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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUBQ
KUBQ
KUBQ (98.7 FM, "The Ranch") is a radio station licensed to serve La Grande, Oregon, in the United States of America. The station is owned by the Pacific Empire Radio Corporation. KUBQ broadcasts a country music format to eastern Oregon. All five stations owned and operated by Pacific Empire Radio Corporation, in Eastern Oregon, share a radio studio building in La Grande, Oregon, located at 2510 Cove Ave. History In November 1984, KLBM, Inc., reached an agreement to sell KLBM-FM to Grande Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 7, 1985, and the transaction was consummated on June 24, 1988. The station was assigned the KUBQ call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on June 4, 1990. On July 1, 2019, KUBQ changed their format from rock to country, branded as "98.7 The Ranch". Previous logo References External links KUBQ official website Pacific Empire Radio Corporation UBQ La Grande, Oregon Country radio stations in the United States 1977 establishments in Oregon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny%20Pacquiao%20vs.%20Timothy%20Bradley
Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley
{{Infobox Boxingmatch |fight date = June 9, 2012 |Fight Name = Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley |image = |location = MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |fighter1 = Manny Pacquiao |nickname1 = Pac-Man |record1 = 54-3-2 (38 KO) |hometown1 = General Santos City, Philippines |age1 = 33 |height1 = 5 ft 6+1/2 in |style1 = Southpaw |weight1 = 147 lbs |recognition1 = WBO welterweight champion [[The Ring (magazine)|The Ring]] No. 2 ranked pound-for-pound fighter8-division world champion |fighter2 = Timothy Bradley |nickname2 = Desert Storm |record2 = 28-0 (12 KO) |hometown2 = Palm Springs, California, U.S. |age2 = 28 |height2 = 5 ft 6 in |weight2 = 146 lb. |style2 = Orthodox |recognition2 = WBO junior welterweight champion The Ring No. 8 ranked pound-for-pound fighter |titles = WBO welterweight title |result = Bradley wins via 12-round split decision (113-115, 115-113, 115-113) }} Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley, was a welterweight title boxing match held on June 9, 2012, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada. After 12 rounds, Bradley won a highly controversial split decision to take the WBO welterweight title. Background Pacquiao came into the fight following a controversial November 2011 majority decision victory in Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III. He brought with him world championships in eight different weight classes—a feat unmatched by anyone. After fight negotiations between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., ended without coming to terms, Mayweather opted to challenge junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto on May 5. Cotto had also been in the running to face Pacquiao in a rematch, but Pacquiao and Cotto could not agree on the weight for the fight. Pacquiao wanted the 147-pound welterweight limit, which Cotto said was too low for him, and he accepted a fight with Mayweather. Also in the running to face Pacquiao were Lamont Peterson and Juan Manuel Marquez. Ultimately, it was Timothy Bradley who came to terms, agreeing to move up a weight class to challenge Pacquiao for his title. Bradley came into the fight with a somewhat lower profile than a typical Pacquiao opponent. In January 2011, he won a 10th-round technical decision in a junior welterweight title unification bout against Devon Alexander. Previously, he had beaten then world-champion Lamont Peterson to claim the title. After the fight with Alexander, Bradley rejected an offer to fight Amir Khan and further unify the 140-pound division. He signed with Top Rank and was given a co-feature slot on the Pacquiao-Marquez III pay-per-view card in November. In his match, Bradley beat former lightweight champion Joel Casamayor in an eight-round fight. Prior to the Pacquiao fight, Bradley was ranked as one of the top 10 pound for pound fighters in the world. In a show of confidence, Bradley had "rematch" posters printed up, implying he would win the fight. Fight Pacquiao entered the fight as a substantial favorite, among both bookmakers and fans. Bradley entered the fight as a 7-2 underdog in the Vegas line. The glove weight was set at 8 ounces each. Midway through the first round, the crowd spontaneously began to chant "Manny, Manny, Manny ..." Throughout the fight, action was fast-paced, with Pacquiao landing the harder punches. He appeared to take control early, beating Bradley on most exchanges. However, Bradley did make good use of the punches he was able to throw, connecting on some of them. Pacquiao won the first round, according to two of the three judges. Bradley was the more aggressive fighter in the second, backing Pacquiao against the ropes at one point. However, Pacquiao's patience paid off as he countered effectively at the end of the round. Two of the judges awarded the round to Bradley. According to trainer Joel Diaz, Bradley hurt his ankle during the round, but chose to press on. Pacquaio took control in the third round, winning on all three judges' cards. By the end of the round, Bradley "looked stunned". During the fourth and fifth rounds, Bradley seemed to be visibly hurting. In the fourth round, Bradley was cautioned for a low blow, and forced on defense throughout. During the final seconds of the round, Bradley appeared close to going down multiple times. Pacquiao remained on the offensive during the fifth, but Bradley managed to land some counterpunches. All three judges gave the fourth round to Pacquiao, but only one awarded him the fifth. Pacquiao dominated the sixth round, trapping Bradley in the corner, and getting off several consecutive unanswered punches. All judges gave Pacquiao the sixth round. Things started to turn in Bradley's favor during the second half of the fight, as Pacquiao struggled to land big punches. Around the seventh round, Bradley began to use his double jab effectively, and avoid Pacquiao's counterpunches. He moved better, and got off his own counterpunches. "I got my second wind in the sixth round," Bradley said after the fight. Bradley won the seventh round, according to all three judges, with Pacquiao being backed into the ropes near the end of the round. The eighth round saw a brief stoppage after Bradley appeared to get caught in the eye by Pacquiao's thumb. After the stoppage, Bradley appeared to be in trouble, but reduced his arm swing, to avoid further counterattacks by Pacquiao. Two judges scored the round in favor of Bradley. In the ninth round, Pacquiao was able to take advantage of Bradley's aggression, and drive him back into the ropes. Bradley left himself too open to counterpunches, and Pacquiao won the round on two of the three judges' cards. Bradley bounced back in the tenth round, winning on all cards, thanks in part to a good head shot midway through the round. During the eleventh round, Bradley appeared to be gaining momentum, landing a series of punches, and backing Pacquiao against the ropes. The crowd began to chant Bradley's name. Pacquiao silenced the crowd with a series of punches of his own, but two judges gave the round to Bradley. In the final round, both fighters pushed the action. Bradley landed a strong shot to Pacquiao's jaw in the final minute, and the match ended with a series of wild punches by both parties. Bradley won the final round on all three scorecards. In the end, Bradley won a highly controversial split decision over Pacquiao. Judges Duane Ford and C. J. Ross scored the fight 115–113 in favor of Bradley, while Jerry Roth scored the fight 115–113 in favor of Pacquiao. It was Pacquiao's first defeat in seven years. For his win, Bradley received a US$5 million check—the largest prize of his career. Fight card Welterweight Championship bout: Manny Pacquiao (c) vs. Timothy Bradley Bradley won via split decision Welterweight Championship bout: Mike Jones vs. Randall Bailey Bailey won via 11th-round knockout Bantamweight Championship bout: Jorge Arce (c) vs. Jesús Rojas Fight ended in a no contest Super Bantamweight Championship bout: Guillermo Rigondeaux (c) vs. Teon Kennedy Rigondeaux won via 5th-round technical knockout Main event official scorecard Source: Preliminary card Welterweight bout: Mikael Zewski vs. Ryan Grimaldo Zewski won via 3rd-round knockout Welterweight bout: Andrew Ruiz vs. Tyler Larson Ruiz won via unanimous decision Super Middleweight bout: Jesse Hart vs. Manuel Eastman Hart won via 1st-round technical knockout Junior Lightweight bout: Ernie Sanchez vs. Wilton Hilario Sanchez won via unanimous decision Reaction Following the announcement of the decision, the crowd booed loudly. Pacquiao appeared to be stunned by the result. Fight promoter Bob Arum was irate, and said that he was worried about boxing's credibility in the aftermath of the decision. He also questioned the competence of the judges. Arum also stated that before the scorecards were read out, Bradley told him "I tried hard but I couldn't beat the guy." A few reporters questioned Bob Arum's sincerity in his comments and hinted that he was in on the bad decisions. One reporter, Tito Garcia of FanvsFan.com, interrupted Arum's press conference by loudly accusing Arum of fixing the fight. Garcia was physically ejected from the press conference. Pacquiao said he was shocked by the result, but accepted the decision respectfully, saying "I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough," adding, "He never hurt me with his punches, most of them landed on my arms." Immediately after the fight, Bradley stated, "Every round was pretty close. I got to go home and view the tape and see if I really won." He later remarked, "I thought I won the fight. I didn't think he was as good as everyone says he was. I didn't feel his power." The decision was criticized by many commentators. The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times'' scored the fight 117–111 in favor of Pacquiao, while ESPN and Harold Lederman of HBO both scored the fight 119–109, also in Pacquiao's favor. ESPN boxing analyst and longtime trainer Teddy Atlas said that Pacquiao clearly won, and that it was a case of either incompetence or corruption. He added that boxing needs a national commission, so that judges can be accountable for their decisions. According to the AP's count, Pacquiao landed 253 punches to Bradley's 159. Former champion Oscar De La Hoya said that Bradley should have refused the title belt, and Pacquiao had won the fight. However, not everyone was upset by the result. Corbin Middlemas of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the fight was very close and difficult to score. "For all of the sports vices, this [decision] wasn't one of them," he said. The only poor decision would have been to award either fighter victory by a large margin, he added. Following the event, Bradley announced that he would welcome a rematch, which was also held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 12, 2014. Pacquiao defeated Bradley via unanimous decision and regained the WBO title. Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley III then took place almost two years later on April 9, 2016. Pacquiao again defeated Bradley via unanimous decision and knocked him down twice along the way. Main event unofficial scorecards Source: Total, 57: Pacquiao 54 | Bradley 3. WBO review After the decision the WBO ordered a video review of the bout. The five judges on the WBO's committee all scored the fight in Pacquiao's favor — 118–110, 117–111, 117–111, 116–112 and 115–113. However, the WBO cannot overturn the result of the fight. International broadcasting The fight drew 900,000 pay-per-view purchases. References External links Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley Official Fight Card from BoxRec Bradley 2012 in boxing Boxing in Las Vegas 2012 in sports in Nevada Boxing on HBO June 2012 sports events in the United States MGM Grand Garden Arena
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Istra
FC Istra
FC Istra () is an association football club from Istra, Russia, founded in 1997. It played in the Russian Second Division from 2008 to 2012, at which point it lost the financing and dropped back to the amateur levels. The most successful moment of the club is 2011-12 Russian Cup. Istra reached Round of 32, in which they lost to Russian Premier League giants Spartak Moscow 0–1. External links Official website Association football clubs established in 1997 Football clubs in Russia Football in Moscow Oblast 1997 establishments in Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Little
Mount Little
Mount Little is situated at the northern end of Kootenay National Park, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1916 after George F. Little, a member of the first ascent party. See also List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border References Further reading Dave Birrell, 50 Roadside Panoramas in the Canadian Rockies, P 87 Three-thousanders of Alberta Three-thousanders of British Columbia Mountains of Banff National Park Kootenay National Park Canadian Rockies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVJC
WVJC
WVJC (89.1 FM) "89.1 The Bash" is a radio station broadcasting an alternative format. Licensed to Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States, the station serves the Evansville, Indiana tri-state region. The station is currently owned by Illinois Eastern Community Colleges. Students in the Radio/TV and Digital Media program at Wabash Valley College staff the station. References External links / 89.1 The Bash VJC Mount Carmel, Illinois Radio stations established in 1983
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajitha%20Wickramarachchi
Rajitha Wickramarachchi
Rajitha Wickramarachchi (born 21 December 1987) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Saracens Sports Club in the 2008–09 Premier Trophy on 14 November 2008. He made his Twenty20 debut on 12 January 2020, for Kandy Customs Cricket Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament. References External links 1987 births Living people Sri Lankan cricketers Kandy Youth Cricket Club cricketers Moors Sports Club cricketers Saracens Sports Club cricketers Sportspeople from Kandy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20completion%20program
Degree completion program
A degree completion program is an undergraduate academic program, most frequently found in the United States and Canada, that is offered within an established university but designed for non-traditional students. Degree completion programs are typically structured to allow persons who previously completed a substantial portion of the requirements for an undergraduate degree, but who have been separated from the university setting for a period of time, to complete the credit requirements needed to earn a bachelor's degree (B.A.), either at an accelerated pace, or a flexible schedule. The difference between credits previously earned, and those required for the award of a B.A., are made-up through a variety of methods depending on the sponsoring institution, but typically include a combination of traditional university courses and CLEP examinations. Examples Georgetown University bills its degree completion program as designed for students who were "meaning to complete" their bachelor's degree, but for whom "life, work and other obligations got in the way". Applications are accepted from working adults who have completed one or two years of university courses which can be transferred onto the potential student's Georgetown transcript. A series of evening and weekend classes fills the gap between credits earned and those required for a bachelor's degree. The degree completion program at the University of the Pacific is open to applicants who have completed 70-credits of university level course work. Once enrolled, students take a twice-weekly, evening class over the course of four semesters; those who successfully complete the 15-month instructional sequence are awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. Colorado State University offers a degree completion program in psychology. Students can transfer up to 90 credits of coursework taken at another university before completing the final 30 credits required for a B.A. degree through distance learning psychology courses at Colorado State. University of San Francisco offers a Bachelor of Science in Management to working professionals who are interested in completing their degree. Students who have completed at least 60 semester credits may apply to the program and can earn their degree in as little as 23 months. Students take two courses each semester, and studies include accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior and theory, analytics, technology, logistics, and other core competencies. University of Nebraska–Lincoln offers an online Bachelor of Science degree completion program in applied science. Students select from a broad range of courses across the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, in addition to the credits they've already earned, to tailor a degree to their career goals. This program provides a convenient and flexible career path for those in the military, currently employed, returning to college or transferring from a two-year college. Notes Alternative education Distance education
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gajanan%20Madhav%20Muktibodh
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध) (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964) was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayists, literary and political critics, and fiction writers of the 20th century. Muktibodh is widely regarded as a pioneer of modern Hindi poetry in India along with Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala'. He was a leading figure in the Prayogvaad Experimentalism movement of Hindi literature and of the Nayi Kahani and Nayi Kavita Modernism of the 1950s. He is also considered a central figure in the rise of 'New Criticism' in Indian literature. He was an assistant-editor of important Hindi journals including Naya Khun and Vasudha. Muktibodh was born in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh. He started out as was one of the seven poets included in the first volume of Tar Saptak, a series of anthologies (1943), which marked a transition in Hindi literature from the prevalent movement in Chhayavaad or Romanticism. The initiation of Prayogvaad or Experimentalism and Pragativaad or Progressivism in Hindi poetry eventually led to the creation of the 'Nayi Kahani' (New Story) movement or Modernism. Brahmarakshas (ब्रह्मराक्षस) is considered Muktibodh's most influential work in experimental poems, noted for the use of archetypal imagery. This poem is a haunting depiction of the contemporary intellectual, who gets so lost in his own sense of perfectionism, unending calculations, and subjective interpretation of the external reality that he loses touch with reality itself, and eventually dies and fades away like a dead bird. Muktibodh was deeply influenced by Marxism and Existentialism, and expressed his deep discontent with contemporary society. According to Sanjay K. Gautam, Muktibodh was "the most influential Marxist Hindi poet in postcolonial India, and one of the founders of modernism in Hindi poetry". He continued to show his progressive streak even after the disintegration of the Progressive Writers' Movement after 1953; and, through the rest of his career, he along with writers like Yashpal, continued his ideological fight against modernist and formalist trends in Hindi literature. He is best known for his long poems:Brahma-rakshasa (ब्रह्मराक्षस), Chand ka Muh Teda hai (The Moon Wears a Crooked Smile) (चाँद का मुहँ टेढ़ा है), Andhere Mein (In the Dark) (अंधेरे में) and Bhuri Bhuri Khak Dhul (The Brown Dry Dust) (भूरी भूरी ख़ाक धूल); his complete works extending to 6 volumes, were published in 1980, as Muktibodh Rachnavali. Sharadchandra Madhav Muktibodh (1921–1985), a Marathi poet, novelist, and Marxist critic, winner of Sahitya Akademi Award (1979) in Marathi, was the younger brother of Muktibodh Works His first individual book was published in 1964, when he was on his death-bed: [Chand Ka Muh Teda Hai (चाँद का मुहँ टेढ़ा है). Although Muktibodh could not manage to get his works published, as a book in his lifetime, he was one of the contributing poets to the first three volumes of Tar Saptak, a series of path-breaking poetry anthologies, edited by Ajneya."Bhoori Bhoori Khak Dhool"is the collection of his remaining poems. His collected works, published as 'Muktibodh Rachnavali" were edited by Nemichand Jain. He is today considered a bridge between the Progressive movement in Hindi poetry and the Nayi Kavita (Modern poetry) movement. Muktibodh made a name for himself in the field of criticism as well, with his strong views on the upper caste influence on the disintegration of Bhakti movement in India, which he viewed a lower caste uprising against the hegemony upper caste. In literary criticism, he wrote a critical work on Jaishankar Prasad's Kamayani titled: Kamayani, Ek Punarvichar. Ek Sahityik ki Diary, first written for his column in the weekly Naya Khun, and later continued in the journal Vasudha (1957–60), offers a glimpse of his literary and socio-political criticism, and insights into his way of thinking, and was first published in 1964. It is most noted for the article, Teesra Kshana (Third Moment), where he shows his preference for the hypothesis of three successive stages in the creative process, of inspiration, impersonalisation and expression, rather than a single moment of inspiration Media A Hindi feature film, Satah Se Uthata Aadmi (Arising from the Surface), with script and dialogues by him, was directed by veteran film director, Mani Kaul, and shown at Cannes Film Festival in 1981. In 2004, "Brahmarakshas ka Shishya", a dramatization of Muktibodh's story, was presented in New Delhi by Soumyabrata Choudhury. His novel, Vipatra has also been made into an audio book for the blind. Legacy His brilliance was recognized by the literary world after the posthumous publication of Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai, the first collection of his poems, in the early 1960s. Ever since, the book has run into several editions, and is recognized as a modern classic. In his memory, Madhya Pradesh Sahitya Parishad, has instituted the annual MuktiBodh Puraskar. In 2004, 'Muktibodh Smarak', a memorial was set up at the 'Triveni Sangrahalaya' in Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh, along with fellow poets of Chhattisgarh, Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi and Baldeo Prasad Mishra. Bibliography Chand ka Muh Teda Hai – (Anthology of Poems), 1964, Bharatiya Jnanpith. Kath Ka Sapna (Anthology of Short stories), 1967, Bharatiya Jnanpith. Satah Se Uthta Admi (Anthology of Short stories), 1971, Bharatiya Jnanpith Nayi Kavita ka Atmasangharsh tatha anya Nibandha (Essays), 1964, Visvabharati Prakashan. Ek Sahityik ki Dairy (Essays), 1964, Bharatiya Jnanpith. Vipatra (Novel), 1970, Bharatiya Jnanpith. Naye sahitya ka saundarya-shastra, 1971, Radhakrishna Prakashan. Kamayani: Ek punarvichar, 1973, Sahitya Bharti. Bhuri Bhuri Khak Dhul – (Anthology of Poems), 1980, New Delhi, Rajkamal Publications. Muktibodh Rachnavali, Edited by Nemichandra Jain, (Complete Works) 6 Vols., 1980, New Delhi, Rajkamal Publications. Samiksha ki samasyain, 1982, New Delhi, Rajkamal Publications. Pratinidhi kavitayein, edited by Ashoka Vajapeyi. 1984, Rajkamal Prakashan. In the Dark: Andhere Mein, translated by Krishna Baldev Vaid. 2001, Rainbow Publishers. . (.). Dabre Par Sooraj ka Bimb, 2002, National Book Trust. . Muktibodh Ki Kavitayen (Anthology of Poems), 2004, Sahitya Akademi. . Further reading Sanjay K. Gautam, "Modernism and the Birth of Divided Subjectivity in Postcolonial India: A Study of Muktibodh (1917–1964)", South Asia Review, Vol. 33, No.1 (2012), 77-90. Soviet Literature, by Soi͡uz pisateleĭ, USSR. 1947, Foreign Languages Publishing House, p 144-147. Muktibodh ka sahitya: Ek anusilana, by Shashi Sharma, 1977, Indraprastha Prakashan. Muktibodh: Vicharak, kavi aura Kathakar, by Surendra Pratap, 1978, National Publishing House. Muktibodh: Sankalpatmaka kavita, by Jagdish Kumar 1981, Nachiketa Prakashan. Muktibodh ka Sahitya-vivek aur unki Kavita, by Lallan Ray, 1982, Manthan Pub. Muktibodh ki atmakatha, by Vishnuchandra Sharma, 1984, Radhakrishna Prakashan. (Biography) Paya Patra Tumhara: Gajanan Madhava Muktibodh aur Nemichandra Jain ke bich Patra-vyavahar, (1942–1964), Edited by Nemichandra Jain. 1984, Rajkamal Prashan Muktibodh: Yuga chetana aur Abhivyakti, by Alok Gupta, 1985, Giranar Prakashan. Jatil samvedana ke kavi Muktibodh, by Alok Gupta, 1993, Parsva Prakashan. Pratibaddhata aur Muktibodh ka Kavya, by Prabhat Tripathi. 1990, Vagdevi Prakashan. . Muktibodh ka shilpa-saushthava, by Madhu Srvastav, 1992, Janardan Prakashan. Muktibodh kavi aura kavya, by Madan Gulati. 1994, C.D. Publication. Muktibodh: Muktikami chetana ke kavi, by Ajay Shukla, 1994, Sanjay Book Centre. Muktibodha ki kavya Bhasha, by Kshama Shankar Pandey, 1995, Shilpi Prakashan. Muktibodh ki kavita mem yathartha-bodha, by Sashibala Sharma, Sabda aura Sabda Pub. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh: Srjana aur Shilpa, by Ranjit Sinha, 1995, Jay Bharati Prakashan. Muktibodh ki kavitaon se guzarate hue, by Anup Sharma, 1996, Sahitya Bhavan Pvt. Ltd. Muktibodha vichar aur Kavita, by Devendra Kumar Jain, 1998, Takshasila Prakashan. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Ke Kavya Mein Samajik Chintan, by Yuvraj Sontakke, New Delhi, New Bhartiya Book Corporation. 2000. Muktibodha-kavya: Janavadi chetana ke sandarbha main, by Premalata Casavala. (Socialism in the poetic works of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh), 2001, Adhara Prakashan, . Muktibodh ki Kavya Bhasha, by Sanat Kumar 2001, Chintan Prakashan, Kanpur. (Study of the poetic works of Muktibodh). Naash Devta and Kal Aur Aaj, poems by Muktibodh (Hindi) Brahma Rakshas Ka Shishya, a story by Muktibodh Muktibodh ki Kavyaprakriya, by Ashok Chakradhar. Muktibodh ki Kavitai, by Ashok Chakradhar, 1975. Muktibodh ki Samishai, by Ashok Chakradhar. Lives and Works of Great Hindi Poets, by Manohar Bandopadhyay, 1994, B.R. Pub. House, . Page 149. Muktibodh ki Nivadak kavita, by Sharadchandra Madhav Muktibodh, 1993, Sahitya Akademi. . (Younger brother) Muktibodha: Sahitya Mein Nayi Pravittian, 2013, Doodhnath Singh Notes and references External links Muktibodh at Kavita Kosh (Hindi) Discussion on Life and Works of Muktibodh Nāsh Devatā – a heavy metal rendition of the poem अनहद कृति ई-पत्रिका में साहित्य स्तंम्भ गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध का जीवन परिचय एवं कुछ रचनाएं Muktibodh in Anhadkriti Translation of "Mujhe Kadam Kadam par" 1917 births 1964 deaths Hindi-language writers Hindi-language poets Indian columnists Indian male essayists Indian literary critics Writers from Madhya Pradesh People from Sheopur 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian essayists Indian male poets 20th-century Indian male writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiaweek
Asiaweek
Asiaweek was an English-language news magazine focusing on Asia, published weekly by Asiaweek Limited, a subsidiary of Time Inc. Based in Hong Kong, it was established in 1975, and ceased publication with its 7 December 2001 issue due to a "downturn in the advertising market", according to Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc. The magazine had a circulation of 120,000 copies when it closed. The magazine was formerly associated with Yazhou Zhoukan (亞洲週刊), an international Chinese newsweekly, before Time Warner media acquired it. History Asiaweek was founded in 1975 by Michael O'Neill, a New Zealander, and T. J. S. George, an Indian, who had worked together at the Far Eastern Economic Review but had grown disenchanted with what they considered its ponderous style and perceived British stance. Asiaweeks mission statement said it all: "To report accurately and fairly the affairs of Asia in all spheres of human activity, to see the world from an Asian perspective, to be Asia's voice in the world." Among the publication's many contributions to an understanding of the Asia-Pacific Rim region was the annual Asiaweek Short Story Competition, which ran from 1981 to 1988. Prizewinning Asian Fiction (edited and introduced by Leon Comber) was eventually published in book form in 1991 by Times Editions, Singapore, and Hong Kong University Press In his foreword, Asiaweek Managing Editor Salmon Wayne Morrison wrote: "The competition cast a body of writing that had not been given publicity before." Asiaweek had only four editors during its 26 years period: co-founders T. J. S. George and Michael O'Neill, who conceived the magazine, Ann Morrison who succeeded O'Neill in 1994, and Dorinda Elliott, formerly Newsweek's Asia editor in Hong Kong, who took over in October 2000. The magazine had always moved with the times. As co-founder George wrote in an editorial statement in Asiaweeks first issue in December 1975: "Realities have changed, and so the values. It is now a new Asia, and this is a new magazine to report it." O'Neill was a founding Editor-in-Chief of Yazhou Zhoukan, which was launched by Asiaweek Limited in 1987, with Thomas Hon Wing Polin as its founding Managing Editor. In 1985, Time, Inc. (as it was then known) acquired 84% of Asiaweek, buying out Reader's Digest'''s 80% stake and 4% local interests. The remaining 16% was owned by Michael O'Neill. In 1994, Time ousted O'Neill and installed another editor, Ann Morrison, who came to Hong Kong from Fortune (a Time publication) based in New York. Closure George, who left Asiaweek before its troubles began, laments the death of the magazine after O'Neill was removed. With Asiaweeks demise, George said, his only regret was the way "the magazine was devalued by the very people who took it upon themselves to nurture it. That is why I shed no tears now as the concept itself was killed in 1994 when Mike was removed by the new management. Its closure [in 2001] is a mere burial." According to Time, the reason for the closure was due to an advertising slump. Executives at Time insist their decisions were based on economic, not editorial, considerations.The New York Times columnist Thomas Crampton writes, "Asiaweek and the Far Eastern Economic Review were the only weekly magazines with a strong Asia focus through the 1980s. But competition grew in the 1990s when global and local media companies expanded into regional editions. In addition to several small regionally financed magazines, The Economist, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Forbes all began aggressive expansions into Asia. These global titles could rely on skeletal staffs and economies of scale." According to Crampton, besides the "brutal competition for limited advertising revenue", another plausible reason for the shakeout was "the suffocating embrace of U.S.-based media giants with an American-centric perspective." For Asiaweeks founding editor, Time Warner's closure of the 26-year-old publication plays into Asian fears of a U.S.-centric world media. "The mandarins of Manhattan fully know Asia's potential," said T. J. S. George, who is now an editorial consultant for the New Indian Express Group. "They want a total monopoly for Time magazine." American involvement 'Asia through Asian eyes' was the slogan that helped Asiaweek rise. Writing in 2009, George was still nostalgic about the fresh and fearless style of the magazine during its heyday and is wary of American meddling in Asian affairs. He warned that "perhaps the most deep-going, subliminal – if also pernicious – mind control weapon at America's disposal is its news media." But Singapore-based Alejandro Reyes, long-time correspondent and contributing editor of Asiaweek, insisted that the magazine retained its strongly Asian voice independent of whatever the bosses in New York might have wanted. He says the magazine's demise was due to the "failure of a pan-Asian marketing strategy impeded by limited resources and intense competition" and is hopeful of the revival of a niche market for media with an Asian perspective despite globalization trends. Reyes, who was educated in the United States, initially applauded the modern, business-oriented techniques and practices of AOL Time Warner. He was not too happy when he found out that Time deleted all Asiaweek articles from its online archives, including his. "This is all very tragic," says Reyes, "– misguided decisions by New York-centric media bureaucrats whose careers are probably soon to be deleted just as ruthlessly." M.G.G. Pillai, one of Asiaweek's casualties, said the magazine lost focus and became increasingly Americanised after Time took over. Unlike Reyes, he was not optimistic that it would be replaced because most magazines in Asia depend on the patronage of political rulers, and most financiers have an axe to grind. Philip Bowring, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review which was bought by Dow Jones in the late 1980s and merged with the Asian Wall Street Journal in 2001 and quartered into a monthly in 2004 before its final burial in 2009, commenting back in 2004 when the Review died as a weekly, said "there is a parallel here between Time and Asiaweek. Time bought locally born Asiaweek even though it appeared to be in direct competition for readers and advertising. Not so long afterwards, Time closed Asiaweek rather than its ailing Time Asia." T. J. S. George said, "In due course, Time Inc. killed Asiaweek and Dow Jones (now a Murdoch property) killed the Review. Murdoch-Dow's Wall Street Journal and Time Inc.'s Time'' magazine now fly the American flag over Asia, unchallenged by lesser flags." References External links The English magazine online archives can be searched Asiaweek archives at CNN: 2000 to 1995 Yazhou Zhoukan (亞洲週刊), the Chinese edition of Asiaweek Defunct magazines published in Hong Kong Magazines established in 1975 Magazines disestablished in 2001 News magazines published in Asia Weekly magazines published in Hong Kong
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Canton of Astarac-Gimone
The canton of Astarac-Gimone is an administrative division of the Gers department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Masseube. It consists of the following communes: Arrouède Aujan-Mournède Aurimont Aussos Bédéchan Bellegarde Bézues-Bajon Boulaur Cabas-Loumassès Castelnau-Barbarens Chélan Cuélas Esclassan-Labastide Faget-Abbatial Labarthe Lalanne-Arqué Lamaguère Lartigue Lourties-Monbrun Manent-Montané Masseube Meilhan Monbardon Moncorneil-Grazan Monferran-Plavès Monlaur-Bernet Mont-d'Astarac Monties Panassac Ponsan-Soubiran Pouy-Loubrin Saint-Arroman Saint-Blancard Saint-Martin-Gimois Samaran Saramon Sarcos Seissan Sémézies-Cachan Sère Tachoires Tirent-Pontéjac Traversères References Cantons of Gers
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Hope Bay Aerodrome
Hope Bay Aerodrome is an aerodrome located near Hope Bay, in the western Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. The runway serves Hope Bay Mine site and the gold exploration camps in the area. Airlines and destinations See also Hope Bay greenstone belt References External links Airports in the Arctic Registered aerodromes in the Kitikmeot Region
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USS Waukesha
USS Waukesha (AKA-84) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was sold into commercial service and was scrapped in 1970. History Waukesha was named after Waukesha County, Wisconsin. She was laid down as a Type C2-S-AJ3 ship under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1395) on 3 July 1944, at Wilmington, North Carolina, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company; launched on 6 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. H. V. Mason; converted to an attack cargo ship by the Todd-Erie Shipyard of New York City; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard. World War II, 1945 Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, Waukesha got underway for the Pacific on 27 March 1945. She transited the Panama Canal in company with sister ship on 2 April and arrived at Pearl Harbor on the 17th. She conducted exercises and maneuvers in the Hawaiian area before getting underway on 11 May and proceeding via Eniwetok and Ulithi to Okinawa. The cargo ship arrived at Buckner Bay on 13 July, with Convoy OKU-17, dropped anchor, and commenced unloading her cargo. Twice the operation was interrupted by fierce typhoons which whirled into Buckner Bay and forced the ships at anchor to get underway and make for the relative safety of the open sea. In addition, Japanese nuisance raids continued nightly, keeping all hands at general quarters for long periods. Her next orders — to proceed to Pearl Harbor — were cancelled when the ship received news that the Japanese were entertaining thoughts of surrender in the aftermath of the explosions of two atomic bombs. Crew members aboard the ship initially did not believe that the Japanese were considering surrender, and did not know of such actions due to missing a routine newsletter that declared the surrender official. The attack cargo ship instead steered a course for Guam and arrived at Apra Harbor on the 12th. Two days later, she embarked men and material of the 14th Marine Regiment. She was ready for sea on the following day, 15 August 1945, the day on which the Japanese accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. Post-war activities, 1945–1946 "V-J Day" only marked the beginning of another phase of Waukeshas brief Navy career — the occupation of the Japanese home islands. She rendezvoused with units of the 3rd Fleet off Honshū and entered Tokyo Bay on the 27th, anchoring off the bomb-scarred Yokosuka Naval Base on the 30th to commence offloading her men and equipment to support the occupation. Waukesha returned to Saipan on 5 September and embarked men of the 2nd Marine Division; transferred some of her own men to other ships for transportation back to the United States; and took on supplies for a second trip to Japanese ports. She arrived at Nagasaki and tied up at Dejima Wharf on the 24th, to disembark her marines of the occupation force. Underway for the Philippines four days later, the ship transferred four landing boats to at Subic Bay on 4 October and then obtained five boats from the Army Boat Pool in Lingayen Gulf before moving to Manila. Loading cargo occupied the ship in the Philippines before she sailed for Japan for her third and final visit to that country's ports, carrying cargo to Honshū and reaching Kii Suido on 23 October. Shifting to Nagoya on 1 November, Waukesha embarked demobilized sailors, soldiers, and marines to transport them home in "Operation Magic Carpet." After departing Nagoya on the 9th, she made port at Seattle, Washington, on the 21st and unloaded her passengers before proceeding south for San Francisco. The ship later made more Far Eastern cruises and called at Okinawa en route to Qingdao, China, where she arrived on 2 March 1946. Remaining until 8 March, the attack cargo ship set course, via Okinawa, for San Diego, California, which she reached on 15 April 1946. Waukesha departed San Diego on 30 April and steamed, via the Panama Canal, to the east coast. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 24 May. Decommissioning and fate Decommissioned and returned to the United States Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration on 10 July 1946, the attack cargo ship was struck from the Navy List on 31 July 1946. Acquired by the Luckenbach Steamship Co. of New York City in 1947, the erstwhile warship was renamed SS Mary Luckenbach. At 17:05 on 25 August 1950, Mary Luckenbach collided with the hospital ship just off San Francisco. Benevolence sank in 15 minutes with a loss of 23 lives out of 505 aboard. Among those lost was the prospective commanding officer of the newly recommissioned Benevolence, Captain William "Pineapple Bill" Murray. Mary Luckenbach operated with the same firm until 1959, when the ship was sold and renamed SS Bayou State. She sailed under the flag of the States Marine Lines of New York until 1970. She was sold to Taiwan Shipbreakers and arrived at Kaohhiung, Taiwan on 29 September 1970 and scrapped, beginning in October of the same year. References Ship History at NavSource External links Tolland-class attack cargo ships Waukesha County, Wisconsin World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Ships built in Wilmington, North Carolina 1944 ships Maritime incidents in 1950
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Oxychona
Oxychona is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae. Species Species in the genus Oxychona include: Oxychona bifasciata (Burrow, 1815) Oxychona blanchetiana (Moricand, 1833) Oxychona bosciana (Férussac, 1832) Oxychona currani (Bartsch, 1916) Oxychona gyrina (Deshayes, 1850) Oxychona lonchostoma (Manke, 1828) Oxychona maculata Salvador & Cavallari, 2013 Oxychona michelinae Porto, da Rocha, Johnsson & Neves, 2016 Oxychona pyramidella (Spix, 1827) Species brought into synonymy Oxychona layardi Hartman, 1889: synonym of Dendrotrochus (Santotrochus) layardi (Hartman, 1889) represented as Dendrotrochus layardi (Hartman, 1889) (original combination) References External links Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae] Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
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Xhonneux
Xhonneux is a Belgian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frédéric Xhonneux (born 1983), Belgian track and field athlete Henri Xhonneux (1945–1995), Belgian film director and screenwriter Surnames of Belgian origin
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The Next Wave (book)
The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation is a 2011 book which is written by Darrell M. West, who is an author and political scientist, now Director of the Brookings Institution. This book is composed in 9 chapters and topic is a social change with innovation in digital technology. Author argued that how changes of nation, society and private which is derived from increase in efficiency are going to be, when technology is combined with many parts of government, policies and society, and how we maximize effects of those changes. bibliography The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation 2011 non-fiction books Books about the Digital Revolution Digital technology
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Stephen Poyntz Denning
Stephen Poyntz Denning (1795 – 8 June 1864) was an English portrait painter and gallery curator. He studied drawing and painting under John Masey Wright, working from Wright's address from 1814 to 1817, before exhibiting oil and watercolour miniature portraits at the Royal Academy between 1814 and 1852, as well as a small number of oil genre scenes in 1844 at the British Institution. In 1821 he became Curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, a post he held until his death. He died at Dulwich and was buried on 10 June 1864 at West Norwood Cemetery. References External links Portraits by Denning at the National Portrait Gallery (London) Biography at the site of the Wallace Collection , including his painting of Queen Victoria in the Dulwich Picture Gallery 1787 births 1864 deaths Portrait miniaturists 19th-century English painters English male painters English curators Burials at West Norwood Cemetery English portrait painters 19th-century English male artists
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Glenwood, Mason County, West Virginia
Glenwood is an unincorporated community and Ohio river town in Mason County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is notable for the Haunted Plumley Mansion. The town can be found along West Virginia Route 2 south of Ashton. The town's only gas station and premier stop is Trippett's Dandi-Mart, owned and operated Joseph Melton (Milt) Trippett, which has been in business for over 50 years. A notable resident is the Catfish Man of the Woods. The community is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. References External links Mason County History Sources (WV Division of Culture & History) Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Mason County, West Virginia Point Pleasant micropolitan area West Virginia populated places on the Ohio River
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Isidore Isou
Isidore Isou (; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism. An important figure in the mid-20th Century avant-garde, he is remembered in the cinema world chiefly for his revolutionary 1951 film Traité de Bave et d'Eternité, while his political writings are seen as foreshadowing the May 1968 movements. Early life Isidor Goldstein was born in 1925 to a prominent Jewish family in Botoşani. Despite his wealthy upbringing (his father was a successful entrepreneur and serial restaurateur), he left school at age 15, reading extensively at home and doing odd jobs. In 1944 he began his literary career as an avant-garde art journalist during World War II, shortly after the 23 August coup that saw Romania joining the Allies. With the future social psychologist Serge Moscovici, he founded the magazine Da, which was soon after closed down by the authorities. Soon after he became interested in the Zionist cause and collaborated with A.L. Zissu on the Zionist publication ”Mântuirea”. After several attempts to obtain a French visa earlier during the war, he left Romania clandestinely in August 1945, carrying a suitcase full of early manuscripts. He initially traveled to Italy, where fellow experimental poet Giuseppe Ungaretti gave him a letter of introduction and recommendation under the pseudonym "Isidore Isou" to French writer Jean Paulhan, which made his entry into the literary world of the newly-liberated Paris much easier. Lettrism Intending a total artistic renewal starting from the most basic elements of writing and visual communication, Isidore Isou, assisted by Gabriel Pommerand, organized the first Lettriste manifestation in Paris, on 8 January 1946. During the premiere of dadaist and fellow Romanian Tristan Tzara's play La Fuit at the Theatre du Vieux-Colombier, Isou shouted "Dada is dead! Lettrism has taken its place!" Through this and other similar stunts – as well as with the help of Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau, who placed his work in La Nouvelle Revue in April, 1947 – he came to the attention of Gaston Gallimard, who then accepted his memoire "L'Agrégation d'un Nom et d'un Messie" for publication. In 1949, the young Isou published the novel Isou ou la mécanique des femmes (Isou, or the Mechanics of Women), inspired by his obsessions with the 16-year-old muse and later conceptual artist Rhea Sue Sanders. This book was banned by the authorities on 9 May 1950 and Isou was briefly imprisoned and sentenced to prison for eight months (his sentence was suspended); a fine of 2000 francs was imposed along with the destruction of all copies of a book which 1950s' French jurisprudence considered completely obscene. The same year, he also published the first of his works on political theory: Traité d'économie nucléaire: Le soulèvement de la jeunesse (Treatise of Nuclear Economics: Youth Uprising). Lettrism continued to grow as a movement, becoming less dependent on the work of Isou himself. Maurice Lemaître, Jean-Louis Brau, Gil J. Wolman and Serge Berna joined the group in 1950, with Guy Debord joining in early 1951, after meeting the Lettrists at the 4th Cannes Film Festival. Debord quickly became an important figure in the so-called left wing of the Lettrists, which were more politically active and overtly "dedicated to Marxist teachings and the critique of capitalist societies". In October 1952, while Charlie Chaplin was on an extensive publicity tour for his film Limelight, the Lettrist left wing, led by Debord, disrupted a press conference at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and distributed a pamphlet called “Finis les pieds plats” (“No More Flat Feet!”) through which they espoused their belief that "the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they present themselves in the name of freedom", claimed that the "leaflet was an attack against a unanimous, servile enthusiasm" and that Chaplin was an "emotional blackmailer, master-singer of misfortune". Isou was an admirer of Chaplin's films and he considered the cinema legend to be undeserving of this attack. The conflict that arose within the Lettrists because of this notorious incident led to Debord and his group becoming the first splinter group that separated from the Lettrists, forming the Letterist International. Five years later, they would join others to form the Situationist International, an artistic and political organization that would go on to become more famous and influential than any of its predecessors by playing a major role in the events of May 1968. Film In 1951, Isou released his first movie, the experimental film Traité de bave et d'éternité (Treatise on Venom And Eternity), whose premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the film was not officially entered in the festival, it was widely publicized in the press and its screening constituted one of the festival's fringe events. While threatening to form his own jury to judge the film, Isou went door to door, harassing the administrators of the festival until they agreed to grant him a small, peripheral exhibition. The film consisted of "four and a half hours [...] of 'discordant' images, enhanced with scratches, shaky footage running upside down or in reverse, blank frames, stock shots and a soundtrack consisting of monologues and onomatopoeic poetry". In addition, the celluloid on which the film was recorded was attacked with destructive techniques such as scratches and bleaching. In one of the film's voiceovers, Isou states his opinion on the medium:"I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization which calls itself film."Following its screening, the work was deemed revolting by many critics present at the premiere. The film was booed and hissed from the start, but after the first section was completed and the screen went completely blank with the audio still going, the audience was furious and the screening had to be stopped. It was, nonetheless, celebrated by Cannes jury member Jean Cocteau, who called it “the most beautiful scandal of the entire festival” and handed Isou a hastily concocted “Prix de spectateurs d’avant-garde”. Including a reflexive discourse on the making of a new cinema, Isou's film became a virtual Lettriste manifesto. Following the scandal after the film's showing at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival, it was later imported into the United States, where it influenced avant-garde film makers such as Stan Brakhage, who corresponded with Isou directly afterward and let it change his approach to the medium and to narrative entirely. In the early 1950s, one segment of Orson Welles' film journal, which was entitled Le Letrrisme est la Poesie en Vogue, included an interview with Isou and Maurice Lemaître. Final years and death In the 1980s, Isidore Isou was accorded French citizenship. His final public appearance was at the University of Paris on 21 October 2000, aged 75. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Legacy In the 1950s, Francois Dufrene created a phonetic poetry movement which breaks the structures of language that he called Ultra-Lettrist. The Ultra-Lettrist movement was an art form developed by Dufrene along with Jean-Louis Brau and Gil J Wolman when they split from Isou's Lettrism. The Ultra-Lettrists explored the vocal possibilities of concrete music, a form of expression based on spontaneity directly recorded to tape, exploiting the noise music qualities of sound, meaning and nonsense. Visual conceptual artists Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella also participated in the Ultra-Lettrist movement. In the 1960s Lettrist, Lettrist-influenced works and Isidore Isou gained a certain amount of respect in France. Former co-agitators of Isou, writer Guy Debord and artist Gil J. Wolman broke away in 1952 to form the Lettrist International. It later merged with the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International, a dissident revolutionary group. In this new form, using means acquired over the course of a decade prior, Lettrist art exerted a profound influence upon the posters, barricades, even designs for clothing in the attempted revolution of 1968. Isou would go on to claim that his 1950 manifesto Youth Uprising: First Manifesto was a catalyst for the events of the 1968. Members of his Lettrist group are still active, among them cineast and writer Roland Sabatier and film director Frédérique Devaux. Many of Isou's works, and those of the other Lettrists, have recently been reprinted in new editions, together with much hitherto unpublished material, most notably Isou's extensive (1,390 pages) La Créatique ou la Novatique (1941-1976). In July 2007, Kino International released the DVD collection Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Films 1928-1954, which included Isou's film Traité de Bave et d'Èternité (Venom and Eternity) (1951). In 2021, Andrew Hussey's book The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou was published by Reaktion Books Personal life His daughter, Catherine Goldstein, is a mathematician based in Paris. Published works Contre l'internationale situationniste (1960-2000), essai, Éd. Hors Commerce, 2000. Contre le cinema situationniste, neo-nazi, Librairie la Guide, Paris, 1979. Isou, ou la mécanique des femmes, Aux Escaliers de Lausanne, Lausanne (Paris), 1949. Les Champs de Force de la Peinture Lettriste, Avant-Garde, Paris, 1964. Introduction à une Nouvelle Poésie et une Nouvelle Musique, Paris, Gallimard, 1947. La Créatique ou la Novatique (1941-1976), Éditions Al Dante, 2003. Les Journaux des Dieux, 1950/51. Manifesto of Lettrist Poetry: A Commonplaces about Words. Traité de bave et d'éternité, Éd. Hors Commerce, 2000. Treatise on Eternity and Venom, Annex Press, 2019. () See also Anti-art Lettrism Lettrist International Situationist International References Further reading Acquaviva, Frédéric & Buzatu, Simona (eds): Isidore Isou: Hypergraphic Novels – 1950-1984, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm, 2012. Frédéric Acquaviva, Isidore Isou, Neuchâtel, Editions du Griffon, 2019 (). Frédéric Alix, Penser l'art et le monde après 1945 : Isidore Isou, essai d'archéologie d'une pensée, Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2017 (. Cabañas, Kaira M.: Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2014. Curtay, Jean-Paul: Letterism and Hypergraphics: The Unknown Avant-Garde 1945-1985, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1985. , Le lettrisme historique était une avant-garde, Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2011. (). Fabrice Flahutez, Camille Morando, Isidore Isou's Library. A certain look on lettrism, Paris, Artvenir, 2014 (). Fabrice Flahutez, Julia Drost et Frédéric Alix, Le Lettrisme et son temps, Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2018, 280p. (). : "L’Œuvre plastique et romanesque d’Isidore Isou", Bérénice no 4, 1982. Roland Sabatier: "Le Lettrisme: les créations et les créateurs", Z’Éditions, 1989. Roland Sabatier: "La Bibliothèque d'Isidore Isou - et ses proximités", Publications Psi, 2014. Cat.expo. Isidore Isou, textes de Kaira Cabanas, Fabrice Flahutez, Mica Gherghescu, Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Roland Sabatier, Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2019.() External links Archivio Conz Letterist Manifesto 'Venom and Eternity' on Archive.org Site Isidore Isou Isidore Isou at Ubuweb Isidore Isou Institute French film critics Jewish poets Lettrism French experimental filmmakers Romanian experimental filmmakers Romanian magazine editors Romanian magazine founders 20th-century Romanian poets French male poets Romanian male poets Romanian surrealist artists Romanian surrealist writers Romanian writers in French Romanian Jews Jewish Romanian writers People from Botoșani 1925 births 2007 deaths 20th-century French poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers Romanian emigrants to France
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Kayla Bashore Smedley
Kayla Bashore-Smedley (born February 20, 1983 in Daegu, South Korea) is an American field hockey defender and midfielder. Now living in Bloomington, Indiana , she was a student of the Indiana University, where she played for the Hoosiers, and was the first player from that university to make the US National Field Hockey team. She represented the USA at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Background Bashore-Smedley grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, and found her sporting love initially while playing soccer, rather than field hockey. After picking up her first field hockey stick as a high school student, she was recruited by that school's field hockey coach, and soon excelled at her new sport. A graduate of Hamburg Area High School, she went on to study at Indiana University, and played for that institution's team for four years. Still a senior there when she was asked to join the United States National Field Hockey Team, she went through rigorous training with her teammates at their training facility in San Diego, California. When her team qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Bashore-Smedley participated, and was supported by her family, who also made the trip overseas. Although her team did not win any medals that year, they did beat their biggest rival (Argentina) during the 2012 Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Following more than 100 international appearances, Bashore-Smedley then retired in 2013. International senior competitions 2006 – World Cup Qualifier, Rome (4th) 2006 – World Cup, Madrid (6th) 2007 – Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro (2nd) 2008 – Summer Olympics (8th) References External links 1983 births American female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2007 Pan American Games Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Indiana Hoosiers field hockey players Living people Olympic field hockey players for the United States Sportspeople from Berks County, Pennsylvania Sportspeople from Daegu Field hockey players at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
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List of African American federal judges
This is a list of African Americans who have served as United States federal judges. United States Supreme Court United States Courts of Appeals United States District Courts Other federal courts See also List of African-American jurists External links Article III African-American Judges by President Lists of 20th-century people Lists of 21st-century people Federal judges Lists of American judges United States federal judges
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WXVT-LD
WXVT-LD (channel 17) is a low-power television station licensed to Cleveland, Mississippi, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Delta area. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications alongside Greenwood-licensed dual ABC/Fox affiliate WABG-TV (channel 6) and Grenada-licensed low-powered NBC affiliate WNBD-LD (channel 33). The three stations share studios on Washington Avenue in Greenville; WXVT-LD's transmitter is located near O'Reilly, Mississippi. History Its first broadcast was on November 7, 1980, on channel 15 under the call sign WXVT. It was a CBS affiliate for its entire existence. Before this, WJTV in Jackson had served as the default affiliate. The station was originally owned by Big River Broadcasting. Future sister station WABG was actually the Delta's original CBS affiliate when it launched back in October 1959 until dropping CBS to become a full-time ABC affiliate in November 1966. Big River Broadcasting sold the station to Lamco Communications in 1984. Lamco then sold WXVT to a local ownership group in 1991. Saga Communications purchased WXVT in 1999. David Cavileer became the VP/General Manager and remodeled the station and news set. The current WXVT-LD began as W17DI-D on February 25, 2010. On December 12, 2011, it was changed to WFXW-LD. On May 4, 2012, an application was filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to transfer ownership of WXVT from Saga Communications to H3 Communications. H3 Communications is owned by the adult children of Charles Harker, president of Commonwealth Broadcasting Group, which owns WABG and WNBD. On January 28, 2013, the FCC granted the sale of WXVT, and it was completed two days later. Commonwealth then took over WXVT's operations, effectively bringing all of the Delta's Big Three network stations under the control of one company. In 2015, WXVT and WABG appeared in a TruTV reality series Breaking Greenville. It premiered January 29, 2015 and ended on March 26, 2015. H3 Communications agreed to sell WXVT to Cala Broadcast Partners for $3.7 million on October 30, 2015; concurrently, Cala would purchase WABG-TV, WNBD-LD, and WFXW-LD from Commonwealth Broadcasting Group. Cala is jointly owned by Brian Brady (who owns several other television stations, mostly under the Northwest Broadcasting name) and Jason Wolff (who owns radio and television stations through Frontier Radio Management). On November 30, 2015, Cala assigned its right to purchase WXVT to John Wagner for $100,000. The sale was completed on August 1, 2016; on that date, the station went off the air, with Wagner stating in a filing with the FCC that it was looking for new programming. This resulted in the WXVT intellectual unit, including CBS programming, being moved to a digital subchannel of sister station and NBC affiliate WNBD-LD and mapped to WXVT's former channel 15. On January 1, 2017, Cable One (now Sparklight) removed channels owned by Northwest Broadcasting (WXVT, WABG-TV, WABG-DT2 and WNBD-LD) after the two companies failed to reach an agreement. On February 1, 2017, the channels were restored to Cable One's lineup under a new carriage deal. On June 26, 2017, the station became low-powered, re-licensed to Cleveland, and moved to RF channel 17. It changed its call sign to WXVT-LD on July 7. In 2020, channel 15 would be sold to Tri-State Christian Television, where it continues to operate as WFXW. In February 2019, Reuters reported that Apollo Global Management had agreed to acquire the entirety of Brian Brady's television portfolio, which it intends to merge with Cox Media Group (which Apollo is acquiring at the same time) and stations spun off from Nexstar Media Group's purchase of Tribune Broadcasting, once the purchases are approved by the FCC. In March 2019 filings with the FCC, Apollo confirmed that its newly-formed broadcasting group, Terrier Media, would acquire Northwest Broadcasting, with Brian Brady holding an unspecified minority interest in Terrier. In June 2019, it was announced that Terrier Media would instead operate as Cox Media Group, as Apollo had reached a deal to also acquire Cox's radio and advertising businesses. The transaction was completed on December 17. On March 29, 2022, Cox Media Group announced it would sell WXVT-LD, WNBD-LD, WABG-TV and 15 other stations to Imagicomm Communications, an affiliate of the parent company of the INSP cable channel, for $488 million; the sale was completed on August 1. Subchannel References CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, 1 August 2016, Retrieved 10 August 2016. External links Official website XVT-LD CBS network affiliates Low-power television stations in the United States Television channels and stations established in 2017 2017 establishments in Mississippi Imagicomm Communications
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Dipterocarpus elongatus
Dipterocarpus elongatus is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae found in Indonesia (Kalimantan and Sumatra), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak) and Singapore. This large tree occurs in secondary and primary forest, as well as in freshwater swamp forest. References elongatus Dipterocarps of Borneo Trees of Sumatra Trees of Malaya Critically endangered flora of Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul%20Justesen
Poul Justesen
Poul Justesen (born 26 May 1933) is a Danish rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. References 1933 births Living people Danish male rowers Olympic rowers for Denmark Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics People from Lolland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20OFC%20Women%27s%20Championship
1983 OFC Women's Championship
The 1983 OFC Women's Championship was the first OFC Women's Championship of association football (also known as the OFC Women's Nations Cup). First stage Final Awards References External links OFC Site 1983 OFC Women 1983 1983 in New Zealand association football 1983 in Australian soccer November 1983 sports events in Oceania December 1983 sports events in Oceania Sports competitions in Nouméa 20th century in Nouméa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away%20All%20Boats
Away All Boats
Away All Boats is a 1956 American war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Lex Barker, and Julie Adams. It was produced by Howard Christie from a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman based on the 1953 novel by Kenneth M. Dodson (1907–1999), who served on the in World War II and used his experiences there as a guide for his novel. He was encouraged in his writing by Carl Sandburg, who had read some of Dodson’s letters, written in the Pacific. The book (and film) is about the crew of the Belinda (APA-22), an amphibious attack transport. The book became a best seller. The film was produced by Universal Pictures. Plot The story of USS Belinda (APA-22), launched late 1943 with regular-Navy Captain Jebediah S. Hawks (Jeff Chandler) and ex-merchant mariner Lieutenant Dave MacDougall (George Nader) as boat commander. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty with which to deal as the only experienced officers on board during the ship's shakedown cruise. Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheads. Few anticipate the challenges in store at Okinawa. Cast Jeff Chandler as Capt. Jebediah S. Hawks George Nader as Lieut. Dave MacDougall Lex Barker as Commander Quigley Julie Adams as Nadine MacDougall Keith Andes as Doctor Bell William Reynolds as Ensign Kruger Richard Boone as Lieut. Fraser Charles McGraw as Lieut. Mike O'Bannion Jock Mahoney as Alvick Hal Baylor as Chaplain Hughes John McIntire as Old Man / Film's narrator Frank Faylen as Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran James Westerfield as 'Boats' Torgeson Don Keefer as Ensign Twitchell Uncredited Clint Eastwood as Corpsman David Janssen as Talker Production Film rights were bought by Universal, whose president Edward Muhl said the movie version would be Universal's most expensive of the year. The first choice for the lead role was Clark Gable. George Nader had twice taken roles that Chandler refused. This was the first time the two actors had worked together. The armed services had not been pleased with their portrayal in From Here to Eternity or The Caine Mutiny. However the Navy was worried about declining recruitment numbers and Universal received its full cooperation for the film, including an opportunity to photograph maneuvers and mock attacks in March 1955 in the Caribbean and on Vieques. The movie was filmed aboard . It is most notable for its realistic and terrifying depictions of Japanese kamikaze attacks on U.S. Navy ships during the last year of World War II in the Pacific Theater. The kamikaze attack scene was later reused in the 1976 film Midway. The Navy also granted a two-week leave of absence for Ralph Scalzo, a landing boat coxswain, who took part in filming in the Caribbean and was needed for added closeup shots in Hollywood. Away All Boats is one of the few films made in VistaVision at a studio other than Paramount. The film made use of the Perspecta stereo process for its soundtrack. Clint Eastwood's role is a brief speaking one (with one line of dialog spoken by another actor), as a Navy medical corpsman assisting the ship's captain after he is severely wounded while trying to save his ship. The script, script revisions, and status reports dealing with the Department of Defense Film and Television liaison office is kept in the Georgetown University Library Department of Defense Film Collection. Reception A review in The New York Times by Bosley Crowther found the early scenes in the film confusing, particularly the motivation of the characters played by Jeff Chandler (Captain Jebediah Hawks) and Lex Barker (Commander Quigley). He also found it an efficient service film in which “all the confusions are adjusted and everybody comes out a hero in the end”. Home media NBC made a color documentary about the making of the film. A record with some of Frank Skinner’s music from the film was released by Decca Records in May 1956. Participants included Al Hibbler (who sang a theme from the film score) and an orchestra conducted by Jack Pleis. Decca released this on 78 rpm 29950 and 45 rpm 9-29950. MCA Home Video released a VHS version in HiFi sound in 1986. Good Times Video released a VHS version in LP on March 2, 1998. Good Times Video released a DVD on May 1, 2001. This was in full-screen rather than the VistaVision widescreen and may have been a copy of the earlier Good Times VHS release. See also List of American films of 1956 References Dodson, Kenneth. Away All Boats, Little, Brown and Company, December 1953. Crowther, Bosley. “Screen: Away All Boats”, The New York Times, August 17, 1956, p. 14. Shenk, Robert; “Away All Boats” in Jill B. Gidmark. Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes. p. 26, Greenwood, 2001. (A description of the novel on which the movie was based). External links 1956 films 1956 war films American war drama films 1950s English-language films Films based on American novels Films based on military novels Films directed by Joseph Pevney Universal Pictures films Films about the United States Navy in World War II Pacific War films Films shot in Puerto Rico Films scored by Heinz Roemheld Films scored by Frank Skinner 1950s American films English-language war drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20von%20Clemm
Karl von Clemm
Karl Franz Clemm von Hohenberg (27 September 1897, Mainz – 4 March 1994, Munich), also Karl F. von Clemm, was the son of Gustav Clemm von Hohenberg and Maria Clemm von Hohenberg, née Michel. He was first married to Audrey Zimmermann, and second to Veronika von Globig-Weissenbach. He was a representative of the German international banking firm Hardy & Co. Through a German banker William Rhodes Davis, a U.S. oil man had arranged to meet him. The two would become good friends and ship large quantities of oil from America and Mexico and then to Germany. He was a liaison between Eurotank, Davis' main operation in Germany and the Nazi government. It was his job to arrange barter with the Economic Ministry on Davis' oil imports. Davis appointed von Clemm to the board of directors of Crusader Petroleum Industries and as head of Eurohandel, both of which were involved in Nazi oil imports used to build up the German war machine. Karl's brother, Werner, was also involved with Davis and Karl played a part in his brother's diamond smuggling operation, for which he was indicted in absentia in 1942. References 1897 births 1994 deaths German bankers German emigrants to the United States Nazi war criminals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Australian%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20doubles
2018 Australian Open – Women's doubles
Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won the women's doubles tennis title at the 2018 Australian Open, defeating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 6–4, 6–3. It was the first Grand Slam title for Babos, who became the first Hungarian player to win a Grand Slam event since Andrea Temesvári in the 1986 French Open and the second Grand Slam title for Mladenovic. Makarova and Vesnina were attempting to achieve the career Super Slam in doubles (would be third and fourth overall after Gigi Fernández and Pam Shriver). Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but Mattek-Sands could not participate this year due to injury. Šafářová played alongside Barbora Strýcová, but lost in the quarterfinals to Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External links Draw 2018 Australian Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation Women's Doubles Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's doubles Australian Open – Women's Doubles Australian Open – Women's Doubles Australian Open – Women's Doubles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingle%2C%20Iloilo
Dingle, Iloilo
Dingle (), officially the Municipality of Dingle (, , ), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 45,965 people. The town is known for its baroque-architecture church and its archaeological cave sites, such as the Lapuz Lapuz Cave, famous for revealing hunter-gatherer lives of the ancient people of Panay. History Dingle started as a pre-colonial settlement of Sumandig, which was under the jurisdiction of Simsiman, a pueblo of Laglag. The settlement was also known as Sibucao, Ba-ong, and Orvat. The Augustinian priest, Fr. Francisco Manuel Blanco, first founded Dingle as a visita of Pototan in 1593. Dingle became independent on April 23, 1611. In 1629 however, it was annexed to Dumangas, Iloilo and to Dueñas, Iloilo in 1641 (until 1825). On August 16, 1850, by order of Governor General of the Philippines Antonio de Urbiztondo, Dingle again became independent and was officially named the town of Dingle. The first town head was Julio Dator (1823–1827). In 1865, Fr. Fernando Llorente ordered the construction of the Dingle Catholic Church which was completed in 1886. During the second phase Philippine Revolution against Spain, during the Spanish–American War, Dingle staged the first armed uprising in the Province of Iloilo. Now known as the "Cry of Lincud", the revolt occurred in Barrio Lincud on October 28, 1898. Today the event is commemorated as a special non-working holiday. The leaders of the uprising were Adriano D. Hernández, Julio D. Hernández, and Nicolas Roces. Adriano Hernández later became a brigadier general in the Philippine Revolutionary Army. He then represented the province at the Malolos Congress. Later, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Agriculture. Today, his statue stands inside the Philippine Army's Camp General Adriano D. Hernandez in Dingle, which is named in his honor. Under the Americans, Dingle was annexed to Pototan, Iloilo, the latter being larger and more prosperous. Nonetheless, through the efforts of Gen. Adriano Hernandez, the separation of the town from Pototan was given impetus in 1907. In 1954, the sitio of Nazuni was converted into a barrio and was added as a barangay of Dingle. Geography The topography of Dingle is relatively rolling hills and narrow plains from the Poblacion. The flat lands extend along the Jalaur River through its borderline to the southeast. This starts to roll upward from the Poblacion going to the north-west. From the west of the Poblacion rises the slopes, steep and mountainous. This indicates that the topography of Dingle meets a certain type-cropping pattern. Dingle is from Iloilo City. Climate Barangays Dingle is politically subdivided into 33 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios. Abangay Agsalanan Agtatacay Alegria Bongloy Buenavista Caguyuman Calicuang Camambugan Dawis Ginalinan Nuevo Ginalinan Viejo Gutao Ilajas Libo-o Licu-an Lincud Matangharon Moroboro Namatay Nazuni Pandan Potolan San Jose San Matias Siniba-an Tabugon Tambunac Tanghawan Tiguib Tinocuan Tulatula-an Poblacion Demographics In the 2020 census, the population of Dingle, Iloilo, was 45,965 people, with a density of . Economy Education Private Schools Mater Carmeli School – Dingle Goodnews Learning Center Inc. Tertiary Iloilo State University of Fisheries Science and Technology – Dingle Campus Secondary Calicuang NHS Dingle NHS Rufino G. Palabrica Sr. NHS Tabugon NHS Nazuni Summit Comprehensive National High School Primary Abangay ES Agsalanan ES Agustin Muyco ES (Lincud ES) Agtatacay-Gutao ES (Agtatacay ES) Alegria ES Bongloy ES Calicuang ES Camambugan ES Dingle Central ES (Dayot-Jalandoni ES) Ilajas ES Isabel Roces Memorial ES Libo-o ES Matangharon ES Moroboro ES Muyco-Daguro ES (Caguyuman ES) Nazuni ES Potolan ES San Jose ES San Matias ES (Licu-an ES) Siniba-an ES Sra. Consolacion Muyco Aportadera Memorial ES Tabugon ES Tinocuan ES White ES Infrastructure Power The Panay Diesel Power Plant located at Tinocuan and Tabugon, Dingle provides 110 megawatts of electricity to Panay. The power plant is operated by the National Power Corporation. Water Two natural springs, the Lubong-Tubig and Talinab, serve as water source for the Dingle-Pototan Water District. While the Jalaur Irrigation Dam, also known as Moroboro Dam, built in 1955, provides irrigation to the agricultural lands of Dingle and nearby towns. Landmarks Bulabog Putian National Park Bulabog Putian is the only limestone rock formation on Panay. It was designated a National Park through Congressional Bill No. 1651, and such is considered a "nationally significant area." It occupies a land area of 834.033 hectares covering five of the 33 barangays of Dingle. The park contains 13 known caves namely: Lungib, Hapu-Hapo, Ma-arhong, Guiso, Maestranza, Linganero, Lapuz Lapuz, Ticondal, Butac, Tuco, San Roque, Pitong Liko and Nautod. The Maestranza Cave is historically important as it served as a hide-out of the revolutionary forces during the Spanish colonial period and on its stone walls are inscriptions of the revolutionary troops. Mt. Manyakiya Mount Manyakiya is a natural viewing deck that provides a panoramic view of Negros Island as well as the low lying towns of the province of Iloilo. Nautod Wall, one of the major rock-climbing destination in the Philippines, can be found here. Water Lake Bito Jalaur River Lubong-Tubig Spring Talinab Spring Historical Memorial to the Cry of Lincud Heroes Dingle Parish Church – Finished in 1886, this church, a fine example of Filipino baroque adaptation, is made of limestones from Bulabog Mountain, painstakingly carried by the early parishioners through narrow, steep, and dangerous trails to the present site. Other landmarks The Hanging Bridge is a ruined post-WWII bridge that traverses the Jalaur River. Camp Pasica is a 13-hectare Girl Scout Camp. Camp Hernandez is a 37-hectare military training camp of the Armed Forces of the Philippines named in honor of the revolutionary hero, Gen. Adriano D. Hernández. Jalaur Irrigation Dam Museo de Dingle Welcome Sign Culture Festivals The Dingle Town Fiesta is celebrated every 24th day of June in honor of its patron saint, John the Baptist. The Pagdihon Festival is a celebration in commemoration of the Cry of Lincud, the first revolt against the Spaniards in Panay. It is held every 4th week of October. Government List of local chief executives Gobernadorcillos The principalía, the distinguished upper class, included only those exempted from tribute (tax) to the Spanish crown. Colonial documents would refer to them as "de privilegio y gratis", in contrast to those who pay tribute ("de pago"). It was the true aristocracy and nobility of the Spanish colonial Philippines. However, a royal decree dated December 20, 1863 (signed in the name of Queen Isabella II by the Minister of the Colonies, José de la Concha), made possible the creation of new principales under certain defined criteria, among which was proficiency in the Castilian language. Capitán municipal In 1893, the Maura Law was passed to reorganize town governments with the aim of making them more effective and autonomous. The law changed the title of chief executive of the town from gobernadorcillo to capitán municipal. Revolution Presidents Early American Period Presidents Capitán del barrio Dingle was reduced to the status of barrio from 1903 to 1908 after it was merged with the Municipality of Pototan by virtue of Act No. 719. Presidentes & vice presidentes municipal The Municipality of Dingle was re-established in 1908 after Iloilo 4th District Assemblyman Adriano D. Hernández succeeded in persuading Governor-General James Francis Smith to issue an executive order separating Dingle from Pototan. Municipal Mayors Notable personalities General Adriano Dayot Hernández – Revolutionary Hero Guillermo Gómez Rivera – Filipino writer, journalist, poet, playwright, historian, linguist Merlie M. Alunan – Palanca Awardee for Literature Nancy Deaño – Olympic competitor Most Rev. Jose S. Palma, D.D., S.Th.D – current Archbishop of Cebu and former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines References External links [ Philippine Standard Geographic Code] Philippine Census Information Local Governance Performance Management System Municipalities of Iloilo 1593 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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James Grant (Scottish bishop)
James Grant (1706–1778) was a priest and bishop who served as a missionary for the illegal and underground Catholic Church in Scotland upon the Isle of Barra and later as the vicar apostolic of the Lowland District. Life Born in Wester Boggs, Enzie, Banffshire in July 1706, he was ordained a priest at the Scots College in Rome on 4 April 1733. During the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, Grant was operating as the underground missionary priest of Barra, in the Outer Hebrides. According to Bishop John Geddes, "Early in the spring of 1746, some ships of war came to the coast of the isle of Barra and landed some men, who threatened they would lay desolate the whole island if the priest was not delivered up to them. Father James Grant, who was missionary then, and afterwards Bishop, being informed of the threats in a safe retreat in which he was in a little island, surrendered himself, and was carried prisoner to Mingarry Castle on the Western coast (i.e. Ardnamurchan) where he was detained for some weeks. He was then conveyed to Inverness, and thrown into the common prison, where there were about forty prisoners in the same room with him. Here he was for several weeks chained by the leg to Mr. MacMahon, an Irish officer in the service of Spain, who had come over to be of use to the Prince. In this situation they could not in the night time turn from one side to the other without the one passing the other. The people of the town, out of humanity, furnished them with some little conveniences, and among other things gave to each a bottle, which they hung out of the window in the morning and got filled with water. But one morning the sentinels accused the prisoners to the visiting officer of having entered into a conspiracy to knock them on the head with bottles, which they had procured for that purpose. Father Grant and the others pleaded the improbability of this ridiculous accusation, but they were not heard, and the bottles were taken away." Accord to Father Charles MacDonald, "Five other priests were shut up in the same prison at about the same time. Three of them belonged to the West coast, viz., Father Alexander Cameron, who was connected with the Lochiel family; Father Alexander Forrester, priest of South Uist; and Father Alan MacDonald. From Inverness they were taken away on board a man-of-war to London; but during the passage, Father Cameron, whose health had been completely shattered during his captivity, died, and was thrown overboard. After a long confinement in London, the survivors were brought before the Duke of Newcastle, who informed them that the Government was disposed to deal leniently in their case, and therefore would sentence them to perpetual banishment from the country, provided they could give bail of £1,000 that they would never return. As this was an absurd proposal, these poor priests having neither friends nor money, the Duke compromised the matter by asking them to go bail for each other. They got over to Holland, but most of them came back again." On 21 February 1755, Grant was appointed by the Holy See as the coadjutor vicar apostolic of the Lowland District and Titular Bishop of Sinitis. He was consecrated to the episcopate at Edinburgh on 13 November 1755. The principal consecrator was Bishop Alexander Smith and the principal co-consecrator was Bishop Hugh MacDonald. On the death of Bishop Smith on 21 August 1767, Grant automatically succeeded him as the vicar apostolic of the Lowland District. He died in office on 3 December 1778, aged 72. He is buried with Bishop John Geddes in the ruins of the Snow Kirk in Old Aberdeen. References External links 1706 births 1778 deaths Apostolic vicars of Scotland 18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Scotland People from Banffshire
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Hypanthidium
Hypanthidium is a genus of bees belonging to the family Megachilidae. The species of this genus are found in Southern America. Species: Hypanthidium beniense Hypanthidium buchwaldi Hypanthidium cacerense Hypanthidium costaricense Hypanthidium dentiventre Hypanthidium divaricatum Hypanthidium dressleri Hypanthidium duckei Hypanthidium ecuadorium Hypanthidium fabricianum Hypanthidium foveolatum Hypanthidium magdalenae Hypanthidium maranhense Hypanthidium melanopterum Hypanthidium mexicanum Hypanthidium nigritulum Hypanthidium obscurius Hypanthidium taboganum Hypanthidium tuberigaster Hypanthidium yucatanicum References Megachilidae Bee genera
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Andrey Gorokhov
Andrey or Andrei Gorokhov may refer to: Andrey Gorokhov (politician) (born 1960), Russian politician Andrey Gorokhov (bobsledder) (born 1968), Russian bobsledder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%20campani%C3%A7a
Viola campaniça
The viola campaniça is a portuguese stringed musical instrument from Vila Verde de Ficalho, in the Serpa Municipality (South-eastern Portugal). It has 10 steel strings in 5 courses, tuned C3 C2, F3 F2, C3 C3, E3 E3, G3 G3. The adjective campaniço (kump-ah-NEE-soo) means literally "from the countryside". External links The Stringed Instrument Database ATLAS of Plucked Instruments String instruments Portuguese musical instruments pt:Violas portuguesas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Cossack%20Choir
Don Cossack Choir
The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him. History Origins at Çilingir internment camp After suffering total defeat at the hands of the Red Army, many Cossacks ended up in the diaspora. In 1921 it was with these very Russian refugees that Serge Jaroff set about forming a choir in the Turkish internment camp , near Istanbul. The Cossacks began to accompany their own church services, and later left for the Greek island of Lemnos. To improve the situation, they started giving open-air concerts, which were especially popular with the British. The Cossack lieutenant, Serge Jaroff, worked hard on his choir's repertoire, until a splendid opportunity presented itself. Troops were to be shipped from Çilingir to the Bulgarian town of Burgas and on their behalf the Russian envoy suggested that Jaroff and his choir should be attached to the church. Although the parish was too poor to support a choir, the offer was accepted and the members of the choir were obliged to find work on the side. Bulgaria to Vienna The tents were then exchanged for barracks in Sofia, provided by the Ministry of Defence. The profit from the-often improvised-concerts was about $ 2,- (approx. 8 German marks at the time). Even so, the debut on 23 June 1923 in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, was excellent for morale. This was followed by an offer from a factory in the French town of Montargis. The wife of the factory owner was Russian, and since the factory already had a wind band, they also considered having a choir. Unfortunately, lack of funds marooned the choir in Vienna. Help came from a representative of the League of Nations, who took an interest in the choir. He brought the singers in contact with the director of a concert agency. At an audition in the director's office the singers exceeded all expectations-and a historic decision was made. But the offer of a concert in the Vienna Hofburg on 4 July 1923 put everything else in the shadows. After this amazingly successful concert in the Austrian capital, the director predicted that the choir would not sing once, but a thousand times. In fact, it would eventually perform in excess of 10,000 concerts. The choir toured Australia in 1926, leaving behind its lead tenor, Savva Kamaralli (Савва Камаралли), who decided to make his home there. U.S. Citizenship They traveled to the United States for the first time in 1930 and attained U.S. citizenship in a mass ceremony in 1936. With World War II looming, the choir found a new home in the United States and Sol Hurok became manager of the choir. Otto Hofner After the War, in 1953, Konzertdirektion Kurt Collien from Hamburg took over the choir from Clara Ebner, and in 1960 the choir was taken over by Otto Hofner from Cologne. Hofner and Jaroff would eventually become good friends and 20 March 1981 Jaroff transferred all the rights of his choir to Hofner. Otto Hofner also directed three feature films and six TV-movies. The last tour under Serge Jaroff was in 1979, although he continued as choir leader until 1981. Hofner left when Jaroff finally agreed to a tour under the direction of George Markitisch. Michael Minsky In 1985, Otto Hofner sought contact with Michael Minsky. Conforming to Jaroff's wishes, Hofner wished to organize a tour with Nicolai Gedda as soloist and Michael Minsky as conductor. Michael Minsky had been, since 1948 in contact with Jaroff and his choir and since 1964 soloist in the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. This would take place in 1986, as a memorial to Serge Jaroff. The tour was a success, but when Minsky became ill and Nicolai Gedda did not want to sing every day, Otto Hofner called it quits. Wanja Hlibka In 1991 Wanja Hlibka (Ваня Хлибка), a soloist since 1967, started the choir again with George Tymchenko, another former soloist of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. In 2001 Otto Hofner transferred all the rights in the name Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) to Wanja Hlibka. The choir continues to give performances. Vocal style The Don Cossack Choir was renowned for the quality of the tenors and baritones and for the depth and resonance of the low basses. Every member of this choir was and is trained in a classical or operatic way. The singers can reach sheer power without using amplification. Also the voices have different timbres for different volumes. in the piano range the singers hum in the mezzo piano to mezzo forte the singers switch from a light singing voice to a more deeper sounding voice but with brilliancy. When singing forte a pure operatic bass baritone and tenor voice is achieved with extreme loudness and brightness in the voice. An outstanding feature are the tenors singing in head voice in a soprano range but another feature of this choir is it sings in a unit. The voices have a very good balance throughout the entire singers. Selected discography and videography Serge Jaroff Don Cossacks Choir, Early LP, Columbia 33 SX 1008 (September 1953) Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff, DVD. Brilliant Classics 8892 (2007) Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff, DVD. SLAVA! nr. 2013 (2012) Vierzig Don Kosaken erobern die Welt, Don Kosaken Chor Serge Jaroff 1921-2015 References External links Michael Minsky—Legend of a Don Cossack YouTube Видео записи выступлений Донского казачьего хора Сергея Алексеевича Жарова Sergei Jaroff and the Don Cossack Choir by P.N.Butkov (translated from Russian by George Gerich) History of the Don Cossacks Boys' and men's choirs Russian folk music groups Russian musical groups Russian diaspora Musical groups established in 1921 1921 establishments in Bulgaria Cossack culture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Newcastle-under-Lyme%20Borough%20Council%20election
2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
The 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council decided in November 2015 to move to whole council elections, starting from this election. Election summary Candidates Audley Bradwell Clayton Crackley and Red Street Cross Heath Holditch and Chesterton Keele Kidsgrove and Ravenscliffe Knutton Loggerheads Madeley and Betley Maer and Whitmore May Bank Newchapel and Mow Cop Silverdale Talke and Butt Lane Thistleberry Town Westbury Park and Northwood Westlands Wolstanton By-elections References 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme 2010s in Staffordshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliola%2C%20Illinois
Cliola, Illinois
Cliola is an unincorporated historical community in Ellington Township, Adams County, Illinois, United States. Cliola was located along a railroad line northeast of Quincy. In a September 14, 1899 article in The Quincy Whig about the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad laying a new railroad switch between Eubanks and Cliola it was mentioned that after completion Cliola would no longer exist. There was previously a post office located in Cliola that was established on August 1, 1868. References Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIVE%20OAK%20%28planning%20group%29
LIVE OAK (planning group)
LIVE OAK was the code name for a military planning group formed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France during the Cold War to plan for a response to any Soviet or Warsaw Pact aggression against West Berlin. In November 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev issued an ultimatum to the three other Allied powers to withdraw from Berlin within six months and make it a free and demilitarised city, after that access to Berlin would be controlled by East Germany. In response the United States, United Kingdom, and France stated their determination to remain in the city and maintain their legal right of free access to West Berlin. The Soviet Union withdrew the deadline before it passed in 1959 and engaged in negotiations with the other powers. The LIVE OAK staff, which was formed by the three countries during the crisis, prepared land and air plans to guarantee access to and from West Berlin. LIVE OAK was part of the contingency planning during the next Berlin Crisis of 1961, culminating in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall. West German planners were invited to join the staff in 1961. The planning group continued to operate during the Cold War until it was no longer necessary with the German reunification and the end of the Western Allied occupation of West Berlin. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin. References See also Berlin Crisis of 1961 West Berlin History of Berlin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curryville%2C%20Indiana
Curryville, Indiana
Curryville is an unincorporated community in Adams and Wells Counties, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History Curryville was platted in 1859. A post office was established at Curryville in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. Geography Curryville is located at the intersection of 700 W. (800 W. in Wells County) and 300 N. in both counties, at . References Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Wells County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas%20Campaign
Ideas Campaign
The Ideas Campaign is a grassroots initiative in the Republic of Ireland asking ordinary people for ideas to stimulate economic activity. The origins of the campaign can be traced back to the TV appearance by businesswoman Aileen O'Toole on a special edition of the current affairs programme Prime Time on RTÉ about the state of the Irish economy in January 2009. She argued in the programme that the current focus on economic problems meant that positive, practical ideas for economic growth were being overlooked. In response to her appearance, Prime Time did a follow-up programme on 5 March 2009, on which she launched the Ideas Campaign. The submission for ideas closed at the end of March 2009 and centres on a website - IdeasCampaign.ie - on which ordinary citizens can submit their ideas to stimulate economic growth. Some 1,750 ideas were submitted in the campaign's first week The ideas were then reviewed by an advisory group and distilled into a report. The action plan was released on the 14 May. Read the full Ideas Campaign Action Plan. The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, issued a statement on 8 March 2009 that he would ensure that the report will be "fast-tracked to the Cabinet sub-committee on Economic Renewal for assessment and implementation, where appropriate". On Tuesday 21 July 2009 the Irish Government announced its response to the Ideas Campaign. A total of 17 of the 44 ideas included in the campaign’s Action Plan, in areas such as active citizenship, the knowledge economy, tourism and government finances, are to be implemented on the recommendation of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal. References External links The Ideas Campaign – official website for the campaign Economy of the Republic of Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade%20Collegiate%20Conference
Cascade Collegiate Conference
The Cascade Collegiate Conference (or Cascade Conference) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member schools are located in the Northwestern United States. The conference's members compete in 15 sports. The current commissioner of the conference is Robert Cashell. History Chronological timeline 1993 - The Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) was founded. Charter members included Albertson College of Idaho (now the College of Idaho), Concordia College, Portland (later Concordia University–Portland), Eastern Oregon State College (now Eastern Oregon University), George Fox College (George Fox University), Northwest Nazarene College (now Northwest Nazarene University), the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech), Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University), Western Baptist College (now Corban University) and Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University), effective beginning the 1993-94 academic year. 1995 - George Fox left the CCC and the NAIA to join the Division III ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Northwest Conference (NWC), effective after the 1994-95 academic year. 1997 - Cascade College and Northwest College (now Northwest University) joined the CCC, effective in the 1997-98 academic year. 1998 - Western Oregon left the CCC and the NAIA to join the NCAA Division II ranks and the Pacific West Conference (PacWest), effective after the 1997-98 academic year; while remaining in the conference as an affiliate member for some sports until the 1999-2000 academic year. 1999 - The Evergreen State College and Warner Pacific College (now Warner Pacific University) joined the CCC, effective in the 1999-2000 academic year. 2007 - Northwest Christian College (now Bushnell University) joined the CCC, effective in the 2007-08 academic year. 2008 - The University of British Columbia joined the CCC as an affiliate member for baseball, effective in the 2009 spring season (2008-09 academic year). 2009 - Cascade left the CCC as the school announced that it would close, effective after the 2008-09 academic year. 2015 - Multnomah University and Walla Walla University joined the CCC, effective in the 2015-16 academic year. 2015 - Three institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members: Rocky Mountain College for men's and women's soccer; Carroll College and the University of Providence for men's and women's soccer and softball, effective in the 2015-16 academic year. 2017 - Four institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members: Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University–Prescott, Menlo College, Montana State University–Northern and Simpson University (with Providence also adding the sport in its CCC affiliate membership), effective in the 2017-18 academic year. 2018 - Life Pacific University joined the CCC as an affiliate member for men's wrestling, while British Columbia added men's and women's golf, and men's and women's track & field in its CCC affiliate membership, effective in the 2018-19 academic year. 2019 - Arizona Christian University and Vanguard University joined the CCC as affiliate members for women's wrestling (with Life Pacific, Menlo and Providence also adding the sport in its CCC affiliate membership), effective in the 2019-20 academic year. 2020 - Lewis–Clark State College joined the CCC, effective in the 2020-21 academic year. 2021 - Simpson added women's wrestling in its CCC affiliate membership, effective in the 2021-22 academic year. Life Pacific dropped their wrestling programs in 2022. Member schools Current members The CCC currently has 12 full members, all but five are private schools: Notes Affiliate members The CCC currently has 10 affiliate members, all but two are private schools: Notes Former members The CCC had five former full members, all but one were private schools: Notes Former affiliate members The CCC had three former affiliate members, two of them were private schools: Notes Membership timeline Fielded sports Fall Men's cross country: ten schools participate Women's cross country: ten schools participate Men's soccer: fourteen schools participate Women's soccer: Thirteen schools participate Women's Volleyball: all full member schools participate Winter Men's basketball: all full member schools participate Women's basketball: all full member schools participate Wrestling: Added in 2017, 12 men's teams and seven women's teams participate Spring Baseball: seven schools participate Golf (men's & women's): eight men's and seven women's teams participate Softball: eleven schools participate Men's track and field: ten schools participate Women's track and field: ten schools participate Sports not sponsored College of Idaho participates in men's and women's skiing as a member of the Northwest Conference of the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, men's and women's swimming, and women's tennis, and football in the Frontier Conference. Eastern Oregon participates in football as a member of the Frontier Conference. Southern Oregon participates in football as a member of the Frontier Conference. Commissioners Howard Morris (1994–2003) Phil Pifer (2003–2006) Bart Valentine (2007) Dave Haglund (2007–2012) Robert Cashell (2012–present) Champions Conference titles by school Cross country Men Women Soccer Men Women Volleyball Basketball Men Women Baseball Golf Men Women Softball Track and field Men Women References External links College sports in Oregon 1988 establishments in Oregon Articles which contain graphical timelines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Wurtz
Johannes Wurtz
Johannes Wurtz (born 19 June 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Veikkausliiga club Honka. Career Wurtz came through 1. FC Saarbrücken's youth setup, and made his first-team debut in July 2011, when he replaced Ufuk Özbek in a DFB-Pokal match against Erzgebirge Aue. He joined Bundesliga club Werder Bremen in July 2012. A year later he joined 2. Bundesliga side SC Paderborn, on loan. On 14 April 2014, SC Paderborn announced that Wurtz would transfer to Greuther Fürth for next season and that he would be left out of the squad for Paderborn's match against Greuther Fürth, who competed with Paderborn for promotion to the Bundesliga, six days later. Although he was taken back in the squad afterwards he only played five minutes at one substitution in the remaining three matches of the season. At the end of the season Paderborn was promoted and Fürth stayed in the 2. Bundesliga. At Greuther Fürth Wurtz signed a three-year contract expiring June 2017. Werder Bremen, which still held the transfer rights, received a transfer free of reportedly €250,000 and secured a repurchase option. In August 2018, Wurtz joined 2. Bundesliga side Darmstadt 98 from league rivals VfL Bochum on a three-year contract. He moved to SV Wehen Wiesbaden on a one-year contract in August 2020. Career statistics References External links 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Neunkirchen, Saarland German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Germany men's youth international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players 1. FC Saarbrücken players SV Werder Bremen II players SV Werder Bremen players SC Paderborn 07 players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players VfL Bochum players SV Darmstadt 98 players SV Wehen Wiesbaden players FC Honka players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Finland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Frost%20%28footballer%29
John Frost (footballer)
John Frost (born 20 May 1980) is an Irish professional footballer who last played for Waterford United in the League of Ireland In 2017 Frost returned to the RSC as a coach to Alan Reynolds. Early life At the age of five, Frost was run over by a car; he suffered a fractured skull, broken thigh bone and a broken right arm as a result. Career Frost first came to notice when nominated for the FAI's Schools Player of the Year in 1998. He was a regular in the Republic of Ireland youth teams by then and soon made his debut in the League of Ireland for hometown club Waterford United. His performances led Frost to being called into the Republic of Ireland under 21 squad. In 2000 Waterford lost a relegation play off and many commentators expected Frost to leave but he stayed loyal and was rewarded with the club captaincy. Waterford won promotion by winning the First Division in the 2002–03 season and Frost had his first senior medal. Frost is a left full back and joined St. Pats from Waterford United in July 2005 when financial difficulties forced Waterford to offload their top players. Frost has lost 2 FAI Cup finals, in 2004 and in 2006. He represented his country at the UEFA U-19 Championship in Sweden in 1999 where he won a bronze medal In December 2012 he rejoined his hometown club Honours Sporting Fingal FAI Cup (1): 2009 Waterford United League of Ireland First Division (1): 2002-03 References External links John Frost @ stpatsfc.com 1980 births Living people Association footballers from County Waterford Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Waterford F.C. players St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players Sporting Fingal F.C. players Limerick F.C. players League of Ireland players Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers Men's association football defenders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahim%20Shahriari
Rahim Shahriari
Rahim Shahriari (, ) is an Iranian popular songwriter and singer born in Shamqazan district of Tabriz, Iran in 1970. Shahriari is leader of the Araz musical group and has made several hits around Iran. Araz musical group Araz () is an International Iranian Azerbaijani musical group. The group was created in 1996 by Rahim Shahriari. Music genre of Araz musical group is Azerbaijani pop music, folklore music and folk music. Araz musical group concerts are held in Tabriz, Urmia, Ardabil, Zanjan, Astara, Karaj, Bahman Cultural Center and Milad Tower. and international concert in United States, Canada and Europe. 1395 Nowruz (2016) concert in USA He runs Azerbaijani musics concert in UCLA University, Turlock Community Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Thomas Jefferson Community Center Theater in United States since 1395 – Nowruz for Iranians in the United States Studio albums Aghlama (, means "Don't cry") Bayaz Gejalar (, means "White Nights") Baghmesha (, means "Baghmesha(A district in Tabriz") Galmadin (, means "(You) didn't come") Getma Ghal (, means "Don't go, stay") Gozallarin Gozali (, means "Most Beautiful of the Beautiful(person)s") Ipak (, means "Silk") Kim Bilir (, means "Who knows?") Sansiz (, means "Without You") Yavash Yeri (, means "Walk Slowly") Albums detailed References External links Official website Musicians from Tabriz 1970 births Living people Iranian pop musicians Azerbaijani-language singers Iranian pop singers 21st-century Iranian male singers Iranian composers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut%20Grove%20Farm
Walnut Grove Farm
Walnut Grove Farm may refer to the following places in the United States: Walnut Grove Farm (Knoxville, Illinois), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Walnut Groves Farm, Bloomfield, Kentucky, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nelson County, Kentucky Walnut Grove Farm (Shawsville, Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discothyris
Discothyris
Discothyris is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Discothyris ferruginata, which is found in Taiwan and India. References Pyraustinae Crambidae genera Monotypic moth genera Taxa named by William Warren (entomologist)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Myhra
Norman Myhra
Norman Lee Myhra (February 17, 1925 – January 16, 2010) was a Wisconsin legislator and businessman. Born in Amherst, Wisconsin, Myhra served in World War II, losing both his hands in combat in 1944 at the age of 19, and he was in sales and the insurance business. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Democrat (succeeding fellow Democrat John Kostuck) from 1961 to 1966 from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He died in Stevens Point. Notes People from Amherst, Wisconsin Businesspeople from Wisconsin 1925 births 2010 deaths American politicians with disabilities 20th-century American businesspeople Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail%20Ross
Gail Ross
Gail Elizabeth Ross is a former Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross from the election in May 2016 up until 2021 when she decided to not seek re-election. She was a councillor on the Highland Council 2011–2016, and civic leader of Caithness 2012–2016. Early life Ross grew up in Reiss and Wick, Caithness. She studied in Glasgow, first a combination of advertising and PR, later English and psychology. Political career She joined the SNP in 1997. She was first elected to Highland council in a by-election in 2011. At the time her success was considered a breakthrough for the SNP. She was re-elected in May 2012. Civic leader In May 2012, following re-election to Highland Council, she became the civic leader of Caithness. In August 2015, Ross spoke out against the Grindadráp, a Faroese traditional celebration of whaling, suggesting that on account of this that Wick should reconsider their twinning arrangement with the town of Klaksvík. Ross wrote to the mayor of Klaksvík to raise her concerns that the whaling was not something that Wick should be associated with. In January 2016 the matter was brought to the Highland Council, which led to an intervention from Klaksvík's mayor. The council deferred making a decision. Scottish Parliament In August 2015, Ross was announced as the SNP candidate for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, in place of the retiring Rob Gibson. During her time in Holyrood, she called for increased provision of ambulances in Caithness and highlighted the need for affordable housing in the Highlands. In May 2016 she was elected with a majority of 3,913. The following month she was elected as the deputy convener of the Rural Affairs and Connectivity Committee. In February 2020, Ross announced that she would not be standing for reelection in the next election, citing her wish to spend more time with her family. In November 2016 she resigned her position on Highland council after other Caithness councillors called for an independent review into the introduction of midwife-led maternity services in their area made by NHS Highland. Ross supported the decision by NHS Highland to proceed with the reconfiguration to a Community Maternity Unit (CMU) at Caithness General Hospital, which had been recommended on safety grounds following a review. Executive positions She is a member of the board of North Highland College. Personal life She is married to a teacher and they have a son together. Ross has worked as a model, posing as the muses depicted on the glass engraved trophy awarded to winners of the Mastermind television quiz. References External links profile on SNP website personal website Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Scottish National Party councillors People from Caithness Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Scottish Parliament 2016–2021 Scottish National Party MSPs Female members of the Scottish Parliament
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouSee
YouSee
YouSee is the largest quadruple play service provider in Denmark, and is a part of Nuuday which is a spun-off company from TDC Group, the largest telecommunications company in Denmark which was split into two separate companies. YouSee currently has 994,000 customers, down from its peak of 1.4 million in 2015. Background In 1963, the Danish regional telephone company Jydsk Telefon found an interest in cable television, but only in 1985 did the Folketing give permission for the regional companies to build a nationwide cable TV infrastructure. In November 1990, the Folketing passed a law that paved the way for a nationwide Danish telecom. The company was named Tele Danmark and was the parent company for the existing regional companies (KTAS, Jydsk Telefon, Tele Sønderjylland, Fyns Telefon, and Rigstelefonen). In 1995, the regional companies were merged into Tele Danmark, and the first nationwide cable TV company, Tele Danmark Kabel TV was created. Five years later, in 2000, Tele Danmark changed its name to TDC, and thus Tele Danmark Kabel TV became TDC Kabel TV. In early 2001 TDC Kabel TV changed its brand name to OnCable as a way for consumers to know they could get more than just TV. This brand name was scrapped in October the following year, reverting to TDC Kabel TV. In 2007, TDC folded its subsidiaries back into the parent company with the exception of TDC Kabel TV, which continued as an independent legal identity. Later in the year, on 1 October 2007, TDC Kabel TV changed its name to YouSee to once again signal a focus on more than just TV. On 1 July 2016 the TDC consumer business was merged with YouSee, migrating the entire TDC customer base of IPTV, broadband and mobile consumers to YouSee. The mobile phone network continues to use the 'TDC' name, as its built by TDC Group instead of YouSee. On 1 August 2018 TDC Group split its business into two units; NetCo and OpCo. YouSee was moved to the latter, which would focus on digital services and customer experiences. In March 2019 OpCo changed its name to Nuuday, and in June 2019 Nuuday was legally separated from TDC NetCo to fully be its own subsidiary of TDC Group. On 20 January 2020 TDC announced that their low-cost brand and mobile virtual network operator Fullrate would be shut down and the customers be migrated to YouSee. On 31 December 2021 TDC A/S became a holding company with no employees. The two companies TDC Net A/S and Nuuday A/S became two separate and independent companies. Management CEO’s: Christian Morgan (Since August 2021) Jacob Mortensen (August 2018 - August 2021) Jaap Postma (May 2016 - July 2018) Rene Brøchner Nielsen (2014 - 2016) Services YouSee Broadband YouSee has offered internet via cable television since building a return path (using DOCSIS) on the network in the years 2000-2002. It had previously been marketed under the name Webspeed, but was re-branded as YouSee Broadband in 2007. Today YouSee continues to serve broadband to consumers either via coaxial cable, optical fiber or through the old copper telephone lines (DSL). Prior to April 2016 customers had to subscribe to at least the basic TV channel package to get broadband over cable. This requirement was removed after parent company TDC was forced by the authorities to allow other broadband companies to serve broadband to consumers using the TDC/YouSee infrastructure without the consumer having to have a TV package from YouSee. In 2012 YouSee began offering 100 Mbit/s download speeds. Four years later, in 2016, 300 Mbit/s was introduced as the top download speed. Also in 2016, YouSee started a nationwide upgrade of their broadband infrastructure in a partnership with Huawei. The upgrade enables gigabit download speeds by deploying DOCSIS 3.1 nationwide, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. Later in 2016 an upgrade of the copper broadband network was announced in partnership with Nokia enabling up to 300 Mbit/s speeds (using Vplus) depending on the distance between the household and the nearest cabinet. On 8 May 2017 YouSee began offering 1000 Mbit/s download speeds in the areas where DOCSIS 3.1 had been deployed. On 30 June 2021 YouSee introduced 2500/2500 Mbit/s as the top speed on the fiber network of sister company TDC Net. Current internet tiers As of July 2021: Coax In DOCSIS 3.1 areas, customers can pay extra to have their upload speeds increased making the following speeds available: Fiber DSL Speeds are given in megabits per second, where 1 megabit = 0.125 megabytes = 125000 bytes. Cable modems Current and previous cable modems from YouSee YouSee TV On 15 September 2009 YouSee decided to unencrypt its digital TV distribution, under the marketing name YouSee Clear. However, a parallel analogue distribution was maintained for customers with TV sets that were unable to receive digital signals. At the time YouSee distributed channels in both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 but in April 2013, YouSee stopped this simulcasting to focus on MPEG-4 only. The name YouSee Clear was used until 1 July 2014 when it was renamed YouSee Tv. The analogue TV signal was finally switched off on February 9, 2016. In early 2017, YouSee switched off their cable radio services, which had been used to redistribute several Danish and foreign FM radio stations. YouSee had however continued to provide radio service via the DVB-C signal and via their set-top box - this was discontinued on 30 December 2020. Today, YouSee broadcasts digital television over coaxial cable and optical fiber using DVB-C and MPEG-4. YouSee also offers IPTV over coaxial cable, optical fiber and copper telephone cables. The main products have for a long time been the three packages: Basic, Medium and Full. In October 2011 YouSee did however launch a new service called “Extra channels” where consumers could buy channels separately if the consumer subscribes to at least the basic package, and buy at least 4 extra channels. This 4 channel minimum criterion was scrapped in July 2013. In March 2014 YouSee launched a new “pick-and-mix” service called “Bland-selv” where customers could subscribe to the medium or full package but replace the channels with ones of their own choosing. For example the medium package at the time contained 10 more channels than the basic package, making the customer able to choose 10 channels on top of the basic package. This “pick-and-mix” service based on the traditional packages were replaced in early 2018 with a new point-based system where customers still has to subscribe to the Basic package but then buy 10, 20 or 36 “points”. These points can then be used on TV channels and/or streaming services which can then be viewed via YouSee’s set-top box or online. Any TV channel costs 1 point, and streaming services costs between 3-6 points. Costumers can replace the channels and streaming services on a monthly basis. In early 2020 YouSee announced their plans to scrap the long-lived medium and full packages in order to make the “pick-and-mix” service the standard, also indicating that the Basic package will be scrapped in the future, giving the consumers complete control over which channels they pay for. This came to fruition on 1 September 2022 when YouSee re-used the name YouSee Play for a service which doesn't include a basic package but gives consumers complete choice over which channels they subscribe to. The Basic, Medium and Full packages are still available, and the new YouSee Play is only offered via the Internet, not via DVB-C. In August 2019 YouSee started distributing their first 4K Ultra HD channel, Viasat Ultra HD. As of January 2021, YouSee offers 80 channels, of which 63 are in HD. Set-top boxes The newest set-top box is a YouSee branded Humax set-top box. It was released on 8 January 2018 and was YouSee's first 4K-capable set-top box. Current and former set-top boxes: Current channel packages As of March 2023. YouSee Mobile Parent company TDC had in 2011 acquired the mobile virtual network operator Onfone which at the time were using the network of Telenor. After the acquisition, Onfone switched to the TDC mobile network, but were kept as a separate brand until December 2013 where Onfone were re-branded as YouSee Mobile. The YouSee Mobile service uses the network of sister company, TDC Net. This network covers 99.5% of Denmark using 2G, 4G and 5G. It was announced in September 2013 that Huawei were to do a complete overhaul of the 3G and 4G network infrastructure starting on 1 March 2014 and lasting 6 years. However, in March 2019, it was announced that Huawei was to be replaced by Ericsson, maintaining the entire network, modernizing the 4G LTE network, and roll-out a nationwide 5G network. The 5G network launched on September 7 2020. In late 2022 the 3G network was phased out. Although, the older 2G network is still available. YouSee Mobile Broadband Using the 4G and 5G network of parent company TDC, YouSee offers mobile broadband with included data ranging from 15 GB to 1000 GB. YouSee started offering 5G mobile broadband services on 11 December 2020. YouSee Telephony TDC Kabel TV started offering IP telephony in 2005 branding it Cabletalk. This was re-branded as YouSee Telefoni in 2007 as part of the overall YouSee name change. YouSee continues to offer fixed telephony services using IP as well as traditional landline. Retail stores YouSee now operates 43 stores around the country, after a re-branding of TDC stores to the YouSee brand began in March 2016. Discontinued products Xee On January 20, 2019 YouSee together with Fox launched a TV channel called Xee. In November 2021 the ownership of the channel was transferred to Nordic Entertainment Group, and the channel changed name to See. YouBio With the prospect of facing competition from both Netflix and HBO when they announced their streaming services would be available in Denmark late 2012, YouSee announced plans for their own upcoming streaming service. It would be called YouBio (a play on the Danish word for cinema, biograf), and it launched on 7 December 2012. The service was available as an app on Smart TVs from LG, Samsung, on Android, and iOS. Costumers could also buy a separate digital media player YouBio Boks which YouSee had developed. In June 2014 TDC announced YouBio would become a movie rental service as they couldn't compete with Netflix who had been more successful than TDC had imagined. Later in the year YouBio was shut down completely. YouSee Play YouSee Play was launched on 6 October 2014 as the future of cable tv. It made it possible for customers to watch their TV channel subscriptions on smartphones, smart TVs, tablets and computers. Less than a year later, on 25 August 2015 YouSee Play was shut down, although the features was carried over to the existing main YouSee TV product. YouSee Wifi-Spot In March 2014, a new service called YouSee Wifi-Spot was launched. The idea was to create Wifi hotspots around the country by enabling a second Wifi broadcast on YouSee cable modems. A further 10 Mbit/s speed was added on to participating customers bandwidth as a measure to not have the public wifi hotspot affect the customers own private wifi. The service was shut down by the end of the month, on 31 March 2014, following incidents of people's files and devices being accessed via security breaches between the public wifi hotspot and the customers own private wifi. References External links YouSee homepage TDC Group homepage Television in Denmark Mobile phone companies of Denmark Mass media companies based in Copenhagen Telecommunications companies of Denmark Internet service providers of Denmark Danish companies established in 1995 Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20J.%20Roethe
Edward J. Roethe
Edward J. Roethe (May 12, 1878 – May 1, 1952) was an American politician and newspaper editor. Early life Roethe was born in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Career Roethe began his career as a teacher. He later worked as the publisher of the Fennimore Times in Fennimore, Wisconsin. He served as president of the village of Fennimore in 1919 and after the community was incorporated as a city he served as the first mayor of Fennimore from 1919 to 1924. He served in the Wisconsin Senate as a Republican twice, initially as successor to his brother Henry Edgar Roethe. Personal life Roethe died after suffering a stroke while working in his garden. References 1878 births People from Whitewater, Wisconsin People from Fennimore, Wisconsin Editors of Wisconsin newspapers Mayors of places in Wisconsin Republican Party Wisconsin state senators 1952 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20DeCandido
Keith DeCandido
Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido (born April 18, 1969) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Andromeda, Farscape, Leverage, Spider-Man, X-Men, Sleepy Hollow, and Stargate SG-1. Early life DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido. He claims to have been a Star Trek fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of Star Trek: The Original Series. DeCandido attended New Rochelle Academy, and then Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx before attending Fordham University. While attending Fordham University, DeCandido worked as an editor and writer of one of the college newspapers, called simply the paper. Career After graduation, DeCandido worked as editor at several publishing companies. Along with John Drew, in the 1990s he co-produced a public-access television cable TV show in Manhattan about science fiction called The Chronic Rift, which he also co-hosted. DeCandido and Drew and others revived the show as a podcast in 2008. DeCandido also used to host his own monthly podcast, Dead Kitchen Radio, on hiatus as of February 2019. While DeCandido spent much of his career writing Star Trek fiction, he has written tie-ins for other popular sci-fi and fantasy series as well, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, Sleepy Hollow, Farscape, and Leverage as well as comic books (Spider-Man, X-Men), movies (Cars, Serenity, Alien), role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons), and video games (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Command & Conquer, Resident Evil). He has also written fiction in universes of his own creation, including that of the 2004 novel Dragon Precinct, a high-fantasy police procedural, and a series of short stories about Cassie Zukav, a scuba diving tour guide in Key West who learns she is a Dís. Other worlds of DeCandido's own creation include The Adventures of Bram Gold and the Super City Cops series. He has also edited various anthologies, including OtherWere, Urban Nightmares, Imaginings, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, the Doctor Who collection Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership, and the Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits, Tales of the Dominion War, and Tales from the Captain's Table. In 2009, DeCandido was named Grandmaster by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He has written rewatches for Tor.com since 2011, including Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate, Batman 1966, and "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch," about every live-action superhero movie based on a comic book. DeCandido also writes reviews and commentary for Tor.com, including reviews of many of TV adaptions of comic books and of the new Star Trek shows Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Short Treks. DeCandido is an avid baseball fan, particularly of the New York Yankees. He has contributed in the past to both the Replacement Level Yankees Weblog and Pinstripe Alley, and he currently serves as an occasional freelance editor for the Society for American Baseball Research. Bibliography Star Trek novels The Next Generation - Diplomatic Implausibility (2001), Deep Space Nine - Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (2001), The Brave and the Bold (2002), (Book 1), (Book 2) The Lost Era - The Art of the Impossible (2003), I.K.S. Gorkon - A Good Day to Die (2003), I.K.S. Gorkon - Honor Bound (2003), The Next Generation - A Time for War, A Time for Peace (2004), Ferenginar: Satisfaction Is Not Guaranteed in Worlds of Deep Space Nine Volume 3 (2005), I.K.S. Gorkon - Enemy Territory (2005), Articles of the Federation (2005), The Mirror-Scaled Serpent in Mirror Universe - Obsidian Alliances (2007), The Next Generation - Q&A (2007), (nominee, Best Speculative Fiction Novel, Scribe Awards) Klingon Empire - A Burning House (2008), A Gutted World in Myriad Universes - Echoes and Refractions (2008), A Singular Destiny (2009), (nominee, Best Speculative Fiction Novel, Scribe Awards) Star Trek novellas, short stories, comic books, etc. The Next Generation - Perchance to Dream (four-issue comic book miniseries, art by Peter Pachoumis and Lucian Rizzo, with Scott Benefiel, February–May 2000) -- collected in Enemy Unseen (2001), , alongside "The Killing Shadows" and "Embrace the Wolf" "Horn and Ivory" in Gateways: What Lay Beyond (2002), "Broken Oaths" in Deep Space Nine - Prophecy and Change (2003), "Revelations" in New Frontier - No Limits (2003), "The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned" in Tales of the Dominion War (2004), "loDnIpu' vavpu' je" ("Brothers and Fathers") in Tales from the Captain's Table (2005), "Letting Go" in Voyager - Distant Shores (2005), "Four Lights" in The Next Generation - The Sky's the Limit (2007), "Family Matters" in Mirror Universe - Shards and Shadows (2009), Alien Spotlight: Klingons: Four Thousand Throats... (comic book, art by JK Woodward, 2009; winner, Best Single Issue of a Comic Book, TrekMovie.com) -- collected in Alien Spotlight Volume 2 (2010), , alongside Q, Romulans, Tribbles, and Cardassians. "The Unhappy Ones" in Seven Deadly Sins (2010) Captain's Log: Jellico (comic book, art by JK Woodward, 2010) -- collected in Captain's Log (2011), , alongside Sulu, Pike, and Harriman. The Klingon Art of War (2014), several chapters of Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Empire Core Rulebook (2020) Star Trek Adventures: Incident at Kraav III (with Fred Love, 2022) "You Can't Buy Fate" in Star Trek Explorer #7 (2023) "Work Worth Doing" in Star Trek Explorer #9 (2023) Star Trek eBooks S.C.E. (Starfleet Corps of Engineers) series (2000–2006) Fatal Error (2000) Cold Fusion (2001) Invincible Books 1-2 (w/David Mack, 2001) Gateways epilogue: Here There Be Monsters (2001) War Stories Books 1-2 (2002) Breakdowns (2003) Security (2005) What's Past Book 6: Many Splendors (2006) The Next Generation - Slings and Arrows Book 6: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment (2008) Precinct novels Dragon Precinct (2004), , a high fantasy police procedural story and DeCandido's first original novel Unicorn Precinct (2011), , sequel to Dragon Precinct Goblin Precinct (2012), , sequel to Unicorn Precinct Gryphon Precinct (2013), , sequel to Goblin Precinct Tales from Dragon Precinct (2013), , short-story collection Mermaid Precinct (2019), , sequel to Gryphon Precinct Phoenix Precinct (2022), , sequel to Mermaid Precinct Manticore Precinct (forthcoming), sequel to Phoenix Precinct More Tales from Dragon Precinct (forthcoming), second short-story collection Precinct short stories "Getting the Chair" in Murder by Magic (2004; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013), "Crime of Passion" in Hear Them Roar (2006; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013), "House Arrest" in Bad-Ass Faeries (2007; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013 and The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, 2017) "A Clean Getaway" in Pandora's Closet (2007; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013) "Fire in the Hole" in Dragon's Lure (2010; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013) "When the Magick Goes Away," Kickstarter-supported (2012; reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct, 2013) "Catch and Release" in Tales from Dragon Precinct (2013) "Brotherly Love" in Tales from Dragon Precinct (2013) "Blood in the Water" in Tales from Dragon Precinct (2013) "Heroes Welcome" in Tales from Dragon Precinct (2013) "Gan Brightblade vs. Mitos the Mighty," Kickstarter-supported (2014) "Baker's Dozen," Kickstarter-supported (2017) "Chaos Theory" in reissue of Gryphon Precinct (2018) "The Fall of Iaron," Kickstarter-supported (2019) "The Midwinter of Our Discontent" in Release the Virgins! (2019) "Used to Be" in Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles (2019) "The Gorvangin Rampages," Indiegogo-supported (2020) Other novels Spider-Man: Venom's Wrath (written with Jose R. Nieto, 1998), Young Hercules: Cheiron's Warriors (1999), Young Hercules: The Ares Alliance (1999), Farscape: House of Cards (2001), Andromeda: Destruction of Illusions (2003), Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets (2005), (reprinted in Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours Omnibus, 2021, World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred (2006), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Blackout (2006), StarCraft Ghost: Nova (2006), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Deathless (2007), (nominee, Best YA Novel, Scribe Awards) Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars (2007), Supernatural: Nevermore (2007), CSI: NY: Four Walls (2008), Supernatural: Bone Key (2008), Mack Bolan, Executioner: Code of Honor (under Don Pendleton's name, 2009), Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon (2010) Mack Bolan, Executioner: Deep Recon (under Don Pendleton's name, 2010) Dungeons & Dragons: Under a Crimson Sun (2011), Super City Police Department: The Case of the Claw (2011) The Scattered Earth: Guilt in Innocence (2011) Leverage: The Zoo Job (2013), (nominee, Best General Original Novel, Scribe Awards) Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution (2014), (nominee, Best Speculative Original Novel, Scribe Awards) Stargate SG-1: Kali's Wrath (2016), Marvel's Thor: Dueling with Giants (2015), Book 1 of the Tales of Asgard trilogy, Marvel's Sif: Even Dragons Have Their Endings (2016), Book 2 of the Tales of Asgard trilogy, Marvel's Warriors Three: Godhood's End (2017), Book 3 of the Tales of Asgard trilogy, A Furnace Sealed (2019), Book 1 of the Adventures of Bram Gold, To Hell and Regroup (with David Sherman, 2020), Book 3 of Sherman's "18th Race" trilogy Animal (with Munish K. Batra, MD, FACS, 2021), Feat of Clay (forthcoming in 2023), Book 2 of the Adventures of Bram Gold Novelizations Gargantua (1998), (as K. Robert Andreassi) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Xander Years Volume 1 (1999), Darkness Falls (2003), Resident Evil: Genesis (2004), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Serenity (2005), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Alien: Isolation, computer game novelization (2019), Novellas -30- (w/Steven Savile, 2012; reprinted in Without a License, 2015), part of the Viral series Heroes Reborn: Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World (2015; reprinted in Heroes Reborn Collection Two, 2016) Super City Cops: Avenging Amethyst (2016) Super City Cops: Undercover Blues (2017) Super City Cops: Secret Identities (2017) Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House (2021) Short story collections Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013), Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido (2015), Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (forthcoming) Other comic books Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning (cowritten with Rockne S. O'Bannon, art by Tommy Patterson, four-issue miniseries, December 2008-April 2009) Farscape: Strange Detractors (cowritten with O'Bannon, art by Will Sliney, four-issue miniseries, April–July 2009) Farscape: D'Argo's Lament (art by Neil Edwards, four-issue miniseries, April–July 2009) Farscape: Gone and Back (cowritten with O'Bannon, art by Patterson, July–October 2009) Farscape: D'Argo's Trial (art by Caleb Cleveland, August–November 2009) Farscape (monthly series, cowritten with O'Bannon, art by Sliney, November 2009–October 2011) Farscape: D'Argo's Quest (art by Cleveland, December 2009-March 2010) StarCraft: Ghost Academy Volume 1 (manga, art by Fernando Furukawa, 2010) Cars: Adventures of Tow Mater #1-4 (art by Travis Hill, four-issue story arc, August–November 2010) Kung Fu Panda: Tales of the Dragon Warrior #1 (art by Massimo Asaro, backup story, 2013) Icarus (cowritten with Gregory A. Wilson, art by Áthila Fabbio, 2020) Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness—The Beginning (art by Carmelo Zagaria & Valentina Cuomo, five-issue miniseries, 2022-2023) Short fiction "An Evening in the Bronx with Venom" in The Ultimate Spider-Man (1994), , with John Gregory Betancourt "Improper Procedure" in The Ultimate Silver Surfer (1995), "God Sins" in Magic: The Gathering: Distant Planes (1995), "UNITed We Fall" in Doctor Who: Decalog 3: Consequences (1996), "Arms and the Man" in Untold Tales of Spider-Man (1997), "How You Can Prevent Forest Fires" in Urban Nightmares (1997; reprinted in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, 2013), "A Bone to Pick" in Did You Say Chicks?! (1997), , with Marina Frants "Playing It SAFE" in The Ultimate Hulk (1998), "Diary of a False Man" in X-Men: Legends (2000), "Raymond's Room" in Doctor Who: Missing Pieces (2001) "Recurring Character" in The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess (2001), "A Vampire and a Vampire Hunter Walk Into a Bar" in Amazing Stories #608 (2005; reprinted in The Town Drunk, 2006; reprinted in Without a License, 2015) "Editorial Interference" in Circles in the Hair (2006; reprinted in Without a License, 2015) "Sunday in the Park with Spot" in Furry Fantastic (2006; reprinted in Without a License, 2015), "Life from Lifelessness" in Doctor Who: Short Trips: Destination Prague (2007) "Meiyo" on the Battlecorps.com web site (2008) "Three Sides to Every Story" in BattleTech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction (2009) "Letter from Guadalajara" in More Tales of Zorro (2011) "Under the King's Bridge" in Liar Liar: Short Stories from Members of the Liars Club (2011; reprinted in Without a License, 2015) "Ragnarok and Roll" in Tales from the House Band Volume 1 (2011; reprinted in Apocalypse 13, 2012, and in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, 2013) "The Ballad of Big Charlie" in V-Wars (2012; reprinted in Without a License, 2015) "I Believe I'm Sinkin' Down" in Tales from the House Band Volume 2 (2012; reprinted in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, 2013) "The Stone of the First High Pontiff" in Defending the Future: Best-Laid Plans (2013; reprinted in Without a License, 2015) "Undine the Boardwalk" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013; reprinted in Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental, 2014) "Love Over and Over" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013) "Cayo Hueso Part 1: A Farewell to Cats" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013) "Cayo Hueso Part 2: The Buck Stops Here" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013) "Cayo Hueso Part 3: Twisting Fate" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013) "God of Blunder" in Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (2013) "Stone Cold Whodunit" in With Great Power (2014) "Fish Out of Water" in Out of Tune (2014), a tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet "Time Keeps on Slippin'" in Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis: Far Horizons (2014) "Down to the Waterline" in Buzzy Mag Online (2015) , a tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet "Partners in Crime" in Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido (2015), set in the same universe as Dragon Precinct "Seven-Mile Race" in Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido (2015), a tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet "Wild Bill Got Shot" in Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido (2015) "Behold a White Tricycle" in Without a License: The Fantastic Worlds of Keith R.A. DeCandido (2015) "Back in El Paso My Life Will Be Worthless" in The X-Files: Trust No One (2015) "William Did It" on StoryOfTheMonthClub.com (2015; reprinted in A Baker's Dozen of Magic, 2016), a tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet "Send in the Clones" in The Side of Good/The Side of Evil (2015) "Streets of Fire" in V-Wars: Night Terrors (2016) "We Seceded Where Others Failed" in Altered States of the Union (2016) "Right on, Sister!" in Limbus Inc. Book 3 (2016) "Identity" in Baker Street Irregulars (2017) "Deep Background" in Aliens: Bug Hunt (2017) "Behind the Wheel" in TV Gods: Summer Programming (2017), a tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet "Live and On the Scene" in Nights of the Living Dead (2017) "Ganbatte" in Joe Ledger: Unstoppable (2017; winner, Best Short Story, Scribe Awards) "Sun-Breaker" in Stargate SG-1/Atlantis: Homeworlds (2017) "Six Red Dragons" in Baker Street Irregulars, Volume 2 (2018) "House Hunting" in They Keep Killing Glenn (2018) "Rán for Your Life" in Unearthed (2019), a tale of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet "Alien Invasion of Earth!" in Thrilling Adventure Yarns (2019) "The Silent Dust" in Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals & Gizmos (2019) "The Puzzle" in Footprints in the Stars (2019) "Materfamilias" in Bad Ass Moms (2020) "Journalistic Integrity" in Pangaea III: Redemption (2020) "Unguarded" in Horns and Halos (2021) "Ragnarok and a Hard Place," Indiegogo-supported (2021) ”In Earth and Sky and Sea Strange Things There Be” in Turning the Tied (2021) The Carpet’s Tale” in The Fans are Buried Tales (2022) ”What You Can Become Tomorrow” in Three Time Travelers Walk Into… (2022) ”History Lesson for Royal Puppies in the Castle Portrait Gallery” in Ludlow Charlington’s Doghouse (2022) ”The Light Shines in the Darkness” in Phenomenons: Every Human Creature (2022) ”Smells Like Teen Spirit” in Tales of Capes and Cowls (2022) ”A Lovely View” in Zorro’s Exploits (2022) ”The Rat’s Tail” in The Eye of Argon and the Further Adventures of Grignr (2022) ”Ticonderoga Beck and the Stalwart Squad” in Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2022 (2022) "This Little Light of Mine" in Phenomenons: Season of Darkness (2023) ”What Do You Want from Me, I’m Old?” in The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (forthcoming 2023) ”Stop Dragon My Heart Around” in Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (forthcoming in 2023) ”Another Dead Body on the Corner” in Joe Ledger: Unbreakable (forthcoming in 2023) ”Know Thyself Deathless” in Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (forthcoming in 2023) "The Thick Blue Line" in Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight Volume 2 (forthcoming in 2023) "The Legend of Long-Ears" in The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny (forthcoming in 2023) Reference books John Winchester Hardcover Ruled Journal (2017) Orphan Black: Classified Clone Report (2017) Poison Ivy Hardcover Ruled Journal (2018) Batman: Quotes from Gotham City (2019) References External links Author's Blog Keith DeCandido Interview Interview World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred/StarCraft Ghost: Nova pocketbooks Interview with Keith R.A. DeCandido, SpaceWesterns.com, 2007 The Chronic Rift's Homepage 1969 births Living people American science fiction writers American comics writers American writers of Italian descent Writers from the Bronx 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Cardinal Spellman High School (New York City) alumni Fordham University alumni
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Sound City
Sound City may refer to: Soundcity TV, a Nigerian television music channel Sound City (company), defunct British amplification company Sound City Studios, music recording studios Sound City (film), a 2013 documentary film produced and directed by Dave Grohl Sound City: Real to Reel, soundtrack for the Sound City film See also Sound City Players, supergroup formed by Dave Grohl Shepperton Film Studios, film studios historically known as Sound City
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Nebraska State Auditor
The auditor of public accounts of Nebraska, more commonly known as the "state auditor", is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Nebraska. Twenty-five individuals have held the office of auditor of public accounts since statehood. The current auditor is Mike Foley, a Republican. Powers and duties The auditor of public accounts has the constitutional authority to audit all state fiscal activity and the fiduciary responsibility to promulgate audit standards applicable to all state agencies and local governments. To this end, the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA) engages in financial audits of every state agency, officer, board, bureau and commission, conducts the annual single audit of federal awards received by the state, and investigates both reported and alleged waste, fraud, and mismanagement throughout state and local government. With respect to local governments, APA annually audits the accounts of most counties and each educational service district, registers school, municipal and public bonds, and prescribes uniform accounting and budgeting systems for all political subdivisions in Nebraska. Financial audits of all other local governments are generally prepared by private-sector auditors and reviewed by APA staff for compliance with the law and the duly promulgated audit standards. Aside from financial audits, APA also conducts performance audits of local governments receiving more than $25,000 of state aid in any fiscal year and of state agencies when directed by the state legislature. These audits provide critical information to state lawmakers on the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of public programs and influence public policy debates. List of territorial auditors List of state auditors Parties Notes References Nebraska
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Bernalillo High School
Bernalillo High School is a public high school in Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States. The school is a part of the Bernalillo Public Schools district and is the only high school in the district. The mascot is the Spartan. Service area The service area of its school district, and therefore the high school itself, includes most of Bernalillo as well as Algodones, Cochiti, Cochiti Lake, La Madera, Peña Blanca, Placitas, Pueblo of Sandia Village, San Felipe Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo, and most of Santa Ana Pueblo. Athletics Bernalillo High School competes in the District 2-AAAA. In 2023, the high school posthumously honored Benny Shendo Sr. who won the state mile with a time of 4.44 (for all schools, regardless of size) in 1953, becoming the first state champion for Bernalillo High, with an honorary diploma. (The spring after his championship, Benny's grandfather died, requiring Benny to leave school to help run the family farm. He was then drafted to serve in the Korean War and never finished his diploma.) References External links Official website Bernalillo Public Schools Public high schools in New Mexico Schools in Sandoval County, New Mexico Educational institutions established in 1952 1952 establishments in New Mexico
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Clairvaux Prison
Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the grounds of the former Clairvaux Abbey History Clairvaux Abbey was founded in 1115 by Bernard of Clairvaux. During the French Revolution, it became property of the State. In 1808, Napoleon turned it into a prison. A good part of the abbey's manuscripts are now in the Médiatéque du Grand Troyes (Grand Troyes Media Library). The initial prisoners were rebellious soldiers. After the collapse of the Paris Commune in 1871, a number of Communards were held there. Revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui spent some time in solitary. It became the largest French penitentiary of the 19th century. Communist militant Guy Môquet was imprisoned there by the Vichy government. 1971 revolt In 1971, two convicts, Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems, took as hostages a nurse, Nicole Comte, and a prison guard, Guy Girardot. Buffet subsequently murdered them. Buffet and Bontems were captured. Bontems, whose defence counsel included Robert Badinter, contended that the murder was Buffet's idea. Buffet said that he wanted death. Both were sentenced to death by the assize court in June 1972 and were guillotined. 2006 manifesto On 16 January 2006, several detainees who were serving life sentences in Clairvaux Prison, having each spent from 6 to 28 years in prison, signed a manifesto denouncing the "false" abolition of the death penalty. They declared that it had resulted in a slow and continuous punishment, a death in life. They called for restoration of the death penalty. The convicts specifically denounced the French Republic which claimed, in accordance with the "advises of the European Council", that the "enforcing of prison sentences... has been conceived not only to protect society and assure the punishment of the convict, but also to favour his amendment and prepare his rehabilitation". They stated, "In reality: everything is for the punishment." Present day As of 2022, there were forty prisoners held at the facility, but by September 2023 they are expected to be transferred to another prison. Notable prisoners The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was imprisoned in Clairvaux for the four years between 1883 and 1886. Carlos the Jackal, international terrorist. Transferred to Clairvaux in 2006. In fiction Victor Hugo's short story "Claude Gueux" is set in Clairvaux. References Sources Clairvaux Prison - Ministry of Justice External links L'Association Renaissance de Clairvaux Prisons in France Buildings and structures in Aube Ville-sous-la-Ferté
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Johnstown, County Kildare
Johnstown () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland. It is located north of Naas just off the N7 at junction 8. It is approximately from Dublin city centre, and is a home for commuters working in Dublin and Naas. Most of the housing was built after 1990. The village was set out as a planned settlement. The main street was a part of the old main road southwest from Dublin towards Cork and Limerick, and the village was a hamlet in 1970. The Johnstown Inn was a busy coaching stop until the 19th century, and outside it the Cork mail coach was stopped and burned at the start of the 1798 rebellion. It had a post office that closed in the 1920s. The village still has the ruins of the medieval St John's church that became a ruin after 1500 under the Tudor seizure of church property. The church was a satellite of St. John's (Hospitaller) Priory in Kilmainham, Dublin. The church is famous for the grave of the Earl of Mayo, the viceroy, who was killed in India in 1872. The main road eventually bypassed Johnstown in 1964 when the Naas dual carriageway was finished. This was enlarged into the 6-lane N7 road from Dublin to Johnstown, after which it reduces to the 4-lane M7 motorway that runs towards Limerick. Notes See also List of towns and villages in Ireland Towns and villages in County Kildare Planned communities in the Republic of Ireland
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The Next Phase
"The Next Phase" is the 124th episode of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 24th episode of the fifth season. It aired in syndication on May 18, 1992. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, the Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Romulan science ship. Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro Laren are lost in a transporter accident when returning to the Enterprise with a faulty generator from the Romulan ship. The episode won an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series. Plot As the Federation starship Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Romulan ship which has suffered an on-board explosion, Ensign Ro and Lieutenant Commander La Forge are seemingly lost in a beam-in from the Romulan ship to the Enterprise. Ro and La Forge find themselves on the Enterprise, unable to interact with the ship or the crew, but able to interact with each other. While La Forge believes they are still alive, Ro sees Dr. Crusher make out their death certificates and believes they are dead; she tries to make peace with her former crewmates as they prepare a funeral service. Lt. Commander Data traces the cause of the transportation accident to the Romulan ship. Ro and La Forge go along with Data and Lt. Worf as they fly a shuttlecraft to the Romulan ship. Aboard, La Forge discovers a phase inverter device, and theorizes that he and Ro are out of phase, and thus undetectable. He also overhears the Romulan crew discussing a plan to transmit a signal to the Enterprise that will cause the warp core to explode the next time the ship enters warp. The two return with Data and Worf to the Enterprise to try to warn the crew, unaware that a Romulan, also out-of-phase, is following them. On board the Enterprise, La Forge watches Data as he analyzes the data from the Romulan ship, and discovers high levels of chronoton emissions, part of the failing of the transporter system. La Forge recognizes that by passing through objects on the ship, he can create those emissions, and tries to encourage Data to study them more, but fails. Ro encounters the Romulan, armed with a disruptor, and leads him on a chase through the walls of the crew quarters, releasing more chronoton radiation that catches Data's interest. When Data enters the room where the Romulan has cornered Ro, La Forge rushes the Romulan, causing him to fly through the external hull of the ship into space. La Forge recovers the disruptor. Although Captain Picard orders the ship into warp after their investigation is complete, Data cautions him to not do so until he completes a sweep of the ship with "anyon" particles to remove the chronoton radiation. Knowing that time is short before the ship will enter warp, Ro and La Forge head to their funeral—for which Data has planned a jazz funeral—and attempt to phase through objects. They fire the Romulan's disruptor to attract the attention of the attendees. When this does not work, Ro sets the disruptor to overload, causing a large burst of chronoton radiation. Data instructs the computer to sweep Ten Forward with anyon particles, causing Ro and La Forge to temporarily become visible in front of Data and Picard. Data deduces the fate of the crew members, and orders another massive flood of anyon particles, which brings Ro and La Forge back into phase. La Forge is able to warn Engineering about the warp core in time. He and Ro then join their "funeral" and celebrate with the rest of the crew with a much more joyous tone to the occasion. Reception In 2017 this episode was noted as one featuring scary and/or eerie Star Trek content. The fact that the characters could walk through solid objects, but not pass through the floor, has been criticized and mocked in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Wormhole X-Treme!". See also "The Pegasus" - the seventh season episode involving a Federation phase-shifting cloaking device "Vanishing Point" - a second season Star Trek: Enterprise episode in which a character disappears References External links Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 5) episodes 1992 American television episodes Television episodes written by Ronald D. Moore Emmy Award-winning episodes Television episodes about funerals
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Centre for Software Reliability
The Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) is a distributed British organisation concerned with software reliability, including safety-critical issues. It consists of two sister organisations based at Newcastle University, UK. and City, University of London, London. Up until August 2016 the centre ran the Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC) and the Software Reliability & Metrics Club. Since August 2016 the Safety-Critical Systems Club has been run by the department of Computer Science at the University of York. The Club runs a number of events each year including the annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium (SSS). CSR was founded in 1984 and has received UK and international research funding. CSR members: Prof. Tom Anderson References External links CSR Newcastle University website CSR City, University of London website Organizations established in 1983 Computer science institutes in the United Kingdom Newcastle University City, University of London Software engineering organizations Software quality
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Service%20Journal
Health Service Journal
Health Service Journal (HSJ) is a news service that covers policy and management in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. History The Poor Law Officers' Journal was established in 1892. In 1930, it changed its name after the passing of the Local Government Act 1929 to the Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, then in 1948, it became the Hospital and Social Service Journal. In 1963, it became the Hospital and Social Service Review, in 1973, the Health and Social Service Journal, and the Health Service Journal in 1986. It was part of a group of business-to-business titles published by the Emap group, which was purchased by the Guardian Media Group in 2008.[3] In 2008, it had an average circulation of almost 18,000 copies, most of which were by subscription. It was part of a group of business-to-business titles published by the Emap group, which was purchased by the Guardian Media Group in 2008. In October 2015, the title's owners announced that print editions would be phased out over the following 18 months, with the HSJ expected to be in the first tranche. In January 2017, the title was bought by Wilmington plc for £19 million. In 2016, HSJ announced that it would go digital only, giving insight into every NHS sector and region. In January 2017 the title was bought by Wilmington plc for £19 million.[5] Content Primarily aimed at "healthcare leaders", it covers subject areas including commissioning, performance, patient safety, finance, mental health and technology. Awards At the 2013 Professional Publishers' Association awards editor Alastair McLellan was named editor of the year in the business media category. In 2014, HSJ was named PPA business magazine of the year. McLellan was editor of the year again in 2020. In 2021 at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards the magazine won the grand prix award for best specialist online brand, and specialist editorial team of the year. Alastair McLellan won editor of the year. The British Society of Modern Magazine Editors named him Editor of the Year - Trade & Professional in January 2022. References Business magazines published in the United Kingdom Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom Ascential Magazines established in 1892 Medical magazines National Health Service Professional and trade magazines Online magazines with defunct print editions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopetalichthys
Pseudopetalichthys
Pseudopetalichthys problematica is a lightly armored pseudopetalichthyid placoderm from the Hunsrückschiefer Lagerstätte of Early Devonian Germany. The holotype and only known specimen is an articulated, but incomplete individual consisting of a large, mostly intact, plate-covered head, the bases of the pectoral fins, and most of the vertebral column, with a total length of . The specimen superficially resembles Stensioella,<ref name=Denison>{{cite book|last=Denison|first=Robert|title=Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology'''|year=1978|publisher=Gustav Fischer Verlag|location=Stuttgart New York|isbn=978-0-89574-027-4|pages=22–24}}</ref> though the structures of the mouth, and orbits (the orbits being unknown in Stensioella), and placement of the gill rakers all differ. Some experts suggest that P. problematica and the related Paraplesiobatis'' are the same species, suggesting that the differences between them are merely due to different circumstances of taphonomy, but this hypothesis can not be tested until more specimens are found. The holotype was originally held in the Schlosspark Museum in Bad Kreuznach, but was then lost at an unknown date. References External links Pseudopetalichthys at the Paleobiology Database Pseudopetalichthyida Placoderm genera Fossils of Germany Hunsrück Slate fossils
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talatat
Talatat
Talatat are limestone blocks of standardized size (c. 27 by 27 by 54 cm, corresponding to by by 1 ancient Egyptian cubits) used during the 18th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten in the building of the Aton temples at Karnak and Akhetaten (modern Amarna). The standardized size and their small weight made construction more efficient. Their use may have begun in the second year of Akhenaten's reign. After the Amarna Period talatat construction was abandoned, apparently not having withstood the test of time. Amenhotep IV talatats The blocks used in the Temple of Amenhotep IV in Karnak, and the other abandoned temples devoted to the deity Aten, were reused by Horemheb and Ramesses II as filler material for pylons and as foundations for large buildings. The Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak is built on thousands of these blocks, as is the Second Pylon. Tens of thousands of the talatat have been recovered. The decorated stones are being photographed and the scenes they depict are reconstructed as part of the Akhenaten Temple Project. Etymology The term talatat was apparently used by the Egyptian workmen and introduced into the language of archaeology by the Egyptologist H. Chevrier. There are two hypotheses as to the word's generally unknown ultimate origin in reference to the stones, perhaps not contradictory: The word may be derived from Italian tagliata, meaning cut masonry. Or, derived from the Egyptian Arabic word تلاتة‎ (talāta, 'three'), indicating that each block is three hand-spans long. References Bibliography External links Talatat wall Scene www.usu.edu Akhenaten worshipping scene: Talatat Article euler.sle.edu Egyptian artefact types Building stone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s%20Boy%20%28TV%20series%29
Mama's Boy (TV series)
Mama's Boy is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 19, 1987 until August 6, 1988. It was created by Susan Harris, and produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions and it was distributed by TeleVentures. The comedy starred Bruce Weitz and Nancy Walker in the lead roles. Mama's Boy was proposed as a new NBC project to debut as a series sometime during the 1987–88 season. When it debuted, it was described as a "designated hitter" -- "a show that will be broadcast monthly and then, ratings permitting, be ready to move into a weekly slot if required." However, after a couple of telecasts in the fall of 1987, the network continued to air the series' initial episodes sporadically (with as many as five months passing between episodes three and four) without a regular time slot. By the end of the season, NBC decided not to upgrade the show from "specials" status; only seven episodes were produced, with six airing through August 6, 1988. The last episode remains unaired. Premise A newspaper columnist shares a New York apartment with his mother. Weitz and Walker received this series in response to their recent popular NBC roles: his seven-year run as Det. Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues, and her two-time guest role as Angela, sister of Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) on The Golden Girls. Additionally, Dan Hedaya, whose high-profile NBC guest role was as Nick Tortelli on Cheers, was added to the cast of this proposed series soon after the cancellation of his short-lived Cheers spin-off, The Tortellis. Cast Bruce Weitz as Jake McCaskey Nancy Walker as Molly McCaskey Susan Blakely as Victoria Dan Hedaya as Mickey Episodes References External links 1987 American television series debuts 1988 American television series endings 1980s American sitcoms English-language television shows NBC original programming Television series by Sony Pictures Television Television shows set in New York City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiza%20Iftikhar
Faiza Iftikhar
Faiza Iftikhar is a Pakistani writer, author, novelist and screenwriter. She is active in the Pakistani television industry and known for her romantic and social plays. Her popular plays include Dil Lagi, Aunn Zara, Ranjha Ranjha Kardi etc. Her writing for Ranjha Ranjha Kardi earned her Lux Style Award of Best TV Writer. Her recent projects are Bandhay Aik Dor Say, Pehli Si Muhabbat and Prem Gali. Furthermore, she wrote the screenplay of Lollywood movie Tich Button. Education and background Iftikhar has a masters' in political science and sociology. She has a son and two daughters and currently resides in Lahore. She revealed in an interview that Altaf Fatima, Urdu novelist and short story writer, encouraged her to write when she was her student. Notable work Novels Hissar-e-Mohabbat Ghar Aangan Mera Tera Khali Kamra Hoon Phulaan De Rang Kalay Saray Gulab Le Jana Roag Drama serials Chudhvin Ka Chand Mannchalay Tum Jo Miley Tujh Pe Qurban Diya Jalay Shehr e Dil Ke Darwazay Zindagi Dhoop Tum Ghana Saya Roag Akbari Asghari Mohabbat Rooth Jaye Toh Bilqees Kaur Yahan Pyar Nahin Hai Thakan Piya Ka Ghar Pyara Lagay Aik Nayee Cinderella Khailoon Pyaar Ki Baazi Khoya Khoya Chand Meri Zindagi Hai Tu Ghundi Uff Yeh Mohabbat Kahani Raima Aur Manahil Ki Aap ki Kaneez Tum Woh Nahi Kaanch Ki Guriya Dil Lagi Mein Sitara Kathputli Aap Ke Liye Dil Banjaara Sakeena Mubarak Ho Beti Hui Hai Shayad Pinjra Woh Mera Dil Tha Aangan Baba Jani Ranjha Ranjha Kardi Bandhay Aik Dor Say Prem Gali Pehli Si Muhabbat Aik Thi Laila Telefilms Sudha Ki Katha Pyar Ki Love Story Rok Sako To Rok Lo Apni Apni Love Story Khana Khud Garam Karo Films Tich Button Accolades Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial for Bilqees Kaur – Nominated Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial for Yahan Pyar Nahin Hai – Nominated PISA Awards of Best TV Writer for Ranjha Ranjha Kardi – Nominated Lux Style Awards References External links Living people Lollywood Mass media in Lahore Pakistani screenwriters Pakistani women writers Punjabi people Urdu-language writers Urdu-language writers from Pakistan Year of birth missing (living people) 21st century in Pakistani television 21st-century Pakistani writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Cheung
Fernando Cheung
Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (; born 23 February 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, and a former member of the Legislative Council. Career Cheung obtained his undergraduate degree in social work from Hong Kong Baptist University. He worked in the United States from 1988, and became a naturalized United States citizen. He obtained a Master's degree in Social Work from California State University, and a Ph.D. degree in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 while serving as the head of the Oakland Chinese Community Council. One of his grandparents was born in Peru. On moving back to Hong Kong in 1996, he became a lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became the vice-convener of Civil Human Rights Front in 2002, where he had developed a close relationship with the pro-democrats. He joined the functional constituency of social welfare of the Legislative Council in 2004. Cheung introduced a motion for the referendum on universal suffrage for the 2007 chief executive elections in Hong Kong. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress had outlawed universal suffrage for 2007 and 2008, and the Hong Kong government under Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said that it had to abide by this decision. After an unsuccessful bid in the New Territories West constituency in 2008, he rejoined the Legislative Council in 2012 as a representative of New Territories East, and was reelected in 2016. During the 2014 Hong Kong protests, Cheung acted as a mediator between the two sides, advocating for the protests to remain peaceful. He appeared together with fellow pro-democratic lawmaker Claudia Mo at the Mong Kok protest site on 19 October, resulting in a widening of the buffer zone; no clashes were reported for the night. On 19 November, Cheung and others tried to stop radical protesters from breaking into the side-entrance to the Legislative Council Complex, but were pushed aside. In July 2018, Cheung declared that he would not stand in the 2020 Legislative Council elections, which were later postponed to 2021. Cheung was inside the LegCo building with protesters after it was stormed on 1 July 2019 during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. He expressed relief that the protesters had safely vacated the building, and had grabbed those refusing to leave. National Security Law and resignation In July 2020, after the introduction of the Hong Kong national security law in the city on 30 June 2020, Cheung said on a programme by public broadcaster RTHK that the law had turned Hong Kong from an international city into an ordinary Chinese city overnight, and that he expected an exodus of professionals and young people. He warned the Chinese Communist Party against trying to impose travel restrictions on the city's residents, saying that this would only increase discontent, and against restricting access to the internet, as this would only destabilize social and economic conditions in the city. On 11 November 2020, 15 democratic lawmakers including Cheung resigned en masse in protest of a decision made by the central government in Beijing the same day, authorizing the Hong Kong government to dismiss politicians who were deemed to be a threat under the national security law. Cheung said that the initial dismissals, which had concerned four democrats, "signifie[d] that the Chinese Communist Party is willing to break laws and rules to eradicate the opposition", and that even if the other democrats had remained in the Legislative Council, the loss of the votes meant that they could have been impeached one by one. Arrest and conviction on LegCo contempt charge Cheung was arrested on 1 November 2020, along with six other democrats, in connection with a melee that had broken out in the LegCo on 8 May 2020 when Starry Lee, chair of the LegCo House Committee, commenced a meeting of the Committee after extended stalling tactics of the pan-democratic camp over the previous months. Cheung had repeatedly chanted "Starry Lee abused her powers" in front of her. He pleaded guilty to a contempt charge but not wrongdoing, saying that his persecution had been politically motivated. He was sentenced to three weeks jail on 4 February 2022, the first such conviction since indirect LegCo elections were introduced in 1985. As of 3 May 2022, Cheung is reported to have arrived in Toronto with his family. References 1957 births Living people Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University Alumni of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong Hong Kong emigrants to the United States Hong Kong educators Hong Kong social workers UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare alumni Civic Party politicians Labour Party (Hong Kong) politicians Hong Kong social democrats Hong Kong people of Peruvian descent Academic staff of Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK LegCo Members 2004–2008 HK LegCo Members 2012–2016 HK LegCo Members 2016–2021 Macau emigrants to Hong Kong People with acquired American citizenship prisoners and detainees of the People's Republic of China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Finswimming%20World%20Championships
2018 Finswimming World Championships
The 20th Finswimming World Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia at the Sports Center Milan Gale Muškatirović and at Ada Ciganlija Lake from 16 to 20 July 2018. Medal overview Men's events Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. Women's events Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. Mixed events Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. Medal table References External links Official website Results CMAS Finswimming World Championships Finswimming World Championships International sports competitions in Belgrade Finswimming World Championships 2010s in Belgrade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho%20Las%20Putas
Rancho Las Putas
Rancho Las Putas was a Mexican land grant in present-day Napa County, California, given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to José de Jesús Berreyesa and Sexto "Sisto" Berreyesa. The name Las Putas came from Putah Creek, which ran through the property. Most of the grant is now covered by Lake Berryessa. History The Berryessa Valley was about long and at its widest, with Putah Creek running through its center. Pomo people lived in relative ease on the rich land, as wildlife and plant foodstuffs were plentiful, but they were forcibly removed from their land by both Spanish and American Settlers. Berreyesa family Nasario Antonio Berreyesa was born into the Berreyesa family at Mission Santa Clara de Asís on July 28, 1787. Nicknamed José, Berreyesa married María de Jesus Antonia Villela (born October 6, 1793) in 1806. The couple had eleven children, including José de Jesus born January 31, 1815, and Sexto "Sisto" Antonio born on March 28, 1818. Both brothers were born in San Francisco and christened at Mission San Francisco de Asís. Nasario Antonio "José" Berreyesa served as a corporal at the San Francisco Presidio during 1819–1824, then moved to become the original settler of the Berryessa Valley in the 1830s. Berreyesa forced 100 natives to help him manage his livestock—a herd which soon grew to 5,000 cattle and 20,000 horses, and extended eastward over Berryessa Peak into Capay Valley. The nearby hills held deer and bear. Established trails made it possible for men, horses and cattle to find their way through the hills into Capay Valley. Sons Sisto Antonio and José de Jesus served in the Mexican army, stationed in San Francisco, from the 1830s to 1842. In 1838, the two men married twin sisters: José de Jesus married María Anastasia Higuera, and Sisto Antonio married María Nicolasa Higuera. In 1842, Nasario Antonio Berreyesa petitioned the Mexican Governor for a grant of eight square leagues in the names of his sons Sisto Antonio and José de Jesus Berreyesa. The Governor ordered that a title issue to the petitioners for "...as much of the land as they could settle." For some unexplained reason, the Berreyesa brothers considered that the grant was for only four square leagues, and on the following day, October 28, 1843, they presented a second petition, in which they stated that their families were very large, and included their parents, children, and brothers, and asked for a grant of eight square leagues. On this second petition, a grant was issued to José de Jesus Berreyesa and Sisto Berreyesa. The brothers built adobe estate houses about a third of the way up the valley, beginning with a hacienda for Sisto, then a one for José de Jesus. They expanded the livestock operation of their father to include a sizable grain harvest, and they enjoyed gambling and racing horses. Millstones for some of the first gristmills in Alta California were quarried from the upper northwest Putah Canyon, near a difficult and tortuous road out of Berryessa Valley into Napa Valley, a two-day trip by mule team. After California was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the Berreyesas filed the claim with the American Public Land Commission in their wives' names in 1852, and the grant was patented to María Anastasia Higuera de Berreyesa and María Nicolasa Higuera de Berreyesa in 1863. The men used their wives' names so that the men could stand witness in front of the Public Land Commission regarding their grant and not have the commission use their interest in the claim against them. By 1853, José de Jesus and Sisto Berreyesa had sold minor parcels of Rancho Las Putas, referred to as Berryessa Ranch by the Anglo settlers, to pay gambling debts. They owed Edward Schultz $1,645 but couldn't pay him in cash; Schultz petitioned the county to auction a major section of the Berreyesa holdings. Schultz paid only $2,000 for the huge parcel, and quickly resold it for $100,000 to a consortium of developers. José de Jesus and Sisto saved four square miles (2560 acres, or 10 km2) for themselves. However, other family members contended that they owned part of the larger Rancho, based on the second grant petition which mentioned extended family. Miguel Santiago Berreyesa (b. 1831) in Berreyesa v Schultz, and Jesse Loyd Beasley (1814–1899), who married Clara Berreyesa (b. 1823) in 1848, in Schultz v Beasley, sued for ownership. Beginning in 1858, a toll road was operated by Adam See and his family, called the Putah Creek Canyon Turnpike. It shuttled people and goods eastward from Berryessa Valley to Winters, California, and back. Sisto Berreyesa and his brother José de Jesús both died in 1874. They were buried in Berryessa Valley. Monticello In 1866, the developer holding the majority of land in the valley divided Rancho Las Putas into smaller parcels to sell to farmers, and platted a town called Monticello. Within a year, the valley was filled with farmers who enjoyed mild winters and bountiful harvests, especially of wheat. By 1870, Monticello contained a cemetery, a general store, blacksmith shops, hotels and various other businesses. In 1875, the toll road was opened to become a public road, maintained by the county. A four- and six-horse stagecoach ran from the 300 men working at the remote quicksilver mining town of Knoxville south through to Monticello, where the horses were changed, then west to Napa. The first adobe belonging to Sisto Berreyesa was left to ruin, but the second was held by a settler named Abraham Clark. In 1900 and 1901, news of a high-quality oil strike in Berryessa Valley brought speculators and experts in drilling. Damming Putah Creek In 1896, a heavy stone bridge with three large arches was built across Putah Ceek about from Monticello, along the road leading to Napa. The bridge cost $19,500 and, at long, was the largest stone bridge west of the Rocky Mountains. The well-engineered bridge survived the swollen flood of Putah Creek every winter thenceforward. As early as 1906, proposals were put forward to dam Putah Creek to form a reservoir. In 1907, the Mulholland-Goethals-Davis plan proposed a dam at Devil's Gate, the southeastern limit of the valley. Other plans were formulated. No proposal was acted upon until 1947 when Solano County and the United States Bureau of Reclamation together formed the Solano Project, a combination of water plans including Monticello Dam, the Putah Diversion Dam, the Putah South Canal, the Terminal Dam and Reservoir, the Green Valley Conduit and various related water distribution systems. Residents of Monticello protested, but California Governor Earl Warren and Solano County promoted the dam. Residents started leaving the valley. Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to shoot a photographic documentary of the death of the town, and of the displacement of its residents, for Life, but the magazine did not run the piece. Lange's Aperture magazine, however, devoted one whole issue to the photojournalists' work. Construction of the dam began in 1953. Vegetation in the valley was chopped down, fences torn down and buildings demolished. The cemetery was moved to Spanish Flat, a bluff overlooking the valley. The Putah Creek Bridge, too well made to easily demolish, was left in place to be covered by the rising waters. Monticello Dam was completed in 1957, and Lake Berryessa was formed. See also Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California References External links Map of Rancho Las Putas Putas, Las Las Putas 1843 establishments in Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatz%20%28disambiguation%29
Spatz (disambiguation)
Spatz was an ITV children's television programme. Spatz may also refer to: Spatz (automobile), a German microcar Mount Spatz, a mountain of Antarctica Scheibe Spatz, a German glider Scheibe SF-30 Club-Spatz, a German sailplane Stadler SPATZ, a multiple unit railcar People with the surname Carl Spaatz (1891–1974), US Air Force general Gary Spatz (born 1951), American acting coach Gregory Spatz (born 1964), American author and musician Hugo Spatz (1888–1969), German neuropathologist See also Spats (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Amador%20Kane
Suzanne Amador Kane
Suzanne Amador Kane is a physicist and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Haverford College. She is well known for her work utilizing video to understand the behavior of various species of birds. Education and early career Kane received her Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1982 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then attended Harvard University for her Master of Science degree and her Phd. There she worked in the laboratory of applied physicist Peter Pershan. Her thesis, entitled Optical and X-Ray Studies of Critical Phenomena in Thin Liquid Crystal Films and published in 1989, focused on utilizing x-ray and light scattering techniques to study biological membranes and low-dimensional soft matter systems. Following her PhD, she became a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the laboratory of J. Kent Blasie between 1988 and 1990. There, she continued her work using scattering techniques to understand the structures of multilayer films and biological membranes. Research In 1991, Kane became an Assistant Professor at Haverford College, where she was eventually promoted to Professor in 2016. Kane's research centers on the intersection between biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, and statistical physics to understand a range of topics, from the behavior of birds to the bacterial diversity of ecosystems, using experimental techniques that include bioacoustics, computer modeling, and 3D video analysis. Kane's group has worked to understand a range of bird behaviors. In 2016, her group published a study on how raptors (like hawks, vultures, and falcons) hunt, turning their heads unpredictably as they visually search for their prey. Raptors hunt by alternating periods of rapid head or eye movement—a movement that is known as saccades—with periods during which their eyes are fixed on a specific point. To determine if there was a discernible pattern to this movement, they fitted a Northern goshawk with a tiny head-mounted camera to track its head movements while hunting. They used the video to determine the mathematical distribution of time spent during each saccade and time spent with their heads still and found that the time between each saccade varied depending on external environmental cues, which changed as the hawks honed in on their target. Notably, this behavior is similar to that of primates while they hunt, suggesting that the basic neural processes underlying hunting are the same between primate and raptor hunters. Kane and her team have also studied the predator-prey interactions as Goshawks hunt and their prey evade. Once again, by mounting a camera on a goshawk's head, she observed the different pursuit strategies employed by a hawk as it pursues its prey. Goshawks employ one of two strategies when pursuing their prey, either intercepting the path of their prey at an oblique angle, or chasing their prey by flying directly after it. They also discovered a third pursuit strategy that they are working to classify. When hunting, a goshawk will use a combination of these flight trajectories. In an earlier study, analyzing video of falcons hunting, Kane observed a similar combination flight pattern, with falcons switching between the intercept and chase strategy. Her team also observed that falcons kept their prey at a fixed position to one side, rather than attacking them straight on, exploiting an effect known as motion camouflage to minimize the chance that their prey will detect them. In this particular study, Kane and her group attached cameras to backpacks strapped to the birds or on helmets strapped to their heads to record their movement. Kane has also studied the biomechanics of peacock courtship rituals. Specifically, her group focused on how feather biomechanics influence the performance of male peacocks as they court females by fanning out and vibrating their tail feathers, a display behavior known as "train-rattling." Kane initially discovered high-speed recordings of the behavior, captured by her collaborator Roslyn Dakin, who was studying the color of peacock feathers. The two began working together to capture more videos of peacock courtship rituals to understand how the tail feathers vibrate, and how those vibrations are received by the females. They found that the train-rattling behavior only occurs when females are present and that, as the tail shakes, the eyespots on the tail appear not to move, leading them to conclude that the shaking behavior enhances the appearance of the eyespots of the tail. In previous work, Dakin found that the hue and iridescence of the tail's eyespots contribute to the mating success of the male. They also found that the tail feathers vibrate at their natural resonance frequency, producing sound waves that are within the audible range that females are able to hear. Finally, they counterintuitively found that the longer and heavier the male's tail feathers were, the faster they were able to shake their feathers. In a follow-up study published in 2018, Kane and Dakin found that the vibrations sent out by males rattling their trains are actually felt by females on the crest of their head, which vibrates in turn. They found that at the base of the a female's crest feathers lies a tiny feather known as a filoplume, which acts as a mechanical sensor. When the crest feathers begin vibrating, the filoplume triggers a nerve cell, translating the physical vibrations of the plume into neuronal signal. To understand whether female plume vibrations were specifically in response to the mechanical signals sent out by male train rattling, Kane and Dakin used speakers to play a number of different sounds for female peacocks. The crests only vibrated in response to the train rattling sounds, with no response recorded when the researchers played white noise. Awards & honors New Directions Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2004 Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2020 References American women physicists American physicists Harvard University alumni Haverford College faculty MIT Department of Physics alumni Biophysicists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Physical Society American women academics 21st-century American women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzyn%20%28air%20base%29
Uzyn (air base)
Uzyn (Chepelevka) is an inactive military airfield of the USSR and Ukrainian Long Range Aviation located on the south-eastern outskirts of Uzyn, Belotserkovsky district, Kyiv Oblast. It is one of the largest airfields in the territory of the former Soviet Union and Ukraine. Aerodrome data Name - Uzin (Chepelevka) Call sign - "Stolyarny" (start) Runway 02/20 3500 x 80 Magnetic course: 016/196 True course: 023/203 CTA - N49.79032 ° E030.44085 ° Excess of 178 m (21 hPa) Coating - hard (concrete) Lighting: none Regulations work - abandoned. History A field airfield on the outskirts of Uzyn, Ukraine, the airbase was built before World War II. The general in charge of the airfield wrote: By the summer I returned to my regiment (after the courses of the academy). He stood 70 kilometers from Kiev, in Uzin. Ground airfield. Three hangars. The barracks. A small officer town with half a dozen surviving (after the war) two-story houses. Big village. Terrible off-road. No light, no sewage. Native penates ... My regiment was strong, flew confidently, well bombed and aptly hit air targets ... But God, how poor and hard we lived! In periods of mudslides, of which there was enough beyond measure, the airfield froze. Our chernozem limp, the roads crawled, the town tightly isolated from the outside world. Alive was only eight kilometers, for the needs of the sugar factory, a railway line, through which, if you walk on the tracks, you can get to the nearest railway station. In bad weather ... I repeatedly counted those sleepers back and forth, then hurrying to the division headquarters for the next meeting ... then returning to the regiment. Our houses and barracks were lit with candles and kerosene lamps. Unhappy dizelek only occasionally in the evenings gave light to the office space. I still couldn’t find a decent generator, get plenty of fuel, nor get building materials to somehow improve the life of the garrison ... Ordinary appendix inflammation was enough to give God the soul ... All kinds of my requests and reports are unknown drowned in senior headquarters. (Colonel General Aviation Reshetnikov Vasily Vasilyevich, at that time (1946) the commander of the aviation regiment). In March 1955, the management of the 106th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of the 43rd Air Army DA was formed at the Uzin airfield, and by the end of 1955 the first regiment of the division was formed - the 409th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment on Tu-95 aircraft. The first commander of the division was the twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Molodchy Alexander Ignatievich, the commander of the regiment was appointed Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Kharitonov N. N. A year later the second regiment of the division was formed - the 1006th heavy bomber aviation regiment, under the command of Yu. P. Pavlov. By this time, the airfield and airfield infrastructure was built, and at the end of May 1956, the first Tu-95 aircraft landed at the airfield. The development of the aircraft went at an accelerated pace, and in August 1956, the crews of the 1006th air regiment participated in the traditional air festival in Tushino. At the end of this year, a group of ten Tu-95s, under the command of the division commander, Major-General Molodchiy, made a flight along the route Engels - North Pole - Uzin. In 1956, the 1023rd TBAP and the newly formed 79th TBAP were formed at the Uzin airfield. Airplanes from the 1006th regiment were transferred to this regiment. In 1957, the new regiment, together with the management of AD, departed to Semipalatinsk, and the 1006th TBAD remained "horseless" until 1959, then Tu-95K missile carriers began to enter it. In the spring of 1959, the division commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant-General Aviation Reshetnikov with Chief Navigator YA Taranov, and Commander of the 1006th TBAP Murnin with Senior Navigator-Inspector YES Hero of the Soviet Union Ageyev, a pair of Tu-95 aircraft surpassed the official flight range record, flying 17150 and 16950 km respectively. In the period until the end of the 1950s, service and residential premises were put into operation in the garrison. Also, with the filing of the first secretary of the Kyiv regional party committee, Petr Yefimovich Shelest, to Uzin, an overhead transmission line from the trunk network was finally stretched. All transmission towers were installed by the garrison personnel. The crews of the division in 1961-1962 took an active part in the testing of nuclear weapons. On October 30, 1961, the crew of Major A.E. Durnovtsev (navigator-major Tick I.N.) dropped the most powerful thermonuclear bomb at the Novaya Zemlya test site. In 1962, the Guards Red Banner Sevastopol-Berlin 182nd Guards TBAP, with basing at the Mozdok airfield, joined the division. All the regiments of the division mastered flights from unpaved, ice and tundra airfields, which were considered as distribution points and forward bases. In the future, all the regiments of the division were regularly deployed both at field airfields and at the bases of the Arctic Command of the USSR Air Force. 1006th TBAP reequipped with Tu-95MS in 1985. From 1991 to 1992 the Soviet Air Force was superseded in Ukraine by the Ukrainian Air Force, which eventually deployed the Tu-95MS with the 1006th TBAP and Il-78 with the 409th Aviation Regiment of tanker aircraft, before this unit was finally disbanded in 2001. Since 1993, some of the Il-78 were disposed of their refueling equipment and used as cargo aircraft, the other ones were sold to Algeria, India, Pakistan and China, where they are used for air refueling operations. Uzin Air Base ceased to exist in 1998 after the US government was forced to destroy the Tu-95. By the end of 2001, 22 Ukrainian Tu-95MS were destroyed or transferred to Russia in exchange for debt for natural gas. Gallery Aircraft operated Tu-95 Il-78 See also Ukrainian Long Range Aviation Pryluky Air Base References Literature The 106th Heavy Bomb on the cutting edge of the Cold War. Science and technology We are the "rangers"! On a bomber through anti-aircraft fire. Vasily Reshetnikov. Yauza, Eksmo. (Moscow 2013). Former Soviet military air bases in Ukraine Ukrainian Long Range Aviation Airports in Ukraine Buildings and structures in Kyiv Oblast Ukrainian airbases Soviet Long Range Aviation bases
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Oleksandr Vasiuk
Oleksandr Vasiuk (; born 28 December 1994) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. He is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament. and belongs the presidential faction named “Sluha Narodu” (Servant of the People), member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Legal Policy, head of the inter-factional parliamentary association "Ukraine-US Strategic Partnership". Early life and education Oleksandr Vasiuk was born on December 28, 1994, in the city of Zaporizhzhia. Graduated from the Law Faculty of Yaroslav Mudryi Kharkiv Law University. During the presidential campaign in 2019, he coordinated the team of lawyers of the current President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Political career On August 2, 2022, Oleksandr Vasiuk was elected as a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament from party “Sluga Narodu”. On August 30, 2022, he took the oath of office of the People's Deputy of Ukraine. Oleksandr Vasiuk leads the Strategic Partnership Ukraine-USA coalition. He is a top Ukrainian official responsible for overseeing dialogue with the US. Oleksandr Vasiuk is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy. He was elected head of the inter-factional deputy association "Ukraine-US Strategic Partnership".In recent years, the main goal is to expand the Ukrainian-American partnership based on a common vision of democracy, economic and social prosperity of both countries See also List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24 References Living people 1994 births 21st-century Ukrainian politicians Servant of the People (political party) politicians Politicians from Zaporizhzhia Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University alumni Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
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Al-Uwaysiyat Mosque
The Al-Uwaysiyat () is a mosque in Tripoli, Lebanon. It was built in 1461 during the Mamluks period. History The mosque was built in 1461. It was renovated in 1534 during the Ottoman period. Architecture This mosque is known for its large mid-dome and for its cylindrical Ottoman minaret. From the balcony of its minaret, a smaller cylindrical shape starts than ends with a conical head. Sources References Mamluk architecture in Lebanon Mosques in Tripoli, Lebanon Religious buildings and structures completed in 1461
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Sid Avery
Sid Avery (October 12, 1918 – July 1, 2002) was an American photographer and director who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn as showcased in his book, "Hollywood at Home." Birth Sid Avery was born in Akron, Ohio in the year of 1918. Avery was only nine months old when they decided to move out to Los Angeles, California, which is where he grew up. Biography Sid Avery discovered his love and talent of photography when he was young due to the fact that he was able to work with his uncle, Max Tatch, who was a landscape and architectural photographer. His uncle was able to teach him the skills required to use cameras, film, and darkrooms. After he graduated from high school, Avery worked in a camera store on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood where he further gained love and inspiration for photography. While working in the shop, he had opportunities to meet many famous photographers. This also encouraged him to take more photography classes. He also gained the experience of being a darkroom assistant. He served in the Army in World War II. When he returned from the war, he began his work of photographing celebrities. Sid Avery eventually became one of the top advertising photographers in Los Angeles. He was also a director of television commercials. Education Sid Avery received his high school education at the institution of Roosevelt High School. Death Sid Avery died at the age of 83 on July 1, 2002, in Los Angeles, California. Family Sid Avery was married to Diana Avery. Together they had three children named Sandra Guttman, Marc Avery, and Ron Avery. Sid Avery also had three grandchildren. Successes He founded the Hollywood Photographer's Archive (HPA) and which is known today as mptvimages.com in an effort to preserve the work of the early Hollywood photographers. Sid Avery's work was commonly featured in publications such as Life, Look, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. There is a collection of his work, Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965, that was published by Crown in the year of 1990. He is most famous for his work of photography that captured the home life of famous celebrities at the time. He captured the celebrities in their own element aside from the glamour of fame. References External links mptv 1918 births 2002 deaths 20th-century American photographers
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Theogene Rudasingwa
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa (born 1960) is a leading figure in the Rwanda National Congress and a former Chief of Staff to Rwandan President Paul Kagame (2000-2004), former General Secretary of the Rwandan ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and former ambassador to the United States from 1996 to 1999. Rudasingwa has been in exile in the U.S. since 2004 after falling out with President Kagame, and was recently sentenced to 24 years in jail by a Rwandan court on charges that may have been politically motivated. Rudasingwa was born outside Rwanda and has lived most of his life outside the country. Rudasingwa was one of those who gave evidence in 2013 in Spain relating to charges of genocide and war crimes by Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and RPF figures in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1994 and 2000. Rudasingwa was himself a Major at the time. References External links Theogene Rudasingwa statement on the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda. Living people 1960 births Rwanda National Congress politicians Rwandan exiles Ambassadors of Rwanda to the United States
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Etal
Etal ( ) is a small village in the far north of the county of Northumberland, England, in the civil parish of Ford. It lies on a bridging point of the River Till ten miles south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and includes the substantial ruins of the medieval Etal Castle, now owned by English Heritage. It has just one residential street, and has a population of less than fifty. Buildings The village is centred on a now ruined castle, which over the years has seen much conflict between England and Scotland. The large majority of the buildings in the village are traditional and are owned by Ford & Etal Estates. Also there is Northumberland's only thatched pub (The Black Bull) and next door is the village hall. Hiding discreetly behind the magnificent Lavender Tearooms and a few more 'picture postcard' houses is an expansive walled garden. Used extensively by the late Lady Joicey for the training of dressage horses, it is now used intermittently for Icelandic Horse events and features a grass oval track. References External links The Ford and Etal Estate website Northumberland Communities (Accessed: 19 November 2008) Villages in Northumberland Ford, Northumberland
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Police Battalion 45
The Police Battalion 45 (Polizeibattalion 45) was a formation of the German Order Police (uniformed police) during the Nazi era. During Operation Barbarossa, it was subordinated to the SS and deployed in German-occupied areas, specifically the Army Group Centre Rear Area, of the Soviet Union, as part of Police Regiment South. Alongside detachments from the Einsatzgruppen of the SD and the 1st SS Infantry Brigade of the Waffen-SS, it perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust and was responsible for large-scale crimes against humanity targeting civilian populations. Background and formation The German Order Police (uniformed police) was a key instrument of the security apparatus of Nazi Germany. During the prewar period, SS chief Heinrich Himmler and Kurt Daluege, chief of the Order Police, cooperated in transforming the police force of the Weimar Republic into militarised formations ready to serve the regime's aims of conquest and racial annihilation. Police troops were first formed into Order Police battalions for the 1939 invasion of Poland, where they were deployed for security and policing purposes, also taking part in executions and mass deportations. Twenty-three Order Police battalions were slated to take part in the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. Nine were attached to security divisions of the Wehrmacht. Two battalions were assigned to support the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile death squads of the SD, and Organisation Todt, the military construction group. Twelve were formed into regiments, three battalions each, and designated as Police Regiments Centre, North, South, and Special Purpose. The goals of the police battalions were to secure the rear by eliminating the remnants of the enemy forces, guarding the prisoners of war, and protecting the lines of communications and captured industrial facilities. Their instructions also included, as Daluege stated, the "combat of criminal elements, above all political elements". Along with Police Battalions 303 and 314, Police Battalion 45 was assigned to Police Regiment South. The regiment was placed under the command of Hermann Franz, a career policeman who had previously served in the Order Police in the occupied Poland. When the regiment crossed the German-Soviet border, it came under the control of Friedrich Jeckeln, the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSS-PF) for Army Group South in Ukraine. Operational history The actions of Police Battalion 45 quickly escalated to genocide while in the occupied Soviet Union. The regiment began executing Jewish women and children in July 1941. Police Battalion 45 murdered the entire Jewish population of Shepetovka while stationed there between 26 July and 1 August. The orders came down from the regimental commander, who had referred to an order from Heinrich Himmler. During the summer months, the battalion took part in joint actions with the 1st SS Infantry Brigade of the Waffen-SS, both providing support and undertaking independent killings. The brigade's report of 19 August to the Command Staff Reichsführer-SS (SS operational staff set up for the invasion) noted that Police Battalions 45 and 303 and the brigade jointly participated in "combat of gangs". The 22 August report noted that the battalion shot three "partisan women", 19 "bandits", and 537 Jews. In September, Police Battalion 45 participated in the murder of Jews in Berdichev, cordoning off the execution site and leading the victims to the pits where they were shot by Jeckeln's staff company. About 16,000 Jews were killed. During the massacre at Babi Yar, the battalion cordoned off the area, while Sondercommando 4a and a platoon of Waffen-SS troops did the shooting. Police Battalions 303 and 314 participated in the massacre, as well. The killing activities of both the Einsatzgruppen detachments and the Police Regiment South slowed down the farther the Wehrmacht advanced, as more Jews were able to escape east and the density of the pre-war Jewish population was lower in Eastern Ukraine. Nonetheless, the murder operations continued, targeting Jews, communists, and "suspicious elements". In July 1942, the regiment was redesignated as the 10th Police Regiment. Aftermath The Order Police as a whole had not been declared a criminal organisation by the Allies, unlike the SS. Its members were able to reintegrate into society largely unmolested, with many returning to police careers. References Bibliography Further reading 1941 establishments in Germany 1942 disestablishments in Germany The Holocaust in Ukraine The Holocaust in Russia SS and Police units
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Itilleq
Itilleq (old spelling: Itivdleq) is a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. It is located on a small island around 1 km from the mainland, 45 km south of Sisimiut and 2 km north of the Arctic Circle on the shores of Davis Strait. It had 89 inhabitants in 2020. History Itilleq was founded in 1847 on another island, but was later moved 1 kilometer east to its present location. Economy The main trade in the settlement is fishing and hunting, with a fish factory being the principal employer in the settlement. The island has no freshwater, and for this reason Itilleq makes use of a facility for forming freshwater from seawater. The village is served by the communal all-purpose Pilersuisoq store. Transport There is no road connection to any other settlement, but that is so for most other settlements in Greenland. Air The closest aerodrome is Sisimiut Airport in Sisimiut, with connections to Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Maniitsoq, and Nuuk operated by Air Greenland. There are no regular helicopter services to coastal settlements of Davis Strait in the Qeqqata and Sermersooq municipalities. But Itilleq has a helipad (20m, gravel) referenced also in the AIP (BGIQ), so there is on-demand air service possible. Sea Royal Arctic Line provides weekly ferry services to Sarfannguit and Sisimiut, a port of call for the Arctic Umiaq Line, with connections to Ilulissat and Aasiaat in the Disko Bay region, and to coastal towns in southwestern and southern Greenland. Population The population of Itilleq has been stable in the last two decades. Notable residents Hans Enoksen − the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland (2002-2009) References Davis Strait Populated places in Greenland Populated places of Arctic Greenland Populated places established in 1847 Qeqqata 1847 establishments in Greenland
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Doddiana tonkinalis
Doddiana tonkinalis is a species of snout moth. It was described by Pierre Viette in 1960 and is found in Vietnam. References Epipaschiinae Moths described in 1960
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Jackson Junction, Iowa
Jackson Junction is a city in Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 37 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography Jackson Junction is located at (43.106913, -92.046724). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 58 people, 21 households, and 18 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 23 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.3% White and 1.7% Asian. There were 21 households, of which 38.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.7% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 14.3% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.00. The median age in the city was 37.5 years. 25.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.6% were from 25 to 44; 27.5% were from 45 to 64; and 13.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 56.9% male and 43.1% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 60 people, 24 households, and 15 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 24 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.33% White and 1.67% Asian. There were 24 households, out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.3% were married couples living together, 4.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families. 37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.40. In the city, the population was spread out, with 30.0% under the age of 18, 3.3% from 18 to 24, 33.3% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 122.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 133.3 males. The median income for a household in the city was $31,875, and the median income for a family was $41,563. Males had a median income of $31,042 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,825. There were no families and 4.4% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64. Education The municipality is within the Turkey Valley Community School District. The district, which also serves the nearby communities of Waucoma; Lawler; Fort Atkinson; St. Lucas and Protivin as well as its rural areas, maintains its school in Jackson Junction. References External links Photos of Jackson Junction Cities in Iowa Cities in Winneshiek County, Iowa
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Muladí
Muladí (, , pl. ; , , pl. ; , or , , pl. or ; , trans. , pl. , or , ) were the native population of the Iberian Peninsula who adopted Islam after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. The demarcation of muladíes from the population of Arab and Berber extraction was relevant in the first centuries of Islamic rule, however, by the 10th century, they diluted into the bulk of the society of al-Andalus. In Sicily, Muslims of local descent or of mixed Arab, and Sicilian origin were also sometimes referred to as . They were also called ('Islamized'). In broader usage, the word is used to describe Arabs of mixed parentage, especially those not living in their ancestral homelands. Etymology The Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan words , or are derived from the Arabic . The basic meaning of is 'a person of mixed ancestry', especially a descendant of one Arab and one non-Arab parent, who grew up under the influence of an Arabic society and were educated within the Islamic culture. is the Spanish form of the term , referring to Arabic-speaking Muslims of Hispanic origin who showed the same behaviour patterns as rebels of Arab and Berber origin who had rebelled against Arab rule, such as during the Great Berber Revolt of 739/740–743 AD. is derived from (), which means 'descendant, offspring, scion, son'. referred to the offspring of Muslim men and foreign, non-Muslim women. The term is sometimes used in Arabic to this day to describe the children of Muslim fathers and foreign mothers. According to Dozy, means "anyone who, without being of Muslim origin, is born among the Muslims and has been raised as an Arab". The word, according to him, does not necessarily imply Arab ancestry, either paternal or maternal. According to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, means "Christian who, during the domination of the Arabs in Spain, converted to Islam and lived among the Muslims", while Bernards and Nawas say the plural form of the word seems to be restricted to al-Andalus, almost exclusively to the areas of Mérida, Granada, Seville and Jaén. has been offered as one of the possible etymological origins of the still-current Spanish and Portuguese term mulato, denoting a person of African (black) and European (white) ancestry; however, the dictionary of the Real Academia Española and several authorities trace (and from it, English mulatto) to Spanish 'mule', from Latin . History In Islamic history designates in a broader sense non-Arab Muslims or the descendants of converts. In the Muslim-ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula, parts of the indigenous until-then Christian population (basically a mixture of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, ancient Romans, Visigoths and Suebi) converted to Islam in the 8th and 9th centuries. In the 10th century a massive conversion of Christians took place, so that muladies comprised the majority of the population of Al-Andalus by the century's end. However, the majority of Muwallads had converted to Islam early, but retained many pre-Islamic customs and characteristics. Conversion to Islam was encouraged by the Umayyad caliphs and Emirs of Córdoba but it was not directly forced. Many Christians converted to Islam to avoid the jizya tax which they were subjected to as dhimmis. Conversion to Islam also opened up new horizons to the native Christians, alleviated their social position, ensured better living conditions, and broadened their scope for more technically skilled and advanced work. Some christians who converted to Islam became Mawali, or clients attached to an Arab tribe, and as such, were thoroughly Islamized, adopting the Arabic dress code, customs, and language. The Muwallads were also called ('Islamized'), and (, plural: ), in reference to the society from which they sprang. They later were denominated Aljamiados because of their non Arabic-tongue, that is, the Mozarabic languages. Through the cultural Arabization of muladies and their increasing inter-marriage with some Berbers and Arabs present in Iberia, the distinctions between the different Muslim groups became increasingly blurred in the 11th and 12th centuries. The populations mixed with such rapidity that it was soon impossible to distinguish ethnically the elements of foreign origin from the natives. Thus they merged into a more homogeneous group of Andalusi Arabs, generally also called Moors. The Muwallads primarily spoke Andalusian Arabic, along with a wide variety of Iberian Romance languages. Andalusian Arabic was a mixture of Iberian languages and Classical Arabic, though derived especially from Latin. This local dialect of Arabic was also spoken by the Berbers and Arabs from the 9th century onwards. In the process of acculturation, Muwallads may well have adopted an agnatic model of descent, but without abandoning the bilaterality of late Roman kinship. According to Abu Jafar ibn Harun of Trujillo a vast but silent majority of Muladi Muslims thrived, especially in the Extremadura region of Spain. Among the Muwalladun were the free-born, the enfranchised, and the enslaved. A significant part of the Muwalladun was formed by freed slaves. These were the Saqaliba, or Slavs who became an important social group in Al-Andalus during the 10th and 11th centuries. Upon adopting the ethnic name of their patrons, the emancipated slaves gradually forgot their own ethnic origin. The Muslim slaves were the Saqaliba, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, who profited from the progressive crumbling of the Umayyad Caliphate's superstructure to gain control over the province of Denia. The Saqaliba managed to free themselves and gain dominion over the taifa, which extended its reach as far as the Balearic Islands, and their capital, Madina Mayurqa (now Palma de Majorca). The intermarriage of foreign Muslims with native Christians made many Muwallads heedless of their Iberian origin. As a result, their descendants and many descendants of Christian converts forgot the descent of their ancestors and assumed forged Arab genealogies. However, there were a few who were proud of their Roman and Visigothic origins. These included the Banu Angelino and Banu Sabarico of Seville, Banu Qasi of Aragon, Banu l' Longo and Banu Qabturno. Several Muwallad nobles also used the name , ('the Goth'), and some may have been actual descendants from the family of the Visigothic King of Hispania, Wittiza. The conversion of the native Christians to Islam did not mean the total erasure of previous beliefs and social practises. There is some evidence of a limited cultural borrowing from the Christians by the Muwalladun and other Muslims in Al-Andalus. For instance, the Muslims' adoption of the Christian solar calendar and holidays was an exclusively Andalusí phenomenon. In Al-Andalus, the Islamic lunar calendar was supplemented by the local solar calendar, which was more useful for agricultural and navigational purposes. Like the local Mozarabs (Iberian Christians under Muslim rule in the Al-Andalus who remained unconverted to Islam), the Muslims of Al-Andalus were notoriously heavy drinkers. The Muslims also celebrated traditional Christian holidays, sometimes with the sponsorship of their leaders, despite the fact that such fraternisation was generally opposed by the Ulema. The Muslims also hedged their religious devotions through the use of Roman Catholic sacraments. Many Muwallads held key posts in the departments of civil administration, justice, and the armed forces. Amrus ibn Yusuf, a Muwallad who was originally from Huesca, was appointed governor of Toledo by Hakam I in 797. Towards the end of the 11th century, the Muwalladun held distinctive posts in the judicial departments. The Caliph of Córdoba, Abd ar-Rahman III, once bestowed the post of chief qadi of Córdoba on a Christian convert, whose parents were still Christian, and the Fuqaha found much difficulty in dissuading him. The secretary of the Córdoban emir, Abd Allah, was a Muwallad. The commander of the Córdoban force in the battle of Alhandega against the Zamorans in 938 was a neo-Muslim Slavic general named Najdah. The 10th century Muwallad historian Ibn al-Qūṭiyya was descended directly on the maternal side from the Visigothic King Wittiza. In about 889 a ship carrying twenty Berber Muwallad adventurers from Pechina near Almería established a fortress in Fraxinet, on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez in Provence. They spoke both Latin (Mozarabic?) and Arabic. Several Muwalladun became rich and powerful magnates by means of trade, agriculture, and political activity. The Muwallads of the town the Christians called Elvira (nowadays Granada), after the former Iberian name Ilbira, had become so powerful during the reign of Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi that they rose under a chieftain called Nabil and successfully drove the Moors out of the city. The Banu Qasi dynasty which ruled the upper Ebro valley in the 9th and 10th centuries, became strong enough to break free from the control of the Umayyad dynasty of Córdoba and turn from a semi-autonomous governorship to an independent taifa. The Muwalladun were the mainstay of the economic framework of the country. Together with the Mozarabs they constituted the productive classes which were craftsmen and small tradesmen in the towns, and farmers and labourers in the rural countryside. However, they were inferior to the Arabs and Berbers in social status. Prominent positions in government and society were usually not available to individuals of Muladi descent. In spite of the Islamic doctrine of equality and brotherhood of Muslims, the Muwalladun were often looked down upon with the utmost contempt by the Arab and Berber aristocrats and were usually pejoratively referred to as "the sons of slaves". The Muwallads, in turn, in spite of their profession of faith, despised the Arabs whom they viewed as colonialists and foreign intruders. This mutual feeling of hatred and suspicion provoked frequent revolts and led the Muwallads to support the Abbasid political agents, the preachers of Shu'ubiyya (a non-Arab movement), and subversive activities against the Umayyad rule in Iberia. The Shu'ubiyyah of Al-Andalus were active like the Arabs in promoting Arab-Islamic culture and language and claimed their integration with the Arab ethnic groups. The Shu'ubiyyah movement demanded equality of power, wealth and status for non-Arab Berbers and the Muwalladun from the Arabs. Some judges of Huesca upheld the cause of the Muwalladun in the beginning of the 10th century, and a literary epistle of the middle of the 11th century repeated arguments of Eastern Shu'ubite writers. In Al-Andalus, the large numbers of Christians adopting Islam prompted concern among the authorities about the weakening of the tax base and further inflamed resentment towards the Muwallads. The Muwallads were in almost constant revolt against the Arab and Berber immigrants who had carved out large estates for themselves, farmed by Christian serfs or slaves. The most famous of these revolts were led by a Muwallad rebel named Umar ibn Hafsun in the region of Málaga and Ronda. Ibn Hafsun ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the castle Bobastro as his residence. He rallied disaffected muwallads and mozárabs to his cause. Ibn Hafsun eventually renounced Islam with his sons and became a Christian, taking the name Samuel and proclaimed himself not only the leader of the Christian nationalist movement, but also the champion at the same time of a regular crusade against Islam. However, his conversion soon cost him the support of most of his Muwallad supporters who had no intention of ever becoming Christians, and led to the gradual erosion of his power. There were also other Muwallad revolts throughout Al-Andalus. In the Elvira region, for instance, discord sprang up between the Muwallads and Moors, the latter being led by Sawar ibn Hamdub, and the poet, Sa'ad ibn Judi, both of whom fluctuated between insurrection against Abd'Allah and submission to him. In Seville, the second largest city after Córdoba, there was a vicious feud between the two Arab aristocratic families, Banu Hajjaj and Banu Khaldun, and two Muwallad noble families, Banu Angelino and Banu Sabarico, which finally left Ibrahim ibn Hajjaj as the ruler of an independent city-state. In 805, the Muwallads of Córdoba, incited by certain theologians, revolted against the Umayyads under Hakim I, but the uprising was suppressed. In 814, there was a second revolt of Muwallads in Corboba, and this time the revolt was put down with the utmost severity, and resulted in the expulsion of 9,500 Muwallads from Córdoba, with over 1,500 going to Alexandria and 8,000 to Fez. In 858, there was a Muwallad revolt in Mérida, led by Ibn Marwan. The Muwallads complained of the taxation of their lands as if they were still Christian. The revolt's outcome was the defeat of Ibn Marwan. Mérida was subdued, but the centre of revolt soon moved to Badajoz. The Muwallads were sometimes assisted by the local Mozarab population, and occasionally by the Christian powers in their revolts. For instance, when the Muwalladun of Toledo revolted, aided by the large Mozarabic population of the city, Ordoño I of Asturias, promptly responded to their appeal for help, but the Emir's forces were routed by the Toledans and Asturians on the Guadacelete in 854. Many minor rebels from among the Muladi leadership took possession of various sites, their descendants eventually becoming semi-independent Emirs. These included: Ubayd Allah ibn Umayya ibn Shaliya in Shumantan (present-day Somontin in the region of Jaén), Saʿid ibn Mastanna in Baghu (Priego), Khayr ibn Shakir in Shudhar (Jodar), Saʿid ibn Hudhayl in al-Muntliyun (Monleon near Jaén), Daysam ibn Ishaq in Murcia and Lurqa (Lorca), ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd-al Jamal in Beja and Mirtula (Mértola) in Portugal, Bakr ibn Yahya in Shantamariyyat al-Gharb (the present-day city of Faro in Algarve, Southern Portugal). Muhammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Khattab ibn Angelino, of Seville rebelled against Abd ar-Rahman III On the western frontier of Al-Andalus, the Muwalladun and Berber families divided control of the region containing Mérida, Badajoz, and their environs. Notable Muladi Abu Hafs Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali Abu Taur of Huesca Al-Tutili Al-Udri Ibn-Rushd (Averroes) Al-Qurtubi Amrus ibn Yusuf Ibn al-Qūṭiyya Ibn al-Yayyab Ibn ar-Tafiz Ibn Ammar Ibn Faradi Ibn Gharsiya Ibn Hazm Ibn Marwan Ibn Quzman Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi See also Moors Umar ibn Hafsun Mozarabs, local population who remained Christians as dhimmis. Banu Qasi, a Muladi family descending from a Visigothic lord Cassius who became the independent rulers of their own taifa. Mudéjars, Muslims living under Christian rulers. Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Wulayti Footnotes References Thomas F. Glick: Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages S. M. Imamuddin, Muslim Spain 711–1492 A.D.: A Sociological Study, BRILL (1981), . Harvey, L. P. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614: 1500 to 1614 . University of Chicago Press, 2005. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Manuela Marín. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. BRILL, 1992. Muwallads Medieval ethnic groups of Europe People from al-Andalus by ethnicity
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Enviomycin
Enviomycin (INN, also called tuberactinomycin N) is an antibiotic drug, isolated from Streptomyces griseoverticillatus var. tuberacticus. It is used in the treatment of tuberculosis. References Polypeptide antibiotics
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Robert C. Murphy (colonel)
Robert Creighton Murphy was an American colonel that served the Union during the American Civil War that primarily operated during the Vicksburg campaign and commanded the 8th Wisconsin. Biography Early years Murphy was born on Chillicothe, Ohio in 1827. He was the first government-salaried U.S. Consul at Shanghai, China from 1853 until June 1857. In 1859, Murphy moved to Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin. American Civil War Murphy entered military service around 1861 as the 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was created around September 13 but wouldn't see any major operations until an entire year later at the Battle of Iuka. During the battle, Murphy was stationed to guard a small supply depot but on September 14th, applied a scorched earth policy at the depot but the pursuing Confederates doused the fire in time to capture a large amount of supplies as Murphy was captured himself in his pajamas. Afterwards, William Rosecrans relieved Murphy but then ordered him to be court-martialed for his failure to effectively being able to destroy the supplies but Murphy was acquitted of all charges. Later in the same year, Murphy was put in charge of another supply depot stationed at Holly Springs, Mississippi when Confederate general Earl Van Dorn, lead a raid on the Union forces stationed there and defeated them at the raid which had a heavy toll on Grant's Vicksburg campaign as Murphy was dismissed from the army without a court-martial. Murphy wrote to Abraham Lincoln to ask for a court-martial or hearing but Adjudant-General Joseph Holt concluded that his dismissal was reasonable as Murphy attempted for the next fifteen years to get a hearing but failed by the end. Murphy died in 1888 in Washington D.C. and was buried at the Congressional Cemetery. References 1827 births 1888 deaths Union Army colonels People from Chillicothe, Ohio People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War
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Fausto Cannone
Fausto Cannone (1 March 1938 – 9 January 2017) was an Italian singer-songwriter, teacher and poet. Biography Fausto Cannone was born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani on March 1, 1938; he was the son of Gaspare Cannone (a literary reviewer and an anarchist who emigrated to the U.S.A.); his mother died when he was just a child, so he had an unhappy adolescence. He began his artistic career in the '60s by playing as a guitarist and lead singer in some bands in Genoa, where he met Fabrizio De André, Luigi Tenco and other singers. After returning to Sicily, he got a degree in canto at the Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti in Palermo, then he studied with maestro Eliodoro Sollima (harmony and composition). He also taught musical education in grammar schools for several years. In the late '70s Cannone started to dedicate on popular music and created about 700 works which included ballads, songs and poems inspired by the traditions and people of his homeland. As he did not like the music business, he published a few albums only in the last years of his life. With Ignazio Buttitta and Rosa Balistreri Thanks to the collaboration with the Sicilian poet Ignazio Buttitta and Rosa Balistreri, Fausto Cannone has discovered his love for his land and for the people who have fought for Sicily. He set to music 16 poems and a comedy for Buttitta who wrote about Cannone: Faustu Cannuni sona la chitarra cu li irita e la libertà cu lu cori (translation: Fausto Cannone plays the guitar with fingers and freedom with the heart. He travelled with Rosa Balistreri all over Europe; Cannone was her guitar-man for 5 years. He participated, with her and Peppino Gagliardi, in the television program entitled Un'ora per voi introduced by Corrado. In 2008 he published the album Diario d'amore musiche per sognare and received, together with Massimo Ranieri, the prize Pigna d'argento at Teatro Politeama in Palermo. Civil commitment in his works The fight against violence, in favour of peace and freedom are the values which Cannone transmits through his songs; in 2017 he published the second album called In nome della legalità: a collection of the stories and heritages of men like Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Rocco Chinnici, Dalla Chiesa, Rosario Livatino, Ludovico Corrao, Peppino Impastato, Mauro Rostagno. The songs in this cd – said Fausto Cannone – are dedicated to all the victims of mafia who devoted their own lives to the values of legality and justice, who will continue to live in the memory of all those peole believing and fighting for a just cause. A cd which is also a teaching for young people and that wants to send a message of legality, respect for rules and to fight against mafia at all levels. His songs reveal his pessimism, due to an unhappy childhood, the courage for suffer and fighting, without the acceptance of any compromises, which he inherited from his father, Gaspare. Fausto Cannone sings about characters of different types: from Padre Pio to Giovanni Falcone, from Madre Teresa di Calcutta to Paolo Borsellino. These songs were often presented in different seminaries on Peace an Legality in various Italian cities. He used the Sicilian dialect as the language of communication; he also believed in the survival of folkore inside music because our traditions live with it and we are rooted in it. Museum of Multiethnic Musical Instruments "Fausto Cannone" Thanks to Fausto Cannone's donation of more than 200 ethnical instruments (string and wind ones), coming from several countries in the world, which he bought in 30 years of travels, it was founded an important and unique museum in Sicily. The museum hosts more than 20o instruments coming from Thailand to Tibet, from New Guinea al South America, from Polynesia to China, from Australia to Argentina, from South Africa to several European countries. Most of them are poor instruments, made with parts of plants and animals, but there are also valuable craft products. He wanted to dedicate the museum to his father's memory, Gaspare Cannone who was a journalist, literary critic, anarchist and antifascist. Discography 2008: DIARIO D'AMORE MUSICHE PER SOGNARE; it contains the following songs: Diario d'amore E la terra odorerà di ciclamino Tutto scorre Elegia notturna Abbracciati Verso il paradiso Tra le navate di una chiesa Fuori dal tempo Ti racconto l'amore Amore negli abissi Oltre l'amore Rime di un sogno Un angelo in preghiera 2017: IN NOME DELLA LEGALITA', with these songs: In nome della legalità Anni di piombo Giovanni Falcone Paolo Borsellino Omertà Rosario Livatino Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa Ludovico Corrao Mauro Rostagno Peppino Impastato Rocco Chinnici Sicilia matri mia Inno alla pace Before these works, he had made some 45rpm records, such as: Pedrito el Drito, Perfida, Addio Matera and "Mi piaceva da morire", winner of a prize in Montecarlo. He also composed other musical works, some of them in the Sicilian dialect, and poems. Main concerts 1976 and 1977: Bedford in the United Kingdom 1982: Australia 1986: Marsala 1987: Stadio La Favorita in Palermo 1988: Palasport of Varese 1989: Benares (India) 1990 and 1991: Cuba, Theatre Garcia Lorca 1992: China, at the Hotel Marco Polo 1993: Finland 1994: Stati Uniti 1996: Teatro Massimo, Palermo 2000: Empoli Prizes and acknowledgements Silver cup, Palasport of Varese (1992) Oscar Giordano Bruno (2005-2014), Palazzo delle Aquile in Messina Oscar del Mediterraneo (2006), Teatro Politeama in Palermo National Prize Nino Martoglio, Syracuse (2006) National Prize Liolà, VIII edition (2006) Satiro Bronzeo (2007), Teatro Politeama, Palermo La Pigna D’Argento (2008), Premio Cultura Unesco (2010) Acknowledgement Donna Fugata (2010) Gran Galà dello Sport Città di Alcamo (2010) Acknowledgement by the Rotary Club of Castellammare del Golfo (2011) Prize for the Worl Day of Poetry (2013) Diploma honoris causa in Science of Communication, by ISLAS (Ist.Superiore di Lettere Arti e Scienze del Mediterraneo) on 3rd November 2013 Gran Galà del Maestro Riino (2014) Acknowledgement by Kiwanis (2015) Premio Festival Songs below the stars (2016) Prize Kiwanis 2015-2016, given for his credits in the artistic-musical field and for the donation of his collection of ethnic-musical instruments Prize for the Provincial Day of legality (2017), received by the Consulta provinciale degli studenti Member of the Accademia di Sicilia Honorary member of the Rotary Club Terre degli Elimi See also Museum of Multiethnic Musical Instruments "Fausto Cannone" Alcamo Calandra & Calandra Rosa Balistreri Ignazio Buttitta Folclore References Sources Marianna Ingrao: La musica popolare di ieri e di oggi nell'esperienza di Fausto Cannone; Palermo, Università degli Studi, facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, anno accademico 2014-2015 Giacomo Romano Davare: Il potere e l'anima p.90, ed.Thule, Palermo, 2014 External Links 1938 births 2017 deaths Italian pop singers People from Alcamo Sicilian-language poets Italian male guitarists Italian male singer-songwriters Italian singer-songwriters 20th-century Italian male singers 20th-century guitarists
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Carlisle, Massachusetts
Carlisle is a town located northwest of Boston in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town had a population of 5,237. History English colonists first settled the area now incorporated as the town of Carlisle in 1651 on parcels of land of the neighboring towns of Acton, Billerica, Chelmsford and Concord. Carlisle became a district of Concord in 1780 and was incorporated as a town by an act of the legislature in 1805. Activities Carlisle contains a library, a country store, a book store, a dentist's office, an automated teller machine, many residential buildings, and the largest playground in the state of Massachusetts (Carlisle Castle). There are two ice cream stores: one of the four branches of Kimball Farms, and Great Brook Farm State Park which is home to the first robotic milking system in Massachusetts and serves ice cream made from the farm's milk. Great Brook Farm is also the site of one of the premiere cross-country ski touring centers in New England. On the east end of town there is an auto body shop and the former (closed in 2012) Blue Jay Recording Studio, where artists such as the Platters, Aerosmith, Aimee Mann, Amy Grant, Alice Cooper, Boston, John Williams and the Boston Pops, Buckwheat Zydeco, Billy Joel, Lauryn Hill, Rihanna, Roy Orbison, k. d. lang, Pat Metheny, Yo Yo Ma, Carly Simon, the Pussycat Dolls, Genesis and Lady Gaga have recorded. The town newspaper, the Carlisle Mosquito, has appeared as the weekly independent newspaper of the town since 1972. It is a non-profit publication distributed free to all town residents. The paper includes local news, announcements, and logs. The Gleason Public Library is one of the 36 libraries in the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. Gleason Public Library also contains a seismograph. Cultural organizations include the Carlisle Chamber Orchestra, the Carlisle Community Chorus, and the Savoyard Light Opera Company. Carlisle Old Home Day has been held for over 100 years on the weekend prior to the Fourth of July as a free public event with family-friendly games and activities. Geography Carlisle is located about south-southwest of Lowell and northwest of Boston. It borders the towns of Concord, Acton, Westford, Chelmsford, Billerica, and Bedford. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (1.09%) is water. Conservation land makes up about a quarter of the town's area. Besides town-owned land overseen by the town's conservation committee, Carlisle is home to Great Brook Farm State Park and a portion of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge neighboring the Concord River. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 4,717 people, 1,618 households, and 1,372 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 1,655 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 93.47% White, 0.17% African American, 0.06% Native American, 4.69% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.19% of the population. There were 1,618 households, out of which 46.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.6% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.2% were non-families. 11.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the average family size was 3.18. In the town, the population was spread out, with 30.6% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 34.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males. The median income for a household in the town $176,228 (Average household income is $244,544). The per capita income for the town was $87,470. Carlisle maintains a zoning law on new development. Climate In a typical year, Carlisle, Massachusetts temperatures fall below 50 °F (10 °C) for 195 days per year. Annual precipitation is typically 45.6 inches (115.8 centimeters) per year (high in the US) and snow covers the ground 62 days per year or 17.0% of the year (high in the US). It may be helpful to understand the yearly precipitation by imagining 9 straight days of moderate rain per year. The humidity is below 60% for approximately 25.4 days or 7.0% of the year. Education Carlisle has one public K–8 school, the Carlisle Public School. High School students attend Concord Carlisle High School in Concord or private schools such as Middlesex School in Concord. Notable people John Berman, journalist and CNN anchor Sean Bielat, businessman and two time Republican candidate for United States Congress in Massachusetts's 4th congressional district Clairo, musician and recording artist Notes External links Carlisle.org, volunteer-run community website The Carlisle Mosquito, town newspaper Carlisle Conservation Foundation History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879. Volume 1, page 359 Carlisle by B.F.Heald. Towns in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Towns in Massachusetts 1651 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Hellgrammite (comics)
Hellgrammite (Roderick Rose) is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an enemy of Superman, Batman, the Creeper, Green Arrow and Black Canary. In the series Supergirl, the Hellgrammite is portrayed by Justice Leak. Publication history Hellgrammite made his debut in The Brave and the Bold #80 (November 1968) created by Bob Haney and Neal Adams. In this issue, he battled Batman and the Creeper. Fictional character biography Pre-Crisis An entomologist named Roderick Rose, the Hellgrammite subjects himself to a mutagenic process that transforms him into a grasshopper-like insectoid. He has superhuman strength and leaping abilities, the power to crawl upon walls, weave transformative or imprisoning cocoons, and a durable exoskeleton. A number of his schemes revolve around transforming others into weaker, subordinate versions of himself, leading to clashes with Batman and the Creeper in The Brave and the Bold #80, and with Green Arrow and the Black Canary in World's Finest Comics #248-249. Post-Crisis In the Post-Crisis DC Universe, the Hellgrammite returns as a recurring foe for Superman, first encountering the Man of Steel after being hired (by then-LexCorp board member George Markham) to kill Lex Luthor. During the Underworld Unleashed crossover, he makes a deal with Neron, trading his soul in return for increased physical powers and an improved ability to transform others into his drones. In a one-shot issue, Underworld Unleashed: Patterns of Fear #1, it was stated that he had once used the alias Robert Dobson. Although there were rumors of Hellgrammite's death as a member of the Suicide Squad during the Imperiex crisis, it was instead a similar villain named the Larvanaut who died. He has been seen alive One Year Later, still a member of Superman's rogues' gallery, acting as an assassin for Intergang. Following the destruction of Star City at the hands of Prometheus, the new Batman leads a newly formed Justice League in a hunt to track down the various villains who helped Prometheus in his plot. The team finds Hellgrammite and several other villains attempting to flee the country and a battle ensues. Hellgrammite is ultimately defeated after Donna Troy ties up a villainess named Harpi with her lasso, and then swings her into the villain, knocking both of them out. Powers and abilities Hellgrammite is super-strong and durable, able to jump long distances, secrete adhesives, and produce cocoons for imprisoning his foes or transforming them into drone versions of himself. In both forms, he has expertise in entomology. In other media Television Hellgrammite makes non-speaking appearances in Justice League Unlimited. Following a minor appearance in the episode "The Cat and the Canary" as a participant in Roulette's "Meta-Brawl", he returns in the episode "Alive!" as a member of Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society. Prior to and during the latter episode, Lex Luthor took command of the group, but Grodd mounts a mutiny. Hellgrammite sides with the latter and defeats the Cheetah, but ends up frozen by Killer Frost and killed off-screen by Darkseid along with Grodd's other loyalists. Hellgrammite appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Time Out for Vengeance!", voiced by John DiMaggio. Hellgrammite appears in Supergirl, portrayed by Justice Leak. This version is part of an alien race called Hellgrammites who possesses the ability to camouflage himself as a humanoid, superhuman strength, and the ability to shoot spikes capable of piercing metal, though he requires DDT sources to survive as it is the closest analogue to his people's food. Additionally, he was imprisoned in a Phantom Zone maximum security prison called Fort Rozz before it crash-landed on Earth, allowing the inmates to escape. In the first season episode "Stronger Together", he is forced by fellow escapee Astra In-Ze to kidnap her niece Supergirl, but he is foiled by the latter's sister Alex Danvers and incarcerated in a Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO) facility. In the fourth season episode "Ahimsa", a DEO mole allows Mercy and Otis Graves to stage a prison break so they can provoke hostile relations towards aliens. After escaping and being hypnotized by Ben Lockwood into causing chaos, Hellgrammite attacks a carnival until he is defeated by Supergirl, though he kills the Graveses for appearing to threaten her before surrendering to the DEO. Miscellaneous Hellgrammite appears in Adventures in the DC Universe #17. References Characters created by Bob Haney Characters created by Neal Adams Comics characters introduced in 1968 DC Comics characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability DC Comics characters with superhuman strength DC Comics male supervillains DC Comics metahumans DC Comics scientists Fictional entomologists Fictional geneticists Superman characters
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List of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes
This is a list of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episodes. It was created by George Lucas. Twenty-eight episodes were produced by Lucasfilm in association with Amblin and Paramount Pictures, though four were unaired during the series' original 1992–93 run on ABC. In 1996, some of the remaining episodes were combined and aired as four two-part TV movies on USA. The entire series was edited into twenty-two feature-length films later that year. Twelve of the films were released on VHS in 1999, while the rest were aired on the Fox Family Channel in 2001. All of the films were released on DVD throughout 2007 and 2008. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles debuted on ABC on March 4, 1992, with the feature-length episode Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal, which served to introduce the character at the two ages he would be portrayed as in the show. The five subsequent episodes in season one were hour-long. Season 2 (1992–93) Season Two began on September 21, 1992, with the episode "Austria, March 1917", and the seventeen subsequent episodes consisted of both new episodes and some episodes originally produced for the first season—each an hour long. Harrison Ford made a guest appearance in the feature-length episode Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues. When the show was cancelled, four episodes remained unaired: "Florence, May 1908", "Prague, August 1917", "Palestine, October 1917", and "Transylvania, January 1918". In Australia, "Somme, Early August 1916" and "Germany, Mid-August 1916" originally aired as a two-hour television movie entitled Young Indiana Jones and the Great Escape. TV films (1994–96) Four television films aired on The Family Channel from 1994 to 1996. No "Old Indy" bookend segments were filmed for the television films, although Sean Patrick Flanery bookended Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father. International variations In some territories, certain episodes were split or combined under different titles. Film versions In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes. The series was also retitled The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Each chapter contains two episodes, with most of the chapters arranged in chronological order. The scenes in which an older Indiana Jones reminisces are not included in these versions, except in "Chapter 20: Mystery of the Blues", which featured Harrison Ford as an older Indiana Jones in 1950. In 1999, only Chapters 6, 8, 10–13, 15–18, 20, and 22 were released on VHS in the "Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones" along with the re-release of the movie trilogy (credited as Chapters 23: Temple of Doom, 24: Raiders of the Lost Ark, and 25: Last Crusade). The movie trilogy also featured Chapter 18: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye as a bonus tape (Chapter 10: Phantom Train of Doom in the UK). It was promoted with the rest of the episodes set for release later in 2000, but this was canceled. As of June, 2023, all 22 Episodes are streaming on Disney+, as a series called The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Additional documentaries Additionally ninety-four critically acclaimed documentaries about the real life historical figures, events, and subject matters in the series were made for the included supplements in the DVD releases from 2007 to 2008. They were co-produced by George Lucas and Rick McCallum. Unproduced episodes When the series was cancelled in 1993, a number of episodes Lucas had intended to shoot never went into production. "Princeton, May 1905" was to involve Indy meeting Paul Robeson for the first time. "Russia, March 1909" was the basis for part of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father. "Geneva, May 1909" "Jerusalem, June 1909" was to involve Indy meeting Abner Ravenwood, who is trying to find a "sacred relic"—the Ark on the temple mount. In "Palestine, October 1917", Indy and his comrades suggest that they will be returning to this location by Christmas of 1917. "Stockholm, December 1909" was to be a homage to Swedish children's novel The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Indiana Jones said Stockholm was his favorite city in Sweden in the "London, May 1916" episode. "Melbourne, March 1910" was to involve Indy meeting Harry Houdini and flying in an airplane with him. The events of this episode are mentioned in "Palestine, October 1917". "Tokyo, April 1910" was to involve a meeting between the young Indy and Prince Hirohito of Japan, the future Emperor Shōwa. "LeHavre, June 1916" was to involve Indy and Remy in basic training. When Remy is accused of murdering their drill sergeant, Indy defends him. The two also meet Jean Renoir, who teaches them how to fight in battles. "Flanders, July 1916" was to involve Indy, Remy and Jaques fighting in Flanders. The events of this episode are mentioned in "Trenches of Hell." "Berlin, Late August 1916" was to be a second-season episode that involved Indy escaping from prison and fleeing to Berlin, and would have been the third part in the Somme/Germany cycle following Indy's capture in Somme, his escape from prison, his escape from Germany itself. He has to decide between returning to the US (since the US isn't at war with Germany yet) or returning to the Belgian Army. He ultimately decides to return to the Belgian army. Indy would have met Sigrid Schultz. "Moscow, March 1918" was meant as a sequel to "Petrograd, July 1917." It would have involved Indy working with counter-revolutionary groups in order to allow the U.S. to take over. "Bombay, April 1919" was to involve Indy meeting Gandhi on his way back from his search for the Eye of the Peacock diamond, while Remy is still searching for the diamond. Remy and Indy fight about continuing the treasure search. "Buenos Aires, June 1919" was to involve Indy being robbed while trying to return to the U.S. where he works as a tutor. He then ends up in South America as a tutor. "Havana, December 1919" was to involve Indy and his father in Cuba. The episode would have revolved around integration issues and Indy and Henry Sr. seeing a black player outplay Babe Ruth. "Honduras, December 1920" was to involve Indy meeting Belloq for the first time and the two becoming friends. Belloq steals a crystal skull and sells it. "Alaska, June 1921" was to involve Indy studying Eskimos, and rushing to deliver medical supplies by dogsled in order to save a village. The events of this episode are foreshadowed in "Travels with Father". "Brazil, December 1921" was to involve Indy and Belloq in a search for a lost city, and meeting Percy Fawcett. Notes References External links Lists of American action television series episodes Lists of American drama television series episodes Indiana Jones lists
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List of style sheet languages
The following is a list of style sheet languages. Standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Non-standard JavaScript Style Sheets (JSSS) Formatting Output Specification Instance (FOSI) Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass) Less (Less) Stylus SMIL Timesheets Stylesheet languages
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Findlay, Ohio
Findlay ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. The second-largest city in Northwest Ohio, Findlay lies about 40 miles (64 km) south of Toledo. Its population was 40,313 at the 2020 census. The principal city of the Findlay micropolitan area, it is home to the University of Findlay, and the headquarters of Fortune 100 company Marathon Petroleum, which ranks 19th. History In the War of 1812, Colonel James Findlay of Cincinnati built a road and a stockade to transport and shelter troops in the Great Black Swamp region. This stockade was named Fort Findlay in his honor. At the conclusion of the war, the community of Findlay was born. The first town lots were laid out in 1821 by future Ohio Governor Joseph Vance and Elnathan Corry. Before the Civil War, Findlay was a stop for slaves along the Underground Railroad. In 1861, David Ross Locke moved to Findlay, where he served as editor for the Hancock Jeffersonian newspaper until he left in 1865. It was in the Hancock Jeffersonian that Locke penned the first of his Nasby letters. During the 1880s, Findlay was a booming center of oil and natural gas production, though the supply of petroleum had dwindled by the early 20th century. Findlay hosted the highly competitive Ohio State Music Festival in 1884. A young cornet player, Warren G. Harding, and his Citizens' Cornet Band of Marion placed third in the competition. Harding went on to be elected the 29th President of the United States. On March 31, 1892, the only known lynching in the history of Hancock County occurred when a mob of 1,000 men, many "respectable citizens", broke into the county jail in Findlay. They lynched Mr. Lytle, who had seriously (but not fatally as believed at the time) injured his wife and two daughters with a hatchet the day before, by hanging him twice (first from the bridge, then a telegraph pole) and finally shooting his body over a dozen times. The authorities had intended to secretly convey the prisoner to a suburb at one o'clock, where a train was to have been taken for Lima, but their plans were frustrated by the mob. In 1908, American songwriter Tell Taylor wrote the standard, "Down by the Old Mill Stream" while fishing along the Blanchard River in Findlay. The song was published in 1910. A disaster occurred during the 1936 Independence Day celebration, where a stray firework fell into a crowd, injuring 16 people and attracting national media attention. For three months in the early 1960s, Findlay had the distinction of being the only community in the world where touch-tone telephone service was available. Touch-tone service was first introduced there on November 1, 1960. In 2007, a flood that crested at 18.46 feet caused around $100 million in damage. The flood was nearly as strong as the 1913 flood. Geography Findlay is located at (41.042843, −83.642216). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is covered by water. The Blanchard River travels through Findlay, flowing east to west. The Findlay Reservoir No. 2 is the largest above-ground reservoir in the state of Ohio, with a capacity around of water. Climate Demographics 2020 census As of the census of 2020, 40,313 people and 17,550 households were in the city. The population density was . The racial makeup of the city was 84.6% White, 2.5% Black, 0.2% Native American, 2.3% Asian, and 3.6% of two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 7.9% of the population. About 20.4% of residents were under 18, and 17.2% were over 65. The gender makeup of the city was 48.2% male and 51.8% female. The median household income was $50,921 (in 2021 dollars). Per capita income for the city was $33,411; 13.5% of persons were below the poverty line. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, 41,202 people, 17,354 households, and 10,329 families resided in the city. The population density was . There were 19,318 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 91.2% White, 2.2% African American, 0.3% Native American, 2.5% Asian, 1.7% from other races, and 2.1% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 5.7% of the population. Of the 17,354 households,28.3% had children under 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.5% were not families. About 32.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.29, and the average family size was 2.87. The median age in the city was 35.9 years. The age distribution was 22.2% under 18; 12.9% from 18 to 24; 25.5% from 25 to 44; 25.0% from 45 to 64; and 14.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, 38,967 people, 15,905 households, and 10,004 families were living in the city. The population density was . The 17,152 housing units had an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 93.7% White, 1.4% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.76% Asian, 1.69% from other races, and 1.26% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 3.95% of the population. Of the 15,905 households, 29.2% had children under 18 living with them, 49.3% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.1% were not families. Around 30.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.36, and the average family size was 2.93. In the city, the age distribution was 23.8% under 18, 11.9% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.3 males. For every 100 females 18 and over, there were 87.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $40,883, and for a family was $49,986. Males had a median income of $36,150 versus $23,797 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,328. About 5.9% of families and 9.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.0% of those under 18 and 6.1% of those 65 or over. Economy Findlay is the headquarters of the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, founded in 1914, which specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sales of replacement automobile and truck tires, and subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle, and racing tires. Findlay was the longtime headquarters of the Marathon Oil Corporation from 1905 until 1990 when it moved its offices to Houston, Texas. Marathon Petroleum Company, a former subsidiary of Marathon Oil, maintained its main office in Findlay after Marathon Oil moved. On July 1, 2011, Marathon Petroleum became an independent entity, with headquarters in Findlay. The city's major shopping center is Findlay Village Mall, opened in 1962. Findlay is home to the Whirlpool dishwasher manufacturing plant and distribution center. This plant is considered to be the largest dishwasher plant in the world (based on production). Findlay is home to several other major distribution centers, including Best Buy, Lowe's, and Campbell Soup Company. Largest employers According to the City of Findlay 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), the following companies are the top employers in the city: Government The city is administered by a mayor and a city council. The Findlay City Council is composed of the president of council, seven ward representatives, and three representatives elected at-large. The mayor appoints the director of public safety and service. The people elect the auditor, treasurer, municipal court judges, and the law director. Christina Muryn was elected mayor in 2019. Education Primary and secondary Three intermediate (3–5) buildings and three primary (K-2) buildings are within the city of Findlay. For decades, students attended one of three junior high schools: Donnell (Atoms), Central (Spartans), or Glenwood (Eagles). The original Donnell School building located on Baldwin Avenue was razed in 2012 to make room for the construction of a new building, which began usage in January 2013. Another new school built directly behind the original Glenwood building on North Main Street officially opened and began usage in January 2013. The building known as Central, located on West Main Cross, was originally Findlay's high school (until the current high school was built in 1963). Once the two new middle schools were opened, part of Central was razed, leaving only the auditorium. A new Performing Arts Center (funded mainly by Marathon Petroleum) was constructed by refurbishing and renovating Central's auditorium, finishing in December 2015. Findlay High School is a comprehensive high school with an enrollment of 1,632 students in grades 9–12. Of the 130 professional staff, 87 have master's degrees or beyond. Accreditation has been granted by AdvancEd Accreditation. Postsecondary The city is home to the University of Findlay, a private liberal arts college with an enrollment of over 4,100 students, and Owens Community College, a state school with an enrollment of 2,391 students. The University of Findlay is best known for its programs in Education (undergraduate and Master's) and the equestrian studies programs. Students enrolled in the preveterinary or western equestrian studies have access to a 152-acre farm operated by the university. Those students who are pursuing a degree in English equestrian studies have access to a separate rural facility composed of 32 acres, which includes the University Equine Veterinary Services Inc. Winebrenner Theological Seminary also makes its home in Findlay, adjacent to the university. Findlay also had a branch location of Brown Mackie College prior to 2017. Public library The city has the main branch of the Findlay-Hancock County Public Library. The library was established on April 16, 1888, and was originally housed in the Hancock County Courthouse basement until it was able to move into an old post office building in 1935. The main library building was renovated in 1991, and again in 2009 after a major flood. The library announced in March 2019 it would end the process of charging late fees. Transportation Findlay Airport does not have regularly scheduled passenger flights. Interstate 75, US 68, and US 224 are major highways that pass through the city. State routes in the city of Findlay include: Ohio State Route 12, Ohio State Route 15, Ohio State Route 568, and Ohio State Route 37. Historically, the Baltimore & Ohio, the New York Central, and the Nickel Plate Road operated passenger train service through Findlay. The last trains were the Nickel Plate's St. Louis - Muncie - Cleveland trains (#9, Blue Arrow westbound and #10, Blue Dart eastbound). These trains ended in 1959. Culture Annual activities Springtime in Ohio craft show – May Boogie on Main Street – June Riverside Wine festival – June Pride in the Park – July Flag City BalloonFest – August Rib-Off on Broadway – August The Hancock County Fair – Labor Day weekend Oktoberfest – September Christmas in October craft show – October Findlay | Hancock County Halloween Parade – October Sports The University of Findlay participates in Division II athletics as a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The University of Findlay Men's Basketball team became NCAA Division II National Champions for the 2008–2009 season on March 28, 2009, in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping off a perfect season (36–0). From 2006 to 2008, the city was home to the Findlay Freedom, a low level professional ice hockey team. Beginning in 2008, the Findlay Grrrowl played Junior A hockey at The Cube Ice Arena at the Hancock Rec Center. In 2009 the Grrrowl won the United Junior Hockey League's only championship beating the Jamestown Jets two games to one. The UJHL and an attempted successor folded the next year Findlay was home to minor league baseball. The Findlay Browns was the final nickname of the minor league baseball teams based in Findlay between 1895 and 1941. Findlay teams played as members of the Interstate League in 1895, Buckeye League in 1915 and Ohio State League from 1937 to 1941. The Findlay Browns were an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns in 1937 and 1938. Notable people Peggy Kirk Bell, golfer, winner of the 1949 Titleholders Championship Willard Harrison Bennett, inventor of the radio frequency mass spectrometer Joshua Brodbeck, international concert organist Aaron Craft, college basketball player for Ohio State, Big Ten leader in steals Gavin Creel, Tony Award-winning Broadway actor and singer Russel Crouse, Broadway playwright, The Sound of Music, State of the Union and Call Me Madam Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first female Speaker of the House James C. Donnell, president of The Ohio Oil Company (now Marathon Oil) Marie Dressler, actress and silent film star Tennyson Guyer, Congressman Ray Harroun, race car developer and driver, and first Indianapolis 500 winner Cliff Hite, Ohio state senator, high school football coach of Ben Roethlisberger Michael Holmes, saxophonist Josh Huston, former kicker in the National Football League (NFL) Grant "Home Run" Johnson, Negro league baseball player and manager John Kidd, professional football player (punter) in the NFL Dave Laut, shot-putter who won bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics Mark Metcalf, actor Marilyn Miller, Broadway star of the 1920s William Mungen, U.S. Representative, lawyer, Union Army colonel Dan O'Brien, cattleman and author Michael G. Oxley, Congressman (1981–2006), co-author of Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Executive Vice President of NASDAQ Lamont Paris, men's college basketball coach at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Tot Pressnell, pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs James Purdy, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright Howard Taylor Ricketts, pathologist who discovered the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rickettsia rickettsii, which was also named after him Ben Roethlisberger, professional football player in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Streicher, racing driver Philip Sugden, artist and painter Tell Taylor, composer of "Down by the Old Mill Stream" Landon Tewers, musician known for The Plot In You Chad Zerbe, former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. References External links City of Findlay, Ohio www.FindlayHancockED.com www.VisitFindlay.com Cities in Ohio Cities in Hancock County, Ohio County seats in Ohio Micropolitan areas of Ohio Populated places established in 1887 1887 establishments in Ohio
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Ed Dowie
Ed Dowie is an English vocalist and songwriter from Wimborne in Dorset born 1977. Dowie was an organist and choirboy as a child. He was previously a member of the Bournemouth-based band Brothers in Sound, who released an album on Regal Recordings in 2000. He studied experimental music for several years before launching a solo career. Signing with Lost Map Records, he released his debut full-length, The Uncle Sold, in 2017. The album's name is an allusion to Kazuo Ishiguro's 1995 novel, The Unconsoled. Discography Unpacking My Library EP (2013) The Adjustable Arm EP (2014) PostMap 01°09 Yungpawel Postcard single (2016) The Uncle Sold (2017) The Obvious I (2021) References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English male singers English electronic musicians Musicians from Dorset
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20SouthEast%20Connector
Capital SouthEast Connector
The Capital SouthEast Connector is a planned parkway in California running from Interstate 5 (I-5) to U.S. Route 50 (US 50). The route runs through Sacramento County, Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, and El Dorado County. This project serves as an alternative route to the Greater Sacramento region's current highway system. It consists of four to six lanes of thoroughfare and expressway. Phase I is projected to be completed by 2025, with phase II around 2030–40. Route description When completed, the Capital SouthEast Connector (from the west) begins at the I-5/Hood Franklin Road interchange as a four-lane expressway heading east until the intersection with Bruceville Road, where it connects with the existing Kammerer Road as a four- to six-lane thoroughfare. The Capital SouthEast Connector continues over SR 99 to the existing Grant Line Road interchange and continues northeast along Grant Line Road as a four- to six-lane thoroughfare. As it reaches the intersection of Bond Road, this section of the connector becomes the Sheldon Section until it reaches the Calvine Road intersection. This section is also known as the Special Section due to its sensitivity and proximity with the Sheldon community and adjacent homes, development, and business properties; this section is still under environmental and design review and will be one of the last segments completed of the connector. Heading northeast from Calvine Road towards Rancho Cordova, this section is designated as a four-lane high-speed expressway (speed limits up to ) with grade-separated interchanges. As the connector reaches towards the Sacramento–El Dorado county line, it returns to a six-lane thoroughfare ending at the Silva Valley Parkway Interchange. History After the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) abandoned the proposed California State Route 143 (SR 143), SR 148, and the extension of SR 65 (from Roseville/I-80 south to Fresno) due to an anti-freeway revolt from local residents during 1970–90, the Sacramento Area Council of Government (SACOG) proposed a new expressway in southeast Sacramento County to alleviate traffic congestion along SR 99 and US 50. With increased suburban development in Elk Grove, Folsom, and El Dorado County, travel time and delays have caused concerns with local residents prompting SACOG to initiate a much needed alternative route from Sacramento's current freeway systems (which all connect to Downtown Sacramento). This resulted in the formation of the Capital SouthEast Connector Joint Powers Authority (JPA) in December 2006. Along with the board members of the JPA, Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, Sacramento County, and El Dorado County "formalized their collaboration to proceed with planning, environmental review, engineering design and development of what was initially called the Elk Grove-Rancho Cordova-El Dorado Connector Project." Currently known as the Capital SouthEast Connector, some initial work has begun on the northern end of the project at the Silva Valley interchange in El Dorado County as well as the Grantline interchange at SR 99. In February 2014, a , four-lane segment between White Rock Road and Prairie City Road was completed as one of the earliest stages of the new expressway. The JPA has made it a priority to start from the west (Elk Grove) and east (El Dorado County and Folsom) ends of the project until both ends meet. Phase I of the project is expected to be completed by 2025, pending financing; phase II within 2030–40. Timeline Note: Completion dates listed are projected for Phase I only and are subject to change. Segment A (expressway/thoroughfare) A1 & A2: I-5/Hood Franklin interchange to SR 99/Grant Line interchange, 2019 Segment B (thoroughfare) B1: SR 99/Grant Line interchange to Waterman Road, 2015 B2: Waterman to Bradshaw Road, 2020 B3: Bradshaw Road to Bond Road, 2022 Segment C (Special Section/Sheldon Section) C: Bond Road to Calvine Road, 2022 Segment D (expressway) D1: Calvine Road to SR 16 (Jackson Road), 2022 D2: SR 16 (Jackson Road) to White Rock Road, 2020 D3 & E1: Prairie City Road to Latrobe Road, 2018 Segment E (expressway/thoroughfare) E2: Latrobe Road to US 50/Silva Valley Parkway interchange, 2022 E3: US 50/Silva Valley Parkway Interchange, 2016 See also Placer Parkway References External links Capital SouthEast Connector home page Proposed roads in the United States Roads in Sacramento County, California Roads in El Dorado County, California Named highways in California
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The Owner
The Owner is a multi-director, international feature film that follows a backpack around the world, on its way back to its owner. It is the first film produced by CollabFeature, a group of independent filmmakers from all over the world. Each filmmaker wrote and directed his or her own short segment of the film in his or her own country. The Owner began shooting in spring of 2010. It premiered in theaters around the world on May 25, 2012. CollabFeature was started by Detroit-based filmmaker Marty Shea and web programmer Ian Bonner. Plot The Owner follows a lost backpack on a journey around the world, meeting several fascinating characters along the way. As the story progresses, we learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs—a man named "MacGuffin." The film brings together a variety of cultures, languages and film styles into a singular narrative plot. The feature consists of 25 independently produced short segments (2 to 5 minutes) that are connected by the backpack's journey. Each segment picks up the narrative where the previous segment leaves off and in some cases are inter-cut. Having 25 directors from 13 countries, The Owner holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Directors of a Film." The world record claim was approved by Guinness on January 9, 2013. Previously, Paris, je t'aime held the record with 21 directors. Filmmakers Marty Shea - Detroit, USA Rafael Yoshida - São Paulo Fahad Shaikh - Pakistan Sabine Sebaali - Beirut Steve Murphy - London Varun Mathur - New Delhi Brian Shephard - Orlando, FL Asmit Pathare - Mumbai Nicolas Fogliarini - Paris Neha Raheja Thakker - Mumbai Vishesh Mankal - New Delhi Francois Coetzee - Cape Town Mairtin de Barra - Dublin Xavier Agudo - Berlin Yango González - Bogota, Colombia Alexander Schoenauer - Berlin Nino Leitner - Innsbruck, Austria Arne von Nostitz-Rieneck - Vienna Reenita Malhotra - Hong Kong Michael Canzoniero - New York City Nicole Sylvester - Brooklyn Todd Felderstein - Los Angeles, USA Prashant Sehgal - New Delhi John Versical - Chicago Craig Lines - Newcastle, England References External links Guinness World Records Official Page http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-directors-of-a-film Collaborative projects 2012 independent films American anthology films 2012 films 2010s English-language films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paringa%2C%20South%20Australia
Paringa, South Australia
Paringa is a small town in the Riverland of South Australia. Paringa is famous for its vineyards, almond, citrus and stone fruit orchards, and the steel bridge with a span that can be raised to allow houseboats and paddlesteamers to pass underneath and across the Murray River to Renmark. Railway The railway line from Tailem Bend was extended north to Paringa soon after it had reached the Brown's Well district, with the official opening on 3 October 1913. However it took another 14 years for the railway to cross the river, when the bridge and the railway to Renmark opened in January 1927. The railway eventually extended to Barmera by August 1928. The historic Paringa Bridge was designed to carry a single railway line in the centre, with a road lane on each side of it. It has a total of six spans, including one lift span to allow river traffic to pass underneath. It was opened on 31 January 1927, enabling the railway to extend to Renmark. It is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The railway closed December 1990 but the bridge continues to carry the Sturt Highway as part of the main road link between Adelaide and Sydney. The town today Paringa today is a satellite town to the much larger Renmark, 4 km upstream. It boasts a pub, general store, museum and antiques shop. It is a service centre for the large agricultural enterprises on the Murtho and Lindsay Point roads. There is a beautiful picnic area on the riverfront adjacent to the Bridge. The town had only one serving mayor, Mr Alan Eckermann, before the District Council of Paringa amalgamated with Renmark Council in July 1996 to form the now Renmark Paringa Council. Many new homes have been built in Paringa in recent years. See also List of crossings of the Murray River References Towns in South Australia Populated places on the Murray River Riverland
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Alin Anghel
Marius Alin Anghel (born 13 May 1986) is a retired Romanian triple jumper. He finished sixth at the 2007 European U23 Championships and won the silver medal at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie. He also competed at the 2007 Summer Universiade, the 2009 European Indoor Championships and the 2011 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 16.65 metres, achieved in June 2009 in Sofia. Indoors he has 16.69 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Bucuresti. References 1986 births Living people Romanian male triple jumpers Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s%20sabre%20at%20the%202013%20World%20Fencing%20Championships
Men's sabre at the 2013 World Fencing Championships
The Men's sabre event of the 2013 World Fencing Championships was held on August 7, 2013. The qualification was held on August 5, 2013. Medalists Draw Finals All times are (UTC+2) Top half Blue piste Yellow piste Bottom half Green piste Red piste Final classification References Official site Bracket from Round of 64 to Round of 16 Bracket from Quarterfinals Final classification 2013 World Fencing Championships
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Qeshlaq-e Qara Khanlu
Qeshlaq-e Qara Khanlu (, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Qarā Khānlū; also known as Kahlī Qarah Khānlū) is a village in Qeshlaq Rural District, Abish Ahmad District, Kaleybar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 9 families. References Populated places in Kaleybar County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%20S%C3%B8mme%20Hammer
Anders Sømme Hammer
Anders Sømme Hammer (born 20 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentarian and journalist. Career He moved to Kabul, Afghanistan in June 2007 to cover the ongoing war. He was a freelancer, but produced for several media outlets. He delivered news and radio and television documentaries for NRK and TV 2, and wrote for national outlets such as Dagbladet, Dagsavisen, Dagens Næringsliv, Morgenbladet, the Norwegian News Agency and Samtiden. In 2010, he released the book Drømmekrigen ("The Dream War") on Aschehoug. He was named Freelancer of the Year by the Norwegian Union of Journalists in 2010 and received the Fritt Ord Award in 2011. His 2019 documentary Do Not Split was awarded the Short Film Special Jury Prize at the AFI Docs 2020 festival. It later got nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards. References 1977 births Living people Norwegian newspaper journalists Norwegian television journalists Norwegian newspaper reporters and correspondents Norwegian documentary filmmakers Norwegian expatriates in Afghanistan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditi%20Shankar
Aditi Shankar
Aditi Shankar (born 6 July 1997) is an Indian actress and playback singer who works in Indian cinema and appears in Tamil films. She made her acting debut in Viruman (2022) and appeared in Maaveeran (2023). Early life Aditi was born at Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. She is the daughter of Indian filmmaker S. Shankar. She also has an elder sister, Aishwarya Shankar and a younger brother, Arjith Shankar. Aditi completed her medical degree at Sri Ramachandra University. After graduation she confessed to her parents about her long term passion for acting, following which she made her debut in Viruman. Career Aditi debuted as a playback singer for the song "Romeo and Juliet" from the Telugu film Ghani. In 2021, she made her acting debut, as lead actress, in the masala film Viruman. She sang the song "Madura Veeran" in the film. The Outlook India wrote "Actress Aditi Shankar, the daughter of ace director Shankar who makes her debut with this film, is just a natural when it comes to acting. She looks very convincing as the character 'Thaen' and is absolutely at ease in front of the camera. She does a neat job of playing a hard-working, no-nonsense girl who believes in standing up for her rights." The Hindu wrote, "Aditi Shankar is definitely an upgrade from Muthaiya's previous films". The Times of India wrote, "Take the initial scenes with the female lead, Thaenu (Aditi Shankar, making a confident debut). She is shown as someone who is affectionate towards Muthupandi, even though he is a man who is hard to like. We think this equation between them would pose a challenge to Viruman, who has fallen for her and wants to marry her, but in just a couple of scenes, we see the character shifting her allegiance, thanks to a convenient plot development". In 2022 she played in her second film, Maaveeran, released in July 2023. South First wrote, ’Aditi Shankar, the daughter of director Shankar, does a neat job of the task given to her. She comes up with a fine, measured performance as Nila, a sub-editor in love with the cartoonist.’ In 2023, she was approached by director Vishnuvardhan for the lead role in his new film alongside debutante actor Akash, who is the younger brother of actor Atharvaa. Aditi agreed to the untitled project and is currently filming in Lisbon. Personal life Aditi said about her debut film Viruman: "I can never deny my privilege and success" that has happened to her career. Just before Viruman was released, actress and model Aathmika targeted Aditi on social media and stirred up controversy considering Aditi to be the main reason for nepotism in south Indian films stating "It's good to see privileged getting easy way through the ladder while the rest". Aathmika also stated saying "Aditi is privileged to be able to enter the film industry just because of her father". However, Aditi later lashed back at Aathmika for her words and later removed her social media status. Filmography Note: All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted. Discography Playback singer Music videos Awards and nominations References External links Living people Actresses in Tamil cinema Indian film actresses Actresses from Chennai 21st-century Indian actresses Tamil playback singers Telugu playback singers Indian women playback singers 1997 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Public%20Library
Central Public Library
Central Public Library may refer to: Central Public Library (Dhaka), the largest public library in Bangladesh Central Public Library of Serres Central Public Library (Washington, D.C.), United States
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Yevhen Izdebskyi
Yevhen Izdebskyi (; born 3 June 1995) is a Ukrainian football defender. Career Izdebskyi is a product of FC Krystal and FC Metalurh youth sportive school systems. His first trainers were I. Zhosan, Ihor Paskhal, Oleksandr Chornyavskyi (in FC Podillya) and Oleksandr Rudyka (in FC Metalurh). Made his debut for FC Metalurh in the match against FC Zorya Luhansk on 7 November 2015 in the Ukrainian Premier League. References External links Profile at FFU Official Site (Ukr) 1995 births Living people Ukrainian men's footballers FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka players Ukrainian Premier League players Sportspeople from Kherson Footballers from Kherson Oblast Men's association football defenders
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Tubificida
Tubificida is an order of annelids belonging to the class Clitellata. Families: Dorydrilidae Naididae Ehrenberg, 1828 Narapidae Opistocystidae Cernosvitov, 1936 Parvidrilidae Erséus, 1999 Phreodrilidae Propappidae Coates, 1986 References Clitellata
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Ivancho
Daniel Ivancho
Daniel Eugene Ivancho (March 30, 1908–August 2, 1972) was the second bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh, the American branch of the Ruthenian Catholic Church. Early life Born on March 30, 1908, in Yasinia, Máramaros, Austria-Hungary, he emigrated at the age of eight to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, with his widowed mother. He graduated from St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. He graduated from St. Procopius College in Lisle, Illinois, and completed his seminary training in Rome, Italy. Due to illness, he transferred to Uzhhorod Theological Seminary where he completed his studies. On September 30, 1934, Bishop Basil Takach ordained him to the priesthood and he served in parish assignments. Episcopate of Bishop Ivancho When Bishop Takach was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the 1940s, a request was made to the Holy See for the appointment of an auxiliary bishop. Monsignor George Michaylo and Father Stephen Gulovich were perceived to be leading candidates, but the Vatican announced the appointment of Ivancho, a dark horse. The 1946 official decree declared his status to be a "Coadjutor Bishop", mandating that he would automatically become Bishop Takach's successor. He was ordained as the first-ever Coadjutor Bishop of the Greek Catholic Exarchate of Pittsburgh on November 5, 1946. In order to accommodate the crowds, the ceremony was held at the Cathedral of Saint Paul of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh in the Oakland district. Byzantine and Roman Catholic bishops and clergy attended, as did the Empress Zita and other members of the Imperial Habsburg family of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen was the homilist for the ordination. In May 1948 Takach died, and Ivancho became the new bishop. Some advisors urged that construction of a new cathedral church should be a priority. They believed a new cathedral—not the 1903 St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cathedral—was needed in the post-World War II era. More seating capacity and a more central location in Pittsburgh, they argued, would better showcase the identity of the Eastern Catholic church. Ivancho, however, tackled the problem of seminary training. In a pastoral letter dated June 14, 1950, he announced plans for the construction and operation of the first Eastern Catholic seminary in the United States. Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius was completed in October 1951. Ivancho resigned suddenly for personal reasons on December 2, 1954. According to a historical account by Serge Keleher, Ivancho was forced to resign once it was revealed that he had secretly married after his priestly ordination. He died in retirement in Florida in 1972. External links Daniel Ivancho bio sketch at Catholic-Hierarchy.org The Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh Byzantine Catholic Church in America References Also: 1908 births 1972 deaths Bishops of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church People from Zakarpattia Oblast Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States Benedictine University alumni Eastern Catholic bishops in the United States American people of Rusyn descent Religious leaders from Cleveland
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Koichi Toyama
is a Japanese street musician and a fringe political activist who was a candidate for the governor of Tokyo in the year 2007. He was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and lives in Fukuoka. He gained notoriety with his provocative 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election speech. Background While his background was an intense revolt against the formal high-school education system, he has been described as having a left-wing history and labeled a nihilist. Koichi has written several books. Toyama describes himself as a fascist. Gubernatorial campaign As a candidate for Governor of Tokyo in 2007, Toyama Koichi was entitled to record a 5-minute televised campaign statement, during which he denounced majority rule and called upon Japan's political minority to join him in overthrowing the government. In response to the viral spread of Toyama Koichi's statement online, the Tokyo election commission asked YouTube to remove election speeches of candidates, allegedly to "ensure fairness" among candidates, because YouTube had "allowed only certain candidates" speeches "to be viewed freely on the site", according to an election official. According to Japanese election law, the broadcasting of speeches is only allowed on public broadcaster NHK. Works 『ぼくの高校退学宣言—グッバイ・ハイスクール』 徳間書店 (Tokuma Shoten)、January 1989 『ハイスクール「不良品」宣言—反管理教育中高生ネットワーク・DPクラブの顛末』駒草出版、June 1990 『校門を閉めたのは教師か—神戸高塚高校校門圧殺事件』駒草出版、November 1990 『注目すべき人物—1970年生まれの「同世代」批判』ジャパンマシニスト社、November 1992 『さよならブルーハーツ—パンク日記』JICC出版局、April 1993 『見えない銃—外山恒一、孤軍奮闘の軌跡/だいたい全記録 』出版研、December 1995 『ヒット曲を聴いてみた—すると社会が見えてきた』駒草出版 、April 1998 『最低ですかーっ!—外山恒一語録』不知火書房、December 2004 『青いムーブメント―まったく新しい80年代史』彩流社、May 2008 『ポスト学生運動史―法大黒ヘル編 1985~1994』 彩流社、January 2010 Magazines 『デルクイ 01』 彩流社、February 2011 『デルクイ 02』 彩流社、November 2013 References Further reading https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2013/12/26/toyama-koichi-interview_n_4504650.html External links Blog 2008 United States Presidential Candidate from Japan 1970 births Living people Japanese critics People from Kagoshima Prefecture People from Fukuoka Tokyo gubernatorial candidates Japanese buskers Japanese fascists Japanese artists Third Position Neo-fascists Internet memes
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Henki
Henki is a 2021 collaborative album by the English singer-songwriter Richard Dawson and the Finnish experimental rock group Circle. The album has seven songs that are all related to the life of plants and trees. The title, according to Circle's Jussi Lehtisalo, is a Finnish word meaning "spirit" or "ghost". The collaboration between Dawson and Circle started with the exchange of demos, and then they met in Pori, a city on Finland's West Coast where Circle are based. The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 lockdown meant the album had to be finished remotely. Meaning "Methuselah" tells the story of Donald Rusk Currey's cutting down of Prometheus, the world's oldest tree. "Lily" tells of a hospital nurse in Newcastle who witnesses paranormal events after the death of patients, including the appearance of a room full of flowers. Reception Critics thought well of the album. Louis Pattison, writing for Pitchfork, gave the album 7.5 out of 10, and said, "In a catalog already noted for strangeness, Henki might be Richard Dawson's strangest album to date. But his ideas are fertilized by these songs' peculiar twists and turns; the more Dawson and Circle lean into their eccentricities, the more their music resonates. Whatever Dawson writes about, he's really writing about people—the ways we choose to live our lives, and the strange and awful things that befall us along the way. Henki blows up these themes into widescreen, unfolding across continents, centuries, and even the afterlife." Phil Mongredien, writing for The Guardian, highlighted "Silene" and "Methuselah": "A sprawling epic written from the perspective of a seed and a lament for an ancient tree are highlights on this inspired collaboration". Year-end lists Track listing "Cooksonia" "Ivy" "Silphium" "Silene" "Methuselah" "Lily" "Pitcher" References 2021 albums Richard Dawson (musician) albums Circle (band) albums