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8471373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20Center | Penn Center | Penn Center may refer to:
Penn Center, Philadelphia, a high-rise business district on the site of a former railroad right-of-way
Penn Center (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina), an African-American cultural and educational center |
8471374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangdue%20Phodrang | Wangdue Phodrang | Wangdue Phodrang (, Dzongkha 'Wangdi Phodr'a) is a town and capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Wangdue Phodrang District in central Bhutan. It is located in Thedtsho Gewog. Khothang Rinchenling
History
The town shares its name with the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong built in 1638 that dominates the district. The name is said to have been given by Ngawang Namgyal, the 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, who was searching for the best location for a dzong to prevent incursions from the south. At the chosen spot, the Zhabdrung encountered a boy named Wangdi playing beside the river and hence named the dzong "Wangdi's Palace".
Fire and reconstruction
Wangdi Phodrang Dzong burnt down in the afternoon of 24 June 2012, supposedly because of a faulty electrical water cooker. However, the dzong was being renovated at the time, so most of the historical relics had already been put into storage and were saved from destruction. Shortly after the fire, more than 1000 Japanese sympathizers donated an equivalent of over US$134,500 to the Wangdue Phodrang Reconstruction Fund.
Dolung Gonpa
Dolung Gonpa is located at the Wangdu. Based on the oral tradition, this monastery is one of several seats founded in different parts of Bhutan around 16th century by Chung Youngzin Ngagi Wangachuk. It was built as practice center of Jangas Dzong near the village of Khotokha Yulsar.
According to another oral tradition this Goenpa was founded by the 2nd Je khenpo Sonam Yozer, who came to the Je Khenpho throne in the water Rat year of the 11th Rabjung.
Today the Government has started a monastic school at this two-storey monastery.
Situated at 2770 meters above sea level, it can be reached in about fifteen minutes on foot from Khothang Rinchenling Shedra.
Topology
There are three paved roads in Wangdi Phodrang. The Lateral Road enters from the west at Dochula Pass, crosses the Sankosh River (Dzongkha: Puna Tsang Chhu) at Wangdi Phodrang Dzong, and continues east to Tongsa. One spur road heads north from Wangdi Phodrang to Punakha Dzong and slightly beyond. This becomes the footpath to Gasa.
A second spur departs the Lateral Road near the Pele Pass halfway between Wangdi and Tongsa, traveling south a short distance to Gangteng Monastery and the Phobjikha Valley, where rare black-necked cranes may be found. Khothang Rinchenling is one of the eight main seats founded by Kunkhye Longchen Rabjam, the Great Chariot of the Old School of the Early Translation who visited Bhutan in the Fourteenth Century.
The Bridge
An interesting story connects the Dzong to the old cantilever bridge that once used to span the Punatsangchu.The bridge was built after the construction of the dzong under the direction of famed mason called Drakpa from Rinchengang village. As a safeguard against flash flood, A mandala dedicated to mithrugpa was installed at the base of the bridge's foundation.
During the tenure of the 20th Wangzop Domchung a big flood washed away the entire bridge, except for the mandala and the base, which were left intact.
If is said the Dzongpon Domchung organized a tshechu with the masked dance, Dolay Raksha.
It was performed to attract the river spirit who was disrupting reconstruction of the bridge. The sprite stayed engrossed in the festivity, Domchung with several hundred men sneaked down to the river and completed the bridge.
The unleashed floods destroyed the bridge, but the Wangzop was very clever, So he had worked with clever design into the foundation pillar to withstand the forces of water.
Climate
Wangdue Phodrang features a dry-winter humid subtropical climate (Köppe
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bhutan
Wangdue Phodrang District |
8471377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhemgang | Zhemgang | Zhemgang is a town in Zhemgang District, Bhutan. It is the capital (dzongkhag thromde) of the district, and is located in Trong Gewog.
In 2005, Zhemgang had a population of 2,332. The post code of Zhemgang is 34001.
Zhemgang Dzong ༼ཞལམ་སྒང་རྫོང༽
Zhemgang Dzong sits on a ridge that drops steeply down to the mangde chu [river]. The founder of the zhemgang dzong is lam Zhang dorje Drakpa who lived in the 12th century A.D and was a renowned scholar-sage of the Drukpa Kagyu school of Buddhism. His important task is to spread Buddhism in Bhutan. It is situated atop the peak of a triangular shaped ridge that rises sharply from the mangdeChu, facing the village of Trong and the town of Zhemgang. The earliest name of the Zhemgang Dzong is Khenrig Namsum, actually means the three divisions of Kheng: upper [chikhar], Middle. [Nangkor], and lower [Tamachok] kheng.In 1655 CE, a single Storey dzong was built on the hermitage to defend against invaders led by choestse Penlop. located in the central part of Bhutan, Zhemgang was previously called as 'Shemang' and currently as 'Kheng' by the locals .Khenrig Namsum is the ancient name of Zhemgang.
Information
The Dzongkhag is a parts of the wildlife corridor contituting the famous Royal Manas National Park, the Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, and phrumshingla National Park. The Dzongkhag is administratively supported by a Drungkhag in panbang, ang eight Gewogs. Zhemgang is considered as one of the most inaccessible Dzongkhags in the country.
The people of the Zhemgang Dzongkhag cuitivat mainly maize followed by rice, buckwheat,etc. The mian income source of the Dzongkhag is Orange,
and the northern Gewogs depend mainly on livestock products for source income.
References
Populated places in Bhutan
Zhemgang District |
8471380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail%20Riplinger | Gail Riplinger | Gail Anne Riplinger (born October 10, 1947) is an American writer and speaker known for her advocacy of the King James Only movement and denunciation of modern English Bible translations.
Bible comparisons
In 1993, Riplinger wrote a comparison of popular Bible translations to the King James Version, New Age Bible Versions. She also wrote The Language of the King James Bible, Which Bible is God's Word, In Awe of Thy Word, The Hidden History of the English Scriptures, Blind Guides, and Hazardous Materials: Greek and Hebrew Study Dangers.
She has spoken out against the people behind the modern versions of the Bible. She supports the manuscripts used in producing the King James Bible, and criticises the "Alexandrian Texts" manuscripts which are the root texts for most other modern Bibles.
H. Wayne House notes that New Age Bible Versions goes beyond previous King James Only works, in "developing a conspiracy theory for the KJV-only view", and arguing that modern versions are influenced by New Age thought.
One of Riplinger's most criticized actions is her belief that she is doing God's will. House goes on to suggests that Riplinger "claims some sense of divine inspiration for her work". New Age Bible Versions has the author's name "G. A. Riplinger", which stands for "God and Riplinger": "Each discovery was not the result of effort on my part, but of the direct hand of God — so much so that I hesitated to even put my name on the book. Consequently, I used G. A. Riplinger, which signifies to me, God and Riplinger — God as author and Riplinger as secretary." David Cloud calls this statement "amazing and frightful", and says that "even the most radical charismatic prophets hesitate to use such intemperate language".
Critics say that Riplinger has misquoted and misused the works of others. S. E. Schnaiter reviewed her book, New Age Bible Versions, and said, "Riplinger appears to be another of those who rush to [the KJV's] defense, alarmed by the proliferation of its modern rivals, armed with nothing more than the blunderbuss of ad hominem apologetic, when what is needed is the keenness of incisive evaluation." H. Wayne House argues that New Age Bible Versions is "replete with logical, philosophical, theological, biblical, and technical errors".
A lengthy critical review of her book New Age Bible Versions was originally published in Cornerstone in 1994, authored by Bob and Gretchen Passantino of Answers In Action, and described the book as "erroneous, sensationalistic, misrepresentative, inaccurate, and logically indefensible".
They concluded by summarizing "There is hardly a page of this book that is free from error. Riplinger does not know Greek, Hebrew, textual criticism, linguistics, principles of translation, logical argumentation, proper citation and documentation standards, competent English grammar and style, or even consistent spelling. This book would never have done more than use Riplinger's savings and fill up her garage if Christian 'celebrities' such as Texe Marrs and David Hocking had not promoted it."
Jeffrey Straub suggests that Riplinger has "fallen out of favor among many fundamentalists due to her unusual associations, shrill tone, and dubious background".
Works
References
External links
1947 births
Living people
American Christian writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
King James Only movement
21st-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers |
8471382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelspin | Wheelspin | A wheelspin occurs when the force delivered to the tire tread exceeds that of available tread-to-surface friction and one or more tires lose traction. This leads the wheels to "spin" and causes the driver to lose control over the tires that no longer have grip on the road surface. Wheelspin can also be done intentionally such as in drifting or doing a burnout.
Applications
Differentials
Standard differentials (also referred to as "open" differentials) always apply equal torque to each wheel. In low traction situations, the total torque delivered to each wheel is limited to the torque that is required to make the wheel with the least traction slip.
During a turn, the weight of the vehicle shifts away from the inner radius and to the outer radius, therefore the inner drive-wheel will often lose traction on hard cornering, and especially when accelerating through a curve. Locking differentials and limited slip differentials modify the manner in which torque is distributed to the wheels to reduce wheelspin and improve traction in situations where it is limited.
Wheels can also lose traction when surface conditions reduce available traction such as on snow and ice. As an open differential delivers only enough torque to cause the "weakest" wheel to spin, if one drive wheel is stationary on a low traction surface (mud, ice, etc.), the deliverable torque is limited to the traction available on it.
Oversteer
Oversteer is typically the result of wheelspin, causing the vehicle to lose traction and turn too sharp through a turn. Oversteer can be caused in two different ways, power oversteer and lift-off oversteer. Oversteer can be performed either intentionally or accidentally through these two methods and if the driver doesn't know what they are doing then it could result in an accident. Oversteer is a common trait of rear-wheel drive cars and can also occur in all-wheel drive cars. It can be performed in front-wheel drive cars as well, but it is not as common as they tend to understeer.
Power oversteer
Power oversteer is the process of applying power through the throttle pedal while turning to break the traction forces on the driving wheels. Doing this causes the vehicle to slide, and is also known as a powerslide, and the vehicles movement is primarily based on the non-driving wheels (usually the steering wheels).
Lift-off oversteer
Wheelspin can also occur when changing gears while the vehicle is in motion, as the inertia of the engine and flywheel rotating at a higher rate than the next highest gear tries to bring the input shaft of the transmission to the same speed. This is known commonly as lift-off oversteer.
Understeer
Understeer is also a result of wheelspin and traction loss. It results in a vehicle not being able to turn enough when driving through a curve and causes the vehicle to continue forwards instead of turning in the curve. It is caused by using too much power into a turn causing the tires to slide sideways into the curve, preventing the vehicle from turning. Understeer is the easiest form of wheelspin to correct and can usually be done by lifting off of the throttle.
Similar terms
In railway engineering, the term wheelslip is used as a synonym for wheelspin.
Prevention
Traction control
Traction control is an electronic system installed in most modern automobiles since 1985. It monitors individual wheel speeds through the Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) or wheel speed sensors and controls engine inputs to maintain stability and traction to the vehicles wheels. When the traction control system notices wheelspin on any of the wheels it limits the fuel provided through the onboard engine management system and controls the speed of the vehicle to prevent excessive wheelspin.
Driving techniques
There are several driving techniques that you can follow to prevent wheelspin:
Be easy on the throttle and make smooth inputs.
Do not enter turns too fast, take it slow
Do not make aggressive braking inputs in the turn
Do not lift off of the throttle mid-turn
Do not shift gears in the turn, select your gear before you enter
Make smooth steering inputs to prevent a large weight shift
References
Bibliography
See also
Burnout (vehicle)
Drifting (motorsport)
Driving techniques |
8471383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Perfect%20Home | The Perfect Home | The Perfect Home is a television series of three 42 minute episodes commissioned for Channel 4 based on the book The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton which first aired in 2006.
In the programmes, Alain de Botton explored the importance of innovative architecture for homes. He offered criticism of modern developments that build in an idealized fake heritage style, which he referred to as pastiche, often referring back to the example of Great Notley Garden Village near Braintree, Essex.
The first programme looks at how the current status quo came about where volume builders are typically building houses with architectural styles harking back to pre-industrial eras such as mock Tudor, neo-Georgian and mock country cottage façades.
The second looks at what defines a building's beauty, drawing parallels with the differences between the Catholic and Protestant ideals in their respective places of worship, suggesting the comparison was a trade off between decoration versus a more utilitarian approach.
The third programme looks at how the current situation could be improved, with de Botton's preferred option being that buildings' architecture should reflect the era in which they are built. To this end, he approached Bellway Homes with examples of more contemporary designs being used on in The Netherlands as a suggested alternative. Bellway's reaction was quite positive, and they have incorporated more contemporary designs into their Ravenswood development on the former Ipswich Airport site in Suffolk.
Some found the series abstruse and the issue too complex to fit into a television format.
References
Channel 4 original programming
2006 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings
Works by Alain de Botton |
8471395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20and%20His%20Comrades | Jack and His Comrades | Jack and his Comrades is a short Irish fairy tale describing the title character's story of success with the help of his animal helpers, collected by folklorist Patrick Kennedy from a resident of County Wexford, Ireland, and published in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866). It was later reprinted, revised but only slightly, by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic fairy tale compilation.
In the Aarne-Thompson categorisation system, this can be classed as "folktale type 130", i.e. "outcast animals find a new home".
Kennedy collected the tale from a man named Garrett (Gerald) Forrestal, residing in the former barony of Bantry, in Wexford.
Synopsis
Jack tells his mother he will seek his fortune. His mother offers him half a hen and half a cake with her blessing, or the whole of both without; he asks for the halves and is given the whole of both, with her blessing. On his way, he meets a donkey (Neddy) in a bog and helps it out. A dog (Coley) runs up to him for protection, with a pot tied to its tail and a crowd hunting it; the donkey bellows and scares them off and Jack unties the pot. He shares his meal with the dog, while the donkey eats thistles; a half-starved cat (Tom) comes by, and Jack gives it a bone with meat. In the evening, they rescue a cockerel from a fox. (The cockerel is referred to as or "Black Cock").
They go to sleep in the woods. The cockerel crows, claiming to see dawn, and Jack realises that it's a candle in a house. They spy a look inside, and discover it to be a robbers' den. With the donkey placing its fore-hoofs on the window-sill, the animals stack one on top of another and make noise, then, at Jack's deceptive call to raise the pistols and fire, the beasts smash all the window panes, frightening the robbers into bolting the house and riding far out into the woods. Jack and the animals enter the house, enjoy a meal, and go to sleep. After a while, the captain of the robbers sorely misses the loot he left behind. So he sneaks back inside the house in the dark, only to receive scratches from the cat, a bite from the dog, pecking from the cockerel, and finally a great kick from the donkey at the stable outside. The captain (who could see nothing in the dark) weaves a fancifully horrid account of what happened, adding that not all the plaster (a healing salve or potion, often applied thickly) in Enniscorthy would heal the cuts and wounds he received, and the other robbers lose all craving of trying to retrieve their loot.
Jack and comrades resolve next day to return the stolen gold to its owner, and journey to the manor of the Lord of Dunlavin. Jack is halted at the door by the crooked porter. Jack and the rest know from the thieves' conversation the night before that this porter was in league with the thieves, and complicit in the crime. The cockerel makes a sarcastic remark, plainly accusing the porter of giving the thieves free passage through the door to his master's house, and the porter's face turns completely crimson. The interchange is witnessed by the Lord of Dunlavin, who, addressing the porter by name (Barney), prods him to answer the charge, and the porter replies "sure I didn't open the door to the six robbers," thus betraying his own familiarity with the perpetrators.
Jack announces that, no matter, he has arrived with the stolen gold and silver, and requested a supper and lodging after a long ride from Athsalach ('muddy ford'). The grateful lord declares he would provide them comfort for the rest of their days, appointing Jack as his steward, brought his mother to live near the castle, and eventually married his lordship's daughter.
Commentary
Jacobs cited listed the following three parallels (or cognates) to the present tale:
"How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune,"
(American; No. 5 in Jacobs's English Fairy Tales)
"Story of the White Pet,"
(Scottish; No. 11 in Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands)
Town Musicians of Bremen,
(German; Grimms' KHM 27).
In the Scottish and German counterparts, just the animals and no human seek their fortune, but still the similarities are striking.
The big and the little cakes are a common motif, although Jack is unusual in having no older brothers; preferring the smaller cake is often the distinguishing mark of the youngest child, as in The King of Lochlin's Three Daughters, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired, and The Girl and the Dead Man.
The "animals helpers" or "Helpful Animals" motif (Stith Thompson Motif-index B300-) is also common to many folktales. Puss 'n Boots is a famous example, though only one animal is featured. Many of the Irish or Scottish folktales that mention the Sword of Light (Claíomh Solais) also involve animal helpers, though those animals typically demonstrate some supernatural (magical) feats, rather than the sober mundane assistance given here.
Explanatory notes
References
Irish fairy tales
Irish folklore
ATU 100-149
Jack tales |
8471397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshi%20%28templating%20language%29 | Genshi (templating language) | Genshi is a template engine for XML-based vocabularies written in
Python. Genshi is used to easily insert generated output into XML-based languages, usually HTML, and reuse elements between documents. Genshi's syntax is based on Kid, but its architecture is different. Genshi aims to implement some of its functionality while processing templates faster, by dynamically processing templates using a stream based API, instead of compiling templates to Python code.
Genshi can be used with several Python web frameworks, such as CherryPy, TurboGears, Pylons and web2py. Genshi has replaced Kid in the TurboGears 2.x web framework.
Genshi markup
Genshi makes use of namespaces to embed instructions into HTML. A typical instruction is given as an attribute, with a Python expression inside the quotes. For example, the following will render a paragraph that shows 4:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">
<body>
<p py:content="2 + 2">This will be replaced with 4</p>
</body>
</html>
Because of the use of namespaces, Genshi can be used in WYSIWYG HTML editors.
Differences between Kid and Genshi
Genshi directly interprets templates (unlike Kid, which generates Python code)
Genshi uses XInclude for template reuse
Genshi adds attributes Kid does not have, like py:choose
Genshi templates are easier to debug, because it tracks template source file names and line numbers, and errors from Genshi's interpreter produce more comprehensible stack traces than from Kid's generated code.
References
External links
Free system software
Free software programmed in Python
Python (programming language) software
Scripting languages
Python (programming language) libraries
Template engines |
8471400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Briles | Art Briles | Arthur Ray Briles (born December 3, 1955) is an American football coach who is currently the head coach for the Guelfi Firenze in the Italian Football League. Briles was the head coach of the Houston Cougars from 2002 to 2007 and the Baylor Bears from 2008 to 2015. His college coaching career ended with his dismissal from the team in 2015 as a result of the Baylor University sexual assault scandal. He is the author of Beating Goliath: My Story of Football and Faith (2014). He is the subject of a biography written by Nick Eatman titled Looking Up: My Journey from Tragedy to Triumph (2013).
Playing career
A native of Rule, Texas, Briles attended Rule High School, where he was coached by his father. Playing quarterback and earning all-state honors, Briles as a senior in 1973 led Rule to the Texas Class B state championship game, where they lost to Big Sandy, led by David Overstreet and Lovie Smith. Briles accepted a scholarship offer by Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston, where he switched to wide receiver and played three seasons, including the 1977 Cotton Bowl Classic. Briles' parents and aunt died in a car crash on U.S. Route 380 near Newcastle, Texas, while on their way to Dallas to see him play in a game on October 16, 1976. His then-girlfriend and now wife, the former Jan Allison, had planned to make the trip with his family, but decided to stay behind in Rule to attend a friend's bridal shower. After finishing the 1976–77 academic year, Briles left Houston and transferred to Texas Tech, which Jan was attending at the time, to complete his bachelor's degree, which he earned in 1979. He earned a master's degree in education at Abilene Christian University before entering coaching.
Coaching career
High school
Briles served as a head football coach in Texas from 1984 to 1999 and 2019–2020.
Briles began his coaching career as an assistant at Sundown High School. From 1980 to 1983, he served as an assistant at Sweetwater High School. At age 28, he became head coach at 2A Hamlin High School, where he coached from 1984 to 1985. He guided the team to a 27–1–1 record including a 35–19 loss to Electra High School in the 1985 state semifinals. His instant success caught the attention of bigger schools, so Briles left Hamlin for 5A Georgetown High School in 1986, where he had a difficult two-year span in the school's first two seasons at the highest classification in Texas high school football at the time. Briles left the school in 1987 with a 4–15–1 overall record.
In 1988, he took over head coaching duties at 4A Stephenville High School in Stephenville, Texas, a school that was playing in the same area as state powerhouse Brownwood High School and had not reached the playoffs in football since 1952. After a 4–5–1 season in 1989, Briles' Stephenville squads made the playoffs in 1990 and ever since. During Briles' tenure they won four state championships, including back-to-back titles in 1993 and 1994, and then again in 1998 and 1999. In the 1993 and '94 state finals, Briles' Stephenville squads faced La Marque, then coached by Briles' defensive coordinator at Houston, Alan Weddell. Briles' record at Stephenville was 135–29–2.
Although Stephenville's offense was devastating throughout the 1990s, Briles shifted his offensive scheme from a running game in the early 1990s to a passing game in the late 90s. Stephenville's first two state championship teams scored 89 touchdowns rushing in 1993, and 96 touchdowns rushing in 1994, which was second and third all-time in the nation, respectively, only behind Big Sandy's national record 114 touchdowns rushing from the 1975 season. In the late 1990s, Briles adapted the spread offense and today is one of the coaches credited for introducing it to Texas high school football. His 1998 team posted 8,664 yards of total offense, breaking the 73-year-old national record 8,588 yards originally established by Pine Bluff High School in 1925.
Briles was also known for developing quarterbacks, sending six of his former players to Division I colleges, including Kelan Luker, Branndon Stewart, Kevin Kolb, and his son Kendal Briles.
Briles ended his first high school coaching stint in 1999 with a record of 165–46–3.
College
Briles left Stephenville after the 1999 season to join Mike Leach's staff at Texas Tech. While serving as running backs coach, Briles improved Texas Tech's rushing average every year from 66.4 yards a game in his first year to 99.6 yards a game in 2002. He also coached all-conference backs and later NFL players Ricky A. Williams, Shaud Williams, and Taurean Henderson. In addition, the first player he recruited to Texas Tech, an undersized wide receiver Wes Welker, went on to catch more than 250 passes and return an NCAA-record eight punts for touchdowns while at Tech, and then had even greater success in the NFL with five Pro Bowl appearances.
In 2003, Briles was hired as head coach at the University of Houston, where he took over a program that had an 8–26 record under the previous coach, Dana Dimel. The Cougars went 0–11 two years before Briles' arrival. In his first season, Briles led the Cougars to a 7–5 record, including a 54–48 triple-overtime loss to Hawaii, in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.
After a 3–8 season in 2004, Briles guided the Cougars to a 6–6 season and another bowl game in 2005. In 2006, he led the Cougars to a 10–4 record and the Conference USA Championship that was played on December 1, 2006. The Cougars won the game, 34–20, and it was the school's second C-USA Championship (the first came in 1996, in the school's inaugural season in the C-USA).
In 2007, the Cougars finished second in the Conference USA West Division to Todd Graham's Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Houston was invited to the Texas Bowl, which was played December 28, 2007, at Reliant Stadium. It was Houston's fourth bowl appearance in five years. Briles left the Cougars before their bowl game to take the head coaching job at Baylor.
Briles interviewed for the Baylor head coach position on November 27, 2007, and was hired the next day for a seven-year term.
As had been the case at Houston, Briles inherited a Baylor program that had fallen on hard times. The Bears had not had a winning season since 1995, and had won a total of 11 games in 12 years of Big 12 play.
In his first season at Baylor, Briles led the Bears to a 4–8 record, 2–6 in Big 12 play. The season featured the emergence of freshman quarterback Robert Griffin III, and the team's second win in 23 years over rival Texas A&M. In his second season at Baylor, the Bears again finished with a 4–8 record. However, they only went 1–7 in Big 12 conference play. Griffin was injured and missed every conference game. Baylor bounced back in 2010 with a 7–5 (4–4 conference) record with Griffin, who passed for over 3,000 yards, at the helm. This led to a bid in the Texas Bowl, where they lost to Illinois. It was still their first winning season and bowl appearance in 15 years.
Briles led the 2011 Baylor team in its most successful season since the formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996. With Baylor's win in the 2011 Valero Alamo Bowl game, Briles led the Bears to a 10–3 record. The only other time Baylor has won as many as 10 games was in 1980. The 2011 season opened at home against 14th-ranked TCU. In a nationally televised game, Baylor won a dramatic 50–48 decision. It was Baylor's first win over a ranked opponent since 2004. In Big 12 Conference play the Bears would accumulate a 6–3 record, eclipsing their previous high of 4 conference wins in 2010. The Bears finished a perfect 7–0 at Floyd Casey Stadium, including a 45–38 upset victory over the #5 Oklahoma Sooners and a 48–24 victory over #22 Texas. The victory over Oklahoma was the first for the Bears, having lost the previous 20 meetings between the two schools. In 2011, Baylor also defeated Texas Tech for the first time since 1995 (snapping a 15-game losing streak to the Red Raiders). Following the conclusion of the 2011 regular season, Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, whom Briles was instrumental in recruiting and developing, was awarded the 77th annual Heisman Trophy.
Briles won 17 Big 12 conference games in his first five years as head coach. Baylor had won only 11 Big 12 conference games in the 12 seasons preceding his arrival.
Under Briles, the Bears completed the 2012 regular season by winning four of their last five games. Perhaps the apex of Briles' 2012 season was his involvement in the most-stunning upset of 2012 when his unranked Bears defeated the Kansas State Wildcats, BCS No. 1 ranked team at the time, by a score of 52–24, which propelled Baylor in winning its final 3 games, earning the Bears an invitation to play UCLA in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.
In 2013, Briles led Baylor to one of the best seasons in school history. The Bears started the season 9–0, propelling them as high as third in the nation at one point. They ultimately finished with a school-record 11 wins and only the second top-ten finish in school history. A 30–10 win over Texas in the final game of the season garnered them the outright Big 12 title—their first outright conference title since winning their last outright Southwest Conference title in 1980. This earned them a trip to the 2014 Fiesta Bowl—their first-ever BCS appearance, and their first major-bowl appearance since 1980. They lost this game to the University of Central Florida 52–42. News reports on the day after the Fiesta Bowl named Briles as the leading candidate to replace Mack Brown as head coach at the University of Texas, however, Briles announced on January 3 that he would remain at Baylor.
In 2014, Briles's Bears finished with another 11 win season and repeated as Big 12 Co-Champions; this time earning a berth in the 2015 Cotton Bowl, one of the New Years Six bowl games. They entered the game against the Michigan State Spartans with high hopes after narrowly missing the College Football Playoff. The Bears jumped out to a 41–21 lead in the third quarter before giving up 21 unanswered points to lose 42–41. After the game Briles described the loss as, "one of the tougher non-wins that I've ever experienced." Even with the loss, Baylor finished the year ranked #7 in the AP poll, their second top ten finish in school history. It was also Baylor's fifth consecutive bowl appearance, a school record, and their second consecutive bowl loss.
Scandal at Baylor
On May 26, 2016, Baylor released a findings of fact document prepared by the board of regents. According to the regents, the document was based on an independent investigation by the law firm Pepper Hamilton into how the school handled sexual assault. The report stated that the findings "reflect significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor’s football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of athlete misconduct." It also faulted the football team for not adequately vetting transfers. The regents held Briles responsible, and suspended him with the intent to fire him as soon as they were legally allowed to do so. He was dismissed on May 26.
Briles was provided a letter of recommendation and a severance fee and said he was never shown the evidence for why Baylor chose to fire him. Briles sued the school for wrongful termination, among other claims. The case was settled in 2018 with Baylor paying Briles $15.1 million. "In the joint settlement statement issued by Briles and Baylor in June 2016, both sides acknowledged 'serious shortcomings in the response to reports of sexual violence by some student-athletes, including deficiencies in university processes and the delegation of disciplinary responsibilities with the football program.'" Baylor president Ken Starr lost his job and Athletic Director Ian McCaw resigned in wake of the scandal.
In May 2017, Baylor's legal counsel Christopher Holmes sent Briles a letter saying that Baylor was unaware of Briles discouraging victims from reporting to law enforcement or university officials. The letter was released by the Canadian Football League to the Waco Tribune-Herald in September 2017.
In 2018 it was reported that victims suing Baylor accused the school of "concealing records involving its judicial affairs and police departments". On June 19, 2018, former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw testified during a deposition that the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school's football program was manufactured by investigators and regents to cover up a larger university-wide issue. McCaw alleged Baylor hatched "an elaborate plan that essentially scapegoated black football players and the football program for being responsible for what was a decades-long, university-wide sexual assault scandal", according to court documents. In late July 2018, Briles turned over documents pursuant to a subpoena, which had not been previously produced by Baylor. The documents showed multiple senior Baylor administrators knew about a serial sexual assault assailant" in fall 2011, but, along with Briles, failed to act.
Canadian Football League
On August 28, 2017, Briles was hired by the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats as assistant head coach for offense. Briles used a letter from the Baylor legal department in his efforts to secure a job with the Tiger-Cats. However, in the face of a firestorm of criticism and pressure from league officials, the TiCats reversed course hours later and announced Briles would not join the team.
TiCats owner Bob Young conceded that night that hiring Briles had been "a major blunder," and credited CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie with persuading the team to rescind the hire. The following day, Young issued a statement apologizing for "a large and serious mistake." CEO and general manager Scott Mitchell said that team officials got so focused on "the inner sanctum of football discussions" that they forgot about the larger questions of "our standing in the community."
Italian Football League (First Stint)
On August 2, 2018, Briles was announced as the head coach of the Guelfi Firenze American football team located in Florence, Italy, a member of the Italian Football League. In his first season in Italy, Guelfi Firenze went 8–3 overall, losing in the final.
Return to US and high school football
Briles was hired as the head coach for Mount Vernon High School in Texas in May 2019 on a two-year deal.
A month into his first season, Briles and Mount Vernon were publicly reprimanded by a state oversight committee for using ineligible players and for using an assistant coach who wasn't a full-time employee of the district. However, Mount Vernon was not forced to forfeit any games.
On November 16, 2019, the Mount Vernon Tigers, coached by Briles, lost to the Sabine Cardinals in the first round of the Texas high school playoffs, 20–14.
On December 14, 2020, Briles resigned as head coach after posting a 20–6 record in 2 seasons, after losing to the Jim Ned Indians in the state semi-finals on December 11, 2020.
On February 24, 2022, Briles returned to the college game when he was hired by Hue Jackson as the offensive coordinator for Grambling State. However, the prior scandals prompted Briles' resignation only four days later on February 28.
Italian Football League (Second Stint)
Briles re-signed to coach the Guelfi Firenze in the Italian Football League for the 2022 season. Briles led the team to a 6-2 regular season and three playoff wins (9-2 overall), while winning the 41st Italian Bowl championship game with a 21–17 upset over the Milano Seamen on July 2, 2022.
Head coaching record
College
*Left Houston before bowl game
References
1955 births
Living people
American football wide receivers
Baylor Bears football coaches
Houston Cougars football coaches
Houston Cougars football players
Texas Tech Red Raiders football coaches
High school football coaches in Texas
Abilene Christian University alumni
Texas Tech University alumni
People from Haskell County, Texas
People from Stephenville, Texas
Coaches of American football from Texas
Players of American football from Texas
American members of the Churches of Christ
American expatriate sportspeople in Italy
American expatriate players of American football |
8471412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Airport | Ruth Airport | Ruth Airport (formerly Q95) is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) south of Ruth, serving Trinity County, California, USA. This general aviation airport covers 60 acres and has one runway.
References
Served as air base for fire fighters during summer 2008.
External links
Airports in Trinity County, California |
8471416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T42 | T42 | T42 may refer to:
Vehicles
Beechcraft T-42 Cochise, an American trainer aircraft
T42 medium tank, a 1950s American tank design
T-42 super-heavy tank, a Soviet tank project from the inter-war period
SJ T42, a Swedish diesel-electric locomotive
Slingsby T.42 Eagle, a British glider
Cooper T 42 a series of racing cars participating in the Eläintarhan ajot competitions
Mecklenburg T 42, a former class name for a Class 99 steam locomotive
Other uses
T42 (classification), a disability sport classification for above knee amputees
IBM ThinkPad T42, a laptop model
Ruth Airport, in Trinity County, California, United States |
8471417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q95 | Q95 | Q95 may refer to:
Radio stations
KQSF, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
WFBQ, in Indianapolis, Indiana
WKQI, in Detroit, Michigan
WQHY, in Prestonsburg, Kentucky
WQTE, in Adrian, Michigan
Other uses
At-Tin, the 95th surah of the Quran
Ruth Airport, a public airport in Trinity County, California |
8471435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL25 | CCL25 | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 25 (CCL25) is a small cytokine belonging to the CC chemokine family that is also known as TECK (Thymus-Expressed Chemokine). CCL25 is believed to play a role in the development of T-cells. It is chemotactic for thymocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. CCL25 elicits its effects by binding to the chemokine receptor CCR9. Human CCL25 is produced as a protein precursor containing 151 amino acids. The gene for CCL25 (scya25) is located on human chromosome 19.
References
Cytokines |
8471440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Arneodo | Ana Arneodo | Ana Arneodo (1898 – 1977) was an Argentine actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Arneodo made her appearance in film in 1939 and made some 24 appearances between then and 1958, appearing in films such as the 1942 film Adolescencia alongside Pola Alonso and Al marido hay que seguirlo (1948). She regularly worked under the films of director Francisco Múgica.
She retired in 1958.
Films
1939 El solterón
1940 A Thief Has Arrived
1940 Nosotros, los muchachos
1940 Un señor mucamo
1941 Los martes, orquídeas
1941 Una vez en la vida
1942 Adolescencia
1942 Cada hogar un mundo
1942 Su primer baile
1942 El viaje (1942 film)
1943 Todo un hombre
1943 El espejo
1943 An Evening of Love
1944 Se rematan ilusiones
1945 Se abre el abismo
1948 Al marido hay que seguirlo
1948 La gran tentación
1949 La cuna vacía
1950 The New Bell
1950 Surcos de sangre
1953 Fin de mes
1954 Barrio Gris
1956 Oro bajo
1958 Las apariencias engañan
External links
1898 births
1977 deaths
Argentine film actresses
Place of birth missing |
8471443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leycett | Leycett | Leycett was a small mining village in Staffordshire in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme which was built in the late eighteen sixties to accommodate the miners and their families. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found under Madeley with the name Leycett meaning 'the clearing in the woods'.
Leycett Colliery
Mining in Leycett was first mentioned back in Roman times and continued into the nineteenth century which is when in 1801, a leasehold agreement was taken out for thirty three years to mine coal on land at Leycett, between John the First Lord Crewe, Walter Sneyd of Keele, Thomas Breek of Keele and James Breek of Newcastle. By 1834 local industrialist Thomas Firmstone had taken over the lease and in 1838 constructed a three and half mile tramline from the colliery to link up with the mainline at Madeley Station to help transport his coal all over the country. Leycett Collieries became known as Madeley Colliery in 1947 under The National Coal Board, until its closure in 1957. Pits included Fair Lady and Bang Up.
Accidents at Leycett Colliery
1871 – An explosion at Leycett Colliery killed four
1879 – five men and boys were killed in a pit disaster
1880 – sixty two men and boys are killed
1883 – An explosion kills six
Other activities
Later on Leycett was served by Leycett railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 28 June 1880 for passengers. At its peak the village as well as having a colliery also had a miners institute, a church, a village shop with off-licence, a post office, a butcher's, the railway station as mentioned above, a doctors, a school and a recreation ground built by the miners which had a cricket and football pitch, and later tennis courts and a bowling green.
By the mid-sixties the main part of the village had been demolished after the colliery closed down in 1957 despite there still being a considerable amount of coal untouched in the area. The only buildings left standing today are the old school and School House, the railway cottages, the Station House, part of the wooden station now used as a garage, the row of houses at Park Terrace and a few cottages and farms. Where the main bulk of the Leycett community once lived in the terraced houses (Top Street, Middle Street and Bottom Street) has now completely gone and today looks similar to an orchard, although the trees there are not fruit trees.
Where once stood the miners welfare institute, now stands a Portakabin office for the recycling yard. The railway cutting and bridge adjacent to the institute are now part of the topography of the recycling yard, the former being used for landfill and the latter demolished to accomplish this.
Leycett Cricket Club which was started by the miners of the village colliery, has been around since about 1870 and continues to this day playing in one of the top leagues in the country. Former England fast bowler Dean Headley played as a professional for the club in the North Staffs League for a season in the early days of his career. Unfortunately the football pitch, tennis court and bowling green have long since gone.
Just a short walk across the fields from the cricket ground takes you to Finney Green, where in 1970 a local farmer by the name of Ted Askey allowed his field be used to host the Hollywood Music Festival which attracted 45,000 people over the weekend with acts such as Black Sabbath, Mungo Jerry and the Grateful Dead. This was the first rock concert to be held in the northern part of Britain.
See also
Leycett railway station
References
Villages in Staffordshire
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8471452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Registration%20Authority | IEEE Registration Authority | The IEEE Registration Authority is the administrative body that is responsible for registering and administering organizationally unique identifiers (OUI) and other types of identifiers which are used in the computer and electronics industries (Individual Address Blocks (IAB), Manufacturer IDs, Standard Group MAC Addresses, Unique Registration Numbers (URN), EtherType values, etc.)
The IEEE Registration Authority was formed in 1986 in response to a need for this service that was recognized by the P802 (LAN/MAN) standards group. The IEEE Registration Authority is currently recognized by ISO/IEC as the authorized registration authority to provide the service of globally assigning, administering, and registering OUIs.
Note: The term 'Registration' as used in this context is "the assignment of unambiguous names to objects in a way which makes the assignment available to interested parties".
References
External links
IEEE OUI FAQ
IEEE OUI and Company_id assignments
List of registered OUIs
The IEEE Frequently Asked Questions, Registration Authority
The IEEE OUI Search Page
Organizations established in 1986
Identifiers
Network addressing
Registration authority |
8471459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Slutsky | Erik Slutsky | Erik Slutsky (born 1953) is a contemporary figurative painter who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His work has been exhibited over the past 30 years in more than 50 international exhibitions in the U.S., Canada, Germany and France.
His paintings often depict male and female figures in an urban landscape and many of them contain political and social commentary. There is a complex symbolism which gives a sense of mystery to much of his work. He works mainly in oils on canvas and also mixed media on paper.
His work is found in many public, private and corporate collections including the Banque Nationale, Dresdner Bank, Musée du Québec, Mercantile Bank, Teleglobe Canada, Sheraton Hotels, The Avmor Collection and many others. He also works as an illustrator, having done many bookcovers, magazine covers and illustrations and posters. One of his works ("Not A Still Life") was on the cover of ISO Focus Magazine (Volume 1. No.8, September 2004) devoted to food and beverage.
References
Brownstein, Bill, (July 9, 2006) "Artist not sure how his work fits into Iraq Museum show" Montreal Gazette p.A21
Paradis, Andrée (March 1985),"Erik Slutsky, Une énergie a toute épreuve," Vie des Arts, pp. 54–55.
Solomon, Heather (Nov.9, 2006) "Erik Slutsky's Art emanates from Park Avenue" Canadian Jewish News, p. 46
Solomon, Heather,(May 3, 2001) "Not A Still Life", Canadian Jewish News
La Presse,(Nov. 24, 2006), Actuelle p. 1
Viau, René, (Autumn, 2006), "Attention, Bonheur! Erik Slutsky," Vie des Arts, No.204, p. 52-53
Living people
1953 births
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
21st-century Canadian painters
Painters from Montreal
Jewish Canadian artists
Jewish painters
20th-century Canadian male artists
21st-century Canadian male artists |
8471462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound%21 | Spellbound! | Spellbound! is an educational computer game made and distributed by The Learning Company aimed at teaching spelling, vocabulary, and language development to children ages 7 to 12 years. The objective of the game is to play spelling-related games to qualify and compete for successively higher bracket spelling bees, concluding with the player competing in the national spelling bee. The original game, released in 1991, was compatible with computers running DOS 3.3 or higher. A 1993 CD release added spoken dialogue and was compatible with Windows 95 and Macintosh.
Plot
Morty Maxwell along with his robots are entering Shady Glen school's Spelling Bee in the hopes of outspelling everyone. The Super Solvers aim to sharpen their skills and beat Morty at his own game in Washington, D.C., with the aid of a Spellbinder computer.
Gameplay
Before starting the game, the player can choose which topics and word lists to use. Additionally, the player can create customized lists. Then the player can choose one of three difficulty levels, which affect how many spelling problems need to be solved throughout the game. To qualify for a spelling bee, the player must first earn a set number of points by playing spelling-related activities. These activities include:
Criss Cross (also called "Work it out!") – a crossword-type puzzle
Flash Cards (also called "Watch it Flash!") – where the player must recall the word shown
Word search (also called "Find them All!") – finding words hidden in a box of letters
Once in the spelling bee (also called "Take a Trip!"), the player will be contested by two other players and must correctly type words flashed out or vocally spoken to win the game. When the spelling bee is completed, the player moves on to the next level to prepare for another spelling bee. There are five levels of spelling bees in the game. As the levels get higher, the activities become harder.
Release
Spellbound! was released along with an Adlib Sound Card in "The Learning Company's Family Sound Value Pack".
Reception
Spellbound! was reviewed in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Guide Book where it was praised for its "state of the arts" graphics and sound support. The reviewers noted that it takes a lot to make learning how to spell fun, "but the Learning Company has done it!" Moderately well received, the game received two and a half stars out of five from Allgame.
References
External links
1991 video games
Apple II games
Children's educational video games
DOS games
Classic Mac OS games
North America-exclusive video games
Windows games
Spelling competitions
The Learning Company games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games |
8471466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Piquer%20Sim%C3%B3n | Juan Piquer Simón | Juan Piquer Simón (16 February, 1935 – 8 January, 2011) was a Spanish film director best known for directing two cult classic horror exploitation films, Pieces (1982) and Slugs: The Movie (1988).
Career
He also directed two Jules Verne-based films, Where Time Began (1976) and Mystery on Monster Island (1981), as well as Supersonic Man in 1979 (which was spoofed by RiffTrax), and The Pod People in 1983 (which was famously featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000). He also directed Cthulhu Mansion and The Rift, both in 1990.
Legacy
Pieces is one among the many cult classic horror films that have been restored and digitally remastered by Bob Murawski of Box Office Spectaculars and Grindhouse Releasing. Juan Piquer Simón owned his own independent studio in Madrid, Spain, and designed many of his own special effects sequences for his films. He also was the co-director of the Mediterranean Film Festival in Valencia, Spain.
He died in 2011 at age 75 of lung cancer.
Pod People has since become a favorite for MST3K fans and the show's creator Joel Hodgson.
Filmography
As film director:
España violenta (1964)
Vida y paz (1965)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1976) a.k.a. Where Time Began
Supersonic Man (1979)
Jules Verne's Mystery on Monster Island (1981)
Diablos del mar, Los (1982)
Pieces (1982)
The Pod People (1983)
Guerra sucia (1984) a.k.a. Dirty War
Slugs: The Movie (1988)
Cthulhu Mansion (1990)
The Rift (Grieta, La) (1990)
Isla del diablo, La (1994)
Manoa, la ciudad de oro (1999)
As film actor:
Pieces (1982) - Killer's Hands / Crime Scene Photographer (uncredited)
Interview:
Pieces of Juan (as himself), an interview with Juan Piquer Simón about his film, Pieces, as well as his life and career (directed by Nacho Cerdà, available on Grindhouse Releasing / Box Office Spectaculars' North American DVD release of Pieces'')
References
External links
Spanish web site for Juan Piquer Simón
1935 births
2011 deaths
People from Valencia
Spanish film directors
Film directors from the Valencian Community
Horror film directors |
8471467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Cow%20Productions | Sacred Cow Productions | Sacred Cow Productions is a production company founded by filmmaker and author Kevin Booth and the late comedian Bill Hicks. SCP has produced videos and albums of comedians such as Hicks himself, Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope, hard-hitting subjects like the drug wars, and controversial subject matter such as Waco siege and the September 11 attacks.
Overview
Sacred Cow Productions is a privately held organization, run by Kevin Booth. It is located in Studio City, California.
Productions
Sacred Cow Productions produced the following films and videos:
They were also distributors of How Weed Won the West and American Drug War: The Last White Hope.
References
External links
Sacred Cow Productions Website.
American Drug War Website.
How Weed Won the West Website.
Film production companies of the United States |
8471476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough%2C%20New%20Zealand | Hillsborough, New Zealand | There are two places called Hillsborough in New Zealand:
Hillsborough, Auckland, a suburb of Auckland
Hillsborough, Christchurch, a suburb of Christchurch
Hillsborough, New Plymouth, a suburb of New Plymouth |
8471481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Hollman | Ellen Hollman | Ellen Hollman is an American actress.
Biography
Hollman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four siblings. She eventually moved to Troy, Michigan, and was an all-star track runner, holding the Michigan State University record for the women's long jump (17.5 ft). Angelica Floyd holds the current Michigan State record for the women's long jump at 19.375 feet, which was set in 2017.
In 2008, Hollman became the CEO and founder of a non-profit charity called Visual Impact Now. The celebrity hosts for the organization have included stars such as Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, January Jones and Robert Luketic. Her organization has conducted various eye clinics in Los Angeles, providing over 6,000 children with eyeglasses.
She made her television debut on an episode of Malcolm in the Middle in 2005, before going on to appear as Frankie Muniz's fiancee on an episode of Criminal Minds in 2007. In the fourth season of The O.C. she appeared as young Kirsten Nichol in a flashback. In 2006, Hollman made her film debut in Road House 2, where she played the role of Beau. Hollman worked on two big-screen projects which debuted in 2008, Fling with Brandon Routh, and Asylum with Sarah Roemer. She was cast as a new series regular on Spartacus: Vengeance (premiered in January 2012) as Saxa, a Germanic warrior who is an antagonist to Mira (Katrina Law) and love interest for Gannicus (Dustin Clare) but eventually sides with Spartacus during his slave rebellion, and reprised the role in the fourth and final season of Spartacus (premiered on January 25, 2013). She recently recurred on AMC Into The Badlands as Regent Warrior Zypher.
Hollman was cast in The Matrix Resurrections, released in 2021.
Personal life
Hollman is trained in jiu-jitsu and earned her "Women Empowered" Pink belt as well as "Combatives" Blue Belt from the Gracie Academy, where her The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power co-star Eve Torres (wife of Rener Gracie, a chief instructor at the academy) is also a member. In December 2015, Hollman announced she was engaged to her Spartacus: Vengeance co-star Stephen Dunlevy, and the two married in August 2016.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web series
References
External links
Official fansite
Instagram Story Viewer
1983 births
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Detroit
21st-century American actresses |
8471484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onneley | Onneley | Onneley is a hamlet in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Situated within Onneley is the local Golf and Cricket club.
Onneley Cricket club play at the Onneley Oval.
See also
Listed buildings in Madeley, Staffordshire
References
External links
Onneley is mentioned in Puff, the Magic Dragon as "Honahlee".
Hamlets in Staffordshire
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8471486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6k | Rök | Rök is a parish located in Östergötland, Sweden. It is mostly known for being the location where the Rök runestone is kept.
Östergötland |
8471496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberjona%20River | Aberjona River | The Aberjona River is a , heavily urbanized river in the northwestern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The name is from the Natick language and means "junction or confluence".
The river rises in Reading, flows roughly south through Woburn and Winchester, and empties into the Mystic Lakes. It is generally small and heavily channelized, often running through underground culverts, but is quite apparent in Winchester center where it widens into Judkins Pond and the Mill Pond. The river's 25 square mile watershed covers most of Woburn and about half of Winchester, as well as portions of the surrounding communities of Lexington, Burlington, Wilmington, Reading, Wakefield, and Stoneham.
The Aberjona River was first identified by Europeans shortly after 1631, when Captain Edward Johnson explored the area. The name Aberjona appears in the earliest colonial records, but its origins are unknown. By 1865 there were 21 tanneries and currying shops in Woburn, and by the 1870s pollution from tanneries in Woburn and Winchester was affecting both the river and the Upper Mystic Lake (then a public water supply). The Massachusetts Legislature banned the discharge of wastes into Horn Pond Brook (a tributary) in 1907 and into the Aberjona in 1911.
A 1995 study by Spliethoff and Hemond analyzed sediments of the Upper Mystic Lake with industrial records, and determined that high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and zinc were deposited by chemical and leather industries dating from the early 1900s.
In the 1995 bestseller A Civil Action (and 1998 film starring John Travolta), a parcel of forest, field, and marshland on the banks of the Aberjona River is recalled by witnesses as the place where workers from abutting industrial plants (owned by W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods) dumped trichloroethylene (TCE) and other toxic chemicals into trenches, or "swimming pools", "within a few inches of the water." At one time, the Aberjona River had "run clear and full of fish."
From 1969 into the early 1980s, the Industri-plex site was developed along the river due to its proximity to the I-93 / I-95 junction. Industri-plex manufacturing plants contributed to the area's extensive contamination with chemicals used by the local paper, textile and leather industries, including lead-arsenic insecticides, acetic acid, benzene and toluene, and sulfuric acid. Industri-plex is now a "superfund" site, although substantially remediated.
References
Notes
Harr, Jonathan (1995), A Civil Action, Vintage Press, pages 11–13; 18; 185-193
USGS Aberjona River project
EPA Aberjona River project
NOAA Aberjona River photographs
Mystic River Watershed Association
Henry M. Spliethoff and Harold F. Hemond, "History of Toxic Metal Discharge to Surface Waters of the Aberjona Watershed", American Chemical Society
Rivers of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Reading, Massachusetts
Woburn, Massachusetts
Winchester, Massachusetts
Rivers of Massachusetts |
8471498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Montalbert-Smith | Luis Montalbert-Smith | Luis Montalbert-Smith Echeverría (22 May 1975) is a Costa Rican American-born musician. Is the lead singer and co-founder of the Costa Rican rock music group Gandhi.
Early life
Luis Montalbert-Smith was born on 22 May 1975 in Washington DC, to a Costa Rican surgeon and a physiologist who were studying at Georgetown University at the time. He lived his first years in Washington, D.C. and moved to his parents hometown in Costa Rica in 1979.
His first artistic expression, her mom remarks, was dancing at the young age of one while listening to Anita Wards' hit Ring my Bell.
During a visit to his grandmother's for tea at the age of 5(his grandparents were of English descent), she played the piano. The moment was so shocking to him that he instantly told his mother "I want to do what Grandma Molly is doing". His parents right away put him in piano lessons with a local neighborhood teacher, which prepared Luis to audition for the Children's Program at the University of Costa Rica's School for Musical Arts. To support him, his Grandma Molly gave Luis an old Köhl piano she had, as a motivating factor for his studies.
In 1981 he presented the audition and was admitted to the Basic Stage Program and assigned to Professor Sara Mintz.
When he was 8 years old, he watched a Michael Jackson concert on the TV and decided he wanted also to sing. His mom put him in the Children Chorus at the University of Costa Rica, where he was already studying piano. He studied until 1990, when he was forced to quit the musical program in order to improve his high school studies.
His beginnings with Gandhi
Montalbert-Smith began to create his own band at the age of 13, while attending Saint Francis College -HighSchool- in San Jose, C.R. As part of the teenage natural search for identity, he rebelled from his classical music education and started experimenting with other musical styles. His search stopped when he first listened to the Guns N' Roses album Appetite for Destruction.
In 1988–89 he formed his first group called The Hypers, who played classic rock from the 60s and 70s. As a curious detail, Luis was the drummer. The group dissolves when Luis left to participate in a dance contest at school. In 1990 he formed his second band with a couple of friends, including Erick Hernandez (now part of the 1/2Docena comedy group).
In 1991 he met guitarist Federico Miranda, also enrolled at St. Francis High School. Miranda proposed to Montalbert to form a band to participate in the High School Talent Show. By that time Miranda was also known for being a great guitar player and Montalbert-Smith accepted the proposal. They participated with 2 songs and won first and second place at the contest.
Gandhi was formally established in 1992 with Federico Miranda on the guitar, Luis Montalbert-Smith as lead vocalist, Bernardo Trejos (later co-founder of El Parque) at the bass guitar and Mario Carvajal on drums. They named it Gandhi since they liked the sound of the name and liked the positive association it created with Mohandas K. Gandhi.
In 1993, when Montalbert-Smith had already graduated from High School and a regular student at the University of Costa Rica, Carvajal left the group and by Miranda's sister intermediation they were introduced to Massimo Hernandez, who finally came to play drums for the band. At the same time, Trejos was replaced with Bruno Porter's bass guitar player Mauricio Pauly.
The band played covers of famous hits such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, Queen, etc. They debuted in mid-1993 at a bar in downtown San Jose call Cus when opening for a local band called Signos Vitales (with Luis Arenas on vocals, who later was the singer for Costa Rican Group El Parque).
In 1994 they entered the Yamaha Music Quest and participated with the original song El Jardin del Corazon. They did not win but the contest gave them exposure and opened opportunities.
In 1995 they had their first major experience when opening for the Guatemalan group Alux Nahual. In 1996, M. Pauly left the group and Abel Guier entered Gandhi to consolidate the current band structure. Abel was the bass guitar player for Viuda Negra, a famous underground metal group in San Jose at that time.
References
Costa Rican musicians
Living people
1975 births
American emigrants to Costa Rica
Musicians from Washington, D.C. |
8471502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ust-Yansky%20District | Ust-Yansky District | Ust-Yansky District (; , Usuyaana uluuha, ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic in the Yana River delta on the coast of the Laptev Sea and borders with Allaikhovsky and Abyysky Districts in the east, Momsky District in the south, Verkhoyansky District in the southwest, and with Bulunsky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a settlement) of Deputatsky. Population: 10,009 (2002 Census); The population of Deputatsky accounts for 37.0% of the district's total population.
Geography
The main rivers in the district include the Yana, the Omoloy with the Ulakhan-Kyuegyulyur, the Sellyakh, as well as the Chondon with its tributary the Nuchcha. The Kyundyulyun, northernmost spur of the Chersky Range, rises north of Ust-Kuyga. There are numerous lakes in the district. Orotko is one of the largest.
Average January temperature ranges from and average July temperature ranges from . Annual precipitation ranges from in the north to in the south.
History
The district was established on January 5, 1967.
Demographics
As of the 1989 Census, the district had a population of 41,265 inhabitants, with an ethnic composition as follows:
Russians: 58.7%
Yakuts: 8.7%
Evens: 2.2%
Evenks: 0.1%
other ethnicities: 30.3%
However, a great deal of the ethnic Russian population left with the economic downturn following the collapse of the Soviet Union, so much so that the district lost over three-quarters of its population during the 1990s.
In the 2021 census, the indigenous Yakuts again formed a majority of inhabitants, with the total population now just 6,810. In that year, the ethnic composition of the district was:
Yakuts: 48.5%
Russians: 20.7%
Evens: 20.2%
Yukaghirs: 2.8%
Ukrainians: 2.7%
other ethnicities: 5.1%
Economy
The main industries are gold mining, reindeer herding, fishing, and fur trade. There are deposits of gold, tin, tungsten, mercury, lead, zinc, and brown coal.
Inhabited localities
Divisional source:
*Administrative centers are shown in bold
References
Notes
Sources
External links
Легенды северного края. Шаман Байдарым. (Legends of Baydarym, a famous Ust-Yansky shaman)
Districts of the Sakha Republic
Laptev Sea |
8471503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture%20%28Battlestar%20Galactica%29 | Rapture (Battlestar Galactica) | "Rapture" is the twelfth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. Aired on January 21, 2007, this episode marked the return of regular broadcasting after the Christmas mid-season hiatus.
Plot
Apollo holds Samuel Anders at gunpoint when he demands that Apollo do something to rescue Starbuck. Apollo radios Dee who says she sees the smoke from Starbuck's crash site and Apollo orders her to intercept it and rescue Starbuck, which puts Anders at ease for the moment. Anders threatens to kill Apollo if Starbuck dies, and Apollo responds that if that happens he will let him.
The Cylons fear that Admiral Adama will carry out the threat of nuking the planet and is not bluffing. They decide to recall their ships; however, a copy of Number Three, betting that Adama will not fire nukes over just one ship, openly defies the other models and recalls only five of the Raiders. The sixth, which has Gaius Baltar, D'anna Biers, and Brother Cavil on board, stays on course to the planet.
Down on the planet, Apollo and Anders prepare to defend the camp from approaching Cylon Centurions. At the same time, Dee finds Starbuck whose hands are burned, but her Raptor is relatively intact. While repairing it, a drugged Starbuck muses on her relationship with Apollo to Dee, who is well-aware of their affair, as is Anders. After the Raptor is repaired, Dee is forced to fly it and Starbuck back to Galactica herself due to Starbuck's injuries.
Back aboard Galactica, Captain "Helo" Agathon and his wife Athena discuss rescuing their child Hera from the Cylons. Athena has a dangerous plan to resurrect her way onto the Cylon ship, but Helo is hesitant to go through with killing her - he eventually relents and shoots her. Adama reminds Helo that Athena knows sensitive information that the Cylons could use against them, but Helo insists that Athena will not betray them.
Back on the planet, unable to hold the enemy off indefinitely, Apollo calls Tyrol, who is with the Eye of Jupiter, and tells him to get ready to blow up the temple. At the same time, Baltar, D'anna and Cavil arrive at the temple, discover the explosives around the Eye of Jupiter's column and quickly disable them, while Baltar takes note of the spiral symbol on the floor. Cavil eventually turns against D'anna, but is killed by Baltar with a forgotten human gun.
At that moment the planet's star goes nova, which was anticipated as a danger by Gaeta. The nova resembles the Eye of Jupiter drawings in the temple. The light from the nova enters the temple, is deflected by the crystals on the roof and column and shines a light on the spiral symbol on the floor. D'anna enters the light and sees five hooded figures, dressed in white and bathed in a brilliant light.
She moves closer to see their faces and instantly recognizes one of them saying, "You! Forgive me, I had no idea." The being, whose identity remains hidden from the viewer, reaches out to take D'anna's hand, but the scene quickly fades with Baltar taking the figure's place. Baltar agonizingly asks what the five faces were and if he is a Cylon, but D'anna can only say it was beautiful and dies. Tyrol and the rest of the humans arrive and arrest Baltar.
Aboard a Basestar, Athena and Six arrive in the nursery where Boomer (the copy of Number Eight who shot Admiral Adama), is caring for Hera. Athena urges Boomer to come with them, saying Tyrol and Adama still love her, but Boomer says that part of her life is over. Athena decides that Hera needs a human doctor and pleads with Six and Boomer to let her take Hera back to Galactica; if not, the first of a "new generation" will die. Boomer is reluctant and seems ready to kill the baby herself, but Caprica-Six kills Boomer and leaves with Athena and Hera for Galactica.
As the nova expands, the Cylon Basestars jump away and Adama orders that a rescue mission be launched. The raptors rescue the people on the planet and Galactica jumps away just in time. On the flight deck, Anders and Starbuck reunite, along with Apollo and Dee. Helo and Athena take their daughter to Doctor Cottle for treatment, while Caprica-Six is taken to the brig. Baltar, who was brought aboard Galactica in a body bag - despite being alive - is also taken to the brig on the orders of Colonel Tigh.
Helo remembers seeing a painting in Starbucks's apartment that looked just like the Eye of Jupiter drawing in the temple and asks her why she made it, but Starbuck is uncertain, saying she simply liked the pattern.
D'anna is resurrected and is greeted by a Brother Cavil. She smiles, having finally seen the five remaining Cylon models, but before she can elaborate, Cavil tells her that her model series has been determined to be fundamentally flawed and the entire line will be put in cold storage. Her last words are that he will see the five soon too.
Emmy Award consideration
Grace Park submitted this episode for consideration in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" on her behalf for the 2007 Emmy Awards.
References
External links
"Rapture" at the Battlestar Wiki
"Rapture" at Syfy.com
2007 American television episodes
Battlestar Galactica (season 3) episodes
fr:Saison 3 de Battlestar Galactica#Extase |
8471506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilius%20von%20Ramdohr | Basilius von Ramdohr | Friedrich Wilhelm Basilius von Ramdohr (21 July 1757 – 26 July 1822) was a German conservative lawyer, art critic and journalist based in Dresden. From 1806 he was a Prussian diplomat to Rome and Naples.
Life
Basilius von Ramdohr was born on the family estate, the Rittergut Drübber (near Nienburg), which was their property between 1686 and 1839. He studied law and aesthetics at the University of Göttingen, before commencing a long and glamorous career as an art-critic and diplomat.
He is remembered partly for his book Venus Urania (1798), an early work on the psychology of love and friendship (the book's name denotes "celestial love"), but mostly for the so-called "Ramdohr Affair" of 1809 (Ramdohrstreit) concerning his attack on the painter Caspar David Friedrich. Although he had a high reputation during his lifetime, to many contemporaries like Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel and Lessing he was not to be taken seriously. In his early twenties he had a brief affair with Charlotte Kestner née Buff, the model for Lotte in The Sorrows of Young Werther. The girl who had rejected Goethe in 1772 found herself rejected by Ramdohr in 1781.
He died at Naples in 1822.
Der Ramdohrstreit
In the 17–21 January 1809 edition of the Zeitung für die elegante Welt he published an article severely criticising Caspar David Friedrich's painting Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) (1808) and the school of German Romanticism to which it belonged. He was disturbed by the unacademic style of the painting, having little in common with the traditions established by Claude Lorraine and Jacob van Ruisdael, and deeply indignant that Friedrich should have presented it as an altarpiece to a private chapel. "Indeed it is a truly presumptuous thing, that Landscape Painting should try to slither into our churches and clamber onto our altars," he wrote. Ramdohr brooked no compromise in denying landscape self-sufficiency. To him, landscapes were formless compositions which could touch the viewer only superficially.
The public response to the article was unfavourable; nevertheless, Friedrich's supporters felt obliged to reformulate their positions more precisely. The debate about the relative merits of unmediated, spontaneous expression versus strict classical form (landscape painting representing the former) began in earnest at this time.
Works
Kaiser Otto der Dritte, ein Trauerspiel ("Otto III, a Tragedy", anonymous, 1783)
Ueber Mahlerei und Bildhauerarbeit in Rom ("On Painting and Architecture in Rome", 3 volumes, 1787)
Charis: Ueber das Schöne und die Schönheit in den nachbildenden Künsten ("Charis, or On the Beautiful and Beauty in the Imitative Arts", 2 volumes, 1793)
Venus Urania: Ueber die Natur der Liebe, ueber ihre Veredlung und Verschönerung ("On the Nature of Love, its Ennoblement and Beautification", 4 volumes, 1798)
Moralische Erzählungen ("Moral Tales", 2 volumes, 1799)
Sources
1757 births
1822 deaths
People from Verden (district)
German journalists
German male journalists
German art critics
German male writers |
8471525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart%20%28Pensacola%2C%20Florida%29 | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Pensacola, Florida) | The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, is the seat of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. It shares this distinction with the Co-Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Tallahassee. The cathedral is named in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and is located in Pensacola, Florida.
History
Pensacola was in the Diocese of Mobile when Bishop Edward Allen appointed Father Fullerton from St. Michael's Church in 1905 to supervise the construction of Sacred Heart Church. The new church was still under construction when a hurricane struct the city in 1906 and destroyed the roof. It was rebuilt and Bishop Allen dedicated the Gothic Revival church in April 1907. At the time the parish had twenty-five families.
The parish school was founded in 1907 as Sacred Heart Academy. It was staffed by the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, later known as the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament. It educated both boys and girls separately and it had girls who were boarders. The Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament left in 1945 and were replaced by Benedictine Sisters for a year. They were replaced by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan who stayed until 1970. It was during their administration that boarding students was discontinued.
The city experienced a lumber boom in the early 20th century and Pensacola and the East Hill neighborhood, where Sacred Heart was located, experienced rapid growth. Within 50 years the congregation determined it needed a larger building. The present school building was completed in 1951 and opened in 1952. The gym-parish hall was also used for the parish church. The old church was sold for $100 to the city of Pensacola on September 11, 1956. They deeded the structure to the Greater Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The present church was dedicated by Archbishop Thomas Toolen of Mobile on May 18, 1967. It is a brick building designed in a Modern interpretation of the Romanesque Basilica style. In 1968 the Ecclesiastical Province of Miami was established and the ten counties of northwest Florida that belonged to the Diocese of Mobile, including Pensacola, were transferred to the Diocese of St. Augustine. The Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee was established by Pope Paul VI in 1975. On November 6 of that year, Miami Auxiliary Bishop René Gracida was installed as the diocese's first bishop. Sacred Heart Church was named as the diocesan cathedral and St. Thomas More Church in Tallahassee as the co-cathedral.
See also
List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
List of cathedrals in Florida
References
External links
Official Cathedral Site
Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee Official Site
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee
Sacred Heart Pensacola
Roman Catholic churches in Pensacola, Florida
Roman Catholic churches in Florida
Tourist attractions in Pensacola, Florida
Christian organizations established in 1905
1905 establishments in Florida
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1967
Churches in Escambia County, Florida
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States |
8471528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Thompson%20%28American%20football%20coach%29 | John Thompson (American football coach) | John Thompson (born October 16, 1955) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at East Carolina University from 2003 to 2004 and at Arkansas State University on an interim basis twice—first during the 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl and then in the 2014 GoDaddy Bowl. He has compiled a career college football coaching record of 5–20.
Coaching career
Thompson was hired by head coach Ed Orgeron, who played under Thompson at Northwestern State University. Thompson has also served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Alabama, the University of Arkansas, the University of Florida, Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech, and the University of Memphis. From 2003 to 2004, he was the head football coach at East Carolina University.
His most recent coaching position, prior to Ole Miss, was as co-defensive coordinator at South Carolina, but he left to return to his alma mater, the University of Central Arkansas, as the athletic director. Thompson then accepted the position as defensive coordinator at Georgia State University. Thompson accepted the defensive coordinator position for the Arkansas State Red Wolves on February 25, 2012 under Head Coach Gus Malzahn. Thompson, his wife, Charleen, and two sons, Cabe and Hays, currently live in Alpharetta, Georgia outside of Atlanta.
Head coaching record
* Only coached bowl games
References
1955 births
Living people
American football defensive backs
Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches
Arkansas Razorbacks football coaches
Arkansas State Red Wolves football coaches
Central Arkansas Bears and Sugar Bears athletic directors
Central Arkansas Bears football players
Players of American football from El Paso, Texas
East Carolina Pirates football coaches
Florida Gators football coaches
Georgia State Panthers football coaches
LSU Tigers football coaches
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football coaches
Memphis Tigers football coaches
Northwestern State Demons football coaches
Ole Miss Rebels football coaches
South Carolina Gamecocks football coaches
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football coaches
Texas State Bobcats football coaches
High school football coaches in Georgia (U.S. state)
People from St. Francis County, Arkansas |
8471554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauche%20the%20Cellist | Gauche the Cellist | is a short story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. It is about Gauche, a struggling small-town cellist who is inspired by his interactions with anthropomorphized animals to gain insight into music. The story has been translated into English, Italian and Spanish, and was adapted into a critically acclaimed animated film in 1982 by Isao Takahata. It had previously been adapted to the screen several times.
Synopsis
Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small-town orchestra, , and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral Symphony).
Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing. The first night, a tortoiseshell cat came to Gauche and, giving him a tomato, asked him to play Schumann's "Träumerei". Gauche was irritated, as the tomato was from his garden outside, so he berated the cat and instead played "Tiger Hunt in India" (Michio Mamiya). This startled the cat and made it leap up and down in astonishment. The cat ran away in fright.
The second night as he was practicing, a cuckoo came to him asking to practice scales to Gauche's cello accompaniment. Gauche repeatedly played "cuckoo, cuckoo", accompanied by the bird. Eventually, he felt that the cuckoo's song was better than his cello. Gauche chased the bird away, causing it to fly into his window, hitting its head.
The third night as he was practicing, a Japanese raccoon dog came to him asking to practice the timpani to Gauche's cello accompaniment. As Gauche played "The Merry Master of a Coach Station", the tanuki hit the cello with a drum stick. The tanuki pointed out to Gauche that he played slowly despite trying to play speedily. The two left on good terms as the day broke.
The fourth night as he was practicing, a mother mouse came in with her baby, asking him to heal her sick son. When Gauche told her that he wasn't a doctor, she replied that the sound of his music had already healed a number of animals. Gauche put the sick little mouse into a hole of his cello and played a rhapsody. When Gauche finished, the little mouse became fine and was able to run around. The mother mouse cried and thanked Gauche, and left.
The Sixth Symphony concert was a great success. In the dressing room, the conductor asked a surprised Gauche to play an encore. Upon hearing the applauding audience, Gauche thought he was being made a fool of and again played "Tiger Hunt in India". Afterward, everybody in the dressing room congratulated him.
When he came back to his house, he opened the window where the cuckoo had hit its head and felt sorry for his actions. The ending scenes shows the animals and Gauche at peace, playing to the music of the Pastoral symphony.
Adaptations
In 1982, the novel was adapted into an animated feature film by a Japanese animation studio, Oh! Production. It was directed and written for the screen by Isao Takahata, who would later found Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki. Kōichi Murata was the executive producer. Gauche's voice actor was Hideki Sasaki and the cat's voice actor was Fuyumi Shiraishi. The lead key animator, Shunji Saida, took cello lessons so that he could accurately capture finger movements. The 63 minute film took 6 years to complete and was highly acclaimed as one of the best film adaptations of Miyazawa's works.
A Region 2 NTSC DVD was released in Japan in 2000 by Pioneer with English subtitles. Pioneer re-released for the Japanese market in 2003. A Region 2 PAL DVD was released in France by L.C.J. in 2001, containing a French audio track. Studio Ghibli and Buena Vista Home Entertainment re-released it as a double-disc DVD in 2006, the 110th anniversary of Miyazawa's birth (Ghibli released its adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's Taneyamagahara no Yoru on the same date). The 2006 release contained Dolby Digital audio and English subtitles.
The story had previously been adapted for the screen three times, in 1949, 1953 and 1963. The 1949 adaptation was animated and was directed by Yoshitsugu Tanaka and produced by Ichirou Ono of Nippon Eiga (). The 1953 adaptation was produced using puppets and dolls and was directed by Kenjiro Morinaja. The 1963 adaptation was animated and directed by Matsue Jinbo, and produced by Masatsugu Hara of Gakken Eiga Kyoku.
Translations
Gauche the Cellist was translated into English by John Bester, along with several other short stories, in Once and Forever, the Tales of Kenji Miyazawa, published by Kodansha International in 1994. It was released in both hardcover () and paperback () editions.
It has also been translated into English by Roger Pulvers and published in Japan by the Labo Teaching Instruction Center ().
Youko Matsuka translated the work into simplified English and published it in Japan through her Matsuka Phonics Institute () under the title "Gorsch the Cellist".
The work has also been translated into Italian by Muramatsu Mariko, along with other works, in Il violoncellista Goshu e altri scritti, published by La Vita Felice in 1987 ().
References
Further reading
Original work
Full text of Gauche the Cellist in the original Japanese from the Aozora electronic library
Amazon.com page for Once and Forever, the Tales of Kenji Miyazawa, published by Kodansha International, 1994,
Criticism
梅津時比古, "セロ弾きのゴーシュの音楽論" (Musical theory of Gauche the Cellist), Tokyo Shoseki, 2003,
梅津時比古, "ゴーシュという名前" (The Name of Gauche), Tokyo Shoseki, 2005,
横田庄一郎 (Yokota Shoichiro), "チェロと宮沢賢治" (Kenji Miyazawa, Cello), Shoichiro, Ongaku no tomo sha, 1998,
佐藤泰平 (Taihei Satou), "宮沢賢治の音楽" (Kenji Miyazawa's Music), Chikuma Shobo Publishing、1995
Adaptations
IMDB page on Isao Takahata's 1982 animation of Gauche the Cellist
JMDB page on Isao Takahata's 1982 animation of Gauche the Cellist
IMDB page on Yoshitsugu Tanaka's 1949 animation of Gauche the Cellist
JMDB page on Yoshitsugu Tanaka's 1949 animation of Gauche the Cellist
IMDB page on Kenjiro Morinaga's 1953 puppet adaptation of Gauche the Cellist
JMDB page on Matsue Jinbo's 1963 animation of Gauche the Cellist
1934 short stories
Japanese short stories
Japanese children's literature
Works by Kenji Miyazawa
Films based on short fiction
Works about cellos and cellists |
8471556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%3A%20T.H.I.N.K. | Mission: T.H.I.N.K. | Mission T.H.I.N.K. (Thinking Hard Inspires New Knowledge) is the final addition to the Super Solvers series created by The Learning Company. Morty Maxwell tries to take over the Shady Glen Game Factory with help of the Metal Minions. Also the original score in the five levels is by the famous fusion ensemble Yellowjackets. The game cultivates critical thinking skills by encouraging players to solve puzzles and create strategies.
Production
The game was part of a promotion with Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc., where along with Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego? and Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten, the game featured in The Family Learning Fun Pack, and packaged inside Tootsie products.
Gameplay and plot
Players must complete five levels to finish the game. The levels themselves are identical to the ones featured in an earlier game, Gizmos & Gadgets!. Each level involves going through a warehouse, solving puzzles to open doors, and collecting pieces that must be used to win a checkers-like strategy game at the end of the level. While exploring the warehouse, the player must avoid having their pieces stolen by the Metal Minions. A magnet can be thrown to trap a Metal Minion and reclaim a stolen piece - the magnets themselves can be used an infinite number of times. After beating Morty at all five levels, a puzzle is put together portraying him leaving the factory. Along the way, the player is helped by Rusty, a Metal Minion who didn't like what Morty was doing.
Critical reception
Hilary Williams of Allgame thought the game was "entertaining", and praised it for cultivating various cognitive skills within the player. [null Rocky Mountain News] wrote the "engaging game" was an easier version of Gizmos & Gadgets!. The Booklist thought the activities within the game are "challenging and skill enriching".
References
External links
Mission: T.H.I.N.K. at GameFAQs
1999 video games
Classic Mac OS games
North America-exclusive video games
Puzzle video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
The Learning Company games
Single-player video games |
8471564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunstall%2C%20Sunderland | Tunstall, Sunderland | Tunstall is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England which is mostly a privately purchased estate. It is located to the west of Ryhope, and east of Silksworth. The area was built around a large hill, known as Tunstall Hill. Since 1966 pilgrims have erected crucifixes on the hill every Good Friday.
It is the location of Venerable Bede Church of England Academy, which is on the former site of Ryhope Colliery and later Ryhope golf course.
History
Tunstall is a village that has been present since the early middle ages, first mentioned in the 1183 Norman era Boldon Book the contemporary village green continues to mirror its medieval shape. By the 14th century, Hatfield's survey of Durham recorded 12 tenants in the village who held 110 acres of block demesne lands, with 14 dwellings, a mill and two cottages on the land.
References
City of Sunderland suburbs
Sunderland |
8471569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Zubarry | Olga Zubarry | Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929 – 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. Throughout the course of her career, she received four Silver Condor Awards, two Martín Fierro Awards, a Konex Foundation Award and several others for her films and television performances. She is credited with starring in the first film in Argentina which featured nudity, though only her back was shown and she stated repeatedly that she wore a flesh-colored mesh and was not truly nude.
Biography
Olga Adela Zubiarriaín was born on 30 October 1929 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque de los Patricios. She attended 3 years at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas Nº1 José Figueroa Alcorta, but quit school when her acting career began.
She started as an extra at Lumiton studios in 1943 in the movie Safo, historia de una pasión directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and starring Mecha Ortiz and Roberto Escalada. In 1944 she starred in La pequeña señora de Pérez with Mirtha Legrand and Juan Carlos Thorry. Her rise to fame occurred with the film adaptation (El ángel desnudo) of the novel Frau Elsie, by Arthur Schnitzler. Often billed as the first nude film in Argentina, in reality, the film showed only her bare back, which she claimed was not nude, but was covered with flesh-colored mesh. Zubarry won the 1946 Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best New Actress for "El ángel desnudo".
In 1950, she made Yo quiero una mujer así for Bolívar Films in Venezuela, directed by Juan Carlos Thorry and in 1951, was in El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia, an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which was directed by Mario Soffici. She starred with Nathan Finch, in the 1953 film El Vampiro Negro directed by Uruguayan Román Viñoly Barreto, which was Viñoly's remake of the classic M by Fritz Lang. Zubarry won the Film Critics Association Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in "El vampiro negro".
In 1955 she played the main character of the same name in Marianela, under director Julio Porter. It won herthe Film Critics Association Silver Condor Award for Best Actress of 1955. In 1959 she starred in La sangre y la semilla, a historical film set in 1870 during the War of the Triple Alliance and shot in Itauguá and Capiatá, Paraguay. In 1961 she appeared in the role of "Salui" in "Hijo de hombre", one of her personal favorites, which was an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos and directed by Lucas Demare and with Spanish actor Francisco Rabal. She won a "Concha de Oro" (Golden Shell) at the San Sebastian Festival for her work on the film.
Zubarry appeared in A hierro muere in 1962 with Alberto de Mendoza, Invasión by writer Jorge Luis Borges (1969), Crecer de golpe (1976), ¿Somos? (1982) and Plaza de almas (1997). In her career, she made over 60 films.
Beginning in the early 1970s, she started doing television. Her television debut was with the series La comedia de la noche, and she followed that with Alta comedia, Nosotros y los miedos, Situación límite, Atreverse, El precio del poder, El Sillón de Rivadavia and "Fulanas y menganas". She earned two Martín Fierro Awards, one in 1972 for "Alta Comedia" and one in 1988 for "De Fulanas y Menganas". In 1991, Zubarry received a Diploma of Merit from the Konex Foundation for best dramatic actress in radio and television.
In 1997, she won the Silver Condor Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Plaza de almas" and retired. She said, "You have to retire at the right time." The following year, she won the ACE award for Best Actress for the same film.
Beginning in 1983 she served as matron to two MAMA (Mis Alumnos Más Amigos) homes. The organization is an NGO, which provides homes for street children, giving them a pace to live, study and train for employment. She was also a staunch fan of the Club Atlético Huracán (Hurricane Football Club of Buenos Aires).
She died in Buenos Aires on 15 December 2012, aged 83.
Awards
1946: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best New Actress for "El ángel desnudo"
1953: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best Actress for "El vampiro negro"
1955: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best Actress for "Marianela".
1961: Spanish American Award "Concha de Oro" (Golden Shell) at the San Sebastian Festival for "Hijo de hombre"
1972: Martín Fierro APTRA Award as best actress for "Alta Comedia"
1983: Santa Clara de Asis Award for "El sillón de Rivadavia"
1988: Martín Fierro Protagonista Award for best female performance for "De Fulanas y Menganas"
1991: Konex Diploma of Merit for best dramatic actress in radio and television
1994: Podestá Award for Lifetime Achievement.
1997: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for best supporting actress for the film "Plaza de almas"
1998: ACE for Best Actress for "Plaza de almas"
Filmography
Films
1943: Safo, historia de una pasión
1943: Dieciséis años (uncredited)
1944: La pequeña señora de Pérez
1945: Las seis suegras de Barba Azul
1946: El ángel desnudo
1946: No salgas esta noche
1946: Adán y la serpiente
1948: Los pulpos
1948: La muerte camina en la lluvia
1949: Yo no elegí mi vida
1950: Valentina
1950: Abuso de confianza
1951: Yo quiero una mujer así
1951: El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia
1951: La comedia inmortal
1951: ¡Qué hermanita!
1951: El honorable inquilino
1952: El baldito
1952: Ellos nos hicieron así
1953: Mercado negro
1953: El vampiro negro
1954: Sucedió en Buenos Aires
1954: Maleficio
1954: Tres citas con el destino
1955: Concierto para una lágrima
1955: La simuladora
1955: Vida nocturna
1955: De noche también se duerme
1955: Marianela
1956: Pecadora
1958: Los dioses ajenos
1959: En la vía
1959: La sangre y la semilla
1959: The Candidate
1960: Todo el año es Navidad
1960: Las furias
1961: Hijo de hombre
1962: Misión 52
1962: A hierro muere
1964: Proceso a la conciencia or Proceso a la ley
1965: Los guerrilleros
1965: Ahorro y préstamo... para el amor
1968: Amor y un poco más
1968: Asalto a la ciudad
1969: Somos novios
1969: Invasión
1970: El hombre del año
1972: Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
1973: Si se calla el cantor
1974: La Mary
1974: Yo tengo fe
1974: El Encanto del amor prohibido or Sobre gustos y colores
1975: El inquisidor de Lima or El inquisidor
1975: Las procesadas
1976: Los chicos crecen
1977: La nueva cigarra
1977: Crecer de golpe
1978: Mi mujer no es mi señora
1980: Desde el abismo
1982: Los pasajeros del jardín
1982: ¿Somos?
1984: Los tigres de la memoria
1985: Contar hasta diez
1985: Luna caliente
1986: En busca del brillante perdido
1996: Luces de ayer (short)
1997: El ángel y el escritor (short)
1997: Plaza de almas
Television
1970 approx.: La comedia de la noche (ciclo de televisión), con el actor Raúl Rossi, dirigida por María Herminia Avellaneda, en Canal 13.
1971: Narciso Ibáñez Menta presenta: Un hombre extraño (película de televisión, por Canal 9).
1971: Alta comedia, episodio "Todos eran mis hijos" (Canal 9).
1971: Alta comedia, episodio "Véndame su hijo" (Canal 9).
1971: Alta comedia, episodio "De carne somos" (Canal 9).
1972: Alta comedia, episodio "La sombra" (Canal 9).
1972: Alta comedia, episodio "Como tú me deseas" (Canal 9).
1972: Estación Retiro (Canal 9), como Andrea Adalguía
1973: Alta comedia, episodio "Panorama desde el puente" (Canal 9), como Beatrice
1973: Alta comedia, episodio "Cuando estemos casados" (Canal 9), como María
1973: ¡Qué vida de locos! (Canal 9), como Inés
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "El mar profundo y azul" (Canal 9).
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "Pasión en Mallorca" (Canal 9).
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "La casa de los siete balcones" (Canal 9).
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "De Bécquer con amor" (Canal 9).
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "Cartas de amor" (Canal 9).
1974: Alta comedia, episodio "Alfonsina" (Canal 9).
1974: Teatro para sonreír (Canal 11).
1974: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador presenta a Narciso Ibáñez Menta, episodio "La zarpa" (Canal 11), como Teresa
1974: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador presenta a Narciso Ibáñez Menta, episodio "El regreso" (Canal 11), como Teresa
1975: Tu rebelde ternura, serie de televisión (Canal 13).
1976 o 1979: La posada del sol, serie de televisión (Canal 13).
1977: Aventura 77, miniserie de televisión (Canal 13).
1978: Nuestro encuentro (Canal 9).
1979: El león y la rosa, serie de televisión (Canal 13), como Clara
1979: Propiedad horizontal, serie de televisión (Canal 9), como Mónica Dalton.
1980: Hombres en pugna, película de televisión.
1981: Los especiales de ATC (Hombres en pugna" (ATC).
1981: Laura mía (ATC), como Caridad.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, serie de televisión, episodio "Miedo a los jóvenes" (Canal 9), como Antonia.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a recomenzar" (Canal 9), como Virginia.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la traición" (Canal 9), como Haydée.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a asumir las responsabilidades" (Canal 9), como farmacéutica.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la violencia" (Canal 9), como Teresa.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la desilusión " (Canal 9), como Berta.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a las culpas" (Canal 9), como Graciela.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo al abandono" (Canal 9), como Raquel.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a equivocarse" (Canal 9), como Isabel.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la injusticia" (Canal 9), como Margarita.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a compartir" (Canal 9), como Elia.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo al régimen" (Canal 9), como Isabel.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a afrontar" (Canal 9). como Elena.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a los demás" (Canal 9), como Lidia.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo al análisis" (Canal 9), como Berta.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la infidelidad" (Canal 9), como Inés.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo al mundo" (Canal 9), como Irene.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a cumplir con el deber" (Canal 9), como madre de Fernando.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a dar" (Canal 9), como Rosario.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a decidir" (Canal 9), como Aída.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la paz" (Canal 9), como Inés.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a ver" (Canal 9), como Esther.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a reintegrarse" (Canal 9), como Aída.
1982: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo al cáncer" (Canal 9), como Sonia.
1983: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la vejez" (Canal 9), como Amanda.
1983: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la mediocridad" (Canal 9), como María.
1983: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a la realidad" (Canal 9), como Nieves.
1983: Nosotros y los miedos, episodio "Miedo a denunciar" (Canal 9), como Irene.
1983: El sillón de Rivadavia (ganadora del Premio Santa Clara de Asís en 1983).
1985: El puente de coral vivo (Canal 13).
1985: La única noche, serie de televisión (ATC).
1986: Navidad: variaciones sobre un mismo tema (ATC).
1986: Situación límite, episodio "Exámenes" (ATC).
1986: Soñar sin límite (ATC).
1987–1989: De fulanas y menganas (ATC).
1990–1991: Atreverse, serie de televisión (Telefé).
1991: Socorro, sobrinos (ATC).
1992: Amores 1992: El precio del poder'' (Canal 9).
External links
Vascos en la Argentina: Olga Zubarry (in Spanish)
References
1929 births
2012 deaths
Argentine film actresses
Argentine television actresses
Argentine people of Basque descent
Actresses from Buenos Aires
Silver Condor Award for Best Actress winners
20th-century Argentine actresses |
8471575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20redundancy%20feature%20selection | Minimum redundancy feature selection | Minimum redundancy feature selection is an algorithm frequently used in a method to accurately identify characteristics of genes and phenotypes and narrow down their relevance and is usually described in its pairing with relevant feature selection as Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR).
Feature selection, one of the basic problems in pattern recognition and machine learning, identifies subsets of data that are relevant to the parameters used and is normally called Maximum Relevance. These subsets often contain material which is relevant but redundant and mRMR attempts to address this problem by removing those redundant subsets. mRMR has a variety of applications in many areas such as cancer diagnosis and speech recognition.
Features can be selected in many different ways. One scheme is to select features that correlate strongest to the classification variable. This has been called maximum-relevance selection. Many heuristic algorithms can be used, such as the sequential forward, backward, or floating selections.
On the other hand, features can be selected to be mutually far away from each other while still having "high" correlation to the classification variable. This scheme, termed as Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) selection has been found to be more powerful than the maximum relevance selection.
As a special case, the "correlation" can be replaced by the statistical dependency between variables. Mutual information can be used to quantify the dependency. In this case, it is shown that mRMR is an approximation to maximizing the dependency between the joint distribution of the selected features and the classification variable.
Studies have tried different measures for redundancy and relevance measures. A recent study compared several measures within the context of biomedical images.
References
External links
Peng, H.C., Long, F., and Ding, C., "Feature selection based on mutual information: criteria of max-dependency, max-relevance, and min-redundancy," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 1226–1238, 2005.
Chris Ding and Hanchuan Peng, "Minimum Redundancy Feature Selection from Microarray Gene Expression Data". 2nd IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2003), 11–14 August 2003, Stanford, CA, USA. Pages 523–529.
Penglab mRMR
Machine learning algorithms
zh:最小冗余特征选择 |
8471596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20the%20Love%20of%20Strange%20Medicine | For the Love of Strange Medicine | For the Love of Strange Medicine is the second solo studio album by Steve Perry, released on July 19, 1994 through Columbia Records. The album came after a lengthy 8-year hiatus following the breakup of Journey. The first single "You Better Wait" received radio airplay, reaching the top 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and peaking at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was certified gold by the RIAA in September 1994 and followed by a tour from 1994-95.
The song "Young Hearts Forever" was written by Perry as a tribute to his late friend, Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, who died in 1986.
Background
Journey released their ninth studio album Raised on Radio in 1986, which was Steve Perry's sixth album as lead singer. The band subsequently went on a hiatus in 1987. After the split, Perry "didn't feel the passion" for writing and recording music, but eventually began writing songs for the album with musicians Lincoln Brewster, Paul Taylor, and Moyes Lucas.
Track listing
Notes (2006 re-release)
"If You Need Me, Call Me" is a 1994 re-recording of a song of Perry's pre-Journey band, Alien Project.
"One More Time" is an unreleased out take from 1994.
"Can't Stop" and "Friends of Mine" are previously unreleased tracks from the 1988 unreleased Against the Wall album.
Personnel
Steve Perry – lead and backing vocals
Paul Taylor – keyboards (1-8, 10), backing vocals (1), synthesizers (11)
Tim Miner – keyboards (9); acoustic piano, bass and backing vocals (9, 11)
Lincoln Brewster – guitars (1-8, 10), backing vocals (1)
Michael Landau – guitars (11)
Larry Kimpel – bass (1, 2, 4, 10)
Mike Porcaro – bass (2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Moyes Lucas – drums (1-8, 10, 11), backing vocals (1, 7)
Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements and string conductor (3)
James "Jimbo" Barton – string arrangements (3)
Phil Brown – string arrangements (3), bass (8)
Larry Dalton – string arrangements and conductor (9)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra – strings (9)
Alexander Brown – backing vocals (4, 10)
Carmen Carter – backing vocals (4, 10)
Jean McClain – backing vocals (4, 10)
Production
Randy Jackson – A&R direction
James "Jimbo" Barton – producer (1-8, 10), engineer (1-8, 10)
Steve Perry – producer (5, 6, 9, 11)
Tim Miner – producer (9, 11)
David Reitzas – string recording (3)
Tim Kimsey – engineer (9)
Frank Salazar – engineer (9)
Craig Burbidge – mixing (3, 4, 5, 7-11), engineer (11)
Niko Bolas – mixing (1, 2, 6)
Bill Cooper, Devin Foutz, Manny Marroquin, Kyle Ross, Rail Rogut and Ulrich Wild – second engineers
Brian Lee – digital editing
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Phil Brown – production assistant (1-4, 7, 8, 10)
Diarmuid Quinn – product manager
Dave Coleman – art direction
Reisig & Taylor – photography
Bob Cavallo and Scott Welch with Third Rail Management – management
Studios
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording and One On One Studios (Hollywood, California); Record Plant (Los Angeles, California); The Enterprise (Burbank, California); American Recording Studios (Woodland Hills, California); Knightlight Studios and Dallas Sound Lab (Dallas, Texas).
Mixed at Aire L.A. Studios (Glendale, California); The Hit Factory (New York City, New York).
Edited and Mastered at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine).
Charts
Album
References
1994 albums
Steve Perry albums
Albums produced by James Barton (producer)
Columbia Records albums |
8471640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20Memorial%20Cup | 1988 Memorial Cup | The 1988 Memorial Cup occurred May 7–14 at the Centre Georges-Vézina in Chicoutimi, Quebec. It was the 70th annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). Participating teams were the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Hull Olympiques, the QMJHL runner-up, the Drummondville Voltigeurs, as well as the winners of the Western Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League which were the Medicine Hat Tigers and Windsor Spitfires. The original host team, the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, did not participate as they did not make it far enough in the QMJHL playoffs. Although the Spitfires entered the Cup final having won 39 of the previous 40 games they had played, Medicine Hat won their second Memorial Cup in a row, defeating Windsor in the final game.
Teams
Drummondville Voltigeurs
The Drummondville Voltigeurs represented the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the 1988 Memorial Cup as they were the runner-up to the league champions, the Hull Olympiques. The Voltigeurs were coached by Jean Bégin, and finished the 1987–88 season with a 35-31-4 record, earning 74 points, and finishing in second place in the Lebel Division. Drummondville had the sixth best offense in the ten team league, as they scored 341 goals. The club finished with in fifth in goals against, as they allowed 327 goals. In the Dilio Division semi-finals, the Voltigeurs defeated the Victoriaville Tigres four games to one. In the division final, Drummondville defeated the Shawinigan Cataractes four games to one, advancing to the President's Cup final. In the league final, the Voltigeurs faced off against the top regular season club in the league, the Hull Olympiques. The Olympiques were able to defeat the Voltigeurs in seven games, however, Drummondville advanced to the Memorial Cup as the host team, the Chicoutimi Saguenéens, were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
The Voltigeurs offense was led by Steve Chartrand, who scored a team high 50 goals and 112 points in 68 games. Chartrand continued to lead Drummondville in the post-season, as he led the club with 16 goals and 28 points in 17 games. Martin Bergeron also cracked the 100 point plateau, as he scored 45 goals and 109 points in 64 games, as did Alain Charland, who scored 47 goals and 104 points in 64 games. Midway through the season, the Voltigeurs acquired Rob Murphy in a trade with the Laval Titan. Murphy began the season appearing in five games with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. In 33 games with Drummondville, Murphy scored 18 goals and 44 points. Daniel Dore scored 24 goals and 63 points in 64 games, while accumulating 223 penalty minutes. Dore won the Mike Bossy Trophy, awarded to the Top Prospect in the QMJHL. Dore would later be drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in the first round, fifth overall, at the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. On defense, Mario Doyon led the scoring, as he had 23 goals and 77 points in 64 games. Eric Tremblay scored six goals and 70 points in 61 games to finish second in defenseman scoring. In goal, the Voltigeurs were led by Frédéric Chabot, who posted a 27-24-4 record with a 4.34 GAA in 58 games.
The 1988 Memorial Cup was the first time in team history that the Voltigeurs qualified for the tournament.
Hull Olympiques
The Hull Olympiques represented the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the 1988 Memorial Cup. The Olympiques finished the 1987–88 regular season with the top record in the league, as they were 43-23-4, earning 90 points, and winning the Jean Rougeau Trophy for their accomplishment. Hull led the QMJHL in scoring, as the club recorded 383 goals. Defensively, the Olympiques ranked second, as they allowed 293 goals. In the post-season, the Olympiques defeated the Granby Bisons four games to one in the Lebel Division semi-finals. In the division finals, the Olympiques were able to get past the Laval Titan in seven games, earning a berth into the President's Cup final. In the final round, the Olympiques defeated the Drummondville Voltigeurs in another seven-game series, winning the league championship and earning a berth into the 1988 Memorial Cup.
Hull's high powered offense was led by Marc Saumier, who scored 52 goals and 166 points in 59 games to lead the team in scoring, and finishing third overall in the league for points. He was awarded the Michel Briere Trophy as QMJHL MVP after his outstanding season. In the post-season, Saumier led the league with 17 goals and 48 points in 19 games, winning the Guy Lafleur Trophy as QMJHL Playoff MVP. Martin Gélinas scored 63 goals and 131 points in 65 games, and was awarded the Michel Bergeron Trophy as QMJHL Offensive Rookie of the Year. Following the season, Gelinas was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round, seventh overall, at the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. Benoît Brunet, a Montreal Canadiens prospect, scored 54 goals and 143 points in 62 games, while Kelly Nester scored 40 goals and 100 points in 68 games, giving the Olympiques four 100+ point scorers. On defense, Herbert Hohenberger led the club with 21 goals and 60 points in 60 games. During the season, Hull acquired Boston Bruins prospect Stéphane Quintal in a trade with the Granby Bisons. In 15 games with the Olympiques, Quintal scored six goals and 15 points. In goal, the club was led by Jason Glickman, who posted a 31-15-4 with a 3.76 GAA in 55 games.
The 1988 Memorial Cup was the second time in team history that the Olympiques qualified for the tournament. At the 1986 Memorial Cup, Hull lost to the Guelph Platers in the final game.
Medicine Hat Tigers
The Medicine Hat Tigers represented the Western Hockey League at the 1988 Memorial Cup. The Tigers finished the 1987–88 season with a 44-22-6 record, earning 94 points and second place in the East Division. The Tigers scored 353 goals during the regular season, ranking them fifth in the 14 team league. Defensively, Medicine Hat allowed the fewest goals in the league, with 261 goals against. After earning a first round bye in the post-season, the Tigers defeated the Prince Albert Raiders four games to two in the East Division semi-finals. In the division finals, Medicine Hat upset the first place Saskatoon Blades by sweeping them in four games, advancing to the President's Cup final. In the championship round, the Tigers defeated the first place team in the West Division, the Kamloops Blazers, four games to two, to win the title and earn a berth into the 1988 Memorial Cup.
Offensively, the Tigers were led by Montreal Canadiens prospect Mark Pederson, who led the club with 53 goals and 111 points in 62 games. Top prospect Trevor Linden scored 46 goals and 110 points in 67 games, as following the season, he was selected by the Vancouver Canucks with the second overall pick at the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. Rob DiMaio scored 47 goals and 91 points in 54 games during the regular season, as he followed up with a team high 12 goals and 31 points in 14 post-season games. The Tigers acquired Cal Zankowski in a mid-season trade with the New Westminster Bruins, as in 46 games with Medicine Hat, he scored 31 goals and 42 points. On defense, Scott McCrady led the Tigers in scoring, as he scored seven goals and 77 points in 65 games. Los Angeles Kings top prospect, Wayne McBean, scored 15 goals and 45 points in 30 games from the Tigers blue line after beginning the season in the National Hockey League. In goal, the Tigers were led by Mark Fitzpatrick, who posted a 3.23 GAA and a .901 save percentage in 63 games.
The 1988 Memorial Cup was the second consecutive season that the Tigers qualified for the tournament. At the 1987 Memorial Cup, Medicine Hat defeated the Oshawa Generals to win the Memorial Cup for the first time in team history. The Tigers also qualified for the 1973 Memorial Cup, where they finished in third place.
Windsor Spitfires
The Windsor Spitfires represented the Ontario Hockey League at the 1988 Memorial Cup. The Spitfires were the top team in the OHL during the 1987–88 season, as they had a record of 50-14-2, earning 102, and winning the Hamilton Spectator Trophy for their achievement. The Spitfires scored a league high 396 goals, while the club allowed 215 goals, which ranked them second in the 15 team league. Windsor opened the playoffs with a four-game sweep against the Kitchener Rangers during the Emms Division quarter-finals. The club earned a second round bye in the division semi-finals. In the Emms Division finals, Windsor swept the Hamilton Steelhawks in four games, advancing to the J. Ross Robertson Cup finals. In the final round of the playoffs, Windsor swept the Peterborough Petes in four games, as they won the OHL championship with a perfect 12–0 record in the playoffs, and earned a berth into the 1988 Memorial Cup.
The Spitfires high-scoring offense was led by Kelly Cain, who led the team with 57 goals and 133 points in 66 games after joining the club during an off-season trade. Cain finished in third in the OHL scoring race. Mike Wolak scored 42 goals and 114 points in 63 games to finish in second in club scoring. David Haas was acquired by the Spitfires in an early season trade with the Belleville Bulls, as in 58 games, he scored 59 goals and 105 points, while leading the club with 237 penalty minutes. Darrin Shannon emerged as a top prospect for the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, as in 43 games, he scored 33 goals and 74 points. Shannon would be selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the fourth overall pick following the season. Shannon was also awarded the Bobby Smith Trophy as the OHL's Scholastic Player of the Year. Adam Graves, a Detroit Red Wings prospect, appeared in 37 games with Windsor, scoring 28 goals and 60 points. In the post-season, he led the club with 14 goals and 32 points in 12 games. Brad Hyatt led the Spitfires defense in scoring, as he had 24 goals and 88 points in 56 games. Darryl Shannon, a Toronto Maple Leafs prospect, scored 16 goals and 86 points in 60 games, and was awarded the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL's Most Outstanding Defenseman. Peter Ing handled the Spitfires goaltending duties, as in 43 games, he posted a 3.10 GAA.
The 1988 Memorial Cup was the first time in franchise history that the Spitfires qualified for the tournament.
Round-robin standings
Scores
Round-robin
May 7 Windsor 8-3 Drummondville
May 8 Medicine Hat 7-1 Drummondville
May 8 Windsor 5-4 Hull
May 9 Medicine Hat 7-3 Hull
May 10 Windsor 5-2 Medicine Hat
May 11 Hull 5-2 Drummondville
Semi-final
May 12 Medicine Hat 5-3 Hull
Final
May 14 Medicine Hat 7-6 Windsor
Winning roster
Award winners
Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (MVP): Rob DiMaio, Medicine Hat
George Parsons Trophy (Sportsmanship): Martin Gélinas, Hull
Hap Emms Memorial Trophy (Goaltender): Mark Fitzpatrick, Medicine Hat
All-star team
Goal: Mark Fitzpatrick, Medicine Hat
Defence: Dean Chynoweth, Medicine Hat; Darryl Shannon, Windsor
Centre: Rob DiMaio, Medicine Hat
Left wing: Darrin Shannon, Windsor
Right wing: Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat
References
External links
Memorial Cup
Canadian Hockey League
Memorial Cup 1988
Memorial Cup tournaments
Sport in Saguenay, Quebec |
8471658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Notley | Great Notley | Great Notley is a village to the south-west of Braintree, Essex in England. It has an approximate population of 7,845 and became an independent civil parish on 1 April 2000 as a result of The Great Notley Parish Council Order 2000.
Archeology
Excavations in Great Notley revealed the remains of Iron Age and Roman settlements with a series of enclosures overlaid with a Roman development on the site of the Skyline Business Park, where it is thought that there was a series of occupations on the site from the late Iron Age onwards, which included brewing, farming and the production of textiles.
Estates
Great Notley was designed as a suburban development, a self-sustainable garden village composed of three distinct hamlets linked via a spine road:
Notley Green hamlet, to the south
Oaklands Manor hamlet, centred on a new manor house
Panners Farm hamlet, to the north
It was built mostly by Countryside Properties, and is cited as an example of Countryside's design philosophy of 'instant maturity' and 'instant community'.
The parish also includes the older estate of White Court, now in the centre of the village; a business park, 'Skyline120', and a country park.
Amenities
Due to the size of Great Notley, there is little in the way of indoor entertainment facilities. Outdoor entertainment includes various playgrounds and the aforementioned country park (known as the 'Discovery Centre'), which includes outdoor play equipment, a café and water features.
There are various small businesses operating in Great Notley, including a veterinary centre, a public house (the Prince Louis), an estate agents and a tanning salon. There is also a Tesco supermarket located in the garden village, making it the third Tesco to be built within the Braintree area.
Schools
There are two schools in Great Notley; White Court Primary School and Notley Green Primary School, which was opened in 1999. The main secondary school for the area is Notley High School, which is located in the neighbouring town of Braintree, Essex.
References
Villages in Essex
Braintree District |
8471660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Aston%20%28burgess%29 | Walter Aston (burgess) | Lieutenant Colonel Walter Aston (c.1606–April 6, 1656) was a Virginia political figure, planter and militia leader. Aston served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in the first half of the 17th century.
Biography
Aston was born in England and came to Virginia in approximately 1628.
Aston represented Shirley Hundred Island for the first time from 1629 to 1630. He continued to be a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1631–1632, 1632–1633, 1641, 1642-1643. Aston later served as a justice of the peace for Charles City County, and by the time he died on April 6, 1656. he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Virginia militia. Aston was buried at the original Westover Parish Church, Charles City County, Virginia. He was buried at Westover Parish Church (in the cemetery on the grounds west of Westover Plantation, not in the graveyard next to the new church).
Family
Aston married twice, first to a woman whose maiden name was Warbowe then to Hannah Jordan who outlived him. His son, Walter Aston, Jr. (died January 29, 1667), is buried near his father.
Aston is buried near the original site of the Westover Church next to Theodorick Bland of Westover and near Benjamin Harrison.
United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are descended from Lt. Col. Aston through his daughter Mary who married Col. Richard Cocke.
References
1600s births
1656 deaths
House of Burgesses members
People from Charles City County, Virginia
English emigrants to the United States
Colonial American justices of the peace
Military personnel from Virginia
British North American Anglicans |
8471661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore%20Avellino | Salvatore Avellino | Salvatore Avellino Jr. (born November 19, 1935), also known as Sally, is an American mobster and former caporegime in the Lucchese crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in the garbage and waste management industry on Long Island, New York. Avellino also served as right-hand man and chauffeur to boss Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo.
Lucchese family capo
Avellino was born in 1935 in St. James, New York. Over the years, Avellino and his relatives established a stranglehold on the waste hauling business on Long Island. To gather evidence against Avellino, members of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) used undercover informant Robert Kubecka, the owner of a Suffolk County, New York garbage hauling business. Since the 1970s, Kubecka had refused to participate with the mob control of the waste hauling business and had suffered extensive harassment as a result. In 1982, Kubecka agreed to wear a surveillance device during meetings with the mobsters. Although Kubecka was unable to get close to Avellino himself, the information Kubecka gathered eventually persuaded a judge to allow a wire tap on Avellino's home phone in Nissequogue, New York. The home phone tap was also disappointing to the agents; however, it did reveal that Avellino was driving boss Anthony Corallo around all day in Avellino's car.
In 1983, members of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) installed an electronic surveillance device inside the dashboard on Avellino's Jaguar while he and his wife were at a dinner dance. Agents then listened to many conversations between Corallo, Avellino, and other mobsters as they drove around the city. From these recorded conversations, OCTF learned the Commission's internal structure, history, and relations with other crime families. These conversations were shared with federal prosecutors and provided them with invaluable evidence against Corallo and other family bosses in the Mafia Commission Trial.
In 1985, Avellino was promoted to capo.
Waste hauling industry
Salvatore Avellino oversaw operations of Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 66 in Long Island. His younger brother Carmine Avellino and his son Michael Avellino followed him into the waste management rackets. For nearly 15 years, Avellino used aggressive strong-arm tactics to keep Long Island's waste hauling industry under Lucchese family control. Avellino's wife Elaine was the owner, along with other relatives of the SSC Corporation in Holtsville, New York, one of the largest waste haulers in the region. In 1983, Avellino ordered his son Michael and son-in-law Michael Malena to set fire to competitors' garbage trucks.
During one recorded phone call, Avellino explained the Lucchese plans for the waste hauling industry on Long Island to an associate:
We're gonna knock everybody out, absorb everybody, eat them up, or whoever we, whoever stays in there is only who we allowing to stay in there.
Avellino was involved in the infamous Mobro 4000 garbage scow incident of 1987.
On March 10, 1988 Salvatore Avellino Jr. was added to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement exclusion list.
Kubecka and Barstow murders
In 1986, facing evidence from the car recordings, Avellino pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges of using coercion to prevent Robert Kubecka from bidding on waste hauling contracts on Long Island.
In mid 1986, Avellino asked Lucchese underboss Anthony Casso permission to murder Kubecka. Avellino was afraid that Kubecka was going to provide evidence in new criminal and civil cases. Casso agreed to the killing. Allegedly on August 11, 1989, Lucchese gunmen Rocco Vitulli and Frank "Frankie the Pearl" Federico burst into Kubecka's office in East Northport, New York, where he and his brother-in-law, Donald Barstow, were working. Both Kubecka and Barstow were shot to death.
Prison
On April 13, 1993, Avellino was indicted in federal court on racketeering charges involving the 1989 Kubecka and Barstow murders. Avellino pleaded not guilty to both charges. However, in February 1994, Avellino pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy in the two murders and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
On July 16, 1999, Avelino was indicted again in federal courts on 15 counts of racketeering in the waste hauling industry from 1983 to 1998. In March 2001, Avellino pleaded guilty to using threats of violence to run his Long Island waste hauling business from federal prison. As part of a plea deal, Avellino was to serve five more years in prison after the end of his racketeering sentence. On October 13, 2006, Avellino was released from federal prison.
References
Further reading
Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005.
Jacobs, James B. and Friel, Colleen. Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated From the Grip of Organized Crime. New York: NYU Press
Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
External links
"Salvatore Avellino Jr." State of New Jersey Casino Control Commission
"For garbage companies, slowdown means there’s less to take out" By Winzelberg, David. Long Island Business News, June 5, 2009
Murder and the mob by Steve Wick, Newsday
Salvatore Avellino Jr. New Jersey State
1935 births
Living people
American gangsters of Italian descent
Lucchese crime family
People from St. James, New York
People convicted of racketeering |
8471680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari%20Suhonen | Ari Suhonen | Ari Suhonen (born 19 December 1965 in Porvoo) is a Finnish former middle distance runner.
Suhonen was the best Finnish middle distance runner during the late 1980s and the early 1990s and he still holds the national record in the 800 metres, 1.44,10, ran in Zürich on 16 August 1989. He won national championships in the 800 metres nine times in a row, in the years 1985–1993. He also won the 1500 metres event in the same competition five times, in 1986-1989 and 1993. He was the European Indoor Champion of the 1500 metres in 1988. He also won bronze in the 800 metres of the European Indoor Championships in 1987.
Personal bests
External links
Ari Suhonen's race results at the database of Tilastopaja OY
1965 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Porvoo
Finnish male middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Finland
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Finland
Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade |
8471690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum%20bromide | Platinum bromide | Platinum bromide can refer to:
Platinum(II) bromide, PtBr2
Platinum(IV) bromide, PtBr4 |
8471712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy%20Doctors | Dizzy Doctors | Dizzy Doctors is a 1937 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 21st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Plot
The snoring, layabout Stooges are awakened near midday by their wives, who demand that they find jobs. The boys soon stumble on company president Dr. Bright (Horace Murphy), who is in desperate need of salesmen for his new product called Brighto, which has the tagline "Brighto: makes old bodies new." Thinking the liquid is polish, the Stooges take to the streets where they eagerly demonstrate Brighto for prospective customers, but application of the product damages a policeman's (Bud Jamison) sleeve by Larry, destroys another man's shoe by Moe, and ultimately removes the paint from a man's (Vernon Dent) new car. The angry owner of the car joins with the policeman in hot pursuit of the salesmen.
On the run, the Stooges return to Dr. Bright's office to complain that the polish is so bad they "almost got pinched". Dr. Bright admonishes the Stooges, telling them it is medicine, not polish. However, he still agrees to give them another chance as salesmen. Rejuvenated, the boys work their way into Los Arms Hospital and try to sell Brighto to the patients. Eventually, they enter the superintendent's office to try to make a sale, but the superintendent is the same man whose car's paint job was ruined, and another chase ensues. The Stooges try to escape into an elevator, but the man is inside, so the Stooges close the door on him and send him to the top floor by turning the elevator arrow. The boys then make a hasty exit by riding a hospital gurney into the street, where they use a blanket as a sail. After causing an auto accident, they run home, jump through a window into their bed, and resume sleeping.
Cast
Production notes
Filming of Dizzy Doctors was completed between December 9 and 12, 1936. The footage of the Stooges sailing on a gurney through the city streets would be reused in From Nurse to Worse.
The Stooges try to sell their medicine in the Los Arms Hospital; this is the same hospital seen in Men in Black.
This is the first of three Stooge shorts with the word "dizzy" in the title.
When Moe hits each of the skulls in turn each sounds a different note. The tones are a parody of the G-E-C pattern used for the NBC Chimes.
A colorized version of this film was released in 2006. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Stooges on the Run".
References
External links
Dizzy Doctors at threestooges.net
1937 films
1937 comedy films
Columbia Pictures short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Del Lord
The Three Stooges films
American slapstick comedy films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films |
8471717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East/West | East/West | East/West (; ) is a 1999 drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve and Sergei Bodrov Jr. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
In 1946, Stalin calls all White Russian émigrés who fled to the West after the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917, back to the USSR in order to help rebuild the devastated motherland in the aftermath of the Second World War and offers them citizenship. Among a group of French émigrés is the doctor Alexei Golovin (Menshikov), who believes in Stalin's promises of a peaceful new beginning, his French wife Marie (Bonnaire), and their young son Serjoscha. The atmosphere on the ship taking them to Russia is jovial, with drinking and singing. But as soon as they dock in Odessa, it is clear that Stalin was using his promises as an excuse to murder the exiles or have them put in Gulags. Once ashore, the Soviet authorities separate them into two groups, 'fit' and 'unfit'. A young man is shot trying to run back to his father from whom he is separated, and the Golovins begin to understand the situation they have landed in.
On arrival Marie is branded a spy by a Soviet official, and her French passport is torn up. The family moves into a cramped apartment in a communal house in Kyiv and Alexei accepts a job overseeing workers' health in a factory. Marie briefly befriends the elderly housekeeper — who speaks some French—but this lady is quickly 'denounced', taken away, and ends up dead. Her grandson Sasha (Bodrov) is left without a home when a couple arrive and claim his grandmother's room. Marie invites him to live in the Golovin's room.
Marie feels stifled and repressed and wants to go back to France. She attempts to go to the Soviet authorities and ask to be sent back, but she is stopped by Alexei. Public non-compliance, he knows, could get them all killed. She also approaches a visiting French actress, Gabrielle (Deneuve), and attempts to gain her help in escaping the USSR. Marie and Alexei grow distant as he assumes his role as the public health advisor and publicly toes the party line, while she yearns for France. Her budding friendship with Sasha, who is a champion swimmer recently thrown out of the local team, becomes a vehicle of possible escape. As she helps him train in order to regain his position on the team, they see an opportunity to go West for the European championships, and help them both towards liberation. Marie gains a job working to iron costumes for the military choir in Kyiv.
Maria and Alexei fall out after he publicly thanks the Soviet government and she is furious. Alexei then reveals that he has slept with a neighbor, Olga, because Marie has become distant and the other woman 'looks at him differently' than the resentment he constantly gets from Marie. She throws him out and he begins to live in the neighboring room with Olga.
Sasha wins the trials and is selected for the championships in Vienna. After the selection, he spends the night with Marie. Soon after, Marie's letters to her French family are discovered in his bags and his coach warns her to stay away. Sasha goes to a training camp by the Black Sea.
While away for training, Sasha arranges for himself to be smuggled on a ship out of the USSR and needs money to pay for it. Marie obtains the money and comes to the port city with the military choir. The ship captain at first tries to go back on the agreement, but then explains that he can't come close to shore, so Sasha attempts to swim six hours out to meet him far offshore. Marie is brutally interrogated by the same KGB official she first met when she came to the USSR. A French magazine article reveals that Sasha was successful in escaping to the West, Marie is implicated and jailed for six years.
Upon her release, her now teenage son and husband come to receive her. She reconciles with Alexei, and he promises her he still loves her. Two years later they are in a delegation to Sofia, Bulgaria where Alexei reveals to Marie that he has arranged for her escape over the intervening years by writing to the actress Gabrielle. Marie and her son escape with Gabrielle to the French embassy. Alexei is arrested for complicity and sent to be a medic in a gulag in Sakhalin. With the advent of glasnost in the Soviet Union he finally returns to France in 1987.
Cast
Sandrine Bonnaire as Marie Golovina
Oleg Menshikov as Alexey Golovin
Catherine Deneuve as Gabrielle Devele
Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Sasha Vasilyev
Grigori Manoukov as Pirogov
Tatyana Dogileva as Olga
Bohdan Stupka as Colonel Boyko
Hubert Saint-Macary as embassy advisor
Atanass Atanassov as Viktor
Valentin Ganev as Volodya Petrov
Reception
Critical response
East/West has an approval rating of 65% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 31 reviews, and an average rating of 6.53/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews"
Awards
Nominated
1999 Golden Globes: Best Foreign Language Film
1999 César Awards:
Best Film
Best Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire
Best Director: Regis Wargnier
Best Music: Patrick Doyle
1999 Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film — Regis Wargnier
1999 National Board of Review Awards: Best Foreign Film
Won
2000 Miami International Film Festival: Audience Award
2000 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Audience Award
2000 Santa Barbara International Film Festival: Audience Choice Award
See also
List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
1999 films
1999 drama films
1990s French-language films
1990s historical drama films
1999 multilingual films
1990s political drama films
1990s Russian-language films
Bulgarian historical drama films
Bulgarian multilingual films
Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era
Films directed by Régis Wargnier
Films scored by Patrick Doyle
Films set in the 1940s
Films set in the 1950s
Films set in Kyiv
Films set in Odesa
Films shot in Bulgaria
Films shot in Kyiv
Films shot in Odesa
France 3 Cinéma films
French historical drama films
French multilingual films
French political drama films
Russian historical drama films
Russian multilingual films
Spanish historical drama films
Spanish multilingual films
1990s French films |
8471720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico%20Miranda | Federico Miranda | Federico Miranda (born January 20, 1976, in San Jose, Costa Rica) is the guitarist for the Costa Rican music group Gandhi.
Early life
When growing up, the young Miranda was always surrounded by music, his sister played the organ and his uncles played guitar. When he was 9 years old, he wanted to play violin but, when he turned 12, he got his first electric guitar and starting reading books and magazines due to the lack of a teacher; two years later, he had started his first band. Several years later, he became interested in jazz and other genres, which led him to many different teachers. He, then, went to Berklee College of Music, where his interest towards jazz, flamenco, Celtic, and Latin music grew even more. Miranda is also a graduate of Electrical Engineering. He has acknowledged the influence of many guitarists including Joe Satriani and Eddie Van Halen.
Gandhi
Federico met Luis Montalbert-Smith and Abel Guier in highschool, while Massimo Hernández was met through a friend of Federico's sister. The band started only with Federico and Luis, they played together in a highschool contest and won 2nd place. Abel and Massimo joined the band afterwards and began doing mostly covers and a couple of original songs. They gave their first concert in a bar in San Jose in 1993. Of Gandhi's musicians, Federico is the most acquainted with harmony and theory, he writes most of their musical arrangements.
Solo work
Federico also performs often with his instrumental jazz-fusion group, Baula Project, whose debut album was released in June 2005.
In May 2008 Miranda participated with Baula Project's music in the Guitar Idol online contest and got a score of 837 points even though he entered late and only participated for one week.
References
Federico Miranda Official Site
Gandhi's Official Site
Federico Miranda at Guitar Idol
Living people
1976 births
Costa Rican guitarists
Musicians from San José, Costa Rica
21st-century guitarists |
8471756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulyn%20Sun | Paulyn Sun | Paulyn Sun (born Suen Kai-kwan; 11 September 1974), also known as Alien Sun and Pauline Suen, is a Hong Kong-based Singaporean actress.
Background
She became a Champion of the Miss Singapore Universe and represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 1994 but was unplaced. She quit her job in business development to launch an acting career in Hong Kong.
In 1996, she was offered HK$20 million to pose nude and rejected the offer. She was the first female from Singapore to be nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award in 1997 for her role in Island of Greed.
In 2000, she was featured in Wong Kar-wai's award-winning film In The Mood For Love but most of her scenes were not put into the final cut. She has worked in many commercials for ATV and beauty products in an effort to further advance her career. She is lesser known than her acting peers in Hong Kong despite her efforts. She can fluently speak English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese and has used all four languages in her roles.
Sun has said during the DVD documentary for Ichi the Killer that her nickname "Alien Sun" was given to her by classmates in school who made fun of her for having a head that was slightly disproportionately larger than her body during childhood.
In 2012, Sun returned to the media industry after a 10 years break.
Sun has two children with her former boyfriend.
Filmography
Project Gutenberg (2018)
The Vanished Murderer (2015)
Insanity (2015)
Sara (2015)
Hardcore Comedy (2013)
May We Chat (2013)
A Wedding Or A Funeral (2004) - Shirley
Fu bo (2003)
Bless The Child (2003)
Sun Wukong (2002) (TV Series) - The Spider Evil
Every Dog Has His Date (2001) - Cathy
The Accidental Spy (2001) - (looking at gym instruments)
Ichi the Killer (2001) - Karen
In the Mood for Love (2000) (voice) - Mrs. Chow
Last Ghost Standing (1999) - Officer Suen
Troublesome Night 4 (1998) - Apple
Love & Sex of the Eastern Hollywood (1998) - Selina/Pink
The Untold Story 2 (1998) - Fung
Island of Greed (1997) - Tsui Miu-Heung
Killing Me Hardly (1997) - Starry
Up for the Rising Sun (1997)
Mr. Mumble (1996) - Sharon
Love and Sex Among the Ruins (1996) - Madam Ron
Lover's Tears (1996) -
Banana Club (1996) - Vee
Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995) - Bonnie
Lover's Tears (1995) - Kam Hing
The Golden Girls (1995) - May Chu
Doug's Choice (1994)
References
1974 births
Living people
Miss Universe 1994 contestants
Singaporean beauty pageant winners
Singaporean film actresses
Singaporean expatriates in Hong Kong
Singaporean people of Teochew descent
Singaporean television actresses
20th-century Singaporean actresses
21st-century Singaporean actresses |
8471778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20Kennedy%20%28politician%29 | Paddy Kennedy (politician) | Patrick Kennedy (3 September 1942 – 3 May 1999) was a Northern Irish politician.
Kennedy joined the Republican Labour Party (RLP) and was elected to Belfast City Council in 1967. He became involved in the civil rights protests and was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, and joined the Central Citizens Defence Committee. In the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, Kennedy was elected for Belfast Central.
In August 1969, during intensive rioting in his constituency, he tried, without success, to get the Royal Ulster Constabulary to withdraw the armoured cars and heavy machine guns they were using against the rioters. After the rioting, in which Catholic residents of mixed areas in Belfast were burned out, Defence Committees were formed to defend nationalist areas. In September 1969, Kennedy was the Falls Road Citizens Defence Committee's delegate in talks with James Callaghan.
In 1970, RLP leader Gerry Fitt left to help establish the Social Democratic and Labour Party. Kennedy was elected as the new leader of the RLP. The following year, he held a press conference in Belfast where he introduced Joe Cahill, a leading figure in the Provisional IRA, intending that this would show the ineffectiveness of internment. While successful as a media event, appearing with the IRA led many constitutional nationalist politicians to refuse to work with him.
In 1971, he withdrew from Stormont, which was suspended the following year. He stood unsuccessfully in Belfast West as a candidate for the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973. As both he and Harry Diamond, the other RLP candidate, were defeated, it was decided to wind up the party. In the late 1970s, Kennedy moved to Dublin, where he trained as a barrister before becoming a planning consultant.
Death
Kennedy died at age 56 in 1999 from cancer. He was survived by his wife and five children.
References
Sources
1942 births
1999 deaths
Leaders of political parties in Northern Ireland
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1969–1973
Politicians from Belfast
Republican Labour Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
Deaths from cancer in the Republic of Ireland
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Belfast constituencies |
8471781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Beltr%C3%A1n | José María Beltrán | José María Beltrán Ausejo (3 June 1898 - 22 January 1962) was a prolific Spanish cinematographer who worked in Spanish, Argentine, Venezuelan and Brazilian cinema. He was involved in the cinematography of almost 80 films between 1925 and his death, and is best known for his work in Argentina in the 1940s and early 1950s.
He worked with director Francisco Múgica on a number of Argentine films including the 1942 film Adolescencia'''. His photography for the 1951 film La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde won him significant recognition in Europe and he won best photography at the Cannes Film Festival of that year. In 1952 he worked on one of the most acclaimed films of that year Las Aguas Bajan Turbias (1952) which won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film in 1953. He died in Zaragoza.
Selected filmography
Sister San Sulpicio (1927)
Our Lady of Sorrows (1934)
Juan Simón's Daughter (1935)
Paths of Faith (1938)
The Intruder (1939)
Isabelita (1940)
The Englishman of the Bones (1940)
White Eagle (1941)
Our Natacha (1944)
The Phantom Lady (1945)
Savage Pampas (1945)
Where Words Fail'' (1946)
External links
Spanish cinematographers
1898 births
1962 deaths
People from Zaragoza
Argentine cinematographers |
8471788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potente | Potente | Potente is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Franka Potente (born 1974), German actress
Osvaldo Potente (born 1951), Argentine retired footballer |
8471795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20of%20Saint%20Mary%20%28Miami%29 | Cathedral of Saint Mary (Miami) | The Cathedral of Saint Mary () (Haitian Creole: Katedral Sen Mari) is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. The cathedral is named for Mary, mother of Jesus, and is located at 7525 N.W. 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida, United States. Since June 2010, Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski has served as the archbishop of Miami, Rev. Christopher Marino is the cathedral's rector.
History
In August 1929, under the title of The Little River Mission Club, 14 men and women met in a store on Northeast 79th Street near 2nd Avenue to form a new parish. Bishop Patrick Barry of the St. Augustine Diocese (1922–1940) stated they would need 100 Catholic families for a parish. Three lots were purchased on the northwest corner of Northwest 2nd Avenue and Northwest 75th Street. In April 1930, ground was broken for a church. The first mass was celebrated in a wooden structure on July 20, 1930. Father William Wilkinson, S.J., of Gesu Church was the celebrant and Monsignor William Barry, P.A., pastor of St. Patrick's Church on Miami Beach, preached the homily.
In October 1930, Father Patrick Joseph Roche of County Limerick, Ireland was appointed the first pastor of St. Mary's Parish. The parish area was from 36th Street North to the Broward line and from Biscayne Bay west to the Dade County line. In 1931, a rectory was constructed on the north side of the church. A parish hall was constructed in 1935 on the north side of the rectory.
One week before Christmas in 1936, the church was moved to a property that had been purchased on the east side of Northwest 2nd Ave. and 75th Street. The wooden church was then remodeled and enlarged by moving the sanctuary back and adding two wings. Capacity after the remodeling was 600 persons. The first celebration in the renovated church was the Sacrament of Confirmation by Bishop Barry in February 1937.
In 1953, Father Roche retired, and Father Patrick J. O’Donoghue was appointed pastor. The groundbreaking ceremonies for a church were held in 1955. Cardinal Edward Mooney of Detroit dedicated the church building on January 27, 1957. The church dome was seven stories above the altar. A southwest corner tower was 12 stories tall. The two mahogany doors at the entrance were high. The ceiling over the altar was high. The nave was long, wide, and five stories high with a foot main aisle and two side aisle altars.
On August 13, 1958, 16 counties of Southern Florida were detracted from the Diocese of St. Augustine to form the Diocese of Miami. St. Mary's Church was announced by the Vatican as the new Cathedral. On October 7, 1958, Auxiliary Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of Pittsburgh was installed as the first bishop of Miami. Shortly thereafter, renovations for the cathedral began and included the addition of a bronze bell weighing more than two tons, and the installation of the cathedral's first pipe organ.
In 1966, Monsignor David Bushey, the appointed rector, completed work on a rectory with offices and living quarters. A parish hall was built in 1967. On June 13, 1968, Bishop Coleman Carroll became the first archbishop of Miami and Metropolitan of the newly created province.
Final funeral services for Jackie Gleason were held at St. Mary's Cathedral in 1987.
Schools
The cathedral has a K-8 parish school, Saint Mary's Cathedral School. It opened in 1939. Its initial enrollment was 230. An influx of Cuban Americans came in the 1960s after the Cuban Revolution.
Leadership
Below are lists of individuals who have led the cathedral.
Diocese of Miami archbishops
Archbishop Coleman Francis Carroll, D.D. (1958–1977)
Archbishop Edward Anthony McCarthy, D.D. (1977–1994)
Archbishop John Clement Favalora, D.D. (1994–2010)
Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski, D.D. (2010–present)
Pastors and rectors
Monsignor Patrick J. Roche, (1930–1953)
Monsignor Patrick J. O’Donoghue, (1953–1966)
Monsignor David E. Bushey, (1966–1970)
Monsignor John J. Donnelly, (1971–1980)
Monsignor Gerald T. LaCerra, (1980–1991)
Monsignor Andrew A. Anderson, (1991–1999)
Monsignor Terence E. Hogan, (1999–2012)
Very Rev. Christopher Marino V.F. (2012–present)
See also
List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
List of cathedrals in Florida
Saint Mary's Cathedral School (Miami, Florida)
References
External links
Official Cathedral Site
St. Mary Cathedral School
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami Official Site
Church buildings with domes
Christian organizations established in 1930
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1957
Mary in Miami
Roman Catholic churches in Miami
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami
Spanish Revival architecture in Florida
1930 establishments in Florida
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States |
8471811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%20Barbican | Warsaw Barbican | The Warsaw Barbican () is a barbican (semicircular fortified outpost) in Warsaw, Poland, and one of few remaining relics of the complex network of historic fortifications that once encircled Warsaw. Located between the Old and New Towns, it is a major tourist attraction.
History
The barbican was erected in 1540 in place of an older gate to protect Nowomiejska Street. It was designed by Jan Baptist the Venetian, an Italian Renaissance architect who lived and worked in the Mazowsze region of 16th century Poland and was instrumental in the redesign of the 14th-century city walls, which by that time had fallen into disrepair. The barbican had the form of a three-level semicircular bastion manned by fusiliers. It was 14 meters wide and 15 meters high from the bottom of the moat, which surrounded the city walls, and extended 30 meters from the external walls.
Almost immediately after its inception, the 4-tower barbican became an anachronism serving virtually no practical purpose. This was largely a result of the rapid advancement in artillery power. It was used in the defense of the city only once, during the Swedish invasion of Poland, on 30 June 1656, when it had to be recaptured by the Polish army of Polish king John II Casimir from the Swedes.
In the 18th century, the barbican was partially dismantled as its defensive value was negligible, and the city benefited more from a larger gate which facilitated movement of people and goods in and out of the city. In the 19th century, its remains were incorporated into newly built apartment buildings (kamienica). During the interwar period, in 1937–1938, Jan Zachwatowicz reconstructed part of the walls and the western part of the bridge, demolishing one of the newer buildings in the reconstruction process. However, a lack of funds delayed the barbican's planned complete reconstruction, and the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany put the plans on hold.
During World War II, particularly the Siege of Warsaw (1939) and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the barbican was largely destroyed, as were most of the Old Town's buildings. It was rebuilt after the war, during 1952–1954, on the basis of 17th-century etchings, as the new government decided it would be cheaper to rebuild the barbican and the nearby city walls as a tourist attraction than to rebuild the tenements. In its reconstruction, bricks were used from historic buildings demolished in the cities of Nysa and Wrocław; most of the barbican was rebuilt, save for two exterior gates and the oldest tower on the side of the Old Town. It is currently a popular tourist attraction.
See also
Kraków Barbican: the largest barbican in Poland. (Warsaw's is the second-largest.)
External links
Barbican of Warsaw at www.virtualtourist.com
The Warsaw Barbican
History of Barbacan and archival photos
Buildings and structures in Warsaw
Barbicans |
8471812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglizh | Maglizh | Maglizh ( ) is a town in Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Maglizh Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 3,426 inhabitants.
Geography
Maglizh is located in the Kazanlak Valley at the foothills of the Balkan Mountains.
Religion
The population is composed mostly of Christians. There are two churches in the town and a monastery outside it:
Orthodox Church "St. Dimitar" (St. Demetrius) in the upper quarter of the city. The construction of the church was begun by master Kolyu Ficheto (Nikola Fichev), but shortly afterwards he fell ill and the construction was continued by one of his best students - Gencho Novakov. The alst is also the author of the iconostasis. The church is unique in terms of architecture and was declared a monument of culture. The foundation stone of the temple was laid in the 1880s, and the consecration took place in 1891 on St. Demetrius' Day.
Orthodox Church "Assumption of the Virgin Mary".
Monastery "St. Nicholas" . The Saint Nicholas Maglizh Monastery (“Saint Nicholas of the Fog Monastery”) is located a mile north of the city Maglizh on the slopes of the Central Balkans, 13 km east of the city Kazanlak and 33 km from the city of Stara Zagora. The monastery complex includes a church, living quarters, stables, and two chapels – The Saints Peter and Paul Chapel and The Archangel Michael Chapel. The monastery is recognized by all three of these names: The Saint Nicholas Monastery, The Saints Peter and Paul Monastery, and The Archangel Michael Monastery. The oldest object at the monastery is a censer on which there is a Greek inscription dated 1233, which was during the reign of Tsar Ivan-Asen (reign 1218–1241), so the history of the monastery has some connection with the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1393).
After the invasion of the Ottoman Turks during the 14th century, the monastery was often plundered and burned, and then rebuilt. In 1834, the current church at the monastery was erected, which is a single-nave, single-apse construction without a cupola. A point of interest in the church is that some of the Bulgarian saints depicted by the masters on the church's icons are wearing traditional Bulgarian clothing. During the Russo-Turkish war (1877-1888), the Ottomans again set fire to the monastery, but the local residents were able to rebuild it in just a year and a half. The monastery maintained a school for rug weaving, and it also provided shelter for revolutionaries who fought to liberate the country from the Ottomans. Vasil Levski (1837-1873), known as an apostle of the Bulgarian revolution, stayed at the monastery on several occasions. In 1922, the monastery was converted into a convent, and there are still a few nuns living on the premises.
Main sights
Museums
Maglizh has one of the richest collections of ores and minerals in Bulgaria. It was donated to the city by Academician Yovcho Smilov Yovchev, originally from Maglizh. The collection is on display in the community center.
Exhibition of paintings by artists from Maglizh, and paintings on silk by the young artists of the city can be seen in the children's center - in the building of the cinema 3rd floor.
Nature
"Skokovete" - thus are called the two waterfalls that are located on the "Selchenska" River, descending through a picturesque gorge above the town of Maglizh. The falls were declared a natural wonder in 1965. The "Golemia Skok"(The Big Drop) waterfall is located about 40 minutes away along fearsome cliffs, shady glades and pools, and after crossing the river several times. Its height is 15 m. The "Malkia Skok"(The Little Drop) is a fall before the big fall and is a small pool formed by a drop.
Vinishki Rock Nature Reserve, where an icon dedicated to The Holy Trinity has been carved into the cliff. It is a rock formation above the Maglizhki monastery, to the north. A large cross was erected on top of the rock, visible from afar. Suitable for rock climbing.
Other
Maglishka tomb - belongs to the architectural style of the domed tombs. It is a cultural monument of national importance. In the summer of 1965, about 3 km west of Maglizh, in connection with the construction of an industrial facility, was conducted an excavation of Thracian burial mound with a height of 13 m, and a diameter of 48 m. It is part of a large necropolis, located over a large area to the southern slopes of the mountain, and one of the many tombs in The Valley of the Thracian Rulers.
Memorial monument to those who died in battle. The monument is located in the central square of the city. It represents an inclined structure coated with dark gray marble and dark green granite. It consists of four parts - three are marble and thereon are inscribed the names of the 166 residents from the city who have died during World War I, the Balkan Wars, and World War II. The 4th part - granite, has an embossed honorary sign and the inscriptions "Bulgaria, they died for you ..." and "From the grateful descendants of the town of Maglizh."
Events
Every year on Palm Sunday the citizens of Maglizh celebrate their town's holiday. Citywide celebrations with diverse cultural and musical program are organized.
Honour
Maglizh Rocks off Smith Island, South Shetland Islands are named after Maglizh.
Literature
Vapirev, N., Collection of articles and materials on the history of the city of Maglizh, Samizdat, 2008, page 130
Vapirev, N., Collection of articles and materials on the history of the city of Maglizh, Samizdat, 2011, page 242
Joint scientific study, Maglizh and the people of Maglizh in the 20th century. SU „Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, 2013, page 312,
External links
Maglizh Municipality website
Maglizh photos
Information about the monument to the fallen for their country in Maglizh
References
Populated places in Stara Zagora Province
Towns in Bulgaria |
8471824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Integrated%20Mission%20in%20East%20Timor | United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor | The United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMIT) was established on 25 August 2006 by UN Security Council Resolution 1704. Its objectives are "to support the Government in consolidating stability, enhancing a culture of democratic governance, and facilitating political dialogue among Timorese stakeholders, in their efforts to bring about a process of national reconciliation and to foster social cohesion". In its most recent resolution on UNMIT, the Council extended its mandate until 26 February 2012. UNMIT and ISF troops left the country at the end of 2012.
Past missions
The United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) (June—October 1999) was mandated to organise and conduct a popular consultation to ascertain whether the East Timorese people accepted a special autonomy within Indonesia or rejected the proposed special autonomy, leading to East Timor's separation from Indonesia . UNAMET was a political mission.
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) (October 1999 – May 2002) was a peacekeeping operation. The Security Council established UNTAET following rejection by the East Timorese of special autonomy. UNTAET exercised administrative authority over East Timor during the transition to independence.
The United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) (May 2002 – May 2005), also a peacekeeping mission, was mandated to provide assistance to the newly independent East Timor until all operational responsibilities were fully devolved to the East Timor authorities, and to permit the new nation, now called Timor-Leste, to attain self-sufficiency.
Once the peacekeeping mission withdrew, a new political mission, the United Nations Office in East Timor (UNOTIL) (May 2005 – August 2006), supported the development of critical State institutions and the police and provided training in observance of democratic governance and human rights.
Background
UNOTIL was scheduled to end its mandate in May 2006, and the Security Council had already received the UN Secretary-General's recommendations for the post-UNOTIL period. However, a series of events culminating in a political, humanitarian and security crisis of major dimensions led the Council to prolong UNOTIL's mandate, ultimately to 20 August 2006, and to request new recommendations taking into account the need for a strengthened United Nations presence. Against this background, East Timor urgently requested police and military assistance from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Portugal. On 26 May, incoming international forces began securing key installations in the country.
Request for a new mission
On 11 June 2006, the President of East Timor, the President of the National Parliament and the Prime Minister wrote to the Secretary-General requesting that he propose to the Security Council to establish a United Nations police force in East Timor to maintain law and order until the national police could undergo reorganisation and restructuring. The Secretary-General requested his Special Envoy, appointed on 25 May 2006, to lead a multidisciplinary assessment mission to East Timor to identify the scope of tasks to be undertaken by a post-UNOTIL mission and to develop recommendations for a future UN presence. The mission conducted its assessment from 26 June to 9 July.
Secretary-General's recommendations
The Secretary-General recommended the establishment of a United Nations multidimensional, integrated mission, with the mandate to support the Government of East Timor and to assist it in its efforts to bring about a process of national reconciliation; to support the country in all aspects of the 2007 presidential and parliamentary electoral process; to ensure, through the presence of United Nations police with an executive policing mandate, the restoration and maintenance of public security; to assist in liaising with the Indonesian military through the impartial presence of United Nations Military Liaison Officers; and to assist in further strengthening the national capacity for the monitoring, promotion and protection of human rights.
The mandate would also include provisions to assist the Prosecutor-General in resuming the investigative functions of the former Serious Crimes Unit; mainstream gender perspectives and those of children and youth; and ensure the security and freedom of movement of United Nations and associated personnel. The Secretary-General recommends that the mission be established for an initial period of 12 months, until after the implementation of the 2007 election results.
To fulfil the mandate of the mission, a strong civilian component would be required. The component would include a United Nations civilian police element of substantially greater strength than that in UNOTIL, with the support of a small United Nations military component. The mission would operate under the leadership of the Secretary-General's Special Representative. The Special Representative would have overall authority over other United Nations activities in East Timor in support of the mission's mandate, and would provide leadership, political guidance and support to the United Nations system in this regard. The Special Representative would be assisted by a senior management team, comprising among others, a police commissioner and a force commander.
The Special Representative would be supported by a political affairs unit, a planning and best practices unit, a legal affairs unit, a conduct and discipline unit, a public information and outreach unit, a joint operations centre, a joint mission analysis centre, a resident auditor's unit and a senior gender adviser.
Establishment of UNMIT
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General and, among other things expressing its appreciation and support for the deployment of the international security forces, the Security Council, by its resolution 1704 (2006) of 25 August 2006, decided to establish the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMIT) for an initial period of six months, with the intention to renew for further periods. The Council also decided that UNMIT would consist of an appropriate civilian component, including up to 1,608 police personnel, and an initial component of up to 34 military liaison and staff officers. The Council requested the Secretary-General to review the arrangements to be established between UNMIT and the international security forces and affirmed that it would consider possible adjustments in the mission structure taking into account the views of the Secretary-General.
The Security Council mandated UNMIT to, among other things, support the Government and relevant institutions with a view to consolidating stability, enhancing a culture of democratic governance and facilitating political dialogue; and to support East Timor in all aspects of the 2007 presidential and parliamentary electoral process. UNMIT would also provide support to the national police, assist in conducting a comprehensive review of the role and needs of the security sector and co-operate and co-ordinate with United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and all relevant partners in view of making maximum use of assistance in post conflict peace-building and capacity building. For complete details of the mandate, see Mandate section.
UNPOL deployment
Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, India, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Senegal, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Other staff and military
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Fiji, Japan, India, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan,
Philippines, Portugal, Sierra Leone, and Singapore.
Peacekeepers and prostitution
Men in the peacekeeping force of the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor, which assisted police and took part in prostitution raids, were accused of taking part in prostitution It was alleged they frequented brothels, including those using trafficked women. UN vehicles were used to pick up street prostitutes. There were also allegations that a ship chartered by the UN was being used to traffic children for prostitution in the country.
See also
Foreign Aid to Timor Leste
References
External links
United Nations operations in East Timor
2006 establishments in East Timor
2006 disestablishments in East Timor
Military operations involving India |
8471845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Banya | Pavel Banya | Pavel Banya () is a small town in Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria, located between the towns of Kalofer and Kazanlak. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Pavel Banya Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,918 inhabitants. The place is famous for its mineral springs.
Geography
Pavel Banya is located 24 km west of Kazanlak, neighboring Koprinka Reservoir. The town is situated in the central part of Bulgaria, between the Balkan Mountains and the Sredna Gora in the Rose Valley, near the Tundzha River. It is 22 km west of Kazanlak and 185 km east of Sofia. Some archeological finds include the tomb of the Thracian king Sevt III in the Golyama Kosmata and the tomb of the Thracian king Ostrusha.
Climate
Since it is above sea level, the town has a continental mediterranean climate. Pavel Banya has warm summers, with an average of in July, and colder winters, with an average of in January.
History
Pavel Banya is a relatively new community. It was founded after Bulgaria was freed from Ottoman rule in 1878. The remains of early Orthodox Christian churches have been discovered, along with Roman baths. It was named after St. Pavel (Paul) and Prince Pavel, the Russian Tsar-Liberator's brother.
Religion
People of different religions live in Pavel Banya. The various religious holidays are respected by the populace. In the town, there is a Bulgarian Orthodox church. Although there is no mosque in Pavel Banya itself in the municipality, several of the surrounding villages, some of which are entirely or almost entirely ethnically Turkish, do have mosques. Many inhabitants of Pavel Banya are Turkish, and are therefore Muslim. They speak Bulgarian as well as Turkish, and are respected. They come to Pavel Banya for the natural mineral water, for purposes such as drinking and bathing.
Politics
All Bulgarian political parties are represented in local politics. The mayor of the municipality, Stanimir Radevsky, was elected as an independent candidate. The two vice-mayors are from the Union of Democratic Forces and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, respectively.
Resources
Mineral water in Pavel Banya is used in paid public and private baths for healing. Pavel Banya has nine hot springs with temperatures of around 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Two of the hot springs serve strictly for medical purposes and frequently admit patients with bone and joint disorders, orthopedic trauma, and central nervous system problems. The mineral water of Pavel Banya is characterized by weak mineralization (low quantity of dry matter per liter, about 2 grams) and hyperthermality – 57 to 59 degrees Celsius at the spring. The water is rich of hydrocarbon, metasilicon, radon, and fluorine. The mineral water in Pavel Banya is a large reason for nearby country-inhabitants to visit.
Landmarks
Other than its fresh mineral water, Pavel Banya municipality is an appreciated Bulgarian town because of its variety of valuable landmarks in its area:
In the Turiya village, Pavel Banya municipalityq there is 200-year-old branchy Hornbeam--a rare species of tree.
Parts of the Central Balkan National Park are included in the Pavel Banya Municipality territory
Another interesting landmark is Chudomir's native house located in Turiya - the village where Dimitar Ivanov Chorbadzhiyski, a famous Bulgarian artist and writer, was born. Today the house of birth of Chudomir is transformed into an ethnographical house-museum.
In the village of Tazha, there is an Ethnographic Exhibition.
Dzhananova House in the village of Gabarevo - an old Revival house built in 1882 and declared a site of National value, houses the house-museum of Vasil Levski. Here Vasil Levski – the Apostle of Bulgarian Liberty, founded the local Revolutionary committee in 1869. Today the house-museum offers its visitors an exposition reproducing the authentic arrangement of a typical Gabarevo Revival house.
The Raducheva kashta house – a restored house, situated in the village of Gabarevo and built in the 19th century is a site of interest to see. Its second floor houses a private museum dedicated to the way of life, culture and traditions of the Karakachans (Sarakatsani).
The “St. George” Stone Church in Gabarevo village was built in 1885. The church is located in the center of the village. It fascinates its viewers with an exceptionally beautiful finely woodcarved iconostasis – made by Masters from the famous Tryavna Art School.
Damascena ethnographic complex - gives the visitors in the area a unique opportunity to combine balneotherapy with cognition about the process of rose-oil distillation, which is so characteristic of this region. The complex includes:
Ethnographic collection containing folk style items used during the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Old rose-oil distillation installation used some 350 years ago
Modern rose-oil distillery
Park planted with decorative roses
Places for relaxation (alcoves, walk alleys)
Economy
Pavel Banya's economy is based on hydrotherapy tourism and cultivation of flower oils (lavender, Kazanlak roses, and salvia).
Rose oil production in Pavel Banya Municipality is one of the main sectors of the local economy. On municipal territory there are 9 active distillery and over rose plants.
Environment, daily life, and activities
Pavel Banya consists mainly of rocky roads and gardens, surrounding a busy and bustling town square. Citizens often ride bicycles, walk around, and shop in the town center. Stray dogs and cats can be found at every corner, though most people take some dogs and cats in as their own, or feed them daily at a certain time. Because the inhabitants of Pavel Banya are not accustomed to internet devices, children are often seen playing outside.
Events
A unique three-day feast is organized annually in the first days of June – The Rose and Mineral Water Festival. The festivities are very popular among Bulgarians and foreigners alike. The program includes an international folk festival, opening of the swimming season, rose picking, and a carnival; the festival culminates in selecting the Queen Rose. The culmination of the celebration is on the last day, when the ritual "Rose picking" and rose oil distilling are presented in traditional and modern techniques, then a spectacular procession of all participants in the celebration passes on the streets. The Feast takes place every year for three days at the end of the second week of June.
Resorts and spas
Several hotels and spas can be found in Pavel Banya, containing large amounts of its famous mineral water. Nearly every spa has pools and other water facilities containing mineral water from the natural springs.
References
External links
Pavel Banya – trakia-tours.com
Pavel Banya – visitbulgaria.net
Populated places in Stara Zagora Province
Towns in Bulgaria
Spa towns in Bulgaria |
8471867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor%20of%20Moscow | Mayor of Moscow | The mayor of Moscow () is the head and the highest-ranking official of Moscow, who leads the Government of Moscow, the main executive body of the city.
Moscow is both a city and separate federal subject, according to the Constitution of Russia. Most federal subjects are headed by governors, but the office of the head of Moscow is called Mayor of the City of Moscow, according to the Charter of the city of Moscow.
Sergey Sobyanin, the incumbent Mayor of Moscow, was re-elected for a new term in 2018 and then in 2023.
Responsibilities
The separate office of the Premier of the Government of Moscow existed in 1991-2001 (Yuri Luzhkov was the only officeholder), but it was merged with the office of Mayor of Moscow. 1999 Moscow mayoral election was the last time when the mayor ran together with the vice-mayor.
Mayor of Moscow heads Government of Moscow. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within Moscow. The mayor's office is located in Tverskaya Street and has jurisdiction over all districts of the City of Moscow. The mayor appoints deputy mayors, directors (heads of city departments) and other officials.
The Government of Moscow's budget is the largest regional budget in Russia.
Elections
The position of Mayor of Moscow was elected between 1991 and 2004. In 2004, Vladimir Putin proposed a law to abolish the direct election of governors, the mayor of Moscow, and the presidents of Russian regions. The law was swiftly passed by the parliament. The new legislation changed the election system to an indirect one, in which parliamentary political parties and the President of Russia nominated a candidate who must then have been approved by the Moscow City Duma. Following the 2011–13 Russian protests that followed the 2011 parliamentary election, President Dmitry Medvedev offered to re-introduce the direct elections of the governors and the mayor of Moscow, and legislation to this effect was passed by the Parliament. In the 2013 mayoral election, for the first time in 10 years, the mayor was elected by popular vote.
A candidate to the office must be a citizen of the Russian Federation over the age of 30. Candidates can be nominated both by political parties and as self-nomination. In any case, candidates must pass the "municipal filter" (collection of signatures of municipal deputies).
Latest election
Sergey Sobyanin was re-elected for a new term in 2018.
Mayors of Moscow (1991–present)
Previous heads of Moscow government
Chairmen of the Executive Committee (1917–1991)
Latest election
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! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Candidate
! style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Party
! width="75"|Votes
! width="30"|%
|-
| style="background-color:;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Sergey Sobyanin
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2"| Independent
|
| 70.17
|-
| style="background-color:;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Vadim Kumin
| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party
| CPRF
|
| 11.38
|-
| style="background-color:;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Ilya Sviridov
| style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia
| JR
|
| 7.01
|-
| style="background-color:;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Mikhail Degtyarev
| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party
| LDPR
|
| 6.72
|-
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| style="text-align:left;"| Mikhail Balakin
| style="text-align:left;"| Union of Citizens
|UC
|
| 1.87
|-
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|- style="font-weight:bold"
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Total
|
|100.00
|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Valid votes
|
| 97.15
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Blank ballots
|
| 2.85
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Turnout
|
| 30.91
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="4"| Registered voters
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|-
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"|
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:90%;" colspan="6"|
Official results published by the Moscow City Electoral Commission
|}
See also
Governor of Saint Petersburg
Governor of Sevastopol (Russia)
Government of Moscow
Moscow City Police
References
External links
Official Website
Government of Moscow
Moscow
Moscow
1991 establishments in Russia |
8471887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Janssen | Werner Janssen | Werner Janssen (born Werner Alexander Oscar Janssen; June 1, 1899 – September 19, 1990) was an American composer and conductor of classical music and film scores. He was the first New York-born conductor to lead the New York Philharmonic. For his film work he was nominated for six Academy Awards.
Formative influences and career
Werner Alexander Oscar Janssen was born in New York City on June 1, 1899 to August Louis Janssen and Alice Bianca E. ( Von Boeckmann) Janssen. His father was a New York restaurateur, founder of the Janssen Hof Brau Haus on Broadway. The family lived in Great Neck on King's Point Road next door to musician George M. Cohan. It was Cohan who encouraged young Werner to continue to play piano and explore his passion for music. Cohan described the interplay of the families as he states, "I'll hold to my dying day that Werner became a musician because his dad made him practice the piano all day to keep me awake, just to get even with me for playing all night and keeping him awake." Werner recounted that his first two music students were the daughters of George M. Cohan, whom he taught in their home. As a teenager Werner remembers hearing the first renditions of "Over there" from across the fence between the houses. Cohan reflected on those days, writing to Werner's father, "those were golden days when you were singing songs and I was trying to write them down next door — they were in fact the happiest of all any days as I look back on them now."
August strongly encouraged Werner to enter the family business, opposing the son's desire for a musical career. After Werner completed secondary school (graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy) he had to support his own musical education at Dartmouth College. He did this by being a waiter, performing in cabarets and theaters, and selling his own popular compositions. At the New England Conservatory of Music he studied with the composers George Chadwick and Frederick Converse. He studied piano with Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt.
Janssen entered the US military (infantry) in World War I. After the war he returned to his studies and earned a bachelor's degree in music at Dartmouth College in 1921. He began to compose jazz songs for Tin Pan Alley. He made recordings as a pianist of two of his popular songs in 1920. He composed for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 and 1926 and wrote several songs which became national hits. This helped finance his conducting studies with Felix Weingartner in Basel, Switzerland (1920–21) and with Hermann Scherchen in Strasbourg, France (1921–25). He also received a Juilliard Fellowship and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for his tone poem for large orchestra in a jazz idiom New Year's Eve in New York. That composition received its premiere from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Howard Hanson on May 8, 1929. In 1930, it was performed by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff, and was recorded in 1929 by the Victor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret. Shilkret and Janssen were later (1945) to exchange roles, with Janssen and his Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles conducting the Genesis Suite, which was conceived and coauthored by Shilkret.
In 1927, he was hired by NBC to conduct symphony concerts over the radio but was dismissed early on. He was engaged in 1929 by Samuel Roxy Rothapfel to conduct at his Roxy Theater but was soon fired from that position as well. Three years of studying in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with mentor Ottorino Respighi resulted in several new compositions including the Louisiana Suite and the string quartet American Kaleidoscope performed by the Quartetto di Roma. His work with that group led to an engagement to conduct the Royal Orchestra of Rome. He also took conducting engagements throughout Europe (including Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Riga, Stockholm, and Turin). He conducted an entire concert of the works of Jean Sibelius in Helsinki in February 1934. Sibelius said of this concert: "You may say that tonight Finland has for the first time discovered my music. This achievement of Janssen's is the deed of a hero". After a second concert, he received the Order of the White Rose on March 8, 1936, from the government of Finland for his contribution to Finnish music.
He was appointed associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1934–35 season, and on November 8, 1934, became the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra. He was conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1937 through 1939. While Janssen filled roles as guest conductor, he was also contracted to write film music. His first credited film score was for The General Died at Dawn (1936), which was nominated for an Academy Award, the first of six Janssen scored films to be nominated. In 1939, he resigned his position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to work with film producer Walter Wanger. He composed several other film scores including Blockade (1938), Winter Carnival (1939), Eternally Yours (1939), Slightly Honorable (1940), The House Across the Bay (1940), Guest in the House (1944), The Southerner (1945), Captain Kidd (1945), A Night in Casablanca (1946), Ruthless (1948), and Uncle Vanya (1957), starring and co-directed by Franchot Tone. He was also responsible for the score for the 1966 German television production Robin Hood, der edle Ritter (Robin Hood, the Noble Knight). He continued to write non-film compositions too, including the Foster Suite (1937), the String Quartet No. 2 (1938), the Octet for Five (1965), and the Quintet for 10 Instruments (1968).
In 1940, he formed the Janssen Symphony in Los Angeles, which became a rival organization to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a forum for contemporary music until 1952. Compositions for this were commissioned from American composers. This group performed and recorded film music, musical theater works, and contemporary musical scores. Numerous recordings were made by Janssen and this orchestra for Capitol Records. Janssen formed a partnership with producer David L. Loew to produce the Musicolor series of classic musical shorts, including Toccata and Fugue (1946) and Enchanted Lake (1947), both filmed in Cinecolor. He was the music director of the Utah Symphony 1946–47, the Oregon Symphony 1947–49, and the San Diego Philharmonic (1952–54). He also had positions at the NBC Symphony Orchestra ("Symphony of the Air") (1956), Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1956–57), the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (1959–61) and the Vienna Volksoper. Recordings with the latter included Karl-Birger Blomdahl's opera, Aniara; and Sergei Prokofiev’s opera War and Peace. He returned to the U.S. in the early 1970s.
Shilkret, described Arthur Judson as being the leading person for choosing symphony conductors, and he quotes Crawford as quoting Hart: "All agree that from 1915 to 1956, at least, Arthur Judson exercised a power and influence in the symphony and concert affairs of this country without equal then or at any other time." Shilkret says that "Werner Janssen tells, in his unpublished autobiography (referenced as 'Janssen, Werner and D. Bruce Lockerbee, ca 1980, While the Music Lasts, unpublished, 261 double-spaced typed pages'), of unintentionally bypassing Judson and later being forced to pay Judson a commission on all of his (Janssen's) performance fees, without getting a single booking from Judson in return."
Personal life
Janssen was married three times, to:
Elsa Schmidt, an Indianapolis brewery heiress, by whom he had two children, Werner Jr. (1924–2012) and Alice (1923–2011, later Krelle). They divorced in 1937.
Ann Harding, the Hollywood actress, whom he married in 1937. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1962. By this marriage he had a stepdaughter, Jane Harding.
Christina Heintzmann, by whom he had a daughter, Jennifer.
Death
Janssen died on September 19, 1990, aged 91, at Stony Brook, New York).
Awards and honours
Juilliard Fellowship
Prix de Rome (Rome Prize) for Musical Composition, American Academy in Rome, 1930
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 1930
Honorary Doctorate in Music (Mus.D. honoris causa) from Dartmouth College, 1935
Order of the White Rose of Finland, Knight First Class, 1936
References
Sources
Composers of Today, 2nd Edition (1936)
Living Musicians 1st Supplement; Living Musicians (1940)
Who Was Who in America, 10th ed., Chicago: Marquis (1993)
External links
Interview with Werner Janssen, July 25, 1987
1899 births
1990 deaths
American male conductors (music)
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Dartmouth College alumni
New England Conservatory alumni
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Musicians from New York City
United States Army personnel of World War I
Pupils of George Whitefield Chadwick
20th-century American conductors (music)
New York Philharmonic
Classical musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians |
8471890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkovo | Gurkovo | Gurkovo ( ) is a small town in the Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Gurkovo Municipality. As of December 2018, the town has a population of 2,723 inhabitants.
It is located along the main route that links the important Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo with the Thrace region of Bulgaria, notably Burgas on the Black Sea.
The town is named after General Iosif Gurko, one of Russian commanders in Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).
Population
As of December 2018, there are 2,723 inhabitants living in the town of Gurkovo. Bulgarians constitute 75% of the population, while Romani people make up the remainder (24%). There are also a few Turks. Main religion is Orthodox Christianity.
References
Populated places in Stara Zagora Province
Towns in Bulgaria |
8471916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Vossler | Karl Vossler | Karl Vossler (6 September 1872, in Hohenheim – 19 September 1949, in Munich) was a German linguist and scholar, and a leading romance philologist. Vossler was known for his interest in Italian thought, and as a follower of Benedetto Croce. He declared his support of the German military by signing the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three in 1914. However, he opposed the Nazi government, and supported many Jewish intellectuals at that time.
In 1897 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg, and in 1909 was named a professor of Romance studies at the University of Würzburg. From 1911 onward, he taught classes at the University of Munich.
Works by Vossler published in English
"Mediaeval culture; an introduction to Dante and his times"; translated by William Cranston Lawton (1929).
"The spirit of language in civilization"; translated by Oscar Oeser (1932).
"Jean Racine"; translated by Isabel and Florence McHugh (1972).
See also
Karl-Vossler-Preis
Notes
External links
Dante Alighieri: Die Göttliche Komödie. Deutsch von Karl Vossler Text Italienisch-Deutsch Koloriert Italienisch-Deutsch koloriert
1872 births
1949 deaths
German Hispanists
Romance philologists
Linguists from Germany
Heidelberg University alumni
Writers from Stuttgart
Academic staff of the University of Würzburg
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin |
8471942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaevo | Nikolaevo | Nikolaevo ( ) is a small town in Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nikolaevo Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 2,872 inhabitants.
References
Populated places in Stara Zagora Province
Towns in Bulgaria |
8471954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Brady | Leo Brady | Leo Brady (January 23, 1917 – November 18, 1984) was a multidimensional American writer and theater artist who also achieved great success as a teacher of young playwrights.
After writing some well-received plays as an undergrad at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Brady published a play version of Richard Connell’s short story Brother Orchid, which became a staple of the Samuel French catalog and inspired Hollywood to adapt the story for a film starring Edward G. Robinson. (Brady received no credit.) In collaboration with Walter Kerr, he wrote Yankee Doodle Boy, a musical about the life of Broadway showman George M. Cohan, which debuted to great success in Washington and received national media exposure along with the endorsement of Cohan himself. Again, Hollywood lifted this idea whole cloth without giving the authors credit, and subsequently released the film version, Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney. Brady received his first major New York credit as the coauthor (again with Kerr) of a 1942 Broadway musical revue called Count Me In. After serving in World War II, where he continued creating as a writer and radio producer for the Army Recruitment Service, Brady returned to civilian life as a drama teacher at his alma mater. For a brief time he wrote film criticism for the Washington Post, while teaching, doing some acting and also beginning his career as a stage director.
In 1949, Brady published his first novel, Edge of Doom, which Samuel Goldwyn produced as a feature film in 1950. Directed by Mark Robson and with a screenplay by Philip Yordan, with post-primary scenes added by writers Ben Hecht and Charles Brackett and directed by Charles Vidor, the film was a rather notorious box office failure. The Hecht-Brackett rewrites, spurred on after the initial screening by the producer's fear that the movie was too bleak, attempted to turn a dark tale of a pathetic murder into some kind of hopeful Hollywood inspirational story. These changes—including a narration by a priest character and prologue and epilogue—were designed to gain the film wider audience appeal. The film still turns up now and then as an acknowledged curiosity piece in the film noir genre.
Brady, a Roman Catholic with a social conscience, followed up Edge of Doom with Signs and Wonders in 1953, yet another novel that criticized the church, in particular what he saw as the phony piety and narrowmindedness of so-called “professional” Catholics of the Knights of Columbus variety. Signs and Wonders received better reviews than his first book but failed to garner the same sales or public attention. Brady didn’t write another novel for 20 years, then published The Quiet Gun, a literary western, and The Love Tap, a mystery, in the 1970s.
In the interim and beyond, Brady dedicated most of his energies to the theater while also turning out a few highly regarded scripts for socially and culturally relevant television programs such as Studio One (TV series) and Omnibus (US TV series). He successfully adapted Greek tragedies for the modern stage, including a version of Oedipus Rex that received rave reviews during a New York engagement in the late ‘50s. Brady later wrote plays that were produced locally in the Washington, D.C., area, including a musical, The Coldest War of All, which received an off-Broadway mounting in 1969. For about five years, he was a major contributor of articles on regional theater to the industry standard Burns Mantle annual Best Plays volumes. Another writing venture he took on successfully was crafting documentary filmscripts for Oscar-winning producer Charles Guggenheim.
As a director, Brady tended toward classics and comedies, with a special affinity for the works of Shakespeare, Shaw, Molière, Chekhov, Ibsen, Anouilh, O’Casey, Synge and Arthur Miller. His lone New York directing credit was an off-Broadway production of the Hecht-MacArthur newspaper drama The Front Page, starring Robert Ryan and Henry Fonda. He also directed Helen Hayes’ final stage appearance in a galvanizing Washington production of O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.
It is as a teacher that Brady has probably had the most influence on the American theater scene. Three of his former playwriting students - Jason Miller (That Championship Season), Michael Cristofer (The Shadow Box), and Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) — have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He also taught Tony and Obie winners Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band), Joseph Walker (The River Niger), and John Pielmeier (Agnes of God).
Personal life
Married to Eleanor Buchroeder (1920–2004). The couple had eight children: Brigid, Peter, Monica, Ann, Martin, Elizabeth, Daniel and John Stephen.
References
External links
1917 births
1984 deaths
American theatre directors
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
Catholic University of America alumni
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American male novelists
American male dramatists and playwrights |
8471957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphophyllite | Phosphophyllite | Phosphophyllite (, and phosphate) is a rare mineral with the chemical formula , composed of hydrated zinc phosphate. It is highly prized by collectors for its rarity and for its delicate bluish green colour. Phosphophyllite is rarely cut because it is fragile and brittle, and large crystals are too valuable to be broken up.
The finest phosphophyllite crystals come from Potosí, Bolivia, but it is no longer mined there. Other sources include New Hampshire, United States and Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany. It is often found in association with the minerals chalcopyrite and triphylite.
Phosphophyllite has been synthesized synthetically by the addition of diammonium phosphate to a solution of zinc and iron sulfate.
References
Zinc minerals
Iron(II) minerals
Phosphate minerals
Luminescent minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 14 |
8471958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Mudo | El Mudo | El Mudo (Spanish for "The Mute") may refer to:
Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526–1579), Spanish painter
Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor known ironically as "El Mudo"
El Mudo (film), a 2013 Peruvian film
Nicknames |
8471965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayton%2C%20Norfolk | Gayton, Norfolk | Gayton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located east of King's Lynn and north-west of Norwich, along the Gaywood River and the B1145 between King's Lynn and Mundesley.
History
Gayton's name is of Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from either the Old Norse for 'goat settlement' or the Old English for 'Gaega's settlement'.
In the Domesday Book, Gayton is recorded as a settlement of 51 households in the hundred of Freebridge. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of William de Warenne, William d'Ecouis, Hugh de Montfort and Henry de Ferrers.
Gayton Hall still stands within the parish. It was built in the early Nineteenth Century and its gardens remain open to the public.
Geography
According to the 2011 Census, Gayton has a population of 1,432 residents living in 657 households. Furthermore, the parish has a total area of .
Gayton falls within the constituency of North West Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by James Wild MP of the Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
St. Nicholas' Church
Gayton's parish church dates largely from the Fourteenth Century and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. In September 2013, James Meade, son of equestrian champion Richard Meade, and Lady Laura Marsham, daughter of Julian Charles Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney, got married in this church. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton were in attendance at the wedding.
Amenities
There is one pub in the village, The Crown. The village also has a butcher's shop, Gayton Goslings care/daycare centre, a hair salon, a fish and chip shop and petrol station combining convenience shop/post office. The village formally had a windmill and is currently seeing a large increase in the building of residential housing.
The majority of local children attend Gayton Church of England Primary School which was rated as a 'Good' school by Ofsted in 2012.
Notable Residents
Julian Marsham (b.1948)- English peer
Martin Brundle (b.1959)- retired British racing driver and commentator
References
External links
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk |
8471986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Love%3A%20A%20Gothic%20Tale | First Love: A Gothic Tale | First Love: A Gothic Tale is a novella by American novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates and illustrator Barry Moser. It tells the story of Josie S_, a girl who goes to stay at her aunt's mansion in upstate New York. While there, she has an incestuous relationship with her cousin, Jared. The novella deals with two of the more common recurring themes in Oates' work: "teenage initiation and perplexing and problematic love."
Plot summary
11-year-old Josie arrives in upstate New York to live with her great-aunt after her mother abandons her father for no apparent reason. There, she meets her 25-year-old cousin, Jared, who is studying to be a minister. Her stay is very unpleasant; she is physically and psychologically abused by both her mother and great-aunt. She is also bullied without mercy at her new school. Her mother turns her away for love and comfort. Feeling abandoned and unloved, she turns to Jared for the affection she longs for. However, Jared's intents are anything but to love and care for her. He uses false affection to get her to self-mutilate herself, drink her own blood, look at pornographic material, and endure verbal abuse from him. He soon begins sexually abusing her, which Josie mistakes to be him expressing true love to her, although she knows that what they are doing is wrong. Jared attempts to force Josie to kidnap a very young girl for him at which point Josie is able to finally resist, leading to the breakdown of the relationship with Jared. The novella ends with Jared's return to the seminary and with Josie looking forward to a new chapter in her life.
Notes
1996 American novels
American gothic novels
American novellas
Novels set in New York (state)
Books illustrated by Barry Moser
Ecco Press books |
8471994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20of%20Lancaster%20Stakes | Rose of Lancaster Stakes | |}
The Rose of Lancaster Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of 1 mile, 2 furlongs and 100 yards (2,103 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early August.
History
The event was established in 1986, and it was initially called the Summer Trophy. It was given its current title and promoted from Listed to Group 3 status in 1989. For a period it was sponsored by Burtonwood Brewery, and it was later backed by the property development firm Petros. The Tote began sponsoring the event in 2007.
The Rose of Lancaster Stakes was formerly contested over 1 mile, 2 furlongs and 120 yards. It was cut to its present distance in 2009. The sponsorship of the race was adopted by Betfred when the company bought the Tote in 2011, and in 2012 it was sponsored by Victor Chandler International. Betfred took over the sponsorship again from 2013 to 2017.
Records
Most successful horse:
no horse has won this race more than once
Leading jockey (3 wins):
Richard Hills – Fahal (1995), Ekraar (2000), Nayef (2001)
Joe Fanning - Mister Monet (2004), Amralah (2014), Frankuus (2017)
Leading trainer (3 wins):
Sir Michael Stoute – Greek Dance (1999), Notable Guest (2005), Class Is Class (2011)
Marcus Tregoning – Ekraar (2000), Nayef (2001), Mulaqat (2006)
Mark Johnston - Mister Monet (2004), Jukebox Jury (2009), Frankuus (2017)
Winners
See also
Horse racing in Great Britain
List of British flat horse races
References
Racing Post:
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Flat races in Great Britain
Haydock Park Racecourse
Open middle distance horse races
Recurring sporting events established in 1986
1986 establishments in England |
8472036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde%20%28novel%29 | Blonde (novel) | Blonde is a bestselling 2000 biographical fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalized take on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe.
Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (2001) and the National Book Award (2000). Rocky Mountain News and Entertainment Weekly have listed Blonde as one of Joyce Carol Oates's best books. Oates regards Blonde as one of the two books (along with 1969's them) she will be remembered for.
Length and editing
At over 700 pages, Blonde is one of Oates' longest works of fiction. In an interview she said, "I intended it to be a novella, somewhere around 175 pages, and the last words would have been 'Marilyn Monroe.' But over time, I got so caught up in her world that I couldn't stop there. The final result was this book. The first draft was, originally, longer than the version that was finally published. Some sections were shortened while others had to be surgically removed from the book. Those sections will be published separately."
Names
Although many notable names are changed, Oates sometimes uses recognizable initials, such as "C"—a male co-star from Some Like It Hot (presumably Tony Curtis)—and more controversially, "R.F", the commander of the Sharpshooter sent to eliminate Monroe (many conspiracy theories have suggested that Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and brother of President John F. Kennedy, was involved in Monroe's death, following her alleged affairs with each of the brothers). The novel explores only a relationship with the President.
In Blonde, Monroe's second and third husbands Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller are referred to as the Ex-Athlete and the Playwright, respectively. Their actual names are never mentioned. James Dougherty, Monroe's first husband, is referred to only by the pseudonym Bucky Glazer.
Adaptations
In 2001, the novel was adapted into a CBS mini-series of the same name, which followed the novel closely. The New York Times reported that "Often the director read the scene in the novel just before shooting it." The mini-series departed from the novel in leaving out the idea (which Oates discusses at length) that Monroe may have been assassinated.
A film adaptation of the novel, written and directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas as Monroe, was released on September 28, 2022, by Netflix. Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastain were both attached to star at various points in pre-production before de Armas secured the role.
References
Biographical novels
Novels by Joyce Carol Oates
2000 American novels
American novels adapted into television shows
Books about Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood novels
Novels about actors
HarperCollins books
American novels adapted into films |
8472042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20method | Flux method | The flux method of crystal growth is a method where the components of the desired substance are dissolved in a solvent (flux). The method is particularly suitable for crystals needing to be free from thermal strain. It takes place in a crucible made of highly stable, non-reactive material. For production of oxide crystals, metals such as platinum, tantalum, and niobium are common. Production of metallic crystals generally uses crucibles made from ceramics such as alumina, zirconia, and boron nitride. The crucibles and their contents are often isolated from the air for reaction, either by sealing them in a quartz ampoule or by using a furnace with atmosphere control. A saturated solution is prepared by keeping the constituents of the desired crystal and the flux at a temperature slightly above the saturation temperature long enough to form a complete solution. Then the crucible is cooled in order to allow the desired material to precipitate. Crystal formation can begin by spontaneous nucleation or may be encouraged by the use of a seed. As material precipitates out of the solution, the amount of solute in the flux decreases and the temperature at which the solution is saturated lowers. This process repeats itself as the furnace continues to cool until the solution reaches its melting point or the reaction is stopped artificially. In flux method synthesis, divergent crystal growth kinetics may emerge, with a small number of crystallites growing at the expense of neighbouring ones, resulting in abnormal grain growth.
One advantage of this method is that the crystals grown often display natural facets, which often makes preparing crystals for measurement significantly easier. A disadvantage is that most flux method syntheses produce relatively small crystals. However, some materials such as the "115" heavy fermion superconductors () may grow up to a few centimeters.
See also
Chemical vapor deposition
Crystal growth
Crystallography
Czochralski process
Epitaxy
Hydrothermal synthesis
Micro-pulling-down
Verneuil process
External links
Flux Method for Preparing Crystals
Growth of single crystals from metallic fluxes
Flux Technique
References
Crystallography
Methods of crystal growth
fr:Cristallogénèse
pt:Cristalografia
sk:Kryštalizácia |
8472055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%20Lake%20%28Northwest%20Arctic%2C%20Alaska%29 | Walker Lake (Northwest Arctic, Alaska) | Walker Lake (Iñupiaq: Qalugluktuaq; Denaakk'e: Taah K'ehoolaanh) is the source of the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska (emptying into Kotzebue Sound). The lake is located near the easternmost part of Northwest Arctic Borough, deep in the remote interior of northern Alaska. Explored during an expedition led by John C. Cantwell in 1885, under the authority of the Revenue Marine. Also known as "Big Fish Lake", Inupiaq legend in the area told of giant, ferocious fish that inhabited the waters. An attempt by a native with the Cantwell expedition to catch one of these giant fish involved a hook made of an entire set of reindeer antlers baited with a whole goose.
In 1968, Walker Lake, was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service.
References
Further reading
Sherwood, M. (1965). Exploration of Alaska: 1865–1900. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
See also
List of lakes of Alaska
List of National Natural Landmarks
List of reported lake monsters
Lakes of Alaska
Bodies of water of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
National Natural Landmarks in Alaska |
8472083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles%20of%20New%20Ulm | Battles of New Ulm | The Battles of New Ulm, also known as the New Ulm Massacre, were two battles in August 1862 between Dakota men and European settlers and militia in New Ulm, Minnesota early in the Dakota War of 1862. Dakota forces attacked New Ulm on August 19 and again on August 23, destroying much of the town but failing to fully capture it. After the second attack, New Ulm was evacuated.
Location
In 1862, New Ulm, Minnesota, had 900 residents and was the largest settlement near the Lower Sioux reservation. After the Battle of Fort Ridgely, the town was seen as a tempting target for a Dakota attack. The topography of New Ulm presented an advantage for the Dakota, since the land rises some 200 feet out of the Minnesota River valley in two large steps (terraces), with wooded area to provide cover for an attack.
Background
In 1851, the Santee Dakota people of Minnesota had been forced to cede to the government their lands of under the terms of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. In 1852, they were moved into a reservation on the Minnesota River. In 1858, the U.S. government additionally purchased the half of the reservation lying north of the Minnesota River for $555,000, to be paid out annually over fifty years. The vast majority of the money was instead stolen by the Indian agents entrusted by the government to distribute it. Following several years of poor harvests, by 1862 the Dakota faced starvation if they did not receive the money they were owed.
When Chief Little Crow complained that despite stacks of provisions in clear sight, theirs by treaty, and that his people had nothing to eat, trader Andrew Myrick responded, "So far as I'm concerned ... let them eat grass or their own dung". Minnesota political leaders, led by Governor Alexander Ramsey, in league with commercial interests, advocated expelling all Dakota from Minnesota.
On August 17, 1862, four young Dakota men killed five white settlers near Acton. Realizing the gravity of the situation, the Dakota convened a war council that night. After much debate a faction led by Little Crow resolved to declare war the next day, with the aim of driving all whites out of the Minnesota River valley. On the morning of August 18 they attacked the Lower Sioux Agency, beginning the Dakota War.
First Battle of New Ulm
Also on the morning August 18, 1862, Dakota warriors attacked Milford Township, Minnesota, killing 54 civilians and wounding many more. A sixteen-man recruiting party for Civil War volunteers that had left New Ulm that morning was ambushed in Milford; the five survivors arrived back at New Ulm at noon bearing news of an impending attack.
New Ulm Sheriff Charles Roos rushed with a few men to Milford, assuming that only a few drunk Dakota were responsible. After finding mutilated corpses and being fired upon, Roos realized that the attacks were much more serious than initially thought and returned to New Ulm. Upon arriving in New Ulm, he wrote to Governor Ramsey requesting immediate aid.
In the meantime Franz Czeigowitz, a former Austrian soldier and New Ulm resident, organized about 50 poorly armed citizens into a defensive militia. The militia had 12 rifles; the rest of the men were armed with shotguns, other poor quality firearms and farm tools. Roos soon turned over command to Jacob Nix, a veteran of revolutionary fighting in the revolutions of 1848 in Europe. The townspeople erected barricades on the streets and sent the women and children into three brick buildings.
The first attack came on August 19, with about 100 Dakota warriors firing on the city from the bluff behind the town. According to Sheriff Roos, they were led by Joseph Godfrey, a former slave who had taken wives from Little Crow's band and Wakute's village. Under the command of Nix, a small number of civilians returned the fire. Later in the day, a thunderstorm discouraged the Dakota from continuing their attack, and there were no leaders present to give orders.
The first attack ended with six settlers killed and five wounded.
Second Battle of New Ulm
Shortly after the first attack, Charles Eugene Flandrau and a relief force from St. Peter and Le Sueur reached New Ulm. The detachment included doctors Asa W. Daniels, Otis Ayer, and William Worrall Mayo. Mayo and William R. McMahan of Mankato set up a hospital in the Dacotah House and Ayer and Daniels set up a hospital in a store across the street. The people of New Ulm quickly named Flandrau their military commander.
Flandrau's forces were bolstered by about a hundred men from Mankato, two companies from Le Sueur, and militias from Brown County, Nicollet County, St. Peter, Lafayette, and New Ulm. In all, Flandrau had about three hundred citizen-soldiers under his command, but most were poorly armed. More than a thousand settlers were barricaded on New Ulm's main street.
On Saturday, August 23, around 9:30 in the morning, the Dakota began their second attack on the city. The defenders attempted to form a defensive picket line several blocks west of town. The Dakota "uttered a terrific yell" and advanced in U-shaped formation, holding their fire until the defenders shot first. The outnumbered defenders quickly retreated in disorder to the barricades in the town center; the numerically superior Dakota soon encircled the entire town. Captain William B. Dodd, second in command, was killed near the log blacksmith shop while leading soldiers beyond one of the barricades in an attempt to link up with a supposed reinforcement column - in reality, a body of Dakota masquerading as militia.
At the climax of the second battle a large body of Dakota used the terrain to mask their movement below the lower terrace and into buildings flanking the town's barricades, from which they could direct devastating enfilade fire against the town's defenders. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Flandrau and Nix led a charge out of the barricades down Minnesota Street and swept away the advancing Dakota.
During the night a new and more compact defensive line was built around the town, and Flandrau ordered the burning of the remaining buildings outside of barricades. In all, 190 structures were destroyed, leaving only 49 residences for 2,500 people. The next morning, August 24, the Dakota reappeared, fired some harmless long-range shots, and then withdrew. Flandrau convened with his officers later that day and decided to evacuate the city (despite objections by Nix and others), due to a shortage of ammunition and food and the outbreaks of disease.
On August 25, 1862, 2000 people, including 153 wagons, evacuated from New Ulm to Mankato, escorted by about 150 men; the group made it to Mankato without incident.
William Watts Folwell, a Minnesota historian, remarked, "This was no sham battle, no trivial affair, but a heroic defense of a beleaguered town against a much superior force."
Flandrau's forces at New Ulm
(Note several other units were under Flandrau's command {Captain H.W.Holley's Company of "Winnebago Guards"; Captain C.I. Post Company of "Fillmore County Volunteer Mounted Infantry"; Captain N.P. Colburn Company of Fillmore County Volunteer Militia; Captain C.F. Buck's Company of "Winona Rangers"; Captain D.L. Davis "Goodhue County Rangers"} served under his command at the Southern Frontier.
Captain Flandrau's Company:
Killed: Lt William Ladd; Privates: Max Heach; Jerry Quane {?} {Indistinct writing};
Wounded:Privates: Ed Andrews; W.C. Estlar; Wm Langharst; George Moser;
Sick: Private: H.Harm
Captain Bierbaur's Mankato Company:
Killed: Privates: N.E. Houghton; Wm Nicolson;
Wounded: Privates:Geo Andrews; F.M. Andrews; Patrick Burns;John Fassat; Adam Freundler
1st Battalion Brown County Militia: {Company B under Captain Ignatz Reinartz Company served at New Ulm Sept 15 to Oct 15, 1862; Lt. Charles Wagner Company C "Irregular State Militia" of New Ulm served from Sept 15 to Oct 10, 1862. Private John Armstrong killed }:
Captain Charles Roos Company "A":
Wounded: Privates: John Peller; Louis Schmitz
Captain Louis Buggert's Company {Brown County Militia}:
Captain A.M Bean's Company {Nicollet County}:
Captain William Dellaughter's Company "Le Sueur Tigers No 1":
Killed: 1st Lt. A. M. Edwards; Private: William Luskey; Luke Smithson {Wounded and died}
Wounded: Private: John Smith
Captain A.E. Saunders's Company "Le Sueur Tigers No 2":
Killed: 5th Sergeant Wm Maloney; Privates: M. Aherin; Wm Kulp;
Wounded: Captain A.E Saunders {Severely}; 4th Corporal Thomas Howard {Slightly in hip};
Lt. William Huey's Company "St Peter {Nicollet County} Guards:
Captain Sidel Depolder's "Lafayette Company"
Captain John Belm's Company of 11th Regiment/3rd Brigade/Minnesota Militia:
Killed: Privates: Jacob Castor; Eagland; Julis Kirchstein; Malbeans Mayer; John C. Michaels; August Roepke; Leopold Senzke;
Died of Wounds: Privates: G.W.Otto Barth; Adolph Stumple {Died in St Paul};
Wounded: Privates: L. Fay; R.Fischer; Julius Guething; William Guething; George Guetlich;Hess; Hansmann; Herriman; :de:Daniel Schillock; August Westphal;
In August 1862, the following units relieved New Ulm:
Captain Joseph Anderson Company of Mounted Men "The Cullen Guard"
Captain E/St. Julian Cox Company of "The Frontier Avengers"
September 1862:
1st Battalion Brown County Militia:
Captain Ignatz Reinartz Company "B" served at New Ulm Sept 15 to Oct 15, 1862;
Lt. Charles Wagner Company C "Irregular State Militia" of New Ulm served from Sept 15 to Oct 10, 1862. Casualty: Private John Armstrong killed.
References
Sources
External links
Colonel Flandrau account of Dakota War – for Battle of New Ulm, see pp. 732–733
Battles of the Dakota War of 1862
Battles of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
Battles of the American Civil War in Minnesota
Brown County, Minnesota
August 1862 events |
8472095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Convent%20%281995%20film%29 | The Convent (1995 film) | The Convent () is a 1995 film by Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, starring Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich and is inspired by an original idea by Agustina Bessa-Luís in her novel As terras do risco. It was entered into the main competition of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The film opens when a Paris-based American professor Michael Padovic and his elegant French wife Hélène arrive at an ancient Portuguese convent in Arrábida where he believes the documents needed to prove his theory might be in its archives: Shakespeare was born in Spain named Jacques Perez, and was Jewish.
The couple is greeted by an enigmatic stranger who refers to himself as Baltar; he is the guardian of the monastery. Baltar introduced them to Berta, the housekeeper and his assistant Baltazar. For his research work, Padovic spends most of his days in the library with the beautiful librarian Piedade, while Hélène is accompanied by Baltar who eventually professes his love towards the elegant lady.
As the tension increases to its dramatic climax, the film ends with an epilogue in the form of on-screen text from a fisherman's report. Baltar and Piedade went missing after a forest fire; Michael and Hélène "left immediately" and are leading a normal life in Paris; Michael abandoned his research on Jacques Perez and is studying occult sciences instead. It nevertheless warns the audience that the fisherman's report might not be reliable.
Cast
Catherine Deneuve as Hélène
John Malkovich as Michael Padovic
Luís Miguel Cintra as Baltar
Leonor Silveira as Piedade
Duarte de Almeida as Baltazar
Heloísa Miranda as Berta
Gilberto Gonçalves as Fisherman
Music
The film centers at the question of Evil vs Good and Devil vs God. Essential to the brooding atmosphere is Oliveira's choice of music by Sofia Gubaidulina (Offertorium, Sieben Worte), and portions of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” and Toshiro Mayuzumi’s “Prelude, for String Quartet.”
Reception
In Portugal, the film was the most popular Portuguese film in 1995 with admissions of 35,000. It received positive reviews in the U.S. from Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Chicago Reader.
References
External links
1995 films
Portuguese thriller films
French thriller films
Films based on Portuguese novels
Films based on thriller novels
Films based on works by Agustina Bessa-Luís
Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Films produced by Paulo Branco
English-language French films
English-language Portuguese films
1995 thriller films
1995 drama films
Films shot in Portugal
1990s French films
Films scored by Toshiro Mayuzumi |
8472102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsjournalists.com | Sportsjournalists.com | Sportsjournalists.com is an Internet forum frequented by journalists who cover sports. In 2006, it was named one of the best non-corporate sports web sites by Sports Illustrated. The forum has been directly involved in several sports journalism controversies:
Michael Gee, a former columnist for the Boston Herald, was fired from a teaching job at Boston University after describing one of his students on Sportsjournalists.com as "incredibly hot"
Wallace Matthews, a columnist for the New York Post, announced his resignation from that newspaper on Sportsjournalists.com and criticized the newspaper for a gossip item many interpreted to claim that Mike Piazza was gay
Sportsjournalists.com was first to report on October 10, 2006, that Woody Paige would leave the TV show Cold Pizza and return to the Denver Post as a columnist. At that time, Woody Paige denied that he would be leaving Cold Pizza. On November 2, it was announced that Woody Paige would return to the Denver Post.
Sportsjournalists.com was briefly shut down in 2002. Breaking sports news and general news items are often posted on Sportsjournalists.com before they are reported in the media.
Notes
Sport Internet forums
American sport websites |
8472111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atarneus | Atarneus | Atarneus (; ), also known as Atarna (Ἄταρνα) and Atarneites (Ἀταρνείτης), was an ancient Greek city in the region of Aeolis, Asia Minor. It lies on the mainland opposite the island of Lesbos. It was on the road from Adramyttium to the plain of the Caicus. Its territory was called the Atarneitis.
Atarneus seems to be the genuine original name, though Atarna, or Atarnea, and Aterne may have prevailed afterwards. Stephanus of Byzantium, who only gives the name Atarna, consistently makes the ethnic name Atarneus. Herodotus tells a story of the city and its territory, both of which were named Atarneus, being given to the Chians by Cyrus the Great, for their having surrendered to him Pactyes the Lydian. Stephanus and other ancient authorities consider Atarneus to be the Tarne written of in the Iliad by Homer; but perhaps incorrectly. The territory was a good corn country. Histiaeus the Milesian was defeated by the Persians at Malene in the Atarneitis, and taken prisoner. The place was occupied at a later time by some exiles from Chios, who from this strong position sallied out and plundered Ionia. Dercylidas besieged the city for eight months and at the end the citizens of the city accepted his terms. He appointed Dracon of Pellene in charge of the city.
Atarneus flowered in the 4th century BCE, when it was the seat of government of Hermias of Atarneus, a friend of Aristotle, ruling over the area from Atarneus to Assos. The city was deserted by inhabitants in the 1st century BCE, possibly following an outbreak of an unknown epidemic. Pausanias says that the same calamity befell the Atarneitae which drove the Myusii from their city; but as the position, of the two cities was not similar, it is not quite clear what he means. They left the place, however, if his statement is true; and Pliny the Elder, in his time, mentions Atarneus as no longer a city. Pausanias speaks of hot springs at Astyra, opposite to Lesbos, in the Atarneus.
The city is known by many for its association with the life of Aristotle. After the death of his father, Aristotle was cared for and educated by Proxenus of Atarneus, possibly an uncle of his. At the Academy Aristotle made friends with Hermias, who was later to become the ruler of Atarneus. Indeed, after the death of Plato, Aristotle went to stay with Hermias, subsequently marrying Hermias's niece Pythia.
According to Pliny the Elder, the Cetionis which was a transparent stone of many colours could be found in Atarneus.
Its site is located at Kale Tepe, northeast of the town of Dikili, Asiatic Turkey.
References
External links
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Buildings and structures in İzmir Province
Former populated places in Turkey
Tourist attractions in İzmir Province
History of İzmir Province
Populated places in ancient Aeolis
Dikili District |
8472124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes%20from%20the%20Underworld | Notes from the Underworld | Notes from the Underworld is the major label debut of Oakland electronic pop group Persephone's Bees.
Track listing
"Way to Your Heart" – 2:59
"Climbing" – 3:07
"City of Love" – 4:04
"Nice Day" – 4:01
"Muzika Dlya Fil'ma" – 5:43
"Even Though I'm Fooling Around" – 3:03
"On the Earth" – 3:08
"Walk to the Moon" – 3:56
"Paper Plane" – 3:33
"Queen's Night Out" – 4:27
"Home" – 6:50
References
Notes from the Underworld
Notes from the Underworld
Albums produced by Eric Valentine
Columbia Records albums |
8472129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Flagstaff | USS Flagstaff | USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) was the only Flagstaff-class patrol gunboat (hydrofoil) and was acquired by the United States Navy because of her relatively low cost and very high speed. She was later loaned by the Navy to the U.S. Coast Guard, as USCGC Flagstaff (WPBH-1). The Coast Guard’s interest in the craft was the craft’s speed and its ability to interdict smugglers and other suspicious craft approaching the U.S. coast.
History of evaluation of high speed craft
In the mid-1970s, the Coast Guard explored options to replace the aging cutters. There was also considerable interest in developing new "high-speed ways" to combat narcotics smuggling by sea, conduct search and rescue operations, fisheries enforcement, and marine environmental protection. The Coast Guard, of course, looked for the most inexpensive way to test new platforms and when the Navy offered the use of some of their hydrofoils at "virtually no cost", the Coast Guard jumped on the opportunity. The Navy loaned the Coast Guard both USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) and for a short period of time beginning in late 1974. Flagstaff was scheduled for evaluation first and High Point was scheduled for evaluation in early 1975. While under Coast Guard ownership, Flagstaff was armed only with small arms.
Service with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam
Flagstaff was developed by the Navy as an experimental vessel under project SCB 252 and was built by Grumman Aerospace Corporation of Bethpage, New York. She was delivered to the Navy in September 1968. After an operational evaluation period, she was deployed to South Vietnam with . The two ships formed Coastal Squadron 3, and were based in Cam Ranh Bay. She conducted patrol missions there until 1970. Flagstaff and Tucumcari were too mechanically complex for the repair facilities in Vietnam, and as a result were ultimately withdrawn from combat. Upon her return to the U.S. in 1970, she was assigned to the Amphibious Forces of the Pacific Fleet where she participated in numerous readiness trials and training exercises and was also used as a test-bed for various craft subsystems, such as the Navy's Advanced Hydrofoil Development Program.
Evaluation of the craft by the U.S. Coast Guard
Both Flagstaff and High Point were scheduled for evaluation by the Coast Guard Hydrofoil Test and Evaluation Team, under guidance from the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, which was formed on 15 August 1974 and remained in existence until 6 May 1975. The Coast Guard commissioned Flagstaff on 8 November 1974 after having her hull painted white and the Coast Guard hull-stripe added. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Douglas F. Gehring, USCG. She operated out of San Diego, California, and other Californian ports during the Coast Guard's evaluation.
Search and rescue operation
During her evaluation, Flagstaff was involved in a number of search and rescue cases. She was dispatched from Long Beach, California, to investigate a report of a burning boat about away. In one hour, the ship was on scene and quickly located a family of three who had jumped into the water to escape the flash fire that had engulfed the cabin of their boat. Flagstaffs speed in arriving on scene was "a major factor in saving the lives of the three".
Problems encountered during test and evaluation
Ultimately, the evaluation demonstrated that she showed promise in both anti-smuggling operations and as a rapid response search and rescue vessel. But machinery breakdowns, a lack of spare parts for her Rolls-Royce turbine, and a collision with a gray whale off the Point Loma Lighthouse that caused $250,000 in damage to her aft strut gearing assembly (and killed the whale) soured the Coast Guard's hopes for her use. It was continually noted in reports that her operation was more like that of an airplane than a ship, particularly her wiring systems which were similar to the wiring used in aircraft. Concerns about weight, habitability, fuel consumption, and overall costs were also prevalent. Her evaluation period ended on 18 February 1975 and she was returned to the Navy.
Second assessment and evaluation by the Coast Guard
The Coast Guard once again acquired Flagstaff from the Navy on 29 September 1976 in San Diego, California, for further evaluation "in a fully operational environment". She was transported to the U.S. East Coast for testing in the "adverse weather conditions" that prevailed in the waters off the New England in the hope of having her conduct actual operational missions. She was home-ported at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The emphasis for this evaluation was to test her capabilities to enforce the new fisheries economic zone, in addition to the traditional Coast Guard missions. The testing period was initially set to last 12 months.
In-commission special status
After arriving on the East Coast, she required numerous repairs to her aging machinery, which was done in Boston, Massachusetts. She was placed "In-Commission-Special" status as a Coast Guard cutter (WPBH-1) on 2 March 1977 after again receiving the Coast Guard livery. Her commanding officer was Lt. Terrance Hart, USCG. Two days later, she transited from Boston to Woods Hole. She was under the operational control of the First District and the plan was to have her operate as a "normal district resource." It was thought that such use would permit comparison of her capabilities to the other District resources, i.e. HH-52As, HU-16Es, and surface craft. USCGC Flagstaff was placed "In-Commission Active" status on 17 July 1977.
Disappointing test and evaluation results
Her use this time, however, was more problematic than the first testing period in 1974. She continually suffered mechanical breakdowns, including problems with her turbine, and the lack of spare parts forced the Coast Guard to extend her period of evaluation from 12 months to 16 months. Her crew spent more of their time attempting to repair her rather than patrolling and one officer likened her operation to that of an aircraft, requiring frequent maintenance; the difference being that an aircraft has a flight crew to operate the aircraft and a maintenance crew for its upkeep. The crew of Flagstaff, however, had to do both, and were "overwhelmed with the maintenance workload," and their morale consequently suffered. From 26 May 1977 – 27 October 1977, Flagstaff only managed 305.2 hours of operating time, including only 71.6 hours of foil-borne time. In March 1978, she suffered a transmission failure and the nail in her coffin was the deterioration of her turbine. The only solution to the latter problem was to replace the turbine, and the cost of that was prohibitive. The Coast Guard decided to decommission her due to "the high cost of repairs and the fact that the CG feels sufficient information has been gained from the E.P. [Evaluation Period]." During this period of inoperability, she was located at the Coast Guard's aids to navigation station in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Decommissioned and returned to the Navy
She was decommissioned at Woods Hole on 30 September 1978 and returned to the Navy. The Coast Guard noted that: "sufficient information on the use of hydrofoils has been gathered from the evaluation program." The escalating costs of repair, and the fact that she needed an engine replacement too, figured into the decision to return her to the Navy. She was later surplussed and found in a boatyard in Tuckahoe, NJ. around 1999. The Flagstaff was sand blasted, plumbing repaired and electrical system being checked. The original turbine was in place but without diesel motor and water pump for standard operation. Was for sale ($30,000.00) and bought by company in Arkansas. Where vessel is located and condition is now unknown.
Awards
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Footnotes
References
External links
Flagstaff, 1974
NavSource Online: Patrol Gunboat (Hydrofoil) Photo Archive – USCGS Flagstaff (WPBH 1) – ex-USS Flagstaff (PGH 1)
Gunboats of the United States Navy
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
Ships built in Florida
Vietnam War ships
1966 ships
Hydrofoils of the United States |
8472134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Henry%2C%20Hereditary%20Prince%20of%20the%20Palatinate | Frederick Henry, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate | Frederick Henry, Electoral Prince of the Palatinate, (; 1 January 1614 – 7 January 1629 in the Netherlands) was the eldest son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and so-called "Winter King" of Bohemia, and his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James VI of Scotland and I of England.
As soon as the prince was born, Elizabeth ordered "pieces" using the English word, meaning the firing of cannon to celebrate the birth.
He was named after his father and his late uncle Henry, Prince of Wales, who had died less than two years earlier during the celebrations leading up to his parents' wedding. As a gift to celebrate Frederick Henry's birth, King James rewarded Elizabeth with a pension of 12,000 crowns a year for life and money and gold worth an additional 25,000 crowns.
In 1618, Frederick was elected King of Bohemia. Frederick Henry was the only one of his siblings to accompany his parents to Prague for the coronation and was elected successor to the Crown a few days before the birth of his brother Rupert. In September 1620, he was sent on a royal progress through Bohemia and the Upper Palatinate with a guard of 4,000 men, which ended in Leeuwarden where his kinsman Ernst Casimir, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe, took custody of him.
After his parents lost control of Bohemia and the Palatinate, they fled to exile in the Hague. Frederick Henry joined them by May 1621, when he wrote a letter from the Hague to King James. In June 1623, his parents set up a separate royal court for their children at a building three hours away in Leiden, known as the Prinsenhof or the Princes' court. Frederick Henry also formally enrolled as a student at Leiden University.
As part of various efforts to fight or negotiate an end to the Thirty Years War, several potential marriages were considered for Frederick Henry. These include marriages to a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and a niece of Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria.
In 1629, Frederick Henry went with his father to Amsterdam to see the captured Spanish treasure fleet. While crossing Haarlemmermeer, their boat was struck by a barge and capsized. Frederick was rescued but Frederick Henry drowned and his body was not found until the next day. He was buried in the Kloosterkerk, in the Hague.
Ancestry
References
External links
Frederick Henry von der Pfalz at www.thepeerage.com
House of Palatinate-Simmern
Deaths by drowning
1614 births
1629 deaths
Princes of the Palatinate
Accidental deaths in the Netherlands
Heirs apparent who never acceded
17th-century German people
Bohemian princes
Royalty who died as children
Sons of kings |
8472146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20of%20the%20Nativity%20of%20the%20Blessed%20Virgin%20Mary%20%28Biloxi%2C%20Mississippi%29 | Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Biloxi, Mississippi) | The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at 870 West Howard Avenue in Biloxi, Mississippi, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. It was designed by Theodore Brune and built by J.F. Barnes & Company of Greenville, Mississippi in 1902. The cathedral was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Brune was a German-American architect who designed several churches on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The Gothic architecture design for the Blessed Virgin Mother Catholic Church on West Howard Avenue was constructed after the original church was destroyed by the Great Biloxi Fire of November 1900 on the same site. Stained glass windows were donated to the church by Julia Dulion Lopez (1857-1918) in memory of her late husband in early 1906. The windows were built by Reis and Reis of Munich, Germany and installed by Frederick Thornley of New York.
See also
List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
List of cathedrals in the United States
References
External links
Official Cathedral Site
Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi Official Site
Historical Marker Database - Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Biloxi, Mississippi)
Churches in Harrison County, Mississippi
Buildings and structures in Biloxi, Mississippi
Gothic Revival church buildings in Mississippi
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
Nativity
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1902
Roman Catholic churches in Mississippi
Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi
Tourist attractions in Harrison County, Mississippi
National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Mississippi
1902 establishments in Mississippi
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States |
8472151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando%20Sforzini | Ferdinando Sforzini | Ferdinando Sforzini (born 4 December 1984) is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker. He is a product of the famous Napoli youth academy.
During his stay in Grosseto, Sforzini was given the nickname Nandogoal and also taglia gole [cutthroat], nicknamed for his traditional goal celebration.
Career
Early career
A tall forward, Sforzini started his career off with the youth system of Napoli and was loaned out to Lazio from Napoli's youth system in 2002.
Ferdinando Sforzini graduated from Lazio youth system in 2003 and immediately sold, to Sassuolo.
At Sassuolo he impressed, scoring 10 goals in 29 appearances in 2004–05 Serie C2 season.
Udinese
After impressing with U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, he was transferred to Serie A club Udinese Calcio in June 2005.
Ferdinandos Sforzini remained at Udine for 2 months, but loaned out to Serie B side Verona in order to gain more experience in August 2005. In his season with Verona, Ferdinando Sforzini managed 5 goals in 35 Serie B appearances, which mainly as a substitutes player, but also made 16 league starts.
For the 2006–2007 season, Udinese opted to again loan out the player in July 2006, however this time, it was to Modena, another Serie B club. With Modena, Ferdinandos Sforzini scored 5 goals again, in 30 league appearances (started 17 times). On 1 July 2006 Sforzini returned to Udinese, however, he again was loaned out soon later.
In July 2007, Ferdinandos Sforzini transferred to Vicenza for yet another Serie B season. With the club, Ferdinandos Sforzini made 14 league appearances (half of them as starting XI) in his six-month stay, scoring 2 goals. For the second half of the 2007–2008 season, Udinese loaned out the 23-year-old Sforzini to Ravenna, a club struggling to avoid relegation from the Serie B. In the latter half of the season, Ferdinandos Sforzini scored an impressive 9 goals in 21 league appearances for Ravenna Calcio, but it was not enough to save them from relegation.
Ferdinandos Sforzini was again loaned out into the Serie B – this time with Grosseto. In his six-month loan period with Grosseto, Sforzini was a regular starter at the start of season, appearing 18 times (10 of them as starter) and scoring 3 goals in Serie B. In January 2009, he swapped places with Alessandro Pellicori of Avellino. With relegation frightening Avellino Sforzini impressed, hitting good form and scoring 7 goals in just 12 Serie B appearances.
After hitting good form with Avellino, Sforzini returned to Udinese on 1 July 2009, and received the call-up to the pre-season camp. But he was loaned out again, this time to Serie B champion A.S. Bari, the Serie A newcomer. He was the starting forward along with Vitaly Kutuzov in the opening match of Serie A, a shocking 1–1 draw with defending champion Internazionale. But in the next Serie A match the coach Giampiero Ventura preferred Riccardo Meggiorini as starting forward to partner with Kutuzov.
Sforzini was further hit by left leg injury soon after, At first he would be rested a month but hit by flu in November. Sforzini then trained separately for ongoing injury.
After Kutuzov's out of season injury, Bari signed José Ignacio Castillo, and Sforzini was call-up by Ventura several time to as an extra cover for their starting forwards Barreto, Meggiorini and Castillo. He played his return match on 30 January 2010, substituted Castillo at the second half. He made a further 5 Serie A appearances as substitute.
On 1 July 2010, Sforzini returned to Udinese again, and played for Udinese B team (composite of players that pending loan) in pre-season friendlies.
CFR Cluj loan
On 25 August 2010, he was loaned to Romanian side CFR Cluj.
He made his debut in Liga I 10 September 2010 against Rapid București in a 2–0 defeat, replacing Cristian Bud eight minutes from the end of the game. On 15 September made his debut in the Champions League in Cluj- Basel (2-1), replacing Lacina Traoré as a substitute
Scored the first goal for Cluj on 27 October 2010 won the encounter against the Targu Mures (2-0 final), valid for the knockout stages of the Cupa României. However, after the sacking of Italian manager Andrea Mandorlini in September 2010, Sforzini lost his place in the side and he returned to Udinese Calcio at the start of the January window.
During the 2011 January winter transfer market he was transferred to Italian Serie B team U.S. Grosseto on loan with option to sign permanently.
Grosseto
After scoring 8 goals in 20 games on loan at U.S. Grosseto in Serie B, Sforzini's move was made permanent leaving Udinese Calcio after a 6-year spell at the club. His form in his 2 seasons in Grosseto was impressive, in his first season he scored 21 goals in 40 appearances in all competitions with 20 of those coming in Serie B in the 2011/12 season. He finished 3rd top scorer in Serie B behind Ciro Immobile (28 goals for Pescara) and Marco Sau (21 goals for Juve Stabia).
On 10 August 2012, Grosseto were provisionally relegated, by the Disciplinary Commission set up for Scommessopoli scandal investigations, to Lega Pro Prima Divisione because of their involvement in Scommessopoli scandal. Furthermore, the president of Grosseto was at the time suspended from all football activities for five years.
However, on 22 August 2012, Grosseto and its president were acquitted by the Court of justice, eliminating the verdict of the first instance and so re-instated back to Serie B for the following 2012/13 season.
His start to the 2012/13 season saw him score 11 goals in his first 21 Serie B appearances before his form attracted interest of Serie A club Pescara in the January transfer window.
Pescara
On 31 January 2013, Sforzini transferred to Serie A side Pescara for €400,000 plus Grosseto received Gastón Brugman and Danilo Soddimo on season long loan's from Pescara as part of the transfer.
In his first half season he made 10 appearances im Serie A, without scoring a goal. He could not help Pescara escape from relegation to Serie B. During the 2013–14 season, Sforzini scored just 2 goals in 20 Serie B games.
Latina
On 1 September 2014 he was signed by fellow Serie B club U.S. Latina Calcio.
Entella
On 2 February 2015 he was swapped with Gianluca Litteri of Entella.
Later career
In 2018–19, he was a regular for Avellino, guiding the team to win the Serie D title.
After a mere ten days with Serie C club Cavese in August 2019, he rescinded on 30 August 2019 and joined Serie D club Palermo two weeks later.
On 9 September 2020 he joined Serie D club Campobasso.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
La Gazzetta dello Sport 2006–07 Profile
La Gazzetta dello Sport 2007–08 Profile
Football.it Profile
1984 births
Living people
People from Tivoli, Lazio
Italian men's footballers
Italian expatriate men's footballers
SSC Napoli players
SS Lazio players
Udinese Calcio players
Hellas Verona FC players
Modena FC 2018 players
LR Vicenza players
Ravenna FC players
US Grosseto 1912 players
US Avellino 1912 players
SSC Bari players
CFR Cluj players
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
US Viterbese 1908 players
Palermo FC players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Liga I players
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital |
8472152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20Dahlerus | Birger Dahlerus | Johan Birger Essen Dahlerus (6 February 1891, Stockholm – 8 March 1957, Stockholm) was a Swedish businessman, amateur diplomat and friend of Hermann Göring. He attempted through diplomatic channels to prevent the Second World War.
His futile diplomatic efforts during the days preceding the German invasion of Poland in 1939 are sometimes called the Dahlerus Mission.
Early life
Birger Dahlerus was born in Stockholm in 1891. He had an excellent network of contacts of authoritative Englishmen and various leaders of the Third Reich, such as his early acquaintance with Hermann Göring.
Only after the failure of his efforts would the British government bother to do a basic background check on him (on 23 October). The results were startling, as it emerged that his wife was a German national who owned considerable farm property in Germany. Furthermore, the British government was not aware that Göring had assisted Dahlerus in obtaining a marriage permit in 1934 or that Dahlerus had acted as guardian to Göring's stepson from his first marriage. Had those facts been known in advance, it is very likely that Dahlerus's services would not have been accepted by Britain, as his purported neutrality was greatly compromised.
Dahlerus Mission
It had been known to the senior military personnel of the Third Reich, at least since the Military Conference of 6 August 1939 at Obersalzberg, that aggressive war between Nazi Germany and the Western powers was imminent. On 7 August 1939, Dahlerus arranged a meeting at his own house, near the Danish border in Schleswig-Holstein, between Göring and seven British businessmen:
A. Holden
Charles Spencer
Stanley Rawson (John Brown & Company)
Brian Mountain
Sir Robert Renwick
Charles Maclaren
T. Mensforth
The businessmen attempted to persuade Göring that the British government would stand by its treaty obligations to Poland, which obliged it to support the Polish government in any conflict in which it became embroiled. Dahlerus believed that they had succeeded.
At the Nuremberg trials, the British prosecutor, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, was able to persuade the Swede that he had been badly misled by the German leaders, and that the discussion had no effect on the policy and actions of the Third Reich.
On 25 August 1939, the British and the Polish governments converted the unilateral declaration of support offered by the British government into a mutual assistance pact. On the same day, Benito Mussolini wrote to Hitler to indicate that he would declare war on the Western Powers immediately. Dahlerus then was acting as an intermediary between Göring and British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Göring had summoned Dahlerus from Stockholm on the previous day, put him on an aircraft and dispatched him to inform the British government that Germany wanted an understanding with Britain. Halifax informed him that diplomatic channels were open and that his input was unnecessary.
Following a telephone conversation between him and Göring, Dahlerus had a further conversation with Halifax on 26 August. He persuaded Halifax to write a letter, couched in nonspecific terms, indicating the desire of the British government for peace and requesting a few days' leeway in which to achieve it.
On 27 August, Dahlerus flew to London and met Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir Horace Wilson and Sir Alexander Cadogan. He presented an offer, which included a proposal that Britain would agree to Germany offering to guarantee the borders of Poland, taking Danzig and a allowing referendum in the Polish corridor. The very modest proposal was nevertheless felt to be unacceptable, and the Poles would fight rather than agree to it. It was agreed that Dahlerus would return to Berlin and report with Hitler's reply. Dahlerus had become so significant, according to his own testimony, that he felt able to advise the British government that it should keep Ambassador Nevile Henderson in London until the next day so that he could better react to Hitler's response.
On 29 August, at a meeting with the German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Henderson had been presented with a document containing 16 points that Germany demanded agreement by Poland. Henderson said that they were spoken too quickly for him to understand and that he was denied a written copy. On the following day, Dahlerus was given a copy of the 16 points by Göring and took them to Henderson, who dispatched him to Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski, who had never heard of Dahlerus. As one of the 16 points was that a Polish negotiator with full plenipotentiary powers should appear in Berlin before 1 September, the Polish government deemed the proposals unreasonable.
On 31 August, Lipski was received by Ribbentrop. On being asked if he had come as a fully-empowered delegate, he stated that he was not and then was dismissed. An intercepted copy of the telegram to Lipski, defining his powers, was given by Göring to Dahlerus to take to Henderson.
Dahlerus's next diplomatic effort before the onset of war occurred on the afternoon of the last day of peace. He proposed that Göring should again meet with Henderson, which he did at 5 pm. Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the British embassy, was also present. His statement, presented at Nuremberg, described the atmosphere as negative and suggested Göring's confidence in the ability of Germany to crush Poland quickly.
The Third Reich commenced land operations against Poland on 1 September 1939 at 04:45. At 08:00, Dahlerus met Göring, who claimed that the Poles had attacked Germany at Dirschau. Dahlerus, in his Nuremberg testimony, said, "I informed somebody that according to the information I had received the Poles had attacked, and they naturally wondered what was happening to me when I gave that information". Dahlerus also stated that "the Poles are sabotaging everything" and that he had "evidence they never meant to attempt to negotiate".
Dahlerus telephoned London again at 12:30 and this time was put through to Cadogan. Cadogan, a committed anti-appeaser, was only the Under-Secretary of State, and Dahlerus insisted that his comments to be submitted to the British Cabinet, which they duly were. The answer given to the Swede was that negotiation was impossible without the immediate withdrawal of German forces from Polish territory.
The British and the French governments issued ultimata to the German government on 3 September 1939. Dahlerus telephoned the British Foreign Office ten minutes before the British ultimatum expired with a proposal for Göring to fly immediately to London for negotiations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that was rejected.
Wartime activity
In early September, he kept in touch with Göring by telephone. On 10 September, Göring passed to him letters written by two RAF prisoners-of-war captured during a leaflet-bombing raid as proof of his goodwill; they were duly passed on by Dahlerus to Monson, the British minister in Stockholm. Dahlerus said to Monson that Göring was "absolutely trustworthy" and claimed to Monson that Hitler's popularity was declining.
He then flew to Berlin, where on 26 September, he met with Göring and Hitler. Göring and Hitler were completely intransigent and willing to make peace only on their own terms: keeping all their conquests and retaining a free hand in Eastern Europe.
Although that should have been the end of negotiations, Dahlerus then tried to represent or rather to misrepresent to the British the Nazi position as showing signs of flexibility. He flew to London and was very cordially and hopefully received there. He had a talk with Cadogan on 28 September and on 29 September met with Chamberlain and Halifax themselves.
Hitler's peace proposals, as presented by Dahlerus in a mellow form at the meeting, amounted to a rump Poland in complete vassalage to Germany, annexation to Germany of the old Reich territories in Poland, restoration of the lost German colonies or compensation for them, a promise of no further aggression subject to "suitable guarantees" and the settlement of the Jewish question by using Poland "as a sink in which to empty the Jews".
Still, the proposals were a nonstarter, and the British began losing interest in Dahlerus and his flurry of activity, as they indicated that no promises from Hitler would be trusted anymore. Dahlerus floated the idea of holding a German plebiscite to ratify the projected peace terms.
However, Dahlerus no longer found a receptive audience in Britain for his projects, and the reception of his subsequent efforts on 4–5 October, 11 October and 18–19 October was considerably cooler. He was denied a visa to come again to London to present "new" proposals from Göring or Hitler and then faded into obscurity.
Assessment
Dahlerus made a number of further attempts to mediate between Britain and Germany, which he neglected to mention in his book. Essentially, Dahlerus tried to convince the British government that Göring was ready to do a deal with Britain behind Hitler's back. The implication was that Hitler would then acquiesce in the fait accompli or somehow be removed to make room for a new government, inspired by Göring.
That was all false, as Göring all along had kept Hitler thoroughly informed of his doings. In practice, Dahlerus was helping the Nazi leadership to dupe and to confuse the British to weaken their resolve and perhaps to compromise them into publicly accepting the possibility of peace without Germany relinquishing its gains or dismantling the regime.
Dahlerus, whether he was duped as well, mesmerized by taking what seemed to him a crucial role in world diplomacy or was all along an accomplice to the Nazi attempt at deception, played his role well and managed to confuse the British government for a long time.
The details of his later moves, after the British declaration of war, were not publicly available during the Nuremberg trial and were hidden until the British archives were declassified.
Sources
Birger Dahlerus, Sista försöket : London - Berlin sommaren 1939, Stockholm : Norstedt, 1945 (English Translation: The Last Attempt, Introduction by Norman Birkett, Translation from Swedish by Alexandra Dick, 1946).
Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won: September 1939, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1972.
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Swedish diplomats
20th-century Swedish businesspeople
Swedish people of World War II
Businesspeople from Stockholm
1891 births
1957 deaths |
8472160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Country%20Western%20Dance%20Council | United Country Western Dance Council | The United Country Western Dance Council (UCWDC) is an organization that advocates for and organizes competitive country/western dancesport events. UCWDC regionally-sanctioned events are hosted in more than two dozen U.S. cities and also in the nations of Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Belgium, Malaysia, Ireland, Japan, China, South Africa, and Lithuania.
The UCWDC is based on a framework of event directors, who are owners of regional dance-competition events in cities around the world. The event directors are overseen by a board of directors. The board of directors governs the overall organization and maintains a standard of operations, uniform competition format, judging, scoring and comprehensive rules, adhered to by dancesport competitors.
These dancesport participants compete at authorized regional dance competitions during the dance season, beginning in January and ending in December of any given year. After attending a required minimum number of dance events, dancers are able to establish eligibility for attending the UCWDC Country Dance World Championships at the end of the year.
History
The UCWDC was established in 1989 and was incorporated in 1990 as a non-profit organization in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
In 1980, the film Urban Cowboy, featuring John Travolta, was released. The movie influenced popular culture with not only the success of three #1 hits on the country music charts, but the portrayal of a country/western nightclub, country/western attire and a dance competition at the Dallas, Texas honkytonk, Gilley’s. Country/western dance became popular in the United States and gave rise to nightclubs such as the Grizzly Rose in Denver, Colorado, the Lone Star Cafe in New York City, New York and the Wrangler’s Roost in San Diego, California.
A new dance craze began in the United States and with it, the rise of country/western dance competitions. In 1989, a group of 21 country/western dance-event owners met in Grantville, Pennsylvania with the goal of creating a national organization with uniform rules, teaching canon, judging, dance standards and competition formats. Prior to the creation of the UCWDC, country/western dance events had differing formats and rules. The UCWDC created a uniform structure.
Gallery of regional UCWDC championship belt buckles
UCWDC Country Dance World Championships
The UCWDC Country Dance World Championships, popularly referred to as "Worlds", is an annual competition which awards country/western world dancesport championship titles to individuals, couples, and dance teams from around the globe. Worlds has been held every year, since its inception in 1993, with the exception of the 2021 event which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The world championships are the culmination of a competition season and have been located primarily inside the United States, however they were held once in Canada, once in the Netherlands, and once in Sweden. "Worlds" is the largest event on the UCWDC calendar. Worlds 2020 had over 6,500 entries, while Worlds 2023 has over 7,000 entries.
Adjudication
The UCWDC maintains a program for judge training and certification in order to establish uniformity and credibility. Potential candidates for this training must pay fees for training, adhere to a code of conduct, and maintain currency as a UCWDC adjudicator. The Vice President of Rules oversees UCWDC-certified judges, maintains a list (or "pool") of qualified judges and establishes standards for judging methodology.
Dance divisions
Competitors at UCWDC events are required to have a current UCWDC associate membership. Dancesport contestants may register in couples, line dance, teams, ProAm, ProPro, cabaret or showtime competition divisions. These divisions are divided by skill level and by age. Dancesport competition occurs via a system of “heats”. As a heat begins, contestants enter the floor from a staging area, take positions, a deejay plays music and the contestants perform. UCWDC couples, ProAm, and ProPro may compete in as many as eight country/western dances which are danced in the following prescribed order; triple two-step, nightclub, waltz, polka, cha cha, east coast swing, two-step, and west coast swing.
Couples
In couples competition, one partner, generally a male, is the "lead" and the other, generally a female, the "follow". Leads wear a number pinned to their back. The number allows the judges to assign judging scores to the appropriate competitive couple. In UCWDC couples competition, dancers compete at a dance level commensurate with their skill abilities and/or qualifications.
Dancers may choose to compete in Classic style or Showcase style. In Classic, the competitors do not know which song the deejay will choose for them. In Showcase, couples choreograph routines to specific songs.
Dance levels:
Syllabus is a beginner or entry-level division with strict movement and dress-code constraints.
Division IV is a beginner or entry-level division which allows for an expanded range of dance patterns.
Division III is a more advanced level of competition than Division IV.
Division II is a division populated by couples with strong dance skills and competition experience.
Division I is a division which contains dancers who have exceptional skills and experience.
Masters Division is the highest level of competition for dancers aged 18 and above. Qualifications are mandatory.
Crown Division is the highest level of competition for dancers aged 40 and above. Qualifications are mandatory.
Crown Plus Division is the same as Crown, only for dancers dancers aged 55 and above. Qualifications are mandatory.
Couples divisions are also organized by age
ProAm and ProPro
ProAm couples are a dance partnership formed between a professional dancer and a student. In general, the student pays the professional to dance with them in competition. ProPro couples are made up of two professional dancers, one of which is generally the senior instructor and the other, a professional who is the "student". The students wear a number pinned to their back. In UCWDC ProAm or ProPro competition, student dancers compete at a dance level commensurate with their skill abilities and/or qualifications.
Dance levels:
Syllabus is a beginner or entry-level division with strict movement and dress-code constraints.
Newcomer is a beginner or entry-level division which allows for an expanded range of dance patterns.
Novice is a more advanced level of competition than Newcomer.
Intermediate is a division populated by couples with strong dance skills and competition experience.
Advanced is a division which contains dancers who have exceptional skills and experience.
ProAm or ProPro divisions are also organized by age
UCWDC regional events
Peach State Country Western Dance Festival - "Peach State" is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every March in Atlanta, Georgia. The event was inaugurated in 1990 and is one of the oldest UCWDC events. Peach State has a large number of competitions, workshops and social dancing.
Tulip Challenge - The Tulip Challenge is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every March in De Rijp, Netherlands. The Tulip Challenge draws a large number of international contestants, as in its 2018 edition, the countries represented were Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Spain, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Calgary Dance Stampede - The Calgary Dance Stampede is an annual dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every April in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is one of the first events on the UCWDC calendar. This is Canada's largest and longest running country, swing and line dance event and a points-registry event for the Country Two Step Tour (CTST). Keith Armbruster, UCWDC President, is this event's director of operations. In 2022, the Calgary Dance Stampede included performances from local Ukrainian dance teams.
San Diego Dance Festival - The San Diego Dance Festival is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every April in San Diego, California. This event is one of two UCWDC events located in San Diego.
Oklahoma Dance Rush - The Oklahoma Dance Rush is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every April in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Italian Country/Western Dance Classic - The Italian Country/Western Dance Classic is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every April in Rome, Italy.
MidAtlantic Dance Classic - Dulles, Virginia
German Dance Cup - The German Dance Cup is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every May in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2002, the Deutschen Tanzsportverbandes (German Dancesport) officially recognized country western dancing a dancesport. The Deutschen Tanzsportverbandes and the UCWDC coordinate efforts on making country western dance more popular in Germany.
Texas Classic - Austin, Texas
Orange Blossom Dance Festival - Orlando, Florida
Seoul International Line Dance Festival - Seoul, South Korea
Colorado Country Classic - Denver
Indy Dance Explosion - Indianapolis, Indiana
Big Apple Country Dance Festival - Morristown, New Jersey
New Orleans Dance Mardi Gras - New Orleans, Louisiana
European Open Championships
New England Dance Festival - Boston, Massachusetts
Arizona Dance Classic - Phoenix, Arizona
Chicagoland Country & Swing Dance Festival - Rosemont, Illinois
Asia Pacific Line Dance Classic - Kuala Lumpur
Nashville Dance Classic - Nashville, Tennessee
South Bay Dance Fling - San Jose, California
Benelux Open - The Benelux Open is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every September in Venray, Netherlands.
New Mexico Dance Fiesta - The New Mexico Dance Fiesta is an annual UCWDC dancesport competition and country/western dance festival held every September in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mike Haley, Patti Miller and Steve Stevens created this event in 1989. The New Mexico Dance Fiesta is the oldest dance competition in New Mexico.
Global Dance Festival - Incheon
Japan Country Dance Challenge - Tokyo
Shamrock Western Dance Classic - Dublin
Southern National Dance Competition - Panama City Beach, Florida
Paradise Country Dance Festival - San Diego, California
Philly Fall Fest - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dallas Dance Festival - Dallas, Texas
China Cup International Line Dance Open Competition - Hangzhou, China
South African Classic - Sun City, South Africa
Lithuanian Open - Trakai, Lithuania
Las Vegas Dance Finale - Las Vegas, Nevada
Christmas in Dixie - Birmingham, Alabama
References
External links
UCWDC website
Organizations based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Dance organizations
Non-profit organizations based in Pennsylvania
World championships in dance
Dancesport in the United States
Dancesport competitions
Dance competitions |
8472181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Patriot%20%28PYc-47%29 | USS Patriot (PYc-47) | USS Patriot (PYc-47), formerly the Katoura, was built in 1930 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island United States and purchased by the United States Navy, for $1.00, from Mr. A. Loomis of New York City on 20 September 1940. She was converted for Navy service as a submarine chaser at the Greenport Basin and Construction Company at Greenport, New York, and designated PC–455 on 4 November 1940. She was placed in service 27 February 1941.
On 1 March 1941, PC–455 departed New York City for Boston, Massachusetts, where she reported for duty in the 1st Naval District. There she conducted coastal patrol assignments as PC–455 until 16 June 1943 when she was named Patriot and redesignated PYc–47. As Patriot she continued her patrols until placed out of service 28 September 1944. She was then laid up at Quincy, Massachusetts, to await delivery to the Maritime Commission. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 October 1944, she was turned over to War Shipping Administration 14 March 1945 and subsequently sold to her former owner for the initial purchase price of $1.00.
References
External links
Photo gallery at navsource.org
Submarine chasers of the United States Navy
1930 ships |
8472191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabreeze%20High%20School | Seabreeze High School | Seabreeze High School is a public high school located in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. The school was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1989.
Notable alumni
Duane and Gregg Allman, of The Allman Brothers Band, class of 1965 (Gregg) (Duane was a school dropout)
Bill France Jr., president of NASCAR from 1972 to 2000, class of 1951
Jim France, NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation executive, class of 1963
Larry Gagner, artist and former college and professional football player, class of 1962
Kerry Healey, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, class of 1978
Shere Hite, sexologist, class of 1960
J. R. House, professional baseball player
Sebastian Janikowski, former Oakland Raiders kicker, NFL record holder for most 50+ yard field goals, class of 1997
Brian Kelley, part of the country music duo, Florida Georgia Line
Walter McCoy, track athlete, 1984 Olympic gold medalist
Dee Mewbourne, deputy commander, United States Transportation Command
Allison Miner, class of 1967, co-founder New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Jane Morgan, singer during the 1950s and 1960s
Steve J. Palmer, actor and producer, known for portraying Bill Williamson in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2
Hal Prewitt, artist, photographer, entrepreneur, racecar driver and inventor of computer technology and early pioneer in the personal computer revolution, class of 1972
Marie Ragghianti (real-life character played by Sissy Spacek in the film Marie), class of 1960
Corey Walden, professional basketball player, 2019 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Eric Weems, wide receiver and Pro Bowl kickoff/punt returner for the Atlanta Falcons (NFL), class of 2003
References
External links
Official Website
High schools in Volusia County, Florida
Public high schools in Florida
Buildings and structures in Daytona Beach, Florida
Educational institutions established in 1908
1908 establishments in Florida |
8472197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Prigio | Prince Prigio | Prince Prigio is a literary and comic fairy tale written by Andrew Lang in 1889 and illustrated by Gordon Browne. It draws in Lang's folklorist background for many tropes.
A sequel was published in 1893, Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son. The two were issued in one 1895 volume as My Own Fairy Book: Namely, Certain Chronicles of Pantouflia, As Notably the Adventures of Prigio, Prince of That Country, and of His Son, Ricardo, with an Excerpt from the Annals of Scotland, As Touching Ker of Fairnilee, His Sojourn with the Queen of Faery. All three books were published by J. W. Arrowsmith of Bristol. My Own Fairy Book appeared during the run of "Coloured Fairy Books" edited by Lang and published in London and New York by Longmans, Green, and Co. from 1890: The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, and so on. Longmans was also the US publisher of the Pantouflia books.
The two stories were also published together as The Chronicles of Pantouflia by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, and by David R. Godine in 1981.
Plot summary
The plot of Prince Prigio begins with the introduction of a queen who does not believe in fairies. After many childless years, she and the king finally had a boy, Prigio. When the queen refused to invite the fairies to the christening, none of the nobles would attend, and so the king and queen were alone when the fairies arrived and presented the child with gifts. Among the gifts were a never-empty purse (Fortunatus' purse), seven-league boots, a cap of darkness which would make him invisible, a wishing cap, a magic carpet, and also beauty, courage, and luck, but the last fairy decreed, "My child, you shall be too clever!"
This would have pleased the queen, but she did not believe it. She had all the items swept into a lumber room.
The prince grew up to be too clever. He would argue with everyone and knew better than everyone. He had two younger brothers, neither of whom was clever, and both of whom were liked; they fell in love with their cousins. The king particularly disliked Prigio, fearing he would claim the throne, and wanted to be rid of him. One day, a firedrake appeared in the country; the king was sorry that it would kill his second son as well as his first before the youngest son killed it, but he would sacrifice him to be rid of Prigio. Prigio, like his mother, refused to believe in its existence and reminded him that it was the youngest son who triumphed, so they should send him at once.
Alphonse, his youngest brother, went and was eaten; Prigio, still not believing in firedrakes, thought he had gone off to travel. The king sent Enrico, the second, as well, and he also died. The king tried to send Prigio, who refused because he still disbelieved in the firedrake and also he was the last surviving heir. The king decided to take the rest of the court and abandon Prigio alone in the castle. When they did, Prigio found they also stole every piece of clothing except what he wore. He searched the castle and found the lumber room with the fairies' gifts. The seven-league boots bore him to an inn to eat, and he thought he dreamed it. No one paid any attention to him; he did not know that he was wearing an invisibility cap. He stole food, and when his cap was knocked off, paid from it from the purse -- which he found still full later. Whenever his cap came on or off, he appeared or vanished, but did not realize it.
Still invisible, he went to a ball where everyone spoke badly of him except for one lady, who praised his aiding a poor student, and Prigio fell madly in love with her. At once, he believed in fairies and magic and realized everything that had happened to them. He used the things to make himself suitable for the ball and went and met the lady, the daughter of the English Ambassador, Lady Rosalind. When she spoke of the firedrake, he said he would kill it. He went back and found a magical spyglass, which he knew from Arabian Nights and spied out the dragon. He realized that even with his magical gifts, he had no chance, and his brothers had had none. He went to library to find a book by Cyrano de Bergerac about his trip to the moon. In it, he read of the Remora, which was as cold as the firedrake was hot; he resolved to find one and make the creatures fight. He found it using the spyglass, and went to both creatures, taunting them in the other's name. The monsters met, fought, and killed each other.
He went back to the ambassador's house, and found that his father had issued a proclamation offering a reward for him, and another promising to make the Crown Prince, and marry to his niece, whoever brought the king the firedrake's horns and tail. He also found that his carpet had vanished, a servant having accidentally wished himself to the royal castle, with the firedrake's horns and tail.
Then the carpet reappeared, with the servant, the king, and the queen, who refused to believe it. The king refused to be reconciled with Prigio. He tells how the servant claimed the reward, and when they disbelieved him, show them the carpet.
During the night, the prince went back and cut off the firedrake's hooves. At court, the servant claimed that the proclamation had promised the reward to whoever brought the horns and tail, not the dragon-slayer. Prigio pointed out that if this was allowed, the king could not claim to say one thing and have meant another, which was a royal prerogative. The niece refused to choose between them. The king finally said that whoever brought its hooves would receive the reward. Prigio produced them at once.
The king insisted that he must marry his cousin, the promised niece, at once, or hang. Prigio prefers to hang, but suggested that if he recovered his brothers, the king could remit his sentence. The king agreed. Prigio went back to the castle where he had been abandoned, killed an old cat he found there, burned it, and restored it to life with the water from the Fountain of Lions -- being certain that the fairies would not have neglected it. Having thus tested it, he went to the firedrake's lair and restored his brothers; he then went to the remora's and restored the knights it had frozen.
The king was pleased to see his sons but would not restore Prigio to the Crown Princeship. Prigio pointed out he had the water and the firedrake's head, and the king agreed.
After a triple wedding, Rosalind suggested to Prigio that he could use the wishing cap and make himself no cleverer than anyone else. Prigio agreed but thought better of it: he wished himself to no more clever than anyone else.
External links
Prince Prigio
Prince Prigio at Project Gutenberg
1889 books
Scottish fairy tales
Fictional princes
Male characters in fairy tales |
8472241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Frans%20Podolyn | Johan Frans Podolyn | Johan Frans Podolyn or Johann Franz Podolyn (Lisbon 29 May 1739 - Gothenburg 29 May 1784) was a Swedish numismatist who published on Punic currency in his possession which had been found on the island of Corvo in the Azores. He wrote about the discovery in 1778 in a Swedish academic publication now known as the Publications of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg, presumably indicating that he was a member of the society.
Podolyn was the son of a Swedish merchant and Vice-Consul. He had a gift for languages and worked for the Alströmer family, accompanying them on voyages in addition to working as a bookkeeper in Gothenburg and Alingsås. He amassed a considerable coin collection. He was married to Anna Norberg; he had been engaged to marry Jeanette Ölander, but she died before the marriage could take place.
References
18th-century Swedish historians
Swedish male writers
1739 births
1784 deaths
People from Lisbon |
8472243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghlani%20Jadid%20District | Baghlani Jadid District | Baghlani Jadid (), (surface: 1,613 km2) is a district of Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan. It has a population of about 119,607.
Geography
The district is situated in the northernmost part of the province. It borders Kunduz Province to the north and Samangan Province to the west . Most of the population live in the valley of the Kunduz River. The majority of its territory is uninhabited mountain ranges. An all-weather Kunduz-Kabul highway passes through the district from north to south. The main city is Baghlani Jadid. In 2005, Baghlani Jadid absorbed the district of Baghlan-e-Markazi, also in Baghlan Province, to create a new and bigger Baghlani Jadid district.
Demographics
According to Afghanistan's Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, the population of the district was estimated to be around 119,607 in 2004. Ethnically, Pashtuns are around 50% of the population and make up the majority in the district, followed by Tajiks at 40% and Uzbeks make up the remaining 10%.
References
External links
Map of Settlements United Nations, AIMS, May 2002
Districts of Baghlan Province |
8472246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Persistent%20%28PYc-48%29 | USS Persistent (PYc-48) | The first USS Persistent (PYc-48) was a submarine chaser of the United States Navy.
Persistent, built as Onwego in 1931, was purchased from the estate of Mr. G. L. Bourne, New York, 13 August 1940; renamed PC–456, 13 September; converted at the New York Navy Yard; and commissioned 16 October 1940.
Assigned to the 15th Naval District, PC–456 arrived in the Panama Canal Zone 13 November 1940.
Renamed and reclassified Persistent (PYc–48), 16 June 1943, she patrolled in and off the Canal Zone until the summer of 1944 when she sailed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and deactivation. Arriving 31 August, she decommissioned 27 September and was struck from the Navy List 14 October.
References
External links
Photo gallery Navsouce.org
Submarine chasers of the United States Navy
1931 ships |
8472287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Ferguson | Derek Ferguson | Derek Ferguson (born 31 July 1967) is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager. A creative midfield player, Ferguson is best remembered for his time with Rangers and Heart of Midlothian.
He also played for Dundee, Sunderland, Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic, Portadown, Partick Thistle, Adelaide Force, Ross County, Clydebank, Alloa Athletic, Hamilton Academical, Raith Rovers and made two appearances for Scotland.
Playing career
Club
Ferguson joined his first senior club, Rangers, from Gartcosh United in 1982. He enjoyed an early experience of first team involvement when picked to play in Tom Forsyth's testimonial match in 1983, aged only 15. He made his competitive debut in the 1983–84 season aged 16 years, 24 days (which remains a club record) and within a year became a first team regular at Ibrox. He showed his early promise to a wide audience with his performances alongside fellow young midfielder Ian Durrant in the Scottish League Cup finals of 1986 (in which he was named man of the match) and 1987.
However, over the next couple of seasons Ferguson gradually fell out of favour at Ibrox, a tempestuous relationship with manager Graeme Souness preventing him from developing as expected; Ian Ferguson (no relation) and veteran Ray Wilkins were often preferred in the position. He also suffered from injuries, including a recurring dislocated shoulder. In 1989–90 he was loaned to Dundee and it became clear his future was not to be at Rangers, although he was very reluctant to leave the club. He played 148 times in all competitions for Rangers, scoring 8 goals.
In August 1990, Heart of Midlothian spent a then club record £750,000 to take Ferguson to Tynecastle. He became a mainstay in the Hearts team over the next three seasons, including 1991–92 when they finished league runners-up. His good performances earned him a move to Sunderland, with manager Terry Butcher (his former captain at Rangers) signing him in a part-exchange deal which saw John Colquhoun return to Hearts.
After two seasons on Wearside, Ferguson moved back to Scotland when Falkirk paid Sunderland £250,000 for his services in 1995. He spent three years with the Bairns before spending a single season (1998–99) with Dunfermline Athletic, brief period with Portadown in the Irish League during the 1999–00 season and a month with Partick Thistle. Ferguson next had a short spell in Australian soccer with Adelaide Force before returning to Scotland to play for a succession of lower league clubs, namely Ross County, Clydebank (scoring once against future club Hamilton), Alloa Athletic, Hamilton Academical and finally Raith Rovers.
International
His early performances and potential ensured he was fast-tracked into the Scottish international squad in 1988. Ferguson gained two caps during this period, in matches against Malta and Colombia. He also featured five times for the Under-21s and once for the B-team.
Managerial career
While at Clydebank he was briefly appointed player-manager, while he has also served as a coach at Albion Rovers before becoming Stranraer's assistant manager as part of a new management team at Stair Park with Gerry Britton. When Britton left his post as manager for the vacant assistant manager role at Partick Thistle, Ferguson was put in place as caretaker manager before being handed a contract as manager until the end of the 2008–09 season. Although having a bright start as manager, relations between the club and Ferguson had become strained due to his unrealistic expectations for financial support and the club's on-field performances, which led to him leaving the club after an 8–2 home defeat to Stirling Albion., one of the worst home defeats in the club's history.
After leaving Stranraer he had a short spell as manager of junior outfit Glenafton Athletic. On 28 October 2010, Ferguson was named as assistant manager of Dumbarton, however it was announced on 3 November 2010 that he will be unable to fill that role due to media commitments.
Media career
Since leaving Glenafton Athletic, Ferguson has appeared regularly for BBC Radio Scotland as a football pundit. His work with BBC Scotland was cited as his reason for not accepting the role of assistant manager at Dumbarton.
Personal life
Ferguson is the elder brother of Barry Ferguson, who also played for Rangers and Scotland in the same position. The siblings played against each other on three occasions during the 1998–99 season while Derek was with Dunfermline, with 20-year-old Barry scoring at East End Park and 31-year-old Derek making his last appearance at Ibrox.
His son Lewis is also a professional footballer. He signed for Aberdeen in 2018, and scored the winning goal in a League Cup semi-final against Rangers in October of that year.
Ferguson's baby daughter Lauren died from a heart defect at seven weeks of age in 1993; her organs were removed by medical staff at Yorkhill Hospital without parental consent, an issue which inquiries found had affected hundreds of families in the area at the time.
His autobiography, Big Brother, written with Bill Leckie, was published in 2006.
Honours
Rangers
Scottish Premier Division: (2) 1986–87, 1988–89
Scottish League Cup: (3) 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89
Notes
References
External links
Profile at sporting-heroes.net
Hearts appearances and images at londonhearts.com
1967 births
Living people
Footballers from North Lanarkshire
Scottish men's footballers
Rangers F.C. players
Dundee F.C. players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Sunderland A.F.C. players
Falkirk F.C. players
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
Portadown F.C. players
NIFL Premiership players
Partick Thistle F.C. players
Adelaide City FC players
Ross County F.C. players
Clydebank F.C. (1965) players
Alloa Athletic F.C. players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Raith Rovers F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Premier League players
English Football League players
National Soccer League (Australia) players
Scottish football managers
Clydebank F.C. (1965) managers
Stranraer F.C. managers
Glenafton Athletic F.C. managers
Scottish Football League managers
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Scotland men's international footballers
Scotland men's under-21 international footballers
Scotland men's B international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Scotland men's youth international footballers |
8472292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermon%20High%20School | Hermon High School | Hermon High School is a public high school in Hermon, Maine, United States. It is part of the Hermon Public Schools district and has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
History
Hermon High School is a two-story building that was completed in 1995.
The 2008–2009 Cheerleading team swept all four competitions held in Maine, winning first at PVC's, Big East, Regionals and States. They placed sixth in the New England Cheerleading Competition.
The 2017-2018 Boys Basketball team won their first State Championship defeating Wells 55–34.
Notable alumni
Dana White, businessman and the current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
References
Schools in Penobscot County, Maine
Public high schools in Maine |
8472296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmaniada | Hoffmaniada | Hoffmaniada () is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation studio. The concept and the art design was done by Mikhail Shemyakin and is directed by Stanislav Sokolov.
The screenplay incorporates story lines and characters from (Little Zaches Called Cinnabar, The Golden Pot and The Sandman), with the main character being Hoffmann himself. In particular, it will focus on the duality between the imaginative universe of his writings and his real-life profession as a government clerk (which will be based on his letters and journals). The film stars the voices of , Slava Polunin, , , Anna Artamonova, Aleksey Petrenko, and Aleksandr Shirvindt.
The film, about the life and work of the essence of German Romanticism – writer, artist, and composer Ernest Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann, has been realized at the highest level of artistry and almost exclusively by hand. Hoffmaniada is neither biopic nor dramatization but a romantic flight of fancy based on motifs from Hoffmann's diaries and fiction.
The first twenty minutes of the film were screened on 20 November 2006, in Petersburg House of Cinema and received positive reactions from various news outlets. The animated film was released in Russia on 11 October 2018 and is denoted as the entryway of the modern Soyuzmultfilm animation studio. The film was later distributed to Japan in 2019. The film has been recognized with accolades of the Golden Eagle Award, Icarus Award, and Brazil Stop Motion International Film Festival award.
Plot
The protagonist of the film is Ernst Hoffmann, a young lawyer, musician and writer who inhabits two dimensions at once: the imaginary world of his fictional works and the ordinary reality of a small town. During the day, Hoffmann sits behind legal papers working in the office, and then gives music lessons. At night, he composes magical stories and operas, dreaming of one day seeing his opera Undine on the big stage. He does secretly imagine transporting himself into the world of his magical fantasies. Soon, the young man could no longer distinguish between dream and reality. In the images of the heroes that Hoffmann himself penned, he will have to go through the most amazing and danger-filled adventures, which might not be merely fantasies from his own fairy-tales. The adventures include an underwater excursion, a sword-fight, and a ballet at the theatre.
Ernst Hoffmann becomes the titular character student Anselm who is featured in a romantic film with meetings with heroines in different times of his life: the first-in the beautiful Olympia, and the second-in the magical snake-girl Serpentine, and the third-in the posh Veronica. However, Ernst is subjected to the sorcery of an old merchant, the charlatan Coppelius and the watchmaker Paulman. Sandman the dreamy student is also obsessed with Olympia, a soulless clockwork-automaton and daughter of physicist mechanic Paulman. The wise royal archivist Lindhorst exiled from Atlantis patronizes Ernst and his literary hero, the student Anselm. Turning into a Fire-Salamander, he resists Ernst's plans to woo his daughter Serpentina. They make sinister plans against the main character. Love and magic intrigues are intertwined and happily resolved at the end of the film.
Voice cast
as Ernst Hoffmann / Anselm
Aleksey Petrenko as Coppelius / Sandman
as physicist Paulman / Top secret parrot
Alexander Lenkov as the Old Witch (in the first version of the cartoon)
Slava Polunin as Coppelius in the image of the pastor
Anna Artamonova as Serpentina / Veronika / Olympia
Nikolay Kondrashov (voice)
(voice)
(voice)
Aleksandr Shirvindt as Lindhorst / Salamander
History and technique
Soyuzmultfilm was ready to revive their animation studio. The establishment from Moscow like other businesses was beleaguered by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite, the challenges, in 2001 Soyuzmultfilm confirmed about a grand project based on the works of German 19th century author E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1882). Soyuzmultfilm previously has not produced a feature film since 1985. The project combines the best traditions of classic Russian animation and modern technology. The film is Soyuzmultfilm's entry to the digital media industry and a turning point in its history. The film became one of the largest full-length and technically complex cartoons in the studio's recent history that took over fifteen years of production. The studio invited Mikhail Shemyakin to the project as animation director.
Both Germany and Russia are patrons of Hoffmann's stories. Russia in particular is linked to Hoffmann, as the author was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, Kaliningrad. Hoffmann is associated with the music of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Almost all of the children in Russia know who Hoffmann is because of his fairy-tale The Nutcracker. The word "Hoffmaniada" () is part of the Russian lexicon meaning absurd or preposterous.
Mikhail Shemyakin the acclaimed theatre artist and sculptor from Saint Petersburg was acquainted with Hoffmann's fairy-tales ever since a young age. Shemyakin, was a patron of German romanticism literature. Hoffmann's stories were noteworthy to the director whom he believes has influenced Russian authors such as Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Serapion Brothers. Shemyakin is a resident of East Germany, and his favourite city is Königsberg (Kaliningrad) where his father was commandant just before World War 2. There he would grow up reading about Hoffmann and Brothers Grimm. As an artist, he can discern an Hoffmann-like influence in all the cities in Russia he would visit. In 2001, Shemyakin already was an Hoffmann artist who created sketches for costumes, sets, and masks for the ballet The Nutcracker for the Mariinsky Theatre. The director had an initial idea of adapting the stories to the theatre screens. The project was initiated by Soyuzmultfilm director Akop Kirakosyan, who invited Shemyakin to the project. Animation director Stanislav Sokolov stated Mikhail Shemyakin's direction gave new impetus to the art of drawing and animation at Soyuzmultfilm.
The director and script writer of the film is Stanislav Sokolov who has previously directed Shakespeare: The Animated Tales in the 1990s. The veteran animator from Soyuzmultfilm who has previously experience working with Soviet Union artists Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Boris Nemensky worked on one of the last animation films produced in the historic Soyuzmultfilm studio in 25 Dolgorukovskaya Street, near the Novoslobodskaya metro station. Sokolov was interested in such a production ever since the 1970s. During the pre-perestroika times, Sokolov applied for the film concept but the idea was shelved because Hoffmann's stories were deemed too frightful for children and mystical for adults.Actual filming for the pilot began in late 2005 using stop-motion puppet animation as the medium to bring to animated life the various characters of the stories by E.T.A Hoffmann. Director Sokolov states, "Hoffmann's novels and short stories are perfect for stop motion. It is a technique that allows you to combine the visual effects of animated cinema with the materiality of the resources used. Thus, we create a tuning fork between real and fantasy elements."
The most active period of creativity occurred in 2005, when Shemyakin in the suburbs of New York City, made about 20 sketches of Hoffmaniada dolls in a short time. The main production designer of the film was Elena Livanova. Livanova created images of minor characters and turned some of Shemyakin's sketches into working sketches, and also translated the sketches into technical drawings for making dolls. Elena Livanova was assisted by the artist Nikolay Livanov. In total, about 150 dolls were created for the film.
The film was first intended as three independent film adaptations (, The Golden Pot and The Sandman). However, the final film combines all the tales into a single narrative. With the exception of the popular Nutcracker, most of the characters of the German classics of Hoffmann are rarely filmed in cinematic format. Central to the film will be the character, E.T.A Hoffmann himself, who is rejuvenated as a poor student Anselm who travels and interleaves the many fairy-tales described by the film. The film was intended to feature unusual fantastic interiors such as a crystal city, Atlantis, and a story line with deep philosophical meaning. The film is framed as a story within a story style where the author E.T.A Hoffmann himself is transported into the magical world of his own fairy-tales and lives with his own characters. The film depicts the author as participating in his own plots where good triumphs over evil. The film makers wanted to unearth the inner emotions and thoughts the author himself would have undergone when writing the dramatic stories such as The Sandman.
Production
Development
In November 2006, a preliminary twenty minute exhibition was held in Petersburg House of Cinema, featuring the main cast of about twenty puppets. Each puppet took no less than a month to make. The full film will have over 150 puppets, some of which will appear on the screen for only a few seconds. In the spring of 2008, a group of puppeteers created the dolls first before the script was made. The actual filming period for the rest of the film began in the summer. The animators wished to convey different layers of creativity and believed the film will be realized with utmost care. So they believed a slow production cycle while focusing more on details.
In 2008, after the completion of the sketches for the images of cartoon characters, the next stage in the production of dolls and filming process began. Initial reaction kept referencing the similarity of facial expressions between the puppet Hoffmann and director Stanislav Sokolov. A report from 1 September 2010 showed that work was still ongoing. On 3 June 2011, Soyuzmultdesign published an official booklet for the upcoming film, which says that preparation for shooting the second and final part of the film began on 3 March 2011, and that the final 90-minute film would be released in May 2014. Also, the official English name was revealed to be Hoffmaniada. On 23 July 2013, it was reported that the film is scheduled to be released in 2015. The cast of Aleksey Petrenko voiced Sandman, as Paulman, and as Ernst Hoffmann. Anna Artamonova voiced all the three heroines.
The effects of the Soviet Union collapse
The film was intended as a wide release film of 78 minutes within the scope of ambition in context of the days of insolvency in 2001. A premiere at the Petersburg House of Cinema was held in 2006 despite the constrained budget. The animators then once thought of getting financial assistance from the West. In a 6 September 2010 interview, Shemyakin said that if funding were given, the film would be finished in a year and a half. However, as of January 2011, the film crew were either not being paid at all (as during one 6-month period) or being paid very little, so progress was very slow. The production cycle faced many discontinuations.
The studio was also battling the aftermath of the economic downturn bought by the Soviet Union collapse in 1991. In 1998, the ruble faced devaluation that bought on financial debt to many companies that lasted to the turn of the 21st century. From the most acclaimed animation studio of Russia, in 2006 their studio built in 1936 was almost sold to real estate developers. A land dispute against the budget-constrained and workforce-downsized association was pitting the animators as they drew and recorded Hoffmaniada.
They believed only the policies of a strong president such as President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s could save the studio and their culture. According to Moscow Times report, "The Soyuzmultfilm studios are a piece of history and the embodiment of a belief that humor, art and the wacky, wily adventures of two-dimensional animals can cheer, sustain and even elevate or teach." In December 2013, Shemyakin said in an interview that despite the lack of budget, enthusiastic animators would pitch in to help realize the project for free. He expressed hope for completion of the film in two to three years.
In 2014, director Stanislav Sokolov revealed the project initially split into different arcs would be combined into one feature film. The first part, “Veronica,” was made in 2010. The second and the third parts, “Hoffmann and the Secret of the Watchmaker” was completed in 2015. A March 2014 report by Vechernaya Moskva remarked the Dolgorukovskaya Street Soyuzmultfilm building turned into a sort of "Hoffmann's attic", as the production of the film progressed.
Revival
The work was exemplary in context to Soyuzmultfilm history that usually featured about seventy people team. Hoffmaniada was recorded by a dozen member team with the talents of art director Elena Livanova, cameraman Igor Skidan-Boshin, two multipliers, two artists Ekaterina Bogacheva, Natalia Varlamova, assistant artist, props with others working outside the studio. However, despite the glacial production, the film was an opportunity for them to exhibit all their effort. Director Stanislav Sokolov was optimistic about the future of Soyuzmultfilm and Russian animation industry in general, as he believed the State of Russia is starting to invest and help the studios thrive in 2015.
On 8 June 2016, the long-term construction project was presented at the Historical and Art Museum in E.T.A. Hoffmann's own birthplace, Kaliningrad. The project managers were able to bypass their original milestone of 78 minutes of footage. On 29 November 2016, an historical finish to the history of Soyuzmultfilm was marked, as the final shots of Hoffmaniada as well as the final animation piece for the studio was recorded at the historical Dolgorukovskaya Street studio before moving to new premises provided by the Ministry of Culture. The final shot featured actor puppets being recorded in a miniature orchestra box designed in the style of German theatres of the 17th century. The official release of the full-length animation film in 2018 marked Soyuzmulfilm's new entry into the animation industry.
Themes
The film will juxtapose documentary elements with the fantasique. The film will not only be an exhibition of hyperbolic fantasy characterizations of Hoffmann's fairy-tales such as the fantasy mermaid origins of the princess but also will be based on a biopic of the author. The script will be based on real events from Hoffmann's time as a government clerk gleaned from the author's letters and journals. The puppet film is intended to describe the possibility of the struggles of Hoffmann's mental state as an ordinary "copyist in an office, turns around and suddenly sees the noses of his colleagues turn into mouse faces, and a real mouse kingdom reigns under the table." Puppets were also derived from real-life people such as Herman Stepanov the avant-garde art school colleague of Mikhail Shemyakin and Russian poet Alexander Timofeevsky. The timeless theme of creativity in context to rational realism is another concept explored by the film. The script writer had an innate creativity for writing that he unearthed after he switched his profession from architecture. The life situation parallels Hoffmann's own life.
According to Viktor Slavkin, "If Hoffmann did not have a world of dreams and fantasies, he would inevitably get drunk". The script tried to unearth Hoffmann's alleged alter ego Johannes Kreisler, the mysterious, volatile composer whom Hoffmann himself illustrated. The character has appeared in all of the novels described in the film. The film managed to combine discordant characters from Hoffmann's corpus such as Tiny Tsakhes, the Nutcracker, and the Sandman into a single narrative. A review found the approach to be "organic" to the point where the differences are never apparent. The film makers offered the viewer that Hoffmann was truly yearning for Atlantis through a magical love story hinging upon a trichotomy destiny. One of the three love stories features the fictional automaton Olympia described in the story The Sandman. The other heroines of the film include consul's daughter Veronica, and Serpentina. The three women at once embody the ideal of beauty in their own way, and Ernst will have to believe and choose the one that will bring him happiness. A duel of fates between Ernst and his character Sandman is the central conflict of the story whom Ernst knew ever since he was a child when he heard his nanny tell the tale of the nocturnal visitor who sprinkles sand in the eyes of children.
A review found the film to extend the boundaries of fairy-tales into the areas of surrealism. Particular attention was paid to the horror elements of the plot emphasized by the grotesque features on some of the puppets. A review found the film's horror elements extended to the bureaucracy that Hoffmann worked for that ties both his stories and biopic.
The time periods that the film depicts include the German bourgeoisie. The buildings, streets, bridges, and medieval houses are all evocative of the street landscape in Kaliningrad. The Gothic set pieces are depicted more in the style of Gaudí that starkly contrasts with the magical gardens set pieces of mystical Atlantis.
Animation
Context
Soyuzmultfilm continued the legacy of the ancient art of puppetry and stop motion. The creators of the film presented a classic three-dimensional puppet animation film with digital image processing which they believe is more efficient than virtual 3D animation because the characters are molded by the hands using different materials and is inexpensive. Despite initial predictions that by the 1990s, 3D would replace the art of stop-motion films, the animators were pleased that students and connoisseurs of puppet animation would return to the studio to resume the art form in the 2000s.
The film used all the techniques that digital puppet animation afforded to the animators when the movement started in the 1980s. The technique of replaceable articulation or the use of replaceable lower jaws of the character conditionally imitating speech was a major innovation in puppet animation. The animators drew inspiration from the classic stop-motion films of Ivan Ivanov-Vano such as Go There, Don't Know Where and those by Tim Burton. The film is constructed in the traditions of the 18th and 19th century. A recording of ancient 18th century minuets was used to describe the choreography of the dance partners in Hoffmaniada.
Animator's reaction
The film took over nine years to make with just a thirty-minute fragment, not including work on the script, sketches, storyboards, making dolls and scenery, taking more than a year to make. Each day, the animator can record about five seconds of video. Animators revealed despite the difficulties in expressing the puppets in terms of expressions like singing or grimacing, they are more amenable to the animators and therefore are more pleasant to work with. Animators for the film continue to note that working with puppet films are invigorating and have certain surprises that might go unnoticed while only watching the film. Director Sokolov explains, a special atmosphere is evident only in stop-motion that uses "real space and genuine textures."
Puppeteers at work
Each puppet doll was intricately designed by craftsmen by hand. The characters have unique outfits modeled after sketches that were then attached to the models by pins. Work on the female puppets as well as the young protagonists was the most difficult to construct. Each puppet required fastidious, pinpoint accuracy. For example, Hoffmann is designed with a waistcoat and a frill all stained with coffee and wine. A group of artists in a workshop would have different replacements of each puppet that is made of an amalgam of plastic and steel. Additional materials they worked with included wood, cardboard, plywood, carpentry tools, paper, gouache, and brushes. The puppets were drawn according to the motifs of the stories that required a grotesque form with unrealistically long noses. The drawing style only added to the expressiveness of the characters.
Tatiana Lykosov was the puppet animation director. The papier-mâché puppet actors are constructed by a metal skeleton on hinges. In order to convey expression onto the puppets it was necessary for the animator to understand the mood of the puppet and how they behave in certain situations. A report revealed the heads of the characters, express three different emotions: neutral, smiling and menacing. After sawing the head, the eyes are inserted inside made by balls that move in the same way as in a living person or a bird. The animators also designed the miniaturized props for the film such as candlesticks placed on the tables, paintings hanging on the walls or the piano, sofas, and chairs. The most difficult shot was the appearance of the character the Sea King who had to be depicted in smooth locomotion since the character had only a tail and no legs. The tail made of rubber with a metal hinge structure inside was attached to a coordinate table that moved through cogs.
Camera
Shooting of the puppets are carried out with a Mark II camera in 16:9 format and in 4K resolution, suitable for a large screen. Light filters were used to avoid the puppets having a rough background. Acceleration of stop motion puppets is an art that the studio perfected by working with the different dolls. They carefully perfected speed and center of gravity such as the fall of a leaf in its own wavering velocity, or the speed of a doll that moves only millimeters in each frame in order to avoid ragged movements. Cameraman Igor Skidan-Bosin, together with other technicians, invented an innovative suspended moving camera system that can drive right inside the scenery. The system is powered by a computer. Using special sliders, the camera can capture dynamic movements such as a revolution around dancing puppets.
Release
Theatrical
Hoffmaniada visited many cities of Russia including Siberia in 2014 as part of the film train program known as the VGIK-95 that was intended to educate the citizens of the Russian federation on Russian cinema. The train VGIK-95 departed on 23 September 2014. On 11 February 2016, for the 240th anniversary of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Regional Historical and Art Museum of Vienna opened an exhibition Meetings with Hoffmann featuring Hoffmaniada. The exhibit featured details on how Hoffmann was influenced by Mozart, to the point where he named himself Amadeus. The film was anticipated for many several screenings in cinemas by the end of 2016. Due to post-production the official premiere was scheduled for the fall of 2018. In 2017 International Youth Film Forum in Sochi, Stanislav Sokolov presented excerpts from Hoffmaniada.
Soyuzmultfilm was honored to present the film in Hoffmann's own homeland, Germany on 18 February 2018 at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. At the festival, the film was appraised by distributors from France and Germany. The Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin also constructed an exhibit about the film during the same time as the Berlinale. At the 13th Open Russian Festival of Animated Films in March 2018, Hoffmaniada officially premiered in Russian soil for the first time. The festival director remarked the film was the highlight of the event. At the June 12, 2018 festival Mirror in the Ivanovo Region, for the first time an animated film in Hoffmaniada was enlisted for the competition program. The film became part of the cultural program at the IV Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in 2018. On 1 October 2018, the campus of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo opened an exhibition of the film. On 5 October 2018, Novoekino released a documentary featuring the delicate production of the film. On 11 October 2018, Hoffmaniada premiered in wide-release format.
On 24 August 2018, director Sokolov presented the film at the Brazil Stop Motion International Film Festival in Recife. In the interview, the director stated the final cut removed many scenes and hopefully a DVD home video release will include the final scenes as well. In October 28, the film was presented at the Russian Seasons festival in Italy. In December 2018, the film's sets and dolls were exhibited at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in Moscow. The film was presented at the Russian cinema Gorky Fest of 2019. On 5 May 2019, the film premiered in TV at the channel Russia-K. In 2019, Hoffmaniada released in Japan. The film was the highlight event at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
After the premiere in Russia, the film is currently being presented in a variety of film festivals for international distribution. At the Cannes Film Festival of 22 June 2020, Hoffmaniada was shown to the film market. In the Toronto International Film Festival of September 2020, the film was presented by Soyuzmultfilm. In the 41th virtual edition of AFM in November 2020, Hoffmaniada was presented to the North American audience. Animation news website Cartoon Brew particularly commended about the film at the AFM, and denoted it as one of the seven most notable projects at the AFM. In September 2020, the Golden Mask Festival featured the film in the Amur capital of Blagoveshchensk.
Critical response
Kinoafisha reviewer Veronika Skurikhina couldn't comprehend how a Tim Burton of Russia film would ever exist, but if such a person existed, it would be Stanislav Sokolov of Hoffmaniada. The review also "noted that the crooked, ornate, metaphorical, aristocratic, and simply old Hoffmann language is almost completely preserved in the voice-over."
Yegor Belikov review from TASS, remarked the film is an accurate description of Hoffmann's "phantasmagoria without fear of getting lost in them, and their dedication inspires respect." The zealous effort put into this work makes "Soyuzmultfilm one of the last studios in the world that would be capable of such large-scale work." Anastasia Ivakhnova of 25 Card, with 4.5 stars remarks the film is Sokolov's magnus opus. The film managed to describe how Hoffmann was "so closely intertwined with his fantasies, and soon, despite the apparent external dissimilarity of Ernst and Anselm, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish the world of conditional reality from fictional from and to Atlantis". The execution of the concept "is enough to make Hoffmaniada take its rightful place among the best animated works of the studio and mark the return of "Soyuzmultfilm" to the big screen."
Although the film was an adaptation of horror stories by Hoffmann, several reviews remarked the animation studio unearthed the fairy-tale qualities of the stories that made it presentable to the children audience. Tlum review thought the film can be seen by even the youngest audience. Anna Ilyina of Rossiyskaya Gazeta also believed in the spectral quality of the film: "Sometimes it seems that Hoffmann himself invisibly followed what was happening - challenged modern creators, suspended the filming process, had fun playing with time, and then decided to manifest himself in the modern Russian present." Mir Fantastiki review also affirmed the film is light in tone, "it is amazing how Soyuzmultfilm, taking as a basis the dark stories of Hoffmann, was able to create such a bright picture. The cartoon is not scary to watch, and after watching it for a long time there is a good mood."
Denis Stupnikov for Intermedia giving the film 4 stars noting the puppets exude the style of the art form of Mikhail Shemyakin. The review noted the "light music" that went into the film such as incorporation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's own opera Undine.
Maria Tereshchenko of Kino Teatr, believed the film is like a "completed work of another era" in the 2000s, when the film was anticipated to be completed. "Hoffmaniada conveys acutely and accurately the feelings of a romantic, artist, poet, locked in everyday reality, but living not at all by it, but by a phantom life" and is an anachronism that "could only arise in the timelessness in which it was shot, when the management of the Soyuzmultfilm studio changed every few years, and the director had the highest degree of freedom from the dictates of officials and financiers." Daria Budanova of Mir Fantastiki, believes Hoffmann's stories are difficult to adapt because 'the motif of the mirror image of the real world and the fantastic world, their inevitable interpenetration, permeates all of Hoffmann's work. That is why his fairy-tales are so difficult to film. However "Stanislav Sokolov succeeded" and "managed to understand the genius of German Romanticism." In terms of the puppets, "outwardly, they resemble figures from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: detailed and outrageously caricatured images, which, however, are almost devoid of computer processing, and therefore unnatural cartoonishness. They seem to turn into real live actors."A review from J.B. Spins wonders whether acclaimed director of the Soviet Union, Tarkovsky's famous unfinished screenplay Hoffmaniana could have been finished considering how "screenwriter Victor Slavkin so cleverly and seamlessly integrate Hoffmann into his own stories." Spins thinks the movie is Quixotic, with "the sets, backdrops, and costumes alone make Hoffmaniada one of grandest literary period dramas of the year. It also might be the best stop-motion animated feature since My Life as a Zucchini, even on a par with Jiří Barta's Toys in the Attic." French review Little Big Animation noted the areas where the film could have improved such as "the rhythm of the editing." Also the viewers are "immersed oneself so far in the mirror game" despite a "lack benchmarks and subtitles no longer follow."
KinoKultura review by Mihaela Mihailova states the film "is auteur cinema meets bedtime story—a tad bewildering, but nevertheless an enchanting fairy-tale that should fascinate both young and mature viewers, albeit for different reasons". The lighting of the film is evocative of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922). A Japan Cinema Today review from Kaoru Hirasawa gave the film 4 stars remarking, "It's like a dream you see with your eyes open."
Accolades
Tie-in material and adaptations
In October 2013 at the Mipcom television market in Cannes, it was reported that, in addition to the feature film, a series of 26 13-minute episodes called Tales of Hoffmann will be made for television, each one based on a particular Hoffmann tale. The series will use the same puppets as are used in the film.
The remaining Hoffmaniadas puppet pavilion is still featured in the exhibition hall of Soyuzmultfilm in Moscow. Although all of the major details are empty, the eponymous Hoffmann is still shown playing the piano. The film is dedicated to the script writer and playwright , who died during time of the post-production for the film.
The city of Kaliningrad, where the legends of Hoffmann's fairy-tales were originally penned, welcomed the donations of dolls, sets, and sketches from Hoffmaniada. They are now preserved at the Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit Hoffmann's City. Secrets of Two Worlds that opened in October 2020, within the newly renovated basement under the former Königsberg Stock Exchange is thought to be a gateway for citizens to remember their rich cultural heritage. In addition, Soyuzmultfilm and Kaliningrad pledged to cooperate in the field of animation.
See also
History of Russian animation
List of stop-motion films
References
External links
Hoffmaniada in archived 2006 article about Soyuzmultfilm's real estate financial hardships.Russian''':Hoffmaniada in 2007 Regnum article featuring collaboration between Mikhail Shemyakin and Stanislav Sokolov.Hoffmaniada in 2018 RIA Novosti, a Russian newspaper from Russia.Hoffmaniada'' in 2018 Kommersant interview.
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8472297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20PC-457 | USS PC-457 | USS PC-457 was a submarine chaser of the United States Navy before World War II.
PC-457 was built in 1939 as the yacht Trouper by Robert Jacob and Sons shipyard of City Island, New York for C. A. Tilt of Chicago, IL, the president of the Diamond T Motor Company.
She was acquired by the US Navy in 1940 due to the Navy's rapidly rising demand for patrol craft as the war in Europe expanded. She was commissioned in 1941.
On 14 August 1941 she was sunk in a collision near San Juan, Puerto Rico with freighter ().
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Ships sunk in collisions
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Maritime incidents in August 1941
World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean |
8472298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterbike | Masterbike | Masterbike is a contest held on an annual basis to determine the best sport bikes of the year. Motociclismo, a Spanish sport bike magazine, invites cooperating magazines from all over the world (In Moto and Motosprint for Italy, Motociclismo Spain, Motociclismo Brazil, Motorrad, PS, Kickstart, MCN, Australian MCN, Cycle World, Motosprint, In Moto, Moto, Motociclismo Mexico, Motociclismo Portugal, Bike, Bike India, and Motorcyclist) and motorcycle manufacturers as well to join this pure racetrack comparison test. Categories are broken into Supersport, Superbike, and Maxisport. Winners are determined by a rating that is the attribution of the score for the best lap time overall (40%), the fastest lap set for each rider (40%) and the individual rating by each rider (20%). Only the winners of Supersport, Superbike and Maxisport class reach the final comparison where an overall Masterbike winner is chosen for the year.
Results
2005
Masterbike 2005 was the 8th annual Masterbike. It took place on the Ricardo Tormo circuit at Valencia on 15 June 2005 directly after the Superbike World Championship race weekend.
2006
Masterbike 2006 was the 9th annual Masterbike. It took place on the Jerez circuit in Spain on 31 May 2006.
2007
Masterbike 2007 was the 10th annual Masterbike. It took place on the Jerez circuit in Spain in May, 2007.
2008
Masterbike 2008 was the 11th annual Masterbike. It took place at Albacete Circuit in Spain.
References
Motorcycle magazines
Motorcycling events |
8472302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Chudleigh | Mary Chudleigh | Mary, Lady Chudleigh (; August 1656–1710) was an English poet who belonged to an intellectual circle that included Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Drake, Elizabeth Elstob, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John Norris. In her later years she published a volume of poetry and two volumes of essays, all dealing with feminist themes. Two of her books were published in four editions during the last ten years of her life. Her poetry on the subject of human relationships and reactions has appeared in several anthologies. Her feminist essays are still in print.
Biography
Mary Lee was born in Winslade, Devon, in August 1656, the daughter of Richard Lee and Mary Sydenham of Westminster. She was baptized in Clyst St George, a Devon parish, on 19 August 1656. She was the oldest of three siblings. Her mother came from the Sydenham family of Wynfold Eagle, Dorset. Lady Mary's uncle Colonel William Sydenham fought in the English Civil War on the side of Parliament. Her other uncle, Dr Thomas Sydenham, was known for his study of epidemic diseases and served as a physician to Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway. Her father was a man of property.
She married Sir George Chudleigh, 3rd Baronet (died 1718) of Ashton, Devon on 25 March 1674. Her biographers argue whether their marriage was happy; her references to marriage as a stifling trap for women suggest she may have had personal experience with an overbearing husband, yet he allowed her to publish several feminist works in his lifetime, and her unpublished work was saved by the family after her death. They had at least six children, including:
Sir George Chudleigh, 4th Baronet (died 1738), eldest son and heir. He married Frances Davie (1697–1748.), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707) of Creedy House, Devon, by whom he had four daughters and co-heiresses.
Col. Thomas Chudleigh, 2nd son, of Chelsea, London, whose son was Sir Thomas Chudleigh, 5th Baronet (died 1741) and whose daughter Elizabeth Chudleigh was wife of Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol (1724–1779) and bigamous wife of Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (1771–1773), who built "Chudleigh House" for her.
Eliza Maria Chudleigh.
Like most women of her time, Mary Chudleigh had little formal education, but she read widely. and educated herself in theology, science, and philosophy. Little else is known of her life except that one daughter must have died young, as her grief is mentioned in her letters and some poetry. Mary Chudleigh died on 15 December 1710 of severe rheumatism.
Literary works and reception
Critics had tended to read Chudleigh's work biographically, but that began to change in the 1990s, as new evidence on her life emerged. In her early career she could be called a Restoration poet of lyrics and satires, while later she became a philosophical essayist.
Heavily influenced by Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh was one of the first Englishwomen to recognize that as a social group, women faced unique challenges. She wrote overtly feminist works and argued strongly for marriage reform and women's education, believing women should cultivate reason, virtue and stoic integrity, despite living in a world full of misogyny. She also wrote significant poems in the retirement tradition, combining Platonic and Christian contemplation as a retreat from the vanities of life.
Chudleigh is no longer thought to have written the prose work The Female Advocate (1700), but expressed in her poetry praise for the "ingenious Pen" of the unknown, pseudonymous Eugenia who did so.
Individual works
The Ladies' Defence, Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd: A Poem in a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson (London, 1701) analyses marriage from a woman's point of view. Not expecting men to give up their privilege, she urges women to avoid marriage and realize their self-worth.
Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703): By dedicating this to Queen Anne, Chudleigh sought protection from potential backlash.
Essays Upon Several Subjects (London, 1710) urges women not to dwell on wealth, status, interest or ambition.
Collected works
The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
Correspondence
Elizabeth Thomas, Pylades and Corinna (London, 1731)
The Poetical Works of Philip Late Duke of Wharton (London, 1731)
British Library MSS Stowe 223, f. 398
British Library MSS Stowe 224, f. 1
Further information
Biography
George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been Celebrated for their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences, ed. Ruth Perry (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1985).
Anthologies
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds
The First Feminists: British Women Writers, Moira Fergusson, ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985)
Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, Roger Lonsdale, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
British Literature: An Anthology, Robert DeMaria, Jr, ed. (London: Blackwell, 1996)
References
External links
Mary Chudleigh at Literary Places.co.uk
Essays by Mary Chudleigh at Quotidiana.org
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1710 deaths
Feminist studies scholars
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English women poets
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8472326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Banquier | Le Banquier | Le Banquier () was a Canadian game show and the Quebec adaptation of the international game show Deal or No Deal. It debuted on January 24, 2007 at 9 pm on the TVA network. The program, produced in Montreal, Quebec by JPL Production II Inc. and Endemol USA for TVA, is hosted by Julie Snyder. The show's main sponsors are Vidéotron, Hyundai, Maxi, Nissan, Capital One and Sunwing.
The show's first season ended on March 29, 2007. During the first season, episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9 pm and Thursdays at 8 pm. During the second season, episodes aired on Sundays at 7 pm and Thursdays at 8 pm.
Gameplay
As this version of the franchise is produced by the US arm of Endemol, the rules are played similar to the American version: the number of cases opened in each round starts with six cases in round one, then five in round two, and so on, all the way down to one case in round six and subsequent rounds. The game is practically the same as the American version, except that the largest cash prize is $500,000 (originally to have been $250,000) and it is tax-free Canadian money. Of the 26 models, 6 of them are men, holding cases 21 through 26. This is in contrast to the other versions airing in North America that use permanent models (Deal or No Deal, Vas o No Vas, Deal or No Deal Canada), where all models are women. (Note that the US daytime version, which closely resembles the British version, uses 22 cases held by the potential contestants.)
Like the US version, some of the offers may be prizes, in addition to, or instead of, a cash offer—as with the US show, the prizes tend to be what the contestant wants. For example: on the first episode on January 24, 2007, one contestant was offered $15,000, plus a mountain bike worth $1,000 (as there was an ET joke going on), plus tickets to see the Montreal Canadiens NHL hockey team play an upcoming game with the Carolina Hurricanes.
The highest amount won on the show thus far is $240,000, through a bank offer. On the final episode of the first season on March 29, 2007, the last contestant played for a top prize of $750,000 (replacing the $125,000). Before February 21, 2007, there was a $2,500 amount on the board which was then replaced with $125,000.
In addition, like in its US counterpart, there may also be some special prizes not attached to any offer. In the first episode, then-Canadiens' defenceman Sheldon Souray (now with the Edmonton Oilers) appeared in a video to wish a contestant luck and gave him an autographed hockey stick, not attached to any offer. Another example would be a contestant who was offered a trip for 5 people to Las Vegas, tickets to see Celine Dion's show and the chance to meet Celine in person. A premise unique to this version is that if an offer with a prize attached is rejected by the contestant, then a member of the audience (via random draw) will win the prize. Le Banquier was also used as a venue to propose a marriage: during the second offer of the second game on the debut January 24 episode, a contestant got engaged.
The imaging used in this version, including the money board, captions and audio cues, are similar to the US version, as both Fish Eggs (graphics) and Groove Addicts (music) are involved in the graphics and music in all four North American versions of the show (US English and Spanish, Canada English and French). Both firms are actively used by Endemol, and all four shows carry an Endemol USA copyright. TVA also has their own Lucky Case Game, though the lucky winner wins a prize instead of cash; the cases are revealed one at a time (from left to right).
Second season
The show's second season began Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 8 pm ET on TVA, with a special 90-minute episode, with Celine Dion as host, Snyder as contestant and Celine's husband, René Angélil, as "Le Banquier". Also, the top row of models was replaced with friends of Julie's, including former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Howie Mandel, the host of the US and English-Canadian editions of Deal or No Deal, also made an appearance, via satellite, to wish a happy birthday to Julie. This expanded episode, and role reversal, was in celebration of Julie Snyder's 40th birthday.
For several episodes in the second season, the top prize was increased to $750,000, as Loto-Québec, the provincial lottery agency, was the main sponsor for these shows. However, afterward, the top amount went back to $500,000.
Sometime in February 2008, a seventh six-figure amount was added to the board, $250,000, replacing $15,000.
Third season
The third season premiered September 2008 back on TVA. The background music was adjusted to that of the current American version. The seventh six-figure amount, $125,000, was replaced with the previous amount of $15,000. As well, a "half-million dollar mission" began on the show, as there has not been a winner of the top prize. In 2009, the top prize was increased to $1,000,000 and the case values were exactly the same as the US version, but in Canadian dollars.
Case values (as of 2017)
Special prizes
Beginning in 2012, each game features three prizes provided by some of the show's sponsors. Two of these prizes appear in cases valued at $25,000 or less, and the values of each count towards the contestant's final total.
Surprise: The contestant wins a bonus prize that usually relates to one of their personal hobbies, interests or wishes.
Sunwing: Introduced in 2014, the contestant wins a vacation to an exotic location. Originally sponsored by Quebec supermarket chain Maxi.
Vidéotron Mobile: Replaced the $10,000 amount on the board. The contestant wins a $10,000 bonus, theirs to keep regardless of the outcome of the game. If the contestant plays to the end and finds Vidéotron Mobile in their chosen case, the bonus is doubled to $20,000. Capital One sponsored this bonus from 2012 to 2014.
Statistics
Highest amount won (Deal): $255,000
Highest amount won (No Deal): $125,000
Lowest amount won (Deal): $14.22 + one-year subscription to 7 Jours magazine + photo in 7 Jours + 50 pairs of white socks
Lowest amount won (No Deal): $5
Although this contestant won only $5 from her case, she won over $71,000 in cash and prizes, including a vacation, $10,000 from Capital One, and a new car.
Best deal: 4,100,000 times more than case — $41,000 for $0.01
Best deal by dollars: $254,999 more than case — $255,000 for $1
Worst deal: 15% of case value — $60,000 (plus a $15,000 Ski-Doo) for $500,000
Highest potential offer: $389,000
Lottery game
There was also a Loto-Québec scratch ticket based on this version of the show; 26 amounts, 25 cases. Top prize is $50,000. The player must uncover each case, and scratch the amount that was uncovered. The unscratched amount is what the player wins.
Celebrities
Celebrities who have played the game include Celine Dion (who appeared on the show twice).
See also
List of Quebec television series imports and exports
Deal or No Deal Canada
External links
TVA's "Le Banquier" official site
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
Deal or No Deal
2000s Canadian game shows
2010s Canadian game shows
Television shows filmed in Montreal
TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming |
8472331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuntrera-Caruana%20Mafia%20clan | Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan | The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan () was a Mafia clan of the Cosa Nostra and held a key position in the illicit drug trade and money laundering for Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and 1990s. The Italian press baptized the clan as "The Rothschilds of the Mafia" or "The Bankers of Cosa Nostra".
Italian prosecutors described the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan as an "international holding ... a holding which secures certain services for the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as a whole: drug-trafficking routes and channels for money laundering." The clan is "a very tight knit family group of men-of-honour, not only joined by Mafia bonds, but also by ties of blood." According to the Italian Antimafia Commission the Cuntrera-Caruana clan played a central role in international drug trafficking, extending their interests from Italy to Canada and Venezuela.
Prominent members of the clan are the brothers Liborio Cuntrera, Pasquale Cuntrera, Gaspare Cuntrera and Paolo Cuntrera. At the Caruana side there are Giuseppe Caruana, Carmelo Caruana and his son Alfonso Caruana, and Leonardo Caruana.
Origins
The Cuntrera and Caruana families originated from Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. They are relatives; they inter-married to strengthen their criminal alliance. Mafia tradition is old in Siculiana. On a map, made in 1900 by one of the first Mafia researchers Antonino Cutrera, a former officer of public security, Siculiana is mentioned as "high density" Mafia territory. The province of Agrigento is, and has been so for the last century, the poorest and most backward region of Italy.
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan used to be armed guards for the local baron Agnello, who owned most of the village and the surrounding land. Everybody in the village depended on the baron for work and income. When land reform started in the 1950s the baron had to give up most of his holdings. The Mafia brokered the sale of the holdings. The power of the Mafia in those years was unchallenged, they entered the town council, and at one time the mayor was a noted mafioso.
In 1952, Pasquale Cuntrera and his brother-in-law Leonardo Caruana were indicted for a double murder, the theft of four cows and arson. Both were acquitted in 1953 per non aver commesso il fatto – not having committed the act – an almost ritual verdict where Mafia crimes were concerned in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s.
A 1966 police report concluded Siculiana had been ruled by mafiosi for years. Giuseppe Caruana, his brother Leonardo Caruana and Pasquale Cuntrera exploited every economic activity in the village and its surrounding communities. They had created an atmosphere of omertà: through violence and intimidation they made sure that nobody dared to denounce them. The Agrigento Court decided to ban them from the village.
Some returned; however in the 1970s Leonardo Caruana became capo mandamento — after he was deported from Canada — of the area under the leadership of the Mafia boss of the province Agrigento, Giuseppe Settecasi. The power base of the clan reached into politics. The influential politician Calogero Mannino of the Christian Democrat party (DC — Democrazia Cristiana) was a witness at the marriage of Leonardo Caruana's son Gerlando in 1977 in Siculiana.
Leonardo Caruana was murdered in 1981 in front of his house in Palermo on the day his other son Gaspare Caruana married. The killing occurred at the height of a second Mafia war, and stayed unavenged.
The expansion outside Siculiana
Montreal is the first base outside Sicily for the Cuntrera-Caruana clan. Canadian immigration-records show Pasquale and Liborio Cuntrera arrived in 1951 and acquired Canadian nationality in 1957. They moved up and down between Sicily and Montreal setting up base at both sides of the Atlantic. According to the Cuntrera-Caruana's own story they worked hard in Canada, starting ploughing snow and as barbers, saving enough money to start their first shop and pizzeria. However, more likely is that some of them left Sicily to escape prosecution.
In 1966, most of the clan left the village, when they were banished by court order, as a result of a crackdown by Italian police after the Ciaculli massacre. The Agrigento Court banned several members of the clan to locations elsewhere in Italy, mostly in the North, but they chose to leave the country instead. Pasquale Cuntrera and Leonardo Caruana moved to Montreal in Canada, while Giuseppe Caruana preferred Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The Cuntrera brothers moved on to Caracas in Venezuela.
In the beginning of the 1970s the Cuntrera-Caruana clan redeployed, after Mafia persecution in Italy had slowed down. In Italy major Mafia trials ended in non-convictions for most of the Mafia bosses. Some of the clan went to the Italian mainland (Ostia Lido, a seaside resort near Rome); some went to the United Kingdom, to Woking, the stockbrokers-belt near London; some remained in Caracas; while others remained in Montreal. They travelled up and down using their residences around the world for drug trafficking.
Venezuela became an important hideout. "Venezuela has its own Cosa Nostra family as if it is Sicilian territory", according to the Italian police. "The structure and hierarchy of the Mafia has been entirely reproduced in Venezuela." The Cuntrera-Caruana clan had direct links with the ruling Commission of the Sicilian Mafia, and are acknowledged by the American Cosa Nostra.
In the Second Mafia War the Cuntrera-Caruana clan initially sided with the established Mafia-families of Palermo who were massacred by the Corleonesi headed by Salvatore Riina. However, they apparently were able to find some kind of agreement with Riina. The Cuntreras and Caruanas were necessary and irreplaceable for every other Mafia family, according to police investigators: "the others are allied with them."
Five decades in the illicit drug trade
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan almost certainly was involved in heroin trafficking networks since the 1950s. Their names appeared at investigations in such famous cases as the French Connection in the 1970s and the Pizza Connection in the 1980s. Several intertwining Sicilian networks were running heroin to the US. They had the same source – suppliers from the Corsican underworld in Marseilles with their high quality laboratories – and the same destination – the North American consumer market.
The repression caused by the Ciaculli Massacre disarranged the Sicilian heroin trade to the United States. Mafiosi were banned, arrested and incarcerated. Control over the trade fell into the hands of a few fugitives: Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco, his cousin Salvatore Greco, also known as l'ingegnere, Pietro Davì, Tommaso Buscetta and Gaetano Badalamenti. All of them were acquainted with the Cuntrera-Caruana clan.
The famous "pentito" (turncoat) Tommaso Buscetta told Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone in 1984, how he had met the clan in Montreal in 1969 during Christmas. Buscetta stayed at Pasquale Cuntrera's home recovering from a venereal disease. They were introduced to him as "uomini d'onore" – men-of-honour. When Buscetta met them they were already very rich. Pasquale Cuntrera told Buscetta they were trafficking heroin.
The Italian police finally got an idea of the role of the Cuntrera-Caruana clan in 1982-83 when they investigated the Italian end of what later was called the Pizza Connection. The Italian police was following the movements of Giuseppe Bono, the middleman between the buyers of the Gambino and Bonanno crime families in New York and the Sicilian clans who organized the heroin traffic to the US. "Almost all the money of the Sicilian Mafia in North-America to purchase heroin and the resulting proceeds went through their hands", according to a police investigator.
In 1981, Gaspare Mutolo, who would become a pentito in 1992, organized a 400 kilogram shipment of heroin to the US. The Cuntrera-Caruana clan received half of the load, while John Gambino of the Gambino Family in New York City took care of the other 200 kilograms. The shipments were financed by consortium of Sicilian Mafia clans, who had organized a pool to provide the money to buy the merchandise from Thai suppliers. The system in the heroin-business was that every Mafia-family could invest in a shipment if it had the money. The Cuntrera-Caruana clan were the trusted buyers who supplied the market in North America.
In 1985, in a joint operation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and British Customs and Excise, a heroin transport was seized in London and Montreal. Subsequent investigations revealed that the clan was picking up the heroin in Thailand since 1983. They replaced the supply line of Gaspare Mutolo who had been arrested.
In 1988 the RCMP seized a 30 kilo load of heroin at a factory owned by Cuffaro's brother-in-law in Windsor in Canada near the U.S. border. The same year Giuseppe Cuffaro and Pasquale Caruana were arrested in Germany. The German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) discovered an extensive network that tried to set up heroin trafficking from the Far East to Europe.
Brokering cocaine in Venezuela
While in Venezuela the clan started to be involved in cocaine trafficking. They became seriously involved when a joint venture of 'Ndrangheta families needed Alfonso Caruana to supply them. Caruana organized a network that smuggled eleven metric tons of cocaine to Italy from 1991-94. Caruana brought together the cocaine suppliers of the Cali Cartel with the Italian distributors from the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria.
The pipeline fell apart when the Italian police seized 5,497 kilos of cocaine (a European record at the time) in March 1994 near Turin. A year later the Turin Prosecutors Office presented the indictment (the investigation was code-named Operation Cartagine). The operation neutralized the most important supply-line of narcotics to Europe, investigators claimed. The Cuntrera-Caruana family was labelled as "the fly-wheel of the drug trade and the indispensable link between suppliers and distributors." One of the suppliers was Henry Loaiza Ceballos of the Cali cartel.
The Caruanas moved the cocaine pipeline towards Canada, where the family took care of wholesale distribution with the consent of Vito Rizzuto the leader of the Cosa Nostra, who came from the same region in Sicily as the Cuntrera-Caruanas.
Arrests and convictions
Just before he was killed by the Mafia, judge Giovanni Falcone warned of the international connections of Cosa Nostra. He initiated extradition requests for the Cuntrera-Caruana members in Venezuela. After the killing of the judges Falcone and Paolo Borsellino the Italian authorities stepped up prosecution. Pasquale, Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera were arrested in September 1992 on Fiumicino airport (Rome), after they had been expelled from Venezuela. Their expulsion was ordered by a commission of the Venezuelan Senate headed by Senator Cristobal Fernandez Dalo and his money laundering investigator, Thor Halvorssen Hellum.
In 1993, the Italian Corriere della Sera reported that the Cuntrera-Caruana clan owned 60 per cent of the Caribbean island Aruba, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands through investments in hotels, casinos and the election-campaign of Prime Minister Henny Eman. According to the newspaper, Aruba had become set to be the first independent mafia state. That claim proved to be exaggerated, however.
In May 1998 the sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court of Cassation: Pasquale Cuntrera was convicted to 20 years in prison, Gaspare and Paolo Cuntrera to 15 years. However, due to an error in communication about expiration of provisional incarceration terms, Pasquale Cuntrera had been able to leave prison two weeks before. When Cuntrera's getaway was reported in the news media, the opposition asked for the resignation of the minister Justice, Giovanni Maria Flick, and the minister of Internal Affairs, Giorgio Napolitano. Flick offered his resignation but that was refused by Prime minister Romano Prodi. Pasquale Cuntrera was arrested some days later in Fuengirola, Spain, while he was waiting for arrangements to travel to Venezuela; Pasquale Cuntrera was extradited to Italy to serve the 20 year prison sentence.
Events in Canada
On July 15, 1998, Alfonso Caruana and his brothers Gerlando and Pasquale Caruana were arrested in Woodbridge, Ontario, in a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) operation called Project Omerta, for importing and trafficking cocaine to Canada. In February 2000, Alfonso pleaded guilty to charges of importing and trafficking narcotics, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Ontario Superior Court. Pasquale and Gerlando were also given 10 and 18 year prison sentences respectively.
In June 2007, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Alfonso Caruana to be sent back to Italy to face jail time. On December 20, 2007, Caruana's efforts to appeal were dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada. He was extradited to Italy on January 29, 2008, to serve the nearly 22-year prison sentence that was presented in absentia in 1997.
Agostino Cuntrera, cousin of Alfonso, and presumed acting boss who was believed to have taken control of the Rizzuto crime family, was killed together with his bodyguard in Saint Leonard, Quebec, on 30 June 2010.
A house owned by Giuseppe Cuntrera ("Big Joe") in Woodbridge was targeted by unknown culprits in 2017. A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the Di Manno Bakery in Vaughan on June 12, and gunshots struck the door of his home on the same night. The garage of the same house was struck by gunshots on August 7 and a significant fire occurred at the home, then unoccupied, in late August.
References
External links
Blickman, Tom (1997). "The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba", Transnational Organized Crime, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997
Dickie, John (2004). Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Coronet,
Lamothe, Lee, & Antonio Nicaso (2001). Bloodlines: Project Omerta and the Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family, Toronto: HarperCollins Canada
Sterling, Claire (1990). Octopus: How the Long Reach of the Sicilian Mafia Controls the Global Narcotics Trade, New York: Simon & Schuster,
"È la coca che fa il ponte. È la mafia che lo gestirà", Diario, March 11, 2005
1950s establishments in Italy
Organizations established in the 1950s
2000s disestablishments in Italy
Organizations disestablished in the 2000s
Sicilian Mafia clans
Italian-Canadian crime families
Transnational organized crime
Gangs in Montreal
Gangs in Toronto
Organized crime groups in Venezuela
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8472363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Campedelli | Nicola Campedelli | Nicola Campedelli (born 7 February 1979) is an Italian football coach and former player who coaches Serie D club ASD Savignanese.
Playing career
A midfielder, Campedelli played with Cesena from 1997 to 2000.
In 2007, when at Cesena, he suffered a Lisfranc fracture which he never fully recovered from, making only a handful in the 2007–08 Serie B season, forcing him to announce his retirement from football in June 2009. Nicola is a brother of Cesena president Igor, which Cesena bought Nicola from Modena for €650,000 in co-ownership deal in 5-year contract. In June 2009 Modena gave up the remain 50% registration rights, as Nicola retired at the end of season.
Coaching career
For the 2009–10 season, Campedelli was coach of Cesenatico promoted to Serie D. He took the UEFA B License course from 20 July to 6 August 2009.
In the two next seasons he has been the coach of Bellaria in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione saved for all two seasons. He obtained the necessary coaching license for that level (UEFA A License) in June 2011.
Campedelli was hired by Cesena on 25 May 2012, just weeks after the club relegated to Serie B as caretaker. FIGC gave special permission to him despite not a holder of UEFA Pro License. He was sacked on 10 September after three Serie B matches, from his brother Igor, the president of club and replaced by Pierpaolo Bisoli. Campedelli obtained the Pro License in July 2013.
References
External links
Profile at Football.it
FIGC
1979 births
Living people
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
Italy men's youth international footballers
AC Cesena players
US Salernitana 1919 players
Modena FC 2018 players
Serie A players
Men's association football midfielders
AC Cesena managers
Footballers from Cesena
Italian football managers |
8472364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20Institute%20of%20Terceira | Historical Institute of Terceira | The Historical Institute of Terceira, or literally the Historical Institute of the Island of Terceira (), or IHIT, is a private association and cultural institute and museum, dedicated to the investigation and studying of the islands of the Azores. The institute is headquartered in the classical Convent of São Francisco (Convent of Saint Francis of Assisi) in Angra do Heroísmo.
It was established by like-minded individuals in 1942, who founded that institute in order fill a gap in the archipelago's legal charter, the Estatuto dos Distritos Autónomos das ilhas Adjacentes (1940–47). The district services outlined in this document did not include provisions for cultural elaboration and development, but rather promoted economic intervention in agriculture, public works, industry, energy and terrestrial transport, as well as at least one social issue: public health. It was pioneering for the Azores, and would spawn the creation of the Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada () and, a few years later, the Núcleo Cultural da Horta ().
History
The creation of the institute was led by Luís Ribeiro and José Agostinho, both public educators with vocations in ethnography, history and natural sciences, and who were influenced by the Instituto de Coimbra, as well as other Portuguese and international societies. From this centre, a small academy developed, attracting many members, both locally and by correspondence, in addition to many Portuguese honorary members.
In 1985, its constitution was reformulated in order to adapt the association to the new reality, that abandoned the district system in favor of the autonomy model in the Azores.
The institute has promoted several colloquies reflecting important subjects in Azorean society, including: Os Açores e o Atlântico (a conference which began in 1983, and later continued in 1987, 1990 and 1993); Os Impérios do Espírito Santo e a Simbólica do Império (1984); and Uma Reflexão Sobre Portugal (1994). In 1995, a national congress was held on the contributions of Henry the Navigator to Azores history. Recently, the institute has been involved in the protection and valourization of historical buildings and monuments in the Autonomous Region of the Azores. This has included the process to designate the Historic Centre of Angra do Heroísmo as a UNESCO World Heritage site (1981–1983), the diffusion of international texts on the preservation of historical buildings and many collaborative efforts between the Institute and the Regional Secretariat of Education and Culture ().
Publications
It publishes an annual bulletin that includes fundamental studies of the history, ethnography and documents of cultural interest relative to the Azores. Further, it has been a publisher of larger works that are larger in scope and provide detailed examinations of society in the Azores. These have included: Ilha Terceira: Notas Etnográficas by Frederico Lopes Jr. (1980), Obras by Luís Ribeiro (three volumes, published in 1982), The Image of the Azorean by Mary T. Vermette (1984), Ruas da Cidade e outros escritos by Henrique Bras (1985), Os Açores e o Domínio Filipino by Avelino Freitas de Meneses (two volumes published in 1987), 'Tradições e Festas Populares da Freguesia dos Altares by Inocêncio Enes (1988), Apontamentos para a História dos Açores by Francisco Ferreira Drummond (text and transcription of the manuscript by José Guilherme Reis Leite, 1990).
The most ambitious publication of the institute was Fenix Angrence by Manuel Luís Maldonado, with edition and manuscript transcription by Helder Parreira de Sousa Lima (first volume in 1989, second in 1990 and the third and final volume in 1998).
References
External links
2007 version of website
Terceira Island
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1942 establishments in Portugal |
8472389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isozaki | Isozaki | Isozaki () is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect
Chitoshi Isozaki (1913–1993), Japanese fighter pilot
Hiromi Isozaki (athlete) (born 1965), Japanese sprint athlete
Hiromi Isozaki (born 1975), maiden name of Japanese footballer Hiromi Ikeda
Keita Isozaki (born 1980), Japanese footballer
Naomi Isozaki, Japanese Paralympic archer
Yosuke Isozaki (born 1957), Japanese politician
See also
Isozaki Station, train station in Japan
Isozaki Atea, building in Spain
Japanese-language surnames |
8472416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%20Hughes | Neville Hughes | Neville Hughes (1 June 1945 – 28 June 2015)
) was a British actor in the 1960s and 1970s. Later he was a successful businessman in the motor manufacturer sales and marketing sector.
John David Howell Hughes was born in 1945 at St. Clears, Wales. He was educated at Eagle House Prep School and Radley College where he was a brilliant young stage actor. He started to train as a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, but gave it up. After joining RADA in 1965, and working in repertory theatre, Hughes made his television debut in "The Man and the Hour". The following year he made his debut in Crossroads, for which he is best known, as Rev Peter Hope, where he played opposite Sue Nicholls. He was also in the very first episode of Dad's Army in 1968. Following this success he continued to appear in the role of Rev Peter Hope in Crossroads for four years. He appeared in theatre, film, radio and television roles including The Avengers, Department S, The Protectors, Emergency – Ward 10, Father Brown and Rebecca. He also appeared in the 1973 film Soft Beds, Hard Battles with Peter Sellers.
In 1975 Hughes was offered the opportunity to work for on an 'apprentice scheme' with car manufacturer BMW. He took to the role as a salesman, quickly becoming the company's best salesman of the year. From as sales trainer he became National Training Manager. In 1980 he seized the opportunity to set up his own company, Training Power Ltd. The company was a success securing a notable client list with top brands, Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar, GM and Volvo. It expanded into consultancy in films and television crossing four continents: Australasia, USA and the Middle East. After a management takeover John Hughes set up John D.H. Hughes Consultancy offering bespoke training programmes to the motor industry, while also focussing on middle management and director-level recruitment.
He retired to his roots in West Wales where, indulging an enthusiasm for fly fishing, he set up a firm called Fishing Pursuits, that provided smoked fish to restaurants and pubs. He died at home in Wales leaving behind a wife and family.
References
Croft, David; Perry, Jimmy; Webber, Richard (2000). The Complete A-Z of Dads Army. Orion.
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8472425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Looming%20Fog | The Looming Fog | The Looming Fog is the 2006 debut novel by the Nigerian writer, Rosemary Esehagu. The story follows the life of an intersex child as they struggle to live in a pre-colonial village in Nigeria that considers the anomaly an abomination.
Through this nameless protagonist and narrator, one becomes aware of other members of this small society, including the second main character, Kayinne, who is the only surviving child of an elderly couple. She must battle with her society concerning her desire to become a healer — a major taboo for a woman in Nigerian society.
References
2006 novels
Novels about intersex
Nigerian English-language novels
Nigerian LGBT novels
2006 debut novels |
8472428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Harbaugh | Jack Harbaugh | Jack Avon Harbaugh (born June 28, 1939) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Western Michigan University from 1982 to 1986 and Western Kentucky University from 1989 to 2002, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 116–95–3. In his final year at Western Kentucky, he led the 2002 Hilltoppers to NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship title. Harbaugh's sons, John and Jim, are the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in the National Football League (NFL) and the first pair of head coaching brothers to face off in a Super Bowl. Harbaugh currently is the Assistant Head Coach for the University of Michigan Wolverines, where Jim is the Head Coach.
Early life
Harbaugh was born in Crestline, Ohio, to Marie Evelyn (née Fisher) and William Avon Harbaugh. He is of German and Irish descent. He graduated from Crestline High School in 1957. At Crestline, he was a four-year letterman in both football and baseball. He was an all-state quarterback and shortstop in his senior year. He was also a two-time letterman in basketball.
Playing career
He played college football for the Bowling Green State University Falcons from 1957 to 1960, where he was a three-time letterman. In his junior year, the Falcons finished the season 9–0 and were named the small college division national champions. He was drafted in the 1961 AFL draft by the Buffalo Bills as a running back.
Coaching career
Harbaugh began as an assistant coach to Jerry Nowak at Perrysburg High School in Perrysburg, Ohio, southwest of Toledo. Both sons were born while Harbaugh was in Perrysburg. In 1964, Harbaugh was the head coach of Eaton High School football team in Eaton, Ohio. His record was 5–4–1, their first winning season in many years. In 1965 the team went 6–4. In 1966, Harbaugh was the head coach of the Xenia High School football team in Xenia, Ohio. His record for the one year that he coached was 8–1–1. He received championship honors in the Western Ohio League and was named conference Coach of the Year.
Harbaugh served as an assistant in various college programs from 1968 to 1981.
From 1982 to 1986, he served as the head football coach at Western Michigan University and compiled a 25–27–3 record. From 1989 to 2002, he was the head football coach at Western Kentucky University. During his tenure with the Hilltoppers he posted a 91–68 record, including three 10-win seasons. The Hilltoppers were the only team to rank in the top 10 every year in rushing offense from 1991-2002. In 2002, the WKU squad won the NCAA Division I-AA national football championship.
After leaving Western Kentucky, Harbaugh served as an associate athletic director at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his son-in-law, Tom Crean, was the head coach of the men's basketball team. Harbaugh has also served as an assistant coach at Morehead State University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of San Diego.
Harbaugh retired in 2006, but served as Stanford's running backs coach in the 2009 Sun Bowl under his son, Jim. Jack filled in for Willie Taggart, who had recently been hired as the new head football coach at WKU.
Personal life
Harbaugh married his wife, Jacqueline M. "Jackie" Cipiti in 1961. They have three children: John, Jim and Joanie. Jack and Jackie settled in Mequon, Wisconsin, when he took the position as Associate Athletic Director for Marquette University in Milwaukee. Harbaugh is a member of the Bowling Green State University chapter of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Their two sons, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh were the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in the National Football League (NFL): The brothers coached their teams in a game unofficially nicknamed the 'Harbaugh Bowl' and 'Har-bowl' on Thanksgiving Day, 2011, one day before Jack and Jackie's 50th wedding anniversary, where John's Ravens beat Jim's 49ers, 16-6. They faced each other again in a second 'Har-bowl' when Baltimore beat San Francisco February 3, 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans by a score of 34–31. Jim also played quarterback at Michigan and for 15 seasons in the NFL for six different teams from 1987 to 2001 before entering coaching.
Their daughter Joani's husband was head basketball coach for the men's Georgia Bulldogs team, Tom Crean. They met while Jack was the head football coach at Western Kentucky University and Crean was an assistant basketball coach to Ralph Willard.
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College
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Western Kentucky profile
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