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22178835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolocucullia | Dolocucullia | Dolocucullia is a genus of American moth in the family of Noctuidae.
Species
Dolocucullia dentilinea (Smith, 1899)
Dolocucullia minor (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Cuculliinae |
25079127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexologies | Sexologies | Sexologies, subtitled European Journal of Sexual Health, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier and is the official journal for the European Federation of Sexology (EFS). Its co-Editors-in-Chief are Mireille Bonierbale and Robert Porto.
Articles in Sexologies contain original, synthetic articles on human sexuality, its dysfunctions and its management. The journal is interdisciplinary in nature, including contributions from anatomy and physiology; psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural, and relational psychology; epidemiology; sociology; forensics; and the neurochemistry of substances that have sexological effects.
It is indexed in Bibliosex and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica.
External links
Journal homepage
Official site of the European Federation of Sexology
Publications established in 1992
Sexology journals
Elsevier academic journals
Quarterly journals |
23839229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets%20of%20the%20Sun | Secrets of the Sun | Secrets of the Sun is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. The album is considered one of the more accessible recordings from his 'Solar' period. Originally released on Ra's own Saturn label in 1965, the record was unavailable for many years before being reissued on compact disc by Atavistic in 2008.
'Marking a transition in its development between the advanced swing of the early Chicago-era recordings and the increased free-form experimentation of its New York tenure, this album also reveals the first recorded versions of two Ra standards, "Friendly Galaxy" and "Love in Outer Space." Accessible, yet segueing into vanguard territory, this album highlights a fertile period in the Arkestra's history. Looser and more aggressive than its Chicago recordings, these pieces find the Arkestra pushing at the limits of harmony and tonality.' Troy Collins
Increasing free-form experimentation
The album is characterised by playful experimentation. Solar Symbols - a duo for percussion - used reverberation techniques that have since been considered an early foray into pure ambient music. Solar Differentials even featured an experimental 'Space Voice';
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Solar Differentials introduced Art Jenkins, a new "Space Vocalist". Jenkins had sought an audition with Sun Ra a few months before the recording, and sang some rhythm-and-blues tunes for him. Sonny told him that he had a nice voice, but what he was looking for was a singer who could do the impossible ("The possible has been tried and failed; now I want to try the impossible"). Art came back one day when they were recording at the Choreographer's Workshop, and dead set on getting on a record somehow, rummaged through a bag of miscellaneous instruments looking for something he could play. But every time he picked up something, someone in the band would tell him to leave it alone. When no one objected when he pulled a ram's horn from the bottom of the bag he began to sing into it, but backwards, with his mouth to the large opening, so that it gave out a weird sound which he made weirder by moving his hand over the small opening to alter the tone. Sonny broke out laughing, "Now that's impossible!" and asked him to improvise wordlessly on the record.' John F Szwed,
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When reissued on compact disc, the record came with an extended 17 minute 'soloing tour de force', Flight To Mars''.
Track listing
12" Vinyl
All songs by Sun RaSide A:"Friendly Galaxy"
"Solar Differentials"
"Space Aura"Side B:'''
"Love in Outer Space"
"Reflects Motion"
"Solar Symbols"
CD bonus track
"Flight to Mars"
Musicians
Sun Ra - Harp, Piano, Gong
John Gilmore - Space Bird Sounds, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Drums, Percussion
Art Jenkins - Space Voice
Calvin Newborn - Guitar, Electric Guitar
Marshall Allen - Flute, Alto Saxophone, Percussion
Pat Patrick - Flute, Baritone Saxophone, Bongos
Eddie Gale - Trumpet
Al Evans - Flugelhorn
Ronnie Boykins - Bass
Tommy Hunter - Drums, Tape Effects
C. Scoby Stroman - Drums
Jimmy Johnson - Percussion
Recorded entirely at the Choreographer's Workshop, New York (the Arkestra's rehearsal space) in 1962 by Tommy Hunter. The same sessions are believed to have also yielded a number of songs released on The Invisible Shield and What's New?, two Saturn albums released a decade later that also contained songs recorded in the 1970s.
Notes
Sun Ra albums
1962 albums
El Saturn Records albums
Atavistic Records albums |
24219637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeto%20Weltspiegel | Degeto Weltspiegel | Degeto Weltspiegel were short Nazi propaganda/news films that played in German cinemas from 1939–1943. There were a total of 50 reels. They were produced by Tobis Film on 35 mm film by special units within the German Army. The following list is not complete. Below are other specials within a certain theme.
Spanien und der 50. Geburtstag des Führers
Der Stählerne Pakt wird unterzeichnet
Danzig, Italien und Japan
Der Westwall
Danzig ist wieder deutsch
Führerhauptquartier
Warschau kapituliert
Deutsche Schiffe kontrollieren die See
Dänemark und Norwegen unter Deutschem Schutz
Vormarsch in Norwegen
Im Morgengrauen des 10. Mai 1940
Vorwärts durch Belgien
Aus der deutschen Seekriegsführung
Marz durch Belgien
Die Schlacht um Dunkirchen
Rheinübergang und Eroberung der Marginot Linie
Die Schlacht von Frankreich
Der Einzug in Paris
Zweimal Waffenstillstand
Entscheidung auf dem Balkan I. Englands Balkanplane
Entscheidung auf dem Balkan II. Jugoslawiens Ende
Entscheidung auf dem Balkan III. Der Sprung nach Kreta
Europas Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus I, (Kein titel)
Europas Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus II, Ein Erdteil marschiert
Europas Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus III, Kampf um Finnland
Europas Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus IV, Sowjetrussland; Stalin-Linie
Europas Kampf gegen den Bolschewismus V, Aus dem Führerhauptquartier, 19. Sept. 1941
General Rommel und die Panzerarmee Afrika
Deutsche Schlachtschiffe brechen durch den Kanal
Winterkrieg 1941/1942 im Osten
Eroberung von Kertsch
Die Schlacht bei Charkow
Tobruk Fallt – 21. Juni 1942
Kampf um Sewasatopol
Einnahme Sewastopol, die stärkste Festung der Welt
Vernichtung des Britisch-Amerikanischen Geleitzuges
Kämpfe zwischen Donez und Don
Sturm auf Rostow
Luftangriffe auf Malta und Kämpfe an der El Alamein Front
Sturm auf Armawyr und Woroschilowsky
Dieppe 19. Aug. 1942
Kaukasusfront (Elbrusbesteigung)
Kampf um Stalingrad
Von Murmansk bis Afrika
Luftangriffe im Osten
Heldengedenktag März 1943
III8 FALLSCHIRMJÄGER
III10 UNSERE STUKAS
IV7 BOMBEN AUF ENGLAND
I8 DEUTSCHE PANZERKREUZER
III9 U-BOOTE
IV6 HUSAREN DES MEERES
See also
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Nazism and cinema
German short documentary films
Films of Nazi Germany |
1597232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20I%2C%20Count%20of%20Boulogne | William I, Count of Boulogne | William I (11 October 1159) () was Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey jure uxoris from 1153 until his death. He was the second son of Stephen, King of England, and Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne.
William married Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey, in 1148. In 1153, Stephen agreed to pass over William's elder brother Eustace IV of Boulogne as heir to the throne, conceding the succession to Henry Plantagenet, son of his cousin and rival Empress Matilda. Eustace died shortly afterwards and when his father signed the Treaty of Wallingford, William received the lands intended for both brothers, making him immensely rich. The treaty ended the Anarchy, a succession struggle between Stephen and Matilda of which both sides were growing weary.
Stephen died in 1154, and Henry initially allowed William of Blois to retain the earldom of Surrey jure uxoris (in right of his wife). However, Gervase of Canterbury asserts a plot against Henry's life was discovered in 1154 among some Flemish mercenaries. The plan was to assassinate Henry in Canterbury, and allegedly William of Blois had knowledge of this plot or was in connivance with the mercenaries. Whatever the truth, Henry fled Canterbury and returned to Normandy.
William had no children. He died in 1159 of disease near Toulouse, and was buried at the Poitevin abbey of Montmorel (). He was succeeded in his county by his sister Mary I. His widow remarried to Henry's half-brother Hamelin.
References
Sources
R. H. C. Davis (1967), King Stephen
Thomas K. Keefe, "William, earl of Surrey (c. 1135–1159)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
1130s births
1159 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
12th-century English nobility
1041
Counts of Boulogne
Counts of Mortain
House of Blois
Children of Stephen, King of England
Anglo-Normans
Heirs apparent who never acceded
Sons of kings |
36463087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Libre%20Parole | La Libre Parole | La Libre Parole or La Libre Parole illustrée (French; Free Speech) was a French antisemitic political newspaper founded in 1892 by journalist and polemicist Édouard Drumont.
History
Claiming to adhere to theses close to socialism, La Libre Parole is known for its denunciation of various scandals, including the Panama scandal, which owes its name to the publication of a file about it in Drumont's newspaper.
At the time of the Dreyfus affair, La Libre Parole enjoyed considerable success, becoming the principal organ for Parisian antisemitism. In the aftermath of major Hubert-Joseph Henry's suicide it sponsored a public subscription in favour of the widow in which the donors could express a wish. (A short sample: 0.5 francs "by a cook who would like to put the Jews in her ovens"; 5 francs "by a vicar who ardently wish to exterminate all Jews and Freemasons"; 1 franc "by a little vicar of Poitou who would be happy to sing with joy a Requiem for the last Jew left".) Drumont and his collaborators claimed a link between Jews and capitalism, which shaped the anti-capitalist views of La Libre Parole.
Drumont left the management of the newspaper in 1898 when he made his entry in politics (elected as deputy of Algiers until 1902). Around 1908, wishing to sell La Libre Parole to Léon Daudet, Drumont tried to merge the newspaper with L'Action française, but the project failed.
Beginning in 1910, the newspaper was published by ultraconservative Catholics and never regained the level of success it had enjoyed with the belligerent style of Drumont. Gaston Méry was one of its editors in chief. In January 1919, he published a statement by the Marquis de l'Estourbeillon in favour of the teaching of Breton in school.
Anti-Semitism in France declined during the 1920s, in part because the fact that so many Jews died fighting for France during World War I made it more difficult to accuse them of not being patriotic. La Libre Parole, which had once sold 300,000 copies per issue, closed in 1924.
Legacy
The legacy of Drumont's daily newspaper was claimed by several ephemeral publications that reused the title La Libre Parole for nationalist and xenophobic organizations:
La Libre parole (1er no), later La Libre parole républicaine (Paris, 7 novembre 1926 – avril 1929).
La Libre Parole de Paris (later Fontainebleau) (1928-1929 [?]) represents itself in 1929 as being the continuation of Drumont's daily newspaper;
1930–1940s : the Libre parole of Henry Coston
La Libre parole, "Monthly review", later "Anti-judeo-masonic review" (Brunoy later Paris, 1930–1936), edited by Henry Coston. In April 1935 it absorbed the biweekly Le Porc-épic (The Porcupine) and then appeared as La Libre parole et le Porc-épic. In October 1937, it was replaced by Le Siècle nouveau, a monthly magazine published by the National Office of Propaganda (Vichy). This Libre parole was published in parallel with the following:
La Libre Parole, "Independent nationalist body", monthly magazine (Paris, I-III, October 1930–1932), edited by Henry Coston. It also appeared in the same year under the name La Libre parole politique et sociale.
It later became La Libre parole populaire, "Monthly publication continuing the work of Édouard Drumont" (Paris, I-II, 1933 – November 1934).
It changed name again to Libres paroles, "Journal de propagande nationaliste" (Paris, December 1934–1935).
Yet another change to La Libre parole "Journal hebdomadaire" (Paris, September 1935 – April 1939). In 1938, Coston officially took over the volume numbers of Drumont's La Libre parole.
Algiers deputy candidate Coston renamed his newspaper to La Libre parole d'Alger (later Libre Parole nord-africaine d'Alger et du Nord de l'Afrique), "Anti-jewish weekly of latin action" and sometimes La Parole enchaînée (Alger, avril 1936 – février 1937 and a final issue in 1939). Henry Coston invoked, to justify the cessation of publication, the seizure of publications, leaflets, archives and documents in its offices.
In 1940, the authorities of Nazi occupied France did not permit the newspaper to reappear. Coston used the title as a publishing label to publish, starting in 1943, the Bulletin d'information anti-maçonnique (Anti-masonic Information Bulletin), and Bulletin d'information sur la question juive (Information Bulletin on the Jewish Question).
See also
Panama scandals
Dreyfus Affair
Nationalism
References
Dreyfus affair
French nationalism
Publications established in 1892
1892 establishments in France
Publications disestablished in 1924
Antisemitic publications
Antisemitism in France
Defunct newspapers published in France
1924 disestablishments in France |
25944627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury%20Cathedral%20Choir | Salisbury Cathedral Choir | The Choir of Salisbury Cathedral exists to sing services in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England, and has probably been in existence since the consecration of the cathedral in 1258.
The choir comprises twenty boy choristers and twenty girl choristers aged from 8 to 13 years and six professional Lay Vicars singing countertenor, tenor and bass. Salisbury Cathedral was the first English cathedral to recruit girl choristers (in 1991) and, when in the cathedral, the girls' choir is usually wholly independent of the boys'. The weekly services are equally divided between the boy and girl choristers throughout the school year.
The choristers are educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, which is situated in the Cathedral Close. The Lay Vicars live locally.
In addition to services, the choir is involved in BBC broadcasts, concerts, CD recordings and the annual Southern Cathedrals Festival. The choir also broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. A documentary programme about the choir was shown on BBC4 television in March 2012 under the title Angelic Voices; it included episodes in the life of the members of both choirs over a four-month period.
The choir is directed by the Director of Music, currently David Halls, and accompanied by the Assistant Organist, plus an organ scholar, who is selected by audition on an annual basis.
Tours
In previous years the boys and men have travelled to Latvia, Estonia and France; the girls have visited Italy and Austria. In 2009 the boys and men of Salisbury Cathedral Choir made their first visit to Salisbury's twinned city of Saintes, France, a visit they repeated together with the girls choir in 2014. Another tour to Salisbury's other twin town of Xanten, Germany, took place just after Easter 2016.
Recordings
Recent recordings include:
2019 - Poetry in Music: Musical Settings of Words by George Herbert
2017 - Music for Sunday
2016 - Complete Psalms of David Volume 9 Series 2
2013 - Great Hymns from Salisbury
2009 - Christmas at Salisbury Cathedral
2009 - Bernard Naylor - The Nine Motets
2009 – Anthems from Salisbury
2008 – Christmas Carols from Wells and Salisbury
2008 – The Resurrection
2006 - The Virgin Mary's Journey
2004 - Praise and Thanksgiving: Anthems from Salisbury
2003 - King of Glory: Evensong from Salisbury
2001 - Angels' Song: The New Music of Salisbury Cathedral
2001 – From Darkness to Light
1997 – Britten: Spring Symphony
1997 – Sing Choirs of Angels
1996 – An English Chorister's Songbook
Notable former choristers
Edward Lowe (composer) (c.1602 – 1682)
Sir Stephen Fox (1627 – 1716)
Bernard Rose (musician) (1916–1996)
Nicholas Daniel (born 1962), oboist
See also
Anglican church music
References
External links
Choristers at Salisbury Cathedral School
Cathedral Friends annual report re music
Recent music lists
Video about the choristers
A history of the choristers
Girls' and women's choirs
English choirs
Organisations based in Wiltshire
1258 establishments in England
Musical groups established in the 13th century
Organizations established in the 1250s
Choir |
64460492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine%20Barbul%C3%A9e | Madeleine Barbulée | Madeleine Barbulée (2 September 1910 – 1 January 2001) was a French film, stage and television actress.
Selected filmography
Métier de fous (1948)
Les Casse Pieds (1948) - La chanteuse
Pattes blanches (1949) - La cousine (uncredited)
Mission in Tangier (1949) - Une dactylo du journal
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949) - La femme de chambre
Return to Life (1949) - (segment 5 : Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)
Cage of Girls (1949) - Une surveillante
Millionaires for One Day (1949) - L'infirmière
Rome Express (1950) - La libraire
Prélude à la gloire (1950) - Mademoiselle Duchemin
Le tampon du capiston (1950) - Une invitée
Le gang des tractions-arrière (1950)
Beware of Blondes (1950) - Mme Dubois
Without Leaving an Address (1951) - La marchande de jouets de la gare (uncredited)
Darling Caroline (1951) - Mme de Tourville, la gouvernante
Dr. Knock (1951) - Une infirmière (uncredited)
The Strange Madame X (1951) - Marthe (uncredited)
Beautiful Love (1951) - L'assistante du docteur Moulin
La vie chantée (1951) - La maman
The Voyage to America (1951) - L'économe
La plus belle fille du monde (1951) - La secrétaire de l'agence
Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951) - La chanteuse des rues
Great Man (1951) - Marie-Laure
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952) - La secrétaire céleste (segment "Paresse, La / Sloth")
Forbidden Games (1952) - Une soeur de la Croix-Rouge
Matrimonial Agency (1952) - Céline
Ouvert contre X... (1952) - La voisine
Trois femmes (1952)
Monsieur Taxi (1952) - La tricoteuse
Beauties of the Night (1952) - La femme au bureau de poste / Woman in post office (uncredited)
La jeune folle (1952) - La voyageuse
My Husband Is Marvelous (1952)
Deux de l'escadrille (1953)
Follow That Man (1953) - Mme Durbain - la concierge
Mandat d'amener (1953) - La femme du juge
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) - Une amie de Madame de... (uncredited)
Thérèse Raquin (1953) - Madame Noblet, une cliente
Zoé (1954)
After You Duchess (1954)
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I (1955) - Marie-Louise, la première bonne
Casse-cou, mademoiselle! (1955)
Papa, maman, ma femme et moi (1955) - Une collègue de Fernand
Le dossier noir (1955) - La soeur du procureur
Frou-Frou (1955) - Berthe, l'habilleuse
The Lowest Crime (1955) - L'infirmière
Les aristocrates (1955) - L'hôtelière
The Grand Maneuver (1955) - La dame au chapeau jaune
The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955) - La femme de chambre
Thirteen at the Table (1955) - (uncredited)
La Bande à papa (1956) - Mme Merlerin
Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956) - Mme Sophie (uncredited)
Mannequins of Paris (1956)) - Madame Madeleine - la première
Plucking the Daisy (1956) - Madame Dumont
Les lumières du soir (1956) - L'assistante sociale
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) - Madame Outarde
I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956) - Madame Lachaume
Les Collégiennes (1957) - Madame Letellier, la principale
Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957) - Mme Roberte
C'est une fille de Paname (1957)
Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957) - La pâtissière
In Case of Adversity (1958) - La cliente de la boucherie
Les Misérables (1958) - Soeur Simplice
Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958) - Madame Chaville
Love Is My Profession (1958) - Bordenave
Le petit prof (1959) - La veuve Mouriot
Guinguette (1959)
Gangster Boss (1959) - Mme. Rivoire (uncredited)
La bête à l'affût (1959) - Maria
Soupe au lait (1959)
Les affreux (1959) - La secrétaire
Détournement de mineur (1960) - Christine's Mother
Meurtre en 45 tours (1960) - La secrètaire
La brune que voilà (1960) - Madame Sivelle - la gouvernante
Coctail party (1960) - Julia Shuttlethwaite
Les Tortillards (1960) - Adélaïde Benoît
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962) - La mère
The Mysteries of Paris (1962) - Mme Godin
La foire aux cancres (Chronique d'une année scolaire) (1963)
Cent briques et des tuiles (1965) - Limonade
Le dimanche de la vie (1967) - Madame Faucolle
Pierre et Paul (1969) - Mathilde
La maison des Bories (1970) - Mlle Estienne
The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) - Mlle Janvier
Le cri du coeur (1974) - Berthe / maid
Incorrigible (1975) - La dame-pipi
L'Avare (1980) - La mère de Marianne
Les Séducteurs (1980) - Mamie (segment "The French Method")
Banzaï (1983) - Vieille dame avion
Vous habitez chez vos parents? (1983) - Mammy
La 7ème cible (1984) - L'antiquaire aux puces
La messe en si mineur (1990) - Madame Lopez
Roulez jeunesse! (1993) - Lise
References
Bibliography
Alison Smith. French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May''. Manchester University Press, 2005.
External links
1910 births
2001 deaths
French film actresses
French stage actresses
French television actresses
Actors from Nancy, France
20th-century French actresses |
27451057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srednje%20%28Ilija%C5%A1%29 | Srednje (Ilijaš) | Srednje () is a village in the municipality of Ilijaš, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 359.
References
Populated places in Ilijaš |
32482743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Tarakan%20Mall | Grand Tarakan Mall | Grand Tarakan Mall is a mall in the Tarakan, North Kalimantan, one of the major cities in Borneo. The Jakarta Post calls it "one of the biggest shopping centers in the city—and it is also the biggest in the entire region of Kalimantan.
The Mall is a central location where student congregate, and demonstrations sometimes take place
References
Shopping malls in Indonesia
Buildings and structures in North Kalimantan
Tourist attractions in North Kalimantan
Tarakan |
1053745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Mountain%20%28Australian%20Capital%20Territory%29 | Black Mountain (Australian Capital Territory) | Black Mountain, also known as Galambary to the Ngunnawal people, is a small mountain with an elevation of that is situated to the west of the Canberra central business district on the northern shore of Lake Burley Griffin, in the Australian Capital Territory of Australia. Black Mountain is protected from development by the Canberra Nature Park and is predominantly covered in native bushland and is a haven to native wildlife.
Location and features
The mountain is located west of the main campus of the Australian National University and, together with the ridge, forms a natural west and northwestern boundary for Canberra city. Black Mountain rises above the water level of Lake Burley Griffin that lies at its base. Situated close to the highest point on the mountain is Black Mountain Tower (previously known as Telstra Tower, and Telecom Tower), a broadcasting tower rising a further above the summit.
The Australian National Botanic Gardens and the CSIRO share the eastern base of Black Mountain, next to the Australian National University.
Black Mountain was originally named Black Hill at the same time as the naming of nearby Red Hill. The original name explains why the mountain is not now known as Mount Black, like nearby Mount Majura and Mount Ainslie. The early European settlers referred to the mountain formation as the Canberry Ranges.
Geology
The bulk of Black Mountain consists of the white quartz Black Mountain Sandstone. This was deposited in the late Early Silurian age. On the south east slopes and north west there are exposures of State Circle shale. The Black Mountain Peninsula contains mudstone in the north and greywacke from the Ordovician age Pittman Formation in the south.
References
External links
Parks in Canberra
Mountains of the Australian Capital Territory
Silurian volcanism |
43205648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munit%20Mesfin | Munit Mesfin | Munit Mesfin (born 1981) is an Ethiopian singer and songwriter best known for working in a duo with German vocalist and guitarist Jӧrg Pfeil. Munit sings in her mother tongue Amharic and English, with inspiration from traditional Ethiopian songs. Some of her music includes vocalization without words. Mesfin has a focus on social issues and female empowerment.
Early life
Munit Mesfin was born in 1981 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her mother is Dr. Tewabech Bishaw, a public health professional and a pioneer, who was the first female public health officer in Ethiopia. Her father is Prof. Mesfin Abebe, Ethiopia's first soil scientist, who has worked his whole life for the protection of Ethiopia's natural resources, especially its soil. Both of her parents grew up in the city of Jimma, Ethiopia.
Munit moved to India at the age of ten because of her mother's work with UNICEF. She moved to Windhoek, Namibia, at fourteen, where she completed her GCE Ordinary Levels. At sixteen, she moved to the United States, where she attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts. She went on to study economics and government at Smith College, a private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts. During her youth, Munit performed with various local choirs. While at Smith, Mesfin performed with the college's a capella group, the Smiffenpoofs.
Musical career
While living in Washington, D.C. after college, Munit was a backup singer for Ethiopian-American soul singer Wayna. She worked with many other Ethiopian musicians, including her brother, Jorga Mesfin, an Ethio-jazz saxophonist. After living abroad for almost 20 years, Munit returned to Ethiopia in 2007 during the celebration of the Ethiopian Millenium, where she met her frequent collaborator, Jӧrg Pfeil.
Since then, the pair have released two albums as Munit and Jӧrg: Just the two of us: Live at the coffee house, in 2008, and , released in March 2013.
Personal life
Munit Mesfin is married and has three children.
References
Women singer-songwriters
Ethiopian musicians
Soul music
Smith College alumni |
4148158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sydney%20Roosters%20players | List of Sydney Roosters players | There have been over 1,200 rugby league footballers who have played for the Sydney Roosters in the premiership since its foundation in 1908. They are listed in order of cap number, with the first going to the club's inaugural captain, Harry “Jersey” Flegg. The Sydney Roosters are one of only two extant clubs from the League's foundation year of 1908, and are the only one to have played continuously in all seasons since, making their players' register one of the most extensive. Only first grade stats are counted and non first grade stats do not apply on this list.
List of players
NRL List updated as of conclusion of 2022 season.
NRLW List updated as of conclusion of 2022 season.
Mens players highlighted in bold are contracted with the Roosters for next years 2023 NRL season.
Women's
External links
Men's Honour Roll
Home - Rugby League Project
National Rugby League lists
Lists of Australian rugby league players
Sydney-sport-related lists |
6760266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20State%20Route%20203 | Georgia State Route 203 | State Route 203 (SR 203) is a Arc shaped state highway in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. Its routing is within portions of Pierce, Bacon, Appling, and Wayne counties. Its southern terminus is in Blackshear. It heads northwest to a point east of Alma and curves to the east to a point southwest of Jesup.
Route description
SR 203 begins at an intersection with SR 15/SR 121 in Blackshear, in Pierce County. The route heads northwest through rural areas until it enters Bacon County. It continues northwest until it has a very brief concurrency with SR 32, east of Alma. SR 203 curves to the east, and enters Appling County. There, it meets SR 32 and SR 121. Then, it continues to the east, entering Wayne County, to meet its northern terminus, an intersection with US 84/SR 38, southwest of Jesup.
SR 203 is not part of the National Highway System, a system of roadways important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility.
Major intersections
See also
References
External links
Georgia Roads (Routes 201 - 220)
Georgia State Route 203 on State-Ends.com
203
Transportation in Pierce County, Georgia
Transportation in Bacon County, Georgia
Transportation in Appling County, Georgia
Transportation in Wayne County, Georgia |
34155589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derekh | Derekh | Derekh (דרך) is the Hebrew word for "path, way". It may refer to:
Derekh Eretz (disambiguation) "the way of the land", a genre of Jewish philosophy
Dorshei Derekh, a Jewish prayer group
Derekh Hamelekh, an Israeli pop song
Off the derech, disaffiliation of a Jew from Orthodox Judaism
See also
Derek |
40639614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopla | Echinopla | Echinopla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is distributed from Singapore and Sumatra (Indonesia) to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Species
Echinopla arfaki Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla australis Forel, 1901
Echinopla cherapunjiensis Bharti & Gul, 2012
Echinopla corrugata Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla crenulata Donisthorpe, 1941
Echinopla deceptor Smith, 1863
Echinopla densistriata Stitz, 1938
Echinopla dubitata Smith, 1862
Echinopla lineata Mayr, 1862
Echinopla maeandrina Stitz, 1938
Echinopla melanarctos Smith, 1857
Echinopla mistura (Smith, 1860)
Echinopla nitida Smith, 1863
Echinopla octodentata Stitz, 1911
Echinopla pallipes Smith, 1857
Echinopla praetexta Smith, 1860
Echinopla pseudostriata Donisthorpe, 1943
Echinopla rugosa André, 1892
Echinopla serrata (Smith, 1859)
Echinopla silvestrii Donisthorpe, 1936
Echinopla striata Smith, 1857
Echinopla tritschleri Forel, 1901
Echinopla turneri Forel, 1901
Echinopla vermiculata Emery, 1898
References
External links
Formicinae
Ant genera |
69357268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis%20rubens | Oxalis rubens | Oxalis rubens is a small herbaceous plant found in coastal areas of Australia and New Zealand. Branches are erect or ascending, up to 35 cm long, of a dull red-brown colour. The specific epithet rubens is derived from Latin, meaning reddish in colour.
References
rubens
Plants described in 1803
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Flora of Queensland
Flora of Tasmania
Flora of South Australia
Flora of New Zealand
Flora of Lord Howe Island
Flora of Norfolk Island |
33650940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Herbert | Ernie Herbert | Earn Albert "Ernie" Herbert (January 30, 1887 – January 13, 1968), nicknamed "Tex", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds in and the St. Louis Terriers in and . He holds the major league career record for most innings pitched (115.2) without a loss.
References
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1887 births
1968 deaths
Cincinnati Reds players
St. Louis Terriers
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from Missouri
Austin Senators players
Waco Navigators players
Shreveport Pirates (baseball) players
Montgomery Rebels players
Portsmouth Pirates players
Nashville Vols players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
San Antonio Bears players
Alexandria White Sox players |
50534738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20P.%20Connolly | James P. Connolly | James P. Connolly is an American comedian and tv/radio host known for his frequent guest appearances on Larry Charles' Dangerous Word of Comedy on Netflix, America’s Got Talent, and on several SiriusXM Comedy Channels. In 2002, Connolly was named Grand Comedy Champion on Next Big Star, a television talent show hosted by Ed McMahon. He is one of the most played comedians on Sirius XM Comedy and a sought after host for Fortune 500 companies and global events.
Early life
James P. Connolly was born and raised in San Mateo, California. He graduated Aragon High School. He attended Harvard University on a Marine Corps ROTC Scholarship.
Military service
After college, Connolly was stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, rising to the rank of captain, and served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. There, his commanding officer, commissioned Connolly to write jokes for an officer's roast, which Connolly credits as the start of his comedy career.
Career
After a short stint as a karaoke DJ in San Diego, Connolly relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he began his comedy career at the World Famous Comedy Store in 1995 and worked as a Tour Guide at Universal Studios. Connolly began his career with a hipster onstage persona before losing the white jacket and the hipster style for a more contemporary look.
Connolly has appeared on Comedy Central and HBO. He won Grand Comedy Champion on Ed McMahon's short-lived talent show and has made multiple trips overseas to entertain the troops. He is a go-to for Fortune 500 companies and travels the world for events and meetings. Connolly hosted VH1's "Movie Obsessions" and "Live From Here" on XM Radio for National Lampoon. In October 2013, he recorded the SiriusXM Blue Collar Radio Comedy Concert at SirusXM's Nashville Studios.
Awards
Connolly was named Grand Comedy Champion on Next Big Star on TV Talent show hosted by Ed McMahon. He was awarded "Best of the Fest" at the San Luis Obispo Comedy Festival and four times in a row at the Burbank Comedy Festival. He was a finalist at the San Francisco International Comedy Competition (twice), Comedy Central National Stand Up Comedy Competition and the Boston Comedy Festival (twice).
Discography
Television, film and radio
Television appearances
Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy (2019)
America's Got Talent (2017)
Comics Unleashed (2015)
Bob & Tom TV Show WGN (2008)
An American Thanksgiving with Bryant Gumbel (2006)
Latino Laugh Festival: The Show – Si Tv (2004)
Movie Obsessions (2002)
Next Big Star, w/Host Ed McMahon (2001–2002)
Jerry Lewis Telethon (1997, 1998)
Comedy Central – "Make Me Laugh" (1997)
Film
Holding Lucid (2014)
The Act (2004)
Boxing's Been Good to Me (2000)
Radio
SiriusXM Blue Collar Radio Comedy Concert
Audible A Journey from Combat to Comedy
Live From Here
The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian
The Mother Funny Show by Kira Soltanovich
Bob and Tom Radio Show
References
External links
James P. Connolly official site
Harvard University alumni
American male film actors
American stand-up comedians
American talk radio hosts
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Living people
United States Marine Corps personnel of the Gulf War
People from San Mateo, California
Comedians from California
20th-century American comedians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
46894868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ours%20Is%20Chrome | Ours Is Chrome | Ours Is Chrome is the second and thus far final studio album by American alternative rock band Superheaven, released on May 4, 2015. The snake on the cover is a DeKay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi).
Track listing
Personnel
Superheaven
Taylor Madison – guitar, vocals
Jake Clarke – guitar, vocals
Joe Kane – bass
Zack Robbins – drums
Additional personnel
Will Yip – production, mixing, background vocals, additional percussion
Matthew Bailey – additional percussion
Vince Ratti – mixing
Jay Preston – assisting engineering
Charts
References
Superheaven albums
2015 albums
Albums produced by Will Yip |
51467737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn%20Blanco | Joaquín Blanco | Joaquín Blanco may refer to:
Joaquín Blanco Albalat (born 1989), Spanish Olympic sailor
Joaquín Blanco Roca (born 1957), Spanish Olympic sailor |
8285706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland%20Winn%2C%201st%20Baron%20St%20Oswald | Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald | Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.
He was instrumental in promoting and developing the ironstone ore fields in North Lincolnshire leading to the establishment of Scunthorpe as a national iron production center, and a key promoter of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway.
Biography
The eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, he lived in the 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near Scunthorpe, and married Harriet Dumaresque. Aware that the area had produced iron in Roman times, he searched for ironstone on his land, and found it in 1859. He marketed it to iron-makers, leased land for mining, mined his own ore and encouraged the building of iron works.
To transport the iron and to bring the coal necessary for the smelting, Winn campaigned for a railway to be built, which required the passage of an Act of Parliament. The Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway opened in 1866, and Winn also built 193 houses in New Frodingham and enlarged the local school. Later, he financed the building of Scunthorpe Church of England School and St John's Church.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Lincolnshire from 1868 to 1885, and served as a junior Lord of the Treasury (Government whip) in Disraeli's second government, from 1874 to 1880. He was Conservative Party Chief Whip from 1880 to 1885. Here he had to deal with Lord Randolph Churchill as his Forth Party. He was later ennobled as Baron Saint Oswald, of Nostell in the West Riding of the County of York in 1885, when the Conservatives were returned to power.
He returned to live at Nostell Priory when he inherited the house from his father in 1874, but his mother and unmarried sisters continued to live at Appleby.
His son Rowland (1857–1919) was MP for Pontefract from 1885 to 1893. His daughter Maud married Lt-General Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley. In 1897, Baron and Lady St. Oswald and their daughter Maud were guests at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Costume Ball. His daughter Laura married Valentine Lawless, 4th Baron Cloncurry, an Irish nobleman.
Arms
Notes
References
External links
1820 births
Saint Oswald, Rowland Winn, 1st Baron
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs who were granted peerages
1893 deaths
Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria |
5492072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate%20Crescent | Collegiate Crescent | Collegiate Crescent is a crescent forming part of the Broomhall Estate in S10, Sheffield, that intersects with Ecclesall Road. One of two long-standing campuses of Sheffield Hallam University, the facility is based in specially constructed buildings as well as many houses and villas on the left hand side of the crescent until the road crosses Park Lane. This university campus is referred to in the university as 'Collegiate Crescent' due to its location. The Collegiate Crescent campus is home to the university's School of Cultural Studies and is also the university's main sports site.
Sheffield Hallam's £15m "beacon for health and social care education" was officially opened at Collegiate Crescent by the University Chancellor, Professor the Lord Winston, in May 2005.
It was the site of the former City of Sheffield Training College, a teacher training institute and one of the predecessor institutions of the university. Hence alumni of the former college are known as "Crescenters".
References
Sheffield Hallam University |
51909380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefina%20Stubbs | Josefina Stubbs | Josefina Stubbs (born November 25, 1959) is a development practitioner and was nominated by the Government of the Dominican Republic for President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in the 2017 elections. Josefina Stubbs has dedicated her career to the plight of poor women and men around the world. Between 1984 and 2000, she managed national and regional programs for Oxfam UK where she strongly advocated for smallholder farmers’ participation in decision-making and project design. Between 2000 and 2008, Stubbs led several initiatives at the World Bank aimed to strengthen the inclusion and participation of rural communities and marginalized groups in development policies and investment programs. In IFAD, where she served from 2008 until 2016 – when her candidacy for President of IFAD was announced – Stubbs focused on fostering dialogue and collaboration within and between countries, improving aid effectiveness and impact measurement, and design IFAD’s strategy for 2016-2025. She has contributed to position IFAD as the world’s leader in inclusive rural transformation, and placed smallholder farmers at the center of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
Early life and education
Stubbs was born in Sanchez, Samana, a small town on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic and raised in the capital city, Santo Domingo. She attended the Colegio Santo Domingo and Quisqueya where from the very early years she excelled as a student and as leader. Her mother, Bienvenida Mercedes, a school teacher for over 40 years, taught generations of Dominican women and men. Her father, an engineer, was educated in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico. Her sisters Paulina and Carolina are in the field of science and engineering, and management.
Stubbs attended the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo where she earned a B. Sc. in Psychology in 1981 and a M.A in Sociology in 1983. In 1991, she earned a M. Sc. In Political Science and International Development at the Institute of Social Science, in The Hague, Holland.
Professional career
Stubbs started her career in Oxfam in 1984 in her home country. She worked with grassroots organizations and local groups, donor organizations and governments, pioneering a participatory decision-making process that including poor urban and rural communities. Her legacy in the Dominican Republic includes the entrance of small scale producers of coffee, cocoa and banana in the then nascent fair trade market in Europe with companies such as Max Havelaar and in the United States with Starbucks. Between 1997 and 2000, she was appointed Regional Director for the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, where she continued to empower grassroots organizations to increase and improve their production and enter formal food and commodity markets.
In 1995, in her functions as Director of the Caribbean and Central America region of Oxfam UK she forged the first model of partnership with other Oxfam offices, forming the basis for today’s Oxfam International.
Between 2000 and 2006, she served as Sector Leader at the World Bank in Rural, Environment and Social Development. At the Bank, Stubbs designed and introduced policies and operational procedures in the areas of gender and economic empowerment, integration of people of African descent and indigenous peoples in World Bank operations and community-driven development programs, and led the mainstreaming of inclusive social safeguard policies for rural sector investments. Stubbs also led the design and implementation of the new analytical, financial and policy instruments for the systematic inclusion of women, people of African descent and indigenous peoples in mainstream development programs.
In 2008, Stubbs was appointed Regional Director in the Latin America and the Caribbean Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), where she continued working to introduce innovations and foster dialogue and cooperation between governments, co-financiers, the private sector and civil society. In 2014, she became IFAD’s Associate Vice-President for the new Strategy and Knowledge, leading the Department to produce IFAD’s Strategy 2016-2025, the Rural Development Report 2016, a new corporate program effectiveness and impacts reporting system, and an innovative results and impact measurement framework for improved aid effectiveness. Under her leadership, IFAD was recognized as the world’s leader in fostering inclusive rural transformation, with smallholder farmers at the center of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
References
Josefina Stubbs josefinastubbs.net
Osava, M & Kamal, B. FIDA 2017 - Place aux femmes dans le développement rural. IPS News. 6 February 2017.
Osava, M & Kamal, B. É tempo das mulheres no setor rural. IPS Noticias. 6 February 2017.
Osava, M & Kamal, B. FIDA 2017 – Tiempo de las mujeres en el desarrollo rural. IPS Noticias. 6 February 2017.
Osava, M & Kamal, B. IFAD 2017 – It’s Women’s Turn in Rural Development. IPS News. 6 February 2017.
Stubbs, J. Investing in poor rural communities makes business sense. 2 February 2017.
Stubbs, J. La paz se siembra con el desarrollo rural. IPS News. 25 January 2017.
Stubbs, J. Récolter la paix: comment le développement rural fonctionne pour la prévention des conflits. IPS News. 25 January 2017.
Stubbs, J. Harvesting peace: how rural development works for conflict prevention. IPS News. 23 January 2017.
Stubbs, J. How a changing climate affects what makes it onto your plate. 9 January 2017.
Stubbs, J. Food for the soul – a recipe for transforming poor rural communities. 21 December 2016.
Pita, A. “Dar oportunidades al mundo rural es la única manera de regular la migración”. El País. Planeta Futuro. 25 November 2016.
Stubbs, J. Powerless and bruised: why violence against women hurts development. 25 November 2016.
Lewis, D & Stubbs, J. Thriving Rural Communities Is a Recipe for Healthy Cities. IPS News. 17 November 2016.
Lewis, D & Stubbs, J. Las ciudades saludables requieren comunidades rurales prósperas. IPS News. 17 November 2016.
Lewis, D & Stubbs, J. Les Communautés Rurales Florissantes Sont Une Recette Pour Des Villes Saines. IPS News. 17 November 2016.
Stubbs, J. Statement by Josefina Stubbs, Chief Strategist and Associate Vice President. World Humanitarian Summit. 24 May 2016
Kumar, A. World will make it in terms of SDGs only if India can: Josefina Stubbs, IFAD. OneWorld South Asia. 23 May 2016.
Kamal, B. We Cannot Keep Jumping from Crisis to Crisis. IPS News. 20 May 2016.
Stubbs, J. Opening remarks at the India Country Programme Evaluation National Round-table Workshop. IFAD. 12 May 2016.
Press release. Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs took place in Moscow. Social and Industrial Food Service Institute. 10 September 2015.
Pasquini, E. L. IFAD VP: Career success isn't a mystery, it's hard work. Devex. 25 August 2015.
Rai EXPO 2015. Stubbs: “1 more billion people out of poverty”. Interview with Associate Vice-president of Ifad about the ‘Millennium goals’, to be reached within 2015. 26 June 2015.
Servicios DICOM. Vicepresidente del FIDA visita a Medina. El Caribe. 23 May 2015.
Press release. Presidente Danilo Medina recibe a vicepresidenta del FIDA, Josefina Stubbs. Presidencia de la República Dominicana. 22 May 2015.
Press release. Danilo Medina se reúne con Josefina Stubbs, nueva vicepresidenta del FIDA. Presidencia de la República Dominicana. 28 September 2014.
Feliz, N. Designan a Josefina Stubbs en Vicepresidencia Adjunta del FIDA. Atento rd. 20 September 2014.
Press release. Presidente Medina recibe a directora del FIDA. Presidencia de la República Dominicana. 2 June 2014.
Press release. El FIDA apoyará al país en lucha contra la pobreza. Presidencia de la República Dominicana. 23 March 2013.
Stubbs, J. Leveraging Private Partnerships: Smallholders tap new markets in Guatemala. International Trade Forum Partnerships. 1 October 2011
Ponce, J. (Josefina Stubbs & Hiska N. Reyes ed.). Más allá de los prometidos: Afrodescendientes en América Latina-Los Afroecuatorianos. (2006). The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank. Retrieved from: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLACAFROLATINSINSPA/Resources/ECUADOR_final.pdf
Stubbs, J. Gender in Development: A Long Haul-But We're Getting There! Development in Practice. Vol. 10, No. 3/4, 10th Anniversary Issue (Aug., 2000), pp. 535–542. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Retrieved from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4029581?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1959 births
Living people
21st-century Dominican Republic women politicians
21st-century Dominican Republic politicians
Dominican Republic politicians
People from Samaná Province
People from Santo Domingo |
21821790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aliwa%2C%20Warmian-Masurian%20Voivodeship | Śliwa, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship | Śliwa (German Schliewe) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zalewo, within Iława County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Zalewo, north of Iława, and west of the regional capital Olsztyn.
References
Villages in Iława County |
27353741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrix%20ocularis | Hypotrix ocularis | Hypotrix ocularis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from south-western New Mexico and south-eastern Arizona southward to Mexico City.
The length of the forewings is 14–16 mm. Adults are on wing in June.
Etymology
The name of this species, ocularis, is Latin for eye and refers to the eye-like reniform spot on each forewing.
External links
A revision of the genus Hypotrix Guenée in North America with descriptions of four new species and a new genus (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Eriopygini)
mothphotographersgroup
Hypotrix
Moths described in 2010 |
20623667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezhupunna | Ezhupunna | Ezhupunna is a village in the taluk of Cherthala in Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala. It lies between Alappuzha and Kochi, near National Highway 66. There is also a railway station, where only passenger trains halt. This is a panchayat which come under the Aroor Assembly constituency and the Alappuzha Parliamentary constituency. The village have borders with Kumbalangy and Chellanam, suburbs of the city of Kochi.
Location
Economy
Prawn farming, pokkali rice cultivation and coconut plantation are means of livelihood. A good number of people have white collar jobs mainly in Kochi.
Companies/Factories/Warehouses
Accelerated Freeze Drying Company (AFDC).
Amalgam Nutrients and Feeds Ltd.
Innovative Foods Ltd.
Snowman Frozen Foods Ltd.
Schools
The first high school in Ezhupunna, St Raphel's High School. Ezhupunna.
One of the main schools in the village is Nair Samajam Lower Primary School, St Mary's L.P school near Vadakakath Church, Ezhupunna North and Amala Public School.
Demographics
India census, Ezhupunna had a population of 27206 with 13214 males and 13992 females.
References
Villages in Alappuzha district |
7828582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20Delmore | Derrick Delmore | Derrick Delmore (born December 12, 1978) is an American figure skater. He is the 1998 World Junior champion, the 2000 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist, 2000 Karl Schäfer Memorial bronze medalist, and 1999 U.S. National Collegiate champion.
Personal life
Derrick Delmore was born on December 12, 1978 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. In 1995, he was awarded the Paderewski medal for a decade of playing classical piano at the national level. He attended Stanford University, graduating in June 2000 with a double major in communications and psychology. Derrick is married to San Francisco-based physician Dr. Kenneth Leong.
Career
Delmore started skating when he was eight years old. He competed in novice pair skating with Alix Clymer in the 1990–91 season and with Crystal Kim in the 1995–96 season. Competing in men's singles, he won the pewter medal (fourth place) on the novice level at the 1992 U.S. Championships and on the junior level at the 1995 U.S. Championships.
During the 1997–98 ISU Junior Series, Delmore won silver in Bulgaria and finished sixth in Hungary. In December 1997, he was awarded gold ahead of Russia's Sergei Davydov and China's Li Yunfei at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
At the 2002 Skate America, Delmore broke one of his blades during a practice session and back-up skates were delivered to him hours before the short program. He went on to finish 8th at the event. A right hip flexor injury began bothering him in early November 2002 after he fell on a quad attempt at the 2002 Skate Canada International. Due to the injury, he withdrew from the 2003 U.S. Championships after placing 12th in the short program.
Delmore appeared as the male lead in a musical production of Cold As Ice at the Gateway Playhouse in 2007 in New York. In 2008, he retired from single skating to compete as a pair skater. He and his partner, Kelcie Lee, placed 5th at the junior level at the Sectional Championship; they did not qualify for the 2009 U.S. Championships.
Delmore works as a skating coach at the East West Ice Palace in California.
Programs
Competitive highlights
Pairs career
Singles career
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Series (Junior Grand Prix)
References
External links
Personal website
American male pair skaters
American male single skaters
LGBT figure skaters
1978 births
Living people
Stanford University alumni
People from Prince George's County, Maryland
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists |
9315476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaryszew | Skaryszew | Skaryszew is a town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,922 inhabitants (2004). The town is located on the Kobylanka river, and belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland. Skaryszew lies on a regional road nr. 733, and for most of its history was part of Sandomierz Voivodeship. In the past it was an important urban center of northern Lesser Poland, with town charter granted to Skaryszew as early as 1264.
History
First documented mention of Skaryszew comes from the year 1198, when the village belonged to the Abbey of Order of the Holy Sepulchre, located at Miechów. The monks opened here a branch of their abbey, and probably in the late 12th century, a wooden church of St. Jacob was built, together with a house for the monks. Due to the efforts of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, merchants and skilled artisans were attracted to the quickly growing village. Skaryszew was destroyed in the Mongol invasion of Poland, and soon afterwards, Duke of Kraków and Sandomierz Bolesław V the Chaste granted the village the so-called Środa Śląska town charter, based on the charter of Nowy Korczyn (see also Magdeburg rights). The charter was confirmed by King Casimir III the Great in 1354.
Skaryszew prospered in the late Middle Ages and the Polish Golden Age, but in the late 16th century, it began to decline, at the expense of the quickly developing urban center at Radom. The town had a bath house (late 15th century), Thursday fairs, a brewery, a town hall (before 1618), and a hospital (1629). Like in almost all Lesser Poland’s towns, the period of prosperity definitely ended during the Swedish invasion of Poland, when Skaryszew was ransacked and burned, with most of its inhabitants murdered (1655). By 1670, the population shrank to 363, and Skaryszew did not begin to recover until the 1760s, when the population grew to app. 700. The town became famous for its horse markets, which still exist and which are very popular.
In 1701, a new church was built, with two towers. The shape of Skaryszew’s streets, established in the early 18th century, remains almost unchanged. At that time, most houses were made of timber, which resulted in frequent fires. Skaryszew had a town hall, located in the market square. In the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, it was annexed by Austria. Following the Austro-Polish War of 1809 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution it belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland (since 1815). In the late 19th century, the population grew to app. 1,300, but in 1869, following the January Uprising, Skaryszew lost its town charter for 76 years. In an 1889 fire, almost whole village was burned, but it was quickly rebuilt.
In 1918 Poland regained independence and control of the town. On July 1, 1922, the government of the Second Polish Republic returned town charter to Skaryszew. In the interbellum period, and in 1945 - 1975, Skaryszew belonged to Kielce Voivodeship. Before the outbreak of World War II, the town’s population was 3,100. On September 8, 1939, Skaryszew was bombed by the Luftwaffe. The war brought destruction to the town, and its Jewish residents were murdered in the Holocaust.
Horse markets
According to some sources, first horse market at Skaryszew took place in 1432. In 1633, King Władysław IV Vasa allowed the markets to be organized on the first Monday after Ash Wednesday, which usually is in mid-March. This tradition has been kept until today. During the 2012 horse market, members of several anti-cruelty organizations protested, claiming that horses are not treated properly by their owners, and those animals which are not sold, are in many cases killed for meat.
Points of interest
Baroque church of St. Jacob (17th century),
19th century Catholic cemetery, with a chapel.
Symbols
Coat of arms: Sable a cross of lorraine gules.
Flag: Gules, a wider central pale sable charged with a cross of lorraine of the first.
References
History of Skaryszew at town's webpage
Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship
Radom County
Radom Governorate
Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Holocaust locations in Poland |
6115315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Kampot | Battle of Kampot | The Battle of Kampot was a major battle of the Vietnam War, also a part of the Cambodian Civil War. From February 26 to April 2, 1974, Cambodian government troops battled Khmer Rouge guerillas for the control of Kampot city.
The Battle of Kampot
The Khmer Rouge commenced their attack north of Kampot on February 26, pounding the city with 107mm rockets and 120mm mortars.
During the first week of fighting, elements of the Cambodian Army 12th and 68th Brigades abandoned their positions, while the 210th and 68th Battalions were deactivated after 300 soldiers deserted during the first day of the enemy onslaught. The desertions allowed the Khmer Rouge to capture the city water works, as a result, half of Kampot's inhabitants fled the city due to the dwindling water supply.
With support from the navy, air force and artillery units, the 12th and 20th Brigades of the Cambodian army counter-attacked the north-east. Rather than advance, the Cambodian government units developed a defensive posture as the Khmer Rouge's positions were strengthened. Between March 2-March 10 Kampot was further reinforced with six 105mm artillery pieces and two more battalions. On April 3, government defensive positions near Kampot airfield were abandoned after the Khmer Rouge completely isolated it.
Aftermath
Despite the Cambodian Army's heavy resistance, the Khmer Rouge eventually captured the city of Kampot on April 2. Both sides suffered heavy casualties during the fighting but many more civilians were rendered homeless. After the fall of Kampot, the Khmer Rouge launched another offensive to capture Oudong.
See also
Battle of Oudong
Cambodian Civil War
Khmer National Armed Forces
Khmer Rouge
Operation Chenla I
Operation Chenla II
Weapons of the Cambodian Civil War
References
Kenneth Conboy, FANK: A History of the Cambodian Armed Forces, 1970-1975, Equinox Publishing (Asia) Pte Ltd, Djakarta 2011.
Kenneth Conboy, Kenneth Bowra, and Mike Chappell, The War in Cambodia 1970-75, Men-at-arms series 209, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1989.
Russell R. Ross (editor), Cambodia, a Country Study, Area Handbook Series (Third edition), Department of the Army, American University, Washington D.C. 1987.
Sak Sutsakhan, The Khmer Republic at War and the Final Collapse, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington D.C. 1980. – available online at Part 1Part 2Part 3 Part 4.
Kampot
Kampot
1974 in Cambodia
Kampot province
Battlefields in Cambodia
Conflicts in 1974
February 1974 events in Asia
March 1974 events in Asia
April 1974 events in Asia |
70986635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry%20Cola | Sherry Cola | Sherry Cola is an American comedian and actress. She played Alice Kwan in Freeform's Good Trouble.
Early life
Cola was born in Shanghai, China, and later moved to Temple City, California. Her parents ran a restaurant in San Gabriel, California.
Cola attended California State University, Fullerton for seven years, saying about that time, "I didn’t have my shit together, frankly". At CSU Fullerton, she did campus radio and after graduation, she worked at 97.1 FM.
Career
Cola later got a segment on Carson Daly's radio show. She later began pursuing comedy by taking Upright Citizens Brigade classes and doing stand-up comedy.
She got her break in television in 2017 after landing a seven-episode appearance on Amazon Prime Video' I Love Dick.
Filmography
Film
Television
Personal life
Cola is bisexual. She was a Grand Marshal at San Francisco Pride 2022.
References
External links
20th-century births
Living people
Year of birth uncertain
American actresses of Chinese descent
American comedians of Asian descent
California State University, Fullerton alumni
LGBT actors from China
American LGBT actors
LGBT American people of Asian descent
Bisexual actresses |
4601214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardisode | Tardisode | Tardisodes are mini-episodes of the television programme Doctor Who, created to accompany the 2006 series of the programme. Made by Doctor Who producers BBC Wales, each Tardisode is approximately 60 seconds long and serves as an introduction to one of the actual 45-minute episodes. They were available on the BBC Doctor Who website free of charge, and on mobile phones by subscription. They were produced as an effort by the BBC to expand the reach of Doctor Who beyond the television series, and include footage not seen on television, and some back-story for the following episode. Their name is a portmanteau of the words TARDIS and "episode".
The first Tardisode, a prequel to "New Earth", was released by the BBC on 1 April 2006; it was promoted in the accompanying children's series Totally Doctor Who. New Tardisodes were released a week before each episode aired, directly after a new episode had finished airing on BBC 1. They were created by the same team that produced the interactive Doctor Who episode Attack of the Graske in 2005.
The Tardisodes were advertised on BBC 1. In the advert, the TARDIS is shown to be on an ice sheet. This imagery is similar to that used in the background of the homepage of the official Doctor Who website in the run-up to the start of Series 2. This advert was shown immediately after the transmission of many Series 2 episodes, coinciding with the release of the latest Tardisode for the next week's episode online and to mobile phones.
Downloads of the Tardisodes to mobile telephones were less popular than expected: around 40,000 downloads, averaging 3,000 per episode. Downloads to personal computers were much more common, with 2.6 million downloads. Iain Tweedale, new media editor for BBC Wales, suggested two reasons for the low number of telephone downloads: although the BBC provided the episodes free, most users had to pay a fee to their mobile network, and many telephones were not compatible with the broadcasts.
DVD producers 2|entertain did not include the Tardisodes on the series 2 DVD release.
In 2007, the BBC's annual report said of the Tardisodes that they "were not the hit we expected although they were popular on broadband", and this may be why they were discontinued after series 2.
No Tardisodes were produced for later series, although a similar series of prequels were released on the Doctor Who website to accompany selected episodes starting with series 6.
Synopses
Tardisode 1 – "New Earth"
The viewer is introduced to New Earth, and the feline nurses who claim that they can cure anyone of any disease. A patient with terminal Autrey syndrome instantly regains her full health. Suddenly the lights go out and a patient screams for help...
Tardisode 2 – "Tooth and Claw"
An object from space crashes into the Earth with a large explosion. Three hundred years later, a crofter (Alan Doorington) walks through a grassland. Suddenly, something in the grass starts chasing him. The man quickens his speed, and turns round just in time to see a werewolf jump at him...
Tardisode 3 – "School Reunion"
Mickey is at a computer, looking at a website of UFO sightings, but is then blocked by a notice referring to Torchwood. He picks up his phone and calls Rose while sorting through newspaper clippings, telling her that he needs her and the Doctor to investigate lights in the sky and strange goings on at a school. The Tardisode ends with a shot of a Krillitane screaming into the camera. Unlike most other Tardisodes, the main episode makes dialogue reference to the events of the prequel.
Tardisode 4 – "The Girl in the Fireplace"
Two pilots are at the controls of an unidentified spaceship. Suddenly, an ion storm hits the ship, causing chaos as lights start flashing and things start exploding, with the two pilots desperately trying to regain control. One of them shouts "Mayday!" as the scene blacks out. Later, the same cockpit is now bathed in a red light and both of the pilots are on the floor, one presumably dead. An eerie tick-tock noise is heard. A shadow falls over the surviving pilot, who is at first relieved to see help. Her relief soon turns to terror, as she suddenly becomes scared of whatever is looming over her, and she screams. A clock face cracks – part of a clock situated on top of a fireplace...
Tardisode 5 – "Rise of the Cybermen"
A mission briefing from Gemini calls all Preacher agents into action, describing Cybus Industries, how thousands of people have gone missing, John Lumic, the head of Cybus Industries, and his latest "upgrade" – the Cybermen. The briefing ends, and the laptop it was playing on is closed by Ricky Smith (Mickey's counterpart on the parallel Earth), who drives away in a van, just as an advertisement for Cybus Industries is heard on the radio, announcing: "Coming soon, the ultimate upgrade"...
Tardisode 6 – "The Age of Steel"
A video from John Lumic orders the "upgrade" of humans to Cybermen to commence around the world. This is followed by an animated diagram of a "Skin to Metal Upgrade" and a Cyberman being instructed by Lumic to "delete" all incompatible humans...
Tardisode 7 – "The Idiot's Lantern"
Grandma Conolly has her new television installed. Later, the woman sits down in front of it, and strange red lightning reaches out from the television towards her. As she looks back at the screen, the lightning retracts back into the set and dances on the screen. The Grandma presumes that the set is broken, so she proceeds to hit it with her hands. The lightning shoots towards her face and she shouts for help. The television then shows a trailer for the upcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...
Tardisode 8 – "The Impossible Planet"
A woman in a suit tells a man, Captain Walker, about a black hole called "K37 Jem 5" which is orbited by a planet. The woman asks him to bring back the power source that is keeping the planet in orbit and become the "man who saved the Empire." When asked by Walker about how she found out about it, the woman produces a small book containing alien writing and what appears to be a map. The woman informs him it was found in the "Galis Expedition". Walker then passes the notebook to someone standing behind him. It appears the location Walker needs to go to is on the other side of the galaxy, and the woman informs him that all they have to go on is the map and "local myths", but reassures him that it's superstition, and Walker will have a "top class" ship and crew. Finally the woman wishes Walker luck, and Walker leaves, passing the person to whom he handed the notebook, an Ood, who simply says "And the Beast shall rise from the pit."
Tardisode 9 – "The Satan Pit"
An Ood delivers a metal case to a man, telling him that the contents are Captain Walker's belongings. The man tells the Ood to leave and then opens the case. As he does so, the lights go out and the ship's computer states "He shall awake." The man then takes out the notebook and as he thumbs through the pages, the book emits a red light, and the monitors in the room begin to flicker and display the message "THE BEAST IS AWAKE. HE SHALL RISE FROM THE PIT." Then, a lever depresses on its own, and the notebook suddenly bursts into flames in the man's hands. He runs to the door in fear but the doors will not open, the computer telling him that the door is sealed, followed by a repeated chant of "He is coming. He is coming". Later, a woman enters the room, claiming to smell burning. She finds the man cowering in a chair, silently muttering, with the mysterious writing from the notebook having somehow transferred to his face...
Tardisode 10 – "Love & Monsters"
A mysterious figure, presumably Victor Kennedy, is using a laptop to access a website titled L.I.N.D.A, which shows a hand drawn sketch of the Doctor with the text "Who Is The Doctor?" followed by "Have You Seen Him?". The user clicks on the "Join L.I.N.D.A." button, causing the picture to change to a sketch of several people in a room, with the caption: "WE HAVE!". Text appears that reads "Last Updated – WHOOPS! Ages ago, sorry – ELTON". The user clicks again on "Join L.I.N.D.A.", which this time makes the screen display the following text: "But L.I.N.D.A. is a secret organisation. So we can't tell you where... If you need us...You'll find us." The user points a strange silver object at the laptop, which changes the display to read "PRIMITIVE COMPUTER PAGE". The screen then displays a map, with text saying "TRACK SOURCE". The map closes in on a location called "MACATEER ST", before the screen goes blank. An old lady enters the room, carrying a tray, and as she turns around, her expression turns to horror, and she is bathed in a green light. The heavy breathing of the unseen figure turns into a slurping and growling (suggesting that Kennedy has morphed into the Abzorbaloff), and the old lady shouts "No!"...
Tardisode 11 – "Fear Her"
This Tardisode appears to be in the style of a fictional Crimewatch-style program called Crime Crackers. The presenter is on a London street, as he tells the viewers that a young boy called Dale Hicks and a young girl called Jane McEllen have gone missing, with the police having no idea where they are, followed by an encouragement from the presenter for the viewers to phone in and give information (to a 19-digit telephone number), at the same time revealing the road to be "Dame Kelly Holmes Close" (and the local authority to be "East London Council"). The scene then changes to a cupboard in a dark room, which suddenly bangs open to reveal a pair of red glowing eyes. A voice rasps "I'm coming..."
Tardisode 12 – "Army of Ghosts"
A reporter tells his Editor about the story so big, he thinks it will be the story of the century – the story of Torchwood. His editor asks him to get the story for her, and so the reporter is shown passing secret envelopes, looking through files and photos, several of which feature the Doctor. The reporter is sure that Torchwood goes back as far as "Queen Victoria, right up to the explosion on Christmas Day and is connected with the Ghosts that have been appearing lately". He then returns to his Editor with his findings, only to be told that there have been "complications", and is dragged off by several mysterious men. Meanwhile, another man talks to the Editor, and says that Torchwood thanks her for her co-operation, before leaving her with a replacement front-page story about GCSE results. The reporter is last seen in a straitjacket, protesting as he is hauled away: "I'm not mad! Torchwood exists! I know the truth about the Ghosts!"...
Tardisode 13 – "Doomsday"
The Tardisode is in the form of an emergency news broadcast. A female news reporter informs the viewer that the country is in a State of Emergency. The Tardisode then cuts to amateur-style footage of the Cyberman invasion, with cars exploding, people running and screaming and other scenes of destruction and terror. We return to the newsroom, and the reporter behind the desk informs us that they have lost contact with the government, and if anyone is still watching to run as fast as they can. The graphic behind her changes to the footage from earlier, and the transmission is met with interference, and the studio begins exploding around her. The reporter also addresses her own parents to flee from the Cybermen. Finally, she cowers under her desk as we hear the unmistakable sound of Daleks enter the room, proclaiming "We are the Masters of Earth." "Daleks conquer and destroy!" finally ending the Tardisode with a Dalek yelling "Exterminate!", who said it before killing the female news reporter.
Continuity
In an interview with Noel Clarke for Totally Doctor Who, he revealed that his hair was noticeably shorter during the filming of Tardisode 3 than in the episode it accompanied, "School Reunion". For this reason, to maintain continuity, he wears a hat for the duration of the Tardisode.
Images of the Doctor are shown in two of the shorts. In Tardisode 10 a drawing of him is seen on a computer; in Tardisode 12 he appears in drawings and in an antique photograph.
Tardisode 12 references "Tooth and Claw" and "The Christmas Invasion".
Production
Before a Tardisode, the time vortex is briefly seen. If the main episode is set in the past, the vortex is blue and if the main episode is set in the present or future, the vortex is red.
A new set was built for Tardisode 4.
Tardisode 8 was filmed entirely in the BBC Wales Canteen.
As of 2019, there is no "East London Council" as seen in 2012 in Tardisode 11
See also
Webisode
References
External links
Announcement of Tardisodes
2006 web series debuts
2006 web series endings
Webcasts based on Doctor Who
Mobile telephone video series
Science fiction web series
Doctor Who spin-offs
Films with screenplays by Gareth Roberts (writer)
Doctor Who mini-episodes |
32019334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating%20World%20%28Jade%20Warrior%20album%29 | Floating World (Jade Warrior album) | Floating World is the fourth studio album by the British experimental rock band Jade Warrior released in 1974 by Island Records. The band's experiments with the sounds which would later be labelled as world and ambient music came parallel to that of Brian Eno, who described Floating World as an 'important album'.
History
After the end of the 1972 American tour, the band's Vertigo contract was cancelled and Jade Warrior dissolved. Steve Winwood then urged Chris Blackwell of Island Records to give the band a hearing, and the latter proposed that Jon Field and Tony Duhig reform the band and sign a contract for three albums (later expanded to four) "as an ornament" to the label. Since Blackwell was interested in a primarily instrumental sound, the contract offered by Island was not extended to include Glyn Havard. Floating World was the first of these four releases that Field and Duhig made with miscellaneous guest musicians.
On some pieces – particularly the more introspective ("Waterfall", "Rainflower" and "Memories of a Distant Sea"), multi-instrumentalists Duhig and Field provided all the instrumentation. On other tracks, such as "Easty", "Mountain of Fruit and Flowers" and "Red Lotus", guest musicians were brought in for the drums, string bass, harp, lead guitar and female voice ("Quba").
Style and concept
Floating World is a concept album structured around the Japanese philosophy of Ukiyo, the acceptance of life and its surroundings, living only for the moment ("..like a gourd floating along the river current.." to quote the album's liner notes). The sound of it has been described as "based on a unique combination of rock, jazz, classical and world influences, employing the extremities of dynamic range". AllMusic defines it as 'a complex set', noting that while "the compositions may be interlaced, ...the album itself is as diverse as any previous Jade offering".
Among its high points, critics mentioned "Monkey Chant", a "collision of the ancient traditional Balinese Kecac pitted against David Duhig's screaming rock guitar solo" has been mentioned, the opening "Clouds", juxtaposing 'an ethereal girls choir, tinkling wind chimes, glowing ambient passages, and incendiary guitar licks' and more aggressive "Red Lotus". According to critic Jo-Ann Green, the "sheer diversity of sounds and moods, the constant clash or gentle intermingling of Eastern and Western styles, and the set's glittering atmospheres (make) Floating World an undeniable masterpiece".
Track listing
Personnel
Tony Duhig – guitars, percussion
Jon Field – flutes, percussion
David Duhig – lead guitar on "Monkey Chant"
Graham Deakin – drums on "Red Lotus"
Martha Mdenge – vocals on "Quba"
References
1974 albums
Jade Warrior (band) albums
Island Records albums |
46540571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimeresurus%20truongsonensis | Trimeresurus truongsonensis | Trimeresurus truongsonensis is a venomous pitviper species endemic to Vietnam. Its common names are Truong Son pit viper and Quang Binh pitviper.
Geographic range
This species is known with certainty only from the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh province, in the Annamite Mountains of central Vietnam.
Habitat
This species is found in evergreen tropical forests at elevations of above sea level. These secretive snakes are mostly seen when basking following strong rains.
Reproduction
Trimeresurus truongsonensis is viviparous.
References
truongsonensis
Endemic fauna of Vietnam
Reptiles described in 2004
Snakes of Vietnam |
64933322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motormouth%3A%20Bob%20Ostertag%20Plays%20the%20Buchla%20200e | Motormouth: Bob Ostertag Plays the Buchla 200e | Motormouth: Bob Ostertag Plays the Buchla 200e is the ninth studio album by Bob Ostertag, released on February 1, 2011 by Seeland Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Motormouth: Bob Ostertag Plays the Buchla 200e liner notes.
Musicians
Bob Ostertag – Buchla 200e synthesizer
Production and design
Alex Culang – cover art, design
Thomas Dimuzio – mastering (5)
Release history
References
External links
Motormouth: Bob Ostertag Plays the Buchla 200e at Bandcamp
2011 albums
Bob Ostertag albums |
30271849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle%20Zuver | Merle Zuver | Merle Zuver was an American football guard for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) during the 1930 NFL season.
References
People from Gage County, Nebraska
Green Bay Packers players
American football offensive guards
Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
1905 births
1969 deaths |
34005737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Eliot | Andrew Eliot | Andrew Eliot (1718–1778) was a prominent Boston Congregational minister of the New North Church (now St. Stephen's in the North End). He graduated from Harvard University in 1737 and received his AM from the same institution in 1740. During the Siege of Boston in the American Revolutionary War, he was one of the few ministers to remain in Boston. Eliot had an extensive collection of New England silver coins.
Eliot's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all named Andrew. He had five sons: Reverend Andrew Eliot was a minister in Fairfield, Connecticut, Josiah Eliot was said to have gone to Georgia, Samuel Eliot was a merchant and the grandfather of Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot, Reverend John Eliot succeeded his father as pastor of New North Church and was one of the co-founders of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Dr. Ephraim Eliot studied medicine at Harvard University but became an apothecary and the first president of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
See also
Eliot family of America
References
External links
1718 births
1778 deaths
People from colonial Boston
American Congregationalist ministers
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts colonial-era clergy |
70744427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numidum | Numidum | Numidum is a Gram-positive and facultative anaerobic genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae with one known species (Numidum massiliense) which has been isolated from the human gut.
References
Bacillaceae
Bacteria genera
Monotypic bacteria genera
Bacteria described in 2016 |
28151513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall%20Women%20cricket%20team | Cornwall Women cricket team | The Cornwall Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Cornwall. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, and are captained by Kellie Williams. In 2019, they played in Division 3 of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and they have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup. They are partnered with the regional side Western Storm.
History
Cornwall Women began playing in national competition in 2005, when they joined the County Challenge Cup, the second tier of the Women's County Championship: they finished bottom of their division with one win, against Devon. After the County Championship expanded in 2008, they immediately won promotion to Division 4, where they remained for two seasons before being relegated in 2010. Since then, they have remained in the lowest tier of the County Championship, but did top their division in 2013, 2014 and 2018 before losing play-offs to gain promotion.
In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, Cornwall Women have consistently played in Division 3 of the tournament in recent years, after a successful season in 2014, winning all of their matches to be promoted from Division 4. In 2021, Cornwall competed in the South West Group of the Twenty20 Cup and finished 3rd with 4 wins. They finished second in Group 8 of the Twenty20 Cup in 2022, before losing in the group final to Devon.
Players
Current squad
Based on appearances in the 2022 season.
Notable players
Players who have played for Cornwall and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Laura Harper (1999)
Seasons
Women's County Championship
Women's Twenty20 Cup
See also
Cornwall County Cricket Club
Western Storm
References
Women
Women's cricket teams in England |
230073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofwat | Ofwat | The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. Ofwat's main statutory duties include protecting the interests of consumers, securing the long-term resilience of water supply and wastewater systems, and ensuring that companies carry out their functions and are able to finance them.
Ofwat primarily sets limits on the prices charged for water and sewerage services, taking into account proposed capital investment schemes (such as building new wastewater treatment works) and expected operational efficiency gains. The most recent review was carried out in 2014; reviews are carried out every five years, with the next due to take place in December 2019.
The Water Act 2014 extended retail competition to all non-household customers of English water companies from April 2017 and provided for possible future competition in wholesale markets. Ofwat's role includes regulating such water and wastewater markets and promoting effective competition wherever appropriate.
Ofwat consists of a board, plus an office of staff which carries out work delegated to them by the board.
The Environment Agency is responsible for environmental regulation, and the Drinking Water Inspectorate for regulating drinking water quality. Water in Northern Ireland is regulated by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation, and the supply and treatment is carried out by the government-owned Northern Ireland Water. There is no separate charge for water for residents or companies in Northern Ireland. Instead, water is paid for by the rates system. The water industry regulator in Scotland is the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.
History
Ofwat was set up in 1988, at the same time as 10 water authorities in England and Wales were privatised by flotation on the stock market. Its duties and powers are defined by the Water Industry Act 1991. The resulting companies are known as "water and sewerage companies"; this distinguishes them from around a dozen smaller companies which only provide water services, which were already in private hands in 1989 (having remained in private ownership since their creation in the 19th century). The water-only companies provide water to around 25% of the population in England and Wales.
Before 1 April 2006, all regulatory powers rested with the Director General of Water Services. The staff who supported the role of the Director General were collectively known as the "Office of Water Services", which was abbreviated to "Ofwat". Ian Byatt was the Director General between 1989 and 2000; Philip Fletcher was Director General until 2006 and chairman until 2012. On 1 April 2006, the Director General was replaced by the Water Services Regulation Authority. The name "Office of Water Services" is no longer used, as it had no legal basis.
Key people
The current chairman is Jonson Cox, who took up his position in November 2012. The current interim chief executive (effective April 2021) is David Black, replacing Rachel Fletcher who was chief executive from January 2018. Iain Coucher will succeed Cox as chairman in July 2022.
Price reviews
Every five years, Ofwat set limits on the prices which water companies in England and Wales can charge to their customers; this process is known as a price review or periodic review. Ofwat has carried out six price reviews so far – in 1994 (PR94), 1999 (PR99), 2004 (PR04), 2009 (PR09), 2014 (PR14) and 2019 (PR19). The most recent, PR19, set price limits for 2020–2025. Ofwat sets a so-called "K factor" in companies' licences which determine the average value of price rises above the rate of inflation (RPI) for the next five year asset management plan period.
See also
List of United Kingdom water companies
Water supply and sanitation in England and Wales
References
External links
Water supply and sanitation in England and Wales
Water in Wales
Regulators of the United Kingdom
2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2006 |
27378306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon%20Religion | Pigeon Religion | Pigeon Religion were an American post-punk band formed in 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally, the band consisted of William Watson on bass and vocals, Gary Anarchy on guitar and vocals and Jes Aurelius on drums. After a 2009 Summer West Coast Tour, Gary Anarchy quit the band and left Watson and Aurelius as the principal members, who continued to split all songwriting duties until the band broke up in 2010.
Live shows
Pigeon Religion live shows were notorious for their uncomfortable atmosphere, characterized by violence and excessively loud volume. Pigeon Religion were rarely able finish a full set without being shut down by police or angry show promoters. In their first year of existence, they performed over 100 live shows and were cited by the Arizona Republic as "The Hardest Working Band in Phoenix", as well as having numerous write-ups in the Phoenix New Times that mentioned their blitzkrieg promotional tactics. To perform live, they enlisted the help of various notable Phoenix musicians. Their most recent list of live contributors was Drek Campbell (Filthy Grin), James Fella (Gilgongo Records, Soft Shoulder), Anthony Doran, Preston Bryant (My Feral Kin, French Quarter), Stuben Steinberg (French Quarter), Vincent S. Baeza, N.Nappa, Anna Nasty (Hell-Kite, Olivia Neutron-John).
Discography
Studio albums
WHY DO YOU HATE PIGEON RELIGION (Ward-9) (2008)
Cassette releases
Live in the E.R. (Smoke And Mirrors) (2008)
Crystallized Meth PROMO (self released) (2009)
Warm Insides (Drone Errant) (2010)
Live at KDVS (Campaign for Infinity) (2010)
Singles
Scorpion Milk (Parts Unknown)' (2009)Dead Boss (Gilgongo / Jarson INTL) (2009)Crystallized Meth (Video Disease)'' (2010)
References
External links
Parts Unknown Records
Gilgongo Records
Avant-garde ensembles
American art rock groups
American experimental musical groups
American industrial rock musical groups
American noise rock music groups
American post-punk music groups
Musical groups established in 2008
Musical groups from Phoenix, Arizona
Rock music groups from Arizona |
5102852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sheffield | William Sheffield | William Sheffield may refer to:
William Sheffield (judge), American attorney and judge
William Paine Sheffield Sr., U.S. Representative and Senator from Rhode Island
William Paine Sheffield Jr., U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
William Sheffield (fl. 1407–1421) for Rutland (UK Parliament constituency)
William Sheffield (died 1646), MP for Hedon, 1614 and Thirsk (UK Parliament constituency), 1624
Will Sheffield (born 2000), English cricketer
Bill Sheffield (1928–2022), American politician and former governor of Alaska |
48569265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20White%20and%20the%20Seven%20Dwarfs%20%28book%29 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (book) | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1938 picture book written and illustrated by Wanda Gág and published by Coward-McCann. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book in 1939. The book is a twist on the classic tale of Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. Since then it has been republished several times, including in 1999, 2004, and 2013.
Background
After the success of Walt Disney's film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, author Anne Carroll Moore suggested that Gág retell the story of Snow White in a manner more faithful to the original Brothers Grimm story. Gag translated the text from the German and designed the illustrations.
Book Details
The book is printed in white and black. The cover depicts a young girl with black hair looking out the window of a small red house.
Description
A queen, used to being "the fairest one of all", is turned green with envy when her magic mirror says that her seven-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, is now the fairest one of all. With fury the queen demands a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods, kill her, and bring back a token as proof of her death. Once in the woods, Snow White pleads with the huntsmen not to hurt her, assuring him that she'll run away and never return. The huntsman agrees and brings a wild boar heart to the queen as a token. Snow White runs until she discovers a small wooden hut, inside of which are found objects in centuplicate. Snow White falls asleep on one of the little beds and is later awoken by seven dwarfs. They agree to let her stay if she becomes their house keeper.
Later, when the evil queen asks her magic mirror, "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all?" the mirror answers "Thou art very fair, Oh Queen, But the fairest ever seen Dwells within the wooded glen With the seven little men." Angered, the queen dresses in rags and paints her face to conceal her identity. She travels to the glen and convinces Snow White to eat an apple that she has secretly poisoned, despite protestations from the dwarfs. Snow White is poisoned and appears to die; the dwarfs fashion a glass casket and place her inside.
Years pass by, and one day a young prince walking through the forest spots Snow White in the casket. He begs the dwarfs to let him take her to the castle, after much pleading they agree. On the way to the castle, the men rock the casket and a piece of the apple is dislodged from Snow White's throat. her prince, and the seven dwarfs live happily ever after.
Critical reception
Publishers Weekly described the book as "a stunning version of the Grimms' classic story". Books Links found that "the pen-and-ink drawings are treasures, loaded with details" and that "inventive compositions and an asymmetrical picture shape are key features in Gág’s works".
References
External links
(Coloured drawings)
1938 children's books
American picture books
Caldecott Honor-winning works
Picture books based on fairy tales
Works based on Snow White
Coward-McCann books |
8502367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorny%20%28air%20base%29 | Gorny (air base) | Gorny was an air base located southeast of the work settlement of Gorny in Krasnopartizansky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is a military base from the Cold War which has since been plowed under into farmland.
References
RussianAirFields.com
Soviet Air Force bases
Buildings and structures in Saratov Oblast |
39712201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Parel | Scott Parel | Scott Parel (born May 15, 1965) is an American professional golfer.
Parel was born in Pontiac, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Georgia but did not play college golf. He worked for 10 years as a computer programmer and database administrator after college before becoming a professional golfer.
Parel played on the Web.com Tour in 2003, 2005–09, and 2012–15. He won his first title at the 2013 Air Capital Classic.
Parel has played only five PGA Tour events, making the cut only once, a T-57 at 2006 BellSouth Classic. He qualified for the U.S. Open twice, in 2002 and 2005.
In August 2018, Parel won on the PGA Tour Champions by winning the Boeing Classic.
In October 2018, Parel won for the second time on the PGA Tour Champions, winning the Invesco QQQ Championship at Sherwood Country Club in Lake Sherwood, California.
In November 2018, Parel finished third in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup, earning a $300,000 bonus.
On April 1, 2019, Parel lost a seven-hole playoff at the Rapiscan Systems Classic in Mississippi to Kevin Sutherland. The playoff was held over two days because play had to be suspended on Sunday March 31, 2019 due to darkness.
Sutherland and Parel faced off in a playoff again in June 2019 at the Principal Charity Classic with Sutherland winning on the second extra hole.
In February 2020, Parel overcame a three-shot deficit Sunday and closed with an 8-under 63 to win the Chubb Classic by two shots over Bob Estes, his third career victory on the PGA Tour Champions to surpass $5 million for his career.
Professional wins (6)
Web.com Tour wins (1)
Web.com Tour playoff record (0–1)
PGA Tour Champions wins (4)
PGA Tour Champions playoff record (1–3)
Other wins (1)
2018 Diamond Resorts Invitational
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the halfway cut
Note: Parel only played in the U.S. Open.
Results in senior major championships
Results not in chronological order before 2022.
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic
References
External links
American male golfers
PGA Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Golfers from Michigan
Golfers from Augusta, Georgia
University of Georgia alumni
Sportspeople from Pontiac, Michigan
1965 births
Living people |
46468627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Smith%20%28meteorologist%29 | Ronald Smith (meteorologist) | Ronald Smith is the Damon Wells Professor in the department of Geology & Geophysics at Yale University. He leads Yale’s program in mesoscale meteorology and regional climate, and is the Director of the Yale Center for Earth Observation (YCEO).
Academic biography
Ronald Smith earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Princeton University and his PhD in geophysics from Johns Hopkins University.
Research
He is the PI of The DOMinica EXperiment, a project to measure orographic precipitation in the tropics. He is also the PI of the DEEPWAVE Project, which studies gravity waves generated in the troposphere that propagate upwards to the mesophere near New Zealand.
Honors
He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and won the Society’s Jule G. Charney Award in 2011.
References
External links
http://people.earth.yale.edu/profile/ronald-smith/about
Living people
American meteorologists
Yale University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Meteorological Society |
49390327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovevo%20Morej%C3%B3n | Genovevo Morejón | Genovevo Morejón (born 3 January 1954) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw. His personal best was , set in Havana on 20 June 1980. His greatest honour was the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 1983, becoming the first Caribbean man to win that title.
Morejón was also a gold medallist at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games and 1983 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics – the latter included a championship record of . He also won minor medals at Pan American and Central American and Caribbean level, as well as a silver at the 1983 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics.
International competitions
References
Living people
1954 births
Cuban male hammer throwers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
Competitors at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
20th-century Cuban people |
22100951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20System%20Module | Embedded System Module | Embedded System Module, or ESM, is a compact computer-on-module (COM) standard. An ESM module typically includes a CPU processor, memory, module-specific I/O interfaces and a number of basic front I/O connectors. They can be plugged on a carrier board or be used as a stand-alone processor card.
If the ESM module is plugged on a carrier, it relies on the standard PCI bus as a board-to-board interface. In this case two connectors create a link to the carrier. While the "J1" connector provides a specified PCI connection, the "J2" connector brings I/O signals from the ESM module to the carrier, which then includes all necessary connectors. The signal assignment of J2 is not fixed but can be completely customized, although there are reserved pins for a 64-bit PCI bus interface. A third connector, "J3", is used for additional I/O signals if the ESM module has no front I/O. The signal assignment of this connector is fixed to support a special set of I/O functions.
A large part of the I/O functions on ESMs are often controlled by an onboard FPGA component (field-programmable gate array) so that every module can easily be tailored to a specialized application through user-defined functions. Such functions are loaded into the FPGA as IP cores. Using FPGAs also reduces dependence on special controller chips which may become obsolete, thus extending the card's availability.
ESMs are typically used on boards for CompactPCI and VMEbus as well as single-board computers for embedded applications. A company standard by MEN Micro, a manufacturer of embedded computers, specifies the ESM concept and the different types of modules. The ESM specification defines one form factor for the printed circuit board: .
Depending on the processor type, most ESM modules have heat sinks and can be operated in wide temperature ranges up to -40 to +85 °C.
A mechanical specialty of ESM modules is that their connectors are compatible with the PCI-104 module standard. These modules can be "stacked" onto ESM modules, e. g., for additional peripheral interfaces.
See also
Computer-on-module
References
Schmitz, M. (2005). ESM Embedded System Modules Specification, MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH. Retrieved on 2015-09-21.
Motherboard form factors |
5983226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zons | Zons | Zons (), formerly known as Feste Zons (Fortress Zons), today officially called Stadt Zons (Zons Town) is an old town in Germany on the west bank of the Lower Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf. It has been a part (Stadtteil) of the town of Dormagen since 1975. In 2020 its population was 5,452.
Geography
The east border of Zons is the river Rhine. The river can be crossed by ferry. On the opposite bank a road leads to Düsseldorf-Urdenbach northeast of Zons. South of Zons is fields and a few Populus trees. The southern road passes two farms and leads to another part of Dormagen, Rheinfeld. West of Zons is extensive meadows with the willows here and there. At some distance the small hamlet Nachtigall lies at the Bundesstraße 9. Northwest of Zons is the Zons Heath. The northern road leads to Stürzelberg, another part of Dormagen. North of ferry slip and ship pier begins the nature reserve Zonser Grind on the western bank of the Rhine.
History
Middle Ages
The first time Zons was mentioned in a document is in the so-called last will and testament of Cunibert, Bishop of Cologne, which was written in the middle of the seventh century but is only known in a version of the late eleventh century. In the document the names of Zuonizo or Zuonize are mentioned with their origin still unclear until today. In a deed of gift of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne the name of Zons appears in a location reference, „Burgula bei Zünce“ (Burgula near Zünce).,<ref>Monatsschrift des Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, 1881, issue 4, p. [39]34; Volume as digital download retrieved 24 May 2014.</</ref> Burgula being the site of today's Haus Bürgel, an old mansion built on the ruins of a Roman settlement.<ref>Short article in English about Haus Bürgel and its ancient history; shows its location nowadays on the east bank of the Rhine on Google Maps; retrieved 24 May 2014.</</ref>
Archaeological finds indicate that there was a Merovingian settlement in Zons in the seventh century, yet its exact location is not determined. Documents verify a Fronhof of the archbishop of Cologne (Fronhof = estate of a feudal lord receiving socage) existing in Zons at least since the beginning of the twelfth century . In the 1980s archaeological excavations in the castle area uncovered foundations of buildings which are regarded as remains of the proprietary church of the lord of the manor which was part of the building complex of the Fronhof.
At about the middle of the thirteenth century Zons castrum (castle) was fortified. The location of the older rural settlement of Zons can only be presumed based on field-names and topography. The field-name „Im Hofstädtchen“ at today's Aldenhovenstraße near the Old Town could reference to this settlement with the crossing paths at this spot being a possible additional indicator.
In 1372 the Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich III. of Saarwerden moved the Rhine toll castle from Neuss upstream to Zons protecting it with walls and moats and granting Zons the town privileges in 1373. At the centre of the fortress was the thick fortified Friedestrom Castle which served the administration and protection of the toll and housed the administration of the new parish Zons. The obviously planned building of the toll fortress with town walls was finished probably in the 15th century.
The rectangular to trapeziform town layout is surrounded by a wall strengthened with basalt stones. The wall stretches in north–south direction over about and in west–east direction over . At the corners are towers built in different shapes: to the northeast the rectangular Rhein-, Zoll- or Peters-Turm (Rhine, Toll or Peters Tower); to the northwest the circular Krötschenturm (Krötschen Tower); to the southwest the circular Mühlenturm (Mill Tower), which was converted from a defensive tower to a tower mill as late as the Late Middle Ages; to the southeast the Schlossturm (Palace Tower) and in town at the castle wall the circular Juddeturm (Judde Tower: high, roof starts at height, baroque roof ). The name Juddeturm probably refers to the patrician family Jude in Cologne.
Two public gates gave access to the town: in the north the Rheintor (Rhine Gate), in the west the Feldtor (Field Gate). During the 19th century the first was partly, the latter almost entirely dismantled. A third outer gate, the Südtor (South Gate), which is preserved best, is the entrance from the zwinger (enclosed killing ground) to the Vorburg (lower ward).
The small town had only 124 plots for houses. The parish Zons comprised also the village Stürzelberg, part of the village Horrem and the village of Haus Bürgel, which is nowadays located on the opposite banks of the river Rhine. Regarding church and court of justice matters Haus Bürgel and Zons originally belonged together. The canon law for the parish Bürgel/Zons was governed by Brauweiler Abbey. Already in 1374 Bürgel was moved from the west banks to east banks of the Rhine, probably due to a shift of the river. Zons, the Rhine toll town of the Prince-elector of Cologne is regarded as one of the best preserved Lower Rhine planned towns of the Late Middle Ages. Until 1794 the parish Zons belonged to the Electorate of Cologne and was bordered in the south by Dormagen, an enclave ruled by the Duchy of Jülich; in the south-west by Hackenbroich, a lordship within the Electorate of Cologne; in the west by Nievenheim, a parish within the Electorate of Cologne; in the north-west by Uedesheim, another lordship within the Electorate of Cologne. On the opposite banks of the Rhine were Urdenbach and Baumberg, Honschaften (lowest level administrative units similar to hundreds in England and Wales) within the Duchy of Berg.
Modern Era
In 1463 Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich II. of Moers mortgaged town and parish Zons to the cathedral chapter of Cologne. Its reign lasted until 1794, when the French Revolutionary Army occupied the territory west of the Rhine. Zons became a French municipality and canton. From 1798 to 1814 it was part of the canton Dormagen within the Arrondissement de Cologne which belonged to the Département de la Roer. With the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801 the occupied territory on the left bank of the Rhine came to France under public international law.
As result of the Congress of Vienna Zons became part of the Prussian State in 1815. The following year the district Neuss was set up with the Bürgermeisterei Zons (an administrative level similar to an Amt) which comprised the municipalities of Zons, Nachtigall, St. Peter and Stürzelberg. In 1882 the district Neuss became part of the Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf in the Rhine Province. Since about 1900 Zons has been a popular destination for pleasure trips. In 1904 the municipality Zons was granted its own coat of arms. Since then Zons was called again „Town”, despite the fact that it still belonged to the Prussian rural municipalities regarding administrative law. With the incorporation into the town limits of Dormagen with effect of 1 Januar 1975 Zons called itself „Feste“ (Fortress). In 1992 Zons again gained the description „Town”, though only as Titularstadt (titular town). Already in 1972 the whole Old Town underwent an extensive renovation in an exemplary project sponsored by Federal State and Federated State.
Demographics
Since the 14th century Zons didn't change much regarding town area and population, probably due to its disadvantageous access to road traffic. During the course of the centuries the town was stricken three times by great fires: 1464, 1547 and 1620. Before the last great fire there were reports about a certain flourishing in economic terms due to trading. Yet the 17th century turned out to be a painful one for Zons. Economic and demographic decline ensue after that great fire, an (unsuccessful) siege and heavy bombardment at the end of the Thirty Years' War, several disastrous plagues and frequent occupations by Cologne and French troops. 1648 Zons had a population of 172, Stürzelberg of 49. After a gradual increase in population in the parish Zons 255 people died due to the plague in 1666. From about 1700 there was a noticeable increase in population: in 1692 the parish had a population of 308, in 1738 there were already 831 people who had received the First Communion and eventually in 1799 there was a population of 1,054. In the 18th century the population was almost entirely Catholic. During that time only a few Jewish families lived in Zons increasing in numbers to almost 50 people by 1806. During the course of 19th century up to the beginning of the 20th century the population grew relatively slowly yet almost steadily in comparison to the overall demographic development. In 1849 Zons together with Stürzelberg counted for 2,012 people, in 1928 1,306 people lived in Zons and 1,428 in Stürzelberg, thus 2,734 in total. On 30 June 1964 the at that time “town” Zons (comprising also the villages of Stürzelberg, St. Peter und Nachtigall) had a population of 6,310 which increased to 9,715 on 30 June 1974.
Population Development in Quarter Zons:
Government
Mayors
1800–1812: Matthias Aldenhoven
1813–1828: Anton Baaden
1829–1837: Franz Michael Fischer
1837–1848: Peter Mathias Schumacher
1848–1851: Josef Schneider
1851–1858: Josef Hanstein
1858–1879: Eduard Bacciocco
1879–1900: Hermann Heckmann
1900–1909: Nikolaus Kohl
1909–1910: Josef Trapet
1910–1923: Albert Granderath
1923–1926: Stephan Güsgen
1926–1928: Emil Kirchhoff
1928–1945: Michael Flücken
1945–1946: Johann Scheer (until January 1946 only for municipality Zons)
1945–1946: Franz Bebber (for Stürzelberg)
Honorary Mayors
1946: Gerhard Justenhoven
1946–1948: Wilhelm Fleischhauer
1948–1952: Bernhard Kamm
1952–1962: Hermann Schmitz
1962–1969: Georg Lerch
1969–1974: Hannelu Manitz, Deputy: Hans Wingerath
Town Clerks and Chief Executives
1946–1961: Johann Scheer
1961–1973: Artur Elicker
1973–1974: Johann Schmitz, General Deputy: Reinhold Schwarz
Coat of Arms
From 1904 until the incorporation into the town of Dormagen Zons had its own coat of arms. Blazon: “Gules a saint argent on a horse cutting his cloak with a sword to share it with a scantily clad man standing in front of him, on a canton argent a cross sable. “ As town coat of arms it is oftén depicted with a silver three-towered battlement coping including a black gate in the middle placed on the top (chief) of the escutcheon.
Coat of arms explanation: The saint is Martin of Tours, the black cross on a silver background is the coat of arms of the Electorate of Cologne.
Economy and Infrastructure
Up to the modern era the people of Zons earned their living in farming. In addition to that the trade of grain, beer and wine as well as some crafts like brick-making had partly an importance beyond the parish borders. The people of the village Stürzelberg worked mostly as fishermen or day labourers. A privileged group by wealth and social background were the toll collectors until around 1800. They had no civil rights, therefore they were freed from serving civil duties. At the beginning of the 20th century an industrial plant was established near Stürzelberg and St. Peter. In Zons itself industrial activities didn't happen.
Housing in Zons town expanded relatively late beyond the town walls. The first residential buildings "extra muros" were erected at the beginning of the 19th century. First housing estates can be found only at the end of the 19th century. At first buildings were concentrated at the paths immediate to the fortress. Later, especially after World War II, housing spread out to the north and the west of the Old Town.
Media
Neuss-Grevenbroicher-Zeitung - regional newspaper, published by Neusser Zeitungsverlag GmbH, owned by Rheinische Post
Schaufenster - local free paper (Tuesday & Saturday), published by Druck + Verlag Josef Wegener GmbH, owned by Girardet Verlag KG
Rheinischer Anzeiger - local free paper (Wednesday), published by Druck + Verlag Josef Wegener GmbH, owned by Girardet Verlag KG
Westdeutsche Zeitung, local editorial office district Neuss - regional newspaper, published by Verlag W. Girardet KG
NE-WS 89.4 - local radio station owned by Rheinische Post
Transport
Zons is located east of Bundesstraße 9. The distance from Zons to junction „Dormagen, Nievenheim, Zons“ of the Bundesautobahn 57 is .
Shipping
A car ferry runs frequently between Zons und Düsseldorf-Urdenbach. The river cruise operator Köln-Düsseldorfer offers day excursions to Zons from Cologne and Düsseldorf on selected days during the summer.
Bus lines
The following lines within the VRR run through Zons:
875: Neuss Landestheater - Grimlinghausen - Stüttgen - Stürzelberg - Zons -Dormagen Bhf. -Marktplatz
886: Rheinfeld - Marktplatz – Dormagen Bhf. - Zons - Stürzelberg - Delrath - Nievenheim S-Bhf.
887: Rheinfeld - Marktplatz - Dormagen Bhf. - Zons - Stürzelberg - Delrath - Nievenheim S-Bhf
WE2: Rheinfeld - Marktplatz - Dormagen Bhf. - Zons - Stürzelberg - Delrath - Nievenheim S-Bhf (WeekendExpress)
NE2: Dormagen Bhf. - Zons - Stürzelberg - Delrath - Nievenheim S-Bhf (NightExpress)
Public Facilities
Primary School
Pitch (sports field)
Tennis court
Gym
Kindergartens
Old people's day centres
District museum (located in the manor house and stables on the grounds of Friedestrom Castle)
District archive and international dialect archive "Ludwig Soumagne" (located in west and south wing of Friedestrom Castle)
Volunteer fire brigade
Super market
Culture and Leisure
Toll fortress
District museum
Jewish cemetery
“Hannepützheide” in Zons Heath: in this nature reserve heather grows on a former Rhine dune and a large children's playground is available.
Fairy-tale plays in the Open Air Theatre (located in the Zwinger (killing ground) of Friedestrom Castle)
Annual medieval tournament in September
Schützenfest (marksmen's festival) in July
People
Franz Joseph Aldenhoven, lessee of Zons Castle, since 1850 temporary Landrat (chairperson) of the district of Neuss. Member of the Prussian House of Representatives 1849 -1853. Backer of the Rhineland sugar industry and the cultivation of sugar beet.
Georg Stoll, Senator in Greifswald, Member of the Reichstag, drowned in Rhine in July 1883 in unclear circumstances.
References
Bibliography
Jörg H. Baumgarten: Zons – Ein Stadtführer. Köln, 1989.
Helene Blum-Spicker: 600 Jahre Stadt Zons. 1373 – 1973. Dormagen, 5. Auflage 1985.
Nicolaus Bömmels: Die ehemaligen Rittergüter in den Kreisen Grevenbroich und Neuss. In: Almanach für den Kreis Neuss 1979. Neuss 1979, S. 32-51.
Karl Emsbach: Zons - Portrait einer alten Stadt. Hrsg. vom Heimat- und Verkehrsverein der Stadt Zons e.V., Dormagen, 2000.
Karl Emsbach: Zons. Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 496; Hg.: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Neuss, 2006.
Aenne Hansmann: Geschichte von Stadt und Amt Zons. Mit einem Beitrag von Artur Elicker, Jakob Justenhoven und Herbert Milz. Düsseldorf 1973.
Aenne Hansmann, Margret Wensky: Rheinischer Städteatlas Zons. Lieferung IV, Nr. 25. 1978, 2. verb. u. erg. Aufl. Köln 1990.
Maria-Elisabeth Kirchhoff-Werle, Hans Georg Kirchhoff: Zons – Geschichte und Geschichten. Historische Schriftenreihe der Stadt Dormagen, Bd. 11, Dormagen 1993.
Werner Lisken (Bearb.): Die Familien der historischen Stadt Zons und der katholischen Pfarre St. Martin (mit den Ortsteilen Bürgel, Grind, Nachtigall, Sankt Peter und Stürzelberg) von 1664 bis 1900. Ein genealogisches Nachschlagewerk. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Familienkunde e.V., Sitz Köln, Bd. 293, Köln 2014.
Thomas Schwabach: Die Schwieren-Chroniken aus Zons. Bemerkenswertes aus einer niederrheinischen Kleinstadt und ihrer Umgebung 1733-1823. Veröffentlichungen des Kreisheimatbundes Neuss e.V. Nr. 15, Köln 2005.
Detlev Zenk: Zons - Alte Zollfeste am Rhein. Düsseldorf 2005.
External links
Zonser Geschichte (in German: website dedicated to the history of Zons)
Virtueller Rundgang (in German: a virtual walk around the Old Town of Zons)
Gesamt-Literaturverzeichnis zur Zonser Geschichte (in German: extensive bibliography of the history of Zons)
Kultur- und Heimatfreunde Stadt Zons e.V. (in German: website of the friends of culture and local history of Zons)
Population on 30 June 2010 (PDF-File in German; 19 kB)
Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Populated places on the Rhine
Rhein-Kreis Neuss
Landmarks in Germany
Tourist attractions in North Rhine-Westphalia
Fortified settlements |
68680324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjahamana | Anjahamana | Anjahamana is a village and rural municipality in the district of Brickaville Vohibinany (district), Atsinanana Region, Madagascar.
References
Populated places in Atsinanana |
51597907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallize%3A%20Kimi%20to%20Iu%20Hikari | Crystallize: Kimi to Iu Hikari | is the third studio album by Japanese band Garnet Crow. It was released on November 12, 2003 under Giza Studio.
Background
The album consists of the four previously released singles.
The single Yume Mita Ato de received new mixed version under title lightin' grooves True meaning of love mix. The track was arranged by Daisuke Ikeda.
Spiral was released in Giza Studio's compilation album Giza Studio Masterpiece Blend 2002. Eien wo Kakenukeru Isshun no Bokura and Nakenai Yoru mo Nakanai Asa mo in the compilation album Giza Studio Masterpiece Blend 2003.
In 2010, Koisuru Koto Shika Dekinai Mitai ni received in their conceptual album All Lovers with completely new recording and mix under the title .
Commercial performance
"Crystallize: Kimi to Iu Hikari" made its chart debut on the official Oricon Albums Chart at #5 rank for first week with 45,163 sold copies. It charted for 13 weeks and sold 84,071 copies.
Track listing
All tracks are composed by Yuri Nakamura, written by Nana Azuki and arranged by Hirohito Furui.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the CD booklet of Crystallize: Kimi to Iu Hikari.
Yuri Nakamura - vocals, composing
Nana Azuki - songwriting, keyboard
Hirohito Furui - arranging, keyboard
Hitoshi Okamoto - acoustic guitar, bass
Yoshinobu Ohga (ex. nothin' but love) -guitar
Fernando Huergo - bass
Jeff Lockheart - electronic guitar
Miguel Sa' Pessoa - piano, sound producing, arranging
Daisuke Ikeda - arranging
Yoshinori Akai - recording engineer
Katsuyuki Yoshimatsu - recording engineer
Tatsuya Okada - recording engineer
Aki Morimoto - recording engineer
Katsuo Urano - recording engineer
Makoto Fudoh - recording engineer
Akio Nakajima - mixing engineer
Takayuki Ichikawa - mixing engineer
Tomoko Nozaki - mixing engineer
Shin Takakuwa - mixing engineer
Masahiro Shimada - mastering engineer
Be Planning - art direction
Kanonji - producing
Usage in media
Spiral - theme song in Fuji TV program Sport!
Crystal Gauge - ending theme in TBS program Pooh!
Nakenai Yoru mo Nakanai Asa mo - ending theme for Fuji TV program Uchimura Produce
Kimi to Iu Hikari - ending theme for Anime television series Detective Conan
Eien wo Kakenukeru Isshun no Bokura - ending theme for Tokyo Broadcasting System Television program Sunday Japan
References
2003 albums
Giza Studio albums
Being Inc. albums
Japanese-language albums
Garnet Crow albums
Albums produced by Daiko Nagato |
13283616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand%20women%27s%20national%20rugby%20union%20team | Thailand women's national rugby union team | The Thailand women's national rugby union team first played in 2005.
Results summary
(Full internationals only)
Results
Full internationals
See also
Rugby union in Thailand
References
External links
Thailand on World Rugby
Thailand on rugbydata.com
on ThaiRugbyUnion.com
Women's national rugby union teams
Asian national women's rugby union teams
Rugby union in Thailand
Thailand national rugby union team
2005 establishments in Thailand
de:Thailändische Rugby-Union-Nationalmannschaft
fr:Équipe de Thaïlande de rugby à XV |
38561653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20Gibbs | Katharine Gibbs | Katharine Gibbs (also Catharine Ryan and Katherine Ryan) (1863–1934) was the founder of Gibbs College, which became a for-profit institution of higher education.
Catharine Ryan was born in Galena, Illinois on January 10, 1863, and was the granddaughter of Irish Catholic immigrants. Her father was a successful meat packing merchant who sent her to be educated by two spinsters from New England who provided her with a cultural education. She then graduated from the Manhattanville Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City.
In 1896 Katharine visited her brothers in Helena, Montana, where she met and married William Gibbs, a Protestant watchmaker originally from Medford, Massachusetts. The couple eventually settled in Providence, Rhode Island and had two sons before her husband died in 1909 in a boating accident at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston, Rhode Island near their home.
In 1910 Gibbs' sister, Mary Ryan, enrolled in the Providence School for Secretaries in Providence, Rhode Island and became an assistant teacher at the school. The school's owner asked Mary if she would like to purchase the school, and Mary and Katharine decided to purchase it together for $1,000 with Mary teaching and Katharine serving as an administrator. They changed the curriculum to focus on secretarial training rather than stenography and experienced great expansion at the time of World War I when many men left jobs to fight in the War. Gibbs expanded the schools to create a branch near every major Ivy League university, expanding to Boston by 1917 and to New York by 1918. After her death, Katharine's youngest son, Gordon Gibbs, served as President and expanded the school to other cities.
Gibbs was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1983.
References
Further reading
https://roseadoherty.com/press/
1863 births
1934 deaths
Manhattanville College alumni
University and college founders
People from Galena, Illinois
Career Education Corporation |
57017409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumii | Sumii | Sumii (written: 住井 or 角居) is a Japanese surname.
People
Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese horse trainer
, Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist
Characters
, a fictional character from Kamen Rider Gaim; see List of Kamen Rider Gaim characters
See also
Sumi (disambiguation)
Sumie (disambiguation)
Japanese-language surnames |
5780838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Baldwin%20%28American%20football%29 | Dave Baldwin (American football) | Charles David Baldwin (born March 22, 1955) is an American football coach who is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Northern Colorado. Baldwin served as the head football coach at California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 1996 and at San Jose State University from 1997 to 2000. He was in the interim head coach at Colorado State University for 2014 Las Vegas Bowl.
Coaching career
He has served as a graduate assistant coach at Cal State Northridge, the offensive coordinator at Cincinnati, and the offensive coordinator at Baylor. Following San Jose State, he served as the offensive coordinator at Michigan State, New Mexico and Utah State.
Baldwin was the head football coach at Cal State Northridge from 1995 to 1996, compiling a record of 9–12. He was also the head football coach at San Jose State.
During his tenure as head coach at San Jose State from 1997 to 2000, he had three straight wins over Stanford (including in their Rose Bowl season of 1999). In 1997, SJSU upset No. 24 Air Force, (25–22) their first win over a ranked opponent since 1990. In 2000, SJSU beat ninth-ranked TCU (27–24) ending their 12-game winning streak. Also in 2000, SJSU earned a mark of 7–5, their first winning season in eight years. His overall record at San Jose State University was 18–27.
Baldwin served as the offensive coordinator for the Colorado State Rams of Colorado State University from 2012 until 2014. He also was the interim head coach for the Rams during the 2014 Las Vegas Bowl, following Jim McElwain's departure for the University of Florida. On December 20, 2014, following the Bowl Game, Baldwin along with the entire coaching staff received their termination papers.
In 2015, Baldwin joined Oregon State as offensive coordinator and tight ends coach under Gary Andersen. The following season, Baldwin left his duties as offensive coordinator and became the inside receivers coach. He later became tight ends coach in 2017. Baldwin and other assistant coaches were fired on November 26, 2017 as Oregon State continued its coaching search, over a month after Andersen resigned and Cory Hall took over as interim head coach.
Personal
Baldwin is married and has three children.
In 2015, Baldwin disclosed he has been drinking 16 to 18 cans of Diet Coke a day for over 15 years.
Head coaching record
Junior college
College
* <small>Interim HC for bowl game <small>
References
External links
Northern Colorado profile
Oregon State profile
New Mexico profile
Cincinnati profile
1955 births
Living people
Baylor Bears football coaches
Cal State Northridge Matadors football coaches
Cincinnati Bearcats football coaches
Colorado State Rams football coaches
Michigan State Spartans football coaches
New Mexico Lobos football coaches
Oregon State Beavers football coaches
San Jose State Spartans football coaches
Stanford Cardinal football coaches
Santa Rosa Bear Cubs football coaches
Utah State Aggies football coaches
Santa Barbara City Vaqueros football coaches
California State University, Northridge alumni
Granada Hills Charter High School alumni
Saint Mary's College of California alumni
Sportspeople from Denver
People from Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Coaches of American football from California |
707101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical%20Catholic%20University%20of%20Chile | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC or UC Chile) () is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Founded in 1888, it is also one of Chile's oldest universities and one of the most recognized educational institutions in Latin America.
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile has a strong and long-standing rivalry with Universidad de Chile, as they are both widely recognized as the most traditional and prestigious in the country, and one is catholic and the other, secular. This rivalry also translates to sports, especially football.
Campuses
UC Chile has four campuses in Santiago and one campus in Villarrica. The campuses in Santiago are:
Casa Central (in downtown Santiago)
San Joaquín (in Macul Commune of Greater Santiago)
Oriente (in Ñuñoa Commune of Greater Santiago)
Lo Contador ( in Providencia Commune of Greater Santiago)
These four campuses have a total of 223,326.06 m2 constructed in a 614,569.92 m2 area. The Villarrica campus has 1,664 m2 constructed in a 2,362.5 m2 area.
History
UC Chile was founded on June 21, 1888, by the Santiago Archbishop, to offer training in traditional professions (law) and in technological and practical fields such as business, accounting, chemistry, and electricity. Its first chancellor was Monsignor Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas, and at the very beginning, the university only taught two subjects, law and mathematics. Since it is a Pontifical University, it has always had a strong and very close relationship with the Vatican. On February 11, 1930, Pope Pius XI declared it a pontifical university, and in 1931 it was granted full academic autonomy by the Chilean government.
UC Chile is a private, urban, multi-campus university. It is one of the eleven Chilean Catholic universities, and one of the twenty-five institutions within the Rectors' Council (Consejo de Rectores), the Chilean state-sponsored university system. It is part of the Universities of the Rectors' Council of Chilean Universities, and although it is not state-owned, a substantial part of its budget is given by state transfers under different programs.
UC Chile's 18 faculties are distributed through four campuses in Santiago and one regional campus located in southern Chile. The technical training centers affiliated with the university are: Duoc UC, the Rural Life Foundations, the Baviera Foundation, the Catechetical Home and the San Fidel Seminary. These centers carry out technical-academic extension activities in rural and agricultural areas. Other UC activities are a Sports Club, and a Clinical Hospital dependent on the Faculty of Medicine.
UC Chile's Graduates of the School of Architecture (one of the most prominent in Latin America) have also made important contributions to the country with such work as the Central Building ("Casa Central") of UC, and the National Library.
Two of its most important alumni are the Jesuit Saint Alberto Hurtado and Eduardo Frei Montalva, a Chilean president. Both of them studied in the School of Laws. Sebastián Piñera, former Chilean president, graduated from the university's School of Economics.
In 2017 the university faced what has been called a "wave of suicide" among its students. During 2017 a total of four students have taken their lives up to October, the previous year two students committed suicide. Critics, including alumni, have written about the university's "lack of concern" for the suicide of students, an attitude they contrast to the university's staunch opposition to abortion. The student union of the university issued a communique expressing feelings of guilt over the issue and the need to take charge.
Collaborations
The Department of Industry and System Engineering is engaging Stanford Technology Venture Program of Stanford University on a collaboration on innovation and technology ventures.
In December 2011, the schools of engineering of PUC and the University of Notre Dame signed an agreement to establish a dual graduate degree in civil engineering and the geological sciences, which now extends to other departments in both schools.
In April 2013, UC Chile and the University of Notre Dame also signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen scholarly engagement and expand their long-standing relationships. The agreement establishes an exchange program in which faculty, doctoral students and university representatives from each institution will visit, work, study and collaborate with the other institution.
World rankings
UC ranks among the first 10 Latin-American Universities according to the Shanghai ranking, UC appears top in two subject rankings: it ranks around 101–150 in Economics and Management and around 151–200 in Mathematics
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile has been ranked as the best university in Latin America by two of the world's most prestigious University rankings, the QS World University Rankings (in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and the Times Higher Education University Rankings (2019 and 2020).
Faculties, institutes, centers and subjects offered
College UC
Bachelor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Bachelor of Social Science
Bachelor of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Agronomy & Forest Engineering
Agronomy
Forest Engineering
Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies
School of Architecture
Architecture
School of Design
Design
Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies
Urban Planning
Faculty of Arts
School of Visual Art
Visual Art
School of Theater
Acting
Institute of Music
Music
Faculty of Biological Sciences
Biology (with an academic major in "Natural Resources & Environment" or "Bioprocesses")
Biochemistry
Marine Biology
Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences
Commercial Engineering
Economics Institute
School of Administration
Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Sociology
Anthropology
School of Psychology
Psychology
School of Social Work
Social Work
Faculty of Communications
School of Journalism
Journalism
Audiovisual Direction Program
Advertising
Institute of Media Studies
Faculty of Law
Law
Faculty of Language and Literature
English Language and Literature
Hispanic American Linguistics and Literature
Center for the Study of Chilean Literature (CELICH)
Faculty of Education
Early Childhood Education
General Education
High School Education
Faculty of Engineering
School of Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science
Dept. of Engineering and Construction Management
Dept. of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
Dept. of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering
Dept. of Transportation and Logistics Engineering
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dept. of Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering
Dept. of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Dept. of Mining Engineering
School of Construction
Construction
Faculty of Philosophy
Institute of Philosophy
Philosophy
Institute of Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Faculty of Physics
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Department of Physics
Physics
Faculty of History, Geography, and Political Science
Institute of History
History
Institute of Geography
Geography
Institute of Political Science
Political Science
Faculty of Mathematics
Mathematics
Statistics
Faculty of Medicine
School of Medicine
Medicine
Odontology
Phonoaudiology
Kinesiology
Nutrition and dietetics
School of Nursing
Nursing and Obstretics
Faculty of Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Theology
Theology
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering
Data Science Engineering
Notable institutes and centers
Center of Studies of Social Undertakings
Instituto Milenio para la Investigación en Depresión y Personalidad – MIDAP
Núcleo Milenio Research Center in Entrepreneurial Strategy Under Uncertainty
Notable alumni
Architecture
Alejandro Aravena (2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner)
Smiljan Radic
Emilio Duhart
Fernando Castillo Velasco
Juan Grimm, Landscape architect
Art and literature
Egon Wolff (playwright)
Roberto Matta (Surrealist painter)
Jorge Díaz (playwright)
Diamela Eltit (author)
Paula Escobar (journalist and academic)
Laila Havilio (sculptor)
Economy
Miguel Kast (former governor of the Central Bank of Chile. Member of the Chicago Boys group)
José Piñera
Joaquín Lavín
Sebastián Edwards (professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Sebastián Piñera
Felipe Larraín
Politics
Past President of Chile Eduardo Frei Montalva
Sebastián Piñera
Adolfo Zaldívar
Arturo Frei Bolívar
Ena von Baer
Fernando Castillo Velasco
Hernán Larraín
Fernando Flores
Jaime Guzmán
Joaquín Lavín
Osvaldo Andrade
Radomiro Tomic
Tomás Jocelyn-Holt
José Antonio Kast
Giorgio Jackson
Religion
Alberto Hurtado (Jesuit. Chile's second saint)
Raúl Silva Henríquez (Archbishop of Santiago de Chile)
Both studied law at the university.
Science
Francisco Claro Huneeus
Héctor Croxatto Rezzio (member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences)
Joaquín Luco Valenzuela (first Chilean to specialize in neuroscience)
Juan de Dios Vial Correa (former Pontifical Academy for Life president)
Juan Carlos Castilla (marine life expert)
Leopoldo Soto Norambuena (former President of the Chilean Physics Society and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK)
Nibaldo Inestrosa Cantin (neurobiologist)
Neva Milicic Müller (psychologist)
Rafael Vicuña Errázuriz
Knowledge transfer, service and consultancy
DICTUC SA (a group of 40+ consultancies leading in engineering, management and innovation)
Salud Clinica UC
Hospital of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Mega UC Health Centres (maternity)
References
External links
Official web prospectus
Official website
Catholic Church in South America
Pontifical universities
Universities in Chile
Nursing schools in Chile
Educational institutions established in 1888
Catholic universities and colleges in Chile
Catholic
1888 establishments in Chile |
29658524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20of%2014%20February%201944 | Action of 14 February 1944 | The action of 14 February 1944 refers to the sinking of a German U-boat off the Strait of Malacca during World War II by a British submarine. It was one of the few naval engagements of the Asian and Pacific theater involving German and Italian forces.
Action
Following Italy's surrender to the Allies, a group of Italian submarines — including the Reginaldo Giuliani — were interned at Singapore by the occupying Japanese military on 10 September 1943. The Japanese turned the vessels over to the Kriegsmarine which operated several bases in southeast Asia. Reginaldo Giuliani had been converted to cargo service after being found unsatisfactory in an offensive role. The Kriegsmarine renamed her , and she sailed for France on 15 February 1944 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Werner Striegler with a cargo of tin, quinine and other goods. Aboard UIT-23 were several Italian submariners who made up part of the boat's crew.
The submarine was cruising on the surface about south of Penang, Malaysia just off the western mouth of the Strait of Malacca when it was discovered by the British submarine , under the command of Lieutenant Commander Leslie Bennington of the 4th Submarine Flotilla. Tally-Ho was campaigning in the strait, where she sank several axis vessels. Bennington was also cruising on the surface, patrolling for Japanese shipping, when she sighted UIT-23 in the daytime. Tally-Ho attacked at full speed. Tally-Ho and UIT-23 were headed straight for one another when they both fired a spread of torpedoes.
Only Tally-Ho made hits, and UIT-23 quickly sank at position with a loss of 26 men. Fourteen men went into the water where they remained for some time before being rescued by Japanese seaplanes and taken to Penang. The survivors were forced to strap themselves to the floats of the planes where they rode out the eighty miles back to base.
See also
Submarine warfare
References
Conflicts in 1944
Maritime incidents in February 1944
Strait of Malacca
A
Naval battles of World War II involving Germany
Naval battles of World War II involving Italy
Submarine warfare in World War II
Monsoon Group
February 1944 events
Germany–United Kingdom military relations |
1809547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmobiology | Cosmobiology | Historically, the term 'Kosmobiologie' was used by the German medical astrologer Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense "to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences".
The term cosmobiology was popularized in English after the translation of the writings of Reinhold Ebertin, who based a large part of his techniques on the midpoint-astrology work of Alfred Witte The term most frequently refers to the school of astrology founded by Ebertin. The main difference between Witte's Hamburg School and Ebertin's Cosmobiology is that Cosmobiology rejects the hypothetical trans-Neptunian objects used by the Hamburg School and practitioners of Uranian astrology. Another difference is the significant expansion of Cosmobiology into medical astrology, Dr. Ebertin being a physician.
Cosmobiology continued Witte's ultimate primary emphasis on the use of astrological midpoints along with the following 8th-harmonic aspects in the natal chart, which both Witte and Ebertin found to be the most potent in terms of personal influence: conjunction (0°), semi-square (45°), square (90°), sesquiquadrate (135°), and opposition (180°).
In cosmobiological analysis, planets are inserted into a special type of horoscope often referred to as a 'Cosmogram' (derived from the Uranian 90° dial chart) and delineated.
The primary reference/research text for Cosmobiology was first published in 1940 by the German astrologer Reinhold Ebertin. The name of the book is The Combination of Stellar Influences. The original German title is Kombination der Gestirneinflüsse. Its foundations were derived largely from the early versions of the "Regelwerk für Planetenbilder" by Alfred Witte, and then further built upon by Ebertin and colleagues.
Ebertin defined Cosmobiology as the following:
"Cosmobiology is a scientific discipline concerned with the possible correlation between the cosmos and organic life and the effects of cosmic rhythms and stellar motion on man, with all his potentials and dispositions, his character and the possible turns of fate; it also researches these correlation and effects as mirrored by earth's plant and animal life as a whole. In this endeavor, Cosmobiology utilises modern-day methods of scientific research, such as statistics, analysis, and computer programming. It is of prime importance, however, in view of the scientific effort expended, not to overlook the macrocosmic and microcosmic interrelations incapable of measurement."
What is noteworthy about both Cosmobiology and Uranian astrology, which has developed along a different path technically, is their emphasis on critical analysis and testing by observing more clearly measurable or observable astrological correlations, rather than to simply perpetuate observations or assumptions written in historical astrological texts, a problem leading to widespread criticism of mainstream Classical Astrology. Some have speculated that the term "Cosmobiology" was coined specifically to divorce its precepts from the manifold ambiguities of, and subsequent widespread biases against, Classical Astrology.
Three prominent published Cosmobiological authors in the English language are German-American cosmobiologist Eleonora Kimmel, American cosmobiologist Aren Ober (formerly Savalan), and Australian cosmobiologist Doris Greaves, all of whom have published texts in Cosmobiology based on their own substantial experiences.
References
Brau, Jean-Louis: Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology, McGraw-Hill Books, New York USA, 1977.
Ebertin, Reinhold: Astrological Healing, Samuel Weiser Books, York Beach ME USA, 1989.
Ebertin, Reinhold: Combination of Stellar Influences, Ebertin-Verlag, Aalen, Germany, 1972.
Greaves, Doris: Regulus Ebertin Cosmobiology beyond 2000, Regulus Astrological Publications, Red Hill ACT, Australia, 1999.
Kimmel, Eleonora: Cosmobiology for the 21st Century, American Federation of Astrologers, Tempe AZ USA, 2000.
Ober, Aren: Midpoint Interpretation Simplified, 2nd Edition, Cotter Books, Cleveland OH USA, 2009.
Witte, Alfred: Der Mensch, Ludwig Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg, Germany, 1975.
Witte, Alfred: Regelwerk für Planetenbilder, Ludwig Rudolph Verlag, Hamburg, Germany, 1928.
Astrology by tradition
History of astrology |
1673640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox%20%28novel%29 | Firefox (novel) | Firefox is a thriller novel written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977. The Cold War plot involves an attempt by the CIA and MI6 to steal a highly advanced experimental Soviet fighter aircraft. The chief protagonist is fighter pilot turned spy Mitchell Gant. The book was subject to a 1982 film adaptation produced and directed by Clint Eastwood who also played the role of Gant in the film.
Plot summary
During the Cold War, British and American intelligence services learn of the MiG-31 aircraft developed by the Soviet Union. The plane (given the NATO code name "Firefox") embodies a number of technology advances – including stealth technology, hypersonic flight above Mach 5 and a thought-guided weapons system – dramatically surpassing those of the West.
Faced with an aircraft which will give the Soviet Union the ability to completely dominate the skies, the CIA and MI6 launch a joint mission to steal one of the two Firefox prototype aircraft. Their plan involves using veteran US Air Force fighter pilot Mitchell Gant, who travels to the Soviet Union under an assumed identity. On paper, Gant is ideally trained to steal Firefox, being fluent in Russian and having already flown captured Soviet planes. Overlooked by his superiors is Gant's wartime experiences in Vietnam, including his capture by Viet Cong after being shot down, an ordeal exacerbated when the enemy guerrillas are wiped out almost immediately by napalm from an American air strike.
With the help of a network of dissidents and sympathizers, Gant reaches Bilyarsk air base where the two prototype aircraft are being developed. Jewish dissident scientists, forced to work on the project, help Gant penetrate the base, then start a fire to destroy the second prototype and also to distract security troops while Gant steals one of the planes. Having escaped with the plane, Gant first heads east to the Ural Mountains, then turns south toward Turkey. The Soviets reason that Gant must escape north to the Arctic Circle or south to Turkey, a NATO member. The plane lacks fuel to reach China, and even with stealth capability would never risk the dense Moscow defences to the west. Gant intentionally encounters an Aeroflot jetliner, then vanishes north, hoping to mislead his pursuers. As a result, the Soviets concentrate their search to the south.
Gant hugs the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains to evade Soviet acoustical listening stations, but is spotted and fired upon by a SAM station equipped with infrared search and track sensors. Gant decoys the incoming infrared homing missiles by destroying a Badger aircraft that chances upon the scene. Gant escapes, but the Soviets are now alerted to his heading and redirect their search efforts to the Barents Sea area of the Arctic. A Soviet missile cruiser spots Gant and attacks, firing missiles and attempting to launch a helicopter. Gant destroys the helicopter, but he is now nearly out of fuel so he climbs to stretch out his range. His receiver then detects the homing signal, directing Gant to an ice floe. Landing, Gant finds an American submarine bearing kerosene fuel and using the floe as an ad-hoc runway. The Americans rearm and refuel the Firefox, giving Gant the necessary range, but barely finish before the arrival of a Soviet submarine.
Thinking that he has made good his escape, Gant finds himself under attack by the second Firefox prototype. Realizing that the Soviet scientists failed to destroy the second plane, Gant is forced to dogfight. The second MiG is flown by Firefox test-pilot Tretsov, who is more experienced in the Firefox aircraft and consistently outflies Gant. Nevertheless, after desperate manoeuvrers, Gant realises that the second plane has been destroyed – during the dogfight he reflexively ordered the thought-controlled weapons system to eject a decoy flare, which was immediately ingested by the second MiG's jet intake, triggering an internal explosion that destroyed it. Free of pursuit, Gant continues on his journey.
Characters
Mitchell Gant – American fighter pilot and spy, protagonist
Kenneth Aubrey – British spy master
Colonel Mihail Yurievich Kontarsky – Soviet head of counterintelligence at the Bilyarsk air base
Dmitri Priabin – Soviet intelligence officer serving under Colonel Kontarsky at the Bilyarsk air base.
Peter Shelley – British agent
Charles Buckholtz – American agent with the CIA
General Med Vladimirov – Soviet Air Force commandant of the "Wolfpack" tasked with stopping Gant.
Air Marshal Mihail Ilyich Kutuzov – Soviet Air Force chief
Yuri Andropov – Head of the KGB (as he was when the novel was written in the mid-1970s)
Origin of the story idea
By the time Thomas began writing Firefox the Soviets had introduced into operational service the MiG-25 Foxbat, the fastest interceptor aircraft in the world, with a top speed of Mach 2.8. Its appearance in the USSR and the Near East (overflying Israel with impunity) caused a stir in Western aviation and intelligence communities. Thomas' fictional MiG-31 was depicted on the cover of many printings as the Mig-25. At the time of the book's first issue in 1977, stealth technology was a subject of top secret research in defence establishments (Lockheed Have Blue had its first flight in 1977) and had not been operationally deployed (though the Lockheed SR-71 did exhibit stealth-like features). The publisher of the book's first paperback edition, Sphere, gambled on real-life events such as the 1976 defection of the Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko, to risk a 250,000-copy printing. The background material for Firefox was a result of meticulous research, and provided by friends formerly with the RAF, and the Russian setting was derived from guidebooks as he could not afford to visit Moscow.
Adaptations and sequels
Firefox was made into a film by Warner Brothers based on the novel and released in 1982. Clint Eastwood was the director, producer, and played Mitchell Gant.
The novel Firefox Down is a continuation of the story of Firefox, beginning at the moment at which the previous book had concluded.
Many of the characters of Firefox and Firefox Down return for the novel Winter Hawk (1987) and A Different War (1997).
Release details
1977, USA, Holt Rinehart and Winston , Pub date 1 August 1977, hardback (First edition)
1977, UK, Michael Joseph , Pub date 8 August 1977, hardback
1978, UK, Sphere , Pub date 27 July 1978, paperback
1978, USA, Bantam Books , Pub date ? ? 1978, paperback
1988, USA, Time Warner , Pub date 1 January 1988, paperback (reissue)
1992, USA, Chivers Audio Books , Pub date ? December 1992, Audio book cassette (narrated by Stephen Thorne)
References
External links
Firefox (1977) - Craig Thomas - the unofficial companion
1977 British novels
British novels adapted into films
Novels set during the Cold War
Novels by Craig Thomas
Techno-thriller novels
Aviation novels
Michael Joseph books |
71440540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AEW%20Dark%3A%20Elevation%20episodes | List of AEW Dark: Elevation episodes |
This is a list of AEW Dark: Elevation episodes including episode number, location, venue and that night's main event.
All dates, venues and main events are per the official AEW YouTube channel.
2021
2022
See also
List of AEW Dynamite episodes
List of AEW Rampage episodes
List of AEW Dark episodes
References
All Elite Wrestling lists
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
36908689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Page%20Smith | Harold Page Smith | Admiral Harold Page Smith (February 17, 1904 – January 4, 1993) was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces Europe/Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from 1960 to 1963 and Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic/Commander in Chief, Allied Command Atlantic/Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet from 1963 to 1965.
Military career
Smith attended the United States Naval Academy and graduated in its class of 1924. He served aboard , , , , , , , and .
References
1904 births
1993 deaths
People from Grand Bay, Alabama
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Navy admirals |
44312442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting%20on%20a%20man | Sitting on a man | "Sitting on a man" is an Igbo method of public shaming employed by women against a man by convening upon his hut or workplace. Women may dance, sing, detail grievances with his behaviour, beat on the walls of his home with pestles, or tear the roof from his home.
The practice is also referred to "making war on" a man and may be employed against women as well. "Sitting on a man", along with strikes and various other resistance methods, ultimately functioned as a tool for women to maintain balance of both social and political power throughout pre-colonial times; however, this status would be negatively impacted by colonial rule.
History
Pre-colonialism in Igboland
The Igbo political system was built on collectivism. They did not distribute power by force amongst one another. In the Igbo community, they did not believe in authority or power being specialized within their political institution. Because of their scattered community, it was easier for them to work as a union on political matters they faced within the village. Igbo tradition was to have village assemblies where they would discuss concerns and mutually agree on decisions for solutions. Factors that played into choosing leaders within their political system were candidates who lived in good faith, generous, and intellectual speakers (persuasive and influential speech). Men and women were both able to be leaders, however, women were at a disadvantage to men because of their patrilineage. Women could achieve status through her own accomplishments even though men were able to gain resources easily. Also, they were able to advance in their rankings amongst other women, whereas men instantly developed status from birth. Even though it was rare for most women to obtain prestige, there was no official limitation of power on women.
Women in Politics
Igbo women had a very strong presence in the traditional political world. The Igbo people did not have stipulations on who could speak up and who could not. Any adult that had something valuable to say in a conversation, had the right to do so. Women were given rights by their achievement, it was not about their husbands accomplishments but solely about what they brought to the table. Although, they were not able to speak on all subjects of matter, they could speak on things that considered them and other women. This was a rare circumstance, but still accepted in their society by invitation.
Women were still seen as second to men, even though they had some power and influence to speak on things that concerned them. Due to the fact that the wealth was solely based on men and their status within their community women did not hold as much high status as men who had that political advantage over women. Most of the political standings were based on the patriarchal part of the women's families, so if there was no power within that part, they also did not have much power. After colonialism, women's meetings were put into categories like “mikiri” and “mitiri”.
After colonialism, women's meetings were put into categories like “Mikiri” and “Mitiri”. In "Mikiri" women were able to form all of their talents regarding politics among egalitarian people. Most of the times, they were discussing things they were interested in and could relate to with one another. Those things being: a farmer, mother, wife, trader, etc. and most times men did not agree with their views, but that did not stop them. The most important part of the "mikiri" meetings was the part about maintaining the most prominent act by women, which was trading. They established all of the logistics for trading, and if throughout this process the younger men could not be controlled surrounding their opinions, the women would rebut through strikes and boycotts which soon became known as "sitting on a man".
There were multiple reasons a man could be subjected to the practice of "sitting on a man". If a man was found mistreating his wife, allowing his cows to eat the women's crops, breaking the rules of the market, or causing marital disputes, women would collectively consult with the mikiri (a forum which gave women the opportunity to gather for political, kinship, and market regulation issues) and if it gave support to the woman making the grievance, and they would employ the practice. Women would wear ferns on their heads and don loincloths. They would paint their faces with charcoal and carry sticks wreathed with palm fronds. Such a display of solidarity among women reinforced their influential role in society, offered access to autonomy throughout pre-colonial times, and lent itself as an effective measure to enact change.
Colonial rule
Resistance
In the early twentieth century, women in Colonial Nigeria organized protests in response to political reforms regarding the Native Administration."Sitting" on Warrant Chiefs was a prominent method of resistance. The Women's War was a significant demonstration of the adaptation of "sitting on a man" in efforts of resistance from imposed indirect rule in Colonial Nigeria. Protests would often consist of singing and dancing around homes and offices, invading personal spaces, and other actions which demanded the attention of the Warrant Chiefs. Wives of the local colonial representatives were often disturbed by this form of protest and aided in encouraging Warrant Chiefs to adhere to the requests and demands of the women. "Sitting on the Warrants," became a widespread colonial resistance tactic utilized by women in Nigeria.
Effects
During pre-colonial times, Igbo women held significant social and political standings while still second to men, this allowed them to engage and influence the politics of their village in some shape or form. During colonial rule, however, the idea of excluding women from political settings and activities, despite resistance, grew among the Igbo people. The missionaries who had come to the region had begun to change the role of women in the Igbo society as their purpose was to train the women to be good Christian wives and mothers first and foremost. These Christian values also prohibited the use of Pagan rituals which included the Mikiri, taking away the one way in which Igbo women would traditionally engage in Politics and created a form of invisibility that denied them anyway to air their grievances. Politics were seen as a realm of men and any woman who could engage was seen as having the "brain of a man" which was very rare. Schooling became a huge part of Igbo life as well as necessary for a political career and unfortunately for most young girls they were often overlooked in favor of the boys in the family, and those that did go were not given the same education as their male counterparts. Instead of being taught anything that could further a career in politics, they were taught European domestic skills and the Bible. The missionaries were not against women in politics as many supported women's suffrage, but in Africa, the church was the biggest priority was creating Christian Families which did not prioritize women politicians at the time.
By altering the social institutions it negatively affected women's rights and status in society by de-legitimizing their means of influence. The criminalization of the Mikiri was not necessarily deliberate, as European officials and missionaries were unaware of the functions and implications of the practice as they were socialized with a restrictive ideology that had no place for women to engage in politics. Unfortunately, by disturbing women's means of balancing power, colonial rule detrimentally affected Igbo gender relations and societal structures. Women no longer had the ability to affect the way that trade was performed or even defend themselves against any form of abuse enacted from the men of their villages. This left many Igbo women in a vulnerable state of subservience and created a society where their traditional roles had become undone.
Notes
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African resistance to colonialism
Feminist protests
History of Nigeria |
17956170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20to%20Life%20%281913%20film%29 | Back to Life (1913 film) | Back to Life is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan and featuring Pauline Bush, J. Warren Kerrigan, William Worthington and Lon Chaney. This was Chaney's first film with director Allan Dwan, which was followed by a dozen more. The film is now considered lost.
Plot
A gambler brings his sick wife to live in the mountains after learning she has tuberculosis and will need special care. The gambler soon tires of caring for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon.
The gambler's wife discovers her husband's infidelity and wanders off into the forest to die. There she finds a hunted outlaw named Jim, weak from loss of blood, and she nurses him back to health. Jim, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills who then nurse her back to health.
The wife decides to try to regain her husband's love, but upon returning home, she finds he has been shot dead by a rival (Lon Chaney) in a saloon brawl. She goes back to Jim and they find happiness together.
Cast
William Worthington as The Gambler
Pauline Bush as The Wife
J. Warren Kerrigan as Jim, the Outlaw
Jessalyn Van Trump as The Dance Hall Girl
Lon Chaney as The Rival
Reception
Moving Picture World wrote: "Warren Kerrigan, as a redeemed bad man in this admirable picture, presents a likable character...The story is well dramatized, the action is spirited and the whole gets over in good shape."
Universal Weekly wrote: "Like all of director Allan Dwan's features, it has tons of action throughout."
References
External links
1913 films
1913 drama films
1913 short films
1913 lost films
Silent American drama films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Allan Dwan
Lost American films
Lost drama films
Universal Pictures short films
1910s American films |
11156275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udyan%20Express | Udyan Express | The 11301/11302 Udyan Express is an express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Bangalore in India. It operates as train number 11301 from Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station (Bengaluru City) and as train number 11302 in the reverse direction serving the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh.
It is named as the Udyan Express since Bangalore is known as the Garden City of India dotted with many Public Gardens and parks such as Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Cubbon Park etc. and various other parks almost 1 park between evey 4 roads and other large parks in every locality maintained by the BBMP and also there are private gardens. The word "Udyan" means a garden in Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi and Kannada. The train was previously numbered as 16529/30 Udyan Express and was renumbered to 11301/11302 when the timetable for July 2013 came into effect. This train now shares its rake with the Siddheshwar Express & operational control is now with Central Railway.
This train was started in the year 1983, when the Guntakal–Bangalore (GTL–SBC) route underwent gauge conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge. Prior to this, people that desired a Mumbai–Bangalore train journey had to change trains at Guntakal and travel via Dharmavaram to Bangalore on metre gauge express trains.
Coaches
The 11301/11302 Udyan Express presently has 1 AC 1st Class, 3 AC 2 tier, 3 AC 3 tier, 12 Sleeper Class & 3 General Unreserved coaches.
As with most train services in India, coach composition may be amended at the discretion of Indian Railways depending on demand.
From 24 November 2019, 11301 Udyan Express received LHB coach starting from Mumbai.
Service
The 11301 Udyan Express covers the distance of 1153 kilometres in 24 hours 55 mins (46.59 km/hr) & in 23 hours 55 mins as 11302 Udyan Express (48.21 km/hr).
As the average speed of the train is below 55 km/hr, its fare does not include a Superfast surcharge.
Once the train leaves Maharashtra & crosses into Karnataka, crosses into Andhra Pradesh and re-enters Karnataka again after crossing Hindupur.
The Udyan Express covers the scenic Sahyadri mountain ranges between and , which are also known as the Bhor Ghat during the day in both directions.
It also passes through the Makalidurga Ghats near Bengaluru, which is marked by sharp curves.
Traction
As the route is fully electrified, it is hauled end to end by a KYN-based WAP-7 in both directions.
Time Table
References
External links
Route - Indianrailinfo
Named passenger trains of India
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Rail transport in Karnataka
Rail transport in Andhra Pradesh
Express trains in India |
35507800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasruddin%20Mohseni | Nasruddin Mohseni | Sayed Nasruddin Mohseni is a politician of Afghanistan. He is a leader of the Hizb e Wahadat e Islami—a party that serves members of Hazara ethnic group, who are from Islam's Sh'ia minority.
Delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga 2002-2004
During the 2001 Bonn Conference that selected Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan's interim leader obliged him to empower a Constitutional Loya Jirga to write a new constitution.
Karzai appointed Nasruddin Mohseni to be a delegate to the Loya Jirga.
He sat on the first of the Jirga's ten committees, chaired by Ustad Rabani.
Committee one drafted 45 articles.
The Jirga sat from 2002 through 2004.
Popular elections to the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of Afghanistan's national assembly followed in 2005.
Hizb e Wahadat e Islami
Eurasianet chose to quote Nasruddin while describing mounting disenchantment with Hamid Karzai's central government among the minority groups in Afghanistan's north. They described him as a ''"senior leader"' of the Hizb e Wahadat e Islami.
References
Afghan politicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
13897112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia%20de%20Solenni | Pia de Solenni | Pia de Solenni is a theologian who formerly served as the chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange in California.
Solenni is an alumna of Thomas Aquinas College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts-Great Books, and of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, where she earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Subsequently, she earned a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome; for this work, she received the 2001 Award of the Pontifical Academies, presented by John Paul II. Dr. de Solenni has worked at the Family Research Council.
Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Catholic Reporter, and she has appeared on CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The O’Reilly Factor, and other television programs.
References
External links
Pia de Solenni at Patheos
Dr. Pia de Solenni, "The Notion of Beauty" (2005)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Thomas Aquinas College alumni
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross alumni
Living people
20th-century American Roman Catholic theologians
Women Christian theologians
American women journalists
Christian feminist theologians
Feminist theorists
American feminists
21st-century American Roman Catholic theologians
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Catholic feminists
21st-century American women writers |
48868722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Know%20There%27s%20Gonna%20Be%20%28Good%20Times%29 | I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) | "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" is a song by English music producer Jamie xx, with featured vocals from American rapper Young Thug and Jamaican musician Popcaan. The song was released as the third single from Jamie xx's debut studio album, In Colour, on 22 May 2015 in the UK and 28 August in the U.S. The official music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube on 28 September 2015. "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" peaked at number 115 on the UK Singles Chart and number 90 on the Australian ARIA Charts. It also appears on the soundtrack for the video game NBA Live 16 and NBA 2K17 while also appearing in an episode of Euphoria. English rapper Skepta's grime-influenced remix of the song made its debut on Drake's OVO Sound Radio on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio station. On March 3, 2021, the song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and streaming data of over 500,000 units in the United States.
Production
In an interview with The Fader, Jamie Smith stated "I don't feel like I'm very good at making music, in terms of like the technical side of it—it's more like trying stuff out until something that I love happens. Sometimes I'll be quite good at the first 10 seconds of a song, then I'm lost. "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" was like that."
The song started with a sample from "Good Times" from The Persuasions. "It's an a cappella record where they are doing barbershop-style backing, and there's a beautiful soul song over the top," Smith stated. This record was found by Smith while he was living in Detroit and "had time to kill" before his tour started. "The day after I bought it, I immediately got that feeling and wanted to get to work right away on making something out of it." While "messing around" with the track for a little while, he then went to New York City and was listening to Hot 97 driving over a bridge; this experience was described by him as "a real catalyst in terms of what direction [he] wanted to take the song." "I was listening to hip-hop radio all the time while I was there; and I thought I’d have a go at trying to make a song that would get played on one of those kind of stations."
Afterward, Smith asked various artists to create their own versions of the song, including separate versions from American rapper Young Thug and Jamaican singer Popcaan, and decided to "[splice] the two of them together [for the song] because their voices work really well together." This collaboration was turned out to be the version that Smith he and his team liked for the album. There was also an alternate take of the song which revolves around Persuasions' sample that he played for an interviewer from Pitchfork.
Composition
Many journalists noticed the soul, blues and Caribbean vibe from the song appeared on many other of Smith's records. Nick Murray from Rolling Stone called the song the "drinking-in-the-sun type vibe" cut of the album. "I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it," he explains, discussing again those who mistake the xx as dour. "I think there has always been sort of an element of that brighter side when I make music, just because it's when I'm happiest."
The song was described as a "big, fat, generous morsel of R&B goes to the heart of the way Smith treats his inspirations," with "the subtle Caribbean vibe of so many Jamie xx records", "omnipresent steel drums, exploding with overtones." On the song, Smith used steelpans which he discovered while recording The xx' first album. Later while on tour in the United States, he ended up buying a child-size version of the instrument, which he describes in rapturous terms. "You can make it sound quite melancholy," he says. "But at the same time, it reminds me of paradise.”
Critical reception
"I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" was ranked at number 10 on the Pazz & Jop annual year-end critics' poll distributed by The Village Voice. The song also came in at #26 on the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2015.
Pitchfork Media named the song as the third best track of 2015, adding: "Profane instead of reverent, sun-bright instead of club-dark, drunk instead of ecstatic, "I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)" is about getting low instead of climbing high. Built from little more than a snare roll, finger snaps, and chimes, Jamie xx made a breezy pop confection that alights on dancehall, trap, as well as doo-wop without ever settling on any one sound." In 2019, Uproxx, Stereogum, and Pitchfork ranked the song as the 11th, 65th, and 100th best song of the 2010s respectively.
Music video
The official music video for "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)", lasting three minutes and thirty seconds, was uploaded on 28 September 2015 to Jamie xx's Vevo channel on YouTube. The video was directed by Rollo Jackson.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
2014 songs
2015 singles
Songs written by Jamie xx
Jamie xx songs
Popcaan songs
Young Thug songs |
12525906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Erie%20Speedway | Lake Erie Speedway | Lake Erie Speedway is a 3/8 mile (0.6 km) paved, banked oval race track which opened on June 21, 2002 in Erie County, Pennsylvania south of North East, Pennsylvania, United States. It was a member of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series from 2002-2013 when the track dropped the NASCAR sanctioning body and started only holding a few special event races a year as an unsanctioned track. Lake Erie Speedway previously ran five weekly race divisions including: Modifieds, Street Stocks, Compacts, Legends, and Bandoleros.
The track formerly hosted the ARCA RE/MAX Series, the NASCAR Busch East/North Series, the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour, ASA National Tour and CARS Hooters Pro Cup Series.
External links
Official Website
Lake Erie Speedway race results at Racing-Reference
Motorsport venues in Pennsylvania
ARCA Menards Series tracks
NASCAR tracks
Buildings and structures in Erie County, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Erie County, Pennsylvania |
9609083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS%20ambulance%20services | NHS ambulance services | National Health Service ambulance services provide free at the point of use emergency medical care to any person requiring treatment, regardless of immigration or visitor status, within the United Kingdom. These services are provided by National Health Services of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The current system comprises 14 NHS organisations: 11 ambulance services trusts cover the separate regions of England and; individual nationwide services cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland respectively.
NHS ambulance services are classed as an essential service, the public normally access emergency medical services through one of the valid emergency telephone numbers (either 999 or 112). Additionally, some ambulance services are considering trialing a 999 video calling service, in order to be able to visually assess patients whilst crews are en route.
The work of ambulance services included responsibility for patient transport, but in England this is now often covered by separate contractual arrangements, and often delivered by private providers.
History
The National Health Service Act 1946 gave county (and county borough) councils in England and Wales a statutory responsibility to provide an emergency ambulance service, although they could contract a voluntary ambulance service to provide this.
In 1977/78 ambulance services in the UK cost about £138m. At that time about 90% of the work was transporting patients to and from hospitals.
The Regional Ambulance Officers' Committee reported in 1979 that:
The 142 existing ambulance services in England and Wales were transferred by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 from local authority to central government control in 1974, and consolidated into 53 services under regional or area health authorities.
In Northern Ireland the service was the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority before 1974, and was then transferred to the four health and social services boards.
Under the provisions of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 England was covered by 31 ambulance trusts, which were structured as below. In July 2006 the number of ambulance service trusts was reduced to thirteen.
Current ambulance services
There are currently 14 NHS organisations (ambulance services trusts in England) which provide ambulance services across the UK, which are listed below:
England
Subcontracting
In 2019 the Care Quality Commission reported that ambulance services were relying on private providers because of lack of capacity. Some firms had failed to obtain references or carry out criminal record checks and a lack of staff training was leading to serious patient harm. More than £92 million was spent in 2018/9 on private ambulances and taxis.
In May 2022 NHS England tendered a contract worth up to £30m for “auxiliary ambulance services”. This is worth £7.5m annually and is initially an eight-month contract. It covers both emergency and non-emergency ambulance crews “with the capacity to respond to callouts across categories one to four”.
Targets
NHS England sets targets for response times to 999 calls, which were first established in the 1970s. Call handlers were, until 2017, given just 60 seconds to decide on the urgency of the call. The clock stopped once a vehicle reached the patient - even if it was not the appropriate vehicle.
Category A (Red 1 and Red 2) were classed as life-threatening and the national standard sets out that a vehicle should reach the scene within eight minutes for 75% of these calls . Red 1 calls are for patients who have suffered cardiac arrest or stopped breathing and require two vehicles. If onward transport is required a suitable vehicle should arrive on the scene within 19 minutes. The number of these rose from 2.5 million in 2011/12 to just under 3.4 million in 2015/16, but response times fell steadily and the 75% target was not met after 2013. Green 1 required a vehicle within 20 minutes, Green 2 within 30 minutes. Green 3 required telephone assessment within 20 minutes and Green 4 telephone assessment within 60 minutes. These targets are only recommended.
In July 2017 a new set of performance targets for the ambulance service were announced after a trial across four different ambulance trusts, looking at more than 1 million patients overseen by Sheffield University. These are to apply to all 999 calls for the first time. Call handlers will be given four minutes to assess the urgency of the call before the clock starts. The target for the most seriously ill patients is now seven minutes. The 'clock' stops when the most appropriate response, not necessarily the first, arrives. There are condition-specific measures which will track time from 999 call to hospital treatment for heart attacks and strokes. 90% of eligible heart attack patients should receive definitive treatment (balloon inflation during angioplasty at a specialist heart attack centre) within 150 minutes by 2022. 90% of stroke patients should also receive appropriate management (thrombolysis for those who require it, and first CT scan for all other stroke patients) within 180 minutes of making a 999 call. For other emergencies the target is for 90% to be seen in 40 minutes. Urgent or non-urgent calls should expect an average response time of 120 and 180 minutes respectively. Extensive trials have shown that fewer patients are classed as life-threatening and fewer vehicles are dispatched, but responses for the most urgent calls improved.
Trusts asked for more resources to meet these targets, in particular the standards for the top 90% of responses. Taking patients to the "right" hospital rather than the nearest, leads to longer journeys. They were supported by a benchmarking exercise undertaken by the National Audit Office.
In July 2018 eight of the ten services in England missed the seven-minute target. A review conducted by Lord Carter of Coles found that the rate of sickness of ambulance staff was the highest in the NHS - 20 days per person. Use of information technology was advancing very slowly. 25% of ambulances, of which there were 32 different types, were more than seven years old. There were large differences in costs and performance between the different trusts, some of which were attributable to local geography and the performance of other parts of the NHS. Responses to the most urgent calls averaged 11 minutes in rural areas in 2018 but 7 minutes in urban areas. The worst waits were around Wells-next-the-Sea.
The COVID-19 pandemic in England put huge pressure on ambulance services. In July 2021 there were 81,685 category one incidents, up 32% in July 2019, and up 16% on the previous high in December 2019. Response time performance for these calls slumped to 8 minutes 33s, against a target of 7 minutes, with a tenth taking more than 15 minutes 15s. Average response time for category two calls, still classified as emergencies and including heart attacks and strokes, was 41 minutes 4s against a target of 18 minutes. In October 2021 there were around 28,900 ambulance handovers lasting longer than an hour. This was almost four times the 7,772 hour-long handovers recorded in October 2020. In April one patient waited 24 hours in an ambulance - thought to be the longest ever recorded. 11,000 patients waited more than three hours for handover, with 7,000 of them taking more than four hours and 4,000 over five hours.
11 July 2022 was said to be the worst night on record for ambulance services in England, with more than half of some trusts ambulance crews queued outside hospitals in very hot weather. There were more than 85,000 category one ambulance callouts in July - the highest ever recorded. Category one performance averaged 9 minutes 35 seconds, the same as in March 2022 and the joint lowest on record. Category two calls took an average of 59 minutes 7 seconds.
Funding and activity
Between 2011-12 and 2015-16 ambulance activity in England rose by 30%. Funding only increased by 16%. In May 2018 several trusts told commissioners that they needed to spend many millions on extra staff and ambulances if they were to meet the response time targets.
Information technology
In November 2018 NHS Digital launched the National Record Locator Service which gives ambulance staff access to patient records of mental health trusts, initially for the North West, North East, Yorkshire and London Ambulance Services. It is planned to roll it out across England and to include other records.
See also
BASICS Scotland
:Category:NHS ambulance services trusts
Hazardous area response team
References |
48044108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Wood%20%28Australian%20footballer%29 | Ron Wood (Australian footballer) | Ron Wood (29 May 1923 – 13 December 1978) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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1978 deaths
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Geelong West Football Club players |
23157757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Zhunenko | Sergey Zhunenko | Sergey Nikolayevich Zhunenko (; born 13 May 1970) is a former Kazakhstani professional footballer.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet First League in 1989 for FC Kairat.
Honours
Russian Premier League runner-up: 1997.
Russian Premier League bronze: 1996.
Russian Cup finalist: 1995.
Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 1998, 1999.
European club competitions
With FC Rotor Volgograd.
1994–95 UEFA Cup: 2 games.
1995–96 UEFA Cup: 3 games.
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 6 games.
1997–98 UEFA Cup: 3 games.
References
1970 births
People from Novosibirsk Oblast
Living people
Kazakhstani people of Ukrainian descent
Soviet footballers
Kazakhstani footballers
Kazakhstan international footballers
Kazakhstani expatriate footballers
Russian Premier League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
FC Kairat players
FC Zorya Luhansk players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Shakhtar Donetsk players
FC Metalurh Donetsk players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin players
Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
FC Mordovia Saransk players
Expatriate footballers in Russia
Association football defenders
Association football midfielders
FC Metallurg Lipetsk players
FC Taraz players |
38801038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Ferof | Al Ferof | Al Ferof (30 March 2005) is a retired French-bred British-based National Hunt horse owned by John Hales. He was initially trained by Barry Murphy in wexford for Martin Timothy Murphy. He was then trained by Paul Nicholls and won the 2011 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival before progressing to chasing the following season, where he won several top races including the Paddy Power Gold Cup. He moved to the stable of Dan Skelton in 2015 and won the Peterborough Chase for his new trainer. Al Ferof was retired from racing in October 2016.
Background
Al Ferof is a grey gelding and was bred by J. Rauch and G. Chenu in France. His sire Dom Alco is a hugely successful sire of National Hunt horses, with 2012 Grand National winner Neptune Collonges and 2012 Betfair Chase winner Silviniaco Conti among his progeny. Al Ferof was initially owned by Martin Timothy Murph an engineer from Cork in Ireland before being sold to John Hales.
Racing career
2008/2009 season: Point to Point
Al Ferof began his career on the amateur Point-to-point circuit. He made his racing debut at Summerhill in 2009, where he fell behind Jetnova. He then won a three-mile race at Athlacca, beating future Tolworth Hurdle winner Minella Class.
2009/2010 season: National Hunt Flat races
Al Ferof finished third to Summit Meeting in a National Hunt Flat race at Punchestown, before winning a similar event at Fairyhouse.
Al Ferof made his debut for Champion Trainer Paul Nicholls in a Grade 2 Bumper race at Newbury, which he won by five lengths under Ruby Walsh. He then finished an eight length second to Cue Card in the Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival.
2010/11 National Hunt season: novice hurdling
Al Ferof's first start over hurdles ended in a fall when leading at Cheltenham in December. He immediately stepped up in class and trip to contest the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle at Newbury, finishing nine lengths back in third behind Backspin. Al Ferof finally got off the mark over hurdles in a two-mile three furlong race at Taunton, which he won easily by twenty lengths as the 1/7 favourite.
Newbury incident
Al Ferof was then involved in a tragic incident at Newbury, where live cables under the parade ring electrocuted two horses before a novice hurdle race. Al Ferof avoided a shock, and won the race by fifteen lengths before the rest of the meeting was abandoned due to safety concerns.
Al Ferof's next race came in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham, where he was considered a 10/1 shot behind the favourite Cue Card. In an unusually strong field, Al Ferof became outpaced two flights out, but stayed on resolutely up the hill to beat Spirit Son by two lengths. The subsequent performances of the beaten horses marked this out as a quality renewal of the race: Spirit Son went on to romp in the Grade 2 Mersey Novices' Hurdle at Aintree, third placed Sprinter Sacre developed into a top class two mile chaser and won the Arkle Challenge Trophy and Cue Card also became a top class chaser and winner of the Ascot Chase.
2011/12 National Hunt season: novice chasing
Al Ferof switched to fences the following season and made his chasing debut in the Grade 2 November Novices' Chase at Cheltenham, which he won easily by seven lengths from Astracad. He then stepped up in class for the Grade 1 Henry VIII Novices' Chase at Sandown in December. Sent off the 4/11 favourite, Al Ferof was forced to work unexpectedly hard to repel future Scilly Isles Novices' Chase winner For Non Stop by a neck.
Paul Nicholls next pitted Al Ferof against seasoned chasers in the Grade 1 Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot in January. Kept wide by Ruby Walsh, Al Ferof jumped well but was outpaced by Somersby and subsequent Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Finian's Rainbow. Afterwards, Walsh suggested that the King George VI Chase over three miles at Kempton would suit the horse, who appeared more of a stayer.
Despite the reverse, Al Ferof stayed at two miles for a rematch with Sprinter Sacre, who was unbeaten in two starts over fences, in the Grade 1 Arkle Challenge Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival. Sent off at 3/1, Al Ferof attempted to pressurise Sprinter Sacre on the far side of the course, but made a bad mistake four out and dropped away to finish a distant fourth behind Sprinter Sacre, Cue Card and 2010 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Menorah.
Al Ferof completed his first season chasing in the Grade 1 Manifesto Novices’ Chase over two and a half miles at Aintree. Although the favourite, Al Ferof ran a rather lifeless race to finish third to Menorah and stablemate Cristal Bonus.
2012/13 National Hunt season
Al Ferof made his seasonal debut in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham, a race his trainer Paul Nicholls had never won. He was given the weight of top weight of 11 st 8 lbs and, in very soft conditions, stayed on stoutly to defeat Walkon by three lengths. Trainer Paul Nicholls called it "a stunning performance". After the race, the King George on Boxing Day was announced as his target, and he was cut to around 5/1 second favourite behind Long Run for the race.
On 17 December 2012, Paul Nicholls announced that Al Ferof had "a small nick in a tendon", and would miss the King George and the rest of the season. In a strange coincidence, his illustrious stablemate Big Buck's, four-time winner of the World Hurdle, suffered a similar injury at the same time. Owner John Hales announced that Al Ferof would probably need around twelve months off, but would hopefully be fit to race the following season.
2013/14 National Hunt season
After more than a year off the track Al Ferof returned in a two-runner affair, considered by Racing Post a public schooling session, in the Ascot 1965 Chase on which he made all to win by 8 lengths. His next start was in the King George VI Chase where after staying in touch with the leader who set a good gallop he could only manage third spot behind his stablemate Silviniaco Conti. In February 2014 he started 5/4 short favourite in the Denman Chase but facing a heavy going and a three miles trip he failed to get home and finished in second spot, 25 lengths behind the winner, trainer Paul Nicholls reporting: "Daryl (Jacob) said he travelled really well into the straight but then just ran out of stamina". At the 2014 Cheltenham Festival Al Ferof was dropped down in trip, going instead for the 2m5f() Ryanair Chase and while the good ground was in his favour he still failed to make an impression, only staying on for the 5th place with the Vet reporting after the race that he had got struck into on his off fore.
2014/15 National Hunt season
Al Ferof returned for his first run of the 2014/15 campaign in the same race that he won at the start of last season, the Ascot 1965 Chase, in which he met six opponents, two of them higher rated on the official handicapper scale than himself at that time. He tracked the leader throughout the race but by the last fence he took the lead and drew away clear of his opponents to win by 7 lengths. The Grade 1 King George VI Chase was targeted a month later but like in the previous year his stablemate Silviniaco Conti proved better than Al Ferof, who stayed on well in the final stage of the race to take the third place. In February 2015 Al Ferof was entered in the Ascot Chase but Paul Nicholls ruled him out with couple of days prior to the race and also took him out of the upcoming Cheltenham Festival, explaining that "He has a partially entrapped epiglottis which requires minor corrective surgery", and only returned for the Aintree and Sandown festivals at the end of National Hunt season. In the Grade 1 Melling Chase at Aintree Al Ferof wasn't able to prove competitive and only finished in fifth place while two weeks later at Sandown he was dropped in class for the listed event Oaksey Chase where he found an opponent too good finishing only a length and a quarter in second spot at the line.
2015/16 National Hunt season
In the next season Al Ferof was transferred to a new stable and was sent in training with Dan Skelton, the former assistant of Paul Nicholls. He reported at the start of the campaign that "Al Ferof is absolutely fine and we are just ticking away quietly with him". In early December on his first seasonal appearance he bolted up in the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase after travelling the best of his rivals. At the last fence Al Ferof was three lengths in front of his main adversary Ptit Zig, who made a mistake and went down, leaving Al Ferof to finish 40 lengths clear of the nearest pursuer.
Al Ferof next start was his third successive attempt in the King George VI Chase over three miles trip with Skelton declaring that "Al Ferof is in the best shape possible". He travelled in the rear for the first circuit and was only asked to make progress in the last mile. He responded well to his jockey Harry Skelton and was about to make a move in the home straight when the lack of stamina, just like in his previous attempts in this race, prevented him of getting in contention with the three leaders. At the second last fence the favourite of the race Don Cossack fell and left Al Ferof to run on for the same third spot in which he completed for the last two renewals, with the Hennessy winner Smad Place a further three lengths in behind.
Al Ferof was expected to compete in steeplechases again in the 2016–17 season but sustained a minor leg injury. The injury was not serious but given the horse's age, it was decided to retire him from racing. He won 11 of his 28 races and over £500,000 in prize money.
References
External links
Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Al Ferof
2005 racehorse births
Cheltenham Festival winners
Racehorses bred in France
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Thoroughbred family 1-s
National Hunt racehorses |
24117850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rost%C4%9Bnice-Zvonovice | Rostěnice-Zvonovice | Rostěnice-Zvonovice () is a municipality in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Rostěnice-Zvonovice lies approximately south-west of Vyškov, east of Brno, and south-east of Prague.
Administrative parts
The municipality is made up of villages of Rostěnice and Zvonovice.
History
The first written mention about Rostěnice is from 1141 and about Zvonovice is from 1355. Rostěnice and Zvonovice were merged into one municipality in 1960.
Until 1945, Kučerov belonged to the German-speaking enclave called Vyškov Language Island. The area was colonized by German settlers in the second half of the 13th century. The coexistence of Czechs and Germans was mostly peaceful, which changed only after 1935, when many Germans tended to Nazism. In 1945–1946, the German population was expelled and the municipality was resettled by Czech families.
References
Villages in Vyškov District |
7298443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Yat-sen%20stamps | Sun Yat-sen stamps | Numerous Chinese stamps depict Sun Yat-sen, and a representative collection can be acquired with little trouble. These may conveniently be divided as the definitives, provincial issues, overprints, and commemoratives, but there is much crossover between these categories.
Definitives
The material below recognizes 12 definitive issues of Sun Yat-sen stamps produced by China during the 1930s and 1940s. The Stanley Gibbons Catalogue lists fourteen separate issues, but list the regional issues as additional. Other catalogues, such as Chan, may count reused designs or the printings by different printers as constituting separate designs. Because of the complexity involved with these stamps the organization below of these issues is motivated by making the identification of these issues as simple as possible for people who are not yet familiar with these stamps. Chan recognises 26 separate Sun Yat-sen definitive issues up to 1949, including provincial issues, and is perhaps the most logical and rigorous of the China stamp catalogues in this area.
First issue
The first Sun Yat-sen definitives were issued in 1931, and were recess printed by De La Rue & Co. of London. In this issue the portrait of Sun Yet-sen is flanked by Corinthian columns. It only exists in the 1¢, 2¢, 4¢, 20¢, $1.00, $2.00 and $5.00 face values on unwatermarked paper, perforated 12½ by 13. The three high values are bi-coloured. Because the ring inside the sun emblem appears as two rings this is commonly known as the "Double Circle Issue". The double circle was an error, but existing stocks were allowed to be used. Because it was soon replaced fewer legitimate overprint varieties exist on this issue than on the succeeding issue.
Second issue
The second issue of Sun Yat-sen definitives was also first issued in 1931, and corrected the inner ring in the sun symbol to a single solid circle. The 1¢ value was not issued in this design, but all the other values in the first issue were reprinted in the same colours. Additional values of 5¢, 15¢ in two colour varieties, and 25¢ were also added. In 1946 the same design was used for monochrome $1.00, $2.00, $20.00, $30.00 and $50.00 values necessitated by inflation. There are numerous overprints on the single circle stamp, and there are several plate varieties of the stamps with the lower face values.
For those unfamiliar with the portrait of Dr. Sun, the Martyrs issue of 1932 also has Corinthian columns on either side of the portrait, but the portrait itself is framed by a wreath rather than a double line oval, as with the Sun Yat-sen stamps.
Third issue
The third issue became necessary when the fall of Beijing to the Japanese in July 1937 resulted in having printing plates that were behind enemy lines. A new design was required, and it is most easily recognized by the replacement of the Corinthian columns in the side panels with floral scrollwork. The new stamps, first released on 1938-11-11 were printed by the Chung Hwa Book Co., the Dah Tung Book Co. and the Commercial Press, all of Hong Kong. Certain high values were later printed by the Pacheng Printing Co. of Nanping in Fujian Province; these were first released in 1942. This issue continued in use through most of the tumult of the following decade. The resulting varieties in printing methods, design details, secret marks, watermarks and perforations, as well as overprints for regional, occupation and revalued uses make the study of this issue the most complex of the Sun Yat-sen issues. The $5.00 stamp is often found imperf but they were never issued in that format. Such copies were looted from the printing works in Hong Kong during the war.
Fourth issue
The fourth issue, also known as the "New York print", was recess printed and perforated 12 by the American Banknote Company and appeared on 1941-02-21. The colours in this issue tend to be brighter than in the others. In this issue Sun's picture, which faces slightly to the right, is on a largely unshaded background, and the Western value tablets have been moved to the middle of both sides of the stamp. Sixteen values between ½¢ and $20.00 form this set. One of the rarest and most spectacular varieties in Chinese stamps is the $2 that was printed with the portrait upside down in the frame. It is believed only one sheet was printed like this and only a few stamps from it have turned up. Apart from this, there are no major varieties of this issue, but there are numerous significant overprints.
Fifth issue
The fifth issue continues many of the design elements of the fourth, but has a much cruder appearance. The portrait of Dr. Sun in this issue is a full bust and faces to the left; the entire background for the portrait is shaded. The issue, known as the Central Trust Print, was made necessary when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941. The first stamp in this issue appeared on 1942-09-15. The stamp was printed in the wartime capital of Chongqing, as well as by the Pacheng Printing Co. of Nanping. There are several varieties of this issue based on paper, secret marks and perforation, as well as a large number of overprints.
Sixth issue
The sixth issue is characterized by a larger portrait of Dr. Sun in a double frame with a square-toothed line between the frames, lens forms in the side panels, and Arabic numeral tablets on banners in the lower corners. It was first produced on native paper by the Chung Hwa Book Co. of Chongqing in 1944, and includes nine values. A number of overprints exist.
Seventh issue
The seventh issue shows Sun Yat-sen in an oval frame with wavy lines as side ornaments. The stamps appeared in 1945, and were typographed by the Dah Tung Book Co. Printing Works in Chongqing. The combination of poor quality paper, ink, equipment and workmanship resulted in a wide range of unintended varieties, most of which are ignored by philatelists. The set appears with four face values: $2.00, $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 perforated 12½. Several overprints also exist.
Eighth issue
The eighth issue is easily recognized since it is the only issue in which the tablet containing the Arabic numeral value is centred at the bottom of the stamp. Appearing in December 1945, this is the first of these Sun Yat-sen issues to be produced after the Japanese surrender when the two Chinese factions could abandon their uneasy alliance and get back to the business of fighting each other. This series was produced by Chongqing's Central Trust Bureau Printing Works, which was now renamed the Central Engraving and Printing Works. The series was typographed on white wood free paper. The printing still has a crude appearance and the perforations with small holes are often rough. The six values in this set, $20.00, $30.00, $40.00, $50.00, $100.00 and $200.00 reflect the growing inflationary problems of the time. A number of overprinted issues were also produced
Ninth issue
The ninth issue was recess printed by the Dah Tung Printing Works in Shanghai where better facilities were available; this is reflected in the improved general appearance of the stamps. This issue, whose release began 1946-07-23. Stamps in this set can be recognized by the somewhat water-drop shape of the Arabic value tablets in the bottom corners of the stamps. These stamps were perforated 14, and issued without gum; nevertheless different papers and printing conditions give rise to several varieties. The eleven values in this set range from $20.00 to $5000.00. The usual range of surcharges exists.
Tenth issue
The tenth issue was once again printed in London by the De La Rue Co. It was released in May 1947, and is identified by the torches on either side of the portrait. Only four stamps are in this set. The lowest value, the $500.00 olive green is monocoloured, the other three ($1,000.00, $2,000.00 and $5,000.00) are bi-coloured. All the values have perforation varieties. The only overprint on this issue is the 2 silver cents on $500.00 for West Sichuan produced in 1949. It has four recognized varieties.
Eleventh issue
The eleventh issue is known as the "Plum Blossom" issue, and was also engraved and produced by the Dah Tung Book Co. in Shanghai. In this set the Arabic value is at the lower left of the stamp, the Chinese value tablet is vertically oriented in the upper right corner of the stamp, and the plum blossoms are drawn below the Chinese value tablet. Their release began on 1947-10-17. The stamps are perforated 14, and were issued without gum. Because different papers were used there are paper and size varieties for most stamps in this issue. There are numerous overprints on this stamp to reflect the currency revaluations that began in 1948
The issue may be divided into two groups. In the first group the 17 values are printed with cents and range from $150.00 to $500,000.00. There are two types of the $500.00 stamp. A further three values, $100.00, $350.00 and $700.00 were printed but not issued without overprints.
The second group with 12 values began being issued on 1948-07-23 at the peak of the inflationary period. The values range from $20,000 to $5,000,000 with the cents omitted. The Gibbons catalogue treats this second issue as the Twelfth Issue. The twelfth issue below is then treated as the thirteenth.
Twelfth issue
The twelfth issue is very easily recognized because it is the only one in which Sun's portrait appears on a plain background.
On 1948-08-20 the Gold Yuan replaced the Chinese National Currency at the rate of 1 Gold Yuan for 3,000,000 CNC dollars. This gave rise to a confusing number of overprinted stamps of the previous issues. By the time the new stamps appeared on the first day of 1949 inflation was still rampant, and three versions of this stamp were soon produced in Shanghai. The stamps engraved by the Dah Tung Co. came in nine values from $1.00 to $1000.00. This was followed by a $10.00 and a $20.00 engraved value from Central Trust. Since lithographed stamps could be produced more quickly, a set of 12 lithographed stamps from the Dah Tung Co. with values from $50.00 to $100,000 soon appeared, as did a fourth lithographed product from the Hwa Nan Printing Press of Chongqing with eight values from $50.00 to $500,000.
In April 1949 The Gold Yuan in turn collapsed and was replaced by the Silver Yuan. This resulted in a new lithographed printing from the Hwa Nan Press in Chongqing with nine values from 1 cent to 500 cents. This set was the last Sun Yat-sen stamp issued before the division of China. The Gibbons catalogue treats this second issue as the fourteenth Issue.
Provincial Issues
In addition to the national issues and the wide range of overprints two additional original issues were produced with limited regional validity.
Northeastern Provinces
An issue of five stamps was made in February 1946. They are similar to the third issue except that the area around the head is unshaded and they were litho printed. In addition the stamps are overprinted with new values and characters which mean 'limited for use in the North East'. Normally such stamps would be classed in the overprinted issues but as the non-overprinted stamps were never issued these stamps may be treated as a separate issue. The stamps are mono-coloured and have values of 50c, 50c, $1.00, $2.00, $4.00.
A new issue was produced for the North Eastern Provinces (mostly the former puppet republic of Manchukuo) by the Central Printing Works in Beijing in July 1946. This issued may be easily recognized by the column of small circles in the side panels. The stamps were engraved, perforated 14, and issued without gum. It was issued in two printings. The first included fourteen values from 5 cents to $50.00.
The second printing in June 1947 was required because of inflation, and had ten values between $4.00 and $1,000.00. The $4.00, $10.00, $20.00 and $50.00 stamps exist in both printings, and may be distinguished by examining the details of the character "國". Several overprints exist. Three additional values in the second printing ($22.00, $65.00 and $109.00) were produced, but not regularly issued without overprints
Taiwan
Taiwan was under Japanese occupation from 1895 until 1945-10-25 when control was surrendered to China. Until a change could be made in 1948, Taiwan continued to use a currency based on that of Japan. Thus, the new stamps introduced on 1947-07-10 were denominated in yen even though that is not apparent from the face of the stamp. This "Taiwan Farm Products" issue has the Arabic value tablet in the lower right of the stamp and the Chinese value tablet in the upper left. Both printings of this set were engraved by the Dah Tung Book Co. of Shanghai, perforated 14, and issued without gum.
The first printing included 10 values from 1.00 yen to 200.00 yen, and show the zeros for sen. The issue includes wide and narrow varieties. A 30 sen and 7.50 yen value were printed, but only used for overprints. A 70 sen and 1.50 yen value were printed but never used at all.
The second printing had values more in conformity with the Chinese currency of the time which was facing its own inflation problems. The five values in this printing were for $25, $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 and $40,000. All were printed without the zeros for cents. Overprints exist for values in both printings.
Overprinted Issues
These issues are a vast and confusing field. The changing political situation in China as well as currency alterations during the time in question resulted in numerous overprints of the basic issues. Despite all the unrest the mail system continued to function and it seemed that the postal authorities used whatever was available to produce stamps for use. Most of the definitive issues were overprinted at some time or other either to change the value (surcharge), or the use, (e.g. postage due) or both.
The Japanese occupation of large parts of China during the war resulted in a great number of overprints and surcharges, mostly for use within a limited region. A number of these stamps received further overprints when the territory was recaptured from the Japanese.
The Nationalists also produced overprints limiting the use of some stamps to particular provinces. This was to prevent trafficking in stamps during times of currency disruptions. As the Communists liberated various parts of the country they too overprinted available stamps including the Sun Yat-sen issues under regional authorities, and they did not begin issuing stamps for the entire country until they had consolidated power.
Another large group of overprints occurred after the war when the Chinese National Currency was introduced. This currency devalued rapidly, as did the Gold Yuan which replaced it. This led to two series "revaluation" surcharges in the post-war era. These were done by a number of different printers in various cities resulting in a variety of styles, fonts, and colours in the overprints.
A few overprints were used to create commemoratives; these include the 1941 issue for the 30th Anniversary of the Republic, and the 1943 North China Japanese occupation issues to commemorate the Return to China of Foreign Concessions.
Commemorative Issues
Sun Yat-sen has been highly revered by all political sides for having ended the old dynasty system of China. Commemoratives celebrating Sun were thus issued both before and after 1949, and by both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China.
The Republic before 1950
The first issue featuring Sun Yat-sen was the 1912-12-15 issue commemorating the revolution. There are twelve values in the set which was recess printed in Beijing perforated 14½. This set should not be confused with a very similar concurrent set depicting Yuan Shih-kai.
The next issue to appear on 1929-05-30 marked the State Burial of Sun Yat-sen and depicts the memorial hall of his mausoleum. This structure which was commenced after Sun's death in 1925 is built on the side of a hill near Nanjing. The four stamps in this set were engraved and printed in Beijing, perforated 14. Overprints of this set were produced for use in Xinjiang, Yunnan and Manchuria.
On 1944-12-25 a set of five stamps was released for the 50th Anniversary of the founding in Hawaii on 1894-11-11 of Xingzhonghui (興中會), or Revive China Society, predecessor of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party). The stamp was lithographed with rubber plates by the Central Trust Bureau in Chongqing, and issued without gum.
The following year on 1945-03-12 a set of six marked the 20th anniversary of Sun's death. This too was lithographed with a rubber plate at Chongqing, and issued without gum.
In September 1946 a blue airmail stamp of $27 was issued. It showed an aircraft over the mausoleum of Dr Sun in Nanking. It was reissued in 1948 but with a $10,000 overprint.
On 1947-05-05 a set commemorating the 1st Anniversary of the Return of Government to Nanjing depicts the gateway to the Sun's mausoleum. The five values of this set were printed in Beijing by the Central Trust printing works. The engraved stamps were perforated 14. Separate versions of this set were also released with different values for use in the Northeastern Provinces and Taiwan.
On 1948-04-28 a set of two stamps was produced by the Central Engraving and Printing Works in Beijing to mark the third anniversary of the restoration of Taiwan to Chinese rule. It shows the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Building in Taipei. It was engraved and perforated 14.
Finally, on 1948-03-20, on Postal Commemoration Day, a large format $5,000.00 dark carmine commemorative was issued which included an illustration of the 10 cents Sun-Yat-sen stamp of the 1912 issue. It was lithographed with rubber plates by the Dah Yeh Printing Co. of Shanghai, and available both perforated 14 and imperforate. It was issued at a stamp exhibition in Nanjing, and honoured the 70th anniversary of the first Chinese stamp in 1878. An otherwise identical stamp, both perforated 14 and imperforate, was issued on 1948-05-19 in green for a philatelic exhibition in Shanghai.
People’s Republic of China
Commemoratives from the People’s Republic of China include:
1956 90th Anniversary of Yat-sen's birth,
1961 50th Anniversary of the Republic,
1981 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic
1986 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic
1999 Review of the 20th Century set; one 60f value only, 1911 Revolution
2006 140th Anniversary of Yat-sen’s birth, plus separate issue for Hong Kong.
2016 150th Anniversary of Yat-sen’s birth, plus separate issues for Hong Kong and Macau.
Republic of China
The Republic of China has produced the following additional stamps commemorating Sun Yat-sen:
1955 2nd Re election of Chiang Kai-shek which shows the Sun Yat-sen memorial building,
1959 the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln's birth,
1961 50th National Day,
1964 70th anniversary of Kuomintang,
1965 Centenary of Yat-sen's birth,
1971 60th National Day
1975 50th Anniversary of Yat-sen's death,
1976 11th Kuomintang Conference and others in later years along similar lines.
1994 Centenary of the Kuomintang.
the Sun Yat-sen memorial building has also appeared on stamps in 1955, 1968 and 1971.
2016 150th Anniversary of Yat-sen's birth.
Other countries
Countries other than China have also issued stamps depicting Sun Yat-sen. These include the following countries:
Argentina, 1966 Birth centenary
Guyana 1997, 75th Anniversary of Death
Macau, 120th Anniversary of Birth.
Marshall Islands, 2000 Miniature sheet
Mongolia, 1993 Miniature sheet for Taipei 1993
Nevis, 2005 Miniature sheet
Papua New Guinea, 1996 Miniature sheet
Philippines, 2016, 150th Anniversary of birth
Romania. Birth centenary
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1994 Miniature sheet
Tanzania, 1997 Miniature sheet
United States
1942, Chinese resistance
1961, Fifty years of the Republic of China
USSR
1965 Birth centenary
1986 120th Anniversary of Birth
Venda (South Africa), 1988 Writing set. The 16c value has calligraphy by Dr Sun Yat-sen that means "universal love."
Revenue Stamps
He has also appeared on a number of Chinese revenue or fiscal stamps. These were issued before 1949. For example, there is the green 1943 Postal Savings of $1.00. It has characters the mean “Save Money for China.” In addition some of the regular postal issues above were overprinted for fiscal or tax use.
see http://www.chinarevenuestamps.com/
Revenue Stamps – Taiwan
1946
Central portrait of Dr Sun in oval frame. Characters above and below. Scroll work on either side of portrait. Western numeral of value in bottom left and right corner. Stamps are wider than they are tall. Issued imperf but with a cutting line and no gum.
Values: 10c, 20c, 40c, $1, $2, $4, $10, $50, $100, $500, $1000. The $10 and the three highest values exist in two printings of different colours.
1948
Portrait of Dr Sun in oval frame on the lower right of the stamp. A map of Taiwan Province is central and on the left is a palm. At the top is the round star symbol of the Government the same as on the first issue of postage stamps above. Characters in top right corner in two lines. Stamps are wider than they are tall, no gum. Litho printed values; $10, $50. Engraved printed values: $50, $100, $500, $1000, $5000.
1949 July. New Currency. The 1948 stamps were reissued but with an overprint. Values: 25c, $2.50.
1949 November. Issue of a similar design to the 1948 issue but with the value block lower down. Lithographed, rouletted, no gum. Values: 1c, 5c, 10c, 50c, $1, $5, $10, $20, $50.
1952 (Republic of China). Portrait of Dr Sun in oval frame on the centre left of the stamp. View of Chung-shan Bridge (SYS Bridge) on right. Lithographed, rouletted, no gum. Stamps are wider than they are tall. Values: 1c, 5c, 10c, 50c.
Reference; “Revenue Stamps of Taiwan Area Republic of China” by Sheau Horng Wu. 1981, ROC.
See also
Postage stamps and postal history of China
References
Footnotes
Sources
Ma Ren Chuen, Ma's Illustrated Catalogue of the Stamps of China, edition revised and sipplemented by Lee H. Hill, Jr., Tampa, Hill-Donnelly, 1998
Scott 2003 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Sidney (Ohio), Scott Publishing Co., 2002
Chan Shiu-Hon, Colour-illustrated Stamp Catalogue of China (1878-1949), Hong Kong, Philatelic Publications Ltd., 1992
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue, Part 17 China 1979 and subsequent editions. Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd.
Postage stamps
Philately of China
Cultural depictions of Sun Yat-sen |
39119625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogsk%C3%A4r%20Lighthouse | Bogskär Lighthouse | Bogskär Lighthouse is located on the Bogskär skerries of Åland.
History
The lighthouse was constructed in the 1870s and was completed in 1882, on Sweden's initiative. Of steel construction, it was erected on a three-metre granite plinth. The red-painted lighthouse had seven floors.
The lighthouse had a crew of nine, of which half were occupying the lighthouse at a time.
The lighthouse was damaged in a storm during the winter of 1889. In an 1894 repair, it was strengthened and to add weight, the space between its inner and outer shells was filled in with concrete up to the third floor.
In 1905, a wireless telegraph was installed, replacing the previous communication via light signals to passing ships.
In the First World War, a German warship destroyed the original lighthouse.
A new automated lighthouse was constructed in 1922 on concrete pillars. The lighthouse was restored in 1981, when it was equipped with a helipad. The lighthouse is now painted blue-white and is solar-powered.
See also
List of lighthouses in Åland
Suomen leijona
References
Lighthouses completed in 1882
Lighthouses completed in 1922
Lighthouses in Finland |
9356035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese%20Alliance%20to%20Combat%20Trafficking | Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking | The Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT) is a Vietnamese non-profit, grassroots organization founded in 2004 dedicated to eradicating human trafficking of Vietnamese victims through collaboration, advocacy, and education.
History
In March 2004, a Taiwanese man put three young Vietnamese women on EBay Taiwan for sale as wives, "shipped only to Taiwan" for the price of $5,400. In response to this, Father Peter Nguyen Van Hung in conjunction with other Vietnamese priests in Taiwan have founded the Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Brides Office (also known as VMWBO or TaiwanACT) in early 2004 in Taiwan to better serve and assist the Vietnamese workers and brides in distress.
When the issue of human trafficking of Vietnamese women and children gained greater international attention and grassroots momentum, a group of students, young professionals, and community activists came together to form the Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking also known as VietACT.
Not for Sale campaign
The Not for sale campaign led by VietACT in 2005 was intended to create billboard ads about the growing of human trafficking. A series of photographs and billboard posters were created and released by VietACT but never made it as a billboard ad.
However, the Not for Sale pictures were featured in the 2006 State Department Trafficking in Persons Report.
Relay Against Trafficking
The Relay Against Trafficking was a campaign led by VietACT in 2006 to across North America to educate the general public about human trafficking, particularly the exploitation of Vietnamese men and women who endure slave labor and sexual abuse. The relay consisted of walkathons, press conferences, fundraising dinners in various cities and regions including Minnesota, Austin, Atlanta, Northern California, Southern California and Boston.
External links
Sex victims are helped with kindness, OC Register, Feb. 22, 2010
Child labour-related organizations
Sexual abuse advocacy and support groups
Vietnamese community organizations
Overseas Vietnamese organizations
Organizations established in 2004 |
47868662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weras%20Ganga%20Park | Weras Ganga Park | The Weras Ganga Park (also known as Weras Ganga Bellanwila Recreation Park) is a public park located in Bellanwila area, next to the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
History
Weras Ganga Park was opened in 2014 as a part of Weras Ganga Development Project - Bellanwila Section. The construction work of the park was handled by the Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Navy. The work has been carried out under the guidance of Defense and Urban Development Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and this work was initiated by the Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLR&DC) based on a hydrological study carried out by JICA together with SLLR&DC for the preparation of a Master Plan to control flooding in Nugegoda, Rattanapitiya, Borelasgamuwa, Maha Ela and Ratmalana areas.
Features
The place is all stone tiles with planned patches of green with a seating space and around the seating space there is a neat walkway that goes along the Weras Lake. Food outlets are also available to cater to the needs of the visitors.
References
Parks in Colombo |
43786491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classica%20%28magazine%29 | Classica (magazine) | Classica is a French classical music magazine founded in 1998. It is published on a monthly basis. The reviews sections awards Choc-Classica recommendations to selected recordings while the annual record awards of the magazine are called the Chocs de l'année. It was owned by the Roularta Media Group until January 2015 when it was acquired by French businessman Patrick Drahi.
In 2013 the circulation of Classica was 26,599 copies.
References
External links
1998 establishments in France
Classical music magazines
French-language magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Monthly magazines published in France
Music magazines published in France |
8383906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20award-winning%20pubs%20in%20London | List of award-winning pubs in London | This is a list of award-winning pubs in London.
Pub Design Awards (PDA)
The Pub Design Awards are hosted by CAMRA and English Heritage.
2001 Conversion Award: Porterhouse, Maiden Lane
1999 Conversion Award: Half Moon, Mile End Road (Joint Winner with Billiard Hall, West Bromwich)
CAMRA National Pub of the Year
National Pub of the Year Award
The Harp in Charing Cross won in 2010 as announced in February 2011.
Greater London regional winners
2022: The Hop Inn, Hornchurch
2021: The Hop Inn, Hornchurch
2020: Competition cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019: The Hope, Carshalton
2018: Little Green Dragon, Winchmore Hill
2017: The Hope, Carshalton
2016: The Hope, Carshalton – The first time a pub has concurrently held "CAMRA Greater London Pub of the Year" and "SPBW London Pub of the Year" awards
2015: One Inn The Wood, Petts Wood, Orpington
2014: The Door Hinge, Welling (with equal votes, but declared runner-up, The Hope, Carshalton)
2013: The Hope, Carshalton – The first time the CAMRA Greater London Pub of the Year title has been retained by a pub
2012: The Hope, Carshalton
2011: Southampton Arms, Kentish Town
2010: The Harp, Charing Cross
2009: The Bricklayer's Arms, Putney
2008: The Trafalgar, Merton
2007: The Bricklayer's Arms, Putney
SPBW London Pub of the Year
The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW) usually chooses a "London Pub of the Year" every year.
SPBW previous winners
2022: Competition not held
2021: Competition cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020: Competition cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
SPBW decided to make 2 awards for 2019 London Pub of the Year to bring the competition in line in future with the calendar year in which judging takes place.
2019: (2nd award): Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
2019: The River Ale House, 131 Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, Greenwich
2018: The Broken Drum, 308 Westwood Lane, Blackfen, Sidcup
2017: Chesham Arms, Homerton
2016: The Hope, Carshalton
2015: Blythe Hill Tavern, Forest Hill
2014: The Eleanor Arms, Bow
2013: Ye Olde Mitre, Holborn
2012: The Royal Oak, Southwark
2011: The Dog & Bell, Deptford
2010: The Pembury Tavern Hackney
2009: The Dog & Bell, Deptford
2008: The Harp, Charing Cross
2007: The Pembury Tavern, Hackney
2006: The Royal Oak, Southwark
2005: The Dog & Bell, Deptford
2004: The Royal Oak, Southwark
2003: The Wenlock Arms, Hoxton
Evening Standard Pub of the Year
The "Evening Standard Pub of the Year" title was awarded annually, from 1967 to 2006, to a pub selected from a shortlist by readers of the Evening Standard, London's main evening newspaper. Each winner of the award is permitted to display a plaque on the wall outside. The award was discontinued in 2006 after 40 years.
Evening Standard previous winners
2006: The Clarence, Balham
2005: The Morgan Arms, Mile End
2004: The Earl Spencer, Southfields
2003: Draper's Arms, Islington
2002: The Bedford, Balham
2001: The Settle Inn, Battersea
2000: The Cow Saloon Bar, Paddington
1999: The Churchill Arms, Kensington
1998: The Duke of Cambridge, Battersea
1997: The White Swan, Twickenham
1996: The Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich
1994/1995: The George Inn, Southwark
1993: The Phoenix & Firkin, Southwark
1992: The Star Tavern, Westminster
1991: The Ship, Wandsworth
1990: The White Horse, Parsons Green
1989: The Scarsdale Tavern, Kensington and Chelsea
1988: The Anglesea Arms, South Kensington
1987: No Award
1986: The Princess Louise, Holborn
1985: The Clifton, Clifton Hill, St John's Wood
1984: The Albert, Westminster
1983: The Castle, Surbiton
1982: The Hand in Hand, Wimbledon
1981: The Railway Bell, Norwood
1980: The Rose of York, Richmond
1979: The Royal Oak, New Malden
1978: The Old Ship, Hammersmith
1977: The Angel, Bermondsey, SE16
1976: The Orange Tree, Richmond
1975: The Greyhound, Kensington and Chelsea
1974: The Flask, Highgate
1973: The Pied Bull, Streatham
1972: The Victoria, Bermondsey SE1
1971: The Duke of Cumberland, Parsons Green
1970: The Rose and Crown, Wimbledon
1967: The Red Lion, Brentford
See also
List of bars
List of public house topics
References
External links
SPBW
Pubs
Award-winning pubs in London
London, award winning
Evening Standard Awards |
44004354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patapatani | Patapatani | Patapatani (Aymara patapata many steps, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with many steps") is a mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the La Paz Department, at the border of the Larecaja Province, Guanay Municipality, and the Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality. Patapatani lies between the rivers Qillwani and Chachakumani, north-east of the mountain Wila Wilani.
References
Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia) |
7433856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20New%20Jersey%20State%20Constitution | History of the New Jersey State Constitution | Originally, the state of New Jersey was a single British colony, the Province of New Jersey. After the English Civil War, Charles II assigned New Jersey as a proprietary colony to be held jointly by Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. Eventually, the collection of land fees, or quit-rents, from colonists proved inadequate for colonial profitability. Sir George Carteret sold his share of the colony to the Quakers in 1673. Following the sale, the land was divided into East and West Jersey. In 1681, West Jersey adopted a constitution. In 1683, East Jersey adopted one as well. In 1702, the colonies were united again under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and adopted a constitution in 1776.
New Jersey has been governed under the authority of several constitutional documents. As a colony, the first, the Concession and Agreement (1665), was written by the colony's Lords Proprietors, Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, which offered broad provisions for religious freedom. After the interests of Lord Berkeley and Carteret were sold to investors, New Jersey was divided into two distinct proprietary colonies West Jersey, and East Jersey each with their own constitutions enacted in 1681 and 1683 respectively. The proprietors were compelled to cede their political authority to the Crown, and both colonies were reunited in 1702 as a Crown colony under the direct command of Queen Anne.
At the onset of the American Revolution, New Jersey was governed by waning British colonial authority. William Franklin, the province's last royal governor before the American Revolution (1775–83), was marginalized in the last year of his tenure, as the province was run de facto by the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. Franklin considered the Provincial Congress to be an "illegal assembly" and attempted to reassert royal authority. In June 1776, the Provincial Congress formally deposed Franklin and had him arrested, adopted its first state constitution on July 2, 1776, and reorganized the province into an independent state. The newly formed State of New Jersey elected William Livingston as its first governor on August 31, 1776—a position he would be reelected to until his death in 1790.
While New Jersey was in a state of war, delegates of the Provincial Congress drafted the first constitution in a span of five days and ratified it only two days later. Its primary objective was to provide a basic governmental framework that would assume control of the territory after the collapse of royal authority and maintain civil order. This constitution served as the charter document for the State's government for the next 68 years. Among its provisions, the document granted suffrage rights to unmarried women and African-Americans who met the requirements of possessing sufficient assets or property as "freeholders". The legislature was elected each year and selected the state's governor. It did not specify an amendment procedure and had to be replaced entirely in a constitutional convention. The suffrage rights in the 1776 constitution were limited by the state legislature in 1807 to restrict voting rights to white male citizens who paid taxes. Women who voted in earlier elections tended to support the Federalist Party, and this effort was largely an effort of the Democratic-Republican Party's attempt to unify its factions for the 1808 presidential election.
New Jersey is governed under a constitution that was enacted in 1947 during a convention held at Rutgers University's College Avenue Gymnasium in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Much of the political structure of the 1844 constitution was carried into the 1947 document. The governor, elected by the people, was elected for a four-year term instead of a three-year term.
Colonial period
Concession and Agreement (1664)
Concession and Agreement was a legal document that guaranteed rights; including, but not only, religious freedom. It served as the basic governing document of the colony of New Jersey. Although the document is most commonly recognized as an enticement for settlers, it is in the basic form of any colonial charter or constitution, and guarantees such rights.
West Jersey Constitution
In 1681, West Jersey adopted a constitution.
East Jersey Constitution
See footnote
The constitution of East Jersey, unlike West Jersey's, did not seemingly have a section of the traditional colonial constitution missing. Within their constitution was a detailed creation of a great Council, who would control the colony. The constitution also created a somewhat abbreviated enumeration of rights. The constitution also bans the admission of any non-Christian into the council. A vestige from the Stamp Act, Article XVIII is an archaic section of a since-repealed act.
Constitution of 1776
Initial Drafting
New Jersey's first state constitution was adopted on October 31, 1776. The American Revolutionary War was underway and George Washington had recently been defeated in New York, putting New Jersey in imminent danger of invasion. With Patriot and Tory factions plotting and battling each other, New Jersey was a state at war and was nearly a state at civil war. Composed in a span of five days at the end of June and ratified just two days later on July 2, 1776, the first New Jersey State Constitution reflected the turbulence and uncertainty of the moment. Its primary objective was to provide a basic governmental framework and preempt New Jersey's fall into anarchy. And yet despite being conceived in a state of military emergency, this Constitution was durable enough to serve as the charter document for the State government for the next 68 years.
Vote not limited by race or gender
A notable aspect of this original 1776 New Jersey State Constitution is that it provisioned suffrage to citizens without regard to gender or race. New Jersey stood alone among the original thirteen states of the Revolutionary period in excluding these distinctions. As set out in its defining constitutional document, only three provisos restricted those claiming the vote: (i) being of "full age", (ii) having attained a threshold level of wealth, and (iii) having residence within a county during the year prior to an election. Section IV of this original State of New Jersey Constitution captures these ideas in its single sentence:
That all inhabitants of this Colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote for twelve months immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for Representatives in Council and Assembly; and also for all other public officers, that shall be elected by the people of the county at large.New Jersey State Constitution of 1776, Section IV; Official Website of the State of New Jersey. Retrieved 2012-12-5. http://www.state.nj.us/njfacts/njdoc10a.htm
The New Jersey legislature did amend this constitution on September 20, 1777, by substituting the words " State " and " States " for " colony " and " colonies."
Women's Right Clarified in 1797
Some have argued that New Jersey's gender-neutral language was a mistake, but most historians agree that the clear intention was to allow some women and African Americans to vote.
The minimum property requirement would have meant that some married women would be regarded differently than single women.
Although common laws of Coverture enforced in some areas prevented even married women who had sufficient property from holding it their own name or as joint property in the way needed to meet that requirement for voting, coverture was not universally applied. Also some couples might have been exercising civil disobedience of the laws of coverture and the women would have voted pursuant to this open stance of verbalized objection to the law.
Large numbers of single women did regularly participate in elections and spoke out on political issues in New Jersey in the 1790s and 1800s.
If there were any lingering doubts about their intentions, the passage of New Jersey's 1797 voting law—which introduced the phrase "he or she" in reference to voters—erased them and clarified for all that the right to vote across the state was for both men and women. The Act—passed by the New Jersey Assembly on February 22, 1797—was called "An Act to regulate the Election of Members of the Legislative-Council and the General Assembly, Sheriffs and Coroners, in this State" and it revised the regulations for the election of public officials. The law specifically included women in the franchise. Section XI of the Act stated:
And be it enacted, That every voter shall openly, and in full view deliver his or her ballot (which shall be a single written ticket, containing the names of the person or persons for whom he or she votes) to the said judge, or either of the inspectors, who, on receipt thereof, shall, with an audible voice, pronounce the name of such voter, and if no objection is made to the voter, put the ballot immediately into the election box, and the clerk of the election shall thereupon take down the name of such voter in a book or poll list, to be provided for the purpose.New Jersey Women's History, "1797, An Act to regulate the election of members of the legislative council and general assembly, sheriffs and coroners, in this State" Retrieved 2012-12-5. http://www.njwomenshistory.org/Period_2/voting.htm; Courtesy of Special Collections/University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
Vote Rescinded for Women, non-Whites
Between 1797 and 1807 women voted in large numbers in New Jersey. But in 1807 the state's legislature ignored the constitution and restricted suffrage to white male citizens who paid taxes. This was largely a result of the Democratic-Republican Party's attempt to unify its factions for the 1808 presidential election. A faction within the party wanted to deny the vote to aliens and the non-tax-paying poor. The liberal faction within the party gave way on this, but also took the vote from women, who tended to vote for the Federalists.
New Jersey's 30-year experiment with female suffrage ended not mainly because of open opposition to the idea of women voting, but as a casualty of party politics and backroom bartering. Another factor was the renewed push by some groups to reinforce the importance of women in the home—and out of the public realm. It also did not help that in the intervening decades no other state had followed New Jersey's more progressive voting approach.
Some historians have viewed the New Jersey episode as evidence that the founders entertained the possibility that women could have political rights. The emphasis on liberty and natural rights in the Revolutionary period brought previously excluded groups into the political process. For example, women took the lead in organizing boycotts of British goods in the disputes over colonial rights that led to the Revolution. The writers of New Jersey's 1776 constitution took the natural rights sentiment further than other states were willing to go. But by 1807, the Revolutionary era had passed and Revolutionary fervor was a dimming memory. New Jersey therefore succumbed and fell in line with the practice of the other states.
Constitution of 1844
The 2nd constitution was adopted on June 29, 1844. Among its provisions was a distinct separation of powers into three branches (executive, legislative and judicial branches), limiting the right to vote to white males, and granted the people (as opposed to the legislature) the right of a popular election for the state's governor. The document limited the state government's ability to accumulate public debt.
Constitution of 1947
Drafting
The Constitutional Convention that drafted the state's 1947 constitution met at the College Avenue Gymnasium of Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Subsequent amendments
Another constitutional convention was held at the Rutgers University campus to rectify the apportionment of legislative districts after the Supreme Court invalidated the state's scheme for electing state senators geographically by county boundaries instead of population as violative of the "one-man, one-vote" doctrine embodied in the Federal Constitution's 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. This was compelled in the wake of court decisions in Baker v. Carr (1962) 369 U.S. 186 and Reynolds v. Simms, 377 U.S. 533 (1964). A constitutional convention held in 1966 created a state legislature with 40 coterminous legislative districts represented by one state senator and two state assemblymen.
In 2005, the constitution was amended to create the post of Lieutenant Governor, and to alter the order of succession in the event the governor's office was vacated. The resignation of two governors in 2001 and 2004 led to the state being led by several acting governor who simultaneously served as the president of the state senate. The issues regarding the separation of executive and legislative powers, and other concerns created a political controversy where public and media pressure sought a permanent solution to this problem which was inherited from previous state and colonial constitutions and political conventions.
References
External links
Original New Jersey Constitution
West Jersey Charter
West Jersey Constitution
East Jersey Constitution
NJ Constitution of 1776
Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents (at "New Jersey"). The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale Law School). Retrieved 2010-03-14. This website has links to the following documents:
1664 – The Duke of York's Release to John Ford Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, June 24
1664 – The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There
1672 – A Declaration of the True Intent and Meaning of us the Lords Proprietors, and Explanation of There Concessions Made to the Adventurers and Planters of New Caesarea or New Jersey
1674 – His Royal Highness's Grant to the Lords Proprietors, Sir George Carteret, July 29
1676 – The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey, Agreed Upon
1676 – Quintipartite Deed of Revision, Between E. and W Jersey: July 1
1680 – Duke of York's Second Grant to William Penn, Gawn Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge, Edmund Warner, and Edward Byllynge, for the Soil and Government of West New Jersey-August 6
1681 – Province of West New-Jersey, in America, The 25th of the Ninth Month Called November
1682 – Duke of York's Confirmation to the 24 Proprietors: March 14
1683 – The Fundamental Constitutions for the Province of East New Jersey in America
1683 – The King's Letter Recognizing the Proprietors' Right to the Soil and Government
1702 – Surrender from the Proprietors of East and West New Jersey, of Their Pretended Right of Government to Her Majesty
1709 – The Queen's Acceptance of the Surrender of Government; April 17
1712 – Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676 – Exemplified by Queen Anne
1776 – Constitution of New Jersey
Legal history of New Jersey
Constitution of New Jersey
New Jersey
Political history of New Jersey |
5555390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie%20Wonder%20Live | Stevie Wonder Live | Stevie Wonder Live is a 1970 live album by American musician Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. The second live collection by the singer-songwriter, it was released during the crossroads of Wonder's career as he was preparing to negotiate a new contract with Motown that gave him artistic control over his work.
The M.C. heard on the recording is veteran Detroit DJ Scott Regen, who can also be heard on the 1966 albums Temptations Live! and Four Tops Live!.
At 60:37 long, this was a remarkably long running time for a single LP, especially for 1970 when albums typically ran for 35-40 minutes.
Track listing
"Intro/For Once in My Life/Pretty World" (Antonio Adolfo, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Tiberio Gaspar) - 3:39
"Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 2:41
"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (A Time for Us)" (Nino Rota, Eddie Snyder, Larry Kusik) - 3:10
"Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 5:47
"Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) - 2:49
"My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 2:55
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (Ron Miller, Bryan Wells) - 2:43
"I've Gotta Be Me/Once in a Lifetime" (Leslie Bricusse, Walter Marks, Anthony Newley) - 5:50
"A Place in the Sun" (Ron Miller, Bryan Wells) - 2:20
"Down to Earth" (Ron Miller, William O'Malley, Avery Vandenberg) - 2:24
"Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) - 6:39
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb) - 4:00
"Ca' Purange" (Mussapere) - 6:45
"Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 5:25
"For Once in My Life/Thank You Love" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden/Henry Cosby, Ron Miller, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 3:30
Personnel
Stevie Wonder - vocals; clavinet on "Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee-Doo-Da-Day"; Italian vocals on "A Place in the Sun"; drum solo on "Ca' Purange"
Scott Regen - M.C.
1970 live albums
Stevie Wonder live albums
Tamla Records live albums |
130097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pettit%2C%20Oklahoma | Pettit, Oklahoma | Pettit is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 954 at the 2010 census, a 23.7 percent increase over the figure of 771 recorded in 2000. The town was named for Mark and Eliza Pettit, townsite allottees.
Geography
Pettit is located at (35.755558, -94.949116).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land.
The community borders Lake Tenkiller on the southeast, and Pettit Bay Public Use Area is across the lake arm from Pettit.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 771 people, 329 households, and 227 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 66.6 people per square mile (25.7/km2). There were 459 housing units at an average density of 39.7/sq mi (15.3/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 64.46% White, 0.13% African American, 24.38% Native American, 0.13% from other races, and 10.89% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.04% of the population.
There were 329 households, out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.1% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.0% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.84.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 22.7% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.8 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $25,766, and the median income for a family was $26,806. Males had a median income of $25,536 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $14,432. About 12.7% of families and 15.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.5% of those under age 18 and 8.9% of those age 65 or over.
References
Census-designated places in Oklahoma
Census-designated places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma |
64504315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321%20Fulham%20F.C.%20season | 2020–21 Fulham F.C. season | The 2020–21 Fulham F.C. season was the club's 123rd season in existence and the first season back in the top flight of English football. In addition to the domestic league, Fulham participated in this season's editions of the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.
Players
Current squad
Transfers
Transfers in
Loans in
Loans out
Transfers out
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions
Overview
Premier League
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
The 2020–21 season fixtures were released on 20 August.
FA Cup
The third round draw was made on 30 November, with Premier League and EFL Championship clubs all entering the competition. The draw for the fourth and fifth round were made on 11 January, conducted by Peter Crouch.
EFL Cup
The draw for both the second and third round were confirmed on September 6, live on Sky Sports by Phil Babb. The fourth round draw was conducted on 17 September 2020 by Laura Woods and Lee Hendrie live on Sky Sports.
Squad statistics
Appearances and goals
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Top scorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by squad number when total goals are equal.
Last updated 23 May 2021.
Notes
References
External links
Fulham F.C. seasons
Fulham
Fulham
Fulham |
16229839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willetts | Willetts | Willetts is a surname. It may refer to:
Dave Willetts, British actor
David Willetts, British politician
Helen Willetts, BBC television weather presenter
Karl Willetts, member of the British band Bolt Thrower
Michael Willetts (1943–1971), British soldier, posthumous recipient of the George Cross
Scott Willits (1895–1973), American musician and violin teacher
Terry Willetts (born 1939), English cricketer
See also
Willett (disambiguation)
Willits (disambiguation) |
4994945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Chalmers | Joseph Chalmers | Joseph Chalmers may refer to:
Joseph W. Chalmers (1806–1853), American senator
Joe Chalmers (born 1994), Scottish footballer (Celtic FC) |
3411120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Saltville | Battle of Saltville | The Battle of Saltville may refer to one of two American Civil War Battles fought at the same location:
First Battle of Saltville (October 1–3, 1864)
Second Battle of Saltville (December 20–21, 1864) |
27682738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt%20Judy%27s%20Magazine | Aunt Judy's Magazine | Aunt Judy's Magazine was a British magazine for young people founded in 1866 by Margaret Gatty. After her death in 1873, publishing was continued by her daughter Horatia Eden until 1885. The magazine is named after Gatty's daughter, Juliana Horatia Ewing's childhood nickname, “Judy”.
As the editor, Gatty aimed to include stories that would not only benefit the moral upbringing of children, but that would also bring joy and insight to adults. Gatty hoped that readers would continue to love the magazine for their whole life, and to pass it on for generations. When choosing what contributions to include in the magazine, Gatty kept in mind her belief that every piece in the magazine should have a moral for its reader.
Gatty included a piece that she wrote in the November 1868 issue of the magazine titled “Unopened Parcels.” The story was highly moral in tone, and involves a young girl learning from her father about repentance. The father tells his daughter a story about his childhood, and how a friend of his learned the lesson of repentance by spending his life attempting to fix the deceit he committed on his mother. Following the telling of the story, the father asks the daughter to decipher what his story meant for herself rather than have him tell her what he believes it should mean. Gatty wanted children to learn morals, but she wanted them to come to terms with these morals on their own with simply guidance from adults. Gatty included themes of both morality and religiosity, which is consistent with many of the stories in the magazine.
In 1867, the magazine published two early parts of Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno, entitled "Fairy Sylvie" and "Bruno's Revenge". It also published much of the work of Juliana Horatia Ewing. Hans Christian Andersen made several contributions, and illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Gilbert, Charles Keene, and Randolph Caldecott also appeared.
References
Sources
1866 establishments in the United Kingdom
1886 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Children's magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1866
Magazines disestablished in 1885 |
1432712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Unit%20Records | G-Unit Records | G-Unit Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group. Founded in 2003 by rapper 50 Cent, for the first eleven years of operation, G-Unit ran in conjunction with, and was distributed by, Interscope Records. In February 2014, distribution switched to Caroline Records and Capitol Music Group. G-Unit Records has a subsidiary label G-Note Records, which caters to R&B and pop. The label's flagship artist is its founder 50 Cent.
History
2003–2005
Following 50 Cent's signing to Interscope Records, 50 Cent was granted his own label, G-Unit Records. The first album released on the label was 50 Cent's debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'. G-Unit, then consisting of Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Young Buck, was signed to the label as a group, each respective member also being signed as a solo artist.
G-Unit's commercial debut, Beg for Mercy, sold 377,000 copies in its first week of release in 2003. It has now sold over 2.7 million units in the U.S. and 6 million copies worldwide. It has been certified double platinum by the RIAA.
50 Cent and G-Unit's successes allowed other members and artists of G-Unit to release their projects. G-Unit member and artist Lloyd Banks released his debut album The Hunger for More on June 29, 2004. The album featured guest appearances from G-Unit artists Tony Yayo, Young Buck, 50 Cent (who also executive produced the album), and The Game. Anchored by the success of the single On Fire, the album sold over 433,000 units in its first week. The album debuted and peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200, and ultimately was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping and selling a million copies in America.
After bringing in West Coast rapper and Aftermath signee, the Game in early 2004, Spider Loc was also signed, around the time of Young Buck's Straight Outta Cashville release. However, Game and 50 Cent later had a falling out, and 50 Cent became unsure about signing new artists to his "family"—how he perceived G-Unit as a group and record label. Later in 2005, the opportunity came to sign Mobb Deep and M.O.P.
G-Unit Records ended 2005 with the November release of the soundtrack to Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. The album featured appearances from G-Unit artists Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, Tony Yayo, Mobb Deep, Olivia, M.O.P., Prodigy, Spider Loc and 50 Cent. The album peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Top 200, and would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.
2006–2009
In 2006, G-Unit Records signed Young Hot Rod. In the same year, in conjunction with Mobb Deep's Infamous Records, the label signed both Nyce and 40 Glocc. In 2007, Mazaradi Fox was also added to the label. It was also highly anticipated that Detroit rapper, Trick Trick would sign to the label, though this deal never came to be.
In 2008, amidst rumors of a "beef" within G-Unit between 50 Cent and Young Buck, 50 Cent officially expelled Young Buck from the group, though assuring that Buck was still signed with the label. Numerous slander songs then arose on the internet from both camps, with Young Buck being included on a track with former rival and ex-G-Unit member, Game. 50 Cent then leaked a taped phone conversation between himself and Young Buck, which showed one of the true reasons for the falling out: 50 Cent was owed money by the Southern rapper. Young Buck later stated the conversation had taken place over a year before the leak. The two camps have since released a multitude of songs aimed at each other, though the feud seems to have settled down as of late 2008.
In late 2009, 50 Cent's fourth album, Before I Self Destruct, was released; which featured a track entitled "So Disrespectful", which insulted his various rivals including Jay-Z and former G-Unit Records artists, Game and Young Buck. Also in 2009, 50 Cent would collaborate with former Roc-A-Fella Records artist Beanie Sigel, which would also lead to speculation that Beanie Sigel was signing to G-Unit Records. While promoting Before I Self Destruct, 50 Cent also did a radio interview in which he spoke about the G-Unit Records roster. Within the interview, it was confirmed that Game, Young Buck, Spider Loc and Young Hot Rod were still signed to the label, while both M.O.P and Mobb Deep were no longer signed. In the meantime, the label would go on to sign R&B singer, Governor and Beanie Sigel on November 5, respectively.
2010–present
In early January 2010, 50 Cent claimed that he was looking to sign new comedians and authors to the label, venturing outside the realm of recording artists. Atlanta Young Jack Thriller would be the first comedian signed to the label, releasing a weekly "So Disrespectful," YouTube podcast. also becoming a regular guest on Shade45's G-Unit Radio, and co-host of the program. 50 Cent also expressed interest in signing European R&B singer Jamelia to G-Unit Records, citing that it could not only help her build a reputation in the U.S., but it would also be the first signing of a female artist to the label since singer, Olivia. Also in early 2010, in reference to his recent affiliation with 50 Cent and G-Unit Records, Beanie Sigel stated that he would not be signing with the label, as he and 50 Cent mutually "used" each other, though no harm to their business relationship was made. Meanwhile, Young Buck responded to various songs released on 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct. He released five records aimed at 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, G-Unit, and 40 Glocc.
In an interview with MTV, 50 Cent announced that he is looking for new artists, "You'll see new faces, because I'm looking for new artists now. I'll sign new artists and take them with me and kinda groom them. Some of the stuff you can't teach a person; they gotta have it". While he was on tour, recently made affiliate Beanie Sigel confirmed after a long-awaited wait, that he would be finished signing to G-Unit when 50 got back from tour.
In August 2010, amidst the controversy surrounding Montana Fishburne's entrance into the adult film industry, co-porn star, Brian Pumper, released several rap songs shouting out 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Pumper repeatedly stated his wish to be signed to G-Unit. However, the members of G-Unit have repeatedly stated they are not interested in signing Pumper. Also in August, Tony Yayo discussed how he and The Pack member, "Lil B," had hooked up and worked together in the studio, along with Yayo's newly proclaimed protege, Danny Brown. He also stated that there was a large possibility that Lil B might be signing to G-Unit Records, and spoke as if Danny Brown was already signed. Despite this, Brown confirmed that he is not signed to G-Unit yet, but he is talks of possibly signing to the label. Also in September 2010, there was quite a bit of speculation that R&B singer, Mýa was in the process of signing to, or was already signed to the label. Lloyd Banks later in September would confirm that Mobb Deep member, Havoc was in talks to negotiate a new contract for the group in terms of signing to the label.
On August 13, 2010, in an interview with MTV News, Lloyd Banks announced that G-Unit had signed a limited distribution deal with EMI in North America. The distribution deal is "strictly with artists Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo," as stated by 50 Cent in an interview.
In early March 2011, rapper Shawty Lo reported in an interview that he was in talks with the label about signing. On June 8, 2011, it was confirmed by both Shawty Lo and AllHipHop.com that he had signed a deal with G-Unit Records.
It was later confirmed by Shawty Lo that he had not signed to the label as an individual artist, but that his label D4L would be distributed by G-Unit Records.
Rumors began appearing that Lea Sunshine, the singer who was featured in Lil' Flip's hit single, "Sunshine", was signing to G-Unit. After touring with G-Unit and being featured on G-Note Records artist, Hot Rod's debut single, she confirmed on her Twitter account that she had signed with G-Note Records.
After a cameo appearance in Tony Yayo's music video, "Haters", it was reported by MTV that former Young Money affiliate, Kidd Kidd, had signed with the label. Soon after, reported via his Twitter that he had just signed a deal with 50 Cent and G-Unit Records after 50 Cent had seen a video of performing.
In December 2011, 50 Cent signed Jersey Shore star, DJ Pauly D, to G-Note Records, to produce three of label's albums.
On December 9, 2011, 50 Cent also released a mixtape, The Big 10. Guest appearances on The Big 10 include G-Unit affiliates, Kidd Kidd, Precious Paris and Tony Yayo. It also introduced G-Units newest signee, Paris.
In the years to follow, 50 Cent would continue to struggle to maintain a palatable working relationship with Interscope. In a 2012 interview, he explained the reason for the discord: "The deal I gave them was so well-put-together for them that they were to receive $750,000 in advance on the next albums - each one of the artists. They gotta remove that in this climate of record sales".
In April 2012, (after being ousted from the crew in 2008), Young Buck entered talks to work with the label. Buck provided the update in a recent interview stating, "I'ma be honest with you, finally we're at a point where we're having some kind of negotiations with what they're going to be able to do for us at G-Unit." The Nashville, Tennessee native said he was ready to make a return to music, whether a part of G-Unit or not. Young Buck's last album was the 2010 independent release, The Rehab. The negotiations may not lead to a new deal between Young Buck and G-Unit, but the rapper remains optimistic.
On February 20, 2014, it was reported that 50 Cent and G-Unit Records left Interscope umbrella to operate in conjunction with Caroline Records; a unit of Capitol Music Group.
On November 8, 2016, 50 Cent signed Uncle Murda to G-Unit Records.
In early 2018, Kidd Kidd announced his departure from both G-Unit as a group member and label artist. Lloyd Banks followed suit in 2018.
Subsidiaries
G-Note
In 2010, G-Unit launched a subsidiary label called G-Note Records, with a focus on R&B and Pop music. Artists signed to this label are Governor, who was signed to G-Unit Records in 2009, and Hot Rod who originally signed to G-Unit Records in 2006. In early 2011, Lea Sunshine was signed to the label, though she later left the label. In December 2011, DJ Pauly D was signed to G-Note Records, but has since left the label.
Artists
Current acts
Former acts
Discography
See also
List of East Coast hip hop record labels
G-Note Records
References
G-Unit Records
50 Cent
G-Unit
2003 establishments in New York City
Companies based in New York City
Contemporary R&B record labels
Gangsta rap record labels
Hardcore hip hop record labels
Labels distributed by Universal Music Group
Music production companies
Music publishing companies of the United States
New York (state) record labels
Pop record labels
Publishing companies established in 2003
Record labels established in 2003
American hip hop record labels
American companies established in 2003 |
27681971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslava | Oslava | The Oslava is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Jihlava River. It originates in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands at an elevation of 567 m and flows to Ivančice, where it enters the Jihlava River. It is 99.2 km long, and its basin area is 867 km2.
It flows through numerous towns and villages, including Nové Veselí, Ostrov nad Oslavou, Velké Meziříčí, Náměšť nad Oslavou, Oslavany and Ivančice. The Mostiště Reservoir is constructed on the river.
Its longest tributaries are the Balinka and Chvojnice rivers.
History
The first written mention of the river is from 1146, when it was called Ozlawa in a Latin text.
Fauna
There were recorded 16 species of aquatic molluscs in the Oslava river: 8 species of gastropods and 8 species of bivalves. There lives endangered species of bivalve Unio crassus at the lower river section.
References
Rivers of the Vysočina Region
Rivers of the South Moravian Region
Brno-Country District
Žďár nad Sázavou District |
43277983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal%20Hawk | Cal Hawk | William Clarence "Cal" Hawk (October 20, 1847 – December 16, 1899) was an American professional baseball player in the 1870s. He played as a pitcher for the Oil City Senecas, the New Castle Neshannocks and the Bradford team. In 1873, he became the first pitcher to receive a stated salary, being paid $62 per month. He has been called "the first real professional hurler the game ever had." In 1899, the Sporting Life reported that he was "one of the first twirlers to pitch a curve ball, which in his time was considered a wonderful feat."
Hawk retired from professional baseball in 1877, though he continued to participate in games at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Hawk was employed by Guckenheimer & Bros. distillery in Freeeport after retiring from baseball. While at work, he fell on his head onto a cement floor from a height of approximately 12 feet. The concussion from the fall led to traumatic meningitis, and Hawk died at his home in Freeport, Pennsylvania, in December 1899 at age 52. He was buried at the Freeport Cemetery.
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1847 births
1899 deaths
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Bradford (minor league baseball) players
Oil City (minor league baseball) players
New Castle Neshannocks players
People from Freeport, Pennsylvania |
32954242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20colleges%20in%20the%20Nilgiris%20district | List of colleges in the Nilgiris district | This article lists all the colleges in, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India.
The Tamilnad State Rural Communities College -Gudalur
Nilgiri College of Arts and Science, Thaloor, Erumad, The Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India #1 India's First AI-Enabled Campus
DP Labs DP School of Banking and TNPSC, Gudalur
CSI College of Engineering, Ketti, Ooty
Government Arts College, Stone House Hill, Ooty
Suverna International Institute of Management Studies, Bluemountain School Road, Ooty
JSS College of Pharmacy, Rocklands, Ooty
J.S.S. Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Science, Rocklands, Ooty
Bethlehem Teacher Training Institute, Ooty
Merit Swiss Asian School of Hotel Management, Havelock Road
Emerald Heights College for Women, Finger Post, Ooty
Monarch International College of Hotel Management, Forest Gate, Pudumund, Ooty
Government Polytechnic, Finger Post, Ooty
St. Josephs Industrial School, Finger Post, Ooty
Tribal research Centre Tamil University, M.Palada, Ooty
Sacred Heart Technical Institute, Charing Cross, Ooty
St. Joseph's College of Education, St. Mary's Hill, Ooty.
Oxford Teacher Training Institute, Blackwood Cottage, Ooty
Providence College for Women, Bandishola Spring Field, Coonoor
Riga College of Hotel Management, Coonoor
Govt. Industrial Training Institute, Coonoor
M R S Technical Institute, Coonoor
Rural Development Institute Gudalur
Bharathiar University Arts and Science College, Gudalur
Plantation Workers Industrial (ITI), Mica Mount, Gudalur
McGan Ooty School of Architecture, Gudalur
Kapeeyes College of Arts and Science, Kotagiri
District Institute of Education and Training, Kotagiri
NPA Centenary Polytechnic College, Kotagiri
House of joy Vocational Training Centre for the Blind, Kotagiri
Annai Madhammal Institute of Hotel Management College, Ooty
References
Education in Nilgiris district
Ooty |
17257839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Musa%20Jouda | Ahmed Musa Jouda | Ahmed Musa Jouda (born 20 May 1957) is a retired Sudanese long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres.
He won the bronze medal at the 1982 African Championships, and competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final. At the 1984 Olympic Games he finished tenth in a career best time of 28:20.26 minutes.
His personal best time on the 5000 metres was 13:34.13 minutes, achieved in July 1985 in Nice.
Achievements
References
1957 births
Living people
Sudanese male long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Sudan
World Athletics Championships athletes for Sudan |
451232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hore%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201947%29 | John Hore (footballer, born 1947) | John Hore (born 10 February 1947) is an English former footballer who played as a defender. He made 593 appearances in the Football League for Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City. He also served as manager at both clubs.
Hore appeared for Plymouth Argyle in midfield or as full back on 440 occasions. It was his task to mark Pelé when Santos lost to Argyle 3–2 at Home Park in March 1973. He finished his playing career at Exeter City.
He was appointed manager of Argyle on 1 October 1983. However, his managerial career was short-lived, owing to his lack of success in the league, he was dismissed on 19 November 1984.
In his 60-game stint as manager he won 17 games, lost 27 and drew 16. The highlight, for which he is most renowned, was leading Argyle to an FA Cup semi-final. A defeat to Watford meant that Argyle did not become the first team from the Third Division to reach the final.
He returned to Exeter City as coach and then caretaker manager before moving into management in local non-League football.
References
Plymouth Argyle 101 Golden Greats, Andy Riddle,
1947 births
Living people
English footballers
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Exeter City F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Bideford A.F.C. managers
Plymouth Argyle F.C. managers
Exeter City F.C. managers
Torrington F.C. managers
Barnstaple Town F.C. managers
English Football League managers
People from St Stephen-in-Brannel
Association football defenders |
18990048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Khaled | Omar Khaled | Omar Mohammad Khaled (commonly known as Rumi, January 1950) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. A middle order batsman and a leg spin googley bowler, he played regularly for the national side between 1976–77 and 1983–84.
As a batsman
Playing for the North Zone side against the MCC at Rajshahi in 1976–77, he top scored in the first innings for his side scoring 27. Then at Dhaka he scored 28 and 32. He continued to be a regular run-getter for his side until his retirement. Yet, he failed time and again, to convert starts into scores. Too often, he got out between 20 and 35, after doing all the hard work. Lack of concentration was the main factor, although his poor running between the wickets didn't help his cause either. Nevertheless, two innings of his are worth mentioning here.
In early February 1978, a Decan Blues side led by the former Indian captain Ajit Wadekar came to Dhaka (on their way home from a tour of the Far East). They played a 3-day match against the local side. This game was important for the local side as they sought to regain some of their lost confidence following a disastrous home series against Sri Lanka.
Batting first, the tourists scored 410/7, (Ajit Wadekar 103*, M.V. Narasimha Rao 83). In reply, the local side was in immediate trouble losing their openers cheaply. Rumy, batting at his usual No. 3 position, decided to take the bull by the horns. After playing one over calmly, he blasted three fours in the next. Skipper Raquibul Hasan, batting at the other end was a mere spectator. Rumy only scored 32 before falling to the guile of M. V. Narasimha Rao. (Rao, the Hyderabad allrounder, was at that time on the verge of playing for the Indian test team.) But it was the best innings of the match. After Rumy's departure, Raquibul Hasan batted diligently to score 64, and Bangladesh saved the match by scoring 320 in the 1st innings. After the end of the tour, the opposition captain Ajit Wadekar described Rumy as the best Bangladeshi batsman.
The setting for his other memorable innings was the water Orton cricket ground in the English Midlands. It was Bangladesh's first ever international match abroad, against Fiji. On difficult conditions, Rumy scored a patient 28. None of the other top order batsman reached double figures, and it was only the tail enders who took the score past the 100 mark. Rumy's effort was overshadowed by the brilliant bowling of Syed Ashraful Haque (7/23) which helped Bangladesh win the match. But Rumy's contribution to the victory should not be underestimated.
As a bowler
A genuine all rounder, Rumy, apart from being a top order batsman, was the country's best leg spin bowler. His height helped him get extra bounce, and he had a well disguised googly. He had a highly successful spin combination with Syed Ashraful Haque and Lintu. The trio was in full flow at Dhaka, against the MCC in 1978–79. They bowled the tourists out for only 210, with Lintu taking 3/70, Rumy 3/63 and Ashraful 2/1. Earlier, at Jessore, Rumy with 4/30 and Lintu with 4/49 had bowled out the MCC for only 166. Against Hyderabad Blues, in 1983–84, he took 2 wickets, and along with the off spinner Azhar (4 wickets) restricted the strong Hyderabad batting line up to 280/9.
ICC Trophy performances
In domestic cricket
He played most of his League cricket at Dhaka with Abahani KC and Bangladesh Biman. In 1976–77, he played a big part in Abahani winning the League title. In the final (against Victoria SC), he took five wickets with the ball, and then followed it with an unbeaten half century. Late in his career, in the 1983–84 National final, he took seven wickets with the ball against a strong Dhaka University batting line up.
References
External links
CricketArchive
Bangladeshi cricketers
Living people
Abahani Limited cricketers
Recipients of the Bangladesh National Sports Award
1950 births |
39816292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciana%20Echeverr%C3%ADa | Luciana Echeverría | Luciana Andrea Echeverría Christie (; born 12 July 1991) is a Chilean actor, singer, and television presenter.
Filmography
Movies
Television
Shows
Cubox (Canal 13, 2010) – Herself/Presenter
References
Other websites
1991 births
People from Cauquenes
Living people
21st-century Chilean women singers
Chilean film actresses
Chilean telenovela actresses
Chilean television actresses
Chilean television presenters
Chilean people of Basque descent
Chilean women television presenters |
25819630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapuni%20Suspension%20Bridge | Arapuni Suspension Bridge | The Arapuni Suspension Bridge is located just downstream from the Arapuni Power Station on the Waikato River in the South Waikato District of New Zealand. The suspension bridge in the bush-lined gorge was built in the mid-1920s to allow workers from the village of Arapuni to access the power station construction site.
History
The bridge spans the Arapuni gorge about downstream from the Arapuni Dam. As it was a relatively simple ancillary structure associated with what at the time was New Zealand's largest civil engineering project, the suspension bridge itself received little mention in progress reports and media accounts. Construction started in May 1925 and finished sometime in the three months after April 1926. The bridge does not seem to have had a formal opening function.
The bridge connected "top camp" (which eventually became the Arapuni township) with the western side of the gorge. "Top camp" accommodated the workmen employed on construction of the spillway, powerhouse and penstock.
The bridge was registered a Category II historic place by the Historic Places Trust on 21 April 1994.
Engineering
The bridge was designed by David Rowell & Co. from Westminster, London. The structure is likely to have been shipped prefabricated from England, and was erected by the British contractors for the Arapuni dam and power station project, Armstrong Whitworth. It is one of the longest suspension footbridges in the country. The bridge has a span of and is higher when measured from true left (i.e. the left side when looking downriver) to true right. It has a high steel lattice tower on the true left. On the true right, the bridge footing is cut into the side of the river bank and the foundation for the suspension cables is built on top of the cliff.
Today
The bridge is a popular tourist destination. The site can be accessed via a walkway starting on Arapuni Road opposite Rabone Street.
Bridge users are rewarded with views of the scenic gorge. Geological features can be seen, and the cliffs on the true right of the landing are of volcanic origin and formed by ignimbrite blocks, which are vertically fissured by cooling stresses.
The bridge is sometimes incorrectly called the Arapuni Swing Bridge, for example on signs along the walkway to the bridge. The term 'swing bridge' is in popular use in New Zealand for suspension bridges that act as footbridges.
The Waikato River Trails, which is under construction as part of the New Zealand Cycle Trail, will pass the bridge on the true right of the Waikato River.
References
External links
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Suspension bridges in New Zealand
NZHPT Category II listings in Waikato
Bridges completed in 1926
Bridges over the Waikato River
Bridges in Waikato
Tourist attractions in Waikato
1926 establishments in New Zealand
1920s architecture in New Zealand |
39394203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Thompson%20%28Yurok%29 | Archie Thompson (Yurok) | Archie Thompson (May 26, 1919 – March 26, 2013) was an American Yurok elder. The Yurok are the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. state of California, with approximately 6,000 members.
Thompson was the oldest living Yurok and the last known native-born, active speaker of the Yurok language at the time of his death in 2013. He was the last of about twenty Yurok elders who worked to revitalize the Yurok language. He worked with academics and linguists to preserve and revitalize the language among younger Yurok generations throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Those same linguists had originally predicted that Yurok would be extinct by 2010 and Thompson received much of the credit for saving the language. Yurok is now taught in five high schools throughout Humboldt and Del Norte counties in northern California. While the language is still endangered, the effort to preserve Yurok is considered to be the most successful revitalization effort in California.
Childhood
Thompson was born in a smokehouse on May 26, 1919, in Wa'tek Village (now known as Johnsons, California) in Humboldt County. He was sent to a government school in Hoopa, California, when he was five years old, where he was discouraged from speaking Yurok. He returned home when he was eight years old. He was taken in by his grandmother, Rosie Jack Hoppell. Thompson was raised by his grandmother, who only spoke Yurok in her home, and his uncle. His relatives raised him in a traditional Yurok lifestyle. As a child, Thompson trapped ducks to fill feather mattresses, harvested seaweed, fished for eulachon and salmon, and tracked elk.
Education and military service
Thompson earned varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball and track at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, from which he graduated in 1939. Thompson was one of the first Native American students to have his name engraved on the Del Norte H.S. Coach's Cup, a school award which honors exception skills in multiple athletic sports. He attended the Sherman Institute, a Native American boarding school in Riverside, California, (now known as Sherman Indian High School) where he learned welding. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and was sent to the South Pacific.
Personal life
Thompson and his wife, Alta McCash, a member of the Karuk people, moved to Crescent City in 1959. The couple had eight children before Alta died from complications of a fall in 1968.
Honors
In 2009, Thompson was awarded the Silver Honor in the Mentor Category from the MetLife Foundation and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging at a ceremony held in Washington D.C.
Death and legacy
Archie Thompson died at a hospital in Crescent City on March 26, 2013, at the age of 93. He was survived by eight children, twenty-nine grandchildren, seventy-two great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren, and one sister.
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2013 deaths
Yurok people
Native American language revitalization
Native American linguists
Language activists
Last known speakers of a Native American language
United States Navy personnel of World War II
People from Crescent City, California
People from Humboldt County, California
20th-century Native Americans
21st-century Native Americans |
65694711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Osborn%20%28cricketer%29 | Harold Osborn (cricketer) | Harold Osborn (14 June 1909 – 11 December 1986) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Wellington from 1940 to 1942.
See also
List of Wellington representative cricketers
References
External links
1909 births
1986 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Cricketers from Wellington City |
32162812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri%20Gvindadze | Dimitri Gvindadze | Dimitri Gvindadze () (born December 23, 1973) is a Georgian economist and politician who has been the country's Minister of Finance from June 20, 2011, to August 13, 2012.
Education and early career
Born in Tbilisi, then-Soviet Georgia, Gvindadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Technical University with a degree in civil engineering in 1995. He then studied at the Diplomatic Academy of Paris (1998), International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (2001), and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2003–2005), and went through a Financial Programming and Policy course at the International Monetary Fund Institute (2007).
From 1994 to 2003, Gvindadze served on various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In July 2005, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. He was in charge of foreign debt, cooperation with the international financial institutions and bilateral donors. When nominating Gvindadze to the post of Minister of Finance, the Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri noted that owing to Gvindadze's successful work as a Deputy Minister it was made possible to issue USD 500 million eurobonds in April 2011 to refinance the previous one.
Minister of Finance
Dimitri Gvindadze was appointed Minister of Finance on June 20, 2011, succeeding Kakha Baindurashvili. On August 13, 2012, he was, in turn, replaced with Alexander Khetaguri, hitherto Minister for Energy.
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References
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Cabinet of Georgia
Economists from Georgia (country)
Finance ministers of Georgia
Government ministers of Georgia (country)
1973 births
Politicians from Tbilisi
Living people
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
21st-century politicians from Georgia (country) |