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8472456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Smith%20%28politician%29 | Oliver Smith (politician) | Oliver Smith (born 20 February 1993) is a student politician from Crich, Derbyshire in the United Kingdom who was appointed president of the Amber Valley branch of the Liberal Democrats for the year 2006. He was elected unopposed as the president at the November 2005 Annual General Meeting of the branch, of which he has been a member since he was eight, and took up the one-year post on 1 January 2006 when he was just 12 years, 9 months and 13 days old, making him the youngest branch party president in British political history. His mother, Kate Smith, is the membership officer for the Amber Valley Liberal Democrats and was twice unsuccessful in the 2001 general election and 2005 general election. Oliver Smith succeeded 55-year-old Keith Falconbridge, who became chairman. Keith Falconbridge succeeded Oliver in 2007.
Smith's campaign points, in 2006, included the lowering of the voting age from 18 to 16 and the abolition of university tuition fees. He also wanted to see Tony Blair and Gordon Brown out of office, while he supported Charles Kennedy.
Smith was a pupil at Anthony Gell School, the school that Ellen McArthur attended. and went on to study History at Lincoln College, Oxford University.
References
External links
"Lib Dems get 'youngest' president", BBC News article, (published 5 January 2006; accessed 16 December 2006).
1993 births
Liberal Democrats (UK) politicians
English children
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Amber Valley
Living people |
8472500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL20 | CCL20 | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 20 (CCL20) or liver activation regulated chemokine (LARC) or Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-3 (MIP3A) is a small cytokine belonging to the CC chemokine family. It is strongly chemotactic for lymphocytes and weakly attracts neutrophils. CCL20 is implicated in the formation and function of mucosal lymphoid tissues via chemoattraction of lymphocytes and dendritic cells towards the epithelial cells surrounding these tissues. CCL20 elicits its effects on its target cells by binding and activating the chemokine receptor CCR6.
Gene expression of CCL20 can be induced by microbial factors such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor and interferon-γ, and down-regulated by IL-10. CCL20 is expressed in several tissues with highest expression observed in peripheral blood lymphocytes, lymph nodes, liver, appendix, and fetal lung and lower levels in thymus, testis, prostate and gut. The gene for CCL20 (scya20) is located on chromosome 2 in humans.
Recent research in an animal model of multiple sclerosis known as experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) demonstrated that regional neural activation can create "gates" for pathogenic CD4+ T cells to enter the CNS by increasing CCL20 expression, especially at L5. Sensory nerve stimulation, elicited by using muscles in the leg or electrical stimulation as in Arima et al., 2012, activates sympathetic neurons whose axons run through the dorsal root ganglia containing cell bodies of the stimulated afferent sensory nerve. Sympathetic neuronal activity activates IL-6 amplifier resulting in increased regional CCL20 expression and subsequent pathogenic CD4+ T cell accumulation at the same spinal cord level. CCL20 expression was observed to be dependent on IL-6 amplifier activation, which is dependent on NF-κB and STAT3 activation. This research provides evidence for a critical role for CCL20 in autoimmune pathogenesis of the central nervous system.
References
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Cytokines |
8472523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Fong | Gary Fong | Gary Fong (born December 6, 1960) is an American entrepreneur, author, former wedding photographer, film director, producer and screenwriter.
Wedding photography career
Originally a musician, while pursuing a degree in Pharmacology to appease his parents' demands to become a doctor, Fong accidentally stumbled upon a Life Magazine article featuring wedding photographer Rocky Gunn in a multi-page spread. Gunn had been a longtime friend of his mother. Feeling that this was more fate than coincidence, Fong pursued Gunn for a chance to assist and learn. It was during this time that Gunn died at age 42 of a sudden heart-attack.
Fong, left with no mentor or proper training, started a wedding photography business in a bedroom of his parents' apartment, and offered his services for $150/no time limit. While this entry price severely undermined the pricing standards, he was able to present comprehensive designs that were far more costly than the standard photography package. He would go on to photograph such people as, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, Sidney Sheldon, Lee Remick, Paul McCartney, Peter Criss, Bruce Lee, Todd Rundgren, Priscilla Presley, Pia Zadora, Michael Landon, Florence Henderson, Shelly Fabares, among others.
While watching an on-location filming of Charlie's Angels, Fong saw for the first time an on-set Storyboard and reasoned that wedding photography albums should use a similar format to depict a wedding story. So, using sequential photo layouts rather than static, posed images, Fong introduced the "Storybook Concept". This style of wedding albums remains popular to this day.
Here Comes the Guide, a respected "bible" of wedding planning has said, "Every once in a while someone comes along to revolutionize an art form; for wedding photography, that someone Is Gary Fong."
Fong was selected in the telecast, Weddings 2000 as one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world. This live simulcast was broadcast to movie theaters internationally, and was a first of its kind.
Lightsphere
Discouraged by the look of flash photography because of the flashlight-shaped light source, Fong found the answer in the soft lighting of a lampshade in a hotel room. This led to the invention and patenting of the Lightsphere, a dome-shaped light diffuser, which was introduced in late 2004 and by 2011 had sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.
In 2019, during President Donald Trump’s visit with the Royal Family in the U.K., Prince Charles picked a Gary Fong Lightsphere and commented that it “looked like an ice cream.”
Pictage, Inc.
With the advent of digital, Fong knew that online presentation of images would be best matched to an instant print delivery service. So, joining up with Pictage's online presence, Fong brought his own personal print lab into Pictage's headquarters, and installed it in the kitchen. Joining the Board of Directors and Senior Management team, Pictage started with seven employees in a small office, and within years the employee count would top 150, making Pictage the largest dedicated online digital/web solution anywhere in the United States. Apax Partners invested $29 million to acquire Pictage in 2006.
Vertical Integration
In 2009, Fong began focusing on a style of management called vertical integration. Because the scale of his photographic accessories company had reached a sufficient scale, Fong's Canadian Holding Company began acquiring companies in the Midwestern United States to produce and distribute his products, including a fulfillment facility in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, and a rapid prototyping and plastics injection molding company adopting use of polylactic acid.
Memoirs
In 2009, Fong published his memoirs, The Accidental Millionaire - How To Succeed In Life Without Really Trying with BenBella Books. "Accidental Millionaire" has been described as "a humorous, poignant memoir of the man said to have revolutionized wedding photography".
In the book, Fong claims that his entire life changed when, during an emotional meltdown, he nearly rear-ended a car that had a bumper sticker that said, "Since I Gave Up Hope, I feel Much Better". From that point, Fong gave up trying to meet or achieve goals, and dropped out of society. It was during this period when he went to Club Med in the Bahamas to vanish, that his greatest inspiration came in the form of maintaining emptiness in not only his schedule but in his aspirations.
This began an awareness of a mindset which Fong calls, "The Law Of Repulsion". In the book and interviews, he theorizes that much of what sabotages a person from success is trying "too hard" to achieve a narrowly focused goal. He lists among the examples of the "Power Of Repulsion", couples who want badly to have children that have better luck becoming pregnant after adopting, or how a salesman with a quota in mind can become more repulsive to closing a sale than if the goal was not so heavily focused upon.
One review described that Fong's approach caused his wealth "to grow only after he stopped focusing on a set goal for success". Fong's seemingly random path to a diversified portfolio of business interests came as he "cast his fate to the wind to free himself and let life lead his path".
Hollywood Film Career
In May 2015, Fong wrote his first screenplay and was discovered by entertainment attorney Shelley Surpin and literary agent Matt Leipzig. He secretly filmed in Canada and Los Angeles the trailer for Best F(r)iends, starring writer/director Tommy Wiseau playing the role of a mortician who recruits actor Greg Sestero’s character to join him in an unexplained criminal enterprise.
References
External links
Official Gary Fong Website
Seattle Post Intelligencer Interview
Interview "The Hot Author Report"
Interview with Zoom Magazine
Interview with Leigh Caraccioli
Hollywood Reporter
Entertainment Weekly
"Birth-Movies-Death''
"Petapixel: Gary Fong Shot A Hollywood Film With Sony Mirrorless Cameras"
1960 births
American photographers
Wedding photographers
Living people
Film directors from California |
8472526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20and%20Canal%20Historical%20Society | Railway and Canal Historical Society | The Railway and Canal Historical Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways in Britain, its main objects being to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history.
Activities
As the activities of the society increased, a more formal structure was needed, and it registered with Companies House on 14 November 1967 as a private company limited by guarantee with no share capital.
The Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, containing the results of original research, has been produced regularly since 1955. The Society also has a book publishing programme and aims to raise publishing standards by rewarding excellence. This has been achieved since 2004 by an annual awards ceremony, in which authors of leading works in the areas of railways, canals and transport are recognised. Winners receive a certificate, a silver cup, and a cash award funded by a bequest from publisher David St John Thomas. The Society also publishes an annual bibliography of transport history, partially in continuation of George Ottley's bibliography of British railway history.
The Society arranges events nationally in the form of meetings, real and virtual, and trips and also has regional groups which organise meetings and trips to places of interest, and special interest groups organised nationally covering railway history, railway chronology, early railways, waterways history, roads and road transport, air transport, modern transport, and pipelines & materials handling; most operating primarily through online circulation of material.
As of 2021, the society is developing the RCHS On-line Media Archive (ROMA) to make available online its archive of historic photographs and other material, of which the most notable is the Bertram Baxter collection of tramroad material.
The National Railway Museum have cited the society as one of the "bodies that shaped railway preservation and historical study," and it has been described as "the premier British society for scholarly transport research" by the bookseller Robert Humm in an interview for The Bookseller magazine.
See also
Canals of the United Kingdom
History of the British canal system
Bibliography
References
External links
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
History of rail transport in the United Kingdom
Transport organisations based in the United Kingdom
Railway societies
Waterways organisations in the United Kingdom |
8472538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin%20Motevaselzadeh | Amin Motevaselzadeh | Amin Motevaselzadeh (also spelled Motevasel Zadeh) (, born May 14, 1982) is a retired Iranian football striker.
Club career
He joined Bargh Shiraz at age of 18 and played seven years before moving to Admira Wacker.
Motevaselzadeh signed for VfB Admira Wacker Mödling on August 1, 2006, on a one-year deal that ran until May 30, 2007. Then he joined Pegah Gilan in Iran's Premier Football League.
Motevaselzadeh scored in the last minute against his former club Bargh in the semifinals of The Hazfi Cup to take Pegah to the final for first time in which they finished second.
Fair Player of the Year
He is very well known for his amazing fair play against Steel Azin on 28 January 2010. The match was between Moghamvemat and Steel Azin in round 25 of Iran Pro League.
Moghamvemat was coming to the game desperately needing three points as they had gathered just two points from their last six matches.
Steel Azin keeper Hamid Neshatjoo put his body on the line when he rushed out of his area and took a blow to the head to deny the host a goal scoring opportunity. The ball then fell into the path of Motevaselzadeh but rather than strike the ball into the unguarded net, the number 27 compassionately and deliberately kicked the ball into touch. Moghamvemat lost the game 2–1 and eventually was relegated on goal difference at end of the season .
He was awarded the fair play player of the year 2010 in Iran Pro League. One year later, on 28 January 2011, Motevasselzadeh won The Act of Fair Play Award, along with Darius Draudvila, a Lithuanian decathlete, and Chinese wrestler Gao Feng.
Club career statistics
References
External links
Fan site
Iranian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Azadegan League players
Bargh Shiraz F.C. players
Fajr Sepasi Shiraz F.C. players
Iranian expatriate men's footballers
Pegah F.C. players
People from Kazerun
1982 births
Living people
FC Admira Wacker Mödling players
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
Rah Ahan Tehran F.C. players
Foolad F.C. players
PAS Hamedan F.C. players
S.C. Damash Gilan players
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Sportspeople from Fars province |
8472551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Shea | Terry Shea | Terrence William Shea (born June 12, 1946) is an American football coach and former player who was the head coach of the Aviators of The Spring League. Shea also performs quarterback consulting work for future NFL draft prospects. He worked with Robert Griffin III (2nd overall pick 2012), Blaine Gabbert (10th overall pick 2011), Sam Bradford (1st overall pick 2010), Matthew Stafford (1st overall pick 2009), and Josh Freeman (17th overall pick 2009), whom Shea later brought to the Chargers in 2015). Shea also trained and developed Collin Klein (Kansas State) and Tommy Rees (Notre Dame).
Born in San Mateo, California, Shea graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose in 1964.
From 1964 to 1967, he was one of the quarterbacks on the University of Oregon's football team. From 1968 to 1969, he was a graduate assistant coach at Oregon. From 1970 to 1975, he coached at Mount Hood Community College. From 1976 to 1983, he coached at Utah State. From 1984 to 1986, he was the offensive coordinator at San Jose State. From 1987 to 1989, he was the offensive coordinator at Cal.
From 1990 to 1991, he was the head football coach at San Jose State, where he compiled a 15–6–2 record. From 1992 to 1994, he coached at Stanford under Bill Walsh, and in 1995, he coached the British Columbia Lions. From 1996 to 2000, he was the head football coach at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. At Rutgers, he compiled an 11-44 record, awarded the Big East Coach of the Year in 1998 after posting a 5-6 record, the second biggest turnaround in college football at that time, and recruited and coached future NFL players L.J. Smith, Mike McMahon, Mike Barr, Nate Jones, and Reggie Stephens.
From 2001 to 2003, he was the quarterbacks coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. In 2004, he became the Offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears where he gave himself a B− grade in an interview after the season, a season where the Bears ranked last in points scored. Following the 2004 season, he was replaced by former University of Illinois head coach Ron Turner. He then returned to the Kansas City Chiefs, once again as the quarterbacks coach in 2005. On January 12, 2007, he was fired by coach Herm Edwards and joined the Miami Dolphins shortly thereafter. Shea went on to coach the quarterbacks for the St. Louis Rams for the 2008 season.
Shea has coached mostly in alternative pro football leagues since 2011. For 2011 and 2012, Shea was offensive coordinator for the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. He coached in the Fall Experimental Football League for its entire existence; he helmed the Boston Brawlers in 2014 and the Brooklyn Bolts in 2015. Shea also coached several games for The Spring League (which is run by the same CEO as the FXFL was), an organization that seeks to help young players develop and gain exposure to professional scouts. He was named head coach of the Aviators of The Spring League on October 15, 2020.
Head coaching record
College
References
External links
St. Louis Rams profile
Kansas City Chiefs profile
1946 births
Living people
BC Lions coaches
California Golden Bears football coaches
Chicago Bears coaches
Fall Experimental Football League coaches
Kansas City Chiefs coaches
Miami Dolphins coaches
Oregon Ducks football players
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coaches
San Jose State Spartans football coaches
St. Louis Rams coaches
Stanford Cardinal football coaches
The Spring League coaches
Utah State Aggies football coaches
Virginia Destroyers coaches
Junior college football coaches in the United States
Bellarmine College Preparatory alumni
Coaches of American football from California
Players of American football from San Mateo, California |
8472560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Faracy | Stephanie Faracy | Stephanie Faracy is an American actress. She is known for playing supporting roles in films include Heaven Can Wait (1978), Scavenger Hunt (1979), Blind Date (1987), The Great Outdoors (1988), Hocus Pocus (1993), Sideways (2004), Flightplan (2005), and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016). On television, Faracy has had leading roles in a number of sitcoms, most significantly True Colors (1990–92). She currently plays Lisa Lawson on the comedy series Uncoupled (2022-present).
Life and career
Faracy was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, where she attended high school. She studied acting at Illinois Wesleyan University and Yale School of Drama. She began her acting career in New York stage, and in 1976, made her television debut in an episode of ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley.
She went to star in two unsold sitcom pilots, before playing Corinne in the 1978 comedy film Heaven Can Wait. The following year, Faracy played Angel Childress in the film When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, and Babbette in the comedy film Scavenger Hunt.
Faracy has a long-running career on television. From 1979 to 1980, she starred in the CBS sitcom The Last Resort. From 1983 to 1984, she co-starred alongside Bill Bixby and Mariette Hartley in Goodnight, Beantown. Also during the 1980s, Faracy had roles on several miniseries, include The Thorn Birds (1983, as Mary Carson's servant, Judy), Space (1985), and Windmills of the Gods (1988).
In film, she co-starred alongside Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger in the 1987 romantic comedy film Blind Date, and the following year, she played John Candy's wife in the comedy film The Great Outdoors.
In 1990, Faracy starred alongside Martin Mull in the sitcom His & Hers. Later that year, she began starring in the Fox sitcom True Colors about an interracial marriage.
In 1993, she played the role ofJenny Dennison in the film Hocus Pocus.
The following years, Faracy continued her career, appearing in supporting roles in both film and television. She has guest-starred on Touched by an Angel, Wings, Murphy Brown, Will & Grace, Frasier, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, How I Met Your Mother, Castle, Desperate Housewives, Modern Family, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Goldbergs. In 2016, she had a recurring role on the Lifetime comedy-drama series Devious Maids. In 2022, she played Lisa Lawson on the comedy series Uncoupled.
Her recent film credits include Sideways (2004), Surviving Christmas (2004), Flightplan (2005), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Bad Teacher (2011), and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016).
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Brooklyn
People from Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Illinois Wesleyan University alumni
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
8472573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane%20Geraghty | Shane Geraghty | Shane Geraghty (born 12 August 1986 in Coventry, West Midlands) is an English former rugby union player who played for teams including London Irish and Stade Francais. Geraghty played at centre or at fly-half.
Early life
He attended Bablake School until 2002 and Colston's Collegiate School until 2004.
Career
Coventry-born and able to play at both fly-half and inside centre, he progressed through the London Irish development system and made his senior club debut while still a member of the Exiles Academy, aged 18, in October 2004.
Geraghty was capped by England at U21 and A-level, before making the first of his six Test appearances off the bench against France in the 2007 Six Nations. He scored a penalty and a conversion on debut.
After 95 appearances in 5 seasons for London Irish, Shane joined Northampton Saints in July 2009 and was man-of-the-match in the club's historic Heineken Cup win over Munster, as well as picking up an Anglo-Welsh Cup winner's medal following a dramatic final against Gloucester. Geraghty was subsequently selected for England's 2010 summer tour of Australia and New Zealand, featuring in all 3 of the midweek matches.
Having scored 216 points in just under 40 matches for the Saints, he moved across the Channel to join French club CA Brive for the 2011/2012 season and played a key role as the side reached the semi-finals of the Amlin Challenge Cup.
In April 2012, it was announced that Geraghty would be returning to former club London Irish for the 2012/2013 season having signed a new two-year deal.
Having played no part in London Irish's opening 6 games in the 2016/17 RFU Championship, Geraghty was granted early release from his contract in order to join Bristol Rugby. He was released by Bristol at the end of the 2016–2017 season.
2017/18 season, Geraghty signed for Stade Francais in the French Top 14.
Personal life
Shane is married to Elizabeth Geraghty, née Garnish, from Epsom, Surrey where they now reside.
References
External links
London Irish profile
England profile
Bablake school news announcement
Guinness Premiership profile
Career Stats@Statbunker
1986 births
Living people
England international rugby union players
English people of Irish descent
English rugby union players
Irish Exiles rugby union players
London Irish players
Northampton Saints players
People educated at Bablake School
People educated at Colston's School
Rugby union centres
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union players from Coventry |
8472592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20Resident | Political Resident | In the British Empire a Political Resident or Political Agent was the incumbent of an official diplomatic position involving both consular duties and liaison function.
A Consul or Consul-General has largely consular functions, such as looking after British business persons abroad. A Political Resident or Political Agent, on the other hand, not only has consular duties but also has political contacts with the rulers of native states, such as the Nizam, Nawabs, Maharajas, sultans, sheikhs and rajas. With the end of the British Empire this distinction became redundant because the Political Resident or Political Agent was no longer relevant.
See also
Resident (title)
Political officer (British Empire)
Persian Gulf Residency
Residencies of British India
References |
8472597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connel%20Bridge | Connel Bridge | Connel Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans Loch Etive at Connel in Scotland. The bridge takes the A828 road across the narrowest part of the loch, at the Falls of Lora. It is a category B listed structure.
History
The bridge was built by Arrol's Bridge and Roof Company to carry the Ballachulish branch line of the Callander and Oban Railway, which opened on 20 August 1903. Nearly of steel were used in its construction and it cost almost £43,000 to build. When complete it had a longer span than any other railway bridge in Britain except the Forth Bridge, built by a different firm. The Connel Bridge was constructed by a firm called Arrol, of the Germiston Iron Works, Glasgow It was engineered by John Wolfe Barry and others.
Originally, the bridge carried just the railway (a single track). In 1909, however, an additional train service started running between Connel Ferry station and on which road vehicles could be transported over the bridge. A single car was carried on a wagon hauled by a charabanc that had been adapted to run on rails at St. Rollox railway works in Glasgow. This service also called at North Connel station at the north end of the bridge.
In 1914, a roadway was added to the bridge, alongside the railway line. The road occupied the western side of the bridge, with the railway running parallel immediately to the east. Due to the close proximity of road and railway, road traffic and trains were not permitted on the bridge at the same time and the bridge was effectively operated as an extended level crossing with gates. The road crossed to the opposite side of the railway at the north end of the bridge. A toll was payable by road users.
After the branch line closed in 1966, the bridge was converted for the exclusive use of road vehicles and pedestrians, and the toll was removed. Despite the railway track having been removed, the roadway is not wide enough for two vehicles to cross each other. Traffic lights are installed at each end of the bridge to enforce one-way traffic.
Design
Connel Bridge has a span of between the piers, but a clear span of due to the supports which project from the piers towards the centre of the bridge. The suspended span, the box-shaped section in the middle of the bridge, is long. The large span without supporting piers was necessitated by the strong tidal currents of the Falls of Lora, just to the east of the bridge.
The approach viaducts on each side of the bridge both comprise three masonry arches. The height limit for vehicles using the bridge is , and taller vehicles have caused damage to the bridge.
Filming
Connel Bridge appears in the 1981 film Eye of the Needle, starring Donald Sutherland. In the film, Sutherland's character is seen riding a stolen motorcycle across the bridge, which he then disposes of by pushing it down the embankment at the north end of the bridge after it runs out of fuel.
References
External links
Video of cars and trains sharing the bridge circa 1962 at the National Library of Scotland
Cantilever bridges
Railway bridges in Scotland
Bridges completed in 1903
Category B listed buildings in Argyll and Bute
Listed bridges in Scotland
Road bridges in Scotland
Former toll bridges in Scotland
Bridges in Argyll and Bute
1903 establishments in Scotland |
8472615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Bayley%20Potter | Thomas Bayley Potter | Thomas Bayley Potter DL, JP (29 November 1817 – 6 November 1898) was an English merchant in Manchester and Liberal Party politician.
Early life
Born in Polefield, Lancashire, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Potter and his wife Esther Bayley, daughter of Thomas Bayley, and younger brother of Sir John Potter. Potter received his early education in George Street, Manchester, then at Lant Carpenter's school in Bristol. He subsequently attended Rugby School under Thomas Arnold and then University College London.
In business
On graduating, Bayley went into the family business in Manchester. His father died in 1845, at Buile Hill, his home. His elder brother John, knighted in 1851, took over most of his father's role; the firm then traded as Potter & Norris. Thomas became the major partner in it when his brother Sir John died in 1858. He brought in as partner Francis Taylor (1818–1872), who had worked for Potter & Norris, around 1865, and the firm traded as Potter & Taylor. Not long after Taylor's death, Potter withdrew from business activity, to concentrate on politics.
Liberal politics
Potter became Chairman of the Manchester branch of the Complete Suffrage Society in 1830. While he was generally aligned with the Radicals, there was a rift between their leaders John Bright and Richard Cobden over the Crimean War, which the Potter brothers supported; and Sir John Potter successfully stood against Bright in 1857. Potter, who was in many ways a follower of Cobden, tried to smooth matters over at the end of the 1850s.
In 1863 Potter was the founder and president of the Union and Emancipation Society. Initially simply the Emancipation Society, it was prompted by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation that had freed enslaved people on 1 January 1863. Potter put his own money into the organisation, which adopted the pamphleteering publicity tactics of the Anti-Corn Law League, and ran frequent meetings. It was joined by prominent supporters of the Union in the American Civil War, including Edward Dicey, J. S. Mill and Goldwin Smith.
In 1865, Potter entered the British House of Commons and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale. This was the seat of Cobden, who had died that year. Potter kept it until 1895. In the House of Commons he was known as "Principles Potter".
Potter established the Cobden Club in 1866 and was honorary secretary until his death. He had proposed a "political science association" in a letter to J. S. Mill of 1864, taking as model the Social Science Association. It operated as a publisher, funded education in economics, and held an annual dinner, under a name suggested by Thorold Rogers. It was fundamentalist about free trade.
A personal friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Potter also supported Italian unification. The finance for Garibaldi's purchase of the island of Caprera was arranged at a dinner given by him.
Last years
Potter was a Justice of the Peace for Manchester and Lancashire, and for the latter also Deputy Lieutenant. He sold the Buile Hill mansion to the Bennett family, and in 1902 it was purchased by Salford Council.
At the end of his life Potter spent his vacations in Cobden's old home, The Hurst, at Midhurst in Sussex. He died there on 6 November 1898, aged 80, and was buried in Heyshott four days later.
Family
Potter was twice married:
Firstly, on 5 February 1846, to Mary Ashton, daughter of Samuel Ashton, at the Unitarian Chapel of Gee Cross. She died in 1885, at Cannes. Mary Potter was one of those petitioning in 1867 for a suffrage society in Manchester.
Secondly, on 10 March 1887, to Helena Hicks, daughter of John Hicks Bodmin, at St Paul's Church, Lambeth, Surrey.
Potter had four sons and a daughter by his first wife. The third and fourth sons, Arthur and Richard, and the daughter Edith, survived their father.
Thomas and Mary Potter were in the Unitarian congregation of Cross Street Chapel. William Gaskell was an assistant minister there, to John Gooch Robberds, from 1828 to 1854 when Robberds died; his wife Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel Mary Barton in 1848. Mary Potter perceived a upsetting connection between the murder of her brother Thomas Ashton in 1831, a result of industrial tensions, and the novel's murder plot. The author denied any conscious use of Thomas Ashton's story, of which she knew, but the Potter family saw the plot device as referring deliberately to it.
Richard Ellis Potter
The fourth son, Richard Ellis Potter (1855–1947), was educated at Eton College, and at age 17 took part in the third of Benjamin Leigh Smith's expeditions, in 1873 to Svalbard. Letters that he wrote to his father remain.
He was in Dallas in the 1880s, where he worked for Texas Land & Mortgage, a Scottish company managed by the Irish Courtenay Wellesley, as a valuer of land, and helped introduce the games of lawn tennis and golf to the city. He and his brother Arthur were both left money in 1887 under the will of George Scrivens, a family connection. He married Harriott Isabel Kingscote in 1899, and was father of Arthur Kingscote Potter.
In later life Potter resided at Ridgewood, Almondsbury, in Gloucestershire. He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1899.
References
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External links
1817 births
1898 deaths
Alumni of University College London
Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People educated at Rugby School
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs 1892–1895
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Rochdale
Thomas Bayley |
8472650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Awbeg | River Awbeg | Awbeg River is a river in the southern part of Ireland. It is a tributary of the Blackwater and flows into that larger river at a point in County Cork. Its name comes from the Irish Abha Bheag ("small river", a slightly older form than the modern Irish name).
The course
There are two tributaries of the Awbeg. The first rises in County Limerick as the Gralgne River and enters County Cork a half mile north-east of Ardskeagh Cross Roads, then flows west under a railroad bridge and south under Farran bridge on the Buttevant/Charlevllle road.
The second branch rises about two miles north of Liscarroll and flows south and then north and west under Annagh Bridge to join the first branch at Scart Bridge.
From there, the river flows south through Buttevant and east through Doneraile, turns south near Shanballymore and through Castletownroche to enter the Blackwater at Poulcormac near Bridgetown Abbey.
Ecology
North of Buttevant the river flows through flat agricultural land, while south of Buttevant the river generally flows through a narrow, steep-sided valley with wooded sides. For the most part the river flows over Carboniferous limestone. The river supports a range of plant species including dropwort, pondweed, club-rush, water-cress and Ranunculus. The river is largely fringed by a narrow strip of marsh vegetation, dominated by reed-canary grass. The Awbeg is a breeding ground for otters and supports a significant population of Atlantic salmon. The site supports a population of white-clawed crayfish, a threatened species.
Old bridges
Blake's Bridge, an old stone bridge over the Awbeg River in Buttevant, was widened at some time in the past. The masonry is unusual similar to that found at a nearby Franciscan abbey.
The ancient clapper bridge near Ballybeg Abbey was erected in the 13th century by the Augustinian Friars of Ballybeg for convenience in crossing the Awbeg to their mill and lands beyond. It is constructed of huge slabs of limestone that are about 3 m long, equally wide, and each weighing a ton. The transverse slabs measure 2.7 m to 3.0 m in length and are wide and thick in proportion and each weighs a tonne.
Knockanare Well
Knockanare Well is situated on the left bank of the Awbeg river, about a half-mile east of Buttevant and southeast of the Ballyhoura Mountains.
Gentle Mullagh
Edmund Spenser referred to the Awbeg as "the gentle Mullagh" (or Mulla) and resided at Kilcolman Castle in its vicinity.
References
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8472656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20Pittsburgh%20Penguins%20season | 2006–07 Pittsburgh Penguins season | The Pittsburgh Penguins 2006–07 season was rife with potential, as the team featured one of the largest groups of young stars in the National Hockey League (NHL). Evgeni Malkin, the second overall pick in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, came to the United States from Russia prior to the season and joined the team. He promptly became the first NHL rookie since 1917 to score goals in each of his first six games. Malkin and second-year phenom Sidney Crosby were joined by 18-year-old Jordan Staal, who made the jump directly from the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) to the Penguins roster after being drafted second overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. The Penguins also brought back Mark Recchi via free agency, giving Recchi his third stint with the team. It would also be the first season the team would have involving defenceman and soon-to-be alternate captain Kris Letang.
The season was clouded with uncertainty, however, about the Penguins' future in Pittsburgh. After Jim Balsillie had agreed to purchase the franchise for $175 million and to keep it in Pittsburgh, the situation seemed settled. Balsillie's deal fell through, however, in December. Isle of Capri Casinos was next to make a bid to keep the team in Pittsburgh, but their deal was nixed as well. On January 3, 2007, Penguins officials, including Mario Lemieux and other members of the team's ownership group, visited Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss potentials of relocating the team there. Other cities which reportedly have expressed interest in the franchise include Houston, Winnipeg, Portland and Oklahoma City.
On March 14, 2007, in a joint announcement by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Mario Lemieux, it was made public that an agreement had been reached between the parties. A new state-of-the-art multi-purpose arena (the Consol Energy Center) will be built. This agreement will keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh for another 30 years. Following the announcement of this plan, the Lemieux ownership group announced that they no longer have plans to sell the team.
On January 9, 2007, the NHL announced that Sidney Crosby had been voted by the fans to start at forward in the 2007 All-Star Game in Dallas, Texas. Malkin, Staal and defenseman Ryan Whitney were all invited to All-Star Weekend to play in the YoungStars game.
The rebuilding of the team that came with acquiring Sidney Crosby would come to fruition in his second year. This season began a playoff streak for the Penguins that would not be snapped until the 2023 season.
Regular season
The Penguins finished the regular season having scored 94 power-play goals, the most in the NHL. They also had the most power-play opportunities, with 463.
Season standings
Schedule and results
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1 || 5 || 7:30 PM || Philadelphia Flyers || 0–4 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,957) || 1–0–0 || 2
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 2 || 7 || 7:30 PM || Detroit Red Wings || 2–0 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (15,318) || 1–1–0 || 2
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 3 || 12 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 6–5 || New York Rangers || Madison Square Garden (IV) (18,200) || 2–1–0 || 4
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 4 || 14 || 7:30 PM || Carolina Hurricanes || 5–1 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (14,351) || 2–2–0 || 4
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 5 || 18 || 7:30 PM || New Jersey Devils || 2–1 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,030) || 2–3–0 || 4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 6 || 19 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 OT || New York Islanders || Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (10,258) || 3–3–0 || 6
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 7 || 21 || 7:30 PM || Columbus Blue Jackets || 3–5 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (14,637) || 4–3–0 || 8
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 8 || 24 || 7:00 PM || New Jersey Devils || 2–4 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (13,190) || 5–3–0 || 10
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 9 || 28 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 8–2 || Philadelphia Flyers || Wells Fargo Center (19,589) || 6–3–0 || 12
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 10 || 1 || 10:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 OT || Los Angeles Kings || Staples Center (18,118) || 7–3–0 || 14
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 11 || 4 || 10:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–3 || San Jose Sharks || SAP Center at San Jose (17,496) || 7–4–0 || 14
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 12 || 6 || 10:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–3 OT || Anaheim Ducks || Honda Center (16,599) || 7–4–1 || 15
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 13 || 8 || 7:30 PM || Tampa Bay Lightning || 4–3 OT || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (14,483) || 7–4–2 || 16
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 14 || 10 || 7:30 PM || Ottawa Senators || 6–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,052) || 7–5–2 || 16
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 15 || 11 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–6 || Carolina Hurricanes || PNC Arena (18,726) || 7–6–2 || 16
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 16 || 13 || 7:30 PM || Philadelphia Flyers || 2–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (13,781) || 8–6–2 || 18
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 17 || 17 || 8:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–4 || Buffalo Sabres || First Niagara Center (18,690) || 8–7–2 || 18
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 18 || 18 || 7:30 PM || New York Rangers || 1–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,737) || 9–7–2 || 20
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 19 || 20 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–3 || Philadelphia Flyers || Wells Fargo Center (19,349) || 10–7–2 || 22
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 20 || 22 || 7:30 PM || Boston Bruins || 4–3 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,958) || 10–7–3 || 23
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 21 || 24 || 2:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 1–3 || New York Islanders || Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (15,625) || 10–8–3 || 23
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 22 || 25 || 7:30 PM || New York Rangers || 2–1 OT || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,134) || 10–8–4 || 24
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 23 || 28 || 7:00 PM || New York Islanders || 2–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,082) || 11–8–4 || 26
|-
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 24 || 1 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–5 || New Jersey Devils || Izod Center (13,890) || 11–9–4 || 26
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 25 || 2 || 7:30 PM || New York Islanders || 5–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,025) || 11–10–4 || 26
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 26 || 5 || 7:30 PM || Florida Panthers || 3–2 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (12,511) || 11–11–4 || 26
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 27 || 7 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–3 SO || New York Rangers || Madison Square Garden (IV) (18,200) || 11–11–5 || 27
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 28 || 9 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 OT || Atlanta Thrashers || Philips Arena (18,687) || 12–11–5 || 29
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 29 || 11 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–4 SO || Washington Capitals || Verizon Center (14,793) || 13–11–5 || 31
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 30 || 13 || 7:30 PM || Philadelphia Flyers || 4–8 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (14,150) || 14–11–5 || 33
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 31 || 15 || 7:30 PM || New York Islanders || 4–7 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,028) || 15–11–5 || 35
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 32 || 16 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–6 || Montreal Canadiens || Bell Centre (21,273) || 15–12–5 || 35
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 33 || 19 || 7:00 PM || St. Louis Blues || 4–1 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,017) || 15–13–5 || 35
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 34 || 21 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–4 SO || Atlanta Thrashers || Philips Arena (17,328) || 15–13–6 || 36
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 35 || 26 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 0–3 || New Jersey Devils || Izod Center (16,156) || 15–14–6 || 36
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 36 || 27 || 7:30 PM || Atlanta Thrashers || 4–2 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 15–15–6 || 36
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 37 || 29 || 7:30 PM || Toronto Maple Leafs || 1–4 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 16–15–6 || 38
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 38 || 2 || 7:30 PM || Carolina Hurricanes || 0–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,957) || 17–15–6 || 40
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 39 || 5 || 8:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–2 || Buffalo Sabres || First Niagara Center (18,690) || 18–15–6 || 42
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 40 || 7 || 7:30 PM || Tampa Bay Lightning || 3–2 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 18–15–7 || 43
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 41 || 9 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–3 || Tampa Bay Lightning || Amalie Arena (19,226) || 18–16–7 || 43
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 42 || 10 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–5 || Florida Panthers || BB&T Center (16,098) || 18–17–7 || 43
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 43 || 13 || 2:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–3 || Philadelphia Flyers || Wells Fargo Center (19,587) || 19–17–7 || 45
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 44 || 16 || 7:00 PM || New York Islanders || 2–5 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,958) || 20–17–7 || 47
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 45 || 18 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–5 SO || Boston Bruins || TD Garden (16,468) || 20–17–8 || 48
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 46 || 20 || 7:00 PM || Toronto Maple Leafs || 2–8 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 21–17–8 || 50
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 47 || 26 || 8:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 SO || Dallas Stars || American Airlines Center (18,594) || 22–17–8 || 52
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 48 || 27 || 9:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 7–2 || Phoenix Coyotes || America West Arena (18,495) || 23–17–8 || 54
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 49 || 30 || 7:30 PM || Florida Panthers || 0–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (15,405) || 24–17–8 || 56
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 50 || 1 || 7:30 PM || Montreal Canadiens || 4–5 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 25–17–8 || 58
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 51 || 3 || 1:00 PM || Washington Capitals || 0–2 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 26–17–8 || 60
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 52 || 4 || 2:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–4 OT || Montreal Canadiens || Bell Centre (21,273) || 26–17–9 || 61
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 53 || 6 || 7:30 PM || Nashville Predators || 1–4 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (16,333) || 27–17–9 || 63
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 54 || 8 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–4 SO || Philadelphia Flyers || Wells Fargo Center (19,512) || 28–17–9 || 65
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 55 || 10 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 6–5 OT || Toronto Maple Leafs || Air Canada Centre (19,620) || 29–17–9 || 67
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 56 || 14 || 7:30 PM || Chicago Blackhawks || 4–5 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,051) || 30–17–9 || 69
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 57 || 16 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–4 || New Jersey Devils || Izod Center (15,404) || 31–17–9 || 71
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 58 || 18 || 3:30 PM || Washington Capitals || 2–3 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 32–17–9 || 73
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 59 || 19 || 1:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–6 || New York Islanders || Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (15,472) || 32–18–9 || 73
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 60 || 22 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–1 OT || Florida Panthers || BB&T Center (17,102) || 33–18–9 || 75
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 61 || 25 || 5:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 1–5 || Tampa Bay Lightning || Amalie Arena (21,119) || 33–19–9 || 75
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 62 || 27 || 7:30 PM || New Jersey Devils || 1–0 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,006) || 33–20–9 || 75
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 63 || 1 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 SO || New York Rangers || Madison Square Garden (IV) (18,200) || 34–20–9 || 77
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 64 || 2 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 2–3 || Carolina Hurricanes || PNC Arena (18,793) || 34–21–9 || 77
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 65 || 4 || 12:30 PM || Philadelphia Flyers || 3–4 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 35–21–9 || 79
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 66 || 6 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 5–4 SO || Ottawa Senators || Canadian Tire Centre (20,074) || 36–21–9 || 81
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 67 || 8 || 7:30 PM || New Jersey Devils || 4–3 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 36–21–10 || 82
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 68 || 10 || 1:00 PM || New York Rangers || 2–3 OT || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 37–21–10 || 84
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 69 || 13 || 7:30 PM || Buffalo Sabres || 4–5 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 38–21–10 || 86
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 70 || 14 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–0 || New Jersey Devils || Izod Center (14,862) || 39–21–10 || 88
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 71 || 16 || 7:30 PM || Montreal Canadiens || 3–6 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 40–21–10 || 90
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 72 || 18 || 7:30 PM || Ottawa Senators || 3–4 SO || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 41–21–10 || 92
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 73 || 19 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 1–2 || New York Rangers || Madison Square Garden (IV) (18,200) || 41–22–10 || 92
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 74 || 22 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 1–3 || New York Islanders || Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (14,574) || 41–23–10 || 92
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 75 || 24 || 1:00 PM || Atlanta Thrashers || 1–2 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 42–23–10 || 94
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 76 || 25 || 12:30 PM || Boston Bruins || 0–5 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 43–23–10 || 96
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 77 || 27 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–3 || Washington Capitals || Verizon Center (18,277) || 44–23–10 || 98
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 78 || 29 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–2 || Boston Bruins || TD Garden (17,095) || 45–23–10 || 100
|- style="background:#ffc;"
| 79 || 31 || 7:00 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 4–5 OT || Toronto Maple Leafs || Air Canada Centre (19,649) || 45–23–11 || 101
|-
|- style="background:#fcf;"
| 80 || 3 || 7:00 PM || Buffalo Sabres || 4–1 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 45–24–11 || 101
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 81 || 5 || 7:30 PM || Pittsburgh Penguins || 3–2 || Ottawa Senators || Canadian Tire Centre (20,064) || 46–24–11 || 103
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 82 || 7 || 7:30 PM || New York Rangers || 1–2 || Pittsburgh Penguins || Civic Arena (17,132) || 47–24–11 || 105
|-
|- style="text-align:center;"
| ''Legend: = Win = Loss = OT/SO Loss
Playoffs
The Pittsburgh Penguins ended the 2006–07 regular season as the Eastern Conference's fifth seed. They lost to the Ottawa Senators in five games, in the conference quarter-finals. They would sweep the Senators in the playoffs the following season.
Green background indicates win.
Red indicates loss.
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
| 1 ||April 11||Pittsburgh||3 – 6||Ottawa|| Fleury ||19,611||0–1||
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2 ||April 14||Pittsburgh||4 – 3||Ottawa||Fleury||20,133||1–1||
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
| 3 ||April 15||Ottawa||4 – 2||Pittsburgh||Fleury||17,132||1–2||
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
| 4 ||April 17||Ottawa||2 – 1||Pittsburgh||Fleury||17,132||1–3||
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffbbbb"
| 5 ||April 19||Pittsburgh||0 – 3||Ottawa||Fleury||20,179||1–4||
|-
Player statistics
Skaters
Goaltenders
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.
‡Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.
Transactions
The Penguins were involved in the following transactions during the 2006–07 season:
Trades
Free agents acquired
Free agents lost
Claimed via waivers
Lost via waivers
Player signings
Other
Draft picks
Pittsburgh's picks at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver. The Penguins had the second overall draft pick, making the fourth consecutive draft the team had a pick in the top two: they had the first overall pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft (Marc-Andre Fleury), the second overall pick in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft (Evgeni Malkin) and the first overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft (Sidney Crosby).
Draft notes
The Pittsburgh Penguins' fourth-round pick went to the Chicago Blackhawks as the result of an August 10, 2005 trade that sent Jocelyn Thibault to the Penguins in exchange for this pick.
The Pittsburgh Penguins' sixth-round pick went to the Florida Panthers as the result of a January 18, 2006 trade that sent Eric Cairns to the Penguins in exchange for this pick.
Farm teams
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are Pittsburgh's top affiliate in the AHL for the 2006–07 season.
Wheeling Nailers
The Wheeling Nailers are Pittsburgh's ECHL affiliate for the 2006–07 season.
External links
Official website of the Pittsburgh Penguins
See also
2006–07 NHL Season
References
Game log: Pittsburgh Penguins game log on espn.com
Team standings: NHL standings on espn.com
Pitts
Pitts
Pittsburgh Penguins seasons
Pitts
Pitts |
8472665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Potter | Thomas Potter | Thomas Potter may refer to:
Thomas Potter (Universalist) (1689–1777), one founder of the Universalist Church in America
Thomas Bayley Potter (1817–1898), British MP for Rochdale
Thomas Rossell Potter (1799–1873), geologist and writer about Leicestershire
Thomas Potter (died 1759) (1718–1759), British MP for Aylesbury, Okehampton and St Germans
Thomas Potter (1740–1801), British MP for Lostwithiel
Thomas Potter (mayor) (1774–1845), mayor of Manchester, England, father of Thomas Bayley Potter
Tom Potter (born 1940), mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States
Tommy Potter (1918–1988), jazz double bass player
Thomas Joseph Potter (1828–1873), English Catholic convert, educator and hymn writer
Thomas J. Potter (1840–1888), vice-president and general manager of the Union Pacific Railroad
Tom Potter (brewer), co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery
Thomas Potter (cricketer) (1844–1909), English cricketer
Thomas Potter (industrialist) (1745–1811), Scottish-born Danish industrialist and merchant |
8472667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilum%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pilum (disambiguation) | Pilum is the heavy javelin of the Roman legions.
Pilum may also refer to:
Pilum (Battlefield 2142 anti-vehicle weapon)
Pilum, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran |
8472680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20Boe | Randall Boe | Randall Boe (born 1962) is the former General Counsel for AOL and has been involved in several cases regarding internet law. He was named the commissioner of the Arena Football League in March 2018.
Biography
Early life
Boe was born in Ohio and grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated in 1983 with majors in political science and economics. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987. After graduation, he worked at Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C.
Legal career
In 1995, Boe represented Joe Shea, the publisher of the American Reporter, in a challenge to the recently passed Communications Decency Act (CDA) over concerns that the Act made it illegal to publish, distribute or disseminate "indecent" material on the Internet. Boe was the lead counsel in Shea v. Reno, filed in federal court in New York at about the same time as the ACLU filed their challenge to the same statute in Philadelphia. A three judge panel, led by Judge José A. Cabranes, unanimously ruled in July 1996 that the Communications Decency Act was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad and enjoined its enforcement. The government appealed the decisions in both Shea v. Reno and ACLU v. Reno. Ultimately, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgements in both cases.
Boe then joined America Online's legal department. He led AOL's defense in Zeran v. America Online, Inc., the first time the immunity provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act were invoked. He also participated in Sidney Blumenthal's defamation lawsuit against AOL and Matt Drudge and Doe v. AOL. Boe was also involved in lawsuits regarding junk e-mail. Under his direction, AOL began filing a series of civil lawsuits to collect damages from spammers. Boe testified before Congress on the issue and contributed to Virginia's Anti-Spam law, as well as the Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
Boe was a part of the legal team on the "AOL Access Crisis of 1996 and 1997", leading to settlements with State Attorneys’ Generals over marketing practices. After the AOL-Time Warner merger closed in 2001, Boe was named AOL's General Counsel. In 2001, on behalf of Netscape, Boe filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft paid $750 million to settle the lawsuit. In 2006, Boe joined a task force in response to the AOL search data scandal to investigate the matter and provide recommendations on improving AOL privacy policies. In October 2006, Boe became Executive Vice President for Consumer Advocacy at AOL and stepped down as General Counsel of the company.
Arena Football League
Boe was named commissioner of the Arena Football League in 2018 after Scott Butera left the office that March. There were four active teams in the 2018 Arena Football League season. The league shut down after the 2019 season.
References
Living people
1962 births
American lawyers
AOL people
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
American business executives
Arena Football League commissioners |
8472693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%27s%20Gate | Baldwin's Gate | Baldwin's Gate is a village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. The population details for the 2011 census can be found under Whitmore. There is a pub in the centre of the village called The Sheet Anchor, along with a Post Office & General Store, a primary school (Baldwin's Gate CE Primary School) and another small shop with a petrol station. There is also a Methodist church and just outside the village is Slater's Country Inn.
Amenities
The Chipperfield Rifle Ranges are located quarter of a mile south-west of Baldwins Gate and are operated by Staffordshire Smallbore Rifle Association as the Staffordshire County Ranges, as well as serving as home range for Chipperfield Target Shooting Club. Whilst they were without a range of their own, the Chipperfield Ranges also hosted Market Drayton Rifle Club, who still use the site for outdoor shooting having acquired an independent indoor facility.
Historical background
Historically, three main factors have influenced the position of and development of Baldwins Gate village. The building of the Grand Junction railway line in 1837, including Whitmore station (closed in 1952), gave rise to significant commercial activity, serving as it did Newcastle and the Potteries before the Stoke line was opened.
The sale by the Cavenagh-Mainwaring family in 1920 of a large parcel of land either side of the railway line allowed the village to develop and expand. The auction in 1921 by direction of the Marquis of Crewe of the 4,493 acres of Madeley Estate which included Baldwins Gate Farm (184 acres). The hamlet got its name from one of the properties on the main road where the occupant collected tolls from users of the road. At this time the village consisted of a handful of cottages in Coneygreave Lane, Moss Lane, Station Approach and beside the Main Road. The Methodist Chapel at the western end of the village was built in 1859. Station House, a Grade 2 listed building of particular note, built by Roland Cavenagh-Mainwaring in 1839, stands to this day next to the railway.
References
External links
Market Drayton Rifle Club
Staffordshire Smallbore Rifle Association
Villages in Staffordshire
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8472704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily%20Shumov | Vasily Shumov | Vasily Gerardovich Shumov (; born 23 March 1960) is a Russian-American artist, musician, multimedia and experimental artist, short film director and record producer. He is probably best known for his music band Center, which was formed in Soviet Union (late 1970s - late 1980s) and is based in Los Angeles, United States since 1990. Shumov created music in such genres as new wave, electronic music, avantgarde. His art of singing is often sprechgesang, especially on later albums.
Personal life
Vasily Shumov is the son of Maria Evlakhova and Gerard Shumov. With his first wife he had a son Anton. With his second wife, Judith he had two children, Angelica and Nikolai.
Career
Vasily Shumov's career as a musician, producer and songwriter took start in late 1970s, in the USSR. He organised the rock'n'roll band to play underground music at the local dancing venue of the Moscow suburbs of Korolyov. In early 80s the band, called Center, became extremely popular among youth audience across the former Soviet empire, together with other groups of the "rock and roll revival" scene. Until 1990, Vasily Shumov was occupied both with his career as a frontman of Center and solo (albums, soundtracks, TV and radio, direction and music production for the fellow musicians, like Zvuki Mu). In 1990 Shumov moved to Los Angeles (California, United States), where he lived with his family. He was frequenting Russia, although "the Moscow Times" newspaper featured his "comeback concert" as the only one for the recent eight years (2006) In LA Vasily shot movies and created numerous multimedia art projects, he experimented with innovative ways of music releasing and label production by means of the internet technologies, he also lectured on multimedia art, design and computer.
During the first years of the century, Shumov is coordinating the "c-e-n-t-e-r" project, resulted with a series of episodes, where experimental music and videos of many different performers have been combined. The so-called centroborators were contributing for this project through the http and ftp protocols. A movie "Kelton's Dark Corner" (starring Paul Marco, directed by Vasily Shumov) was released in January 2006. But Paul Marco, who is probably best known for the Ed Wood's 1950s films, died during the production, so the planned "Dark Corner" series were never finished
In 2012, Shumov has an idea to create the "Russian White Album", a collection of tracks donated by their copywriters for free. The project was a brainchild of Shumov (rus) The protest anti-Putin set of tracks was described by Shumov himself as a columnist for rbth.com news website (eng)
Discography
Solo albums
1986 My District (Мой район)
1990 Время три (Time Three)
1992 Шумовидение. Песни Живых и Мертвых (Noisevision. Songs of living and dead)
1992 Тектоника(к) (Tectonics)
1994 Голливудский Василек (Vasilyok of Hollywood)
1997 Короли поэзии в трансе (Kings of Poetry in Trance)
1998 Концерт в программе «Живая коллекция» (c группой «НТО Рецепт») (Concert in «Live Collection» broadcast)
2000 Музыка к 4 фильмам (music for 4 films)
2000 Играй сам себя (Play Itself)
2001 Анагра (Аналоговое Гражданство) (Anagra. Analogous Citizenship)
References
External links
Centromania.com — official web site of the band Center
"c-e-n-t-e-r" project
// http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vs_moscowtimes.jpg // фото "The Moscow Times" (2006)
Russian male musicians
American electronic musicians
Russian electronic musicians
Russian record producers
Living people
1960 births |
8472721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Harman | Harvey Harman | Harvey John Harman (November 5, 1900 – December 17, 1969) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Haverford College (1922–1929), Sewanee: The University of the South (1930), the University of Pennsylvania (1931–1937), and Rutgers University (1938–1941, 1946–1955), compiling a career college football record of 140–107–7. Harman was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1981.
Harman played college football at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1931 to 1937, he coached at Penn, where he compiled a 31–23–2 record. Between 1938 and 1955, he coached at Rutgers, where he compiled a 74–44–2 record. He served in the Navy during World War II.
Head coaching record
See also
List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure
References
External links
1900 births
1969 deaths
American football tackles
Haverford Fords football coaches
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coaches
Penn Quakers football coaches
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
Sewanee Tigers football coaches
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
United States Navy personnel of World War II
People from Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Coaches of American football from Pennsylvania
Players of American football from Pennsylvania |
8472726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Presbyterian%20Church%20%28U.S.A.%29%20synods%20and%20presbyteries | List of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) synods and presbyteries | This article lists the names of the 16 synods and 166 presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Synods
There are 16 synods in PC(USA). A synod is a regional governing body that is made up of presbyteries.
Synods are classified as either programmatic or reduced-function.
The following are the synods of the PC(USA):
Synod of Alaska-Northwest
Synod of Boriquen (Puerto Rico)
Synod of the Covenant (programmatic)
Synod of Lakes and Prairies (programmatic)
Synod of Lincoln Trails (programmatic)
Synod of Living Waters (programmatic)
Synod of Mid-America (programmatic)
Synod of the Mid-Atlantic (programmatic)
Synod of the Northeast (programmatic)
Synod of the Pacific
Synod of the Rocky Mountains
Synod of South Atlantic
Synod of Southern California and Hawaii (programmatic)
Synod of the Southwest (programmatic)
Synod of the Sun (programmatic)
Synod of the Trinity (programmatic)
Presbyteries
There are 166 presbyteries in PC(USA). A presbytery is a regional governing body or lower judicatories that is made up of local churches. In official communications, many of these presbyteries use "Presbytery of" in front of their names, for example, "Presbytery of The James."
Synod of Alaska-Northwest
Inland Northwest
Northwest Coast
Olympia
Seattle
Yukon
Synod of Boriquen (Puerto Rico)
Noroeste (Northwest)
San Juan
Suroeste (Southwest)
Synod of the Covenant
Cincinnati
Detroit
Eastminster
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Mackinac
Maumee Valley
Miami Valley
Muskingum Valley
Scioto Valley
Western Reserve
Synod of Lakes and Prairies
Central Nebraska
Dakota
Des Moines
East Iowa
Homestead
John Knox
Milwaukee
Minnesota Valleys
Missouri River Valley
North Central Iowa
Northern Plains
Northern Waters
Prospect Hill
South Dakota
Twin Cities Area
Winnebago
Synod of Lincoln Trails
Blackhawk
Chicago
Great Rivers
Midwest Korean American
Ohio Valley
Southeastern Illinois
Wabash Valley
Whitewater Valley
Synod of Living Waters
East Tennessee
Holston
Mid-Kentucky
Mid-South
Middle Tennessee
Mississippi
North Alabama
St. Andrew
Presbytery of Sheppards & Lapsley
South Alabama
Transylvania
Western Kentucky
Synod of Mid-America
Giddings-Lovejoy
Heartland
John Calvin
Missouri Union
Northern Kansas
Southern Kansas
Synod of the Mid-Atlantic
Abingdon
Atlantic Korean
Baltimore
Charlotte
Coastal Carolina
Eastern Virginia
The James
National Capital
New Castle
New Hope
The Peaks
Salem
Shenandoah
Western North Carolina
Synod of the Northeast
Albany
Boston
Cayuga-Syracuse
Central New Jersey
Coastlands
Eastern Korean
Genesee Valley
Geneva
Highlands
Hudson River
Long Island
New York City
Northeast New Jersey
Northern New England
Northern New York
Southern New England
(The Presbytery For) Southern New Jersey
Susquehanna Valley
Utica
Western New York
Synod of the Pacific
Boise
Cascades
Eastern Oregon
Kendall
Nevada
North Central California
Redwoods
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Jose
Synod of the Rocky Mountains
Denver
Glacier
Plains and Peaks
Pueblo
Utah
Western Colorado
Wyoming
Yellowstone
Synod of South Atlantic
Central Florida
Charleston-Atlantic
Cherokee
Flint River
Florida
Foothills
Greater Atlanta
New Harmony
Northeast Georgia
Peace River
Providence
St. Augustine
Savannah
Tampa Bay
Trinity
Tropical Florida
Synod of Southern California and Hawaii
Los Ranchos
The Pacific
Riverside
San Diego
San Fernando
San Gabriel
Santa Barbara
Synod of the Southwest
de Cristo
Grand Canyon
Santa Fe
Sierra Blanca
Synod of the Sun
Arkansas
Cimarron
Eastern Oklahoma
Grace
Indian Nations
Mission
New Covenant
Palo Duro
Pines
South Louisiana
Tres Rios
Synod of the Trinity
Beaver-Butler
Carlisle
Donegal
Huntingdon
Kiskiminetas
Lackawanna
Lake Erie
Lehigh
Northumberland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Redstone
Shenango
Upper Ohio Valley
Washington
West Virginia
References
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Presbyterian US
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Presbyterian |
8472741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20Creek%2C%20Queensland | Mountain Creek, Queensland | Mountain Creek is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,950 people.
Geography
Mountain Creek was named after the creek of the same name that drains the southern slopes of Buderim. It is tidal for a short distance and flows into the Mooloolah River above the Cod Hole and the Traffic Bridge on the Nicklin Way.
History
The suburb was named and bounded on 25 October 1986.
Mountain Creek State School opened on 1 January 1994.
Mountain Creek State High School on 27 January 1995.
Brightwater State School opened on 1 January 2012.
Demographics
In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,254 people.
In the , Mountain Creek had a population of 11,950 people.
Mountain Creek is among the top 27% of affluent areas in the Sunshine Coast region, with a median household income of $1,910. The economic class distribution is skewed towards the middle class, at 51.7%, with the rest distributed among the underclass (13%), upper class (5.5%), and working class (29.8%).
Education
Mountain Creek State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Lady Musgrave Drive (). It includes a special education program. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 984 students with 68 teachers (59 full-time equivalent) and 48 non-teaching staff (31 full-time equivalent). In 2022, the school had an enrolment of 800 students with 63 teachers (52 full-time equivalent) and 40 non-teaching staff (26 full-time equivalent).
Brightwater State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 20 Dianella Drive (). It includes a special education program. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 1,055 students with 70 teachers (62 full-time equivalent) and 30 non-teaching staff (22 full-time equivalent). In 2022, the school had an enrolment of 909 students with 68 teachers (59 full-time equivalent) and 27 non-teaching staff (21 full-time equivalent).
Mountain Creek State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at Lady Musgrave Drive (). It includes a special education program. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 2,111 students with 168 teachers (151 full-time equivalent) and 57 non-teaching staff (43 full-time equivalent). In 2022, the school had an enrolment of 2,179 students with 171 teachers (157 full-time equivalent) and 54 non-teaching staff (42 full-time equivalent).
Despite the name, the Mooloolaba campus of TAFE Queensland is at 34 Lady Musgrave Drive in Mountain Creek ().
Amenities
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council operates a mobile library service which visits Glenfields Boulevard near the park and Karawatha Drive near the shopping centre.
There are a number of parks in the area:
Brightwater Community & Lake Park ()
Brightwater Park ()
Coomoo Crescent Park ()
Cootamundra Drive Park ()
Corkwood Circuit Park ()
Dardgee Park ()
Elsa Wilson Drive Walkway ()
Frogmouth Circuit Park ()
Glenfields Neighbourhood Park ()
Holbrook Park ()
Kawana Island Riparian Reserve ()
Lady Musgrave Drive Walkway ()
Loang Court Park ()
Lurnea Crescent Park ()
Mountain Ash Fire Break, Sauger Court ()
Mountain Creek Lake 1 Park ()
Mountain Creek Lake 2 Park ()
Mountain Creek Rodd Corner Park ()
Mountain Creek Riparian Reserve ()
Mountain Creek Road Natural Amenity Reserve ()
Parklea Esplanade Park ()
Parragundi Park ()
Philosophers Walk Reserve ()
Photinia Crescent Park ()
Pipi Place Park ()
Prelude Drive Park ()
Quota Hideaway Park ()
Redbud Bushland Park ()
Sailfish Drive Park ()
Saratoga Drive Park ()
Skua Place Park ()
References
External links
Suburbs of the Sunshine Coast Region
Buderim |
8472745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20%28typeface%29 | Interstate (typeface) | Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau. The typeface is based on Style Type E of the FHWA series of fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration by Dr. Theodore W. Forbes in 1949.
Frere-Jones' Interstate typeface, while optimal for signage, has refinements making it suitable for text setting in print and on-screen, and gained popularity as such in the 1990s. Due to its wide spacing, it is best suited for display usage in print. Frere-Jones later designed another signage typeface, Whitney, published by Hoefler & Co., that bears a resemblance to its ancestor while being less flamboyant and more economical for general print usage, in body copy, or in headlines.
The terminals of ascending and descending strokes are cut at an angle to the stroke (see lowercase t and l), and on curved strokes (see lowercase e and s), terminals are drawn at a 90° angle to the stroke, positioning them at an angle to the baseline. Counters are open, even in the bold and bold condensed weights, further contributing to legibility. Punctuation is based on a rectangular shape, while official FHWA punctuation is based on a circular shape.
Parachute Type Foundry designed the PF Grand Gothik Variable typeface, based on the Interstate typeface, with OpenType features.
Parachute Type Foundry also designed the PF Highway Sans typeface, which also based on the Interstate typeface.
Ray Larabie also designed the Expressway typeface, which also based on the Interstate typeface.
Usage of the typeface
The font is used by a number of large organizations in their logotype and branding materials. Notable examples include Citigroup (Citibank), Children's Television Workshop, and Sainsbury's supermarkets, as well as recent signage for Southwest Airlines, Invesco, UK rail company c2c, Ealing / Hammersmith / West London College, Trinity College, Lamborghini, Cognizant, SoundCloud and CISV. It is also used for the logo of the Spanish socialdemocratic party PSOE.
In 2004, the Weather Channel started using the fonts on-air and on IntelliStar systems. It was added to TWC's WeatherSTAR XL in a graphical update in 2005. It was mainly retired in 2008, for Helvetica Neue and Akzidenz-Grotesk; however, the font continued to be used on IntelliStar systems until November 2013, as part of a rebranding.
In November 2006, the U.S. Army launched its Army Strong ad campaign, utilizing Interstate as its primary typeface for all ad material.
In May 2008, Ernst & Young adopted the use of Interstate in marketing materials and reports as part of a new global visual identity.
The 2010 video game GoldenEye 007 uses Interstate Light Condensed for all in-game text.
The typeface is used on the Global Television Network for its on-air newscasts and general branding.
The current Sesame Street sign/logo uses this font in Compressed Bold.
Radio times and the Daily Mirror newspaper use the font in their TV guide and headlines.
Virgin Media 360 use it on their interface.
See also
Overpass, an open source replacement commissioned by Red Hat
Clearview, another typeface for signage
References
Sources
External links
http://store.typenetwork.com/fonts/?sort=name&name=interstate
US Army Army Strong Style Guide
Font Bureau typefaces
Sans-serif typefaces
Digital typefaces
Display typefaces
Typefaces designed by Tobias Frere-Jones |
8472758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%20%28magazine%29 | Origin (magazine) | Origin was an American poetry magazine that was founded in 1951 by Cid Corman. The magazine provided an early platform for the work of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Theodore Enslin and other important, ground-breaking poets, who collectively created an alternative to academic poetry.
History and profile
Cid Corman, the publisher and editor of the magazine, recruited Charles Olson as a contributing editor when he started it. Their correspondence was printed in 1969 as Letters For Origin. "This collection details an enormous battle of creative energy", during the founding process of this magazine.
Olson's "In Cold Hell, In Thicket" featured in Origin, no. 8 (1953). Through the Origin Press Corman published Louis Zukofsky's key work, A 1–12 (Ashland, 1959) and his novel It Was (1961). William Bronk's first book, Light and Dark, was published in 1956, Gary Snyder's Riprap, in 1959. Corman published translation of classic Japanese poetry like Matsuo Bashō's Cool Melon (1959) and poetry by Shinpei Kusano (1903–88), Selected Frogs (1963). Among Cid Corman's own books, Sun Rock Man, (Origin Press, 1962) is singled out by Michael Carlson of the Guardian as "his best collection of poetry". The anthology The Gist of Origin, 1951–71 (Grossman, 1979) "remains a groundbreaking work."
Corman edited the magazine from 1951 to 1984 (with some interruptions), even when he was abroad studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and translating Paul Celan (1954), taught English in Matera, Italy or lived in Kyoto, Japan. The first series was published in Dorchster, Mass. (20 issues, Spring 1951 – Winter 1957), the second and third in Kyoto (14 issues, April 1961- July 1964 and 20 issues from April 1966 to 1971). The fourth series in Boston (20 issues, October 1977 – July 1982), the fifth from Orono, Maine, (6 issues, Fall 1983-January 1986).
In late 2003 Corman, after his trip to Milwaukee and Lorine Niedecker Centenary USA visit, conceived the idea of Origins Sixth Series. He designed this to be both an online and printed edition of the magazine. Upwards of twenty issues were planned in collaborative assistance with Chuck Sandy, a newly found friend and educator who resided in Japan. Unfortunately, Corman only sketched out Origin Sixth Series issues 1–4, instead of his intended twenty issues. These proposed ideas came with only brief notes, recommendations, and plans for the featured poets.
Cid Corman died in 2004. The magazine published Corman's skeletal notes about the physical and online magazine.
Archival collection
The Origin Archive is housed in the Fales Library at New York University.
References
External links
The Fales Library guide to the Origin Archive
1951 establishments in the United States
1986 disestablishments in the United States
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1951
Magazines disestablished in 1986
Poetry magazines published in the United States |
8472761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral%20%28Asunci%C3%B3n%29 | Catedral (Asunción) | La Catedral is a barrio (neighbourhood) of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. It has a population of 3,676 people and it is located next to the Paraguay River and other barrios such as La Encarnación, General Díaz, San Roque and Ricardo Brugada (La Chacarita). It was named after the cathedral of Asunción.
It is believed that after the great fire that affected Asunción in 1543, the enclave of Catedral of Asunción still remains the same, despite having modifications in its structure during the years (the last one being in 1850 under the presidency of Carlos Antonio López).
This barrio is home to several tourist attractions such as the old building of the National Congress known as "Cabildo de Asunción" (which today serves as a museum), the Independencia Plaza, the colonial post-office building, the Panteón Nacional de los Héroes (a place where most of the national heroes are entombed), the National Bank of Fomento (neoclassical building that resembles Buckingham Palace in small scale), the Casa de la Independencia Museum and the Uruguayan Plaza.
Notes and references
Sources
Los barrios de Asunción. Municipalidad de Asunción
Geografía del Paraguay. Editorial Aramí Grupo Empresarial
Neighbourhoods of Asunción |
8472768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%C5%99%C3%ADn | Petřín | Petřín () is a hill in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. It rises 327 m above sea level and some 130 m above the left bank of the Vltava River. The hill, almost entirely covered with parks, is a favorite recreational area for the inhabitants of Prague. The hill (in German known as Laurenziberg) is featured prominently in Franz Kafka's early short story "Description of a Struggle" and briefly in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The chronicler Cosmas describes Petřín as a very rocky place, the hill is allegedly called Petřín because of the large number of rocks (Latin: petra). Since ancient times, stones were dug and were used to construct buildings in Prague. Medieval defence wall, the Hunger Wall was built on Petřín Hill during 1360 - 1362, by the order of king of Bohemia Charles IV. The Petřín Lookout Tower, which strongly resembles the Eiffel Tower, was built atop a hill in 1891. Other sights include the Rose Garden, Mirror Maze, Cathedral of Saint Lawrence, and St Michael Church.
The summit of the hill is linked to Prague's Malá Strana district by the Petřín funicular, a funicular railway that first operated in 1891.
Main sights
Petřín lookout tower
Petřín funicular
Hunger Wall
Mirror Maze
Rose Garden
Štefánik's Observatory
Strahov Stadium
St Lawrence Cathedral
St. Michael the Archangel Church (wooden church from the second half of the 17th century in Boyko style, transferred from Subcarpathian Ruthenia in 1929)
Memorial to the Victims of Communism
References
Mountains and hills of Prague |
8472771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Branch | Alan Branch | Alan Keith Branch (born December 29, 1984) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft and has also played for the Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills, and New England Patriots. He played college football at Michigan.
Early years
Branch attended Cibola High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to playing on the defensive line, Branch also played tight end as well as running back and punt returner in high school. He scored three rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns in his senior season and five punt return touchdowns for his career.
Branch was a fairly highly regarded recruit coming out of high school, ranked as high as #6 nationally among defensive tackles.
Branch was also a three-year starter on the varsity basketball team, earning all-district honors as a sophomore and was second-team all-state as a junior.
High school awards
Selected to play in 2004 U.S. Army All-American Bowl
Gatorade Player of the Year in New Mexico
All-State as a junior and senior
On May 3, 2017, Branch was inducted to the Cibola High School Hall of Fame
College career
Branch, along with fellow defensive all-star LaMarr Woodley, anchored one of the best defenses in college football in 2006. He had 57 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, and nine sacks in 35 career games at Michigan. He had his first interception and a fumble recovery against Ohio State on November 18, 2006. Branch played both defensive tackle and defensive end at Michigan.
He earned the following accolades while at Michigan:
2006 ESPN.com All-American Team
2006 All-Big Ten Conference First-team (coaches and media)
Professional career
Arizona Cardinals
Branch was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals with the 33rd overall pick in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. The Cardinals acquired the pick from the Oakland Raiders. In the 2008 NFL season, the Cardinals reached Super Bowl XLIII, but lost 27-23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks signed Branch to a two-year contract on July 28, 2011.
Buffalo Bills
Branch signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills on April 2, 2013.
On December 23, 2013, Branch signed a multi-year contract extension with the Bills.
On August 24, 2014, one day after being arrested for a DUI, Branch was cut from the team.
New England Patriots
On October 21, 2014, it was reported that Branch had signed a 1-year deal with the New England Patriots. The team officially announced the signing on October 29. On February 1, 2015, Branch won his first Super Bowl, defeating his former team, the Seattle Seahawks, by a score of 28–24.
On March 15, 2015, Branch re-signed with the Patriots on a two-year deal worth a maximum of $6.6 million.
On November 21, 2016, Branch was notified that he was facing a four-game suspension for violating the league's policy on substance abuse but did not have to serve any games after the league rescinded the suspension before his appeal was even heard. Branch helped the Patriots win 14 games and earn the top seed for the AFC playoffs.
On February 5, 2017, Branch was part of the Patriots team that won Super Bowl LI. In the game, the Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons by a score of 34–28 in overtime. The Patriots trailed 28–3 in the third quarter, but rallied all the way back to win the game, which featured the first overtime game in Super Bowl history and the largest comeback in the Super Bowl. Branch recorded three tackles, 0.5 sacks, and a crucial fumble recovery in the game.
On March 9, 2017, Branch signed a two-year, $12 million contract extension with the Patriots. Branch played 12 games in the 2017 season and recorded 12 tackles. Branch was inactive for the playoffs, but the Patriots still made it to the Super Bowl without him only to fall to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII.
On March 6, 2018, the Patriots declined the option on Branch's contract, making him a free agent in 2018.
NFL career statistics
References
External links
New England Patriots bio
Buffalo Bills bio
1984 births
Living people
People from Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Players of American football from Albuquerque, New Mexico
African-American players of American football
American football defensive tackles
Michigan Wolverines football players
Arizona Cardinals players
Seattle Seahawks players
Buffalo Bills players
New England Patriots players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
Sportspeople from Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Cibola High School alumni |
8472800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamoose | Vamoose | Vamoose may refer to:
Vamoose Bus, a regional bus line in the northeastern United States
Vamoose (yacht), a steam-powered ship built in 1890 for William Randolph Hearst |
8472804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryc%20coat%20of%20arms | Ryc coat of arms | Ryc is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by the Ryc and Rydz szlachta families.
History
Blazon
The Coat of arms Ryc is a Coat of arms of Wieniawa variation.
Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Inspector General of the Armed Forces of Poland
Gallery
See also
Polish heraldry
Heraldic family
List of Polish nobility coats of arms
Bibliography
Juliusz Karol Ostrowski: Księga herbowa rodów polskich. Warszawa, 1897-1906.
Ryc
Coats of arms with bison |
8472805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrinehill | Wrinehill | Wrinehill, also called Checkley cum Wrinehill, is a village in the north-west of Staffordshire on the A531 road lying adjacent to the southern border of Cheshire in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The population taken at the 2011 census can be found under Betley. For many years it was claimed by both counties but reportedly came under official Staffordshire administration in 1965. It lies 1 mile south of and forms a continuous linear settlement with Betley.
The parish includes the Betley Mere SSSI.
Architectural heritage
Wrinehill had two listed buildings of architectural interest. First, the early 16th century half-timbered Old Medicine House, which, when threatened with imminent demolition, was bought for £1, dismantled and rebuilt in 1971 at Blackden Heath, near Holmes Chapel in Cheshire.
Second, it is still home to the Wrinehill Summer House, a grade 2 listed building dating from c.1700, formerly owned by the Earl of Wilton and now a private residence. Located on the main road opposite the Blue Bell Inn, the Summerhouse is a very impressive building; it "has three bays but, nevertheless, displays a grand facade with giant pilasters, pediments and segmented headed windows." It is "an old home of Thomas Egerton, 1st Earl of Wilton which has also been a barracks and a shop. It is built of brick on a stone base and inside is a handsome oak staircase...the flat roof, it is said, was for the Earl of Wilton to use as a view-point to watch the fox hunt." Sometime in the late 19th century it was the home of 'Johnson's Celebrated Ointment Manufactory.'
Though a small village, Wrinehill formerly boasted 3 public houses: The Crown Inn, The Hand and Trumpet and the Blue Bell Inn (though the last has recently been demolished).
See also
Listed buildings in Betley
References
External links
Villages in Staffordshire
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8472808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runyan%20v.%20State | Runyan v. State | Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80 (1877), was an Indiana court case that argued natural law and a distinct American Mind to reject a duty to retreat when claiming self-defense in a homicide case.
Background
On election night for the 1876 presidential race, John Runyan was harassed for being a Democrat by Charles Presnall when they were both in New Castle, Indiana. Runyan shot and killed him with his revolver even though he could have retreated.
Decision
The court implied it was un-American, writing of a referring to the distinct American mind, "the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against" a duty to retreat. The court went further in saying that no statutory law could require a duty to retreat, because the right to stand one's ground is "founded on the law of nature; and is not, nor can it be, superseded by any law of society."
References
Indiana state case law
Self-defense
1877 in United States case law
New Castle, Indiana
1876 United States presidential election |
8472837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirSea%20Lines | AirSea Lines | AirSea Lines was an airline based in Gouvia, Corfu, Greece. It was the first scheduled services seaplane operator in Greece in recent years. Its main base was Gouvia Marina The airline ceased operations in 2009, citing bureaucratic and infrastructure hurdles.
History
In 2007 AirSea Lines expanded its network into the Aegean from Attica, using the port of Lavrio (instead of the preferred location of Piraeus) citing insufficient infrastructure at Piraeus for seaplane operations. The expansion to the Aegean Sea was unsuccessful which the airline attributed to infrastructural hurdles that prevented them from basing their aircraft at Piraeus. The company was forced to retreat back to its routes in the Ionian Sea.
In April 2008 it was announced that the airline will be ceasing operations altogether, citing bureaucratic hurdles. The airline affirmed that it was impaired by incoherent regulations between the Civil Aviation Authority (which regulates civil aviation) and the Merchant Marine Ministry (which regulates commercial shipping). The airline blames slow bureaucratic procedures that did not resolve this problem in time, rendering AirSea Lines a loss-making venture.
As of 2009, one of AirSea Lines' aircraft is flying for Harbour Air Malta, others are in maintenance or for sale, and the company's website is now defunct.
While it is currently unknown if AirSea Lines will be operating in the future, the airline opened the door for other seaplane carriers, notably ArGo Airways.
AirSea Lines briefly operated under the name Pegasus Aviation.
Destinations
As of October 2008 AirSea Lines operated services to the following scheduled destinations:
Brindisi
Corfu
Paxi
Ioannina
Ithacae
Patras
From May 2010 AirSea Lines will also operate in Kefalonia, Greece in a new route
Poros, Kefalonia, Greece -> Patras, Greece
Fleet
As of August 2006 the AirSea fleet included:
1 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
References
External links
AirSea Lines
Greek Island Seaplane Hopping – Travel Daily News, 14 September 2004
Defunct airlines of Greece
Airlines established in 2004
Airlines disestablished in 2009
European Regions Airline Association
Companies based in Corfu
Defunct seaplane operators
Greek companies established in 2004 |
8472847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Sanford%20%28American%20football%29 | George Sanford (American football) | George Foster "Sandy" Sanford (June 4, 1870 – May 23, 1938) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Columbia University (1899–1901), the University of Virginia (1904), Yale University (c.1910) where his title was adviser and he took no pay, and Rutgers University (1913–1923), compiling a career coaching record of 84–46–6. Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971.
Biography
Sanford was born on June 4, 1870. He played college football at Yale University. After retiring from coaching, Sanford was president of the insurance brokerage firm of Smyth, Sanford & Gerard, Inc. in Manhattan, New York City.
He died of a heart attack on May 23, 1938, at the age of 67 at Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
Head coaching record
References
External links
1870 births
1938 deaths
19th-century players of American football
American football centers
Businesspeople in insurance
Columbia Lions football coaches
Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coaches
Virginia Cavaliers football coaches
Yale Bulldogs football players
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
Yale Law School alumni
People from Chemung County, New York
Players of American football from New York (state) |
8472853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20of%20Kurdish%20people%20in%20Turkey | Human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey | Kurds have had a long history of discrimination perpetrated against them by the Turkish government. Massacres have periodically occurred against the Kurds since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. Among the most significant is the massacre that happened during the Dersim rebellion, when 13,160 civilians were killed by the Turkish Army and 11,818 people were sent into exile. According to McDowall, 40,000 people were killed. The Zilan massacre of 1930 was a massacre of Kurdish residents of Turkey during the Ararat rebellion, in which 5,000 to 47,000 were killed.
The use of Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned, and the Kurdish-inhabited areas remained under martial law until 1946. In an attempt to deny an existence of a Kurdish ethnicity, the Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until the 1980s. The words "Kurds", "Kurdistan", and "Kurdish" were officially banned by the Turkish government. Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life. Many people who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned. But even though the ban on speaking in a non Turkish language was lifted in 1991, the Kurdish aim to be recognized as a distinct people than Turkish or to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction, but this was often classified as separatism or support of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Currently, it is illegal to use the Kurdish language as an instruction language in private and public schools, yet there are schools who defy this ban. The Turkish Government has repeatedly blamed the ones who demanded more Kurdish cultural and educational freedom of terrorism or support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
During the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, food embargoes were placed on Kurdish populated villages and towns. There were many instances of Kurds being forcefully deported from their villages by Turkish security forces. Many villages were reportedly set on fire or destroyed. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, political parties that represented Kurdish interests were banned. In 2013, a ceasefire effectively ended the violence until June 2015, when hostilities renewed between the PKK and the Turkish government over the Rojava–Islamist conflict. Violence was widely reported against ordinary Kurdish citizens and the headquarters and branches of the pro-Kurdish rights Peoples' Democratic Party were attacked by mobs. The European Court of Human Rights and many other international human rights organizations have condemned Turkey for thousands of human rights abuses against Kurds. Many judgments are related to systematic executions of civilians, torture, forced displacements, destroyed villages, arbitrary arrests, and murdered and disappeared journalists, activists and politicians.
Issues
Education
In Turkey, the only language of instruction in the education system is Turkish; Kurdish is not allowed as the primary language in the public education system. The Kurdish population of Turkey has long sought to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction in public schools as well as a subject. An experiment at running private Kurdish-language teaching schools was closed in 2004 because of the poor economic situation of local people. There are currently a number of unrecognized private schools giving education in Kurdish. As of 2008 education in Kurdish was de jure legal, but the requirements were very difficult to fulfill and therefore education in Kurdish was seldom accessible. People were often accused of supporting terrorism if they attempted to organize education in Kurdish language.
Kurdish is permitted as a subject in universities, but in reality there are only few pioneer courses.
Multiculturalism and assimilation
Due to the large number of Kurds in Turkey, successive governments have viewed the expression of a Kurdish identity through the prism of Turkish nationalism, as a potential threat to Turkish unity. One of the main accusations of cultural assimilation relates to the state's historic suppression of the Kurdish language. Kurdish publications created throughout the 1960s and 1970s were shut down under various legal pretexts. Following the Turkish military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in government institutions.
US Congressman Bob Filner spoke of a "cultural genocide", stressing that "a way of life known as Kurdish is disappearing at an alarming rate". Mark Levene suggests that the assimilation practices were not limited to cultural assimilation, and that the events of the late 19th century continued until 1990.
Desmond Fernandes and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas have claimed that Turkey instituted a genocide program (according to articles 2 (a) and 2 (e) of the UN Genocide Convention) against Kurds, which aimed at their assimilation. The genocide hypothesis is not endorsed by any nation or major organization. Desmond Fernandes, a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, breaks the policy of the Turkish authorities into the following categories:
Forced assimilation program, which involved, among other things, a ban of the Kurdish language, and the forced relocation of Kurds to non-Kurdish areas of Turkey.
The banning of any organizations opposed to category one.
The violent repression of any Kurdish resistance.
Cultural expression
Between 1983 and 1991, it was forbidden to publicize, publish and/or broadcast in any language other than Turkish, unless that language was the first official language of a country that Turkey has diplomatic relations with. Though this ban technically applied to any language, it had the largest effect on the Kurdish language, which is not the first official language of any country, despite being widely spoken in the Kurdistan region.
In June 2004, Turkey's public television TRT began broadcasting a half-hour Kurdish program, and on March 8, 2006, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) allowed two TV channels (Gün TV and Söz TV) and one radio channel (Medya FM) to have limited service in the Kurdish language. This legislation came into force as an effort to meet one of the European Union's requirements for membership in its talks with Turkey. The new regulation will allot five hours of weekly radio broadcast and four of television. In January 2009, the Turkish state broadcaster TRT launched its first fully Kurdish language channel: TRT Kurdî.
Despite these reforms, use of Kurdish in the public sphere and government institutions was still restricted until several years ago. On 14 June 2007, the Interior Ministry took a decision to remove Abdullah Demirbaş from his office as elected mayor of the Sur district of Diyarbakır. They also removed elected members of the municipal council. The high court endorsed the decision of the ministry and ruled that "giving information on various municipal services such as culture, art, environment, city cleaning and health in languages other than Turkish is against the Constitution".
This is despite the fact that according to the above-mentioned municipality, 72% of the people of the district use Kurdish in their daily lives. In another case, the mayor of Diyarbakır, Osman Baydemir, was subjected to a similar set of interrogations and judicial processes. His case is related to the use of the Kurdish phrase Sersala We Pîroz Be (Happy New Year) in the new year celebration cards issued by the municipality. The prosecutor wrote: "It was determined that the suspect used a Kurdish sentence in the celebration card, 'Sersala We Piroz Be' (Happy New Year). I, on behalf of the public, demand that he be punished under Article 222/1 of the Turkish Penal Code".
At present, these issues have been resolved for a while; the official website of the Municipality today is trilingual: Turkish, Kurdish and English.
Political representation
The Turkish Constitution bans the formation of political parties on an ethnic basis. Article 81 of the Political Party Law states that only Turkish is allowed to be used in the political activities of parties. Several Kurdish political parties have been shut down by the Turkish Constitutional Court under excuse of supporting the PKK. In 2012, the left-wing Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party was founded and the party has continued to operate, gaining 50 seats in parliament after the November 2015 elections.
In Turkey, after 2014, political such as Kurdistan Democratic Party in Turkey (PDK-T), Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK), Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) and the Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP) has been established. But, in 2019, the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals has filed a closure case against the KKP, PAK, PSK and PDK-T because they have the word 'Kurdistan' in their names.
Internally displaced people (IDPs)
During the 1980s and 1990s, Turkey displaced a large number of its citizens from rural areas in south-eastern Anatolia by destroying thousands of villages and using forced displacement. The Turkish government claimed forced displacements were intended to protect the Kurds from the Kurdish militant organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Although the Turkish security forces did not differentiate the armed militants from the civilian population they were supposed to be protecting. By the mid-1990s, more than 3,000 villages had been wiped from the map and according to official figures 378,335 Kurdish villagers had been displaced and left homeless.
History
Following the Young Turk Revolution at the beginning of the 20th century and the flowering of Turkish nationalism, the destruction or assimilation of minority populations (particularly Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Kurds) has been a recurring pattern. The 1934 Turkish Resettlement Law paved the way for forcible assimilation and resettlement.
Selected incidents
Leyla Zana
In 1994 Leyla Zana—who, three years prior, had been the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish parliament—was sentenced to 15 years for "separatist speech". At her inauguration as an MP in 1991, she reportedly identified herself as a Kurd. She took the oath of loyalty in Turkish, as required by law, then added in Kurdish, "I have completed this formality under duress. I shall struggle so that the Kurdish and Turkish peoples may live together in a democratic framework." Parliament erupted with shouts of "Separatist", "Terrorist", and "Arrest her".
In April 2008, she was sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly "spreading terrorist propaganda" by saying in a speech, "Kurds have three leaders, namely Massoud Barzani, Jalal Talabani and Abdullah Ocalan." The last being the leader and founder of the PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party).
Akin Birdal
In 2000, the chairman of the Turkish Human Rights Association Akin Birdal was imprisoned under Article 312 for a speech in which he called for "peace and understanding" between Kurds and Turks. He was forced to resign from his post, as the Law on Associations forbids persons who breach this and several other laws from serving as association officials.
Diyarbakır detentions (2006)
Violent disturbances took place in several cities in the southeast in March and April 2006. Over 550 people were detained as a result of these events, including over 200 children. The Diyarbakır Bar Association submitted more than 70 complaints of ill-treatment to the authorities. Investigations were launched into 39 of these claims. During the events in Diyarbakır, forensic examinations of detained were carried out in places of detention. According to the report of the commission, "this contravenes the rules and the circulars issued by the Ministries of Justice and Health as well as the independence of the medical profession". The commission also believes that "the new provisions introduced in June 2006 to amend the anti-terror law could undermine the fight against torture and ill-treatment". The commission also stresses that "a return to normality in Southeast can only be achieved be opening dialogue with local counterparts". "A comprehensive strategy should be pursued to achieve the socio-economic development of the region and the establishment of conditions for the Kurdish population to enjoy full rights and freedoms. Issues that need to be addressed include the return of internally displaced persons, compensation for losses incurred by victims of terrorism, landmines as well as the issue of village guards".
Banning of Kurdish theatrical play "Beru"
In October 2020, the governor of Istanbul banned Kurdish theatrical play "Beru" shortly before its first performance. It had been performed three years prior both in Turkey and also abroad without issue.
Current status
In 2009, the state-run broadcaster, TRT, launched a channel (TRT 6) in the Kurdish language.
The Turkey 2006 Progress Report underscores that, according to the Law on Political Parties, the use of languages other than Turkish is illegal in political life. This was seen when Leyla Zana spoke Kurdish in her inauguration as an MP she was arrested in 1994 and charged with treason and membership in the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Zana and the others were sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to this in 1992, the Kurd Institute in Istanbul was raided by police who arrested five people and confiscated books on Kurdish language, literature, and history.
The European Commission concludes as of 2006 that "overall Turkey made little progress on ensuring cultural diversity and promoting respect for and protection of minorities in accordance with international standards". The European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) reports that (as of April 2010): "The public use by officials of the Kurdish language lays them open to prosecution, and public defence by individuals of Kurdish or minority interests also frequently leads to prosecutions under the Criminal Code." From the 1994 briefing at the International Human Rights Law Group: "the problem in Turkey is the Constitution is against the Kurds and the apartheid constitution is very similar to it." The Economist also asserts that "reforms have slowed, prosecutions of writers for insulting Turkishness have continued, renewed fighting has broken out with Kurds and a new mood of nationalism has taken hold", but it is also stressed that "in the past four years the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, improved rights for Kurds".
128 attacks on HDP offices, a pro-Kurdish rights party, have occurred throughout the country.
See also
Denial of Kurds by Turkey
Persecution of Kurds
Anti-Kurdish sentiment
References
External links
Kurdish Human Rights Project
The Alliance for Kurdish Rights
United Kingdom 2019 Home Office Report of a Fact-Finding Mission, Turkey: Kurds, the HDP and the PKK
Human rights abuses in Turkey
Persecution of Kurds in Turkey
Human rights in Kurdistan |
8472871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Waikikis | The Waikikis | The Waikikis were a Belgian studio band, mostly known for their single "Hawaii Tattoo", released in the U.S. in 1964, on Kapp Records. "Hawaii Tattoo" was recorded in 1961 in Belgium and spent two months in the Belgian chart. It was a huge hit in Germany, spending 21 weeks in the Top Ten and also reached the Top Fifty in the U.S., Canada and the UK.
The album Hawaii Tattoo reached the number 93 spot in the Billboard Hot 200 in 1965.
Behind the scenes, record producer Horst Fuchs promoted the band’s career and pulled the strings. Composers such as Jo van Wetter, Willy Albimoor, Hans Blum and Michael Thomas (Martin Böttcher) created songs like "Hawaii Tattoo", "Carnival of Venice", "Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken", "Aloha Parade", "Honolulu Parade" and "Waikiki Welcome". The Waikikis sold their gramophone records by the millions, and some of their own creations like "Hilo Kiss" or "Hula-Hochzeit" ("Hawaii Honeymoon") made their way into the charts in several countries.
In 2004 the song "Hawaiian March" was used and sampled for the ‘Prince Paul's Bubble Party’ track on the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie film soundtrack.
Discography
Albums
Christmas In Hawaii - 1964
Hawaii Tattoo - 1963
Midnight Luau - 1968
Moonlight On Diamond Head - 1969
A Taste Of Hawaii - 1966
Hawaii Beach Party - 1965
Greatest Hits From Hawaii - 1969
Pearly Shells From Hawaii - 1967
Lollipops And Roses From Hawaii - 1965
Road To Waikiki - 1964
References
External links
Overview of Waikikis music on MusicStack.com
Overview of Hawaiian albums
Surf music groups
Belgian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1961
Musical groups disestablished in 1976
1961 establishments in Belgium |
8472876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Kellock | Brian Kellock | Brian Kellock (born 1962) is a Scottish jazz pianist.
Biography
Born in Edinburgh, Kellock graduated with a B Music (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. Since then, he has been establishing his position as one of the top piano players in the UK jazz scene, working with Herb Geller, Sheila Jordan, and Art Farmer.
From 1995, Kellock has been a member of Australian trumpeter James Morrison's Band.
His main project is his own Trio, which first appeared as the rhythm section for seminal Scottish band, the John Rae Collective, since 1988. This line-up, featuring Kenny Ellis on bass and John Rae on drums, has been performing together ever since. In 1998, the band released their first recording together – Something's Got To Give – a set of standards popularised by Fred Astaire.
Some of Kellock's popular songs played include: "You Must Believe in Spring," "Rhapsody in Blue," "The Way You Look Tonight," "Tokyo Express," "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow," "Lennies Pennies," "In the Bleak Midwinter," and "Young and Foolish."
Selected discography
As leader/co-leader
As sideman
John Rae – Where The Wild Clematis Grow
John Rae: Drums
Brian Kellock: Piano
Patrick Bleakley: Bass
Recorded 2020 – Thick Records NZ
John Rae's Celtic Feet
John Rae: Drums
Eilidh Shaw: Fiddle
Simon Thoumire: Concertina
Phil Bancroft: Sax
Brian Kellock: Piano
Mario Caribé: Bass
Recorded 1999 – Caber 010
Sylvia Rae – Close Enough
Sylvia Rae: Vocals
Brian Kellock: Piano
Warren Vaché: Trumpet
Kenny Ellis: Bass
Ronnie Rae: Bass (Tk3)
John Rae: Drums
Recorded 2002 – VocalbA vocl 001 (from caber music)
Hue & Cry – jazznotjazz
Michael Brecker: Tenor Sax
Mike Stern: Guitar
Randy Brecker: Trumpet
Tommy Smith: Tenor Sax
Danny Gottlieb: Drums
Brian Kellock: Piano
Recorded 1996 – Linn Records AKD 057
Spike Robinson – Stairway To The Stars
Spike Robinson – Tenor Saxophone
Brian Kellock – Piano
Ronnie Rae – String Bass
John Rae – Drums
Recorded at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh 1990 – HEP Jazz – HEP CD 2049
Janusz Carmello – Portrait
Janusz Carmello: Trumpet & Pocket Trumpet
Brian Kellock: Piano
John Hartley: String Bass
Tony McLennan: Drums
Jimmy Wood: Alto Sax
Phil Bancroft: Tenor Sax
Gordon Cruickshank: Bar Sax
Keith Hutton: Trombone
Recorded 1989 HEP Records – HEP CD 2044
Nigel Clark Quintet – Worldwide Sound
Nigel Clark: Guitars
Tim Garland: Saxophones
Brian Kellock: Piano/Keyboards
Ewen Vernel: Bass
Mike Bradley: Drums
Recorded 1996 Sienna Records SNA 1001
Tam White/Boz Burrell – Groove Connection
Tam White: Voice
Boz Burrell: Basses
Brian Kellock: Piano/Keyboards
Neil Warden: Guitar
John Henderson: Drums
Russel Cowieson: Tenor Sax
Tom McNiven: Trumpet
Alec Phillips: Trombone
Recorded 2000 Catalyst Records CD2002.
References
External links
Artist's website
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish jazz pianists
1962 births
Living people
21st-century British pianists |
8472885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28417634%29%202006%20XG1 | (417634) 2006 XG1 | provisional designation , is a sub-kilometer asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, that had a low but non-zero probability of impacting Earth on 31 October 2041. The asteroid was discovered on 20 September 2006, by astronomers of the Catalina Sky Survey, using a dedicated 0.68-meter telescope at Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, United States.
Description
Originally listed with a Torino Scale hazard rating of 0, this was raised to a rating of 1 on 22 December 2006 as a result of additional observations and refinement of the orbital calculations. However, on 9 January 2007 it was returned to a rating of 0. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 7 February 2007.
It is now known that the asteroid will not make a close approach to the Earth in 2041. On 31 October 2041, the asteroid will be from the Earth.
passed from asteroid 87 Sylvia on 20 June 1969. It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid.
Physical characteristics
According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, measures 418 meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.154. Previously, JPL's Sentry System estimated a diameter of 670 meters with a mass of .
References
External links
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
417634
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8472886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Ock%2C%20Surrey | River Ock, Surrey | The River Ock is a tributary of the River Wey in Surrey, England.
Course
The river has two great sources in the west of Hambledon and two similar sources in the east of the parish of Witley. The coalescence is north of a zone of gently north-sloping land forming Wheelerstreet, Enton Green and the little manor of Tuesley. For centuries the latter comprised a very modest house and farmstead, dwarfed by the adjacent Busbridge Park, the stream of which drains Busbridge Lakes, the former mid and lower fish ponds, the upper one having been drained on becoming part of that stream.
The resulting Ock passes through Ockford, sometimes considered the east of Ockford Ridge, then parts of Godalming, before joining the Wey in the town centre.
The Portsmouth Main Line railway follows much of the course.
Watermills
The Old Mill in Godalming, originally known as Hatch Mill, made use of the force and speed of the multi-hill-draining river. Rake Mill at Witley, a former fulling mill, was used by the artist Neville Lytton as a studio. The building, along with most of Lytton's sketches and paintings, was destroyed by a fire in 1902. Other mills on the Ock were a tannery in Godalming, a corn mill at Enton and a flour mill at Ockford.
Water quality
The Environment Agency measure water quality of the rivers in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates, angiosperms and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated good or fail.
The water quality of the Ock was as follows in 2019:
See also
River Ock mills
References
Rivers of Surrey
1Ock |
8472889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield%2C%20Hyde%20County%2C%20North%20Carolina | Fairfield, Hyde County, North Carolina | Fairfield is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Hyde County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 258. The Fairfield Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Geography
Fairfield is in northern Hyde County, on the northern side of Lake Mattamuskeet. North Carolina Highway 94 passes through the community, leading north to U.S. Route 64 in Columbia and south across the lake to U.S. Route 264.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Fairfield CDP has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 231 people, 102 households, and 82 families residing in the CDP.
Education
The local school is Mattamuskeet School of Hyde County Schools.
References
Census-designated places in Hyde County, North Carolina
Census-designated places in North Carolina |
8472909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Clifton | Shire of Clifton | The Shire of Clifton was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, southwest of the regional city of Toowoomba. The shire, administered from the town of Clifton, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several other councils in the Toowoomba area to form the Toowoomba Region.
History
The Clifton Division was incorporated on 11 November 1879 under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 1382.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the Clifton Division became the Shire of Clifton on 31 March 1903.
On 23 January 1915, part of the Shire of Clifton was amalgamated with the Town of Allora to create the new Shire of Allora. The Shire of Clifton continued with smaller boundaries.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Clifton merged with the City of Toowoomba and the Shires of Cambooya, Crows Nest, Jondaryan, Millmerran, Pittsworth and Shire of Rosalie to form the Toowoomba Region.
Towns and localities
The Shire of Clifton includes the following settlements:
Clifton
Kings Creek
Nobby1
Pilton
1 - split with the former Shire of Cambooya
Population
Chairmen and mayors
The leaders of the Clifton Division and Clifton Shire were:
Clifton Divisional Board
Charles Clarke (1880—1881)
James Hanly (1881—1882)
Thomas Grimes (1882—1883)
William Deacon (1883—1885)
George Clarke (1886—1888)
William Deacon (1889—1890)
James Hanly (1890—1891)
John Logan (1891—1892)
John Keleher (1892—1893)
Andrew Gordon (1893—1894)
James Hanly (1894—1895)
Edward Harvey (1895—1896)
John Logan (1896—1897)
Edward Harvey (1897—1898)
Maas Henry Hinz (1899—1900)
James Bourke (1900—1901)
Jeremiah Collins (1901—1902)
John Keleher (1902—1903)
Clifton Shire Council
Charles Young Gillam (1903—1904)
Bernard McGovern (1904—1905)
John Logan (1905—1906)
Charles Young Gillam (1906—1907)
John O'Sullivan (1907—1908)
Edward Cooper (1908—1909)
Phillip Henry Imhoff (1909—1910)
John Logan (1910—1911)
James Purcell (1911—1913)
Henry Allen Smith (1913—1914)
James Bourke (1914—1915)
John Logan (1915—1916)
John Gallagher (1916—1917)
James Meara (1917—1921)
Walter Robert Ross (1922—1923)
James Meara (1924—1947)
Heinrich Heinrichsen (1947—1949)
Herbert Warfield (1949—1955)
William Bourke (1955—1967)
William Finlay (1967—1976)
Virgil O'Leary (1976—1979)
William Bishop (1979—1982)
Emmett Lyons (1982—1991)
Ian Jones (1991—1994)
Reg Murphy (1994—1997)
Patricia Collins (1997—2004)
Ian Jones (2004—2008)
References
External links
Former local government areas of Queensland
Darling Downs
Toowoomba
1879 establishments in Australia
2008 disestablishments in Australia
Populated places disestablished in 2008 |
8472920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20polo%20at%20the%201924%20Summer%20Olympics | Water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics | Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.
Medal summary
Note: The players above the line played at least one game in this tournament, the players below the line were reserve players and did not compete in this tournament. Nevertheless the International Olympic Committee medal database exclusively credits them all as medalists. However the official report did not even count them as competitors.
Results
Silver medal tournament
Bronze medal tournament
Participating nations
Each country was allowed to enter a team of 11 players and they all were eligible for participation.
Austria withdrew without playing a match.
A total of 101 water polo players from 13 nations competed at the Paris Games:
Summary
References
Sources
PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
Official Report of the 1924 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 439–440, 486–494)
Water polo on the Olympedia website
Water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
Water polo at the 1924 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)
1924 Summer Olympics events
1924
1924 in water polo
1924 |
8472935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindians | Chindians | Chindian (; ; ; ; is an informal term used to refer to a person of mixed Chinese and Indian ancestry; i.e. from any of the host of ethnic groups native to modern China and India. There are a considerable number of Chindians in Malaysia and Singapore. In Maritime Southeast Asia, people of Chinese and Indian origin immigrated in large numbers during the 19th and 20th centuries. There are also a sizeable number living in Hong Kong and smaller numbers in other countries with large overseas Chinese and Indian diaspora, such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname and Guyana in the Caribbean, as well as in Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Countries
China
Zhang Qian (d. 113 BC) and Sima Qian (145-90 BC) make likely references to "Shendu ("Sindhu" in Sanskrit), and during Yunnan's annexation by Han Dynasty in the first century an Indian "Shendu" community was living there. During transmission of Buddhism from India to China from the first century onwards, many Indian scholars and monks travelled to China, such as Batuo (fl. 464-495 AD)—founder of the Shaolin Monastery—and Bodhidharma—founder of Chan/Zen Buddhism and there was also a large Indian trader community in Quanzhou City and Jinjiang district who built more than a dozen Hindu temples or shrines, including two grand big temples in Quanzhou city. During colonial era, Indians were among the crew of the Portuguese ships trading on the Chinese coast beginning in the sixteenth century and Indians from Portuguese Indian Colonies (notably Goa) settled in Macau in small numbers.
There are around 45,000 - 48,000 Indian nationals/expatriates living in mainland China as of 2015, most of whom are students, traders and professionals employed with Indian IT companies and banks. There are three Indian community associations in the country.
Hong Kong
Indians have been living in Hong Kong long before the partition of India into the nations of India and Pakistan. They migrated to Hong Kong as traders, police officers and army officers during colonial rule.
2,700 Indian troops in Hong Kong arrived with British occupation on 26 January 1841, who later played an important role in setting up of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). 25,000 of the Muslims in Hong Kong trace their roots back to what is now Pakistan. Around half of them belong to 'local boy' families, Muslims of mixed Chinese (Tanka) and Indian/Pakistani ancestry, descended from early Indian/Pakistani male immigrants who took local Chinese wives and brought their children up as Muslims. These "local Indians" were not completely accepted by either the Chinese or Indian communities.
India
There are tiny communities of Chinese who migrated to India during the British Raj and became naturalised citizens of India and there are 189,000 estimated total ethnic Chinese of Chindian or full Chinese ancestry. The community living in Kolkata numbers around 4,000 and 400 families in Mumbai, where there are Chinatowns. Chinese Indians also contributed to the development of fusion Indian Chinese cuisine (Chindian cuisine), which is now an integral part of the Indian culinary scene.
There are an estimated 5,000–7,000 Chinese expatriates living in India as of 2015, having doubled in number in recent years. Most work on 2 to 3 year contracts for the growing number of Chinese brands and companies doing business in India.
British India
During the British Raj, some Chinese "convicts" deported from the Straits Settlements were sent to be jailed in Madras in India. The "Madras district gazetteers, Volume 1" reported an incident where the Chinese convicts escaped and killed the police sent to apprehend them: "Much of the building work was done by Chinese convicts sent to the Madras jails from the Straits Settlements (where there was no sufficient prison accommodation) and more than once these people escaped from the temporary buildings' in which they were confined at Lovedale. In 186^ seven of them got away and it was several days before they were apprehended by the Tahsildar, aided by Badagas sent out in all directions to search. On 28 July in the following year twelve others broke out during a very stormy night and parties of armed police were sent out to scour the hills for them. They were at last arrested in Malabar a fortnight later. Some police weapons were found in their possession and one of the parties of police had disappeared—an ominous coincidence. Search was made all over the country for the party and at length, on 15 September, their four bodies were found lying in the jungle at Walaghát, half way down the Sispára ghát path, neatly laid out in a row with their severed heads carefully placed on their shoulders. It turned out that the wily Chinamen, on being overtaken, had at first pretended to surrender and had then suddenly attacked the police and killed them with their own weapons." Other Chinese convicts in Madras who were released from jail then settled in the Nilgiri mountains near Naduvattam and married Tamil Paraiyan women, having mixed Chinese-Tamil children with them. They were documented by Edgar Thurston. Paraiyan is also anglicised as "pariah".
Edgar Thurston described the colony of the Chinese men with their Tamil pariah wives and children: "Halting in the course of a recent anthropological expedition on the western side of the Nilgiri plateau, in the midst of the Government Cinchona plantations, I came across a small settlement of Chinese, who have squatted for some years on the slopes of the hills between Naduvatam and Gudalur and developed, as the result of ' marriage ' with Tamil pariah women, into a colony, earning an honest livelihood by growing vegetables, cultivating coffee on a small scale and adding to their income from these sources by the economic products of the cow. An ambassador was sent to this miniature Chinese Court with a suggestion that the men should, in return for monies, present themselves before me with a view to their measurements being recorded. The reply which came back was in its way racially characteristic as between Hindus and Chinese. In the case of the former, permission to make use of their bodies for the purposes of research depends essentially on a pecuniary transaction, on a scale varying from two to eight annas. The Chinese, on the other hand, though poor, sent a courteous message to the effect that they did not require payment in money, but would be perfectly happy if I would give them, as a memento, copies of their photographs." Thurston further describe a specific family: "The father was a typical Chinaman, whose only grievance was that, in the process of conversion to Christianity, he had been obliged to 'cut him tail off.' The mother was a typical Tamil Pariah of dusky hue. The colour of the children was more closely allied to the yellowish tint of the father than to the dark tint of the mother and the semimongol parentage was betrayed in the slant eyes, flat nose and (in one case) conspicuously prominent cheek-bones." Thurston's description of the Chinese-Tamil families were cited by others, one mentioned "an instance mating between a Chinese male with a Tamil Pariah female" A 1959 book described attempts made to find out what happened to the colony of mixed Chinese and Tamils.
According to Alabaster there were lard manufacturers and shoemakers in addition to carpenters. Running tanneries and working with leather was traditionally not considered a respectable profession among caste Hindus and work was relegated to lower caste muchis and chamars. There was a high demand, however, for high quality leather goods in colonial India, one that the Chinese were able to fulfill. Alabaster also mentions licensed opium dens run by native Chinese and a Cheena Bazaar where contraband was readily available. Opium, however, was not illegal until after India's Independence from Great Britain in 1947. Immigration continued unabated through the turn of the century and during World War I partly due to political upheavals in China such as the First and Second Opium Wars, First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion. Around the time of the First World War, the first Chinese-owned tanneries sprang up.
In Assam, local Assamese women married Chinese migrants during British colonial times. It later became hard to physically differentiate Chinese in Assam from locals during the time of their internment during the 1962 war, as the majority of these Chinese in Assam were mixed.
Singapore
In Singapore, the majority of interracial marriages occur between Chinese women and Indian men. The government of Singapore classifies them as their father's ethnicity. According to government statistics, 2.4% of Singapore's population are multiracial, mostly Chindians. The highest number of interethnic marriages was in 2007, when 16.4% of the 20,000 marriages in Singapore were interethnic, again mostly between Chinese and Indians. Singapore only began to allow mixed-race persons to register two racial classifications on their identity cards in 2010. Parents may choose which of the two is listed first. More than two races may not be listed even if the person has several different ethnicities in their ancestry. Like in Malaysia, most Chindians in Singapore are offspring of interracial relationships between Indian males and Chinese females.
Malaysia
In Malaysia, the majority of interracial marriages occur between Chinese and Indians. The offspring of such marriages are informally known as "Chindian". The Malaysian government, however, considers them to be an unclassified ethnicity, using the father's ethnicity as the informal term. As the majority of these intermarriages usually involve an Indian male and Chinese female, the majority of Chindian offspring in Malaysia are usually classified as "Malaysian Indian" by the Malaysian government.
Guyana
In Guyana, Chinese men married Indian women due to the lack of Chinese women in the early days of settlement. Creole sexual relationships and marriages with Chinese and Indians were rare, however it has become more common for Indian women and Chinese men to establish sexual relations with each other and some Chinese men took their Indian wives back with them to China. Indian women and children were brought alongside Indian men as coolies while Chinese men made up 99% of Chinese coolies.
The contrast with the female to male ratio among Indian and Chinese immigrants has been compared by historians.
Mauritius
In the late 19th to early 20th century, Chinese men in Mauritius married Indian women due to both a lack of Chinese women and higher numbers of Indian women on the island. At first, the prospect of relations with Chinese men was unappealing to the original all-female Indian migrants yet they eventually had to establish sexual unions with Chinese men since there were no Chinese women coming. The 1921 census in Mauritius counted that Indian women there had a total of 148 children sired by Chinese men. These Chinese were mostly traders. Colonialist stereotypes in the sugar colonies of Indians emerged such as "the degraded coolie woman" and the "coolie wife beater", due to Indian women being murdered by their husbands after they ran away to other richer men since the ratio of Indian women to men was low. It was much more common for Chinese and Indians to intermarry than within their own group. Intermarriage between people of between different Chinese and Indian language groups is rare; it is so rare that the cases of intermarriage between Cantonese and Hakka can be individually named. Similarly, intermarriage between Hakka Chinese and Indians hardly occurs.
Trinidad
In Trinidad, some Chinese men had relationships with Indian coolie women of Madrasee origin, siring children with them and it was reported that "A few children are to be met with born of Madras and Creole parents and some also of Madras and Chinese parents - the Madrasee being the mother", by the missionary John Morton in 1876, Morton noted that it seemed strange since there were more Indian coolie men than Indian coolie women that Indian coolie women would marry Chinese men, but claimed it was most likely because the Chinese could provide amenities to the women since the Chinese owned shops and they were enticed by these. Indian women were married by indentured Chinese men in Trinidad. Few Chinese women migrated to Trinidad while the majority of Chinese migrants were men. The migration of Chinese to Trinidad resulted in intermarriage between them and others. Chinese in Trinidad became relatively open to having marital relations with other races and Indian women began having families with Chinese in the 1890s.
Notable people
Juanita Ramayah, Malaysian radio announcer and TV Personality
Jacintha Abisheganaden, Singaporean actress
Ronald Arculli, Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing and Non-official Members Convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong (Exco).
Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
Indranee Rajah, Singaporean politician
Darryl David, Singaporean politician and former media personality
Meiyang Chang Actor, Singer, TV Host in India
Bernard Chandran, Malaysian fashion designer
Anya Ayoung-Chee, winner of Miss Trinidad and Tobago Universe 2008 and contestant in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant
Chen Gexin, Chinese songwriter
Che'Nelle (Cheryline Lim), Malaysian-born recording artist signed to Virgin Records America
Karen David, British singer-songwriter born in Meghalaya, India
Nicol David, Malaysian athlete and former world number one female squash player
Vanessa Fernandez, Singaporean singer and radio presenter
Jonathan Foo, Guyanese cricketer
Patricia Chin, Jamaican-American co-founder of VP Records
Hedy Fry, Trinidadian-Canadian politician
Jonathan Putra, Malaysian TV Personality
Jwala Gutta, Indian badminton player
Sahil Khan, Indian actor
Law Lan, Hong Kong actress
Mak Pak Shee, Singaporean politician
Nicole Narain, American model
Francissca Peter, Malaysian singer
Joseph Prince, Singaporean pastor and evangelist
Michelle Saram, Hong Kong actress born in Singapore
Astra Sharma, Australian tennis player
Priscilla Shunmugam, Singaporean fashion designer
Dipna Lim Prasad, Singaporean sprinter and hurdler
Gurmit Singh, Singaporean television personality
Prema Yin, Malaysian singer
Nadine Ann Thomas, Miss Universe Malaysia 2010, actress, model and DJ.
Vanessa Tevi Kumares, Miss Universe Malaysia 2015
Joshua Simon, Singaporean radio and media personality, YouTube star
Leong Hong Seng, former Malaysian professional footballer of MK LAND FC
Liew Kit Kong, former Malaysia national capped footballer
Ramesh Lai Ban Huat, Malaysia professional footballer
Raj Joshua Thomas, Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament
Kimmy Jayanti, Indonesian model and actress
Mavin Khoo, Bharata Natyam dancer
Bilahari Kausikan, Singaporean diplomat
See also
Chindia
Chinas
Chinese people in India
Indians in China
China–India relations
Race in Singapore
References
External links
An illusion of purity
Double-tongued dictionary
Ethnic groups in Malaysia
Ethnic groups in Indonesia
Ethnic groups in Fiji
Indian diaspora in Singapore
Multiracial affairs |
8472939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20comunidad | La comunidad | La comunidad may refer to:
La comunidad (agency), an advertising agency
La comunidad (film), a 2000 Spanish film |
8472960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Armenian%20language | Proto-Armenian language | Proto-Armenian is the earlier, unattested stage of the Armenian language which has been reconstructed by linguists. As Armenian is the only known language of its branch of the Indo-European languages, the comparative method cannot be used to reconstruct its earlier stages. Instead, a combination of internal and external reconstruction, by reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European and other branches, has allowed linguists to piece together the earlier history of Armenian.
Definition
Proto-Armenian, as the ancestor of only one living language, has no clear definition of the term. It is generally held to include a variety of ancestral stages of Armenian between Proto-Indo-European and the earliest attestations of Classical Armenian.
It is thus not a proto-language in the strict sense, but "Proto-Armenian" is a term that has become common in the field.
The earliest testimony of Armenian is the 5th-century Bible translation of Mesrop Mashtots. The earlier history of the language is unclear and the subject of much speculation. It is clear that Armenian is an Indo-European language, but its development is opaque.
In any case, Armenian has many layers of loanwords and shows traces of long language contact with Anatolian languages such as Luwian and Hittite, Hattic, Hurro-Urartian languages, Semitic languages such as Akkadian and Aramaic, and Iranian languages such as Persian and Parthian. Armenian also has been influenced to a lesser extent by Greek and Arabic.
Phonological development of Proto-Armenian
The Proto-Armenian sound changes are varied and eccentric (such as *dw- yielding erk-) and, in many cases, uncertain. That prevented Armenian from being immediately recognized as an Indo-European branch in its own right, and it was assumed to be simply a very divergent Iranian language until Heinrich Hübschmann established its independent character in 1874.
The development of voicing contrasts in Armenian is notable in being quite similar to that seen in Germanic, a fact that was significant in the formation of Glottalic Theory. The Armenian Consonant Shift has often been compared to the famous Grimm's Law in Germanic, because in both cases, Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops became voiceless aspirates (with some complications with regard to Proto-Indo-European *p), the voiced stops became voiceless, and the voiced aspirates became voiced stops. Meanwhile, Armenian shares the vocalization of word initial laryngeals before consonants with Greek and Phrygian: Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr ("man", "force") renders Greek anḗr, Armenian ayr from a Proto-Armenian *aynr and Phrygian anar ("man"), which may be compared to Latin Nero and neriōsus ("strict"), Albanian njeri, Persian nar, Sanskrit nara, and Welsh nerth.
In certain contexts, the aspirated stops are further reduced to w, h or zero in Armenian: Proto-Indo-European (accusative) *pódm̥ "foot" > Armenian otn vs. Greek (accusative) póda, Proto-Indo-European *tréyes "three" > Armenian erekʿ vs. Greek treis.
History
The origin of the Proto-Armenian language is subject to scholarly debate. Although the Armenian hypothesis would postulate the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language, the less genetically backed Kurgan hypothesis suggests it arrived in the Armenian Highlands either from the Balkans or through the Caucasus. The arrival of such a population who spoke Proto-Armenian in the Armenian Highlands is assumed to have occurred sometime during the Bronze Age or at the latest, during the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC.
One of the theories about the emergence of Armenian in the region is that Paleo-Balkan-speaking settlers related to Phrygians (the Mushki or the retroactively named Armeno-Phrygians), who had already settled in the western parts of the region before the Kingdom of Van was established in Urartu, had become the ruling elite under the Median Empire, followed by the Achaemenid Empire. The existence of Urartian words in the Armenian language and Armenian loanwords into Urartian suggests early contact between the two languages and long periods of bilingualism.
According to the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture:
Findings in Armenian genetics from 2019 reveal heavy mixing of groups from the 3000s BC until the Bronze Age collapse. Admixture signals seem to have decreased to insignificant levels after c. 1200 BC, after which Armenian DNA remained stable, which appears to have been caused by Armenians' isolation from their surroundings, and subsequently sustained by the cultural/linguistic/religious distinctiveness that persists until today. The connection between the Mushki and Armenians is unclear as nothing is known of the Mushki language. Some modern scholars have rejected a direct linguistic relationship with Proto-Armenian if the Mushki were Thracians or Phrygians. Additionally, recent findings in genetic research does not support significant admixture into the Armenian nation after 1200 BC, making the Mushki, if they indeed migrated from a Balkan or western Anatolian homeland during or after the Bronze Age Collapse, unlikely candidates for the Proto-Armenians. However, as others have placed (at least the Eastern) Mushki homeland in the Armenian Highlands and South Caucasus region, it is possible that at least some of the Mushki were Armenian-speakers or speakers of a closely related language. Some modern studies show that Armenian is as close to Indo-Iranian as it is to Greek and Phrygian.
An alternate theory suggests that speakers of Proto-Armenian were tribes indigenous to the northern Armenian highlands, such as the Hayasans, Diauehi or Etiuni. Although these groups are only known from references left by neighboring peoples (such as Hittites, Urartians, and Assyrians), Armenian etymologies have been proposed for their names. While the Urartian language was used by the royal elite, the population they ruled was likely multi-lingual, and some of these peoples would have spoken Armenian. This can be reconciled with the Phrygian/Mushki theory if those groups originally came from the Caucasus region or Armenian Highlands.
See also
Armenian hypothesis
Graeco-Armenian
Armeno-Aryan
Armeno-Phrygian languages
Origin of the Armenians
Name of Armenia
References
Sources
Adjarian, Hrachia. Etymological root dictionary of the Armenian language, vol. I–IV. Yerevan State University, Yerevan, 1971 – 1979.
K. H. Schmidt, The Indo-European Basis of Proto-Armenian : Principles of Reconstruction, Annual of Armenian linguistics, Cleveland State University, 11, 33-47, 1990.
Werner Winter, Problems of Armenian Phonology I, Language 30, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 197–201
Werner Winter, Problems of Armenian Phonology II, Language 31, No. 1 (Jan., 1955), pp. 4–8
Werner Winter Problems of Armenian Phonology III, Language 38, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul., 1962), pp. 254–262
External links
Indo-European family tree, showing Indo-European languages and sub branches
Image of Indo-European migrations from the Armenian Highlands
Armenian
Armenian languages
Languages of ancient Anatolia |
8472964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20J.%20Giltinan | J. J. Giltinan | James Joseph Giltinan (1866–1950) was an Australian entrepreneur who helped to introduce the sport of rugby league football to Australia. The J. J. Giltinan Shield, which is awarded annually to the National Rugby League minor premiers, was named after him.
Founder and administrator
Founder of rugby league in Australia
On 8 August 1907 at Bateman's Crystal Hotel, George Street, Sydney politician Henry Hoyle chaired a meeting of fifty, including several leading rugby players and officials. The New South Wales Rugby Football League, the body that would go on to conduct the major national rugby league premiership of Australia, was founded and Giltinan was elected its first secretary. Before that he had invited the 1907 "All Golds" New Zealand professional rugby team to tour Australia en route to Britain.
Giltinan led the first Kangaroo tour to England in 1908.
An all round sports enthusiast, Giltinan had also officiated as an umpire in representative cricket matches.
At the beginning of the season, the 1909 NSWRFL season the League had met and kicked out its founders, Giltinan, Victor Trumper and Henry Hoyle, although Giltinan remained Hon. Secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League from its inception until the final six months of his life, resigning due to ill health in the early months of 1950.
Giltinan was also President of the Annandale Rugby League Club during the club's early years.
Sailing administrator
In 1935, Giltinan formed a breakaway from the established Sydney Flying Squadron. His tenure at the Australian 18 Footers League culminated in his founding the JJ Giltinan International Trophy. This event is effectively the world championships for the spectacular 18ft Skiff class and is contested each year on Sydney Harbour.
Death, funeral and tributes
J J Giltinan's last public appearance was when he watched the Kangaroos win The Ashes at the S.C.G. on 22 July 1950. He died less than three months later, on 6 September 1950.
His funeral was held the following day at St. Clement's Church, Marrickville. Many former Rugby League identities were on hand to say farewell, including members of the 1907 Pioneers and members of the original Kangaroos of 1908-1909, such as Alf Dobbs, Sid Deane, Dan Frawley, Ed Fry, Bob Graves, Harry Glanville, Arthur Hennessy, Andy Morton and Larry O'Malley. The President of the New South Wales Rugby League, Harry "Jersey" Flegg also attended the large funeral.
The J J Giltinan Shield was created for the following New South Wales Rugby Football League season in his honour.
Giltinan was awarded life membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1914.
Giltinan was born on 30 August 1866 and is a relative of notable Australian tennis professional Bob Giltinan.
In The First Kangaroos, a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film, the role of James Giltinan was played by well known Australian actor Chris Haywood.
In August 2019, Giltinan was inducted into the National Rugby League Hall of Fame.
Footnotes
External links
1866 births
Rugby league players from Sydney
Australian cricket umpires
Australian rugby league players
Australian rugby league administrators
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
1950 deaths |
8472965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20National%20Insurance | Penn National Insurance | Penn National Insurance is a property-casualty mutual insurance company, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the Market Square section of Downtown.
History
Founded in 1919 by the Pennsylvania Farmers and Threshermen's Mutual Protective Association, under the name Pennsylvania Threshermen's and Farmer's Mutual Casualty Company, the company first provided only workers' compensation insurance for farm workers who operated steam-driven threshing machines. The company expanded into all lines of property-casualty insurance, and now does business in eleven states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama).
In December 2019, Penn National Insurance announced that Christine Sears will transition from president & CEO to CEO, and executive VP & COO Robert Brandon will assume the post of president. Sears also announced her planned retirement on August 31 from the company. Upon her resignation, Brandon is set to become president & CEO, while Sears remains on the company's board of directors.
Products
Commercial auto insurance; Condo insurance; Renters insurance; and umbrella insurance.
References
External links
Penn National Insurance
Financial services companies established in 1919
Insurance companies of the United States
Companies based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
8472977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille%20Provence%20XV | Marseille Provence XV | Marseille Provence XV is a defunct French rugby union club, founded in 2000. The team played at the Stade Roger Couderc in Marseille, France.
The club debuted in Fédérale 3 (third amateur division) in the 2000–01 season. They were promoted after the 2001–02 season to Fédérale 2, and went up again in 2003 to Fédérale 1, though they went back down to Fédérale 2 for two seasons, they were promoted back up to Fédérale 1 for the 2006–07 season.
After that season, the club merged with another local club, Vitrolles de Rugby à XV. The new club, Marseille Vitrolles Rugby, began its life in Fédérale 2 in 2007–08, and earned promotion to Fédérale 1 for 2008–09. Marseille Vitrolles play at Marseille Provence's former home ground.
Honors
Fédérale 3:
Champions: 2001-02
Famous players
Marc de Rougemont
Trivia
Stade Vélodrome, is a Marseille stadium that the national team use.
The city of Marseille will host numerous games during the 2007 Rugby World Cup
See also
List of rugby union clubs in France
External links
Rugby union clubs in France
Sport in Marseille
2000 establishments in France
Rugby clubs established in 2000
2007 disestablishments in France
Rugby clubs disestablished in 2007 |
8472978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebed | Lebed | Lebed means swan is several Slavic languages and may refer to:
Places
Lebed (river) in Siberia in eastern Russia
Lebed, Bulgaria, a village in Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria
Lebed Point in Antarctica, named after Lebed, Bulgaria
Aircraft
Lebed class LCAC, A Soviet hovercraft
Lebed XI, a Russian military reconnaissance aircraft
Lebed XII, a Russian military reconnaissance aircraft
Other
Lebed (surname)
See also |
8472985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20City%20School | The City School | City School can refer to:
The City School (Pakistan) in Pakistan
City School (Vancouver), an alternative program in King George Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
City School (Toronto), Canada
The City School (Sheffield), former name of Outwood Academy City |
8472987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Bridge%20%28Saint%20Petersburg%29 | Red Bridge (Saint Petersburg) | The Red Bridge (, Krasniy most), is a single-span bridge across the Moika River in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The bridge is a part of Gorokhovaya Street. The length of the bridge is 42 m; the width is 16.8 m.
The first cast iron bridge on the site was designed and built in 1808-1813 to a design by William Heste. The bridge was rebuilt in 1953 by architect V.V. Blazhevich. The original cast iron structure of the bridge was replaced by the welded steel arches but most of the decorations are left intact.
The bridge's name dates from a 19th-century tradition of color-coding the bridges crossing the Moika River. Like other colored bridges, the Red Bridge got its name from the colour of its sides facing the river. Today only four colored bridges survive, the other ones being the Blue Bridge, the Green Bridge and the Yellow Bridge respectively. Three of them have kept their original names, but Yellow Bridge has been renamed to Pevchesky Bridge.
See also
Bridges in Saint Petersburg
List of bridges in Saint Petersburg
References
Bridges across Moyka
Bridges in Saint Petersburg
Bridges completed in 1813
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg |
8473009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%20Underground%20Recordings | Glasgow Underground Recordings | Glasgow Underground Recordings is a house music record label owned by Scottish electronic musician Kevin McKay.
The label was created in 1997 and has been home to artists such as Romanthony, DJ Q, Mateo & Matos, Pascal Rioux, Rose Smith, Muzique Tropique, Milton Jackson and DJ Mash. In 2006, McKay set up Prestel Records, which released a number of 12" records, notably by Das Pop, Cobra Dukes and Dada Life.
In 2011 he resurrected the label to release a number of compilations and singles.
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Website
British record labels
Record labels established in 1997
Electronic dance music record labels
Electronic music record labels |
8473035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Armenian | Middle Armenian | Middle Armenian (), also called Cilician Armenian (although this may be confused to refer to modern dialects), corresponds to the second period of Armenian which was spoken and written in between the 12th and 18th centuries. It comes after Grabar (Classical Armenian) and before Ashxarhabar (Modern Armenian).
Classical Armenian was predominantly an inflecting and synthetic language, but in Middle Armenian, during the period of Modern Armenian influence, agglutinative and analytical forms influenced the language. In this respect, Middle Armenian is a transition stage from Old Armenian to Modern Armenian (Ashxarhabar). Middle Armenian is notable for being the first written form of Armenian to display Western-type voicing qualities and to have introduced the letters օ and ֆ, which was based on the Greek letters "o" and "φ".
Additions
The letter օ, based on the Greek letter o, was added during this period. It represents the IPA sound (open-mid back rounded vowel). Although this is a native phoneme in Armenian, the sound that would usually represent it, ո, only says it in medial and final positions. Initially, ո represents . Therefore, this letter was invented to only be used in initial positions to represent the sound /ↄ/ itself. It is still used today in the Armenian alphabet.
The letter ֆ, based on the Greek letter φ, was added during this period. It represents the IPA sound (voiceless labiodental fricative), which is not a native phoneme in Armenian. However, it was prevalent in borrowed words, making it necessary to use a letter to write it. It is still used today in the Armenian alphabet.
References
External links
Dictionary of Middle Armenian (Միջին Հայերենի Բառարան), Ruben Ghazarian, Yerevan, 2009.
Armenian languages
Languages attested from the 12th century |
8473036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayo%20%28singer%29 | Ayo (singer) | Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin (born 14 September 1980), known professionally as Ayọ , is a German singer, songwriter and actress. She uses the Yoruba translation Ayọ or Ayo. of her first name Joy.
Her debut album Joyful, released in 2006, reached Double-Platinum status in France, Platinum in Germany and Poland, and Gold status in Switzerland, Italy, and Greece. Interscope Records released the album in the United States on 20 November 2007.
Born in Frechen near Cologne, Germany, she has a son named Nile, who was born in late 2005 and a daughter named Billie-Eve, born July 2010, with the Sierra Leonian-German reggae singer Patrice, from whom she is now separated. At the end of 2007, she moved with her family to the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan in New York City. Currently, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her children.
Then-president of UNICEF France, Jacques Hintzy, announced on 4 February 2009 that the singer was named patron of UNICEF to promote the right to education for all children in the world.
The French production company MK2 produced the film Ayo Joy, a 90-minute documentary about the singer and her life, in 2009. The film was directed by Raphaël Duroy.
Biography
Early years
Ayọ was born in 1980 near Cologne, then in West Germany, as the fourth child of a Nigerian father and a German-Sinti mother. She has one sister and two brothers. When she was about six years old, her mother became addicted to heroin and spent some time in jail. After her parents divorced, she and two of her siblings spent periods of time in care and with foster families. She spent four years in a children's home in Schwalmtal-Waldniel where she learned to play violin and piano and became in 1992 a member of its music band "La Taste". When she was fourteen she was considered old enough by the authorities to live again with her father.
Musical career
At the age of six, Ayọ played the violin for a short time, then turned to the piano and later taught herself to play the guitar. While she was member of the band "La Taste" during her stay at the children's home in Waldniel she and eighteen other young band members recorded during summer 1992 the CD Kido Musik at the recording studio "Man Made Noise". During that time she also appeared for the first time in May 1993 in a music video, La Maladie d`Amour, and performed at a public concert.
When she was about 15, she wrote her first song, which was about her mother, and which helped her to cope with her traumatic childhood. Her musical taste was influenced by her father's large selection of vinyl albums which included Pink Floyd, Fela Kuti, Donny Hathaway, Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. When her father, who worked part-time as a DJ while studying engineering in Germany, discovered her singing talent he recorded a first demo tape with her in a studio and allowed her to drop out of school at the age of eighteen.
At twenty-one, Ayọ moved to London and later lived in Paris and New York City. During her time in Paris, her musical talent was noticed by a broader audience, and she gave her first solo concerts, opened 2002 for soul singers Omar and Cody Chesnutt, and signed a contract with Polydor Records.
Shortly after giving birth to her son Nile, she recorded her first album Joyful in January 2006 in the New York Sony studio. The whole disc was recorded in just five days under live conditions, with a group of musicians organized by her producer Jay Newland. The album was released in June 2006 in Europe and Korea, and in the United States and Japan in November 2007.
At the end of 2007, Ayọ started a concert tour through Germany and the United States. On her American tour she performed with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. On 10 January 2008, she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and on 26 January 2008, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, performing her song Down on My Knees. In June 2008, the singer started her second tour through the United States and Canada.
On 10 March 2008, Ayọ started recording on her second album Gravity at Last at the Compass Point Studios in Nassau on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas. She is co-producing the album with Jay Newland. Her band includes Keith Christopherson (bass), Larry Campbell (guitars and other string instruments), Lucky Peterson (keyboards), Sherrod Barnes (guitar/vocals) and Jermaine Parrish (drums). The album with 13 tracks that were written and composed by the singer was recorded in only 5 days and was released at the end of September 2008 by Universal Music France. The album reached number 1 on the French album charts in October. On 21. In November 2008, Ayọ started her promotion tour for the album in Berlin which includes around 30 concerts in five European countries.
In 2008, Ayo won an EBBA Award for her album Joyful. Every year, the European Border Breakers Awards recognize the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year.
Ayọ's third album Billie-Eve, named after her daughter, was recorded in New York City with the cooperation of musicians like Craig Ross (guitarist of Lenny Kravitz), the rapper Saul Williams, Matthieu Chedid and Gail Ann Dorsey, bass player of David Bowie. The album is first released on 7 March 2011 in France and Ayọ starts a promotional tour through France and Poland on 21 March 2011. Ayọ signed with MBM Records in 2011 in the US. Billie-Eve was released in the United States on 20 March 2012. At the end of 2011, the singer moved within the Universal Group from the Polydor label to the labels Mercury France and Motown.
In 2013, Ayọ started to record her fourth album Ticket to the World, which was released on 7 October 2013, with the producer Jay Newland who produced also her first two albums. The first single from this album, Fire, has been released on 10 June 2013. A second version of the single featuring the French rapper Youssoupha was released in August 2013.
After the album release, Ayọ tours from end of October 2013 for several months through Europe. Most concerts take place in France but she also performs in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Germany, UK, and other countries.
Ayọ was asked by Arte to cover the classic song Sunny by Bobby Hebb as soundtrack for their 2013 Summer of Soul program. From 14 July to 18 August 2013, she presents every Sunday evening this program on the French TV broadcast. The soundtrack was released on 14 July 2013 in France on a special three CD edition by Fnac.
On 10 March 2014 at Le Lido, Ayọ won the category 'Best Female Singer' of the Globes de Cristal Award, which is bestowed by members of the French Press Association recognizing excellence in French art and culture. The other nominees in that category were Carla Bruni, HollySiz, Vanessa Paradis and Zaz.
In 2014, Ayọ organized in Paris undercover with an amateur choir a flash mob in the restaurant Rotonde de la Villette where she sang with the choir her song Who. The film about the action 'Mission Incognito: Ayo', directed by Lorenz Findeisen, was shown on the French-German TV network Arte in August 2014. Other episodes of this series featured the artists Rolando Villazón, Jim Avignon and Ulrich Matthes.
Ayọ was awarded the Grand Prize for SACEM repertoire abroad on 24 October 2014 at Olympia, Paris.
On 21 June 2015, Ayọ released a self-made music video on YouTube (renamed to Send This Message To All Your Friends on 22 June 2015) featuring the song Boom Boom, which she has written 10 months previously and so far only performed at live concerts, to react to the ongoing racial violence in the United States. She announced the release on her official social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
In an interview in July 2015 Ayọ said that she has left the label Universal after ten years of cooperation because artists become objects in the music industry and she wants to be free.
In 2017, Ayọ released two singles, each accompanied by a music video, from her fifth album announced to be released in October that year. The first single, "I'm a Fool", was released in June and the second single "Paname" (a nickname for Paris and its suburbs) in September.
On 6 October 2017, the fifth album of the singer was released which was named Ayọ after herself.
On 15 October 2019, Ayọ released her single Beautiful under the Wagram Music/3ème Bureau label, a song from her sixth album Royal which was released on 31 January 2020. A second single with the track "Rest assured" was released earlier in January 2020.
Acting career
In April 2014, Ayọ's concert tour was interrupted for several weeks as she played the lead role in the movie Murder in Pacot (Meurtre à Pacot) by the award-winning Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, which was filmed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in April and May 2014. This was the singer's first appearance as an actress in a feature film. The film describes how the life of a rich family in Haiti changes after the 2010 earthquake. Besides Ayọ the film features French actors Alex Descas and Thibault Vinçon and Haitian poet and novice actress Kermonde Lovely Fifi. The script was co-written by the Haitian novelist and poet Lyonel Trouillot and the screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 5 September 2014. The European premiere of the film was in the Panorama category of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on 7 February 2015. Ayọ, the other leading actors, producer Remi Grellety, and director Raoul Peck attended the second screening of the film on 10 February at the Zoo Palast after a photocall and press conference at the Grand Hyatt hotel.
Ayọ (Joy Ogunmakin) is part of the cast of the German science fiction drama VOLT written and directed by Tarek Ehlail which was filmed around Cologne and scheduled for release in 2016. The German-French co-production is produced by augenschein-Filmproduktion and Les Films D’Antoine. Ayọ plays the role of LaBlanche besides actors Benno Fürmann, Denis Moschitto, and Stipe Erceg. Ayọ Ogunmakin has been nominated in the category 'German Cinema New Talent Award: Actor' at the Filmfest München 2016 for her role in VOLT. The film has its world premiere screening in Munich on the 24 June 2016.
Discography
Albums
Joyful (2006)
Gravity at Last (2008)
Billie-Eve (2011)
Ticket to the World (2013)
Ayọ (2017)
Royal (2020)
Singles
"Life Is Real" (2006)
"Down on My Knees" (2006)
"And It's Supposed to Be Love" (2007) (2008, US)
"Help is Coming" (2007)
"Slow Slow (Run Run)" (2008)
"On aime, on aide" (2009)
"Lonely" (2009)
"I'm Gonna Dance" (2011)
"I Want You Back" (2011)
"Fire" (2013)
"Fire" featuring Youssoupha (2013)
"Who" (2014)
"I'm a Fool" (2017)
"Paname" (2017)
"Beautiful" (2019)
"Rest assured" (2020)
"I'll Be Right Here" featuring Keziah Jones (2021)
DVDs
AYO Live in Monte Carlo (2007, from PBS)
Ayọ Live at the Olympia (2007)
EP
Where Will I Be (vinyl record, 2004)
Contributions
"Kido Musik" (as Joy, member of the band La Taste, 1992)
"Liebe & Verstand" (with Sisters Keepers , 2001)
"Confusion" (on Ep Cris Prolific [Versatile records], 2004)
"Play Boy" (on album PlayUp, 2006)
"Worried About You" (on album Heaven by The Avener, 2020)
Music videos
"La Maladie d`Amour" (as Joy, member of the band La Taste, 1993)
"Down on My Knees" (2006)
"Help Is Coming" (2007)
"Life Is Real" (2007)
"And It's Supposed to Be Love" (2007)
"Slow Slow (Run Run)" (2008)
"Lonely" (2009)
"I'm Gonna Dance" (2011)
"I Want You Back" (2011) (directed by J.G Biggs)
"Boom Boom" (2015)
"I'm a Fool" (2017)
Filmography
Ayo Joy (2009 documentary)
Murder in Pacot (2015)
Volt (2016)
TV
Summer of Soul (2013, French Arte TV)
Mission Incognito: Ayo (2014, ARTE)
Awards
European Border Breakers Awards 2008
Globes de Cristal Award, Best Female Singer 2014
Grand Prize for SACEM repertoire abroad
References
External links
Ayọ on MySpace
[ Ayọ] on Allmusic
Wiki with detailed biography and discography
1980 births
Living people
English-language singers from Germany
German people of Nigerian descent
German people of Yoruba descent
German people of Romani descent
German soul singers
German women singer-songwriters
German singer-songwriters
21st-century German actresses
Yoruba women musicians
Yoruba actresses
People from Frechen
German expatriates in the United States
German expatriates in France
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors
Romani musicians
Romani actresses
21st-century German women singers
Romani singers
Actresses from Cologne
Musicians from Cologne |
8473050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanella%20Pass%20Scenic%20Byway | Guanella Pass Scenic Byway | The Guanella Pass Scenic Byway is a National Forest Scenic Byway and Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway located in Clear Creek and Park counties, Colorado, USA. The byway traverses Guanella Pass at elevation in Arapaho and Pike national forests. The pass lies above timberline surrounded by Grays Peak at elevation , Torreys Peak , Mount Blue Sky , and Mount Bierstadt . The byway passes through the Georgetown–Silver Plume Historic District, and provides access to the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park and the Georgetown Loop Railroad. The byway is renowned for its spectacular autumn colors during aspen color change from September 10 through October 10 each year.
Route
Gallery
See also
History Colorado
Notes
References
External links
America's Scenic Byways: Colorado
Colorado Department of Transportation
Colorado Scenic & Historic Byways Commission
Colorado Scenic & Historic Byways
Colorado Travel Map
Colorado Tourism Office
History Colorado
National Forest Scenic Byways
Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways
National Forest Scenic Byways
National Forest Scenic Byways in Colorado
Arapaho National Forest
Pike National Forest
Transportation in Colorado
Transportation in Clear Creek County, Colorado
Transportation in Park County, Colorado
Tourist attractions in Colorado
Tourist attractions in Clear Creek County, Colorado
Tourist attractions in Park County, Colorado
Interstate 70
U.S. Route 285 |
8473085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mason%20%28artist%29 | John Mason (artist) | John Mason (March 30, 1927January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics. Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its "extreme plasticity". One of a group of artists who had studied under the pioneering ceramicist Peter Voulkos, he created wall reliefs and expressionistic sculptures, often on a monumental scale.
Biography
Mason spent his early childhood in the Midwest; his family moved to Fallon, Nevada in 1937, where he finished elementary and high school. He settled in Los Angeles in 1949 at the age of 22. He attended Otis Art Institute, and in 1954 enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute, where he became a student and close friend of ceramicist Peter Voulkos. The two rented a studio space together in 1957, which they shared until Voulkos moved to Berkeley, California in the fall of 1958.
Mason's early Vertical Sculptures from the early 1960s were associated with contemporary trends in Abstract Expressionism and also with the aesthetics of primitivism. Writer Richard Marshall commented that in their "rawness, spontaneity and expressiveness, [the pieces] give the impression of having been formed by natural forces. The formal and technical aspects of balance, proportion, and stability – although purposefully planned and controlled – are subsumed by the very presence of the material itself".
Mason taught sculpture at Pomona College.
Mason later equipped his studio to prepare, manipulate, and fire monumental sculptures in clay, many of which had to be fired in pieces weighing over a ton in kilns that had already been adapted to serve his large-scale purposes, before being assembled on the wall. According to writer and curator Barbara Haskell, who wrote the introduction to the catalog for Mason's 1974 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art, "These pieces have a monumentality and physical size that had no precedent in contemporary ceramics".
A subsequent series represents a more conceptual approach to Mason's interest in mathematics, one that is concerned less with the physical properties of clay as a medium and more with what those properties allow one to represent. As Richard Marshall wrote:
The Firebrick Sculptures, begun in the early 1970s, reveal a shift in Mason's work away from an involvement with materials and technique toward an involvement with the conceptualization and systematization of a piece that is removed from its actual realization. While maintaining an association with the ceramic tradition – firebricks are made of ceramic material and are used for the construction of kilns – their neutral color and standardized form make it possible to conceive of and execute large-scale geometric configurations of stacked bricks, such as Hudson River Series VIII (1978), in a variety of mathematically plotted arrangements.
References
Further reading
2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Color and Fire: Designing Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Text by: Jo Lauria, Gretchen Adkins, Garth Clark, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, Peter Selz. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Essays by Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Michael Dear, Howard N. Fox, Richard Rodriguez. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Pagel, David. "A Lively Trip Through Ceramic History", Los Angeles Times, "Calendar" section, June 18, 2000, pp. 52–53, illustrated.
Knight, Christopher. "A Visible Crack in Fragile Art," Los Angeles Times, "Calendar" section, July 23, 2000.
Johnson, Ken. "John Mason and Peter Voulkos," New York Times Art Review, November 3, 2000, p. B-36.
Muchnic, Suzanne. "John Mason," American Craft, vol. 61, no. 2., April – May 2000, illustrated.
Peterson, Susan. Contemporary Ceramics. Laurence King Publisher, 2000.
1999
Belloli, Jay et al. Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, California. Essays by: Jay Belloli, Suzanne Muchnic, Peter Plagens, Jeff Vander Schnidt. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum of Art, 1999.
Arizona State University. The Anne and Sam Davis Museum (catalog). Tempe: Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, 1999.
1998
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clay Into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
1997
Muchnic, Suzanne. "John Mason," ARTnews, vol. 96, no.4, April 1997, pp. 137–138.
Frank, Peter. "Art Picks of the Week," LA Weekly, March 7–13, 1997. p. 132 (illustrated).
1990
Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Marks, Ben. "John Mason's Conceptual Journey", American Craft, vol. 50, no. 6, December 1990/ January 1991, pp. 36–41.
1987
White, Cheryl. "Exhibitions: A Contained Geometry," ArtWeek, May 2, 1987, illustrated.
Perry, Barbara and Ron Kuchta. American Ceramics Now. Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, 1987.
1986
Benezra, Neal. "But Is It Art? The Always Tenuous Relationship of Craft to Art", New York Times, Arts and Leisure section, October 19, 1986, pp. 1, 34 (illustrated)
Kelley, Jeff. "John Mason," ArtForum, vol. 24, no. 10, Summer 1986, pp. 132, 133 (illustrated).
1982
Perreault, John. "Fear of Clay", ArtForum, vol. 20, April 1982. pp. 22–25
Davis, Doug. "Brave Feats of Clay", Newsweek, vol. 99, January 11, 1982.
1981
Schjeldahl, Peter. "California Goes to Pot," The Village Voice, December 23–29, 1981.
Kramer, Hilton. "Ceramic Sculpture and the Taste of California," New York Times, December 20, 1981.
Marshall, Richard and Suzanne Foley. Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1981.
1979
Clark, Garth. A Century of Ceramics in the United States, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979 (illustrated)
1978
Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 4 Artists, 16 Projects. Minneapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1978.
Krauss, Rosalind. "John Mason and Post-Modernist Sculpture: New Experiences, New Worlds", Art in America, vol. 67, no. 3, May–June, 1978, pp. 120–127 (illustrated)
McDonald, Robert. "John Mason: Structure and Space," Art Week, vol. 9, no. 29, September 9, 1978, pp. 1,20 (illustrated)
Conn, Catherine and Rosalind Krauss. John Mason: Installations from the Hudson River Series. Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, 1978.
1977
Levin, Elaine. "Foundations of Clay," ArtWeek, vol. 8, no. 21, May 21, 1977, p. 3 (illustrated)
1976
Belloli, Jay and Barbara Haskell. American Artists: A New Decade. Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1976.
Hopkins, Henry. Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976.
Turnbull, Betty. The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957-1966. Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976.
Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976.
1974
Neuberg, George. Public Sculpture/ Urban Environment. Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1974.
Canavier, Elena Karina. "John Mason Retrospective", ArtWeek, June 1, 1974.
Wilson, William. "Mason Monoliths Leave Their Mark," 'Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1974.
O'Doherty, Brian. "The Grand Rapids Challenge," Art in America, vol. 62, no. 1, January–February 1974, pp. 78–79.
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse. Praeger Publishers, 1974.
Haskell, Barbara et alia. John Mason Ceramic Sculpture. Pasadena: Pasadena Museum of Art, 1974.
1969
Ashton, Dore. Modern American Sculpture. Harry Abrams, 1969.
Coplans, John. West Coast 1945-1969. Pasadena: Pasadena Museum of Art, 1969.
1967
Tuchman, Maurice. American Sculptors of the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967.
Wechsler, Judith. "Los Angeles – John Mason," Artforum, vol. V, no. 6, February 1967, pp. 64–65 (illustrated)
Langsner, Jules. "Los Angeles," Art News, vol. 65, no. 9, January 1967, p. 26
Coplans, John. John Mason Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967.
Coplans, John. "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics", Artforum, vol. V, no. 3, November 1966.
1964
Art Institute of Chicago, 67th American Exhibition. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.
1963
Langsner, Jules. "America's Second Art City," Art in America, vol. 51, no. 2, April 1963.
Coplans, John. "Sculpture in California," Artforum, vol. 2, no. 2, August 1963, pp. 4,33 (illustrated).
Coplans, John and Philip Leider. "West Coast Art: Three Images," Artforum, vol. 1, no. 12, June 1963, pp. 23, 25
1962
Culler, George and Lloyd Goodrich. Fifty California Artists. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1962.
1961
Slivka, Rose. "The New Ceramic Presence," Craft Horizons, vol. 21 no. 4, July/August 1961. pp. 30–37 (illustrated)
1927 births
2019 deaths
20th-century American sculptors
Artists from Nebraska
Otis College of Art and Design alumni
People from Perkins County, Nebraska
Pomona College faculty
21st-century American sculptors |
8473111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazl%C5%B3%20R%C5%ABda%20Air%20Base | Kazlų Rūda Air Base | Kazlų Rūda Air Base () is an air strip in Lithuania located 5 km northeast of Kazlų Rūda. It was built during the Soviet times for military purposes and officially opened in 1977. It had a secret underground facility that became publicly known only in 1993 when last Soviet soldiers left the compound. Today it is abandoned.
External links
Photos and articles in Lithuania
Former Soviet military air bases in Lithuania
Airports in Lithuania
Buildings and structures in Marijampolė County
Airbase
Military installations established in 1977 |
8473140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20polo%20at%20the%201920%20Summer%20Olympics | Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics | Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.
Squads
Medal summary
Results
Gold medal round
Silver medal round
Bronze medal round
Notes
References
Sources
PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
Official Report of the 1920 Olympic Games (download, archive) (p. 130)
Water polo on the Olympedia website
Water polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
Water polo at the 1920 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)
1920 Summer Olympics events
1920
1920 in water polo |
8473150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratchcratchratchatch | Scratchcratchratchatch | Scratchcratchratchatch is the debut mixtape of turntablist Kid Koala. There were reports of only 500 copies released initially, but it was picked up by Ninja Tune records. They continue to sell it in its original format as a cassette tape. Due to heavy use of unlicensed samples, the cassette has a label with 'for promotional use only' printed on it.
Track listing
Side A:
"Start Hear"
"Emperors Crash Course In Cantonese"
"Tubanjo"
"The Prank Call"
"Dinner With Yoda"
"Statics Waltz (Lo-Fi Version)"
"Tricks N' Treats"
"Made From Björk"
Side B:
"Made From Scratch"
"Capone's Theme Park"
"Fashion Lesson"
"Medieval Retrowax"
"Jhaptal"
"Taboo Soda"
"Almost Easy Listening"
"The Mushroom Factory"
"Thank You, Good Night, Drive Safely"
References
Discogs "Kid Koala - Scratchcratchratchatch."
External links
Album at Ninja Tune
Kid Koala albums
Debut mixtape albums
1996 compilation albums
Ninja Tune compilation albums |
8473153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Hamilton | Kenneth Hamilton | Kenneth Hamilton (born 1963) is a Scottish pianist and writer, known for virtuoso performances of Romantic music, especially Liszt, Alkan and Busoni. Hamilton's playing is characterized by spontaneity, technical assurance, and a wide variety of keyboard colour. He was a student of Alexa Maxwell, Lawrence Glover and the Scottish composer-pianist Ronald Stevenson, whose music he champions.
Hamilton lectures on music. He was awarded a doctorate for a dissertation on the music of Liszt by Balliol College, Oxford, where his supervisor was John Warrack. He is the author of Liszt: Sonata in B-minor (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His widely publicised latest book, After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (Oxford University Press, 2008) discusses the differences between the past and the present in concert life and playing styles. Its conclusions have stimulated extensive debate in the musical world.
References
Living people
Scottish classical pianists
Male classical pianists
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century British male musicians
1963 births |
8473197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chancellors%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Alberta | List of chancellors of the University of Alberta | The list of chancellors of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:
Charles Allan Stuart (1908–1926)
Nicolas Dubois Dominic Beck (1926–1927)
Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1927–1942)
Frank C. Ford (1942–1946)
George Fred McNally (1946–1952)
Earle Parkhill Scarlett (1952–1958)
Laurence Yeomans Cairns (1958–1964)
Francis Philip Galbraith (1964–1970)
Louis Armand Desrochers (1970–1974)
Ronald Norman Dalby (1974–1978)
Jean Beatrice Forest (1978–1982)
Peter Savaryn (1982–1986)
Tevie Harold Miller (1986–1990)
Sandy Auld Mactaggart (1990–1994)
Louis Davies Hyndman (1994–1998)
Lois Elsa Hole (1998–2000)
John Thomas Ferguson (2000–2004)
Eric P. Newell (2004–2008)
Linda Hughes (2008–2012)
Ralph B. Young (2012–2016)
Douglas Stollery (2016–2020)
Peggy Garritty (2020–present)
References
Chancellors of the University of Alberta |
8473199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%ABdininkai%20training%20ground | Rūdininkai training ground | Rūdininkai or Rūdninkai airbase is a former Soviet airbase in Lithuania located southwest of Vilnius and only from the border with Belarus. It is surrounded by Rūdininkai Forest, the fifth largest forest in Lithuania. It was part of a larger training complex encompassing about . Bomber pilots from various Soviet republics were trained to accurately bombard rows of obsolete military equipment, cars, tanks, even airplanes. Various explosives, usually air-dropped bombs weighing , are still found in the abandoned facility. The largest bomb, detonated in 2007, weighed . Rūdininkai airbase is the largest territory of 222 areas in Lithuania, covering the total of , that are still contaminated by old explosives.
References
Military facilities of the Soviet Union in Lithuania
Bombing ranges
Buildings and structures in Vilnius County
Soviet Air Forces education and training |
8473229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%20Tattoo | Hawaii Tattoo | "Hawaii Tattoo" is an instrumental by The Waikikis, released in the US in 1964, on Kapp Records.
"Hawaii Tattoo" was recorded in Belgium in 1961 and spent two months in the Belgian charts. It was also a huge hit in Germany, spending 37 weeks in the Top Ten and also reached the Top Fifty in the US, Canada and the UK.
As a result of its chart hit status, "Hawaii Tattoo" joined the ranks of such songs as "Sweet Leilani", "Hawaiian Wedding Song", "Tiny Bubbles", and others as sort of a "Hawaiian" standard song and was recorded by many artists such as Martin Denny, The Kilima Hawaiians, Webley Edwards Hawaii Calls Orchestra, and nearly every act recording a "Hawaiian" LP in the 1960s. However, it seems to be better known outside of Hawaii, where it is seldom heard.
History
The piece originated by initiative of record producer Horst Fuchs, who had contact to a Belgian group of studio musicians, calling themselves "The Waikikis" and for whom Fuchs looked for compositions with a certain "Hawaiian flair". He contacted the composers Hans Blum and Martin Böttcher for some music pieces. Martin Böttcher did not respond at first, but after some personal words he delivered a composition within half an hour. Being known in Germany for a completely different music style Böttcher decided to take his pseudonym "Michael Thomas" for this composition.
In 1961 the first four tracks for a record by the Waikikis were produced, among them "Hawaii Tattoo", that soon gained international fame. In Germany some 600.000 copies were sold and internationally about 2.5 million, Horst Fuchs remembered. In December 1961 "Hawaii Tattoo" entered the top 50 of the German music charts, being listed for 37 weeks with a top rank on place 4. Three years later the song also was listed in the American Billboard charts.
The arrangement of the published track was probably by the leader, arranger and piano player of "The Waikikis", Willy Albimoor. Martin Böttcher himself recorded a version under the title Hawaii Tattoo Dixie with a formation he called Mike Thomas and his Wall Street Babies. In 1962 he included the famous version by the Waikikis in his soundtrack of the Heinz Rühmann movie Max the Pickpocket, where it could be heard coming from a jukebox.
References
Hawaii Tattoo in: Deutsche Chart Singles 1956 - 1980, Taurus Press,
1962 songs
1960s instrumentals
Song articles with missing songwriters |
8473257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20West%20Boroughs%20Healthcare%20NHS%20Foundation%20Trust | North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was an NHS foundation trust which provided mental health, learning disability and community health services in fifteen boroughs of North West England. The Trust delivered mental health and learning disability services in Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan, as well as community-based physical health services in Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton. It also provided services to improve outcomes for people with mental vulnerabilities within the criminal justice system across Greater Manchester, working in partnership with Mitie Care and Custody and Cheshire and Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company.
From June 1, 2021, the trust will be dissolved with services in the Merseyside and Cheshire region being transferred to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and services in the Greater Manchester area being transferred to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Up until 1 April 2017, North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was called 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It changed its name from 5 Boroughs Partnership when it expanded its operations into areas outside of its original five boroughs footprint.
The Trust commissioned the mental health charity Self Help Services to run a specialised overnight crisis centre called The Sanctuary for people experiencing anxiety, panic attacks, depression or suicidal thoughts outside of usual office hours in Leigh in order to relieve pressure on local casualty departments.
The Trust was inspected in July and August 2015 by the Care Quality Commission and rated as "requires improvement", chiefly because of inadequate risk assessments. Following a reinspection in July 2016, the Trust's rating was upgraded to "good" after the Care Quality Commission noted improvements had been made in areas picked up on during their original inspections.
In March 2015 Knowsley Clinical Commissioning Group told the Trust to improve its performance in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, where patients had been waiting longer that the 28-day target from referral to first treatment and recovery rates averaged 45%, 5% below the national target.
It joined a consortium with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and St Helens Rota in 2017 to take over community health services in St Helens.
In March 2017, the Trust opened Atherleigh Park Hospital, its £40m mental health hospital to patients in Wigan and Leigh. Based at the former Leigh East rugby league ground on Atherleigh Way in Leigh, the facility has 48 en-suite bedrooms for vulnerable adults with mental health problems, a 26-bed unit providing short stay intermediate care for patients with dementia and memory conditions, and a 16-bed unit for older people with mental health problems.
In November 2019 it was reported that the trust was to be taken over by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
See also
Healthcare in Greater Manchester
List of NHS trusts
References
Defunct NHS trusts |
8473266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Booth%20%28cricketer%2C%20born%201902%29 | Arthur Booth (cricketer, born 1902) | Arthur Booth (3 November 1902 – 17 August 1974) was an English professional first-class cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was an orthodox slow left-arm bowler, and a lower-order right-handed batsman.
Cricket career
Booth was born in Featherstone, Yorkshire, England, and began playing for Yorkshire's Second XI in 1923, and made his first team debut in 1931, but played only twice. From 1935 until World War II he represented Northumberland in the Minor Counties Championship and was selected for the Minor Counties representative side in 1936 and 1938.
After Hedley Verity was killed during the War, Yorkshire lacked a slow left-arm bowler when cricket resumed and Booth was recalled. He played in two first-class matches in 1945 and then became a first-team regular in 1946, the first full post-war season, at the age of 43. Yorkshire won the County Championship that year and, in all matches, Booth took 111 wickets at an average of 11.61. He received his county cap, and was top of the season's national bowling averages.
In 1947, rheumatic fever effectively finished Booth's career and he played only four times for Yorkshire, taking just seven wickets. His place in the first team was contested by the younger Johnny Wardle and Alan Mason. Almost 85 per cent of Booth's 131 career wickets came in the one season of 1946.
Booth's best innings figures came in the match against Warwickshire at Birmingham in 1946, when he took 6 for 21 and 3 for 19 despite having had to retire hurt in Yorkshire's innings. His best match figures came a few weeks later when he took 6 for 33 and 4 for 50 in Yorkshire's innings victory over the touring Indian team; he dismissed the leading Indian Test batsmen Vijay Hazare, Vinoo Mankad and Rusi Modi in each innings.
He was later associated with Warwickshire as a scout, and served on the Lancashire committee until 1970.
Booth died in Rochdale, Lancashire, in August 1974.
References
External links
CricketArchive – profile
Bibliography
Playfair Cricket Annual – 1948 edition
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack – 1947 edition
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack – 1975 edition
1902 births
1974 deaths
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Northumberland cricketers
Minor Counties cricketers
Sportspeople from Featherstone
Cricketers from Yorkshire |
8473300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ladies%27%20Defence | The Ladies' Defence | The Ladies' Defence, Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson, is an essay in verse published by Mary Chudleigh in 1701. The piece was written in response to a wedding sermon, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor, published by the minister John Sprint in 1700. The sermon insists that women's entire duty in life is to love, honor, and be obedient to a husband. As an intellectual poet, Chudleigh felt that women were fit for nothing but subservience only because men held low expectations for them. In her feminist work, she advocates for increased educational opportunities for women and questions the psychological stifling that often happened as a result of women's near-servanthood in marriage.
References
External links
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656-1710: The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701) at A Celebration of Women Writers
Feminist books
1701 books
British essays
1701 essays |
8473310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinepolis%20Kirchberg | Kinepolis Kirchberg | Kinepolis Kirchberg is a multiplex cinema in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, owned and operated by the Kinepolis Group, following their acquisition of the Utopia Group SA in late 2015. Prior to this, the multiplex was known as "Utopolis Kirchberg". It is located on Avenue John F. Kennedy east of the Kirchberg District Centre in the Kirchberg quarter, in the north-east of the city. Originally opened in 1996, it has a total seating capacity of 2505, spread across ten screens, making it the largest cinema in the country.
References
External links
Kinepolis Kirchberg official website
Buildings and structures in Luxembourg City
Culture in Luxembourg City
Cinemas in Luxembourg |
8473322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20polo%20at%20the%201912%20Summer%20Olympics | Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics | The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm saw the fourth water polo tournament at Olympics. All games took place in the newly built swimming stadium in Djurgårdsbrunnsviken from 7 to 16 July 1912. All medals were decided by using the Bergvall system.
Medal summary
The competitions in water polo were arranged on the Cup Tie (elimination) system, but in such a way that the necessary number of matches had to be played for the second and third prizes between the teams qualified to take part in these rounds. The principle was adopted that a team which had not been beaten, direct or indirect, by a team that was qualified to fight for the second or third prize, should have the right to play against the team last-mentioned, even if it (the first-named) had already been beaten by some other team. The teams entered were drawn in pairs for the first round, after which the order in which they were to meet in the second round was determined by drawing lots, so that the order in which the games were to be played, right up to the final, was fixed before the games began.
Participating nations
A total of 45 water polo players from 6 nations competed at the Stockholm Games:
Bracket
Results
Main Tournament to Gold
Final standings
References
Sources
PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:
Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games (download, archive) (pp. 1021–1024, 1031–1037)
Water polo on the Olympedia website
Water polo at the 1912 Summer Olympics (men's tournament)
Water polo on the Sports Reference website
Water polo at the 1912 Summer Games (men's tournament) (archived)
External links
International Olympic Committee medal database
1912 in water polo
1912 Summer Olympics events
1912 |
8473339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornopir%C3%A9n%20National%20Park | Hornopirén National Park | Hornopirén National Park () is located in the Andes, in the Palena Province of Chile's Los Lagos Region, also known as Region X. The park contains of rugged mountains and unspoiled Valdivian temperate rain forests. This national park borders the northern portion of Pumalín Park. The Carretera Austral passes close to the park. In the vicinity of the park lie Hornopirén and Yate volcanoes.
Geography
The park is part of the Andes mountain chain. There are 22 hectares of mountains, glaciers and volcanoes. The park is dominated by glacier-carved mountains and active volcanoes. It includes glaciers comprising an area of . The Yate volcano stands 2,187 meters above sea level and the Hornopirén volcano stands 1,572 meters above sea level. From the Yate volcano southern slope, at only 1,500 meters, you can enjoy panoramic views of the mountains and forests of the park, including a full view of the lake and even Pinto Concha Hornopirén fjord.
Water
The three main bodies of water in the park are Pinto Concha Lake , Cabrera Lake and Inexplorado Lake . Pinto Concha is the most visited attraction in the park. There are six main rivers in the park. Inexplorado Lake is one of a series of paternoster lakes that form part of the Blanco River drainage basin. The aforesaid lakes are characterized by distinctive blue and green hues, due to rock flour suspended in their waters and give to the river its milky appearance. Negro River is another major river system in the park.
Forests
They are surrounded totally or partially by millennial alerce also known as larch forests. The Alerce tree is the second oldest tree species on the planet. It includes Fitzroya trees almost in pure stands. The pristine alerce forests cover an area of about , which comprises approximately the 35 percent of the vegetation cover of the park.
Biology
The park has about 25 mammal species, including native as well as exotic species. Among them are the cougar, kodkod, lesser grison, chilla fox, American mink, coypu, pudú and Chilean huemul. The park is home to 18 threatened species.
Administration
The park is administered by CONAF in the city of Hornopirén at the central square and all trips to the forest begin here. Entrance to the park is free. One part of the part can be visited by motor vehicle but the other part must be travelled by foot. To get to the park from Hornopirén travel 11 km north on Av. Lib. Bernardo O’Higgins. Then there is another 7 km on a bumpy gravel road through private land in order to reach the park entrance. 107 km separate Puerto Montt from this park. There are two bus companies that run between Puerto Montt and Hornopirén National Park. The trip takes about 5 hours.
There is a shelter in the park for the exclusive use of the CONAF ranger. It is on the southwest side of Pinto Concha lake and provides information to tourists in the summer months. There is a designated camping area, but it provides no services, i.e., there is no barbecue nor drinking water available. Campfires in and around the park are illegal.
Trails
There are two official, maintained trails in the park.
Weather
Average annual rainfall is 2,500mm and can exceed 4,000 mm. The temperature fluctuates between 9 and 12 degrees C. There are between 50 and 150 frost days a year. The park is closed to the public between July and November because snow and ice over a meter thick accumulates in the recreation area.
References
External links
Inexplorado Lake Expedition
Aerial photo of Inexplorado Lake
Site
The Route of Parks of Chilean Patagonia - Hornopirén National Park
National parks of Chile
Protected areas of Los Lagos Region
Valdivian temperate forests
Protected areas established in 1988
1988 establishments in Chile
1988 in Chilean law |
8473344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Aurillacois%20Cantal%20Auvergne | Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne | Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne (commonly known as Aurillac) is a French professional rugby union club that was founded in 1904 and currently play in the Rugby Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. Aurillac`s home matches are mostly played at the Stade Jean Alric, which has a capacity of around 9,000.
Honours
Première Division Groupe B
Runners-up: 1996
Fédérale 1
Winner: 2007
Coupe de France
Runners-up: 1986
Current standings
Current squad
The Aurillac squad for the 2022–23 season is:
Espoirs squad
Notable former players
Victor Boffelli
Danie De Beer
Thomas Domingo
Romeo Gontineac
Wade Grintell
Olivier Magne
Sébastien Viars
Jean-François Viars
Keith Andrews
John O'Connor
Phillipe Kilroe
Mark Andrews
Forrest Gainer
Joel Bates
Pierre Trémouille
Didier Casadeï
Graydon Staniforth
Harold Karele
Jacques Burger
Jason Marshall
Ludovic Mercier
Daniel Kotze
See also
List of rugby union clubs in France
Rugby union in France
References
External links
Stade Aurillacois Official website
1904 establishments in France
Rugby clubs established in 1904
Sport in Cantal |
8473351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Worthy | Dave Worthy | Dave Worthy (15 September 1934 – 27 December 2004) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He was born in Consul, Saskatchewan and had a varied career including teaching, computer engineering, hotel management and general business.
He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Cariboo—Chilcotin electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Philip Mayfield of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election.
External links
1934 births
2004 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Canadian Baptists
People from Rural Municipality Reno No. 51, Saskatchewan
20th-century Baptists |
8473397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge%20Center | Woodbridge Center | Woodbridge Center is a major two-level shopping mall located in Woodbridge Township, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, at the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 9. As of 2022, the mall features Macy's, Boscov's, J. C. Penney, and Dick's Sporting Goods.
The land that Woodbridge Center now stands on used to be the location of Maple Hill Dairy farm and old clay pits. The mall is owned and managed by JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.). The mall features a fountain, carousel, train ride, and children's play area. Although most malls have a food court, Woodbridge Center's eating establishments are spread throughout the mall with their own individual seating areas and restrooms.
The mall's location near Staten Island and the benefit of no sales tax on clothes in New Jersey makes this mall, along with nearby Menlo Park Mall in Edison, a popular choice for New York shoppers. The mall has gross leasable area (GLA) of , making it the fourth largest of all shopping malls in New Jersey, behind Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold Township, Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, and American Dream Meadowlands in East Rutherford. It is the 34th largest in the United States.
Lord & Taylor and Sears closed in 2019.
SeaQuest Interactive Aquariums opened a large space, its first in New Jersey, on Thanksgiving 2019.
Mall history
The mall was developed by the Rouse Company and opened in 1971 with Abraham & Straus, Ohrbach's, and Stern's. In 1978, the mall was expanded with a new wing to include Hahne's. In 1981, J. C. Penney moved from the nearby Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey. By 1987, the mall got a fresh new look through renovation. The stairwell in the A&S wing next to center court was removed, new flooring was added, new lighting was added, the mall entrances were redone, and the fountains in front of A&S were either changed (the 2nd floor fountain) or removed (the first floor fountains). The Mall's current fountain is on the 1st floor outside of Macy's. (The fountains in front of Lord & Taylor and Sears have been disabled.) In 2003, the mall was expanded with a new Galyan's, the chain's first location in New Jersey, which become Dick's Sporting Goods in 2004. Notable department stores that have closed include Hahne's (became Fortunoff now Boscov's), Ohrbach's (which became Steinbach and later Lord & Taylor), Stern's (now Macy's), and A&S (later Sears).
In October 2007, the carousel ride was relocated near the J. C. Penney. The train ride was also reconfigured to ensure both rides stay together at the same location. A toddler's play area, "Tiny Town", is located near the carousel and train rides.
On November 14, 2017, Dave & Buster's opened on the upper level by Sears, their first location in New Jersey.
On October 15, 2019, it was announced that Lord & Taylor would be closing.
On February 4, 2020, it was announced that Sears would also be closing during a series of closures.
Incidents
On March 8, 2012, police shot and killed a shoplifter in the Sears wing who had held a woman hostage.
See also
List of neighborhoods in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
List of neighborhoods in Edison, New Jersey
References
External links
Official website
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
Shopping malls in New Jersey
Shopping malls established in 1971
Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Tourist attractions in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Shopping malls in the New York metropolitan area
Neighborhoods in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
JLL (company) |
8473409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Collins%20%28cardinal%29 | Thomas Collins (cardinal) | Thomas Christopher Collins (born January 16, 1947) is a Canadian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto from 2007 to 2023, the Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta from 1997 to 1999, and Archbishop of Edmonton from 1999 to 2006. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on February 18, 2012.
Early life and education
Collins was born in Guelph, Ontario, the son of George Collins, circulation manager of The Guelph Mercury, and his wife, Juliana ( Keen), a legal secretary. He has two older sisters. As a child, he was an altar server at the Our Lady Immaculate Church. He attended St. Stanislaw's Elementary School and Bishop Macdonell High School, where he was inspired by one of his English teachers to join the priesthood.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from St. Jerome College, Waterloo in 1969, Collins was ordained to the diaconate on May 14, 1972. In 1973, he received a Master of Arts in English from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Theology degree from St. Peter's Seminary, London.
Priesthood
Collins was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario, by Bishop Paul Reding on May 5, 1973. He then served as associate pastor at Holy Rosary Parish in Burlington and at Christ the King Cathedral, as well as an English teacher and chaplain at Cathedral Boys' High School. He furthered his studies in Rome, specializing in sacred scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, from which he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 1978.
Upon his return to Ontario in 1978, Collins served as a lecturer in English at King's College and in Scripture at St. Peter's Seminary, where he later became spiritual director (1981) and associate professor of Scripture (1985). Returning to Rome, he completed a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1986. His doctoral dissertation was entitled: "Apocalypse 22:6–21 as the Focal Point of Moral Teaching and Exhortation in the Apocalypse."
After becoming associate editor of Discover the Bible in 1989, Collins returned to St. Peter's Seminary as Dean of Theology and vice-rector in 1992. He later served as rector of St. Peter's from 1995 to 1997.
Episcopal ministry
Diocese of Saint Paul, Alberta
On March 25, 1997, Collins was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 14, from Bishop Anthony Tonnos, with Bishops Raymond Roy and John Sherlock serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton, Ontario. He selected as his episcopal motto: "Deum Adora", meaning, "Worship God" ().
Collins succeeded Bishop Roy as the fifth Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta upon the latter's retirement on June 30, 1997. He became a member of the National Commission of Theology of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) that same year.
Archdiocese of Edmonton
Collins was promoted to Coadjutor Archbishop of Edmonton on February 18, 1999, and later succeeded Archbishop Joseph MacNeil as the sixth Archbishop of Edmonton on the following June 7. He served as president of the Conference of Bishops of Alberta.
In Edmonton Collins initiated monthly lectio divina sessions at St. Joseph's Cathedral Basilica. He also established St. Benedict's Chapel in a vacant store in Edmonton's City Centre Mall for ministry to downtown shoppers and office workers.
Within the CCCB, he served as Chairman of the National Commission of Theology (1999–2001) and Chairman of the National Commission on Christian Unity (2001–2003). He was also a member of the organizing committee for World Youth Day 2002, which was held in Toronto. From 1999 to 2007, he was President of the Alberta Conference of Catholic Bishops. In addition to his duties as ordinary of the Edmonton Archdiocese, he was Apostolic Administrator of Saint Paul in Alberta from March 16 to September 8, 2001.
Archbishop of Toronto
Collins was named the tenth Archbishop of Toronto by Pope Benedict XVI on December 16, 2006. He succeeded Aloysius Ambrozic there and was installed at St. Michael's Cathedral on January 30, 2007. He served as Chancellor of the University of St. Michael's College and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is heavily involved in the pro-life movement. Collins was elected president of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2008. Collins was the apostolic visitor to the Archdiocese of Cashel in Ireland following the publication of the Ryan and Murphy Reports in 2009.
Collins is a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. He has also served as the Delegate of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for Anglicanorum Coetibus (providing for personal ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church).
On February 18, 2012, he was created Cardinal-Priest of San Patrizio. In addition to his other duties in the Roman Curia, Collins was appointed a member of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that elected Pope Francis.
On February 11, 2023, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop of Toronto. Collins remains a cardinal and eligible to vote in a papal conclave until the age of 80.
Honours
Scholastic
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Honorary degrees
See also
Archbishop of Toronto
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto
Apostolic visitation to Ireland
Notes
References
External links
1947 births
Roman Catholic archbishops of Toronto
Canadian anti-abortion activists
Living people
People from Guelph
Roman Catholic archbishops of Edmonton
Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
University of Western Ontario alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Members of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Members of the Congregation for Catholic Education
Cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI
Canadian cardinals
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Canada
Pontifical Biblical Institute alumni
St. Peter's Seminary (Diocese of London, Ontario) alumni
Members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Canadian Roman Catholic archbishops |
8473411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor%20De%20Bourgoing | Héctor De Bourgoing | Héctor Adolfo de Bourgoing (23 July 1934 – 24 January 1993) was a footballer who operated as a right winger. He played international football for Argentina and France.
Club career
De Bourgoing started his career at Club Atlético Tigre in the Argentine 1st division in 1953. In 1957 he was transferred to Argentine giants River Plate where he won his first and only major title in his first season with the club.
During 1959 he was enticed into a move to France to play for Nice, he played for them for four years before moving to Bordeaux in 1963 and finally retiring from football in 1970 at Racing Paris.
Honours
River Plate
Argentine Primera División: 1957
Argentina
Copa América: 1957
International career
De Bourgoing was born in Argentina and was of French descent. He was selected to play for Argentina on five occasions before moving to Europe, where under the rules of the day he could change international allegiance to play for France. He represented the French national team in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal in a 2–1 defeat by Argentina's rivals Uruguay.
International goals
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| 2 || 15 July 1966 || White City Stadium, London || || 1–2 || Lost || 1966 World Cup
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References
External links
1934 births
1993 deaths
Footballers from Posadas, Misiones
Argentine men's footballers
Argentina men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
Argentine people of French descent
Men's association football defenders
Ligue 1 players
Argentine Primera División players
Club Atlético Tigre footballers
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
OGC Nice players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
Racing Club de France Football players
1966 FIFA World Cup players
Argentine emigrants to France |
8473416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavernous%20nerves | Cavernous nerves | The cavernous nerves are post-ganglionic parasympathetic nerves that facilitate penile erection and clitoral erection. They arise from cell bodies in the inferior hypogastric plexus where they receive the pre-ganglionic pelvic splanchnic nerves (S2-S4).
In the penis, there are both lesser cavernous nerves and a greater cavernous nerve.
Clinical considerations
These nerves are susceptible to injury following prostatectomy or genital surgery.
Nerve-Sparing prostatectomy was invented for surgeons to avoid injuring the nerves and causing erectile dysfunction complications. During surgery, a doctor may apply a small electrical stimulation to the nerve and measure the erectile function with a penile plethysmograph. This test aids the surgeon in identifying the nerves, which are difficult to see.
References
External links
Gray's Anatomy, 1918 edition
Parasympathetic nervous system
Human penis anatomy |
8473425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1744%20in%20poetry | 1744 in poetry | Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
Colonial America
John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health
Mather Byles, Poems on Several Occasions, 31 poems written since 1727; he wrote a range of poetic forms in formal, neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope
James Logan, Cicero's Cato Major, a verse translation
Jane Turell, Memoirs, a collection of pious poems already published as Reliquiae Turellae together with secular verses (posthumous)
United Kingdom
Anonymous, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the first extant collection of nursery rhymes
Mark Akenside:
The Pleasures of the Imagination, a long, didactic, enormously popular poem that remained in print through most of the century (revised 1757)
An Epistle to Curio, published anonymously in November; "Curio" is William Pulteney, Earl of Bath
John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health
Jane Brereton, Poems on Several Occasions, the book states it was published this year, but it may have been published in January 1745, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
Henry Brooke, see Edward Moore, below
Edward Moore and Henry Brooke, Fables for the Female Sex, published anonymously; Henry Brooke wrote the last three fables
Samuel Johnson:
editor, An Account of the Life of John Philip Barretier, on the late poet, compiled by Johnson from François Baratier's letters; published anonymously
An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, on the late poet; the first major biography published by Johnson; published anonymously
Joseph Warton, Enthusiast; or, The Lover of Nature, published anonymously on March 8
John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns
Paul Whitehead, The Gymnasiad; or, Boxing Match
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
July 19 – Heinrich Christian Boie (died 1806), German author and poet
August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder (died 1803), German philosopher, poet, and literary critic
November 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff (1785), German
November 30 – Karl Ludwig von Knebel (died 1834), German poet and translator
Also:
Werner Hans Frederik Abrahamson (died 1812), Danish
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 27 – James Miller (born 1704), English playwright, poet and satirist
May 30 – Alexander Pope (born 1688), 56, English poet
September 18 – Lewis Theobald (born 1688), English poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare
See also
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
18th century in poetry
18th century in literature
Augustan poetry
Scriblerus Club
Notes
18th-century poetry
Poetry |
8473456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiles%20in%20Courage%20%28TV%20series%29 | Profiles in Courage (TV series) | Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964, to May 9, 1965 (Sundays, 6:30-7:30pm, Eastern). The series was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1956 book, Profiles in Courage by U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous November.
Overview
The series lasted for 26 episodes, each of which would feature a figure from American history who took an unpopular stand during a critical moment in the nation's history. Seven of the eight senators from Kennedy's book were profiled, with the exception being Mississippi's Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar. Music for the opening and closing theme was arranged by Nelson Riddle, based on the Irish ballad, The Boys of Wexford, home of Kennedy's ancestors.
Historical background
Episodes
Awards
The series won two awards; a Peabody Award for Robert Saudek and a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television.
External links
Profiles in Courage at CTVA with episode list
Episodes of Profiles in Courage on the Internet Archive
Episode 6, John Slaton
Episode 11, John Peter Altgeld
Episode 13, Daniel Webster
Episode 21, Grover Cleveland
Episode 22, John Quincy Adams
Episode 24, ''Ben B. Lindsay"
Episode 25, George Mason
References
1964 American television series debuts
1965 American television series endings
1960s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Historical television series
NBC original programming
Peabody Award-winning television programs
Television shows based on non-fiction books
Cultural depictions of John Adams
Cultural depictions of John Quincy Adams
Cultural depictions of presidents of the United States
Cultural depictions of Woodrow Wilson
Cultural depictions of Grover Cleveland
Cultural depictions of Frederick Douglass
Cultural depictions of Andrew Johnson |
8473458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20dance | Armenian dance | The Armenian dance (Armenian: Հայկական պար) heritage has been considered the oldest and most varied in its respective region. From the fifth to the third millennia B.C., in the higher regions of Armenia, the land of Ararat, there are rock paintings of scenes of country dancing. These dances were most likely accompanied by certain kinds of songs or musical instruments. In the fifth century, Moses of Khoren (Movsés Khorenats'i) himself had heard of how the old descendants of Aram (that is Armenians) make mention of these things (epic tales) in the ballads for the lyre and their songs and dances.
Traditional dancing is still popular among expatriate Armenians, and has also been very successfully exported to international folk dance groups and circle dance groups all over the world. All dancers wear the traditional costume to embody the history of their culture and to tell their ancestors stories. The design of these costumes are influenced by many factors, such as religious traditions, family methods, and practicality. The traditional coloring and exquisite beading of the costumes tie the dance and the tradition together. The beautiful movements of the Armenian cultural dance are adored by audiences around the world.
Religious dancing
The origin of religious dancing is ancient, an expression of the inner feelings of those who participated in such performances. It is of interest to note that dance never occurred alone, but was always accompanied with song, clapping of hands, and musical instruments. As with music, so too the dance expressed a person's internal spiritual emotions and personal disposition.
Soviet Union
During the 1920s and 30s, three Armenian dance teachers moved to Iran from the Soviet Union and opened dance schools. Their names were Madame Yelena, Madame Coronelli, and Sarkis Djanbazian. They taught ballet and character dance. Most of their students were members of the Armenian community in Tehran, but their classes were also attended by students from diverse backgrounds including Muslims, Jews, Baha'is and Zoroastrians.
Folk dances
(Քոչարի) - Kochari is one of the most popular dances of Armenians. Kochari is danced in a group of men and women and is known for its tune played on the zurna.
(Շալախօ) - A dance for men from Ancient Armenia. It is performed in dance studios by men, but danced at public gatherings by women as well.
(Թամզարա)
(Յարխուշտա) - Yarkhushta is a martial dance from the Taron and Aghdznik regions of Western Armenia.
(Բերդապար) - Berd is a dance famous for having a circle of men stand on the shoulders of another circle and rotate. Berd means "fortress" in Armenian and is named accordingly because of the shape the dancers make.
(Շիրխանի)
(Հարսնապար) - from the Armenian hars which means bride, and par which translates to dance. The bride is shown dancing a solo and may possibly feature the bridesmaids.
(Արծվապար) - a highland dance, associated with the eagle's flight, and an echo of ancient pagan rituals, one of the main elements of which was the image of an eagle (Arm. Արծիվ).
(Գորանի)
(Գյոնդ or Գյովնդ)
(Մենապար) - Menapar translates to "solo." It may feature a man or woman. Normally, if a man is the one dancing, the music will be fast-paced and in the case of a woman, a slower, more elegant music will play.
(Նազպար)
(Շուրջպար)
(Սուսերապար)
(Փափուռի)
(Զույգապար) - Zuykpar is a duet done by a man and woman. It features a liveliness to it and normally includes both dancers doing symmetrical movements.
(Վերվերի)
(Մշոյ խըռ) - originated in the region of Մուշ (Moush).
(Լորկէ)
(Ծաղկաձորի)
(Կարնոյ քոչարի) - Very similar to Kochari, originated in region of Կարին (Karin).
(Իշխանաց պար) - Also known as the "Lords' dance".
(Ֆնջան)
(Քերծի)
(Քաջաց խաղ)
(Թամուր աղա)
(Թրթռուկ)
(Սրաբար)
(Աստուածածնայ պար)
(Թարս պար)
(Լուտկի)
(Երեք ոտք)
(Ճոճք)
(Խնամիների պար)
(Խոշ բիլազիգ)
Regional dances
(Արաբկիրի Պար) - A dance from the Armenian city of Arabkir.
(Քեսապական) - The Kesabian dance came from the city of Kesab, Syria.
- originated among the fishermen of the Black Sea.
(or Muş, or Mus, Մշո Պար) - a mixed dance from the district of Moush/Taron, west of Lake Van.
(Սասնապար) - a popular dance common at weddings and other cultural gatherings. It originated in the city of Sasun.
(Վաղարշապատյան)- originated in Vagharshapat now known as Ejmiatsin.
(Զեյթունի պար) - originated in Zeytun.
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(Զանգեզուրի) - a female solo dance.
(Ղարաբաղի) - 1) a female solo dance; 2) mournful memorial dance from Nagorno-Karabakh.
See also
Notes
External links
Clips of authentic Kavaragan Armenian Folk Dances from Historical Armenia: Tamzara, Popouri, Laz Bar, Arapkir Bar, Akheltskha Vart, Govduntsi, Bijou, Kessab Bar, Haleh, Shushan, Suleimanli, Shavali. (Archived 2009-10-25)
Dance
Folk dances |
8473481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton%2C%20Staffordshire | Acton, Staffordshire | Acton is a hamlet in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
It lies four miles south west of Newcastle close to the junction of the A53 and the A5182, Trentham Road.
Newcastle-under-Lyme District Council has an open windrow facility in Acton where it composts garden waste collected in the borough into a nutrient rich soil improver for local farms and other places including Trentham Gardens.
There is a redundant church in the village bearing the inscription Wesleyan Church.
It is now a private house. The Acton Hall Equestrian Centre is located in the village too.
References
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Hamlets in Staffordshire
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8473486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Wilbee | Stan Wilbee | Godfrey Stanley Wilbee (born 12 May 1932) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was a medical doctor by career.
He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Delta electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to John Cummins of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election.
External links
1932 births
Living people
Physicians from British Columbia
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
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8473488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20Revels%20Men | King's Revels Men | The King's Revels Men or King's Revels Company was a playing company or troupe of actors in seventeenth-century England. In the confusing theatre nomenclature of that era, it is sometimes called the second King's Revels Company, to distinguish it from an earlier troupe with the same title that was active in the 1607-9 period. Since the earlier group was a company of boy actors, they are alternatively referred to as the King's Revels Children, while the later troupe is termed the King's Revels Men.
The King's Revels Men received a royal charter on 27 February 1615. They spent their early years touring the cities and towns outside London, though they later took up residence in the city. By the second quarter of the century they were acting at the Fortune Theatre and at the Salisbury Court Theatre (the latter in 1630–31 and 1633–36). They played Thomas Randolph's The Muses' Looking-Glass in the summer of 1630, and James Shirley's Love in a Maze in 1632 – one of the few Shirley plays that was not acted by the rival Queen Henrietta's Men. In 1635 they had a major success with Richard Brome's play The Sparagus Garden, which reportedly earned £1000 at the box office.
Other plays in the company's repertory included Brome's The Queen and Concubine, Randolph's Amyntas, Thomas Rawlins's The Rebellion, Nathanael Richards's Messalina, William Heminges's The Madcap, and Henry Glapthorne's The Lady Mother.
The company's personnel included Curtis Greville, William Hall, William Hart, Thomas Loveday, and the two William Cartwrights, father and son; Edward Gibbes, Christopher Goad, John Robinson, and William Wilbraham. Timothy Read was famous as their chief clown and comedian.
During the long closure of the London theatres from May 1636 to October 1637, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the King's Revels Men was the group most severely affected: it broke up completely. Some of its members, like Read, passed on to Queen Henrietta's Men.
Notes
Sources
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642. Third edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Nunzeger, Edwin. A Dictionary of Actors and of Others Associated with the Representation of Plays in England Before 1642. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929.
Thomson, Peter, Jane Milling, and Joseph W. Donohue, eds. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. 3 Volumes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
English early modern theatre companies |
8473505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20U-238%20Atomic%20Energy%20Laboratory | Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory | The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was a toy lab set designed to allow children to create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions using radioactive material. The Atomic Energy Lab was released by the A. C. Gilbert Company in 1950.
Background and development
The kit was created by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who was an American athlete, magician, toy-maker, business man, and inventor of the well-known Erector Set. Gilbert believed that toys were the foundation in building a "solid American character", and many of his toys had some type of educational significance to them. Gilbert was even dubbed "the man who saved Christmas" during World War I when he convinced the US Council of National Defense not to ban toy purchases during Christmas time.
The Atomic Energy Lab was just one of a dozen chemical reactions lab kits on the market at the time. Gilbert’s toys often included instructions on how the child could use the set to put on his own "magic show". For parents, he pushed the idea that the sets' use of chemical reactions directed their children toward a potential career in science and engineering.
In 1954, Gilbert wrote in his autobiography, The Man Who Lives in Paradise, that the Atomic Energy Laboratory was "the most spectacular of [their] new educational toys". Gilbert wrote that the Government encouraged the set's development because it believed the lab would aid public understanding of atomic energy and emphasize its constructive aspects. Gilbert also defended his Atomic Energy Laboratory, stating it was safe, accurate, and that some of the country's best nuclear physicists had worked on the project.
Description
The lab contained a cloud chamber allowing the viewer to watch alpha particles traveling at , a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen, and an electroscope measuring the radioactivity of different substances in the set.
Gilbert's original promotions claimed that none of the materials could prove dangerous. The instructions encouraged laboratory cleanliness by cautioning users not to break the seals on three of the ore sample jars, for "they tend to flake and crumble and you would run the risk of having radioactive ore spread out in your laboratory. This will raise the level of the background count", thus impairing the results of experiments by distorting the performance of the Geiger counter.
The Gilbert catalog copy included the reassurance that "All radioactive materials included with the Atomic Energy Lab have been certified as completely safe by Oak-Ridge Laboratories, part of the Atomic Energy Commission."
The set originally sold for $49.50 () and contained the following:
Battery-powered Geiger–Müller counter
Electroscope
Spinthariscope
Wilson cloud chamber with short-lived alpha source (Po-210) in the form of a wire
Four glass jars containing natural uranium-bearing (U-238) ore samples (autunite, torbernite, uraninite, and carnotite from the "Colorado plateau region")
Low-level radiation sources:
beta-alpha (Pb-210)
pure beta (possibly Ru-106)
gamma (Zn-65)
"Nuclear spheres" for making a model of an alpha particle
Gilbert Atomic Energy Manual — a 60-page instruction book written by Dr. Ralph E. Lapp
Learn How Dagwood Split the Atom — comic book introduction to radioactivity, written with the help of General Leslie Groves (director of the Manhattan Project) and John R. Dunning (a physicist who verified fission of the uranium atom)
Prospecting for Uranium — a 1949 book published jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the United States Geological Survey
Three C batteries
1951 Gilbert Toys catalog
A product catalog described the set as follows: "Produces awe-inspiring sights! Enables you to actually SEE the paths of electrons and alpha particles traveling at speeds of more than 10,000 miles per SECOND! Electrons racing at fantastic velocities produce delicate, intricate paths of electrical condensation – beautiful to watch. Viewing Cloud Chamber action is closest man has come to watching the Atom! Assembly kit (Chamber can be put together in a few minutes) includes Dri-Electric Power Pack, Deionizer, Compression Bulb, Glass Viewing Chamber, Tubings, Power Leads, Stand, and Legs."
Among other activities, the kit suggested "playing hide and seek with the gamma ray source", challenging players to use the Geiger counter to locate a radioactive sample hidden in a room.
Criticism
In 2006, the pop culture publication Radar Magazine called the lab set one of "the 10 most dangerous toys of all time, ... exclud[ing] BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm", because of the radioactive material it included (it was number 2 on the list; number 1 was lawn darts).
The professional journal IEEE Spectrum published a more-detailed review in 2020, discussing the kit in the context of the history of science education kits and safety concerns. It described the likely radiation exposure as "minimal, about the equivalent to a day’s UV exposure from the sun", provided that the radioactive samples were not removed from their containers, in compliance with the warnings in the kit instructions.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a brief article on the web, which featured Voula Saridakis, a curator at the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) hosting a detailed video tour of the Atomic Energy Lab components. She concluded by saying that the kit failed to sell because of its high price, and not due to any safety concerns at the time.
Legacy
Unlike A.C. Gilbert's chemistry sets, the Atomic Energy Lab was never popular and was soon taken off the shelves. Fewer than 5,000 kits were sold, and the product was only offered in 1950 and 1951. Gilbert believed the Atomic Energy Lab was commercially unsuccessful because the lab was more appropriate for those who had some educational background rather than the younger crowd that the A.C. Gilbert Company aimed for. Columbia University purchased five of these sets for their physics lab.
References
External links
Complete scans of original educational comic book, Learn How Dagwood Split the Atom
A. C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab by Frank J. Leskovitz
Oak Ridge Associated University Atomic Toys' page
Listing on an Erector / Gilbert fan site
Educational toys
1950s toys
Products introduced in 1950
Nuclear safety and security
Toy safety |
8473520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems%20on%20Several%20Occasions%20%28Lady%20Mary%20Chudleigh%29 | Poems on Several Occasions (Lady Mary Chudleigh) | Poems on Several Occasions was published by the intellectual feminist, Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1703. The primary subject of the collection is the joys of friendship between women when that friendship is based on shared morals and shared intellectual pursuits; although, there are also poems on various other topics.
References
1703 poems
English poems |
8473533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer%20Alaska | Soccer Alaska | Soccer Alaska is the governing body of amateur adult soccer in the state of Alaska, United States. They are not directly affiliated with FIFA or CONCACAF. They are affiliated to the Governing body of amateur adult soccer USASA.
External links
Official site of the Football Association Soccer Alaska
The National Select Team Program on www.usasa.com
Football Association Soccer Alaska on www.rsssf.com
Alaska on www.fedefutbol.net
1995 establishments in Alaska
Organizations based in Anchorage, Alaska
Soccer in Alaska
Alaska
Sports organizations established in 1995 |
8473538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Calland | Leo Calland | Leo Blakely Calland (February 24, 1901 – March 17, 1984) was an American football and basketball player and coach who later became a San Diego city parks administrator.
He was the head football coach at Whittier College the University of Idaho and San Diego State College compiling a career college football record of For two seasons, Calland was also the head basketball coach at the University of Southern California (USC), his alma mater, tallying a mark of from 1927 to 1929.
Early years
Born in Ohio, Calland moved with his family as a child to western Washington, where he attended school in a log cabin on Lopez Island, in the San Juan Islands near the Strait of Juan de Fuca, where all of the other students were Native Americans. He was an outstanding athlete at Broadway High School in Seattle, where he played football under coach Gus Henderson.
Henderson became the head football coach at USC in Los Angeles in 1919, and Calland followed him south. He lettered as a guard for three seasons and as a senior was named both team captain and most inspirational player on USC's first Rose Bowl team. Calland was named player of the game in the Trojans' victory over Penn State on New Year's Day, the first bowl game in the current namesake stadium, and also lettered in basketball at USC.
Coaching career
After graduating from USC in 1923, Calland became an assistant coach there, leading the Trojan freshman squads in football, basketball, and baseball. He left in 1925 to lead nearby Whittier College for two seasons in multiple sports, then returned to USC as head basketball coach in 1927. Calland posted a record over two seasons, winning the Pacific Coast Conference title in his first year with a mark. His career winning percentage remains the highest by a USC basketball coach. In these two seasons he was also an assistant football coach.
In February 1929, Calland was named head football coach and athletic director at the University of Idaho in Moscow, also a record in six seasons on the Palouse, but his overmatched Vandals were just in conference play, defeating only Montana. He resigned after the 1934 then returned to southern California at San Diego State College, where he posted a record in seven seasons. His Aztecs won consecutive SCIAC championships (1936, 1937), with players including John D. Butler, a future mayor of
Military career and later life
In his early forties, Calland entered the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served as a recreation officer at the 11th Naval District in San Diego. In 1945, he became director of San Diego's Department of Parks and Recreation; during his fifteen years in the post, he oversaw the development of Mission Bay Park and the Torrey Pines Golf Course. Calland became managing director of the San Diego Hall of Champions in 1960 and remained in that position until retiring in 1977, and was himself inducted into the Hall in 1974.
Death
Calland died at age 83 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in La Jolla. He was survived by his wife Sarah, two daughters and a son, and was buried in Fairhaven Cemetery in Santa Ana.
Head coaching record
Football
References
Additional sources
Laurence, Robert P. "Leo Calland dies; grid star, coach." The San Diego Union, March 19, 1984, pp. B1-2.
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8473547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688%20in%20poetry | 1688 in poetry | Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
December – After John Dryden refuses to swear allegiance to the new monarchy following the Glorious Revolution, the writer is dismissed as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the only laureate not to die in office until the initiation of fixed-term appointments with Andrew Motion in 1999. Dryden is replaced in 1689 by his old enemy, Thomas Shadwell, who holds the office until his death in 1692.
Fourth (and first illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost published by Jacob Tonson in London; the artists include John Baptist Medina.
Poet and city founder Francis Daniel Pastorius signs a protest against slavery, the first one made in the English colonies.
Works published
Richard Ames, Sylvia's Revenge; or, A Satyr Against Man, published anonymously; response to Robert Gould's Love Given O're 1682 (see also Sylvia's Complaint 1692)
Jane Barker and others, Poetical Recreations
Aphra Behn, A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty, addressed to Queen Mary, on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart on 10 June
Thomas Brown, The Reasons of Mr. Bays Changing his Religion, published anonymously; about John Dryden (see also The Late Converts Exposed 1690)
John Bunyan, A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of the House of God
John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva, on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart
George Wither, Divine Poems on the Ten Commandments
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
7 February – John Morgan (died 1733 or 1734), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
2 April (baptised) – Lewis Theobald (died 1744), English poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare
21 May – Alexander Pope (died 1744), English poet
3 June (baptised) – Leonard Welsted (died 1747), English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings
6 September (baptised) – Laurence Eusden (died 1730), English poet, Poet Laureate from 1718
9 October (probable date of baptism) – Mary Collier (died 1762), English poet and washerwoman
Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or this year (died 1740), poet of Oriya Literature awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
William Meston (died 1745), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
26 November – Philippe Quinault (born 1635), French dramatist, poet and librettist
8 December – Thomas Flatman (born 1635), English poet and miniature painter
Marcela de San Félix (born 1605), Spanish religious sister, poet and dramatist, daughter of Lope de Vega
See also
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
17th century in poetry
17th century in literature
Restoration literature
Poetry
References
17th-century poetry
Poetry |
8473597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunter%202%3A%20San%20Francisco | Manhunter 2: San Francisco | Manhunter 2: San Francisco is a post-apocalyptic adventure game designed by Barry Murry, Dave Murry, and Dee Dee Murry of Evryware and published in 1989 by Sierra On-Line. It is the sequel to Manhunter: New York, developed by the same authors.
The rights to Manhunter are currently held by Activision following their acquisition of Sierra's intellectual property in 2008. However, the series is currently considered abandoned, with no plans for resumption.
Plot
The game continues the story depicted in Manhunter: New York. The game begins with the player, piloting an Orb ship in pursuit of the antagonist Phil Cook, crash-landing in San Francisco. Another Manhunter on the ground is killed in the crash, so the player assumes his identity. As the gameplay progresses, the player learns of an organized resistance, experiments that have created mutant slaves, and the goal of the malevolent Orbs. The player is able to turn the mutant slaves back into humans, who go on to kill numerous Orbs in San Francisco. The game reaches its climax when the player is on the verge of catching Phil Cook. Phil narrowly escapes in an Orb ship with the player hanging on to the outside, flying off towards London.
Reception
Computer and Video Games (UK) gave the game a score of 61%, criticizing the game's unorthodox mixture of adventure and arcade elements (compared to most other Sierra games of the era). Scorpia at Computer Gaming World gave the game a positive review, calling it, "an excellent followup to the previous game".
The game sold more than 100,000 copies.
References
External links
Evryware' s official website
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Amiga games
Atari ST games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Evryware games
Post-apocalyptic video games
ScummVM-supported games
Sierra Entertainment games
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Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2004
Video games set in San Francisco |
8473602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20the%20Philippines%20by%20tickets | List of presidents of the Philippines by tickets | This is a list of Philippine presidents by tickets. The list contains the candidates for the offices of President of the Philippines and Vice President of the Philippines that their parties have nominated since 1935.
This list only includes the major parties and coalitions during the elections and their closest rivals during the elections. For full results and candidates, see the list of Philippine presidential elections.
From the Commonwealth period to the last election prior the declaration of martial law, the major parties always split their ticket: one candidate was from Luzon and another either from the Visayas or Mindanao (the so-called "North-South" ticket). In the post-martial law period, this has been less pronounced as most candidates have been from Luzon. Only the elections in 2010, 2016, and 2022 have had a "North-South" ticket.
List
This table includes presidential candidates who've either won 10% of the vote, or placed second, or whose vice presidential running mate won.
This doesn't include elections where only the presidency is on the ballot, nor candidates who had no running mates.
In 1935, there was no "administration ticket" as it was the first election, but the Nacionalista Party had control of the Philippine Legislature at this time, and was considered as the ruling party.
In 1992, there was no clear "administration ticket". Incumbent president Corazon Aquino endorsed the Lakas ticket of Fidel V. Ramos, but Congress was controlled by the LDP of Ramon Mitra, whom she originally endorsed. Both Lakas and LDP tickets are considered administration, while all other tickets were labeled as opposition tickets.
In 2022, the administration party, PDP–Laban, put up two presidential candidates in sequence, but both withdrew before ballots were printed.
Opposition tickets are ordered by number of votes for president.
Per election
This only includes the top two or three tickets of the election.
1935
1941
1946
1949
1953
1957
1961
1965
1969
1986
1992
1998
2004
2010
2016
2022
Maps
Only those include above are listed. The larger pog refers to the presidential candidate.
Commonwealth elections
Green: Nacionalista Party
Blue: Nationalist Socialist Party
Red: Democratic Party
Pink: Popular Front
Yellow: Liberal Party
Third Republic elections
Green: Nacionalista Party
Yellow: Liberal Party
Purple: Progressive Party
Fourth Republic elections
Red: KBL
Bright yellow: UNIDO
Fifth Republic elections
If ticket contains members from different parties, the presidential nominee's color is used.
Cyan: Lakas
Orange: LAMMP/KNP/PMP
Blue: LDP
Light green: NPC
Bright yellow: PDP-Laban
Red: KBL
Pink: Aksyon
Bright pink: PRP
Turquoise: PROMDI
Green: Nacionalista
Yellow: Liberal
References
Presidential elections in the Philippines
Tickets |
8473647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20F.%20Erb | Charles F. Erb | Charles Freeman Erb Jr. (December 8, 1902 – March 7, 1952) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1924, the University of Idaho from 1926 to 1928, and Humboldt State College from 1935 to 1937, compiling a career coaching record of 28–19–7.
Playing career
At Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, Erb was the California player of the year during the 1917 season as an end.
Erb played college football as a quarterback at California from 1920 through 1922, on the undefeated "Wonder Teams" led by head coach Andy Smith. The 1920 team won the Rose Bowl and the 1921 team tied in the 1922 Rose Bowl. The undefeated 1922 and 1923 teams did not play in the postseason.
Coaching career
In 1924, he coached at Nevada, where he compiled a 3–4–1 record. He was hired at Idaho in May 1926 as head coach and director of athletics, where he compiled a 10–9–5 () record in three seasons. His 1927 team contended for the title in the Pacific Coast Conference and were co-champions, but the 1928 team had a more difficult season, after which he submitted his resignation.
After Idaho, his career record stood at 13–13–6 in four seasons. From 1935 to 1937 he coached in California at Humboldt State, where he compiled a 15–6–1 record.
Personal life
Erb's son, Charles "Boots" Erb (1925–2013), also played quarterback at California, under head coach Pappy Waldorf in the late 1940s. Boots saw action in the 1949 and 1950 Rose Bowls. The Erbs were the first father and son to quarterback in the Rose Bowl.
Erb died of a heart attack, suffered in his sleep during the night of March 7, 1952, at his home in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Head coaching record
References
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8473682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20dress | Armenian dress | The Armenian Taraz (, taraz;), also known as Armenian traditional clothing, reflects a rich cultural tradition. Wool and fur were utilized by the Armenians along with the cotton that was grown in the fertile valleys. During the Urartian period, silk imported from China was used by royalty. Later, the Armenians cultivated silkworms and produced their own silk.
The collection of Armenian women's costumes begins during the Urartu time period, wherein dresses were designed with creamy white silk, embroidered with gold thread. The costume was a replica of a medallion unearthed by archaeologists at Toprak Kale near Lake Van, which some 3,000 years ago was the site of the capital of the Kingdom of Urartu.
Overview
The Armenian national costume, having existed through long periods of historical development, was one of the signals of self-preservation for the Armenian culture. Being in an area at the crossroads of diverse eastern styles, Armenian dress is significant in not only borrowing but also often playing an influential role on neighboring nations.
The costume can be divided into two main regions: Western Armenians and Eastern Armenians. Which in turn are divided into separate subregions.
The costume of the Armenians of Western Armenia is mainly divided into two regions:
1. Areas of the Eastern Provinces: Taron (including Sasun), Bardzr Hayk, Vaspurakan, and Baghesh.
2. The regions of Sebastia, Kayseri, Cilicia in the western states, and Kharberd-Tigranakert in the south.
The first group kept closer to the traditions of the Armenian costume while in the second group, the influence of some Anatolian cultures are seen.
Eastern Armenian costume can be divided into three regions:
1. Syunik-Artsakh, Zangezur, and Ayrarat.
2. Goghtan (Agulis, Ordubad)
3. Gandzak, Gugark, Shirak, Javakhk.
Colors
The Armenian costume is dominated by the colors of the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. According to the 14th-century Armenian philosopher Grigor Tatatsi, the Armenian costume is made to express the ancestral soil, the whiteness of the water, the red of the air, and the yellow of the fire. Apricot symbolizes prudence and common sense, red symbolizes courage and martyrdom, blue symbolizes heavenly justice, white symbolizes purity. Some of the techniques used in making these costumes have survived to this day and are actively used in the applied arts, however, there are techniques that have been lost. Each province of Armenia stands out with its costume. The famous centers of Armenian embroidery – Van-Vaspurakan, Karin, Shirak, Syunik-Artsakh, Cilicia – stand out with their rhythmic and stylistic description of ornaments, color combinations and composition.
Timeline
Ancient period: 900–600 BCE
The Urartians who were the predecessors to the Armenians wore a dress similar to that of Assyrians which consisted of short-sleeved tunics worn bare or with a shawl surrounding it. The Urartians decorated themselves with metal ornaments such as necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and pins. These metal ornaments were engraved with lion heads while necklaces of stone beads and long metal pins were draped across the body. Metal belts were an important part of the Urartian costume as well. The making of metal belts was considered an art form with magical scenes and animals being engraved into the belt in order to protect the wearer.
Classical period: 600 BCE – 600 CE
The traditional dress of Armenians underwent a significant shift following the emergence of the Kingdom of Armenia as a distinct political entity. Armenian men wore fitted trousers and a distinct hat known as the Phrygian cap. This later evolved into the balshik which is a flexible accessory that is worn by shepherds and religious leaders alike.
Medieval period: 600–1600 CE
Based on the works of Armenian manuscripts as well as images found on churches, coins, and khachkars, we can see that the Armenian elite wore clothing similar to that of Byzantine and Arab royalty, such as Turbans. Armenians held onto their unique traditions while also adopting from neighboring societies such as head coverings becoming commonplace for Armenian women.
19th century
In her 1836 novel titled The City of The Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, Julia Pardoe described the Armenian merchants she observed immediately upon disembarking in the port of Stamboul:
As I looked on the fine countenances, the noble figures, and the animated expression of the party, how did I deprecate their shaven heads, and the use of the frightful calpac, which I cannot more appropriately describe than by comparing it to the iron pots used in English kitchens, inverted! The graceful pelisse, however, almost makes amends for the monstrous head-gear, as its costly garniture of sable or marten-skin falls back, and reveals the robe of rich silk, and the cachemire shawl folded about the waist.
Pardoe also mentions they wore bejeweled rings and carried in their hands "pipes of almost countless cost.”
Nowadays
Armenian traditional clothing started to fall out of use in the 1920s and was almost completely replaced by modern clothing by the 1960s. Today, Armenian traditional clothing is mostly used for dance performances where girls put on an arkhalig and long dress to simulate taraz while boys wear dark colored loose pants and a fitted jacket. In some areas of Armenia and Karabakh, elderly women still wear a short headscarf. Photo studios in Armenia allow for new generations to take pictures in traditional clothing and some women in recent times have begun to wear taraz again.
An annual festival celebrating Armenian traditional dress known as Taraz Fest is hosted every year in Yerevan and Stepanakert by the Teryan cultural center and consists of showcases of the cultural dress.
Men's clothing
Eastern Armenia
The basis of the Armenian men's body clothing was the lower shirt and pants. They were sewn from homemade canvas at home. The most common was the traditional tunic-shaped men's shirt – Shapik () made of two cloths.
In an Armenian family, men's clothes, especially the head of the house, were paid special attention, as men judged the family as a whole by their appearance.
The overall fashion of the Eastern Armenian costume was Caucasian, close to similar clothing worn by neighboring peoples in the Caucasus such as Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Dagestanis, and Chechens, among others.
Belt clothes
Men's body pants – Vartik (; also votashor, tuban or pohan) differed from women's in that they did not have an applied decorative border at the bottom of the ankle; their pants were tucked into knitted socks and windings. A cap and vartic of traditional cut were worn in Armenia by men of all ages, from young boys to the elderly.
Ballovars – shalvar () were worn over the body pants. They were sewn from homemade rough-shaft fabric painted black, less often dark blue or brown in the same fabric as the vartic.
Outerwear
The basis of outer shoulder clothing in Eastern Armenia was Arkhalugh and Chukha. Arkhalugh-type clothing has a centuries-old tradition among Armenians, as evidenced by images on tombstones and medieval miniatures. It was widespread and worn by the entire male population, starting from boys aged 10–12. Arkhalugh was sewn from purchased fabrics (satin, eraser, chintz, shawl), black, blue, brown tones, lined. Its decoration was a galun ribbon in the tone of the main material, which was covered with a collar, chest incision, hem and sleeves. In wealthy families, such as in the merchant class of Yerevan, along with the ribbon, a silk cord was added.
Arkhalugh () – a long, tight, waist-jacket made of fabrics including silk, satin, cloth, cashmere and velvet, depending on the social status of its owner. It was usually girded with a silver belt, less often with a belt or a leather belt with false silver buttons.
With a number of similarities to the Arkhalugh, the Chukha () had a wider functional purpose. The Chukha is a male humeral outerwear with layers and gathers that was detachable at the waist. It was made of cloth, tirma, and homespun textiles. Outerwear served not only as warm clothes, but as clothing for special occasions. Most chukhas were decorated with a bandolier for gazyr cartridges on both sides of the coat, although Armenians would seldom wear the chukha with the cartridges inserted. The right to wear a chukha symbolized a certain socio-age status, as a rule, it was worn from the age of majority (from 15 to 20 years). The Chukhas were dressed in a mushtak or burka, and later as an urban influence. Sheepskin fur coat or mushtak as clothes were worn by the wealthy, mainly of the older generation.
Some Eastern Armenian men additionally chose to wear a dagger, known as a Khanchal (Armenian: Խանչալ) or Dashuyn (Armenian: Դաշույն) over either the Chukha or the Arkhalugh. It was suspended from either a leather or silver belt and hung diagonally across the man's waist. Such daggers were widespread throughout the Caucasus region, including Armenia. However, due to the lack of the strong warrior culture that was present in the areas north of Armenia, the dagger was a far less ubiquitous part of a man's outfit in Armenia than it was elsewhere in the region.
Burka (, aitsenakach) was the only cape in traditional Armenian costume. Armenians wore two types of burqa: fur and felt. Fur burka was made of goat wool, with fur outside, using long-pile fur. Felt burka and in some areas fur (Lori) was worn by shepherds. This was often complete with a Bashlyk, a type of hood which was suspended from the back of the Burka and worn over the Papakh to protect against rain.
The men's clothing complex also included a leather belt, which was worn over the arkhalugh. The leather belt had a silver buckle and false ornaments engraved with plant ornaments.
Men's wedding clothes, which were both festive and culturally significant, were distinguished by the fact that the arkhalugh was made of more expensive fabric, the chukha and shoelaces were red (this color was considered to be a guardian), and the belt was silver, which they received during the wedding from the bride's parents. This type of clothing of Karabakh men was also common among other Eastern Armenians, in particular in Syunik, Gogthan, as well as in Lori.
Headgear
The standard headgear of Eastern Armenians was a fur hat – Papakh (), sewn from sheep's skins. Papakhs came in a variety of different shapes and sizes, with men of different regions and villages having different preferences. Generally speaking, men from Southern Armenia and Karabakh preferred a taller and more cylindrical style of papakh, while men from Northern Armenia usually wore one that was low and wide. The most expensive and prestigious was considered to be made from Bukhara sheep wool, which was worn by representatives of the wealthy classes, especially in cities. In these cities, very high, close to cylindrical, hats were worn complete with a chuhka with folding sleeves. The headgear and hat, in particular, were the embodiment of the honor and dignity of an Armenian man. Throwing his papakha on the ground was equated to his shame and dishonor. According to traditional etiquette, in certain situations, the man was supposed to take off his hat at the entrance to church, during funerals, when meeting highly revered and respected people, etc.
Western Armenia
Traditional Armenian clothing from Western Armenia was generally standard throughout despite regional differences and had a similar silhouette, bright color scheme that was distinguished by colorfulness, and an abundance of embroidery.
Men's bodywear had a similar cut to the East Armenian wear. However, the body shirt was distinguished by a side section of the gate. The body pants – vartik, were covered without a step wedge, but with a wide insert strip of fabric, as a result of which the width of such pants was often almost equal to their length. They were made of woolen multicolored threads.
The traditional clothing of some Western Armenian provinces, namely those around lake Van, was a regional form of dress rather than an ethnic one, as many neighboring peoples such as Kurds also dressed in a similar fashion. However, as Armenians had a virtual monopoly on weaving and dress-making in the region, coupled with the fact that Armenians were the oldest living inhabitants of the area, it is likely that it was adopted from Armenians by the neighboring peoples.
Outerwear
The gate and long sleeves of the upper shirt, Ishlik, were sewn with geometric patterns of red threads. In a number of regions such as in (Vaspurakan and Turuberan), the sleeve of the shirt ended with a long hanging piece – jalahiki. The shirt was worn with a kind of vest, a spruce (tree) with open breasts, from under which the shirt's embroidered breasts were clearly visible. Such a vest was a characteristic component of the traditional men's suit only in Western Armenia.
From above, a short, waist-to-waisted woolen jacket was worn on the top – a batchkon, a one-piece-sleeved salt, often quilted. The wealthy Armenians chose the thinnest, especially Shatakh cloth, mostly of domestic and local handicrafts, and tried to sew all parts of the suit from one fabric”.
On top of the top were worn short (up to the waist) swing clothes with short sleeves – Kazakhik made of goat fur or felt aba. The goat's jacket, covered with braids at the edges and with bundles of fur on its shoulders, was worn mainly by wealthy villagers.
The outer warm clothes also included a long straight "Juppa". In wealthier families, the juppa was quilted and lined. It was preferred to be worn by mature men. In winter, in some, mainly mountainous regions (Sasun), wide fur coats made of sheepskin were worn, without a belt.
The belt as an indispensable part of men's suit in most regions Western Armenia was distinguished by its originality. The colored patterned belt was "rather a bandage around the waist. A long, wide shawl, knitted or woven, folded in width in several layers, was wrapped twice or more around the waist. The deep folds of the belt served as a kind of pocket for a handkerchief, kisset, wallet. For such a belt, you could plug both a long tube and a knife with a handle, and if necessary a dagger".
The silver belt was an accessory of the city costume, it was worn in Karin, Kars, Van and other centers of highly developed craftsmanship production. Citizens, artisans, and wealthy peasants alike had belts made of massive silver plaques.
Headgear
The headgear in Western Armenia consisted of hats of various shapes (spherical, conical), felt, wool knitted and woven, which were usually worn in addition to the handkerchief. They had regional differences in the materials used to manufacture it as well as the style and color scheme of the ornament. A felt white cone-shaped hat was widespread – koloz with a pointed or rounded top.
The widespread arakhchi, also known as arakhchin (), was a truncated skull cap, knitted from wool or embroidered in single youth with multicolored woolen thread, with a predominance of red. The way this traditional headdress was worn was a marker of its owner's marital condition, just as in Eastern Armenia, the right to wear an arakhicki belonged to a married man.
Hamshen
The Hamshen province of Armenia had its own unique costume, sharing many similarities with the Caucasian costume found in Eastern Armenia. It was generally close to similar clothing worn by the neighboring Laz, Adjarian and Pontic Greek peoples. By the end of the 19th century, this costume included an undershirt, a top cover shirt, an Arkhalukh, and a short Chukha which reached a little below the waist. Hamshen Armenians traditionally wore very wide and long pants, however by the end of the 19th century this was replaced by a thinner pair of trousers called zipkas, worn with a pair of high boots. A wool or silk belt, 4–5 meters long, was tied over the trousers.
In winter, many villagers wore a Kepenek, a felt outercoat similar to the Burka, except with a hood to cover the head. As everyday headwear, men wore a Bashlyk made of silk or wool which was tied around the head to form a headband. Men who owned arms completed their outfit with a series of firearms accessories, a knife, and a Khanchal dagger.
Women's clothing
Eastern Armenia
At the beginning of the 20th century, women's clothing, unlike men's clothing, still preserved its traditional complexes in historical and ethnographic regions. Women's clothing of eastern and western Armenians was more homogeneous than men's clothing. The main difference was the abundance of embroidery and jewelry in a women's suit from Western Armenia as opposed to Eastern Armenia.
Clothes
In Eastern Armenia, women wore a long red shirt – halav made of cotton fabric with oblique wedges on the sides, long straight sleeves with a gusset and a straight incision of the gate. This shirt was worn mainly by girls and young women. Long body pants were sewn from the same red fabric as the shirt, on a white lining and waist held on hold with the help of honjang.
Holiday pants were sewn in silk red fabric on a white fabric lining. The lower ends of the pants collected from the ankles were to be visible from under the outerwear, so this part was sewn from more expensive and beautiful fabric and sewn (in Yerevan and Ararat) with gold embroidery or decorated (Syunik, Artsakh) with a strip of black velvet with gold-plated braid. In the women's complex of the provinces Syunik and Artsakh, an important part was the upper shirt – virvi khalav () made of red silk or calico with round gate and chest incision with black velvet or satin, as well as sewn silver small jewelry.
Outerwear
In the early 20th century, women's outerwear differed in great variety among Armenians. Its basis in Eastern Armenia was a long swing dress – arkhalugh with one-piece front shelves and a trimmed back, an elegant long neckline on the chest, fastened only at the waist. They sewed arkhalughs from sitz, satin or silk, usually blue, green or purple colors, lined in thin cotton vatina, lined with longitudinal lines and vertical lines on the sleeves. It was necessary to have two dresses: everyday dresses made of cotton and festive dresses made of expensive silk fabric.
The clothes for the exit were a dress – mintana (), worn on solemn occasions on top of the arkhalig of the same cut, but without side seams.
An integral part of traditional women's clothing was the belt. In the Ararat Valley, especially in the urban environment of Yerevan, the complex of women's clothing included a fabric silk belt with two long curtain rods embroidered with silk and gold threads. Syunik and Artsakh also used a leather belt with a large silver buckle and sewn silver plates made in the technique of engraving, filigree and black.
Headgear
The most characteristic and complex part of Eastern Armenian taraz was a women's headdress. Before a woman was married, the hair was freely released back with several pigtails and tied to the head with a handkerchief. After marriage, the Armenian woman was to "tie her head", i.e. they put on a special "towagon" on her head – palti (Nagorno-Karabakh, Syunik), pali, poli (Meghri, Agulis), baspind (Yerevan, Ashtarak). Underneath it, a ribbon with coins (silver, very rich – with gold) or with special hangers was tied on the forehead, and silver balls hung on both sides of the face through the whiskey or interspersed with coral. The nose and mouth were tightly tied first with a white and then with a colored (red, green) handkerchief.
Due to Islamic influences, many Armenian women wore a Chador when going outside per the rules of the dominant Persian or Turkish cultural norms.
Western Armenia
The western Armenian variety of women's clothing was distinguished by a bright color scheme and rich decorative design. The bodywork in cut was similar to that of Eastern Armenia, with the only difference being that the shirts were sewn from white cotton fabric.
Outerwear
Western Armenian women wore a swinging one-piece dress – ant'ari. On top of the "antari" on solemn occasions, as well as in the cold season, a dress – juppa, was worn. This dress could be festive (burgundy, purple, blue velvet or silk, colored woolen fabric in stripes) and everyday (made of dark blue cloth).
A distinctive feature of traditional women's clothing in Western Armenia was the apron – mezar. Made of cotton or expensive (velvet, cloth) fabrics, abundantly decorated (especially wedding), it was a necessary part of the outfit: as in the east it was "shameful" to go out with an open chin, so here it was "shameful" to appear without an apron. The classic version of it is a red cloth apron in a set of Karin-Shirak's clothes with exquisite sewing and braid, which was tied to the "antari".
With such an apron, the open chest of the dress was covered with an embroidered bib – "krckal" rectangular or trapezoidal shape made of silk, velvet or woolen fabric, in girls and young women decorated with rich embroidery along the gate and on the chest, and "'juppa" was replaced by a jacket – "salta"" or "kurtik". This swing short (to the waist) jacket was made of purple, blue, burgundy velvet or green, blue silk fabric. The jacket was festive clothes and struck by the beauty of patterned embroidery. Warm outerwear, in particular in Vaspurakan, was dalma, a kind of long coat made of black cloth lined. This swinging, waist-fitting and braided with braided gold and silk threads, the cut was similar to a "juppa". It was mainly worn by girls and young women.
Headgear
The women's headgear stood out for its special wealth and beauty. The girls braided their hair in numerous braids (up to 40), of which the front braids were thrown forward on the chest and with the help of silver chains were placed on the back. Experienced braiders skillfully braided woolen threads in the color of the hair, decorating them with silver balls and brushes. Decorated with silver jewelry and felt hat in the shape of a fezka without a brush, it was hung on chains in the front by a number of newcomers, leaves, chains, amulets. The temples had hanging hangers – eresnots. In many areas, a silver flat with minted flowers, images of angels, and sunlight, among others, was sewn on the felt from above.
When she got married, the woman put on a red hat made of the thinnest felt, with a long brush of purple or blue twisted silk threads of 40 cm long, in the southern regions – "kotik", in Karina Shirak "vard" (literally rose).
All this elegant colorful complex was complemented by a lot of jewelry: necklaces, pendants, bracelets, rings, as well as a silver or gold-plated belt with a massive buckle of amazingly fine jewelry. Most of them were the property of wealthy Armenian women, especially in the trade and crafts environment in many cities of Western Armenia and Transcaucasia.
Footwear
Since ancient times, footwear has been an integral part of traditional Armenian clothing. Men's and women's shoes (knitted socks and the actual shoes) were largely identical. Knitted patterned socks – Jorabs and gulpas, which, along with men's leggings, were known as early as the Urartian period and occupied an important place in Armenian footwear. In traditional everyday life, male and female patterned jorabs were knitted densely from the wool of a particular region. They could be monochromatic or multi-colored, with each region having its own favorite pattern and color. In the Ottoman Empire, Armenians and Jews were required to wear blue or purple shoes to denote their status as minorities. Later, Armenians had to wear red shoes to indicate to the Ottomans that they were Armenian. They were widely used not only in everyday life, but also had ritual significance. Socks were part of the girl's dowry, and were one of the main objects of gift exchange at weddings and christenings. They were widespread throughout Armenia and remained in many areas until the 1960s.
See also
Armenian culture
Armenian dance
Gallery
References
Notes
Further reading
Chopoorian, Greg. “Continuity and Adaptation: The Changing Tale of Armenian Clothing.” Medieval History Magazine, 13 (September 2004): 29–35
Derzon, Manoog. Village of Parchanj General History (1600–1937). Boston: Baikar Press, 1938.
Hai Guin Society of Tehran. The Costumes of Armenian Women. Tehran: International Communicators, 1976.
Lind-Sinanian, Gary. Armenian Folk Costumes, A Coloring Book for Children. Watertown, Ma: Armenian Library and Museum, 2004.
Micklewight, Nancy. “Late-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Wedding Costumes as Indicators of Social Change.” Muqarnas, 6 (1989): 161–174.
Scarce, Jennifer. Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East. London: St. Edmundsbury Press, 2003.
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8473719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Hutchinson | Ralph Hutchinson | Ralph Fielding "Hutch" Hutchinson (February 19, 1878 – March 30, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player. He served as the head football coach at Dickinson College (1901), the University of Texas at Austin (1903–1905), the University of New Mexico (1911–1916), Washington & Jefferson College (1918), the University of Idaho (1919), and the Idaho Technical Institute (now Idaho State University) (1920–1927), compiling a career college football record of 62–55–6. Hutchinson was also the head basketball coach at New Mexico (1910–1917), Idaho (1919–1920), and Idaho Technical (1926–1927), amassing a career college basketball record of 56–18, and the head baseball coach at Texas from 1904 to 1906 and at New Mexico from 1910 to 1917, tallying a career college baseball mark of 69–44–2.
Playing career
Born in Elmira, New York, Hutchinson played varsity football and baseball and ran track at Princeton University. In football, he was a quarterback and later played the position as a player-coach for the Greensburg Athletic Association, an early professional football team out of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1900.
Hutchinson also played minor league baseball. He played for the 1902 Flandreau Indians of the Iowa-South Dakota League. There, his manager was Art Hillebrand, who played college football with Hutchinson at Princeton and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Coaching career
Dickinson
Hutchison was the third head football coach at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, serving for one season, in the 1901.
Texas
From 1903 to 1905, Hutchinson coached at Texas, where he compiled a 16–7–2 record.
New Mexico
Hutchinson was the first basketball coach at the University of New Mexico, compiling a 32–8 record from 1910 to 1917. New Mexico played games only sporadically before the 1920s, with no regular schedule.
Washington & Jefferson
Hutchinson was hired in August 1918 as head coach at Washington & Jefferson, south of Pittsburgh.
Idaho
Hutchinson was the head football coach at the University of Idaho for the 1919 season. A "shorter than normal" season, his team posted a record. He also coached the basketball team for the 1919–20 season.
Idaho Technical Institute
In 1920, Hutchinson moved south to the Idaho Technical Institute in Pocatello. He coached through the 1927 season, tallying a record at the two-year school, which was renamed the "University of Idaho–Southern Branch" in 1927. It was renamed "Idaho State College" in 1947 after gaining four-year status and became Idaho State University in 1963.
On November 4, 1922, the Idaho Tech football team played its first game on Hutchinson Field, named in his honor. The field was used until partway through the 1936 season, when football games moved to the "Spud Bowl". The former Hutchinson Field area continues to be known as the Hutchinson Memorial Quadrangle.
After coaching
After eight years in Pocatello, Hutchinson returned to the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1928, where he was the athletic director for a year, as well as the head track coach and an assistant football coach. After the hiring of Leo Calland in 1929, Hutchinson was the athletic trainer and a professor of physical education, and the head coach of minor sports. Following a brief illness, he died at the age of 57 on March 30, 1935, of a heart attack at his Moscow home. In 1980, Hutchinson was inducted to Idaho State's athletic hall of fame.
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8473724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinta | Jacinta | The given name Jacinta is the feminine form of old European masculine name known across the West as
Jácint in Hungarian language
Jacenty in Polish
Jacinto in Spanish and Portuguese.
Variants in English or other languages include Hyacinth, Hyacintha, Jacinda, Jacintha, Jacinthe, Jacynthe, Jesinta, Jaxine or Giacinta.
As an English name, the name is mostly used in New Zealand and Australia.
People
Jacinda
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Jacinda Barrett, Australian actress
Jacinta
Jacinta Allan, Australian politician
Jacinta Coleman (1974–2017), New Zealand road cyclist
Jacinta John, Australian actress, producer and director
Jacinta Monroe (born 1988), American professional women's basketball player
Jacinta Stapleton, Australian actress
Jacinta Brondgeest, Australian dance-pop singer
Jacinta Marto, one of three Portuguese shepherd children who claimed to witness the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima
Jacinta Tynan (born 1969), Australian news presenter and journalist
Jacinta Ruru New Zealand Maori professor of law.
Jacinthe
Jacinthe Bouchard, Canadian animal behaviorist and trainer
Jacinthe Laguë, Canadian actress
Jacinthe Larivière (born 1981), Canadian skater
Jacinthe Pineau (born 1974), Canadian swimmer
Jacinthe Taillon (born 1977), Canadian synchronized swimmer
Jacynthe
Jacynthe Carrier, Canadian visual artist
Jacynthe Millette-Bilodeau, Canadian pop singer
Jacynthe Poirier, Canadian Olympic fencer
Giacinta
Giacinta Marescotti, Italian saint
Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, fictional James Bond character
Other
Giacinta ed Ernesto, an opera by Julius Benedict
Giacinta, a novel by Luigi Capuana
Jacinta, an oil well drilled by Desire Petroleum in the southern part of the North Falkland Basin
Jacinta (FD159), a stern-fishing trawler ship launched in 1972
See also
Jacinda
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8473725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20A.%20Ramlu | M. A. Ramlu | Madisetti Anant Ramlu (12 February 1927 – 6 March 2023) was an Indian academic who was the founder and first Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, from 1958 until 1987, when he retired as the Deputy Director & Acting Director of IIT. He was an expert in the area of mines safety, machinery, and open-cast mining. He received his BS in Mining & Metallurgy from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and his PhD in Mining Engineering from Germany (Bergakadamie Clausthal).
M. A. Ramlu was married to Saroja, and had two sons – Dr. Vijay K. Madisetti of Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr. Avanindra Madisetti of Mobius Semiconductors in Irvine, California.
Ramlu was awarded the 2009 S. K. Bose Memorial Teaching Excellence Award by the Mining, Geological, and Metallurgical Institute (MGMI) of India.
Ramlu died on 6 March 2023 at the age of 96.
Publications
Madisetti Anant Ramlu (1956). Ablagerung von feinem Kohlenstaub in einem Staubversuchsraum unter Tage. Clausthal, Bergak., F. f. Bergbau u. Hüttenw., Diss. v. 16. Juli 1956 (Nur in beschr. Anz. f. d. Aust.).
References
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Academic staff of IIT Kharagpur |
8473737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengzitong | Zhengzitong | The Zhengzitong () was a 17th-century Chinese dictionary. The Ming dynasty scholar Zhang Zilie (張自烈; Chang Tzu-lieh) originally published it in 1627 as a supplement to the 1615 Zihui dictionary of Chinese characters, and called it the Zihui bian (字彙辯; "Zihui Disputations"). The Qing dynasty author Liao Wenying (廖文英; Liao Wen-ying) bought Zhang's manuscript, renamed it Zhengzitong, and published it under his own name in 1671.
The received edition Zhengzitong has over 33,000 headwords in 12 fascicles (卷). Following the format of the Zihui, the character headwords give alternate graphs, fanqie spellings, definitions, explanations, and citations from Chinese classic texts. Zhang Zilie was a native of Jiangxi Province, and his Zhengzitong contains many linguistically valuable dialectal terms from Southeastern China. The famous 1716 Kangxi Zidian relied heavily upon the Zhengzitong.
References
External links
正字通 scanned text – Chinese Text Project
Ming dynasty
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8473762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack%20Prayer%20Meeting | Haystack Prayer Meeting | The Haystack Prayer Meeting, held in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in August 1806, is viewed by many scholars as the seminal event for the development of American Protestant missions in the subsequent decades and century. Missions are still supported today by American churches.
Five Williams College students gathered in a field to discuss the spiritual welfare of the people of Asia. Within four years of that gathering, some of its members established the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In 1812 the ABCFM sent its first missionaries to India. During the 19th century, it sent missionaries to China, Hawaii, and other nations in southeast Asia, establishing hospitals and schools at its mission stations. Many of its missionaries undertook translation of the Bible into native languages, and some created written languages where none had existed before. Thousands of missionaries were sent to Asia, and they taught numerous indigenous peoples.
Mission work has continued, with evolving purpose. In 1906, the ABCFM held a centennial commemoration. Groups considered to be spiritual heirs of the HPM include Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Student Volunteer Movement-2 (SVM-2), and Luke18 Project. More celebrations were held in 2006, at bicentennial events.
History
In the summer of 1806, Williams College students Samuel Mills, James Richards, Francis LeBaron Robbins, Harvey Loomis, and Byram Green met in a grove of trees near the Hoosic River, in what was then known as Sloan's Meadow. They discussed the theology of missionary service. Their meeting was interrupted by a thunderstorm and the students took shelter under a haystack until the sky cleared. "The brevity of the shower, the strangeness of the place of refuge, and the peculiarity of their topic of prayer and conference all took hold of their imaginations and their memories."
In 1808 the Haystack Prayer group and other Williams students began a group called "The Brethren." This group was organized to "effect, in the persons of its members, a mission to" those who were not Christians. In 1812, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (created in 1810) sent its first missionaries to the non-Christian world, to India.
In addition, the ABCFM founded a school, the Foreign Mission School, in Cornwall, Connecticut, which opened in 1817. It educated a total of 100 students, drawn from the Hawaiian islands, India and Southeast Asia, and Native American tribes.
Samuel Mills was most influential among the Haystack group to direct the modern mission movement. He played a role in the founding of the American Bible Society and the United Foreign Missionary Society.
The 1806 meeting was the first documented by Americans to begin foreign missionary work. In addition, this meeting is considered to have resulted in formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The ABCFM gave students an opportunity to go abroad and evangelize Christianity.
In its first fifty years, the ABCFM sent out more than 1250 missionaries. Most were from the smaller towns and farm villages of New England. Few were affluent, but most were trained in colleges where they had received a classical education, which included Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. When they reached the mission field, they worked to translate the Bible into new languages, some yet without a system of writing. They built educational systems in their lands of ministry. They were sometimes called upon to advise foreign governments.
Missionary reports were printed in the Missionary Herald, the magazine of the American Board established in 1821. For many Christians in America, the Missionary Herald was their window to the world. Descriptions of native customs, history, economic activities, and geographical features were included, along with accounts of the influence of the Gospel on these far-off lands. In the years before radio, movies, TV, or rapid communications, such missionary reports became primary sources for many Americans of information about foreign lands.
The ABCFM founded schools and hospitals in all the mission fields. Increasingly, its missionaries trained native leaders to continue the work of the ministry.
In 1961 the American Board merged to form the United Church Board for World Missions (UCBWM). After 150 years, the American Board had sent out nearly 5000 missionaries to 34 different fields.
In 2000, the UCBWM evolved into Wider Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ. It continues to be involved in mission around the world, in partnership with the Division of Overseas Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Legacy and honors
After the American Civil War, Byram Green organized commissioning a monument to honor the five men who founded the movement; it was erected in 1867 in Mission Park in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
In 1906 a centennial gathering took place in Mission Park at Williams College in celebration of the earlier prayer meeting.
In the summer of 2006, contemporary missioners celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Haystack prayer meeting.
Mission timeline
1806
Original Haystack Prayer Meeting at Sloan's Meadow by five Williams College students in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
1808
Samuel Mills forms the Brethren, dedicated to spreading the message about missionary service
1810
America's first foreign mission society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) is formed by Congregationalists in Massachusetts
1812
ABCFM sends its first group of five missionaries to India (Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice, Samuel Newell, Samuel Nott, and Gordon Hall)
1819
ABCFM sends first missionaries to Near East, including Turkey and Palestine; ABCFM sends first missionaries to Hawaii (Sandwich Islands)
1821
The Missionary Herald, ABCFM's magazine of missionary reports, is established
1830
ABCFM sends first missionaries to China, including Elijah Coleman Bridgman
1833
ABCFM sends first missionaries to Africa
1854
Byram Green returns to Williamstown. He told of the original meeting and pointed out the site of the haystack. Consequently, Sloan's Meadow was purchased by Williams College and renamed Mission Park.
1856
Semi-centennial of the Haystack Meeting is celebrated
1867
Marble monument is erected and dedicated on the site of the original meeting
1868
Woman's Boards of Missions established
1906
Centennial anniversary of the Haystack Meeting is celebrated in Williamstown
1931
Merger of Congregational and Christian churches, forming Congregational Christian Church, with the ABCFM
1934
Merger of the Evangelical Synod of North America and Reformed Church in the United States, forming the Evangelical and Reformed Church, with its Board of International Missions
1956
157th Annual Meeting of the ABCFM and Sesquicentennial of the Haystack Meeting celebrated in Williamstown
1957
United Church of Christ established by the merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church
1961
ABCFM merges with Board of International Missions to form the United Church Board for World Ministries (UCBWM)
1981
175th Anniversary of the Haystack Meeting celebrated in Williamstown
1995
Global Ministries is established as a partnership between the UCBWM of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the Division of Overseas Ministries (DOM) of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
2000
UCBWM becomes Wider Church Ministries, one of four UCC-covenanted ministries. Wider Church Ministries remains in partnership with DOM through Global Ministries
2006
200th anniversary celebration of the Haystack event in Williamstown
See also
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
United Church of Christ
Day of Prayer
Second Great Awakening
References
External links
Douglas K. Showalter; "The 1810 Formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" — in The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810-2010 (Eugene, Or: Wipf and Stock, 2012)
"Collection: Haystack Celebration Collection." Retrieved 2020-07-24.
"Collection: Haystack Bicentennial." Retrieved 2020-07-31.
History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts
19th-century Protestantism
Christian revivals
History of Christianity in the United States
1806 in Massachusetts
Williamstown, Massachusetts
August 1806 events |
8473765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lazarus | David Lazarus | David Lazarus is an American business and consumer columnist who works for KTLA and worked for the Los Angeles Times from August 2007 to January 2022. His last column was published on January 28, 2022.
Early life and education
He attended Ojai Valley School and Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California) before heading north to attend and graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a degree in history.
Writing
David Lazarus has written pieces for Los Angeles Times about consumer affairs and business topics including YouTube, AT&T and BMW-customer service issues.
Before joining the LA Times staff in 2007, Lazarus worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a nightly talk radio host for San Francisco's KGO Radio. Lazarus also worked for The San Francisco Examiner,The Bangkok Post, and The Japan Times.
He won first place in the 2005 National Headliner Awards contest for business reporting. And the Society of Professional Journalists in Northern California named him "Journalist of the Year" in 2001. A media watchdog site, Grade the News, described him this way: "Since coming to the Chronicle from Wired News in 1999, David Lazarus has been one of the most prolific, and influential, writers at the paper." He is known for sticking up and helping ordinary people deal with problems "such as fighting telemarketers" when no one else is able to step up.
Lazarus is the author of two books on Japan, where he lived for several years, and has had articles published in many magazines.
Radio interviews
Lazarus has often been interviewed about data breach issues (see Anthem medical data breach) and privacy matters on talk radio shows such as the Norman Goldman Show. He is also regularly seen on KTLA “Consumer Confidential” segments.
Personal
Lazarus lives in Southern California with his wife and son. Lazarus is a member of the Democratic Party.
References
External links
Lazarus's articles at Los Angeles Times
American columnists
American male journalists
American talk radio hosts
Consumer rights activists
Writers from San Francisco
Radio personalities from San Francisco
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American skeptics
Crossroads School alumni |
8473788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Guns%20%28pinball%29 | Big Guns (pinball) | Big Guns is a 1987 pinball machine designed by Mark Ritchie and Python Anghelo and released by Williams.
Description
The player has to rescue a queen from King Tyrant and his warlords. The game takes place in outer space, although it has a mix of medieval fantasy elements involved, such as trolls. A description on the machine reads:
"Here, in the deepest of space, inside this fortress, our noble Queen is held captive, kidnapped by King Tyrant and his warlords.
"So, once again, in the eternal struggle of good against evil, we, the brave and the free, must launch the greatest invasion in the known history of the universe, to fight and crush our enemies, for the future of our federation - and our fair lady's honor - rides on these big guns."
External links
The Internet Pinball Database
Williams pinball machines
1987 pinball machines |
8473798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Prize | The Big Prize | The Big Prize is the second album by Honeymoon Suite, released in 1986. It featured four hit singles, including the band's biggest hit in the U.S., "Feel It Again," and "Bad Attitude," which was notably featured in a sequence in the final episode of Miami Vice 4 years later. In 1990 the album was certified Triple Platinum in Canada (in excess of 300,000 copies sold) by the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association).
The album cover features a newly married couple having their picture taken by some tourists at Niagara Falls, Honeymoon Suite's hometown. The photo was taken on the Canadian side of the Falls.
Following the release of this album, the band won the Juno Award for "Group of the Year" and was also nominated for "Album of the Year" in 1986.
In a 2008 interview, Honeymoon Suite's guitarist Derry Grehan said "I think our best record was The Big Prize."
Background and writing
Following the success of their debut album and a subsequent two-year tour, Honeymoon Suite wrote much of their next album on the road. The Big Prize was produced by Bruce Fairbairn with assistance from fellow Canadian Bob Rock and featured the trademark 80s sound of rock guitars interlaced with keyboards.
The first single "Bad Attitude" was written by guitarist Derry Grehan, and according to singer Johnnie Dee "Derry was playing this lick for a long time and eventually wrote this song around it. The chorus wouldn't come together for us until Bruce Fairbairn helped us out. The lyrics kinda summed up our feelings at the time."
The second single released was "Feel It Again," written by keyboardist Ray Coburn. This tune became the band's first, and only single to date to crack the Billboard Top 40 Chart in the States. It was also extremely successful at home in Canada.
The third single was the power ballad "What Does It Take" and was originally written on a Fostex recorder at a gig in Sarnia, Ontario. The song was added to the soundtrack for the movie One Crazy Summer.
It was Bob Rock's production work on this record (specifically as an engineer) that is largely credited with helping him get noticed by Jon Bon Jovi. Rock engineered Bon Jovi's massive break-out album Slippery When Wet, which was a major launching point in Rock's engineering and producing career.
Track listing
All songs written by Derry Grehan except where noted.
"Bad Attitude" - 5:28
"Feel It Again" (Ray Coburn) - 4:37
"Lost and Found" (Coburn) - 4:22
"What Does It Take" - 4:13
"One By One" - 3:42
"Wounded" (Johnnie Dee) - 4:36
"Words in the Wind" - 4:35
"All Along You Knew" - 4:19
"Once the Feeling" - 4:32
"Take My Hand" - 3:41
Singles
The following singles were released from the album, with the highest charting positions listed.
Album credits
Personnel
Johnnie Dee - lead vocals
Derry Grehan - guitars, vocals
Ray Coburn - keyboards
Gary Lalonde - bass
Dave Betts - drums
Ian Anderson - flute on "All Along You Knew"
Mickey Curry - additional percussion
Chris Taylor - additional percussion
Production
Bruce Fairbairn - producer
Bob Rock - engineer
Michael Larkin - assistant engineer
Johnnie Q. - assistant engineer
Mike Fraser - assistant engineer
Mixed at the Farmyard Studios, Bucks, England by Stephen W. Tayler
Charts
Certifications
References
Liner notes from Honeymoon Suite:The Singles.
1985 albums
Honeymoon Suite albums
Albums produced by Bruce Fairbairn |
8473800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audley%20and%20Bignall%20End | Audley and Bignall End | Audley and Bignall End was a ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It covered the villages of Audley and Bignall End. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 5,927. In 2018 it was combined with part of Halmerend to form Audley ward.
References
Wards of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme |
8473828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Littlefield | Clyde Littlefield | Clyde Littlefield (October 6, 1892 – May 20, 1981) was an American sports and athletics coach. The head track and field coach at The University of Texas from 1920 to 1961 as well as its football coach from 1927 to 1933. In his 41 years at Texas, his athletic teams won 25 Southwest Conference championships and in football the Longhorns had a 44–18–6 record and won two Southwest Conference championships. He was also on the US coaching staff at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
Early life and education
Littlefield was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and raised in Sistersville, West Virginia, and Southeast Texas, where he graduated from South Park High School in Beaumont. He then attended Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio and Marshall Training School, and from 1912 to 1916 was a student at the University of Texas, where he earned twelve letters, in football, basketball, and track.
Coaching career
Littlefield was head football coach at Greenville High School in Greenville for four years, and then in 1920 returned to the University of Texas as head track coach, freshman football coach, freshman basketball coach, and instructor in physical training. He remained there until 1961, winning 25 Southwest conference championships in track, and also serving as head football coach from 1927 to 1933, during which time the university won two Southwest Conference championships. He served as an instructor of an officers' training corps during World War I and was on the United States track and field coaching staff at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
He served for many years on the NCAA track and field rules committee and was president of the NCAA Track Coaches Association.
Honors
Littlefield was awarded the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award and was inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor at the University of Texas, the Helms Foundation Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. The University of Texas has a plaque in his honor and named a graduate fellowship for him in 1963.
The Texas Relays, which he co-founded in 1925, were named the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in his honor.
Private life and death
Littlefield married Henrietta Rabb in 1920; they had a son. He was a Freemason and Shriner. Littlefield died on May 20, 1981, at his home in Austin, Texas.
Head coaching record
Football
References
External links
1892 births
1981 deaths
American men's basketball players
Texas Longhorns football coaches
Texas Longhorns football players
Texas Longhorns men's basketball players
Texas Longhorns men's track and field athletes
Texas Longhorns track and field coaches
All-American college men's basketball players
All-Southern college football players
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Coaches of American football from Texas
Players of American football from Beaumont, Texas
Basketball players from Texas |
8473843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20Cafiso | David S. Cafiso | David S. Cafiso (born March 18, 1952) is an American biochemist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on membrane proteins and cell signaling, and is primarily supported by grants from the National Institute of Health.
Research
Work in Dr. Cafiso's laboratory is directed at studying membranes and peripheral and integral membrane proteins. One area of investigation involves studies on the mechanisms by which proteins become attached to membrane surfaces. Attachment is critical for cell-signaling because it controls protein–protein interactions and the access of enzymes to lipid substrates. For example, the oncogenic form of the src tyrosine kinase is not active and fails to transform cells until it becomes attached to the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane. The laboratory is currently determining the structure and electrostatic interactions made by highly positively charged protein motifs, such as those from MARCKS (the myristoylated alanine rich C-kinase substrate) with negatively charged lipid surfaces. In addition to regulating membrane attachment, these positively charged motifs function to sequester phosphatidylinositol 4,5, bisphosphate (PIP2), and regulate the activity of this phosphorylated inositol lipid within the cytoplasmic membrane. Dr. Cafiso is also interested in determining the membrane interactions made by protein domains such as C2 domains, which are found in a wide range of proteins involved in cell signaling. C2 domains function to attach their parent proteins to membranes in a Ca ++ dependent fashion. C2 domains perform critical roles in membrane trafficking, membrane fusion and membrane repair, and defects in these domains result in forms of muscular dystrophy and deafness.
A second area of investigation involves membrane transport. Dr. Cafiso's laboratory is currently examining the molecular mechanisms that function to facilitate active transport. For example, he is interested in determining the molecular mechanisms by which BtuB transports vitamin B12 across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. This protein is homologous to FecA, FepA and FhuA, outer membrane iron transport proteins that presumably function by similar mechanisms. These proteins belong to a class of transport proteins for which high-resolution structural models have been obtained, and they are extremely important for the survival of some bacterial pathogens. In addition to BtuB, FecA and FhuA, his team is expressing, reconstituting and labeling BtuC/D. This protein is member of the ABC cassette transporter family and it is responsible for carrying vitamin B12 across the inner membrane.
The primary tools that Dr. Cafiso uses in his research include EPR spectroscopy and high-resolution NMR. Site-directed spin labeling is a powerful methodology that combines site-directed mutagenesis with and EPR spectroscopy. Dr. Cafiso is developing and making use of this tool, which is particularly well-suited to address questions regarding the dynamics and molecular function of membrane proteins.
Education and training
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. A.B. 1974 Biophysics
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. PhD 1979 Biophysics
Univ. of California, Berkeley, Calif. 1979 – 1980 Postdoctoral Study
Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 1980 – 1981 Postdoctoral Study
Societies, service, and honors
Jane Coffin Childs Foundation Fellow, 1979–1981
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award for Distinguished New Faculty in Chemistry, 1981
Member, NSF Biophysics Panel, 1990–1993. Member, NIH IRG Study Section
Ad Hoc Member, NIH BBCB study section, 1996–present
NIH Biomembranes Study Section, 2005
Editorial board, Biophysical Journal
Editorial board, Journal of Liposome Research
Editorial board, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics
Biophysical Society: 1978–present
American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1980–present
American Chemical Society: 1981–present
Contributor, Faculty of 1000: 2001–present
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20101115062638/http://ernst.chem.virginia.edu/dsclab/
1952 births
American biochemists
American biophysicists
Living people |
8473856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Night%20%28Diddy%20song%29 | Last Night (Diddy song) | "Last Night" is a song by American rapper P. Diddy that is a single featured on his fourth studio album, Press Play (2006). The song features American singer-songwriter Keyshia Cole. The radio edit version of the song is featured on Cole's second studio album, Just like You (2007).
Part of the recording session was shown on Cole's reality show, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is, on BET in July 2006. The making of the video was shown on BET's Access Granted on January 31, 2007.
Background
The song has an '80s-styled beat. The song samples the drumbeat of Prince's "Erotic City", but slightly modified to increase the bass. During BET's Access Granted, Diddy brought up the fact that Cole re-recorded her parts multiple times, and the two had many artistic differences on the song. The recording of the song was featured on Cole's reality show The Way It Is. On the UK radio version of the song, Diddy is heard talking on the phone only with the explicit words censored out at the end. The radio version of the song fades out before the phone dials, while the clean album version of the song still has this part only with the explicit words censored out.
Composition
"Last Night" is written in the key of E minor (recorded a half-step lower in E minor). The song moves at a tempo of 121 beats per minute, and the vocals in the song span from B3 to D5.
Chart performance
"Last Night" peaked at number ten on the Hot 100, becoming his second top-ten hit off Press Play. The track was a moderate hit worldwide. "Last Night" managed to go top 20 in ten different countries. In the UK, "Last Night" only reached number 14, becoming his first single from Press Play not to hit the top ten.
Live performance
On June 26, 2007, Diddy performed "Last Night" at the 2007 BET Awards which featured Cole and Lil' Kim.
Formats and track listings
US 12" promotional single
Side A
"Last Night" [radio edit] 4:18
"Last Night" [mix show amended version] 6:26
Side B
"Last Night" [explicit version] 6:26
"Last Night" [clean] 6:26
UK Single
"Last Night" [radio edit] 4:18
"Tell Me" [DFA remix – radio edit] 4:06
Remixes
The official remix has two versions and has R&B singer Keyshia Cole on both of them; the first remix, the Dirty South Remix, features the Game, Big Boi, Yung Joc and Rich Boy, and the second remix, the NYC Remix, features Lil' Kim and Busta Rhymes. There is also a DJ Noodles remix that features Cole, T.I. and Pharrell Williams. A sequel of the song called "Last Night (Part 2)" can be found on the deluxe edition of Diddy's 2010 album, Last Train to Paris, with his group Dirty Money.
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2006 songs
2007 singles
Keyshia Cole songs
Sean Combs songs
Bad Boy Records singles
Songs written by Sean Combs
Songs written by Keyshia Cole
Music videos directed by Marc Webb
Songs written by Mario Winans
Songs written by Jack Knight (songwriter)
SNEP Top Singles number-one singles |