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Oreste Del Buono
Oreste Del Buono (5 March 1923 – 30 September 2003) was an Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.
Admirers would marvel at the ferocious energy of a man who liked to boast that he needed only two hours of sleep per night. He was also remarkable for the sheer variety of his career. Another of his boasts was that he had been sacked 102 times: it was by most criteria an exaggeration, although there were various publishers of newspapers, magazines and journals for which over the years he was recruited repeatedly (and, logically, which he quit just as frequently).
Oreste Del Buono (often identified both by himself and by others simply as "OdB") was born at Poggio, a (very) small village a couple of kilometers inland from the craggy western coast of the island of Elba. He was the eldest of the three children of Alessandro and Vincenzina Tesei del Buono. The family was an ancient and distinguished one. Oreste's mother's younger brother, Teseo Tesei (1909–1941) was a naval officer who later became a noted war hero. His paternal grandfather, (1852 - 1930), was an entrepreneurial mining engineer and briefly a prominent politician.
While he was still young, Oreste Del Buono's grandfather suffered major financial losses in Venezuela and "Villa del Pianello", till then his childhood home, was sold. His parents moved the family first to Florence and then to Rome where del Buono attended a Montessori school. He moved to Milan for the 1935/36 school year, and here he completed his school career at the recently established but already prestigious classical lyceum". He went on to enrol at the Milan university faculty of law in 1941 and then, without finishing his course of study, and possibly in response to pressure from his mother, enlisted in the navy in July 1943, just a few days before The Leader was dismissed from office by what would at the time have been seen by many as his own "Fascist Grand Council".
On 8 September 1943 the new Italian government, reacting to evidently irresistible pressure from the advancing Anglo-American forces in the south, proclaimed an armistice. The German military moved rapidly to disarm the armed forces of their former Italian allies, liberate Mussolini and create a puppet Italian state covering central and northern Italy. Shortly after the proclamation of the armistice, Oreste Del Buono was captured by the Germans during the fighting for control of the Island of Brioni He spent a year and a half as a prisoner of war, detained in the remote concentration camp by the Gerlos Pass, located among the high mountains east of Innsbruck. He managed to escape but after finding himself unable to get very far, and briefly taking refuge in another concentration camp in the area where he was "denounced by a Polish inmate", he found himself reporting back to the concentration camp from which he had escaped, explaining to the camp commander – if his later autobiographical recall is to be believed – "You were not there: how could I tell you I was going away?".
Del Buono was a prolific translator, principally from French. Areas of special expertise included science fiction, detective fiction sport and advertising. On the subject of advertising he also contributed a regular column in the Milan-based magazine, Panorama between April 1987 and February 1992. The column subsequently resurfaced in L'espresso, a rival publication. Among his more notable literary translations into Italian were those of Шинель (The Overcoat) by Gogol, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's from the seven volume "À la recherche du temps perdu" set and Le Bleu du Ciel (Blue of Noon)by Georges Bataille. Among his other translations worthy of note were books by André Gide, Guy de Maupassant, Michel Butor, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nathalie Sarraute, Denis Diderot, Benjamin Constant and . His portfolio of English translations included works by Raymond Chandler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Horace Walpole and Ian Fleming.
Del Buono was a fringe member of the circle of "Neoavanguardia" novelists. His 1961 novel "Per pura ingratitudine", published by Feltrinelli, was representative of this genre. His first novel, "Racconto d'inverno", had appeared in 1945, and remains one of his most striking books. It shares its name, presumably consciously, with the Italian of Shakespeare's 1623 Winter's Tale. Although the book is classified as a novel, much of the telling detail is lifted unapologetically from the author's personal experiences during the eighteen months that he spent as an involuntary guest at a German mountain concentration camp during 1943–45. His other novels included "Un intero minuto" (""An entire minute"", 1959), "L'amore senza storie" (1960), "Né vivere né morire" (""Neither living nor dead"", 1966), "Un tocco in più" (""One more touch"", 1966), "I peggiori anni della nostra vita" (""The worst years of our life"", 1971), "La nostra età", (""Our era"" 1974), "La parte difficile" (""The difficult bit"", 1975 and republished 2003), "La parte difficile" (""Come back!"", 1976), "Un'ombra dietro il cuore" (""A shadow behind the heart"", 1978), "Il comune spettatore" (""The shared viewer"", 1979), "Se m'innamorassi di te" (""Falling in love with you"", 1980), "La talpa di città" (""The urban mole"", 1984), "La nostra classe dirigente" (""Our ruling class"", 1986), "La debolezza di scrivere" (""The weakness for writing"", 1987), "La vita sola" (""One life"", 1989), "Acqua alla gola" (""Water down the throat"", 1992) and "Amici, amici degli amici, maestri" (""Friends, friend of friends, leaders", 1994).
He worked as a contributing editor for a number of Italy's larger newspaper and magazine publishers, including Rizzoli, Bompiani and Garzanti. He used the opportunities this gave him to introduce readers to many foreign writers who had hitherto be unknown domestically. But he also brought to the fore and then nurtured works by a large number of younger and otherwise unknown Italian authors such as Achille Campanile, Giovannino Guareschi and Giorgio Scerbanenco, , Tiziano Sclavi, Renato Olivieri, Marcello Marchesi, , Augusto De Angelis, Paolo Villaggio and Giulio Angioni. Above all, he was an enthusiastic promoter of what one or two more staid critics might have dismissed as "popular culture". He teamed up with the young Umberto Eco to compile a tongue-in-cheek but resolutely straight-faced collection of seven essays in celebration of James Bond. He also compiled an early Encyclopaedia of Italian popular comics (""fumetti""). Published in 1969, at a time when many intellectuals were inclined to take a dismissive approach to "kids' comics", the work pioneered a more serious evaluation of an important tranche of popular culture. A generation later the del Buono approach had for many become mainstream.
His appointment as editorial director of linus in 1972 brought him to the attention of a wider public. He ran the publication till 1981. The magazine focused exclusively on "fumetti". Del Buono's long-standing fascination with childrens' (and adults') comics del Buono to be identified in a number of quarters as "the man who discovered Peanuts in (and for) Italy".
An important aspect of del Buono's literary contribution was its sheer eclecticism. His volume on Billy Wilder, comprising two monograph's on the cinema legend, was published in 1958. Over the years he also made himself an authority on another icon of the big screen, Federico Fellini. In 1980/81 he enjoyed a brief career as a pundit and sports commentator, featuring on the news broadcasts fronted by Maurizio Costanzo on the short-lived launched by the Rizzoli Group. He also worked on La Stampa, imposing his own distinctive approach on the Specchio dei tempi ("Mirror of the times") column which he contributed in succession to .
Del Buono's television work included his 1965 collaboration with on the screenplay for the television mini-series version of (based on Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection).
For , the national broadcaster, he worked with Carmelo Bene to develop , focusing on fantasy interviews with celebrities from the past. Subjects included Edmondo De Amicis, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The actor Bene played the parts of the interviewees.
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Subrata Roy (scientist)
Subrata Roy (Scientist) (Bengali: সুব্রত রায়) is an India-born American inventor, educator, and scientist known for his work in plasma-based flow control and plasma-based self-sterilizing technology. He is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group at the University of Florida.
Subrata Roy earned his Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN in 1994. Roy was a senior research scientist at Computational Mechanics Corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then professor of mechanical engineering at the Kettering University up to 2006. In 2006, Roy joined the University of Florida as a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group at the University of Florida. He has also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Manchester and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Subrata Roy's research and scientific work encompasses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), plasma physics, heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, electric propulsion, and micro/nanoscale flows. In 2003, Roy incorporated Knudsen’s theory that handles surface collisions of molecules by diffusive and specular reflections into hydrodynamic models, which has been used in shale gas seepage studies. In 2006, Roy invented the Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle (WEAV) which was included in "Scientific American" in 2008 as the world's first wingless, electromagnetically-driven air vehicle design. Roy is known for introducing various novel designs and configurations of plasma actuators for applications in mitigation of flow drag related fuel consumption, noise reduction, and active film cooling of turbine blades and propulsion. These designs and configurations include serpentine geometry plasma actuators, fan geometry plasma actuators, micro-scale actuators, multibarrier plasma actuators, and plasma actuated channels of atmospheric plasma actuators.
Roy also led multidisciplinary research on innovating eco-friendly ways of microorganism decontamination using plasma reactors .
Roy served as the Technical Discipline Chair for the 36th AIAA Thermophysics Conference in 2003, the 48th Aerospace Sciences Meeting (for Thermophysics) in 2010, the AIAA SciTech Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference in 2016, and served as the Forum Technical Chair for AIAA SciTech in 2018. Roy served (20052007) as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluids Engineering and served (20122017) as an Academic Editor of PLOS One. Roy serves as a nation appointed member to the NATO Science and Technology Organisation working group on plasma actuator technologies; a member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports-Nature ; and, an Associate Editor of Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer. Roy is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a lifetime member and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Associated Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Vascular thalamic amnesia
Vascular thalamic amnesia occurs when the thalamus is affected by Korsakoff's syndrome or damaged by lacunar infarcts or hemorrhages. Another common cause for damage to the thalamus that may contribute to the development of amnesia is a stroke. It involves a loss of memory and a shift in behaviors and attitudes that are associated with various behavioral disorders.
In several cases, the patients who are experiencing vascular thalamic amnesia will experience declarative anterograde amnesia and cognitive and behavioral disorders. These include, but are not limited to, a disruption of verbal fluency, a lack of apathy, and dysphoria.
Some patients may also show a difficulty with constructional apraxia. This is apparent in the loss of verbal skills, particularly involving semantic and syntactic language. When this is severe it can be connected with an impairment of visual attention.
Much of the associated memory loss is dependent on the portion of the thalamus that was affected by the damage. The memory loss associated with damage to the vascular thalamus tends to maintain high variability from patient to patient. Some patients will maintain their memory while developing the behavioral disorders while others will show signs of declarative anterograde amnesia with no signs of behavioral disorders. This seems to be related to the location of the hemorrhages for each individual patient. Particularly, whether the infarct is anterior or bilateral.
Localization of function of the thalamus can be illustrated through vascular thalamic amnesia. The damage to the tuberothalmic territory appears to have the most extensive effects in relation to this form of amnesia by affecting functions of arousal and orientation, learning and memory, personality, and executive function.
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Jake Atlas
Kenny Marquez (born October 5, 1994), known by his ring name Jake Atlas, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, and performs on the NXT brand. He is largely known for his work in the independent circuit, with numerous matches held throughout the California and western United States promotions.
As a native resident of California, Marquez trained at the local Santino Bros. Wrestling Academy, making his in-ring debut on August 6, 2016 under the ring name Jake Atlas. He went on to appear in numerous California promotions including Orange County Championship Wrestling, Empire Wrestling Federation, Baja Star's USA, All Pro Wrestling, Gold Rush Pro Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood among several other promotions between 2016 and 2017. During his career, Atlas won titles including Santino Bros. Wrestling's SBW Championship and All Pro Wrestling's Universal Heavyweight and Junior Heavyweight Championships.
Atlas' earliest association with WWE occurred as early as 2018. He first appeared with Stephanie McMahon on an episode of "Celebrity Undercover Boss". Atlas reportedly received $25,000 as a down payment for a house and was hired as an Ambassador for the WWE. During July of that year, Atlas worked in the "Be A Star" program in the Boston, Massachusetts area. On October 23, 2019, Atlas officially signed with WWE. On the April 1, 2020 episode of "NXT", Atlas was defeated by Dexter Lumis in his debut. On April 12, Atlas was named a participant in the Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship round-robin tournament. Atlas defeated Drake Maverick in his first match in the tournament and Tony Nese in his second match but lost to Kushida. After Maverick defeated Kushida on the May 20 episode of NXT, a Triple Threat match was set up between Maverick, Kushida and Atlas for the following week as all three men were tied at 2-1. Maverick won the match after pinning Atlas albeit in a controversial fashion. On the June 19 episode of 205 Live, Atlas made his debut on the brand defeating Jack Gallagher.
Atlas is openly gay, something he discussed with Stephanie McMahon during their appearance on Celebrity Undercover Boss.
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Ferdinand van der Haeghen
Ferdinand van der Haeghen or Vanderhaeghen (1830–1913) was a Belgian librarian and bibliophile.
Van der Haeghen was born in Ghent on 16 October 1830, the son of Désiré-Jean Van der Haeghen (1797–1850), owner and publisher of the "Gazette van Gent" (established 1667). He was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, and spent two years studying at Ghent University without taking a degree. He became university librarian in Ghent.
He was an active member of the Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen and a founding member of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (1886). In 1888 he became editorial secretary of the "Biographie Nationale de Belgique", overseeing publication of volumes 10 to 20. He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1888, and a full member in 1891.
Van der Haeghen compiled substantial bibliographic resources for the history of printing and books in Belgium, in particular the 7-volume "Bibliographie gantoise" and the 34-volume "Bibliotheca Belgica", left uncompleted at his death and continued by Alphonse Roersch and Paul Bergmans. He donated his extensive personal collection of material printed in Ghent to the University Library, where it formed the basis of the "Gandavensia" collection.
He died in Ghent on 22 January 1913.
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Clap for Our Carers
Clap for Our Carers, also known as Clap for Carers, Clap for the NHS or Clap for Key Workers, is a recurring not-for-profit movement created as a gesture of appreciation for the workers of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) and other key workers during the global pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which spread to the United Kingdom in January 2020.
The idea originated in Europe before being appropriated by Annemarie Plas in the UK, a Dutch expatriate living in London, who promoted a campaign took place every Thursday evening at 20:00 between 26 March and 28 May 2020. Many celebrities, influencers, politicians, and public figures supported the campaign.
In December 2019, health authorities in Wuhan, China, identified an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases. Subsequent investigations revealed this illness was caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. On 11 March 2020, the outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with 118,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 114 countries. The virus was confirmed to have spread to the United Kingdom on 31 January 2020 and by 20 March, the number of cases there had surpassed 3,200. As the number of cases grew, the public health response to the virus has also evolved. From 20 March, most schools, colleges and nurseries were closed. On 23 March, stricter social distancing measures were implemented to curb the spread of the virus.
Although similar activities had already been happening in Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands in the weeks prior the idea for Clap for Our Carers is credited to Annemarie Plas, a Dutch expatriate living in London who had copied a similar event that she had seen from the Netherlands.
The event is typically a round of applause outside a participating person's home or from one of their windows, however people have also taken part by banging pots and pans, playing music and setting off fireworks. Millions are reported to have taken part. In the first campaign, at 20:00 on 26 March 2020, people across the UK clapped, cheered, and rang bells to thank NHS workers for their role during the pandemic. Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte also supported the event from their residence at Anmer Hall. On 2 April, appreciation extended to all key workers, including healthcare workers, emergency services, armed services, delivery drivers, people who work in shops, teachers, waste collectors, manufacturers, postal workers, cleaners, vets and engineers. That day, event founder Annemarie Plas said in an Instagram post, "tonight we will show our appreciation again! For ALL that go out to work so that we can stay in!".
The campaign was subsequently repeated at 20:00 every Thursday until 28 May, as lockdown restrictions began to be eased throughout the UK. The campaign received coverage from media such as Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. Notable people who participated in the event include Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Naomie Harris and Sir Elton John. The Queen referred to the Clap for Our Carers campaign as an “expression of our national spirit”. Landmarks such as The Shard, Tower Bridge, the London Eye, Blackpool Tower, the Tyne Bridge, the Radio City Tower, The Kelpies, MediaCityUK, and Windsor Castle were illuminated in blue during the event.
An annual Clap for Our Carers Day is planned for the last Thursday of March each year.
Clap for Our Carers inspired Nathan Wyburn to produce a digital collage made up of more than 200 images of NHS workers, to pay tribute to their work.
The practice of applauding has been criticized by some political commentators and medical workers as an empty gesture amid budget cuts and equipment shortages for the NHS.
You Clap for Me Now, a social media campaign in response to the Clap for Our Carers campaign, celebrated and highlighted the role of black and ethnic minority health and key workers and asked the public to continue their support after the pandemic. The video featured healthcare workers, key workers and celebrities reading a poem by Darren James Smith and gained over 12 million views online.
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Vladimir Uyba
Vladimir Viktorovich Uyba (), born in 1958, is a Russian statesman, scientist, and doctor, who is the acting Head of the Komi Republic since April 2, 2020. Before being appointed to that position, he was deputy health minister and head of the Federal Biomedical Agency.
He has a Doktor Nauk in Medical Sciences, is a professor, and acting State Advisor to the Russian Federation, Grade 1 (2012). He was made an Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation (1998), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Doctor of the Chechen Republic, Honored Doctor of the Republic of Ingushetia, and Honored Doctor of the Republic of South Ossetia.
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Chandi Prasad Mohanty
Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty AVSM, SM, VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army. He is the current General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Southern Command, assuming command on 30 January 2020. He was trained at RIMC Dehradun.
Mohanty was born to Jitendra K. Mohanty, a civil servant, and Sarada Mohanty, a professor of Odia at S.V.M. College. Following his education at Bagashai U.P. School, he joined the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun. He subsequently entered the National Defence Academy (NDA). He holds a M.Phil and a master's in management, and has conducted extensive studies of China, South Asia and northeastern India. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.
Mohanty was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the Rajput Regiment in June 1982.
He has commanded battalions in both Jammu and Kashmir and in Northeast India, and has held staff appointments in an armoured brigade and in the military secretariat. He commanded a UN multi-national brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has served as a military advisor to the Seychelles government. He has also commanded a mountain brigade along the Indo-Chinese border and a mountain division in Assam in 2014. He also served as Director General of operational logistics and strategic movement at the Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Army) at New Delhi. After the Doklam incident, he commanded the XXXIII Corps in the Eastern Command and was then appointed GOC Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly.
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Bergis Jules
Bergis Jules is an American archivist and scholar. He is known for digital humanities projects that aim to diversity and democratize the historical record, and for his scholarly research on community-based archives.
Between 2014 and 2018, he served as the University and Political Papers Archivist at the University of California, Riverside. Before that, he was the University Archivist at George Washington University and a project director at the University of Chicago's Black Metropolis Research Consortium. He is currently the Director of Equity Initiatives for Shift, a non-profit devoted to designing products to solve social problems, and the Community Lead for the Documenting the Now (DocNow) project.
Jules has received wide attention and has devoted much of his scholarly and professional activity to DocNow, a set of tools for researchers to work with Twitter data and a community of practice to explore these tools' applications. The project was conceived by Jules and Edward Summers during the 2014 Society of American Archivists Conference, which coincided with the shooting of Michael Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Meredith Evans also joined the project as a partner. Within six days of the shooting, Summers created a tool to capture and archive tweets referencing the protests. The project garnered some immediate criticism, about privacy, intellectual property, and ethical issues around collecting social media posts, such as whether the collected posts might be used for police surveillance purposes, which has prompted Jules to explore and promote conversations around these issues.
Jules holds a B.A. in African-American and African Studies from Earlham College, and an M.A. in African-American and African diaspora history and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. He is a doctoral student in the Public History program at the University of California, Riverside.
He has been a project lead or partner on grant-funded projects totaling several millions of dollars and has received multiple fellowships, including an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant for Libraries; the 2018-2020 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship which supports outstanding scholars of library and information science; and two separate grants amounting to $1.7 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support DocNow and communities looking to create their own digital projects.
In 2007, Jules received the Society of American Archivists' Harold T. Pinkett Student of Color Award. Jules was a 2008 ALA Spectrum Scholar.
He was elected to a three-year term on the Society of American Archivists Council between 2015–2018.
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2018 Illinois judicial elections
The 2018 Illinois judicial elections consisted of both partisan and retention elections, including those for one seat on the Supreme Court of Illinois and five seats in the Illinois Appellate Court. Primary elections were held on March 20, 2018, and general elections were be held on November 6, 2018. These elections were part of the 2018 Illinois elections.
Justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois are elected by district. One seat held a retention election.
The court has seven seats total separated into five districts. The first district contains three seats (making it a multi-member district), while other four districts are single-member districts. Justices hold ten year terms.
To be retained, judges were required to have 60% of their vote be "yes".
Illinois Appellate Court justices hold ten-year terms.
Incumbent Peter C. Cavanagh, who was appointed in May 2017 to fill the vacancy left when Tom Appleton resigned his seat, won reelection. This was a special election for two years, as Appeton's term would have ended in 2020.
No Democratic primary was held, as no candidates filed to run.
Due to the time the vacancy was created being so close to the May 6 filing date for candidates to make the ballot, Cavanaugh was not on the ballot, and instead ran as a write-in candidate.
Incumbent Republican Thomas M. Harris, Jr., who was appointed in July 2017 to fill the vacancy left when Carole Pope resigned her seat, won reelection, running unopposed in both Republican primary and general election. This was a special election for four years, as Pope's term would have ended in 2022.
No Democratic primary was held, as no candidates filed to run.
Republican David K. Overstreet was elected to fill the vacancy that was created after Richard P. Goldenhersh retired in 2017. This was a regular election, as Goldenhersh's term would have expired in 2018.
To be retained, judges were required to have 60% of their vote be "yes".
Lower courts also saw judicial elections. This included 52 partisan elections to fill vacancies on circuit courts and 34 partisan elections to fill vacancies on subcircuit courts.
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Brianne Howey
Brianne Howey is an American actress known for her role as Reagan in The CW's "Batwoman", Kat Rance in the 2016 Fox television series "The Exorcist", as Candy in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2" and as Shauna Babcock in "The Passage".
Brianne Howey was brought up in Pasadena, California and was the oldest of 4 other siblings. She attended an all girl's Catholic high school in Pasadena, then continued her acting education at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, studying theater. During her time as a student, she starred in the short films "Party Favors" in 2008, "Appropriate Sex" in 2009 and in 2010 "Suckerpunch" also making her debut television appearance on "90210" the same year.
Since graduating in 2011, Howey has starred in "Twisted Tales" in 2013. In 2014, Brianne starred as "Candy" in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2" alongside Jason Bateman. In 2015, Brianne moved to London to film her first regular starring role which was in the British television series "I Live with Models". In 2016, Howey landed the role of Kat Rance in the television series "The Exorcist", sister of the possessed girl played by Hannah Kasulka. In 2019, Howey starred as Shauna Babcock, a "Viral", in Justin Cronin’s "The Passage". The same year Howey starred in the romantic comedy "Plus One".
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One Night Standards
"One Night Standards" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Ashley McBryde. The song was released on September 23, 2019, and served as the lead-off single to her second studio album, "Never Will", released via Warner Bros. Nashville on April 3, 2020.
McBryde co-wrote "One Night Standards" with Nicolette Hayford and Shane McAnally, and details a woman setting the ground rules for a one-night stand in a hotel room.
The music video for "One Night Standards" premiered on December 20, 2019, and is the first in a three-part video series directed by Reid Long. Filmed at the Drake Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, it depicts McBryde working as a receptionist checking in a couple, when she recognizes the man waiting outside as a friend's father. She alerts her friend, which leads to her coming down to the hotel and confronting him and the mistress with a shovel, and ends with McBryde and her friend stuffing the woman into the trunk of a car before driving away. The storyline is continued with the videos for "Martha Divine" and "Hang in There Girl," both of which were issued as promotional singles ahead of the album.
"One Night Standards" debuted on the "Billboard" Country Airplay chart at number 60 on the chart dated November 18, 2019. It also became McBryde's first chart entry on the "Billboard" Hot 100 when it debuted at number 93 on the chart dated June 20, 2020. It has sold 23,000 copies as of January 2020.
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Interior Designers Association of Nigeria
The Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN) is the professional body for interior design professionals and suppliers in Nigeria. Founded in 2007 by Titi Ogufere, IDAN is the leading authority representing members who are mainly qualified interior designers, dealers of interior design products, finishing companies, and interior decorators in Nigeria. It has its headquarters in Lagos, with regional offices in Abuja and Port Harcourt.
At its inception in 2017, IDAN's founding board members were Titi Ogufere, Ekua Abudu, Munirat Shonibare, Anselm Tabansi, Moni Fagbemi, Sarah Daniel and Mathew Eshalomi as board members.
Interior Designers Association of Nigeria, in 2017, hosted the first ever edition of African Culture and Design Festival in Africa, teaming up with 2017 congress of International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI), a body of professional interior architects and interior designers.
IDAN has eight membership categories
Associate Member: A level for newly qualified interior designers or architects. It requires a minimum of a three year degree.
Professional Member: This is for interior designers who are established; six years experience or a three year degree in related courses and three years of work experience, or a year long diploma and five years of experience.
Corporate Member: The member must have more than 10 full-time employees, and must have met the criteria for being a professional member.
Interior Decorator: The member must have at least two years of experience in decoration.
Industry Partners (Package A): For both manufacturers, suppliers and Design Schools endorsed by IDAN.
Industry Partners (Package B): This package comes with a different benefit, but it is for members in Package A above.
Student Members: This is for students that are "currently" enrolled in an Architecture or Interior Design School.
Honorary Members: This is for notable individuals who by reason of their experience or works, have contributed to the growth of IDAN.
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The Lincoln Cycle
The Lincoln Cycle is a 1917 American silent series of ten short films portraying the life of American president Abraham Lincoln. They were directed by John M. Stahl and starred Benjamin Chapin, a celebrated Lincoln impersonator, in the title role. All except two episodes survive in the Library of Congress archives. It was also released as The Son of Democracy.
Chapin had appeared as Lincoln for many years, and had set up his own production company with the intention of making a film based on his own 1906 play "Lincoln". Following the enormous commercial success of D. W. Griffith's " The Birth of a Nation", the potential of another play related to the American Civil War allowed Chapin to plan an ambitious epic series of films, rather than a single feature. He hired young filmmaker John Stahl to direct.
It initially began shooting at studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey before shifting to Ridgefield Park. Location shooting took place around New Jersey, with some shots also taken of the White House and other historical sites. Because he lacked a distributor for his costly production, Chapin premiered the first episode at the Belasco Theater in Washington to coincide with the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. This and a transfer to the Strand Theatre in New York proved a great success. Following American's entry into World War I the patriotic elements of the play were heavily promoted. In December it was picked up for distribution by Paramount Pictures and released serially between February 11 and April 15, 1918. By this time Chapin was in ill health and died in the summer of that year. As the films conclude without the end of the American Civil War or the assassination of Lincoln, it was likely they were unfinished.
Some confusion exists about the credits of the film because Chapin only featured himself in advertising materials acknowledging neither the other actors or the technicians behind the scenes, something that director Stahl strongly objected to.
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French cruiser Forbin
Forbin was a protected cruiser, the lead ship of the , built in the late 1880s for the French Navy. The class was built as part of a construction program intended to provide scouts for the main battle fleet. They were based on the earlier unprotected cruiser , with the addition of an armor deck to improve their usefulness in battle. They had a high top speed for the time, at around , and they carried a main battery of four guns.
"Forbin" spent the 1890s in the Reserve Squadron, based in the Mediterranean Sea; during this period, she was kept in partial commission to participate in annual training exercises. She was in reserve by 1901, when she had an ammunition fire related to unstable propellant charges. "Forbin" was reactivated in 1906 for service with the Northern Squadron. By 1911, she had been moved to the Moroccan Naval Division. She was converted into a collier in 1913 and was used in that capacity until she was struck from the naval register in 1919. The ship was sold for scrap in 1921.
Beginning in 1879, the French Navy's (Council of Works) had requested designs for small but fast cruisers of about displacement that could be used as scouts for the main battle fleet. The unprotected cruiser was the first of the type, which was developed into the "Forbin"-type of protected cruisers after the requested light armor protection for the ships. The three "Forbin"s, along with the three very similar s, were ordered by Admiral Théophile Aube, then the French Minister of Marine and an ardent supporter of the doctrine.
"Forbin" was long at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . Her crew amounted to 199 officers and enlisted men. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of compound steam engines driving two screw propellers. Steam was provided by six coal-burning fire-tube boilers that were ducted into two funnels. Her machinery was rated to produce for a top speed of .
The ship was armed with a main battery of four 30-caliber guns in individual pivot mounts, all in sponsons with two guns per broadside. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried three 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon. She was also armed with four torpedo tubes in her hull below the waterline, and she had provisions to carry up to 150 naval mines. Armor protection consisted of a curved armor deck that was thick, along with a cofferdam and thin anti-splinter deck covering the machinery spaces.
The keel for "Forbin" was laid down at the Arsenal de Rochefort shipyard in Rochefort in May 1886. She was launched on 14 January 1888 and was completed in February 1889, the first member of her class to enter service. She was initially completed with just two of her 138 mm guns, but the other pair were quickly added. She completed her sea trials in 1890. By 1893, "Forbin" had been assigned to the Reserve Squadron, where she spent six months of the year on active service with full crews for maneuvers; the rest of the year was spent laid up with a reduced crew. At that time, the unit also included several older ironclads and the cruisers , , , and . "Forbin" took part in the fleet maneuvers in 1894; from 9 to 16 July, the ships involved took on supplies in Toulon for the maneuvers that began later on the 16th. A series of exercises included shooting practice, a blockade simulation, and scouting operations in the western Mediterranean. During the operations, the torpedo boats and collided and "Forbin" had to take "Audacieux" under tow back to Toulon. The maneuvers concluded on 3 August.
She was still serving in the unit in 1895, along with "Sfax" and the unprotected cruiser "Milan". She took part in the fleet maneuvers that year, which began on 1 July and concluded on the 27th. She was assigned to "Fleet C", which represented the hostile Italian fleet, which was tasked with defeating "Fleet A" and "Fleet B", which represented the French fleet; the latter two units were individually inferior to "Fleet C", but superior when combined. "Forbin" remained in the Reserve Squadron in 1897. At some point later in her career, after 1896, "Forbin" was modernized at Rochefort. She had her mainmast removed, along with all of her torpedo tubes, and she received five more 47 mm guns. Her boilers were replaced with Niclausse-type water-tube boilers and were adapted to incorporate mixed coal and oil firing.
By January 1901, "Forbin" and both of her sister ships had been reduced to the reserve fleet. On 14 April 1901, an accidental propellant fire occurred aboard "Forbin", part of a series of fires that resulted from unstable charges. The incident occurred at sea steaming from Rochefort to Brest, while the crew was stowing ammunition. Five men were burned in the accident, but the fire did not detonate any adjacent charges and "Forbin" was only lightly damaged. That night, several men were found to have nearly asphyxiated from the toxic fumes that had been released by the fire. The ship was attached to the Reserve Division of the Northern Squadron in 1906, along with three armored cruisers. She took part in the fleet maneuvers that year, which began on 6 July with the concentration of the Northern and Mediterranean Squadrons in Algiers in French Algeria. The maneuvers were conducted in the western Mediterranean, alternating between ports in French North Africa and Toulon and Marseilles, France, and concluding on 4 August. She was present for the 1907 fleet maneuvers, which again saw the Northern and Mediterranean Squadrons unite for large-scale operations held off the coast of French Morocco and in the western Mediterranean. The exercises consisted of two phases and began on 2 July and concluded on 20 July.
The ship remained in service with the Northern Squadron in 1908, by which time it had been reorganized as a cruiser force, consisting of eight armored cruisers and four other protected cruisers. At some point in 1911, "Forbin" was assigned to the Moroccan Naval Division, where she patrolled French Morocco until 27 September, when she was replaced by the cruiser . "Forbin" returned to the unit the next year and operated in company with "Lavoisier" from September, when that vessel returned to the area. "Forbin" was converted into a collier in 1913. She was struck from the naval register in 1919 and sold to ship breakers two years later.
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French cruiser Surcouf
Surcouf was the second protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The "Forbin"-class cruisers were built as part of a construction program intended to provide scouts for the main battle fleet. They were based on the earlier unprotected cruiser , with the addition of an armor deck to improve their usefulness in battle. They had a high top speed for the time, at around , and they carried a main battery of four guns.
The ship saw little activity in the 1890s, being assigned to the Northern Squadron from 1893 to 1895, temporarily reactivated to participate in training exercises with the unit in 1897, and then assigned to the squadron again from 1898 to 1899. During her periods of active service, she was primarily occupied with training maneuvers. "Surcouf" returned to the Northern Squadron in 1901 and served there through 1908, apart from a brief stint in East Asia in 1902. She saw little activity thereafter, until she was sent to the Gulf of Guinea late in World War I. The ship was ultimately removed from the naval register in 1921 and broken up.
Beginning in 1879, the French Navy's (Council of Works) had requested designs for small but fast cruisers of about displacement that could be used as scouts for the main battle fleet. The unprotected cruiser was the first of the type, which was developed into the "Forbin"-type of protected cruisers after the requested light armor protection for the ships. The three "Forbin"s, along with the three very similar s, were ordered by Admiral Théophile Aube, then the French Minister of Marine and an ardent supporter of the doctrine.
"Surcouf" was long at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . Her crew amounted to 199 officers and enlisted men. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of compound steam engines driving two screw propellers. Steam was provided by six coal-burning fire-tube boilers that were ducted into two funnels. Her machinery was rated to produce for a top speed of .
The ship was armed with a main battery of four 30-caliber guns in individual pivot mounts, all in sponsons with two guns per broadside. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried three 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon. She was also armed with four torpedo tubes in her hull below the waterline, and she had provisions to carry up to 150 naval mines. Armor protection consisted of a curved armor deck that was thick, along with a cofferdam and thin anti-splinter deck covering the machinery spaces.
Later in her career, "Surcouf" was modernized. She had all of her torpedo tubes, and she received five more 47 mm guns. Her boilers were modified to incorporate mixed coal and oil firing.
"Surcouf" was laid down in May 1886 in Cherbourg, and was launched in October 1888. She was completed in 1890. She conducted her sea trials that year. In 1893, "Surcouf" had a small conning tower installed. That year, she was assigned to the Northern Squadron, which that time included the ironclads and , the coastal defense ship , and the cruiser . The following year, "Surcouf" continued to operate with the squadron. She took part in annual training exercises that year to evaluate the effectiveness of the French coastal defense system. The squadron went to sea on 15 July and began the operations the next day, which lasted until 29 July. The maneuvers demonstrated the usefulness of torpedo boat flotillas in coastal defense, but highlighted that France's coastal defense system in the Channel was not yet complete.
She remained in the unit through 1895. The squadron was kept in commission for only four months per year. The unit at that time consisted of "Furieux", the ironclads "Requin", "Victorieuse", and , the armored cruiser , and the protected cruisers and . "Surcouf" took part in the annual fleet maneuvers that began on 1 July; as she was in partial commission, she had to take on naval reservists in Cherbourg to bring her crew to the full number. The exercises took place in two phases, the first being a simulated amphibious assault in Quiberon Bay, and the second revolving around a blockade of Rochefort and Cherbourg. The maneuvers concluded on the afternoon of 23 July.
By 1896, she was reduced to the 2nd category of reserve, along with several old coastal defense ships, ironclads, and other cruisers. They were retained in a state that allowed them to be mobilized in the event of a major war. "Surcouf" was mobilized in 1897 to participate in the large-scale maneuvers of that year with the Northern Squadron, which were held in July. "Surcouf" and the bulk of the squadron were tasked with intercepting the coastal defense ship , which was to steam from Cherbourg to Brest between 15 and 16 July. As with the previous year's maneuvers, the defending squadron was unable to intercept "Bouvines" before she reached Brest. The squadron then moved to Quiberon Bay for another round of maneuvers from 18 to 21 July. This scenario saw the protected cruisers and simulate a hostile fleet steaming from the Mediterranean Sea to attack France's Atlantic coast. Unlike the previous exercises, "Surcouf" and the rest of the Northern Squadron successfully intercepted the cruisers and "defeated" them.
"Surcouf" was reactivated in 1898 and was assigned to the Northern Squadron, by which time the unit consisted of the ironclad , four modern coastal defense ships, a pair of armored cruisers, and the protected cruiser . She took part in the annual maneuvers in July and August that year, which consisted of three phases. In the first, she and nine torpedo boats were assigned the task of breaking through a blockade of the Baie de Douarnenez conducted by the rest of the squadron. The ships successfully eluded the blockaders and escaped the bay. The second consisted of an attack on the fortifications of Brest by the entire squadron, and the third saw the fleet conduct an amphibious assault near Douarnenez. She remained in the unit the following year, by which time the unit was completely reorganized. It then consisted of six of the French Navy's older ironclads, a pair of armored cruisers, the protected cruiser , and three smaller cruisers.
By January 1901, "Surcouf" and both of her sister ships had been reduced to the reserve fleet, but later that year, she was assigned to the Northern Squadron. That year, the annual fleet maneuvers were conducted from 3 to 28 July. During the exercises, the Northern Squadron steamed south for joint maneuvers with the Mediterranean Squadron. The Northern Squadron ships formed part of the hostile force, and as it was entering the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, represented a German squadron attempting to meet its Italian allies. In 1902, she was sent to join the French squadron in East Asia, which at that time included five other protected cruisers. She had returned to France at some point before 1904, when she was assigned to the Northern Squadron. That year, she was kept in commission for six months, with the rest of the year spent out of service with a reduced crew. She remained in service with the Northern Squadron through 1908, by which time, the unit consisted of eight armored cruisers and four other protected cruisers. At some point later in World War I, "Surcouf" was sent to replace "Friant" in the Gulf of Guinea, where she remained until the end of the conflict. The ship was struck from the naval register in 1921, and was thereafter broken up for scrap.
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Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani
Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani, a Slovenian petrologist (a rock scientist), was born 5 July 1906, in Celje, Slovenia, and died 22 September 1988, in Toronto, Canada. She was the first female assistant professor of petrography in Yugoslavia.
Dolar Mantuani graduated from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia in 1929 and received her doctorate there in 1935. After graduation, she taught at a grammar school. In 1940, she was named assistant professor of petrography and optical exploration of minerals and rocks at the University of Ljubljana.
According to Mojca Smolej in 2019, a professor at the same university, "As early as 1940, this faculty got the first female assistant professor of petrography in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Ljudmila Dolar-Mantuani, whose unfortunate fate after the war forced her to live in exile in the US, where she built many dams."
Dolar Mantuani furthered her studies at the universities of Zagreb, Croatia, Rome, Italy, Vancouver, Canada and Essen, Germany. She later became a research fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a scientific adviser at the Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario in Toronto.
After 1971, she worked as an independent researcher for several Canadian private and government institutions.
In papers that Dr. Dolar Mantuani authored after her move to North America, she is published with a slight change to the spelling of her name from Ljudmila to Ludmila Dolar-Mantuani (with hyphen added).
Dolar Mantuani published an estimated 70 discussions and articles on mineralogy and petrology of Slovenia, Austria and Canada. Important to her early work were her explorations of the depths of Pohorje and tertiary tuffs at Peračica in the Upper Carniola region in Slovenia.
After moving to North America, Dolar-Mantuani was widely published in the area of concrete technology and the factors pertaining to the quality of the aggregate (stones and other materials used when mixing the concrete that that can have physical or chemical characteristics that might harm the quality of the finished product). In one of her papers, she discussed the significance of five quality tests of potential aggregate (paraphrased below). One is a test for soundness (the ASTM Test for Soundness of Aggregates by Use of Sodium Sulfate or Magnesium Sulfate) to determine the overall quality of the aggregate. The other four tests can help determine the presence of harmful particles or substances that might influence the fresh concrete when it is mixed or in its early stage of hardening. These harmful substances might also damage the concrete surface under specific circumstances.
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French cruiser Coëtlogon
Coëtlogon was a protected cruiser of the built in the late 1880s and early 1890s for the French Navy; she was the last member of her class to be built. The "Forbin"-class cruisers were built as part of a construction program intended to provide scouts for the main battle fleet. They were based on the earlier unprotected cruiser , with the addition of an armor deck to improve their usefulness in battle. They had a high top speed for the time, at around , and they carried a main battery of four guns.
"Coëtlogon" saw little activity, in part because problems with her propulsion system delayed her completion by three years; after a serious breakdown while on sea trials in 1891, the entire system had to be replaced. She was finally completed in 1895, when she joined the Northern Squadron, though she only served in the unit for two years. She saw no further active service, and she was struck from the naval register in 1906, thereafter being broken up.
Beginning in 1879, the French Navy's (Council of Works) had requested designs for small but fast cruisers of about displacement that could be used as scouts for the main battle fleet. The unprotected cruiser was the first of the type, which was developed into the "Forbin"-type of protected cruisers after the requested light armor protection for the ships. The three "Forbin"s, along with the three very similar s, were ordered by Admiral Théophile Aube, then the French Minister of Marine and an ardent supporter of the doctrine.
"Coëtlogon" was long at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of . She displaced . Her crew amounted to 199 officers and enlisted men. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of compound steam engines driving two screw propellers. Steam was provided by six coal-burning fire-tube boilers that were ducted into two funnels. Her machinery was rated to produce for a top speed of .
The ship was armed with a main battery of four 30-caliber guns in individual pivot mounts, all in sponsons with two guns per broadside. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried three 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon. She was also armed with four torpedo tubes in her hull below the waterline, and she had provisions to carry up to 150 naval mines. Armor protection consisted of a curved armor deck that was thick, along with a cofferdam and thin anti-splinter deck covering the machinery spaces.
Work began on "Coëtlogon" with her keel laying at the Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët shipyard in 1887. She was launched on 3 December 1888 and was completed for sea trials in 1891, but her propulsion system failed and had to be completely replaced. This delayed her entry into service by three years, as corrections had to be made repeatedly, even after the new system was installed. Trials conducted in March 1894 had to be stopped due to excessive friction in the engines, which caused so much vibration in the hull that the ship's compasses were not usable. She ran acceptable trials in June, where she reached a top speed of using forced draft, though was not ready for service until August. She completed her initial sea trials in 1895; during the testing, she reached a maximum average speed of .
That year, she was assigned to the Northern Squadron, which was kept in commission for only four months per year. The unit at that time consisted of the coastal defense ship , the ironclads , , and , the armored cruiser , and the protected cruisers and . "Coëtlogon" took part in the annual fleet maneuvers that began on 1 July. The exercises took place in two phases, the first being a simulated amphibious assault in Quiberon Bay, and the second revolving around a blockade of Rochefort and Cherbourg. The maneuvers concluded on the afternoon of 23 July.
She remained in the unit in 1896. She took part in the maneuvers that year, which were conducted from 6 to 26 July in conjunction with the local defense forces of Brest, Rochefort, Cherbourg, and Lorient. The squadron was divided into three divisions for the maneuvers, and "Coëtlogon" was assigned to the 3rd Division along with the coastal defense ship and the armored cruiser , which represented the enemy squadron. By January 1901, she and both of her sister ships had been reduced to the reserve fleet. The ship had a short service life and was struck from the naval register in 1906; she was subsequently sold to ship breakers for scrap.
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Howa Type 20
The is an assault rifle developed for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force by Howa. It's expected to be the successor to the Howa Type 89.
On May 18, 2020, the Ministry of Defense announced that the rifle is designated as the Type 20. It was also announced that the Type 20 will first be issued to soldiers in the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade.
In August 2014, it was reported that the JGSDF was looking for a new rifle to replace the Type 89. Initial candidates to replace the Type 89s include the Heckler & Koch G36, Heckler & Koch HK416, Steyr AUG, FN SCAR, and a new rifle developed by Howa.
In 2015, the Ministry of Defense (Japan) procured various foreign made rifles for testing purposes and contracted with Howa to test their domestic rifle. The procurement contract is shown as:
The small arms "S type, 516 and 716" are the SIG516 and SIG716, "G type, V" is the G36V, "HK type" is likely the HK416 or HK417, and "SC type, H and L" is the SCAR-H and SCAR-L. It is unknown what rifle is small arms "M type".
At the same time, Howa filed a patent on the design for their rifle on 15 May 2015. Furthermore, the design was patented under Japan's Design Act (Article 14) which allows the design to be kept in secret for up to three years. An updated design was later patented under the same law on 25 September 2015.
In 2018, the Ministry of Defense procured another batch of small arms for testing. The procurement contract is shown as:
The rifles were later revealed to be the Type 20, HK416 and SCAR-L following an announcement on 6 December 2019 that the Type 20 has been selected over the other two rifles. A follow up report stated that two evaluations were conducted on the rifle in 2018. The first evaluation focused on the weapon's performance on land such as effective range and accuracy. The second evaluation compared the weapon's performance, logistics and cost to the other two rifles.
Since all three rifles satisfied the JGSDF's requirements, the Type 20 was selected due to having the highest score based on the second evaluation. The unit price for mass production is stated to be at ¥280,000 including maintenance and operation costs. The estimated life cycle cost is ¥43.9 billion if 150,000 units are procured.
The first batch of rifles (3,283 units) were purchased for ¥900 million in the 2020 defense budget.
The Type 20 is said to possess better environment durability, fire power and extensibility over the Type 89. One key difference it has over the Type 89 is the addition of multiple rails; making it the first Japanese rifle to have this feature as a standard design. The magazine is also believed to be STANAG compatible. The rifle features a telescoping stock, an ambidextrous safety selector, and appears to operate via short-stroke piston.
Compared to the original design, the current design of the Type 20 retains much of the same characteristics with only some notable changes. The barrel length has been shortened slightly and the hand guard has been redesigned to feature an M-LOK rail design. The side rails have been extended, fold-able iron sights were added and the stock features a shoulder pad similarly seen on the HK416.
Because of the radical and modern design shift the rifle has over its predecessor, there is some speculations on how it got its design. One speculation is that the design was possibly influenced by various foreign made rifles; as Japan has experience procuring and utilizing a number of foreign rifles, i.e. the Special Forces Group. As such, the design of the Type 20 has been compared to the FN SCAR, CZ 805 BREN and Heckler & Koch HK433; with some observers believing the rifle possesses similar dimensions and functionality to the SCAR. Another design influence is speculated to come from the experience Howa has gained from developing the ACIES variants of the Type 89.
According to a Ministry of Defense press conference, the rifle can be used with the Beretta GLX-160 grenade launcher.
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Mary Watson (chemist)
Mary Watson (October 1856 - 20 February 1933) was a British chemist. She was one of the first two women to study Chemistry at the University of Oxford, the other one being Margaret Seward.
Watson was born in October 1856 at Shirburn, Oxfordshire, daughter of John Watson and Anne Bruce. Her father was a farmer and land agent to the Earl of Macclesfield. She was educated at home and at St John's Wood High School. Watson entered Somerville Hall, later Somerville College, of the University of Oxford in 1879 on a Clothworkers' Scholarship. This was a scholarship of 35 pounds for three years. Somerville was founded in the same year as one of the two first women's colleges of Oxford. In 1881, she was awarded another two-year scholarship with a value of 30 pounds. Watson completed with a first class honours in Geology in 1882 and a second class in Chemistry in 1883. However, it was not until 1920 that Oxford allowed women to matriculate and therefore formally gain degrees.
Following graduation, Watson was appointed Science Mistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She held that position until 1886 when she had to resign following her marriage to John Style in Thame a year earlier. They lived in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. Style was Headmaster at Cheltenham Grammar School since 1882, but was sacked in 1906. They retired to Michelmersh, Hampshire, where she died on 20 February 1933.
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Abu ali Farmadi
Fazal bin Muhammad bin Ali (Arabic: فضل بن محمد بن علي,"; born 1016 - 1084)" commonly known as "Abu Ali Farmadi" or just "Abu Ali" was a saint of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain, and a prominent Sufi master and preacher from Ṭūs, Khorasan Iran,
He was born the year 401 after the hijrah He was called al-Fārmadī on account of his place of birth, Fārmad, a village in the vicinity of Ṭūs.
After completing his elementary education he entered the madrasah of the famous Sufi Abdulkarim Qushayri in Nishapur.and then he was a follower of Abu Al-Hassan Al-Kharqani.
Abu ali Farmadi is called the Knower of the Merciful and the Custodian of Divine Love. He was a scholar of the Shafi’i school of jurisprudence and a unique `arif (endowed with spiritual knowledge). He was deeply involved in both the School of the Salaf (scholars of the First and Second Centuries) and that of the Khalaf (later scholars), but he made his mark in the Science of Tasawwuf. From it he extracted some of the heavenly knowledge which is mentioned in Qur’an in reference to al-Khidr salla: “and We have taught him from our Heavenly Knowledge” [18:65].
He was died in the year 470 Hijri.
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Olusola Adesope
Olusola O. Adesope is the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University.
Adesope was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. He immigrated to Canada in 2003 with his pregnant wife Tolu and enrolled at Simon Fraser University (SFU). At SFU, he earned his Master's degree in educational technology and his doctorate degree in educational psychology. In 2011, he received the G.M. Dunlop Award for best doctoral thesis in educational psychology completed at a Canadian university.
In 2012, Adesope joined the faculty of Educational Psychology at Washington State University. He received the TICL Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award two years later from the American Educational Research Association. He also conducted a study with researchers at Simon Fraser University which found that one-on-one computer-based tutoring was more effective than traditional teacher-based instruction when used on larger class sizes.
In 2017, Adesope was appointed to a second term on the editorial board of the "Review of Educational Research" journal. He was also promoted to the Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education. In this role, he collaborated with Kripa Sundar to research how “seductive details” could deter learning in the classroom.
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Sue LePage
Sue LePage (born 1951) is a Canadian set designer and costume designer based in Toronto. She has designed for over 100 theatre productions including ballet and opera.
She is a two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award recipient and winner of a Sterling Award.
LePage was born in and grew up in Toronto.
In 1973, she graduated from University of Guelph where she studied drama.
After graduating university, LePage's first job in the field was as a junior production assistant for a short time at the Stratford Festival. Soon after, she went to Scotland to attend a program affiliated with the Edinburgh Festival.
For nearly 10 years, LePage continued as an assistant at the Stratford Festival while also doing her own design work for smaller theatres.
Her designs have since appeared in many other notable theatres and theatre festivals in Canada: Shaw Festival: Tarragon Theatre, Grand Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre, Soulpepper, Young People's Theatre, Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, Factory Theatre.
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Student Union of Tampere University
Student Union of Tampere University (in Finnish: Tampereen ylioppilaskunta, commonly known by the acronym TREY) is a Finnish student union that was formed in the fusion of The Student Union of Tampere University of Technology and The Student Union of the University of Tampere. As a student union, the purpose of TREY is to defend student interests in Tampere.
Due to its large size, TREY is the organizer of Finland biggest vappu celebration (May 1 celebration for students) with over 100 events spanning for over two weeks.
TREY's membership includes all the undergraduate student who study at Tampere University. The number of members is 18,000 making TREY the second largest student union in Finland.
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Woodbury Salterton
Woodbury Salterton is a village from Exeter, in the civil parish of Woodbury, in the East Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 647. Woodbury Salterton has a church called Holy Trinity, a primary school on Stony Lane and a pub called the Digger's Rest.
The name "Salterton" means "the salt-workers" or "salt-settlers" "tun". Salterton was a chapelry in Woodbury and Colaton-Raleigh parishes.
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Udai Manikya
Udai Manikya (died 1572), also known as Gopi Prasad, was the Maharaja of Tripura from 1567 to 1572. Coming from a lowly background, he rose through the ranks to become one of the most powerful figures in the kingdom. Following the death of the previous monarch, his son-in-law, Udai took royal power himself, for a time supplanting the ruling dynasty with his own line.
Originally named Gopi Prasad, he was of humble origins. He began his career during the reign of Vijaya Manikya II, serving as a "gomasta" (rent-collector) in Dharmanagar, though was later driven out of this position after having climbed a tree belonging to a Brahmin. Thereafter, he was appointed as a cook in the royal kitchens, then a "chowkidar", before ultimately rising to become Commander-in-Chief of the Tripura army. His influence further increased when Vijaya, wishing to ensure the ambitious officer's loyalty, married his own son to the latter's daughter, Ratnavati.
Upon the ascension of his son-in-law, Ananta Manikya, to the throne in 1563, Gopi Prasad expanded his already extensive power, keeping the new king completely under his control. This arrangement proved to be short-lived, when, in 1567, Ananta died under uncertain circumstances. According to differing versions of the "Rajmala", this was either the result of a fever or through strangulation on Gopi Prasad's orders. Regardless, the latter subsequently claimed royal power and adopted the regnal name Udai Manikya, assuming the erstwhile ruling dynasty's cognomen.
Udai proved to be a talented administrator and renamed the kingdom's capital, changing it from Rangamati to Udaipur after himself. He extensively worked to beautify the city with the construction of buildings, temples and reservoirs, among which were the Chandra Gopinath Temple and the Chandrasagar. He was less successful in warfare however, having become involved in a 5-year-long conflict with Sulaiman Khan Karrani, the Sultan of Bengal, resulting in the heavy loss of money, 40,000 troops and the area of Chittagong.
Tradition states that Udai had 240 wives, several of whom, on charges of infidelity, he had executed through being trampled by elephants or devoured by dogs. Udai himself was poisoned to death in 1572, after having ingested a pill of quicksilver supplied by a certain woman. He was succeeded by his son Joy Manikya I.
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Sarah Lesch
Sarah Lesch (born 1 March 1986) is a German singer-songwriter who performs with a guitar and ukulele.
Sarah Lesch was born in Altenburg, Thuringia and moved with her mother to Swabia at the age of five. Her father Ralf Kruse is a Leipzig musician. He played among others with Amor & Die Kids and the "Original Erzgebirgs-Duo". On her father's side she has a half-sister and a half-brother, in whom she only met during her time as a singer.
Lesch wrote music for children's plays and worked from 2009 until 2013 as an educator in Tübingen and since then, she has mainly worked as a musician.
Lesch's debut album with the title "Lieder aus der schmutzigen Küche" was released in 2012 under the alias "Chansonedde", was digitally distributed by Rummelplatzmusik in 2015 and released in 2016 in cooperation with the label Kick The Flame on CD. In 2015 she released her second studio album, "Von Musen und Matrosen" under her real name. The Leipzig music company Kick the Flame signed her in 2016. Her third studio album "Da Draussen" was released in 2017; in September 2019 followed an EP with the label Räuberleiter GbR with "Den Einsamen zum Troste".
With the six-minute song "Testament", which Lesch wrote for her son, she won the "Protestsongcontest" held in Vienna in 2016 and at the "Hermann-Hesse-Festival" in Calw took second place in the . The song, which is supposed to prepare the child for an uncertain future, was then widely distributed on the Internet and was also distributed by right-wing populist websites and right-wing extremist groups. She clearly distanced herself from them. In her song "Der Kapitän" she sings about the rescue of 37 people from distress with the ship "Cap Anamur" by Stefan Schmidt.
Lesch has performed regularly since 2013/2014, mainly on smaller stages. Among other things, she was seen at the "Hamburger Küchensessions" or "Inas Nacht" and performed at the music festival "Songs an einem Sommerabend".
Lesch is the mother of a son and lives in Leipzig.
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Marhum of Ternate
Marhum was, according to late tradition, the eighteenth King or "Kolano" of Ternate in the Maluku Islands. He supposedly ruled between 1465 and 1486, being the first king to adopt Islam. His name merely means "The Late", "The Deceased", and he is probably the same person as King Gapi Baguna II, mentioned in several other chronicles and king lists. His son Zainal Abidin became the first Sultan of Ternate.
The only author to give substantial information about Marhum is the Dutch cleric François Valentijn, in his comprehensive work "Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien" from 1724–1726. Valentijn drew from now lost manuscripts and traditions from North Maluku. According to his account, Marhum was the son and successor of the seventeenth King Gapi Baguna II (r. 1432-1465). His island kingdom was one of the four realms that traditionally existed in North Maluku, the others being Tidore, Bacan and Jailolo. Jailolo, which was based on Halmahera, was as yet the most powerful of the four, and waged war against Marhum during his time. The reign of Marhum saw significant economic changes in the region. Malay, Javanese and Chinese traders arrived in increasing numbers to the islands in eastern Indonesia to purchase spices. The Banda Islands in southern Maluku became an important trading entrepot, and a few Ternatan ships went there with cargoes of cloves which grew abundantly on their island. This attracted the foreign merchants to proceed from Banda to Ternate to take in spices. At this time the clove trees were not purposefully planted, and the locals obtained the stalks by cutting down the branches rather than climbing the trees to pick the stalks, as was later the case.
Among the visiting merchants was a Javanese Muslim called Hussein, or Dato Maulana Hussein, who was also a preacher. The Ternatans were as yet unacquainted with reading and writing, and were stunned when Hussein and his boys were able to read out words from the letters of the Qur'an. Hussein told the bystanders that these were holy letters that no-one may read without knowing God and his Prophet. In that way the first tenets of Islam entered North Malukan society. Marhum was also converted, though his knowledge of the creed was rather rudimentary. according to Valentijn, he was a simple figure and far from a strong ruler. It was his son and successor Zainal Abidin who began to introduce certain Islamic institutions, at least among the elite of the kingdom, and to expand the political network of Ternate.
Several texts, such as Rijali's "Hikayat Tanah Hitu" (written before 1657 and later adjusted in c. 1700), "Hikayat Ternate", and Naïdah's chronicle, state that Gapi Baguna II was the actual father of Sultan Zainal Abidin, although Valentijn makes him the father of Marhum. This Gapi Baguna is sometimes said to have followed his son Zainal Abidin on a journey to Java to learn more about Islam, but to have died on the return journey. It has therefore been assumed that one historical figure has been split into two. Whatever the case, European accounts from the 16th century say that Islam had been introduced in North Maluku in about the 1460s or 1470s, which provides some support for the conversion stories.
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Schweiggeria
Schweiggeria is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with one or two species, found in eastern Brazil.
Shrubs, with oblanceolate (wider near tip) leaves. White flowers strongly zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical), rarely solitary, in axillary fascicles, with caducous corolla with the bottom petal longer than the others and clawed with a spur that is well exserted. The stamens have free filaments, with the lowest two being calcarate (spurred) and possessing a large dorsal connective appendage that is entire and oblong-ovate. In the gynoecium, the style is rostellate (beaked) or lobed. The fruit is a thick-walled capsule with 3 obovoid seeds per carpel.
The genus "Schweiggeria" was first described by Sprengel, with the single species "Schweiggeria fruticosa", placing it in the family Ionidia, named for the genus "Ionidium" in 1821. In 1846, Lindley classified both "Schweiggeria" and "Ionidium" in Violaceae, within the Violales, although Bentham and Hooker (1862) called the family Violarieae.
Historically "Schweiggeria" was placed within Violaceae in subfamily Violoideae, tribe Violeae, subtribe Violinae, together with "Anchietea", "Calyptrion", "Noisettia" and "Viola". But these divisions have been shown to be artificial and not monophyletic. Molecular phylogenetic studies show that Violaceae is best considered as four clades rather than taxonomic ranks. "Schweiggeria" occurs in Clade I of the family, consisting of "Viola", "Schweiggeria", "Noisettia" and "Allexis", in which "Schweiggeria" and "Noisettia" are monotypic and form a sister group to "Viola".
Sprengel named the genus in honour of his colleague August Friedrich Schweigger (1783–1821).
Four species have been described;
of which two, "S. fruticosa" and "S. mexicana" are accepted by Plants of the World Online, considering "S. floribunda" and "S. pauciflora" as synonyms of "S. fruticosa". Other authors consider "Schweiggeria" to be monotypic for "S. fruticosa".
Eastern Brazil.
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Sethum Aayiram Pon
Sethum Ayiram Pon: Roots () is a 2019 Tamil-language drama film directed by Anand Ravichandran in his directorial debut. The film stars Srilekha Rajendran, Nivedhithaa Sathish, and Avinash Raghudevan in the lead roles. The film was released through online streaming services.
The film revolves around the relationship between Krishnaveni (Srilekha Rajendran), an oppari singer, and her 23-year-old granddaughter, Meera a.k.a Kunjamma (Nivedhithaa Sathish), who is a make-up artiste, after a period of separation.
The film is directed by Anand Ravichandran, a former software official. Ravichandran had previously directed the short film "Kuberanum Irandu Gundargalum". Television actress Srilekha Rajendran and Nivedhithaa Sathish, of "Sillu Karupatti" fame, play the lead roles. Ravichandran began research on oppari, an ancient way of mourning the dead. The film was shot in 17 days in Appanur near Paramakudi, and real oppari artists were used in the film. Nivedhithaa Sathish revealed that she plays an angry woman who is still trying to figure out her life.
All songs were composed by Shamanth Nag.
The film released on 1 April 2020 on Netflix.
Haricharan Puddpeddi of the "Hindustan Times" gave the film a positive review and wrote that "Anand Ravichandran’s directorial debut does not have a single dull moment". Shubhra Gupta of the "Indian Express" gave positive ratings with 3.5/5 and wrote that
"Both Sathish and Rajendran work well together, and as they head towards an unexpected finish, we see what the director wants us to: blood will tell, and life, with all its pain and problems, is a celebration".
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Permude
Permude is a village (panchayat) located in the Mangalore taluk, Dakshina Kannada district, in Karnataka state, India. The name, "Permude", derived from "Perda Mudde" (Tulu Language), is a reference to the milk that was once locally produced in large quantities. Permude is located approximately 360 kilometers from the state capital, Bangalore. Nearby villages include Bajpe and Kinnigoli. According to 2011 census information, Permude's location code or village code is 617478. The village comprises an area of 742.69 hectares. Permude falls under the Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ).
The Kudubis, who reside in Permude, are an Adivasi community. Their customs are similar to other tribes of central India. In 2011 the Kudubi people opposed the MSEZ operating company's attempt to construct a boundary wall on land the company had acquired in Permude. The construction was opposed as a result of reported damage to farms and crops caused by the construction.
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Leonard H. Eicholtz
Leonard Henry Eicholtz (April 23, 1827 – January 3, 1911) was a leading nineteenth-century American railroad engineer and civil engineer. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Eicholtz married Ellen Inslee Smith in 1871 and they had five children: four daughters and one son, Leonard H. Eicholtz, Jr.
Eicholtz was born in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1827, being the oldest son of Henry and Elizabeth Eicholtz. The family was of German origin, his great grandfather, Jacob Eicholtz, leaving the Palatine, Germany, and coming to Pennsylvania, where he settled in Lancaster county, in 1733. Eicholtz studied civil engineering at the Moravian Academy at Lititz, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
In 1852, Eicholtz joined the corps of engineers working on the railroad until 1854 when he started working on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. Eicholtz remained on the project until the railroad experience financial problems due to the Panic of 1857. Eicholtz left the railroad at that time only to return in 1858.
In 1857, he went to Honduras, Central America to work with John C. Trautwine of Philadelphia who was chief engineer of a party surveying a line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean for the Honduras Interoceanic Railway.
In 1866, Eicholtz left the military railroads and was a resident engineer of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, with headquarters at Wyandotte, Kansas part of present-day Kansas City, Kansas. The US Congress had approved and Act on July 3, 1866, authorizing the railway to extend the railroad westward along the Smoky Hill River to Denver, Colorado. The Act also required the railroad to join the Union Pacific railroad no more than fifty miles west of Denver, a distance of 394 miles. The railroad was completed by the end of 1867.
In 1868, Eicholtz became superintendent of bridge-building and remained with the project until its completion at Promontory Point and the Golden Spike event on May 10, 1869. Eicholtz is in the Andrew J. Russell photograph titled "Engineers of U.P.R.R. at the Laying of Last Rail Promentory (sic).
Soon after the beginning of the war with Fort Sumter, Eicholtz volunteered as an assistant engineer for military railroads in the Military Division of the Mississippi. Eicholtz worked to reconstruct railroads destroyed by the two armies during Sherman's campaign in Tennessee and Georgia and Sherman march from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Eicholtz left the Army in 1866 as acting chief engineer of military railroads of the Division of the Mississippi.
Eicholtz died on January 3, 1911, and was interred at Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.
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Benjamin Chapin
Benjamin Chapin (1872–1918) was an American stage actor best known as an impersonator of Abraham Lincoln. From childhood Chapin had an obsession with the assassinated president, and had a lengthy career playing him on the Lyceum circuit and in vaudeville. In 1906 he wrote a play "Lincoln" which was staged at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway following directly on from a production of the play "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon Jr..
In 1917 wrote and starred in "The Lincoln Cycle" series of films. Despite the success of the project he was increasingly in ill health, and died in June 1918 from tuberculosis.
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Whitfield Bell Jr.
Whitfield J. Bell Jr. (December 3, 1914 - January 2, 2009) was an American author and an expert on early American History, Science, the American Philosophical Society and Benjamin Franklin.
Bell Jr was born in Newburgh, New York and grew up in suburban Philadelphia. He went to school at Lower Merion High School (PA) and graduated in 1931.
After Bell graduated Lower Merion High School, he enrolled in Dickinson College. He began studying law but did not complete his classes, deciding instead to pursue his interest in history.
Bell joined the Free Masons' Cumberland Star Lodge of Carlisle and achieved the status of Master Mason. He wrote the history of the Lodge to mark its 150th anniversary. Bell earned his doctorate in history in 1947, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Bell tried to enlist in the Army and the Navy when the United States entered the World War II, but was rejected due to poor eyesight. He drove an ambulance in North Africa, Italy and Germany. He also helped to liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Bell taught history at Dickinson (1945-1950) and was appointed to the Boyd Lee Spahr endowed Chair of American History in 1950. In the same year, he edited the first volume of Spahr Lectures, Bulwark of Liberty. In 1953-54 he worked as a visiting editor of William and Mary Quarterly in Williamsburg, Virginia. He moved to work at the American Philosophical Society in 1955 to work on its growing collection of Benjamin Franklin letters and writings.
Bell's career culminated as executive officer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society.
Bell's contributions were recognized by the American Association for the History of Medicine 1996 lifetime achievement award.
A volume of works dedicated to Whitfield Bell was published in 1986.
Bell gave nine interviews to Michael J. Birkner, a professor of history at Gettysburg College.
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Resurrection of the Widow of Nain's Son
Resurrection of the Widow of Nain's Son is a 1565-1570 oil on canvas painting by Paolo Veronese. Initially in Bartolomeo della Nave's collection, it was acquired in 1659 by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (catalogue number GG 52).
It depicts the raising of the son of the widow of Nain, showing her and her friends in aristocratic Venetian dresses of the time and Jesus standing in front of a colonnade akin to those on contemporary theatrical scenery.
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General Tire AnywhereIsPossible 200
The General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible 200 is a annual ARCA Menards Series race held at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The inaugural event was held on May 30, 1969 and was won by Bobby Watson. The track has been featured on the ARCA calendar annually since 1987.
ARCA ran at Pocono Raceway for the first time in 1969 on a paved oval, two years before the modern superspeedway was opened. The series would not return to the track until 1983, when it ran just one year, this time on the superspeedway. The series would take another hiatus at the track, not returning until 1987. That year, the race returned to the calendar, and has remained ever since. From 1988 to 2019, a second race was held at the track. The second race was removed for the 2020 season.
Note: In 1989, Bob Schacht was listed as the owner, but sponsored by Tom Reet Racing.
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Hugo Jaeggi
Hugo Josef Jaeggi (May 15, 1936 – August 23, 2018) was a Swiss photographer.
Hugo Jaeggi completed his professional apprenticeship as a photographer with Ernst Räss from 1953–1956 in Solothurn after completing high school in 1953. In the period from 1958-1959 he worked as a cameraman for Swiss television. Hugo Jaeggi passed the master's examination in 1960. From that point on he ran his own photography business in Basel as a freelance photographer until 1974. From 1983 he lived and worked in Burg im Leimental (Canton of Basel-Landschaft). Jaeggi was constantly dedicated to his own photo projects with high artistic standards, especially in the area of portraits. Trips together led him - often with friend journalist Peter Jaeggi - to Guatemala, India, Belarus and African countries. He always used these orders to create his own, very personal and mostly black and white pictures in addition to the colored “mandatory part” for the media. While the reportage photos appeared in many different print media, including the "Basler Zeitung" magazine, the artist continuously completed his personal photographic work.
Jaeggi tried to capture his experiences and dreams again and again in newly composed pictures bathed in the special light. The classic parameters of the design, a well thought-out composition and narration in several narrative levels remained essential criteria for him. He used his tried-and-tested 35mm Leica camera with a 35 mm lens for over six decades.
“Hugo Jaeggi is also a virtuoso narrator. Above all, the encounter with people inspires him to record life stories and fates, to accompany developments, to observe changes and to think about these changes," wrote Peter Pfrunder, Director of the Swiss Photo Foundation about Hugo Jaeggi (in: Peter Jaeggi and Peter Pfrunder (ed.), «Hugo Jaeggi. Nahe am Menschen: Fotografien», Benteli, Bern. ). The Fotostiftung Schweiz Winterthur archives over 600 silver gelatin prints by the artist (as of 2017).
Hugo Jaeggi's visual themes include: portrait, landscape, still life, everyday life, industry (Von Roll), work, several long-term projects, humanitarian issues and the like. a. in Switzerland and Europe: Belarus, Czech Republic, Africa: Tanzania, Asia: India, South America: Guatemala and others.
He taught at a Rudolf Steiner school until 2016. From 2006 Hugo Jaeggi used the digital camera to make changes in the immediate vicinity when he discovered the extraordinary nature of natural decay processes in the immediate vicinity of his house.
Jaeggi died of cancer in 2018 at the age of 82.
In 2019, the film "Zudem ist der Traum oft Realität genug" on the life and work of Hugo Jaeggi, directed by Matthias Leupold and Jérôme Depierre, was released on Schweizer Fernsehen.
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H. Clare Pentland
Harry Clare Pentland (17 October 1914 – 1978) was a Canadian economic historian. Pentland studied labour and economic history. He served as President of the Manitoba Historical Society from 1963-1965. In 1970, the MHS awarded him a Manitoba Centennial Medal. His papers are held at the University of Manitoba. Archives.
Pentland was born on a farm near Justice, Manitoba on 17 October 1914. He was raised in Brandon, Manitoba. He graduated from Brandon Collegiate (1931) and Brandon Normal School (1933) and Brandon College (1940) before leaving Manitoba to attend the University of Oregon from 1940–42, where he earned an M.A. Thereafter, he served in the Canadian Army during World War II. He earned his PhD in History at the University of Toronto in 1961.
From 1949 until his death in 1978, he taught at the University of Manitoba.
Pentland argued against the "staples thesis", which posited that Canada developed as it did because of the nature of its staple commodities: raw materials, such as fish, fur, lumber, agricultural products and minerals, that were exported to Britain and the West Indies. This trading link cemented Canada's cultural links to Britain. The search for and exploitation of these staples led to the creation of institutions that defined the political culture of the nation and its regions. This thesis, which was most prominently argued by Pentland's former academic supervisor at the University of Toronto Harold Innis as well as W. A. Mackintosh, was widely accepted during the middle portion of the 20th-century. Pentland, in contrast, has been praised as being "among the first to attempt to bring labour and class issues to the fore of development issues in Canada." Historian of the Canadian working-class Gregory Kealey argues that "the value of Pentland’s work is located in its break with other existing North American schools of labour studies. Not only did his work depart significantly from the predominant staples interpretation of Canadian economic history by focusing on the development of industrial capitalism in Canada, but it also showed no affiliation with the predominant modes of labour studies." Kealey also notes that "if Pentland’s Manitoba loyalties were evident in his writings on western labour, his Canadian nationalism also emerges strongly in his last essays."
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Nigel Dakin
Nigel John Dakin (born 28 February 1964) is a British diplomat currently serving as Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands. He assumed office on July 15, 2019 in a swearing in ceremony before the territory's House of Assembly.
Dakin was born on 28 February 1964 in Birmingham, England, and is the son of John Frederick Dakin and Dorothy Alice Dakin (nee Scott). He was educated at the King Edward VI Five Ways School, a state grammar school in Birmingham, England. He married Amanda Dakin (nee Johnson) in 1987, in her home country of Barbados. They have two children; Charlotte (known as Charlie) and Fraser.
Having secured, while at school, an Army Scholarship, Dakin entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1982 and was commissioned into the British Army in 1983. Following service as an Infantry Platoon Commander in Northern Ireland he studied, again on a military scholarship, at the University of Birmingham between 1984 and 1987, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He would later receive a Masters in Business Administration from Kingston University in 1995.
Following university, Dakin returned to the Army, serving in West Germany and Northern Ireland. In 1993 he was mentioned in dispatches for gallantry in Northern Ireland and between 1994 and 1996 served as a Staff Officer in the Ministry of Defence advising the Defence Secretary (Michael Portillo) and Chief of the Defence Staff (Field Marshall Peter Inge) on matters relating to the Irish Peace Process.
In 1996, Dakin accepted a position within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He first ran Teams involved in Russia and later on Counter Terrorism and, promoted to Director; he served on the Executive Board where he oversaw organisational transformation. Concurrently, he was invited by the then Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, to serve as the civilian Non-Executive Director on both the Army No. 1 Board and the Army Higher Honours Committee, a position he retained until 2019.
While overseas Dakin served as First Secretary (Political) in Nigeria (1998-99) and India (1999-2001) and then as the Political Counsellor in Pakistan (2007-2010) and Afghanistan (2012-2013). He served twice in the British Embassy in Washington DC: first from 2005 to 2007 working with the US Administration of George W. Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan and Counter Terrorism and again between 2016 and 2019 as the Senior National Security Official to the UK Ambassador to the United States.
In May of 2019, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced that Dakin would succeed outgoing Governor John Freeman as Governor of the Turks and Caicos. As such, Dakin is the representative of Her Majesty The Queen and acts as the de facto Head of State responsible for appointing the Head of Government, and senior political positions in the territory. Dakin is also responsible for carrying out key duties to support the people of the islands, such as chairing Cabinet and ensuring the good governance of the territory. The Contitution also reserves to the Governor responsibility for defence, external affairs, the regulation of international financial services and internal security, including the police force.
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Sara Cherry
Sara R. Cherry is an American microbiologist who is a Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research involves genetic and mechanistic studies of virus–host interactions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cherry looked to identify novel therapeutic strategies.
Cherry grew up in Brooklyn. Her mother was born in Germany in a displaced persons camp and migrated to the United States. Her father was from Poland and passed through Ellis Island. Her parents were the first in their families to attend college and eventually became academics at Brooklyn College. Her mother was eventually made Head of Audiology at Brooklyn College. During her time at high school Cherry completed work experience in laboratories in New York City. Here she studied the feeding habits of amoeba and proteoglycans. She eventually studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated in 1994. During her undergraduate research she looked at new synthesis pathways for drug scaffolds with Peter G. Schultz. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her doctoral research, where she worked on V(D)J recombination with David Baltimore. During her research she recognised that, contrary to what was previously thought, demethylation was not responsible for the activation of V(D)J recombination. It was under the guidance of Baltimore that Cherry became fascinated by virology. When considering further research positions, Cherry knew that she wanted to learn more about viruses, and develop an unbiased, systematic genetic screening protocol. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she worked with Norbert Perrimon on the development of high-throughput screening to monitor virus-host cell interactions.
In 2006 Cherry joined the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Here she combined her experience with high-throughput RNA interference (RNAi) screening with other cell-based screening techniques. Cherry studies viral pathogenesis, which includes both the ways viruses replicate and the anti-virus mechanisms within host cells. She is interested in how viruses hijack the machinery within a cell whilst evading their defence mechanisms. She primarily studies anthropod–borne viruses that impact RNA, including West Nile virus and Zika virus, as well as alphaviruses and bunyavirales. Anthropod-borne viruses contain very little genetic information (around 11 kilobytes), but can infect and replicate in a variety of hosts. Her research makes use of the model organism drosophila, high-throughput screening, functional genomics and forward genetics to better identify the genes that impact the life cycle of a virus. In 2017 she demonstrated an inhibitor to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus that had previously evaded treatment. Zika virus enters human cells through endocytosis, and bind to the cell's outer membrane "via" the clathrin. Cherry demonstrated that the antiviral Nanchangmycin restricts this mode of entry. Alongside her work in virology, Cherry has started to screen acute leukaemia patients to better understand how they will respond to advance therapeutics.
During the COVID-19 pandemic Cherry looked to identify novel therapeutic strategies, making use of her extensive small molecule library to identify chemical compounds that are active against SARS-CoV-2. She has investigated remdesivir, an antiviral that was developed for the Ebola virus disease, and chloroquine, an antimalarial medication. She used the high-throughput screening facility at the biosafety level-3 laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania to screen thousands of drugs at a time. Remdesivir is a nucleoside analogue that tries to stop the spread of the virus by forcing it to make mistakes when replicating its RNA, causing the strands themselves to break. She has also considered therapies that prevent the virus from ever entering cells, either through the modification of the virus or the host itself. The treatment may also come in the form of an interferon. To determine which treatments will be most appropriate, Cherry looks to identify which proteins SARS-CoV-2 makes use of for infection. As the availability of N95 masks decreased, Cherry purchased several powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) battery-driven hoods that circulate filtered air for members of her research team.
Cherry serves on the editorial board of the "Journal of Experimental Medicine". She serves on the Board of the Society of Functional Precision Medicine.
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Srilekha Rajendran
Srilekha Rajendran is a Tamil actress best known for her roles in television series and for dubbing "Sornakka" in "Dhool" (2003).
Rajendran began her career with the R. Muthuraman-starrer "Thaliya Salangaiya" in 1977. She began acting in several plays with noted actors such as Kathadi Ramamurthy, Poornam Viswanathan, Srikanth and V. S. Raghavan. Rajendran began her career in cinema by acting in films in comedy roles. While she was doing the dubbing for her character in "Agal Vilakku", she was told that her voice and hence she became a dubbing artist. Her career began to decline in the 1990s and she subsequently moved on to television roles, notably in Raadhika's "Vani Rani". In 2020, she played the lead role in "Sethum Aayiram Pon" with Nivedhithaa Sathish.
She is married to television actor cum dubbing artist Rajendran who is known for being Tamil voice for Kota Srinivasa Rao.Rajendran also has dubbed for Balachandra Menon in Album (2002), Guinness Pakru in Thalai Ezhuthu (2009) and Super Subbarayan in Kadamban (2017) . They both starred together in "Vani Rani".
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Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a $669-billion business loan program established by the US Federal government Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to help certain businesses, self-employed workers, sole proprietors, certain nonprofit organizations, and tribal businesses continue paying their workers.
The Paycheck Protection Program allows entities to apply for low-interest private loans to pay for their payroll and certain other costs. The amount of a PPP loan is approximately equal to 2.5 times the applicant's average monthly payroll costs. The loan proceeds may be used to cover payroll costs, rent, interest, and utilities. The loan may be partially or fully forgiven if the business keeps its employee counts and employee wages stable. The program is implemented by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The deadline to apply for a PPP loan was June 30, 2020.
The purpose of the Paycheck Protection Program and loan forgiveness is to provide economic relief to small businesses and certain other entities that have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In order to be eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program, an applicant must be a small business, sole proprietor, independent contractor, self-employed person, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, 501(c)(19) veterans organization, or a tribal business.
Applicants who operate as a sole proprietorship, an independent contractor, or an eligible self-employed individual must have been in operation on February 15, 2020. Other types of applicants must have been in operation on February 15, 2020, and must have either had paid employees or paid independent contractors.
The applicant and its affiliates must also:
The applicant must be located in the United States or its possessions. The applicant's primary operations must be located in the United States or its possessions or, alternatively, the applicant's business must make a significant contribution to the economy of the United States.
An applicant is "ineligible" for a PPP loan if:
An applicant is not required to demonstrate that it cannot find credit elsewhere, but it is required to certify, in good faith, that "current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the applicant".
Each business may receive only one PPP loan.
The amount of the PPP loan is based on the applicant's payroll costs.
Payroll costs include salaries, wages, commissions, cash tips, paid leave, severance pay, clergy parsonage and housing allowance, and other compensation paid to employees. These costs are limited to $100,000 annualized per employee. Payroll costs also include group health benefits and insurance and retirement benefits. Payroll costs include taxes withheld from employees' wages and all state and local taxes assessed on compensation, but payroll costs do not include the employer's portion of social security tax, the employer's portion of Medicare tax, and federal unemployment tax. In the case of a sole proprietor, independent contractor, or self-employed person, payroll costs include net profits from self-employment, based on the 2019 Form 1040 Schedule C line 31, and limited to $100,000 annualized.
Payroll costs do not include payments to workers whose primary residence is outside the United States. Payroll costs also do not include payments to non-employees of the applicant.
In order to calculate the amount of the PPP loan, the applicant calculates its payroll costs between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019. Average monthly payroll costs are calculated by dividing this amount by 12.
The PPP loan amount is equal to 2.5 times the average monthly payroll costs. For applicants with an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) made between January 31, 2020, and April 3, 2020, the PPP loan amount could be increased by the outstanding amount of the EIDL, less any advance received under an EIDL COVID-19.
Each PPP loan may not exceed $10million. In some cases, however, each affiliate of a company is allowed to apply and receive its own PPP loan. On April 24, NBC reported that there were at least eight cases where a company and its affiliates had received PPP loans, and half of them had received more than $20 million in total.
An applicant applies for a PPP loan directly with an eligible private lender, such as a federally insured bank, a federally insured credit union, Farm Credit System institution, or a Small Business Administration-approved lender.
The Small Business Administration has a standard application form, although private lenders were allowed to use their own paper forms or electronic forms if they were substantially similar to the standard form. An applicant has to attach documentation to support the amount of the loan applied for, such as payroll reports, payroll tax filings, Form 1099-MISC, or a sole proprietor's income and expenses. If these records were unavailable, a lender could accept bank records if they sufficiently demonstrate the qualifying amount.
Applicants must make certain assertions, including that "current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the applicant". While a lender does not need to require a business to demonstrate the basis its certification, the Small Business Administration may do so. The Small Business Administration does not believe that a publicly traded business with substantial market value and access to capital markets could make that certification in good faith. An applicant that, together with its affiliates, receives PPP loans totaling $2million or more should retain documentation of what basis it made this certification.
Applying for a PPP loan is free to the applicant. An applicant was not charged any application fees by either the private lender or the federal government. The Small Business Administration compensates lenders for processing PPP loans. Certified Public Accountants and accounting firms are not allowed to charge businesses to prepare their applications for PPP loans; instead, the lender is permitted to, and may, compensate them directly. Nevertheless, an accounting firm is allowed to charge a business for providing advice on deciding which loan program and tax relief program would be best for their business.
Some lenders only accept PPP applications from businesses that already have a depository account at the lender.
Loan applications are only accepted, and loans may only be made, through June 30, 2020.
Making a false statement to obtain a PPP loan is a crime subject to possible imprisonment, fines, or both.
Applications for PPP loans are accepted, approved, and disbursed in the order of first-come first-served, until the entire amount appropriated by Congress is depleted. The first appropriation of $349billion was depleted on April 16, 2020, and the Small Business Administration stopped accepting new applications from lenders as of that date. A bill to add $320billion of funding was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on April 21 and April 23, respectively, and signed into law by President Trump on April 24, and the Small Business Administration began accepting new applications from lenders on April 27.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act requires lenders to notify an applicant of a decision on the PPP loan application within 30 days of the date the lender receives either a loan number or a response about the availability of funds from the Small Business Administration.
If a PPP loan application is incomplete, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act requires the lender to notify the applicant of the issue, and the lender must provide the applicant a period of time to make the application complete. A lender is allowed to deny an incomplete application only if the applicant does not make the application complete by the end of the time period provided by the lender. A lender is not allowed to deny a PPP loan application solely because the lender has not yet received a response from the Small Business Administration.
If a lender denies a PPP loan application, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act requires the lender to provide an adverse action notice to the applicant with specific reasons for the denial, even if the application is denied before sending the application to the Small Business Administration.
The bill extends the deferral of principal and interest payments to the date that loan forgiveness is remitted to the lender or, if the borrower does not apply for loan forgiveness, ten months after the end of the covered period.
A business is not required to begin to pay any principal or interest to the lender until the date that the Small Business Administration disburses the amount of loan forgiveness to the lender. If the business does not apply for loan forgiveness, then the business is not required to begin to pay principal or interest to the lender until ten months plus 24 weeks after the date the loan proceeds were disbursed to the business.
For PPP loans that the Small Business Administration approved on or after June 5, the PPP loan must have a maturity of at least five years. For other PPP loans, the PPP loan has a maturity of two years; each lender has the option to extend the maturity of these PPP loans longer.
PPP loans have an interest rate of 1 percent.
Each PPP loan is guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. An applicant need not provide any collateral or personal guarantees in order to apply or be approved for a PPP loan. A PPP loan is a non-recourse loan, unless the loan proceeds are used for unallowable purposes.
PPP loan proceeds may generally be used for payroll costs. Payroll costs include gross salary and wages, tips, vacation leave, sick leave, holiday pay, furlough pay, bonuses, severance pay, and other compensation paid to employees, up to $46,154 per employee. Payroll costs also include the employer's cost for health insurance benefits for its employees and retirement benefits for its employees, neither of which are counted against the $46,154 limit per employee. Employer-paid state taxes assessed on employee compensation, such as state unemployment tax, are allowable payroll costs. Emergency Paid Sick Leave and Emergency Family Medical Leave, the employer's portion of social security and Medicare taxes, and federal unemployment tax must be excluded from payroll costs.
In the case of a sole proprietor, independent contractor, or self-employed person, allowable payroll costs include owner-compensation replacement, up to 15.38% of their net self-employment profit in 2019, up to a maximum of $20,833. Health insurance benefits and retirement benefits for an owner of the business are not allowable payroll costs.
PPP loan proceeds may also be used for certain non-payroll costs. Allowable non-payroll costs include business payments of mortgage interest, other interest, rent, and utilities, such as electricity, gas, water, telephone, and internet.
In the case of a sole proprietor, independent contractor, or self-employed person, PPP loan proceeds cannot be used to pay for mortgage interest, rent, or utility payments for their home, vehicle, or shed, even if they operate the business out of these places.
PPP loan proceeds cannot be used to compensate outside independent contractors that provide services to the business, nor to compensate employees whose primary residence is not in the United States.
If the business operates internationally, PPP loan proceeds must only be used for the benefit of its operations in the United States and its possessions.
The principal of a PPP loan will be either partially or fully forgiven under certain circumstances. A business may apply for loan forgiveness at any time on or before the maturity date of the loan, including before the covered period ends in the case of a business that has expended all of the PPP loan proceeds for which forgiveness is requested.
PPP loan forgiveness is generally based on what the loan proceeds were spent on, to what extent the business maintained or rehired its employees, and to what extent it maintained the wages and hours of its employees.
One FTE is equal one worker who worked at least 40 hours per week. FTE for someone who worked fewer than 40 hours per week is equal to the number of hours worked per week divided by 40. Alternatively, the business may choose to consider each and every worker who worked fewer than 40 hours per week to be 0.5 FTE each.
In an exception to the above, each of the following situations will not cause a decrease in loan forgiveness.
A business can receive loan forgiveness on all of its payroll costs. Additionally, it may receive forgiveness for an amount of non-payroll costs up to 66.67% of the amount it spent on payroll costs. The total amount of loan forgiveness cannot exceed the total amount of the PPP loan. The amount of loan proceeds used for unallowable purposes is ineligible for forgiveness. Knowingly using loan proceeds for unallowable purposes is fraud.
If the PPP loan was made before June 5, 2020 and the borrower chooses to use an 8-week covered period, then the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for compensation for self-employed individuals and owner-employees is equal to the lesser of 15.38% of their 2019 compensation or $15,385 per individual in total across all businesses. For other borrowers who are self-employed or are owner-employees, the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for compensation for self-employed individuals and owner-employees is the lesser of 20.83% of 2019 compensation or $20,833 per individual in total across all businesses.
If the individual files a Form 1040 Schedule C or Schedule F, then the maximum is further limited to the amount of their 2019 net profit on their Schedule C or Schedule F.
In the case of a general partner, the maximum is further limited to the amount of their 2019 net earnings from self-employment, less claimed section 179 depreciation deduction, unreimbursed partnership expenses, and depletion from oil and gas properties, and then multiplied by 92.35%.
In the case of a self-employed individual, including a filer of either Form 1040 Schedule C or Schedule F and general partners, they cannot claim loan forgiveness for retirement contributions and health insurance contributions separately because these costs are already included in their net self-employment income. If the borrower is a self-employed individual, additional loan forgiveness is not allowed for rent or mortgage interest.
The compensation of an owner-employee of a C corporation is limited to the amount of their 2019 employee cash compensation, employer retirement contributions on their behalf, and health insurance contributions on their behalf. For an owner-employee of a C corporation, health insurance benefits and retirement contributions are allowable costs and do not count against the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for compensation above.
The compensation of an owner-employee of an S corporation is limited to the amount of their 2019 employee cash compensation and employer retirement contributions on their behalf, but it cannot separately include health insurance contributions made on their behalf because these contributions are already included in their cash compensation. For an owner-employee of a S corporation, health insurance benefits and retirement contributions are allowable costs but do count against the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for compensation above.
The business may use one of two PPP loan forgiveness applications, dependending on their situation. The business completes the PPP loan forgiveness application and gives it to the lender along with any required documentation.
At that point, the lender has 60 days to send a decision and a request for payment to the Small Business Administration. When the lender does so, the Small Business Administration has 90 days to remit the appropriate forgiveness amount to the lender, including accrued interest on that amount, subject to Small Business Administration's review of the loan or the loan application. The business must then paid any remaining principal and accrued interest to the lender by the end of the maturity of the PPP loan.
If the Small Business Administration determines that a business that received a PPP loan was ineligible for the PPP loan, the Small Business Administration may have recourse against individual shareholders, members, or partners of the business for non-payment of the PPP loan, and the lender will be required to repay the processing fee it had received from the Small Business Administration. A business will be able to seek reconsideration and appeal of the Small Business Administration's decisions.
For those businesses that received PPP loans early in the process, eligibility for applying for loan forgiveness began as early as May 27, 2020, eight weeks after the first distributions of PPP loan proceeds.
Each business must keep documentation related to the PPP loan for a minimum of six years after the date its PPP loan is forgiven or the date the PPP loan is paid in full, whichever is later. The business must send the documentation to the Small Business Administration and its inspector general upon request. The Small Business Administration and its inspector general may review any PPP loan.
Ordinarily, loan forgiveness is considered taxable income, but forgiveness of a PPP loan is not considered taxable income. A business may not take a tax-deduction for business expenses that resulted in loan forgiveness.
If a business receives loan forgiveness on a PPP loan, other tax-related provisions of the CARES Act are either not available or limited.
The Employee Retention Tax Credit allows a tax credit equal to half of qualified wages, up to $10,000 per employee, if the business' operations are ordered to partially or fully suspend due to the COVID-19 pandemic or if the business suffered at least a 50-percent decline in revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A business that receives a PPP loan cannot also receive the Employee Retention Tax Credit.
Employee compensation, employee benefits, business rent, business mortgage interest, and business utilities are typically tax-deductible as business expenses. If a business receives PPP loan forgiveness, no tax deduction is allowed if payment of the expense resulted in the loan forgiveness.
The Paycheck Protection Program was enacted as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). All of the Paycheck Protection Program's original $349billion was allocated between April 3 and April 16, 2020. The Small Business Administration stopped accepting new PPP applications on April 16, 2020. $342.3billion was for PPP loans, and $6.7billion was for lender reimbursements for processing loan applications that were approved. Between April 3 and April 16, 2020, there were 1.7million loans made, and 4,975 lenders approved loans. The average loan amount was $206,000. Of all loans, 74 percent were for $150,000 or less. Businesses in the construction industry received 13.12 percent of the total of loan amounts, the largest percentage of any classification. The next four highest classifications were professional, scientific, and technical services with 12.65 percent; manufacturing with 11.96 percent; health care and social assistance with 11.65 percent; and accommodation and food services with 8.91 percent.
On April 21 and 23, respectively, the Senate and House passed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act to add $320billion of funding to the PPP. President Trump signed the bill into law on April 24, 2020, which allowed the Small Business Administration to accept applications again on April 27.
The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 () amended the Paycheck Protection Program. Loan forgiveness was expanded from eight weeks of eligible costs to the 24 weeks or December 31, 2020, whichever is earlier; alternatively, a business whose PPP loan was made before June 5 may opt to use the eight-week period instead. PPP loans made on or after June 5 must have a minimum term of five years, rather than two years. At least 60% of the loan forgiveness amount must be for payroll costs, rather than 75%. The safe harbor provision that loan forgiveness will not decrease if the business rehires employees and restores wage reductions by June 30 is extended to December 31. Loan forgiveness will not decrease if the business was unable to rehire its employees on February 15 and is unable to hire similarly qualified employees by December 31. Loan forgiveness will not decrease if the business is unable to return to its previous level of business activity due to compliance with requirements or guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration between March 1 and December 31, involving COVID-19-related standards for worker safety or customer safety. The deferral of principal and interest payments was extended to the date that loan forgiveness is remitted to the lender or, if the borrower does not apply for loan forgiveness, ten months after the end of the covered period. Employer payroll tax deferral is allowed even after loan forgiveness is approved. PPP loan proceeds are required to be spent only on allowable costs during the eight- or 24-week covered period. Rep. Dean Phillips (D MN) introduced the bill on May 26. The House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 417–1 on May 28. The Senate passed the bill by voice vote on June 3. President Trump signed the bill into law on June 5, 2020.
Reps. Dean Phillips (D–MN) and Chip Roy (R–TX) introduced the Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act of 2020. The bill would allow PPP loan forgiveness for allowable expenses incurred after eight weeks. It would remove the requirement to use no more than 25% of the loan for non-payroll costs. The bill would allow the term of the loan to be longer than two years. It would extend the rehiring deadline past June 30. The bill would allow businesses to defer payroll taxes incurred after receiving PPP loan forgiveness.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D–WA) proposed the Paycheck Guarantee Act. Rather than having businesses take a private loan that may be forgiven after the fact under certain circumstances, the Treasury Department would reimburse businesses for employee salaries and benefits for three months or until consumer demand increases.
Rep. Nita Lowey (D–NY) introduced the Heroes Act, which would extend the period that PPP loans can be made from June 30 to December 31, 2020. It would expand loan forgiveness from eight weeks of eligible costs to the 24 weeks or December 31, 2020, whichever is earlier. The bill would include eligible interest costs in the debt forgiveness calculation. It would lift the requirement that at least 75% of the loan forgiveness amount must be for payroll costs. Employers would be allowed to use PPP loan proceeds for personal protective equipment and other safety items for its employees, and those costs would be part of loan forgiveness. Each local television, radio, and newspaper company would be eligible to apply separately, rather than together as an affiliated group, if they are otherwise eligible. It would expand eligibility from 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(19) nonprofit organizations to all nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c), although certain politically active 501(c)(4) organizations would be ineligible and compensation of registered lobbyist employees would not be allowable payroll costs. PPP loans would have a minimum term of five years, rather than two years, allowing businesses additional time to repay the loan. It would make a business ineligible for a PPP loan if an owners has been convicted of a felony of financial fraud or deception within the previous five years. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives in a vote of 208–199.
On May 26, Rep. Dean Phillips (D MN) introduced the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020. The bill would expand loan forgiveness from eight weeks of eligible costs to the 24 weeks or December 31, 2020, whichever is earlier; alternatively, a business may opt to use the eight-week period instead. PPP loans would have a minimum term of five years, rather than two years. It would require that at least 60% of the loan forgiveness amount must be for payroll costs, rather than 75%. The bill would extend the deferral of principal and interest payments to the date that loan forgiveness is remitted to the lender, or 10 months after the end of the covered period if the borrower does not apply for loan forgiveness. It would allow employer payroll tax deferral after loan forgiveness is approved. The bill would require that the loan proceeds only be spent on allowable costs during the covered period. The House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 417–1 on May 28. The Senate passed the bill by voice vote on June 3.
The Prioritized Paycheck Protection Program Act would allow some businesses to be eligible for a second PPP loan. Eligibility would be limited to self-employed individuals and businesses with 100 or fewer employees, and who have experienced a greater than a 50% decrease in revenue compared to recent quarter. Publicly traded companies would not be eligible for a second PPP loan. Businessses with multiple locations that are in the hospitality and lodging industries would have a limit of $2million for all locations. A portion of the appropriation would be for businesses with fewer than 10 employees and businesses in underserved and rural communities. On June 18, Sens. Benjamin Cardin (D–MD), Chris Coons (D–DE), and Jeanne Shaheen (D–NH) introduced the Prioritized Paycheck Protection Program Act in the Senate, and Reps. Angie Craig (D–MN) and Antonio Delgado (D–NY) introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.
On June 30, Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D–MD) introduced, and the Senate unanimously passed, a bill () to extend the deadline to apply for a PPP loan from June 30 to August 8, 2020. As of June 27, $519billion had been allocated to PPP loans, and $140billion remained available.
Acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn Fine was named the chair of the committee that oversees how the PPP loans were administered as well as the rest of the funding from the CARES Act. On April 7, 2020, four days after PPP loans began to be made, President Donald Trump removed Fine as head of the committee.
By June, 4.5 million businesses had received over $500 billion of taxpayer money, but the exact identities of the recipients were unknown, as Steve Mnuchin said that this was “proprietary” and “confidential.” Additionally, although the Government Accountability Office had requested information about the loans for oversight purposes, the Small Business Administration was withholding the information.
Some PPP loans were received by businesses owned or run by members of Congress or their spouses. On June 16, "Politico" reported that this included Reps. Susie Lee (D–NV), Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D–FL), Roger Williams (R–TX), and Vicky Hartzler (R–MO). Three weeks prior, Dean Phillips (D–MN) had introduced legislation to require public release of the name of many of the recipients of PPP loans, but enough Republicans voted against it that the bill did not pass. Lee and Muarsel-Powell had voted in favor of public disclosures while Williams and Hartzler had voted against public disclosures. Ordinarily, an application for a Small Business Administration by a business owned or run by a member of Congress or their immediate family must be reviewed by the Standards of Conduct Commissions before the loan may be approved, but the Small Business Administration had waived that requirement for all PPP loans on April 13.
Between April 3 and April 14, PPP loans included at least 94 loans made to publicly traded companies or their subsidiaries, totaling $365million. One company, Chembio Diagnostics, was criticized for using an almost $3 million PPP loan to grow the company and increase testing capacity for infections diseases, despite being publicly traded and seeing a large increase in customers wanting COVID-19 testing.
On April 23, the Small Business Administration released guidance stating that it is unlikely that a publicly traded business with substantial market value and access to capital markets would be eligible for a PPP loan. Such a business would not be able to certify in good faith that the PPP loan is necessary to support its ongoing operations because of the current economic uncertainty. While a lender does not need to require a business to demonstrate the basis in its certification, the Small Business Administration may do so. The Small Business Administration said it would not pursue action against any such business that applied for a PPP loan prior to April 23 and repays the loan proceeds by May 7, later extended to May 14 and then extended again to May 18. On April 28, the guidance was extended to businesses owned by private companies with similar situations.
Several businesses, including Potbelly, Ruth's Hospitality Group, Shake Shack, Nathan's Famous, and the Los Angeles Lakers, decided to repay the loan proceeds. Ashford Inc., whose subsidiaries own 117 hotels, received a total of $58.7million in PPP loans for itself and its subsidiaries. It originally said it would not return the loan proceeds, but it later decided to do so. On May 4, "The New York Times" reported that publicly traded companies had returned at least $375million in PPP loans, based on securities filings and public announcements.
On April 28, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Small Business Administration would do a "full review" of each PPP loan exceeding $2million. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned that businesses would held be "criminally liable" if they receive a loan exceeding $2million and do not follow the rules.
On May 13, the Small Business Administration said that any business that, together with its affiliates, received a total of less than $2million of PPP loan proceeds will be assumed to have made the good-faith certification of need in good faith. If the Small Business Administration determines that a business "lacked an adequate basis" for certifying the necessity of the PPP loan, the Small Business Administration will request business repay the outstanding PPP loan balance, and the business will become ineligible for PPP loan forgiveness. If the business subsequently repays the loan, no further enforcement actions will be taken on the matter.
LifeWay Christian Resources surveyed Protestant pastors and found that 40% said their church had applied for government assistance through the CARES Act or through the Small Business Administration, and, of those who applied, 59% said they had been approved. The Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference estimated that 9,000 Catholic parishes had received PPP loans, roughly half of the Catholic parishes in the country. Jon Costas wrote in "Christianity Today" that churches should consider the "socio-economic and social justice issues" of applying for PPP loans, and whether following the rules for the loan proceeds are consistent with religious texts.
On June 11, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship that PPP loan receipients' names and loan amounts were confidential and would not be publicly released. Eight days later, the Small Business Administration and the Department of the Treasury said that it would release the names, addresses, and other information about recipients of PPP loans exceeding $150,000 each. Each recipient would be listed with a dollar range of the loan amount. PPP loans of $150,000 and less would be disclosed in the agregate.
On May 5, the Small Business Administration said that PPP loans received by nonprofit organizations are not considered federal financial assistance and are not subject to audit requirements under Uniform Guidance.
Hannibal Ware, the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration, said that the Small Business Administration had set stricter rules than were stated in the law establishing the program, which is causing an "unintended burden" on businesses.
The Small Business Administration requires 75% of a PPP loan be used for payroll costs, which is a rule not found in the law. The Small Business Administration stated all PPP loans would have a maturity date of two years, while the law allowed for up to ten years. The Small Business Administration has also not complied with all of the requirements stated in the law. The law required the Small Business Administration to issue guidance to lenders about the loan deferment process, but it did not do so. The law required lenders to prioritize businesses in underserved and rural areas, but the Small Business Administration did not issue any such guidance to lenders. The law required the Small Business Administration to register each PPP loan using the Taxpayer Identification Number of each business within 15 days after each loan was made, but it did not do so.
A group of software and information technology companies has sued the Small Business Administration and the Department of the Treasury, alleging that the two agencies had improperly added restrictions to the program that were not present in the original law.
A lobbyist for the Independent Community Bankers of America has said that virtually all business owners have taken such a loan assuming it would be forgiven, but the rules are highly complex and all the rules have not yet been released for loans that have already been made. The American Bankers Association has urged the federal government to release the forgiveness rules urgently.
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Dézafi
Dézafi by Frankétienne is the first novel to be written and published in Haitian Creole. Released in 1975, it has since been translated into both English and French and received a number of awards including the Best Translated Book Award of 2019.
"Dézafi" (which means 'cock fight' in Haitian Creole) is set in Haiti and centers around a voodoo priest, Sintil, who is terrorizing the village of Bouanèf and enslaving residents by turning them into zonbis. The book ends when the zonbis wake up and rile the populace into overthrowing Sintil, ripping him to pieces.
Written with a subtle plot line, most of "Dézafi" is written in an abstract style that captures the Haitian experience without directly communicating storyline. This structure is a function of the spiralist movement which Frankétienne belonged to.
"Dézafi" mostly takes place in the rural Haitian village of Bouanèf but there are some scenes in Port-au-Prince. The core storyline focuses on a plantation owned by Sintil, the local oungan (vodou priest), and run by zonbis. The zonbis, humans brought back to life from a death-like state by an oungan to work, are essentially slaves. They cannot speak, cannot think, and have no more cognitive function than is required to work the plantation.
Sintil controls the zonbis with the help of his daughter Siltana and a hired man named Zofè. Sintil frequently reminds Siltana that she must remember to never give the zonbis salt because if they taste it they will wake up. At the beginning of the book Siltana is happy to follow her father's directives. However when a new zonbi named Klodonis is brought to the plantation she falls in love with him and loses interest in her normal duties on the ranch. She is devastated by the fact that Klodonis is in a permanent stupor and cannot reciprocate her feelings. Her frustration builds throughout the book until at last in desperation she gives Klodonis salt and restores him to being fully human. Unfortunately, far from being in love with her, Klodonis knocks her to the ground and immediately revives the rest of the zonbis, launching a rebellion against Sintil which eventually spreads to the village and culminates in Sintil's bloody demise.
The majority of the main plotline happens in the very end of the book. There are, however, several smaller plotlines sprinkled throughout "Dézafi," which focus on other villagers in Bouanèf and how their lives are affected by Sintil’s presence. Jéròm, for example, is a villager who hides in his brother’s attic for almost the entirety of the book out of fear of Sintil. Another character, Gaston, uses his winnings from a lucky day at gambling to travel to Port-au-Prince. Unfortunately, once there he cannot earn enough money to make a stable living and languishes on the streets for years before attempting to return to Bouanèf just as the revolution is taking place. However when he sees the chaotic revolution occurring in the village he turns around and walks back towards Port-au-Prince. Still another villager, Jédéyon, lives alone in an old house with his niece Rita. Jédéyon has been abandoned by his wife and family who left for the United States without him and he constantly berates and chastises Rita, who takes care of him and the house. He dies before the rebellion.
There is an additional abstract plotline which centers on a series of cock fight (dézafis, in Haitian). When Sintil is at last apprehended and killed it is at one of these cock fights.
Due to its spiralist influences, "Dézafi" is unconventional in structure and formatting. It follows a spiral-like structure, in which the narrative bends back to where it began with multiple repetitions and reiterations of points and details. The main story progresses on and up, building to the climax with numerous other voices and perspectives included to build the sense that the whole narrative reality is collective and exists both objectively and subjectively.
The original 1975 includes three types of text: italics, bold with forward slashes, and indented standard roman type. These three different formats are interwoven throughout the text, such that a single page might have portions of each.
The standard roman type is used predominantly for the plot and concrete experiences of the characters, but it accounts for less than half of the text of "Dézafi". The rest is written in either italics or bold and does not relate directly to the plotline of the book, but rather has a more poetic and abstract significance with regards to Haitian culture. Frequently these sections are related to the titular dézafi (cock fight) and they are often narrated in first person plural.
In the later 2002 edition of the book many more font sizes and typefaces were added beyond the original three, in addition to other changes relating to spelling and formatting.
In "Dézafi" Sintil and his cronies are a veiled allegory for the Duvalier regime which ruled Haiti at the time when Dézafi was written. The zonbis in "Dézafi" are meant to represent Haitians living under the Duvalier regime. Frankétienne was hinting that the Duvalier regime could be overturned through an uprising of the populace of Haiti, just as Sintil was only overthrown when the zonbis finally woke up and exacted their vengeance. And as Sintil was only overthrown once the "zonbis" had their humanity restored, Frankétienne implies that an uprising can only take place once the people of Haiti awaken from their subservient stupor.
Unfortunately, at the time of "Dézafi"'s publication much of Haiti was illiterate and thus could not access Frankétienne’s message. Only 20% of Haitians could read, and many of that number were against the idea of writing in Creole, preferring French. Therefore, the general public of Haiti was not able to read "Dézafi" and Frankétienne's attempt to call the people to revolt against the Duvalier regime fell on deaf ears. For this reason he later switched to writing plays, which the ordinary citizen could access. This decision irritated the Duvalier regime.
"Dézafi" is widely seen as an influential piece of Haitian literature. Frankétienne was named an Artist for Peace by UNESCO in 2010 after he "predicted" the devastating 2010 Haitian earthquake with his 2009 play "Melovivi or Le Piège." He was also a recipient of France's Order of Letters and a past Nobel candidate.
The 2018 English translation received a number of awards including Best Translated Book Award of 2019 and an honorable mention for Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.
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Pasta Poiatti
Poiatti SPA or more simply Poiatti, is an Italian Pasta manufacturing company based in Sicily.
Domenico Poiatti, born in 1921, in 1940 left Pian D'Artogne for military service. Arriving at Mazara del Vallo he falls in love with Eleonora, a local girl.
Alberto, the first son, was born on December 8, 1943. Domenico takes his small family to his native Pian D'Artogne; here he works in his uncle's old water-fed mill that grinds corn and dried chestnuts, but Poiatti returned to Mazara in 1946. Domenico opens a grocery store, then buys a small artisan pasta factory that became the current company.
Today, Poiatti produces 100 forms of pasta with Sicilian wheat, from durum wheat semolina to eggs, from products made from bronze to Couscous.
Poiatti SPA has two plants both in Sicily: in Mazara del Vallo and in Santa Venerina (where it is produced the "Pasta Etna" line);
there are 120 employees.
In Italy, the Poiatti pasta is marketed and distributed directly by the company. In the foreign market (Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and Brazil) the distribution is managed by local partners.
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Pasquale Russo Maresca
Pasquale Russo Maresca (July 20, 1968 – March 22, 2020) was an Italian painter best known for his work and research focusing on anatomy, especially the composition of the human face. Maresca sought to explore the anatomical features of the face within his paintings by reconstructing the face and inserting illusion into it. He called this technique ""Sette settimi di volto"". He divided his professional time between Italy, Mexico, where he lived in Mexico City, and Slovakia.
Maresca was born in Milan, Italy, on July 20, 1968.
Maresca became known for his religious work in the 1990s and 2000s. In 1995, Maresca was commissioned to create a depiction of the crucifixion of Andrew the Apostle for Sant'Andrea church in Pioltello. He then painted the crucifixion of Christ for the same church in 1996. In 1997, Maresca was commissioned to paint the altar scene, as well as fresco of the dome for a cemetery in Trezzo sull'Adda. In 2000, he completed a painting of the Visitation for the church in Locate Varesino. He held a solo show showcasing his paintings of the human face at the Montrasio gallery in Milan in 2004.
Maresca died from brain cancer in Brescia, Italy, on March 22, 2020, at the age of 51. He was survived by his wife, Barbara Luraghi, whom he married in 2000.
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Two for the Show (Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely album)
Two for the Show is a studio album by American country music artists Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely. It was released in December 1972 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. It was pair's second studio album as a duet team. The album included two singles that became major hits on the "Billboard" country chart between 1971 and 1972. The album itself also reached peak positions on the "Billboard" country albums chart.
"Two for the Show" was recorded in several sessions between September 1971 and October 1972 in sessions produced by Owen Bradley. The recording sessions were held at his studio, Bradley's Barn, which was located in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. The album consisted of 11 tracks, all of which were recorded as vocal duets between Greene and Seely. The album's sixth track, "It Just Doesn't Seem to Matter", was self-penned by Seely. Hank Cochran, Seely's then-husband, contributed to the composition of five tracks included on the album. Among these tracks was the single "What in the World Has Gone Wrong with Our Love". "Two for the Show" was Greene and Seely's second studio album together. In the past three years, the duo had enjoyed a successful album and road show.
"Two for the Show" was released in December 1972. It was originally issued as a vinyl record, with five songs on the first side and six songs on the remaining side. After spending four weeks on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums, the project peaked at number 36 in March 1973. The album included two singles that both became major hits on the "Billboard" country singles chart. The first single, "Much Oblige", was issued in December 1971 and peaked at number 15 on the Hot Country Singles chart in early 1972. The second single released was "What in the World Has Gone Wrong with Our Love", which peaked at number 19 on the same chart in October 1972.
All credits are adapted from the liner notes of "Two for the Show".
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TAK ensemble
TAK ensemble is a contemporary chamber ensemble based in New York City consisting of flute, clarinet, violin, percussion, and soprano voice.
TAK ensemble was founded in 2013 and performed their first concert in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 4, 2013.
TAK’s debut album "Ecstatic Music: TAK plays Taylor Brook" was released on New Focus Recordings in 2016 and was featured as Q2 Music’s Album of the Week by WQXR and listed in the Top 10 Classical Albums of 2016 by the Boston Globe. Their second album, "Sanctuary" with Mario Diaz de Leon was released on Denovali Records. Their third album, Oor—with works by Natacha Diels, Tyshawn Sorey, Ann Cleare, Ashkan Behzadi, David Bird, and Erin Gee—was the inaugural release on their in-house media label, TAK editions. The TAK editions Podcast was launched in fall 2019 and features interviews with guests with whom the ensemble collaborates. Ensemble Pamplemousse's four-volume, "Lost at Sea" is the label's second release and came out in September, 2019.
TAK ensemble has premiered over 150 works since their founding, collaborating with composers such as David Bird, Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, Ashkan Behzadi, Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, Jessie Marino, Brandon Lopez, Bethany Younge, Diana Marcela Rodriguez, Seth Cluett, Julien Malaussena, Michelle Lou, Eric Wubbels, and many others. The ensemble has recently performed at the Library of Congress, Harpa, Miller Theater, Look and Listen Festival, Cluster Festival, Grypario Cultural Center, Roulette Intermedium, Scandinavia House, La Sala Rossa, The Music Gallery, Abrons Art Center, Mount Tremper Arts, The Invisible Dog, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Issue Project Room, and others.
TAK often collaborates with composers and artists to produce large-scale events or concerts, including a recent collaboration with Qubit New Music entitled "21st Century Sound Stories" with theatrical works by Qubit composers, David Bird, Alec Hall, and Aaron Einbond. From 2014-2016 TAK ensemble worked with TELE-violet, director Katherine Brook, writer Shonni Enelow, and composer Taylor Brook to produce "The Power of Emotion," an evening length work of experimental music theater.
TAK ensemble has collaborated with departments at Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, New York University, Williams College, Saint Cloud State University, McGill University, Oberlin College and Conservatory, the Delian Academy of New Music, Boston University, University of New Orleans, Tulane University, the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers, and the Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program.
TAK is composed of five performers and two technical directors. All members of TAK are co-artistic directors.
• Laura Cocks (flutes)
• Madison Greenstone (clarinets)
• Marina Kifferstein (violin)
• Ellery Trafford (percussion)
• Charlotte Mundy (voice)
• David Bird (technical director)
• Taylor Brook (technical director)
• Liam Kinson (clarinet): 2013-2015
• Carlos Cordeiro (clarinet) 2016-2019
"Ecstatic Music: TAK plays Brook" (New Focus, 2016)
Works by Taylor Brook
"Sanctuary" (Denovali, 2018)
"Sanctuary" by Mario Diaz de Leon
"Oor" (TAK editions, 2019)
Works by Ashkan Behzadi, Erin Gee, Tyshawn Sorey, David Bird, Natacha Diels, and Ann Cleare
"Ghost Layers" (New Focus, 2020)
Works by Scott L. Miller
"Mouthpiece 28" (TAK editions, 2019)
Composed by Erin Gee, directed by TAK, filmed by Cutting Bird Media, edited and produced by Laura Cocks
"The Colors Don't Match" (TAK editions, 2019)
Composed by Natacha Diels, filmed and produced by Natacha Diels and Annie Hornier
"Amalgam" (New Focus, 2016)
Composed by Taylor Brook, filmed and produced by David Bird
"Idolum" (Live)
Composed by Taylor Brook, filmed and recorded by Michael Kohlbrenner and Bart Courtright for Hooke Audio, Hooke Live Sessions
"Series Imposture" (Live)
Composed by David Bird, filmed and recorded by David Bird and Taylor Brook
Official website
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List of Adelaide United FC (W-League) records and statistics
Adelaide United Women Football Club is an Australian professional women's soccer club based in Hindmarsh, Adeaide. The club was formed in 2008.
The list encompasses the honours won by Adelaide United Women. The player records section itemises the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made the most appearances in first-team competitions.
All figures are correct as of the match played on 27 February 2020.
"Competitive matches only, includes appearances as substitute. Numbers in brackets indicate goals scored."
"Competitive matches only. Numbers in brackets indicate apparances made"
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Much Oblige
"Much Oblige" is a song written by G. Deaton, R. Fulford and G. Simmons. It was originally and released as a duet by American country music artists Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely. Released in 1971, the song became a major hit on the country charts in early 1972.
"Much Oblige" was recorded by Greene and Seely at Bradley's Barn, a studio owned by producer Owen Bradley. The track was officially recorded in September 1971 with Bradley producing the record.
"Much Oblige" was released as a single in November 1971 via Decca Records. The song peaked at number 15 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in early 1972. It was later released on their studio album in 1972, "Two for the Show".
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Spencon
Spencon Services Ltd. was a construction company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
The company was established by Jitendra Chhotabhai Patel. In September 1979 incorporation occurred.
In addition to its business in Kenya, began operating in Tanzania and Uganda, India, and Zambia in circa 1984-1985, 1988, and 1994, respectively. It also had operations in Malawi, Mozambique, and Southern Sudan.
When the company was at its largest, its workforce numbered 5,000. Joel Gunter and Charles Young of the BBC stated that it was "one of the largest construction firms in East Africa."
According to court testimony from Patel, Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) invested $15 million U.S. dollars (1.5 billion Kenyan shillings) into the company and used it to take 37.4% of the company in 2009 by changing the money into ordinary shares.
By early 2014 the company had been experiencing financial issues, so ECP assumed control of the company and appointed Briton Andrew Ross to help turn around the company in November of that year; ECP brought on Briton Steven Haswell in April the following year. Gunter and Young stated that "By the middle of 2016, Spencon was on its knees." In November 2016 the company collapsed, with Gunter and Young stated that it resulted in "hundreds of Kenyans out of work, some already missing months of pay." An additional 110 Kenyans were laid off by January 2017.
In 2017 Patel sued ECP in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to get discovery, accusing ECP of illicitly buying a controlling stake in the company.
Historically its head office was in Rahimtulla Tower, in Upper Hill, Nairobi. The headquarters moved to a depot, in Muguga, Kiambu County, in July 2015 as a cost-saving measure. The offices were in prefabricated buildings formerly used as workshops. The property also had a golf facility installed after July 2015.
The holding company was registered in Mauritius.
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What in the World Has Gone Wrong with Our Love
"What in the World Has Gone Wrong with Our Love" is a song written by Hank Cochran and Johnny Slate. It was originally and released as a duet by American country music artists Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely. Released in 1971, the song became a major hit on the country charts in early 1973.
The song was recorded by Greene and Seely at Bradley's Barn, a studio owned by producer Owen Bradley. The track was officially recorded in September 1971 with Bradley producing the record.
It was released as a single in July 1972 via Decca Records. The song peaked at number 19 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in early 1973. It was later released on their studio album in 1972, "Two for the Show".
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IAR-814
The IAR-814, aka MR-2, was a Romanian designed and built twin-engined trainer aircraft built in the early 1950s, the first twin-eninged aircraft wholly designed and built in Romania.
The IAR 814 was a three-seat low-wing monoplane of mixed construction, primarily designed as a trainer, but could also serve as a transport. Power was supplied by two Walter Minor 6-III engines and the aircraft was also equipped with blind-flying instrumentation and radios.The main-wheels of the tai-wheel undercarriage retracted into the rear of the engine nacelles. The two prototypes and 8 production aircraft were registered as "YR-MRA" to "YR-MRJ".
The IAR-814 was designed with long distance flying in mind and established a long-distance world record in class C-1d, (contemporary FAI class), on 14-15 October 1961; flying a distance of over a circuit between Bǎneeasa-Alexeni Airfield-Strejnic-Bǎneasa, piloted by Octavian Bǎcunu and Vladimir Viscun, in a time of 20 hours 41 minutes at .
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Taylor Lynch
Taylor Lee Lynch (born January 22, 1997) is an American softball player. She attended Red Oak High School in Red Oak, Texas. She later attended Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, where she played on the Oklahoma State Cowgirls softball team. In her senior year, Lynch played the entire season with a torn ACL in her right knee, while she led the Cowgirls to a berth in the 2019 Women's College World Series second round, where they lost to Washington, 1–0.
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Russian Imperial Movement
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM; , romanized "Russkoe imperskoe dvizhenie", RID) is a Russian ultranationalist, far-right paramilitary organisation. RIM is based in Saint Petersburg and their leader is Stanislav Vorobyev.
RIM is part of a broader cluster of extreme-right "political Orthodoxy" groups in Russia that promote monarchy, extol Russia's tsarist past, and draw inspiration from the violent, antisemitic Black Hundreds. Others within the movement include the groups "For Faith and Fatherland" and the modern revival of the "Union of the Russian People." Websites connected to RIM espouse antisemitism.
In 2008, RIM formed its paramilitary branch, called the Imperial Legion. The group maintains two training facilities in Saint Petersburg. After the War in Donbass broke out in eastern Ukraine in April 2014, the RIM began training and sending volunteer soldiers to the pro-Russian groups in the conflict in July. Some members of the Imperial Legion have also worked as mercenaries in the Middle East and North Africa. On January 30, 2020, it was reported that Vladimir Skopinov, who had also previously fought in Donbass and Syria, died in Libya. He was the second member of the Legion to die in Libya.
On 6 April 2020, the U.S. Department of State added the Russian Imperial Movement and three of its leaders (Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariyev, and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov) to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, making it the first white supremacist group to be designated a terrorist organisation by the U.S. State Department.
In 2008, RIM visited Sweden to attend Karl XII's Memorial Day in Stockholm together with the neo-Nazi Party of the Swedes. In the fall of 2015, it was noted that RIM had provided support to the Nazi organisation Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR), and that RIM's leader Vorobyev had visited SMR in Sweden.
On January 26, 2020, a Russian man named Anatoly Udodov was arrested at the Arlanda airport after the police had discovered a cache of weapons belonging to him. The Swedish police had confiscated numerous firearms from him the previous summer due to his connections to SMR. Udodov was describe as the representative of RIM in Sweden by Vorobyev and investigators believe he is the local recruiter for the RIM training camps. According to Swedish police Udodov is friends with a convicted terrorists, 23-year-old Viktor Melin. Melin was part of a group of Swedish neo-Nazis who went to Russia for military training, and upon returning was responsible for a string of bombings against minorities and political enemies. RIM has also provided paramilitary training to German, Polish and Finnish neo-nazis.
Outside of Scandinavia, RIM is affiliated with the Black-Yellow Alliance of Austria and on November 9, 2019 Vorobyev was invited and took part in the congress of the organisation held in , a guest house for the palace of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The same month a representative of RIM held a speech in an international conference in Madrid organised by National Democracy and attended by the members of Alliance for Peace and Freedom. Both groups have been characterized as neo-nazi. In May 2018, German Junge Nationaldemokraten organised a gathering in Riesa and representatives of RIM took part together with other similar organisations such as the neo-nazi Serbian Action and Bulgarian National Union.
On April 29, 2020, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior received an intelligence report that stated RIM was inciting its right-wing extremist contacts in Spain to commit acts of terror, such as attacking the infrastructure, transportation system and using chemical weapons against the public.
On June 5, 2020, the German magazine Focus reported that the German security services were aware of the training of German neo-nazis in Russia. For legal reasons, however, they could not prohibit the Germans from traveling to Saint Petersburg. The authorities assume that Russian President Vladimir Putin is aware of the camps and "at least tolerates them".
According to an investigation by Infobae, a new Atomwaffen Division cell in Russia also allegedly receives training from the group, and United States citizens affiliated with the group are also believed to have taken part.
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Keith R. Gilges
Keith R. Gilges became the American Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. to Belize on July 24, 2018, replacing Adrienne Galanek, after being the Director for North America overseeing interagency policy development involving Canada and Mexico for the National Security Council at the White House.,
Gilges earned a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary.,
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1909 Georgia Railroad strike
The Georgia Railroad strike of 1909, also known as the Georgia race strike, was a labor strike that involved white firemen working for the Georgia Railroad that lasted from May 17 to May 29. White firemen, organized under the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (B of LF&E), resented the hiring of African American firemen by the railroad and accompanying policies regarding seniority. The labor dispute ended in Federal mediation under the terms of the Erdman Act, with the mediators deciding in favor of the railroad on all major issues.
In Fall 1902, the Georgia Railroad began hiring African Americans as firemen for some of their longer routes. They were hired at considerably lower wages than white firemen, and their hiring increased during the depression of 1907. By April 1909, African Americans made up about 42% of the total firemen working for the railroad. The average pay for a white firemen was $1.75 per day, while African American firemen were payed $1.25 per day. Furthermore, the railroad allowed full seniority rights to the African American firemen, but denied them the opportunity to be promoted to the position of engineer. The effect of this was that many of the African American workers accumulated more seniority than their white firemen counterparts, allowing them the choice of more profitable runs.
By early 1909, tensions began to rise among the white firemen of the Georgia Railroad, many of whom were members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (B of LF&E), an all-white labor union. In April, Eugene A. Ball, the union's vice president, visited Georgia and urged the railroad to change its policies. A critical development occurred on April 10, as ten white firemen had been fired by the Atlanta Terminal Company and replaced by African American workers at lower wages. Ball mistakenly believed that the general manager of Georgia Railroad was also a board member of the Atlanta Terminal Company, and as such believed the firings constituted a significant enough action to warrant further action. On May 13 and 14, Ball oversaw near unanimous voting in favor of a strike.
On May 17, 80 firemen, all white members of the brotherhood, went on strike against the Georgia Railroad. As part of the strikers' demands, they called for the ten white workers to be rehired by the Atlanta Terminal Company and for the railroad to cease its replacement of white workers with African Americans. The Georgia Railroad was open about its policy of hiring African Americans for lower wages and attacked the union for attempting to remove African Americans from employment on railroads. Early on, the railroad attempted to attack Ball as an instigating outsider, highlighting the fact that he was Canadian. Ball responded that he was both a Canadian and a white man who stood "for a white man's country".
Attempting to break the strike, the railroad ran freight trains fired entirely by black workers, many of whom faced violence from mobs along the line. Shortly after the outbreak of the strike, Ball published an open letter in "The Atlanta Constitution" attacking Georgia Railroad's policies. Several days later, on May 19, mobs in Dearing and Thomson, both near Augusta, stopped Georgia Railroad trains and attacked the black firemen on board. The following days saw mob activity in other places through the state, including in Covington and Lithonia. Georgia Railroad asked Governor M. Hoke Smith for militia protection, but Smith, who sympathized with the strikers, refused. Smith also feared that his political opponent Thomas E. Watson would exploit any perceived intervention on the behalf of African Americans.
With the governor unwilling to help, Georgia Railroad sent telegrams to Federal officials Charles P. Neill and Martin Augustine Knapp asking them to serve as mediators under the terms of the Erdman Act, which had been passed several years earlier as a response to the Pullman Strike, another railroad strike. However, following the mob activity, on May 22 the governor sent John C. Hart, the Attorney General of Georgia to meet with railroad officials and review the situation. Hart recommended that both sides seek arbitration, though initially there were disagreements between the railroad and union on how this should be done. The Georgia Railroad turned down the offer to have the arbitration be done locally, most likely due to mistrust of Governor Smith, and the union rejected the proposal from Neill and Knapp to have Federal arbitration, calling the dispute "purely local". Meanwhile, mob activity increased as trains were now being detained in Union Point and Georgia Railroad began to bring in white strikebreakers from outside the state.
On May 23, following attacks on two engineers, the engineers of the Georgia Railroad left their post. The following day, Neill announced he would be coming to Atlanta to work on a settlement between the two parties, though the union was quick to dismiss this as "outside interference". According to "The New York Times", which had been covering the incident, President William Howard Taft was considering the use of Federal troops to address the situation, but ultimately decided against that, as he felt it would hurt the Republican Party's image in the Southern United States. On May 27, Ball, fearful of further Federal involvement in the strike, allowed for two mail trains to run between Augusta and Atlanta daily, which started the following day. That same day, Knapp joined Neill in Atlanta. On May 29, the strike was called off as the two parties entered into discussions.
Following Knapp's arrival, the railroad and union came to an agreement that the ten white firemen whose firings had triggered the strike would be rehired, but the railroad rejected the union's proposal to fire all African American firemen. Additionally, the railroad and the brotherhood agreed to allow a team of three mediators to resolve the remaining issues under the terms of the Erdman Act. The three men selected as arbitrators were Thomas W. Hardwick (the union's pick), Hilary A. Herbert (the railroad's pick), and University of Georgia chancellor David Crenshaw Barrow Jr. (Hardwick and Herbert's pick). On June 21, the three mediators began to hear testimony.
On June 26, the arbitrators released their decision, wherein they decided against the union on every major point. However, the arbitrators did rule that the railroad would be required to pay African American and white firemen the same wage. Hardwick had been a dissenting vote on several of the issues, and he opposed allowing the railroad to employ African Americans, but supported the requirement for equal pay. The decision, while unpopular among Ball and other union officials, was not appealed.
In an article published concurrently to the strike, African American newspaper the "Atlanta Independent", noted that the strike was "nothing less than a cowardly subterfuge … for the purpose of oppressing black working men because they are black." Furthermore, Benjamin Davis, editor of the "Independent" and father of civil rights activist Benjamin J. Davis Jr., called the strike an act of "coercion and violence" against African American workers. American historian Darlene Clark Hine said the strike was the most widely covered labor and race-related incident prior to the East St. Louis riots of 1917.
The arbitration's decisions were popularly received by many in the African American community, especially the ruling of equal pay for both whites and African Americans. While there were initially concerns that this ruling would result in whites being selected over African Americans, railroads retained African American firemen at pre-strike levels. Many saw the decision as a vindication of Booker T. Washington's ideas of racial progress through economic development. Washington personally thanked Herbert for the decision, which he said would have a far-reaching positive impact on the African American community. However, Hubert Harrison would cite the strike in his arguments against Booker T. Washington. According to Harvey, the strike highlighted the issue of industrial training for African Americans in the absence of political rights, as, according to Harrison, "any training which makes black men more efficient will bring them into keener competition with white men. … Their jobs will be taken away."
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Raise A Suilen
Raise A Suilen (stylized as RAISE A SUILEN), sometimes referred to as RAS, is a Japanese all-female electronic rock band that is part of Bushiroad's media franchise "BanG Dream!". Formed in 2018, the group's members portray fictional characters in the project's anime series and mobile game "BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!" in addition to performing their characters' respective instruments in live concerts.
Raise A Suilen consists of Raychell (vocals, bass), Riko Kohara (guitar), Risa Tsumugi (disc jockey), Natsume (drums), and Reo Kurachi (keyboard). In-universe, the band is represented by Rei Wakana (Raychell), Rokka Asahi (Kohara), Chiyu Tamade (Tsumugi), Masuki Satō (Natsume), and Reona Nyūbara (Kurachi).
Of the seven bands in "BanG Dream!", Raise A Suilen is one of four whose members perform their own music. The group has produced four singles and their first album is slated for a July 2020 release.
Raise A Suilen started as a backup band that performed music for the in-universe bands whose members are unable to play their own instruments. In a 2018 interview with "Real Sound", franchise creator and Bushiroad head Takaaki Kidani explained he was reluctant to hire a male backup band for an all-female franchise, prompting the group's formation. Kidani also envisioned the band as a female version of One Ok Rock and provided them with more freedom in playing music for non-Bushiroad properties than fellow "BanG Dream!" groups Poppin'Party and Roselia.
The group debuted with Raychell, Natsume, Kurachi, and Poppin'Party guitarist Sae Ōtsuka in the Garupa Live and Garupa Party! at Tokyo Big Sight on January 13–14, 2018, where they filled the instrumentals for Afterglow, Hello, Happy World!, and Pastel＊Palettes. The band was formally announced as a standalone unit during the event's second day; they were initially named The Third (Beta) as the third live-action music group in the franchise after Poppin'Party and Roselia.
Their first live concert, known as The Third (Beta) 1st Live, took place on March 25 at Shimokitazawa Garden with Raychell, Natsume, and Kurachi; Ōtsuka was a guest performer and played with the group for the first nine songs, which were pre-existing pieces from the "BanG Dream!" franchise. Ohara was introduced as the band's permanent guitarist for their original track "R・I・O・T". It would be released as the band's debut single on December 12 as part of a triple-release day for the franchise along with Poppin'Party and Roselia's respective singles; "R・I・O・T" peaked at sixth on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. The music from the live was compiled into an album and released on September 26.
On May 12, 2018, The Third served as the opening act for the BanG Dream! 5th☆Live at Makuhari Messe. Tsumugi joined the band at their second live at Akasaka Blitz on July 17, where they were formally renamed Raise A Suilen. A "suilen" is a bamboo screen, and the name alludes to "raising the screen" for performances. In November, the band participated in its first overseas performance at CharaExpo USA in Anaheim, California, with Poppin'Party and Roselia. Raise A Suilen's first official concert with the new name and full lineup, titled Brave New World, took place on December 7 in the BanG Dream! 6th☆Live at Ryōgoku Kokugikan.
The band's second single "A Declaration of ×××" came out on February 20, 2019, as part of a six-single release by the franchise (each band released a song). Every single appeared on the Oricon Daily Chart for February 19, with Raise A Suilen's ranking eighth. Two days later, the band played in the BanG Dream! 7th☆Live at the Nippon Budokan, where their Genesis show was supported by Hello, Happy World!'s Miku Itō, Pastel＊Palettes' Ami Maeshima, Afterglow's Sachika Misawa, Glitter*Green's Suzuko Mimori, and the franchise's male-centric group Argonavis. On June 19, RAS released their third single "Invincible Fighter"; the single's self-titled track and B-side "Takin' My Heart" were used as theme music for the anime "". Raise A Suilen would also perform the opening theme song for the 2020 show "Assault Lily Bouquet", titled "Sacred world".
RAS held their first standalone show, called Heaven and Earth, on July 13–14, 2019 at World Memorial Hall. Itō, Maeshima, and Ōtsuka made guest appearances at the live. The band would also have guest performances of their own during the year, appearing at the debut live for fellow Bushiroad franchise "D4DJ" on July 21, Animelo Summer Live on August 31, Aso Rock Festival on September 29, and Mag Rock Festival and Animax Musix 2019 Kobe on October 5 and 26. On November 30–December 1, Raise A Suilen partnered with Roselia for the joint concert Rausch und/and Craziness at Makuhari Messe; a second Craziness live by RAS took place at Ecopa Arena on February 9, 2020. A second solo live, The Creation ~We are Raise A Suilen~, was conducted at Line Cube Shibuya on December 29, 2019.
"Drive Us Crazy", their fourth single, was released on January 22, 2020; it reached fifth on the Oricon Weekly Chart. In April, Tsumugi and Kurachi began hosting the franchise-centric variety show "Radio R･I･O･T". A stage play by the band's members called "We are Raise A Suilen -BanG Dream! The Stage-" was planned to premiere in July with nine shows before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Raise A Suilen's first album "Era" is scheduled for release on August 19.
Raise A Suilen's fictional counterparts were revealed at the BanG Dream! 6th☆Live. The band is described by anime streaming service HIDIVE as an "eclectic blend of aesthetics that reflects the mad mix of styles found in their infectious music", which includes the use of electronic rock themes in their songs.
The group first appears in the anime's second season. After her offer to become Roselia's producer is rejected, Chiyu Tamade forms Raise A Suilen to get her revenge, which includes trying to recruit Tae Hanazono from the lead group Poppin'Party. RAS becomes a main band in the third season as they enter the BanG Dream! Girls Band Challenge. The group was added to the "BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!" mobile game on June 10, 2020.
A manga series focusing on RAS titled "RAiSe! The story of my music" began serialization in "Monthly Bushiroad" in January 2019. Kō Nakamura and Ryū Shihara wrote and illustrated the manga, respectively.
The band's songs are composed and arranged by Elements Garden.
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Manahatta (play)
Manahatta is a dramatic play written by Mary Kathryn Nagle. The play takes place in present day Oklahoma, as well as present day and 17th century Manahatta (popularly known as Manhattan Island). The show follows Jane Snake as she rises the ranks of a Wall Street investment firm, meanwhile, her family, specifically her mother, Bobbie, faces financial ruin following the death of her husband. The show also mirrors its characters in early 17th century Manahatta, depicting the arrival of Dutch settlers representing the Dutch East India Company, who subsequently take the land of and massacre the Deleware Lenape people, beginning the process of driving them out of Manahatta and Lenapehoking.
The show seeks to draw parallels between the original process of colonization and genocide towards Native Americans during the colonial era in what would become the United States to the continued colonial process and removal/denial of culture, perpetuated in part by the system of capitalism.
"Manahatta" features usage of traditional Lenape language throughout the show. Many of its sequences in the 17th century closely on history, portraying the invasion of the Dutch into Manahatta, and the "purchasing" of Manhattan from the Delaware Lenape by the Dutch East India Company. Peter Minuit, who performed the "purchase", is a featured character in the show. The name Se-ket-tu-may-qua (translated to Black Beaver in English), which is the name of Luke's mirrored character, is the name of a 19th century Lenape leader who led Union soldiers hundreds of miles during the Civil War. Jonas Michaelius, Michael's mirrored character, is the name of a Dutch clergyman who was involved with colonizing Manahatta.
As one of the first two plays to be put on by Public Studio (a program by The Public Theater), "Manahatta" was featured in a "paired-down" production of the show at the Shiva Theater in New York City from May 15th to May 25th, 2014. Directed by Kate Whoriskey, its cast featured Tanis Parenteau (Jane/Le-Le-Wa-You), Kimberly Guerrero (Debra/Toosh-Ki-Pa-Kwis-I), Neal Huff (Assistant/Joe), Brandon Oakes (Soldier/Se-Ket-Tu-May-Qua), Andrew Weems (Jonas Michaelius), and Albert Ybarra (Robert/Tamanend). Before the first performance on May 15th, 2014, a prayer was given in Lenape by Curtis Zunigha, (at the time) the Operations Manager and former Chief of the Deleware Tribe. The show was changed before its subsequent premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2018.
"Manahatta" premiered as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at the Thomas Theater on March 28th, 2018. It was directed by Laurie Woolery, with the only cast member returning from the pre-premiere production being Tanis Parenteau (Jane Snake/Le-le-wa'-you), and a premiering cast of Sheila Tousey (Bobbie/Mother), Rainbow Dickerson (Debra/Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i), Steven Flores (Luke/Se-ket-tu-may-qua), Danforth Comins (Joe/Jakob), Jeffrey King (Dick Fuld/Peter Minuit), and David Kelly (Michael/Jonas Michaelius). The show was met with critical success, and ran until October 27th, 2018.
The east coat premiere of the show, "Manahatta" ran at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, from January 24th to February 15th, 2020. This production was once again directed by Laurie Woolery, with Steven Flores (Luke/Se-ket-tu-may-qua), Danforth Comins (Joe/Jakob), and Jeffrey King (Dick Fuld/Peter Minuit) returning to the cast, with new cast members Carla-Rae (Bobbie/Mother), Lily Gladstone (Jane Snake/Le-le-wa'-you), Shyla Lefner (Debra/Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i), and T. Ryder Smith (Michael/Jonas Michaelius) joining. It was the first play to be produced at the Yale Repertory Theater by a Native American playwright or to have a majority Native cast. At the request of one of his descendants, the set of the show featured a large image of Se-ket-tu-may-qua. This production was also met with critical success.
As a production of the student-run theater company, the Front Row Theatre Company, "Manahatta" ran at the University of Pennsylvania at the Heyer Sky Lounge in Harrison College House from February 20th to February 22nd, 2020. Directed by Connor Beard, this was the first student production of the show, featuring the cast of Duval Courteau (Jane Snake/Le-le-wa'-you), Mika Graviet (Bobbie/Mother), and David Hernandez (Luke/Se-ket-tu-may-qua) (the remainder of the cast is unlisted).
Playbill from Yale Repertory Theater production
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Robert Evans (journalist)
Robert Evans is a journalist who has reported on global conflicts and online extremism. A former editor at the humor website Cracked.com, Evans now writes for the investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat while working on several podcasts, including "Behind the Bastards" and "It Could Happen Here".
Evans has reported on conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine and Rojava, as well as on far-right extremists in the United States. Evans is the host of the podcasts "Behind the Bastards" and "Worst Year Ever", and has completed the podcast series "It Could Happen Here," a show released in 2019 about the possibility of a second Civil War in the United States. Evans published a new podcast series titled "The Women's War" in March and April 2020 about the feminist, anti-authoritarian region in Syria known as Rojava.
Evans previously worked at the humour website Cracked.com as an editorial manager. In that position, Evans led a team that published "personal experience" articles. These articles fell into two main categories: journalistic pieces involving a variety of sources and personal narratives.
Evans has worked for the investigative reporting outlet Bellingcat.
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Dana E. Wallace
Dana E. Wallace was the assistant director of research of the Maine Department of Marine Resources from 1946 to 1983. He co-chaired the Biological Advisory Committee of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. His work focused primarily on the aquaculture of mollusks, particularly clams and oysters, in the coastal regions of Maine.
Dana Wallace was born on a small farm in Lisbon, Maine to Chester and Carrie Wallace in 1917. While attending Lisbon High School, he became an Eagle Scout, played hockey, and competed in track. He went on to study at Bates College on a track scholarship, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1939.
Dana taught math and science at Presque Isle High School and coached the local track and debate teams. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and served as a meteorologist in England for three years.
After returning from the war, Dana undertook a brief research project for Maine's Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries, now known as the Maine Department of Marine Resources, to recommend ways to boost the value of marine fisheries to Maine's coastal communities. At the project's completion, he was hired by the department full-time. As the associate director of research at the department, Dana led research investigations into quahog transplantation and its impact on water quality, developed new techniques to protect soft-shell clam ("Mya arenaria") from predation by the invasive green crab ("Carcinus maenas"), and introduced the European oyster ("Ostrea edulis") to Maine fisheries. He also took an active role advocating on behalf of Maine fisheries to the legislature on the state and federal levels. He retired in 1983, but continued his work on a volunteer basis through The Friends of Casco Bay for several years.
In 1990, Dana Wallace was selected as Conservationist of the Year by the Audubon Society of Maine. The next year, the Dana E. Wallace Education Center was opened as part of the Beals Island Regional Shellfish Hatchery. In addition, Mr. Wallace was the first recipient of the Longard Gulf of Maine Award for volunteerism presented by the governor in 1999.
In his retirement, Dana worked as ski patrol and then as a ski instructor at Sugarloaf Mountain well into his eighties. He also maintained sections of the Appalachian Trail and co-authored a guide to the Maine section.
Dana Wallace died in Brunswick, Maine in 2007 of complications relating to kidney disease.
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Andreaea rupestris
Andreaea rupestris is a species of moss in the class Andreaopsida, are commonly referred to as the "lantern mosses" due to the appearance of their dehisced sporangia. It is typically found on smooth, acidic, exposed rock in the Northern hemisphere. It exhibits the common features of the genus "Andreaea" such as being acrocarpous, having dark pigmentation, lacking a seta, and bearing 4 lines of dehiscence in its mature sporangia, but can be further identified upon careful examination of its gametophytic leaves which have an ovate base to a more blunt apex compared to other similar species.
"Andreaea rupestris" is in the genus "Andreaea," which has around 100 different species.
It may be difficult to differentiate "A. rupestris" from some other species in its genus as it does bear some similar characteristics to other species. Some species which may be mistaken for "A. rupestris" are:
The appearance of "Andreaea rupestris" is dark in colour, varying from dark red/brown/green to black depending on its life stage. It grows in patches of dense, cushion-like tufts up to 2-3cm high and has imbricate leaves in dry conditions. In moist conditions, the leaves may be falcate-secund (curved to one side) yet this does not always hold true. Unlike some other mosses, "A. rupestris" have biseriate rhizoids which aid in attaching the gametophyte to substrate.
The gametophyte leaves have an ovate base tapering to a blunt to acute apex and are less than 1mm in length. They lack a costa and may have papillae on the dorsal side, particularly on the upper leaves of the stem. The leaves are bordered by shorter, rhombic marginal cells and their laminal cells have thickened cell walls. Their perichaetial leaves are typically larger than their stem leaves. In contrast to most bryophytes which have a filamentous protonemal stage, "Andreaea rupestris" have thalloid protonema that give rise to the leafy shoot of the gametophyte.
As characterized by the Andreaopsida, "Andreaea rupestris" have small sporophytes which lack both an operculum and a seta. Instead of a seta, they have a pseudopodium derived from gametophytic tissue attached to the sporangium, extending from the perichaetium attached by a structure called the foot. Once fully mature, the sporangium will open along 4 vertical lines of dehiscence to release the spores inside. The sporangium is hygroscopic as it will dehisce in dry conditions to release spores from the gaps, and will close back up in moist conditions. The spores are red-brown in colour, usually larger than 20 μm in diameter, and lack elaters.
"Andreaea rupestris" are typically found in cooler climates on surfaces or fissures of dry, siliceous, exposed rock such as granite. While they can also grow in neutral to mildly basic conditions, they are usually found on acidic rocks and cliff walls. They can be found from sea level to high elevations, but are more commonly associated with higher altitudes. Compared to other species in their genus, they can withstand a wider variety of moisture levels and are better at surviving in drier conditions. They have been found to grow with other species of their genus such as "Andreaea nivalis" , "A. blyttii", "A. rigida, A. crassinervia, A. rothii ssp. rothii, A. rothii ssp. jalcata, A. alpina, and A. obovata".
They are primarily distributed around the Northern hemisphere in North America, Europe, and Asia. More specifically, they have been confirmed in Canada, the United States, Norway, Britain, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Korea, China, Central America, New Zealand, Antarctica and more recently in 2018, Greece.
The sporophyte and gametophyte represent two generations of "A. rupestris," also known as the alternation of heteromorphic generations. The gametophyte stage starts with the haploid spore, which then germinates into thalloid protonema. The protonema then give rise to the leafy gametophyte which house the male and female organs also known as the antheridia and archegonia, respectively.
"Andreaea rupestris" are autoicous, meaning that their male and female organs exist on separate branches within the same gametophyte. The close proximity of the antheridia and archegonia help facilitate fertilization. The antheridia contain sperm that travel down the neck of an archegonia, which houses the egg, to fertilize it. When the egg is fertilized and becomes a diploid zygote, it then develops into the diploid sporangium. Note that the sporangium is attached to a haploid pseudopodium that was derived from gametophytic tissue. Through the process of meiosis, haploid spores are produced and released through the gaps of the dehisced sporangium.
According to the BC Conservation Data Centre, this species is deemed "demonstrably widespread, abundant and secure" globally. In British Columbia, it is labelled as "at the least risk of being lost".
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Mike Dumont
Michael J. Dumont is an American flag officer, naval aviator and vice admiral in the United States Navy, serving as a deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command and vice commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Mike served in US army for five years as an aviator and paratrooper and later, he joined navy.
In 2017 or earlier, Mike served as a vice director of Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon upon his promotion to the rank of two-star rear admiral.
Dumont received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern Maine. He also attended Suffolk University Law School where he completed further studies and earned a Juris Doctor degree. He attended United States Army War College and gained a Master of Science in strategic studies and later attended the National War College, gaining a master's degree in National Security Strategy.
Dumont was born in Brunswick, Maine, and was commissioned in United States Army as a second lieutenant. Before joining the navy, he served five years as an army aviator and paratrooper, and later established his career associations with the US navy as a naval aviator. As a joint command, he was assigned to commanded operational units, including a squadron. He was later appointed as an special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander for United States European Command. Dumont served SA as chief of staff and defense representative to Pakistan and deputy chief of staff for stability and support operations. Later, he was assigned to joint command the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and chief of staff and deputy chief of staff for strategy, resources and plans. Besides serving at a naval component command United States Naval Forces Europe – Naval Forces Africa, he was also appointed deputy director for Political-Military Affairs. His prominent assignments includes deputy director for strategic initiatives and later, vice director.
After serving at various posts, rear admiral Dumont was later nominated for the appointment of vice admiral rank and was subsequently appointed as the deputy commander for U.S. Northern Command, vice commander for North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
The United States Secretary of Defense conferred Defense Superior Service Medal upon Dumont for his distinguished service to US during the Global War on Terrorism.
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Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left is a biography of Howard Zinn, written by Martin Duberman and published in 2012.
John Tirman, the head of the MIT Center for International Studies since 2004, notes that Duberman fills in Zinn's history beyond what other sources "commonly focused on" following his death, highlighting not only Zinn's role as orator and activist, but also "his considerable intellectual achievements," including how "he challenged the notion of objectivity." Tirman describes Duberman as "a strong writer who brings an easy familiarity to this subject" while not shying "away from thorny topics." However, Tirman notes that the book lacks an exploration of the dynamics between Zinn and others in his activist circle: Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, and others. Further, Tirman notes the omission of a discussion on the decline of the left through the '60s and '70s. Nonetheless, Tirman says that "Duberman's biography captures what was so attractive about this radical historian."
Michael Kammen, a professor of American cultural history at Cornell, say that "[Zinn] could not be more fortunate in his amicable biographer." Kammen describes the book as "not merely judicious. It is laudatory where praise is warranted yet critical in many respects, too." Though Kammen warns that, "As the biography proceeds, the values and voices of these two writers increasingly merge, especially in chapter 11, devoted to 'The Nineties,'" he notes that the book "contains countless dividends for the general reader."
Kirkus Reviews suggests this book is best for readers who have a favourable impression of Zinn, for Duberman "clearly has no interest in challenging [Zinn's] fundamental underpinnings."
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Standard Chartered Singapore
Standard Chartered Singapore (officially Standard Charted (Singapore) Limited) is the Singapore based subsidiary of British banking and financial services company, Standard Chartered. Opening its first branch in 1859, the bank is the one of the oldest in continuous operation in Singapore. The bank received its Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence in October, 1999, being one of the first foreign bank to qualify for the licence.
The bank (Standard Charted (Singapore) Limited) was officially incorporated in 2013 to handle Standard Chartered's Singapore Consumer Banking retail and SME banking business. In 2018, operations of Standard Chartered in Singapore was merged with Standard Chartered Singapore, with the Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence transferred to the company. It currently operates a network of 19 branches, 7 Priority Banking centres and 31 ATMs in the country. The number of ATMs available for customers is expanded through its shared network under the atm5 network with Citibank Singapore, HSBC, State Bank of India, Maybank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of China.
Opened in early 1859, the bank, then known as Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, started off as an agency and was situated in a 3 storeys tall building located between Flint Street and Battery Road, with the third floor being used for staff accommodations. In 1861, the bank was upgraded to a branch and over the following decades, it printed bank notes in Malaya. In 1913, the bank acquired land situated between Bonham Street and Battery Road and constructed a new building to house its operations in Singapore. The building which was 4 storeys tall, was completed in 1916 and at that time it also housed the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Exchange.
Construction of a 44 storey tall skyscraper at Battery Road for the bank's head office was completed in 1984. The building, which was known as the Standard Chartered Building, was the largest Standard Chartered building worldwide and it also represented the largest single investment by a British company at that point of time. Officially opened on 24 October 1984 by Anthony Barber, then chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, the building stood on the site of the bank's first branch when it was first opened in 1859. In 1986, Khoo Teck Puat, the founder of Maybank acquired a significant stake for US$100 million in the bank's parent, Standard Chartered and later became the single largest shareholder of the banking group. Following his death in 2004, the stake valued at £2.3 billion was acquired by Temasek Holdings in 2006, making the investment arm of the Government of Singapore its largest shareholder.
In 2007, Standard Chartered opened its private banking global headquarters in Singapore and in 2011, the bank moved its Singapore cooperate office to the Marina Bay Financial Centre, after being situated in Raffles Place since 1859. On October 7, 2013, Standard Chartered officially incorporated a local subsidiary of the bank, Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited. Following the incorporation, the bank's Singapore Consumer Banking retail and SME banking business was transferred to the new subsidiary. In 2018, the operations of Standard Chartered was eventually merged into Standard Chartered Singapore, consolidating all of the group's Singapore operations and becoming the first major foreign bank to do so in Singapore.
Beginning in 1982, the Singapore Marathon, also known as the Standard Chartered Marathon, is an annual international marathon held on the first Sunday of every December. It is the first competitive marathon in Singapore with an estimated participation size of 15,000 runners at its inaugural race on December 5, 1982. Since then, the race has grown to attract many international marathoners to participate in the annual race and the 2013 event attracted a total of 60,000 entrants for all categories.
In 2017, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon announced its bid to join the Abbott World Marathon Majors event. In 2019, the full- and half-marathons were held in the evening in order to fulfil criteria to be listed in the Abbott World Marathon Majors, instead of the usual flag off timing at dawn. This caused major traffic disruptions as traffic was at a standstill for 3 hours and drew criticism from the public as wedding banquets held in town also encountered problems, with guests and vendors unable to make the functions in time.
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Dragon Age II downloadable content
"Dragon Age II" is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts (EA) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and OS X. It is the second major game in the "Dragon Age" series and was released worldwide in March 2011. The game features a total of six downloadable content packs that were released from November 2009 to September 2010 on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and BioWare's website. Add-on content packs feature new quests, new locales to visit, and new items for the player to make use of, while narrative packs are story-focused and serve as standalone side stories from the main game.
Various in-game items for "Dragon Age II" were given away for promotional purposes as pre-order bonuses, platform exclusives and as rewards from participation in special events. A crossover promotion with "Mass Effect 2", the Blood Dragon Armor was available if the player possessed the Blood Dragon Armor in "Dragon Age: Origins" or "Mass Effect 2". Players of "Dead Space 2" received an exclusive armor in the game called Ser Isaac's armor, which is modeled after "Dead Space"s protagonist Isaac Clarke.
Prior to December 7, 2012, the various in-game items listed as promotional content was only available to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game through limited promotional opportunities. From December 7, 2012, players may unlock all promotional and exclusive items, except for the Signature Edition bonus items, Blood Dragon Armor, and Ser Isaac Armor, for free. A total of 24 items were available for redemption by players.
The Exiled Prince, released on March 8, 2011, features a new companion: Sebastian Vael, a lay brother of the Chantry and master archer from a noble family who seeks vengeance after his family is murdered. Available at no cost to players who pre-ordered a new copy of "Dragon Age II". It was available at the same time the game was launched. "The Exiled Prince" was also bundled with the "BioWare Signature Edition", which included new items and a digital version of the game's original soundtrack, as a free upgrade for players who pre-ordered a new copy of "Dragon Age II".
The Black Emporium, released on March 8, 2011, adds a vendor that sells exclusive items, a Mabari War Hound to fight at Hawke's side, and The Mirror of Transformation, which allows players to change Hawke's facial appearance as many times as they want. It was available at no cost to players who purchased a new copy of "Dragon Age II".
The All-Class Item Pack, released on April 4, 2011, contains the Mage Item Pack, Rogue Item Pack, and Warrior Item Pack, which consists of new armor, weapons, boots, helmets, gloves, accessories, and shields. Each class item pack also features 3 companion-specific items in addition to player weapon and armor sets. It contains 41 items in total: 12 for mages, 14 for rogues, and 15 for warriors.
The second All-Class Item Pack, released on August 23, 2011, contains the Mage Item Pack, Rogue Item Pack, and Warrior Item Pack, which consists of new armor, weapons, boots, helmets, gloves, accessories, and shields. Each class item pack also features 3 companion-specific items in addition to player weapon and armor sets. It contains 40 items in total: 12 for mages, 14 for rogues, and 14 for warriors.
"Legacy", released on July 26, 2011, is the first story-driven DLC pack which is entirely played in an all-new location, a mysterious prison constructed by the Grey Wardens in a remote area. "Legacy" explores a story about Hawke's lineage, and the past dealings between Hawke's father and the Grey Wardens to hold an ancient evil at bay. To access the contents of the DLC pack, players must interact with a special statue in Hawke’s home.
BioWare used "Legacy" to address fan concerns, and rectify some of the common criticisms of the base game. These included excessive area reuse, wave-based enemy encounters, and the lack of companion customization and meaningful choices. "Dragon Age" producer Fernando Melo noted that players will face combat situations which will challenge them to approach gameplay in a more strategic and tactical manner compared to the main game, and that Hawke's followers and the environment play a more prominent role in combat. The DLC pack features non-linear bonus content outside of the main quest like puzzle areas and bonus rooms, as well as new enemy types like Brontos, a few varieties of Genlocks and Hurlocks, and various Deep Roads creatures. The DLC pack also unlocks "The Key", an upgradeable weapon which players can take it with them into the main campaign following the narrative's conclusion.
The narrative of "Legacy" is framed in the same way as the main game; Varric is still in the middle of an interrogation by Cassandra, where she tells him that he left out the details of one of Hawke's side adventures that she is aware of. Varric explained that Hawke's party, with Bethany or Carver as potential party members, traveled to a dark prison in the middle of the deserted Vimmark Mountains where they are trapped by magical barriers. Hawke’s investigation into why the Carta, a dwarven criminal syndicate, is targeting the Hawke family led the party there. They discover that the prison houses Corypheus, a powerful and ancient darkspawn, and that thirty years before the events of "Dragon Age II", the prison was magically resealed by Hawke's father on the direction of the Grey Wardens. This is because Corypheus is capable of influencing his Grey Warden jailors through the Taint in their blood, even while trapped in a dormant state. As a result, Corypheus managed to influence Carta members to pursue Malcolm Hawke's descendants to obtain their blood in order to release him. Corypheus is also able to influence both Grey Wardens who are entrusted with guarding his prison, Janeka and Larius, though unlike Janeka, Larius was able to retain his mental independence and kept Corypheus from controlling him completely. After meeting Janeka and Larius, Hawke is informed that the only way out is to slay Corypheus; Hawke may side with either Janeka or Larius, which results in the other being killed. Hawke releases Corypheus, and seemingly killed him. Unbeknownst to Hawke's party, Corypheus' soul transferred to the surviving Grey Warden, who then take their leave.
"Legacy" received mixed to average reviews from critics. IGN's Arthur Gies noted that "Dragon Age II Legacy see-saws between going-through-the-motions and meaningful character development". While Gies appreciated the DLC pack's character-centric exploration of the Hawke family's past, he questioned why the plotline of "Legacy" was not integrate into the main game in the first place. GameSpot editor Kevin VanOrd commented that "Legacy" expands upon the main game but makes no improvements, calling it "shrugworthy" as it had few standout moments and not worth the asking price. He noted that the DLC pack "makes a valiant attempt to strengthen your bond with Hawke, but ultimately it makes little impression", and he summed up the overall experience as "soulless".
Dan Whitehead of "Eurogamer" commented that "Legacy" "snuggles comfortably into a more traditional role-playing framework" and that little of the main game's narrative focus, which provided its greatest strengths, was evident throughout "Legacy's" narrative. He called "Legacy" a "template for not-bad-but-must-try-harder DLC" and a "passable addition to the game, but one that doesn't do anything to make itself essential". "GameSpy's" Mike Sharkey thought "Legacy" was too short and overpriced for amount and depth of content offered, and was to him a "$10 reminder of the full game's shortcomings". "PC Powerplay's" Meghann O'Neill gave the DLC pack a favorable review compared to other reviewers, noting that she enjoyed the character and appreciated how BioWare competently implemented genuinely useful feedback. Her verdict was that "Legacy" is a "surprisingly detailed add-in for this controversially received sequel. New approaches to encounter design and smarter enemies stand out, although story remains a strong feature".
"Mark Of The Assassin" was the final DLC pack for "Dragon Age II", released on October 11, 2011, one day after the premiere episode of the tie-in webseries "" was released online. Like "Legacy", "Mark of The Assassin" is a standalone story played in an entirely new location, namely Chateau Haine and its neighboring landscape. It added additional quests and Tallis from "Redemption" as a guest companion. The DLC pack introduces several Orlesian characters and provides further insight into their culture and society; some of the Orlesian noble characters serve as comic relief in a style of humor akin to the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". "Mark Of The Assassin" is slightly lengthier than Legacy, with over 12 hours of additional dialogue.
Felicia Day created the character Tallis, an elven convert to the Qunari system of thought and behavior, with BioWare's input. Day, a self-described fan of the "Dragon Age" franchise and is appreciative of the series' substantial amount of lore, said her involvement in the DLC pack was "a dream come true." As part of Day's research, she played through Dragon Age II multiple times in an attempt to discover as many of the different character reactions as possible. Day said that players do not have to watch the webseries and play the DLC together, but doing so with leave them with a better insight into Tallis as a character. Day explained that the tone of the DLC pack is not overly serious, commenting that "It's very quippish," and that "There's a heavy moment, and then someone has a one-liner."
Like "Legacy", some of the bigger battles in "Mark of the Assassin" were designed to be more challenging in difficulty and tactical in execution compared to the main game. A notable enemy type introduced to the "Dragon Age" series in "Mark of the Assassin" is the wyvern, a smaller wingless cousin of dragons and is especially significant to Orlesian culture. Defeating a wyvern presents a substantial challenge for player; proper class selection, strategy positioning, and appropriate ability usage such as magical spells or healing abilities are pivotal for success.
The narrative begins during Cassandra's ongoing interrogation of Varric, where she confronted him for not disclosing information about Hawke's involvement with Tallis and their activities at Château Haine, alleging that the Champion of Kirkwall's actions nearly started a war involving Orlais and the Free Marches. Varric reveals that Tallis interrupted an ambush meant for Hawke, and she persuaded the Champion of Kirkwall to accept an invitation from Duke Prosper de Monfort, a high-ranking Orlesian nobleman and a relative of the Orlesian Empress, to visit his estate outside Kirkwall as cover for her to steal the "Heart of the Many". Hawke and company arrive at the Château, having apparently accepted Prosper's previous invitation to the Champion of Kirkwall. After slaying a wyvern during a hunt, Prosper welcomes the Champion into his home. When Hawke and Tallis infiltrate his vault, it is then revealed that Prosper knew who the latter was all along and has the two imprisoned. Tallis reveals her allegiance to the Qunari and admits to Hawke that there never was a jewel called the "Heart of the Many"; she was in fact pursuing an individual named Salit, who defected from his people and was branded "Tal-Vashoth", as he intended to sell confidential information about the Qunari spy network in Thedas to Prosper.
After the two break out of their cell, and if Hawke and company attempt to escape right through the Château, Prosper will bar their escape as he summons a brigade of chevaliers and harlequins to fight them and seals the Château. He then leaves the Château, ordering his Chasind bodyguard, Cahir, to deal with the interlopers. Prosper then meets with Salit, expressing his regret for agreeing to spare Tallis and Hawke, and insists they conclude their exchange. Instead of the blackpowder formula, dreadnought plans, or a map of Qunanadar Prosper was expecting however, Salit gives Prosper a list of names detailing the various Qunari Ben-Hassrath agents in Thedas. Prosper fails to see the value of the information and is angered by Salit's seemingly useless offer. As he is confronted by Hawke, he unknowingly passes the list to a disguised Tallis. After all parties exchange words, Prosper fires a green substance at Salit that attracts the wyvern mount Leopold, who mauls and kills the Tal-Vashoth. In the ensuing battle, Hawke manages to trip Leopold while Prosper is riding him in mid-charge, ultimately resulting in him falling to his death. His threats of reprisal against Hawke are futile, as it would become scandalous if it became public knowledge that he was dealing with Tal-Vashoth, possibly on the Empress' orders. Tallis and Hawke part ways at the conclusion of Varric's narration.
"Mark Of The Assassin" received generally favorable reviews. Felicia Day's involvement as Tallis in the DLC pack was considered a highlight by most reviewers. GameSpot editor Kevin VanOrd in particular commented that her "charming attitude gives the adventure a pleasant, buoyant vibe". He noted that the DLC pack's game environments were more spacious and inviting than before, and praised the gumorous dialogue and story situations. IGN's Dan Griliopoulos assessed that "Mark of the Assassin" was overall "a neat little expansion, well formed and surprisingly well-paced", and recommended it as a worthy download.
Dan Whitehead of "Eurogamer" commented that BioWare's DLC output had been more variable than most in terms of quality, and noted that "Mark of the Assassin" was one of the better ones. Highlights for Whitehead included the narrative's superb plotting and pace, variety of quests, interesting enemy types, and the voice acting. He concluded that the pack was "an absorbing and varied side story" that subtly feeds back into the wider "Dragon Age" universe. Destructoid's Joseph Leray compared elements of gameplay in "Mark of the Assassin" more favorably to what he encountered in "Legacy", rated the overall experience as slightly above average and summarized the pack as a "lighthearted and straightforward game that does most things right and nothing truly wrong."
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23rd Iris Awards (Uruguay)
The 23rd Iris Awards ceremony, presented by the newspaper El País, honored the best of radio, television and social networks in Uruguay of 2017 and took place at the Enjoy Hotel & Casino, Punta del Este. It was held on September 01, 2018, and was broadcast by Teledoce, Channel 4 and Channel 10. The ceremony did not have a single host, but different presenters hosted it for a certain time, thus fulfilling a time for the channel that transmitted the event.
During the ceremony, El País presented Iris Awards to television in 14 categories, to radio in 6 and to internet and social networks in 2. It also presented the Golden Iris Award, the Iris for Career, the Special Iris and the Iris of the public.
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The Pantheon, from the Terrace of the Luxembourg Gardens
The Pantheon, from the Terrace of the Luxembourg Gardens is a lithograph by the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, created in 1893.
Whistler's friend and printer, Thomas R. Way, wrote the definitive catalogue of Whistler's lithographs. In it, "The Pantheon, from the Terrace of the Luxembourg Gardens" is listed as catalogue number 45, and he describes it as such: "In the distance the dark dome rises above trees, and the roofs of buildings. In the front, the terrace with stone balustrade crosses the picture ; two vases are raised on the stonework, and in front on the right, two ladies, one seated, the other standing, and on the left, two nurses and a child ; a cloudy sky above."
Whistler and Way pulled a total of only 15 lifetime impressions, and most are found in museums. The one known to be in private hands belonged to singer and actress Doris Day.
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Papatawa
Papatawa is a rural community in the Tararua District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located six kilometres north-east of Woodville, on both sides of State Highway 2.
The area has no shops, and locals use Palmerston North, Pahiatua and Dannevirke as service centres.
European settlement of the area began in 1878, when an area of forest called the Victoria Block was cleared and subdivided into 36 farming sections.
The Manga-atua School house opened in the area 1887, with a roll of the 18 pupils increasing to 22 within the first day. The school changed its name to Papatawa School in 1905, and it eventually gained an extra classroom.
In 1910 John A. Millar, the Minister of Railways in the Ward Ministry, denied a request for a railway loading bank at Papatawa, citing a lack of funds.
By the 1930s, the area had a dairy factory, a railway station, a county council yard, and a team of horses in stables. The area was connected by gravel roads, two rail lines and a shunting line. Cheese from the dairy factory was transported to the railway station by horse and cart, and most locals took the train to Woodville to do shopping.
During the Great Depression, workers built a tennis court at the school and turned the school to face the sun. A pool was installed in the 1960s.
The 4.5 kilometre Papatawa stretch of State Highway 2 has been the site of several fatal crashes.
Between 2010 and 2014, the NZ Transport Agency realigned and straightened the 4.5 kilometre stretch of State Highway 2, with a new intersection, rail crossing, over-bridge, passing lane and stream diversion. The $11 million project aimed to reduce crashes and separate local traffic from the 700 trucks that were using the road between Tararua and Hawke's Bay each day.
Papatawa School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of as of .
School children walked to school until the introduction of a community-run school bus. Most students are now dropped off to school, cycle or take the school bus.
As of 2020, the school has a twice-weekly breakfast club sponsored by Fonterra and Sanitarium, and students are also rostered to cook hot lunches brought from home.
Victor Lindauer, the son of portrait painter Gottfried Lindauer, taught at the school in the early 1920s after returning from a two-year stint in the United States. Under the influence of family friend William Colenso, he went on to become prominent in the study of algae.
In the 1940s, girls would sweep the school on Friday afternoons while boys emptied the buckets in the toilets.
The school held major anniversary celebrations in 1937 and 1987.
In 2008, the school floated the idea of a voluntary closure but faced an uproar from the local community.
In 2009, a Ministry of Education review proposed closing eight of the ten schools in the Tararua bush area, including Papatawa School. Papatawa had 18 students at the time. Principal Louise Ilton told the Dominion Post:
The school marked its 130th anniversary with a celebration dinner in June 2017.
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Mary MacKillop Bridge
The Mary MacKillop Bridge is a bascule bridge in Adelaide, Australia that carries the Dry Creek-Port Adelaide railway line over the Port River.
In July 2005, Abigroup was awarded a contract to build a railway bridge and the adjoining Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge to carry the Port River Expressway over the Port River. The bridge was built as part of a project to divert the Dry Creek-Port Adelaide line away from the Rosewater loop and bypass the suburban network.
It was opened on 1 August 2008 by Premier Mike Rann.
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Ramón Valera
Ramón Valera ( August 31,1912 - May 25,1972) was a fashion designer from the Philippines who was bestowed with the National Artist of the Philippines honor in 2006. He is the country's first and only fashion designer to receive this distinction. In 2017, his work was displayed in an exhibit called "Valera and the Modern: An Exhibit on the Life and Work of National Artist for Fashion Design, Ramon Valera" which was curated by Gerry Torres at De La Salle-College of St. Benilde’s School of Design and Arts Gallery.
Valera's gowns have been worn by notable Filipina women including Gloria Romero, Barbara Perez and Imelda Marcos.
Valera was born on August 31,1912 and finished his education in De La Salle. He was the first to introduce the one-piece terno that was fastened in the back with a zipper. He re-imagined the Maria Clara outfit by adding bell sleeves and making it into a wedding gown. He died on May 25, 1972.
In 2007 he was named a Distinguished Lasallian by the De La Salle Alumni Association. In 2006, he was honored with the National Artist of the Philippines distinction.
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COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines
As a measure to limit the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Philippines, lockdowns, officially characterized as "community quarantine" by the government, of varying strictness were imposed in numerous parts of the Philippines. The "enhanced community quarantine" (ECQ) is the strictest of such measures. The largest of these measures was the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon.
Given the rapidly increasing number of cases in the National Capital Region, Albay 2nd district representative Joey Salceda proposed a week-long lockdown of the region to prevent the disease from spreading nationwide. Salceda specifically proposed the closure of the Philippine expressway network and public transportation accessing the region, in addition to the suspension of classes and work. President Duterte initially rejected the proposal claiming it would "hamper the flow of basic commodities". Secretary Duque, however, raised the possibility of a lockdown on certain cities or towns if cases of community-based transmissions are reported, but not an entire region. On March 12, President Duterte announced a partial lockdown covering Metro Manila, that began on March 15.
At one point during President Rodrigo Duterte's pronouncement about the Metro Manila "community quarantine," he said that "they are afraid to call it a lockdown, but it is a lockdown." This statement left many confused. His cabinet secretary, Karlo Nograles, later made it clear that the proper term is "community quarantine" and the President's comment means that the event "is like a lockdown." Nograles further said that the term "lockdown" can lead to different interpretations, while "community quarantine" is a technical term that medical authorities can give meaning, which does not create public fear.
When the "community quarantine" was applied to Luzon, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, said that the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) is equivalent to an "absolute lockdown or total lockdown." Secretary Eduardo Año of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) also said that "enhanced community quarantine" should be considered as a "total lockdown."
In addition, President Duterte advised local government units outside of the National Capital Region to implement a community quarantine in cases where, in a given level of local government, at least two COVID-19 cases are confirmed within a lower level of its jurisdiction; for example, a province-wide quarantine should be implemented if there are at least two COVID-19 cases confirmed within different cities or municipalities in the same province, while a city/municipality-wide quarantine should be implemented if there are at least two COVID-19 cases confirmed within different "barangays" in the same city or municipality. Local government units were also authorized to utilize their quick response funds upon declaration of a state of emergency.
The national government has given local government units under enhanced community quarantine in Visayas and Mindanao and relevant field offices of the Department of Health the power to lift or extend the lockdown period in their jurisdiction. The imposition of a "localized lockdown" involving measures at the barangay, sitio, and/or purok level instead of fully lifting ECQs has been proposed.
On April 6, the following localities were under enhanced community quarantine: all regions of Luzon, Western Visayas, Caraga Region, Zamboanga Peninsula, Samar, Biliran, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Camiguin, Bukidnon, Sultan Kudarat, Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte, Cotabato, South Cotabato, Tawi-Tawi, and the municipality of Catarman in Northern Samar.
On April 24, it was clarified that local government units can no longer impose quarantine measures without the consent of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID). Prior to that period, localities could impose such measures with coordination with the DILG. President Rodrigo Duterte issued Executive Order 112, extending enhanced community quarantine in select localities until May 15 and imposing a general community quarantine in the rest of the country, also overriding existing quarantine measures by local government units, starting May 1.
Localities under an enhanced community quarantine are generally ordered to stay at home and its residents are restricted from traveling to other cities or barangays. Barangay governments can issue quarantine passes allowing residents to buy essential goods outside curfew hours and within the issuing barangays's jurisdiction. The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act also provides measures related to the ECQ such as:
General community quarantine, which was introduced on May 1, is generally less stringent than ECQ. Public transportation is allowed at a reduced capacity and select businesses are allowed to operate at 50 to 100 percent of their regular capacity depending on their industry. Shopping malls are also allowed to operate, although only select stalls and stores are allowed to open.
There are types of quarantine or lockdown measures aside from the ECQ and GCQ. Additional measures have been imposed under an "extensive enhanced community quarantine" or "extreme enhanced community quarantine" (EECQ). An EECQ is generally stricter than an ECQ. Prior to the imposition of the Luzon enhanced community quarantine, a more lenient measure which include a stay-at-home order and a curfew was imposed in Metro Manila which was officially called as a "community quarantine".
A "total lockdown" measure, distinct from an ECQ, has been considered, which would prohibit people from leaving their places of residence and mandate the closure of all public establishments. The measure is considered as an option by Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
A level under GCQ, is called a modified general community quarantine (MGCQ).
A classification called "new normal", a level under MGCQ was introduced sometime in June 2020 although has never yet been used. An area needs to be placed under MGCQ prior to the imposition of new normal measures.
The Luzon enhanced community quarantine covers the island of Luzon and its outlying islands, or eight out of seventeen regions of the Philippines. An indefinite enhanced community quarantine, was imposed in Caraga, alternatively known as One Shield Caraga, starting April 7, and in the Davao Region starting April 4.
Provinces which imposed an enhance community quarantine include Iloilo (March 21), Antique (March 22), Negros Occidental (March 30), Cebu (March 30), and Negros Oriental (April 3)
The independent cities of Bacolod (March 30), Iloilo City (March 21), and Cebu City (March 28) also imposed ECQ measures.
Enhanced community quarantines (ECQs) were extended in Metro Manila, Central Luzon (excluding Aurora), and Calabarzon regions as well as in the provinces of Benguet, Pangasinan, Iloilo, Cebu, and the cities of Bacolod and Davao until May 15 as per President Rodrigo Duterte's Executive Order 112. All other areas were placed under general community quarantine (GCQ) unless otherwise approved by the IATF-EID. Albay and Zamboanga City were also included among local government units placed under ECQ. The IATF-EID allows local government units, the imposition or extension of ECQ at a municipal or barangay level with the concurrence of their respective regional IATF-EID.
The municipality of San Jose remained under ECQ while the rest of Occidental Mindoro downgraded to GCQ. Marinduque and Bacolod also remained under ECQ.
Request to extend ECQs in the following areas were rejected by the IATF-EID: the provinces of Camarines Sur, La Union, Mountain Province, Isabela, Lanao del Norte, and Lanao del Sur, and the cities of Marawi and Butuan.
On May 12, 2020, it was originally announced that community quarantine measures will be lifted in 41 provinces and 11 cities across the country due to their being low risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but were eventually upgraded to modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) after receiving petitions from LGUs starting May 16.
On May 15, 2020, the IATF-EID approved the appeal of Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla placing the city of Bacoor in the province of Cavite under modified enhanced community quarantine.
The IATF-EID issued Resolution No. 37, overriding prior plans, placing Metro Manila, the cities of Angeles and Bacoor, as well as the provinces of Laguna, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Zambales under modified enhanced community quarantine, which is more lenient than an ECQ but stricter than a GCQ. Cebu City and Mandaue were placed under ECQ while the rest of the country was placed under GCQ. The measure became effective on May 16 with quarantine measures to be reassessed on May 31.
The IATF-EID issued Resolution No. 41 to override prevailing quarantine measures in the country starting June 1. Measures in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Central Visayas regions transitioned to general community quarantine (GCQ). GCQ remained in Cagayan Valley, Pangasinan (except Dagupan), Zamboanga City and Davao City, while the rest of the country was placed under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). However Marc Brian Lim, the city mayor of Dagupan suspended the implementation of GCQ measures in the city to MGCQ as directed by the IATF-EID. This followed Dagupan recording 14 additional COVID-19 cases on May 31, the day prior the city was supposed to transition to MGCQ. Lim appealed to the IATF-EID for the task force to allow his city to remain under GCQ.
Due to the sudden increase number of community transmissions in the area, the IATF-EID recommended the reimposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to Cebu City starting on June 16, the most stringent lockdown measure tier with the neighboring Talisay being reimposed under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). Meanwhile, GCQ was extended or reimposed in the areas of Metro Manila, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Occidental Mindoro, the rest of Central Visayas, Zamboanga City and Davao City.
On June 23, the IATF-EID temporarily removed the "new normal" classification which meant that all areas in the country will still be under varying levels of community quarantine after the June 16–30 measures.
The GCQ were either reimposed or extended to the provinces of Benguet, Cavite, Leyte (except Tacloban), Rizal, Southern Leyte, and several parts of Cebu. Only Cebu City remained under ECQ as the city confirms more cases.
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Belt of fat theory
In competitive eating, the belt of fat theory posits that, paradoxically, those who have a higher body fat percentage are less well positioned to win contests. This is due to the eponymous "belt of fat" around the midsection, made up of fat subcutaneous and visceral, which constricts the rapid expansion of the stomach. Originally forwarded in 1998 by Major League Eating (then known as the International Federation of Competitive Eating), the belt of fat theory has gone on to become widely accepted by competitive eaters.
While not widely studied, the theory has seen some degree of acceptance in scientific publications, including "Popular Science" and the "Canadian Medical Association Journal".
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Antonella Zanna
Antonella Zanna Munthe-Kaas is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research includes work on numerical integration of differential equations and applications to medical imaging. She is a professor and head of the mathematics department at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Zanna was born in Molfetta, in southern Italy, and earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Bari.
She completed her PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge in 1998. Her dissertation, "Numerical Solution of Isospectral Flows", was supervised by Arieh Iserles.
Zanna won the Second Prize in the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1997.
She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Zanna married to Norwegian mathematician Hans Munthe-Kaas in 1997; they have four children.
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Steve Cook (bodybuilder)
Steve Cook (born December 10, 1984) - is an American professional bodybuilder and former Mr. Olympia. He has won the title of Mr. Olympia twice, and has competed for American International Federation of Bodybuilding. Optimum nutrition athlete, spokesmodel, and contributing writer for Bodybuilding.com who won the website's Fit Body Competition in 2010. He is well known for his popular YouTube channel.
Steve was born on December 10, 1984, in Boise, Idaho, United States of America. His family has always been athletically involved, and his siblings practice various sports. His father worked as an athletic director and a high school coach.
Therefore, he developed a strong passion for a fit physique from a quite young age.
His father was his first coach. When Steve graduated from high school, he attended Dixie State College and earned a bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies in Science. During college years, he played college football for his school.
Steve was engaged in fitness from a young age, began competing in 2010. He took part in the Gold's Classic Treasure Valley Natural Bodybuilding Championship, and won. He has won the Fit Body Competition, which Bodybuilding.com organizes. A year later in 2011, Steve also won the Naturally Bodybuilding Championship hosted by the NPC Iron Man magazine. He has a title from a NPC Junior National Championship.
On his YouTube channel, he currently has 1.3 million subscribers.
Steve has won the IFBB Houston Pro twice, in 2012 and 2014. He regularly appears on the covers of fitness magazines like “Iron Man” and “Muscle & Fitness”.
Apart from his prominent bodybuilding career, Steve Cook is also a writer. He regularly writes for bodybuilding.com. In addition to the writing, he has an online store where he sells his own line of apparel. He own a gym in St. George, UT, and a fitness app called Fitness Culture.
Most recently he became the newest coach on USA Network's “The Biggest Loser.”
From 2013 until 2015 Steve Cook was in a relationship with Carlie Stylez.
He has been in a relationship with fitness model and competitor Courtney Alexis King.
Since early 2019 he has been in a relationship with Australian former elite gymnast Morgan Rose Maroney, also a Gymshark athlete.
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Naveen Medaram
Naveen Medaram is an Indian film Director, Producer, and Writer. He initially started his career in Hollywood as a Visual Effects Artist for various feature films like, Pirate of Caribbean, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Harry Potter and The Dark Knight (film). After writing, directing and producing British films titled “London Life” & Nice 2 Meet U”, he made his Telugu Industry debut with Babu Baga Busy (Remake of Hindi film Hunterrr), and has recently released his latest web series "SIN" on Allu Aravind's Aha Video App. under Sharath Marar's Northstar production.
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Plaza Moriones, Intramuros
Plaza Moriones is a public square in Intramuros, Manila. Located in front of the entrance to Fort Santiago, it is one of three major plazas in Intramuros, the others being Plaza de Roma located beyond the fort's grounds, and the Plaza de Armas located inside the fort, to which it is often misconstrued for.
Attested in maps of Manila dating back to at least 1671, Plaza Moriones was originally known as the Plaza de la Fuerza, an empty lot which served as a military promenade for soldiers barracked inside Fort Santiago. It served in this role before the fort was damaged in the 1863 earthquake that devastated Manila, after which it was converted into temporary military barracks. By 1875, the plaza was once again empty, and as early as 1898, the plaza was already called the Plaza del General Moriones, after Domingo Moriones y Muralla, who served as Governor General from 1877 to 1881.
During the American colonial period, the plaza retained its function as a parade ground for soldiers, but in the 1930s, according to a manuscript written by H. Otley Beyer, the United States Army — which was headquartered inside Fort Santiago at the time — took over the plaza and built soldiers’ quarters there.
With Intramuros virtually destroyed in the Battle of Manila during World War II, Plaza Moriones reverted to open space, even serving as a parking lot for cars and tour buses for years after the war. The reconstruction of Intramuros eventually prompted its redevelopment, planned as early as 1973, and completed twice by the Intramuros Administration: first in 1993, and again in 2017.
Plaza Moriones was originally bare open space, with the plaza being documented as having grass as early as 1875. By 1903, despite still being considered an "unremarkable" space, the plaza had a few trees growing around its periphery, and by the 1930s, aerial photos show that trees were found growing on the northern side of the plaza, close to the fort's entrance, while the southern side remained open space. After World War II, the plaza reverted to being largely covered in grass, although shrubbery was planted in 1983. Concrete paths and a fountain were also installed in the 1980s.
Plans to redevelop the plaza were first conceptualized in 1973 as part of the Development Plan for Intramuros presented by the Spanish government, in which the plaza was envisioned as a “cultural-recreational area". In the early 1990s, the Intramuros Administration commissioned landscape architect Dolly Perez to redesign the plaza. Perez's redesign, completed in 1993, transformed the space into a garden with flora typical of 19th-century gardens. As part of the redesign, trees were planted and, in keeping with the general historical appearance of Intramuros, the plaza's walkways and low walls were framed in natural adobe and brick. This remained the general appearance of Plaza Moriones for nearly 25 years, making it a popular location for picnics, wedding receptions and dog walking.
In 2014, the Intramuros Administration proceeded with a second redevelopment of Plaza Moriones, part of a ₱240 million, ten-part redevelopment of Fort Santiago as a whole, and falling in line with its long-term plan for the wider redevelopment of Intramuros. The redeveloped Plaza Moriones was reopened by the Department of Tourism (DOT) on April 17, 2017, and funded by the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), an attached agency of the DOT.
As part of the plaza's redevelopment, intended to restore the plaza to its original function as a parade ground, the gardens were replaced with granite paving, with specified areas for manicured planting arrangements within the plaza's periphery, including a number of "kalachuchi" (frangipani) trees festooned with capiz shell lamps near the entrance to Fort Santiago. This allows for unobstructed views of the fort's gate from Santa Clara Street, which bounds the plaza's southern end, as well as the Manila Cathedral from the plaza's northern end. A new fountain was also installed in the center of the plaza.
The redevelopment was controversial, eliciting criticism from tour guide and cultural activist Carlos Celdran, who complained that the IA "paved over my heart" after discovering the renovations as he was returning from a trip abroad. Celdran later remarked that the renovations looked "flat, anonymous, and [it] has nothing to do with Intramuros' character or history", even calling it the "plaza from TriNoma" and denouncing the project as a waste of taxpayers' money. The IA didn't conduct public consultations on the redevelopment project, as it was not required by law to do so, but people who use the plaza regularly have, according to architect Augusto F. Villalon, lamented the loss of its park-like atmosphere, especially considering Manila's lack of green, open spaces. In its defense, the IA emphasized that it consulted landscape architects and heritage experts when the project was first conceived in 2014, and Celdran himself has noted that he was nevertheless coordinating closely with stakeholders on the matter.
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Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is a non-fiction book by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The work came as the result of successful classes instructed by Kant at the Albertus Universität in then Königsberg, Germany. While nominally detailing the nature of anthropology as a field, it additionally discusses a variety of topics in terms of Kantian thought.
Kant's work distills the content that he taught in an annual course at the Albertus Universität in then Königsberg, Germany, a program which Kant set forth from 1772 until his retirement in 1796. The book came out in 1798 with the intent of exposing Kant's viewpoints on the then embryonic intellectual field of anthropology to a wider audience. Despite not being free, unlike other speaking engagements by Kant, the philosopher's classes on the topic had achieved widespread popular interest in contrast to previous attempts to spread his general ideas to the masses.
"Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" wound up being the last major work of Kant that was edited by the philosopher himself. The strain of his age and the state of his health had significantly affected his writing. Despite the meaning that he attached to the book, those factors meant that he found himself unable to do more much than arrange his lecture notes for publication.
Summing up Kant's views on ideals in the context of the book's composition, scholar Frederick P. Van De Pitte has written,
Within the work, Kant remarks that anthropology seeks to answer the fundamental question "what is the human being" and thus can be considered the academic discipline with the highest intellectual scope. A later reviewer commented about Kant's opinions that "[o]ne of the many lessons... is that at the empirical level of application, there is no sharp dividing line between morality and nature, since empirical psychology can function as empirical ethics for this purpose." In conclusion, according to the reviewer, "[h]uman beings in nature are acting, moral beings".
Exploring in multiple aspects the causes and effects of people's behavior, Kant spends many pages on topics such as the biological as well as psychological capacity for individuals to live through and comprehend experiences. For instance, the writing details Kant's views on the external senses as well as the particular nature of different mental states from drunkenness to sleep. He expands to discussions on social organization and interpersonal relations while inserting numerous comments about different types of people as well as various life events. Many of these relate to observations of humanity itself, generally speaking.
Specifically, Kant states that "a mind of slow apprehension is therefore not necessarily a weak mind" since "the one who is alert with
abstractions is not always profound" but "is more often very superficial." He argues, "[t]he deceiver is really the fool." On determination and mental resolve, in addition, Kant asserts that "[t]hrough failures one becomes intelligent" and "the one who has trained himself in this subject so that he can make others wise through their own failures... [thus] has used his intelligence." Kant defends what he describes as the seeking of knowledge by even the uncertain layperson, the philosopher arguing "[i]gnorance is not stupidity."
The book additionally features detailed accounts by Kant of him applying his "categorical imperative" concept to various issues in real experience. For example, he writes about the contrast between striving idealism and personal vice, the philosopher writing,
On the subject of religion, he laments what he sees as unnecessary conflict in terms of cognitive purposes and the regular practice of devotion, Kant remarking,
Comparing and contrasting different human groups, Kant makes a variety of assertions about men and women as well as different ethnicities, nationalities, and races. For instance, he writes about the sexes, "[t]he woman wants to dominate, [and] the man wants to be dominated". The philosopher argues in depth that nature "made women mature early and had them demand gentle and polite treatment from men, so that they would find themselves imperceptibly fettered by a child due to their own magnanimity" and additionally "would find themselves brought, if not quite to morality itself, then at least to that which cloaks it, moral behavior". In Kant's eyes, ideal marriage exists in such a way that a woman acts like a monarch while a man acts like a cabinet minister.
In terms of differing nations, Kant asserts that important generalities can be made about the peoples of various areas, stating specifically,
In sum, the philosopher views ethical analysis fundamentally as constituting "practical anthropology". He aims not to necessarily assign duties to individuals but to empower them intellectually so that they can properly set their own paths themselves. Dovetailing on the same issues, the concluding section of "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" discusses "the character of the species" and evaluates the necessity of giving space for personal freedom as a key element in broader social advancement.
Scholars Victor L. Dowdell and Hans H. Rudnick have argued that "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" constitutes the best way for layperson readers to begin learning Kant's philosophy.
"Introduction to Kant's Anthropology" (French: "Introduction à l'Anthropologie"), seminal intellectual figure Michel Foucault's analysis of Kant's book, served as Foucault's secondary thesis (alongside a translation of Kant's work itself plus Foucault's writing "Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique") in 1964.
Foucault's work received an English translation and widespread publication in the 2000s. In his analysis, the French scholar evaluates the question of whether or not psychology has supplanted metaphysics in the evolution of reasoning. He specifically warns against this. Foucault additionally writes that Kant's understandings highlighted the fact that empirical knowledge about human nature has been intrinsically tied up with language. Thus, a person can be considered a citizen of the world insofar as he or she speaks.
Upon its initial release, "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" generated a considerable public response. The book ended up receiving the highest number of printings of any of Kant's works up to that time in its initial run. Despite this, multiple writers considered the work unworthy of serious intellectual analysis. For many years, it became seen as a lesser work in the context of Kant's entire bibliography.
Recent analysis of the book have described it as a vital resource on Kant's thinking. For example, a 2007 article published by the journal "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" labeled it as "increasingly important", reviewer Frederick Rauscher, a professor at Michigan State University and writer, noting the work's "complex nature" in detailing interesting topics.
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Te Manawa (Westgate)
Te Manawa (Westgate) is a community hub located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is Auckland Council’s first fully-integrated community hub. Officially opened on 6 April 2019, Te Manawa services and resources include a library, customer service centre, rooms for hire, commercial kitchen, creative spaces, work and study areas along with a Citizens Advice Bureau. It serves the suburbs of Westgate, Massey, West Harbour and Hobsonville. Before its official opening, Te Manawa made a soft launch on 26 March 2019 to test the team and the facility, which attracted two thousand visitors on that day.. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand, Te Manawa had a two-month long closure - closed on 20 March 2020 and reopened to the public on 20 May 2020.
Te Manawa, known as Westgate Library and Multi-Purpose Facility before the Maori name was gifted, is the central piece of work of the new Westgate town centre development. It was designed by Warren and Mahoney in collaboration with Rawstorne Studio for its interior architecture. The project was one of four 2019 Interior Awards Winner. The project was also granted the DINZ (Designers Institute of New Zealand) Best Awards – Public & Institutional Spaces – Silver Pin in 2019. Te Manawa’s green design includes stormwater detention and re-use, solar power and heating and air-conditioning.
In Te Reo Maori, Te Manawa means ‘the heart’. The name Te Manawa as well as other space names within the facility was gifted by Matua Heta Tobin of Ngāti Whātua Ngā Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara . The name reflects the buildings purpose to be at the heart of the community, a place where people are the life blood.
Te Whare Tapere meaning a place of entertainment, story-telling, dance, games, music and other entertainment in Te Reo Maori is the children's space. This anchoring piece of interior architectural work was designed by multidisciplinary award-winning artist Robin Rawstorne. The space looks like a pool in the middle of a forest glade, with ripples radiating outwards intending to generate a sense of ownership and investigation in the children. Te Whare Tapere also includes a stage for storytelling and performances. Nooks are one of the most attractive features for many children allowing them to curl up in. On top of encouraging children to the use space to the most, better flexibility of furniture and space rearrangement was another design principle.
Te Ara Tapuwae, also located on Level 1, includes the creative hub and studios. Ara means 'a route'; whereas Tapuwae means 'footprint'. Te Ara Tapuwae was used to be a reference to all ancestors.
Hinengaro , a Maori word for mind, thought, intellect, consciousness, awareness, was used to name the community space on level 2. Those spaces on Level 3 were given the names of Kokiri meaning move forward, promote, advocate, lead and Ngatahi meaning united with one thought.
Te Manawa inherits the library services of Massey Library. It is a part (one of 55 branches) of the wider family of Auckland Libraries, which has extensive collections of books, e-books, newspapers, magazines and online resources, even free movie streaming. There are designated places for its fiction, non-fiction, children's and teen's collections at Te Manawa. Te Manawa's community language collections include Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Pacific Island languages, such as Fijian, Samoan. There are 8 PCs available for customers to use for free; whereas, Wi-fi connection is available for everyone regardless of having a library membership or not. Te Manawa has a designated study space allowing customers to sit down and study quietly.
Back in 2010, then Waitakere City Council noticed that Northwest Auckland was growing so fast that the Massey Library was unable to meet future demand. A proposal to build a new three times larger library plus town square and bus interchange was put on table. Massey Library was permanently closed on Thursday, 21 March 2019 shortly before the soft launch of Te Manawa.
Te Manawa has a varied programme of free events and classes, including Wiggle and Rhyme, learning 3D printing, trying out a recording studio, and improving conversational English. Te Manawa also has a team dedicated to Programme and Outreach.
Te Manawa provides a good range of community services. At this stage, local residents can pay their Council rates, register a dog and make general Auckland Council service inquiries under one roof and served by the same team. Te Manawa expects to further expand the council services, such as building consent submission, in the future.
Te Manawa has meeting rooms as well as a commercial kitchen and business hub for community use with a small charge.
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Évremond de Bérard
Évremond de Bérard (30 June 1824, Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe - 25 January 1881, Paris) was a French painter and lithographer. He spent much of his life travelling, and was present at the opening of the Suez Canal.
In 1843, he began four years of study in Paris with the painter and pedagogue, François-Édouard Picot. A year after completing his studies, he obtained a position as an artist and draftsman for a naval station in the Indian Ocean. That same year, he began a three-year trip that took him to Réunion, Mauritius, India, the Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Senegal and, ultimately, Brazil.
In 1850, on Réunion, he married Céleste Caroline Selhausen (1827-1895), daughter of Pierre Selhausen, an infantry lieutenant and treasurer of the in Saint-Denis. The following year, his son, Gabriel (1851-1904), was born in Paris. In 1852, he presented two paintings at the seventy-fifth anniversary exhibition of the Salon. He then returned to live on the family estate near Sainte-Anne.
From 1852 to 1857, he produced thirty paintings, watercolors and drawings on Guadeloupe and Martinique; notably, two for the new parish church in Pointe-à-Pitre. He also travelled to Trinidad, Guyana, Panama, Jamaica and Cuba. He also completed full-length portraits of Jean-Baptiste Jourdan and Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, for the prefecture building of Haute-Vienne, in Limoges. In 1858, he created lithographs, after works by the painter, Nélie Jacquemart, that appeared in "L'Illustration"
He was elected a member of the in 1859. Another exhibition at the Salon followed in 1861, with scenes from India. In 1865 and 1866, agents of Emperor Napoleon III commissioned him to create two paintings for the museums in Bergues and Carpentras.
The Empress Eugénie invited him to attend the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869; which provided him with the opportunity to create numerous drawings and paintings of Egypt. The following year, he was elected to the Société de Géographie. In the following three years, he painted four wall panels in the Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology at the French National Museum of Natural History. Despite these successes, he found himself facing financial difficulties and was forced to have an agent sell six of his paintings on commission.
He was entrusted with an expedition to India in 1877; to do research on anthropology and botany; specifically, plant reproduction. From 1878 to 1879, he lived in the northern region of Kashmir, which inspired numerous watercolors and drawings. By the time he returned, he was seriously ill.
In 1880, some of these works became his final exhibition at the Salon. In 1881, he died of malaria and was interred in the family vault at Père-Lachaise Cemetery.
A retrospective exhibition of his works was presented in Paris in 2017; celebrating the publication of his biography.
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E-iginimpa'e
E-iginimpa'e () was a Sumerian ruler (ensi) of the Mesopotamian city of Adab in the mid-3rd millennium BCE, probably circa 2400 BCE. He succeeded another ensi known as Mugsi.
He is known from several inscriptions, most of them located in the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, with one tablet in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. He was a contemporary of Lugal-zage-si as several land transactions are recorded between the two.
One of his tablets reads, dedicated to goddess Digirmah or Ensimah (, equivalent of Martu) reads:
E-iginimpa'e was "ensi-GAR", the highest civil office in Adab.
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Accidental Heroes (TV series)
Accidental Heroes is an Australian television series screening on the Nine Network from 2020, hosted by Sophie Monk and Nick Cody. The series features funny moments caught on camera, when ordinary people accidentally end up as internet viral sensations. Each episode revolves around a theme: Kids, Epic Stuff-Ups, Home Sweet Home, Into the Wild, Looking for Love, Holiday Fails, Families, Homemade Superstars, Amazing Pets, Villains and Heroes.
The series was filmed in 2017 and announced as part of their programming slate for that year, but wasn't screened. With holes in their schedule in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 10 episodes were screened as 5 double episodes in 2020.
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Emma de Broughe
Emma de Broughe (born 6 September 2000) is a sportswoman from Australia who plays field hockey and cricket.
Emma de Broughe was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia.
De Broughe studied at Sacred Heart College, graduating in 2018.
In Hockey Australia's domestic competitions, Emma de Broughe represents her home state, South Australia (SA).
In 2018, De Broughe made her debut in the Australian Hockey League (AHL) for the SA Suns. Following the overhaul of the AHL, Hockey Australia subsequently introduced of a new domestic league, the Sultana Bran Hockey One League. De Broughe made her debut for SA's new representative team, the Adelaide Fire, in season one of the new league in 2019.
Emma de Broughe first represented Australia at an FIH sanctioned event in 2018, during a qualifier for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
De Broughe made her debut for the Australia U–21, the Jillaroos, during a 2019 Tri–Nations Tournament in Canberra.
Following her debut in 2019, De Broughe represented the team again in 2020 during a four match test–series against Japan in Canberra.
In addition to field hockey, De Broughe also plays competitive cricket.
Emma de Broughe plays for Sturt Cricket Club in SACA's Statewide Super 1st Grade competition.
In the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL), De Broughe represents the South Australian Scorpions. She was first signed to the team in 2019 following standout performances in state competition and on the national stage.
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Gunung Gangsir
Gunung Gangsir () is an 11th-century Hindu candi (temple) located approximately 5 kilometers west from the town of Bangil. This red brick structure is located in Gunung Gangsir village, Beji subdistrict, Pasuruan Regency, East Java Indonesia.
Gunung Gangsir is quite unique among East Javanese temples, because it was the only temple that combines East Javanese and Central Javanese candi styles. It is also the only known temple in East Java that uses clay casting techniques to display a variety of decorations.
This unique distinctions has led for the experts to suggests that the temple is actually far older than the nearby Pari and Jabung temples of Majapahit period, thus dated the temple circa 11th century CE, approximately during the reign of King Airlangga of Kahuripan Kingdom. Regarding the structure of this temple, Marijke J. Klokke, a Dutch archaeologist, suggests that Gunung Gangsir Temple possibly had been restored during the end of East Javanese kingdom period by using material from an older temple.
The history of this temple – such as its original name, which deity being venerated in this temple, who was the king or regional ruler that commissioned the construction and when was it – are still unknown, since no records nor inscriptions found near the temple that could shed the information about this temple. Formerly, this temple was known by locals as Keboncandi temple.
There are myths circulating among surrounding populations about this temple. The term "gunung" means "mountain" in local language – possibly refer to the shape of temple ruins prior to reconstruction – an earthen brick mound that resembles a mountain. While the word "gangsir" () means "to dig a hole" under the surface of the ground, or "digging a tunnel". According to local residents, this name appears when one day there was someone who tried to dig a hole into the mound to loot valuable objects under the temple building. Subsequently, the temple was known by the name of "Candi Gunung Gangsir".
The temple structure was made from red bricks, which is a common temple building materials in the region during Majapahit period (c. 14th to 15th century), as demonstrated by Pari and Jabung temple nearby. However, the design, shape and proportion, also the decorations is more similar to Central Javanese temples from earlier period. The proportion for example, is quite similar to the 8th century Mendut temple near Borobudur. Thus, experts put the construction period circa 11th century CE.
The temple is facing East-Southeast direction, with a flight of stairs and portal facing that direction protruding on the east side of temple structure. The temple base is rectangular in shape with dimension of 15 metres x 15 metres. The temple is 15 metres in height, with visible distinction between foot (base) part, body, and roof. The elevated terrace and the room is about 5 metres in high from the ground, accessible through the stairs. Inside the temple, there is a spacious "cella" served as "garbagriha" or inner sanctum. The roof is arranged in stepped pyramid arranged in three stages, the top stage and its pinnacle however is now missing.
The temple is quite richly adorned with niches, seams and decorated antefixes. Intricate panels, featuring ornaments in the form of bas-reliefs, vessels with floral motifs, pilasters, images of trees and animals, which are made with clay molding techniques. There are traces of plasters known as "vajralepa", which suggest originally the entire surface of the temple was covered with plaster, which is similar to the Kalasan and Sari temple near Prambanan.
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Camponotus fellah
Camponotus fellah is a species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae found across the Middle East and North Africa. This species was formally described by Dalla Torre in 1893. A "C. fellah" queen holds the record for Israeli ant longevity, surviving for 26 years (1983-2009) in a laboratory environment.
"Camponotus fellah" is monogynous (i.e., colonies consist of a single queen), with polymorphic workers. Queens are singly inseminated meaning that all workers in a colony are full sisters. Colonies are generally found in dry and warm habitats including coastal dunes and deserts.
Ant nest-mate recognition is mediated by low volatile cuticular hydrocarbons. Isolated workers are unable to frequently exchange hydrocarbons with nest-mates, and their hydrocarbon profiles diverge from that of the colony. After 20-40 days in isolation, the hydrocarbon profiles of workers diverges to such an extent that they are no longer accepted by the colony. However, aggression is reduced if the isolated workers are exposed to airflow from the colony, indicating that volatile nest chemicals also contribute to nest-mate recognition.
Trophallaxis - the mouth-to-mouth transfer of liquid food - is a main mechanism of food dissemination in ant colonies. In "C. fellah", the colony trophallactic network has been quantified by combining unique marking of individuals with fluorescently labelled food. This procedure refined our understanding of trophallaxis, revealing that transfer flow can switch direction during a trophallaxis event, that foragers receive (as well as unload) food, that foragers often leave the nest after offloading only a small amount of the food in their crop, and that non-foragers also offload considerable amounts of food. Further, the vast majority of trophallaxis events were short in duration, possibly functioning to maintain the colony odour rather than disseminate food . Indeed, when the hydrocarbon profiles of members of "C. fellah" colonies are artificially modified, the colony reaches homogeneity more rapidly than non-trophallaxing species . Through maintaining homogenous hydrocarbon profiles, trophallaxis mediates colony cohesion. The engagement of workers in socially cohesive trophallaxis may be underpinned by levels of octopamine in the brain. Usually after isolation, upon return to the colony, workers perform trophallaxis at an elevated rate. However, if workers are treated with octopamine, this increase in trophallaxis is not observed.
A combination of automated behavioural tracking and social network analysis revealed that colony social networks consist of three communities: a nurse community of the queen and young workers who care for the brood, a forager community of older workers who leave the nest to forage, and a cleaner community of workers who specialise in nest maintenance. This structure is thought to emerge from age-induced changes in the behaviour of individual workers.
Socially isolated workers rapidly lose weight, and exhibit reduced lifespans and behavioural changes including increased locomotion . This effect is markedly reduced when workers are isolated with just one other individual. The increase in the mortality of isolated workers likely results from an increase in energy expenditure and a decrease in energy income. Through energy balance, social interactions therefore seem to influence health and ageing.
"Camponotus fellah", like all tested Carpenter ant species harbours an intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria from the genus Blochmannia. This endosymbiont contributes to host nutrition by recycling nitrogen into aminoacid biosynthesis, and when levels are experimentally reduced colony growth decreases . Blochmannia is harboured in specialised cells (bacteriocytes) in the midgut epithelium, and transmitted exclusively horizontally.
Since Blochmannia's closest sister taxa are endosymbionts of sap-feeding insects, and ants often associate with sap-feeding insects, it is possible that the Blochmannia ancestor was acquired by the Camponotini ancestor via sap-feeding insects .
In general ants rely heavily on olfactory cues and have well developed olfactory centres in their brains. This is particularly true of Carpenter ants, and "C. fellah" workers can be trained to associate odours with gustatory reinforcers in lab conditions. They will chose the branch of a Y-maze according to odours they have learnt to associate with gustatory reward .
Foraging above ground the workers rely heavily on vision for navigation. Below ground, workers combine spatial memory, chemical signals, and gravity. When faced with catastrophe, the workers dynamically adjust which of these sources of information they rely on through individual and collective learning .
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Ann Taylor (actress)
Ann Taylor (born 1 November 1936 in Stafford, Staffordshire) is an actress, hostess and singer who appeared on British television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Taylor attended a Hertfordshire stage school while a teenager. Soon she made her professional stage debut in the pantomime The Sleeping Beauty at Salisbury. After stage school, she appeared in a summer show at Folkestone.
Taylor was a member of a TV dancing troupe Toppers. Then she came in the West End of London for work in cabaret. She was engaged as the NAAFI girl in series "The Army Game" (1957-1961), and this led to film and television work. In 1959 she did a season of repertory at Cheltenham.
Taylor is the daughter of an architect. She was married to Border Television programme director John Holdsworth.
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Brother's Keeper (2002 film)
Brother's Keeper is a 2002 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by John Badham and written by Steven Baigelman and Glenn Gers. The film stars Jeanne Tripplehorn as a former police investigator drawn to a series of serial killings in Portland, Oregon that may have been committed by her disturbed younger brother, played by Corin Nemec. Leland Orser and Evan Parke co-star.
"Brother's Keeper" was produced by Trilogy Entertainment Group and New Line Television and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It aired in the United States on the USA Network on January 29, 2002.
Highly intelligent, mentally disturbed career criminal Ellis Pond escapes from prison, runs through a forest and successfully evades his pursuers.
Ellis's older sister Lucinda, once the best homicide detective in the Portland Police Bureau, now runs a tackle shop from her houseboat. A burnt-out, depressed alcoholic, she is estranged from her husband Adam and young daughter Marcie, and tormented by nightmares of the event that got her removed from the force four years earlier: Her manhunt in Maris Creek for child molester and suspected serial killer Victor Orbin led to a SWAT team gunning down an innocent man working at the site. Orbin, who was never at the scene, is presumed still at large.
Ellis reappears in Portland, strangling and castrating Internal Affairs investigator Fred Tierney, who was responsible for Lucinda's removal. Detective Travis Adler recognizes the murder as being Orbin's modus operandi, and thinks the killer may have resurfaced. He asks Lucinda to return to the force to head the case and track down Orbin for good, but she refuses, rattled when learning of Ellis's escape.
Ellis kills an insurance salesman, puts on his clothes, drives to a house and murders the man who answers the door. Both men are also strangled and castrated to copycat Orbin. Lucinda discovers that the house was her childhood home. She and Ellis were abused by their alcoholic father, long dead of an illness, and she always tried to take the brunt of it, swearing to always look after Ellis. FBI Special Agent Arthur Fortis, Junior, brought on the case as an advisor, answers a phone call to Lucinda from Ellis, who reveals details of Tierney's murder and demands his sister be put on the case.
Lucinda finds a coded note from Ellis in the house's attic, revealing his apparent willingness to surrender to her that night. She figures out the location and stakes it out with Travis, Junior and their team. Ellis calls her, seemingly taunting her with riddles from their childhood, and his location is traced to a homeless shelter across the street. Everyone races there, but Lucinda realizes it is a setup. A booby trap in the room explodes, injuring Junior and killing several other officers.
Ellis escapes and later poses as a camper in Crater Lake National Park, where he meets a boy named Kelly. Seeing that Kelly is being abused by his father, Ellis kidnaps him after murdering his father and tying up his mother.
A clue left at the house murder leads Lucinda to her father's old office. In the basement, she finds a skeleton in a refrigerator. As the team converges on the park, they learn that the skeleton is Victor Orbin's, and he was dead before the events at Maris Creek, having in fact been previously buried there. Lucinda realizes that Ellis committed all the murders, killed Orbin and framed him, believing that Lucinda would find the body, figure out Ellis was responsible, and come after him. The innocent worker's death was an unforeseen circumstance. With Lucinda pulled from duty and unable to protect Ellis, he was imprisoned on unrelated charges, which explains why "Orbin" stopped killing. Lucinda now knows that Ellis wants her to kill him, to spare her of always having to be her brother's keeper. She is determined to bring him in alive.
As Lucinda and Junior search the forest, she is injured by one of Ellis's traps. Junior performs first aid and heads back to their SUV, where Ellis ambushes and stabs him. Lucinda hears the struggle and finds Junior wounded but alive. She presses a GPS beacon on his wrist, alerting the team to their location, then finds Ellis holding Kelly at gunpoint. Ellis begs her to kill him, but she refuses, wounding him and letting Kelly run away. A police sniper fires at Ellis; Lucinda dives in front of the bullet, but it goes through her shoulder and into his chest. As Ellis dies in her arms, he says that he has been killing "just one person" – their father – and that "he kept coming back".
Later, Travis drops Lucinda off at Adam's house, where she reconciles with him and Marcie.
The film began shooting in Vancouver on May 21, 2001. It was originally titled "Breeders".
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Melicytus alpinus
Melicytus alpinus, the mahoe porcupine shrub, is a small shrub of the family Violaceae endemic to New Zealand.
"Melicytus alpinus" get their common name, porcupine shrub, from the long, almost leafless, spindly branches which resemble the quills of a porcupine. Its leaves are narrow and generally have smooth margins with a few exceptions with serrated edges, however, they do only have a small amount of leaves and they are only approximately 1cm long. Hard and dense, slow-growing in coastal or alpine areas of southern North Island and the South Island it looks almost leafless. But most of the leaves are sheltered between the stiff interlacing stems as an adaptation to the harsh environment where the plant grows. Leaves are variable, leathery and about 1cm long.
The "Melicytus alpinus" is endemic to New Zealand, and it comes from the family "Violaceae" which is native to New Zealand.
"Melicytus alpinus" can be found in both the North and South Island of New Zealand in coastal and/or dry alpine areas. It is most common in the South Island high country.
"Melicytus alpinus" is very well adapted to extreme weather conditions such as drought, which is why it can be found in areas such as the heavily modified high country of the South Island.
In spring and early summer small white flowers turn into tasty fragrant white, blue-specked fruit. Seeds for the porcupine shrub are dispersed by lizards and this allows the porcupine shrub to grow, the shrub grows its flowers in spring to early summer. The flowers are then insect pollinated and produce the small white berries eaten by many native New Zealand lizards, thus starting the cycle again.
The porcupine shrub is very resistant to extreme weather conditions and drought; therefore, it lives in areas of dry, rocky soils with very little water availability. It can also be found in coastal areas with saline, dry soils, with very little structure.
"Melicytus alpinus" is a habitat to many lizard’s endemic to New Zealand, this group of lizards include both skinks and geckos. This relationship is mutually beneficial/codependent as the lizards use the porcupine shrub as protection from weather and/or predators and in turn eat and spread the seeds from the shrub's berries.
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Archaeal translation
Archaeal translation is the process by which messenger RNA is translated into proteins in archaea. Not much is known on this subject, but on the protein level it seems to resemble eukaryotic translation.
Most of the initiation, elongation, and termination factors in archaea have homologs in eukaryotes. Shine-Dalgarno sequences only are found in a minority of genes for many phyla, with many leaderless mRNAs probably initiated by scanning. The process of ABCE1 ATPase-based recycling is also shared with eukaryotes.
Being a prokaryote without a nucleus, archaea do perform transcription and translation at the same time like bacteria do.
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Kedar Man Vyathit
Kedar Man Vyathit ( (1971–2055 BS); also spelt, first name:Kedarman, last name:Byathit (1914–1998 CE)) was a Nepali poet of Nepali, Newar and Hindi languages. Educated up to the third grade, he started out as an employee of a timber godown, but later co-founded "Nepali Citizens Rights Forum" with Sukraraj Shastri. Sentenced to 18 years for treason by the Rana regime in 1997 BS (1942 CE), he was tutored in poetry by Siddhicharan Shrestha in prison. After the fall of the Ranas, he grew close to the monarchy, becoming a member of King Tribhuvan's Adviser Assembly, and, later, cabinet minister during both King Mahendra and King Birendra's reign. He was confined to bed for a number of his final years, having injured himself in a fall.
He published at least 23 volumes of poetry— sixteen in Nepali, and four each in Newari and Hindi. His poems are usually written in metrical verse and are very brief, rarely exceeding a page in length. His early poems are melancholic, pessimistic or revolutionary, in keeping with his incarceration during a time of revolution against the tyranny of the Ranas. His later poems have themes of human love including some eroticism, and natural beauty. He played a pivotal role in the development of Nepali literature, both as a central figure of a literary generation that transitioned it from a more Sanskritic Hindu tradition to a modern one, and through his organisational activities, chief among them, a series of national and international literary conferences.
Vyathit was born Kedar Man Shrestha,in Kartik, 1971 BS (Oct–Nov, 1914), to father Suryaman and mother Padma Kumari Shrestha, in a village called Baune Pati or Banaune Pati, in Bansbari of Sindhupalchok District in east-central Nepal. As an infant, he was taken to his maternal uncle/grandparents' home in Syangja, where he was raised for four years before being moved again, to be raised in Kathmandu. He dropped out of school after passing the third grade, and worked in a timber godown.
Around the age of 18, he married Jyotsana Pradhan, daughter of Chakrasundar and Shivamaya Pradhan. He had 10 children with her— six sons and four daughters.
He was the founding secretary of "Nepali Citizens Rights Committee" that he co-founded with Sukraraj Shastri. On 2 Kartik 1997 BS (October 1940 CE), he was charged with treason and sentenced to 18 years in prison with seizure of all his property. While in prison, Siddhi Charan Shrestha helped him develop his poetry. He continued his political activism in prison. He sat on a hunger strike for 21 days demanding improvements in living conditions for the prisoners. He was released in 1945. The same year, he convened Nepal's first literary conference. In 2003 BS (1946-47 CE), he had significant involvement in the establishment of Nepali Literary Council. He then went to India to join the democracy activists there. In India, he joined the Nepali National Congress, and was nominated a member of the Central Struggle Committee. He was accused in the Jharokhar Shooting Incident of Rautahat; he was arrested by Indian Police upon request from the Rana regime. BP Koirala convinced Jawaharlal Nehru to not extradite him, and so he was imprisoned in Bihar jail instead. After 18 months of jail, he was released by the request of the government following the establishment of democracy in Nepal.
Vyathit was nominated a member of King Tribhuvan's Advisor Council. He founded the Leftist Congress under his own chairmanship following an ideological dispute with BP Koirala, but it failed to gain any ground and quickly disappeared into obscurity. He was one of the founders of the Poetry Society that was established in 2013 BS (1956-57 CE) under the chairmanship of Laxmi Prasad Devkota.
Vyathit was close to King Mahendra. Mahendra gifted him land and cash to build a home. Mahendra appointed him Chancellor of Royal Nepal Academy 1969 CE, as a successor to himself, making him the first commoner to hold the position. Vyathit became the Minister of Transport and Communications in 1962, after Mahendra deposed the democratic government and initiated the partyless Panchayat System. In 1962, Vyathit founded Nepali Literature Institute, the first literary institution in Nepal. He was the founding secretary of the Institute; he became the chairperson two years later.
In 2019 BS (1962-63 CE), an international literary conference was held in Kathmandu under his leadership. He directed or guided national literary conferences in various cities throughout Nepal in the next decade. King Mahendra, pen named M. B. B Shah, was among the participants. He was also known for holding mini-conferences and poetry recitals in his home.
He was the Home Minister in 2036 BS (1979-80 CE) during the democracy protests and the subsequent referendum on the political system governing the country. He was criticised for the use of force by the Police during the protests. According to Govinda Giri Prerana, he vowed never to accept a ministerial position again.
He died on 10 September 1998 CE while undergoing treatment at TU Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu. He was confined to bed in his final years, after he fell down in the bathroom of Royal Nepal Academy and broke his leg.
Vyathit was awarded "Bedhnidhi Puraskar" in 2046 BS (1989-90 CE). He was awarded the "Madan Puraskar" in 2049 BS (1992-93 CE) in recognition of his 50 years of service to Nepali literature through his writings as well as institutional roles and organisational activities. He was also a recipient of the "Jyotirmaya Trisakti Patta"–First class and "Gorkha Dakshin Bahu"–First class. Notable among his other awards include "Prithvi Pragya Puraskar", "Shrestha Sirapa Puraskar", "Jagadambashree Puraskar" and "Sitaram Puraskar".
Nai Prakashan conferred him the title of "Rajkavi". Madan Mani Dixit had conferred him the title of "Vishwakavi" and advocated vociferously for public acceptance of the title; he did not succeed.
He published at least 23 volumes of poem collection, sixteen of them in Nepal, and four each in Newari and Hindi.
He also wrote the poem "Meri Priyasi: Prajatantrik Swatantrata"[My love: Democratic Freedom] in 2034 BS (1977-78 CE).
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1953 Albanian First Division
The 1953 Albanian First Division (Albanian: "Kategoria e Dytë") was the 9th season of a second-tier Association football league in Albania. The season started in March and ended in August. After the interruption of 1952 the Second Division resumed with the formula of the 14 teams in two groups and the final by title and promotions between the two first classified. Spartaku Tiranë wins the title and promotion, but thanks to the Federation's decision to enlarge the First Division to 12 teams, Puna Elbasan also gains promotion, although defeated in the play-off by the penultimate of the major series, and Puna Kavajë, who wins a special play-off with the second in the other group.
Single match played in Kavajë.
The second-place finishers in the groups played in two match promotion playoffs.
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ACS Progresul Pecica
Asociația Club Sportiv Progresul Pecica, commonly known as ACS Progresul Pecica, Progresul Pecica, or simply as Pecica is a Romanian professional football club based in Pecica, Arad County.
Progresul Pecica was founded in 1949, under the name of "Steaua Roșie Pecica", as a result of the merger between "Virtutea Pecica (est. in 1921)" and "Club Atletic Rovine (est. in 1924)". Steaua Roșie was renamed in 1954 as "Recolta Pecica" and since 1965 was known as Progresul Pecica playing only at the level of the County or Districtual League (4th tier).
Progresul was renamed again in 1987, this time as "Aurul Negru Pecica" and started to be financially supported by the Pecica Oil Scaffold. In 1992, former Divizia C member "Petrolul Arad/ Zădăreni (est. 1983)" merged with "Aurul Negru Pecica (est. 1949)" and formed a new entity, West Petrom Arad (Pecica). West Petrom was financially supported by Petrom and for 10 years (1994–2004) played in the third tier, but with oscillating results.
In 2001, "Aurul Negru Pecica" withdrew from the West Petrom Association, changed its name back to Progresul Pecica and enrolled a senior squad in the Divizia D – Arad County. Progresul relegated in the Honor Division after only one season, while West Petrom spent three more seasons in the third tier before it was dissolved. Progresul promoted back in the Liga IV after 2005 and won twice the competition, in 2015 and 2019, but it succeeded to promote in the third tier only in 2019.
"AS Virtutea Pecica" was established on 15 August 1921 and was the first football club of Pecica, just a commune at that time. Virtutea was founded as a sporting and cultural club, in its composition entering three sports sections (football, tennis & table tennis, chess), but also a cultural section (literature), frequented by all the athletes of the club. The management of AS Virtutea was composed of: Prof. Nestor Blaga, Ioan Gh. Pălincaș, priest Teodor Șiclovan (honorary presidents), Dr. Tyurovschi (president), Augustin Bochiș (secretary) A.M. Iobb (cashier) and Dr. Olteanu (sporting director). Board members were: R. Ponta, Florea Locușteanu, Roman Jugu, E. Ponta and Aron Șiclovan. It is worth mentioning that A.S. Virtutea Pecica had legal personality.
Among the sports sections that had results at the level of Arad County, was also the football team, which was in the first part of the standings. During the 1946–47 season, the football section of AS Virtutea activated in the third tier, Divizia C. One of the notable results obtained in this period was a 1–1 draw, in a match played against the former champion of Romania, Ripensia Timișoara. These results were obtained with the following players: Alexandru Toth, Ioan Rotariu, Roman Teretean, Ștefan Ponta, Licu Igrișan, Alexandru Molnar, Gheorghe Ponta, Ilie Solomie, Mircea Popețiu, Rudolf Rutz, Iuliu Stainer, Liviu Barbu, Roman Rusu, Cornel Curea, Nicolae Grozav and Gheorge Haș. In the 1948–49 season of the districtual football championship (4th tier), Virtutea was ranked 3rd at the end of the first part of the season. In this edition, the championship included the following members: Vagonul Arad, Patria Chișineu-Criș, Unirea Arad, Olimpia Arad, Șoimii Pâncota, Tricolorul Arad, Unirea Sântana, Frontiera Curtici, Sebișana Sebiș, "Club Atletic Rovine (Pecica)", S.G. Arad, Găiana Arad and Șoimii Lipova. In addition to the domestic championship, friendly international matches were played against B.T.K. Battonya and Makó, both clubs from Hungary.
During this period, another club was active around the commune of Pecica, "Club Atletic Rovine" or "Rovine Atletikai Club". Club Atletic was established in 1924 and was the multi-sport club of the neighboring commune, Rovine, also the football club of the Hungarian community. The club had only two sections (football, tennis & table tennis) and played only in the districtual championship (4th tier). In first part of the 1948–49 season AC Rovine was ranked 11th of 14, with the following ranking line: 13 (matches) 4 (wins) 1 (draw) 8 (losses) 23 (goals scored) 34 (goals conceded) and 9 (points). The club management included the following members: Pál Zvér, Miklós Gergely, Pál Kabát, Mihály Fais and Mihály Lelik, among others. From the long list of players who played for Club Atletic Rovine, these were the most notable: János Kovács (Kudel), József Jován, Mihály Magyar, József Szanda, András Hegedűs, József Szomorú, Dezső and Mihály Nagy-György.
In 1949, the two sports societies based in Pecica (Virtutea) and Rovine (Club Atletic) merged and formed a new entity, named "Steaua Roșie Pecica" (Red Star Pecica).
Steaua Roșie Pecica played in four seasons at the level of the 4th tier and was one of the most important clubs from the Arad District. In 1954, Steaua Roșie was renamed as "Recolta Pecica" and continued to play under this name, but at the same level.
In 1960, commune of Pecica and commune of Rovine merged, then forming commune of Pecica, one of the biggest communes in the country, at that time, then starting with 1965, a new administrative-territorial division has been implemented in Romania and a new district was founded, Pecica district. Recolta was renamed as Progresul Pecica in 1960 and activated for next years in the Banat regional championship (4th tier), with remarkable results.
Even though Progresul Pecica was recognized as an uncomfortable team, it was unable to overcome its condition in the following years, continuing to evolve only in the 4th division. However, in 1968 the youth academy of Progresul was opened and in only three years of activity, under the lead of some former important footballers, such as Sándor Schwartz, Ștefan Dobra or Dușan Gavrilovici, but also with the collaboration of some local coaches, such as Romul Popețiu, Matei Kocsik or Silviu Frățilă, Progresul's Academy managed to propose some interesting players for the upper levels. The academy was dissolved in 1971 following political pressures, in that period the plan was that the county must have only a good football team and only one important academy, thus all forces had to be concentrated towards UTA Arad, the most successful club of the county.
Supported financially and politically only at the level of the commune, Progresul continued to play for the next 21 years in the Arad County League (4th division), with no notable results. In 1987, Progresul Pecica was renamed again, this time as "Aurul Negru Pecica" (Black Gold Pecica) and from that moment, the team started to be financially supported by the Pecica Oil Scaffold. But the new investments did not bring the much-anticipated promotion and Aurul Negru remained at amateur level.
On the other hand, in the neighboring commune of Zădăreni, a football team founded in 1983 under the name of "Petrolul Arad" succeeded a fast ascension, promoting to Divizia C at the end of the 1987–88 season, with, much later well known, Ionuț Popa as a player and manager. Petrolul managed to avoid relegation for three consecutive seasons achieving the following rankings: 6th of 16 (1988–89), 8th of 16 (1988–89) and 14th of 16 (1990–91).
During the 1991–92 season, Petrolul withdrew from Divizia C due to certain financial problems and misunderstandings at local level.
In the summer of 1992, the two teams, more or less financially supported by Petrom, "Petrolul Arad (Zădăreni)" and "Aurul Negru Pecica" merged and formed a new entity, "West Petrom Arad", also known as "West Petrom Pecica". The new formed entity was mainly the successor of Aurul Negru Pecica. This conclusion is resulting from certain organizational details, such as the club's colors (yellow and blue), home ground (Progresul Stadium, renamed as Petrom Stadium and located in Pecica), the logo of the new entity (mainly yellow and blue, with an oil scaffold, the name "West Petrom Pecica" and 1924 as the year of foundation, which was the year of the establishment of Club Atletic Rovine, one of the Aurul Negru's parent clubs) and also enrolling in the Divizia D on the place of Aurul Negru.
In the first season, 1992–93, "the Oilmen" were overtaken by CPL Arad, who then promoted to Divizia C, but in the following season, 1993–94, West Petrom Pecica became the champion of Divizia D – Arad County and played in the promotion play-off. Although it does not won the play-off, West Petrom Pecica reached Divizia C due to the merger between Astra Arad and Aris Arad, merge that had as result the club named FC Arad, "pecicanii" receiving the vacant place. Formally, FC Arad was the legal successor of Astra Arad and West Petrom received the place of Aris (former Strungul), club which was absorbed in the merging process. Apart from the title of county champion, West Petrom Pecica also won the preliminary round (Arad County round) of Cupa României. In the final, disputed on 23 June 1994, in Zăbrani, West Petrom Pecica defeated Mureșul Zădăreni (the new team of Zădăreni, after the leaving of Petrolul to Pecica) with the score of 4–2.
West Petrom Arad (Pecica) played for 10 years at the level of the third tier. This period was by far the best in the history of local football, despite the fact that West Petrom was an unpredictable team, often oscillating in results. At the end of the first season, "the Oilmen" were ranked 14th of 20th, in the following season their results getting better, 9th of 20, but just to be ranked 15th of 19 at the end of the 1996–97 edition. Starting with the 1997–98 season, West Petrom it became an uncomfortable team for the rivals, hard to beat, and their rankings were mainly in the top of the standings. West Petrom finished in the late 1990s on the following positions: 5th (1997–98), 4th (1998–99) and 6th (1999–2000).
The apogee moment of the football from Pecica was on 21 September 1999, when Petrom Stadium hosted the encounter between West Petrom Pecica and the most titled team in Romania, Steaua București. At the match attracted 5–6,000 supporters (the capacity of the stadium was only 2,500) and was part of the 1999–2000 Cupa României, Round of 32. Steaua with a squad managed by Emerich Jenei and formed of players such as: Martin Tudor, Laurențiu Reghecampf, Iulian Miu, Eric Lincar, Eugen Trică, Laurențiu Roșu or Cristian Ciocoiu, among others, won with the score of 1–0. In the West Petrom's squad entered the following players: Țapoș – V. Tofaș, Arman, Bene, Hardălău, Varga, R. Gerge, Balaș, Balaj, Ștefăligă and Toderaș, manager Gian Pio del Monaco.
The beginning of the 2000s also meant the regress of West Petrom, club which was ranked only 10th of 15, at the end of the 2000–01 season. In the summer of 2001, West Petrom Arad moved also its headquarter from Arad to Pecica, but at the end of the season was ranked only 13th of 16. Also this season is an important turning point for the future, as it was known, "West Petrom Arad (Pecica)" was founded in 1992 by the merger between "Petrolul Arad (Zădăreni)" and "Aurul Negru Pecica", only that in the same summer in which West Petrom was moved legally to Pecica, the local government withdrew "Aurul Negru" from the business and enrolled the team in the Divizia D – Arad County, under its former name of Progresul Pecica.
In this way it practically came to the original situation, precisely from 1924, when in Pecica were existing two fotball clubs. If in that period the supremacy was divided between Virtutea Pecica and Club Atletic Rovine, now West Petrom Pecica and Progresul Pecica were the contestants. The situation was in fact not great, Progresul relegated in the 5th tier at the end of the 2001–02 season and West Petrom played for three more seasons in the Divizia C, but with no notable results, Petrom withdrew its sponsorship and the team was dissolved.
Progresul Pecica withdrew from the West Petrom Association in the summer of 2001, was re-founded under the name of ACS Progresul Pecica and enrolled in the Divizia D – Arad County. Progresul relegated to Honor Division in 2002, where it remained for several years.
Progresul promoted back to Liga IV after 2005 and was in generally a middle table team. At the end of the 2013–14 season, "pecicanii" were ranked 2nd, right after UTA Arad, then winning the championship in the following season, but missed the promotion, after a 1–6 defeat on aggregate, in the promotion play-off match disputed against Performanța Ighiu. After a few seasons ended on the seats 4–6 places, Progresul won again the County League in 2019, but this time also promoted to Liga III, after winning 3–1 on aggregate against Retezatul Hațeg. 2019–20 Liga III season was the first one at this level for Pecica after 15 years of absence, since West Petrom Pecica withdrew from the league.
Progresul Pecica plays its home matches on Progresul Stadium, located in Pecica, Arad County, with a capacity of 2,500 people. The stadium was opened in the 1920s and over time it has gone through some modernization and renovation processes, but still retaining its vintage style. The stadium was known in the past as "Comunal Stadium" or "Petrom Stadium" and the largest number of spectators recorded was of 5–6,000, on 21 September 1999, at the match between "West Petrom Pecica" and Steaua București.
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Òscar Camps
Òscar Camps Gausachs (Barcelona, 1963), is a catalan lifeguard, entrepreneur and activist, known mainly for being the founder and director of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms. He was awarded the Catalan Prize of the Year in 2015.
Born in Barcelona, Camps was the owner of a lifeguard company based in Badalona, Pro-Activa Serveis Aquatics, which was dedicated to maritime services, specifically water security and lifeguarding. In the context of the European migrant crisis, during the Syrian civil war, when thousands were losing their lives trying to reach Europe, Camps decided to move to Lesbos, a Greek island near Turkey, to evaluate the situation on the ground. The key event that prompted him to move was the posting of images of the body of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old boy who had died while trying to cross the border with his family. He and a few colleagues decided to apply their lifesaving expertise to help rescue refugees trying to reach the European Union via the Aegean Sea.
In September 2015 a group of volunteers decided to found the NGO Proactiva Open Arms, funded with 15,000 euros, and went to the island by work on rescue tasks. At first, the only material they had were various wetsuits, fins and breathing tubes. The group's main activities were to guide and help reach the beaches to refugees, mainly Syrians, who came from Turkey in very precarious boats. Over time, however, the available equipment improved, mainly through donations from individuals.
Spanish and European media echoed the activity of Camps and the NGO in Lesbos, mainly due to their visibility in photos uploaded to the internet. For exemple TV3 broadcast of the To Kyma documentary where the group's activity was monitored in various actions on the Greek island. On March 2, 2016, Camps and Proactiva were able to visit the European Parliament, where they spoke on behalf of refugees.
Camps received the 2015 Catalan of the Year Award. He also received the Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia in recognition of his humanitarian work through Proactiva Open Arms next to Carola Rackete.
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Ilse Kohler-Rollefson
Ilse Köhler-Rollefson (born ) is a German scientist known for championing pastoralism, Ethnoveterinary medicine and camels with special reference to India. She found the Raika people whose way of life was under threat because of their dependence on camels and she decided to help. In 2017 she was awarded the highest award for women in India, the Nari Shakti Puraskar and, in 2018, the Federal Cross of Merit of the German Federal Government.
She came to notice when she went to India on a fellowship of the American Institute of Indian Studies in 1990/91 to study camel socio-economics and management patterns. There she engaged with the Raika people whose lives are traditionally built around camels. However because the Raika can no longer make a living from breeding camels, the camels are disappearing and the traditional camel culture is being lost.
The Raika (aka Rabari) people are an ethnic group who believed that they were created in order to care for camels by Shiva. In 1992 she published "Raika Dromedary Breeders of Rajasthan: A Pastoral System in Crisis". They are pastoralists mainly in India.
She was trained as a veterinarian and an anthropologist and these come together in Ethnoveterinary medicine. She has found that traditional practices of veterinary medicine are legitimate and seeks to validate them. She has noted that at least since colonial times scientists had noted indigenous expertise in animal health and their diagnostic skills before implementing their Western-technology projects.
She noted and researched the role of the Raika and other pastoralists as creators of indigenous livestock breeds and guardians of domestic animal diversity ('Keepers of Genes') and was a moving force behind the concept of Livestock Keepers' Rights. Later she promoted Biocultural or Community Protocols for pastoralists as a tool for obtaining their rights under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
She created the NGO "Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan" which lobbied the government of India for help, together with Hanwant Singh Rathore. She is the co-founder and key worker with the League for Pastoral Peoples.. In order to create income for the Raika she set up the social enterprise Camel Charisma which markets camel milk and other camel products.
In 2002 she received an Associate Rolex Award for Enterprise. In 2017 President Pranab Mukherjee presented her with the highest award for women in India, the Nari Shakti Puruskar. The function took place at the Presidential palace, Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi,
www.ilse-koehler-rollefson.com
www.pastoralpeoples.org
www.camelcharisma.com
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Alexander Abernethy, 6th Lord Saltoun
Alexander Abernethy, 6th Lord Saltoun (d. 1587) was a Scottish landowner and courtier.
He was the son of William Abernethy, 5th Lord Saltoun (d. 1543), and Elizabeth Hay daughter of John Hay, 2nd Lord Hay of Yester (d. 1513).
The Abernethy estates included Saltoun in East Lothian. His house in the north was Rothiemay, described in the sixteenth century as "a palace very fair".
Saltoun favoured the cause of James VI of Scotland in the Marian Civil War. He was one the lords who signed on 1 May 1570 the instructions given to Robert Pitcairn, Commendator of Dunfermline, as ambassador to England, asking Queen Elizabeth to declare support for the regime in Scotland, and for English troops.
On 23 August 1570 Saltoun wrote with the Laird of Pitsligo from Rothiemay to the Earl of Morton with news of a ship arrived at Aberdeen and its passengers. It was a Flanders "pink" carrying Mr John Hamilton and two Spanish servants of the Duke of Alva. They went to Huntly Castle to see the Earl of Huntly with Mr Robert Gordon, but missed the Earl and returned to Aberdeen. John Hamilton had been to the Duke of Alva seeking support for the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots. He heard they would bring 6,000 men to land at Aberdeen. This intelligence came by "quiet means" from a favourer of the king's party. In a second letter from Glenbervie Saltoun described the two servants of the Duke of Alba on the "pink" as a Florentine called Caesar Ruspoty and a man from Picardy called Philip Hensier. The Prior of Coldingham and Sir James Balfour were going to depart from Aberdeen in the "pink", while Lord Seton and Katherine Neville, Countess of Northumberland were going to take another boat. The contemporary chronicle, "The Historie of James the Sext" adds that the "pink" brought armour and firearms for six hundred men, seven cannons, with gunpowder and money for Huntly, who was the Queen's Lieutenant of the North.
In 1578 Saltoun was noted in a list, perhaps in error, as a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
He married Alison Keith (d. 1567), daughter of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal. Their children included:
The 6th Lord's sister, Elizabeth Abernethy, married (1) William Meldrum of Fyvie, and (2) John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis.
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Archaeal transcription
Archaeal transcription is the process in which a segment of archeaeal DNA is copied into a newly synthesized strand of RNA using the sole Pol II-like RNA polymerase (RNAP). The process occurs in three main steps: initiation, elongation, and termination; and the end result is a strand of RNA that is complementary to a single strand of DNA. A number of transcription factors govern this process with homologs in both bacteria and eukaryotes, with the core machinery more similar to eukaryotic transcription.
Because archaea lack a membrane-enclosed nucleus like bacteria do, transcription and translation can happen at the same time on a newly-generated piece of mRNA. Operons are widespread in archaea.
Initiation in archaea is governed by TATA-binding protein (TBP), Archaeal transcription factor B (TFB), and Archaeal transcription factor E (TFE) that are homologous to eukaryotic TBP, TFIIB, and TFIIE respectively. These factors recognize the promoter core sequence (TATA box, B recognition element) upstream of the coding region and recruits the RNAP to form a closed transcription preinitiation complex (PIC).
The PIC is turned into an open state with the local DNA helix "melting" to load the template strand of DNA. The RNAP undergoes "abortive initiation": it makes and releases many short (2-15nt) segments before generating a transcript of significant length. This continues until it moves past the promoter (promoter escape), loosening TBP's grasp on the DNA, and swapping TFE out for elongation factors Spt4/5. How this escape happens exactly remains to be studied.
After getting out of the promoter region, the RNAP moves into the elongation state, where it keeps growing the new RNA strand in a processive process. Double stranded DNA that enters from the front of the enzyme is unzipped to avail the template strand for RNA synthesis. For every DNA base pair separated by the advancing polymerase, one hybrid RNA:DNA base pair is immediately formed. DNA strands and nascent RNA chain exit from separate channels; the two DNA strands reunite at the trailing end of the transcription bubble while the single strand RNA emerges alone.
A number of elongation factors help with the rate and processivity of the RNAP. Factors of the Spt4/Spt5 family (bacterial homolog of Spt5 is called "NusG") stimulate transcription by binding to the RNAP clamp on one side of the DNA channel and to the gate loop on the other. The resultant DSIF locks the clamp into a closed state to prevent the elongation complex (EC) from dissociating. Spt5 also has a NGN domain that helps the two strands separate. A KOW domain probably hooks the RNAP up to a ribosome so that translation and transcription happen together.
Some archaea have a Elf1 homolog that might also act as an elongation factor.
The RNAP occasionally stops and starts moving backwards when it encounters a roadblock or some difficult sequences. When this happens, the EC gets stuck because the reactive 3' edge of the RNA is out of the active site. The transcript cleavage factor TFS (a TFIIS homolog) helps resolve this issue by generating a cut so that a new 3' end is available in the active site. Some archaeon have up to 4 paralogs of TFS with divergent functions.
Not much is known about archaeal termination. Euryarchaeal RNAPs seem to terminate on their own when poly-U stretches appear.
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Ma On Shan Village
Ma On Shan Village or Ma On Shan Tsuen () is a mining village in the hills of Ma On Shan, Sha Tin District, Hong Kong. The village grew around the activity of the Ma On Shan Iron Mine, which reached its peak during the 1950s-60s and ceased operation in 1976. It had historically two churches, St. Joseph's Church and Lutheran Yan Kwong Church.
At its peak, after a rapid growth in the 1950s, the village had more than 10,000 inhabitants. The small village saw a large number of new arrivals after changes in the methods of iron ore mining were implemented in 1953. Nearly all of the new arrivals were refugees from Mainland China, who worked as miners and came to live in the area with their families. The exploitation of the mine ended in 1976 and the miners subsequently left the village with their families, leading to a decline of the population. As of 2014, the village was home to 80 people (another source mentions 80 families as of 2015).
The Ma On Shan Iron Mine opened in 1906 as an opencast site run by the Hong Kong Iron Mining Company. In 1949, the mine was taken over by the Mutual Mining and Trade Company, which extended it underground in 1953. By 1959, mining had moved entirely underground. The mine ceased operation in 1976. The workforce of 400 was laid off. The government mining lease ended in 1981 and the mine closed subsequently.
The Lutheran Yan Kwong Church () was inaugurated on 22 June 1952. It was part of a five-building complex that included a church, a primary school (built in 1961), a kindergarten, quarters, and a store.
The primary school and the kindergarten closed in 1976. Lutheran Primary School () was subsequently relocated to Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan and was renamed Ma On Shan Lutheran Primary School () in 1987. The church complex was then converted into a camp site, the Grace Youth Camp (). In 2003, landslides caused by heavy rainstorms damaged the complex and made it unsafe. It was abandoned the same year.
The church building was revitalised after 2014 and reopened in 2015 as a community hall and a centre to highlight the history and culture of the old village. The former primary school building was converted into a hostel for church members and the former teachers' quarters was converted into an activity room.
The Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Church () was inaugurated on 25 April 1952. It was part of a Catholic building complex established on the top of a small hill in the 1950s, that also included the St. Joseph's Primary School (), adjacent to the church, a kindergarten, a small clinic (built from 1952 to 1954) and a convent (). The church was rebuilt in 1962.
The church stopped its regular Sunday services in 1981, with limited missionary service subsequently performed by Father Wu. It was closed in 1999, and the church complex became vacant.
The residential part of the village has been described as "only small and short squatter area".
Several sets of structures of Ma On Shan Village were listed as historic monuments in April 2016: Exterior walls of 240 ML and 110 ML of Ma On Shan Iron Mine (Grade 2), Mineral Preparation Plant of Ma On Shan Iron Mine (Grade 3), Site Structures at Mining Settlement of Ma On Shan Iron Mine (Grade 3), St. Joseph's Church (Grade 2) and Lutheran Yan Kwong Church (Grade 3).
The village is served by the bus route NR84, connecting Ma On Shan Tsuen to Ma On Shan MTR station via Ma On Shan Tsuen Road, Ma On Shan Road, Hang Hong Street, Sai Sha Road and On Luk Street, and operated by Ma On Shan Residents Bus Management Association Ltd.
The Ma On Shan Country Trail runs from Ma On Shan Village to Tai Shui Tseng () via Ngong Ping.
Several scenes of the 2009 film "Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms", directed by Law Wing-cheung, were shot at St. Joseph's Church.
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Gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus disease 2019 is known to affect both men and women, but the impact of the pandemic and mortality rates are different for men and women. From a purely medical perspective: mortality due to COVID-19 is significantly higher in men in studies conducted in China and Italy. A higher percentage of nurses are women, which may give them a higher chance of being exposed to the virus.
However, when looking at the larger socio-cultural impacts of the pandemic: School closures, lockdowns and reduced access to healthcare following the COVID-19 pandemic may differentially affect the genders and possibly exaggerate the existing gender disparity.
As of April 2020, men die more often than women after being affected with COVID-19 infection. The highest risk for men is in their 50s, with the gap between men and women closing only at 90. In China, the death rate was 2.8 percent for men and 1.7 percent for women.
The exact reasons for this sex-difference is not known, but genetic and behavioural factors could be a reason for this difference. Sex-based immunological differences, lesser prevalence of smoking in women and men developing co-morbid conditions such as hypertension at a younger age than women could have contributed to the higher mortality in men. In Europe, 57% of the infected individuals were men and 72% of those died with COVID-19 were men. As of April 2020, the US government is not tracking sex-related data of COVID-19 infections. Research has shown that viral illnesses like Ebola, HIV, influenza and SARS affect men and women differently.
Globally, women do three times as much unpaid care work as men. Evidence from past disease outbreaks show that a greater burden is placed on care in the home and that women are more likely to be carers for the sick individuals in the family, making them more vulnerable to infection. A majority of healthcare workers, particularly nurses, are women. They are on the frontline to combat the disease, which makes women vulnerable to exposure. 90% of the healthcare workers in China's Hubei province (where the disease originated) were women and 78% of the healthcare workers in USA are women.
Globally, women make up 70 percent of workers in the health and social sector. Women are playing a disproportionate role in responding to the disease, including as front line healthcare workers (as well as carers at home and community leaders and mobilisers). In some countries, COVID-19 infections among female health workers are twice that of their male counterparts. Women are still paid much less than their male counterparts in almost all countries and hold fewer leadership positions in the health sector. Masks and other protective equipment designed and sized for men leave women at greater risk of exposure.
Women and girls, who already faced health and safety implications in managing their sexual and reproductive health and menstrual hygiene without access to clean water and private toilets before the crisis, are particularly in danger. When healthcare systems are overburdened and resources are reallocated to respond to the pandemic, this can further disrupt health services unique to the well-being of women and girls. This includes pre- and post-natal healthcare, access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, and life-saving care and support for survivors of gender-based violence. Women are also refraining from visiting health facilities due to fears about COVID-19 exposure or due to movement restrictions. The health impacts can be catastrophic, especially in rural, marginalized and low-literacy communities, where women are less likely to have access to quality, culturally-accessible health services, essential medicines or insurance coverage. Before the pandemic, around 810 women died every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth — 94 per cent of these deaths occured in low and lower middle-income countries. Past pandemics have shown increased rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, adolescent pregnancies, and HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Multiple and intersecting inequalities, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, age, race, geographic location and sexual orientation, among others, can further compound these impacts.
During an outbreak, healthcare resources are diverted to combat the disease, which results in down-prioritizing reproductive health of women. The physiological changes in pregnancy puts women at an increased risk for some infections, although evidence is lacking particularly about COVID-19. Women had a higher risk of developing severe illness when affected with influenza virus (which belongs to the same family as COVID-19), so it is important to protect pregnant women from being infected with COVID-19. Women nurses were reported to have decreased access to tampons and sanitary pads while also working overtime without adequate personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China. In addition, access to abortion was severely restricted in areas of the United States.
Supply chain disruptions are limiting availability of contraceptives in many places, and stock-outs of many contraceptive methods are anticipated within the next 6 months in more than a dozen lowest- income countries by UNFPA. Product shortages and lack of access to trained providers or clinics mean that women may be unable to use their preferred method of contraception, may instead use a less effective short-term method, or may discontinue contraceptive use entirely. 47 million women in 114 low and middle-income countries are projected by UNFPA to be unable to use modern contraceptives if the average lockdown, or COVID-19-related disruption, continues for 6 months with major disruptions to services: For every 3 months the lockdown continues, assuming high levels of disruption, up to 2 million additional women may be unable to use modern contraceptives. If the lockdown continues for 6 months and there are major service disruptions due to COVID-19, an additional 7 million unintended pregnancies are expected to occur by UNFPA. The number of unintended pregnancies will increase as the lockdown continues and services disruptions are extended. Reduced access is likely to more adversely affect younger, poorer and more vulnerable and marginalized populations.
The government of Argentina was planning to submit a bill to the Congress to grant abortion rights to women in March, after the official announcement of president Alberto Fernández in his speech opening the Congress sessions on March, 1. However, the submission of the bill was postponed due to the coronavirus crisis and the lock down of the country. Provision of abortion services under the current law is still being granted in the country, albeit with challenges due to some provinces that have historically opposed abortion. The Ministry of Women of Argentina is working to facilitate abortion through the establishment of a helpline that women can call to obtain information.
Women are underrepresented in clinical trials for vaccines and drugs, as a result of which sex-differences in disease response could be ignored in scientific studies.
During public health emergencies, women are at an increased risk of malnutrition.
Women constitute a larger part of informal and part-time workers around the world. During periods of uncertainty, such as during a pandemic, women are at a greater risk of being unemployed and being unable to return to work after the pandemic is over. Quarantine experience can be different for men and women, considering the difference in physical, cultural, security and sanitary needs for both genders.
Domestic work is largely dominated by women and has important levels of informality. In particular, migrant domestic workers are in a more vulnerable situation, with unclear immigration status and lack of legal protection. In situations where those migrant domestic workers come from less-developed countries, their families back home are dependent of their remittance to survive in the country of origin of the worker. In Philippines, those remittances account for 9% of their GDP, therefore impacting their country of origin's economy. In Argentina, they have established a unique-payment for all domestic workers, and childcare and elderly care is deemed an essential activity so they are allowed to circulate even with the lock down.
The U.S. Congress included $3.5 billion in grants for childcare providers in the CARES Act in March 2020. However, this is insufficient to sustain most childcare providers who have lost work. The Center for Law And Policy estimated that childcare providers in the United States will need $9.6 billion per month to economically survive the effects of a hypothetical six-month period of reduced activity.
Before the crisis started, women did nearly three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men. Social distancing measures, school closures and overburdened health systems have put an increased demand on women and girls to cater to the basic survival needs of the family and care for the sick and the elderly. With more than 1.5 billion students at home as of March 2020 due to the pandemic, existing gender norms have put the increased demand for unpaid childcare and domestic work on women. This constrains their ability to carry out paid work, particularly when jobs cannot be carried out remotely. The lack of childcare support is particularly problematic for essential workers and lone mothers who have care responsibilities. Discriminatory social norms are likely to increase the unpaid work load of COVID-19 on girls and adolescent girls, especially those living in poverty or in rural, isolated locations. Evidence from past epidemics shows that adolescent girls are at particular risk of dropping out and not returning to school even after the crisis is over. Women’s unpaid care work has long been recognized as a driver of inequality with direct links to wage inequality, lower income, and physical and mental health stressors. As countries rebuild economies, the crisis might offer an opportunity to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work once and for all.
Due to increased tension in the household during a pandemic, women and girls are likely to experience higher risk of intimate partner violence and other forms of domestic violence. In Kosovo, there has been a 17% increase in gender based violence during the pandemic. During periods of lockdown, women experiencing domestic violence have limited access to protective services. In Sint Maarten, the sale of alcohol was temporarily halted to prevent more domestic violence from occurring.
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2004 Hong Kong Sevens
The 2004 Hong Kong Sevens was an international rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Hong Kong Stadium between 26–28 March 2004. It was the 29th edition of the Hong Kong Sevens and was the fifth tournament of the 2003–04 World Sevens Series. Twenty-four teams competed in the tournament and were separated into six groups of four with the top eight teams qualifying through to the cup tournament.
After winning all three of their group stage matches, England took out the Hong Kong title for the third year running, defeating Argentina in the cup final 22–12. The plate-final saw Scotland defeat France while the Cook Islands took home the bowl defeating Japan.
Compared to other tournament of the series, the Hong Kong Sevens had 24 teams compete for the title instead of the regular sixteen teams that usually competed in a World Series event.
The teams were drawn into six pools of four teams each. Each team played the other teams in their pool once, with three points awarded for a win, two points for a draw, and one point for a loss (no points awarded for a forfeit). The pool stage was played over the first two days of the tournament. The top team from each pool along with the two best runners-up advanced to the Cup quarter finals. The remaining four runners-up along with the four best third-placed teams advanced to the Plate quarter finals. The remaining eight teams went on to the Bowl quarter finals.
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Abderrahim Bouabid
Abderrahim Bouabid (in Arabic: عبد الرحيم بوعبيد – Born 23 March 1922 in Salé - Dead 8 January 1992 in Rabat) was a Moroccan politician, and head of the left-wing Socialist Union of Popular Forces (SUPF) between 1975 and 1992. An opponent of French Imperialism and King Hassan II, he left a rich legacy in Moroccan political life.
Abderrahim Bouabid was born in the old town of Salé, on March 23, 1922. He studied the primary school in his hometown, before starting high school in Rabat, at Moulay Youssef high school. During that time, he frequented a number of distinguished personalities who shaped the future of the country. A friend of Mehdi Ben Barka, the young man was introduced to the Nationalist Movement at the time, opposing the French presence in the country. In 1939, after graduating, he moved to Fez to become a teacher, meeting nationalist organizations.
Being involved in politics since his young age, Abderrahim Bouabid became one of the youngest activists and politicians to sign the Proclamation of Independence of Morocco, a manifesto presented by the Independence party on January the 11th, 1944 demanding full independence from France and Spain, national reunification and a democratic constitution.
On January 28, 1944, Bouabid led a big demonstration in Salé denouncing the arrest of some influential figures of his party. He was jailed alongside a number of Istiqlal leaders before being released a year later. In 1946 he joined his friend Mehdi Ben Barka in France to write a report on the Moroccan situation and submit it to the United Nations. While living in France, he pursued his studies in University and became a lawyer in 1949.
Once Morocco was granted independence, Bouabid was named State Minister for negotiations under Mbarek Bekkai's government. In 1956, he became ambassador of Morocco in Paris, and he was later appointed a Minister of national economy. On the 12th of May 1958, he was in charge of the Ministry of national economy and agriculture in Ahmed Balafrej’s cabinet.
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Paul Jerima
Paul Jerima (born Jefimow, also known as Jefimoff, 29 December 1892 – 30 August 1954) was a Finnish footballer, sprinter and graphic designer.
Jerima won the 100 m and 200 m Finnish Championship in 1913, 1914 and 1915, but was later stripped of the titles as he held the Russian citizenship. After granted with the Finnish citizenship, Jerima won the 1919 Championship titles on 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relays representing HIFK.
Jerima played football for HIFK Helsinki and Sport Helsinki. In 1911, he was a member of the Finland squad in their first international scoring Finland's second goal on the 5–2 loss against Sweden.
Jerima studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Art and Design. Since 1918, he worked as a graphic designer for the printing company Öflund & Petterson which was soon merged with Tilgmann. In 1931, Jerima was named as Tilgmann's art director and 1945 the vice director. As an illustrator, Jerima is best known of his Christmas cards signed with the initials ″JEF″.
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