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# Venice New Year's Concert

The New Year's Concert of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice or Venice New Year's Concert is a traditional concert started in 2004 which takes place on 1 January of each year at the Teatro La Fenice.

## History

The New Year's Concert from the Teatro La Fenice of Venice was born as the closing event for the commemorations of the reconstruction of the theater following the arson that destroyed it on the evening of January 29, 1996. The idea came to Anna Elena Averardi, consultant for the care of the image of the Venetian theater and was welcomed by Fabrizio Del Noce, director of Rai 1.
Similar to the Vienna New Year's Concert, the January 1 concert in Venice can be collocated in a series of five identical concerts held on December 28 and 29 at 8pm, December 30 at 5pm, on 31 December at 16:00. It starts 11:15 AM, and is broadcast worldwide live from 12.20 by Rai 1. The music critic Pietro Acquafredda collaborated on the formulation of the concert program, from 2004 to 2014, commissioned by Rai 1.
The 2011 edition was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Italian Independence (for the occasion the Italian anthem was played), while the 2013 edition was dedicated, in the opera section of the concert, to the music of Giuseppe Verdi to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth.

### Orchestra Directors

* 2004: Lorin Maazel
* 2005: Georges Prêtre
* 2006: Kurt Masur
* 2007: Kazushi Ono
* 2008: Roberto Abbado
* 2009: Georges Prêtre
* 2010: John Eliot Gardiner
* 2011: Daniel Harding
* 2012: Diego Matheuz
* 2013: John Eliot Gardiner
* 2014: Diego Matheuz
* 2015: Daniel Harding
* 2016: James Conlon
* 2017: Fabio Luisi
* 2018: Myung-whun Chung
* 2019: Myung-whun Chung
* 2020: Myung-whun Chung
* 2021: Daniel Harding
* 2022: Fabio Luisi
* 2023: Daniel Harding
* 2024: Fabio Luisi
* 2025: Daniel Harding
* 2026: Michele Mariotti

## Structure

The concert program includes the performance of symphonies, symphonic arias and opera pieces. The concert consists of two parts: a first one that presents symphonic pieces or, in any case, only music interpreted by the orchestra, and a second one that focuses mainly on lyric opera pieces, where there are also solo singers and the theater choir. Traditionally it ends with the execution of two non-programmed fixed pieces: the first is the chorus of the Va, Pensiero from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi and the second is the famous toast of the Libiamo ne'lieti calici taken from Traviata, always by Verdi.

## Television broadcasting

Only the second part of the concert, that is dedicated to the opera, is broadcast live on Rai 1, and from 2014 on Rai 5 in the evening. The concert is also broadcast in France, Germany, Japan and Latin America. From 2016 the concert has been proposed on ARTE, ZDR, WSR, Radio France and by various radio and television broadcasters from Eastern European countries.
The concert is generally broadcast entirely on Rai 5 a month later.
# Shah Mir–Lohara War

The Shah Mir–Lohara War (Kashmiri: شاہ میر–لوہارا جنگ; Shah meer–Lohara Jang), which took place in 1338–1339, was a military conflict in the Kashmir Valley (now in Jammu and Kashmir, India) between the royal forces of the ruling Hindu Lohara dynasty, led by Kota Rani, against the rebellious Muslim Shah Mir dynasty, led by former courtier Shah Mir. It resulted in the overthrowing of the Loharas and the revival of the Kashmir Sultanate.

## Background

With the decline of the Hindu rule, a Buddhist prince from Ladakh, Lhachen Rinchan, entered the service of the Kashmiri commander-in-chief Ramachandra. At the start of 1320, a Mongol invader Zulju, along with his army, invaded Kashmir. King Suhadeva fled the country after putting up a valiant fight and suffering a great deal of havoc, Zulju sacked and left the country. Rinchan, after secretly assassinating Ramachandra, won the favour of the majority of the nobles and ascended the throne as Rinchan Shah. He also married Suhadeva's widow, Kota Rani.
Rinchan converted to Islam after the teachings of saint Bulbul Shah and took the title of Sadr'ud-Din Shah. He also appointed a trader from Swat, Shah Mir, his close associate, and a courtier. Rinchan ruled until 1323 when he died after sustaining an injury on his head in a civil war while his son, Haidar, was given in the care of Shah Mir. Lohara rule was initiated again when Suhadeva's brother Udyanadeva was installed on the throne on the orders of Kota Rani. Even though Udayanadeva ruled as a king, the real power was wielded by Kota Rani herself.

## War

In 1338, Udayanadeva died, and Kota Rani ascended the throne while appointing Bhatta Bhikshana as her Prime Minister ignoring Shah Mir. She also moved the capital from Srinagar to Andarkot. This angered Shah Mir as he considered himself as the top contender for the post of the Prime Minister and raised a revolt against her. Through a conspiracy, he assassinated Bhatta Bhikshana and threatened the Queen that he'll send his army to Andarkot if she didn't agree to marry him and share power. Kota Rani declined and prepared to face Shah Mir's forces. Shah Mir sent his forces and defeated the Royal army at the outskirts of Andarkot.
The majority of her chiefs and troops deserted her and joined Shah Mir. Kota Rani, seeing no other way to contend with Shah Mir's army, surrendered and agreed to marry him. Although the marriage was formally solemnized, Shah Mir didn't trust Kota Rani, nor did she. Citations needed most probably present in Kalhana's Rajatarangini Shah Mir tried marrying Kota Rani after killing her sons then she offered her intestines and committed suicide .
# Shut Up & Sit Down

Shut Up & Sit Down (often abbreviated to SUSD) is a board game review website and YouTube channel headed by Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, and Tom Brewster. The channel formerly had Paul Dean as a member, and has featured Ava Foxfort, Philippa Warr of Rock Paper Shotgun and PC Gamer, Emily from Emily and Things, and Brendan Caldwell of Rock Paper Shotgun.

## Content

The Shut Up & Sit Down YouTube channel mostly features reviews of board games with dry and surreal sketch comedy. The website features blog-style reviews, and has a podcast, Shut Up & Sit Down: The Podcast!
A guiding principle in the critics' work is "social togetherness" and bringing people together through board games. A frequent criticism from SUSD concerns the prevalence of large plastic miniatures in some board games, which they find fault with due to their high cost.
The channel has featured playthroughs of megagames, the first of which prompted renewed interest in designing and playing megagames, particularly in exporting the hobby from the United Kingdom to the United States. Noam Strassfeld and Shyamal Ruparel of the New York MegaGame Society, who organized the first American megagame, were first made aware of megagames through Shut Up & Sit Down.

## Reception

The Guardian credited Shut Up & Sit Down (alongside the website BoardGameGeek and Wil Wheaton's YouTube show TableTop) with opening "a window of interest" on the internet for tabletop gaming. Polygon deemed Shut Up & Sit Down: The Podcast! the best board game podcast of 2016. In 2018, IGN recommended the SUSD YouTube channel as "a great way to explore a hobby that is growing fast". Gordon Calleja praised SUSD for accelerating the "belated process" of "sensitivity to inclusiveness with regard to ethnicity" in board games, but criticised their reviews of miniature-based board games.
The channel's popularity is seen as very influential in the wider tabletop game industry. In 2021, board game company Z-Man Games sunsetted its production of a line of "classic" euro board games, implying in a blog post by its studio head, Steve Kimball, that Shut Up & Sit Down and other UK board game reviewers "hold massive sway over the current industry’s focus". The post also stated that "if you do attempt to re-release a game via traditional distribution channels, then you need to pray that any number of witty UK board game influencers take notice and give you coverage."

## SHUX conventions

In 2017, Shut Up & Sit Down debuted SHUX, a yearly board gaming convention at Vancouver Convention Centre centered around the website. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the convention instead created AwSHUX which was an online and free version of the convention. SHUX has had four in-person conventions in Vancouver (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) and three digital (2020, 2021 x2).
# Hellenic Defence Systems

Hellenic Defense Systems (Greek: Ελληνικά Αμυντικά Συστήματα, Ellinika Amyntika Systimata, abbreviated EAS) is the company formed by the merger in 2004 of the Greek defence companies Hellenic Arms Industry and Pyrkal. Upon its creation, it was a major manufacturer with thousands of employees, with a product range that included most land weapons in use today, as well as an established exporter to many countries in the world.
As of 2018, EAS reported a loss, despite the Greek government paying €19.5 million (equivalent to €23.2 million in 2023) towards the company's bills and debts, attributed to the ongoing economic crisis that affected Greece from 2008 to 2018.

## Products

* E56 120 mm Mortar
* FN Minimi
* HK G3
* HK USP
* HK MP5
* HK 11A1
* MG 3 machine gun
# Maurice Bergl

Maurice Balfour Wright Bergl (23 January 1917 – 1998) was a male English international table tennis player.

## Table tennis career

He was a leading international player in England during the 1930s and 1940s. He reached the number 3 ranking in Britain and was runner-up in the English Championship in 1934. He competed in the 1935 World Table Tennis Championships and the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships.

## Personal life

He was born in 1917 in Russia and came to England in 1920. He married in 1945. He died in 1998 in Bermuda.
# North Lake Correctional Facility

North Lake Correctional Facility is a privately owned medium- and maximum-security prison for men located in Baldwin, Lake County, Michigan, owned & operated by GEO Group.

## History

The prison was originally built in 1999 by Wackenhut to house Michigan’s youth offenders under contract for the Michigan Department of Corrections.. The GEO Group, Wackenhut's successor firm, expanded the prison from 570 to 1,748 beds in the late 2009. Some 280 high security inmates convicted of crimes in the state of Vermont arrived from other out-of-state prisons (in Arizona and Kentucky) to the Baldwin facility in June 2015. County Commissioner Dan Sloan stated that as many as 150 jobs would result from the influx of out-of-state prisoners to the facility.
Vermont received notice that GEO was terminating its contract effective June 2017; Vermont Corrections relocated the prisoners from the Baldwin facility. GEO secured a 10-year contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2019 to house non-citizen immigrant convicts, but the prison closed again in September 2022 when the federal government cancelled all contracts with privately-owned for-profit prisons.
# Bur man laimi

"Bur man laimi" (transl. "Bring me happiness") is a song by Latvian folk/world music band Tautumeitas. It was written by Asnate Rancāne [lv], Aurēlija Rancāne, Elvis Lintiņš, Laura Līcīte, and Gabriēla Zvaigznīte, with production handled by Tautumeitas. The song was released on 4 December 2024 and will represent Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It is the first song written entirely in Latvian to represent the country since 2004.

## Eurovision Song Contest 2025
### Supernova 2025

Supernova 2025 was the tenth edition of the national final format used to select Latvia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition commenced on 1 February 2025 with a semi-final and concluded with a final on 8 February 2025. The format of the competition consisted of two shows: a semi-final and a final. The semi-final, held on 1 February 2025, featured nineteen competing entries from which the top ten advanced to the final. A professional jury also had the opportunity to advance a wildcard act to the final from the remaining non-qualifying entries in the semi-final, but opted against doing so. Results during the semi-final and final shows were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from a jury panel and a public vote, with both the jury and public vote assigning points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on the number of competing songs in the respective show. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher points from the public. Viewers were able to vote via telephone or via SMS.
On 20 November 2024, it was announced that Tautumeitas was selected as a semi-finalist in Supernova 2025 with the song "Bur man laimi." The song won the contest in the final. Therefore, they will represent Latvia in the upcoming Eurovision 2025.

### At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and will consist of two semi-finals to be held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Latvia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.

## Charts

Chart performance for "Bur man laimi" :
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
| Latvia (LaIPA) | 18 |
| Latvia Airplay (LaIPA) | 8 |
| Latvia Domestic Airplay (LaIPA) | 1 |
| Latvia Domestic Streaming (LaIPA) | 9 |
# Anthony Quinton Keasbey

Anthony Quinton Keasbey (March 1, 1824 – April 4, 1895) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey under seven presidents. In addition he authored a book on poetry called From the Hudson to the St. Johns and Home Flowers: Pressed in My Law-books. He was also a part of the writing of Marching Song of the First Arkansas, in addition he wrote a law book called Slavery in New Jersey.

## Early life

Keasbey was born March 1, 1824, to Dr. Edward Keasbey and Mary Parry, the second of five siblings in Salem, New Jersey, a town colonized by his ancestors. In 1843 he graduated from Yale University, and soon after became a law student in the office of Francis L. McCulloch. He finished his studies in Newark, New Jersey, and in October 1846, was admitted to the bar. He entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1855 he entered into a partnership with Cortlaudt Parker, a relation would last for over twenty years.

## U.S. attorney

In April 1861, he received the appointment of U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey from President Lincoln, and in 1865 was reappointed. It was discovered, however, after Lincoln's death, that the commission for his 1865 reappointment had not been signed, and Keasbey was thereupon appointed by President Johnson until the next session of the senate. In 1866, he was regularly commissioned for another term of four years. In 1870 he was reappointed by President Grant, and again in 1874. In 1879 the office was once more accorded to him for a term of four years. He thus held this position continuously from the spring of 1861 to that of 1886, a period of unbroken incumbency longer than that of any other U.S. district attorney in the Union.

## Later life

In 1876 the partnership which existed between Keasbey and Parker was dissolved, and Keasbey associated with himself his two of his sons, Edward Quinton and George, under the firm name of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons. He made several valuable contributions to the pamphlet and periodical literature of his day, and without seeking reputation as a poet, wrote and privately printed for many beautiful verses such as his book From the Hudson to the St. John's. He authored a few books under a pseudonym and some anonymously, and books have been made from his notes and poems after his death.

## Death

Keasbey died on April 4, 1895, while in Rome.
# Dimitrie Drăghicescu

Dimitrie Drăghicescu (or Dumitru Drăghicescu) (4 May 1875 – 14 September 1945) was a Romanian politician, sociologist, diplomat, and writer.
Dimitrie Drăghicescu was born on 4 May 1875 in the village of Zăvoieni, Vâlcea County, Romania. After finishing grammar school in his native village, he attended Carol I High School in Craiova and thereafter the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest. In 1901, he left for Paris where he studied at the Collège de France with Emile Durkheim, Gabriel de Tarde, Henri Bergson, and Theodule Armand Ribot. He also attended the lectures organized by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
In 1903, he published Le problème du déterminisme social: Déterminisme biologique et déterminisme social, which argued for biological determinism. On 17 May 1904, he obtained his doctor's degree in Sociology. In 1905, he was appointed associate professor of Sociology at the University of Bucharest.
During World War I, from 1916 to 1918 he lived in France where he was active in promoting the ideas of a national Romanian state. On 9–12 April 1918 he attended the "Congress of Nationalities" in Rome with Nicolae Lupu and Simion Mândrescu, as members of the group supporting the right of Romanians to a state within their national ethnic borders and demanding the recognition of Romania as a cobelligerent country.
From 1934 to 1936, he was minister plenipotentiary in Mexico.
He is said to have committed suicide on 14 September 1945. However, some Romanians believe he was murdered by some members of the Communist Party.

## Works

* Din psihologia poporului român, Bucharest, 1907 (republished in Editura Albatros, 1996 ISBN 973-24-0351-9)
# Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences

The Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences (IMBM) is an independent center for mathematics situated in the South Campus of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, in close proximity to the Mathematics Department. The center was initiated by several major universities in Istanbul and was formally inaugurated in 2006. The center aims to host and encourage the mathematical research and the interaction of researchers.

## Background

IMBM is currently the only center for mathematics in Turkey. It was proposed by Betül Tanbay in 2003, then the chairwoman of the Mathematics Department of Boğaziçi University to its rector Sabih Tansal who immediately allocated a site. The center was opened in 2006 by the rectors of three universities in Istanbul, Boğaziçi University, Koç University and Sabancı University. At that time, the three rectors were all mathematicians, Ayşe Soysal, Attila Aşkar and Tosun Terzioğlu respectively, which made the contract easier. The universities provided academic and from time to time small amounts of financial support. An account of the history can be found in EMS Newsletter.
IMBM is administrated by a management committee, a scientific steering committee, and an international scientific advisory board. The scientific advisory board consists of the following mathematicians: David Mumford from Brown and Harvard, Victor Kac from MIT, Selman Akbulut from Michigan State University, Gilles Pisier from Paris VI and Texas A&M , Edriss Titi from Weizmann Institute and University of California Irvine. David Mumford agreed to join the Scientific Advisory Board during his visit to Turkey back in 2003. He has reported his personal observations in Notices of the AMS.
The opening seminar of IMBM was delivered by Dan Goldston, János Pintz and Cem Yalçın Yıldırım in 2006. Since then, the center has hosted many activities with distinguished participants.
Resources of IMBM come from endowment income, personal and institutional grants and collaboration agreements and gifts.

## Buildings

There are two buildings of the center. Both have an excellent view of the Bosphorus strait. The buildings had been in very bad condition and were brought to life by the initiative of Betül Tanbay from Boğaziçi University Mathematics Department, the first codirector of IMBM. The first floor of the main building consists of three offices with a modest library and computers. A 40-person seminar room is on the second floor.
There are four bedrooms of the center, accommodating up to six people. Two bedrooms are located in the last floor of the main building. The other two are located in a self-contained one-storey house next to the main building, which has, besides, a kitchen and a living room.
# Morez

Morez (French pronunciation:) is a former commune of the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Hauts de Bienne.
The town is mostly known for the manufacture of spectacles. From 1680 to 1920, Morez was with Morbier the center of Comtoise clock production.

## Population

| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 1,049 | — |
| 1806 | 1,291 | +23.1% |
| 1821 | 1,694 | +31.2% |
| 1831 | 2,067 | +22.0% |
| 1841 | 2,726 | +31.9% |
| 1851 | 3,153 | +15.7% |
| 1861 | 4,762 | +51.0% |
| 1872 | 5,178 | +8.7% |
| 1881 | 5,542 | +7.0% |
| 1891 | 5,124 | −7.5% |
| 1901 | 5,449 | +6.3% |
| 1911 | 5,928 | +8.8% |
| 1921 | 5,100 | −14.0% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1931 | 4,981 | −2.3% |
| 1946 | 4,691 | −5.8% |
| 1954 | 5,588 | +19.1% |
| 1962 | 5,777 | +3.4% |
| 1968 | 6,408 | +10.9% |
| 1975 | 6,811 | +6.3% |
| 1982 | 6,739 | −1.1% |
| 1990 | 6,957 | +3.2% |
| 1999 | 6,144 | −11.7% |
| 2006 | 5,462 | −11.1% |
| 2012 | 5,982 | +9.5% |
| 2022 | 4,564 | −23.7% |

## Gallery

* Train bridges over Morez
* Town hall of Morez
* Comtoise clock
# Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari (born 1955) is an American poet.

## Life and career

Macari was born in Queens, New York. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Macari founded and taught in the Drew University MFA Program for Poetry & Poetry in Translation. She has also taught on the faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars. She is president of the Alice James Books Board of Directors.
Macari has published five books of poetry, including Heaven Beneath (Persea, 2020). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, won The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Macari's poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, including TriQuarterly, Bloomsbury Review, Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, Five Points (as winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry), The Cortland Review, and The Iowa Review. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including From the Fishhouse (Persea Books, 2009) and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books).
Macari has read her poetry throughout the United States in many venues, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. She has also read her work at festivals in England, Austria, and in Prague. She lives in New York City and Miami Beach, Florida. Her partner was poet Gerald Stern.

## Awards

* Ivory Cradle, winner, The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry

## Published works

* Heaven Beneath (Persea) 2020
* Red Deer (Persea) 2015
* She Heads into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008)
* Gloryland (Alice James Books), 2005
* Ivory Cradle (Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
# Kirklington-cum-Upsland

Kirklington-cum-Upsland is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The main settlement is Kirklington. Upsland is a single farm in the south-west of the parish.
Kirklington cum Upsland was historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirklington in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 it formed an urban district, but in 1934 the urban district was abolished and merged with Bedale Rural District. In 1974 the parish was transferred to the Hambleton District in the new county of North Yorkshire. Since 1978 it has shared a grouped parish council, Kirklington with Sutton Howgrave, with the parishes of Howgrave and Sutton with Howgrave. In 2023 Hambleton District was abolished.