of art from the 15th to 18th centuries. Buried in the cemetery near the monastery are the painters Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy, alongside the winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature, Roger Martin du Gard.
Cimiez contains an important Jewish population (around 20%).
See also
Bishopric of Cimiez
References
External links
Matisse Museum
Nice jazz festival
Cimiez was also the place of famous feasts: “of the small gourds”...
Nice
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Alexandre Trudeau
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Alexandre Emmanuel "Sacha" Trudeau (born December 25, 1973) is a Canadian filmmaker, journalist and author of Barbarian Lost. He is the second son of Canada's former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, and Margaret Trudeau, and the younger brother of Canada's current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
Early life and education
Alexandre is the younger one of the two Christmas babies of Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau, exactly two years younger than Justin Trudeau. The family was attending the 1973 Christmas midnight mass at Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church when Margaret Trudeau went into labour and was rushed to The Ottawa Hospital. His mother struggled with severe postpartum depression after his birth, and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He was given the nickname "Sacha" (the French spelling of the Russian diminutive for Alexander) in recognition of his father's love of Russian literature and culture. The name also is linked to former ambassador of the USSR to Canada and family friend Alexander Yakovlev. Alexandre Trudeau's younger brother, Michel, was born in 1975. All three of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau's children became media sensations from birth.
When talking about her sons each having distinctly different personalities, in an interview in 1977, Margaret Trudeau said, "Justin, 6, is a prince – a very good little boy. Sacha, born Christmas Day, 1973, is a bit of a revolutionary, very determined and strong willed. Miche (Michel) is a happy, well-adjusted child, who combined the best traits of both brothers."
His parents announced they would separate in 1977. His mother, unbeknownst to the public, then lived in an attic suite within the Prime Minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa for the next three years, so as to make the adjustment easier on the children. After the divorce was finalized on April 2, 1984, he and his brothers attended the civil ceremony in which Margaret Trudeau remarried to Ottawa real estate developer Fried Kemper on April 18, 1984. A half-brother, Kyle Kemper (born 1984), and a half-sister, Alicia Kemper (born 1988), soon followed. Pierre and Margaret Trudeau tried as much as possible to protect their children from the public eye, and following Pierre Trudeau's retirement as Prime Minister in 1984, he raised them in relative privacy in Montreal. Alexandre Trudeau gained another half-sister, Sarah Coyne (born 1991), from his father's relationship with Canadian politician Deborah Coyne.
Like his father and brothers, Alexandre Trudeau studied at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy and a Masters in architecture from McGill University. While attending McGill, he joined the Canadian Forces as a Reserve Entry Scheme Officer with Royal Canadian Hussars reserve regiment in 1996. He trained at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, but released voluntarily before completing his training as an armoured officer. Following graduation, he traveled to West Africa to produce his first documentary: Liberia, the Secret War (1998). In the same year in which the documentary was made, his brother Michel died in an avalanche that pushed him into British Columbia's Kokanee Lake, where he drowned.
When Pierre Trudeau died in 2000, both his surviving sons returned to the public eye. Although Alexandre Trudeau was visibly more reserved and quieter than his brother, his heightened public profile brought new attention to his work as a journalist. After Pierre Trudeau's death, Alexandre continued to live in his father's Art Deco home (Cormier House) in Montreal.
Work
In the years following his father's death, Trudeau produced documentaries for Canadian television. In 2003, he was one of the highest-profile Canadian journalists covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq, producing a documentary film for the CTV program W5, Embedded In Baghdad. His 2004 film, The Fence, shot in Afula, Israel and Jenin of the Palestinian territories draws up a portrait of families on either side of the Israeli-built security barrier around the West bank.
In June 2005, Trudeau focused attention on what he said were the implications for civil liberties in the Canadian government's use of security certificates to detain indefinitely, without trial, suspected terrorists based on secret evidence. Trudeau offered to be a surety for Hassan Almrei, a Syrian refugee held in a Canadian jail for four years without any charges being laid. His appearance in court in support of Almrei resulted in front-page coverage in the Toronto Star and National Post and major media attention being given to the security certificate issue for the first time. Trudeau's efforts were chronicled in his documentary Secure Freedom. Almrei was ordered released under house arrest by a Federal Court judge on January 2, 2009. On December 14, 2009, Almrei was released.
Known for his staunchly anti-imperialist views, Trudeau attracted controversy in August 2006 for an article he penned praising Fidel Castro's Cuba. Trudeau's documentary Refuge, produced in 2008, tells the story of the humanitarian crisis facing Africa's Darfur region and eastern Chad. In 2012, he produced the film The New Great Game, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the maritime geopolitics of the Middle-East and Western Indian Ocean.
In 2016, Trudeau published his first book with Harper Collins, Barbarian Lost, Travels in the New China, a number one Canadian best-seller. The book is a travel mémoire with an undercurrent of philosophical and historical reflection. It dresses a personal and nuanced portrait of an ancient country in the throes of massive change. About the book, Trudeau is quoted as saying: "My whole professional career has had a focus on geopolitics, and in this age, you cannot understand the world without understanding the massive role that China has grown to play."
In 2018, Trudeau presented his first scripted work, the short film Wiisgaapte (Bitter Smoke). A product of a collaboration with Dr Shirley Williams, an Ojibwe language specialist, the film’s dialogue is entirely in old Ojibwe dialect and tells the story of the windigo legend of Algonquian lore.
Public life
Currently, Trudeau is President and Chief Producer at Same Adventure Productions. He and wife Zoë Bedos are the parents of a son, Pierre-Emmanuel, and two daughters, Gala Simone and Ariane Lea. He is a founding member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for excellence in social sciences and humanities research and innovation.
References
External links
Alexandre (Sacha Trudeau) faces the world - The Globe and Mail profile written by Sarah Hampson.
Alexandre Trudeau Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
1973 births
Canadian people of Dutch descent
Canadian people of English descent
Canadian people of French descent
Canadian people of Malaysian descent
Canadian people of Indonesian descent
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Journalists from Ontario
Children of prime ministers of Canada
Film directors from Ottawa
Living people
Pierre Trudeau
McGill University alumni
French Quebecers
Journalists from Montreal
Alexandre
Canadian documentary film directors
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The South Dakota Gold were a short-lived professional basketball team based in Mitchell, South Dakota. They played one season in the International Basketball Association (IBA).
History
Before the 2000–01 IBA season the Black Hills Gold, a franchise based in Rapid City, South Dakota, relocated to Mitchell and changed its name to South Dakota Gold. The franchise was owned by Keary Ecklund, while Rick Lindner served as the team's general manager. On October 1, 2000 the Gold announced Reggie Williams as their new head coach. The team opened the season on November 24, 2000 against the Salina Rattlers, winning the game 90–71. On December 3, 2000 center LeRon Williams recorded a season-high 34 points in an 88–87 home win against the Salina Rattlers. Two days later the team recorded its first loss, 86–88 in overtime against the Rattlers. On December 11, 2000 coach Reggie Williams resigned, and was replaced two days later by Marcus Liberty, who served as player and coach for the team. The newly appointed coach debuted with an 81–96 loss to the Des Moines Dragons. On December 31, 2000 guard Jermaine Slider recorded a season-high 12 assists against the Winnipeg Cyclone, while on January 4, 2001 LeRon Williams recorded a season-best 13 rebounds, along with 21 points in a game against the Billings RimRockers.
The South Dakota Gold regularly brought up to 1,000 fans to the Corn Palace every game. The team's best attendance for a regular season home game was on December 1, 2000 when 1,238 people attended the season opener against Fargo-Moorhead Beez. This game ended with a Gold win, 91–76. The average attendance for regular season home games was 930.
The team ended the regular season with a 21–19 record, which put them on the second place in the East Division behind the Des Moines Dragons. The Gold advanced to the division semifinals, which saw them lose the series 2–1 against the Siouxland Bombers, with the last game going to overtime and ending in a Gold loss, 90–98. Guard Rasheed Brokenborough was named IBA Sixth Man of the Year, while center LeRon Williams was the team's top scorer (19 points per game) and top rebounder (7.9).
Season-by-season records
All-time roster
Rasheed Brokenborough (Temple)
H. L. Coleman (Wyoming)
Katu Davis (Georgia)
Marvin Gay (Murray State)
Wayne Houston (Southern Indiana)
Harold Jackson (District of Columbia)
Daron Jenkins (Southern Miss)
Gary Johnson (USC)
Marcus Liberty (Illinois)
Tony Lovan (Western Kentucky)
Eric Martin (Oklahoma)
Damien McSwine (Loyola (IL)
Ryan Miller (Northern State)
Derrick Price (Shepherd)
Jermaine Slider (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Damon Watlington (Virginia Tech)
Sherron Wilkerson (Rio Grande)
LeRon Williams (South Carolina)
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Awards
IBA Sixth Man of the Year: Rasheed Brokenborough
References
Defunct basketball teams in the United States
Defunct sports teams in South Dakota
Basketball teams in South Dakota
2000 establishments in South Dakota
Sports in South Dakota
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iOS 10 is the tenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 9. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13, 2016, and was released on September 13, that year. It was succeeded by iOS 11 on September 19, 2017.
iOS 10 incorporates changes to 3D Touch and the lock screen. There are new features to some apps: Messages has additional emojis and third-party apps can extend functionality in iMessage, Maps has a redesigned interface and additional third-party functions, the Home app manages "HomeKit"-enabled accessories, Photos has algorithmic search and categorization of media known as "Memories," and Siri is compatible with third-party app-specific requests, such as starting workouts apps, sending IMs, using Lyft or Uber or to use payment functions. iOS 10 is the final version to support 32-bit devices and apps. In iOS 10.3, Apple introduced its new file system, APFS.
Reviews of iOS 10 were positive. Reviewers highlighted the significant updates to iMessage, Siri, Photos, 3D Touch, and the lock screen as welcome changes. The third-party extension support to iMessage meant it was "becoming a platform," although the user interface was criticized for being difficult to understand. Third-party integration in Siri was "great," although the voice assistant was criticized for not having become smarter than before. Reviewers were impressed with the image recognition technology in Photos, although noting it was still a "work in progress" with a higher error rate than the competition. 3D Touch "finally feels useful" and "works in almost every part of the OS." The lock screen was "far more customizable than before," and reviewers enjoyed that notification bubbles could be expanded to see more information without needing to unlock the phone.
A month after release, iOS 10 was installed on 54% of iOS devices, a "slightly slower migration" than for the release of iOS 9, speculated as being caused by an early release issue that may have "put some users off downloading the update." User adoption of iOS 10 steadily increased in the following months, eventually totaling 89% of active devices in September 2017.
History
Introduction and initial release
iOS 10 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address on June 13, 2016. The first beta release was made available to registered developers following the keynote. Apple released the first public beta release on July 7, 2016.
iOS 10 was officially released on September 13, 2016. The initial release was problematic, with reports of people having their devices in recovery mode after updating.
Updates
System features
Control Center
The Control Center has been redesigned and split into three pages: one for general settings, such as quick toggles for airplane mode and orientation lock, one for audio controls and one for controlling HomeKit (internet of things) appliances, if used.
3D Touch capabilities have been added to several toggles.
Home screen
Apps can show a widget when their home-screen icon is accessed with 3D Touch.
Most default apps included with iOS devices can be hidden from the home screen and 're-downloaded' from the App Store. Upon doing this, the sandbox of the respective app is removed, which contains user data, settings and caches. The app is also hidden from other places, such as the "Today" view, the Settings app and "Share Sheets", through which the user can interact with the app from within another app. This feature was first hinted at during an interview in September 2015, in which Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Apple was "looking at" allowing customers to remove unused stock apps.
iOS 10 allows users to prioritize certain app downloads by using 3D Touch.
Keyboard
QuickType virtual keyboards, which provide word-completion capabilities, can predict likely responses to questions and suggest relevant information based on location, calendar availability or contacts.
The "Define" feature in previous iOS versions has been replaced by "Look Up," and now expands its utility from just providing definitions to retrieving information from locations, web browsing history, downloaded apps, suggested websites, and more.
The QuickType keyboard will allow the user to type in multiple languages if the user selects the desired languages in the "Dictionary" and "Keyboard" settings menus.
The user has the ability to change keyboard settings specifically for physical keyboards (such as autocorrect and auto-capitalization).
Lock screen
The "slide to unlock" mechanism on the lock screen has been removed in favor of pressing the home button.
Similar to the feature on the Apple Watch, "Raise to Wake" wakes up the device when the user lifts it. This function requires a device with an M9 motion coprocessor or newer.
The "Today" view of Notification Center has been replaced by widgets, and is accessible by swiping from left to right. On the iPad, widgets can be displayed in a two-column layout.
Notification Center
The Notification Center no longer has a "Today" view.
Notifications, now larger, can expand to display more information and all unread notifications can be cleared at once, using 3D Touch.
Apps that need to be updated frequently can now have notifications that update live.
The Notification Center contains a Spotlight search bar.
Settings
A new Magnifier setting was added which allows users to triple-click the home button to launch the Camera app with magnification enabled.
There are also new "Color Filters" settings to compensate for a user's color blindness. Color Filters options include grayscale, red/green filter for protanopia, green/red filter for deuteranopia, and blue/yellow filter for tritanopia.
For the Messages application, users can now turn on Low Quality Image mode, which saves "your poor iPhone from stuffing itself full of images" based on new animated stickers and GIFs that can be sent in iMessage.
The Wi-Fi menu in Settings now shows warnings about the security of a network and whether a network lacks Internet connectivity. This is shown to the user as small subtext under the Wi-Fi's network's name.
"Raise to Wake" can be enabled or disabled in Settings.
In iOS 10.2, a "Preserve Settings" feature allows users to set the Camera app to launch with certain settings by default. Options include launching with the Video or Square mode rather than the Photo mode, preserving the last-used filter, and preserving the capture settings for Live Photos.
Music added to Apple Music on one device can now be automatically downloaded to other devices using the "Automatic Downloads" setting.
The Settings allows the user the option to have routes in the Maps app avoid toll roads and/or highways.
In iOS 10.3, Settings was updated to feature information relating to a user's Apple ID account in the main menu, and features a section that allows users to see which old, unmaintained apps won't work in future versions of iOS. Additionally, users can now see a breakdown of their iCloud storage.
The user can enable a setting to have Siri announce incoming callers, with options for "Always," "Headphones & Car," "Headphones Only," and "Never".
CarPlay
iOS 10 now allows users to rearrange and remove apps from their CarPlay display, through Settings.
In iOS 10.3, Maps on CarPlay added electric vehicle charging stations.
Universal Clipboard
As part of the overall Continuity features introduced in iOS 8, a new Universal Clipboard feature allows users of Mac personal computers running macOS Sierra and iOS devices running iOS 10 to easily copy material to and from different devices through iCloud.
As part of Continuity, a new "Continuity Keyboard" feature allows users to type text on an iPhone and have the text appear on an Apple TV running tvOS 10, avoiding the Siri Remote for text input.
Other changes
iOS 10 features new sound effects for locking the device and for keyboard clicks.
In the event that a device detects liquid in the Lightning port, a notice warns the user to disconnect the Lightning cable and allow the port to dry.
iOS 10 also allows TTY calls to be made without any additional hardware.
iOS 10 allows users to find their Apple Watch using Find My iPhone.
Spotlight can now search the contents of the user's iCloud Drive.
Storage is reported to the user in the base 10 (1 kilobyte equals 1000 bytes) format instead of base 2, which was used in older iOS versions.
App features
App Store
iOS 10 allows developers to buy advertisement spots in the App Store when users search for content. It also brings back the "Categories" section, which replaces the "Explore" section introduced in iOS 8.
In iOS 10.3, developers gained the ability to respond to user reviews, and "Helpful" and "Not Helpful" review labels can help surface the most relevant customer reviews.
Calendar
In iOS 10, users can now change what day of the week the calendar starts on, as well as alert settings for birthdays and events, and calendar type (Gregorian, Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic).
Camera
Music will no longer stop playing when the Camera app is launched, unless the user decides to record a video or take a Live Photo. Live Photos can be taken with filters (previously only available for still photos).
In iOS 10.1, the iPhone 7 Plus received a new depth of field portrait camera mode, using both the wide-angle and telephoto lenses on the phone to "create shallow depth of field portrait photos with blurred backgrounds".
Clock
The Clock app now employs a dark theme.
A new "Bedtime" feature reminds the user when to go to bed to get the desired amount of sleep. There is also a new stopwatch face, accessed by swiping to the left.
Contacts
The Contacts app in iOS 10 allows users to set default phone numbers and email addresses for contacts who have multiple numbers or addresses. The app also allows the user to add and remove contacts from the Favorite Contacts list.
Home
Home is a new app that allows users to manage appliances compatible with HomeKit, Apple's API for home automation. In the app, users can add compatible HomeKit accessories, such as locks, lights, and thermostats, and then directly control the appliances through the app.
A "Scenes" panel allows many devices to be controlled at once to fit a mood or setting. Geo-fencing activates scheduled sequences following the user's location.
Mail
The Mail app now allows users to unsubscribe from mailing lists with an Unsubscribe button. Users can dismiss the message to unsubscribe for a particular mailing list by tapping the "X" at the top right corner, preventing the Mail app from displaying the unsubscribe button for that mailing list again later.
Apple has added back support for HTML5 video in Mail, which was previously stopped in iOS 8.
Mail can filter messages, either by unread/read, or by categories.
iOS 10 also changes how email threading works, by placing the oldest email at the top by default. An option in Settings lets users revert to the previous threading system with the most recent message on top. Additionally, the new threaded conversations allow users to tap a message to see a scrollable stream of messages inside the thread.
Maps
Maps has been redesigned and updated with additional features, including scanning calendar events for locations, learning from a user's typical actions, and a redesigned driving view.
A marker can be automatically placed to indicate the user's parked car. The marker can also tell the user when they last parked their car, and a Notes field allows the user to enter information, such as parking garage number, in the app.
The app now helps users find the nearest gas station, fast-food restaurant or coffee shop, by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. Maps also estimates how long the detour will take.
Users can add third-party extensions to the Maps app, which enable additional functionality, such as a restaurant-booking extension can help the user reserve a table from inside the Maps app.
Users can now pan and zoom while in navigation mode.
The app displays the current temperature and weather conditions in the bottom right corner. In iOS 10.3, the app also allows the user to see a weather forecast by using 3D Touch on the current temperature. This functionality allows users to see an hour-by-hour breakdown of the area that they are looking at.
Messages
The Messages app incorporates its own App Store, which lets users download third-party iMessage apps that can be accessed within iMessage conversations. Users can use them to send stickers, play games or send rich content, such as media previews, to recipients. The Messages App Store has three navigation fields: Featured, Categories, and Manage.
The app has been updated to include many visual effects. Chat bubbles, for example, can be sent with a "loud" or "gentle" animation that the recipient sees upon receiving. "Invisible ink" effect obscures the message until the recipient swipes across it. Full-screen effects like balloons, confetti or fireworks can be sent. There is also support for interactions similar to the Apple Watch, such as sending quick sketches and recording and sending the user's heartbeat. In order to use the screen and bubble effects, the Reduce Motion setting needs to be turned off.
Messages now allows users to send handwritten notes. This is done by turning the device to landscape mode for iPhones (landscape or portrait for iPad users) and then tapping the handwriting squiggle. The Messages app automatically saves recently used notes, to make it easier to send them again. A handwritten message can be deleted in the same way an app is deleted; by holding down on the message and pressing Delete. The message can also be saved as a picture file.
New emojis have been added, as well as additional features related to emoji. Emojis appear 3x bigger if messages are sent with up to three emojis and no text, the keyboard can now predict emojis to use, and an emoji replacement feature attempts to match words in messages and replace them with emojis of the same meaning.
Since the Game Center app has been removed, Messages now handles actions such as inviting friends to a game.
Read receipts can now be turned on or off for individual contacts rather than for all contacts.
Music
The Music app has been redesigned, with an emphasis placed on usability. The "For You" section has been reorganized, with a playlist offering daily music recommendations. The "New" tab has been renamed "Browse". A new tab for music that has been downloaded called "Downloaded Music" has been added.
Lyrics are viewable for songs in-app in iOS 10. The "Search" tab includes recent and trending searches. An "Optimized Storage" option removes downloaded music that the user hasn't played in a while.
News
The News app, taking cues from the Music layout, has been redesigned to incorporate bold headings and a newspaper-esque layout in the redesigned "For You" tab. News also features support for subscriptions and provides notifications for breaking news.
Notes
Notes now has a collaboration feature. This allows users to share a note and collaborate with other users, who can add and remove text from a note. Users tap a "round yellow badge with a person and a plus sign" and can then send invitations through text, email, or by link.
Photos
Apple added deep learning capabilities for sorting and searching in the Photos app.
A new "Memories" feature can automatically recognize and compile related photos and create short, shareable music videos. local facial recognition functionality was added to bundle together pictures of certain people.
iOS 10 allows users to add doodles and text on a photo, using a new "Markup" feature. If the user edits a Live Photo using Markup, the image will be turned into a still image.
Live Photos can now be edited by the Photos app. This allows users to trim the clip, change the still frame, add a filter and add digital image stabilization to the Live Photo so it is "buttery smooth".
The app also has an upgraded auto-enhance feature and adds a "Brilliance" slider.
Phone
The Phone app can transcribe received visual voicemails.
Siri can announce the name and phone number of incoming calls. The system can mark suspected spam callers on the call screen upon incoming calls.
Contacts can be enabled for "Emergency Bypass", in which the phone will always make sounds and vibrations when receiving notifications from the chosen contacts, even during Do Not Disturb mode.
In the Favorites screen, users can customize what action each favorited contact will enable from a click, including call, FaceTime, SMS, or email.
Users can save voicemails through AirDrop, iMessage, iCloud Drive, and other apps through a share menu.
Safari
Apple Pay is now available through the Safari app.
There is no limit to how many tabs users can have open at the same time.
On supported iPads, Safari has a unique "Split View" for viewing two Safari browser tabs in 50/50 mode next to each other.
Users can also search for keywords in specific tabs, close all tabs with a single click, and reopen recently closed tabs by long-pressing on the plus icon. Users can also search for items in the Bookmarks and Reading List.
TV
Included in the iOS 10.2 update is a "TV" app. The app, which is only available in the United States, offers a simple, unified experience of content from different video apps, as long as each service supports the feature. The new app replaces the Videos app found in previous iOS versions.
Developer APIs
iOS 10 gives third-party developers access to APIs to three major iOS system apps and services: Siri, iMessage, and Maps. Developers can:
Turn certain activities into Siri voice commands, allowing users to speak voice queries into the Siri personal assistant and Siri returning results from the respective apps. Apps that can integrate with Siri are limited to: sending messages, starting calls, sending and requesting payments, search for photos and videos, ordering taxicab or ride-sharing services, and managing workouts.
Add dedicated apps to the iMessage App Store, that lets users add unique sticker packs, share rich content, or interact with certain app functions entirely within an iMessage conversation.
Add extensions to Apple Maps, so apps with specific functionality useful in a map, such as a restaurant-booking app, can integrate with the mapping service to handle app functionality directly in the Maps app.
iOS 10 allows third-party camera apps to capture RAW image format pictures. Support for shooting photos in Adobe's DNG RAW format is limited to devices with at least a 12MP camera and a third-party app that supports it, as Apple did not enable the feature in the native Camera app.
iOS 10 allows VoIP apps to have the same functionality and interface as the Phone and FaceTime apps have, through the use of a CallKit API.
Removed functionality
Native support for the VPN protocol PPTP was removed. Apple recommends alternatives which it considers to be more secure.
The options to group notifications by app in Notification Center and customize the order of notifications were removed.
The Game Center app has been removed, as is the case on macOS Sierra. The service was not discontinued, and remained accessible through games.
Reception
In his review, The Verges Dieter Bohn wrote that the new features introduced in iOS 10 are "an evolution of some of the design and interaction ideas that Apple has been working on for a couple of years". He wrote that iMessage is "becoming a platform all its own", and although he liked that extensions mean access to information from apps without needing to open the respective apps, he wrote that new iMessage interface is difficult to understand and that the use of "third-party apps, stickers, crazy confetti effects, and emoji all over the place" is a "nightmare", although finishing with "Or maybe that's a wonderland, not a nightmare. Your call." Regarding third-party support in Siri, he called it "great", while noting the limited class of apps ("calls, messaging, payments, photos, ride-sharing apps, some CarPlay systems, and workouts"), and that sometimes a button press was required to complete the process. Beyond app integrations, he criticized Siri, writing "Siri doesn't seem to have gotten a whole lot smarter than you remember". Bohn enjoyed the new machine learning technology present in the Photos app, writing that he was "impressed" by Apple's image recognition technology, which he noted is done locally on the device, but did criticize the error rate, where he compares the technology to Google Photos as a step ahead. Bohn liked the new designs for the Music and Maps apps, saying both the redesigns were "for the better". Bohn particularly enjoyed the new lock screen, where he highlighted that notification bubbles can be 3D Touch-ed to access more information, all without needing to unlock the phone. Other small bits of new features he liked included "deletable" apps, upgraded "widgets" when 3D Touch-ing a home screen icon, and breaking news notifications in Apple News. Overall, Bohn referred to iOS 10 as "Still a walled garden, but with more doors".
Engadgets Devindra Hardawar wrote that iOS 10 is Apple "basically polishing a pearl." Hardawar noted that the major changes in the release focus on features rather than the visual interface. He wrote that the lock screen is now "far more customizable than before." He praised the new features added to 3D Touch, writing that it "finally feels useful," where he likes that "3D Touch works in almost every part of the OS." In regard to iMessage, he wrote that it has new features that are "particularly useful", including "Invisible ink" that obscures text in a conversation when others might be looking, but criticized the user interface, writing that it "needs some work". The "Memories" feature in the new Photos app "usually turned out well", but wrote that "they're still clearly a work in progress." Hardawar praised the new Apple Music app, but added that "really, anything is better than the last iteration." He also liked lyrics support. He wrote that Siri's third-party support was "actually starting to get useful," but did run into accuracy issues. He finished by writing that although iOS 10 does add features seen in Google's Android operating system before, the mobile industry is "shamelessly getting "inspired" by the competition". His summary states that "iOS 10 is a collection of useful changes to an already solid OS".
In October 2016, a month after its initial release, 54% of iOS devices were running iOS 10, a "slightly slower migration" than for the release of iOS 9 in the preceding year, a result speculated by MacRumorss Tim Hardwick as being caused by an early release issue that disabled some devices and may have "put some [users] off downloading the update." User adoption increased to 76% of active devices in January 2017, 79% in February 2017, 86% in June 2017, 87% in July 2017, and 89% in September 2017 before the release of iOS 11.
Problems
Recovery mode issues
The initial public release of iOS 10 on September 13, 2016 saw many iPhones and iPads sent into recovery mode, by the over-the-air update, requiring devices to be connected to a Mac or PC with iTunes in order to retry the update or restore the device to factory settings. Apple shortly after released iOS 10.0.1, and issued an apology.
Local backup encryption issue
In September 2016, it was discovered that the encryption of local iOS backups made with iTunes is weaker for iOS 10 devices than for devices running iOS 9. Russian software firm ElcomSoft discovered that the iOS 10 backup process skips several security checks, making it "approximately 2,500 times" faster to try passwords, enabling 6 million password tries per second compared to the 2,400 password tries per second for the same process ElcomSoft has used on iOS 9. The firm stated that the impact is "severe". Apple acknowledged the problem, said it planned to issue a security update, but also stated that iCloud backups were not affected. The iOS 10.1 update subsequently fixed the issue.
Battery shutdowns and throttling
Some iOS 10.1.1 users reported that their devices were prone to unexpectedly shutting down at or around 30% battery charge (with one user describing the battery percentage as dropping unexpectedly from 30% to 1% before doing so, but still registering as 30% when plugging it in to charge it). Apple began the process of diagnosing this bug in iOS 10.2, and stated following the release of iOS 10.2.1 that it had reduced the occurrence of these shutdowns by "more than 80%" on iPhone 6S models and "over 70%" on iPhone 6 models. It also became possible to reboot the device after an unexpected shutdown without plugging it into power.
In December 2017, speculation emerged that Apple had been intentionally throttling the performance of older iPhone models based on battery health, especially on the iPhone 6S (which, in a separate issue, also had isolated incidents of a battery manufacturing issue that was also causing system instability), after a user benchmark showed a variance in performance after a battery replacement. The developers of Geekbench confirmed that there had been sizable decreases on benchmark scores on iPhone 6 devices running iOS 10.2.1 and later, and iPhone 7 devices since iOS 11.2 and later. These led to concerns that Apple was instituting planned obsolescence policies in order to encourage sales of newer iPhone models, a controversy dubbed Batterygate.
Later that month, Apple admitted that since iOS 10.2.1, it had been implementing performance management techniques on older iPhone models to preserve system stability, especially in situations where their batteries are "less capable of supplying peak current demands," such as cold weather, age, or low charge. Apple stated that these measures were intended to help "deliver the best experience for customers, which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices." The company announced that it would offer a discount on out-of-warranty battery replacements during 2018.
Supported devices
With this release, Apple dropped support for devices with either an A5 or an A5X chip: the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Mini (1st generation), and iPod Touch (5th generation). It is also the last version of iOS to support devices with a 32-bit processor, such as the iPhone 5 and 5C, or the iPad (4th generation), and it is also the last version of iOS to support 32-bit apps.
iPhone
iPhone 5
iPhone 5C
iPhone 5S
iPhone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone 6S
iPhone 6S Plus
iPhone SE (1st generation)
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPod Touch
iPod Touch (6th generation)
iPad
iPad (4th generation)
iPad Air
iPad Air 2
iPad (2017)
iPad Mini 2
iPad Mini 3
iPad Mini 4
iPad Pro (12.9-inch 1st generation)
iPad Pro (12.9-inch 2nd generation)
iPad Pro (9.7-inch)
iPad Pro (10.5-inch)
References
External links
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Products introduced in 2016
2016 software
Tablet operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
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Trupanea pseudovicina
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Trupanea pseudovicina is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trupanea of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
United States & Guatemala.
References
Tephritinae
Insects described in 1947
Diptera of North America
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Shankar Rao (actor)
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Shankar Rao (1936/7 – October 18, 2021) was an Indian film and television actor who was known for his comic roles.
Life and career
Shankar began his acting career in theatre in Bengaluru. He founded his own theatre group known as Kalakshetra. He made his film debut with the movie ‘Yaara Sakshi’ (1972).
Selected filmography
Films
Yaara Sakshi (1972)
Muyyige Muyyi (1978)
Prachanda Kulla (1984) - Ganganna
Jeevana Chakra (1985)
Elu Suttina Kote (1987)
Aasphota (1988)
Shruthi (1990)
Mysore Mallige (1992)
Ulta Palta (1997) - Shettru
Drona (2020) - Shankar
Television
Mayamruga (1998)
Silli Lalli (2003–2007)
Papa Pandu (2018–2020) - Boss Balaraju
References
External links
1930s births
Year of birth uncertain
2021 deaths
21st-century Indian actors
People from Tumkur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Dental%20Medicine%20of%20Monastir
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Faculty of Dental Medicine of Monastir
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The Faculty of Dental Medicine of Monastir (FMDM) () is a dental school in Monastir, Tunisia. It is the first school to be established within the University of Monastir, and it is the only institution for dental studies in the country.
The faculty is under the dual supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Public Health.
Dental studies in Tunisia are reserved for a selection of the elites of high school students who have passed their baccalaureate, hence the fact that admission is exclusive to scientific branches having the highest score nationally.
History
Foundation
Before the inauguration of the faculty of dentistry of Monastir and until the beginning of the 1980s, Tunisian dentists studied in foreign universities, mainly in France.
The university was founded by law n ° 75–71 of 14 November 1975, and it has been part of the University of Monastir since 2004.
The inauguration of the faculties of dentistry and pharmacy took place on 20 November 1975 in the presence of President Habib Bourguiba.
The first promotion, counting only 46 students, graduated in 1982.
Deans
From 1975 to 1990, the management of the faculty was assured by the deans of the faculty of pharmacy who then took charge of both faculties:
Pr Mahmoud Yaâcoub (1975–?) ;
Pr Moncef Jeddi (?–1990) ;
Pr Mongi Beïzig (1990–1996) : first odontologist dean of the faculty ;
Pr Mongi Majdoub (1996–2002) : two mandates ;
Pr Khaled Bouraoui (2002–2005) ;
Pr Abdellatif Abid (2005–2012) : two mandates ;
Pr Ali Ben Rahma (2012–2017) : two mandates ;
Pr Fethi Maatouk (from 2017).
Location
The faculty is located on Avicenna Street in Monastir near the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Medicine and the Graduate School of Health Sciences and Techniques and is associated with a university-hospital dental clinic.
Numbers
According to 2017–2018 statistics, the Faculty of Dentistry in Monastir has:
1516 students.
141 university professors.
Contains more than 11 research units.
Infrastructure
The faculty covers an area of almost 5,000 m2 and shares the campus with the faculty of pharmacy.
Amphitheatres and other
Three amphitheatres for lectures ;
A university auditorium for conventions ;
A Library ;
Two Internet access rooms ;
A cultural and leisure area ;
Teaching laboratories
Eight teaching laboratories :
Anatomy ;
Histology ;
Molecular and cellular biology ;
Computer science ;
Physiology ;
Chemistry ;
Biochemistry ;
Microbiology ;
Nine practical work rooms :
Fixed prosthodontics ;
Removable partial prosthesis ;
Total prosthesis ;
Conservative Odontology and Endodontics ;
General anatomy ;
Dental anatomy ;
Biomaterials ;
Chemistry ;
Biochemistry ;
Research units and laboratories
Eleven research units :
Conservative odontology and endodontics ;
Odontological research on growth ;
Piezology ;
Biomaterials and biotechnology ;
Natural bioactive alkaloids and diterpenoids ;
Epidemiology and prevention of oral diseases ;
Conservative dentistry ;
Occlusodontia ;
Preventive and interceptive orthodontics ;
Technological and clinical applications of all-ceramics for prosthesis ;
Radioclinical diagnosis and treatment of maxillary tumors ;
A research laboratory on biologically compatible substances.
The university's professors are known for their contributions to the field of scientific and medical research nationally and internationally.
Associated hospitals and departements
In order to provide a comprehensive training for residents, interns and students in the fourth and fifth grades, they must get through daily clinical traineeship during their studies. These specialized trainings are held in the following university-hospital centers that receive students, interns and residents :
Clinical University-Hospital of Dentistry associated with the faculty and which includes eight main departments :
Fixed prosthodontics
Removable partial prosthesis
Total prosthesis
Orthodontics
Periodontology
Conservative Odontology and Endodontics
Pediatric odontology and prevention
Oral medicine and surgery
University-Hospital Farhat-Hached of Sousse
University-Hospital Sahloul of Sousse
University-Hospital Habib-Bourguiba of Sfax ;
University-Hospital Hédi-Chaker of Sfax ;
University-Hospital La Rabta of Tunis
University-Hospital Charles-Nicolle of Tunis
Military University-Hospital of Tunis
Military University-Hospital of Bizerte
University-Hospital Fattouma-Bourguiba of Monastir
University-Hospital Tahar-Sfar of Mahdia
Curriculum
The university delivers doctoral degrees in dentistry and provides training for master's and doctoral theses.
The programme of medical studies for the national diploma of doctor of dentistry lasts six years: five years of externship and one year of internship, divided into:
two years in the first cycle of dental studies: a basic science-based training, thus more theoretical than practical;
three years in the second cycle of dental studies: theoretical and practical training with immersion in the clinical environment (students spend as many hours at the clinic as the faculty during this cycle);
a year of paid compulsory internship trainee and validated at the end by a final examination:
six months in the Monastir University Clinic of Dentistry divided between two separate departements
six months in an associated university hospital divided into four months in the departement of stomatology and two months in another hospital department (cardiology, ENT, infectious diseases, Oral and maxillofacial surgery or internal medicine);
closure of the studies and of the internship by a thesis defense.
These studies are organized by discipline, modules and certificates and are given in the form of lectures, tutorials, practical work and clinical placements. Students are assessed by written and oral exams, practical and directed exams and clinical examinations.
After the six-year basic cycle, students who got their diploma or validated their internship may pass a national residency examination (specialization exam) to register for the third cycle of specialized studies in dentistry and pursue specialization studies either clinical or fundamental
These specialties are divided into two major categories:
Clinical Specialties
Fixed prosthodontics
Removable partial prosthesis
Total prosthesis
Orthodontics
Periodontology
Conservative Odontology and Endodontics
Pediatric odontology and prevention
Oral medicine and surgery
Dental radiology
Basic odontological specialties
Anatomy
Dental anatomy
Legal odontology
Biomaterials
Bacteriology, virology and immunology
Histology – embryology
Physiology
Pharmacology in dentistry
Biophysics in dentistry
Community life
Cultural Association of the FMDM: association created in 1997 and regrouping several clubs (video, music, painting, internal radio, dance and magazine);
University Sports Association of the FMDM: association created in 1981;
Scout FMDM: Scouts association created in 1994 by students and mainly concerned with volunteer work;
Tunisian Association for Dental Research: its main objective is to promote research in dentistry by providing various means of training and application;
Tunisian Association of Dental Students: Member of the International Association of Dental Students.
International relations
Since its inception, the university has been developing exchange agreements and cooperations, given the historical circumstances of its creation, as with the faculties of dental surgery in Marseille, Paris-VII, Bordeaux and Alger.
In 2017–2018, the faculty has 42 foreign students out of a total of 1,526, representing 3% of the total student population, in a context marked by the evolution of African cooperation and the opening up of countries of the continent to collaboration in scientific research and the exchange of experiences and information.
Since its affiliation with the University of Monastir in 2004, most of the international conventions are made through it, such as Erasmus +, Erasmus Mundus, the Quality Support Program for Higher Education, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, NursingCAS or other types of bilateral exchanges with foreign universities.
Among the partner institutions:
Faculty of dentistry at Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon);
Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier University (France);
Faculty of Odontology of Montpellier (France);
University of Auvergne (France): framework convention;
Sabha University (Libya): Framework Convention.
See also
List of universities and colleges
University of Monastir
Monastir
External links
Official website
University of Monastir
References
Dental schools in Tunisia
Universities in Tunisia
Universities established in the 1970s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumarkt%20%28Oberpfalz%29%20station
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Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) station
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Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) station (officially: Neumarkt (Oberpf)) is the oldest and most important railway station in Neumarkt, Germany. It is classified by DB Station&Service as a category 3 station and is also Neumarkt's only long-distance stop. The station is on the Nuremberg–Regensburg line of Deutsche Bahn.
Location and destinations
The station is located south of the Altstadt at the end of Bahnhofstraße. The station building is on the northeast side of the Nuremberg–Regensburg railway. Immediately next to the station building is platform 1, then platforms 2/4 and 5. Beyond that there are several shunting and storage sidings.
South of the station the former Sulztalbahn branches off to Greiselbach. Today it acts as an industrial siding for the firms of Max Bögl at Sengenthal and Pfleiderer AG near the station, as well as being a storage siding for individual trains. Another siding, no longer used, turns off this one to Dehn und Söhne in Hans-Dehn-Straße.
Transport links
Neumarkt station is served at least hourly by Regionalbahn trains to Nuremberg – Erlangen – Lichtenfels and to Regensburg – Plattling. Regional-Express trains to Nuremberg and Munich run every 2 hours. These services form route R5 (Nürnberg – Neumarkt – Parsberg) in the Nuremberg Regional Transport Union (VGN) network. In addition, every morning and evening InterCity trains on the Passau – Karlsruhe and Hamburg – Passau routes also call at the station.
Today there is a bus station on the site of the former goods station, which is served by the Neumarkt town bus company, as well as many Omnibusverkehr Franken (OVF) and Regionalbus Ostbayern (RBO) lines. From here buses can be caught to almost all parts of the town as well as the local county, Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, to Amberg and the stations at Allersberg and Kinding. There is also a taxi rank.
Service facilities
Being a long-distance and regional stop, the station has an extensive range of services. The Deutsche Bahn has a travel centre here; in addition there is a bakery with a café, a kiosk and a newsagents.
All platforms and the bus station are equipped with digital destination boards and an overview board of the current departure times is installed in the station hall. Platforms 1 and 5 are reached by a lift, platforms 2 and 4 have luggage conveyor belts.
There is a public toilet at the bus station. In the immediate vicinity of the station are racks for over 400 bicycles and bays for about 60 cars. About 600 metres away the Parkhaus Ringstraße multi-storey car park rents long-term bays for customers of the VGN and RVV at reasonable rates.
History
The station building was completed by 1 December 1871 when the Nuremberg–Neumarkt line opened. In 1873 the route was extended through to Regensburg. On 1 June 1888 trains began running from here on the Sulztalbahn to Beilngries and Freystadt. In addition to the passenger station, a goods station was also built, where goods from all the local companies were transferred to rail.
On 22 April 1945 the station was almost totally destroyed in an air raid by the United States Air Force. Many men, including refugees on a train in the station, lost their lives.
After the war's end the station was rebuilt and expanded. In addition, in the 1970s, track 3 was removed and the platforms for tracks 2 and 4 built in its place.
After passenger services on the Sulztalbahn ceased on 25 September 1987, the station lost its function as a connecting station in the Altmühl valley. Shortly afterwards the neighbouring goods station was closed.
In 1995 a platform was built for track 5 and was equipped from the outset with a lift for disabled people.
The former goods station was demolished in 1996/1997; in its place the present-day bus station was built. During the construction work, the station building was also fully refurbished and the station square completely relandscaped. On the platforms train destination displays were installed and in the station hall a TrainingPoint for DB trainees established that existed until 2007.
Plans
For the S-Bahn to Nuremberg, due to open in December 2010, in 2008 platforms 1 and 2/4 were refurbished and modernised. Both platforms were raised to a height of 76 cm, the platform roofing was extended. Platforms 2 and 4 are also being equipped with a lift.
References
External links
Station data file
Platform information on the DB AG's web pages
Railway stations in Bavaria
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1871
Nuremberg S-Bahn stations
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Tușnad (disambiguation)
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Tușnad may refer to:
Tușnad, a commune in Harghita County, Romania
Băile Tușnad, a town in Harghita County, Romania
Tușnad (river), a tributary of the Olt in Romania
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Greece: The Hidden War
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Greece: The Hidden War is a 1986 television documentary series about the background to the Greek Civil War. The series, which explores the contribution of British policy and actions to the civil war, gave rise to the biggest uproar in the history of British television: the series was banned, all but one copy destroyed, and letters were written to major newspapers in defence of Britain for months afterwards.
The documentary was produced by and scripted by Jane Gabriel and directed by Anthony Howard. It was originally shown in three parts on 6, 13 and 30 January 1986 on Britain's Channel 4. People interviewed include:
Major Greek players, such as Markos Vafeiadis (resistance and civil war leader), 'Father Germanos' Dimakis (priest and EAM-ELAS fighter), Giorgos Chouliaris (Pericles), Alekos Rosios (Ypsilantis), Spyros Kotsakis, Spyros Meletzis (ELAS photographer).
Other Greek participants in the resistance, talking of their role in the resistance, their experience of the campaign of terror by the far-right which followed the dissolution of the resistance army, and of the subsequent civil war.
British players and commentators, such as Chris "Monty" Woodhouse, Eddie Myers, Richard Acland, Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Edward Warner, Nigel Clive, David Balfour, and British soldiers of various ranks.
References
Works about the Greek Civil War
British documentary television series
Documentary films about Greece
1986 British television series debuts
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Peveril William-Powlett
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Vice Admiral Sir Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett, (5 March 1898 – 10 November 1985) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station from 1952 to 1954.
Naval career
William-Powlett attended Cordwalles School. He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1914 and served in the First World War, specialising in signals. A keen sportsman, he played rugby for England in 1922. He saw service with the New Zealand Division from 1931 to 1936 and then commanded the cadet training ship in 1939.
In 1935, William-Powlett was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
William-Powlett served in the Second World War as Director of Manning at the Admiralty and then commanded the cruiser , which was sunk during the Battle of Crete in 1941. He was appointed Chief of Staff of Force H at Gibraltar in 1941 and then commanded from 1942. He became Captain of the Fleet in the Home Fleet in 1944.
After the war, William-Powlett commanded the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and then became Naval Secretary in 1948. He went on to be Flag Officer (Destroyers) in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1950 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic in 1952. He retired in 1954.
In retirement William-Powlett served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1954 until 1959.
Family
In 1923, William-Powlett married Helen Constance Crombie; they had three daughters. Following the death of his first wife he married Barbara Patience William-Powett, widow of his brother, in 1966.
William-Powlett's second daughter, Helen, married Henry Bruce of Salloch, and is the mother of the royal commentator Alastair Bruce of Crionaich.
References
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1898 births
1985 deaths
Royal Navy admirals
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
High Sheriffs of Devon
Rugby union players from Abergavenny
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20XXIV
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Heinrich XXIV
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Heinrich XXIV may refer to:
Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf (1724 — 1779)
Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz (1855 — 1910)
Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1878 — 1927)
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Piperaceae
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The Piperaceae , also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in 5 genera. The vast majority of species can be found within the two main genera: Piper (2,171 species) and Peperomia (1,373 species).
Members of the Piperaceae may be small trees, shrubs, or herbs. The distribution of this group is best described as pantropical.
The best-known species, Piper nigrum, yields most peppercorns that are used as spices, including black pepper, although its relatives in the family include many other spices.
Etymology
The name Piperaceae is likely to be derived from the Sanskrit term pippali, , which was used to describe long peppers (like those of Piper longum).
Taxonomy
The APG III system of 2009 recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Piperales in the unranked clade magnoliids. The family consists of five genera: Piper, Peperomia, Zippelia, Manekia, and Verhuellia. The previously recognised Pacific genus Macropiper, was recently merged into Piper. A tentative cladogram showing relationships based on Wanke et al. (2007) is shown below. This phylogeny was based on 6,000 base pairs of chloroplast DNA. Only recently has it become clear that Verhuellia is sister to the other four genera in the family.
Characteristics
Members of pepper family are small trees, shrubs, or perennial or annual herbs.
Roots and stems
Plants are often rhizomatous, and can be terrestrial or epiphytic. The stems can be either simple or branched.
Leaves
Leaves are simple with entire margins, and are positioned at the base of the plant or along the stem, and can be alternate, opposite, or whorled in arrangement. Stipules are usually present, as are petioles. The leaves are often noticeably aromatic when crushed.
Flowers
Inflorescences (in the form of spikes) are terminal, opposite the leaves, or located in the axils. Flowers are bisexual, with no perianth, each flower is subtended by a peltate bract. Stamens are 2–6, and hypogynous, with 2-locular anthers. There are usually 3-4 stigmas attached to a single pistil per flower, which is 1 or 3-4 carpellate. The ovary is 1 locular, and superior.
Fruits and seeds
Fruits are drupelike, with a single seed per fruit. The seeds have a minute embryo, and mealy perisperm.
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Numerous members of the Piperaceae family are used in the traditional medicinal systems of indigenous population for a wide variety of illnesses. Many studies have been undertaken to investigate these uses, with a large number of them focusing especially on the active ingredient Piperine and related compounds found in many members of this family, especially Black pepper, Long pepper and Betel.
References
External links
Plants of the World Online, Piperaceae
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
Piperaceae at the DELTA Online Families of Flowering Plants
Piperaceae at the online Flora of North America
Piperaceae at the online Flora of China
Piperaceae at the online Flora of Zimbabwe
Piperaceae at the NCBI Taxonomy Browser
Piperaceae at the online Piperaceae in Thailand
Plants of the World Online, Piperaceae
Magnoliid families
Pantropical flora
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H. J. Wilson Co.
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H. J. Wilson Co., also known as Wilson's, was an American catalog showroom chain based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Founded in 1947 as a jewelry store, it was acquired in 1985 by Service Merchandise.
History
The store was begun by Huey John Wilson in 1947 as a jewelry vendor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ten years later, Wilson opened his first catalog showroom. By 1982, Wilson's was the third-largest catalog showroom chain in the United States. At its peak, it had 80 stores in 12 states. In 1985, rival chain Service Merchandise purchased all 80 of the Wilson's stores.
Wilson died on February 8, 2008 at age 80.
References
External links
Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation
Defunct companies based in Louisiana
Companies based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Catalog showrooms
Retail companies established in 1947
Retail companies disestablished in 1985
1947 establishments in Louisiana
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Julio Flebbe
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Julio Flebbe (born 10 August 1908, date of death unknown) was a Uruguayan rower. He competed in the men's coxed four at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
References
1908 births
Year of death missing
Uruguayan male rowers
Olympic rowers of Uruguay
Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
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Gebhard Oberbichler
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Gebhard Oberbichler was an Austrian luger who competed in the late 1970s. A natural track luger, he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1978 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships in Aurach, Austria.
References
Natural track European Championships results 1970-2006.
Austrian male lugers
Possibly living people
Year of birth missing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nook%20Farm%20%28Connecticut%29
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Nook Farm (Connecticut)
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Nook Farm is a historical neighborhood in the Asylum Hill section on the western edge of Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
History
In the early 1800s, the area was dominated by the Imlay farm, which occupied most of the land from present-day Imlay Street west to the north branch of the Park River, and from Farmington Avenue south to the Park River. John Hooker and his brother-in-law Francis Gillette purchased the pasture and woodland from William Imlay in 1853 for the purpose of developing the real estate. They built their own homes and sold parcels of land to relatives and friends to do likewise. As a result, an art colony took hold that included Hooker and his wife Isabella Beecher Hooker, the Gillettes, Charles Dudley Warner, Joseph Roswell Hawley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, the Rev. Nathaniel Judson Burton and his wife Rachel Pine Chase Burton, as well as other journalists, feminists, spiritualists, painters, writers, reformers and activists. The area became known as Nook Farm, taking its name from the bend‚ or "nook‚" in the Park River‚ which bordered the area on the west and south.
Nook Farm "developed into a tight-knit community through a web of family and business connections. It was an oasis apart from the bustling city and a place that bubbled over with ideas about politics and reform during a time of great tumult in the nation." Mark Twain described the openness of the neighborhood, "Among the colonists of our neighborhood the doors always stood open in pleasant weather."
The homes were designed by leading architects of the day, including Edward Tuckerman Potter, Francis Hatch Kimball and Richard Upjohn. Although many of them were demolished over the years, including eleven to make room for the Hartford Public High School, some still survive. Currently, the Mark Twain House, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, and the Katherine Day House are museums open to the public. The John and Isabella Hooker House is now an apartment building, as is the House at 36 Forest Street, built later in 1895.
Historic district
A large portion of the Nook Farm area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The district is anchored at the center by the complex of museum properties that make up the Twain and Stowe houses. It extends south along Forest Street north along Woodland and Gillett Streets roughly to Niles Street. In addition to the surviving mansion houses, there are several architecturally stylish early 20th-century apartment blocks.
Gallery
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut
References
External links
Mark Twain's Neighborhood: Nook Farm
Nook Farm Map
Artist colonies
Historic districts in Hartford County, Connecticut
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Intentional communities in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut
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Baron Munchausen's Dream
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Baron Munchausen's Dream (), also known as Les Aventures de baron de Munchausen and Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné, is a 1911 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès.
Synopsis
After an evening of entertaining guests with lavish food and drink, a drunk Baron Munchausen is carried to his bed, underneath a huge Rococo mirror. He soon drifts into heavy sleep, only to experience a variety of disturbing and otherworldly dreams. An idyllic scene of couples dancing in a park gives way to a violent tableau of Ancient Egyptian design; the Three Graces, standing in classical poses, become three frog-like monsters and then three halberdiers.
Awaking briefly, the Baron checks his reflection in a mirror to ensure all is well, then drifts back into dreams: his bed seems to dance about in an Orientalist landscape, and then it is attacked by giant grasshopper and a clown. Believing himself to be awake, the Baron approaches a fountain attended by women, who then make snow pour down upon him. They are replaced by a mythic figure who disappears down a well. The Baron next dreams himself in Hell, attacked by demons, a dragon, and a spider woman, and then outside a garrison where soldiers are shooting at him.
Finally back in his room, and again thinking he has woken up, the Baron finds himself attacked by a grinning Man in the Moon who transforms into a bespectacled elephant. Lifting a heavy piece of furniture, the Baron hurls it toward the dreams, breaking the mirror and sending him falling down into the outdoors, where he is hooked on an iron fence and has to be rescued. A final scene shows the Baron, much the worse for his experience, attended by servants.
Production
Méliès greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories created by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and may have used them as inspiration for his celebrated film A Trip to the Moon. However, Baron Munchausen's Dream has little in common with the Baron character or his traditional adventures.
The film was one of six commissioned from Méliès by the studio Pathé Frères; Méliès made the film in his Star Film Company studio, relying on Pathé to distribute it. The closely framed medium shot at the beginning of the film, an unusual setup for Méliès, probably indicates Pathé's influence. Similarly, the film's pace, extremely relaxed by Méliès's standards, may point to outside pressure to make the film run longer.
The scenery, painted in detail on two-dimensional backgrounds and cutouts, was created by a frequent Méliès collaborator, Charles Claudel. It was filmed in Méliès's glass studios, except for the outdoors scene near the end of the film, which was shot outside the Méliès house nearby. Many of the props are recycled from Méliès's earlier films, such as an elaborate dragon puppet from the 1906 fantasy The Witch. Effects in the film were created using stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, and dissolves.
The mirror sequence in the film is based on a routine that had long been popular in music halls. The effect was not produced with a real mirror, which would have reflected the studio windows and the camera; instead, there were two actors on the set, one of whom mimicked the other's gestures from the opposite side of the imaginary "glass." The comedian Max Linder revived the mirror routine in his 1921 film Seven Years Bad Luck.
Release
The film's original title is Les Hallucinations du baron de Münchausen; it is also known as Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen, and is known in English as Baron Munchausen's Dream. Though the film was commissioned by Pathé Frères, it is unclear whether the studio ever actually released it.
The film was shown in a cinema, possibly for the first time, in 1943; the exhibitor was André Robert, who obtained permission for the screenings from Méliès's widow, Jehanne d'Alcy. Because Münchhausen, a German film about the Baron, was then playing in Paris theaters, Robert changed the title of the Méliès film to Monsieur le Baron a trop bien dîné. An original orchestral score for the film was written and recorded by Marius-François Gaillard. Robert donated his print of the film to the Méliès family.
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1911 films
French films
French silent short films
French-language films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Georges Méliès
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Federico Prada
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Daniel Prada (born 23 February 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Los Andes.
Career
Prada started in the youth ranks of Sportivo Italiano, prior to having periods in the academies of Boca Juniors, All Boys and Atlanta. Prada began his senior career in Swiss football with FC Locarno, which was followed by spells in Italy with Trezzano and in Spain with Llagostera. In 2014, after a stint with Fundación Leo Messi, Prada moved to Spanish outfit Mazagón. Later that year, Prada joined Primera Andaluza side San Roque. His debut arrived in a win away to his ex-club Mazagón in September, on the way to nineteen total appearances. Prada moved across the division for the 2015–16 campaign, signing for Atlético Benamiel.
After featuring twenty times for Atlético Benamiel, Prada switched Spain for a return to Italy having agreed terms with Marsala in 2016. On 25 January 2017, Prada joined Segunda División B side Eldense. He appeared against Ebro on 29 January, but was released soon after. Prada headed back to his homeland later that year to join Sacachispas, though didn't appear competitively despite remaining until June 2018. Deportivo Morón became Prada's eleventh senior club on 3 July. His bow came in a Primera B Nacional fixture with Los Andes in the succeeding April. In summer 2019, Prada joined San Miguel.
In early 2020, Parada moved back to Italian football with Eccellenza Basilicata club ASD Policoro. On 22 December 2020, Prada signed with Primera B Metropolitana team Los Andes in Argentina.
Career statistics
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1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine footballers
Association football midfielders
Argentine expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Primera Andaluza players
Segunda División B players
Primera Nacional players
FC Locarno players
A.S.D. Trezzano Calcio players
UE Costa Brava players
CD San Roque de Lepe footballers
S.S.D. Marsala Calcio players
CD Eldense footballers
Sacachispas Fútbol Club players
Deportivo Morón footballers
Club Atlético San Miguel footballers
Club Atlético Los Andes footballers
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Soviet destroyer Stremitelny (1937)
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Stremitelny () was one of 29 (officially known as Project 7) built for the Soviet Navy during the late 1930s. Completed in 1938, the ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and played a minor role in the 1939–1940 Winter War against Finland. Stremitelny was transferred to the Northern Fleet in mid-1940. After the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941, she covered an amphibious landing along the Arctic coast. The ship was attacked and sunk by German dive bombers the following month in Polyarny with the loss of 111 crew and passengers. Her wreck was partially salvaged the following year.
Design and description
Having decided to build the large and expensive destroyer leaders, the Soviet Navy sought Italian assistance in designing smaller and cheaper destroyers. They licensed the plans for the and, in modifying it for their purposes, overloaded a design that was already somewhat marginally stable.
The Gnevnys had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of at deep load. The ships were significantly overweight, almost heavier than designed, displacing at standard load and at deep load. Their crew numbered 197 officers and sailors in peacetime and 236 in wartime. The ships had a pair of geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller, rated to produce using steam from three water-tube boilers which was intended to give them a maximum speed of . The designers had been conservative in rating the turbines and many, but not all, of the ships handily exceeded their designed speed during their sea trials. Others fell considerably short of it. Stremitelny reached during her trials in 1938. Variations in fuel oil capacity meant that the range of the Gnevnys varied between at . Stremitelny herself demonstrated a range of at that speed.
As built, the Gnevny-class ships mounted four B-13 guns in two pairs of superfiring single mounts fore and aft of the superstructure. Anti-aircraft defense was provided by a pair of 34-K AA guns in single mounts and a pair of 21-K AA guns as well as two DK or DShK machine guns. They carried six torpedo tubes in two rotating triple mounts; each tube was provided with a reload. The ships could also carry a maximum of either 60 or 95 mines and 25 depth charges. They were fitted with a set of Mars hydrophones for anti-submarine work, although they were useless at speeds over . The ships were equipped with two K-1 paravanes intended to destroy mines and a pair of depth-charge throwers.
Construction and service
Built in Leningrad's Shipyard No. 189 (Ordzhonikidze) as yard number 291, Stremitelny was laid down on 22 August 1936 and launched on 4 February 1937. Completed on 18 November 1938, she was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on 29 November. The ship served on patrol and escort duty during the Winter War, aside from bombarding the coastal artillery positions on the Finnish island of Russarö on 1 December 1939 with her sister ship and the light cruiser . Stremitelny was transferred to the Northern Fleet on 9 May 1940.
When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the ship was based in Polyarny. Together with her sisters and , Stremitelny covered the landing of troops on the western side of the mouth of the Zapadnaya Litsa River on 14 July during Operation Platinum Fox, the German attempt to capture Murmansk. Six days later, she was attacked by Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bombers while docked in Polyarny and was struck by four bombs amidships. They detonated in the boiler and engine rooms, killing all the crewmen in those compartments and breaking the ship in half. The stern section sank in a few minutes, but the bow section took 20 minutes to sink. A total of 111 people were killed, including several entertainers who were giving a performance aboard when the aircraft attacked. Her wreck was partially salvaged in April 1942 and her stern was used to repair her sister .
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39 Combat Engineer Regiment
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39 Combat Engineer Regiment (39 CER) was created on 3 May 2008 and amalgamated all the independent field engineer squadrons of the 39 Canadian Brigade Group in British Columbia.
39 CER is part of 3rd Canadian Division's (formerly LFWA's) 39 Canadian Brigade Group (39 CBG).
Sub-units
When the regiment was formed, it combined the existing independent field engineer squadrons and made them sub-units of 39 CER.
6 Engineer Squadron (North Vancouver)
44 Engineer Squadron (Trail, British Columbia & Cranbrook, British Columbia)
54 Engineer Squadron (Chilliwack)
Cadets
There are four Royal Canadian Army Cadets units spread across southern part of British Columbia which are affiliated to the 39 Combat Engineer Regiment. Cadets are not soldiers, nor are they expected to become soldiers; they are part of an organization dedicated to developing citizenship and leadership among young men and women aged 12 to 18 years of age with a military flavour, and are not required to join the Canadian Forces at any time.
Cadet units affiliated with the 39 CER combat units receive some support and are entitled to wear traditional regimental accoutrements on their uniforms at the corps expense.
References
Order of precedence
See also
Military history of Canada
History of the Canadian Army
Canadian Forces
List of armouries in Canada
Engineer regiments of Canada
Military units and formations established in 2008
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Rambutaneia
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Rambutaneia is a monotypic moth genus in the family Pyralidae. Its only species, Rambutaneia udjana, is found in Indonesia. Both the genus and the family were first described by Rolf-Ulrich Roesler and Peter Victor Küppers in 1979.
References
Monotypic moth genera
Pyralidae genera
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2009–10 Uzbek parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Uzbekistan on 27 December 2009 and 10 January 2010 to elect the 150 members of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan, the lower house of the Oliy Majlis. Of these, 135 were directly elected from single member constituencies using the two-round system, while 15 seats were reserved for the country's Ecological Movement. Provincial and district councils were elected at the same time. Polls opened at 6 am Uzbekistan Time (0100 UTC) and closed at 8 pm UZT (1500 UTC).
The Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (O'zlidep) was reconfirmed as the largest single party in the Legislative Chamber, with 55 deputies. The other parties permitted to participate in the elections were the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (32 deputies), the Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party (Milliy Tiklanish, 31 deputies) and the Justice Social Democratic Party (Adolat, 19 deputies).
The elections were monitored by over 270 observers from 36 countries and representatives of four international missions. The election monitoring arm of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) did not send a full mission, saying none of its earlier recommendations had been implemented: an OSCE assessment mission observed voting at several polling places, but did not do comprehensive vote monitoring. Veronica Szente Goldston, Human Rights Watch Advocacy Director for Europe and Central Asia, said the pre-election situation in Uzbekistan has been marked by intense repression by the government: "Human rights are violated everywhere around the country, there is no political competition, all the parties that are running for this election are supporting the government."
Campaign
A candidate for election had to belong to a registered party and collect a minimum of 40,000 signatures. Several opposition politicians have alleged that all candidates also had to be approved by the government before they would be placed on the ballot. The four registered parties were:
Adolat (Justice Social Democratic Party), with 123 candidates and 10 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber;
Milliy Tiklanish (Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party), with 125 candidates and 29 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber;
People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDP), with 134 candidates and 28 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber;
Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party (O'zlidep), with 135 candidates and 41 seats in the outgoing legislative chamber.
The election campaign consisted of 15- to 20-minute television programs each day for four days, as well as a second program called "Election – Mirror of Democracy". Transcripts from these shows were reprinted in newspapers, and billboards also appeared touting the upcoming choice that Uzbeks had to make. The four parties have publicly criticized each other, mainly over social policy, while praising President Islam Karimov's achievements. Freedom House, a US-based human rights organization, says the discussions appeared on television for the first time, which was a positive development, but that "We have some evidence from Uzbek activists that those debates were scripted. And even if not – these parties don't know themselves who they are, they have no ideology."
Ecological Movement
The Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan elected its 15 legislators at a congress, also held on 27 December, one from each territorial subdivision of Uzbekistan (Republic of Karakalpakstan, provinces and Tashkent city) plus one member from the executive committee of the Central Council of the Ecological Movement. Delegates to the congress were elected in equal numbers at the conferences of each of the territorial branches of the Ecological Movement.
Turnout
There were 17,215,700 eligible voters for the 2009 parliamentary elections. By 1 pm UZT (0800 UTC), 57.3% (9,879,195 voters) had cast their vote, ensuring that the election would be valid under Uzbekistani election law (33% minimum turnout required). By 5 pm UZT (1200 UTC), 79.4% (13,670,387 voters) had cast their votes. Final turnout for the first round (based on provisional figures) was 87.8% (15,108,950 voters).
On 24 December, all 16 million mobile phone users in Uzbekistan received an SMS informing them of the forthcoming elections. According to an Uzbek living in exile in the United States, "there are certain groups of the population which are under pressure and they are compelled to participate in the election – students, teachers, government employees."
For the second round on 10 January 2010, the electorate was 4,969,547. Of these, 16.3% (812,502 voters) were reported to have voted by 9 am UZT (0300 UTC), just three hours after polling stations had opened. The final turnout (based on provisional figures) when polls closed at 8 pm UZT (1500 UTC) was 79.7% (3,960,876 voters).
Results
Preliminary results were announced by the Central Election Commission on 29 December. Results were declared in 96 out of the 135 electoral districts; in the remaining 39 districts, no candidate obtained an overall majority of votes, and so a second round of voting was held in 10 January 2010. Final results were announced by the Central Election Commission on 13 January 2010.
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Central Election Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Elections in Uzbekistan
2009 parliamentary
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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
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The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom governing divorce law and marriage in England and Wales.
Contents
The act contains four parts:
Divorce, Nullity and Other Matrimonial Suits
Financial Relief for Parties to Marriage and Children of Family
Protection, Custody, etc., of Children
Miscellaneous and Supplemental
Section 1 sets out the grounds that must be demonstrated before a divorce can be granted. These five grounds were adultery, behaving "in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live", desertion for two years, two years of separation with the consent of the parties, or five years of separation. Following the decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in Owens v Owens, Parliament passed the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, which has removed these conditions.
Section 13 provides for certain restrictions in regard to the possibility of annulling voidable marriages, including where the petitioner knew of the "defect" and of the possibility of annulment, but induced the respondent to believe that s/he would not seek an annulment; or where it would be "unjust" to the respondent to grant the decree of nullity. There is usually a time limit of three years from the date of the marriage in order to institute the proceedings.
Under section 24(1), when granting a divorce, decree of nullity of marriage or judicial separation the court can order (subject to restrictions in ss 29(1) and (3) relating to children of the age of majority other than those still in school or in other special circumstances):
(a) the transfer of property between the parties, or to a child, or for the benefit of a child
(b) the settlement of property for the partner and children
(c) the variation of any ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlement other than a pension
(d) the extinguishment or reduction of the interest of the parties to any settlement other than a pension
Under s. 24(2), the court can make an order under s. 24(1)(c) even if there are no children, and under s. 24(3) orders and settlements take effect only when the divorce or nullity of marriage is made absolute.
See also
Ahkter v Khan
English land law
English property law
References
Further reading
Lawrence Stone. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (1990)
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1973
Divorce law in the United Kingdom
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The Tourist is an internationally co-produced television series. It stars Jamie Dornan as a car rollover victim who wakes up in hospital with amnesia.
The series premiered on 1 January 2022 on BBC One in the UK, and next day on Stan in Australia, and is distributed internationally by All3Media.
Plot
When a man wakes up with amnesia in an Australian hospital, he must use what few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him. In the first scene, the protagonist is driving through the outback pursued by a truck whose driver is trying to run him off the road.
Cast and characters
Jamie Dornan as The Man
Danielle Macdonald as Probationary Constable Helen Chambers
Shalom Brune-Franklin as Luci Miller
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Billy Nixon
Alex Dimitriades as Kosta Panigiris
Genevieve Lemon as Sue
Danny Adcock as Ralph
Damon Herriman as Detective Inspector Lachlan Rogers
Alex Andreas as Dimitri Panigiris
Maria Mercedes as Freddie Lanagan
Michael Ibbotson as Peter the Policeman
Episodes
Production
Development
In February 2020, it was announced BBC One and Stan would co-produce a limited mystery-thriller series written by Harry and Jack Williams, directed by Chris Sweeney, and produced by Two Brothers Pictures. HBO Max later joined as a co-producer and distributor for the US market.
In January 2021, Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Alex Dimitriades, and Hugo Weaving joined the cast of the series. Later, Damon Herriman replaced Hugo Weaving in the cast.
Filming
Filming began in March, 2021 in South Australia. It was filmed in South Australia's regional towns of Port Augusta and Peterborough. Some scenes were shot in Adelaide. The production crew recreated Bali's Kuta Beach in Adelaide's North Haven Beach. Scenes were also shot in Flinders Ranges Mountain. Principal photography was concluded in July 2021.
Release
The first episode of this limited series was released in the UK on 1 January 2022. Later all six episodes were released on BBC iPlayer. With an overall view of 18 million on its release, the series became the third most successful drama launch for the iPlayer.
The series was also premiered in Australia the following day on Stan.
Reception
Critical response
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 100% approval based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 8/10. Critics particularly praised Dornan and Macdonald's performances.
In a 4/5 stars review, Lucy Mangan wrote in The Guardian: "This outback thriller from the writer of The Missing is fun, stylish and clearly still has many twists up its sleeve." While Ed Cumming of The Independent addressed it as Dornan's best work until then, Lauren Morris of Radio Times described it as "An unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat mystery that startles you with laugh-out-loud moments of ridiculousness."
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English-language television shows
2022 British television series debuts
2022 British television series endings
2020s British drama television series
2022 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television series endings
2020s Australian drama television series
Stan (service) original programming
Fiction about amnesia
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Television shows filmed in Australia
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Television series by BBC Studios
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Marius Burlacu
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Marius Mihai Burlacu (born 29 October 1985) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Brașov.
Honours
Corona Brașov
Liga III: 2020–21
Liga IV: 2019–20
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Brașov
Romanian footballers
Association football midfielders
Liga I players
Liga II players
CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players
CSU Voința Sibiu players
FC Olimpia Satu Mare players
Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe players
SR Brașov players
CSM Corona Brașov footballers
FC Brașov (2021) players
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West Side Park
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West Side Park was the name used for two different baseball parks that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois. They were both home fields of the team now known as the Chicago Cubs of the National League. Both parks hosted baseball championships. The latter of the two parks, where the franchise played for nearly a quarter century, was the home of the first two world champion Cubs teams ( and ), the team that posted the best winning percentage in Major League Baseball history and won the most games in National League history (), the only cross-town World Series in Chicago (1906), and the immortalized Tinker to Evers to Chance double-play combo. Both ballparks were what are now called "wooden" ballparks.
The first West Side Park (1885–1891)
The initial stadium was the club's home beginning in , succeeding Lakefront Park. Although the park's useful life turned out to be as short as the ball club's stay at the Lakefront (seven years), it was also memorable, as the team won back-to-back National League pennants in its first two seasons there.
The park was located on a small block bounded by Congress (north, left field), Loomis (east, center field), Harrison (south, right field) and Throop (west, home plate) Streets. The elongated shape of the block lent a bathtub-like shape to the park, with foul lines reportedly as short as . The stadium held roughly 10,000 fans. In addition to the diamond, the park held a bicycle track which encircled the playing field, at the height of the contemporary bicycle craze.
The lumber from the stands at the lakefront ballpark was disassembled and reconfigured as the new stands at West Side Park.[Chicago Tribune, March 15, 1885, p.11]
The Cubs (then known as the White Stockings) had had to secure a new property after , and it took longer than anticipated. The season began on April 30, a month later than it does today, for a 112-game schedule, 50 fewer games than today's major-league schedule. The club spent the first five-plus weeks of the 1885 season on the road and the park was finally opened on June 6 with a victory over the St. Louis Maroons, late of the Union Association. Despite being "wanderers" early in the season, the powerful Chicago club, under player-manager Cap Anson, came home with an 18-6 record. They would sweep a four-game set in their first homestand and romp through the league schedule, finishing at 87-25. The only team that gave them any problem was the New York Giants, who won 10 of the clubs' 16 meetings and finished just two games behind Chicago in the standings. If projected to a modern 162-game schedule, that translates to 125 and 123 wins, respectively, in a very lopsided league (the third-place club finished 30 games back).
Chicago captured the National League pennant that season and also went on to win the league crown in 1886. The site saw postseason action those two years, as the White Stockings squared off in 19th-century World Series play against the St. Louis Cardinals, then playing in the rival American Association and known as the St. Louis Browns. The championships of the 1880s were disorganized in comparison to the modern World Series, exemplified by the 1885 contest, which ended in dispute with no clear winner. The 1886 World Series was more conventional, and was won by the Browns. Those matchups were the first on-field confrontations of the Cubs and Cardinals clubs, which remains one of baseball's strongest rivalries today.
The site also saw "bonus baseball" in 1887, as a neutral site for Game 14 of that year's unique 15-game "traveling" World Series between the Browns and the Detroit Wolverines. In 1891 the team split its schedule between West Side Park and South Side Park (II). The first West Side Park was abandoned after the 1891 season, with the team playing at home exclusively on the South Side in 1892.
The site of the first West Side Park is now occupied by the Andrew Jackson Language Academy, whose address is 1340 West Harrison.
Dimensions
Information about the dimensions is contradictory in local newspapers. In the reports of the opening game of June 6, 1885, when Chicago player George Gore homered near the right field corner, the St. Louis Maroons complained (or "kicked", in popular slang of the time) that the foul line was shorter than the minimum allowed, . A yard tape measure was then used to painstakingly measure the distance while the crowd booed. The exact result was reported differently. One paper quoted Chicago club owner Albert Spalding as stating the distance to be , implicitly confirmed by the measurement.[Chicago Tribune, June 7, 1885, p.14] Another paper reported that the distance was found to be .[Chicago Inter Ocean, June 7, 1885, p.3]
However, upon the announcement of West Side Park (II) in 1893, the new park's foul lines were stated to be , " further than the old west side fence."[Chicago Inter Ocean, April 16, 1893, p.8] That would indicate distances of at West Side Park (I).
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The second West Side Park (1893–1915)
In May 1893, the club opened the second West Side Park a few blocks west-southwest of the first one, on a larger block bounded by Taylor, Wood, Polk and Lincoln (now Wolcott) Streets. It was located at . During May and June, they split their 1893 schedule with South Side Park, playing Sunday games on the West Side and weekday games on the South Side. By mid-summer they had abandoned the South Side park and moved into the West Side park full-time.
Home plate for this ballpark was in the northwest corner of the property, toward the Polk and Lincoln intersection. The right field fence paralleled Taylor, with flat apartments between the alley behind the right field area, and Taylor itself. There were also flats across Wood Street to the east, behind left field, giving the park (for a few years, at least) a degree of the ambiance that Wrigley Field would later be famous for. Cook County Hospital was across the street to the north, behind third base. Like the first West Side ballpark, the new facility was restricted by the streets around it, creating a rectangular playing area.
The field layout was reported in the Inter Ocean on April 16, 1893: "The diamond is from the grand stand, and the right and left field fences are from the home plate, further than the old west side fence. The distance from the home plate to the extreme center field is . The club will play all their Sunday games at the new grounds during the World's Fair, and after the fair is closed will probably play all their games there."
An artist's conception of the new field includes a rooftop tier of private seating on the grandstand, and roofed bleachers beyond first and third base. Photographs from the early 1900s suggest those plans were left dormant until starting in 1905, when the team began playing well and expansion of the ballpark seating was begun.
Although the 340-560-340 sounds symmetrical, the left field side was much more spacious, and the distance to center was actually very deep left-center, possibly the far corner of the property.
The original layout of the park sat about 12,500 patrons. As with other parks of the era, fans were often permitted to stand along the outer perimeter of the playing field itself. When the team began playing winning ball under Frank Chance, overflow crowds became more frequent.
On August 5, 1894, during its first full season as home to the Cubs (at that point known as the Colts), West Side Park suffered severe damage from fire during a game against the Cincinnati Reds. As the fire spread through the first-base side stands, panicked fans trying to escape pressed up against the barbed wire fence separating them from the playing field. Only quick action by several players in wrenching the fence open averted a major tragedy. The burnt stands were simply roped off, and the season resumed the next day, with the burnt area fenced off, and the spectators sitting on the left side of the diamond. Despite that near-disaster, the club rebuilt the burnt portion out of wood.
One highlight, albeit for the visitors, occurred on July 13, 1896, when Philadelphia Phillies outfielder/firstbaseman Ed Delahanty smacked four home runs in one game, only the second player to do so. In contrast to Bobby Lowe's feat two years earlier, which was aided by a short foul line, two of Delahanty's were inside-the-park. After Delahanty's third, center fielder Bill Lange drew a laugh by calling "time", stationing himself in deep-deep center, near the clubhouse, seemingly a mile away, and then waving the pitcher to continue. Delahanty then got the laugh on Lange by knocking it between the clubhouse and the fence, again circling the bases while Lange scurried for the ball. The normally partisan home fans cheered Delahanty's effort. Chicago got the last laugh, winning the game, 9–8.
As the park entered the new century, it featured a small covered grandstand behind home plate. Behind the home plate stands, the team and ticket offices were housed in a fairly ornate two-story brick building topped with statues of baseball players. Uncovered bleachers extended along both foul lines and into left field. Beyond left-center field, the bleachers gave way to a small clubhouse. The right-field bleachers were only nine rows deep, sitting underneath a free-standing billboard that ran above the length of the bleachers. The billboard frequently featured large ads for the sports pages and the sportswriters of local newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News. A scoreboard was located on the extreme right end of the billboard, toward the right field corner. Much like today at Wrigley Field, several of the rooftops beyond the outfield bleachers offered bleacher seating of their own, at least for a few years.
The second West Side Park was the home of the Cubs' most successful teams of the 20th century. From 1906 through 1910, the Cubs won four National League pennants and two World Series championships. The 1906 World Series between the Cubs and the Chicago White Sox featured the first cross-town matchup in Series history. Although the Cubs had one of the most successful seasons in major league history, winning 116 contests against just 36 losses, they were defeated by the light-hitting White Sox four games to two. The Cubs finally brought a championship to West Side Park the following year when they swept the Detroit Tigers after ending the first contest in a tie. In 1908, West Side Park became the home of the first repeat world champions when the Cubs again bested the Tigers. After a one-year absence, the Cubs returned to the Series in 1910, only to lose in five games to the Philadelphia Athletics. The 1908 championship
turned out to be the franchise's last World Series championship until 2016, ending a staggering 108-year drought for the franchise.
The ballpark expanded with the club's rising fortunes. For 1905, several rows of private box seats were built on top of the original grandstand roof behind home plate. That same year saw the construction of a new two-story brick clubhouse structure, fronted by columns, out in far left-center. After just two seasons, jury-box bleachers were built directly in front of and over the clubhouse. During the 1908 season, the bleachers along the first and third-base lines were gradually covered and topped by more private box seating.
By the early 1910s the wooden ballpark was showing its age, in large part due to neglect by Charles Murphy, the unpopular owner of the Cubs (one of whose alternate, media-driven nicknames was the unflattering "Murphy's Spuds"). In 1910, the neighborhood view beyond the nearby right field bleachers was blocked off by an enormous billboard. In 1912, the more distant left field view was similarly obstructed by a large billboard, which also served as the new scoreboard. The enclosure of the park was completed with the installment of billboards in dead center. At this time, the jury box bleachers in left-center field were removed, adding to the new claustrophobic feel of the outfield. With gambling becoming an increasing problem in baseball, starting in 1911 the playing field was adorned with large signs (as with some other major league ballparks) reminding both fans and players, "No Betting Allowed." Additionally, the dilapidated park found itself competing unsuccessfully with new steel-and-concrete baseball venues. The Chicago White Sox inaugurated Comiskey Park in 1910. Four years later, the upstart Federal League placed a franchise on the North Side and began play in Weeghman Park. By 1915, the Cubs were the third most popular team in a three-team city.
When the Federal League collapsed after the 1915 season, Charles Weeghman, owner of the now-defunct Chicago Whales, was allowed to buy a substantial interest in the Cubs. One of his first acts was to abandon West Side Park and move the Cubs to Weeghman Park for the 1916 season. Weeghman Park survives today as Wrigley Field.
One of the few items the Cubs took with them, besides normal operational properties, was a set of large letters comprising a sign that had run across the back of the grandstand and was to be read from the outside of the park: "". This sign was placed along the top of the Weeghman Park wall bordering Sheffield Avenue, visible to everyone in the park, and of course reading backwards to the spectators. This oddity lasted a few years at Weeghman / Cubs Park until it was brought down during an early remodeling.
West Side Park continued to host semipro and amateur baseball events for a few years. It even served as a setting for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, thus converting the entire former ballfield into a different kind of "bull pen". The ballpark was torn down in 1920. Murphy, who still owned the property, sold the leftover lumber for scrap. He sold the property itself to the University of Illinois. The site is now occupied by the University of Illinois Medical Center.
This West Side Park was the only park that witnessed the Cubs as World Series Champions from 1908 to 2016. The Cubs won back-to-back titles here in 1907 and 1908. In June 1909, a flag-raising ceremony was held, celebrating the Cubs second consecutive World Series. Newspaper reporters commented that the crowd seemed less enthused than they had the previous summer, as if they were getting complacent.
Dimensions of second West Side Park
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Sources
Cubs Journal, by John Snyder
Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography, by Stuart Shea
Baseball Memories: 1900–1909, by Marc Okkonen
References
External links
Ballparks.com
Jack Bales, "Ballparks," WrigleyIvy.com.
Jack Bales, Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago’s First Professional Baseball Team. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
Searchable collection of Chicago Daily News photographs (includes thousands of West Side Grounds)
Project Ballpark
Google Maps overhead view of the former location of the West Side Park
1886 Robinson Fire Map - West Side Park (I) is near center
West Side Park (II) on Sanborn map, 1917
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Defunct Major League Baseball venues
History of Chicago
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Christian Hartmann (3 June 1910 – 29 May 1985) was a Norwegian composer, born in Asker.
Hartmann composed melodies to a number of songs, including Prøysen's "Musevisa", "Romjulsdrøm" and "Æille har et syskjenbån på Gjøvik", and Skjæraasen's "Høstvise" and "Åtte øyne i hverandre". His cooperation with Thorbjørn Egner resulted in music to songs from Karius and Bactus, Doktor Dyregod and Dyrene i Hakkebakkeskogen .
Film music includes compositions for Finn Bø and Titus Vibe-Müller's 1946 film To liv and Per Høst's 1957 film Same-Jakki.
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1910 births
1985 deaths
Musicians from Asker
Norwegian composers
Norwegian male composers
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Kwon In-sook (also Kwŏn Insuk or Insook; born 1964) is a former South Korean labor organizer who inspired women in South Korea to form the Korean Women's Associations United (KWAU). Kwon is the first woman to bring charges of sexual assault against the South Korean government. She was also considered by historian Namhee Lee to be "an emblematic figure of South Korea in the 1980s; she embodied the passion, the ideals, and the conflicting aspirations of the 1980s democratization movement." Kwon later became a feminist scholar in South Korea.
Biography
As a middle school student, Kwon recalls feeling "duped" by the Korean government in power. She had been involved with student movements at the time, and said that "It was hard to swallow the betrayal and anger against adults to had fed lies to the young." Kwon went on to become a student activist in the democratic movement while in college.
Later, as a Seoul National University student, she obtained a blue-collar job by not reporting her university credentials. She lied about her education in order to "organize factory workers into a trade union." In June 1986, she went to the police station in Puch'ŏn in order to address charges that she had falsified documents. She had also been charged for taking part in a "violent demonstration." Kwon was sexually abused at the police station by an officer, Mun Kwi-dong. Kwon went on to file sexual abuse charges against the government, which were initially considered "exaggerated" by authorities, even though the government had already admitted that she was "forced to remove her jacket and T-shirt and was beaten 'in the breasts three or four times' on two occasions during the questioning." In July 1986, a rally in protest of her treatment was sponsored by Kim Yong-sam and the New Korea and Democratic Party (NKDP), but was stopped by police with tear gas.
During press coverage of the case, the South Korean government micromanaged how the press would report what happened to Kwon, including guidelines that changed the tone of the case and which also cast Kwon as a liar and possibly a communist. The initial reporting of the story was a single line at the bottom of the social page in Korea Daily. A spokesman for the government called her allegations of sexual assault a "routine tactic used by student radicals." Eventually the police did admit that "she had been sexually molested during interrogation."
Kwon was eventually imprisoned for eighteen months for falsifying identification documents. Criminal charges against Mun were dropped because while "the prosecution office said its investigation into Kwon's complaint found some truth" there was still not enough evidence for them to proceed with the trial. In addition, the prosecution claimed that while she had been beaten on the breasts while nude, the government did not "consider these acts sexual abuse." Kwon was released from prison in 1987, along with hundreds of other political prisoners in Korea. Mun was eventually assessed $45,000 in civil penalties after "extensive legal maneuvering." Kwon's case is considered an illustration of cover-ups regarding political neutrality of the South Korean judicial system in the mid-1980s.
Kwon has gone on to become a feminist scholar whose work analyzes patriarchal constructs of masculinity in militarized areas and how these concepts affect women, children and civilians.
Legacy
The news that Kwon had sued regarding her sexual abuse would "rock Korean society for months. It was shocking that a young woman would go public with an accusation that was more likely to damage her own reputation than that of the accused." Traditionally, sexual and physical abuse was considered an "unspeakable experience," but Kwon's public testimony helped reframe the issue of sexual abuse in South Korea by "recasting her experience from the 'shame of the victim' to the 'crime of the perpetrator." The acts of sexual abuse as described by Kwon led to the creation of the KWAU which would influence Korean politics in the 1990s.
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1964 births
Living people
Feminist studies scholars
Myongji University faculty
Liberalism in South Korea
Seoul National University alumni
South Korean feminists
South Korean activists
South Korean women activists
LGBT rights activists from South Korea
Asian social liberals
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Count István Bethlen de Bethlen (8 October 1874, Gernyeszeg – 5 October 1946, Moscow) was a Hungarian aristocrat and statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931.
Early life
The scion of an old Bethlen de Bethlen noble family from Transylvania, he was the only son of Count Istvan Bethlen de Bethlen (1831–1881) and Countess Ilona Teleki de Szék (1849–1914). He had two elder sisters: Countess Klementine Mikes de Zabola (1871–1954) and Countess Ilona Haller de Hallerkeö (1872–1924).
Career
Bethlen was elected to the Hungarian parliament as a Liberal in 1901. Later, he served as a representative of the new Hungarian government at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. In that year, the weak centrist Hungarian government collapsed, and was soon replaced by a communist Hungarian Soviet Republic, under the leadership of Béla Kun. Bethlen quickly returned to Hungary to assume leadership of the anti-communist "white" government based in Szeged, along with former Austro-Hungarian Navy admiral Miklós Horthy. After the "white" forces seized control of Hungary, Horthy was appointed Regent of Hungary. Bethlen again took a seat in the Hungarian parliament, allying with the conservative factions there.
In 1919, Bethlen rejected a personal union between Romania and Hungary under the King of Romania.
After the attempted return of King Charles IV to the throne of Hungary in 1921, Horthy asked Bethlen to form a strong government to eliminate the possibility of other such threats to the new country. Bethlen founded the Party of National Unity. He was also able to unite the two most powerful factors in Hungarian society, the wealthy, primarily Jewish industrialists in Budapest and the old Magyar gentry in rural Hungary, into a lasting coalition; this effectively checked the rise of Fascism in the country for at least a decade. Bethlen was also able to reach an accord with the labor unions, earning their support for the government and eliminating a source of domestic dissent.
During the May 1926 trial of the Franc affair plotters Bethlen was called to testify over his involvement in it. French Prime Minister Aristide Briand utilized the scandal by pushing for Bethlen's removal from power and his replacement by a more liberal politician. The plot centered around the efforts of Hungarian nationalists to damage the French economy by disseminating forged 1,000 French franc banknotes. Several plotters provided incriminating evidence of Bethlen's involvement, however Bethlen managed to cover up his role by exercising direct control over the proceedings.
Facing considerable public pressure Bethlen offered his resignation to Horthy, who refused to accept it. Bethlen subsequently shuffled his cabinet by replacing Interior Minister Iván Rakovszky. The outcome of the trials in fact increased Bethlen's popularity in Hungary.
During his decade in office, Bethlen led Hungary into the League of Nations and arranged a close alliance with Fascist Italy, even entering into a Treaty of Friendship with Italy in 1927, in order to further the nation's revisionist hopes. He was, however, defeated in his attempts to change the Treaty of Trianon, which stripped Hungary of most of its territory after the First World War. The Great Depression shifted Hungarian politics to the extreme right, and Horthy replaced Bethlen with Count Gyula Károlyi de Nagykároly, followed quickly by Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa, a noted Fascist and antisemite.
Increasingly shunted into political obscurity, Bethlen stood out as one of the few voices in Hungary actively opposed to an alliance with Nazi Germany. As it became apparent that Germany was going to lose the Second World War, Bethlen attempted, unsuccessfully, to negotiate a separate peace with the Allied powers. By the spring of 1945 most of Hungary had fallen to the advancing Soviet troops. The communists, who returned with the Soviets, immediately began their scheme to take over the country. They saw the aging Bethlen as a threat, a man who could unite the political forces against them. For this they had him arrested by the Soviets in March 1945. Soon after, Bethlen was taken to Moscow, where he died in prison on 5 October 1946.
Personal life
On 27 Jun 1901 he married his distant cousin Countess Margarete Bethlen de Bethlen (1874–1946). They had 3 sons:
Count András Bethlen de Bethlen (1902–1970) ⚭ Magda Viola (b.1901) ⚭ Eszter Mészáros (1892–1955) ⚭ Maria Palma 'Mizzi' Hoffmann (b.1906); no issue
Count István Bethlen de Bethlen (1904–1982) ⚭ Donna Maria Isabella dei Conti Parravicini (1912–2008); had issue
Count Gábor Bethlen de Bethlen (1906–1981) ⚭ Edith Schmidt (1909–1969); had issue
Notes
References
Ignác Romsics: István Bethlen: A Great Conservative Statesman of Hungary, 1874–1946. East European Monographs. Columbia University Press, 1995.
Bethlen Istvan Emlekirata, 1944, Published in Hungarian/Magyar by Zrinyi Katonai Koenyvkiado, 1988.
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People from the Kingdom of Hungary
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Counter-revolutionaries
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Mu'omu'a is a district of Haʻapai division, Tonga.
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A Reading from Homer (sometimes Listening to Homer) is an 1885 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It depicts an imaginary festival scene from ancient Greece with youth reading poetry to a small audience on a marble balcony overlooking the sea. The painting has been in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1924.
Background
The painting was commissioned in 1882 by the U.S. banker Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819–1902), after he had acquired a small Alma-Tadema painting, Amo Te, Ama Me (1881, oil on panel, , now in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden). The commission was for a larger work which was originally intended to depict Plato teaching philosophy to a small group of followers arranged around the marble courtyard of a temple precinct overlooking the sea, with Plato seated on a marble chair between the columns of the temple. After working on the painting of Plato for a considerable time, Alma-Tadema was still dissatisfied with the result and he repainted the work afresh in early 1885, ultimately producing a similar painting which became A Reading from Homer. Pentimenti show that the composition continued to evolve: for example, Alma-Tadema changed the speaker's arm, which had been thrown out in a dramatic declamatory gesture.
Description
A Reading from Homer depicts a scene on a marble balcony in ancient Greece, overlooking the sea. To the right, below Greek letters on a wall spelling ('Homer'), a young seated man with a laurel wreath on his head appears to be reciting from a scroll, although he has looked up from the text to his audience. It is unclear whether the man is intended to be Homer himself or somebody else. Four listeners stand, sit or lie on a marble bench and the marble floor, dressed for a festival: one man standing, another man lying prone in goat skins (perhaps a shepherd), and a couple reclining, holding hands, with musical instruments: a man with the cithara and a woman with a tambourine. The setting appears to be a time of festival: the woman and the standing man wear garlands of flowers on their heads, and there is a pile of roses on bench, although the specific type of rose depicted was not developed until the 19th century.
The oil-on-canvas painting measures . It evokes ancient Greece but it is not intended to be historically accurate, although some critics date the scene to the end of the 7th century BC. In his 1905 book on Alma-Tadema, the journalist Percy Standing suggested that it may be considered as a companion picture to Alma-Tadema's Sappho and Alcaeus (1881), now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Reception
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1885, and loaned for exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1890 to 1893, and then at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Helen Zimmern wrote in 1888 that the treatment of human skin and light in A Reading from Homer is among Alma-Tadema's best work, and that "he has certainly never modeled anything more perfect than the figures of woman and lover".
According to Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, A Reading from Homer is typical of a type of classicism that emerged in the middle of the 19th century. Unlike the lofty classicism of earlier painters such as Jacques-Louis David, this version focuses on mundane situations and typically does not derive its subject matter from a specific historical model or literary work. A Reading from Homer combines its ancient costumes and setting with modern-looking figures and a naturalistic environment. Simon Goldhill has compared it to the painting St. Cecilia (1895) by John William Waterhouse, writing that both works "focus on the enthralled gaze of artistic appreciation" and the "interplay between the sister arts of poetry, music, dance, and painting".
Provenance
Before the painting was finished, Alma-Tadema was commissioned in 1884 to design the furnishings for Marquand's music room of his mansion in New York City, drawing visual inspiration from ancient Greece and Pompeii. A Reading from Homer was installed on a wall in this room, together with Amo Te, Ama Me, and items of furniture designed by Alma-Tadema including an extravagantly decorated inlaid piano. The room also had three ceiling paintings of the Muses commissioned from Frederic Leighton, one with Mnemosyne accompanying Melpomene and Thalia, and separate canvases depicting Terpsichore and Erato each with an attendant (it appears the main panel was broken up, and parts were sold in 2020 and 2021: all in private collections).
After Marquand suffered financial difficulties, he held a five day sale in January 1903, at which the painting was sold for $30,000 (the most expensive item in the sale) and bought by Knoedler acting for the art collector George W. Elkins (1858–1919) (son of William Lukens Elkins). Elkins bequeathed it to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it has been since 1924.
References
External links
Alma-Tadema, Listening to Homer, Khan Academy
A Reading from Homer, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885, Google Arts & Culture
1885 paintings
Paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Paintings in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Tramore Limestone is a geologic formation in Ireland. The formation preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ireland
References
Geologic formations of Ireland
Ordovician System of Europe
Ordovician Ireland
Limestone formations
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The flag of Corsica was adopted by General of the Nation Pasquale Paoli in 1755 and was based on a traditional flag used previously. It portrays a Moor's head in black wearing a white bandana above his eyes on a white background. Previously, the bandana covered his eyes; Pasquale Paoli wanted the bandana moved to above the eyes to symbolise the liberation of the Corsican people from the Genoese.
It was used by the Corsican Republic and fell out of usage after 1769, when France forced the island's former Genoese masters to sell it to settle the debts contracted by the Italian maritime republic with France. This was to pay the costs of the French expeditionary corps which should have helped Genoa to secure its control on Corsica; French troops put down the long-standing rebellion on the island. During this period under French rule, 1769–1789, Corsican patriots again used the version of the flag with blindfolded eyes, as a mark of protest.
The unblindfolded version, quartered with the British coat of arms, was used as the official flag during the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom of 1794–1796. It then fell into disuse until 1980, when it was officially re-adopted as the regional flag.
The Moor's head is also used on the coat of arms of Corsica, the flag of the neighbouring Sardinia, the coat of arms of Aragon, and on the crest of Clan Borthwick.
Origin
According to the legend, it originates from the 13th century when a young Corsican woman named Diana was captured by Moorish slavers who planned to sell her to the slave market of Granada. Her fiancé Pablo managed to free her and a battle ensued between Corsicans and Moors, during which the Moorish leader Mansour Ben Ismaïl was beheaded. His severed head then became the symbol of Corsica in remembrance of the event.
In a coat of arms book of the late 14th century compiled in the Germanic area, the Armorial book of Gelre, the unblindfolded Moor's head is reported for Corsica in the states of the Crown of Aragon.
Modern controversy
Modern anti-racism efforts, coupled with increased African immigration to Europe and a growth of the Afro-European population, have led to controversies around ancient "Moor's head" symbols. For example, the Austrian company Mohrenbrauerei was asked to remove the "Moor's head" from its bottles.
Gallery
Flag
Coat of arms
See also
Flag of Sardinia
Maure
References
External link
Black people in art
Corsica
Corsica
Corsica
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Grand Bank or 'Grand Banc' as the first French settlers pronounced it, is a small rural town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, with a population of 2,580. It is located on the southern tip or "toe" of the Burin Peninsula (also known as "the boot"), 360 km from the province's capital of St. John's.
Grand Bank was inhabited by French fisherman as early as 1640 and started as a fishing settlement with about seven families. It was given the name "Grand Banc" because of the high bank that extends from Admiral's Cove to the water's edge on the west side of the harbour.
The Town of Grand Bank can attribute much of its past and present growth and prosperity to its proximity to the fishing grounds and its ice-free harbour. Original settlers thrived on trade with the French and a vigorous inshore fishing industry. Grand Bank became the nucleus of the bank fishing industry for Newfoundland and a service centre for Fortune Bay. With the decline of the salt fish industry, the town's emphasis quickly shifted to fresh fish production. Enterprising businessmen and town planners prepared the way for a fresh fish plant (present day Grand Bank Seafoods Inc.) and a fleet of trawlers.
Timeline
1640 - French fishermen were said to be in Grand Bank during this time.
1687 - First French Census taken in Newfoundland shows "Grand Banc" with a population of 45 (39 servants, 2 masters, 3 women and 1 child). The first community had one church, 3 houses and 18 muskets.
1693 – Census takers recorded some of the prominent names: Bourney, Commer, Chevallier and Grandin.
1713 - Treaty of Utrecht, France relinquishes its claim to Newfoundland including St. Pierre et Miquelon. The French Population moved to Ile Royale (Cape Breton).
1714 - William Taverner surveys the coast for the English Government.
1763 - Peace Treaty of Paris: French are given St. Pierre et Miquelon, forcing the English population at St. Pierre to relocate to Grand Bank and Fortune Bay. First record of English settlement.
1765 - Captain James Cook mapped out the area and moored his ship at Admiral's Cove. Came ashore and gathered buds off the small spruce tree to brew beer (excellent source of vitamin C) for his crew.
1836 – Census list 45 dwellings and a population of 236 residents.
1850s - By the end of the 1850s, Grand Bank had a school, a doctor, a judicial system, a postal service and a road system.
1870s - A change in fishing vessel from a shallop to a schooner. With the change in vessel came a change in fishing gear. The trawl was introduced. However, the trawl could not be set directly from the schooner. There was a need for a smaller boat, different from the punt; we have the first appearance of the dory.
1879 - Breakwater and Dredging legislation was passed.
1881 - Bank Fishery began and Samuel Harris’s first season on the banks was a success. In short order, a number of other Grand Bankers with schooners followed (some of which include George Abraham Buffett, Simeon N. Tibbo and Daniel Tibbo). The demand for schooners dramatically increased. There were at one point (1885 & 1886) seven schooners being built in Grand Bank.
1890-1940 – Grand Bank had a fleet of banking and foreign-going ships and earned the distinction "The Bank Fishing Capital" of Newfoundland.
1955 - Modern fresh fish processing plant was built in Grand Bank and the schooners were replaced with modern steel trawlers.
Today, Grand Bank is the home of a shell fishing industry, a modern plant owned by Grand Bank Seafoods (A division of Clearwater Seafoods). It is also home to Dynamic Air Shelters - Manufactures of specialized, inflatable industrial shelters for the oil and gas sector, as well as structures for promotional and ‘first response’ uses.
Tourist attractions
Southern Newfoundland Seamans Museum
Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival
Annual Grand Bank Summer Festival
Harris House
Mariner's Memorial
Bait Depot
Grand Bank Lighthouse
Grande Meadows Golf Course - 30 km away: 9-hole, par 36, open May to October.
St. Pierre and Miquelon - France's last outpost in North America. Minutes by air from Winterland or 70 minutes by sea from nearby Fortune (just 5 km from Grand Bank)
In recent years Grand Bank has seen a tripling of visitors interested in the Queen Anne architecture in the older homes, the traditions of a seafaring people and the heritage still evident in the older businesses, stores, halls and museums. Heritage Canada's Main Street program has been a great success, as evident in the face-lift of many storefront properties. This program was designed to assist in the revitalization of the downtown of Grand Bank using its four components - organization, marketing, design and economic development.
Climate
The climate of Grand Bank is classified as Boreal (Koppen Dfb).
It enjoys one of the most favourable climates of Newfoundland and Labrador, mainly due to its position on the extreme southern coast of the Burin Peninsula.
The winters are relatively mild winters with considerable variation in snow cover and heavy rainfall from October through December.
The average high temperature in January is -0.5 °C - one of the warmest for all of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Surface wind speeds average 20–30 km/hour, with 50–80 km/h typically sustained during low pressure systems. Very strong gusts (120–140 km/h) are a common feature along the south coast.
During strong Arctic air outbreaks the "windchill equivalent temperature" is typically in the -25 to -35 °C range on the island.
July has an average high temperature of 20.6 °C, in August it is 21.1 °C. Summers are generally cooled by low clouds and fog.
There is less fog in Grand Bank than at the other location on the south coast where records are kept. Fog can often be seen around Grand Bank when the community itself is free of it. This is thought to be caused by a combination of the inland hills and ridges that cause the fog to evaporate before it reaches the town.
Mean annual precipitation is 1461.1mm, which is high due to the occurrence of cyclonic storms and in which most of the precipitation falls as rain (1280.9mm or 81%).
Snowfall in Grand Bank is about 180.2mm annually.
Schools
John Burke High School
Media
Newspaper
The Southern Gazette is a newspaper that covers the entire Burin Peninsula.
Television
Channel 5 - CBC Television
Channel 11 - NTV
Radio
AM 740: CHCM ("VOCM"), news/talk/country music
FM 90.3: CBNM, CBC Radio One
FM 91.7: CBN-FM-5, CBC Radio 2
FM 96.3: CHOZ ("OZFM"), hot AC
FM 99.5: VOAR-2, Christian radio
See also
List of lighthouses in Canada
List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
References
External links
The Town of Grand Bank Website
Populated coastal places in Canada
Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Lighthouses in Newfoundland and Labrador
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The men's pole vault event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 10.
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Pole vault at the World Athletics Indoor Championships
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Fatale is a 2020 American thriller film directed by Deon Taylor, from a screenplay by David Loughery. It stars Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter and Danny Pino. The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 18, 2020, by Lionsgate. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
Derrick Tyler is a former college basketball star who has gone on to build a successful sports management agency in Los Angeles with his best friend Rafe Grimes, representing African-American athletes. His marriage to Tracie, a real estate agent, is failing, and he suspects she is having an affair. Rafe is also pressuring him to sell the company to a larger corporation, which Derrick, valuing his independence, refuses to do.
During a business trip to Las Vegas, Rafe encourages Derrick to vent his frustrations by having a fling of his own. Removing his wedding ring and introducing himself as Darren from Seattle, he catches the attention of a woman at a bar. She admits she is also looking for casual sex, and after flirting on the dance floor, they end up in her hotel room. While trying to sneak out the next morning, he discovers that she has locked his phone in the room safe and is coerced into having sex with her again.
Returning to LA, a guilty Derrick reconciles with Tracie. That night, Derrick hears what sounds like a break-in; investigating, he is attacked by a masked burglar and barely manages to fight him off. The police arrive and the detective assigned to the case, Valerie Quinlan, is revealed to be the woman from Las Vegas. She asks Tracie questions that have no relevance to the break-in and implies to Derrick that she could be compelled to reveal his affair or, for a price, keep silent. In her spare time, Valerie stalks her ex-husband, local politician Carter Heywood, who filed a restraining order against her after she left her service weapon unattended while drunk and their daughter Haley accidentally shot herself, leaving her using a wheelchair. Valerie has also been stripped of her custody rights and is desperate to get her daughter back, hoping a corruption scandal Carter is embroiled in will work in her favor.
During her investigation, Valerie discovers that Tracie is cheating on Derrick with Rafe. She informs Derrick of this by encouraging him to peer into the window at the beach house where they rendezvous with binoculars to see for himself. She also suggests that Tracie hired the burglar to kill Derrick. The shock and anguish is enough to briefly drive him back into Valerie's arms, before he confronts Tracie and Rafe directly and throws his wedding ring down as Tracie coldly mocks him. The next day, Derrick is arrested and Valerie tells him Tracie and Rafe were murdered soon after he left them. The suspicion this throws on Derrick ruins his reputation and the district attorney intends to file charges. Realizing Valerie committed the murders herself, Derrick confides in his cousin Tyrin who then, along with a friend, breaks into Valerie's apartment intending to force a confession, but she fights back and kills both of them. Valerie then offers to frame Tyrin instead of Derrick for Tracie and Rafe's murders if Derrick agrees to kill Carter, who has made it clear to Valerie that he can manipulate the courts in his favor and she will never see her daughter again. Derrick approaches Carter while he is jogging and attempts to warn him, but a struggle ensues and Carter is accidentally shot dead.
Derrick goes to Valerie's apartment and she admits to killing Tracie, Rafe, Tyrin and Tyrin's friend. She says she will kill anyone who prevents her getting her daughter back. He realizes this includes him and they shoot each other. As a wounded Derrick leaves, Valerie blindsides and stabs him repeatedly before he shoots her again, this time fatally. As she dies, he reveals that he recorded her confession. He goes to meet the arriving police.
Cast
Production
In August 2018, Hilary Swank joined the cast of the film, with Deon Taylor directing from a screenplay by David Loughery. Taylor, Roxanne Avent, and Robert F. Smith will produce the film, under their Hidden Empire Film Group. Endeavor Content will also produce the film. In September 2018, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, Damaris Lewis, Tyrin Turner and Geoffrey Owens joined the cast of the film.
Principal photography began in Los Angeles in September 2018.
Release
In August 2019, Lionsgate acquired distribution rights to the film. It was initially scheduled to be released on June 19, 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was then scheduled to be released on October 30, 2020, however, it was pushed to 2021 in early October. However on November 23, 2020, it was moved up to December 18, 2020. It was released via video on demand on January 8, 2021 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Reception
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Fatale was released alongside Monster Hunter and was projected to gross $1 million from 1,107 theaters in its opening weekend. The film grossed $330,000 on its first day and ended up opening to $918,112, finishing third at the box office. The film fell to sixth in its second weekend, grossing $659,825, then made $701,561 in its third weekend.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "While it's better than a fair number of other adultery-fueled stalker films, Fatale fails to generate as much heat as the superior erotic thrillers it evokes." Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Michael Ordona of the Los Angeles Times said it was fun to see Swank in a "different part" than her other films. Glenn Kenny of the New York Times said that although the film "never builds up the froth of lurid delirium that brings genre pictures into a headier dimension, it's got enough juice to hold your attention". Mick LaSelle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying that although the movie was "not necessarily good", the film "involves some real craftsmanship in terms of story".
Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com was more critical in her review and gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, saying that it "never fulfills its promise as a lurid, guilty pleasure".
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2020 thriller films
American films
American thriller films
Adultery in films
Fictional portrayals of the Los Angeles Police Department
Films directed by Deon Taylor
Films postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Melittia chalconota is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania.
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Sesiidae
Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Insects of West Africa
Insects of Tanzania
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Moths described in 1910
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Ole Hansen (1855–1928) was a Danish politician, farmer and Minister for Agriculture in the Cabinet of Deuntzer and the Cabinet of J.C. Christensen I as a member of the Venstre Reform Party.
He was the first farmer to become a Danish minister.
He was a member of Folketinget from 1890 to 1908 and of the Landsting from 1914 to 1928. In 1922 he became the president of Landstinget.
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Vedat Muriqi (born 24 April 1994) is a Kosovar professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Mallorca, on loan from Italian club Lazio, and the Kosovo national team.
Club career
Teuta Durrës
On 14 January 2013, Muriqi had a trial at Kategoria Superiore club Teuta Durrës and after impressing in a friendly match signed a one-and-a-half year contract with the club. On 4 February 2013, he made his debut with Teuta Durrës in the 2012–13 Albanian Cup quarter-finals against Bylis after being named in the starting line-up. On 23 February 2013, he made his league debut in a 1–1 away draw against Tirana after coming on as a substitute at 46th minute in place of Daniel Xhafaj.
Loan at Besa Kavajë
On 5 January 2014, Muriqi was loaned out to Kategoria Superiore club Besa Kavajë until the end of the 2013–14 season. On 1 February 2014, he made his debut against Laçi after coming on as a substitute at 46th minute in place of Shaqir Stafa and scored his side's second goal during a 2–2 home draw.
Giresunspor
On 18 August 2014, Muriqi signed a two-year contract with TFF First League club Giresunspor. On 14 September 2014, he made his debut in a 0–1 home defeat against Adana Demirspor after coming on as a substitute at 78th minute in place of David Solomon Abwo.
Gençlerbirliği
On 31 May 2016, Muriqi signed a three-year contract with Süper Lig club Gençlerbirliği. On 21 August 2016, he made his debut against Gaziantepspor after coming on as a substitute at 64th minute in place of Cosmin Matei and scored his side's second goal during a 2–0 home win.
Çaykur Rizespor
On 11 January 2018, Muriqi signed to TFF First League side Çaykur Rizespor. Ten days later, he made his debut in a match against Manisaspor after being named in the starting line-up and scoring two goals during a 0–3 away win.
Fenerbahçe
On 7 July 2019, Muriqi completed a transfer to Süper Lig side Fenerbahçe by signing for the next four seasons. One day later, the club confirmed that Muriqi had joined on a permanent transfer. On 19 August 2019, he made his debut against Gaziantep after being named in the starting line-up and scored his side's second goal during a 5–0 home win.
Lazio
On 15 September 2020, Muriqi signed a five-year deal with Serie A club Lazio. On 17 October 2020, he made his debut in a 3–0 away defeat against Sampdoria after coming on as a substitute at 59th minute in place of Felipe Caicedo. Three days after debut, Muriqi played against Borussia Dortmund in the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League to become the first player of the Kosovo national team to feature in the competition.
Loan at Mallorca
On 31 January 2022, Muriqi was loaned out to La Liga club Mallorca until the end of the 2021–22 season. Mallorca reportedly paid a €1 million loan fee. His debut with Mallorca came two days later in the 2021–22 Copa del Rey quarter-finals against Rayo Vallecano after being named in the starting line-up. Three days after debut, he made his league debut against Cádiz after being named in the starting line-up and scored his side's second goal during a 2–1 home win.
International career
Under-21
Kosovo
In June 2013, Muriqi was named as part of the Kosovo U21 squad for 2013 Valais Youth Cup. On 12 June 2013, he made his debut with Kosovo U21 in 2013 Valais Youth Cup semi-final against Ghana U20 after being named in the starting line-up and scored the draw goal in the 41st minute.
Albania
On 15 October 2013, Muriqi made his debut with Albania U21 in a 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match against Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 after coming on as a substitute at 46th minute in place of Herolind Shala.
Senior
On 30 August 2016, Muriqi received a call-up from Kosovo for a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Finland. On 9 October 2016, he made his debut with Kosovo in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Ukraine after being named in the starting line-up.
Style of play and reception
Muriqi is known for his headers and strength. Former Turkish international and World Cup semi-finalist Rüştü Reçber described Muriqi as an "ideal centre forward", praising his speed in confined spaces in field, aerial dominance, and his team play capabilities, in 2019.
Former Turkish international and World Cup semi-finalist Hakan Ünsal underlined his strength, ball containing and shooting abilities, in 2019. Okan Buruk, former Turkish international, World Cup semi-finalist and former Çaykur Rizespor manager who coached Muriqi stated that Muriqi dramatically improved during his latter season at club, due to his extra trainings, describing him reliable and labelling him "best forward in Turkey in that period".
Former Turkish international and pundit Rıdvan Dilmen praised Muriqi, stating: "There are some forwards. They might be short and quick. Some are powerful. Some are tall, like Peter Crouch, who can get the ball on ground. Muriqi possesses all [of these]. If he could play alongside Alex, he could have scored 25 goals [in a season]", on 21 September 2019.
Personal life
Muriqi was born in Prizren, Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo) to Kosovo Albanian parents. In addition to his Kosovan and Albanian citizenship, he acquired Turkish citizenship in July 2015 under the naturalized name Vedat Muriç. In September 2020, Muriqi tested positive for COVID-19.
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International
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1994 births
Living people
People from Prizren
Kosovan footballers
Kosovo under-21 international footballers
Kosovo international footballers
Kosovan expatriate footballers
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Albania
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Kosovan expatriate sportspeople in Spain
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Albania under-21 international footballers
Albanian expatriate footballers
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Albanian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Turkish footballers
Turkish expatriate footballers
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Albania
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Naturalized citizens of Turkey
Turkish people of Kosovan descent
Turkish people of Albanian descent
Association football forwards
Football Superleague of Kosovo players
KF Liria players
Kategoria Superiore players
KF Teuta Durrës players
Besa Kavajë players
TFF First League players
Giresunspor footballers
Süper Lig players
Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers
Çaykur Rizespor footballers
Fenerbahçe S.K. footballers
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Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius (15 May 1880 – 31 January 1967) was a German bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, up to 1934 a conservative anti-semite who became a staunch opponent of Nazism and communism.
Early years
He was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1880. One of his cousins was the Protestant theologian Martin Dibelius. From 1899 to 1903 he studied at the Frederick William University of Berlin. He received his PhD in 1902. From 1904–1906, he studied at the Preachers' Seminary in Wittenberg.
Early pastorates
He was then employed as a minister by the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces. In 1906–1907, he was the assistant pastor at the Klosterkirche in Guben. In 1907–1909, he was the archdeacon at St. Mary's Church in Crossen an der Oder. In 1909–1910, he was the assistant pastor at the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul in Danzig. From 1911 to 1915, he was the chief pastor at Lauenburg in Pomerania. From 1915 to 1925, he was the pastor of the Heilsbronnen congregation in Berlin-Schöneberg. In 1918, he was the executive secretary (part-time) of the Mutual Trust Council in the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council (, EOK) of the Evangelical State Church in Prussia's older Provinces, which renamed after the separation of state and religion into Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (APU) in 1922.
General superintendent of Kurmark
In 1921 he was a member of the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council (part-time). From 1925 to 1933 he was the superintendent-general of the Kurmark within the Old-Prussian Ecclesiastical Province of the March of Brandenburg. He then also became a member of the consistory, an administrative body, of that ecclesiastical province and joined the right-wing and anti-semite German National People's Party.
One problem was the spiritual vacuum which emerged after the church stopped being a state church with the separation of religion and state by the 1919 German Weimar Constitution. Dibelius published his book Das Jahrhundert der Kirche (The century of the Church), in which he declared the 20th century to be the era when the Evangelical Church may for the first time develop freely and gain the independence God would have wished for, without the burden and constraints of the state church function. He regarded the role of the church as even more important, since the government of the Weimar Republic – in his eyes – would no longer provide society with binding norms, so that this would be the task of the church.
The church would have to stand for the defence of the Christian culture of the Occident. In this respect Dibelius regarded himself as consciously anti-Jewish, explaining in a circular to the pastors in his general superintendency district of Kurmark, "I have always considered myself an anti-Semite. It cannot be denied that with all degenerating phenomena of modern civilisation Judaism plays a leading role". His book was one of the most read on church matters in that period.
On 21 March 1933 the newly elected Reichstag convened in Potsdam's Evangelical Garrison Church, an event commemorated as the Day of Potsdam, and Dibelius, then the locally competent General-Superintendent, did the relevant preaching in front of the Protestant members of the Reichstag in St. Nicholas' Church, Potsdam, in the morning. On 1 April 1933 the Nazi regime organized a boycott of Jewish shops and on 4 April Dibelius wrote in Berlin's Evangelisches Sonntagsblatt that "the last fifteen years in Germany" had "strengthened Jewry's influence to an extraordinary degree. The number of Jewish judges, Jewish politicians and Jewish civil servants in influential positions has grown measurably". He downplayed the boycott of enterprises of Jewish proprietors and such of Gentiles of Jewish descent, when SA members stood outside Jewish shops attempting to enforce the boycott through intimidation, and when swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans were painted on shop-windows. In an address for US radio he commended the restraint shown in the boycott, with "only one single bloody incident" and he accepted the need for violence, hoping instead 'that the hour may soon come when violence is no longer necessary'. Even after this clearly anti-Semitic action he repeated in his circular to the pastors of Kurmark on the occasion of Easter (16 April 1933) his anti-Jewish attitude, giving the same words as in 1928.
During the struggle of the churches
Once the Nazi government realised that the 28 Protestant church bodies in Germany were not to be streamlined from within using the Nazi-submissive German Christians faction within the church, they abolished the constitutional freedom of religion and religious organisation. The act was strictly opposed by Dibelius, who saw the separation of state and church as a prerequisite of the latter's free development to achieve its best role. On 24 June the Nazi Minister of Cultural Affairs, Bernhard Rust appointed August Jäger as Prussian State Commissioner for the Prussian Ecclesiastical Affairs (). Jäger furloughed – among many others – Dibelius.
On 14 July, Adolf Hitler discretionarily decreed an unconstitutional premature re-election of all elders ( or Presbyter) and synodals in all 28 Protestant church bodies in Germany for 23 July. The new synods of the 28 Protestant churches were to declare their dissolution as separate church bodies in favour of a united German Evangelical Church (). Representatives of all 28 Protestant churches were to attend the newly created National Synod to confirm the designated Ludwig Müller as the Reich's Bishop. Müller already now regarded himself as leader of this new organisation.
In the campaign for the premature re-election of all presbyters and synodals on 23 July the Nazi government sided with the German Christians. Under the impression of the government's partiality, the other existing lists of opposing candidates united to form the Evangelical Church list. The Gestapo (est. 26 April 1933) ordered the list to change its name and replace all its election posters and flyers issued under the forbidden name.
The Gestapo confiscated the office and the printing-press of the Evangelical Church list to hinder any reprint. Thus, the list, which had been renamed as Gospel and Church (), took refuge with the Evangelical Press Association (), presided over by Dibelius and printed new election posters in its premises in Alte Jacobstraße # 129, Berlin. However, the German Christians gained 70–80% of the seats in presbyteries and synods. In 1933–34 Dibelius served the pastorate at San Remo, Italy.
After his return to Germany (July 1934) and after – from May to October 1934 – the intra-church opposition, the so-called Confessing Church, had built up its own organisational structures, circumventing the officially recognised bodies of the Old-Prussian church and the newly established Nazi-submissive German Evangelical Church, Dibelius served again as general superintendent in the Kurmark – ignoring his official furlough – accepted only by those congregations whose presbyteries rejected the Nazi adulterated official Old-Prussian church. From 1934 to 1945 he was a member of the March of Brandenburg provincial Councils of Brethren, the leading bodies established by the Confessing Church on all levels, such as deaneries, ecclesiastical provinces and for the overall Old-Prussian church as well as in other Nazi-subjected Protestant church bodies in Germany and on the Reich's level dubbing the position of Reich's Bishop Müller by the Reich's Council of Brethren.
Rebuilding the Old-Prussian church and Berlin-Brandenburg ecclesiastical province
Before the end of World War II Dibelius addressed some moderate incumbents of leading positions in the official Old-Prussian church, in order to establish their acceptance and co-operation in a future provisional leading body – the so-called Beirat (advisory council) of the Old-Prussian church, once the Nazis were defeated. On 7 May 1945 Dibelius organised the forming of a provisional church executive for the Old-Prussian Ecclesiastical Province of the March of Brandenburg, comprising Greater Berlin and the political province of Brandenburg. The provisionally leading advisory council reconfirmed Dibelius as general superintendent of Kurmark and also commissioned him to serve per pro the vacant general superintendencies of Berlin and the New March and Lower Lusatia. The Soviet occupying power agreed that Dibelius would use the self-chosen title of Bishop, which was regarded a non-Protestant title and was rejected by many, especially since the Nazi-submissive German Christians used that title for their church leaders, claiming an intra-church hierarchy in the range of the Führerprinzip.
In June an overall provisional church executive, the Council of the Evangelical Church of the Old-Prussian Union () emerged, acting until December 1948 mostly in Central Germany, since traffic and communication between the German regions had collapsed. On 13 June 1945 the Old-Prussian ecclesiastical province of Westphalia under synodal Praeses Karl Koch unilaterally assumed independence as the Evangelical Church of Westphalia. Dibelius fought this and tried to maintain the unity of the Old-Prussian church.
On 15 July Heinrich Grüber was appointed Provost of St. Mary's and St. Nicholas' Church in Berlin and Dibelius invested him on 8 August in a ceremony in St. Mary's Church, only partially cleared of debris. In 1945 Dibelius became a member of the newly founded Christian Democratic Union party in Germany, which later split into the western CDU and the eastern puppet party CDU(D).
Theophil Wurm, Bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, invited representatives of all Protestant church bodies to Treysa (a part of today's Schwalmstadt) for 31 August 1945. The representatives of the six still existing Old-Prussian ecclesiastical provinces (March of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Rhineland, Saxony, Silesia, and Westphalia; the other three, located in the Former eastern territories of Germany had fallen under Polish and Soviet rule, newly annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union) and the central Old-Prussian Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council used the occasion to make fundamental decisions about the future of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union. The representatives decided to assume the independent existence of each ecclesiastical province and to reform the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union into a mere umbrella organisation ("Neuordnung der Evangelischen Kirche der altpreußischen Union"). Dibelius and some Middle German representatives (the so-called Dibelians) could not assert themselves against Koch and his partisans, to maintain the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union as an integrated church body. However, Dibelius assumed the position of president of the Old-Prussian Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council.
President of the Evangelical Church in Germany umbrella
As to co-operation of all the Protestant church bodies in Germany, strong resentments prevailed, especially among the Lutheran church bodies of the Bavaria right of the river Rhine, the Hamburgian State, Hanover, Mecklenburg, the Free State of Saxony, and Thuringia, against any unification after the experiences during the Nazi reign with the German Evangelical Church. But it was decided to replace the pre-1933 German Federation of Protestant Churches with the new umbrella Evangelical Church in Germany, provisionally led by the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, a naming borrowed from the brethren council organisation. Beginning in 1949, Dibelius was chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
In December 1946 Dibelius spent two weeks visiting prisoner-of-war camps in England, Scotland and Wales, a journey that had been made possible by the Control Commission for Germany and the Minister of State for War, at the request of Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. On Christmas Eve, at the invitation of Leslie Stannard Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield, he conducted a service at Sheffield Cathedral, attended by over 1,000 German prisoners of war.
Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg
Until 1951 all the six still existing ecclesiastical provinces of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union assumed new church constitutions declaring their independence with Dibelius' local Ecclesiastical Province of the March of Brandenburg transforming into the independent Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg. Dibelius was elected its bishop in December 1948 by the synod constituting this newly independent church body, after the function of bishop had been officially established by the new church constitution.
In 1947 at a meeting of delegates of the six surviving ecclesiastical provinces they confirmed the status quo, with the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union having transformed into a league of independent church bodies. The schism within the Old-Prussian church was not yet fully overcome, since only the most radical German Christians had been removed or had resigned from their positions. Many neutrals, forming the majority of clergy and parishioners, and many proponents of the quite doubtable compromising policy at the time of the struggle of the churches assumed positions.
It was Dibelius' policy to gain the mainstream support of parishioners. Thus the strict opposition of the Dahlemites and Barmensians, forming the uncompromised opposition of the Confessing Church during the struggle of the churches, continued to maintain their conventions in the Old-Prussian brethren councils. On 14 January 1949 representatives of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union decided to reconcile the groups and founded a committee to develop a new church constitution. On 15 August 1949 the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council, presided over by Dibelius, issued the proposal of the committee for a new constitution, which would bring together the Westphalians striving for the complete unwinding of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union, the Dahlemites and Barmensians as well as the Dibelians.
The bulk of the mainstream parishioners shared a strong scepticism about, if not even objection to, communism, and so did Dibelius. So after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the Soviet zone of occupation on 7 October 1949, including – apart from West Berlin the bulk of the territory covered by the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg -, its Bishop Dibelius was often defamed in the East as the propagandist of the western Konrad Adenauer government. He was declared persona non-grata by the German Democratic Republic in 1960. After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 the GDR refused to allow Dibelius to enter its territory and East Berlin.
On 24 February 1950 Dibelius – heading the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council – invited for an extraordinary Old-Prussian General Synod, which convened on 11–13 December in Berlin. The new constitution () transformed the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union into a mere umbrella and did away with the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council, replacing it by the Church Chancery (), as administrative body. The new governing body, replacing the Church Senate led by the Praeses of the General Synod (de facto destroyed since 1933), became the Council of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union.
The heads of the church body, in office for a term of two years, now bore the title President of the Council (). Until the appointment of the first head in 1952 Dibelius, the former president of the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council, and its other members officiated per pro as the head and members of the church chancery.
Beginning in 1954 he was the president of the World Council of Churches (part-time). He died in 1967 in Berlin (West).
Works
Dibelius, Otto, Das Jahrhundert der Kirche: Geschichte, Betrachtung, Umschau und Ziele, Berlin: Furche-Verlag, 1927. No ISBN
Dibelius, Otto, In the Service of the Lord, London: Faber and Faber, 1964 [1961].
References
Ursula Büttner, "Von der Kirche verlassen: Die deutschen Protestanten und die Verfolgung der Juden und Christen jüdischer Herkunft im "Dritten Reich"", In: Die verlassenen Kinder der Kirche: Der Umgang mit Christen jüdischer Herkunft im "Dritten Reich", Ursula Büttner and Martin Greschat (eds.), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, pp. 15–69. .
Gerlach, Wolfgang, Als die Zeugen schwiegen: Bekennende Kirche und die Juden, re-edited and accompl. ed., Berlin: Institut Kirche und Judentum, 21993, (Studien zu Kirche und Israel; vol. 10), p. 28. . An earlier version appeared as doctoral thesis titled Zwischen Kreuz und Davidstern, Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 11970. No ISBN
Gross, Ernie; This Day in Religion, New York: Neal-Schuman, 1990. .
Heinrich Grüber. Sein Dienst am Menschen, Peter Mehnert on behalf or the Evangelische Hilfsstelle für ehemals Rasseverfolgte and Bezirksamt Hellersdorf (ed.), Berlin: Bezirkschronik Berlin-Hellersdorf, 1988. No ISBN.
Kühl-Freudenstein, Olaf, "Die Glaubensbewegung Deutsche Christen", in: Kirchenkampf in Berlin 1932–1945: 42 Stadtgeschichten, Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Peter Noss, and Claus Wagener (eds.), Berlin: Inst. Kirche und Judentum, 1999, (Studien zu Kirche und Judentum; vol. 18), pp. 97–113, here 103. .
Lange, Ralf and Peter Noss, "Bekennende Kirche in Berlin", in: Kirchenkampf in Berlin 1932–1945: 42 Stadtgeschichten, Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Peter Noss, and Claus Wagener (eds.), Berlin: Inst. Kirche und Judentum, 1999, (Studien zu Kirche und Judentum; vol. 18), pp. 114–147. .
Wagener, Claus, "Die Vorgeschichte des Kirchenkampfes", in: Kirchenkampf in Berlin 1932–1945: 42 Stadtgeschichten, Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Peter Noss, and Claus Wagener (eds.), Berlin: Inst. Kirche und Judentum, 1999, (Studien zu Kirche und Judentum; vol. 18), pp. 27–75. .
Wagener, Claus, "Nationalsozialistische Kirchenpolitik und protestantische Kirchen nach 1933", in: Kirchenkampf in Berlin 1932–1945: 42 Stadtgeschichten, Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein, Peter Noss, and Claus Wagener (eds.), Berlin: Inst. Kirche und Judentum, 1999, (Studien zu Kirche und Judentum; vol. 18), pp. 76–96. .
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The ninth season of the American reality television series Food Network Star premiered Sunday, June 2, 2013.
Season 8 chef mentors Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, and Alton Brown returned for season 9, were not assigned to a team nor did they hold a final elimination challenge between the bottom contestants. Season 9 featured 12 contestants, just three short of the prior season.
Contestants
Winner
Damaris Phillips, 31, Culinary Teacher - Louisville, Kentucky
Runners-Up
Rodney Henry, 47, Pie Shop Owner - Baltimore, Maryland
Russell Jackson, 49, Underground Chef - San Francisco, California
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Daniela Perez-Reyes, 28, Caterer/Bartender - Haleiwa, Hawaii
Andres Guillama, 26, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coach - Waynesville, North Carolina
Danushka Lysek, 37, Private Chef/Model - New York City
Connie "Lovely" Jackson, 27, Caterer - Los Angeles, California (Returned to competition after winning Star Salvation)
Viet Pham, 33, Chef/Restaurant Owner - Salt Lake City, Utah
Chris Hodgson, 26, Chef/Restaurateur - Cleveland, Ohio
Chad Rosenthal, 37, Restaurant Owner - Ambler, Pennsylvania
Connie "Lovely" Jackson, 27, Caterer - Los Angeles, California
Nikki Dinki, 29, Food Blogger/Online Host - New York City
Stacey Poon-Kinney, 34, Restaurant Owner - San Diego, California
At least six competitors have appeared on other Food Network programs. Pham defeated Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America and also competed on Extreme Chef. Lysek and Henry appeared on Chopped; both were eliminated before the final round. Henry also appeared on Throwdown with Bobby Flay, while Lysek also won during an appearance on 24 Hour Restaurant Battle. Poon-Kinney appeared on Restaurant: Impossible, where Robert Irvine gave her family's restaurant a makeover. Hodgson competed on The Great Food Truck Race; his truck, Hodge Podge, was a runner-up on season 2.
Contestant progress
: Lovely won Star Salvation and returned to the competition, but was eliminated the same week she came back.
: Russell was eliminated from the final three midway through the finale.
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the Star Challenge for that week.
(SAFE) The contestant won immunity from elimination by winning the Camera Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant was not one of the Selection Committee's favorites nor their least favorites. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's two least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episode summaries
Week One: Are You Ready For Prime-Time?
Camera Challenge: The 12 contestants must make a 30-second pitch to network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson; the pitch is also shown to a focus group, who are given reaction meters to rate their impressions. Following this, they have 45 minutes to create a dish that highlights potatoes.
Top 3: Chad, Nikki, and Stacey
Bottom 3: Russell, Danushka, and Daniela
Eliminated: Daniela
Original air date: June 2, 2013
Week Two: Burger Bash
Camera Challenge: The contestants must make a burger for 100 burger enthusiasts and make a two-minute presentation to the audience. Each audience member has a token and will give their token to the contestant whose burger they want to taste.
Top 3: Russell, Chad, and Stacey
Bottom 3: Nikki, Danushka, and Andres
Eliminated: Andres
Original air date: June 9, 2013
Week Three: A Star is Chopped
Mentor Challenge: The contestants are separated into two groups, led by Alton and Bobby, and must prepare a dish using an exotic ingredient. The winners from each group receive an advantage in the next challenge.
Team Alton winner: Rodney
Team Bobby winner: Damaris
Chopped Challenge: The contestants face the Chopped Challenge, in which Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli, Alton and Bobby judge two heats of a Chopped-style competition. For winning the Mentor Challenge, Damaris and Rodney earn a place on the judging panel for their respective teams and are safe from elimination.
Round 1: Viet, Danushka, Chad and Russell face off against one another using foods found at a baseball game: cotton candy, hot dogs, peanuts and beer. Damaris joins the judges for this heat.
Round 2: Chris, Lovely, Nikki and Stacey face off against one another using kids' foods: chicken nuggets, fruit leathers, cheddar fish crackers and apple juice. Rodney joins the judges for this heat.
Top 2: Nikki and Chad
Bottom 3: Stacey, Russell, and Danushka
Eliminated: Danushka
Original air date: June 16, 2013
Week Four: Big Screen Bites
Camera Challenge: The contestants are divided into teams of three, each representing a classic movie theme. The teams, who will compete at a luxury cinema, must create a menu and a movie trailer based on their theme.
Teams:
Musical: Lovely, Rodney, and Chris
Western: Stacey, Nikki, and Russell
Romance: Damaris, Viet, and Chad
Top 3: Nikki, Russell, and Stacey
Bottom 3: Viet, Rodney, and Lovely
Eliminated: Lovely
Original air date: June 23, 2013
Week Five: 4th of July Live
Mentor Challenge: The contestants work with Terrence Jenkins to present live demos of a sausage and pepper sandwich in three minutes. Each contestant is challenged with a different issue during their demonstration including missing peppers, cutting the lights and Terrence walking off the set with a cough.
Winner: Rodney
Camera Challenge: The contestants take part in an interactive show called "4th of July Live." As part of the show, network executive Bob Tuschman returns to judge the challenge. Each of the contestants will be given one of eight stations which range from cooking to a station with a culinary expert.
Top 2: Stacey and Nikki
Winner: Stacey
Bottom 2: Russell and Viet
Eliminated: Viet
Original air date: June 30, 2013
Week Six: Product Pitch
Star Challenge: The finalists are given one hour to create two potential food products that can be sold on the market. They must then choose which one they will take to market and will have the opportunity to pitch their product to three executives from Kraft Foods, Kellogg's and Target.
Top 3: Damaris, Stacey and Russell
Bottom 4: Nikki, Chad, Rodney and Chris
Eliminated: Chris
Original air date: July 7, 2013
Week Seven: Star Charity Auction
Camera Challenge: The contestants had to describe Bobby Flay's dish after tasting it and were buzzed by Bobby Flay when they used certain words that were forbidden to use.
Top 2: Stacey and Nikki
Winner: Stacey
Bottom 2: Rodney and Russell
Star Challenge: The finalists create their signature dish to tell what type of Food Network Star they are, they then had to describe the dish to a group of adventurous eaters (gastronauts). The dishes were then bid on by the eaters. Whoever earns the highest bid is safe from elimination. For winning the Camera Challenge, Stacey won an extra $10 added on to whatever amount her dish receives in the auction. All proceeds went to Share Our Strength, an organization to combat childhood hunger.
Dishes and Bids:
Damaris: (Green Bean Casserole) $130
Nikki: (Mushroom & Shrimp Pasta) $130
Chad: (Texas Barbecue Poutine) $150
Russell: (Egg & Bacon Revolution) $150
Stacey: (Maple Bacon Cheesecake) $180 + $10 bonus
Rodney: (Berry & Rhubarb Pie) $140
Top 3: Nikki, Damaris, and Stacey
Winner: Nikki
Bottom 2: Russell and Chad
Eliminated: Chad
Original air date: July 14, 2013
Week Eight: Food Stories From The Road
Prior to the announcement of the Mentors Challenge, Robert Irvine announced the winner of the Star Salvation was Lovely, who returned to the competition.
Mentors Challenge: The contestants had to create an Italian dish for the mentors and then had to come up with a tasty description for the dish. As a twist, two contestants at a time are brought in and then the two chefs would switch dishes and describe each others. Damaris and Lovely described each other's dishes, Stacey and Rodney judge one another, and Russell and Nikki critique theirs. The winner would receive an advantage in the upcoming Star Challenge.
Winner: Nikki
Star Challenge: In teams of three, the finalists must film a three-minute "food story show." Nikki, Stacey and Damaris are paired with The Donut Man, while Lovely, Russell and Rodney take Vito's Pizza. Guest judges Janice Min, Gary Baum and Leslie Bruce from The Hollywood Reporter screen and critique the shows; the least successful team lands in the bottom three.
Top 2: Damaris and Nikki
Bottom 3: Rodney, Russell and Lovely
Eliminated: Lovely
Original air date: July 21, 2013
Week Nine: Menu: Impossible
Mentor's Challenge: The chefs are asked create a well-balanced dish in 30 minutes using ingredients from the Food Network Star pantry. During their presentation to Alton, the contestants must explain why they used the ingredients and give a tip for preparing a quick meal. Rodney and Damaris are assigned breakfast dishes, Nikki receives lunch and Russell and Stacey prepare food for dinner.
Winner: Stacey
Star Challenge: The contestants head to Phil Trani's in Long Beach, California. Restaurant: Impossible host Robert Irvine, along with owner Phil Trani and managers Amber and Ashley, joins Alton and Giada on the judging panel. Irvine challenges the chefs to reinvent failing or outdated dishes on the restaurant's menu. For winning the Mentor's Challenge, Stacey is presented five dishes and given the opportunity to either cook the dish or assign it to another chef. Rodney, assigned chicken cacciatore, serves the judges a chicken cacciatore pie. Damaris, assigned tournedos of beef and mashed potatoes, serves a filet with garlic smashed potatoes. Stacey, who chose crab-stuffed halibut with a baked potato, serves a halibut crab cake roulade with potatoes. Nikki, assigned the salmon with onion pepper relish and a rice pilaf, serves a broccoli cake with salmon and rice pilaf. Russell, assigned stuffed chicken and rice pilaf, serves a spinach wrapped chicken and risotto.
Winner: Russell
Bottom 4: Damaris, Stacey, Rodney and Nikki
Eliminated: Nikki
Original air date: July 28, 2013
Week Ten: Network Pitch
Pitch Challenge: The final four contestants each pitch two show ideas to the mentors. They then must pitch their best idea to network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, who will green-light three of the pilots. Stacey pitches "Stacey's Modern Magic," where she'll take dishes that have "fallen into disrepair" and make them more magical. Russell pitches "Guilty Pleasures," which would turn something ordinary and plain into a "sinful delight," such as adding bacon to an ice cream shop's vanilla ice cream. Damaris pitches "Eat, Date, Love" which would teach men, and America in general, how to win someone over through Southern food and tradition. Finally, Rodney pitches "Pie Style," which takes him to restaurants that would will challenge him to turn their signature dish in into a pie. The executives and mentors unanimously put Damaris and Rodney through to the next challenge. The decision on the third finalist results in a tie between Stacey and Russell, with Alton yet to vote. Stacey ends up being eliminated.
Moved to next round: Damaris, Rodney, Russell
Eliminated: Stacey
Star Challenge: The final three head out to do their pilots, which will be directed by surprise guest and former Food Network Star winner Guy Fieri. Rodney meets chef Eric Greenspan at The Foundry on Melrose, where he'll remake Greenspan's famous grilled cheese sandwich into a pie using Taleggio cheese and short ribs. Russell shoots his pilot at Bennett's Ice Cream Shop inside the Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles, where he tries the cabernet sauvignon sorbet. He then enters the kitchen to create his own bacon bourbon sorbet for owner Scott Bennett to try. For Damaris' pilot, she and her student, Josh, create a peppered pork loin on a sweet potato biscuit. Each pilots is shown at the end of the episode: "Pie Style with Rodney Henry," "Guilty Pleasures with Russell Jackson," and "Eat, Date, Love with Damaris Phillips." Now the viewers will vote for their favorite contestant through the Food Network's website: Finale Vote.
Original air date: August 4, 2013
Week Eleven: America Picks a Star
Reunion: The Season Nine winner is announced during a reunion show at Chelsea Manor in New York featuring never-before-seen footage and reflections from the competitors and mentors. The contestants and mentors answer questions sent by viewers via Twitter, Skype and email. Midway through the show, Russell is eliminated from the final three, leaving Damaris and Rodney as the final two contestants for the grand prize.
Runners-Up: Russell (third place), Rodney (second place)
Winner of Food Network Star: Damaris
New Show: Southern at Heart
Original air date: August 11, 2013
Star Salvation
This season, Food Network Star added a five-week online "Star Salvation" competition, which will allow one eliminated contestant a second chance to return to the main competition. Hosted by Robert Irvine, each episode will feature the most recently eliminated contestant competing against the remaining previously eliminated contestants. Each episode features one or two rounds of competition, judged by Irvine.
(WIN) The chef won Star Salvation and returned to the main competition.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Star Salvation and continued in the competition.
(IN) The chef continued in the competition.
(OUT) The chef lost in that week's Star Salvation and was eliminated from the competition.
Episode 1
Round 1
Advanced: Andres, Danushka, Lovely
Eliminated: Daniela
Round 2
Advanced: Danushka and Lovely
Eliminated: Andres
Episode 2
Winner: Lovely
Eliminated: Danushka and Viet
Episode 3
Winner: Lovely
Eliminated: Chris
Episode 4
Winner: Lovely
Eliminated: Chad
References
External links
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Jane Elizabeth Kister (born and also published as Jane Bridge, 18 October 1944 – 1 December 2019) was a British and American mathematical logician and mathematics editor who served for many years as an editor of Mathematical Reviews.
Early life and education
Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, where she was born on 18 October 1944; her father was a lawyer and later a judge. Her family moved to London when she was four, and she studied at St Paul's Girls' School in London. She matriculated at Somerville College, Oxford in 1963, but her studies were interrupted by a diagnosis of lupus; she resumed reading mathematics there in 1964, tutored by Anne Cobbe. She earned a first, won a Junior Mathematical Prize, and continued at Oxford for graduate study.
She was given the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship in 1969, and completed her doctorate (D. Phil.) at Oxford in 1972. Her dissertation, Some Problems in Mathematical Logic: Systems of Ordinal Functions and Ordinal Notations, was supervised by Robin Gandy. She then became a tutorial fellow in mathematics at Somerville College, taking Anne Cobbe's position after Cobbe's retirement, and a member of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, working among others there with Dana Scott.
Marriage and later life
In 1977, mathematician James Kister from the University of Michigan visited Oxford on sabbatical; they married in 1978 and she returned with him to the US, giving up her position at Oxford and in 1992 taking US citizenship. She obtained a visiting professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then in 1979 began working at Mathematical Reviews, where she would remain for the rest of her career. She became associate executive editor in 1984, and executive editor in 1998, the first woman to hold that position. When Mathematical Reviews shifted from being a paper review journal to an online electronic database, MathSciNet, in 1996, Kister was heavily involved in this advance. She also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Michigan.
She retired in 2004, and died of a heart attack on 1 December 2019.
Books
As Jane Bridge, she was the author of the book Beginning Model Theory: The Completeness Theorem and Some Consequences (Clarendon Press, 1977), the first volume in the Oxford Logic Guides book series. She also co-edited the Ω-Bibliography of Mathematical Logic, Volume VI: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematics (Perspectives in Mathematical Logic, Springer, 1987).
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2019 deaths
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The Mary Seaman Ennis House, located at 202 W. 13th St. in Goodland, Kansas, is a historic Queen Anne style house that was built in 1907 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was listed on the National Register in 2006. It was deemed significant as an "outstanding" example of Queen Anne architecture and for association with local builder Fred Hunt.
The house is now known as the Ennis-Handy House and is operated by the Sherman County Historical Society as a Victorian-period historic house museum.
References
External links
Ennis-Handy House - Sherman County Historical Society
More photos of the Ennis-Handy House at Wikimedia Commons
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Queen Anne architecture in Kansas
Houses completed in 1907
Houses in Sherman County, Kansas
Museums in Sherman County, Kansas
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The Castle of Riba de Santiuste (Spanish: Castillo de Riba de Santiuste) is a castle located in Sigüenza, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1992.
The castle was rebuilt twice: in 15th century for the first time and in 19th century after it had been partially destroyed.
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Castles in Castilla–La Mancha
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Tan Sri Dato' Ir. Wong Foon Meng () is a Malaysian politician and engineer. He is also the former President of the Dewan Negara and a former Terengganu State Assemblyman for the seat of Bandar, Kuala Terengganu from 1995 to 1999.
Early career
Wong was a civil servant in Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment from 1978 to 1990 and later became a Consulting Engineer in 1991 upon leaving the government service.
Political career
Wong made his debut in the 1990 general election by contesting the Bandar, Kuala Terengganu state seat but lost. He was elected to the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly in the 1995 general election but lost his seat in the subsequent 1999 general election.
He was appointed to the Senate in April 2004, and elected as the Deputy President of the Senate in July the same year. He went on to become Senate President on 7 July 2009. His term ended on 12 April 2010, and he was succeeded by Abu Zahar Ujang.
Wong was the secretary-general for Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) from 2008 to 2010 when he was picked by the former president Ong Tee Keat then.
Post political personal life
He is currently the Chairman of Bina Puri Holdings Berhad, a Malaysian Main Market public listed company involved in construction, property development, quarrying activities and highway concession.
Election results
Note: a. During 1999 election, the Barisan Nasional (BN) ruled Terengganu state government has also fallen to the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) led Barisan Alternatif coalition.
Honours
Honours of Malaysia
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Companion of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (JMN) (2001)
Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (PSM) - Tan Sri (2012)
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Terengganu (DPMT) - Dato' (2005)
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Malaysian engineers
Malaysian businesspeople
Malaysian Chinese Association politicians
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Presidents of the Dewan Negara
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The red-tailed soil-crevice skink (Austroablepharus kinghorni ) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
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Daturae is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Solanoideae of the family Solanaceae. It comprises three genera: Datura, the Devil's trumpets, Brugmansia, the Angel's trumpets, and the monotypic Trompettia.
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The Antrim by-election of 1869 was fought on 21 August 1869. The by-election was fought due to the death of the incumbent MP of the Conservative Party, George Henry Seymour. It was won by the Conservative candidate Hugh de Grey Seymour.
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By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in County Antrim constituencies
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Grodziec () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ozimek, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
The village has a population of 1,349.
History
In the 10th century the area became part of the emerging Polish state, and later on, it was part of Poland, Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia, and Germany. During World War II, the Germans operated the E385 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village. After Germany's defeat in the war, in 1945, the village became again part of Poland.
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The 1956 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Background
For six decades up to 1950 South Carolina had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party had been moribund due to the disfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as the Palmetto State completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. Between 1900 and 1948, no Republican presidential candidate ever obtained more than seven percent of the total presidential vote – a vote which in 1924 reached as low as 6.6 percent of the total voting-age population (or approximately 15 percent of the voting-age white population).
This absolute loyalty began to break down during World War II when Vice-Presidents Henry A. Wallace and Harry Truman began to realize that a legacy of discrimination against blacks was a threat to the United States' image abroad and its ability to win the Cold War against the radically egalitarian rhetoric of Communism. In the 1948 presidential election, Truman was backed by only 24 percent of South Carolina's limited electorate – most of that from the relatively few upcountry poor whites able to meet rigorous voting requirements – and state Governor Strom Thurmond won 71 percent, carrying every county except Anderson and Spartanburg. Despite Truman announcing as early as May 1950 that he would not run again for President in 1952, it had already become clear that South Carolina's rulers remained severely disenchanted with the national Democratic Party. Both Thurmond and former Governor James F. Byrnes would endorse national Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower – who ran under an independent label in South Carolina – and Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II only won narrowly due to two- and three-to-one majorities in the poor white counties that had given substantial opposition to Thurmond in 1948.
During the first Eisenhower term, South Carolina’s whites who had supported him became extremely critical because Eisenhower was blamed for Brown v. Board of Education, whose requirement of desegregating the state’s schools was intolerable. Consequently, state leaders like Thurmond argued that the GOP could not be a useful tool for opposing civil rights, and most of the state’s Democrats endorsed Stevenson for his rematch with Eisenhower. Byrnes, however, obtained 35,000 petitions for an alternative slate of unpledged Democratic electors, which he naturally endorsed when ballot access was obtained for that slate.
Vote
In mid-October, the consensus among pollsters was that the state’s vote would be sharply split between the three slates, although polls just before election day suggested that Stevenson was likely to carry the state. Ultimately South Carolina was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver by a more decisive margin than polls predicted. Stevenson gained 45.37 percent of the popular vote thanks to his continued dominance of the upcountry, whilst Eisenhower and the unpledged slate divided the lowcountry vote, with the unpledged slate finishing second with 29.45 percent and Eisenhower – this time running under the “Republican” banner – with 25.18 percent Wealthier whites left Eisenhower for the unpledged slate in large numbers, but unlike in 1952 when the small number of black voters strongly supported Stevenson, Eisenhower gained substantial, even majority, support from blacks able to vote in Charleston and Columbia.
The 1956 election in South Carolina marks the second of only three times in the 20th century that an incumbent president has finished third in any state. , this is the last time that a Republican has been elected president without carrying South Carolina, and the last time that Greenville County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last time that Lexington County was not carried by the Republican candidate.
Results
Results by county
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Adam Baldwin
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Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor. He starred in Full Metal Jacket (1987) as Animal Mother, as well as in the television series Firefly and its continuation film Serenity as Jayne Cobb. His roles include Stillman in Ordinary People (1980), Colonel John Casey in Chuck, and Mike Slattery in The Last Ship.
Early life
Baldwin was born in Winnetka, Illinois, and studied at New Trier Township High School East in Winnetka.
Career
Appearing in a large number of films since 1980, Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard (1980) and moved on to bigger roles in D.C. Cab (1983), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Next of Kin (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Deadbolt (1992), Independence Day (1996), The Patriot (2000), and Serenity (2005)—in which he reprises his role as the mercenary Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly.
His other work includes Radio Flyer (1992), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), The X-Files (Knowle Rohrer), The Cape, Men in Black: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Angel, The Inside, NCIS, and the 2005 remake of The Poseidon Adventure. He also starred in the ABC series Day Break as Chad Shelten in 2006.
Baldwin parodied the Ricky Linderman character in the 2008 film Drillbit Taylor. He is also known for NBC's Chuck, in which he played John Casey, one of the lead characters for the five season run of the show.
In season four of Castle, Baldwin was reunited with former Firefly castmate Nathan Fillion. He played Detective Ethan Slaughter in the 21st episode called "Headhunters" which aired April 16, 2012. He returned to Castle in season eight, episode six "Cool Boys".
Baldwin won a SyFy Genre Award in 2006 for Best Supporting Actor/Television for his role as Jayne Cobb in the television series Firefly.
Baldwin was cast as Superman in Superman: Doomsday, which is based on DC Comics' The Death of Superman. He also voices the character in the massively multiplayer online game DC Universe Online.
Baldwin has a role as a voice actor in the Xbox 360 games Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, the latter putting him in the role of Corporal Taylor "Dutch" Miles. Baldwin also appears as a voice actor in Half Life 2: Episode 2 for various resistance soldiers and citizens. Along with his Chuck co-star, Yvonne Strahovski, he also appeared in Mass Effect 2, playing the role of Quarian Marine squad leader Kal'Reegar.
Personal life
He has three children with his wife, Ami Julius.
He is a supporter of Ride 2 Recovery, a bike-riding organization set up for the rehabilitation of wounded veterans. He participated in the 2009 "Don't Mess With Texas Challenge" bike ride.
Political views
Politically, he states that he re-examined his liberal views after being given a copy of David Horowitz's book Radical Son. He now considers himself a "small government conservative libertarian", and has contributed to The Huffington Post.
In late 2015 Baldwin endorsed Ted Cruz for the 2016 United States presidential election via Twitter.
Involvement in Gamergate
Baldwin has sometimes been credited with originating the hashtag #GamerGate near the end of August 2014 by posting the hashtag on Twitter alongside a pair of videos that, as part of wider criticisms, repeated earlier allegations against Zoe Quinn and Nathan Grayson.
His role in the Gamergate controversy led to a petition to prevent Baldwin from appearing as a guest at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2015. The convention's management decided to keep Baldwin as a guest.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
American libertarians
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from Chicago
New Trier High School alumni
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
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Dietmar Hummel
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Dietmar Hummel (born 20 October 1973) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Association football goalkeepers
German footballers
Germany youth international footballers
SC Freiburg players
Karlsruher SC players
Dynamo Dresden players
VfR Mannheim players
German football managers
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20corvette%20Kalmykia
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Russian corvette Kalmykia
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The MPK-229 Kalmykia is a in the Soviet Navy and later Russian Navy.
Specifications
Developed in the GDR by specialists from the Zelenodolsk shipyard, Captain 2nd Rank O.K. Korobkov was appointed the main observer from the Navy on the project. For the GDR Navy, 16 ships were built (in Germany, Project 133.1, Parchim), the head MPK entered service in 1981. In 1992, all ships of the Project 133.1 were sold to Indonesia. For the USSR Navy, they were built according to the 1331M Project, after the collapse of the USSR, all ships were transferred to the Russian Navy. The modernized version was distinguished by updated artillery, hydroacoustic and radio-technical weapons.
Project 133.1 was developed on the basis of the IPC Project 1124 Albatross in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with the help of specialists from the Zelenodolsk shipyard for the Navy of the National People's Army of the GDR and the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as for export sales.
Project 1331M was designed in the German Democratic Republic with the technical assistance of the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau for the USSR Navy, this project is a development of Project 133.1 and differs from it in the composition of weapons and navigation equipment.
Construction and career
MPK-229 was laid down on 23 February 1988 at Peene-Werft, Wolgast. Launched on 31 January 1989 and commissioned on 6 April 1990 into the Baltic Fleet.
Since 19 April 1996, he bears the name Kalmykia in honor of the Republic of Kalmykia patronizing over it.
In 1992 and 1993, as part of the KPUG, he became the owner of the Navy Commander's Prize for anti-submarine warfare.
In May 2000, as part of a detachment of warships of the Baltic Fleet, he participated in the ceremony of giving military honors to the sailors of the Soviet submarine S-8, which sank in August 1941 in the Baltic Sea.
In June 2007, he took part in the exercises of the search and rescue forces of the Baltic Fleet to provide assistance to an emergency submarine.
The Republic of Kalmykia has not maintained patronage ties with the ship for many years.
On 26 July 2015, the ship took part in the naval parade on Navy Day in Baltiysk.
On 6 April 2016, an emergency occurred on board the ship: 29-year-old midshipman Rinat Kinzhabayev was shot dead in his cabin while staying in Baltiysk. A criminal case was initiated against the senior midshipman of Kalmykia.
In May 2016, it became known that the ship sonar systems MGK-335MS, as well as the MG-339T Shelon-T descent stations.
As of the end of 2018, the ship was in the combat composition of the Russian Navy.
As of 2019, the ship is undergoing repairs.
Pennant numbers
Citations
Ships built in East Germany
1989 ships
Parchim-class corvettes
Maritime incidents in 2016
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Hail to England
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Hail to England is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Manowar, released in 1984 on Music for Nations.
Recording and reception
The album title is a tribute to the country that the American band members met and formed the band in, and in particular the predominantly British NWOBHM that had emerged in the early 1980s. However, the album's cover actually features the flag of the United Kingdom, and not the flag of England.
The album was reported to have been recorded in its entirety in only six days. The album peaked at No. 83 on the UK album charts. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Hail to England as 87th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time' and Loudwire ranked it as the 17th best power metal album of all time. In 2019, Metal Hammer ranked it as the 4th best power metal album of all time.
A remixed & remastered 'Imperial Edition' of the album was released in 2019, with the band stating that the revised version would add 'the depth, the power and the clarity that could not be present in the original mixes and masters' .
Track listing
Alternate cassette version from the 1980s distributed through the band's mail order fan club was mislabeled, inverting the sides.
Cover versions
"Blood of My Enemies" was covered by Swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity, on their album The Spectral Sorrows.
"Blood of My Enemies" was covered by Italian power metal band Power Symphony, on their EP Futurepast.
"Blood of My Enemies" was covered by Russian pagan metal band Рарогъ, on their album Сыны Сокола, under the name of "Кровь Наших Врагов"
"Blood of My Enemies" was covered by heavy metal band Ross the Boss, one of the former members of Manowar in 2017
"Kill with Power" was covered by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, on their EP Dead Eyes See No Future, and is often covered live by Brazilian parody metal band Massacration.
"Kill with Power" was also covered by Finnish black/heavy metal band Barathrum, on their single Black Flames and Blood.
"Each Dawn I Die" was covered by the Greek black metal band Necromantia on their 1997 EP Ancient Pride which was re-released with new artwork and two bonus tracks in 2006 by Black Lotus Records.
Personnel
Manowar
Eric Adams – vocals
Ross the Boss – guitars, keyboards
Joey DeMaio – bass, bass pedals
Scott Columbus – drums, percussion
Additional personal
St. Mary's Cathedral Choir – choir, vocals on "Hail to England"
David Corell – choirmaster on "Hail to England"
Production
Jack Richardson – producer
Robin Brouwers – engineer
Joe Primeau, Armand John Petri – assistant engineers
Joe Brescio – mastering
Ken Landgraf – Illustrations
Lucifer Burns, Armand "The Arm" Biondi, Anthony "Chio" Chiofalo – technicians
Jay Bergen – management, representation
J.A.R. Productions – A&R
References
1984 albums
Manowar albums
Music for Nations albums
Albums produced by Jack Richardson (record producer)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenoplusia%20aeneofusa
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Ctenoplusia aeneofusa
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Ctenoplusia aeneofusa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the North-Eastern Himalayas.
Plusiinae
Moths described in 1894
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosmeli%20Cabarroca
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Yosmeli Cabarroca
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Yosmeli Cabarroca Pérez (born 30 August 2000) is a Cuban footballer who plays as a defender for the Cuba women's national team.
International career
Cabarroca capped for Cuba at senior level during the 2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification.
References
2000 births
Living people
Cuban women's footballers
Cuba women's international footballers
Women's association football defenders
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Anders Hammer
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Anders Hammer (born 3 April 1980) is best known as the former bass player for the melodic death metal band Nightrage. Anders also plays bass for the Swedish power metal band Dragonland.
Gear/Endorsements
ESP Viper Standard series, Warwick Corvette std, Providence cables B-202, Elixir Strings.
Discography with Nightrage
Wearing a Martyr's Crown (2009)
Insidious (2011)
Discography with Dragonland
Under the Grey Banner (2011)
References
External links
Official Nightrage page
Lifeforce Records
1980 births
Living people
Swedish heavy metal bass guitarists
Death metal musicians
Nightrage members
21st-century bass guitarists
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Altımermer
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Altımermer (originally Exi Mármara) is a quarter located in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the western part of the district of Fatih (the walled city). Although it is difficult to define exactly its boundary, Altımermer lies between the neighborhoods (mahalleler) of Kocamustafapaşa and Seyyid Ömer. The main axis of the quarter, Altımermer Caddesi, stretches between the neighborhoods of Kocamustafapaşa and Sayyidina Umar. The name of the quarter, "six marbles" in English, comes from the broken fragments of a fallen Byzantine column which during the Ottoman period were supposed to have magic properties. In this quarter was built between the 5th and the 6th century the Cistern of Mocius, the largest water reservoir in Constantinople, known since the Ottoman period as the Altımermer Çukurbostanı ("the sunken garden of Altımermer", since it was used as vegetable garden), and now turned into the education park of Fatih.
Quarters of Fatih
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Homegrown (Dodgy album)
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Homegrown is the second album by the British indie group Dodgy, released in 1994.
Track listing
All songs: music by Nigel Clark/Andy Miller, lyrics by Nigel Clark/Mathew Priest
"Staying Out for the Summer" – 3:13
"Melodies Haunt You" – 3:40
"So Let Me Go Far" – 4:05
"Crossroads" – 4:05
"One Day" – 3:09
"We Are Together" – 4:23
"Whole Lot Easier" – 2:46
"Making the Most Of" – 4:03
"Waiting for the Day" – 3:35
"What Have I Done Wrong?" – 1:53
"Grassman" – 7:05
Personnel
Nigel Clark - lead vocals, bass guitar, additional guitar & keyboards
Andy Miller - guitars, backing vocals
Mathew Priest - drums, percussion, backing vocals
with
Rob Lord - keyboards & piano on all tracks except "Melodies Haunt You", "One Day" & "Waiting for the Day"
Zeb Jameson - keyboards & piano on "Melodies Haunt You", "One Day" & "Waiting for the Day"
The Kick Horns - brass on "Melodies Haunt You" & "Making the Most Of"
Roddy Lorimer - trumpet on "Crossroads"
Caroline Lavelle, Sonia Slany - strings
References
1994 albums
Dodgy albums
A&M Records albums
Albums produced by Ian Broudie
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Lucky Number (song)
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"Lucky Number" is a song by English-American recording artist Lene Lovich. Originally released as a B-side for Lovich's cover of "I Think We're Alone Now", the song was re-released in 1979 by Stiff Records as an A-side and became the lead single of her debut studio album Stateless (1978). The song was written by Lovich and Les Chappell, who produced the song.
"Lucky Number" received very positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success, peaking at number two in Australia, number three in the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and number five in Belgium. The single also charted well in Ireland and Austria. It became a defining song of the new wave genre.
"Lucky Number" was covered by German punk artist Nina Hagen. The German version "Wir leben immer... noch" ("We are alive… still") was released on the album Unbehagen (1979).
Background and recording
After the break-up of the band the Diversions in December 1976, Lovich started searching for another band. She contacted a radio presenter Charlie Gillett and advertised herself as a sax player looking for a band. Gillett gave out her number but nobody called. Later, Lovich wrote him a letter providing more information about herself. This encouraged him to get her to record a demo of Tommy James and the Shondells' song "I Think We're Alone Now". He took the tape to Dave Robinson of Stiff Records, who liked it and decided to sign Lovich. He immediately proposed the song to be released as a single and wanted Lovich and Les Chappell to write and record a B-side.
In July 1978, Stiff released the first limited quantities of "I Think We're Alone Now" with an early version of "Lucky Number". Lovich and Chappell went on to record her first album Stateless, which was released in October of the same year. "Lucky Number" gained recognition and was later re-released as a lead single from the album.
Composition
The song is composed in D major at 120 beats per minute. The chorus consists of four dissonant notes sung in rapid succession. According to Lovich, she "didn't know anything about writing a song, so [the producer] just threw together a vocal line that sounded like a synthesizer." The chorus, coupled with a guitar ostinato and rapid vocal shouts from backup singers, gave the song and Lovich a sound that would define her next several records and, according to Rovi, "the hundreds of bands that followed."
Track listings and formats
7-inch single (UK)
"Lucky Number" – 2:47
"Home" – 3:45
12-inch single (UK)
"Lucky Number" – 2:47
"Home" – 3:45
"Lucky Number" (Version)
7-inch single (US)
"Lucky Number" (Slavic Dance Version) – 4:32
"Lucky Number" - 2:47
7-inch single (UK)
"Lucky Number"
"New Toy"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
Songs about luck
1978 songs
1979 singles
Lene Lovich songs
Stiff Records singles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20international%20organization%20leaders%20in%202015
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List of international organization leaders in 2015
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2014 international organization leaders - 2016 international organization leaders - International organization leaders by year
See also:
List of state leaders in 2015
List of religious leaders in 2015
UN organizations
Food and Agriculture Organization
Director-General - José Graziano da Silva, Brazil (2012–present)
International Atomic Energy Agency
Director-General - Yukiya Amano, Japan (2009–present)
International Civil Aviation Organization
President of the Council - Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, Nigeria (2013–present)
Secretary-General - Dr. Fang Liu, China (2014–present)
International Labour Organization
Director-General - Guy Ryder, United Kingdom (2012–present)
United Nations
Secretary-General - Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007–2016)
President of the General Assembly - Mogens Lykketoft, Denmark (2015 - present)
Security Council members - China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania, Nigeria (2014–present)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Executive Director - Anthony Lake, United States (2010–present)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Director-General - Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009–present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
High Commissioner - Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, Jordan (2014–present)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
High Commissioner - António Guterres, Portugal (2005–present)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Director-general - Li Yong, China (2013–present)
World Food Programme (WFP)
Executive Director - Ertharin Cousin, United States (2007–present)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Director-General - Tewodros Adhanom, Ethiopia (2017–present)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
President - David Grimes, Canada (2011–present)
Secretary-General - Michel Jarraud, France (2004–2015)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Secretary-General - Taleb Rifai, Jordan (2010–present)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Secretary-General - Mukhisa Kituyi, Kenya (2013–present)
Political and economic organizations
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) -
Secretary-General - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2010–present)
African Union -
Chairperson -
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania, (2014–2015)
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, (2015–2016)
Chairperson of the Commission - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa (2012–2017)
President of the Pan-African Parliament -
Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi, Nigeria (2012–2015)
Roger Nkodo Dang, Cameroon (2015–present)
Andean Community -
Secretary-General - Adalid Contreras Baspineiro (Bolivia), (2010–present)
Arab League -
Secretary-General - Nabil Elaraby, Egypt (2011–present)
Arab Maghreb Union
Secretary-General - Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006–present)
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Executive Director - Muhamad Noor, Malaysia (2010–present)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -
Secretary-General - Le Luong Minh, Vietnam (2013–present)
Caribbean Community -
Secretary-General - Lolita Applewhaite, Barbados (2011–present)
Central American Parliament -
President - Dorindo Cortéz, Panama (2010–present)
Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) -
Secretary-General - Sindiso Ngwenya, Zimbabwe (2008–present)
Commonwealth of Nations -
Head - Queen Elizabeth II (1952–present)
Secretary-General - Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008–present)
Commonwealth of Independent States
Executive Secretary - Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007–present)
Council of Europe
Secretary General - Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway (2009–present)
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - Mevlüt Çavusoglu, Turkey (2010–present)
President of the European Court of Human Rights - Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007–present)
East African Community -
Secretary-General - Richard Sezibera, Rwanda (2011–present)
Economic Community of West African States
President of the Commission - Victor Gbeho, Ghana (2010–present)
Chairman - Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire (2012–present)
Eurasian Economic Community
Secretary-General - Tair Mansurov, Khazakstan (2007–present)
Chairman of the Interstate Council - Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan (2001–present)
European Free Trade Association
Secretary-General - Kristinn Árnason, Iceland (2012–present)
European Union (EU)
Presidency of the European Council - Herman Van Rompuy (2009–present)
Presidency of the European Union Council
Ireland (2013)
President of the European Commission - José Manuel Barroso, Portugal (2004–present)
President of the European Parliament - Jerzy Buzek, Poland (2010–present)
Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy - Catherine Ashton, United Kingdom (2009–present)
President of the European Central Bank - Mario Draghi, Italy (2011–present)
European Ombudsman - Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003–present)
President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) - Peter Straub, Germany (2004–present)
President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) - Werner Hoyer, Germany (2012–present)
President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - Vassilios Skouris, Greece (2003–present)
President of the European Court of Auditors - Hubert Weber, Austria (2005–present)
President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) - Anne-Marie Sigmund, Austria (2004–present)
Group of Eight (G8)
President (informal) - David Cameron, United Kingdom (2013)
Gulf Cooperation Council
Secretary-General - Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain (2011–present)
Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib)
Secretary-General - Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay (2005–present)
Indian Ocean Commission
Secretary-General - Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso, Madagascar (2004–present)
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Chairman - Hassan Rouhani, Iran (2013–present)
Nordic Council
Secretary-General - Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007–2013)
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Secretary-General - Jens Stoltenberg, Norway (October 1, 2014 – present)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Secretary-General - José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006–present)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Secretary-General - Lamberto Zannier, Italy (2011–present)
Chairman-in-Office - Audronius Ažubalis, Lithuania (2011–present)
High Commissioner on National Minorities - Knut Vollebæk, Norway (2007–present)
Organization of American States
Secretary-General - José Miguel Insulza, Chile (2005–present)
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Director-General - Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003–present)
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Secretary-General - Iyad bin Amin Madani, Saudi Arabia (2014–present)
Pacific Community
Director-General - Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006–present)
Pacific Islands Forum
Secretary-General - Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa (2008–present)
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Secretary-General - Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhstan (2007–present)
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Secretary-General - Ahmed Saleem, Maldives (2012–present)
Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
Director of the Executive Secretariat - Agustín Colombo Sierra, Argentina (2009–present)
Southern African Development Community
Executive Secretary - Stergomena Tax, Tanzania (2013–present)
Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul)
President - Ollanta Humala, Peru (2012–present)
Secretary-General - Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuela (2012–present)
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
Secretary-General - Roberto Azevêdo, Brazil (2013–present)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Director-General - Roberto Azevêdo, Brazil (2013–present)
Financial organizations
African Development Bank -
President - Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria (2010–2015)
Asian Development Bank -
President - Takehiko Nakao, Japan (2013–present)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
President - Suma Chakrabarti, India (2012–present)
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
President - Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005–present)
International Monetary Fund
Managing Director - Christine Lagarde, France (2011–present)
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
President - Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975–present)
World Bank
President - Jim Yong Kim, United States (2012–present)
BRICS Bank
President - KV Kamath, India (2015–present)
Sports organizations
Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
President - Zhang Jilong, China (2011–present)
Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF)
President - Issa Hayatou, Cameroon (1988–present)
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
President - Alfredo Hawit, Honduras (2011–present)
Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
President - Eugenio Figueredo, Uruguay (2013–present)
Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE)
President - Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian Federation (1995–present)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
President - Sepp Blatter, Switzerland (1998–2015)
International Cricket Council (ICC)
President - Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan (2015–present)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
President - Thomas Bach, Germany (2013–present)
International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
President - Philip Craven, United Kingdom (2001–present)
International Rugby Board (IRB)
President - Bernard Lapasset, France (2008–present)
Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
President - David Chung, Malaysia/Papua New Guinea (2010–present)
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
President - Michel Platini, France (2007–present)
Other organizations
Antarctic Treaty
Executive Secretary - Jan Huber, Netherlands (2004–present)
Colombo Plan -
Acting Secretary-General - Mr Tay Bian How, Malaysia (December 2013 – present)
Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
Executive Secretary - Murade Isaac Miguigy Murargy, Mozambique (2012–present)
EDU - Intergovernmental Organization (EDU)
Secretary-General - G.Irving Levance, (2011–present)
La Francophonie
Secretary-General - Michaëlle Jean, Canada (2014–present)
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Executive Secretary - Mahboub Maalim, Kenya (2008–present)
International Committee of the Red Cross
President - Peter Maurer, Switzerland (2012–present)
International Court of Justice
President - Hisashi Owada, Japan (2009–present)
International Criminal Court
President - Song Sang-Hyun, South Korea (2009–present)
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
Secretary-General - Ronald Noble, United States (2000–present)
President - Mireille Ballestrazzi, France (2012–present)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
President - Tadateru Konoé, Japan (2009–present)
International Maritime Organization
Secretary-General - Koji Sekimizu, Japan (2012–present)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Director-general - William Lacy Swing, United States (2008–present)
International Telecommunication Union
Secretary-General - Hamadoun Touré, Mali (2007–present)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Director-General - Ahmet Üzümcü, Turkey (2010–present)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Secretary-General – Abdallah Salem el-Badri, Libya (2007–2016)
Universal Postal Union
Director-General - Édouard Dayan, France (2005–present)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Director-General - Francis Gurry (2008–present)
References
2015
2015 in international relations
Lists of office-holders in 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierley%2C%20Isle%20of%20Wight
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Bierley, Isle of Wight
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Bierley is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, UK. Bierley is in the south of the Isle of Wight, north of Niton and 0.7 miles to the west of Whitwell. Bierley is at the corner of Kingates Lane and Newport Road.
Bierley was the site of brickmaking operations in the past. The Prichetts, a local family involved in brickmaking, opened the Bierley brickyard in 1800.
In the 1901 Census the brickmaking operations are being run by William Scovell of Ryde
Public transport is provided by Southern Vectis bus route 6, running from Newport to Ventnor.
References
Hamlets on the Isle of Wight
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Slov%C3%A1k
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Marek Slovák
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Marek Slovák (born 23 September 1988) is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who currently plays with HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga.
Career
Slovák previously played for HK Nitra, HC Nové Zámky, HKm Zvolen, HC Košice, MsHK Žilina and Bratislava Capitals. Slovák also played for the Yunost Minsk of the Belarusian Extraleague during the 2017–18 season.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Bratislava Capitals players
HK Nitra players
HC Nové Zámky players
HKM Zvolen players
HC Košice players
MsHK Žilina players
Yunost Minsk players
HC '05 Banská Bystrica players
Slovak ice hockey centres
Sportspeople from Nitra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orya%20%28centipede%29
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Orya (centipede)
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Orya is a genus of centipedes belonging to the family Oryidae.
Species
Species within this genus include:
Orya almohadensis
Orya barbarica
Orya panousei
Orya voeltzkowi
References
Centipede genera
Geophilomorpha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malometasternum
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Malometasternum
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Malometasternum is a genus of hoverflies from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.
Species
Malometasternum rufocaudata (Ferguson, 1926)
References
Diptera of Australasia
Hoverfly genera
Taxa named by Raymond Corbett Shannon
Eristalinae
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alampur%2C%20Gujarat
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Alampur, Gujarat
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Alampur is a town and former Rajput petty princely state on Saurashtra peninsula, in Gujarat, western India.
History
The princely state, in Gohelwar prant, was ruled by Gohel Rajput Chieftains. During the British Raj, it was in the charge of the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency.
It comprised only the single village, with a population of 497 in 1901, yielding 4,500 Rupees state revenue (1903-4, mostly from land), paying 1,397 Rupees tribute to the Gaekwar Baroda State and Junagadh State.
References
External links and Sources
Imperial Gazetteer, on DSAL.UChicago.edu - Kathiawar
History of Gujarat
Kathiawar Agency
Princely states of Gujarat
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King George VI Chase
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The King George VI Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of about 3 miles (4,828 metres), and during its running there are eighteen fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year on 26 December, and features as part of the course's Christmas Festival.
The event was first run in February 1937, and it was named in honour of the new British monarch, King George VI. It was only run twice before World War II, during which Kempton Park was closed for racing and used as a prisoner-of-war camp. The two pre-war runnings were each contested by four horses. The winner of the first, Southern Hero, remains the race's oldest ever winner. After the war the racecourse re-opened, and the event returned in 1947 on a new date – Boxing Day. In the 1960s it was a handicap.
The King George VI Chase is now the second most prestigious chase in England, surpassed only by the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Fifteen horses have won it more than once, Desert Orchid won it four times and Kauto Star won it five times. The race is currently sponsored by the Ladbrokes Coral bookmaking firm.
Records
Most successful horse (5 wins):
Kauto Star – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Leading jockey (5 wins):
Ruby Walsh – Kauto Star (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)
Leading trainer (12 wins):
Paul Nicholls – See More Business (1997, 1999), Kauto Star (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011), Silviniaco Conti (2013, 2014), Clan Des Obeaux (2018, 2019), Frodon (2020)
Winners
See also
Horse racing in Great Britain
List of British National Hunt races
References
Glasgow Herald
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kinggeorgechase.com – King George Chase Winners.
pedigreequery.com – King George VI Chase – Kempton Park.
External links
Race Recordings
National Hunt races in Great Britain
Kempton Park Racecourse
National Hunt chases
Recurring events established in 1937
December sporting events
Boxing Day
1937 establishments in England
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The Italian Language Foundation
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The Italian Language Foundation (ILF) was established on July 3, 2008, to promote and support Italian language education in the United States and specifically to reinstate the Advanced Placement program (AP) of the College Board for AP Italian Language and Culture.
The foundation was founded by Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., currently the ILF's president, and Louis A. Tallarini, its chairman. Cuomo, working with her mother, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, former First Lady of the State of New York, had successfully advocated for the College Board to develop and implement the AP program in Italian Language and Culture, which was launched in 2005, but discontinued after the 2008-2009 academic year due to budgetary reasons.
The ILF has worked with major Italian-American non-profit groups and educators interested in Italian language and culture, such as the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), as well as with the Republic of Italy, in order to raise awareness and funds in support of its mission. In addition to a pledge of $1,500,000 by the Republic of Italy, the Columbus Citizens Foundation, organizers of New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade, pledged over $500,000 in support of reinstatement of the AP Italian program.
On November 10, 2010, the College Board announced that the AP Italian program would be reinstated beginning in the fall of 2011, with the first AP Italian exam scheduled for May 2012.
See also
Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture
Notes
External links
Italian-language education
Italian language in the United States
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Sarah D'Arcy
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Sarah D'Arcy (born 22 August 1991) is an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Previously, she played four seasons at including in the club's inaugural team.
Early life and state football
D'Arcy is originally from Healesville and was introduced to football via her local Auskick program. She switched to soccer before returning to play football with the under-14 boys at Healesville Football Club. After two games she was playing with Yarra Valley Cougars in the senior women's division. Four years after joining the Cougars, D'Arcy joined the Eastern Devils in the VFLW. During her time at the Eastern Devils, she played for both and in exhibition matches. Western Bulldogs chose her with pick No. 34 for the 2013 exhibition match. In the 2016 season, D'Arcy kicked 30 goals for the Eastern Devils.
AFL Women's career
Ahead of the 2017 season, Collingwood player Emma King said she thinks D'Arcy will be a star, despite not many having heard of her. She described her as probably one of the best half-forwards with a great hand and great lead, predicting that she'll be very dominant in Collingwood's forward line. D'Arcy made her debut in round 1, 2017, in the inaugural AFLW match at IKON Park against , in which she had 14 disposals and was one of Collingwood's best players. She was one of the standout performers for the club, leading the team with 39 disposals after three weeks.
Collingwood re-signed D'Arcy for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017. On 2 September, D'Arcy played for Victoria in the inaugural AFL Women's State of Origin match, where she swapped between full-forward and higher up the ground and kicked a banana goal from an acute angle.
D'Arcy returned to the Collingwood side in round 1, 2018, but was the subject of controversy after she was reported for kicking 's Sarah Hosking in the groin. She was subsequently offered and accepted a two match ban under the AFL's match review system. The incident was assessed under the system as "intentional conduct medium impact to the groin". She was the first player in either the AFLW or AFL to be sanctioned under the new system overseen by match review officer Michael Christian.
Collingwood re-signed D'Arcy for the 2019 season during the trade period in June 2018.
At the conclusion of the 2020 season, D'Arcy was traded to Richmond alongside teammate Sarah Dargan, in a package deal in exchange for a third and fourth round pick at the 2020 draft.
Statistics
Statistics are correct to round 3, 2022
|- style="background-color: #eaeaea"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017
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| 4 || 7 || 2 || 4 || 48 || 28 || 76 || 18 || 12 || 0.3 || 0.6 || 6.9 || 4.0 || 10.9 || 2.6 || 1.7
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| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018
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| 4 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 28 || 15 || 43 || 15 || 12 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.6 || 3.0 || 8.6 || 3.0 || 2.4
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019
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| 4 || 5 || 4 || 0 || 41 || 13 || 54 || 28 || 6 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 8.2 || 2.6 || 10.8 || 5.6 || 1.2
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| 4 || 7 || 4 || 11 || 39 || 25 || 64 || 21 || 12 || 0.6 || 1.6 || 5.6 || 3.6 || 9.1 || 3.0 || 1.7
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| 12 || 9 || 0 || 0 || 49 || 45 || 94 || 18 || 14 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.4 || 5.0 || 10.4 || 2.0 || 1.6
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| 12 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 13 || 4 || 17 || 9 || 2 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 6.5 || 2.0 || 8.5 || 4.5 || 1.0
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! colspan=3| Career
! 35
! 11
! 15
! 218
! 130
! 348
! 109
! 58
! 0.3
! 0.4
! 6.2
! 3.7
! 9.9
! 3.1
! 1.7
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References
External links
Living people
1991 births
Collingwood Football Club (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia)
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Transport in Tyne and Wear
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Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan area covering the cities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland, as well as North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and Washington.
Tyne and Wear is well served by public transport, with the Tyne and Wear Metro, an extensive bus and rail network, the Shields Ferry, and Newcastle International Airport.
Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, trading as Nexus, are the passenger transport executive (PTE) responsible for overseeing the public transport network within Tyne and Wear, with headquarters at Nexus House in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Rail
History
Arguably, Newcastle upon Tyne had the world's first local railway, the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. The line opened in June 1839, originally running between North Shields station and Carliol Square.
The line was later extended to Tynemouth station, (allowing through trains from the Blyth and Tyne Railway to run), before being further extended to Newcastle Central Station, in 1845.
Most of the railway was closed in 1973, with a section of the line re-opening (east of Heaton to Tynemouth) in November 1982, following the commencement of the Tyne and Wear Metro services between Tynemouth and St. James station.
Other historical rail alignments now served by the Tyne and Wear Metro include the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, and the Ponteland and Darras Hall Branch of the North Eastern Railway, amongst others.
Tyne and Wear Metro
The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail network linking South Tyneside and Sunderland with Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Newcastle Airport. The network opened in stages from August 1980, and now serves 60 stations, covering around of track.
The Metro is one of only two urban rail networks in the United Kingdom (outside London), with other cities have tram networks such as Edinburgh Trams, Manchester Metrolink and Sheffield Supertram.
In 201718, around 36.4 million passenger journeys were made on the Metro, making it the third-most used tram and light rail network in the United Kingdom, after London's Docklands Light Railway (121.8 million passenger journeys) and the Manchester Metrolink (43.7 million passenger journeys).
The Metro network currently consists of two lines:
Green Line: running from South Hylton Metro station and Sunderland Metro station to Newcastle City Centre, Regent Centre Metro station and Newcastle Airport Metro station.
Yellow Line: running from South Shields Metro station to Newcastle City Centre, Whitley Bay Metro station, Wallsend Metro station and St. James.
Both lines run up to every 12 minutes during the day (Monday to Saturday), and up to every 15 minutes in the evenings and on a Sunday.
This allows for a combined service of up to every six minutes (Monday to Saturday), and up to every seven to eight minutes during the evening and on a Sunday between Pelaw Metro station and South Gosforth Metro station.
Additional trains run during the morning and evening peak (Monday to Friday) between Pelaw and Regent Centre or Monkseaton Metro station. This provides a Metro up to every three minutes between Pelaw and South Gosforth Metro station at peak times.
National Rail
There are currently seven rail stations located within Tyne and Wear, these being: Blaydon, Dunston, Heworth, Manors, Metrocentre, Newcastle Central and Sunderland.
Newcastle Central is a key calling point on the East Coast Main Line. The station originally opened in August 1850, as part of the then Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway.
Currently, the station is served by CrossCountry, LNER, Northern and TransPennine Express, with trains running to a range of destinations across the country.
CrossCountry run long-distance rail services connecting Scotland and the North East with the Midlands, South East and the South Coast. As of the December 2019 timetable change, service and frequency is as follows:
Two trains per hour heading south along the East Coast Main Line towards York, Sheffield and Birmingham New Street, with trains then continuing on to destinations including Bournemouth, Bristol Temple Meads, Cardiff Central, Oxford, Reading, Penzance and Plymouth.
An hourly service heading north along the East Coast Main Line towards Edinburgh Waverley, with a two-hourly service continuing on to Glasgow Central. Some trains further continue to Aberdeen or Dundee.
London North Eastern Railway provide long-distance, high-speed rail services, connecting Scotland and the North East with London. As of the December 2019 timetable change, service and frequency is as follows:
Two trains per hour running north along the East Coast Main Line towards Edinburgh Waverley, with some trains continuing on to Aberdeen, Glasgow Central, Inverness or Stirling.
Two trains per hour heading south along the East Coast Main Line towards ork and London King's Cross.
Northern operates local rail services across the North East. As of the December 2019 timetable change, service and frequency is as follows:
An hourly service heading north along the East Coast Main Line to Morpeth, with two trains per day continuing on to Chathill.
An hourly service heading south along the Durham Coast Line towards Sunderland, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe, with some trains continuing on to Whitby.
Three trains per hour heading west along the Tyne Valley Line towards Hexham, with two trains per hour continuing on to Carlisle.
TransPennine Express links the North East England|North East with Yorkshire, Manchester and Liverpool. As of the December 2019 timetable change, service and frequency is as follows:
An hourly service heading north along the East Coast Main Line towards Edinburgh Waverley.
Two trains per hour heading south along the East Coast Main Line towards York, Leeds and Manchester Victoria, with an alternating hourly service continuing on to Liverpool Lime Street or Manchester Airport.
Sunderland station (then Sunderland Central) station opened in August 1879, under the then North Eastern Railway.
Nowadays the station is served by the Metro, with local rail services operated by Northern. The station is also served by less frequent, long-distance rail services, operated by Grand Central and LNER.
Northern provide an hourly service heading south along the Durham Coast Line towards Sunderland, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe (with some trains continuing on to Whitby), and an hourly service heading north to Newcastle, with trains then joining the Tyne Valley Line, continuing on towards Hexham.
In March 2002, following the extension of the Metro from Pelaw to Sunderland and South Hylton rail services between Sunderland and Newcastle were amended, with Heworth Interchange becoming the single intermediate station on the route between the two cities.
Former rail stations at Seaburn, East Boldon and Brockley Whins (as well as new purpose-built stations at St. Peter's, Stadium of Light and Fellgate) are now served by the Metro, with a frequency of up to five trains per hour, and a direct link to Newcastle Airport.
In January 2006, new open-access operator Grand Central (now owned by Arriva) was granted permission to run four trains per day between Sunderland and London King's Cross. Service commenced in December 2007, and as of December 2019, the operator now provides five daily services, linking Sunderland, Hartlepool and York with the capital.
In December 2015, Virgin Train East Coast (now LNER) began their new direct train service to King's Cross. As of December 2019, trains depart from Sunderland for King's Cross at 05:40 (arriving 09:09) on weekdays, returning to Sunderland at 23:23 (departing from King's Cross at 20:00).
Air
Newcastle International Airport is the eleventh busiest airport in the United Kingdom, with around 5.33 million passenger journeys made in 2018.
The airport serves various domestic, European and North African destinations, as well as direct flights to Dubai and Orlando Sandford.
The airport is easily accessible by Tyne and Wear Metro|Metro, with up to five trains per hour serving the cities of Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne, from the airport station.
Bus
Tyne and Wear has an extensive bus network, overseen by the passenger transport executive (PTE), Nexus. Bus services in the area are mainly operated by three main companies, these being Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach.
Arriva North East operate services to the north and east of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland.
Go North East mainly serve the areas of Gateshead, North and South Tyneside, Sunderland and Washington, as well as County Durham, Northumberland and the Tyne Valley.
Go North East also operate the QuayLink, with frequent bus services linking the city centre and Quayside with the surrounding area. The Q1 and Q2 routes serve areas in and around Gateshead, with the Q3 route serving Gosforth, Great Park, Ouseburn, Walker Riverside and Wallsend.
Stagecoach North East mainly provides local services within Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields and Sunderland.
The main bus stations in Tyne and Wear are: Gateshead Interchange, Eldon Square, Haymarket, Metrocentre Interchange and Park Lane Interchange.
Connections with local bus services are also available at a number of Metro stations, including: Four Lane Ends, Heworth, Jarrow, Regent Centre, South Shields and Wallsend.
Further bus stations in the area are located at: Blaydon, Concord, Hetton-le-Hole, Killingworth, Washington Galleries and Winlaton.
Coach
Long distance National Express coach services operate from Newcastle Coach Station (located on St. James Boulevard), and Park Lane Interchange in Sunderland, with destinations including: Birmingham, Bristol, Chester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harrogate, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and London.
Megabus coach services also run daily from John Dobson Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Park Lane Interchange in Sunderland, with destinations including: Birmingham, Cardiff, Coventry, Cwmbran, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester and Sheffield.
Road
Major roads in the area include:
A1: This route stretches north to Alnwick, Berwick upon Tweed and Edinburgh, and south to Durham, Darlington and York, then on to London. The A1 has a total distance of around .
A19: This route heads south from Seaton Burn, passing Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Thirsk, then on to York and Doncaster.
A69: This route heads west from Denton Burn to Carlisle, serving the towns and villages of Heddon-on-the-Wall, Corbridge, Hexham, Haydon Bridge, Haltwhistle and Brampton along the route.
A167: This route runs from Kenton Bar to Topcliffe (near Thirsk), and was the original Great North Road, prior to the opening of the A1(M) in the 1960s. The route passes through Gateshead, Chester-le-Street, Durham, Darlington and Northallerton. The A167 also has a motorway section, the A167(M), which runs for between Jesmond and the north end of the Tyne Bridge.
A696: This route heads north from Kenton Bar, serving Newcastle Airport and Ponteland, as well as the villages of Belsay and Otterburn, before joining with the A68 (running from Darlington to the Edinburgh City Bypass).
A1058: The A1058, also known as the Coast Road, runs from Jesmond to Tynemouth, a route of around in length.
Many of these designations are recent. Upon completion of the Western Bypass, and its designation as the new route of the A1, the roads between this and the former route through the Tyne Tunnel were renumbered. This saw many roads in Newcastle upon Tyne change their 6-prefix, to their present 1-prefix numbers.
Ferry
An international ferry terminal is located in the Royal Quays of North Shields. As of February 2020, there is a daily service running to and from Amsterdam IJmuiden. This service is operated by DFDS. Former routes from North Shields include Bergen, Haugesund and Stavanger.
A dedicated shuttle bus service (route 327), currently operated by Go North East, connects with the ferry, running to and from Newcastle Central Station.
The Shields Ferry also operates from North Shields, with the ferry landing located on Ferry Mews. This provides a half-hourly local service between North Shields and South Shields. This service is operated by Nexus.
Ticketing
Bus
Following the deregulation of bus services in 1986, bus operators in Tyne and Wear have been able to set their own routes, fares and timetables.
Rail
Local rail services in Tyne and Wear are operated by Northern. Tickets must be bought before travel at stations with ticketing facilities, these being Heworth, Newcastle and Sunderland. Passengers boarding at Blaydon, Dunston, Manors and Metrocentre can buy tickets on board the train.
All Metro tickets (excluding single journey tickets) covering all zones are valid for travel on Norther] services between Sunderland and Newcastle.
Tyne and Wear Metro
The Tyne and Wear Metro has a simple fare structure, with the network being split in to three zones (A, B, C). Tickets are offered as single, day, week, four week and annual.
Metro season tickets (week, four week and annual) covering zone A are valid on Quaylink buses Q1 and Q2 between Gateshead and Newcastle Central Station, and Q3 between St. Peter's Basin and Haymarket bus station.
All Metro tickets (excluding single journey tickets) covering all zones are valid for travel on Northern services between Sunderland and Newcastle , as well as the Shields Ferry.
Further discounts are available for infrequent travellers with Pop PAYG, for students and young people with Pop and Pop Blue, and concessionary pass holders with a Metro Gold Card.
During 2020, up to three children (under 11) can travel on the Metro for free at weekends, with a fare paying adult.
Shields Ferry
The Shields Ferry has a simple fare structure, offering single, day, week and four week tickets, as well as a carnet (10 tickets).
All [Metro tickets (excluding single journey tickets) covering all zones are valid for use on the Shields Ferry.
During 2020, up to three children (under 11) can travel on the Shields Ferry for free at weekends, with a fare paying adult.
Multi-operator tickets
Multi-operator travel tickets are offered by Network One. A Network One travel ticket allows for unlimited travel on most buses, rail, Metro and the Shields Ferry, within the Tyne and Wear area. Tickets are zonal, with the area being split in to five numbered zones, and are available as DayRover (one day), week, four week and annual.
The TransFare ticket allows for a single journey to be made within Tyne and Wear using different types of transport (e.g. bus then Metro), provided that the final journey is started within 90 minutes of buying the ticket.
The area is divided in to three TransFare zones, the yellow, green and grey zones. The price of TransFare tickets can vary slightly, depending upon the transport operator selling the ticket. For journeys made more frequently using multiple operators, a Network One season ticket represents better value-for-money than the TransFare ticket.
References
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Lornevale
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Lornevale is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Colchester County. The community is not to be confused with Lorneville, of similar spelling.
References
Lornevale on Destination Nova Scotia
Communities in Colchester County
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia
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Brihaspati kund
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Brihaspati Kund(बृहस्पति कुण्ड) is a natural crater located in Panna District of Madhya Pradesh, Bundelkhand.
It is popular tourist spot among locals. Distance from Panna is 25 km and distance from Kalinjar Fort is 18 km southwards.
References
External links
"In Danger: Natural & Cultural Heritage of Brihaspati Kund" at India Wilds
River valleys of India
Tourist attractions in Panna district
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William Virgil Peck
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William V. Peck (April 17, 1804 – December 30, 1877) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1859–1864.
Born April 17, 1804 in Canandaigua, New York, William V. Peck grew up in Connecticut, where he studied law at Litchfield Law School. After graduating in 1826, Peck moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he clerked in the law office of Bellamy Storer. He moved to Scioto County, Ohio in 1827, and had a law practice there until 1847. In 1844, the Whig Ohio General Assembly elected him a Common Pleas Judge. With the new Constitution in 1851, the public elected him and re-elected him to the same seat in 1856.
In 1858, as a Republican, Peck defeated incumbent Democrat Thomas Welles Bartley as Judge on the Ohio Supreme Court. He declined re-nomination for the 1863 election. He returned to Portsmouth in 1864, and did not resume practice of law.
Peck died December 30, 1877. He is buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in Portsmouth.
Peck married Mary Ann Cook on July 8, 1830. They had fourteen children.
Notes
References
Ohio lawyers
People from Portsmouth, Ohio
Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio Republicans
1804 births
1877 deaths
Litchfield Law School alumni
People from Canandaigua, New York
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1991 Saskatchewan general election
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The 1991 Saskatchewan general election was held on October 21, 1991, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Grant Devine was defeated by the New Democratic Party, led by former provincial Attorney General Roy Romanow. A major source of dissatisfaction with the Grant Devine government was the "Fair Share Saskatchewan" program, a scheme to distribute public service jobs more evenly across the province; a plan especially unpopular with workers scheduled to be relocated from Regina to rural districts. The Devine government was also notorious for a home construction and renovation relief program which reimbursed homeowners who did their own renovations. Another factor was the unpopularity of the federal Progressive Conservatives under then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
The NDP was able to win more than half of the popular vote, and an overwhelming majority in the legislature. The Tories lost almost three-quarters of the seats they had held in the legislature, and a significant share of the popular vote. Their loss in vote percentage resulted in 30 third-place finishes; this was more than their 26 second-place finishes or their ten seats won.
The Liberal Party – led by Lynda Haverstock – was able to attract a substantial share of disaffected Tory voters. However, despite winning almost one-quarter of the vote, their support was too spread out across the province to translate into seats. Haverstock was the only Liberal returned to the legislature.
Results
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!rowspan=2 colspan=2 align=center|Party
!rowspan=2 align=center|Party leader
!rowspan=2|Candidates
!colspan=4 align=center|Seats
!colspan=3 align=center|Popular vote
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|align="center"|1986
|align="center"|Dissol.
|align="center"|Elected
|align="center"|% Change
|align="center"|#
|align="center"|%
|align="center"|% Change
|align="center"|Roy Romanow
|align="right"| 66
|align="right"|25
|align="right"|26
|align="right"| 55
|align="right"|+112%
|align="right"|275,780
|align="right"|51.05%
|align="right"|+5.85%
|align="center"|Grant Devine
|align="right"| 66
|align="right"|38
|align="right"|38
|align="right"| 10
|align="right"|-73.7%
|align="right"|137,994
|align="right"|25.54%
|align="right"|-19.07%
|align="center"|Lynda Haverstock
|align="right"| 66
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|0
|align="right"| 1
|align="right"|–
|align="right"|125,814
|align="right"|23.29%
|align="right"|+13.30%
| colspan=2 align=left|Independent
|align="right"| 8
|align="right"|–
|align="right"|–
|align="right"| –
|align="right"|–
|align="right"|592
|align="right"|0.11%
|align="right"|+0.04%
|align=left|Independence (Western Canada Concept)
|align="center"|Hilton J. Spencer(default)
|align="right"| 1
|align="right"|–
|align="right"|–
|align="right"| –
|align="right"|–
|align="right"|46
|align="right"|0.01%
|align="right"|-0.07%
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|colspan=3| Total
|align="right"| 207
|align="right"|64
|align="right"|64
|align="right"| 66
|align="right"|+3.1%
|align="right"|540,226
|align="right"|100%
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Ranking
Riding results
Names in bold represent cabinet ministers and the Speaker. Party leaders are italicized. The symbol " ** " represents MLAs who are not running again.
Northwest Saskatchewan
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|Fred Thompson 3,253
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|Frank Petit 331
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|Darren McKee 184
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|Mike Daley (Ind.) 114
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|Fred Thompson
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|Violet Stanger 3,843
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|Michael Hopfner 2,899
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|Aldo Del Frari 1,333
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|Michael Hopfner
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Meadow Lake
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|Maynard Sonntag 3,719
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|George McLeod 3,065
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|Burton Dougan 467
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|George McLeod
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Redberry
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|Walter Jess 3,493
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|John Gerich 3,206
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|Ken Finlayson 1,185
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|John Gerich
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosthern
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|Kim Dmytryshyn 2,897
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|William Neudorf 4,183
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|Phil Biggs 1,825
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|William Neudorf
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|Doug Anguish 5,805
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|Jim Hampson 1,683
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|Donna Challis 2,417
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|Doug Anguish
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Turtleford
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|Lloyd Johnson 3,269
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|Jerry Spenst 2,034
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|Neil Currie 1,239
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|Colin Maxwell**
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Northeast Saskatchewan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Cumberland
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|Keith Goulet 4,135
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|Louis Bear 482
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|Lennard Morin 505
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|Keith Goulet
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelsey-Tisdale
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|Andy Renaud 3,871
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|Neal Hardy 2,783
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|Walt Roberts 853
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|Neal Hardy
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kinistino
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|Armand Roy 4,298
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|Josef Saxinger 2,918
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|Frank Orosz 1,326
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|Josef Saxinger
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melfort
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|Carol Carson 3,011
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|Ken Naber 2,516
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|Rod Gantefoer 1,795
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|Grant Hodgins
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Nipawin
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|Tom Keeping 3,238
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|Jim Taylor 2,784
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|Richard Makowsky 1,134
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|Lloyd Sauder**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert Carlton
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|Myron Kowalsky 5,218
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|Bert Provost 1,635
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|Richard Stewart 1,888
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|Myron KowalskyPrince Albert
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Prince Albert Northcote
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|Eldon Lautermilch 5,405
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|Terry Wiebe 990
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|Hannah Shenouda 1,549
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|Eldon LautermilchPrince Albert-Duck Lake
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shellbrook-Torch River
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|Jack Langford 4,098
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|Lloyd Muller 2,358
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|Walter Billay 1,177
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|Lloyd Muller
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West Central Saskatchewan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Arm River
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|Bob Robertson 2,538
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|Gerald Muirhead 3,019
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|David Ashdown 2,301
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|Hilton J. Spencer (Ind.-WCC) 46
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|Gerald Muirhead
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Biggar
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|Grant Whitmore 3,710
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|Harry Baker 2,307
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|Larry Toner 1,708
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|Donald W. Kavanagh (Ind.) 65
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|Harry Baker
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Humboldt
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|Eric Upshall 4,422
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|Dale Blair 49
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|Arlene Julé 2,686
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|Eric Upshall
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kindersley
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|Lorne Johnston 2,014
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|Bill Boyd 2,766
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|Judy Setrakov 2,244
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|Bob Andrew**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Rosetown-Elrose
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|Berny Wiens 2,666
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|Ansgar Tynning 2,581
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|Linda Trytten 1,583
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|Herb Swan**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Wilkie
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|Sharon Murrell 2,295
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|John Britton 2,601
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|Nick Volk 1,853
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|John Britton
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East Central Saskatchewan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Canora
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|Darrel Cunningham 3,564
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|Lorne Kopelchuk 2,746
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|Roy Petrowicz 831
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|Lorne Kopelchuk
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Kelvington-Wadena
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|Kenneth Kluz 3,956
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|Sherwin Petersen 2,594
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|Bill Kerluke 730
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|Sherwin Petersen
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Last Mountain-Touchwood
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|Dale Flavel 4,028
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|Arnold Tusa 2,523
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|Ed Bespalko 1,691
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|Paul Chesterton (Ind.) 47
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|Arnold Tusa
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Melville
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|Evan Carlson 3,656
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|Grant Schmidt 3,048
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|Ray Chastkavich 1,262
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|Grant Schmidt
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Pelly
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|Ron Harper 3,992
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|Bernard Rink 2,055
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|Louis Sliwa 652
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|Rod Gardner**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Quill Lakes
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|Murray Koskie 3,621
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|Glen Leggott 2,357
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|Lou Coderre 1,297
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|Murray Koskie
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saltcoats
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|Reg Knezacek 3,745
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|Rod Roden 2,356
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|Leslie Popp 1,033
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|Walter Johnson**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Yorkton
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|Clay Serby 4,897
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|Brian Fromm 1,846
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|Donna Yaholnitsky 1,560
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|Lorne McLaren**
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Southwest Saskatchewan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Assiniboia-Gravelbourg
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|Lewis Draper 2,647
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|John Wolfe 2,583
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|Tim Connors 2,148
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|John Wolfe
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Maple Creek
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|Bryan Oster 1,987
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|Jack Goohsen 2,627
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|Shirley Helmerson 1,865
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|Jack Goohsen
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw Palliser
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|Glenn Hagel 5,681
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|Colleen Basarsky 1,920
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|Michael Klein 2,120
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|Glenn HagelMoose Jaw North
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moose Jaw Wakamow
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|Lorne Calvert 6,083
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|Lisa Acton 1,164
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|Randy Roman 1,799
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|Lorne CalvertMoose Jaw South
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Morse
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|Carl Siemens 2,101
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|Harold Martens 2,682
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|Ken Nelson 1,255
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|Harold Martens
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Shaunavon
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|Glen McPherson 2,350
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|Ted Gleim 2,222
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|Jerry Ruehs 1,733
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|Ted Gleim
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Swift Current
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|John Penner 4,399
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|Lawrence Bergreen 2,731
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|Archie Green 1,503
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|Pat Smith**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Thunder Creek
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|Ron Bishoff 2,240
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|Rick Swenson 2,929
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|Bill Johnstone 1,639
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|Dwayne S. McBride (Ind.) 66
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|Rick Swenson
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Southeast Saskatchewan
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Bengough-Milestone
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|Judy Bradley 2,419
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|Darrell Rodine 2,297
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|Laurie Unruh 1,665
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|Bob Pickering**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Estevan
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|Leonard Haukeness 3,404
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|Grant Devine 4,079
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|Bob Jones 1,889
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|Grant Devine
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Indian Head-Wolseley
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|Lorne Scott 2,725
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|Dwight Dunn 2,066
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|Jack Hosler 2,069
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|Doug Taylor**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Moosomin
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|Mary McGuire 2,954
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|Don Toth 3,005
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|Keith Lewis 1,475
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|
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|Don Toth
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Qu’Appelle-Lumsden
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|Suzanne Murray 4,907
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|Martin Kenney 2,426
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|Dawn Garner 2,827
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|John Lane**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Souris-Cannington
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|Ross Arthur 1,912
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|Dan D'Autremont 2,980
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|Don Lees 1,815
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|Eric Berntson**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Weyburn
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|Ronald Wormsbecker 3,883
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|Lorne Hepworth 2,725
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|Bill Rudachyk 1,920
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|Edwin Appenheimer (Ind.) 47
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|Lorne Hepworth
|-
Saskatoon
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Broadway
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|Pat Atkinson 5,027
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|Lee Cutforth 1,445
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|Jackie Stewart 2,891
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|Greg Hill (Ind.) 107
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|Herman RolfesSaskatoon South
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Eastview-Haultain
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|Bob Pringle 4,630
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|Bob Myers 1,698
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|Dan Kolysher 2,485
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|
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|Bob PringleSaskatoon Eastview
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Fairview
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|Bob Mitchell 5,955
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|Gaby Akl 905
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|Bill Mellof 2,084
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|
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|Bob Mitchell
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Greystone
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|Peter Prebble 4,009
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|Gary Hellard 1,094
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|Lynda Haverstock 5,422
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|Leslie Cushion (Ind.) 40
| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Idylwyld
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|Eric Cline 5,986
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|Carol Zanon 1,294
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|Roland Loewer 2,562
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|
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|Anne Smart**Saskatoon Centre
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Nutana
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|Herman Rolfes 5,452
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|Jerry Ehalt 1,264
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|Shirley Khan 3,048
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|
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|Pat Atkinson
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon River Heights
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|Carol Teichrob 4,908
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|Ray Meiklejohn 3,578
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|Ed Monuik 2,955
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|
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|Ray MeiklejohnSaskatoon Mayfair
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Riversdale
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|Roy Romanow 5,254
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|Gay Caswell 761
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|Gary La Plante 1,398
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|
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|Roy Romanow
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Sutherland-University
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|Mark Koenker 4,034
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|Jim Laing 1,452
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|Robin Bellamy 3,102
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|
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|Mark KoenkerSaskatoon Sutherland
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Westmount
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|Janice MacKinnon 5,505
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|George Turanich 1,008
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|Myron Luczka 1,913
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|John Brockelbank**
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Saskatoon Wildwood
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|Pat Lorje 4,282
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|Joan Black 2,509
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|David Clark 3,123
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| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District
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Regina
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Albert North
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|Kim Trew 5,313
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|Roy Gaebel 881
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|Phil Biggs 2,520
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|Kim TrewRegina North
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Albert South
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|Serge Kujawa 4,333
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|Jack Klein 1,761
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|Saul Jacobson 3,133
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|John O'Donoghue (Ind.) 106
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|Jack KleinRegina South
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Churchill Downs
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|Edward Shillington 6,049
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|John Bergen 661
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|Clyde Myhill 1,939
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|
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|Edwin TchorzewskiRegina North East
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Dewdney
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|Edwin Tchorzewski 6,695
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|Warne Rhoades 990
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|Bob Newman 1,969
|
|
| colspan=2 style="background:whitesmoke; text-align:center;"|New District
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Elphinstone
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|Dwain Lingenfelter 6,505
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|Don Racette 854
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|Cliff Chatterson 1,673
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|
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|Dwain Lingenfelter
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Hillsdale
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|Rose Marie Simard 4,851
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|Shirley Schneider 1,677
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|Larry Bird 2,930
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|
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|Rose Marie SimardRegina Lakeview
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Lake Centre
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|Joanne Crofford 6,286
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|Bill Pratt 1,296
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|Michael R. Giles 2,432
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|
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|Edward ShillingtonRegina Centre
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina North West
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|John Solomon 5,660
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|Jack Mock 990
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|Liz Calvert 2,670
|
|
||
|John Solomon
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Rosemont
||
|Robert Llewellyn Lyons 6,406
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|Myrna Petersen 1,031
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|John M. MacGowan 2,383
|
|
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|Robert Lyons
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Victoria
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|Harry Van Mulligen 5,759
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|Olga Stinson 1,000
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|Louise Holloway 2,066
|
|
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|Harry Van Mulligen
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|bgcolor=whitesmoke|Regina Wascana Plains
||
|Doreen Hamilton 4,532
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|Gordon Martin 2,148
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|Cam McCannell 3,086
|
|
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|Gordon B. MartinRegina Wascana
|-
|-
| style="width: 130px" |Liberal
|Anita Bergman
|align="right"|2,566
|align="right"|57.05
|align="right"|+28.40
|NDP
|Kathie Maher-Wolbaum
|align="right"|1,794
|align="right"|39.88
|align="right"|-20.85
|Prog. Conservative
|Harvey Schmidt
|align="right"|138
|align="right"|3.07
|align="right"|-7.55
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="left" colspan=3|Total
!align="right"|4,498
!align="right"|100.00
!align="right"|
See also
List of political parties in Saskatchewan
List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts
References
Saskatchewan Archives Board - Election Results By Electoral Division
Elections Saskatchewan
Further reading
1991 elections in Canada
1991
1991 in Saskatchewan
October 1991 events in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Marvellous%2012
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2019 Marvellous 12
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The 2019 Marvellous 12 () was a qualifying event organized by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Tencent Sports and Shenzhen Municipal Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau. It will be held in Shenzhen, China from 28 February to 3 March, 2019. It was the second edition of the tournament, and the second time that it have been held in Shenzhen. Winners and runners-up of the men's and women's singles event, namely Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Chen Meng, and Sun Yingsha, was each guaranteed a spot to represent China in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships.
Format and Participants
Six top ranked men and women players in China automatically qualify to the events. Six additional players to each event were decided in a closed competition held from 12 to 17 February. Twelve players in each event compete in a Round-Robin format. The winners of each event qualify to the single's event of the World Championships, while the runners-up are each guaranteed a spot in the team's final squad.
Men's singles
Ma Long (withdrew due to injury)
Fan Zhendong
Xu Xin
Wang Chuqin
Lin Gaoyuan
Liang Jingkun
Fang Bo
Xu Chenhao
Zhou Kai
Zhao Zihao
Yu Ziyang
Xue Fei
Yan An (replaced Ma Long)
Women's singles
Ding Ning
Liu Shiwen
Zhu Yuling
Chen Meng
Wang Manyu
Wu Yang
Gu Yuting
Sun Yingsha
Wang Yidi
Sun Mingyang
He Zhuojia
Chen Xingtong
Events
Men's singles
Women's singles
References
External links
Official website
Marvellous 12
2019 in Chinese sport
Table tennis competitions in China
Marvellous 12
Marvellous 12
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre%20Davis
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Deirdre Davis
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Deirdre Davis (born 1963) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Eileen Donachie in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City, which she starred in for almost 14 years, from its first broadcast on 24 September 2002 until May 2016. She has also appeared in the films Orphans (1998), The Debt Collector (1999), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), and The Rocket Post (2004).
Early life and career
Davis was born in Liverpool England, to Glaswegian parents. When she was a toddler, her parents moved back to Cardonald, Glasgow. She attended Penilee Secondary School, and it was only then that she realised her interest in drama. After secondary school, Deirdre studied a course in languages. However, she quit after a year to become a singer in a soul band.
At the age of 25, Davis joined drama school. Soon after graduating she got roles in theatre plays and short films.
External links
References
Scottish soap opera actresses
Living people
Actresses from Liverpool
1963 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Ang%C3%A9lique%20de%20Mackau
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Marie Angélique de Mackau
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Marie Angélique de Mackau née de Fitte de Soucy (1723-1801), was a French court office holder. She was royal governess to Élisabeth of France (1764–1794) and later to the children of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette from 1771 and 1792.
Life
She was the daughter of Jean François de Fitte de Soucy (1686-1759). She married baron Louis Eléonor Dirkheim de Mackau (1727-1767) in 1755, and became the mother of Renée Suzanne de Soucy (1758-1841), Armand Louis de Mackau (1759-1827) and Marie-Angélique de Bombelles (1762-1800).
Sous Gouvernante
In 1771, she was appointed one of five sous gouvernante (deputy governess) to the royal children: they were placed under the Governess of the Children of France, but normally did most of the daily work. She was recommended to the post by the Prince Louis de Rohan.
Marie Angélique de Mackau reportedly had great importance for the development of Élisabeth of France, and was evidently in possession of "the firmness which bends resistance, and the affectionate kindness which inspires attachment", and under whose tuition she made progress in her education, as well as developed a softer personality, with her strong will directed toward religious principles. She reportedly became a lifelong friend and maternal figure to Elisabeth. When Elisabeth was given her own house at Montreuil in 1781, she built a small house for Mackau there and gave it to her. Marie Angélique de Mackau continued to serve as governess during the reign of Louis XVI. She was well liked by the children of Louis XVI.
Her sister-in-law Elisabeth Louise Lenoir de Verneuil de Soucy (1729-1813), and her elder daughter Renée Suzanne de Soucy were both appointed to be her colleagues as sous gouvernante. Her younger daughter, Marie-Angélique de Bombelles, married to Marc Marie de Bombelles, became maid-of-honour to Elisabeth before her marriage, as well as her lifelong personal friend and correspondent.
Revolution
Mackau accompanied the royal family to the Tuileries Palace in Paris after the Women's March on Versailles during the French revolution in October 1789.
During the Demonstration of 20 June 1792, she, alongside Princess de Lamballe, Madame de Tourzel, the Duchess de Maillé, Mme de Laroche-Aymon, Louise-Emmanuelle de Châtillon, Princesse de Tarente, Renée Suzanne de Soucy, Mme de Ginestous, and a few noblemen, belonged to the courtiers surrounding the queen and her children for several hours when the mob passed by the room shouting insults to Marie Antoinette.
During the 10 August (French Revolution), she and the rest of the ladies-in-waiting of the queen was left in the queen's chamber after the royal family left the palace only in the company of Princess de Lamballe and Madame de Tourzel. When the mob broke in to the chamber, Louise-Emmanuelle de Châtillon, Princesse de Tarente made a personal appeal to the leading Marseillais, who stated: "We do not fight with women; go, all of you, if you choose," after which the women were all allowed to depart the palace unharmed, some of them even escorted by the rioters.
Marie Angélique de Mackau were arrested and placed in the La Force. During the September Massacres, she, as well as Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel and three other women formerly in court employ - Mme de Navarre, Mme Thibaud, and Mme Basire - were all freed by the tribunal and released on 3 September.
When Marie Thérèse of France was released from Temple in 1795 and allowed to depart for Austria, she requested for Mackau to accompany her. Because of her advanced age, such a long journey was not considered good for her health, and Mackau was forced to decline; instead her daughter Renée Suzanne de Soucy was chosen.
References
Marc Marie, marquis de Bombelles (1744-1822), et Angélique, marquise de Bombelles (1762-1800), Que je suis heureuse d'être ta femme : Lettres intimes, Evelyne Lever, Editions Tallandier, Paris, 2009
Nagel, Susan. " Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter ". NY: Bloomsbury, 2008.
External link
1723 births
1801 deaths
18th-century French educators
Governesses to the Children of France
18th-century French women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Wine%2C%20Queensland
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Port Wine, Queensland
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Port Wine is a former rural locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Port Wine had a population of 27 people.
On 22 November 2019 the Queensland Government decided to amalgamate the localities in the Barcaldine Region, resulting in five expanded localities based on the larger towns: Alpha, Aramac, Barcaldine, Jericho and Muttaburra. Port Wine was incorporated into Alpha.
Geography
The Central Western railway line forms the northern boundary of the locality. The Capricorn Highway also traverses the north of the locality from east to west but diverges south from the railway line unlike other localities in which the railway and highway are adjacent.
The western branch of the Belyando River enters the locality from the south-west (Sedgeford) while the eastern branch rises in the south of the locality. The two branches merge within the locality and then flow north to exit the locality to the north-west (Beaufort). The Beylando River is a tributary to the Suttor River, and then the Burdekin River, within the North East Coast drainage basin.
The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation.
The abandoned town of Pinehill () is in the most northern part of the locality immediately south of the Pinehill railway station ().
History
The district was opened up by the arrival of the Central Western railway in 1883 when the Pinehill railway station was the terminus of the line for one year. On August 1883 there was a land sale for 56 town lots and 180 country lots at Pine Hill (as the town's name was then written). The sale was successful yielding with buyers planning to build hotels and shops in the new town, although the newspaper of the day speculated that the land might be worthless in two years (presumably in the expectation that the town would not remain the terminus). The railway line opened 1 November 1883. The Queensland National Bank relocated their business from Bogantungan (the previous terminus) to Pine Hill in November 1883. The town was described in December 1883 as:"There is dust everywhere, not only in the streets but in the houses.You breathe it, you eat it, you drink it, you sniff it, touch what you will it is there. It sometimes almost blinds you, and it will no doubt assist in producing premature deafness in some cases, for your ears get filled with dust and thus all the five senses are affected ... it ought to have been named The Dust Flat".On 22 September 1884 the railway line had reached its new terminus Alpha and Pine Hill was described as "unsuited for permanent settlement". There was criticism of the Queensland Government for profiting from land sales in short-lived terminus towns like Pine Hill.
Pine Hill State School opened circa 1884 but closed in 1905. It reopened on 25 January 1926 but closed circa 1946.
Although the town's streets and allotments can still be seen on maps, there is no evidence of any building there today. The town's name lives on in the locality of Pine Hill to the north of Port Wine.
The origin of the name Port Wine is unclear. However there are mentions of Port Wine Creek in the district from 1913.
Education
There are no schools in Port Wine. The nearest primary school is in Alpha. The nearest secondary school is in Alpha but only to Year 10. The nearest secondary school to Year 12 is in Emerald. Boarding schools and distance education are other options.
References
Barcaldine Region
Unbounded localities in Queensland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzig%20Cross
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Danzig Cross
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The Danzig Cross () was a Nazi decoration of the Free City of Danzig. The Cross was instituted on 31 August 1939 as a two grade decoration by Danzig Gauleiter Albert Forster. It was awarded to those, both in Danzig and in the wider Reich, who contributed to building up the Nazi Party in the Free City prior to its incorporation into Germany on 1 September 1939.
By December 1939, 88 first class and 253 second class crosses had been awarded, most of them in a ceremony on 24 October 1939. Hans Frank was a recipient of the award on 19 May 1940.
Design
The Danzig Cross was designed by Benno von Arent. The cross, with elongated upper and lower arms, is in white enamel with gilt outlines. Its upper arm and centre bear the coronet and twin cross of the Danzig coat of arms, also in gilt. The reverse is plain with a Huelse Berlin maker's mark. The second class, 43mm in height and 31mm wide, is attached to a red ribbon with yellow and white strips on its edges. The first class cross, slightly larger at 60mm by 44mm, is convex and has a pin on the reverse for wear on the left side of the jacket.
As an award of the National Socialist government of Danzig, the Cross was recognised as an official decoration of a German state, and could therefore be worn in both Nazi Party and Wehrmacht uniform. All Nazi era decorations were banned after Germany's defeat in 1945, and the Danzig Cross was not among those re-authorised for wear by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957.
Notes
References
Uniformen-Markt. German magazine, published 1934–45.
German Federal law: Bundesministerium der Justiz: Gesetz über Titel, Orden und Ehrenzeichen, 26.7.1957. Bundesgesetzblatt Teil III, Gliederungsnummer 1132-1
German Federal regulation: Dienstvorschriften Nr. 14/97. Bezug: Anzugordnung für die Soldaten der Bundeswehr. ZDv 37/10. (Juli 1996).
Orders, decorations, and medals of Nazi Germany
Free City of Danzig
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bazaar%20of%20Bad%20Dreams
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015. This is King's sixth collection of short stories and his tenth collection overall. One of the stories, "Obits", won the 2016 Edgar Award for best short story, and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best collection. The paperback edition, released on October 18, 2016, includes a bonus short story, "Cookie Jar", which was published in 2016 in VQR.
Background
In a letter posted on Stephen King's official site in June 2014, King announced that he would possibly be publishing a "book of new stories" in the fall of 2015, following the publication of Finders Keepers. In an interview with the Toronto Sun on November 6, 2014, King announced the title of the collection and offered more details, saying "[I]n the fall of 2015 there will be a new collection of stories called The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, which'll collect about 20 short tales. It should be a pretty fat book." In February and March 2015, King personally, and via his assistant, confirmed the collection will include "Bad Little Kid" (published in 2014 as an e-book in French and German languages only as a gift to King's European fans), "Ur" (heavily revised), "Drunken Fireworks", and "A Death". The complete list of twenty stories was announced on King's website on April 20. Throughout May, King's official site revealed the cover in five stages, with the final cover being unveiled on May 22. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams omits contemporaneous stories published by King in collaboration with his son Joe Hill (Throttle and In the Tall Grass) and Stewart O'Nan (A Face in the Crowd).
Stories collected
See also
Stephen King short fiction bibliography
Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King
References
2015 short story collections
American short story collections
Short story collections by Stephen King
Nightmares in fiction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Santos%20Garc%C3%ADa%20de%20Ontiveros%20y%20Mart%C3%ADnez
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Francisco Santos García de Ontiveros y Martínez
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Francisco Santos García de Ontiveros y Martínez (died 28 June 1596) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Guadalajara (1592–1596).
Biography
On 22 May 1592, Francisco Santos García de Ontiveros y Martínez was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed by Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Guadalajara. On 3 October 1593, he was consecrated bishop by Diego de Romano y Govea, Bishop of Tlaxcala, and on 6 November 1593, he was installed to the bishopric. He served as Bishop of Guadalajara until his death on 28 June 1596.
References
External links and additional sources
(for Chronology of Bishops)
(for Chronology of Bishops)
1596 deaths
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico
Bishops appointed by Pope Clement VIII
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Basset%2C%202nd%20Baroness%20Basset
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Frances Basset, 2nd Baroness Basset
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Frances Basset, 2nd Baroness Basset (30 April 1781 – 22 January 1855) was a British peeress.
Baptised in St Marylebone Church in London on 23 May 1781, she was the only child of Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset and his first wife Frances Susanna, daughter of John Hippesley Coxe. On her father's death in 1835, she succeeded per a special remainder to the barony of Basset. She died aged 74, unmarried and childless at her seat Tehidy Park. She funded the construction of All Saints' Church, Tuckingmill which was built between 1843 and 1845.
She was buried in Illogan in Cornwall, and with her death the barony became extinct. Her estates passed to the eldest son of a cousin.
Arms
See also
Tehidy Country Park
Great Cornish Families
References
1781 births
1855 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain
Hereditary women peers
Cornish nobility
Burials in Cornwall
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Molina
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Fernando Molina
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Fernando Molina (born 9 April 1938) is an Argentine long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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1938 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Argentine male long-distance runners
Argentine male marathon runners
Olympic athletes of Argentina
Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Argentina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratophysella
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Ceratophysella
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Ceratophysella is a genus of springtails and allies in the family Hypogastruridae. There are at least 100 described species in Ceratophysella.
See also
List of Ceratophysella species
References
Poduromorpha
Springtail genera
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial%20review%20in%20Austria
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Judicial review in Austria
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The European and Austrian constitutions endow the Austrian court system with broad powers of judicial review.
All Austrian courts are charged with verifying that the statutes and ordinances they are about to apply conform to European Union law, and to refuse to apply them if not. A specialized Constitutional Court checks statutes for compliance with the Austrian constitution and executive ordinances for compliance with Austrian law in general.
A system of administrative courts reviews individual-scope actions of the executive branch.
Influenced by Hans Kelsen and a general local tradition of legal positivism, the statutory construction of the Austrian Constitutional Court relied mostly on grammatical interpretation from its beginnings in 1920 to the mid-1980s. In the decades since then, the court has increasingly made use of teleological reasoning. Much of the court's workload is due to – and many of its decisions are the product of – unique distinctivenesses of the legal and political framework it is operating in.
Fundamentals
The European Union constitutional framework charges the Austrian court system with checking Austrian statutes and ordinances for compliance with Union law. Austrian legislation, either primary or secondary, that violates Union law must not be applied.
The Union does not charge Austrian courts with checking statutes for compliance with the constitution, or administrative ordinances for compliance with law. The country's national constitution, on the other hand, does. It also provides for judicial review not just of ordinances () but also of individual-scope decisions of the Austrian executive branch – written findings and assessments () as well as face-to-face personal orders and instances of the use of physical force ().
In effect, the Austrian constitution concentrates the power of judicial review of primary and secondary legislation in a single specialist tribunal, the Constitutional Court.
The approach is called the centralized system of judicial review.
Because Austria was the first country ever to adopt centralized judicial review – with the 1920 Kelsen constitution – the approach is sometimes also called the Austrian system.
Because centralized judicial review has since spread to Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, some people call it the European system.
Judicial review of individual-scope administrative actions is performed by a special system of administrative courts.
Review of legislation
Ways of challenging legislation
The general courts – civil and criminal chambers, essentially – are encouraged (and in fact required) to make sure that statutes they are about to apply have been enacted and promulgated in accordance with the constitution, and that ordinances they are about to apply have been issued in accordance with the constitution and with pertinent other legislation, primary or secondary. Statutes and ordinances that fail this test cannot be applied.
General courts are also authorized to consider whether a statute or ordinance at issue might be unconstitutional or illegal on other grounds. They can neither strike nor refuse to apply legislation they deem suspicious, however. Instead, they are encouraged (and required) to put the matter before the Constitutional Court. If a party to the trial believes that the court has applied a statute or an ordinance that is unconstitutional or illegal, that party can file a special appeal at law () against the verdict with the Constitutional Court.
In addition, the Constitutional Court can also be asked to intervene by legislative or administrative authorities:
Review of a provincial ordinance can be requested by the national cabinet; review of a national ordinance by a provincial cabinet.
Review of a provincial statute can be requested by the national cabinet; review of a national statute by a provincial cabinet, through a petition supported by one third of the members of the National Council, or through a petition supported by one third of the members of the Federal Council.
Finally, a private person, natural or other, can file a complaint () against a statute or an ordinance with the Constitutional Court. The complaint has to argue that the complainant is being violated in their rights by the piece of legislation at issue, actually and not just potentially. The complaint also has to argue that there is no plausible way for the complainant to get the problem resolved through any other means available to them.
Purview of the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court is charged with making sure that all Austrian legislation, primary or secondary, conforms to any Austrian legislation outranking it.
Statutes have to conform to the constitution.
Executive ordinances also have to conform to ordinary law; supplementary ordinances also have to conform to the original ordinances they derive from.
A road sign, for instance, needs to be legal under the Road Traffic Act but also in compliance with the Ministry of Commerce Regulation on Road Signs.
Since the Austrian constitution defines Austria to be a federation, the provinces are federated states on paper and have token constitutions of their own; provincial law has to conform with these as well as with the national constitution.
Since provinces do not run any courts of their own, reviewing provincial law for compatibility with provincial constitutions falls within the purview of the Constitutional Court as well.
The court does not check legislation for compliance with European Union law.
Unconstitutional laws and ordinances are not void ex tunc. The Court's decision rescinds them just like abrogation by the legislature would have done; decisions based on them that have been made in the past remain standing..
The court has some latitude with respect to the date its decision becomes effective. Usually, laws and ordinances found to be unconstitutional go out of force the day after the publication of the verdict.
To prevent disruption, however, the court can set a grace period during which a piece of unconstitutional legislation still remains on the rolls and may still be applied. The grace period may last up to six months for ordinances and up to eighteen months for laws. The court may allow eighteen months for ordinances that are de facto statutes because their disappearance will require a new statute to deal with. On the other hand, the court can also make its decision retroactive. The court's broad discretion forces the court to "legislate from the bench" whether it wants to or not: it does not simply announce a finding it notionally cannot avoid; it is officially choosing policy.
Treaties
Judicial review of legislation includes judicial review of international treaties. Since treaties are concluded by the president, they originate with the executive branch. This makes them equivalent to ordinances, meaning they cannot be incompatible with any statutes. Certain treaties can be elevated to statute rank by the National Council, however, meaning they only have to be constitutional.
Since Austria cannot unilaterally rescind an agreement it has entered into under international law, the court cannot actually void any treaty. It can, however, order Austrian officials to stop applying it. If this puts Austria in breach of treaty obligations, it is up to the administration to negotiate an amendment to the treaty or a withdrawal from it. As with legislation it strikes, the court can grant a grace period during which the provisions of the treaty can still be applied. The grace period may last up to two years for treaties that alter the constitution of the European Union and up to one year for most other treaties.
Review of administrative actions
Administrative courts
Judicial review of actions of the executive branch other than secondary legislation is performed by a special system of administrative courts. These courts are where persons, natural or other, complain about written findings and assessments (), about officials making use of their authority to issue face-to-face personal orders () and against officials using physical force or threats of physical force (). The systems hears complaints not just about action but also about inaction; Austrians can take the administration to court if it refuses to make decisions it is required to make, misses deadlines, or generally neglects its responsibilities.
There are eleven administrative trial courts (), two for each province and two for the national level. Verdicts of the administrative trial courts can be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court ().
Escalation to the Constitutional Court
Like general courts, administrative courts can (and should) invoke the assistance of the Constitutional Court if the constitutionality or legality of a statute or an ordinance appears dubious. As with general courts, a party to the trial can file an appeal at law against the verdict of the trial court with the Constitutional Court. With administrative courts, however, the complaint () does not have to argue that the court has applied an unconstitutional statute or an illegal ordinance, it can also argue that the verdict is violating the complainant's constitutional rights in some other way.
An appeal to the Constitutional Court either against a general court () or against an administrative court () is not a appeal at law (); it is an extraordinary measure independent of the normal appeals process:
The extraordinary appeal can only be filed against the verdict of the original trial court. The complainant cannot appeal verdicts of appellate courts to the Constitutional Court, including but not limited to decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of Justice and the Supreme Administrative Court.
If the Constitutional Court upholds the legislation in question, the complainant still has their regular appeal to the regular appellate court, which may still overturn the original verdict for reasons the Constitutional Court is not charged with considering. It is even possible, and often useful, to file both the ordinary and the extraordinary appeal in parallel. In fact, complainants fighting a verdict of a general court are to file both appeals at essentially the same time.
The relative complexity of this arrangement is due to historical reasons.
Starting with the reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II, Austrian constitutional thinking gradually developed the principle that general court system and administration should not interfere with each other. Judges should not be allowed to overturn administrative decisions just like bureaucrats should not be allowed to overturns verdicts. Citizens would not fight unfavorable administrative decisions in court, they would appeal them to higher levels of the administration, much like they appealed unfavorable judicial decisions to higher levels of the judiciary.
By the 1840s, this principle was well established. In 1848, it became enshrined in the Pillersdorf Constitution.
Originally, keeping judges and bureaucrats at arm's length was a great step forward because the main practical consequence was judicial independence.
By 1867, however, the downsides of the arrangement had also become obvious. The 1867 December Constitution established the Administrative Court (), a tribunal that could overturn administrative decisions on behalf of complainants who had exhausted their administrative appeals. It also created the Imperial Court (), a tribunal that would hear complaints about general violations of constitutional rights by the executive branch.
The Republic of Austria renamed the Imperial Court to Constitutional Court but did not change the arrangement in any fundamental way.
Austrians who felt violated in their constitutional rights by an administrative decision or assessment () could petition the Constitutional Court to overturn it. The complaint had to name a right specifically guaranteed by the constitution and had to assert that the administration had applied a law violating the constitution or an ordinance violating the law.. The complainant still had to already have exhausted their appeals.
Not designed with the modern regulatory state in mind, both Administrative Court and Constitutional Court were under serious strain by the late 20th century. It was also increasingly seen as outdated and inadequate from a human rights perspective; European integration demanded an upgrade.
A reform in 2014 added created eleven new administrative trial courts (), one for each of the nine provinces and two for the national level. The original Administrative Court was retained as the appeals court in which verdicts of the new trial courts could be fought. The intra-administrative appeals process was scrapped to prevent durations of proceedings from becoming excessive.
The Constitutional Court no longer hears complaints about the administration directly. Instead, it now hears complaints regarding the constitutionality of verdicts of administrative trial courts.
While unusual, the system allows the Constitutional Court to keep both the administration and the judiciary in line with the constitution, even though it technically hears neither complaints about the former nor appeals against verdicts of the latter. At the same time, it prevents the Constitutional Court from getting overburdened.
Review of legislation in practice
The judicial review of legislation in Austria is marked by three apparent contradictions: a strong Constitutional Court in a country with a high degree of constitutional flexibility; a constitution that uses the language of federalism but stipulates strong centralization; a sprawling and fragmented constitution that practically forces jurists to legislate from the bench in a democracy that used to be consociationalist and remains strongly consensus-oriented to this day.
All three incongruities have inspired significant volumes of legal scholarship over the years; they have also strongly influenced the court's actual decisions.
Flexibility
The Constitutional Court is powerful but Austria has what political scientists call a high degree of constitutional flexibility: the Austrian constitution is comparatively easy to amend.
With a few qualifications that have proven mostly irrelevant in practice, a two-thirds supermajority in the National Council is enough.
For much of the second half of the 20th century, Austria's Grand Coalition governments of Social Democrats and People's Party have commanded majorities well in excess of this requirement;
in the late 1940s to early 1960s, the government controlled 92% of the seats on average.
The backbone of the constitution, the Federal Constitutional Law, has been amended over a hundred times since 1945.
As a result of this tension, political scientists rate Austrian judicial review as "medium strength" even though the Austrian-style centralized model generally tends to result in strong judicial review.
Fragmentation
One consequence of Austria's easy amendments is that the constitution has to be treated as layered (): if the core of the constitution and the amendment of the week had been treated as equal in rank, there would effectively not have been any real constitution at all. In acknowledgement of this, the court has established that some parts of the constitution are more constitutional than others. This gives rise to the possibility that can be unconstitutional.
Another consequence of the ease of amending it is that Austria's constitution has grown exceptionally large; it may in fact be the most extensive national constitution in the world.
Austria has about 60 constitutional statutes (). In addition, there are about 100 ordinary statutes () some of whose sections are individually marked as constitutional provisions (); these constitutional provisions number about 1000 total. Yet more constitutional provisions are contained in about 100 international treaties.
Additional complications arise from the fact that different parts of Austria's constitutional law were written by authors from fundamentally different schools of legislative thought; the corpus is therefore very uneven in style. This makes statutory interpretation technically challenging. Core parts of the corpus are unusually terse, practically guaranteeing that subtly different approaches will yield widely different results.
Federalist elements
The Federal Constitutional Law defines Austria to be a federation but distributes powers and responsibilities in a way that makes the country more or less unitary in reality.
Cisleithania had been a unitary state with some limited devolution of responsibility to regional administrations; the modern Republic of Austria mostly retains this structure.
The national level clearly dominates political life.
Austria is commonly described as "centralized"
or "highly centralized".
The country has also been called "a federation without federalism"
and "so centrally dominated in design as to be little short of unitary".
The apportionment of areas of competence between national and regional levels is internationally unique, highly complex, and badly outdated.
The framework is immune to reform because, for all its faults, it represents a stable compromise between political camps with radically different visions regarding the Austrian government's basic structure.
The Constitutional Court regularly has to create new rules to allow legislatures to handle pressing matters that a straightforward reading of the constitution would make impossible to legislate on: neither the national level nor the regional level could deal with the problem without disturbing the respectively other level's territory.
These issues create a large amount of legal theory and academic literature;
scholars are torn between two competing schools of thought on the subject.
Disposition
The Constitutional Court has historically shown considerable judicial restraint.
To some degree, this was a choice, made out of a desire not to appropriate the power to legislate. To some degree, especially in the decades since 1945, it was also a result of the appointment process. Very early into the Second Republic, Social Democrats and People's Party reached an informal agreement regarding Constitutional Court nominations that prevented either camp from gaining a strong upper hand. Each party would effectively own a share of the seats. Retiring Social Democratic members would be replaced by other Social Democratic members; the People's Party would get to replace retiring People's Party justices. As a result, the court has tended to take non-interventionist positions on politically sensitive issues.
Interpretative approach
From its beginning in 1920 to its elimination by the Austrofascist putsch in 1934, the Constitutional Court has leaned strongly towards grammatical interpretation (), although with occasional elements of the historical approach. Reasons include the court's general philosophy of restraint, the influence of Hans Kelsen, and a general local tradition of legal positivism.
In the first few decades after the court's reestablishment in 1945, restraint continued to seem a wise policy, and grammatical reasoning continued to be the court's preferred approach.
From the 1980s forward, the court has gradually shifted towards teleological reasoning, similar to the approach taken by the German Federal Constitutional Court and partly influenced by it. Today, both approaches are used side by side; this can make verdicts difficult to predict even in the absence of political contentiousness.
Citations
References
Books and articles
English
German
Statutes
Constitution of Austria
Judicial review
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bunker%20%28comics%29
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The Bunker (comics)
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The Bunker is a comic book written by Joshua Hale Fialkov with artwork by Joe Infurnari.
A pilot television episode was announced to have been written for Lionsgate TV. In 2019, it was reported that a television series is in the works at NBC.
Plot
The world population is dying, and those responsible send a bunker back in time to warn their younger selves, in order to prevent it.
Reception
It was highly recommended by Ain't It Cool News. Newsarama gave it a 9 out of 10. Bleeding Cool called it “A beautiful comic.” Comic Vine gave it 5 stars. Kotaku called it "a great, tense read with a killer twist ending that will have you aching for more."
References
Oni Press titles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta%20Temes
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Roberta Temes
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Roberta Temes (also known as Dr. Roberta; born 1942/1943) is an American author and psychotherapist. She is the author of many books including Living with an Empty Chair, Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hypnosis, The Tapping Cure, and her latest book, How to Write a Memoir in 30 Days.
She is the author and producer of Enjoying Weight Loss,
Temes is a former psychology and medical school faculty member, and an editor and writing instructor. She is known as Dr. Roberta.
Personal life
On May 12, 1991, Temes married David Lyons. It was her second marriage, and his third. She had three children, and he had four.
Temes lives in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and spends three months a year in Delray Beach, Florida.
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1940s births
Living people
People from the Bronx
American non-fiction writers
American columnists
American psychotherapists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Journalists from New York City
American women non-fiction writers
American women columnists
Brooklyn College alumni
Advice columnists
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo%20Ladies%27%20Open
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Amarillo Ladies' Open
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The Amarillo Ladies' Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1966 to 1967. It was played at the Amarillo Country Club in Amarillo, Texas.
Winners
1967 Sandra Haynie
1966 Kathy Whitworth
References
Former LPGA Tour events
Golf in Texas
Sports in Amarillo, Texas
Women's sports in Texas
Recurring sporting events established in 1966
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1967
1966 establishments in Texas
1967 disestablishments in Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn%20Rico
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Jocelyn Rico
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Jocelyn Rico (born 17 December 1959) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back and defensive midfielder. From 1978 to 1993, he made 383 appearances in the first two tiers of football in France.
International career
Rico was an Olympic international for France. He was called up by the team's manager for a friendly tournament in China in June 1983, but was not chosen for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles the following year.
Personal life
Born in Concarneau, Brittany, Rico's parents were Pieds-Noirs from Morocco. His brother Robert is also a former professional footballer, and played for the France national team.
Following his retirement from professional football, Rico became a coach. He coached an under-13 side of US Saint-Grégoire while he played for the club's senior team. Rico was employed by the town of Saint-Grégoire as an educator, and coached several other youth teams in the area. He also worked as a sports equipment manager for the town.
Honours
Brest
Division 2: 1980–81
US Saint-Grégoire
Coupe de Bretagne: 1998
References
1959 births
Living people
People from Concarneau
Footballers from Brittany
Sportspeople from Finistère
French footballers
Association football fullbacks
Association football midfielders
US Concarneau players
Stade Brestois 29 players
OGC Nice players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
AS Cannes players
Stade Rennais F.C. players
Ligue 2 players
Ligue 1 players
Championnat National 3 players
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