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Living in a Ghost Town
"Living in a Ghost Town" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released on 23 April 2020 through Polydor Records, making it the first Rolling Stones single in four years and the first original material from the band since "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot" in 2012. The song has received positive reviews from critics and was recorded during sessions for a forthcoming studio album that the band has been working on since 2015.
Since 2017, the band had been on the No Filter Tour but had to stop due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rolling Stones remotely performed at Global Citizen's "Together at Home" concert on 18 April 2020, to raise money for healthcare workers and the World Health Organization during the crisis. On 23 April, the band released 'Living in a Ghost Town' online. It was based on 2019 recording sessions and finished remotely. It is their first original material since 2012. Jagger claims to have written the lyrics in 10minutes. The band fast-tracked releasing the song due to its relevance to social distancing as a method to control the spread of COVID-19. Jagger changed some of the lyrics to refer to the pandemic.
Nidhi Gupta of "GQ India" labeled 'Living in a Ghost Town' as a 'gentle blues-rock number'. Multiple writers noticed a reggae influence in the song: Will Hodgkinson of "The Irish Times" described the song as 'a slow-paced chug with a tint of reggae', while Alexis Petridis of "The Guardian" noted a 'vintage reggae flavour' in the song's 'stabbing, echoing organ', and "Louder Sound"s Fraser Lewry calling it 'a relaxed piece of reggae-infused rock'.
The initial release was digital-only, accompanied by a music video with footage taken from across the world of empty city streets. The band have plans to resume No Filter once the pandemic subsides and releasing the single is a means of keeping fans happy who cannot see them live, as well as promoting the album's worth of new material that they have been recording. A CD single and purple vinyl single exclusive to the band's online store and an orange vinyl single for other retailers are forthcoming.
Writing in "The Guardian", Alexis Petridis gave the song four out of five stars, calling it 'their best new song in years', with particular emphasis on the timely lyrics and reggae influence to the music. Writing for "The Irish Times", Will Hodginkson of "The Times" gave the same score and agreed that the pacing and mood captures the experience of being in lockdown. Craig Jenkins of "Vulture" agrees that the single arrives 'right on time' as the 'track lands in the sweet spot between wistful boomer nostalgia and tacit acknowledgment that the sands of time have shifted, and once again we’re looking fondly backward instead of excitedly forward'. Mark Beaumont of "NME" panned the track, calling it a 'a rushed and half-baked comment on our current predicament', particularly criticizing the lyrics, as 'Jagger perhaps doesn’t have it in him to speak to the real discomfort and isolation of the average British hutch dweller, or the fear and hopelessness of the millions falling unfairly through the gaping holes in Rishi Sunak’s fishnet safety packages'. "The New York Times" prepares a regular list of the most notable music releases of the week and Jon Pareles recommended this track. Announcing the release for Stereogum, Tom Breihan briefly commented on the track and the band's relevance, writing that it was highly produced but it 'rocks harder than you might expect a new Stones song to rock'.
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Zeppelin LZ 66
Zeppelin LZ 66, Imperial German Navy serial L 23, took part in 51 reconnaissance missions during World War I and on 21 August 1917 it was shot down by Second Lt Bernard A. Smart, flying a Sopwith Pup.
During WWI it took part in three attacks on England dropping of bombs.
The night between 2 and 3 September 1916, L 23 from the base in Nordholz with the officers Ganzel and Rothe participated in World War I's largest bombing raid against England, involving a total of 12 Navy and four of the Army airships. L 23 threw seven bombs over the Boston area of Lincolnshire, with six hitting the city and one hitting Wyberton 3km southwest, causing one death.
On April 23, 1917, L 23 brought the Norwegian ship "Royal" on the North Sea 85 miles off the Bovbjerg Lighthouse. They were able to stop the ship by dropping a bomb right in front of it, forcing its Norwegian crew to board the lifeboats. The airship then proceeded gently down the one lifeboat, where Commander Bockholt pleaded for the ship's papers and sent an officer and 5 sailors over to the sailing ship to investigate if the cargo ship was carrying contraband, namely illegal timber to England.
A swiftly selected boarding party consisting of boatman Bernhard Wiesemann, chief mate Ernst Fegert and chief mate Friedrich Engelke took over the sailing ship. The Norwegian crew was initially locked in their quarters, but when the Germans struggled to maneuver the ship's sail, they were set free and ordered to sail the bark to Cuxhaven, where they arrived after 43 hours. This action was quite an achievement but it annoyed the German command as it put the Zeppelin at considerable risk while it hovered over the ship.
There they confiscated and sold Royal, who then came to fly various German shipping companies both during and after the war until the ship in 1924 sold for scrap.
On 21 August 1917, L 23 was observed at a distance a northbound squadron of four smaller cruisers and 15 destroyers, having participated in an English mine laying operation off White Sands that morning. At the height of Søndervig, the squadron turned to the wind and held its course for a few miles, after which the squadron commanded a Sopwith Pup aircraft to launch from , which was equipped with a launching platform and catapult.
As soon as the Pup was launched, L 23 tried to avoid engagement, but Smart managed to attain , flying at , descending to to engage L 23 at high speed, firing incendiary rounds. Smart levelled off and saw that the stern of the zeppelin was ablaze, with the zeppelin at 45° nose high. The flames quickly spread up L 23, leaving only the nose intact when it hit the ocean.
A single crew member, presumably the top gunner from the front of the airship, initially saved his life by parachute but drowned as there was no rescue ship nearby, off Stadil Fjord. No one from L 23 survived and the body of sailor Johan Schüttrup was found on 3 September 1917 on Vigsø Strand, being buried in Vigsø cemetery. It was written that he died for his German fatherland on his tombstone.
A heavily decomposed corpse, which was found in Jens Enevaldsens Strandlen in Søndervig on 15 September 1917 and was buried at Ny Sogn cemetery was reasonably identified as machine sailor Johannes / Hans Buhr, from a name-plate found with the body. In his graveyard in Harboøre, he has erected a tombstone in his honour. Many other unidentified corpses drifted ashore on the west coast during the time that may have been crew from L 23.
Pilot Bernard Arthur Smart ditched his Pup near two British destroyers and was rescued. Smart made a similar flight from HMS Yarmouth 11 months later when he led the air raid on 19 July 1918 on the zeppelin base at Tondern which destroyed LZ 99 & LZ 108.
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Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort
Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort is a hotel in the Catalina Foothills section of Tucson, Arizona. It began in 1929 as a private boarding school for girls. It was converted into a guest ranch after World War II.
The property was founded in 1929 by John and Helen Murphey as an Episcopal private boarding school. The school was built in the style of a Spanish colonial style ranch. The Murpheys had originally leased the land but purchased it in 1930 along with other acreage, giving them a total of 480 acres.
The school served girls between 12 and 18 years old and offered horseback riding and boarding for the girls' horses. Students included daughters and granddaughters of the country's wealthy families, including granddaughters of Woodrow Wilson and George Westinghouse and the daughter of Silsby Spalding. A brochure promoted the school to "girls who like to don chaps, sombrero and boots."
After a fire destroyed most of the buildings in 1938, much of the school were rebuilt according to a design by architect Josias Joesler. Joesler's designs include oversized brick fireplaces, vast picture windows, and large, open common areas.
The school closed in 1942 due to World War II. In March 1945, John Murphey and Rev. George W. Ferguson sold the property to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morgan for $110,000. The new owners announced plans to operate a desert resort hotel on the property, then consisting of 80 acres. By December 1945, the property was operating as the Hacienda del Sol Ranch Hotel. The same rooms previously used by students were converted into guest quarters.
In 1946, the ranch was used as a shooting location for "Duel in the Sun" starring Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones. Guests of the ranch included Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Joseph Cotton, Waylon Jennings, and Jessi Colter.
In 1970, the ranch was purchased by Robert Hartman for $260,000. It was next sold in 1983 for $3 million to Pointe Partners. The property then ended up under bank ownership after foreclosure by Standard Chartered Bank. In 1993, a group of investors led by Jed C. Paradies purchased the property from the bank for $1.6 million. In 1995, Paradies sold the property for $2.3 million to a group of local investors led by Jeffrey B. Timan and Richard Find. The Timan/Find group restored each of the 30 guest rooms, suites, and casitas. A new restaurant, The Grill, was added in 1997 and received several culinary awards.
In 2015, the resort added 32 new guest rooms, a swimming pool and spa,and an event space called Casa Luna.
It is one of only two surviving dude ranches in Tucson, where once there were 20 or so. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America.
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Betsy Ettorre
Elizabeth Mary Ettorre (born 28 June 1948) is an Ango-American feminist sociologist.
Ettorre completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at Fordham University, New York, before earning a Ph.D. in the subject with a thesis 'The Sociology of lesbianism: female "deviance" and female sexuality)' at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She attended the UK’s first National Lesbian Conference in Bristol in 1974 and helped to organise the UK’s ninth national Women's liberation movement conference in London in 1977. Ettorre did sociological research at Institute of Psychiatry, Birkbeck College and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School all of the University of London in the 1970s – 1980s; became Professor of Sociology at University of Plymouth and as of 2011 is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool and Honorary Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark. Since the mid-1990s, Ettorre has been a Docent in Sociology at Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki. Aside from lesbianism and feminism, her academic interests include women and substance use, reproduction and genetics and autoethnography.
Since 1990, Ettorre has lived with her wife, Irmeli Laitinen, a Finnish feminist psychotherapist and group analyst.
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Oliver Gough
Poc Fada Champion 1964
Oliver J. Gough (25 August 1935 – 22 April 2020) was an Irish hurler who played for a number of clubs, including Ferns St. Aidan's, Rathnure and Thomastown. He played for the Wexford and Kilkenny senior hurling teams at various times between 1955 and 1963, during which time he usually lined out as a centre-forward. Gough was the last player to win All-Ireland Championships with two different teams.
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Yaffa Ben-Ari
Yaffa Ben-Ari is the Israeli Ambassador to Japan, effective November 2017. Before that, she was Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Head of the Economic Affairs Division. Ben-Ari was also Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia as well as Consulate General in San Francisco, California.
She graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in political science, received an M.A. degree (with distinction) from the University of Haifa and an Executive M.B.A. degree from Bar-Ilan University.
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549th Volksgrenadier Division
The 549th Volksgrenadier Division () was a "volksgrenadier" infantry division of the German Army during World War II, active from 1944 to 1945. It was formed as the 549th Grenadier Division in July 1944 and became a volksgrenadier division several months later. Fighting on the Eastern Front, it was nearly destroyed in the East Prussian Offensive, with its remnants retreating west and surrendering to American troops at the end of the war.
The 549th Grenadier Division was formed at Schwerin from replacement troops in "Wehrkreis" II on 11 July 1944. It was commanded by "Oberst" Karl Jank, previously with 4th Mountain Division, destroyed during the Soviet Crimean Offensive.
It was composed of the 1097th, 1098th, and 1099th Grenadier Regiments and the 1549th Artillery Regiment, in addition to smaller support units. As a volksgrenadier division, manpower shortages meant its infantry regiments contained two battalions, rather than the standard three. They were meant to be used as defensive units that could be formed and trained quickly, with a reduced complement of artillery and an increased number of submachine guns and anti-tank rockets. Composed largely of men previously considered unfit for military service due to age or medical conditions, it lacked a core of veterans who could impart combat experience.
The division was sent to the front in August, fighting in Lithuania with XXVI Army Corps, part of the 3rd Panzer Army, an element of Army Group Centre. On 16 August, Operation "Doppelkopf" began, an armored counterattack attempting to reunite Army Group North, and Army Group Centre. The 549th and 561st Volksgrenadier Division were tasked with the defence of XXVI Army Corps' line on the southern flank of the army. Holding positions on the flank of 6th Panzer Division, both were forced to retreat by attacks made by elements of the Soviet 11th Guards, 33rd, and 5th Armies. As a result, the 1st Infantry Division had to be diverted to support XXVI Army Corps, instead of participating in "Doppelkopf."
In September, the corps was transferred to the 4th Army, where it served with XXVII Army Corps. The Soviet Memel Offensive left Army Group North trapped in the Courland Pocket, and forced the 549th to retreat into East Prussia, after very heavy losses. On 9 October, the division was redesignated 549th Volksgrenadier Division, part of the 32nd wave of infantry divisions formed during the war. Their stubborn defence during the retreat, and Jank's performance led to his promotion as Generalmajor on 10 October.
On 16 October, the Red Army launched its first attack on East Prussia, the Gumbinnen Operation, the 549th defending positions north of Eydtkau. It was gradually pushed back by the 11th Guards Army, but prevented a breakthrough; 11th Guards captured Eydtkau the next day, exposing the southern flank of the 549th. Elements of the division retreated west to Ebenrode, where the reserve 103rd Panzer Brigade launched a counterattack that halted the Soviet advance, which was shifted south towards Nemmersdorf due to boggy ground. For the next several days the division held on between Ebenrode and Schlossberg with the support of the 276th Assault Gun Brigade, as the Soviet offensive came to an end. In October, it returned to XXVI Army Corps, still part of 3rd Panzer Army.
When the Soviet East Prussian Offensive began on 12 January 1945, the division held positions northeast of Gumbinnen. Attacks by the Soviet 3rd Guards Rifle Corps broke through its defenses, exposing the northern flank of the neighbouring 61st Infantry Division. Its losses meant the 549th transferred responsibility for part of its sector to 5th Panzer Division on 15 January. Over the next two days, the division continued to be the target of Soviet attacks, repulsed with support from 5th Panzer.
They were finally over-run on 19 January by 11th Guards and 2nd Guards Tank Corps; on 20th, the survivors established new defensive positions in the Eichwald forest, east of the Inster valley, together with the 349th Volksgrenadier Division. Its remains and XXVI Army Corps were assigned to 4th Army as part of Army Group North later in January, and in February they became part of the reserve of 2nd Army of Army Group Vistula, fighting in West Prussia. After being rebuilt at Pasewalk in March 1945, a "kampfgruppe" formed from the division joined XXXII Army Corps of the 3rd Panzer Army later that month, fighting on the Stettin front. Colonel Kraus became acting commander of the division in April. As late as 20 April, the division still numbered roughly 6,200 personnel, and was equipped with 32 mortars, 76 guns, and 12 assault guns. It was thrown into the fighting east of the Randow river on 25 April, suffering heavy casualties. The 549th surrendered to American troops in Mecklenburg on 8 May 1945.
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Michel Andrault
Michel Andrault (17 December 1926 – 5 April 2020) was a French architect.
Andrault was the son of a salesman and a seamstress. He was bedridden for two years due to tuberculosis.
He entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After graduating in 1955, Andrault joined his fellow student, Pierre Parat, in business in 1957. The pair won a competition for the construction of the Basilique-sanctuaire Madonna delle Lacrime. The project gave them notoriety, and they were contacted by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations for the construction of housing, working with Bouygues. Together, they built 19,000 dwellings, favoring pyramid shapes. The housing was constructed in Évry, Villepinte, Champs-sur-Marne, Plaisir, Couulommiers, and others. They built the headquarters of Havas in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the AGF headquarters in Madrid, the AccorHotels Arena in Bercy, the Tour Totem in Paris, and the Tours Société Générale and Tour Sequoia in La Défense.
Andrault and Parat parted ways in 1995. Andrault collected pre-colonial artifacts from Africa, Northern Ireland, and Burma.
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1986 French Polynesian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 16 March 1986. The result was a victory for Tahoera'a Huiraatira, which won 22 of the 41 seats. Its leader Gaston Flosse remained President of the Government.
Elections had been due to be held in 1987. However, in 1985 the government and opposition ask the French Council of Ministers for early elections be held. The request was approved and the Assembly elected in 1982 was dissolved on 23 December. Prior to its dissolution, the Assembly adopted an amended electoral law increasing the number of seats from 30 to 41 and introducing an electoral threshold of 5%. Lists were also required to have two more candidates than the number of seats in the constituency to provide replacements and avoid the need for by-elections.
The initial results showed Tahoera'a Huiraatira winning 21 seats. However, after a recount in the Leeward Islands, they were awarded another seat.
Following the elections, two members of the minor parties joined Tahoera'a Huiraatira, giving them 24 of the 41 seats. Gaston Flosse was subsequently elected president by a vote of 25 to 2. In addition to Flosse, four other Assembly members became ministers; Georges Kelly, Alexandre Léontieff, Jacques Teheiura and Michel Buillard. They were replaced in the Assembly by Franklin Brotherson, Roger Doom, Albert Taruoura. Emma Tetuanui and Lionel Watanabe.
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Sterling Lake
Sterling Lake is located in Sterling Forest State Park, New York. The lake contains a number of fish species including Lake Trout, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel and Panfish. Fishing is permitted but only from the shore. No boating is allowed on the lake. There are a number of scenic hiking trails around the lake. One of the trails leads to the Sterling Mountain Fire Observation Tower and Observer's Cabin which provides an impressive 360 degree view of the forest, including Sterling Lake.
As of 2018, the Sterling Lake System, operated by SUEZ North America (formerly United Water), supplies drinking water from Sterling Lake to about 225 people.
The Sterling Lake area is rich in magnetite deposits. Since before the American Revolution, this area was an important source of iron ore for the colonies. Ore was discovered at the site of the old Sterling Mine in 1750, on the south shore of the lake. This led to the establishment of what would become known as the Sterling Iron Works. Another mine, called the Lake Mine, ran underneath Sterling Lake for some 3,800 feet at a depth of about 900 feet. The mines were finally closed in 1921. The underground workings of both these mines are now flooded.
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Michelle Ogundehin
Michelle Ogundehin (born 5 November 1967) is a British interior designer, editor and TV presenter.
Ogundehin was born in Manchester and grew up in London, United Kingdom. She studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture graduating in 1989 with a Bachellors and a further Diploma in Architecture in 1993. Michelle moved to Brighton, after visiting for a weekend break, and has been recognised for her influence by being included in the "Powerlist" of influential Black Britons on a number of occasions, including in the Top 10.
In 1997, Ogundehin began working at "ELLE Decoration UK", a publication dedicated to interior design, and was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 2004, for which at the 2011 PPAAwards, ELLE Decoration was awarded Specialist Consumer Magazine of the Year and Michelle was Highly Commended as Editor of the Year. In 2002, Ogundehin established her own creative consultancy, MO:Studio. From 2008 to 2015 she became a Trustee for the Victoria & Albert Museum and was made an Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments by the Government Equalities Office the following year.
Ogundehin has also regularly written for publications such as the "Financial Times" and "The Observer", and in 2017 she stepped down from her role at "ELLE Decorations" after 13 years.
In addition to her written work, Ogundehin has worked on a number of television shows including presenting alongside Kevin McCloud on "Grand Designs:House of the Year" awarding homes across the UK for their architectural merit, been a guest judge on "The Great Interior Design Challenge", and in 2019 began presenting as Head Judge on "Interior Design Masters" in which amateur interior designers compete to win a commercial contract.
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John Newton (epidemiologist)
Professor John Norman Newton (born 7 January 1959) FRCP FFPH FRSPH is a British epidemiologist and public health expert. He is the leader of the UK Government's COVID-19 testing programme.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School, Trinity College, Oxford (MA), King's College London (MBBS) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MSc).
Newton was an academic epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, and the founding Chief Executive of the charity UK Biobank. He also served as Director of Research at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital and at University Hospital Southampton. He was appointed Honorary Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology in the Centre for Epidemiology at the University of Manchester in 2004.
In 2005 he led work for the UK Department of Health on a national public health information and intelligence strategy. He was appointed as Regional Director of Public Health for NHS South Central in 2007.
Newton was appointed as Director of Health Improvement for Public Health England on 12 October 2012.
In May 2020, he was announced as national coordinator of the UK Government's coronavirus testing programme.
Professor Newton chairs the World Health Organisation’s European Burden of Disease Network and led England's contribution to the Global Burden of Disease project, a study into the impacts of diseases on the world.
He is Vice President of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and a director of Health Data Insight CIC. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP) and a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH).
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Bruchstraße
The Bruchstraße is a cobbled street in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. The street has many historic half-timbered houses and is the centre of the city's red light district and has a number of "windows". There are iron gates at both ends of the street, at the junctions with Wallstraße and Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße.
Prostitution in the Bruchstraße dates back to the Middle Ages, and is possibly the oldest red-light district in Germany. At the beginning of the 15th century, there were 5 brothels in Echternstraße, including one called the "Rote Kloster" (Red Monastery). Prostitution was overseen by Braunschweig's hangman. There was also a brothel called "Fruwenhus" in Mauernstraße.
Around the same time, the marshland between the two branches of the Oker river was being drained and landfill being dumped there. This led to an undulating landscape. Being beyond the city walls, the nature of the area, it was used as a hideout for criminals. The prostitutes also settled here and disreputable bars opened. Prostitution continued here despite the 1594 law prohibiting fornication.
In 1806 the city came under the control of the French and troops were stationed in the city. There were concerns about STIs amongst the soldiers and the prostitutes were subjected to compulsory health checks.
The street was named Bruchstraße in 1858. During World War II Braunschweig was bombed 42 times. An Allied air raid on 15 October 15, 1944 destroyed most of the city's churches, and the Altstadt (old town). The 33 half-timbered houses in Bruchstraße survived the bombings.
In 2013 there were proposals to open up the gated street and add restaurants and bars as part of the regeneration of the Friedrich Wilhelm district. This was opposed by the police, spokesman Wolfgang Klages saying the current arrangement "is actually the ideal situation to keep a close eye on it." The head of the Braunschweig health office, Sabine Pfingsten-Würzburg, also opposed the proposal.
From 1 July 2017, all prostitutes and brothel operators were required to be registered Under the Prostitutes Protection Act. In 2018, there were 167 prostitutes registered in Braunschweig.
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Slavonska Požega transit camp
Slavonska Požega was a transit camp operated by the fascist, Croatian nationalist Ustaše movement in the Independent State of Croatia between July and October 1941, during World War II.
Located in the town of Slavonska Požega (modern-day Požega, Croatia) the camp was established in July 1941, at a site previously used by the Royal Yugoslav Army, to facilitate the deportation of ethnic Slovenes from German-occupied areas of Slovenia to the NDH and ethnic Serbs from the NDH to German-occupied Serbia. Its establishment was overseen by Slavonska Požega's police chief, Milivoj Ašner. The camp was commanded by Captain Ivan Stiper and guarded by the 14th Ustaše Company. The accommodations were insufficient to handle the large number of detainees, leading to severe overcrowding. Detainees were also given inadequate amounts of food, illnesses ran rampant and medical treatment was virtually non-existent. Although it was nominally a transit camp, many detainees were tortured and even killed by the guards. On 26 August, 785 detainees from Derventa and Bosanski Brod were shot. The camp was dissolved on 22 October. At least 9,500 detainees passed through it during its existence. The Ustaše administration continued to process belongings that had been stolen from the detainees until mid-November.
In 2005, prosecutors in Croatia charged Ašner with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of Serbs and Jews from Slavonska Požega in 1941 and 1942. Austria, where Ašner was living, refused to extradite him, and he died in 2011 without ever having gone to trial.
Ethnic tensions between Serbs and Croats increased following the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the aftermath of World War I. During the interwar period, many Croats came to resent Serb political hegemony in the newly established state, which resulted in the passing of legislation that favoured Serb political, religious and business interests. Tensions flared in 1928, following the shooting of five Croatian parliamentary deputies by the Montenegrin Serb politician Puniša Račić. Two died on the spot and two others were wounded but survived. A fifth, the opposition leader Stjepan Radić, died nearly two months later of complications attributed to the shooting. In January 1929, King Alexander instituted a royal dictatorship and renamed the country Yugoslavia. Shortly thereafter, the Croatian politician Ante Pavelić formed the Ustaše, a Croatian nationalist and fascist movement which sought to achieve Croatian independence through violent means. The Ustaše were outlawed in Yugoslavia, but received covert assistance from Benito Mussolini's Italy, which had territorial aspirations over Istria and Dalmatia. The Ustaše carried out a number of actions aimed at undermining Yugoslavia, most notably the Velebit uprising in 1932 and the assassination of King Alexander in Marseilles in 1934. Following Alexander's assassination, the Ustaše movement's senior-most leaders, including Pavelić, were tried in absentia in both France and Yugoslavia and sentenced to death, but were granted protection by Mussolini and thus evaded capture.
Following the 1938 "Anschluss" between Nazi Germany and Austria, Yugoslavia came to share its northwestern border with Germany and fell under increasing pressure as its neighbours aligned themselves with the Axis powers. In April 1939, Italy opened a second frontier with Yugoslavia when it invaded and occupied neighbouring Albania. At the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Yugoslav Government declared its neutrality. Between September and November 1940, Hungary and Romania joined the Tripartite Pact, aligning themselves with the Axis, and Italy invaded Greece. Yugoslavia was by then almost completely surrounded by the Axis powers and their satellites, and its neutral stance toward the war became strained. In late February 1941, Bulgaria joined the Pact. The following day, German troops entered Bulgaria from Romania, closing the ring around Yugoslavia. Intending to secure his southern flank for the impending attack on the Soviet Union, German dictator Adolf Hitler began placing heavy pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Axis. On 25 March 1941, after some delay, the Royal Yugoslav Government conditionally signed the Pact. Two days later, a group of pro-Western, Serbian nationalist Royal Yugoslav Air Force officers deposed the country's regent, Prince Paul, in a bloodless coup d'état. They placed his teenage nephew Peter on the throne and brought to power a "government of national unity" led by the head of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force, General Dušan Simović. The coup enraged Hitler, who immediately ordered Yugoslavia's invasion, which commenced on 6 April 1941.
Yugoslavia was quickly overwhelmed by the combined strength of the Axis powers and surrendered in less than two weeks. The government and royal family went into exile, and the country was occupied and dismembered by its neighbours. Hitler wished to irrevocably dismantle Yugoslavia, which he dubbed a "Versailles construct". Serbia was reduced to its pre-Balkan War borders, becoming the only country in the Western Balkans to be directly occupied by the Germans. Serb-inhabited territories west of the Drina River were incorporated into the Axis puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (; NDH), which included most of modern-day Croatia, all of modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, and parts of modern-day Serbia. The establishment of the NDH had been announced over the radio by Slavko Kvaternik, a former Austro-Hungarian Army officer who had been in contact with Croatian nationalists abroad, on 10 April.
Pavelić entered the NDH on 13 April and reached Zagreb two days later. The same day, Germany and Italy extended diplomatic recognition to the NDH. Pavelić assumed control and bestowed himself the title "Poglavnik" ("leader"). At the time of its establishment, the NDH had a population of 6.5 million inhabitants, about half of whom were Croats. It was also inhabited by nearly two million Serbs, who constituted about one-third of its total population. Lands inhabited by Serbs accounted for 60–70 percent of the NDH's total landmass. Nevertheless, Serbs – along with others whom the Ustaše deemed "undesirable", such as Jews and Roma – were denied citizenship on the basis that they were not Aryans. Within hours of the NDH's creation, businesses brandished signs reading: "No Serbs, Gypsies, Jews and dogs". Additionally, immediate measures were taken to expunge the presence of the Cyrillic alphabet from the public sphere. On 17 April, the Ustaše instituted the Legal Provision for the Defence of the People and State, a law legitimizing the establishment of concentration camps and the mass shooting of hostages in the NDH. Thirty concentration camps in total were established across the puppet state.
Coinciding with Pavelić's visit to see Hitler at the Berghof on 4 June 1941, Croatian government ministers Slavko Kvaternik and Mladen Lorković met with Siegfried Kasche, the German ambassador to Croatia, and Harald Turner, the head of the German civilian administration in German-occupied Serbia, to negotiate the deportation of 180,000 ethnic Serbs living in the NDH to German-occupied Serbia and the simultaneous resettlement of 180,000 Slovenes to the NDH. The Ustaše wished to alter the ethnic makeup of Serb-majority areas of the NDH and the Germans wished to change the ethnic composition of certain parts of Slovenia. The NDH agreed to admit ethnic Slovenes expelled from German-occupied Slovenia, while simultaneously expelling ethnic Serbs from the NDH to German-occupied Serbia.
In July 1941, the Ustaše established a transit camp for Serbs and Slovenes in the town of Slavonska Požega (modern-day Požega, Croatia), southeast of Zagreb. The camp's establishment was overseen by the town's police chief, Milivoj Ašner. A report submitted to the International Tracing Service (ITS) in the 1970s conservatively estimated that nearly 9,500 detainees had passed through the camp during its existence. Since this estimate was based on fragmentary documentation, the historian Joseph Robert White writes that the true number of detainees was probably higher. It was not uncommon for detainees to be robbed of their belongings, physically abused, and sometimes even killed by escorting Ustaše. The campgrounds, which consisted of barracks, a former arms depot and a military vehicle park surrounded by a wall with a barbed-wire fence, had originally been constructed by the Royal Yugoslav Army. The accommodations were insufficient to handle the large number of detainees, leading to severe overcrowding. The camp was commanded by Captain () Ivan Stiper. His adjutant, First Lieutenant () Emil Klajič, commanded the 14th Ustaše Company, whose members guarded the camp. The company's strength varied between 130 and 223 men. Several Slovene detainees worked as part of the camp administration. Conditions at the camp were grim. Detainees were given inadequate amounts of food, illnesses ran rampant and medical treatment was virtually non-existent. Although it was nominally a transit camp, many detainees were tortured and even killed by the guards. On 26 August, 785 detainees from Derventa and Bosanski Brod were shot. Among those killed at the camp was the Serbian Orthodox monk Rafailo, the abbot of the Šišatovac Monastery in northern Serbia, who was tortured to death. The Slavonska Požega camp closed on 22 October 1941. The Ustaše administration continued to process belongings that had been stolen from the detainees until mid-November.
On 21 May 2000, the Abbot Rafailo was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church. In May 2004, the amateur investigator Alen Budaj alerted the Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office, that Ašner was still alive and living in Croatia, having lived in exile in Austria until 1991. Budaj also provided Zuroff with documents implicating Ašner in wartime atrocities in Slavonska Požega. After Zuroff held a press conference outlining Budaj's findings, Ašner fled the country and returned to Austria. In 2005, prosecutors in Croatia charged Ašner with war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from his involvement in the deportation of Jews and Serbs in 1941 and 1942. The Government of Croatia subsequently requested that Ašner be extradited from Austria, but the Government of Austria refused to extradite him.
In 2007, a sugar factory in Slavonska Požega produced a packet of sugar bearing Hitler's image. The incident was condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "If nothing else, this is a disgusting expression of nostalgia for the Third Reich and a period during which Jews, Serbs and Gypsies were mass-murdered," Zuroff remarked. He urged the Government of Croatia to force the factory owners to recall the sugar packets immediately, in line with the country's own laws prohibiting racial, religious and ethnic hatred. The following year, Ašner was photographed attending a football match at UEFA Euro 2008, which was co-hosted by Austria. He subsequently granted interviews to Croatian and British journalists. "Nothing ever happened to whoever was a loyal citizen of the Croatian state," Ašner claimed in one of the interviews. "For others, my theory was: You are not a Croat, you hate Croatia, okay, then please go back to you homeland." Ašner died in 2011, at the age of 98, without ever having gone to trial.
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TeddyLoid
TeddyLoid is a Japanaese electronic music producer and DJ. He is known for producing many songs in the soundtrack of "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt", which charted on Oricon Albums Chart. He is also known for partnering with Daoko in "Me!Me!Me!", an anime music video submitted to the 2014 Japan Animator Expo.
TeddyLoid career first began by publishing remixes on MySpace, where he gained popularity and climbed to the top of the platform's electronic indie chart. In 2008, he toured internationally as Miyavi's background DJ in the guitarist's "This Iz The Japanese Kabuki Rock Tour 2008".
TeddyLoid's first partnership with Taku Takahashi came when Takahashi created his record label, TCY Records. In the record label's debut album, "TCY Recordings Sampler Vol.0", TeddyLoid produced the song "Another Day". The two then worked together on the soundtrack for the anime series "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt", with TeddyLoid producing multiple songs. The soundtrack album, "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt The Original Soundtrack", recahed 10th on the Oricon Albums Chart, while it's followup album "Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt The Worst Album" also reached 24th. In 2011, he formed Galaxias! along with vocalist Ko Shibasaki and music producer Deco*27. The three produced one album titled "Galaxias!" and toured Japan, including a concert at Nippon Budokan.
On 17 September 2014, TeddyLoid released his first album, "Black Moon Rising". Then, for the 2014 Japan Animator Expo, TeddyLoid produced "Me!Me!Me!", an anime music video featuring vocals from Daoko and visuals from Hibiki Yoshizaki. The music was written in three parts and the video featured a male protagonist in a psychidelic setting featuring nude women. A follow-up remix titled "Me!Me!Me! Chronic" was released in May 2015. In 2015, TeddyLoid partnered with Momoiro Clover Z and released "Re:Momoiro Clover Z", which featured remixes of the idol group's songs. He then released "Silent Planet" later the same year and began releasing a series of follow-up extended plays under the same title. Each release featured different artists including Kohh, Bonjour Suzuki, Chyanmina, Aina the End, and IA. The series then cumulated in two albums, "Silent Planet: Reloaded" and "Silent Planet: Infinity".
In 2016, TeddyLoid was the fifth most listened to Japanese artist outside of Japan on Spotify.
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Sebastian Deffner
Sebastian Deffner is a German theoretical physicist and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is known for his major contributions to the development of quantum thermodynamics with focus on the thermodynamics of quantum information, quantum speed limit for open systems, quantum control and shortcuts to adiabaticity. He is also the co-author, with Steve Campbell, of the textbook "Quantum Thermodynamics: An introduction to the thermodynamics of quantum information", which is the first graduate level textbook in the field of quantum thermodynamics.
Deffner received his Diplom-Physiker (Master of Science) in 2008 from the University of Augsburg; and he received his doctorate, Doctor rerum naturalium (Doctor of Science), with highest distinction (SUMMA CUM LAUDE) from the same university in 2011 under the supervision of Eric Lutz.
From 2008 until 2011, Deffner was a research fellow at the University of Augsburg. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Research Associate in the group of Christopher Jarzynski at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for which he had received the prestigious DAAD postdoctoral fellowship.
From 2014 to 2016, he took up the position of a Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow with Wojciech H. Zurek at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Since 2016, he has held a position as a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he leads the quantum thermodynamics group, and a position as a Visiting Professor at the University of Campinas in Brazil.
Deffner’s contributions to quantum thermodynamics have been recognized through the 2016 Early Career Award from IOP’s New Journal of Physics, as well as the Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2016. To date, Deffner has been a reviewer for more than ten international funding agencies including The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, and The United States Department of Energy. He has also been a reviewer for more than thirty high-ranking journals. For these efforts, he was named Outstanding Reviewer for New Journal of Physics in 2016, Outstanding Reviewer for Annals of Physics in 2016, and APS Outstanding Referee in 2017.
Since 2017, Deffner has been a member of the international editorial board for IOP’s Journal of Physics Communications, and since 2019 he has been on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, and a member of the Section Board for Quantum Information of Entropy. From 2020, up to 2021, Deffner will be a Guest editor for the Special Issue in Entropy: Thermodynamics of Quantum Information. Below, is a list of Deffner’s honors and awards to date,
Deffner investigates the nonequilibrium properties of nanosystems operating far from thermal equilibrium. To that end, he employs tools from statistical physics, open quantum dynamics, quantum information theory, quantum optics, quantum field theory, condensed matter theory, and optimal control theory. Here is a list of Deffner’s most notable work,
A complete list of Deffner’s publications can be found here or here
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Made Up Stories (company)
Made Up Stories is a film & television development and production company founded in 2017 by producer Bruna Papandrea that champions women on and off the screen. The company has offices in Los Angeles and Sydney.
In 2012, Bruna Papandrea co-founded Pacific Standard with actress Reese Witherspoon, a production company focusing on creating films made by and about women. Their first two projects at Pacific Standard were "Gone Girl" and "Wild", both adapted from books whose rights were acquired before publication. Both films were released in 2014, receiving commercial success and extensive accolades. The company had finished production on "Hot Pursuit" (2015), by the time the first two pictures were released.
In 2016, Papandrea and Witherspoon announced that they were ending their partnership, though they would continue to work on the projects that were in the middle of production, including the HBO series "Big Little Lies" which was received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won eight, including Outstanding Limited Series.
Papandrea launched Made Up Stories in January 2017 to carry on her mission in championing female filmmakers, adapting female-written novels and creating stories featuring multi-faceted female characters. The company is also committed to inclusivity in less-acknowledged departments behind-the-scenes such as transportation teams and gaffers. Papandrea has expressed intent to start a foundation, Made Up Solutions, to provide opportunities for women from low socio-economic and diverse backgrounds.
On film side, Made Up Stories has adapted "The Dry" based on the book by Australian novelist Jane Harper for release in August 2020. The book won numerous international awards and has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. The film is directed by Robert Connolly and stars Eric Bana. The company is also in post-production on upcoming drama film "Penguin Bloom", directed by Glendyn Ivin, based on the book of the same name by Bradley Trevor Greive. The film stars Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, and Jacki Weaver.
On the television side, Made Up Stories produced the upcoming HBO miniseries "The Undoing" debuting in October 2020. The series stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland and Edgar Ramirez, is written and produced by David E. Kelley, and directed by Susanne Bier. It is based on the novel "You Should Have Known" by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The company also produced the upcoming thriller drama series "Tell Me Your Secrets," created by Harriet Warner, and starring Lily Rabe, Amy Brenneman, and Hamish Linklater. Made Up Stories in pre-production on "Nine Perfect Strangers", based on the book by Liane Moriarity, for Hulu. The series, written by David E. Kelley, stars Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy; and in pre-production on the Netflix series, "Pieces of Her" based on the book by Karin Slaughter, and featuring an all-female creative team including director Minkie Spiro and executive producers Lesli Linka Glatter, Charlotte Stoudt and Bruna Papandrea. The show stars Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote
The company is also developing other projects including the film adaptation of the thriller novel "As Long As We Both Shall" "Live" by JoAnn Chaney, the television adaption of "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart" based on the debut novel from Australian writer Holly Ringland, the adaptation of the historical epic "The Lost Queen" by Signe Pike for television, the short story collection "Roar" by Cecelia Ahern, a TV series based on the Jessica Knoll novel "The Favorite Sister", a limited TV series on Tina Brown based on her book "The Vanity Fair Diaries""," a six-episode series adaption of the novel "Anatomy of a Scandal" by Sarah Vaughan for Netflix with 3Dot Productions' Liza Chasin, a feature film adaptation of the fantasy book "The Stepsister" by Jennifer Donnelly with Lynette Howell Taylor's 51 Entertainment, the multi-generational novel "The Last Anniversary" by Liane Moriarty, among many others.
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Butler Blackhawk
The Butler Blackhawk and the Skyway from which it was developed were American three-seat open-cockpit single engine biplanes of the late 1920s that were built in small numbers immediately prior to having their intended production run interrupted by the onset of the Great Depression.
The fuselage was built from chromium-molybdenum alloy steel tubing faired to shape with light wooden battens and covered in doped aircraft linen. Separate cockpits were provided for the pilot, in the rear, with the two passengers up front, with a baggage compartment behind the pilot. Unusually, the pilot was provided with dual engine controls, one on each side of the cockpit. Like the fuselage, the empennage was built up from welded chromium-molybdenum alloy steel and covered in fabric with the elevators being adjustable in flight from the cockpit.
The biplane wings were built up around two solid spruce spars with built-up plywood ribs forming the airfoil section. No center section was used, as the wing panels were joined along the centerline. While the main fuel tank was in the fuselage, it was supplemented with smaller gravity tanks in each upper wing root. Frise-type ailerons actuated by push-pull tubes were fitted to the lower wings only.
It was fitted with a split-axle undercarriage.
All variants were powered by a single Wright J-5 Whirlwind air-cooled radial engine, although the prototype was initially reported as having a J-5.
Butler Manufacturing were producers of pre-fabricated steel buildings, including aircraft hangars who decided to expand into aircraft construction, however shortly after they begin production, the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the onset of the Great Depression began to severe impacted their profitability, both with their main line of business, and with regards to aviation and they almost immediately shut down their production line to preserve their core business. As a result only 13 serial numbers were allocated.
Art Goebel, known as the winner of the disastrous Dole Air Race in which many of the entrants failed to survive, and for the aerobatic routines he carried out in a Waco ATO, made a test flight from Kansas City, Missouri to San Antonio, Texas in a Blackhawk, and liked it enough to buy one for his personal use.
Hoot Gibson, a famous 1920s and 1930s cowboy actor, bought Blackhawk NC730K serial 105, however, it was while flying a similar Swallow biplane borrowed from a friend that he crashed at the National Air Races in Los Angeles on 3 July 1933, and not the Blackhawk.
Some examples began being used as crop dusters at the end of the 1930s.
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Dii involuti
In Etruscan religion, the dii involuti ("veiled" or "hidden gods", also "di involuti" or "dii superiores et involuti") were a group of gods, or possibly a principle, superior to the ordinary pantheon of gods. In contrast to the ordinary Etruscan gods, including the "Dii Consentes", the "dii involuti" were not the object of direct worship and were never depicted. Their specific attributes and number are unknown; suggests that they may represent either an archaic principle of divinity or "the very fate that dominates individualized gods".
The sky-god Tinia was believed to require their consent to cast the thunderbolt that announced disasters. According to Seneca in his "Naturales quaestiones",
The "dii involuti" may be identical with the "Secret Gods of Favour" mentioned by Martianus Capella.
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Transnational psychology
Transnational psychology (also called transnational feminist psychology) is an interdisciplinary branch of psychology that applies transnational feminist lenses to the field of psychology to study, understand, and address the impact of colonization, imperialism, and globalization. As articulated by Kurtis, Adams, Grabe, Else-Quest, Collins, Machizawa and Rice, transnational psychology aims to counter the Western bias in the field of psychology. Kurtis and Adams proposed applying the principles of transnational feminism and using a context-sensitive cultural psychology lens to reconsider, de-naturalize, and de-universalize psychological science. They identified people in the non-Western, "Majority World" (areas where the majority of the world's population lives) as valuable resources for revising traditional psychological science. Both transnational feminism and transnational psychology are concerned with how globalization and capitalism affect people across nations, races, genders, classes, and sexualities. The transnational academic paradigm draws from postcolonial feminist theories, which emphasize how colonialist legacies have shaped and continue to shape the social, economic, and political oppression of people across the globe. It rejects the idea that people from different regions have the same subjectivities and recognizes that global capitalism has created similar relations of exploitation and inequality. A 2015 Summit organized by Machizawa, Collins, and Rice further developed transnational psychology by inspiring presentations and publications that applied transnational feminist principles to psychological topics.
International psychology, global psychology, and cross-cultural psychology share the common goal of making psychology more universal and less ethnocentric in character, whereas transnational psychology is concerned with uncovering the particularities of the psychology of groups without regard to nation-state boundaries and is opposed to universalization.
Grabe and Else-Quest proposed the concept of "transnational intersectionality" that expands current conceptions of intersectionality, adding global forces to the analysis of how oppressive institutions are interconnected. In addition, Bhatia believes that a transnational cultural psychology is needed examine the psychology of diasporas, who are impacted by globalization and consequently have many "homes," languages, and selves. This movement asks to critique the ideologies of traditional white, classist, western models of psychology practices from an intersectional approach and how these connect with labor, theoretical applications, and analytical practice on a geopolitical scale.
Scholars have noted that most of the articles in American Psychological Association journals are about largely white, US populations, despite U.S. citizens only constituting about 5% of the world's population. Arnett (2008) pointed out that psychologists have no grounds for assuming psychological processes are universal and generalizing research findings to the rest of the global population. Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan (2010) noted that although only 1/8 of people worldwide live in regions that fall into the WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) societal classification, 60–90% of psychology studies are performed on participants from these areas. They gave examples of results that differ significantly between people from WEIRD and tribal cultures, including the Müller-Lyer illusion. Arnett (2008), Altmaier and Hall (2008), and Morgan-Consoli et al. (2018) all view the Western bias in research and theory as a serious problem considering psychologists are increasingly applying psychological principles developed in WEIRD regions in their research, clinical work, and consultation with populations around the world. In 2018, Rad, Martingano & Ginges stated that nearly a decade after Henrich et al.'s paper, over 80% of the samples used in studies published in the journal, Psychological Science, were from the WEIRD population. Their analysis also showed that several studies did not fully disclose the origin of their samples, and the authors offer a set of recommendations to editors and reviewers to reduce the WEIRD bias.
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Minot State Beavers women's ice hockey
Minot State Beavers women's ice hockey represents Minot State University (MSU) in Women's Division 1 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) and in Women's Midwest College Hockey (WMCH). MSU was one of the founding members of the ACHA's second women's division in 2006–07, but has seen its greatest successes within the last few years. The Beavers qualified for the ACHA National Tournament for the first time in 2017 and made it to the semifinals, and followed that up with back-to-back runner-up finishes in 2018 and 2019. Minot then jumped to Division 1, and was one of the founding members of WMCH with Liberty University, Lindenwood University–Belleville, the University of Minnesota, McKendree University, and Midland University.
Ryan Miner is the Beavers' current head coach, as he completed his third full season behind the bench in 2019–20.
Minot State joined the ACHA for the 2006–07 season, when the association added a second women's division. Throughout the team's first ten seasons, the Beavers played primarily a regional schedule of between 10–15 ACHA games per season, against opponents like North Dakota State University, International Falls, Minnesota's Rainy River Community College, the University of Minnesota–Duluth, and South Dakota State University.
MSU had early stars like Kristin Bellanger and Betsy Doubek (who combined for 63 points in the 2006–07 season), Academic All-American and two-time leading scorer Chelsea Bender, and Makayla Sandvold, who also led the Beavers in scoring twice before helping to coach the team in 2015–16, but generally struggled on the ice more often than not. In an ACHA Division 2 West Region that usually included around ten teams at the time (with between two and four receiving invitations to the ACHA National Tournament, depending on the season), the Beavers never finished higher than fifth.
The team's two best shots at nationals came in 2006–07 and 2012–13. In the first of those seasons, MSU placed third in the first ranking of the year (a national ranking, as the division was not split into regions until the following season) behind the exploits of Bellanger, Doubek, and Lana Dubois. However, by mid-December, the Beavers had been passed up by Rainy River and the College of St. Scholastica and fell to fifth, where they would remain for the rest of the year, barely missing out on the four-team field. The 2012–13 campaign saw Minot come even closer, as MSU placed fourth in the West Region as late as the January 27, 2013 ranking, during a season where four teams from each of the two regions received nationals bids. However, disaster struck over the weekend of February 2 and 3, when the Beavers were swept at home by rival NDSU, thanks in large part to a four-goal series by future two-time Zoë M. Harris Award winner Kacie Johnson. In the final ranking, issued on February 13, the Bison jumped from fifth to third, pushing MSU down to fifth and out of the tournament.
Throughout most of the 2016–17 season, there wasn't much to suggest that a drastic shift in the program's trajectory was on the way. A new generation of talent arrived in 2015 and 2016, including Saskatchewan natives Mackenzie Balogh and Vanessa Grimstad, along with goaltender Shelby Tornato, and supporting players like Tylar Holland and Lauren Michayluk. Even with the additions, at 5–8–1 and ranked seventh in the West Region midway through January, the season looked like most others to that point for the Beavers. However, things clicked late in the year and Minot closed on a 5–0–1 run, including two wins against Division 1's Midland to close the regular season, the second of which involved two Holland goals to rally from a 2–0 deficit, followed by Grimstad's overtime winner. The unbeaten streak was just enough to sneak up to sixth place and grab the last seed for the newly-expanded ACHA National Tournament, the Beavers' first-ever appearance.
The run continued in Columbus, Ohio, as Minot became one of the tournament's major storylines by dominating fourth-seeded (and unbeaten) Miami and then Buffalo, the East Region's top team, to win Pool C and advance to the semifinals. In particular, Balogh had the first breakthrough of her career, scoring ten times during the tournament (including five goals against Buffalo) to win the Beavers' first-ever ACHA award for hockey performance, a spot on the first all-tournament team. North Dakota State once again provided a helping of heartbreak in the semifinals though, spoiling a furious MSU rally from a 3–0 third period deficit and winning 4–3 on an Erica Sevigny goal off of scrum in front of Tornato with 2:22 remaining.
Even though Minot struggled prior to the run in the late stages of 2016–17, that would not be the case for the team's remaining two seasons at the Division 2 level. In 2017–18, Ryan Miner stepped behind the bench full-time as the Beavers' head coach, after previously serving in different coaching and managerial roles while also playing for Minot's men's team and Dakota College at Bottineau. MSU added significant depth to its strong returning core (growing the roster from 13 to 22) and added stars like Sami Jo Henry, who had previously played with Balogh on the Melville Prairie Fire, and Minot High School product Bryanna Bergeron, who joined the team midway through the season. For the first time in program history, the Beavers had little issue qualifying for nationals, cruising to a 21–4–1 regular season record. After being swept by Division 1's Minnesota to open the year, not much went wrong for the Beavers, as MSU tore of 19 wins in the next 20 games – including four wins each against long-time thorn NDSU and two more sweeps of Midland. Balogh built on her freshman season by posting 33 goals and 51 points during the regular season (later adding four and 12 at the ACHA National Tournament) and was voted the Zoë M. Harris Award winner as the ACHA's player of the year. Grimstad, Henry, and Angie Lothspeich each added at least ten goals as well.
A fateful showdown series against defending national champion Lakehead University at Maysa Arena on February 10 and 11 provided a dose of foreshadowing, as the Lakers ended MSU's hot streak with a 1–1 tie in the series opener, followed by a 3–1 win the next day. Those results enabled Lakehead to sneak past Minot to win the West Region's top seed, forcing the Beavers to settle for second place.
Nevertheless, the slightly-more-difficult schedule at the 2018 ACHA National Tournament didn't seem to faze the Beavers, who once again rolled through the pool round with little issue against Pool B opponents Buffalo and Liberty, or in a crossover game against Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference champion Montclair State.
A rematch in the semifinals against North Dakota State followed, where the Beavers finally scored a measure of revenge against the team that blocked their aspirations both in 2017 and previously with a tightly-fought 3–1 win to advance to the championship game. NDSU scored first, but were quickly answered by Bergeron, from Balogh's feed, before Balogh and Henry pulled MSU ahead. However, just as they had with the West Region rankings in February, Lakehead ended up on top of the ACHA thanks to a decisive 5–1 win in the championship game, the Thunderwolves' second straight title.
Early in the 2018–19 season, MSU announced that it would elevate its program to ACHA Division 1 in 2019–20, joining the Beavers men's team (which would go on to win its second national championship that year), along with a growing segment of its schedule, in a top ACHA division.
As dominant as Minot was the year before, the Beavers found another gear in their final Division 2 season – in 25 games, MSU scored 146 goals (5.84 per game) while surrendering just 38 (1.52 per game) on the way to a 24–1–0 regular season mark. They opened the year with a three-game sweep of a trip to play Division 1 teams Colorado and Colorado State, and went on to finish 9–0–0 against D1 opposition (with Midland and Minnesota standing as the other opponents), demonstrating a readiness to move to that level. The D2 portion of the schedule proceeded in a similar fashion – although Lakehead handed the Beavers their only regular season defeat in a showcase at Assiniboine on November 10, 2018, MSU took down the Thunderwolves the next day and on three other occasions over the course of the season to quickly take an iron grip on the West Region rankings. On the individual side, Balogh and Henry put up 62 and 48 points during the regular season to win All-American honors, while Grimstad, Bergeron, Haley Wickham, Beth-Ann Goudy, and Clarissa Lewis each had at least 20 points as well.
Just as they had the previous two seasons, MSU made quick work of the pool round at nationals, blowing through Rowan, Mercyhurst, and Boston College, with none of the games finishing tighter than a five-goal margin, although the latter two did remain close into the late going before the Beavers cracked them open. The semifinals, against Sherbrooke, Quebec's Bishop's University were a bit tougher, as Tornato was forced to make 14 first-period saves (en route to 27 for the game), allowing Goudy (with a pair of goals), Wickham, and Grimstad to give MSU a 4–0 lead. The Gaiters battled back to within 4–2 early in the third period, before Bergeron and Wickham popped in goals in the final 2:11 of the contest to put Minot back in the championship game.
Then, a stunner, en route to what was supposed to be a formal MSU coronation: Assiniboine pulled off one of the biggest upsets in ACHA history, denying the Beavers at the doorstep of a title for the second straight season by a 1–0 score, after Minot had gone 6–0–0 against the Cougars during the regular season, including 7–1 and 9–2 wins during its final weekend. Simone Turner-Cummer scored the game's only goal on a power play late in the first period, and ACC stymied Minot with a stout team defensive effort the rest of the way, helped along by some MSU penalty trouble and Marley Quesnel's 18 saves.
While Minot's ability to be competitive in D1 was never really in question thanks to a healthy selection of D1 opponents on previous schedules, another large recruiting class helped ensure that it was sustainable over an entire season. Miner plucked a pair of national champions, Lauren Blight and Mackenzie Heide, from the Assiniboine team that upset the Beavers in the 2019 D2 title game (joining ACC alumna Brooke Mead, who joined MSU in 2018). The transfer market also produced a pair of former U Sports players from the Regina Cougars in Camryn Clyne and Jensen Smigelsky, while the standouts from the true freshman class included star goaltender Jordan Ivanco, along with Maiya Aschberg, Megan Ferg, Story Navrot, and Alisha O'Hara.
As part of the move, the Beavers helped form a new conference, Women's Midwest College Hockey along with previous Western Women's Collegiate Hockey League members Minnesota and Midland, as well as fellow independents Liberty, McKendree, and Lindenwood–Belleville (although LU–B had also played in the WWCHL until 2018). The conference provided a degree of familiarity, as Minnesota and Midland had already become regular MSU opponents, although its calling card was its strength – Liberty (three times) and Minnesota had won national championships within the preceding decade, while McKendree, Lindenwood–Belleville, and Midland were newer programs that had quickly risen to contender status. Nevertheless, Minot was able to quickly prove it belonged in the group despite a 1–3–0 start, including a split at Colorado and a tightly-contested sweep at the hands of LU–B that finished with Tessa O'Connor's overtime goal.
From there though, MSU fired off an 18-game unbeaten streak to take hold of second place in the Division 1's national ranking for the remainder of the season. Notable results during the run included a revenge sweep of Colorado, a 3–0 weekend against perennial powers Adrian and Miami, and a 9–0–1 mark in WMCH games, including a four-game sweep of Minnesota and three wins with a tie against Midland.
The Beavers finished the regular season 17–3–1 and were seeded second for the WMCH playoffs under a system that used the ACHA rankings to establish conference standings, in light of an unbalanced schedule. MSU grabbed its first-ever win over third-seeded Lindenwood–Belleville in the semifinals, when Ivanco posted a 27-save shutout of the powerful Lynx, and Henry's second-period goal from Balogh was just enough offense. The next day, however, top-ranked and top-seeded Liberty used an Alex Smibert goal with 17 seconds remaining to take the league title by a 2–1 count.
Despite the loss, Minot managed to hang on to their second-place ranking and were set to take on No. 7 McKendree in a best-of-three quarterfinal at the 2020 ACHA National Tournament, before the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation. Henry (who was also a finalist for the Zoë M. Harris Award) and Ivanco became MSU's first two All-American selections at the Division 1 level.
† The 2020 ACHA National Tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Beavers have qualified for the ACHA National Tournament four times across both divisions, and were the runners-up in Division 2 in both 2018 and 2019. Their combined record in all games is 10–3–0.
‡ The 2020 ACHA National Tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
As of April 19, 2020.
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By the time Minot State joined Division 1 in 2019–20, the rankings consisted of an entirely computer-based system, with a weekly release on Tuesdays following weekends with games (after each team in the division had generated a sufficient amount of data). After automatic bids are awarded to three D1 conference champions (the Eastern Collegiate Women's Hockey League champion does not receive an automatic bid), the remainder of the eight-team ACHA National Tournament is determined by the final ranking of the season.
With the exception of Division 2's first season (which featured a "national" ranking, as all members at the time were relatively clustered geographically), the rankings during Minot's time in the division included separate rankings for the East Region and the West Region. ACHA National Tournament bids were extended based on placement within the region, with the top two (2007–08 through 2008–09), three (2009–10 through 2011–12), four (2012–13 through 2015–16), or six (2016–17 through 2018–19) earning invitations. Rankings were primarily compiled by a ranking committee until 2018–19, when a full computer ranking was introduced.
Awards earned through the 2018–19 season came in ACHA Division 2, those subsequent to that year came in ACHA Division 1. Academic All-Americans include data from 2009–10 through 2011–12, 2016–17 through 2017–18, and 2019–20.
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In a sense, Minot and Midland have grown up together, as the Warriors began play at the ACHA Division 1 level in the 2014–15 season, right before MSU found its stride. The teams met for the first time on November 20 and 21, 2015, splitting a series in Fremont, Nebraska. In the first game, Bradi Sveet (two goals), Makayla Sandvold (one goal, two assists), and Kendall Becker (two goals, one assist) played central roles in running the Beavers out to a 4–0 lead in an eventual 6–2 win. Warriors coach Taylor Gross rallied her team for a 5–3 win the next day however, and Midland also earned a sweep later in the year at Maysa Arena, capped off by Malia Shimabukuro's overtime goal.
While the two schools aren't near each other in any objective sense – they're 634 miles apart by car or bus – Midland is nevertheless among MSU's closest opponents, particularly at the ACHA Division 1 level, and MU always has rostered a healthy contingent from both North Dakota and South Dakota. The two teams, largely as a result of those things, have enjoyed a frequently-played, and often-heated, rivalry. In 2016–17, Midland fell victim to the Beavers' late-season hot streak in their push for nationals, as MSU earned a home sweep in the only meetings of the year, thanks to Vanessa Grimstad's overtime goal to finish a come-from-behind effort in the second game. That series decisively flipped things in MSU's favor; the Beavers swept all four meetings in both 2017–18 and 2018–19, even as Midland became a successful team, posting a winning record for the first time in 2017–18 and taking the Western Women's Collegiate Hockey League title (along with a first-ever bid to the ACHA National Tournament) in 2019.
While the games from 2015 through 2019 generally meant little outside of bragging rights with the teams in different ACHA divisions, that changed in 2019–20 when the Beavers moved to Division 1 and joined Midland as a founding member of WMCH to formalize a rivalry that had already grown organically.
Minot leads the all-time series 14–3–1, as of the end of the 2019–20 season.
The series between the in–state rivals dates to the earliest days of ACHA Division 2, when the Bison were MSU's second ACHA opponent, and continued throughout the Beavers' time in the division – the teams met at least 53 times between 2006–07 and 2018–19.
Both teams have had periods at or near the top of D2, as NDSU qualified for the ACHA National Tournament in each of Minot State's last seven seasons at that level, winning a national championship in 2015 and making four other trips to the semifinals. The Bisons' first bid to nationals, in 2013, came largely at MSU's expense. The Beavers were ranked fourth in the West Region late in the season – good enough for the region's last invitation – headed into a showdown series with No. 5 NDSU. While the first game was close, the Beavers were done in by goals from all three Johnsons on the Bison (Kacie, Jackie, and Brittany) in a 3–1 defeat. After NDSU finished the sweep with a 7–1 rout the next day, they leaped over MSU in the rankings to, essentially, take Minot's bid.
In 2017, 2018, and 2019, MSU and NDSU each qualified for nationals, with the first two of those tournaments resulting in head-to-head meetings in the semifinals. The Bison ended Minot's Cinderella run of 2017 when Erica Sevigny delivered a 4–3 NDSU win with 2:22 left, after a goal by Angie Lothspeich and two by Mackenzie Balogh had erased a 3–0 third-period lead. MSU exacted revenge in 2018, advancing to the program's first national championship game with a 3–1 victory, offsetting an early Rachel Dorff goal with markers from Balogh, Bryanna Bergeron, and Sami Jo Henry, along with 18 Shelby Tornato saves.
With Minot's move to ACHA Division 1 while NDSU remains in Division 2, the rivalry is likely to diminish in importance, as the teams did not play during a season for the first time ever in 2019–20. In games played since 2014–15, the series is tied 11–11–1, although Minot has won the last nine meetings.
As of April 18, 2020.
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Phyllis MacPherson-Russell
Phyllis Claire Macpherson-Russell OD, OJ (18 November 1923 Kingston - 19 April 2008) was a Jamaican politician for the People's National Party (PNP). She was rappoteur for the World Conference on Women, 1975.
Phyllis Macpherson-Russell studied mathematics at the University of London, between 1945 and 1948. Already during her studies, she was involved in the interests of the Caribbean and was a representative at conferences of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in London. After receiving an Issa Scholarship, she received a Grace Hoadley Dodge Scholarship, which helped her earn a postgraduate degree from Columbia University. She graduated in 1961, with a doctorate in pedagogy. After returning to Jamaica, she became a lecturer at the Faculty of Extracurricular Education, now the School of Continuing Education, at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
In August 1978, she was appointed Prime Minister of Education by Michael Manley in his government, making her the second Jamaican woman to serve as a minister after Rose Agatha Leon. The Department of Education led them until the PNP's defeat against the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) in the general election and the end of Manley's term on 1 November 1980.
Subsequently, she resumed teaching and devoted herself in particular to the expansion of mathematical education in Jamaica.
She has received multiple awards for her services and, after the Order of Distinction (1991) in 1993, received the Pelican Award from the Graduate Association for her basic work in the field of human resource development. On April 12, 1999, she was awarded an honorary doctorate (Sc.D.) by Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). She was awarded the Order of Jamaica in 2003 .
She is the sister of Ripton MacPherson.
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Wolverhampton Civic Centre
Wolverhampton Civic Centre is a municipal building in the town of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. The building houses a council chamber for Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council.
The building, which was designed by Clifford Culpin & Partners and built by Taylor Woodrow Construction, opened in 1978. It replaced the old Town Hall on the opposite side of North Street as the headquarters of Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council and was given a Civic Trust Award in 1979.
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Chemistry—Methods
Chemistry—Methods is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles on methods in chemistry. It is a fully open access journal published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe and is a sister publication to other scientific journals published by Wiley-VCH, including "Angewandte Chemie and Chemistry—A European Journal." The journal publishes interdisciplinary, original research covering topics such as operando methods in catalysis, new approaches to imaging, and new synthetic methods.
The Editorial Board is chaired by Jana Roithová (Radboud Universiteit), Oliver Kappe (Universität Graz), and Steven Wheeler (University of Georgia, Athens).
Chemistry—Methods is part of Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries. It publishes a family of academic chemistry journals, including "Chemistry—A European Journal", "European Journal of Organic Chemistry", "European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry", Chemistry—Methods, "Batteries & Supercaps", "ChemBioChem", "ChemCatChem", "ChemElectroChem", "ChemMedChem", "ChemPhotoChem", "ChemPhysChem", "ChemPlusChem", "ChemSusChem", "ChemSystemsChem", "ChemistrySelect", "ChemistryOpen".
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Margaret Jobson
Margaret Ann Louise Jobson (born 14 March 1955) is a Jamaican diplomat.
Jobson was born in Manchester Parish.
She graduated from the University of the West Indies.
From 1977 to 1978, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Jamaica.
From 1978 to 1980, she headed the language training center in the Ministry of Public Service.
From 1980 to 1981, she was the managing director of Language Today Limited.
From 1982 to 1985, she was an assistant to the Subregional Adviser for Education for the Caribbean in Kingston, and the Office of the Subregional Adviser for Science and Technology for the Caribbean.
From 1985 to 1986, she was an administrative assistant in the United Nations Development Program.
From 1986 to 1989, she was an assistant to the university program of the United Nations Development Program.
From 1989 to 1994, she was a program manager on the governing body of the United Nations Development Program.
From 1995 to 1996, she was the Jamaican office manager of the United Nations Development Program.
From 1996 to 2003, she coordinated the Public Sector Modernization Project (PSMP) in Jamaica.
From 2003 to 2013, she was a civil secretary in the Jamaica State Department.
On November 20, 2013 she was accredited ambassador to Berlin, where she resides.
On May 16, 2014, she was also accredited to the Holy See, and accredited to Romania on September 10, 2014, and is also representative of her country to the Czech Republic.
Margaret Ann Louise Jobson is married and has one son. She speaks English and Spanish .
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Parmotrema aptrootii
Parmotrema aptrootii is a species of corticolous lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in South America, it was described as new to science in 1992. The holotype specimen was collected in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region of Guyana, where it was found growing on a Mahogany tree on the bank of the Kamarang River. It has a pale yellowish to greenish-grey thallus measuring up to about . The specific epithet honours Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The lichen has also been recorded from Acre, Brazil, where it is commonly found on dead branches in dense shrubby campinas.
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Bleed Out
Bleed Out is a 2018 HBO feature documentary film that explores how an American family deals with the effects of medical malpractice. The film revolves around a ten-year journey, captured through archival footage, spy-cams, and interviews. Director Steve Burrows reveals the ways his mother, Judie Burrows, was afflicted for the rest of her life due to a mistake during a partial hip surgery procedure.
Written and directed by Steve Burrows, "Bleed Out" premiered on HBO on December 17, 2018. The film was awarded as Best Feature Documentary by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2019, with judges acclaiming it "absolutely mind-blowing".
After a complicated hip replacement surgery which led Judie Burrows to fall into a coma which resulted in permanent brain damage in 2009, her son, Steve Burrows, sets out to investigate the truth behind the medical treatment that his mother received at the hospital. The documentary film takes place over a span of ten years. Each year highlights how a family deals with the effects of medical error and Steve's efforts to figure out the truth about the American healthcare system while trying to proceed with a malpractice lawsuit against the medical centers which were in charge of his mother. Throughout the film, Steve Burrows, who is also the director of the film, includes real footage, undercover spy-cam footage, interviews, and courtroom testimonies to share his mother's story and demonstrate what he believes are the institutional flaws of the American healthcare system.
"Bleed Out" begins by introducing Judie Burrows, the mother of the comedy director Steve Burrows, as an independent, globetrotting, retired school teacher who loved to travel. The film shifts to June 2009, where Judie is rushed to a hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after suffering a hip fracture due to a fall from her bike. At the hospital, Judie undergoes a hip surgery and a rehabilitation process; afterwards, she is sent home where she endured a slow recovery despite the physical therapy. Five months after her initial hip surgery, Judie falls again, and is rushed to the hospital. She spends eight days in the hospital, calmed with painkillers, as the physicians try to understand where exactly the pain was coming from. After a week, the physicians concluded that Judie has broken her hip again and needs a rushed partial hip replacement surgery. Steve Burrows mentions that his mother, before the incident, was taking Plavix, which is a blood thinner, and states that it is usually suggested that the patient should be off the blood thinner a few days before the surgery. Nonetheless, despite being on blood thinners, Judie is cleared and undergoes her second hip surgery, where she loses about half of her body's blood volume.
Judie withstands the surgery and is taken to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) to recover. On her first night at the ICU, the floor that Judie's room is on has no ICU physicians; instead, Judie's room is an electronic intensive care unit (eICU), where she is monitored by a group of doctors in an airport nearby through a camera. The eICU doctors can monitor their patients with microphones, alarms, and video cameras that can focus the details found on patients' monitors. Within an hour at the ICU, Judie's blood pressure drops below 50/30, and without anyone noticing, she falls into a coma. Two days later, a neurologist comes to evaluate her after she was determined to be unresponsive the day before during post-operation checkup, amd declares her to be in a coma. Judie is comatose for almost two weeks, and once she wakes up, she is diagnosed with severe cognitive and physical disabilities because of the loss of oxygen to the brain.
The film displays statistics about the frequency and consequences of medical errors in the United States. The film shows a statistic from a study conducted at John Hopkins that suggests that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Marty Makary, a surgeon at John Hopkins, explains why he considers the occurrence of medical errors as a silent epidemic and why he believes they have become more frequent.
The film goes back to the family. They were able to look at the anesthesiology records during Judie's second surgery and suspected that the records were too "impeccable" since no drop in blood pressure was ever recorded even if Judie lost a large amount of blood. Judie's family is displeased with the outcome, and it motivates Steve Burrow's uncle, Dr. Ted Payne, to persuade Steve to investigate the situation further and to file a lawsuit against the hospital. Steve visits a medical malpractice attorney, Lynn Laufenberg, and receives insight on how, in Wisconsin, patients lose 90% of malpractice lawsuits. Steve is still interested in filing a lawsuit and starts recording his mother's experience to use it as evidence.
While trying to find a medical malpractice attorney to take the case, Steve simultaneously tries to manage his research about the medical errors and deal with medical bills. Judie is responsible for paying the bills since Medicare cannot cover the entirety of her long-term care at a rehabilitation center. Steve finds a medical malpractice attorney, Mike End; End describes the complications that they will face because of some laws that protect doctors in Wisconsin. For example, End explains Wisconsin statute 907.06, known as the Doctor Privilege Law, give doctors the right to not testify against other doctors. End reminds Steve that it might take three years or more for the lawsuit to get to trial.
Judie's conditions improve with time, but due to spastic paraplegia, she can only walk by using a walker. Her cognitive impairment does not improve, and a neuropsychologist declares her incompetent with the cognitive abilities of an 8-year old. Steve tries to tell his mom about her situation, but Judie denies what the doctors say about her cognitive abilities and insists on returning home. They decide that it would be best for her to stay at the rehabilitation center. Four years after the incident, Judie, being on Medicare also goes into Medicaid because her 50 years of life savings, about $200,000, were not enough for the medical bills. Steve deals with waves of complications with insurance companies, medical corporations, and medical bills.
Steve investigates his mother's surgery by meeting individuals related to the case, such as Bauer, his mother's surgeon, and a risk manager for Aurora West Allis Medical Center. He records these meetings with spy-cams. Bauer expresses his confusion about why the ICU has no physicians physically present and calls the eICU "sloppy medicine”. Eventually, Bauer recommends Steve talk to Aurora Health Care. Steve meets with the risk manager from Aurora and asks why Judie not receive any financial assistance, to which she repliesthat the hospital would have if they felt like they did something wrong.
The film transitions from the spy-cam footage to a phone call in which Steve is told that Judie was rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, Judie had a stroke, but the medical caretakers treat her for a seizure. Judie is diagnosed with permanent brain damage, is unable to speak and has a catheter strapped onto her stomach. Then the film transitions again to Makary talking about how the medical field is not learning from its mistakes.
The film jumps to 2013, where the lawsuit's depositions begin. Thirty depositions are taken, but each individual blames others for her brain damage. One deposition is from an ICU nurse named Emily who states that the cameras in these units are not on all the time to respect the patient's privacy. Another deposition is from the eICU manager, whostates that the cameras are usually off in the patients' rooms and that an eICU physician should not replace a physical ICU physician since eICU physicians tend to 160 patients per day.
After the depositions, Steve meets with Charles M. Harper Jr., a neurologist from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. They speak about how the field of medicine and its patients would benefit in changing their focus from financial incentives to quality, health outcomes.
The film jumps to 2016, where the lawsuit goes to trial. The court case focuses on whether there was evidence for medical negligence.
The production of "Bleed Out" started after Judie's trial. Steve Burrows used the footage he had obtained during his ten-year investigation that was meant to be a personal video diary and compiled it to make the documentary. The film included footage of various conversations and interviews between Judie, family members, attorneys, physicians, and other caregivers that had occurred during Burrows' ten-year personal investigation. The film uses footage recorded through a spy-pen that Burrows used to secretly record his conversations with caregivers related to his mother's situation.
Initially, Steve Burrows did not want to make a documentary with the footage he had gathered, which was meant to be a personal video diary. He changed his mind, and to him, the documentary was "a citizen's investigation into the state of American health care”. According to Burrows, the film had information that should be shared with everyone so they can be aware of medical malpractice.
The New York Law Journal claimed, "the film is excellent, poignantly portraying the emotional torture of brain damage." Peter Keough of The Boston Globe called "Bleed Out" a "required viewing at a time when the future of health care looks dark indeed." According to the National Public Radio (NPR), "Bleed Out" takes "a deep dark dive into the heart of America's health care system." Amy Glynn from Paste stated that the film "is not a magnificent achievement," but the film shares something that people "urgently need to be aware of."
In 2019, "Bleed Out" was recognized by the Los Angeles Press Club and awarded the Best Feature Documentary award and won second place for the Best Medical/Health Reporting award. The judges of the Los Angeles Press Club claimed the film to be "absolutely mind-blowing."
The public was moved by the film with Steve Burrows receiving thousands of Facebook messages and "over 5,000 emotional letters of support and solidarity."
"Bleed Out" has had multiple screenings at locations such as the Wisconsin state capitol, universities, and organizations like Leapfrog Group. Additionally, the feature documentary was to screen meet at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation's annual conference in March 2020, where Burrows was to share the stage with the former President Bill Clinton; however, the conference was cancelled.
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ChemSystemsChem
ChemSystemsChem is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles on all areas of systems chemistry. It is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe and is a sister publication to other scientific journals published by Wiley-VCH, including "Angewandte Chemie and Chemistry—A European Journal." The journal publishes interdisciplinary, original research covering topics such as out-of-equilibrium self-assembly, chemical networks, and chemical ensembles with emergent properties.
The Editorial Board is chaired by Ludovic Jullien (Sorbonne Université and École normale supérieure) and Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University).
ChemSystemsChem is part of Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries. It publishes a family of academic chemistry journals, including "Chemistry—A European Journal", "European Journal of Organic Chemistry", "European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry", "Chemistry—Methods", "Batteries & Supercaps", "ChemBioChem", "ChemCatChem", "ChemElectroChem", "ChemMedChem", "ChemPhotoChem", "ChemPhysChem", "ChemPlusChem", "ChemSusChem", ChemSystemsChem, "ChemistrySelect", "ChemistryOpen".
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Dennise Longo Quiñones
Dennise Noemí Longo Quiñones is a Puerto Rican lawyer and government official serving as the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico. Longo Quiñones was previously a United States Attorney and assistant federal prosecutor. She was a special assistant to Secretary of Justice José Fuentes Agostini from 1998 to 2000 and the legal advisor of Governor Luis Fortuño from 2009 to 2012.
Dennise Noemí Longo Quiñones was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Concepción Quiñones de Longo and raised in Bayamón. She completed grade school at the Colegio Santo Domingo and graduated from the Colegio Puertorriqueño de Niñas. Longo Quiñones earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American studies at Brown University. She attended graduated school at the George Washington University Law School (GW Law) while working as a paralegal for Brown & Wood. Longo Quiñones also worked in the United States Department of Justice Civil Division and the office of the Federal public defender. She participated in the GW Law Immigration Clinic and interned for the United States House of Representatives. In 1993, Longo Quiñones completed a Juris Doctor at GW Law and was admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association.
From 1993 to 1995, Longo Quiñones worked at the Circuit Court of Maryland for Baltimore City as a judicial officer and assistant prosecutor where she specialized in juvenile delinquency. In 1995, she was admitted to the Bar Association of Puerto Rico and she began working in private practice.
From November 1998 to October 2000, Longo Quiñones was a special assistant to the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico José Fuentes Agostini and Ángel Rotger Sabat where she handled civil rights lawsuits pertaining to the conditions in medical, juvenile, and criminal institutions. From late 2000 to 2008, she worked in corporate law in various law firms throughout Orlando, Florida and Puerto Rico.
Longo Quiñones was a legal advisor to Governor Luis Fortuño from January 2009 to June 2012. She chaired the Governor's ethics committee in the Governor's office. From 2012 to 2019, she was an assistant federal prosecutor and United States Attorney for the United States Department of Justice in the international narcotics division and the financial fraud corruption where she led investigations on drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.
In August 2019, Longo Quiñones was appointed as the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico by Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced. In October 2019, the Senate of Puerto Rico confirmed her appointment despite opposition from senate minority members in the Popular Democratic and Puerto Rican Independence parties.
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Joel Rogosin
Joel Rogosin (October 30, 1932 – April 21, 2020) was an American television producer and screenwriter who was known for producing such television series as "77 Sunset Strip", "The Virginian", "Ironside", "Magnum, P.I.", and "Knight Rider" from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for his production work on "Ironside" in 1970 and 1971, and received his third Emmy nomination for producing "Magnum, P.I." in 1983.
Joel Rogosin was born on October 30, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was raised in Boston and Virginia, where he attended high school in Arlington and Falls Church. Rogosin graduated from Stanford University in 1955.
Rogosin began his professional career at Columbia Pictures, where he worked as a messenger beginning in 1957. He rose through the ranks quickly and, by 1961, Rogosin was a producer for the ABC television series, "77 Sunset Strip", which was the Number 1 most watched show in the United States at the time. Along with "77 Sunset Strip", Rogosin also produced "Hawaiian Eye" and "Surfside 6" for Warner Bros. Television during the early 1960s.
Rogosin served as a producer or screenwriter for "" on NBC, "The Blue Knight" on CBS, "Ghost Story" on NBC, the short-lived CBS crime series "Longstreet", the CBS sitcom "Mr. Merlin", the syndicated series "The New Lassie", and two "Jerry Lewis Telethons to benefit muscular dystrophy research". In his career, he also produced several movies of the week for television.
In his later life, Rogosin and his wife, Deborah, moved to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a retirement community for members of the motion pictures and television industry in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Rogosin was a leading member of the Grey Quill Society, which holds weekly workshops for residents of the Motion Picture & Television Fund to share poetry, creative fiction, drama, and other writings. Rogosin also worked to change the MPTF's long-term nursing facility to its present name, The Mary Pickford House, after actress Mary Pickford, who helped found the MPTF in 1920.
Joel Rogosin died from complications of COVID-19 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund on April 21, 2020, at the age of 87. He is survived by his adoring family; his wife of 67 years, Deborah, their three daughters, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Rogosin was the fifth resident of Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital to die from COVID-19 during the pandemic. Other victims of COVID-19 at the MPTF Country House and Hospital include actor Allen Garfield, former Walt Disney animator Ann Sullivan, and cinematographer Allen Daviau.
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Lawrence E. Lucas
Father Lawrence E. Lucas (1933 – 18 April 2020) was a Catholic priest in the Roman Catholic Church in America, a human rights and civil rights activist, social justice activist, organizer, educator, and an author. He was the author of "Black Priest White Church: Catholics and Racism". He was a priest at the Our Lady of Lourdes Church (Manhattan). In the 1970s he became the first African-American pastor of Chapel of the Resurrection Roman Catholic Church located at 276 W. 151st Street in Harlem (New York City). Father Lucas was a co-founding member of the December 12th Movement (D12) along with Viola Plummer, Elombe Brath, Abubadika Sonny Carson, and Coltrane Chimurenga. DC12 is a United States of America and international human rights group for African people.
Father Lucas was a Black liberation theologian who practiced Black theology, and was chaplain on Rikers Island in New York. Father Lucas was an advocate for prison reform and justice for Black and Hispanic incarceration along with the December 12th Movement. The DC 12 started out as the December 12 Coalition.
Father Lucas was bornat Harlem Hospital in 1933 and raised in Harlem . His early education was in Harlem at P.S. 39, All Saints School at All Saints Church (Manhattan), and St. Marks. He is quoted as saying that his activism comes from his mother. His mother fought against greedy landlords in their Harlem tenement.
Father Lucas studied priesthood at Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) in Croton Falls, New York. He studied at the University of Indianapolis from 1966 to 1968 in post graduate studies before studying for priesthood at St. Joseph's Seminary. Father Lucas was ordained in 1959 by Cardinal Spellman at St. Peter's Church in New York City. He was the pastor at Resurrection Roman Catholic Church in Harlem for over 24 years, and co-founded the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus. Father Lucas was active in the Black Catholic Rights Movement that started in the late 1960s. He advocated for Black priests to have decision making within the dioceses and in the Black community.
In 2010 Father Lucas retired as senior priest from Our Lady of Lourdes in New York City. He had been a senior priest from 2009 to 2010. He was a chaplain at New York City Department of Corrections from 2008–2009. He was a chaplain at Rikers Island prison in New York from 1994 to 2008. He served as chaplain at North General Hospital in New York City from 1992 to 1994. He was the pastor for Resurrection parish in Manhattan (NYC) from 1969 to 1992. At Resurrection parish he also served as parochial vicar from 1961 to 1964. From 1964 to 1966 he was parochial vicar at St. Charles Borremeo in Harlem (New York City). He was a communications consultant for the archdiocese of New York from 1968 to 1969.
In 1983, Father Lucas participated in Police Misconduct: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives in Washington D.C.
In 1987 Father Lucas along with Viola Plummer, Elombe Brath, Coltrane Chimurenga founded the December 12th Movement which was the outgrowth of the December 12 Coalition responding to violent attacks and murder of Black people in New York state.
Father Lucas was a character witness for Yusef Salaam during the Central Park trial in New York City.
Father Lucas has served on WBAI's Local Station Board.
As a community activist Father Lucas was one of the community organizers for the 1990 Church Avenue boycott in Brooklyn. Lucas was for many years a host on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network television show Community Cop in New York City.
Father Lucas was President of Community Board 10 in Harlem for fifteen years, and was the first vice president of Community School Board No. 5 in New York City.
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Maureen Constance Guinness
Maureen Constance Guinness, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (31 January 1907 – 3 May 1998) was an Irish socialite, known as one of the "Guinness Golden Girls".
Maureen Constance Guinness was born in Grosvenor Place, London on 31 January 1907. She was the second daughter of Arthur Ernest Guinness and Marie Clothilde Russell (1880–1953), daughter of Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet. Together with her elder sister Aileen and her younger sister Oonagh, the three Guinness sisters were known as the "Golden Guinness Girls". Guinness attended a finishing school in Paris, after which she debuted in society in 1925. She became known as the most extrovert, flamboyant, and most photographed of the three sisters. She married her cousin, Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava on 3 July 1930 at St Margaret's, Westminster. Her father-in-law died while the couple were on honeymoon, leaving her husband his title and Clandeboye Estate, near Belfast. They had three children, Perdita, Caroline, and Sheridan.
Guinness and her husband divided their time between London and Clandeboye, living at 4 Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge in London. Guinness preferred London, but would throw large parties at Clandeboye, where she was known for her practical jokes. Her husband was killed in 1945 in Burma during World War II, leaving Guinness widowed with three young children. He left the estate heavily mortgaged due to gambling debts, but Guinness had the money to redeem it, buying the estate for £192,000. She then created the Clandeboye estate company, similar to the Iveagh Trust. On 14 September 1948 she married Major Desmond Buchanan, a former army officer and antiques dealer. They divorced in 1954, after which she married Judge John Maude on 20 August 1955. They lived largely apart for a number of years, and Guinness continued to use her title from her first marriage.
Guinness was known for her unusual sense of fashion, and is believed to have provided inspiration for Barry Humphries’ character Dame Edna Everage and Osbert Lancaster's Maudie Littlehampton in "The Daily Express". After the death of her father in 1949, she and a cousin became the first women to sit on the Board of the Guinness Brewery. She later became active in charitable work, raising £50,000 between 1958 and 1965 to build the Horder centre for arthritics as well as donating the site in Sussex. She stood down from this committee due to a disagreement, but she later opened Maureen's Oast House in 1996, as a holiday home for arthritics on her Kent estate.
Upon his marriage, she presented Clandeboye to her only son, Sheridan, in 1966. She gave all her children generous annuities, but was noted as less maternal than her sister Oonagh. Her daughter Caroline once commented that her childhood was too painful to recount, and her eldest daughter Perdita stated that all her mother wished to talk about was her glory days in London society. Her daughters and daughter-in-law unsuccessfully contested in court Guinness' passing of assets work £15 million directly to her two grandchildren in 1995. She died on 3 May 1998 in London. She is buried at Clandeboye with her first husband and her son, who predeceased her.
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1983 West Dorset District Council election
The 1983 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 5 May 1983 to elect councillors to West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom. The entire council was up for election, following boundary changes that reduced the number of wards by two, but altogether the number of seats remained the same. Subsequent elections for the council would be elected by thirds following the passing a resolution under section 7 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972.
The 1983 election saw the Independent councillors lose seats but maintain their majority control on the Council.
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Dee L. Clayman
Dee L. Clayman is an American classical scholar and a professor of Classics at the City University of New York. She is a pioneer in the effort to digitize the humanities and served as president of the Society for Classical Studies.
Clayman earned a bachelor’s degree in Greek with honors from Wellesley College. She holds a MA in Latin and Greek as well as a Ph.D in Classical Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Clayman began her career in 1972 as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, ultimately rising to the position of Professor of Classics in 1982. Beginning in 1985, Clayman also served as Professor of Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she is Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics.
Her areas of academic research interest include the Hellenistic period, with specific emphasis on the work of Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes and the epigrammatists.
An early adopter of using digital technology to explore the classics, Clayman is the recipient of 10 individual grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and various private foundations to support the development of an online database of classical bibliography. This effort, which attempts to catalog scholarly work about ancient Greek and Latin language, linguistics and history as well as Roman history, literature, and philosophy from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D., has significantly expanded global access to a wide variety of research materials. The project was initially published in 1995 as a set of CD-ROMs and is now incorporated with the "Année philologique".
In addition to her academic work, Clayman was the founding editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies: Classics. She previously served as president of the Société internationale de bibliographie classique, and is past-president of the American Philological Association, now known as the Society for Classical Studies.
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Batteries & Supercaps
Batteries & Supercaps is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles on electrochemical energy storage and its applications. It is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe and is a sister publication to other scientific journals published by Wiley-VCH, including "Angewandte Chemie and Chemistry—A European Journal." The journal publishes interdisciplinary, original research covering topics such as battery electrochemistry, electrode materials, and cell design.
The Editorial Board is chaired by Jaephil Cho (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Jürgen Janek (Universität Gießen), and Linda F. Nazar (University of Waterloo).
Batteries & Supercaps is part of Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries. It publishes a family of academic chemistry journals, including "Chemistry—A European Journal", "European Journal of Organic Chemistry", "European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry", "Chemistry—Methods", Batteries & Supercaps, "ChemBioChem", "ChemCatChem", "ChemElectroChem", "ChemMedChem", "ChemPhotoChem", "ChemPhysChem", "ChemPlusChem", "ChemSusChem", "ChemSystemsChem", "ChemistrySelect", "ChemistryOpen".
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Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel
Late Night Tales: Agnes Obel is a compilation album curated and performed by Agnes Obel for "Late Night Tales" series, released by Night Time Stories on 25 May 2018. It features artists such as Nina Simone, Henry Mancini, Ray Davies, Michelle Gurevich, Can, and Yello, among many others. Three previously unheard songs from Obel appear in the mix, including “Poem About Death”, a collaboration with the Danish poet Inger Christensen. Critics compared the album with David Lynch's work.
Obel wrote about her album, "I was surprised at how much time I ended up spending on this. I collected all the songs together with my partner Alex and we just spent time listening to records, trying to see what would fit together. Some of the music I’ve included here is on mixtapes we made when we were just friends as teenagers. Each one of the tracks produces stories in my head."
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Adèle and Co.
Adèle and Co. is a 1931 comic novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters. This was Yates's first full-length Berry novel, following several earlier Berry short story collections. It was the first Berry book to be published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton, and not to be serialised in "The Windsor Magazine".
The Berry family awaken in Paris from a drugged sleep to find that all their jewels have been stolen by their erstwhile friend, Casca de Palk. Led by Jonah Mansel, they chase the thief through France (while fending off the attentions of another group of thieves led by the notorious "Auntie Emma"), to Dieppe, Rouen, Tours and the Pyrenees, ending with a climactic encounter on the Spanish border near the Pic du Midi d'Ossau.
Boy & Adèle, and Berry & Daphne, remain married. Jill is now married to Piers, Duke of Padua, and has baby twins.
The book represents Adèle's valediction within the Berry series; she never appears again.
Although this was the first complete Berry book since 1922, the characters had had cameo roles in other Yates stories since, and there was a complete Berry story called "Letters Patent" in "The Windsor Magazine" in January 1929 which subsequently appeared in the book "Maiden Stakes".
In contrast with the gaiety of the writing, Mercer was at this time at a miserable period in his personal life, his first marriage to Bettine having failed by the time of publication in 1931; and by 1933 the couple were divorced.
According to AJ Smithers in his 1982 biography, "Adèle and Co." is Mercer's most joyous and uproarious book, and is in the opinion of many the very best of the Berry series. It is designed as a connected whole, includes crime, and is presented in some of the funniest writing in the English language.
The original dustjacket included the following quotes -
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Centre for Socio-economic and Environmental Studies
The Centre for Socio-economic and Environmental Studies (CSES), founded in 1996, is an independent, non-profit, research institute based at Kochi, Kerala, India.
The Centre works to fill the gap between the academic world on the one hand and the policy makers, opinion shapers and the general public on the other through its research, training programs, conferences, workshops, public lectures and publications. CSES has been associating with other research institutions, central, state and local governments and developmental agencies to conduct a wide range of research studies, projects and activities. The Centre is engaged in Situational Analysis, Evaluation Studies, Need Assessment Studies, Knowledge Attitude and Practice (KAP) Studies, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Project Monitoring and Geographic Information System (GIS) based planning. The Centre has also conducted several multi-locational studies including large scale sample surveys all over South India.
The Centre has made significant contributions in the following priority areas:
A major area of interest of CSES is how services are delivered to the general public by government agencies. From time to time, CSES has looked into service delivery of various public agencies, including government schools, health care facilities, anganwadis, welfare institutions, local governments and government offices. Through this research, CSES has identified service delivery parameters important to the citizens and developed performance indicators across these parameters that facilitate evaluation over time. Most of these studies are commissioned by various Government agencies including the Modernising Government Program (MGP), Kerala Local Government Service Delivery Project (KLGSDP) and the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) of the Government of Kerala. The studies on water governance conducted for the World Bank and Jalanidhi focused on the sustainability of small water supply schemes.
The Kerala Model of Development which won accolades for high social development with low economic growth, also had its “outliers” or sections of the society that the development bypassed; namely the Scheduled Tribes and the Fisher-folk. Bringing the issues faced by such marginalized sections into mainstream academic and policy-level discourse is an objective that CSES has persistently followed. Research at CSES also addresses issues of other groups of marginalized sections in the society such as the rural and urban poor, migrant workers, elderly and disabled. For instance, studies on alternative education, tribal health, education of migrant children, management of household finances by poor, indebtedness among rural poor, welfare legislation for vulnerable groups, etc. bring out issues faced by these marginalized sections in domains such as education, health and livelihood. Similarly, the marginalization lens is applied to other research pursued at CSES to understand the dimensions of inequality and exclusion faced by these vulnerable sections vis-à-vis others, be it in service delivery, local governance or social development.
Right from its inception, public finance was one of the core areas of research activity at the Centre. Issues related to state finances and fiscal federalism- fiscal powers of the central, state and local governments are some of the key research topics pursued in this area. The Centre has examined the implications of the recommendations of successive Central Finance Commissions to Kerala through its studies. Public expenditure management in the social sector is an area in which the Centre has engaged extensively in the past. CSES has also undertaken the analysis of state and local governments for children, Scheduled Tribes and Persons with Disabilities. These topics within public finance are closely intertwined with other core areas of the Centre such as inclusive governance, public service delivery and decentralized governance.
Another major area of research where CSES has done various studies is that of Decentralization; research done includes studies on service delivery, planning, budgeting and financial management and analysis of local government budgets conducted for UNICEF, Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Kerala State Planning Board and Action Aid. CSES has also been extending technical support to several rural and urban local governments in different sectors in the preparation of perspective plans and for GIS based planning and preparation of watershed development plans. CSES is an ‘Institutional National Level Monitor’ of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and is involved in monitoring rural development programs and the functioning of the local governments in different states in India.
Education has been a major research theme of CSES ever since its inception. Being located in Kerala, a region which received national and international attention for its achievement in the field of education, CSES has tried to develop an insider’s perspective of the strengths and weaknesses of State’s education system right from pre-school education to professional and higher education. Broadly, CSES studies examined the social, economic, financial and management aspects of the education sector. Some of the specific aspects examined include exclusionary trends in the education sector, education of marginalized groups such as children from tribal families, children with disabilities and children of migrant labor, entry barriers to professional and higher education, private cost of education, changing enrollment patterns, functioning of the alternative schooling system, grants-in-aid policies and practices of the state government and service delivery in government schools.
Labor studies is a prominent research theme pursued at the CSES particularly with a focus on labor market transformation in the state of Kerala. CSES conducted a pioneering study on interstate labor migration to Kerala. Of late, with increasing long-distance labor inflows to Kerala, CSES has been focusing on research to assess vulnerabilities encountered by migrant workers, education of migrant children and social protection programs available and accessible to them. Apart from the studies on interstate labor migration, CSES focuses on international labor migration as well as labor market outcomes of youth.
Impact and implications of urbanization is a cross-cutting theme addressed in several research projects of CSES. In an effort to better understand facets of urbanization, CSES has undertaken a research study on the commuting pattern for work in Kochi which captures how mobility requirements of those commuting daily to the city are side-lined in city planning. A study commissioned by the GIZ on urban housing for those without formal rights in Kochi documents the complex web of statutory and customary systems one needs to mediate to secure access to housing. CSES research in this area also included service delivery of urban local governments, consequences of inter-state migration on urban governance and child budget analysis of urban local governments.
Dynamics of Kerala’s demographic transition— high life expectancy, low infant, child and maternal mortality, decreasing share of children and increasing share of elderly in the population —has been a focus of research at the CSES. These demographic issues are explored to identify changes observed, adaptations required in social sectors of education and health and in relation to the population pressure on land.
Health is a domain where CSES has worked extensively across regions, by conducting various rounds of District Level Household Survey on Reproductive and Child Health, Global Adult Tobacco Survey and Global Youth Tobacco Survey in different states. CSES has also conducted studies on the provision of health care services by the government and health care utilization, health care expenditure and health outcomes of the general population as well as vulnerable sections such as women, tribal, disabled and elderly. Research studies of the Centre, highlight the health issues relevant in the context of Kerala, which are different from those faced at the national level, and thus require a different approach and prioritization.
Apart from undertaking researches exclusively on women’s issues viz. health, livelihood and employment, gender has figured as a major component in various studies of CSES. Through different research projects, CSES has looked into the implications of government policies, legislation and interventions on the lives of women. In 2018, a dedicated unit to undertake interdisciplinary research on gender issues— Gender Research Unit (GRU) was set up within CSES to promote well-informed, evidence-based policy reforms and to build a network among scholars, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other development partners working on gender issues. Since then, GRU has undertaken studies on indebtedness among rural poor, labor market outcome and documentation of livelihood program introduced for tribal women—where the gender dimensions were looked into in detail.
CSES has been at the forefront in guiding government agencies about disability and the issues faced by Persons with Disabilities across their life course in various domains such as education, health, employment and livelihood, transport and communication, etc. through an exploration into various initiatives taken by the government for their welfare and rights. The experience that CSES gained through disability studies in different parts of the country for Leonard Cheshire has also helped in understanding regional issues and alternate solutions.
CSES uses digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services in its projects. Such projects include preparation of river bank atlas, digital mapping of sand deposits in rivers, GIS based watershed development plans and mapping of natural resources and other resources. CSES is an off-campus training centre of the outreach program of the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun. Courses are offered in Remote Sensing and GIS.
CSES offers internship programs for students from Indian and foreign universities pursuing Post Graduate Degrees or PhD in social science (economics, sociology, anthropology political science, social work, gender studies, development studies), journalism, environmental studies and related disciplines.
CSES has a good collection of valuable documents and research materials. Researchers, students, policy makers, social and political activists access the Centre's library.
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LRT Line 2 (Greater Jakarta LRT)
The Greater Jakarta LRT Line-2 () or Cawang–Dukuh Atas LRT is one of the three light rail line of the Greater Jakarta LRT which serves trips from station to station. The distance traveled in this line is around 11.5 km. Currently still under construction.
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HMS Opossum (1895)
HMS "Opossum" was a "twenty-seven knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Built by the Tyneside shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie, "Opossum" was one of three destroyers built by Hawthorns that were ordered in 1894. She was launched in 1895 and completed in 1896. She remained in service during the First World War, where she was used for local patrol duties based at Plymouth and sank the German submarine on 8 August 1918. She was sold for scrap in 1920.
HMS "Opossum", along with sister ships and , was one of three destroyers ordered for the Royal Navy from Hawthorn Leslie on 7 February 1894 as part of the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates. A total of 36 destroyers were ordered from 14 shipbuilders as part of the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, all of which were required to reach a contract speed of . The Admiralty laid down broad requirements for the destroyers, including speed, the use of an arched turtleback forecastle and armament, with the detailed design left to the builders, resulting in each of the builders producing different designs.
"Opossum" was long overall and between perpendiculars, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was light and full load. Eight Yarrow boilers, with their uptakes trunked together to three funnels, fed steam at to two triple-expansion steam engines, rated at . Armament consisted of a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt gun and three 6-pounder guns, with two 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. One of the torpedo tubes could be removed to accommodate a further two six-pounders. The ship's crew was 53 officers and men.
On 17 September 1895 "Opossum" was laid down as Yard Number 326 at Hawthorn Leslie's Hebburn, Tyneside shipyard, and was launched on 9 August 1895. The ship reached a speed of during sea trials, and was completed in February 1896.
On 26 June 1897, "Opossum" took part in the naval review at Spithead to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. "Opossum", based at Devonport, took part in the 1901 Royal Navy Naval Manoeuvres in July–August that year. In 1905, "Opossum" was one of a number of old destroyers which the Rear Admiral (Destroyers) condemned as being "..all worn out", with "every shilling spent on these old 27-knotters is a waste of money". In November 1907, "Opossum" was paid off for refitting at Chatham Dockyard, where here boilers were retubed, this refit continuing until June 1908.
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance. After 30 September 1913, as a 27-knotter, "Opossum" was assigned to the .
By February 1913, "Opossum" was not part of an active flotilla, but was attached as a tender to the shore establishment at Devonport, with a nucleus crew and was still attached to "Vivid" in July 1914, on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War.
By January 1915, "Opossum" was allocated to the Devonport Local Defence Flotilla. On 1 April 1917, "Opossum" took part in the salvage of the merchant ship SS "Valacia", and her crew was later awarded salvage money. On the evening of 20 December 1917, "Opossum", together with the destroyers and , five Motor Launches, four drifters and two fishing trawlers, was ordered to patrol Lyme Bay to search for a German submarine that had sunk three merchant ships the previous night. The submarine had already left the area, however.
On 8 August 1918, the German submarine was laying a minefield off Start Point, Devon, when the submarine fouled one of her own mines. The resulting explosion was spotted by "Opossum", which was on a routine anti-submarine patrol nearby. "Opossum" and several Motor Launches started a search for the submarine using Hydrophones and sweeps. "UC-49" was assumed to by lying on the sea bed, and when the submarine restarted motors at 15:20 hr, the noise attracted several depth charges, and more depth charges were dropped at 17:57 hr. "Opossum" then noisily withdrew a distance of in order to convince the submarine's commander that the hunt had been abandoned, and after 17 minutes the U-boat surfaced, only from one of the Motor Launches and from "Opossum", and was brought under a heavy fire. After 20 seconds, the submarine descended under the surface again, with her bows at an angle of 50 degrees, and several more depth charges were dropped, bringing up oil and bubbles. The next day, the wreck, which had been located by sweeps, was plastered with depth charges in order to break it up to confirm that the submarine had being sunk. When debris including a light bulb manufactured in Vienna came to the surface, it was confirmed that the submarine had been destroyed.
"Opossum" remained part of the Devonport Local Defence Flotilla at the end of the war in November 1918. By March 1919, "Opossum" was laid up in reserve at Devonport, She was sold on 29 July 1920 to Ward for breaking up at their Preston yard.
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Jeffrey Hammer
Jeffrey Stuart Hammer (born November 3, 1953) is a health and development economist. Hammer was the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Economic Development at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. His primary research focus is the economics of health policy and health service provision in poor countries. He was on the core team of the 2004 World Development Report “Making Services Work for Poor People,” alongside Lant Pritchett, Shanta Devarajan, and other notable economists. He is currently a senior non-resident scholar at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in Delhi, and Director of the One Hundred Homes project.
Hammer earned a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Before Princeton he worked at The World Bank for 25 years, the last three years in the New Delhi office.
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Harry L. Evans
Harry Lee Evans (22 November 1919 – 18 July 2008) was a major general in the United States Air Force (USAF). He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1940, and flew air raids on Japan during World War II. He served with the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project and the Ballistic Missile Division as program director of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. As Vice Director of the Samos Project Office, he was responsible for the early Air Force satellite systems and for the Air Force portion of the early Pioneer and Explorer space programs, and oversaw, in a management capacity, over fifty space and satellite launches. He was also assistant deputy commander and vice director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
Harry Lee Evans was born in Bedford, Iowa, on 22 November 1919, the son of the Harry Evans and Clara Fowler Evans. He graduated from Joplin High School in Joplin, Missouri, in 1936, and from Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College, in Miami, Oklahoma, where he studied geophysical engineering, in 1938.
In 1940, Evans enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He completed primary, basic and advanced pilot training at Randolph Field, Texas, and then the instructor and engineering officer courses there. He married Dixie Sandmire from Miami, Oklahoma, on 1 January 1941; they had no children.
Evans served as an instructor at Randolph Field until January 1943, when he was transferred to the 449th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron in Independence Army Airfield in Kansas, serving as a flight commander and then as the squadron commander.
Evans graduated from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1944. He then underwent B-17 transition training at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, and was assigned to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress program. In March 1945, Evans joined the 29th Bombardment Group on Guam as a group officer and then the deputy group commander. The B-29s of the 29th Bombardment Group conducted air raids on Japan, and he flew eighteen combat missions.
In December 1945, Evans returned to the United States, and as assigned to Santa Ana Army Air Base in California, until March 1946, when he became the executive officer, and then commander of the 25th Air Service Group at March Field in California, and then Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona. In September 1946, he entered the University of Oklahoma, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1948. He was posted to Japan where he commanded the 1st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron. In 1949 the squadron moved to Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field in California, where it became the first squadron in the United States Air Force (USAF) to receive the RB-36 Peacemaker, the reconnaissance version of the B-36.
Evans graduated from the Senior Officers Military management Course at Craig Air Force Base in 1950, and was then chosen to attend a two-year course on guided missiles at the University of Michigan, for which he was awarded a Master of Science degree in June 1952. He then became chief of the Weapons Program Branch of the Field Command of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project and then chief of staff of the 1090th Special Reporting Wing at Sandia Base, New Mexico.
From June 1956 to June 1957, Evans attended the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. He then joined the Ballistic Missile Division as program director of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. In November 1960, he became Vice Director of the Samos Project Office in El Segundo, California. He was also deputy director of Project A, the Air Force component of the National Reconnaissance Office. As such, he was responsible for the early Air Force satellite systems and for the Air Force portion of the early Pioneer and Explorer space programs, and oversaw, in a management capacity, over fifty space and satellite launches.
In November 1962, Evans became chief of the Requirements and Development Division in J-5 (Plans and Policy) Division of the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at The Pentagon in Washington, DC. At the conclusion of this tour in February 1965, he was appointed the assistant deputy commander for Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, with his office at Andrews Air Force Base. In August 1965, he became the vice director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. His final assignment was as the assistant to the commander of Air Force Systems Command in March 1967.
Evans retired on 1 June 1967 with the rank of major general. His decorations included the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.
After retiring from the Air Force, Evans joined the guided missile systems division of Raytheon Corporation. He retired in 1973, and moved to Tryon Estates, a retirement community in Columbus, North Carolina. He died on died on 18 July 2008.
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Sigi Friedmann
Sigi Friedmann (b 1961) owns Friedmann's Brewery (Brauerei Friedmann) in Gräfenberg, Bavaria, Germany. She was the youngest master brewer in Germany when she replaced her father managing their family brewery in 1982. She is a 4th generation brewmaster.
Friedmann was born in 1961 into a brewing family. The first mention of the brewery was in Gräfenberg's documents in 1875. She didn't intend to become a brewer, wanting to spend time with her family and travel. However, her father sent her to Munich to train to be a chemical and technical assistant to work in a laboratory; but without her knowledge, he had enrolled her to train to be a master brewer. She was a model student and performed better than most of her male colleagues in the exam. When she replaced her father in the company management in 1982, she was the youngest master brewer in Germany.
Friedmann runs a brewery that is modern and environmentally sustainable; she installed an automatic filling, environmentally friendly cleaning system, and rebuilt the brewhouse. The delivery area for the brewery is 30 kilometers around the city of Gräfenberg. The beers produced by Friedmann's Brewery includes the "Ritter Wirnt Trunk", a beer specialty named after a character from the history of Gräfenberg; a popular Festbier, an uncharacteristic Pils, and "Sigis Lager." Their beer has won a European Beer Star Award.
She plans to pass the business to her daughter, Barbara, who studied brewing and beverage technology in Weihenstephan. Presently, Barbara Friedmann-Merkel is a brewer and managing director at the brewery.
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Unicorn Trend
The Unicorn Trend is a tendency to design and consume objects, clothing and food with a rainbowed and vibrant color palette, usually composed by pastel or highly saturated colors such as pink, violet, blue and green.. This tendency has acquired a strong popularity since 2016, especially among millennials. They rediscovered in the mythological figure of the unicorn a come-back to the childhood and a way to escape from reality. Its popularity was also due to influencers and celebrities who started to share on social networks their appreciation of the unicorn symbol as a trendy emblem through the consumption of inspired phone cases, water bottles, tote bags, makeup and food.
The unicorn trend is also characterized by a visual value: the kitschy aesthetic of the modern unicorn depiction appeals to people who like posting on social networks colorful and filtered contents to get likes.
The unicorn has had an aesthetic and commercial value for centuries. The first written reference to this kind of animals dates back to the fourth century BCE. Later on, they became popular folklore figure, symbols of chastity and purity as they were attracted by the naked breasts of virginal women.
Since the ancient Greeks, the unicorn was pictured in the mythology as an elegant beast similar to a white horse with a long and spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn briefly appears even in the Old Testament of the Bible under the name of "re’em" (also "reem", Hebrew: רְאֵם), making its way in the Western art and culture during the Medieval and then the Renaissance Age.
Over time the unicorn was re-imagined as a toy, characterized by pastel bright colors and sparkly eyes that were popular among young girls during the 1980s.
The physical perception of the unicorn has evolved during the years from a white, pure and elegant horse (as portrayed for example in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone") to the sparkly and pink creatures of the cartooned tv-series My Little Pony, becoming a trendy cultural phenomenon.
The health food photographer Adeline Waugh unintentionally started the unicorn food trend in June 2016. As a food blogger she liked experimenting with cream cheese and natural pigments on toasts, that is how she came up with a pastel-colored cream to decorate her toasts. Her followers appreciated the experiment and started calling it “unicorn toast”. After came unicorn lattes, cakes, hot chocolate. The fad went on spreading from unicorn beauty products to pool floats. Marketers soon recognized the power of this fad and started exploiting it for commercial purposes, Starbucks for example launched a unicorn Frappuccino in 2017 and really contributed to the boom of the unicorn fad. The LGBT community also started to embrace this unicorn fever, as its typical colors reminded the ones of the community’s signature flag.
As Vaughn Scribner points out this infatuation with unicorns is not new, however, with social media it has been spreading on a much wider scale. In 2016 it became a whole cultural phenomenon. The trend expert Daniel Levine helped explaining why the unicorn mania became a fad. According to Levine three are the key points that create a fad: “an established cultural interest in something that combines with the current "zeitgeist", “publicity by celebrities” and “a high visual interest that gets the attention on social media”. In the unicorn case the social media part came first, the bright pastel colors and the sparkle were a perfect fit for the Instagram language.
The way we currently use social media played a huge role in the spreading of the fad, social media like Instagram and Snapchat strongly emphasize visual culture, it’s no surprise that pastel and highly saturated colored pictures really took off on those platforms.
Part of the reason why unicorns are so loved is that they remind us of our childhood, and they help people escape from reality. Just like creatures such as vampires or werewolves were popular when times were more joyful, unicorns became popular during a time when politics and culture were dark and oppressive.
Unicorns are also connected to the millennials nostalgia, which is evident everywhere on social media platforms. The unicorn reminds millennials of their carefree and happy childhood. In 2014 the tv cartoon My little Pony: friendship is magic played a big role in that, it draws on the My little Pony franchisee of the 1980s.
The Unicorn mania can also be linked to Lisa Frank, the founder of the a school supply company called Lisa Frank Incorporated. It sold a lot of school supply and stickers characterized by colorful and neon colors. Lisa Frank, just like My Little Pony, had a strong impact on kids that are now millennials.
According to Google Trend, the global search of the term unicorn reached its highest point during April 2017 when Starbucks launched its Unicorn Frappuccino. From August 2016 through July 2017 searches on Pinterest for unicorn food saw an increase of nearly 400%. While those for unicorn makeup reached more than 460%. On Instagram, the hashtag unicorn has amassed more than 5.9 million posts. Since then, the search interest has dropped off during 2018. New fads have taken over the unicorn fever, like the mermaid trend for example.
For this reason, more than a trend it could be referred to as a fad. Even if sometimes the two terms are used interchangeably, they differ in their rise, incubation period and duration. The trend rises slowly and is driven by a functional need, a fad is an ephemeral and emotional necessity to purchase that rises from a sudden hype towards something. Therefore, it rises as quickly as it disappears.
The unicorn figure, with its colors similar to the rainbow’s hues, are used to decorate several types of food.
The Unicorn Frappuccino consisted in a purple color-changing drink with some blue tones and with a sweet and a fruity dominant taste . Since then, any kind of food, from sweet to savory recipes, has started to take the shape of a pastel colored unicorn. Food bloggers, writers, youtubers, celebrities but also ordinary people started to recreate recipes and applied them to various kind of food. They created books, blogs, YouTube videos and websites dedicated to the reproduction and the purchase of sparkly and colorful ingredients and meals.
Different kinds of food started to be decorated accordingly like biscuits, yogurt bowls, cakes fudges, milkshakes, cupcakes, ice-creams, marshmallows, meringues, banana breads, doughs but also some more unusual ones like popcorns, sushi, noodles, soups, sandwiches, grilled cheese, pizza.
Contrary to the popular belief that sees pastel and sparkly colors on food as very caloric and sugary, a lot of them are now obtained by natural and plant-based ingredients.
A widely used ingredient is spirulina powder, an antioxidant and an anti-inflammatory substance, full of vitamins, from which you obtain the light blue color.
Many colors are also obtained from fruits and vegetables, for example the beet juice to create pink, frozen dried blueberry powder or red cabbage leaves to obtain purple and blue, and again yellow and orange from the root of turmeric.
Unicorn beauty involves the use of pastel colors (soft pink, green, blue and lavender), holographic shades, glitters and unicorn horn-shaped objects for makeup, nail art and hairstyling.
It is believed that the trend entered the beauty industry around 2008 when an online vegan and cruelty-free brand for makeup and hair colour (Lime Crime) was founded and used the tagline “Makeup for Unicorns” to commercialize its rainbowed products. In 2014, the hair colorist and youtuber Guy Tang shared a series of photos on Instagram with a unicorn-colored hairstyle, that made him popular worldwide.
By 2017 the unicorn trend had spread into the beauty world thanks to social media platforms such as Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest and partly overtook its counterpart, the Mermaid Trend. In the same year, Lisa Frank made a collaboration with the brand Glamour Dolls Makeup and released a cruelty-free makeup collection with the packaging covered by her iconic rainbowed animal prints.
In 2018 Paris Hilton launched a skincare line, starting with the release of a limited edition rose water named “Unicorn Mist”. In 2019, during the National Unicorn Day (celebrated on April 9 in the U.S.), Paris Hilton announced on social media the re-release of the sold-out product.
Thanks to the popularity of this trend in this sector, products labelled as “unicorn snot” (holographic glitter body gel), “unicorn tears” (lipsticks and lip-glosses) and “unicorn essence” (serum for the skin) are offered in the market.
Some beauty products related to this trend are: unicorn-inspired highlighters, eye palettes, lipsticks, nail polish, soaps, unicorn horn makeup brushes and hairstyles.
The Unicorn Trend has also infected the world of design with the creation of some daily life objects and gadgets that have the appearance and the colours of unicorns. This tendency englobes pillows, sheets and bed-covers, drinking cups, flatware. One of the most popular during the past summers was the unicorn pool float, a real inflatable with the appearance of a unicorn, frequently used by teenagers on pools and beaches, and the protagonist of several users’ pictures on social networks.
The Unicorn Trend has spilled over so fast and so deeply that during the Design Week 2019 in Milan, the city also decided to set up the Unicorn House for only three day. It was a real house organized by Booking.com with an internal design that reminded the mythological animal with various decorations like on stars, rainbows, magical horns, colourful clouds and pastel shades.
Furthermore, there are many other locations around the globe that follow this unicorn theme like cafés, swimming pools, amusement parks.
Rapidly the popularity of unicorn-themed objects also reached the fashion industry. Clothes, shoes and accessories were involved, but also phone covers and tattoos. Materials such as sheer fabrics and fake fur started to be used more frequently associated with rainbow or pastel colours and unicorn images. In no time even celebrities engaged in the trend.
In 2016, the actress Margot Robbie at the premiere of the movie Suicide Squad wore an Alexander McQueen gown adorned with a gold sequin unicorn.
During the 2017 Milan Fashion Week, Moschino unveiled a capsule collection in collaboration with the 80’s children toy brand “My Little Pony”. Models were parading on the runway clothed with bubble-gum pink and baby blue looks displaying the toys’ graphic.
During the 2018 Paris Fashion Week, the American designer Thom Browne ended his show with a model walking out on the runway having a unicorn on leash. The unicorn consisted of two male models wearing an elaborate white tulle costume coordinated with the look of the model
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Sukna, Darjeeling
Sukna is a village and a gram panchayat in the Kurseong CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Sukna is located at .
The main entrance to the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary is from Sukna. Those who have their own transport can get a guide (on payment) at the Sukna gate and enter the sanctuary. The area inside the sanctuary is hilly and small cars are not advisable. Elephant rides in the sanctuary are not available.
Sukna in the foothills of the Himalayas... is 11 km from Siliguri. There is a popular picnic spot on the bank of the Mahanada.
The map alongside shows the southern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and a small portion of the terai region in its eastern and southern fringes, all of it in the Darjeeling district. In the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision 61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the Kurseong subdivision 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 41.59% lives in the urban areas. In the Mirik subdivision 80.11% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 19.89% lives in the urban areas. There are 78 tea gardens/ estates (the figure varies slightly according to different sources), in the district, producing and largely exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly.Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
The 33 Core of the Indian Army is based at Sukna. A Core is made up of 3 divisions and has 20,000 to 30,000 troops.
According to the 2011 Census of India, Sukna had a total population of 1,011 of which 480 (47%) were males and 531 (53%) were females. There were 95 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Sukna was 830 (82.10% of the population over 6 years).
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has a Special Jungle Safari daily from Siliguri to Tindharia and back. The light railway passes through Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary and the renowned Z-reverse between Sukna and Tindharia.The latter is "famous for the 'Agony Point' where the engine seems to overhang the edge as it negotiates a fierce curve of 18 metre radius, the toughest in the line."
Note: Open the section between Sukna and Hill Cart Road in the Route Chart given alongside.
Sukna Higher Secondary School is an English-medium coeducational institution established in 1972. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has 5 computers, a library with 500 books and a playground.
Kendriya Vidyalaya at Khaprail, PO Sukna follows the CBSE syllabus up to the higher secondary level.
Army Public School, Simulbari, Sukna, was started as Sisu Siksha Kendra, a pre-primary school in 1976. It grew to become Army School Khaprail in 1991 and became a senior secondary school in 2003. It is affiliated with the CBSE. There are priorities regarding admissions for children of service and ex-service personnel but children of civilians are also admitted.
Sukna Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Kurseong CD block.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Finland
The COVID-19 pandemic in Finland is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). On 29 January 2020, the first case in Finland was confirmed, when a Chinese tourist visiting Ivalo from Wuhan tested positive for the virus.
On 31 December 2019, the Health Commission of Wuhan, Hubei, China, informed the WHO about a cluster of acute pneumonia cases with unknown origin in its province. On 9 January 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) reported the identification of a novel coronavirus (later identified as the SARS-CoV-2) as the cause. On 27 January, following the developments of COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China, Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs advised citizens to avoid unnecessary travel to Hubei province. The following day, Finnair announced it would be suspending its five weekly routes to Nanjing and Beijing Daxing until the end of March.
On 29 January, Finland confirmed its first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A 32-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan sought medical attention in Ivalo and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. She had travelled from Wuhan. She was quarantined at Lapland Central Hospital in Rovaniemi. The woman recovered and was discharged on 5 February after testing negative on two consecutive days.
On 30 January, Finland's health officials estimated that up to 24 people may have been exposed to the virus.
By 5 February, three of the potentially exposed individuals were known to have left the country, and fourteen of the remaining 21 had been placed in quarantine and were expected to be released over the following weekend.
On 26 February, Finland's health officials confirmed the second case, a Finnish woman, who made a trip to Milan and was back in Finland on 22 February, tested positive at the Helsinki University Central Hospital.
On 28 February, a Finnish woman who had travelled to Northern Italy, tested positive by the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District and was advised to remain in home isolation.
On 1 March, three new cases—associates of the woman diagnosed with the virus on 28 February—were confirmed in the Helsinki region. They were instructed to remain in isolation at home. This brought the total number of infections diagnosed in Finland to five. Later that day, 130 people, including students at Helsinki University’s Viikki teacher training school, were placed in quarantine after having been in close contact with one of the diagnosed.
On 5 March, five new cases were confirmed: three in Uusimaa, one in Pirkanmaa and one in Tavastia Proper. One of the cases in Uusimaa, a working age woman, is associated with the earlier cases in the Helsinki region. The other cases, two working age men, had travelled northern Italy. All of the patients were in good health and were advised to stay at home. The case in Tavastia Proper is a child of a Hämeenlinna family that recently visited northern Italy. The family has been in voluntary home quarantine after the trip and nobody else is known to have been in close contact with the patient. The case in Pirkanmaa, a 44-year-old woman is also in home quarantine and in good health. Three people have been in close contact with her. This brought the total number of confirmed cases in Finland to twelve.
On 6 March, the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), announced that four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country, bringing the total number of infections to 19.
On 8 March, THL confirmed four new cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 23.
On 9 March, 10 more cases were reported, of which 3 in Helsinki and 7 in other regions, increasing the number of infections to 33.
On 11 March, 19 new cases were reported, including 10 in Uusimaa region, three in Pirkanmaa, one in Central Finland, one in Tavastia Proper in Forssa, one in South Karelia, one in South Ostrobothnia and one in Southwest Finland.
On 12 March, 50 new cases were reported. An employee at the Helsinki-Uusimaa Hospital district (HUS) has tested positive for novel coronavirus.
On 13 March, according to THL, Finland became close to the epidemic threshold as the total confirmed cases increased to 156. Several regions in Finland start to limit laboratory testing of suspected coronavirus cases based on importance criteria. THL instructs the public not to contact health care providers and stay at home for mild symptoms.
On 15 March, The Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district (HUS) decided people returning to Finland from trips abroad will not necessarily be tested for novel coronavirus.
On 16 March, the Finnish Government, jointly with the President of Finland, declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19. 272 laboratory-confirmed cases caused by COVID-19 had been diagnosed in Finland by 16 March 2020 at 2 pm. The head of THL, Markku Tervahauta, told MTV3 that the actual number of COVID-19 cases might be 20—30 times higher than what had been confirmed by testing, due to the fact that testing was limited to risk groups, the severely ill, and healthcare workers.
On 16 March, the Government also announced they had decided to take the following measures by issuing a decree on implementing the Emergency Powers Act. The measures were scheduled to be in place until 13 April, after approval by the Parliament of Finland, but were later extended to 13 May:
THL considers the figure given by the Finnish Infectious Diseases Register as the official figure, and on 19 March, 304 of the confirmed cases had been reported to the register. The following day, approximately 450 cases had been confirmed in the country. The highest number of cases have been identified in the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district in southern Finland.
The first death, an elderly individual who lived in the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district, who had died a day earlier, was reported on 21 March.
On 23 March, it was reported that former president Martti Ahtisaari had contracted the disease. His wife the former first lady, Eeva Ahtisaari, was confirmed to have the disease on Saturday 21 March.
On 27 March, the Parliament voted unanimously to temporarily close the borders of the Uusimaa region, which has the most confirmed cases, in hopes of slowing down the epidemic in the rest of the country. The restriction came into force the following midnight. Uusimaa has 1.7 million inhabitants, nearly one third of Finland's total population, and contains the capital city Helsinki. Travel to and from Uusimaa was prohibited without a valid reason and several hundred police officers were enforcing the restriction with the assistance of the Finnish Defence Forces.
On 15 April travel restrictions between Uusimaa region and the rest of the country were lifted.
On 4 May the government decided on a schedule to lift some of the restrictions. Libraries are to be opened for borrowing right away.
On 14 May kindergartens and elementary schools are to return to normal education, and limits on other educational institutions are lifted. Also, international work trips within the Schengen Area will be allowed, and outdoor sports venues will be allowed to open, both with some limitations.
On 1 June, the maximum number of people allowed to meet was increased to 50, eating at restaurants and sports competitions was allowed, both "with special arrangements", and public indoor places were opened gradually.
According to a government decision on 11 June, from 15 June on, travellers entering from the Baltic countries and the other Nordic countries except Sweden will no longer have to stay quarantined for two weeks. Other international travel restrictions remain as they are. From 1 July onwards outdoor events with more than 500 people will be allowed in cases it's possible to keep a safe distance between people.
On 16 March, the Finnish Government, in cooperation with the President of Finland, declared a state of emergency in the country. A list of measures intended to slow down the spreading of the virus and to protect at-risk groups were implemented in accordance with the Emergency Powers Act (1552/2011), the Communicable Diseases Act (1227/2016), and other legislation. The measures include the closing of schools (excluding early education) and most government-run public facilities, limiting public gatherings, and closing the country's borders. The restrictions were scheduled to last until 13 April, but in late March they were extended to 13 May.
On 20 March, the government announced a €15 billion support package to aid businesses and individuals suffering from the economic slowdown resulting from the virus. This was a €10 billion increase to a previous support package, announced 16 March. Among the presented changes was a 2.6% decrease in employee pension payments until the end of 2020.
On 25 March, the government decided to restrict movement between the Uusimaa region and the rest of Finland. However, people were allowed to move between regions due to job requirement or for compelling personal reasons. The proposal also did not affect cargo or freight transportation. On 15 April, movement restrictions between Uusimaa and the rest of the country were removed.
Similar to other countries, the emergence of the virus has increased sales and stockpiling of daily goods, such as groceries and hygiene products. Fears of quarantine and potential shortages has led to panic buying, particularly of canned goods, hand sanitiser, and toilet paper. On 15 March 2020, the Central Finnish Cooperative Society (S-Group subsidiary) reported an estimated two to three times as many visitors as usual. Kesko reported similar increases. The practice of self-isolation has also increased demand for online grocers.
In conjunction with the government many companies have ramped up in a short amount time, roughly in 2 months, production of different equipment, such as respirators etc. for the healthcare system. The Government is also preparing to keep domestic production after the crisis, so that in the future there will be availability from the start of the crisis. This is because of problems in the global supply. There are also other private companies retooling to produce products for the healthcare sector and consumer market on their own initiative.
Below is the breakdown of confirmed cases in all 21 hospital districts of Finland (as of 8th May 2020).
Below is a list of confirmed transmissions by sample date, as recorded by the Finnish Institute for Health and Wellness (THL)
The Finnish National Emergency Supply Agency ( or HVK) attempted hastened purchase of masks near the end of March. This led to a widely reported scandal that resulted in the resignation and firing of a number of people at HVK. Consulting company Deloitte was later hired to find out what had happened. Then in charge of the primary production department, "Jyrki Hakola" told Deloitte that businessman "Onni Sarmaste" approached him as a representative of "'s" Estonian cosmetic surgery company "The Look Medical Care OÜ" offering the sale of protective equipment. Jylhä is a former reality TV personality who has a criminal record that includes aggravated debtor's dishonesty, tax evasion, numerous accounting crimes, and at the time was being charged with aggravated doping crime, all of which had been publicly reported in the press, while Sarmaste also has a long criminal record that includes assault, making threats, resisting arrest and drunk driving. On the phone Sarmaste explained that he's got medical grade masks in China and to prove the quality he sent over certificates and other documentation. After the negotiations with Sarmaste, the next day The Look Medical Care issued an order confirmation to Hakola. However the day after that Hakola received two pro forma bills for approximately five million euros each from both Jylhä's The Look Medical Care and Sarmaste's "LDN Legal Partners". Hakola inquired from Sarmaste and a representative of The Look Medical Care about which company should the transaction be continued with. Hakola says The Look Medical Care didn't respond but Sarmaste responded on the phone that the payment should be to his LDN Legal Partners. Sarmaste said that the payment should be done to a Belgian money transfer service, for that way it can be delivered to China quickly. He also said that paying the Estonian company there was a risk the money couldn't be moved to China quickly enough. Hakola confirmed the deal with Sarmaste in an email and cancelled the agreement with The Look Medical Care.
On March 30 HVK paid LDN Legal Partners a sum of 4 980 000 euros. The bill was fact-verified by Hakola and confirmed by then administrative director "Asko Harjula" and chief executive officer "Tomi Lounema". The next day Sarmaste called Hakola and reported that the payment done to the Belgian money transfer service had been frozen. In the same instance Sarmaste asked for the payment to be instead done to his other company "Finance Group Helsinki"'s Finnish bank account. The first payment done to the Belgian service hadn't been returned yet, but Sarmaste assured that it would happen. As proof he showed documentation from the money transfer service TransferWise. It was brought to the attention of Hakola and Harjula that Sarmaste's Finance Group Helsinki had at least 10 000 euros in tax liabilities. Concerning this, Deloitte was told by Hakola that he contemplated the matter and then resolved to make the payment regardless of the liabilities and the previous payment still not having returned. Harjula agreed to it. HVK again paid 4 980 000 euros to Finance Group Helsinki on March 31, and the Belgian payment then happened to return only an hour later. The delivery of the equipment had been agreed in the fashion that LDN Legal Partners would deliver them to Guangzhou Airport, with HVK then handling the flight to take them over to Finland themselves. The products were to be brought all at once on April 1. However the Finnair charter flight had to be rescheduled twice because of Sarmaste asking them to wait as the manufacture of the products hadn't yet been finished.
Jylhä's The Look Medical Care had in the meanwhile been contacting Hakola multiple times, offering new agreements. They ended up reaching a deal where the free space on the plane would be used for Jylhä's equipment. The company again handed over a pro forma bill for 5 130 000 euros on April 2. The payment would be done in two halves, first an advance payment and then after that the rest when the order was ready to be loaded to the plane. The bill had been signed by Jylhä. Hakola approved that order in the morning. Later in the day an expert from Hansel Ltd. reported that Jylhä's company had no VAT identification number or credit rating. This was reported to both Hakola and Harjula. Nevertheless HVK paid 2 655 000 euros to an Estonian bank account of The Look Medical Care. On April 3 CEO Lounema announced publicly that there had been 11 planes worth of protective equipment ordered to Finland. Following this, the delivery was finally set to be done on April 6 as the flights couldn't be rescheduled more. Only a portion of the equipment promised by Sarmaste was delivered. On April 8 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland found in their tests that the masks received weren't fit for hospital use (later on April 22 MTV reported that they had in fact been manufactured at a handbag factory by "Guangzhou Jingpeng Leather" and also at a protective film factory by "Dongguan Nidy Technology"). On April 8 it was also found out that the Estonian Luminor Bank had frozen the payment to Jylhä's The Look Medical Care. Prodded by Jylhä, Hakola sent Luminor and Estonia's Ministry of the Interior (Estonia) an email where he assured HVK had made the payment and asked to defreeze it.
Late April 8 Suomen Kuvalehti published the bombshell story about the murky dealings by HVK with Sarmaste and Jylhä and of the dispute between the two. By the next day on April 9 it was headline news. Jylhä told the press she had made a deal with HVK for a delivery of masks. She said Sarmaste had snatched the large deal by giving HVK a different Belgian account number. Sarmaste said the opposite by stating he had made his own deal with HVK. On the same day HVK held a press conference where Lounema gave their version of what had happened. He said they had made separate deals with Sarmaste and Jylhä, both for approximately 5 million euros. After this there were newspaper reports of Sarmaste's 11-page record of debt restructurings, and Helsingin Sanomat discovered that Jylhä's certificate was a counterfeit. On April 10, prime minister Sanna Marin said in an Ilta-Sanomat interview that Tomi Lounema no longer had her support as the chief executive officer of HVK. The same day Lounema asked for resignation, as stated by Minister of Employment Tuula Haatainen in a press meeting. The next day Jyrki Hakola and Asko Harjula were also released from their work obligation. In mid-April a report from consulting company KPMG found that HVK didn't have readiness for exceptional, rapid global acquirement of technical tools, resources and procedures. Hakola told Deloitte that even on April 22 he had received a call from The Look Medical Center complaining of the money still being frozen in the Estonian bank account. Also on April 22 Sarmaste and an accomplice were detained on suspicion of fraud, although they were freed two days later while still under investigation. On May 8 it was reported Hakola and Harjula had been fired. Also on May 8 Jylhä's The Look Medical Company cancelled their agreement with HVK and sent a request for 3 million euros in compensation for damages. On May 15 Yle reported that Hakola was being investigated by National Bureau of Investigation for breach of trust. On June 3 Jylhä's money was still frozen in Estonia and a local court case concerning the matter was under way. On June 16 it was reported that the police investigation of HVK had been expanded to three suspects. In late June the report by Deloitte was publicized. They found that during the time span of 14.2.–11.4 HVK had placed 27 different orders for protective equipment. HVK had received approximately 3000 emails with offers for protective equipment. However the details of most agreements weren't fully noted and specifics written down, making it possible some weren't reported about at all. It was found that HVK hadn't properly prepared for organizational procurement in this sort of a situation that asked for a quick response, and that its ability to function cohesively in a demanding situation was lacking.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Norway
The COVID-19 pandemic in Norway is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). On 26 February 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Norway. The number of cases increased rapidly during the month of March, thereby necessitating a number of safety measures aiming to achieve physical distancing to be introduced on 12 March. The first death attributed to COVID-19 was documented on the same day. Most confirmed cases that were traced to outside Norway were Norwegian tourists returning from Austria and Italy.
A senior Norwegian Institute of Public Health consultant said one of the major reasons why the mortality rate was significantly lower than in other European countries (such as Italy, Spain, the UK) was the high number of tests performed in Norway.
On 12 January, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019.
Unlike SARS of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.
On 26 February, Norway confirmed the first case of COVID-19. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health announced that someone tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after returning from China the previous week. The female patient was asymptomatic and in good health. She underwent a voluntary isolation at her home in Tromsø.
On 27 February, the Norway Institute of Public Health announced that three more people were confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2. Two of them lived in Oslo and were linked to the outbreak in Italy. The other lived in Bærum and was linked to the outbreak in Iran. All of them underwent a voluntary isolation at home.
On 28 February, an individual from Bergen and an employee of Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, tested positive and were placed in home isolation. Both had visited Northern Italy. 6 cases were confirmed in the country on the day. On 29 February, there were 15 confirmed cases in Norway.
By Sunday, 1 March, a total of 19 cases were confirmed. Bjørn Atle Bjørnbeth, the Chief of the Ullevål hospital in Oslo, informed that there are potentially over 100 people who came in contact with an infected staff member.
On 3 March there were 25 confirmed cases in Norway, with 5 from Vestland. An employee at the kjøpesenteret Horisont in Åsane is confirmed to have been infected by the virus, says center manager Lise Færøvik. Until this time, most cases are imported from Italy, and none of the cases are seriously ill thus all self-quarantined at home. A worst case is evaluated with a quarter of the Norwegian population infected, and measures are being taken by the governments to handle 1 million people.
On 4 March, there were 56 confirmed cases in Norway, all of which are linked to known outbreaks abroad. So far only some few of those have been infected in Norway (notably 5 cases in one department of the Ullevål hospital, infected by a colleague who had been to Italy).
By 10 March, the number of confirmed cases in Norway had spiked to 400, and a rising number of those cases could not be traced to foreign travel or any known person infected, indicating community transmission had started in Norway.
On 12 March, a national lockdown was announced, effective from 18:00 the same day. For two weeks, schools, kindergartens, fitness centres, hair salons etc. are closed. Sports and cultural events and gatherings are banned and restrictions apply to restaurants. These measures are in line with the those introduced in other European countries such as Denmark and Italy. The same day Norway had its first death due to the COVID-19 virus. The victim was an elderly person who died at Oslo University Hospital.
As of 13 March, Norway introduced a ban on visits to Norway through Oslo airport. Norwegian and Nordic citizens, foreign residents in Norway and people continuing to another country are allowed anyway. Other people are dismissed and sent home as soon as possible and put in quarantine until then.
On 16 March this was extended to all borders of Norway and Nordic non-Norwegian citizens. Domestic travel continues without any restriction. On 14 March, the second and third deaths caused by COVID-19 were reported.
On 6 April, the Norwegian Health Minister announced that the outbreak was "under control" and that the reproduction rate of Sars-CoV-2 had dwindled to 0.7 in the country.
The Norwegian Directorate of Health introduced a number of measures from Thursday 12 March 2020:
On 16 March, non-residents were banned from entering Norway.
As of 19 March, residents were prohibited from staying in cabins outside their home municipalities, in order to avoid putting strain on rural medical infrastructure. People suspected or confirmed to be infected must follow stricter home isolation rules. The government established fines for people violating home quarantine and home isolation rules or organizing events.
Many institutions were closed in order to fight the outbreak, which led to increased unemployment. Norges Bank first cut the national prime rate by a half point to 1.0% on March 13, and the following week cut the prime rate again down to 0.25%.
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Erembourc de Moustereul
Erembourc de Moustereul (died "after" 1328) was a French textile merchant. She succeeded Jeanne la Fouacière as the leading figure of the linen trade in 14th-century Paris.
She is listed as a linen weaver in 1298. Sshe had become a substantial tax contributor in 1313 to such an extant that the tax collectors listed her spouse Fee Baudchon as "Fee Baudchon, husband of Eremburc de Moustereul", to signify that although her spouse was officially the taxpayer in accordance to the law of married women, it was in fact his wife who was the main taxpayer of the household.
She specialized in fine linen, but also traded in other textiles. She delivered to the Royal House and a number of other powerful clients, and among her customers were Mahaut of Artois, and the Pope of Avignon. She occasionally traded in other goods as well, as is illustrated when she delivered an order of saddles to the knights of the Avignon Pope in 1327-28. Her position is demonstrated by the fact that she had the privilige of participating in the inventory of the late members of the Royal House. In 1328, she was the only linen merchant in Paris to be given permission, as a deliverer to the royal court, to purchase the textiles of the late queen, Clemence of Hungary.
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Clubhopping
"Clubhopping" is a 1993 single by Swedish dance music duo Rob'n'Raz. It features American singer Lutricia McNeal and rapper D-Flex. The song was released in 1993 as the lead single from the duo's second album, "Clubhopping (The Album)". The song achieved some success, peaking at number 9 in the Netherlands, number 10 in Finland and number 13 in Sweden.
"Music & Media" commented, "Hopping from club to club and from station to station, this bouncy tune will be omnipresent. A bit reminiscent of Incognito's Always There, which probably explains why there's no escaping."
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Bertram Maurice Hobby
Bertram Maurice Hobby (23 October 1905 – 19 July 1983) was an English entomologist who worked in Oxford University and served as an editor of the "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine". He was a specialist on predatory insects, especially in the fly families, Asilidae and the Empididae.
Hobby was born in Southampton where he became interested in the insects in the New Forest as a schoolboy. He studied zoology at Oxford University graduating in 1929 and then worked as research fellow, obtaining a D.Phil in 1934 working under Edward Bagnall Poulton. He then joined the entomology department at Oxford University, retiring in 1972. He took part in the Oxford expedition to Sarawak in 1932. He married Marcia Prestidge in 1937, both of whom worked on the editorial board of the "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" with himself serving as editor in chief from 1964 to 1981. He was Fellow of the Wolfson College from 1965 to 1973. He was also a keen swimmer, chess, and water polo player who served as an examiner for the Royal Life-Saving Society.
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Gabrielle Patterson
Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Patterson born Gabrielle Ruth Millicent Burr (1905 – 1968) was a British aviator who worked for the Air Transport Auxiliary. She was Britain's first woman flying instructor.
She was born in Maida Vale in London on 6 July 1905. She was the eldest of four children.Her father, Malcolm Burr, a mining engineer, earned his money as a teacher although his passion was insects. Her mother Clara Millicent Goode and her siblings moved with their father and she received an education in various European locations "including Paris, Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna". She became company secretary at her mother's family firm.
She was not tall but she was well off so she was able to gain a pilots license and subsequently an instructors licence in 1931 in time for a flying event at Reading with other women pilots including Amy Johnson. She did not court publicity but she did in time attract attention.
Gabrielle Burr met her husband Arthur Patterson around the same time, and taught him to fly. They were married in June 1931 and their only child, a boy named Ian was born the following year. The couple both worked in airfields and bought a Miles Hawk plane. Gabrielle Patterson earned a 'B' licence and began working as a commercial pilot for Silvertown Lubricants Ltd. then worked in sales management for Miles Aircraft Company, which was part owned by another pilot Maxine 'Blossom' Miles, who designed the Miles Hawk "G-ACIZ" aircraft which Patterson flew in the King's Cup Air Race in 1934.
For the opening of Chigwell aerodrome (the aerodrome was being made available to the Women's Air Reserve) in 1938 Patterson arranged an aerial event which included a number of aerial displays including those of representatives from other countries - including the German women pilots Melitta von Stauffenberg and Elly Beinhorn - against a backdrop of increased tension in Europe, the event coinciding with the Munich Crisis
When war broke out in 1939 she join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). She was already well known as leader of the National Women’s Air Reserve. She was the first woman flying instructor and she had several years experience as an instructor before she joined.
She became one of the ATA's first eight pilots alongside Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Rosemary Rees, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather, and Winifred Crossley Fair, under the command of Pauline Gower.
One of their first tasks was to deliver eight Tiger Moth planes to Scotland. They would need to fly in winter in these open cockpit planes. Patterson had a range of over twenty aircraft that she could fly although her short height was noted as a restriction on her abilities. In time Pauline Gower who had recruited the first eight was able to argue that they should be allowed to fly any type of aircraft. In 1943 they achieved pay parity with male pilots. Before that they had routinely been paid only 80% of the male wage.
In 1941, she approached the Women's Engineering Society (of which she was a member) to create the Amy Johnson Memorial Fund, in memory of her ATA colleague and former Women's Engineering Society president. Patterson devoted a lot of time and energy toward the project and created its initial publicity materials.
Due to illness Patterson was grounded in 1943 and left the ATA.
When the war ended Patterson continued flying and instructing as the commandant of the Women’s Junior Air Corps until 1950. She taught flying at aero clubs until she had to stop for medical reasons following which she took a degree at Manchester University from 1954 to 1956. In 1956 she went to study through a scholarship at the Sorbonne. and moved to France. After falling ill she returned to the UK to live with her sisters. She died of cancer on 31 October 1968 and her ashes were released over White Waltham Airfield.
A bus company in Hatfield named its eight buses after the "first eight" of the Tiger Moth pilots in the ATA, including Gabrielle Patterson. The fifteen surviving women members of the ATA (and 100 surviving male pilots) were given a special award in 2008 by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Bruce Lerman
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Bruce B. Lerman is a cardiologist. He is the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Lerman received a B.A. at Clark University in 1972, an M.D. medical degree from Loyola University - Stritch School of Medicine in 1977, was an intern and medical resident in internal medicine at Northwestern University, and completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He trained in cardiac electrophysiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lerman is a cardiologist in New York City, with specialties in adult congenital heart disease and cardiac electrophysiology.
Lerman is the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
He has focused in his research on clarifying the electrophysiologic mechanisms of the nucleoside adenosine, current-based defibrillation, and determining the role of mechanoelectrical feedback as a stimulus for causing malignant ventricular arrhythmias. He has been issued 4 patents. Lerman has focused in his clinical work on the diagnosis and treatment by ablation of complicated atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, and treating life-threatening arrhythmias with implantable devices.
Lerman received the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and had received a number of grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is on the editorial boards of a number of medical and scientific journals, including "Circulation" and "Heart Rhythm".
Lerman has written or co-written over 200 medical articles, 60 book chapters, and two books.
Among his publications are:
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Easy (Ice MC song)
"Easy" is a 1989 song by British, Italy based Eurodance artist Ice MC. It is his first single and was produced by Italian music producer and composer Roberto Zanetti. The single was released as the lead single from the, "Cinema". It became successful all over Europe, reaching the Top 5 in Italy and Switzerland, and the Top 3 in Germany. There were made two different versions of the music video for the song.
Bill Coleman from "Billboard" wrote, "First strains of influence by Milli Vanilli s chart dominance are felt on this pop-slanted rap track." "The Network Forty" said, "Imagine a Rap song produced by David Foster, featuring lapses of Jeffrey Osborne balladering, while Maddy Hayes' secretary murmurs "Real Intellectual Muscle" throughout and you have this innovative new crossover record." Tom Doyle from "Smash Hits" noted the song as "a good rap record which sounds very mean "n" tough in the verses and a bit like Milli Vanilli in the choruses. Very singable and happy."
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Ishaq ibn Sulayman al-Hashimi
Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Sulayman ibn Ali al-Hashimi () was an 8th-9th-century AD Abbasid prince and historian. He held several official positions during his lifetime, including the governorships of Sind, Egypt, and Arminiyah.
Ishaq was a member of a collateral branch of the Abbasid royal dynasty, being a first cousin of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah () and al-Mansur (). His father, Sulayman ibn Ali, had been a senior member of the family during his lifetime and had held the important governorship of Basra during the initial years following the Abbasid Revolution. He was also connected to the ruling line by his marriage to Aliyah, the daughter of al-Mansur and an Umayyad woman.
During the caliphates of al-Mahdi (), Harun al-Rashid (), and al-Amin () Ishaq was posted to various provinces throughout the empire. In 776/7 he was appointed as governor of Mosul, and in 786–787 he was in charge of Medina. According to some sources he oversaw the summer raid ("sa'ifa") against the Byzantines in 787/8 or 788/9, either leading it himself or dispatching Yazid ibn Anbasah al-Harashi to conduct it on his behalf. In 790/1 he was governor of Sind and Makran.
In 793 Ishaq was appointed as governor of Egypt. While there, he attempted to increase taxes on the local sharecroppers ("muzari'un"), which provoked the residents of the Hawf district to rise up in revolt. After Ishaq requested reinforcements from the caliph, the general Harthamah ibn A'yan arrived in Egypt with a large army and forced the rebels to submit. A short time afterwards Ishaq was dismissed in favor of Harthamah, having held the governorship for about a year.
In 795 Ishaq was appointed to his father's old power base at Basra. Around 809/10 he was the governor of Homs, but after a series of disturbances forced him to retreat from the city to Salamiyah he was dismissed and replaced with Abdallah ibn Sa'id al-Harashi.
By around 811/2 Ishaq was appointed by al-Amin as governor of Arminiyah, with his son al-Fadl serving as his deputy there. Following the commencement of the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun he decided to take a stand in the province and oppose al-Ma'mun's lieutenant Tahir ibn Muhammad al-San'ani, who had been sent to seize Arminiyah and Adharbayjan on behalf of his patron. After gathering the support of several local notables he set out for Barda, but was soon met by a large force led by Zuhayr ibn Sinan al-Tamimi that al-San'ani had dispatched against him. Following a battle that lasted for the greater part of a day Ishaq and his supporters were defeated, while his son Ja'far was captured and sent as a prisoner to al-Ma'mun.
According to al-Baghdadi, Ishaq died in Baghdad at an unspecified date.
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Karsten Fischer (political scientist)
Karsten Fischer (born 1967 in Kleve) is a German political scientist and a historian of political ideas. He is a Professor of Political Theory at University of Munich.
Fischer was born 1967 in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. He studied Political science, Philosophy and Public international law at the University of Bonn and Goethe University Frankfurt. He earned 1998 a PhD (summa cum laude) at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation titled "„Verwilderte Selbsterhaltung. Zivilisationstheoretische Kulturkritik bei Nietzsche, Freud, Weber und Adorno“". Between 1994 and until Fischer completed his thesis in 1998, he was awarded the "Studienstiftung" scholarship. His doctoral advisor was Herfried Münkler.
Fischer was from 1998 to 2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group "Common Good and Civic Spirit" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In this research group he worked with some of the most brilliant minds of contemporary political theory in Germany, e.g. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Claus Offe, Iring Fetscher, Christian Meier, Otfried Höffe and Klaus von Beyme.
He was from 2003 to 2006 Assistant Professor and from 2006 to 2009 Associate Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he started an interdisciplinary program on Religion, Politics and Economics. In 2006 he received the venia legendi with a habilitation thesis under the supervision of Herfried Münkler.
He is since 2010 Full Professor (W3-Chair) at University of Munich.
He has been invited professor at Free University of Berlin, Technische Universität Darmstadt, University of Greifswald, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management and Zeppelin University.
Fischer's research focuses on political theory and the history of ideas, particularly democracy theory, liberalism theory, theories of statehood, constitutionalism, politics and law and the effects of religion on politics.
He publishes (mainly in German) in various german Journals, such as The Journal of Political Philosophy, Merkur, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Leviathan – Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, or Berliner Journal für Soziologie. He also writes regularly opinion pieces for mainstream publications in German-language media, such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Maribor prison massacres
The Maribor prison massacres were a series of massacres perpetrated by the Germans against the ethnic Slovenian population in the city of Maribor, which had been annexed by Nazi Germany, in present-day Slovenia. The Germans systematically murdered a total of 689 ethnic Slovenians from Maribor and surrounding areas in the hopes of Germanising the city and Slovenian Styria.
Maribor as most of Slovene Lands had been part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia since 1918. In 1941 Nazi Germany attacked and defeated Yugoslavia and quickly established an occupation system. Maribor together with Slovenian Styria was annexed to Nazi Germany and a brutal process of Germanisation began.
The massacres of ethnic Slovenians in Maribor range from 1941 and all the way to April 1945. The first massacre was perpetrated on 24 August 1941 and the last one only a month before the end of the war. The worst single day massacre occurred on 2 October 1942, when the Germans murdered 143 Slovenian civilians.
After the war and the liberation of Maribor and Slovenia, Erwin Rösener was put on trial and found guilty of the Maribor prison massacres among others. He was hanged on 4 September 1946.
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The Kernel Brewery
The Kernel Brewery was founded in 2009 by Evin O'Riordain in Bermondsey, England. It was one of London's first craft brewers, and within 10 years it had helped inspire
the establishment of around a hundred new microbreweries in the capital. The original 6.5 hectolitre brewhouse on Druid Street was replaced in 2012 by a 32hl plant on Dockley Road.
The brewery's ethos strongly favours quality over quantity, with quality control being at the heart of the operation. Around 90 percent of the beer Kernel produces is sold in London. O'Riordain says that "the demand is way higher than anything we can produce, it’s far beyond our capacity."
Kernel avoids unnecessary experimentation, with each brew being an intentional evolution of the previous batch. The hop types used are constantly changing in line with availability and the varying characteristics of each year's crop.
The brewery produces a wide range of beer styles, from American-inspired pale ales and IPAs to sours and traditional London porters and stouts. "Table Beer" was first brewed in 2012, and has grown to be one of the company's most popular beers. The 3 percent abv pale ale is brewed weekly, and is influenced by the British tradition of cask conditioned beers.
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Montmorency Forest
The "Montmorency Forest" is an experimental forest located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Jacques-Cartier, in the La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
This protected forest is mainly served by the forested route 33 which connects by the south the route 175.
The main lodge located on the west shore of Lac Piché is located north of downtown Quebec. This forestry education center is managed by the Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics from Laval University. The university received this territory – starting from an area of – from Government of Quebec in 1964 by emphyteutic lease of 99 years. In return, she committed to developing research and teaching in various fields of the natural sciences. In 2014, the Forêt Montmorency benefited from an extension which brought its surface to .
Located in the Laurentian Mountains, the Montmorency forest is drained by the Montmorency River and by one of its tributaries, the Black river. There are four lakes: lakes Piché, Bédard, Laflamme and Joncas. The altitude varies between 600 and with an average of 750 meters. The predominant forest stand is the fir forest white birch. Annual precipitation exceeds and, in winter, the average snowfall exceeds 6 meters. The annual average temperature is 0.4-degree Celsius and there are approximately 133 frost-free days in the year.
The Montmorency Forest is a training place for students of the 1st cycle and an open-air laboratory for students of the second and third cycle, researchers and professors from Laval University, especially those from Center d'études de la forêt. The Main Pavilion has spaces large enough to accommodate groups in training. We do research mainly in forestry, but also in biology and game management. Over a hundred dissertations and theses dealing with one aspect or the other of the Montmorency Forest have been deposited at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University Laval since the creation of the experimental station.
The Montmorency Forest is exploited for its forest resources according to the principles of a versatile and sustainable management. Cuts with soil protection () of limited dimensions are practiced gradually and irregularly, so that the forest presents a mosaic of stands of different ages. Special care is taken to protect regeneration during operations logging.
In winter, cross-country skiing is practiced from the beginning of November. The thick layer of snow also makes the forest a privileged place for snowshoeing. In summer, we practice hiking and fishing. In summer, you can go watch the magnificent fall.
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Maude Mayberg
Maude Mayberg, also known as Madame Yale, was a beauty products and patent medicine entrepreneur and saleswoman.
Maude Mayberg was born in 1852.
Mayberg said that around 1890 at age 38, she had found an elixer she called Fruitcura which had transformed her from illness to health after physicians had given up helping her. She said the miraculous cure inspired her to share Fruitcura with her "sisters in misery." By 1890 she started calling herself Madame Yale. Stories of women who weren't helped by physicians were central to her sales pitch.
As Madame Yale she "preached her 'Religion of Beauty'" starting in 1892 through a series of "Beauty Talks" in which she discussed beautiful women in history, including Helen of Troy and Diana, and sold lotions and beauty potions that she said had transformed her from a "sallow, fat, exhausted woman" into one of the beauties of the day. Her products included "Skin Food," "Elixir of Beauty," "Blush of Youth," "Blood Tonic," "Complexion Bleach," "Yale's Magic Secret," and "Fruitcura," which was the product she was most known for. She also sold soaps, cosmetics, corsets, and a "facial-steaming machine."
At the time, the wearing of cosmetics was looked upon as a "questionable moral choice," and Yale claimed her concoctions would "transform women from the inside out, rather than helping them hide their imperfections by wearing makeup. Yale argued that "Training and skills being equal, the woman who looks better will get the job, so why not make the most of your appearance?"
"Smithsonian" estimated the worth of her business in the 1890s to be US$500,000, equivalent to $15 million in 2020.
In 1906, the US congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, and in 1908 the US government sued Yale for "misbranding of drug preparations." The government seized inventory and issued a report that Fruitcura contained 16.66% alcohol. She was fined and barred from distributing seven of her top-selling products, including Fruitcura. In 1910 the "Medico-pharmaceutical Critic and Guide" said "Madame Yale's marvelous preparations have been declared marvelous humbugs."
In 1904 the "Boston Evening Trancript" called her a "famous expert on beauty culture. "Smithsonian" in 2020 called her a "true pioneer" in what would later be termed the "wellness space." Emmeline Clein wrote in "Smithsonian" that she "dropped into obscurity" after two decades of fame and may have resumed using Mayberg.
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Mud Fest
Mud Fest annual Holi festival organized in the city of Surat, Gujarat, India to mark the Spring festivities of Holi since 2015.
Mud Fest was started as an alternative to the popular way of playing Holi or Dhuleti played with chemical colours, by substituting them with Fuller's earth mixed with herbs. A giant swimming pool is filled with Fuller’s earth mixed with nearly 169 herbal plants having ayurvedic medicinal properties. Founder of Mud Fest, Ornob Moitra says, “The special mud used during Holi is prepared by crushing neem leaves, rose petals, sandalwood paste, multani mitti and mixing all ingredients.” It is incidentally one of the diamond city, Surat’s biggest annual cultural festivities."
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Amache Prowers
Amache Ochinee Prowers, also known as Walking Woman (1846–1905), was a Native American activist, advocate, cattle rancher, and operator of a store on the Santa Fe Trail. Her father was a Cheyenne peace chief who was killed during the Sand Creek massacre on November 29, 1864, after which she became a mediator between Colorado territorial settlers, Mexicans, and Native Americans during the 1860s and 1870s. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.
Amache, a full-blooded member of the Southern Cheyenne tribe, was born in the summer of 1846 during a forced march of her tribe across the plains of Southeastern Colorado. Her father Ochinee (Nah-ku-uk-ihu-us) was a Cheyenne Peace Chief who often camped near Bent's Fort (Big Timbers) with other Cheyenne. In 1846, the Cheyenne of the Arkansas River Valley were subject to significant change as they saw whites arrive in significant numbers. General Stephen W. Kearny led United States soldiers through Colorado during the Mexican–American War. In late July, when the Cheyenne were encamped at Bent's Fort, 1,700 soldiers were encamped for miles along the Arkansas River. The Cheyenne had noticed an increase in the number of white people that traveled with wagons on the Santa Fe trail to trade with the New Mexicans. Also in 1846, Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the first Indian resident agent at Bent's Fort.
As a child in a Cheyenne tribe, Prowers would have had a lot of freedom, until she had her first menstrual cycle, when she would have learned how to clean, tan hides, cook, and take on other responsibilities of Cheyenne women.
John Wesley Prowers was a trader who visited and then employed by William Bent at Bent's Fort. He saw Amache perform a Cheyenne dance around 1860. Later, he asked Chief Ochinee if he could marry Amache the following year. They were engaged in a typical Cheyenne courtship, which involved exchanging gifts.
In 1861, at the age of 15 or 16, she married 25-year-old John Wesley Prowers, a cattleman and trader. After their marriage, they spent a few months in Westport, Missouri, where she learned the traditions of white women. She experienced prejudice, being called "that Indian woman" by John's brother-in-law, John Hough. Then they lived at Bent's Fort.
John and Amache worked together in their business and personal pursuits and settled along the Santa Fe Trail in Boggsville, Colorado in 1867. They lived in a 14-room adobe house, which is a Boggsville Historic Site in Bent County, where they raised nine children who were familiar with the cultures of people of European and Native American heritage. The children were Mary, Susan (who died as an infant), Kathrine, Inez, John, Frank, Leona, Ida, and Mary. Prowers was adept at integrating her native culture with Mexican and Euro-American cultures. Except for a corset, she wore clothes of a white woman. Although she always spoke English at home, she taught her children words of the Cheyenne language. She maintained Cheyenne traditions among her family, like preparing food from her culture, such as pickled prickly pears and rolls of thin slices of sweetened and spiced buffalo meat for special occasions. She prepared food with spring greens; made grape, chokecherry, and wild plum preserves; and tea from sage leaves. She also knew what herbs to use for medicine. Amache's mother also taught her grandchildren of the ways of the Cheyenne people. She kept a tepee at her home to stay grounded in Native American tradition. The Prowers were frequently visited by Amache's mother and other family members. Known for being a good and kind woman, she was active in school, church and community activities. She knew many Native American holy men and chiefs and was friends with Mary Bent, the daughter of Owl Woman and William Bent. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad constructed a line that ran though Las Animas. In 1873, the Prowers family moved to Las Animas. John Wesley Prowers served in the territorial and state legislature. He died in 1884 and he was buried at Las Animas cemetery. For nine years, she received an annual stipend of $3,000 () to raise her children. In 1891, she married Dan Keesee, a rancher or businessman. They visited Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she died in 1905.
Her father helped negotiate a treaty between the government, Cheyenne, and Arapaho to safely camp along Sand Creek during the winter of 1864–1865. At that time, he had met with the Territorial Governor, John Evans. Colonel John Chivington certified that Lone Bear was a man of good character and a "friendly Indian." Before the attack, the Prowers family, including Amache, were held hostage to prevent them warning Cheyenne at the Sand Creek winter camp site of the eminent attack.
On November 29, 1864, the Cheyenne camp at the Sand Creek was attacked by 600 soldiers of the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and her father, Peace Chief Ochinee (Lone Bear) and 160 other people, most of whom were children and women, were killed. Her mother was able to escape. The troops were led by Colonel John Chivington upon the orders of John Evans, the territorial governor of Colorado. Amache went later to the Congress with her husband and testified to seek justice for the Cheyenne. She and her two oldest daughters and her mother each received reparations by the United States government in the form of 640 acres of land along the Arkansas River. Amache used her land to expand her family's cattle ranch. The rest of Lone Bear's family moved to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Years later, Amache was asked, as she was about to be introduced to Chivington at an Eastern Star meeting in Denver, whether she knew him. Her daughter Mary recounts that, "My mother drew herself up with that stately dignity, peculiar to her people, and ignoring the outstretched hand, remarked in perfect English, audible to all in the room, 'Know Col. Chivington? I should. He was my father's murderer!' and turned her back to him.
Located on the Santa Fe Trail, she and her husband ran a store, hotel, post office, county office, and school where people of Euro-American, Native American, and Latin descent met and exchanged information. Prowers spoke English, Spanish, and the language of her birth, Cheyenne. She did not read or write, though. Their house, located in Boggsville, was in one of the earliest settlements in the area. Their neighbors included Kit Carson and his wife and Thomas Boggs, who established the settlement.
She helped run her family's cattle ranch, where her husband was believed to have brought the first Hereford cattle into Colorado. He began buying cattle in 1862 and was considered the first and largest rancher in the area. By 1881, they had 15,000 head of cattle. In the winters of 1885–1886 and 1886–1887, "intense blizzards" resulted in a tremendous loss of cattle in Colorado, nearly wiping out the cattle industry.
She became a leader in the Southern Cheyenne tribe and during Colorado's early years as a territory (1860s and 1870s), she was "an innovative mediator between cultures," including Mexican, Native American, and Euro-American people. As European Americans and Mexican Americans settled in Colorado, her diplomatic skills helped her protect the land that she received through treaty. Dr. Bonnie Clark, and archaeologist who wrote a biography of Amache Prowers, said of her, "Amache lived in a time that brought sweeping changes to the region, requiring the creation of a new society. Cultural mediators like Amache built the foundation of the American West."
She died in 1904 or 1905, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was buried at Las Animas cemetery.
Camp Amache, located near Granada, Colorado, was named after her after it was established in 1942. It was a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.
The house in Boggsville was the subject of an archaeological study by Richard Carrillo of the University of Denver and graduate student Carson Bear. A tip of a biface, a type of a stone tool, and flakes were found under the floorboards of the living room. The presence of a ground stone for processing traditional foods and a stone tool set indicates that she was making and using stone tools. It is rare to opine that a native woman made stone tools, because it was traditionally considered a function performed by men, the hunters. Cheyenne women used stone tools, though, for hide-working.
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Harold Reeve
Harold Hastings Reeve (25 March 1908 – 15 November 1973) was an Australian public servant. He was briefly Administrator of Nauru in 1949, before joining the civil service in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1950, where he held several senior positions until his retirement in 1966, including serving in the Legislative Council and House of Assembly.
Reeve was born in Sydney in 1908. He became a master builder, before joining the Commonwealth Treasury in 1941. In 1949 he briefly served as Administrator of Nauru, before moving to the Territory of Papua and New Guinea to become Director of Finance and Treasurer in 1950, also becoming a member of the Executive Council.
In 1951 he became an official member of the new Legislative Council. In 1961 he became Assistant Administrator (Economic Affairs), and when the new House of Assembly was created in 1964, he continued as an official member.
Reeve retired in 1966. He died in Sydney in 1973 and was survived by his wife Kathleen and two children.
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2020 Irish Seanad election
An indirect election for Seanad Éireann took place after the 2020 Irish general election, with postal ballots due on 30 and 31 March. The Seanad is the upper house of the Oireachtas, with Dáil Éireann as the lower house of representatives. The election was held for 49 of the 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 are elected for five vocational panels, and six are elected in two university constituencies. The remaining 11 senators are nominated by the newly elected Taoiseach when the Dáil reconvenes after the general election. As of early June 2020, these senators have not been nominated, as a new Taoiseach has not been elected, with Leo Varadkar remaining in a caretaker capacity.
The Constitution of Ireland provides that a Seanad election must take place within 90 days of the dissolution of the Dáil Éireann. As the Dáil was dissolved on 14 January, the latest day the election could take place is 13 April 2020. On 21 January 2020, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government signed an order for the Seanad elections, providing 30 March as the deadline for ballots for the vocational panels and 31 March as the deadline for ballots in the university constituencies.
On 8 February 2020, the members of the 33rd Dáil were elected in the general election. The Fine Gael-led government, led by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was defeated, with Sinn Féin taking the most first preference votes, and Fianna Fáil taking the most seats. The Sinn Féin victory came as a surprise and an upset, as it ended the two-party rule of Fine Gael in Fianna Fáil that had existed for many decades, and polls did not show Sinn Féin winning until the election was called. Sinn Féin won 37 seats, Fianna Fáil won 38, and Fine Gael won 35.
A government for the 33rd Dáil has yet to be formed.
Of the forty-nine elected seats, three are elected from the university constituency of National University of Ireland and three are elected from the university constituency of University of Dublin (Trinity College, Dublin).
Forty-three are elected by an electorate of elected politicians, consisting of members of the 33rd Dáil, members of the 25th Seanad and city and county councillors, who each have five ballots for vocational panels. The Seanad Returning Officer maintains a list of qualified nominating bodies for each panel. Candidates may be nominated by nominating bodies (outside sub-panel) or by members of the Oireachtas (inside sub-panel). In each vocational panel, there is a minimum number who must be elected from either the inside or the outside sub-panel. If the number of candidates nominated for each sub-panel does exceed by two the maximum number which may be elected from that sub-panel, the Taoiseach shall nominate candidates to fill the deficiency.
Electors for the Panels elect:
All votes are cast by postal ballot, and are counted using the single transferable vote. Under this system, voters can rank candidates in order of their preference, 1 as their first preference, 2 for second preference, and so on. Ballots are initially given a value of 1,000 to allow calculation of quotas where all ballots are distributed in the case of a surplus, rather than taking a representative sample as is done in Dáil elections. The quota for election is given as formula_1.
The 11 nominated members can only be appointed by the Taoiseach who is appointed next after the reassembly of Dáil Éireann. They are usually appointed after the Seanad election, but if a Taoiseach has not been appointed at stage, they will not be appointed until then.
Because of the coronavirus outbreak, changes to the usual arrangements for the Vocational Panel elections were made to reduce the risk of transmission. The clerk and deputy clerk of the Dáil and Seanad refused to witness Oireachtas members' ballots, advising them to use the local government chief executive or Garda (police) superintendent for this purpose. The Seanad clerk, as returning officer, also requested that counting agents not be present at the count centre in Dublin Castle. Similar appeals were made regarding the NUI count in the RDS and the Dublin University count in the university's Examination Hall.
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Lymphatic filariasis in India
Lymphatic filariasis in India is the presence of the disease lymphatic filariasis in India and all the social response to it. In India 99% of infections come from a type of mosquito spreading a type of worm through a mosquito bite. The treatment plan provides 40 crore people in India with medication to eliminate the parasite. About 5 crore people in India were carrying the worm as of the early 2010s, which is 40% of all the cases in the world. With other countries around the world, India is participating in a global effort to eradicate lymphatic filariasis. If the worm is eliminated from India then the disease could be gone forever. In October 2019 the Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said that India's current plan is on schedule to eradicate filariasis by 2021.
To treat, prevent, and eliminate the disease, the Indian government provides mass drug administration (MDA) to achieve mass deworming. The treatment is a few pills taken once a year for five years. The medicine is diethylcarbamazine and sometimes also. For the treatment to work 60-80% of people in large regions must take this once a year treatment for several years.
Treatment happens as a public health project in which most people in regions with the parasite take treatment. The treatment is a mass drug administration to cause mass deworming. In India the worm only lives in humans, so if everyone takes treatment, and everyone is cured, then the worm will be gone forever. India participates in the global eradication program to completely eliminate the worm from all of earth.
Health education for the public is an essential part of the campaign. Hundreds of millions of people in affected communities have to agree to take the drugs once a year. In a 2015 public health campaign called "Hathipaon Mukt Bharat" shows how the disease causes large feet, says the medicine is safe, and tells people to take it.
The treatment program varies in different places in India. Various reports describe the variation, such as for Assam and Andhra Pradesh.
Most people who take treatment have no negative effects or only mild adverse events which resolve without further treatment. A bigger problem than any side effects of treatment is people having fear of taking treatment, which leads them to refuse to take medicine. Various studies have examined why people in various Indian regions neglect to take the drugs.
99% of infections in India happen when the mosquito "Culex quinquefasciatus" spreads the worm "Wuchereria bancrofti" through a mosquito bite. Because the cause of this disease can be a different worm and parasite in different countries, each country has its own plan for control and treatment.
The typical prevention for filariasis is giving drugs to people. However, in some areas, using the pesticide spinosad to eliminate mosquitos is helpful to prevent the spread.
To eliminate the disease neither humans nor mosquitos should have the parasite. The usual way to determine whether filariasis is eliminated from an area is to test humans for the parasite. In some special cases India uses molecular xenomonitoring to examine captured mosquitos and determine if they have the parasite.
By 2006 there were 2 crore people infected and with symptoms, 3 crore people infected but asymptomatic, and 47 crore people who were at potential risk. In 2005 95% of the cases in India were in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Utter Pradesh and West Bengal.
India has 40% of the world's lymphatic filariasis (LF) cases. For the patient, one of the major costs of treating the disease is having to take a lot of time off work. A year 2000 survey reported that about half of the people in India were at risk of contracting LF. Men and women can get this disease equally, but in the past, there have been barriers to women accessing treatment in the normal way. An estimate from the year 2000 reported that filariasis in India caused an annual economic loss of ₹5000 crore ().
The "Sushruta Samhita", an Ayurvedic Indian text, described filariasis in the 6th century BCE. The disease is timeless and present throughout Indian history. Indian physicians in the 500s wrote about the disease. In the 1500s the European explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten visited Goa and wrote about people with filariasis symptoms there.
In 1955 the Indian government established the National Filaria Control Programme (NFCP) as a project to limit the spread of the disease. By 1959 that organization proposed various plans for controlling or eliminating the disease. Infections spread out of control from 1955 till 1995 in which time the number of cases increased several fold. Reasons for the disease's expansion included increased urban population and a rapidly changing country which exposed people to new circumstances with mosquitoes.
In 1997 India joined a World Health Assembly resolution to eliminate LF by 2020. In India to achieve this goal healthcare must be very accessible to almost everyone at risk for the disease. The Indian government originally planned to eliminate the disease by 2015, then shifted the date to 2017, then to 2020. Various media media outlets have discussed how India might meet the goal or what it should happen next if more time is required.
In 2015 the Indian government launched a health campaign called "Hathipaon Mukt Bharat" (Filaria Free India) to encourage public participation in eliminating LF. In the program everyone in an area with the disease takes pill medicine once a year for five years. The drug is diethylcarbamazine citrate and albendazole and is in the form of about four pills which people take all at once.
Public health researchers have applied machine learning techniques to improve public health monitoring for filariasis in India.
A 2019 report identified dogs in Kerala who have another worm which can cause filariasis, "Brugia malayi". This worm is not known to infect people in India. If necessary tests are ready to identify the dogs carrying the disease.
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Martin Burt
Martin Burt is a Paraguayan social entrepreneur, author, former mayor of Asunción and former chief of staff to Paraguay's President, known for founding Fundación Paraguaya in 1985, a leading non-profit and micro-finance organization in Paraguay, and creator of the Poverty Spotlight, a poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology.
Burt was born in Asuncion, Paraguay on May 21, 1957 to Daniel Gordon Burt and Deidamia Artaza. For his primary education, Burt attended the American School of Asunción and for his high school education attended Colegio Cristo Rey, before spending a year in compulsory military service as a Corporal of the Military Police. Burt was determined to eliminate poverty in Paraguay from an early age, influenced by his father and grandmother who taught him that those more fortunate were morally obligated to give back to society by helping those less fortunate.
In 1980, Burt received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration and Inter-American Studies from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he served as Student Body President. He then attended George Washington University for a Master's Degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy, and was . He later received a PhD in 2016 from Tulane University in Development Economics and International Development.
Burt has a long career in public service, non-profit work, and academia, including serving as Mayor of Asuncion and founding Fundación Paraguaya.
Burt founded Fundación Paraguaya in 1985, while Paraguay was still under the authoritarian rule of General Alfredo Stroessner. Fundación Paraguaya has developed several programs designed to solve poverty through entrepreneurship. They pioneered micro-finance in Paraguay, helping small businesses below the scope of traditional banks. In 1995, Fundación Paraguaya established their implementation of the Junior Achievement Program in Paraguay, which focuses on teaching concepts of entrepreneurship and financial literacy. The foundation was granted the San Francisco Agricultural School in Cerrito by De La Salle Brothers, a Roman Catholic congregation in 2003, turning it into a self-sustaining agricultural high school that serves rural poor youth. The foundation has since worked to replicate their model in 50 schools worldwide. In 2006, Burt co-founded Teach a Man to Fish, a UK charity based in London, England with Nik Kafka, a former intern with the foundation, in order to spread the student-led school business model. Fundación Paraguaya has been the recipient of several high profile awards and acknowledgements, including awards from the Skoll Foundation, The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Burt has built a platform based on his Poverty Stoplight model of the same name, produced as a project of Fundación Paraguaya. The platform has been adopted at the highest levels of the Paraguayan government and Burt is working with organizations in Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda to bring the spotlight to their local efforts. The Poverty Stoplight takes a multi-dimensional approach to conceptualizing poverty, allowing families to self-assess their situation through 50 different indicators on 6 different dimensions. These indicators, such as access to clean water or clothing, are rated at three levels, green, yellow, and red, allowing an easy to read scorecard to be developed. This helps both the family and supporting organizations to develop a plan to meet their needs and help them out of poverty, as well as giving organizations a map to assess programs and needs at a community level.
Burt served as Chief of Staff, Cabinet Secretary and close adviser to President Federico Franco from 2012 to 2013, where he helped lead the government's adoption of the Social Progress Index, an alternative economic indicator to the Gross Domestic Product. Burt was twice elected as the President of the Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce. He also served as Vice Secretary of Commerce from 1991 to 1993. He cofounded Pro-Paraguay, Paraguay's Export and Foreign Investment agency, in 1992.
On December 17, 1996, Burt began his five-year term as Mayor of Asunción, Paraguay's capital and largest city. He came into office leading a political alliance of his party, the Authentic Radical Liberal Party, and the National Encounter Party. As mayor, Burt's new policies for the city, including the first deployment of municipal bonds, and securing loans from the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. He used these funds for a number of infrastructure projects, such as acquiring property for the city to build 80 public parks, developing pedestrian shelters, and recovering and developing a number of public spaces. In concert with the Salesian Works and Ministry of Social Action, he helped build collective housing for families displaced from the Chaco. His administration also restored and expanded a number of public arteries, constructed docks for public transport, renewed city automotive fleets, restored historical houses and sites, installed internet into classrooms in popular neighborhoods, and built urban walking trails, among other contributions to the public.
Burt is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine and a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has also held a number of other academic positions, including Adjunct Professor at the Universidad Católica de Asunción from 1983 to 1984, Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of the Pacific from 2006 to 2007, as well as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the American University of Nigeria from 2011 to 2017, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tulane University.
Burt was co-founder of two of Paraguay's leading environmental non-profits. In 1988 he co-founded the Moises Bertoni Foundation, an environmental NGO that focuses on preserving biodiversity and sustainable development. He also co-founded the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve Foundation, which established a permanently protected biosphere in the Mbaracayú subtropical rainforest located in the northeastern region of Paraguay near the Brazilian border. The Mbaracayú Reserve is managed by the Moises Bertoni Foundation. This area of 65,000 hectares is home to Paraguayan and Brazilian cattle ranchers and small holdings, two indigenous groups, and a wide variety of species and ecosystems.
Fundación Paraguaya and Fundación Moisés Bertoni collaborated to replicate the model of the San Francisco Agricultural School in the Mbaracayú Forest Reserve in the form of the all-girls Centro Educativo Mbaracayú school. The school was founded in 2009 with the aim of serving primarily the Ache and other native American communities in the area. The school was the focus of the 2016 documentary Daughters of the Forest by documentary filmmakers Samantha Grant and Carl Byker. Filmed over a course of five years, the film follows the lives of the school's first class through their matriculation. The film has been widely featured internationally since its release.
Burt also co-founded Lican Paraguay SA, a social enterprise that processes formerly contaminating animal blood from slaughterhouses and converts it into hemoglobin and plasma, profits going to save the Mbaracayú Forest Reserve.
Burt has been involved in a number of other organizations as a co-founder, such as the Asociación Paraguaya de la Calidad, Paraguay Educa, Club Universitario de Rugby de Asunción, and Sistema B Paraguay.
Martin serves on the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and is also a member of the board of the Global Foodbanking Network. He has served as advisor to the WARC Group Sierra Leone since 2017.
During his time in Stockton, Burt met his future wife Dorothy Wolf, who he married in 1982. They have four children and live in Asunción, Paraguay. Burt is also the nephew of well-known Paraguayan artist Michael Burt.
Burt has been widely recognized for his work as a social entrepreneur. In 2020, Burt was awarded the Wave Maker Award from HCL Technologies. He received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2005, and won the 2004 Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He was awarded the Microfinance Award for Excellence in Social Responsibility from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Eisenhower Fellowship Award from the USA and Taiwan, the UNESCO Orbis Guaraniticus Medal, and the Argentina National Academy of History Domingo Sarmiento Medal. He has also won awards from the Avina Foundation, Synergos, World Innovation Summit for Education, and Nestlé. He was awarded the Albert Bandura Influencer Award in 2014, the 2011 Opportunity Collaboration Achievement Award, the Social Innovator of the Year Award from the Ballard Center for Self-Reliance of Brigham Young University in 2007, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the George Washington University in 2007, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of the Pacific in 2006.
In September 2019, Burt released his most recent book, "Who Owns Poverty?" In this book, he tells the story of his quest to understand poverty and how the Poverty Stoplight came to being.
In 2016, Burt co-wrote The Poverty Stoplight and its Psychological and Multidimensional Approach with Luis Fernando Sanabira, in Psychological Implications of Poverty (English version published in 2019). In 2013, he wrote a paper on the Poverty Stoplight, published by MIT Journals.
In 1984 Burt co-wrote "Paraguay: Laws and Economy" with Guillermo F. Peroni.
Burt regularly attends the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, as well as the World Economic Meeting on Latin America and the Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions held in the People’s Republic of China.
Martin has been a speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, UNIAPAC, CAF - Development Bank of Latin America, World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), Synergos, Eisenhower Fellowships, ICERI 2014, and Development, as well as at TEDxPuraVida and TEDxBYU.
He was also invited as a speaker to a National Consultation on Building Cognitive Capital for Children organized jointly by UNICEF China and the Government of the People’s Republic of China in 2017. He presented the Poverty Stoplight methodology at the 2017 Istanbul Innovation Days Conference organized by UNDP Turkey and Nesta. He made a presentation on Fundación Paraguaya’s work on poverty elimination to the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion in 2014.
At the end of 2019, Burt presented the Draft Bill Establishing Guidelines for Poverty Elimination in Paraguay, at a Public Hearing organized by the National Congress. The Draft Bill, based on the Poverty Stoplight methodology, is currently being studied by the Chamber of Senators.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case in the Republic of Croatia was reported in Zagreb on 25 February, when a patient who had come from Italy was tested positive. The same day, the second case related to the first one was confirmed. In March 2020, a cluster of cases were reported in numerous Croatian cities. On 12 March, the first recovery was reported, and on 18 March the first death from the virus was confirmed.
The pandemic in Croatia occurred during the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. On 22 March, Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, was hit by the strongest earthquake in 140 years, causing problems in enforcement of social distancing measures set out by the Government.
Concerns over the virus began as soon as it began its rapid rise in China and its effects on the international scale became clear. Concerns were raised about the increased probability of the virus entering Croatia because of the number of Chinese workers working on Pelješac Bridge. Some of the institutions in Croatia preemptively reacted to the potential threat.
The airports in Croatia were prepared and they started going through passive measures and being vigilant.
The Ministry of Health warned those travelling to China to avoid sick people, animals, and markets, not to eat any raw or semi-cooked animals, and to wash their hands often and to notify their doctor of their plans to travel to China.
After relieving Milan Kujundžić from the position of Health Minister, on 31 January, Vili Beroš was confirmed as the new Health Minister by the Croatian Parliament. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković cited the coronavirus problem as one of the reasons for the change. Beroš held a meeting with the Ministry's Crisis Headquarters on his first day regarding the coronavirus epidemic. On the same day, the Ministry announced the formation of a National Crisis Headquarters for the coronavirus pandemic.
The Croatian Public Health Institute introduced special health inspection measures on 2 February for persons arriving from China or had been in China recently. On 3 February, Beroš met with Stella Kyriakidou, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, and Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, to discuss the situation with the coronavirus. Following a meeting with the EU health ministers on 13 February, Beroš said that the closure of EU borders is a possible measure.
Beroš adopted a decision to establish a quarantine unit at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević" in Zagreb on 21 February, for suspected or confirmed infected persons with coronavirus. A Croatian citizen who spent time on the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship was quarantined in that unit on the following day. He had no symptoms, but was placed in a 14-day quarantine as a precautionary measure. Plenković said that the Crisis Headquarters will meet on a daily basis and that the Government will take any measure necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
On 11 March, the Rijeka Film Festival and the Role of Cultural Heritage in Socioeconomic Development and the Preservation of Democratic Values conference were both postponed until further notice.
On 18 March, it was announced that, as of the next day, all cultural institutions in Croatia will be closed.
The same day, the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb decided, in collaboration with the daily newspaper "24sata", to allow citizens access quality cultural content through a YouTube channel, which will feature daily performances from the branches of opera, ballet and drama, and the viewers will be able to watch some of the most popular performances of the Theater, such as "One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away", "Swan Lake" and "Ero the Joker".
On 20 March, Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka started with an online virtual program "Zajc With You" on their YouTube channel, as an act responsibility and in solidarity with its audience, citizens of Rijeka and the wider community, especially those most vulnerable ones, either because of their age or because they are "on the front line of defense against the virus". Some ensembles will not continue their regular and usual work, because it involves gathering of more people, such as orchestras or choirs, and physical contact, such as ballet ensembles.
Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Zdravko Marić was asked to comment on to what extent the virus has affected the national economy, and if it could trigger an economic crisis. He said:
Minister Marić added that it was far too early to make any predictions regarding the national economy in 2020 and budgetary revenues:
The city of Dubrovnik began to brace for the economic impact that the coronavirus could cause in Croatia.
On 14 March, the Government banned price increases and set the 30 January price as the highest possible for the following products: flour, milk, milk powder, eggs, sugar, salt, rice, pasta, fresh meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, canned meat, canned fish, edible oil, baby food, baby diapers, drinking water, laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, soap, as well as water disinfectants, space disinfectants, hand sanitisers including concentrated alcohol, hazmat suits and other protective clothes and shoes, goggles, protective gloves, protective shoe covers, protective masks, respirators/transport fans, medication, medical products and bed covers for medical system; to avoid price increases amid panic buying. Prime Minister Plenković informed President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen of the Government's decision a day later. State Inspectorate announced that price inspections would start on 17 March with the fines varying from 3,000 to 15,000 HRK.
On 17 March, Prime Minister Plenković announced closing shopping centres, some shops, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, reading rooms, libraries, gyms, sports centres, fitness centres, recreation centres, dance schools, children's and other workshops, exhibitions, fairs, nightclubs and discos. The government proposed short-term economic measures, like postponement of tax payments and loans for struggling businesses for at least three months in response to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
On 18 March, a hotel Le Méridien LAV in Split announced it would close from 23 March to 15 April.
From 19 March, all non-essential activities in the service sector were closed.
On 1 April, the government proposed a second set of economic measures. The net minimum wage was increased from 3,250 HRK to 4,000 HRK (725€), and the Government would pay benefits contributions on the minimum wage of up to 1,460 HRK (192€). Companies that were out of work or were seriously hampered by the pandemic were partially or entirely exempt from tax payments on profit and income, and from contributions.
On 9 April, World Bank predicted 6.2% decrease in Croatian GDP and 9% increase in unemployment rate. On 14 April, International Monetary Fund predicted an even worse scenario, a large decrease of 9% in GDP by the end of 2020. However, the former predicted a 6.2% increase in GDP in 2021, while the latter predicted a 4.6% increase.
On 19 April, the Institute of Economics stated that Croatian public debt would increase to 90% of GDP in the "most favorable" case, but only if the crisis ended in the next three months.
The City of Zagreb reported 6% fewer arrivals in February than in the same period the previous year. The impact was visible from the contrast to January, which recorded 10% growth compared to the same period the previous year.
According to data from , in the first ten days of March, arrivals decreased by 30% which is an unprecedented decline in recent Croatian history.
On 14 March, Split City Museum limited its activity and closed the Cellars of Diocletian's Palace and Gallery Emanuel Vidović for visitors. In the week from 16 to 22 March, hotels and restaurants in the country recorded 78% decline in revenue compared to the previous week.
On 16 April, "Jutarnji list" reported about the Association of Tour Operators and Travel Agents of the Czech Republic (ACCKA)'s letter to the Czech Government about allowing Czech citizens who are confirmed to be negative for the virus to travel to Croatia and Slovenia, among other countries, during the summer via special corridors. The next day, Prime Minister Plenković spoke with Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babiš about the idea, and ordered Minister Gari Cappelli and Minister Klára Dostálová to come up with an acceptable model for the arrival of the Czechs.
On 13 May, Croatian National Tourist Board recorded a 99% decline in tourists in April compared to the same month previous year.
On 11 March, it was announced that kindergartens, schools and universities in Istria County would be closed from 13 March, with students of the first four grades of primary school keeping up with classes via the TV channel HRT 3 or via Sharepoint from Microsoft Office.
On 13 March, Prime Minister Plenković announced that all kindergartens, schools and universities in Croatia would be closed for a fortnight starting on 16 March.
On 16 March, Minister of Education Blaženka Divjak confirmed that the same day CARNET, responsible for online classes in Croatia, had been a victim of a cyberattack making the online classes impossible at that moment. Later the same day, Minister Divjak reported that CARNET had been under ten cyberattacks during the day; however, she confirmed that the online classes had gone successfully.
On 1 April, Minister Divjak announced that "Matura" exam in Croatian language would be postponed from 16 May. On 15 April, she confirmed that "Matura" will most likely be held in June. On 6 May, Minister Divjak announced that "Matura" in optional subjects would not be held. However, a day later, the decision was withdrawn after the public pressure.
On 25 June, as Croatia imposed obligatory self-isolation for all passengers entering the country from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo; this, however, was not obligatory for students entering the country to take "Matura" exams.
On 2 March, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra issued a statement that their joint concert with Filarmomica di Milano conducted by Daniele Gatti, set to be held in Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall on 10 March, had been cancelled due to the Italian orchestra coming from the affected Italian area which would've increased the risk of exposure to the virus.
Postponed or cancelled concerts include Croatian jazz musician Vesna Pisarović's concert in Dom Sportova and pop singer Nina Badrić's concerts in Novi Sad, Čačak, Kruševac and Maribor.
On 11 March, the annual music award ceremony Porin, set to be held on 27 March in Centar Zamet in Rijeka, was postponed until further notice.
On 13 March, Serbian popstar Jelena Karleuša postponed her performance in Zagreb nightclub H2O, set to be held the same night, due to "her fans' safety and her own responsibility".
On 18 March, Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled due to the virus pandemic in Europe. Croatian representative Damir Kedžo, set to perform his song "Divlji vjetre" ("Wild Wind"), was expected to perform at the next edition of the contest, but on 23 June Croatian Radiotelevision decided that a new representative would be elected in February 2021.
Celine Dion was set to perform on 5 June in Arena Zagreb as part of her Courage World Tour; however, the concert was postponed on 24 April.
During April 2020, there had been widespread media speculation that the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election would be called earlier than originally planned, due to the uncertainty created by the still-ongoing worldwide pandemic. Namely, though the spread of the virus had been brought under control by that time, fears still persisted that the number of infected cases could once again begin to rise in autumn and that this could, therefore, impede or even prevent the holding of the election.
Archbishop of Zagreb Josip Bozanić supported the removal of holy water from church entrances and handshakes from the Mass, and recommended believers to receive the communion bread from priests into their own hands instead of directly into their mouth. He also recommended believers who had symptoms of respiratory system infection, had visited affected areas, had been in contact with a carrier of the virus, were elderly or suffered from chronic illnesses not to attend the Mass.
On 16 March, Bishop of Sisak Vlado Košić relieved the believers of obligation to attend the Mass until 1 April.
On 19 March, Croatian Bishops' Conference announced that, as of the next day, all Masses would be closed for the public.
On 9 April, on Maundy Thursday, Civil Protection Directorate allowed the inhabitants of the island of Hvar, which had no active cases, to hold five centuries old night procession "Za križen" under the condition that only fifteen people take part in it. Groups of fifteen cross carriers exchanged between settlements of Jelsa, Pitve, Vrisnik, Svirče, Vrbanj and Vrboska, while locals kept up from their balconies and front yards.
On 12 April, Parson of Sirobuja "Don" Josip Delaš verbally assaulted a "Dalmatinski portal" journalist who came to his Easter Mass and who was also physically assaulted by one of the believers. "Don" Delaš sparked controversy throughout previous week when he invited believers to his Palm Sunday Mass, held Masses despite misdemeanor charges and warnings from the Archdiocese of Split-Makarska, and even verbally assaulted the police officers who intervened during one of his Masses a few days prior. Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović confirmed the next day that three criminal charges and one misdemeanor charge were filed.
The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) on 11 March ordered that all Prva HNL matches would be played behind closed doors until 31 March. The measure applied to all competitions under HNS, as well as all UEFA qualifying matches hosted by Croatia. The same day HNS announced that Croatia national football team would not play its friendly games against Switzerland and Portugal scheduled for 26 and 30 March in Doha due to the virus pandemic in Qatar. On 12 March, HNS decided to suspend all competitions until 31 March. On 13 March, HNS agreed with the national team manager Zlatko Dalić not to play any matches during the March international break.
On 13 March, the Wings for Life World Run, set to be held in Zadar, was cancelled.
On 14 March, Dalić was confirmed to be in self-isolation until 18 March as well as HNS president Davor Šuker, director Damir Vrbanović, spokesman Tomislav Pacak, and director of International Affairs and Licensing Department Ivančica Sudac. They had all been at the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League draw and the UEFA Congress in Amsterdam on 2 March where they had been in contact with Football Association of Serbia president Slaviša Kokeza who tested positive for the virus at the Clinical Centre of Serbia. The same day Šuker revealed that he would support UEFA Euro 2020's postponement at a videoconference in Nyon on 17 March. They left self-isolation on 18 March after none of them showed symptoms of the disease.
On 24 March, Croatia national football team donated 4,200,000 HRK for fighting the pandemic. The same day, it was announced that Atlético Madrid and Croatia player Šime Vrsaljko donated 62,500€ to General Hospital in his hometown Zadar for purchase of two respirators.
On 25 March, first athlete from the country tested positive for the virus, boxer Toni Filipi and his coach Tomo Kadić.
On 26 March, GNK Dinamo Zagreb fired coach Nenad Bjelica's assistants because they, alongside Bjelica and the players, refused to accept pay cuts. The players stated that the pay cuts were not the problem, claiming that the club had not previously informed them and had led no negotiations with them, therefore reached no agreement about the pay cuts. On 16 April, Bjelica was sacked as well.
On 30 March, AS Monaco and former Croatia goalkeeper Danijel Subašić donated 500,000 HRK to hospitals in Zadar and Split. The same day, Real Madrid player and Croatia captain Luka Modrić donated 100,000€ to Zadar General Hospital for purchase of an X-ray generator.
On 1 April, KK Cibona fired all of their employees apart from the players due to inability to pay their wages, including even the coach Ivan Velić. The same day, the Croatian Basketball Federation (HKS) has decided to cancel all competitions for the 2019–20 season. The same day, UEFA decided to postpone all international matches scheduled for June until further notice, therefore postponing Croatia national team's friendly games with Turkey and France, scheduled to be played in Osijek and Nice respectively.
On 9 April, HNK Rijeka confirmed their players and employees agreed about a one-third pay cut for the following 16 months. The same day it was confirmed that Inter Zaprešić investor Velibor Kvrgić and coach Željko Petrović had left the club, leaving the fate of the club and the players unknown.
On 21 April, Croatian Handball Federation (HRS) voided all competitions.
After HNS had previously decided on 20 April that Prva HNL season would not be continued before 16 May, on 6 May they decided the season would restart on 30 May.
As part of his Adria Tennis Tour, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic visited Zadar alongside other prominent names from the tennis world. However, it was cancelled on 21 June as Bulgarian player Grigor Dimitrov contracted the virus. A day after, Croatian player Borna Ćorić confirmed he was infected as well, with organizers urging fans and citizens who were in contact with the players to get tested. Djokovic refused to get tested in Zadar, but got tested positive in Belgrade on 23 June, as well as his wife Jelena and fitness coach Marco Panichi. The same day, another participant of the tournament tested positive, Serbian player Viktor Troicki, as well as his pregnant wife Aleksandra. On 26 June, Djokovic's coach, Croatian tennis legend Goran Ivanišević, confirmed that he tested positive for the virus as well.
On 2 March, the first flights to Zagreb were cancelled at 9:50 AM (CET). Korean Air also announced that it would be cancelling flights on the Seoul-Zagreb line (which had been due to begin on 31 March) until 23 April.
On 11 March, after a ferry from Ancona sailed into the Port of Split, the Ancona-Split ferry line was cancelled.
On 13 March, Croatia Airlines issued a statement that passengers who had visited the following countries in the previous 14 days would be obliged to spend 14 days in quarantine: Italy, China PR (province of Hubei), Korea (city of Daegu and province of Cheongdo), and Germany (Heinsberg in state of North Rhine-Westphalia). Furthermore, passengers who had visited the following countries in the previous 14 days would be obliged to spend 14 days in self-isolation: France, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Germany (apart from the aforementioned German area), Austria, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, China (apart from the aforementioned Chinese area), Korea (apart from the aforementioned Korean area), Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Bahrain and Slovenia (White Carniola). Those who did not have residence in Croatia or an address to spend the self-isolation at would be placed in quarantine instead, and those who refuse would be sent back to where they came from.
On 14 March, Croatia closed all borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 15 March, Croatian Institute for Public Healthcare director Krunoslav Capak confirmed citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia would not be obliged to stay in self-isolation. However, later the same day, it was confirmed by Police Department of Brod-Posavina Chief Antun Valić that since the previous night passengers entering the country from Bosnia and Herzegovina were obliged to stay in 14-day self-isolation.
On 18 March, it was announced that, as of the next day, 27 border crossing stations on the border with Slovenia would be closed.
On 19 March, after the first recorded case in the city, Dubrovnik Airport was closed.
On 21 March, traffic with Slovenian regions White Carniola and Lower Carniola was completely suspended. Citizens of Croatia who work in those regions were banned from crossing the border as well.
On 22 March, all public transport services were suspended in Croatia for the next 30 days. The suspension refers to public passenger transport by road within the country (except for taxi services), international public passenger transport by road, passenger transport by rail, tram and other city public transportation, as well as all other types of public transportation (such as funicular railway).
On 23 March, the Croatian National Civil Protection Headquarters announced that citizens, with some exceptions, would not be allowed to leave their city or municipality.
On 15 February, during a Croatian Table Tennis Superleague match which was played in Dubrovnik between the local team Libertas Marinkolora and guest team STK Starr from Varaždin, a number of insulting comments were posted on the official Libertas Marinkolora Facebook page towards a Croatian player of Chinese origin, Tan Ruiwu of STK Starr which referenced the coronavirus. This included a comment by the manager of Libertas Marinkolor Marko Habijanec in which he instructed one of his players (who was facing Tan in the next match) to "Beat this virus." The comments were subsequently deleted. Libertas Marinkolor eventually issued an apology and condemnation of the incident.
On 11 March, a bus travelling from Vienna was denied from entering the country on the Macelj border crossing due to four Singaporean passengers who were asked to return to Vienna despite having clear documents. After being explained by the station doctor that they would be obliged to spend 14 days in quarantine financed by themselves, they gave up on entering the country. However, the police then asked the bus driver to go back to Vienna as well and told him that "he shouldn't have let the Singaporeans in the bus in the first place".
On 19 March, the number of recorded cases surpassed 100. On 21 March, it surpassed 200. On 25 March, it surpassed 400. On 31 March, it surpassed 800. On 12 April, it surpassed 1,600. On 14 April, the number of active cases reached its peak of 1,258. On 28 April, the number of active cases dropped below 800. On 7 May, it dropped below 400. On 17 May, it dropped below 200. On 26 May, it dropped below 100. On 3 June, it dropped below 50. However, on 20 June, the number of active cases hit 50 again, surpassing it the next day. On 23 June, it surpassed 100 again. On 25 June, it surpassed 200 again. On 28 June, it surpassed 400 again.
On 4 April, the number of recovered cases surpassed 100. On 9 April, it surpassed 200. On 13 April, it surpassed 400. On 21 April, it surpassed 800. On 6 May, it surpassed 1,600.
On 25 May, the number of deaths reached 100, surpassing it the next day.
According to Oxford University, as of 24 March, Croatia is the country with the world's strictest restrictions and measures for infection reduction in relation to the number of infected. Strict measures, early detection of spread routes, prompt government reaction, extensive media coverage, and citizen cooperation have been credited for successful containment of the pandemic in Croatia.
For the citizens, the Government set up a website for all information they are interested in, as well as a new phone line 113 that has volunteers answering their questions. On 3 April the Croatian Institute of Public Health implemented a Facebook chatbot named Nada, and on the 14 April, the Government presented a WhatsApp chatbot nicknamed Andrija, after Andrija Štampar, whose purposes are to give personalized advice to citizens who suspect they are infected. Nada and Andrija are also intended to relieve human medical workers of the pressure by "working on the phones 24/7".
On 25 February, the first case in Croatia was confirmed. A 26-year-old man who had stayed in Milan, Italy to watch the Champions League game between Atalanta and Valencia from 19 to 21 February tested positive and was hospitalised at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević" in Zagreb.
On 26 February, two new cases were confirmed: The twin brother of the first patient was admitted to the same hospital in Zagreb, while a man who had worked in Parma was hospitalised in Rijeka. The same day Osijek Clinical Hospital Centre banned visits.
By 29 February there were seven confirmed cases of COVID-19, all of which were present in Zagreb and Rijeka.
On 2 March, the eighth case of the virus was confirmed in Rijeka (the fifth case in the city).
On 3 March, the first case was confirmed in Varaždin. The man had been working as a driver in the affected areas of Italy. On 6 March, another case was confirmed in Varaždin, a 60-year-old patient who had tested positive. On 7 March, the third case was confirmed in Varaždin, bringing the total number of infected in Croatia to twelve.
On 9 March, the first case was confirmed in Istria, in the city of Pula. The man is from Labin and had been working in Italy.
Two new cases were reported on 10 March. Both individuals had spent time abroad recently, one in Austria, and the other one in Italy.
On 11 March, the sixteenth case was confirmed, a young man who had been to a fair in Munich. The same day, three more cases were reported. All three had travelled from Austria and Germany. The same day, a ferry from Ancona with 93 passengers sailed into the Port of Split. 57 of them were citizens of Croatia, nine of them were citizens of Italy, six of them were citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, three of them were citizens of Montenegro, and the rest were from various other countries. They were placed into quarantine in Hotel Zagreb in Duilovo, Split.
On 12 March, the first recovery from the virus was reported. The twin brother of patient zero had tested negative to the virus twice and was released from hospital. However, on the same day eight new cases were reported. Three of them were closely related to the patients from Rijeka and were asymptomatic. The other two had travelled from Austria and Germany to Zagreb. The first case of the virus was confirmed in Sisak. The patient is from Mošćenica and had worked in Italy. Two more cases were reported in Pula, both of whom came from Italy.
On 13 March, five new cases were reported; two in Pula and three in Zagreb. One of the cases in Zagreb was a child, subsequently all children from the kindergarten the child attended were placed into quarantine. It was the first recorded case of an infected child. During the night from 13 to 14 March, fourteen workers of Brodosplit were placed into quarantine in Split after coming back from temporary work in Italy, bringing the total number of quarantined in Split to 47.
On 14 March, five new cases were reported, bringing the total number of infected to 37; one in each of Zagreb, Varaždin and Sisak, as well as first two cases in Osijek. Patients in Osijek were middle-aged spouses from Ernestinovo who are closely related to one of the patients hospitalized in Zagreb. The patient zero had recovered and was released from the hospital during the day. By the end of the day, the 38th and 39th case were confirmed; a woman who came back from Romania and a close relative of the couple from Ernestinovo who was hospitalized in Osijek.
On 15 March, ten new cases were reported; five in Zagreb and five in Osijek. Number of quarantined increased to 51; 49 in Split and two in Dubrovnik. Two of the patients from Zagreb were confirmed to be doctors of Clinical Hospital Dubrava who got infected outside of the hospital, subsequently leading to its evacuation. The hospital was then chosen to be turned into a respiratory centre for the most severe cases, while other patients were going to be relocated to University Hospital Centre Zagreb or Sisters of Charity Hospital or released home.
On 16 March, seven new cases were confirmed; five in Zagreb, one in Rijeka and the first case in Karlovac, bringing the total number of infected in the country to 56. Minister Božinović confirmed 174 reports of self-isolation regime breaking. The same day, a third and fourth recoveries in the country were confirmed; the first hospitalized patient from Rijeka and a young woman in Zagreb.
On 17 March, thirteen new cases were reported bringing the total number of recorded cases to 69. Minister Beroš stated that 1,014 samples had been processed and that 9,598 people where under medical control. The number of quarantined in the country was confirmed to be 63. Minister Božinović confirmed receiving 500 reports of self-isolation regime breaking, 93 of whom were proven to have broken it and would face sanctions. Three of the cases were three doctors from University Hospital Centre Zagreb and University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče. Doctors from the former hospital were said to have gone skiing in Austria without previously informing their superiors. First cases were confirmed in Zabok and Slavonski Brod, both of whom had come from Austria. The same day, patients from Križine Hospital Split were moved to Firule Hospital Split, as the former was intended exclusively for the coronavirus cases. Doctors and medical staff were helped out by KK Split players and Hajduk Split ultras group Torcida in the transportation process.
On 18 March, President Zoran Milanović gave a televised address to the nation concerning the pandemic. Twenty new cases were reported, including the first ones in Dalmatia; a young woman from Biograd who had come back from a tourist trip to Zanzibar via Dubai with her sister and had previously spent time in self-isolation with her family was hospitalized in Zadar, and an elderly couple who were hospitalized in Split. The number of infected doctors increased to nine. On the same day, the Croatian Parliament passed the law which increased the authorities of the Croatian National Civil Protection Headquarters, aimed at "increasing the system flow". This allowed National Civil Protection Headquarters on a national level to make centralised decisions concerning citizens everyday lives, which were then to be implemented by local branches of the Headquarters. Croatian government also brought the set of measures intended to help domestic economy.
On 19 March, sixteen new cases were reported bringing the number to 105. First cases were reported in Dubrovnik and Šibenik. The same day, an elderly man from Brtonigla who died the day before in self-isolation was confirmed to have had the virus; however, the virus wasn't confirmed to be the cause of death. Prime Minister Plenković gave a televised address to the nation concerning the pandemic, calling it "the biggest crisis Croatia has faced since the Independence War". The same day, patients were being moved from Clinical Hospital Dubrava as it was being turned into a respiratory centre for the most severe cases of the virus. Doctors and medical staff were helped out by Dinamo Zagreb ultras group Bad Blue Boys.
On 20 March, 23 new cases were reported. Amongst the new cases is a first case of an infected priest; a retired priest from Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna who lived in Sesvetski Kraljevec. The first case was recorded on the islands; a man from Vrboska on Hvar who had been working in Austria was hospitalized in Split. The same day Arena Zagreb was started being turned into a hospital for lighter cases. Minister Beroš reported receiving a donation of medical equipment from a Saudi Arabian man.
On 21 March, 78 new cases were reported, including the first one in Koprivnica; a woman who had spent time abroad and had been self-isolating after coming back.
On 22 March, an intense earthquake (5.4 on the Richter scale) hit the city of Zagreb, at 6:24 AM and was followed by multiple aftershocks with the largest being a event at 7:01 AM. The earthquake could also be felt across the rest of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia, and Austria. It was the strongest earthquake in Zagreb since the 1880 earthquake. The same day, 29 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, including the first case in Čazma; a woman who had come back from Turkey.
On 23 March, new 61 cases were reported. The first case in the Međimurje County was reported.
On 24 March, 67 new cases were reported, bringing the number of the infected to 382. The number of recovered increased to 16. The first case was recorded in Vinkovci; a woman who had worked in Austria.
On 25 March, 60 new cases were reported, increasing the number of infected to 442. Three soldiers of Croatian Army on a mission in Lithuania were confirmed to have been tested positive as well. Croatian Institute for Public Health director Krunoslav Capak confirmed eight cases of the virus and thirty individuals who have the symptoms on the island of Murter, and backed up cutting transportation ties with the island until the individuals with the symptoms are tested. Minister Božinović confirmed nobody entered the country in the previous week and announced a convoy of 400 people who were going to travel from Austria and Slovenia to Serbia accompanied by police. The first death was confirmed, as the man who had died on 18 March was confirmed after the autopsy to have died due to the virus.
On 26 March, 39 new cases were reported, bringing the number of infected to 481. Minister of Defence Damir Krstičević announced sending a Croatia Airlines plane to Afghanistan to return 105 soldiers of Croatian Army home, as well as 26 soldiers of Montenegrin Army, seven soldiers of North Macedonian Army and two soldiers of Albanian Army. Epidemiologist Alen Medić, from Institute of Public Health Zadar, stated that he would request quarantine to be proclaimed in Biograd na Moru, just like on Murter, due to circa eighty people being suspected of being infected. The same day two new deaths were recorded in the country. Both of the deceased were elderly oncological patients from Zagreb and Slavonski Brod, respectively.
On 27 March, 91 new cases were reported, a record increase in a single day. The reason was two new hotspots in Zadar and Biograd na Moru.
On 28 March, 71 new cases were reported. Two new deaths were confirmed; a 92-year-old woman "with significant comorbidity" from Pula and a 60-year-old man from Karlovac. Director Capak confirmed eight new cases on Murter, which had previously been under quarantine. He also recommended the citizens to maximally avoid going outside due to air pollution in Zagreb, which could have caused respiratory problems and whose source was out of the country.
On 29 March, 56 new cases were reported, increasing the number of infected to 713. Sixth death was confirmed; 84-year-old man who died in Clinical Hospital Dubrava, having previously suffered a stroke. The number of recovered increased to 52 and the number of patients on ventilators increased to 26. Minister Beroš announced anticipation of a China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 12.5 tonnes of medical equipment from Shanghai via Frankfurt to Zagreb. Minister Božinović announced that a security guard from the Bilice prison in Split had been tested positive for the virus.
On 30 March, 77 new cases were reported, bringing the number of infected to 790. The number of recovered increased to 64 and the number of patients on ventilators increased to 27. No new death cases were reported.
On 31 March, 77 new cases were reported, increasing the number of the infected to 867, 32 of which were on ventilators. Total number of recovered patients increased to 67. As of that day, all counties of Croatia recorded at least one case of infection. Minister Božinović warned citizens about tomorrow's April Fools' Day and directed them not to spread any misinformation as a joke. Teaching Institute for Public Health introduced a "drive in" method of diagnosing the infection, where a patient does not leave their vehicle and their sample is instead taken through a car window. However, the method requires making an appointment with a family medicine doctor previously.
On 1 April, 96 new cases were reported, which was a record increase in a single day. The number of patients on ventilators increased to 34. Six more patients recovered and were released home. No deaths were recorded. Direktor Capak spoke about the passengers of a flight from Turkey that landed in Croatia on 16 March, stating that 41 recorded cases were connected to that flight. It was reported that 150 samples were taken by the "drive in" diagnosing method during its first day.
On 2 April, a growth of 48 new cases was recorded. The number of patients on ventilators increased by one, while the number of recovered patients increased by 15 to 88. Seventh death was reported. Minister Beroš called out young people from Zadar, Šibenik and Split who defied the enacted measures and went to hang out in local cafés nevertheless.
On 3 April, 68 new cases were reported, increasing the number of recorded cases to 1,079. 39 were on ventilators, while 92 recovered. Eighth death was confirmed; an 85-year-old woman who had already been ill. To help the Croatian Institute of Public Health, Hero Factory, a small marketing agency based in Zagreb, made the first pro-bono Facebook chatbot aimed to inform the public about the virus and safety measures. Minister Božinović informed about 45 cases of cafés breaking the working ban. Director Capak stated that the majority of recorded cases in Krapina-Zagorje County were linked to an unspecified incident that had happened in a certain company in Slovenia. Politician Ivan Pernar sparked controversy in the country, stating that the Civil Protection Headquarters were manipulating with the number of the deceased and were blaming the virus for deaths of everybody who had been positive for it, without determining whether the virus itself was the cause. He went on to claim that it was "not normal to paralyze and quarantine the entire country to make someone's grandfather or great-grandfather live a day, a week, a month or a year longer".
On 4 April, 47 new cases were confirmed. The number of recovered increased to 119. No new patients were put on ventilators. Four people died in Osijek, all of whom were elderly; the youngest one was aged 71 and the oldest was aged 92. Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić-Radman stated that 155 passengers, most of whom were Croatian citizens alongside several citizens of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, would arrive in Croatia that evening via extraordinary commercial flights from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Sweden. He also stated that, the next day, 37 citizens would arrive via a ferry from Ancona to Zadar, and that more than 100 citizens would arrive via six buses from Tyrol.
On 5 April, 56 new cases were confirmed, one of which was confirmed to be a three-month-old baby from Nuštar, increasing the number of cases to 1,182. The number of patients on ventilators did not change, while six new patients recovered. Three new deaths were confirmed, all of whom were older than 80. The citizens who arrived from Rome, Lisbon, Madrid and Stockholm were all tested negative for the virus.
On 6 April, forty new cases were reported, including a two-month-year old baby from Duga Resa, bringing the number of infected to 1,222. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 36, while five more patients recovered. Sixteenth death was confirmed; a middle-aged man from Zagreb who had no health issues previously. The same day, it was confirmed that Austrian noblewoman Francesca von Habsburg had been self-isolating with her daughters Eleonore and Gloria on the island of Lopud for a month already, after her husband Karl of Austria had been tested positive for the virus.
On 7 April, the total number of infected increased to 1,282, following confirmation of sixty new cases. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 35. 37 patients recovered, while two died; a 47-year-old man from Zabok who suffered from tetraplegia, hypertension and obesity, and a 91-year-old man from Murter. Following infection of a medical worker in General and Veteran Hospital "Croatian Pride" Knin, palliative care department of the hospital was put in quarantine. The same day, a 39-year-old man who was tested positive for the virus fell out a first floor window in Zadar General Hospital due to unknown reasons. He was provided medical treatment on the spot. During the evening, a nursing home in Split was evacuated after suspicion of a virus outbreak, which turned out to be true as ten patients were tested positive and transported to Clinical Hospital Centre Križine.
On 8 April, 61 new cases were reported, increasing the number of cases to 1,343. Twelve recovered while one died; an 87-year-old from Split who suffered from hypertension.
On 9 April, 64 new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 34, while forty people have recovered. Twentieth death was confirmed; an elderly man "with extensive comorbidity". One of the newly confirmed cases was reported to be a patient of a nursing home from Koprivnica, who previously spent ten days self-isolating.
On 10 April, 88 new cases were reported, making the total number of recorded cases 1,495. The number of patients on ventilators remained 34, while the number of recovered increased to 231. One death was reported; a 93-year-old woman who had been evacuated from the Split nursing home three days before.
On 11 April, 39 new cases were reported, while 92 recovered, making it for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that the number of recovered was higher that the number of newly infected. The same day, entire village of Udbina in Lika-Senj county was put into quarantine.
On 12 April, 66 new cases were confirmed, including twelve patients of a nursing home in Ploče. Two new deaths were reported; a man and a woman from Zagreb. The number of patients on ventilators increased to 34, while fifty recovered. The number of infected medical workers increased to 212.
On 13 April, fifty new cases were confirmed, increasing the number of infected to 1,650. Six new cases were confirmed in a nursing home in Dubrovnik and four new cases were confirmed in a nursing home in Makarska. Two new deaths were reported in Split. The number of patients on ventilators remained 34. 27 patients were confirmed to have been recovered.
On 14 April, 54 new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators did not change, while fifteen recovered. However, six patients died, making it a 24-hour record. The victims included a 60-year-old man from Zagreb, a 69-year-old woman from Rijeka, a 85-year-old woman from Split, a 79-year-old man from a nursing home in Dicmo and two people, aged 81 and 74, from Dubrovnik. The Civil Protection Headquarters stated that a continuous decrease in new cases for several days in a row was necessary to relax the measures. The same day, Vice-President of the European Commission Dubravka Šuica confirmed that the Conference on the Future of Europe, set to be held on 9 May in Dubrovnik, was postponed to September at the earliest.
On 15 April, 37 new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 31, while the number of recovered patients increased to 473. Two new deaths were reported; a 98-year-old woman "with much comorbidity" and a 73-year-old man from Zagreb.
On 16 April, fifty new cases were confirmed, bringing the total number of recorded cases to 1,791. The number of patients on ventilators remained the same, while 56 recovered. Two new deaths were reported; a 74-year-old woman and a 78-year-old man from Dubrovnik and Zagreb. Director Capak also stated that the tourism industry would not be the same as before the pandemic, and questioned letting foreign passengers enter the country depending on the epidemiological situation in the countries they come from.
On 17 April, 23 new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 30, while the number of recovered increased to 600. One death was reported; a 46-year-old woman in Osijek who was chronically ill previously.
On 18 April, eighteen new cases were confirmed. Three deaths were reported; two in Split and one in Zagreb. The number of recovered patients increased to 615. Civil Protection Headquarters made a decision the same day to prolong the measures until 4 May. On same day media also reported that biologists at University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević" in Zagreb successfully isolated SARS-CoV-2 sample and sent it off to Germany for further testing.
On 19 April, 39 new cases were reported. Eight deaths were confirmed, six of whom were patients on ventilators. 23 remained on ventilators. The director of the Public Health Department of Istria County Aleksandar Stojanović confirmed that a citizen of Albania, who lost his life in an accident working on a house in Špadići near Poreč two days prior, had been positive for the virus.
On 20 April, ten new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to eighteen while the number of recovered patients increased to 771. No deaths were recorded.
On 21 April, 27 new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators did not change, while thirty recovered. One death was recorded; an 88-year-old woman from Zagreb.
On 22 April, 42 new cases were recorded while 68 recovered. No deaths were reported. The new outbreak of the virus was recorded in a nursing home in Koprivnica, whose thirteen patients and three employees tested positive.
On 23 April, 31 new cases were confirmed. The number of recovered reached 883, while the number of deaths hit fifty; two new deaths were recorded in Split.
On 24 April, 28 new cases were confirmed while 99 recovered, making it the first time that the number of recovered was higher than the number of new cases. 21 patients were on ventilators. One death was recorded; a 92-year-old woman from Split.
On 25 April, seven new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators remained unchanged, while the number of recovered increased by 52 to 1,034. Three deaths were confirmed; two in Zagreb and one in Split, all three of whom had been chronic patients.
On 26 April, fourteen new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators increased by two to 23, while 69 recovered. 55th death was confirmed, in Split.
On 27 April, nine new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators increased to 29, while the number of recovered increased to 1,166. Four people died. The same day, by the decision of Civil Protection Headquarters, the first phase of measure relaxation began. Shops, apart from malls, began with work in split shifts, except on Sundays and public holidays. The citizens could start using public transportation again.
On 28 April, eight new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to 21 and the number of recovered increased to 1,232. Four people died; two in Koprivnica and two in Split.
On 29 April, fifteen new cases were confirmed. Civil Protection Headquarters warned about the virus outbreak in Clinical Hospital Centre Split, where six nurses and one cleaning lady had gotten infected. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to nineteen. 56 recovered and four died.
On 30 April, fourteen new cases were reported. The number of patients of ventilators increased to 20, while 60 recovered. Two people died in Osijek and Dubrovnik, respectively.
On 1 May, nine new cases were reported, all of whom in Split. Four of them had family ties with the previously infected, while four of them were medical workers. It was confirmed that the virus outbreak in the Split nursing home on 7 April was not the result of human error. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to nineteen and 73 recovered, while six people died.
On 2 May, three new cases were confirmed; from Split, Knin and Osijek. The number of recovered increased to 1,463, while the number of patients on ventilators decreased to seventeen. Two people died in Split and Zagreb, respectively. Minister Beroš confirmed all infected from Istria County had recovered.
On 3 May, eight new cases were confirmed, one of whom was a nurse from Split. The number of patients on ventilators increased to nineteen, while 26 recovered. Two deaths were recorded.
On 4 May, the second phase of measures relaxation began by gradual reactivation of the healthcare system that was remodelled for emergency response only due to the pandemic. Businesses such as barber shops, hair salons and pedicure salons started working again. The same day, five new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to fifteen, while the number of recovered increased to 1,522. One death in Split was confirmed. Furthermore, Arena Zagreb, that was prepared for reception of lighter cases on 20 March, was unfurnished after having been unused.
On 5 May, eleven new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to fourteen, while 38 recovered. Three deaths were recorded; a 91-year-old in Split, a 94-year-old in Koprivnica and a 84-year-old in Dubrovnik.
On 6 May, seven new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators did not change, while the number of recovered increased to 1,601. Two new deaths were confirmed.
On 7 May, six new cases were reported. Forty recoveries and one death were confirmed; a 74-year-old. One new case was reported on the island of Brač, a patient who was in contact with "a lot of people", resulting in forty samples taken. The same day, driving schools began with work again.
On 8 May, 36 new cases were reported, 22 of whom on Brač. The number of patients on ventilators was fifteen, while no deaths were recorded. 48 patients recovered. Minister Božinović announced that Brač might enter quarantine. Mayor of Supetar Ivana Marković called for Civil Protection Headquarters of Split-Dalmatia County's sacking. The same day, Međimurje County reported no active cases after all eight patients had recovered.
On 9 May, fifteen new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to thirteen, while the number of recovered increased to 1,726. In Osijek, one death was recorded; a 70-year-old man who was chronically ill and on a ventilator. Regarding the situation on Brač, the Civil Protection Headquarters reached a consensus about fourteen-days-long quarantine on the island, banning the locals from leaving their places of residence.
On 10 May, eleven new cases were confirmed. The number of patients on ventilators did not change, while 38 recovered. Three deaths were reported, all in Koprivnica.
On 11 May, nine new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to twelve, while twenty recovered. One death in Koprivnica was recorded; an 84-year-old. Director Capak sparked controversy after he stated that the upcoming parliamentary election could be held without major problems and that citizens in self-isolation would be able to go to the polls wearing a mask as the only protection. The same day, Croatia opened its borders and relieved passengers who enter the country from the obligation of fourteen-days-long self-isolation.
On 12 May, eleven new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to eleven, while 24 recovered. No deaths were recorded. New cases were reported in Istria County and Požega-Slavonia County, who were previously considered "coronafree". Director Capak confirmed that a new source of infection was a flight from Frankfurt that landed in the country on 2 May. Twelve passengers out of 74 were infected, causing the Civil Protection Headquarters to locate the rest of the passengers and their contacts. The same day, a scandal occurred in Clinical Hospital Centre Split where identities of two elderly female patients, one of whom died, were mistaken. The deceased patient was mistaken for the alive one and was buried under the name of the alive one, in the alive patient's hometown of Grude. Subsequently, the director of Clinical Hospital Centre Split Julije Meštrović resigned.
On 13 May, six new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to nine, while 26 recovered. Three deaths were confirmed; an 83-year-old man in Zagreb, an 84-year-old woman in Koprivnica and a 93-year-old woman in Split. Civil Protection Headquarters announced that all passengers from the flight from Frankfurt had been located.
On 14 May, eight new cases were confirmed. Sixteen patients recovered and no patients died. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to seven. Vukovar-Syrmia County was confirmed to be "coronafree" after all recorded cases there had recovered.
On 15 May, one new case was recorded. The number of recovered increased by nineteen, while the number of patients on ventilators increased to eight. One death was confirmed, a 97-year-old woman in Split.
On 16 May, two new cases were confirmed. The number of recovered patients increased by 44 to 1,913. The number of patients on ventilators increased to nine. No deaths were recorded.
On 17 May, two new cases were confirmed, in Koprivnica and Split, respectively. The number of recovered patients increased by 23 to 1,936. The number of patients on ventilators increased to ten, while no deaths were recorded.
On 18 May, two new cases were recorded. The number of recovered increased by ten. The number of patients on ventilators and the number of deaths did not change. Civil Protection Headquarters announced they would not organize press conferences on daily basis anymore due to the significant decline in daily new cases.
On 19 May, four new cases were recorded. The number of recovered increased by 21, while the number of patients on ventilators did not change. One death was reported.
On 20 May, two new cases were confirmed. Eleven patients recovered, while the number of patients on ventilators decreased to eight. No deaths were reported. The same day Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka was reopened.
On 21 May, three new cases were confirmed. No recoveries were recorded, while the number of patients on ventilators increased to nine. One death was reported.
On 22 May, six new cases were recorded, as well as 33 recoveries and two deaths; a 57-year-old man in Split and a 43-year-old man in Zagreb. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to five.
On 23 May, no new cases and no deaths were recorded, while twelve recovered. The number of patients on ventilators increased to six.
On 24 May, one new case and four recoveries were recorded. No deaths were reported. The number of patients on ventilators did not change.
On 25 May, no new cases were reported. Eight recovered and one died; an elderly woman in Koprivnica. The number of patients on ventilators did not change.
On 26 May, no new cases were reported. The number of recovered increased to 2,046. One death was recorded, while the number of patients on ventilators decreased to five.
On 27 May, no new cases and no deaths were reported. One person recovered, while the number of patients on ventilators increased to six.
On 28 May, one new case was recorded in Brod-Posavina County and one new death was recorded in Split; a 70-year-old man who suffered from diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, diabetic nephropathy and cardiomyopathy. Four people recovered, while the number of patients on ventilators decreased to five.
On 29 May, no new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators decreased to four, while eight recovered. One person died; a 69-year-old man in Zagreb who suffered from arterial hypertension. Civil Protection Headquarters made a decision that citizens of Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany can all enter Croatia under the same conditions as before the beginning of the pandemic.
On 30 May, one new case was reported. The number of patients on ventilators and the number of deaths did not change, while four recovered. The ban on public gatherings with more than forty people was abolished. Outdoor sport events were continued; however, without audience. Weddings and funerals were again allowed to be held in front of more people other than just family.
On 31 May, no new cases were reported. The number of patients on ventilators and the number of deaths did not change, while nine more patients had recovered.
During the first week of June (1–7 June) one new case and one death were recorded. On 6 June, one death was reported; a 76-year-old woman in Zagreb who was suffering from a lymphoproliferative disorder. During the week 54 people recovered in total. On 4 June, the number of patients on ventilators decreased to three, and two days later it decreased to two.
During the second week of June (8–14 June) five new cases and three deaths were recorded, while seven people recovered in total. On 9 June, two patients on ventilators died; both of them 79-year-old women from Split. A Croatian citizen who got infected in Nigeria was planned to be transferred from Nigeria to Split; however, he died. On 10 June, two new cases were reported, including a man from the island of Rab who, despite arriving from Austria on 17 March, infected nobody in his surroundings. On 12 June, a 73-year-old man died in Split. However, he was not positive for the virus at the time of his death. During his treatment, he was tested multiple times with the last two tests coming back negative. Despite that, he suffered from several chronic diseases that were worsened by the virus. On the next day, two new cases were reported, and one more on the day after.
During third week (15–21 June), 65 new cases were reported, one of them a citizen of Ireland. Eight recoveries and no deaths were recorded
On 22 June, nineteen new cases were reported. No deaths and no recoveries were reported.
On 23 June, thirty new cases were reported, while no one recovered or died. Ten new cases were nuns from a Đakovo monastery, who had reportedly visited Kosovo.
On 24 June, 22 new cases and three recoveries were recorded. No deaths were reported. Civil Protection Headquarters announced that passengers entering the country from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo would be obliged to self-isolate. They also announced that people wearing no masks wouldn't be allowed to use public transportation.
On 25 June, 95 new cases were reported, the second record increase since the beginning of the pandemic. Four new recoveries and no deaths were reported. 36 new cases were nuns from the Đakovo monastery and one new case was the Archbishop of Đakovo-Osijek Marin Srakić, hospitalized in Clinical Hospital Osijek. Twenty new cases were patients and employees of Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Hospital Zagreb.
On 26 June, 56 new cases and one new recovery were reported. No deaths were recorded. As a significant number of new cases got infected in nightclubs, Minister Božinović announced inspections to make sure nightclubs were implementing Civil Protection Headquarters' measures. The same day, it was revealed that two children from a Đakovo kindergarten, run by nuns who had tested positive, were positive as well. Goran Ivanović, director of Civil Protection Headquarters of Osijek-Baranya County, announced that everybody who attended the rite of confirmation led by Archbishop Srakić on 21 June would be tested.
On 27 June, 85 new cases and two new recoveries were reported. No deaths were recorded. Once again, a large number of new cases got infected in nightclubs.
On 28 June, 67 new cases were reported. No deaths and no recoveries were recorded.
On 29 June, 34 new cases and three recoveries were reported. One patient was put on a ventilator, for the first time since 8 June. No deaths were recorded. The same day, the obligatory self-isolation rule for passengers entering the country from Bosnia and Herzegovina, implemented on 24 June, was lifted.
On 30 June, 52 new cases were reported, including two doctors from Merkur Clinical Hospital in Zagreb. No deaths and no recoveries were recorded. The number of patients on ventilators increased to two.
On 1 July, 54 new cases were reported. One death was confirmed, in Zagreb, for the first time since 12 June. The number of recoveries and the number of patients on ventilators did not change.
On 2 July, 81 new cases and two new deaths were reported. The number of patients on ventilators increased to three, while no recovery was recorded.
The following depicts the growth of the COVID-19 cases in Croatia from 25 February 2020 to 2 July 2020. Full official data updates regularly, every day, at 2:00 PM (CEST). Before 29 March 2020 full official data was updated at 4:00 PM.
Growth factor is defined as today's new cases/new cases on the previous day. It is an indicative of the evolution of the pandemic. A continuously decreasing factor indicates that the pandemic is under control.
The countries and international organizations that have sent aid and funds to the Government of Croatia, to help fight the pandemic:
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2020 Atlantic Hockey Tournament
The 2020 Atlantic Hockey Tournament was the 16th Atlantic Hockey Tournament. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020 at home campus locations and at the HarborCenter in Buffalo, New York. On March 12, 2020, Atlantic Hockey announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The tournament featured four rounds of play. In the first round the sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds, as determined by the conference regular season standings, played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. The top five teams from the conference regular season standings received a bye to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and the fifth seed will play a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest remaining seeds will play a single game each, with the winners advancing to the championship game. The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Teams are reseeded for the quarterfinals and semifinals
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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Guadalupe Canyon Hot Springs
Guadalupe Canyon Hot Springs (also known as Cañon de Guadalupe Hot Springs) are a grouping of geothermal springs located near Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The hot mineral water is discharged through a number of springs that divert the flow through man-made aqueducts into rock and concrete pools. The hot springs were used by indigenous people for many years before more recents settlers arrived.
The alkaline water emerges at 125°F (52°C). The springs are located in Sierra de Juárez in the Cañon de Guadalupe. There are ancient petroglyphs in the area, a cave used by ancient indigenous peoples, a mud bath, and hiking, camping and rock climbing areas.
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2020 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2020 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 59th tournament in league history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the Semifinal and Championship games were to be played at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.
On Sunday, March 8, 2020 Rensselaer announced that their quarterfinal series against Harvard scheduled for March 13–15 would be played without fans in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three days later, on March 11, it was announced that Harvard would not allow their team to travel to Rensselaer and withdrew from the tournament due to coronavirus fears. Yale also withdrew from the tournament on March 11 and it was decided to reseed the tournament with Cornell and Clarkson being given byes to the semifinals. Previously on March 10, 2020 Cornell had announced that fans would not be allowed at their quarterfinal series against Princeton. On March 12, ECAC Hockey announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tournament features four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings received a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals the one seed played the lowest remaining seed, the second seed played the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed played the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed played the fourth-lowest remaining seed in another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals the top remaining seed played the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game, and no third-place game is played. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Teams are reseeded for the Quarterfinals and Semifinals. Bracket below represents tournament as it was to be played just prior to cancellation, after Harvard and Yale had withdrawn.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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Vaxart
Vaxart, Inc. is an American biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of oral recombinant vaccines administered using temperature-stable tablets that can be stored and shipped without refrigeration, eliminating the need for needle injection. Its development programs for oral vaccine delivery (called "VAAST") include prophylactic, enteric-coated tablet vaccines for inhibiting norovirus, seasonal influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and human papillomavirus. In 2019–20, Vaxart began a program to develop an oral tablet vaccine for COVID-19.
Vaxart has a collaborative development program for oral delivery of a vaccine against universal flu using proprietary antigens from Janssen Pharmaceutica (Janssen Vaccines and Prevention B.V.).
The Vaxart technology is based on the potential to prevent or inhibit infectious diseases by using orally-delivered vaccines by tablets, eliminating intramuscular injection concerns which may involve pain, cross-contamination, dosing inconsistencies, and higher cost for large-scale immunizations. As a proof of concept for oral vaccination efficacy, an oral vaccine against polio was proved to be safe and effective, and is in common use in many countries.
Vaxart uses enteric-coated tablets to protect the active vaccine from acidic degradation in the stomach, delivering the vaccine into the small intestine where it can engage the immune system to stimulate systemic and mucosal immune responses against a virus.
Vaxart uses a specific virus called adenovirus type 5 (Ad5) as a delivery biological "vector" to carry genes coding for the antigen to generate a protective immune response. The Ad5 vector delivers the antigen to the epithelial cells lining the mucosa of the small intestine where it stimulates the immune system to respond against the vaccine antigen, creating a systemic immune response against a virus.
The lead vaccine candidate by Vaxart is an influenza oral tablet vaccine, which showed safety and neutralizing antibody responses to influenza virus in a 2015 Phase I clinical trial. A 2016-17 Phase II trial of the Vaxart oral flu vaccine, VXA-A1.1, showed that the vaccine was well-tolerated and provided immunity against virus shedding, similar in effectiveness to an established intramuscular vaccine. In 2018, Vaxart completed a Phase II challenge study, in which the Vaxart influenza tablet vaccine demonstrated a 39 percent reduction in clinical disease relative to placebo, compared to a 27 percent reduction by the injectable flu vaccine, Fluzone.
In January 2020, Vaxart announced development of a tablet vaccine to inhibit COVID-19, in competition with other biotechnology companies, such as Novavax, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, and Moderna. In April, the company reported positive immune responses in laboratory animals from its tests with a vaccine candidate for COVID-19.
In 2019, several hedge funds invested in Vaxart, with the largest investment coming from Armistice Capital which acquired 25.2 million shares.
In June 2020, the Vaxart COVID-19 vaccine candidate was selected as the only oral tablet formulation for testing in non-human primates as part of the United States COVID-19 vaccine development program called Operation Warp Speed.
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2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 61st tournament in conference history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020 on campus locations. On March 12, 2020, the WCHA announced the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Note: * denotes overtime periods
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Soldiers are murderers
"Soldiers are murderers" () is a quote from an opinion piece written in 1931 by Kurt Tucholsky and published under his pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel in the weekly German magazine "Die Weltbühne". Starting with a lawsuit against the magazine's editor Carl von Ossietzky for "defamation of the Reichswehr" in 1932, Tucholsky's widely quoted assertion led to numerous judicial proceedings in Germany, also after World War II and until the late 20th century. In several cases in the 1990s, last in 1995, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that using the quote as a means to express pacifist views is protected by the constitution of Germany.
Journalist, writer, and satirist Kurt Tucholsky was conscripted as a soldier in World War I, and in 1919 co-founded the "Friedensbund der Kriegsteilnehmer", a pacifist and anti-militarist organization of war veterans. The 4 August 1931 issue of "Die Weltbühne" had pacifism as its main subject matter, containing a translation of Pope Benedict XV's anti-war Apostolic exhortation "Allorché fummo chiamati" of 1915. In this context, Tucholsky published his short piece "Der bewachte Kriegsschauplatz" ("The guarded theatre of war"). It is mainly criticizing the "Feldgendarmerie" military police for, according to Tucholsky, having taken care of "correct dying" at the front ("daß vorn richtig gestorben wurde") whilst shooting deserters: "So they murdered because one refused to continue murdering". The controversial quote appears in this paragraph:
Tucholsky had put forward his opinion that soldiers are murderers publicly before 1931, speaking of "professional murderers" and "murdered murderers", however without a strong public reaction. After publication of the "Weltbühne" issue, defence minister Wilhelm Groener filed a suit against editor Carl von Ossietzky who was at that time already in prison due to his conviction in the "Weltbühne-Prozess". No charges were brought against Tucholsky because he had moved to Sweden in 1929 and was therefore out of reach for German courts. Tucholsky considered attending the trial in Germany to back his friend Ossietzky, but decided against it for fear of being attacked by Nazis. Even years later, shortly before his death, Tucholsky expressed pangs of conscience about this decision. Tucholsky provided Ossietzky's counsels for defence with quotes by famous personalities who had called soldiers murderers before. In his closing words, the defendant Ossietzky expressed the view that the article wasn't a "defamation of a profession", but "defamation of war".
The jury of the Berlin "Schöffengericht" acquitted Ossietzky on 1 July 1932 with the reasoning that the general expression "soldiers are murderers" isn't directed against specific persons and therefore can't be a defamation. A notice of appeal of the prosecution wasn't admitted by the Kammergericht. Also in reaction to the acquittal, "Reichspräsident" Paul von Hindenburg subsequently created a new law article per emergency decree, adding a special "protection of soldiers' honour" to the criminal code (§ 134a StGB). The protection was specific to the Reichswehr and did not extend to soldiers in general, however. § 134a StGB was repealed together with § 134b StGB (a special protection of the Nazi Party's honour) in 1946 by the Allied Control Council.
The court case made the expression a popular slogan for peace activists and anti-militarists. Especially starting with the "Frankfurt soldier rulings" in 1984, West German courts were repeatedly concerned with Tucholsky's quote, though there were earlier cases. At a panel discussion in Frankfurt, a doctor of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and former medical officer cadet said to a "Jugendoffizier" ("Youth officer", a public relations rank): "Every soldier is a potential murderer - you too, Mr. W. There is a drill for murder in the Bundeswehr". This prompted a long series of judicial proceedings with the accusation of "Volksverhetzung" ("incitement of the people"). This particular dispute ended in 1992 with a closure of the proceedings with a judgement of minor fault after the Federal Constitutional Court, in a parallel case, annulled a judgement against satirical magazine "Titanic", ruling that Tucholsky's wording was protected by the constitution of Germany's article 5, paragraph 1 (freedom of speech).
Earlier acquittals by lower courts in 1987 and 1989 had caused public protest. The President of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker, as well as Chancellor Helmut Kohl, foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, defence minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, and justice minister Klaus Kinkel criticised the court rulings publicly. The two presiding jugdes of the Frankfurt "Landgericht" received death threats, the office of the counsels for defence was destroyed by an arson attack, and the Bundestag debated whether a new law for soldier's honour protection should be introduced. Soldiers of the military watchdog group Darmstädter Signal, however, welcomed the acquittals.
After earlier similar rulings, the Federal Constitutional Court again annulled judgements against pacifists in 1995. One of the given reasons was again that the quote is directed against soldiers in general, not specifically the Bundeswehr. This led to a renewed public debate and a draft for a law protecting soldiers' honour, which however was ultimately rejected by the new government coalition in 1999.
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Badehotellet
Badehotellet is a Danish drama and comedy series which has been running on TV 2 since 2013. The storyline takes places at a seaside hotel at Skagerrak 10 km south of Skagen and follows the guests and employees at the hotel. The plotline starts in the summer of 1928 and seasons 1-5 each follow a summer season in the years 1928–1932. Season 6–7 each follows a summer season in the years 1939–1940. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 the series was the most watched fiction television series on Danish television.
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LoTr 5
LoTr 5 is a large, faint planetary nebula in the constellation of Coma Berenices. In 2018, its parallax was measured by "Gaia", giving a distance of about 1,650 light-years (506 parsecs).
As of 2018, LoTr 5 has the highest galactic latitude of any known planetary nebula, being only 1.5 degrees away from the galactic north pole. Scientists noted this because if the distance of the nebula were found to be greater than a few hundred parsecs, then the gas from the nebula would be expanding into the galactic halo, where there is little interaction with the interstellar medium.
The nebula is most commonly referred to as LoTr 5, short for Longmore-Tritton 5. It was discovered in 1980 by A. J. Longmore and S. B. Tritton, who found the nebula on photographic plates taken at the UK Schmidt Telescope.
The central star has a number of different names. It is often referred to by its Henry Draper Catalogue designation HD 112313, or by its variable star designation IN Comae Berenices. The General Catalogue of Variable Stars describes it as R:/PN, meaning it is likely a close binary star system with reflection of starlight being the cause of variation, as well as being part of the nucleus of a planetary nebula.
LoTr 5 is one of the largest planetary nebulae known, with a radius of 1.8 light-years (0.55 parsecs). It mostly emits light at a wavelength of 500.7 nm, corresponding to a doubly ionized oxygen line.
LoTr 5 is not spherical, but is instead a bipolar nebula. Many bipolar and non-spherical nebulae are known to exist, but it is the processes that cause planetary nebulae to get their shapes are not clear, and have been the subject of much debate. However, the "binary hypothesis" posits that binary stars are more likely to produce non-spherical nebulae. For LoTr 5, the binary system likely played a role in shaping the nebula.
A modelling of LoTr 5 shows that it is composed of two round lobes, making a peanut shape. The semimajor and semiminor axes are about 390 arcsec and 100 arcsec, respectively. The position angle of the long axis is 55°. The long axis is tilted 17° away from the line of sight, so there is considerable overlap between the farther northeastern lobe and the closer southwestern lobe. The nebula is not perfectly symmetrical: there appears to be a "hole" east of the nucleus, while the western side has an "arc" of emission.
The central system at LoTr 5 has been known to be binary since 1983. At the center there is an evolved G-type star (IN Comae Berenices) that is often classified as a giant star or a subgiant, as well as a hot O-type subdwarf or white dwarf that is responsible for ionizing the nebula. The subdwarf is one of the hottest stars known, with an effective temperature of about K.
The two stars orbit each very slowly; in fact, with an orbital period of , this is one of the longest periods for a binary system within a planetary nebula. The orbit is also moderately eccentric, at 0.249 ± 0.018. For a long time the hierarchical structure of the system has not been clear. Earlier studies came up with inner orbits around IN Comae Berenices with periods of 1.95 days or 1.75 days, and/or suggesting a third star orbiting the central G-type star. The central stars' orbit appears to have a discrepancy with the nebula's "waist" such that the nebula's inclination of 17° may be too low. It is also possible, but more unlikely that the stellar orbits are not coplanar with the nebula's "waist", or that there is an undiscovered object in a close orbit with the degenerate star.
IN Comae Berenices is known to be a variable star, with its brightness varying on a cycle that is about 5.9 days long. This corresponds to the rotation period of the star, and the variability is attributed to starspots, making it an RS Canum Venaticorum variable. With Doppler imaging, the starspots were found to be lying at middle latitudes (40-50°), covering 22% of the star's surface, and about 600 K cooler than the rest of the star's surface. Its spectrum shows it to be rich in barium and other "s"-process elements, making it a barium star.
IN Comae Berenices emits X-rays. These X-rays likely come from the star's corona, and are associated with the star's rapid rotation.
In terms of structure, LoTr 5 is very similar to Abell 35, another planetary nebula. Both are large and faint planetary nebulae with a binary nucleus, consisting of a rapidly rotating G-type star that is a rotational variable.
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Shark Tank (season 9)
This is a list of episodes from the ninth season of "Shark Tank".
Guest sharks this season include Spanx founder Sara Blakely, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, brand marketer Rohan Oza, TV personality Bethenny Frankel, and former MLB star Alex Rodriguez.
The series moved to Sunday nights for this season. After the cancellation of "Ten Days in the Valley", and with the March arrival of ABC's reboot of "American Idol", the majority of episodes aired back-to-back in two-hour blocks.
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Linda Deutsch
Linda Deutsch (born 1943) is an American journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She covered court cases for 50 years, from 1967 until her retirement in 2014, including the high-profile trials of Charles Manson, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, as well as those of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson.
Deutsch was born in 1943 in New Jersey. She graduated from Monmouth University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1965. She was encouraged to become a journalist by her uncle, a newspaper editor, despite journalism’s severe lack of gender diversity at the time.
When Deutsch first joined the Associated Press, she was the only woman in the Los Angeles bureau. Over the course of her career, she rose through the ranks and earned the title of special correspondent in 1992, a designation bestowed on only 18 reporters since the AP was founded in 1846.
When Deutsch was 20, she covered the 1963 civil rights march on Washington and heard Martin Luther King give his “I Have a Dream” speech. Her report on that was her first front-page byline. She went on to cover the trials of abolitionist Angela Davis, music mogul Phil Spector, Patty Hearst, pop icon Michael Jackson, late cult leader Charles Manson, actor Robert Blake, serial killer Richard Ramirez, and brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez who were tried and convicted of killing their parents. She also covered the OJ Simpson trial in 1995 for the Associated Press.
Deutsch retired in 2014 but returned temporarily in 2019 to follow up with Simpson about his life after prison, a sentence he served for a 2008 conviction for robbery in Nevada. That year, she also endowed journalism scholarships at her alma mater Monmouth University for $ 1 million.
Deutsch is working on a memoir.
In 1997, Deutsch promoted the late Theo Wilson’s "Headline Justice: Inside the Courtroom -- The Country's Most Controversial Trials" on a book tour and at her own expense.
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Kang Rae-yeon
Kang Rae-yeon is a South Korean actress and model. She is known for her roles in dramas such as "The Time We Were Not in Love" and "Gogh, The Starry Night".
Kang was born an only child and a third-generation South Korean; her family was originally from Shandong, China. She attended Seoul Chinese Primary School and Seoul Overseas Chinese High School, and graduated from Sejong University with a degree in hotel management.
Kang started a modeling career posing for magazines. She made her acting debut in the 1998 film "Zzang". She went on to work on television series "The Bean Chaff of My Life", "Forever Love", and "My Love Patzzi", among others. Beginning in 2004, Kang took a three-year break from acting to go backpacking across several countries including the United States, Canada, India, and Egypt. She returned to acting in KBS1's "Heaven & Earth".
Kang appeared in SBS dramas in On Air, A Thousand Days' Promise and Queen of Reversals on MBC. In the same year she appeared in movie Sunny and Juvenile Offender. She was recognized for her acting skills. She also amazed the audience, when she spoke in English, Chinese and Korean. The netizens were happy, when she returned to acting, saying it's been a while.
Kang signed an exclusive contract with Will Entertainment in mid-2014. Two years later, she signed with Mystic Actors, Mystic Story's branch for actors. She was cast as hall manager Gung Rae-yeon in Seoul Broadcasting System's (SBS) 2018 romantic comedy series "Wok of Love".
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Cochrane, Alabama
Cochrane is an unincorporated community in Pickens County, Alabama, United States.
Cochrane is named for John T. Cochrane, the founder of Aliceville, Alabama. Cochrane served as the superintendent of the Tuscaloosa Belt Line, which was part of the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad. A post office operated under the name Cochrane from 1907 to 1972.
The John T. Milner Bridge, located in Cochrane, was the first toll bridge in Alabama to be officially dedicated.
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Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill
Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill was a Ghanaian judge and academic. Touted as he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 1971 to 1972. He was also a professor of law at the University of Zambia and the University of Ghana. He was a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bentsi-Enchill was born on 22 September 1919 to Kofi Bentsi-Enchill, an agent of the United African Company, and Madam Christiana Obu at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. He studied at Achimota College from 1927 to 1941. After leaving Achimota College he joined the Mfantsipim School teaching staff and taught there until 1943 when he left for the United Kingdom to study at Oriel College, Oxford University, there, he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Upon graduating in 1947, he returned to the Gold Coast for a brief while before going to London to read Law at the Middle Temple. In 1950, he was called to the Bar and subsequently returned to the Gold Coast to serve under Edward Akufo-Addo's pupillage in Kwakwaduam Chambers, Accra. After serving his pupillage he established his own Chambers in Accra, Naoferg Chambers.
Bentsi-Enchill ventured politics in the early 1950s and joined the Convention People's Party. He later resigned from the party to stand for the Saltpond seat as an independent candidate in 1954.
After the leaving politics, he decided to focus more on the advancement of law in the country. He subsequently joined the Ghana Bar Association and served as its secretary from 1958 to 1960. Within that period he was made an Honorary Secretary of "Freedom and Justice", the Ghana Section of the International Commission of Jurists, he served as its Vice-President from 1958 to 1960. In 1959, he was appointed by the International Commission of Jurists, acommittee that was responsible for the investigation of charges of genocide against the Chinese after they occupied Tibet.
Bentsi-Enchill abondoned a lucrative legal practice to join the teaching staff of the Ghana School of Law that had been established in 1958. In 1961, he joined the University of Ghana law faculty as a Senior Lecturer in Law but left that same year for the United States to pursue his LL.M. degree at Harvard University and his Doctorate degree in Juridical Science at the Chicago University. He became an Associate Professor at the Northwestern University teaching Political Science prior to leaving the USA to found the then newly established University of Zambia's law faculty in 1966. He served as Professor and Dean of the Faculty from 1966 to 1970. While at the University of Zambia, he was the founder and first editor of the "lpathe Zambia Law Journal". He also founded the Juristic Studies Association of Zambia in 1968 under the patronage of the then President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda. He also pressed for the establishment of the Council of Law Reporting in Zambia which was to be mandated to report decisions of the higher courts of judicature of Zambia and urged the Zambian Ministry of Legal Affairs to prepare an estimate of the country's need for qualified lawyers for the decade 1969 to 1978. He established the Law Practice Institute of Zambia which was to give practical training to lawyers, and served as its first Director. On 16 April 1970 he was elected fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. The following year, he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, he served in that capacity until 1972 when the Supreme Court was abolished by the military junta that ousted the Busia government. In the National Redemption Council government (which was in power from 1972 until 1975 when it evolved into the Supreme Military Council), he was the a member of the executive council of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Commissioner for Stool Lands and Boundaries Settlement, and the Chairman of the Volta River Authority until his untimely death in 1974.
Bentsi-Enchill wrote numerous articles in law journals in Ghana and abroad. In 1964, he authored "Land Law in Ghana" which was published by Sweet and Maxwell, London. At the time of his death, he was working on a book that focused on the problems of Legal integration.
Bentsi-Enchill died on Monday 21 October 1974 at the age of 55 at the 37 Military Hospital, Accra. This was as a result of injuries he had sustained in a motor accident he was involved in on his return from Aburi to Accra on the evening of 14 October 1974. The car run into a heap of sand on the Aburi-Accra road and somersaulted. He left behind his wife and five children.
The then head of state and chairman of the National Redemption Council, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong said he had received the news of his death in great shock. He paid him tribute saying; "by his death, Ghana has lost an eminent scholar and citizen who brought great distinction on himself and his country and who gave good counsel and dedicated service to his nation on many assignments including the; chairmanship of the Stool Lands Boundary Commission and the Volta River Authority.
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Shane Paul McGhie
Shane Paul McGhie (born 26 November 1993 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is a Jamaican American film and television actor. He is known for his role on Entertainment One's crime drama television series "Deputy" where he plays the role "Deputy Joseph Harris."
Shane McGhie is an American actor who was born in California, United States to Jamaican parents. Shane attended Beverly Hills High School where he studied in the Theatre Arts department of the school. While in school, Shane was also said to have received classical vocal training in Madrigals. In June 2011, after his graduation from high school Shane attended California State University, Northridge for one year while pursuing his acting career. After a year in the institution he transferred to University of Southern California where he eventually graduated with a BFA in Acting in 2016.
In 2017, Shane McGhie landed a role in CBS's crime drama series Criminal Minds where he played a minor role in (season 13) as "Hunter". After his role as hunter in Criminal Minds, he was given yet another minor role in "Shameless" (American TV series). In 2018, he played a recurring role in "Sacred Lies" as "Jude Leland." In 2019, he played a role as "Jamal Barry" in BET Films comedy drama "What Men Want" alongside Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Erykah Badu and Tracy Morgan. In 2019, he was featured in the film "After (2019 film)" as "Landon".
Unbelievable- TV Mini series- 2019- Character name Connor
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Emre Buga
Emre Buga (born 7 August 1977) is a Turkish news presenter and editor.
After graduating from Kabataş High School, Emre Buga continued his education in the electronics and communication engineering department of Yıldız Technical University. He began working as a presenter for the first time when the university sent him to Show TV to do his internship. In the following years, Buga served as news anchor and editor at Show Radio and Radyo5.
Shortly thereafter, he switched to television and broadcast news on Dokuzuncu Kanal and BRT. In 2000, he joined Tuncay Özkan's team and was brought to Kanal D's main news program. After moving to Show TV with the team in 2002, Özkan started working in Kanaltürk following its establishment in 2004. Buga, who continued his duty after the channel was sold to Koza İpek Holding in 2008, also made a program for the news channel Bugün TV, which was founded by the same group. In 2016, with the closure of the channel, he focused on his instructional role in Dialog Lecture and Communication, a filed he had worked on for many years.
In 2018, Buga prepared and presented a food program for TGRT Haber titled "Bekar Mutfağı", after which he began news presenting again by joining main news program of the newly established TV100 in 2019.
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SOLRAD 7B
SOLRAD 7B was the eighth solar X-Ray monitoring satellite in the SOLRAD series and the fifth to successfully orbit the Earth. It was launched via Thor Augmented Delta-Agena D along with seven other satellites on March 9, 1965. The satellite provided continuous coverage of the Sun during the International Quiet Solar Year from March through October 1965.
The SOLRAD science satellite program was conceived in 1958 to observe the Sun in the X-ray spectrum. It was quickly combined, to provide civilian cover (launches being unclassified at that time), with the concurrently conceived United States Naval Research Laboratory's GRAB satellite project, which would collect information on foreign radars and communications installations. There were five SOLRAD/GRAB missions between 1960–62, with the scientific SOLRAD experiments sharing satellite space with GRAB's intelligence payload. Two of the missions were successful.
In 1962, all U.S. overhead reconnaissance projects were consolidated under the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which elected to continue and expand the GRAB mission starting July 1962 with a next-generation set of satellites, code-named POPPY. With the initiation of POPPY, SOLRAD experiments would no longer be carried on electronic spy satellites; rather, they would now get their own satellites, launched alongside POPPY missions to provide some measure of mission cover.
The first POPPY mission was launched on December 13, 1962 along with several other satellites on a mission similar to that of SOLRAD 3, complete with an Injun (satellite) ionospheric research satellite. The mission was successful, despite POPPY 1's elliptical (rather than the planned circular) orbit, and data was returned for 28 months. No SOLRAD was launched concurrent with this first POPPY mission.
SOLRAD 6, the first of the second-generation SOLRADs, was launched alongside POPPY 2 on June 15, 1963, but decayed into the atmosphere on August 1, 1963, returning little data.
SOLRAD 7A (sometimes called SOLRAD 6), launched January 11, 1964, was far more successful, returning data that caused dramatic revision of models of the solar corona.
SOLRAD 7B (sometimes called SOLRAD 7) was designed to monitor the soft component of solar X-rays (.5 to 60 Å) and the low-frequency portion of the solar hydrogen Lyman-alpha emission spectrum (1225 to 1350 Å), and to transmit measurements back to earth. To that end, it was equipped with six ion chambers to monitor solar X-Rays in the wavelength ranges of .5-3 Å, 1–8, 8–12 Å, and 44–60 Å. The satellite was not spin-stabilized, utilizing two photocells to report the satellite's solar aspect angle (the angle between the equatorial plane and the direction from the sun to the satellite) so that data could be properly interpreted. Like the previous SOLRAD satellites, SOLRAD 7B lacked data storage capabilities, all results being transmitted in real time. International institutions were invited to receive the data, and this expanded the network of stations receiving results beyond SOLRAD 7A's. One such station was the Arcetri Observatory in Italy.
SOLRAD 7B flew on the NRL Composite 5 mission, which lofted an unprecedented eight satellites on a single Thor Augmented Delta-Agena D rocket (including POPPY 3, an electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) surveillance package, GGSE-2, GGSE-3, Surcal 2B, SECOR 3, OSCAR 3, and Dodedcapole 1) on March 9, 1965 from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 1, Pad 2. Its orbit was nearly circular at around in altitude. SOLRAD 7B's spin axis was roughly perpendicular to the sun-satellite direction with an initial spin rate of about two revolutions per second.
SOLRAD 7B returned data from launch through October 1965, allowing it to contribute to the International Quiet Solar Year, an international scientific program mounted to gather information about the Sun during the nadir of its 11-year luminosity cycle (Jan. 1, 1964, through Dec. 31, 1965). The operational period allowed monitoring of the Sun to continue almost without interruption after SOLRDAD 7B's predecessor, SOLRAD 7A, ceased transmitting usable data on February 5, 1965.
The satellite is still in orbit and its position can be tracked online.
COSPAR satellite ID: 1965-016D
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2020 GEICO 500
The 2020 GEICO 500 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on June 22, 2020, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. Contested over 191 laps -- extended from 188 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) superspeedway, it was the 13th race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.
The race was originally scheduled to be held on April 26, but was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In turn, the race was postponed from June 21 due to inclement weather.
Talladega Superspeedway, formerly known as Alabama International Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France family. Talladega is most known for its steep banking. The track currently hosts NASCAR's Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66-mile-long (4.28 km) tri-oval like the Daytona International Speedway, which is 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km).
The GEICO 500 was the first NASCAR event since The Real Heroes 400 in May to admit a limited number of public spectators. Races have been held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the previous week's Dixie Vodka 400 was the first to admit any outside spectators — limited to an invited audience of local members of the U.S. military. Attendance was capped at 5,000 in grandstands and towers, with social distancing and mandatory masking enforced. A limited number of campsites above the back straightaway were also opened. Tickets were being re-issued on a first come first served basis to local residents who had originally purchased tickets to the race before these changes.
This was the first race open to spectators after NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate battle flag following a complaint by Bubba Wallace — the only full-time African-American driver in the Cup Series — in light of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. On the day of the race, vendors outside of the track sold memorabilia carrying the flag, and a plane towing a banner with the flag and "Defund NASCAR" circled the track; NASCAR officials and Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey condemned the flyover, for which Sons of Confederate Veterans later claimed responsibility.
NASCAR reported that a noose had been found inside Wallace's stall, and stated that it would investigate it as a hate crime with the FBI. NASCAR president Steve Phelps threatened that anyone found responsible "will be banned from this sport for life. I don't care who they are, they will not be here." The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division also joined the investigation. As a sign of solidarity, other drivers and crew members pushed Wallace's car down pit road prior to the start of the race (which had been re-scheduled to June 22 due to rain), while "#IStandWithBubba" was painted on the infield grass.
On June 23, the FBI concluded that no hate crime targeting Wallace had occurred at the track, stating that the "noose" was a pulldown rope for a door, and had been present at the track since 2019. On June 25, NASCAR released a photo of the rope, and announced that it had investigated the stalls of all other NASCAR facilities — concluding that the pulldown rope in that stall was the only one that had been tied in such a manner.
"NOTE: Garrett Smithley was added as a late addition after owner B. J. McLeod was inserted into the Spire Motorsports car following NASCAR rejecting the team's original plan of having James Davison in the car because he lacked NASCAR superspeedway experience in a situation where practice and qualifying were omitted. Although the Australian has high-speed oval experience in other ACCUS-sanctioned events, NASCAR rejected Davison because he lacked drafting experience in similar cars in regards to the adverse conditions rules in effect after the pandemic."
Martin Truex Jr. was awarded the pole for the race as determined by a random draw.
Stage One
"Laps:" 60
Stage Two
"Laps:" 60
Stage Three
"Laps:" 68
Fox Sports covered their 20th race at the Talladega Superspeedway. Mike Joy and six-time Talladega winner – and all-time restrictor plate race wins record holder – Jeff Gordon covered the race from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte. Jamie Little and Vince Welch handled the pit road duties. Larry McReynolds provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also be simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Alex Hayden and Jeff Striegle called the race in the booth when the field raced through the tri-oval. Dave Moody called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 2 when the field raced through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform inside the backstretch when the field raced down the backstretch. Kurt Becker called the race from the Sunoco spotters stand outside turn 4 when the field races through turns 3 and 4. Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.
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San Francesco, Modena
San Francesco is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in central Modena, Italy.
Franciscan friars were present in Modena early, by 1221, when Francis was still alive. But as was their custom, their first monastery and church were located outside of town, in an area prone to flooding, and it was decided to move to this site in 1244, and began construction of a monastery and a church dedicated to the recently canonized Francis of Assisi. Construction took nearly two centuries, requiring reconstructions prior to completion.
In 1501, the bell-tower was damaged by an earthquake. Reconstruction occurred in the church starting in 1535, causing the destruction of the lateral chapels and movement of the choir into the apse behind the altar, and covering much of the previous painted decoration. It was used by the Frati Minori, but they were expelled in 1774 by the Ducal authorities, who reduced the city to five parishes. By the late 18th-century had been devolved into use as stables and housing for animals.
It was reconsecrated to cult in 1829, with refurbishment and restoration in a Gothic style by Gusmano Soli. A second neo-gothic refurbishment was pursued between 1886-1888 by Carlo Barbieri. The exterior brick facade has a large rose window. The 16th-century bell tower has an octagonal base.
The interior was noted to have an 1840 monument celebrating the ebbing of the cholera epidemic in Modena, sculpted by Luigi Mainoni. In the left apse, there is an large terracotta statuary group of thirteen statues depicting a "Deposition from the Cross" (1531) by Antonio Begarelli. In the choir of the nave, is a canvas depicting "Saint Francis receiving the stigmata" by Adeodato Malatesta. The organ is from the end of the 19th century.
In the little square on the right of Saint Francis, the fountain represents the Saint sculpted by Giuseppe Graziosi.
The original organ was built by Giovanni Cipri of Ferrara, but replaced by an organ, now in the counter facade made by the Benedetti of Desenzano.
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Innisfil GO Station
Innisfil GO Station is a planned GO Transit train station to be built by Metrolinx on 6th line in Innisfil, Ontario as part of its Regional Express Rail (RER) expansion program. A parking lot, a bus loop and a kiss and ride area will be provided. In 2016, Metrolinx rated the station location highly for affordability of construction but low for ridership, which is expected to be 2800 per day in 2031. The town of Innisfil and Cortel Group, a developer in the area, are working to get the station open by September 2022.
A station in Innisfil had first been proposed in a 2010 electrification study. In 2015, Metrolinx proposed it again as part of a larger list of potential future station sites, and it was ultimately included in the list of stations to be built within the RER program. In 2016, there were 2 potential sites for a station in Innisfil: 5th Line and 6th Line. The location of the station had been controversial among residents and developers in the area. Innisfil Town Council supported the 6th line location, and it was ultimately chosen by Metrolinx. In November 2019, Cortel Group committed to funding the full cost of the station, and the Innisfil Town Council approved a long-term development vision around the station, with the goal of 30,000 people living in the area in the near future.
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Jewish heraldry
Jewish heraldry is the tradition and style of heraldic achievements amongst Jewish communities throughout Europe and in modern times abroad, including national and civic arms of the State of Israel, noble and burgher arms, synagogal heraldry, heraldic displays and heraldic descriptions. Jewish Heraldry is commonly influenced by its country of origin, yet often preserves common Jewish symbolisms such as the Lion of Judah or the Star of David.
The first adopters of the Heraldic tradition were the wealthy Sephardic Jews of Spain, who had risen to great economic and social prominence. Families such as the Abravanel adopted heraldry, displaying it on their houses and using it on their seals. Yet the Abravanel, like many other Jewish families at the time, retained Jewish symbolism, which differentiated their arms from their neighbours, (such as a double Star of David).
About 200 years later, several influential Jewish French families adopted the heraldic tradition of official familial seals. Like the early 14th century seal of Kalonymos bar Todros HaNasi, the leader of the Jewish community in Narbonne, France, who used a lion rampant to represent him and his family. He adopted this symbolism to represent his connection to the Davidic Line. Thus setting the precedent of the Lion of Judah as a common Jewish heraldic charge. Another example is the arms of the wealthy Jew, "Samuel of Venice", which a 1383 manuscript describes as "per fess a lion issuant and a fess wavy". A number of Jews also used a Jew's Hat on their arms. One amusing example is the seal of a German-Jewish man named "Byfegin of Koblenz" (1397) who bears a lion rampant "crowned" with a Jew's hat. Additionally, several Jewish Heraldic achievements were those of the Jewish community of a city: early 13th century examples in France show that the Jews of Paris used an eagle rising on a semis of fleurs-de-lys.
The trend of Jewish Heraldry was accelerated in the 16th century, especially in Amsterdam and parts of Italy, where several Jews obtained chairs at universities in Perugia, Ferrara, Bologna in 1528, and Rome in 1539, which in some cases carried with them personal nobility. One Jew of Bologna even received a knighthood from Charles V. In the early 17th century, several wealthy Western Sephardic Jews immigrated to Amsterdam and with them, brought in great economic prosperity to the city. Many Dutch Jews were granted minor noble titles and given the rights to bear arms. Such as the Benveniste family who, when emigrating to the Amsterdam adopted a new arms which included the Star of David, a lion cub of Judah a castle and 10 moons (the Kabbalist symbols of the 10 Sefirot). This was a common trend of the Dutch Jewish community who adopted arms which were not overtly Jewish, yet had several deeply rooted Jewish symbolisms. Jewish Heraldry also spread to the Holy Roman Empire in the late 17th when the laws against Jews carrying arms became more relaxed. The first Jew in the HRE to receive a grant of arms was Jacob Batsheba Schmieles who was ennobled at the same time, having in 1622 been made a knight of the Holy Roman Empire with the title of *Bassevi von Treuenberg.("Sable, on a bend argent between two lions passant bendwise or, three eight-pointed stars gules)"
During the Age of Enlightenment, several hundred Jewish families were granted arms throughout Europe and were made part of the Nobility. Such as the Rothchilds, Montefiores, Goldsmids and Sassoon families, who were all granted arms and noble titles in England. Many wealthy British Jews would once again adopt the heraldic customs of their country while still retaining many Jewish elements. However, during the first and second Aliyah, many British Jews adopted Zionist symbolisms on the arms such as Sir Moses Montefiore, who adopted a Zionist tree and flag on his arms, alongside a double star of David. Additionally, during this time, several German and Russian Jews were being granted arms on a systemic scale. Such as the Stieglitz, von Eskeles, von Hofmannsthal and Morpurgo families. All of whom employed several Jewish symbolism on their arms. In recent years, the majority of new official Jewish Heraldry has been produced by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, who have given several grants to distinguished Canadian Jews such as Izzy Asper and Myra Freeman and distighused Jewish institutions such as the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal.
The Emblem of Israel is shows a menorah surrounded by an olive branch on each side, and the writing "ישראל" (Hebrew for "Israel") below it. The image used on the emblem is based on a depiction of the menorah on the Arch of Titus. The menorah was used in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem and has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times. The olive branches symbolize peace. The symbol is used on coinage and refers back to Hasmonean coinage.
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Central Baptist Church (Leicester)
The Central Baptist Church, also known as the Charles Street Baptist Chapel, is a church on Charles Street in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK.
Leicester in the 19th century was known as the ‘Metropolis of Dissent’ with a large number of non-conformist chapels and churches. There been have been numerous places of worship of various denominations, including the Baptists. Numerous chapels were built since the 17th century, many in the 19th century.
The Charles Street Baptist Chapel was designed by William Flynt, a leading local architect, and constructed in 1830. The congregation of the Belvoir Street Chapel united with that of Charles Street in the 1940s and became known as the United Baptist Church. It was designated a Grade II listed building (1074071) in 1973. It was named the Central Baptist Church in 1983 and is the last surviving of several Baptist churches in Leicester City Centre.
The building also houses the William Carey Museum, dedicated to William Carey, who was instrumental in the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society.
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Extreme tribology
Extreme tribology refers to tribological situations under extreme operating conditions which can be related to high loads and/or temperatures, or severe environments. Also, they may be related to high transitory contact conditions, or to situations with near-impossible monitoring and maintenance opportunities. In general, extreme conditions can typically be categorized as involving abnormally high or excessive exposure to e.g. cold, heat, pressure, vacuum, voltage, corrosive chemicals, vibration, or dust.. The extreme conditions should include any device or system requiring a lubricant operating under any of the following conditions:
Operation in such extreme conditions is a great challenge for tribologists to develop tribosystems that could meet these extreme requirements. Often, only multifunctional materials fulfill such requirements.
The progression of the humanity suggested new technologies, devices, materials and surface treatments which required novel lubricants and lubrication systems. Likewise, the development of high-speed trains, aircraft, space stations, computer hard discs, artificial implants, and bio-medical and many other engineering systems, have only been possible through the advances in tribology. Challenges in tribology including sustainability, climate change and gradual degradation of the environment require new solutions and innovative approaches.
In many tribological applications, the system components are exposed to extreme temperatures (very high or ultra-low temperatures). Examples of such applications can be found in the aerospace, mining, power generation, metalworking industries, and steel plants.
In tribology, an application can be considered to operate at elevated temperatures when the use of conventional lubricants, i.e. oils and greases is no longer effective due to their rapid decomposition at around 300 oC. Smart lubricating materials and multifunctional lubricating materials are developed as new class materials with increased safety, long-term durability and as less amount of repairing costs as possible. Such materials are designed to be self-diagnosis, self-repair, and self-adjust. These materials include structural/lubricating integrated material, anti-radiation lubricating material, conductive or insulation lubricating material, etc.
At low temperatures and in cryogenic environments, liquid lubricants can solidify or become highly viscous and not be effective. On the other end, solid lubricants have usually been found to be better than liquid lubricants or greases. The most common solid lubricants for cryogenic temperature are Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Polycarbonate (PC), Tungsten disulphide (WS2), and Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2). In addition, ice could be a possible lubricant for deformation in cryogenic environments which provides a method of self-lubrication in the sense that no active mechanism is needed to supply a lubricant.
The fundamental difference that distinguishes micro/nano tribology from classical macro tribology is that micro/nano tribology considers the friction and wear of two objects in relative sliding whose dimensions range from micro-scales down to molecular and atomic scales. MEMS refer to micro-electromechanical systems that have a characteristic length of 100 nm to 1 mm, while NEMS are the nano-electromechanical systems that have a characteristic length of less than 100 nm.. There are great challenges in the development of a fundamental understanding of tribology, surface contamination and environment in MEMS/NEMS. One of these challenges in such extreme tribological situations is the adhesion force which can be up to a million times greater than the force of gravity. This is due to the fact that the adhesion force decreases linearly with size, whereas the gravitational force decreases with the size cubed. Low surface energy, hydrophobic coatings applied to oxide surfaces are promising for minimizing adhesion and static-charge accumulation.
Under vacuum environment, it is a problem to achieve acceptable endurance of tribological components due to the fact that the lubricant may either freeze, evaporate or decompose and hence become ineffective. Tribological properties of materials exhibit different characteristics at the space vacuum as compared to the atmospheric pressure. Adhesive and fatigue wear are the two important types of wear encountered in a vacuum environment. Vacuum not only radically affects the wear behavior of metals and alloys in contact, but also has a pronounced influence on nonmetals as well.. Different new kinds of materials are developed for potentially operating in vacuum environments. For instance, copper alloy CuZn39Pb3 and Ni3(Si,Ti) alloys have excellent anti-wear properties in all the vacuum conditions. Types of solid lubricants used in space applications:
The most common way to utilize a solid lubricant is to apply it to a metal surface as a film or surface coating of a thin layer of soft film, typically molybdenum disulphide, artificially deposited on the surfaces. Coatings of solid lubricant are built up atom by atom yielding a mechanically strong surface layer with a long service life and the minimum quantity of solid lubricant.
The term ""geotribology"" was first stated by Harmen Blok with no significant discussion. Later, geotribology framework was employed to analyze the flow mechanics of granular sand. Even though tribological concepts can be utilized to many geosciences phenomena, the two research communities are separated. In earth science, many tribological concepts were applied successively, particularly in rock friction analyses. The asperity-asperity contact mechanism was applied to rock friction experiments that led to the rate-state friction law that prevails in earthquake analyses.
High dust areas and dirt environments can weigh profoundly on a lubricant due to the high risk of particle contamination. These contaminants readily form a grinding paste, causing failure of tribosystems and subsequently damaging of equipment. This type of contamination most frequently takes place when airborne or stagnant particles gain access to the lubrication system through open ports and hatches, especially in systems with negative pressure. Half of a bearing loss of usefulness can be attributed to wear. This wear, which occurs through surface abrasion, fatigue and adhesion, is often the result of particle contamination.
In radiation environments, liquid lubricants can decompose. Suitable solid lubricants can extend the operation of systems beyond 106 rads while maintaining relatively low coefficients of friction.
In weight-limited spacecraft and rovers, solid lubrication has the advantage of weighing substantially less than liquid lubrication. The elimination (or limited use) of liquid lubricants and their replacement by solid lubricants would reduce spacecraft weight and, therefore, have a dramatic impact on mission extent and craft maneuverability.
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Dena Dubal
Dena Dubal is the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disease at University of California, San Francisco. Dubal has demonstrated that the hormone Klotho can enhance cognition and protect the brain from neurodegenerative decline.
Dubal is from Houston. She attended Episcopal High School and graduated in 1992. She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied neuroscience with a minor in anthropology. During her undergraduate physiology classes she recognised that the process of ageing still presented many mysteries to the scientific community. After earning her bachelor's degree, Dubal studied medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She worked with Phyllis Wise on the impact of hormones on brain injury caused by stroke. She was a neurological resident at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was elected Chief Resident and continued to research ageing.
Dubal studies the molecular mechanisms of resilience and how these are impacted by neurodegenerative diseases. She holds the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disease at University of California, San Francisco, and practises as a neurologist in San Francisco. In 2011 she started working on the Klotho hormone. At the time it was known that mice who were bred to make extra Klotho had lives that were 30% longer than those without it. Dubal demonstrated that mice with Alzheimer's disease with extra Klotho were protected from dementia. She went on to show that the brains of healthy mice with extra Klotho were not only protected from neurodegeneration, but their cognitive abilities were enhanced. It has since been shown that Klotho can act to protect against Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis. The mechanisms that underpin Klotho's enhancement of cognitive ability are still unknown.
Alongside working on mouse models, in 2019 Dubal was the first to show that Klotho may protect people from Alzheimer's disease. She demonstrated this by monitoring for the well-known Alzheimer's disease risk factors Apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4. Dubal revealed that patients with the genetic variant APOE e4 have biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, even before experiencing symptoms, whilst patients with APOE e4 and Klotho do not have these biomarkers.
Dubal has identified a biological mechanism – an epigenetic change on the X chromosome – that may give rise to why women live longer. She has shown that female mice with a particular pattern of sex hormones during their ovarian cycle are more likely to suffer from cognitive decline.
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French submarine Suffren
Suffren (Q284) is a French nuclear attack submarine. It is the lead ship of the "Suffren" class, stemming from the Barracuda program. The vessel was laid down on 19 December 2007, and launched on 1 August 2019 at Cherbourg. It is expected to enter service in 2021, after testing by the Marine Nationale throughout 2020.
Unlike previous French submarines, "Suffren" is not equipped with a periscope, but rather an optronic mast, which allows for much longer range and outside visible spectrum detection of targets.
A first for the French Navy is the ability to deploy a small underwater vehicle for special forces use (similar to the US Navy ASDS) thanks to a dry deck shelter. Previously special forces used torpedo tubes and handheld propulsion systems.
The ship also has the ability to use the MdCN ground attack cruise missile in its submarine born version, launched via torpedo tube.
It is said to be ten times quieter than the previous generation nuclear attack submarine.
"Suffren" is optimized for a small complement thanks to extensive automation throughout the ship. While being twice the size, it has a smaller crew than the preceding "Rubis" class. This combined larger hull and smaller crew compared to the "Rubis" class makes this ship the first French submarine to be designed to allow women on board. It has very spacious separate living quarters for men and women.
The submarine was unveiled to the public on 12 July 2019 in Cherbourg, with a three-year delay, in front of French President Emmanuel Macron and Defense Minister Florence Parly. The K15 nuclear reactor came online on 18 December 2019.
Sea trials started in 2020. It is expected to be delivered to the French Navy the same year, with an expected commissioning in 2021.
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Arsalan Alijani Monfared
Arsalan Alijani Monfared (Persian: ارسلان علیجانی منفرد, born September 21, 1980) is a Tabriz player and former coach of Iran's national hockey skating team. He is the founder, investor and CEO of the Sayman Sports Complex (Tabriz's first sports complex and the largest standard skating rink in the Middle East). He also has over a hundred provincial, national and international championships in hockey and speed skating.
Monfared started his professional career in speed skating in Tehran in year 9. After developing an interest in teamwork, he continued to work in the field of hockey. He competed with the Tabriz team and, after entering the university, formed the Shabestar Azad University team, which finished third in the national championship. He coaches the Mahoor Tabriz rugby team and wins the National Skating Hockey League Championship.
Monfared has been invited to the Japan National Team for speed skating since 2008 and has been a regular member of the National Hockey Team for two years and a national team coach for one year.
The history of hockey and skating in Iran and the world.
In addition to playing sports, Monfared has a solid track record. Launching its own advertising company, Sarvin Advertising Center in Year 2, and more than a decade of advertising and exhibition design activities, as well as the decision to build an indoor sports recreation complex in Tabriz in 2006 and to build and open it at a personal cost in year 2. It is named as the first sports recreation complex in Syman Tabriz in Park Il Goli (featuring traditional restaurant, billiards hall, baby playground, birthday house, coffee shop and computer games lounge and skating rink).
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Mary Helen Johnston
Mary Helen Johnston (born September 17, 1945), later also Mary Helen McCay, is an American scientist and former astronaut. Working with NASA as an engineer in the 1960s and '70s, Johnston aspired to be an astronaut; she unsuccessfully applied in 1980 before becoming a payload specialist in 1983. Johnston retired from NASA in 1986 without having gone to space. She is a professor at Florida Institute of Technology.
Mary Helen Johnston was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and grew up in the nearby Fort Pierce. As a child, she was inspired to engineering and space exploration by the arrival of Sputnik and by the Kennedy Space Center, which was located near her home.
Johnston graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Florida State University (FSU), and with a Master of Science in 1969. In 1973, she was awarded a doctorate in metallurgical engineering, from the University of Florida, while working under the direction on David H. Baldwin. Johnston was the first woman to receive an engineering degree from FSU. Of her time at university, Johnston has said: "It was a different time, for sure. It's still unusual for me when I find myself in a meeting with all women, because throughout most of my career I have gone into meetings where the rooms were filled with men."
Johnston began working at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) of NASA during her engineering studies from 1963 to 1968. In 1968, she became employed there as a metallurgist.
In 1974, she worked with Doris Chandler, Carolyn S. Griner and Ann Whitaker on the simulation of a space mission at the General Purpose Laboratory (GPL) of MSFC. The exercise was named Concept Verification Test (CVT) Test No. 4 and began on December 16 for five days. The team of four women, all scientists, conducted eleven experiments to test their feasibility before they were carried out in the Spacelab of the Space Shuttle. These experiments were carried out under conditions identical to those of the Space Shuttle (temperature, humidity, air circulation, etc.) except for the weightlessness. These tests included some in the neutral buoyancy simulator, itself a mock-up of one to be built in Europe to provide training for future astronauts. Johnston led three science experiments, and helped her fellow scientists to develop techniques to be used on Spacelab. In 1976, she indicated that she "had planned the work in hopes of going on orbital missions in the 1980s."
In 1976, Johnston worked with Griner on MSFC experiments testing space-like conditions with Space Processing Applications Rocket (SPAR) launched objects, particularly involving "dendrite remelting and macrosegregation".
With Whitaker and Griner, Johnston received astronaut training. Her training included tests in the pool of the MSFC neutral buoyancy laboratory and a flight in microgravity aboard the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, as well as completing additional flight lessons. In 1980, Johnston applied to be an astronaut in the Group 9 selection, but was unsuccessful.
Johnston received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1982.
On June 5, 1983, she was selected as one of the four payload specialists for the STS-51-B Spacelab mission (Spacelab-3 group) as part of the reserve crew, not flying – she never went to space. For Spacelab, Johnston was selected as a scientist, specifically for her knowledge in materials science, one of the mission's primary purposes. She and the other alternate, Eugene Trinh, also provided support from Johnson Space Center "as members of the mission management and science team responsible for controlling and directing experiment operations from the Payload Operations Control Center (POCC)". Of her selection, mission manager Joseph Cremin wrote: "The job ahead is difficult and the time is short which makes this assignment a significant challenge that will require the utmost dedication and perseverance of Dr. Johnston. I have no doubt that she will accomplish this assignment in an exemplary fashion."
Johnston later spoke of her involvement in the mission:
She ended her astronaut career on May 6, 1985.
Leaving NASA in 1986, Johnston – at this point known as McCay – became a professor, teaching at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. A later role came in 2003, when she was appointed the director of the National Center for Hydrogen Research at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). She is married to Dr. T. Dwayne McCay, who is also a former NASA engineer and the president and CEO of FIT.
As an inventor, Johnston holds two dozen patents, many applying to laser-surface modification. While at the University of Tennessee, one of Johnston's inventions in laser surfacing received numerous awards and commendations, including the American Museum of Science and Energy Award for Technical Achievement, the university's Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and Chancellor's Award for Creativity in Research. In 2018 she was made a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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The Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane
The Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane is a 1914 silent actuality film taken by pilot Robert G. Fowler and cameraman Ray Duhem on April 27, 1913. Fowler was making the first nonstop trans-Panama flight, Pacific-to-Atlantic, in an aeroplane and took along Duhem and his film camera. They flew over the still uncompleted Panama Canal and filmed scenes that later got them in trouble with the Department of War because they showed military fortifications in construction.
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Liga IV Sibiu
Liga IV Sibiu is the county football division of Liga IV for clubs based in Sibiu County, România. The competition is ranked as the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system and it is competed between 17 teams, the winner may or may not be promoted to Liga III, depending of the result of a promotion play-off that is disputed against a winner of the neighboring counties series.
In 1968, along with the territorial reorganization of the country, but also due to the large number of requests, the Romanian Football Federation proposes a competitive system in which each county has its own football championship, which will activate the former teams in the regional championship as well as the racing and town championship teams from the previous edition.
The champions of each county association play one another in a play-off to promote to the Liga III. Geographical criteria are taken into consideration when the play-offs are drawn. In total there are 41 county champions plus the Bucharest municipal champion.
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SNCF Class BB 8100
The SNCF BB 8100 was a French class of 1500 V DC electric locomotives, used on the Paris-Lyon "Imperial" rail line.
A post war development of the BB 300 class, they were much loved by the SNCF, 171 locomotives were built between 1948 and 1955. They were used to haul both freight and, later, passenger trains. Expansion of the 1500 V DC electrification in the 1980s allowed the locomotives to roam further than their original Paris-Lyon line. Most were withdrawn by 2003, with only three locomotives kept by the SNCF Infrastructure to be hauled behind diesel locomotives, with their pantographs extended to dislodge ice build-up on the electrical wires. These final three were withdrawn from active service in 2011.
They were also exported to other countries, including the Netherlands where they were designated class 1100.
The locomotives can be seen in action in the 1950s along the Paris-Lyon line in a promotional SNCF film "De Fils en Aiguilles".
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Lent Bumps 2020
The Lent Bumps 2020 was a series of rowing races at Cambridge University from Tuesday 25 February 2020 to Saturday 29 February 2020. The event was run as a bumps race and was the 133rd set of races in the series of Lent Bumps which have been held annually in late February or early March since 1887. See Lent Bumps for the format of the races.
bumped on First Post Corner on day 1, reclaiming the headship that Caius had won the previous year.
rowed over four times, as did ahead of them and and behind them, remaining the highest men's second VIII at 2nd place in the second division.
Below are the bumps charts for all 4 men's and all 4 women's divisions, with the men's event on the left and women's event on the right. The bumps chart shows the progress of every crew over all four days of the racing. To follow the progress of any particular crew, find the crew's name on the left side of the chart and follow the line to the end-of-the-week finishing position on the right of the chart.
"This chart may not be displayed correctly if you are using a large font size on your browser. A simple way to check is to see that the first horizontal bold line, marking the boundary between divisions, lies between positions 17 and 18."
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Coin-sword
Coin-swords (alternatively spelt as "coin swords"), alternatively known as "cash-swords", are a type of Chinese numismatic charms that are a form of feng shui talisman that were primarily used in southern China to ward off evil spirits and malicious influences, especially those inducing fever. These coin-swords are also often used in Taoist rituals. Coin-sword is considered an "evil-warding sword" () in China.
Coin-swords usually consist of Qing dynasty era cash coins, specifically from the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, but may also be made from older cash coins.
Chinese coin-swords generally consist of either one or two iron rods as a foundation with real or replica Chinese cash coins fastened together with a string, a cord, or a wire which are usually coloured red. While the thread is usually red, it may sometimes also be yellow or gold as these are considered to be the colours of royalty.
Coin-swords generally consist of:
A typical Chinese coin-sword is about 0.6 meter, or about 2 feet in the imperial system of units, long and consists of around one hundred copper-alloy Chinese cash coins. In superstition it is usually considered better for all the Chinese cash coins strung together in the coin-sword to have been produced during the reign of only a single Chinese emperor, and may not be mixed with cash coins from other dynasties. Ancient Chinese cash coins are also generally preferred over more modern ones.
Coin-swords are constructed out of three different kinds of things, each of which is regarded as a preventive of evil spirits in feng shui.
A popular way sword symbolism in integrated in Chinese numismatic talismans is by stringing actual or replicas of cash coins into a sword-shape. In feng shui, these coin-swords are often hung to frighten away demons and evil spirits. Coin-swords are frequently hung above the bed, on residential walls, on the front and the outside of the bridal bed-curtain, or above the windows of a building. It is believed that evil spirits would not dare molest the residents of the house where the coin-sword hangs because the sword resembles that wielded by the Taoist immortal Zhong Kui, who in Chinese mythology is famous for being a slayer of evil demons. Most Chinese coin-swords consist of Qianlong Tongbao (乾隆通寳) cash coins.
The supposed powers of coin-swords do not come from the associated wealth symbolism that usually comes with cash coins. But with the design form of the cash coins used to make the sword, as well as the dynastic origins of the cash coins that carry the Emperor's reign era title. As such, in feng shui the supposed power of the coin-swords will depend heavily on which Chinese emperor's inscription is written down on the cash coins.
About the time of a woman's confinement after her marriage, a coin-sword is sometimes taken to be hung inside of the bridal bed-curtain, usually in a position that is parallel to the horizon.
Coin-swords made from Qing dynasty cash coins with the inscription Kangxi Tongbao (康熙通寶) are considered to be the most effective, this is because the reign of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty lasted an entire 60 year cycle of the Chinese calendar and thus according to feng shui cash coins with this inscription represent "longevity". These cash coins are furthermore preferred because the name "Kangxi" means "good health" and "prosperity".
True Chinese numismatic charms and amulets did not begin to appear in China until sometime during the Han dynasty and the sword, or frequently a pair of swords, as objects invested with power became frequently seen symbols in Chinese numismatic charms from this time on.
Swords are a common theme on Chinese numismatic charms, and coins were often assembled into sword-shaped talismans. Most Chinese numismatic charms that feature swords often show a single sword. According to Chinese legends, the first swords in China appeared under the reign of the legendary Yellow Emperor. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the notion developed that swords could be used against evil spirits and demons. Under the Liu Song dynasty swords became a common instrument in religious rituals, most particularly in Taoist rituals; according to the "Daoist Rituals of the Mystery Cavern and Numinous Treasure" (洞玄靈寶道學科儀) it was essential for students of Taoism to be able to forge swords which had the capability to dispel demonic entities. Many Taoist sects formed during this period believed that swords could defeat demons and also contained medical properties. Under the Sui and Tang dynasties ritualistic swords constructed of peach wood started to appear. Around this time, Chinese amulets with sword themes began to be produced; often these amulets resembled Chinese cash coins but had crossed swords decorated with ribbons or fillets on them, as the ancient Chinese believed that these items enhanced the powers of the item they were tied to. Chinese swords were commonly engraved with imagery representing the Big Dipper, which was believed to have unlimited magical power, and this also became common for charms that featured swords.
The image of two swords on Chinese amulets stems from a legend where Taoist leader Zhang Daoling saw Laozi appear to him on a mountain in present-day Sichuan and gave him two swords. Alternatively, two swords can also represent two dragons from a legend where a man named Lei Huan (雷煥) received two swords and gave one to his son Lei Hua (雷華), who lost it in a river; a servant tasked with retrieving it witnessed two coiled and entwined Chinese dragons.
Chinese talismans of swordsmen usually depict one of the Taoist immortals Zhong Kui or Lu Dongbin. Swordsmen also appear on zodiac charms, Bagua charms, elephant chess pieces, lock charms, and other Chinese numismatic charms. Another person who appears on Chinese amulets is Zhenwu, who is regarded as the perfect warrior.
Taoist priests use coin-swords because of this symbolism for rituals for ridding evil, a red cloth is then wrapped on the hilt of the sword. Taoist priests can also sometimes use a peach wood sword as an alternative to coin-swords.
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Ruth Winter (journalist)
Ruth Grosman Winter (born May 29, 1930) is an American journalist and science writer.
Ruth Grosman was born in Newark, New Jersey. She graduated B.A. from Upsala College in 1951, and obtained a Master of Science from Pace University in 1989.
Winter worked as a journalist (1951–1955) and science editor (1956–1959) for the "Newark Star Ledger". She worked as a columnist for the "Los Angeles Times Syndicate" (1974–1978) and from 1981, the "Register and Tribune Syndicate". She has written on food safety, health and medicine. Winter is a past President of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (1977–1978).
She married Arthur Winter, a neurosurgeon on June 16, 1955; he died in 2011. She has several children.
She received awards from the Arthritis Foundation, the American Dental Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
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Mairi Bury
Lady Mairi Bury (25 March 1921 - 16 November 2009) was a Northern Irish politician, gardener, aviator, and philatelist.
Mairi Bury was born Mary Elizabeth Vane-Tempest-Stewart at Mount Stewart, County Down on 25 March 1921. She was the youngest of four daughters and one son of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry and Edith Helen Vane-Tempest Stewart. Bury was much younger than her siblings, her eldest sister was 21 at the time of Bury's birth. She was privately educated at her home of Mount Stewart. Her father was the first minister for education and leader of the Stormont senate from May 1921. He had an interest in aviation, donating fifty acres for the establishment of an aerodrome and flying school at Newtownards in 1933, hoping it would become Northern Ireland's main public airport. The Stewarts used the aerodrome to travel between Mount Stewart and London. One of the first flights to land there was in 1934 when Bury brought monkeys for a private zoo at Mount Stewart. She learned how to drive there, and at aged 12 she piloted a plane solo in February 1934. The story of her flight was covered in newspapers in the United States and the United Kingdom, with her instructor reportedly described her as "as cool as ice".
In 1936 Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador to the UK arrived at the airfield at Lord Londonderry's invitation as he wished to maintain good relations with the German government of Adolf Hitler. Londonderry took his wife and Bury with him to Germany, with Bury remembering meeting both Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. In recalling the meeting, she stated that neither impressed her, describing Hitler as a nondescript fellow and Himmler as looking like a floorwalker in Harrods shop. In later life Bury defended her father's actions by claiming he was attempting to avoid another world war. After the outbreak of World War II, Bury joined the motor transport section of the Women's Legion, which her mother founded during World War I in 1915, driving pickups in the London docks. She married the Hon. Derek William Charles Keppel, Viscount Bury on 10 December 1940. He shared her interest in aviation, serving as a captain in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and was seconded to the Royal Air Force from 1938 to 1942. The couple had two daughters before their divorce in 1958, Elizabeth Mairi and Rose Deirdre Margaret.
Bury lived most of her life at Mount Stewart, both before and after her divorce. Her father had a strained relationship with Bury's brother, his only son, which led to Bury and her mother inheriting the Mount Stewart estate after the 7th Marquess of Londonderry's death in 1949. Bury was a keen gardener, maintaining the gardens created by her mother. The gardens were given to the National Trust in 1957 to ensure their survival. Bury stayed on the estate, living in an apartment after she gave the house and most of the contents in 1976 to the trust. She generally avoided contact with the thousands of visitors who came to the estate. Bury served as a Justice of the Peace in County Down, but was a stanch opponent of the Good Friday Agreement. She broke with family tradition and left the Ulster Unionist Party to join the Democratic Unionist Party, as she felt it was the only way that the interests of Northern Ireland could be guaranteed.
Bury was the life president of Ards Football Club and served as commodore of Newtownards Sailing Club. She was also a racehorse owner, owning the first thoroughbred stud in Northern Ireland. With her horse "Fighting Charlie", she won the Gold Cup at Ascot twice, and with "Northern Gleam" the Irish Thousand Guineas once. At the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society's show at Balmoral, Belfast, Bury regularly exhibited yearlings and colts.
From the age of eight, Bury was a lifelong philatelist. She searched for rarities, collecting letters and envelopes connected to scandals or notorious events of the 19th century. She always kept her collection to hand, never in a bank vault or safe, so that she could work on it at any time. For her knowledge, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Bury owned a number of the rarest stamps in the world. When Sotheby's put her collection up for sale after her death, they described it as the finest collection to be sold in more than 25 years, and possibly the finest ever to have been amassed by a woman. Her collection ran to ten of thousands of stamps, with examples of every Penny Black produced including an unissued Penny Black from April 1840, and one from the first day postage stamps were officially used, 6 May 1840. In total her collection sold for £3,045,924 in 2,185 lots.
Bury died on 16 November 2009 at Mount Stewart. She is buried in the family burial ground in the garden at Mount Stewart, Tír na nÓg. A fountain in the gardens in Mount Stewart was restored in 2012. Margaret Wrightson was commissioned in 1925 to create the fountain and it was modeled after Bury as a toddler.
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Minnesota Scenic Byways
Minnesota Scenic Byways are a system of roads in the U.S. state of Minnesota which pass through areas of scenic, cultural, or recreational significance. There are currently 22 scenic byways in the system with a total length of . Eight of these byways are also designated as National Scenic Byways, and the North Shore Scenic Drive is further designated as an All-American Road.
Minnesota's scenic byway program was established in 1992 as a joint effort between the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Office of Tourism, and Minnesota Historical Society. The Minnesota Scenic Byways Commission began designating byways in 1994.
Apple Blossom Drive Scenic Byway is a route in southeastern Minnesota that runs from La Crescent to U.S. Highway 61 north of Donehower. The highway meets the Great River Road at both ends and provides access to Great River Bluffs State Park. As its name suggests, many apple orchards are along the highway.
Avenue of Pines Scenic Byway consists of the entirety of Minnesota State Highway 46, a road which connects U.S. Highway 2 in Deer River to the south with Minnesota State Highway 1 in Northome. The route passes through the Chippewa National Forest and provides views of pine stands and several lakes, including Lake Winnibigoshish.
Edge of the Wilderness National Scenic Byway consists of the entirety of Minnesota State Highway 38, a road which links U.S. Highway 2 in Grand Rapids with Minnesota State Highway 1 in Effie. A former logging road, the byway passes several lakes and enters the Chippewa National Forest.
Glacial Ridge Trail Scenic Byway is a route in central Minnesota with several loops and spurs. The landscape along the route was formed by glaciers, the evidence of which can be seen in its many glacial lakes and ridges. Sibley State Park, Monson Lake State Park, and Glacial Lakes State Park are along the byway.
Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway is a network of roads, bicycle paths, and pedestrian paths in Minneapolis and its neighboring suburbs. The byway begins in downtown Minneapolis and follows the Mississippi River to the city's southern edge before looping along its western and northern borders. It connects downtown attractions, numerous parks and historic sites, and the city's Chain of Lakes.
The Great River Road follows the Mississippi River on both banks from its source in Minnesota to its mouth in Louisiana, entering ten states in total. The Minnesota portion of the road connects its source at Itasca State Park to the Iowa border in the state's southeastern tip. Along the way, the road passes through twenty of the state's counties and several of its major cities, including both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway is a road following County Road 12 in Cook County, Minnesota's northeastern tip. The byway begins in Grand Marais and passes through Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Many recreational opportunities exist along the road, including lakes with fishing and canoe access, hiking trails, and campsites.
Historic Bluff Country National Scenic Byway is an alternate designation for Minnesota State Highway 16, an highway in southeastern Minnesota. The route follows the Root River through the hills, bluffs, and valleys of the Driftless Area. The river provides fishing, canoeing, and other recreational opportunities. Much of Minnesota's Amish population lives along the route.
The Highway 75 King of Trails Scenic Byway includes all of U.S. Highway 75's route through western Minnesota. The highway passes through Minnesota's prairie regions and passes Pipestone National Monument as well as multiple state parks.
Lady Slipper Scenic Byway is a route between U.S. Highway 2 in Cass Lake and U.S. Highway 71 in Blackduck. The route passes through the Chippewa National Forest and features views of many lakes and forested areas. It also provides access to the Rabideau CCC Camp. Its name comes from the lady slippers which bloom in the area in summer.
Lake Country Scenic Byway is a three-legged route in north central Minnesota. Its legs meet in Park Rapids and lead to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Itasca State Park, and Walker. The route passes many of Minnesota's lakes and provides birdwatching opportunities through access to the Pine to Prairie Birding Trail and Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.
Lake Mille Lacs Scenic Byway is a road encircling Lake Mille Lacs. The road includes parts of Minnesota State Highway 18, Minnesota State Highway 27, Minnesota State Highway 47, and Minnesota State Highway 169. Attractions along the byway include Father Hennepin State Park, Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, views of the lake and Mille Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, and several historic sites.
Minnesota River Valley National Scenic Byway is a highway following the Minnesota River from its source at Big Stone Lake to Belle Plaine. The route passes through several small riverside towns and access points to canoeing on the river. It also connects several historic sites related to the Dakota people and the Dakota War of 1862.
North Shore Scenic Drive is a route that follows the North Shore of Lake Superior between Duluth and Grand Portage. While much of the route is shared with Minnesota State Highway 61, it follows county highways which run closer to the lake along its southern portions. The byway links seven of Minnesota's state parks, Split Rock Lighthouse, historic sites related to the fishing and fur trading industries, and the Superior Hiking Trail.
Otter Trail Scenic Byway is an loop route in Otter Tail County. The route passes Glendalough State Park, Maplewood State Park, and hundreds of lakes. It also runs through several of the county's main cities, including the county seat of Fergus Falls, and historic sites.
Paul Bunyan National Scenic Byway is a route through central Minnesota. The highway, which takes its name from the legend of Paul Bunyan, runs through an area with numerous lakes and connects the resort towns of Crosslake, Pequot Lakes, and Pine River. Recreational opportunities along the byway include fishing, cycling, hiking, and bird watching.
Saint Croix Scenic Byway is a route that follows the St. Croix River, which forms part of Minnesota's eastern border. The route runs from U.S. Highway 10 near Hastings to Sandstone. The byway connects the flatter landscapes of southern Minnesota with the forested, hilly landscapes of northern Minnesota.
Shooting Star Scenic Byway is a route which follows part of Minnesota State Highway 56 in southern Minnesota. One of the first scenic byways designated for wildflower viewing, the route provides views of wildflowers and native grasses managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Lake Louise State Park and several small towns are along the byway.
Skyline Parkway is a route overlooking Duluth and Lake Superior. The byway provides scenic views, birdwatching at Hawk Ridge, and access to mountain biking and hiking paths. Numerous waterfalls can be seen from the route.
Superior National Forest Scenic Byway is a through the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota. Passing through a sparsely populated area, the byway provides scenic forest views and access to hawk watching and boating sites. Historic sites such as the Toimi School and the Timber Arch Bridge can also be found along the route.
Veterans Evergreen Memorial Drive is a route following Minnesota State Highway 23 from Interstate 35 at Banning State Park to Duluth. The highway serves as a scenic bypass of Interstate 35 for travelers between the Twin Cities and Duluth. It also crosses several rivers and creeks with fishing and canoeing access.
Waters of the Dancing Sky Scenic Byway runs for near Minnesota's northern border, linking the North Dakota border with Voyageurs National Park. The western section of the byway, between North Dakota and Warroad follows the Pine to Prairie Birding Trail, which features birdwatching opportunities. The section from Warroad to Baudette passes through areas full of wildflowers, particularly lady slippers. A spur from Baudette connects the route to Zippel Bay State Park. East of Baudette, the route follows the Rainy River, a popular fishing site. The byway's name comes from a nickname for the Aurora Borealis, which can be seen from many points along the route.
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