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Metanoia (Porcupine Tree album)

Metanoia is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released on 10" double-vinyl in December, 1998, in a limited run of 1,000 copies. It is mostly made up of improvisations recorded during the Signify sessions, some of which were later shaped into songs. To help deter secondary- and black-market sales, the album was released on CD in December 2001 and re-issued again in 2006; it includes extra, previously released tracks from singles that were sequenced where they were extracted from the longform jams.

The track "Mesmer I" became the basis for tour-only piece "Cryogenics," originally intended for Coma Divine but left out during mixing. A live recording of "Cryogenics" was later restored and released on 2020's EP Coma: Coda (Rome 1997) which made available through the official Porcupine Tree Bandcamp page.

In a critical review on expose.org, the album has been described as "in every way the antithesis of Stupid Dream, and simultaneously every bit as brilliant". A special recognition is given to Chris Maitland and Colin Edwin who show "a masterful display of finesse and energy". The album review is finalized with the highest recommendation to listeners.

The original version of the CD has since been out-of-print. Copies of the original are considered to be quite rare and often go for a high price on online auctioning websites.

Inner and outer cover shows paintings made by Frans Janssen. Design was done by Carl Glover. All tracks were composed by Porcupine Tree.

Track listing

CD version

Vinyl version

Side one 
 "Mesmer I" - 8:33
 "Mesmer II" - 6:07

Side two 
 "Mesmer III/Coma Divine" - 13:18

Side three 
 "Metanoia I/Intermediate Jesus" - 14:32

Side four 
 "Metanoia II" - 11:03
 "Milan" - 2:30

Track details 
 The track "Coma Divine" was recorded in Cambridge on 13 July 1995.
 The tracks "Intermediate Jesus" and "Insignificance" were recorded from the same jam in Henley-on-Thames on 4 March 1996. The tracks do not include Richard Barbieri.
 The track "Milan" was recorded in Milan during the Coma Divine tour.
 The tracks "Insignificance" and "Door to the River" appeared on the original cassette release of Insignificance.

References

External links 
 Porcupine Tree Official Website
 Metanoia at Snapper Music

Porcupine Tree albums
1998 compilation albums
Dillon Naylor

Dillon Naylor (born 1968) is an Australian cartoonist, illustrator and toy designer.  He is the creator of the comic strip Batrisha the Vampire Girl, which appeared for six years in the children's magazine K-Zone and was the basis for two children's books. Other comic strips include Rock 'n' Roll Fairies which appeared in the children's magazine Total Girl, and Camilla and Mike which appears in the educational magazine Challenge.

Naylor's comic series published through his own publishing imprint Cowtown Comics have included Da 'n' Dill (a long-running showbag insert, and a newspaper strip in the Sydney Sun-Herald from 2001 to 2008), Pop Culture & Two Minute Noodles and the official Martin & Molloy comic. Naylor's extensive work in designing and illustrating music posters includes work for the Beastie Boys and the Fireballs.

Naylor has released a graphic novel collection of his early horror and rock 'n' roll art, A Brush With Darkness, and a collection of his Da 'n' Dill showbag comics, both through Australian publisher, Milk Shadow Books.

Naylor's artistic influences include the work of Carl Barks (creator of Scrooge McDuck) and Hergé (creator of The Adventures of Tintin), and the classic horror comic anthologies published by EC Comics.

Naylor lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is married and has two children.

References

 Bonzer: Australian comics 1900-1990s edited by Annette Shiell; checklist compiled by Mick Stone. Redhill South, Vic.: Elgua Media, 1998.  / 1876677066
 Grushkin, Paul & King, Dennis - Art of modern rock: The poster explosion. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2004. 
 Juddery, Mark - Outside the Squares - The Bulletin (Australian edition), Vol. 123 Issue 6500 (13 Dec. 2005), p. 64-65

Selected works
 Naylor, Dillon. The strange exchange student (Batrisha book).  Rowville, Victoria : Five Mile Press, 2003. 
 Naylor, Dillon. The slippery shadow (Batrisha book).  Rowville, Victoria : Five Mile Press, 2003. 
 Naylor, Dillon. Da 'n' Dill - The Showbag Years.  Milk Shadow Books, 2013. 
 Naylor, Dillon. Batrisha and the Creepy Caretaker. Margate Beach, Qld.: Comicoz, 2021. 
 Naylor, Dillon (with Ian C. Thomas) Rock 'N' Roll Fairies: the complete graphic novel. Margate Beach, Qld.: Comicoz, 2023.

External links
 Dillon Naylor Illustration
 Dillon Naylor at Lambiek.net

Australian comics artists
Australian cartoonists
Australian poster artists
Living people
1968 births
Toy designers
Artists from Melbourne
Hans Egon Holthusen

Hans Egon Holthusen (15 April 1913 – 21 January 1997) was a German Nazi, lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar.

Holthusen was born in Rendsburg the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, the son of a Protestant clergyman.  He studied German philology, history, and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin, and Munich, gaining reputation as a Rilke scholar with the publication of his Rilkes Sonette an Orpheus: Versuch einer Interpretation in 1937, at the age of 24.

Holthusen was a member of the SS (since 1933) and of the Nazi Party (since 1937). During the Second World War, between 1939 and 1944, he served in the German army.  In the early 1960s, Holthusen worked at the Goethe-Institut in New York City, subsequently obtaining a professorship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a post which he held until 1981. In 1960, Mascha Kaléko refused the Berlin Theodor Fontane Price because Holthusen was a jury member.

Holthusen died in Munich.

There exists an unpublished 233-page English-language biography covering the first sixty-seven years of his life or so (he died at the age of 83); a comprehensive bibliography of his works came out posthumously in 2000.  His personal papers (including manuscripts, diaries, private correspondence (encompassing more than five thousand letters), genealogical records, and a photographic archive) are preserved at the Library of the University of Hildesheim (Universitätsbibliothek Hildesheim) in Lower Saxony (‘The Papers of Hans Egon Holthusen’ — Nachlass Hans Egon Holthusen).  The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., holds a sound recording of the lecture on post-war German literature, entitled ‘Crossing the Zero Point’, which he delivered in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress on 25 January 1960 (and which he begins by mentioning ‘the German catastrophe of 1945’, not that of 1933).

See also

 Erich Heller

Notes

1913 births
1997 deaths
German essayists
Germanists
German-language poets
German literary critics
People from Rendsburg
People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein
German Army personnel of World War II
SS personnel
University of Tübingen alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century German poets
German male essayists
German male poets
20th-century essayists
20th-century German male writers
SZD-45 Ogar

The SZD-45 Ogar (Hound) is a T-tailed cantilever high-wing monoplane of wooden, aluminium and fibreglass construction designed and manufactured in Poland.

Design and development
Designed bu Dipl.-Ing. Tadeusz Labuc, the 2-seat Ogar is intended for training glider pilots from ab-initio to advanced stages as well as cross-country flying. The first prototype,(reg. no. SP-0001), first flew on 29 May 1973 powered by a  Stark-Stamo engine. Due to the Stamo engine being unavailable, production SZD-45A Ogars were built with  Limbach SL1700EC engines and later with Franklin 2A-120 engines as the SZD-45-2 Ogar F.

Of pod and boom layout the Ogar has a T-tail on a tubular Aluminium alloy tubular boom extending from the keel of the fuselage pod, which houses the cockpit and engine. A variety of materials are used in construction, with a glass-fibre cockpit shell over two load-bearing wooden frames. The wings are of wooden single-spar construction skinned with plywood and covered with glass-fibre. The engine is mounted at the rear of the fuselage pod, aft of the wing trailing edge at the same level and driving a pusher propeller. The undercarriage consists of a semi-retractable mainwheel fitted with a disc brake, steerable tailwheel and optional outrigger wheels on flexible struts at the wing-tips. Accommodation for two pilots is provided side by side under an aft-hinged upward-opening canopy. The Ogar was certified for simple aerobatics.

Of the 66 production aircraft, 41 were exported;those destined for the United States were powered by dual-ignition, turbocharged, Revmaster/Volkswagen VW 2962 engines.

Variants
SZD-45 Ogar The prototype powered by a  Stark-Stamo engine.
SZD-45A OgarInitial production variant powered by a  Limbach SL1700EC engines.
SZD-45-2 Ogar FLater production aircraft powered bya  Franklin 2A-120A (later 2A-120CP) 2-cyl air-cooled horizontally opposed piston engine.

Specifications (SZD-45A Ogar)

Notes

References

External links

Hanover Show Review 1976

Motor gliders
1970s Polish sailplanes
PZL aircraft
T-tail aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
SZD aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1973
ZFOOTBALL

ZFOOTBALL is a national 4-on-4 flag football tour which holds events across the United States. ZFOOTBALL tournaments include men's divisions and youth divisions, which are separated by skill and age respectively.

The game
The official field is 25 yards wide and 64 yards long. Each end zone is seven yards deep. Games consist of two fourteen-minute halves. Teams have one time-out per game, which stops the clock. In the last minute of the game, if the difference in score is less than 10 points, a pro clock is used (stoppage on out of bounds, incomplete passes, defensive penalties, and scores). Teams have four players each on the field, and can have rosters of up to six players. Substitutions are unlimited, and can be made between plays.

Offense
The offensive team begins their possession at the five-yard line, and has three plays to gain 20 yards and advance the ball beyond mid-field. After they advance the ball past mid-field, the offense has three additional plays to put the ball into the end-zone. If a team scores a Touchdown (six points), they have the option of attempting either a one-point conversion (from five yards) or a two-point conversion (from twelve yards).

The offense advances the ball by completing forward passes. Passes must be completed over the line of scrimmage line. No backwards laterals, screen passes behind the line of scrimmage, or downfield pitches are allowed. The offense also has the option of running the ball to gain yardage, but a hand-off must occur behind the line of scrimmage in order for the offense to gain the run option.

Defense
The goal of the defense is to stop the opposing offensive unit from scoring. Before each play, one of the referees will mark off seven yards from the line of scrimmage, and the defense has the option to rush the quarterback from the seven yard mark after the ball is snapped. The defense is allowed to rush immediately (even if they are not seven yards back) if the offense hands the ball off.

Tournament Format
Teams are separated into groups of four, and take part in round-robin play, with the top two teams from each group advancing into the single-elimination round.

In 2005, ZFOOTBALL awarded the largest cash prize in the history of flag football -- $25,000—to the national champion, M.O.B. (Miami, Florida).

External links
Play Flag Football website
Zfootball Rules

Flag football
Vladimir Vetchinkin

Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin () (June 29, 1888 - March 6, 1950) was a Soviet scientist in the field of aerodynamics, aeronautics, and wind energy, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1927), Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR (1946).

Biography 
Vladimir Petrovich was born in Kutno (then in the Russian division of Poland), the son of a Russian military officer. Vetchinkin graduated from Moscow Higher Technical School (MVTU) in 1915, the favorite student of Nikolay Zhukovsky and generally viewed as his successor. In 1913, they had created a vortex-sheet theory of aircraft propellers. In 1916, Vetchinkin and Zhukovsky created the aviation calculation and test bureau in the wind-tunnel laboratory of the Moscow Higher Technical School, and in 1918 he helped found the Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerodynamics (TsAGI). He became a professor at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy in 1923.

In 1914, Vetchinkin began working with Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev on high performance windmills for electric power generation. Zhukovsky created a new division of wind motors in TsAGI to support this effort. They built an 8 kilowatt experimental wind generator in Kursk in 1929. To store energy during lulls in the wind, it used a 360 kilogram flywheel contained in a vacuum chamber.

From 1921 to 1925, Vetchinkin lectured on the theory of rockets and space travel, and was the first to present a correct theory of interplanetary flight based on elliptical transfer orbits (an idea usually attributed to Walter Hohmann). He was a member of the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel. From 1925 to 1927, he worked on problems of cruise missiles and jet aircraft, and he took part in the activity of RNII (Scientific Research Institute of Jet Propulsion). Vetchinkin was a key supporter of rocketry pioneer Yuri Kondratyuk, and helped him get his work published.

He died in Moscow in 1950.

The lunar crater Vetchinkin, on the far side of the Moon, is named after him.

Notes 

1888 births
1950 deaths
20th-century Russian engineers
Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute employees
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Aerodynamicists
Soviet aerospace engineers
Soviet mechanical engineers
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
People from Kutno
Nikolaus Geiger

Nikolaus Geiger (6 December 1849 – 27 November 1897) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life
Born at Lauingen in the Kingdom of Bavaria, he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason. At the age of 16, he went to Munich, to study with Joseph Knabl at the Academy of Fine Arts. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany in 1871, he moved to Berlin and after some time achieved recognition for his ornamental work in the . After a visit to Italy he again studied painting in Munich and in 1884 returned to Berlin, where he was awarded a gold medal in 1886, was elected member of the Academy in 1893, and was made professor in 1896.

St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin contains examples of his work. Geiger produced the high-relief Adoration of the Magi (1894). His The Communion of the Saints on the ceiling of St. Hedwig's is his most noteworthy painting. He sculpted Frederick Barbarossa for the Kyffhäuser Monument; a statue of Labor for the Reichsbank building in Berlin; and Centaur with Dancing Nymph for the National Gallery. He produced a tall relief frieze for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Geiger died in Wilmersdorf (today part of Berlin), after suffering an internal bleeding.

Sculptures 
Centaur with Dancing Nymph (before 1897), bronze, in the collection of the National Gallery (Berlin)
Head of an Old Woman (before 1897), bronze, in the collection of National Gallery (Berlin)
Head of a Young Girl (before 1897), bronze, in the collection of the National Gallery (Berlin)
After the Fall from Grace" (1896), bronze, in the collection of the National Gallery (Berlin)
Tall frieze The Army for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Tympanum of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
Numerous other works by Geiger were destroyed during World War II, including sculptures in "Villa Saloschin" (Berlin), the lifesize statue Labor for the Reichsbank in Berlin, and figural decorations in the building of the Dresdner Bank (Berlin).
 Kaiser Barbarossa (for the Kyffhäuser monument)

Paintings
The Sinner (1884), purchased in 1898 by the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
Ceiling painting Adoration of the Christ Child in St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin

See also
 List of German painters

References

1849 births
1897 deaths
German architectural sculptors
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
19th-century German sculptors
German male sculptors
People from Lauingen
One Settler, One Bullet

One Settler, One Bullet was a rallying cry and slogan originated by the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), during the struggle of the 1980s against apartheid in South Africa. The slogan parodied the African National Congress's slogan 'One Man, One Vote', which eventually became 'One Person, One Vote'.  It is not to be confused with the controversial protest song "Dubul' ibhunu" (Shoot the Boer).

History
The slogan was never officially endorsed by the PAC but often used by party members during rallies. After the dismantling of apartheid in 1994, PAC officials have repeatedly distanced themselves and the party from the slogan and called it a "war cry from its armed wing" incompatible with its "current reconcillatory stand".

By 1991, when the fight against apartheid neared its end, PAC General Secretary Benny Alexander attempted to redefine a settler: he called it a white or Asian person participating in the oppression of indigenous people. He classified people into three groups, "indigenous" people, Whites and Asians whose sole allegiance is to the nation and who have no home elsewhere, and "settlers".

However, even after 1991, grassroots sympathizers of the PAC at times interpreted the slogan as a call for attacks on whites in general and certain attacks on whites, such as the 1993 killing of US Anti-Apartheid activist Amy Biehl, were seen as directly motivated by the slogan.

In 2015, student activist group Rhodes Must Fall and other affiliated movements revived the slogan by chanting "One Settler One Bullet" at rallies at the University of Cape Town  and by statements on social media.

Variants
 "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" - competing slogan reportedly originated by Peter Mokaba of the ANC at the April 1993 funeral of assassinated South African Communist party leader Chris Hani.
 "One Merchant, One Bullet" - used by People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, an Islamist vigilante group in post-apartheid South Africa.  ("Merchant" refers to drug dealers.)
 "One Prawn, One Bullet" - line spoken by the mercenary character Koobus (who is ironically an Afrikaner himself) of the movie District 9.

References

20th century in South Africa
South African political slogans
African and Black nationalism in Africa
Anti-imperialism in Africa
Anti-white racism in Africa
Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

The Romanian Catholic Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, (; in Romanian Arhieparhia de Făgăraș și Alba Iulia), is an ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy (equivalent to an archdiocese in the Latin Church) of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, a particular Eastern Catholic Church, that is located in Romania. The ordinary is the Archeparch of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia who is also the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia and the Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. The incumbent Archeparch is Lucian, Cardinal Mureșan. The cathedral church of the archeparchy is the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity that is situated in the city of Blaj.

There are five suffragan dioceses of the archeparchy in Romania : 
 Cluj–Gherla
 Lugoj
 Maramureș
 Oradea Mare
 Saint Basil the Great of Bucharest. 

Additionally, in North America, the Romanian Greek Catholic Eparchy of St George is part of the Church but is exempt. The Eparchy of St. George takes part in the Church's synod.

On 18 May 1721 it was established as the Metropolitan Archeparchy of Făgăraș (). On 16 November 1854 it was renamed Metropolitan Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia (Fagarasien(sis) et Albae Iulien(sis) Romenorum in Latin). On 16 December 2005 it was promoted to Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia.

See also
List of Major Archbishops of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia

External links
 GCatholic.org information on the Major Archdiocese
 Religious Leaders data per April 2006

Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia
Romanian Greek Catholic Church dioceses
Eastern Catholic dioceses in Romania
Washington Warthogs

The Washington Warthogs were a professional indoor soccer team in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) from 1994 to 1997. They played their home games in the USAir Arena in Landover, Maryland, an arena they shared with the Washington Bullets, Washington Capitals, and the Georgetown Hoyas. Team owner Abe Pollin also operated the Bullets and Capitals.

The Warthogs featured the league's only female player, first with Colette Cunningham and then Kristine Lilly replaced her the next year. Jim Gabarra was the team's coach from 1994 to 1997 and also played as a player–coach for his first three seasons. The four seasons that the Warthogs played in Washington they average attendance was 6,489 per game. Some games were televised on HTS.

The two top players of the team over its history were Denison Cabral and Dante Washington.  Both went on to strong outdoor careers with Washington playing in MLS, and both later played for the Baltimore Blast of the MISL. Kyle Glasgow was the only fan elected to the Warthog hall of fame. The team employed teenage cheerleaders, named the "Warthog Girls", crowd entertainers, and a soccer clinic to draw families and younger fans to attend games.

Notable players

 Colette Cunningham
  Bozhidar Iskrenov
 Kristine Lilly
 Irad Young
 Matt Weber

References

Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
Continental Indoor Soccer League teams
Soccer clubs in Washington, D.C.
Soccer clubs in Maryland
1994 establishments in Maryland
1997 disestablishments in Maryland
Association football clubs established in 1994
Association football clubs disestablished in 1997
Placid Ark

Placid Ark (1983-1988) was an Australian thoroughbred foaled in Western Australia. His sire Arkenstone was a winning son of the Western Australian champion sire Zvornik and his dam was Northern Queen a mare bred in South Australia by the United States imported stallion Star of the North.

Bred at Asprey Stud near Pinjarra by H.B (Pip) Dent, Placid Ark was purchased at the Sunspeed Yearling Sales for $5,000 for a novice eight-person syndicate headed by Hotelier Barry McGrath on the recommendation of Ascot Racecourse trainer Wally Mitchell. Wally Mitchell was persuaded to purchase the horse by the breeder, H.B.(Pip)Dent. Pip was so convinced of the quality of the horse that he offered to give Wally his money back if the horse didn't win (cited in West Australian newspaper's obituary of Pip Dent).
 
Placid Ark earned number of wins as a two-year-old including the first ever defeat of star filly Jungle Dawn who later campaigned successfully in the United States of America and after making a promising start in his three-year-old season in Perth, Western Australia, plans were made to take him to Melbourne to contest the autumn sprinters treble of the Lightning Stakes, Oakleigh Plate & Newmarket Handicap. Placid Ark made history when he became the first horse to win all three races in the same season. Accompanying Placid Ark on the trip was New South Wales born jockey John Scorse who had relocated to Perth as stable rider for Mitchell.

Placid Ark's performances in the 1986-87 racing season resulted in him being voted a co-winner of Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year honors.

Out of racing for a time due to an injury, Placid Ark came back in 1988 to win the Bobby Lewis Quality before a shattered sesamoid resulted in the gelding having to be euthanized.

References

 Placid Ark's pedigree and partial racing stats

1983 racehorse births
1988 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Australia
Racehorses trained in Australia
Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year
Torn (LeToya song)

"Torn" is the first official single (second overall) from American R&B singer LeToya's debut album LeToya which was released in March 2006 and soon became a hit, having a high airplay, just missing out the top ten on the U.S. Hot 100 Airplay charts at number eleven. "Torn" became a hit on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at number two. It also entered the top twenty on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Adult R&B charts.

In September 2006, the song was finally released in other countries all over the world, namely the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia and became a moderate worldwide hit.

The song is about the protagonist being "torn" between staying with or leaving her lover (played in the music video by Will Demps). The song contains a musical sample of The Stylistics's 1971 classic "You Are Everything."

The official remix is known as the "So So Def Remix" featuring guest appearances from rappers Mike Jones and Rick Ross and production from Jermaine Dupri. The album version is also slightly different from the single version and there is also a version with rapper Short Dogg and Dave Young, co-writer of Torn, singing along with LeToya.

The UK CD single features the b-side "No More", written by Candice Nelson and Walter Millsap.

"Torn" had one of its biggest successes on BET's 106 & Park. It reached number one in eleven days and stayed there for twenty-five days straight. It remained on the countdown for sixty-five days.

Music video
The video was directed by Chris Robinson and debuted on BET Access Granted on July 5, 2006.

The music clip is featured as an enhanced video on the European edition and the Japanese Special edition of the album LeToya.

Sample

The song samples "Everything" by Mary J. Blige, which itself samples "You Are Everything" by The Stylistics.

Track listing
"Torn" (Edit)
"Torn" (Album Version)
"Torn" (A Cappella)
"Torn" (Instrumental)
"Tear Da Club Up" (Original Version)
"Tear Da Club Up" (H-Town Version)
"Tear Da Club Up" (Original Instrumental)
"Tear Da Club Up" (H-Town instrumental)

Release history

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2006 debut singles
LeToya Luckett songs
Music videos directed by Chris Robinson (director)
Songs written by LeToya Luckett
2006 songs
Capitol Records singles
Contemporary R&B ballads

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Picarin

Picarin (Tsurupica) is a plastic used to make optics such as lenses for terahertz radiation.

Optical properties
Picarin is useful for this purpose because it is highly transparent in both the THz and visible spectral ranges. The refractive index of Picarin is almost the same for THz (n=1.52) and visible light (n=1.52). It is very strong mechanically, and withstands optical polishing.

Unpolished picarin lenses offer the best performance at 2-7 THz spectral range. Unfortunately, unpolished surfaces scatter visible and near-IR light.

References

Optical materials
St George's Roman Catholic Church, York

St George's Roman Catholic church is located in the centre of the city of York, England, on George Street in the Diocese of Middlesbrough. The Church was designed by Joseph Hansom and was the first pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Beverley.

History
The church takes its title from the medieval church of St George at Beanhills which was suppressed in 1547. The churchyard may still be seen opposite the present Catholic church and is the supposed burial place of Dick Turpin, the notorious 18th-century highwayman.

A building fund of £1,200 had been raised to build a new church in York. This was to replace a brick chapel that was situated in Little Blake Street (now Duncombe Place). St George's was chiefly built to serve the immigrant Irish Catholic population of Walmgate. Opened in September 1850, it served as the pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Beverley until St Wilfrid's opened in 1864.

Architecture
The church was designed by Joseph Hansom and his brother, Charles Francis Hansom in the Early Decorated style. The foundation stone was laid on 25 October 1849 and the building completed the following September. Joseph Hansom also designed the presbytery in 1858.

The altar is of Caen stone and was moved forward from its original position in 1972. Another notable feature is the Rood Screen, a fine wood carving of Flemish work now positioned over the sacristy door. The East Window is based upon a Pugin design and the memorial windows of the Lady Chapel were made & decorated by the Barrett family, and financed by the Palmes family of Naburn, the Dolmans of Pocklington and the Coxes of Herefordshire.

Interior decoration

Reredos
Altar
Lady Chapel
Stations of the Cross

Current Parish Priests
 Very Rev Canon Jeremiah Twomey Parish Priest

Previous Parish Priests

Rev Fr. Patrick Hartnett
Rev Fr. Timothy Bywater
Rev Fr. Austin O'Neal
Very Rev. Canon Alan Sheridan

Organ
The organ was restored in 2004 and is the oldest in the city of York.

Schools
Associated with the church were Primary (mixed) & Secondary (boys) schools. The Primary school was established in 1852 and relocated in 1977 to Fishergate whilst the Secondary school closed in 1985. Both were located in Margaret Street.

References

External links

Official Site
St George's RC School
St George's Primary & Secondary Schools Ex-Pupils
Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough
Joseph Hansom

Roman Catholic churches in York
El Alcázar

(meaning The Fortress in English) was a Spanish language far-right newspaper published in Spain between 1936 and 1988.

History and profile
 was established in 1936. The paper was founded as the principal nationalist mouthpiece during the Siege of the Alcázar in homage to the defenders of the Alcázar of Toledo. It mainly focused on military news.

During a short period which spanned from 1966 to 1968, the paper opened itself to the more moderate tendencies of the Francoist regime . However, its direction changed in 1968 and  renewed with its support of Falangist ideology, especially after it was converted into the official newspaper of the Confederación Nacional de Ex Combatientes, organization grouping militants defending the essences of Franco's regime who fought in the Spanish Civil war, in June 1975.

Following Franco's death in November 1975 and the beginning of the transition to democracy, the newspaper became the mouthpiece of the Búnker, a group of Francoist and ultramontanist militaries and leaders opposed to democracy. Between 1977 and 1981, they published various articles from the Colectivo Almendros which publicly declared itself in favor of a coup d'état, one a short time before the 23-F attempted putsch. Following the self-dissolution of Blas Piñar's Fuerza Nueva, francoist far-right party, the newspaper published in 1983 a call for the creation of a new far-right party, materialized by the foundation of the Juntas Españolas.

The circulation of  declined between 1970 and 1975. Its circulation was 13,119 copies in 1975, 26,724 copies in 1976, 63,646 copies in 1977 and 66,104 in 1978. The increase in its circulation continued until 1980.

 closed in 1988 as a result of poor sales. Antonio Izquierdo served as the paper's last editor. By the end of the paper's run, circulation was primarily among Francoist veterans.

In November 1994 the Audiencia Nacional sentenced the Spanish State to pay 3 billion pesetas (€18 million) to the owners of the defunct newspaper for discriminating it from official advertising, public subscription and subsidies by socialist governments. The money was used to pay the debts that Dyrsa, company holding the header had with the Social Security, public finances and ex-workers.

Notable people
Jorge Claramunt, Jesús Evaristo Casariego, Jesús Ercilla, José Luis Cebrián, Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Rafael García Serrano, José Antonio Gurriarán, Alfonso Paso, Yale.

See also
Juntas Españolas

References

1936 establishments in Spain
1988 disestablishments in Spain
Defunct newspapers published in Spain
Far-right politics in Spain

Newspapers established in 1936
Publications disestablished in 1988
Spanish-language newspapers
Fascist newspapers and magazines
Don Lennon

Don Lennon is an independent musician from Massachusetts.

Early life 
Little personal information is known about Lennon. Several interviewers have implied that his name is a pseudonym. His style is often compared to that of Beat Happening, The Magnetic Fields and most notably fellow New Englander Jonathan Richman.

Career 
Lennon was the guitarist and singer of the Boston-based band The Umpteens (sometimes, incorrectly, "The Endless Upteens" ). Shortly after the group's breakup in 1997, Lennon recorded his first solo album, Maniac. Many of the songs were originally played by The Umpteens. His website states that some of these songs were written as early as 1993. Two recurring themes throughout the album are parties ("Party Coordinator," "Party In September" and "Party All The Time") and friends ("Best Friends Forever" and "I Need Friends").

Don Lennon, a quasi-autobiographical album, came in 1999. Much of the album's lyrical content spoke about the musician's trials and tribulations in previous years while playing concerts promoting Maniac.

Downtown was released in 2002 on the independent label Secretly Canadian. The record dealt with the music industry, name checking Dave Matthews Band, Lenny Kravitz, The Mekons, Bongwater and John Cale (of The Velvet Underground). Bizarrely, Secretly Canadian soon after began distancing itself from Lennon and the album, eventually removing it as a release from its catalog (although it was originally SC #62).

2005 saw the release of Lennon's fourth full-length album, Routine. The subject matter dealt primarily with stand-up comedy and the construction of a comedian's routine, but also focused on Monster.com, John Ritter and trust funds. NPR's John Brady cited the album as one of the three best records of 2005, while Sweden's prominent Digfi magazine rated it the number one.

Discography 
 Maniac (Martin Philip, 1997)
 Don Lennon (Martin Philip, 1999)
 Downtown (Secretly Canadian/Martin Philip, 2002)
 Routine (Martin Philip, 2005)
 Ich Heisse Don (Popfrenzy, 2005)
 Radical (Martin Philip, 2006)
 Nick and Mary (2010)

References

External links 
Don Lennon's official site
December 12, 2002 interview with The Boston Phoenix

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American rock singers
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American male singers
Singers from Massachusetts
American indie rock musicians
Secretly Canadian artists
Guitarists from Massachusetts
Sidney Osborne Bufton

Air Vice Marshal Sidney Osborne Bufton,  (12 January 1908 – 29 March 1993) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the middle part of the 20th century. He played a major part in establishing the Pathfinder project, over the objections of Arthur Harris.

RAF career
Bufton joined the Royal Air Force in 1927. As a young man he was a Welsh International Hockey player (1931–1937) as well as playing for the RAF and the Combined Services. He served in World War II as Officer Commanding No. 10 Squadron and then as Officer Commanding No. 76 Squadron before becoming Station Commander at RAF Pocklington in 1941. He continued his war service as Deputy Director and then as Director of Bomber Operations. He argued for the formation of a Target Finding Force to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of Bomber Command. In this he was opposed by the group and squadron commanders, and Bomber Command's commanding officer, Arthur Harris. He was supported by the Air Ministry and Charles Portal. The force became the Pathfinder Force, which was critical in making the air campaign over Germany a success. He headed the preparations for the ill-fated Operation Thunderclap and for the air warfare against cities and civilians in German-occupied Europe.

After the War he was appointed Commandant of the Central Bomber Establishment and then Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations and Plans) at Headquarters Air Forces Western Europe in 1948. He was made Director of Weapons at the Air Ministry in 1951, Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Bomber Command in 1952 and Air Officer Commanding at British Forces Aden in 1953. His last appointments were as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Bomber Command in 1955 and as Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) at the Air Ministry in 1958 before retiring in 1961.

After retiring from the RAF, he joined Radionic Ltd. as an inventor and later became Managing Director until 1970.

References

External links 

 The Papers of Air Vice-Marshal Sydney Osborne Bufton held at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge

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1908 births
1993 deaths
Aerial warfare pioneers
Royal Air Force air marshals
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Welsh male field hockey players
High Sheriffs of Radnorshire
Heads of RAF Intelligence
Welsh military personnel
Lourdios-Ichère

Lourdios-Ichère (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, southwestern France. The current mayor is Marthe Clot, elected in 2020.

History

The municipality was created in 1820 when Lourdios (a neighbourhood of Osse-en-Aspe) was united with Ichère (a neighbourhood of Sarrance).

In 2017 during the presidential election the town became known to the French public thanks to the candidate Jean Lassalle who had been the mayor for over 40 years. During the first round he won the majority of the vote with 68.8% in his constituency. At the national level, Lassalle is less popular, receiving 1.5% of votes countrywide.

See also
Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Sarvadhikari

Sarvādhikārī is a title with diverse uses in India, including:

An old title for the Chief minister of a southern Indian ruler, notably of: 
Under the Western Ganga Dynasty's Maharaja Dharma of Talakad (in modern Karnataka state), heading a cabinet which further included the Sandhivigrahi (Minister for dispute settlement), the Dandanayaka, the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Srikaranadhikari (minister of Finance and Revenue), Manemagatine or Manevergade (Steward of the Royal household) and Hiriyabhandari (in charge of accounts and keeping of records); sometimes, the Purohita too found a place in this Council of Ministers, advising in matters of religion
The hereditary Chief Minister of Mysore; this was the office Tipu Sultan succeeded his father Hyder Ali and established a Muslim dynasty called Sarkar-e-Khudadad (God-gifted kingdom).
Superintendent, e.g. of a military camp
General manager of an enterprise

Sources
Platt's dictionary
Our Karnataka
IMDb

Heads of government
Titles in India
Kingdom of Mysore
Michael Sinelnikoff

Michael Sinelnikoff (born 1 August 1928) is a British-Canadian actor, director, producer, and writer. He is known for his role as Professor Arthur Summerlee on the television series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, and has been seen in a variety of film roles such as 300 and The Greatest Game Ever Played.

Biography
Sinelnikoff was born in London, England, and is of mixed Russian, French, and German descent.  He graduated from Higher Schools Certificate in Modern Languages, with Distinction in French and German language and literature in 1950. Sinelnikoff later attended the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art in London; Italia Conti Stage School, London, UK; and Carleton College (University), Ottawa, Canada.

Sinelnikoff's acting credits include portraying Professor Summerlee in two separate adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.

In 1984, Sinelnikoff became the first Director of Quebec's International Cirque du Soleil. His other non-acting credits include producing and directing 68 television dramas for CBC Montreal's Teleplay series and writer for CBC television series Festival drama: "The Spirit of the Deed".  He has also served as a director at national theaters and festivals including Montreal's Centaur Theatre and Saidye Bronfman Theatre, and The Piggery Theatre in North Hatley, Quebec.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links 

English male film actors
1928 births
Living people
English male television actors
Sunart

Sunart ( ,  ) is a rural district and community in the south west of Lochaber in Highland, Scotland, on the shores of Loch Sunart, and part of the civil parish of Ardnamurchan. The main village is Strontian, at the head of the loch, which is the location of Ardnamurchan High School, the local fire station, police station and other facilities.

The district is bounded to the south by the eastern half of Loch Sunart and by part of Morvern, to the west by the Ardnamurchan peninsula (beyond Salen), to the north by Loch Shiel, and to the east and north east by the district of Ardgour, from which it is divided by a range of high hills. Main access to the area today is via Glen Tarbert, from the Corran Ferry, although there is also a road coming in from Lochailort, via Moidart, to the north. Although the area may seem isolated now, in the past the main mode of transport in the West Highlands was boat, and the district was well-integrated into the west coast economy and culture.

Nearly all of the population live in a narrow ribbon of small settlements along the northern shore of Loch Sunart, with a southerly aspect. The inland, including the shore of Loch Shiel, consists of rough, hilly country, mainly moorland, peat bog and woodland, dominated by the main hill, Beinn Resipol, which is a Corbett.

The main income for the area is tourism, with some salmon fish-farming.

Wildlife
The area is renowned for the richness of its wildlife, and it contains some of the best surviving remnants of the ancient temperate Atlantic oak forest which once clothed most of the west coast of Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, but now survives only in isolated pockets. Loch Sunart itself also has a rich flora and fauna. In the past salmon and sea trout angling was important to the local hotels, but, like much of Europe, the runs of fish in the spring and summer are much reduced.

The area is reputed to have the widest variety of mosses, ferns, fungi, lichen, the rare chequered skipper butterfly,  and bryophyte species in the whole of Europe, due to the mild, wet oceanic climate.

Sunart is designated as a Special Area of Conservation.

A campaign is underway to remove Rhododendron ponticum, an invasive introduced species.

Places in Sunart
Achnanellan, Anaheilt, Ard Airigh, Ardery, Ardnastaing, Ariundle
Drumnatorran
Glenhurich, Gorstanvorran
Polloch
Resipole
Salen, Scamodale, Scotstown, Strontian

See also
Ariundle Oakwood National Nature Reserve
Claish Moss
Strontianite
Strontium
Sessile oak

References 

Lochaber
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Scotland
Glycoconjugate

Glycoconjugates are the classification family for carbohydrates – referred to as glycans – which are covalently linked with chemical species such as proteins, peptides, lipids, and other compounds. Glycoconjugates are formed in processes termed glycosylation.

Glycoconjugates are very important compounds in biology and consist of many different categories such as glycoproteins, glycopeptides, peptidoglycans, glycolipids, glycosides, and lipopolysaccharides.  They are involved in cell–cell interactions, including cell–cell recognition; in cell–matrix interactions; in detoxification processes.

Generally, the carbohydrate part(s) play an integral role in the function of a glycoconjugate; prominent examples of this are neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) and blood proteins where fine details in the carbohydrate structure determine cell binding (or not) or lifetime in circulation.

Although the important molecular species DNA, RNA, ATP, cAMP, cGMP, NADH, NADPH, and coenzyme A all contain a carbohydrate part, generally they are not considered as glycoconjugates.

Glycocojugates is covalent linking of carbohydrates antigens to protein scaffolds with goal of achieving a long term immunological response in body. Immunization with glycoconjugates successfully induced long term immune memory against carbohydrates antigens. Glycoconjugate vaccines was introduced since the 1990s have yielded effective results against influenza and meningococcus.

In 2021 glycoRNAs were observed for the first time.

References

Carbohydrates
Glycobiology
Patcham High School

Patcham High School is one of nine secondary schools in Brighton, located in the village of Patcham. It has around 1,000 pupils. The current head teacher is John McKee.

The school was founded on 7 July 1990, when Margaret Hardy school for girls and Patcham Fawcett school for boys were combined.  The school is on Ladies Mile Road in Patcham.

Margaret Hardy and Patcham Fawcett were the last two single sex schools in Brighton, and Patcham High School now serves the north of Brighton, situated next to the South Downs.  The logo is that of the Chattri, an Indian War Memorial that can be seen from Patcham.

In 2014, Patcham High School won The Argus school of the year award.

Patcham High School has undergone marked improvement in teaching standards latterly. After being assigned ‘inadequate’ in its 2006 Ofsted inspection, it achieved ‘satisfactory’ status in 2007 and 2010. In its 2013 and 2017 inspections the school was awarded a ‘good’ rating by Ofsted.  The school also received a 'good' rating following its 2023 inspection. 

Construction of an AstroTurf pitch on the school grounds commenced in March 2021 and was completed in June 2021.

References

Secondary schools in Brighton and Hove
Community schools in Brighton and Hove
Joseph Knabl

Joseph Knabl (17 July 1819 – 3 November 1881) was an Austrian sculptor who specialized in religious statuary.

Early years and studies
Knabl was born at Fliess, Tyrol, to a peasant family.  He tended cattle as a boy, but showed an early aptitude for wood-carving.  He was apprenticed to Franz Renn, an Imst woodcarver, after which he studied ancient German wood-carving at Munich under J. Otto Entres. Later he worked in the studio of Anselm Sickinger. In 1859 he entered the art institute of Mayer.

Career
After completing his formal studies Knabl toured extensively through Middle Europe and became intimately acquainted with the finest examples of ecclesiastical sculpture.  He then began producing similar works.  In 1859, he became a professor at the polytechnical school of the Verein für Hebung des Gewerbes. In 1863 he was made professor of ecclesiastical sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, in recognition of his principal work in the Munich Frauenkirche, The Coronation of the Virgin.  That work depicts the Virgin Mary in larger-than-life size at the center of the high altar, surrounded by 6 worshipping angels.  She is being crowned by the Holy Trinity, while forms of saints and angels appear in the framework.

Because of the nature of his sculptures, Knabl is considered a Romantic artist.  His sculptures are strongly evocative of German Middle Ages output. His work at the Mayer Institute, where he not only produced numerous drawings and sketches, but also trained capable scholars, furthered the diffusion of a cultivated taste in religious art. Most of his works are in Bavaria (Munich, Haidhausen, Passau, Eichstadt, Velden), but there are also some in Stuttgart, Mergentheim, and in other places. The subjects are: "Christ and the Apostles", "Christ on the Cross", several single statues of the Madonna (one for Lord Acton), the Madonna in a group, St. Anne (much admired at the Munich Exposition of 1858 on account of its artistic draping). A group of St. Afra (Augsburg) was the first of the artist's works to attract attention.

Knabl was married.  His son Karl (1850–1904) was a successful landscape and genre painter.

Notes

References

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  This source states that Knabl was born in 1821.

Austrian sculptors
Austrian male sculptors
1819 births
1881 deaths
Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
19th-century sculptors