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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog
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Mad Dog
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Mad dog is a phrase commonly attributed to rabid dogs.
Due to the Welsh given name 'Madog' (derived from Prince Madoc), in English speaking countries, it is often mistaken for the words 'Mad dog'.
Mad Dog may also refer to:
Music
Mad Dog (album), an album by John Entwistle
"Mad Dog", a song by America from Holiday
"Mad Dog", a song by Deep Purple from The House of Blue Light
"Mad Dog", a song by Pentagram from Sub-Basement
People
Johnny Adair (born 1963), Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary
Martin Allen (born 1965), English footballer
Brett Banasiewicz (born 1994), American professional BMX rider
Mike Bell (wrestler) (1971–2008), American professional wrestler
Roger Caron (1938–2012), Canadian robber
Mad Dog Coll (1908–1932), Irish-American gangster
David C. Dolby (1946–2010), US Army Medal of Honor recipient
Charles Gargotta (1900–1950), Italian-American gangster
Jon Hall (programmer) (born 1950), American computer programmer
Gene Hatcher (born 1959), American boxer
Leslie Irvin (serial killer) (1924–1983), 1950s American serial killer
Bob Lassiter (1945–2006), American radio talk show host
Pierre Lefebvre (1955–1985), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Vini Lopez (born 1949), American drummer
Adam MacDougall (born 1975), Australian rugby league player
Jeff Madden, college football strength and conditioning coach
Bill Madlock (born 1951), American baseball player
Mark Madsen (basketball) (born 1976), American basketball coach and former player
Jim Mandich (1948–2011), American football player
Michel Martel (1944–1978), Canadian professional wrestler
Jim Mattis (born 1950), American Marine Corps general and Secretary of Defense
Brian McGlinchey (born 1977), Northern Ireland footballer
Dominic McGlinchey (1954–1994), leader of the INLA
Mad Dog McPhie (born 1971), English professional wrestler
Lewis Moody (born 1978), English rugby union player
Dan Morgan (bushranger) (1830–1865), Australian bushranger
Robbie Muir (footballer) (born 1953), Australian rules footballer
Mad Dog O'Malley, Irish-American professional wrestler
Edgar Ross (boxer) (1949–2012), American boxer
Chris Russo (born 1959), American sports radio personality
Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky (1924–1960), American executed murderer
Michael Taccetta (born 1947), a member of the New Jersey Lucchese crime family
Maurice Vachon (1929–2013), French-Canadian professional wrestler
Dwight White (1949–2008), American football player
Xu Xiaodong (born 1979), a Chinese mixed martial artist
Wong Yuk-man (born 1951), Hong Kong politician
Characters
Mad Dog (comics), various fictional characters
Mad Dog (Marvel Comics)
Mad Dog Rassitano, a bounty hunter in the Marvel Universe
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, from the movie Back to the Future Part III
Johnny Mad Dog, from the film of the same name by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Goro Majima, known as the "Mad Dog of Shimano" in the Yakuza series
Mad Dog, a character from manga and anime series Haikyu!!
Mad Dog Branzillo, in the book A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Mad Dog, nickname of Wayne Dobie in the film Mad Dog and Glory
Mad Dog, from the John Woo film Hard Boiled
Mad Dog, from the movie Ong Bak, starring Tony Jaa
Mad Dog, from the movie The Raid: Redemption, starring Iko Uwais
Tommy "Mad Dog" McCulum, from the South African TV series Isidingo
Mad Dog, a character in the Nintendo DS game Contra 4
Other uses
Mad Dog (TV series), a 2017 South Korean television series
Mad Dog Knives, a knifemaking company
Mad Dog Oil Field, in the Gulf of Mexico
"Mad Dog", an episode of the 1975 television series Survivors
the title character of Mad Dog McCree, a 1990 laserdisc video game
the title character of Mad Dog Morgan, a 1976 Australian bushranger film
Mad Dog Inc., a group of Texas authors including Bud Shrake
Maddog 20/20, a flavored fortified wine from Mogen David
MadDog, the mascot of the Northeastern University Rugby Club
McDonnell Douglas MD-80, a family of commercial jet liners, nicknamed Mad Dog
Wściekły pies, Polish cocktail
See also
The mad dog of the Middle East, a phrase used by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to describe Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Wanderlei Silva (born 1976), Brazilian mixed martial artist nicknamed Cachorro Louco (Portuguese for "mad dog")
Mad-dog skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), a plant
Mad Dog Coll (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs (disambiguation)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (disambiguation)
Madd Dogg, a video game character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Lists of people by nickname
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Berthod
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Marc Berthod
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Marc Berthod (born 24 November 1983 in Saint-Moritz) is a retired Swiss alpine skier.
In 2005, he was Swiss champion in giant slalom. He finished 7th in the combined event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On 7 January 2007, Berthod won the world cup slalom in Adelboden in a "miraculous" effort that saw him qualify in 27th position for the second run (an impressive performance in itself as he started at #60) and then proceeded to win with a second run that carried him all the way into 1st place, beating Olympic champion Benjamin Raich by 0.26 seconds. The 2007 season has also yielded other good results for Berthod, with two other podium finishes so far, with a 2nd place at the Beaver Creek alpine combined, and a 2nd place in Wengen also in the combined.
In September 2016 he declared his retirement, as he lacked motivation and suffered several injuries in the past.
Race podiums
2 wins – (1 SL, 1 GS)
5 podiums – (1 SL, 2 GS, 2 AC)
Season standings
External links
Official website
1983 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginu%C4%8Diai
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Ginučiai
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Ginučiai is a village on the shore of the Lake Linkmenas in the Aukštaitija National Park, Ignalina district of Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, its population was 44.
It is best known for its 19th-century watermill. It is one of the few mills in Lithuania that survive with the original mechanism. Ginučiai watermill is declared a monument of engineering.
Ginučiai village is quite popular touring place in the Eastern Lithuania.
References
External links
Photo essays from the village
Villages in Utena County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hary%20Suharyadi
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Hary Suharyadi
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Suharyadi, also known as Hary Suharyadi and as Suharyadi Suharyadi on documents (born 14 February 1965) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. He competed in three Summer Olympics; the 1984 Los Angeles Games, 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona.
He won gold on mixed doubles at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing with Yayuk Basuki, whom he married on 31 January 1994 in Yogyakarta.
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Indonesian male tennis players
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Indonesia
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Jakarta
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Southeast Asian Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1985 Southeast Asian Games
20th-century Indonesian people
21st-century Indonesian people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definist%20fallacy
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Definist fallacy
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The definist fallacy (sometimes called the Socratic fallacy, after Socrates) is a logical fallacy, identified by William Frankena in 1939, that involves the definition of one property in terms of another.
Overview
The philosopher William Frankena first used the term definist fallacy in a paper published in the British analytic philosophy journal Mind in 1939. In this article he generalized and critiqued G. E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy, which argued that good cannot be defined by natural properties, as a broader confusion caused by attempting to define a term using non-synonymous properties. Frankena argued that naturalistic fallacy is a complete misnomer because it is neither limited to naturalistic properties nor necessarily a fallacy. On the first word (naturalistic), he noted that Moore rejected defining good in non-natural as well as natural terms.
On the second word (fallacy), Frankena rejected the idea that it represented an error in reasoning – a fallacy as it is usually recognized – rather than an error in semantics. In Moore's open-question argument, because questions such as "Is that which is pleasurable good?" have no definitive answer, then pleasurable is not synonymous with good. Frankena rejected this argument as: the fact that there is always an open question, merely reflects the fact that it makes sense to ask whether two things that may be identical in fact are. Thus, even if good were identical to pleasurable, it makes sense to ask whether it is; the answer may be "yes", but the question was legitimate. This seems to contradict Moore's view which accepts that sometimes alternative answers could be dismissed without argument, however Frankena objects that this would be committing the fallacy of begging the question.
See also
List of fallacies
References
Informal fallacies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20City%20Star
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Music City Star
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The Music City Star, officially known as the WeGo Star, is a commuter rail service running between Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee. The service uses the existing track of the Nashville and Eastern Railroad. The line stops at seven stations: Riverfront, Donelson, Hermitage, Mt. Juliet, Martha, Hamilton Springs and Lebanon. The operation covers of rail line. Service began on September 18, 2006. In , the system had a ridership of .
Description
The Star is considered a "starter" project to demonstrate the effectiveness of commuter rail service to the metro Nashville area. Expansion plans include as many as six more lines, terminating in Gallatin, Columbia, Murfreesboro, Dickson, Springfield, and Clarksville via Ashland City. All are planned to use existing CSX Transportation railroad lines. The planned seven lines meet in central Nashville in a star formation, hence the name of the system, which also alludes to the city's many country music stars.
The Star is the first passenger train service of any kind for Nashville since the discontinuation of Amtrak's Floridian in 1979. The Nashville and Eastern line, part of the former Tennessee Central Railway, had not seen passenger service for many decades prior to the Star, with the exception of excursion trains operated by the Tennessee Central Railway Museum and the Broadway Dinner Train.
Rolling stock
The Music City Star regional rail service is currently served by four rebuilt ex-Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives and seven former Chicago Metra coaches, standard gauge. The coaches are bilevel rail cars with seating on both levels.
Since 2022, all four F40PH locomotives have been rebuilt and repainted into the new WeGo paint scheme. 381 previously wore Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner paint scheme until late 2020.The coaches used also saw an overhaul; the former Metra Pullman-Standard coaches were withdrawn from service around 2020 and were replaced with corrugated stainless steel Budd bi-level gallery coaches formerly used by Chicago Burlington and Quincy, RTA, Metra, and the planned MiTrain. Despite this, the cars are still active on occasion.
Lines
Currently there is only one line, with six more planned to other satellite cities around Nashville.
The current line is long with seven stations. The line is mostly single-track, so this limits arrivals and departures to how long each train has to wait for the other to pass. The first "starter line" cost $41 million, or just under $1.3 million per mile, which made it the most cost-efficient commuter rail start-up in the nation.
East Corridor line
Riverfront station
Donelson station
Hermitage station
Mt. Juliet station
Martha station
Hamilton Springs station
Lebanon station
Ridership
Music City Star ridership steadily increased from 104,785 passenger trips in 2007 to 277,148 trips in 2012. In 2013, ridership decreased to 253,421 trips, but then steadily increased to 298,800 passenger trips in 2018. in 2019 ridership has slightly decreased to 292,500 passenger trips. During the 2020 pandemic, ridership plummeted to 77,200 with a majority of the rides being in the first quarter of the year, it fell further in 2021 to 57,500 although the 4th quarter saw immense improvement compared to the 4th quarter of 2020.
History
The train began operations on September 18, 2006, becoming the 18th commuter rail system in the United States, with a projected daily ridership of 1,500 passengers. The service launched with an estimated annual cost of $3.3 million, of which $1.3 million was covered by revenues.
In the first month after service began, ridership failed to reach the projected goals, a situation which continued for several years, culminating with a financial shortfall of $1.7 million by the summer of 2008, of which the state of Tennessee covered $1 million in a bailout of the service. Financial difficulties continued into the next year; in June 2009, the service was nearly shut down for lack of funds until state and local authorities granted the service $4.4 million to continue service until 2011.
During 2010, a third passenger car was added to all Music City Star trains to accommodate increasing ridership.
On May 2, 2010, the East Corridor line was closed because of damage related to the floods that hit Middle Tennessee. Flood waters pushed tracks off a concrete trestle over Sinking Creek in downtown Lebanon. This trapped Star trains at their Lebanon storage yard, causing RTA to suspend service until the trestle was repaired. MTA substituted chartered buses instead, picking up passengers at all stations except Martha. The line was repaired in one week.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee in 2020 briefly resulted in the shutdown of Star rail service, but service resumed on June 15, 2020 with eight trains each weekday — two each way in the morning and two more in the afternoon.
A proposed expansion of the system to Clarksville and Ashland City is projected to cost $525 million.
See also
List of United States railroads
List of Tennessee railroads
References
External links
Music City Star official website
Train-related introductions in 2006
Companies operating former Louisville and Nashville Railroad lines
Passenger rail transportation in Tennessee
Tennessee railroads
Transportation in Nashville, Tennessee
Commuter rail in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Caplan
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Paula Caplan
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Paula Joan Caplan (July 7, 1947 – July 21, 2021) was an American psychologist, activist, writer, and artist. She was an associate at Harvard University's DuBois Institute, director of the Voices of Diversity Project, and a past Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Previously she had been full professor of psychology, assistant professor of psychiatry, and lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, as well as head of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education there, and was chosen by the American Psychological Association as an "eminent woman psychologist". She also taught at Harvard University, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island, gave hundreds of invited addresses, and did more than 1,000 media interviews about social issues. She was the author of The Myth of Women's Masochism, Don't Blame Mother, and a number of other books. Her twelfth and final book was When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, which won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Psychology category.
Since the 1980s, Caplan was concerned that psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific, that giving someone a psychiatric label does not reduce their suffering, and that labeling them carries enormous risks of harm. Caplan outwardly addressed her concerns to the public. In her book, They Say You’re Crazy: How the Worlds most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal, Caplan discusses the nature of diagnosis and how the DSM contributes to the unique faults of psychiatry. She sought to educate the public about the unregulated nature of psychiatric diagnoses and the consequent lack of recourse for people who have been harmed by getting such labels, including how getting a psychiatric diagnosis and label often may stand in the way of recovery.
Paula Caplan died on July 21, 2021, in Rockville, Maryland.
See also
James Gottstein
David Oaks
Elyn Saks
References
External links
Paula Joan Caplan Official Site
In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan
Ending Harm from Psychiatric Diagnosis
The Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project
Papers of Paula J. Caplan, 1973-2006. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
1947 births
2021 deaths
Duke University alumni
American women psychologists
American psychologists
Psychiatric assessment
Radcliffe College alumni
People from Springfield, Missouri
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humula
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Humula
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Humula is a small country town between Tarcutta and Tumbarumba in New South Wales, Australia. Humula was once named "American Yards" or "American Fields" during the gold rush, where many Chinese came for gold years ago. At the 2016 census, Humula had a population of 124 people.
Humula is located at the confluence of Carabost Creek, with Umbango Creek, a tributary of Tarcutta Creek, in the Murrumbigee catchment.
Humula Station, which is just outside the town, is one of Australia's most historic farming and grazing properties.
Although Humula is a small town, it has its own fire brigade, public school,p and a recreation ground. After surviving many fires including the latest in February 2006, Humula is still in one piece.
Murraguldrie Post Office opened nearby on 20 March 1874 and was replaced by a Humula office in 1888.
Humula has been around for well over 100 years. Older buildings include the butcher's shop at the end of Mate Street, the Humula Public School on School Street, and the ruins of the old Humula Hotel.
Humula once had a police station at the end of School Street. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Humula's activity and population peaked when logging was the main industry in the area. The Humula sawmill employed many people; when it closed Humula became almost a ghost town. The Sports Club is the only business still operating. Outside the town is Humula's large farming area, most of which has been converted to pine plantations.
Humula had its own railway station and siding, on the Tumbarumba railway line, but the railway is now disused.
The Post Office closed several years ago and the General Store continued in a much smaller role until about 2016.
References
External links
Humula Rail Siding
Mining towns in New South Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webers
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Webers
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Webers (also known as Webers Hamburgers) is a hamburger restaurant on Ontario Highway 11, located 15 kilometres north of Orillia, Ontario that opened in July 1963. Webers grills their burgers over charcoal, with a grill man said to be able to flip up to 800 patties an hour. Long line ups are a common sight at the restaurant, which made the restaurant build a footbridge over the highway to provide access for guests from the southbound side. The restaurant's hamburger patties are also sold at Loblaws outlets.
As of 2009, Webers is reported to sell approximately 8000 hamburgers on a typically busy Friday. The restaurant is open weekends from Thanksgiving until Christmas, but closed from January to March break.
History
Webers was opened on July 11, 1963, by Paul Weber Sr., to cater to cottage goers. By the 1970s, it became so popular that patrons on the opposite side of the highway would often risk injury running across the street to the restaurant. In 1981, the province built a traffic barrier along the median of the highway in an effort to stop the jaywalking. Even so, travellers heading toward Toronto climbed over the waist-high wall to get their food. The following year, the province took further precaution by erecting a fence on top of the barrier. In 1983, Paul Weber Jr., the founder's son, bought a footbridge from a Toronto lawyer that was being used as part of the CN Tower's SkyWalk over Front Street to provide safe access to southbound travelers. This bridge has the distinction of being the first and only privately owned bridge spanning a public highway in Ontario. In 1987, Webers installed three CN train cars, retrofitted to house their own meat processing facility. They have since added five train cars, one of which is used as an eatery. The founder's sons eventually took over the business before their father's death in 1994. Webers opened up additional restaurants in Barrie in the late 1980s; one in Orillia, off the highway, in 1995; and two outlets in Toronto Pearson International Airport in the late 1990s. These restaurants have since closed, leaving only the original location on Highway 11. In 2005, Webers began selling frozen hamburgers through Loblaws.
Paul Weber Jr. sold the company in 2004 to Guelph businessman Tom Rennie, to spend more time with his family. This gave Rennie rights to the Webers name, and control of the Highway 11 flagship location as well as the outlets at Pearson. John Weber, the founder's other son, retained control of the locations in Orillia and Barrie. Since the additional restaurants closed their doors, Rennie became the sole owner of Webers.
On July 19, 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Webers after visiting the Tim Horton Memorial Camp.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Webers has remained open to customers daily since May 3 with social distancing measures. Webers also started accepting debit cards for the first time in its history, having previously been a cash-only establishment.
References
External links
Restaurants established in 1963
Roadside attractions in Canada
Orillia
Fast-food hamburger restaurants
Restaurants in Ontario
1963 establishments in Ontario
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20commanders%20of%20Guantanamo%20Bay%20Naval%20Base
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List of commanders of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
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This is a listing of commandants and commanders of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located in Guantánamo Bay on Cuba.
Brief timeline
10 June 1898 : U.S. occupation.
23 February 1903 : U.S. leases naval station at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
6 October 1903 : Guantanamo Bay Naval Station leased to U.S.
12 December 1913 : Naval Station officially opens. Cuban flag lowered.
31 May 1934 : The 1934 Treaty of Relations abrogates the 1903 Treaty of Relations, explicitly spells out the right for the US to walk away from the lease.
1 April 1941 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Operating Base, after vast construction program for build-up of the Station Frederick Snare Corporation.
18 June 1952 : Renamed Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.
List of commanders and commandants
Commandants
10 December 1903 – May 1904 : William H. Allen
17 May 1904 – September 1906 : Charles C. Rogers
8 September 1906 – July 1907 : Albert A. Ackerman
August 1907 – May 1908 : Clark D. Stearns
May 1908 – April 1909 : Charles H. Harlow
May 1909 – November 1909 : Myles Joyce
November 1909 – January 1912 : Walter Ball
18 January 1912 – June 1913 : George W. Kline
June 1913 – January 1914 : Merritt S. Corning
January 1914 – October 1914 : Hilary Williams
December 1914 – May 1916 : John M. Luby
4 May 1916 – September 1917 : CDR Dudley Wright Knox
September 1917 – November 1918 : E.E. Wright
December 1918 – September 1920 : Guy Whitlock
September 1920 – June 1921 : John J. Hannigan
June 1921 – May 1923 : Robert T. Menner
May 1923 – June 1924 : Ward K. Wortman
June 1924 – June 1926 : Charles M. Tozer
June 1926 – August 1928 : Charles C. Soule Jr.
August 1928 – June 1930 : Charles S. McWhorter
August 1930 – February 1931 : Alfred Hart Miles
February 1931 – May 1933 : Thomas L. Johnson
June 1933 – June 1934 : Edward C. Raguet
June 1934 – April 1936 : Charles "Savvy" M. Cooke Jr.
May 1936 – June 1938 : Mark L. Hersey Jr.
June 1938 – August 1940 : Worral Reed Carter
September 1940 – March 1944 : George L. Weyler
Commanders
April 1944 – October 1944 : F.A. Braisted
October 1944 – December 1945 : J.J. Mahoney
January 1946 – May 1948 : C.E. Battle Jr.
June 1948 – June 1950 : W.K. Phillips
June 1950 – December 1950 : A.M. Bledsoe
December 1950 – January 1953 : M.E. Murphy
January 1953 – December 1953 : C.L.C. Atkeson
February 1954 – September 1955 : E.B. Taylor
September 1955 – October 1956 : W.G. Cooper
December 1956 – November 1958 : R.B. Ellis
November 1958 – October 1960 : Frank W. Fenno
December 1960 - 22 December 1962 : RADM Edward J. O'Donnell
22 December 1962 – December 1963 : RADM J.W. Davis
December 1963 – June 1966 : RADM John D. Bulkeley
June 1966 – July 1968 : E.R. Crawford
July 1968 – June 1970 : James B. Hildreth
June 1970 – August 1972 : B. McCauley
August 1972 – June 1973 : Leo B. McCuddin
June 1973 – July 1975 : Ralph M. Ghormley
July 1975 – June 1977 : John H. McConnell
June 1977 – 7 February 1979 : David W. DeCook
7 February 1979 – 20 March 1981 : John H. Fetterman Jr.
20 March 1981 – 18 October 1983 : M.D. Fitzgerald
18 October 1983 – 28 October 1985 : R.A. Allen
28 October 1985 – 26 April 1988 : John R. Condon
26 April 1988 – 14 June 1990 : John S. Boyd
14 June 1990 – 21 August 1992 : W.C. McCamy Jr.
21 August 1992 – 2 September 1994 : W.M. DeSpain
2 September 1994 – 15 September 1995 : James F. Boland Jr.
15 September 1995 – 25 April 1997 : Jim Cannon
25 April 1997 – 12 May 2000 : Larry E. Larson
12 May 2000 – 27 March 2003 : Robert A. Buehn
27 March 2003 – 9 July 2005 : Leslie J. McCoy
9 July 2005 – 19 September 2005 : Lawrence S. Cotton Jr.
19 September 2005 – September 2008 : CAPT Mark M. Leary
September 2008 – September 2010 : CAPT Steve Blaisdell
September 2010 – July 2012 : CAPT Kirk Hibbert
July 2012 – January 2015 : CAPT J.R. Nettleton, relieved by RADM Mary M. Jackson
January 2015 – March 2015 : CAPT Scott Gray
March 2015 – June 2021 : CAPT David C. Culpepper
June 2021 – Present : CAPT Samuel White
References
Guantanamo Bay commanders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Westphal
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Michael Westphal
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Michael Westphal (19 February 1965 – 20 June 1991) was a male tennis player from West Germany.
Westphal participated for his native country in the 1984 Summer Olympics, making it as far as the quarter-finals. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 49 in March 1986.
Westphal died of complications from AIDS on 20 June 1991, aged 26.
Career finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
References
External links
1965 births
1991 deaths
People from Pinneberg
Olympic tennis players of West Germany
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
West German male tennis players
AIDS-related deaths in Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome%20%28band%29
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Metronome (band)
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Metronome (メトロノーム) is a Japanese visual kei rock band, which took its influence from many genres, including techno, rock, hardcore and pop.
Musical styles
They have also been described as gamewave and nintendocore. Their songs typically sampled video game, or video game inspired, sounds and while being based in rock, are heavily electronic as well. They have a total of 22 official releases, albums and singles. They maintained an indie career throughout their years, and were never a hot selling band among the visual kei scene, mainly due to their uncompromising approach to their sound.
History
Metronome's claim to fame is that they travelled from the future—The year 2005, to be exact. Because they were getting bad record sales in 2005, they decided to travel back in time to 1998, thus boosting sales via their "futuristic" sound and look.
In a 2007 interview, Talbo-1 Fukusuke mentioned how they stopped with saying they were from the year 2005 as said year neared. The band apparently had thought they wouldn't still be around by the time 2005 rolled around. They split in 2009 for unknown reasons.
Later in 2016 the band got back together after being asked if during band members solo projects if they would perform covers of Metronome song which they responded that if they were to perform Metronome songs they were going to do it right. This led to their first single since their break up being released. The next year they released a new full-length album.
Members
Voicecoder: Sharaku Kobayashi 小林 写楽 {シャラク}
Birthday: 08.10
Current Bands: metronome, FLOPPY, Muchi muchi Anago, Cuckoo (カッコー), GalapagosS
Previous Bands: Picopico PON, Propellerheads
Talbo-1: Fukusuke Fukuda {フクスケ}
Birthday: 12.09
Current Bands: metronome, ADAPTER
Previous Bands: Picopico PON
Support for: FLOPPY
Talbo-2: Riu {リウ}
Birthday: 06.01
Current Bands: metronome, BEE-315
Previous Bands: SPICY DRY HOT MUSTARD
Drums: Shintarou {シンタロー}
Birthday: 11.23
Current Bands: metronome, GalapagosS
Previous Bands:
Ex members
Drums: Yuuichirou {ユウイチロー}
Birthday: 09.28
Current Bands: boogieman
Previous Bands: Fill or Kill, FeNeK, BADxTIMING, Mind Break, CUVE, metronome
Discography
Albums
YAPUU Ga Shoukansareta Machi (2000)
Fukigen Na ANDROID (2002)
1 Metronome (2003)
UNKNOWN (2004)
LIFO (2004)
Electric Travel (2005)
Cycle Recycle (2007)
HIGH TO LOW ELECTRO (2008)
COLLECTION (2008)
COLLECTION 2 (2008)
CONTINUE (2017)
Singles
Single Top Religion (1999)
PLASTIC-MODELS Kuro (2001)
PLASTIC-MODELS Shirogane (2001)
Planet (2002)
Self Control (2002)
Mittsu Kazoero (2003)
S.P.A.C.E. Romantic (2003)
Mousou Trick (2004)
Isshukan (2004)
Computer (2004)
Oboro/Sora (2005)
Boku Sonzaisetsu (2006)
Zetsubou-San (2006)
Tawainai Twillight (2007)
Zombie-Kun (2007)
Kairisei Doitsujinbutsu (2016)
DVD
サイクルリサイクル～メーDAY X'mas～ (2007)
10th Anniversary Special ONE MAN LIVE
＠2008.8.25SHIBUYA-AX
since2005→1998→2008 (2009)
External links
Official Site
Profile at JaME
Japanese punk rock groups
Japanese rock music groups
Visual kei musical groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylviane%20Berthod
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Sylviane Berthod
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Sylviane Berthod (born 25 April 1977 in Salins) is a female alpine skier from Switzerland, who was Swiss champion in downhill skiing (1997, 1998, 1999) and Giant Slalom (1998). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she finished 7th in downhill.
External links
1977 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
21st-century Swiss women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20Righteous%20Brothers
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Self Righteous Brothers
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Self Righteous Brothers is the mainly acoustic, alternative rock music, side-project of Australian punk rockers, Frenzal Rhomb's lead singer Jason Whalley and guitarist, Lindsay McDougall which formed in 2004. Inspired by American band, the Frogs, their music is humorous and often explicit. They released an album, Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart, in 2004 and was re-released in March 2005 via Shock Records.
The group's members were called "insensitive" by the South Australian Tourism Commission for the album track, "There's no Town Like Snowtown", which refers to the infamous bodies-in-barrels murders and are associated with the South Australian town of that name. Blair Boyer of Punk Globe Magazine described how, "This song and other irreverent offerings", appear on that album.
dBMagazine s Simon Foster opined, "they've managed to round up a swag of witty/offensive (take your pick) tunes with some great names and lyrics, a bunch of obscure instruments (Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer anyone?), and chucked them all on the one album [...] Although having a bit of fun, the lads display a surprisingly high amount of musical ability and 'Love Songs...' is great for a laugh... just don't set your expectations too high."
Discography
Love Songs for the Wrong at Heart (March 2005)
"Now You're Gone"
"Snowtown (There's no Town Like Snowtown)"
"The Only Gay Soldier"
"Daddy Drinks"
"Ruggedly Beautiful"
"Golden Wedding Anniversary"
"Self-Righteous"
"Sperm in Your Eyes"
"Who Will Buy"
"Brothers in Arms"
"Emosexual"
"Love on the Inside"
"My Love Barks"
"Dead Horse"
Members
Lindsay McDougall: – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, violin, viola, cello, pan flute, glockenspiel, zither, timbales, cymbals
Jason Whalley: – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vibraphone, piano, cello, drums, cabasa, vibraslap, Appalachian dulcimer
Credits:
References
Australian folk music groups
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki%20%28James%20Bond%29
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Aki (James Bond)
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Aki is a fictional character created for the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. In the film, Aki, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, is a female ninja agent with the fictional Japanese Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Creation
Aki does not appear in Ian Fleming's 1964 novel. She was originally named Suki in Roald Dahl's screenplay. According to The James Bond Films, the character was "Dahl's tribute to the Japanese woman of the Sixties". The character is portrayed as an attractive female Japanese SIS agent, a skilled ninja and an expert driver who often uses her skills at driving her white Toyota 2000GT sports car equipped with several high-tech communication devices.
Mie Hama was cast to play Suki, but she had trouble learning English; to solve the problem, she and Akiko Wakabayashi, originally cast to play the part of almost-silent Kissy Suzuki, decided to swap their respective roles. Wakabayashi then convinced director Lewis Gilbert to change the name of her character to Aki.
While Kissy acts as the film's main Bond girl, Aki serves as Bond's main contact and apparent love interest during the early and middle sections. When Kissy is set to be introduced as Bond's cover wife, Aki's role draws to a close. Her death shortly afterwards clears the way for Kissy to take on the role.
Character
Aki is first seen when 007 meets her at a sumo wrestling show. Bond is there to meet a contact who will take him to Mr. Henderson, M's recommended contact in Japan. He confirms that Aki is his contact by saying the code words "I love you" to her. Aki takes Bond to meet Henderson in her car. After Henderson is killed during their meeting, Bond attacks and kills one of Henderson's killers. Taking the man's place, he is driven to the Osato Chemical Works HQ, where he is discovered by the villains. Aki rescues him, using her skills as a driver, then takes him to meet her boss, Tiger Tanaka. It is after this meeting that a bikini-clad Aki invites Bond to spend the night with her, famously saying "I think I will enjoy very much serving under you", before Bond carries her to bed.
The next morning, Bond returns to the Osato Chemical Works and meets Blofeld's henchman Mr Osato. Leaving after the meeting, he is pursued by SPECTRE gunmen, from whom Aki rescues him again. The gunmen chase Aki's car and she leads them out into the countryside, where a SIS helicopter lifts the gunmen's car off the road with a giant magnet and drops it into the sea (in 2012, Complex ranked it as the sixth best James Bond chase scene). She then takes him to a quayside to investigate a ship he suspects is being used by the villains. When investigating the ship Bond and Aki are attacked by SPECTRE henchmen. Bond tells her to leave and report to Tanaka; Aki refuses to leave Bond at first, but eventually complies.
Aki next appears after Bond is captured and almost killed by Helga Brandt, when she meets with him back at Tanaka's headquarters and Bond is about to go on another mission that she cannot accompany him on.
When Bond returns to the base in Kyoto, Aki meets him there to discuss the plan to disrupt SPECTRE's plot. She had hoped to play the part of Bond's "wife" in the cover operation, however this was vetoed as she was not a native of the Ama island.
This proves to be a fortunate decision as Aki never makes it to the island at all. On Blofeld's orders Osato had sent ninja assassins to kill Bond, one of whom stealthily enters the bedroom where Bond and Aki are sleeping together and tries to poison Bond by dripping poison down a thread. (Dahl took inspiration for this by watching a similar scene in the first film in the Shinobi no Mono ninja film series.)
Bond, however, moves in his sleep. At the last moment Aki moves to his position, unwittingly takes the poison instead, and dies after a brief struggle for breath. The scene was accompanied by the musical track "The Death of Aki" by John Barry.
Reception
Various lists frequently ranked Aki among the best Bond girls ever, including as tenth by Zimbio in 2008 ("So beautiful you almost forget that Sean Connery has been ridiculously made up to look Japanese. Almost"), ninth by Postmedia News the same year ("Kissy Suzuki is considered the 'main' Bond girl in this film, but Aki has a bigger role and is more memorable"), and eight by WagerWeb in 2009 ("Hot Japanese agent, she kicks ass and look damn fine doing it. Besides, she dies to save James Bond, you have to give her some extra credit for that"). According to UGO, "although Akiko Wakabayashi is charming in the role, her chemistry with Bond is disappointing, and she lacks both the look and the attitude to make her a good Bond girl," but in another article UGO praised her as "Bond's super-hot guardian angel". Den of Geek included her in their 2008 list of ten James Bond characters who deserve their own spin-off. Esquire magazine dubbed Aki "the Girl Friday of Tiger Tanaka" and "Tiger's Pussycat".
References
Bond girls
Film characters introduced in 1967
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional secret agents and spies
Fictional women soldiers and warriors
You Only Live Twice (film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Flow
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Best Flow
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Best Flow, Inc.(베스트플로우) is a Korean entertainment company, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. It was founded on 26 September 1994 as Datagate International, changed its name to Yuri International(여리인터내셔널) in 2005 and Best Flow in 2008.
Business sector
Management of Celebrities
Producing and investing in films and TV programs
Producing and distributing music
Star marketing, selling merchandise
Multimedia
Games
Related companies
Trifecta Entertainment
Climix Entertainment
I Star Cinema
Companies listed on KOSDAQ
Entertainment companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 1994
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugutka
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Gugutka
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Gugutka (, "collared dove", ) is a village in southernmost Bulgaria, part of Ivaylovgrad municipality, Haskovo Province. Located in the valley of the Byala Reka ("White River"), it is famous for the Byalgrad ("White Fortress") medieval fortress located eight kilometres from the village. Its former name was "Arnavutköy".
Villages in Haskovo Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog%20%28album%29
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Mad Dog (album)
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Mad Dog is the fourth solo studio album by the bassist for The Who, John Entwistle, and his last for six years, and the debut album by his band John Entwistle's Ox.
Mad Dog didn't generate much interest, either in sales or among fans, in what sounded like and is often referred as to by fans as "The Son of" Rigor Mortis a second volume of Rock & Roll pastiches rubbing shoulders with items of dubious taste.
His next solo album Too Late the Hero would become his most successful while Mad Dog was his least successful solo album until the release of The Rock.
The song "Cell Number 7", (which is a close relation to The Who's "Long Live Rock") detailed The Who's then recent brush with Canadian justice in 1974 after a hotel wrecking spree in Montreal while on their Quadrophenia tour.
Critical reception
AllMusic said that the album "Is enjoyable in short bursts, but it also makes a good case for the conventional wisdom that even the best bass players are only so-so as band leaders.", Allmusic also said that "He can't seem to tell his good jokes from the ones that sink without a trace, he sets his best songs right beside numbers that would have been best left in the rehearsal space, and for a guy who was one-third of England's greatest power trio (plus vocalist), he doesn't always know what to do with a large band."
Track listing
All tracks composed by John Entwistle, except where indicated.
Bonus tracks (2005 reissue)
Personnel
John Entwistle - lead vocals, bass guitar, 8-string bass guitar, synthesizer
Jimmy Ryan - guitar
Mike Wedgwood - guitar, string arrangements
Robert A. Johnson - guitar (2, 6, 7)
Eddie Jobson - piano, violin
Tony Ashton - piano
John Mealing - piano
Mike Deacon - piano (2)
Nashville Katz - string arrangements
John Mumford - trombone
Dick Parry - baritone saxophone
Howie Casey - tenor saxophone
Dave Caswell - trumpet
Doreen Chanter - background vocals
Irene Chanter - background vocals
Juanita "Honey" Franklin - background vocals
Graham Deakin - drums, percussion
References
1975 albums
John Entwistle albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Green
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Luther Green
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Luther Green (November 13, 1946 – January 25, 2006) was an American basketball player.
Born in New York City, Green played college basketball at Long Island University and was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the 1969 NBA draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft.
Green played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association for two seasons. From 1971 to 1972 he played for the Harlem Wizards, and he played briefly for the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers during the 1972–73 NBA season.
Green died of lung cancer at the age of 59.
References
External links
Career stats at basketball-reference.com
1946 births
2006 deaths
African-American basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from New York City
Cincinnati Royals draft picks
Deaths from lung cancer
DeWitt Clinton High School alumni
Hartford Capitols players
LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball players
Miami Floridians draft picks
New York Nets players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Small forwards
Wilkes-Barre Barons players
20th-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportvision
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Sportvision
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Sportvision was a private company that provided various television viewing enhancements to a number of different professional sporting events. They worked with NFL, NBA, NASCAR, NHL, MLB, PGA and college football broadcasts.
In 1996, Rick Cavallaro, working for Stan Honey at Etak (then owned by Fox/News America) developed a way to track hockey pucks with a blue halo as seen by television viewers. It was assumed at that time that viewers had a hard time keeping track of the puck. Released as the FoxTrax puck, it was not a success but led to the 1998 formation of the Sportvision company and later that year the development of the 1st & Ten computer system, which generates and displays the yellow first down line that a TV viewer sees during a live football broadcast. The system became a major hit with television viewers when used during a broadcast of the Super Bowl. It has since become part of all standard American professional and college football and Canadian pro football broadcasts.
Another popular Sportvision product is seen in broadcasts of NASCAR races. It is called RACEf/x, and creates virtual flags above the cars to make them easier to follow by the viewers.
Sportvision also created the PITCHf/x system used by Major League Baseball to provide pitch data to users of MLB.com GameDay and viewers of Fox, Fox Sports Net, Rogers Sports Net and TBS, until its replacement by Statcast in 2017.
The latest attempt for hockey was tested for deployment during the 2015 NHL All-Star weekend. The new system used computer chips to standardize and increase the volume of data tracked during the course of a game.
In a deal finalized Oct. 4, 2016, Sportvision was acquired by SMT.
See also
SMT (media corporation)
PVI Virtual Media Services
References
External links
http://www.sportvision.com/
Sports companies
Visual effects companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Cuche
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Didier Cuche
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Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
Career
Born in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, he competed in the downhill and super-G, along with the giant slalom. He won the World Cup downhill and super-G title for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010, 2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009. Cuche has 21 World Cup race victories, along with 67 podiums (top three) and 181 top ten finishes. He is also an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals (a gold, two silvers, and a bronze). He retired from competition following the 2012 season.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Cuche was the silver medalist in the super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal (no bronze medal was awarded).
Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.
During the 2007 season, Cuche was in top form, winning the downhill season title with a victory and four-second-place finishes. In the Bormio downhill on 28 December 2006 he finished second, 0.01 seconds behind winner Michael Walchhofer, the smallest measurable amount in ski racing.
Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in 2008 with 584 points, five ahead of overall champion Bode Miller. Cuche finished third overall and nearly won the super-G season title, finishing a single point behind champion Hannes Reichelt.
At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Cuche won the super-G and was the silver medalist in the downhill.
A week after winning the super-G and downhill at Kitzbühel in 2010, Cuche broke his right thumb in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on 29 January, two weeks before the 2010 Winter Olympics. The injury put Cuche's Olympic participation in doubt, and he was immediately flown to Switzerland. After successful thumb surgery, he was cleared to compete in the Olympics in Canada.
Cuche had a disappointing Olympics and did not win any medal; however, he regained the title of World Cup downhill champion for the 2010 season at the first post-Olympic race. Cuche won the downhill on the challenging Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, Norway, on 6 March for his fifth World Cup victory of the season. Until 2010, Cuche had never won more than two World Cup events in a single season.
On 22 January 2011, Cuche became the oldest race winner in the history of the World Cup, winning the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel at the age of . It was also his fourth downhill victory in Kitzbühel, which tied him with Franz Klammer for the record on the Hahnenkamm. He has since added a fifth victory in Kitzbühel to his tally, thus becoming the sole record holder; Klammer was there to congratulate him at the finish.
At the 2011 World Championships in February, he won the silver medal in the downhill. In March he won the World Cup downhill championship for the 2011 season. This marked the fourth time he won the season title (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a record only surpassed by Franz Klammer who won the title five times. He ended the 2011 World Cup season in first-place ranking in downhill and super-G, finishing second in the overall rankings to Ivica Kostelić.
After considerable speculation as to whether Cuche might instead retire, he opened the 2012 World Cup season by winning the downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada, further extending the age record he had last broken at in a super-G at Kvitfjell in March 2011. That record was extended yet again at Kitzbühel in January 2012 to .
On 19 January 2012 Cuche announced his retirement for the end of the 2012 season. He gave his retirement speech in Kitzbühel during which he stated that he wanted to "leave the World Cup stage on a high". Only two days later, Cuche won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel for the fifth time in his career, including his first World Cup win in 1998. The following week, Cuche won the downhill at Garmisch, Germany, for his twentieth World Cup victory. He extended the record for the oldest winner of a World Cup race with his 21st and last career victory in the super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to .
In December 2012, the Swiss ski federation announced that Cuche would work with his former teammates as a downhill coach after they suffered a slow start to the season.
Other awards
Cuche won the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 and 2011. In January 2012 during the "Swiss Awards" he won the Swiss Person of the Year award in 2011.
World Cup results
Season standings
Season titles
6 season titles: 4 downhill, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom
Race victories
21 wins (12 downhill, 6 super-G, 3 giant slalom)
67 podiums (32 DH, 23 SG, 12 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Swiss Ski team official site
Didier Cuche at Head Skis
1974 births
Living people
People from Val-de-Ruz District
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridge%20at%20Andau
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The Bridge at Andau
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The Bridge at Andau is a 1957 nonfiction book by the American author James Michener chronicling the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Living in Austria in the 1950s, Michener was at the border of Austria and Hungary during the period in which a significant wave of refugees fled Hungary.
The book is one of Michener's journalistic works (his 9th or 10th published book) and much shorter than the episodic novels that he wrote over the next thirty years. While the book is of an historical event based upon interviews with eyewitnesses, the story is told largely through composite characters or characters based on real people whose names were changed, either for their safety or the safety of family left behind. The story examines the experience of different segments of Hungarian society, both before and during the uprising, such as students, workers, soldiers, secret police, and ordinary citizens. The book takes the reader to the streets of Budapest, where unarmed young people, factory workers, and poorly equipped Hungarian soldiers fought Soviet tanks. It also tells the bittersweet story of the few days of freedom enjoyed by the citizens of Budapest before the Soviets returned in force.
Written soon after the events it chronicles, and published during the ongoing general strike that started soon after the Soviet reoccupation, the book serves to give the reader an idea of the middle years of the Cold War.
The title of the books refers to an actual bridge on the Austria-Hungary border near the village of Andau. The bridge was destroyed in November 1956 by Soviet troops. It was rebuilt in 1996 as a symbol of tolerance and helpfulness.
Characters
Josef Toth
He is an 18-year-old boy who was blond, gray-eyed, and had a fair amount of acne. Josef escaped to Austria and helped many others escape as well. He became an amazing man who not only looked out for himself but for others as well.
AVO
The State Protection Authority ( or ÁVH, referred to as "AVO" in the book) was the secret police of Hungary from 1945 until 1956. It was conceived as an external appendage of the Soviet Union's secret police forces and gained an indigenous reputation for brutality during a series of purges beginning in 1948, intensifying in 1949 and ending in 1953. In 1953 Joseph Stalin died, and Imre Nagy (a moderate reformer) was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary. Under Nagy's first government from 1953 to 1955, the ÁVH was gradually reined in.
References
Books by James A. Michener
1957 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Random House books
Books about Hungary
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Works about refugees
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Millions
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Kid Millions
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Kid Millions (1934) is an American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor. Its elaborate "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number was filmed in three-strip Technicolor, one of the earliest uses of that process in a feature-length film.
Plot
In New York City, 1934, jazz singer Dot Clark and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"), are introduced. After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to $77 million. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash. Former assistant to Edward Wilson, Gerald Lane, informs the law offices of Benton, Loring, and Slade of Professor Wilson's death and the fact that Edward's son, Eddie Wilson, Jr, is the rightful heir to the money. Mr. Slade, the lawyer, goes to a barge in Brooklyn where Eddie is living with his adopted father, Pops, an old stevedore, and his three sons, Oscar, Adolph, and Herman, who roughhouse Eddie. However, Eddie is managing to live a nice life nonetheless, with his girlfriend, Nora 'Toots', and his care for all the kids on the barge. He dreams of the day when he will have enough money to live his own life outside of the dirty barge ("When My Ship Comes In"). Moments later, Eddie is informed that he has inherited the $77 million and boards a ship bound for Egypt to claim the money. Aboard the ship is Colonel Henry Larrabee, a gentleman from Virginia who sponsored Eddie, Sr's exploration endeavors and wants a share of the money, as well. Eddie befriends his beautiful niece, Joan, and Dot and Louie realize that they are not the only ones traveling to Egypt. In an elaborate scheme to trick Eddie into signing over the inheritance, Dot disguises herself as Eddie's mother and almost succeeds in duping him, but Louie ruins the plan at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gerald Lane has boarded the ship and he is revealed to be in love with Joan Larrabee.
In the ship's bar, the Colonel, Gerald, and Louie realize they are all traveling for the same reason, and Gerald calls Colonel Larrabee a liar. Joan overhears and becomes angry with him, much to Jerry's dismay. Louie tries to get Eddie to hand over the cash by trying to bump him off by pushing him off the ship's deck in a wheelchair. The duo thinks they have succeeded in getting rid of Eddie, but they are foiled again. Eddie tries to help Jerry win back Joan, and suggests they rehearse a number for the ship's concert the next evening. They rehearse ("Your Head On My Shoulder"), but Joan is still frosty toward him. At the ship's concert, Jerry, Eddie, Dot, Joan, and members of the chorus perform a big minstrel show number featuring a specialty tap by the Nicholas Brothers ("Mandy N' Me"). The ship lands in Alexandria, Egypt, and Joan is still angry with Jerry. Eddie, still convinced that Dot is his mother and Louie is his uncle, wants to see a magician performing at the ship's port. When the magician taunts Louie and calls him a coward, Louie gets in the magic basket and ends up getting beaten by Egyptian slaves. Eddie chases a little dog running through the marketplace and lands literally in the lap of the sheikh's daughter, Princess Fanya, who falls instantly in love with Eddie. She forces him to come with her back to the palace, where Eddie meets her father, Sheikh Mulhulla, and her fiancé, Ben Ali, who is extremely jealous. Fanya hyperbolizes the encounter with the dog, saying that Eddie saved her from a lion's attack instead of a puppy.
Eddie then is invited to stay at the palace, much to Fanya's delight. However, soon Sheikh Mulhulla learns of the Americans being in Egypt who have come to take the $77 million treasure that he believes is rightfully his. He tells Eddie about this and Eddie begins to worry about his mother and his uncle, along with the others. In a comical scene, the sheikh and Eddie smoke a hookah pipe and the sheikh tells him of the affair he is having with a famous dancer who lives in the village. The harem women try to seduce Eddie, but he is steadfast to remain faithful to Nora 'Toots' ("Okay Toots"). Princess Fanya has a plot to get Eddie to marry her, and she tells her father that Eddie kissed her on the camel when they first met. The sheikh then decrees that Eddie must marry Fanya or die, and has him suspended over a large bowl of soup. Eddie then agrees to marry Fanya, and is kept in a room on a dog collar until the next morning, when Ben Ali comes in with a gun in a jealous rage. Eddie convinces Ben Ali that he does not want to marry Fanya, and Ben Ali is convinced and lets him go. However, Joan, Jerry, the Colonel, Dot, and Louie arrive at the palace and are immediately accosted by the guards. In the tomb, Eddie and the men disguise themselves as the spirits of the sheikh's ancestors and tell him to let the Americans go free. The sheikh is so scared by the prophecies, he agrees to let them go on one condition: Eddie will never be able to see Fanya ever again. He agrees and boards a plane home to New York City, where he uses the inheritance to open a free ice cream factory with Toots, thus realizing their lifelong dream ("Ice Cream Fantasy Finale").
Cast
Eddie Cantor as Eddie Wilson Jr., the deceased Professor Edward Wilson's son and the now heir
Ann Sothern as Joan Larabee, niece to Colonel Larrabee who is in love with Jerry Lane
Ethel Merman as Dot Clark, a jazz singer and con artist out to get the Wilson fortune
George Murphy as Jerry Lane, assistant to the deceased Professor Edward Wilson who befriends Eddie Wilson Jr. and is in love with Joan Larrabee
Berton Churchill as Col. Harrison Larabee, uncle to Joan Larrabee, a Southern gentleman from Virginia who funded one of Professor Wilson's expeditions
Warren Hymer as Louie the Lug, Dot Clark's dim-witted gangster boyfriend and manager who travels with her to get the Wilson fortune
Paul Harvey as Sheik Mulhulla, an Egyptian sheik whose daughter, Princess Fanya, falls in love with Eddie Wilson
Jesse Block as Ben Ali, Princess Fanya's jealous fiancé who believes that Eddie is out to steal Fanya from him
Eve Sully as Princess Fanya, the sheik's daffy daughter who falls in love with Eddie after he saves her from a small dog
Otto Hoffman as Khoot, Sheikh Mulhulla's head advisor
Stanley Fields as Oscar, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Edgar Kennedy as Herman, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Jack Kennedy as Pop Wilson, Eddie's adopted father, an old stevedore who lives on the barge with his three sons
John Kelly as Adolph, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge
Doris Davenport as Nora 'Toots', Eddie's girlfriend who lives on the barge and dreams of marrying him when he gets his money
The Nicholas Brothers
Tommy Bond as Tommy, one of Eddie's kid friends who lives on the barge
Donald Haines as Kid Band Member (uncredited)
Sam McDaniel as Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Production notes
The film's "ice cream fantasy sequence" was Goldwyn's first attempt at film with three-strip Technicolor. The cast of Our Gang appears among the children in this sequence.
Cantor originally introduced the song "Mandy", with Marilyn Miller, in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
Among the Goldwyn Girls in this film are Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Lynne Carver, Helen Wood and Barbara Pepper.
Reception
The film was very successful at the box office.
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – nominated
See also
List of American films of 1934
References
External links
1934 films
1934 musical comedy films
1930s color films
American musical comedy films
Films directed by Roy Del Ruth
Films scored by Alfred Newman
Films set in 1934
Films set in Egypt
Films set in New York City
Samuel Goldwyn Productions films
United Artists films
Early color films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20ringing
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Method ringing
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Method ringing (also known as scientific ringing) is a form of change ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change of sequence, and pairs of bells are affected. This creates a form of bell music which is continually changing, but which cannot be discerned as a conventional melody. It is a way of sounding continually changing mathematical permutations.
It is distinct from call changes, where the ringers are instructed how to generate each new change by calls from a conductor, and normally only two adjacent bells swap their position at each change.
In method ringing, the ringers are guided from permutation to permutation by following the rules of a method. Ringers typically learn a particular method by studying its "blue line", a diagram which shows its structure.
The underlying mathematical basis of method ringing is intimately linked to group theory. The basic building block of method ringing is plain hunt.
The first method, Grandsire, was designed around 1650, probably by Robert Roan who became master of the College Youths change ringing society in 1652. Details of the method on five bells appeared in print in 1668 in Tintinnalogia (Fabian Stedman with Richard Duckworth) and Campanalogia (1677 – written solely by Stedman), which are the first two publications on the subject.
The practice originated in England and remains most popular there today; in addition to bells in church towers, it is also often performed on handbells.
Fundamentals
Plain hunt
In method ringing, plain hunt is the simplest form of generating changing permutations in a continuous fashion, and is a fundamental building-block of change ringing methods.
It consists of a plain undeviating course of a bell between the first and last places in the striking order, with two strikes in the first and last position to enable a turn-around.
Thus each bell moves one position at each succeeding change, unless they reach the first or last position, when they remain there for two changes then proceed to the other end of the sequence.
This simple rule can be extended to any number of bells.
Grandsire
Plain hunting is limited to a small number of possible different changes, which is numerically equal to twice the number of bells that are hunting. However, by introducing deviations from the plain hunt, by causing some of the bells to change their relationship to the others, change ringing "methods" were developed. These allow a large range of possible different changes to be rung; even to the extent of the full factorial sequence of changes.
Grandsire, the oldest change ringing method, is based on a simple deviation to the plain hunt when the treble (bell No.1) is first in the sequence or it is said to "lead". The treble is known as the "hunt bell" because it hunts continuously without ever deviating from the path. The diagram for the plain course is shown here.
The Grandsire variation on the plain hunt on odd numbers adds a second hunt bell, which is "coursing" the treble: that is, the second hunt bell takes its place at the front of the change immediately after the treble. The single deviation away from hunting for the rest of the bells now takes place as the two hunt bells change places at the front of the lead.
Furthermore, because there are two hunt bells, not the second bell but the third remains in place:
13254 – Treble leads
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21354 – The second hunt bell, No.2 in this case, leads after the treble. It is coursing it.
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This forces a dodge on the other bells in 4/5 positions. After this the bells immediately return to the plain hunt pattern until the next treble lead.
This rule can now be extended to any number of odd bells in changes, making Grandsire an easily extendable method. The hunt bell is changed many times during such ringing to enable the full factorial number of changes to be achieved.
Plain Bob
"Plain Bob" is one of the oldest change ringing and simplest of these, first named "Grandsire Bob". The deviations when a plain course is extended with "calls" are much simpler than those in Grandsire.
A "plain course" of plain bob minor is shown in diagrammatic form, which has the characteristics;
all bells plain hunt, until the treble bell is first, when depending where they are in the pattern, they;
perform "Dodges" in the 3–4 position
or perform dodges in the 5–6 positions,
or sit for two blows if they are just above the treble, then go first again.
The red bell track shows the order of "works", which are deviations from the plain hunt.
3/4 down dodge
5/6 down dodge
5/6 up dodge
3/4 up dodge
make 2nds place.
And then it repeats. Each bells starts at a different place in this cyclical order.
A dodge means just that; two bells dodge round each other, thus changing their relationship to the treble, and giving rise to different changes.
The plain bob pattern can be extended beyond the constraints of the plain course, to the full unique 720 changes possible ( this is factorial 6 on 6 bells, which is 1×2×3×4×5×6 = 720 changes). To do this, at set points in the sequences one of the ringers, called the "conductor" calls out commands such as "bob" or "single", which introduce further variations. The conductor follows a "composition" which they have to commit to memory. This enables the other ringers to produce large numbers of unique changes without memorising huge quantities of data, without any written prompts.
Ringers can also ring different methods, with different "works" – so there is a huge variety of ways of ringing method changes.
Key points
Numbering the bells
The highest bell in pitch is known as the treble and the lowest the tenor. The majority of bell towers have the ring of bells (or ropes) going clockwise from the treble. For convenience, the bells are referred to by number, with the treble being number 1 and the other bells numbered by their pitch (2, 3, 4, etc.) sequentially down the scale. The bells are usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, with the tenor bell being the tonic (or key) note of the scale.
Ringing rounds and changes
The simplest way to use a set of bells is ringing rounds, which is sounding the bells repeatedly in sequence from treble to tenor: 1, 2, 3, etc.. (Musicians will recognise this as a portion of a descending scale.) Ringers typically start with rounds and then begin to vary the bells' order, moving on to a series of distinct rows. Each row (or change) is a specific permutation of the bells (for example 123456 or 531246)—that is to say, it includes each bell rung once and only once, the difference from row to row being the order in which the bells follow one another. Plain hunt is the simplest way of creating bell permutations, or changes.
Obtaining the maximum unique changes
Since permutations are involved, it is natural that for some people the ultimate theoretical goal of change ringing is to ring the bells in every possible permutation; this is called an extent (in the past this was sometimes referred to as a full peal). For a method on bells, there are (read factorial) possible permutations, a number which quickly grows as increases. For example, while on six bells there are 720 permutations, on 8 bells there are 40,320; furthermore, 10! = 3,628,800, and 12! = 479,001,600.
Key rules of valid method ringing
"Truth" of a ringing method
Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), we find that while an extent on 6 bells can be accomplished in half an hour, a full peal on 8 bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours and one on 12 bells would take over thirty years! Naturally, then, except in towers with only a few bells, ringers typically can only ring a subset of the available permutations. But the key stricture of an extent, uniqueness (any row may only be rung once), is considered essential. This is called truth; to repeat any row would make the performance false.
Allowable position changes
Another key limitation keeps a given bell from moving up or back more than a single place from row to row; if it rings (for instance) fourth in one row, in the next row it can only ring third, fourth, or fifth. Thus from row to row each bell either keeps its place or swaps places with one of its neighbours. This rule has its origins in the physical reality of tower bells: a bell, swinging through a complete revolution with every row, has considerable inertia and the ringer has only a limited ability to accelerate or decelerate its cycle.
Start and finish with "rounds".
A third key rule mandates rounds as the start and end of all ringing. So to summarize: any performance must start out from rounds, visit a number of other rows (whether all possible permutations or just a subset thereof) but only once each, and then return safely to rounds, all the while making only small neighbour-swaps from row to row. These rules dramatically limit the options open to a method-maker.
For example, consider a tower with four bells. An extent includes 4! = 24 changes and there are, naturally, 24! possible orders in which to ring each change once, which is about 6.2 × 1023. But once we limit ourselves to neighbour-swaps and to starting and ending with rounds, only 10,792 possible extents remain.
Reason for methods
It is to navigate this complex terrain that various methods have been developed; they allow the ringers to plot their course ahead of time without needing to memorize it all (an impossible task) or to read it off a numbingly repetitive list of numbers. Instead, by combining a pattern short and simple enough for ringers to memorize with a few regular breaking points where simple variations can be introduced, a robust algorithm is formed. This is the essence of method ringing.
Lead
A lead is part of the plain course. It commences when the method starts and lasts until the treble gets back to the same place. In the diagram of Plain Bob Minor shown, the lead starts when the treble rings in second place and lasts until the treble has rung twice at lead. It is common practice in diagrams to draw a line under the lead end to assist in understanding the method. Most methods have a plain course consisting of a number of leads where the pattern is the same, but different bells are in differing places. In the diagram given, the number 4 bell rings the same pattern as the number 2, but one lead earlier.
In principles (where the treble does the same work as other bells and is affected by calls) the definition of a lead can become more complex.
Calls and compositions
To obtain more changes than available in the plain course, a conductor makes a call directing the ringers to make a slight variation in the course. (The most common calls are called bobs and singles.) These variations usually last only one change, but cause two or more ringers to swap their paths, whereupon they continue with the normal pattern. By introducing such calls appropriately, repetition can be avoided, with the peal remaining true over a large number of changes. For example, an extent in a minor method is 720 (6!) changes, so would require 12 repetitions of the plain course shown.
To know when to make calls and which ones to make, a conductor follows a plan called a composition which he or someone else devised; if properly constructed it will ensure a true performance of the desired length. Today computers make checking a composition's truth easy; but the process once involved a mix of mathematics and laborious row-by-row checking.
Probably the greatest composer of the 20th century was Albert J Pitman, who composed over a hundred peals between 1910 and 1965, entirely by hand. None of his compositions was then, nor since, discovered to be false.
Place Notation (shorthand)
As well as writing out the changes longhand (as in the accompanying illustration of Plain Bob Minor) there is a shorthand called Place Notation. For each row in which all bells change place, such as the first change, use an "x" or a "-". In rows where one or more bells stay in place write down the place numbers which do not change, so that the second row is written "16". Plain Bob Minor is therefore x16x16x16x16x16x12.
Many methods are symmetrical, and so only the first half lead is given, along with possibly the lead end. Plain Bob Minor is thus: x16x16x16 le:12. Where two changes consisting of numbers follow each other, use a dot to separate them. Plain Bob Doubles (i.e. on 5 bells) is: 5.1.5.1.5 le:125, or if written at full length 5.1.5.1.5.1.5.1.5.125.
Method names
Methods are generally referred to by an official name assigned to them by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers; such names have three standard parts: the method's name proper, its class, and its stage.
The name proper is the method's personal name. The oldest methods have long-established names; but new methods are constantly being devised and rung, and the Central Council generally allows each to be named by the band which first rings a peal in it. Most often these methods end up with a place name, such as the band's village; but people's names and still more fanciful inventions are not uncommon.
The class describes the method, putting it in some established category of methods that work in similar ways. Methods in the simplest category omit this second name and use a simple two-part name.
The stage indicates the number of bells, using unique terminology:
As can be seen, there are different naming systems for even- and odd-bell stages. The odd-bell stage names refer to the number of possible swaps that can be made from row to row; in caters and cinques can be seen the French numbers quatre and cinq while the stage name for three-bell ringing is indeed "singles". Higher odd-bell stages follow the same pattern (sextuples, septuples, etc.) while higher even-bell stages have more prosaic names: fourteen, sixteen, etc.).
Note that the names refer to the number of bells being permuted, which is not necessarily the same as the number being rung: for it is typical to ring triples methods not on seven bells but on eight, with the tenor covering: only the seven highest bells permute; the eighth and lowest bell is simply rung last in every row. So likewise with caters, usually rung on ten bells, and other higher odd-bell stages.
Put together, this system gives method names sound that is evocative, musical, and quaint: Kent Treble Bob Major, Grandsire Caters, Erin Triples, Chartres Delight Royal, Percy's Tea Strainer Treble Place Major, Titanic Cinques and so forth.
"Performances"
A short composition, lasting perhaps only a few hundred changes, is called a touch, which got its name from the 16th-century expression a "touch" of music, meaning "a brief piece of instrumental music".; However many ringers look forward to the greater challenge of a quarter peal (about 1,250 changes) or a peal (about 5,000 changes), which is referred to as a "Performance".
This number derives from the great 17th-century quest to ring a full extent on seven bells; 7 factorial is 5,040. Sturdier bellframes and more clearly understood methods make the task easier today, but a peal still needs about 3 hours of labour and concentration.
Most ringers follow the definition of a peal as regulated by the Central Council. This requires a minimum of only 5,000 changes where major or a higher stage is being rung, but demands at least the full 5,040 changes on lower stages. For triples, this ensures at least a full extent; for lower stages a full extent falls well short of the goal and ringers must complete several full extents to reach 5,040 (working out mathematically to at least 7 extents on six bells, at least 42 on five, or at least 210 on four; three-bell peals are not recognised by the Central Council).
To qualify as a peal, the ringing must meet a number of other key criteria. Among other things, each bell must be rung continuously by the same person; a ringing band cannot swap in a person to give ringers an occasional break. Likewise the ringing must be done entirely from memory; ringers cannot consult the method's blue line nor can the conductor (who must be one of the ringers) have a written reminder of the composition.
More commonly rung is the quarter peal, typically consisting of 1,260 changes and typically taking 45 minutes to ring. Half peals are more rarely rung, but have been known. One example is in Buckfast Abbey in Devon, where there are two half peal boards.
See also
Campanology
Change ringing
Change ringing software
Siteswap
Notes
References
The Framework for Method Ringing, official definitions by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers on what constitutes methods and peals
External links
Change-ringing resources: an online compendium of almost everything you need to know
Bellboard - online update on current change ringing performances.
The methods committee of the Central Council, with links to their online listing of all named methods
On-line method generator, which explains method diagrams
Campanology
English culture
Permutations
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Nyctibatrachus
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Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog", in reference to their habits and dark color. They are the only extant members of the monotypic subfamily Nyctibatrachinae. Currently, 35 species belong to Nyctibatrachus.
Description
Members of the genus Nyctibatrachus are robust-bodied frogs that range in size from small (snout–vent length <13 mm in Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei) to relatively large (up to 84 mm Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis). The especially small species are among the smallest of all Indian frogs. They have a concealed tympanum, dorsum with longitudinal skin folds, femoral glands, and expanded finger and toes disks. They occur near streams in hilly evergreen forests and are nocturnal. Most species have amplexus but Nyctibatrachus humayuni does not; in this species the male moves over the eggs after the female has deposited them.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Nyctibatrachus:
References
External links
Nyctibatrachidae
Amphibians of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker%20Hill%2C%20Connecticut
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Quaker Hill, Connecticut
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Quaker Hill is a village or neighborhood in the town of Waterford, in the southeastern part of Connecticut, USA.
It is located in the northeast corner of the town, on the west bank of the Thames River (around Smith Cove) north of New London, and centered on the intersection of the Old Norwich Road and the Old Colchester Road.
The village center is included in the Quaker Hill Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district is the area around Old Norwich Road, extending as far south as the village of Thames View and as far north as Route 32.
Quaker Hill is the place name used for ZIP code 06375, which extends beyond Quaker Hill to encompass the entire northeastern portion of the town of Waterford, including Bartlett, Best View, Cohanzie, Harrisons and Thames View.
History
The area became known as Quaker Hill by 1687 due to its association with the Rogerenes or Rogerene Quakers, a religious sect founded by a local farmer, John Rogers (1648–1721) at the house near Benham Avenue.
The first house was built around 1740 by Benjamin Greene at Scotch Cap. The Robertson and Bingham paper mill, established in 1851, is said to be the first manufacturer of real tissue manila in the United States.
Education
Quaker Hill School
Waterford Public Schools operates one elementary school in Quaker Hill. The original Quaker Hill School was built in 1915, replacing two one- room district structures and was opened in 1917, and demolished on February 23, 2007, to make way for construction of a new Quaker Hill Elementary School that was scheduled to open in August 2008. This school is now located on 285 Bloomingdale Road, Quaker Hill CT.
Waterford Country School
Waterford Country School is a private nonprofit human services agency in Quaker Hill that offers a variety of special educational, residential treatment, and care services for children ages 10–18 from throughout eastern Connecticut. It was established in 1922 and moved to its current site in Quaker Hill in 1929.
Famous Residents
Eugene P. Wilkinson, Captain of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, lived in Quaker Hill during the 1950s
Fire and EMS service
The Quaker Hill Fire Company serves the residents of Quaker hill. The Fire house is located on Old Colchester Road.
See also
Connecticut College Arboretum
New London, Connecticut
Waterford, Connecticut
References
Waterford, Connecticut
Villages in Connecticut
Villages in New London County, Connecticut
Populated places on the Thames River (Connecticut)
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Kissy Suzuki
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Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character introduced in Ian Fleming's 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice. Despite Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character known to the reader who bears a child by him. The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film, where she is never identified by her name, no family name appears in the closing credits and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending.
Novel version
In the book, Kissy is an Ama diver and former Hollywood actress. She is distantly related to a local police superintendent working with Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service and is, therefore, asked to assist Bond. Bond stays with Kissy's family on an island near the castle, where Ernst Stavro Blofeld maintains a "suicide garden" where people come to die (and are killed by the "gardeners" if they change their mind), and Bond is seeking revenge for the murder of his wife at the conclusion of the previous novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond enters the castle alone and succeeds in killing Blofeld and then destroying the castle.
Bond then sustains amnesia in the aftermath of his attack with Blofeld and is believed dead by his superiors; in reality, he comes to believe he is a fisherman and lives with Kissy for several months. Kissy decides that she will not stop him if he decides to pursue his true identity, but will encourage the cover story that allowed him to stay with her until something else happens. When Bond decides to leave for Russia, believing the answers to his identity are there, Kissy does not follow; unknown to Bond, she is pregnant with his child.
Kissy Suzuki does not appear again in the Bond canon, and Bond's child does not appear until "Blast From the Past", a short story published in 1996 by Raymond Benson as a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. By the time of this story, Kissy is now dead, having died from ovarian cancer a few years before the story's timeline. Bond learns that she bore him a son, James Suzuki; Bond had little involvement in raising him, but paid for his university education. Bond receives a message, apparently from his son, asking him to come to New York City on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered, having been being force-fed fugu syrup. With the aid of an SIS agent, Bond learns that Irma Bunt, Ernst Stavro Blofeld's henchwoman, killed James Suzuki as revenge for Blofeld's death (again in You Only Live Twice). Bond ultimately kills Bunt, but his victory is hollow; he must live with having lost his son, and with the knowledge that he was never a real father to him.
Film version
In the 1967 film adaptation, Kissy is one of the ninja agents working for Tanaka. She is introduced shortly after Aki is killed and is first seen in a mock wedding ceremony as James goes undercover, posing as a Japanese fisherman. Bond and Kissy eventually find Blofeld's secret base, hidden within a volcano and Kissy is sent to alert Tanaka. While swimming to her destination, she is pursued and fired upon by a SPECTRE helicopter, but her experience as a pearl diver enables her to dive underwater and stay there long enough to convince her pursuers that she drowned. After alerting Tanaka, she joins the raid that manages to foil Blofeld's scheme, thereby averting the outbreak of World War III.
In the movie, Kissy is played by Mie Hama. She was originally cast to be played by Akiko Wakabayashi; however, Hama had trouble learning English for the much bigger role of Aki, so the two decided to swap their roles. When Hama became ill during shooting, Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento doubled for her in the swimming sequence. Her lines were dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
Cultural impact
A limited number of Kissy Suzuki dolls were produced in 1967; today, these dolls are valuable on the collector market. Mie Hama also appeared in Playboy magazine in a 1967 nude pictorial "007's Oriental Eyefuls" as the first Asian woman to appear in the magazine, a source of controversy in Japan. Pajiba included Hama on the list of the 15 most embarrassing post-Bond roles for Bond Girls at number seven for King Kong Escapes.
UGO.com offered a mixed review of the character: "Although Mie Hama is attractive in her bikini, this also looks extremely out of place. Similarly inconsistent is her acting, which is charming but forgettable." In another article, UGO called her "sexy yet cute-as-a-kimono." A 2006 retrospective CBS featurette called her "stunning", ranking her as the 23rd best Bond girl. She also placed 18th on the list of the Best Bond girls by LIFE, while Fandango ranked her as 23rd. Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the 2012 list of the best Bond girl names.
References
External links
Kissy Suzuki (Character) at the Internet Movie Database
KISSY SUZUKI - Bond Girls: Declassified at Yahoo!
James Bond multimedia | Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki)
Kissy Suzuki - James Bond Wiki
Bond girls
Characters in British novels of the 20th century
Fictional Japanese people
Fictional female ninja
Fictional female secret agents and spies
Literary characters introduced in 1964
You Only Live Twice (film)
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Too Late the Hero is the fifth solo studio album by English rock musician John Entwistle, released on 23 November 1981 by ATCO Records in the US, and by WEA in the UK. This was his only solo studio album of the 1980s and his last album to chart. The album peaked at No. 71 on the US Billboard 200, making it his best-selling album and his only album to reach the Top 100.
"Talk Dirty" was the first single released from the album and it received some airplay in the US on album-oriented rock radio, peaking at No. 41 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Too Late the Hero" was the second single to be released from the album and it would be his only single to chart on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 76. It also peaked at No. 101 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, making it his best-selling single all round. "Too Late the Hero" was the only single from the album that had a music video filmed for it.
The album was recorded as a core trio of musicians that were Entwistle on bass guitar with Joe Walsh of the Eagles providing all guitar work and Walsh's former Barnstorm bandmate Joe Vitale on drums. Billy Nicholls also sang backing vocals on most of the tracks.
Cover
The album cover is an assemblage of photographs taken by Gered Mankowitz. It depicts Entwistle with an Alembic Explorer bass guitar over grainy photos of him dressed as various heroes. The red suit and ankle boots worn by Entwistle were later sold at auction.
Composition
The album was Entwistle's first solo studio album in six years. "I had stopped writing because I thought I was going in the wrong direction with the 'shoo-bop, shoo-bop,' old rock & roll stuff on Rigor Mortis Sets In and Mad Dog. When I started writing again, I went back to the kind of material I was writing before those albums."
"Until about two years ago, I tried to stay away from certain subjects. I was getting a feeling from everyone – from the fans right through my wife and family – that if you write about hookers, you must go to hookers, and if you write about drugs, you must take drugs. I got this reputation for sinister black humour after things like Whistle Rymes, when I was getting up at six in the morning to feed my son, Christopher, and then sitting down at the piano at seven to write songs about peeping Toms and suicide cases."
Recording
The album was recorded over a couple of years, during those infrequent months when both Entwistle and long-time friend Joe Walsh were free (Walsh's James Gang toured extensively with the Who in the early seventies, and the two had planned to collaborate for years).
Critical reception
In the AllMusic review by Ben Davies, he praises the contributions of Joe Walsh on lead guitar and Joe Vitale on drums, but says that they were unable to save the album from being boring. The reviewer concedes that the combination of these musicians would have seemed, "Like something of a dream proposition back in the 1970s," making the album an even bigger disappointment. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide awarded the album zero stars, calling it "a misguided, overblown collaboration with the severely unwitty Joe Walsh." The Rolling Stone Album Guide conceded that it "rocks capably."
Track listing
Non-album track
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Too Late the Hero liner notes.
Musicians
John Entwistle — vocals; bass guitar; eight-string bass guitar; piano; synthesizers
Joe Walsh — acoustic and electric guitars; piano; cabassa; waste container; tambourine; limps; synthesizer
Joe Vitale — drums; percussion; piano; flute; clavinet; timpani; metronome
Billy Nicholls — backing vocals (1, 3–6, 9)
Production and artwork
John Entwistle — producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — producer
Joe Walsh — executive producer
Joe Vitale — executive producer
Dave "Cyrano" Langston — engineering
Neil Hornby — assistant engineer
Jim Hill — assistant engineer
Jeff Eccles — assistant engineer
Mike Reese — mastering
Gered Mankowitz — album cover design, concept, cover photo, photography
Charts
References
External links
1981 albums
John Entwistle albums
Atco Records albums
New wave albums by English artists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20D%C3%A9fago
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Didier Défago
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Didier Défago (born 2 October 1977) is a Swiss retired World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and giant slalom (2004). At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.
Défago finished the 2005 World Cup season as sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G, his most successful season so far. In 2009 he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel. He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in 1992.
While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September 2010, Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his 2011 season.
Défago announced his retirement in March 2015, after a second-place finish at the World Cup finals in the downhill in Méribel, France, and had his final World Cup race the next day in the super-G.
World Cup results
Season standings
Race podiums
5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG)
16 podiums – (5 DH, 7 SG, 3 AC, 1 GS)
World Championship results
Olympic results
References
External links
Didier Défago World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Wengen victory – 17 January 2009
YouTube video – Didier Défago – Kitzbühel victory on full course – 24 January 2009
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
1977 births
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Valais
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Sen (Bengali: সেন) is a surname derived from "Sena", the Sanskrit word for "army".
The surname is commonly found in the east of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Baidya and Kayastha communities. The Sena kings claimed themselves as Brahmakshatriya or Kshatriya in their own inscriptions.
History
The use of 'Sen' as a surname is first found among the kings of a Brahmin dynasty named as Vakataka (Vidarbha). This surname is also used by Raja Dahir Sen, the last king of Brahman dynasty of Sindh (Southeast Pakistan) and then followed by Sena Dynasty (East India and Bangladesh).
Notables
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Abhijit Sen is a former member of the Planning Commission of India, which was disbanded in 2014.
Akshay Kumar Sen The 19th century Bengali mystic, saint and writer.
Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.
Amarendra Nath Sen, jurist who served as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1979 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of India.
Amartya Sen (born 1933), Indian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
Amiya Sen (cricketer) (1925–2000), Indian cricketer
Amiya Prosad Sen (born 1952), historian and religious scholar
Amalesh Sen (; 2 March 1943 – 7 October 2017) was a Bangladeshi football player and coach.
Ananda Prakash Sen (1923–?), often known as A. P. Sen, is an Indian former judge who served as a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Anindya Sen Economist .
Anil Kumar Sen, jurist
Antara Dev Sen (born 1963), British–Indian journalist
Anupam Sen (1920s-2015), Indian politician, West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Anupam Sen(born August 5, 1940) is a Bangladeshi academic and social scientist.
Anushka Sen (born 2002), Indian model and television actress
Aparna Sen (born 1945), an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress
Arunava Sen (born January 3, 1959) is a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He works on Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Mechanism Design, Voting and Auctions.
Ashalata Sen (5 February 1894 - 13 February 1986) was an activist, poet, social worker, and a leading figure in the Indian independence movement.
Ashish Sen is an American professor and transportation statistician based in Chicago.
Asit Sen (actor) (1917–1993), prolific Indian film actor and comedian in the Hindi film industry
Asit Sen (director) (24 September 1922 – 25 August 2001) was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who worked in both Bengali and Hindi cinema. He was born in Dhaka, now in modern-day Bangladesh, when it was part of East Bengal in British India. He directed 17 feature films in Hindi and Bengali
Ashoke Sen, theoretical physicist
Ashoke Kumar Sen former law minister, lawyer, and parliamentarian
Atul Sen (? – 5 August 1932) (Bengali: অতুল সেন) was a Bengali Indian independence movement revolutionary activist against British rule in India.
Atul Prasad Sen (; 20 October 1871 – 26 August 1934) was a Bengali composer, lyricist and singer, and also a lawyer, philanthropist, social worker, educationist and writer.
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Baikuntha Nath Sen (1843 – 1922) was a Bengali scholar, lawyer and philanthropist. His grandson Amarendra Nath Sen was a judge of Supreme Court of India.
Basiswar Sen also known as "Boshi" Sen (1887 – 31 August 1971), Indian agricultural scientist.
Benu Sen (26 May 1932 – 17 May 2011) was an awarded Indian photographer from Kolkata, India.
Bhim Sen (1 December 1894 – 18 January 1978) was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Punjab, thrice.
Bhupati Mohan Sen was an Indian physicist and mathematician. He made remarkable contributions in the fields of Quantum Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics.
Bijoy Sen is a Bangladeshi art director. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Art Direction for the film Andha Biswas (1992).
Binay Ranjan Sen, former Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Binayak Sen, human rights activist
Bireswar Sen, (1897–1974) Indian painter, writer and teacher, influenced by the Bengal School of Art and Western modernism, but later developed a visual language of miniatures.
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Chitra Sen, an Indian actress and dancer who works in Bengali language films and television series.
Chandan Sen a Bengali stage, television and film actor, playwright and director.
Chandan K. Sen is an Indian-American scientist who is known for contributions to the fields of regenerative medicine and wound care.
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Dahir Sen, last ruler of the Brahman dynasty of Sindh
Deben Sen (1897 – 19 April 1971) was an Indian trade union activist and politician.
Dinesh Chandra Sen, researcher of Bengali folklore
Dola Sen (born 26 March 1967) is an Indian politician and trade unionist. From 2020 she is now the central president of the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC).
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Erroll Chunder Sen (c. 1899 – after 1941), First World War Indian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps
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Gautam Sen is an Indian journalist, writer and automotive design consultant and expert.
Girish Chandra Sen( – 15 August 1910), Bengali religious scholar and first Bengali translator of the Quran
Gertrude Emerson Sen (6 May 1890–1982), early 20th-century expert on Asia and a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers
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Haimabati Sen (1866 – 1932 or 1933), was an Indian physician.
Hari Keshab Sen (9 February 1905 - 1 September 1976), popularly known as H. K. Sen was an Indian Bengali scientist, astrophysicist.
Hiralal Sen is generally considered the first filmmaker of indian subcontinent
Hannah Sen (1894–1957) was an Indian educator, politician, and feminist, wife of Satish Chandra Sen. She was a member of the first Indian Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) from 1952 to 1957 and the president of the All India Women's Conference in 1951-52.
H. Nida Sen H.Nida Sen is an ophthalmologist researching mechanisms involved in different forms of human uveitis. She is a clinical investigator at the National Eye Institute.
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Inder Sen is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter working in Bengali cinema.
Indra Sen (13 May 1903 – 14 March 1994) was a psychologist, author, and educator, and the founder of Integral psychology as an academic discipline. Sen was born in the Jhelum District of Punjab (now part of Pakistan) in a Punjabi Hindu family from Punjab.
Indrani Sen A Bengali singer who is known for Nazrul geeti and Rabindra Sangeet.
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker.
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Jaladhar Sen Rai Bahadur Jaladhar Sen (; 13 March 1860 – 15 March 1939) was a Bengali writer, poet, editor and also a philanthropist, traveler, social worker, educationist and littérateur. He was awarded with the title Ray Bahadur (রায় বাহাদুর) by the British Government.
Jogendra Nath Sen, First Bengali soldier to die in the First World War
Joginder Sen Raja Sir Joginder Sen Bahadur KCSI (20 August 1904 – 16 June 1986) was the last ruling Raja of Mandi State, and was subsequently a diplomat and Member of Parliament.
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Kaushik Sen (or Koushik Sen), Indian actor of film, television and theater based in Kolkata
Keshab Chandra Sen, social reformer of India
Keshav Sen -A king of Sen Empire, reformer of 'Kaulinya' and 'Varna' in vernacular literature
Keshav Sen (born 21 September 1923) is an Indian former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Kshitimohan Sen (2 December 1880 – 12 March 1960) was Indian scholar, writer, a Sanskrit professor and an M.A. in Sanskrit from Queen's College, Benares. He was born in a family hailing from Sonarang in Bengal (now in Bangladesh).
Konkona Sen (born 1979), Indian actress, writer, and director
Krishna Sen (19 October 1956 – 27 May 2002) was a writer and journalist of Nepal.
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Lakshya Sen (born 2001), Indian badminton player
Lakshman Sen, Emperor
Lalmohan Sen (Bengali: লালমোহন সেন) was an Indian revolutionary who took part in the Chittagong Armoury Raid.
Lionel Protip Sen Lieutenant-General Lionel Protip "Bogey" Sen DSO (20 October 1910 – 17 September 1981) was an indo-british decorated Indian Army general. He served as the Chief of the General Staff during 1959–1961 and commanded the Eastern Command during 1961–1963.
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Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist.
Mandakranta Sen (born 1972) is an Indian poet writing in Bengali. She became the youngest ever winner of Ananda Puraskar in 1999 for her very first poetry book. In 2004 she was awarded Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for poetry. She is also a lyricist, composer, fiction writer, dramatist and cover designer. She quit medical studies to become a full-time writer.
Manikuntala Sen (; c. 1911–1987) was one of the first women to be active in the Communist Party of India.
Mantu Sen (21 June 1923 – 12 April 1990) was an Indian cricketer. He played eighteen first-class matches for Bengal between 1942 and 1959.
Malabika Sen, Dancer
Mayukh Sen is an American writer . He was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2018 and 2019, winning the award in 2018 for his profile of Princess Pamela.
Mihir Sen (born 1930), a famous Indian long distance swimmer
Mimlu Sen (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer.
Minati Sen (born 2 October 1943) Politician, was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India.
Mithu Sen is an Indian conceptual artist. Born in West Bengal in 1971.
Mohit Sen was a communist intellectual. He was general secretary of the United Communist Party of India until of his death.
Moon Moon Sen (born 1954), an Indian actress working in Bengali, Hindi and other regional films
Mrinal Sen, Dadasaheb Phalke award-winning film director
Mrinal Kanti Sen, an Indian-American geophysicist.
Mrinalini Sen (3 August 1879 - 8 March 1972) was a Bengali writer in British India. On 19 December 1910, she became the first Indian to fly in a plane.
Mukunda Sen (sometimes known as Makanda Sen) was the King of Palpa from 1518 to 1553 of Sena dynasty (Nepal). In 1524, he invaded Kathmandu Valley.
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Nabhendu Sen (31 August 1944 – 25 September 2008) a Bengali dramatist, sculptor and artist.
Nabinchandra Sen, poet and writer
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nandana Sen (born 1967), daughter of Amartya Sen, actress in Hindi cinema, screenwriter
Narayan Sen (1912–1956) was a Bengali revolutionary in the Indian independence movement.
Neeta Sen (1935 – 1 April 2006) was an Indian classical music director and singer.
Nikhil Sen (16 April 1931 – 25 February 2019) was a Bangladeshi dramatist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2018 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali-born writer of speculative fiction.
Nilima Sen (1928 Kolkata –1996) was a famous Rabindrasangeet singer.
Nirupam Sen (cricketer)
Nirupam Sen (diplomat)
Nirupam Sen (politician)
Nirupam Sen Chowdhary (born 23 October 1990) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Tripura.
Nivaan Sen also known as Naveen Sen, is an Indian actor and producer.
Noel Swaranjit Sen (born 24 December 1946) is a retired Director-General and Inspector-General of Police in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. After a stint with the Indian Army (Short Service Commission) in the 1960s, he became an Officer of the Indian Police Service. He was also a Commandant of the 1st Battalion of Border Security Force.
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Orijit Sen (born 1963) is an Indian graphic artist and designer.
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Pabitra Kumar Sen, scientist and social reformer
Palash Sen, Band member of Euphoria (Indian band)
Paritosh Sen (Bengali: পরিতোষ সেন) (18 October 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca)
Partha Sen was an economist.
Probir Sen, wicket keeper, the only wicket keeper to have stumped out Sir Donald Bradman
Prafulla Kumar Sen (died 1942), also known as "Swami Satyananda Puri" Indian revolutionary and philosopher
Pranab K. Sen Pranab Kumar Sen (born 7 November 1937 in Calcutta, India) is a statistician
Prafulla Chandra Sen (1897–1990), Bengali freedom fighter and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1962 to 1967.
Prajesh Sen G. Prajesh Sen (also spelt G. Prajesh Sen; born 29 May 1979) is an Indian filmmaker and writer.
Prasenjit Sen (born 11 January 1956) Physical Scientist
P. K. Sen (surgeon) (1915–1982), Indian surgeon
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Rajanikanta Sen (26 July 1865 – 13 September 1910) was a Bengali poet and composer, known for his devotional (bhakti) compositions
Rajat Sen (1913 ― 6 May 1930) alias Rajat Kumar Sen was a Bengali revolutionary who joined in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Ramesh Chandra Sen (born 30 April 1940), Bangladeshi politician
Ramkamal Sen (Bengali: রামকমল সেন) (1783–1844) was the Diwan of the Treasury, Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal and Secretary of the Asiatic Society
Ramprasad Sen, singer and lyricist
Rangalal Sen (24 September 193310 February 2014) was a Bangladesh academician and writer. In 2011, he was inducted as the National Professor of Bangladesh.
Raima Sen (born 1979), Indian actress
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955), Indian film & television director and the winner of three National Film Awards
Reema Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and model primarily working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films
Riddhi Sen, an Indian Bengali film actor
Rii Sen, actress
Rimi Sen (born 1981), Indian actress and film producer who has appeared in Bollywood, Telugu and Bengali films
Rinku Sen is an Indian-American author, activist, political strategist and the executive director of Narrative Initiative. She is also the co-president of the Women’s March Board of Directors. Sen is the former president and executive director of the racial justice organization Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines.com and Mother Jones magazine.
Rittika Sen, an Indian actress
Riya Sen (born 1981), Indian film actress and model
Robin Sen was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India(Marxist). He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament
Ronen Sen Ranendra "Ronen" Sen (born 9 April 1944) is a veteran Indian diplomat who was India's ambassador to the United States of America
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Sagar Sen (15 May 1932 – 4 January 1983) was a Bengali singer.
Samar Sen, (;)(10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987), Indian poet and journalist
Samar Sen (diplomat) (10 August 1914 16 February 2003), Indian diplomat
Samita Sen, historian and professor
Sandip Sen (born 4 October 1966) is an Indian business executive.
Sandipta Sen (born 1987), Bengali television actress
Sankar Sen ( – 8 February 2020) was a Minister, Vice Chancellor, Electrical engineer and politician from West Bengal belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the vice chancellor of Jadavpur University. He served as a legislator of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Minister of Power of the Government of West Bengal from 1991 to 1999.
Sankar Sen (marketing academic) A marketing academic.
Sanjoy Sen, Football coach and manager
Santunu Sen is an Indian doctor and politician. He was a councilor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. He is a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal. He was the President of the Indian Medical Association.
Santosh Kumar Sen (1910–1979) was an Indian surgeon and the president of the Association of Surgeons of India. He was the first Indian surgeon to be elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Sarajubala Sen(Bengali: লেখক:সরযূবালা সেন) (1889 - 1949) was a Bengali writer and educator.
Satrajit Sen (born 1977) an Indian film director, producer and entrepreneur, who won a Lee Strasberg: National Award in 2014 for best Bengali Film Bakita Byaktigato
Satyen Sen (), (28 March 1907 - 5 January 1981), a historian of Bengali literature from Bangladesh.
Shekhar Sen is a singer, a music composer, a lyricist, and an actor, Awards: Padma Shri(2015)
Shobha Sen (1923–2017), also known as Sova Sen, Bengali theatre and film actress
Shoma Sen An women's rights activist, professor and head of the English literature department of the Nagpur University.
Sohag Sen (Bengali: সোহাগ সেন) is a Bengali theater actress, director and casting director.
Soumik Sen an Indian contemporary screenwriter
Soumitra Sen is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court. He was the first judge in independent India whose removal motion was passed in Rajya Sabha for misappropriation of funds.
Sohail Sen (born 24 June 1984) is a contemporary Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood.
Shyamal Kumar Sen, jurist and former governor of West Bengal
Srabani Sen (also spelt as Sraboni Sen), singer of Rabindra Sangeet and other genres of Bengali songs
Subir Sen (24 July 1934 – 29 December 2015) was an Indian playback singer who sang modern songs in Bengali and Hindi. He was also one of the artists of Rabindra Sangeet.
Sukomal Sen (14 June 1934 – 22 November 2017) was an Indian trade union and CPI(M) leader.
Sukumar Sen (civil servant) -(2 January 1898 – 13 May 1963) The first Chief Election Commissioner of India.
Surya Sen (1894–1934), revolutionary and Bengali freedom fighter
Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta, 1931), Indian actress
Sudeep Sen, poet
Sukumar Sen, first Chief Election Commissioner of India
Sukumar Sen, Bengali linguist
Susmit Sen, member of the band Indian Ocean
Sushil Sen full name Shushil Kumar Sen (Bengali: সুশিল কুমার সেন; 1892 – 30 April 1915) participated in the Indian Independence Movement.
Sushmita Sen (born 1975), Indian actress, model and beauty queen; former Miss Universe
Supriyo Sen a contemporary independent filmmaker from India. He produced and directed the film Tangra Blues (2021).
Suvam Sen (born 14 November 1989) an Indian athlet (footballer and goalkeeper of Indian football team)
Samar Sen (c. 1916-2004), Indian agricultural economist
Swati Sen An Indian actress most known for her roles in Udedh Bun, which won the Silver Bear for Best Film at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, and the National Film Award-winning Antardwand (2010),
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Triguna Sen (24 December 1905 – 11 January 1998) was Union Minister for education in Government of India. He got Padma Bhushan in 1965.
Tanima Sen is a Bengali film and television actress.
Tapan Kumar Sen A politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), General Secretary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions, a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Tapas Sen (11 September 1924 – 28 June 2006) was a noted Indian stage lighting designer, who was an important figure in 20th-century Indian theatre.
Tapen Sen(born 2 September 1953) is a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Jharkhand High Court and is currently holding the chair as the President of the Jharkhand State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
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Utpala Sen (12 March 1924 – 13 May 2005) was a prominent Indian Bengali playback singer.
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Vishwak Sen (born 1995), Indian actor who works in Telugu films
Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) is an Indian Judge, who has served as a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Fictional characters
Banalata Sen, fictional character in Jibanananda Das's poem
Mr. Saurav Sen, fictional characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, Mrs. Sen's, from her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
See also
Şen, Turkish surname
References
Bengali Hindu surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnirana
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Amnirana
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Amnirana is a genus of frogs in the family Ranidae, "true frogs". The genus is primarily found in Sub-Saharan Africa, but one species occurs in parts of southern and southeastern Asia. Some of the African species are widespread but contain undescribed cryptic diversity. Most (but not all) species have a white upper lip, and the genus is sometimes known as the white-lipped frogs.
Taxonomy
Amnirana was originally introduced as a subgenus of Rana. It was often included in the then-diverse genus Hylarana, until Oliver and colleagues revised the genus in 2015, delimiting Hylarana more narrowly and elevating Amnirana to genus rank. Within the genus, Amnirana nicobariensis appears to be the sister taxon of the African clade of species, but the data are inconclusive. With more data available to resolve possible non-molecular synapomorphies of the genus, A. nicobariensis might become recognized as a separate genus. A later study suggested it to be closer to other Asian Hylarana sensu lato than to African Amnirana.
Description
The current delimitation of Amnirana is primarily based on molecular evidence in combination with geography. No morphological diagnosis is available, and the genus shows variability in characteristics that have been suggested to have diagnostic value within the genus Hylarana sensu lato. The body is robust and medium to very large in size. The dorsum is smooth to shagreened in texture and uniform to mottled in pattern. The upper lip is usually white, but it is dark in Amnirana lepus. Males have paired vocal sac, which may be internal or protrude externally.
Species
There are 11 recognized species:
In addition, the AmphibiaWeb recognizes Amnirana longipes as a valid species, whereas the Amphibian Species of the World, following Jongsma and colleagues, considers it synonym of Amnirana albolabris. Nevertheless, the "true" species number is likely to be substantially higher, with molecular data suggesting at least seven new African species.
References
True frogs
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliuona
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Veliuona
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Veliuona (, , ) is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania.
History
Veliuona (also known as Junigeda) was first mentioned in 1291 in the chronicle of Peter of Duisburg.
The town is primarily known as the burial place of Gediminas.
An old church, founded by Vytautas the Great in 1421, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1636.
In 1501–1506 m. Veliuona was granted Magdeburg rights by the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Alexander Jagiellon. In the 18th century Veliuona belonged to prince Józef Poniatowski, in the 19th century to the Zalewski family.
In July 1941, an Einsatzgruppen of German and Lithuanian nationalists murdered dozens of Jews from the town in mass executions.
Gallery
References
Veliuona, 2001, Versme, 1176 p.
External links
Велона — Velona
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Tauragė County
Duchy of Samogitia
Kovensky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amolops
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Amolops
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Amolops (commonly known as cascade frogs or sucker frogs) is a genus of true frogs (family Ranidae) native mainly to eastern and south-eastern Asia. These frogs are closely related to such genera as Huia, Meristogenys, Odorrana, Pelophylax and Rana, but still form a distinct lineage among the core radiation of true frogs. They are commonly known as "torrent frogs" after their favorite habitat - small rapid-flowing mountain and hill streams - but this name is used for many similar-looking frogs regardless of whether they are loosely related.
Several species are highly convergent with other Ranidae "torrent frogs". A. archotaphus and its relatives for example very much resemble Odorrana livida. In another incidence of convergent evolution yielding adaptation to habitat, the tadpoles of Amolops, Huia, Meristogenys as well as Rana sauteri have a raised and usually well-developed sucker on their belly. This is useful in keeping in place in rocky torrents, where these frogs grow up. But as Odorrana and Staurois from comparable habitat prove, this sucker is by no means a necessity and other means of adaptation to torrent habitat exist.
Species
The delimitation of this genus has proven complicated, with many species believed to belong elsewhere. Due to the degree of convergent evolution, DNA sequence studies are very helpful in assigning species to the genera, though the possibility of past hybridization cannot be discounted in Ranidae.
New species are described on a regular basis. At least one undescribed species is known to exist, a very distinct form from Phetchaburi in Thailand that is possibly closer to A. marmoratus than to most others.
Amolops afghanus (Günther, 1858)
Amolops akhaorum Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010
Amolops albispinus Sung, Hu, Wang, Liu, and Wang, 2016
Amolops aniqiaoensis Dong, Rao, and Lü, 2005
Amolops archotaphus (Inger and Chan-ard, 1997)
Amolops assamensis Sengupta et al., 2008
Amolops australis Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops bellulus Liu, Yang, Ferraris, and Matsui, 2000
Amolops caelumnoctis Rao and Wilkinson, 2007
Amolops chakrataensis Ray, 1992
Amolops chayuensis Sun, Luo, Sun, and Zhang, 2013
Amolops chunganensis (Pope, 1929)
Amolops compotrix (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops cremnobatus Inger and Kottelat, 1998
Amolops cucae (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops daiyunensis (Liu & Hu, 1975)
Amolops daorum (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)
Amolops formosus (Günther, 1876)
Amolops gerbillus (Annandale, 1912)
Amolops gerutu Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Grismer, 2018
Amolops granulosus (Liu and Hu, 1961)
Amolops hainanensis (Boulenger, 1900)
Amolops himalayanus (Boulenger, 1888)
Amolops hongkongensis (Pope and Romer, 1951) – Hong Kong Cascade Frog
Amolops indoburmanensis Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012
Amolops iriodes (Bain and Nguyen, 2004)
Amolops jaunsari Ray, 1992
Amolops jinjiangensis Su, Yang, and Li, 1986
Amolops kaulbacki (Smith, 1940)
Amolops kohimaensis Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops larutensis (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops lifanensis (Liu, 1945)
Amolops loloensis (Liu, 1950)
Amolops longimanus (Andersson, 1939)
Amolops mantzorum (David, 1872)
Amolops marmoratus (Blyth, 1855)
Amolops medogensis Li and Rao, 2005
Amolops mengdingensis Yu, Wu, and Yang, 2019
Amolops mengyangensis Wu and Tian, 1995
Amolops minutus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops monticola (Anderson, 1871)
Amolops nidorbellus Biju, Mahony, and Kamei, 2010
Amolops nyingchiensis Jiang, Wang, Xie, Jiang, and Che, 2016
Amolops ottorum Pham, Sung, Pham, Le, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019
Amolops pallasitatus Qi, Zhou, Lyu, Lu, and Li, 2019
Amolops panhai Matsui & Nabhitabhata, 2006
Amolops ricketti (Boulenger, 1899)
Amolops shuichengicus Lyu and Wang, 2019
Amolops sinensis Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops spinapectoralis Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999
Amolops splendissimus Orlov and Ho, 2007
Amolops torrentis (Smith, 1923)
Amolops tuberodepressus Liu and Yang, 2000
Amolops viridimaculatus (Jiang, 1983)
Amolops vitreus (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)
Amolops wenshanensis Yuan, Jin, Li, Stuart, and Wu, 2018
Amolops wuyiensis (Liu and Hu, 1975)
Amolops xinduqiao Fei, Ye, Wang, and Jiang, 2017
Amolops yatseni Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2019
Amolops yunkaiensis Lyu, Wang, Liu, Zeng, and Wang, 2018
Footnotes
References
(2007): Paraphyly of Chinese Amolops (Anura, Ranidae) and phylogenetic position of the rare Chinese frog, Amolops tormotus. Zootaxa 1531: 49–55. PDF abstract and first page text
(2008): The phylogenetic problem of Huia (Amphibia: Ranidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46(1): 49–60. (HTMl abstract)
Amphibian genera
Frogs of Asia
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Galston
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William Galston
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William Arthur Galston (; born January 17, 1946) holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; he joined the think tank on January 1, 2006. Formerly the Saul Stern Professor and Dean at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin, Galston specializes in issues of U.S. public philosophy and political institutions.
Family
He is the son of Yale University plant physiologist Arthur Galston.
Career
He was deputy assistant for domestic policy to U.S. President Bill Clinton (January 1993 – May 1995). He has also been employed by the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (1988, 2000), Walter Mondale, and John B. Anderson. Since 1995, Galston has served as a founding member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as chair of the Campaign's Task Force on Religion and Public Values.
Galston was in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a sergeant. He was educated at Cornell, where he was a member of the Telluride House, and the University of Chicago, where he got his Ph.D. He then taught for nearly a decade in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. From 1998 until 2005 he was professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. Later he was executive director for the National Commission on Civic Renewal. Galston founded, with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He was also director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, both located at the University of Maryland.
He has written on questions of political and moral philosophy, U.S. politics and public policy, having produced eight books and more than one hundred articles. His most recent book is Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Galston is also a co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It, published by the Brookings Press.
Galston became an op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2013. In 2014, he continued public commentary on partisan politics.
Publications
References
External links
The Brookings Institution profile
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American political philosophers
1946 births
Jewish American academics
Jewish philosophers
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
Political scientists who studied under Leo Strauss
United States Marines
Cornell University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
University of Texas faculty
Clinton administration personnel
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Philosophers from Texas
Philosophers from Illinois
Philosophers from Maryland
Brookings Institution people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubria
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Aubria
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Aubria is a small genus of frogs, with two (possibly three) known species. All members of this genus are found in West Africa. Their common name is ball frogs or fishing frogs.
Etymology
The genus name Aubria is in honour of Charles Eugène Aubry-Lecomte, a French colonial administrator and amateur naturalist.
Species
The recognized species are:
Aubria masako (Ohler & Kazadi, 1990) - Masako fishing frog
Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856) - brown ball frog
The status of A. occidentalis is disputed; following the Amphibian Species of the World it is here treated as a synonym of A. subsigillata.
References
Pyxicephalidae
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20di%20Laura
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Carlos di Laura
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Carlos di Laura (born 19 October 1964) is a former tennis player from Peru.
He participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics for his native country. The left-hander won three tour doubles titles during his professional career.
Di Laura reached his highest singles ranking on 12 May 1986, when he became the world No. 92.
Career finals
Doubles (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Olympic tennis players of Peru
Pepperdine Waves men's tennis players
Peruvian expatriates in the United States
Peruvian male tennis players
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
20th-century Peruvian people
21st-century Peruvian people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Calypso
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HMS Calypso
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The following ships of the Royal Navy were assigned the name Calypso, after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology:
, a 16-gun sloop of 342 tons burthen, launched at Graves, Deptford 27 September 1783. She sank during a violent storm on 30 July 1803 with the loss of all her crew when a heavily laden West Indiaman ran afoul of her.
, an 18-gun sloop of the launched at Dudman, Deptford Wharf 2 February 1805; not broken up until 1821.
, a 10-gun . Ordered 1824 for construction at Deptford Dockyard; renamed Hyaena in 1826; and cancelled 21 February 1831.
Calypso was to be a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Cherokee class. Laid down March 1825 at Chatham Dockyard as HMS Hyaena; launched 19 August 1826 and renamed Calypso that same year; completed as a yacht for the governor of Malta. Later she became a Post Office packet service brig for Royal Navy. She sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Falmouth, Cornwall on 29 January 1833, under the command of Lieutenant Richard Peynton, RN. One day later a fishing saw Calypso surrounded by ice, and firing her guns as a signal of distress. The ice prevented the fishing boat from coming to her rescue. Calypso was lost on 1 February 1833; all aboard died.
Calypso, to be a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Cherokee class. Laid down 1829 at Woolwich dockyard; renamed Hyaena in 1830; cancelled 1831.
, a sixth rate launched at Chatham Dockyard in May 1845; broken up 29 January 1866.
, a 46-gun fifth rate of 1,103 tons bm. Launched at Deptford Dockyard 12 January 1819. Relegated to harbour service in 1850; renamed HMS Calypso 9 March 1870, and sold 28 February 1895.
, a launched in 1883, used as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve from 1902, renamed HMS Briton in 1916, sold in 1922 and used as a storage hulk, and now awash north of Lewisporte.
, a of the Caledon sub-class; launched in 1917 and sunk in 1940 by the Italian submarine .
See also
(ex-Royal Navy minesweeper HMS J-026), research ship of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Citations
References
pp. 42, 57, 169.
Royal Navy ship names
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Kinderton
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Kinderton is an electoral ward in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. Kinderton was also historically the name of a township in Middlewich on the opposite side of the River Croco from the current ward.
In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Kinderton:
References
Middlewich
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Conraua
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Conraua, known as slippery frogs or giant frogs is a genus of large frogs from sub-Saharan Africa. Conraua is the only genus in the family Conrauidae. Alternatively, it may be placed in the family Petropedetidae.
This genus includes the largest frog of the world, Conraua goliath, which may grow to in snout–vent length and weigh as much as . Four of the seven species in this genus are threatened.
Etymology
The generic name Conraua honours Gustav Conrau, a German trader and labour recruiter in Cameroon who was the collector of the holotype of Conraua robusta, the type species of the genus.
Species
The recognized species are:
Conraua alleni
Conraua beccarii
Conraua crassipes
Conraua derooi Hulselmans, 1972
Conraua goliath (Boulenger, 1906) – goliath frog
Conraua robusta Nieden, 1908 – Cameroon slippery frog
Conraua sagyimase Neira-Salamea, Ofori-Boateng, Kouamé, Blackburn, Segniagbeto, Hillers, Barej, Leaché & Rödel, 2021
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Conraua.
References
External links
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Fritz Nieden
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Biguanide
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Biguanide () is the organic compound with the formula HN(C(NH)NH2)2. It is a colorless solid that dissolves in water to give highly basic solution. These solutions slowly hydrolyse to ammonia and urea.
Synthesis
Biguanide can be obtained from the reaction of dicyandiamide with ammonia, via a Pinner-type process.
Biguanide was first synthesized by Bernhard Rathke in 1879.
Biguanidine drugs
A variety of derivatives of biguanide are used as pharmaceutical drugs.
Antihyperglycemic agents
The term "biguanidine" often refers specifically to a class of drugs that function as oral antihyperglycemic drugs used for diabetes mellitus or prediabetes treatment.
Examples include:
Metformin - widely used in treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2
Phenformin - withdrawn from the market in most countries due to toxic effects
Buformin - withdrawn from the market due to toxic effects
History
Galega officinalis (French lilac) was used in diabetes treatment for centuries. In the 1920s, guanidine compounds were discovered in Galega extracts. Animal studies showed that these compounds lowered blood glucose levels. Some less toxic derivatives, synthalin A and synthalin B, were used for diabetes treatment, but after the discovery of insulin, their use declined. Biguanides were reintroduced into Type 2 diabetes treatment in the late 1950s. Initially phenformin was widely used, but its potential for sometimes fatal lactic acidosis resulted in its withdrawal from most pharmacopeias (in the U.S. in 1978). Metformin has a much better safety profile, and it is the principal biguanide drug used in pharmacotherapy worldwide.
Mechanism of action
The mechanism of action of biguanides is not fully understood, and many mechanisms have been proposed for metformin.
Biguanides do not affect the output of insulin, unlike other hypoglycemic agents such as sulfonylureas and meglitinides. Therefore, they are effective in Type 2 diabetics; and in Type 1 diabetes when used in conjunction with insulin therapy.
Mainly used in Type II diabetes, metformin is considered to increase insulin sensitivity in vivo, resulting in reduced plasma glucose concentrations, increased glucose uptake, and decreased gluconeogenesis.
However, in hyperinsulinemia, biguanides can lower fasting levels of insulin in plasma. Their therapeutic uses derive from their tendency to reduce gluconeogenesis in the liver, and, as a result, reduce the level of glucose in the blood. Biguanides also tend to make the cells of the body more willing to absorb glucose already present in the bloodstream, and there again reducing the level of glucose in the plasma.
Side effects and toxicity
The most common side effect is diarrhea and dyspepsia, occurring in up to 30% of patients. The most important and serious side effect is lactic acidosis, therefore metformin is contraindicated in advanced chronic kidney disease. Kidney function should be assessed before starting metformin. Phenformin and buformin are more prone to cause acidosis than metformin; therefore they have been practically replaced by it. However, when metformin is combined with other drugs (combination therapy), hypoglycemia and other side effects are possible.
Antimalarial
Some biguanides are also used as antimalarial drugs. Examples include:
Proguanil
Chlorproguanil
Disinfectants
The disinfectants chlorhexidine, polyaminopropyl biguanide (PAPB), polihexanide, and alexidine feature biguanide functional groups.
References
Guanidines
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Eric Amend
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Eric Amend (born November 17, 1965) is an American former tennis player who represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Born in Berkeley, California, the right-hander did not win any ATP titles during his professional career reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 20, 1993, when he became the World No. 234. Amend served as an assistant coach for his alma mater's Tennis Team, at the University of Southern California, for five years during which the team won the 2009 & 2010 NCAA National Championships.
External links
1965 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of the United States
Sportspeople from Berkeley, California
Tennis people from California
Tennis players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
USC Trojans men's tennis coaches
USC Trojans men's tennis players
American tennis coaches
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C4-Dimethoxybenzene
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1,4-Dimethoxybenzene
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1,4-Dimethoxybenzene is an organic compound with the formula CH(OCH). It is one of three isomers of dimethoxybenzene. It is a white solid with an intensely sweet floral odor. It is produced by several plant species.
Occurrence
It occurs naturally in willow (Salix), tea, hyacinth, zucchini (Cucurbita pepo). It appears to attract bees as it has a powerful response in their antenna. In a study in mice, Iranian scientists identified 1,4-dimethoxybenzene as the major psychoactive chemical in musk willow (Salix aegyptiaca) by its ability to cause somnolescence and depressed activity.
Preparation
It is produced by the methylation of hydroquinone using dimethylsulfate and an alkali.
Uses
1,4-Dimethoxybenzene is mainly used in perfumes and soaps.
It is an intermediate in synthesis of organic compounds, including pharmaceuticals such as methoxamine and butaxamine.
Niche uses
It can be used as a developer in black and white film, and as a base in synthesizing catecholamines and phenethylamines.
References
Hydroquinone ethers
O-methylated natural phenols
Sweet-smelling chemicals
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Ambrosi Hoffmann
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Ambrosi Hoffmann (born 22 March 1977, in Davos) is a Swiss alpine skier.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he finished 8th in downhill. He won a bronze medal in super-G at the 2006 Winter Olympics and placed 17th in the downhill event.
References
External links
1977 births
Swiss male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Living people
People from Davos
Sportspeople from Graubünden
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Euphlyctis
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Euphlyctis is a genus of frogs in family Dicroglossidae distributed from the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and Afghanistan to India, Nepal, through Myanmar and Thailand to Malaya, and Sri Lanka. None of the four species assessed by the IUCN is considered threatened.
Species
There are eight species recognised in the genus Euphlyctis:
Euphlyctis aloysii Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009
Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799)
Euphlyctis ehrenbergii (Peters, 1863)
Euphlyctis ghoshi (Chanda, 1991)
Euphlyctis hexadactylus (Lesson, 1834)
Euphlyctis kalasgramensis Howlader, Nair, Gopalan, and Merilä, 2015
Euphlyctis karaavali Priti, Naik, Seshadri, Singal, Vidisha, Ravikanth, and Gururaja, 2016
Euphlyctis kerala Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021
Euphlyctis mudigere Joshy, Alam, Kurabayashi, Sumida, and Kuramoto, 2009 was placed into the synonymy of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
References
Dicroglossidae
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger
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GayVN Awards
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The GayVN Awards are film awards presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornographic industry. The awards were sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998. The awards went on a hiatus after the 2011 ceremony and returned in 2018.
The award recipients are listed below by the year of the award ceremony. In 1998, the first year of the awards, awards were given for that current year's work. Starting with the awards show held in 2000, the awards were given for the previous year's work. For example, the 8th GAYVN Awards were held Thursday, March 9, 2006; awards were given for the movies that were released in 2005. The awards have been held annually since 2000. The current record-holder for the most wins in one year is Lucas Entertainment's Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita (2006), which won 14 awards in 2007. The previous record-holder with 11 award wins in 2005 was Buckshot Productions' BuckleRoos.
1998
Winners from the 1998 GayVN Awards held December 4, 1998, at the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, California, as published in Choices: The 1999 AVN Awards Show official program:
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1999
Starting in 2000, awards would be given for the previous year's achievement. Therefore, the awards recognizing achievement in 1999 would be given at the award ceremony in 2000; there was no award ceremony in 1999.
2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
Host: Taylor Negron
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
Host: Kathy Griffin
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2008
Host: Derek Hartley & Romaine Patterson
Cohost: Lady Bunny
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2009
Host: Janice Dickinson & Margaret Cho
Cohost: Alec Mapa
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2010
Host: Alec Mapa
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2018
GayVN Awards was held after a hiatus of seven years on January 21, 2018, at Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. It was hosted by Shangela Laquifa Wadley and was held a week before 35th AVN Award at the same location. Awards were presented in 27 categories.
Full list of nominees and winners
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2019
Awards were presented at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 21, 2019.
2019 GayVN Hall of Fame Inductee
Keith Miller, founder of Helix Studios
Best Actor (Tie)
Wesley Woods, Zack & Jack Make a Porno, Falcon Studios
Diego Sans, Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody, Men.com/Pulse
Best All-Sex Movie
Summer Break 2, BelAmi/Pulse
Best Bi Sex Scene
Lance Hart, Pierce Paris & Dahlia Sky; Wanna Fuck My Wife? Gotta Fuck Me Too 11, Devil's Film
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson, All Saints: Chapter 1, CockyBoys
Best Director – Non-Feature
Chi Chi LaRue & Tony Dimarco; Love & Lust in New Orleans, Falcon Studios
Best Duo Sex Scene
Max Konnor & Armond Rizzo; “Big Black Daddy,” NoirMale.com
Best Feature
All Saints: Chapter 1, CockyBoys
Best Fetish Sex Scene
JJ Knight & Sean Zevran; Tie Me Up! Dick Me Down!, CockyBoys
Best Group Sex Scene
Josh Brady, Corbin Colby, Joey Mills, Cameron Parks, Angel Rivera & Luke Wilder; “Splash,” HelixStudios.com
Best Newcomer
Alam Wernik
Best Parody
Pirates: A Gay XXX Parody, Men.com/Pulse
Best Supporting Actor
Bruce Beckham, The Slutty Professor, NakedSword/Falcon
Best Three-Way Sex Scene
Ace Era, Tyler Roberts & Dave Slick; The Slutty Professor, NakedSword/Falcon
Performer of the Year
Wesley Woods
2020
Awards were presented at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 21, 2020. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Nicole Byer, with performances by King Princess and Alyssa Edwards.
2020 GayVN Hall of Fame inductee
Tim Valenti, NakedSword/Falcon Studios CEO
Best Actor
DeAngelo Jackson, Blended Family, Icon Male/Mile High
Best All-Sex Movie
Love and Lust in Montreal, Falcon Studios
Best Bi Sex Scene
Natalie Mars, Ella Nova, Ricky Larkin & Wesley Woods; Free for All, WhyNotBi.com
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson & RJ Sebastian; Le Garçon Scandaleux, CockyBoys/PinkTV;
Best Director – Non-Feature
Steve Cruz; Outta the Park!, Raging Stallion/Falcon
Best Duo Sex Scene
Ashton Summers & Phoenix Fellington, Fellington’s Flip Fuck, HelixStudios.com
Best Feature
Vegas Nights, HelixStudios.com
Best Fetish Sex Scene
Alex Mecum & Michael DelRay; My Brother's Discipline, Kink.com
Best Group Sex Scene
Alam Wernik, Blake Ryder, Jay Dymel, Nic Sahara & Sean Duran; Five Brothers: The Takedown, NakedSword/Falcon
Best Newcomer
Nic Sahara and Alex Riley (tie)
Best Supporting Actor
Dante Colle, At Large, Raging Stallion/Falcon
Best Three-Way Sex Scene
Jack Harrer, Peter Annaud & Marcel Gassion; Offensively Large 4, BelAmi/Pulse
Performer of the Year
Cade Maddox
Fan awards
Favorite Bear
Teddy Torres
Favorite Body
Blake Mitchell
Favorite Bottom
Rourke
Favorite Butt
Beaux Banks
Favorite Cam Guy
Callum and Cole (joint page)
Favorite Cock
Calvin Banks
Favorite Daddy
Rocco Steele
Favorite Dom
Austin Wolf
Favorite FTM Star
Billy Vega
Favorite Top
Zilv Gudel
Favorite Twink
Joey Mills
Hottest Newcomer
Rhyheim Shabazz
Social Media Star
Armond Rizzo
2021
Awards were presented virtually during a live stream at AVNStars.com on January 18, 2021. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Sherry Vine.
Best Actor
Angel Rivera, A Murdered Heart, NakedSword
Best All-Sex Movie
Summer Loves, BelAmi
Best Bi Sex Scene
Maya Bijou, Dante Colle & Kaleb Stryker, The Elevator Goes Both Ways, WhyNotBi.com
Best Director – Feature
Jake Jaxson & RJ Sebastian, Hollywood & Vine, CockyBoys
Best Director – Non-Feature
Steve Cruz, Cake Shop, Raging Stallion
Best Duo Sex Scene
Rhyheim Shabazz & Sean Zevran, Big Dicks Going Deep, CockyBoys
Best Feature
A Murdered Heart, NakedSword
Best Fetish Sex Scene
Dirk Caber, Nate Grimes, Jaxx Thanatos & Kurtis Wolfe, Tom of Finland: Leather Bar Initiation, Men.com
Best Group Sex Scene
Riley Finch, Johnny Hands, Jacob Hansen, Garrett Kinsley, Travis Stevens & Ashton Summers, Inside Helix, Helix Studios
Best Newcomer
Brock Banks
Fan Awards
Hottest Newcomer
Seth Peterson
Favorite Twink
Austin L Young
Social Media Star
Joey Mills
Favorite Cam Guy
Max Konnor
Favorite Camming Couple
Jacob and Harley
Favorite Top
Austin Wolf
Favorite bottom
Devin Franco
Favorite FTM Star
Trip Richards
Favorite Dom
Zilv Gudel
Favorite Cock
Cade Maddox
Favorite Butt
Alam Wernik
Favorite Bear
Teddy Torres
Favorite Daddy
Rocco Steele
Favorite Body
Alex Mecum
GayVN Star of the Year
Camran Mac
2022
Awards were presented virtually on January 19, 2022. The show was hosted by Alec Mapa and Jackie Beat.
2022 GayVN Hall of Fame inductee
Howard Andrew, FabScout Entertainment
Performer of the Year
Max Konnor
Best All-Sex Movie
Fuck Me I'm Famous (BelAmi/TLAGay)
Best Bi Sex Scene
Draven Navarro, Joel Someone and Vanessa Vega, My Wife Found Out I'm Bi! (Devil’s Film)
Best Director — Feature
Alex Roman, Return to Helix Academy Parts 1 and 2 (Helix Studios)
Best Director — Non-Feature
Steve Cruz and Leo Forte, Born to Porn (Falcon Studios)
Fan awards
Favorite Camming Couple
Pablo and Sebas
Favorite Cock
Cade Maddox
Hottest Newcomer
Felix Fox
See also
Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards
List of Grabby recipients
List of gay pornography awards
Gay Erotic Video Awards
List of male performers in gay porn films
References
GayVN Awards
Previous GayVN Winners
External links
Official Website
2010 "GayVN Weekend: List of Winners"
Pornographic film awards
Gay pornographic film awards
American pornographic film awards
Awards established in 1998
21st-century awards
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Pakenham, Suffolk
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Pakenham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Its name can be linked to Anglo-Saxon roots, Pacca being the founder of a settlement on the hill surrounding Pakenham church. The village describes itself as the "Village of Two Mills", as it has a water mill which claims to be the only working example in the county. The Pakenham windmill no longer works.
The village sits to the east of Bury St. Edmunds and is administered as part of the borough of St Edmundsbury. Prior to the local government reorganisation of 1974 it was part of Thingoe Rural District.
History
Pacca was the founder of a settlement on the hill where Pakenham church now sits, on an area higher than the waters of Pakenham Fen. The discovery of many Anglo-Saxon remains, notably that of a bone-toothed comb in the old school garden (near the church) in the 1950s, testify to the authenticity of the site. The village was therefore named Pacca's Ham, i.e. the home of Pacca.
This name eventually became Pakenham, (pronounced locally with a long "a" sound.) The Anglo-Saxon family name later became "de Pakenham". Pacca's descendants continued to farm here until the Norman Conquest of 1066.
The village has contained several manor houses, such as Pakenham Hall the family seat of the Spring family, but has now been demolished. Nether Hall was the original home of the de Pakenham family, and later seat of the Greene baronets. Newe House was built by Sir Robert Bright before becoming the dower house of the Spring family. Several members of the Spring family are buried in the parish church.
Notable residents
Hamon L'Estrange (1605 – 1660), writer on history, theology and liturgy who is buried at Pakenham.
Joanne Jennings (1969- ), high jumper who competed for Great Britain twice at the Summer Olympics and won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Thomas Thornhill (1837-1900), baronet, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1860, Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western division of Suffolk at a by-election in October 1875, and held the seat until the constituency was abolished at the 1885 general election.
Gallery
See also
Pakenham Windmill
References
External links
Village website
Village Hall website
Water mill website
Village website
Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Borough of St Edmundsbury
Thedwastre Hundred
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Malcolm%20%28musician%29
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George Malcolm (musician)
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George John Malcolm CBE KSG (28 February 191710 October 1997) was an English pianist, organist, composer, harpsichordist, and conductor.
Malcolm's first instrument was the piano, and his first teacher was a nun who recognised his talent and recommended him to the Royal College of Music at the age of seven, where he studied under Kathleen McQuitty FRCM until he was 19. He attended Wimbledon College, and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford in the 1930s.
During the Second World War he had a musical role with the RAF becoming a bandleader. After the War he completed his musical studies with Herbert Fryer. He bought a harpsichord at auction and went on to develop a career as a harpsichordist. He continued to make occasional appearances as a pianist, for example in Mozart's music for four hands and with the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble (with whom he made one of his rare recordings as pianist in the first performance of the Gordon Jacob Sextet, written for the group). As a mentor, he also influenced a number of musicians not necessarily associated with the harpsichord such as Andras Schiff.
Harpsichord career
Like Wanda Landowska, he favoured rather large 'revival' harpsichords with pedals, built in a modern style, that now are seen as "unauthentic" for Baroque music. While aspects of his interpretations may seem outdated by the standards of today's "historically informed performance practice", his recordings and live performances introduced many people to the harpsichord.
As well as Baroque works, he played modern harpsichord repertoire. His own composition "Bach before the Mast" (a humorous set of variations on The Sailor's Hornpipe in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach) was written as a B side for a cover version of the Alec Templeton number Bach goes to town which he released in the 1950s. He also wrote "Variations on a Theme of Mozart".
Collaborations with other harpsichordists
In the 1950s he participated in annual concerts featuring four harpsichordists, the three others being Thurston Dart, Denis Vaughan and Eileen Joyce. In 1957 this group also recorded two of Vivaldi's Concertos for Four Harpsichords, one in a Bach arrangement, with the Pro Arte Orchestra under Boris Ord. Malcolm, Dart and Joyce also recorded Bach's Concerto in C for Three Harpsichords. In 1967, he appeared with Eileen Joyce, Geoffrey Parsons and Simon Preston in a four-harpsichord concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner in the Royal Festival Hall.
Organist and choir-master
He also pursued a notable career as an organist and choir-trainer. After serving as organist-choirmaster of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Clapham, he was Master of Music of Westminster Cathedral for 12 years (1947–1959). He developed the choir's forthright, full-throated tone—often, but rather vacuously described as "continental"—which contrasted with that of Anglican choirs at the time. Benjamin Britten praised the choir's 'staggering brilliance and authority', and proposed to write a piece for them. This resulted in the Missa Brevis (1959). Its first performance was one of Malcolm's last services at Westminster Cathedral before he retired on 1 September 1959. He continued to play the organ, recording the Handel organ concertos for example.
Malcolm was founding patron of Spode Music Week, an annual residential music school that places particular emphasis on the music of the Roman Catholic liturgy. Malcolm also composed for voices, a well-known piece being his Palm Sunday introit Ingrediente Domino. His setting of Psalm 51 Miserere mei (composed in 1950, presumed lost but rediscovered in the Cathedral archives in 2011) is reminiscent of Ivor Atkins' 1951 version of Gregorio Allegri's Miserere.
A devout Roman Catholic, Malcolm was awarded papal honours for his services as Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral.
Conducting
Benjamin Britten engaged Malcolm in 1960 to conduct the second and third performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In later life Malcolm developed a career as a conductor, forging long-standing relationships with ensembles such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia orchestra. The pianist András Schiff, who left Hungary to study with Malcolm, was a frequent concerto soloist under his baton, and the two recorded Mozart's complete works for piano duet together on the composer's own piano.
Burial and legacy
Malcolm was born and died in London. He is interred in the graveyard at St Nicholas Church, Saintbury, Gloucestershire.
Malcolm's centenary was marked by Balliol College in 2017.
Discography
In 1967, he recorded The Complete Harpsichord Works of Rameau (Argo Record Co, London).
See also
Millicent Silver
Notes
External links
Interview from The Harpsichord Magazine
Biography from the website of Ian Partridge
George Malcolm official website
1917 births
1997 deaths
English classical organists
British male organists
English classical pianists
Male classical pianists
English harpsichordists
English Roman Catholics
English people of Scottish descent
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Cathedral organists
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century classical musicians
20th-century English musicians
People educated at Wimbledon College
20th-century organists
20th-century British male musicians
Male classical organists
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Fejervarya
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Fejervarya is a genera of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae found in Asia. First proposed in 1915 by István József Bolkay, a Hungarian naturalist, the genus did not see widespread adoption at first. As late as the 1990s it was generally included in Rana, but more recent studies have confirmed its distinctness.
These frogs are remarkable for being extremely euryhaline by amphibian standards. Species such as the crab-eating frog (F. cancrivora) can thrive in brackish water, and its tadpoles can even survive in pure seawater.
Systematics and taxonomy
Fejervarya was first introduced as subgenus of Rana and later placed as subgenus as Limnonectes. It was treated as an independent genus first in 1998. However, Fejervarya sensu lato was found to be paraphyletic with respect to Sphaerotheca. This issue was eventually resolved in 2011 by splitting some species to the genus Zakerana (renamed in 2021 as Minervarya). Fejervarya, as now defined, is distributed from eastern India (Orissa) eastwards through Myanmar to southern China and Indochina to the islands of the Sunda Shelf as well as Japan. In contrast, Minervarya contains species from southern Asia (Sri Lanka and Indian subcontinent including Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh).
The widespread Cricket Frog (F. limnocharis) and some others have also been suspected to be cryptic species complexes since at least the 1970s, and indeed a few populations have been identified that almost certainly constitute undescribed species.
Species
The following 14 species are recognised in the genus Fejerverya:
Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Fejervarya iskandari Veith, Kosuch, Ohler, and Dubois, 2001
Fejervarya jhilmilensis Bahuguna, 2018
Fejervarya kawamurai Djong, Matsui, Kuramoto, Nishioka, and Sumida, 2011
Fejervarya kupitzi Köhler et al., 2019
Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Fejervarya moodiei (Taylor, 1920)
Fejervarya multistriata (Hallowell, 1861)
Fejervarya orissaensis (Dutta, 1997)
Fejervarya pulla (Stoliczka, 1870)
Fejervarya sakishimensis Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008
Fejervarya triora Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard, and Inger, 2006
Fejervarya verruculosa (Roux, 1911)
Fejervarya vittigera (Wiegmann, 1834)
Phylogeny
The following phylogeny of Fejervarya is from Pyron & Wiens (2011). 7 species are included. Fejervarya is a sister group of Minervarya, which had until recently been included in Fejervarya.
Vocalisation behaviour
References
External links
Dicroglossidae
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
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Solitaire is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film, she was portrayed by Jane Seymour.
Novel biography
In a relative rarity for the James Bond franchise, there is little difference between the film and novel in the treatment of Solitaire's basic character and role. The novel reveals that her real name is Simone Latrelle, that she is of French stock, and she was born in Haiti; the name "Solitaire" (an near-oronym of her real name) is given to her by the Haitians because of her apparent exclusion of men from her life. The only physical difference appears to be that Solitaire is stated to have blue-black hair; she also possesses pale skin reminiscent of the tropical planter class. When Bond meets her she is twenty-five years old and described as "one of the most beautiful women Bond had ever seen." On a later occasion Bond describes her as looking "rather French and very beautiful." At their first meeting, in the presence of Mr. Big, she comes across as superior, cold, and disdainful, an attitude reflected by her face, which Bond finds beautiful partly because of its lack of compromise and its hint of both cruelty and command. Once Solitaire has escaped from Mr. Big, she immediately becomes warm, open, and passionate towards Bond. Despite her obvious Gallic-Haitian heritage, there is no mention of her having any French accent.
Solitaire was initiated into some of the practices of Voodoo while still a child in Haiti. Either naturally or through this initiation, she has an extrasensory ability both to foretell the future and to judge the veracity of others, even if they converse in a language that she does not speak. These gifts instilled great fear of her among those who know her. Mr. Big discovered her doing a mind-reading act in a Haitian cabaret and, recognizing the value of her abilities, took her into his employ, using her in his espionage operations and planning for her eventually to have his children. Solitaire becomes, more or less, his hostage, with little or no autonomy, and when he uses her to interrogate Bond, her mental abilities immediately tell her that he is the one who will rescue her. She thus covers for Bond by lying to Mr. Big, telling him that Bond is not out to get the gangster. She later escapes from Mr. Big and accompanies Bond on his assignment, though the gangster locates and kidnaps her, ultimately attempting, unsuccessfully, to kill both her and Bond by towing them over a Jamaican reef (a scenario adapted for the film version of For Your Eyes Only). The effort fails when Mr. Big's boat is destroyed by a mine Bond had earlier planted. The novel ends with Solitaire preparing to accompany Bond on his post-assignment recuperative leave.
Unlike in the film, there is no evidence that Solitaire would lose her psychic powers after sexual congress, an eventuality that does not appear due to a broken finger Bond sustains and his need to stay vigilant during their only night together. As is the case in the film, she is apparently a virgin, and she gives every sign of wishing to have a sexual relationship with Bond, going so far as to initiate their first physical contact and later teasing him with her nudity. While the culmination never comes to pass in the novel, the indications are that it will happen during their shared vacation as the story concludes. Unusually for one of Fleming's heroines, what becomes of Solitaire after Live and Let Die is never explained; in Dr. No, when returning to Jamaica, Bond finds himself wondering about her whereabouts.
Film biography
Solitaire is a psychic in the employ of Dr. Kananga. As Bond travels to New York by plane, Solitaire describes his journey to Dr. Kananga through the use of Tarot cards. The one drawback to her ability is that she must remain a virgin in order to preserve it.
After Bond follows Kananga to the Fillet of Soul restaurant, he meets Solitaire. After a rather brief encounter with Mr. Big, Bond asks Solitaire about his future. When instructed to pick up a card Bond quizzically comments "us?” after picking up The Lovers card.
When Bond and Rosie Carver visit San Monique, Solitaire tells Kananga the future, once more picking The Lovers card in regard to Bond, but for the first time she lies to him about what she sees, saying that it is the Death card. When her false reading proves to be inaccurate, she incurs Kananga's anger. He points out that her mother had had the gift too, but lost it and so became useless to him (Presumably by losing her virginity and perhaps resulting in Solitaire's birth). Later that evening Bond returns to the island. After convincing Solitaire they are meant to be lovers, by the use of a Tarot deck secretly composed of only The Lover cards, Bond succeeds in seducing her. After losing her virginity to Bond, Solitaire loses her psychic power, which endangers her life. Bond discovers Kananga is hiding vast areas of opium poppy fields. Bond and Solitaire evade Kananga's men, escaping in Quarrel Jr.'s boat.
After arriving in New Orleans, Bond and Solitaire are captured and taken to Mr Big. Before Bond can be given his skydiving lesson without a parachute, he manages to escape. Solitaire is recaptured by Kananga's henchmen and taken back to him.
Later, Felix Leiter informs Bond that after a raid on the Fillet of Soul, Kananga has taken Solitaire back to San Monique, leaving three Tarot cards: The High Priestess, The Moon, and Death. After travelling to San Monique, Bond rescues Solitaire and kills Kananga while Quarrel Jr. destroys the opium poppy fields.
Analysis
Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz has stated that although Solitaire is a white person in the novel, he initially wrote her as black, with Diana Ross in mind. United Artists president David Picker objected, however, on the basis that there were several countries where the film could not be released if there were relations between Bond and Solitaire. According to Ian Kinane, even though Solitaire is French Haitian in the book,
The casting of British actress Jane Seymour as Solitaire eradicates from the narrative those concerns regarding the character's cultural hybridity... thus marking her realignment by Bond in politico-ideological and not racial terms. While Solitaire's religious and spiritual practices are discernibly non-Western (and therefore threatening to the ordered rigidity of British Christendom), Seymour's whiteness does much to mitigate such fears in the viewers' eyes: her whiteness aligns Solitaire's powers of the obeah less with Black primitivism and more with a sublimated Christian religiosity.
Joyce Goggin argues that Solitaire is at the center of the film: "many of the remarkable and strange features that contribute to the uniqueness of both novel and film are related precisely to voodoo, superstition and the Tarot, here given an added frisson through a highly eroticised medium in the person of Solitaire." Goggin also suggests that Solitaire "functions as very liquid panoply of stereotypical markers of Otherness and sexuality."
Patrick Maille notes that Solitaire is naïve about sexuality and compares her to a damsel in distress. Monica Germanà draws on Linda Welter's study of European/Anatolian folkloric dress to connect Solitaire's dress with the preoccupation the film has with her virginity:
The emphasis on Solitaire's chastity is conveyed, to begin with, by the high neckline of her first appearance in ethnic dress, and the colour red, which, with its associations with blood, and, in turn, menstruation and childbirth, is simultaneously used to foreshadow a bride's loss of virginity and future fertility in ethnic bridal gowns. Later, in St Monique, the bridal motif is pursued through a more revealing red dress, elaborate headdress, and a green cape studded with red stones; since Solitaire is about to lose her virginity to Bond, her neckline has dropped. Back in New York, the neckline plunges down to a butterfly appliqué stitched on the high waist of the red and gold dress she wears on her last tarot reading session.
Britni Dutz sees the initial shots of Solitaire as an example of scopophilia, illustrating Laura Mulvey's "gaze theory":
In the fleeting introductory shots of Solitaire, she is introduced to the viewer not as a character, but a “girl,” a silent doll who is dressing up... These shots establish Solitaire as an example of Mulvey's object of the gaze, as an object for pleasurable looking.
References
Fictional fortune tellers
Fictional Haitian people
Live and Let Die (film)
Fictional characters introduced in 1954
Bond girls
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FASTOPEN
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In computing, FASTOPEN is a DOS TSR command, introduced in MS-DOS version 3.3, that provides accelerated access to frequently-used files and directories. The command is also available in SISNE plus.
Overview
The command works with hard disks, but not with diskettes (probably for security when swapping) or with network drives (probably because such drives do not offer block-level access, only file-level access).
It is possible to specify for which drives should operate, how many files and directories should be cached on each (10 by default, up to 999 total), how many regions for each drive should be cached and whether the cache should be located in conventional or expanded memory.
If a disk defragmenter tool is used, or if Windows Explorer is to move files or directories, while is installed, it is necessary to reboot the computer afterwards, because would remember the old position of files and directories, causing MS-DOS to display garbage if e.g. "DIR" was performed.
DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. is also part of the Windows XP MS-DOS subsystem to maintain MS-DOS and MS OS/2 version 1.x compatibility. It is not available on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.
The "fastopen" name has since been reused for various other "accelerating" software products.
See also
FASTOPEN (CONFIG.SYS directive)
SmartDrive
List of DOS commands
References
Further reading
External DOS commands
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Hildebrandtia is a genus of frogs in the family Ptychadenidae. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical Sub-Saharan Africa. The common name of this genus is Hildebrandt's burrowing frogs or ornate frogs. The genus name honours Johann Maria Hildebrandt, a German botanist and explorer.
Description and ecology
Hildebrandtia are medium-sized to large frogs with stocky bodies. They use their large inner metatarsal tubercles for digging. They live in dry to very dry savanna habitats and stay hidden in their burrows most of the year. Reproduction takes place in temporary ponds and puddles at the beginning of the rainy season. The tadpoles are robust-bodied with a muscular tail and low tail fin. They have strong jaws and are carnivorous.
Species
There are three species in this genus:
Hildebrandtia macrotympanum (Boulenger, 1912)
Hildebrandtia ornata (Peters, 1878)
Hildebrandtia ornatissima (Bocage, 1879)
References
Ptychadenidae
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Sub-Saharan Africa
Taxa named by Fritz Nieden
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Sundbybergs centrum metro station
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Sundbybergs centrum (Sundbyberg Centre) is a metro station, located in Sundbyberg Municipality, approximately from the centre of Stockholm. It opened on 19 August 1985 as part of the extension to between Västra skogen and Rinkeby. The metro station is connected to a stop on Tvärbanan with the same name, as well as to the railway station Sundbyberg served by the Stockholm commuter rail and long-distance trains.
Gallery
References
External links
Images of Sundbybergs centrum
Blue line (Stockholm metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1985
1985 establishments in Sweden
Stockholm metro stations located underground
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Solna centrum metro station
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Solna centrum is a shopping mall and metro station in Solna Municipality, approximately from central Stockholm, Sweden. It is close to the Friends Arena and opened on 31 August 1975 as part the first stretch of the Blue Line between T-Centralen and Hjulsta. The mall contains around 120 stores and restaurants, 40 offices and 214 apartments.
References
External links
Images of Solna Centrum
http://www.solnacentrum.se/
Blue line (Stockholm metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1975
1975 establishments in Sweden
Stockholm metro stations located underground
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Kaizad Gustad
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Kaizad Gustad (born 1968) is an Indian film director and author based in Mumbai, India. He is best known for his 1998 comedy Bombay Boys. In his career as an author, he has written three books, Of No Fixed Address published in 1998 by HarperCollins, The Road to Mandalay and 7 Storeys.
Early life
Gustad was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) into a wealthy Parsi family. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He grew up on a farm in the outskirts of Wadi, a town in the Kalaburagi district of Karnataka, where his father and grandfather owned cinema theaters and a stone quarrying business. He first attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and then studied at St. Paul's School, Darjeeling. At the age of sixteen, he moved along with his family to Sydney, Australia. He later attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to study film.
At the age of 18, Gustad left home and started traveling to different parts of the world. He kept a diary on his travels and called it "Of No Fixed Address," in reference to the fact that he had no fixed address for three years. He used this diary as the basis for his book of short stories entitled Of No Fixed Address, which was published in 1998.
Filmography
Bombay Boys
At 28, Gustad wrote and directed his debut feature film Bombay Boys. It starred Naseeruddin Shah, Naveen Andrews and Tara Deshpande among others. It was a break out commercial and critical cult success, paving the way for independent cinema in India. It also travelled to several film festivals worldwide and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 1998, followed by the Vancouver and London Film Festivals. The film was nominated for best film at Verzaubert, Berlin.
Boom
Gustad's next film as writer and director was Boom, which had an ensemble cast like Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, with the debut of supermodels Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre and Katrina Kaif. It was released worldwide.
Later films
Gustad's third film, Bombil and Beatrice, was a British arthouse film made in English, and his fourth and latest offering was Jackpot, a film set in a casino in Goa, starring Sunny Leone and Naseeruddin Shah. The premiere of Jackpot was held at PVR Cinemas in Juhu, Mumbai, and was attended by Shah Rukh Khan. It was released worldwide.
Incidents
In May 2010, Gustad was found guilty of negligence leading to the death of Nadia Khan, an assistant producer working on the set of his film Mumbai Central. Khan was struck by a train near Mumbai's Mahalaxmi station during shooting in May 2004.
Personal life
Gustad dated Miss World Diana Hayden in 1998, during the release of Bombay Boys. In January 2004, he married Alexandra Ritt, an American woman. He has two sons, Zahaan and Zakary.
References
External links
Kaizad Gustad at Kinopoisk
Film directors from Mumbai
Parsi people from Mumbai
1968 births
Living people
St. Paul's School, Darjeeling alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
20th-century Indian film directors
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Duvbo
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Duvbo is an upper-middle-class residential area in Sundbyberg in suburban Stockholm, Sweden. In 2019 it had 2217 inhabitants.
The Duvbo metro station is located in central Sundbyberg, just outside (300m) Duvbo and is part of the Stockholm Metro. It was inaugurated on August 19, 1985.
In 1899 the property Dufvebol, then in Spånga municipality, was sold to a suburb development company, which split the land and built roads, naming it Dufbo egna-hems-koloni (Duvbo own home community). After 5 years the suburb was nearly complete, housing 1200 residents. From 1900 trains stopped at the nearby (400m) station Sundbyberg Norra (named so because it was in the north-west of the adjacent suburb Sundbyberg) was opened, until 1963. In 1902 Duvbo became a municipalsamhälle (submunicipality), until 1949 when it transferred into Sundbyberg municipality. An epidemics hospital was built in 1925 on the Ekbacken slope on the south side of Duvbo, an was torn down in the 1960s, replaced by the hospital Sundbybergs sjukhus. Today Ekbacken is instead an elderly care home, next to a few tall residential buildings.
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Stockholm urban area
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Philipp Kohlschreiber
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Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber (; born 16 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player. The right-hander won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 in July 2012.
Personal life
Kohlschreiber married his long-term girlfriend Lena Alberti on 1 August 2018 in Kitzbühel, Austria.
Career
2007: First ATP career title
In 2007, Kohlschreiber achieved his greatest result at an ATP Masters Series event during the Monte-Carlo Masters, when he reached the quarterfinals after going through qualifying, defeating world No. 12 David Nalbandian in the second round. He won his first career title in Munich defeating Mikhail Youzhny, thereby becoming the first German player to win the event since Michael Stich in 1994.
2008: Four top-ten victories
Kohlschreiber started 2008 by reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament in Doha and winning his second career title in Auckland, where he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final.
After his win in Auckland, he defeated world No. 6, Andy Roddick, in the third round of the Australian Open 6–4, 3–6, 7–6, 6–7, 8–6. Kohlschreiber hit a personal record 32 aces and 104 winners. He eventually lost in the fourth round to Jarkko Nieminen 6–3, 6–7, 6–7, 3–6. Kohlschreiber failed to convert 11 set points in the second (7) and third (4) sets.
He reached the final of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, eventually falling to the four-time champion Roger Federer 3–6, 4–6. At the US Open, he had to retire in the match against Viktor Troicki.
2009: 4th round at the French Open
Kohlschreiber started 2009 by reaching the quarterfinals in Doha and Auckland. The German reached the second round at the Australian Open where he defeated Sam Querrey, before losing to Fabrice Santoro in five sets. In the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Kohlschreiber beat Nicolás Lapentti 6–2, 3–6, 6–3 before being defeated by Fernando Verdasco in the fourth round. Also in 2009, during the French Open, Kohlschreiber defeated world No. 4, Novak Djokovic, in a 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 upset.
In the third round of Wimbledon, he was defeated by Roger Federer 6–3, 6–2, 6–7, 6–1. He was the only person other than finalist Andy Roddick to take a set off of Federer, the eventual champion.
2010: Quarterfinals in Monte Carlo and Canada Masters
Kohlschreiber started the season in Auckland well with three straight sets wins, including wins over Thomaz Bellucci and Frenchman Marc Gicquel before running into eventual finalist Arnaud Clément, losing in straight sets in the semifinals. Kohlschreiber progressed to the third round of the Australian Open with wins over Horacio Zeballos and Wayne Odesnik. He gave second seed Rafael Nadal a test in the third round, before losing 4–6, 2–6, 6–2, 5–7.
He returned to action in San Jose seeing off local boy Rajeev Ram in three sets and crushing Dudi Sela, only losing two games. He then ran into the in-form Denis Istomin and lost in three topsy sets, sparking a three-match losing streak. He crashed out of Memphis to Evgeny Korolev in two tight sets, followed by an easy three set lost to Gaël Monfils in the Davis Cup.
Kohlschreiber got back to winning ways at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells as he had a bye then beat fellow German Philipp Petzschner in straight sets. He then lost a final set tie-breaker in round 3 to world No. 2, Djokovic. At the Sony Ericsson Open Kohlschreiber received another bye and took on fellow German Florian Mayer and it was about to go into a first set tie breaker before Florian retired with an injury. Again he went out in the third round this time to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
To start his clay-court season, Kohlschreiber went to the Monte-Carlo Masters where he caused a couple of upsets. In the first round, he edged out Bellucci in a final set tie-break before he thumped the world No. 4, Andy Murray, for the loss of just three games. He then took on Petzschner, again and again, won in straight sets, to reach the quarterfinals. Where he played David Ferrer and was edged out in two tight sets.
At Wimbledon, Kohlschreiber defeated Potito Starace and Teymuraz Gabashvili, before losing to Andy Roddick in the third round.
At Hamburg, he lost to Thomaz Bellucci in the third round. In September, he hired Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan.
2011: Grand Slam struggles
Kohlschreiber began his year at the Qatar Open where he was the eighth seed. He won his first match against Andreas Seppi 6–2, 6–4 but then lost to Ivo Karlović in a tight match 7–6, 6–7, 7–6. He then went to the Heineken Open in Auckland where he won against Carlos Berlocq 2–6, 6–3, 6–1, and 6–4, 3–6, 6–2 against Marcel Granollers before falling to the top seed David Ferrer, 3–6, 7–6, 3–6, in the quarterfinals.
In February, Kohlschreiber attended the ABN AMRO tournament in Rotterdam. In the first round, he faced Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan whom he defeated 6–4, 7–6. In the second round, he put up a brave showing against top seed and world No. 4, Robin Söderling, but lost 6–3, 5–7, 7–6.
In the first round of the Davis Cup tie against Croatia, Kohlschreiber saved one match point in the second rubber against Ivan Dodig to win in five sets and to draw the score after day one. In the fourth rubber, Marin Čilić was too strong for Kohlschreiber – he was defeated in straight sets to give the tie a 2–2. In the deciding fifth rubber Philipp Petzschner managed to lead Germany to a 3–2 win. After a first round bye in Indian Wells, Kohlschreiber defeated Tim Smyczek in Round two saving 3 MP before beating world No. 4, Robin Söderling, 7–6, 6–4, saving five set points in the opening set tie-break. In round 4, he lost to Juan Martín del Potro, 6–7, 6–7. Kohlschreiber was defeated by Federer in the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters after beating Andrey Golubev in round 1.
He captured his third career title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle defeating Philipp Petzschner in the final. On the way to the title, he overcame Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Lleyton Hewitt and Gaël Monfils.
2012: Quarterfinals at Wimbledon
At the Australian Open he lost in the fourth round to Juan Martín del Potro. Kohlschreiber reached the semifinals of Gerry Weber Open, defeating Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals, 6–3, 6–4. He lost in the semifinals to Tommy Haas, 6–7, 5–7.
Less than two weeks following his defeat of Nadal, Kohlschreiber beat Tommy Haas, Malek Jaziri and then Lukáš Rosol in straight sets 6–2, 6–3, 7–6 in the third round of Wimbledon Championships. Rosol had defeated Nadal in the previous round of in one of the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history. Kohlschreiber then advanced to the quarterfinals of a major for the first time by defeating Brian Baker, but was thwarted by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 6–2. At the US Open, he lost in the fourth round to Janko Tipsarević.
2013: 4th round at the French Open and US Open
At the Australian Open, he lost in the third round to Milos Raonic. He made it to the fourth round of the French Open before losing to world number one, Novak Djokovic. At Wimbledon, he had to retire in his first-round match against Ivan Dodig. At the US Open, he lost in the fourth round to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.
2014: Davis Cup quarterfinals
At the 2014 Rotterdam Open, Kohlschreiber defeated Richard Gasquet to reach quarterfinals, where he lost to Igor Sijsling. At Dubai, he won over Andreas Seppi in the second round and was defeated by Tomáš Berdych in the semifinals.
Kohlschreiber won the Düsseldorf Open, then the following week reached the third round of the French Open where he took reigning Wimbledon champion Andy Murray to five sets.
At Hamburg, he reached the semifinals winning over Gilles Simon and Lukáš Rosol. At the US Open, he defeated John Isner in the third round and lost to Djokovic in the round of 16.
2015: Title in Kitzbühel
Kohlschreiber defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round of the Australian Open in straight sets for his first win of the season, before bowing out to Bernard Tomic in a tightly contested four-set match, 7–6, 4–6, 6–7, 6–7. He was very dominant against Japanese Go Soeda to begin the French Open, losing only three games, but could not get past Pablo Andújar despite winning sets three and four. He fell to Djokovic with a score of 4–6, 4–6, 4–6 in the first round of Wimbledon. Kohlschreiber then took part in Kitzbühel, defeating two top-30 players in Fabio Fognini and Dominic Thiem in the quarter- and semifinals, respectively. He then defeated Paul-Henri Mathieu to win the tournament. The US Open saw his best grand slam performance of the year, defeating countryman Alexander Zverev in five sets, and then taking down Lukas Rosol with a score of 7–6, 6–2, 6–2. Federer took down Kohlschreiber in straights in the third round, however.
2016: Munich champion, Stuttgart runner-up, poor Grand Slam results
Kohlschreiber began 2016 ranked 34th in the world and had a season high rank of 22. He lost in the first round of the Australian Open to Kei Nishikori in straight sets. He played in the Sofia Open and lost to Victor Troicki in the quarterfinals. His next tournament was the Rotterdam Open where Kohlschreiber beat former US Open champion Marin Cilic in the quarterfinals. He then lost in the next round. Following the Rotterdam semifinals, Kohlschreiber made the quarterfinals of Dubai where he lost to Stan Wawrinka. Kohlschreiber then represented Germany in their Davis Cup team against the Czech Republic where he beat both Lukáš Rosol and Tomáš Berdych.
Kohlschreiber reached the round of 32 at both the Indian Wells Masters and the Monte-Carlo Masters where he lost to Djokovic and Wawrinka, respectively. He reached the semifinals in Barcelona before winning the Munich Open with wins against Mayer, del Potro, Fognini and Dominic Thiem in the final. He lost early at both Madrid Masters and the Rome Masters before a first-round loss at the French Open to Nicolás Almagro.
2017: 400th win, best Grand Slam fourth round result since 2014
Kohlschreiber started 2017 ranked No. 32. At the Australian Open, he won against Nikoloz Basilashvili and Donald Young, but lost in round 3 to Gael Monfils.
In February, Kohlschreiber played in the Dubai Tennis Championships where he beat eighth seed Gilles Muller in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Kohlschreiber who was aiming to win his 400th match on tour lost in three tight sets to eventual champion and world No. 1, Andy Murray. Kohlschreiber won the first set 7–6, and in the second set tiebreaker lost 18–20. In that tiebreaker, Kohlschreiber had seven match points. Murray saved all seven, won the tiebreaker and the deciding set 6–1.
Kohlschreiber finally won his 400th match at the BNP Paribas Open against Alexandr Dolgopolov. He subsequently lost his next match to eventual finalist Stan Wawrinka. Later that month at the Miami Open, as the 26th seed, Kohlschreiber won his second-round match in three sets against young American Taylor Fritz. In the third round, despite winning the first set 6–0, Kohlschreiber lost to 15 time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal. In August, Kohlschreiber won his second title at Kitzbuhel.
Originally for the US Open, Kohlschreiber was to be unseeded; however, the last-minute withdrawal of Andy Murray saw a draw reshuffle with Kohlschreiber becoming the 33rd seed. Kohlschreiber reached the round of 16 where he lost to Roger Federer, world No. 3, in straight sets. Kohlschreiber did not drop a set in reaching the round of 16.
2018: Masters 1000 - singles quarterfinal since 2010, first doubles semifinal; fifth US Open fourth round
2019–2021: 2019 year-end loss of form; continued struggles in 2020; out of top 100 in 2021
Kohlschreiber won his first match against a current world No. 1 at the 2019 Indian Wells Masters, where he beat Novak Djokovic in the third round in straight sets. He lost in the next round against Gaël Monfils.
After an extended period of playing on the Challenger tour, winning the 2020 Canberra Challenger, he struggled with form and was not able to pass the first round in multiple Grand Slams, except for the 2020 Australian Open where he withdrew in the second round, Kohlschreiber found his form at the 2021 French Open using his protected ranking where he reached the third round of this major for the first time in seven years, since 2014. He defeated Fernando Verdasco and 24th seed Aslan Karatsev before falling to 10th seed and 2020 French Open semifinalist Diego Schwartzman.
He lost in the first round at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships to Denis Shapovalov, where he also used his protected ranking, after a hard-fought five setter lasting more than hours.
At the 2021 US Open Kohlschreiber reached the second round, using his protected ranking once more, after Marin Cilic retired in the first round in the fifth set. It was Cilic's first retirement in more than 800 matches on the tour.
2022: 68th Grand Slam appearance, out of top 200, retirement
He competed in his 68th Grand Slam at the Australian Open and reached the second round.
Unable to defend his third round showing at Roland Garros from the year before, and despite qualifying at Indian Wells earlier in the season, he fell out of the top 150 on 6 June 2022. On 20 June, after winning the first round of the Wimbledon qualifying, he announced his retirement from professional tennis after that tournament. He played his last match on the ATP Tour two days later, losing to Mikhail Kukushkin in the next round.
As of 27 June 2022, he is in 4th place on the list of Grand Slam appearances overall with 68 tied with Novak Djokovic.
Performance timelines
Singles
Kohlschreiber's second-round match at the 2013 French Open was a walkover (so doesn't count as a win).
Kohlschreiber withdrew before the second round match at the 2020 Australian Open due to an injury (so doesn't count as a loss).
Doubles
ATP career finals
Singles: 18 (8 titles, 10 runner-ups)
Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Team competition: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 10 (5–5)
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
Playing style
Kohlschreiber is an all-court player with an emphasis on baseline play. He has strong groundstrokes on both wings which are equally as solid and is often able to wrong-foot opponents due to his quick follow-through, forcing them to commit early. His forehand is his primary weapon, and he is known to hit inside-out forehands to draw opponents out, while his single-handed backhand is considered one of the best on the tour currently. It is known for its consistency, power, and his ability to hit it in a variety of ways, namely flat, with top-spin and slice. Generally playing from the baseline, Kohlschreiber constructs points and uses a sudden injection of pace or a drop-shot to draw opponents out of their comfort zone and dominate the point from there.
Complementing his strong baseline play, as an all-court player, Kohlschreiber is also a proficient volleyer and uses variety to construct points. He is known to employ drop-shots mid-rally to catch opponents off-guard, especially on the backhand side. He occasionally uses a chip-and-charge tactic as well, especially on grass. It is due to the variety of shots he has that has led him to be successful on all surfaces, as can be seen by the fact that he has reached at least the fourth round of all Grand Slam tournaments and won titles on all surfaces (although he has won the most titles on clay).
Wins over top 10 players
He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
Record against top 10 players
Kohlschreiber's ATP-only record against players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher.
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German tournaments
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
German male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Germany
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Hopman Cup competitors
Sportspeople from Augsburg
German expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Tennis people from Bavaria
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Bruno Kernen (born 25 March 1961) is a former Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, winner of the Kitzbühel downhill race in January 1983.
Born in Schönried, Bern, he currently runs a hotel in his hometown with his family.
References
External links
Bruno Kernen's Hotel Bahnhof Homepage
Swiss male alpine skiers
1961 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the canton of Bern
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No Trams to Lime Street
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No Trams to Lime Street is a 1959 British television play, written by the Welsh playwright Alun Owen for the Armchair Theatre anthology series. Produced by ABC Weekend TV for transmission on the ITV network, the play was broadcast on 18 October 1959. The original version no longer exists.
Set in the northern English city of Liverpool, where Owen had grown up from the age of eight, the play starred Alfred Lynch, Billie Whitelaw, Jack Hedley and Tom Bell. It was directed and produced by two Canadians—Ted Kotcheff and Sydney Newman respectively. Newman was at the time the Head of Drama at ABC. The storyline concerns three sailors on shore leave in Liverpool.
The play was a factor in Owen later being hired to write the script for The Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night (1964), as they had been impressed with his depiction of their home city in the production. For his work on that film, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965.
In 1965, No Trams to Lime Street was remade by the BBC, as part of their Theatre 625 anthology strand, screened on the new BBC2 channel. It was presented as the middle episode in a trilogy of loosely connected Owen plays, broadcast on 21 March 1965, being preceded by Progress to the Park on 14 March and followed by A Little Winter Love on 28 March. The second version, which starred Mike Pratt, Tom Bell and Anthony Hall, is also lost.
The play was remade for television a second time, again by the BBC, in 1970, for the Wednesday Play strand. Transmitted on 18 March 1970, this time on BBC1 this version was directed by Piers Haggard starred Rosemary Nicols, Glyn Owen, Anthony May, Eilian Wyn and Paul Greenwood; and included songs and music by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the famous jazz saxophonist and club owner). This version survives as a black and white telerecording, although it was made in colour.
References
Vahimagi, Tise. Owen, Alun (1925–1994). British Film Institute Screenonline. URL accessed 11 February 2006.
TV Cream – Play for Today guide''. URL accessed 11 February 2006.
External links
1959 television plays
1970 television plays
ITV television dramas
Lost BBC episodes
Lost television episodes
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV
Armchair Theatre
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Fernando Vicente
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Fernando Vicente Fibla (; born 8 March 1977) is a professional tennis coach and a former player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. He reached his career-high ATP ranking of world No. 29 in June 2000, winning three singles titles and reaching the quarterfinals of the 1998 Rome Masters and the 2000 Cincinnati Masters.
He is the coach of Andrey Rublev since 2017, having previously coached Marcel Granollers and Marc López from 2010 to 2014.
Career finals
Singles: 6 (3–3)
Doubles: 6 (2–4)
Notes
References
External links
Vicente World Ranking History
1977 births
Living people
People from Baix Maestrat
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Andorra
Spanish male tennis players
Sportspeople from the Province of Castellón
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Tennis players from the Valencian Community
Spanish tennis coaches
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Olympic tennis players of Spain
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Tasmannia lanceolata
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Tasmannia lanceolata (syn. Drimys lanceolata), commonly known as Tasmanian pepperberry or mountain pepper, is a shrub native to woodlands and cool temperate rainforest of south-eastern Australia. The shrub varies from 2 to 10 m high. The aromatic leaves are lanceolate to narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate, 4–12 cm long, and 0.7–2.0 cm wide, with a distinctly pale undersurface. Stems are quite red in colour. The small cream or white flowers appear in summer and are followed by black, globose, two-lobed berries 5–8 mm wide, which appear in autumn. There are separate male and female plants.
Originally described by French botanist Jean Louis Marie Poiret, it gained its current name in 1969 by A.C. Smith. It had been known for many years as Drimys lanceolata.
It is found in Tasmania and northwards through Victoria to Barrington Tops in New South Wales. It is found in gullies in rainforests.
Uses
Polygodial has been identified as the primary active compound in Tasmannia lanceolata, and is also responsible for its peppery taste. The fruits also contain benzoic acids, flavanols, and flavanones, as well as eugenol, methyl eugenol, and gallic acid, and also the glycosides quercetin and rutin.
The leaf and berry are used as a spice, typically dried. Tasmanian pepperberry was used as a colonial pepper substitute. More recently, it has become popularised as a bushfood condiment. It can be added to curries, cheeses, and alcoholic beverages. It is exported to Japan to flavour wasabi. The berries are sweet and fruity at first with a lingering peppery aftertaste. Dried T. lanceolata berries and leaves have strong antimicrobial activity against food spoilage organisms. It also has high antioxidant activity. Low safrole clonal selections are grown in plantations for commercial use, as safrole is considered a low-risk toxin.
Used in colonial medicine as a substitute for Winter's bark, a stomachic, it was also used for treating scurvy. Tasmanian pepper is one of a number of native Australian herbs and food species being supported by the Australian Native Food Industry Ltd, which brings together producers of food species from all parts of Australia. The pepperberry can be used as a fish poison.
The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that common names included "Pepper Tree" and that "the drupe is used as a condiment, being a fair substitute for pepper, or rather allspice [...] The leaves and bark also have a hot, biting, cinnamon-like taste."
It can be grown as a garden plant. Its berries attract birds, including currawongs, that feed on them. It can be propagated from cuttings or seed, and can grow in a well-drained acidic soil with some shade, but is sensitive to Phytophthora cinnamomi.
Garden cultivars include 'Mt. Wellington', a compact plant with coppery new growth, and 'Suzette', a variegated cultivar.
See also
List of Australian herbs and spices
References
External links
Bruneteau, Jean-Paul, Tukka, Real Australian Food,
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Tasmania
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Spices
lanceolata
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Ashburton Forks, New Zealand
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Ashburton Forks, formerly known as Spread Eagle, is a small town which lies between the forks of the Ashburton River / Hakatere in the Canterbury Province of New Zealand's South Island. It is approximately 50 km west of Ashburton and about 17 km from the foot of the Southern Alps.
Early settlers
William Campbell, blacksmith by trade, of Oakfield Demesne, County Donegal established the Spreadeagle Farm at Ashburton in the early 1880s with his wife Mary (née Falloon).
Demographics
The statistical area of Ashburton Forks, which also includes Mount Somers, covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Ashburton Forks had a population of 2,214 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 207 people (10.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 528 people (31.3%) since the 2006 census. There were 840 households. There were 1,197 males and 1,017 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.18 males per female. The median age was 33 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 501 people (22.6%) aged under 15 years, 468 (21.1%) aged 15 to 29, 1,065 (48.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 183 (8.3%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 82.9% European/Pākehā, 5.6% Māori, 1.1% Pacific peoples, 10.4% Asian, and 5.7% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 22.5%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 48.6% had no religion, 42.1% were Christian, 1.1% were Hindu, 0.4% were Muslim, 0.3% were Buddhist and 2.3% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 303 (17.7%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 243 (14.2%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $41,800, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,104 (64.4%) people were employed full-time, 309 (18.0%) were part-time, and 21 (1.2%) were unemployed.
See also
Ashburton, nearby major town
Methven, nearby major town
References
Populated places in Canterbury, New Zealand
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Zinkensdamm metro station
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Zinkensdamm is a Stockholm metro station in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The station was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of the Red line, between T-Centralen and Fruängen. The surrounding area is known for the Zinkensdamms IP sports grounds, the Tantolunden Park, the Drakenberg area, and the STF Zinken hostel.
Gallery
See also
Zinkensdamm
References
External links
Images of Zinkensdamm
Red line (Stockholm metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1964
Stockholm metro stations located underground
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Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival
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The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival takes place in June in Middlewich, Cheshire, England. The festival builds on the town's industrial heritage in which canal boats were used to move coal and other raw materials in the town for the production of salt, and then move the salt out of town, either for use directly, or as a raw material in the manufacture of chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash.
The Middlewich Folk and Boat festival is now firmly established on the folk circuit and it is estimated that 30,000 people visit the town during the festival weekend, along with 400 boats. The festival was originally organised by members of the Middlewich Paddies, and taken over by the local council in 2011 when the original committee were unable to continue with the event. In 2008, the festival was declared among the top three folk festivals in England by Guardian Online.
History
The festival has been held since 1990. It was cancelled in 2001 because of Foot and Mouth disease.
The festival
Since 1990 there has been an annual folk music and (canal) boat festival, which is now highly regarded on the folk circuit with visitors coming into the town from all over the UK. During this festival artists appear at venues throughout the town, whilst Morris Dancing and Craft Stalls also featured. The boating festival centres on the Trent and Mersey Canal. The main venues where people and boats converge are the Big Lock and Kings Lock, public houses next to locks of the same name on the Trent and Mersey canal.
Artistes
2014 (13–15 June)
Ade Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Hat Fitz & Cara
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
The Liverpool Shanty Kings
The Peace Artistes
Emma Stevens
Brian McCombe Band
Merry Hell
Moulettes
Headsticks
Allan Yn Y Fan
Niamh Boadle
NE3Folk
Jaipur Kawa Brass Band
Les Barker
Sean Taylor
Simply Soweto Encha
The Driving Force
Pamela Wyn-Shannon
Shamus O'Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen
Thrill Collins
2013 (14–16 June)
Dick Gaughan
Spiers & Boden
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
Seth Lakeman
Mark Radcliffe & Foes
Woody Mann
African Entsha
All Blacked Up Ceilidh Band
Babajack
The Backyard Devils
Blue Horyzon
The Boat Band
Clutching at Straws
Fosbrooks
Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys
Golty Farabeau
Headsticks
Kye Sones
The Liverpool Shanty Kings
Maddocks & Bayes
Moulettes
NE3FOLK
The Peace Artistes
My Sweet Patootie
The Roving Crows
Dan Walsh & Christi Andropolis
The Willows
2012 (15–17 June)
Including
Show of Hands
Mark Radcliffe & the Big Figures
All Blacked Up
Les Barker
Merry Hell
Toy Hearts
Babajack
Roving Crows
Eddi Reader
Glenn Tilbrook
The BlueYellows
2011 (17–19 June)
Phil Maddocks
Pilgrims' Way
Andy Buckley
Salty Dog
The Tow Path Tipplers
The Crazy Folk Band
Sniggleheap
Acoustak
David Gibb and the Pony Club
Steamhead and the Weavils
Calico Jack
Last Ones Out
The Boat Band
Wearside Jack
Maxine Adelle
Louisa James
The Kane Sisters
Edel Fox
Hayley Strangelove
Dai Thomas
The Middlewich Paddies
With Bob On Our Side
The Generation
No Dinosaurs
Blackfingers
Providence Jug Band
Stan's Magic Foot
Steven Doyle
2010 (18–20 June) - 20th Anniversary Celebration
INCLUDING
Stan's Magic Foot
London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra
Mabon
Little Johnny England
The Lonnie Doneghan Band
Ken Nicol and Phil Cool
Nigel Beck
Queensbury Rules
Show of Hands
Pete Donegan
Tom Palmer
Peter Knight's Gigspanner
2009 (19–21 June)
The Family Mahone
Blue Murder
Ade Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds
All Blacked Up & Baz Parkes
Thea Gilmore
Jim Moray
Stan's Magic Foot
The Rainbow Chasers
Gina Le Faux
Tom Doughty
Greg Cave & The Village Band
Ella Edmondson
Vicki & Trefor
Andrea Glass
Rachel Harrington
Liz and the Lizzettes
Isambarde
Zoox
Acoustak
Barron Brady
Bill Malkin
Breeze and Wilson
Brendan Fahy
Calico Jack
Chloë
Chris Layhe and Oyster
Cold Flame
Dave Dove
Deportees
Dominic Collins
Dr Bob and the Wildboys
Fiona Simpson and Brian Adams
Full House
Geoff Mather
Guitar Mal
Holy Maggots
James & the Giant
Jaywalkers
Jonathan Tarplee
JP Slidewell
Kavona
Last Ones Out
Lorelei Loveridge
Lost in the Mist
Madcap
Men in Black
Michelle Martin
Nigel Beck
Peter Butler
Picnic Area
Providence Jug Band
Salt Town Poets
Shake the Barley
Song & Story
The Huers
Thom Kirkpatrick
Time Bandits
2008 (13–15 June)
Including
June Tabor
The Family Mahone
Martin Simpson
Bandersnatch
Kerfuffle
Peatbog Faeries
Nick Barraclough and the Burglars
Lau
Rory Ellis
Zoe Mulford
The Warsaw Village Band
Stomp
Nick Harper
Jonathan Kelly
2007 (15–17 June)
Seth Lakeman
Elbow Jane and Dave Dove
The Family Mahone with Mark Radcliffe
Dave Hunt and Happenstance.
Blazin’ Fiddles
Queensberry Rules
Ashley Hutchings and Rainbow Chasers
The Demon Barber Roadshow
Breeze & Wilson
Full House
Peeping Tom and caller Mick Peat.
The New Rope String Band
Richard Digance
Show of Hands
De Develeski
PJ Wright and Thom Kirkpatrick
2006 (16–18 June)
The Stereo Graffiti Show with Darren Poyzer and Friends
Tommy Kirkpatrick and the Beautiful Noise
The Dylan Project
Tom Doughty
PJ Wright and Dave Pegg
Karine Polwart
CrossCurrent
Michael McGoldrick and His Band
Emma and The Professor
Hazel O'Connor
A Woman's Word
McDermott's
The Levellers
The Family Mahone
Darren Poyzer
Ann English
Kirsty McGee
Dear Gregory
All Blacked Up
Cave
Martin Eden and The Assembly Boys
2005 (17–19 June)
Queensberry Rules
Uiscedwr
The Family Mahone
Mostly Autumn
Bellowhead
Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
Kerfuffle
Martin Carthy
Eddi Reader
Tickled Pink
Brian Kennedy
Eliza Carthy
The Ratcatchers
2004 (18–20 June)
Fairport Convention
The Family Mahone
Simon Mayor
Hilary James
Shooglenifty
Baker's Fabulous Boys
Show of Hands
The Levellers
2003 (13–15 June)
Bob Geldof
The Family Mahone
John Wright, Gary Forrest and Serious Kitchen
Whapweasel
Gordon Potts
The New John Wright Band
Ian Bruce
Kirsty McGee
Te Vaka
Rick Roser
Waterson–Carthy
Les Barker
Jim Moray
The Oysterband
Eliza Carthy Band
Sean Cannon
2002 (14–16 June)
Fairport Convention
Lindisfarne
Kate Rusby
Black Umfolosi
Andy Cutting and Chris Wood
Isla St Clair
e2k
Cara Dillon
Kathryn Robert and Sean Lakeman
Jon Boden and John Spiers
Whorticulture
Jenny Butterworth
Jon Brindley
Emily Slade
Hot Tamales
Aphrodite
Jug O' Punch
Steamhead
Taggart and Wright
Trefor and Vicki Williams
Roam
Quartz
Ailsa and John Booth
Brass Tacks
The Family Mahone
The Peace Artistes
Root Chord
Odd at Ease
Tom Brown and Ian Goodier
South Cheshire Pipe Band
Elle Osbourne
Sarah Hayes
The Middlewich Paddies
2001 (15–17 June – cancelled)
Cancelled due to Foot-and-mouth disease.
2000 (16–18 June)
Vin Garbutt
Iron Horse
Te Vaka
Roy Bailey and John Kirkpatrick
Blue Horses
Show of Hands
Les Barker
Blowzabella
Loctup Together
Jenny Butterworth
Cuckoo Oak
Seize the Day
Dragonfall
The Family Mahone
Slip Jig
Karen Burton
Tania Opland and Mike Freeman
Bob Webb
Calico Jack
Steamhead
Bakers Fabulous Boys
Ceolta
The National Youth Folklore Troupe of England
John Barden
Roy Clinging
Davian Reel
Quartz
St Patrick's Pipe Band
The Middlewich Paddies
1999 (18–20 June)
Cherish the Ladies
Black Umfolosi
The Poozies
Tanglefoot
The Old Rope String Band
Cock and Bull
The Oldham Tinkers
Bernard Wrigley
Ian Bruce
The Boat Band
Acquiesce
The Middlewich Paddies
The Chipolatas
St. Patrick's Pipe Band
Keeper's Lock
Steamhead
Davian Reel
Roy Wilcock & Bridget Guest
Lorebreakers
1998 (19–21 June)
Dervish
The Albion Band
Chris While and Julie Matthews
Artisan
Tanglefoot
Huw and Tony Williams
Cock and Bull Band
The Peace Artists
Calico Jack
Davian Reel
Moorland Folk
Buzz & Sam Collins
Stanley Accrington
The Middlewich Paddies
Chris Sherburn and Denny Bartley
Flakey Jake and The Steamin Locos
John Conolly and Pete Sumner
Fiona Shirra
Acquiesce
The Salt Town Poets
Ian Goodier and Tom Browne
Steamhead
Roy Wilcock and Bridget Guest
The Lorebreakers
Biggles Wartime Jug Band
The Ram Shanty Crew
Silk Brass
1997 (20–22 June)
The Yetties
Coope Boyes and Simpson
Big Jig
The Boat Band
Anam - Flook!
The Geckoes
Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies
Crook
Sears and Harrison
Davian Reel
Gavin Lewery and Jock Tyldesley
Les Barker
To Hell with Burgundy
The Middlewich Paddies
Calico Jack
Youthquake
Salt Town Poets
The Chipolatas
Gilly Darby
Chew the Roots
Harvey Andrews
1996 (14–16 June)
After Hours
Cosmotheka
Calico Jack
Gary and Vera Aspey
Five Speed Box
New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils
Chris Sherbourn and Denny Bartley
The Southgators
Keith Donnelly
Risky Business
The Middlewich Paddies
Jenny Shotliffe and Youthquake
The Great Bonzo and Doris
Dave Roberts
Circus Sensible
Paul and Glen Elliot
Notes
External links
http://www.midfest.org.uk/
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/middlewich/2014 2014 Festival page
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/gsivills/gsfandb.html 2003 Festival home page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0O3VKl1OHA Clerical Error at the 2006 festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2KTAv0owo Music at the Big Lock during the 2007 festival
Music festivals established in 1990
Folk festivals in the United Kingdom
Music festivals in Cheshire
Folk and Boat
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Lorrie Sprecher
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Lorrie Sprecher (born 18 July 1960) is an American writer, musician, and activist.
Biography
She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Maryland, where her dissertation was on Gertrude Stein.
Her debut novel, Sister Safety Pin, details the life of a 20-something lesbian named Melany as she struggles to come to terms with her sexuality, her lovers, her future, and her place in the changing world of punk rock. Peppered heavily with references to seminal punk bands, the novel follows Melany through a small series of relationships, attaining her undergraduate degree, and contemplating "if a lesbian... especially a punk lesbian... is supposed to get a Ph.D." Honed with sharp wit, the story unfolds against a backdrop of 1980s California, New York City, and D.C.; a time when punk rock was shifting faces and the AIDS crisis was exploding amongst the gay community. Widely reviewed, Sister Safety Pin has become a classic among its lesbian audience.
After the publication of her novel, Sprecher turned her attention to music, forming the one-woman band Sugar Rat. Her music is politically charged, most recently addressing the bombing of Afghanistan. Her debut album, Rats Have Rights, was released in 2001. In 2002, Sprecher released her follow-up to Rats, entitled The Opposite of Popular. Both albums were self-distributed and are available via iTunes or Sprecher's website. She has also contributed songs to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
Sprecher is a vocal member of ACT UP, an organization dedicated to fighting AIDS, and has been arrested six times in Washington D.C. during various protests.
She is currently working on her third novel and an acoustic album for Sugar Rat.
Bibliography
Anxiety Attack: Short-Short Storie (Violet Ink, 1992)
Sister Safety Pin (Firebrand Books, 1994)
Pissing in a River (The Feminist Press, 2014)
Discography
Rats Have Rights (2001)
The Opposite of Popular (2003)
References
External links
Lorrie Sprecher Online
Sugar Rat - Soundclick
1960 births
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
American punk rock musicians
HIV/AIDS activists
Feminist musicians
Lesbian feminists
American lesbian musicians
American lesbian writers
Living people
American LGBT novelists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people
21st-century American women
Women in punk
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Yang Yang (; born 24 August 1976 in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China) is a retired Chinese short track speed skater. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2002 Winter Olympics and a six-time Overall World Champion for 1997–2002. Known as Yang Yang (A), she was formerly a member of the Chinese national short track team. Yang is one of the most accomplished short track speed skaters of all time having won 34 world titles, including six Overall World Championships. She is the first person to have won six Overall World Titles and won six consecutively. Her victory in the women's 500 m short track at the 2002 Winter Olympics made her China's first-ever Winter Olympics gold medalist. She added a second gold in the women's 1000 m short track at the same Games and has also won two silver and a bronze medal. After 2003 World Championships, Yang took time off competing, but came back in 2004–2005 season in lead-up to 2006 Winter Olympics where she won the bronze medal in 1000m race. She retired soon afterwards.
Naming
Yang, born 1976, is sometimes known as Yang Yang (A), to differentiate her from the speed skater named Yang Yang born in 1977 (known as "Yang Yang (S)").
By coincidence, Yang Yang had a contemporary on the Chinese skating team, one year and one month her junior, also named Yang Yang in pinyin and English (although with a different given name character in Chinese). The "(A)" identifier was used as a way to distinguish her from the younger Yang Yang. Originally, the older Yang Yang was known as Yang Yang (L) for "large" (大 or 'big' in Chinese is used to distinguish between younger and older persons of roughly the same age), as she is older than Yang Yang (S) for "small"; however, she objected to the "L" identifier, changing it to "A" for "August", her birth month. Although the younger Yang Yang (S) is now retired from competition and there is no longer a need to distinguish between the two in results, Yang Yang (A) still used the identifier in competition, considering it a part of her identity.
Retirement
Yang Yang (A) was chosen to be one of 12,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic torch for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and on November 22, 2009, she ran a portion of the Prince Edward Island legs.
Yang was elected as an IOC member in 2010 becoming mainland China's fourth IOC member. She is also a committee member of the World Anti Doping Agency, and founding member of the Chinese Athlete Education Foundation.
In 2013, Yang co-founded the Feiyang Skating Centre in Shanghai, a new double-rink facility with an Olympic-sized rink upstairs and a recreational-sized rink downstairs, built to promote ice sports in China.
In 2021, Yang became a high profile supporter of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. She amplifies Chinese social media content highlighting the power of sport to transform the lives of people fleeing conflict and persecution.
Career
Gallery
References
External links
Yang Yang (A) (Short-track Speed Skating) from china.org.cn
1976 births
Living people
Chinese female short track speed skaters
Olympic bronze medalists for China
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic short track speed skaters of China
Olympic silver medalists for China
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Short track speed skaters at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Short track speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
International Olympic Committee members
World Anti-Doping Agency members
People from Jiamusi
Sportspeople from Heilongjiang
Medalists at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 1999 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Universiade bronze medalists for China
Universiade medalists in short track speed skating
Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Vinciguerra
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Andreas Vinciguerra
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Andreas Vinciguerra (; born 19 February 1981) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1998. He won 1 singles title in Copenhagen; reached the semi-finals of the 2001 Rome Masters and 2001 Paris Masters; and attained a career-high singles ranking of World No. 33 in November 2001.
Tennis career
Vinciguerra is of Italian origin on his father's side.
Junior career
As a junior Vinciguerra reached as high as No. 6 in the world in 1998.
Junior Slam results:
Australian Open: F (1998)
French Open: SF (1998)
Wimbledon: -
US Open: 1R (1998)
Pro career
He experienced significant problems with a back injury, but in 2006 made a comeback, which has seen him edge towards the top 100 in the ATP rankings.
Has played 9 Davis Cup matches in singles, and won 3 of them.
In the 2009 World Group Playoffs in March 2009, Sweden faced Israel in Vinciguerra's hometown. Dudi Sela first defeated Vinciguerra 11–9 in the fifth. Harel Levy then beat Vinciguerra in the decisive final match in a marathon 3-hour, 44 minutes, 8–6 in the fifth, to lead the Israeli team to a come-from-behind 3–2 victory over the 7-time Davis Cup champion Swedes at Baltic Hall in Malmö, Sweden, and allow Israel to advance in the 2009 Davis Cup.
After the Davis Cup, Vinciguerra decided to continue playing and reached in his first tournament of the year the final at the Rome Challenger. He then received a Wild Card to the Swedish Open where he made it to the semifinals.
ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 10 (5–5)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Malmö
Swedish male tennis players
Swedish people of Italian descent
Olympic tennis players of Sweden
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantolunden
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Tantolunden
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Tantolunden is a park in the southern part of central Stockholm, Sweden.
Tantolunden is located in Södermalm near Zinkensdamm and Hornstull. The area is bounded by the railway in the south, the Ringvägen in the east, the Drakenberg area in the north and Lake Årstaviken in the southwest. The park was designed in 1885 by Swedish garden architect Alfred Medin (1841-1910). The construction work continued until 1899, when it was considered that the park was completed. In 1906 a playground was arranged in the western part of the park.
References
Parks in Stockholm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parippally
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Parippally
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Parippally is a village in Kalluvathukal Panchayath of Kollam district, Kerala, India. Paripally village is situated South of Kollam City along NH66 and North of Trivandrum along NH66.
Kollam Govt. Medical College is situated in Parippally. Kerala's new No 1 theatre Revathy Cinemax is also situated in Parippally-Kulamada(Kulamada-only away from Parippally junction). The nearest town Chathannor is located away, Kottiyam is another major town located near Parippally.
Transportation
Nearest Airport is The Trivandrum International Airport which is away. Kollam Helipad (Asramam) is about away from Parippally and Varkala Helipad (Cliff) is about away.
Paravur Railway Station is the nearest railway station to Parippally. Paravur is well connected to Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Salem, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Mangalore, Coimbatore, Pune, Tirunelveli, Trichy and various towns in Kerala through Indian Railways. It is the nearest railway station to the newly inaugurated Kollam Medical College, Parippally.
There are 4 major roads which connect Madathara, Paravur, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram. It is only 13 kilometers away from the famous Varkala Sivagiri, Varkala Beach, and Varkala Temple.
Administration
Parippally is the part of Kalluvathukkal Panchayath.
Schools
Famous schools, ASHSS Parippally. UKF Engineering College is in Parippally.
Govt Medical College, Kollam is situated in Paripally.
Temples
One of the most famous temple in Parippally is Kodimoottil Sri Bhadrakaali Temple . Gajamela and Ponkala which are associated with the temple festival are very famous. Thousands of devotees come to watch the Gajamela.
References
Kerala Atlas
Manorama year book: 2006
External links
Parippally Gajamela
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/628437-parippally-kerala.html
Villages in Kollam district
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarocco
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Tarocco
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Tarocco may refer to:
Tarocco, a Renaissance card game using tarot cards
Tarocco Piemontese, a type of tarot deck used to play a surviving variant of the game
Tarocco Bolognese, a type of tarot deck used to play Tarocchini, another surviving variant popular in Bologna
Tarocco Siciliano, a type of tarot deck found in Sicily
An Italian variant cultivar of the Blood orange
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20Jansen
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Robbie Jansen
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Robert Edward Jansen (5 August 1949 – 7 July 2010) was a South African musician. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
Biography
Jansen began his career in the pop band The Rockets. The first instruments he played were concertina and mouth organ. The repertoire of the first bands he played with consisted of British pop of the hippie era. But after a trip to London, which was part of a prize in a band competition, he discovered black music from the U.S. and in particular groups with brass sections and he decided he wanted to be a brass instrument player. Brass instrument bands were not new to him as his father was associated with Salvation Army bands, but Jansen chose rock and jazz. He played in the brass section of Cape Town's jazz-rock group The Pacific Express. From there he began a solo career as a singer and saxophonist.
His first nationwide recognition in South Africa was as a member of the Dollar Brand group. He and saxophonist Basil Coetzee toured and recorded with Brand on Mannenberg sessions. He later recorded with Brand, also known as Abdullah Ibrahim, on other projects. His work with Brand and Coetzee in the 1970s introduced him to jazz audiences, and he became a leading figure in Cape Jazz. He signed with Mountain Records and was instrumental in encouraging the record label to collect works from their archive to issue the first definitive Cape Jazz collection album.
South African duo Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu hired Jansen to play flute and saxophone on Juluka's debut album, Universal Men. Jansen joined the band for their next two albums, but he departed between African Litany and Ubuhle Bemvelo to resume his solo career.
In 2006 his album Nomad Jez was a finalist for a South African Music Award as best jazz album of the year. He recorded two other solo albums: Vastrap Island and The Cape Doctor (with his group, The Sons of Table Mountain). The albums were produced by Patrick Lee-Thorp.
The label management of his record label, credit Jansen with the origination of the description of the style of Jazz played in the Cape Town region as Cape Jazz. He and fellow saxophone player, Basil Coetzee used this description of the music in their earliest recordings.
Jansen was in the hospital after becoming ill in July 2005. The provincial government of the Western Cape met his medical bills as he had no medical insurance. He was immensely popular with Capetonians and when he returned to performing, usually with his band Sons of the Table Mountain, he was always met with affection, love, and respect.
A blow to his career came in March 2007 when his doctors said that he could no longer travel long distances by air due to his respiratory condition. This forced the cancellation of his 2007 European tour and put an end to his international performances. He collapsed while on tour in Grahamstown in 2010 when his respirator malfunctioned. He died in hospital in Cape Town in July 2010 at the age of 61.
Controversy
In 2006, a Media24 community newspaper, the People's Post, refused to publish an interview conducted with Jansen, citing his criticism of that year's SAMA. The interview was, according to papers filed at the Labour Court of South Africa, unfit to publish in a family newspaper. "Mr Jansen's views are too controversial to publish in a community newspaper targeted at a family audience." The editor of the People's Post at the time also cited Jansen's reputation as a drinker and frequenter of nightclubs. The journalist who conducted the interview brought a civil case against the corporation.
Discography
Vastrap Island (Mountain, 1996)
The Cape Doctor (Mountain, 2000)
Nomad Jez (Mountain, 2005)
References
External links
Robbie Jansen
"Robbie Jansen and the Sons of Table Mountain"
Review at All About Jazz
"The Guardian"
"SA Hiustory.org"
1949 births
2010 deaths
Afrikaner people
Musicians from Cape Town
Juluka members
South African musicians
South African people of Dutch descent
Sons of Table Mountain members
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refused%20Are%20Fucking%20Dead
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Refused Are Fucking Dead
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Refused Are Fucking Dead is a 2006 documentary about the Swedish hardcore punk band Refused and the then-last year of their career. The film was directed by the band's guitarist, Kristofer Steen. It includes live performances of "Spectre", "Life Support Addiction", "Circlepit", "New Noise", and "Rather Be Dead."
The DVD includes two of Refused's music videos ("Rather Be Dead" and "New Noise") as well as live performances of all the songs on The Shape of Punk to Come (save for "The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax" and "Protest Song '68") as bonus features.
The film shares its name with one of the band's songs on The Shape of Punk to Come and is a reference to a song titled "Born Against Are Fucking Dead" by the New York hardcore band Born Against.
Reception
The film received mostly positive reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 82% of 265 user ratings have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 3.8 out of 5.
References
External links
Burning Heart Records page on the film
2006 documentary films
2006 films
Documentary films about punk music and musicians
Refused
Swedish documentary films
2000s Swedish-language films
2000s Swedish films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Koubek
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Stefan Koubek
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Stefan Koubek (born 2 January 1977) is a retired tennis player from Klagenfurt, Austria. Koubek played left-handed with a double-handed backhand. His idol when growing up was Thomas Muster. Koubek won three titles, two of which came on hardcourts; despite this, he said his favorite surface was clay.
Koubek reached the quarterfinals of the 2002 Australian Open and the 2002 Hamburg Masters, attaining a career-high singles ranking of World No. 20 in March 2000. Koubek tested positive for glucocorticosteroids at the 2004 French Open after receiving an injection for an injured wrist; he was subsequently suspended for three months.
His nickname is Cooley or Stef.
Tennis career
Koubek turned professional in 1994, losing his first match in St Pölten. Between 1994 and 1998, Koubek mostly played in ATP Futures and ATP Challenger Series events.
In 1997 he jumped up 184 positions in the rankings, thanks to good results in Challenger tournaments, reaching finals in Ulm and Alpirsbach. 1998 saw Koubek win his first Challenger event in Alpirsbach; later that same year he lost to Younes El Aynaoui in the final of Maia. Koubek compiled a 33–20 record for the year.
Koubek won his first ATP title in 1999 at Atlanta as a qualifier. He achieved this losing only one set in the whole tournament, overcoming Sébastien Grosjean in the final in straight sets. Koubek reached the fourth round in his French Open debut, losing to Àlex Corretja; to date this is his best performance at this event. Koubek made the final of Bournemouth, losing to Adrian Voinea, and helped his country Austria back into the World Group of Davis Cup by defeating Sweden 3–2 in a promotion tie. Koubek was second only to Albert Costa in wins on clay during the 1999 season, with 28 match victories.
In 2000 Koubek won his second title on the hardcourts at Delray Beach, defeating Álex Calatrava. He reached the semi finals at Mexico City, losing to Juan Ignacio Chela. He reached his highest singles rank to date on March 13, 2000, when he became World No. 20. At the 2000 French Open, in his match against Attila Sávolt (the score being 2-1 sets and 5-2 games in favour of his opponent), after having already received three warnings for various transgressions, Koubek was disqualified due to throwing his racket and accidentally hitting a ball boy.
Koubek started off 2002 with his best ever performance at a Grand Slam tournament by making the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. In the first round, Koubek came back from a 0–6 1–6 1–4 15–40 deficit to eventually defeat Cyril Saulnier, 0–6 1–6 7–6 6–4 8–6. In the next round he again came back from two sets to love down against James Blake, winning in five sets. Koubek then defeated Kristian Pless and Fernando González in the third and fourth round, before losing to Jiří Novák in the quarterfinals.
In the remainder of 2002, Koubek's best result was a quarterfinal appearance at the Hamburg Masters, losing to Tommy Robredo. Koubek then finished the year with seven consecutive first round losses.
Koubek rebounded in 2003 by winning his third career title in Doha. Koubek won the tournament without dropping a set, defeating Jan-Michael Gambill in the final, and briefly holding the top spot in the ATP Champions Race. Koubek's form remained inconsistent, again losing seven consecutive first-round matches after his victory in Doha, before making the semi-finals in Munich, where he lost to Roger Federer. In Davis Cup, Koubek defeated the Belgian brothers Christophe and Olivier Rochus to help return Austria to the World Group.
Koubek made the third round at the 2004 French Open before losing to David Nalbandian. In Thomas Muster's debut as Davis Cup captain, Koubek was instrumental in preserving Austria's status in the World Group, winning both singles matches over Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.
Koubek tested positive for glucocorticosteroids at the 2004 French Open after receiving an injection for an injured wrist; he was subsequently suspended for three months. The ITF rejected Koubek's appeal of the suspension, though acknowledging that Koubek had not used the drugs to enhance performance.
Koubek forfeited his points and prize money from Roland Garros, though his results subsequent to Roland Garros were not disqualified.
As a result of injuries and multiple suspension, Koubek struggled in 2005, and his ranking subsequently fell outside of the top 100. Koubek spent most of the year playing events on the Challenger circuit. His best results on the tour were a third round in Kitzbühel, losing to Nicolás Massú, and a semifinal in the Helsinki Challenger, where he lost to Björn Rehnquist.
At the start of 2006, Koubek was ranked 182nd in the world. Koubek played a mixture of Challengers and ATP events during the year; as a qualifier, Koubek made the final of the ATP event in Zagreb, losing in straight sets to local favourite Ivan Ljubičić. Koubek reached the third round in Stuttgart and the Generali Open, and the semifinals in Mumbai. He finished the year ranked number 80. In doubles Koubek won his first title at the Generali Open with Philipp Kohlschreiber.
Koubek finished the 2007 season ranked in the top 50. The year began 2007 by making the final in Chennai, losing to Xavier Malisse. At the Australian Open, he was knocked out in the first round by Wayne Arthurs, in Arthurs' final Australian Open appearance; Koubek lost the match despite leading two sets to love. He played in Austria's first-round defeat in Davis Cup, losing 4–1 to Argentina in Linz. In Sopot Koubek came back from a 6–0 4–0 deficit to defeat Agustín Calleri in three sets, where Calleri served for the match three times and saved five match points in the process, which broke a streak 21 consecutive games lost after losing 6–4 6–0 to Daniel Köllerer in Kitzbühel. Koubek was disqualified in Metz against Sébastien Grosjean while leading 4–2 in the final set after using abusive language to the tournament supervisor Thomas Karlberg while disputing a call. Koubek said he directed the "Fuck you" at the situation and not at Karlberg personally.
Koubek started 2008 by making the third round at the Australian Open before falling to Paul-Henri Mathieu in five sets, a match in which he led a break of serve in each set, but was not able to close the match out. In March Koubek suffered back problems and will have surgery to alleviate bulging discs, which is a potentially career threatening injury.
Koubek announced his retirement from tennis in May 2011.
ATP career finals
Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (2–5)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
1977 births
Living people
Austrian male tennis players
Doping cases in tennis
Hopman Cup competitors
Sportspeople from Klagenfurt
Austrian sportspeople in doping cases
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never-Ending
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Never-Ending
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Never-Ending is the third studio album by German power metal group Mystic Prophecy, released in October 2004. This is the last album of a trilogy and also the last to feature Gus G and Dennis Ekdahl.
Track listing
"Burning Bridges" (Liapakis / Albrecht) - 4:13
"Time Will Tell" (Liapakis / Gus G.) - 3:54
"Under A Darkened Sun" (Liapakis / Albrecht) - 4:08
"Dust Of Evil" (Liapakis / Gus G. / Albrecht) - 4:29
"In Hell" (Liapakis / Gus G.) - 3:33
"Never Surrender" (Liapakis / Gus G.) - 4:31
"Wings Of Eternity" (Liapakis / Albrecht) - 4:34
"When I'm Falling" (Liapakis / Gus G.) - 3:46
"Warriors Of Lies" (Liapakis / Albrecht) - 6:12
"Dead Moon Rising" (Liapakis / Gus G.) - 5:15
"Never Ending" (Liapakis / Gus G. / Albrecht) - 2:41
Credits
Roberto Dimitri Liapakis - vocals
Gus G - Guitars
Martin Albrecht - Bass
Dennis Ekdahl - drums
2004 albums
Mystic Prophecy albums
Nuclear Blast albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu%20Picasso
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Museu Picasso
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The Museu Picasso (, "Picasso Museum") is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona. It opened to the public on 9 March 1963, becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso's work and the only one created during his lifetime. It has since been declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia.
Highlights of the collection include two of his first major works, The First Communion (1896), and Science and Charity (1897). In particular, the Museu Picasso reveals Picasso's relationship with the city of Barcelona, a relationship that was shaped in his youth and adolescence and continued until his death.
History
The original idea for the museum came from Picasso's lifelong friend and secretary, Jaume Sabartés, whom Picasso had given many paintings, drawings, and prints since meeting in 1899. Originally, Sabartés intended to found the museum in Málaga, Picasso's birthplace. It was Picasso himself who suggested that Barcelona would be more appropriate, given his long-standing connections with the city.
On 27 July 1960, Sabartés signed an agreement with the city of Barcelona to found the museum. The museum opened in 1963, with the collection established through Sabartés' donation of 574 works from his personal collection. Other items included works that Picasso had given to the city of Barcelona, such as Harlequin, works previously in the possession of the city's museum of modern art, and other gifts from Picasso's friends and collectors.
The museum opened under the name of the Sabartés Collection, because of Picasso's strong opposition to Franco's regime. In the end, Barcelona mayor Josep Porcioles went against the wishes of the central government in order to open the museum. When it opened, the museum was located in Palau Aguilar on Montcada Street. In this era, the collection consisted mainly of the personal collection Sabartés, some lithographs, and posters. Other donations during the museum's first year included a book of engravings made by Picasso of Ovid's Metamorphoses, donated by Salvador Dalí, as well as a collage given by Gala Dalí, titled No, 1913. In subsequent years, the collection was expanded with donations, including 7-drawings dated between 1899 and 1904 given by Junyer Sebastian Vidal.
Expansion
After Sabartés death in 1968, in 1970 Picasso made his last personal donation to the museum. The donation was made up of 920 varied works, including items from his early work that his family had been keeping for him ever since the time he first settled in France. These included school books, academic pieces and paintings from Picasso's Blue Period. Sabartés himself bequested a number of works upon his death, including a series of 58 paintings on Las Meninas. In December 1970, the museum underwent its first expansion, adding the Palau del Baró de Castellet, which is attached to the original museum building, Palau Aguilar.
As years passed, the museum grew in importance as more substantial donations were made. During the early 1980s the collection was expanded with several donations from individuals and various art galleries, as well as through acquisitions. In 1982, Picasso's widow Jacqueline Roque gave 41 pieces to the museum. (In 1983), the Louise Leiris Gallery made a donation of 117 engravings. Some notable donations include those from Carles Domingo and the Editorial Gustavo Gili, among others. In 1985, the museum's physical space expanded again with the addition of Palau Meca.
During the 1990s donations included (women bust or Man sitting). The museum also acquired works such as Portrait of Jacqueline with tape, among others. In the late 1990s the museum expanded yet again with the acquisition of Casa Mauri and Palau Windows, both on the same street and adjacent to the museum. Opened in 1999, this new extension added 3,400 square meters to the museum, serving as a space for temporary exhibitions, an auditorium, and additional services. The extension was opened with the temporary exhibition Picasso: Interior and Exterior Landscape, with more than 200 works by the artist created between 1917 and 1970.
21st century
In 2003, the museum's interior was remodeled and the artworks rearranged. Two years later, The Government of Catalonia declared the institution a museum of national interest.
In 2006, Maite Ocaña, the museum's director since 1983, resigned in order to direct the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Pepe Serra was appointed director of the Picasso in the same year. In 2008, the Museu Picasso rearranged the permanent collection and opened new rooms dedicated to engraving, including one dedicated to Sabartés. Serra has since established a network of organizations associated with Picasso, including the City of Gósol, the Centre Picasso of Horta de Sant Joan and Palau Foundation in Caldes d'Estrac, with the central aim of promoting the position of the artist by the Catalan territory. In 2009, the museum was listed as one of the 40 most visited art museums in the world by The Art Newspaper.
In 2010 the museum began a project to improve its active presence in social networks such as Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. The museum's efforts resulted in the Museums & the Web 2010 Best of the Web award for social media. The museum's social media projects promote participatory discussion around the institution's research and knowledge.
More recently, the museum has built a new building in Sabartés square, behind Montcada Street. This expansion helped alleviate the overcrowding at the entry of the museum. The building was designed by the architect Jordi Garcés, who had completed the previous expansion of the museum.
Architecture
The Museu Picasso occupies five large houses or palaces of the Carrer de Montcada Barcelona, dating from the 13th century and 14th century, occupying a total area of 10,628 sqm. The buildings follow the style of Gothic civil Catalan. Each of the 5 buildings are built following a similar pattern, around a courtyard equipped with an exterior staircase that allows access to the main floors. The buildings that house the collection of Picasso's works also have their own history.
Palau Aguilar
The Palau Aguilar (Montcada, 15) was the first building occupied by the museum. The building was probably built on the residence of James Ses sources, an important character in the life of Barcelona. The building dates from the 13th century but underwent significant alterations between the 15th and 18th centuries. Between the 13th and 14th centuries the building belonged to various nobles of the Court of Aragon. It was purchased in 1386 by the bourgeois family Corominas-Desplà, who then sold it fourteen years later to Berenguer Aguilar, from which the palace is named. Later owners included several members of the Catalan bourgeoisie prior to the building's purchase by the City Council on 3 November 1953.
During a restoration made in 1960, the remains of a 13th-century painting were discovered while removing plaster from one of the rooms. Today this work is exhibited in the National Art Museum of Catalonia. A large fresco representing the conquest of Majorca in 1229, the work is made up of cauldrons and roses, which suggest that the palace belonged to the lineage Caldes and Desvalls. It depicts the central courtyard of the building during the 15th century, with an open staircase and a pointed Gotchic arch.
Palau Baró de Castellet
The Palau Baró de Castellet (Montcada, 17) is a palace from the medieval period. Built during the 13th century, it was owned by the Gerona family during the 15th century. Since then it has changed hands between the bourgeois and aristocratic families of Barcelona, having been remodeled during the 18th century. In 1797, the then owner (Mariano Alegre Aparici Amat) received the noble title of Baron Castle at the hands of King Charles IV, prompting the palace to receive its name. Upon the death of the Baron, the building was bequeathed to the Hospital of the Holy Cross, who rented it to different tenants until they sold it to the Rivers family. The City Council then purchased the building in the 1950s. The palace was built around a central courtyard and includes on its facade a relief from the 16th century that depicts religious themes. The interior's main floor is in the neo-classical style of the mid-18th century, including elements of marble and polychrome reliefs.
Palau Meca
The Palau Meca (Montcada, 19) was built between the 13th and 14th centuries and also underwent restoration during the 18th century. Similar to the other palaces, it contains a central courtyard. Highlights include the medieval polychrome coffered ceilings of the main floor as well as unique ceilings from the 19th century. In 1349, the property was owned by James Knight, then Minister of the City Council. Under the ownership of his grandson, Ramon Desplà Knight, it became the largest palace on the block. The building later became the property of the family of Cassador (or Hunter), Marquis of Ciutadilla. The first owner, Joseph Mecca Hunter gave the palace its current name. The next family to own it, the Milans, restored the building after it was badly damaged during the War of Spanish Succession. In 1901, the building was given to the Brothers of Christian Doctrine and (was installed Montepío of Santa Madrona.) Over time the Montepío integrated with a bank, who gave the building to the City Council on 5 December 1977. The Palace was reopened as part of the museum on 11 January 1982.
Casa Mauri
Casa Mauri (Montcada, 21) includes some structures that date from Roman times, when the space was occupied by the suburbs of Barcino. Of note is the unique wood facade, one of the few examples in Barcelona of the locking system typical of the 18th century. Between 1378 and 1516 the building was owned by the Rocha family and in 1716 it was owned by F. Casamada. During the 19th century several renovations were made. Under the owner Josep Vidal Torrents, the building was made to have industrial uses until it was bought by Mauri bakeries in 1943, the company that gave the building its name. In 1999 the building was acquired by Museu Picasso.
Palau Finestres
The Palau Finestres (Montcada, 23) was built on the foundations of a building dating to the 13th century and occupies a former Roman necropolis. Between 1363 and 1516 the area belonged to the Marimon family. In 1872, the owner of Casa Mauri, Jose Vidal Torres, bought the building in order to annex it to his home. The City acquired the building in 1970. There are arcades on the ground floor, added during the reforms of the fifteenth and 17th centuries. On the main floor, a coffered ceiling from the end of the 13th century have been restored. The building is currently used as exhibition space.
Knowledge and Research Center
The Knowledge and Research Center was opened on 17 February, a new building located in Plaza Sabartés that was designed by architect Jordi Garcés. The site aims to become an international landmark in the study of Picasso and his artistic and social context. Director Pepe Sierra explained that the space would be used for discussion, dialogue, and debate, rather than as a place of consumption. (The organization responsible for this is Silvia Domenech, commissioned between 1997 and 2007 of the Photographic Archive of Barcelona.)
Jordi Garcés, who already performed the previous expansion of the museum, designed the 1500 square meter building with a transparent glass facade protected by a cantilever. The building houses an educational center on the ground floor, with 4 multi-purpose spaces aimed at providing educational service for the museum. The first floor is devoted to the library, documentation center, and archives of the museum. The basement is devoted to visitor services. The construction began on 10 July 2009 and ended on 16 February 2011, costing 6.7 million.
The permanent collection
The permanent collection is organized into three sections: painting and drawing, engraving, and ceramics. These cover principally the early years of Picasso's artistic life, such as his Blue Period from 1901 to 1904, but Picasso, his family, and his friends would bequest or loan other later pieces as well. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum.
The collection is organized into areas that include the early years (Málaga, Corunna and Barcelona, 1890–97), the training period (Barcelona, Horta de San Juan and Madrid, 1897–1901), the Blue Period (1901–04), works in Barcelona from 1917, and the entire Las Meninas (1957) series. Most of the paintings on display at the museum are from the period between 1890 and 1917, an important collection in regard to that portion of Picasso's life. The museum has very few paintings after 1917, with the exception of the Las Meninas, painted in 1957. The collection of lithographs comprises the years 1962 and 1982. Picasso himself gave the museum a copy of each of his works produced after the death of Sabartés in 1968. The collection also includes illustrations made by the artist for various books, as well as ceramics gifted to the museum by Picasso's widow, Jacqueline.
Between 2009 and 2010 the museum began making information on the permanent collection public on their website. As of October 2010, over 65% of the museum's collection was available to view online.
Exhibitions
The Picasso Museum has carried out dozens of exhibitions since it opened. Often, these exposures are related to the figure of the painter or topics related to their environment, trying to research and review the work and studies of the painter from Málaga. We have also held exhibitions on the relationship between Picasso and other artists as Picasso vs. Rusiñol held in 2010. Sometimes also organized a traveling exhibition, and Bullfighting. Paintings, drawings and prints in the collection of the Museu Picasso which could be seen at the Casa Lis in Salamanca in 2010. Also made small exhibition focused on one topic, called displays, such as analyzing the painting Science and Charity, the results of studies showing radiographic and reflectologia or another that analyzes a statement that was made about Picasso in Barcelona 1936, Room Esteva. Picasso Exhibition, 1936.
The Museu Picasso frequently hosts special exhibitions presenting artworks by Picasso and other artists. From time to time, the museum also organizes seminars and lectures on subjects related to Picasso or on museological issues of interest given by specialists from throughout the world.
Directors
Joan Ainaud Lasarte (1963–1966)
Rosa Maria Subirana (1966–1983)
Maria Teresa Ocaña (1983–2007)
Pepe Serra (2007–2011)
Bernardo Laniano Romero (2012-2016)
Emmanuel Guigon
See also
Musée Picasso (Paris)
Museo Picasso Málaga
List of single-artist museums
References
Museu Picasso
Art museums and galleries in Barcelona
Art museums established in 1963
Museu Picasso
Biographical museums in Spain
Museums devoted to one artist
Museu Picasso
Modern art museums in Spain
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Know Your Sport
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Know Your Sport is an Irish sports quiz show produced by RTÉ between 8 October 1987 and 1 April 1998. The show was presented by George Hamilton and featured Jimmy Magee and Mary Hogan as scorekeeper.
Rounds of questions included the "specialist subject", "great moment in sport", "mystery guest" and "buzzer" rounds.
In 2009 an appeal to re-introduce the show to RTÉ's schedule gathered support on networking website, Facebook.
Was on RTE Player September 2017 to tributes for the death of Jimmy Magee again from Christmas 2021 to celebrate 60 years of television.
References
1980s Irish television series
1987 Irish television series debuts
1990s Irish television series
1998 Irish television series endings
Irish quiz shows
Irish sports television series
RTÉ original programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Black%20%28Methodist%29
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William Black (Methodist)
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William Black (November 10, 1760 – September 8, 1834) was a Yorkshireman and founder of the Methodist congregation in colonial Nova Scotia.
Black's daughter married the merchant and politician John Alexander Barry, who was the son of Robert Barry, a prominent businessman and Methodist. His son, Martin Gay Black, became a prominent businessman and also furthered the Methodist cause in Nova Scotia.
References
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
William Black made Canadian Methodism
The John Rylands Library : Mr Wesley's Preachers : William Black
History of Nova Scotia : William Black
Biography by John Maclean
Memoir 1839
1760 births
1834 deaths
18th-century Methodist ministers
19th-century Methodist ministers
Canadian businesspeople
English businesspeople
English emigrants to pre-Confederation Nova Scotia
English Methodist ministers
Canadian Methodist ministers
People from Huddersfield
People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Colony of Nova Scotia people
Methodist Church of Great Britain people
Clergy from Yorkshire
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Horatio Spafford
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Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – September 25, 1888, Jerusalem) was a prominent American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn It Is Well With My Soul following a family tragedy in which his four daughters died aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre on a transatlantic voyage.
Life
Spafford was the son of Gazetteer author Horatio Gates Spafford and Elizabeth Clark Hewitt Spafford.
On September 5, 1861, he married Anna Larsen of Stavanger, Norway, in Chicago. Spafford was a lawyer and a senior partner in a large law firm.
The Spaffords were supporters and friends of evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
Spafford invested in real estate north of Chicago in the spring of 1871. In October 1871, the Great Fire of Chicago reduced the city to ashes, destroying most of Spafford's investment.
Ville du Havre
Two years after the devastation of the Great Chicago Fire, the family planned a trip to Europe. Late business demands (zoning issues arising from the conflagration) kept Spafford from joining his wife and four daughters on a family vacation in England, where his friend D. L. Moody would be preaching.
On November 22, 1873, while crossing the Atlantic on the steamship Ville du Havre, the ship was struck by an iron sailing vessel, killing 226 people, including all four of Spafford's daughters: Annie, age 12; Maggie, 7; Bessie, 4; and an 18-month old baby. His wife, Anna, survived the tragedy. Upon arriving in Cardiff, Wales, she sent a telegram to Spafford that read "Saved alone." Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write It Is Well with My Soul as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.
It Is Well with My Soul
The original manuscript has only four verses, but Spafford's daughter, Bertha Spafford Vester (author of Our Jerusalem: An American Family in the Holy City 1881-1949), who was born after the tragedy, said a verse was later added and the last line of the original song was modified.
The tune, written by Philip Bliss, was named after the ship on which Spafford's daughters died, Ville du Havre.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
(Refrain:) It is well (it is well),
with my soul (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
(Refrain)
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(Refrain)
For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pain shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
(Refrain)
And Lord haste the day, when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
(Refrain)
Later years
Following the sinking of the Ville du Havre, Anna gave birth to three children, Horatio Goertner (1877), Bertha Hedges (March 24, 1878), and Grace (January 18, 1881). On February 11, 1880, their son Horatio died of scarlet fever at age three. This final tragedy, after a decade of financial loss and personal grief accompanied by a lack of support from their church community, began Spafford's philosophical move away from material success toward a lifelong spiritual pilgrimage. Anna and Horatio Spafford soon left the Presbyterian congregation Horatio had helped build and hosted prayer meetings in their home. Their Messianic sect was dubbed "the Overcomers" by the American press.
In August 1881, the Spaffords went to Jerusalem as a party of 13 adults and three children to set up the American Colony. Colony members, joined by Swedish Christians, engaged in philanthropic work among the people of Jerusalem regardless of their religious affiliation and without proselytizing motives, gaining the trust of the local Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. The community required both single and married adherents to declare celibacy, and children were separated from their parents. Child labor was used in various business endeavors while in Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, Horatio and Anna Spafford adopted a teenager, Jacob Eliahu (1864–1932), who was born in Ramallah into a Turkish Jewish family. As a schoolboy, Jacob Spafford discovered the Siloam inscription.
Death
Spafford died of malaria on September 25, 1888, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Legacy
At the Eastern front during and after World War I, and during the Armenian and Assyrian genocides, the American Colony supported the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities of Jerusalem by hosting soup kitchens, hospitals, and orphanages.
References
External links
SpaffordHymn.com : The original hymn manuscript penned by Horatio Spafford
Cyber Hymnal : Photos of Horatio Spafford and a MIDI file of the hymn
Elisabeth Elliot recalls tea with Horatio Spafford's daughter
Gospelcom.net
Christianity.ca : Many details on life of Spafford
The Library of Congress Exhibition covering the start of The American Colony in Jerusalem, the Spafford Family tragedy, their move to Jerusalem, their time in the Holy Land, and the American Colony at work
American Christian hymnwriters
American evangelicals
American Protestants
Writers from Troy, New York
Deaths from malaria
Burials at Mount Zion (Protestant)
1828 births
1888 deaths
19th-century American poets
American male poets
American emigrants to the Ottoman Empire
19th-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
19th-century American lawyers
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Radvaň nad Dunajom (, ) is a municipality at the Danube in the Komárno District of the Nitra Region in Slovakia.
Etymology
The name is derived from the Slavic personal name Radovan.
History
In the 9th century, the territory of Radvaň nad Dunajom became part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
It was first mentioned as a village in 1260. The 1606 Peace of Zsitvatorok was signed in Žitavská Tôň, a small settlement near or identical with Žitava, which is now part of Radvaň nad Dunajom. After the Austro-Hungarian army disintegrated in November 1918, Czechoslovak troops occupied the area, later acknowledged internationally by the Treaty of Trianon. Between 1938 and 1945 Radvaň nad Dunajom once more became part of Miklós Horthy's Hungary through the First Vienna Award. From 1945 until the Velvet Divorce, it was part of Czechoslovakia. Since then it has been part of Slovakia.
Demographics
According to the census of 2001, the municipality has 91.46% Hungarian majority and 7.99% Slovak minority.
References
Villages and municipalities in the Komárno District
Populated places on the Danube
Hungarian communities in Slovakia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre%20Dame%20University%20College
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Notre Dame University College was a private university in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
It was established in 1950 by the Roman Catholic diocese of Nelson and opened with
twelve students. In 1951 Notre Dame became affiliated as a junior college with Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, United States, and in 1961 it became affiliated with St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In 1963, it was chartered as a private four-year university by the Province of British Columbia. Shortly thereafter, it adopted the name Notre Dame University of Nelson (NDU).
At the height of its operation, it enrolled 2,000 students in a variety of academic disciplines. The university granted both Major B.A. Degrees, with intensive work in one subject area, and B.A. Degrees with Concentrations in two subject areas. It hosted a wide range of foreign students, including many from Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the United States.
Dr. Hugh L. Keenleyside, a noted Canadian civil servant and scholar, served as Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors of Notre Dame University College from 1969 to 1977.
Prominent Faculty members included Dr. P.J. Micallef, Professor of Philosophy, a Laval scholar, and Dr. L.A.D. Morey, Professor of English, a former student of J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford University, among many other highly regarded academicians. NDU served as the headquarters of the Canadian National Ski Team and embarked on a student-inspired scheme to finance a new student union building independently of university funds.
Although the University attracted sufficient numbers of students, it encountered financial difficulties, perhaps in part connected to internal strife - Notre Dame was the first university in Canada to endorse a faculty labour union. In 1976, at the request of the Notre Dame Board of Directors, the Province of British Columbia assumed control, renaming it the David Thompson University Centre and placing it under the administration of the University of Victoria. In spite of its local and regional popularity, the provincial government found the per-student cost too high and closed it in 1984.
Notable alumni
Don Cozzetto
Edward John
Andrew Petter
Sadeq Qotbzadeh
References
Defunct universities and colleges in Canada
Universities in British Columbia
Nelson, British Columbia
Educational institutions established in 1950
1950 establishments in British Columbia
Educational institutions disestablished in 1984
1984 disestablishments in British Columbia
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Adrian Voinea
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Adrian Voinea (born 6 August 1974) is a former Romanian tennis player who turned professional in 1993.
The right-hander won one singles title (1999, Bournemouth). Voinea was born in Focsani, Romania, but moved to Italy at age 15 to train with his older brother, Marian. His brother played a crucial role in developing his career. He was his tennis coach, mentor, support system, strategist and hitting partner.
Adrian reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 36 in April 1996. One year before he achieved his greatest success by advancing to the quarterfinals of the 1995 French Open as a qualifier, defeating Karol Kučera, Johan Van Herck, Boris Becker in the third round in four sets, and Andrei Chesnokov. Voinea defeated fifth-seeded Stefan Koubek in the final of the 1999 Brighton International in Bournemouth to win his only singles title at an ATP Tour event.
Between 1995 and 2003 Voinea played in 12 Davis Cup ties for the Romania Davis Cup team and compiled a record of 10 wins and eight losses, all of which were singles matches.
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (4–3)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Romanian male tennis players
Romanian expatriates in Italy
Sportspeople from Focșani
Hopman Cup competitors
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James W. Fowler
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James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005. He was a minister in the United Methodist Church. Fowler is best known for his book Stages of Faith, published in 1981, in which he sought to develop the idea of a developmental process in "human faith".
Life and career
Fowler was born in Reidsville, North Carolina, on October 12, 1940, the son of a Methodist minister. In 1977, Fowler was appointed Associate Professor of Theology and Human Development at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was later named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development. He died on October 16, 2015.
Stages of faith
He is best known for his book Stages of Faith (1981), in which he sought to develop the idea of a developmental process in "human faith".
These stages of faith development were along the lines of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
In the book, Fowler describes 6 stages of development.
Description of the stages
Stage 0 – "Primal or Undifferentiated" faith (birth to 2 years), is characterized by an early learning of the safety of their environment (i.e. warm, safe and secure vs. hurt, neglect and abuse). If consistent nurture is experienced, one will develop a sense of trust and safety about the universe and the divine. Conversely, negative experiences will cause one to develop distrust about the universe and the divine. Transition to the next stage begins with integration of thought and language which facilitates the use of symbols in speech and play.
Stage 1 – "Intuitive-Projective" faith (ages of three to seven), is characterized by the psyche's unprotected exposure to the Unconscious, and marked by a relative fluidity of thought patterns. Religion is learned mainly through experiences, stories, images, and the people that one comes in contact with.
Stage 2 – "Mythic-Literal" faith (mostly in school children), is characterized by persons have a strong belief in the justice and reciprocity of the universe, and their deities are almost always anthropomorphic. During this time metaphors and symbolic language are often misunderstood and are taken literally.
Stage 3 – "Synthetic-Conventional" faith (arising in adolescence; aged 12 to adulthood), is characterized by conformity to authority and the religious development of a personal identity. Any conflicts with one's beliefs are ignored at this stage due to the fear of threat from inconsistencies.
Stage 4 – "Individuative-Reflective" faith (usually mid-twenties to late thirties), is a stage of angst and struggle. The individual takes personal responsibility for his or her beliefs and feelings. As one is able to reflect on one's own beliefs, there is an openness to a new complexity of faith, but this also increases the awareness of conflicts in one's belief.
Stage 5 – "Conjunctive" faith (mid-life crisis), acknowledges paradox and transcendence relating reality behind the symbols of inherited systems. The individual resolves conflicts from previous stages by a complex understanding of a multidimensional, interdependent "truth" that cannot be explained by any particular statement.
Stage 6 – "Universalizing" faith, or what some might call "enlightenment". The individual would treat any person with compassion as he or she views people as from a universal community, and should be treated with universal principles of love and justice.
Empirical research
Fowler's model has inspired a considerable body of empirical research into faith development, although little of such research was ever conducted by Fowler himself. A useful tool here has been Gary Leak's Faith Development Scale, or FDS, which has been subject to factor analysis by Leak.
For criticism see Developmental approaches to religion.
Publications
Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (1981)
Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian: Adult Development and Christian Faith (1984) (revised 1999 )
To See the Kingdom: The Theological Vision of H. Richard Niebuhr (1974),
Faith Development and Pastoral Care (1987)
Weaving the New Creation: Stages of Faith and the Public Church (1991)
Faithful Change: The Personal and Public Challenges of Postmodern Life (1996)
See also
Jean Piaget, Theory of cognitive development
Erik Erikson, Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Lawrence Kohlberg, Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Developmental psychology
Developmental stage theories
Psychology of religion
Integral theory (Ken Wilber)
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
James W.Fowler page at Emory Center for Ethics
A synopsis of Fowler's Stages of Faith Consciousness
Craig R. Dykstra "Transformation in Faith and Morals" Theology Today 39(1)
James Fowler's Stages of Faith in Profile
2015 deaths
20th-century American psychologists
Emory University faculty
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
1940 births
Psychologists of religion
Stage theories
American United Methodist clergy
Duke University alumni
Drew University alumni
Harvard Divinity School alumni
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Adamantisaurus
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Adamantisaurus ( ) is a poorly-known genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It is only known from six tail vertebrae but, as a sauropod, it can be assumed that this dinosaur was a very large animal with a long neck and tail.
Like many titanosaurians, Adamantisaurus is incompletely known, making its exact relationships difficult to establish. However, similarities have been noted with Aeolosaurus and the Bauru Group titanosaurian formerly known as the "Peiropolis titanosaur", now called Trigonosaurus.
Description
As Adamantisaurus mezzalirai is only known from the anterior portion of the tail, relatively little is known about the anatomy of this species. It was probably a medium-sized titanosaur. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul estimated it to be roughly 13 meters (43 ft) long and 5 tonnes (5.5 short tons) in weight . However, in 2020 Molina-Pérez and Larramendi gave a larger estimation of 18 meters (60 ft) and 14.4 tonnes (15.8 short tons).
Discovery and naming
Although this animal's remains were first mentioned in print in 1959, it was not named until the description written by Brazilian paleontologists Rodrigo Santucci and Reinaldo Bertini in 2006. It was the first dinosaur named in that year. The type specimen, the only material known of the genus, consists of the second through seventh caudal vertebrae and two chevrons.
Adamantisaurus is currently known only from the Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The Adamantina Formation is part of the Bauru Group of geologic formations. The stratigraphy and exact age of the Bauru Group is still unsettled, but the Adamantina probably occurs somewhere between the Turonian through early Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period (93 to 70 million years ago). Adamantisaurus shares the Adamantina with fellow titanosaurian, Gondwanatitan.
Adamantisaurus is named after the Adamantina Formation in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, where the fossil was found and also incorporates the Greek word sauros meaning 'lizard', the most common suffix used in dinosaur names. The type and only species, Adamantisaurus mezzalirai is named in honor of Sérgio Mezzalira, the Brazilian geologist who originally found the specimen and first mentioned it in print.
Classification
The phylogenetic relationship of Adamantisaurus has yet to be rigorously tested. However, it appears to be more derived than Malawisaurus based on the ball-and-socket articulation of the caudal vertebrae. All titanosaurs at least as derived as Malawisaurus are members of the clade Lithostrotia. Within that clade, however, its relationships are unclear. Adamantisaurus resembles Aeolosaurus, a close relative of its contemporary Gondwanatitan, in some respects. Adamantisaurus cannot be directly compared to Brasilotitan, another genus found in the Adamantina Formation.
References
Further reading
[In Portuguese]
Powell, J.E. 1987. Morfológia del esqueleto axial de los dinossaurios titanosáuridos (Saurischia, Sauropoda) del Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. In Anais X Congresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia, Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia. Pp. 155–171. [In Spanish]
Lithostrotians
Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America
Campanian life
Maastrichtian life
Cretaceous Brazil
Fossils of Brazil
Adamantina Formation
Fossil taxa described in 2006
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayNetwork
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PlayNetwork
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PlayNetwork, Inc. is a provider of in-store music and entertainment for retail, restaurant, and hospitality environments.
PlayNetwork merged with TouchTunes in May 2017, but in September 2021, TouchTunes sold PlayNetwork to Mood Media.
History
The company was founded by Kevin Robell in 1996. As a music programmer for the Tom Selleck-owned nightclub Black Orchid in Honolulu, HI during the 80s, Kevin noticed "the synergetic relationship between customers, music, and their environment"; He went on to establish PlayNetwork in Seattle with brother Gordon Robell as a digital music provider for businesses.
In 1996, Adam Brotman, who was a consultant to Kevin Robell, became CEO. Adam went on to become Starbucks’ Chief Digital Officer in 2009.
In 1998, PlayNetwork began a partnership with Starbucks to provide digital music systems and service to over 1,800 retail locations in North America. By 2001, the company was providing services to more than 3,500 international locations.
In 2003, PlayNetwork is named one of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies.
In 2005, Executive Chairman of the Board, Lon Troxel is appointed as CEO. PlayNetwork acquires Crows Nest Entertainment (digital signage and advertising). PlayNetwork is named one of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.
In 2009, PlayNetwork acquires custom in-store television network developer Channel M.
In 2013, offices in London and Hong Kong open.
In May 2017, PlayNetwork merged with TouchTunes Interactive Network and the combined company's headquarters was reported to be located at New York City and Seattle.
International expansion
PlayNetwork continues to expand internationally with the opening of office locations in London and Hong Kong, with an additional office in Santiago, Chile in 2014.
References
2021 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Redmond, Washington
Companies established in 1996
Industrial music services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Norbert%20Blanchet
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François Norbert Blanchet
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François Norbert Blanchet (September 30, 1795 – June 18, 1883) was a French Canadian-born missionary priest and prelate of the Catholic Church who was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first Catholic priests to arrive in what was then known as the Oregon Country and subsequently became the first bishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oregon City (now known as the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon).
Early life and priesthood
François Norbert Blanchet was born near Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec). Along with his younger brother Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, he entered the Seminary of Quebec and was ordained a priest in 1819. Blanchet spent a year working at the cathedral in Quebec before being sent to do missionary work with the Micmac and Acadian people in present-day New Brunswick. To be able to preach to the local Irish, Blanchet became fluent in English. In 1827 he was summoned back to Montreal and became a pastor.
Missionary work and episcopal career
In the 1830s, John McLoughlin sent letters from French Canadian Catholic employees of the Hudson's Bay Company requesting from Bishop Provencher of the Red River colony to send priests to what was then known as the Oregon Country. Bishop Provencher originally suggested that priests be sent to the Willamette Valley but the Hudson's Bay Company pressed for the considered mission to be on the Cowlitz River, north of the Columbia River. Blanchet was appointed the Vicar General of the Oregon Country, with fellow priest Modeste Demers to aid in the missionary efforts. The missionaries were instructed by Archbishop Joseph Signay of Quebec: "In order to make yourselves sooner useful to the natives... you will apply yourselves... to the study of the Indian languages... so as to be able to publish a grammar after some of your residence there." The two priests along with nuns and lay people departed from Quebec on May 3, 1838, and traveled along the York Factory Express.
Arriving on 18 November at Fort Nez Percés, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade outpost located in the present state of Washington, Blanchet celebrated Masses and baptized three Roman Catholic converts.
In November of that year, they arrived at Fort Vancouver in present-day Vancouver, Washington. A delegation composed of French-Canadians from the Willamette Valley composed of Pierre Belleque, Joseph Gervais and Étienne Lucier were present to greet them. During their winter stay at the Fort, the priests held services in Chinook Jargon with Klickitats in attendance. Blanchet and Demers held Masses in various buildings within the fort, and Catholics often had to share worship space with Protestants, an arrangement that did not please either group.
Beginning on January 3, 1839, Blanchet, with Belleque and Lucier, went to the French Prairie farms maintained by the French-Canadians. The first Catholic Mass south of the Columbia river (in the Oregon Country) was celebrated at the St. Paul church on January 6, where Blanchet remained for five weeks. During his second visit in March 1839 to Cowlitz to visually explain basic Catholic religious concepts, Blanchet created the "Sahale stick" or stick from God in Chinook Jargon. This was later made more complex with the use of cloth, to allow for additional representations. The use of the Sahale stick was later adopted by Methodists and Presbyterians like Daniel Lee and Henry H. Spalding.
Blanchet was the first non-Native American to make an overnight stay on Whidbey Island in May 1840, where he offered Mass for several tribes at an outdoor altar; he had been invited by Chief Tslalakum. The chief presented him with a huge wooden cross ( long) and by 1841 the inhabitants were building a log church in the same area. Blanchet stayed on the island for nearly a year.
In February 1841 several gatherings were convened to determine the fate of recently deceased Ewing Young's estate, the first of the Champoeg Meetings which two years later saw formation of the Provisional Government of Oregon. Jason Lee as chairman of the first meeting on the 17th proposed that a Willamette Valley-based settler government be formed. Included in the considered government was the position of governor, which led Blanchet to counter propose a political system with a judge as the highest authority. During the subsequent meeting held at David Leslie's home near Champoeg on the next day Blanchet was selected to chair a committee to draft the laws of government. Blanchet was still opposed to the contemplated political structure, and six months later asked for a reprieve of his duties.
On December 1, 1843, the Vatican under Pope Gregory XVI established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic. With no bishops out west to consecrate him, Blanchet had to journey home to Quebec to be consecrated a bishop. He began his journey for Canada in December 1844, boarded a steamer on the Columbia River, touched at Honolulu, Hawaii doubled Cape Horn, landed at Dover, England, went by rail to Liverpool, took a vessel to Boston, Massachusetts, and finally proceeded by rail to Montréal, a journey of . Blanchet was consecrated a bishop on July 25, 1845 by Archbishop Ignace Bourget at Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in Montréal.
Then on July 24, 1846, the Vatican under Pope Pius IX divided the vicariate apostolic into three dioceses: Oregon City, Vancouver Island, and Walla Walla. Blanchet was named Bishop of Oregon City, while Demers was named Bishop of Vancouver Island and Augustin Blanchet Bishop of Walla Walla. The Diocese of Oregon City was elevated to an archdiocese on July 29, 1850, and François Blanchet was elevated to archbishop.
He retired in 1880; retaining the title of archbishop, he was named to a titular see, in the practice of that time. He died in 1883 and is interred at St. Paul Cemetery in St. Paul, Oregon.
François’s brother was Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, who was the Bishop of Walla Walla until 1850 and then the Bishop of the Diocese of Nesqually, which later became the Diocese of Seattle.
Legacy
In 1995, the Archdiocese of Portland approved the plan to build a Catholic secondary school in Salem, Oregon, under the condition the school be named Blanchet. Blanchet Catholic School opened in 1995.
See also
St. Paul Roman Catholic Church (St. Paul, Oregon)
Pierre-Jean De Smet
References
External links
François Norbert Blanchet: Catholic Encyclopedia
Missionaries Blanchet and Demers reach Oregon
1795 births
1883 deaths
Champoeg Meetings
Roman Catholic archbishops of Oregon City
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States
Pre-Confederation Canadian emigrants to the United States
American people of Québécois descent
Oregon Country
Oregon pioneers
Canadian Roman Catholic missionaries
Participants in the First Vatican Council
Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States
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Drew Fraser
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Andrew William Fraser (also known as Drew Fraser, born 1944) is a Canadian-born academic and was an associate professor in the Department of Public Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Fraser holds a BA (Hons) and an LLB from Queen's University, an LLM from Harvard University, and an MA from the University of North Carolina. His most recent book is The WASP Question (2011).
Academic career
Fraser studied advanced constitutional law at Harvard Law School. He taught American constitutional history at Macquarie University in Sydney until 2005.
Views
Non-white immigration and multiculturalism
In July 2005, Fraser received national attention in Australia with a letter to his local newspaper, signed with his academic title, in which he claimed that importing Sudanese refugees threatened to turn Australia into "a colony of the Third World" and "Experience everywhere in the world shows us that an expanding black population is a sure-fire recipe for increases in crime, violence and other social problems".
Macquarie University responded that it distanced itself from Fraser's remarks, but backed the right of academics to say what they wish in a responsible way. The acting vice-chancellor, John Loxton, stated there was no place for racism at the university, but it "recognises and protects academic freedom as essential to the conduct of teaching, research and scholarship".
Fraser was accused of being affiliated with White Supremacist groups, including the Patriotic Youth League (PYL), by the anti-racist group FightDemBack. Although both he and the PYL initially denied any connection, Fraser admitted he had attended PYL meetings and signed up to the PYL website after video footage of a PYL member describing him as an official legal adviser surfaced.
Following an outcry from Sydney's Sudanese community, Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor Dianne Yerbury on 29 July 2005 decided to suspend Fraser from teaching any further at the campus on the grounds that the race debate was "threatening to spill over into the classroom" and was "affecting the university's ability to operate effectively."
Macquarie University offered to pay out the final year of his contract but Fraser declined, describing the offer as a "dishonorable discharge".
On this incident, Fraser wrote:
Truth is no longer a defence when it comes to charges of academic deviance. Instead of an invitation to debate the issues, the Vice-Chancellor's office sought to get me off campus as soon as possible by offering to buy out my contract. The head of Human Resources made it clear to me that my public comments were damaging their efforts to market Macquarie University to foreign students.
When I refused the offer on the grounds that it amounted to a dishonourable discharge, VC Di Yerbury, ordered that I be suspended from teaching. This was justified on the specious grounds that the safety of students supposedly had been threatened by, among others, my supporters! For what must be the first time in academic history, alleged threats by outsiders to disrupt classes were met, not by tightening security to deal with the disrupters, but by getting rid of the disruptee.
In August 2005, more than 300 Macquarie University staff and students attended a forum on racism and free speech, at which Fraser (as well as Sudanese community and University members) was allowed to put his views from the floor.
Fraser's suspension ended in mid-2006, when an early-retirement package took effect.
In September 2005, Fraser wrote an article advocating a return of the White Australia Policy, entitled "Rethinking the White Australia Policy". The article was set to be published in the law journal of Deakin University, but the university directed the journal not to publish it. "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" has since been published and circulated across the internet.
A complaint from the Sydney Sudanese community about the original newspaper letter was upheld on 31 March 2006 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, on whose direction Fraser reluctantly apologised for his remarks.
Fraser addressed the American Renaissance Conference in February 2006, alongside speakers such as Nick Griffin of the British National Party and Professor J. Philippe Rushton. This was followed up later in the year with appearances at the Inverell political forum in March and at the Sydney Forum in August alongside speakers who included Jim Saleam of the Australia First Party.
Freedom of speech in Australia
In an article for Alternative Right entitled "The Cult of "The Other"", Fraser warned that academic freedom was being stifled in Australian universities. He wrote:
Academic freedom in Australia is dying before our eyes; another sacrifice performed in the now holy name of "The Other." In the universities, as elsewhere, public criticism of privileged minorities must walk a shaky legal tightrope... Unfortunately, in a mass-mediated wasteland of intellectual cowardice and political conformity, Australian universities are not an oasis of dissent. If my experience as a teacher, scholar, and, more recently, a first-year theology student is a reliable guide, academia is utterly hostile to free thought and frank discussion on race, ethnicity, and gender.
Writings
Fraser has written numerous articles on ethno-nationalist topics for publications such as VDARE, Alternative Right, and The Occidental Observer.
In 2011 Fraser published The WASP Question, in which he examined the failure of Anglo-Saxon peoples in North America, Australia and elsewhere to defend their ethnic identity and interests in the postmodern, multicultural age.
In The WASP Question, Fraser writes:
The defining characteristic of WASPs White Anglo-Saxon Protestants] is that they are much less ethnocentric than other peoples; indeed for all practical purposes Anglo-Saxon Protestants appear to be all but completely bereft of in-group solidarity. They are therefore open to exploitation by free-riders from other, more ethnocentric, groups. It seems unlikely that nominally Americanized Changs, Singhs, and Gonzales are as committed in a practical sense to the anti-discrimination principle as Anglo-Saxon individualists. There is no shortage of evidence to suggest that the Changs, the Gonzales and the Singhs (not to mention the Goldmans with their well-known animus toward WASPs) still practice forms of ethnic nepotism strictly forbidden to Anglo-Protestants.
In these circumstances, an interesting question arises: are contemporary WASPs entitled to recognition as an historic people? If not, why not?
Selected works
Books
The Spirit of the Laws: Republicanism and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (1990)
Reinventing Aristocracy: The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governance (1998)
The WASP Question: An Essay on the Biocultural Evolution, Present Predicament, and Future Prospects of the Invisible Race (2011)
Dissident Dispatches: An Alt-Right Guide to Christian Theology (2017)
Articles
"Reinventing a Ruling Class". TELOS 128 (Summer 2004). New York: Telos Press
"Monarchs and Miracles: Australia's Need for a Patriot King". The Occidental Quarterly 5(1) (Spring 2005). Atlanta, GA: Charles Martel Society
References
External links
FightDemBack's archive of material pertaining to Fraser
1944 births
Macquarie University faculty
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
University of South Carolina alumni
Living people
Canadian emigrants to Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kri%C5%A1j%C4%81nis%20Valdem%C4%81rs
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Krišjānis Valdemārs
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Krišjānis Valdemārs (in Germanized spelling as Christian Waldemar or Woldemar) (2 December 1825 at Vecjunkuri in Ārlava parish (now Valdgale parish, Courland, Latvia) – 7 December 1891 in Moscow, Russia) was a writer, editor, educator, politician, lexicographer, folklorist and economist, the spiritual leader of The First Latvian National Awakening and the most prominent member of the Young Latvians movement.
Biography
Krišjānis Valdemārs was born on 2 December 1825 at Vecjunkuri homestead, Ārlava parish (now Valdgale parish, Courland, Latvia). He was the son of a Lutheran curate Mārtiņš Valdemārs. He graduated from local parish school and worked as a teacher in Sasmaka (now named Valdemārpils in his honor). Later he worked as a parish secretary in Rundāle and Ēdole parish.
In 1854 he graduated from gymnasium in Liepāja and started his studies at the University of Tartu (then Dorpat). His main subject and interest were economics. While studying there he became known with the first public declaration of Latvian nationality. He affixed a visiting card to his door that read "C. Woldemar stud. cam. Latweetis." At the time, it was almost unheard of for an educated person to call himself a Latvian; education meant Germanisation, and Valdemārs' act has been compared with Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses at the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in its importance for the birth of Latvian nationalism. Valdemārs is seen as the spiritual father of the First Awakening. With Juris Alunāns, he led Latvian student gatherings while in Tartu and advocated the study of folklore.
After graduation in 1858 he moved to St Petersburg and worked as a clerk in Ministry of Finance. Also he was a correspondent in local German-language newspaper St. Petersburgische Zeitung.
In 1862 he became editor and main publisher of the Latvian newspaper Pēterburgas Avīzes which was hitherto the most radical Latvian newspaper. It strongly opposed Baltic German rule and the remnants of feudalism in Baltic provinces. The newspaper became the main platform for Young Latvian ideas. It was closed by the Russian authorities in 1865.
In 1864 Valdemārs helped establish the first Latvian naval school in Ainaži as a way of making Latvians rich. At its opening he uttered the famous phrase "Brauciet, latvji, jūriņā, krājiet zeltu pūriņā!" (Latvians, sail the seas, stuff your dowry with gold). Many other Latvian naval schools was established during the next years in the coastal towns of Latvia. It had big influence on local economy and culture because hundreds of Latvian peasant sons had a chance to get education for free and become captains or steersmen. It led to the "Age of Sailors" in Latvia as active shipbuilding started in coastal towns and villages and those Latvian-built, Latvian-owned and -crewed ships became the first national merchant fleet which was even involved in trans-Atlantic voyages.
Valdemārs published a Latvian-Russian-German dictionary in 1879.
In later life Valdemārs was mostly involved in polemics with Baltic Germans, popularized seafaring and edited the first Latvian naval dictionary.
Valdemārs died on 7 December 1891 in Moscow. He is buried in Riga's Great Cemetery. One of the main streets in Riga is named after him.
References
1825 births
1891 deaths
People from Talsi Municipality
People from Courland Governorate
Latvian writers
Latvian politicians
19th-century Latvian people
19th-century writers from the Russian Empire
Politicians of the Russian Empire
University of Tartu alumni
19th-century Latvian politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lex%20Calatrava
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Álex Calatrava
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Alex Patricio Calatrava (born 14 June 1973) is a former tour tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1993. The right-hander won one singles title (2000, San Marino). He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 44 in February 2001.
Tennis career
Calatrava defeated up and coming British star Alex Bogdanovic in five sets at 2004 US Open.
In July 2005 Calatrava was beaten by 18-year old Novak Djokovic. The Serb dispatched Calatrava in straight sets at the Umag tournament in Croatia.
Personal
Calatrava was born in Germany while his parents lived there, returning to Spain live in 1980. His Spanish father, José, met his French mother, Gabrielle, while working Germany. Calatrava's uncle is the renowned architect Santiago Calatrava.
Calatrava lived in California from 1989 to 1991 and attended a high school for one year in Palm Springs. He also lived a year in Indian Wells under the guidance of Spanish coach José Higueras. He was the number one ranked junior player in California in 1991.
ATP career finals
Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 9 (4–5)
Doubles: 7 (2–5)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Tennis players from Cologne
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Spanish male tennis players
Spanish people of French descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%20Rail%20Road
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Indiana Rail Road
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The Indiana Rail Road is a United States Class II railroad, originally operating over former Illinois Central Railroad trackage from Newton, Illinois, to Indianapolis, Indiana, a distance of . This line, now known as the Indiana Rail Road's Indianapolis Subdivision, comprises most of the former IC/ICG line from Indianapolis to Effingham, Illinois; Illinois Central successor Canadian National Railway retains the portion from Newton to Effingham. INRD also owns a former Milwaukee Road line from Terre Haute, Indiana, to Burns City, Indiana (site of the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center), with trackage rights extending to Chicago, Illinois. INRD no longer serves Louisville, Kentucky, and the Port of Indiana on the Ohio River at Jeffersonville, Indiana, through a haulage agreement with the Louisville & Indiana Railroad (LIRC).
Overview
The company was formed in 1986 by entrepreneur Thomas Hoback, who retired as president and chief executive officer in 2015. CSX Transportation now owns a majority interest in the parent company. The company's executive and administrative offices are located in downtown Indianapolis.
In May 2006, INRD completed the purchase of the Canadian Pacific Railway line from Terre Haute to Bedford, Indiana, the former Milwaukee Road/Soo Line Railroad Latta Subdivision, now known as INRD's Chicago Subdivision, which crosses the Indianapolis Subdivision at grade at Linton, Indiana. The former Latta Sub was isolated from the rest of the CPR, and was reached from Chicago via trackage rights over CSX Transportation's former Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad line; further trackage rights over CSX's former Monon from Bedford to Louisville, Kentucky (negotiated as part of the Monon's merger with CSX predecessor Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1971) allowed the CPR access into the Bluegrass State. These trackage rights were transferred to the Indiana Rail Road as part of the sale, bringing INRD's total route structure to approximately . The company also operates the remnants of the Monon Railroad in and around Bloomington, Indiana, and has trackage rights over other lines in and around Indianapolis, with a classification yard, shops and main transloading facility located on the city's near south side at the Senate Avenue Terminal (between I-70 and the Indianapolis Union Railway's Belt Line). Additional INRD classification yards are located at Palestine, Illinois, and Jasonville, Indiana. The latter facility, known as Hiawatha (in tribute to original owner Milwaukee Road's crack passenger trains) is also home to the main locomotive servicing facility.
The INRD primarily hauls coal from Indiana mines to electric generating plants along the line. Appliances, grain, plastics, aggregates and food products comprise other freight hauled. Major customers include Indianapolis Power & Light, Ameren, Hoosier Energy, Duke Energy, Lincoland AgriEnergy (ethanol), Marathon Oil, Hershey Foods, General Electric, Mont Eagle Mills, PolyOne Corporation, Bemis Plastics. On March 18, 2009, the railroad announced that it would build a new rail spur in Sullivan County, Indiana, for the new Bear Run coal mine. Bear Run is being developed by Peabody Coal and is expected to produce more than 8 million tons annually.
Long abandoned and now removed was a connection to Union Station. Tracks once ran between Senate Avenue (originally known as Mississippi Street) and Missouri Street north from this terminal's location through the present-day site of Lucas Oil Stadium. A remnant of this connection can still be noted today in the unusual height of I-70's overpass above West and Missouri streets, which when the freeway was built in the early 1970s had to also pass over the once active rail line.
Routes
The Soo Line Railroad abandoned a section of the line between Bedford and Seymour, Indiana, as soon as they took over the Milwaukee Road in 1986. The Canadian Pacific Railway operated on the Chicago–Bedford line from their acquisition of the Soo Line until 2006, when they spun it off to the Indiana Rail Road company. On December 18, 2009, it was decided to cut the southern part of that line even more, as they are abandoning between Bedford and Crane, a total distance of .
Intermodal terminal
The Indiana Rail Road operates the Senate Avenue Intermodal Terminal, located southwest of downtown Indianapolis. In cooperation with the Canadian National Railway, it provides container service between Indianapolis and Canada's Pacific ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, for connection with trans-Pacific shipping. Opened in 2013, the terminal moved 1,450 containers during its first year of operations. In the fall of 2021, it was expected that the terminal would move over 40,000 containers during the year. An expansion project started in 2021, and is expected to be completed in 2023.
Locomotive roster
As of April 2021, the INRD's roster consisted of the following, all built by EMD:
References
External links
Indiana Rail Road – Official Website
Indiana Rail Road Railfan Page – Unofficial Informational Website
Indiana railroads
Illinois railroads
Kentucky railroads
CSX Transportation
Regional railroads in the United States
Spin-offs of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Railway companies established in 1986
Companies operating former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad lines
Companies operating former Illinois Central Railroad lines
Companies operating former Monon Railroad lines
Companies operating former New York Central Railroad lines
Companies operating former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad lines
1986 establishments in Indiana
American companies established in 1986
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina%20Schild
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Martina Schild
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Martina Schild (born 26 October 1981, in Brienz) is a Swiss alpine skier competing in downhill and super-G.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won the silver medal in the women's downhill. She placed 6th in the women's super-G.
She is the granddaughter of skier Hedy Schlunegger (1923–2003), who was the Olympic downhill champion of 1948. Due to persistent back problems, Martina Schild announced her retirement from active ski racing before the start of the 2013/14 season.
World Cup victories
References
External links
1981 births
Swiss female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
People from Brienz
Living people
Sportspeople from the canton of Bern
21st-century Swiss women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Arnott%20%28cricketer%29
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Kevin Arnott (cricketer)
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Kevin John Arnott (born 8 March 1961) is a former Zimbabwe cricketer who played in four Test matches and 13 One Day Internationals from 1987 to 1993. He was the first Zimbabwean to face a ball in Test cricket, and the second to make a Test century. His highest score in a Test innings was 101 not out made against New Zealand at Bulawayo in 1992.
He appeared in both the World Cup tournaments in 1987 and 1992. His father, Don, played first-class cricket Rhodesia during the 1950s. He is a past pupil of Prince Edward School, Harare and graduated from Cape Town University. He is the first Test cap for Zimbabwe.
After his cricket career, Arnott became a lawyer in Harare.
References
1961 births
Living people
Cricketers from Harare
Zimbabwean cricketers
White Zimbabwean people
Cricketers at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK%20Mlad%C3%A1%20Boleslav
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FK Mladá Boleslav
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FK Mladá Boleslav is a Czech football club based in the city of Mladá Boleslav . The club currently plays in the Czech First League.
Mladá Boleslav were runners up in the 2005–06 Czech First League and went on to play in the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, winning their opening tie against Vålerenga although they were eliminated in the third qualifying round by Galatasaray. The club won the Czech Cup in 2011 and qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, although they were defeated over two legs by AEK Larnaca.
History
Recent times
The team was promoted to Czech First League for the first time in its history in 2004 and in their first top-flight season fought against relegation, eventually finishing in 14th place. The club's greatest success was achieved in the 2005–06 season, as they finished runners-up in the Czech First League, earning a place in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League. They came through their first tie, defeating Vålerenga (3–1 and 2–2), then lost against Galatasaray (2–5 away, 1–1 home), dropping into the UEFA Cup first round. The club went on to achieve a surprising 4–3 aggregate victory over Marseille (1st leg: 0–1, 2nd leg 4–2). However, the team was eliminated after reaching the group stage, taking just 3 points from 4 matches (Panathinaikos 0–1, Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–1, Paris Saint-Germain 0–0, Rapid București 1–1).
The following season, the club qualified directly for the first round of the UEFA Cup after finishing 3rd in the league. (Luboš Pecka was the top goalscorer in the league that year.) Qualification for the group stage was only narrowly secured by beating Palermo 4–2 on penalties after a nail biting 1–1 aggregate scoreline. On the verge of being eliminated with the score reading 1–0 Palermo, (with their goal in the first leg still standing) in the 2nd leg, Tomáš Sedláček scored the winner in the 2nd leg with only seconds to spare. In their group Mladá Boleslav defeated IF Elfsborg 3–1, but again failed to reach the knockout stages of the competition after losing matches against Villarreal 1–2, AEK Athens 0–1 and Fiorentina 1–2. The club subsequently achieved a 7th place league finish in the 2007–08 season, missing out on European qualification.
The major sponsor of the club is Škoda Auto.
Historical names
1902 – SSK Mladá Boleslav (Studentský sportovní klub Mladá Boleslav)
1910 – Mladoboleslavský SK (Mladoboleslavský Sportovní klub)
1919 – Aston Villa Mladá Boleslav
1948 – Sokol Aston Villa Mladá Boleslav
1949 – ZSJ AZNP Mladá Boleslav (Základní sportovní jednota Automobilové závody národní podnik Mladá Boleslav) – merged with Sokol Slavoj Mladá Boleslav and Sokol Meteor Čejetičky
1950 – merged with Sokol Mladoboleslavský
1959 – TJ Spartak Mladá Boleslav AZNP (Tělovýchovná jednota Spartak Mladá Boleslav Automobilové závody národní podnik)
1965 – TJ Škoda Mladá Boleslav (Tělovýchovná jednota Škoda Mladá Boleslav)
1971 – TJ AŠ Mladá Boleslav (Tělovýchovná jednota Auto Škoda Mladá Boleslav)
1990 – FK Mladá Boleslav (Fotbalový klub Mladá Boleslav)
1992 – FK Slavia Mladá Boleslav (Fotbalový klub Slavia Mladá Boleslav)
1994 – FK Bohemians Mladá Boleslav (Fotbalový klub Bohemians Mladá Boleslav)
1995 – FK Mladá Boleslav (Fotbalový klub Mladá Boleslav)
Players
Current squad
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Out on loan
Notable former players
Player records in the Czech First League
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Highlighted players are in the current squad.
Most appearances
Most goals
Most clean sheets
Current technical staff
Technical director: Jiří Plíšek
Assistant coaches: Pavel Medynský, Marek Kulič
Goalkeeping coach: Jiří Malík
Managers
Karel Stanner (1996–01)
Vlastimil Petržela (2002)
Martin Pulpit (2002–04)
Milan Bokša (2004)
Dušan Uhrin, Jr. (July 2004 – June 2007)
Zdeněk Ščasný (Sep 2007 – March 2008)
Karel Stanner (March 2008 – June 2008)
Pavel Hapal (June 2008 – June 2009)
Dušan Uhrin, Jr. (July 2009 – Dec 2009)
Karel Stanner (Jan 2010 – May 2011)
Miroslav Koubek (July 2011 – Sept 2012)
Ladislav Minář (Sep 2012 – Jan 2014)
Karel Jarolím (Jan 2014 – Aug 2016)
Leoš Kalvoda (Aug 2016 – Dec 2016)
Martin Svědík (Dec 2016 – June 2017)
Dušan Uhrin, Jr. (June 2017 – Feb 2018)
Jozef Weber (Feb 2018 – Dec 2020)
Karel Jarolím (Dec 2020 – Feb 2022)
Pavel Hoftych (Feb 2022 –)
History in domestic competitions
Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 17
Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 6
Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 3
Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 2
Czech Republic
History in European competitions
Notes
2Q: Second qualifying round
3Q: Third qualifying round
PO: Play-off round
Honours
Czech Cup
Winners (2): 2010–11, 2015–16
Czech 2. Liga
Winners: 2003–04
Bohemian Football League
Winners: 1997–98
Club records
Czech First League records
Best position: 2nd (2005–06)
Worst position: 14th (2004–05)
Biggest home win: Mladá Boleslav 6–0 Příbram (2019–20)
Biggest away win: Teplice 0–8 Mladá Boleslav (2018–19)
Biggest home defeat: Mladá Boleslav 0–4 Teplice (2012–13), Mladá Boleslav 0–4 Sparta Prague (2013–14)
Biggest away defeat: Plzeň 7–1 Mladá Boleslav (2019–20)
References
External links
in Czech
in English
Football clubs in the Czech Republic
Association football clubs established in 1902
Czech First League clubs
1902 establishments in Austria-Hungary
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Viktoria%20Plze%C5%88
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FC Viktoria Plzeň
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Football Club Viktoria Plzeň () is a Czech professional football club based in Plzeň. They play in the Czech First League, the top division of football in the country.
As runners-up in the 1970–71 Czechoslovak Cup, the club gained the right to play in the following season's Cup Winners' Cup, as winners Spartak Trnava also won the championship and played in the European Cup. In 2010, they played in the UEFA Europa League after winning the 2009–10 Czech Cup.
The club won the Czech league for the first time in 2011, and participated in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage, during which they won their first Champions League match, earning five points and qualifying for the Round of 32 in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. The club won their second Czech league title in the 2012–13 season.
In 2013–14, the club participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage and finished third. They then reached the round of 16 in UEFA Europa League before being eliminated by Lyon.
History
Early history
In 1911, Jaroslav Ausobský, an official of the state railways, filed a request for the establishment of a new football club in Plzeň. In August 1911, the newly formed club Viktoria played their first match, losing 7–3 against Olympia Plzeň.
For the first 18 years of its existence, Viktoria Plzeň was a purely amateur club, although in 1922–23, they took their first foreign trip to Spain, where they won six out of nine matches. In June 1929, an extraordinary meeting of members agreed to go professional and enter the national professional league. Viktoria finished their first season in seventh place, but the very next season, improved and reached second place, which meant a first-ever promotion to the First League. In the 1934–35 Czechoslovak First League, Viktoria finished in fourth place and subsequently played in the 1935 Mitropa Cup, the top European club competition at the time. Two matches against Juventus brought Viktoria to the attention of European football at large. They drew 3–3 at home but lost 5–1 in Turin.
Viktoria played without success in the First League, being relegated for the 1938 season but returning to top competition the next year. The outbreak of World War II interrupted competition, notably through the absence of teams from Slovakia. In 1942, Viktoria fell again into the divisions, but again returned to the top league the next year, where they would remain until 1952. That same year, the club changed its name to Sokol Škoda Plzeň. For nine years they remained in the divisions, struggling to return to the First League, and in 1961, now under the name of Spartak Plzeň, achieved that promotion. The club was relegated and promoted frequently between the top two tiers until 1972, when as Škoda Plzeň they settled in the First League for eight years.
In 1971, Viktoria won the Czech Cup by drawing lots after the two-legged final ended 4–4 on aggregate and 5–5 in a limited penalty shootout against Sparta Prague B. They lost 7–2 on aggregate in the Czechoslovak Cup final against Slovak Cup winners Spartak Trnava, but as Trnava had won the league title that season, Viktoria was the country's entrant to the next season's European Cup Winners' Cup. The club's greatest honor is elimination in the first round by Bayern Munich, 7–2 on aggregate. From 1980 until the division of Czechoslovakia 13 years later, Viktoria moved frequently between the top two tiers again.
Recent history
In 1992, the club returned to its historical name FC Viktoria Plzeň and the very next season, advanced to the first league, where it remained until 1999.
In the first years of the new millennium, Viktoria was owned by a foreign investor – Italian Football Company Ltd EAST. This situation lasted until March 2005, when 100% of the club's shares were purchased by local interests. The summer of 2005 also brought back relations with the Czech motor company Škoda, which had previously been the club's name sponsors.
On 18 May 2010, Viktoria won the Czech Cup final 2–1 against Jablonec, and returned to European competitions via the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League. Viktoria entered in the third qualifying round against Beşiktaş and held them 1–1 at home before losing 3–0 away.
Viktoria won its first ever league championship in 2010–11, finishing with 69 points to Sparta Prague's 68. The club therefore qualified for a play-off to the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, in which they defeated Copenhagen 5–2 on aggregate. Viktoria were placed in Group H alongside reigning champions Barcelona and Milan, and reached third place in the group by recording a victory over BATE Borisov. This saw the club drop into the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League in the round of 32, where they lost 4–2 on aggregate to Schalke 04 after extra time.
The club's Stadion města Plzně was also rebuilt in 2011. On 11 June 2011, Viktoria celebrated together with fans in the courtyard of the Pilsner Urquell brewery for a centennial anniversary. In January 2012, the club held a festive gala for its centenary, and voted current midfielder Pavel Horváth as its greatest player of all-time.
The 2011–12 season saw Viktoria finish in third place in the league, three points behind champions Slovan Liberec, to qualify for a third consecutive Europa League campaign. Starting in the second qualifying round, the club advanced past Metalurgi Rustavi of Georgia and Ruch Chorzów of Poland to set up a play-off against the Belgian club Lokeren, in which Viktoria advanced on away goals after a 2–2 aggregate draw. The club finished first in Group B, ahead of the tournament's reigning champions Atlético Madrid. In the round of 32, Viktoria were drawn against Napoli and won 3–0 away and 2–0 at home to advance to the last 16, where they played Fenerbahçe. Viktoria lost the home leg 1–0, and in the away leg (which was played behind closed doors due to the Istanbul club's fans' recent conduct) drew 1–1, resulting in their elimination. Viktoria won the Czech league for a second time in the 2012–13 season.
Off-field
In 2017, the club installed a dugout in the shape of a beer can after a deal with a local beer sponsor.
Historical names
1911 – SK Viktoria Plzeň (Sportovní klub Viktoria Plzeň)
1949 – Sokol Škoda Plzeň
1952 – Sokol ZVIL Plzeň (Sokol Závody Vladimíra Iljiče Lenina Plzeň)
1953 – DSO Spartak LZ Plzeň (Dobrovolná sportovní organizace Spartak Leninovy závody Plzeň)
1962 – TJ Spartak LZ Plzeň (Tělovýchovná jednota Spartak Leninovy závody Plzeň)
1965 – TJ Škoda Plzeň (Tělovýchovná jednota Škoda Plzeň)
1993 – FC Viktoria Plzeň (Football Club Viktoria Plzeň, a.s.)
Players
Current squad
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Out on loan
Notable former players
Player records in the Czech First League
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Highlighted players are in the current squad.
Most appearances
Most goals
Most clean sheets
Managers
Rudolf Krčil (1963)
Vlastimil Chobot (1967–68)
Karel Kolský (1969–70)
Jiří Rubáš (1970–75)
Tomáš Pospíchal (1975–77)
Jaroslav Dočkal (1977–78)
Svatopluk Pluskal (1978–79)
Josef Žaloudek (1979–??)
Václav Rys
Zdeněk Michálek (1993–95)
Jaroslav Hřebík (1995–96)
Antonín Dvořák (1996–97)
Petr Uličný (1997–99)
Milan Šíp (1999)
Luboš Urban (1999–2000)
Miroslav Koubek (Oct 2000 – 01)
Petr Rada (Dec 2001 – Oct 2002)
Zdeněk Michálek (Oct 2002 – May 2003)
František Cipro (May 2003 – May 2004)
Martin Pulpit (May 2004 – May 2005)
Zdeněk Michálek (May 2005 – April 2006)
František Straka (April 2006 – May 2006)
Michal Bílek (July 2006 – Sept 2006)
Stanislav Levý (Oct 2006 – April 2008)
Karel Krejčí (April 2008 – May 2008)
Jaroslav Šilhavý (July 2008 – Oct 2008)
Pavel Vrba (Oct 2008 – Dec 2013)
Dušan Uhrin Jr. (Dec 2013 – Aug 2014)
Miroslav Koubek (Aug 2014 – Aug 2015)
Karel Krejčí (Aug 2015 – May 2016)
Roman Pivarník (May 2016 – April 2017)
Zdeněk Bečka (April 2017 – June 2017)
Pavel Vrba (Jun 2017 – Dec 2019)
Adrián Guľa (Dec 2019 – May 2021)
Michal Bílek (May 2021 – present)
History in domestic competitions
Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 24
Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 4
Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 0
Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 0
Czech Republic
History in European competitions
The following is a list of the all-time statistics from Plzeň's games in the three UEFA tournaments it has participated in, as well as the overall total. The list contains the tournament, the number of seasons (S), games played (P), won (W), drawn (D) and lost (L). The statistics include qualification matches.
As of 2 August 2018.
Honours
National
Czech First League
Winners (6): 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22
Runners-up: 2013–14, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20
Czech Cup
Winners (1): 2009–10
Runners-up: 2013–14, 2020–21
Czech Supercup
Winners (2): 2011, 2015
Runners-up: 2010, 2013, 2014
Czech 2. Liga
Winners (1): 2002–03
Club records
Czech First League records
Best position: 1st (2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22)
Worst position: 16th (2000–01, 2003–04)
Biggest home win: Plzeň 7–0 Ústí nad Labem (2010–11), Plzeň 7–0 Teplice (2020–21)
Biggest away win: Ústí nad Labem 0–5 Plzeň (2010–11)
Biggest home defeat: Plzeň 1–5 Drnovice (1997–98), Plzeň 0–4 Příbram (2003–04), Plzeň 0–4 Slavia Prague (2006–07), Plzeň 0–4 Ostrava (2007–08), Plzeň 0–4 Olomouc (2011–12)
Biggest away defeat: Ostrava 6–0 Plzeň (2005–06)
References
External links
* Official club website
Football clubs in the Czech Republic
Association football clubs established in 1911
Czechoslovak First League clubs
Czech First League clubs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay%20Boys
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Bombay Boys
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Bombay Boys is a 1998 Indian cult comedy film written and directed by the Indian director Kaizad Gustad. It follows the adventures of three young men in modern-day Mumbai (or Bombay). The boys are of Indian origin, but were all raised in the West. Krishna Sahni (played by Naveen Andrews) is an aspiring actor from New York City who wants to make it big in Bollywood. Ricardo Fernandes (Rahul Bose) is from Sydney, Australia and is in Mumbai to search for his long-lost brother. Finally, Xerxes Mistry (Alexander Gifford), a musician from London, is looking to discover his "roots" in the land of his ancestors.
Synopsis
The three meet each other for the first time at Mumbai's airport and decide to find a place together. In the course of the movie, Krishna finds out that, in order to break into the local film industry, he must first win the (decidedly risky) patronage of Don Mastana (Naseeruddin Shah), a godfather of the Mumbai underworld who's also a film producer. Mastana is a violent man who thinks nothing of impaling a lizard with a knife or shattering the skull of a fellow crime boss for making a pass at his girlfriend.
Ricardo, the serious-looking Australian, finds out the sad fate of his brother, but also manages to fall in love with Mastana's spunky moll Dolly (Tara Deshpande), igniting further flames. Xerxes, who's a Parsi, is led to embrace his latent homosexuality by their gay landlord (Roshan Seth).
Cast
Naveen Andrews ... Krishna Sahni
Rahul Bose ... Ricardo Fernandes
Alexander Gifford ... Xerxes Mistry
Naseeruddin Shah ... Don Mastana
Tara Deshpande ... Dolly
Roshan Seth ... Pesi
Tarun Shahani ... Danny
Luke Kenny ... Xavier
Vinay Pathak ... Spot-boy turned director
Kushal Punjabi ... Asif
Javed Jaffrey ... Special appearance in item song "MUMBHAI"
Nagesh Bhosle ... Cherry Blossom Kalia
Production
Bombay Boys, which took four years to complete, was filmed on location in Mumbai's bars, slums and markets. The film was made on a limited budget; director Kaizad Gustad financed the film with credit cards as well as by borrowing money from his family and friends.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ashutosh Phatak, Dhruv Ghanekar and released by Sony Music India.
Critical reception
The film was subjected to criticism for its homosexuality and profanity. Film critic Yashodhara Pawar stated the film as "The harmful and immature portrayal of ethnic groups in films is an issue for not just South Asians in the global media but also the local and tribal productions in individual countries.". Another film critic Tanmeet Kumar from Planet Bollywood, stated that the film has portrayed India as "Americanized India". Tara Deshpande's performance was praised. Pradeep Sebastian of Deccan Herald wrote that "Going by the crowds flocking to see it, it[']s clear that Indian audiences have begun to expect good things from Indian English films. But this is one they are going to be disappointed with".
References
External links
1990s crime comedy films
Indian-American films
English-language Indian films
Films set in Mumbai
Indian crime comedy films
Indian LGBT-related films
1990s Hindi-language films
Indian gangster films
Gay-related films
Films about Bollywood
1998 LGBT-related films
1998 films
Asian-American comedy films
1998 comedy films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK%20Ban%C3%ADk%20Most%201909
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FK Baník Most 1909
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FK Baník Most 1909 was a Czech football club based in the city of Most, approximately 75 kilometres north-west of Prague. The club played top-flight football for the first time in their history in the 2005–06 Czech First League.
The club's home stadium is Fotbalový stadion Josefa Masopusta, which was built in 1961. The opening match of the new stadium was played on 24 May 1961 against English side Liverpool F.C., which won against Most 4–1.
In 2011, Baník Most signed an agreement whereby Arsenal Česká Lípa would function as their farm team.
History
Historical names
1909 — SK Most (full name: Sportovní klub Most)
1948 — ZSJ Uhlomost Most (full name: Základní sportovní jednota Uhlomost Most)
1953 — DSO Baník Most (full name: Dobrovolná sportovní organizace Baník Most)
1961 — TJ Baník Most (full name: Tělovýchovná jednota Baník Most)
1979 — TJ Baník SHD Most (full name: Tělovýchovná jednota Baník Severočeské hnědouhelné doly Most)
1993 — FK Baník SHD Most (full name: Fotbalový klub Baník Severočeské hnědouhelné doly Most)
1995 — FC MUS Most 1996 (full name: Football Club Mostecká uhelná společnost Most 1996, a.s.)
2003 — FK SIAD Most (full name: Fotbalový klub SIAD Most, a.s.)
2008 — FK Baník Most
2013 — FK Baník Most 1909
Early history and Lower League Football
The club was founded on 19 May 1909, and there were very basic beginnings. Football activity in Most would be interrupted for significant periods of time during World War I and World War II, but even long thereafter, the quality of football in Most remained modest, as Most would play in the lower Czechoslovak leagues from the 1950s all the way through to the 1980s.
In the 1990s though, Most earned two promotions – first to the Bohemian Football League, the third-highest league in the country, then, in the 1996/97 season, to the Czech 2. Liga.
SIAD ownership and First Division Football
In the spring of 2003 the club was bought by Italian industrial gas company SIAD, and the Italian company's involvement sparked a modestly but increasingly successful new era for the club. The club took the name "FK SIAD Most" from the 2003/04 season.
By winning the 2. liga championship in the 2004/05 season, Most finally gained promotion to the Czech First League, for the 2005/06 season. Extensive reconstruction of the club's stadium – which included the installation of a new pitch, 7,500 seats, and floodlights – was completed in time for the club's first match in the top flight. After a slow start, manager Přemysl Bičovský was dismissed, making way for the arrival of Zdeněk Ščasný. Scasny – a highly regarded manager, who had previously been in charge of Czech clubs AC Sparta Prague and FK Viktoria Žižkov and Greek clubs OFI Crete and Panathinaikos FC – helped the club hold its position in the Czech First League, guiding the team to a respectable 10th place in the table.
For the 2006/07 season, the club had high expectations, with the ultimate goal being to finish in the top half of the table, but inconsistency would plague the team throughout the season. The team seemed capable of competing with the league's top sides, especially at home – Most managed to draw with AC Sparta Prague (eventual league champions), defeat Slavia Prague (eventual runners-up) and was overall unbeaten at home against the clubs who would finish in the top 5 league positions – but the team was less efficient when playing away from home, and an even bigger problem was an inability to consistently take full advantage of the relatively weaker sides of the league. This translated into Most finishing the season with a league-high 16 draws, good enough only for a somewhat disappointing 12th place in the league, but the club's top-flight status was secured once again.
At the end of the season the club and manager Zdeněk Ščasný mutually decided to end their relationship, and the club hired Robert Žák, who had previously been in charge of the club's youth set-up.
Honours
Czech 2. Liga
Winners (1): 2004–05
Czech Cup
Semifinals: 2001–02
Players
Current squad
Managers and players
Head coaches in club's history
Head coaches in club's history
2004 Přemysl Bičovský
2005 Zdeněk Ščasný
2007 Robert Žák
2009 Martin Pulpit
2010 Jorge Aňon
2011 Michal Zach
2013 Zbyněk Busta
2013 Pavel Chaloupka
2014 Vít Raszyk
2014 Wolfgang Jerat
2015 Pavel Medynský
2015 Robert Vágner
2016 Stanislav Hofmann
Notable former players
Patrik Gedeon
Stanislav Hofmann
Petr Johana
Josef Masopust
Jiří Novotný
Horst Siegl
Jiří Štajner
Goce Toleski
Martin Vaniak
History in domestic competitions
Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 3
Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 15
Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 7
Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 1
Czech Republic
Notes
References
External links
Defunct football clubs in the Czech Republic
Association football clubs established in 1909
Association football clubs disestablished in 2016
Czech First League clubs
Mining association football clubs in the Czech Republic
1909 establishments in Austria-Hungary
2016 disestablishments in the Czech Republic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Burmester
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Mark Burmester
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Mark Greville Burmester (born 24 January 1968, Durban, South Africa) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 8 ODIs between 1992 and 1995. He played in Zimbabwe's inaugural Test, opening the bowling he became the first Zimbabwean to take a Test wicket. He is a past student of Eaglesvale High School.
In February 2020, he was named in Zimbabwe's squad for the Over-50s Cricket World Cup in South Africa. However, the tournament was cancelled during the third round of matches due to the coronavirus pandemic.
His son, Dean Burmester, is a professional golfer.
References
External links
Cricinfo: a short biography
1968 births
Living people
Cricketers from Durban
Alumni of Eaglesvale High School
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
Zimbabwean cricketers
Mashonaland cricketers
Manicaland cricketers
Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup
White Zimbabwean sportspeople
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4036432
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Crocker
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Gary Crocker
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Gary John Crocker (born 16 May 1962) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in three Test matches and six One Day Internationals in 1992 and 1993. He is a past student of Hamilton High School.
Born in Bulawayo, Crocker played in Zimbabwe's first ever Test match, at Harare in 1992. Crocker retired from international cricket in 1993, and due to the political instability and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe he immigrated to the United States. Crocker resides in Los Angeles and plays social cricket for the Hollywood Cricket Club. His son Sean is a professional golfer.
References
External links
1962 births
Cricketers from Bulawayo
Zimbabwean people of British descent
Living people
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
Zimbabwean cricketers
White Zimbabwean sportspeople
Zimbabwean emigrants to the United States
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4036435
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Tabara
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Michal Tabara
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Michal Tabara (born 16 October 1979) is a former tennis player from the Czech Republic, who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander has won one singles title (2001, Chennai) so far in his career. Tabara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 23 July 2001, when he became world No. 47.
Tabara was involved in a minor controversy at the 2001 US Open. After losing a first-round match to Justin Gimelstob in five sets, Tabara, who was allegedly frustrated by Gimelstob's frequent injury time-outs, spat in Gimelstob's direction as they approached the net to shake hands. Tabara was subsequently fined $1,000 for unsportmanslike behavior.
Tennis career
Juniors
As a junior Tabara reached as high as No. 9 in the junior world singles rankings in 1996 (and No. 24 in doubles).
Singles titles
Wins (1)
Doubles titles
Wins (1)
References
External links
Michal Tabara stats
1979 births
Living people
Czech male tennis players
People from Uherské Hradiště
Sportspeople from the Zlín Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim%20Hng%20Kiang
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Lim Hng Kiang
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Lim Hng Kiang (; born 9 April 1954) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Minister for Trade and Industry between 2004 and 2018, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office between 2003 and 2004, Minister for Health between 1999 and 2003 and Minister for National Development between 1994 and 1999. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Telok Blangah division of Tanjong Pagar GRC between 1991 and 1997 and later West Coast GRC 1997 and 2020.
Education
Lim was educated in Raffles Institution, before being awarded a President's Scholarship and Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he completed a degree in engineering in 1976. In 1985, Lim was awarded a scholarship to study for a Master of Public Administration degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Career
Lim began his career in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and left with rank of lieutenant-colonel. He later served as a deputy secretary at the Ministry of National Development, and as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Housing and Development Board (HDB).
Lim was first elected to Parliament in 1991 as an MP for the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency. Since 1997, he has represented the West Coast Group Representation Constituency (West Coast GRC).
Lim was appointed a Minister of State at the Ministry of National Development in 1991. In 1994, he became the Acting Minister for National Development and Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1995, Lim became the Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 1998, he relinquished the role of Second Minister for Foreign Affairs and became the Second Minister for Finance.
In 1999, Lim became the Minister for Health. He also retained the portfolio of Second Minister for Finance.
During the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic that swept through the region. Many Singaporeans felt his initial handling of the crisis, citing his lack of leadership and indecisiveness, helped prolong the epidemic that eventually drove the economy into a recession. While then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said "SARS has significantly disrupted our economy. It has affected not only tourist spending but also domestic consumption... certainly our first half growth will be affected, and we will have to revise down our growth forecasts for the year." Others cited his calls to quarantine patients and to close and extend local school holidays were late in coming.
Many local residents also pointed to the administrators at Tan Tock Seng Hospital for mishandling and underestimating the severity of SARS. When "At least 85 percent of people infected by SARS in Singapore caught it while visiting or working at hospitals", said Osman David Mansoor at the WHO. "The remainder mostly came down with it at home through close contact with sick family members", he said.
In 2003, Lim was made a minister in the Prime Minister's Office. He retained the role of Second Minister for Finance.
Lim was made the Minister for Trade and Industry in 2004. He was subsequently put in charge of trade at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The ministry was split into two, with Lim taking the trade portfolio and the industry portfolio taken by S. Iswaran.
Lim served as the deputy chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) from 2006 until 2021 and is also a board director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).
Lim stepped down from the cabinet on 30 April 2018 and appointed as special advisor to MTI.
During 2020 Singaporean general election, Lim announced his retirement from politics.
Personal life
Lim has two sons. His wife, Lee Ai Boon, died of cancer on 12 April 2014.
References
External links
Ministry of Trade & Industry Official Website – Arquivo.pt
Lim Hng Kiang's profile as member of Singapore Parliament – AbtUs/OrgStr/Members of Parliament/LimHngKiang
MAS Annual Report 2007/2008 – Monetary Authority of Singapore Annual Report 2007/08
MAS: Board and Management
GIC - About Us - GIC Board of Directors
1954 births
Living people
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Members of the Cabinet of Singapore
Members of the Parliament of Singapore
People's Action Party politicians
President's Scholars
Raffles Institution alumni
Singaporean people of Teochew descent
Ministers for Health of Singapore
Ministers for Trade and Industry of Singapore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medborgarplatsen
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Medborgarplatsen
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Medborgarplatsen (literally Citizen Square) is a large city square located near the center of the island of Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. The square is often colloquially referred to as "Medis".
Description
The development of the citizen site was due to the railway's progress and the construction of Stockholm South Station (Stockholms södra) in the late 1850s. Near the square is a Medborgarplatsen metro station. The station was opened as an underground tram station in 1933, and was converted for the new metro system in 1950 as one of the first stations on the network. The original exits did not open onto the square, but to the nearby street Folkungagatan. An entrance was opened on to Björns trädgård on November 29, 1995.
The square has become a common place for demonstrations. On May Day, the Left Party usually start their parade from there, and are accompanied by other smaller leftist and communist parties as they walk to Kungsträdgården. In 2001, Hammarby Fotboll celebrated its first victory in the Allsvenskan in front of about 35,000 supporters in the square.
Medborgarplatsen has a small ice-skating rink which is turned into a terrace with benches in the summer. On one corner of the square there is a substantial public library, and diagonally across on another corner the 17th century Lillienhoff Palace.
Medborgarplatsen is also where Anna Lindh, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, held her last public speech before she was assassinated on September 10, 2003. In 2004, a memorial monument to Anna Lindh was erected at the square.
References
Squares in Stockholm
no:Medborgarplatsen tunnelbanestasjon
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4036445
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Pycroft
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Andy Pycroft
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Andrew John Pycroft (born 6 June 1956) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played in 3 Test matches and 20 One Day Internationals from 1983 to 1992.
Domestic career
He played for Rhodesia prior to Zimbabwe's independence. He also represented the Zimbabwean team (1980 onwards) and the Western Province in the South African domestic competition.
After cricket
In March 2006 Pycroft was appointed coach of the Zimbabwe A side, a role he kept until August 2008 when he was sacked along with first-team coach Robin Brown.
Pycroft became a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees in March 2009.
See also
Elite Panel of ICC Referees
References
1956 births
Living people
Cricketers from Harare
Zimbabwean people of British descent
White Rhodesian people
White Zimbabwean sportspeople
Zimbabwe Test cricketers
Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
Zimbabwean cricketers
South African Universities cricketers
Cricketers at the 1983 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1987 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup
Cricket match referees
Western Province cricketers
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