id
stringlengths 2
8
| url
stringlengths 31
389
| title
stringlengths 1
250
| text
stringlengths 2
355k
|
|---|---|---|---|
4016822
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon%20Park
|
Beacon Park
|
Beacon Park is a public park in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in the United Kingdom. The park was created in 1859 when the Museum Gardens were laid out adjacent to the newly built Free Museum and Library. The park has since been extended in stages and now forms of open parkland in the city centre. The park is in the northwest of the city centre and to the west of the Cathedral Close across the road from the Garden of Remembrance.
The majority of the park was originally waterlogged marshland and a lake covered the area of what is now the Museum Gardens. The land was drained in the early 19th century and the Museum Gardens were raised with silt dredged from Minster Pool. The large northern area of the park once formed the land and gardens of Beacon House. This land was incorporated into the park when the owner of Beacon House, Colonel Swinfen Broun, donated the land after his death.
The park has many sporting and recreational facilities for use by the public, including an 18-hole golf course, football pitches, tennis courts and bowling greens. The park also hosts a wide range of events throughout the year including the Lichfield Bower and The Lichfield Festival. The park is home to many monuments, most notably a large bronze statue of Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic.
History
Early history
Beacon Park stands on land which was originally low lying, poorly drained pasture alongside the Leamonsley Brook. The Museum Gardens and Recreation Grounds were the site of Bishops Fish Pool (sometimes known as Upper Pool). The pool was created when a causeway was built on Beacon Street in the 14th century separating it from Minster Pool. The waterlogged marshland surrounding Bishops Fish Pool became known as 'The Moggs' from the 15th century and later 'Swan Moggs'.
Swans were kept by the Bishops of Lichfield on Bishops Fish Pool from the early 14th century. Special pens and nesting areas were constructed. Ownership of the birds passed to the Lichfield Corporation from 1548. In 1704 the lease owner of 'Swan Moggs' was required to allow the swans make their nests there. In this area today we get the street names Swan Road and Swan Mews reflecting the history of the land use.
The land of the wider Beacon Park was used for agriculture from at least the 13th century to the 19th century. This past use is visible today in street names with Townfields south of the park and north of the park there are records of a Shaw field in 1336 which is now Shaw Lane.
19th century
As the city water supply from Aldershawe was diminishing in the early 19th century, money was spent diverting surface waters from 'Swan Moggs' into a common conduit. The two streams across it were diverted into underground culverts; the land was raised with silt and mud dredged from Minster Pool. The area was subsequently developed into the formal gardens of Beacon Park by the Lichfield Corporation, but paid for by the Conduit Lands Trust. The Museum Gardens were opened in 1859 to complement the new Italianate Free Library and Museum. The Recreation Grounds, opened in 1891, is the small area between the Museum Gardens and the wider Beacon Park. The central fountain was unveiled as the central focus of the Museum Gardens in 1871. A bandstand was also installed close to the junction of the Museum Gardens and Recreation Grounds, and was positioned to provide a focus for the avenue through the Museum Gardens.
The development of the wider Beacon Park is closely linked to the development of Beacon House, which was built for George Hand in 1800. The gardens and parkland were developed in stages over the nineteenth century as ownership of the estate changed. In 1826 the owner, Richard Hinckley added two wings to the house, extended the grounds and carried out extensive improvements to the landscape. Two fish ponds were dug along the valley, fed by the Leomonsley Brook, and a long ornamental approach constructed across the fields towards Walsall Road. Samuel Lipscomb Seckham acquired Beacon House and its estate in 1880. He extended the parkland to cover and added a terraced walk along the front; linking the house to the ponds.
20th century
Statues of Edward VII and Edward Smith were erected in the Museum Gardens in 1908 and 1914 respectively. During the First World War, Beacon House was sold to the War department. A Crimean War cannon and a First World War German gun were placed in the Museum Gardens after the war, only to be removed for scrap metal during the next war. After the First World War the park was the scene of much celebration with the Recreation Grounds used for athletics and the Museum Gardens for dancing. The Garden of Remembrance was laid out across Beacon Street opposite the park in 1920. The timber framed public convenience at the northeast entrance was built in 1930, partly with old materials from the portion of the Friary which was taken down in 1925 on the making of the new road.
Beacon House was used by the Royal Army Service Corps during the Second World War before being demolished by the City Council in 1964. The land on which Beacon House once stood is now a housing estate with street names Swinfen Broun Road and Seckham Road named after previous residents of the house. Colonel Swinfen Broun gifted of the land to the park in 1943. After the land attached to Beacon House was incorporated into Beacon Park between 1943 and 1964 the park area as we know it today was complete.
Over the rest of the 20th century many recreation facilities were incorporated into the park. Parkland was levelled for football pitches in 1947. A second bowling green in the Recreation Grounds was laid out by the City Council in 1962 to join the green in the Museum Gardens laid in 1922. In 1972 the two fish ponds were reshaped and deepened to leave one pool (Beacon Pool) we see today. The golf course was laid out and opened in 1973.
21st century
In 2009, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund announced Beacon Park, Minster Pool and Walk and the Garden of Remembrance had been awarded a grant £3.9 million under the 'Parks for People' programme. The transformation started in 2010 and was completed in 2012 with works including a new café, refreshment kiosk, bowls and education pavilion, toilets, and new and improved play areas for children of all ages. Conservation work was carried out on the listed structures, including the statues, railings and fountain. In the Museum Gardens, the bowling green was relocated to the Recreation Grounds and in its previous location beds of flowers were planted to recreate the Victorian geometric landscaping to the gardens.
Monuments and sculpture
Plaque of Martyrs – The plaque came into being as the seal for the city of Lichfield. The disputed story of 999 Christian martyrs who were killed by the Romans under pagan Emperor Diocletian in Lichfield in 288 CE is depicted in the stonework of the monument. It was located on the front of the Guildhall until, in 1744 during the Victorian restoration of the Guildhall the plaque was taken down a placed in storage. It emerged again in 1864, when it was moved to a rockery on the eastern side of the Museum Gardens. It lay in the rockery falling into a state of disrepair until 2010 when it was restored and relocated onto a plinth in the Recreation Grounds. The seal can also be seen on the railway bridge at St John's Street.
Chancellor Law's Fountain – Unveiled in May 1871, the fountain was sculpted by Turner and Allen of London. The lions are made from Ashlar stone and the central figure is sculpted iron. The fountain was a gift from James Thomas Law who was the chancellor of the diocese and gave much to the city, including the statue of Samuel Johnson in the market square. The fountain is located at the centre of the Museum Gardens. In 2011 the fountain was restored with funding from Lichfield Conduit Lands Trust.
King Edward VII – Unveiled in September 1908 the statue was sculpted by local stonemason George Lowther of Robert Bridgeman & Sons of Lichfield. The pedestal is made of Hoptonwood stone and the figure from Portland stone. Edward is portrayed in full coronation robes with a sceptre in his right hand. The arms of the City of Lichfield are on the front of the pedestal. The statue was erected during Edward's reign as a gesture of the city's loyalty to the King. The statue is located on the eastern end of the Museum Gardens. The statue was rededicated on 24 April 2013 by The Princess Royal.
Captain Edward Smith – Unveiled in July 1914 at the western end of the Museum Gardens, the statue was sculpted by Kathleen Scott, wife of Antarctic explorer Robert Scott. The pedestal is made from Cornish granite and the figure is bronze. This is a memorial to the captain of the RMS Titanic, which sank on 15 April 1912. Captain Smith was from Hanley and Lichfield was chosen as the location for the monument because Smith was a Staffordshire man and Lichfield was the centre of the diocese. The statue originally cost £740 raised through local and national contributions. In 2010, as part of the 'Parks for People' programme, the statue was restored and the green patina removed from its surface at a cost of £16,000. In 2011 an unsuccessful campaign was started to get the statue moved back to Captain Smith's home town of Hanley.
Colonel Swinfen Broun – Unveiled in September 1972, the memorial is a 1.9m high sandstone brick with two bronze plaques located on each side. In 1948 Lichfield mourned the loss of one of its most generous benefactors, Colonel Swinfen Broun. He had paid a large part of the cost of Victoria Hospital, given the Guildhall its clock and donated of recreational land to Beacon Park in 1943. In his will he also left half of his estate at Swinfen Hall to Lichfield Cathedral and the other half to the Lichfield Corporation. A memorial was set up on the west bank of Beacon Pool after his death in recognition to his contribution to the city.
Erasmus Darwin – Unveiled on 12 December 2012, a high bronze statue of Erasmus Darwin sculpted by Peter Walker. The statue was estimated to cost £61,500 with 30% of the funds to come from Section 106 funding. The statue is located near to the Bird Street entrance to the Museum Gardens.
Recreational uses
The park has many sporting facilities including flat and crown bowling greens in the recreation grounds. The Lichfield Museum Bowling Club has been playing on the greens since 1922 and is one of the oldest bowling clubs in the country. There are four asphalt surfaced tennis courts built in 1932, six football pitches (seasonal), a basketball court, a cricket pitch (seasonal) and an eighteen-hole public golf course.
In addition to sports, other recreational facilities are available. These include a crazy golf course, a young children's playground and an older children's playground. During the summer season activities such as canoeing on Beacon Pool, donkey rides, giant board games and a bouncy castle are available in the park.
Two new catering facilities in the park opened in May 2012. The Lakeside Bistro near Beacon Pool and Chandlers Café at the Bird Street entrance to the park were built as part of the works following the £3.9 million grant and Chandlers Group spent £200,000 fitting out the new facilities.
Entertainment uses
The park is used as a venue for many entertainment events throughout the year. The Lichfield bower and the Lichfield Festival hold events in the park annually, during the summer. 'Cars in the Park' takes place annually at the end of June. First held in 1997, 'Cars in the Park' showcases more than 1,000 vintage and modern cars and 62 car clubs took part in the 2011 event. Lichfield Proms in the Park, an open air classical music event, takes place annually on the first Saturday of September. A big top Circus also comes to the park annually in Spring.
Gallery
References
External links
Visit Lichfield: Beacon Park
Lichfield District Council: Historic Parks
A video of the making of the Erasmus Darwin statue
Lichfield
Tourist attractions in Staffordshire
Parks and open spaces in Staffordshire
|
4016823
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signatures%20Restaurant
|
Signatures Restaurant
|
Signatures Restaurant was a Washington D.C. restaurant opened by Jack Abramoff. Expensive and lavishly appointed with expensive memorabilia, Villeroy & Boch chargers and Christofle flatware, Signatures was used by Abramoff in coordination with his skyboxes and foreign trips to spend money primarily given by Indian tribes on politicians. During 17 months between 2002 and 2003 Signatures gave away $180,000 of food and drinks.
Signatures rivaled the Capital Grille, opened in 1994, as the premier high-end GOP restaurant in town. It was more successful than Abramoff's other Washington D.C. food ventures: Archives Restaurant and Stacks Delicatessen, both kosher eateries.
The political website PoliticsPA named it to their list of restaurants frequented by politicians.
Abramoff's scandalous dealings
Abramoff billed his tribal clients hundreds of thousands of dollars for meals at Signatures. Billing, campaign finance records, and restaurant records show, for example, that the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians paid Greenberg Traurig over $5,600, and that the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians paid as much as $20,000 for dozens of luncheon and dinner events a month.
Abramoff's preferred table was Table 40, where Tom DeLay, Dana Rohrabacher, Bob Ney, and John Doolittle were his regular guests, getting their meals comped. Rohrabacher ate as Abramoff's guest at least monthly, claiming the friendship exemption to House ethics rules. Bob Ney paid Signatures about $1,900 for meals and events between 2002 and 2004 in addition to many comped meals. Restaurant records show that Team Abramoff members Neil Volz and Tony Rudy (with Tom Hammond) organized $1,500 (minimum) dinners for their respective former bosses, Bob Ney and Tom DeLay, in April 2002, though campaign finance records show no payment. Although representatives Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Frank A. LoBiondo (R-N.J.) and former senators John Breaux (D-La.), Don Nickles (R) and Tim Hutchinson (R) were also on an Abramoff list of people to be comped, Blunt, LoBiondo, and Breaux deny ever receiving free meals.
Over the period of January 2002 to May 2003 Abramoff and his investors put more than $3 million into Signatures, spending 7 percent of revenues on comped food and drink, well above the industry standard.
Who's who and featured memorabilia
The official owner of Signatures was Livsar Enterprises, with Rodney Lane acting as the CEO. The registered agent was lawyer Yale Ginsburg; lawyer Jay Kaplan led the Signatures restaurant group. According to emails sent by Abramoff in 2001, Capitol Campaign Strategies transferred money to Livsar, which he planned to have under the control of his wife Pamela.
Signatures was built by John S. Hillery & Assoc. Const. Inc of Sterling, Va. at a cost of $850,000.00.
The original chefs were executive chef Michael Rosen and sous-chef Jeff Ramsey. In 2006, the executive chef was Morou Ouattara. The main dining room seated 104 (50 seats at the bar), and about 50 on the patio. The private dining rooms seated 15 and 25 people. Amenities included rentable wine lockers and an in-house humidor.
The restaurant featured rare document collections of Stan Klos and Edward Bomsey, as well as other political memorabilia. The documents on display featured famous autographs. Most of the items displayed were also for sale. Some of the memorabilia featured included a rocking chair used by John F. Kennedy ($495,000), a signed replica of Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon (sold for $5,000), and signed portraits, letters, and photos of Czar Nicholas, Winston Churchill, Gen. George Patton, Rocky Marciano, Harry Houdini, Thomas Edison and Meyer Lansky ($5,000-$10,000).
External links and references
https://web.archive.org/web/20051003231719/http://img.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Features/CapitalLiving/110404.html
http://www.forward.com/campaignconfidential/archives/001782.php
References
Defunct restaurants in the United States
Restaurants in Washington, D.C.
Jack Abramoff scandals
|
4016830
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ines%20M%C3%BCller
|
Ines Müller
|
Ines Müller, (born 2 January 1959 in Grimma, Muldentalkreis, Saxony), is a German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put during the 1980s. Her biggest success was the bronze medal in the 1987 World Championship.
International Competitions
Müller represented the Empor Rostock sport club. During her sporting career she was 1.82 meters tall and weighed 90 kilograms.
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
People from Grimma
East German female shot putters
German female shot putters
Olympic athletes of East Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for East Germany
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Saxony
|
4016840
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet%20skimmer
|
Scarlet skimmer
|
The scarlet skimmer or ruddy marsh skimmer, Crocothemis servilia, is a species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to east and southeast Asia and introduced to Jamaica, Florida, and Hawaii.
Subspecies
There are two known subspecies; Crocothemis servilia servilia (Drury, 1773) and Crocothemis servilia mariannae Kiauta, 1983. C. s. mariannae lacks the mid-dorsal black stripe.
Description and habitat
It is a medium sized blood-red dragonfly with a thin black line along the mid-dorsal abdomen. Its eyes are blood-red above, purple laterally. Thorax is bright ferruginous, often blood-red on dorsum. Abdomen is blood-red, with a narrow black mid-dorsal carina. Anal appendages are blood-red. Female is similar to the male; but with olivaceous-brown thorax and abdomen. The black mid-dorsal carina is rather broad.
It breeds in ponds, ditches, marshes, open swamps and rice fields.
See also
List of odonates of Sri Lanka
List of odonates of India
List of odonata of Kerala
References
External links
Chen et al (2009) Common edible insects and their utilization in China. Entomological Research 39:299-303
Ying et al (2001) Three edible odonata species and their nutritive value. Forest Research 14:421-424
Scarlet skimmer at USGS
Insects as food in China Chen et al (2009)
Nutritive value Ying et al (2001)
Libellulidae
Insects described in 1773
|
4016846
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreilles%20de%20crisse
|
Oreilles de crisse
|
Oreilles de crisse () is a traditional Quebec dish consisting of deep-fried salted fatback. It is generally served in cabanes à sucre (sugar shacks) in spring time, as a salty and crunchy side contrasting with maple syrup-laden foods.
See also
Chicharrón
Pork rinds
List of deep fried foods
List of smoked foods
External links
Recipe
Cuisine of Quebec
Pork dishes
Deep fried foods
Smoked meat
Canadian cuisine
|
4016863
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Junior%20Lacrosse%20League
|
Ontario Junior Lacrosse League
|
The Ontario Junior Lacrosse League (OJLL) is considered the most competitive Junior A men's box lacrosse league in the world and the number one source for talent for the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The OJLL is sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. It is an 11 team league wherein the top 8 go to the playoffs and battle it out for top spot in Ontario. The Ontario Champion is annually awarded the Iroquois Trophy and moves on to compete against teams from Alberta and British Columbia for the Minto Cup - the Junior A National Box Lacrosse Championship of Canada. Ontario has captured the Minto Cup fifty-six times since 1937.
The OJLL is the number one source for talent for the National Lacrosse League (NLL), the largest and most successful professional lacrosse property in the world. Since the first NLL draft in 1996, sixteen OJLL alumni have been selected first overall.
The Teams
2021 OJLL Playoffs Bracket - Iroquois Trophy
The Iroquois Trophy playoff champions
Champion moves on to the Minto Cup national championship.
Draft History
2018 Midget Draft
2017 Midget Draft
2016 Midget Draft
2015 Midget Draft
2014 Midget Draft
Former Member Teams
Akwesasne Indians (Folded in 2012)
Elora Mohawks
Hamilton Bengals
Huntsville Hawks
Mississauga Tomahawks (Relocated to Mimico in 2015)
Orillia Rama Kings
Oshawa Green Gaels
Ottawa Titans
Rexdale Warriors
Scarborough Saints
Sarnia Pacers
Toronto Beaches
Windsor Warlocks
References
External links
Ontario Lacrosse Association
Lacrosse leagues in Canada
Sports leagues established in 1933
1933 establishments in Ontario
|
4016864
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy
|
Clancy
|
Clancy is an Irish name coming from the Gaelic Mac Fhlannchaidh/Mac Fhlannchadha, meaning "Son of the red/ruddy warrior" (Mac being for sons, Ní Fhlannchaidh/Ní Fhlannchadha would be for daughters), or as a hypocorism for Clarence.
Notable people with the name include:
As a first name
Clancy Barone, American football coach
Clancy Brown, American actor and comedian
Clancy Chassay, English journalist
Clancy Cooper, American actor
Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer
Clancy Edwards, American track and field sprinter
Clancy Fernando, Sri Lankan admiral
Clancy Hayes, American singer
Clancy O'Connor, American actor
Clancy Pendergast, American football coach
Clancy Rudeforth, Australian rules footballer
Clancy Sigal, American writer
Clancy Smyres, American baseball player
Clancy Williams, American footballer
As a last name
Abigail Clancy, English model
Al Clancy, American baseball player
Bobby Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
Boetius Clancy, Irish MP
Claire Clancy, Chief Executive and Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales, and first woman to be Registrar of Companies for England and Wales
Conor Clancy (Clare hurler) (born 1971), Irish hurler
Conor Clancy (Offaly hurler) (born 1993), Irish hurler
Cummin Clancy (1922–2013), Irish discus thrower
Daniel J. Clancy, American computer scientist
Dave Clancy, British ice hockey player
Donald D. Clancy, American politician
Edward Clancy (disambiguation), several people
Finbarr Clancy, Irish folk musician, member of the High Kings
Frank Willey Clancy, American lawyer and politician
George Clancy (politician), Irish teacher and politician
George Clancy (rugby union), Irish rugby union referee
Gil Clancy (1922–2011), American boxing trainer and commentator
Gordon Drummond Clancy, Canadian politician
Jack Clancy, American football player
James Clancy (disambiguation), several people
Jim Clancy (baseball player), American baseball player
Jim Clancy (journalist), American broadcast journalist
Joe Clancy, American football player
John Clancy (disambiguation), several people
Joseph Clancy (Wisconsin), American politician
J. J. Clancy (MP), Irish member of the British Parliament
Kendrick Clancy, American football player
Kevin Clancy, Scottish football referee
Kevin Clancy (Royal Mint), British numismatist
King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Laurence Clancy, British aerodynamicist, academic and author
Liam Clancy (1935–2009), Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
Matthew Clancy, Irish Gaelic footballer
Michael Clancy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena and Dependencies, husband of Claire Clancy
Natalie Clancy, Canadian journalist
Patrick Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
Patrick Clancy (Irish politician), Irish politician for Limerick
Patty Clancy, American politician
Pauric Clancy, Irish Gaelic football player
Peadar Clancy, member of the Irish Republican Army
Robert H. Clancy, American Representative from Michigan (1923–25, 1927–33)
Professor Robert Clancy, Australian scientist
Sam Clancy, American football and basketball player
Sam Clancy Jr., American basketball player, son of the above
Seán Clancy, member of the Irish Volunteers
Sean Clancy (disambiguation), several people
Susan Clancy, American psychologist and ufologist
T. Frank Clancy, American politician
Taliqua Clancy (born 1992), Australian beach volleyball player
Thomas Owen Clancy, American historian
Tim Clancy, Irish footballer
Tom Clancy (1947–2013), American author
Tom Clancy (singer), Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
William Clancy, Irish missionary
Willie Clancy (hurler), Irish hurler
Fictional characters
Kanuka Clancy, one of the main characters from the anime series Mobile Police Patlabor
Chief Wiggum, Clancy Wiggum, character on The Simpsons
Clancy Freeman, a recurring character in Blue Heelers
Clancy, the protagonist in US-band Twenty One Pilots's fifth studio album Trench
Clancy of the Overflow, the titular character in a Banjo Paterson poem, possibly based on Australian drover Thomas Gerald Clancy
See also
Clancey
References
Surnames of Irish origin
Anglicised Irish-language surnames
Irish families
Septs of the Dál gCais
|
4016872
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt-%C3%85ke%20Gustafsson
|
Bengt-Åke Gustafsson
|
Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (born 23 March 1958) is a Swedish ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player. Gustafsson is a former head coach of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team, a post he held from February 2005 to May 2010.
During his North American career, including two games in the World Hockey Association then nine seasons in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals, he was often called Bengt Gustafsson or Gus.
The Capitals also selected Gustafsson's son, Anton Gustafsson, with the first of their two first-round picks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
In 2003, Gustafsson was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as a player.
Playing career
Gustafsson started his professional career in 1973, playing for Bofors IK in the Swedish third tier league. He later transferred to Färjestads BK of the Elitserien. Gustafsson was drafted by the Washington Capitals in the fourth round of the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft. Gustafsson chose to play the 1978–79 season in his homeland Sweden, but he signed with the WHA's Edmonton Oilers in March 1979. Gustafsson made his North American pro debut in the WHA playoffs that spring, picking up a goal and two assists in two games. When the Oilers merged into the NHL that summer, despite their attempts to select him as one of their two protected skaters for the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft, the Capitals reclaimed Gustafsson's rights from Edmonton as they did not have a valid contract with him before the draft.
In the 1986-1987 season, Gustafsson played for Bofors IK in the second highest Swedish division and still was selected for the national team, which caused some controversy, before playing two more NHL seasons. After retiring from the NHL he played with Färjestads BK for the next four seasons, then spent several years playing with VEU Feldkirch in the Austrian Hockey League and the coincident tri-nation Alpenliga, winning five Austrian ice hockey championships and the 1997–98 European Hockey League championship.
International play
Gustafsson earned 117 caps for the Swedish national team and has played in five (1979, 1981, 1983, 1987 and 1991) World Championships with the Swedish national team. In both 1987 and 1991 he won the gold medal, got silver in 1981 and bronze in 1979.
He also played in the Canada Cup in 1984 and 1987.
In 1992 he represented Sweden in the Olympic Games in Albertville.
Coaching career
Gustafsson started his career behind the bench as an assistant coach on the Swiss national team, serving under head coach Ralph Krueger. He attended five World Championships with the Swiss team between 1998 and 2002.
Additionally Gustafsson worked as head coach of Austrian VEU Feldkirch in the 1998-99 season, followed by a two-year stint as head coach of SC Langnau of the Swiss top-flight National League A (1999-2001). In 2001, he accepted the head coaching job at Färjestads BK in the Swedish Elitserien. He guided the team to the Swedish championship in 2002 and to back-to-back finals appearances the following two years.
Gustafsson was named head coach of the Swedish national team in 2005. Under his guidance, Tre Kronor captured gold at the 2006 Olympic Games and the 2006 World Championships, becoming the first coach to achieve this "double". He earned Swedish Coach of the Year honors that year. Gustafsson also led Team Sweden to a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships. He stepped down from his position in 2010.
In October 2010, he took over as head coach of the ZSC Lions of the Swiss top-flight National League A (NLA) and remained in the job until the end of the 2010-11 season.
On 6 May 2011 Gustafsson was named the head coach of Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), becoming the first Swede to be named the head coach of a KHL team. However, after a disappointing start of the 2011–12 season for Moscow Oblast, Gustafsson was forced to leave the club on 3 November 2011. The team's then assistant coach Janne Karlsson took over the head-coaching job for Moscow Oblast.
In December 2012, he was named head coach of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga and replaced Jeff Tomlinson who had been sacked. After the season, Gustafsson did not have his contract renewed.
In October 2013, he returned to Swiss SC Langnau for a second spell with the club, having previously spent two years with the Tigers. He led SCL to the NLB title and to promotion to the NLA in 2015, but parted company with the club despite the success. On January 24, 2017, he took over the head coaching position at NLB side EHC Olten. He was sacked in early February 2018 following a run of five wins in 15 contests and after dropping to the 4th place of the NLB standings.
Coaching style
He has been reported as a "player's coach", listening to and arguing with his players rather than telling them what to do. In a SVT interview he stated: "[Ice] hockey is played on the ice, not behind the bench. As coach I can point things out to them and make them aware of stuff but they are the ones who play the game. As a player I have to confess that I didn't listen that much to what the coach said, and as a coach I don't expect them to do either."
He was criticised for asking various players whom they would like to see in the team and how they wanted to play and for asking players how they would like to see the lines formed. He then went in and adjusted the lines as the tournaments went on. The criticism has been somewhat subdued after his 2006 Olympic and IIHF WC double.
The Olympic and IIHF team only shared eight players. Most of the stars from Olympics was missing. Only Jörgen Jönsson, Kenny Jönsson, Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Kronwall, Mikael Samuelsson, Stefan Liv, Ronnie Sundin and Mika Hannula participated in both tournaments.
Awards and achievements as player
Named to the 1977 World Junior Championships All-Star Team
Bronze at 1979 World Championships
Silver at 1981 World Championships
Named to the Swedish All-Star Team in 1983
Named to the Swedish All-Star Team in 1987
Awarded Guldhjälmen (Swedish Most Valuable Player) in 1990
Gold medal at the 1987 and 1991 World Championships
94, 95, 96, 97, 98 Austrian champion with VEU Feldkirch
Won 1998 European Hockey League with Feldkirch
Named to the Alpenliga All-Star Team in 1997
2003 Inductee into the IIHF Hall of Fame
Awards and achievements as coach
Swedish champion as head coach for Färjestads BK in 2002
2006 Olympic Champion and 2006 World Champion with Sweden
Bronze medal at 2009 and 2010 World Championships
Named as Swedish Coach of the Year in 2006
Won NLB Championship and guided SCL Tigers to promotion to NLA in 2014-15
Records
Set a Washington Capitals record (since broken) for points by a rookie with 60 in 1979–80.
Scored the fastest goal from the start of a period (5 seconds in third period) vs. the Philadelphia Flyers on January 18, 1983.
First coach in history to win the Olympics and the IIHF World Championship in the same year (2006).
Notable events
Scored the game-winning goal for the Washington Capitals in the franchise's first victory over the Montreal Canadiens on February 19, 1980.
Became the first Washington Capitals player to attempt two penalty shots in the same season in 1980–81.
Scored 5 goals to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7–1 on January 8, 1984.
Played on the Swedish team that reached the Canada Cup final vs Canada in 1984.
He played his entire nine-year NHL career with the Washington Capitals and notched 555 points (196 goals, 359 assists) in 629 games.
Inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2003.
Appointed head coach for the Swedish national men's ice hockey team in 2005
Became first coach in history to win both Olympic and IIHF World Championship the same year during the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2006 Ice Hockey World Championship.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
http://washingtoncapitalslegends.blogspot.fr/2007/07/bengt-ake-gustafsson.html
1958 births
Living people
Bofors IK players
Edmonton Oilers (WHA) players
Färjestad BK players
Ice hockey players at the 1992 Winter Olympics
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden
People from Karlskoga Municipality
Sweden men's national ice hockey team coaches
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Swedish ice hockey coaches
Swedish ice hockey centres
Washington Capitals draft picks
Washington Capitals players
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Örebro County
|
4016874
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Aiso
|
John F. Aiso
|
John Fujio Aiso (December 14, 1909 – December 29, 1987) was an American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge. Aiso was the Director and head instructor of the Military Intelligence Service Language School, and the highest-ranking Japanese American in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was also the first Japanese American appointed as a judge in the contiguous United States.
Early life
Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, Aiso was an excellent student, despite encounters with anti-Japanese prejudice. He later described one of his first memories as being called a "Jap" by an elderly woman on a streetcar, explaining the amount of effort he put into his schoolwork was largely to counteract such comments. He was elected student body president of his junior high school in 1922, but the victory proved to be short lived: parents protested a Japanese American holding the position, and student government was suspended until Aiso left the school. He went on to attend Hollywood High School, where he drew national attention when he won the school's oratorical competition on the U.S. Constitution in 1926. However, he was once again forced to step down, when he was told he could not compete at the national championship and would instead have to coach his runner up.
Education and career
After graduating at the top of his Hollywood High School class in 1926, Aiso spent a year in Japan, studying Japanese at Seijo University in Tokyo. He returned to the United States after receiving a scholarship to attend Brown University, where he captained the debate team and majored in economics, graduating cum laude and serving as class valedictorian in 1931. He continued his studies at Harvard Law School, completing his degree in 1934.
Between 1935 and 1952, he worked in private practice in Los Angeles and New York. In 1936, he spent another year in Tokyo, working with Japanese banks on behalf of his U.S. law firm, and while there he studied Japanese law at Chuo University. From 1937 to 1940, he worked for the British American Tobacco Company in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
After his return to the United States, Aiso was drafted into the army, reporting for active duty in April 1941. Originally stationed at Fort MacArthur, Aiso was assigned to menial tasks due to discrimination, and was working in the motor pool when his proficiency in the Japanese language was recognized by Fourth Army G-2 officer, Capt. Kai E. Rasmussen, who was tasked with developing a Japanese language school, and transferred Aiso to the hastily formed (and, at first, secret) Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS). Recruited by MISLS head Lt Col John Weckerling as an instructor at the school, Aiso, then a Private First Class, couldn't be expected to teach officers, and Japanese Americans were prohibited from being commissioned at the time, so he was to be discharged, transferred to Reserve service, and hired as a War Department Civilian.
Aiso distinguished himself in his role, earning praise from his commanders and his fellow instructors, and was soon appointed the Director of Academic Training, a position normally held by a Lieutenant Colonel. When the Chief of Army Intelligence, Gen Clayton Lawrence Bissell, visited the school in 1944, he was outraged that a civilian was placed in command of military personnel, and went back to Washington to demand a direct commission for Aiso to Major. In this position, he became the highest-ranking Japanese American in the United States Army during the Second World War, eventually separating from active duty with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Under his inspiring leadership as director of academic training, the MISLS rapidly expanded. He recruited and trained a staff of over 150, developed course materials, and set the highest academic standards. The more than 6,000 graduates contributed immeasurably to the American victory over Imperial Japan and to winning the peace that followed. (General Charles Willoughby credited Aiso's MIS graduates with shortening the war by two years and saving close to a million lives.)
After the Allied victory in August 1945, Aiso refocused the MISLS curriculum to prepare students for roles in the occupation of Japan. In January 1946, he would transfer to Gen Douglas MacArthur's staff as a legal assistant under MacArthur's G-2 chief, Gen Charles A. Willoughby, working in the investigation and enforcement of the political purge dictated by the Potsdam Declaration. Aiso was released from active duty and returned to Los Angeles in February 1947, returning to private law practice . He would later be promoted to a colonel in the Army Reserve, before retiring in 1965.
In 1950, he received an honorary master's degree from Brown University. In 1952, he served as a Superior Court Commissioner for one year. Aiso was then appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1953, where he served until he was elevated to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1957. He was the first Japanese American to enter the California State Judiciary when then Governor Ronald Reagan appointed Aiso as an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, on November 4, 1968.
Awards and accolades
President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the Legion of Merit in 1965 for his service during World War II. In 1984, the Emperor of Japan awarded him the 3rd Class Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to understanding and friendship between the United States and Japan. He was inducted into the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame in 1991. The Aiso Library at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) Foreign Language Center is named in his honor for his contributions as the chief instructor of MISLS, the predecessor of DLI. In the Little Tokyo community of Los Angeles, a one-block segment of San Pedro Street between Temple Boulevard and 1st Street has been renamed Judge John Aiso Street in his honor.
Death
John Aiso died December 29, 1987, from a head injury sustained in an attempted mugging. Aiso, 78, was filling his car at a Hollywood gas station when he was attacked and knocked to the pavement; he died two weeks later in a Burbank hospital.
See also
List of Asian American jurists
References
1909 births
1987 deaths
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American judges
American jurists of Japanese descent
American military personnel of Japanese descent
California state court judges
Brown University alumni
Deaths by beating in the United States
Harvard Law School alumni
Hollywood High School alumni
Male murder victims
Military personnel from California
Municipal judges in the United States
People from Burbank, California
People murdered in California
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
Superior court judges in the United States
United States Army colonels
United States Army personnel of World War II
|
4016884
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speldhurst
|
Speldhurst
|
Speldhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish is to the west of Tunbridge Wells: the village is west of the town.
Speldhurst has a primary school, a parish church, a general store with post office, a pub, and a small business park. There is a residential care home for the elderly, Birchwood House, which is a former manor house with a rich history.
History
The name Speldhurst derives from the Old English for 'wooded hill ('hyrst') where wood-chips ('speld') are found'.
Parish Church
St Mary's Church Speldhurst was designed by John Oldrid Scott and built by Hope Constable of Penshurst, being dedicated to St Mary on 6 May 1871. The stained glass windows are by Burne Jones and William Morris. At present the parish of Speldhurst is part of a united parish with Ashurst and Groombridge. A previous incumbent of St Mary's Church Speldhurst was Rev Baden Powell, the father of Lord Baden-Powell who founded the Scout Movement. Rev. Powell married his second wife in the Church, and she is buried in the churchyard.
The hymnwriter Francis Pott resided in the parish until his death in 1909. Pott, who wrote popular hymns such as "Angel voices, ever singing" and "The strife is o'er, the battle done", donated a chalice and paten to the church plate of St Mary's.
Local customs
Speldhurst has an annual pram race on the second Sunday in May. There are various race categories of different age groups with the main event being two laps around the village. Contestants have to push a "baby" around the course and all have to down half a pint every time they pass the two drinks stations, one situated by the George and Dragon and the other by the old Northfields pub.
Parish villages and hamlets
Ashurst
Langton Green
Old Groombridge
Speldhurst itself
Stone Cross, a hamlet which includes Burrswood, a building designed by Decimus Burton
References
External links
Speldhurst Online
Speldhurst Parish Council website
St Mary's church
Speldhurst Pram Race
Birchwood House
Villages in Kent
Civil parishes in Kent
|
4016894
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sturt
|
Michael Sturt
|
Michael Ormonde Cleasby Sturt (born 12 September 1941) is an English businessman and cricketer.
Mike Sturt was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club in six separate seasons between 1961 and 1978, as a right-handed lower-order batsman and a highly efficient deputy wicketkeeper, for most of the period playing only when John Murray was not available through Test or other commitments. He played in 33 first-class matches, taking 64 catches and making 8 stumpings.
He combined a successful business career with his cricket and he was a longtime committee member for both Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Middlesex. He has served as an MCC Trustee and as the County Chairman of Middlesex in 1993, before he suddenly resigned due to "a matter of principle".
References
External links
Mike Sturt at Cricinfo
1941 births
Living people
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Chairmen of Middlesex County Cricket Club
Cricketers from Wembley
|
4016895
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20Broady
|
Earl Broady
|
Earl Clifford Broady (1904–1992) was a judge, attorney, police officer and pianist in Los Angeles. He joined the police department in 1927, later becoming Deputy D.A., and then a judge.
Broady lead a jazz ensemble known as Broady's Hot Footers.
Broady was hired as Chief Deputy District Attorney by District Attorney Evelle Younger. He was the first African American in upper management in the office.
He was a highly respected judge who was regularly assigned high profile and complicated cases.
Personal life
Broady once said, "I not only was born across the tracks. I was born on the wrong side of that place across the tracks.” He began working as a janitor at age 13, and in his early years worked as a mail carrier, and was an accomplished pianist and a band leader. Later in life he was known for his philanthropy.
Career
Broady joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1927. He became one of the first African American police officers to be elevated to the rank of Lieutenant and Watch Commander at the Los Angeles Police Force.
He attended night classes at University of Southern California USC and the Los Angeles College of Law, and in 1944 left the LAPD to practice law. He was later elected president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Los Angeles, and became Chief Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County.He was appointed to be a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court on June 7, 1965, where he served until his retirement in 1978. Judge Broady also served on the McCone Commission, which studied the causes behind the Watts riots.
He gave $1 million to Howard University in honor of Los Angeles lawyer Curtis C. Taylor in whose office Broady started his legal career.
References
1904 births
1992 deaths
California state court judges
African-American judges
African-American police officers
American police officers
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American judges
20th-century African-American people
|
4016903
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayleen%20Froese
|
Gayleen Froese
|
Gayleen Froese (born 1972 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian mystery novelist, writer, and singer-songwriter. Her first novel, Touch, was published by Edmonton's NeWest Press in 2005. The sequel, Grayling Cross was published by NeWest Press in 2011. Her upcoming detective novel, The Girl Whose Luck Ran Out, will be published in June 2022 by DSP Publications.
Froese was educated at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her first album, Obituary, won an Undiscovered Artist Award from CBC Radio. Froese appeared on Canadian Learning Television's A Total Write Off in 2006, and was one of twelve writers selected as a finalist for BookTelevision's 3 Day Novel Contest in 2007. (Filmed in 2007, the show did not air until late 2009; Froese ended up as the winning contestant.) She was also shortlisted in the overall 2007 International Three-Day Novel Contest.
Touch is set in Victoria, British Columbia and features Anna Gareau and Collie Kostyna, two women who become involved in a murder mystery. Gareau is a psychometrist, whose ability to discover secrets by touching objects draws her into a realistic supernatural community. In "Grayling Cross", Anna and Collie have established themselves in Edmonton as PR experts who keep things quiet for the local magical community. The book is a locked-room murder involving teleportation.
Froese's non-fiction and humour writing has appeared in publications including See Magazine, The Rat Creek Press, and The Session.
Currently, Froese lives in the Avenue District of Edmonton, Alberta.
Bibliography
Touch (2005)
Grayling Cross (2011)
Discography
Obituary (1997)
Chimera (1999)
Sacrifice (2005)
References
External links
Gayleen Froese
Crime Writers of Canada
1972 births
Living people
Canadian mystery writers
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Musicians from Saskatoon
Writers from Saskatoon
Musicians from Edmonton
Writers from Edmonton
Writers from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Canadian women novelists
Women mystery writers
21st-century Canadian women singers
20th-century Canadian women singers
|
4016917
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustin%20Olvera
|
Agustin Olvera
|
Agustin Olvera (1820-1876) was a pioneer of Los Angeles, California, and was active in the political affairs of the time.
Biography
Accompanying his uncle, Ygnacio Coronel, he came to California in 1834 as a member of the Híjar-Padrés Colony. In 1842, Olvera married Concepción Argüello (1815–1853), daughter of Santiago Argüello. After her death, Olvera married in 1859 Maria Ortega (1823–1918), widow of Edward Stokes.
Olvera held various offices in the Mexican administration. Olvera was granted Rancho Mission Viejo in 1842 and the Rancho Cuyamaca in 1845. Olvera helped to bridge the gap between the governance of California by Mexico and the United States. Olvera later served as captain in Flores' campaign against Frémont and was one of the commission of three that negotiated peace with the American forces at Cahuenga. As a commissioner he signed the Treaty of Cahuenga ending the war in California.
U.S. Military Governor Bennet Riley appointed Olvera to be Judge of the First Instance in 1849. Augustin Olvera was subsequently elected the first county judge of the newly formed County of Los Angeles in 1850. He relied upon a bilingual Sheriff to translate the proceedings from Spanish because he did not speak English when he first took the bench. Along with his legal duties, Olvera was responsible, with his two associate justices, for administering county business until the establishment of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors two years later. When his term expired in 1853, he entered the private practice of law. He was a Los Angeles County Supervisor in 1855.
Olvera was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council in 1851–52.
Legacy
In 1877, the Los Angeles Common Council changed the name of Vine Street to Olvera Street in his honor. Olvera held the first county court trials in his home near the historic Olvera Street marketplace and plaza.
In 1959, the actor Cesar Romero played Olvera in an episode of the same name on the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.
References
1818 births
1876 deaths
People of Alta California
Californios
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
19th-century American politicians
|
4016923
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance%20McKee
|
Constance McKee
|
Constance McKee is the founder, President and CEO of Asilomar Pharmaceuticals. She is the co-inventor of one of the technologies upon which Asilomar's products are based. She is the former CEO of SynGenix Limited of Cambridge, UK. From 1990 to 1994, she was CEO of Cambridge Quantum Fund I, a seed venture fund at University of Cambridge.
McKee is an honors graduate of Stanford University and holds an MBA from Yale School of Management. She was also the recipient of a Bosch Fellowship in Germany.
References
Constance McKee bio at Asilomar
Yale School of Management alumni
Stanford University alumni
American women chief executives
Living people
American chief executives of financial services companies
American technology chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
|
4016935
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Giesler
|
Jerry Giesler
|
Harold Lee Giesler, known professionally as Jerry Giesler (November 2, 1886 – January 1, 1962) was an American trial attorney.
Giesler was the defense attorney of record for many of the highest-profile litigations, both criminal and civil, in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. He represented Clarence Darrow, Charles Chaplin, Alexander Pantages (three times), Errol Flynn, Busby Berkeley, Bugsy Siegel, and Marilyn Monroe, among many others. His reputation for winning cases that appeared unwinnable was such that "Get me Giesler!" became a media epithet attached to any celebrity or prominent public figure facing serious criminal charges or an onerous civil dispute.
Giesler served for a number of years on the board of governors of the State Bar of California, and as president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.
Early career
Giesler was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa, on November 2, 1886. Though christened Harold Lee Giesler, he preferred the nickname Jerry from a young age, and used it professionally throughout his career. In 1906 he enrolled at the University of Iowa College of Law. After one year, he relocated to Los Angeles—where he remained for the rest of his life—and continued his law studies at the University of Southern California. Midway through his second year, he began working in the office of the celebrated attorney Earl Rogers, and later left law school to become Rogers' full-time research assistant. In 1910, he was admitted to the bar (a law degree was not a prerequisite for bar candidates at that time; law students could sit for the examination as soon as they felt qualified) and joined Rogers' firm as a junior associate.
In early 1912, Clarence Darrow was charged with two counts of attempted bribery of prospective jurors during the McNamara brothers trial, and retained Rogers to defend him. During preparation, Darrow and Rogers asked Giesler to research a point of law for them. He submitted a 40-page brief, and was invited to join the defense team itself. "Never ... have I had another thrill," he later wrote, "to equal what I felt on being allowed to be a member of such a team." The two charges were tried separately; the first trial ended with acquittal, and the second with a hung jury and dismissal of the case. Darrow later invited Giesler to join his Chicago law firm. Though he considered it "the greatest possible honor", Giesler chose to remain with Rogers, and after Rogers' death, to open his own practice in Los Angeles.
Famous cases and clients
Giesler garnered attention in the 1920s by defending Walburga Oesterreich in the infamous "Love in the Loft" murder case, but became truly famous by defending theater mogul Alexander Pantages for rape. Errol Flynn relied on him to win acquittal on charges of statutory rape. Other famous clients included actor Robert Mitchum, and director Busby Berkeley. After the first two trials for murder ended in hung juries, Berkeley was acquitted in a third.
Giesler also won acquittal for Lili St. Cyr, Charlie Chaplin, gangster Bugsy Siegel and Buron Fitts, a district attorney accused of improper conduct. In the "White Flame Murder" case, Giesler won his client freedom with a temporary insanity defense. He secured a four-month sentence for producer Walter Wanger for shooting his wife's (the actress Joan Bennett) agent. Wanger suspected he and Bennett were having an affair, which she denied.
In December 1949, Giesler won an acquittal of incest and child molestation charges against Dr. George Hodel, who later became a suspect in the still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder investigation.
In 1958, Giesler defended 14-year-old Cheryl Crane, actress Lana Turner's daughter, who was accused of fatally stabbing her mother's abusive lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato. The killing was eventually ruled justifiable homicide.
George Reeves's death from a gunshot wound to the head, in 1959, was ruled a suicide. Reeves's mother thought the ruling premature and peremptory, and retained Giesler to represent her in her bid to have the case reinvestigated as a possible murder. The findings of a second autopsy, conducted at Giesler's request, were the same as the first, except for a series of bruises of unknown origin about the head and body. A month later, having uncovered no additional evidence, Giesler announced that he was satisfied that the gunshot wound had been self-inflicted, and withdrew.
Giesler handled civil as well as criminal cases. He represented Marilyn Monroe in her much publicized 1954 divorce from Joe DiMaggio. Other prominent divorce clients included Rudolph Valentino, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Barbara Hutton, John Crawford, and Shelley Winters.
Death
Jerry Giesler died at age 75 on New Year's Day in 1962, after a series of heart attacks, the last and most serious in October 1961. He was interred in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Notes
External links
Des Moines Register, Famous Iowans
1886 births
1962 deaths
20th-century American lawyers
Criminal defense lawyers
Trial lawyers
USC Gould School of Law alumni
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
People from Wilton, Iowa
|
4016940
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Series%20Lacrosse
|
Ontario Series Lacrosse
|
Ontario Series Lacrosse, known as the OLA Senior B Lacrosse League from 1999-2019, is a Senior box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Many of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. OSL winners earn a chance at the national championship—the Presidents Cup.
History
The league was formed in late 1999 with play beginning in 2000. Founding members of the league were the Arthur Aces, Brooklin Merchants and St. Clair Storm. Burlington Chiefs, Owen Sound Woodsmen and Six Nations Crash and were accepted for the 2001 season.
The Ennismore Shamrocks were added for the 2002 season while the Six Nations Crash changed their named to the Six Nations Mohawk Stars.
The league expanded again for 2003 with the Ajax-Pickering Rock and Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks. The loss of the Burlington franchise for the 2004 season was offset by the addition of the Barrie Sr. Lakeshores.
Barrie won the league championship in their inaugural season and immediately moved to Major Series Lacrosse in 2005.
At the beginning of the 2006 season, the Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks purchased the St. Catharines Athletics MSL team, leaving the Senior B league at seven teams. Also in 2006, the Arthur Aces were renamed the Wellington Aces.
Prior to the start of the 2007 season, the St. Clair Storm announced that they were folding. The Ennismore Shamrocks changed ownership and became the Norwood Nitro, the first of three name changes to come.
In 2009, the Owen Sound Woodsmen became the first team in league history to win back-to-back Presidents Cups championships. In 2010, the Woodsmen would win their fourth-consecutive and seventh overall league title, both league records.
At the beginning of the 2010 season the Nitro changed their name to Norwood Champs, then Ennismore James Gang in 2013. Huntsville Hawks were added as a new franchise for the 2010 season.
St. Catharines Saints joined the league for the 2011 season and won the 2013 Presidents Cup in just their third season.
Sarnia Beavers joined in 2012 and the Six Nations Rivermen in 2013. Sarnia relocated as the Wallaceburg Thrashers for 2015.
After hosting the Presidents Cup in 2015, the St. Catharines Saints ceased operations.
In March 2016 the OSBLL announced expansion into Waterloo, Ontario, as the MSL's Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks had relocated to Cobourg, Ontario.
In 2019, the league rebranded as Ontario Series Lacrosse.
Teams
Former teams
Ajax-Pickering Rock (2003-2010)
Oakville Titans (2006 - 2021)
Arthur/Wellington Aces/Wellington-Dufferin Titans (became Oakville Titans in 2013)
Barrie Sr. Lakeshores (2004)
Burlington Sr. Chiefs (2001-2003)
Ennismore Shamrocks/Norwood Nitro/Norwood Champs (became Ennnismore James Gang in 2013)
Huntsville Hawks (2010-2012)
Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks (2003-2006)
Kitchener-Waterloo Velocity (2017-2019)
Sarnia Beavers/Wallaceburg Thrashers (2012-2015)
Six Nations Crash/Mohawk Stars/Ohsweken Warriors (2001-2011)
St. Catharines Saints (2011-2015)
St. Clair Storm (2001-2006)
Clare Levack Memorial Trophy Champions
Champion moves on to the Presidents Cup national championship.
Presidents Cup winners
References
External links
OLA Senior B website
OLA Official website
Ontario Lacrosse Association
Lacrosse leagues in Canada
1999 establishments in Ontario
Sports leagues established in 1999
|
4016944
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystals%20of%20Zong
|
Crystals of Zong
|
Crystals of Zong is a maze-chase game written by Sean McKinnon for the Commodore 64 and published by Cymbal Software in 1983.
Gameplay
Each level consists of nine single-screen rooms arranged in a 3×3 grid. At the centre of each room is a locked treasure area. The treasure areas in eight of the rooms contain different treasures and one of the rooms contains a ladder to the next level. The player's task is to navigate the maze-like corridors of the rooms to unlock the treasure areas and get the treasure. The player can descend to the next level via the ladder once they've unlocked it, collecting all the treasures is not necessary to proceed.
Various monsters inhabit the rooms. The monsters start out slow and dim-witted, but become faster and smarter on later levels. Contact with a monster kills the player instantly. In each room, there is a sword, collecting which temporarily gives the player the ability to kill the monsters. After some time, the monsters return.
There is a time limit to each level in the form a torch health bar, which decreases slowly as time passes. It can be replenished by collecting the torch power up, and paused altogether once the lantern, one of the treasures, is obtained.
References
External links
1983 video games
Maze games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
|
4016946
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20Rogers
|
Earl Rogers
|
Earl Rogers (November 18, 1869 – February 22, 1922) was an American trial lawyer and professor, who later became the inspiration for Perry Mason.
Life
Earl Rogers was born in Perry, New York on November 18, 1869, the son of Methodist minister Lowell L. Rogers and Ada (Andrus) Rogers. The Reverend Rogers moved the Rogers family to California in 1874. Rogers attended Ashland Academy in Ashland, Oregon and St. Helena Academy in St. Helena, California. He then studied at Syracuse University, but left to return to California after his father went bankrupt.
Rogers worked as a newspaper reporter, then studied law under former U.S. senator Stephen M. White and Judge William P. Gardiner. Rogers was admitted to the bar in 1897, and began to practice in Los Angeles. Among the prospective attorneys who studied law under Rogers was Buron Fitts, who later became a Los Angeles County district attorney.
As a defense counsel, Rogers handled 77 murder trials and lost only three . He astonished medical experts on the witness stand with his technical questions . His expertise was so complete that he became a professor of medical jurisprudence and insanity in the College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as a professor at the University of Southern California Law School. In "The Case of the Grinning Skull," Rogers introduced the victim's skull to prove what appeared to be a fracture caused by a violent blow from a blunt instrument, in fact, was the result of the autopsy surgeon's carelessness. The jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Ten years after his death, impressed with accounts of Rogers' cases, attorney and author Erle Stanley Gardner reincarnated Rogers as the character Perry Mason. Earl Rogers's life is recounted by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns, who was his assistant for most of his legal career, in her book Final Verdict (Doubleday, 1962), which was the basis of the television film Final Verdict, that was produced by Warner Bros.
Notable cases
William Alford, 1899
Rogers defended William Alford from a murder charge by entering the victim's intestines into evidence. An expert witness testified that the path of the bullet confirmed Alford's story .
Charles F. Mootry, 1899
Rogers defended Charles F. Mootry from a charge of murdering his wife by appealing to the jurors' own feelings about their wives. After the trial, when Mootry tried to congratulate Rogers, he turned away from Mootry and said, "Get away from me, you slimy pimp; you're as guilty as hell and you know it."
The Catalina Island murder 1902
Rogers is also remembered for the defense in the Catalina Island murder case. In the early morning of August 13, 1902 at the Metropole Hotel, a gambler, William A. Yeagar, better known as "the Louisville Sport," was murdered during a card game. Alfred Boyd was one of three men in the room playing poker. Harry Johnson, who was at the table, ran from the room, yelling "He shot him, he shot him!" and handed Boyd's gun to bartender Jim Davis, who thought that there was no question that Boyd was the killer. Boyd was charged with the murder, but Rogers won an acquittal..
Griffith J. Griffith, 1903
Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, the namesake of Griffith Park, was tried for the attempted murder of his wife. He was convicted of the lesser charge of assault with a deadly weapon and served two years in prison.
Morrison Buck, 1906
In 1906, Rogers made one of his rare appearances for the prosecution and used his medical expertise to send Morris Buck to the gallows for the murder of Chloe Canfield, wife of Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913).
Patrick Calhoun 1909
Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroad Company, was charged with bribing the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in exchange for granting the overhead trolley franchise to his company in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Rogers defended Calhoun, but during his trials and all the related trials of United Railroad Company's general counsel, Tiery Ford, Rogers did not call a single witness nor introduce any evidence, arguing that the prosecution simply hadn't made a case against the defendants. On June 20, 1909, the Calhoun jury was deadlocked, with the final jury vote at ten for acquittal and two for conviction. He was not retried.
Clarence Darrow, 1912-1913
Perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history were those which developed between Clarence Darrow, indicted for attempted jury bribery in Los Angeles in 1912, and Earl Rogers. The case arose out of Darrow's defense of the McNamara brothers, labor leaders who were indicted in the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, in which 21 Times non-union employees were killed.
The McNamara brothers were indicted, and Clarence Darrow was brought in to defend them. The case gripped the attention of the entire nation. Before the McNamara brothers could plead guilty, however, Darrow himself was charged by the Los Angeles district attorney with an attempt to bribe a juror. Darrow then hired Rogers as his chief counsel.
When the case went to trial, however, Darrow frequently disagreed with his attorney over how the case should be tried. According to the account of Adela Rogers St. Johns, much of her father's energy during the trial was given over to trying to persuade Darrow and his wife to accept his position on how to try the case.
Rogers was successful in getting Darrow, the great champion of organized labor, to refrain from making an argument essentially condoning the dynamiting of the Times building and the killing of 21 people. Rogers and Darrow both made closing arguments. Rogers' short summary of the evidence was business-like and to the point, emphasizing his own theory of the case that Darrow was too smart to have been involved in a bribery scheme and that he would not in any event have knowingly run across the street at the scene of the bribery and thus drawn attention to his presence at the scene.
Darrow was acquitted, but he was later indicted for allegedly attempting to bribe another juror in the McNamara case. Rogers began the second case as lead counsel but was soon forced to withdraw for health reasons. The second bribery trial ended in a hung jury, with several jurors holding out for a conviction.
It was not until many months later that the second indictment was finally dismissed, based on Darrow's agreement never to practice law in California again. The most difficult advocating that Earl Rogers faced in the Darrow case was to persuade Darrow not to continually hurt his own case with unappealing – if not suicidal – arguments."
The actor Robert Vaughn played Rogers in the episode, "Defendant: Clarence Darrow" (January 13, 1963), of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. In the story line, Darrow, played by Tol Avery, and Rogers argue passionately over legal procedures.
Jess Willard 1913
Rogers defended boxer Jess Willard on charges of second-degree murder stemming from the death of his opponent, John "Bull" Young, from a blow to the head in the ninth round of a boxing match on August 22, 1913. On January 13, 1914, a jury found Willard not guilty. Willard later went on to become heavyweight champion of the world.
Charles E. Sebastian, 1916
Rogers successfully defended Los Angeles Police Chief Charles E. Sebastian, who later became mayor, against a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. While running for the mayor's office Sebastian was charged with many crimes but was later acquitted of all of them. However, he left City Hall on September 2, 1916, after adverse publicity concerning his personal life arose from the publication of several letters of a damaging nature, and Earl Rogers ran the mayor's office until Frederick T. Woodman was appointed acting mayor on September 5, 1916.
References
St. Johns, Adela Rogers, Final Verdict, (Doubleday, 1962)
External links
1869 births
1922 deaths
California lawyers
Criminal defense lawyers
Trial lawyers
Lawyers from Buffalo, New York
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles
19th-century American lawyers
People from Perry, New York
Southern Oregon University alumni
Lawyers from Los Angeles
|
4016952
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-electron%20valence%20state%20perturbation%20theory
|
N-electron valence state perturbation theory
|
In quantum chemistry, n-electron valence state perturbation theory (NEVPT) is a perturbative treatment applicable to multireference CASCI-type wavefunctions. It can be considered as a generalization of the well-known second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory to multireference Complete Active Space cases. The theory is directly integrated into many quantum chemistry packages such as MOLCAS, Molpro, DALTON, PySCF and ORCA.
The research performed into the development of this theory led to various implementations. The theory here presented refers to the deployment for the Single-State NEVPT, where the perturbative correction is applied to a single electronic state.
Research implementations has been also developed for Quasi-Degenerate cases, where a set of electronic states undergo the perturbative correction at the same time, allowing interaction among themselves. The theory development makes use of the quasi-degenerate formalism by Lindgren and the Hamiltonian multipartitioning technique from Zaitsevskii and Malrieu.
Theory
Let be a zero-order CASCI wavefunction, defined as a linear combination of Slater determinants
obtained diagonalizing the true Hamiltonian inside the CASCI space
where is the projector inside the CASCI space.
It is possible to define perturber wavefunctions in NEVPT as zero-order wavefunctions of the outer space (external to CAS) where electrons are removed from the inactive part (core and virtual orbitals) and added to the valence part (active orbitals). At second order of perturbation . Decomposing the zero-order CASCI wavefunction as an antisymmetrized product of the inactive part and a valence part
then the perturber wavefunctions can be written as
The pattern of inactive orbitals involved in the procedure can be grouped as a collective index , so to represent the various perturber wavefunctions as , with an enumerator index for the different wavefunctions. The number of these functions is relative to the degree of contraction of the resulting perturbative space.
Supposing indexes and referring to core orbitals, and referring to active orbitals and and referring to virtual orbitals, the possible excitation schemes are:
two electrons from core orbitals to virtual orbitals (the active space is not enriched nor depleted of electrons, therefore )
one electron from a core orbital to a virtual orbital, and one electron from a core orbital to an active orbital (the active space is enriched with one electron, therefore )
one electron from a core orbital to a virtual orbital, and one electron from an active orbital to a virtual orbital (the active space is depleted with one electron, therefore )
two electrons from core orbitals to active orbitals (active space enriched with two electrons, )
two electrons from active orbitals to virtual orbitals (active space depleted with two electrons, )
These cases always represent situations where interclass electronic excitations happen. Other three excitation schemes involve a single interclass excitation plus an intraclass excitation internal to the active space:
one electron from a core orbital to a virtual orbital, and an internal active-active excitation ()
one electron from a core orbital to an active orbital, and an internal active-active excitation ()
one electron from an active orbital to a virtual orbital, and an internal active-active excitation ()
Totally Uncontracted Approach
A possible approach is to define the perturber wavefunctions into Hilbert spaces defined by those determinants with given k and l labels. The determinants characterizing these spaces can be written as a partition comprising the same inactive (core + virtual) part and all possible valence (active) parts
The full dimensionality of these spaces can be exploited to obtain the definition of the perturbers, by diagonalizing the Hamiltonian inside them
This procedure is impractical given its high computational cost: for each space, a diagonalization of the true Hamiltonian must be performed. Computationally, is preferable to improve the theoretical development making use of the modified Dyall's Hamiltonian . This Hamiltonian behaves like the true Hamiltonian inside the CAS space, having the same eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the true Hamiltonian projected onto the CAS space. Also, given the decomposition for the wavefunction defined before, the action of the Dyall's Hamiltonian can be partitioned into
stripping out the constant contribution of the inactive part and leaving a
subsystem to be solved for the valence part
The total energy is the sum of and the energies of the orbitals involved in the definition of the inactive part . This introduces the possibility to perform a single diagonalization of the valence Dyall's Hamiltonian on the CASCI zero-order wavefunction and evaluate the perturber energies using the property depicted above.
Strongly Contracted Approach
A different choice in the development of the NEVPT approach is to choose a single function for each space , leading to the Strongly Contracted (SC) scheme. A set of perturbative operators are used to produce a single function for each space, defined as the projection inside each space of the application of the Hamiltonian to the contracted zero order wavefunction. In other words,
where is the projector onto the subspace. This can be equivalently written as the application of a specific part of the Hamiltonian to the zero-order wavefunction
For each space, appropriate operators can be devised. We will not present their definition, as it could result overkilling. Suffice to say that the resulting perturbers are not normalized, and their norm
plays an important role in the Strongly Contracted development. To evaluate these norms, the spinless density matrix of rank not higher than three between the functions are needed.
An important property of the is that any other function of the space which is orthogonal to do not interact with the zero-order wavefunction through the true Hamiltonian. It is possible to use the functions as a basis set for the expansion of the first-order correction to the wavefunction, and also for the expression of the zero-order Hamiltonian by means of a spectral decomposition
where are the normalized .
The expression for the first-order correction to the wavefunction is therefore
and for the energy is
This result still misses a definition of the perturber energies , which can be defined in a computationally advantageous approach by means of the Dyall's Hamiltonian
leading to
Developing the first term and extracting the inactive part of the Dyall's Hamiltonian it can be obtained
with equal to the sum of the orbital energies of the newly occupied virtual orbitals minus the orbital energies of the unoccupied core orbitals.
The term that still needs to be evaluated is the bracket involving the commutator. This can be obtained developing each operator and substituting. To obtain the final result it is necessary to evaluate Koopmans matrices and density matrices involving only active indexes. An interesting case is represented by the contribution for the case, which is trivial and can be demonstrated identical to the Møller–Plesset second-order contribution
NEVPT2 can therefore be seen as a generalized form of MP2 to multireference wavefunctions.
Partially Contracted Approach
An alternative approach, named Partially Contracted (PC) is to define the perturber wavefunctions in a subspace of with dimensionality higher than one (like in case of the Strongly Contracted approach). To define this subspace, a set of functions is generated by means of the operators, after decontraction of their formulation. For example, in the case of the operator
The Partially Contracted approach makes use of functions and . These functions must be orthonormalized and purged of linear dependencies which may arise. The resulting set spans the space.
Once all the spaces have been defined, we can obtain as usual a set of perturbers from the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian (true or Dyall) inside this space
As usual, the evaluation of the Partially Contracted perturbative correction by means of the Dyall Hamiltonian involves simply manageable entities for nowadays computers.
Although the Strongly Contracted approach makes use of a perturbative space with very low flexibility, in general it provides values in very good agreement with those obtained by the more decontracted space defined for the Partially Contracted approach. This can be probably explained by the fact that the Strongly Contracted perturbers are a good average of the totally decontracted perturbative space.
The Partially Contracted evaluation has a very little overhead in computational cost with respect to the Strongly Contracted one, therefore they are normally evaluated together.
Properties
NEVPT is blessed with many important properties, making the approach very solid and reliable. These properties arise both from the theoretical approach used and on the Dyall's Hamiltonian particular structure:
Size consistency: NEVPT is size consistent (strict separable). Briefly, if A and B are two non-interacting systems, the energy of the supersystem A-B is equal to the sum of the energy of A plus the energy of B taken by themselves (). This property is of particular importance to obtain correctly behaving dissociation curves.
Absence of intruder states: in perturbation theory, divergencies can occur if the energy of some perturber happens to be nearly equal to the energy of the zero-order wavefunction. This situation, which is due to the presence of an energy difference at the denominator, can be avoided if the energies associated to the perturbers are guaranteed to be never nearly equal to the zero-order energy. NEVPT satisfies this requirement.
Invariance under active orbital rotation: The NEVPT results are stable if an intraclass active-active orbital mixing occurs. This arises both from the structure of the Dyall Hamiltonian and the properties of a CASSCF wavefunction. This property has been also extended to the intraclass core-core and virtual-virtual mixing, thanks to the Non Canonical NEVPT approach, allowing to apply a NEVPT evaluation without performing an orbital canonization (which is required, as we saw previously)
Spin purity is guaranteed: The resulting wave functions are guaranteed to be spin pure, due to the spin-free formalism.
Efficiency: although not a formal theoretical property, computational efficiency is highly important for the evaluation on medium-size molecular systems. The current limit of the NEVPT application is largely dependent on the feasibility of the previous CASSCF evaluation, which scales factorially with respect to the active space size. The NEVPT implementation using the Dyall's Hamiltonian involves the evaluation of Koopmans' matrices and density matrices up to the four-particle density matrix spanning only active orbitals. This is particularly convenient, given the small size of currently used active spaces.
Partitioning into additive classes: The perturbative correction to the energy is additive on eight different contributions. Although the evaluation of each contribution has a different computational cost, this fact can be used to improve performance, by parallelizing each contribution to a different processor.
See also
Electron correlation
Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics)
Post-Hartree–Fock
References
Electron states
Computational chemistry
|
4016964
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kindersley%2C%201st%20Baron%20Kindersley
|
Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley
|
Robert Molesworth Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley (21 November 1871 – 20 July 1954) was an English businessman, stockbroker, merchant banker, and public servant who organised the National Savings movement.
Background
Kindersley was born in Wanstead, Essex. His father was an Old Etonian from a wealthy family who had been a captain in the Indian Army, but had fallen on hard times since resigning his commission and becoming a chemist. Kindersley was educated at Repton School, but was forced to leave in 1887 when his father could no longer afford the fees.
Banking career
He then became a clerk in several London firms before joining the London Stock Exchange in 1901, becoming a partner in David A. Bevan & Co in 1902 and the merchant bank Lazard Brothers & Co in 1905, a firm with which he was connected for the rest of his life and of which he became chairman in 1919.
Public service
From 1915 to 1925, Kindersley was Governor (Company Chairman) of the Hudson's Bay Company, North America's oldest company (established by English royal charter in 1670). He served as a director of the Bank of England from 1914 to 1946. In 1924 he was the senior British representative on the Dawes Committee.
Kindersley is chiefly recognised for his work as chairman of the National Savings Committee from 1916 to 1920; he was then its president until 1946.
He was also a major shareholder in the Canadian Northern Railway, later amalgamated into Canadian National Railways, and the town of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, was named after him.
Personal life
He married Gladys Margaret Beadle, daughter of Maj-Gen James Prinsep Beadle, of Worton Grange, co. Wiltshire, on 3 November 1896 and had six children, Lionel, Hugh, Margaret, Richard, Philip (who married Oonagh Guinness and Valerie Violet French) and Elizabeth. Lord Kindersley was succeeded in the Barony by his second son Hugh, his eldest son Lionel having been killed in action in the First World War.
Honours and arms
Kindersley was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1917 and raised to Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours for his chairmanship of the National Savings Committee. He served as High Sheriff of Sussex for 1928 and in 1941 was raised to the peerage as Baron Kindersley, of West Hoathly in the County of West Sussex.
References
Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
External links
1871 births
1954 deaths
English stockbrokers
People from Wanstead
People educated at Repton School
English businesspeople
English bankers
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company
High Sheriffs of Sussex
Robert
Barons created by George VI
|
4016967
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlos%20Gary
|
Charlos Gary
|
Charlos Gary (born September 14, 1968) is an American cartoonist and comic strip author, best known for creating a series entitled Working It Out, a strip that deals with office politics in a format similar to Dilbert.
Biography
Charlos Gary was born in Boynton Beach (near West Palm Beach) and reared in Orlando, Florida. He is African-American. The middle child in a family of seven, Gary discovered an aptitude for art at an early age and pursued it as a career field while studying at Ohio State University, and later at the University of Toledo.
His first semi-professional gig came at Ohio State, with a short-lived comic strip called State U. After graduating from Toledo, he began working as a graphic designer for various newspapers, often submitting his own political cartoons for publication. In early 2001, as an editorial artist for the Chicago Tribune, Gary created his signature strip Working It Out.
Creative works
Charlos Gary has published two comic strips and a web log; he published his first book in 2006. His two comic strips, Working It Out (2001 to present) and Café Con Leche (2007-2014), are syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
Bibliography
In 2006, Gary published his Working It Out comics in a book titled It's Always a Great Day to Be the Boss.
Working It Out
, Working It Out currently runs in about 50 newspapers across the United States, typically in the business and financial sections.
The comic strip centers around a character named "Mr. Jamison" – a bushy-moustached, pencil-nosed low-level manager who seems to take delight in the suffering and mistreatment of his subordinates. Mr. Jamison frequently goes on a “power trip” over the most trivial of issues and often refers to his employees as “peons”. The overall theme is a workplace tug-of-war that pits the weasel-like management staff against the water-cooler backstabbing of their hard(-ly) working, expendable employees.
Café Con Leche
Gary launched his newly syndicated comic strip, called Café Con Leche, in April 2007. Café Con Leche is about an interracial couple getting to know each other's cultural background. The strip ended November 2, 2014.
Web log
Gary is an active blogger, commenting on topics of the day, with focus on minority issues in American society.
References
External links
Working It Out at Creators Syndicate
Cafe Con Leche at Creators Syndicate
1968 births
Living people
African-American comics creators
American comics creators
American comic strip cartoonists
Chicago Tribune people
Ohio State University alumni
University of Toledo alumni
American bloggers
People from Boynton Beach, Florida
21st-century African-American writers
20th-century African-American people
|
4016978
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Universal
|
The Universal
|
"The Universal" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, The Great Escape (1995). It was released on 13 November 1995 as the second single from that album, charting at number five on the UK Singles Chart and number 12 in both Iceland and Ireland.
In keeping with the song's science fiction theme, the single's cover art is an allusion to the opening shot of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the music video is a tribute to the movie A Clockwork Orange, with the band dressed up in costumes similar to Alex and his droogs. Both films were directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Music video
A music video for the song was directed by Jonathan Glazer. The band is presented in imitation of the opening scenes from the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, in the Milk Bar. Blur star as the quasi-Droogs, complete with Damon Albarn wearing eyeliner similar to the character Alex DeLarge. They perform in the bar in all-white. Though the band do not engage in their usual vibrant stage demeanor, Damon Albarn frequently turns to the camera and gives a sly, crooked smile. Graham Coxon spends the majority of the video sitting against the wall, while playing his guitar. They also spend some time during the video sitting at a table, watching the people around them.
The bar patrons consist of different groups; a male with two females are openly kissing. The man has lipstick all over his face; a lone female entertains male business colleagues by exploiting their sexual interest in her; two men, one identified as a 'red man' (dressed entirely in red) who used to be 'blue', conduct a stilted (subtitled) conversation; two other men – one of them wearing a vicar's clerical collar – become increasingly drunk on cocktails, laughing more and more hysterically until the clergyman tells his friend something to which the viewer is not privy, causing his friend to withdraw into stunned silence (a device similar to that used in Radiohead's promotional video for the song "Just" in the same year). There are also two old men who make a few comments (again subtitled) marveling at the scene. Blur then walk down the aisle to exit the building. Damon Albarn stops them, then the clergyman moves in to kiss his friend.
There are also scenes outside, showing high rise buildings, where people are gathered around a golf ball speaker atop a roof, listening.
The golf ball-shaped speaker featured in the video was sold in a charity auction in 1999.
Track listings
All music was composed by Albarn, Coxon, James, and Rowntree. All lyrics were composed by Albarn.
7-inch and cassette
"The Universal" – 4:00
"Entertain Me" (The Live It! remix) – 7:19
CD1
"The Universal" – 4:00
"Ultranol" – 2:42
"No Monsters in Me" – 3:38
"Entertain Me" (The Live It! remix) – 7:19
CD2: The Universal II – Live at the BBC
"The Universal" – 4:11
"Mr Robinson's Quango" – 4:17
"It Could Be You" – 3:17
"Stereotypes" – 3:12
Japanese CD
"The Universal" – 4:00
"It Could Be You" (Live at the BBC) – 3:17
"Stereotypes" (Live at the BBC) – 3:12
"Entertain Me" (The Live It! remix) – 7:19
Note: the 7-inch vinyl edition was pressed for use on jukeboxes and was not issued commercially.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Uses in popular culture
A cover by Irish singer Joe Dolan in 1998 made it to number 19 on the Irish Singles Chart.
The song has been used on TV advertisements for British Gas since 2009 (although it never re-entered the top 40).
The song was used in a 2002 ad for the Chrysler Concorde.
The song was featured in the episode "I Don't" of MTV animated series Daria.
The song was featured in an episode of Channel 4 comedy-drama My Mad Fat Diary in 2013
Irish singer Lucy O'Byrne released a cover and video clip as part of her first album in 2016.
The song was featured in an episode of Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso.
References
1995 singles
1995 songs
Blur (band) songs
Food Records singles
Song recordings produced by Stephen Street
Songs written by Alex James (musician)
Songs written by Damon Albarn
Songs written by Dave Rowntree
Songs written by Graham Coxon
|
4017022
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20Series%20Lacrosse
|
Major Series Lacrosse
|
Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) is a Senior A box lacrosse league based in Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the star players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the Western Lacrosse Association champion for the Mann Cup every September. The championship is hosted alternately between Ontario and British Columbia every year.
History
Field Era
Major Series Lacrosse originated in the late 19th century as the Canadian Lacrosse Association. In its early days, it had competition from the semi-professional National Lacrosse Union that ran from around 1880 until around 1920 with teams in the Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal markets. In the early 20th century the CLA had another rival league, the Dominion Lacrosse Association in much of the same markets as the NLU. In these early days, all lacrosse was field lacrosse. Early powerhouses in the league were the Orangeville Dufferins (1890s) and the St. Catharines Athletics (1900s and 1910s).
In 1913, the CLA became the Ontario Amateur Lacrosse Association. The league had a Western Division with teams in Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe and an Eastern Division with teams in the Ottawa District, but a year later the Ottawa teams left the league. In 1920, the NLU had dropped to 3 teams and elected to disband. The OALA was left as the only Senior A league in Ontario and only had to face the Ontario Intermediate A champion for a berth into the Mann Cup National Senior championships.
In 1926, an OALA team won its first Mann Cup. Until this point, the Mann Cup was a challenge trophy, mostly dominated by British Columbia's New Westminster Salmonbellies, in 1926 the entire country could compete for the trophy in a playdown style. As standings leaders of the OALA at midpoint, the Weston Westonmen were awarded the right to represent the OALA for the Mann Cup. The Westonmen were met by the Winnipeg Tigers, whom they defeated 11-3 to become the first Mann Cup champion of the playdown era. The Westonmen were then forced to face the Brampton Excelsiors in the Ontario final who beat them 10-goals-to-6 in a two-game series. The Westonmen would dominate the Ontario scene in the 1920s with 5 league titles and the 1926 Mann Cup. In 1931, the Excelsiors defeated the Toronto Native Sons 2-games-to-1 to win the OALA championship. The Excelsiors would go on to defeat New Westminster in the Mann Cup final 2-games-to-1. This marked the end of Field Lacrosse for this league and the last Mann Cup to ever be conducted on a field.
Indoor Era
The Mimico Mountaineers would defeat the Fergus Thistles 2-games-to-1 to become the first Ontario Senior A box lacrosse champions. They would later host the Winnipeg Argos at Maple Leaf Gardens and win the first ever indoor Mann Cup 2-games-to-none.
The Orillia Terriers would be the most dominant OALA team in the 1930s, winning four straight OALA title (1934-1937) and three consecutive Mann Cup (1934-1936) becoming the first team of the Indoor Era to accomplish that streak.
In 1939, the league became the Ontario Lacrosse Association Senior A League (OLA).
The St. Catharines Athletics found their stride in 1938 and would win the OLA seven times in nine seasons (losing 1942 and 1943 to Brampton). The Athletics would be National Champions five times in that span, beating the New Westminster Adanacs 3-games-to-none in 1938, the Vancouver Burrards 3-games-to-1 in 1940, the Richmond Farmers 3-games-to-2 in 1941, the New Westminster Salmonbellies 3-games-to-2 in 1944 and the 'Bellies again in 1946 3-games-to-none.
In 1951, the core of the 1950 Mann Cup winning Owen Sound Crescents, including star goalie Lloyd "Moon" Wootton transferred to the Peterborough Trailermen. The move would lead to one of the biggest dynasties ever in lacrosse, including 8 OLA championships in 9 years, 4 Mann Cups, and an infamous standoff with the Canadian Lacrosse Association that left the entire team suspended for five years. From 1951 until 1957, the Trailermen won 7 straight OLA League titles and the first four years they won the Mann Cup, becoming the first indoor team to win four years straight. In 1951, the Trailermen defeated the Vancouver Combines 4-games-to-3 to win their first Mann Cup, then beat Vancouver (Burrards) again in 1952 4-games-to-none to win it again. In 1953 and 1954, the Trailermen defeated the Victoria Shamrocks 4-games-to-1 and 4-games-straight respectively to cap off the four cup run. Victoria would return the favour in 1955, beating the Trailermen in 5 games, and the Nanaimo Timbermen would do the same in 1956. The Trailermen would win their league again in 1957, but controversy ensued at the Mann Cup. Peterborough's star scorer Bob Allan left a BC team without receiving a release to come play for the Trailermen. Although the OLA ruled him eligible, when the team arrived in BC to play the Mann Cup, the CLA barred him from playing. Peterborough refused to take the floor for the first game without Allan and the CLA kicked them out of the playoffs and suspended every player on the team for five seasons. The Trailermen were replaced by a rusty Long Branch Pontiacs squad that were easily swept by Victoria. The Trailermen players sat out their suspension in 1958, but their suspensions were commuted in time for the 1959 season. Peterborough would win yet another league title in 1959, but could not muster any past success in the Mann Cup final. The dynasty had ended and Peterborough did not make another final for six seasons.
Teams
All-Star Game
During the 2012 MSL Entry Draft, the league announced it would be holding its first ever All-Star Game. Peterborough was set to host, citing average attendance as the driving factor. However, in April that same year, the game was cancelled due to two major issues. The first was concern of unnecessary risk of injury and the other was the distribution of revenue.
Champions
Defunct teams
Aurora Astros
Akwesasne Thunder
Barrie Lakeshores
Brantford Warriors
Buffalo Gamblers
Fergus Thistles
Hastings Legionnaires
Huntsville Hawks
Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks
Mississauga Renegades
Mississauga Braves
Niagara Falls Gamblers
Orangeville Northmen
Oshweken Wolves
Owen Sound North Stars
Sarnia Lumley Wrecking
Scarborough Saints
St. Catharines Athletics
St. Regis Indians
Toronto Shooting Stars
Toronto Maple Leafs
Windsor Warlocks
See also
Box lacrosse
Western Lacrosse Association
References
External links
Major Series Lacrosse
OLA Official Website
Ontario Lacrosse Association
Lacrosse leagues in Canada
Sports leagues established in 1887
1887 establishments in Ontario
|
4017028
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV63
|
KV63
|
KV63 is a recently opened chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings pharaonic necropolis. Initially believed to be a royal tomb, it is now believed to have been a storage chamber for the mummification process. It was found in 2005 by a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Otto Schaden.
The chamber contained seven wooden coffins and many large storage jars. All coffins have now been opened, and were found to contain only mummification materials, with the jars also containing mummification supplies including salts, linens, and deliberately broken pottery.
Some clay seal impressions contain text, such as the partial word 'pa-aten,' part of the name used by Tutankhamun's wife, Ankhesenamun. This inscription, the architectural style of the chamber, and the form of the coffins and jars all point to an Eighteenth Dynasty date, roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun, whose tomb is nearby.
KV63 was revisited by Schaden's team again in 2010, along with a TV team. Another 16 storage jars were explored, and a wooden bed with lions' heads, along with pieces of wine jars, were discovered. The team arrived at the theory that the chamber was probably used by Tutankhamun's family embalmers, some time about 1337–1334 BC.
Discovery
The vertical shaft of KV63 was re-discovered on 10 March 2005. The discovery that the shaft led to a chamber was announced on 8 February 2006, by the Supreme Council of Antiquities, which credited the find to a team of U.S. archaeologists from the University of Memphis, under the leadership of Dr. Otto Schaden. The chamber — given the name "KV63" in accordance with the sequential numbering convention used in the Valley — was initially thought to be a tomb, the first new one to be revealed there since the discovery of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, by Howard Carter in 1922.
KV63 is located in the area between KV10 (Amenmesse) and KV62 (Tutankhamun), in the very centre of the Valley's eastern branch and near the main crossroads of the network of paths traversed by thousands of tourists every day.
The discovery was made as the archaeological team was excavating the remains of 19th dynasty workmen's huts at the entrance to KV10, looking for evidence to clarify the succession of Amenmesse. The area around the huts had accumulated rubble from the occasional flooding. Both Theodore M. Davis and Howard Carter had dug in the area in the early twentieth century, but had not removed these particular huts. While exploring a layer of dark rock, the dig suddenly came across chips of white stone (these being the last level excavated by Carter). Further exploration revealed a straight edge of cut stone, which turned out to be on the upper lip of a vertical shaft. At that point the team knew they had discovered something much more elaborate and significant than the remains of the tomb-diggers' resthouses. Unfortunately, the discovery came at the very end of the 2004–05 digging season, and further excavations had to be postponed until the team recommenced its work the following autumn.
Description of chamber
The overhang on the shaft of KV63 has been compared with and found to be similar to other Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (KV55 and that of Yuya and Thuya), thereby dating the construction to the latter portion of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca. 14th century BC) of the New Kingdom (16th century to 11th century BC). It is also broadly speculated that all three tombs are the work of the same architect, or at least the same school of architects.
The newly revealed shaft descends some five metres. At the bottom of this pit stands a 1.5 metre tall door made of stone blocks. Behind this door, in which the team originally opened up a small window for the 10 February 2006 event, stands the single chamber.
No seals were found on the door, and it was initially believed that KV63 was a reburial and had experienced some intrusion in antiquity. The blocking stones in the doorway were not original, suggesting that the doorway had been opened and closed a few times. The original blocking stones were found inside the tomb, giving evidence that someone had re-entered and sealed the tomb in antiquity.
The chamber measures some four metres by five and has plain white walls. It contained seven wooden coffins, including one scaled for a child and one for a small infant. Two of the adult coffins and the child's coffin feature yellow funerary masks; the others have black funerary masks. It has been suggested that those with yellow faces may have been designed for female occupants. There is extensive termite damage on some coffins and the result was likened by the excavating team to "black paste"; however, at least two coffins were virtually untouched by termites. These termites seem to have come from the workers' huts above the shaft, and therefore probably date from the pharaonic era. There was no evidence of water damage. However, now that the chamber has been opened, the site is at risk of damage from flash floods.
The identity of the owners of the coffins is unknown; in any case none contained human remains, all having been used to hold material relating to the embalming process. There is no evidence for the chamber having been sealed more than once and it thus seems that the deposit represents embalming debris from one particular person's mummification.
The chamber also held 28 large storage jars, approximately 75 cm tall, made from both pottery and alabaster. The jars weighed in at around 40 or 43 kg (90–95 pounds), varying slightly in size and weight. Three of them appear to have been broken in antiquity at the rim or lower neck. Most of the jars were discovered with intact lids, but did not bear pharaonic seal impressions. Shortly after their manufacture, the jars were whitewashed while standing in sand, and the bottoms show the original clay. A large ostracon, not identified to have come from one of the storage jars at this time, was discovered and broken during the modern opening of the tomb.
According to Dr. Schaden, the method of sealing the storage jars had been very deliberate. A mud plug was first inserted, then a seal, and then a large plaster seal. Apparently, the people doing it had thought it of prime importance that it should be done in this very precise manner. This supports the idea that there was a solid reason behind the placing of the artifacts and that the chamber was not merely a dumping ground.
There was over 175 kg of natron in the chamber, some inside the coffins and some inside little sacks. The jars and contents are similar to those from KV54, the Tutankhamun embalming cache.
Work has been going on to carefully remove the coffins and the storage jars to KV10, which has adequate space for a conservation team to conduct a thorough examination and analysis of the coffins and jars in a proper, scientific manner. A pulley system was devised to facilitate the safe removal of the coffins and jars from the shaft. Grass buckets and bubblewrap were used to lift the jars out from the place where they were packed away for 3000 years. The removal of jars began on 2 March 2006 and most jars have been relocated safely along with one large sealed alabaster jar, which contained small pots packed in mud. Twelve of the storage jars have thus far been examined. Contents include natron, wood, seeds, shells, carbon, assorted pottery, small animal bones, papyrus fragments, mud trays, mud seals, and pieces of twine or rope. Egyptologist Salima Ikram is supervising the removal and examination of the contents.
On first examination there appeared to be some kind of stuffing extruding between the lid and the bottom of the youth coffin labeled 'G'. When the coffin was opened this stuffing was revealed to be five pillows. As textile remnants from ancient Egypt are relatively rare, and pillows extremely so, the materials used for these will be of great interest. On May 26, 2006, a 42 cm. pink gold leaf anthropoid coffinette was discovered inside the youth coffin, under the pillows.
The last and only completely sealed coffin was opened on June 28, 2006. As cameras were rolling, it was revealed that the coffin contained no mummy, only artifacts used for mummification or to decorate a body. It looked like it had once been used, as there was an impression of a human body in the bottom of the coffin. It is theorized that this body was moved or destroyed in antiquity.
Due to its proximity to the tomb of Tutankhamun and the resemblances between the portraits in the sarcophagi, as well as the style contemporary to the latter part of the 18th Dynasty, there was groundless speculation at the time of the first discovery that the coffins were once used for the bodies of Kiya and/or even Ankhesenamen. However, there is no reason to believe that the coffins were other than that of basic types used for private persons, probably derived from undertakers' stock for use to contain embalming debris.
Given the location of the tomb, and the fact that its entrance was sealed by the same flood layer that sealed that of Tutankhamun, it seems most likely that KV63 was the main embalmers' cache for Tutankhamun's burial. In this case, the long-known group of material deriving from his funeral found in KV54 probably represents an 'overflow' of material requiring disposal after KV63 had been sealed.
See also
KV64
KV65
References
External links
Theban Mapping Project: KV63
KV63 Expedition website: 'Dig Diary' of Dr. Otto Schaden with KV-63 Clearance and Excavation photos. See KV-63 Publications Page.
Question-and-answer session with Roxanne Wilson, staff artist/recorder with the KV-10/KV-63 mission. (28 February 2006)
Approximate location of KV63
New Tomb Discovered in the Valley of the Kings (University of Memphis)
A Concealed Cachet (sic) in Luxor (Zahi Hawass)
Hypothesis over an "yellow-face" mask's coffin's identification
U of M-sponsored Find in Egypt Promises More "Wonderful Things" (University of Memphis Press Release)
The Amenmesse Project (KV10 expedition webpage)
IEAA KV 63 (IEAA)
News media
Egypt's New Tomb Revealed (an interactive site by Discovery Channel)
Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt (BBC News, with video footage of tomb)
Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of Kings (ABC news, with pictures)
Tomb of mummies found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (CBC)
"Experts in new Egypt tomb discovery." The Scotsman
New Tomb Found in Valley of Kings (CBS)
Intact tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (Washington Post)
Pharaoh'ld coup for Ulster archaeologist Belfast Telegraph
Slackman, Michael. "Tomb Yields Many Mysteries, but no Mummy," New York Times, June 28, 2006
Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century BC
Valley of the Kings
2006 archaeological discoveries
|
4017029
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Cholmeley
|
Roger Cholmeley
|
Sir Roger Cholmeley (c. 1485 – 21 June 1565) was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench from 1552 to 1553. From 1535 to 1545 he was Recorder of London and served in the House of Commons. He is possibly best remembered for his endowment to found a free grammar school, Highgate School, at London.
Background and early life
Cholmeley (sometimes spelled "Cholmley" or "Cholmondeley; all pronounced "ˈtʃʌmli", "CHUM-lee") was the illegitimate son of Sir Richard Cholmeley of Yorkshire (c. 1460 – 1521), who served as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1513 to 1520. Cholmeley's family can be traced back to the 12th-century Robert de Chelmundelegh, second son of William le Belward, who inherited parts of the Barony of Malpas (for which Malpas, Cheshire, is named), including Cholmondeley, Cheshire, previously held by Robert Fitzhugh. Over the centuries, the family name was spelt in many variants as Middle English developed away from French influences. Different branches of the family still spell the name differently, and Cholmeley's most famous cousins, of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, spell it "Cholmondeley". The pronunciation and spelling are neither counterintuitive nor phonetic, but as used down the ages.
Roger Cholmeley was educated to the law at Lincoln's Inn from 1506. Despite thrice being expelled from the Inn, he entered the legal profession.
Career
Most of Cholmeley's career as a lawyer was spent in the City of London, but he lived at Highgate in Middlesex. In 1520 he was called as a bencher of Lincoln's Inn, in 1531 became a serjeant-at-law, and in November 1534 was knighted. From 1535-45 he was Recorder of London, during which time he was one of the city's Members of Parliament in four Parliaments.
In November 1545 Cholmeley became Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and in May 1552 was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He was Lord Chief Justice for only a year as Queen Mary I would not reappoint him. The same year, he was imprisoned for a month and fined for signing Lady Jane Grey's instrument of succession as Queen. He returned to work as a barrister and was a Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1554 to 1559.
Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth I stayed the night of 15 Feb 1555 with Cholmeleys in Highgate.
Highgate School
Cholmeley founded Highgate School, which was established by Royal Charter in 1565. Former pupils of the school are known as Old Cholmeleians in his memory. The school has gone on to become a leading independent school (sometimes referred to as a public school). Old Cholmeleians include John Venn, the creator of Venn diagrams, poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Betjeman, and musicians John Tavener and John Rutter.
Death
Cholmeley died in London on 21 June 1565.
He willed property to nephew Jasper.
Family
He married Christine Hurst, who died in 1558. They had two daughters:
Elizabeth, married first to Sir Leonard Beckwith of Selby, Yorkshire, and secondly to Christopher Kern of Kern, Somersetshire;
Frances, the other daughter, was married to Sir Thomas Russell of Strensham, Worcestershire.
References
Further reading
|-
1480s births
1565 deaths
People from Highgate
Founders of English schools and colleges
Lord chief justices of England and Wales
Chief Barons of the Exchequer
16th-century English judges
Recorders of London
English knights
Roger
Serjeants-at-law (England)
English MPs 1529–1536
English MPs 1536
English MPs 1539–1540
English MPs 1542–1544
English MPs 1554–1555
English MPs 1555
English MPs 1558
|
4017035
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shap%20Rural
|
Shap Rural
|
Shap Rural is a very large, but sparsely populated, civil parish in the Eden district of Cumbria in England, covering part of the Lake District National Park. It had a population of 119 in 2001, increasing to 130 at the 2011 Census.
Within the parish are the hamlets and settlements of Wet Sleddale, Hardendale and Swindale, most of the Shap Fells range and the reservoirs of Haweswater (part) and Wet Sleddale. The village of Mardale Green, which disappeared when Haweswater was converted into a reservoir in the 1930s, was in the parish.
The parish was created in 1904 with the splitting of the former civil parish of Shap into urban and rural parts. Shap Urban, or now simply Shap, was administered by an urban district council from 1906 to 1935. Shap and Shap Rural today have a joint parish council.
Major landowners in the parish are the Lowther Family Estates and United Utilities.
Junction 39 of the M6 motorway lies within the parish.
Shapbeck Limestone quarry owned by Hanson plc is in the northern part of the parish though the Hardendale Corus limestone quarry and works and the famous Cemex (formerly RMC) Shap Granite quarries and works are within both Shap Rural and Shap parishes.
The cottage owned by Uncle Monty in the cult 1986 film Withnail & I is located by the reservoir at Wet Sleddale.
See also
Listed buildings in Shap Rural
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Shap (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria
Eden District
|
4017086
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20shopping%20malls%20in%20the%20United%20States
|
List of largest shopping malls in the United States
|
This is a list of shopping malls in the United States and its territories that have at least 2,000,000 total square feet of retail space (gross leasable area). The list is based in part on information provided by the International Council of Shopping Centers and by the Department of American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University as part of its Shopping Mall Studies.
See also
List of largest shopping malls in the world
List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada
References
|
4017092
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Social%20Party
|
French Social Party
|
The French Social Party (, PSF) was a French nationalist political party founded in 1936 by François de La Rocque, following the dissolution of his Croix-de-Feu league by the Popular Front government. France's first right-wing mass party, prefiguring the rise of Gaullism after the Second World War, it experienced considerable initial success but disappeared in the wake of the fall of France in 1940 and was not refounded after the war.
Background and origins (1927–36)
La Rocque envisioned the PSF as the more explicitly-political successor of the Croix-de-Feu, the World War I veterans' organization that had been founded in 1927 and, by the early 1930s, had emerged as the largest and one of the most influential of interwar France's numerous far-right leagues. Though the Croix-de-Feu had adopted as its slogan "Social d'abord" ("Social First") as a counter to the "Politique d'abord" ("Politics First") of Action Française, it espoused the political goals elaborated by La Rocque in his tract Service Public, including social Catholic corporatism, the institution of a minimum wage and paid vacations (congés payés), women's suffrage and the reform of parliamentary procedure. The party's programme would further develop the same themes by advocating "the association of capital and labour", a traditional platitude of French conservatism, and the reform of France's political institutions along presidential lines to bolster the stability and authority of the state.
Though the Croix-de-Feu participated in the demonstrations of 6 February 1934, La Rocque forbade its members from involving themselves in the subsequent riot, thus demonstrating a respect for republican legality that the PSF would also uphold as one of its essential political principles. La Rocque, who had previously maintained a certain mystique with regard to his attitude towards the Republic, explicitly rallied to it and denounced in a speech on 23 May 1936 totalitarianism (both Nazi and Soviet) along with racism (with regard to which he explicitly rejected anti-Semitism) and class struggle, as the principal obstacles to "national reconciliation".
Nevertheless, critics of the left and centre denounced the Croix-de-Feu, together with the other leagues, as fascist organizations. A desire to defend the republic was not their sole motivation. Politicians of the centre-right and left alike opposed La Rocque because of the perceived threat of his success in mobilising a mass base within their traditional particularly working-class constituencies.
The disruptive nature of the leagues' activities made Pierre Laval's government outlaw paramilitary groups on 6 December 1935. Although that decision was succeeded by the law of 10 January 1936 regulating militias and combat organizations, the law was only partially implemented. Of all the leagues, only Action Française was dissolved, and the Croix-de-Feu was allowed to continue its activities essentially unimpeded. After the victory of the Popular Front, which had included in its electoral programme a promise to dissolve the right-wing leagues in the parliamentary elections of May 1936, the government issued a decree banning the Croix-de-Feu, along with the Mouvement social français, on 18 June. Within weeks, on 7 July, La Rocque founded the French Social Party to succeed the defunct league.
Political success and co-operation (1936–40)
Organisation and mass mobilisation
The PSF inherited the large popular base of the Croix-de-Feu (450,000 members in June 1936, most of them having joined since 1934) and, mirroring the contemporary Popular Front, achieved considerable success in mobilizing it through a variety of associated organizations: sporting societies, labour organizations and leisure and vacation camps. PSF members also orchestrated the development of "professional unions" (), envisioned as a means of organising management against labour militancy, which espoused class collaboration and claimed 1,000,000 members by 1938.
Unlike established right-wing parties such as the Republican Federation and Democratic Alliance, which had traditionally lacked a formal membership structure and relied instead on the support of notables, the PSF aggressively courted an extensive membership among the middle and lower classes. By 1940, the PSF had become not only France's first right-wing mass party but also the nation's largest party in terms of membership: over 700,000 members (and more than a million according to some historians), it eclipsed even the traditionally mass-based Socialist (SFIO) and Communist Parties (202,000 and 288,000 members, respectively, in December 1936).
The party's central committee included its president, La Rocque, vice-presidents Jean Mermoz and , , Charles Vallin, Jean Ybarnégaray, Jean Borotra, and . The party had two newspapers: Le Flambeau and Le Petit Journal.
Electoral success
Six members of the nascent PSF were elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1936, and three more were elected in by-elections between 1936 and 1939. Two deputies of other right-wing parliamentary groups defected to the party. The true measure of the party's electoral potential, however, came with the municipal elections of 1938–1939 in which it won 15% of votes nationally. As a result of the proportional representation law passed by the Chamber in June 1939, that promised to translate into approximately 100 deputies in the legislative elections planned for 1940. By 1939, the party's elected officials, its 11 deputies aside, included nearly 3000 mayors, 541 general councilors and thousands of municipal councilors.
Competition with established right-wing parties
Of all the PSF's successes, it was the party's popularity among the middle classes, the peasants, shopkeepers, and clerical workers, who had been hardest hit by the Great Depression. They generated the most fear from the left. That demographic had historically been one of the primary bastions of the Radical-Socialist Party, and its falling under the influence of the "fascist" right was viewed by Popular Front leaders as a serious threat to the stability of the republic. The PSF, for its part, actively courted the middle classes and argued that their traditional Radical defenders had abandoned them by supporting the Popular Front.
Despite that demographic threat, however, the PSF generated the most fervent hostility within the parties of the established parliamentary right, most notably the conservative Republican Federation. The tensions between the Federation and the PSF were demonstrated as early as 1937 by a Normandy by-election in which the Federation candidate, after being behind the PSF candidate in the first round, initially refused to stand down and support the latter in the runoff round. The rancor of the feuding parties, despite the Federation candidate's eventual endorsement of the PSF, resulted in the seat falling to the centre, which demonstrated to Federation and PSF leaders alike the undesirability of co-existence. Thus, although the two parties were in fact in agreement on many questions of ideology, notably their defense of the far-right leagues, the PSF was viewed by the long-established Federation as a rival "to its own electoral fortunes".
A second victim of the PSF's popularity was Jacques Doriot's far-right Parti Populaire Français (PPF), which incorporated nationalist, virulently-anticommunist and openly-fascist tendencies. Founded, like the PSF, in June 1936, the PPF enjoyed initial success and attracted a membership of 295,000, according to the party's own statistics by early 1938. With the continued growth of the PSF, however, the PPF fell into decline, which parallelled the demise of the Popular Front to which it had largely been a reaction.
In March 1937, Doriot proposed the formation of a Front de la Liberté ("Front of Liberty") with the objective of unifying the right in opposition to the Popular Front. Although the Republican Federation, followed by several small right-wing parties that stood to lose little from allying themselves to the more extremist PPF, quickly accepted Doriot's proposal, it was rejected both by the moderate Democratic Alliance and by La Rocque, who identified the Front as an attempt to "annex" the popularity of his party. His insistence on the PSF's independence got La Rocque attacked violently by other figures on the right, including former Croix-de-Feu members who had abandoned the more moderate Social Party.
Rapprochement with Radical Party
The major parties of the right fell in disarray after their electoral defeat and the strike movement of June 1936. Although the Republican Federation, at least, was consistent in its opposition to Popular Front policies, the Democratic Alliance and the small, Christian democratic Popular Democratic Party (PDP) were reluctant to criticise the government to prevent the sabotage of their efforts to lure the Radical Party into a centre-right coalition.
Thus, the Independent Radicals, gathering right-wing Radical parliamentarians, constituted the most effective opposition to the Popular Front, particularly in the Senate. With the prospect of a PSF breakthrough in the 1940 elections in mind, the Independent Radicals sought to cooperate with the new force; for their part, the PSF deputies voted confidence in Édouard Daladier's Radical government in April 1938. With the collapse of the Popular Front the PSF-Radical alliance seemed inevitable to many on the left, with the Socialist newspaper Le Populaire writing in 1938 that "the PSF-Radical bloc has become a reality of political life". However, that observation appeared premature to most contemporary observers.
Wartime activities (1940–45)
The Danzig Crisis of 1939 deprived the PSF of the chance to make serious inroads in parliament. On 30 July, French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, fearing that the imminent electoral campaign would distract the Chamber of Deputies from the business of national defence, used the decree powers granted him by the Chamber to extend its term until May 1942.
After the Fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy regime, La Rocque denounced it as defeatist and anti-Semitic, but he still proclaimed his personal loyalty to Marshal Philippe Pétain, and the PSF was renamed Progrès Social Français (French Social Progress) and took on the form of a social aid organisation because of the occupation authorities' prohibition of organised political activities.
La Rocque's attitude towards the Vichy government was initially ambiguous. As stated, he continued to affirm his loyalty to Pétain and was amenable to certain of the more moderate aspects of Vichy's reactionary program, the Révolution Nationale, notably its corporatism and social policies. The PSF further refused to recognize General Charles de Gaulle's Free French, along with the National Council of the Resistance, as the legitimate French authorities in opposition to Vichy, which also claimed constitutional legitimacy although some members of the PSF, such as Charles Vallin, joined the Free French. However, La Rocque was hostile to Vichy's enthusiastic collaboration with the Nazi occupiers and forbade PSF members from participating in Vichy-sponsored organisations such as the Service d'Ordre Légionnaire, the Milice and the Legion of French Volunteers.
In August 1940, La Rocque began actively to participate in the French Resistance by transmitting information to the British Secret Intelligence Service via Georges Charaudeau's Réseau Alibi ("Alibi Network") and forming the Réseau Klan ("Klan Network") in 1942 as a means of coordinating intelligence-gathering activities among PSF members. Nevertheless, he continued to believe that he could convince Pétain to abandon his collaborationist line and so he requested and was granted three meetings with the Marshal in early 1943. Two days after their last meeting, on 9 March, La Rocque was arrested by the Gestapo during a nationwide roundup of over 100 PSF leaders. Deported first to Czechoslovakia and later to Austria, he returned to France only in May 1945.
As with nearly all other political parties that had existed under the Third Republic, the PSF produced both collaborators with and resisters of the Vichy regime. In most cases, individual circumstances dictated more ambiguous loyalties and actions. Although former PSF deputy Jean Ybarnegaray, for instance, served in the first Vichy government under Pétain as Minister for Veterans and the Family, he resigned his post in 1940 and was in 1943 arrested and deported because of his efforts in helping Resistance members to cross the Pyrenees into Spain.
Postwar legacy (1945–58)
Official continuation
In August 1945, after the Liberation of France, La Rocque and his remaining followers, principally Pierre de Léotard, André Portier, and Jean de Mierry, established the Parti Républicain Social de la Réconciliation Française (Social Republican Party of French Reconciliation), known generally as Réconciliation Française and intended as the official successor of the PSF. On the initiative of Léotard, the PRSRF participated in the right-wing Rally of the Republican Lefts (RGR, see sinistrisme) coalition in the elections of June 1946, November 1946, 1951 and 1956. The death of La Rocque in 1946 deprived the party of unifying leadership, however, and the prewar popularity that it had hoped to exploit never materialised. Though the PRSRF had effectively disappeared by 1956, with the schism that year of the RGR into centre-left and centre-right groups, some of its members would later continue their political careers within the conservative National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP).
Ideological successors
Despite the postwar insignificance of the party itself, elements of the PSF's and La Rocque's ideology strongly influenced the political formations of right and the centre during the Fourth Republic. La Rocque had advised his followers to create "a third party, sincerely republican and very bold from a social perspective" — by which he meant Réconciliation Française within the Rally of the Republican Lefts, but for some former PSF loyalists and sympathizers, the statement applied more accurately to the newly-formed Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (Mouvement Républicain Populaire, MRP) and, for others (notably François Mitterrand), the left-liberal Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR).
PSF ideology, particularly its corporatist emphasis on the association of capital and labour and its advocacy of a strong stable presidential regime to replace the parliamentary republic, would also contribute to the development of Gaullism, culminating in the establishment of the presidential Fifth Republic in 1958. The postwar Gaullist party, the Rally of the French People (RPF), like the MRP, enthusiastically adopted the mass-based model of organization and mobilization that had been pioneered by the PSF, a sharp and permanent break from the cadre-based parties of the prewar classical right.
Historiography
Historical debate over the PSF, like its predecessor, the Croix-de-Feu, has been driven by the question of whether they can be considered in at least some respects as the manifestations of a "French fascism". Most contemporary French historians, notably René Rémond, Michel Winock, Jean Lacouture and Pierre Milza, have rejected that assertion. Rémond, in his La Droite en France, identifies the PSF instead as an offshoot of the Bonapartist tradition in French right-wing politics, populist and anti-parliamentarian but hardly fascist. Milza in La France des années 30 writes that "the PSF was more anti-parliamentarian than anti-republican". More recently, Lacouture wrote, "La Rocque's movement was neither fascist nor extremist". Furthermore, Rémond identified the PSF, at least in part, as a populist and social-Catholic "antidote" to French fascism. He wrote, "Far from representing a French form of fascism in the face of the Popular Front, La Rocque helped to safeguard France from fascism" by diverting the support of the middle classes away from more extremist alternatives. Jacques Nobécourt made similar assertions: "La Rocque spared France from a pre-war experiment with totalitarianism".
The lasting confusion over the "fascist" tendencies of the PSF can be ascribed in part to two factors. Firstly, the PSF's predecessor, the Croix-de-Feu, had aspired to a paramilitary aesthetic (described by Julian Jackson as a "fascist frisson" and dismissed by Rémond as "political boy scouting for adults") outwardly similar to that employed by the more overtly fascist of the right-wing leagues. Furthermore, La Rocque continued to defend the leagues' activities even in the face of their condemnation by the parties of the established moderate right (though not the Republican Federation). Secondly, the PSF's condemnation of parliamentarism, which was considered synonymous with French republicanism by most leftist and centrist politicians, marked it as inherently anti-republican and thus "fascist" in the period's political discourse in their opinions.
A number of foreign historians, however, have questioned those defences of La Rocque and the PSF. Zeev Sternhell, criticising Rémond's classification of the PSF as Bonapartist in Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, associates the party and its leader with a "revolutionary right" tradition that owes its political heritage to Boulangism and the revolutionary syndicalism of Georges Sorel. That minority view is partially shared by Robert Soucy, William D. Irvine, and Michel Dobry, who argue that the Croix-de-Feu and the PSF were partially-realized manifestations of a distinctively-French fascism, their political potential but not their tactics of organization and mobilisation, which was destroyed by the German invasion and thus permanently discredited. Sternhell, pointing to the democratic path to power followed by the Nazi Party, also made the argument that La Rocque's apparent respect for republican legality is not enough to disqualify his movement as fascist.
See also
Far right leagues
History of far right movements in France
Interwar France
François de La Rocque
Travail, Famille, Patrie, PSF motto appropriated by Vichy
References
Further reading
Dobry, Michel. Le Mythe de l'allergie française au fascisme, Paris: Albin Michel, 2003.
Irvine, William D. French Conservatism in Crisis: The Republican Federation of France in the 1930s, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Jackson, Julian. The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38, Cambridge: CUP, 1988. Specifically, see Chapter 9, 'The view from the right', p. 249-68.
Kennedy, Sean. Reconciling France Against Democracy: The Croix-de-Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-45, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
Machefer, P. "Les Croix-de-Feu 1927-36", Information historique, No. 1 (1972).
Machefer, P. "Le Parti social français en 1936-37", Information historique, No. 2 (1972).
Milza, Pierre. La France des années 30, Paris: Armand Colin, 1988.
Nobécourt, Jacques. Le colonel de La Rocque, ou les pièges du nationalisme chrétien, Paris: Fayard, 1996.
Rémond, René. La Droite en France, Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1968.
Sternhell, Zeev. Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
French nationalist parties
Political parties of the French Third Republic
Defunct political parties in France
Right-wing parties in France
Right-wing populism in France
Political parties established in 1936
Political parties disestablished in 1940
1936 establishments in France
1940 disestablishments in France
|
4017168
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20%28computing%29
|
Transfer (computing)
|
In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common secondary terms gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel. It is also known as sample rate, i.e. the number of data samples captured per second, each sample normally occurring at the clock edge. The terms are neutral with respect to the method of physically accomplishing each such data-transfer operation; nevertheless, they are most commonly used in the context of transmission of digital data. 1 MT/s is 106 or one million transfers per second; similarly, 1 GT/s means 109, or equivalently in the US/short scale, one billion transfers per second.
The choice of the symbol T for transfer conflicts with the International System of Units, in which T stands for the tesla unit of magnetic flux density (so "Megatesla per second" would be a reasonable unit to describe the rate of a rapidly changing magnetic field, such as in a pulsed field magnet or kicker magnet).
These terms alone do not specify the bit rate at which binary data is being transferred, because they do not specify the number of bits transferred in each transfer operation (known as the channel width or word length). In order to calculate the data transmission rate, one must multiply the transfer rate by the information channel width. For example, a data bus eight-bytes wide (64 bits) by definition transfers eight bytes in each transfer operation; at a transfer rate of 1 GT/s, the data rate would be 8 × 109 B/s, i.e. 8 GB/s, or approximately 7.45 GiB/s. The bit rate for this example is 64 Gbit/s (8 × 8 × 109 bit/s).
The formula for a data transfer rate is: Channel width (bits/transfer) × transfers/second = bits/second.
Expanding the width of a channel, for example that between a CPU and a northbridge, increases data throughput without requiring an increase in the channel's operating frequency (measured in transfers per second). This is analogous to increasing throughput by increasing bandwidth but leaving latency unchanged.
The units usually refer to the "effective" number of transfers, or transfers perceived from "outside" of a system or component, as opposed to the internal speed or rate of the clock of the system. One example is a computer bus running at double data rate where data is transferred on both the rising and falling edge of the clock signal. If its internal clock runs at 100 MHz, then the effective rate is 200 MT/s, because there are 100 million rising edges per second and 100 million falling edges per second of a clock signal running at 100 MHz.
Buses like SCSI and PCI fall in the megatransfer range of data transfer rate, while newer bus architectures like the PCI-X, PCI Express, Quick Path, and HyperTransport / Infinity Fabric operate at the gigatransfer rate.
See also
Data-rate units
Data transmission, also known as digital transmission
File transfer
Parallel port
Symbol rate (baud)
References
What does GT/s mean, anyway?
Computer performance
|
4017186
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadriel
|
Gadriel
|
Gadriel may refer to:
Angels (Marvel Comics) one of the Grigori
or Gadreel, fallen angel called Gadriel ('wall of God') in Chapter 68 of Book of Enoch
|
4017188
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Lindquist
|
Johan Lindquist
|
Johan Lindquist of Stockholm was an important 18th-century Swedish clock and watch maker. He was a pupil of Julien Le Roy in Paris in, perhaps, the 1740s, and in the late 1750s was appointed clock-maker to King Adolf Frederick of Sweden. He died on 4 June 1779. He numbered all his pieces, and was at approximately no. 620 by the time of his death.
References
Gunnar Pipping, Elis Sidenbladh and Erik Elfström Urmakare och klockor i Sverige och Finland Norsted, 1995
External links
A long-case clock by Johan Lindquist.
Businesspeople from Stockholm
Swedish clockmakers
1779 deaths
Year of birth unknown
|
4017200
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20A.%20Borski%20Jr.
|
Robert A. Borski Jr.
|
Robert Anthony Borski (born October 20, 1948) is an American politician. He was a Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1983 until 2003, representing the state's 3rd congressional district.
Borski was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he graduated from the University of Baltimore in 1971. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state house of representatives from 1977 to 1982.
In 1982, he took on GOP Representative Charles F. Dougherty in the 3rd Congressional District, which had been renumbered from the 4th after the 1980 Census. 1982 was a rough year for Republicans due to a recession and Borski would be a beneficiary of the public discontent. He also was helped by some friendly redistricting that shifted some heavily Democratic wards to the 3rd. Borski scored a narrow victory of less than 3,000 votes—in the process, ousting the last Republican to represent a significant portion of Philadelphia in the House. The Borski-Dougherty battles would be fought out in this district three more times in 1992, 1998, and 2000 with Borski victorious each time.
In his 20 years in Congress, Borski rose to become the second-ranking Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He was generally classed as a liberal Democrat, but opposed abortion in most cases.
In 2002, the Republican-controlled State Legislature threw Borski a curve. Pennsylvania was due to lose two districts as a result of the 2000 United States Census, and the legislature dismantled his northeast Philadelphia district. Borski's home was drawn into the Montgomery County-based 13th District of two-term Democrat Joe Hoeffel. They expected that either Borski or Hoeffel would be bloodied from the resulting primary election. However, Borski decided not to run, instead retiring from Congress and allowing Hoeffel to avoid a costly primary campaign.
After retiring, Borski formed his own lobbying firm, Borski Associates. Governor Ed Rendell hired Borski in 2003 to help lobby for the state of Pennsylvania in Congress.
On October 10, 2002, Robert Borski was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the invasion of Iraq. In 2003, the post office where Borski's father once carried mail was renamed in his honor.
In 2010, Politics Magazine named him one of the most influential Democrats in Pennsylvania.
References
External links
PA redistricting lawsuit
1948 births
Living people
University of Baltimore alumni
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Pennsylvania lobbyists
Politicians from Philadelphia
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
21st-century American politicians
|
4017205
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni-Man
|
Omni-Man
|
Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson) is a fictional character in the Image Universe, created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker (with Ryan Ottley) as an expansion of a character concept created by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse. Omni-Man is the father of Invincible and a member of the Viltrumite race, a humanoid species of extraterrestrial origin who possess immense powers, working as a superhero on Earth. As is customary for males of his species, Omni-Man sports a large moustache. Omni-Man appears in Supreme, Invincible, Noble Causes, and Dynamo 5.
In the Invincible television series, Omni-Man is voiced by J. K. Simmons.
Publication history
Omni-Man (as Omniman) was first referenced in Alan Moore's and Chris Sprouse's Supreme: The Story of the Year (August 1996–September 1997), in which the titular Supreme (in his civilian identity of Ethan Crane) would illustrate the adventures of Omniman. Robert Kirkman would officially introduce Omni-Man as the father of the titular character in his comic series Invincible (January 2003–February 2018), redesigned by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley as a black-haired, moustachioed man compared to his Supreme design of blonde hair and a clean-shaven face.
Fictional character biography
Supreme
In Supreme: The Story of the Year, the superhero Supreme (upon adopting the civilian identity of Ethan Crane) begins drawing the adventures of Omni-Man (spelled Omniman) as a comic book artist for Dazzle Comics, imagining his secret identity as that of Spencer Samson, and his love interests as Linda Lake and Lyra Lemuria alongside writer and Omniman creator Diana Dane. Later, supervillain Cyber-Zerk attacks Supreme's place of work in search of Omniman, assuming the comic to be accurate to life, and kidnapping Dane in an attempt to draw him out, subsequently mistaking Supreme for Omniman. Later, Supreme encounters a real-life version of the Dazzle Comics Omniman in his office after finding a comic book depicting his own life as it is happening. After questioning their respective existences and accusing the other to be fictional, Omniman and Supreme decide to demonstrate each other's powers in a brawl, with Diana helping Supreme by proving background on Omniman's powers. Ultimately, after breaking character, "Omniman" reveals to himself to be the inter-dimensional Szazs, the Sprite Supreme, having imitated Supreme's Omniman in an attempt to win the Impolympics.
Following a multiversal war and a subsequent "revision" of Earth's history in Erik Larsen's Supreme, set during the events of Invincible, the real Omni-Man faces a "mean" Supreme after he viciously beats Suprema into a coma and goes on a killing spree, murdering criminals to re-establish his position as the most powerful superhero on the planet, while Dane, the "modern" Supreme and other surviving Supremes of the Supremacy, having been stripped of their superpowers, adjust to their helplessness in ending "mean" Supreme's rampage. After bringing their fight to the moon, knocking the "mean" Supreme unconscious, Omni-Man is surprised when the "mean" Supreme is captured by Khromium, while on Earth, Dane and Supreme are amazed to see a real-life version of their character brought to life, after finding Dazzle Comics to no longer exist.
Invincible
In Invincible, Omni-Man arrived on Earth in the 1980s, where he eventually adopted the secret identity of a best-selling author named Nolan Grayson. He married Debbie, whose life he had saved, and they had a son together named Mark Grayson. In issue number 7, Nolan lures Earth's premiere superhero team, the Guardians of the Globe, to their hideout in Utah, where he brutally murders all the members. It was later revealed that the Immortal, the Guardians' leader, had been resurrected by the supervillain duo the Mauler Twins in an attempt to brainwash and control him. Remembering Omni-Man's betrayal, Immortal tracked down Nolan and battled him in public, outing him as the murderer and villain he truly is before being killed yet again. Nolan reveals that he was sent to Earth as a conqueror for the Viltrum Empire, a revelation that was in stark contrast to his previous claims that his presence was to advance human technology and protect the Earth from extraterrestrial dangers. In a confrontation shortly thereafter, Omni-Man beat Mark to within an inch of his life, yet he refuses to kill him before he fled the planet.
It was further revealed that Nolan had found a new planet over which to rule, in the hopes of offsetting some of the consequences of his earthly failure. Nolan's rise to power, however, was entirely peaceful. The custom of the native inhabitants, the Mantis Aliens (an insectoid people who live entirely within a nine-month span), was to simply choose the oldest among them to act as their leader. As on Earth, Nolan has taken a native wife, Andressa, and sired a second son, Oliver (who subsequently begins to use the codename "Kid Omni-Man" when he accompanies Invincible back to Earth). The genetic differences between Viltrumites and the mantis-people were more apparent, though, than they were with humans. This caused the child to age much more slowly than his mother's species, but much faster than his father's.
Omni-Man's attempts to appease the Viltrum Empire ended in failure with his defeat and capture at the hands of his own people. He was held captive in prison until the Empire was able to send the required Viltrumite executioners. His parting words to Mark were "Read my books, Mark. My books..." In a conversation with his tailor Art Rosenbaum, Mark learns that the books Nolan referred to were not his well-known travel books, but a series of failed science fiction "novels". While Arthur suspected that the stories were Viltrumite folklore, Mark quickly realized that they were, in fact, first-person accounts of Nolan's own missions to destroy potential threats to the Viltrum Empire, which could provide the secrets to defeating the Viltrumites.
He is later saved on the day of his execution by Allen the Alien, to whom he agrees to reveal the "secret": Viltrumites are a near-extinct race, with fewer than fifty pure-blood able individuals left. Emboldened by the incredible strength shown by his new ally, he begins a two-men campaign to eradicate Viltrum's supremacy. Embarking on adventures across the galaxy, they gather weapons and allies which will give them an advantage over the Viltrumites, before returning to Earth to collect Mark and Oliver. They are briefly waylaid by the Viltrumite champion Conquest, an old enemy of Invincible who is killed in the ensuing battle, but not before Mark is critically injured. Nolan spends the subsequent months bonding with Oliver while Mark heals.
In the final battle of the war, the anti-Viltrumite coalition is victorious, destroying the Viltrumite homeworld and scattering their enemies, although Nolan is badly wounded by the Viltrumite regent Thragg, who secretly relocates the surviving members of his race on Earth, planning to interbreed with humans to covertly rebuild the empire. Tensions mount when Thragg discovers that Nolan is a descendant of the long-dead Viltrumite king, and thus heir to the throne, provoking a fierce battle between them. Although Nolan is overpowered, the Viltrumites recognize him and rally behind him, forcing Thragg to flee. Nolan is subsequently crowned as ruler of the Viltrum Empire.
Nolan Grayson manages to overlook the Viltrumites on Earth and sees how the Viltrumites changed for the better and see Earth as their new home. Nolan learns that Anissa raped Mark, and is saddened at Oliver's death. In the final confrontation between the Viltrumites and Thragg's army, Nolan was killed by Thragg. In his last words to Mark, Nolan Grayson names Mark as his successor to be the Emperor of Viltrumites. In the future, his grandson (Marky) visits Nolan's grave and promises to live up to his father's legacy.
Dynamo 5
In Dynamo 5: Sins of the Father, Omni-Man (alongside Captain Dynamo, Supreme, and the Savage Dragon) defeats Dominex in combat thirty years prior to the series' events, in which Dominex's three sons seek to regain their family's honour (after their father had been spared from execution and sent him back to his home planet in shame) by fighting Invincible and the Dynamo 5.
Powers and abilities
In addition to having all the generic powers and abilities of a Viltrumite, Omni-Man ranks among the most powerful Viltrumites to ever exist. He has superhuman strength, able to easily lift immense amounts of weight and tear through virtually any matter; this places him as the single most powerful being on Earth. He has super speed, able to close tremendous distances in seconds and likewise react to the fastest of opponents. He is nigh-invulnerable, immune to all forms of illness or contamination and able to withstand physical harm from all but the strongest of dangers. He has an enhanced healing factor, able to recover from any damage he does sustain in remarkably short periods of time with no lingering side-effects. He has nigh-limitless stamina, able to continue his exertions for long periods of time with no effect to his performance and endure any damage he does sustain unhindered. He is also able to levitate and fly. While still needing air, Omni-Man can endure weeks holding his breath and likewise can survive the vacuum of space unprotected, allowing for unaided interstellar travel. Omni-Man is blessed with an immense longevity. This stems from a decelerated aging process, gradually aging slower the older he gets, allowing him to retain his youthful health, vitality, conditioning, and appearance for an incalculably long time. At over two thousand years old, he has only begun to show signs of aging while still physically performing in his prime. Also as a Viltrumite, Omni-Man's genetics are so potent, they almost completely overshadow any genetics his offspring will inherit from the other parent, making said offspring almost purely Viltrumite themselves.
In other media
Omni-Man appears in the Invincible streaming television series, voiced by J. K. Simmons to positive critical reception, spawning several internet memes.
Omni-Man appears in the web series Death Battle where he battled Homelander from The Boys and won.
Reception
Omni-Man was ranked as IGNs 93rd-greatest comic book hero/villain of all time. The website cited his charismatic moustache in its ranking.
The character has been compared to Superman, Vegeta from the Dragon Ball franchise, and Homelander from The Boys comic series and its TV adaptation.
References
Characters created by Robert Kirkman
Fictional characters with slowed ageing
Fictional defectors
Fictional mass murderers
Fictional military personnel in comics
Fictional military personnel in television
Fictional rampage and spree killers
Fictional prison escapees
Fictional sleeper agents
Fictional terrorists
Fictional war criminals
Fictional warlords
Fictional writers
Fictional soldiers
Image Comics extraterrestrial superheroes
Image Comics extraterrestrial supervillains
Image Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Image Comics characters with accelerated healing
Image Comics characters with superhuman strength
Image Comics male superheroes
Image Comics male supervillains
Invincible (comic)
Skybound Entertainment superheroes
Skybound Entertainment supervillains
Parodies of Superman
Superheroes with alter egos
Internet memes introduced in 2021
Film and television memes
|
4017211
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Nelsen
|
Bill Nelsen
|
William Keith Nelsen (January 29, 1941 – April 11, 2019) was a football player who played collegiately for the University of Southern California and professionally with both the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns. He was known for his leadership and willingness to play with pain, having endured a series of knee injuries during the course of his career. He later served as an assistant coach with four NFL teams.
College career
After playing one season of community college ball at Cerritos College in California, Nelsen moved on to USC, where he was a key player during his first two seasons, leading the squad in total offense in both 1960 and 1961. In 1962, he split time at the position with Pete Beathard, helping the team capture the national championship.
Professional career
Nelsen was drafted in the 10th round of the 1963 NFL Draft by the Steelers, but saw limited action during his first two seasons. In 1965, new head coach Mike Nixon gave Nelsen the starting job. However, the struggling team finished 2-12, offering him little help, with Nelsen throwing for eight touchdowns, in addition to 17 interceptions. In the November 14, 1965 game against the Dallas Cowboys, Nelsen suffered a knee injury that plagued him the remainder of that year; he underwent surgery after the season.
The following season, Nelsen suffered a knee injury against the Detroit Lions in the season's second game. Originally scheduled to be out of the lineup for six weeks, Nelsen did not return until the season's 12th week. The limited time on the field allowed him to set a league record for fewest interceptions (100 minimum passes) with just one on the campaign. In the season finale on December 18, he completed his final 11 passes to defeat the expansion Atlanta Falcons.
In 1967, the injuries continued for Nelsen when during the closing moments of the September 24 game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he was injured following a tackle by Chuck Walker. He missed the next four games, but came off the bench to engineer a 14-10 comeback victory over the expansion New Orleans Saints on October 29.
On May 14, 1968, Nelsen was traded, along with defensive back Jim Bradshaw, to the Browns. In return, the Pittsburgh Steelers received quarterback Dick Shiner, defensive tackle Frank Parker and an undisclosed draft choice. The trade wound up helping both teams, as within a month into the season, both Nelsen and Shiner were starting at quarterback for their new clubs.
After serving as Frank Ryan's backup for three games in 1968, Nelsen was elevated to the starting role, and quickly made his mark with a shocking 30-20 upset of the previously unbeaten Baltimore Colts on October 20. By the end of the season, Nelsen had led the team to the playoffs, winning nine of his 11 starts.
In 1969, Nelsen had another strong season, leading the Browns to a 10-3-1 record and a postseason berth, as well as being selected to his first and only Pro Bowl. One week after throwing for five touchdowns in a 42-10 victory over the previously unbeaten Dallas Cowboys on November 2, Nelsen spent a miserable afternoon against the Minnesota Vikings on the losing end of a 51-3 score. In addition, he briefly left that game with a pinched nerve in his throwing arm, a malady which would trouble him for the rest of the season.
In game two of the 1970 NFL season, Nelsen took yet another hit to his knees in a September 27 game against the San Francisco 49ers. The injury forced him out of the game and kept him on the sidelines the following week as well. After a mid-season slump, he was replaced for one game by rookie Mike Phipps, but returned to start the final five games. Unfortunately, the Browns dropped to a 7-7 mark and missed the postseason.
In 1971, Nelsen led the Browns to four wins in their first five games, but another mid-season slump once again relegated him to the bench for one game. Unlike the previous year, however, Nelsen led the team to five straight victories to again reach the playoffs. Nelsen briefly won the starting job to start the 1972 season, but gave way to Phipps after a 26-10 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the opening game. Weeks after the conclusion of the season, Nelsen underwent his fifth knee operation and announced his retirement.
In 2012, the Plain Dealer named Nelsen #52 on its list of the top 100 Browns of all time.
Coaching career
On February 14, 1973, he was hired as an assistant coach for the New England Patriots, but resigned after two years. After briefly considering the Browns' open head coaching slot, he accepted an assistant position with the Atlanta Falcons. He resigned that position following the dismissal of head coach Marion Campbell.
On February 9, 1977, he was named quarterback coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, reuniting him with his former college coach, John McKay. He spent the next six seasons in that role until being fired amid reports of conflict with Buccaneers quarterback Doug Williams and McKay. After sitting out the 1983 NFL season, Nelsen was hired by Detroit Lions' head coach Monte Clark, a former Browns teammate, as their offensive coordinator on January 20, 1984.
On April 11, 2019, Nelsen died in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 78.
References
External links
Bill Nelson Career statistics
1941 births
2019 deaths
American football quarterbacks
Atlanta Falcons coaches
Cerritos Falcons football players
Cleveland Browns players
Detroit Lions coaches
New England Patriots coaches
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaches
USC Trojans football players
Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
Players of American football from Los Angeles
|
4017218
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykhism
|
Shaykhism
|
Shaykhism () is a Shi'a Islamic school founded by Shaykh Ahmad in early 19th-century Qajar Iran. While grounded in traditional Twelver Shiʻi doctrine, Shaykhism diverged from the Usuli school in its interpretation of key ideas such as the nature of the end times and the day of resurrection, the source of jurisprudential authority, and the proper hermeneutic to be employed in interpreting prophecy through the mystical writings of the Twelver Imams. These divergences resulted in controversy and ongoing accusations of heresy from Usulis and Akhbaris.
It has been described as a mystical strand of Twelver Shi'a Islam.
, there remained a following in Iran, Iraq Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Pakistan.
Shaykhí teachings
Eschatology
The primary force behind Ahmad's teachings is the belief in the occultation of the Twelfth Imam. Believers in this doctrine, hold that the last divine ordained leader, or Imam, lives in occultation and will reappear as the promised Mahdi. Following the Mahdi's appearance, Ahmad teaches that the Imam Hussain ibn Ali will return to re-conquer the world and that the Imam Ali and prophet Muhammad will kill Satan. Al Raj'a (meaning "the return" in English) was heavily emphasized by Ahmad and is more important in Shaykhism than in the Usuli school of Islam.
Shaykh Ahmad's perspectives on accepted Islamic doctrines diverged in several areas, most notably on his mystical interpretation of prophesy. The sun, moon and stars of the Qurʼan's eschatological surahs are seen as allegorical, similar to Ismailis, where common Muslim interpretation is that events involving celestial bodies will happen literally at the Day of Judgment.
Mystical interpretation
In other writings, Shaykh Ahmad synthesizes rather dramatic descriptions of the origin of the prophets, the primal word, and other religious themes through allusions and mystical language. Much of this language is oriented around trees, specifically the primal universal tree of Eden, described in Jewish scripture as being two trees. This primal tree is, in some ways, the universal spirit of the prophets themselves:The symbol of the preexistent tree appears elsewhere in Shaykh Ahmad's writings. He says, for instance, that the Prophet and the Imams exist both on the level of unconstrained being or preexistence, wherein they are the Complete Word and the Most Perfect Man, and on the level of constrained being. On this second, limited plane, the cloud of the divine Will subsists and from it emanates the Primal Water that irrigates the barren earth of matter and of elements. Although the divine Will remains unconstrained in essential being, its manifest aspect has now entered into limited being. When God poured down from the clouds of Will on the barren earth, he thereby sent down this water and it mixed with the fallow soil. In the garden of the heaven known as as-Saqurah, the Tree of Eternity arose, and the Holy Spirit or Universal Intellect, the first branch that grew upon it, is the first creation among the worlds.
Prominent Scholars
Shaykh Ahmad
Shaykh Ahmad, at about age forty, began to study in earnest in the Shiʻa centres of religious scholarship such as Karbala and Najaf. He attained sufficient recognition in such circles to be declared a mujtahid, an interpreter of Islamic Law. He contended with Sufi and Neo-Platonist scholars, and attained a positive reputation among their detractors. He declared that all knowledge and sciences were contained (in essential form) within the Qurʼan, and that to excel in the sciences, all knowledge must be gleaned from the Qurʼan. His leadership style and approach to interpretation draw both on traditional and theosophical methods, attempting to harmonize these two streams of Shiʻia thought in unprecedented ways, and emphasizing the validity of intuitive knowledge for religious thought. Rather than relying entirely on Ijtihad, or independent rational justification, Shakyh Ahmad claimed to derive direct guidance from the Imams. Relying entirely on individual justification for religious guidance had, he suggested, led to the introduction into Shiʻa belief of erroneous views of particular scholars. By emphasizing the role of a charismatic leader whose work was suggested to shared in the infallibility of the Imams, Shakyh Ahmad suggested that the diversity of rulings promoted by the ulama could be replaced with a singular set of doctrines-this view would later find widespread support in the Ayatollah system of modern Usulism. His views resulted in his denunciation by several learned clerics, and he engaged in many debates before moving on to Persia where he settled for a time in the province of Yazd. It was in Isfahan that most of this was written.
Sayyid Kazim Rashti
Al-Ahsa'is most prominent student, Kazim Rashti, was given the authority to teach on his behalf in Karbala and became his undisputed successor.
Abbas Amanat notes that, in contrast to other religious schools in Iran where students came from families of high-ranking clerics, "the majority of the students in Rashti's circle, with the exception of a few, were alike in their humble origins".
Karim Khan
Al-Rashti had hundreds of students and several of his leading students claimed to be the true successors to his scholarship. The two main currents of Shaykhism since then came to be known as the Kermani and Tabrizi Schools.
Karim Khan Kermani (1809/1810-1870/1871) became the leader of the main Shaykhi group. He became the foremost critic of those that formed a new religion, writing four essays against them. He repudiated some of the more radical teachings of Ahsai and Rashti and moved the Shaykhi school back towards the mainstream Usuli teachings. Karim Khan Kirmani was succeeded by his son Shaykh Muhammad Khan Kirmani (1846–1906), then by Muhammad's brother Shaykh Zaynal 'Abidln Kirmani (1859–1946). Shaykh Zayn al-'Abidin Kirmani was succeeded by Shaykh Abu al-Qasim Ibrahimi (1896–1969), who was succeeded by his son 'Abd al-Rida Khan Ibrahimi who was a leader until his death.
Muhammad Baqir Sharif Tabatabae
Mirza Muhammad Baqir Sharif Tabatabaei was born in a village named Qehi, in the vicinity of Isfahan, in 1823. His father, Mulla Muhammad Jafar was an admirer of Sheikh Ahmad Ahsaei.
After learning the basics from his father, Mirza Muhammad Baqir travelled to Isfahan to continue his education, and resided in Nimavard School where he studied different sciences for several years. Then he met one of the admirers of Haj Muhammad Karim Kermani, (who was also known as “Badr”). Since Kermani was on a pilgrimage to Imam Reza's shrine in Mashhad through Yazd, he travelled to Yazd in the hope of visiting the great man in 1261 Hijri year.
Since the path was dangerous, and Kermani had to return to Kerman, Mirza Muhammad Baqir accompanied him to Kerman, and resided in Ibrahimieh School, studying Islamic theology. He soon reached a level where he could teach the lessons of his grand master.
After several years, the date of which is not known, Kermani sent him to the city of Naein for preaching and guidance, where he spent some years preaching and proselytizing.
Mirza Muhammad Baqir immediately gained the attention and respect of the Sheikhieh members of Naein, Anarak, Jandaq, Biabanak and the surrounding cities.
Then he returned to Kerman, Until Kermani left for a pilgrimage to Karbala in 1283 Hijri year. When Kermani arrived in Hamedan, because of the great number of Sheikhieh adherents, and also lack of great leaders after the demise of Mullah Abdulsamad Hamedani, he appointed Mirza Muhammad Baqir as a leader in his absence, and continued his pilgrimage to Karbala.
Mirza Muhammad Baqir stayed in Hamedan since his mentor had mandated it. He engaged in preaching, proselytizing and teaching Islamic principles for 32 years. He was a great leader and protector for the Sheikhieh members after the demise of his mentor, until 1315 Hijri.
In Eid al-Fitr of 1315, when the riots of Hamedan occurred, he migrated to Jandaq village and stayed there for the rest of his fruitful life, teaching Islamic principles and preaching.
Mirza Muhammad Baqir died on the 23rd of Shaʼban 1319 (1901), at the age of 80. After Maqrib and Isha prayer.
This great man was buried in the same village, but after two years, his body was moved to Mashhad, to be laid to rest in Imam Reza's shrine, next to his Imam. He has left more than 190 manuscripts and almost 2000 sermons and teachings.
Modern Shaykhism
The current leader of the Shaykhiya is Zein al-Abedin Ebrahimi from Iran which become the leader of Shaykhiya when the last leader Mr. Ali al-Musawi died in Iraq.
Ali al-Musawi was the man who heads a community with followers in Iraq - mainly Basrah and Karbala - Iran and the Persian Gulf. Basrah has a significant Shaykhi minority, and their mosque is one of the largest in the city holding up to 12,000 people. The Shaykhiya were resolutely apolitical and hence were allowed relative freedom under Saddam Hussein. Since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and subsequent Iraqi Civil War they have been targeted by Iraqi nationalists who accused them of being Saudis on the grounds that Ahmad al-Ahsai was from present-day Saudi Arabia. They responded by creating an armed militia and asking all local political groups to sign a pact allowing them to live in peace. This was done at the al-Zahra conference in April 2006. In a move away from their traditional apolitical stance, a Shaykhi political party stood in the Basra governorate election, 2009; they came third, winning 5% of the votes and 2 out of 35 seats.
Reception in other religions
Bábís and then Baháʼís see Shaykhism as a spiritual ancestor of their movement, preparing the way for the Báb and eventually Baháʼu'lláh. According to this view, Shaykhism has outlived its eschatological purpose and is no longer relevant. There are many connections between Bábism and Shaykhism. The Báb met with Siyyid Kazim several times and more than half of the 'prominent' converts to the Bábí Faith in its first four years were Shaykhis according to Moojan Momen and Peter Smith. One key similarity between Shaykhism and the Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths is their shared emphasis on a symbolic and allegorical understanding of religious scripture.
Further reading
Corbin, Henry (1977). Spriritual Body and Celestial Earth: From Mazdean Iran to Shi'ite Iran. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
Related documents on Bahai-library.com
Notes
References
External links
Early Shaykhism: Some Bibliographical Notes, Translations and Studies by Stephen Lambden
Collected Works of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i at H-Bahai Discussion Network
Al-Abrar; Digital Library of Shaykhia
Shaykhism
Twelver Shi'ism
Ja'fari jurisprudence
History of the Bahá'í Faith
Shia Islam in Iraq
Islam in Iran
|
4017222
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendring
|
Tendring
|
Tendring is a village and civil parish in Essex. It gives its name to the Tendring District and before that the Tendring Hundred. Its name was given to the larger groupings because it was at the centre, not because it was larger than the other settlements. In 2011 the parish had a population of 736 and the district had a population of 138,048. The linear village straddles the B1035 from Manningtree to Thorpe-le-Soken.
The parish includes the settlements of Goose Green, Tendring Green and Tendring Heath. The church is dedicated to St Edmund. The Tendring Union Workhouse was located at Tendring Heath.
Transport
The village is on the B1035 road and close to the A120 road. There are bus services to Clacton-on-Sea and Colchester.
References
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
External links
St Edmund King & Martyr Church website
|
4017227
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Torre
|
José María Torre
|
José María Torre (born José María Torre Hütt on November 4, 1977, in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Mexican Salvador-born actor and fashion designer known for his roles in telenovelas. He is the brother of Fátima Torre and Andrea Torre. He started his career at the age of five doing television commercials.
Biography
Born in San Salvador, El Salvador into a large family, that encompasses four brothers and six sisters, two of them are actresses: Andrea and Fátima. Jose María is Catholic.
He started his acting career when his family moved to Mexico City at the age of 5 years old doing commercials. At age 12, he obtained a small role in the telenovela Yo compro esa mujer, playing the child version of Alejandro (Eduardo Yáñez). Later that year, he also appeared in Amor de nadie starred by Lucía Méndez. Three years later, he played the character of Lucero's brother in Los parientes pobres. In 1994, he also starred in Agujetas de color de rosa and also performed two songs for the telenovela's soundtrack: "Siempre estarás en mí" (duet with Irán Castillo) and "Cruce de sonrisas". Since then, he has made more than ten telenovelas with Televisa. In addition to his acting career, he also pursued fashion design; he released his line of clothes on October 27, 2005.
Several years later, he debuted in Telemundo and starred in Dueños del paraíso with Kate del Castillo and Jorge Zabaleta. In 2016, he obtained a major villain role in Señora Acero: La Coyote, opposite Carolina Miranda and Luis Ernesto Franco. Two years after, he returned to Televisa and joined the legal drama Por amar sin ley in the role of Roberto Morelli, one of the key lawyers of the Vega y Asociados law firm who falls in love with Victoria Escalante (Altaír Jarabo).
Filmography
Film
Television roles
References
External links
José María Torre at esmas.com
Profile and chat archive at the telenovela database
1977 births
Living people
Mexican male child actors
Mexican male film actors
Mexican male stage actors
Mexican male telenovela actors
Mexican male television actors
Mexican fashion designers
Male actors from Mexico City
Mexican Roman Catholics
|
4017230
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maziar%20Miri
|
Maziar Miri
|
Maziar Miri (born 1974 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker.
Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing department of Iranian TV, channel 2. He made his debut feature film in 2000 titled The Unfinished Piece that won him several international awards but the movie was never allowed to release in Iran because of its topic about women being banned from singing in Iran. He directed a documentary series titled Red Migration that lasted from 2002 to 2004.
His second feature film, Gradually, was selected to be screened in 2006-Berlin film festival for the programme section. Reward of Silence is his third film with a different anti-war view at Iran -Iraq war. The Book of Law is the fourth film made by Miri on the topic of wrong customs and conventions in Iranian culture which was banned immediately for 2 years and was allowed neither to attend international festivals nor even national ones. It was finally unbanned after 2 years removing 9 minutes of it.
In 2010 he made his fifth film, Felicity Land. The film has criticized Iran's middle class. His latest film, The Painting Pool, is about a mentally retarded couple and their problems in the society of Iran.
Filmography
Film
Sara and Aida (2016)
The Painting Pool (2012)
Felicity Land (2011)
The Book of Law (2008)
Reward of Silence (2006)
Gradually (2005)
The Unfinished Song (2000)
Home Video
Honors and awards
Regard d’Or (Grand Prize of the Festival), Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland (2006).
International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at Dhaka Film Festival.
Best Directing Honorary Diploma at the Fajr Film Festival in International category.
Best Film Award at Fajr Film Festival in the International Section for Gradually.
See also
Persian cinema
References
External links
Maziar Miri's official website
1971 births
Living people
Iranian film directors
|
4017235
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boutique%20amplifier
|
Boutique amplifier
|
Boutique amplifier is a catch-all descriptor for any type of instrument amplifier that is typically hand built with the intention of being much better than the mass-produced variety offered by large companies. In the majority of cases, this is reflected in the price. Sometimes they are clones of older designs, often with minor improvements or alterations in layout or circuit design; sometimes they are new designs altogether.
The boutique term are also used among effect pedals, such as the manufacturer Analog Man.
History
California company Mesa Boogie can lay claim to being perhaps the earliest boutique amp company: their late 1960s Mark series, based on the ubiquitous Fender Princeton "study" amp but "hot-rodded", quickly established a reputation for tone and volume, and was used by, among others, Carlos Santana.
Since the advent of the boutique amp age, larger companies have released reissues of their classic designs, touting their faithfulness to the original sound and the labor-intensive building process.
Common elements
Some common features of boutique amplifiers include point-to-point or turret board construction, heavy-duty chassis, NOS vacuum tubes, and high-end electronic parts and speakers.
Notable manufacturers
Gjika Amplification
Bogner Amplification
Fryette Amplification
Carr Amplifiers
65amps
Matchless Amplifiers
Dumble Amplifiers
Trainwreck Circuits
Carol-Ann Amplifiers
Van Weelden Amplifiers
See also
Tube sound
References
Instrument amplifiers
|
4017242
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics%20Weekly
|
Athletics Weekly
|
AW (formerly Athletics Weekly) is a monthly track and field magazine. It is published in the United Kingdom by Athletics Weekly Limited and covers news, results, fixtures, coaching and product advice for all aspects of track and field, cross-country, road racing and race walking. Between 1945 and 2020, the magazine was called Athletics Weekly and published weekly.
Jimmy Green years (1945 to 1987)
The magazine was started as a monthly by PW "Jimmy" Green in 1945, with the first few issues produced from the back bedroom of a bungalow in Kent which Green shared with his wife, Pam.
With post-war paper rationing still in force, Green used a mixture of determination and devilment to launch the first, self-published edition. It was numbered Volume II Issue I, but this was a deliberate error to fool the government into thinking the magazine had existed before the war. There was, of course, never a Volume I.
Green was also told by athletics and publishing experts that the idea would never work. “I thanked them for their advice and completely ignored it. I was pig headed,” said Green. Green's magazine went weekly in January 1950, published on Fridays, and has never failed to come out since.
In 1968, Green (who died in 1998, aged 88) passed the editorship to the enthusiastic and knowledgeable Mel Watman, who in a near-20-year reign steered the title to some success and continued to build its reputation for accuracy and authority.
Independently published by Kent Art Printers in a distinctive A5, pocket-sized format, the magazine reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1980s - coinciding with the marathon running boom following the first London Marathon in 1981 - selling some 25,000 copies per week.
Emap years (1987 to 1999)
The title was bought in 1987 by Emap and moved from Kent to Peterborough, where the management sought to repeat the publishing success of its Smash Hits pop title and re-launched AW as an A4 title aimed at teenagers. Emap’s youthful relaunch was very unpopular with traditional readers and damaged the magazine's reputation.
Mel Watman remained in a consultant role until he jointly launched ‘Athletics Today’, at which time the only other pre-Emap member of staff also left the magazine, after a marketing leaflet flagged him up as having joined ‘Athletics Today’ while still employed by Emap. New members of journalistic staff included UK international athletes Paul Larkins and Martin Gillingham and former English Schools Cross Country top 300 finisher and launch editor of North-East athletics magazine ‘InForm’ David Ogle. By late 1989, one-third of sales had been lost. Keith Nelson, Emap's choice as editor, moved on to edit ‘Country Walking’ magazine and subsequently launch ‘Trail Walker’ magazine with Emap, the latter which Ogle joined, subsequently edited and changed its name to ‘Trail’.
Aware of its loyal following's disgruntlement with the re-launch of Athletics Weekly, in 1989 Eddie Kulukundis funded the launch of a rival title, Athletics Today, jointly edited by Randall Northam and Mel Watman: for the first time in its existence, Athletics Weekly now faced competition.
Despite the sport's continued successes through the 1990s and the ultimate demise of its rival in 1993, Athletics Weekly struggled in vain to regain its reputation, even though results were published only days after events took place - whereas results in the original title could be published weeks afterwards.
Descartes years (1999 to 2010)
After a decade's ownership, Emap admitted defeat and in April 1999 licensed the title to Descartes Publishing, a company established by businessman and athletics enthusiast Matthew Fraser Moat for the purpose. Descartes kept the title in Peterborough and went on to purchase the title outright in 2003. In February 2005 the magazine was awarded Sports BrandLeader status
and in December 2005 Athletics Weekly celebrated its 60th birthday with a charity calendar
and a special 100 page edition.
In 2006 the title changed its publication date back to a Thursday, and increased in size to 64 pages a week; in 2007 an online digital version was launched and in 2009 Athletics Weekly became the first magazine in the world to have all its content commercially available on the iPhone. In 2010 the AW app was relaunched for the iPad.
A sister company, Athletics Data Limited, was formed to manage the commercial rights of ''Athletics Weeklys results data and in 2009 Athletics Data was appointed to run Power of 10, a statistical website, for UK Athletics.
Taking advantage of the renewed interest in the sport generated by London 2012 and Usain Bolt, the magazine was "highly commended" in the "Brand Extension of The Year" category at the 2009 Independent Publisher Awards and won a "Media Pioneer Award" at the 2010 Specialist Media Show.
In January 2010, the magazine celebrated 60 years as a weekly magazine.
Athletics Weekly years (2010 to date)
In May 2010, ownership of the magazine passed to a new company "Athletics Weekly Limited", with a new publisher Richard Hughes. In 2015 the magazine was bought by The Great Run Company. Wendy Sly is managing director of the Great Run Publishing team.
In 2020, Athletics Weekly became a monthly magazine and changed its name to AW.
There are five editorial staff who work full-time at Athletics Weekly:
Jason Henderson - Editor
Euan Crumley - Editorial Director
Mike Taylor - Production Editor
Steve Smythe - Results Editor
Jessica Whittington - Web Editor
Full list of Athletics Weekly editors PW "Jimmy" Green - 1945-1968Mel Watman - 1968-1986Barry Trowbridge - 1986-1987Keith Nelson - 1987-1989Steven Downes - 1989-1991Paul Richardson - 1991-1992David Clarke - 1993-1994Paul Larkins - 1994-1995Nigel Walsh - 1995-2001Jason Henderson - 2001 to dateRandall Northam edited it for a week in 1986.
References
External links
Athletics Weekly website
AW digital edition
Athletics Data website
Power of 10 website
1945 establishments in the United Kingdom
Athletics magazines
Magazines established in 1945
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Sports magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Mass media in Kent
Mass media in Peterborough
|
4017259
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4018%20road
|
A4018 road
|
The A4018 is an A-road connecting the city centre of Bristol to the M5 motorway at Cribbs Causeway. It is one of the four principal roads which link central Bristol to the motorway network (the others being the M32 motorway, the A38 and the Portway).
Route
The A4018 runs for , starting at a junction with the A4 and A38 at The Centre, and finishing at junction 17 of the M5 motorway at Cribbs Causeway. The route includes Park Street and Whiteladies Road. It then passes over part of Durdham Down on Westbury Road, then along Falcondale Road and Passage Road through Westbury-on-Trym and Brentry. The final part of the A4018 is Cribbs Causeway, near Catbrain. Part of the road forms the boundary for the Westbury-on-Trym electoral ward in Bristol.
History
The original route of the A4018 went from Bristol to Avonmouth via Durdham Down and Shirehampton Road, the main road between Bristol and Avonmouth before the Portway was opened in 1926. By the 1940s only the route from the centre of Bristol to Durdham Down was designated the A4018, and the remainder of the route had been redesignated the B4054. In 1959 Passage Road was widened and rebuilt, and by 1962 the route of the A4018 was extended from Durdham Down to Cribbs Causeway along the former route of the B4055 (Westbury Road), unclassified roads (Falcondale Road and Passage Road) and a further part of the B4055 (Cribbs Causeway), linking with the New Filton Bypass which ran from Cribbs Causeway to the A38 north of Patchway. In December 1971 the New Filton Bypass was incorporated into the M5 motorway, and the A4018, by then dualled from Cribbs Causeway to Westbury-on-Trym, became the principal road linking the motorway to west Bristol.
Places of interest
Sites close to the route of the road include Blaise Castle, an Iron Age hill fortification.
References
Roads in England
Roads in Bristol
|
4017269
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat%20of%20Bologna
|
Concordat of Bologna
|
The Concordat of Bologna (1516) was an agreement between King Francis I of France and Pope Leo X that Francis negotiated in the wake of his victory at Marignano in September 1515. The groundwork was laid in a series of personal meetings of king and pope in Bologna, 11–15 December 1515. The concordat was signed in Rome on 18 August 1516. It marked a stage in the evolution of the Gallican Church.
The Concordat explicitly superseded the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438), which had proved ineffective in guaranteeing the privileges of the Church in France, where bishoprics and abbacies had been wrangled over even before the Parlement of Paris: "hardly anywhere were elections held in due form", R. Aubenas observes, "for the king succeeded in foisting his own candidates upon the electors by every conceivable means, not excluding the most ruthless".
The Concordat permitted the Pope to collect all the income that the Catholic Church made in France, while the King of France was confirmed in his right to tithe the clerics and to restrict their right of appeal to Rome. The Concordat confirmed the King of France's right to nominate appointments to benefice (archbishops, bishops, abbots and priors), enabling the Crown, by controlling its personnel, to decide who was to lead the Gallican Church. Despite these gains, the Concordat was not the triumph of the French monarchy and encountered bitter opposition from the Parlement of France and the University of Paris.
Canonical installation of those church officers was reserved to the Pope; thus the agreement confirmed the papal veto of any leader the King of France chose who might be deemed truly unqualified. The Concordat confirmed the Apostolic Camera's right to collect annates, the first year's revenue from each benefice, a right that when abused led to shuffling of prelates among dioceses. The fiction of elections to bishopric by canons and to abbacies by monks was discontinued. On Francis's part, it was at last firmly conceded that the Pope's powers were not subject to any council, an affirmation of the papal position in the long-crushed Conciliar Movement.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Knecht, R. J. (1963). "The Concordat of 1516: A Reassessment". In: University of Birmingham Historical Journal 9.1 (1963), pp. 16-32.
Bologna, Concordat of (1516)
Bologna
Religion in the Ancien Régime
1516 in France
16th-century Christianity
16th-century Catholicism
Documents of Pope Leo X
|
4017279
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracolumbar%20fascia
|
Thoracolumbar fascia
|
The thoracolumbar fascia (lumbodorsal fascia or thoracodorsal fascia) is a deep investing membrane throughout most of the posterior thorax and abdomen although it is a thin fibrous lamina in the thoracic region. Above, it is continuous with a similar investing layer on the back of the neck—the nuchal fascia.
It is formed of longitudinal and transverse fibers that bridge the aponeuroses of internal oblique and transversus, costal angles and iliac crest laterally, to the vertebral column and sacrum medially. In doing so, they cover the paravertebral muscles.
It is made up of three layers, anterior, middle, and posterior. The anterior and middle layers insert onto the transverse processes of the vertebral column while the posterior layer inserts onto the tips of the spinous processes, hence it is indirectly continuous with the interspinous ligaments.
The anterior layer is the thinnest and the posterior layer is the thickest. Two spaces are formed between these three layers of the fascia.
Psoas major lies anterior to the anterior layer, with the anterior fascia of this muscle being continuous with the vertebral body and thus the anterior longitudinal ligament.
Between the anterior and middle layer lies the quadratus lumborum muscle.
The erector spinae muscles and the transversospinales muscles are then enclosed between the middle and posterior layers.
Various superficial muscle layers on the posterior thorax and abdomen then arise from the posterior layer. These primarily include latissimus dorsi and serratus posterior inferior.
See also
Erector spinae muscles
References
External links
- "Thoracolumbar Fascia, Dissection, Posterior View"
- "Trunk, Transverse MRI Showing Lamellae of the Thoracolumbar Fascia"
Thorax (human anatomy)
Fascial spaces of the head and neck
|
4017290
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTV2
|
UTV2
|
UTV2 was a television channel, owned by Ulster Television plc (now UTV Media). The channel was on digital terrestrial television and NTL cable in Northern Ireland.
The channel launched on 28 June 1999 as TV You, but was rebranded as UTV2 in 2000. The programming consisted primarily of simulcasts with ITV2, as broadcast in England, Wales and the Scottish Borders, although they did also use archive programmes from UTV.
Unusually, for a commercial station, UTV2 did not carry any advertising. This was presumably due to their failure to attract advertisers to UTV2, which was only receivable by a few thousand viewers.
UTV2 closed on 22 January 2002 following a deal with ITV Digital and was replaced by ITV2.
See also
UTV
ITV2
S2
References
1999 establishments in Northern Ireland
Defunct British television channels
Mass media in Belfast
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2002
Television channels in the United Kingdom
Television in Northern Ireland
UTV (TV channel)
2002 disestablishments in Northern Ireland
Commercial-free television networks
|
4017291
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fabyan%20Parrott
|
John Fabyan Parrott
|
John Fabyan Parrott (August 8, 1767July 9, 1836) was a United States representative and a Senator from New Hampshire.
He was born in Portsmouth in the Province of New Hampshire to John Parrott, a merchant and ship captain, and his wife Deborah Walker. He followed his father's line of work and began trading in Europe and the Caribbean, something which stopped with the passing of the Embargo Act of 1807. Parrott was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1809 to 1814 and also held various local offices. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress, but was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Fifteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1825. He was a Democratic Republican (later Adams-Clay Republican).
Later, in 1826, he was the postmaster of Portsmouth. He was also a member of the New Hampshire Senate from 1830 to 1831. He died in Greenland, New Hampshire and was interred in the family burying ground on the Parrott estate. His papers are kept at the University of North Carolina.
His sons included Robert Parker Parrott and Peter Pearse Parrott.
References
1767 births
1836 deaths
Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
New Hampshire state senators
United States senators from New Hampshire
New Hampshire postmasters
Democratic-Republican Party United States senators
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire
|
4017314
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titulus%20Crucis
|
Titulus Crucis
|
The Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title of the Cross") is a piece of wood kept in the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome which is claimed to be the (title panel) of the True Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. It is venerated by some Catholics as a relic associated with Jesus. Its authenticity is disputed, with some scholars confirming a plausible authenticity, while others ignore or consider it to be a medieval forgery.
The board is made of walnut wood, and has a weight of . It is inscribed on one side with three lines, of which the first is mostly destroyed. The second line is written in Greek letters and reversed script, the third in Latin letters, also with reversed script. The Latin reads ("Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews"), corresponding to John 19:19 and the initials INRI familiar to Roman Catholics. The Titulus Crucis is also mentioned in the Synoptics: in Mark 15:26 (as the reason of the crucifixion), in Luke 23:38 and in Matthew 27:37.
Helena's relic
Saint Helena, Roman Empress and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and reportedly discovered the True Cross and many other relics which were donated to the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ("Holy Cross in Jerusalem") which she had built in Rome about AD 325. Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso was made cardinal priest of the church in 1124 and, some time before he became Pope Lucius II in 1144, he renovated the church and had the relic deposited in a box that bears his seal as a cardinal. The box was apparently forgotten until 1 February 1492, when workers restoring a mosaic discovered it hidden behind a brick that was inscribed "Titulus Crucis". Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal priest of Santa Croce at the time, encouraged veneration of the rediscovered relic.
Other Jerusalem relics
Some Christian pilgrims who visited Jerusalem in the centuries between Helena and Pope Lucius reported seeing Christ's titulus there: Egeria reported that in AD 383 "A silver-gilt casket is brought in which is the holy wood of the Cross. The casket is opened and (the wood) is taken out, and both the wood of the Cross and the title are placed upon the table." Antoninus of Piacenza in the 6th century described a of "nut" wood with the inscription ("Here is the king of the Jews"), corresponding to Luke 23:38.
Authenticity
In 1997, the German author and historian Michael Hesemann performed an investigation of the relic. Hesemann presented the inscription of the title to seven experts on Hebrew, Greek and Latin palaeography: Gabriel Barkay of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Hanan Eshel, Ester Eshel and Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Roll and Benjamin Isaac of the University of Tel Aviv and Carsten Peter Thiede of Paderborn/Germany and the University of Beer Sheva, Israel. According to Hesemann, none of the consulted experts found any indication of a mediaeval or late antique forgery. They all dated it in the timeframe between the 1st and the 3rd–4th century AD, with a majority of experts preferring, and none of them excluding, the 1st century. Hesemann concluded that it is very well possible that the Titulus Crucis is indeed the authentic relic.
Carsten Peter Thiede suggested that the Titulus Crucis is likely to be a genuine part of the Cross, written by a Jewish scribe. He cites that the order of the languages match what is historically plausible rather than the order shown in the canonical New Testament because had it been a counterfeit, the forger would surely have remained faithful to the biblical text. Joe Nickell refers to this argument as "trying to psychoanalyze the dead," saying that "Forgers—particularly of another era—may do something cleverer or dumber or simply different from what we would expect."
In 2002, the Roma Tre University conducted radiocarbon dating tests on the artifact, and it was shown to have been made between 980 and 1146 AD. The uncalibrated radio-carbon date was 1020 ± 30 BP, calibrated as AD 996–1023 (1σ) and AD 980–1146 (2σ), using INTCAL98. These results were published in the peer-reviewed journal Radiocarbon. The Titulus Crucis recovered from the residence of Helena is therefore most likely a medieval artifact; an Italian classical scholar Maria Rigato discussed a possibility that it is a copy of the now-lost original.
See also
Relics associated with Jesus
Arma Christi
Crown of thorns
Holy Nail
Holy Sponge
Lance of Longinus
True Cross
Notes
References
External links
Rosary Workshop on the Titulus Crucis
Relics associated with Jesus
Forgery controversies
Latin words and phrases
Christian terminology
|
4017322
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE
|
ADVISE
|
ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement) is a research and development program within the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment (TVTA) portfolio. It is reportedly developing a massive data mining system, which would collect and analyze data on everyone in the United States and perform a "threat analysis" on them. The data can be anything from financial records, phone records, emails, blog entries, website searches, to any other electronic information that can be put into a computer system. This information is then analyzed, and used to monitor social threats such as community-forming, terrorism, political organizing, or crime.
ADVISE will possess the ability to store one quadrillion data entities.
The exact scope and degree of completion of the program is unclear. ADVISE is in the 2004-2006 Federal DHS Budget as a component of the $47 million TVTA program.
The program was officially scrapped in September 2007 after the agency's internal Inspector General found that pilot testing of the system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place.
See also
Data warehouse
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
ECHELON
Information Awareness Office
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice)
References
External links
US plans massive data sweep, February 9, 2006 article by Mark Clayton in the Christian Science Monitor
Data Sciences Technology for Homeland Security Information Management and Knowledge Discovery, report of the Department of Homeland Security Workshop on Data Sciences conducted September 22–23, 2004, released in January 2005 by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. See pages 7–8.
Information to Insight in a Counterterrorism Context, report on ADVISE prepared for the US Department of Energy by Robert Burleson of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the University of California
Threat & Vulnerability, Testing & Assessment - $47M, page 23 of Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Brief for the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directory, by Parney Albright, March 1, 2005
ADVISE at SourceWatch
United States Department of Homeland Security
Privacy of telecommunications
Mass surveillance
|
4017334
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtownstewart
|
Newtownstewart
|
Newtownstewart is a village and townland of in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is overlooked by hills called Bessy Bell and Mary Gray and lies on the River Strule below the confluence with its tributary the Owenkillew. It is situated in the historic barony of Strabane Lower and the civil parish of Ardstraw. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,551 people. It lies within the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
History
The townland of Newtownstewart was historically called Lislas. Newtownstewart Castle was built by Sir Robert Newcomen in 1615 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. The castle was acquired by Sir William Stewart when he married Newcommen's second daughter in 1629. The castle and town were renamed Newtownstewart by Sir William Stewart after his birthplace.
The former Northern Bank building on the corner was the scene of an infamous murder in 1871 when bank cashier William Glass was robbed of £1,600 and killed. Assistant District Inspector Thomas Hartley Montgomery, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who was in charge of the investigation, was subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged at Omagh Gaol.
Newtownstewart Town Hall, which was the venue for petty session hearings, was completed in 1880.
Royal Visit
The Duke and Duchess of York visited the Duke of Abercorn at Baronscourt as part of their Royal Visit to Northern Ireland in 1924.
Sport
Newtownstewart St. Eugene's is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.
Ardstraw Football Club is the local football club. They have a strong connection to the town with many players coming from within the town and the surrounding area
Demographics
On Census Day 27 March 2011, in Newtownstewart Settlement, considering the resident population:
99.74% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group;
52.87% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 45.84% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; and
43.58% indicated that they had a British national identity, 25.53% had an Irish national identity and 33.33% had a Northern Irish national identity*.
Respondents could indicate more than one national identity
Considering the population aged 3 years old and over:
11.82% had some knowledge of Irish;
7.59% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and
1.68% did not have English as their first language.
People
Thomas Burnside (1782–1851), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, born near Newtownstewart.
Thomas Maclear (1794–1879), Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, was born in Newtownstewart.
Dukes of Abercorn, reside at Baronscourt, near Newtownstewart
Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer born in Newtownstewart in 1945, died in 2005.
Jacob Stockdale, Ulster and Ireland rubgy player, was born in Newtownstewart.
Transport
Construction of the Irish gauge (Irish Standard Gauge), Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (L&ER) began in 1845 and reached Strabane in 1847. By 1852 it had extended to Newtownstewart and Omagh and its terminus in Enniskillen was reached in 1854. The company was absorbed into the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in 1883. Newtownstewart railway station opened on 9 May 1852 and finally closed on 15 February 1965.
See also
List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
Notes
References
External links
Bronze Age burial cist - Newtownstewart
Stewart Castle
Villages in County Tyrone
Civil parish of Ardstraw
|
4017346
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafi%20Pitts
|
Rafi Pitts
|
Rafi Pitts (, born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Life and career
Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.
Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.
In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and he was the first film director (in exile) to do so since the Revolution in 1979. His first feature Season Five (1997) was the first Franco-Iranian coproduction since the Revolution.
In 2006, he was nominated for Golden Bear award of Berlin Film Festival for his film, It's Winter. His 2010 film The Hunter was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
His 2016 Film Soy Nero won the best film award at the 12th Bucharest International Film festival, in April 2016
Representative awards and honors
Golden Bear, nominated, Berlin Film Festival, 2006.
Grand Prix, Paris Film Festival, 2001.
Golden Moon of Valencia, Cinema Jove - Valencia International Film Festival, 2001.
Golden Wheel, Vesoul Asian Film Festival- France, 2001.
OCIC Grand Prix, Amiens International Film Festival, 1997.
Special Jury Prize, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1997 & 2000.
Filmography
2016 Soy Nero
2011 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2010 The Hunter (Shekarchi)
2006 It's Winter (Zemestan)
2003 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (documentary from the series "Cinema de Notre Temps)
2000 Sanam
1997 Season Five (Fasl-e-Panjom)
References
1967 births
Alumni of the University of Westminster
Iranian film directors
Living people
People from Mashhad
Persian-language film directors
Iranian people of English descent
|
4017356
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan%20in%20Concert
|
Donovan in Concert
|
Donovan in Concert is the sixth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and the first live album of his career. It was recorded in the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on 17 November 1967. It was released in the United States in June 1968 (Epic Records BN 26386 (stereo)) and in the United Kingdom in September 1968 (Pye Records NPL 18237 (monaural) / NSPL 18237 (stereo)). The album reached No.18 on the US charts.
History
This concert was recorded several months before Donovan released A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, and the concert included several songs that would not have been widely known to a US audience, including some which were UK single b-sides. "Poor Cow" is introduced by Donovan as "Poor Love", its original title, which was changed when the song appeared in the film Poor Cow. It retained that title when released as the b-side to "Jennifer Juniper" in February 1968.
The music at the concert was much more subdued than Donovan's singles of the time, and Donovan was backed by the core group of musicians who had recorded with him on his previous albums including flautist Harold McNair and percussionist Tony Carr. They play many genres of music, from folk to jazz. The concert was introduced by (Los Angeles radio station) KRLA radio personality, Rhett Walker, who then hands the proceedings to Donovan's father Donald Leitch.
Reissues
On 15 February 2002 Beat Goes On Records reissued Donovan in Concert (BGOCD 90) on compact disc in the UK.
In 2006 EMI reissued a 2-CD remastered version of the album Donovan in Concert – The Complete 1967 Anaheim Show (094635410020) in the UK.
Track listing
Original album
Track number, title, length, and on which releases of the studio versions of each song appeared. Songs that were unreleased at the time of the concert are noted with an asterisk (*):
Side one
All tracks by Donovan Leitch.
"Intro" – 3:25
"Isle of Islay"* – 4:21 (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, released December 1967)
"Young Girl Blues" – 6:09 (from Mellow Yellow, released March 1967)
"There Is a Mountain" – 3:04 (single, released August 1967)
"Poor Cow"* – 3:28 (b-side of "Jennifer Juniper" single, released February 1968)
"Celeste" – 5:15 (from Sunshine Superman, released September 1966)
"The Fat Angel" – 3:24 (from Sunshine Superman, released September 1966)
"Guinevere" – 2:42 (from Sunshine Superman, released September 1966)
Side two
"Widow with Shawl (A Portrait)"* – 3:34 (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, released December 1967)
"Preachin' Love" – 5:03 (b-side of "Mellow Yellow" single, released October 1966)
"The Lullaby of Spring"* – 3:08 (from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, released December 1967)
"Writer in the Sun" – 4:30 (from Mellow Yellow, released March 1967)
"Pebble and the Man"* – 3:10 (released as "Happiness Runs" on Barabajagal, 11 August 1969)
"Rules and Regulations"* – 2:54 (no studio version released except a demo tape)
"Mellow Yellow" – 4:18 (single, released October 1966)
2006 Reissue
Disc one
"Intro" – 3:25
"Isle of Islay" – 4:21
"Young Girl Blues" – 6:09
"There Is a Mountain" – 3:04
"Poor Love (Poor Cow)" – 3:28
"Sunny Goodge Street" – 3:13
"Celeste" – 5:15
"The Fat Angel" – 3:24
"Guinevere" – 3:39
"Widow with Shawl (A Portrait)" – 3:00
"Epistle to Derroll" – 5:53
"Preachin' Love" – 9:38
Disc two
"Lullaby of Spring" – 4:27
"Sand and Foam" – 3:21
"Hampstead Incident" – 5:10
"Writer in the Sun" – 4:11
"Try for the Sun" – 3:27
"Someone Singing" – 2:55
"Pebble and the Man (Happiness Runs)" – 3:10
"The Tinker and the Crab" – 3:38
"Rules and Regulations" – 2:33
"Mellow Yellow" – 4:42
"Catch the Wind" (part) – 1:16
Personnel
Donovan – Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Tony Carr – Percussion
Harold McNair – Flute & sax
David Troncoso – Bass
Lorin Newkirk – Piano
'Candy' John Carr – Bongos & finger cymbals
and The Flower Quartet
References
External links
Donovan In Concert – Donovan Unofficial Site
1968 live albums
Donovan live albums
Epic Records live albums
Pye Records live albums
Albums produced by Mickie Most
|
4017359
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland%20Allanson-Winn%2C%205th%20Baron%20Headley
|
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley
|
Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley (19 January 1855 – 22 June 1935), also known as Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq, was an Irish peer and a prominent convert to Islam, who was also one of the leading members of the Woking Muslim Mission alongside Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din. He also presided over the British Muslim Society for some time.
Biography
Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge University. He then entered Middle Temple, before commencing studies at King's College London. He subsequently became a civil engineer by profession, a builder of roads in India, and an authority on the protection of intertidal zones.
He was an enthusiastic practitioner of boxing as well as other arts of self-defence, and in 1890 co-authored, with C. Phillipps-Wolley, the classic Broad-sword and Singlestick (1890). He was solo author of Boxing (1889) in the same "All-England Series" (introduced by the boxer Bat Mullins) which was reprinted in 2006. In 1899 he married Teresa Johnson, daughter of William H. Johnson, former Wazir-wazirat (governor) of Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir), India. She died in 1919.
Headley converted to Islam on 16 November 1913 and adopted the Muslim name of Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq. In 1914 he established the British Muslim Society. He was the author of several books on Islam, including A Western Awakening to Islam (1914) and Three Great Prophets of the World. He was a widely travelled man and twice performed the Hajj.
He inherited his peerage from his cousin in 1913. In 1921 he married the Australian author Barbara Baynton. He became bankrupt in 1922. He was offered the throne of Albania in 1925, along with $500,000 and $50,000 per year but refused it, at which point Lady Headley returned to Melbourne, where she died in 1929. From 1929 Headley owned and lived at Ashton Gifford House near the village of Codford in Wiltshire. His widow Lady Catherine Headley continued to live at the property until 1940. He is buried in the Muslim section of Brookwood Cemetery.
Armenian genocide stance
Baron Headley alleged that the Armenian genocide was a case of both sides, Turks and Armenians, killing each other and that the Turks were more numerous as victims than the Armenians.
See also
Sir Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton, 5th Baronet
Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
William Abdullah Quilliam
Marmaduke Pickthall
Faris Glubb
Timothy Winter
Robert Reschid Stanley
References
Work cited
Further reading
External links
Full details of the life, activities and writings of Headley
1855 births
1935 deaths
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of King's College London
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
Converts to Islam
Burials at Brookwood Cemetery
English Muslims
British Ahmadis
|
4017369
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraspinous%20ligament
|
Supraspinous ligament
|
The supraspinous ligament, also known as the supraspinal ligament, is a ligament found along the vertebral column.
Structure
The supraspinous ligament connects the tips of the spinous processes from the seventh cervical vertebra to the sacrum. Above the seventh cervical vertebra, the supraspinous ligament is continuous with the nuchal ligament.
Between the spinous processes it is continuous with the interspinous ligaments.
It is thicker and broader in the lumbar than in the thoracic region, and intimately blended, in both situations, with the neighboring fascia.
The most superficial fibers of this ligament extend over three or four vertebrae; those more deeply seated pass between two or three vertebrae while the deepest connect the spinous processes of neighboring vertebrae.
Development
Function
The supraspinous ligament, along with the posterior longitudinal ligament, interspinous ligaments and ligamentum flavum, help to limit hyperflexion of the vertebral column.
Clinical significance
Lesions to the supraspinous ligament may result in palpable thickening. Ultrasound is effective for detecting lesions. A strain injury can also damage the supraspinous ligament.
The supraspinous ligament creates resistance during midline epidural anaesthetics when the needle is being inserted. This increased resistance needs to be taken into account, and is one of the first subcutaneous tissues.
See also
References
Ligaments of the torso
Bones of the vertebral column
Ligaments
|
4017375
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306%20West%20Ham%20United%20F.C.%20season
|
2005–06 West Ham United F.C. season
|
During the 2005–06 season, West Ham United competed in the FA Premier League, following promotion from the Football League Championship the previous season.
Season summary
West Ham had barely scraped into the top six of the Championship the previous season before gaining promotion via the play-offs, so few gave the Hammers much hope of Premiership survival. However, West Ham surprised their naysayers to stand fourth at the end of October after 11 points from their opening six games. A run of mediocre form saw West Ham fall to tenth, before a run of five straight wins between January and February, including a 3–2 win at Arsenal, which saw the Hammers become the last side to beat Arsenal at Highbury, saw them rise to sixth. Alan Pardew won the Manager of the Month award for February. Several more good results, including a 2–1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the season that denied the North London side Champions League qualification, saw West Ham finish in ninth, above Everton, Middlesbrough and Manchester City.
West Ham's best form came in the FA Cup, where they overcame Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and Middlesbrough to reach the FA Cup final – their first since 1980 – against a Liverpool side that were the reigning European champions and finished third in the Premiership. In spite of the odds, West Ham took a 2–0 lead within the first half-hour and also led 3–2 before a Steven Gerrard equalised at the end of normal time. Extra time proved goalless and a penalty shoot-out was required. Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina, who had made several errors in the match, saved from Bobby Zamora, Paul Konchesky and Anton Ferdinand to give Liverpool a 3–1 win. However, as Liverpool had already qualified for the Champions League, West Ham qualified for the UEFA Cup.
Final league table
First-team squad
Squad at end of season
Left club during season
Results
Premier League
League Cup
FA Cup
Statistics
Overview
Goalscorers
Appearances and goals
|-
! colspan=12 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers
|-
! colspan=12 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders
|-
! colspan=12 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders
|-
! colspan=12 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards
|}
Transfers
In
Out
References
2005-06
2005–06 FA Premier League by team
West Ham United
West Ham United
|
4017382
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchdorf
|
Kirchdorf
|
Many places in German-speaking countries are called Kirchdorf (church village):
Germany
Baden-Württemberg
Kirchdorf an der Iller, a municipality in the district of Biberach
Bavaria
Kirchdorf am Haunpold, former name of the municipality of Bruckmühl
Kirchdorf am Inn, in the district of Rottal-Inn
Kirchdorf Wildcats, an American football team from Kirchdorf am Inn
Kirchdorf am Inn (Raubling), former name of the municipality of Raubling
Kirchdorf an der Amper, a municipality in the district of Freising
Kirchdorf im Wald, a municipality in the district of Regen
Kirchdorf, Lower Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Kelheim
Kirchdorf, Upper Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Mühldorf
Hamburg
Kirchdorf Süd in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
Lower Saxony
Kirchdorf, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Diepholz
Kirchdorf (Samtgemeinde), a Samtgemeinde in the district of Diepholz
Kirchdorf (Deister), a part of the city Barsinghausen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Kirchdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a municipality in the district Vorpommern-Rügen
Kirchdorf (Poel), village on the island Poel
Poland
Kirchdorf, the German name for Stróżewo, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in western Poland
Austria
Kirchdorf (Amstetten)
Kirchdorf am Inn, Upper Austria
Kirchdorf an der Krems
Kirchdorf in Tirol
Slovakia
Spišské Podhradie, also known as Kirchdorf amongst German-speakers.
Switzerland
Kirchdorf, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Bern
Kirchdorf, Aargau, part of Obersiggenthal
|
4017383
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wind%20That%20Shakes%20the%20Barley%20%28film%29
|
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
|
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, this drama tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan (Pádraic Delaney), who join the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish independence from the United Kingdom.
The film takes its title from Robert Dwyer Joyce's "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a song set during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the film. The film is heavily influenced by Walter Macken's 1964 novel The Scorching Wind.
Widely praised, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Loach's biggest box office success to date, the film did well around the world and set a record in Ireland as the highest-grossing Irish-made independent film, until surpassed by The Guard.
Plot
County Cork, Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is about to leave his native village to practice medicine in a London hospital. Meanwhile, his brother Teddy commands the local flying column of the Irish Republican Army. After a hurling match, Damien witnesses the summary execution of his friend, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, by British Black and Tans, for refusing to say his name in English. Although shaken, Damien rebuffs his friends' entreaties to stay in Ireland and join the IRA, saying that the war is unwinnable. As he is leaving town, Damien witnesses the British Army vainly trying to intimidate a railway personnel for refusing to permit the troops to board. In response, Damien decides to stay and is sworn into Teddy's IRA brigade.
After drilling in the mountains, the column raids the village's Royal Irish Constabulary barracks to acquire revolvers, then uses them to assassinate four Auxiliaries. In the aftermath, Anglo-Irish landowner Sir John Hamilton coerces one of his servants, IRA member Chris Reilly, into passing information to the British Army's Intelligence Corps. As a result, the entire brigade is arrested. In their cell, Damien meets the train driver, Dan, a union official who shares Damien's socialist views.
Meanwhile, British officers interrogate Teddy, pulling out his fingernails when he refuses to give them the names of IRA members. Johnny Gogan, a British soldier of Irish descent, helps the prisoners escape, but three are left behind. After the actions of Sir John and Chris are revealed to the IRA's intelligence network, both are taken hostage. As Teddy is still recovering, Damien is temporarily placed in command. News arrives that the three remaining IRA prisoners have been tortured and shot. Simultaneously, the brigade receives orders to "execute the spies".
Despite the fact that Chris is a lifelong friend, Damien shoots both him and Sir John. Later, the IRA ambushes and wipes out a convoy of the Auxiliary Division, and in retaliation another detachment of Auxiliaries loots and burns the farmhouse of Damien's sweetheart, Cumann na mBan member Sinéad Sullivan. Sinéad is held at gunpoint while her head is roughly shorn, her scalp being wounded in the process. Later, as Damien treats her, a messenger arrives with news of a formal ceasefire between Britain and the IRA.
After the Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed, the brigade learns that a partitioned Ireland will only be granted Dominion status within the British Empire. As a result, the brigade divides over accepting the terms of the Treaty. Teddy and his allies argue that accepting the Treaty will bring peace now while further gains can be made later. Others oppose the Treaty, proposing to continue fighting until a united Irish Republic can be obtained. Dan and Damien further demand the collectivisation of industry and agriculture. Any other course, declares Dan, will change only "the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag".
Soon the Irish Free State replaces British rule, and Teddy and his allies begin patrolling in National Army uniforms. Meanwhile, Damien and his allies join the Anti-Treaty IRA. When the Battle of Dublin launches the Irish Civil War, the Anti-Treaty column commences guerrilla warfare against Free State forces. As the violence escalates, Teddy expresses fear that the British will invade if the republicans gain the upper hand. His position is: "They take one out, we take one back. To hell with the courts."
Soon after, Dan is killed and Damien is captured during a raid for arms on an Irish Army barracks commanded by Teddy. Sentenced to execution, Damien is held in the same cell where the British Army imprisoned them earlier. Desperate to avoid executing his brother, Teddy pleads with Damien to reveal where the Anti-Treaty IRA is hiding the stolen rifles. In return, Teddy offers Damien full amnesty, a life with Sinéad, and the vision of an Ireland where Pro- and Anti-Treaty Irishmen can raise families side by side. Insulted, Damien responds by saying that he will never "sell out" the Republic the way Chris Reilly did and Teddy leaves the cell in tears. Damien writes a goodbye letter to Sinéad, expressing his love for her, and quoting Dan's words: "It's easy to know what you're against, quite another to know what you're for". But he says that he knows what he stands for and is not afraid to die for it and tells Sinéad to look after Teddy. At dawn, Damien dies before a firing squad commanded by a heartbroken yet obstinate Teddy. Teddy delivers Damien's letter to Sinéad who is distraught and heartbroken. She attacks Teddy and orders him to leave her land.
Main cast
Cillian Murphy – Damien O'Donovan
Pádraic Delaney – Teddy O'Donovan
Liam Cunningham – Dan
Orla Fitzgerald – Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin
Laurence Barry – Micheál Ó Súilleabháin
Mary Murphy – Bernadette
Mary O'Riordan – Peggy
Myles Horgan – Rory
Martin Lucey – Congo
Roger Allam – Sir John Hamilton
John Crean – Chris Reilly
Damien Kearney – Finbar
Frank Bourke – Leo
Shane Casey – Kevin
Máirtín de Cógáin – Sean
William Ruane – Johnny Gogan
Fiona Lawton – Lily
Seán McGinley – Father Denis
Kevin O'Brien – Tim
Production
The film stars mostly Irish actors and was made by British director Ken Loach. It is an international co-production between companies in Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and Switzerland.
The title derives from the song of the same name, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", by 19th-century author Robert Dwyer Joyce. The song made the phrase "the wind that shakes the barley" a motif in Irish republican song and poetry. Loach took some of the inspiration for Damian's character from the memoirs of republican leader Ernie O'Malley. University College Cork historian Dr. Donal Ó Drisceoil was Loach's historical adviser on the film.
The film was shot in various towns within County Cork during 2005, including Ballyvourney and Timoleague. Some filming took place in Bandon, County Cork: a scene was shot along North Main Street and outside a building next to the Court House. The ambush scene was shot on the mountains around Ballyvourney while the farmhouse scenes were filmed in Coolea. Damien's execution scene was shot at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, where many leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some executed by the British and latterly in 1923 by the Irish Free State.
Many of the extras in the film were drawn from local Scout groups, including Bandon, Togher and Macroom. Many of the British soldiers seen in the film were played by members of the Irish Army Reserve, from local units.
Among the songs on the film's soundtrack is Óró sé do bheatha abhaile, a 17th-century Irish Jacobite song whose lyrics the nationalist leader Pádraig Pearse changed to focus upon republican themes.
Soundtrack
The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Traditional - Words by Robert Dwyer Joyce
Amhrán na bhFiann (A Soldier's Song) - Traditional - Words by Peadar Kearney & Patrick Heeney
Oró! Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile - Traditional - Words by Padraic Pearse
The Doon Reel - Traditional - Arranged by the performers
Distribution
The commercial interest expressed in the UK was initially much lower than in other European countries and only 30 prints of the film were planned for distribution in the United Kingdom, compared with 300 in France. However, after the Palme d'Or award the film appeared on 105 screens across Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Respect Party, on whose national council Ken Loach was at the time, called for people to watch the film on its first weekend in order to persuade the film industry to show the film in more cinemas.
Themes
According to director Ken Loach, the film attempts to explore the extent that the Irish revolution was a social revolution as opposed to a nationalist revolution. Loach commented on this theme in an interview with Toronto's Eye Weekly (15 March 2007):
According to Rebecca O'Brien, producer of the film and a longtime Loach collaborator:
Reception
The Wind That Shakes the Barley became the most popular independent Irish film ever released in Ireland, earning €377,000 in its opening weekend and €2.7 million by August 2006.
The film received positive reviews from film critics. As of 2021, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 116 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bleak and uncompromising, but director Ken Loach brightens his film with gorgeous cinematography and tight pacing, and features a fine performance from Cillian Murphy." Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 30 reviews.
The Daily Telegraph'''s film critic described it as a "brave, gripping drama" and said that director Loach was "part of a noble and very English tradition of dissent". A Times film critic said that the film showed Loach "at his creative and inflammatory best", and rated it as 4 out of 5. The Daily Record of Scotland gave it a positive review (4 out of 5), describing it as "a dramatic, thought-provoking, gripping tale that, at the very least, encourages audiences to question what has been passed down in dusty history books."
Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun named it the 5th best film of 2007, and Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post named it the 7th best film of 2007.
Jim Emerson, Roger Ebert's editor, gave the film a 4 star review, calling it "breathtakingly authentic", and declared it ranked "among the best war films ever made." In a generally positive review, the Irish historian Brian Hanley suggested that the film might have dealt with the IRA's relationship with the Protestant community, as one scene in its screenplay did.
The film also revived debate on rival interpretations of Irish history.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Interview with Ken Loach from Socialist Worker'', 10 June 2006
Introduction to The Wind That Shakes the Barley script by Luke Gibbons, and Gibbons' reply to Kevin Myers
2006 films
2006 drama films
British war drama films
English-language Irish films
English-language French films
English-language German films
English-language Italian films
English-language Spanish films
English-language Swiss films
Films scored by George Fenton
Films about the Irish Republican Army
Films directed by Ken Loach
Films set in the 1920s
Films set in Ireland
Irish Civil War films
Irish drama films
Irish-language films
Irish War of Independence films
Palme d'Or winners
Political drama films
Social realism in film
War romance films
UK Film Council films
Irish Film Board films
2000s British films
|
4017385
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale%20Folklore
|
Pale Folklore
|
Pale Folklore is the debut studio album by American metal band Agalloch. The album was released on June 6, 1999 by The End Records. It featured an eclectic mix of acoustic folk reminiscent of Scandinavian bands such as Ulver; doom and black metal-esque riffs; growled, clean, whispered, and shrieked vocals; and a production style and atmosphere that borrowed heavily from black metal. The lyrical themes focused mainly on depression, nature, folklore and the supernatural. It featured the roots of a post-rock influence which was greatly expanded on with Agalloch's second studio album, The Mantle.
Track listing
Personnel
Agalloch
Don Anderson – guitar
John Haughm – vocals, guitar, drums
Jason William Walton – bass
Shane Breyer – keyboards
Additional
Produced by Ronn Chick, John Haughm and Shane Breyer
Engineered by Ronn Chick
Artwork by Dennis Gerasimenko and Sergey Makhotkin
Band photography by Aaron Sholes
References
1999 debut albums
Agalloch albums
The End Records albums
Profound Lore Records albums
|
4017399
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Stursberg
|
Peter Stursberg
|
Arthur Lewis Peter Stursberg, known as Peter Stursberg, (August 31, 1913 – August 31, 2014), was a Canadian writer and broadcaster.
Life and career
Stursberg was born in Chefoo, China, the son of Mary Ellen (née Shaw) and Walter Arthur Stursberg, who was working for the Chinese postal service. His father was born in Canada to a German father from the Rhineland and an English mother, while his mother was born in China to an English father and a Japanese mother.
At the age of seven, Stursberg's parents took him on a world tour before returning to China. At age 11 Stursberg was sent to a boarding school in England. Several years later his parents returned to Canada. He joined them and went on to graduate from West Hill High School in Montreal. He then took his British matriculation at Bedford School before returning to Montreal in 1930 to attend McGill University where he studied sciences and wrote for the McGill Daily. As a result of the Great Depression, Stursberg's parents suffered a reversal in their economic status and moved to a farm on Vancouver Island. Stursberg left university to follow them west and worked at a number of odd jobs including working in a logging camp, on farms and odd jobs.
In 1934 Stursberg found a job as agricultural editor of the Victoria Daily Times. Curious about the situation in Europe, he embarked on a tour of the continent in 1938 visiting France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union where he was briefly detained for a visa violation. He filed stories as a freelance reporter during his tour and was hired on the strength of these pieces as a war reporter for the London Daily Herald.
With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Stursberg returned to Canada to join the Vancouver Daily Province. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Vancouver in 1941 as a news editor. In 1942 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy before becoming a war correspondent for the CBC later that year.
Stursberg spent his career as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, television newscaster and commentator, and author. He was recognised as one of the best Canadian correspondents of the Second World War, reporting for CBC Radio from the front lines in Italy and France. He published a book in 1944, Journey Into Victory, based on his experience. In 1945 he left the CBC to return to the Daily Herald as a foreign correspondent. He rejoined CBC in 1950 as the network's United Nations correspondent, leaving again in 1956 to join the Toronto Daily Star as Ottawa editorial correspondent. He left journalism in 1957 to work as a researcher and speechwriter for Prime Minister John Diefenbaker who subsequently appointed him press officer to the Canadian Trade Mission to the United Kingdom in 1957 and later, in 1958, secretary of the Trade Mission in Ottawa.
Stursberg joined Ernest Bushnell to apply for a license for what became CJOH Television in Ottawa. When the station was launched in 1961 he became a television newscaster and commentator for CJOH and was one of the initial co-anchors of the CTV National News. He remained a news commentator for CJOH and CTV until his retirement from broadcasting in 1973. He wrote several books on Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson: Diefenbaker: Leadership Gained, 1956-62 (1975) and Diefenbaker: Leadership Lost, 1962-67 (1976), Lester Pearson and the Dream of Unity (1978) and Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma (1980). In 1980 he joined the Department of Canadian Studies at Simon Fraser University as an Instructor and was an adjunct professor there from 1982 to 1988. In 1996 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for having "helped Canadians to be better informed about themselves and their place in the world".
Stursberg's final book, No Foreign Bones in China (2002), details his family's complex relationship with his country of birth:
"Stursberg recreated the story of his family in China for No Foreign Bones in China, recalling the turbulent birth of modern China through the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, two world wars and the rise of Mao. It traces the fortunes of Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw, a merchant seaman, who arrived in China in the 1830s. He settled in Foochow and married a Japanese woman, Peter Stursberg's grandmother, to whom the book is dedicated. The Shaw children grew up in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. The title refers to the fury of the Chinese over the Korean War. They expelled all foreigners and even dug up their bones, including the bones of Stursberg's grandfather and grandmother."
Through his ancestors Captain Shaw and his Japanese wife, Stursberg is related to former British Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith.
Stursberg is the father of former CBC executive Richard Stursberg. His granddaughter, Trina Maus, is a news reporter for CTV. Stursberg died in 2014, on his 101st birthday, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Selected bibliography
Journey Into Victory: Up the Alaska Highway and to Sicily and Italy (1944)
Agreement in Principle (1961)
Those Were The Days: Victoria in the 1930s (1969)
Mister Broadcasting: The Ernie Bushnell Story (1971)
Diefenbaker: Leadership Gained 1956-62, Toronto 1975, University of Toronto Press
Diefenbaker: Leadership Lost 1962-67, Toronto 1976, University of Toronto Press
Lester Pearson and the American Dilemma (1980)
EXTRA! When the Papers Had the Only News (1982)
Gordon Shrum: An Autobiography with Peter Stursberg (1986)
The Golden Hope: Christians In China (1987)
Roland Michener, The Last Viceroy (1989)
The Sound of War: Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent (1993)
No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending (2002)
References
External links
Profile, abcbookworld.com; accessed October 25, 2014.
CBC Archives: CBC reporter Peter Stursberg
Peter Stursberg archival fonds description (R5637) at Library and Archives Canada
1913 births
2014 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian centenarians
Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
Canadian people of German descent
Canadian people of English descent
Canadian people of Japanese descent
Canadian radio reporters and correspondents
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people
Canadian television news anchors
Members of the Order of Canada
Men centenarians
Writers from Vancouver
McGill University alumni
CTV Television Network people
20th-century Canadian journalists
21st-century Canadian journalists
Canadian expatriates in China
|
4017404
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakewell%20%28disambiguation%29
|
Bakewell (disambiguation)
|
Bakewell is a town and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.
Bakewell may also refer to:
Bakewell, Northern Territory, suburb of Palmerston, Australia
Bakewell, Tennessee, U.S.
Bakewell Island, Antarctica
People with the surname
Cathy Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (born 1949), British politician
Charles Montague Bakewell (1867–1957), American professor and politician
Claude I. Bakewell (1912–1987), U.S. Representative from Missouri
Danny Bakewell (born 1946), American civil rights activist and entrepreneur
Edward Howard Bakewell (1859–1944), pastoralist and public transport official in South Australia
Enid Bakewell (born 1940), English woman cricketeer
Ernest Bakewell (1898–1983), English-born chemical engineer and politician
Fred Bakewell (1908–1983), English cricketer
Frederick Bakewell (1800–1869), English physicist
Gary Bakewell, British television actor
George Bakewell (1864–1928), English footballer
Joan Bakewell (born 1933), British journalist and television presenter
Marika Bakewell (born 1985), Canadian curler
Michael Bakewell, British television producer
Robert Bakewell (disambiguation), a few people with the name
Samuel Bakewell (1815–1888), grocer and politician in South Australia
Sarah Bakewell, British non-fiction writer
William Bakewell (1908–1993), also known as Billy Bakewell, American actor
William Bakewell (politician) (1817–1870), solicitor and politician in South Australia
William Lincoln Bakewell (1888–1969), American sailor and adventurer
See also
|
4017406
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s%20Crazy
|
Everybody's Crazy
|
Everybody's Crazy is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Michael Bolton. The album was released in 1985 by Columbia Records.
The lead guitarist on the album is Bruce Kulick, later of KISS fame. The title track was a minor hit on hard rock radio stations, and was also featured in the 1986 movie Back to School. It was reissued overseas in the mid-1990s with a then-current photo on the cover. The album was reissued on February 25, 2008 by Rock Candy Records, UK on CD with a 12-page full colour booklet with original and new artwork.
Given the contrast in musical style between this album and the majority of Bolton's later (and more successful) musical output, songs from the album rarely appear on Bolton compilations. However, the title track was included on Bolton's entry in the Playlist series of Greatest Hits compilations.
Background
Producer Neil Kernon described how he became involved with the album: "Well, I got a call from Michael's manager asking me if I'd be interested. I'd heard "Fools Game" [from his previous album, Michael Bolton] and liked that, so we met and hit it off straight away. Michael was one of the funniest people I've ever met." Kernon also said that later on, Bolton did not want to re-release Everybody's Crazy or his self titled 1983 album on CD for fear of confusing and alienating fans of his later adult contemporary music.
Reception
In their retrospective review, AllMusic criticized Everybody's Crazy for muting Bolton's distinctive vocals, remarking that "much of the time he seemed to be fighting to be heard, and when he was, all he had was a mouthful of cliches to offer."
The album has an average rating of 88/100 on the hard rock/AOR database Heavy Harmonies.
Track listing
Personnel
Michael Bolton – lead vocals, backing vocals, additional guitar, arrangements (1, 3, 5)
Bruce Kulick – lead guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 9)
Dennis Feldman – bass, backing vocals
Lloyd Landesman – keyboards
Mark Mangold – keyboards, arrangements (1, 3, 5)
Jan Mullaney – keyboards
Mark Radice – keyboards
Allan St. John – keyboards
Chuck Burgi – drums (uncredited on the original release, but credited in the reissue)
Mark Rivera – saxophone
Larry Fast – synthesizer programming
Schuyler Deale – additional bass
Doug Katsaros – additional keyboards
Neil Kernon – additional keyboards
Terry Brock – backing vocals
Peppy Castro – backing vocals
Joe Cerisano – backing vocals
Randy Goodrum – keyboards, synthesizer programming, drum programming, backing vocals (all on 6 only)
Kevin Dukes – guitar (6)
Paul Pesco – additional guitar (6)
Production
Producers – Neil Kernon (Tracks 1–5, 7, 8 & 9); Randy Goodrum (Track 6)
Co-Producer – Michael Bolton (Tracks 1–5, 7, 8 & 9)
Executive Producer – Louis Levin
Engineers – John Abbey, Bruce Buchalter, Bobby Cohen, John Davenport, Neil Kernon, Bruce Lampcov, Andrew Milano and Malcolm Pollack.
Additional Engineer on Track 6 – Larold Rebhun
Assistant Engineers on Track 6 – Michael Sommers-Abbott and Paul Ericksen.
Recorded at The Power Station, Electric Lady Studios and Delta Recording Studios (New York, NY).
Additional Overdubs on Track 6 engineered by Jay Graydon at Garden Rake Studios (Sherman Oaks, CA).
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 9 mixed by Neil Kernon.
Track 4 mixed by Bobby Cohen, Jan Mullaney and Michael Bolton at The Hit Factory (New York, NY).
Track 6 mixed by Elliot Scheiner at Soundcastle (Los Angeles, CA).
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
Studio Maintenance – Bruce Friedman
Direction – Louis Levin, in association with David Krebs and Steve Leber for Contemporary Communications Corporation
Photography – Randee St. Nicholas
Stylist – Fleur Thiemeyer
Music videos
Cover versions
Starship covered "Desperate Heart" for their 1985 album Knee Deep in the Hoopla.
Jennifer Rush covered "Call My Name" (with slightly altered lyrics, thus earning Rush a co-writing credit on her version) for her 1987 album Heart Over Mind.
References
External links
Everybody's Crazy at Discogs
Michael Bolton albums
1985 albums
Albums produced by Neil Kernon
Columbia Records albums
|
4017414
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo%20Wanka
|
Deportivo Wanka
|
Deportivo Wanka is a Peruvian football club, based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes. It was founded in 1969 and is named after the Wankas people who formerly inhabited the area and after whom the city of Huancayo is named. The current Deportivo Wanka is merged with Deportivo Pesquero of Chimbote but its home city is still Huancayo. They play their home games at Estadio Huancayo. Their last First Division participation was in 2004. They protested against their relegation and were suspended from participating in any football tournament.
History
Deportivo Sipesa
Club Ovacion Miraflores was founded in 1969 in Chimbote, which would later become Ovación Sipesa. They played in the First Division of Chimbote and received sponsorship from the fishing trade union Sipesa. In 1992 they were promoted to the First Division and in 1993 they played in the Copa CONMEBOL.
Deportivo Pesquero
In 1996 the trade union ceased sponsoring the club and therefore changed their club name to Deportivo Pesquero.
Deportivo Wanka
In 2000, Deportivo Pesquero and Deportivo Wanka merged, giving Huancayo access to the Primera División Peruana
The team aroused controversy in 2004 when it moved its base to Cerro de Pasco, the highest city in the world and almost certainly the world's highest venue for professional football, at an altitude of 4,380 m (13,973 ft) above sea level, well above the point where altitude sickness becomes a problem. Its opponents criticised the move as an attempt to stave off relegation by playing in conditions that no other team could tolerate, including hail, rain, near-freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen from the high altitude. The club was relegated that season anyway.
Historic badges
Notable players
Honours
National
League
Torneo Zonal:
Winners (1): 1992
National cups
Torneo Intermedio:
Runner-up (1): 1993
Regional
Liga Departamental de Ancash:
Winners (1): 1991
Liga Distrital de Chimbote:
Runner-up (1): 1989
Outside football
In 2006, it emerged that Deportivo Wanka shirts had become a cult collectible item for British football fans, with over 1,000 shirts selling in the space of a few weeks. The British slang word wanker "one who masturbates", sounds like Wanka when said with a (non-rhotic) British accent. The Sun quoted a club spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name."
See also
List of football clubs in Peru
Peruvian football league system
References
Football clubs in Peru
Association football clubs established in 1969
|
4017428
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baird%20Sr.
|
David Baird Sr.
|
David Baird Sr. (April 7, 1839February 25, 1927) was an Irish-born American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey.
Biography
A Scots-Irishman born in County Londonderry, Ireland, Baird immigrated to the United States in 1856 and entered the lumber business in Port Deposit, Maryland. He moved in 1860 to Camden, New Jersey, where he continued in the lumber business and also engaged in banking. He was a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Camden County from 1876 to 1880. He also served as the sheriff of Camden County, New Jersey from 1887 to 1889, and again from 1895 to 1897. He was a member of the State board of assessors in 1895 and from 1901 to 1909.
Baird was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1910, but he was appointed on February 23, 1918 to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Hughes. He was subsequently elected as a Republican on November 5, 1918 and until March 3, 1919, when he did not run for reelection. He resumed his former business pursuits in Camden, where he died and was interred in Harleigh Cemetery.
Baird was the father of David Baird Jr., also a Senator from New Jersey.
See also
Federal government of the United States
List of United States senators born outside the United States
Politics of the United States
Notes
External links
David Baird at The Political Graveyard
1839 births
1927 deaths
American bankers
Burials at Harleigh Cemetery, Camden
County commissioners in New Jersey
Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
New Jersey Republicans
Politicians from Camden, New Jersey
People from County Londonderry
Republican Party United States senators from New Jersey
|
4017451
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Hamblin
|
Ken Hamblin
|
Ken Loronzo Hamblin II (born October 22, 1940), the self-titled Black Avenger, was host of the Ken Hamblin Show, which was syndicated nationally on Entertainment Radio Networks. His show peaked in the 1990s, but he left the air, without warning, in July 2003 due to a contractual dispute with his syndicator, the American Views Radio Network. Hamblin, based in Denver, Colorado, is the author of the books Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind about America and Plain Talk and Common Sense from the Black Avenger.
Early career
The child of immigrant parents from Barbados, Hamblin is a policeman's son. He served in the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division before becoming a photographer for the Detroit Free Press. In the late 1960s Hamblin was a producer and film cameraman with the public television channel in Detroit, WTVS, Channel 56. An event Hamblin captured exclusively was the release of poet John Sinclair from prison after serving time for marijuana possession. Hamblin began his radio career in the 1970s. Hamblin has said he was once sympathetic to the radical left, including the Black Panthers, and gave them favorable coverage. He eventually came to the opinion the left had failed to bring about the type of America it spoke of, and he began to move to the conservative side of the spectrum. Hamblin is a licensed fixed-wing pilot and a motorcycle owner. He is a father and grandfather.
The Ken Hamblin Show
Hamblin had a long-running local talk program on powerful KOA radio in Denver, a clear-channel station heard across the western and central United States. Hamblin hosted the early evening shift, which he worked the evening of June 18, 1984, when Alan Berg, one of the station's biggest and most controversial hosts, was gunned down. He gained national attention when his show, then carried on another Denver radio station, was broadcast on C-SPAN during the early 1990s. He was heard on KNUS and KXKL radio in Denver, as well as across the nation. After his show was syndicated, he was heard across the United States on about 200 radio stations.
In 1999, Hamblin was named one of Colorado's Top 100 most influential media personalities.
Hamblin's show had several unique features: playing various versions of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the beginning of the show; playing "Taps" for fallen law enforcement officers; announcing the execution of convicts on death row, often with a clip from the movie Unforgiven, saying "It's a hell of a thing killin' a man; you take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have." The execution segment was notable for having "Another One Bites the Dust", sung by Queen. Hamblin frequently referred to liberals as "Egg-sucking dogs", and sometimes challenged listeners to call in to, "Name one major American city that improved morally, socially, and economically after the city elected a liberal black mayor ('You can't do it')". He has also been an outspoken critic of Louis Farrakan and the Nation of Islam, challenging those unhappy with the United States to "pick a better country" and go live there.
Life after leaving public life
As of 2010, Hamblin was reported to be living in Douglas County, Colorado and now spends much of his time traveling with his wife Sue.
See also
Black conservatism in the United States
References
External links
American talk radio hosts
Writers from Denver
1940 births
Living people
African-American radio personalities
African-American writers
American writers
American conservative talk radio hosts
Radio personalities from New York City
Radio personalities from Detroit
Writers from New York City
Writers from Detroit
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
|
4017463
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20Jam%20%28festival%29
|
Summer Jam (festival)
|
Summer Jam is the annual hip-hop fest held in East Rutherford, New Jersey and sponsored by New York-based radio station Hot 97FM. Normally held in June, the concert features the most popular acts that hip hop and R&B have to offer in a particular year.
The hip-hop summer festival format was originally pioneered and popularized by San Francisco radio station KMEL with their large-scale Summer Jam concerts from 1987 through the 1990s and present day. KMEL continues to host smaller versions of the event annually. Similarly, Los Angeles station KKBT held an annual Summer Jam hip-hop concert during the 1990s after hiring KMEL's Program Director in 1993. The concert was discontinued as the station switched formats.
The concert has increasingly become a scene of drug use and violence over the years. A recent festival held on June 7, 2015 included a riot in the stadium parking lot. The disturbance began when crowds of people without tickets attempted to enter the stadium anyway by climbing over the fence and were stopped by New Jersey State Police. At this time, the decision to close all gates to the stadium was made and those in the parking lot were asked to leave. Instead of leaving, the crowd began throwing glass bottles and other objects at police. The police responded with riot gear, armored vehicles, and pepper spray. Multiple arrests were made.
See also
List of hip hop music festivals
Hip hop culture
References
Hip hop music festivals in the United States
Music festivals established in 1994
Music festivals in New Jersey
|
4017488
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage%20%28disambiguation%29
|
Sausage (disambiguation)
|
Sausage is a type of prepared meat.
Sausage may also refer to:
Sausage (band), a funk metal band fronted by Les Claypool
Sausage dog, nickname for a Dachshund
Sausage Software, a now defunct creator of web editing software
Sausage Galaxy, a former dwarf galaxy that accreted in a violent collision into the Milky Way
The sausage, the name of the device detonated in the Ivy Mike nuclear test
Sausage (album), a 1992 album by Baboon
See also
|
4017510
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Willis%20%28RAF%20officer%29
|
John Willis (RAF officer)
|
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Frederick Willis (27 October 1937 – 9 January 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
Flying career
John Frederick Willis was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and the RAF College Cranwell. Willis gained his RAF commission in 1958 and went on to fly Vulcan bombers. He went on to be Commanding Officer of No. 27 Squadron at RAF Scampton. He was appointed deputy director of Air Staff Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1979, Station Commander at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus in 1982 and Director of Air Staff Briefing & Co-ordination at the Ministry of Defence in 1985. Later that year he was made Chief of the Special Weapons Branch at Headquarters SHAPE.
In 1989 he was appointed Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy & Nuclear). He went on to be one of the RAF's most senior commanders, becoming Director-General of Training in 1991, Air Officer Commanding-in Chief of Support Command in 1992 and the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence in 1995. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1997.
In retirement he was a member of the council of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a patron of the Second World War Experience Centre. He was also actively involved in his local Royal Air Forces Association.
Personal life
In 1959, while living in London, Sir John met his wife Merrill, who was a nurse. They married in 1960. They had five children together, Jonathan, David, Kate, Rachel, and Rob. Sir John had fourteen grandchildren: Rebecca, Michael, Gregory, William, Joe, Ben, Finn, Ella, Millie, George, Sarah, Daisy, Pip and Heidi.
References
External links
Honorary Fellowship of Newcastle University
Obituary in The Times, 24 January 2008
|-
|-
Royal Air Force air marshals
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Graduates of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell
People educated at Dulwich College
People associated with Newcastle University
1937 births
2008 deaths
Military personnel from London
|
4017534
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20McSheffrey
|
Gary McSheffrey
|
Gary McSheffrey (born 13 August 1982) is an English football manager and former player who is the manager of club Doncaster Rovers.
As a player he was a striker and left winger who made more than 450 appearances in the Football League and Premier League, including 247 for Coventry City, where he became the youngest player ever to play in the Premier League. He went on to play for Stockport County, Luton Town, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, and Leeds United before returning to Coventry in 2010. Released in September 2013, he signed for Chesterfield later that month. In January 2014, he signed for Scunthorpe United on a free transfer until the end of the 2013–14 season before moving on to Doncaster Rovers, Eastleigh, Grimsby Town, and Frickley Athletic. He scored more than 100 league goals during his career. McSheffrey played internationally for England at under-20 level.
After a short spell as caretaker manager of Doncaster, he was appointed manager in December 2021.
Club career
Coventry City
McSheffrey was born in Coventry, and began his football career at home town club Coventry City. When he made his first-team debut against local rivals Aston Villa at the age of 16 years and 198 days on 27 February 1999, a game that Coventry won 4–1, he became the youngest player ever to play in the Premier League. He held the record for over four years until Aaron Lennon made his Leeds United debut at a younger age in August 2003. During his time at Coventry he spent loan spells at Stockport County, Luton Town earlier in the 2004–05 season helping them achieve promotion to the Championship, and Swedish side IK Brage. He represented England at under-18 and under-20 levels.
Playing primarily on the left wing in the 2005–06 season, McSheffrey ended up among the top scorers in the Football League Championship with 15 league goals. It was form like this that brought him to the attention of local rivals Birmingham City during the summer of 2006. After weeks of bidding, Coventry accepted an offer valued at £4 million. This has since been estimated at £2.3m cash with a further £1.3m depending on promotion and appearances. The deal was completed on 16 August 2006, and McSheffrey became a Birmingham City player three days after his 24th birthday.
Birmingham City
McSheffrey scored his first hat-trick for his new club in a league match against Preston North End on 9 December 2006. He was part of the 2006–07 promotion-winning side, returning to the Premier League after just one season in the Championship. McSheffrey was also their top scorer with 16 goals, of which 13 were scored in the league. His penalty in Birmingham's 3–2 win against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on 2 December 2007 was his first goal in the Premier League. McSheffrey found his time limited during the 2008–09 season; he helped the side clinch promotion back to the Premier League by winning four out of six league appearances he made. In March 2009, he joined Nottingham Forest on loan for what was reported as an initial month. and then to have returned to Birmingham because he needed surgery on a persistent knee problem, but manager Alex McLeish confirmed that the loan was in fact for two months. Told in August 2009 that he was free to find another club, and frustrated by lack of opportunity, McSheffrey made just one start and four substitute appearances in the 2009–10 Premier League.
Leeds United (loan)
On 29 January 2010, McSheffrey joined Leeds United of Football League One on loan for the remainder of the season. He made his debut the following day, producing a man-of-the-match performance on the left wing in Leeds' 2–0 League home win against Colchester United. In an interview after the game McSheffrey said "there'd be no better club to be with at Championship level" should Leeds succeed in gaining promotion.
Ineligible for an FA Cup replay against Tottenham Hotspur, McSheffrey returned to the starting line-up for the 2–2 draw with Hartlepool United. He started on the left wing for Leeds against Carlisle United in the Football League Trophy Northern Final second leg. Leeds won the game 3–2, but ended up losing the tie after losing the penalty shootout 6–5, with McSheffrey converting one of the penalties for Leeds.
He scored his first and only goal for Leeds against Walsall after his mis-hit cross eluded goalkeeper Clayton Ince, but Walsall won 2–1 to inflict Leeds' first home defeat in more than a year. McSheffrey was dropped to the bench against Oldham Athletic and replaced in the starting line-up by Aidan White, but after White suffered an injury McSheffrey returned to Leeds' starting line-up against Huddersfield Town. McSheffrey earned promotion with Leeds to the Championship, after finishing as runners up in League One.
Return to Coventry City
In May 2010, Birmingham City announced that McSheffrey was one of five players to be released when their contracts expired at the end of June. He agreed to return to Championship club Coventry City, where he agreed a one-year deal, with the option of a further year, to begin on 1 July 2010.
His return to Coventry was a largely disappointing spell in his career, despite being a regular starter, fans felt that his best years were past him. McSheffrey was one of eight players told in June 2013 that they did not feature in manager Steven Pressley's future plans, and one of five who had to train on their own during pre-season. On 3 September, his contract was cancelled.
Chesterfield
Ten days later, he signed a four-month contract with League Two club Chesterfield.
Scunthorpe United
On 14 January 2014, McSheffrey signed for Scunthorpe United until the end of the 2013–14 season. McSheffrey made his United debut on 25 January in a 3–3 draw away to Dagenham & Redbridge, and his home debut two days later in a goalless draw with Fleetwood. His first goal for the club came from a free kick in a 2–1 win against Walsall on 30 August. He played 37 times for United in the league that season, scoring four goals, as they finished 16th behind Oldham Athletic by one point.
Doncaster Rovers
On 23 March 2016, McSheffrey signed for fellow League One club Doncaster Rovers on loan until the end of the season.
Eastleigh
McSheffrey joined National League club Eastleigh on 7 September 2017 on a deal until January 2018. He scored twice from 11 league appearances before his contract was cancelled by mutual consent for family reasons in late November.
Grimsby Town
McSheffrey joined League Two club Grimsby Town as a free agent on 15 March 2018 until the end of the season. He was released at the end of the season.
Coaching career
McSheffrey played a one-match trial for Boston United in their Lincolnshire Senior Cup defeat against Lincoln United in July 2018, before joining the coaching staff at Doncaster Rovers' Academy as professional development phase coach working with the under-18 team. Alongside his coaching role, he played a few matches for Northern Premier League East side Frickley Athletic early in the 2018–19 season, and made his debut for Northern Counties East League club Rossington Main in October 2020.
On 2 December 2021, McSheffrey was appointed caretaker manager of Doncaster Rovers following the sacking of manager Richie Wellens with the club 23rd in the table. After four matches in charge, he was appointed manager on a permanent basis.
Personal life
McSheffrey has coached children in the Coventry area via the Soccer Rockz football coaching programme, in association with Coventry City Football Club (CCFC).
A former pupil of Bishop Ullathorne School, McSheffrey is a Roman Catholic.
Career statistics
Honours
As a player
Luton Town
League One champions: 2004–05
Birmingham City
Championship second-place promotion: 2006–07
Championship second-place promotion: 2008–09
Leeds United
League One second-place promotion: 2009–10
Scunthorpe United
League Two second-place promotion: 2013–14
Doncaster Rovers
EFL League Two third-place promotion: 2016–17
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Coventry
English footballers
England youth international footballers
Association football forwards
Association football wingers
Coventry City F.C. players
IK Brage players
Stockport County F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Leeds United F.C. players
Chesterfield F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Eastleigh F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Frickley Athletic F.C. players
Rossington Main F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Superettan players
National League (English football) players
Northern Premier League players
English football managers
Doncaster Rovers F.C. managers
Association football coaches
Doncaster Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
English expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
English Roman Catholics
|
4017554
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20Daddy%20Games
|
Cat Daddy Games
|
Cat Daddy Games is an American video game developer and a studio of 2K based in Kirkland, Washington. It was founded in the Seattle area by Ryan Haveson, Harley Howe, and Patrick Wilkinson after leaving Microsoft's games division in March 1996. During their time at Microsoft, they compiled a list of features they wanted to see in a game, and upon forming Cat Daddy Games, started developing Demon Isle, an action-adventure game. In Q2 2003, Cat Daddy Games was acquired by Take-Two Interactive and became an internal development studio for Take-Two's Global Star Software label. On September 10, 2007, Take-Two Interactive announced the opening of 2K Play, a new sub-label for its 2K division, which consumed all assets of Global Star Software, including Cat Daddy Games.
Games developed
References
External links
1996 establishments in Washington (state)
2K (company)
American companies established in 1996
Companies based in Kirkland, Washington
Take-Two Interactive divisions and subsidiaries
Video game development companies
|
4017557
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardiniera
|
Giardiniera
|
Giardiniera (, ) is an Italian relish of pickled vegetables in vinegar or oil.
Varieties and uses
Italian giardiniera is also called sottaceti ("under vinegar"), a common term for pickled foods. It is typically eaten as an antipasto or with salads.
In the United States, giardiniera is commonly available in traditional or spicy varieties, and the latter is sometimes referred to as "hot mix".
Giardiniera is a versatile condiment that can be used on a variety of different foods, such as bratwurst, bruschetta, burgers, pasta salad, eggs (omelets), hot dogs, tuna salad, sandwiches, and much more. In the U.S. it is not uncommon to use giardiniera on pasta or, in the Chicago area, pizza.
In the cuisine of Chicago, an oil-based giardiniera is
often used as a condiment, typically as a topping on Italian beef sandwiches, subs, and pizza.
A milder variety of giardiniera is used for the olive salad in the muffuletta sandwich.
Ingredients
The Italian version includes bell peppers, celery, carrots, cauliflower and gherkins. The pickled vegetables are marinated in oil, red- or white-wine vinegar, herbs and spices.
Chicago-style giardiniera is commonly made spicy with sport peppers or chili flakes, along with a combination of assorted vegetables, including bell peppers, celery, carrots, cauliflower, and sometimes gherkins or olives, all marinated in vegetable oil, olive oil, soybean oil, or any combination of the three. Some commercially prepared versions are labeled "Chicago-style giardiniera".
See also
Encurtido – a pickled vegetable appetizer, side dish and condiment in the Mesoamerican region
References
Condiments
Cuisine of the Midwestern United States
Italian cuisine
Italian-American cuisine
Pickles
Vegetable dishes
Brassica oleracea dishes
Vegetarian cuisine
nl:Tafelzuur
|
4017559
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Craig
|
Tommy Craig
|
Thomas Brooks Craig (born 21 November 1950 in Glasgow) is a Scottish football player and coach. Craig had an 18-year playing career as a midfielder, playing over 100 league games for English clubs Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United. Towards the end of his playing career he became a coach, and he has worked for clubs including Hibernian, Celtic, Aberdeen, Newcastle and St Mirren.
Playing career
Craig was a midfielder who started his playing career at Aberdeen. In 1969 Sheffield Wednesday paid £100,000 for his services, a club record transfer fee at the time, as well as a British record for a teenager. Craig scored 37 league goals for Wednesday, including many from the penalty spot. During his time at the club, Wednesday were relegated from the top flight following Craig's first full season, and they continued to struggle in Division Two, finally being relegated again shortly after he left for Newcastle United in 1974. While at the club, Craig was the fan favourite and was described as "an adopted Geordie".
After leaving Newcastle he went on to join Ron Saunders' Aston Villa, however, his stay was short lived as Saunders was clearing the decks in order to turn Villa into the Championship and European Cup winning force of the early 1980s. He subsequently moved on to Swansea City, Carlisle United and Hibernian before becoming a coach.
Craig was capped once by Scotland, against Switzerland in 1976.
Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Craig was made assistant manager to John Blackley at Hibernian, before briefly taking over as caretaker manager upon Blackley's departure. He was then Billy McNeill's assistant manager at Celtic, where they won the championship in their centenary year. A spell at Aberdeen as assistant to Roy Aitken followed, before he took up the coaching role of Scotland's Under-21 team.
Craig spent time as a first team coach of Newcastle United, until he was released in September 2006. While at Newcastle United, Craig stated he learned coaching development under the first team managers during his seven years as a coach. He was then chosen by John Collins to be his assistant at Hibernian. Following Collins' resignation, Craig acted as the caretaker manager of Hibernian for the second time. He left the club after four games, following the appointment of Mixu Paatelainen as manager. Craig joined Charleroi as assistant coach to Collins in December 2008. On 20 November 2009, he was appointed as head coach on a one-and-a-half-year contract. Despite this contract, Craig was sacked on 14 April 2010.
St Mirren manager Danny Lennon appointed Craig as first team coach on 22 July 2011. Craig was part of the coaching team that won the 2012–13 Scottish League Cup with St Mirren. On 13 May 2014 Craig was appointed as St Mirren manager, following the departure of Lennon. Immediately after taking the job, Craig included two players on his coaching team, Jim Goodwin and Gary Teale. Craig was sacked in December 2014, after 19 matches in charge. St Mirren were joint bottom of the Scottish Premiership and lost 4–0 to Inverness in the Scottish Cup.
Managerial statistics
No statistics currently available for Scotland U21 team.
References
External links
1950 births
Living people
Footballers from Glasgow
Association football midfielders
Scottish footballers
Scotland international footballers
Aberdeen F.C. players
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Swansea City A.F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Hibernian F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
Scottish football managers
Scottish expatriate football managers
Newcastle United F.C. non-playing staff
Hibernian F.C. non-playing staff
Celtic F.C. non-playing staff
Aberdeen F.C. non-playing staff
St Mirren F.C. non-playing staff
R. Charleroi S.C. managers
Scotland under-21 international footballers
Scotland under-23 international footballers
Scotland national under-21 football team managers
|
4017561
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam%20Keshavarz
|
Maryam Keshavarz
|
Maryam Keshavarz () is an American filmmaker(Iranian pedigreed) best known for her 2011 film Circumstance distributed by Participant Media and Roadside Attractions, which won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.
Biography
Maryam received her BA in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MFA in Film Direction from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Shiraz, Department of Language and Literature.
In 2001, with a band of all girl crew and cast, Maryam directed her first experimental 16mm film, entitled Sanctuary. This surreal fantasy film about an Iranian woman in post-9/11 America traveled to several international festivals and landed Maryam the Steve Tisch fellowship to attend NYU's graduate film program.
In 2003, Maryam drew on her experience growing up between Iran and the United States to direct her first feature documentary, The Color of Love. An intimate portrait of the changing landscape of love and politics in Iran, the documentary showed at international festivals such as Montreal World Film Fest, Full Frame Doc Fest, MoMA New York, It's All True (Brazil), among others; it garnered top prizes such as the International Documentary Association's David L. Wolper Award, Jury Award at DocuDays, and the Full Frame's Spectrum Award. The Color of Love has been broadcast internationally, was released on DVD by Parlour Pictures, and was featured on Danny DeVito's Jersey Docs, a subsidiary of Morgan Freeman's ClickStar.
In 2005, Maryam returned to Argentina, where she had studied Latin American literature at the University of Buenos Aires. There, she wrote and directed the visual essay The Day I Died about an adolescent love triangle in a sleepy Argentine seaside town. The Day I Died has been shown in Main Competition at Mar del Plata, Clermont-Ferrand, New York Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. The Day I Died was the only short film at Berlinale to win two awards: the Gold Teddy Best Short Film and the Jury Prize Special Mention. The film also won the Jury Prize at the Rio International Film Fest. The film is part of the DVD compilation by Shooting People entitled BEST v BEST VOL. 2: AWARD WINNING SHORT FILMS 2006.
Maryam's first narrative feature fiction film, Circumstance premiered to overwhelming critical acclaim at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, garnering the Sundance Audience Award, leading to Maryam's inclusion in Deadline.com's 2011 Director's to Watch. Circumstance has won over a dozen international awards including Best First Film at the Rome Film Festival and the Audience & Best Actress Awards at Outfest. The Independent Spirit Award nominated film was described by the New York Times as "Swirling and sensuous", by the Wall Street Journal as "Supremely cinematic", and by the Hollywood Reporter as "Amazingly accomplished." The film released theatrically in over a dozen countries in 2012.
More recently, Maryam's newest film project The Last Harem won the prestigious Hearst Screenwriters Grant and the San Francisco Film Society/ KRF Screenwriting Award, while her museum installation work entitled BETWEEN SIGHT AND DESIRE: IMAGINING THE MUSLIM WOMAN won a multi-year grant from Creative Capital. Maryam has also been tapped to co-write and direct the narrative adaptation of the award-winning HBO documentary Hot Coffee.
Maryam is an alumna of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab, Tribeca Film Institute's All Access Program. She is the recipient of dozens of grants and fellowships including the French Government's Fonds Sud, Rotterdam Film Festivals' Hubert Bals Award, Women in Film's Grant, Adrienne Shelly Award, numerous Sundance fellowships, and multiple San Francisco Film Society grants. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania and guest lecturer at dozens of prestigious international universities. She is an active member of Film Independent serving as a mentor for their Project Involve Initiative and speaking on numerous filmmaking panels.
Personal life
Keshavarz is bisexual.
Filmography and awards
See also
Cinema of Iran
List of famous Persian women
References
External links
Keshavarz at Stardustbrands
https://web.archive.org/web/20160818010336/http://esmatlyintercultural.blogfa.com/post-70.aspx
نقدی بر فیلم شرایط ساخته مریم کشاورز A Review on “Circumstance” by Maryam Keshavarz
Advocate – State of Affairs
– In Movies by Iranians, a Feminist Streak
The Bay Area Reporter – Iranian Youth Culture Flowers in 'Circumstance'
The Boston Globe – 'Circumstance': A Forbidden Love Story
The Boston Herald – Film Reveals 'Circumstance' of gays in Iran
College Movie Review
ComingSoon.net
The Daily Beast – Iran's Controversial New Lesbian Film
Daily Candy – 9 Film You Should Seek Out
Deadline Hollywood – Sundance: 2011 Film Directors to Watch
The Feminist Spectator – 'Circumstance'
Feminema – To Be Young, Gifted, & Living Under Patriarchy: 'Circumstance (2011)'
The Globe and Mail – "Circumstance': A Glimpse of the Miniskirts Under the Chadors
The Guardian (UK) – Maryam Keshavarz: 'In Iran, anything illegal becomes politically subversive'
Huff Post Culture – 'Circumstance' and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth
Huff Post Entertainment – Parties and Promiscuity In a Police State
IndieWire – Critical Consensus: Iran-Set Drama 'Circumstance' is The Pick of the Week
IndieWire 2 – Love and Risk in Iran: Circumstance Written and Directed by Maryam Keshavarz
IndieWire 3 – 'Circumstance's' Maryam Keshavarz Faces Threats, Fears DVD Release
Interview – Dubbing SATC in Tehran
Killer Movie Reviews – 'Circumstance' Lines of Discontent in Iran's Cultural Landscape
The New York Times – Living and Loving Underground in Iran
Reuters – 'Circumstance' Sheds Light on Gay Life in Iran
ScreenCrave.com – Sundance 2011: 'Circumstance' Movie Review
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – 'Circumstance' Looks Inside Iranian Youth Culture
The Salt Lake Tribune – Sundance review: 'Circumstance'
USA TODAY – In 'Circumstance,' A sexual awakening in Iran
W Magazine – Nikohl Boosheri & Sarah Kazemy: The Provocative Screen Debut by Two Iranian Actresses
The Washington Post – 'Circumstance': Forbidden Love in Today's Iran
American film directors
American people of Iranian descent
Iranian film directors
Living people
Northwestern University alumni
Shiraz University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
1975 births
LGBT people from Iran
LGBT people from New York (state)
LGBT American people of Asian descent
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Iranian diaspora film people
Bisexual women
LGBT film directors
|
4017580
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baird%20Jr.
|
David Baird Jr.
|
David Baird Jr. (October 10, 1881February 28, 1955) was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
Biography
Born in Camden, New Jersey to Senator David Baird, Baird Jr. graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1899 and from Princeton University in 1903. Like his father, he engaged in the lumber business and banking in Camden from 1903 to 1929.
On November 30, 1929, Baird was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Evans Edge. He served from November 30, 1929 to December 2, 1930, when a duly elected successor was qualified. Baird was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1930.
Baird was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1931, after which he resumed former business pursuits.
He was appointed by the Governor to the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to fill an unexpired term in 1938. He then worked as insurance broker, and died in Camden in 1955, aged 73. He was interred in Harleigh Cemetery.
External links
David Baird Jr. at The Political Graveyard
1881 births
1955 deaths
American bankers
Lawrenceville School alumni
New Jersey Republicans
Politicians from Camden, New Jersey
Princeton University alumni
Republican Party United States senators from New Jersey
Burials at Harleigh Cemetery, Camden
20th-century American politicians
|
4017584
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Despenser%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Gloucester
|
Thomas Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
|
Thomas le Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester KG (22 September 137313 January 1400) was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.
Royal intrigues
A supporter of Richard II against Thomas of Woodstock and the Lords Appellant, he was rewarded with an Earldom as Earl of Gloucester in 1397, by virtue of being descended from Gilbert de Clare, 7th earl of an earlier creation. He spent the years 1397–99 in Ireland, attempting with little success to persuade the Gaelic chieftains to accept Richard II as their overlord.
However, he supported Henry Bolingbroke on his return to England to become King Henry IV, only to be attainted (deprived of his Earldom because of a capital crime) for his role in the death of Thomas of Woodstock.
He then took part in the Epiphany Rising, a rebellion led by a number of Barons aimed at restoring Richard to the throne by assassinating King Henry IV; this quickly failed when the conspirators were betrayed by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York to Henry. After fleeing to the western counties, a number of the Epiphany Rising conspirators were captured and killed by mobs of townspeople loyal to the king; Despenser was captured by a mob and beheaded at Bristol on 13 January 1400.
Marriage
Thomas le Despenser married Constance, daughter of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York. They had issue:
Elizabeth le Despenser (died young c. 1398)
Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh (1396–1414)
Edward le Despenser (born before 1400), died young
Hugh le Despenser (c. 1400–1401)
Isabel le Despenser (26 July 140027 December 1439); she married first Richard Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, and later married second his cousin Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
Ancestry and succession
References
thePeerage.com
Otway-Ruthven, A.J. History of Medieval Ireland Barnes and Noble reprint New York 1993
1373 births
1400 deaths
14th-century English nobility
People executed under the Lancastrians
Knights of the Garter
Executed English people
People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation
Thomas
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Lords of Glamorgan
Barons le Despencer
|
4017585
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Godber
|
Joseph Godber
|
Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Baron Godber of Willington, (17 March 1914 – 25 August 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister.
Background
Godber was educated at Bedford School, between 1922 and 1931, and became a nurseryman. He became chairman of the county glasshouse section of the National Farmers Union and of the publicity and parliamentary committee. He was a member of the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board.
Political career
Godber was a Bedfordshire County Councillor from 1946 until 1952. He was elected Member of Parliament for Grantham in 1951, a seat he held until 1979. He served under Harold Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1957 to 1960, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1961, as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1961 to 1963 and as Secretary of State for War in 1963, under Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Minister of Labour from 1963 to 1964 and under Edward Heath as Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1970 to 1972 and as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1972–1974. Godber was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1963 and in 1979 he was made a life peer as Baron Godber of Willington, of Willington in the County of Bedfordshire.
Personal life
Lord Godber of Willington died in August 1980, aged 66. In 1936, he married Miriam Sanders in Bedford. They had two sons (including one born in 1938 and the other in 1944). He has 5 grandchildren (Amanda Varley, James R B Godber, Joe Godber, Victoria Bell and Pete Godber) and 9 great grandchildren (Lucy Varley, Naomi Godber, Jude Godber, Noah Godber, Ruby-Rose Godber, Emily Godber, Tom Godber, Edward Bell and Jack Bell)
References
Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
External links
1914 births
1980 deaths
British Secretaries of State
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Councillors in Bedfordshire
Godber of Willington
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Agriculture ministers of the United Kingdom
People educated at Bedford School
Secretaries of State for War (UK)
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
UK MPs 1966–1970
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
Politics of Grantham
Joseph
Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964
|
4017589
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Acre
|
Castle Acre
|
Castle Acre is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated on the River Nar some north of the town of Swaffham. It is east of the town of King's Lynn, west of the city of Norwich, and from London.
The village's name means 'Cultivated land'. 'Castle' was added, after the great motte-and-bailey was built here, to distinguish from South and West Acre.
The village is best known today for the twin ruins of Castle Acre Castle and Castle Acre Priory, which lie immediately to the east and west of the village respectively. Both were founded soon after the Norman Conquest by William de Warenne, the first Earl of Surrey. At its heyday, Castle Acre played an important role in the affairs of the State, with many visits from royalty. Castle Acre itself was once a fortified town and still possesses one of its gates, the Bailey Gate. When first established, Castle Acre was one of the finest examples of Norman town planning in the country, and much of this can still be seen.
The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 799 in 370 households, the population increasing to 848 at the 2011 Census. The parish shares boundaries with the adjacent parishes of Rougham, Great Massingham, West Acre, South Acre, Newton by Castle Acre and Lexham. The parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. Local government responsibilities are shared between the parish, district and county councils. Castle Acre forms part of the North West Norfolk constituency in the House of Commons. Norfolk County Council is responsible for roads, some schools, and social services, and the county councillor for the Gayton division, including Castle Acre, is Graham Robin Middleton (Conservative).
The village lies some west of the A1065 Mildenhall to Fakenham road, but is clearly visible from the road. The hamlet of Fiddler's Green lies to the northeast of the village.
References
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Castle%20Acre
External links
Information from Genuki Norfolk on Castle Acre.
English Heritage Castle Acre castle and bailey gate
Villages in Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
|
4017604
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Casati
|
Paolo Casati
|
Paolo Casati (in Latin, Paulus Casatus) (1617 – 22 December 1707) was an Italian Jesuit mathematician. Born in Piacenza to a Milanese family, he joined the Jesuits in 1634. After completing his mathematical and theological studies, he moved to Rome, where he assumed the position of professor at the Collegio Romano. He was given the chair in mathematics after teaching philosophy and theology.
Casati in Sweden
In 1651, Casati was sent on a mission to Stockholm in order to gauge the sincerity of Christina of Sweden's intention to become Catholic. He subsequently returned to his post at Rome. In 1677, he moved to the Jesuit College in Parma, where he remained until his death.
Casati's Terra machinis mota
The astronomical work Terra machinis mota (1658) imagines a dialogue between Galileo, Paul Guldin, and Marin Mersenne on various intellectual problems of cosmology, geography, astronomy and geodesy. For example, they discuss how to determine the Earth's dimensions, floating bodies, the phenomena of capillarity, and also describe the experiment on the vacuum made by Otto von Guericke in 1654. The work is remarkable for the fact that it represents Galileo in a positive light, in a Jesuit work, only 25 years after Galileo's condemnation by the Church.
Casati and Theories on the Vacuum
Casati discussed the hypothesis of horror vacui, that nature abhors a vacuum, in his thesis Vacuum proscriptum, published in Genoa in 1649. Casati confuted the existence of both vacuum and atmospheric pressure, but he did not rely entirely on scientific observation, and refers to Catholic thought in order to back his claims. The absence of anything implied the absence of God, and hearkened back to the void prior to the story of creation in the book of Genesis (see Vacuum: historical interpretation).
Named after Casati
The crater Casatus on the Moon is named after him.
Other works
Fabrica et uso del compasso di proportione (1664), a work explaining the construction and use of proportional compasses
Le ceneri dell'Olimpo ventilate (1673), a dialogue about meteorology
De gli horologi solari (unpublished manuscript): about sundial construction
Exercitationes matheseos candidatis exhibitaæ (1698) (unpublished manuscript): a collection of algebraic and geometrical subjects.
See also
List of Jesuit scientists
List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
Sources
Horror vacui?
The scientific works of Paolo Casati (1617-1707)
17th-century Italian mathematicians
18th-century Italian mathematicians
17th-century Italian physicists
17th-century Italian Jesuits
1617 births
1707 deaths
Jesuit scientists
|
4017609
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmod
|
Desmod
|
Desmod is a Slovak music band, playing mainly mainstream pop-rock songs, founded in 1996. The former lineup is completely different from the current one and they have played genres including soft rock and pop rock. Nowadays, Desmod is one of the most popular Slovak music groups.
Members
Mário "Kuly" Kollár (vocals)
Dušan Minka (bass guitar)
Jano Škorec (drums)
Rišo Synčák (guitar)
Rišo Nagy (guitar)
Michal Kožuch (manager)
Discography
Albums
001 (2000)
Mám chuť (2001)
Derylov svet (2003)
Skupinová terapia (2004)
Uhol pohľadu (2006)
Kyvadlo (2007)
Vitajte na konci sveta (2010)
Iný rozmer (2011)
Javorový album (2012)
Molekuly zvuku (2017)
See also
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
External links
Official homepage (sk)
Slovak musical groups
Musical groups established in 1996
Nitra
|
4017618
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Sniderman
|
Sam Sniderman
|
Sam Sniderman, (June 15, 1920 – September 23, 2012) was a Canadian businessman best known as the founder of the Canadian record shop chain Sam the Record Man. Sniderman was also a major promoter of Canadian music including involvement in pushing for the Canadian content (CANCON) broadcast regulations and creating the Juno Awards.
Life and career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Sniderman grew up in its Jewish enclave known as Kensington Market.
He attended high school at Harbord Collegiate Institute and started selling records in his brother Sidney's store, Sniderman Radio Sales and Service, in 1936. In 1959 he opened his first store on Toronto's Yonge Street, and then moved it to the iconic 347 Yonge Street flagship store location in 1961. In 1969, he started franchising the store.
He retired in 2000 and turned over ownership of the business to his sons, Bobby and Jason, and Sid's daughters Lana and Arna. The flagship Toronto store that bore his name closed in 2007 and its distinctive façade was declared a heritage site by the city.
Following the closure, Sniderman expressed his support for Ryerson University's bid to expropriate the Yonge Street property if his children and nieces failed to negotiate a deal to sell the property to the university. In the end, Ryerson (now called Toronto Metropolitan University) reached a deal to purchase the property from the family.
Awards and honours
On October 20, 1976, he was invested into the Order of Canada. He was appointed to the Order's third tier, Member, for "found[ing] the Recordings Archive Library at the University of Toronto, now the largest of its kind in Canada. For his constant support of Canadian talent and concern for the preservation of our cultural heritage".
Sniderman was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
Sam Sniderman himself remained an active participant in the Canadian music industry until his death. Always a believer in the "more is more" philosophy, he established the Sniderman Sound Recording Archive at the University of Toronto's School of Music, ensuring that it is "as big as possible." Sniderman spoke at the 2006 East Coast Music Awards. In 1999, Sniderman received the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, for his tireless support of Canadian musicians.
His son Jason Sniderman is a musician and was also an executive with Sam the Record Man. Another son, Bobby Sniderman, went into business for himself as proprietor of The Senator restaurant.
References
External links
Multimedia
CBC Archives in a radio interview Sam Sniderman (Sam the record man) talks about his support for Canadian content in 1971
Web
Sam Sniderman at The Canadian Encyclopedia
1920 births
2012 deaths
Businesspeople from Toronto
Canadian Jews
Canadian music industry executives
Canadian retail chief executives
Members of the Order of Canada
Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners
|
4017657
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Service%20Executive
|
Health Service Executive
|
The Health Service Executive (HSE) () is the publicly funded healthcare system in Ireland, responsible for the provision of health and personal social services. It came into operation on 1 January 2005.
The current Director-General is Paul Reid.
History
The Executive was established by the Health Act 2004 and came into official operation on 1 January 2005. It replaced the ten regional Health Boards, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and a number of other different agencies and organisations. The Minister for Health retained overall responsibility for the Executive in Government. The HSE adopted a regional structure (HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster, HSE Dublin North East, HSE South and HSE West).
A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD in May 2013, as part of a restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care:
Dublin North East (subsequently renamed RCSI Hospitals)
Dublin Midlands (subsequently renamed Dublin Midlands Hospital Group)
Dublin East (subsequently renamed Ireland East Hospital Group)
South/South West (subsequently renamed South/Southwest Hospital Group)
West/North West (subsequently renamed Saolta University Health Care Group)
Mid West (subsequently renamed UL Hospitals Group)
A new arrangement of 90 primary care networks was announced in October 2014.
On 4 April 2022, it was announced that the Chief Operations Officer of the HSE - Anne O'Connor - would be leaving the organisation in the summer to take up a new role as Managing Director of VHI Health and Wellbeing. On 27 June 2022, it was announced that the current Director General of the HSE - Paul Reid - would be stepping down from his role in December to 'spend more time with family'.
On 16 August 2022, it was announced that the Director General - Paul Reid - would be leaving on 3 October 2022, two months earlier than planned. His role will be temporarily filled by the current Chief Financial Officer - Stephen Mulvany.
Historic issues
The HSE is frequently portrayed by the Irish media as an inefficient, top-heavy and excessively bureaucratic organisation. The Irish health system has been involved in a number of serious health scandals, for example relating to cancer misdiagnoses in 2008. The HSE has also been the subject of criticism for cutbacks, service cancellations etc., but has indicated that it is making good progress in saving costs and achieving its required 'break-even' budget position for 2010.
In the same month, the Irish Medical Organisation stated that patients awaiting a HSE medical card were waiting up to six months to receive their card, and that their health was being put at risk as they could not afford medicines that they would have otherwise obtained had they received their card. The HSE has since announced a new online system for medical card applications that will reduce turnaround time for routine applications to 15 days.
In May 2011, key forensic evidence in up to 25 sexual-assault cases may be challenged in court because of a major administrative blunder by the HSE. The victims – some as young as 14 – were told by Gardaí about the incident, in which a nurse who carried out their forensic tests was unregistered. This could lead to the evidence being challenged.
In May 2018, in the midst of the CervicalCheck misdiagnoses controversy, Tony O'Brien announced his resignation as director-general of the HSE with effect from close of business on 11 May.
An Ombudsman report in October 2020 found that children with suspected disabilities are encountering delays of many years in having their needs properly assessed. The report said that this is 'a serious and ongoing violation of their rights'.
2021 cyberattack
On 14 May 2021, the HSE suffered a major ransomware cyberattack which caused all of its IT systems nationwide to be shut down. It was the most significant cybercrime attack on an Irish state agency and the largest known attack against a health service computer system.
The ransomware cyber attack, which occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, had a significant impact on hospital appointments across the country, with many appointments cancelled including all outpatient and radiology services.
A report into the attack showed that the HSE used unsecured systems and the hackers got in eight weeks earlier than thought.
See also
Department of Health (Ireland)
Health Information and Quality Authority
References
External links
Health Service Executive
Health Information and Quality Authority
Health Protection Surveillance Centre
2005 establishments in Ireland
Department of Health (Ireland)
Government agencies established in 2005
Government agencies of the Republic of Ireland
Medical and health organisations based in the Republic of Ireland
Micheál Martin
|
4017667
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20flap
|
Free flap
|
The terms free flap, free autologous tissue transfer and microvascular free tissue transfer are synonymous terms used to describe the "transplantation" of tissue from one site of the body to another, in order to reconstruct an existing defect. "Free" implies that the tissue is completely detached from its blood supply at the original location ("donor site") and then transferred to another location ("recipient site") and the circulation in the tissue re-established by anastomosis of artery(s) and vein(s). This is in contrast to a "pedicled" flap in which the tissue is left partly attached to the donor site ("pedicle") and simply transposed to a new location; keeping the "pedicle" intact as a conduit to supply the tissue with blood.
Various types of tissue may be transferred as a "free flap" including skin and fat, muscle, nerve, bone, cartilage (or any combination of these), lymph nodes and intestinal segments. An example of "free flap" could be a "free toe transfer" in which the great toe or the second toe is transferred to the hand to reconstruct a thumb.
For all "free flaps", the blood supply is reconstituted using microsurgical techniques to reconnect the artery (brings blood into the flap) and vein (allows blood to flow out of the flap).
Free autologous tissue transfer is performed by many surgical specialties.
Indications
Free flaps are used to reconstruct tissue defects. Particularly when postoperative radiotherapy is indicated, vascularized free tissue is preferred over non-vascularized free tissue.
Breast reconstruction:
Aesthetic (cosmetic) reconstruction: Most commonly creating a breast after a mastectomy. This may happen at the time of mastectomy or at a later date. Free flaps are usually only done if a TRAM flap is not possible. Plastic surgeons usually perform these surgeries. Patients with Bell's palsy can have their face re-animated using "free functioning muscle flaps".
Hand reconstruction:
Reconstruction of paralyzed face or hand using functioning free muscle flaps.
Head and Neck reconstruction:
When reconstructing complex head and neck defects, the reconstruction often requires bone and soft tissue from a distant donor site to be harvested. Functional reconstruction in the head and neck area often requires reconstruction of the oral cavity, the jawbone and the dental occlusion. Type of defects include:
Reconstruction of post-traumatic defects: Some areas of the body has missing tissue either from a trauma or from some existing wound. This may include areas on the leg where bone is exposed or any other area on the body that needs soft tissue coverage.
Reconstruction of a defect following removal of a tumor in the mouth or elsewhere: Soft tissue resection requires soft tissue reconstruction. Composite (soft tissue and hard tissue) resection requires composite reconstruction. Soft tissue flaps include the radial forearm free flap and the ALT (anterolateral thigh) free flap amongst others. Composite free flaps include the fibular free flap, the DCIA free flap, the scapular free flap and the composite radial free flap amongst others. When the cancer resection involves a part of the lower jaw, depending on the patients age and the patients co-morbidities one composite free flap will be preferred over the others for reconstruction of the defect.
Reconstruction of esophageal (food-pipe) continuity using segments of intestine
Surgical Steps during "free autologous tissue transfer"
A defect is created surgically (either following removal of a tumor or following cleansing of a wound)
An incision is made over the area from where the flap will be taken.
The flap is dissected and freed from the surrounding tissue.
At least one vein and one artery (which constitutes the vascular pedicle) are dissected.
The vein and artery (vascular pedicle) are divided, separating the flap from the rest of the body.
Before the pedicle is divided, the area the flap will be re-attached to is prepared by identifying a recipient artery and vein.
The free flap is brought up to the defect area, and the vein and artery from the flap (vascular pedicle) are anastomosed (re-connected) to the vein and artery identified in the wound. The anastomosis is done using a microscope or a "loupe", hence it is termed "microsurgery"
The free flap is sutured to the defect, while it is monitored to ensure the blood vessels remain patent (i.e. the vessels have good blood flow).
The donor site area is closed primarily. Sometimes a Split Thickness Skin graft (STSG) may be performed and placed on top of the defect site and/or the donor site.
Postoperative Complications/Sequelae
The most common serious complication of a free flap is loss of the venous outflow (e.g. a clot forms in the vein that drains the blood from the flap). Loss of arterial supply is serious too and both will cause necrosis (death) of the flap. Close monitoring of the flap both by nurses and by the surgeon is mandatory following the completion of the operation. If detected early, loss of either the venous or arterial blood supply may be corrected by operative intervention. Many times an implantable Doppler probe or other devices can be installed during surgery to provide better monitoring in the post-operative period. The Doppler probe can be removed before discharge from the hospital.
Usually the harvest of a "free flap" is performed in such a fashion to cause the least amount of disability. Despite this some disability may occur following removal of this tissue from the "donor site".
Other complications/sequalae which may occur with any surgery are also possible, including infection and pain.
See also
Flap (surgery)
Rotation flap
TRAM flap
Microsurgery
List of plastic surgery flaps
Perforator flaps
Bibliography
References
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Plastic surgery
|
4017673
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Polebrook
|
RAF Polebrook
|
Royal Air Force Station Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940.
It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress) combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943.
History
RAF Polebrook was the first airfield to be completed out of a number in the Northamptonshire/Huntingdonshire area which were laid down for RAF Bomber Command during late 1940 and early 1941.
Like other airfields in the construction program at the time, Polebrook was built by George Wimpey & Co., Limited. The initial construction was of three runways, the concrete runway lengths were 08-26 at 1,280 yards, 14-32 at 1,200 yards and 02-20, 1,116 yards. In addition, thirty square hardstands most on the eastern side, were reached by very long access tracks.
The weapons store was unusual in that it lay within the perimeter track at the southern end. One Type J and two Type T-2 hangars were erected on the technical site outside the northern perimeter with the domestic sites dispersed in woodland beyond.
Royal Air Force use
One of the first units to operate from the airfield was No. 90 Squadron RAF, which carried out operational trials from June 1941 to February 1942. Several of the hardstands and taxiways were still under construction when the squadron arrived.
No. 90 Squadron was equipped with the American B-17C, called "Fortress I" by the RAF. Although the US Army Air Forces did not consider the B-17C as being combat ready (the E-version was already under procurement as the result of combat reports from Europe), the RAF was sufficiently desperate in 1941 that these planes were immediately pressed into front-line service.
The Fortresses were used for very high-altitude attacks in daylight, the first operation from Polebrook being flown on 8 July 1941 when three Fortresses were dispatched on a raid to Wilhelmshaven. Engine trouble forced one of the planes to divert to a second target, but the other two went on to attack the naval barracks at Wilhelmshaven from an altitude of 30,000 feet. Unfortunately, the planes were not able to hit anything from such extreme altitudes. In addition, their crews found that the temperatures at this altitude were so cold that their defensive machine guns froze up when they tried to fire them. However, all planes returned safely to base.
Their last raid launched from Polebrook was on 2 September 1941. RAF Fortresses had flown 22 attacks against targets such as Bremen, Brest, Emden, Kiel, Oslo, and Rotterdam. A total of 39 planes had been dispatched, out of which eighteen planes had aborted and two had been forced to bomb secondary targets because of mechanical problems. Eight Fortresses had been destroyed in combat or lost in accidents. Discouraged by these losses, the RAF decided to abandon daylight bombing raids over Europe.
Although two Fortresses were missing from operations, the only loss resulting from a raid flown from Polebrook involved a badly battle-damaged aircraft that crash landed at a south-coast airfield.
As a result of RAF experience with the Fortress, it was determined that there was a need for vast improvements in defensive gunnery, a need for operating the Fortresses in greater numbers in tighter formations for better defensive firepower, and a need for better and more intensive crew training. Nevertheless, their British crews generally were quite pleased with the Fortress I, regarding it as easy to fly, very maneuverable, and aerodynamically stable in the bomb run.
While at Polebrook, No. 90 was then the sole operational squadron assigned to No. 8 Group RAF and, before it was disbanded on 12 February 1942, its remaining aircraft and crews were only involved in experimentation and training.
The short runways at Polebrook were found to be unsatisfactory for the operation of the heavy-loaded, four-engine B-17. In 1942 the airfield was improved to Class A airfield standards. The main runway was extended to 1,950 yards and the secondary runways to 1,400 yards each. In addition, additional hardstands were constructed, increasing the total number from 30 to 50. This enlargement resulted in the unusual situation that the ammunition storage area was inside the extended perimeter track. The living and communal sites were dispersed in woodlands north of the airfield. They provided accommodations to about 2,000 personnel.
United States Army Air Forces use
From 12 December 1943 to 12 June 1945, Polebrook served as headquarters for the 94th Combat Bombardment Wing of the 1st Bombardment Division. It was designated USAAF Station 110.
97th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
On 28 June 1942, RAF Polebrook was officially turned over to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the airbase became the base of the 97th Bombardment Group, the first USAAF heavy bomber organization to arrive in the UK.
The 97th BG was assigned to the 1st Combat Wing, at RAF Bassingbourn. Its operational squadrons were divided between Polebrook and RAF Grafton Underwood:
340th Bombardment Squadron (RAF Polebrook)
341st Bombardment Squadron (RAF Polebrook)
342nd Bombardment Squadron (RAF Grafton Underwood)
343rd Bombardment Squadron (RAF Grafton Underwood)
The 97th Bomb Group is famous for flying the first all-American Flying Fortress bombing mission originating from Grafton Underwood against German-occupied territory in Europe on August 17, 1942, by attacking the railway marshalling yards at Sotteville-lès-Rouen in France. The lead aircraft in the first flight group of six B-17s was Butcher Shop, which was copiloted by the Group Commander Colonel Frank A. Armstrong, and piloted by the squadron commander of the 340th Captain Paul W. Tibbets (who later flew the Enola Gay to Hiroshima Japan on the first atomic bomb mission). The lead aircraft in the second flight group of six B-17s was B-17E Yankee Doodle 41-9023, which was copiloted by 2nd Lt. John R. Dowswell and piloted by Captain Rudolph Emil "Rudy" Flack the squadron commander of the 414th, Grafton Underwood base commander and mission commander (http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/246743), and who carried Brig. General Ira C. Eaker the commander of the VIII Bomber Command as an observer on board his Flying Fortress.
The 97th BG conducted a total of 16 missions from Polebrook and Grafton Underwood, attacking airfields, marshalling yards, industries, naval installations, and other targets in France and the Low Countries.
The group sortied 247 aircraft, dropped 395 tons of bombs on Nazi-controlled territory, and lost 14 aircraft. On 21 October 1942, the 97th Bomb Group was transferred to the Twelfth Air Force in the Mediterranean theatre and Polebrook was unoccupied until April 1943.
351st Bombardment Group (Heavy)
On 15 April 1943, the 351st Bomb Group arrived at RAF Polebrook. It was assigned to the 94th Combat Wing, also at Polebrook. The group tail code was a "Triangle J". Its operational squadrons were:
508th Bombardment Squadron (YB)
509th Bombardment Squadron (RQ)
510th Bombardment Squadron (TU)
511th Bombardment Squadron (DS)
The 351st's first completed combat mission took place on 14 May 1943, when 18 B-17s targeted a German Luftwaffe airfield at Kortrijk, Belgium. As the war progressed, the 351st operated primarily against strategic objectives in Germany, striking such targets as ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, communications at Mayen, marshalling yards at Koblenz, a locomotive and tank factory at Hanover, industries at Berlin, bridges at Cologne, an armaments factory at Mannheim, and oil refineries at Hamburg.
The group also struck harbor facilities, submarine installations, airfields, V-weapon sites, and power plants in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway.
The 351st Received a Distinguished Unit Citation for performance of 9 October 1943 when an aircraft factory in Germany was accurately bombed in spite of heavy flak and pressing enemy interceptors. It received another DUC for its part in the successful attack of 11 January 1944 on aircraft factories in central Germany. The group participated in the intensive air campaign against the German aircraft industry during Big Week, 20−25 February 1944.
In addition to its strategic missions, the group often operated in support of ground forces and attacked interdictory targets. Bombed in support of the Battle of Normandy in June 1944 and the Saint-Lô breakthrough in July. The group hit enemy positions to cover the airborne attack on the Netherlands in September 1944. Struck front-line positions, communications, and airfields to help stop the German counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945. Flew missions in support of Operation Varsity, the airborne assault across the Rhine in March 1945.
In 1944 Polebrook also became the headquarters of the 94th Combat Wing, which controlled the 351st, the 457th Bomb Group at RAF Glatton and the 401st Bomb Group at RAF Deenethorpe.
The 351st conducted routine 8th Air Force missions from RAF Polebrook until the end of the war. The unit completed 311 combat missions from Polebrook. The 351st lost 175 B-17s and their crews. The gunners in the Group fired off 2,776,028 rounds of ammunition and were credited with destroying 303 enemy aircraft. The 509th Bomb Squadron completed 54 consecutive missions without losses between June 1943 to January 1944.
The unit returned to the US soon after V-E Day with the air element leaving 21 May and the ground echelon sailing 25 June. Reassigned to Sioux Falls AAF, South Dakota during August 1945. The 391st Bomb Group was inactivated on 28 August 1945.
RAF Polebrook was subsequently returned to the RAF on 28 August 1945, and the base was placed on care and maintenance status.
Medal of Honor
Two members of the 351st, Lt. Walter E. Truemper and S/Sgt. Archibald Mathies, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. On a mission to Leipzig, Germany, 20 February 1944 their B-17 Ten Horsepower was attacked by German fighters. The co-pilot was killed and pilot Lt. Clarence Nelson was badly wounded. Truemper and Mathies flew the badly damaged B-17 back to England where the remainder of the crew bailed out, then attempted to land the plane to save the life of the unconscious pilot. On their third attempt Ten Horsepower crashed on final approach and all three airmen were killed.
Legacy
During the Cold War, the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command 351st Strategic Missile Wing stood alert with Minuteman I and later, Minuteman II ICBMs starting in 1963 at Whiteman AFB Missouri. The wing was bestowed the lineage, honours and history of the World War II USAAF 351st Bomb Wing upon activation.
The 351st SMW won the SAC missile combat competitions and Blanchard Trophy in 1967, 1971, and 1977. Named as SAC's "best Minuteman wing" in 1972, it stood down from alert and was inactivated in 1995.
Hollywood at Polebrook
During much of 1943, Captain Clark Gable was stationed at Polebrook to produce a recruiting film for aircraft gunners. He had trained with the 351st Bomb Group at Biggs Army Air Base, Texas, and Pueblo Army Air Base, Colorado, then accompanied it overseas in early April 1943. Much of the film was shot by former MGM cinematographer First Lieutenant Andrew McIntyre, whom MGM had arranged to enter duty with and accompany Gable in training, and scripting was by John Lee Mahin, a Hollywood screenwriter also in the unit. While with the 351st Gable flew five combat missions as an observer.
1) Gable's first combat mission occurred on 4 May 1943, when Gable accompanied 351st group commander Lt. Col. William A. Hatcher on a late afternoon familiarization mission before the 351st became operational. Flying squadron lead with Capt William R. Calhoun of the 303rd Bomb Group, RAF Molesworth, against the Ford and General Motors plants at Antwerp, Belgium, Hatcher and Gable's B-17 was nicknamed The 8 Ball MK II (s/n 41-24635). Gable fired a few rounds from a machine gun mounted in the radio room and suffered a minor case of frostbite from wearing leather gloves in the extreme cold.
2) Gable's second mission came 10 July 1943, flying with Second Lt. Theodore Argiropulos of the 351st's 508th Bomb Squadron in Argonaut III (42-29851) to bomb the airfield at Villacoublay, France. The mission was frustrating in that clouds forced the bombers to return without dropping their ordnance, but did not prevent German fighter attacks.
3) His third combat mission occurred on 24 July 1943, again in Argonaut III as the lead aircraft of the 351st, with group executive officer Lt.Col. Robert W. Burns. The mission to bomb the Norsk Hydro chemical plants in Herøya, Norway, was unopposed, but was also the longest by the Eighth Air Force to that date and began a week-long series of intensive operations against German targets known as the "Blitz Week".
4) On the morning of 12 August 1943, his fourth mission was to bomb a synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr, joining 351st operations officer Maj. Theodore "Ross" Milton and Capt. John B. Carraway's crew in Ain't It Gruesome (42-29863). Bombing Bochum, Germany, as a target of opportunity in bad weather, Gable experienced the Eighth's most dangerous mission to date, with 25 of its 330 B-17s shot down. Although none of the 351st's Fortresses went down, 11 suffered battle damage, one crash-landed on return, and the group's crews suffered one killed and seven wounded. During the mission, Gable wedged himself behind the top turret gunner for a better view as German fighters made five passes at the 351st's formation. A 20mm shell came up through Aint It Gruesome'''s flight deck, cut off the heel from Gable's boot, and exited one foot from his head, all without exploding. Afterward, the crew noticed the fifteen holes in the aircraft, and Gable noticed his boot. Brushing off concern with reporters, Gable claimed, "I didn't know it had happened. I didn't know anything about it until we had dropped eleven thousand feet, and could get off oxygen and look around. Only then did I see the hole in the turret."
5) Gable's final combat mission was an early morning strike to the port area of Nantes, France, on 23 September 1943. He flew with Lt. Col. Burns and 510th Bomb Squadron commander Maj. John Blaylock, leading the 351st in The Dutchess (42-29925). Half of the six groups assigned failed to assemble in bad weather, and intercepting fighters inflicted extensive battle damage to the other half, but no bombers were lost. Gable left his film crew in the waist of the bomber and manned a gun in the nose.
Captain Clark Gable was awarded the Air Medal on 4 October for completing five combat missions, and later the Distinguished Flying Cross. His final three missions were flown in the dangerous position of group lead, a hazard emphasized when the B-17 flown by Col. Hatcher and Major Blaylock was shot down near Cognac, France, on 31 December 1943, killing Blaylock and resulting in Hatcher's capture. Gable left the 351st on 5 November 1943, returning to the US with over 50,000 feet of 16mm colour film. In 1944, the film Combat America, narrated by Gable, was shown in theatres.
Back to Royal Air Force control
Post-war the station came under No. 273 Maintenance Unit RAF and the airfield was kept in usable state until October 1948 when it was closed. RAF Polebrook was kept in caretaker status until 1959.
The Thor missile deployment was an emergency response by the US to what was perceived as a missile gap with the Soviet Union. Launch orders for Thor missiles were to be given jointly by UK-US officers from HQ Bomber Command, High Wycombe and USAF 7th Air Division, co-located at the same base. An RAF officer could order a missile to be launched, but a USAF officer had to authenticate arming the warhead. The W49 thermonuclear warhead fitted to a Thor missile had a destructive yield of 1.44 megatons, and weighed 1680 lbs. The missile itself had a CEP of approximately two miles.
No. 130(SM) Squadron (North Luffenham Wing) was formed at what was retained for RAF use at Polebrook to operate three Thor missile emplacements which were constructed in the centre of the former airfield area.
The Thor missiles were operational until August 1963, when the rockets were removed and the unit disbanded.
Current use
With the end of military control, the remnants of RAF Polebrook were sold back to the Rothschild estate in 1967 and the St Ives Sand and Gravel company broke up all concrete apart from the ends of runways 02 and 32 during the next decade.
Today, Polebrook airfield has few reminders of its wartime past and is almost unidentifiable from the air. All of the wartime concreted areas have been removed with the exception of the deteriorating Thor missile launch pads from the early 1960s. A memorial was erected in early 1981 and some old buildings remain scattered around in the area being used for agricultural purposes. The large J-Type hangar still exists and the owners are very American friendly and very respectful of the hangar's place in history.
See also
List of former Royal Air Force stations
References
Citations
Bibliography
Freeman, Roger A. (1991) The Mighty Eighth: The Colour Record. Cassell & Co.
Gibson, Michael L. (1981) Aviation in Northamptonshire, An Illustrated Guide (includes a map of the Polebrook airfield and an angled photo taken in 1944). Northamptonshire Libraries.
Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. .
Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978''. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. .
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to present
Thor Missile Deployment In The United Kingdom
RAF Thor Missile Units
External links
90 Squadron RAF and the Boeing bomber
97th Air Mobility Wing, USAF
351st Bombardment Group Website
United States Army Air Forces - Polebrook
Historic Polebrook Photo Gallery
Clark Gable, 8th USAAF, 1943
16 mm Technicolor Film, 351st Bomb Group, 8th USAAF, Polebrook, England, 1943
Royal Air Force stations in Northamptonshire
Airfields of the VIII Bomber Command in the United Kingdom
Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom
|
4017686
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wayne%20Hunter
|
Michael Wayne Hunter
|
Michael Wayne Hunter (born 1958) was a death row prisoner and writer at San Quentin State Prison in the U.S. state of California. He was incarcerated for murdering his father and stepmother in 1981. Prior to committing his crime, he served four years in the United States Navy. He was married to Teresa "Terri" Hunter, but divorced in 1989.
Originally given a sentence of death in May 1984, his sentence has since been commuted to life without the possibility of parole after a retrial in February 2002.
Crime and trial
On the evening of December 28, 1981, Jay and Ruth Hunter, Michael's father and stepmother, were shot to death in the bedroom of their home in Pacifica, California. The events surrounding their death, as revealed through the evidence and testimony at trial, were as follows.
In November 1981, about a month before the homicides, Hunter told his friend, Thomas Henkemeyer, of plans to kill his father and stepmother. According to Henkemeyer, Hunter laid out several scenarios for possible alibis, including taking out a hiking permit in Yosemite National Park and then returning to commit the murders, or going down to San Diego where friends would purportedly provide an alibi. Based on earlier conversations with Hunter, Henkemeyer concluded that Hunter's motive for the planned killings was to take "revenge" for a number of perceived grievances, including an incident in which his stepmother had reported Hunter for breaking into his parents' home while they were away on vacation, and his stepmother's handling of his natural mother's will, which Hunter believed resulted in his being cheated out of his inheritance. Hunter also discussed possible methods of transporting and concealing a rifle or shotgun.
About a month later, on the evening of December 28, a neighbor of Jay and Ruth Hunter was awakened by a loud "bang or shot" from the direction of the Hunter residence. He heard four more shots in quick succession. On or about the same evening in late December, Philip Eldred was walking two dogs a short distance from the Hunter residence when he encountered a man wearing a leather jacket and a motorcycle helmet. For no apparent reason the man told Eldred to leave the area. Eldred refused. In response, the man pointed a long object (which Eldred then realized was a shotgun) at Eldred's face, kicked him in the thigh and retreated behind a cyclone fence several feet away. He then fired a shotgun blast in Eldred's direction, entered a small, burgundy-colored car parked nearby, and drove away. Eldred stated that the man appeared to be in his early 20s and of medium build. Hunter was 23 at the time of the offenses.
The bodies of Jay and Ruth Hunter were discovered the following day, December 29, 1981, after the police were alerted that the front door of the residence was wide open and a window on the side of the door was broken out. The police found both bodies in the master bedroom. The body of Jay Hunter was on the bed; that of Ruth Hunter was lying against the far wall, on top of the telephone receiver. Eight expended shotgun casings were found on the floor. Autopsies revealed that Ruth Hunter had died of two shotgun wounds to the head, either of which was sufficient to cause death. Jay Hunter had suffered four shotgun wounds. One shot to the upper chest that had apparently caused death was fired from a distance. Three other shots, to the neck, abdomen and left knee, had been fired from much closer range and were consistent with having been inflicted where the victim lay.
During the next several days, Henkemeyer, still in Minnesota visiting his family, received two telephone calls from Hunter. In the first call, Hunter told Henkemeyer that he had killed his mother and father and was trying to decide what to do. During the second call, a day or two later, Hunter said that he had spoken with a lawyer, was preparing to leave the country, and asked him to sell some of his belongings. He also indicated that he had been seen by a stranger after the killings but doubted that an identification could be made because he was wearing a helmet. When Henkemeyer returned home to Sacramento on New Year's Day, he found that the shotgun Hunter had left was missing.
On the way to the San Jose Airport, Hunter stopped at a barbershop and had his beard and moustache shaved off. Hunter asked another friend (Jefferson Schar) to obtain a phony birth certificate for him under the name John Dunne. After obtaining a ticket to San Diego under a false name, Hunter told Schar that he planned to contact a friend named Jeffrey Luther in San Diego and instructed Schar to forward the phony birth certificate to him there.
Luther received a telephone call from Hunter on January 3, 1982. The two arranged to meet at a restaurant in San Ysidro, near the U.S.-Mexican border. At the restaurant, Hunter told Luther that he was "wanted for murder" and explained the circumstances of the shootings. Hunter told him that he had confronted his father and threatened to shoot him. His father responded, "You don't have the balls." In response, Hunter told Luther, he "pumped four slugs into him."
Following the conversation in San Ysidro, Luther saw Hunter again in a hotel in the Mexican town of Las Playas. Luther agreed to purchase some items for him. After the meeting in Mexico, however, Luther contacted the police, who advised him not to meet Hunter again in Mexico but rather to lure him back across the border. Accordingly, Luther arranged to meet Hunter again at the restaurant in San Ysidro where they had met earlier. When Hunter appeared at the restaurant, he was arrested.
Following his arrest, Hunter was incarcerated in the San Mateo County jail. Joseph Lauricella, Hunter's cellmate, testified that Hunter gave him a number of descriptions of how the murders occurred. Hunter also told him that he had been turned in by a Navy buddy (Luther) and offered Lauricella $1,000 to have him killed.
Even as Hunter was fleeing to Mexico, the police investigation into the killings was focusing on him as the prime suspect. A search of Hunter's house and two vehicles uncovered a cleaning bill for a leather jacket which stated "pre-spot for blood." The police also found a shirt with blood on it and a black motorcycle helmet. Glass fragments found inside a pair of Hunter's socks and gloves matched glass fragments from the broken window of the Hunter residence.
Finally, a number of prosecution witnesses testified about Hunter's troubled relationship with his father and stepmother. Hunter's father and natural mother, June Hunter, had separated and divorced in 1973. June Hunter died of cancer in 1979. Following the divorce, Jay Hunter married Ruth Chatburn Hunter. Hunter's sister, who was the administrator of her mother's estate, asked Ruth, a lawyer, to handle the probate. Ruth eventually removed herself from the case, however, because of an argument with Hunter sometime in 1980. Hunter felt that he had been cheated of his share of the estate. According to a former roommate of Hunter, the dispute became so acrimonious that it caused a rupture of all contacts between Hunter and his father.
The acrimony was apparently mutual. Only a month before the murders, in late November 1981, Hunter's father instructed his attorney to delete from his will any inheritance for Michael. Mr. Hunter indicated that the matter was not urgent, however, and could wait until the new year. At the time of the murders in late December, the will had not been changed.
Prison writings
Michael Wayne Hunter has won numerous awards for his writing, including many of the essays that are featured on www.prisonwall.org and other places around the Internet. His work has also appeared in various periodicals and book collections.
Crime and Punishment: Inside Views (1st Ed.) . Contributor of an essay entitled "The Sixth Commandment", Chapter 5, Story 39. Book edited by Robert Johnson (American University) and Hans Toch (State University of New York at Albany).
Undoing time: American prisoners in their own words . Contributed "Another day". Edited by Jeff Evans.
External links
People v. Hunter (1989) 49 C3d 957 Appellate case which details both the prosecution case against him and his defense.
498 U.S. 887 (1990, U.S. Supreme Court) Denied Writ of Certiorari, October 1, 1990.
Collected essays by Michael Wayne Hunter
www.prisonwall.org
American people convicted of murder
United States Navy sailors
Living people
1958 births
People convicted of murder by California
American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Patricides
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by California
|
4017688
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMIC
|
MIMIC
|
MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is an expression-oriented continuous block simulation language, but capable of incorporating blocks of FORTRAN-like algebra.
MIMIC is a further development from MIDAS (Modified Integration Digital Analog Simulator), which represented analog computer design. Written completely in FORTRAN but one routine in COMPASS, and ran on Control Data supercomputers, MIMIC is capable of solving much larger simulation models.
With MIMIC, ordinary differential equations describing mathematical models in several scientific disciplines as in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, economics and as well as in social sciences can easily be solved by numerical integration and the results of the analysis are listed or drawn in diagrams. It also enables the analysis of nonlinear dynamic conditions.
The MIMIC software package, written as FORTRAN overlay programs, executes input statements of the mathematical model in six consecutive passes. Simulation programs written in MIMIC are compiled rather than interpreted. The core of the simulation package is a variable step numerical integrator of fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Many useful functions related to electrical circuit elements exist besides some mathematical functions found in most scientific programming languages. There is no need to sort the statements in order of dependencies of the variables, since MIMIC does it internally.
Parts of the software organized in overlays are:
MIMIN (input)– reads in user simulation program and data,
MIMCO (compiler) – compiles the user program and creates an in-core array of instructions,
MIMSO (sort)– sorts the instructions array after dependencies of variables,
MIMAS (assembler) – converts the BCD instructions into machine-oriented code,
MIMEX (execute)– executes the user program by integrating,
MIMOUT (output)– puts out the data as a list or diagram of data.
Example
Problem
Consider a predator-prey model from the field of marine biology to determine the dynamics of fish and shark populations. As a simple model, we choose the Lotka–Volterra equation and the constants given in a tutorial.
If
f(t): Fish population over time (fish)
s(t): Shark population over time (sharks)
df / dt or : growth rate of fish population (fish/year)
ds / dt or : growth rate of shark population (sharks/year)
: growth rate of fish in the absence of sharks (1/year)
: death rate per encounter of fish with sharks (1/sharks and year).
: death rate of sharks in the absence of their prey, fish (1/year)
: efficiency of turning predated fish into sharks (sharks/fish)
then
with initial conditions
The problem's constants are given as:
= 600 fish
= 50 sharks
= 0.7 fish/year
= 0.007 fish/shark and year
= 0.5 shark/year
= 0.1 shark/fish
tmax = 50 year
Code sample
Card columns
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* A SIMPLE PREDATOR-PREY MODEL FROM MARINE BIOLOGY
/ (TUTORIAL 2: NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ODE'S - 19/08/02)
/ ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS LAB
/ DEPT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERİNG
/ STANFORD UNIVERSITY
*
* LOTKA–VOLTERRA EQUATION
CON(F0,S0,TMAX)
CON(ALPHA,BETA,GAMMA,EPS)
1DF = ALPHA*F-BETA*F*S
F = INT(1DF,F0)
1DS = EPS*BETA*F*S-GAMMA*S
S = INT(1DS,S0)
HDR(TIME,FISH,SHARK)
OUT(T,F,S)
PLO(F,S)
FIN(T,TMAX)
END
<EOR>
600. 50. 50.
0.7 0.007 0.5 0.1
<EOF>
References
Notes
Control Data MIMIC; A Digital Simulation Language, Reference Manual, Publication Number 4461n400, Control Data Corporation, Special Systems Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota (April 1968)
MIMIC, An Alternative Programming Language for Industrial Dynamics, N.D. Peterson, Socio-Econ Plan Sci. 6, Pergamon 1972
MIMIC Manual (1969), Computer Center Oregon State University
Object-oriented programming languages
Numerical programming languages
Simulation programming languages
Control Data Corporation software
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Programming languages created in 1964
Fortran software
|
4017696
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Pap
|
Arthur Pap
|
Arthur Pap (October 1, 1921 - September 7, 1959) was a philosopher in the school of analytic philosophy. Pap published a number of books regarding analytical philosophy, its function within philosophy, and its impact on society.
Life and works
Pap was born October 1, 1921, in Zürich, Switzerland in a Jewish family. His musical talent was revealed early and his passion for playing the piano remained through all of his life. In high school Pap developed also a passion for philosophy and enrolled at Zürich University, where took courses in philosophy and logic from Karl Dürr. At the start of World War II the family fled to the United States and, in 1941, settled in New York City. Pap entered the Juilliard School of Music where he spent a term before starting his studies at Columbia in the fall of 1941. After obtaining his BA at Columbia, Pap went to Yale University in 1943 for his master's degree. Ernst Cassirer, who was guest professor at Yale from 1941 to 1944, became his supervisor and provided the original stimulus for Pap's work on hypothetical necessity and the functional a priori. In 1944 Pap went back to Columbia where he completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Ernest Nagel, who first rejected the manuscript. However, it won the Woodbridge Prize for best philosophical dissertation and was subsequently published as The A Priori in Physical Theory (1946). Pap started teaching at various universities and had the opportunity to meet some leading philosophers, notably Rudolf Carnap, with whom he developed a lasting friendship.
During the first years of his career Pap worked on what is now perhaps his best-known book, Elements of Analytic Philosophy. Taking a break, next he published a translation of Viktor Kraft's Der Wiener Kreis. Kraft recommended him to be a Fulbright lecturer at Vienna University for the academic year 1953–54. Paul Feyerabend became his assistant there and helped in the publication of the lectures.
Returning from Europe, Pap stayed briefly at Lehigh University, then took succession from Carl Hempel as analytic philosopher of science at Yale. There he read courses and held seminars on logic, probability and induction, the philosophy of Russell, and the history of analytic philosophy. In 1957, he edited in collaboration with Paul Edwards the well-known textbook A Modern Introduction to Philosophy. In the summer of 1959, Pap completed a book, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, which appeared posthumously. Arthur Pap died on 7 September 1959, shortly before his 38th birthday, from kidney disease.
List of works
The a Priori in Physical Theory. New York: King's Crown Press, 1946.
Elements of Analytic Philosophy, New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Analytische Erkenntnistheorie: Kritische Übersicht über die neueste Entwicklung in USA und England. Vienna: Springer, 1955.
A Modern Introduction to Philosophy: Readings from Classical and Contemporary Sources. New York: Free Press, 1957. Co-editor with Paul Edwards.
Semantics and Necessary Truth: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. New York: The Free Press, 1962.
References
External links
Brand Blanshard: Arthur Pap: A Memoir. (1962)
1921 births
1959 deaths
Analytic philosophers
Philosophers of science
Deaths from nephritis
Swiss emigrants to the United States
American philosophers
Juilliard School alumni
Columbia University alumni
Yale University alumni
American expatriates in Austria
|
4017707
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20San%20Diego%20Padres%20owners%20and%20executives
|
List of San Diego Padres owners and executives
|
This article is a list of the all-time owners and executives for the San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball (MLB) club based in [[San Diego|San Diego, California
Owners
C. Arnholt Smith 1969-1974
Ray Kroc 1974-1984
Joan Kroc 1984-1990
Tom Werner 1990-1996
John Moores 1996-2009
Jeff Moorad 2009-2013
Ron Fowler 2013-2021
Peter Seidler 2013-2022
General Managers
Other executives
Sandy Alderson
Buzzie Bavasi
Mike Dee
Paul DePodesta
Larry Doughty
Theo Epstein
Chub Feeney
Billy Herman
Sandy Johnson
Larry Lucchino
Jeff Moorad
Jim Skaalen
Reggie Waller
External links
Baseball America: Executive Database
Lists of Major League Baseball owners and executives
Owners and executives
|
4017712
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Shapiro%20Kramer
|
Laura Shapiro Kramer
|
Laura Shapiro Kramer (born July 27, 1948) is an American author, producer and film maker. Not to be confused with Food Historian, Laura Shapiro.
Personal life
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Shapiro Kramer left New England to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1960s. In 1969 she moved to Los Angeles where she attended UCLA studying Film and Art History. In 1979, she married Jay Kramer, an attorney whose clients include Stephen King, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Christopher Curtis, the estate of James Clavell.
Career
In 1975 Shapiro Kramer began working with Steve Leber and David Krebs. Working with Leber and Krebs, Laura helped them manage the first national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar from 1976 to 1980.
In 1991 after publishing an article about the Feldenkrais method in Family Circle, Shapiro Kramer was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 1995 Shapiro Kramer published the memoir Uncommon Voyage about her experiences parenting a child with special needs. The book had a second edition in 2002. Laura reworked the story of raising her son into a guidebook for other parents and in 2017 it was published digitally. This new edition, titled Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children with Special Needs, A Guidebook, received high praise in Publishers Weekly and other reviews.
Shapiro Kramer sold David Mamet's first tele-play ''Smashville to ABC in 1991 and developed Scramble with Richard Wesley for Universal Pictures. In 1983 Shapiro Kramer produced John Byrne's Slab Boys on Broadway directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer and Madeline Potter. Her production won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Ackerman. She was part of the producing team of Amerika starring Madeline Kahn at the Santa Fe Festival Theater and with other play productions at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass.
Kramer was an independent consultant for Friends of Bezalel, www.bezalelfriends.org, the National Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and The Sculptors Guild.
In 2013 and 2014 Kramer's articles about her travels began appearing in newspapers like The Forward who published the articles with her photos about Tasmania (2013) and Iran (2014).
In November 2005 Shapiro Kramer published "Laura and Myriam's Incredible Albanian Vacation" in Illyria, an Albanian/American newspaper from Bardha Publications. The article described her travels to Albania, Kosovo, and the Balkans and the documentary film Shqiperi she was producing through NYFA, the New York Foundation for the Arts where she was the Project Director for The Albyon Project.
Not-for-profit
Shapiro Kramer was chair of the board of Resources for Children with Special Needs from 1995 - 2005. The organization is now known as INCLUDEnyc. She has also been on the board of directors for the New York City Outward Bound Center and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York where she is Founder and chair of the advisory board.
References
Living people
1948 births
Film producers from Massachusetts
American memoirists
American travel writers
American women travel writers
Writers from Boston
Jewish American writers
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women
|
4017716
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi%20Vilasuso
|
Jordi Vilasuso
|
Jordi Alejandro Vilasuso (; born June 15, 1981 in Miami, Florida) is a Cuban-American actor best known for originating the role of Tony Santos on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light from August 2000 until August 2003. He has also portrayed the roles of Griffin Castillo on All My Children from 2010 to 2011 and 2013, Dario Hernandez on Days of Our Lives from 2016 to 2017 and Rey Rosales on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2022.
Early life
Vilasuso was raised by his parents, Dr. Frank Vilasuso and Ana Vilasuso, in Coral Gables, Florida. He also has an older brother, Javier, and a younger sister, Marianne. Vilasuso attended Ransom Everglades High School and later Glendale Community College in California.
Career
Vilasuso began playing Tony Santos on Guiding Light in August 2000. In 2003, he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal. Vilasuso was also nominated in the same category in 2002.
Vilasuso has appeared in the movies The Last Home Run, The Lost City, Heights and La Linea. He also appeared in other television programs such as 8 Simple Rules, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Numb3rs and CSI: Miami. In November 2010 he was signed on to play the contract role of Griffin Castillo on the soap opera All My Children. Vilasuso joined the cast of Days of Our Lives as Dario Hernandez in 2015. In July 2017, Vilasuso announced his departure from Days of Our Lives.
In July 2018, it was announced that Vilasuso would appear as Rey Rosales on the daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless. In March 2022, Vilasuso announced his departure from The Young and the Restless.
Personal life
In 2010, Vilasuso began dating actress Kaitlin Riley. Vilasuso and Riley were married on August 25, 2012 in Islamorada, Florida. They have two daughters: Riley Grace, born on November 26, 2012, and Everly Maeve born on July 15, 2016.
On April 9, 2020, he revealed that his family had mild cases of COVID-19 and have fully recovered.
Filmography
References
External links
1981 births
American male soap opera actors
Living people
American people of Cuban descent
American people of Catalan descent
Cuban people of Catalan descent
Male actors from Miami
Actors from Coral Gables, Florida
Daytime Emmy Award winners
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series winners
|
4017725
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Avery%27s%20Castle
|
Harry Avery's Castle
|
Harry Avery's Castle is situated half a mile south-west of Newtownstewart, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a rare example of a stone castle built by a Gaelic Irish chief, although its origins and history are uncertain. It is associated with and named after Henry Aimhréidh O'Neill (died 1392), whose name was anglicised as Harry Avery. It is in the townland of Upper or New Deer Park, in the Derry and Strabane District Council area, at . The remains of the castle are a State Care Monument under the guardianship of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
Description
The standing part of the castle comprises a two-storey rectangular construction fronted by massive D-shaped twin towers. Although having the appearance of a gatehouse, this structure was in fact a simple tower house with the D-towers added to the front. The tower comprised a vaulted basement entered from a large door between the D-towers. Above this was a hall on the first floor level, which was accessed from the courtyard. The southerly D-tower contained a spiral stair linking the two storeys, and both D-towers contained small rooms at first floor, with single windows in their round walls. Traces of a mural stair lead up from the first floor, and there is a latrine chute leading up, suggesting at least a parapet at the second floor. Examination of the structure suggests that it was built in a single phase, rather than being a modification of an older gatehouse.
The design of the castle has been compared to that of Elagh Castle, Inishowen, which also appears to have been a native-built castle featuring D-towers. The inspiration is thought have come from Norman castles such as Carrickfergus Castle and Castle Roche, both of which have true gatehouses flanked by D-towers. The overall design of Harry Avery's Castle is also similar to other Gaelic fortresses such as Seafin, County Down, which were later enclosed by a curtain wall with a tower house.
The Annals of the Four Masters record the death of Harry Avery, "Enrí Aimhreidh mac Neill Móir Uí Néill", on the feast day of St Brendan, 1392, and praise his justice, nobility, and hospitality.
References
External links
Harry Avery's Castle, Discover Northern Ireland
Harry Avery's Castle, Irelandseye.com
See also
Castles in Northern Ireland
Castles in County Tyrone
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
|
4017731
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdenemandal
|
Erdenemandal
|
Erdenenmandal (, ; "Jewel rise") is a small town located 73 miles north of the Arkhangai Aimag capital Tsetserleg, as well as a sum of the province.
There is a small central post office (with a phone) and also a small market area. Basic supplies can be purchased at the market area. Diesel and gasoline are available but not on a regular basis. The area may go days or longer without fuel for vehicles.
During the harsh Mongolian winters nomads from many miles away may relocate to the outskirts of Erdenemandal, setting up their gers (or yurts) in a manner to protect themselves from wind and snow.
Climate
Erdenemandal experiences a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with long, dry, very cold winters and short, warm summers.
References
Populated places in Mongolia
Districts of Arkhangai Province
|
4017735
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FieldTurf%20installations
|
List of FieldTurf installations
|
In 1999 the University of Nebraska–Lincoln installed FieldTurf in Memorial Stadium. In 2006, Nebraska installed new FieldTurf that alternates between two shades of green every five yards. Texas Tech University installed FieldTurf in Jones AT&T Stadium.
Nevada installed FieldTurf at its Mackay Stadium in 2000. The playing surface had been natural grass for 34 seasons.
FieldTurf was installed at Qwest Field (originally Seahawks Stadium) in 2002. The original plans called for a natural grass field at the new stadium, but due to the favorable reactions from players while playing at Husky Stadium, the Seahawks had FieldTurf installed instead.
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the Georgia World Congress Center Authority announced that it had selected FieldTurf as the new surface for the Georgia Dome, replacing the AstroTurf surface in use at the Dome since its inception in 1992.
Washington State University installed FieldTurf at its Martin Stadium in 2000. The University of Oregon installed NexTurf in Autzen Stadium in 2001 but the surface did not perform as expected and during remodeling in 2002 it was removed and replaced with FieldTurf. The University of Utah installed FieldTurf in 2002 and replaced it in 2009. Colorado State installed FieldTurf at its Hughes Stadium in 2006. The playing surface had been natural grass for 38 seasons.
The New England Patriots installed FieldTurf midway into the 2006 NFL season. The installation was made during a week when the team was on the road.
In 2004, Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey installed FieldTurf where the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team plays. In 2007, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a Canadian Football League (CFL) team, installed FieldTurf in Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field. In April 2008, FieldTurf was installed at the new baseball stadium of Calvert Hall High School in Towson, Maryland, designed by Baltimore Orioles baseball great Cal Ripken.
National Football League (NFL)
CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington – 2002, 2008
Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan – 2002 (original), 2013
Georgia Dome in Atlanta – 2003, 2011
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts – 2006 (26 Nov)
Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana – 2008
Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta – 2017
NFL practice facilities
Atlanta Falcons
Cleveland Browns, Lou Groza Center
Detroit Lions, Lions Practice Facility and Headquarters in Allen Park, Michigan
Green Bay Packers, Don Hutson Center
Jacksonville Jaguars
New England Patriots
San Diego Chargers, Chargers Park
Seattle Seahawks, VMAC Practice Facility
Washington Commanders
Canada
Clarke Park in Edmonton, Alberta
Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton Soccer Dome in Edmonton, Alberta
Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba
King George V Park in St. John's, Newfoundland
McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta
Molson Stadium in Montreal
Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan (2007)
Percy Perry Stadium / Town Centre Park (4 fields) in Coquitlam, British Columbia
Port Moody Field in Port Moody, British Columbia
Raymond Field at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
TD Place Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta
University of Western Ontario (TD Waterhouse Stadium) in London, Ontario
Veterans Memorial Field in New Waterford, Nova Scotia
Warrior Field at University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario
Major League Soccer
Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts
CenturyLink Field in Seattle
Providence Park in Portland, Oregon
Worldwide
Oriel Park in Dundalk, Ireland
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in San José, Costa Rica
Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia
Borås Arena in Borås, Sweden
New Douglas Park in Hamilton, Scotland (now grass)
Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan
Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales
Rugby Park in Kilmarnock, Scotland
Priory Lane in Eastbourne, England
U.S. colleges
Abel Stadium at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska
Adams Field at Wayne State University in Detroit – 2006
AJ Knight Field at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts – 2007
Al F. Caniglia Field at University of Nebraska at Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska
Albertsons Stadium (originally Bronco Stadium) at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho (continuing the stadium's uniqueness, the surface is colored blue)
Andy Coakley Field (baseball) at Columbia University in New York City
Andy Kerr Stadium at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York
Arizona Stadium at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona – 2013
Art Keller Field at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Autzen Stadium at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon – 2002 – (Replaced NexTurf after one season of use)
Banta Bowl at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin
BB&T Field at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Summer 2006
Biddle Field at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania – 2008
Bob Ford Field at University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, New York – 2013
Bob and Eveline Roberts P'10 Field at Steinbrenner Stadium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Brandenburg Field at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas
Brown University: Berylson Family Fields (2007) and Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium (2021) in Providence, Rhode Island
Bruce R. Deaton Memorial Field (football, soccer) at Saint Xavier University in Chicago – 2006
Bridgeforth Stadium at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Brigham Field at Huskie Stadium at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois – 2001, 2009
Buchanan Family Field in Washington, D.C.
Butler Bowl at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana
Cameron Stadium at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania
Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin – 2003, 2012
Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland – 2012 – replaced natural grass
Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky
Carrier Dome at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York
Carson Park (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Commonwealth Stadium at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky – 2015 – replaced natural grass
Owen T. Carroll Field (baseball, soccer) at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey – 2006
Case Western Reserve University Stadium at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio
Class of 1952 Stadium at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
Cougar Field at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas – 2013
D. Lloyd Wilson Field in Hastings, Nebraska
Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas – 2009 – replaced natural grass
Dix Stadium at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio
Don and Nona Williams Stadium at University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin
Donald J. Schneider Stadium at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin
Depew Field (baseball) at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Drake Stadium at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa
Dudley Field at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
East Campus Stadium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
Ellis Field at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio
Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa
Eringhaus Field (soccer) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Falcon Baseball Field at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Falcon Stadium at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado – 2006 – replaced natural grass
Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California
Faurot Field at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri
Fisher Field at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
Foster Field at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in Kearney, Nebraska
FIU Stadium at Florida International University in Miami, Florida
Fred Selfe Stadium at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia
Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas – 2018
Georgia State Stadium in Atlanta – 2017
Gettler Stadium in Cincinnati
Gesling Stadium at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Goerke Field at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Goss Stadium at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon (baseball – infield only)
Greer Field at Turchin Stadium at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana – 2007
Growney Stadium at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York – 2005
Hank Crisp Indoor Facility at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Harvard Stadium at Harvard University in Allston, Massachusetts
Hollingsworth Field at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi – 2009 – replaced AstroPlay
Husky Stadium at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington – 2000, 2009, 2013 (the surface's success at this stadium led to its selection by the Seattle Seahawks for use at Qwest Field) – 2002
Hotchkiss Field at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. – completed in Fall 2008
Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky
Hansen Stadium at Dixie State College of Utah in St. George, Utah
Illinois Field (baseball) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois – 2007
Ingalls Field at Ripon College (Wisconsin) in Ripon, Wisconsin
Jake Christiansen Stadium at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota – 2010
Jim Sweeney Field at Bulldog Stadium at California State University, Fresno in Fresno, California – 2011
Joan C. Edwards Stadium at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia – 2005 – replaced AstroTurf
Joe Walton Stadium at Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania
Jonah Field at War Memorial Stadium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming
Jones AT&T Stadium at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas
Kelly/Shorts Stadium at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan – 2004
Kessler Field at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey
Kinnick Stadium at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa
Krenzler Field (soccer) at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio
Kidd Brewer Stadium at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina – 2003
Sofield Indoor Center at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina – 2007
Ladd–Peebles Stadium – municipally-owned stadium in Mobile, Alabama hosting the Senior Bowl, GoDaddy.com Bowl, Pioneer Bowl and home to the University of South Alabama Jaguars football team
Legion Field – a municipally-owned stadium in Birmingham, Alabama used by the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Liston Stadium at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas
Larry Mahaney Diamond at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine
Leonidoff Field at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York
Mackay Stadium at University of Nevada in Reno, Nevada – 2000 – replaced natural grass, 2010
UC Baseball Stadium (baseball) at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati – 2004
Martin Stadium at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington – 2000 – replaced sand-filled Omni-turf
Mazzella Field and Rice Oval at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York – completed in Fall 2007
McCulloch Stadium at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon
Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois – 2008 – replaced GameDay Grass, plus:
Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas
Memorial Stadium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska (the first college-only football stadium to use FieldTurf in 1999), plus these other facilities at the school:
Hawks Championship Center – Nebraska Cornhuskers indoor training facility
Ed and Joyanne Gass Practice Fields – Nebraska Cornhuskers outdoor training facility
Cook Pavilion – University Campus Recreation facility
Vine Street Fields – University Campus Recreation intramural fields
Mabel Lee Fields – University Campus Recreation intramural fields
Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York
Michigan Stadium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (2003), (2010), plus:
Oosterbaan Fieldhouse, the football program's indoor practice facility (2001)
Mooradian Field at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire
Motamed Field (lacrosse, soccer) at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York – 2008
Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia
Multi-Sport Field at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Municipal Stadium at Hope College in Holland, Michigan – 2012
Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland (2005),
Nicholson Fieldhouse at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida – 2005
Nogoesco Field (soccer) at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco
Notre Dame Stadium at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana – including indoor and outdoor practice fields
O'Shaugnessy Stadium in St. Paul, Minnesota
Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan (First installation in Michigan) – 1998
Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio – 2007
Ohio State University Marching Band practice facility at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
Oliver C. Dawson Stadium at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina – 2006
Peoples Bank Field at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas – 2007
Perkins Stadium at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Whitewater, Wisconsin
Plaster Sports Complex at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri
Princeton Stadium at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
Providence Park at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon
Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium at University of Wisconsin–Platteville
Ramer Field at University of Wisconsin-River Falls in River Falls, Wisconsin
Reser Stadium at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon – 2005
Rice Stadium at Rice University in Houston, Texas
Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah
Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Columbia University in New York – 2005
Rockbowl Stadium at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa
Rooney Field at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Roos Field at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington has red turf
Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium at Washington & Jefferson College
Rutgers Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey
Rynearson Stadium at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan – original installation in 2005, replaced with a new gray FieldTurf surface in 2014
Roy Stewart Stadium at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky 2007
Saluki Stadium at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois (2010)
Scheumann Stadium at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana
Schneider Stadium at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin
Schoellkopf Field at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York- 2008
Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania – 2010
Simon Field at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska
Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma – 2000, 2013
Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado – 2006 – replaced natural grass
South Recreational Area Fields at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia – 2015
Stagg Field at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts – 2007
TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis – 2009
Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium (baseball) at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland – 2005
Titan Stadium at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin – 2005
Tom Adams Field at Wayne State University in Detroit – 2006
Tubby Raymond Field at Delaware Stadium at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware
Van Andel Soccer Stadium at Hope College in Holland, Michigan – 2009
Vendetti Field at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts – 2005
Harring Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium (La Crosse) at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin
Virtue Field (lacrosse, soccer) at University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont – 2012
Waldo Stadium at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan – 2006
Walter J. Zable Stadium at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia – 2006
Walkup Skydome at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona – 2008 – replaced AstroTurf
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium at University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts – 2006
William J. Bonomo Memorial Field at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York – Baseball, 2007
Williams Stadium at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia
Wish Field at DePaul University in Chicago – 2005
Xavier University Soccer Complex in Cincinnati
Yager Stadium at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
U.S. high schools
Alabama
Cullman High School, Cullman, Alabama 2010
Alaska
Anchorage Football Stadium, Anchorage, Alaska 1999,
Dimond High Alumni Field, Anchorage, Alaska
Chugiak Stadium, Chugiak, Alaska – 2008
Mulcahy Stadium, Anchorage, Alaska 2009
Arizona
Arcadia High School – Scottsdale, Arizona – 2010
Chaparral High School – Scottsdale, Arizona – 2009
Marana High School – Tucson, Arizona – 2013
Maricopa High School – Maricopa, Arizona – 2014
Mountain View High School – Tucson, Arizona – 2013
Winslow High School – Winslow, Arizona – 2008
California
Trabuco Hills High School – Mission Viejo, California – 2006
Pittsburg High School – Pittsburg, California – 2003
Gonsalves Stadium – Clayton Valley High School, Concord, California – 2004
The Bishop's School, La Jolla, California
Ted Slavin Field – Harvard-Westlake School, North Hollywood – 2003
Los Altos High School – Los Altos
Carl Anderson Football Field – Mountain View – 2003
Amador Valley High School – Pleasanton – 2000
Pat Tillman Stadium – Leland High School, San Jose, California – 2004
La Canada High School – La Cañada Flintridge, California
Los Altos High School – Los Altos, California
Rancho Bernardo High School – San Diego – 2005
Redwood High School – Larkspur – 2004
Torrey Pines High School – San Diego – 2003
Vista High School – Vista – 2004
Mount Carmel High School – San Diego – 2005
Marin Catholic High School – Kentfield – 2006
Marin Academy – San Rafael – 1999
Mission Viejo High School–Mission Viejo, California-2006
Laguna Hills High School–Laguna Hills, California-2006
La Jolla High School–La Jolla, California
Saratoga High School–Saratoga, California-2004
Berkeley High School–Berkeley, California-2006
Reedley High School–Reedley, California-2006
Madera High School – Madera, California – 2006
Central High School – Fresno, California – 2007
Saint Francis High School, La Canada-Flintridge, California-2004
Loyola High School, Los Angeles – 2006
Point Loma High School, San Diego – 2000
Sonora High School – Sonora, California
Oakdale High School – Oakdale, California
Mountain View High School – Mountain View, California
Del Mar High School San Jose, California – original installation in 2006, replaced with a new FieldTurf surface in 2017
Ygnacio Valley High School Concord, California – 2006
Connecticut
East Hartford High School- East Hartford, Connecticut
Glastonbury High School – Glastonbury, Connecticut – 2007
Guilford High School – Guilford, Connecticut – 2008
Hamden High School – Hamden, Connecticut-2001
King Low Heywood Thomas – Stamford, Connecticut- 2007
Kingswood-Oxford School – West Hartford, Connecticut- 2007
Manchester High School - Manchester, Connecticut- 2016
Norwalk High School – Norwalk, Connecticut – 1999, Re-installed in 2010
Norwich Free Academy – Norwich, Connecticut – 2010
Ridgefield High School – Ridgefield, Connecticut- 2001
St. Luke's School – New Canaan, Connecticut – 2006
Stamford High School – Stamford, Connecticut – 2011
Wethersfield High School – Wethersfield, Connecticut – 2004
Wilton High School – Wilton, Connecticut – 2003
Windham High School - Willimantic, Connecticut - 2022 (Under construction)
Colorado
Dutch Clark Stadium–Pueblo, Colorado-2005
Delaware
DeGroat Field – Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Delaware
District of Columbia
St. Johns Upper Field – (St. Johns College High School), Washington, D.C.
Florida
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Brian Piccolo Stadium, Fort Lauderdale – 2007
Bishop Verot High School (Fort Myers, Florida)- 2007
Palm Bay High School (Melbourne, Florida)
Melbourne Central Catholic High School (Melbourne, Florida) – 2006
Jesuit High School of Tampa
Lake Mary High School - 2014
Georgia
McEachern High School, Powder Springs – 2005
Callaway Stadium, LaGrange- 2004
Grisham Stadium, Carrollton – 2008
Hoskyn Stadium, Riverwood High School – Sandy Springs – 2007
Staples Stadium, Heard County High School – Franklin – 2008
Union County High School – Blairsville – 2011
Etowah High School, Woodstock – 2009
Lumpkin County High School, Dahlonega, Georgia – 2009
McConnell-Talbert Stadium (Playing field of Houston County, Warner Robins, and Northside high schools) Warner Robins, Georgia – to be installed in 2015
Hawaii
Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii
Clarence T.C. Ching Field, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hugh Yoshida Stadium, Leilehua High School, Wahiawa, Hawaii
John Kauinana Stadium, Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii
James B. Castle High School, Kaneohe, Hawaii
Kamehameha Schools Maui Campus, Pukalani, Hawaii
President Theodore Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Saint Louis School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Indiana
Avon High School – Avon, Indiana
Ben Davis High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Evansville Bosse High School – Evansville, Indiana – 2009
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School – Indianapolis, Indiana – 2011
Carmel High School – Carmel, Indiana
Cathedral High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Center Grove High School – Greenwood, Indiana
Crown Point High School – Crown Point, Indiana
Evansville Central High School – Evansville, Indiana – 2009
Evansville Reitz High School – Evansville, Indiana – 2009
Gibson Southern High School – Fort Branch, Indiana – 2014
Greenwood Community High School – Greenwood, Indiana – 2012
Hamilton Southeastern High School – Fishers, Indiana
Hobart High School – Hobart, Indiana – 2009
Homestead High School – Fort Wayne, Indiana
Knightstown High School – Knightstown, Indiana – 2012
Lafayette Jefferson High School – Lafayette, Indiana
Lawrence Central High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Lawrence North High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Merrillville High School – Merrillville, Indiana
North Central High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Pike High School – Indianapolis, Indiana – 2007
Plainfield High School – Plainfield, Indiana
Roncalli High School – Indianapolis, Indiana
Southridge High School – Huntingburg, Indiana – 2010
Warren Central High School – Indianapolis, Indiana – 2003
Valparaiso High School - Valparaiso, Indiana - 2007
Zionsville Community High School – Zionsville, Indiana
Illinois
Champaign Central High School, Champaign
Carmel Catholic High School, Mundelein
Lake Zurich High School, Lake Zurich
Libertyville High School, Libertyville
Lincoln-Way Central High School, New Lenox
Lincoln-Way East High School, Frankfort
Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights
Riverside Brookfield High School, Riverside
St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago
Wheaton North High School, Wheaton
Wheaton Warrenville South High School, Wheaton
Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois
Niles West High School, Skokie
Grayslake North High School, Grayslake, Illinois
Grayslake Central High School, Grayslake, Illinois
Nazareth Academy, La Grange Park, Illinois
Warren Township High School, Gurnee, Illinois
St. Rita of Cascia High School, Chicago
Ridgewood High School (Illinois), Norridge, Illinois
Elmwood Park High School, Elmwood Park, Illinois
Vernon Hills High School, Vernon Hills, Illinois
Pinckneyville Community High School, Pinckneyville, Illinois
Du Quoin High School, Du Quoin, Illinois
Carterville High School, Carterville, Illinois
Johnston City High School, Johnston City, Illinois
Montini Catholic High School, Lombard, Illinois
Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Flossmoor, Illinois
Providence Catholic High School, New Lenox, Illinois
Joliet West High School, Joliet, Illinois
Lemont High School, Lemont, Illinois
Iowa
Johnston High School, Johnston, Iowa, used by Johnston High School athletics and occasionally Dowling Catholic High School athletics – 2005
Urbandale High School, Urbandale, Iowa, Used by Urbandale High School Athletics – 2008
Newton High School, Newton, Iowa, used by Newton High School
Beckman High School, Dyersville, Iowa, used by Beckman High School Athletics – 2010
Kingston Stadium, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Used by all three metro high school athletics – 2009
Linn-Mar Stadium, Marion, Iowa, Used for Linn-Mar High School Athletics- Spring 2011
Clear Creek Amana High School, Tiffin, Iowa
Kansas
Andover District Stadium, Andover, used by Andover High School and Andover Central High School.
Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, used by Blue Valley High school and Blue Valley West High School.
Chanute Community Sports Complex, Chanute – 2004
Goddard High School, Goddard – 2000
Fischer Field, Newton – 2004, current home to KSHSAA 8-man state football championships.
Gowans Stadium, Hutchinson – 2005, also used by Hutchinson Community College
Hummer Sports Complex, Topeka – 2003
Hutchinson Field, Pittsburg- 2006, used by Pittsburg High School and Colgan-St. Mary's High School
Memorial Stadium, Dodge City – 2006, also used by Dodge City Community College
Memorial Stadium, Garden City – 2004, also used by Garden City Community College
Stanley Stadium, Rose Hill, Kansas – 2005, used by Rose Hill Junior Football, Rose Hill Middle School, and Rose Hill High School.
Veterans Memorial Stadium, Coffeyville – 2003, also used by Coffeyville Community College.
Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita – 2011
Circle District Stadium, Towanda, Kansas, used by Circle High School and Circle Recreation athletic teams.
All Wichita public high schools have Matrix Turf from Hellas Construction. South, Heights, and Northwest have it on their main varsity fields, while Southeast, North, East, and West have it on their junior varsity fields since they do not have a varsity stadium.
Kentucky
Joseph K. Ford Stadium, Lexington Catholic High School, Lexington – 1999
Edgar McNab Field Beechwood High School, Fort Mitchell – 2001
Marshall Stadium, Trinity High School, St. Matthews – 2005
Steele Stadium, Owensboro Catholic High School, Owensboro – 2007
Louisiana
Cougar Stadium – St. Thomas More Catholic High School, Lafayette, Louisiana – 2006
Yockey Bernard Field at Harvey Peltier Stadium – Edward Douglas White Catholic High School, Thibodaux, Louisiana – 2013
Maine
Fitzpatrick Stadium- Portland High School, Portland, Maine
Weatherbee Sports Complex- Hampden Academy, Hampden, Maine
Maryland
Broadneck High School – Annapolis, Maryland – first high school with turf field
Hope Field and Brumbaugh Field, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland
Riverdale Baptist School, Landover, Maryland
Massachusetts
Hanson Memorial Field – Somerset Berkley Regional High School, Somerset, Massachusetts – 2013
Oliver Ames High School, North Easton, Massachusetts – 2009
Catholic Memorial High School, West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Cawley Memorial Stadium, Lowell, Massachusetts
Donovan Field at Brother Gilbert Stadium – Malden Catholic High School, Malden, Massachusetts – 2004
Hanlon Field Medway High School, Medway, Massachusetts- 2004
Harvard Stadium, Allston, Massachusetts
Hittenger Field- Belmont High School, Belmont, Massachusetts-2003
Auburn Memorial Field – Auburn High School (Massachusetts) – 2006
Flyer Field – Framingham High School, Framingham, Massachusetts – 2006
Manning Bowl- Lynn, Massachusetts
Marciano Stadium Brockton High School, Brockton, Massachusetts
Milford High School, Milford, Massachusetts
Arthur I. Hurd Field Oakmont Regional High School, Ashburnham, Massachusetts – 2007
Mac Aldrich Field, B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, Massachusetts
Newton South High School, Newton, Massachusetts
Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Massachusetts
Walpole High School, Walpole, Massachusetts
Woburn Memorial High School, Woburn, Massachusetts
Alexo Tiger Stadium, Taunton High School, Taunton, Massachusetts- 2008
Arthur Roberts Stadium, Holyoke High
North Field, Medway High School Medway MA 2014
South Field, Medway High School Medway MA 2014School, Holyoke, Massachusetts 2001
World War II Veterans Memorial Field, Canton High School, Canton, Massachusetts – 2005
Reading Memorial High School, Reading, Massachusetts – 2007
Parker Middle School, Reading, Massachusetts – 2009
Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts – 2011
Eugene V. Lovely Memorial Field – Andover, Massachusetts- 2007
W. Leo Shields Memorial Field, Barnstable (Planned)
Pembroke High School, Pembroke, Massachusetts
Michigan
Canton High School, Canton – 2003
Chelsea High School, Jerry Niehaus Field, Chelsea – 2008
Detroit Country Day School, Shaw Stadium, Beverly Hills – 1998 (first installation of FieldTurf in the United States for a high school)
Holland Christian High School, Holland – 2000
Huron High School, Ann Arbor – 2004
Jackson High School, Withington Community Stadium (shared stadium with Lumen Christi High School), Jackson – 2008
Otsego High School, Bulldog Stadium, Otsego – 2007
Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor – 2004
Pontiac High School, Wisner Stadium, Pontiac, Michigan – 2006 (Donated after use for Super Bowl XL practices ceased.)
Southfield High School, Southfield – 2003
Southfield-Lathrup High School, Lathrup Village – 2003
Saline High School, Saline – 2004
Minnesota
StarsDome – Academy of Holy Angels, Richfield, Minnesota – 2004
Lakeville North High School, Lakeville, Minnesota – 2008
Mississippi
Olive Branch High School – Olive Branch, Mississippi – 2008
Tupelo High School - Tupelo, Mississippi - 2016
Missouri
Francis Field – Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri – 2004
Pirate Stadium – Platte County High School, Platte City, Missouri – 2002
Rockhurst Field – Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Missouri – 2001
Tiger Stadium – Excelsior Springs High School, Excelsior Springs, Missouri – 2004
Hickman High School Columbia, Missouri – 2006
Rock Bridge High School Columbia, Missouri – 2006
Klemm Field – Christian Brothers College High School St. Louis, Missouri – 2003
St. Louis University High School Field – St. Louis University High School, St. Louis, Missouri – Date Unknown
Nebraska
15 of the 16 teams in the METRO Conference, Nebraska's biggest (by school size) and most competitive conference, play on FieldTurf fields.
Bellevue West Stadium – Bellevue West, Bellevue, Nebraska – 2005
Benson Stadium – Omaha Benson, Omaha, Nebraska – 2008
Buell Stadium – Millard North, Millard South, Millard West, Omaha – 2005
Burke Stadium – Omaha Burke High School, Omaha – 2008
Chieftain Stadium – Bellevue East, Bellevue – 2008
Collin Stadium – Omaha South, Omaha – 2009
Kinnick Stadium – Omaha North, Omaha Northwest, Omaha – 2009
Papillion-La Vista Stadium – Papillion La Vista South High School, Papillion, Nebraska – 2003
Pioneer Field – Nebraska City High School, Lourdes Central Catholic, Nebraska City, Nebraska – 2008
Seacrest Field – Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska – 2000
Seaman Stadium – Omaha Central High School, Omaha – 2005
Westside High School – Omaha – 2004
Nevada
Damonte Ranch High School Football Field – Damonte Ranch High School – Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada – 2006
Golden Eagle Regional Park – City of Sparks, Washoe County, Nevada – 2008
New Hampshire
Hanover High School – Hanover, New Hampshire – Summer 2006, Multi-use field for Football, boys and girls Soccer and Lacrosse
Bedford High School – Bedford, New Hampshire – 2006, Multi-use field for football, boys and girls Soccer, Lacrosse, and Field Hockey.
New Jersey
Arthur L. Johnson High School – Clark, New Jersey – Summer 2008
Bergen Catholic – Oradell, New Jersey – Summer 1998 (third installation of FieldTurf in the United States for a high school)
Central Regional High School – Bayville, New Jersey – Fall 2014
Colonia High School – Colonia, New Jersey – Summer 2014
Don Bosco Prep – Ramsey, New Jersey – Spring 2004
Dwight-Englewood School – Englewood, New Jersey – May 2006
Dwight Morrow High School – Englewood, New Jersey – Fall 2008
Egg Harbor Township High School – Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey – November 2009
Governor Livingston High School – Berkeley Heights, New Jersey – September 2006
Hasbrouck Heights High School – Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey – 2007
Holmdel High School – Holmdel, New Jersey – July 2006
Hun School of Princeton – Princeton, New Jersey – Summer 2004
Hunterdon Central High School – Flemington, New Jersey – Summer 2005
Mahwah High School – Mahwah, New Jersey – September 2006
Monmouth University – West Long Branch, New Jersey – Summer 2006
Northern Highlands Regional High School – Allendale, New Jersey – Spring 2008
Pascack Valley High School – Hillsdale, New Jersey – August 2005
Princeton Day School – Princeton, New Jersey – Summer 2003
Riverfront Park – Newark, New Jersey – June 2012
North Hunterdon High School – Clinton, New Jersey – Spring 2006
Saint Joseph Regional High School – Montvale, New Jersey
Saint Peter's Preparatory High School – Jersey City, New Jersey
St. Augustine College Preparatory School – Richland, New Jersey – Summer/Fall 2005
Ramapo High School – Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Raritan High School – Hazlet, New Jersey – June 2006
Rutgers Preparatory School – Somerset, New Jersey
Rutgers Stadium – Piscataway, New Jersey
West Morris Mendham High School – Mendham, New Jersey – Summer 2008
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North – Plainsboro, New Jersey – 2007
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South – West Windsor, New Jersey – 2007
Gill St. Bernard's School – Gladstone, New Jersey – 2014
New York
Freeport High School – 2012
Victor Central School District – Victor, New York – 2007
Arlington High School – LaGrange, New York – 2007
Byram Hills High School – Armonk, New York – 2004
Colgate University – Hamilton, New York – 2007
Division Avenue High School – Levittown, New York – 2008
East Rochester High School – East Rochester, New York – 2001
Fairport High School (Joe Cummings Field) – Fairport, New York – 2008
Garden City High School – Garden City, New York – 2005
Gowanda High School (Baseball and Softball Fields)- Gowanda, New York - 2020
Huntington High School – Huntington, New York – 2007
Irondequoit High School – Irondequoit, New York – 2005
John Nugent Stadium – Rye, New York – 2004
Ed Walsh Field – Manhasset, New York – 2004
Butler Field – Scarsdale, New York – 2005
Walter Panas High School – Cortlandt Manor, New York – 2005
Monsignor Farrell High School- Staten Island, New York- 2005
St. Joseph by the Sea High School – Staten Island, New York – 2003
St. Peter's Boys High School – Staten Island, New York – 2006
Chaminade High School – Mineola, New York – September 2003
Brooklyn Technical High School – Fort Greene, Brooklyn -
George W. Hewlett High School – Hewlett, New York – 2003
Commack High School – Commack, New York – 2006
Manhasset High School – Manhasset, New York – 2003
Poly Prep Country Day School – Brooklyn, New York – 2007
Paul D. Schreiber High School – Port Washington, New York – 2006
Thomas A. Edison High School – Elmira Heights, New York – 2003
Walt Whitman High School – South Huntington, New York – 2008
Wantagh High School – Wantagh, New York – 2008
Yorkshire-Pioneer High School – Yorkshire, New York – 2008
Amsterdam High School – Amsterdam, New York – 2004
La Salle Institute – Troy, New York – 2018
North Carolina
Ardrey Kell High School – Charlotte, North Carolina- 2006
Mallard Creek High School- Charlotte, North Carolina- 2007
Rocky River High School- Mint Hill, North Carolina-
Ohio
Alumni Stadium – Jackson HS – Jackson, Ohio – 2003
Alumni Stadium – Perry HS – Perry, Ohio – 2006
Alumni Stadium – St. Francis DeSales HS – Columbus, Ohio – 2005
Anderson Field – Grandview Heights HS – Columbus, Ohio – 2007
Arrowhead Stadium – Girard HS – Girard, Ohio – 2008
Avon Stadium – Avon HS – Avon, Ohio – 2007
Bearcat Stadium – Bedford/Benedictine/Glenville/Trinity – Bedford, Ohio – 2004
Blue Streak Stadium – Lake HS – Uniontown, Ohio – 2008
Brunswick Auto Mart Stadium – Brunswick HS – Brunswick, Ohio – 2004
Cardinal Stadium – Canfield HS – Canfield, Ohio – 2006
Cardinal Stadium – Colerain HS – Cincinnati – 2003, 2013
Centerville Stadium – Centerville HS Centerville, Ohio – 2006
Coffman Stadium – Dublin Coffman HS – Dublin, Ohio
Coughlin Field – St. Edward HS – Lakewood, Ohio – 2004
Collinwood Stadium – Collinwood HS – Cleveland, Ohio – 2008
Community Stadium – Kenston HS – Chagrin Falls, Ohio – 2010
Copley Stadium – Copley-Fairlawn HS – Copley, Ohio – 2008
CS Harris Stadium – Chagrin Falls HS – Chagrin Falls, Ohio – 2005
Denison Park – Cleveland Heights HS – Cleveland Heights, Ohio – 2011
Don Paul Stadium – Fremont Ross /St Joseph Central Catholic, Fremont, Ohio – 2005
Donnell stadium – Findlay High School- Findlay, Ohio – 2007
Dowed Field – Archbishop Hoban HS – Akron, Ohio – 2004
Dr James B Daley Stadium – Fairview HS – Fairview Park, Ohio – 2010
Falcon Pride Stadium – Jefferson Area HS – Jefferson, Ohio – 2011
Falcon Stadium – Austintown-Fitch HS – Youngstown, Ohio – 2007
First National Bank Field - Bellevue HS - Bellevue, Ohio - 2013
Gallagher Stadium – Central Catholic High School – Toledo, Ohio – 2008
George Finnie Stadium, Tressel Field – Berea/Midpark – Berea, Ohio – 2008
Gilmour Stadium – Gilmour Academy – Gates Mills, Ohio – 2004
Green Street Stadium, John Cistone Field – St Vincent-St Mary – Akron, Ohio 2005
Indian Stadium – Valley HS – Lucasville, Ohio – 2000 (reinstalled 2014)
Jack Johnson Field – Harvest Preparatory School – Columbus, Ohio – 2008
Jerome Stadium – Dublin Jerome HS – Dublin, Ohio – 2004
Jerome T. Osbourne Sr. Stadium – Mentor HS/Mentor Lake Catholic – Mentor, Ohio – 2006
Jim Van de Grift Stadium – Lebanon HS Lebanon, Ohio – 2008
Joseph B Yost Stadium - Ellet HS Akron, Ohio-2019
Ken Dukes Stadium – Medina HS – Medina, Ohio – 2006
Korb Field – Brush HS – Lyndhurst, Ohio – 2002
Lakeside Stadium – Lakeside HS – Ashtabula, Ohio – 2006
Lakewood Stadium – Lakewood/St Edward – Lakewood, Ohio – 2007
Leopard Stadium – Louisville HS – Louisville, Ohio – 2010
Linder Field – Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy – Cincinnati – 2010
Massillon Paul Brown Tiger Stadium – Washington HS – Massillon, Ohio – 2007
Memorial Stadium – Avon Lake HS – Avon Lake, Ohio – 2010
Memorial Stadium, Don Hertler Sr. Field – Hoover HS – North Canton, Ohio – 2011
Memorial Stadium, InfoCision Field – Green HS – Green, Ohio – 2008
Moorehead Memorial Stadium – Upper Arlington HS – Columbus, Ohio – 2003
Mullenkopf Stadium – Warren G Harding HS/John F Kennedy HS – Warren, Ohio – 2005
Patterson Field – Dawson-Bryant HS – Coal Grove, Ohio – 2007
Pointer Stadium – South Point HS – South Point, Ohio – 2007
Purple Rider Stadium – Martins Ferry HS, Martins Ferry, Ohio – 2007
Ralph P Adams Stadium – Cuyahoga Heights HS – Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio – 2008
Ravenna Stadium, Gilcrest Field – Ravenna HS – Ravenna, Ohio – 2003
Robert Boulton Stadium, Byers Field – Normandy/Parma/St Ignatius/Valley Forge – Parma, Ohio – 2008
Rocky River Stadium – Rocky River HS – Rocky River, Ohio – 2004
Roush Stadium – Fairmont HS – Kettering, Ohio – 2005
Scioto Stadium – Dublin Scioto HS – Dublin, Ohio
Serpentini Chevrolet Stadium, Gibson Field – North Royalton HS – North Royalton, Ohio – 2011
Sirpilla Stadium – St. Thomas Aquinas HS – Louisville, Ohio – 2005
Stewart Field – Solon HS – Solon, Ohio – 2004
Tanks Memorial Stadium – Ironton City HS – Ironton, Ohio 2014
Tiger Stadium – Twinsburg HS – Twinsburg, Ohio – 2005
Veterans Stadium – Aurora HS – Aurora, Ohio – 2008
White Field – Newark HS – Newark, Ohio – 2015
William Boliantz Stadium – Nordonia HS – Macedonia, Ohio – 2010
Oklahoma
Jenks High School – Jenks, Oklahoma – 2000, 2008
Muskogee High School – Muskogee, Oklahoma – 2011
Sapulpa High School – Sapulpa, Oklahoma – 2005
Union HS – Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oregon
Aloha High School – Aloha, Oregon – 2004
Beaverton High School – Beaverton, Oregon – 2002
Panther Stadium – Central High School – Independence, Oregon – 2010
Cottage Grove High School – Cottage Grove, Oregon – 2003
Mike Walsh Field – Portland, Oregon – 2002
Pete Susick Stadium – Marshfield High School, Coos Bay, Oregon – 2000
McMinnville High School – McMinnville, Oregon – 2008
North Bend High School – North Bend, Oregon – 2007
North Medford High School – Medford, Oregon – 2010
Sherwood High School – Sherwood, Oregon – 2004
South Medford High School – Medford, Oregon – 2010
South Salem High School – Salem, Oregon – 2008
Spiegelberg Stadium – Medford, Oregon – 2004
Sprague High School – Salem, Oregon – 2007
Stapleton Field – Gresham, Oregon – 2002
Sunset High School – Beaverton, Oregon – 2006
Tigard High School – Tigard, Oregon – 2008
West Salem High School – Salem, Oregon – 2004; replaced by a black FieldTurf surface in 2012
Westview High School – Portland, Oregon – 2006
Willamette High School – Eugene, Oregon – 2008
Pennsylvania
The Haverford School – Haverford, Pennsylvania – 2009
Philadelphia School District "SuperSites" at Northeast High School, Germantown, Dobbins and South Philadelphia
Churchman Stadium – East Allegheny High School – North Versailles, Pennsylvania – 2000
J. Birney Crum Stadium – Allentown School District – Allentown, Pennsylvania – ?
Bethlehem Area School District Stadium – Bethlehem Area School District – Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – 2005
James M. Burk Memorial Stadium – Fox Chapel Area High School – O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania – 2007
John H. Frederick Field at Memorial Park Stadium – Mechanicsburg Area School District – Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania – 2008
Linden Field – General McLane High School – Edinboro, Pennsylvania – 2007
Panthers Stadium – Central York High School – York, Pennsylvania – 2005
Paul J. Weitz Stadium – Harbor Creek High School – Harborcreek, Pennsylvania – 2004
Severance Field- Harrisburg High School- Harrisburg PA – 2004
Somerset Area Golden Eagle Stadium – Somerset Area High School – Somerset, Pennsylvania – 2007
Tiger Stadium – Hollidaysburg Area High School – Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – 2004
Titan Stadium – West Mifflin Area High School- West Mifflin, Pennsylvania – 2008
Trojan Stadium – Greater Johnstown High School – Johnstown, Pennsylvania – 2003
Turtle Creek Stadium/The Wolvarena – Woodland Hills High School – Pittsburgh– 2006
War Memorial Field – Warren Area High School – Warren, Pennsylvania – 1998
Rhode Island
Moses Brown School – Campanella Field – Providence, Rhode Island – 2007
Bishop Hendricken High School – Warwick, Rhode Island – 2006
North Smithfield High School – North Smithfield, Rhode Island – 2008
South Carolina
Myrtle Beach High School – Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – 2008
Rock Hill High School and Northwestern High School – District 3 Stadium – Rock Hill, South Carolina – 2008
Spartanburg High School – Spartanburg High School Athletic Field – Spartanburg, South Carolina – 2009
South Dakota
Central High School – Aberdeen, South Dakota – 2004
Garitson High School – Garitson, South Dakota – 2005
Tennessee
Montgomery Bell Academy – Tommy Owen Stadium – Nashville, Tennessee – 2006
Oakland High School – Patriot Stadium – Murfreesboro, Tennessee – 2007
Memphis University School – Hull Dobbs Field – Memphis, Tennessee – 2007
Christian Brothers High School – Memphis, Tennessee – 2007
Melrose High School – Melrose Stadium – Memphis, Tennessee – 2009
McCallie School – Spears Stadium – Chattanooga, Tennessee – 2009
Memphis Central High School – Crump Stadium – Memphis, Tennessee – 2012
Evangelical Christian School – Cordova, Tennessee – 2012
Harding Academy – Memphis, Tennessee – 2015
Hutchison School – Memphis, Tennessee
Grace Christian Academy – Knoxville, Tennessee
Christian Academy of Knoxville – Knoxville, Tennessee
Webb School of Knoxville – Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville Catholic High School – Knoxville, Tennessee
Maryville High School – Maryville, Tennessee
Alcoa High School – Alcoa, Tennessee
Sevier County High School – Sevierville, Tennessee
Dobyns-Bennett High School – Kingsport, Tennessee
Science Hill High School – Johnson City, Tennessee
Tennessee High School – Bristol, Tennessee
Rhea County High School – Evensville, Tennessee
Greeneville High School – Greeneville, Tennessee
Brentwood High School – Brentwood, Tennessee
Nolensville High School – Nolensville, Tennessee
Franklin High School – Franklin, Tennessee
Sullivan East High School - Bluff City, Tennessee
Texas
Amarillo Independent School District – Dick Bivins Stadium – Amarillo – 1998
Carroll Independent School District – Dragon Stadium – Southlake – 1999
Central Catholic High School – Bob Benson '66 Stadium – San Antonio – 2010
College Station Independent School District – Tiger Field – College Station – 2008
Corsicana Independent School District – Corsicana Tiger Stadium – Corsicana – 2006
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District – The Berry Center – Houston – 2006
Ector County Independent School District – Ratliff Stadium – Odessa – 2003
Hays Consolidated Independent School District – Bob Shelton Stadium – Buda – 2002
Round Rock Independent School District – RRISD Athletic Complex (The Parmer Palace) – Austin – 2003
Leander Independent School District – Leander
A.C. Bible Memorial Stadium – 2009
Rouse High School practice field – 2008
Cedar Park High School practice field – Cedar Park – 2007
Vista Ridge High School practice field – Cedar Park, – 2007
Navasota Independent School District – Rattler Stadium – Navasota – 2007
Spring Branch Independent School District – Darrel Tully Stadium – Houston – 2008
Snyder Independent School District – Tiger Stadium – Snyder
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory – Crusader Stadium – Houston
Wichita Falls Independent School District – Memorial Stadium – Wichita Falls
Virginia
Bishop Ireton High School – Alexandria, Virginia- 2006
Bishop O'Connell High School – Arlington, Virginia – 2012
Broad Run High School – Ashburn, Virginia – 2015
Briar Woods High School - Ashburn, Virginia - 2019
Episcopal High School – Hummel Bowl – Alexandria, Virginia – 2006
Fairfax High School – Harold Stalnaker Stadium – Fairfax, Virginia – 2005, 2015
George Mason High School – Falls Church, Virginia – 2006
Herndon High School – J.L. Griffiths Stadium – Herndon, Virginia – 2010
Highland School – Warrenton, Virginia – 2009
James Madison High School – Normand F. bradford, Jr. Stadium – Vienna, Virginia – 2007, 2017
Loudoun County High School – Leesburg, Virginia – 2014
Patrick Henry High School – Roanoke, Virginia – 2008, 2016
Salem High School – Salem, Virginia – 2006, 2016
West Springfield High School – Ronald J. Mobayed Memorial Stadium – Springfield, Virginia – 2006
William Fleming High School – Roanoke, Virginia – 2010, 2019
Yorktown High School – Arlington, Virginia – 2016
Christiansburg High School – Christiansburg, Virginia- 2017
Blacksburg High School – Blacksburg, Virginia- 2020
Glenvar High School – Salem, Virginia- 2019
William Byrd High School – Vinton, Virginia- 2016
Washington
Bellevue School District
Newport High School – Bellevue, Washington – 2001
Bellevue High School – Bellevue, Washington – 2003
Sammamish High School – Bellevue, Washington – 2003
Clover Park School District
Clover Park High School – Lakewood, Washington – 2000
Edmonds School District
Edmonds School District Stadium – Edmonds, Washington – 2005
Lynnwood High School – Lynnwood, Washington – 2001
Meadowdale High School – Lynnwood, Washington – 2006
Kennewick School District
Neil F. Lampson Stadium – Kennewick, Washington – 2006
Southridge High School soccer field – Kennewick, Washington – 2008
Wilson Youth Sports Complex – Kent, Washington – 2004
Lake Washington School District
Eastlake High School – Sammamish, Washington – 2004
Juanita High School (Bergh Field) – Kirkland, Washington – 2002
Lake Washington High School – Kirkland, Washington – 2002
Mukilteo School District
Mariner High School (Goddard Stadium) – Everett, Washington – 2007
Mercer Island School District
Mercer Island High School – Mercer Island, Washington – 2002
Northshore School District
Inglemoor High School – Kenmore, Washington – 2005
Olympia School District
Olympia High School (Ingersoll Stadium) – Olympia, Washington – 2004
Pasco School District
Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium – Pasco, Washington – 2003
Chiawana High School – Pasco, Washington – 2009
Shoreline School District
Shoreline Stadium – Shoreline, Washington – 2006
Tumwater School District
Tumwater High School (Tumwater Stadium) – Tumwater, Washington – 2004
University Place School District
Curtis High School (Viking Stadium) – University Place, Washington – 2000
Washougal School District
Washougal High School (Fishback Stadium) – Washougal, Washington
Wisconsin
Altoona High School- Altoona, Wisconsin
Amherst High School- Amherst, Wisconsin
Appleton East High School- Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton North High School- Appleton, Wisconsin
Appleton West High School- Appleton, Wisconsin
Arcadia High School- Arcadia, Wisconsin
Arrowhead High School- Hartland, Wisconsin
Ashwaubenon High School- Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin
Bay Port High School- Suamico, Wisconsin
Big Foot High School- Walworth, Wisconsin
Brookfield Central High School- Brookfield, Wisconsin
Cameron High School- Cameron, Wisconsin
Chippewa Falls High School- Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Cumberland High School- Cumberland, Wisconsin
De Pere High School- De Pere, Wisconsin
D.C. Everest High School- Schofield, Wisconsin
Eau Claire Memorial High School- Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Eau Claire North High School- Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Elkhorn High School- Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Fall River High School- Fall River, Wisconsin
Franklin High School- Franklin, Wisconsin
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealau High School- Galesville, Wisconsin
Green Bay East High School- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay Southwest High School- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Greendale High School- Greendale, Wisconsin
Homestead High School- Mequon, Wisconsin
Hortonville High School- Hortonville, Wisconsin
Hudson High School- Hudson, Wisconsin
Kaukauna High School- Kaukauna, Wisconsin
Kenosha Bradford High School- Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kenosha Indian Trail High School- Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kenosha Tremper High School- Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kettle Moraine High School- Wales, Wisconsin
Kewauskum High School- Kewauskum, Wisconsin
Kiel High School- Kiel, Wisconsin
Kimberly High School- Kimberly, Wisconsin
Kohler High School- Kohler, Wisconsin
La Crosse Logan High School- La Crosse, Wisconsin
Lakeland Union High School- Minocqua, Wisconsin
Lake Mills High School- Lake Mills, Wisconsin
Lomira High School- Lomira, Wisconsin
Madison East High School- Madison, Wisconsin
Madison Edgewood High School- Madison, Wisconsin
Manitowoc Lincoln High School- Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Marquette High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Marshfield High School- Marshfield, Wisconsin
McFarland High School- McFarland, Wisconsin
Medford High School- Medford, Wisconsin
Menasha High School- Menasha, Wisconsin
Menomonee Falls High School- Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Menomonie High School- Menomonie, Wisconsin
Middleton High School- Middleton, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Obama SCTE High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Pulaski High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee South High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Vincent High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mukwonago High School- Mukwonago, Wisconsin
Muskego High School- Muskego, Wisconsin
Northwestern High School- Maple, Wisconsin
Notre Dame Academy- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Oak Creek High School- Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Oconomowoc High School- Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Osceola High School- Osceola, Wisconsin
Oshkosh North High School- Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh West High School- Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Pacelli High School- Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Pewaukee High School- Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Platteville High School- Platteville, Wisconsin
Pius XI High School- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Port Washington High School- Port Washington, Wisconsin
Pulaski High School- Pulaski , Wisconsin
Regis High School- Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Rhinelander High School- Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Rice Lake High School- Rice Lake, Wisconsin
Ripon High School- Ripon, Wisconsin
River Falls High School- River Falls, Wisconsin
Shorewood High School- Shorewood, Wisconsin
Slinger High School- Slinger, Wisconsin
Stanley-Boyd High School- Stanley, Wisconsin
Stevens Point Area Senior High- Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Superior High School- Superior, Wisconsin
Union Grove High School- Union Grove, Wisconsin
University School of Milwaukee- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Waukesha North High School- Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha South High School- Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha West High School- Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waunakee High School- Waunakee, Wisconsin
Waupaca High School- Waupaca, Wisconsin
Wauwatosa School District- Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
West Allis – West Milwaukee School District- West Allis, Wisconsin
West Bend School District- West Bend, Wisconsin
West De Pere High School- De Pere, Wisconsin
Westosha Central High School- Salem, Wisconsin
Whitefish Bay High School- Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
Whitnall High School- Greenfield, Wisconsin
Wilmot Union High School- Wilmot, Wisconsin
Canadian high schools
British Columbia
Dr. Charles Best Secondary School – Coquitlam
Southridge School – Surrey
Saskatchewan
Centennial Collegiate – Saskatoon
Ontario
St. Marcellinus High School – Mississauga
References
FieldTurf: high-profile installations
Landtek Group: Authorized Field Turf Representative
FieldTurf installations
Artificial turf
FieldTurf
FieldTurf installations
FieldTurf installations
|
4017750
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20derby
|
Edinburgh derby
|
The Edinburgh derby is an informal title given to any football match played between Scottish clubs Heart of Midlothian (Hearts) and Hibernian (Hibs), the two oldest professional clubs based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The two clubs have a fierce rivalry that dates back to the clubs being founded in the mid-1870s, which makes it one of the longest running rivalries in world football. The first match between the clubs was played on the Meadows on Christmas Day 1875.
The matches are normally played at either Easter Road or Tynecastle. It has been regularly played in the top level of the Scottish football league system, although derbies were played in the second tier during the 2014–15 season. The teams sometimes also play against one another in cup tournaments, such as the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup. The clubs have met twice in Scottish Cup Finals, in 1896 and 2012, both of which were won by Hearts.
History
Hearts and Hibs were both formed during the mid-1870s. The first ever match between the clubs was played at East Meadows on 25 December 1875, with Hearts winning 1–0. Hibs won the first Scottish Cup tie between the clubs, in 1877–78. The matches that established the two clubs as the principal sides in Edinburgh was the five game struggle for the EFA Cup later that season, which Hearts won 3–2 after four previous attempts ended in draws. Hibs beat Hearts on the way to their first national trophy, the 1886–87 Scottish Cup. Hibs also had wins of 3–0, 5–2 and 7–1 against Hearts in other competitions.
Hibs had major financial problems and briefly ceased playing during the early 1890s. In the meantime, Hearts had become founder members of the Scottish Football League in 1890–91. Hibs soon resumed operations and Hearts won 10–2 in a friendly match at Easter Road which marked their return. Hibs joined the Scottish Football League in 1893–94 and were promoted to the First Division in 1895. The first league derby was played on 28 September 1895, Hearts winning 4–3 at Tynecastle.
The clubs contested the 1896 Scottish Cup Final, which Hearts won 3–1 at Logie Green in Edinburgh. It is the only time a Scottish Cup Final has been played outside Glasgow. The derby was played regularly in the league until 1930–31, when Hibs were relegated from Division One, although matches in other competitions continued. Hibs regained top division status in 1933–34, but all league football was suspended from 1939–40 to 1945–46 due to the Second World War.
The record crowd for an Edinburgh derby was 65,860 on 2 January 1950 when Hearts won 2–1 at Easter Road. This was also the biggest crowd for any Scottish game played outside Glasgow. The post-war period was a golden age for football in Edinburgh, as Hibs won three league championships with their Famous Five forward line, while Hearts won several major trophies in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Hibs enjoyed a sustained period of success in the fixture in the late 1960s and most of the 1970s. Their record victory against Hearts, 7–0 at Tynecastle on 1 January 1973, was achieved during this period. Hibs then had their longest unbeaten streak in the fixture, 12 games from 1974 to 1978. Scottish league football was restructured from the 1975–76 season to create smaller divisions, resulting in the teams playing each other four times a season in the league, but it also increased the risk of the clubs being relegated. Hearts were a yo-yo club in the late 1970s and early 1980s, while Hibs were also relegated in 1979–80. This meant that there were few derbies until Hearts returned to the Premier Division in 1983–84.
Hearts then took the upper hand in the derby, setting the record for consecutive derbies without a loss, a 22-game streak straddling the 1980s and 1990s. During this period, Hearts owner Wallace Mercer attempted to force through a merger of the two clubs by acquiring a majority shareholding in Hibs. This effort failed after protest groups set up by Hibs fans persuaded some shareholders not to sell to Mercer and new investment in Hibs was provided by Tom Farmer.
The clubs met in a 2005–06 Scottish Cup semi-final, in the knowledge that victory would lead to a final against Gretna, who were a Second Division club. Hearts won the semi-final against Hibs by 4–0 and went on to win the competition on a penalty shootout in the final. Hibs gained some revenge the following season by winning a 2006–07 Scottish League Cup quarter-final against Hearts 1–0, and went on to win the competition.
The two clubs met in the 2012 Scottish Cup Final. The match was played at Hampden Park in Glasgow, despite some fans proposing that it should be moved to Murrayfield Stadium, the largest venue in Edinburgh. Hearts won a one-sided final by 5–1, having also won all three league derbies in the 2011–12 Scottish Premier League. Hibs gained some revenge for this defeat six months later by knocking Hearts out of the 2012–13 Scottish Cup, winning 1–0 in a fourth round tie at Easter Road. It also ended a run of 12 games without a win for Hibs in the derby.
Both clubs were relegated to the second tier after finishing in the bottom two positions of the 2013–14 Scottish Premiership. This meant that the city of Edinburgh was left without representation in the top tier of the Scottish league system for the first time in its history. Hearts won the 2014–15 Scottish Championship and earned an immediate promotion back to the top tier. Hibs won promotion in 2016–17, which meant that top-flight league derbies were resumed in 2017–18. Meanwhile, the teams were drawn together in the Scottish Cup in three consecutive seasons: 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18. Hibs won the first two ties after replays and went on to win the 2015–16 competition, while Hearts won the third tie.
Hearts were relegated to the Championship in 2020 after the 2019–20 season was curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. In the semi-finals of the 2019–20 Scottish Cup, which were delayed until the autumn by the pandemic, Hearts won 2–1 after extra time against Hibs. Hearts won promotion in 2021 and then wn a 2021–22 Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs.
Local competitions and other Edinburgh clubs
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the clubs often met each other ten times in a single season due to the plethora of local competitions, such as the East of Scotland Shield, Rosebery Charity Cup, Wilson Cup, and the Dunedin Cup. These competitions also involved the other clubs in Edinburgh and the surrounding area. Hearts and Hibs were the most frequent winners of these competitions. The East of Scotland Shield is the only one of the local competitions that is contested by Hearts and Hibs today, albeit by young reserve teams. The Shield is contested by a one-off match and gate takings are given to the Edinburgh Football Association.
St Bernard's, Leith Athletic, the original Edinburgh City and Meadowbank Thistle all represented the city of Edinburgh in the Scottish Football League. As Hibs did not enter the league until the 1893–94 season, the first league derby was actually played between Hearts and Leith Athletic on 24 October 1891 (Hearts winning 3–1). The first league derby between Hearts and Hibs was played at Tynecastle on 28 September 1895, with Hearts winning 4–3. The four teams took part in the Lord Provost's Rent Relief Cup in late 1921 to raise money for the unemployed (a Glasgow version was also played); the final was between Hearts and Hibs (won by Hearts), but was not played until May 1923.
The introduction of the Scottish football pyramid system allowed Edinburgh City to gain promotion to the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) in 2016, but they have not yet played either Hearts or Hibs in a SPFL match. Civil Service Strollers and Spartans take part in the North Edinburgh Derby in the Lowland Football League, while Edinburgh University are also involved in the league. The East of Scotland League also features derby matches, with six clubs based in Edinburgh.
The term is also used for matches in women's football, including games between Hibernian, Hearts and Spartans.
Festival Cup
In 1985, an Edinburgh select team composing of players from Hearts, Hibs and Meadowbank Thistle played Bayern Munich in a "Festival Cup" challenge match at Tynecastle. The Festival Cup was reintroduced in 2003, to tie in with the annual Edinburgh Festival. The local media speculated that clubs from cities twinned with Edinburgh, including Bayern Munich and Dynamo Kiev, would be invited to participate in an annual Edinburgh tournament. Eventually, the clubs settled for playing a single derby match on the last Saturday before the start of the 2003–04 Scottish Premier League season. The SPL did not help the launch of the Festival Cup by scheduling a league derby match two weeks after the Festival Cup match, also at Easter Road. Hearts won the first Festival Cup match 1–0 with a goal by Andy Webster.
The clubs then had difficulty scheduling the 2004–05 match, partly due to the clubs arranging other friendly matches. The Festival Cup match was eventually played at Tynecastle on 4 September 2004. Both teams were well below full strength because several players were training with their national teams. Playing the game in September also meant that the game was played after the start of the 2004–05 Scottish Premier League season and after the end of the Festival. Hearts won the second and to date last Festival Cup match 3–1. The Hearts goals were scored by Craig Sives, Mark de Vries and Dennis Wyness, while Stephen Dobbie scored a penalty kick for Hibs. The match was not in played in 2005 as Hearts had a protracted search for a new head coach. It was not resurrected in 2006 and has not been contested since.
New Year derby
An Edinburgh derby match has traditionally been played at New Year, as both 1 January and 2 January are bank holidays in Scotland. The New Year derby match has sometimes not taken place in recent years, due to a shutdown in early January being introduced to the schedule. Of the 94 Edinburgh derbies played at New Year, Hibs hold a slight lead of 32 to 30 wins by Hearts.
During the 1940 New Year's Day match, Easter Road was covered with a thick fog that would normally cause a football match to be abandoned. Due to the match being played during wartime, and it being broadcast widely by the BBC for the entertainment of soldiers stationed overseas, the War Office ordered play to go ahead to avoid alerting the Luftwaffe to the bad weather conditions. Commentator Bob Kingsley could not see the pitch either and had to improvise. Using a series of runners to tell him if there were any goals scored, he created his own version of the match. This was later described in The Scotsman as "Fawlty Towers ahead of itself" and adapted into a BBC Radio Four play by Scottish playwright, Andrew Dallmeyer.
Results and records
Hearts have the better record in derbies, with 146 to 86 wins by Hibs in 331 matches played in the three main Scottish competitions. There have been 656 Edinburgh derbies to date, meaning that just under half of all derbies have been played in other competitions and friendlies. Including these other fixtures, Hearts have won 288 derbies and Hibs have won 206. During the 2017–18 season, Hearts manager Craig Levein said that Hearts winning was the "natural order" of the fixture, with Hibs fans and manager Neil Lennon making light of these comments in the subsequent derby, which Hibs won.
Since the creation of the Scottish Premier Division in 1975 and the introduction of four league games between clubs in a Scottish season, neither club has managed to win all four league derbies in a season. Hearts have achieved three wins and a draw five times, in 1985–86, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1996–97 and 2006–07. Hibs' best record in a league season is also three wins and a draw, in 1975–76. Hearts whitewashed Hibs in the 2011–12 season, winning all three league games and the Scottish Cup Final; however, a fourth league fixture was not possible as the clubs were not in the same section of the league after the split.
League results
Scottish Cup results
League Cup results
Single game records
Hibs recorded the biggest margin of victory in a competitive match with a 7–0 victory at Tynecastle on 1 January 1973. The biggest win in other matches was a 10–2 Hearts victory in a friendly match on 12 August 1893. The largest number of goals scored in a competitive match was when Hearts won 8–3 in a league match on 21 September 1935. Hearts hold the record margin in the Scottish Cup with a 5–0 victory on 1 February 1955, and the record margin in the Scottish League Cup with a 6–1 victory on 11 August 1956.
Prolific goalscorers
John Robertson scored 27 goals against Hibs in competitive games. Robertson was nicknamed "The Hammer of Hibs" due to his prolific goal record in derbies. Both Bobby Walker (33) and Tommy Walker (29) scored more goals in derbies than Robertson, when games in local competitions are considered.
Gordon Smith is the top goalscorer in Edinburgh derbies for Hibs, with 15 goals. Smith played for Hearts and Dundee later in his career and became the only player to have won the Scottish league championship with three different clubs. James McGhee scored at least 24 goals for Hibs in the early years of the fixture. The real figure is probably higher as he played in a lot of games where only the result is known and not all the scorers were recorded.
Barney Battles Jr. scored 11 goals in less than a month versus Hibs in 1929; five in the 8–2 Dunedin Cup final victory on 17 April 1929, two in the 5–1 Wilson Cup Final victory on 30 April 1929 and four in the 5–1 Rosebery Charity Cup Final victory on 11 May 1929.
Hat-tricks
Sixteen hat-tricks have been scored in competitive Edinburgh derbies by fifteen players, nine for Hearts and seven for Hibs. Bobby Walker is the only player to score multiple hat-tricks, and Mark de Vries for Hearts and Joe Baker for Hibs are the only players to score four goals in one derby. The majority of these hat-tricks were scored in the first one hundred years of the derby's existence, with only three occurring in the last fifty years.
Players with both clubs
This is a list of players who played at least one competitive first team fixture for both clubs. Only four players have scored for both Hearts and Hibs in Edinburgh derbies – Ralph Callachan, Alan Gordon, Darren Jackson and Gordon Smith.
References
External links
A tale of one city: Edinburgh – These Football Times (2015)
Scotland football derbies
Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Hibernian F.C.
Football in Edinburgh
Recurring sporting events established in 1875
|
4017768
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra%20Be%C4%BCcova
|
Aleksandra Beļcova
|
Aleksandra Mitrofanovna Beļcova (, March 17, 1892 – February 1, 1981) was a Latvian-Russian painter.
Biography
Aleksandra Beļcova graduated women gymnasium in Novozybkov in 1912. Later she started studies in Penza city art school which she graduated in 1917. While in Penza she met several Latvian painters who studied there as a refugees. Among them were Jēkabs Kazaks, Konrāds Ubāns and Voldemārs Tone. Especially close relationships developed between her and Romans Suta, another Latvian painter who studied in Penza.
In 1917 she went to Petrograd and studied in State Free Art Workshop under Nathan Altman. It was in Petrograd where her first solo exhibition was held in 1919. Just after the exhibition she moved to Latvia along with Romans Suta and became a members of the Riga Artists Group. The couple married in 1922 in Riga and after marriage they visited Paris, Berlin and Dresden. In 1923 their daughter Tatiana was born in Paris. In 1925 she painted The White and the Black.
She was involved in the Roller group exhibitions and Riga Graphic Artists Association in the following years. Her paintings were mostly portraits and still lifes, beginning as a Cubist she turned to realism in later years. Her mediums were oil, watercolor, graphic arts and she also painted on porcelain.
Beļcova died on February 1, 1981.
The home of Aleksandra Belcova and Romans Suta in Elizabetes street 57A-26 in Riga is now turned into memorial museum and art gallery.
References
External links
Museum of Romans Suta and Aleksandra Belcova at Google Cultural Institute
1892 births
1981 deaths
People from Surazh
People from Chernigov Governorate
20th-century Russian painters
Russian women painters
20th-century Russian women artists
Latvian women painters
20th-century Latvian painters
20th-century Latvian women artists
|
4017773
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood%20%282006%20TV%20series%29
|
Robin Hood (2006 TV series)
|
Robin Hood is a British television programme, produced by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One, with co-funding from the BBC America cable television channel in the United States. Based on the traditional stories of legendary English folk hero Robin Hood, the programme started on 7 October 2006. Series two commenced broadcasting on 6 October 2007 with the final two episodes on 29 December 2007. Series three began airing on 28 March 2009 for a thirteen-episode run. The series was cancelled by the BBC after series three following the departure of multiple actors, including lead Jonas Armstrong.
Production
Comprising thirteen 45-minute episodes per series, Robin Hood was created by Dominic Minghella and Foz Allan, who serve as executive producers on the series, with Minghella the chief writer. Minghella was previously responsible for the successful ITV network comedy-drama series Doc Martin. Richard Burrell is the producer, and the other writers involved on the first series were Paul Cornell, Mark Wadlow, Debbie Oates, Kurti & Doyle and Joe Turner.
The first series had a reported budget of £8 million. The programme was specifically designed to run in the same Saturday evening family drama slot as the successful revival of Doctor Who, filling the slot in Doctor Who'''s absence between series. Shot in the high definition format, the programme was also broadcast on the BBC's BBC HD service.Robin Hood was announced as a possible commission by BBC One Controller Peter Fincham in July 2005, but not officially confirmed by Head of Drama Jane Tranter until 24 October that year. On 18 February 2006, the Daily Mirror newspaper announced that actor Jonas Armstrong had been cast in the lead role in the series. This was confirmed by the BBC in a press release on 3 April 2006, which announced that filming on the series had begun in Hungary and also announced further casting.
On Thursday 23 November 2006, the BBC confirmed that the programme had been renewed for a second series, to be shown in 2007. Filming began in March 2007, and the first episode of the second series aired at 7:30pm on Saturday 6 October 2007.
Lucy Griffiths, who played Marian, left at the end of the show's second series, although she made a brief appearance at the conclusion of the third series. Harry Lloyd and Anjali Jay also departed at the end of the second series.
Joining the cast for the third series were Joanne Froggatt, as a character named "Kate", a Locksley villager, Lara Pulver, as Guy of Gisborne's sister Isabella, David Harewood as Friar Tuck and Toby Stephens as Prince John, and Clive Standen as Archer, Robin's half brother. On 7 August 2008 it was announced that Jonas Armstrong would be leaving the programme at the conclusion of the third series, in "an explosive and nail-biting finale."
In January 2009, the writer Sally Wainwright told The Stage entertainment industry newspaper that she had been asked to oversee a creative revamp of the programme for its fourth series. The BBC confirmed to the paper that she had been asked to work on ideas for the show, but despite this, the fourth series was not commissioned.
Characters
The majority of the main characters in Robin Hood are based on the English folk tale of the same name. The title character (Jonas Armstrong) has returned to England after five years fighting in the Third Crusade as part of the King's Guard. He is shocked to find the Sheriff of Nottingham, Vaisey (Keith Allen), running the town with an iron fist upon his return. Robin is soon made an outlaw, and takes it upon himself to steal from the rich to feed the poor along with his gang, which consists of his best friend Much (Sam Troughton); two young men he saved from hanging, Will Scarlett (Harry Lloyd) and Allan A Dale (Joe Armstrong); the ex-leader of a band of outlaws already in the woods, Little John (Gordon Kennedy); and another young man named Roy (short for "Royston White") (William Beck), who is killed in episode 4, and replaced in episode 5 by Djaq (Anjali Jay), a Saracen slave using the alias of her dead brother. Robin is pleased to find that Lady Marian (Lucy Griffiths) is still unmarried. It is hinted that they had previously been romantically linked in their youth, prior to Robin leaving to fight in the Holy Land. Their relationship upon his return is strained, but develops into a friendship. Their relationship comes to a dramatic climax in the series one finale, both admitting their love for one another. A love triangle challenges their relationship in series two with Marian becoming closer to the Sheriff's second-in-command, Sir Guy of Gisborne (Richard Armitage). Guy often puts Marian in difficult situations where she has to appear to help him, when actually working to protect Robin and the people of Nottingham. Marian has her own alias,'The night watchman' dubbed by the people she secretly helps; Robin is initially unaware, until her identity is revealed in episode three of the first season. The Sheriff plots to kill King Richard (played by Steven Waddington) in his role as leader of the Black Knights, who wish to place Prince John on the throne. The Sheriff constantly tries to capture or kill Robin and the outlaws for continuously interfering in his scheme to take over England. The second series sees the Sheriff step up his plans to take control, finally culminating in a battle in the Holy Land. As the outlaws foil the Sheriff's attack on King Richard with aid from Marian who is killed by Guy of Gisborne whilst she is protecting the injured King. Robin and Marian are married as she lies dying, with the outlaw gang as witnesses. Djaq and Will, now together, decide to stay in the Holy Land after they encounter a friend of Djaq's uncle.
The third series staggered the entry of new characters and only Robin appeared in all thirteen episodes. As the series opens, Tuck (David Harewood), a spiritual preacher returning to England, and Kate (Joanne Froggatt), a Locksley villager, are introduced; both soon become part of Robin's gang. Isabella (Lara Pulver), Gisborne's younger sister who is running from an abusive husband, arrives soon after and starts a secret relationship with Robin. Her link to the castle through Gisborne is used by the gang while she plots revenge against her brother, but her thirst for independence, power, and vengeance soon leads her to become a ruthless Sheriff and a sworn enemy. Toby Stephens appears as Prince John in three episodes mid-series, successfully exploiting the rift between Gisborne and Vaisey, leading to the latter's supposed death at Gisborne's hand. Gisborne is briefly made Sheriff before Isabella uses her influence to replace him, leaving Gisborne a fugitive, and following the death of a young villager with whom he was briefly imprisoned, seeking revenge. This opens the door to a liaison with Robin and sets up the tenth episode of the series, told largely through flashbacks, which revisits Robin and Gisborne's history. It features Dean Lennox Kelly, Sophie Winkleman, Paul Hilton, and Ian Reddington as Robin's father, Gisborne's parents, and another past Locksley villager respectively, and reveals the existence of Archer (played by Clive Standen from episode 11), the illegitimate child of Robin's father and Gisborne's mother, who Robin's dying father begs them to find. Archer is Robin's equal with a bow and arrow. (This, coupled with his biological ties to Robin, Gisborne and Isabella, led to speculation that he was set to take over the programme's lead role following Jonas Armstrong's departure.) The two-part finale sees Vaisey return, and the deaths of Robin, Gisborne and Allan.
Episode guide
Media coverage
On Saturday 8 July 2006, the BBC showed the first teaser trailer for the series – a shot of a flaming arrow flying into the BBC One logo in the corner of the screen as the Robin Hood logo and "Coming Soon" were displayed above. This teaser ran either side of the Doctor Who series finale on BBC One, and was shown on several other occasions on various BBC channels over the following weeks. A longer trailer with actual dialogue from many of the characters was previewed in the Video Room of the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre during the first week of August 2006, as part of the community's Robin Hood Festival.
The BBC's Radio Times listings magazine ran a short preview article for the series, as part of a feature showcasing the best of the autumn series television line-up, in its 2–8 September 2006 edition, published on 29 August 2006, the day after the tape theft story was publicised in the press (see above). Wrote the magazine's correspondent Benji Wilson: "Why watch it? You can't beat a good ruckus – Armstrong and his merry co-stars all enrolled at a specially-commissioned 'Hood academy' before filming in Hungary, where they were drilled in horse riding, sword skills and archery." The article was accompanied by a large publicity photo of Armstrong in costume.
The first full reviews for the programme began appearing on 7 September 2006, after a preview of the opening episode had been shown at the press launch the previous evening. The website of The Guardian said that: "The challenge for the new Robin Hood is to appeal to younger viewers while pulling in their parents as well. It will be no easy task. About as difficult, in fact, as simultaneously firing two arrows from the same bow, and both hitting the target. But as Robin showed in the opening episode, it can be done." In The Times, critic Paul Hoggart backed the series to be a success: "Armstrong as the rather understated Robin Hood should still be moodily cheeky enough to find his way on to the bedroom walls of a few hundred thousand pubertal girls, and Lucy Griffiths as Marian is inevitably feisty. But the villains steal the show, with Richard Armitage's Guy of Gisborne off-setting Keith Allen's gags as the mocking, heavily sarcastic Sheriff. The audience including cast, crew and their friends cheered at the end but this remake should go down well with families at home, too."
The BBC began running longer trailers for the programme on Saturday 16 September 2006, with the first being shown following the final episode of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? on BBC One. This was one of three specially shot trailers, directed by Matt Losasso, each introducing one of the main characters, Robin, Marian and the Sheriff of Nottingham who are seen speaking to camera. The extended Robin version, featuring Armstrong escaping from a cell, was shown in cinemas. Billboard advertisements were also taken out by the BBC and the Radio Times devoted the cover of its 7–13 October 2006 edition, published on 3 October, to the series, with a photo of Armstrong and Armitage in character.
Reviewers have had mixed opinions as to the effectiveness of the show's use of modern styles and current political references. Several episodes of Dead Ringers broadcast in February and March 2007 mocked Robin Hood for its anachronistic approach.
Since its broadcast, it has gained a small cult following along with similar BBC shows including Merlin and Atlantis''.
International sales
As a co-producer on the series, BBC America owns the United States broadcast rights to the programme, which debuted on the channel on Saturday 3 March 2007. It aired in syndication on U.S. cable channel The Inspiration Network from 2013 to 2014 and on Ovation from 2014 to 2015. In Australia, the programme began playing mid-2007 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 19:30 Sunday slot. From April 2008 it was broadcast in Serbia on channel B92. In Spain the programme started on 4 January 2008 on La Sexta, in the 21.00 slot. In Hong Kong, the programme started on 6 June 2008 on ATV World on Monday 20:00 slot. The Sales have also been agreed with broadcasters in India, Sri Lanka, Denmark, France, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, Poland, Macedonia, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Israel, Canada, Czech Republic, Latin America and Switzerland. Broadcast in Sri Lanka began in 2009 in the National Television, Rupavahini; last episode was aired on 18 April 2010.
The first series became available on iTunes in May 2008. However, since the second series was just beginning in the United States, the Series two episodes are released on iTunes on a weekly basis, corresponding with the public releases. The series was previously available on Netflix, but has been discontinued. As of September 2018, the entire series is available to watch on Hulu and Amazon Prime.
Home releases
See also
Robin Hood (album)
References
Notes
Cornell, Paul. Robin Hood and business ongoing . "Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness". URL retrieved Thursday 9 February 2006.
Deans, Jason. Robin Hood set for Saturday night revival (subscription link). "The Guardian". Thursday 14 July 2005.
BBC series needs new Robin Hood. BBC News Online. Monday 24 October 2005.
External links
Robin Hood at Tiger Aspect Productions
Robin Hood at the British Film Institute
Robin Hood Charity T-shirts for The Sherwood Forest Trust
2000s British drama television series
2006 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
BBC high definition shows
BBC television dramas
British adventure television series
Robin Hood television series
Television series by Endemol
Television series by Tiger Aspect Productions
English-language television shows
Cultural depictions of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Cultural depictions of Richard I of England
Cultural depictions of John, King of England
Television series about the Crusades
Television series by BBC Studios
|
4017776
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Framework%20for%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Cooperation
|
International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation
|
The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) formerly the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) began as a U.S. proposal, announced by United States Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman on February 6, 2006, to form an international partnership to promote the use of nuclear power and close the nuclear fuel cycle in a way that reduces nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear proliferation. This proposal would divide the world into "fuel supplier nations," which supply enriched uranium fuel and take back spent fuel, and "user nations," which operate nuclear power plants.
As GNEP the proposal proved controversial in the United States and internationally. The U.S. Congress provided far less funding for GNEP than President George W. Bush requested. U.S. arms control organizations criticized the proposal to resume reprocessing as costly and increasing proliferation risks. Some countries and analysts criticized the GNEP proposal for discriminating between countries as nuclear fuel cycle "haves" and "have-nots." In April 2009 the U.S. Department of Energy announced the cancellation of the U.S. domestic component of GNEP.
In 2010, the GNEP was renamed the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation. IFNEC is now an international partnership with 34 participant and 31 observer countries, and three international organization observers. The international organization observers are: the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Generation IV International Forum, and the European Atomic Energy Community. Since 2015, the Nuclear Energy Agency provides Technical Secretariat support. IFNEC operates by consensus among its partners based on an agreed GNEP Statement of Mission.
GNEP in the United States
The GNEP proposal began as part of the Advanced Energy Initiative announced by President Bush in his 2006 State of the Union address.
In announcing the GNEP Proposal, the U.S. Department of Energy said:
As a research and development program, GNEP is an outgrowth of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
In April 2009 the U.S. Department of Energy announced the cancellation of the U.S. domestic component of GNEP, and in June 2009 announced that it is no longer pursuing domestic commercial reprocessing and had largely halted the domestic GNEP programme. Research would continue on proliferation-resistant fuel cycles and waste management.
Partnerships
The United States has established a number of cooperative arrangements to pursue technical cooperation on this proposal. On February 16, 2006 the United States, France and Japan signed an "arrangement" to research and develop sodium-cooled fast reactors in support of the GNEP. The United States has established "action plans" for collaboration with Russia, Japan and China.
On September 16, 2007, 16 countries officially became GNEP Partners by signing the GNEP Statement of Principles. These countries were:
Australia
Bulgaria
China
France
Ghana
Hungary
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Lithuania
Poland
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
Ukraine
United States
Since then, nine additional countries have joined:
Armenia
Canada
Estonia
Italy
Republic of Korea
Morocco
Oman
Senegal
United Kingdom
Seventeen countries have been invited to join GNEP as partners but have not been willing to sign the Statement of Principles and have participated as observers. These include South Africa, although South African Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica stated that "Exporting uranium only to get it back refined, instead of enriching it in South Africa, would be 'in conflict with our national policy.'" 25 additional countries have been invited to join GNEP at the October 1, 2008 GNEP Ministerial in Paris, France.
Criticism
In 2007 a large number of U.S. nuclear arms control organizations sent a joint letter to Congress requesting that GNEP funding be terminated on the grounds that it undermined U.S. nuclear proliferation policy, would cost over $100 billion, and did not solve the nuclear waste problem.
In 2008 Congress allocated less than half of the requested funds, supporting GNEP research but not technology demonstration projects. The Congressional Budget Office assessed that reprocessing spent nuclear fuel would cost considerably more than disposal in a long-term repository.
Some states do not approve of the GNEP philosophy that partitions the world between a few fuel-cycle states and a larger number of receiver states, reflecting the distinctions in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They are concerned that their nuclear fuel assurance could in the future be subject to external political pressure. They also believe it creates an unfortunate incentive on states to develop enrichment or reprocessing technology now, to position themselves to become one of the future fuel-cycle states.
Steve Kidd, Head of Strategy & Research at the World Nuclear Association, has explained:
An alternative view of GNEP may see it as somewhat discriminatory and potentially anti-competitive. By restricting parts of the fuel cycle to particular countries, albeit with fair rights of access to nuclear materials, there is a risk of maintaining or even reinforcing the existing NPT arrangements that have always upset certain nations, notably India and Pakistan. Similarly, by maintaining a market stranglehold on, for example, enrichment facilities in the existing countries, it can be argued that the market will be uncompetitive and lead to excessive profits being achieved by those who are so favoured.
Another criticism is that GNEP seeks to deploy proliferation-prone reprocessing technology for commercial reasons, and to bypass the continued delays with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, while erroneously claiming to enhance global nuclear security.
See also
Nuclear power
Integral Fast Reactor
United States-Japan Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan
Franco-British Nuclear Forum
Section 123 Agreement
References
External links
Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership page
GNEP international partnership official web site
Departrment of Energy announcement
US launches Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, Nuclear Engineering International, 8 February 2006
GNEP: the right way forward?, Nuclear Engineering International, 1 June 2006
Nuclear Energy Plan Would Use Spent Fuel, Peter Baker and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post, January 26, 2006
Reprocessing Revisited:The International Dimensions of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, Edwin Lyman and Frank N. von Hippel, Arms Control Today, April 2008
Reports: The future of GNEP, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", July-Aug 2008
Nuclear technology
Arms control
Energy policy
Energy in the United States
Nuclear reprocessing
|
4017785
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A51
|
A51
|
A51 may refer to:
Area 51, the nickname for a military base in Nevada that is the subject of many conspiracy theories
A51 Terrain Park (Colorado), a terrain park in Keystone, Colorado
A51 road (England), a road connecting Kingsbury and Chester
A51 motorway (France), a road connecting Marseille and Grenoble
A5/1, in cryptography, a stream cipher used in GSM cellular networks
Samsung Galaxy A51, a smartphone released in 2019
A51, one of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings codes for the Budapest Gambit in chess
A-51, a Namibian hip hop band
|
4017789
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20Five%20Nations%20Championship
|
1972 Five Nations Championship
|
The 1972 Five Nations Championship was the 43rd Five Nations Championship, an annual rugby union competition contested by the men's national teams of England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the 78th since it began as the Home Nations Championship.
For the first time since the Second World War, the championship was not completed. Scotland and Wales did not travel to Dublin to play Ireland because of escalating political tensions in the wake of Bloody Sunday. Although the remaining fixtures of the schedule were fulfilled, as both Ireland and Wales won all their matches, neither could claim the title. To fill the gap of the missing two fixtures, France played a friendly match in Dublin (in addition to the scheduled match in Paris). In total, nine matches were played between 15 January and 29 April 1972.
This was the first Five Nations Championship in which a try was worth four points.
This tournament saw France play its last matches at its decades-long home ground, Stade Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes. The opening of the rebuilt Parc des Princes that June saw France move its Five Nations matches to that ground.
Participants
Table
Squads
Fixtures
Friendly match
References
External links
The official RBS Six Nations Site
http://stats.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/records/team/match_results.html?id=650;type=tournament
Six Nations Championship seasons
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
Five Nations
|
4017793
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkore%20language
|
Nkore language
|
Nkore (also called Nkole, Nyankore, Nyankole, Orunyankore, Orunyankole, Runyankore and Runyankole) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nkore ("Banyankore") of south-western Uganda in the former province of Ankole.
Runyankole is mainly spoken in the Mbarara, Bushenyi, Ntungamo, Kiruhura, Ibanda, Isingiro, Rukungiri and parts of Kitagwenda districts.
There is a brief description and teaching guide for this language, written by Charles V. Taylor in the 1950s, and an adequate dictionary in print. Whilst this language is spoken by almost all the Ugandans in the region, most also speak English, especially in the towns. (English is one of Uganda's two official languages, and the language taught in schools.)
Nkore is so similar to Kiga (84–94 percent lexical similarity) that some argue they are dialects of the same language, a language called Nkore-Kiga by Taylor.
Phonology
Runyankore has a five-vowel system:
Sounds /i, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, ʊ] when short or lax.
Orthography
a - [a]
b - [b]
c - [t͡ʃ]
d - [d]
e - [e]
f - [f]
g - [g/d͡ʒ]
h - [h]
i - [i]
k - [k/t͡ʃ]
m - [m]
n - [n]
o - [o]
p - [p]
r - [r]
s - [s]
t - [t]
u - [u]
v - [v]
w - [w]
y - [j]
z - [z]
ai - [ai̯]
ei - [ɛi̯]
gy - [gʲ]
ky - [kʲ]
mp - [ᵐp]
mw - [ᵐw]
nd - [ⁿd]
ng - [ŋ]
ny - [ɲ]
oi - [ɔi̯]
sh - [ʃ]
ts - [t͡s]
zh - [ʒ]
D and P are only used in the digraphs ND and MP and in loanwords.
G and K are [d͡ʒ] and [t͡ʃ] before I, [k] and [g] elsewhere.
Basic greetings
The greeting Agandi, implying, "How are you?" but literally meaning "other news!", can be replied with Ni marungi, which literally means "good news!".
The proper greetings are Oraire ota? or Osiibire ota?, literally translated "How was your night?" and "How was your day?". "Good night" is Oraare gye and "Good day" is Osiibe gye.
Here are a few names one might use in a greeting:
Madam – Nyabo
Sir – Sebo
Child – omwana
Boy – omwojo
Girl – omwishiki
Food
Matooke or Bananas - Ebitookye
Maize Meal or corn bread – Obuhunga
Beans – Ebihimba
Meat – Enyama
Millet Bread – Oburo
Other words and phrases
No: Ngaaha (ing-gah-ha) or Apaana (ah-pah-nah)
Yes: Yego (yegg-oh)
Thank you: Yebare (Ye-ba-re)
Thank you very much: Yebare munonga (Ye-ba-re mu-non-ga)
You're welcome (literally: Thank you for appreciating): Yebare kusiima (ye-ba-re koo-see-mah)
I like/love you: Ninkukunda (nin-koo-coon-dah) or ninkukunda munonga (nin-koo-coon-dah moo-non-gah)
My name is : Eizina ryangye niinye __ (ey-zeen-ah riya-gye ni-inye___) or ndi _ (in-dee __)
I am from _: Ninduga_ (nin-doog-ah_)
It's how much shillings/money? Ni shiringi zingahi? (Knee shi-rin-gee zin-gah-hee) or ni sente zingahi?
Good morning. How are you?
Oraire ota (orei-rota) Replies: I'm fine Ndaire gye (ndei-re-jeh) or Ndyaho (indi-aho)
Good morning. Did you sleep well?
Oraire gye? (orei-reh-jeh)
Reply: Yes, yourself?
Yego, shan’iwe
Good afternoon. How are you spending your day?
Osiibire ota (o-see-bee-rota) Replies: Nsiibire gye (insi-bi-reje)
You are spending your day well?
Osiibire gye (Osi birejge) Replies: Yes- Yego (yegg-oh) or nsiibire gye
Good afternoon. How has your day been?
Waasiiba ota (wasib-wota) Reply: Fine, good, I've spent it well – Naasiiba gye (nasi-baje)
Good night: oraregye
See also
Runyakitara language
References
a banyankore are bantu speaking group of people from South western Uganda and they speak Runyankore with (ntu) (aba) like akantu, ekintu, omuntu, abantu. Akantu means thing in prural, ekintu means something big, omuntu means a person, abantu means people same as in Zulu language of South Africa
Languages of Uganda
Nyoro-Ganda languages
|
4017794
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Alan%20Walker
|
Mark Alan Walker
|
Mark Alan Walker (born 1963) is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at New Mexico State University, where he occupies the Richard L. Hedden Endowed Chair in Advanced Philosophical Studies. Prior to his professorship at NMSU Prof. Walker taught at McMaster University in the department of philosophy and the Arts & Science Programme. He is the author of Happy-People Pills for All (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2013) and Free Money for All (New York: Palgrave, 2016). Walker founded and was president of the former nonprofit organization Permanent End International (2003–2007), which had been devoted to ending hunger, illiteracy and environmental degradation through the dissemination of modular aquaponics systems for farming. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Evolution and Technology and on the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He is a former board member of the non-profit organization Humanity Plus (formerly World Transhumanist Association).
Professor Walker is a consequentialist who argues that humans have a responsibility to perfect themselves in the realm of morality and virtue. He has written extensively about the ethics of using technology to enhance human capabilities (including advocacy of superlongevity and biohappiness); about the possibility of enhancing virtue genetically, through both genetic modification and the cultivation of humans with larger brains and a better understanding of moral reasoning; and about the moral obligations that humans may have toward artificially intelligent beings in the future. He also co-authored an influential piece about the nexus between transhumanism and religion, with Heidi Campbell.
See also
Perfectionism (philosophy)
Transhumanism
References
External links
Mark Alan Walker's homepage
1963 births
Living people
Canadian philosophers
Canadian transhumanists
New Mexico State University faculty
|
4017795
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltrop
|
Waltrop
|
Waltrop is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the Datteln-Hamm Canal, approximately 15 km east of Recklinghausen and 15 km north-west of Dortmund.
Division of the town
The town of Waltrop is surrounded by the Bauerschaften (rural boroughs) Lippe (Unterlippe/Oberlippe), Elmenhorst, Brockenscheidt, Leveringhausen, Oberwiese and Holthausen.
History
People already settled in this area about 2,000 years ago.
The village developed around the parish church of St. Peter which was built in the 9th/10th century.
It is known that in 1432 Waltrop was a part of the county Dortmund. After the Soest Feud, the archbishops of Cologne could intervene against the counts of Mark, so that Waltrop became a part of Vest Recklinghausen.
The production of coal in the mine started in 1905. As a consequence, Waltrop grew larger and became an industrial town. The coal mine was closed down in 1974.
In 1939, Waltrop got its municipal rights.
Governance
The town council of Waltrop consists of 36 seats, which are divided into 6 parliamentary groups since September 2020:
SPD, 13 seats
CDU, 12 seats
Greens, 5 seats
Waltroper Aufbruch (WA), 3 seats
FDP, 2 seats
Die Linke, 1 seat
Since 2020 Marcel Mittelbach (SPD) is mayor of Waltrop.
Notable places
Waltrop is home to a museum of old ship lifts, including the Henrichenburg boat lift and a historical coal mine.
Local industry
Manufactum, upscale retailer for traditionally-made household goods
Langendorf, a tipping trailer manufacturer
Notable people
Sylvia Dördelmann (born 1970), rower
Matthias Hues (born 1959), actor and martial artist
Christoph Korte (born 1965), rower
Michel Lewandowski (1914–1990), footballer
Alexander Baumjohann (born 1987), footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Waltrop is twinned with:
Herne Bay, England, United Kingdom (1976)
Cesson-Sévigné, France (1984)
San Miguelito, Nicaragua (1988)
Gardelegen, Germany (1990)
Görele, Turkey (2012)
References
External links
Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Recklinghausen (district)
Province of Westphalia
|
4017814
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosting%20%28crime%29
|
Frosting (crime)
|
Frosting is a UK term for motor vehicle theft occurring in winter, which involves an opportunist thief stealing a vehicle with its engine running whilst the owner de-ices it. According to a British insurance company, the crime has contributed to the theft of 135,000 unattended cars in the past five years in the UK. This can be prevented by installing a car security system.
References
External links
The human impact of young driver crashes
Ice theft Mini used in ram raid
Motor vehicle theft
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.