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Andres Küng (13 September 1945 – 10 December 2002) was a Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin. He was born in Ockelbo in Gävleborg County to a family of refugees from Soviet occupied Estonia.
Career
Literature
As he himself noted, Küng "published more than 50 books, most on the Baltic States, thousands of articles and held innumerable lectures on why Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should (and would) become independent again."
Politics
Küng was active in both Swedish politics (member of the People's Party – Liberals) and Estonian and Baltic émigré activities. He was the chairman of the Liberal Students Club of Stockholm between 1966 and 67. Later, he served as the Deputy Board member of the People's Party Youth League. During 1970–71, he was the acting Deputy member 1982 of Riksdag. Küng also participated in the Estonian Liberal Party in exile and several other organisations and campaigns for Baltic struggle for independence. He was a member of the party board for the Swedish Liberal Party from 1982 until 1991.
Noted awards
In November 1998, Andres Küng was awarded the Latvian Order of the Three Stars by the Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis. In February 1999, he was awarded the Estonian Order of the White Star by the Estonian President Lennart Meri.
Bibliography
Estland - en studie i imperialism, Aldus/Bonniers 1971
Vad händer i Baltikum?, Aldus/Bonniers, 1973
Bruce Olson: Missionary or colonizer?, 1981
Sådan är socialismen, Timbro, 1982
Vindens barn: Om medlöperi förr och nu, Timbro, 1983
A dream of freedom: Four decades of national survival versus Russian imperialism in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, 1940–1980
Sverige och Estland: äntligen goda grannar?, 1991
Kommunismen och Baltikum, 1999 ("Communism and the Baltic States", see online https://web.archive.org/web/20060504183740/http://www.rel.ee/swe/kommunism_och_baltikum.htm)
Communism and Crimes against Humanity in the Baltic states, c 1999, refer https://web.archive.org/web/20140616162322/http://www.hot.ee/evlliit/okup_2.htm
Ett liv för Baltikum : journalistiska memoarer. – Stockholm : Timbro, 2002. – 351 s. : ill. – (Estonian edition: Baltikumile elatud aastad : ajakirjaniku mälestused. – Tallinn, Olion, 2002.)
For the complete list, see .
References
External links
In Memory of Andres Küng's website
1945 births
2002 deaths
People from Ockelbo Municipality
People from Gästrikland
Swedish people of Estonian descent
20th-century Swedish journalists
Swedish male writers
20th-century Swedish businesspeople
Liberals (Sweden) politicians
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
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Al-Nejmeh (), Arabic for "the Star", may refer to:
Nejmeh SC, a Lebanese football club
Al-Najma SC (Bahrain), a Bahraini multi-sports club
Al-Najma SC (Iraq), an Iraqi football club
Al-Najma SC (Saudi Arabia), a Saudi Arabian football club
Annajma SC, a Libyan football club
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"SexyBack" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). It was released on July 18, 2006, to US mainstream and rhythmic radio stations by Jive Records as the lead single from the album. The song was written and produced by Danja, Timbaland, and Timberlake. Discussing "SexyBack", Timberlake revealed that he went "left", singing the song in a rock style, not an R&B style. He described the song as musicians David Bowie and David Byrne "covering" James Brown's 1970 song "Sex Machine". The track features Timbaland (who is credited on the album but not the single itself) while Timberlake's voice is distorted. The instrumentation used in the song includes a pounding bass beat, electronic chords, and drum machine sounds.
"SexyBack" became Timberlake's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, staying seven weeks at the top spot. It also topped several of Billboard magazine's other charts, including the Mainstream Top 40, Hot Dance Airplay, and Hot Digital Songs, and entered the top ten on most singles charts. Internationally, it became Timberlake's first single to reach number one in the United Kingdom. In Australia, the track was Timberlake's second number-one single, spending two consecutive weeks at the top. "SexyBack" was certified three-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and three-times platinum by Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
The track won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 2007 ceremony. In addition, the song won Timberlake the People's Choice Award for Favorite R&B song and the Male Artist of the Year at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The music video was filmed in June 2006; Timberlake decided to work with director Michael Haussman based on the latter's work on Madonna's 1994 music video "Take a Bow".
Production
Timberlake began working on his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, in December 2005. Within three weeks, "SexyBack" was one of several songs that were recorded for the album, having been recorded in less than a day. Timberlake told The Weekend Mail in 2006 that it was the "second or third song" he did with Timbaland in a list of 10 songs they recorded for the album. The song was written and produced by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, and Nate "Danja" Hills, and mixed by Jimmy Douglass, using Pro Tools.
Mixing took place in April 2006, using a Neve VR-series console.
Hills played the Akai MPC3000, as well as virtual synths on his Macintosh computer, while Timbaland performed instruments on the Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard. Bill Pettaway played the guitar, his part taking only two minutes to record, while Darryl Pearson was the bassist. Both the guitar and bass were digitally imported in Pro Tools during mixing, and only a section of the guitar recording was copied and pasted throughout the song.
Composition
Music
Timberlake described "SexyBack" as "an experiment gone right from the sort of synthesizer influence to the distorted vocals", adding that it was "one of the songs that the more you listen to it its just hook after hook after hook. Its just one of those 'flow off the top of your head' tracks, in terms of melody. We wanted to keep it loose and not too rehearsed, it's one of those very experimental records though." Timberlake revealed that he went "left", regarding going more rock, not in how he developed the song, but in the way he sang the song. "I wanted to sing the song like a rock and roll singer, not an R&B singer. That's the approach." The day before recording, Timberlake and Timbaland had listened to David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" and the Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers". Timberlake wanted to achieve the songs' "raw energy". Timberlake said that he modeled himself on Bowie and Prince, and described the song as Bowie and David Byrne "covering" James Brown's 1970 song "Sex Machine". Timberlake said that the song "doesn't qualify as rock or straight funk" and that he was happy with the description "club funk". He was "keen for a new musical direction" following the release of his first album, Justified. "I listened to the radio for a few months and thought, 'All this sounds like shit, what do I want to hear?'. That's really all I did. Everything's got so repetitive, everything sounds the same. I had to create something unique otherwise there's no point putting it out."
"SexyBack" is an "urgent, pulsing track, a cocktail of soaring, distorted vocals and heavy, electronic chords threaded together with rap", according to Camilla Long from The Observer. The song is composed in the Phyrgian mode — and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 117 beats per minute. The song's musicscape includes two-note dirty electronic riffs, "leapfrogging keyboards", beat box sound, and incorporates the "same leaky faucet" sounds of musician Obie Trice's 2004 song "The Setup". In addition, the track features Timbaland on backing vocals.
Timberlake's voice in the song is processed, slowed down to where his voice is unrecognizable, with muffled vocals. The song also features Timberlake's "low register distorted vocals." Timberlake revealed that the vocals in the song were influenced by Prince.
Lyrics
Douglas explained the title of the song, and how it affected the concept: "Justin [Timberlake] goes in the chorus 'Go head be gone with it', I called the song 'Be Gone With It', just to label it. So they're developing this song and they're going nuts and loving it, and as they play it, and I'm like: 'I don't think this hook is strong enough.' But then, at the very last minute, Justin very, very cleverly decided to call it 'Sexion', he admitted that the song was not going to be titled "SexyBack", saying, "We weren't originally going to call it 'SexyBack'. I definitely didn't think it would become the most worn-out phrase of 2006. It just sounded like a nice opening to the song."
Adam Graham of The Detroit News noted that Timberlake sings about whips and chains, while Bill Lamb of About.com said the song has a "bit of s&m tease about shackles and whips". Furthermore, The Georgia Straight's Martin Turenne said that Timberlake is "shackled to the bedpost, invites the crack of his mistress's whip." Ben Williams of New York magazine wrote that Timberlake had been working on his pickup lines, with "You see these shackles baby I'm your slave / I'll let you whip me if I misbehave." Jason Bracelin of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Timberlake sings about "threatening to steal your girl." Charlie Brooker for The Guardian, in regard to the lyric, "them other fuckers don't know how to act", writing that Timberlake's translation is of him telling everyone in the world that they are a "clueless fornicator". Further in his report, Brooker opined that Timberlake "threatens us" by using "language so offensive" with the line, "You motherfuckers, watch how I attack". In addition, Brooker noted that the line, "If that's your girl you'd better watch your back", as Timberlake stating his intention to meddle in the private affairs of others. Barry Schwartz of Stylus noted that the song features "pillow talk", in reference of the song's "sex-crazed lyrics".
Critical reception
In the Billboard magazine review of the album, contributor Katy Kroll wrote that Timberlake "claims to be bringing 'sexy' back to pop music, and indeed he is. You can almost feel beads of sweat rolling off the title track and 'SexyBack' featuring Timbaland". Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly was complimentary towards Timbaland, producer of the song, writing that Timbaland offers "tougher, trickier rhythms, minimal live playing, a plethora of hip-hop cameos, and a self-consciously hard, edgy club sensibility" to "SexyBack". Russell Baillie of The New Zealand Herald noted, "The producer's angular synthesizer crunch is all over it – at best on the single 'SexyBack' where they dispense with a chorus, leaving the song sustained by its vocal fireworks, electrofunk and Timberlake's repeated declaration that 'I'm bringing sexy back. PopMatters' contributor Quentin B. Huff wrote that "SexyBack" was the "fraternal twin" to Nelly Furtado's 2006 song "Promiscuous". Andrew Murfett of The Age wrote that the song was a "raunchy club banger that slyly suppresses" Timberlake's customary falsetto. He continues, "it's introduced a new phrase into the pop cultural lexicon". Glenn Gamboa of Newsday was complimentary towards the song, writing that it was "Timberlake at his best, mainstreaming a combination of the wild, edgy dance-pop style of Basement Jaxx with Missy Elliott's more experimental hip-hop to create a boldly inventive sound that still pleases the masses."
Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times wrote: "...'SexyBack', a twitchy, emaciated track that shot to the top of the charts and also became an irritating catchphrase. (Suddenly everyone was bringing AdjectiveBack.)" Dagny Salas of North by Northwestern commented that Timberlake and Timbaland trade ridiculous lines, with "Get your sexy on/Go ahead, be gone with it" and "Dirty babe/You see these shackles/Baby I'm your slave/I’ll let you whip me if I misbehave." Salas continued in her review that it was not a song that should be good, "but does that really matter when it's good in the way that songs are during the summer [...] That kind of good makes songs like 'SexyBack' completely irresistible." Matt Burns of The Post wrote, "Take the polarizing summer single 'SexyBack', a repetitive song with little structure that doesn't know when to stop, all centered on a ridiculous declaration. Somehow, it works." The Diamondback's Michael Greenwald reported that "SexyBack" was "lyrically, musically and vocally the weakest song" on the album. A writer of The State Journal-Register was not impressed with the song and concluded, with SexyBack' is the most annoyingly dumb song to hit Billboard's No. 1 since 'Hollaback Girl'". Guy Blackman of The Sunday Age wrote: "The distorted vocals and stilted production of first single 'Sexyback' make Timberlake's claim to be 'bringing sexy back' ... seem almost laughable." Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Justin Timberlake, we didn't even know that sexy was missing until 2006. We're just happy Justin brought it back safe and sound." Charlie Brooker, columnist for The Guardian, jokingly criticised Timberlake, saying "How DARE this dot-eyed, crop-haired, fun-sized, guff-tongued, pirouetting waif-boy scamper on to the world's airwaves and loudly proclaim to be the sole global administrator of all things sexy? You'd think it takes massive balls to do something like that, but given the shrill, squeaking vocals cheeping through his ghastly little gobhole, it's safe to assume he's got testes the size of capers. He's practically a human dog whistle, the shrieking, high-pitched, mosquito-lunged ponce."
Upon the song's release, it received divided opinions, which pleased Timberlake. "This is such a departure from the first record," said Timberlake. "More people might like it, less people might like it, but you can't call me a chicken."
Chart performance
"SexyBack" was commercially successful in the United States. The single debuted at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 2006. After climbing to number 31, it propelled to number one the following week. "SexyBack" became Timberlake's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from his Futuresex/Lovesounds album. The single spent seven consecutive weeks at the number-one position on the Hot 100. In addition to the Hot 100, "SexyBack" also topped the following Billboard charts: Hot Dance Airplay, Hot Dance Club Play, Hot Dance Singles Sales, Pop 100 Airplay, Pop 100, and Top 40 Mainstream charts. "SexyBack" was certified three-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). This song made the then-seventh-biggest jump to number one in the Billboard Hot 100 history, climbing thirty spots from number 31 landing it at the summit of the chart on September 9, 2006. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the song had its biggest selling week in September 2006 and sold 250,000 as a digital download. "SexyBack" was on the Hot 100 for a significant thirty-six weeks. As of 2018, the song has accumulated 6.1 million units in the US, combining sales (4.9 million copies sold) and equivalent streams.
In the United Kingdom, "SexyBack" debuted at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart based solely on download sales one week prior to its physical release, and ascended to the top of the chart the following week, becoming Timberlake's first UK number-one single. On the Australian ARIA Charts, "SexyBack" debuted at number one and spent two consecutive weeks at the top becoming Timberlake's second number one single there (after "Rock Your Body" reached the summit in 2003), and has been certified two-times Platinum by ARIA Charts. Also, in Canada and Austria, the single has peaked at number three and number five respectively, becoming his most successful single tied with his third released single "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" in both nations. It has also been certified three-times Platinum in Canada.
In Sweden, "SexyBack" peaked at number four, while in France it peaked at number eight becoming Timberlake's first top ten hit from the album, and would later score two more top ten singles with "My Love" and "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around". The song peaked at number one in Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Norway, and at number two in Switzerland and Belgium.
Music video
The music video for "SexyBack" was directed by Michael Haussman and features Spanish actress Elena Anaya. The video was filmed in June 2006. In discussion of the video filmed in Barcelona, Timberlake said: "Obviously we went for the architecture, the exteriors, the interiors — the vibe in Spain is different than anywhere else in the world. It's so cool to shoot there, but the girls are also pretty hot, so that doesn't hurt either".
Timberlake decided to work with director Michael Haussman, following his work on Madonna's 1994 music video for "Take a Bow". "It's one of my favorite videos Madonna's ever done," Timberlake said. "Even today, I still remember the visuals, the images, how he captured her. A lot of times, Madonna seems like she's the person in control, and in that video, she seemed vulnerable. It was a cool thing to see." The video was first shown on MTV's Making the Video on July 25, 2006.
Timberlake and Anaya star as rival spies who become romantically entangled. Timberlake and Anaya star as rival spies who become romantically entangled. The video starts off with a cable car looking over Barcelona, from the West looking East, then it switches to a luxurious-looking hotel in Plaça de Catalunya with Elena Anaya taking off her shirt, revealing her black bra and a gun tucked at the back of her skirt, all while German newscaster Alexander von Roon plays on her TV. It then cuts to Timberlake in a different room; then to a club scene and Timberlake in front of a white background. Timberlake and Anaya are seeming to be spies in the hotel room and strangers in the club. In the hotel scenes, the spies both conduct espionage at each other. Elena then hides her gun at a drawer. At the club meanwhile, Timberlake is seen chasing a woman whom he recognized as Anaya herself. He keeps chasing her but she keeps disappearing out of his sight. Back at the hotel scenes, both Justin and Elena stick a tape and places a glass of water on the door so that they would know if someone snuck into their room, while Timberlake heads to the other room to deal with his rival spy Anaya. Elena then goes to the bathroom preparing to take a shower. At a certain point, Timberlake sneaks over to Anaya's room by jumping over to her balcony. Then when Anaya goes to check it out, Timberlake confronted her, but it quickly became erotic as they begin kissing each other and Justin ripped the pearl necklace from her neck. Justin finally traps Elena and she tries to reach for her gun but Justin grabs her hand and pull it away from the drawer. Their sexual tension culminated when the two are later seen in the bed together having sex. After that, Elena covered Justin's mouth to not tell anyone about their encounter, and Timberlake leaves her and went back to his room. When Justin was about to enter, he noticed that his tape was ripped, indicating that someone entered his room. Knowing that a bomb was planted, he jumps into another balcony before an explosion ensues, avoiding it completely. In the club, Justin and Elena met at the bathroom stall and they immediately kiss each other, proving that they still have a romantic interest after their sex in the hotel. It ends with the figure of Anaya sitting on a chair beside a small television in which her kiss with Timberlake is frozen on the screen.
Legacy and accolades
"SexyBack" helped introduce EDM sounds to top 40 radio, as it brought together variations of electronic dance music with Timberlake's R&B sounds. VH1 listed it third on their list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the ’00s," while the Los Angeles Times listed it as an honorable mention among "the most timeless tunes of the 2000s", with an editor stating it "sounded wholly unfamiliar and unique." Entertainment Weekly deemed it a "modern day classic." Complex staff acknowledged in 2013 that the song "arrived on the scene like a hurricane", adding that while it had been established that "the dude from 'N Sync" was "more than capable" when he first released solo material with Justified four years earlier, "SexyBack" put Timberlake in a position "where you were forced to take him seriously."
"SexyBack" won the People's Choice Award for Favorite R&B song at the 2007 awards ceremony. At the 49th Grammy Awards, "SexyBack" won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Dance Recording. At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Timberlake won Male Artist of the Year for "SexyBack", "Let Me Talk To You / My Love", and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". It won Best R&B/Urban Dance Track and Best Pop Dance Track at the 2007 Winter Music Conference's International Dance Music Awards. Additionally, it won an ASCAP Pop Music Award in 2007 in the category Most Performed Songs.
Live performances
Timberlake performed "SexyBack" and "My Love" as a medley for the opening of the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards and again for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006, which he also hosted. In addition, he performed the song at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. On August 25, 2013, Timberlake performed "SexyBack" in a medley with other of his songs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
"SexyBack" was featured on FutureSex/LoveShow (2007), Legends of the Summer (2013),The 20/20 Experience World Tour (2013/15) and The Man of the Woods Tour (2018/19).
In addition it was featured on the setlist for three editions of Rock in Rio in 2013, 2014 and 2017 and two editions of the iHeartRadio Music Festival in 2013 and 2018.
Timberlake performed a remixed version of "SexyBack" at Super Bowl LII (2018).
Cover versions
The indie rock band Rock Plaza Central gained attention for their radically different cover of "SexyBack", with brass-and-banjo roots-rock stylings. American rock band Poison released a cover of the song as a promotional single and a bonus track on the Wal-Mart version of their 2007 cover album Poison'd! British soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae recorded a jazz/swing version whilst appearing on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2007. American pop rock band Maroon 5 covered the beginning of the song as part of a medley during their 2012 Overexposed Tour.
Cartoon stars Weebl and Bob covered the song with their version "Pastry" including the refrain "I'm bringing pastry back"
Track listings
CD single
"SexyBack" (Main Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Instrumental) – 4:02
Japanese CD maxi single
"SexyBack" (Main Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Clean Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Instrumental) – 4:02
European CD maxi single
"SexyBack" (Main Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Linus Loves Remix) – 6:18
"SexyBack" (Pokerface Club Mix) – 6:34
"SexyBack" (Tom Novy's Ibiza Dub) – 7:47
"SexyBack" (Director's Cut Video)
Digital download
"SexyBack" – 4:02
Digital download (SexyTracks The SexyBack Remixes)
"SexyBack" (Linus Loves Remix) – 6:21
"SexyBack" (Armand's Mix) – 7:12
"SexyBack" (Pokerface Remix) – 6:33
"SexyBack" (Tom Novy Ibiza Dub) – 7:47
American 12-inch vinyl
"SexyBack" (Clean Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Instrumental) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Main Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Instrumental) – 4:02
European 12-inch vinyl
"SexyBack" (Armand's Mix) – 7:15
"SexyBack" (Main Version) – 4:02
"SexyBack" (Pokerface Club Mix) – 6:34
"SexyBack" (Linus Loves Remix) – 6:18
Personnel
Credits sourced from Sound On Sound and the original album liner notes.
Justin Timberlake - lead and backing vocals
Timbaland - co-lead vocals, Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler
Nate "Danja" Hills - Akai MPC3000 and Macintosh programming
Bill Pettaway - electric guitar
Darryl Pearson - bass guitar
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications
Release history
See also
List of best-selling singles in the United States
List of number-one singles of 2006 (Australia)
List of European number-one hits of 2006
List of number-one hits of 2006 (Germany)
List of number-one singles of 2006 (Ireland)
List of number-one singles from the 2000s (New Zealand)
List of number-one songs in Norway
List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2006
List of number-one dance singles of 2006 (U.S.)
References
2006 singles
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles
Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Jive Records singles
Justin Timberlake songs
Music videos directed by Michael Haussman
Music videos shot in Spain
Number-one singles in Australia
Number-one singles in Germany
Number-one singles in New Zealand
Number-one singles in Norway
Number-one singles in Scotland
Song recordings produced by Danja (record producer)
Song recordings produced by Justin Timberlake
Song recordings produced by Timbaland
Songs written by Danja (record producer)
Songs written by Justin Timberlake
Songs written by Timbaland
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
2006 songs
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This is a list of singles which reached number-one on the Irish Singles Chart in 1964.
See also
1964 in music
Irish Singles Chart
List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
1964 in Irish music
1964 record charts
1964
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Jacob is a 1994 German/Italian/American television movie by Five Mile River Films, based on the novel Giacobbe by Francesco Maria Nappi, which is in turn based on a biblical account from the Book of Genesis about Jacob.
Plot
Jacob defrauds his twin brother Esau and flees. In Haran he gets to know his cousin Rachel, and falls in love with her. Years of hard work later he marries Rachel and reconciles with his brother Esau.
Cast
Matthew Modine – Jacob
Lara Flynn Boyle – Rachel
Sean Bean – Esau
Joss Ackland – Isaac
Juliet Aubrey – Leah
Irene Papas – Rebeccah
Giancarlo Giannini – Laban
Christoph Waltz – Morash
Christoph M. Ohrt – Beor
Philip Locke – Diviner
Daniel Newman – Reuben
Cecilia Dazzi – Bilhah
Yvonne Sció – Judith
Production
The movie was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Director Peter Hall's daughter, Emma, played the child Joseph.
The Crew
Directed by: Peter Hall
Teleplay by: Lionel Chetwynd
based on the novel by: Francesco Maria Nappi
Produced by: Lorenzo Minoli and Gerald Rafshoon
Music by: Marco Frisina and Ennio Morricone
Director of Photography: Ennio Guarnieri
Film Editor: Bill Blunden
Costumes by: Enrico Sabbatini
See also
TNT network's Bible Collection
References
External links
1994 films
American television films
Films based on the Book of Genesis
Films based on Italian novels
Cultural depictions of Jacob
Films set in Turkey
Films about Christianity
Bible Collection
Polygamy in fiction
Cultural depictions of Isaac
Films based on adaptations
Films shot in Morocco
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre, the world's first purpose-built modern centre for live storytelling, is located on the High Street in Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was formally opened on 1 June 2006 by Patricia Ferguson MSP, Minister for Culture in the Scottish Executive. Donald Smith is Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and himself a storyteller, playwright, novelist and performance poet.
The new building, designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, replaced the former Netherbow Arts Centre, which itself replaced the Moray-Knox Church, demolished in the 1960s. It incorporates John Knox House.
It is also used as a venue during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In June 2016 the Centre celebrated its 10th anniversary, which coincided with a programme of events to mark the 20th anniversary of patron George Mackay Brown's death.
In 2017, the centre was nominated for Best Performing Arts Venue in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards.
Festivals
The centre is home to two annual festivals:
Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Edinburgh Tradfest.
References
External links
Scottish Storytelling Centre website
Buildings and structures completed in 2006
Buildings and structures in Edinburgh
Royal Mile
Arts in Scotland
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Conyers is an international law firm. Their client base includes FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies, international finance houses and asset managers. The firm advises on law practiced in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Conyers Headquarters is situated in Hamilton, Bermuda and has international offices in Hong Kong, London and Singapore. Conyers also provides several corporate, trust, compliance, governance and accounting and management services.
History
Founded in Bermuda in 1928 (although it can trace its roots back to 1903), the firm has subsequently opened legal practices in a number of other offshore financial centres, including the British Virgin Islands (1996) and the Cayman Islands (2004). It also has offices in key financial centres, including London (1998), Hong Kong (1985) and Singapore (2001). It is a member of the offshore magic circle. Conyers' expansion has been entirely by way of organic growth, rather than by acquisition of smaller firms in jurisdictions it wishes to operate in. The firm can claim to be the first offshore firm to operate in multiple jurisdictions; the original Bermudian firm opened a British Virgin Islands office in 1996.
The firm's founder, Reginald Conyers, played an important role in the development of the nascent financial services industry in Bermuda in the 1920s and 1930s. Following on from the Bermuda Railway Company Act 1924, Conyers faced a legal problem of conveying huge numbers of land parcels by the company. Firstly, he took on two partners in his practice, Bayard Dill and James Pearman (and thus the firm was officially born). Secondly, in 1935 the firm was instrumental in the enactment of the first "exempt company" legislation in Bermuda, which leads some to claim that Bermuda was the world's first offshore financial centre. Later, in 1957, another partner of the firm, David Graham, laid the basis for the development of Bermuda as a domicile for ship registrations in a letter to The Times. In 2019, the firm became the subject of the Mauritius Leaks and related investigations carried forth by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its partners.
Practice areas
Conyers offers legal and client services in areas including corporate, banking & finance, insurance & reinsurance, investment funds, private client & trust, litigation & restructuring and real estate & property development.
Awards and accolades
Conyers is a member of Lex Mundi, a large association of independent law firms.
Conyers was recognised as Band 1 by Chambers & Partners in 2018.
Conyers was recognised as a Top Tier Firm by IFLR1000 for 2018, and by Legal 500 Caribbean 2018.
References
External links
Firm's official site
Lex Mundi website
Offshore law firms
Law firms established in 1928
Offshore magic circle
Companies of Bermuda
1928 establishments in Bermuda
Dill family
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I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University (IKGPTU), formerly Punjab Technical University (PTU), is a public state university located in Jalandhar, India.
Renaming
In recognition of contribution made by the former Indian Prime Minister late I. K. Gujral towards the overall development and prosperity of state of Punjab, the Cabinet gave nod to rename the Punjab Technical University as I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in November 2013 and implemented with act amendment in 2015.
Ranking
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 104 among engineering colleges in 2020.
Notable alumni
Charanjit Singh Channi
Hargovind Bhargava
See also
List of colleges and institutes affiliated with Technical Universities of Punjab (India)
References
Universities in Punjab, India
All India Council for Technical Education
Education in Jalandhar
1997 establishments in Punjab, India
Educational institutions established in 1997
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Union Sportive Madinat Blida (), known as USM Blida or simply USMB, is a football club based in Blida, Algeria. They play in the Inter-Régions Division, the third tier of Algerian football. Founded in 1932, they have played their home games at Brakni Brothers Stadium since 1936. The club has spent all of its history playing between the first or second tiers.
The club's highest-ever league finish was second in the top flight in 2002–03. They were Algerian Cup runners-up in 1996. The club have also won the second tier title four times.
The club's home colours are green and white, and their nickname is The Salvador.
History
On 16 June 1932 the club was officially founded with the name Union Sportive Musulmane Blidéenne, and began competing in the Third Division League Football Association of Algiers. They played their first official match on 24 September 1933 in the first round of the North African Cup.
On 5 August 2020, USM Blida were promoted to the Algerian Ligue 2.
Club identity
Colours
Since the establishment of the club, the colours are green and white.
Crest
Historical evolution of the club's crest.
Stadium
USM Blida play their home matches at Brakni Brothers Stadium since 2011.
Current squad
Honours
Domestic competitions
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 : 26 season
Runner-up (1): 2002–03
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 : 25 season
Champion (4): 1971–72, 1991–92, 1996–97, 2014–15
Algerian Cup :
Runner-up (1): 1995–96
Honor Division of the League Algiers : 10 season
5th: 1954–55, 1955–56.
First Division of the League Algiers : 5 season
Champion (3): 1941-42, 1944-45, 1946–47
Second Division of the League Algiers : 1 season
Champion (1): 1937-38
Third Division of the League Algiers : 4 season
Champion (1): 1936-37
Forconi Cup :
Champion (1): 1944-45
Regional competitions
North African Cup : 5 appearances
1947 – Quarter-finals
1952 – Round of 32
1953 – Round of 32
1954 – Semi-final
1955 – Round of 32
Arab Club Champions Cup : 2 appearances
1996 – Group stage
2004 – Second round
North African Cup
Arab Champions League
Records
Record League victory – 9–1 v. IRB Nezla (29 May 1992)
Record Algerian Cup victory – 11–0 v. IRC Aïn Salah (10 December 1987)
Record League defeat – 6–2 v. JS Hai Djabel (24 January 2022)
Most League appearances – +300, Billal Zouani (1988–08)
Most League goals scored – 105, Billal Zouani (1988–08)
Most goals scored (overall) – 122, Billal Zouani (1988–08)
Most capped player – Smaïl Diss, 11 caps, Algeria
Most goals scored in a season – 17, Samy Frioui (2017–18)
Record transfer fee paid – €138,500 to ASO Chlef for Abdelmadjid Tahraoui (2005)
Record transfer fee received – €400,000 from Club Africain for Ezechiel N'Douassel (2011)
Record sequence of League wins – 12; 1 March 1992 – 19 June 1992.
Record sequence of League defeats – 7; 3 April 2021 – 18 May 2021
Record sequence of unbeaten League matches – 20; 1991–22, 1996–97
Record sequence without a League win – 13; 1 January 1998 – 28 May 1998
Record points total for a Season – 72 pts; 1963–64
Presidents
Transfers
Record sales
Record signings
List of managers
The first manager of USM Blida was Abdelkader Hadef, who joined the club in 1932 as a player-manager. The current manager is Djilali Madjour, who took over the club in February 2022.
Recent seasons
See also
List of USM Blida players
List of USM Blida seasons
USM Blida league record by opponent
List of USM Blida international footballers
References
External links
Football clubs in Algeria
Association football clubs established in 1932
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs
Algerian Ligue 2 clubs
1932 establishments in Algeria
USM Blida
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Drest son of Uudrost or son of Uudrossig was a king of the Picts from 522 to 530.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists associate him with Drest IV. Various reigns, separately and jointly, are assigned to the two Drests, varying from one to fifteen years.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
Pictish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
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Kalikata was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Sutanuti. Job Charnock, an administrator with the British East India Company is traditionally credited with the honour of founding the city. He settled in the village of Sutanuti.
Kalikata was much less important than Sutanuti and Gobindapur, and this, along with the consequent abundance of space, afforded the British room to settle there. While both Sutanati and Gobindapur appear on old maps like Thomas Bowrey's of 1687 and George Herron's of 1690, Kalikata situated between the two is not depicted. However, one variant of the name, "Kalkatâ", is shown in Abu'l Fazal's Ain-i-Akbari (around 1590).
History
English trader Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August 1690 with the objective of establishing the East India Company's Bengal headquarters. As Kalikata did not have any settled native population, it was easy for the British to occupy the site. In 1696, construction of old Fort William began (near the site of the present-day General Post Office) without legal title to the land. Legal title was eventually secured on 10 November 1698 when Charles Eyre, Job Charnock's son-in-law and ultimate successor, acquired the zemindari (land-holding) rights from the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family, the zemindars (landlords) of the area. It is from this date that Kolkata came legally under English control. (At this time, the Mughal empire was still strong, under Aurangzeb).
It is not clear when the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family acquired the village of Kalikata, but they acquired a vast acreage by grant allegedly in 1608 from Raja Man Singh, a maternal cousin of the reigning Mughal emperor Jahangir. However, other sources state that a progenitor only impressed Man Singh in 1612. The Sabarna Roy Choudhury's own tenure of the three villages – Kalikata, Sutanuti, and Gobindapur – is thus of uncertain duration, although in 1698, they were certainly the zemindars, or landlords, with their lands acquired through some sort of grant or lease from the Mughal emperors. They were apparently reluctant to transfer their rights as landlords but were forced to do so under pressure from the Mughal court.
In Colonel Mark Wood's map of 1784, published in 1792 by William Baillie, Dhee or Dihi (meaning village or group of villages) Kalikata is shown as extending from Jorabagan Ghat to Baboo ghat.
Kalikata was called "Calcutta" by the British and the metropolis that grew around it acquired that name; it was renamed Kolkata in 2001, following colloquial Bengali.
White Town
According to H.E.A. Cotton, "The pivot of the settlement must be sought in what is now Dalhousie Square, but was then known as the Lall Bagh or Park. In the centre was the Lall Dighi, or great Tank, which has been in existence before the coming of Charnock within what was the cutcherry (court-house) of the former zemindars (landlords)… There was no Strand Road, and the waves of the Hooghly lapped the ramparts of the Fort. To the south there extended from Koila Ghat to Chandpal Ghat the mouth of a creek, navigable for large boats, which passed along Hastings Street and made way through Creek Row and Wellington Square to Beliaghata near the Salt Lakes… Beyond Chitpore Road, which formed the eastern boundary of the settlement, lay more pools, swamps and rice-fields, dotted here and there with the struggling huts of fishermen, falconers, wood-cutters, weavers and cultivators." That in short was Kalikata in the early 18th century. As Calcutta became settled Sutanuti was gradually abandoned by the English as a place of abode.
As the English withdrew to "White Town" restricted mostly to the north of the old fort, the sharp division was sealed with "Black Town" spread over Sutanuti, Chitpur and Gobindapur.
Battles fought around Kalikata
Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, was alarmed by the growing prosperity and enhanced fortifications of Kolkata. In 1756, he decided to attack Kolkata. After capturing Kolkata, Siraj ud-Daula named it Alinagar, after his grandfather Alivardi Khan. The name of Kolkata was restored in 1758, after the British regained control of Bengal. "To the English indeed, the sack of Kolkata must have appeared little short of devastation. But in fact, of the four contiguous villages of Gobindapur, Kalikata, Sutanuti and Chitpur, only Kalikata or "White" Calcutta suffered extensively… The Black Town escaped major damage, except the burning down of Barabazar… Gobindapur had been fired by the English themselves." The English evacuees set up temporary quarters at Falta, some 40 miles downstream. What followed was a series of skirmishes finally leading to the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757 and the establishment of British power in Bengal.
The re-establishment of British power was followed by the construction of the new Fort William, in 1758 and the demolition of Gobindapur. The Indians moved out mostly to the north. European inhabitants gradually forsook the narrow limits of the old palisades and moved to around the Maidan.
The most important public buildings and imposing private houses lined the northern side of the Esplanade, facing the Maidan on the south. "Esplanade Row," wrote Mrs. Fay, "seems to be composed of palaces." The movement of the white population was then directed towards Chaurangi, then a small village, and away from such areas as Baitakkhana (Bowbazar), Dharmatala and Janbazar. The latter areas were taken over by "the rest", which included half-castes, Portuguese and Armenians, to become a grey area between Black and White towns.
As the metropolis grew with the passage of time, it absorbed the original village which was subsumed under the emerging city.
References
History of Kolkata
Villages in Kolkata district
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Lawrence Grossberg (born December 3, 1947) is an American scholar of cultural studies and popular culture whose work focuses primarily on popular music and the politics of youth in the United States. He is widely known for his research in the philosophy of communication and culture.
Though his scholarship focused significantly throughout the 1980s and early 1990s on the politics of postmodernism, his more recent work explores the possibilities and limitations of alternative and emergent formations of modernity.
Biography
Born on December 3, 1947, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Grossberg went to Stuyvesant High School. In 1968 he graduated summa cum laude in history and philosophy from the University of Rochester, where he studied with Hayden White. Afterwards, he trained under Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, England.
After two years of traveling through Europe with Les Treteaux Libres, a French-speaking theater company, Grossberg returned to the United States for doctoral studies in communication research (with James W. Carey) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, he received a PhD in speech communication in 1976. His doctoral dissertation, which he now largely repudiates, was entitled, Dialectical Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences. Grossberg taught briefly at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (1975-1976), before returning to the University of Illinois as assistant professor of speech communication in 1976. At the University of Illinois he supported founding the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1982, and in 1990 achieved the rank of Professor of Speech Communication.
Currently, he is Emeritus Professor of Communication at UNC.
His published books include It's a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), Bringing it All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies (1997), Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997), Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America's Future (2005), and Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (2010). Grossberg is co-author of MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2005) and About Raymond Williams (2010), and co-edited (with Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler) Cultural Studies. He has also published more than one hundred articles and essays. Grossberg serves on the editorial collective of Public Culture, among many other academic journals. He was also editor of the journal Cultural Studies from 1990 to 2019. His work, including a number of collections, has been translated into ten languages.
Grossberg has stated that Stuart Hall was the godfather to his only son.
Bibliography
Books
Journal articles
References
Further reading
Louisville - Biographical information on Lawrence Grossberg
Lawrence Grossberg faculty page at UNC-Chapel Hill
German interview
“Being young sucks: an interview (with Lawrence Grossberg)”, Bad Subjects 74 (2006)
Academics from Brooklyn
Stuyvesant High School alumni
University of Rochester alumni
1947 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
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Entente Sportive Sétifienne (), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are black and white. Their home stadium, the 8 May 1945 Stadium, has a capacity of 18,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
ESS is one of the most successful clubs in Algeria, having won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 eight times and the Algerian Cup a record of eight times. They are also one of only three Algerian clubs to have won the CAF Champions League, winning it twice in 1988 and 2014. They have also won the Arab Champions League twice, in 2007 and 2008, as well as three North African Cups in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, they became the first Algerian club to win the CAF Super Cup since the creation of the competition in 1993.
ES Sétif became CAF Champions League champion by defeating DR Congo's AS Vita Club in the 2014 final; and the reigning CAF Super Cup champions, by beating Egypt's Al Ahly in the 2015 Super Cup and the reigning Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions.
History
The club was founded in 1958 by Ali Benaouda and Ali Layass as Entente Sportive Sétifienne (ESS), the name was later changed to Entente Pétroliers Sétifienne (EPS) in 1977, and again in 1984 it became known as Entente Plastique Sétifienne (EPS) and was then later changed back to Entente Sportive Sétifienne (ESS).
The first colours of the club were green and the white, and following a confrontation with the French Army in a match with FC Gadir on May 8, 1945 colours changed to black and white as mourning for the events on this day. The Guessab Stadium was the original name for the club's home.
ES Sétif is one of the prestigious top flight Algerian clubs. The club has won the Algerian Cup 8 times, and is the only Algerian team to have won the Afro-Asia cup, in 1989 in Qatar.
Since its foundation, ES Sétif has had 19 presidents, the first being Ibrahim Dokomi. The current president is Hassan Hammar.
African success
In 1988, ES Sétif won the African Cup of Champions Clubs by beating Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Nigeria 4–1 on aggregate in the final. After losing the first leg 1–0 in Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, ES Sétif scored 4 goals in the return leg in Constantine to lift the trophy. ES Sétif were playing in the Algerian second division at time and are the only club in Africa to date to have won the African Cup of Champions Clubs while not being in the top flight.
By winning the 1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs, ES Sétif qualified for the 1989 Afro-Asian Club Championship, where they faced Al-Sadd of Qatar, winners of the 1988–89 Asian Club Championship. ES Sétif won both legs, 2–0 at home and 3–1 in Doha, to lift the trophy. They are the only Algerian club to have won the competition.
On June 29, 2010, ES Sétif became the first fully professional club in Algeria.
On August 8, 2010, ES Sétif defeated CS Sfaxien of Tunisia 1–0 to win the first-ever edition of the UNAF Super Cup.
Crest
Shirt sponsor & kit manufacturer
Honours
Performance in CAF competitions
ES Sétif whose team has regularly taken part in Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions. Qualification for Algerian clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and cup competitions, ES Sétif have regularly qualified for the primary African competition, the African Cup, by winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1. ES Sétif have also achieved African qualification via the Algerian Cup and have played in the former African Cup Winners' Cup. The first match was against Kampala City FC and it ended in a 1–0 loss, As for the biggest win was in 1991 against ASC Linguère 7–1, and biggest loss was against Union Douala 5–0 in 1981.
After six years of absence, ES Setif returned to continental competitions, this time in the African Cup of Champions Clubs, for the first time The following year and in the same competition, despite falling to the second division, Les Aigles Noirs managed to achieve the title for the first time against Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Nigeria and after the defeat in the First leg 1–0, they achieved an overwhelming victory in the Second leg 4–0 in a match that took place at Stade du 17 Juin in Constantine, After that, they met with Al Sadd SC in the final of the Afro-Asian Club Championship, and won the title for the first time, which is the only one of its kind in the history of Algerian football. In 1991 ES Sétif participated in the last continental participation in the twentieth century, where it reached the semi-finals, and in the Second round, Malik Zorgane scored the first hat-trick for ES Sétif against SC Gagnoa.
Total standings of African Cup participations (1963 to 2022–23)
Pos. = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Won; D = Drawn; L = Lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pa. = Participation; Pld = Matches played
CSC = CAF Super Cup; CCL = CAF Champions League; CCWC = CAF Cup Winners' Cup;
CAC = CAF Cup; CCC = CAF Confederation Cup
CAF Champions League: 12 appearances
1987 – Second Round
1988 – Champion
1989 – First Round
2008 – First Round
2010 – Quarter-finals
2011 – Third Round
2013 – Third Round
2014 – Champion
2015 – Group Stage
2016 – Group Stage -Disqualified
2018 – Semi-finals
2022 – Semi-finals
CAF Confederation Cup: 5 appearances
2009 – Finalist
2011 – Second Round of 8
2012 – First Round
2013 – Group Stage
2021 – Group Stage
CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances
1981 – Quarter-finals
1991 – Semi-finals
CAF Super Cup: 1 appearance
2015 – Champion
Players
Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;
Current squad
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Reserve Squad
Personnel
Current technical staff
Management
Notable players
Below are the notable former players who have represented ES Sétif in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1958. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with ES Sétif or following his departure.
For a complete list of ES Sétif players, see :Category:ES Sétif players
Algeria
Nacer Adjissa
Laid Belhamel
Isâad Bourahli
Faouzi Chaouchi
Abdelmoumene Djabou
Lamouri Djediat
Farès Fellahi
Abderahmane Hachoud
Lazhar Hadj Aïssa
Samir Hadjaoui
Nabil Hemani
Algeria
Messaoud Koussim
Abdelkader Laïfaoui
Khaled Lemmouchia
Kheïreddine Madoui
Hocine Metref
Antar Osmani
Slimane Raho
Abdelhamid Salhi
Abdelhakim Serrar
Abdelmalek Ziaya
Malik Zorgane
Africa
Francis Ambané
Rémi Adiko
Serey Die
Managerial history
List of managers
Information correct as of 13 September 2023. Only competitive matches are counted.
Rival clubs
MC Alger (Rivalry)
CR Belouizdad (Rivalry)
CS Constantine (Derby)
MC El Eulma (Derby)
CA Bordj Bou Arreridj (Derby)
MO Béjaïa (Rivalry)
References
External links
Football clubs in Algeria
Sétif Province
Association football clubs established in 1958
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs
1958 establishments in Algeria
Sports clubs and teams in Algeria
CAF Champions League winning clubs
CAF Super Cup winning clubs
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Gobindapur was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Calcutta in late 17th century. The other two villages were Kalikata and Sutanuti. Job Charnock, an administrator with the British East India Company is traditionally credited with the honour of founding the city. While Kalikata and Sutanuti lost their identity as the city grew, Gobindapur was demolished for the construction of new Fort William.
The foundations
When the Portuguese first started to frequent Bengal, around the year 1530, the two great centres of trade were Chittagong, which the Portuguese called Porto Grande or Great Haven, in the east and Satgaon, which the Portuguese called Porto Piqueno or Little Haven in the west. Tolly’s Nallah or Adi Ganga was then the outlet to the sea and ocean-going ships came up to around where Garden Reach is now, then the anchoring place for ships. Only country boats operated further up the river. Possibly the Saraswati river was another watery life line. It started drying up from the middle of the 16th century. The Portuguese built a new port at Hugli in 1580.
There is another story regarding the foundation and naming of the village. Towards the end of the 16th century, the Indian merchant-princes of Port Piqueno were forced to seek another market for their trade. Most of them settled down in Hugli but four families of Basaks and one of Sheths, determined to profit by the growing prosperity of Betor, founded the village of Gobindapur, on the east bank of the river. Gobindaji was the family deity of the Sheths and Basaks, and so they named the village Gobindapur.
In 1596, the place is mentioned as a district of the Sirkar (or government) of Satgaon, in the book Ain-e-Akbari by Abul Fazal, the prime minister of Akbar. As traders, the Portuguese were succeeded by the Dutch and finally the British.
There is yet another story regarding the foundation and naming of the village. Gobinda Sharan Dutta was the second son of the three sons of zamindar Kandarpa Ram Dutta of Andul. He disagreed with his brothers regarding property entitlements; left Andul and took employment under Raja Todar Mal, a noble of Emperor Akbar's court. The Raja was very pleased with his performance. So, Gobinda Sharan Dutta was rewarded with land in Barbakpur (present-day Barrackpore). He settled down there and called the place "Gobindapur" after his own name. Based on evidence provided by Babu Gourdas Bysack, 19th century historian on Calcutta, it is clear that Gobindapur was established around the end of 16th century.
English arrival
Job Charnock favoured Sutanuti as a settlement because of the security of the location. It was protected by the river on the west and by impassable marshes on the south and the east. Only the north-east had to be guarded.
The three villages were part of the khas mahal or imperial jagir (an estate belonging to the Mughal emperor himself), whose zemindari rights were held by the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family of Barisha. On 10 November 1698, Job Charnock’s successor and son-in-law, Charles Eyere, acquired the land holding rights for the three villages from the Sabarna Roychoudhuris. The company paid regular rent to the Mughals for these villages till 1757. Within a short period Kolkata grew considerably.
New Fort William
Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, was alarmed by the growing prosperity and enhanced fortifications of Kolkata. In 1756, he decided to attack Kolkata and captured it. Gobindapur was fired by the English themselves. The English evacuees set up temporary quarters at Falta, downstream. What followed was a series of skirmishes finally leading to the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757 and the establishment of British power in Bengal.
One of the first things that the English embarked upon on their return to Kolkata was the construction of new Fort William. It commenced in 1758 and completed in 1773. The site chosen was in the heart of ‘populous flourishing’ village of Gobindapur. A portion of the ‘restitution money’ was spent in compensating the inhabitants who were given lands in other parts of the town notably in Taltala, Kumortuli and Shobhabazar.
References
See also
Kolkata
History of Kolkata
Sutanuti
British Raj genocide
British Raj
History of Kolkata
Villages in Kolkata district
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Nicanor Jesús "Nick/Nicky" Pineda Perlas III (born January 10, 1950 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino activist and awardee of the Right Livelihood Award in 2003, which is often referred as an alternative Nobel Prize.
He serves at present as the Chairman of the board of directors and trustees of LifeBank, a rural bank and microfinancial institution in the Philippines.
Early life and education
Perlas is the son of Jesus C. Perlas, Sr. and Anunciacion M. Pineda. Raised into a Spanish Filipino family of Azucarera (sugar mill) owners, he finished his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1964 and finished his secondary education in the same school in 1968. While spending his high school years at the Ateneo, he was the Athlete of the Year and the recipient of the Silver Medal of the school's Math and Science Club in 1968.
Perlas pursued his undergraduate studies at the College of Agriculture in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan. With the highest honors, he graduated Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics in the said educational institution in 1972. He would then seek to pursue his master's studies at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, but would soon be forced to abandon his studies after being involved in the opposition of the Bataan nuclear power plant under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.
Personal life
He was married to American citizen Kathryn Carpenter. Now divorced. Together they have had one son, Christopher Michael Perlas.
LifeBank
Nicanor Perlas sits as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees/Corporation of LifeBank, a microfinancial institution and rural bank in the Philippines.
LifeBank which is founded in 1970 is divided into two corporate arms each with its own different banking/financing functions - the LifeBank - A Rural Bank (LifeBank RB) and LifeBank Microfinance Foundation, Inc. (LifeBank MFI).
LifeBank RB is one of the fastest growing rural banks supervised under the jurisdiction of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). As of 2020, it operates 4 bank branches and 31 branch-lite units (BLUs) in Western Visayas.
The LifeBank MFI or LifeBank Microfinance, is an offshoot of LifeBank founded in 2003. Presently, it operates as a non-governmental organization (NGO) microfinance institution (MFI) with 477 branches and 20+ zonal and district offices across the Philippines covering 300,000+ loan clients and 400,000+ saving deposits clients. It is the 3rd largest microfinance institution in the country.
LifeBank MFI is also involved in social responsible programs by the Perlas Group/LifeBank Group. Its social and sustainable development programs created a nearly 2000 academic scholars across, built public buildings for government use, promoted healthcare through medical missions in far flung areas, among others, across the Philippines.
Activism
In his university days, Perlas was one of the key organizers of a university-wide education reform movement that resulted in changes in university policies. During this time, he founded the first ecological society in the Philippines. After graduation, he co-organized a successful large scale global campaign, the first of its kind during his time, to halt 12 nuclear plants in the Philippines. Perlas subsequently become a technical adviser to the Presidential Commission on the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant, Office of the President of the Philippines, where he was instrumental in stopping the operation of the fully constructed and operational Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a $2.2 billion project plagued with design, construction, location, and corruption problems.
Shortly thereafter, Perlas was appointed member of the national technical panel overseeing the regulation of pesticide use in Philippine agriculture. While in this capacity, he simultaneously mobilized and headed a national effort that resulted in the banning of 32 hazardous pesticide formulations in the Philippines. The ban triggered the creation of a P750 million government program to reduce the use of pesticides in Philippine agriculture.
In parallel with these efforts, Perlas pioneered the introduction of large scale commercial organic and biodynamic agriculture in many provinces in the Philippines. All these efforts were the fruition of early advocacies in sustainable agriculture when he was still an agricultural journalist and columnist at the Modern Agriculture and Industry-Asia, where he pioneered the first monthly articles on ecological agriculture in the Asian context. Together with colleagues at the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture or IASA, he coined the term sustainable agriculture in 1983, a term which has received wide use and currency until today.
Perlas was the chief negotiator for a network of national networks, which involved 5000 organizations, that successfully stopped the agenda of radical and one sided liberalization in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC. He successfully introduced strong sustainable development language in the Leaders and Ministerial Declarations in APEC, and constrained the Individual Action Plan of the Philippines to abide by sustainable development principles. The successful negotiations prevented the premature exposure and economic decline of 3 million Philippine rice farmers to subsidized and artificially cheap rice coming from other countries.
Projects and offices
Perlas is the co-founder, president and executive director of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives or CADI, in Metro Manila and Iloilo City, where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development.
He is also the co-founder and spokesperson of Karangalan which hosted a series of national conferences highlighting important global and national innovations and achievements by Filipinos in many disciplines and fields. Karangalan aims to stimulate the creation of a visionary Philippines. The 1st National Conference and Festival on “Mobilizing Excellence for Creating a Visionary Philippines” was January 21–23, 2005 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in partnership with over 40 organizations and networks.
Perlas was the chief facilitator and co-founder of the ABS-CBN "Forum on the Filipino Future", held on December 16, 2004. He was Chairman, Adviser on Strategy and Integral Sustainable Development, and Member, Board of Directors, LifeBank ARB, and Board of Trustees of LifeBank MFI, both of which help close to more than 400,000 (both LifeBank ARB and LifeBank MFI) economically poor families through microfinance and other lending products offerings.
He has been chairman of several national civil society networks including the Green Forum Philippines, the Philippine Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and the Civil Society Counterpart Council for Sustainable Development.
Social Three-Folding
Co-founder the Global Network for Social Three-Folding, Globenet3 or GN3, with more than 17 geographic and functional nodes in over 12 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the United States of America. GN3 advances profound societal transformation towards integral sustainable development on the basis of socially-engaged spirituality and deep substantive inner change.
Co-founder and spokesperson for Tindog Pilipinas! A national movement for a better Philippines, Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the Philippine Advancement and Renewal through Threefolding Networking, Research & Service, or PARTNERS, which is the Philippine node for GlobeNet3.
Philippine Agenda 21
In the mid-1990s he was one of two technical writers of Philippine Agenda 21 or PA21, which is a creative response to the challenges of elite globalization. He was one of the official civil society delegates from the Philippines at the Earth Summit in Rio. It was out of this experience, among others, that he helped shape the process and substance of PA21. Having emerged from more than 26 regional and national consultations, PA21 was characterized by the former Philippine president as the most consultative policy document in post-martial law Philippines. PA21 is still officially the blueprint for sustainable development in the Philippines, although presently marginalized by the current controversial government of the Philippines.
He was also the technical writer of SIAD: Framework for the Localization of Philippine Agenda 21, which is now used by a number of local governments and civil society organizations to advance sustainable integrated area development in towns.
Speaking and Consultancy
Perlas has been the resource person and keynote speaker in over 70 global conferences and events in over 20 countries, and over 120 national conferences on a range of topics including culture and societal transformation, integral sustainable development, globalization, technology, corporate social responsibility, science and spirituality, social threefolding, strategic microfinance, direct democracy and others.
He has provided consultancy work for several UN agencies, the Philippine Senate, donor agencies and foundations, as well as many other global and national civil society organizations and networks and businesses striving for ecological and social responsibility.
As a technical writer and key formulator of Philippine Agenda 21, as well as co-chair for the Civil Society of the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development, Office of the President of the Philippines, Perlas was invited to attend several UN meetings including the UN General Assembly on Sustainable Development, UNGASS and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, 6th Session, as Technical Adviser to the Philippine Delegation to the UN.
Member, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Commission on Globalization
Creative Member, Club of Budapest, Recognized as “highly creative innovators for a social and ecological sustainable world and a culture of peace”.
Agenda 21 is a program of action into the 21st century for bringing the Earth into a sustainable future. It was adopted by the participating governments of the world in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), otherwise known as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992.
Training
Perlas has conducted hundreds of training sessions in the Philippines and abroad on a wide range of topics convergent with his writings. In this context he has innovated and developed a new framework for advancing integral sustainable development through the harmonious weaving together of profound inner change and radical but peaceful societal transformation. He calls this new framework the Lemniscate Process, which integrates the substance of more than two dozen disciplines and fields, all geared towards unlocking human creativity, enthusiasm and commitment for creating a better world.
Nicanor Perlas is part of the faculty at the graduate program of the Southeast Asian Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI). Perlas was a professor at the accredited Doctoral program on Applied Cosmic Anthropology of the Asian Social Institute, where he gave in depth theoretical and practical elaborations of the Lemniscate Process. He is also a board member and a resource person for training programs of the Gamot Cogon Institute or GCI, based in Iloilo, Philippines.
Writings
Perlas has written over 500 articles, editorials, monographs and books on a range of topics including globalization, social threefolding, conscious evolution, civil society, multiple intelligence, creativity, cultural power, philosophy of science and biology, technological singularity, sustainable agriculture, appreciative inquiry, neurophysiology and consciousness, anthroposophy, good governance, new politics, associative economics, and the integration of inner change and large-scale societal transformation.
He is the publisher and editor-in-chief for TruthForce! A national and global internet-based news and analysis service which reaches thousands of subscribers and readers in over 60 countries.
Formerly, he was Editor-In-Chief, Ikabuhi Newspaper for Micro-Entrepreneurs (34,000 + circulation)
His book, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding, has been translated in 9 languages. It is being used in dozens of universities in the Philippines and various parts of the world.
Presidential Candidate in 2010
On June 17, 2009, Nicanor Perlas announced his intentions to become one of the candidates for the Philippine Presidential Elections in May 2010. He announced this during a press conference at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City. He was a Philippine presidential aspirant for the 2010 presidential elections but lost to Liberal Party's President Benigno S. Aquino III.
A month before the Philippines would begin the first automated local and national elections, Perlas petitioned but failed to get the nod of the Commission on Elections to postpone the polls for 90 days, citing irregularities of Comelec to assure that all is set for the election to take place.
Awards
His awards include the William F. Masterson award, the top award for outstanding alumni of Xavier University for his national and global contributions to sustainable agriculture.
He also received highest honors and was valedictorian of his graduating class in the College of Agriculture at Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics.
In 2003, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his work as an environmental activist.
References
Bibliography
Shaping Globalization : Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding (2000)
Nicanor Perlas' Personal Decision to Serve His Country (2009)
Mission Possible! Sow Courage; Harvest a New World. (2011)
External links
Official Website of Nicanor Perlas
Center for Development Alternatives website
Global 500 forum prize
GlobeNet3 website
Truthforce! website
Website for M.I.S.S.I.O.N: Movement of Imaginals for a Sustainable Society through Initiatives, Organizing, and Networking
1950 births
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Filipino activists
Filipino environmentalists
Living people
Candidates in the 2010 Philippine presidential election
University of the Philippines Los Baños alumni
Independent politicians in the Philippines
Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan alumni
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Sutanuti was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Kalikata. Sutanuti was set up along the banks of the Hooghly river which is a tributary of the Ganges river. The British had bribed mughal officials into granting rights of three cities, Gobindapur, Sutanuti and Kalikata to the British East India Company in the year 1651. The British built a factory and ware house there where goods for export were stored and many offices were built where company officials sat. This became the base for the company's trades known as factors. As trade increased the company persuaded merchants and traders to settlle there. By 1696 the British had started building fortifications there which eventually led to the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The factory eventually turned into Fort William. Eventually the village grew and merged with the other two settlements to form Kolkata. Sutanuti eventually became part of North Kolkata in the present day.
See also
European colonies in India
History of Kolkata
Villages in Kolkata district
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Illinois Route 142 is a major arterial road in southeastern Illinois. It runs from near the town center of Equality at Calhoun Street, a local road, north to Illinois Route 37 and the northern terminus of Illinois Route 148 in Mount Vernon. This is a distance of .
Route description
Illinois 142 runs northwest from Equality. Before reaching Eldorado, it intersects Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 45. Illinois 142 largely parallels the North Fork of the Saline River before reaching McLeansboro and intersecting Illinois Route 14 and Illinois Route 242, a spur of Illinois 142. Route 142 then proceeds northwesterly following the alignment of the former US Route 460, passing through Dahlgren and crossing Interstate 64 without an interchange, before entering the Mount Vernon area. In Mt. Vernon, Illinois 142 passes the sole remaining Continental Tire North America manufacturing plant, becoming Fisher Lane for a short distance before intersecting IL 37. Illinois 142 crosses IL 37, where its name changes to Veterans Memorial Drive. It proceeds along Veterans Memorial Drive ending at the northern terminus of Illinois Route 148 (Waltonville Road).
Illinois 142 passes through these communities with a population greater than 500: Mount Vernon, Illinois, Dahlgren, McLeansboro, Eldorado, and Equality.
History
SBI Route 142 ran from Effingham to McLeansboro along what is Illinois 37 today. It was changed in the mid-1930s to its current routing. In 1947, U.S. Route 460 was applied onto Illinois 142 from Mount Vernon to McLeansboro; Illinois 142 was then moved onto what was then Illinois Route 147, which had been Illinois Route 142A, or the highway north from McLeansboro to Wayne City.
This configuration lasted until 1974, when U.S. 460 was decommissioned and the current routing for Illinois 142 re-established from Mount Vernon to McLeansboro. The road from McLeansboro north to Wayne City was again renamed, to Illinois 242.
Illinois Route 142 runs roughly parallels to and near the path of the historic Goshen Road in the counties it traverses.
Major Intersections
References
External links
142
Transportation in Gallatin County, Illinois
Transportation in Saline County, Illinois
Transportation in Jefferson County, Illinois
Transportation in Hamilton County, Illinois
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Mawson Lakes is a railway station and bus interchange in the Adelaide suburb of Mawson Lakes. It is located on the Gawler line, north of Adelaide station. To the west of the station lies the Australian Rail Track Corporation standard gauge line to Crystal Brook. The northern ends of the platforms are under the Elder Smith Road bridge with elevators and stairs from the footpath down to the platforms.
History
Mawson Interchange was constructed as part of the Mawson Connector project, which saw the construction of a new dual carriageway, now Elder Smith Road, through Mawson Lakes, and over the Gawler rail line. The $33 million Mawson Interchange project was officially opened in March 2006, complete with approximately 100 carparks, a large bus interchange and a pedestrian overpass connected to the Elder Smith Rd bridge. At the time, Mawson Interchange was the first new public transport interchange to be built in Adelaide in more than 15 years. In 2017, there were several calls for a multi-level carpark to be constructed on the site of the existing carpark, due to increasing passenger numbers, however, this never eventuated.
Platforms and Services
Mawson Lakes has two side platforms and is serviced by Adelaide Metro Gawler line services. It is a designated high-frequency station, with trains scheduled every 15 minutes on weekdays, between 7:30am and 6:30pm. Access to platform one for Gawler-bound services is via a pedestrian overpass on the Elder Smith Road bridge.
Transport links
In addition to the train, Adelaide Metro operates several bus routes via Mawson Interchange:
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References
External links
Construction gallery Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure
Railway stations in Adelaide
Railway stations in Australia opened in 2006
Bus stations in Australia
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Gartnait son of Foith or son of Uuid (died 635) was a king of the Picts from 631 to 635.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists give him a reign of four years, corresponding with the Irish annals, although variants say five and eight years.
His death is reported by the Annals of Ulster for 637. He was followed by his brother Bridei son of Uuid according to the king lists. A third brother, Talorc, was king after Bruide.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
Pictish Chronicle
635 deaths
Pictish monarchs
7th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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Pentti Haanpää (October 14, 1905 – September 30, 1955) was a Finnish author. He was born in Pulkkila, and is best known for his books Vääpeli Sadon tapaus 1935 and Noitaympyrä 1931. He drowned on a fishing trip on Iso Lamujärvi in Pyhäntä, aged 49.
Bibliography
Maantietä pitkin 1925, Swedish version: Hemfolk och strykare
Tuuli käy heidän ylitseen 1927
Kenttä ja kasarmi 1928
Noitaympyrä 1931/1956
Vääpeli Sadon tapaus 1935/1956
Isännät ja isäntien varjot 1935
Taivalvaaran näyttelijä 1938
Ihmiselon karvas ihanuus 1939
Korpisotaa 1940, French version: Guerre dans le Désert Blanc
Nykyaikaa 1942
Yhdeksän miehen saappaat 1945
Jutut 1946/1952
Jauhot 1949
Kiinalaiset jutut 1954
External links
1905 births
1955 deaths
People from Siikalatva
Writers from Northern Ostrobothnia
Finnish male short story writers
Finnish short story writers
Finnish-language writers
20th-century Finnish novelists
20th-century short story writers
20th-century male writers
Deaths by drowning
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The 1996 OFC Nations Cup was not held as a cohesive tournament, but consisted of semi-finals and a final played on a two-legged basis, stretched out between November 1995 and November 1996.
The four participating teams were Australia and New Zealand who qualified as of right, Solomon Islands who qualified as Melanesia Cup holders, and Tahiti who qualified as Polynesia Cup holders.
The semifinals between Australia and New Zealand was also valid for the 1995 Trans-Tasman Cup.
Qualification
Melanesia Cup 1994
Solomon Islands qualified.
Polynesia Cup 1994
Tahiti qualified.
Final tournament
Semifinals
Australia won 3–0 on aggregate.
Tahiti won 3–1 on aggregate.
Final
Australia won 11–0 on aggregate.
Goalscorers
7 goals
Kris Trajanovski
2 goals
Jean-Loup Rousseau
1 goal
Damian Mori
Ernie Tapai
Joe Spiteri
Paul Trimboli
Paul Wade
Robbie Hooker
Robert Seni
Macha Gatien
Own goal
Rupena Raumati (playing against Australia)
References
RSSSF Accessed 21 February 2010.
Nations
Nations
OFC Nations Cup tournaments
International association football competitions hosted by New Zealand
International association football competitions hosted by Australia
Ofc Nations Cup
Ofc Nations Cup
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture by Lawrence Grossberg was published in 1992 and deals with several aspects of (then) contemporary American culture: Lawrence Grossberg states that it is a book about “the political, economic and cultural forces which are producing a new atmosphere, a new kind of dissatisfaction and a new conservatism in American life”. Further, he discusses how commercialization, a lack of passion, and depoliticization causes a new conservatism in rock. A critical review of the book calls it "a highly ambitious and intriguing work, if an ultimately flawed one."
Introduction, “Rock under siege”
Lawrence Grossberg explains that the rising number of attacks on rock music only show the Right's ambiguous relationship to popular culture.
Attacks on rock music are usually produced by Christian fundamentalist movements and an “elitist fraction of a new conservative alliance”, who see rock as the main cause for “a certain fall from grace”.
The Increasing Commodification of Rock Music
Grossberg distinguishes between more organic forms of rock music, which sometimes characterize the 1960s, for example, and those of the 1980s, whose texts were highly choreographed by the culture industry (record labels, MTV, music magazines, etc.).
Conservative Appropriation of Rock Music
For Grossberg, the Reagan and Thatcher revival of conservatism can be understood in terms outlined by Antonio Gramsci. A popular hegemony sought to defang the critiques of the counterculture and reinscribe youth culture in the service of corporate capitalism.
On the surface, this form does not resemble an attack but it uses rock music and reconstructs its meanings and significance. Thus, conservative Christian groups can use rock in order to spread their “fundamentalist and conservative messages”.
Grossberg further states that these attacks on rock are actually quite paradoxical, as rock has become “part of a dominant mainstream culture” and thus, “rock is losing power to encapsulate and articulate resistance and opposition””. According to Grossberg, however, the new conservatives try to regulate the “possibilities of pleasure and identity as the basis opposition and to dismantle the cultural and political field constructed in the 1960s".
Professor Michael Gardiner writes, "According to Grossberg, the major consequence of this is that politics in present-day America has become curiously depoliticized. Strictly economic or ideological arguments in favour of the conservative agenda have been replaced by appeals to mood, passion, sentimentality, and so on." Gardiner's review continues: "Yet, at the same time, daily life is repoliticized: the new conservatism seeks to take over the spaces and places within everyday life formerly occupied by youth culture (the body, pleasure/fun, youth) and invest them with new values and meanings. The overarching goal is to submit the practices of daily life to an apparatus of power that is more congenial to the requirements of the emerging post-Fordist economic order. One result is that politics has become largely personalized, just another "lifestyle choice," rather than a site of collective struggle in which popular culture used to play a crucial role:"
Gardiner then quotes Grossberg, "The collapse of all political space, civil society and everyday life and the transformation of everyday life in disciplined mobilization not only depoliticizes large segments of the population, it also eviscerates the recognition of popular culture as a terrain and weapon of struggle."
Notes
Bibliography
1992 non-fiction books
Music books
Books about politics of the United States
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Union Sportive Médinat d'Annaba (), known as USM Annaba or simply USMAN for short, is an Algerian football club based in Annaba. It was founded in 1983 and its colours are red and white. Their home stadium, 19 May 1956 Stadium has a capacity of 55,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in Algerian Ligue 2.
History
On April 13, 2018, USM Annaba were promoted to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 after winning 2017–18 Ligue Nationale du Football Amateur "Group East".
Honours
Domestic competitions
Algerian Ligue 2
Champions (1): 2006–07
Rival clubs
Hamra Annaba (Derby)
ES Guelma (Rivalry)
US Tebessa (Rivalry)
References
External links
USM Annaba
Football clubs in Algeria
1983 establishments in Algeria
Association football clubs established in 1983
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs
Algerian Ligue 2 clubs
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Alexander (Alex) Cappelli (born 4 October 1984) is an Australian musician/actor.
Cappelli has had many acting roles on Australian television, such as a recurring guest role as Mike Pill in Neighbours, Gretchen in the telemovie Little Oberon and a starring role as Kurt Winters in the 2001 children's television series, Short Cuts. As an actor, he is best known for his lead role in the 2005 feature film, Hating Alison Ashley. Working alongside Delta Goodrem and Saskia Burmeister, he played the character of Barry Hollis, the school bully. Other TV credits include, Wicked Science, Blue Heelers and The Brush-Off. He is also the lead singer, guitarist and pianist in the local Melbourne original rock band "The Collectibles".
References
External links
1984 births
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Australian male child actors
Living people
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Hǫfuðlausn ( ) or ‘Head-ransom’ is a skaldic poem attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in praise of king Eirik Bloodaxe.
It is cited in Egils Saga (chapter 61), which claims that he created it in the span of one night. The events in the saga that lead up to the composition and recitation of the poem can be summarized in the following way. Egil falls into king Eirik's hands after being shipwrecked in Northumbria. Faced with the decision to either dishonorably flee and risk being exposed as a coward or to directly face his adversary and ask for reconciliation, Egil chooses the latter. The two men are enemies during the saga, which makes Egil’s decision especially bold. Earlier in the saga Egil goes as far as to construct a Nithing pole, a sign of disrespect in medieval Scandinavian society. For this and other reasons King Eirik tells Egil not to expect any outcome other than death for his arrival in his court. This would be the end for Egil, however, one of his allies, who has allegiance to Eirik, intercedes on Egil’s behalf. Arinbjǫrn hersir tells the king that it would be dishonorable to kill his enemy under such circumstances. Furthermore he states that Egil, also a renowned poet, “can make recompense with words of praise that will live for ever.” This argument along with it being considered scornful to kill during the night, convinces Eirik to delay his judgement until the next day. During the night Egil composes and memorizes the entire poetic drápa known as the Head Ransom. He recites it in the presence of the king Eiríkr and receives his freedom, but not any sort of reconciliation. The two remain enemies and Egil continues on his original journey to visit king Æthelstan of England.
If the poem is authentic it constitutes the second use of end-rhyme in the northern artistic tradition. The first time was a stanza by Egil's father, which is widely believed to have been written by Egil himself.
References
Further reading
Hines, John. "Egill's Höfuðlausn in Time and Place." Saga-Book of the Viking Society 24 (1995): 83-104 http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Saga-Book%20XXIV.pdf.
Smiley, Jane, (2001). "Preface" to Thorsson, Örnólfur, ed., The Sagas of the Icelanders. Penguin Books, London. .
External links
Hǫfuðlausn from heimskringla.no
Höfuðlausn in Icelandic at Wikisource Höfuðlausn
Egill, Höfuðlausn, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
Skaldic poems
10th-century poems
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Juan Velasco Damas (born 17 May 1977) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back, and is a manager.
He played for seven clubs during his professional career, appearing in 213 matches in La Liga and scoring one goal. He also competed abroad in England and Greece.
Velasco represented Spain at Euro 2000.
Club career
Born in Dos Hermanas, Province of Seville, Velasco started representing professionally local giants Sevilla FC, appearing in 13 La Liga matches in the 1996–97 season, which ended in relegation. His league debut occurred on 5 March 1997 in a 0–2 away loss against Rayo Vallecano, and in the following two years he amassed nearly 72 official appearances, contributing prominently in the second as the Andalusians returned to the top level.
After helping Sevilla promote, Velasco joined Celta de Vigo, experiencing his most successful period: in the 2002–03 campaign he played 31 games to help the Galicians qualify for the first time ever to the UEFA Champions League. In the following season, however, he saw his team suffer relegation.
Velasco played the following three years with Atlético Madrid (two) and RCD Espanyol, averaging 22 contests per season. On 18 February 2008, after spending the first months of the new campaign without a club, he signed a three-month contract with Football League Championship side Norwich City, following a successful trial; at the end of the season he left for Panthrakikos FC, freshly promoted to the Superleague Greece.
After one-and-a-half seasons of relative playing time, Velasco moved teams in January 2010 but stayed in the country, signing with Athlitiki Enosi Larissa FC. He retired in June of the following year at the age of 34, and in 2013 returned to football, being appointed manager at Xerez CD B.
On 13 October 2016, Velasco signed as head coach of Extremadura UD.
International career
Velasco was capped five times by Spain, his debut coming on 26 January 2000 in a 3–0 friendly win over Poland (Cartagena). Selected for UEFA Euro 2000, he did not leave the bench.
Honours
Celta
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2000
References
External links
1977 births
Living people
Footballers from Dos Hermanas
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Coria CF players
Sevilla Atlético players
Sevilla FC players
RC Celta de Vigo players
Atlético Madrid footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
English Football League players
Norwich City F.C. players
Super League Greece players
Panthrakikos F.C. players
Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C. players
Spain men's under-21 international footballers
Spain men's international footballers
UEFA Euro 2000 players
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Spanish football managers
Segunda División B managers
Extremadura UD managers
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Drest son of Munait was a king of the Picts from 549 to 550. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for one year between Talorc II and Galam Cennalath.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
550 deaths
Pictish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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Nayland-with-Wissington is a civil parish which comprises the larger village of Nayland and the adjoining rural village of Wissington (these days usually referred to as 'Wiston' by local residents (Knox, 2001) ). They were originally two separate parishes and were united into one civil parish in 1884. However, the ecclesiastical parishes remain separate.
Nayland and Wiston lie on the northern bank of the River Stour which divides Essex and Suffolk in England.
Governance
The parish forms part of the electoral ward called Nayland. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 1,845.
References
Knox, Rosemary (2001). Is it Wiston or Wissington: An ancient rural Suffolk parish, R. Knox, Suffolk.
External links
Community website
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Babergh District
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John French (1616–1657) was an English physician known for his contributions to chemistry (in particular, distillation) as well as for his English translations of Latin and German works.
Life
He was born in 1616 at Broughton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. He obtained a B.A. degree from Oxford University in 1637 and an M.A. in 1640, qualifying as a physician with an MD in 1648. He died in 1657 near Boulogne while serving as a physician to the English army. He left a widow, Mary, and a son, John.
He lived at a time when the new science of chemistry was developing from alchemy and was an enthusiast for its application to medicine. He was known for his extensive knowledge of chemistry and was respected by scientists of the time such as Robert Boyle.
Works
John French is chiefly remembered for publishing in 1651 The Art of Distillation, a detailed handbook of knowledge and practice at the time, said to be possibly the earliest definitive book on distillation. However, it has been claimed that much of it was a translation of an earlier (1500) German text by Hieronymus Brunschwig.
John French was also the translator of Three Books of Occult Philosophy in 1651 (original: De Occulta Philosophia libri tres by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, although he was only identified as J.F. in that work. All other English translations of the book available have been merely edited versions of his work.
References
Further reading
External links
John French: The Art of Distillation (1651) (online text)
1616 births
1657 deaths
17th-century English medical doctors
Alumni of the University of Oxford
17th-century English chemists
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William Notman Q.C. (February 24, 1805 – September 19, 1865) was a lawyer and political figure in Canada West.
Notman was born in Scotland in 1805, studied at the University of Glasgow and came to Dundas in Upper Canada in 1821. He studied law with George Ridout in Toronto, was called to the bar in 1827 and set up practice in Ancaster. His first wife and family died of diphtheria in 1832. In 1835, he moved to Dundas, where he married Janet Wilson. Notman represented Middlesex in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1848 to 1851 and the North riding of Wentworth from 1858 to 1865. He also served as a lieutenant colonel in the local militia.
External links
The Canadian parliamentary companion, HJ Morgan (1862)
The history of the town of Dundas. Part 1 of a series, TR Woodhouse (1965)
1805 births
1865 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West
Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Immigrants to Upper Canada
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The City of Toowoomba was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, encompassing the centre and inner suburbs of the regional city of Toowoomba. The City covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity in various forms from 1860 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the surrounding area to form the Toowoomba Region.
History
The Borough of Toowoomba was proclaimed on 19 November 1860 under the Municipalities Act 1858, a piece of New South Wales legislation inherited by Queensland when it became a separate colony in 1859. William Henry Groom, sometimes described as the "father of Toowoomba", was elected its first mayor. It achieved a measure of autonomy in 1878 with the enactment of the Local Government Act. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Toowoomba Municipality became the Town of Toowoomba on 31 March 1903. On 29 October 1904, Toowoomba was proclaimed the City of Toowoomba.
Toowoomba absorbed parts of the Shire of Middle Ridge and Town of Newtown on 23 February 1917.
On 19 March 1949, following a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, Toowoomba grew its area to include parts of the Shires of Highfields and Drayton.
In 2006 the Mayor Dianne Thorley proposed a controversial plan to recycle sewage into Cooby Dam which is used for drinking water. The federal government agreed to provide partial funding subject to a number of conditions including a requirement to hold a referendum on the issue. On 29 July 2006, Toowoomba voted against the recycled sewage project with the 'No' vote winning by 62% to 38%.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the City of Toowoomba merged with the Shires of Cambooya, Clifton, Crows Nest, Jondaryan, Millmerran, Pittsworth and Shire of Rosalie to form the Toowoomba Region. The former mayor of the Shire of Jondaryan won the mayoralty of the new council.
Suburbs
The City of Toowoomba included the following settlements:
Blue Mountain Heights1
Centenary Heights
Cotswold Hills2
Cranley
Darling Heights
Drayton
East Toowoomba
Glenvale2
Harlaxton
Harristown
Highfields1
Kearneys Spring
Middle Ridge
Mount Kynoch
Mount Lofty
Newtown
North Toowoomba
Prince Henry Heights
Rangeville
Redwood
Rockville
South Toowoomba
Toowoomba City
Torrington2
Wilsonton
Wilsonton Heights
1 - split with the former Shire of Crows Nest
2 - split with the former Shire of Jondaryan
Population
Mayors
List of mayors of Toowoomba
References
Darling Downs
Toowoomba, City of
Former local government areas of Queensland
1860 establishments in Australia
2008 disestablishments in Australia
Populated places disestablished in 2008
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Alexander Hume Anderson Jr. (September 5, 1920 – October 22, 2010) was an American cartoonist who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right, as well as Crusader Rabbit. He was not directly involved in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, however.
Biography
Alexander Hume Anderson Jr. was born September 5, 1920, in Berkeley, California, to Olga B. (née Terry) and Alexander Anderson. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He received an honorary degree from San Francisco Art institute in 2000.
Anderson was a nephew of Mighty Mouse producer Paul Terry, and began his career in 1938, working summer vacations, during college, at his Terrytoons animation studio. Anderson served in Navy intelligence during World War II.
Anderson pitched a "limited animation" cartoon series for TV to his uncle, Paul Terry, but 20th Century Fox, who distributed Terrytoons cartoons, saw TV as a threat.
After the war, Anderson and Jay Ward, a former real-estate salesman and childhood friend, formed a business in the late 1940s to pitch cartoon ideas to television, including Crusader Rabbit, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. In 1948, Anderson and Ward created a television pilot, "The Comic Strips of Television"
Only Crusader Rabbit was accepted, and after Anderson's other cartoon ideas failed to sell, he joined a San Francisco advertising agency, becoming an art director, while Ward moved to Los Angeles to try to sell TV studios on a Bullwinkle series.
Anderson saw a 1991 documentary about the show which did not mention his name, he filed suit against Jay Ward Productions, two years after Jay Ward's death. Anderson, who had not received public recognition for creating Dudley Do-Right, Bullwinkle and Rocky, learned the characters had been copyrighted in Ward's name alone. Consequently, Anderson sued Ward's heirs to reclaim creator credit. In 1993 or 1996, (sources differ), Anderson received a settlement and a court order acknowledging him as "the creator of the first version of the characters of Rocky, Bullwinkle and Dudley."
Ted Key, creator of the comic strip Hazel, had a similar situation with his characters Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman.
Death
Anderson died due to complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 90 on October 22, 2010, at a nursing home in Carmel, California. He was survived by his wife of 36 years, Patricia Larsen Anderson, his third spouse following divorces from first wife Gail and second wife Beverly. He had two children from his first marriage, sons Terry and Scott, and three stepchildren, Matthew Kennedy, Carolyn Kennedy, and Daniel Kennedy.
References
Further reading
Kevin Scott Collier. The Hare Raising Tales of Crusader Rabbit. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
External links
1920 births
2010 deaths
American cartoonists
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Deaths from dementia in California
Artists from Berkeley, California
United States Navy personnel of World War II
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery (Colma, California)
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"You'll Never Be Alone" is a song by American recording artist Anastacia from her second studio album, Freak of Nature (2001). Co-written with and produced by Louis Biancaniello and Sam Watters, the ballad was released in Europe as the album's fifth and final single in November 2002. Though it was not released in the United States, it still managed to chart on the Adult Contemporary chart at number twenty-eight.
Recording and production
"You'll Never Be Alone" was written by Anastacia and co-written and produced by Louis Biancaniello and Sam Watters. It was recorded at Homesite 13 in Novato, California, Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles, and Right Track Recording in New York City.
Critical reception
Jose F. Promis wrote for AllMusic that "When Anastacia slows down the tempo for the ballads (some organic and acoustic, some bordering on power ballads), she succeeds by utilizing her strong vocal chops without venturing into vocal histrionics." Louis Pattison from NME wrote that the song "drips like Celine Dion dipped in honey. Yahoo! Music's James Salmon called it "an insipid halt", while Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani named it "syrupy".
Music video
Shot in Los Angeles, the music video for "You'll Never Be Alone" was Anastacia's second to be directed by Mike Lipscombe, the first being "Why'd You Lie to Me". The video was later included on her first music DVD The Video Collection. When the video begins, Anastacia is standing in front of the camera singing the song. As the camera leaves, she and her boyfriend are shown cuddling in front of her boyfriend's house. After saying goodbye, she drives away. On her way presumably home, gray wolves are crossing the road, causing the car to get off the road. After hitting a tree, her "spirit leaves her body" to warn her boyfriend that she has been in an accident. Back at the boyfriend's house, his dog senses the spirit's presence and he wakes up his master. In the meantime, Anastacia's spirit guides them to the place where the accident happened, without him knowing the spirit is there. Together they arrive at the car, when the spirit goes back into the real body and the boyfriend carries her body back to the road. At the end, her boyfriend carries her into the ambulance.
Track listings
United Kingdom
"You'll Never Be Alone" (Album Version) – 4:21
"You Shook Me All Night Long" (Live with Celine Dion) – 3:51
"Lord Is Blessing Me" (Live) – 2:55
"You'll Never Be Alone" (Video)
Austria
"You'll Never Be Alone" (Album Version) – 4:21
"You Shook Me All Night Long" (Live with Celine Dion) – 3:51
Europe
"You'll Never Be Alone" (Album Version) – 4:21
"You Shook Me All Night Long" (Live with Celine Dion) – 3:51
"Lord Is Blessing Me" (Live) – 2:55
"Late Last Night" – 4:26
"You'll Never Be Alone" (Video)
Charts
Release history
References
2000s ballads
2001 songs
2002 singles
Anastacia songs
Daylight Records singles
Epic Records singles
Music videos directed by Mike Lipscombe
Pop ballads
Songs written by Anastacia
Songs written by Louis Biancaniello
Songs written by Sam Watters
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Neural facilitation, also known as paired-pulse facilitation (PPF), is a phenomenon in neuroscience in which postsynaptic potentials (PSPs) (EPPs, EPSPs or IPSPs) evoked by an impulse are increased when that impulse closely follows a prior impulse. PPF is thus a form of short-term synaptic plasticity. The mechanisms underlying neural facilitation are exclusively pre-synaptic; broadly speaking, PPF arises due to increased presynaptic concentration leading to a greater release of neurotransmitter-containing synaptic vesicles. Neural facilitation may be involved in several neuronal tasks, including simple learning, information processing, and sound-source localization.
Mechanisms
Overview
plays a significant role in transmitting signals at chemical synapses. Voltage-gated channels are located within the presynaptic terminal. When an action potential invades the presynaptic membrane, these channels open and enters. A higher concentration of enables synaptic vesicles to fuse to the presynaptic membrane and release their contents (neurotransmitters) into the synaptic cleft to ultimately contact receptors in the postsynaptic membrane. The amount of neurotransmitter released is correlated with the amount of influx. Therefore, short-term facilitation (STF) results from a build up of within the presynaptic terminal when action potentials propagate close together in time.
Facilitation of excitatory post-synaptic current (EPSC) can be quantified as a ratio of subsequent EPSC strengths. Each EPSC is triggered by pre-synaptic calcium concentrations and can be approximated by:
EPSC = k([]presynaptic)4 = k([]rest + []influx + []residual)4
Where k is a constant.
Facilitation = EPSC2 / EPSC1 = (1 + []residual / []influx)4 - 1
Experimental evidence
Early experiments by Del Castillo & Katz in 1954 and Dudel & Kuffler in 1968 showed that facilitation was possible at the neuromuscular junction even if transmitter release does not occur, indicating that facilitation is an exclusively presynaptic phenomenon.
Katz and Miledi proposed the residual hypothesis. They attributed the increase in neurotransmitter release to residual or accumulated ("active calcium") within the axon membrane that remains attached to the membrane's inner surface. Katz and Miledi manipulated the concentration within the presynaptic membrane to determine whether or not residual remaining within the terminal after the first impulse caused an increase in neurotransmitter release following the second stimulus.
During the first nerve impulse, concentration was either significantly below or nearing that of the second impulse. When concentration was approaching that of the second impulse, facilitation was increased. In this first experiment, stimuli were presented in intervals of 100 ms between the first and second stimuli. An absolute refractory period was reached when intervals were about 10 ms apart.
To examine facilitation during shorter intervals, Katz and Miledi directly applied brief depolarizing stimuli to nerve endings. When increasing the depolarizing stimulus from 1-2 ms, neurotransmitter release greatly increased due to accumulation of active . Therefore, the degree of facilitation depends on the amount of active , which is determined by the reduction in conductance over time as well as the amount of removed from axon terminals after the first stimulus. Facilitation is greatest when the impulses are closest together because conductance would not return to baseline prior to the second stimulus. Therefore, both conductance and accumulated would be greater for the second impulse when presented shortly after the first.
In the Calyx of Held synapse, short term facilitation (STF) has been shown to result from the binding of residual to neuronal sensor 1 (NCS1). Conversely, STF has been shown to decrease when chelators are added to the synapse (causing chelation) which reduce residual . Therefore, "active " plays a significant role in neural facilitation.
In the synapse between Purkinje cells, short-term facilitation has been shown to be entirely mediated by the facilitation of currents through the voltage-dependent calcium channels.
Relation to other forms of short-term synaptic plasticity
Augmentation and potentiation
Short-term synaptic enhancement is often differentiated into categories of facilitation, augmentation, and potentiation (also referred to as post-tetanic potentiation or PTP). These three processes are often differentiated by their time scales: facilitation usually lasts for tens of milliseconds, while augmentation acts on a time scale on the order of seconds and potentiation has a time course of tens of seconds to minutes. All three effects increase the probability of neurotransmitter release from the presynaptic membrane, but the underlying mechanism is different for each. Paired-pulse facilitation is caused by the presence of residual , augmentation likely arises due to increased action of the presynaptic protein munc-13, and post-tetanic potentiation is mediated by presynaptic activation of protein kinases. The type of synaptic enhancement seen in a given cell is also related to variant dynamics of removal, which is in turn dependent upon the type of stimuli; a single action potential leads to facilitation, while a short tetanus generally causes augmentation and a longer tetanus leads to potentiation.
Short-term depression (STD)
Short-term depression (STD) operates in the opposite direction of facilitation, decreasing the amplitude of PSPs. STD occurs due to a decrease in the readily releasable pool of vesicles (RRP) as a result of frequent stimulation. The inactivation of presynaptic channels after repeated action potentials also contributes to STD. Depression and facilitation interact to create short-term plastic changes within neurons, and this interaction is called the dual-process theory of plasticity. Basic models present these effects as additive, with the sum creating the net plastic change (facilitation - depression = net change). However, it has been shown that depression occurs earlier on in the stimulus-response pathway than facilitation, and therefore plays into the expression of facilitation. Many synapses exhibit properties of both facilitation and depression. In general, however, synapses with low initial probability of vesicle release are more likely to exhibit facilitation, and synapses with high probability of initial vesicle release are more likely to exhibit depression.
Relation to information transmission
Synaptic filtering
Because the probability of vesicle release is activity-dependent, synapses can act as dynamic filters for information transmission. Synapses with a low initial probability of vesicle release act as high-pass filters: because the release probability is low, a higher-frequency signal is needed to trigger release, and the synapse thus selectively responds to high-frequency signals. Likewise, synapses with high initial release probabilities serve as low-pass filters, responding to lower-frequency signals. Synapses with an intermediate probability of release act as band-pass filters that selectively respond to a specific range of frequencies. These filtering characteristics may be affected by a variety of factors, including both PPD and PPF, as well as chemical neuromodulators. In particular, because synapses with low release probabilities are more likely to experience facilitation than depression, high-pass filters are often converted to band-pass filters. Likewise, because synapses with high initial release probabilities are more likely to undergo depression than facilitation, it is common for low-pass filters to become band-pass filters, as well. Neuromodulators, meanwhile, may affect these short-term plasticities. In synapses with intermediate release probabilities, properties of the individual synapse will determine how the synapse changes in response to stimuli. These changes in filtration affect information transmission and encoding in response to repeated stimuli.
Sound-source localization
In humans, sound localization is primarily accomplished using information about how the intensity and timing of a sound vary between each ear. Neuronal computations involving these interaurual intensity differences (IIDs) and interaural time differences (ITDs) are typically carried out in different pathways in the brain. Short-term plasticity likely assists in differentiating between these two pathways: short-term facilitation dominates in intensity pathways, while short-term depression dominates in temporal pathways. These different types of short-term plasticity allow for different kinds of information filtration, thus contributing to the division of the two kinds of information into distinct processing streams.
The filtering capabilities of short-term plasticity may also assist with encoding information related to amplitude modulation (AM). Short-term depression can dynamically adjust the gain on high-frequency inputs, and may thus allow for an expanded high-frequency range for AM. A mixture of facilitation and depression may also assist in AM coding by leading to rate filtering.
See also
Long-term potentiation
Synaptic plasticity
Neuroplasticity
Post-tetanic potentiation
Sensitization
Synaptic augmentation
References
Further reading
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Neuroscience
Neurophysiology
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Shrubland Hall, Coddenham, Suffolk, is a historic English country house with planned gardens in Suffolk, England, built in the 1770s.
The Hall was used as a health clinic in the second half of the 20th century and briefly reopened as a hotel, restaurant and spa in 2015 but shut in early 2017.
The parkland and formal gardens of the hall are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and the hall itself is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.
History
The first recorded owner of the estate was Robert de Shrubeland, although there is evidence of occupation on the site since the Roman period. The previous Tudor-style Shrubland Hall was built by the Booth family in the early 16th century. The estate was later acquired by the Little family, and passed to the Bacon family when in 1581 Helen Little, daughter and heiress of Thomas Little (by his wife Elizabeth Lytton, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire), married Sir Edward Bacon (d.1618), the third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Elizabeth I, and a half-brother of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
The present Grade II* listed hall was designed by James Paine for the Revd. John Bacon in the early 1770s. His heir was his younger brother Rev. Nicholas Bacon (d.1796), Vicar of Coddenham, who died without issue and was the last in the male line, whose funeral hatchment survives in Coddenham Church. It was then bought by Sir William Fowle Middleton, 1st Baronet, whose son and heir, Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Baronet, commissioned architect John Gandy-Deering to remodel it in the early 1830s. There was further remodelling of the building for Sir William between 1849 and 1855 by Sir Charles Barry, who also created the terraced gardens. Paine's central block was built in 3 storeys with a 5 bay frontage, to which Gandy-Deering added 3 further bays to either side. The whole is constructed of Gault brick with dressings of limestone and stucco. The parkland was styled by Humphry Repton and still retains the deer park and walled garden.
After Sir William's death in 1860, the property passed to his cousin Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, and from him in 1882 to his niece Jane Anne Broke, eldest daughter of Captain Charles Acton Vere-Broke, and her husband James Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez. The Hall was used as a convalescent home during the First World War and the Old Hall as a brigade HQ during the Second World War. In the 1960s, the 6th Baron de Saumarez established a health clinic in the property which continued in the time of the 7th Baron.
Shrubland Hall Health Clinic operated in the hall adjoining Shrubland Park Gardens until 2 April 2006, when the Shrubland estate, totalling some , was put up for sale with an asking price of £23 million. Until then the Italian style gardens which include Grade II listed features were open to the public as a visitor attraction.
In 2010, the estate was sold in 42 separate lots. As of 2012, the Hall itself was used as residential quarters for the private higher education establishment, the British Institute of Technology & E-commerce (BITE) but in 2014 was re-opened as a hotel. In 2015, the Hall was advertised for sale at an asking price of £6,500,000.
References
External links
Shrubland now
Shrubland Revisited, a website for sharing memories of Shrubland Hall
Country houses in Suffolk
Grade I listed parks and gardens in Suffolk
Grade II* listed buildings in Suffolk
Grade II* listed houses
Grade II listed buildings in Suffolk
Italianate architecture in England
Charles Barry buildings
Barham, Suffolk
Coddenham
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The Lugi were a people of ancient Britain, known only from a single mention of them by the geographer Ptolemy c. 150. from his general description and the approximate locations of their neighbors their territory was along the western coast of the Moray Firth. Ptolemy does not provide them with a town or principal place.
Etymology
The Pictish name Lugi probably stems from Proto-Celtic *lugos ('crow'). A derivation from the Celtic god Lug has also been proposed.
See also
Lugii
References
Bibliography
Historical Celtic peoples
Picts
Tribes mentioned by Ptolemy
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Bridei son of Uuid (; died 641) was a king of the Picts from 635 to 641.
The Pictish Chronicle king-list gives him a reign of five years following his brother Gartnait III.
His death is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach. He was followed by another brother, Talorc III, according to the king lists.
Bridei II might have been the father of the "Pictish princess" married to Eanfrith of Bernicia, and might explain why their son Talorgan I became the king of the Picts in 653–657.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
Pictish Chronicle
641 deaths
Pictish monarchs
7th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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Lamač is the smallest borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lying in the northern part of the city. Part of the Bratislava IV district, Lamač is home to approximately 7,000 inhabitants. Until 1946, Lamač was a small independent village, but it was incorporated into the city Bratislava. In the past, Lamač was known for its vineyards and as an agricultural and fruit supplier for Bratislava's markets.
The dominant features of Lamač include the Church of Saint Margita, the Chapel of Saint Rozalia and the Memorial to soldiers killed in The First World War. Lamač is accessible by the public transport system of Bratislava. The borough also features the Bratislava Lamač railway station.
Location
Lamač borders Dúbravka to the south-east, Devínska Nová Ves to the west, Záhorská Bystrica to the north and Rača to the east, separated by the Pezinok Carpathians.
Division
Lamač is unofficially divided into two local parts: Rázsochy and Podháj.
History
Present-day Lamač lies on the territory of four medieval villages. The first one (unknown name) ceased to exist in 1241. Blumenau and Sellendorf were founded between 1279 and 1288 and de facto ceased to exist until 1436, probably because of frequent border disputes and their division between the heirs of the original founder. Croats fleeing from the Ottomans in the south settled this area in the 16th century. Lamač was founded by a Croatian Jan (probably Skerlič). It was first mentioned as Krabatendorff (Croatian Village) in 1547 and two years later under its Slavic name Lamas (1549). The village suffered from several epidemics and military conflicts, it was burned, looted by anti-Ottoman armies (1604) and four times during the Rákóczi's War of Independence (1703–11). The final battle of the Austro-Prussian War took place on 22 July 1866 during which the Prussians again burned down the village. At the end of the 19th century, the village was mostly Slovak (93,3% in 1900). After the World War I, the village became a part of Czechoslovakia and on 1 April 1946 it became a borough of Bratislava.
Education
Lamač features one public elementary school and kindergarten, MŠ and ZŠ Heyrovského Street and one private elementary school and kindergarten Súkromná základná škola s materskou školou Heyrovského 2 also at Heyrovského Street.
Sports
Lamač features a swimming pool Kúpalisko Lamač at Pod násypom Street, a winter stadium Ice arena at Borinská Street containing ice hockey stadium and curling rink, soccer playing field Futbalové ihrisko FK Lamač at Na barine Street and a multi-purpose sports hall at Na barine Street.
See also
Boroughs and localities of Bratislava
Geography of Bratislava
History of Bratislava
Gallery
References
External links
Lamač website
Zimný štadion Lamač website
Boroughs of Bratislava
Villages in Slovakia merged with towns
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The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.
For Classical (Greco-Roman) names, the adjectival and demonym forms normally derive from the oblique stem, which may differ from the nominative form used in English for the noun form. For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian;
occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefor in the English adjective, as in Pluto–Plutonian and Atlas–Atlantean.
Many of the more recent or more obscure names are only attested in mythological or literary contexts, rather than in specifically astronomical contexts. Forms ending in -ish or -ine, such as "Puckish", are not included below if a derivation in -an is also attested. Rare forms, or forms only attested with spellings not in keeping with the IAU-approved spelling (such as c for k), are shown in italics.
Note on pronunciation
The suffix -ian is always unstressed: that is, . The related ending -ean, from an e in the root plus a suffix -an, has traditionally been stressed (that is, ) if the e is long ē in Latin (or is from ē in Greek); but if the e is short in Latin, the suffix is pronounced the same as -ian. In practice forms ending in -ean may be pronounced as if they were spelled -ian even if the e is long in Latin. This dichotomy should be familiar from the dual pronunciations of Caribbean as and .
Generic bodies
Constellations
Derivative forms of constellations are used primarily for meteor showers. The genitive forms of the constellations are used to name stars. (See List of constellations.) Other adjectival forms are less common.
Sun
Planets
Moons
Galaxies
See also
Demonym
Notes
References
External links
Wordorigins.org: Naming The Planets, Part I
Astronomical nomenclature
Lists of astronomical objects
Lists of place names
Lists of demonyms
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This is a list of singles that topped the Irish Singles Chart in 1965.
Prior to 1992, the Irish singles chart was compiled from trade shipments from the labels to record stores, rather than on consumer sales.
The chart release date changed from Friday to Monday effective 4 January and then to Sunday on 5 December.
See also
1965 in music
Irish Singles Chart
List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
1965 in Irish music
1965 record charts
1965
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Alfred Talbot Cliff (27 October 1878 – 25 January 1966) was an English first-class cricketer. Holding amateur status, Cliff was a right-handed batsman and slow left arm bowler who played 39 times for Worcestershire between 1912 and 1920. He scored 986 runs at 13.69 and took eight wickets, though never more than one in a single innings: his first scalp, when playing against Kent, was England Test batsman Frank Woolley.
Cliff was born in Scawby Grove, Brigg, Lincolnshire; he died in Oxford at the age of 87.
External links
Statistical summary from CricketArchive
English cricketers
Worcestershire cricketers
1878 births
1966 deaths
People from Brigg
Cricketers from Lincolnshire
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A chimera or chimeric virus is a virus that contains genetic material derived from two or more distinct viruses. It is defined by the Center for Veterinary Biologics (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) as a "new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid fragments from two or more different microorganisms in which each of at least two of the fragments contain essential genes necessary for replication." The term genetic chimera had already been defined to mean: an individual organism whose body contained cell populations from different zygotes or an organism that developed from portions of different embryos. Chimeric flaviviruses have been created in an attempt to make novel live attenuated vaccines.
Etymology
In mythology, a chimera is a creature such as a hippogriff or a gryphon formed from parts of different animals, thus the name for these viruses.
As a natural phenomenon
Viruses are categorized in two types: In prokaryotes, the great majority of viruses possess double-stranded (ds) DNA genomes, with a substantial minority of single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses and only limited presence of RNA viruses. In contrast, in eukaryotes, RNA viruses account for the majority of the virome diversity although ssDNA and dsDNA viruses are common as well.
In 2012, the first example of a naturally-occurring RNA-DNA hybrid virus was unexpectedly discovered during a metagenomic study of the acidic extreme environment of Boiling Springs Lake that is in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. The virus was named BSL-RDHV (Boiling Springs Lake RNA DNA Hybrid Virus).<ref name=devor12>Devor, Caitlin (12 July 2012)."Scientists discover hybrid virus". Journal of Young Investigators". Retrieved 31 March 2020.</ref> Its genome is related to a DNA circovirus, which usually infect birds and pigs, and a RNA tombusvirus, which infect plants. The study surprised scientists, because DNA and RNA viruses vary and the way the chimera came together was not understood.BioMed Central Limited (18 April 2012). "Could a newly discovered viral genome change what we thought we knew about virus evolution?". ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
Other viral chimeras have also been found, and the group is known as the CHIV viruses ("chimeric viruses").
As a bioweapon
Combining two pathogenic viruses increases the lethality of the new virus which is why there have been cases where chimeric viruses have been considered for use as a bioweapon. For example, the Soviet Union's Chimera Project attempted in the late 1980s and early 1990s to combine DNA from Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and Smallpox virus at one location, and Ebola virus and Smallpox virus in another location, even in the face of Boris Yeltsin's decree of 11 April 1992.
A combination Smallpox virus and Monkeypox virus'' has also been studied.
As a medical treatment
Studies have shown that chimeric viruses can also be developed to have medical benefits. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to treat relapsed non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. By introducing a chimeric antigen receptor into T cells, the T cells become more efficient at identifying and attacking the tumor cells. Studies are also in progress to create a chimeric vaccine against four types of Dengue virus, however this has not been successful yet.
References
Viruses
Chimerism
Hybrid organisms
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In electromagnetics, the catapult description of magnetic forces refers to when a current is passed through a loose wire in a magnetic field. The loose wire is then catapulted horizontally away from the magnetic field. This occurs due to the Lorentz force acting on the electric current in the wire due to the magnetic field.
Implications of the catapult effect on science
The idea of the catapult effect is central in our day-to-day lives as it greatly contributes to our understanding of the electric motor (which we use in numerous appliances from washing machines to vacuum cleaners and cars). The catapult effect helps to explain the movement of the motor itself and is thus used widely in science.
The left hand rule
The left-hand rule helps to explain why the loose wire moves as it does in the catapult effect. The left hand rule naturally takes its name from the left hand anemyl the thumb and the next two fingers. If you arrange the fingers in a three-dimensional shape so the first finger and thumb are perpendicular to one another and the second finger is perpendicular to the first aiming downwards then this is the way magnetic fields with addition of flowing current will act. The thumb represents the direction of motion. The first finger represents the direction of the magnetic field while the second finger represents the direction of the current. Therefore, as long as you know the direction of one of these three variables you will be able to predict the other two using the left hand rule. This is used in electric motors.
References
Electromagnetism
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The Palmerston Forts that defend Dover were built in response to the 1859 Royal Commission dealing with the perceived threat of a French invasion. The forts were intended to defend the Port of Dover, that would provide direct access to an invasion fleet, from capture. Construction was carried out by the Royal Engineers and civilian contractors (under Royal Engineer supervision). In addition to the newly constructed forts, extensive work was carried out on existing fortifications. The fortifications built or upgraded as part of the works were:
Admiralty Pier Turret
Archcliffe Fort
Dover Castle complex, including:
East Demi Battery
Hospital Battery
Shotyard Battery
Shoulder of Mutton Battery
Fort Burgoyne
Langdon Battery
Western Heights complex, including:
Dover Citadel
Citadel Battery
Drop Redoubt
Drop Battery
Grand Shaft Barracks
North Centre Bastion
North Centre Detached Bastion
North Entrance
South Entrance
South Front Barracks
St Martin Battery
Dover
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Walter Gerber (August 18, 1891 – June 19, 1951) was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1914–15), St. Louis Browns (1917–28) and Boston Red Sox (1928–29), primarily as a shortstop. He batted and threw right-handed.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Gerber was a fine infielder with quick hands and a fine throwing arm. From 1914 through 1918 he served as a utility player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Browns, becoming the everyday shortstop for the Browns during the next nine seasons.
In 1923 Gerber set a major league record for shortstops with 48 fielding chances in four consecutive games. He led the American League in errors in 1919 (45) and 1920 (52), but he settled down to lead the league in double plays four times. Basically a line-drive hitter, his most productive season came in 1923, when he posted career-highs in batting average (.281), runs (85), hits (170), doubles (26), runs batted in (62) and games played (154). That season he was named to the Babe Ruth All-Star team, the year he won notoriety for his "$18,000 base hit" against the Detroit Tigers, which gave the Browns third place in the American League and a split in the World Series money. He played his final game with the Boston Red Sox in 1929.
In a 15-season career, Gerber batted .257 with seven home runs and 476 RBI in 1522 games. A disciplined hitter, he posted a fine 1.302 walk-to-strikeout ratio (465-to-357) in 5,099 at bats. As a shortstop, he recorded 2960 putouts, 4319 assists, 741 double plays, and 439 errors in 7718 chances for a .943 fielding percentage.
Following his playing career, Gerber served as an umpire in the Middle Atlantic League and also worked as a supervisor with the City Recreation Division of Ohio.
Gerber died in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 59 and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.
External links
Baseball Library
The Deadball Era
Major League Baseball shortstops
Pittsburgh Pirates players
St. Louis Browns players
Boston Red Sox players
Akron Champs players
Columbus Senators players
St. Paul Saints (AA) players
Baseball players from Columbus, Ohio
1891 births
1951 deaths
Burials at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
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"What If" is a song performed by English actress Kate Winslet, recorded for the animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). Winslet provided the voice of Belle in the feature, which is based on the Charles Dickens classic 1843 novel and also stars Nicolas Cage, Jane Horrocks and Simon Callow. "What If" was written by Wayne Hector and Steve Mac, while production was helmed by the latter. The song is a ballad that follows the film's theme, as Belle laments the end of her and Scrooge's relationship and wonders what could have been. It was the only song to be released from the official movie soundtrack.
News that Winslet was secretly recording the one-off single to vie for the 2001 UK Christmas number one spot was reported in the Daily Mirror. In the event, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number six, its peak. Elsewhere, "What If" was released to even bigger success; it became a number-one hit in Austria, Flanders, and Ireland whilst also reaching the top ten in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Critically acclaimed, the song won the 2002 OGAE Song Contest. At Winslet's request, the proceeds from the single were given to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Sargent Cancer Care for Children.
Critical reception
Can't Stop the Pop described "What If" as a "ballad of epic proportions", and a "huge, soaring Disney-esque ballad". Barbara Ellen from The Observer said it is "a sweet, trilling, sub-Celine little ditty." British trade paper Music Week wrote that Winslet could sing the track well but noted that her divorce from Jim Threapleton would make the lyrics less "poignant".
Music video
An accompanying music video, which was directed by Paul Donnellon and produced by Chris Horton, shows Winslet walking around an old Victorian house, haunted by the ghost of a girl, along with clips from the film.
Track listings
UK CD single
"What If"
"The Coventry Carol"
"What If" (film version)
"What If" (enhanced video)
UK cassette single
"What If"
"The Coventry Carol"
"What If" (film version)
European CD single
"What If" (full version)
"What If" (film version)
Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the UK CD single liner notes.
Studios
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Rokstone Studios (London, England)
Personnel
Kate Winslet – vocals
Steve Mac – writing, production
Wayne Hector – writing
Chris Laws – engineering
Matt Howe – engineering
Daniel Pursey – engineering assistant
Jason Bell – cover photography
The Red Room – cover design
Graeme Perkins – music supervisor for Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Cover versions
In 2004, a dance remake of the song was released by Dutch producer Ronald Vos (under the moniker of Ronny V), with Nanda Philipse (from the Dutch gothic metal band Infinite Dawn) providing the vocals.
In 2008, the 2007 X-Factor finalist Rhydian Roberts included a duet of the song with American singer and Broadway actress Idina Menzel on his debut album Rhydian.
Britain's Got Talent 2010 semi-finalist Olivia Archbold performed this song. She came in third place in the semi-finals and lost the judges' votes to Tobias Mead. Due to the performance, "What If" re-entered the UK Singles Charts at number 76 on 6 June 2010.
References
External links
"Winslet Records a Single" (IMDb news article)
"Winslet Launches Festive Chart Bid" (BBC News story)
2000s ballads
2001 debut singles
2001 songs
EMI Records singles
Kate Winslet songs
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Number-one singles in Austria
Pop ballads
Song recordings produced by Steve Mac
Songs about divorce
Songs about heartache
Songs written by Steve Mac
Songs written by Wayne Hector
Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) number-one singles
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Talorg son of Uuid (; died 653) was a king of the Picts from 641 to 653.
The Pictish king lists give him a reign of eleven or twelve years following his brother Bridei son of Uuid. A third brother, Gartnait son of Uuid, was king before Bridei, and some versions of the king lists have Talorg succeeding Gartnait directly. The three sons of Uuid were probably based in the southern Pictish territories south of the Mounth, and between them they ruled continuously from 631 to 653.
Uuid, Talorg's father, may be the same person as the Gwid son of Peithan recorded in the Welsh poem Y Gododdin as a leader allied with the northern Britons fighting against the Angles of Northumbria in the early 7th century. Gwid could have been either a Pictish ally of the Gododdin or a related northern British chief. His name may originally have read "Gwid son of Neithan", suggesting that he was the son of Neithon son of Guipno, king of the British kingdom of Alt Clut, who may in turn be the same person as the Nechtan grandson of Uerb recorded as king of the Picts from 595 to around 616. This theory, which is highly credible chronologically, would make Talorg and his brothers grandsons of Neithan and first cousins of both the later Pictish king Bridei son of Beli and the later king of Alt Clut Eugein.
Talorg's death is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach for 653. He was succeeded by Talorgan son of Eanfrith, whose name is a diminutive meaning "Little Talorg", suggesting that Talorg and Talorgan were closely related, with Talorgan's mother possibly being Talorg's sister.
Notes
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
Pictish Chronicle
653 deaths
Pictish monarchs
7th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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Xapian is a free and open-source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a full-text search engine library for programmers.
It is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python (2 and 3), PHP (5 and 7), Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, Lua, Erlang, Node.js and R. Xapian is highly portable and runs on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, OS/2 and Hurd, as well as Tru64. Xapian grew out of the Muscat search engine, written by Dr. Martin F. Porter at the University of Cambridge. The first official release of Xapian was version 0.5.0 on September 20, 2002.
Xapian allows developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
Organisations and projects using Xapian include the Library of the University of Cologne, Debian, Die Zeit, MoinMoin, and One Laptop per Child.
Features
Supports Unicode 9.0 (including codepoints beyond the BMP) and stores indexed text in UTF-8.
Transactions: if database update fails in the middle of a transaction, the database is guaranteed to remain in a consistent state.
Simultaneous search and update, with new documents being immediately visible.
Support for large databases: Xapian has been proven to scale to hundreds of millions of documents.
Accurate probabilistic ranking: more relevant documents are listed first.
Phrase and proximity searching.
Relevance feedback, which improves ranking and can expand a query, find related documents, categorise documents etc.
Structured Boolean queries, e.g. "race AND condition NOT horse"
Wildcard search, e.g. "wiki*"
Spelling correction
Synonyms
Omega, a packaged solution for adding a search engine to a web site or intranet. Omega can easily be extended and adapted to fit changing requirements.
GUI front-ends
Recoll written using Qt
See also
List of information retrieval libraries
Recoll
References
External links
Free search engine software
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Robert Olejnik (born 26 November 1986) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Olejnik came through the youth teams of Austria Wien and Aston Villa and has played professionally for Falkirk, Torquay United, Peterborough United, Scunthorpe United, York City, Exeter City, and Mansfield Town. He also represented the Austria national under-21 team.
Club career
Youth career
Olejnik was born in Vienna and started playing football from a young age first playing for Rapid Vienna. He moved to Austria Wien's youth system where he remained until 2003 when Olejnik moved to England to join Aston Villa's youth system after impressing goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, before landing his first professional contract.
Aston Villa
Olejnik is a product of Aston Villa's youth system. He joined League Two club Lincoln City on a loan deal until the end of the 2006–07 season, to help The Imps in their promotion push. Whilst there, he helped their Reserve side to lift the Pontin's Reserves League Cup. They had beaten Premiership sides Sheffield United and Blackburn Rovers on the way. After a 1–1 draw in 90 minutes against Hartlepool United, the match went to a penalty shoot-out. Olejnik saved two of the first five, making it 3–3 after each side having taken five. The scores made it to 6–6 before Olejnik saved a penalty, to then step up himself and score the winning goal.
Falkirk
However, on 30 May 2007, Olejnik was released by Villa manager Martin O'Neill and the following day joined Scottish club Falkirk. At the start of the season, Olejnik became second choice to Tim Krul who made 22 appearances. Olejnik made his debut for the club in a 1–0 win over Kilmarnock on 2 January 2008, coming on a substitute for Russell Latapy after Krul got sent off for unsportsmanlike conduct. Krul would later return to his parent club after suffering a shoulder injury and Olejnik would later become a first choice goalkeeper for the rest of the season. Olejnik managed to keep his first clean sheet for the club in a 0–0 draw against Aberdeen on 5 January 2008.
The following season, Olejnik managed to get playing time as a first choice goalkeeper. Because of that, this led the club signing Scott Flinders from Crystal Palace and replacing Olejnik as a first choice goalkeeper until Olejnik made a return in goal in a 1–1 draw against Inverness Caledonian Thistle At the end of the season on 11 June 2009, Olejnik signed a two-year extension with the club, keeping him at the club until 2011.
The following season with Mallo left Falkrik, Olejnik resumed his first choice goalkeeper status, having played all 38 games in the league. However, the club was relegated after failing to beat Kilmarnock on 9 May 2010 in a 0–0 draw. During the season, Olejnik made his European debut in the UEFA Europa League in the second round against Vaduz. In the first leg, Falkirk won 1–0, giving Olejnik his first clean sheet in Europe competition on 16 July 2009. In the second leg on 23 July 2009, Vaduz strike back and won 2–0, eliminating Falkirk in the Europa League, in process. In a 0–0 draw against Aberdeen, Olejnik was in a confrontation with team-mate Scott Arfield, who he believed had not properly defended a cross. As a result, referee Alan Muir booked the pair. After the match, Olejnik made an apology for an incident
Falkirk manager, Steven Pressley confirmed Olejnik would be leaving the club after his contract ran out on 30 June 2011. At the club, Olejnik made over 100 league appearances.
Torquay United
On 1 July 2011, Olejnik signed with League Two club Torquay United. Olejnik made his debut in a 2–1 friendly win over Tiverton Town. He started his first League Two match of the season with Torquay, at home to Burton Albion. Despite conceding two goals, he received the man of the match award. The following season, he helped the team set a new club record of 20 clean sheets. On 16 February 2012, Olejnik signed a contract extension, set to keep him at the club until 2014.
In April 2012, Olejnik was named in the PFA Team of the Year for League Two along with teammate Kevin Nicholson, Eunan O'Kane and Lee Mansell.
Peterborough United
On 18 June 2012, Olejnik signed a three-year contract with Championship side Peterborough United for an undisclosed fee. Olejnik was a replacement for both Joe Lewis and Paul Jones, who left for Cardiff City and Crawley Town respectively. Olejnik made his debut for Peterborough United on 14 August 2012 with a clean sheet in a 4–0 win over Southend United in the cup. He made his Championship debut against Leicester City six days later. Manager Darren Ferguson was later quoted saying "Bobby's a really good goalkeeper. The save he made in the first-half was outstanding, but he also gives us something we haven't had from our goalkeepers in recent seasons and that's excellent communication skills".
Olejnik was one of Posh's most prominent players during the 2012–13 campaign, making 275 saves, the most by any goalkeeper in the Championship.
At the end of the 2013–14 season he received the club's Player of the Year award. During the first leg of the 2013–14 League One play-off semi-final against Leyton Orient, he was awarded Man of the Match for a performance which helped Peterborough draw the game 1–1. At the end of the 2013–14 campaign, however, to the surprise of the fans, Olejnik was told that he was not going to be offered a new contract and would be put on the transfer list. He had kept 22 clean sheets during the campaign, equalling the club record.
On 19 July 2014 Olejnik signed on a 28-day emergency loan with Scunthorpe United and made his debut against Fleetwood Town on the same day. On 1 September Scunthorpe extended his loan until January 2015.
Olejnik joined League Two York City on loan until the end of the 2014–15 season on 5 January 2015, being reunited with manager Russ Wilcox, who had signed him for Scunthorpe. He received the club's player of the month award for January 2015, his first month with the club.
Exeter City
Olejnik signed for League Two club Exeter City on 2 June 2015 after his contract with Peterborough expired. He was released by Exeter at the end of 2016–17, despite the club hoping to be able to offer him a new contract.
Mansfield Town
On 8 June 2017, Olejnik signed for League Two club Mansfield Town. He was released by Mansfield at the end of the 2019–20 season.
Retirement
In July 2020 Olejnik announced his retirement from professional football, aiming to focus on a career in the technology sector, he attributed the career move in part to the COVID-19 pandemic.
International career
Olejnik was also called up for the Austria U-21 squad to play Italy U-21 in late August 2006.
Career statistics
Honours
Peterborough United
Football League Trophy: 2013–14
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2011–12 League Two
Peterborough United Player of the Year: 2013–14
References
External links
Profile at the Mansfield Town F.C. website
1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Vienna
Austrian men's footballers
Austria men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Aston Villa F.C. players
Lincoln City F.C. players
Falkirk F.C. players
Torquay United F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
York City F.C. players
Exeter City F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Scottish Premier League players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Austrian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in England
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
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Shaila Abdullah (born 1971) is a Pakistani-American author, writer, and designer.
Life
Shaila Abdullah has received the Patras Bukhari Award for English Language, the Golden Quill Award, the Reader Views Award, the Written Art Award, and a grant from Hobson Foundation. Beyond the Cayenne Wall received the Jury Prize for Outstanding Fiction which is the highest award in the Norumbega Fiction Awards.
Her books include Saffron Dreams, Beyond the Cayenne Wall and three children's books: Rani in Search of a Rainbow, My Friend Suhana, and A Manual for Marco. She has also written books for children with special needs.
In early 2014, a research team from Washington and Lee University conducted a study in which they found that reading a 3,000-word extract from Saffron Dreams can make a person less racist. The novel was cited as 1 of 50 Greatest Works of Immigration Literature by Open Education Database.
Works
Beyond the cayenne wall : collection of short stories, Lincoln, NE : iUniverse, 2005. ,
Saffron dreams : a novel, Ann Arbor, MI : Modern History Press, 2010. ,
My friend Suhana, Ann Arbor, MI : Loving Healing Press, 2014. ,
A manual for Marco, Ann Arbor, MI : Loving Healing Press 2015. ,
References
External links
If These Walls Could Talk, Nirali Magazine, April 2007
1971 births
21st-century American women writers
American women short story writers
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
Living people
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Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg (born May 26, 1978), known professionally as Benji Gregory is an American former actor. He is best known for playing the role of Brian Tanner on the sitcom ALF.
Early life
Gregory was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, uncle and sister were all actors; his grandmother was his agent.
Career
In addition to his stint on ALF, he appeared in several television shows which include Fantastic Max (1988-1990), Pound Puppies (1986-1987), Murphy Brown (1988), Fantasy Island (1978), The A-Team (1984), T.J. Hooker (1984), Amazing Stories (1985), The Twilight Zone (1985), and Mr. Boogedy (1986). He also made an appearance in the feature film Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986).
Gregory appeared as himself in the PSAs television series The More You Know, the children's game show series I'm Telling!, the "Salute to the 50 States episodes" of the game show Fun House, as well as on a kids episode of The Dating Game.
Gregory made several appearances on the television sitcom Punky Brewster, playing an orphan named "Dash," and supplied the voice of Edgar the Mole in the animated feature Once Upon a Forest (1993). He was scheduled to co-star in a Punky Brewster spin-off called Fenster Hall. The pilot/television-movie of Fenster Hall was never picked up for regular production.
Work in the Navy
Gregory enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 2003 and graduated school to become an aerographer's mate. During his naval career Benji was assigned to the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). In 2005, he received an honorable discharge from the Navy. He married in 2006, after completing his military service.
Filmography
References
External links
1978 births
20th-century American male actors
American male child actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from Los Angeles
Living people
Academy of Art University alumni
United States Navy sailors
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Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable stochastic processes and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Kallenberg is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama in the USA.
From 1991 to 1994, Kallenberg served as the Editor-in-Chief of Probability Theory and Related Fields (a leading journal in probability).
Biography
Olav Kallenberg was educated in Sweden. He has worked as a probabilist in Sweden and in the United States.
Sweden
Kallenberg was born and educated in Sweden, with an undergraduate exam in engineering physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Kallenberg entered doctoral studies in mathematical statistics at KTH, but left his studies to work in operations analysis for a consulting firm in Gothenburg. While in Gothenburg, Kallenberg also taught at Chalmers University of Technology, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Harald Bergström.
After earning his doctoral degree, Kallenberg stayed with Chalmers as a lecturer.
Kallenberg was appointed a full professor in Uppsala University.
United States
Later he moved to the United States. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University.
Honours and awards
In 1977, Kallenberg was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize from Cambridge University, and Kallenberg was only the second recipient of the prize in history.
Kallenberg is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
In April 2006 Kallenberg was selected Auburn's 32nd annual Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer at Auburn. Kallenberg delivered the 2003 AACTM Lewis-Parker Lecture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Selected publications
Books
Kallenberg, O., Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles. Springer -Verlag, New York (2005). 510 pp. .
Kallenberg, O., Foundations of Modern Probability, 2nd ed. Springer Series in Statistics. (2002). 650 pp. ; 3rd ed. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling. (2021). 946 pp.
Kallenberg, O., Random Measures, 4th edition. Academic Press, New York, London; Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (1986).
Scientific papers
Homogeneity and the strong Markov property. Ann. Probab. 15 (1987), 213–240.
Spreading and predictable sampling in exchangeable sequences and processes. Ann. Probab. 16 (1988), 508–534.
Multiple integration with respect to Poisson and Lévy processes (with J. Szulga). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields (1989), 101–134.
General Wald-type identities for exchangeable sequences and processes. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 83 (1989), 447–487.
Random time change and an integral representation for marked stopping times. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 86 (1990), 167–202.
Some dimension-free features of vector-valued martingales (with R. Sztencel). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 88 (1991), 215–247.
Symmetries on random arrays and set-indexed processes. J. Theor. Probab. 5 (1992), 727–765.
Random arrays and functionals with multivariate rotational symmetries. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 103 (1995), 91–141.
On the existence of universal functional solutions to classical SDEs. Ann. Probab. 24 (1996), 196–205.
References
External links
Brief CV for the 2003 Lewis-Parker Lecturer .
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Swedish emigrants to the United States
Swedish mathematicians
Probability theorists
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Chalmers University of Technology alumni
Auburn University faculty
1939 births
Measure theorists
Academic staff of Uppsala University
Probability Theory and Related Fields editors
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Tulsa Riverside Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) south of the central business district of Tulsa, a city in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. The facility was known as Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport for several decades but was formally renamed in January 2022 to reduce confusion with another airport in Oklahoma. In the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021-2025, Riverside is classed as a national-level nonprimary airport, and a reliever airport for Tulsa International. National nonprimary airports are those that serve primarily general aviation (GA) users in metropolitan areas near major business centers, and have high traffic including many jets and multi-engine aircraft.
The airport is the busiest in Oklahoma in terms of takeoffs and landings: more than 223,300 in 2023. The airport averaged 534 operations per day for the 12-month period ending October 10, 2018, making it considerably busier than Tulsa International (which has an average 254 operations per day) or Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport (which has an average 302 operations per day).
History
In the 1950s, the city of Tulsa decided to build a second airport to alleviate congestion around Tulsa International Airport. A consulting group hired by the city performed a site selection study. In February, 1955, the group recommended a site on the west side of the Arkansas River, just north of Jenks, Oklahoma. Construction began in 1957.
The facility, originally called Riverside Airport, opened on July 3, 1958. At that time, the airport had one long runway, an aircraft ramp, and one concrete building. By 1965, there were enough operations to justify building an air traffic control tower.
In 1967, the Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust (TAIT) was established as a public trust to operate, construct and maintain airport facilities on behalf of the city of Tulsa. TAIT has no authority to levy taxes and depends on airport revenues to repay any airport-related debts. TAIT is independent of the city, but all board members are appointed by the Mayor of Tulsa and confirmed by the City Council. In October 1978, TAIT leased all city aviation facilities other than police and fire heliports to the city of Tulsa acting through the Tulsa Airport Authority (TAA), which agreed to disburse all airport-related income to TAIT. In July 1989, a lease amendment gave daily airport operation and maintenance responsibility to the TAA.
The number of take-offs and landings exceeded 300,000 in 1978. Also in 1978, the airport was renamed Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport to honor its namesake's service on the TAIT Board of Trustees. In 1989, the airport installed an instrument landing system (ILS).
Throughout the past fifty years, the airport has grown to become a hub of business and economic activity for the Tulsa region. It now includes three runways, over two hundred commercial and private hangars, and over 500 based aircraft. In 2008, RVS was the fifth busiest general aviation airport in the country. Much of the airport's activity comes directly from its seven flight schools. Including Tulsa Community College Professional Pilot School and Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. On 1 April 2011 an MD-80 donated by American Airlines was flown to the airport to replace the aging Boeing 727 then used for training Tulsa Technology Center students.
On November 9, 2021, the TAIT Board of Trustees announced that the facility would be renamed Tulsa Riverside Airport, effective January 1, 2022, with its code (RVS) remaining the same. This was done to clear up confusion with Jones Memorial Airport in Bristow.
Facilities and aircraft
Tulsa Riverside Airport covers an area of 664 acres (269 ha) at an elevation of 638 feet (194 m) above mean sea level. It has three runways with asphalt surfaces: 1L/19R is 5,102 by 100 feet (1,555 x 30 m); 1R/19L is 4,208 by 100 feet (1,283 x 30 m);
13/31 is 2,641 by 50 feet (805 x 15 m). are leased to the Tulsa County Board of Commissioners for the operation of South Lakes Golf Course.
For the 12-month period ending October 10, 2018, the airport’s traffic was 60% local general aviation, 37% transient general aviation, 1% air taxi, and less than 1% each of military and commercial. At that time there were 313 aircraft based at this airport, with 257 single-engine, 31 multi-engine, 14 jets, 7 helicopters and 4 gliders.
Airport observation area
In an effort to discourage drivers from parking on 91st Street adjacent to the airport to watch aircraft, the TAA has built an observation area southwest of the airport, funded by charity golf tournaments held in 2009 and 2010, sales of brick pavers on the site, and sales of desk lamps made from salvaged airport taxiway lights that were replaced by LED lights. Parking spaces, an elevated viewing platform, enlarged airport diagram, and six picnic tables have been completed and installed. When complete, the observation area will have a gazebo, security guard shack, and restroom. All work on the observation area has been done by TAA employees except for the enlarged airport diagram which was completed as part of an Eagle Scout Service Project.
See also
List of airports in Oklahoma
References
Sources
External links
R. L. Jones Jr. Airport (RVS)
Aerial image as of February 1995 from USGS The National Map
Airports in Oklahoma
Buildings and structures in Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Airports established in 1958
1958 establishments in Oklahoma
Transportation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"Boom" is a song by American recording artist Anastacia, which served as the official song of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. Co-written with and produced by Glen Ballard, it was released as a single on March 20, 2003, by Daylight Records and Epic Records. The song was included on The Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as on the collectors edition of Anastacia's second studio album Freak of Nature (2001).
In 2014, MTV Italy declared it the country's favorite FIFA World Cup song.
Music video
Directed by Marcos Siega, the music video for "Boom" was shot in London in 2002. It was later included on her first DVD, The Video Collection. In the beginning of the video, a car is driving along and the radio plays "One Day in Your Life" in the background. Suddenly the car stops and a light flash is seen in the sky. Then the song starts and Anastacia is performing it on a small stage in front of a crowd. During the video, several people get beamed up to this party, some of them being soccer players.
Track listings
Australia
"Boom" (Album Version) – 3:18
"Boom" (M*A*S*H Radio Mix) – 3:04
"Boom" (Thunderpuss Radio Mix) - 3:20
"Boom" (M*A*S*H Master Mix) – 6:23
"Boom" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 10:52
Europe
"Boom" (Album Version) – 3:18
"Boom" (Almighty Radio Edit) – 4:03
"Boom" (M*A*S*H Radio Mix) – 3:04
"Boom" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 10:52
"Boom" (Video)
Austria
"Boom" (Album Version) – 3:18
"Boom" (Almighty Radio Edit) – 4:03
Japan
"Boom" (Album Version) – 3:18
"Paid My Dues" (Album Version) – 3:22
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
2002 singles
2002 songs
Anastacia songs
Daylight Records singles
Epic Records singles
2002 FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup official songs and anthems
Music videos directed by Marcos Siega
Songs written by Anastacia
Songs written by Glen Ballard
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The Washington-1 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. The plan applies to legislatures elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. A new plan will be developed in 2012 following the 2010 U.S. Census.
The Washington-1 District includes all of the Washington County towns of Fayston, Waitsfield, and Warren.
As of the 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 150 representatives, there were 4,059 residents per representative (or 8,118 residents per two representatives). The one member Washington-1 District had a population of 4,481 in that same census, 10.4% above the state average.
District Representative
Adam Greshin, Independent
See also
Members of the Vermont House of Representatives, 2005-2006 session
Vermont Representative Districts, 2002-2012
External links
Vermont Statute defining legislative districts
Vermont House districts -- Statistics
Vermont House of Representatives districts, 2002–2012
Fayston, Vermont
Waitsfield, Vermont
Warren, Vermont
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Annar Ryen (19 October 1909, Os, Hedmark – 9 March 1985) was a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s.
He won a gold medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1937 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Because of his successes, Ryen was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1940 (shared with Oscar Gjøslien). This was the last medal before World War II.
He represented the clubs Tynset IF and IL Nansen. After retiring he was a farmer in Dalsbygda in Os, Hedmark. He died in 1985.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
World Championships
1 medal – (1 gold)
References
1909 births
1985 deaths
People from Os, Innlandet
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
Holmenkollen medalists
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Skiers from Innlandet
20th-century Norwegian people
20th-century farmers
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This is a list of airports in Oklahoma (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The largest airport located in the state is Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.
Airports
See also
Essential Air Service
Oklahoma World War II Army Airfields
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America#Oklahoma
References
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
FAA Airport Data (Form 5010) from National Flight Data Center (NFDC), also available from AirportIQ 5010
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, updated September 2016
Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) Data for CY 2016, updated October 2017
Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission (OAC):
Airport Directory
Other sites used as a reference when compiling and updating this list:
Aviation Safety Network – used to check IATA airport codes
Great Circle Mapper: Airports in Oklahoma – used to check IATA and ICAO airport codes
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Oklahoma – used for information on former airports
Airports
Oklahoma
Airports
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A toxicant is any toxic substance, whether artificial or naturally occurring. By contrast, a toxin is a poison produced naturally by an organism (e.g. plant, animal, insect). The different types of toxicants can be found in the air, soil, water, or food.
Occurrence
Toxicants can be found in the air, soil, water, or food. Humans can be exposed to environmental toxicants. Fish can contain environmental toxicants. Tobacco smoke contains toxicants. E-cigarette aerosol also contains toxicants. The emissions of a heat-not-burn tobacco product contains toxicants. Most heavy metals are toxicants. Diesel exhaust contains toxicants. Pesticides, benzene, and asbestos-like fibers such as carbon nanotubes are toxicants. Possible developmental toxicants include phthalates, phenols, sunscreens, pesticides, halogenated flame retardants, perfluoroalkyl coatings, nanoparticles, e-cigarettes, and dietary polyphenols.
Related terms
By contrast, a toxin is a poison produced naturally by an organism (e.g. plant, animal, insect). The 2011 book A Textbook of Modern Toxicology states, "A toxin is a toxicant that is produced by a living organism and is not used as a synonym for toxicant—all toxins are toxicants, but not all toxicants are toxins. Toxins, whether produced by animals, plants, insects, or microbes are generally metabolic products that have evolved as defense mechanisms for the purpose of repelling or killing predators or pathogens."
Biocides are oxidizing or non-oxidizing toxicants. Chlorine is the most commonly manufactured oxidizing toxicant. Chlorine is ubiquitously added to drinking water to disinfect it. Non-oxidized toxicants include isothiazolinones and quaternary ammonium compounds.
An intoxicant is a substance that intoxicates such as an alcoholic drink. An intoxicant is a substance that impairs the mind and causes a person to be in a state varying from exhilaration to lethargy.
References
External links
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Bescot Stadium railway station serves the Bescot area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. (The station is located in the borough of Sandwell, although it can only be reached from within the borough of Walsall.) The station, and most trains serving it are operated by West Midlands Railway with some services being operated by London Northwestern Railway.
History
An earlier station was opened nearby as Bescot Bridge in 1837 by the Grand Junction Railway but was later renamed .
A station was subsequently opened as Bescot on the current site on 1 May 1850, it was renamed to Bescot Junction in August 1850.
The line through the station was electrified in 1966 as part of the London Midland Region's electrification programme. The actual energization of the line from Coventry to Walsall through Aston took place on 15 August 1966.
It was renamed Bescot Stadium in 1990 in order to serve Bescot Stadium, the newly built home of Walsall Football Club.
The station was re-opened on 11 September 2007 after a short period where it was closed for refurbishment. Whilst closed, no services called at the station, but trains continued to pass through.
Incidents
On 8 December 1854 a South Staffordshire Railway passenger train from Walsall, hauled by a LNWR engine struck the corner of a goods waggon, which was projecting from a siding towards the main line. The wagon then struck the engine's tender, and four of the following carriages, derailing and badly damaging them. One passenger died and over 20 more were in injured.
Services
Bescot Stadium station is on the Walsall Line between Birmingham New Street and Walsall. The typical Monday-Saturday daytime service sees three trains per hour in each direction. Southbound via Birmingham New Street there is one service per hour to London Euston and two stopping services per hour to Wolverhampton; with some services extended to/from Shrewsbury. Northbound, three trains per hour operate to Walsall with one continuing to Rugeley Trent Valley.
On Sundays and during the evenings, services are reduced.
Services are usually operated by Class 350 EMU. Services to/from Shrewsbury are operated using Class 170 DMU.
The station footbridge offers views of Bescot Yard, and its freight movements. Bescot TMD is adjacent to the station.
Access to the station is via Bescot Crescent (where there is a car park) and then a footpath which passes underneath the M6 motorway and over the River Tame, then an overbridge.
London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office, but this request was overruled in September 2012 by the Transport Minister.
References
External links
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Bescot Stadium railway station
Railway stations in Sandwell
DfT Category E stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1837
Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains
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BAM Nuttall Limited (formerly known as Edmund Nuttall Limited) is a construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Camberley, United Kingdom. It has been involved in a portfolio of road, rail, nuclear, and other major projects worldwide. It is a subsidiary of the Dutch Royal BAM Group.
History
The company was founded by James Nuttall Snr in Manchester in 1865, to undertake engineering works associated with infrastructure developments, such as the Manchester Ship Canal, which opened in 1894 and the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, which opened in 1898.
In the 1900s and 1910s James Nuttall Snr's two sons—Sir Edmund Nuttall, 1st Baronet (1870–1923), who was made a baronet in 1922, and James Nuttall (1877–1957)—built the company into a nationwide business. In the 1920s and 1930s the company was run by Sir Edmund's son, Sir Keith Nuttall, 2nd Baronet (1901–1941), who served in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War. Other members of the family also involved were Sir Keith's brother Clive Nuttall (1906–1936) and their cousin (James Nuttall's son) Norman Nuttall (1907–1996). In 1941 Sir Keith's shares were inherited by his eight-year-old son, Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet (1933–2007). During the Second World War the company was one of the contractors engaged in building the Mulberry harbour units.
In 1978 the company was bought by Hollandsche Beton Groep (later HBG), a Dutch group, and in 2002 HBG was acquired by Royal BAM Group.
On 10 October 2008 Edmund Nuttall Limited changed its name to BAM Nuttall Limited.
Major projects
Major projects undertaken by the company include:
the Liver Building completed in 1911
the Queensway Tunnel under the Mersey completed in 1932
the Dartford Tunnel completed in 1963
the Tyne Tunnel completed in 1967
the Kingsway Tunnel completed in 1971
the Liverpool Merseyrail underground Loop Railway, now called the Wirral Line, completed in 1978
the Medway Tunnel completed in 1996
High Speed 1 completed in 2007
the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway completed in 2011
soil remediation and civil engineering works for the 2012 Summer Olympics completed in 2012
the Victoria Underground station North Ticketing Hall completed in 2017
the enlarged ticket hall at Tottenham Court Road tube station for Crossrail completed in 2017
the Cross Tay Link Road due to be completed in 2024
BAM Nuttall is also involved in HS2 lots C2 and C3, working as part of a joint venture, due to complete in 2031.
An alliance of companies that includes BAM Nuttall has been appointed preferred bidder for works as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade between Manchester and Leeds with a projected completion date of between 2036 and 2041.
Climate protest
On 5 June 2005, following their bid for a contract to construct the Kingsnorth power station, the company headquarters in Camberley, Surrey were invaded by climate protesters. Thirteen protesters took part in invading the offices, asking to speak about the chairman, distributing leaflets and unfurling a banner. The action resulted in five arrests; however the cases were thrown out with no case to answer.
See also
British industrial narrow gauge railways
Interserve
Speller Metcalfe
Clancy Docwra
Wirral Line
References
Sources
External links
Official site
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
Companies based in Surrey
British companies established in 1865
Nuttall family
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1865
1865 establishments in England
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The Quadrant Shopping Centre is the principal under-cover shopping centre in Swansea, Wales. The centre opened in 1979. From the 1980s to 2019 it was home to the Swansea Devil, a controversial carved wooden statue of the Devil.
The centre and surrounding areas are owned by the LaSalle Investment Management.
Stores
The centre has a floorspace of and is anchored by W H Smith and Boots. Other notable stores include HMV and Clarks.
The building
The centre's main distinctions are its glass roof structure and its square atrium at the centre, which is now leased out to seasonal businesses, mainly during festive periods. The centre was last redeveloped in the early 1990s, but much of the upper floor decor consists of open brickwork from the 1980s.
There are two levels in the Quadrant; Boots Group and WHSmith are the only stores occupying the upper level, along with the public conveniences and 'The Gallery', a cafe that overlooks the central area.
Surroundings
The Quadrant is directly adjacent to Swansea Market, Swansea bus station and a multi-storey car park. The less successful St. David's Shopping Centre complex is situated to the east; the St David's/Quadrant area is highlighted by the Council as the key priority for the regeneration of Swansea city centre.
Notes
External links
The Quadrant Shopping Centre Swansea (official site)
Welsh Assembly Government: £1 billion blueprint set to transform and revitalise Swansea City Centre
icWales: £1bn makeover plan for Dylan’s ‘ugly town’
Buildings and structures in Swansea
Shopping in Swansea
Buildings and structures completed in 1979
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The Battle of Beroia (modern Stara Zagora) was fought in 1122 between the Pechenegs and the Byzantine Empire under Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143) in what is now Bulgaria. The Byzantine army won the battle, resulting in the disappearance of the Pechenegs as a distinct, independent people.
Background
In 1091, the Pechenegs invaded the Byzantine Empire and were crushingly defeated by John II's father Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) at the Battle of Levounion. This defeat had meant the elimination of the Pechenegs who had taken part in the expedition as an independent force, as the male survivors were enrolled in the Byzantine army; however, some Pecheneg groups had not been involved in the invasion. Attacked in 1094 by the Cumans, many of the remaining Pechenegs were slain or absorbed. Nevertheless, some bands continued to exercise autonomy.
In 1122, Pechenegs from the Pontic steppes invaded the Byzantine Empire by crossing the Danube frontier into Byzantine territory. According to Michael Angold, it is possible that their invasion took place with the connivance of Vladimir Monomakh (r. 1113–1125), the ruler of Kiev, given that the Pechenegs had once been his auxiliaries. It is recorded that the remnants of the Oghuz and the Pechenegs had been expelled from Russia in 1121. The invasion posed a serious threat to Byzantine control over the northern Balkans. Emperor John II Komnenos of Byzantium, determined to meet the invaders in the field and drive them back, transferred his field army from Asia Minor (where it had been engaged against the Seljuk Turks) to Europe, and prepared to march north.
Battle
The Byzantine emperor gathered his forces near Constantinople and set out to meet the Pecheneg army as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the Pechenegs had crossed the Haemus Mountains (Balkan Mountains) and encamped near the city of Beroia in Thrace. The emperor at first offered the Pecheneg chiefs presents, offering to grant them a treaty that was favourable to their interests. The Pechenegs were successfully duped by this deception and were therefore taken by surprise when the Byzantines suddenly launched a major attack on their defensive wagon fort, or laager. The Pechenegs fought as waves of horse archers, firing arrows continuously. They relied on their laager as a rallying point, depot for arrow resupply, and a point of last defence. The battle was hard fought, and John was wounded in the leg by an arrow. However, the Byzantines forced the Pechenegs back and penned them in their laager. This defence proved effective, and it was not until John led the Varangian Guard, the elite heavy infantry force of the Byzantine emperors, against the wagons that their protection was breached. The Varangians, armed with their distinctive Danish axes, hacked their way through the Pecheneg circle of wagons, collapsing the Pecheneg position and causing a general rout in their camp. The Byzantine victory was complete, and the Pecheneg survivors were taken captive and enlisted into the Byzantine army.
Aftermath
The Byzantine victory effectively destroyed the Pechenegs as an independent force. For some time, significant communities of Pechenegs remained in Hungary, but eventually the Pechenegs ceased to be a distinct people and were assimilated by neighbouring peoples such as the Bulgarians and Magyars. For the Byzantines, the victory did not immediately lead to peace since the Hungarians attacked Braničevo, the Byzantine outpost on the Danube, in 1128. Yet, the victory over the Pechenegs, and later the Hungarians, ensured that much of the Balkan peninsula would remain Byzantine, allowing John to concentrate on extending Byzantine power and influence in Asia Minor and the Holy Land.
See also
Komnenian Byzantine army
References
Citations
Sources
Beroia
Komnenos dynasty
Kipchaks
Stara Zagora
Military history of Bulgaria
History of Stara Zagora Province
Beroia
1120s in the Byzantine Empire
1122 in Europe
Beroia
John II Komnenos
Battles involving the Pechenegs
Byzantine–Pecheneg wars
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Christopher George Arthur Collier (23 August 1886 – 25 August 1916) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right arm slow bowler who played 53 first-class matches in the years before the First World War. 52 of these were for Worcestershire, with the one exception being the match he played for H. K. Foster's XI in 1912. In all he scored 1,021 runs at 12.92 and took ten wickets at 36.90.
Collier's first-class debut came against Warwickshire at Worcester in mid-May 1910. He did little with the bat, scoring 10 and 2, and did not bowl.
Indeed, he did not send down a single ball in first-class cricket that season.
His first wicket, in late May 1911, was that of Oxford University's opener Richard Twining, and he finished with five in the match.
He played fairly frequently for Worcestershire over the following three years, turning out in 45 matches between 1911 and 1914. He also played one match for H. K. Foster's XI against Oxford University in 1912, in which he claimed a career-best 3/28 in the first innings.
Later that same summer, Collier also made his only half-century, hitting 72 for Worcestershire against Hampshire.
He also occasionally acted as scorer when not playing.
During World War I he served a staff sergeant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme near Mametz, France, two days after his 30th birthday.
Notes
References
Statistical summary from CricketArchive
1886 births
1916 deaths
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme
Cricketers from Banff, Aberdeenshire
English cricketers
Royal Army Ordnance Corps soldiers
Worcestershire cricketers
Scottish military personnel
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The list of teams and cyclists in the 2006 Tour de France contains the professional road bicycle racers who competed at the 2006 Tour de France from July 1 to July 23, 2006. In prior years, 21 teams of nine riders each have participated in the annual Tour de France, but following the Operación Puerto doping investigation, the team as well as four individual riders (Ivan Basso (CSC), Jan Ullrich (TMO), Óscar Sevilla (TMO) and Francisco Mancebo (A2R)) were not allowed to start the race.
Teams
Cyclists by starting number
Cyclists by team
Teams
Facts about the riders
26 countries were represented. France has the most riders, with 36 from the total of 176.
Bouygues Télécom is only team with all nine riders from the same country.
Team CSC is only team without rider from the country the team is from (Denmark)
31 riders who have already completed Giro: Ekimov, Padrnos, Rubiera, Savoldelli, Julich, Lombardi, Sastre, Voigt, Kessler, Calzati, Peña, Cunego, Bruseghin, Tiralongo, Valjavec, Vila Errandonea, Garate, Botcharov, Halgand, Lopez, Parra, Simoni, Lobato, Casar, da Cruz, Larsson, Di Luca, Calcagni, Lefevre, Knees, Sacchi
11 riders who took part in Giro but abandoned: Honchar, Rogers, Scholz, Rasmussen, Brandt, McEwen, Merckx, Rujano, Moreni, Verbrugghe, Gilbert
Following a non-start from Jan Ullrich, it is the first time since 1999 that the race has not included a former Tour de France winner.
Five riders have won Grand Tour: Garzelli (Giro 2000), Simoni (Giro 2001 and 2003), Savoldelli (Giro 2002 and 2005), Cunego (Giro 2004) and Menchov (Vuelta 2005)
Three riders have won points competition in Tour de France: Zabel (1996 to 2001), McEwen (2002 and 2004) and Hushovd (2005)
Two riders have won mountains classification in Tour de France: Rinero (1998) and Rasmussen (2005)
Four riders have won under-25 classification in Tour de France: Salmon (1999), Menchov (2003), Karpets (2004) and Popovych (2005)
Eleven riders had led the general classification: Vasseur, Zabel, O'Grady, Millar, Moreau, Voigt, Peña, Hushovd, McEwen, Voeckler and Zabriskie.
Riders who lead the general classification for the first time during the 2006 Tour: Hincapie, Boonen, Honchar, Dessel, Landis and Pereiro.
At the start, riders who had won a stage in Tour de France: Ekimov, Zabel, Boogerd, Vasseur, Brochard, Mengin, Rous, O'Grady, Bäckstedt, Guerini, Commesso, McEwen, Millar, Dekker, Moreau, Verbrugghe, Voigt, Freire, Halgand, Hushovd, Mayo, Flecha, Sastre, Simoni, Boonen, Pozzato, Moncoutié, Mercado, Zabriskie, Weening, Rasmussen, Valverde, Totschnig, Hincapie, Pereiro and Savoldelli.
New stage winners during the Tour: Casper, Kessler, Honchar, Calzati, Menchov, Popovych, Fedrigo, Schleck, and Landis. (Note: Popovych was part of the Discovery Channel team that won the time trial stage in the 2005 Tour de France. However it's his first individual stage victory. There are other riders as well who have been part of winning team in TTT but haven't won an individual stage)
See also
2006 Tour de France
List of teams and cyclists in the 2005 Tour de France
References
http://www.eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2006/standing_dsc460.shtml (Used for final GC Positions)
2006 Tour de France
2006
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KEUV-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Eureka, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside low-power dual CW+/MyNetworkTV affiliate KECA-LD (channel 29) and Arcata-licensed ABC affiliate KAEF-TV (channel 23). Sinclair also operates Eureka-licensed Fox affiliate KBVU (channel 28) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KBVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The four stations share studios on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka; KEUV-LD's transmitter is located along Barry Road southeast of Eureka.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KEUV-LD is considered a semi-satellite of KUCO-LD (channel 27) in Chico. It simulcasts all Univision network programming as provided by its parent but airs separate local commercials and station identifications. Master control operations are based at the facilities of sister station and ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7) on Auditorium Drive in Redding.
History
KEUV was founded in 1994 by Sainte Partners II, L.P. It is the first and only Spanish-language television station in Eureka.
On April 21, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased KBVU as part of a four-station deal. The sale was completed September 1.
In spring 2020, KEUV-LP turned off its analog signal and flash cut to digital on channel 31. The station was licensed for digital operation on April 5, 2021, changing its call sign to KEUV-LD.
Technical information
Subchannel
Translator
References
EUV-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in California
Univision network affiliates
EUV-LD
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Low-power television stations in California
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The U.S. Pro Tennis Championships (for a period from 1951 to 1962 billed as the Cleveland International Pro or Cleveland World Pro Tennis Championships) was the oldest professional tennis tournament played until its final year of 1999 and is considered to have been a professional major from 1927–1967 until the advent of Open Era. In 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1960, the Cleveland World Pro had a women's draw, with Pauline Betz winning the first three of these, and defeating the reigning U.S. women's champion Doris Hart in the 1956 final. Althea Gibson defeated Pauline Betz in the 1960 women's final.
American's first prominent professional player, Vincent Richards, arranged what became the first U.S. Professionals by negotiating with Doc Kelton to have a tournament played at the Notlek Tennis Club, located at 119th Street and Riverside Drive in Manhattan, New York, on September 23–25, 1927. Richards, tour pro Howard Kinsey and teaching pros from the eastern U.S. comprised the field, with Richards defeating Kinsey in the final in straight sets, a victory which earned him $1,000 first-prize money.
The tournament was subsequently held annually at various locations including the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York City, the South Shore Tennis Club in Chicago, in Rye, New York, at the Terrace Club in Brooklyn, the Chicago Town and Tennis Club in Chicago, at the L.A. Tennis Club in Los Angeles, at various clubs around Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleveland Arena in Cleveland. In 1951, two U.S. Pro events were held, one at Cleveland won by Frank Kovacs and another at Forest Hills won by Pancho Segura. In 1954, the USPLTA authorized Kramer to hold the U.S. Pro Championships at the L.A. Tennis Club in California, Gonzales winning the event, and the Benrus Cup (emblematic of the U.S. Pro) was awarded to Gonzales. There are two U.S. Pro events listed here for both 1951 (Cleveland and Forest Hills) and for 1954 (Cleveland and L.A. Tennis Club). Gonzales won two U.S. Pro titles in 1954. Its final permanent home was the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where it was held from 1964 to 1999. It became part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour shortly after the advent of open tennis in 1968. Between 1970 and 1977 it was a prominent tournament of the Grand Prix Super Series. It then became a tennis event within the ATP Tour with reorganization of the top tier of pro tour tennis.
The tournament was later played on Har-Tru clay courts and was initially an important tune-up event for the US Open. But when this Grand Slam tournament moved to hardcourts in 1978, the U.S. Professionals did not follow suit, electing instead to hold its tournament during the US clay court season in early summer instead of during its hitherto pre-Open Era (late summer) time slot. Remaining a clay event into the 1990s, it was a non-ATP exhibition event from 1990 through 1995. During the last stint of the tournament, from 1997 to 1999, it was again an ATP event and was played on hardcourts.
Pancho Gonzales holds the record for most wins with nine, two of those wins in the multiple year of 1954.
Past finals
Singles
Notes:
Doubles
Source:
See also
U.S. Pro Tennis Championships draws, 1927–1945
U.S. Pro Tennis Championships draws, 1946–1967
French Pro Championship
Wembley Championships
Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era
References
Bibliography
Major tennis tournaments
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States
Grand Prix tennis circuit
Professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era
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Swansea City bus station is a bus station serving Swansea, Wales. It lies immediately to the west of the Quadrant Shopping Centre.
The station has 20 stands for local bus services with three more serving national coach services. Coach services operated by National Express run westward to Llanelli, Carmarthen, and Haverfordwest and eastward to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, as well as Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport. There is also a fast daytime service (First Cymru X10) connecting the bus station to Bridgend Designer Outlet and Cardiff city centre hourly (every 90 to 105 minutes on Sundays).
There is a taxi rank at the south end of the station.
History and redevelopment
The bus station opened along with the Quadrant shopping centre in 1979, replacing the old bus station opposite (next to the Grand Theatre). The bus station was becoming old and run down by the mid 2000s and plans were put forward by the local council to re-develop the site into a more modern bus facility.
In July 2008, it was announced that funding from the European Convergence programme was approved to help with the £11 million redevelopment of the station. On 1 August 2008 it was confirmed that work on the new bus station would begin in January 2009, but it was headlined in the South Wales Evening Post on 1 December 2008, that work would not start until May 2009. Work started on 13 June 2009 and the newly built bus station opened on 6 December 2010. New retail units were built within the bus station building but opened on a later date. These units include a Greggs bakery, Costa Coffee and a Co-operative store.
See also
List of bus stations in Wales
Transport in Wales
References
External links
Buildings and structures in Swansea
Bus stations in Wales
Transport in Swansea
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Legs Weaver is an Italian science fiction comic book published by Sergio Bonelli Editore between 1994 and 2005.
Rebecca "Legs" Lawrence Weaver, the main character of the comic, first appeared as supporting character and sparring partner of Nathan Never (#1, Agente Speciale Alfa) in 1991. The main inspiration for the character were films of the Alien series and their main character Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver.
Initially the setting of the series was to mimic the one of the original Nathan Never series, as such it shares its characters. Its differentiating point was to be a more ironic and funny atmosphere to contrast the deep and involved scenery of Nathan Never.
Initially Antonio Serra took care of the comic. He introduced a number of storyline which could be read as a parody of chauvinism versus feminism. After an intermediate period during which Stefano Piani edited the stories, in 2004 a major rework of the series went through. This was in response to a noticeable decline in sales. The attempt was eventually unsuccessful and the series closed with a last episode published in October 2005.
Legs is the daughter of a solid middle-class family. During her childhood she suffered from dyslexia and dysmetria. Those conditions contributed to develop a closed and weak personality. To break away from her disappointing life, at 18 Rebecca enrolls at the Rogers Academy, a military school meant to raise future soldiers, private agents and body guards.
At the Rogers academy Rebecca shows a remarkable talent for weapons and military apparatus, however she is weak in the other subjects. She is helped in those by her roommate, Sybyl Danning. Eventually she will marry Oliver Lawrence, the founder of the academy. Her life turns upside down when she is wrongly convicted of her husband's murder.
In jail, Rebecca changes. Sexual abuse and a tough environment shape her into a harder person. It is in jail that Rebecca takes the nickname Legs. She leaves jail thanks to Edwards Reiser, an entrepreneur founder of the Alfa Agency. Reiser was on the lookout for special agent material and manages to get Legs out of jail on condition of joining his agency.
At Alfa, Legs will always be temperamental and difficult to deal with, but fair. However, as the story runs we learn that Legs has more depth. She quickly becomes Nathan Never's best friend within the agency.
Her life changes when she meets May Frayn. Initially a thief with her two sisters she then joins the Alfa agency.
Legs is lesbian. She shares a flat with May for a while, during most of that time they are lovers. However, May cannot reconcile her love of men with her love for Legs. A new woman takes her place in Legs' life: Janet Blaise. Janet closely resembles the character of Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. Despite her deep friendship with Nathan Never, Legs was never involved romantically with him; the only intimacy they share is a French kiss in Nathan Never episode 100.
Cancellation
Despite the attempts at revamping the series in 2004, Legs did not see a significant increase in sales. The series was cancelled with issue 119, published in October 2005. However, the Legs character did not disappear from the Nathan Never universe and was reintegrated in the series on Nathan Never special issue 16 (December 2006).
References
Fictional lesbians
Legs Weaver
LGBT characters in comics
Legs Weaver
1991 comics debuts
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Newlyn Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK. Opened in 1895, designed by James Hicks of Redruth and financed by John Passmore Edwards the gallery was conceived as a home and exhibition venue for the Newlyn School of Art the works of which are now largely located at Penlee House Gallery and Museum in nearby Penzance.
Following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions, the gallery was redeveloped and a second venue The Exchange in Penzance, was opened in 2007. With two venues it offers a wide and varied programme across two sites. The focus at Newlyn Art Gallery is on painting and drawing. Artists working in other media continue to be a part of the programme on occasions, but two-dimensional work is the clear focus. Recent shows have included major retrospectives by Roger Hilton and Breon O'Casey. As a dog-friendly venue, dogs on leads are allowed to visit the gallery.
At Newlyn Art Gallery, the pavilion on the seaward side of the gallery is a glass structure on the ground-floor level, which supports a first floor clad in wet-laid Cornish slate, a building method specific to the region, but rarely seen in modern buildings. The glass curtain wall allows panoramic views of Newlyn Green and the sea while sliding doors lead to a secluded garden and outdoor seating area. The versatile Lower Gallery presents small exhibitions, projects and events. The Education Room and Studio Cafe on the first floor of the pavilion has a large window offering panoramic views across Mount's Bay, as well as a skylight the length of the gabled ceiling.
The Exchange
The Exchange was converted from a telephone exchange. It has a large T-shaped gallery, double the size of Newlyn's gallery, which is regularly used as a project space in which artists and curators test new ideas. The Exchange enables audiences to see large-scale work not previously accessible in the region. It is also used as a venue for live performances, film screenings and community events.
The Exchange has an undulating glass façade which runs the entire length of the building, which is a former telephone exchange. A dramatic, changing light display, designed by Penwith-based artist Peter Freeman illuminates the glass panels according to the exhibitions and time of day and year.
References
External links
Newlyn
Art museums and galleries in Cornwall
Contemporary art galleries in England
Art museums established in 1895
1895 establishments in England
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The Dutch Open (or Dutch Open Tennis) originally known as the International Championships of the Netherlands was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay court and held in three different locations in The Netherlands between 1957 and 2008. No tournament was organized in 1967. From 1957 to 1973 the tournament consisted of both men's and women's events (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) but from 1975 onward only men's singles and doubles events were held.
History
The tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit in the 1970s and an ATP Tour event from its inception in 1990. Amsterdam became the event host in 1995 and in 2002 the tournament moved to Amersfoort where it was held until its final edition in 2008.
In 2008 the organizers sold the right of organization to the family of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic, and the tournament was moved to Belgrade, where it became known as the Serbia Open.
Balázs Taróczy won six editions and is the record title holder.
Past finals
Men's singles
Women's singles
Mens Challenger singles
Mens Challenger doubles
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Grand Prix tennis circuit
Tennis tournaments in the Netherlands
Clay court tennis tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 1957
Recurring events disestablished in 2008
International sports competitions hosted by the Netherlands
1957 establishments in the Netherlands
2008 disestablishments in the Netherlands
Defunct tennis tournaments in Europe
Annual sporting events in the Netherlands
Defunct sports competitions in the Netherlands
Sports competitions in Amersfoort
Sports competitions in Amsterdam
Sports competitions in Hilversum
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Osaka Popstar and the American Legends of Punk is the first, and so far only, album released by Osaka Popstar. The title references the fact that the band includes members of legendary punk bands such as The Misfits, Ramones, Black Flag and The Voidoids.
The CD came with a DVD that included music videos for "Wicked World" and "Insects".
Track listing
"Wicked World" (Daniel Johnston) – 2:58,
"Astro Boy" (Donald Rockwell, Tatsuo Takai) – 1:30
"Sailor Moon" (Andy Heyward, Tetsuya Komoro, Kanako Oda) – 1:11
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (Traditional, arranged by John Cafiero) – 3:20
"Insects" (Davis Aronin, Carl Brown Jerron Cool, Keisha Dotson, Brenda Garcia, Inisinna, Kids Of Widney High, Michael Monagan) – 2:06
"I Live Off You" (Marianne Elliot, aka Poly Styrene) – 1:50
"Xmas Intro (That Almost Wasn't)" (Ray Carter) – 0:10
"The Christmas That Almost Wasn't" (Carter, Paul Tripp) – 1:38
"Love Comes in Spurts" (Richard Hell) – 1:53
"Blank Generation" (Hell) – 2:47
"Monsters" (Cafiero) – 2:52
"Where's the Cap'n?" (Cafiero) – 2:25
"Shaolin Monkeys" (Cafiero) – 2:58
Personnel
John Cafiero – vocals
Jerry Only – bass
Dez Cadena – lead guitar
Ivan Julian – rhythm guitar
Marky Ramone – drums
Cover songs
Among the songs on the album are cover versions of the title tracks from the anime series Astro Boy and Sailor Moon, and the Rossano Brazzi film The Christmas That Almost Wasn't.
2006 debut albums
Rykodisc albums
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"It's Only Make Believe" is a song written by drummer Jack Nance and Mississippi-born singer Conway Twitty, while they were touring across Ontario, Canada in 1958. Twitty was a relatively unknown rock n' roll singer at the time, and this song was his first hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard chart in November 1958 for two weeks.
The song has been covered by a number of artists, including Billy Fury, Child, and Ronnie McDowell, whose recording features contributions from Twitty. Glen Campbell had a top 10 hit with the song in 1970.
Background
The song was written mainly by Jack Nance, a member of Twitty's band, during an intermission in a show they were playing at the Flamingo Lounge in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada, with Conway Twitty providing the finishing touches to the song. They recorded a demo of the song, and sent it together with "I'll Try" to Twitty's manager, Don Seat. MGM Records became interested in the songs and arranged for these and other songs to be recorded in Nashville on May 7, 1958. The song was recorded by Twitty with the Jordanaires on backing vocals. Musicians who played on the song included Floyd Cramer on piano, Grady Martin on guitar, and Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance on double bass. The song was produced by Jim Vienneau, who suggested that Twitty should keep the growl in his voice when recording. "It's Only Make Believe" was released by MGM Records on side B of "I'll Try" on July 14, 1958.
The A-side "I'll Try" failed to catch on with the public in the States, and Twitty, believing that the record had failed, went home to work on the farm. However, a DJ in Columbus, Ohio took an interest in the B-side "It's Only Make Believe" and it became a hit in the city. It spread nationally and the song hit the Billboard chart in September, 1958, eventually reaching No. 1, on November 10 and 24. The single topped both U.S. and the UK Singles Chart, and became the only No. 1 pop single of his career. Twitty stated years later, on a segment of 'Pop Goes The Country', that it was a hit in 22 countries, and had sold over 8 million copies. He did not become a country music star until he crossed over in 1966.
Though Twitty recorded subsequent versions of "It's Only Make Believe", his original 1958 hit never entered the Country & Western charts. He recorded a 1970 duet with Loretta Lynn, on their first collaborative album, We Only Make Believe. Twitty joins in on the last verse in a 1988 uptempo cover by Ronnie McDowell, which was a No. 8 hit on the country music charts. Additionally, Twitty contributed to an alternative cover by McDowell.
Charts
Conway Twitty version
All-time charts
Glen Campbell version
Glen Campbell recorded "It's Only Make Believe" for his album The Glen Campbell Goodtime Album, one of four albums he recorded in 1970. The song was arranged and produced by Al De Lory. The song was released as a single by Capitol Records backed with "Pave Your Way Into Tomorrow". It became a top ten hit in both the United States and United Kingdom.
Chart performance
Year-end chart
Other versions
In 1964, Billy Fury had a top 10 hit with his version in the UK and Ireland, which also went to No. 1 in Singapore.
Brendan O'Brien and The Dixies recorded the song and it reached No. 4 on the Irish chart in 1964.
Ronnie McDowell had a No. 8 single on the Billboard country chart in 1988 after recording the song as a duet with Twitty.
The pop band Child released the song as a single in 1978, reaching the top ten in the UK Charts.
The rockabilly revival singer Robert Gordon covered the song, which reached No. 99 on the Country chart in 1979.
Canadian country music singer Carroll Baker covered the song on her 1991 compilation Her Finest Collection. It was released as the album's first single and peaked at number 28 on the RPM Country Tracks chart.
See also
List of number-one singles from the 1950s (UK)
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1958 (U.S.)
List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones
References
1958 singles
1970 singles
1987 singles
Conway Twitty songs
Glen Campbell songs
Ronnie McDowell songs
Carroll Baker songs
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Cashbox number-one singles
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Songs written by Conway Twitty
MGM Records singles
Capitol Records singles
Curb Records singles
1958 songs
Billy Fury songs
Schlager songs
Christmas number-one singles in the United Kingdom
1950s ballads
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Rosalía León Oviedo (born July 14, 1974) is a Mexican actress, singer, songwriter and guitarist. She participated in the Mexican musical reality show La Academia. She released her first album through Sony Music in 2003 selling over 50,000 copies in the first four weeks.
Early life
Rosalía León Oviedo was born in Mexico City on July 14, 1974. She is the founder and leader of the guitar project “Gliese 229”, through which she revisits traditional Mexican songs by singing alongside an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar. She also composes.
She studied singing, guitar and guitar crafting, as well as pan flute and crystal flute. She studied techniques of South American rhythmic guitar with Ciro Hurtado and Ruben Izquierdo; music composition with Daniel Barjau; and luthiery at the Liceo Paracho Johrengua in Mexico City.
In August 2018 she recorded a special version of her song “Casi Creo que Aquí te Quedas” along with singer Eugenia León and guitarist Sergio Vallín. Theo shot the video. It is an invitation to Mexico and is based on the projection of representative images of Mexican culture.
On September 13, 2018, she made her solo debut in Havana, Cuba performing at the Teatro del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, which featured guest performances of singers Haydeé Milanés and Athanai, with electric guitars by César Huesca, Raúl Verdecia and Dayron Ortiz.
Discography
Oviedo has two albums under her acoustic-electric guitar and voice concept, produced by herself:
Alegorías (2013)
Más Alto (2017) collaboration including Mike Stern, Sergio Vallín, Javier Bátiz, Raúl Fernandez Greñas, Julio Revueltas, Pavel Cal, César Huesca, Susana Harp, Sole Giménez and Kelvis
Reception
Mas Alto lasted for more than 10 months among the best-selling albums in the genre of World Music in Mexico.
In 2018, on the first anniversary of the release of Más Alto, Oviedo recorded a special version of her song "Casi Creo Que Aquí Que Quedas" with Mexican singer Eugenia León.
References
Sources
El Heraldo de Chihuahua (20 August 2018). . By: Carmen Sánchez (In Spanish)
La Jornada (18 August 2018). . By: Ernesto Márquez (In Spanish)
Edo México Político (21 February 2018). «Rosalía León estrena video de "Espectro"». By: Redacción MX Político. (In Spanish)
Milenio (5 December 2017). «Rosalía León y su peculiar Fusión». By: Hugo García Michel. (In Spanish)
Starmedia (10 September 2016). «Cantautora Rosalía León finalista en festival musical costarricense». By: Starmedia (In Spanish)
External links
La Academia Season 2
1974 births
Living people
La Academia contestants
21st-century Mexican singers
21st-century Mexican women singers
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Landywood is a village in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. Landywood is part of the South Staffordshire ward named "Great Wyrley Landywood", It lies 3 miles north of Bloxwich, 3 miles south from Cannock and 6 miles north of Walsall.
It forms part of Great Wyrley and is contiguous with Cheslyn Hay, Newtown and Little Wyrley. It is close to the border with the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall.
The village is separated from Cannock to the north by the M6 Toll motorway, and the A5 road. It is served by Landywood railway station on the Chase Line, which runs from Birmingham via Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley. National Express West Midlands bus service X51 provides a connection to Cannock via the McArthurGlen Designer outlet as well as Walsall, Bloxwich, Great Barr and Birmingham. D&G Chaserider service 71 links Landywood with Cannock, Essington, Wednesfield, New Cross Hospital and Wolverhampton.
In 2022, plans were approved for a new housing development on the Landywood Lane green belt, despite objections and petitions against it from local residents. This estate will border Cheslyn Hay.
References
External links
Villages in Staffordshire
South Staffordshire District
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The Oasis Shopping Centre is located on the Broadbeach Mall in Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
It was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management in 2012 from Thakral Holdings. In March 2015 it was purchased by Abacus Property Group and KKR.
History
The site was a former mineral sand mine before construction of the Lennons Broadbeach Hotel in 1955. The hotel was demolished in 1987 and the site redeveloped into the Oasis Centre opening on 29 August 1989.
Stores and services
In addition to retail stores, the centre has doctors, dentists, and fitness, massage, yoga, accounting, financial and legal advisers, a Language school and travel club.
Monorail
The Oasis Monorail connected the beach, shopping, Sofitel Gold Coast resort and Jupiters Hotel & Casino. It had two stations on level 2 of The Oasis and a station at Jupiters Hotel & Casino. Originally known as the Gol'Coasta, the monorail opened to passengers in 1989 along with the shopping centre. In 2001, the operator acquired the majority of the track and the trains originally used at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in England. In late 2013, the monorail closed for maintenance reopening to passengers on 18 December 2014. It closed on 29 January 2017.
References
External links
Oasis Shopping Centre
Shopping centres on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Von Roll Holding people movers
Monorails in Australia
Broadbeach, Queensland
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts companies
Shopping malls established in 1989
1989 establishments in Australia
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Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896 in Vienna – 8 December 1938 in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion. The evening before his wedding day, he suffered a stroke caused by cerebral infarction, and died two days later. Friedrich Glauser's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.
Since 1987, the annual has been one of the best-known German-language crime writing awards.
Stories
The Sergeant Studer detective novels are set in the Switzerland and Europe of the 1930s, and make frequent reference to current European history, such as the Weimar Republic hyperinflation and the banking scams and scandals that marked that period. Today's readers may be surprised that no attention is given to a prominent politician of that era, Adolf Hitler.
The novels were written in standard German with a sprinkling of Swiss dialect terms. The translations by Bitter Lemon Press make note of shifts in language register.
Jakob Studer is a sergeant in the constabulary of the Canton of Bern. He is old for his rank, having had to start over again in a new police force after being fired from his original force. The firing is mentioned in each novel as being politically motivated, because Studer refused to back off from a full investigation of a banking scandal in which he eventually caught the real criminals, well-connected top people in the banking industry, rather than making do with a few minor players. Other minor characters, notably his cheerful wife and a local attorney with whom Studer plays billiards, play small roles within the books, sometimes helping to solve the mysteries.
The Spoke opens at the wedding between Sgt. Jakob Studer's daughter and a young police constable, held at a small hotel run by an old schoolmate of Studer. Before the evening is over, another hotel guest (not a member of the wedding party) has been murdered. The unusual weapon chosen, a sharpened bicycle spoke, leads Studer and the local police to suspect the town's bicycle repairman, a gentle but mentally slow man who was severely abused during childhood.
Fever is set roughly a year after The Spoke. Sgt. Studer's daughter has just given birth to a baby boy, and Studer, on assignment in Paris, receives the news from his wife, who has gone to help the young couple with their first child. Studer goes out for celebratory drinks with several of the French gendarmerie with whom he has been working. At the pub, a rather strange White Father joins the group and tells a story of a "clairvoyant corporal" in a French Foreign Legion battalion to which the priest has been assigned who has "predicted" the murder of two Swiss women. Upon his return to Switzerland, Studer learns of the two women's deaths and begins an investigation that will take him back through France to Algeria to find the killer.
The Chinaman does not contain any clues as to where it fits within the timeline of the other stories. On 18 July (year unspecified), Studer meets an elderly retiree who has returned to the small village where he was born, near Bern, after decades spent working in various parts of Asia. The retiree tells Studer that he is sure he will be murdered very soon. Four months later, on 18 November, the retiree's prediction comes true, shortly after a seemingly unrelated, apparently natural death. After a cooperating witness is murdered, Studer must race to find the murderer before more people are killed.
Bibliography
Wachtmeister Studer, Zürich 1936; English translation: Thumbprint, 2004
Matto regiert, Zürich 1936; English translation: In Matto's Realm, 2005
Die Fieberkurve, Zürich 1938; English translation: Fever, 2006
Der Chinese, Zürich 1939; English translation: The Chinaman, 2007
Gourrama, Zürich 1940
Der Tee der drei alten Damen, Zürich 1940
Krock & Co. (aka Die Speiche), Zürich 1941; English translation: The Spoke, 2008
Beichte in der Nacht, Zürich 1945
Dada, Ascona und andere Erinnerungen, Zürich 1976
Morphium und autobiographische Texte, Zürich 1980
Briefe (2 volumes, ed. Bernhard Echte), Zürich 1988/91
Das erzählerische Werk (4 volumes, ed. Bernhard Echte), Zürich 1992–93
Further reading
Karolle, K. Julia. Book review: Die Leiche in der Bibliothek. Friedrich Glauser und der Detektiv-Roman, by Patrick Bühler. Monatshefte (Madison, WI), vol. 96, no. 2 (July 2004), pp. 309-311.
Karolle, K. Julia. The Role of Language in the Construction of Identity and the Swiss Crime Novel in Friedrich Glauser's «Gourrama», «Der Tee der drei alten Damen» and «Schlumpf Erwin Mord». Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001.
Karolle-Berg, Julia. "Fahnderwachtmeister Jakob Studer." One Hundred Greatest Literary Detectives, edited by Eric Sandberg. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, pp. 174-176.
Filmography
Constable Studer, 1939
, 1943
Madness Rules, 1947
External links
Literary estate of Friedrich Glauser in the archive database HelveticArchives of the Swiss National Library
Publications by and about Friedrich Glauser in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
1896 births
1938 deaths
Swiss male novelists
Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion
20th-century Swiss novelists
20th-century male writers
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No One Rides for Free is the debut album by the stoner rock band Fu Manchu. The album was produced by former Kyuss member Brant Bjork, who would eventually become Fu Manchu's drummer for a short tenure. It was the band's only album to feature bassist Mark Abshire. A twenty-year anniversary edition was released in 2014.
Reception
Drowned in Sound reckoned it inferior to Daredevil, but still authentic stoner rock. Debaser also gave the reissue a positive review. The Rough Guide to Rock called it a "classic".
Track listing
Personnel
Scott Hill – guitar, vocals, producer
Ruben Romano – drums, producer
Mark Abshire – bass, producer
Eddie Glass – guitar, producer
Brant Bjork – producer
Credits
Recorded and mixed at Sandbox Studio
Engineered and mixed by Geoff Siegel
Mastered by Stephan Marcussen
All songs by Fu Manchu
Published by Van-O-Rama Music/ASCAP 1993
Cover photo: Von Lidd
Live photos: Alex Obleas
Management: Guerrilla MGMT./Catherine Enny
References
1994 debut albums
Fu Manchu (band) albums
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In ancient British customs, Conservators of the Peace (Latin: Custodes pacis), or Wardens of the Peace, were individuals who had a special charge, by virtue of their office, to see that the King's peace was kept.
England
The 18th century legal writer Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, in an 1820 legal dictionary, defines "conservator of the peace" as a person who until the creation of the justices of the peace by King Edward III, had "an especial charge to see the king's peace kept" either as incident to other offices or of itself. The king was the "principal conservator of the peace within all his dominions"; other general conservators of the peace included the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper, Lord Treasurer, Lord High Steward, Earl Marischal, Lord High Constable, justices of the King's Bench, and Master of the Rolls. At common law, sheriffs and sometimes constables were regarded as conservators of the peace within their county, and constables and tythingmen were also seen were regarded as conservators of the peace within their jurisdiction.
More recently, the chamberlain of Chester was a conservator in the county of Cheshire.
Virginia
The role of "special conservators of the peace" still exists in the U.S. state of Virginia. These individuals are appointed by a Virginia Circuit Court to perform certain duties and responsibilities within a geographically limited jurisdiction, and are regulated by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. Security guards are often special conservators of the peace in Virginia.
References
Courts of England and Wales
Common law
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Simpang Tiga is a small township in Bagan Datuk District, Perak, Malaysia. This Township is formed by only a few rows of shop houses and a few hundred families, most of them farmers. This township is also the hometown for the Parliament Member of Bagan Datoh and the Deputy Minister of Tourism.
Education
There are only two primary schools in this township: a Sekolah Kebangsaan (Malay School) and a Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Chinese School). The educational guideline use by both schools is the same; the only difference is the language.
Attractions
Fishing for "Ikan Haruan" is one of the attractions in this township. It is also famous for its Mee Rebus Sin Lok Hooi, a dish with noodles, deep fried shrimp dough, egg, tofu, and a special sauce.
Bagan Datuk District
Populated places in Perak
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The Bombing of Plaza de Mayo was a massacre that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 June 1955. Thirty aircraft from the Argentine Navy and Air Force strafed Plaza de Mayo in the largest aerial bombing ever on the Argentine mainland. The attack targeted the adjacent Casa Rosada, the official seat of government, while a large crowd gathered to demonstrate support for President Juan Perón. The strike took place during a day of official public demonstrations to condemn the burning of a national flag allegedly carried out by detractors of Perón during the recent Corpus Christi procession. The military reacted as a result of growing tension between President Juan Perón and his actions against the Roman Catholic Church. The action was to be the first step in an eventually aborted coup d'état. The number of identified bodies was put at 308, including six children; an unknown number of victims could not be identified.
The heavy loss of civilian lives and the violence with which the act was carried out has prompted comparisons with the wave of state terrorism during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.
Background
After his victory in the 1946 Argentine general election, President Perón had enacted many reformative policies that considerably changed Argentina, including embracing industrialisation, nationalising railroads, financing public works, and instituting material benefits for labour, such as higher wages. By 1955, he had spent nine years in power. His first term was marked by isolationism, with an emphasis on Argentinian self-sufficiency. Increased fiscal spending caused a drop in cash holdings and foreign earnings. Problems during his second tenure included rising inflation, a stagnant economy, and labor strikes, mostly in support of higher wages. His leadership style also drew heavy criticism from academics, clerics, and other elements of the international community for embracing censorship and cracking down on freedom of expression. The death of his second wife, first lady Eva Perón, in July 1952 had diminished his popular appeal and party support.
The attack
Bombing, strafing, and ground fighting
On 16 June 1955, at 12:40 pm, a force of thirty Argentine Naval Aviation airplanes, consisting of 22 North American AT-6, five Beechcraft AT-11, and three Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats took off from Morón Air Base. Perón had been warned of the movements beforehand by General Franklin Lucero, Minister of War. Lucero had advised Perón to retreat into a bunker under the Libertador Building.
The attack was carried out in the crowded city center on Thursday, during working hours. Without warning, the attack led to many civilian casualties. Those commuting on public transport were among the first recorded victims. As the first bomb fell on a trolleybus packed with children, it killed everyone on board.
Meanwhile, two companies of the rebel 4th Marine Infantry Battalion marched on the Casa Rosada, intending to capture it. One was deployed 40m from the northern façade while the other took position in the Automóvil Club Argentino parking lot, between Colón Park and the Central Post Office, 100m from the rear. However, they were pushed back by members of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers from within the Casa Rosada and by Army troops marching from the sector of the Ministry of Finance, under the command of General Lucero. The defense of the Casa Rosada consisted of a mere two 12.7mm Browning M2 machine guns placed on the roof, while defenders on the lower floors only had access to small arms, including bolt-action Mauser 1909 rifles. Loyal troops were accompanied by Peronist civilians who took up arms.
At 13:12, union leader Héctor Hugo Di Pietro, acting head of the CGT due to the absence of its Secretary-General, spoke on national broadcasting, calling all workers in the Federal District and Greater Buenos Aires to concentrate immediately around the CGT building, in order to defend the constitutional government. Moreover, union officials were already mobilizing workers from factories around Buenos Aires towards the city center. Perón ordered his adjutant, Major Jose Ignacio Cialceta, to inform Di Pietro that a clash strictly between soldiers was taking place and therefore civilians were not to gather in Plaza de Mayo. Historian Joseph Page claimed, citing a US Embassy report, that this order was not given until 16:00.
Consequently, the bulk of the civilian casualties occurred when large numbers of mobilized workers arrived in Plaza de Mayo to defend the presidency of Juan Perón. Gloster Meteor fighters suddenly arrived to bomb and strafe the large crowds of Peronist supporters exiting the central subway and gathering in the nearby streets and the immediate vicinity of the Presidential Palace, killing and wounding hundreds in the process.
According to police commissioner Rafael C. Pugliese, a police observation reported at 14:00, large numbers of civilians arrived in trucks to defend the Presidential Palace and gathered in the Paseo Colón and Belgrano pedestrian walkways around it, before being caught out in the open when the main air attacks took place at 15:00. The Gloster Meteors then bombed the survivors as they pulled up from their final dive bombing attacks and headed back to base.
The rebel ground offensive began to wane around 15:00, as the marines surrounding the Casa Rosada's northern façade came under fire from army artillery units positioned in a building located at the intersection of Leandro N. Alem and Viamonte streets. Olivieri contacted the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy to request reinforcements, however, it was already surrounded by elements of the 1st Infantry Regiment.
The marines retreated in disarray towards the Ministry of the Navy, where they would remain under siege from loyal Army units until the end of hostilities that evening. Lucero ordered the use of heavy machine guns against the rebels, and 81mm mortars were brought in to reinforce the assault. At 15:17, after two telephone conversations between Olivieri and Lucero, the rebels waved a white flag from the Ministry of the Navy. However, when generals Carlos Wirth and Juan José Valle arrived in a jeep to discuss the terms of surrender, the second wave of air attacks began. The explosions destroyed two floors of the south wing of the Ministry of War, killing a soldier and a general. At the same time, an M4 Sherman fired on the second floor, causing a fire in the admirals' room.
Simultaneously, civilian commandos under Zavala Ortiz's orders began clashing with the police and sniping from the roofs of various buildings. Throughout the afternoon, rebel reinforcements coming from the Central Post building unsuccessfully tried to break the siege on the Ministry of the Navy building.
Air-to-air combat
As ground combat raged in the center of Buenos Aires, loyal forces were dispatched from Morón Air Base to intercept rebel fighters. Heated discussions took place among the pilots over the possibility of whether to join the coup or not. A squad of loyal Gloster Meteors took off and one of them shot down a rebel Navy AT-6 Texan over the Río de la Plata, scoring the first air-to-air kill of the Argentine Air Force. Another rebel warplane was downed by ground fire from hastily mounted anti-aircraft batteries.
In the meantime, Morón Air Base along with the loyal pilots were captured by anti-Peronist forces. Their Meteors were seized and pressed into service by the rebels, participating in strafing sorties until the final surrender. With the coup on the verge of failure, naval warplanes launched a second attack on the seat of government. Having run out of ordnance, one pilot dropped his auxiliary fuel tank as an ersatz incendiary bomb, which fell on the cars in a parking lot near the Casa Rosada.
Retreat and surrender
After heavy urban fighting, which included a false surrender incident, the besieged rebels finally opted for handing over the Ministry of the Navy to the Army units posted outside. Fire ceased at 17:20 local time. Between 9.5 and 13.8 tonnes of ordnance were dropped, killing between 150 and 364 people, mostly civilians, and injuring over 800. Nine members of the Mounted Grenadiers Presidential Guard and five police officers were killed in action.
Faced with the failure of the intended coup, the rebel pilots received orders to head toward Uruguay to seek asylum. At least 32 civilian and military aircraft headed towards Carrasco Airport, continuing along the way to drop their bombs until they ran out of ammunition. Most of them landed in Carrasco, and four others in Colonia. One Gloster Meteor crash-landed in the Río de la Plata off Carmelo, having exhausted all its fuel during the attacks. The pilot was rescued by a local resident. The pilots were interned by the Uruguayan government until the fall of Perón in September.
At 03:00 on 17 June, Olivieri, Toranzo Calderón, and Gargiulo, the three top leaders of the failed coup, were informed they were to be tried under martial law and were each offered a pistol to end their lives, which Olivieri and Toranzo Calderón declined. Gargiulo, however, accepted the offer and committed suicide in his office at 05:45.
Aftermath
That same night, Peronist crowds burnt eight churches, two basilicas, and the Curia office in revenge for the Catholic Church's support to the coup.
In September of that year, the bulk of the armed forces joined in a coup d'état known as the Revolución Libertadora, which overthrew President Perón and started a military dictatorship that lasted until the 1958 presidential elections, won by Arturo Frondizi of the UCRI. The Peronist party was not allowed to stand for election, but Frondizi's victory was aided by a pact between himself and Perón.
One of the rebel leaders, radical Miguel Ángel Zavala Ortiz, went on to serve as an official during the Revolución Libertadora dictatorship and was later appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship by President Arturo Illia in 1963.
One of the naval pilots who took part in the bombings, Máximo Rivero Kelly, was promoted and was second-in-command of the Argentine Navy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. He would later claim that the naval aviation's target was the Presidential Palace but that an aircraft missed, causing about 20 civilian deaths.
Bullet and shrapnel marks remained visible on some buildings on the south side of the square as of 2023.
Casualties
Peronist sources claim around 400 were killed. In 1965, a journalist from Extra magazine claimed that once the fighting had ended near Plaza de Mayo, there were around five hundred people either dead or heavily injured.
On 22 June 1955, commissioner Rafael C. Pugliese in the Official Police Report put the official death toll at 136 after collating the number of identified as well as unidentified bodies in the morgues of various hospitals in Buenos Aires. The various medical centres that received victims and helped in identification and counting the deaths were: Public Assistance (62 dead), Argerich (45 dead), Rawson (3 dead), Clínicas (7 dead), Ramos Mejía (7 dead), Alemán (2 dead), Fernandez (3 dead), Policlínico del Ministerio de Hacienda (3 dead), Policlínico Militar (2 dead), Policlínico Rivadavia (1 dead) and Morgue Judicial (1 dead).
Of the 136 killed according to Pugliese's report, five were police officers: Senior Officer Alfredo Aulicino (head of the Personnel Section of the Communications Directorate), Sub-Inspector Rodolfo Nieto (1st Political Order Section), Agent José María Bacalja (1st Mechanical Workshop and Garage Section), Agent Ramón Alderete (Traffic Police Corps) and retired agent César Augusto Puchulu. The rebel and loyal military suffered a combined 44 casualties.
See also
List of massacres in Argentina
Revolución Libertadora
Tanquetazo, a similar failed coup attempt that preceded the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
El bombardeo de Plaza de Mayo
Galasso, Norberto (2005). Perón. Ediciones Colihue.
History of Argentina (1943–1955)
History of Buenos Aires
Attempted coups in Argentina
1950s coups d'état and coup attempts
Mass murder in 1955
Conflicts in 1955
1955 in Argentina
Massacres in Argentina
1950s in Buenos Aires
June 1955 events in South America
Airstrikes conducted by Argentina
Explosions in 1955
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Art of the Devil 2 (Thai: ลองของ or Long khong) is a 2005 Thai horror film directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, Art Thamthrakul, Yosapong Polsap, Putipong Saisikaew, Isara Nadee, Pasith Buranajan and Seree Pongniti (known collectively as the "Ronin Team"). It was released by Five Star Production.
A sequel in name only to a 2004 film Art of the Devil, this film is about a teacher, named Aajaan Panor (portrayed by Napakpapha Nakprasitte), who is humiliated by some students. She turns to black magic to exact revenge.
Plot
Two years ago, six school friends – Ta, Kim, Por, Tair, Noot, and Ko – were faced with a grudge. Ta's mother died when he was young, and his father remarried Ta's teacher, Miss Aajaan Panor. Kim was his former girlfriend (but is now dating Por, who is a nerd). The tomboyish Tair and stylish singer Noot might be lovers (though this is never made clear), and Ko is their fun-loving friend.
During their last year at high school, Miss Panor seduces Por (though this is not known to his friends). Por subsequently discovers he's not the only one in her bed. In addition to being married to Ta's father, Miss Panor is also having an affair with the sports coach. Fuelled by jealousy, Por suggests filming Panor and the coach to 'prove her infidelity' to Ta's father. The friends, save for Kim, do so, and broadcast it to the entire school. The coach soon discovers it was them and holds the group at gunpoint while he sexually abuses them, with Noot being the most frequent student he sexually advances on.
Seeking revenge, the students approach a shaman who agrees to curse the coach. The shaman also warns the group that once black magic is used, it will haunt them forever. A few days later, Por goes back to the shaman and asks him to curse Miss Panor, too. The coach dies in which numerous fish hooks appear from his body while his family’s healer attempted to heal the wounds he received during his catfish fishing trip. Miss Panor, who is embarrassed at her sexual exploits being revealed, is found stabbing herself repeatedly in the legs. She subsequently becomes a recluse, returning home to her cottage on the river, away from the city.
In the present, the six friends gather together after Ta's father committed suicide in order to head to the remote village to visit the mausoleum of his father’s ashes and pay their respects to Miss Panor. Upon arrival at Panor's cottage on the river, Noot's cell phone rings; her uncle wants her to return because her father is in the hospital, so she makes her goodbyes and heads back to the city. Miss Panor is a polite hostess (if a little distant), and Ta's great-grandmother seems harmless enough, though he warns everyone that she is a bit senile. As the group stays at the cottage, Kim experiences some strange occurrences around it such as, the door moving on its own, a white figure appearing underwater, and witnessing Ta's great-grandmother devouring a cat.
Miss Panor retires to a secret hut in the jungle, where she has several corpses gathered round, all of them sitting at desks, like students. Each corpse has a photo attached to it, indicating which former student it represents.
At dinner that night, as the friends eat the soup Panor has made for them, each student spits out something suspicious: Ko spits up a fingernail with Doraemon painted on it, Por spits up a piece of tongue with a piercing on it, Kim spits up an eye contact lens and Tair an eyeball. The group realizes that the meat, which is actually dismembered body parts added in the soup, is in fact, Noot. It is implied that after Noot left the cottage, she was captured, tortured, killed, and dismembered by Miss Panor. They search the cottage for Miss Panor. Kim finds a video camera with a tape that shows Miss Panor killing and cannibalizing the shaman who cursed her, and then rushing towards the camera with a tree branch raised and bringing it down on whoever is holding the camera.
Tair begins to have hallucinations of rotting corpses shambling around everywhere. The group flees the house and sees a light outside. They call to a nearby boat for help, but it drives past them. The driver takes a fatal fall from the boat after seeing Miss Panor coming towards him from the other side, which sinks. Kim tumbles into the water and has a vision of Panor and Ta's father. In the vision, Panor is shown torturing Ta's father by ripping off his toenails, on the premise that if she hobbles him, he can't leave her. When Panor leaves the room, Ta's father shoots himself in the head to end his suffering. Kim relates this to the others, and they find the gun. In the same room, there are also some jars filled with pickled mangoes. In one of these jars, the group finds Ta's dead father.
The group runs to the house's dusty old shrine to hide and pray. Tair has a laughing fit and is temporarily possessed by Miss Panor. Ko threatens Tair with the gun, but suddenly starts to writhe and flail as dozens of geckos claw their way out of his body, killing him.
The youths now decide to split up: Por and Ta go off into the jungle to find Panor, leaving Kim and Tair sitting outside the shrine, with Tair (now free of possession) still seeing visions of corpses. She panics and runs off, and Kim follows into the dense jungle. The boys hear Kim fall down. They run to find her, but are separated. Ta finds Kim and wrenches a piece of metal from her leg. Alone, Por has creepy visions of Panor. Ta leaves Kim to look for Por. Tair bursts from the jungle, cowering away from her visions. After seeing Kim as a walking corpse and in hysterics, Tair gouges and rips out her own eyes, ultimately killing herself.
Por finds Kim, who appears to him as Miss Panor, taunting him about their love affair. Firing the gun at Kim, but Ta rescues her just in time. Por runs off into the jungle and discovers Panor chanting in her secret hut. Por flees, but a vision of Panor appears before him, hamstrings him, and starts pulling out his teeth; Por crawls away and confesses that he had a love spell placed on Panor causing her to seduce him, became jealous when he found out she was also sleeping with the coach and took part in filming them and then placing a pain-inducing curse on Panor as punishment. Suddenly, his vision clears and he sees Kim and Ta. Kim is repulsed by Por's confession; she and Ta leave Por in the jungle.
Miss Panor arrives, ties up Por, and takes him to her secret hut. She stabs him in the neck with a syringe full of a paralytic agent, then pours boiling water down his throat and slowly burns every inch of his skin with a blowtorch.
In the jungle, Ta is carrying Kim on his back. She begs him to continue without her, but he refuses. The two of them come across a small shrine, on which is hanging Noot's bag. Her cell phone rings: it's her uncle, wondering where she is.
In the secret jungle hut, Miss Panor is performing CPR on fatally burned Por in order to inflict more torture on him. Meanwhile, police officers converge outside the hut. As Miss Panor starts to use a power drill on Por's head, the officers break in and shoot her.
Kim is rushed to a hospital. She recovers, and Ta comes to visit her. As they chat, the TV in Kim's room broadcasts a news show, which reports that the five students who visited Miss Panor are dead. Also discovered in the secret hut was Ta's charred corpse.
In horror, Kim turns to see that Ta is actually a badly burned, walking corpse. He never went with them to visit Miss Panor; he was already dead by then. As he pets Kim's hand, Ta explains: the video of Panor eating the shaman was taken by Ta's father, who had threatened divorce after witnessing the tape of her and the coach. For this, Panor tortured him and he killed himself. Panor locked Ta's great-grandmother in a closet and left her to starve. It was Ta's great-grandmother who had told Panor that in order to break the spells placed on her she had to kill the shaman that was paid to perform them and eat his flesh. She also warned Panor that it could drive her insane (it does). It also becomes clear that the coach had also placed a love spell on Panor to instigate their affair just like Por did. Miss Panor was the victim of all these spells. Her attempt to free herself and seek revenge led her into insanity. She tortured Ta in all the ways that will be experienced by his friends. Ta's vengeful spirit had lured the group there so they could feel the pain that he went through. He only saved Kim from being killed because he still loves her.
A flashback of their days in school returned. Kim and a classmate had a crush on Ta. Kim makes a bet with her classmate that if Ta doesn't court Kim within a week, she will "offer" Ta to her. Kim was then seen with the shaman who appeared earlier, who warns her, "Once you start, it will follow you till you die." She receives a clay doll and thanks the shaman.
The film ends with Kim jumps out of the hospital window to her death, holding the clay doll the shaman gave her. Ta's burnt form lies beside her declaring his love for her.
Nominations
Napakpapha (better known in Thailand as Mamee) was a nominee for best actress for the Bangkok Critics Assembly's 2005 awards. She was also nominated as best supporting actress for the Thailand National Film Awards. This nomination was protested by Mamee and Five Star Production, who asserted that Mamee should have been nominated in the best actress category. Five Star then boycotted the awards ceremony.
Film festivals
2006 Bangkok International Film Festival
2006 New York Asian Film Festival
2006 Fantasia Festival
References
External links
2005 films
2005 horror films
Five Star Production films
Thai ghost films
Films about witchcraft
Thai-language films
Thai horror films
Thai supernatural horror films
Thai sequel films
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Elisabeth Esterl (born 29 August 1976) is a German professional golfer.
Esterl was born in Dingolfing. She turned professional in 1997 and joined the Ladies European Tour (LET) soon afterwards. She has won two LET tournaments, the 2003 Tenerife Ladies Open and the 2004 KLM Ladies Open. Her best year was 2003, when she finished second on the LET Order of Merit and played for Europe in the Solheim Cup.
Professional wins (3)
Ladies European Tour wins (2)
2003 Tenerife Ladies Open
2004 KLM Ladies Open
Other wins (1)
2000 Princess Lalla Meryem Cup
Team appearances
Amateur
European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Germany): 1995, 1997
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Germany): 1996
Professional
Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 2003 (winners)
World Cup (representing Germany): 2005
External links
German female golfers
Ladies European Tour golfers
Solheim Cup competitors for Europe
People from Dingolfing-Landau
Sportspeople from Lower Bavaria
1976 births
Living people
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
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In mathematics a Lie coalgebra is the dual structure to a Lie algebra.
In finite dimensions, these are dual objects: the dual vector space to a Lie algebra naturally has the structure of a Lie coalgebra, and conversely.
Definition
Let E be a vector space over a field k equipped with a linear mapping from E to the exterior product of E with itself. It is possible to extend d uniquely to a graded derivation (this means that, for any a, b ∈ E which are homogeneous elements, ) of degree 1 on the exterior algebra of E:
Then the pair (E, d) is said to be a Lie coalgebra if d2 = 0,
i.e., if the graded components of the exterior algebra with derivation
form a cochain complex:
Relation to de Rham complex
Just as the exterior algebra (and tensor algebra) of vector fields on a manifold form a Lie algebra (over the base field K), the de Rham complex of differential forms on a manifold form a Lie coalgebra (over the base field K). Further, there is a pairing between vector fields and differential forms.
However, the situation is subtler: the Lie bracket is not linear over the algebra of smooth functions (the error is the Lie derivative), nor is the exterior derivative: (it is a derivation, not linear over functions): they are not tensors. They are not linear over functions, but they behave in a consistent way, which is not captured simply by the notion of Lie algebra and Lie coalgebra.
Further, in the de Rham complex, the derivation is not only defined for , but is also defined for .
The Lie algebra on the dual
A Lie algebra structure on a vector space is a map which is skew-symmetric, and satisfies the Jacobi identity. Equivalently, a map that satisfies the Jacobi identity.
Dually, a Lie coalgebra structure on a vector space E is a linear map which is antisymmetric (this means that it satisfies , where is the canonical flip ) and satisfies the so-called cocycle condition (also known as the co-Leibniz rule)
.
Due to the antisymmetry condition, the map can be also written as a map .
The dual of the Lie bracket of a Lie algebra yields a map (the cocommutator)
where the isomorphism holds in finite dimension; dually for the dual of Lie comultiplication. In this context, the Jacobi identity corresponds to the cocycle condition.
More explicitly, let E be a Lie coalgebra over a field of characteristic neither 2 nor 3. The dual space E* carries the structure of a bracket defined by
α([x, y]) = dα(x∧y), for all α ∈ E and x,y ∈ E*.
We show that this endows E* with a Lie bracket. It suffices to check the Jacobi identity. For any x, y, z ∈ E* and α ∈ E,
where the latter step follows from the standard identification of the dual of a wedge product with the wedge product of the duals. Finally, this gives
Since d2 = 0, it follows that
, for any α, x, y, and z.
Thus, by the double-duality isomorphism (more precisely, by the double-duality monomorphism, since the vector space needs not be finite-dimensional), the Jacobi identity is satisfied.
In particular, note that this proof demonstrates that the cocycle condition d2 = 0 is in a sense dual to the Jacobi identity.
References
Coalgebras
Lie algebras
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Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital and Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary and hospital based near Mousehole, a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
The Hospital accepts both land and sea birds in need of care, to heal and return them to the wild. If this is not possible and they take kindly to captivity, then they are given sanctuary for the remainder of their lives. Those beyond help are painlessly destroyed.
During each year approximately 1000 birds are treated at the Hospital, and about 80 permanent residents. The Staff care for the birds 365 days a year in the same tradition as the founders.
The hospital was founded in 1928 by Dorothy and Phyllis Yglesias. Over the years the Sanctuary has become famous, especially so during the 1967 Torrey Canyon disaster, when over 8,000 oiled birds passed through the Hospital.
See also
List of animal sanctuaries
Buildings and structures in Penzance
Bird sanctuaries in the United Kingdom
Hospitals established in 1928
1928 establishments in England
Mousehole
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The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) is the largest organisation of local and regional governments in Europe. Its members are 60 national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from 41 countries that are part of the Council of Europe. Together these associations represent about 130,000 local and regional authorities.
At the head of its political structure is its president, currently the councillor of Vestfold and Telemark, Norway and president of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, Gunn Marit Helgesen. It has a staff of about 30, headed by its secretary-general, Fabrizio Rossi.
CEMR’s annual budget is about €2.5 million. Membership fees from its national associations make up the bulk of its funding. About 15% are paid by the European Commission through an annual grant.
The organisation has also assumed the function of the European section of the new worldwide organisation United Cities and Local Governments.
History
CEMR was founded in Geneva on 28 January 1951 by a group of European mayors as Council of European Municipalities (CEM). Regions were later allowed to join as well, hence the later name Council of European Municipalities and Regions.
CEMR Presidency
Gunn Marit Helgesen, president of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and councillor of Vestfold and Telemark, has been elected President of CEMR in December 2022.
He is notably succeeding:
Stefano Bonnaccini, president of the Emilia-Romagna region, CEMR President from 2016 to 2022
Íñigo de la Serna, former Mayor of Santander, CEMR President from 2015 to 2016
Annemarie Jorritsma, former Mayor of Almere, CEMR President from 2013 to 2015
Wolfgang Schuster, former Mayor of Stuttgart, CEMR President from 2010 to 2013
Michael Häupl, Mayor of Vienna, CEMR President from 2004 to 2010.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, CEMR President from 1997 to 2004
Activities
CEMR's task is to promote a united Europe, based on locally and regionally autonomous government and democracy. To this end, it endeavours to shape the future of Europe by enhancing local and regional contributions, to influence European law and policy, to exchange experience at the local and regional levels and to cooperate with partners in other parts of the world.
European legislation affects more than 60% of the policies implemented by cities, municipalities and regions. CEMR works together with its members to ensure that their interests are taken into account when European policy is being drafted.
CEMR is active in a number of political fields, including regional policy, transport, the environment, equal opportunities and governance. Its committees and working groups seek to influence draft EU legislation in order that the interests and concerns of local and regional authorities are taken into account from the earliest stages of the EU legislative process.
Fields of activity
CEMR’s work focuses on five thematic areas, which affect all aspects of the lives of European citizens as well as the local and regional authorities that represent them:
Governance, democracy and citizenship
Environment, climate and energy
International engagement and cooperation
Local and regional public services
Economic, social and territorial cohesion
CEMR is also deeply involved in building an extensive European town twinning network. Today, there are over 30,000 twinning projects linking towns from all over Europe. This process is improved through CEMR's close cooperation with the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission.
Last but not least, CEMR is behind several political documents of significance to local and regional governance, such as the Charter of Local Liberties (adopted in 1953), which inspired the Charter on Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe, adopted in 1985. It also launched the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life, which was adopted in 2006 and has been signed by more than 1,800 local and regional governments in Europe.
Social dialogue
CEMR represents European local and regional governments (LRG) as employers in the EU social dialogue committee of LRGs, where it sits and discusses with EPSU, the sectorial trade union.
The committee was formally established in 2004 and covers the local and regional public services, such as local administrators, fire-fighters, waste workers, community liaison personnel, etc., counting for some 13 million workers in the EU and 100 000 local and regional authorities.
The committee is a forum for promoting quality public service, exchanging information on labour market issues, and influencing legislation and policy in the fields of employment, training, social protection, labour law, and health and safety.
Gender equality
In May 2006 CEMR launched the European charter for equality of women and men in local life. Local and regional governments are invited to sign the charter to make a formal public commitment to the principle of equality between men and women and to implement the charter within their territory.
The Charter is now available in 27 languages and is signed by more than 1,800 municipalities and regions from 36 European countries.
In order to monitor the implementation of the Charter by signatories, CEMR, in partnership with the Swedish government and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, launched an Observatory of the European Charter for equality of women and men in Local Life in March 2012.
Town twinning
According to CEMR town twinning has always been a vital way to bring Europe closer to its citizens beyond national boundaries.
In May 2007, CEMR organised a conference on Twinning for tomorrow's world in Rhodes. Over 600 representatives of local governments from across Europe met to discuss issues like new types of twinning; obtaining financial support; and how twinning can contribute to social inclusion. In September 2011, CEMR is organising in Rybnik (Poland) a European congress on citizenship and twinning. It will provide participants with the possibility to discover the next generation of partnerships between local and regional governments and their citizens; explore how to foster the development of a more "grassroots democracy" and to participate in a consultation on citizenship.
See also
Congress of the Council of Europe
European Union Regional policy
List of micro-regional organizations
References
External links
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Local Government in Europe
The Archives of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions are consultable at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence
European elections: local and regional governments' manifesto
Organisations based in Brussels
Organizations established in 1951
1951 establishments in Switzerland
UCLG Sections
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Sangita Myska is a British television and radio presenter and journalist. She currently hosts an early afternoon weekend phone-in show on LBC Radio.
Early life
Born in Tanzania, Myska is of African and Indian heritage and speaks Marathi and, to a lesser extent, Hindi. She was educated at Claremont High School in London and at the University of Birmingham, where she was awarded an upper second class LLB degree in Law and Politics.
Career
BBC radio and television
Myska began her career as a member of the BBC News trainee reporter scheme, specializing in radio. She served the final attachment of her apprenticeship at BBC Radio Sheffield, where she was initially employed as a staff reporter and then as a producer on the channel's Drivetime show (hosted by Dean "Pips" Pepall). After learning her craft in local broadcasting, she was promoted to a national role as a producer for BBC Radio Five Live, and then to a production position on Five Live's television equivalent, BBC News 24. Her first appearance in front of the camera was in 1997, when she began working as a news reporter for BBC Scotland.
After winning the BBC's Talent competition in 2001, Myska made her national television debut in BBC One's long-running Holiday travel show, subsequently appearing too in one of its many spin-offs, Summer Holiday. In 2002, she returned to BBC News as a correspondent on BBC One's national bulletins. That same year saw her on BBC Two fronting a six-part undercover investigation into car crime and consumer fraud. In February 2003, she was one of the three presenter-reporters assigned to anchor a 15-minute 7:45 p.m. weekday news programme on the BBC's new channel aimed at young viewers, BBC Three. She reverted to working on the BBC's main bulletins in March 2004.
Myska was invited to join Channel 5's news team in 2005, but elected to remain with the BBC. In 2008, she led an undercover investigation into child trafficking in Bulgaria. Her exposé led to her being invited to assist the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in its efforts to bring trafficking to an end. The many other shows on BBC television to which she contributed included Sian Williams's BBC One religious current affairs programme, Sunday Morning Live; The Daily Politics with Andrew Neil on BBC Two; Real Story with Fiona Bruce on BBC One; Outrageous Fortunes: Guinness on BBC One and BBC Three; Lifting the Bonnet, a current affairs series, on BBC Two; World Olympic Dreams: Mongolia Rising on BBC One; The One Show, also on BBC One; and the current affairs series 4X4.
Myska's work on the BBC's flagship radio channel, BBC Radio 4, featured a spell on its early morning news programme, Today, and also several high-profile documentary and current affairs programmes. Among them were Positive Thinking, both presented and co-created by her, a 9 a.m. weekday show about problem solving; the human interest show Lives in a Landscape; What's in a Name, an exploration of the pride and prejudice associated with having a foreign-sounding name in contemporary Britain; A Family Without a Child, a programme relating the experiences of childless British women; The Hidden Story of British Slavery, a programme about the persistence of a form of slavery in Britain in the 21st century; and an investigation of the poor working conditions of domiciliary carers and the other troubles of the British social care system. She also presented the podcast that the BBC dedicated to the daily proceedings of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire.
LBC
It was reported in February 2022 that Myska was one of the many BBC presenters who had left the Corporation in order to work in the private sector. On 11 June 2022, she began hosting a weekend phone-in show for LBC Radio, broadcasting between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in a slot formerly occupied by the Muslim activist Maajid Nawaz.
Awards
In 2007, European Voice magazine named Myska as one of Europe's fifty most influential people because of the light that she had shed on child trafficking. Her work on the issue also won her a place on the longlist of the 2007 Amnesty International Journalism Awards. In 2012, the Women of the Future Programme (International) named her Asian Woman of the Year in the Media, again because of her trafficking report, but also because of her coverage of the London riots of 2011 and their aftermath. In 2014, her radio work on the consequences of childlessness was acknowledged by a place among the finalists for the Journalist of the Year and Investigation of the Year awards bestowed by the Asian Media Group.
Personal life
In 2009, Myska began volunteering for the Akanksha Foundation, training boys in the use of journalism to serve their community.
In September 2009, it was revealed that she had been mugged the previous year by Daniel Mykoo and his brother Matthew, dubbed the London "strangler-robbers."
References
External links
Sangita Myska on LBC
Living people
British television presenters
British reporters and correspondents
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
British people of Indian descent
British people of Punjabi descent
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In Search Of... is the third studio album by Fu Manchu, a stoner rock band from Southern California. It was released on February 27, 1996, by Mammoth Records.
This was the last album to feature Ruben Romano and Eddie Glass. Shortly after its release, the pair left and formed the band Nebula.
Reception
CMJ New Music Monthly referred to In Search of...s "down-tuned, fuzzed-out riffage" as an of extension of the previous "wonders" of "low-brow sonic crunch" including Entombed's Wolverine Blues and heavy metal pioneers Blue Cheer. Classic Rock magazine stated that the band "conquered a predilection for over-indulgence" which led to their inclusion on the list of 10 stoner rock albums you should definitely own.
In the book The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal by Daniel Bukszpan it was brought out that "they are also notable for their influence on stoner rock's visual aesthetic, as the band's album artwork was among the first to feature the themes of muscle car's, gaseous astronomical entries, and that goofy Battlestar Galactica typeface." Speaking of the sonic influence of the album the book Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into the World of Electric Wizard by Dan Franklin stated, "Jus admits today that the album's gnarly guitar tone, generated in large part by a Crown model fuzzbox, blew him away and partially influenced what he wanted to achieve on Come My Fanatics...."
The band played the album live to commemorate it's 15th anniversary. Lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Hill
announced the tour explaining, "We are stoked to be playing these tunes for the fans and will be doing a few of them for the first time ever and maybe the last."
Accurately recreating the instrumentation of the album Hill later related in an interview with the The Aquarian Weekly that leading up to the tour, "we just pulled out all the old gear, the old guitars."
In a post tour interview with Premier Guitar he went into the technical aspects of how they recreated the album live, "We tune to D all the way down D–G–C–F–A–D" and "I’ve pretty much had the same guitar tone since ’93 or ’94. I use a Univox Super-Fuzz and Crown W-Fuzz pedals, and those are basically the same tone."
Track listing
Personnel
Scott Hill – vocals, guitar, producer
Ruben Romano – drums, producer
Eddie Glass – guitar, producer
Brad Davis – bass, producerProduction'
Recorded, mixed and produced by Brian Jenkins
Assistant engineer: Josh Turner
Mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Future Disc Systems, N. Hollywood, CA
Cover and back photos by Alex Obleas
Fu Manchu photographed by Lisa Johnson
All music Fu Manchu, all lyrics Scott Hill
1996 Van-O-Rama Music/ASCAP except "Redline" published by Van-O-Rama and Concorde New Horizon Corp./ASCAP
References
1996 albums
Fu Manchu (band) albums
Stoner rock albums
Mammoth Records albums
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Arthur Joseph Conway (1 April 1885 – 29 October 1954) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler (although his Wisden obituary says merely "rather more than medium pace"
) who played 29 times for Worcestershire (and twice for HK Foster's XI) between 1910 and 1919.
Conway took 54 wickets in his first-class career, of which 15 came in a single match in June 1914: playing for Worcestershire against Gloucestershire at Moreton-in-Marsh, he took 9/38 in the first innings and 6/49 in the second for match figures of 15/87;
as of March 2009 this remains the best match analysis for the county.
A poor batsman, Conway scored just 165 runs in 52 innings (batting average 4.34), with a highest score of only 20 not out. He acted as scorer at least once, for Worcestershire's game against Warwickshire at Dudley in 1913. On this occasion the other scorer was Chicko Austin, who scored in almost 500 first-class games.
Conway also played football for Aston Villa and Wolves.
He was born in Stirchley, which at that time lay in Worcestershire; he died at the age of 69 in South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire.
References
External links
English cricketers
Worcestershire cricketers
Aston Villa F.C. players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
1885 births
1954 deaths
Men's association football players not categorized by position
English men's footballers
Footballers from Worcestershire
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Asbjørn Ruud (6 October 1919 – 26 March 1989) was a Norwegian ski jumper. Together with his brothers Birger and Sigmund he dominated international ski jumping in the 1930s. Ruud won a gold medal at the 1938 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Eight years later, he won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, the first held since the German occupation of Norway in 1940 during World War II. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Ruud finished seventh in the individual large hill competition. He won the Holmenkollen medal for ski jumping in 1948, the second of the three Ruud brothers to do so.
References
External links
– click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file
– click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file
1919 births
1989 deaths
Ski jumpers at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Norwegian male ski jumpers
Olympic ski jumpers for Norway
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Kongsberg IF ski jumpers
Sportspeople from Kongsberg
Skiers from Viken (county)
20th-century Norwegian people
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Eduard Cuypers (18 April 1859 Roermond – 1 June 1927, The Hague) was a Dutch architect. He worked in Amsterdam and the Dutch East Indies.
Biography
Cuypers was trained in the architectural practice of his uncle Pierre Cuypers, the country's major neo-Gothic architect. In 1881 set up his own office in Amsterdam. His contacts with businessmen earned him commissions for offices, shops, and houses. Unlike his uncle, Cuypers' work was closely related to Neo-renaissance and Jugendstil. Although he designed several churches, Eduard did not confine himself solely to ecclesiastical architecture. Instead, he designed a few dozen railway stations, which were mostly built in the north of the country, several hospitals, and more than hundred housing projects in the Netherlands.
Eduard Cuypers and his employees also designed pieces of furniture and other objects for interiors, such as lamps. In 1905 Cuypers published Het Huis, Oud & Nieuw (The House, Old and New), a magazine for interior design that was published until he died in 1927. He was buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.
The office of Eduard Cuypers is considered to be the origin of the Amsterdam School because the leaders of this style, Michel de Klerk, Johan van der Mey, and Piet Kramer, were trained there. Berend Tobia Boeyinga, one of the most important followers of the Amsterdam school, also worked for Cuypers, as did prominent Indonesian architect Liem Bwan Tjie. After Cuypers died in 1927, his office was continued by others. The current name in the Netherlands is A/D Amstel Architects in Amsterdam.
Dutch East Indies
Cuypers opened an agency in the Dutch East Indies to work on major projects such as the headquarters and branch office of De Javasche Bank in Indonesia. With Marius J. Hulswit and Arthur Fermont, Cuypers opened the largest architectural agency in the East Indies, then called Hulswit-Fermont, Batavia, and Ed.Cuypers, Amsterdam. After Cuypers died in 1927, his office in Batavia/Jakarta was continued by others under the name Fermont-Cuypers until 1957.
Works
Hotel Polen, Amsterdam (late 19th century)
Javasche Bank now Museum Bank Indonesia, Jakarta (with Hulswit,1913) Frontbuilding rebuilt in 1936-1937.
Javasche Bank now Bank Indonesia, Medan (1909)
Books
'Landmarks from a bygone era'. Life and work of Eduard Cuypers in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, Obbe H. Norbruis (2020) LM Publishers.
References
Exteran link
1859 births
1927 deaths
Dutch architects
Dutch ecclesiastical architects
People from Roermond
Art Nouveau architects
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Laruelle is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Annick Laruelle, Belgian economist
François Laruelle (born 1937), French philosopher
Marlène Laruelle (born 1972), French historian, sociologist, and political scientist
Sabine Laruelle (born 1965), Belgian politician
French-language surnames
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Club Sportif Constantinois (), also known as CS Constantine or simply CSC for short, is an Algerian football club based in Constantine, Algeria. The club was founded in 1898 , and its colours are green and black.
Their home stadium, Chahid Hamlaoui Stadium, has a capacity of 40,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
History
CS Constantine was officially founded under the name of Iqbal Association in 1898. It was also named Chabab Mécanique de Constantine from 1977 to 1987.
Tassili Airlines the airlines firm of the petroleum company Sonatrach sponsored the club from 2012 to 2016. And since 2016, the club was sponsored by the Entreprise Nationale des Travaux aux Puits (ENTP), another firm of Sonatrach.
The 1990s and the first title of the championship
For the second time in its history, the CSC succeeded in qualifying for the semi-final of the Algerian Cup in 1992, and lost to ASO Chlef (after shots on goal), at the Stade du 5 Juillet 1962. Two years later, the club snatched the title of league champion 2 for the 4th time, in this season the club dominated the D2 championship including the famous Constantine derby, the CSC beating the MO Constantine twice (3- 0 then 2-0). Promoted for the umpteenth time in 1994, the CSC won its first title in the history of Champion of Algeria during the 1996–97 season, with talented and experienced players at the national level (Isâad Bourahli nicknamed the fox of the surfaces from the 1990s. Moudoud Kaoua, Réda Matem, Salim Laïb, Hassen Ghoula and Sid Ahmed Benamara: international players and others). The same season, the CSC is a finalist in the international Black Stars tournament in Paris, after the semi-final victory over the Senegalese club ASC Diaraf. The following season (97-98), the club participated for the first time in the African Champions League. Exempted during the preliminary round of this edition the club, was eliminated against the Senegalese club AS Douanes in the first round, at the end of the season the CSC finishes 2nd in the championship of Algeria (Group A).
Colours and badge
Under all three names the club has had the same goals and values: (Popular, Islamic); the same colours: Green (Hope) and black (Grief); and the same motto: 'Hope in Grief' (L'esperance en Deuil).
Kits
Crests
Honours
Domestic competitions
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Champion (2): 1996–97, 2017–18.
Runner-up : 1970–71, 2022–23.
Ligue Professionnelle 2
Champion (6): 1969–70, 1976–77, 1985–86, 1993–94, 2003–04, 2010–11.
Algerian Super Cup
Runner-up (1): 2018
Performance in CAF competitions
CS Constantine whose team has regularly taken part in Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions. Qualification for Algerian clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and cup competitions, CS Constantine have regularly qualified for the primary African competition, the African Cup, by winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1. CS Constantine have also achieved African qualification via the Algerian Cup and have played in the former African Cup Winners' Cup. The first continental participation was in 1998 in the CAF Champions League, and the first match was against AS Douanes and ended with a loss 2–1, As for the biggest defeat result was firstly in 2014 against ASN Nigelec, and the secondly in 2016 against Nasarawa United 4–1, and biggest loss in 2014 against ASEC Mimosas 6–0. so that CS Constantine was absent from the African competitions until 2014 Where did it participate in the CAF Confederation Cup, On 8 February 2014 witnessed a historic event when CS Constantine played two matches on the same day, the first in the Ligue Professionnelle 1 against MO Béjaïa and the second against ASN Nigelec in Niger and in both of them they were defeated by the same score 2–0. the Algerian Football Federation refused to postpone the matches of the championship for the Algerian clubs participating in African competitions because the FAF does not intend to end up with late matches that would disrupt the progress of a calendar allegedly tight because of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it is for this reason that it strongly encouraged the Algerian clubs engaged in African competitions 2014 to withdraw. After winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1 title CS Constantine returned to the CAF Champions League after 20 years of absence, Qualifying for the group stage was a bit easy after winning against GAMTEL and Vipers putting him in group C with Club Africain, TP Mazembe and Ismaily. where CS Constantine ranked second to face in the quarter-finals the defending champions Espérance de Tunis to defeat 3–6 on aggregate.
CAF Champions League: 2 appearances
1998 – First round
2018–19 – Quarter-finals
CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances
2014 – Second round
2016 – Second round
CAF competitions stats
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Grounds
CS Constantine's home stadium is Mohamed Hamlaoui known as Stade Chahid Hamlaoui which has been their home since its opening in 1976. The previous name of the stadium was Stade 17 Juin, the change was made in memory of Hamlaoui's death, a freedom fighter that died during the Algerian War. It can currently hold up to 40,000 people. The stadium has been through some renovation in the last few years. In 2007 natural grass was imported from the Netherlands.
Players
Algerian teams are limited to two foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;
Current squad
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Reserve Squad
Personnel
Current technical staff
Notable players
Below are the notable former players who have represented CS Constantine in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1926. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with CS Constantine or following his departure.
For a complete list of CS Constantine players, see :Category:CS Constantine players
Mohamed Amroune
Fayçal Badji
Ousmane Berthé
Yacine Bezzaz
Hamza Boulemdaïs
Noureddine Bounaas
Issaad Bourahli
Efosa Eguakun
Hocine Fenier
Hassen Ghoula
Réda Matem
Mourad Meghni
Kaoua Mouloud
Gilles Ngomo
Laïb Salim
Cédric Si Mohamed
Paulin Voavy
Mounir Zeghdoud
Managers
List of managers
Information correct as of 3 October 2023. Only competitive matches are counted.
Rival clubs
MC Alger (Rivalry)
JSM Skikda (Rivalry)
MO Constantine (Derby)
AS Khroub (Derby)
ES Sétif (Derby)
Club Africain (Rivalry)
References
External links
Football clubs in Algeria
Association football clubs established in 1898
Constantine, Algeria
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs
Sports clubs and teams in Algeria
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Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite (and to the A590 road) and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands.
It is in the
historic county of Lancashire. The village is served by the Cark and Cartmel railway station on the Furness Line between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster.
The village used to have a water-powered cotton mill between 1785 and c1815.
Cark is ½ mile south of Holker Hall owned by Lord and Lady Cavendish.
Royal Air Force Station Cark was constructed near Flookburgh in late 1940. It was used by training and anti-aircraft co-operation units from March 1941 until closure in December 1945. After many years of disuse, it was reopened for civilian use and is the location of the North West Parachute Centre.
Notable people
Christopher Rawlinson (1677–1733) of Carke Hall in Cartmel, antiquary
Edith Allonby (1875-1905), writer and teacher
See also
Listed buildings in Lower Holker
References
External links
Villages in Cumbria
South Lakeland District
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The Principal is a 1987 action thriller film starring Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong. Written by Frank Deese and directed by Christopher Cain, it was filmed in Oakland, California, and at Northgate High School in nearby Walnut Creek and distributed by TriStar Pictures on Panavision. Belushi reprised his role as Rick Latimer in the 1991 film Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe.
Plot
After spotting his ex-wife Kimberly in a bar one night with her attorney, alcoholic high-school teacher Rick Latimer instigates a fight with him, culminating in Rick bashing the hapless man's car with a baseball bat. Rick is arrested for the incident.
Finding that Rick's behavior is tarnishing the school district's image, the board of education decides to transfer him elsewhere and send him to Brandel High, a crime-ridden and gang-dominated institution where unruly kids are sent after being expelled from other schools. Initially, Rick is just as lost, incorrigible, & hopeless as the students of "Brand X" (the nickname that everyone derisively calls the school).
Believing he can repair his image by cleaning up the school, Rick holds an assembly and declares his intentions: "No more." No more drugs, no more running in the hallways, and no more being late to class. During his speech, Victor Duncan, the leader of the school's dominant gang, derides Rick in front of everyone, then walks out. This sparks a small riot, which earns Rick the enmity of the teachers and Jake, the school head of security and a graduate of Brandel.
Eventually, Rick manages to enforce his policies, getting rid of the drugs being dealt in the bathrooms, and clearing out the hallways — but not always successfully. As the students are now forced to go to class, some of the more unruly ones become increasingly disruptive, including troublemaker White Zac, who eventually attempts to rape one of the teachers, Ms. Orozco. She throws a chair through one of her classroom windows which alerts Rick to her distress. He then rides his motorcycle into the school and chases down White Zac, beating him unconscious and stuffing him into a trash can.
Victor, meanwhile, continues to assert his influence on the school, going so far as to brutally beat Emile, a former member of his gang who warms to Rick's teaching style and actually starts learning. Rick later finds him hanging by his ankles after being thrown through a skylight in the school. Rick himself is also ambushed and beaten while Victor's gang defaces his motorcycle. Arturo and his friends in shop class repair the motorcycle and paint "El Principal" on the gas tank and on Rick's helmet. After a confrontation in the lunch room, Victor threatens Rick, warning him that if he shows up the next day, he is going to die. Rick scoffs and walks away as Victor continues to threaten him.
The next day, after classes have been dismissed, Victor and his crew show up and sneak into the school. While Jake goes to chain the doors, Rick attempts to call 911 but discovers that Victor's crew has cut the phone lines. A game of cat and mouse ensues. Jake gets locked in a storage closet by one of Victor's crew, while Rick hides in the girls' shower room with a baseball bat, waiting for Victor. After a brief chase, Victor and Jojo corner him. While holding Rick at gunpoint, Victor orders Jojo to cut him. But Jojo refuses, telling Victor that killing Rick would bring down the crew. Victor shoots and kills Jojo, but before he can shoot Rick, Arturo intervenes and strikes Victor with Rick's baseball bat. The distraction leads to a showdown in the school halls between Victor and Rick. Initially, Victor seems to have the upper hand, but Rick overpowers him and beats Victor senseless, throwing him through the schoolhouse doors.
Rick's beating of Victor greatly shocks the rest of the school who witness the fight. Several students cheer Rick on, much to the chagrin of Victor's gang members. After a small fight breaks out Rick again declares, "No more!", which stops the fight quickly. The police finally arrive and Victor is arrested and taken away. A student derisively asks Rick, "Hey man, who the hell do you think you are?!". Rick responds "I'm the principal, man!" and rides away on his motorcycle.
Cast
Jim Belushi as Principal Rick Latimer
Louis Gossett Jr. as Jake Phillips, Head Guard
Rae Dawn Chong as Hilary Orozco, History Teacher
Michael Wright as Victor Duncan, Gang Leader and Drug Dealer
Reggie Johnson as Joe "Jo-Jo"
Jeffrey Jay Cohen as Zac "White Zac" Mawby
Kelly Minter as Treena Lester
Esai Morales as Raymundo "Raymi" Rojas
Troy Winbush as Emile "Baby Emile"
Jacob Vargas as Arturo Diego
Box office
The Principal was moderately successful commercially, grossing a total of $19,734,940 domestically.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 50% based on reviews from 10 critics. On Metacritic the film has a score of 37% based on reviews from 8 critics. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.
See also
List of hood films
References
External links
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
1987 films
American comedy-drama films
American action thriller films
1980s crime action films
American crime action films
1980s action thriller films
Films about drugs
Films about educators
Films about rape
Films about school violence
Films set in San Francisco
Films set in the San Francisco Bay Area
Films shot in California
American gang films
1980s high school films
American vigilante films
TriStar Pictures films
Hood films
Films directed by Christopher Cain
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Boring machine may refer to:
Boring machine (carpentry)
A machine for boring (manufacturing) holes
Tunnel boring machine
See also
Boring (disambiguation)
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Linolein is a triglyceride in which glycerol is esterified with linoleic acid. It's a primary constituent of sunflower oil and multiple other vegetable fats. It is used in the manufacturing of biodiesel. Linolein is also an ingredient in some cosmetic products.
See also
Trimyristin
References
Triglycerides
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The Apostolic Camera (), formerly known as the was an office in the Roman Curia. It was the central board of finance in the papal administrative system and at one time was of great importance in the government of the States of the Church and in the administration of justice, led by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, originally known as camerarius (chamberlain).
In 2022, Pope Francis' apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium abolished the office as of 5 June.
History
The office of camerarius (chamberlain) was established by Pope Urban II. Since the middle of the 12th century the Papal chamberlain () was a regular member of the Curia, entrusted with the financial management of the papal court. At that early period the income of the papal treasury came chiefly from many kinds of censuses, dues, and tributes paid in from the territory subject to the Pope, and from churches and monasteries immediately dependent on him. Cencius Camerarius (later Pope Honorius III, r. 1216–1227) made in 1192 a new inventory of all these sources of papal revenue, known as the Liber Censuum. The previous list dated back to Gelasius I (492–496) and Gregory I (590–604), and was based on lists of the incomes accruing from the patrimonies, or landed property of the Roman Church.
In the 13th century the Apostolic Camera entered on a new phase of development. The collection of the Crusade taxes, regularly assessed after the time of Innocent III (1198–1216), imposed new duties on the papal treasury, to which were committed both the collection and distribution of these assessments. Moreover, during the course of this century the system of payment in kind was transformed into the monetary system, a process considerably influenced by the administration of the papal finances. The servitia communia of bishops and abbots (see Annates) were regulated at fixed sums. The income regularly yielded by them to the Curia is by no means small. To these were to be added the annates, taken in the narrower sense, especially the great universal reservations made since the time of Clement V and John XXII, the extraordinary subsidies, moreover, levied since the end of the thirteenth century, the census, and other assessments. The duties of the Apostolic Camera were thus constantly enlarged. For the collection of all these moneys it employed henceforth a great number of agents known as collectores.
With time the importance of this central department of finance became more marked. The highest administrative officers were always the chamberlain (camerarius) and the treasurer (thesaurarius) — the former regularly a bishop, the latter often of the same rank. Next in order came the clerics of the Camera (clerici cameræ), originally three or four, afterwards as many as ten. Next to these was the judge (auditor) of the Camera. The two first-named formed with the clerics of the Camera its highest administrative council; they controlled and looked closely to both revenues and expenses. In their service were a number of inferior officials, notaries, scribes, and messengers. The more absolute system of ruling the Church which developed after the beginning of the 16th century, as well as the gradual transformation in the financial administration, modified in many ways the duties of the Apostolic Camera. The Camerarius (camerlengo, chamberlain) became one of the highest officers in the government of the Papal States, until the beginning of the 19th century, when new methods of administration called for other officials.
In 1870 what remained of the Papal States was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy and ceased to exist, replaced by the diminutive Vatican City: the Apostolic Camera ceased almost entirely to exercise any practical influence on the papal administration, and the income of the papal treasury since chiefly derived from Peter's-pence and other donations contributed by the faithful, the Camera lost its practical importance as a board of finance, for the revenue known as Peter's-pence is managed by a special commission. The officials who since constituted the camera – the cardinal-camerlengo, the vice-camerlengo, the auditor, the general treasurer (an office unoccupied since 1870) and seven cameral clerics – hold in reality quasi-honorary offices.
Officials
The Officials of the Apostolic Camera were:
The Cardinal Camerlengo enters upon his chief duties on the occasion of a vacancy in the Holy See, during which time he is invested with a portion of the papal authority.
The Vice Camerlengo, one of the highest prelates of the Roman Curia, was until 1870 governor of Rome, and was charged with the maintenance of peace and order in the city; during a vacancy in the Papal See he is even yet first in authority after the cardinals, and entrusted with the surveillance of the conclave, to which no one is admitted without his permission.
The Auditor-General of the Camera, also one of the highest prelates, used to be the chief judge in all cases concerning the financial administration of the Curia. Before 1870 he presided over the supreme court, to which the Pope referred the most important questions for decision.
The Treasurer General used to have supreme financial control of the whole income derived from the temporal possessions of the Church, as well as the rest of the tribute accruing to the papal treasury.
The College of Clerics of the Apostolic Camera has had seven members since 1870; before that, its membership varied in size. The members of the body, chosen from among the highest prelates, used to have the management of the property and income of the Holy See, and were consulted collectively on all important questions concerning their administration, but also officiated as a court in all disputes affecting the papal exchequer. When Pius IX, after the installation of the various ministries, divided among them the administrative duties, he assigned to each cleric of the Camera the presidency of a section of the department of finance. Four of them, moreover, were members of the commission appointed to examine the accounts of the Camera, entitled to special places whenever the Pope appears in public on solemn occasions, in the papal processions, and in public consistories. At the death of the Pontiff they take possession of the Apostolic palaces, attend to the taking of the inventories, and manage the internal or domestic administration during the vacancy. In the conclave they had charge of all that pertains to the table of the cardinals. Apart from this, the clerics of the Camera are usually professors and canons, with regular ecclesiastical appointments.
Other offices
The Apostolic Camera must be distinguished from the treasury or camera of the College of Cardinals, presided over by the cardinal-camerlengo (Camerarius Sacri Collegii Cardinalium). It had charge of the common revenues of the College of Cardinals, and appears among the curial institutions after the close of the 13th century. It has long ceased to exist.
See also
Avignon Exchange
Bank of the Holy Spirit
Christian finance
References
Further reading
Malachi Martin - Rich Church, Poor Church (Putnam, New York, 1984)
12th-century establishments in the Papal States
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Luke O'Dwyer (born 30 January 1983) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Gold Coast Titans and Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League competition. A utility player, O'Dwyer played at centre, five-eighth, second row and lock at different times during his career.
Playing career
Raised in the southern Gold Coast town of Tweed Heads, O'Dwyer played his junior football for the Tweed Heads Seagulls. While playing for Seagulls, he caught the eye of the Parramatta coach, Brian Smith.
O'Dwyer made his first grade debut for the Eels in 2004, coming off the bench in their round 1, 26–18, victory over the Brisbane Broncos. He played three seasons at Parramatta including the 2005 NRL season where the club won the Minor Premiership, before getting the chance to move back home to play for the newly formed Gold Coast Titans. A member of their inaugural squad, O'Dwyer became a regular in the side, playing over 100 games for the club. O'Dwyer missed the club's 2009 and 2010 finals appearances through injury and was also part of the Wooden Spoon team of 2011.
Personal life
O'Dwyer is married to wife, Kara, and they have three sons, Jax, Zave and Krue.
Since 2006, in O'Dwyer's home town of Tweed Heads, the two local primary schools, St. Joseph's Primary and St. James' Primary, compete for the annual O'Dwyer Shield. The O'Dwyer Shield is named in memory of Luke O'Dwyer's younger brother, Ryan, who lost his battle against leukaemia in 1998. Ryan was a student at St. Joseph's at the time, while Luke O'Dwyer attended both schools during his youth. The O'Dwyer Shield is an important event in the Tweed Heads community with the Titans being involved every year. In 2010, St. Mary's Primary Casino filled in as a late minute inclusion for St. Joseph's who were unable to play in the match.
References
External links
Luke O'Dwyer at the Gold Coast Titans official website.
1983 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Gold Coast Titans players
Parramatta Eels players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Griffith, New South Wales
Rugby league second-rows
Tweed Heads Seagulls players
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Salisbury railway station is a railway station and bus interchange in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury. It is on the Gawler line, from Adelaide station. Adjoining it is a large park & ride carpark, making it one of the busiest stations on the Adelaide suburban rail system.
History
The railway line through Salisbury opened in June 1857, initially running north as far as Smithfield. The line was extended to Gawler and Kapunda in 1860 and Burra by 1870 to exploit the copper mining boom in those areas.
The line through Salisbury became the South Australian Railways' broad gauge Main North line, used by a variety of local and country trains, and also by passengers and freight travelling long distances to Broken Hill, Alice Springs and Kalgoorlie, (although all these interstate journeys involved changing trains at break-of-gauge stations).
In 1925, a junction was installed north of Salisbury when a new line was built to Redhill, in the state's mid-north. By 1937, this line was extended to Port Pirie and was used by the broad gauge East-West express, which connected with the Commonwealth Railways Trans-Australian service to Kalgoorlie.
In 1941, a second junction was installed north of Salisbury, from which a branch line served a large, hurriedly built World War II munitions complex at Penfield, the area is now known as Edinburgh. During the war years, many hundreds of workers were conveyed to three stations on the central line of the branch since Salisbury was a largely rural community and most of the workforce had to be brought in from other districts. The central line terminated in a balloon loop to enable trains to return to Adelaide without locomotives having to "change ends" of their train. Several miles of sidings ran from the central line to munitions buildings, which were very widely separated for safety reasons. A more limited peak hour service to Penfield continued after the war, serving staff at the UK and Australian governments' Weapons Research Establishment, later to become the Defence Science and Technology Organisation. All trains were withdrawn in January 1991, due to low patronage and the need to fund an upgrade of the degraded track.
The final branch line in the area was a 700-metre access line into the Holden car plant at Elizabeth, opened in 1959. This left the Gawler line north of Salisbury station and was used mainly by freight trains, but had passenger trains at shift change-over times. The last passenger train on the Holden branch ran in August 1992, and the remaining freight traffic stopped when the Melbourne to Adelaide line was converted to standard gauge in 1995.
In March 1978, all non-metropolitan railways in South Australia were sold to the Federal Government and placed under the control of Australian National (AN). Railways in the metropolitan area were retained by the State Government owned State Transport Authority (STA). The lines through Salisbury and on to Gawler remained with the STA, since they were part of the suburban system. AN had responsibility for the Port Pirie line from Salisbury Junction northwards, but needed to run its trains over STA tracks between Adelaide and Salisbury.
In 1982, AN converted the broad gauge Salisbury Junction to Port Pirie line to standard gauge (and diverted it to Crystal Brook at the northern end). A new standard gauge line was built through the Salisbury station area, completely separate from the broad gauge tracks and passing west of the Gawler line platforms. This was a single line, with no platform or any other infrastructure provided at Salisbury. This is still the situation at Salisbury today, although ownership and responsibilities have now transferred from AN to the Australian Rail Track Corporation and from the STA to Adelaide Metro.
On 17 December 1985, Salisbury station was opened as a major bus/rail interchange by State Premier John Bannon and Federal Minister for Transport Peter Morris. This was the second purpose-built transport interchange in the Adelaide metropolitan area (the first had been at Noarlunga Centre). The historic stone 1857 building on the down (west) platform, which also included a signal box, was demolished when the standard gauge line opened. The station retained a staffed ticket and information office until (circa 2005?) at which time it was closed.
In October 2002, the level crossing on Park Terrace, immediately south of the station platforms was the scene of a fatal collision between The Ghan, several cars and a bus. Since then, buses to and from the bus interchange have been re-routed away from the level crossing and locking pedestrian gates installed. This is the first installation of this type of level crossing protection in South Australia.
In 2017, ticket validation gates were installed at the station to combat fare evasion, and were activated on September 11. Similar gates were installed some time ago at Adelaide station, and have been proposed for Noarlunga Centre.
Services by platform
A number of suburban trains heading towards Gawler cross to the southbound track at Salisbury, and use Platform 2 rather than the usual northbound Platform 1. This gives passengers more convenient cross-platform access to the bus stops and eliminates the need for alighting passengers to cross the rail tracks. Trains revert to their normal track on departure.
A short siding north of the station was used to terminate and reverse several trains in the weekday peak-hours. From 27 April 2008, trains no longer terminate here with all services continuing to Gawler. It is the last remnant of the former branch line to Penfield. Currently, there is one service will terminate at Salisbury (07:51 from Adelaide, arriving Salisbury at 08:12), and using the short siding of branch line to Penfield and reverse back to Adelaide.
Transport links
Adelaide Metro operate many bus routes via Salisbury Interchange:
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References
External links
Flickr gallery
Railway stations in Adelaide
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1857
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Jalamanta is Brant Bjork's debut solo album after leaving Kyuss and joining Fu Manchu. Originally released in 1999 on the defunct Man's Ruin Records label, Jalamanta was re-released on Bjork's own label, Duna Records, in 2003, 2006 and 2009. In 2019, Bjork's current label Heavy Psych Sounds 'remixed and remastered' the album with new artwork.
Track listing
Notes
The original Man's Ruin album lists track #5 as "Oasis Layback", but was changed on the Duna release to "Sun Brother".
The 2019 reissue of Jalamanta features a track listing including "Take Me Away" and "Bones Lazy", the latter being the instrumental intro of "Low Desert Punk" from the original release.
Credits
Drums, guitars, bass, percussion, vocals: Brant Bjork
Recorded the first week of February 1999 at Rancho de la Luna, Joshua Tree, California
Produced by Rosa. Engineered by Tony Mason. Mixed by Tony Mason & Rosa. Mastered by Schneebie
Additional guitars by Mario Lalli & Gary Arce. "Toot" lyrics by Mario Lalli
References
Brant Bjork albums
1999 debut albums
Man's Ruin Records albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalamanta
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