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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20Block%2C%20New%20Zealand
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Bell Block, New Zealand
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Bell Block is a town in Taranaki, New Zealand. State Highway 3 runs through it. It is 6 km north-east of the centre of New Plymouth and 1 km from the outer edge of New Plymouth at Waiwhakaiho. Waitara is about 9 km to the north-east. New Plymouth Airport is located immediately to the north-east of Bell Block.
History and culture
The land was purchased in November 1848 by Dillon Bell from the Puketapu iwi. The initial purchase was but more land was added subsequently. Disagreements over the sale of the land contributed to the First Taranaki War. A blockhouse was built by local settlers in early 1860, in order to protect their homes and farms during heightened tensions just prior to the advent of the First Taranaki War. When government troops arrived, a full stockade was built at the site, known as Bell Block Stockade, Bell Blockhouse or Hua Blockhouse. During this time, almost all Bell Block residents took refuge at New Plymouth. Some of the earthworks continued until 1972 when a hotel was built on the site.
Much of New Plymouth's heavy and medium industry is situated around Bell Block, which led to heavy traffic congestion. Construction of an arterial bypass of the town commenced in late 2006. A previously unknown Māori Pā site was discovered during site investigations and was excavated by archaeologists prior to construction.
Marae
Muru Raupatu marae and meeting house is a meeting place for the Puketapu hapū.
In October 2020, the Government committed $817,845 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade it and Te Kohanga Moa marae, creating 15 jobs.
Demographics
Bell Block covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Bell Block had a population of 7,041 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,182 people (20.2%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 2,463 people (53.8%) since the 2006 census. There were 2,454 households, comprising 3,420 males and 3,624 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.94 males per female, with 1,476 people (21.0%) aged under 15 years, 1,386 (19.7%) aged 15 to 29, 2,961 (42.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,215 (17.3%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 79.6% European/Pākehā, 18.3% Māori, 3.8% Pacific peoples, 10.7% Asian, and 2.1% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 20.4, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 49.5% had no religion, 37.3% were Christian, 0.8% had Māori religious beliefs, 2.4% were Hindu, 0.7% were Muslim, 0.7% were Buddhist and 1.9% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 804 (14.4%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 1,254 (22.5%) people had no formal qualifications. 915 people (16.4%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,649 (47.6%) people were employed full-time, 792 (14.2%) were part-time, and 210 (3.8%) were unemployed.
Features and attractions
The Waipu Lagoons are North Taranaki's only wetland area. The lagoons are home to a variety of wildlife, and are an important natural home for the endangered Australasian bittern.
In December 2014 the northern end of New Plymouth's coastal walkway was extended from Hickford Park, Bell Block through to Tirimoana Crescent, making it possible to cycle or walk from Bell Block into central New Plymouth.
The construction of Taranaki's first world-class BMX facility began in Bell Block in July 2015 and was completed in early 2016.
The BMX track is the latest addition to the Bell Block cycle park, which includes a 1.75 km closed road circuit with two separate 1 km loops and a 333-meter velodrome. The cycle park also has a collection of tracks for children including a miniature town route with traffic lights, a roundabout, railway crossing, accessible car parks, pedestrian crossing and speed bumps, all scaled down to 60 per cent of the original size, to help teach children safety while cycling.
Education
Bell Block School and Puketapu School are coeducational full primary (years 1–8) schools with rolls of and students respectively as of Bell Block School celebrated the 150th anniversary of education in Bell Block in 2006. The present school dates from 1872. Puketapu School was built in 1980.
Notes
Further reading
General historical works
Clubs and organisations
Maori
New Zealand Wars
Schools
External links
Bell Block School website
Puketapu School website
Populated places in Taranaki
New Plymouth District
Black sand beaches
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristidactylus%20volcanensis
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Pristidactylus volcanensis
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Pristidactylus volcanensis is a species of lizard in the family Leiosauridae. The species is endemic to Chile.
References
Pristidactylus
Reptiles of Chile
Reptiles described in 1987
Endemic fauna of Chile
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Typhoon Noruda
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is a 2015 Japanese animated youth school fantasy film produced by Studio Colorido and directed by Yōjirō Arai. It was released on June 5, 2015. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the film.
Plot
The film takes place at a school in Japan where a group of students and their teacher have to wait out a storm that is passing by. The protagonist Azuma has been fighting with his best friend Saijo and has a lot on his mind when he encounters a girl (Noruda) with a mysterious necklace. The girl seems to be in trouble and somehow connected to the storm. Azuma is taken over by a strong will to help this enchanting girl. Who is she and why is she in the middle of the storm? Can Azuma be any help to her? Why is his relationship with Saijo in such turmoil? The story combines little everyday problems and joys with an adventure that is out of this world.
Cast
References
External links
2010s animated short films
2015 fantasy films
2015 films
2015 anime films
Anime short films
Japanese animated fantasy films
Noitamina
Studio Colorido
School life in anime and manga
Sentai Filmworks
2015 directorial debut films
Films about weather hazards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia%20at%20the%202022%20World%20Athletics%20Championships
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Estonia at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
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Estonia competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from 15 to 24 July 2022. Estonia entered 5 athletes.
Results
Men
Track and road events
Combined events – Decathlon
Women
Field events
References
Nations at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
World Championships in Athletics
2022
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veldanda
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Veldanda
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Veldanda is a Mandal in Nagarkurnool, Telangana, India.
Mandal Parishath
ZPTC member
Institutions
Primary School
Girls Upper Primary School
Zilla Parishad High School for Girls
Zilla Parishad High School
Government Junior College
Villages
The villages in Veldanda mandal include:
Ajilapur
Bhairapoor
Bollampally
Chandrayanpalle
Chedurvalli
Cherkur
Chokkanapally
Chowderpally
Gokaram
Jupally
Kotra
Kuppagandla
Peddapur
Pothepalle
Rachur
Sheriappareddipalle
Thandra
Veldanda
Lingareddypally
Konetivada
Gundala
bandonipally
Kantonipally
Challapally
Ankamonikunta
Narayanapur
Raghaipally
Thimmanonipally
Buddonipally
Kareevanipally
Erravally
References
Mandals in Nagarkurnool district
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Lomatium cookii
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Lomatium cookii is a rare species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names Cook's lomatium and agate desertparsley. It is endemic to Oregon in the United States, where it grows in only two valleys. It is a federally listed endangered species.
This plant was first collected in 1981 during a survey for the rare Limnanthes floccosa ssp. grandiflora, the big-flowered woolly meadowfoam. It was described as a new species in 1986. The plant grows only in the Agate Desert of Jackson County and the Illinois Valley of Josephine County in southwestern Oregon. It occurs in vernally wet habitat types, including vernal pools and adjacent mounds and wet floodplains. One population of the plant occurs at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, where soil has been deposited over hardpan such that conditions are similar to vernal pool margins, allowing it to take hold there. Other plants that can be found in the vernal pool and floodplain habitat types include Limnanthes floccosa (woolly meadowfoam), Alopecurus geniculatus (water foxtail), Deschampsia danthonioides (annual hairgrass), Danthonia californica (California oatgrass), Poa scabrella (pine bluegrass), and Brodiaea spp. (brodiaeas or clusterlilies).
Description
This is a perennial herb growing or tall. The leaves are located around the base of the stem. They have blades up to long that are intricately dissected into many small, narrow lobes. The inflorescence is an umbel bearing clusters of yellow flowers on several ascending branches. The fruit is roughly by wide and is lined with thick, corky wings.
Endangered species
This plant was added to the Endangered Species List in 2002 because it is rare and its habitat is being destroyed and degraded. Vernal pools have nearly disappeared from an area where they were once widespread in this section of Oregon as the land has been consumed for agriculture, pastures, residential tracts, industrial operations, and commercial areas. Land not directly destroyed has been altered in such a way that its hydrology no longer supports vernal pool ecosystems. The blacktop of roads and parking lots produces runoff, and irrigation and ditches distribute water differently. Additionally, habitat fragmentation has occurred as the land was sectioned for use and bisected by roads and other structures. In 2002 the plant was known from only 15 sites in Jackson County and 21 sites in Josephine County.
References
External links
Lomatium cookii. ODA Plant Division, Plant Conservation.
Photo gallery
cookii
Flora of Oregon
Plants described in 1986
Endemic flora of Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympicene
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Olympicene
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Olympicene is an organic carbon-based molecule formed of five rings, of which four are benzene rings, joined in the shape of the Olympic rings.
The molecule was conceived in March 2010 as a way to celebrate the 2012 London Olympics by Graham Richards of University of Oxford and Antony Williams. It was first synthesized by researchers Anish Mistry and David Fox of the University of Warwick in the UK. Relative energies of olympicene and its isomers were first predicted from quantum electronic-structure computations by Andrew Valentine and David Mazziotti of the University of Chicago.
Electron counting
Olympicene has 18 pi electrons in its ring system; as it is a flat molecule, this makes it an aromatic molecule. The central ring is not an aromatic ring.
Related compounds
A very similar molecule (benzo[c]phenanthrene) which lacks the -CH2- spacer between the two sides of the molecule has been known for many years. This earlier molecule has been studied by X-ray crystallography and due to the steric clash between two hydrogen atoms the molecule is not flat. It is likely that the olympicene is flatter as no steric clash will exist between the two rings.
A molecule where the -CH2- spacer has been replaced with a ketone (C=O) group (naphthanthrone) has been known for decades. Molecules where the CH2 spacer has been replaced with oxygen and sulfur atoms have been known for some time. The sulfur compound has a C-S-C angle of 104.53° which suggests that the sulfur atom is an sp3 hybridized atom rather than being sp2. This suggests that the sulfur atom is not part of the pi system of the molecule.
Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff of the University of Nottingham has pointed out that the Olympic rings are interlinked, rather than tangent as in olympicene, and that a better likeness could be made using catenanes. A catenane-based olympic molecule was synthesized in 1994 by Fraser Stoddart and given the name olympiadane.
Synthesis
The synthesis starts using a Wittig reaction of pyrene carboxaldehyde. To obtain the ylide needed, firstly triphenyl phosphine is reacted with ethyl bromoacetate to form a phosphonium salt; after treatment of this salt with a mild base, the ylide can be reacted with the aldehyde in toluene. After hydrogenation of the alpha,beta unsaturated carbonyl compound using hydrogen and palladium in ethyl acetate the ester was converted into the acid chloride using potassium hydroxide, acid and then thionyl chloride. By means of a Friedel–Crafts reaction using aluminium chloride in dichloromethane a ketone was formed. On reduction of this ketone using lithium aluminium hydride the alcohol 3,4-dihydro-5H-benzo[cd]pyren-5-ol was obtained, the 3,4-dihydro-5H-benzo[cd]pyren-5-ol was treated with an acid in the form of ion exchange resin to furnish the product.
Images
Preliminary images of it were made using scanning tunnelling microscopy. More detailed images were made by IBM researchers in Zurich using non-contact atomic force microscopy in 2012.
See also
List of chemical compounds with unusual names
Olympiadane
References
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic culture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Georg%20von%20M%C3%B6llendorff
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Paul Georg von Möllendorff
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Paul Georg von Möllendorff (17 February 1847 in Zehdenick, Prussia – 20 April 1901 in Ningbo, China) was a German linguist and diplomat. Möllendorff is mostly known for his service as an adviser to the Korean king Gojong in the late nineteenth century and for his contributions to Sinology. In English-language publications, Möllendorff is often credited with having designed a system for romanizing the Manchu language, which was in fact the creation of his compatriot Hans Conon von der Gabelentz
Early life
Hailing from the Prussian aristocratic family von Möllendorf, Paul Georg von Möllendorff was the son of Georg von Möllendorff, a high-ranking Prussian civil servant. The young Möllendorff attended gymnasium in Görlitz and he enrolled at University of Halle in 1865, where he studied law, oriental studies and philology. Möllendorff showed a strong aptitude for the study of classical and foreign languages and acquired a good command of Hebrew, but did not study any East Asian languages at the time.
China
In 1869, Möllendorff interrupted his studies and went to China in order to join the Imperial Maritime Customs Service in Shanghai. While working for the Customs in Shanghai and later Hankou, Möllendorff acquired a good command of Chinese and quickly passed the required language exam. However, he soon grew dissatisfied with his tasks in the service and left it in 1874 in order to join the German consular service as an interpreter and was eventually promoted German vice-consul in Tianjin. During his service in Tianjin, Möllendorff befriended Ma Jianzhong, who worked in the secretariat of the prominent Qing statesman, governor-general Li Hongzhang. In 1879, Möllendorff assisted Li in procuring weapons and warships from the German companies Vulkan and Krupp. In 1881, Möllendorff left the German consular service because of his complicated relationship to the German minister in Beijing, Max von Brandt.
Korea
In 1882, Li Hongzhang recommended Möllendorff to the position of the adviser to the Korean government and in December 1882, he arrived in Seoul for his first audience with King Gojong. Möllendorff quickly learned enough Korean to be able to communicate with the king and soon earned the trust of the king, who appointed him deputy foreign minister and charged him with the establishment of the Korean Customs Service. Möllendorff adopted the Sino-Korean name Mok In-dok ( Mok Indeok, Mù Líndé in Mandarin) and soon became a very influential figure in the Korean government.
Möllendorff wanted to assert the independence of Korea and contrary to the wishes of Li Hongzhang and Robert Hart, he wanted to make the Korean Customs Service as independent from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service as possible. Möllendorff also advocated that Korea enter into an alliance with the Russian Empire to counterbalance Chinese and Japanese influences on the Korean peninsula. In response to this, the British occupied the Korean island of Geomun by force, calling it Port Hamilton. Consequently, the Qing government felt that Möllendorff acted too independently and in 1885 Li Hongzhang forced Möllendorff's resignation from the Korean government. In 1888, King Gojong unsuccessfully tried to reinstate Möllendorff.
Scholarly work and later life
Having left his position in Korean government, Möllendorff returned to work in the Imperial Maritime Customs and became Commissioner of Customs in the southern treaty port of Ningbo, where he would spend the last days of his life. In Ningbo, he worked to improve the customs service and also wrote a number of works on Sinology. Between 1896 and 1897 he was the president of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
See also
Transliterations of Manchu
Sources
Lee Yur-Bok. West Goes East: Paul Georg Von Möllendorff and Great Power Imperialism in Late Yi Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.
Further reading
Lensen, G. A. (1989) Balance of Intrigue: International Rivalry in Korea & Manchuria, 1884–1899. University Press of Florida (2 vols.). Vol. 1: Ch. 1, "The Mysterious Herr von Möllendorff".
Selected works
Public domain
English
(Harvard University)
(the University of California)
(Harvard University)
(Harvard University)
(with Otto Franz von Möllendorff.) Manual of Chinese Bibliography, Being a List of Works and Essays Relating to China. Shanghai, London: Kelly & Walsh, Trübner & co., 1876.
"Essay on Manchu Literature." Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 24, no. 113 (1889–90): 1-45.
Shanghai, 1892.
"Die Juden in China." In Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums. (1895): 327–331
Ningpo Colloquial Handbook. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910.
French
(Harvard University) (Translated by Rodolphe de Castella)
German
(the University of Michigan)
(the University of Michigan)
(the University of California)
(Harvard University)
Modern reprints
(Translated by Rodolphe De Castella )
(Translated by Rodolphe De Castella )
External links
Article by Hans-Alexander Kneider (in German)
1847 births
1901 deaths
People from Zehdenick
German expatriates in China
German expatriates in Korea
Linguists from Germany
German diplomats
German untitled nobility
People from the Province of Brandenburg
Joseon people
Manchurologists
German sinologists
German male non-fiction writers
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Ben Hills
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Ben Hills (1942 – 10 June 2018) was an Australian freelance journalist and author.
Early life and career
Hills was born in Grassington, England and migrated with his family to Australia in 1959. He worked on various regional newspapers before being hired as an investigative reporter by The Age in Melbourne in 1969. He worked for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald as a London-based foreign correspondent in the mid-1970s then as a Hong-Kong based publisher during the 1980s. Returning to Melbourne, Hills became assistant editor of The Age. He spent four years as a producer for 60 Minutes. Hills became the Fairfax Japan correspondent from 1992 to 1995 and then lived in Sydney. He wrote six books, and after leaving Fairfax worked as a freelancer for SBS TV and other media outlets.
Hills died from cancer in Sydney on 10 June 2018.
Awards
2016 – John Newfong Award for Outstanding Indigenous Reporting
2010 – Alex Buzo Prize for Excellence in Research.
1991 – Walkley Award for investigative reporting
1989 – Highly Commended, Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award
Bibliography
Stop the presses: how greed, incompetence (and the internet) wrecked Fairfax. ABC Books, Sydney, 2014.
Breaking news: the golden age of Graham Perkin Scribe, Melbourne 2010. About the Australian editor Graham Perkin.
The island of the ancients: the secrets of Sardinia's Centenarians Murdoch Books, Sydney 2008
Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne Tarcher/Penguin, New York 2006
Japan behind the lines Sydney : Hodder Headline, Melbourne 1996
Blue murder: two thousand doomed to die, the shocking truth about Wittenoom's deadly dust Sun Books, Melbourne 1989
References
External links
Official website
1942 births
2018 deaths
Australian freelance journalists
English emigrants to Australia
People from Grassington
Deaths from cancer in New South Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20at%20the%202011%20Pan%20American%20Games%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20cross-country
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Cycling at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's cross-country
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The men's cross-country competition of the cycling events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on October 15 at the Pan American Mountain Bike Circuit in Tapalpa. The defending Pan American Games champion is Adam Craig of the United States, while the defending Pan American Championship, champion is Hector Paez of Colombia.
Schedule
All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
Results
21 competitors from 12 countries are scheduled to compete.
Did not finish
Disqualified
Did not start
References
Cycling at the 2011 Pan American Games
Mountain biking at the Pan American Games
2011 in mountain biking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysojasminum%20humile
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Chrysojasminum humile
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Chrysojasminum humile (syn. Jasminum humile), the Italian jasmine or yellow jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae, native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma (Myanmar), the Himalayas and south west China (Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan). The species is widely cultivated and reportedly naturalized in Greece, Sicily and the former Yugoslavia.
Growing tall by wide, it is a roundish semi-evergreen shrub with thick stems. It has stout, dark green leaves, 5 cm long, with 5-7 imparipinnate leaflets. In protected areas it retains its leaves over winter, though in cold winters its foliage and buds may freeze. It blooms in spring and summer with clusters of usually six yellow, scented flowers.
Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use, of which 'Revolutum' (syn. J. reevesii
) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Etymology
Jasminum is a Latinized version of the Persian name yasemin, or Arabic name, yasamin, which refers to scented plants.
The Latin specific epithet humile means "low-growing".
References
humile
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Flora of Afghanistan
Flora of Tajikistan
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Flora of Myanmar
Flora of Tibet
Flora of Gansu
Flora of Guizhou
Flora of Sichuan
Flora of Yunnan
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Just Married (disambiguation)
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Just Married is a 2003 American romantic comedy film.
Just Married may also refer to:
Just Married (1928 film), a 1928 American comedy silent film
Just Married (2007 film), a 2007 Bollywood film
"Just Married" (song), a 1958 single by Marty Robbins
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Tragia ramosa
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Tragia ramosa is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family known by the common names branched noseburn and desert tragia.
It is native to the southern Great Plains, South Central, and Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. It grows in scrub, woodland, and other desert and plateau habitat.
Description
Tragia ramosa is a perennial herb growing mostly erect, measuring 10 to 30 centimeters in maximum height. It is covered in long, rough stinging hairs. The leaves have lance-shaped or oval blades with toothed edges which are borne on petioles.
The plant is monoecious. Its inflorescence contains a few male flowers and usually one female flower. The flowers lack petals but have green sepals.
The female flower yields a small capsule.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery
ramosa
Flora of Northeastern Mexico
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the United States
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of the South-Central United States
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Flora of the Mexican Plateau
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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Angler POW escape
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In April 1941, inmates at the Angler POW Camp near Neys Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Superior planned the largest escape from a Canadian POW camp during World War II. The escape was the largest of its kind in Ontario, Canada.
Angler Camp background
The Angler Camp was designed to hold prisoners who were a threat to Canada. As a result, several German POWs were held there; however, the Angler Camp held not only enemy soldiers but also innocent Japanese Canadian citizens (who were not placed in the camp until about a year after the escape attempt). There were over 650 people of Japanese descent in the camp by the summer of 1942. Though they stayed in a camp with people who had threatened safety of Canadian citizens, the innocent Japanese Canadians had done nothing but been born into a Japanese family. They were not alone, however, as many other Canadian and American prisoner of war camps of World War II also held innocent citizens of foreign descent.
Plan of escape
The prisoners' plan to escape included tools made from whatever they could find at the camp. For example, compasses were made from magnetized needles, prisoner uniforms were modeled to look like civilian clothes, and candles were made from tin cans filled with fat. A radio was obtained by blackmailing a guard and hidden inside a model of the German battleship, Bismarck.
A tunnel was dug 45 m (150 ft) long that reached outside the wall, with side tunnels entering some of the barracks. The ground under and around the camp was mostly sand, making it easier for the prisoners to dig a tunnel. This, however, also made the ground less stable, and the prisoners faced the challenge of supporting the tunnel. They made reinforcements from wood braces taken from under the barracks. Unfortunately, three days of rain began to fill the tunnel with water. By noon on April 18, 1941, the day of the escape, the tunnel was already filled with 30 cm (12 inches) of water. That night, 80 prisoners attempted to escape; 28 made it outside the walls. The initial intent was for 100 prisoners to escape, but the escape was interrupted, when a guard heard noises made by the prisoners and alerted the rest of the camp.
Killed or recaptured
Five of the escaped prisoners were found sleeping in a construction site, and were shot. The original report stated that they had rushed the two Canadian soldiers who found them, but later research indicated that four had been shot while still lying down, killing two of them, while the fifth had run into a nearby forest, where he was quickly captured.
Four others boarded a boxcar on a freight train, but were arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers riding on board. Most of the others were quickly apprehended. However, two prisoners, Horst Liebeck and Karl Heinz-Grund, boarded a westbound freight train and made it to Medicine Hat, Alberta before being recaptured and returned to the Angler camp. Though they were given 28 days of solitary confinement at the Camp for their actions, they were asked to sign autographs in Alberta before returning and were greeted upon their return by the Commandant who said, "As a sportsman, I congratulate you…" Horst Liebeck was sent back to Germany after the War with the other POWs, but he later returned to Canada and got a job there.
Remembrance
Doug Mackey of Community Voices wrote an article called "Prisoners of War: Lest We Forget" that talks about the Gravenhurst Camp and Angler Camp, telling how important it is to remember the camps and the treatment of the prisoners in them.
References
External links
1941 in Canada
Conflicts in 1941
Military history of Ontario
POW escapes and rescues during World War II
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The Airport Sector (abbreviated as the APS) is one of the sectors of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), a Central Armed Police Force of India. The sector is responsible for providing security coverage to civil airports in India under the regulatory frame work of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, Ministry of Civil Aviation. Headed by a special director general of police-rank officer and headquartered at New Delhi, it is the largest sector of CISF in terms of number of personnel deployed. It provides security coverage to 65 national and international airports in the country.
History
The security of commercial airports in India was under the control of airport police of respective states where the relevant airports were situated before it was decided that a single agency should hold this responsibility. After the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 on 7 December 1999, the Government of India decided on 7 January 2000 to hand over the security of airports in the country to the Central Industrial Security Force in a phased manner. The first such induction of CISF happened on 3 February 2000 when it took over the security of Jaipur Airport in Rajasthan. The process of inducting CISF at the different airports was accelerated after the September 11 attacks in the United States in which four passenger aeroplanes were hijacked by terrorists.
Structure
The Central Industrial Security Force is divided into various sectors with each headed by an inspector general-rank officer known as the Sector Inspector General. However, being the largest of all the sectors of CISF comprising the largest deployment of personnel, the Airport Sector is headed by an officer of the rank special director general; this post is currently held by Gyanendra Singh Malik, an Indian Police Service 1993-batch officer from Gujarat -cadre. The sector is further divided into two sub-sectors: Airport Sector-1 (APS-1) headed by Vijay Prakash IPS (UP cadre 1996 batch) with headquarters in New Delhi and Airport Sector-2 (APS-2) headed by Jose Mohan IPS (Rajasthan cadre 2002 batch) with headquarters in Bangalore, each is headed by an inspector general of police. The Airport Sector-1 consists of Airport North Zone with headquarters in New Delhi and Airport East and Northeast Zone with headquarters in Kolkata. Similarly, the Airport Sector-2 is divided into two zones: Airport West Zone with headquarters in Mumbai and Airport South Zone with headquarters in Chennai.
Dog Squad
In 2021, The DIG of CISF said that the dog squad was 'an important component of the force'. The dogs are trained to sniff and identify IEDs and narcotics. While working with the bomb disposal squad they screen the bags left unattended. As of 2021, the CISF team in charge of Chennai Airport security has a dog squad of 9 dogs.
Security coverage
The Central Industrial Security Force is the "national civil aviation security force" responsible for providing security coverage to 65 commercial airports including the most recent additions to the list Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport, Srinagar, Jammu Airport and Surat Airport . It has also taken over the security of Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport in Ladakh.
References
Sectors of Central Industrial Security Force
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Freda Kelly (born 14 July 1945) is an Irish secretary who was employed by the Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein from 1962 through 1972, and was president of the group's official fan club. Kelly worked with the band as it rose from local popularity to world-wide fame, and through its dissolution. A 2013 documentary, Good Ol' Freda, chronicled Kelly's ten-plus year association with the group and its members.
Background
Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland to Irish parents. When she was 13, her family moved from Sandymount in Dublin to Liverpool, where by the early 1960s she had found work as a typist. She became a fan of the Beatles after seeing them perform at the nearby Cavern Club, and soon became a devoted regular – by her own estimation, attending almost 200 of their shows, usually during her lunch break. The lunchtime shows were more casual than the evening performances, and in time Kelly struck up friendships with the members of the band.
Beatles Fan Club
Freda took over the role of the Beatles official fan club secretary from Roberta "Bobby" Brown.
When Brian Epstein undertook the management of the group at the beginning of 1962, he asked Kelly – already a familiar face to Epstein and the band – if she would take over the role of secretary from Bobby who could no longer spare the time. Kelly, who was seventeen years old at the time, took the job against her father's advice.
One of her first tasks was organization of a Beatles Fan Club. Unwisely, as Bobby had previously done she supplied her home address as the club's mailing address, and her house was inundated with hundreds of letters every day. Later she changed the official address to that of Epstein's office. Kelly was responsible for responding to fans' letters, often staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning to do so. She also oversaw publication of a monthly fan club magazine.
Kelly had almost daily contact with the Beatles in the band's early days, when they would frequently visit Epstein's office. Over time Kelly became a trusted confidante to each of the Beatles, who valued her hard work and discretion.
In 1965 Epstein moved his offices from Liverpool to London. Kelly wanted to move to London as well, but her father forbade it. Epstein and the Beatles, not wishing to lose her services, offered to let her continue her employment in Liverpool with visits to London a few days a month. This arrangement was acceptable to Kelly's father.
After Epstein's death in 1967, Kelly continued to work for the Beatles. She married and became a mother, but officially ended her work for the group only in 1972, and even then continued to respond to fan club mail for three years thereafter.
Later life
After leaving the Beatles' employ, Kelly took other secretarial jobs. She resisted repeated offers to write a book about her experiences, gave away most of her Beatles memorabilia to fans in the mid-1970s, and rarely – if ever – spoke of her time with the band. Following the death of her son and the birth of her grandson, however, she agreed to allow a documentary to be filmed, and turned to filmmaker and family friend Ryan White. At the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, they raised almost $60,000 for production costs.
Good Ol' Freda premiered at the SXSW Film Festival 2013 in Austin, Texas. The title of the film comes from the 1963 Beatles' Christmas record, the first of a series of special records created each year by the group for its fan club members. On the 1963 recording George Harrison thanks Freda Kelly for her work, and the other three Beatles call out "Good old Freda!"
Legacy
The children's animated series Beat Bugs, which takes the music of the Beatles and applies them to life lessons, features a character named Freda.
References
External links
1945 births
Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom
Living people
People from Sandymount
Secretaries
The Beatles
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Sherouk Sayed Abdou Farhan (, born 26 November 1999) is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Romanian club FCU Olimpia Cluj and the Egyptian national team. She participated with the Egyptian women's national football team in the 2016 African Nations Cup. She also played for Wadi Degla Club.
Club career
Farhan plays for Egyptian Women's Premier League club Wadi Degla.
International career
In 2016, at the age of 16, Farhan was promoted to the senior team and made the 21 woman squad for 2016 African Nations Cup hosted by Cameroon.
References
External links
1999 births
Living people
Egyptian women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
Wadi Degla S.C. (women) players
FCU Olimpia Cluj players
Egypt women's international footballers
Egyptian expatriate women's footballers
Egyptian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Expatriate women's footballers in Romania
Egyptian Women's Premier League players
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Feels So Good
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Feels So Good or Feel So Good may refer to:
Albums
Feels So Good (Atomic Kitten album), 2002, or its title track
Feels So Good (Chuck Mangione album), 1977, or its title track (see below)
Feels So Good (Grover Washington, Jr. album), 1975, or the title track
Songs
"Feels So Good" (composition), a 1978 instrumental by Chuck Mangione
"Feels So Good" (Mel B song)
"Feels So Good" (Xscape song)
"Feels So Good (Show Me Your Love)", a 1996 song by Lina Santiago
"It Feels So Good", a 1998 song by Sonique
"(It) Feels So Good", a 2011 song by Steven Tyler
"Feels So Good", a song by 311 from Music
"Feels So Good" (Armin van Buuren song)
"Feels So Good", a 2001 song by B-15 Project
"Feels So Good", a song by Brand Nubian from One for All
"Feels So Good", a song by Kylie Minogue from Kiss Me Once
"Feels So Good", a song by Van Halen from OU812
"Feel So Good", a 1997 song by Mase
"Feel So Good", a 1955 song by Shirley & Lee, later a hit for Johnny Preston as "Feel So Fine"
"Feel So Good", a song by Ashanti from Chapter II
"Feel So Good", a song by B.A.P from Carnival
"Feel So Good", a song by Christine and the Queens from Chris
"Feel So Good", a song by Jamiroquai from A Funk Odyssey
"Feel So Good", a song by Jefferson Airplane from Bark
"Feel So Good", a song by Jon the Dentist
See also
Feel Good (disambiguation)
Feeling Good (disambiguation)
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William King (16 March 1685 – 30 December 1763) was an English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719, He was known for strongly held Jacobite views, and as a satirist and poet.
Early life
Born at Stepney, Middlesex, on 16 March 1685, he was the son of the Rev. Peregrine King and Margaret, daughter of Sir William Smyth, bart., of Radclive, Buckinghamshire. After attending Salisbury grammar school he entered Balliol College, Oxford, on 9 July 1701, and graduated B.C.L. on 12 July 1709, D.C.L. on 8 July 1715. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1712, and admitted a civilian on 20 January 1716, but having a private income, he never sought legal practice.
Jacobite don
King devoted his life to scholarship and literature, interested himself in politics, and was long recognised the head of the Jacobite party at Oxford. Politically he was a close associate of Sir John Hynde Cotton, 3rd Baronet. His views are now seen as directed to his contemporary dislikes, rather than being retrospective. He looked to gain attention to them by shock tactics.
For a time King acted as secretary to the Duke of Ormonde and the Earl of Arran, when they were Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and he was elected principal of St Mary Hall in 1719. He resigned his secretaryship in 1722, when he stood for the parliamentary representation of the university, but was easily defeated by George Clarke. St Mary Hall had few students, but one who was influenced by King was Sanderson Miller.
A lawsuit about an estate in Galway brought King to Ireland in 1727. Jonathan Swift thought well of him. In January 1739 Swift entrusted King with a copy of the verses on his own death, for publication in London. King, alarmed at the satire on Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline, omitted more than a hundred lines, "in deference", he said, "to the judgment of Pope and other friends of Swift's", but to Swift's annoyance. King excused himself in letters to Swift, but the Dublin version printed of the verses is believed to have restored essentially the original version. During the same year King met Nathaniel Hooke at Dr. George Cheyne's house at Bath, Somerset, and acted as his amanuensis while he was translating Andrew Michael Ramsay's Travels of Cyrus.
Early in 1746 William Lauder, later exposed as a literary forger, travelled south from Scotland, and King welcomed him in Oxford, approving of his politics. The group of scholars who subsequently demonstrated Lauder's bad faith included Roger Watkins, vice-principal of St Mary Hall. He with others (Robert Thyer and Thomas Newton, as well as John Bowle who already was a public critic of Lauder) therefore proceeded carefully to gather evidence. In the end John Douglas put together a full case, but did not go public in late 1750 without consulting King.
King was presented to the Stuart Pretender Charles Edward Stuart in September 1750. The Pretender was then paying a stealthy visit to England, and drank tea one evening at the doctor's lodgings at Oxford. They subsequently corresponded, but King came to dislike him. King took part in the contested election for Oxfordshire in 1754, and was in consequence vigorously libelled. He was accused of having defrauded subscribers for books never published to the extent of £1,500, was taunted with having offered himself to sale both in England and Ireland, and was accused of inspiring the Jacobite London Evening Post. In February 1755 King took Samuel Johnson his diploma of M.A., and found in him an admirer of his scholarship and politics.
Later life
King publicly severed his connection with the Jacobite party in 1761. He accompanied a deputation from the university to present George III with an address of congratulation on his marriage. He was personally introduced to the king by Lord Shelburne.
King died on 30 December 1763, and was buried on 5 January 1764 at Ealing, Middlesex. where he had resided for many years on an estate called Newby, near the church. He was also lessee of the rectory of Ealing. Throughout his life he was a water-drinker. His heart, having been enclosed in a silver urn, was deposited by his own directions in the chapel of St Mary Hall, where there is a monument to his memory, with a Latin epitaph written by himself.
Orator
Much of King's contemporary fame was as an incendiary orator. He was provocative and sought controversy. When honorary degrees were conferred on the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Lichfield and Lord Orrery at Oxford in 1743, King delivered the Latin speeches, published as Tres Oratiunculæ habitæ in Domo Convocationis Oxon. (1743). The preface implied that he had been attacked by some anti-Jacobite canon. To keep up public interest in the affair, King himself wrote Epistola Objurgatoria ad Guilielmum King, LL.D., London, 1744, to which is attached a doggerel Epistola Canonici reverendi admodùm ad Archidiaconum reverendum admodùm. Lastly appeared A Letter to a Friend occasioned by Epistola Objurgatoria, &c., by S. P. Y. B., London, 1744; the writer claimed to have been wrongly credited with the authorship of the Epistola. King probably created the whole controversy.
At the opening of the Radcliffe Camera, on 13 April 1749, King delivered a Latin speech in the Sheldonian Theatre. In it he expressed his Jacobitism: he introduced six times the word redeat ("that he may return"), pausing each time, amid loud applause. Thomas Warton, in his poem The Triumph of Isis, eulogised King's powers of oratory. In praising the trustees of the library, King was complimenting Jacobites among them: the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn. But one view is that the protest was no longer dynastic, being concerned with the Whig handling of the Church. The audience included key supporters of the Hanoverian heir Frederick, Prince of Wales, who found also some signs of the Tory ground shifting. Be that as it may, Jacobite propagandists lapped up King's themes, the invocation of Astraea in Virgil's terms of return, and the slogan "Redeat Magnus Ille Genius Britanniae" was adopted for use on the medallion marking the 1752 English covert visit of the Pretender.
On the Earl of Arran's death the Jacobite Earl of Westmoreland was elected chancellor of Oxford. At his installation on 7 July 1759 King made a speech, at which Johnson "clapped his hands till they were sore", according to Boswell's Life.
At the Encænia of 1763 King, amid great applause, delivered an oration. Charles Churchill, who was present, later sneered at his "piebald Latin" in the Candidate.
Works
King thought himself badly treated in the course of his Irish lawsuit, and attacked his enemies in a mock-heroic poem, in two books, called The Toast (alleged to have been originally composed in Latin by a Laplander, "Frederick Scheffer", and translated into English, with notes and observations, by "Peregrine O'Donald, Esq.") The heroine, "Mira", is the Countess of Newburgh, who had secretly married as her third husband Sir Thomas Smyth, King's uncle. King portrayed her as a lesbian. It was published at Dublin in 1732. Swift praised it, and The Toast was completed in four books, inscribed to him, and printed in London (1736), with a frontispiece by Hubert-François Gravelot (engraver Bernard Baron); it was reissued in 1747. In his old age King regretted many passages, and at his death the remaining copies were burnt. The poem was reissued without the annotations in John Almon's New Foundling Hospital of Wit. A key to the characters is given in William Davis's Second Journey round the Library of a Bibliomaniac (1825).
About April 1737 King wrote a witty political paper called Common Sense, in which he proposed a new scheme of government to the people of Corsica [i.e. Great Britain], advising them to make their king of the same stuff of which the Indians fashion their gods. He enclosed a copy in a letter to Swift, but both were intercepted at the post-office. It may have been identical with Antonietti ducis Corseorum epistola ad Corseos de rege eligendo included in King's collected writings. Through King, Swift then endeavoured in July to arrange for the publication in London of his History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. King remonstrated, and Swift gave up the intention for a time.
In 1739 King issued an anonymous political satire entitled Miltoni Epistola ad Pollionem (i.e. to Lord Polwarth), 1738, London, dedicated to Alexander Pope, of which a second edition appeared in 1740. Soon after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, King described Prince William, Duke of Cumberland as a man "qui timet omnia præter Deum" ("who fears everything except God"). In 1748 he ridiculed Edward Bentham, who had published a guide to intending students.
The Sheldonian oration was printed in 1749, and again in 1750. It gave rise to violent attacks. King was charged with barbarous Latin, Jacobitism, and propagation of sedition in the university. John Burton, cousin and patron of Edward Bentham, published some virulent Remarks on Dr. K——'s Speech, by "Phileleutherus Londinensis", 1750. King retorted savagely; this satire also attacks William Bowyer the younger, who had said something against King's latinity. King further translated all the abusive names which Burton had called him, and the complimentary phrases applied by Burton to himself, and printing the whole catalogue on a large sheet of coarse paper, gave it to a scavenger to be cried about the streets of Oxford, Windsor, and Eton.
King published a volume of fanciful anonymous essays called The Dreamer, London, 1754, which was assailed in the Whig papers as tainted with Jacobitism. During 1755 he replied in a pamphlet. He retaliated against authors of libels which had appeared in the Evening Advertiser, attacked a tract called A Defence of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, and spoke severely of a canon of Windsor named Richard Blacow. Blacow then printed a Letter to William King, LL.D., 1755, in which he sought to make King responsible for a Jacobite demonstration by some undergraduates in February 1747.
A collected edition of his writings was published as Opera Guilielmi King, London, 1760. King wrote also: an inscription for the collection of statues presented to the university in 1756 by the Countess Dowager of Pomfret; an Elogium in 1758 on Chevalier John Taylor the oculist, of which he printed copies for his friends; and an epitaph on Beau Nash. His posthumous Political and Literary Anecdotes of his own Times, London, 1818 (2nd edit. 1819), mostly written in his seventy-sixth year, was edited by Philip Bury Duncan.
Legacy
Assisted by the contributions of old members of St Mary Hall, King rebuilt the east side of the quadrangle, and added a new room to the principal's lodgings.
Family
King married his cousin Henrietta Maria Wither in 1709. Their son, Charles King, born about 1711, was M.A. of St Mary Hall, and in holy orders. Their daughter Dorothy married William Melmoth the younger (1710–1799).
References
Attribution
1685 births
1763 deaths
Principals of St Mary Hall, Oxford
English Jacobites
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Members of Gray's Inn
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Sidalcea calycosa is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names annual checkerbloom, checker mallow, and vernal pool checkerbloom.
Distribution
The plant is endemic to California, along the North Coast and adjacent Northern California Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to Marin County in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, and in sections of the western Sierra Nevada foothills from Butte County south into Tulare County.
It grows in wetland habitats, including marshes and vernal pools, in oak woodland and chaparral openings, grasslands, and coastal salt marsh plant communities.
Description
Sidalcea calycosa is a rhizomatous herb growing to nearly tall. Despite its common name it may be annual or perennial, depending on the subspecies. The leaves have blades deeply divided into narrow linear lobes, almost divided into leaflets.
The inflorescence is a dense, showy panicle of several flowers each with five pink, purplish, or white petals up to 2.5 centimeters long. The bloom period is April through September.
Subspecies
The two subspecies are:
Sidalcea calycosa ssp. calycosa — annual, blooms March to June, below .
Sidalcea calycosa ssp. rhizomata — Point Reyes checkerbloom, the perennial subspecies, rare and known only from a few swampy areas of the coastline below in Mendocino, Sonoma, and Marin Counties.
References
External links
Calflora Database: Sidalcea calycosa (Annual checkerbloom, Checker mallow)
Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Sidalcea calycosa
USDA Plants Profile for Sidalcea calycosa (annual checkerbloom)
UC CalPhotos gallery: Sidalcea calycosa
calycosa
Endemic flora of California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
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Jan Stanek (born 21 July 1948) is a British cosmetic surgeon, lecturer and broadcaster. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a member of the British Medical Association, the Royal Society of Medicine and The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. He has a private practice in central London.
As consultant surgeon he was featured in all six series of Channel 4's 10 Years Younger. He also appeared in the Channel 5 series Plastic Fantastic. He is the author of several books including Laser Aesthetic Surgery (Galen, Prague, 2000) and 10 Years Younger: Cosmetic Surgery Bible (Transworld, London, 2007).
Early life and career
Jan Stanek was born in Prague, Czech Republic. He was educated at Prague Industrial-Technical Secondary School before studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Oxford University. After graduating in 1972, he went on to study medicine and was awarded his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1975. He received an MA from Oxford the following year.
During his early career, he worked as house surgeon at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary and was house physician at the Royal South Hants Hospital in Southampton. In 1977, he was senior house officer in plastic surgery at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, taking up a post as registrar in plastic surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary the following year.
He became a member of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1981, working as a senior registrar in general surgery at London's Westminster Hospital before entering private practice in 1984.
Through the rest of the 1980s, Dr Stanek worked with several large cosmetic surgery clinics until the demands of his own practice led him to focus solely on private referrals.
Surgery
Jan Stanek is considered to be one of the leading surgeons in his field. The Daily Express described him as "one of most popular surgeons of his generation".
Although his practice covers all aspects of cosmetic surgery, including breast augmentation and reduction, abdominoplasty and liposuction, his particular interest lies in facial cosmetic surgery, endoscopic facial surgery and facial rejuvenation.
Among the techniques he uses is the muscle-tightening SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) facelift, which is said to result in minimal scarring. He also performs chemical peels and, in the television series 10 Years Younger, explained the science behind them and was then seen carrying out the procedure.
In 1994, he was the first surgeon in Britain to carry out the extended subperiosteal facelift, which was pioneered by US surgeons. Stanek originally studied the technique in Texas.
Stanek is known for his technique of fixing skin and muscle after eyelid surgery, which apparently cuts recovery time and reduces risk for those who heal slowly.
In 2012, Stanek conducted a study with fellow surgeon Mike Berry into the French-made PIP breast implants. Their report to the Journal of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery revealed that, in an audit of 453 patients, between 16% and 34% of the PIP implants ruptured. This compared to a failure rate of less than 1% in the preferred implants used by the surgeons.
He is sceptical about the use of liposuction for certain areas, warning: “Liposuction to the inner thighs makes very little difference unless there are big lumps of fat and can cause problems as the skin is very thin in that area. If you remove the 'support' you can accelerate the aging process as skin becomes less elastic and is likely to sag.”
At his London clinic, clients are also offered body contouring through the non-invasive cellulite reduction and skin-tightening system Exilis, which uses ultrasound with radio-frequency pulses to reduce subcutaneous fat.
He is a frequent commentator in the British media on cosmetic surgery issues.
Professional bodies
Jan Stanek is a Specialist in General Surgery (GMC Specialist list) and has been a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) since 1981. He is certified by The American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and is a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, the European Society for Laser Aesthetic Surgery and the Association of Facial Plastic Surgeons in Great Britain.
He has been a regular speaker at medical conferences since the 1980s.
Other projects
As well as his work in broadcasting, he has contributed expert testimony to newspapers and magazines including the Evening Standard and The Observer among many others. He also contributed a regular column to the magazine Slim at Home.
He has been featured a number of times in Tatler magazine and was named as one of Britain's Top 250 Consultants in the Tatler Doctors Guide 2013. In 2011, Tatler described him as "the Simon Cowell of surgeons" adding that "he's accomplished at some of the trickiest procedures".
He continues to be an in-demand guest speaker on the subject of cosmetic surgery around the world, attending key events such as New York's Breast & Body Symposium, the National Congress on Laser Surgery in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the Pacific Conference on Plastic & Dermatological Surgery in Hong Kong. During a Facelift Symposium held by the Association of Facial Plastic Surgeons in Poole, Dorset in October 2009, Jan Stanek gave presentations on a number of topics including Extended SMAS Facelift and Neck Lifting Versus Submental Liposuction.
In 2011, at London's Lazarides Gallery, the artist Jonathan Yeo exhibited paintings inspired by the work of Jan Stanek and fellow surgeon Mike Berry.
References
External links
1948 births
Living people
British plastic surgeons
Physicians from Prague
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom
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Didier de Radiguès (born 27 March 1958) is a Belgian former professional motorcycle racer, auto racing driver and current artist. He also serves as a television sports color commentator for Belgium television, a Moto GP riders manager and as the owner of a motorcycle riding school. He competed in the FIM motorcycle Grand Prix world championships from 1980 to 1991.
Motorsport career
Born in Leuven, De Radiguès, made his motorcycle Grand Prix debut in 1979, racing in the 500cc class. His best year was in 1982 when he won two races and finished second to Anton Mang in the 350cc world championship. He rode in 500cc for the Yamaha factory racing team in 1988 as a team-mate to Eddie Lawson and ended his career with the Suzuki team in 1991 as Kevin Schwantz' team-mate. He won four Grands Prix during his career as well as the 1991 Macau Grand Prix, a non-championship event.
De Radiguès is the Belgium's most successful motorcycle road racer with four Grand Prix victories. In 1992 at the request of the riders, de Radiguès organized the International Motorcycle Riders Association which was then managed by Franco Uncini at IRTA.
After his motorcycle racing career, de Radiguès took up sports car endurance racing, winning the 1997 Belgian Procar Championship as well as the Spa 24 Hours race and the championship in the American Le Mans Series in 2001. In 1998 de Radiguès entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans with fellow ex-motorcycle rider Wayne Gardner.
In 2003, de Radiguès began a motorcycle riding school in France.
Television career
De Radiguès is also a Motorsport TV consultant, first on Club RTL and then on RTBF (since 2013), the two largest French-speaking Belgian TV channels. He gives commentary on Moto3, Moto2 and Moto GP races.
Artistic career
Didier de Radiguès started his artistic career in New York and Singapore, Brussels, Hong Kong and Paris. His first series called « From My Gazebo » is inspired by his many trips to the Bahamas. From his gazebo, planted in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean on a small island of the Exumas, Didier de Radiguès captures the landscape around him. His latest series is called People Portrait.
Motorcycle Grand Prix results
Points system from 1969 to 1987:
Points system from 1988 to 1992:
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Source:
24 Hours of Le Mans results
References
External links
Didier de Radiguès motorcycle school
Didier de Radiguès Artist Photographer
1958 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Leuven
Belgian motorcycle racers
Belgian racing drivers
250cc World Championship riders
350cc World Championship riders
500cc World Championship riders
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
FIA GT Championship drivers
American Le Mans Series drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
Motorsport announcers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
Multimatic Motorsports drivers
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MTV Europe Music Award for Best North American Act
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The following is a list of the MTV Europe Music Award winners and nominees for Best North American Act.
2010s
References
See also
MTV Video Music Award
MTV VMA International Viewer's Choice Award for MTV Canada
MTV Europe Music Awards
Canadian music awards
American music awards
Barbadian music
Awards established in 2011
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1938) is an American historian, writer, professor, and activist based in San Francisco. Born in Texas, she grew up in Oklahoma and is a social justice and feminist activist. She has written numerous books including Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years (2005), Red Dirt: Growing up Okie (1992), and An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014). She is professor emeritus in Ethnic Studies at California State University.
Early life and education
Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938 to an Oklahoma family, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in Central Oklahoma. Her father was a sharecropper of Scots-Irish ancestry. Dunbar claims her mother was of Cherokee descent. Dunbar-Ortiz initially self-identified as having Cheyenne ancestry, but she subsequently acknowledged that she is white. She has since claimed to be of Cherokee descent, and that her mother denied her Native ancestry after marrying into a white family. Because of her various claims of having Indigenous ancestry, Dunbar acknowledged that she has been "denounced as a fraud for pretending to be Native American."
Dunbar's paternal grandfather was a settler, landed farmer, veterinarian, labor activist, and member Socialist Party in Oklahoma and the Industrial Workers of the World. Her father, Moyer Haywood Pettibone Scarberry Dunbar, was named after the leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, "Big" Bill Haywood. Her father's stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism. Her account of life up to leaving Oklahoma is recorded in the book Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.
Married at 18, Dunbar-Ortiz and her husband moved to San Francisco three years later, where she has lived most of the years since. This marriage later ended. She has a daughter, Michelle. She later married writer Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo).
Dunbar-Ortiz graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963, majoring in history. She began graduate study in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley but transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles completing her doctorate in history there in 1974. In addition to the doctorate, she completed the Diplôme of the International Law of Human Rights at the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France in 1983 and an MFA in creative writing at Mills College in 1993.
Activism
From 1967 to 1974, she was a full-time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. She was also involved in the women's liberation movement. Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years outlines this time of her life, chronicling the years 1960–1975.
In 1968 she founded Cell 16, which was a feminist organization in the United States known for its program of celibacy, separation from men and self-defense training (specifically karate); it has been cited as the first organization to advance the concept of separatist feminism.
She contributed the piece "Female liberation as the basis for social revolution" to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan.
In 1974, she accepted a position as assistant professor in the newly established Native American Studies program at California State University at Hayward, where she helped develop the departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. In the wake of the Wounded Knee Siege of 1973, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and to international human rights.
She edited the book The Great Sioux Nation, which was published in 1977 and presented as the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at United Nations' headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The book was issued in a new edition by University of Nebraska Press in 2013. The Great Sioux Nation was followed by two other books: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico (1980) and Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination (1984). She also edited two anthologies on Native American economic development while heading the Institute for Native American Development at the University of New Mexico.
In 1981, Dunbar-Ortiz was asked to visit Sandinista Nicaragua to appraise the land tenure situation of the Miskito Indians in the northeastern region of the country. Her two trips there that year coincided with the beginning of United States government's sponsorship of a proxy war to overthrow the Sandinistas, with the northeastern region on the border with Honduras becoming a war zone and the basis for extensive propaganda carried out by the Reagan administration against the Sandinistas. In over a hundred trips to Nicaragua and Honduras from 1981 to 1989, she monitored what was called the Contra War. She tells of these years in Caught in the Crossfire: The Miskitu Indians of Nicaragua (1985) and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (2005).
In her work An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz condemns the Discovery Doctrine and the settler colonialism that devastated Native American populations in the United States. She compares this form of religious bigotry to the modern-day conquests of al-Qaeda. She states that, since much of the current land within the United States was taken by aggression and oppression, "Native peoples have vast claims to reparations and restitution," yet "[n]o monetary amount can compensate for lands illegally seized, particularly those sacred lands necessary for Indigenous peoples to regain social coherence."
She is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. Since retiring from university teaching, she has been lecturing widely and continues to write.
Awards
The Lannan Foundation awarded Dunbar-Ortiz the 2017 Cultural Freedom Award "for the achievements of her lifetime of tireless work."
Selected works
Not "a Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. Beacon, 2021.
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. City Lights Books, 2018. ,
"All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. Beacon, 2016.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Beacon, 2014. ,
The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America. Random House, 1977, ; University of Nebraska Press, 2013. ,
Roots of Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680–1980. University of California, 1980; new edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. ,
Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie. Verso, 1997; new edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. ,
Blood on the Border: Memoir of the Contra War. South End Press, 2005. ,
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–75. City Light Books, 2002. ,
The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua: Caught in the Crossfire. Minority Rights Group, 1988. ,
Indigenous Peoples: A Global Quest for Justice. (ed.) A Report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, Geneva. Zed Press, 1987.
La Cuestión Mískita en la Revolución Nicaragüense. Editorial Linea, 1986.
Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination. Zed Press; Praeger, 1984. ,
Native American Energy Resources and Development. (ed.) Albuquerque: Institute for Native American Development (INAD), University of New Mexico, 1980. ,
Economic Development in American Indian Reservations. (ed.) INAD, University of New Mexico, 1979.
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Geomembranes are thin plastic sheets that are essentially impervious and are used to prevent leakage from liquid or solid-storage facilities. Geomembranes are frequently referred to as Flexible Membrane Liners (FMLs) in environmental regulations, such as in Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Overview
Fabricated geomembranes are geomembranes that are flexible enough to be seamed or welded into large panels in a factory, folded, transported to the project site, unfolded without creasing or damage, and field seamed and tested as necessary. These geomembranes are relatively thin (usually less than 45 mils, [1.1 mm] thick), flexible, and can be reinforced with fabrics. Fabricated geomembranes can be accordion folded or rolled up to facilitate deployment and reduce double folds as shown in photographs.
Factory fabrication reduces field seaming by 70 to 90% depending on the geometry of the installation and weight of the geomembrane material used, which reduces field testing and patching, installation time, and overall cost. The panel size is limited only by the allowable shipping weight, which depends on the mode of transportation. The reduction of installation time and testing is particularly important in harsh environments which can extend the “field installation season”. Fabricated panels can be large enough to create “drop-in” liners that do not require any field seaming, testing, or patching which speeds installation and improves quality. Fabricated geomembranes also allow a more modular construction approach which results in less resources having to be committed to one location for an extended period, e.g., personnel and deployment, welding, and testing equipment. Modular construction also adds more predictability to project scheduling by reducing weather, transportation, site access, testing and data interpretation, and labor issues.
Applications
Fabricated geomembranes can be used for a variety of applications including in alphabetical order: aquaculture, baffle curtains, canals, decorative ponds, deicing fluid ponds, drill pad liners for oil and gas development, exposed or floating covers, fertilizer containment, golf course ponds, hydrocarbon containment, landfill liners and covers, mine tailings ponds and heap leach pads, reservoirs, sewage lagoons, tank liners, and wastewater ponds.
Installation practices
Flexible geomembranes are fabricated into panels the size of which is controlled by the allowable shipping and handling weight. It is common to ship panels that weigh 1,816 kg (4,000 Ibs.) but panels as heavy as 4,086 kg (9,000 Ibs.) have been shipped.
After moving the panel to the proper deployment location as indicated on the Panel Layout Diagram for the project, the panel is unfolded or unrolled from the shipping pallet. The pallet is usually on a front-end loader or forklift which moves backwards to facilitate unfolding or unrolling of the panel. Pulling the geomembrane panel off the pallet or the roll by a chain is not recommended because it may damage the geomembrane. Deployment personnel are then positioned approximately apart along the edges of the panel to unfold and move the panel into the proper location. If the edge to be gripped is to be subsequently welded or bonded, the panel edge is folded back about , creating a fold. The fold is gripped using the 0.3 m long by 10 mm (1-foot long by 2 inch) diameter smooth wooden dowel or a smooth grade stake rather than the edge itself. This is to avoid stretching the panel edge where it is to be bonded to another panel. As the panel is pulled out, it is necessary to maintain air under the geomembrane to reduce friction with the ground surface. This can be accomplished by holding the panel edge and advancing at a rate fast enough to create air under the geomembrane as it is unfolded. Another method is to “fan” air under the geomembrane by raising and lowering the edge of the panel to create a wave-like action across the liner as it is being spread. After the panel is set in the exact position, it is welded or bonded to adjacent panels.
References
External links
Fabricated Geomembrane Institute
Geomembrane & Geosynthetics
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The Cocos cuckoo (Coccyzus ferrugineus) is a Vulnerable species of bird in the tribe Phaenicophaeini, subfamily Cuculinae of the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It is endemic to Cocos Island, an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of Costa Rica.
Taxonomy and systematics
The Cocos cuckoo was at one time treated as a subspecies of the mangrove cuckoo (C. minor), and the two are now considered sister species. The pearly-breasted cuckoo (C. euleri) and yellow-billed cuckoo (C. americanus) are also closely related to those two. The Cocos cuckoo is monotypic.
The Cocos cuckoo's generic name coccyzus is from the Ancient Greek kokkuzo, meaning a common cuckoo's cry. The specific epithet ferrugineus is derived from Latin and means "rusty", referring to the color of its upperparts.
Description
The Cocos cuckoo is long, about half of which is the tail, and weighs about . Their bill is stout and somewhat decurved. Its maxilla is black and its mandible yellow to yellow-orange with a black tip. Males and females have the same plumage. Adults' forehead and crown are slate gray and their upperparts grayish brown. Their wings are rufous. The upper surface of their tail is grayish brown and the undersides black with wide white tips. Their face has a narrow blackish "mask" past the eye, which is surrounded by a narrow ring of yellow to orange yellow bare skin. Their throat and breast are buffy white and the belly and undertail coverts rich buff. Juveniles are similar to adults but have less contrast between the head and back colors, a less contrasting facial mask, a whitish throat, chest and belly, and less white on the tail.
Distribution and habitat
The Cocos cuckoo is found only on Cocos Island, which is about miles off Costa Rica's Pacific coast. It inhabits essentially the entire island, using most of the plant communities on it: flooded bay forest, riparian forest, tropical rainforest, and tropical cloudforest. It is found from sea level the highest points on the island at about .
Behavior
Movement
The Cocos cuckoo is a year-round resident throughout the island, but it tends to occur at forest edges during the breeding season and in the forest interior when not breeding.
Locomotion
The Cocos cuckoo usually makes only short flights. It often moves among and within trees by hops along branches and short flutters and glides.
Feeding
The adult Cocos cuckoo feeds primarily on caterpillars, especially those of the giant sphinx moth (Cocytius antaeus) and the Orion cecropian butterfly (Historis odius). Young are fed crickets and cockroaches. Its foraging technique varies by habitat, including hunting at ground level by short flights, gleaning from understory plants, and probing in Guzmania sanguinea bromeliads on Sacoglottis holdridgei trees. In addition to caterpillars and other arthropods, it also occasionally eats Anolis towsendi, an endemic lizard.
Breeding
The Cocos cuckoo breeds during the dry season of January to mid-April. Both members of a pair build the flimsy stick cup nest with no lining, and usually place it on a smallish branch of a small tree. Two such nests were both about above the ground, and both were partially shielded by leaves. Both sexes share incubation and parental care. The clutch size is not definitely known but is believed to be one or two. The incubation period is not known but is thought to be similar to the nine to 12 days of others of its genus. The time to fledging is also not known.
Vocalization
As of late 2022, xeno-canto had no recordings of the Cocos cuckoo's vocalizations and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had only three. The song is described as "a guttural Eeh-eeh-eeh-eeh-eeh-eeeh-eeeehh" and is most frequently sung during the breeding season, and then between dawn and noon.
Status
The IUCN has assessed the Cocos cuckoo as Vulnerable. It has a very small range. Its estimated population of between 250 and 1000 mature individuals is believed to be stable. Feral cats, pigs, and goats, as well as deer, are potential threats - the first as a predator and the others as damaging to the species' habitat. Disturbance from tourism is also increasing, and climate change is another potential threat.
References
Cocos cuckoo
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Finnish national road 7 (; ) is a highway in Finland. It runs from Erottaja in Helsinki to the Russian frontier at the Vaalimaa border crossing point in Virolahti. The road is long. The road is also European route E18 and it is a part of TERN.
Route
The route of the road is Helsinki – Vantaa – Porvoo – Loviisa – Kotka – Hamina – Vaalimaa (Russian border). With the section of motorway between Loviisa and Kotka opened to traffic in September 2014, the route from Helsinki to Hamina is now a continuous motorway. After completion of the motorway section bypassing the town of Hamina, due in late 2014, of the highway's total length of will be motorway. There is a plan to extend the motorway from its current endpoint in Lelu, Hamina to Vaalimaa by 2018, finalizing the motorway link between Helsinki and the Russian border; construction is due to begin in late 2015.
Images
See also
Itäväylä
External links
Matti Grönroos – Valtatie 7
Queue situation at the Finnish/Russian border
Loviisa - Kotka project website
Hamina bypass project website
Hamina - Vaalimaa project website
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Jordi Casanovas Güell (; born 1978 in Vilafranca del Penedès) is a Catalan playwright.
Bibliography
Plays
Les millors occasions. 2002
Gebre. 2003
Estralls. 2003
Andorra. 2004
Neoburning Generation. 2005
Beckenbauer. 2005
Kuina Katalana. 2005
Wolfenstein. 2006
Tetris. 2006
City/Simcity. 2007
Aquesta tampoc serà la fi del món. 2007
La ruïna. 2008[1]
Lena Woyzeck. 2008
La revolució. 2009
Julia Smells. 2009
Transició. 2010
Sopar amb batalla. 2010
Un home amb ulleres de pasta. 2010
Una història catalana. 2011
Pàtria. 2012
Köttbulle. 2014
Ruz-Bárcenas. 2014
Idiota. 2014
Vilafranca. 2015
Hey Boy Hey Girl. 2015
Port Arthur. 2015
Cervantes. 2016
Awarded plays
Les millors occasions Premi Internacional AIET de Teatre Universitari "Josep Robrenyo", 2002
Beckenbauer Ciutat d'Alcoi de teatre, 2005
Andorra Marqués de Bradomín, 2005
Estralls Premi "Eduard Escalante" Premis Ciutat de València 2006
Hardocore Videogames, una trilogia (Wolfenstein, Tetris, City/Simcity) Premi de la crítica Serra d'Or al millor text del 2006 i Premi Revelació de la crítica de Barcelona 2007
External links
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See (FLYHARD theatre company blog)
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1978 births
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Jean Gordon (1670 to 1746) was born into one of the Gypsy tribes of Kirk Yetholm. She died in Carlisle in 1746.
Biography
Gordon, who was 6 feet tall, was said to be the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott's character Meg Merrilies in his novel Guy Mannering.
In 1732, aged 62, she was charged at Jedburgh Court for 'being an Egyptian' and plea bargained to leave Scotland.
Gordon was drowned in Carlisle, by an angry mob, for the support she voiced for the Jacobite cause and Bonnie Prince Charlie.
References
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Matt Hudson (born July 9, 1966) is an American politician and businessman who served as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2008 to 2012 and again from 2012 to 2016.
Early life and education
Hudson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Florida in 1977. He attended Manatee Community College from 1984 to 1987, Edison College from 1990 to 1992, and Barry University in 2007.
Career
Prior to his career in politics, Hudson worked as a realtor, eventually becoming the vice-president of Operations at the VIP Realty Group. In 2002, Hudson was elected to the Golden Gate Fire Commission, defeating Allen Butcher with 57% of the vote. He was re-elected in 2006 against Kevin Knight and Franklin Scott Berggren, receiving 44% of the vote to Knight's 38% and Berggren's 17%.
Florida House of Representatives
On September 12, 2007, incumbent State Representative Mike Davis died after battling cancer, causing a special election to be held to replace him in the 101st District, which included parts of western Broward County and northern Collier County, stretching from Naples to Pembroke Pines. In the Republican primary, he faced Eric Zichella, Chris Spencer, and Gerald J. Lefebvre. Florida's New Directions, an organization indirectly affiliated with Hudson, sent out mailers attacking Zichella over his qualifications, declaring that the resume "he's peddling as a candidate for state representative is so inflated, it's about to blow up in his face." Hudson narrowly defeated his opponents in the primary, winning 37% of the vote to Zichella's 33%, Spencer's 28%, and Lefebvre's 2%, and advanced to the general election, where he faced Linda McDonald, the Democratic nominee and a public school teacher in Naples. The Florida Democratic Party targeted the district, urging attendees at their annual convention to contribute to McDonald's campaign and featuring her as a speaker. During the course of the campaign, Hudson earned the endorsement of the Naples Daily News, which noted, "We have long been impressed by Hudson's immersion in business and civic affairs and youth sports, usually in leadership roles," and questioned whether McDonald was more suited for the school board. In the end, Hudson ended up defeating McDonald, winning 56% of the vote to McDonald's 44%.
Running for re-election in 2008, Hudson was opposed by Maria Jimenez, a charter schools official at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association and the Democratic nominee. The Sun-Sentinel praised Jimenez as an "earnest, knowledgeable candidate" who "would make a good state representative," but ultimately gave their endorsement to Hudson, who they said "made good use of his limited opportunity" in office to sponsor meaningful legislation. Hudson ended up narrowly won re-election over Jimenez, winning 53% of the vote to her 47%. When he ran for re-election in 2010, he faced only independent candidate Larry Wilcoxson, whom he was able to defeat in a landslide with 69% of the vote.
When the state legislative districts were redrawn in 2012, Hudson was moved into the 80th District, which included the territory that he had previously represented in Collier County, but added all of Hendry County and dropped the incursion into Broward County. He won the Republican primary uncontested, and overwhelmingly defeated independent candidate Pam Brown in the general election with 66% of the vote. In 2014, Hudson was re-elected to his final term in the House without opposition.
Florida Senate campaign
In January 2015, Hudson announced that he would seek the District 28 seat in the Florida Senate in the 2016 elections. Kathleen Passidomo is also seeking the Republican nomination for that seat. The Republican primary election is scheduled for August 30, 2016.
References
External links
Florida House of Representatives – Matt Hudson
1966 births
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}}Marine Air Support Squadron 1' (MASS-1) is a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control unit that provides the Direct Air Support Center to coordinate close air support for the II Marine Expeditionary Force. Callsign "Chieftain," the squadron is based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, and falls under the command of Marine Air Control Group 28 and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Mission
The squadron is responsible for the planning, receiving, coordination and processing of requests for direct or close air support. It provides this through the DASC, whether ground or airborne based. The DASC is the principal Marine air command and control system agency, responsible for the direction of air operations directly supporting ground forces. It functions in a decentralized mode of operation, but is directly supervised by the marine or Navy Tactical Air Command Center. During amphibious or expeditionary operations, the DASC is normally the first air command & control agency ashore and usually lands in the same serial (i.e., scheduled wave or on-call wave) as the Ground Combat Element's senior Fire Support Coordination Center.
History
Headquarters and Services Squadron, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing was commissioned on July 1, 1943 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. On April 1, 1944 the squadron was assigned to the 9th Marine Aircraft Wing and on March 31, 1946 it was again reassigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. In July 1947, the unit was re-designated as Marine Tactical Air Control Squadron 1 (MARTACRON-1). In January 1948, MTACS-1 participated in the Seconds Fleet Tactical Exercises at Vieques, Puerto Rico returning on March 20, 1948. The squadron boarded USS LST-664 on February 13, 1949 and again sailed for Vieques to control aircraft during operations. The squadron returned on April 1. Between July 18-28, 1949, the squadron hosted Marine Ground Control Intercept Squadrons 21 & 22 for their annual training. Between October 5 & November 14, 1949 MTACS-1 participated in cold weather exercises in Cape Porcupine, Labrador. On February 15, 1954, the squadron assumed its present designation as Marine Air Support Squadron 1.
In May 1956, MASS-1 deployed to the Dominican Republic and provided air support for Operation Power Pack by carrying out its duties as controlling agency for rotary and fixed wing aircraft. On September 1, 1967 the squadron was reassigned to Marine Air Control Group 28, where it remains today.
In August 1990, MASS-1 deployed a detachment in support of 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the amphibious forces which deployed to Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Shield. A second detachment later deployed to provide an airborne DASC in support of I MEF, and both detachments ultimately participated in Operation Desert Storm. During the 1990s, the squadron was twice designated as the Marine Air Command and Control Systems Unit of the Year, receiving the prestigious "Edward S. Fris Award" in both 1992 and 1998.
On January 21, 2003, the squadron began deploying to Kuwait in support of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq it was tasked with conducting airborne DASC operations from the back of Lockheed Martin KC-130 cargo aircraft and supporting Task Force Tarawa. The squadron returned home in June 2003. From January 2005 until February 2006, MASS-1 again deployed to Iraq to provide a DASC, Air Support Elements and Air Support Liaison Teams throughout Al Anbar Province. MASS-1 deployed to Iraq a third time in 2007 for a year-long tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2009, the squadron returned to Iraq for another 12-month deployment, while also sending a detachment on a concurrent combat deployment to Afghanistan in support of Marine Aircraft Group 40.
Since the end of combat operations, MASS-1 moved into a state-of-the-art aviation C2 complex in 2016. MASS-1 leads the Marine Air Command and Control community as an innovator, qualifying the first DASC data link specialists (JICO/AJOC), developing enlisted controllers who are also qualified to operate from U.S. Navy ships, and integrating live/virtual/constructive training networks into their garrison facility.
Unit awards
Since the beginning of World War II, the United States military has honored various units for extraordinary heroism or outstanding non-combat service. This information is compiled by the United States Marine Corps History Division and is certified by the Commandant of the Marine Corps. MASS-1 has been presented with the following awards:
See also
United States Marine Corps Aviation
List of United States Marine Corps aviation support units
ReferencesThis article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Marine Corps.''
External links
MASS-1's official website. Retrieved on 14 February 2010.
United States Marine Corps air support squadrons
Military units and formations in North Carolina
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Bernardo de la Torre or della Torres (d.1545) was a Spanish explorer during the Age of Discovery. He participated in Ruy López de Villalobos's failed expedition to establish a greater Spanish presence in the East Indies. Stuck for months on the eastern side of Mindanao, the expedition ran low on supplies, suffered repeated accidents, and was discovered and ordered to leave by the Portuguese. López de Villalobos sent De la Torre east across the Pacific Ocean to seek supplies and reinforcements from Mexico. Attempting a new northern route, De la Torre discovered the Volcano Islandswhich he named after an eruption active as he passedbefore being forced to turn back from lack of water and high storm waves. During this return voyage, his ship became the first known to have circumnavigated Mindanao.
De la Torre is sometimes further claimed to have named Mindanao Caesarea Caroli in honor of the Habsburg emperor CharlesV; to have named Leyte and Samar the Philippines in honor of the crown prince Philip (later King PhilipII of Spain); to have named Iwo Jima Sulfur Island, eventually leading to its current Japanese name; to have discovered the Bonin Islands; and to have explored the northern coast of New Guinea.
Life
Original accounts of De la Torre's life and exploration have not survived and the four surviving near contemporary sources differ in some respects and contain some obvious errors.
Bernardo de la Torre sailed in August 1543 under the instructions of Ruy López de Villalobos, who sent him from the Sarangani Islands on the San Juan de Letran ("St. John of Lateran") to try to find a return route to the western coast of Spanish Mexico from the Philippines. This was the fourth such failed attempt to find what would become known as the Manila galleon route once it was finally established in 1565. De la Torre reached 30°N but then, like his predecessors, was forced back by storms.
In the course of his journey, De la Torre found some islets like modern-day Okinotorishima (which he named ) and, possibly, Marcus Island. He reached Leyte and Samar before the end of August and passed through the Marianas in September, sighting three islands that were probably the uninhabited northern groups of Farallon, Anatahan, and Sarigan. He then passed the Volcano Islands group, which he called and which include Iwo Jima, and some of the Bonin Islands (which he called the or "Archbishop Islands") including Chichijima (which he called ). On his return voyage after being forced back by the condition of his ships and supplies after a storm on October 18, he became the first European to circumnavigate Mindanao. The Portuguese and their agents had forced Villalobos to leave the area and De la Torre was forced into a fruitless search for them, eventually breaking off and going to Tidore for repairs.
His explorations, among others, were mentioned in Juan de Gaetano's 1546 chronicle of his own exploration, entitled ("Voyage to the Islands of the West").
Legacy
According to some sources, Bernardo de la Torre was the person who changed the name of what used to be known as the ("Islands of the West") to the or Philippines, to honor the Prince of Asturias Philip, subsequently king of Spain. Other sources credit Villalobos instead.
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LGT may refer to:
LGT Group, royal family-owned private banking and asset management company
Locomotiv GT, a Hungarian rock band
Lateral gene transfer
Last Generation Theology
ICAO airline code of Longtail Aviation
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Korely () is a rural locality (a village) in Talazhskoye Rural Settlement of Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2010.
Geography
Korely is located on the Povrakulsky Island, 20 km northeast of Arkhangelsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Povrakulskaya is the nearest rural locality.
References
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Pisanitsa Island (, ) is the rocky island in the Meade group off Archar Peninsula, the northwest extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 270 m in southwest-northeast direction and 60 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The island is named after the settlement of Pisanitsa in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Pisanitsa Island is located 1.26 km west by north of Duff Point, 120 m northeast of Cave Island and 3.6 km southeast of Pyramid Island. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Maps
Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. (Second edition 2010, )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Pisanitsa Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Pisanitsa Island. Copernix satellite image
Islands of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20Indenture%20Act%20of%201939
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Trust Indenture Act of 1939
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The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (TIA), codified at , supplements the Securities Act of 1933 in the case of the distribution of debt securities in the United States. Generally speaking, the TIA requires the appointment of a suitably independent and qualified trustee to act for the benefit of the holders of the securities, and specifies various substantive provisions for the trust indenture that must be entered into by the issuer and the trustee. The TIA is administered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has made various regulations under the act.
History
Section 211 of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 mandated that the SEC conduct various studies. Although not expressly required to study the trustee system then in use for the issuance of debt securities, William O. Douglas, who would later become a Commissioner and then Chair of the SEC, was convinced by November 1934 that the system needed legislative reform. In June 1936, the Protective Committee Study, headed by Douglas, published its report Trustees Under Indentures. It recommended that:
trustees of indentures be disqualified where they have or acquire conflicts of interest incompatible with their fiduciary obligations;
they be transformed into active trustees with respect to their obligations; and
legislation separate from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 would be more appropriate to govern this matter.
The Trust Indenture Act was subsequently passed and signed into law in August 1939. Its legislative history shows that that Congress intended to address deficiencies prevalent in trust indentures at the time:
the failure of indentures to require evidence of an obligor’s performance thereunder,
the lack of disclosure and reporting requirements, and
the presence of significant obstacles to collective bondholder action.
Framework
Regulatory
Subject to certain exceptions, it is unlawful for any person to sell notes, bonds, or debentures in interstate commerce unless the security has been issued under an indenture and qualified under the Act. Trustees appointed under such indentures have specified duties:
§ 314(d) requires certificates and opinions as to the fair value of the collateral being released, but relief in the form of a "no-action letter" is available from the SEC in certain circumstances
§ 313(b) requires specified reports to holders with respect to the release of collateral
Complications as to financial reporting requirements can arise where the indentures are secured by a pledge of stock, in which case Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X may come into play. Many issuers attempt to mitigate the impact by inserting "collateral cut-back" provisions into their indentures, but the SEC has not endorsed the concept that such a cut-back does not constitute a release of collateral.
Statutory prohibition of impairment
§ 316(b) provides that "the right of any holder of any indenture security to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such indenture security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such indenture security, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such holder..." This prohibition is subject to several exceptions:
the temporary postponement of interest payments under § 316(a)(2)
an indenture may contain a provision limiting or denying the right of a bondholder to sue if and to the extent that that suit would, under applicable law, result in an adverse effect on a lien securing the bonds.
an application under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code
This provision saw little litigation prior to 1992. Recent jurisprudence (especially in the Southern District of New York) has expanded its reach, holding that the Act "protects the ability, and not merely the formal right, to receive payment in some circumstances," and ruling that impairment includes stripping a company's assets and removing any corporate guarantees. While this may result in more distressed issuers resorting to Chapter 11 to pursue restructuring efforts, other issuers may be prohibited from filing for such reliefby virtue of their reliance on federal funding or otherwiseand thus may be precluded from altering the repayment terms of their bond debt altogether.
See also
Securities regulation in the United States
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Securities commission
Chicago Stock Exchange
Financial regulation
List of financial regulatory authorities by country
NASDAQ
New York Stock Exchange
Stock exchange
Regulation D (SEC)
Related legislation
1933 – Securities Act of 1933
1934 – Securities Exchange Act of 1934
1938 – Temporary National Economic Committee (establishment)
1939 – Trust Indenture Act of 1939
1940 – Investment Advisers Act of 1940
1940 – Investment Company Act of 1940
1968 – Williams Act (Securities Disclosure Act)
1975 – Securities Acts Amendments of 1975
1982 – Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act
1999 – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
2000 – Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000
2002 – Sarbanes–Oxley Act
2006 – Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006
2010 – Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
References
Further reading
External links
Text of the TIA
- General Rules and Regulations, Trust Indenture Act of 1939
- Interpretative Releases relating to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and General Rules and Regulations Thereunder
- Forms prescribed under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
SEC forms under TIA
ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Trust Indentures and Indenture Trustees
1939 in American law
United States federal securities legislation
76th United States Congress
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Locomotive (band)
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Locomotive (originally The Locomotive) were a British band in the 1960s, from Birmingham. Their musical styles ranged from jazz to psychedelic rock and ska, and their original line-up featured Chris Wood, later of Traffic, and drummer Mike Kellie of Spooky Tooth. They had a minor UK hit in 1968 with "Rudi's in Love", before turning to progressive rock with their only album, We Are Everything You See, released in 1970.
Career
The group was formed in 1965, originally as the Kansas City Seven, by trumpeter Jim Simpson, with singer Danny King, saxophonists Chris Wood and Brian "Monk" Finch, organist Richard Storey, bass player Pete Allen, and drummer Mike Kellie. All the members had previously played in local bands in Birmingham. After they began playing less jazz and more R&B and soul music, they changed their name to The Locomotive, and gained a strong reputation for their live performances. There were many personnel changes, and by the end of 1966, after Wood left to join Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason in Traffic, Simpson was the only remaining original member. Other members by that time were singer and keyboard player Norman Haines, together with Jo Ellis (bass), Bill Madge (saxophone), and drummer "Mooney" Mezzone, later to become a singer and songwriter.
Having worked in a record shop in Smethwick, an area of Birmingham with a large Black British population of West Indian descent, Haines developed a particular interest in ska music. Increasingly, he took over as front man, and the band's first single, on the Direction label, combined Haines' composition, "Broken Heart", with a version of Dandy Livingstone's "A Message to You, Rudy", which was later revived by the Specials. In 1968, Simpson left the band in order to act as their manager, setting up still-extant label Big Bear Records; he later became the manager of local band Black Sabbath. In other personnel changes, Ellis and Mezzone were replaced by Mick Hincks (bass) and Bob Lamb (drums), with trumpeter Mick Taylor replacing Simpson. The band dropped the definite article from their name, moved to Parlophone Records, and their second single, "Rudi's in Love", was a ska song written by Haines. It became a hit, reaching No. 25 on the UK Singles Chart in late 1968.
Following the single's success, Locomotive recorded an album at the Abbey Road Studios in London with producer Gus Dudgeon. By this time, however, the band decided to perform more progressive rock, based around Haines' keyboard skills. Because of their uncertainty over how it would be received, the record company delayed the release of the album. A single, a version of a Question Mark and the Mysterians song, "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go", was released but failed to make the chart. Haines left the group in 1969, reportedly turning down an offer to join Black Sabbath and eventually forming the Norman Haines Band. Haines died in 2021, aged 75.
On its eventual release in early 1970, the Locomotive album, We Are Everything You See, received good reviews, but failed to appeal to the band's earlier R&B audience. The album included the track "Mr. Armageddon", released as a single and later included on several anthologies of progressive rock of the time, together with two tracks, "Coming Down" and "Love Song For the Dead Ché", which were versions of Joseph Byrd's songs for his band the United States of America. The band also recorded a single for the Transatlantic label, under the name of Steam Shovel.
Hincks and Lamb attempted to continue Locomotive with new members John Caswell and Keith Millar, releasing a single "Roll Over Mary", before changing the group's name to The Dog That Bit People in 1970. The renamed band released an album in 1971 before splitting up. Hincks and Lamb joined another local band, Tea and Symphony, before Lamb joined the Steve Gibbons Band and later worked as a record producer for UB40.
We Are Everything You See was reissued on CD in 1995 and again in 2010.
Discography
Albums
We Are Everything You See (Parlophone, 1970)
Singles
"Broken Heart" / "Rudy - a Message to You" (Direction, 1967)
"Rudi's in Love" / "Never Set Me Free" (Parlophone, 1968) - UK No. 25
"I'm Never Gonna Let You Go" / "You Must Be Joking" (Parlophone, 1969)
"Mr. Armageddan" / "There's Got to Be a Way" (Parlophone, 1969)
"Roll Over Mary" / "Movin' Down the Line" (Parlophone, 1970)
References
English rock music groups
Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands
Musical groups established in 1965
Musical groups disestablished in 1970
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Thomas Roth (athlete)
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Thomas Arne Roth (born 11 February 1991 in Sand) is a Norwegian middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He reached the final at the 2012 European Championships finishing eighth.
His brother, Andreas, is also a runner.
International competitions
Personal bests
Outdoor
400 metres – 47.93 (Kristiansand 2012)
600 metres – 1:18.24 (Nittedal 2014)
800 metres – 1:45.75 (Oslo 2018)
1000 metres – 2:21.14 (Gothenburg 2015)
1500 metres – 3:43.11 (Jessheim 2018)
One mile – 4:09.03 (Oslo 2015)
Indoor
600 metres – 1:20.21 (Stange 2010)
800 metres – 1:47.26 (Wien 2015)
1000 metres – 2:20.96 (Hvam 2018) NR
1500 metres – 3:46.19 (Hvam 2016)
References
1991 births
Living people
Norwegian male middle-distance runners
People from Ullensaker
Norwegian people of Swedish descent
Ullensaker/Kisa IL athletes
Sportspeople from Viken (county)
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The women's speed competition in sport climbing at the 2022 World Games took place on 14 July 2022 at the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, United States.
Competition format
A total of 12 athletes entered the competition. In qualification every athlete has 2 runs, best time counts. Top 8 climbers qualify to main competition.
Results
Qualification
Competition bracket
References
Women's speed
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William Lincoln Garver
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William Lincoln Garver was an American architect, civil engineer, author, socialist leader, and political candidate from Missouri. He was primarily an architect by trade, and learned while working under his uncle, architect Morris Frederick Bell. Garver is probably best known for his work of occult fiction, Brother of the Third Degree. He was also a prolific political activist, authoring numerous pamphlets and articles on socialism. He was an influential leader in the Socialist Party of Missouri and the Socialist Party of America’s candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1908. His papers are held by the State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Early life
Garver was born in 1867 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but his family soon moved to a small farm outside Salina, Kansas. At the time of their arrival in the 1870s Kansas was sparsely populated and mostly untilled prairie. Garver's childhood in this natural environment gave him a lifelong love of nature. In the late 1870s the family moved Fulton, Missouri, where Garver graduated high school. He later attended Westminster College, and the University of Missouri. In 1891, he became associated with the Blavatskian school of Theosophy. He spent several years in a utopian commune in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was a Freemason.
Architecture
In Fulton, he met and came to work for architect Morris Frederick Bell. He was the assistant architect and superintendent of construction for David R. Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus. Garver designed schools, civil buildings, homes, and business buildings around Missouri, eventually moving to Chillicothe.
Written works
His longest and most popular work, Brother of the Third Degree, was first published in 1894, and later translated and published in several languages. His advocacy of socialism included articles such as "Free Socialism", "Socialism in Brief", and "Abolish Rent". He was an advocate of free public higher education.
References
1867 births
1953 deaths
People from Fulton, Missouri
Missouri socialists
Architects from Missouri
Socialist Party of America politicians from Missouri
Westminster College (Missouri) alumni
University of Missouri alumni
Esotericists
20th-century American politicians
Architecture in Columbia, Missouri
Politicians from Martinsburg, West Virginia
Writers from Martinsburg, West Virginia
Architects from West Virginia
American civil engineers
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Andriy Kokhanovsky
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Andriy Kokhanovsky (born 11 January 1968) is a Ukrainian athlete. He competed in the men's discus throw at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
References
1968 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Ukrainian male discus throwers
Olympic athletes for Ukraine
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
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Wake Me When the War Is Over is a 1969 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Gene Nelson and starring Ken Berry and Eva Gabor. It first aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on October 14, 1969.
Plot
The film tells the story of the amazingly naive and inept Lieutenant Roger Carrington (Berry) of the United States Army Air Forces beginning in January 1944 during World War II. After accidentally falling out of a C-47 when attempting to drop airborne leaflet propaganda, he lands in German territory. Escaping pursuing German soldiers, he is hidden by a local baroness named Marlene (Gabor). Luckily, Marlene is against the Nazis, and sympathizes with Carrington, taking him under her wing to recover, and eventually falling in love with him.
Unfortunately, when World War II ends, Marlene realizes that Carrington will leave when he finds this out. Not wanting him to go yet, she decides not to tell him about the war ending so he will stay, and she manages to keep him with her for nearly five years, explaining the Allies are continuously losing, then recapturing England. Around then is when Carrington convinces himself that it's his duty to continue fighting on a one man sabotage operation. He leaves Marlene's estate, not realizing he's now in a peacetime country. The only problem is, no one can tell him the war is over because no one around him speaks English including the Baroness' maid Eva who accompanies him.
Cast
Ken Berry as Roger Carrington
Eva Gabor as Baroness Marlene
Werner Klemperer as Major Erich Mueller
Danielle De Metz as Eva
Hans Conried as Erhardt
Jim Backus as Colonel
Parley Baer as Erhardt's Butler
Alan Hewitt as Koenig
See also
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
References
External links
1969 television films
1969 films
1969 comedy films
American comedy television films
American World War II films
1960s English-language films
ABC Movie of the Week
Films directed by Gene Nelson
1960s American films
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Tucić
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Tucić is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Milan Tučić (born 1996), Slovenian footballer
Zoran Tucić (born 1961), Serbian comic-book writer
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2006 State of Mexico election
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A local election was held in the State of Mexico, Mexico on Sunday, March 12, 2006. About 3.5 million people (40% of the total registered electorate) went to the polls to elect, on the local level:
125 municipal presidents (mayors) to serve for a three-year term.
75 local deputies (45 by the first-past-the-post system and 30 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Congress of the State of México.
In addition to the eight nationally recognized political parties, the State of Mexico has, as of 2006, one locally recognized political party, the Partido Unidos por México (PUM), therefore nine political parties will participate in the Mexico state election.
Election results
Official results can be found at the 2006 elections website.
Municipalities
Local Congress
External links
Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico website
State of Mexico
Election
State of Mexico elections
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Big Bill Morganfield
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William "Big Bill" Morganfield (born June 19, 1956) is an American blues singer and guitarist, who is the son of McKinley Morganfield, also known as Muddy Waters.
Biography
Morganfield was born in Chicago, Illinois. He had little contact with his father. Instead he was raised in Southern Florida by his grandmother, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child he listened to his father's records, but also to more popular fare such as The Jackson Five. He came to music later in life, having first worked as a teacher after earning a bachelor's degree in English from Tuskegee University and another in Communications from Auburn University. He did not begin playing music seriously until after his father's death in 1983, and then spent six years studying guitar. A well-received performance with Lonnie Mack at Atlanta's Center Stage convinced Morganfield that his career move was a good one, but dissatisfied with his craft, he returned to studying traditional blues forms and songwriting while continuing work as a teacher.
He got his first break in 1996 when he and his band ("The Stone Cold Blues Band" 1996-1998) played at the Blue Angel Cafe in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The band consisted of professional Atlanta based musicians who helped launch his career. In 1998 he then began to play the east coast that led to bigger shows like "The Stan Rogers Folk Fest" and "Montreal Jazz fest" .
His first independent album,"Rising Son", was released in 1999 by Blind Pig Records. The album was recorded in Chicago, and featured Paul Oscher, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Pinetop Perkins. In 2000, he won the W.C. Handy Award for Best New Blues Artist. The title cut was featured in the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long. (In 1997 Taxium Records released a demo-intended recording of Big Bill Morganfield called "Nineteen Years Old" without the consent of Big Bill Morganfield. American laws do not apply as this recording was taken to Germany for release.)
In 1999, Morganfield appeared at the San Francisco Blues Festival.
Ramblin' Mind, Morganfield's next album, included Taj Mahal on two songs, plus his song "Strong Man Holler". Billy Branch played harmonica on the album. In 2009, Morganfield released the album Born Lover, produced by Bob Margolin and Brian Bisesi.
During the 2000s, Morganfield headlined many festivals and performed at venues around the world. In concert, Morganfield performs his own material with an occasional number from his father's work. He also performed at a Kennedy Center Honors tribute to his father. His version of Waters' "Got My Mojo Working" has been said to be as potent as the original. Tours in Spain that band member Max Drake accompanied him on were particularly popular, due to the legacy connection to Waters.
Discography
1997 - Nineteen Years Old
1999 - Rising Son
2001 - Ramblin' Mind
2003 - Blues in the Blood
2009 - Born Lover
2013 - Blues With a Mood
2016 - Bloodstains on the Wall
See also
List of Auburn University people
List of guitarists by genre
References
External links
Official website
1956 births
Living people
Singers from Chicago
Tuskegee University alumni
Auburn University alumni
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
American blues singer-songwriters
Blues musicians from Illinois
Guitarists from Chicago
20th-century American guitarists
Blind Pig Records artists
African-American male singer-songwriters
African-American guitarists
20th-century African-American male singers
21st-century African-American male singers
Singer-songwriters from Illinois
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Ross Divorty
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Ross Divorty (born 27 November 1988) is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Doncaster, Featherstone Rovers, Halifax, and York City Knights, as a , or .
Background
Ross Divorty was born in York, England, and he is the son of the rugby league footballer; Gary Divorty.
Playing career
Club career
Ross Divorty made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Saturday 13 June 2009, and he played his last match for Featherstone Rovers during the 2011 season.
International honours
Although born in England, Divorty has a Welsh grandmother, making him eligible to play for Wales. He earned Wales caps playing in the 2009 European Cup, culminating in an appearance in the final at Bridgend's Brewery Field. He scored his first tries for Wales in the group stages of this tournament, scoring twice in an 88–8 win over Serbia. In October 2013, Ross played in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
References
1988 births
Living people
Doncaster R.L.F.C. players
Featherstone Rovers players
Halifax R.L.F.C. players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from York
Rugby league second-rows
Wales national rugby league team players
Welsh rugby league players
York City Knights players
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Dick Blakeslee
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Richard Cleveland Blakeslee (September 15, 1921 – April 7, 2000) was an American professor of English who is best known as the author of the folk song "Passing Through". Quoting from the book by Ronald D. Cohen and Dave Samuelson which accompanies the ten CD set "Songs for Political Action", in discussing the People's Songs organization in Chicago, "Curiously, the most popular song to emerge from Chicago didn't come from the downtown office, but from the city's southside Hyde Park neighborhood. Dick Blakeslee became interested in folk music while attending the University of Chicago. In late 1947 or early 1948, he and Dick Crolley sent a home-cut disc of their compositions to People's Songs in New York. Blakeslee's "Passing Through" was chosen for publication. Pete Seeger learned the song and sang it throughout Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign. Today, "Passing Through" remains an enduring folk standard."
Over the next half century "Passing Through" was recorded by many artists including The Highwaymen, Cisco Houston, Earl Scruggs, Leonard Cohen (on Live Songs,), Valdy and Kind of Like Spitting. It was often sung at union rallies and state fairs and over the years acquired verses not written by Blakeslee, such as a Lincoln verse (the original song included only four verses: Adam, Jesus, Washington, and Roosevelt). It was used as the title song of the feature film, Passing Through.
Between 1950 and 1958 Blakeslee taught English Literature and Composition at Northwestern University and Wisconsin State University, Stevens Point. In 1958 he took a position at San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University, Northridge, where he taught until his retirement in 1992. During his teaching career he was recognized as a dedicated and gifted teacher. Although he continued to sing and play the guitar for his poetry classes and at parties with friends he did not publish any more songs.
Dick Blakeslee died on April 7, 2000, in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by his wife Pat, four of his five children, and nine grandchildren.
References
American male songwriters
1921 births
2000 deaths
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
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Seyyed Nasereddin Rural District () is in Zarrinabad District of Dehloran County, Ilam province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 2,242 in 432 households. There were 1,979 inhabitants in 438 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 1,243 in 319 households. The largest of its 22 villages was Zarab, with 440 people.
References
Dehloran County
Rural Districts of Ilam Province
Populated places in Dehloran County
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Malinky
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Malinky is a Scottish folk band specialising in Scots song, formed in autumn 1998.
Career
Early years
The original members were Karine Polwart from Banknock, Stirlingshire (vocals, guitar, bouzouki), Steve Byrne from Arbroath (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin), Mark Dunlop from Garryduff, County Antrim (bodhrán, whistles, vocals) and fiddler Kit Patterson from Plymouth, England.
First meeting to rehearse in early October 1998, the band was largely formed to help Polwart fulfil a support slot at Edinburgh Folk Club some ten days later, supporting harpist and storyteller Robin Williamson, formerly of the Incredible String Band. The members had previously encountered each other around the lively pub session scene in Edinburgh in venues such as Sandy Bell's and the Royal Oak bars. Polwart was a social worker, Byrne a student of Scottish Studies, Dunlop a town planner with the city council, and Patterson a computer programmer.
Amidst the plethora of good young instrumental bands on the scene, Malinky stood out owing to their almost exclusive concentration on Scots traditional song, as well as Polwart's burgeoning songwriting talent. Within six months the band had won a 'Danny Award' for new talent at Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival and were signed to the leading Scottish independent folk imprint Greentrax Recordings, as well as kicking off their international career with a trip to the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany.
The band's first album 'Last Leaves' was recorded in 1999 and released at Celtic Connections 2000, with Davy Steele as producer. The album was recorded at Pier House Studios in Granton, Edinburgh.
In 2000, the band were invited to perform at Denmark's prestigious Tønder Festival and the UK's Cambridge Folk Festival.
In early 2001, Edinburgh-born Jon Bews, formerly of Bùrach, replaced Patterson on fiddle, and later that year Tyrone button box and whistle player Leo McCann was asked to join to expand the band's largely string-driven sound. McCann toured with the band for the first time on the Scottish Folk Festival tour of Germany in January 2002, where the band honed the material for their second album on Greentrax, 3 Ravens. Launched on their return visit to Cambridge Folk Festival in August 2002, the band's recording of the traditional song 'Billy Taylor' set to Polwart's tune attracted the attention of BBC Radio 2's Mike Harding and significant airplay boosted the band's profile considerably. Polwart's song 'Thaney', about the Scottish Saint Thenew, (more commonly known as Enoch), earned a nomination in the 2003 Radio 2 Folk Awards. 3 Ravens also showcased Byrne's own growing songwriting talents for the first time, with his Angus Scots lament 'The Lang Road Doon'. 3 Ravens was recorded at Castlesound Studios in Pencaitland, East Lothian.
2004 personnel change
Following continued touring in Europe, especially in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, in September 2004 the band announced a major change of personnel. Polwart left to pursue a solo career and McCann's imminent fatherhood prompted him to return to his previous career in social work. Polwart and McCann worked their notice until February 2005, coincidentally the same month as Polwart won three Radio 2 Folk Awards, catapulting her re-released 2003 solo album 'Faultlines' to greater heights.
Byrne, Dunlop and Bews continued the band with new members Fiona Hunter from Glasgow (vocals, cello) and Liverpool-born Ewan MacPherson (guitar, mandolin, mandola, tenor banjo, jaw harp, vocals), and a series of crossover concerts in January and February 2005 took place, featuring both old and new line-ups, including a sellout show at Celtic Connections in Glasgow.
In June 2005 the band recorded their third album 'The Unseen Hours' at Watercolour Studios in Ardgour, Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, and the album was released in November 2005, surprising many critics with its continuity from the band's previous work, and earning rave reviews with its strong commitment to traditional Scots ballads.
The Unseen Hours line-up toured Germany and the Netherlands in 2006 to great acclaim and in 2007 performed with Swedish ballad band Ranarim at the Celtic Connections festival as well as making their first sojourn to the US and Canada.
2008 onwards
In December 2007 MacPherson left the band to pursue other projects to be replaced by guitar and bouzouki player David Wood from Grindleford in Derbyshire, formerly of CrossCurrent.
Fiddler Mike Vass joined the band in 2008, previously best known for performing in a duo with his sister Ali Vass, replacing Jon Bews.
The band's 2008 album 'Flower & Iron' was released simultaneously in the USA on Mad River Records and in the UK and elsewhere on Greentrax Recordings, leading the UK's Guardian newspaper to label the band 'one of the folk bands of 2009', whilst the Boston Globe suggested Malinky "may be the finest young Scottish band since Silly Wizard", in a nod to the legendary Scottish group which brought Phil Cunningham, his brother Johnny, and Andy M. Stewart to prominence.
In April 2010, founder member Mark Dunlop left to start a family, and the band reverted to a four-piece. Mike Vass subsequently left the band in October 2010 to pursue a fiddle teaching job in Argyllshire. The 2010 BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of the Year, Daniel Thorpe, occupied the fiddle seat on a guest basis until spring 2011.
In December 2010, the band won the 'Scottish Folk Band of the Year' award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, led by concertina maestro Simon Thoumire's Hands up for Trad organisation.
2011–2012: Hiatus
In June 2011, the band announced a hiatus after three years of intensive touring, mainly in Germany and North America.
2013: Return to performing
In late 2012, the band – minus guitarist Dave Wood – announced that they would start to perform again from January 2013, with a concert at Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival. Mark Dunlop and Mike Vass rejoined the band, with a new album recording slated for summer 2013.
2014: Return to recording
Vass' serious illness with neuroborreliosis in summer 2013 delayed the album recording. Following Vass' recovery, the band recorded their fifth album "Far Better Days" at Gorbals Sound in Glasgow in August 2014, produced by Capercaillie's Donald Shaw. The album was launched at Celtic Connections in January 2015, going on public release on 20 April 2015, on Malinky's own label, with support from Creative Scotland.
2019: Anniversary
On 1 June 2019 Malinky released their 20th-anniversary double album Handsel produced by Greentrax Recordings.
Discography
Malinky
Last Leaves (2000, Greentrax Recordings)
3 Ravens (2002, Greentrax)
The Unseen Hours (2005, Greentrax; Mad River Records (USA))
Flower & Iron (2008, Greentrax; Mad River USA)
Far Better Days (2015, Malinky Music)
Handsel (2CD, 2019 Greentrax)
References
External links
Scottish folk music groups
1998 establishments in Scotland
Scots language
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El Campo, California
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El Campo (later renamed Paradise Beach) was a picnic resort established in 1891 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad in hopes of increasing ridership on their ferries between San Francisco and Marin. Facilities at the resort included a dance pavilion, merry-go-round, bowling alley, fishing pier, shooting gallery and over 100 acres of picnic grounds. The resort became such a popular attraction that crowds lined up on the pier in San Francisco on the weekend to catch the ferry to the resort. Because the site was only accessible by ferry, a local newspaper wrote that families could enjoy "absolute freedom from the incursions of hoodlums."
The name, El Campo, is derived from a Spanish phrase meaning "the flat country". The site was located on the San Francisco Bay, south-southeast of Point San Quentin.
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Defunct amusement parks in California
1891 establishments in California
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Niagara is a German-style board game designed by Thomas Liesching and published in 2004 by Zoch Verlag and Rio Grande Games. In Niagara, which is set in the Niagara Falls, players collect, transport, and steal gems. Upon its release, the game won several awards, including the 2005 Spiel des Jahres.
Gameplay
The game is played on a hinged board designed to sit atop the game box and represent Niagara Falls as a flap hanging over the box edge. The river is represented using clear plastic discs in a grooved surface, allowing board spaces to move downstream toward the waterfall.
Players collect gems along a river. Players move canoes to transport the gems, and can steal gems from other players' canoes. They may also influence the speed with which the board spaces move downstream. The first player to acquire four gems of one colour, or one of each of the five colours, or seven gems of any colour, is the winner. Although the game box states that gems closer to the waterfall are of higher value, the game treats all colours equally.
Expansions
Diamond Joe
Given away at the Spiel 2005 game festival, Diamond Joe adds another canoe which is controlled indirectly by the players, and which participates in trades, generally bringing the harder-to-reach gems upstream.
Spirits of Niagara
Released in 2006, Spirits of Niagara adds double-capacity canoes, pieces for a sixth player, additional paddle cards with new actions, and a whirlpool which pushes canoes downstream. It also adds two "spirits" of the river: the "Bathing Beaver", which resets the flow of the river to normal, and the "Hurried Elk", which allows a player to move their canoe faster if they reach the gems on the edge of the waterfall.
Awards
In 2005 Niagara won the Spiel des Jahres
and was one of the winners of the Mensa Mind Games competition.
It received 2nd place in the Deutscher Spiele Preis and 3rd in the Schweizer Spielepreis for Family Games. The game was also reviewed in Pyramid.
References
External links
Niagara home page at Zoch zum Spielen
Mensa Select winners
Spiel des Jahres winners
Rio Grande Games games
Board games introduced in 2004
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The year 1858 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
The competition to design Central Park in New York City is won by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc begins publication of his Entretiens sur l'architecture in book form, systematizing his approach to architecture and architectural education in a method radically opposed to that of the École des Beaux-Arts, and notable for its use of drawings in axonometric projection.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
The Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland is completed to an 1842 design by David Hamilton by David Bryce with sculptor Alexander Handyside Ritchie.
Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg (Russia) is completed to an 1818 design by Auguste de Montferrand.
Trinity Church (Oslo) in Norway, designed by Alexis de Chateauneuf and Wilhelm von Hanno, is consecrated.
Wesley Church, Melbourne, Australia, is opened.
Leopoldstädter Tempel (synagogue) in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Förster, is built.
Grand Synagogue of Aden is built.
Church of the Resurrection in Katowice (Poland) is completed.
Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, Lancashire (England), designed by James Hibbert and Nathan Rainford, is completed.
Leeds Town Hall in Yorkshire (England), designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, is completed.
Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua, New York, is built.
United States Customhouse and Post Office (Bath, Maine) is built.
The Liverpool, London and Globe Building (insurance office) in Liverpool (England), designed by C. R. Cockerell, is completed.
The West of England and South Wales Bank in Bristol (England), designed by Bruce Gingell and T. R. Lysaght, is completed.
The rebuilt Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, designed by Edward Middleton Barry, is completed.
St James's Hall (concert hall), Piccadilly, London, designed by Owen Jones, is opened.
Hownes Gill Viaduct in County Durham, England, designed by Thomas Bouch, is opened.
New westwork at Speyer Cathedral (Bavaria), designed by Heinrich Hübsch, is completed.
Construction of Woodchester Mansion (Spring Park) in Gloucestershire, England, designed by Benjamin Bucknall, is begun; work is abandoned in the 1870s.
Awards
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Friedrich August Stüler.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Georges-Ernest Coquart.
Births
March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect (died 1942)
August 9 – John William Simpson, English architect (died 1933)
October 30 – Wilson Eyre, American architect (died 1944)
December 26 – Torolf Prytz, Norwegian architect, goldsmith and Liberal politician (died 1938)
Leonard Stokes, English architect (died 1925)
Deaths
February 19 – Alexander Black, Scottish architect (born c.1790)
February 24 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish architect (born 1784)
June 28 – Auguste de Montferrand, French-born architect (born 1786)
November 12 – Edward Cresy, English architect and civil engineer (born 1792)
November 14 – Benjamin Green, English architect (born 1813)
References
Architecture
Years in architecture
19th-century architecture
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Lee Jun-seok
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Jun-seok Andy Lee (; born 31 March 1985) is a South Korean politician who served as party leader of the conservative People Power Party.
Lee entered politics as a relatively young member of the Park Geun-hye presidential administration, during which he served as one of the 11-member Grand National Party’s (later renamed Saenuri Party) Executive Leadership Council, the youngest member ever to sit on the Council. After the impeachment of Park in 2016, he left the Saenuri Party and joined the centre-right conservative minor Bareun Party, of which he served as one of the party's Supreme Council members. The Bareun Party would merge into the Bareunmirae Party, and Lee's faction of that party later merged with the majority right-wing conservative Party to form the current People Power Party.
In June 2021, the conservative People Power Party voted to select Lee Jun-seok as its leader, making him the youngest person in South Korean history to lead the main conservative bloc. As leader of the People Power Party, Lee led his party to victory in the 2022 presidential election and the 2022 local elections. He has been noted for his staunch anti-feminism and support from South Korean idaenam.
On 8 July 2022, Lee was given a six month suspension from the People Power Party as the result of a bribery and prostitution scandal. Lee was officially removed from party leadership on 9 August. On 7 October, Lee's party suspension was extended by a year by the party's ethics committee.
Early life
On 31 March 1985, Jun-Seok Lee was born at Hanyang University Hospital in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, between his father, Su-Wol Lee, previous head of global institutional sales team at Shinhan Bank, and Hyang-Ja Kim, his mother who was a teacher at Andong Girls' High School. During his adolescent years, he lived in a semi-basement house in Sanggye-dong, an impoverished neighbourhood where the housing price was the cheapest. A few years later, his family eventually moved onto a middle-class district Hanshin Village in Sanggye-dong and lived there for ten years. After his father was assigned overseas, he stayed in Singapore and Indonesia for one year.
When he returned to Korea, he settled in Mok-dong and graduated from Wolchon Middle School. After graduating from Middle School, he mainly lived in a dormitory due to academic reasons. Now he returned to Sanggye-dong after 20 years. During his time at Seoul Science High School, Lee Jun-Seok served as the vice president of the student council. In March 2003, he was accepted at KAIST as a Math major but withdrew admission right after receiving his Harvard acceptance letter and full-ride presidential science scholarship.
After graduating from Harvard University in 2007, Lee Jun Seok returned to Korea to perform military duties working as a software developer (alternative military service as an industrial technical personnel) at ‘Innotive’, an image browsing software startup, a subsidiary of Nexon. While on the duty, Lee Jun Seok established a non-profit organization called Edushare ‘Society of Sharing Education’ and became its acting representative.
After completing his military obligation, Lee Jun Seok prepared to start his own venture. He received funding from the venture startup program backed by the SME (Small & Medium Enterprise) Ministry on 5 August 2011 and founded Classe Studio: an ed-tech startup that developed personalized tutoring software and workplace training applications.
Political career
Lee Jun Seok had an interview with Park Geun-Hye, the head of Grand National Party’s emergency response committee, who visited ‘Edushare’ in November 2011 for 2 hours. Also, he was introduced as a 「venture entrepreneur in his 20s who graduated from Harvard University」 on 29 December. Then, Lee Jun Seok was recruited to the emergency response committee of the Grand National Party.
After being appointed as a member of the emergency response committee, Lee Jun Seok attracted people's attention with his eloquence in debate. He increased his public recognition by appearing on various TV Shows. Then, Lee Jun Seok ran for the election of members of the National Assembly in 2016 in Sanggyeo-dong against Ahn Cheol-Su (the running candidate for Presidential primary), but eventually ended up losing.
Lee Jun Seok was nicknamed as ‘Park Geun-Hye Kid’, but he stood up for the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye since October 2016. Lee Jun Seok parted ways with Saenuri Party and established a new political party, named Baruen Party with Yoo Seong-min. In 2018, Lee Jun Seok ran for the election of members of the National Assembly, but he lost the election. Before the 21st election of members of the National Assembly, Lee Jun Seok was appointed as a youth supreme representative in Future Unification Party.
After seeing a taxi driver setting fire to himself in the National Assembly, Lee acquired a taxi driver license and worked as a taxi driver for 12 hours daily for two months in March and April of the year 2019. Even though Lee Jun Seok never won an election, he lived as a political commentator, media host for 10 years, appearing on both entertainment and political TV Shows.
Leader of the People Power Party
In 2021, Lee Jun Seok ran for the election for selecting the representative of the People Power Party. He became popular among the 20s and 30s due to his opposing stance against political correctness such as "faux feminism," introducing reforms supporting meritocracy rather than outright equality of outcome. Lee Jun Seok lost the partial election in party member vote to candidate Na Kyung-won, but won the main election, recording 43.82 percent (93,390 votes) including votes from the Public Opinion Poll. As a result, Lee Jun Seok was elected as the leader of the People Power Party and he is the youngest to represent the main conservative bloc in Korean political history.
Lee has a negative stance on affirmative action. He is rated as having Idaenam as his main support.
Lee's conflict with Yoon
On November 29, 2021, Lee posted a facebook post saying "If that is the case, this is it," with another post showing a text emoji of a smiling face and a thumbs-down gesture, and has refused to answer on the phone and has been avoiding the press until December 3.The move is considered to be a protest against Yoon Seok-youl ignoring him as leader of the party.
The feud was resolved by their meeting in Ulsan in December 3.
Ethics investigation, suspension, and ousting
On 22 April 2022, the People Power Party opened an ethics violation complaint against Lee Jun-seok for an allegation of sexual favors in 2013. Lee denied the allegation and filed a lawsuit against the Youtube Channel that made the allegation. Lee is the first chairman in the history of the country’s main conservative party to be referred to the ethics committee for review while still in office.
On 8 July 2022, the ethics commission of the People Power Party ruled Lee to receive a 6-month suspension of party activities and from his role as party leader. Lee's suspension will end on 8 January 2023. The subject of the committee's deliberation was the alleged attempts of Lee and Kim Cheol-keun, the head of the party’s political affairs office, to destroy evidence. Kim Cheol-keun was handed a two year suspension from party activities for destroying evidence of Lee Jun-seok's acceptance of sexual favors and bribery.
On 9 August, Lee was automatically removed from party leadership. Joo Ho-young took over as interim party leader on the following day.
On 7 October, Lee's suspension was extended by an extra year by the People Power Party's ethics committee.
Criticism
Lee is considered a moderate conservative within the PPP in most issues, but has attracted controversy due to his stances on some issues. Lee drew strong support from idaenam anti-feminist young men, and Lee has stated that feminism has a totalitarian inclination. Na Kyung-won, a leading female politician in the PPP, described Lee's politics as "Trumpism."
Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2022 presidential election, expressed concern about Lee Jun-seok's political popularity, saying, "It could lead to the emergence of far-right populism." South Korean liberal newspaper Hankyoreh also compared Lee Joon-seok to Donald Trump.
Authored books
Election results
General elections
References
External links
LinkedIn Public Profile
TEDxYonsei(3rd) - Junseok Lee - The opportunity of non-profit organization and which way to go 2011.08.31
Lee Junseok - Naver
Living people
Politicians from Seoul
Businesspeople from Seoul
Businesspeople in computing
Male critics of feminism
Harvard University alumni
South Korean anti-feminists
South Korean businesspeople
1985 births
People Power Party (South Korea) politicians
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2021 Tennis Napoli Cup
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The 2021 Tennis Napoli Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 20th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2021 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Naples, Italy between 4 and 10 October 2021.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
1 Rankings as of 27 September 2021.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Matteo Arnaldi
Jacopo Berrettini
Luca Nardi
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:
Filippo Baldi
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:
Miljan Zekić
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Bogdan Ionuț Apostol
Raúl Brancaccio
Marco Miceli
Julian Ocleppo
The following players received entry as lucky losers:
Alexandru Jecan
Petros Tsitsipas
Champions
Singles
Tallon Griekspoor def. Andrea Pellegrino 6–3, 6–2.
Doubles
Dustin Brown / Andrea Vavassori def. Mirza Bašić / Nino Serdarušić 7–5, 7–6(7–5).
References
2021 ATP Challenger Tour
Tennis Napoli Cup
2021 in Italian tennis
October 2021 sports events in Italy
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Scanlation
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Scanlation (also scanslation) is the fan-made scanning, translation, and editing of comics from a language into another language. Scanlation is done as an amateur work performed by groups and is nearly always done without express permission from the copyright holder. The word "scanlation" is a portmanteau of the words scan and translation. The term is mainly used for Japanese manga, although it also exists for other languages, such as Korean manhwa and Chinese manhua. Scanlations may be viewed at websites or as sets of image files downloaded via the Internet.
History
Frederik Schodt describes having "dreamed of [manga translation] as far back as 1970 or 1971". Subsequently, Schodt, Jared Cook, Shinji Sakamoto, and Midori Ueda formed a group named Dadakai. Schodt referred to Dadakai as "really the beginning of manga translation", however described these efforts as "way too early" because they could not get anything published. One of the manga Dadakai licensed was Osamu Tezuka's manga titled "Phoenix", and the translation was later published by Viz Media from 2002 to 2008. The amateur press association (APA) was the first formally organized form of manga scanlation. Their major period of activity occurred during the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Scanlation groups began forming in Europe before the United States translating into their respective languages; the largest of which was the French.
Parallel to the increasing growth of the Internet in the late 1990s, people increasingly began to translate manga scripts, soon after which groups began editing those translated scripts onto manga scans. Initially scanlations were distributed using mail, CDs, and emails within anime clubs. By 1998, many free hosting services such as Geocities and Angelfire hosted scanlations, and eventually scanlators congregated to form an IRC channel named #mangascans. In 2000, organized scanlation groups began to emerge. The majority of scanlation groups seemed to uphold an unspoken agreement between them and manga publishers; that when a series is officially licensed, scanlators are expected to police themselves. For instance, when Viz licensed three of the most popular series that Toriyama's World was scanlating, the website took their scanlations offline. To help kickstart the initial publication of Shounen Jump, Viz Media partnered with several scanlation groups including Toriyama's World to promote the magazine and subsequently received a cut of the revenue through Viz's affiliate program.
Process
Scanlation is usually done by a group of fans who collaborate through the internet. Many scanlators actively communicate with each other, even with those of other groups, some even belonging to several groups at once; others choose to avoid communication completely. One former scanlator, by the pseudonym Stephen, noted that scanlators often fall into three types of cliques: those who belong to prestigious 'old guard' groups that have been active for several years, to newer groups that established themselves through hard work, or to fringe groups that attempt to undercut other groups attempting to best them via larger download count. Much stigma exists between the old and new. Stephen stated that Old Guard consider newer groups as "trend- or fame-whores" and thus choose to work on series that have more cultural or artistic significance whereas newer groups consider the Old Guard bitter losers who are no longer popular and tend to work on the more popular titles. Many groups have their own webpage as well as an IRC channel or a Discord server. These platforms are an important part of the community aspect, as they allow for real-time interaction between the group staff and the target audience as well as allowing the groups to recruit new staff.
Much like their earlier predecessors, the anime fansub community, scanlators tend to organize into groups and divide the labor amongst themselves. The first step in scanlation is to obtain the "raws" or the original content in print form, then to scan and send the images to the translator and the cleaner. The translator reads original text from the raws and translates into the desired language of release, then sends the translated text to a proof-reader to check for accuracy. The cleaner removes the original text, corrects blemishes that arose from scanning, adjusts brightness and contrast levels so that the finished product looks like officially published volumes, etc. The process of cleaning may also include the removal of text directly over artwork and results in blank spots interrupting the artwork. Depending on the scanlation group, these spots may be left as is or the artwork will be redrawn (usually performed by the cleaner as well). The typesetter then takes the translated text and places it into the 'cleaned' raw, making the translated texts fit in the dialogue boxes and selecting appropriate fonts for effect such as emphasis. Finally the translated, typeset manga is sent to the scanlation group's quality controller who copyedits the final product before releasing it to the websites that it will be viewed or downloaded from.
Scanlators often use digital photo and illustration editing software such as Adobe Photoshop (or less commonly, Clip Studio Paint) to clean, redraw, and typeset the scanlations.
Scanlation groups primarily make their releases available through their own sites or shared sites like MangaDex. The vast amount of manga released and multitude of scanlation groups – each with their own individual sites and methods of distribution, sometimes even competing scanlations of the same manga – gave rise to sites such as MangaUpdates that specialize in tracking and linking these releases. Jake T. Forbes, a manga editor and columnist, stated at a Comic-Con 2010 panel that scanlation aggregator sites that offer many different titles all in one place have recently become part of the distribution process.
Motivations and ethics
While early official translations of manga focused on localizing the manga to an Anglophone culture, scanlations retained the cultural differences, for example, leaving in forms of address, romanizing sound effects and onomatopoeia instead of translating them, and providing the manga unflipped. This minimalist approach to translation has been referred to as "enculturation". Sound effects can also be left untranslated in scanlations, creating an evocative Japanese atmosphere. The reader can often infer the meaning of the sound effects from the context or lettering choices.
Fans are often quite unhappy with the translation industry for various reasons. Patrick Macias, a columnist for The Japan Times Weekly described fans "addicted to page-turning narratives" as impatient with the "agonizingly" slow pace at which official translations are released. Douglass, Huber and Manovich say that enthusiasm by fans about a particular series, coupled with delays in official translations led to the formation of scanlation groups. Scanlators say that they scanlate to promote the series or the author in their own language, but Hope Donovan suggests that the scanlator's goal is more along the lines of "self-promotion", and argues that it is prestigious for a scanlator to have many fans.
As many titles do not get licensed in most countries, or licensed in any foreign country, scanlation groups allow a much wider audience access to the content. The owner of the now defunct Manga hosting site Ignition-One, Johnathan, stated that "The entire reason I joined the scanlations community is to promote manga that I was interested in and, coincidentally, that no one else would translate." Also this practice is common for some manga discontinued due to lack of popularity or sales in the target region.
In other cases, scanlation groups are formed to get around perceived or actual censorship in the official translation or in the decision to obtain the series license. "Caterpillar" of former Caterpillar's Nest scanlation group, in reference to erotic content that his group released, stated that "I started doing scanlations because I wanted to read certain manga and I knew they didn't stand a snowflake's chance in hell of ever getting an official English translation." In the yaoi fandom, commercially published explicit titles are often restricted to readers aged 18 or above, and there is a tendency for booksellers to stock BL, but also insist that more of it is shrink-wrapped and labeled for adult readers. Andrea Wood has suggested that teenage yaoi fans seek out more explicit titles using scanlations.
The quality of commercial offerings is a common complaint. Localization is also a common complaint among supporters of scanlations. Commercial releases often have titles, names, puns, and cultural references changed to make more sense to their target audience. The act of horizontally 'flipping' the pages of commercial releases has also received criticism from fans of manga. The reason for this change is that manga panels are arranged from right to left, while the panels in Western comics are arranged from left to right. However, due to large-scale fan complaints that this 'flipping' has changed the finished product from the original (e.g. A flipped manga image will keep the speech translations legible, while any graphics such as the wording on clothes or buildings will be reversed and confusing), this practice has largely diminished.
The cost and speed of commercial releases remains an issue with some fans. Imported comics from the original countries' markets sometimes cost less than the commercially released version, despite the high cost of shipping. Despite weekly or monthly serialized releases in the country of origin, translated editions often take longer to release due to the necessity of translating and repackaging the product before release.
A more recent phenomenon amongst scanlation readers is the emergence of ereaders. Users may read scanlations on devices such as the Amazon Kindle. Since most scanlations are distributed as a series of images, many e-book readers already have the capability to read scanlations without additional software. Most, if not all, manga is not released in a digital format that is compatible with e-book readers, so downloading scanlations is the only way to do this.
Legal action
Scanlations are often viewed by fans as the only way to read comics that have not been licensed for release in their area. However, according to international copyright law, such as the Berne Convention, scanlations are illegal.
According to a 2009 study conducted by Lee Hye-Kyung of the University of London, Japanese publishers felt that scanlation was "an overseas phenomenon", and no "coordinated action" had taken place against scanlation. Lee stated that a possible explanation for some of the lack of legal action is that scanlation groups always make sure to buy an original copy of the work and generally stop scanlating should the work become licensed.
Historically, copyright holders have not requested scanlators to stop distribution before a work is licensed in the translated language. Thus, scanlators usually feel it is relatively 'safe' to scanlate series which have not been commercially released in their country. Steve Kleckner, a former VP of sales for Tokyopop, stated that "Frankly, I find it kind of flattering, not threatening... To be honest, I believe that if the music industry had used downloading and file sharing properly, it would have increased their business, not eaten into it." However, this view is not necessarily shared among the industry, as some Japanese publishers have threatened scanlation groups with legal action. Since the 1990s, publishers have sent cease and desist letters to various scanlation groups and websites.
Due to manga's popularity steadily increasing in the overseas market, copyright holders felt that scanlators were intruding on their sales and in 2010, a group of 36 Japanese publishers and a number of US publishers banded together to form the Manga Multi-national Anti-Piracy Coalition to "combat" illegal scanlations, especially mentioning scanlation aggregator websites. They have threatened to take legal action against at least thirty, unnamed websites. The coalition has achieved some degree of success. The scanlation aggregator site OneManga, ranked 935 in the entire internet in May 2010 according to a Google listing and top 300 in the United States, announced its closure in July 2010 due to their respect towards the displeasure expressed by the publishers, while OneManga officially shut down its online reader in August 2010.
Some scanlations leak before the manga is even published in the Japanese weekly magazines. As of April 2014, the Japanese government was looking into amending copyright law to more effectively target translated scans. A 2014 estimate was that lost revenue from scanlations amounted to "560 billion yen per year in only four major cities in China".
In 2020, a Haesin Young, a manhwa artist, threatened legal action against a piracy website asking users to stop illegally uploading the manhwa. In 2021, Lezhin said that they are working with law firms to bring legal charges against manga piracy sites, after accusations from several manhwa authors, including manhwa artist YD, that scanlation causes authors to lose money and motivation. Moreover, the Korean government and Interpol initiated a three-year-long cooperative investigation in April, aiming to arrest individuals engaging in illegal distribution of pirated and illegally translated comics, cartoons and novels.
Reception
Patrick Macias wrote for The Japan Times that there seems to be an unspoken agreement between scanlators and publishers; once a series obtains an English-language license, English-language scanlators are expected to police themselves. Most groups view the act of scanlation as treading upon a 'gray area' of legality. Johnathan, owner of the now defunct scanlation sharing site Ignition-One, acknowledged that scanlations are illegal no matter what scanlation groups might say; however, unlike the manner in which the advent of the MP3 format marked the age of sharing music that harmed the music industry, he believed that scanlating manga in contrast encouraged domestic publishers to license manga.
Jake T. Forbes, an editor and columnist, criticized the work of scanlation groups in that they in no way are in "legal grey area" and are blatant copyright infringement. He further criticized the community for lacking the right and qualifications to know whether or not scanlation is positive or negative for the industry and the harm it caused, emphasizing the simple truth that the scanlation community is "not" the industry. He describes the current fandom as taking "unfettered" access to copyrighted works "for granted" due to advent of torrents and scanlations.
Jason Thompson, a freelance editor with deep involvement in the manga industry, stated that although manga companies never mention them, they have placed paying increasing amounts of attention towards scanlations as a means of gauging a title's popularity and the presence of a fanbase. Some licensing companies, such as Del Rey Manga, Tokyopop, and Viz Media, have used the response to various scanlations as a factor in deciding which manga to license for translation and commercial release. Steve Kleckner, former VP of sales for Tokyopop, stated that "hey, if you get 2,000 fans saying they want a book you've never heard of, well, you gotta go out and get it." Toren Smith, a translator, feels differently stating that, "I know from talking to many folks in the industry that scanlations DO have a negative effect. Many books that are on the tipping point will never be legally published because of scanlations."
Johanna Draper Carlson says that some readers of scanlations do not wish to spend money, or that they have limited mobility or funds, or that they are choosy about which series they wish to follow. Carlson feels that the readers of scanlations "do not care" that scanlations are illegal. Forbes describes the cost of keeping up with new manga as "astronomical", stating that "fans expecting to read any manga they want for free isn’t reasonable, but neither is it reasonable to expect your audience to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to stay up to date with content that their Japanese kindred spirits can get for a quarter the cost."
Forbes urged the scanlation community to instead direct their energies toward providing original, creative content as opposed to infringing on copyright laws. He addressed the fandom's criticism of the lack of quality in official translations stating that it should manifest as discussion. In regards to bridging the gap between cultures, he mentioned translating what Japanese bloggers have to say. Finally, he addressed the fame-seeking side of the scanlation community by stating that they should try their hand at creating fan art instead of placing their name on an unofficial translation of copyrighted material.
During a panel on digital piracy in Comic-Con 2010, the comic and music critic and writer for Techland, Douglas Wolk, expressed concern in response to the actions of Manga Multi-national Anti-Piracy Coalition stating that he had seen the music industry "destroy" itself by "alienating its most enthusiastic customer base" in attempts to fight piracy. Forbes, also a panelist, agreed, criticizing publishers for this direct retaliation; Forbes stated that publishers were not realizing that consumers wanted a large amount of content so they could browse rather than picking and choosing individual items. Deb Aoki, panelist and manga editor for About.com, stated that this was exactly what scanlation aggregator sites provided consumers. Forbes highlighted that until recently scanlations were not problematic; however, aggregator sites were appearing which made scanlations much more readily accessible and which run like businesses, functioning off of ad revenue while the artist and scanlation groups received nothing.
References
Further reading
Inside Scanlation for history and interviews
Anime and manga terminology
Fan translation
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Thomas Bramston (c.1690–1765), of Skreens, near Maldon, Essex, was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1747.
Bramston was the eldest surviving son of Antony Bramston of Skreens and his wife Catherine Nutt, daughter. of Sir Thomas Nutt of Mays, Sussex. and the grandson of Sir John Bramston, former MP for Essex and Maldon. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1707 and at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 11 October 1707. In 1714 he was called to the bar. On succeeding his father to Skreens in 1722, he also became High steward of Maldon. He married Diana Ferne widow of Robert Ferne of Locke, Derbyshire and daughter of Edward Turner of Stoke, Lincolnshire. Diana died on 10 January 1726 and he married as his second wife Elizabeth Berney, daughter of Richard Berney, recorder of Norwich, in January 1733
At the 1727 British general election, Bramston was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Maldon replacing Thomas Bramston of Writtle with whom his political career has sometimes been conflated. Bramston made his first recorded speech opposing the Address on 7 May 1728 and again opposed the Address on 21 January 1729. On 26 January 1730, he seconded a motion calling for information as to any engagements entered into for the hire of foreign troops. On 11 March 1730, he moved for ‘an address to the King for a particular account of the £60,000 granted last year for to make good the engagements with foreign princes’, but Walpole avoided the question through parliamentary procedure. Also in 1730 he carried a bill which resulted in the release of about 10,000 insolvent debtors. He supported a place bill on 17 February 1731.
In 1732 Bramston was responsible for an Act requiring a land qualification for Justices of the Peace, after complaints that several JPs had no fortunes, and some were not able to write or read. In 1733 he carried a motion to change the process for repairing high roads to one that was fairer for the labourers but the bill which he introduced was lost on its third reading. In a debate on the Excise Bill in 1733 he gave described several oppressive acts which to his knowledge the officers of the excise had been guilty of in his neighbourhood. At the 1734 British general election he was defeated at Maldon, but was returned in a contest as MP for Essex. He spoke against the practice of forcing householders and innkeepers to maintain the soldiers quartered on them. He was returned unopposed as MP for Essex at the 1741 British general election. When the Jacobites in France were preparing for an invasion in February 1744, Bramston was described to the French Government as a ‘gentilhomme d’un grand crédit dans la province d’Essex où les troupes doivent débarquer’, and he was expected to have led a rising of the Essex Jacobites planned to coincide with the invasion which did not materialize. In spring 1745 he assisted in the passing of an Act for the stricter enforcement of his own Act of 1732, concerning justices of the peace. He did not stand again 1747 British general election. The 2nd Lord Egmont included him among Members whom it would be essential to bring back into the House on the accession of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He became a Bencher of Middle Temple in 1742.
Bramston died on 14 November 1765 leaving a son and two daughters.
References
1690s births
1765 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
British MPs 1741–1747
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The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it is part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and is run on a dirt course (either natural dirt or a synthetic surface such as Polytrack). This contrasts with the similar Breeders' Cup Mile, run on grass. All Breeders' Cups to date have been conducted in the United States, with the exception of the 1996 event in Canada.
The race was run for the first time in 2007 during the first day of the expanded Breeders' Cup at that year's host track, Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. It became a Grade I event in 2009.
Occasionally, various track configurations require minor changes in the distance of the race. The 2007 race at Monmouth Park was held at a distance of 1 mile 70 yards (1673 m) instead of the normal distance of . The 2015 Breeders' Cup was held at Keeneland, which does not regularly hold 1–mile dirt races. To get the proper distance, the starting gate was set 70 yards (64 m) in front of the one-mile pole, where the timer would start, and the finishing line was set at the track's alternate finish line at the 1⁄16 mile pole. Thus the race was slightly longer than a mile for the horses.
Automatic berths
In 2007, the Breeders' Cup has developed the Breeders' Cup Challenge, a series of races in each division that allotted automatic qualifying bids to winners of defined races. Each of the fourteen divisions has multiple qualifying races. Note though that one horse may win multiple challenge races, while other challenge winners will not be entered in the Breeders' Cup for a variety of reasons such as injury or travel considerations.
In the Dirt Mile division, runners are limited to 12 and there are three automatic berths. The 2022 "Win and You're In" races were:
the Metropolitan Handicap, a Grade 1 race run in June at Belmont Park in New York
the Pat O'Brien Stakes, a Grade 2 race run in August at Del Mar Racetrack in California
the Ack Ack Stakes, a Grade 3 race run in October at Churchill Downs in Kentucky
Records
Most wins:
2 – Goldencents (2013, 2014)
Most wins by a jockey:
2 – Rafael Bejarano (2013, 2014)
2 – Javier Castellano (2015, 2018)
2 – Irad Ortiz Jr. (2019, 2021)
2 – Joel Rosario (2010, 2020)
Most wins by a trainer:
2 – Jerry Hollendorfer (2010, 2017)
2 – Todd A. Pletcher (2015, 2021)
Most wins by an owner:
2 – W. C. Racing (2013, 2014)
2 – WinStar Farm (2017, 2021)
Winners
See also
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile "top three finishers" and starters
American thoroughbred racing top attended events
References
Dirt Mile
Graded stakes races in the United States
Grade 1 stakes races in the United States
Open mile category horse races
Recurring sporting events established in 2007
2007 establishments in New Jersey
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Gympie–Brooloo–Kenilworth Road is a continuous road route in the Gympie and Sunshine Coast regions of Queensland, Australia. It has two official names, Gympie–Brooloo Road and Kenilworth–Brooloo Road. The entire route is signed as State Route 51.
Gympie–Brooloo Road (number 483) is a state-controlled district road and Kenilworth–Brooloo Road (number 481) is also a state-controlled district road.
Gympie–Brooloo Road is known locally (with Local and State Government approval) as Mary Valley Road.
Route description
The road commences as Gympie–Brooloo Road (Mary Valley Road) at an intersection with the Bruce Highway (A1) in Gympie. It crosses the Mary River and runs generally south, following the Mary River Valley. After running through the eastern corner of the residential locality of the road passes through or by rich farming land in a number of localities. These include and . It next turns south-east then south through . The village of Amamoor is well to the west of the road, on the former railway line. In Amamoor the Mary Valley Link Road branches off to the east. The road continues south through and to , the terminus of the former railway line. In Imbil the Tuchekoi Road branches off to the east, and Yabba Creek Road runs to the west.
At Brooloo the road changes to Kenilworth–Brooloo Road, running south and south-east to Kenilworth, where it ends at an intersection with the Eumundi–Kenilworth Road, which branches off to the east. Eumundi–Kenilworth Road continues south as Elizabeth Street, with no route number other than Tourist Drive 22, to an intersection with Charles Street. From there the road (and Tourist Drive 22) continues south as Maleny–Kenilworth Road.
Tourist Drive 42
Tourist Drive 42 is concurrent with most of Gympie–Brooloo Road, leaving it at Kandanga to follow Kandanga–Imbil Road to Imbil on its way to Borumba Dam. On returning from the dam it rejoins at Imbil and runs north a short distance before turning south-east to Tuchekoi.
History
Pastoral leases were taken up in the Fraser Coast Region from 1843, and European settlement of what is now Gympie began soon after. The Gympie district was part of the large Widgee Widgee pastoral area. In 1887, of land were resumed from the Widgee Widgee pastoral run for the establishment of small farms. Further south, were resumed from Imbil. The land was offered for selection on 17 April 1887. The opening of new farms on the western side of the Mary River to the south of Gympie led to the development of roads in the Mary Valley.
A pastoral lease was taken up as Kenilworth Station in 1850. The effects of the 1884 Land Act reached the Kenilworth area in 1888, when land on grazing properties was surveyed and made available for selection. Development of small farms in the Imbil and Kenilworth areas led to the need for a road to transport products to Gympie, and also requests for a railway line. The road was completed quickly, but a railway did not arrive until 1914-15. Meanwhile, further road improvements had been undertaken.
Upgrades
A project to design active transport crossings, at a cost of $1.3 million, was to be completed in July 2022.
Intersecting state-controlled roads
This road intersects with the following state-controlled roads:
Mary Valley Link Road
Tuchekoi Road
Yabba Creek Road
Mary Valley Link Road
Mary Valley Link Road (number 480) is a state-controlled district road rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from the Bruce Highway in to Gympie–Brooloo Road in , a distance of . This road has no major intersections.
Tuchekoi Road
Tuchekoi Road (number 482) is a state-controlled district road rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Gympie–Brooloo Road in to Kenilworth–Skyring Creek Road in , a distance of . It is part of Tourist Drive 42. This road has no major intersections.
Yabba Creek Road
Yabba Creek Road (number 4832) is a state-controlled district road rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Gympie–Brooloo Road in to the Borumba Dam in , a distance of . It is part of Tourist Drive 42. This road has no major intersections.
Major intersections
All distances are from Google Maps.
See also
List of road routes in Queensland
List of numbered roads in Queensland
Widgee
, for a detailed description of the growth of dairying and other rural industries in the Mary Valley in the late 1800's.
References
Roads in Queensland
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Peter Weidenbaum (born 25 July 1968, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian artist. Weidenbaum's art is an opposition to reality's rule and a search for the metaphysical.
Education
He became acquainted with painting at an early age. He maintains that the confrontation with Jean Fouquet's painting "Madonna surrounded by seraphim and cherubim" at the Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp) altered his view on reality.
In 1993, Weidenbaum enrolled in the Royal Academy in Antwerp and, at the behest of Walter Villain, he studied Monumental Art. During his time there, he sought inspiration from the literature of Sartre, Goethe and Jung. This led to the series "Greetings from Faust" and a string of works by the poet Paul van Ostaijen. The German expressionists Max Beckmann and George Grosz had a significant influence on the young artist. In 2014 the public broadcast service showed a two-series documentary concerning the 350th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KASK). In "Stream of Talent," such diverse artists like Fred Bervoets, Jan Fabre, Luk Tuymans, Cindy Wright and Peter Weidenbaum reminisce about their time at the KASK.
Situating and work
In 1996, at the suggestion of artist Guillaume Bijl, Weidenbaum successfully applied for a training course at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK). His investigations into images led to a cross-pollination between cartoon films and sculptural work. In 1999 he received an invitation from Stijn Huijts, director of the Civic Museum "Het Domein" in Sittard, The Netherlands. This results in his first museum exhibition with the installation "Somebody puts something in my dreams." During this period, Weidenbaum also produces a few "fake reality" short films in which his brother plays the lead role. After his HISK period, he works for three years on a series "Out of the Forest," a set of cryptic sculptures, drawings, and paintings. During this period, Weidenbaum strikes up a close contact with the philosopher Willem Elias. In his book "Aspects of Belgian art beyond ‘45", he cites Weidenbaum under the heading of "neosymbolism," a particular style in Flanders labeled as "the school of Antwerp" and of which Luc Tuymans is the most prominent representative. Elias mentions "recontextualization" of reality and includes Weidenbaum in his book, besides the likes of Ronny Delrue and Koen van den Broek.
Weidenbaum continues to reflect about the function of the artist and reaches the conclusion that an artist as merely a producer of work doesn't make much sense if there is no social dimension connected with it. This is because the artist through his work illustrates a different vision of reality and because of this enriches the spectator's experience.
Exhibitions
With the display "Daswald," Antwerp 2004 and the project "Lookout," Tienen 2005, he emerges from creative isolation. The "Lookout" project involves the construction of a hunting pulpit with students from a technical college. The shooting platform is constructed to a very high standard and placed in a pedestrianized shopping street. This project conducts in close collaboration with the writer, the curator, the artist, the students who help him build the hunting pulpit, the spectator. On the other hand, the different locations: the pedestrianized shopping street, the gallery, and the museum. Weidenbaum interacts and tears them out of their context. The students constructing the hunting pulpit with him, become part of his artistic process. He extracts their activity out of the school structure and involves them in his creative activity. Curator Sven Vanderstichelen has this to say about the "lookout out of the box": "the ‘lookout’ project is not merely an installation, a video, a sketch or a painting. It's a search for what Peter Weidenbaum so aptly names as ‘the inner forest.' The place where every interactive process between the outside world and the self is getting interpreted."
In 2006, at the request of Het Beschrijf, Weidenbaum collaborated on an artistic project "Poëzie" in the city of Brussels. Using the title 'Passing by,' Peter Weidenbaum develops a multifaceted symbolism that corresponds to his artistic expression. He describes his intervention as an infiltration in the Montgomery district and creates a walking route where his paintings of recognizable city scenes are shown in surprising locations. It demonstrates the picture of a dignitary in a night shop and a painting of an independent immigrant in the embassy. This provides food for thought for the inhabitants of the district. He publishes a newspaper where the painted cityscapes show in combination with a poem by Agnieszka Kuciak, a Polish poet and different interviews with local inhabitants. This congruence of systems of signs finalizes with a sculpture on Montgomery Square. He designs a very high lifeguard chair in stainless steel on a concrete slab in which one may read a poem of Kuciak. This is a symbolic gesture, where Weidenbaum invites the accidental passer-by to view the city from a bird's eye view, to reflect, to take distance, to integrate a moment of peace.
Another work of Weidenbaum is the artistic alter ego of the car. This damaged bronze vehicle, transformed by the artist into a sculptural aesthetic form is full of references. Transformed into an immobile piece of art, the euphoria of speed puts into question, and only the metaphor remains. For some, it is a status symbol, for others an extension of their ego, which gives them the illusion of freedom and individuality. (Flor Bex, Honorary Director MUHKA about "alter ego").
In 2006 Weidenbaum commences a series of paintings named "Out of the series Car Crash." This results in the monumental sculpture "Alter Ego" in 2008.
It is at that time that the artist begins producing artistic integrations within the architecture of public buildings. 'Green Velvet' in the Children's Psychiatric wing of the UZ Jette and 'Landscape' in Saint Agatha Berchem, in a children's day car center are both good examples of this. In both works, several universes intermingle. An abstracted landscape reconstructs in a public space. In a very urbanized environment, this becomes a landmark, an oasis for young residents.
Collections
Work by the artist is held in the public collections of Provincie Flemish Brabant Sculptuur 'Alter Ego' / UZ Jette Integratie 'Green Velvet / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Sculptuur 'Passing By' Montgomery / Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering Painting 'Rotation' / Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC), Painting 'Reconcideration' / Stedelijk museum het Domein Sittard Nederland, Sculptuur 'Somebody puts something in my dreams'.
Articles
Willem Elias, 2016, Een ontmoeting met zichzelf en de zijnen, p. 68-71, Staalkaart #32, Staalkaart vzw, Puurs, Belgium
Joannes Késenne, 2016, Een filosoof onder schilders, p. 15, H art No. 151, Idecom media, Antwerp, Belgium
Arne Rombouts, 2013, Docu. Vrt Stroom van talent, Brussels, Belgium
Willem Elias, 2012, Aspecten van de Belgische kunst na '45
References
External links
Visual Arts Flanders / Kunstenpunt / BAM
:File:Passing by, Artistic integration,Montgomery Square Brussels.jpg
1968 births
Living people
21st-century Belgian male artists
21st-century Belgian painters
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni
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BBCH-scale (hop)
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In biology, the BBCH-scale for hops describes the phenological development of Humulus lupulus (hops) using the BBCH-scale.
The phenological growth stages and BBCH-identification keys of hops are:
References
BBCH-scale
Humulus
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Pat & Stan
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Pat et Stanley (, , , , ) is an animated series that appeared as part of the children's television programme TFOU on the French network TF1. The show is animated by Mac Guff and created by Pierre Coffin, who would later on co-direct Despicable Me at the same studio via Illumination Entertainment.
Pat the brown hippopotamus and Stan the yellow dog have appeared in 39 short episodes as well as the 26-minute movie Pat et Stanley: Le Trésor de Pit et Mortimer (Pat and Stanley: The Treasure of Pit and Mortimer, 2006). Outside France, the duo are most famous for the short clip in which Pat is seen singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The clip appeared in Italy in a commercial by Ferrero's Kinder chocolates; they also produced a "Happy Hippo" shaped chocolate snack. It also appeared in Indonesia as a filler of local TV channel based at Sukamara Regency, Central Kalimantan, Sukamara Jaya Television (SJTV), of which the original audio has been completely replaced with a normal dialogue that include fat-shaming.
Two English dubs have also been made, one broadcast on CITV and Pop in the United Kingdom, with Pat and Stan being voiced by Jay Simon and John Telfer respectively and another on Kids' WB (later known as The CW4Kids and then, Toonzai) and also The Shorts on Cartoon Network in the United States, where Pat and Stan were voiced by Dan Green and David Wills respectively and under two Dutch versions on Jetix in the Netherlands and on Ketnet in Flanders. Pat and Stanley are now featured in many unofficial online videos singing English (as well as international) songs. It was on Cartoon Network's website from December 5, 2014 to April 11, 2015.
Characters
Main
Patrick "Pat" The Hippopotamus (voiced by Dan Green) - a brown hippopotamus
Stanley "Stan" D. Dog (voiced by David Wills) - a yellow dog
Episodes
Season 1
Bath Time (Jour de bain)
Cyber Stuart (Cyber Jean Luc)
Mosquito Warning (Attention moustique)
Wild Camping (Camping très sauvage)
The Pool (La piscine)
Artists (Pat et Stan artistes)
My Friend Helmut (Mon ami Helmut)
Super Loser (Super Blaireaux)
The Death of Norbert (La disparition de Norbert)
Pat Keeps the Rabbits (Pat, garde lapins)
Double Pat (Double Pat)
A Button on the Nose (Un bouton sur le nez)
The Band Wagon (Tous en scène)
Season 2
The Gamma Zapper (La zapette gamma)
Babysitters (Baby-sitter)
Stuart Does Everything (Jean-Luc fait tout)
Aunt Martha Moves (Tante Marthe s'installe)
Roll With It (Roule ma poule)
True False Bobo (Vrai faux bobo)
Sting Recall (Piqûre de rappel)
Stephanie Love (Stéphanie amoureuse)
Micro Stan (Microstan)
The Hamster of Bengal (Le hamster du Bengale)
In Search of Lost Treasure (À la recherche du trésor perdu)
Poles (Pat et Stan aux antipodes)
Dig-o-mania (Creusomania)
Season 3
Stan Phone Home (Stan téléphone maison)
Astro-Spountz (Le cosmospountz)
One Night Dog (Une nuit de chien)
The Return of Stuart (Le retour de Jean-Luc)
Aunt Martha Comes to Dinner (Tante Marthe vient dîner)
Pat's Pet (La bébête à Papat)
Nasalation (Liaison nasale)
A Short Break (Une petite pause)
The Great Vacation (Les grandes vacances)
Egg Surprise (Oeuf surprise)
The Ghost of Aunt Party (Le fantôme de Mamy Madeleine)
Scare Me If You Can (Fais moi peur)
Grand Hotel (Grand hôtel)
References
External links
Pierre Coffin. Retrieved on February 8, 2009. Creator's website.
Mac Guff. Paris, France: MacGuff Ligne. Production company website.
TFou. Paris, France: TF1. Retrieved on February 8, 2009. Parent show's website (in French).
2000s French television miniseries
French children's animated comedy television series
Animated television series about dogs
Fictional hippopotamuses
French computer-animated television series
2004 French television series debuts
2010 French television series endings
2000s French animated television series
Television series by Entertainment One
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Mina Mojtahedi
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Mina Mojtahedi (born in Tehran, Iran) is a Finnish wheelchair curler.
She participated in the 2014 Winter Paralympics where Finnish team finished on tenth place.
In 2018–2020 she lived in Switzerland and competed in 2019 and 2020 Swiss Wheelchair Curling Championship.
She was born in Iran, her father are Iranian and mother are Finnish. They moved from Iran to Scotland when Mina was at the age of 6.
Teams
References
External links
Profile at the official website for the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Living people
1973 births
Sportspeople from Tehran
Finnish female curlers
Finnish wheelchair curlers
Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Finland
Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Finnish expatriates in Scotland
Finnish people of Iranian descent
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