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# Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra

Alan Silva & the Sound Visions Orchestra is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Alan Silva. It was recorded in May 1999 at St. Nicholas of Myra Church in New York City during the annual Vision Festival, and was released in 2001 by Eremite Records. On the album, Silva is joined by a large ensemble known as the Sound Visions Orchestra.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
In a review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy wrote: "Silva gathered some of the cream of the East Coast avant-garde for this huge production... The results are loud, brash, brassy, and violent, pulverizing with squalls of power... All three parts of the composition are laced with plenty of solos, which explode with giddiness... This is a majestic and magnificent recording, and if it is difficult to listen to at one setting, it is nonetheless worth the effort."
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated: "the recording quality simply isn't good enough to handle such a complex entity, and some absorbing solos and ensemble passages get lost in the mix."
Derek Taylor, writing for All About Jazz, commented: "The sheer magnitude of the instrumental arsenal at Silva's disposal makes for some unbelievably dense collective dissonance and the undulating unified sound fills the audio space in gargantuan gusts... With the Visions Orchestra Silva has accomplished a rare feat in creative improvised music, a sustainable large-piece ensemble that makes full and impressive use of both its girth and diversity."
In an article for Paris Transatlantic, Dan Warburton wrote: "when [Silva's] 23-piece Sound Visions Orchestra is in full flight, we might as well be back in the glory days of the Celestrial Communication Orchestra... Silva, like nobody else I can think of except perhaps Cecil Taylor, knows just how to set ensembles on fire... Play this mother loud and let these guys throw their sound against your walls."

## Track listing

Composed by Alan Silva.
* "I" – 21:26
* "II" – 17:56
* "III" – 13:14

## Personnel

* Alan Silva – synthesizer, conductor
* Elliot Levin – piccolo, flute, soprano saxophone
* William Connell Jr. – bass clarinet, flute
* Karen Borca – bassoon
* Ori Kaplan – alto saxophone
* Rob Brown – alto saxophone
* Sabir Mateen – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
* Andrew Lamb – tenor saxophone
* Edward "Kidd" Jordan – tenor saxophone
* Scott Currie – baritone saxophone
* J. D. Parran – bass saxophone, alto clarinet
* Raphe Malik – trumpet
* Stephen Haynes – trumpet, brass
* Taylor Ho Bynum – trumpet, brass
* Roy Campbell Jr. – trumpet, flugelhorn
* Art Baron – trombone
* Steve Swell – trombone
* Bill Lowe – bass trombone, tuba
* Mark Taylor – French horn
* Joseph Daley – tuba
* Mark Hennen – piano
* Wilber Morris – bass
* Jackson Krall – drums
* Steve Dalachinsky – voice (poet)
# Alastair Taylor

Alastair or Alistair Taylor may refer to:
* Alastair Taylor (footballer) (born 1991), English soccer player
* Alastair M. Taylor (1915–2005), Canadian historian, filmmaker and UN official
* Alistair Taylor (1935–2004), English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles
* Scotch Taylor (Alistair Innes Taylor, 1925–2004), South African cricketer
# Alan Windle

Alan Hardwick Windle (born 20 June 1942) FRS is a British material scientist, and Chair of Materials Science at Cambridge University.
He earned a BSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in materials science from 1975 to 1992, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

## Works

* A First Course in Crystallography 1978
* Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Prof A M Donald, 1992; with Dr S Hanna and Prof A M Donald, 2006
# Al Somers

Al Somers (July 16, 1905 – October 14, 1997) was an American professional baseball umpire who ran an early umpire school known as the Al Somers Umpire School, which later became known as the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School.

## Biography

Somers was from Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He attended school for a few years before learning to dig coal. He pitched briefly in the minor leagues before hurting his arm. Somers spent 20 years as a professional baseball umpire and retired from the Pacific Coast League. He worked for the Bill McGowan School for Umpires beginning in 1941. He served as the school's chief instructor.
When Bill McGowan died in 1954, Somers desired to purchase the school, but McGowan's family refused. He ran the school in conjunction with Bill McGowan, Jr. Before the 1957 season, McGowan's widow announced that she was retaining ownership of the school but that it would not hold classes that year. Somers went to see her in person and they negotiated the sale of the school to Somers. By the mid-1960s, the Al Somers Umpire School had trained 90 percent of the umpires in professional baseball.
In 1977, Somers approved Pam Postema and another female applicant as the first women admitted to the school. He later said that he had admitted Postema under threat of a lawsuit and that he did not think that a female umpire had the stamina to work in the major leagues. He also questioned whether any man would stay home while his wife traveled to baseball games.
In 1977 he also announced that umpire Harry Wendelstedt, the school's chief instructor for several years, would take over the school, of which the family continues control, now in its second generation of family ownership.
# Snowy wood-rush

Snowy wood-rush (with or without hyphenation) may refer to one of two plants in the genus Luzula which share the common name:
* Luzula nivea, also known as lesser wood-rush
* Luzula nivalis, also known as arctic wood-rush
# Raúl Arsenio Casado

Raúl Arseno Casado (July 27, 1927 – July 20, 2010) was the Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán, Argentina.
Ordained to the priesthood December 20, 1952, he was named bishop on May 14, 1975 and was ordained on August 16, 1975 serving in several dioceses.
# Rasulpur, Amawan

Rasulpur is a village in Amawan block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 29 km from Raebareli, the district headquarters. As of 2011, its population is 514, in 94 households.
The 1961 census recorded Rasulpur as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 279 people (136 male and 143 female), in 63 households and 57 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 267 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Rasulpur as having a population of 379 people, in 61 households, and having an area of 106.44 hectares. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.
# Raster passes

Raster passes are the most basic of all machining strategies for the finishing or semi-finishing of a part during computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). In raster passes machining the milling cutter moves along curves on the cutter location surface (CL surface) obtained by intersecting the CL surface with vertical, parallel planes. Many CAM systems implement this strategy by sampling cutter location points on these curves by calculating intersection points of the CL surface and as many vertical lines as needed to approximate the curve to the desired accuracy.
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# List of observers to the European Parliament for Cyprus, 2003–2004

Members of the European Parliament for Cyprus :
| Observers | (2003) |
| Delegation | (2004) |
| 6th term | (2004) |
| 7th term | (2009) |
| 8th term | (2014) |
| 9th term | (2019) |
| 10th term | (2024) |
Women :
vte :
This is a list of the 6 observers to the European Parliament for Cyprus in the 1999 to 2004 session. They were appointed by the Cypriot Parliament as observers from 1 May 2003 until the accession of Cyprus to the EU on 1 May 2004.

## List

| Name | National party | EP Group |
| Panayiotis Demetriou | Democratic Rally | EPP–ED |
| Marios Matsakis | Democratic Party | ALDE |
# Ala al-Din Ali

Ala al-Din Ali may refer to:
* Ala al-Din Ali, also known as Zia al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurids
* Ala al-Din Ali of the Eretnids (died 1380), third Sultan of the Eretnids
* Ala al-Din Ali Dulkadir (died 1426), Dulkadirid prince
# Ras El Kelb

Ras El Kelb is a truncated seaside cave and Paleolithic settlement located on the low-lying (5 m (16 ft)) coast of Lebanon, 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Beirut. It is one of the oldest habitations found in the country.
Rescue excavations were carried out in 1959 by Dorothy Garrod and G. Henri-Martin. They dug 2 trenches named the 'Rail' and 'Tunnel' trenches, from which they recovered over 30,000 flint artefacts of a wide variety for statistical analysis from 22 geological layers. It was concluded that the sea had passed the level of the cave 3 times since its first dated habitation around 50,000 years BCE (52,000 years BP).
They also discovered a tooth suggested to belong to a Neanderthal. It was suggested that the inhabitants were expert at hunting gazelle using the flints recovered.
# Ras El Ain, Morocco

Ras El Ain is a town in Settat Province, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. According to the 2004 census, it had a population of 3,638.
# Solomon Stramer

Solomon Stramer was the leader of a Yiddish theater troupe founded in Vienna, Austria, but based in Cluj, Romania from 1919 at least until the late 1920s. For a time, his troupe had the exclusive right to perform Yiddish-language theater in Transylvania, an area which at that time was home to about 300,000 Jews.
Stramer's troupe, which after a shaky start developed into a solid operetta company, deviated from the usual patterns of Yiddish theater in that he successfully achieved a compromise with many Orthodox Jewish groups who had normally been opposed to Yiddish theater, which they saw as a secularizing force. Stramer's productions even incorporated Hasidic songs.
By 1922, Stramer's troupe had taken the name Teatrul Naţional Evreiesc Habimah (Habimah National Yiddish Theater). They sought, and in March 1922 received, the backing of the Uniune Naţională a Evreilor din Ardeal (National Union of Transylvanian Jews) for the exclusive right to perform Yiddish theater in Transylvania. The Romanian Ministry of Arts chose to back that exclusivity with the force of law: in August 1922, Sara Kanner, widow of Leopold Kanner, was told by the Ministry that she was welcome to perform Yiddish theater anywhere in Romania outside of Transylvania. The exclusive held for several years, and was finally broken around 1926 when an avant-garde Yiddish theater troupe, who were clearly doing a very different type of theater from Stramer's operetta company, were given permission to tour in Transylvania. Solomon Stramer recorded on 78rpm records for Decca, Victor and Odeon.
# Raszków, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Raszków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupia, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-west of Słupia, 27 km (17 mi) west of Jędrzejów, and 59 km (37 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kielce.
# Sofia Olhede

Sofia Charlotta Olhede (born 1977) is a British-Swedish mathematical statistician known for her research on wavelets, graphons, and high-dimensional statistics and for her columns on algorithmic bias. She is a professor of statistical science at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

## Education and career

Olhede earned a master's degree from Imperial College London in 2000, and completed her doctorate there in 2003. Her dissertation, Analysis via Time, Frequency and Scale of Nonstationary Signals, was supervised by Andrew T. Walden.
She began her academic career as a lecturer in statistics at Imperial in 2002, and moved to University College London as a professor in 2007. At University College London, she was also an honorary professor of computer science and an honorary senior research associate in mathematics. She became a professor at the Chair of Statistical Data Science at EPFL in 2019.
She was also a member of the Public Policy Commission of the Law Society of England and Wales, and served as university liaison director for University College London at the Alan Turing Institute for 2015–2016.

## Research

Her scientific work includes non-parametric function regression, high dimensional time series and point process analysis, and network data analysis.

## Recognition

Olhede won an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Leadership Fellowship in 2010, and an ERC consolidator fellowship in 2016. She was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2018 "for seminal contributions to the theory and application of large and heterogeneous networks, random fields and point process, for advancing research in data science, and for service to the profession through editorial and committee work".

## Selected works

* Janson, Svante; Olhede, Sofia (2021). "Can smooth graphons in several dimensions be represented by smooth graphons on $[0,1]$?". arXiv:2101.07587 [math.CO].
* Sykulski, Adam M.; Olhede, Sofia C.; Guillaumin, Arthur P.; Lilly, Jonathan M.; Early, Jeffrey J. (2019). "The debiased Whittle likelihood". Biometrika. 106 (2): 251–266. doi:10.1093/biomet/asy071. hdl:10044/1/98074.
* Lunagómez, Simón; Olhede, Sofia C.; Wolfe, Patrick J. (2020). "Modeling Network Populations via Graph Distances". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 116 (536): 1–18. arXiv:1904.07367. doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1763803. S2CID 119310085.
* Maugis, P.-A. G.; Olhede, S. C.; Priebe, C. E.; Wolfe, P. J. (2020). "Testing for Equivalence of Network Distribution Using Subgraph Counts". Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 29 (3): 455–465. arXiv:1701.00505. doi:10.1080/10618600.2020.1736085. S2CID 201049943.
# Ray Rush

Ray Rush is an American songwriter and record producer. After early collaborations with Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison, Rush moved into producing and promoting records of Texas musicians.

## Music career

Rush's music career began while a student at Odessa College, where he sang in a trio called the Roses, serving as a backup vocals on "Think It Over" by Buddy Holly in 1958. The Roses accompanied Holly and his band to New York in support of the song. Rush and the Roses sang backup vocals on other Crickets songs, such as "Wild One", ( aka, ' Real Wild Child '), in 1958. Rush was promotions manager of an early recording and publishing company formed by Holly, Prism Records.
Rush introduced Roy Orbison to Joe Melson, one of Orbison's most important early collaborators. Rush co-wrote "Mama" in 1962 with Orbison.
Rush was one of the founders of Zenith Productions. From 1966 to 1968, Zenith was in litigation with Scepter Records in a contractual dispute over B. J. Thomas. Zenith had recorded one of Thomas's early singles, and claimed contractual interference. Zenith settled in 1968 for $7,500, and Thomas signed with Scepter.
In 1968, Rush was hired by International Artists to revamp their operation. Rush produced several psychedelic rock albums with International Artists in the late 1960s, including The Thirteenth Floor Elevators', Bull of the Woods, and songs by Bubble Puppy in 1969. Rush produced records and also managed artists and repertoire with International.

## Singles discography

* A: "So What" / B: "Can This Be Love" (1962)
* A: "Lucky Star" / B: "A Hole in My Rockin' Shoes" (1963)
# List of places named after animals

This is a list of notable towns and other geographic features named after animals.

## Places named after horses

* Alexandria Bucephalous, former city founded by Alexander the Great in memory of his beloved horse Bucephalus
* Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway, village in Scotland renamed to honour the racing mare Beeswing
* Coronach, Saskatchewan, community in Canada named after the 1926 Derby winner Coronach
* Marvel Loch, Western Australia, small townsite named after the horse that won the Caulfield Cup in 1905
* Norseman, Western Australia, named after the founder's horse, Hardy Norseman
* Tarcoola, South Australia, named after the 1893 Melbourne Cup winner

## Places named after other animals

* Captains Flat, town in New South Wales, Australia, which may be named after a white bullock named "Captain"
* Knights Point, headland on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, named after a surveyor's dog called Knight
* Marco, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, settlement named after a dog owned by the district surveyor
# SoftSolutions

SoftSolutions was a very early document management system (or DMS), which was used primarily by law firms. While the system was in (relatively) wide use, it was purchased by WordPerfect in 1994, which was subsequently purchased by Novell in 1995, and was incorporated into NetWare 4.1. SoftSolutions was subsequently terminated as a product, but its features were incorporated into Novell's Group Wise product.
SoftSolutions is one of many products which caused near apocalyptic fears at the end of the 20th century, due to its "Y2K" non-compliance.
# Albert DeSilver

Albert DeSilver (August 27, 1888 – December 7, 1924) was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
DeSilver graduated from Yale in 1910, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and then earned a law degree at Columbia Law School (1913) (editor Columbia Law Review). Though he was being groomed for a place in New York's legal establishment, he resigned his law practice in 1918 to become one of the founding members of the National Civil Liberties Bureau (later known as the American Civil Liberties Union) to devote himself full-time to defending conscientious objectors, other citizens, and immigrants against persecution under new laws such as the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. During World War I, DeSilver used his own war bonds to post bail for defendants in free speech cases.
At the founding of the ACLU in 1920, DeSilver was named Associate Director and worked in legal defense, public education, and lobbying. While alive, DeSilver provided more than half of the ACLU's operating funds on an annual basis. He was killed by an express train at 36. After his death, DeSilver's wife, Margaret, continued contributing to the ACLU each year in his name. In her own right Margaret DeSilver acted as a patron of the arts, notably of Modernist poet Basil Bunting.
# Som du vill

"Som du vill" (Swedish:; transl. "As you want") is a Swedish language song by Swedish singer Theoz, released as a single on 5 February 2022. It was performed in Melodifestivalen 2022 and made it to the final on 12 March 2022.

## Charts
### Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Som du vill" :
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) | 7 |

### Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Som du vill" :
| Chart (2022) | Position |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) | 62 |
# Raymond Strange

Raymond Brackley Strange (27 October 1878 – 17 September 1962) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in nine first-class matches for Canterbury from 1901 to 1904. He later lived in Australia.

## Life and career

Born in Christchurch, Strange took a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket: in his second match, he ended Hawke's Bay's first innings by bowling the last batsman, Tom Dent, with his only delivery. Not until the 1988–89 season did another New Zealander (Stephen Hotter) take a wicket with his first ball in first-class cricket.
Strange was only an occasional bowler. He played as a batsman, and made his highest score of 52 against Wellington in January 1904. He was selected to represent South Island against North Island later that month, when he failed as an opening batsman but took four wickets in South Island's narrow victory. It was his last first-class match.
Strange moved to Sydney in December 1904 and lived in Parramatta, where he married Meta Mance in January 1910. In 1932 he set up a business with Meta as a manufacturer's representative in Hobart, but she died there in June 1934. They had four daughters. He spent some years working as a book-keeper on a sheep station in the Riverina region of New South Wales before returning to Sydney, where he died in September 1962, aged 83.
# Albert Opoku

Albert Mawere Opoku (1915–2002), was a Ghanaian choreographer, dancer, printmaker, painter, and educator. He was the first person to teach courses in African dance at the University of Ghana, Legon, and was also the founder and first director of the Ghana National Dance Ensemble.

## Early life and education

Opoku was born into an Asante royal family on 13 November 1915. His father Nana Mawere Opoku was the Asantehene's (king of the Asante kingdom) Okyeame (linguist). His mother Yaa Bemponma, on the other hand, was a renowned storyteller and the sister of the Asantehene's chief linguist, Kwasi Numah. Opoku was therefore a future linguist himself and was taught traditional lore from infancy. Opoku received his primary and secondary education at the Kumasi Government School from 1921 to 1931, and the Achimota Training College, from 1931 to 1934 respectively.
Upon the encouragement of H. V. Meyerowitz, he proceeded to the Achimota Special Arts Teachers School where he studied Fine Arts and Painting. In 1944, he gained admission to the Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, London, through the help of Meyerowitz. Following his studies at the Camberwell School of Art and Craft, he enrolled at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London in 1952, there, he studied a specialist Art Course. Opoku later read courses in Labanotation, Stage Craft, and Dance Techniques at the Juilliard School and the Martha Graham School in New York.

## Career

Between 1952 and 1957, Opoku taught graphic arts, especially composition on scraper board and wood engraving with the Art and Craft Specialist Course and the Diploma in Fine Art (DFA) course programmes of the School of Art, Kumasi College of Technology, now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Opoku came to the University of Ghana in 1962, when the then president of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah and Rex Nettleford, the Director of the Jamaican National Dance Company suggested the idea of creating a Ghana National Dance Ensemble. Opoku was tasked to document traditional dances from the various parts of the country. Under the directorship of Professor J.H. Nketia of the University of Ghana's Institute of African Studies, Opoku choreographed and arranged traditional dances which remained the standard repertoire of the Ghana Dance Ensemble.
Opoku designed the crest of the University of Ghana as well as founded the Ghana Dance Ensemble. His works include over 30 choreographic compositions that make up the foundations of various Ghanaian dance forms. Some of these include; Fontonfrom, Kpanlogo, Kete Apintim, Tokpey, Tora, and Have Etoi (also known as Boboobo).
Opoku passed on in 2002.

## Honors and awards

In 1975, the Grand Medal (Civil Division) was bestowed upon him by the then Ghanaian government for his service to the nation.