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Eduardo Salim Braide (born January 12, 1976) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was president of Caema (2005–2006) and secretary of Participatory Budgeting (2009–2010). Braide is federal deputy for Maranhão and was candidate for mayor of São Luís.
References
Living people
1976 births
People from São Luís, Maranhão
21st-century Brazilian lawyers
Brazilian Socialist Party politicians
Party of National Mobilization politicians
Podemos (Brazil) politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Maranhão
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Maranhão |
The Dorset Horn is an endangered British breed of domestic sheep. It is documented from the seventeenth century, and is highly prolific, sometimes producing two lambing seasons per year. Among British sheep, it is the only breed capable of breeding throughout the winter.
History
The Dorset Horn originated in Dorset in south-west England. Like the extinct Pink-nosed Somerset, to which it is related, it probably derived from cross-breeding of Merinos imported from Spain with local tan-faced sheep similar to the modern Portland. Unlike many British lowland breeds, Dorset sheep were not influenced by cross-breeding with the Leicester or Southdown breeds which were much used for this purpose in the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. A breeders' society, the Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders' Association, was set up in 1891 and the first flock book was published in the following year.
The Dorset Horn was exported to many countries, among them Australia, South Africa and the United States, where the first arrivals were in the 1860s, and where substantial numbers were imported from about 1880. The Dorset Horn reached Australia in 1895, and New Zealand in 1897. In 2023 it was reported to DAD-IS by twenty countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania; the largest population reported was that of Denmark, where there were head.
A polled variant of the breed, the Poll Dorset, was bred in Australia through cross-breeding with the hornless Corriedale and Ryeland breeds. From about 1950, this was introduced to the United Kingdom, where it rapidly supplanted the horned variant; the breed association changed its name in 1981 to the Dorset Horn and Poll Dorset Sheep Breeder's Association, and registers both breeds. A different polled variant of the breed arose in the United States, derived from a polled sport in a flock kept by North Carolina State University. This Polled Dorset was registered with the breed association – the Continental Dorset Club – from 1956; as elsewhere, it soon became more widespread than the original horned type.
The world-wide conservation status of the Dorset Horn was listed by the FAO as "not at risk" in 2007. At country level, it is listed as "vulnerable" by the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia, as "priority" by the Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand, and as "threatened" by the Livestock Conservancy in the USA. In the United Kingdom, where in the 1980s there were more than breeding ewes, its status is listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as "at risk", meaning that the total number is between 900 and 1500 head.
The Dorset Horn has contributed to the development of several other breeds: the Dorper and Dormer breeds of South Africa, through cross-breeding with the Blackhead Persian and Merinos respectively; and the British Milksheep and Cadzow Improver in the United Kingdom.
Characteristics
The Dorset Horn is white-woolled and white-faced; the nostrils are a characteristic pink. It is horned in both sexes, with heavy spiral horns on rams. The fleece is thick, with a weight of , a staple length of , and a Bradford count of .
References
Further reading
Henry Stewart (1898). The Domestic Sheep.
Sheep breeds
Culture in Dorset
Sheep breeds originating in the United Kingdom
Animal breeds on the RBST Watchlist |
São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.
The municipality contains part of the Rio das Lontras Private Natural Heritage Reserve, a fully protected area of montane rainforest in the Atlantic Forest biome.
German influence
On the first day of March 1829 the first German speaking colony of the state of Santa Catarina was founded, receiving the Portuguese name of Colônia São Pedro de Alcântara, located not too far from the state's capital, Desterro, having its name changed in modern times to Florianópolis. Initially the colony did not experience great success when compared to other similar federal, state, or private enterprises, but with time it got incorporated into Florianópolis, a modern and thriving Brazilian metropolitan area. The state of Santa Catarina has a highest percentage of German descent people compared to all other Brazilian states; however, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, just south of it, has by far the highest number of German-Brazilians in total numbers, with around one quarter of its inhabitants speaking German, more often than not a dialect, at home or amongst locals.
See also
List of municipalities in Santa Catarina
São Leopoldo, in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 1824 by the first pioneer German speaking families to settle permanently in Brazil, is officially considered the cradle of German-Brazilian culture (see the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German language of South America).
References
Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state) |
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28 February 2007 (Wednesday)
Auto racing:
At a test for NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow in Bristol, Tennessee, the sanctioning body announces they will consider making the unibody template mandatory starting a year earlier than planned.
US men's college basketball:
(15) Texas 98, (7) Texas A&M 96 (2 OT)
(24) Maryland 85, (14) Duke 77
Cricket:
Tri-Nations series in St. John's, Antigua:
278/5 (50 ov) beat 265/7 (50.0 ov) by 13 runs and wins the tournament.
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27 February 2007 (Tuesday)
Baseball:
For the third consecutive election cycle, the Veterans Committee of the United States Baseball Hall of Fame fails to elect any nominees.
US men's college basketball:
Tennessee 86, (5) Florida 76. Almost as notable as Tennessee's upset win was a special appearance by Lady Vols head coach Pat Summitt. After Tennessee men's head coach Bruce Pearl painted his chest orange for a key Lady Vols game earlier in the season against No. 1 Duke, Summitt returns the favor by dressing in a cheerleader outfit and helping the Tennessee cheerleaders lead cheers during the first media timeout.
BYU 62, (25) Air Force 58
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26 February 2007 (Monday)
US men's college basketball:
(3) Kansas 67, Oklahoma 65.
Syracuse 72, (9) Georgetown 58.
Indoor football:
Javon Camon, a defensive back for the Daytona Beach Thunder of the World Indoor Football League, dies after sustaining an injury during a head-to-head hit with Juval Winston of the Columbus Lions. He was 25.
Cricket:
Tri-Nations series in St. John's, Antigua:
207/7 (44 ov) beat 206/8 (50 ov) by 3 wickets (with 36 balls remaining).
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25 February 2007 (Sunday)
Cricket:
Tri-Nations series in St. John's, Antigua:
206/2 (37.3 ov) def 205/8 (50 ov) by 8 wickets
(with 75 balls remaining).
Football (soccer): Carling Cup Final:
Chelsea 2–1 Arsenal.
Auto racing:
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Auto Club 500 at Fontana, California:(1) Matt Kenseth (2) Jeff Gordon (3) Jimmie JohnsonKenseth sweeps two of the three races at California, having won the Busch Series race one day earlier.
Tennis:
2007 ATP Tour:
World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands: Final: Mikhail Youzhny def (3) Ivan Ljubičić 6–2 6–4.
M.K. Championships in Memphis, United States:Final: (2) Tommy Haas def (1) Andy Roddick 6–3 6–2.
Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires, Argentina:Final: Juan Mónaco def Alessio di Mauro 6–1 6–2.
2007 WTA Tour:
Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia: Final: (6) Roberta Vinci def (1) Tathiana Garbin 6–7(4) 6–4 0–3 (Garbin retired due to ankle injury).
Rugby union:
The Sunday Times reports that the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board, has been brokering a deal that could see admitted to the Southern Hemisphere Tri Nations competition as early as 2008.
US college basketball:
Men's
(1 Coaches Poll) Ohio State 49, (1 AP) Wisconsin 48
Maryland 89, (5) North Carolina 87
(7) Memphis 77, Houston 64
Women's
(1) Duke 67, (4) North Carolina 62. The Blue Devils complete the first unbeaten regular season by a women's team in ACC history in front of their home fans.
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24 February 2007 (Saturday)
Rugby union:
Six Nations:
17 – 37
Italy win their first-ever away match since joining the Six Nations in 2000, starting with three converted tries in the first six minutes.
Ireland 43 – 13
England's worst-ever defeat by Ireland, in the first match they have ever played at Croke Park.
32 – 21
France came from behind to beat the Welsh Dragons to top the Pool and be the only team without a loss and strengthening their chances of winning the Six Nations
US men's college basketball:
LSU 66, (3) Florida 56
(4) UCLA 75, Stanford 61
(6) Kansas 89, Iowa State 52
(8) Texas A&M 97, Baylor 87
(9) Washington State 58, Oregon State 54
(12) Georgetown 61, (10) Pittsburgh 53
TCU 71, (14) Air Force 66
Notre Dame 85, (16) Marquette 73
San Diego State 86, (21) BYU 74
Auburn 86, (25) Alabama 77
Tennis:
2007 WTA Tour:
Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, UAE: Final: (1) Justine Henin def (2) Amélie Mauresmo 6–4 7–5.
M.K. Championships in Memphis, Tennessee, United States: Final: (7) Venus Williams def (1) Shahar Pe'er 6–1 6–1.
Lacrosse:
In their first game since the heavily publicized rape allegations that scuttled their 2006 season, Duke win 17–11 at home over Dartmouth. (ESPN)
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23 February 2007 (Friday)
2007 Canada Games in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
Opening Ceremonies.
Basketball: 2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Finals Game 6 – Barangay Ginebra Kings 96, San Miguel Beermen 94. Kings win series 4–2 with Finals MVP Jayjay Helterbrand converting clutch freethrows with 2 seconds remaining. Ginebra wins seventh league championship. Game was held at the Araneta Coliseum.
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22 February 2007 (Thursday)
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan
Men's individual sprint: – Jens Arne Svartedal , – Mats Larsson , – Eldar Rønning .
Women's individual sprint: – Astrid Jacobsen , – Petra Majdič , – Virpi Kuitunen .
Football (soccer): 2006–07 UEFA Cup Round of 32, second leg, progressing teams shown in bold.
Newcastle United 1–0 Zulte-Waregem (4–1 aggregate)
Parma 0–1 Sporting Braga (0–2 aggregate)
Panathinaikos 0–0 Lens (1–3 aggregate)
Blackburn Rovers 0–0 Bayer Leverkusen (2–3 aggregate)
Rangers 4–0 Hapoel Tel Aviv (5–2 aggregate)
Espanyol 2–0 Livorno (4–2 aggregate)
AZ Alkmaar 2–2 Fenerbahçe (5–5 aggregate; AZ moves to the Round of 16 on away goals)
Ajax 3–1 Werder Bremen (3–4 aggregate)
Celta Vigo 2–1 Spartak Moscow (3–2 aggregate)
Maccabi Haifa 1–0 CSKA Moscow (1–0 aggregate)
Paris Saint-Germain 2–0 AEK Athens (4–0 aggregate)
Dinamo Bucharest 1–2 Benfica (3–1 aggregate)
Sevilla 1–0 Steaua Bucharest (3–0 aggregate)
Nancy 0–1 Shakhtar Donetsk (1–2 aggregate)
Osasuna 1–0 (aet) Bordeaux (1–0 aggregate)
NOTE: Tottenham Hotspur received a bye due to Feyenoord's expulsion from the competition due to crowd misbehavior in the last group stage match.
US college basketball:
Men's:
(4) UCLA 85, California 75
(7) Memphis 99, Rice 63
(23) Oregon 64, (9) Washington State 59
Loyola (Chicago) 75, (15) Butler 71
Women's:
In the longest game in NCAA women's basketball history, Drexel defeats Northeastern 98–90 in five overtimes. (AP/Yahoo!)
Ice hockey (NHL):
A late hit on Buffalo Sabres co-captain Chris Drury leads to a huge fight between them and the Ottawa Senators. At some point or another, all twelve players on the ice were fighting. A total of 100 penalty minutes were dispensed against eight different players, including five game misconducts. Three Sabres and two Senators were ejected, including both teams' goalies. The Sabres ultimately won the game, 6–5 in a shootout. (ESPN)
That shootout was one of an NHL single-night record eight overtime games, and one of four shootouts.
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21 February 2007 (Wednesday)
Football (soccer):
UEFA Champions League, Last-16 stage, first leg: (UEFA.com)
Porto 1 – 1 Chelsea
Roma 0 – 0 Lyon
Barcelona 1 – 2 Liverpool
Inter Milan 2 – 2 Valencia
Basketball:
International basketball: The International Basketball Federation lifts the Philippines' suspension as it recognizes the new basketball federation. (FIBA.com)
US men's college basketball:
(2) Ohio State 68, Penn State 60
(3) Florida 63, South Carolina 49
(5) North Carolina 83, NC State 64
(8) Texas A&M 66, Oklahoma State 46
Mississippi State 83, (17) Vanderbilt 70
Miami (FL) 68, (24) Virginia 60
Tennessee 69, (25) Alabama 66 (OT)
2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Finals Game 5: Barangay Ginebra Kings 94, San Miguel Beermen 82. Kings lead series 3–2. Game was held at the Araneta Coliseum.
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20 February 2007 (Tuesday)
Boxing:
Tommy Morrison, who was banned from the sport in 1996 for a positive HIV test, is cleared to return to the ring by the West Virginia Athletic Commission after several HIV tests over the past two months come back negative. He claims the test in 1996 was a false positive, and he never had HIV. He defeated John Castle in Indianapolis via a second round technical knockout on 22 February.
Football (soccer):
UEFA Champions League, Last-16 stage, first leg (UEFA.com):
Celtic 0 – 0 A.C. Milan
PSV Eindhoven 1 – 0 Arsenal
Lille 0 – 1 Manchester United
Real Madrid 3 – 2 Bayern Munich
US men's college basketball:
Michigan State 64, (1) Wisconsin 55. The Badgers lose their first game after assuming the top spot in the AP poll.
UNLV 60, (14) Air Force 50
Providence 64, (22) West Virginia 61
Cricket:
2006–07 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, 3rd ODI in Hamilton:
350/9 (49.3 overs) beat 346/5 (50 overs) by 1 wicket (with 3 balls remaining). New Zealand win the series 3–0.
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19 February 2007 (Monday)
American football:
The NFL's San Diego Chargers name former San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Norv Turner as their new head coach. This is Turner's third head coaching job, having previously coached the Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins.
US men's college basketball:
(6) Kansas 71, Kansas State 62
(10) Pittsburgh 71, Seton Hall 68
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18 February 2007 (Sunday)
Auto racing:
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
(1) Kevin Harvick, (2) Mark Martin, (3) Jeff Burton, (4) Mike Wallace, (5) David Ragan.
Harvick edges Martin by .020 seconds in the closest finish since Lee Petty won the inaugural event in 1959 as a crash in back of the two leaders scrambles the top ten.
Basketball:
2007 NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas, Nevada.
West All-Stars 153, East All-Stars 132. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 32 points and earns the game's Most Valuable Player Award in the first NBA-sanctioned All-Star Game played in a city without an NBA franchise.
US men's college basketball:
(3) Ohio State 85, Minnesota 67
Arizona State 68, (22) USC 58
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
Final: 1 1 (4:1 in penalty shootout).
Third place: 1 0.
Tennis:
2007 ATP Tour:
Open 13 in Marseille, France:Final: Gilles Simon def (7) Marcos Baghdatis 6–4 7–6(3).
Brasil Open in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil:Final: Guillermo Cañas def (1) Juan Carlos Ferrero 7–6(4) 6–2.
SAP Open in San Jose, California, USA:Final: (3) Andy Murray def Ivo Karlović 6–7(3) 6–4 7–6(2).
2007 WTA Tour:
Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium:Final: (1) Amélie Mauresmo def (2) Kim Clijsters 6–4 7–6(4).
Sony Ericsson International in Bangalore, India:Final: Yaroslava Shvedova def (1) Mara Santangelo 6–4 6–4.
Cricket:
2006–07 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, 2nd ODI in Auckland:
337/5 (48.4 ov) beat 336/4 (50 ov) by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining). New Zealand lead the 3-match series 2–0.
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17 February 2007 (Saturday)
Basketball:
2007 NBA All-Star Saturday Night: Yahoo! Sports
Shooting Stars: Team Detroit (Chauncey Billups, Swin Cash, Bill Laimbeer) def. Team Chicago (Ben Gordon, Candice Dupree, Scottie Pippen) via disqualification when Gordon shoots out of turn.
Skills Challenge: Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat, 26.4 seconds) def. Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers, 45.8 seconds)
Race for Charity: Charles Barkley def. Dick Bavetta with a time of 25.7 seconds.
Three-Point Shootout: Jason Kapono (Miami Heat, 24 pts.) def. Gilbert Arenas (Washington Wizards, 17 pts.) and Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks, 9 pts.).
Slam Dunk Competition: Gerald Green (Boston Celtics, 91 points) def. Nate Robinson (New York Knicks, 80 pts.).
US men's college basketball:
Vanderbilt 83, (1) Florida 70. The Commodores upset the Gators in Nashville, ending Florida's 17-game winning streak.
(3) Wisconsin 75, Penn State 49
(4) North Carolina 77, (21) Boston College 72
(5) UCLA 81, (19) Arizona 66
(6) Texas A&M 56, Oklahoma 49
(7) Pittsburgh 65, Washington 61
(8) Memphis 78, Gonzaga 77 (OT)
(9) Kansas 92, Nebraska 39
Louisville 61, (12) Marquette 59
(16) Southern Illinois 68, (13) Butler 64 (First meeting of two ranked teams in a "Bracket Busters" matchup.)
Missouri 75, (18) Oklahoma State 64
Michigan 58, (24) Indiana 55
(25) Alabama 72, (20) Kentucky 61
Cricket:
Sri Lanka in India, 4th ODI in Visakhapatnam:
263/3 (41/47 ov) beat 259/7 (47/47 ov) by 7 wickets (with 36 balls remaining). India win the series 2–1.
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16 February 2007 (Friday)
Cricket:
2006–07 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, 1st ODI in Wellington:
149/0 (27 ov) beat 148 (49.3 ov) by 10 wickets (with 138 balls remaining).
Basketball:
2007 NBA Rookie Challenge: Sophomores 155, Rookies 114. David Lee (Sophomores/New York Knicks) win MVP honors.
2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Finals: For the second consecutive game, the Barangay Ginebra Kings blow out the San Miguel Beermen, 146–111 to tie the best of seven series 2–2 at the Araneta Coliseum.
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador, semifinals:
2 0.
2 0.
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15 February 2007 (Thursday)
BALCO drugs scandal:
Colorado attorney Troy Ellerman pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in San Francisco to illegally leaking grand jury testimony relating to the BALCO investigation to San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against the reporters, authors of the steroids exposé Game of Shadows. (AP via San Francisco Chronicle)
Football (soccer):
2006–07 UEFA Cup – Round of 32, first leg
Zulte Waregem 1 – 3 Newcastle United
Sporting Braga 1 – 0 Parma
Lens 3 – 1 Panathinaikos
Spartak Moscow 1 – 1 Celta Vigo
Steaua Bucharest 0 – 2 Sevilla
Tottenham Hotspur received a bye into the next round following Feyenoord's expulsion from the competition after crowd misbehaviour in their last group stage match. (UEFA.com)
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
Fifth place: 9 1. Honduras qualify to 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Auto racing:
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup:
Gatorade Duel twin qualifying race winners: Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon. Gordon however, will have to start from the rear of the field due to failure of the post-race inspection of a pair of bolts misaligning a shock absorber making the car one inch lower than NASCAR rules, but was allowed to keep the victory.
US men's college basketball
(5) UCLA 67, Arizona State 61
California 63, (15) Oregon 61
(22) Southern California 80, (19) Arizona 75
Purdue 81, (24) Indiana 68
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14 February 2007 (Wednesday)
Football (soccer): 2006–07 UEFA Cup – Round of 32, first leg
Bayer Leverkusen 3 – 2 Blackburn Rovers
Hapoel Tel Aviv 2 – 1 Rangers
Livorno 1 – 2 Espanyol
Fenerbahçe 3 – 3 AZ Alkmaar
Werder Bremen 3 – 0 Ajax
CSKA Moscow 0 – 0 Maccabi Haifa
AEK Athens 0 – 2 Paris Saint-Germain
Benfica 1 – 0 Dinamo Bucharest
Shakhtar Donetsk 1 – 1 Nancy
Bordeaux 0 – 0 Osasuna (UEFA.com)
Auto racing:
NASCAR punished Michael Waltrip Racing's No. 55 Toyota Camry driven by the owner with both their crew chief indefinitely suspended along with their vice president of competition, a fine of $100,000 (US$) and a loss of both 100 owner and driver points. Additionally, his time from Sunday's pole position qualifying was disqualified, and he will start in the back of Thursday's first Duel 150-mile races. (USA Today)
Cricket
Sri Lanka in India, 3rd ODI in Margao:
233–5 (46.3 ov) beat 230–8 (50 ov) by 5 wickets (21 balls remaining) to level the 4-match series 1–1.
Pakistan in South Africa, 5th ODI in Johannesburg:
156–1 (28.2 ov) beat 153 (40.5 ov) by 9 wickets (130 balls remaining) and win the series 3–1.
Basketball:
NBA:
The Boston Celtics ended their club-record 18-game losing streak by defeating the Milwaukee Bucks, 117–97.
US men's college basketball
(1) Florida 76, (25) Alabama 67
(2) Ohio State 64, Penn State 62
(3) Wisconsin 75, Minnesota 62
(8) Memphis 69, Tulsa 52
(9) Kansas 75, Colorado 46
(10) Washington State 65, Washington 61
DePaul 72, (12) Marquette 67
Duke 78, (21) Boston College 70
Two Big Ten games – (24) Indiana at Purdue and Northwestern at Iowa – were postponed due to the midwestern blizzard.
2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Finals: Barangay Ginebra Kings 131, San Miguel Beermen 101; Beermen lead best-of-7 series 2–1.
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13 February 2007 (Tuesday)
US men's college basketball:
Virginia Tech 81, (4) North Carolina 80 (OT)
Texas Tech 77, (6) Texas A&M 75
Tennessee 89, (20) Kentucky 85
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
1 0.
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12 February 2007 (Monday)
Ice hockey:
ESPN.com reports that the NHL will stage two regular season games in October of 2007 at The O2 arena in London, England. One of the participating teams will be the Los Angeles Kings, with the other to be announced later this year.
Cricket:
Intercontinental Cup:
531–5 Dec (111.2 ov.) beat 243 & 118. Ireland win by an innings and 170 runs, and advance to the final against .
American football:
Even after posting the best record in the NFL with a 14–2 record, the San Diego Chargers fire head coach Marty Schottenheimer as he was deemed by team management as being in a "dysfunctional situation". (Sports Illustrated)
US men's college basketball:
Louisville 66, (7) Pittsburgh 53
Texas 83, (17) Oklahoma State 54
After four straight losses, Duke drops out of the AP poll for the first time since the end of the 1995–96 season. The Blue Devils' 200 consecutive weeks in the AP poll was the second-longest run in history, behind UCLA's 221 weeks from 1966 to 1980. (AP/Yahoo!)
Gonzaga lose at home for the first time in nearly four years. Their 84–73 loss to Santa Clara, in their second game without suspended star Josh Heytvelt, ends a 50-game streak, including the first 38 games they played in their current home, McCarthey Athletic Center.
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
4 2.
0 0.
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11 February 2007 (Sunday)
Auto racing:
David Gilliland and Ricky Rudd are set for the front row of the 49th running of the Daytona 500 as the Robert Yates Racing teammates sweep the front row. However, two contenders for the title, Matt Kenseth (Roush Racing #17) and Kasey Kahne (Evernham Motorsports #9) had their times wiped out after failing post-qualifying inspection and two-time race winner Michael Waltrip's car was impounded due to an abnormal odor found in the carburetor. On Tuesday, the crew chiefs for Kenseth and Kahne were suspended for four races, fined $50,000 (US$) and both teams and their drivers will start the season fifty points in the red. Additionally, two other Evernham teams, those driven by Elliott Sadler (#19) and Scott Wimmer (#10) had their crew chiefs suspended for two races, were fined $25,000 and begin the year 25 points in the hole.
Rugby union:
Six Nations:
Ireland 17 20
In a thrilling first-ever Rugby international played at Dublin's Croke Park, France secured victory with a very last minute converted try, a minute after Ireland took the lead for the first time. Ronan O'Gara scored all Ireland's points.
2007 USA Sevens:
win their first Cup final of the 2006–07 season, avenging their defeat in the 2007 New Zealand Sevens final by Pacific rivals with a 38–24 win in San Diego. With the win, Fiji draw level with atop the season table.
Marcus Grönholm wins the 57th Uddeholm Swedish Rally, the second rally of the 2007 World Rally Championship season.
Tennis:
2007 Davis Cup World Group, first round, day 3:(home teams listed first)
Chile v Russia 2 – 3
France v Romania 4 – 1
Germany v Croatia 3 – 2
Belgium v Australia 3 – 2
Czech Republic v USA 1 – 4
Switzerland v Spain 2 – 3
Belarus v Sweden 2 – 3
Austria v Argentina 1 – 4
WTA Tour:
2007 Open Gaz de France in Paris:Final: (4) Nadia Petrova beat Lucie Šafářová 4–6 6–1 6–4.
2007 Pattaya Women's Open:Final: Sybille Bammer beat (6) Gisela Dulko 7–5 3–6 7–5.
Cricket:
Pakistan in South Africa, 4th ODI in Cape Town:
113/0 (14 ov) beat 107 (45.4 ov) by 10 wickets (with 216 balls remaining). South Africa lead 2–1 in the 5-match series.
Sri Lanka in India, 2nd ODI in Rajkot:
257/8 (50 ov) beat 252/9 (50 ov) by 5 runs. Sri Lanka lead 1–0 in the 4-match series.
2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series, second final in Sydney:
246/8 (50 ov) beat 152/8 (27/27 ov) by 34 runs (D/L method) and won the final series 2–0.
Basketball
US men's college basketball:
Maryland 72, (16) Duke 60. The Blue Devils slump to their first four-game losing streak since 1996.
Washington 64, (25) Stanford 52
2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Finals: The San Miguel Beermen take a 2–0 series lead after the Barangay Ginebra Kings failed to convert crucial freethrows at the endgame, winning 104–101 at the Araneta Coliseum. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
1 1.
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10 February 2007 (Saturday)
Auto racing:
The 2007 NASCAR season opens with the annual race for pole position winners, the Budweiser Shootout, won by Tony Stewart for the third time.
Cricket:
Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 4th ODI at Harare:
246/9 (47.2 ov) beat 244/8 (50 ov) by 1 wicket with 16 balls remaining. Bangladesh wins four-match series 3–1.
Rugby union: Six Nations:
20 7 in London.
21 9 in Edinburgh.
Tennis:
2007 Davis Cup World Group, first round, day 2:(home teams listed first)
Chile v Russia 1 – 2
France v Romania 2 – 1
Germany v Croatia 2 – 1
Belgium v Australia 2 – 1
Czech Republic v USA 1 – 2
Switzerland v Spain 1 – 2
Belarus v Sweden 1 – 2
Austria v Argentina 1 – 2
2007 Open Gaz de France in Paris:
Lucie Šafářová upset top seed Justin Henin in the semifinal, following previous wins over No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova and No. 5 Nicole Vaidišová. In the other semi, No. 4 Nadia Petrova put out No. 2 Amélie Mauresmo.
American football: NFL 2007 Pro Bowl in Honolulu, Hawaii:
AFC All-Stars 31, NFC All Stars 28. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer is the game's MVP with two touchdown passes. A fourth quarter comeback by the NFC, with two touchdowns to tie the game 28–28, was for naught as the AFC got a pass interference call at the two-yard line to set up the game-winning last-second field goal by San Diego Chargers PK Nate Kaeding. The game was marred by an injury to New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees, dislocating his non-throwing (left) elbow early in the exhibition contest that concluded the 2006 NFL season.
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
1 0.
2 1. Both winners qualify to the semifinals and to 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
US men's college basketball:
(1) Florida 64, (20) Kentucky 61
West Virginia 70, (2) UCLA 65
(3) Ohio State 63, Purdue 56
(4) Wisconsin 74, Iowa 62
(5) North Carolina 104, Wake Forest 67
(6) Texas A&M 66, Nebraska 55
(7) Pittsburgh 74, Providence 68
(8) Memphis 95, Tulane 51
(9) Kansas 92, Missouri 74
Wright State 77, (10) Butler 65
(22) Georgetown 76, (11) Marquette 58
(24) Arizona 77, (13) Oregon 74
Ole Miss 75, (18) Alabama 69
Tennessee 84, (23) Vanderbilt 57
Two Gonzaga players, starter Josh Heytvelt and redshirt Theo Davis, are suspended from the team following their arrest on drug charges last night. Police in Cheney, Washington reported that they found psychedelic mushrooms and marijuana in the players' car during a routine traffic stop. (ESPN)
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9 February 2007 (Friday)
Cricket:
2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series, first final in Melbourne:
253/6 (49.3 ov) beat 252 (48.3 ov) by 4 wickets with 3 balls remaining, and take 1–0 lead in the best-of-3 series.
Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 3rd ODI in Harare:
228/9 (50.0 ov) beat 214 (49.4 ov) by 14 runs to lead four-match series 2–1.
Pakistan in South Africa, 3rd ODI in Port Elizabeth:
245/8 (49.5 ov). did not bat. Rain forces abandonment of match.
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
3 1.
Tennis – 2007 Davis Cup:
2007 Davis Cup World Group, first round, day 1:(home teams listed first)
Chile v Russia 0 – 2
France v Romania 2 – 0
Germany v Croatia 1 – 1
Belgium v Australia 2 – 0
Czech Republic v USA 1 – 1
Switzerland v Spain 1 – 1
Belarus v Sweden 0 – 2
Austria v Argentina 0 – 2
Basketball: 2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Championship Round: (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Finals: The San Miguel Beermen built had huge lead at the first half to prevent a Barangay Ginebra Kings comeback to win Game 1 of their best of seven series, 118–94.
Third-place playoff: The Talk 'N Text Phone Pals built their own huge lead in which Red Bull Barako was not able to catch up with to clinch the third-place trophy.
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8 February 2007 (Thursday)
Basketball:
US men's college basketball:
(8) Memphis 70, UAB 56
(10) Butler 92, Cleveland State 50
(14) Washington State 58, (25) Stanford 45
US women's college basketball:
(1) Duke 64, (2) North Carolina 53. The Blue Devils remain the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I, taking down the previously unbeaten Tar Heels in Chapel Hill.
Israel state cup final:
Hapoel Jerusalem 103, Bney Hasharon 85.
Football (soccer):
UNCAF Nations Cup 2007 in El Salvador:
1 0.
2 1.
Cricket:
Sri Lanka in India, 1st ODI in Kolkata:
102 for 3 (18.2 overs) v – Match abandoned due to rain.
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7 February 2007 (Wednesday)
Football (soccer):
In the aftermath of the Catania riots that postponed or canceled all football matches in Italy since 2 February, the Italian government approved recommendations of a fact-finding panel. The panel found that only four of the thirty-one Italian football stadiums in Serie A and Serie B are capable to host soccer matches. San Siro in Milan is among those ruled out, which means that A.C. Milan and Inter Milan's upcoming Champions League fixtures would probably be moved to neutral sites, as would Parma and Livorno's UEFA Cup fixtures, as their stadia were also declared unsafe by the government. Additionally, no nighttime matches will be held for the rest of February and many matches will be held "behind closed doors" in empty stadiums. In response, several clubs along with the Italian soccer players' union said they would go on strike against these draconian motions.
Euro 2008 Qualifying:
1 – 2
Friendly international matches:
2 – 1
2 – 2
0 – 0
0 – 1
2 – 0
2 – 0
1 – 1 . Seventeen-year-old Ben Sahar of Chelsea makes his debut and becomes the youngest-ever player in Israel national football team history.
1 – 0
0 – 3
1 – 0
1 – 1
2 – 1
2 – 0
2 – 1
2 – 2
3 – 1
2 – 1
1 – 0
0 – 0
4 – 1
2 – 2
1 – 1
0 – 2
0 – 1
0 – 1
2 – 0
0 – 1
1 – 3
Cricket:
ICC World Cricket League Division One in Nairobi:
Final: 158/2 (37.5 ov) beat 155 (47 ov) by 8 wickets (with 73 balls remaining).
Pakistan in South Africa, 2nd ODI in Durban:
351/4 (50 ov) beat 210 (40 ov) by 141 runs, and levels the 5-match series 1–1.
Basketball:
Former NBA player John Amaechi becomes the first NBA player, active or retired, to come out as gay. He will reveal this in his autobiography to be released later this month, and will also appear on ESPN's Outside the Lines on 11 February. (ESPN)
US men's college basketball:
(1) Florida 71, Georgia 61
(2) UCLA 70, (19) Southern California 65
(4) Wisconsin 71, Penn State 58
(5) North Carolina 79, (16) Duke 73
(7) Pittsburgh 60, West Virginia 47
(9) Kansas 97, Kansas State 70
Oklahoma 67, (17) Oklahoma State 60
2006–07 PBA Philippine Cup Semifinals: The San Miguel Beermen book the last Finals berth against sister team Barangay Ginebra Kings after a Game 7 119–115 victory against Red Bull Barako at the Araneta Coliseum. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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6 February 2007 (Tuesday)
Football (soccer) Friendly games:
In London, England:
4–1
2–0
1–0
3–1
In Belfast, Northern Ireland:
0–0
In La Courneuve, France:
3–1
In Rouen, France:
1–0
Cyprus International Tournament 2007:
In Limassol, Cyprus:
2–1
In Larnaca, Cyprus:
2–0
Cricket:
2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series in Brisbane:
270/7 (50 ov) beat 256/8 (50 ov) by 14 runs. England qualify to the final vs .
Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 2nd ODI in Harare:
156/2 (35.2 ov) beat 153 (46 ov) by 8 wickets (with 88 balls remaining), and levels the 4-match series 1:1.
US men's college basketball:
(3) Ohio State 76, Michigan 63
San Diego State 62, (15) Air Force 41
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5 February 2007 (Monday)
Tennis:
2007 ATP Tour – International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, Florida, USA:
Final: Xavier Malisse beat James Blake 5–7 6–4 6–4. The match was postponed due to rain on Sunday. Malisse becomes the first player to win two titles this year.
Cricket:
2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One in Nairobi:
269/5 (49 ov) beat 268/9 (50 ov) by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining).
250/9 (50 ov) beat 92 (14.5 ov) by 158 runs.
260/7 (46/46 ov) beat 254/8 (46/46 ov) by 6 runs.Kenya and Scotland qualify to the final and to 2007 Twenty20 World Championship.
US men's college basketball:
(6) Texas A&M 100, Texas 82
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4 February 2007 (Sunday)
American football:
NFL Super Bowl XLI at Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida:
Indianapolis Colts 29, Chicago Bears 17. The Colts win their first Super Bowl since moving to Indianapolis from Baltimore, namely Super Bowl V, also held in Miami. The Bears' Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown, a first for the championship game. After a 53-yard touchdown pass from Peyton Manning to Reggie Wayne closes the gap to one point, Thomas Jones sets up another Bears TD with a 52-yard run. But Indy's defense largely shuts down Chicago after that. Dominic Rhodes' 1-yard touchdown run puts the Colts ahead 16–14 at halftime. The Bears hang in until early in the fourth quarter, when Kelvin Hayden returns a Rex Grossman interception 56 yards for a touchdown. Manning, who goes 25 of 38 for 247 yards with one touchdown and one interception, is named MVP.
Bandy: World Championship:
Final: defeat , 3–1, to win the world championship.
Team handball – Men's World Championship in Germany:
Final: Germany 29 Poland 24.
3rd/fourth place: Denmark 34 France 27.
Football (soccer):
2007 ASEAN Football Championship, Final second Leg: 1 1 (Singapore win 3–2 on aggregate).
Rugby union: Six Nations:
9 Ireland 19
Cricket:
Pakistan in South Africa, 1st ODI in Centurion:
392/6 (50 ov) beat 228 (46.4 ov) by 164 runs.
Bangladesh in Zimbabwe, 1st ODI in Harare:
260/9 (50 ov) beat 215 (48 ov) by 45 runs.
2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series in Melbourne:
291/5 (48.2 ov) beat 290/7 (50 ov) by 5 wickets (with 10 balls remaining).
2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One in Nairobi, Kenya:
198/2 (43.1 ov) beat 194 (46.3 ov) by 8 wickets (with 41 balls remaining).
312/4 (49.4 ov) beat 308/7 (50 ov) by 6 wickets (with 2 balls remaining).
254/8 (50 ov) beat 177 (46 ov) by 77 runs.Scotland qualify to the final. Their opponent will be decided on Monday from Kenya, Canada or Netherlands.
Tennis:
2007 WTA Tour – Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan:
Final: (2) Martina Hingis def. (5) Ana Ivanovic 6–4 6–2
2007 ATP Tour – Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Chile:
Final: (5) Luis Horna def. (3) Nicolás Massú 7–5 6–3
2007 ATP Tour – International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, Florida, USA:
Final: (1) James Blake vs (3) Xavier Malisse 7–5 3–3 (postponed)
2007 ATP Tour – PBZ Zagreb Indoors in Zagreb, Croatia:
Final: (2) Marcos Baghdatis def. (1) Ivan Ljubičić 7–6(4) 4–6 6–4
Basketball:
US men's college basketball:
Florida State 68, (8) Duke 67
2006–07 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup Semifinals: (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
The Barangay Ginebra Kings defeated the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals, 98–89 to win their best of seven series 4–2, to advance to the Finals. The game saw one ejection and three flagrant fouls.
On the other semifinal series, Red Bull Barako forced a deciding Game 7 with a 104–100 win against the San Miguel Beermen. The game saw four technical fouls and an ejection.
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3 February 2007 (Saturday)
American football: The Pro Football Hall of Fame formally announces that Gene Hickerson, Michael Irvin, Bruce Matthews, Charlie Sanders, Thurman Thomas and Roger Wehrli are selected for induction as the Class of 2007. (ESPN)
Rugby union:
Six Nations:
3 39
42 20
Super 14 – Round 1:
Brumbies 21 Chiefs 15.
Reds 25 Hurricanes 16.
Sharks 17 Bulls 3.
Cheetahs 27 Stormers 9.
US men's college basketball:
(1) Florida 94, Tennessee 78
(2) Wisconsin 69, Northwestern 52
NC State 83, (3) North Carolina 79
(4) Ohio State 63, Michigan State 54
(5) UCLA 82, Oregon State 35
(10) Texas A&M 69, (6) Kansas 66
USC 71, (9) Oregon 68
Colorado 89, (12) Oklahoma State 77
Boston College 80, (16) Virginia Tech 59
South Florida 69, (21) Notre Dame 63
Kansas State 73, (22) Texas 72
Georgia Tech 80, (25) Clemson 62
2 February 2007 (Friday)
American college football: The 2006–07 college football post-season concluded with the inaugural Texas vs. The Nation Game in which The Nation team won 24–20.
Cricket:
2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series in Sydney:
292/7 (50 overs) beat 200 (38.5 overs) by 92 runs.
2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One in Nairobi:
162/8 (21/21 overs) beat 106 (15.5/21 overs) by 56 runs.
286/9 (49 overs) beat 284/4 (50 overs) by 1 wicket (with 6 balls remaining).
207/8 (37/37 overs) beat 205 (36.5/37 overs) by 2 runs.
Pakistan in South Africa:
Twenty20 International in Johannesburg: 132/0 (11.3/20 overs) beat 129/8 (20/20 overs) by 10 wickets (with 51 balls remaining).
Cycling – 2007 Tour of Qatar:
After winning stages 2, 3 and 4 already, Tom Boonen also wins the final stage. His teammate Wilfried Cretskens ends first in the General classification to complete a successful week for Quick-Step–Innergetic as they had also won the opening team time trial.
Football (soccer): All football matches in Italy, including next Wednesday's friendly international between Italy and Romania, are indefinitely cancelled following the death of a policeman during rioting at the Catania vs Palermo local derby in Sicily. (Reuters)
Rugby union:
Super 14 – Round 1:
Blues 34 Crusaders 25.
Highlanders 8 Force 7.
Waratahs 25 Lions 16.
1 February 2007 (Thursday)
Team handball – Men's World Championship in Germany:
Semifinals:
Germany 32 France 31 (2OT).
Poland 36 Denmark 33 (2OT).
Placement matches 5th–8th:
Croatia 35 Spain 27.
Russia 28 Iceland 25.
Basketball:
Euroleague, last round of regular season(Bold teams advance to Top 16)
Group A:
Efes Pilsen 72 Dynamo Moscow 76.
Olympiacos 77 RheinEnergie Köln 73.
TAU Cerámica 86 Le Mans 54.
Prokom Trefl Sopot 78 Climamio Bologna 84.
Group B:
Lottomatica Roma 81 Cibona 58.
DKV Joventut 82 Union Olimpija 86.
Maccabi Tel Aviv 76 Panathinaikos 73.
Partizan 90 Unicaja Málaga 94 (OT).
US men's college basketball:
(5) UCLA 69, (9) Oregon 57
Virginia 68, (8) Duke 66 (OT)
(18) Washington State 72, (20) Arizona 66
References
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Dale Zarrella, Hawaiian sculptor and painter
Giovanni Zarrella (born 1978), German-Italian singer and television presenter
Jana Ina Zarrella (born 1976), Brazilian television personality and presenter
John Zarrella, American news correspondent |
Sydney Distance Education High School is a public distance education school in the inner-city suburb of Woolloomooloo in Sydney, Australia. The school is on the same site as the Plunkett Street Public School. It delivers individualised education programs to students in Years 7–12 whose special circumstances prevent them from attending regular schooling. It also provides curriculum delivery to students in Years 9–12 studying a single subject not available at their home school. It uses the decentralised model of distance education, where the form of teaching is determined based on a student's situation. The school caters to students living in the Greater Sydney region.
The school delivers educational services via digital methods, alongside traditional paper work distributed via mail.
Enrolments are open for those in Years 7 to 12:
Students with a medical condition that prevents them from attending regular schooling
Pregnant students / young parents
Vocationally talented students
Students with significant support needs
Professional performers and athletes
Students in special placement settings
History
In 1884, the Government school system was established to provide educational facilities to all students, including those in rural areas. Until the late 1870s, many children were not able to access education due to geographical isolation, commonly living in impoverished conditions. This was mostly due to the sparse settlement in New South Wales. House to house schools rose in popularity during the 1890s but the minimum enrolment numbers for a school to be viable were proving difficult to reach, causing a decline in the use of the house to house system. The subsidy scheme introduced in 1903 aimed to bring easier access to education for these children by subsidising isolated families so they could afford private teaching. Although the scheme succeeded, there were still children without access to education due to their family's financial circumstances not being able accommodate private teaching despite the subsidy.
Travelling schools were first introduced as an alternative method of public education in 1908. Reports conducted by inspectors for the New South Wales Department of Education in 1912 showed of school aged children living west of the Great Dividing Range, 1014 were not attending school. Due to this, the travelling schools scheme was expanded, announced by the Minister of Public Instruction in 1913. In 1915, there were three travelling schools, with a collective enrolment of 85 students. Travelling schools were predominantly used during World War I (1914–1918) to provide education separate from a physical institution. Work was shared through radio and print. After the war they were closed down. The Department of Education made the decision to suspend travelling schools, replacing them with correspondence schools. The Department of Education opened The Correspondence School in place of travelling schools at the Department's Bridge Street headquarters in 1916 to accommodate students who may struggle with on-campus learning. The majority of schools were located in urban areas, creating geographical difficulty for students living in rural areas attending school. This includes regional areas where 67% of students complete their HSC compared to 81% of urban students. The Department of Education started recommending the Correspondence School to students wanting to enrol in travelling schools and rejected most applications for the establishment of new travelling schools in New South Wales.
As travelling schools closed, The Correspondence School's enrolment numbers increased. The 25 students enrolled at the Inverell Travelling School were transferred to the Correspondence School due to the schools closure in 1921. The school's expansion created the need for a physical location to facilitate the continuation of distance education. This resulted in the Teachers College, now known as the Sydney Distance Education High School, becoming a secondary school in Blackfriars, Sydney in 1922. In 1923, the first Schools for Specific Purpose were established by the Department of Education. These catered for students struggling with disabilities and other circumstances that interrupted their education. Therefore, the Teacher's College was known as a School for Specific Purposes. Enrolment at the Correspondence School reached 2555 students in 1925, with 60 teaching staff. In 1959, enrolment levels began to lower due to improvements in access to traditional education methods, especially for rural students in New South Wales. Students were now given the option to study single subjects through the school, due to the introduction of the Wyndham Scheme in 1961. The scheme created the current (as of 2020) secondary school curriculum where in ‘junior school’ (year 7) students complete a set of common compulsory subjects and in second, third and fourth form (years 8, 9 and 10) they complete a set of compulsory subjects along with two elective subjects. It also introduced new criteria for the School Certificate, received at the end of fifth form (year 11). This scheme led to an increase in enrolments.
In 1965, multiple satellite schools opened in Walgett, Bourke, Cobar and Nyngan and The Correspondence School moved to William Street in Kings Cross. Dover Heights High School became a shared space with the opening of the Sydney Secondary Distance Education Centre in 1999. The school relocated to Forbes Street, Woolloomooloo in 2002 and was renamed Sydney Distance Education High School. The digital learning format of an eLearning Portal as a platform storing school files and accessibility to video chat facilities was used during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 as an example for educational institutions transferring to online learning.
Learning Hubs
Glenbrook
Glenbrook Centre, 10 Park Street, Glenbrook
The Glenbrook Centre opened in 2013. It is located inside the grounds of Glenbrook Primary School, in the building closest to the school carpark and Ross Street. It is hired out to other schools and educational services. The centre runs mental health programs for high school students in Parramatta to Mount Victoria areas. The Sydney Distance Education High School learning hub is held in the centre on Thursdays during the school term from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Ingleburn
Greg Percival Community Centre, Corner of Oxford Road and Cumberland Road, Ingleburn
The Greg Percival Community Centre is located in the Campbelltown City Council area, adjacent to the Ingleburn Library and near Hallinan Park. It has held functions such as religious or cultural activities, weddings and community groups. The Sydney Distance Education High School learning hub is held in the Community Centre on Tuesdays during the school term from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Miranda
Endeavour Room of the Miranda Community Centre, 93 Karimbla Rd, Miranda
The Sydney Distance Education High School learning hub is held in the Community Centre on Mondays during the school term from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Tuggerah
Tuggerah Community Hall, 9 Anzac Rd, Tuggerah
The Sydney Distance Education High School learning hub is held in the Community Hall on Tuesdays during the school term from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Woolloomooloo
School library, Sydney Distance Education High School
The Sydney Distance Education High School learning hub is held in the school library on Wednesdays from 10:30 am – 2:30 pm and Fridays 9:00 am – 2:30 pm during the school term.
Subjects
Students complete generic compulsory high school subjects in Stages 4–5 as well as a compulsory student wellbeing course. In Stage 5 students also complete two elective courses from a list of general high school electives as well as industrial technology subjects. In Stage 6 students complete one English subject and up to 12 units of other general HSC subjects and/or one of the Vocational education and Training (VET) courses offered by the school. For a full list of subjects see the 2020 Enrolment Application Form for Years 7–12.
Results
Higher School Certificate (HSC)
These are the number of students from Sydney Distance Education High School that received a band 6 or received a state rank in the HSC for the corresponding years.
Notable alumni
References
Home. (n.d.). Sydney Distance Education High School, Retrieved 23 March 2020, from https://sydneyh-d.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Sydney Distance Education High School. (2019). HSCninja. Retrieved 2 April 2020, from https://www.hscninja.com/profile
Sydney Distance Education High School, Woolloomooloo, NSW School Profile. (2019). My School. Retrieved 2 April 2020, from https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/41186/profile
Olympians. (n.d.). Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 April 2020, from https://www.olympics.com.au/olympians/
Peninsula Community Centre. (n.d.). Coast Community Connections. Retrieved 18 May 2020, from https://www.coastcommunityconnections.com.au/community-centre
Woolloomooloo
Public high schools in Sydney
Education in Australia
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Vasyl Vasylovych Petiovka (; born 30 January 1967) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012.
Early life and career
Vasyl Petiovka was born on 30 January 1967, in the village of Zavydovo, within what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1985 he graduated from Mukachevo cooperative technical school on specialty: stock manager and sales manager of groceries and industrial goods. From 1985 to 1987 he had a compulsory military service. He got education at Mukachevo Technological Institute at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics. In 2006 he graduated from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, got a specialty: a specialist in accounting and audit.
From 1985, Petiovka worked at Verhniokoropetz consumers enterprise of Mukachevo Region consumer's association. After 1987, he worked at Mukachevo cooperative technical school, the Latorytzia company, and Rei-Promin LLC. From April 1997, he worked at Barva LLC, becoming head of the board of directors in April 1998.
Political career
In 2002, he was elected a deputy of the 4th convocation of the Zakarpattia Oblast Council. From 2002 to 2003, he served as a member of the executive Mukachevo City Council of Zakarpattia Oblast. From 2003 to 2007 he was mayor of Mukachevo. His 2003 election was followed by a long legal battle with Ernest Nuser, who had also claimed victory in the election and was supported by the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united).
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Petiovka was a candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine Bloc (NUNS), as No. 224 on the party list, but was unsuccessful. In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he ran again as a member of NUNS, this time as No. 60 on the party list. This time, Petiovka was successfully elected, and served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada Financial Committee.
In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was re-elected as a People's Deputy, this time in Ukraine's 72nd electoral district as a candidate of United Centre. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was re-elected as deputy from the 72nd electoral district, and joined the People’s Will group. As a consequence, he was expelled from United Centre.
Vasyl Petiovka is a member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on agricultural policy and land matters. He is also a member of the interparliamentary committee with South Korea. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was re-elected as an independent candidate from the 72nd electoral district, and became a member of Dovira.
Petiovka and three other Dovira faction members (Valerii Lunchenko, Robert Horvat and Vladislav Poliak) developed the local Zakarpattia Oblast party Native Zakarpattia. This part won 12 of the 64 seats in the Zakarpattia Oblast Council during the 2020 Ukrainian local elections.
Family
Petiovka has a wife, named Maryna, and two sons. He is a cousin of Viktor Baloha, who is also a member of the Verkhovna Rada.
Awards
Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd Class (08.2005)
Order of Merit (Ukraine) 2rd Class (07.2012)
Order of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Patriarchate of Moscow of Knight Volodymyr
References
External links
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, official web portal
1967 births
Living people
People from Zakarpattia Oblast
Odesa University alumni
Mayors of places in Ukraine
Our Ukraine (political party) politicians
United Centre politicians
Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class |
Elmira High School (often abbreviated as EHS) is a public high school in Elmira, Oregon, United States, located approximately 15 miles from Eugene, Oregon. It is one of the four schools of the Fern Ridge School District and provides an education of grades 9-12 for the city of Veneta, as well as for the towns of Elmira, Noti and Walton. Total enrollment numbers range from 350 to 450 students with a roughly even gender ratio. They operate on a seven period schedule over the course of two semesters, beginning in early September and ending in early June. EHS has four main buildings. In the lower left corner of the school consists of the main office and entrance, the theatre, library and the main studio for the school's radio station KOCF 92.7 FM, hosted by Stuart "Stu" Burgess. This building also contains the main hallways for the sophomore, junior and senior classes, as well as the counseling and learning centers. There is also an outdoor area outside of the building for social gatherings between students during passing periods and lunch. In the lower right corner is where the main gym and auxiliary gym are situated, as well as the freshman hallway and the Home Ec classroom. The auxiliary gym used to be the school's front entrance, however due to the athletics department asking for more practicing space and extracurricular opportunities, the auxiliary gym was built to satisfy those needs, and the school went for a more interior focused entrance. In the upper left corner is the Cafeteria, and in the upper right corner is the Band/Choir room, the weight room and workshops for students interested in welding, carpentry, woodworking and more.
Academics
In 2008, 83% of the school's seniors received their high school diploma. Of 108 students, 90 graduated, 5 dropped out, 33 received a modified diploma, with 33 remaining in high school.
As of 2020, 92% of the school's 92 seniors received their high school diploma, a 9% increase since 2008. According to the Oregon Statewide Assessment System, EHS students had an overall math proficiency of 53% and a reading proficiency of 88%, both of which are higher than the state average.
Athletics
Elmira High School plays at the 3A level, and participates in sports such as soccer, football, baseball, softball, basketball, and track and field. The school also hosts an annual Powder Puff football match between the girls of the senior and junior classes, while the boys for the EHS football team do the cheerleading.
Clubs
- National Honor Society (NHS): The basis of NHS is to provide community service throughout the city and towns they serve for including participating and helping blood drives, serving food for the homeless, and many other charitable acts.
- Interact Club: Similar to NHS, Interact Club is a community service based club that allows anyone from EHS to join. So far in their repertoire they have most notably helped develop a greenhouse for Elmira Elementary School.
- Key Club: Another community service club with student volunteers. Their main focus is to raise money for Doernbecher's Childrens Hospital with the wonderful lads and ladies of Kiwanis. Currently led by a school staff member Julie Burton.
- Radio Club: This club allows the students of EHS to learn and experience the process of making and/or hosting a radio show.
- Film Club: This club allows the students of EHS to learn and experience the process of making and/or acting in film productions. The bulk of the EHS film club's work consists of recreated movie trailers and voice overs of popular movie scenes, which can be found on the Elmira High School YouTube channel along with the school's film class projects.
- Robotics Club: This club allows any EHS student to team up with others to build a battlebot to take on other schools.
Championships
Softball: 1992, 1993, 2003, 2004, 2006
Boys Track and Field: 1973, 1980
Boys Basketball: 1964
Cheerleading: 1989, 1990
Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB): 2016, 2017
Notable alumni
Nathan Sawaya - Lego Artist
References
High schools in Lane County, Oregon
Educational institutions established in 1973
Public high schools in Oregon
1973 establishments in Oregon |
Jack Rivers Lewis (June 4, 1944 – May 5, 2023), known professionally as Jack Wilkins, was an American jazz guitarist.
Career
A native of New York City, Wilkins grew up listening to his parents' music, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday. He started playing guitar when he was thirteen. He had an older cousin who played albums for him by Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt, and Johnny Smith. He cited Smith's Designed for You as one of the albums that meant the most to him, in addition to Sounds of Synanon by Joe Pass, Poll Winners by Barney Kessel, The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow, and Interpretations of Tal Farlow.
While still in his teens, he worked as a guitarist in bands led by Les Elgart, Larry Elgart, Warren Covington, and Sammy Kaye.
Wilkins worked with Dan Armstrong, Lew Soloff, Lew Tabackin, and Lloyd Wells. In his twenties, he worked as a vibraphonist. He formed the band The Jazz Partners and played vibes with pianist Barry Manilow, who admired the work of Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, and Barney Kessel. Wilkins and Manilow arranged songs from Kessel's albums for their group. A copy of his first solo album, Windows (Mainstream, 1973), found its way into the hands of Buddy Rich's manager. Wilkins then became a member of the Buddy Rich septet.
Wilkins also worked with Kenny Barron, Frank Foster, Sonny Fortune, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy McGriff, Sal Nistico, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, Jack DeJohnette, Phil Woods, and the Brecker Brothers.
Wilkins died on May 5, 2023, at the age of 78.
Discography
As leader
Windows (Mainstream, 1973)
You Can't Live Without It (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
Opal (CTI, 1983)
Captain Blued (Greene Street, 1984)
Call Him Reckless (Musicmasters, 1989)
Alien Army (Musicmasters, 1991)
Mexico (CTI, 1992)
Merge (Chiaroscuro, 1992)
Trioart (Arabesque, 1998)
Bluesin (String Jazz, 1999)
Just the Two of Us with Gene Bertoncini (Chiaroscuro, 2000)
Reunion (Chiaroscuro, 2001)
Christmas Jazz Guitar (Mel Bay, 2002)
Until It's Time (MAXJAZZ, 2009)
As sideman
With Nancy Harrow
Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1979)
Two's Company (Inner City, 1984)
Winter Dreams (Artists House, 2003)
With Buddy Rich
Very Live at Buddy's Place (Groove Merchant, 1974)
The Bull (Chiaroscuro, 1980)
Tuff Dude (Denon, 1986)
With others
Chet Baker & Jim Hall & Hubert Laws, Studio Trieste (CTI, 1982)
Peter Bernstein, We Remember Tal (J-Curve, 1999)
Bob Brookmeyer, The Bob Brookmeyer Small Band (Gryphon, 1978)
Bubba Brooks, Polka Dots and Moonbeams (TCB, 2002)
Jay Clayton, In and Out of Love (Sunnyside, 2010)
Chris Connor, I Walk with Music (HighNote, 2002)
Albert Dailey, The Day After the Dawn (Columbia, 1972)
Sonny Fortune, Serengeti Minstrel (Atlantic, 1977)
Astrud Gilberto, That Girl from Ipanema (Image, 1977)
Lionel Hampton, Hamp's Blues (LRC, 1986)
Julius Hemphill, Julius Hemphill Big Band (Elektra Musician, 1988)
Earl Hines, Swingin' Away (Black Lion,)
Paul Jeffrey, Watershed (Mainstream, 1973)
Morgana King, Everything Must Change (Muse, 1979)
Morgana King, Higher Ground (Muse, 1980)
Amy London, Bridges (FiveCut, 2014)
The Manhattan Transfer, Swing (Atlantic, 1997)
Barry Miles, Barry Miles (Poppy Music, 1970)
Charles Mingus, Me Myself an Eye (Atlantic, 1979)
Charles Mingus, Something Like a Bird (Atlantic, 1980)
Mingus Big Band, I Am Three (Sunnyside, 2005)
Sal Nistico & Kenny Barron & Anthony Jackson & Buddy Rich, Transition (Groove Merchant, 1974)
Jonathan Schwartz, Alone Together (Muse, 1977)
Dave Tofani, Nights at the Inn (SoloWinds, 2007)
Pete Yellin, It's the Right Thing (Mainstream, 1973)
References
External links
Official site
1944 births
2023 deaths
American jazz guitarists
Manhattan School of Music faculty
Arabesque Records artists
Chiaroscuro Records artists
Mainstream Records artists
20th-century American guitarists
CTI Records artists
Musicians from Brooklyn
Jazz musicians from New York City |
Niecew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korzenna, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately east of Korzenna, north-east of Nowy Sącz, and south-east of the regional capital Kraków.
References
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Speed Racer, also known as , is a Japanese manga about automobile racing. It was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 Shōnen Book. It was released in tankōbon book form by Sun Wide Comics and later re-released in Japan by Fusosha. Adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, its 52 episodes aired on Fuji TV from April 1967 to March 1968. In the US, the show aired in syndication at approximately the same time. The anime was later re-broadcast on Tokyo MX from July 1 to September 25, 2008.
Selected chapters of the manga were released by NOW Comics in the 1990s under the title Speed Racer Classics. These were later released by Wildstorm Productions, a division of DC Comics, as Speed Racer: The Original Manga. In 2008, under its Americanized title, Speed Racer, Mach GoGoGo was republished in its entirety in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing and was released as a box set to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as serving as a tie-in with the 2008 film. The television series was very successful in the United States and is said to have defined anime in that country until the 1990s, being watched by a total estimated audience of viewers during the 1960s1970s.
Media
Manga
Mach GoGoGo was first created and designed by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida (1932–1977) as a manga series in the 1960s and made the jump to TV as an anime series in 1967. The actual manga was inspired by Yoshida's earlier and more popular automobile racing comics, Pilot Ace. Pilot Aces main storyline formed the structure for Mach GoGoGo, which followed the adventures of an ambitious young man, who soon became a professional racer.
The characters' designs in Pilot Ace set the main ground for the character design in Mach GoGoGo. Yoshida got his idea for the story after seeing two films that were very popular in Japan at the time, Viva Las Vegas and Goldfinger. By combining the look of Elvis Presley's race-car driving image, complete with neckerchief and black pompadour, and James Bond's gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5, Yoshida had the inspiration for his creation. Soon enough, Mach GoGoGo hit shelves in the early 1960s. The central character in the anime and manga was a young race car driver named Gō Mifune (Mifune Gō).
The name of the series, Mach GoGoGo, has a triple meaning: is the name of the car; the name of the main character is Gō Mifune; and finally, it contains the English word "go". In the American adaptation, Mach 5 stems from the number 5 on the door. Although, in Japanese, is the word for the number 5, the Kanji character which is used in the car name actually means "item number" (i.e. it is an ordinal suffix). In addition, gogogo, is used as a general Japanese sound effect for rumble. Taken together, the program's title means, "Mach-gō Gō Mifune Go!"
The manga (compiled into two deluxe volumes for Fusosha's re-release) has several storylines, such as "The Great Plan", "Challenge of the Masked Racer", "The Fire Race", "The Secret Engine" and "Race for Revenge", that were adapted to the anime. However, minor changes occur between both the original manga and the anime series, such as differences between back stories of several characters and places.
A few years after the volumes were released, Yoshida decided to release his manga series as an anime program, adding additional plots. 52 episodes aired in Japan, each one emulating the fast-paced action of the manga.
Selected chapters of the original Mach GoGoGo manga series were reprinted by NOW Comics as two volumes of Speed Racer Classics (1988–1989), and by DC Comics/Wildstorm Productions as Speed Racer: The Original Manga (2000). In 2008, a hardcover box set of the complete manga series was released by Digital Manga Publishing as the two volume Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go.
Anime
The manga spawned an anime adaptation which actually became a bigger success. 52 episodes were produced from 1967 to 1968. In 1997, Tatsunoko produced a modernized version of Mach GoGoGo which aired on TV Tokyo, ABC lasting for 34 episodes. An English adaptation of this remake was produced by DiC titled Speed Racer X, which aired in 2002 on Nickelodeon. Only the first 13 episodes were adapted due to licensing disputes between DiC and Speed Racer Enterprises. Mach Girl was a web-based series by Tatsunoko Productions, created by Tatsuo Yoshida's daughter, Suzuka.
English adaptation
The English rights to Mach GoGoGo were acquired by syndicator Trans-Lux (which originally was, and still exists as, an electronics manufacturer), and Speed Racer premiered on American television in the summer of 1967. In the series, Speed's full name was Go Mifune, in homage to Japanese film star Toshiro Mifune. His name, Americanized, became Speed Racer. His adventures centered on his powerful Mach 5 car, his girlfriend Trixie, his little brother Spritle, Spritle's pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim, and his mysterious older brother, Racer X, whose real name was Rex Racer.
For American consumption, major editing and dubbing efforts were undertaken by producer Peter Fernandez, who likewise not only wrote and directed the English-language dialogue but also provided the voices of many of the characters, most notably Racer X and Speed Racer himself. Fernandez was also responsible for a rearrangement of the theme song's melody, written and composed by Nobuyoshi Koshibe, and he subsequently also wrote its English lyrics.
A Speed Racer daily comic strip written and drawn by Mort Todd ran in the New York Post from 2000–2001. IGN ranked the original Speed Racer series at #29 on its "Best 100 Animated Series" list.
At Otakon 2015, Funimation announced that it had acquired the license to Speed Racer from Tatsunoko and would release it on Blu-ray for the first time. Funimation gave Speed Racer two separate home video releases: a standard release for the English version on May 30, 2017, and a collector's edition for the Japanese version with English subtitles on November 7, 2017, the first such North American release.
Development
Names
The large red M on the hood of the Mach 5, as well as on Gō's helmet, is the emblem of Mifune Motors, the family business, and an homage to Japanese film star Toshiro Mifune. In North America it was assumed to stand for Mach 5 and in the Latin American version for Meteoro. His given name, Gō, is a Japanese homophone for the number 5 (the number on his race car) which is also represented by the yellow letter G embroidered on his short-sleeve blue shirt. The tradition of symbolism on characters' shirts was also used on Michi (Trixie) and Sabu (Sparky), who had the letter "M" and "S" on their shirts, respectively.
Audience
The overall purpose of the anime was to please a growing fan base worldwide with exciting stories that involved facing adversity on the race track and beyond. Review of the episodes in the Speed Racer: Collector's Edition of Japanese and English-language episodes reveals frequent changes to the sound-track (dialogue and the addition of an off-screen narrator) but very little editing of the image-track. Most significantly, the names of villains are often changed to be more cartoony, e.g. Professor Anarchy in episode 31 ("Lightning-Quick Ninja Cars" in Japanese, "Gang of Assassins" in English).
Characters
Racer familySpeed Racer / The protagonist of both the anime and the manga is Speed Racer, originally Gō Mifune. He is known for his love of racing and valuing his family. He drives the Mach 5 (as well as other cars, such as the Mach 6 in the movie) and always manages to wind up in extreme danger with either his younger brother or his girlfriend Trixie. Speed is shown to miss his older brother, Rex (secretly disguised as Racer X), in both versions. He is portrayed by Emile Hirsch in the 2008 film, while his younger self is portrayed by Nicholas Elia.
Off the track, he wears a blue shirt with an orange "G" (standing for his Japanese first name, Gō) with a white collar, a red racing bandanna around his neck, white pants, red socks, brown loafers, and yellow gloves. He is 18 years old, has a brown, almost black, pompadour, and his eyes are brown (in the anime version they are blue). In racing, he sports a white open-face helmet with an M (representing Mifune Motors) on top. In the anime, on special occasions, Speed wears a red blazer with a yellow "G" embroidered on it. In the live-action film, he wears a white leather racing jacket unzipped over his classic outfit. He wears his classic outfit (without the embroidered "G") in the first half of the Casa Cristo 5000. To strengthen the character's back-story continuity between Speed and his older brother Rex, Speed's red socks were considered "lucky socks".Spritle Racer / and Speed Racer has a younger brother named Spritle (Kurio Mifune in the Japanese original). Spritle has a pet chimpanzee, who responded to the name of Chim-Chim in the American version (Sanpei in the Japanese original). Their rebellious attitudes often lead them to trouble. Often in Speed's way, their mischief somehow aids Speed away from danger. Spritle and Chim-Chim dress in identical jumpsuits and striped hats and often perform identical physical actions. They both have an extreme appetite for candy and they are usually bribed with dessert or other presents. Spritle and Chim-Chim often use a slingshot to combat any threats that come to both themselves and/or Speed.
According Peter Fernandez's introduction in the American release of the Mach GoGoGo manga, Spritle got his name for being an energetic "sprite." Chim-Chim got his name because he was considered a chimpanzee. In the live-action film, they are portrayed faithfully to their characterizations in both the anime and manga. Spritle was portrayed by Paulie Litt in the film.Pops Racer / Speed's father, Pops, (Daisuke Mifune) is a former wrestler-turned race car owner and builder. After quitting his job in a corporate car manufacturing company, he founded his own company, Mifune Motors. (In America, the company was changed to Racer Motors.) He is portrayed as a hothead who is overprotective of his family. His eldest son, Rex, ran away (although he would return as Racer X). In addition to Spritle and Chim-Chim, Pops' attitude is a running gag in the anime series as well as the live-action film. Overweight, he wears an athletic red shirt and a beige mechanic's cap. Despite his build, Pops is nearly unmatched in combat, as he was once a champion heavyweight wrestler. His design skills allow him to create powerful engines, especially his (in the film) prized "Mach" Series, giving the car the ability to travel at high speeds while sustaining maximum performance. He is portrayed by actor John Goodman in the 2008 film.Mom Racer / Speed's mother, Mom Racer (originally Aya Mifune), is a side character in the series. She rarely appears in the anime or manga, having limited dialogue, and many episodes of the anime did not feature her at all. In the live-action film, however, she is portrayed by Susan Sarandon as an encouraging parental figure.The enigmatic Racer X (Fukumen Racer in the Japanese version) is a frequent recurring character, driving car number 9, the "Shooting Star". Racer X is a mysterious, selfless, sympathetic, and often brooding soldier of fortune whose secret identity is that of Rex Racer (Kenichi Mifune in Japan), Speed's older brother. Six years prior, Rex had a falling out with Pops after wrecking a race car that Pops had built. Pops had told Rex prior to the race that he was not prepared to compete at the professional racing level. With less than one lap to go, Rex was leading and cruising toward victory, but lost control of the car, wrecking it. Pops exploded with anger and berated Rex, and in response, Rex exiled himself, vowing to become the world's greatest race car driver. In both Speed Racer X and in the 2008 movie, Rex is thought to have died in that accident. In the film, he is portrayed by Matthew Fox, while his younger self is portrayed by Scott Porter.
Pops and Speed always acknowledged that Racer X was the superior driver, and the greatest driver that they had ever seen; however, Speed still vowed to defeat Racer X. In the anime, Speed was often suspicious of Racer X's identity and motives, because Racer X would sacrifice winning races to protect Speed from drivers who tried to harm him. The assistance from Racer X nearly always led to Speed winning races, while Racer X came in second place. Racer X always left the scene unnoticed, receding into his secret life.
Supporting charactersTrixie / Trixie, or Michi Shimura (named after actor Takashi Shimura, who collaborated with Toshiro Mifune on several films), is Speed's girlfriend. The "M" adorning her blouse stands for Michi. Trixie often flies around in a helicopter during a race, acting as Speed's spotter, a function she also serves in the live-action film during the Casa Cristo 5000. In the manga, it is mentioned that her father is the president of Shimura Aviation, which explains why she has her own helicopter. To add comic relief in the anime, Trixie becomes jealous if Speed pays too much attention to another girl or if she feels ignored. In the 2008 live-action film, she is portrayed by actress Christina Ricci, while her younger self was played by Ariel Winter. She had an auburn bob cut with bangs; in the anime, her hair was dark brunette.
Unlike most female characters in cartoons at that time, Trixie is not portrayed as a helpless perpetual victim. Trixie often proves herself the equal of Speed when forced into physical altercations. While Trixie has been captured on occasion by the villains, she refuses to cower or plead for her release, more often giving the bad guy a serious tongue-lashing until she is either rescued or escapes on her own. On some occasions, Trixie has even been the one to rescue Speed or other male characters from their predicaments. In the spin-off Speed Racer: The Next Generation, she is assumed to be the mother of X and Speed Jr.
Casually, Trixie wears a pink blouse with the aforementioned "M" on her left side. She also wears red pants. In racing events, she wears a white long-sleeve shirt underneath pink overalls, which also have the embroidered "M". During races, she also wears a pink cap with racing goggles. On special occasions, Trixie wears a blue hat and dress.Other regular characters included Sparky, whose full name in the movie and in Speed Racer: The Next Generation is Wilson Sparkolemew (in the manga and anime, he is only called Sparky). In the Japanese original, he was Sabu, and he was Bujía in the Latin American version. He is the company mechanic, a quirky young man who is a best friend of Speed and knows everything about cars. In the live-action movie, he is portrayed as older than Speed, but is still his close friend. He wears a yellow shirt bearing the letter S. He is portrayed by actor Kick Gurry in the live-action film. He makes a cameo in Speed Racer: The Next Generation.The Car Acrobatic TeamThe Car Acrobatic Team (or Car Acrobats) is one of the original set of characters appearing in both the manga and anime. The 16 racers' uniforms are embroidered with a letter from the English alphabet. All of the cars in the team (automobiles numbered 11 through 26), except for number 11, look and act the same. The cars sprout wings from both sides, making them capable of jumping large gaps and gorges. The most notable of the team are Captain Terror and Snake Oiler (the latter being a character exclusive to the anime).Captain Terror, the leader of the Car Acrobatic Team, is shown as an arrogant driver in the manga, sabotaging races for his own benefit. His arrogance gets the best of him, and he gets severely injured in an explosion after not heeding Speed's warning about his car leaking oil. He has a "Z" embroidered on his racing uniform, a face of skeletal features, and a lone feather atop his helmet. He drives the number 11 car, the only car different in appearance to the rest of the Car Acrobatic team.
In the anime, Captain Terror's character exists, but many of his appearances are played by a new character, Snake Oiler'''. He replaces Captain Terror in terms of hotheaded attitude. Embroidered with an "S" on his uniform and tinted visor on his striped helmet, Snake Oiler drives the number 12 car, similar in appearance to the other cars in the Car Acrobatic Team. The role Captain Terror had in the manga was lifted onto the Snake Oiler character, therefore Captain Terror's role in the Alpine Race (and injuries from a crash related to an oil leak) was replaced by Snake. Although Snake did not exist in the original manga, he was notable in the West due to his appearance in the anime. Snake Oiler's name and acrobatic skills are an homage to Haro Bora.
In the live-action movie, Snake has completely changed in appearance. Since the Car Acrobatic Team didn't exist in the film, he is instead leader of his own racing team, named "Hydra-Cell". He wears large sunglasses and sports a black pompadour. His racing uniform is made entirely of snake skin (complete with a yellow snake on his helmet) and his car is completely orange. Despite the change in appearance, Snake's car number and attitude are still intact in the film. He is portrayed by Christian Oliver.
In the next-to-last episode of the original series, the Car Acrobatic Team and Speed are tricked into racing against each other in a grudge race by a terrorist organization hoping to use the race as a means to kill Speed and Racer X. After the two sides learn of the deception (which involved planting time bombs in the Car Acrobatic Team's cars), they agree to a truce in order to foil the plan. The Car Acrobatic Team park their cars around the terrorists' secret headquarters and the explosion destroys the building and kills the leaders. After that, Speed and Captain Terror part amicably, with Terror wishing Speed the best of luck next time they meet. Snake Oiler does not appear in the episode.
In Speed Racer: The Next Generation, Zile Zazic was seen wearing a racing outfit similar to Captain Terror's during the "Comet Run" episodes, implying that Zile was Captain Terror. Stan, Zile's main henchman, also noted that Speed Racer had raced against Zile's racing team at one point.
Vehicles
Many of the show's cars have special abilities in the series. *Note: The names of the cars that have appeared in both the manga and the original anime have been fitted with Italics.
The Mach 5
The Mach 5, Speed Racer's car ("Mahha Gō," or "Mahha," in the Japanese version), is a technological marvel, containing useful pieces of equipment. Gō Mifune/Speed Racer easily deployed these gadgets by pressing buttons marked "A" through "G" on the steering wheel hub (although there are buttons on the steering wheel in the manga, the letter designations are exclusive to the anime and the 2008 live action film). This uniquely designed car, built with a sleek Coke bottle bodystyle, has a white exterior with a large "M" on its hood, the logo for the family business, Mifune Motors (changed to Pops Motors in the anime and Racer Motors in the live action film). The two-seat car had a mostly red-colored interior. The number 5 is emblazoned on both side doors of the car. In the manga and anime this is the car's racing number; in the film, it is because it is the fifth car built in Pops' "Mach" series of racing vehicles. Although technically inferior to other racing vehicles such as the Mammoth Car and the GRX, the Mach 5 manages to win most races because of Speed's superior driving skills.
The Mach 5 has been stolen from Speed a few times, once when Cornpone Blotch took the car to add it to his car collection in the "Girl Daredevil" saga. However, Speed always gets it back at the end of the episode. At one point, the car was replicated, functions and all, by Dr. Nightcall. However, this replica included other new abilities that inspired later functions of the car in remakes of the show, one of which were the Aero-Jacks, used as a replacement for the Auto Jacks in Speed Racer X. In manga continuity, the Mach 5 was destroyed and rebuilt. See Manga and Anime Differences for more information on the Mach 5's manga continuity.
In both American comic and movie continuity, Pops is portrayed as having built a "Mach" Series consisting of other variants, such as the Mach 4 and Mach 6, in addition to Rex Racer's Mach 1 and the Mach 5.
The Shooting Star
The Shooting Star is Racer X's car, colored bright yellow with a black front bumper and numbered 9 on the hood and sides. The car's engine is located in the back, and it is a very agile machine, often displaying abilities akin to and even above those of the Mach Five. Many of its high-tech features allowed Racer X to keep an eye on Speed Racer, who is his younger brother.
In later comics written by Tommy Yune, Rex acquires the car that he names the "Shooting Star" from Prince Kabala of Kapetapek. During his time training with the royal leader, Rex is informed that he is the ninth student of Kabala, hence the number 9. Rex also builds other cars numbered 9 with similar paint schemes and names them with variants like the "Falling Star."
In the 2008 film adaptation, the car makes an appearance but is not named. The car was the only car built in addition to the Mach Five for the movie, and it features weapons like machine guns mounted above the cockpit and under the chassis. In addition to this car, Racer X also drives a car built for the competitions in the film, a T180. This car was titled the "Augury" in the film's video game counterpart. Like Racer X's unnamed street car, it features a number 9 and has the black and yellow color scheme, with a large black "X" on the front bumper. The T180 only makes one appearance in the film, when Racer X competes to protect Speed in the Fuji race after he has rejected Royalton's offer.
The Mammoth Car
Appearing only in the anime, it is supposedly the largest racing vehicle in the world. Similar in design to an extremely long trailer truck, the Mammoth Car is mostly red and is built by Speed Racer villain Cruncher Block. The Mammoth Car was built almost entirely of $50,000,000 in stolen gold bars. This amount of gold, however, would actually occupy only 74 cubic feet, based on the then price of gold of $35 per ounce. By entering it in "The No Limit World Race", Cruncher wished to smuggle the gold out of the country. The Mammoth Car's main engine has . Each wheel also has an engine with , giving it a total of . It can travel at , on any kind of road or terrain. It makes screeching sounds reminiscent of Godzilla. It has magnetic brakes and is over long, making the Mammoth Car one of the most interesting cars in the series. It was destroyed after it crashed into an oil refinery and melted into its original gold form by the intense heat.
The Mammoth Car makes a small cameo in the 2008 film in the scene where Cruncher Block interrogates Taejo Togokhan (a character created for the movie) after he resists Royalton Industries in the race-fixing business. They were interrupted by Racer X, who battles the Mammoth and saves Taejo. The Mammoth Car in this movie is shown to have view ports for its drivers to shoot out of, just like in the original series, and it is shown to fire missiles from its grill.
The Mammoth Car also makes an appearance along with Flash Marker Jr.'s X3 in Speed Racer: The Next Generation in the second and third episodes of "The Fast Track" saga, as an enemy program of the show's virtual racing track. Although the Mammoth Car is rendered in CGI after its original anime design, the car is missing its grill and many other details that had appeared in the original anime. The Mammoth Car in this episode makes the same sound as it did in the anime. It pays homage to the original series by using its signature attack of surrounding and circling a rival.
The Melange and the X3
The Melange was a roofless racing car numbered with a "3," driven by Flash Marker. When investigating the mysterious car, Speed recalls the name Melange was the name of Napoleon's horse, who saved his life several times in battles. (The name was actually Marengo but became Melange due to an erroneous transliteration from Japanese to English.) When Speed recalls his knowledge of French history, a rendition of Jacques-Louis David's painting of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, which depicts Napoleon riding Marengo, is drawn in the episode. Pops Racer, however, identified the name "Melange" as a car driven 15 years earlier by a young driver named Flash Marker. The Melange's chassis was colored with two shades of purple and had an exposed engine on its hood. During the "Race at Danger Pass", the Melange, along with Marker, was finally destroyed in a crash caused by the Three Roses Club.
Since then, Flash's son, Flash Marker Jr., had plotted revenge on the Three Roses Club by building a car with a sleek, black body marked "X3." The car was driven through remote control and a robot dummy was placed in the driver's seat, broadcasting the phrases "Melange still races" and "Melange is alive" to haunt the Three Roses Club. The X3 was used primarily to deliberately crash into and kill those affiliated with the Three Roses Club, leaving behind a card marked X3 to taunt the remaining members. Speed, who had volunteered to help the police, was chasing down the X3 when it narrowly avoided colliding with a train, leaving the robot dummy hanging over the level crossing's boom gate.
Speed noticed its robot "driver" and brought it back to the police for further investigation. Meanwhile, Flash Marker Jr. secretly brought back the damaged car and replaced its body with a replica of the original Melange, placing it over the X3 chassis in his secret underground car factory, to prepare for the next Race at Danger Pass. Since it is the same car with the chassis of the Melange, the car can still be controlled remotely. While the new Melange is still numbered "3", it has the ability to be changed through remote control to X3, which makes the drivers of the Three Roses Club realize that the "new Melange" is actually the X3. The car, controlled by Flash Jr. in his helicopter, was used to fatally crash into two Three Roses drivers before it was destroyed when it lost control and crashed into the final member of the Three Roses Club.
The first episode has been translated into Armenian, using the Western Armenian dialect.
The GRX
The GRX was technically an engine, but it has become more identified with the gold-colored car that housed the engine in the series episode "The Fastest Car on Earth." The engine was designed by Ben Cranem, and it was responsible for the crashes and deaths of four test drivers and its inventor due to the impossible speeds it could attain. Cranem died and the GRX engine was buried with him, but Oriana Flub and her men exhumed the engine and placed it into the car with a sleek, golden, and markless body.
Oriana convinced Speed to test drive the car with the GRX and Speed was sprayed with a special serum known as the V-gas to artificially sharpen his reflexes. The V-gas causes its driver to become extremely thirsty and if the driver consumed any compound containing water, they would develop a strong phobia of speed. The car got a new driver, Cranem's son, Curly. Curly was given the V-gas and soon experienced its side effects. The GRX and its engine were destroyed when he fatally crashed the car due to Curly drinking water during a pit stop.
The GRX episodes mark one of the few continuity errors introduced by the English dubbing. In the first episode the GRX's speedometer with a maximum speed of on it is shown in the beginning of the episode, however, due to a continuity error in the Japanese animation, as Speed drives it, the speedometer tops out at This would make the GRX slower than the Mammoth Car by the English dialogue.
In the 2008 film adaptation, the name makes an appearance as a car developed by Royalton Industries and driven by Jack "Cannonball" Taylor. The car retains none of the back story from its anime counterpart. It is numbered 66 and colored purple and gold and was transformed from a two-seater to a single-seater. In the Grand Prix race that closes the film, the GRX is the main competitor for Speed in the Mach 6 and features a secret weapon called a "spear-hook" that is illegal in professional racing. After Taylor deploys the device against Speed during the Grand Prix, Speed uses the Mach 6's auto-jacks to flip the cars and reveal the hook to the track cameras, automatically disqualifying Taylor and aiding the case built by Inspector Detector against Royalton.
Manga and anime differences
Like most manga series adapted to anime, changes occur in both timelines of the Speed Racer series. Besides the obvious Americanization of the original Japanese characters' names, other changes include character's backstory and new characters. (See Manga section for more information)
Continuity changes
Most of the manga stories were slightly changed in the anime version. There are also stories never adapted into the anime series, thus making them manga exclusives.
In the manga, Speed (Go Mifune) always wears his standard outfit, even on special occasions. In the case of the anime, however, Speed wears a special outfit, exclusive to formal occasions. The same is true of Trixie.
The meeting between Spritle (Kurio) and Racer X occurs twice (once in each volume) in the manga, along with other scenes preceding and following it. However, several dialogue changes are present and the outcome of each meeting is extremely different.
The manga has a dramatically different ending than the anime. In the manga, Rex Racer (Kenichi Mifune) reunites with Speed, revealing to him that he was the mysterious masked racer, Racer X, all along. In "The Trick Race," Speed confronts him, asking if he is his older brother, prompting Rex (as Racer X) to punch him in the stomach, knocking him unconscious, then declaring that he can never go home again. In both instances, Speed finally knows that his brother is Racer X.
Character backstories
It is mentioned in passing that Trixie's (Michi) father is the president of Shimura Aviation (Shimura is Michi/Trixie's family name in the Japanese releases). This is not mentioned in the anime.
Some characters, such as Snake Oiler, are exclusive to the anime, which also contains some original stories not found in the manga.
Prince Kabala was considered a separate character in the manga and is in no way shown affiliated with Racer X (in the anime, Prince Kabala dies and his guise was used by Racer X to help maintain his homeland of Kapetapek). Racer X, on the other hand, disguises himself as another person in the manga.
Vehicle backstories
Although many of the Mach 5's special features are seen in the manga, including buttons on the steering wheel, they are not marked with letters, except for the large, central button, which is marked with an M (instead of G).
In the manga, the Mach 5 is destroyed once. When it is rebuilt, the Mach 5 is fitted with gadgets that are technologically upgraded from the gadgets that were on the old Mach 5. The auto-jacks are superseded by the aero-jacks, which did not make an appearance in the original anime series (this idea was used in the 1990s Japanese remake, replacing the auto-jacks). This new Mach 5 is also fitted with regenerating tires, called the auto-spare, which did not appear in the original anime. However, the concept of regenerating tires is used in the 2008 live-action film. The new Mach 5 is also fitted with small aerodynamic wings, to assist Speed in longer and farther jumps. This idea was adapted to the original anime version, although the reason behind the upgrade is different from that of the original manga.
At the end of the manga, Rex Racer is portrayed driving the Mach 5 — a scene that may have inspired the backstory of the car in the live-action film, in which it originally belonged to Rex, who relinquished ownership to his younger brother, Speed.
A car, the E-RX, appears in a chapter of the manga, but does not appear in the anime. It functions similarly to the anime's GRX, being portrayed as the fastest car in the world. Although it does not appear in the anime, the E-RX appears in many of the American comics.
Speed Racer Enterprises
The show's mainstream success in the United States spawned an ongoing Speed Racer franchise. This ranged from comics, video releases, merchandise, a live-action film, and newer series either rebooting or continuing the original series . The franchise began in the early 1990s when a company, Speed Racer Enterprises, acquired rights to the original series. At the time when the series was originally released, very little merchandise was released in the United States. However, during the series' re-airing during the 1990s, Speed Racer Enterprises was responsible for the creation of actual Speed Racer merchandise, ranging from small collectible die-cast cars, to action figures, to home video releases of episodes from the original series. Speed Racer Enterprises was also involved in creating original American takes on the Japanese series such as The New Adventures of Speed Racer and Speed Racer: The Next Generation.
Due to Speed Racer Enterprises, the original 1967 series made a comeback through reruns on MTV, broadcast in the early morning hours. In 1993, the series was rebroadcast in syndication concurrently with a new American-created remake. Since all the rights were then under Speed Racer Enterprises, all references to the original rights holder, Trans-Lux, were removed. Therefore, the opening sequence included an entirely recreated logo, which most people are familiar with today; however when Speed Racer Enterprises authorized Volkswagen to use Speed Racer in a July 1996 GTI commercial, J.J. Sedelmaier faithfully replicated the look of the original episode title cards, including the original logo. In October 2002, DIC Entertainment acquired worldwide entertainment rights for the series, consisting of broadcast, merchandising and licensing.
This is the version that later aired on the Cartoon Network in the late afternoon (and later on in late night/overnight) programming, and it was also the version of the series that was first released on Region 1 DVD.
In December 2013, Tatsunoko gained all rights to the Speed Racer franchise, retroactively as to May 2011, as part of a settlement of lawsuits between Speed Racer Enterprises and the animation studio. Tatsunoko had claimed that SRE had exceeded its contractual rights in continuing to license the property after 2011.
American comic adaptations
NOW Comics launched an American Speed Racer comic book series in 1987. The series became a hit with the high production values of airbrush artist Ken Steacy. The comics continued for 38 issues and included a spin-off Racer X series and crossovers."Racer X: Now (1989 series)," Grand Comics Database. Accessed Jan, 4, 2020. A miniseries adapting The New Adventures of Speed Racer was also released, which included art by Oscar González Loyo. In 1993, NOW Comics and Antarctic Press also published a four-issue intercompany crossover between Speed Racer and the characters of Ben Dunn's Ninja High School.
In 1999, DC Comics/Wildstorm Productions released a new Speed Racer limited series, which became the #1 pick of industry publication Wizard magazine. The manga style of writer/artist Tommy Yune recaptured the look of the original anime, which was soon followed by an industry-wide revival of comic adaptations of other classic animated series. The limited series was collected as the trade paperback Speed Racer: Born to Race , and a Racer X limited series featuring the artwork of Chinese manga artist Jo Chen.
In 2008, IDW Productions re-released the Wildstorm series as Speed Racer/Racer X: The Origins Collection, and previously published issues from NOW Comics as Speed Racer Vol. 1–5. A new limited series, Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer, was also produced.
Seven Seas published an adaptation by Dwayne Alexander Smith in 2007 with art by Elmer Damaso.
Latin American comic adaptation
Editorial Abril, an Argentine company established by César Civita, published a Spanish-language comic book in the 1970s. Soon after, his brother, Victor Civita, published a magazine in Brazil through Editora Abril. In 2000, Editora Abril published a series by Tommy Yune.
American TV series
In 1993, The New Adventures of Speed Racer, an American-produced series, had a much more contemporary art style. It was not a direct continuation of the original series; therefore, it is considered a reboot. While the original series had more realistic themes, such as gang violence and family ties, this series introduced science fiction themes, like robots and mutants. Tatsunoko did not authorize the production of this series, and it was off the air after only 13 episodes.
For the original series' 40th anniversary in 2006, a Flash-based series of "webisodes" titled Speed Racer Lives was released. This series was depicted as a continuation of the original series, taking place many years after it. The series was made available on the Internet solely to promote a new line of toys made by Art Asylum.
In 2008, Speed Racer: The Next Generation, a new series, was released on Nicktoons. Like Speed Racer Lives, this series was conceived as taking place years after the original. It focuses on the sons of the original Speed Racer. Its premiere coincided with the live-action feature film in May 2008. Peter Fernandez voices a middle-aged version of Spritle, Speed's younger brother from the original Japanese series. The show's protagonist, also named Speed, and one of Spritle's nephews, is voiced by New Jersey native Kurt Csolak. Larry Schwarz is the creator of the TV series, which is produced by Animation Collective, the creators of Kappa Mikey and Three Delivery. Like the 1993 remake, this series was not authorized by Tatsunoko. Pangea Corporation has been working with Speed Racer Enterprises for over 20 years and has created several new show iterations.
The original series was also revived on MTV for a short period of time in 1993, moved to Cartoon Network in 1996, and again to its sister network Boomerang until 2005.
In May 2022, Apple TV+ announced that a live action television series from J. J. Abrams is in development with his company Bad Robot Productions. The series will be based on an unproduced script that Abrams had written in the 1990s.
Speed Racer: The Movie (1993 film)
In 1993, the episodes "The Car Hater" and "Race Against the Mammoth Car" were combined into a feature-length film and briefly released in theaters. It was later released on VHS and DVD and has been available on Hulu. The film also featured old commercials for Bondex ready-mix cementing, National Forest Service (featuring Smokey The Bear), Flit insecticide spray, and Pure-Pak milk cartons (featuring Old King Cole), and a bonus cartoon, the Colonel Bleep episode The Treacherous Pirate.
Live-action film
The Wachowskis wrote and directed a live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, released on May 9, 2008. It was poorly received by most critics and was a box office failure, making just under $93 million worldwide against a production budget of at least $120 million (before prints and advertising).
One-act play
In 1994, Pangea Corporation wrote and produced a one-act play titled Spridle: A One Man Show, [Sic] which debuted at the San Diego Comic Con and was a huge success. It chronicled what happened to all the Speed Racer characters after the show was canceled, following the concept that the characters were real and had private lives. Spritle, Speed's younger brother, relates the tell-all confessional piece as a disgruntled grown-up who is now sour that his career floundered after his celebrity status on the show. It was cited by Wizard magazine as one of the top 10 best sessions at Comic Con 1994. The show was written by John Schulte and John Besmehn, produced, directed and moderated by Cheryl Ann Wong.
Other appearances
Sequences from the original TV show were used for the entirety of Ghostface Killah's music video for "Daytona 500."
Merchandise
Toys
The first major toy line of Speed Racer was developed in 1992 by Pangea Corporation for Ace Novelty Toy Company. Products focused on both the classic Speed Racer anime program from Tatsunoko, plus a whole new line based on the Fred Wolf series, The New Adventures of Speed Racer. Lego released new Speed Racer construction sets to coincide with the release of the Speed Racer film. These include a 242 piece Speed and Snake Oiler set, a 237 piece Racer X and Taejo Togokhan set, a 367 piece Racer X and Cruncher Block set, and a 595 piece Grand Prix set, which includes Trixie, Pops, Speed, Spritle, Chim-Chim, 2 racers, and a racing announcer. Mattel had the master toy license for the 2008 Speed Racer film, including action figures, related vehicles, and accessories. Mattel's Hot Wheels division produced miniature replicas of the Mach 5 called the Second Wind, and their Barbie Collector division released a collector doll set featuring Trixie and Speed as they appeared in the film. Also, a Mattel product called UB FunKeys got a new patch, which included a Speed Racer zone.
Jada Toys held the rights to produce die-cast replicas of the Mach 5 from the original animated series.
Playing Mantis released a wide range of the Speed Racer die-cast miniatures, including replicas of the villains' cars and mini-dioramas under their "Johnny Lightning" line. A limited-edition release of the Mach Four from the Wildstorm comic series remains one of the hardest-to-find collectibles to this day. In 1998 Playing Mantis acquired the rights to the "Captain Action" action figure line, a vintage line about a crusading adventurer who disguises himself as famous super-heroes. Playing Mantis had planned to produce new costumes of Speed Racer, Racer X, and Captain Terror for the revamp of the line, but they were never produced. Control art for the Speed Racer costume appears on the packaging of some figures, and pictures of the prototypes are available online.
Resaurus produced two series of five-inch (127 mm) action figures, rich with articulation and accessories; as well as a full-sized Mach V in 1999. A third series of figures and a full-sized Shooting Star were planned, but the line folded before this could happen. Toynami is currently releasing a large-scale version of the Speed Racer vehicles, including a Mach Five playset complete with all of its gadgets. The company Polar Lights is currently manufacturing two 1/25-scale (according to the box) model kits in standard "glue" and snap-together variations (though the scale of the model inside is closer to 1/32). These can be built with or without the waterproof bubble canopy at the modeler's discretion. The kits feature a homing robot and separate jacks; and a rear engine (possibly a tip to NOW comics, which illustrated the engine in the rear).
RC ERTL has produced Speed Racer's Mach 5 in 1:18 Die Cast Form with many features of the animated car, including pop out saw blades, ion jacks, opening doors, hood and trunk. It includes Spritle Racer and Chim-Chim figures. Special variants were made with decals celebrating Racer X and other characters from the series as part of the 35th Anniversary Edition in 2001. A similar die-cast version of Racer X's Shooting Star was produced as well. It has now been retired from production and is a sought-after collectible.
Art Asylum made a line of toys consisting primarily of their block-figure Minimates in 2006.
Video games
In 1992, Accolade published Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X for DOS. Two years later, Accolade published Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures for SNES, which was developed by Radical Entertainment.
In 1993, Pangea Corporation created and authored a CD-ROM title that featured game elements, a video clip creator that allowed players to make a classic Speed Racer mash-up moment, along with other themed interactive content. It was marketed under the name "The Compleat Speed Racer."
Namco created a Speed Racer arcade game in 1995.Speed Racer was released for the PlayStation. It was published in Japan by Tomy (1996) and in North America by Jaleco (1998).
A video game based on the 1997 series, simply titled Mach Go Go Go, was released by TOSE and Tomy for the Game Boy (with Super Game Boy support) in Japan.
In 2006, a joint production of enterthemonkey.com and blitinteractive.com, titled Speed Racer — The Great Plan, was released as a Web browser game to Shockwave.com. The game has all the original voices, sounds, and Mach 5 controls from the original television show. The game features the operational steering wheel buttons from the original animated series. Each button activates a customized accessory to avoid obstacles and take on rough terrains.Speed Racer: The Videogame, a game based on the movie, was released for the Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 platforms. Stars Emile Hirsch (Speed), Christina Ricci (Trixie) and Matthew Fox (Racer X) reprised their roles.
During an interview with Siliconera, Capcom producer Ryota Niitsuma commented that Speed Racer was considered for the roster of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars but since he was purely a race car driver, making him fit in in a fighting game was unfeasible.
DVD releases
Artisan Home Entertainment/Lionsgate Entertainment (through Family Home Entertainment) released episodes 1 through 11 of the original series in DVD format in the U.S. and Canada on April 22, 2003. This turned out to be the first in a series of five DVD re-releases of the show. The second volume, containing episodes 12 through 23, went on sale on May 18, 2004. The DVD came in a special package where one could push a button on the cover and the Mach 5's headlights would light up, while a portion of the show's English theme song played. Volumes 1 and 2 were re-released as a two-disc set on April 20, 2010. The third volume came out on May 24, 2005, with the discs packaged in a round metal box made to resemble the steering wheel of the Mach 5. It contains episodes 24 through 36. This volume was later released to promote the live action film in a standard keep case. Lionsgate Family Entertainment released the fourth volume, which featured episodes 37 through 44, on March 14, 2006; this volume included a die-cast toy Mach 5. The last episode, "Race the Laser Tank", was time-compressed (in other words, sped up), similar to when Cartoon Network aired the series in the mid-1990s. Although nothing was removed from the episode, the higher-pitched voices of the characters and the diminished quality of the episode due to the time-compression upset some fans. The fifth and last volume was released on October 31, 2006. This volume included episodes 45 through 52 and for a limited time it came with a miniature license plate with the inscription, "Go-Speed Racer-Go!"
The entire anime series was released in Australia on April 30, 2008 and in the United States later that year, on October 7. The U.S. release of the entire anime series is a repackaging of all five individually released volumes into a comic book style box set, in homage to the Mach GoGoGo manga. In addition, a bonus disc containing special featurettes and an episode of Speed Racer: The Next Generation is included. These discs, six in total, were packaged in an exclusive die-cast casing modeled after the Mach 5.
All previous DVD releases went out of print after Tatsunoko gained worldwide rights to the franchise.
After FUNimation garnered the rights, they released the English version on separate DVD and Blu-ray sets on May 30, 2017. On November 7, they released a Blu-ray + DVD Combo Collector's Edition of both the English and Japanese versions, as well as the Japanese version of Speed Racer X, known as Mach Go Go Go: Restart on DVD. It has a bust of Speed Racer with sound effects, as well as a key chain and an exclusive interview with the voice actress of Trixie and Spritle, Corinne Orr.
Footnotes
References
Johnson, Glen. "Speed Racer." Glen Johnson's 60's Anime. 3 April 2007. 19 October 2007.
Patrick Macias and Tomohiro Machiyami. Cruising the Anime City: An Outer Guide to Neo Tokyo''. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 2004.
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The 1932 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 32nd staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.
Erin's Own were the defending champions.
Erin's Own won the championship after a 2–02 to 0–02 defeat of Tallow in the final. This was their sixth championship title overall and their sixth title in succession.
References
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Olympian spirits (or Olympic spirits, Olympick spirits) refers to seven (or sometimes fourteen) spirits mentioned in several Renaissance and post-Renaissance books of ritual magic/ceremonial magic, such as the Arbatel de magia veterum, The Secret Grimoire of Turiel and The Complete Book of Magic Science. The Arbatel of Magick says of the Olympian spirits: "They are called Olympick spirits, which do inhabit in the firmament, and in the stars of the firmament: and the office of these spirits is to declare Destinies, and to administer fatal Charms, so far forth as God pleaseth to permit them."
In this magic system, the universe is divided into 196 provinces (a number which in numerology adds up to 7: 1+9+6=16; 1+6=7) with each of the seven Olympian spirits ruling a set number of provinces. Aratron rules the most provinces (49), while each succeeding Olympian rules seven fewer than the former, down to Phul who rules seven provinces. Each of the Olympic spirits rules alternately for 490 years. Each Olympian spirit is also associated with one of the seven luminaries which figure in ancient and medieval Western magic.
The seven Olympian spirits
Aratron (or Arathron), "the alchemist who commanded seventeen million six hundred and forty thousand spirits". He rules 49 provinces. His planet is Saturn.
Bethor, "who commanded twenty-nine thousand legions of spirits". He rules 42 provinces. His planet is Jupiter.
Phaleg (or Phalec, Pharos), "the War-Lord". His planet is Mars. He rules 35 provinces.
Och, "the alchemist, physician, and magician". He rules 28 provinces. His "planet" is the Sun.
Hagith, "transmuter of metals, and commander of four thousand legions of spirits". He rules 21 provinces. His planet is Venus.
Ophiel, "who commanded one hundred thousand legions of spirits". He rules 14 provinces. His planet is Mercury.
Phul, "lord of the powers of the moon and supreme lord of the waters". He rules 7 provinces. His "planet" is the Moon.
The seven archangels and the seven Olympian spirits
In ritual magic, the seven Olympian spirits are not confused with the seven traditional archangels, which usually are Michael (usually the Sun), Anael (Venus), Raphael (usually Mercury), Gabriel (the Moon), Cassiel (Saturn), Samael (Mars) and Zadkiel (Jupiter), or a variation thereof.
The seven Olympian spirits are often evoked in conjunction with the seven classic archangels, and magic seals often associate one of the classic seven with one of the Olympian spirits. For example, a magic seal from Frederick Hockley's The Complete Book of Magic Science shows the form of a seal which binds a spirit of Jupiter, Pabiel, to the magician: Pabiel's name appears in a band stretched between two circles: the circle on the left bearing the name and sigil of Bethor, the circle on the right bearing the name and sigil of Sachiel (equivalent to Zadkiel).
See also
Archangel
Hierarchy of angels
Twelve Olympians
Seven archangels
References
External links
Davidson, Gustav, A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels. 1967. Free Press,
Hall, Manly Palmer, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928; Diamond Jubilee Edition, 1988. Pgs. 103-104.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535., Arbatel De magia veterum (Arbatel: Of the Magic of the Ancients), digital edition. Joseph H. Peterson. |
Hull F.C. (known as the Hull Sharks between 1996 and 1999) is an English rugby league club who have had numerous notable players (1,156 as of 31 October 2018) throughout their history, each player of the rugby league era who has played (and so excludes non-playing substitutes) in a competitive first-class match (including those matches that were subsequently abandoned, expunged or re-played, but excluding friendlies) is included.
^¹ = Played For Hull F.C. During More Than One Period
^² = Prior to the 1974–75 season all goals, whether; conversions, penalties, or drop-goals, scored two points, consequently prior to this date drop-goals were often not explicitly documented, and "0²" indicates that drop-goals may not have been recorded, rather than no drop-goals scored. In addition, prior to the 1949–50 season, the Field-goal was also still a valid means of scoring points
^³ = During the first two seasons of the Northern Union (now known as the Rugby Football League), i.e. the 1895–96 season and 1896–97 season, conversions were worth 2-points, penalty goals 3-points and drop goals 4-points
¢ = player has (potential) links to other rugby league clubs on Wikipedia
BBC = BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
CC = Challenge Cup
CF = Championship Final
CM = Captain Morgan Trophy
RT = League Cup, i.e. Player's No. 6, John Player (Special), Regal Trophy
YC = Yorkshire County Cup
YL = Yorkshire League
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Zerah or Zérach ( / "sunrise" Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ) refers to several different people in the Hebrew Bible.
An Edomite
Zerah was the name of an Edomite chief. He was listed as the second son of Reuel, son of Basemath, who was Ishmael's daughter and one of the wives of Esau the brother of Jacob (Israel) ().
Son of Tamar and Judah
According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and Judah, and was the twin of Perez (). This same Zerah is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:3.
Zerah is also listed as the ancestor of Achan, who was stoned to death as recounted in the Book of Joshua (). Achan is the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri, the son of Zerah.
Simeonite clan
The Bible also identifies Zerah as the name of the founder of one of the Simeonite clans.
The Cushite
Zerah the Cushite is mentioned by the Book of Chronicles (). There he is said to have invaded the Kingdom of Judah with an enormous army in the days of Asa. According to the text, when Zerah's army reached that of Asa at the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah, Zerah's army was utterly defeated, by divine intervention, and Asa's forces collected a large volume of spoils of war.
The invasion, and its implied time-frame, means that the traditional view was to consider this Zerah to have actually been Usarkon II or Usarkon I, both being rulers of Egypt. Usarkon II is known to have entered the Kingdom of Judah with a huge army in 853 BCE; however, rather than attacking Judah, the army was just passing through on its way to attack the Assyrian forces. In addition, Asa's reign is traditionally dated to have ended in 873 BCE. In the Book of Kings, which doesn't mention Asa's defeat of Zerah, Asa is described as being extremely weak from a defensive point of view (), and Biblical scholars regard the idea that Asa could defeat an enormous Egyptian army to be untenable. More recent scholars consider that Zerah the Cushite may have been a military commander under Osorkon I rather than a Pharaoh.
Furthermore, Cushite refers to Kush. It is unclear why either Usarkon should be described as a Cushite. The name “Zerah” may have been a corruption of “Usarkon” (U-Serak-on), to which it closely resembles (see Petrie, Egypt and Israel, 74), but most scholars do not identify Zerah with Usarkon II. The publication by Naville (1891) of an inscription in which Usarkon II would claim to have invaded Lower and Upper Palestine suggests this Pharaoh as the victor over Asa. However, the Bible contends that Asa won the battle.
It is a possibility that Cushites gained dominance in Upper and Lower Egypt during the 9th and 8th century. Zerah was most likely a Cushite of Nubia located in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan who came to power as ruler of Egypt or at the very least a Nubian commander of The Egyptian/Nubian armies. William F. Albright suggested that Zerah was the governor of a Cushite colony which had been established by Shishak after his campaign in Israel. tells us that the Cushites (Ethiopians) were feared far and wide for conquests and destruction (being a powerful nation who dominated ancient kingdoms). Cushites were a very formidable people who were expert archers famous in the ancient world for surprise attacks with the bow and arrow.
In the genealogies of the Book of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles mentions a Zerah who was a Gershonite Levite ().
References
Further reading
Zerah the Kushite: A New Proposal Regarding His Identity (with Peter James), in: P. James and P. van der Veen (eds.), Solomon and Shishak, BAR International Series 2732, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2015
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Circus Ring (8 February 1979–25 November 2009) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Despite never contesting a Group One race she was the leading two-year-old filly in the United Kingdom in 1981 when she was unbeaten in three races including the Princess Margaret Stakes (by ten lengths) and the Lowther Stakes. She then developed injury problems and finished unplaced in her only appearance in 1982. Circus Ring later became a successful broodmare and was the direct female-line ancestor of the Hong Kong Horse of the Year Viva Pataca. She died in 2009 at the age of 30.
Background
Circus Ring was a dark-coated bay filly with no white markings, bred and owned by the Snailwell Stud of Newmarket, Suffolk. She was sired by High Top, who won the 2000 Guineas in 1972 and later became a successful breeding stallion. His other progeny included the St Leger Stakes winner Cut Above, the Oaks winner Circus Plume and the Prix du Jockey Club winner Top Ville. Circus Ring's dam Bell Song was a great-granddaughter of the 1000 Guineas winner Campanula, whose other descendants have included Athens Wood, Tony Bin, Dibidale (Irish Oaks), Vitiges (Champion Stakes) and Bolkonski.
The filly was sent into training with Michael Stoute at his Freemason Lodge Stables in Newmarket and was ridden in all of her races by Walter Swinburn.
Racing career
1981: two-year-old season
On her racecourse debut, Circus Ring contested a division on the Princess Maiden Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse in July. She was always among the leaders and accelerated clear of the field in the last quarter mile to win easily by seven lengths from Wintergrace. Later in the month, the filly was moved up in class for the Group Three Princess Margaret Stakes over six furlongs at Ascot Racecourse. She started the 4/6 favourite against a field which included several highly regarded fillies including Fairy Tern, Atossa and Silojoka. She produced what Timeform described as "one of the most breathtaking displays by a two-year-old filly that we have seen in a long time", taking the lead approaching the final furlong and sprinting clear of the field to win by ten lengths. At York Racecourse on 19 August, Circus Ring started the 1/4 favourite for the Group Two Lowther Stakes, in which her rivals were headed by the Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Travel On. Circus Ring traveled very easily throughout the race and Swinburn spent the closing stages looking round for non-existent dangers. Her winning margin of two lengths from Travel On was described by Timeform as being an inadequate measure of her superiority over her opponents. Circus Ring was being prepared for a run in the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes when she fell lame in mid-September and was retired for the season.
1982: three-year-old season
Circus Ring began the 1982 season as the clear favourite for the 1000 Guineas, despite doubts about her stamina and ability to recover from her injury of the previous season. Two weeks before the Newmarket classic she performed poorly in a training gallop and was withdrawn from the race. She eventually reappeared for the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. She looked fit and well and ran well for much of the race but faded badly in the closing stages and finished last of the eight runners behind Chalon.
Assessment
In 1981, the independent Timeform organisation gave Circus Ring a rating of 122, making her the highest-rated two-year-old filly of the season. The experienced racing journalist Peter Willett compared Circus Ring's performances to those of Mumtaz Mahal and Myrobella. In the official International Classification she was rated the joint-best two-year-old filly in Europe, equal with the Fillies' Mile winner Height of Fashion and the French-trained Play It Safe.
Stud record
Circus Ring was retired from racing to become a broodmare at the Snailwell Stud before being exported to Australia in the mid 1990s by the Coolmore Stud. She produced no known foals after 1999 and died on 25 November 2009.
Circus Ring's foals:
Douglas Fir (bay colt, foaled in 1984, sired by Busted)
Circus Act (bay filly, 1985, by Shirley Heights), dam of Brave Act (Solario Stakes, San Gabriel Handicap, Citation Handicap, Will Rogers Stakes, San Marcos Handicap), Comic, the dam of Viva Pataca and Laughing (Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes)
Lady Shipley (bay filly, 1986, by Shirley Heights), won Lupe Stakes
Rainbow Ring (bay filly, 1987, by Rainbow Quest)
Royal Circus (bay colt, 1989, by Kris), won fifteen races
Finger of Light (bay filly, 1991, by Green Desert), won one race, grand-dam of Voila Ici (Premio Roma, Gran Premio di Milano)
Ellie Ardensky (bay filly, 1992, by Slip Anchor), won two races including the Listed Upavon Stakes
Cohiba (bay colt, 1993, by Old Vic), won three races
Slip The Net (bay colt, 1994, by Slip Anchor)
Rose of Tralee (bay filly, 1995, by Sadler's Wells), dam of Serenade Rose (VRC Oaks, AJC Oaks) and female-line ancestor of Trekking.
Florilegio (bay filly, 1996, by Danehill)
Danemarque (bay filly, 1997, by Danehill)
Wild Berries (bay filly, 1999, by Danehill)
Pedigree
Circus Ring was inbred 4 x 4 to Dante, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of the pedigree.
References
1979 racehorse births
2009 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Thoroughbred family 19-b |
Innisfail Court House is a heritage-listed court house at 10 Edith Street, Innisfail, Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the town’s third court house. It was designed in the inter-war classical style by the Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built in 1939 by day labour. The current court house is a two-storeyed brick building with a corrugated-iron roof. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.
History
Opened in March 1940, this was the third court house to be built in Innisfail, replacing the Second Innisfail Court House, a timber building erected in 1888. The building was designed in the office of the Department of Public Works; Andrew Baxter Leven was the Queensland Government Architect at the time.
The Johnstone River area was settled by cedar-cutters, with the first major planting of sugar cane by occurring in 1880. TH Fitzgerald is generally credited with planting the first sugar cane, and was responsible for the erection of the first mill in the area, late in 1881. Also in 1881, a town was laid out at the junction of the South Johnstone and North Johnstone Rivers, known reputedly as the Junction. The name Geraldton was given to the town in 1883.
Geraldton's first official building was erected , probably on the police reserve, accommodated a police station, court house, unofficial post office, lands office, customs office, an office for the Clerk of Petty Sessions and a gaol. Tenders for a new court house was called in late 1887, and plans for the building indicate the location of the building as on the corner of the police reserve bounded by Edith and Rankin Streets.
The name of the town was changed to Innisfail in 1910. By the late 1900s-early 1910s, the Innisfail district was attracting attention from both land speculators and settlers. The Queensland Government had expressed its intention of opening up the Mourilyan Harbour, and of resuming and extending the local tramline inland from the coast, giving further impetus to the development of the district.
Innisfail was devastated by a record flood in 1913, then by a cyclone in 1918, which destroyed many of the town's timber buildings. Despite these setbacks, the town prospered and opened its third sugar mill in 1916. Soldier settlement was established in Johnstone Shire around 1918, and in 1922, a number of blocks were made available to returned soldiers for growing sugar cane. Completion of the North Coast railway from Brisbane to Cairns in 1924, gave further impetus to the development of the district. By the 1920s, the Innisfail sugar industry was producing vast quantities of sugar cane and record yields of sugar, and the prosperity thisbought to the town was reflected in the many substantial buildings erected in the twenties and thirties. These include important civic buildings such as the first wing of the hospital, the Roman Catholic Church, the Commonwealth Bank and other commercial premises. Also important in the town's development were the opening of the Jubilee Bridge in 1923, linking the town with East Innisfail and Mourilyan, and the Dardgee Railway Bridge in 1924.
Although consideration was given to the likely need for expanded court house facilities to cope with an increasing amount of official and legal business, it was not until 1937 that plans for the erection of a new court house were drawn up, including the erection of a new two-storeyed brick court house on the site of the timber court house, and relocation of the timber court house to the east of the new court house, for use as the police office and barracks.
During the 1930s Great Depression, Labor Premier William Forgan Smith established a government initiated works scheme under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Act (1930) to create employment. This involved the employment of architects, foremen, labourers and the use of local materials in the design and construction of government buildings such as court houses, government offices and state schools. The Innisfail and Mackay court houses are two fine examples of the substantial brick buildings erected through this work scheme.
The new building was completed in late 1939. Offices for a number of Government Departments were provided on the ground floor, with the court room and court facilities located on the first floor of the building. Minor alterations have been undertaken to the building in recent years, including the addition of a small air conditioning enclosure at the south east end of the court house.
The court house served as a coordinating point for the Cyclone Larry relief effort in 2006.
Description
Innisfail Court House, designed in the inter-war classical style, is a two-storeyed brick building with a corrugated-iron roof and rendered details to the gables and verandahs. A curved portico forms the entrance to the building and addresses the corner through two columns with Ionic capitals. A double-height verandah runs down each street facade. The gables are embellished with broken pediments and Venetian windows.
Heritage listing
The court house was listed on the former Register of the National Estate. Innisfail Court House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Completed in 1939 as the third court house in Innisfail, this building survives as an example of the development of Innisfail as a commercial and official centre for the surrounding district from the late nineteenth century, and of the prosperity accompanying the expansion of settlement and the sugar industry in the Johnstone area during the early twentieth century.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The Innisfail Court House is a good example of a substantial brick court house which reflects the high standard of Government buildings in Queensland designed by the Department of Public Works during the early-mid 20th century.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
The form of the building in relation to its prominent corner location, scale and materials, contribute to the Edith and Rankin Street streetscapes and Innisfail townscape.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
Designed and constructed as part of a Government initiated Works scheme created to generate employment throughout Queensland during the 1930s, the Innisfail Court House is also a fine example of the work completed under this scheme.
References
Attribution
External links
Innisfail Court House Discover Queensland Buildings website
Queensland Heritage Register
Courthouses in Queensland
Buildings and structures in Innisfail, Queensland
Government buildings completed in 1939
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
Innisfail, Queensland |
Phan Khắc Sửu ( 9 January 1893 – 24 May 1970) was a South Vietnamese engineer and politician who served as a minister in Bảo Đại's government of the State of Vietnam and as a civilian Chief of State of South Vietnam from 1964–65 during the rule of the various military juntas.
Early life and career
Phan Khắc Sửu was born on 9 January 1893, to a family of landowners in Mỹ Thuận village, An Trường canton, Cái Vồn district, Cần Thơ province, French Indochina. He was a founding member of the Cao Đài religion.
His Cao Đài name was Huỳnh Đức.
In 1914, he went to study abroad in Tunis and then to Paris, France where he obtained a degree in agricultural engineering.
After returning home, he worked as the political affairs officer of the Department of Economic and Technical Research in Cochinchina since 1930. However, in the same year, he joined in support of the Student Movement against the colonial policy of the government. He help initiated the Revolutionary Movement for the Unification of the People of Annam. In 1940, he joined and worked actively in the Vietnamese People's Revolutionary Party, a political organization that worked for Vietnam's independence. Therefore, he was sentenced to 8 years of hard labor by the colonial government of Indochina Governor General Jean Decoux and imprisoned on Côn Đảo.
After the Japanese coup d'etat of France on 9 March 1945, he was released and returned to the mainland. He and doctor Pham Ngoc Thach founded the Vietnam National Independence Party in Saigon, an anti-French political organization with Japanese support. He also joined the Dan Quy newspaper as the party's spokesman.
When the French recaptured the South, he expressed non-cooperation with both the French and Viet Minh authorities. In 1948, he joined the Vietnam Social Democratic Party, a political party with a majority of Hòa Hảo followers, advocating the Bảo Đại solution. With this support, when Bảo Đại's government was established in 1949, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture.
In early 1954, the State of Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc invited him to be a Minister again, he a refused, accepting only to participate in the National Conference in the Sub-Committee on Independent Research of Vietnam.
First Republic of Vietnam (1955-1963)
After Ngô Đình Diệm established the Republic of Vietnam and became President, Sửu repeatedly sent letters demanding and advising President Diệm to make reforms and changes of policy within the government. As a result, he was labeled by Diệm's government to be a "political opposition."
In February 1959, he was elected as a congressman representing the Saigon constituency. He then joined the Great National Solidarity Front with Nguyễn Tường Tam to oppose the government. On April 26, 1960, he and 17 dignitaries signed the proclamation, later known as the "Caravelle Manifesto," criticizing the government's mistakes and demanding that the President make reforms in policies. This made him become a thorn in the eyes of the government. On the occasion of the failed coup on 11 November 1960, he was accused of supporting the coup by the government and imprisoned. On the night of 11 July 1963, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison by a special military court in Saigon along with Phan Quang Đán, Vũ Hồng Khanh, and Bùi Lương. When defending himself in court, he said: "If I am guilty, then I only have one crime, which is to expel the French from Saigon, sin for the sake of the Nation!."
On 31 July 1963, he was exiled to Côn Đảo Prison to serve his sentence. However, only 3 months later, another coup broke out, overthrowing and assassinating President Diệm, he was released from prison and returned to Saigon.
Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam (1964-1965)
After the "Three Heads" crisis, on 8 September 1964, he was invited to the National Synod by the Provisional Leadership Committee (the Three Heads). On 27 September, the Synod elected Phan Khắc Sửu as President. He presided over the Synod that drafted the 20 October 1964 Covenant to replace the 4 November 1963 Provisional Charter, which placed power in the hands of the military to relinquish power and national sovereignty to elected representatives. On 24 October, he was nominated by the Synod for the position of Chief of State.
After taking office as Chief of State, on 4 November 1964, he appointed Trần Văn Hương as prime minister, he was the second civilian prime minister since the First Republic of President Ngô Đình Diệm was overthrown by the rebels.
However, Trần Văn Hương's government was quickly paralyzed by the opposition of many circles as well as the lack of cooperation of the Military Council.
The crisis lasted for 2 months, on 18 December 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh led the young generals to establish the Military Council and two days later ordered the dissolution of the Synod. However, he was still retained as Head of State. On 27 January 1965, Prime Minister Hương was also forced to resign, handing over the Prime Minister's power to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Oánh.
On 16 February 1965, General Nguyễn Khánh, in the name of Chairman of the Military Council, signed a decision to appoint Mr. Phan Khắc Sửu as the Chief of State and to appoint Dr. Phan Huy Quát as the Prime Minister to establish a new government. Less than 10 days later, on 25 February 1965, General Nguyễn Khánh was deposed by a group of young generals and had to accept the position of ambassador-at-large abroad. Less than four months later, on 5 June 1965, Prime Minister Phan Huy Quát's civilian government was dissolved by the Military Council. The young generals formed a National Leadership Council and appointed Lieutenant General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as Chief of State. On 12 June 1965, Sửu and Prime Minister Phan Huy Quát officially left their positions of Chief of State and Prime Minister.
Famous for his integrity, as Chief of State, he only eats meals provided by the government and his salary is transferred to the social welfare fund for the people. In particular Sửu's wife, Mrs. Sửu, who is also a Cao Đài believer with the name Huỳnh Điệp, refusing to sit in the position of Madame, equivalent to First Lady. Mrs. Sửu rather sell clothes at Vườn Chuối Market in District 3 to pay for her life and take care of her children and grandchildren.
Second Republic of Vietnam (1967-1975)
In 1966, he returned to political activities, was once again elected a member of the National Assembly and was elected Chairman of the National Assembly. In 1967, Sửu became a candidate for president in the 1967 South Vietnamese presidential election, he finished third with 513,374 votes (10.8%). The joint venture of two generals Nguyễn Văn Thiệu - Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, prevailed winning 1,649,561 of the votes (34.8%). The National Assembly of the Republic of Vietnam met and voted, with 58 votes in favor and 42 votes against certifying the election. After this incident, Sửu resigned in protest of the military junta gaining the presidency that had a democratic name but could not reverse the situation. Fed up, he withdrew from politics.
In 1968, he together with a number of dignitaries such as Nguyễn Thành Vinh and Trần Sinh Cát Bình founded the Vietnamese New People Movement.
Death
He died on 24 May 1970 in Saigon. His funeral was held as a state funeral according to the rites of being a former Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam, with President Thiệu and his cabinet in attendance to honor and present a posthumous award known as the "Bảo Quốc Huân Chương" to the late Sửu.
References
South Vietnamese politicians
Heads of state of South Vietnam
Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War
Vietnamese Caodaists
1893 births
1970 deaths
Government ministers of Vietnam
South Vietnamese prisoners and detainees
South Vietnamese dissidents |
DCTC is the Dakota County Technical College.
DCTC may also refer to:
Denver Center Theatre Company
Dow Corning Tennis Classic, ITF Women's Circuit tennis tournament
Direct Connect Text Client, known as DCTC
District of Columbia Transplant Community, known as DCTC |
Captain's Blood is a novel by William Shatner, co-written with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, based upon the television series Star Trek. The novel was released in 2002 in hardcover format. It is the second novel in the "Totality" trilogy. The story began with Captain's Peril and concludes with Captain's Glory.
Synopsis
Following the explosive events of Star Trek Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire is in disarray, and Ambassador Spock attempts to render aid by launching a last-ditch effort to reunify the Romulans with their distant forebears, the Vulcans. But when Spock is publicly assassinated at a Romulan peace rally, Starfleet and the Federation are unable to search for the criminals responsible without triggering an intergalactic war. Thus, it falls to James T. Kirk, now retired, to investigate his beloved friend's murder.
Given clandestine assistance by Captain Will Riker of the Starship Titan, and accompanied by his good friend Jean-Luc Picard, Kirk travels to Romulus as a civilian, along with his five-year-old child, Joseph, the cantankerous Doctor Leonard McCoy, retired Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, as well as several members of Picard's crew, still waiting to return to duty on the badly damaged U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E.
But on Romulus' sister world, Remus, Kirk unexpectedly encounters an alluring enemy from his past as Picard and he discover that Spock's apparent murder hides an even deeper mystery, literally reaching beyond the limits of the galaxy. Trapped on a deadly, alien world on the eve of a Romulan civil war that could plunge the galaxy into a civilization-ending conflict, Kirk's investigation at last brings him to the heart of a staggering conspiracy.
Now, he discovers the true threat facing the Romulans, and is forced into the heartrending realization that for peace to prevail, he must sacrifice the freedom of his son, whose very blood holds the secret to his startling destiny.
References
External links
Review at SFFAudio
2002 American novels
Novels based on Star Trek: The Original Series
Novels based on Star Trek: The Next Generation
Novels by William Shatner
Novels by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Novels set in the 24th century |
Adolfo Contoli (19 February 1898 – 19 May 1988) was an Italian versatile athlete. He participated at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bologna.
Achievements
National titles
Adolfo Contoli has won 24 times the individual national championship.
5 wins on 100 metres hurdles (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926)
2 wins on 400 metres hurdles (1920, 1921)
1 win on Pole vault (1923)
2 wins on Long jump (1920, 1922)
3 wins on Standing high jump (1920, 1921, 1922)
3 wins on Standing long jump (1920, 1921, 1922)
3 wins on Standing triple jump (1920, 1921, 1922)
4 wins on Pentathlon (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924)
1 win on Decathlon (1922)
See also
Men's long jump Italian record progression
Italian Athletics Championships - Multi winners
References
External links
1898 births
1988 deaths
Italian male hurdlers
Italian decathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Olympic decathletes
Italian Athletics Championships winners
Sportspeople from Bologna |
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Saudi Arabia, formerly known as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd until 22 September 1932. The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd had been separate countries until the mid-1920s.
Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of 28 million, and its size is approximately .
Pre-stamp era
Hejaz, in the western part of Arabia came under Turkish influence in 1517 and the Turks took direct control in 1845. Before the introduction of postage stamps and the railway, the limited amounts of mail that was sent traveled mainly by camel.
Between 1900 and 1908 a railway was built between Medina and Damascus known as the Hejaz Railway and a number of railway stamps were issued for use on the service. Revenue stamps were also issued in connection with the financing of the railway.
The Turks operated post offices at Abha or Ebha, El Ula, Hedye, Jeddah, Konfida, Mecca, Taif, Tebouk and Yanbo, and an Egyptian post office operated at Jeddah between 1865 and 1881.
The Kingdom of Hejaz
Hejaz achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1916. The first stamps of Hejaz were issued in October 1916. Stamps continued until 1925 and the many issues are noted for their complexity with many different printings and overprints which are often found inverted.
Nejdi occupation of Hejaz
By 1925 Nejd had conquered the Kingdom of Hejaz. A variety of stamps were issued during the occupation, including postage stamps, railway stamps, postage dues and revenue stamps. Many were overprinted, including Turkish stamps made valid for postage in the territory.
The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd
On 8 January 1926, the Sultan of Nejd, Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, was crowned King of the Hejaz in the Grand Mosque of Mecca. On January 29, 1927, he also took the title King of Nejd, as opposed to the earlier Sultan. At the Treaty of Jeddah on May 20, 1927, Abdul Aziz's realm was recognized by the United Kingdom and was addressed as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd.
The first stamps of the new kingdom were issued in February 1926 and a number of other series were issued up until 1932.
First stamps of Saudi Arabia
The first stamps marked Saudi Arabia were issued on 1 January 1934.
Regular issues have continued up to the present time, mostly on subjects relevant to life in Saudi Arabia and including a number of long-running definitive series.
See also
Saudi Post
References
External links
Saudi Arabia philately.
Postal system of Saudi Arabia
Philately of Saudi Arabia |
Broken Record is a song by English singer Little Boots from her second studio album, Nocturnes (2013). It was released on 18 March 2013 as the album's third single and official lead single. A limited edition vinyl version of the single was released for Record Store Day on 12-inch white vinyl featuring extended versions of "Broken Record" and "Strangers" titled "Nocturnal Versions". The music video was filmed in March, using clothes from Nordic Poetry and roller skates. The video later premiered on The Guardians website, with the video noted for its roller disco setting and Hesketh's dreamlike line "In your dreams you belong to me". "Broken Record" and "Strangers" were both subsequently made available as free downloads on Little Boots' SoundCloud page.
Track listing
"Broken Record"
"Strangers"
References
2013 singles
2013 songs
Little Boots songs
Songs written by Devrim Karaoglu
Songs written by Little Boots
Songs written by Rick Nowels |
"This Addiction" is a song by the punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the first single from their 2010 album This Addiction. The single was released as a digital download through online retailers on January 12, 2010, and as a 7" single exclusively through Hot Topic stores on February 9, 2010.
Background
"This Addiction" was written by singer and guitarist Matt Skiba (though the album credits all songs to the band as a whole) and was first performed live by Alkaline Trio during their Spring 2009 tour. It was recorded, along with the rest of the album, in July 2009 at Atlas Studios in the band's hometown of Chicago, where they had recorded much of their early material including their first two albums, 1998's Goddamnit and 2000's Maybe I'll Catch Fire. The sessions were engineered, co-produced, and mixed by Matt Allison, producer of both of those albums as well as 2001's From Here to Infirmary and much of the band's other early material. The band's decision to record in Chicago and to work with Allison reflected a desire to return to the punk rock roots of their early albums.
Thematically, "This Addiction" uses heroin and methadone addiction as a metaphor for love. Skiba remarked that "It's a human condition that I think we all, in one way or another, fall victim to. It's not to say that people can't be happy or find bliss in a relationship. It's just amazing to me how unhappy most people are and they can't shake it and can't fix it, much like an addiction."
Release and music video
"This Addiction" was made available for listening as streaming audio through a dedicated website on January 5, 2010, using a marketing technique in which listeners were required to post an advertisement about the album to Facebook or Twitter in order to access the song. It became available as a download through digital retailers on January 12, and was released as a 7" single exclusively at Hot Topic stores on February 9. The 7" version includes "Dine, Dine My Darling", also from the album, as a B-side.
The music video for "This Addiction" premiered February 8. The video was filmed in a mountain field in Ventura County, California, described by Epitaph Records as "an open battlefield where two sides of the heart collide in a vibrant burst of color." It depicts the band performing the song in the center of the field, while on either side a number of children are gathered wearing black, white, and grey school uniforms. On one side the children are clean-cut, while on the other they are disheveled, wearing kerchiefs, face paint, and patches bearing the band's "7" logo (designed by drummer Derek Grant to commemorate This Addiction as the band's seventh album). The two groups charge across the field at each other, and as they collide in front of the band they explode as bursts of colorful confetti. The song impacted radio on March 2, 2010.
Reception
Critical reaction to "This Addiction" has been mixed. Corey Apar of AllMusic complemented it as one of the album's strongest songs, and Drew Beringer of AbsolutePunk remarked that Skiba "sounds awesome" in it. Scott Heisel of Alternative Press, however, criticized Skiba for falling back on his "well-worn" lyrical theme of drugs, stating that "It's moments like these where it feels like he's trying too hard to keep up appearances with his band's more fairweather fans."
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, and Derek Grant
Digital version
U.S. 7"
U.K. 7"
Personnel
Band
Matt Skiba – guitar, lead vocals
Dan Andriano – bass, backing vocals
Derek Grant – drums
Production
Matt Allison – producer, engineer
Ted Jensen – mastering
Matthew Reeves and Tyler Curtis – cover photography
References
Alkaline Trio songs
2010 songs
Songs written by Matt Skiba
Songs written by Dan Andriano
Songs written by Derek Grant (drummer)
Epitaph Records singles
2010 singles |
Haiger is a country town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Siegen, about 25 km north of Haiger.
Geography
Location
Haiger lies about 5 km west of Dillenburg, and 20 km southeast of Siegen on the eastern edge of the Westerwald range, near where the three states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate all share a common point. It is the district's northernmost town. The river Dill rises north of the constituent community of Offdilln.
Neighbouring communities
To the North Haiger borders with the town of Netphen (Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the community of Dietzhölztal, to the east with the community of Eschenburg and the town of Dillenburg, to the south with the community of Breitscheid (all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis), and to the west with the communities of Burbach and Wilnsdorf (both in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district of North Rhine-Westphalia).
Constituent communities
Following a local government reform in the 1970s the rural villages of Sechshelden, Langenaubach, Flammersbach, Allendorf, Kalteiche, Haigerseelbach, Steinbach, Rodenbach, Fellerdilln, Dillbrecht, Offdilln, Weidelbach, Oberroßbach and Niederroßbach became part of the district of Haiger. These are culturally diverse and speak different versions of the local dialect.
Population
(in each case on 31 December)
1998 - 20,298
1999 - 20,212
2000 - 20,222
2001 - 20,201
2002 - 20,169
2003 - 20,191
2004 - 19,959
2005 - 19,942
History
Haiger is the oldest of three towns on the river Dill. It was first mentioned in 778 in a gift deed of Lorsch monastery. The town is located at the meeting of three small valleys formed by the Haigerbach, Aubach and Dill, which in medieval times placed the town along important communication routes, but later more on the periphery. The town's most famous son was Johann Textor who was born here in 1582. Between 1608 and 1619 he was town clerk in Haiger and subsequently wrote the Nassauische Chronik, a comprehensive description of the area. One of the most famous historic depictions of the town is an engraving by Matthäus Merian. On 8 May 1729, the still fully walled town perished in a great fire that destroyed all buildings within a few hours. Even the town's church, built on an outcrop rising within the centre of town, was left in ruins. Quick financial help from surrounding principalities, towns and provinces, as well as a generous donation of 400 florins by Princess Isabella of Nassau-Dillenburg, helped relieve some of the worst deprivation.
Knights of Haiger
The nobles of Haiger were influential in the Haigermark. The Haigermark was also known as the Land of the Free Men (predium liberorum virorum), likely owing to the Knights' free rule (without intervening overlords between the family and the emperor). The family's influence gradually waned with the rise of the house of Nassau-Dillenburg.
Name
The town's name, Haiger, is possibly derived from old middle German. The great number of herons () on the Haigerbach, Aubach and Dill may have helped to give the town the name Reiherbach, or in old middle German Heigerahe. This name came from the words Heiger ( = Reiher) and Ahe ( = Bach; brook or waterway). Over the centuries, the spelling changed many times: → "Heigrahe" → "Heigera" → "Heigere" → "Heigerin" → "Heigre" → "Heigeren" → "Hegere" → "Hegera" → "Heygere" → "Heyger" → "Heiger" → "Häger" → "Häyer". Eventually, this became Haiger. The bird in the coat of arms may likewise be a reference to the herons, although it might also be a corruption of what was once the Lion of Nassau (see Coat of arms below).
Politics
Coat of arms
Haiger's civic coat of arms was granted in 1908 and confirmed in 1934. The design goes back to a town seal used in the 15th century, although originally the town seal showed the Lion of Nassau (a golden lion) rising from a tower. The lion somehow changed into a jay, possibly as a misinterpretation. The jay nonetheless serves as a canting symbol (Häher is German for jay, and this resembles some older forms of the town's name). A structure has also grown up around the jay replete with spires, crosses, and apparently flying buttresses, too.
Town partnerships
Montville, France
This partnership came into being through an initiative by the Johann-Textor-Schule in Haiger which has been conducting school exchanges with the Collège Eugène Noël in Montville for about 20 years. This friendship became official in Montville in 1991 and in Haiger in 1992 with the sealing of a document to this effect, signed by both towns' mayors. Citizens, clubs and groups maintain lively contacts.
Plombières-lès-Dijon (with Sechshelden)
In 1964, the villages of Plombières-lès-Dijon and Sechshelden – which was then an independent municipality – sealed this partnership whose origins are traceable to the thoughtfulness shown a former French prisoner of war taken in by some families in Sechshelden.
Wolfsberg, Thuringia
Culture and sightseeing
Museums
Heimatmuseum Haiger (local history)
As part of Haiger's 1200th anniversary celebrations of first documentary mention, this museum was established in 1978 in one of the loveliest half-timbered houses, built in 1724-1725, on the marketplace.
Leinenmuseum Haigerseelbach (linen museum)
Heimatstube Sechshelden
Buildings
Stadtkirche Haiger: After the Kirchberg (Church Hill) in Haiger had been used, as must be assumed, for pagan purposes in pre-Christian times, a baptistery was built on the site once Christianity had arrived. In uncertain times the church's mighty tower served as defence and refuge. The church was gifted by King Konrad I on 14 April 914 together with the king's court - Meierhof - Heigera and the market rights, given to the Walpurgis Monastery.
In 1048, the new church building in the Romanesque style was consecrated by Archbishop Eberhard of Trier. More than 400 years later came further remodelling in the Late Gothic style: the flat wooden ceiling was replaced with a stone vault, and side naves and the choir were added.
Between 1485 and 1490 the choir was decorated by Flemish painters with three fresco bands. In the lower band they depict the story of Jesus's suffering from His entry into Jerusalem to His Ascension, in the middle band the Twelve Apostles, and in the upper band, under the vault, Jesus as the Judge of the Worlds, the Four Evangelists, the Veil of Veronica, and more.
The fresco paintings had been financed by the last two Knights of Haiger, Hermann and his son Jost.
After the Reformation was introduced in Nassau-Dillenburg in 1578, the frescoes were covered with whitewash probably around 1588. This proved to be a blessing since increasing layers of whitewash helped to preserve the fresco paintings well until their re-discovery. It is almost certain that the fire of 1729 would otherwise have destroyed the frescoes.
In about 1900, when the organ was resited to the centre gallery, it was noted that the whitewash had begun to flake off in various places. In 1902 parts of pictures came to light next to the vestry entrance, and in 1905 the paintings were fully uncovered once again.
World War II hit Haiger hard and bombings caused immense destruction. One bomb fell beside the church, but luckily did not go off, leaving the frescoes undamaged.
Regular events
Altstadtfest (Old Town Festival)
Lukasmarkt (market; October)
Pfingstmarkt (Whitsun Market)
Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market; December)
Culinary specialities
Worthy to mention are the Neujahrsscheiben ("New Year's Slices"), or Naujohrn in the local dialect, baked traditionally in the constituent communities of Allendorf and Haigerseelbach between Christmas and New Year's Day. As a rule, these are round and made of rye meal, salt, pepper and water, thus being similar to Matzah, although other kinds of dough may be used. They are baked in a special iron over an open fire. There are also the Fispeln, which unlike the usual Naujohrn are filled with pickled meat. The Fispeln are baked in Steinbach.
Economy and infrastructure
Established businesses
Carl Cloos Schweisstechnik GmbH
Hailo – manufacturing ladders, steam ironing systems, etc.
Klingspor Schleifsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
Kuehne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG (former Pracht Spedition und Logistik GmbH)
Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, NL Haiger
Loh Services GmbH & Co. KG (service and management company of Friedhelm Loh Group => Rittal)
Schenker Deutschland AG, NL Haiger
Weiss Chemie + Technik GmbH & Co.KG
Ingersoll Cutting Tools
Media
Newspapers
Haigerer Zeitung
Haigerer Kurier
Public institutions
fire brigade
German Red Cross rescue station
town library
Education
Budenbergschule (specialised education school)
Primary schools (Haiger, Sechshelden, Langenaubach, Allendorf, Dillbrecht, Roßbachtal)
Kindergarten, 3 in Haiger and 12 more in outlying communities.
Johann-Textor-Schule, comprehensive school with (Realschule and Gymnasium divisions up to level X, i.e. leading up to approximately the age of 16)
Sport
Eintracht Haiger football club
TV 1885 Haiger
TSV Steinbach
References
External links
Haiger
www.haigerseelbach.de Haigerseelbach
Lahn-Dill-Kreis |
Keväjärvi is a village in the municipality of Inari, Finland, northeast of Ivalo and south of Lake Inari along the regional road 969 leading to Nellim, which used to lead all the way to Pechenga, when it was part of Finland. The village is located on a pine-covered ridge surrounded by lakes that flow into Nanguvuono. At the end of 2005, 185 people lived in Keväjärvi.
References
External links
Keväjärvi
Villages in Inari, Finland
Populated lakeshore places in Finland |
Mohr Partners, Inc. is an American global corporate real estate advisory firm based in Dallas, Texas.
History
Bob Mohr founded Mohr Partners in 1986, just two years after moving his family to Dallas from Indiana. Starting with an office in Dallas, Mohr Partners eventually grew to over 25 offices by 2020. In 2014, Robert Shibuya joined Mohr Partners as the company's president, and helped expand the firm to offices in multiple locations including Nashville, Phoenix, St. Louis, and Austin.
In 2017, Shibuya completed a management buyout of Mohr Partners, assuming the role of chairman and CEO. Mohr was named chairman emeritus. Mohr Partners continued to expand both its international footprint and its commitment to diversity. Currently, Mohr Partners maintains 23 offices in the United States and four international offices.
The firm is recognized as a National Corporate Plus Member by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). Mohr Partners is the only commercial real estate firm in the program.
Services
Mohr Partners uses:
Strategic consulting and advice
Mohr Intel (business intelligence)
Global lease services
Research and site selection
Incentives practice
Transaction management
Project and development services
Capital markets
References
External links
Companies based in Dallas |
Sport Toplumy Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Balkanabat, Turkmenistan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home for Balkan FK. The stadium holds 10,000 people.
History
The sports complex opened on 14 October 2009. Construction works carried out by Turkish company Ozaylar. The project cost $20 million.
The sports complex includes a stadium for 10,000 spectators, sports facilities for volleyball, basketball, boxing, wrestling, mini-football, tennis. There is a fitness center with gym, swimming pool, a small hotel with 50 rooms.
References
External links
Stadium picture
Video
Football venues in Turkmenistan
Multi-purpose stadiums in Turkmenistan |
Sinopliosaurus (meaning "Chinese more lizard") is a dubious genus of pliosauroid plesiosaur. It lived during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous (disputed Sinopliosaurus remains have been dated to the Toarcian age and were found in the Ziliujing Formation) of the People's Republic of China - its exact age is unknown. The type species, Sinopliosaurus weiyuanensis, was named and described in 1944 by Yang Zhongjian. One species, "S." fusuiensis, was later shown to be based on teeth from a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur which is now known as Siamosaurus. S. weiyuanensis was considered as a freshwater plesiosaur.
The holotype, IVPP V140, consists of three vertebrae and a tooth, discovered in a layer of the Lianmugin Formation (Tugulu Group).
See also
List of plesiosaur genera
Timeline of plesiosaur research
References
Plesiosaurs of Asia
Jurassic plesiosaurs
Jurassic reptiles of Asia
Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs
Fossil taxa described in 1942
Early Cretaceous reptiles of Asia
Albian genus extinctions
Taxa named by Yang Zhongjian
Sauropterygian genera |
The Yamaga Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Japan. It dates to the Upper Oligocene period.
See also
List of fossil sites
Further reading
(1993); Wildlife of Gondwana. Reed.
Geologic formations of Japan
Paleogene System of Asia
Paleogene Japan
Oligocene Series
Oligocene paleontological sites
Paleontology in Japan |
is a 2016 Japanese comedy film directed by Nobuo Mizuta. A remake of the 2014 South Korean film Miss Granny, it stars Mikako Tabe and Mitsuko Baisho.
Plot
Cast
Mikako Tabe as Setsuko Otori
Mitsuko Baisho as Katsu Setayama
Satomi Kobayashi as Yukie Seyama
Jun Kaname as Takuto Kobayashi
Takumi Kitamura as Tsubasa Seyama
Yoichi Nukumizu as photo studio owner
Kotaro Shiga as Jiro Nakata
References
External links
2016 films
2010s Japanese-language films
Japanese remakes of South Korean films
Japanese comedy films
2016 comedy films
2010s Japanese films
Miss Granny |
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was an office new to the Obama Administration, created within the White House, to catalyze new and innovative ways of encouraging government to do business differently. Its first director was the economist Sonal Shah. The final director was David Wilkinson.
History
In 2009, President Barack Obama created the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP) as part of his Domestic Policy Council within the Executive Office of the President, the office that coordinates White House domestic policy.
The idea for a White House Office for Social Entrepreneurship was first developed at the Center for American Progress by then-Senior Fellow and former Ashoka staffer Michele Jolin.
In the past, public monies have often been directed to social initiatives that are failing or that have only a limited impact. At the same time, non-profit organizations, even if readily able to obtain short-term startup financing, face difficulty securing capital to sustain and expand successful programs.
Building on ideas of past administrations, the Obama-Biden transition plans included the creation of an agency within the Corporation for National and Community Service dedicated to building the capacity and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector. The plans highlighted the potential of this sector – as of 2012, nonprofits generated $1.5 trillion within the US economy, employed 13.5 million Americans and contributed nearly 5.5% GDP, while struggling with a scarcity of resources, given the uncertainty of donations, and their lack of access to traditional incentives to growth enjoyed by for-profit businesses. (By statute, 501(c)(3) organizations are not eligible for Small Business Authority loans, nor can they obtain many commercial debt products designed for small and medium enterprises.) The transition plans also called for using federal seed money to leverage private sector funding, so as to improve local innovation, expand successful programs, and test the impact of new ideas.
Also significant as a background to the creation of the SCIP were the recent changes in the social sector, with the emergence of scalable, market-based models of social change as a driving force. Such models include social enterprises with earned income strategies; mission-driven businesses that focus on achieving a double-bottom line; impact investors that seek to earn a financial return while achieving social benefit; and multinational companies pursuing models of corporate responsibility. No administration had focused on these trends until the Obama Administration created the Office of Social Innovation to build a policy agenda in this realm.
Definition
The term Social Innovation, as defined by Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), refers to a methodology of solving societal problems through new mechanisms that harness human and financial capital, and often stand at the crossroads of non-profit, public, and private sectors. Specifically, SSIR frames social innovation as "a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals".
Social innovation refers to invention and new problem solving methods not only in non-profits, but also more broadly in how social entrepreneurs seek to address human development challenges, how impact investors think about providing capital to organizations who maximize stakeholder value, and how mission-driven businesses and socially responsible corporations lever their comparative advantages to improve societal outcomes.
Mission
The mission of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is to strengthen and support the social sector. This includes nonprofit organizations, foundations, and social entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations, mission-driven business, and multinational developmental banks.
Strategy
The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation seeks to facilitate social innovation by harnessing human capital and facilitating the flow of financial capital. Based on evidence that communities with higher degrees of civic health exhibit better economic resilience, lower jobless rates, and faster returns to the workforce, the Administration believes that a strong social sector leads to better economic opportunity.
Tactically, the Office of Social Innovation seeks to unlock social innovation potential on two fronts: Unlocking human capital and unlocking financial capital.
Policies and programs
Priorities within harnessing human capital
The Office of Social Innovation drives federal policy regarding national service and volunteering. This is based on research that indicates that communities with higher degrees of civic health have increased economic resilience and lower rates of unemployment. Such civic health can be measured by indicators such as the rates of volunteering, voting, and the density of per capita nonprofits that provide essential local services. It is consistent with scholarship that has shown that unemployed people who volunteer have a higher likelihood of finding work than those who do not volunteer.
The data also indicates that interest in volunteering has reached extraordinary levels with historic numbers of applications for public programs such as AmeriCorps and Peace Corps. The popularity of non-governmental service programs such as Code for America, DataKind, and Global Citizen Year also has grown in recent years. All seem to indicate that more Americans want to serve – and that such talent could be put to good use to contribute to national renewal and stronger communities.
National service
National service has been a part of the fabric of American society since the founding of the country. It encompasses various models of public service including military service, and civilian service, such as AmeriCorps. Typically it is characterized by dedicated service to a single year or multi-year commitment at a single nonprofit organization. Participants benefit from a stipend of some sort that is important due to the fact that national service can be a part-time or full-time commitment, but the nature of the commitment precludes the participant from other full-time work.
Serve America Act
In April 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act reauthorizing and expanding national service programs. The law added the number of AmeriCorps positions from 75,000 to 250,000 and created four new service corps. It was the most significant piece of national service legislation since the 1993 The National and Community Service Trust Act signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
After laying out a plan for expanding AmeriCorps, the Administration launched FEMA Corps, a new service corps that builds upon the long-standing partnership between NCCC and Federal Emergency Management Agency through the creation of 1600 new AmeriCorps positions focused on disaster preparedness and relief activities. Enabled by new federal funding, these incremental corps members will gain hands-on experience and new skills that will improve their own professional prospects for the rest of their lives while they are increasing national resilience. Since the announcement, FEMA Corps members have been on the ground, helping with the coordinated response to disasters such as Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey and the tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Presidential Memorandum on National Service
In July 2013, President Obama announced a Presidential Memorandum on expanding national service. The memorandum supports new partnerships between federal agencies and Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to expand national service opportunities for Americans. The memorandum, which created a Task Force consisting of members of Cabinet, focused on expanding national service. Agencies are required to create a plan to utilize national service and volunteering. The Task Force is chaired by the CEO of CNCS and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Volunteering
Day of Service
In 1994, Congress designated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday as a national day of service ] and in 2009 designated September 11 as a national day of service. Both designations are affiliated with President Obama's United We Serve campaign, a nationwide service call.
Community partnerships
White House Council on Community Solutions
In 2010, President Obama signed the executive order establishing White House Council for Community Solutions to engage cross sector leaders to identify initiatives that expanded civic participation, helped solve the nation's most serious problems and create new pathways for "Disconnected Youth", 16- to 24-year-olds who are out of school and work. First Lady Michelle Obama served as honorary chair of the Council. The Council was chaired on a daily basis by former Gates Foundation CEO Patty Stonesifer. Its membership included a cross-section of business, nonprofit and community leaders including rock musician Jon Bon Jovi, Starbucks executive Paula Boggs, and eBay CEO John Donahue.
The Council participated in a series of town hall meetings across the country and conducted considerable research to understand the issues facing this population. The Council delivered its Final Report and Recommendations to the President in June 2012. One of its recommendations was to reposition the conversation about "Disconnected Youth" to "Opportunity Youth" in order to more appropriate consider these young people as valuable assets who could contribute to economic growth and civic renewal. The Council also generated additional output, including the creation of toolkit for employers seeking to hire Opportunity Youth. It spawned other outcomes, including the launch of the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions headed up by former White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes.
Summer Jobs + and Youth Jobs +
The Administration launched the Summer Jobs + initiative, which provided paid employment opportunities to low-income and disconnected youth and pathways to employment through resume writing workshops, mentorship programs and job shadow days. Through the initiative, over 300,000 employment opportunities were provided to youth in 2012, over 100,000 of which were paid.
In April 2013, the President launched the Youth Jobs + initiative. He challenged business, non-profits and government to work together to provide employment opportunities for low-income and disconnected youth that will also aim to reduce youth violence in local communities. In September, the White House hosted a convening that focused on youth employment, especially "opportunity youth", people between 18–24 years of age. The event recognized and honored employers and nonprofits for innovative work to develop the discipline and skills associated with the employment for the country's youth.
Priorities within harnessing financial capital
Based on the research, it is clear that the social sector lacks adequate capital to address the needs of Americans and maintain its role as a safety net and economic engine. To reverse this trend, the Office of Social Innovation has laid out a strategy to optimize the flow of scarce public dollars and to increase the flow of incremental private dollars. This dual track is enabled by a five-part framework:
Better Information
New Instruments
Strong Intermediaries
Institutional Capital
Impact at Scale
Harnessing better information, taking into account transparencies provided by technology, data and evidence can support what programs are working, and which are in need of iteration or reform. Better information can lead to evidence that a program is working, and can help the government better allocate grants to support successful programs. Consequently, the government can have a higher probability of "investing in what works," better optimize public spend, and serve as a more responsible fiduciary for taxpayers. New instruments can help government alloy public dollars with private dollars, leverage outside expertise for localization or diligence, and attract outside capital to address social problems. Through the use of strong intermediaries, public-private partnerships can tap local knowledge, and build a sustainable ecosystem that goes beyond government. Better information, new instruments and strong intermediaries that help build sustainable ecosystems to solve hard problems can attract and unlock institutional capital, and as a consequence, programs can achieve true impact at scale.
Information
Impact Data Initiative
The Office of Social Innovation created the Impact Data Initiative to create more transparency regarding information related to the social sector as a strategy to increase the flow of financial capital into the field. The Impact Data Initiative has been focused on opening federal databases as well as encouraging nonprofits to provide additional information. It has been supported by nonprofit organizations such as the Aspen Institute, Charity Navigator, Guidestar, and the Urban Institute.
The Impact Data Initiative has predicated on changes to the Form 990. This is an annual reporting return that certain federally tax-exempt organizations must file with the Internal Revenue Service. In 2008, the form was revised as a result of the passage of the Federal Pension Protection Act. All 501 (c) 3 private foundations regardless of income must file a Form 990. The form provides information on the organization's mission, programs and finances. The public is guaranteed access to this information, but the IRS has not published this information in a manner consistent with trends in open data: it not very accessible nor available in a machine-readable format.
President Obama has proposed to phase in a requirement that all nonprofit organizations file their annual tax returns electronically in order to facilitate improved access to this information in a manner consistent with the Open Government Initiative. In November 2013, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus released a tax reform discussion draft with a proposal to mandate all tax-exempt organizations required to file a Form 990 electronically and requiring the IRS to make the information on the forms available to the public in a machine readable format as soon as practicable.
Evidence based policy
As part of President Obama's management agenda, the Office of Social Innovation has helped to lead federal agencies to increasingly focus on the use of data and modeling to inform and improve what is called evidence based policy.
Evidence Based Policy is not new, but it is an important priority of the Administration, as outlined explicitly in a Memorandum M-13-17 issued in July 2013 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and signed by directors of the White House OMB, Domestic Policy Council (DPC), Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). The memorandum provides guidance for fiscal year 2015 agency budget submissions, and describes plans to prioritize budget requests that strengthen the use of evidence and innovation to inform and improve decision-making.
The memorandum gave explicit guidance in a number of key issues, such as:
Harnessing data to improve agency results
High-quality, low-cost evaluations for rapid, iterative experimentation
Using innovative outcome-focused grant designs
Strengthening agency capacity to use evidence
And OMB, in partnership with DPC, CEA, and OSTP orchestrated workshops designed to help federal agencies interpret and apply the budget guidance, taking into account how to focus evaluation resources on the most important policy questions, how to use "administrative data sets" from multiple programs and agencies, how to conduct rigorous program evaluations and data analytics on a tight budget, how to use existing budgetary authority to turn traditional competitive grant programs into innovative, evidence-based programs, and how agencies could harness research findings from behavioral science to implement low-cost approaches to improving program efficacy.
While the Administration's focus on evidence-based policy is notable, it is not entirely unique. In 2013, Elaine Kamarck at Brookings launched the Center for Effective Public Management, the World Bank Institute promotes what it calls, "Lean" in the Public Sector, building upon the concepts of "Lean Startup" and "Lean Analytics" from Silicon Valley, the other agencies such as USAID, Education, and Labor already have competitive grant programs such as Development Innovation Ventures that take into account staged or tiered venture capital style grant making, using evidence to support scale-up grants.
Programs that utilize better information to inform decision-making in grants that involve strong intermediaries and that enable greater scale and innovation by driving new private capital into the social sector are often labeled "Innovation Funds," a priority that enables human and financial capital. This work is highlighted in an April 2014 SSIR article.
Instruments
Social Innovation Fund
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) founded in 2009 and administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, is one of the flagship social innovation programs created by the Obama Administration.
Designed by the Office of Social Innovation, the SIF is a public-private partnership that tests promising new approaches to major challenges, leverages private and philanthropic capital to meet these needs, and grows evidence-based programs that demonstrate measurable outcomes. SIF's unique model leverages private and local resources by investing millions of dollars in experienced grant makers or "intermediaries" that are well-positioned within communities to identify the most capable programs and guide them towards greater impact and strong evidence of success. Such intermediaries then must raise incremental funds 3:1 in order to amplify the power of the federal funds. These organizations – which include venture philanthropies, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), operating foundations and social enterprises – then invest the aggregate capital into high-impact nonprofits that are delivering evidence-based results in one of three priority issue areas: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development.
In its first three years, SIF has awarded $137 million to 20 intermediary grant-makers, which have selected 221 nonprofit sub-grantees working in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Some notable SIF investments include College Advising Corps; Chrysalis; Harlem Children's Zone; and YearUp. In 2014, the Federal Budget increased SIF, raising the program from $45 million to $70 million which many interpreted as a strong validation of the Administration's social innovation agenda.
The SIF originally was headed up by former Bridgespan executive Paul Carttar. Its current director is Michael Smith, a former senior executive of the Case Foundation. During his tenure at Case, Smith was credited with helping to lead A Billion+ Change and the Startup America Partnership.
Pay For Success
Pay for Success (PFS) is a signature strategy of social innovations. It was originally pioneered by the Ford Administration as "social impact bonds." PFS offers innovative ways for the government to build public-private partnerships can be bring capital to test promising practices and scale programs that work, significantly enhancing the return on taxpayer investments because government only pays for programs that achieve results. At the same time, PFS offers the prospect of attracting new investment capital to fund important social programs, thus potentially boosting the capital available to fund social programs while creating new return horizons for private investors.
The Office of Social Innovation prioritized PFS in 2011 by introduce PFS in the FY12 Budget and initiating a series of events designed to educate local, county and state lawmakers about the opportunity presented by PFS. Since that time, the White House has hosted numerous workshops, panel discussions, and other events focused on PFS.
The Administration also has prioritized grant programs to pilot the potential of PFS to tackle various challenges. The Department of Justice announced three awards in September 2012: an implementation award in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and a planning award in Lowell, Massachusetts under the Second Chance Act and an additional contract to develop a blueprint for governments to use Pay for Success to reduce recidivism.
The Department of Labor announced two awards totaling $24 million in September 2013: one to the New York Department of Labor in the amount of $12,000,000 and the other to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development in the amount of $11,670,000. These grants will support programming that aims to increase employment and reduce recidivism among formerly incarcerated individuals.
One of the key proposals SICP made for FY 2014 was a new $300 million Pay for Success Incentive Fund at the Department of Treasury. The Fund is designed to help State and local governments implement Pay for Success programs with financial partners. It will provide credit enhancements for organizations that seek to introduce Pay for Success and offer direct grants to fund outcome payments for successful, money-saving services.
Program Related Investments
The regulations regarding Program Related Investments (PRIs) originally were drafted in 1972 as part of a broad effort on tax reform. These rules facilitate the ability of foundations to move beyond conventional grants and use other financial means to support nonprofits or businesses pursuing charitable purposes. However, PRIs have not been adopted widely by the nonprofit field because their complexity in part due to the outdated regulations created higher transactions costs for foundations who wanted to use them.
In 2012, the Treasury Department updated aspects of the regulations for the first time in 40 years since they were first drafted. By publishing a set of clarifying examples of how PRIs could be used, the Obama Administration tried to make it easier for foundations to see how they can adopt flexible approaches to the deployment of capital. The examples included scenarios including the use of credit enhancements, loan guarantees, lines of credit, even equity investments to achieve their philanthropic missions.
Impact Investing
The Office of Social Innovation has been responsible for elevating impact investing inside the Federal government. It has defined impact investing as "the practice of channeling capital toward businesses that intentionally generate economic return and public benefit". Such businesses openly track and measure social, environmental, and governance (ESG) considerations alongside their financial returns.
The Office of Social Innovation has hosted large-scale meetings, including the White House Forum on Impact Economy executed in partnership with the Aspen Institute. It launched the National Impact Initiative, a new approach to coordinate federal policy on impact investing. This encompasses the work of multiple federal agencies focused on impact investing, including programs such as the SBIC Impact Fund launched by SBA; the Freshworks Fund created by the Treasury Department and US Department of Agriculture; the Accelerating Market Partnerships program of the US State Department; and the Global Development Innovation Ventures partnership managed by USAID.
The Office has coordinated the US Government's participation in the US's G8 Social Impact Investing Forum and the subsequent work of the Social Impact Investment Task Force chaired Ronald Cohen. The US representatives on the Task Force include Matt Bannick, CEO of the Omidyar Network and the Honorable Don Graves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury. The US Advisory Board to the Task Force includes a wide range of thought leaders and impact investors.
Personnel
Staff
Special Assistant to the President and Director of SICP: Jonathan Greenblatt is Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Greenblatt is a serial social entrepreneur who previously co-founded Ethos Water (sold to Starbucks); founded All for Good (acquired by Points of Light) served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide; taught at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA; and launched the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen Institute.
Policy Assistant: Noemie Levy is the Policy Assistant in the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. She supports the Office's full portfolio of initiatives, including Pay for Success, national service, and innovation funds.
Senior Policy Advisor: Rafael López is a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. His work focuses on identifying areas where the innovative application of technology-based options can improve collaboration between the Executive Office of the President and federal agencies to strengthen the relationship between the Administration, nonprofit, philanthropic, and professional organizations to use advanced technologies in the development and implementation of domestic and social policies and programs.
Senior Policy Advisor: Dave Wilkinson serves as Senior Policy Advisor for Financial and Social Innovation. On assignment with the Council on Environmental Quality, he closely coordinates with the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to work on a range of projects in the Office's portfolio. In this role, Mr. Wilkinson draws from an extensive background in community finance, capital markets and financial innovation.
Presidential Innovation Fellow: Scott Hartley focused on Evidence-based Policy, data driven decision making, and competitive grant programs, helping the Office of Social Innovation, OMB, and other agencies consider Silicon Valley methodologies such as "Lean Startup" philosophy to drive staged decision making, faster or more iterative feedback loops, and risk mitigation without stifling innovation. On leave from Mohr Davidow Ventures, and on assignment from USAID's Development Innovation Ventures, he managed agency workshops related to the President's Management Agenda.
Past staff
Sonal Shah: Founding director of the Office of Social Innovation. Shah is a fellow at the Case Foundation and a board member at Social Finance US.
Michele Jolin: Senior Policy Advisor. She is a Managing Partner of America Achieves and leading its Results for America initiative.
Carlos Monje: chief of staff to the Domestic Policy Council
Charles D. Anderson: Policy Assistant. Anderson is an adviser at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Howard W. Buffett, senior policy advisor. He is a faculty member Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, the executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the co-author of 40 Chances.
Annie Donovan: Annie was a Senior Policy Advisor working collaboratively with SICP and the Council on Environmental Quality. She formerly worked as the chief operating officer at NCB Capital Impact and now serves as the CEO of Coop Metrics.
Marta Urquilla: Senior Policy Advisor
Other Social Innovation and Civic Participation Offices
Although the Obama Administration pioneered the Office of Social Innovation, the model has been replicated by other governments in the US and around the world.
US Cities:
Boston: Office of New Urban Mechanics
New York City: Mayor Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Mayor Office of New Urban Mechanics
US States:
Illinois: Illinois Task Force on Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise
Countries:
Canada: British Columbia – Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation
United Kingdom: Cabinet Office Social Investment and Finance Team - Centre for Social Impact Bonds
Australia: Government of West Australia – Social Innovation Grants Program
References
External links
Office of Social Innovation and Civil Participation website
White House: Office of the Press Secretary: President Obama to Request $50 Million to Identify and Expand Effective, Innovative Non-Profits (5 May 2009)
White House: Blog: Strengthening Civic Participation (11 June 2009)
White House: Blog: Replicating Success (8 Oct 2009)
Corporation for National and Community Service
Executive Office of the President of the United States
United States domestic policy
Presidency of Barack Obama |
GO Remixed is an album by Christian pop and rock band Newsboys. It was released on 8 May 2007. The song "City to City" is featured in the 2011 film Cars 2.
Track listing
Accolades
In 2008, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards.
References
Newsboys albums
2007 remix albums
Inpop Records remix albums |
Moris may refer to:
People
Given name
Moris Carrozzieri (born 1980), Italian footballer
Moris Farhi (born 1935), Turkish author, vice-president of International PEN
Moris Pfeifhofer (born 1988), Swiss figure skater
Moris (singer) (born Mauricio Birabent in 1942), Argentine guitarist
Moris Tepper (21st century), U.S. singer, songwriter, guitarist, and painter
Surname
Anthony Moris (born 1990), Belgian footballer
Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (1796–1869), Italian botanist
Places
Moris Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Moris, Chihuahua, Mexican town
Moris, island of Mauritius in the local language (creole)
Other
Arte Moris, fine arts school in East Timor.
See also
Morris (disambiguation)
Morus (disambiguation)
Mori (disambiguation) |
Wild- and Rhinegrave Charles of Salm-Dhaun (21 September 1675 – 26 March 1733) was Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun from 1693 to 1733. He was born in Hochstetten-Dhaun, the son of Wild- and Rhinegrave John Philip II of Salm-Dhaun and his wife, Anna Catherine of Nassau-Ottweiler.
He married on 19 January 1704 in Ottweiler to his first cousin Louise, the daughter of Count Frederick Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler. Charles and Louise had ten children:
Catherine Louise (b. 1705)
Caroline (b. 1706)
Christina (b. 1710)
Wilhelmina (b. 1712)
Albertine (b. 1716)
Charles Augustus (b. 1718)
Sophie Charlotte (b. 1719)
Louise (b. 1721)
John Philip III (b. 1724)
Jeanette Louise (b. 1725)
Charles died in Hochstetten-Dhaun, aged 57.
Salm family
Counts of Salm
1675 births
1733 deaths
17th-century German people
18th-century German people |
My Father's Happy Years () is a 1977 Hungarian drama film directed by Sándor Simó. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Cast
Eszter Szakács - Anya, Törökné
Loránd Lohinszky - Apa, Török János
Irma Patkós - Irma néni
Judit Meszléry - Ilus, Szekeres felesége
Dezső Garas - Martin doktor
Georgiana Tarjan - Jutka (as Györgyi Tarján)
István Bujtor - Negrelli Zsiga
József Madaras - Szekeres Ede
Péter Harsányi - Fiú
Péter Andorai - Varga Ernő, kommunista
Péter Müller
Tamás Dunai - A gyárigazgató fia
References
External links
1977 films
1970s Hungarian-language films
1977 drama films
Films directed by Sándor Simó
Hungarian drama films |
Liestal (, Standard ), formerly spelled Liesthal, is the capital of Liestal District and the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, south of Basel.
Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town.
The official language of Liestal is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
History
The name Liestal was first mentioned in 1225, and the settlement dates at least from Roman times. The development of the town is due to its strategic location on the road between the first bridge over the Rhine at Basel and the St. Gotthard Pass.
Citizens of Liestal participated in the Burgundian Wars in 1476 and 1477 against Charles the Bold. In 1501, the mayor swore allegiance to the Swiss Confederation, and this caused repeated conflict with neighboring Rheinfelden, which belonged to the Habsburgs.
In the 17th century, Liestal rebelled against Basel as part of the Farmers' Rebellion and was occupied by troops from that city. Three leaders of the rebellion were beheaded in Basel.
In 1789, the town enthusiastically hailed the French call for freedom and equality. It celebrated Napoleon, when he traveled through town in 1797. After his fall, the earlier subjection to Basel was re-established.
The French July Revolution of 1830 also caused upheaval in Liestal. A provisional government was established, and the town was chosen as the capital of a new canton on 17 March 1832.
Geography
Liestal has an area, , of . Of this area, or 16.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 58.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 23.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.6% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 57.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 6.7% is used for growing crops and 8.0% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.2% is in lakes and 0.3% is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is the capital of the canton of Basel-Country. The old town is situated on a rocky outcrop between the Ergolz and Orisbach rivers and between Basel and the Jura Mountains. The town is fan-shaped, consisting of a wide main street (Gassenmarkt) and two side streets. In the 18th century small suburbs developed around the lower and the upper city gates. In the 17th century the commercial district of Gestadeck developed along the canal.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent, a crozier issuant Gules, and Gules.
Demographics
Liestal has a population () of . , 23.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 7.7%.
Most of the population () speaks German (10,759 or 83.2%), with Italian being second most common (660 or 5.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (276 or 2.1%). There are 122 people who speak French and 12 people who speak Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 10,104 Swiss citizens (74.6% of the population), and 3,447 non-Swiss residents (25.4%) Of the population in the municipality 3,257 or about 25.2% were born in Liestal and lived there in 2000. There were 2,648 or 20.5% who were born in the same canton, while 3,406 or 26.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,129 or 24.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 102 live births to Swiss citizens and 44 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 109 deaths of Swiss citizens and 7 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 7 while the foreign population increased by 37. There were 5 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 4 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 41 non-Swiss men and 41 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 80 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 36 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.3%.
The age distribution, , in Liestal is; 917 children or 6.8% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 1,827 teenagers or 13.5% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 1,924 people or 14.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 1,828 people or 13.5% are between 30 and 39, 2,137 people or 15.8% are between 40 and 49, and 2,705 people or 20.0% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 1,620 people or 12.0% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 593 people or 4.4% who are over 80.
, there were 5,441 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 5,993 married individuals, 751 widows or widowers and 745 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 5,450 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household. There were 1,935 households that consist of only one person and 322 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 5,584 households that answered this question, 34.7% were households made up of just one person and 30 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 1,585 married couples without children, 1,505 married couples with children. There were 286 single parents with a child or children. There were 109 households that were made up unrelated people and 134 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 1,470 single family homes (or 59.3% of the total) out of a total of 2,479 inhabited buildings. There were 474 multi-family buildings (19.1%), along with 301 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.1%) and 234 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (9.4%). Of the single family homes 141 were built before 1919, while 241 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (353) were built between 1919 and 1945.
there were 5,876 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 1,710. There were 268 single room apartments and 1,538 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 5,316 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 379 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 181 apartments (3.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.2 new units per 1000 residents. the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about 871.00 CHF (US$700, £390, €560), a three-room apartment was about 1063.00 CHF (US$850, £480, €680) and a four-room apartment cost an average of 1260.00 CHF (US$1010, £570, €810). The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.21%.
Historic Population
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Depot of Archeology of Basel-land, the Frenkenbrücke (bridge), the Munzach which was a Roman farmhouse, the Roman aqueduct and the Cantonal Archive of Basel-Landschaft are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire old town of Liestal is listed in the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 25.95% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (25.05%), the FDP (18.83%) and the Green Party (17.23%). In the federal election, a total of 4,243 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.8%.
Economy
, Liestal had an unemployment rate of 2.75%. , there were 160 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector. 2,324 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 145 businesses in this sector. 10,189 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 824 businesses in this sector. There were 6,829 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which women made up 44.9% of the workforce.
the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 10,921. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 50, of which 36 were in agriculture, 12 were in forestry or lumber production and 2 were in fishing or fisheries. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,204, of which 1,107 or (50.2%) were in manufacturing and 896 (40.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 8,667. In the tertiary sector; 899 or 10.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 348 or 4.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 258 or 3.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 117 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 651 or 7.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 638 or 7.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 660 or 7.6% were in education and 2,819 or 32.5% were in health care.
, there were 10,031 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,911 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.6 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 5.3% of the workforce coming into Liestal are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 25.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 35.7% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 3,641 or 28.2% were Roman Catholic, while 5,626 or 43.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 261 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.02% of the population), there were 36 individuals (or about 0.28% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 383 individuals (or about 2.96% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who were Jewish, and 699 (or about 5.41% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 31 individuals who were Buddhist, 119 individuals who were Hindu and 30 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,644 (or about 12.71% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 452 individuals (or about 3.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Liestal about 4,911 or (38.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,895 or (14.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 1,895 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.3% were Swiss men, 25.1% were Swiss women, 9.0% were non-Swiss men and 6.6% were non-Swiss women.
, there were 2,096 students in Liestal who came from another municipality, while 220 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Liestal is home to 2 libraries. These libraries include; the Kantonsbibliothek Baselland and the Pädagogische Hochschule in Liestal. There was a combined total () of 249,271 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 757,718 items were loaned out.
Crime
In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Liestal was 73.2 per thousand residents, slightly higher than the national average (64.6 per thousand). During the same period, the rate of drug crimes was 6.1 per thousand residents. This rate is 103.3% greater than the rate in the district, additionally it is 125.9% greater than the rate in the canton, however, due to lower rates in the district and canton it is still only 61.6% of the national rate. The rate of violations of immigration, visa and work permit laws was 1.7 per thousand residents. This rate is 88.9% greater than the rate in the canton but is only 34.7% of the rate for the entire country.
Customs
On the Sunday night after Mardi Gras, Chienbäse is celebrated with a spectacular parade and bonfires, from which the celebration takes its name. The tradition goes back at least to the 16th century. Other towns in the neighborhood also celebrate in a similar manner.
Other local festivals are the following:
Santichlaus-Ylüüte
Banntag
Transport
Liestal railway station is on the Swiss Federal Railway's Hauenstein main line, which connects Basel and Olten. It is served by five trains per hour to Basel, four trains per hour to Olten, and hourly trains to Bern, Lucerne and Zürich. Several trains a day operate through to Frankfurt and Berlin. The station is also the junction for, and terminus of, the Waldenburg narrow gauge railway, which operates a half-hourly train service to Waldenburg.
The municipality is also located on the A3 motorway, between Basel and Zürich.
Notable residents
Johann Bernhard Merian (1723 in Liestal – 1807), a Swiss philosopher active in the Prussian Academy of Sciences
Abel Seyler (1730 in Liestal – 1800), a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker
Carl Spitteler (1845 in Liestal – 1924), a Swiss poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919
Karl Wilhelm Ritter (1847 in Liestal – 1906), civil engineer, professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck (1873 in Liestal – 1957), architect
Matthias Gelzer (1886 in Liestal – 1974), a Swiss-German classical historian, studied the Roman Republic
Bohuslav Martinů (1890 - 1959 in Liestal), Czech composer of modern classical music
Martin Schadt (born 1938), a Swiss physicist and inventor
Enrico Marini (born 1969), an Italian comics artist
Davide Cali (born 1972 in Liestal), an Italian writer of picture books and graphic novels
Sport
Rico Freiermuth (born 1958 in Liestal), a Swiss bobsledder, bronze medallist at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Adrian Knup (born 1968 in Liestal), is a Swiss retired football striker, 273 club caps and 49 for Switzerland
David Degen (born 1983 in Liestal), a former Swiss footballer, 269 club caps and 17 for Switzerland
Philipp Degen (born 1983 in Liestal), a retired Swiss footballer, 238 club caps and 32 for Switzerland
Fabian Leimlehner (born 1987 in Liestal), an Austrian male artistic gymnast, participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Yanik Frick (born 1998 in Liestal), a Liechtensteiner footballer
International relations
Twin towns – sister cities
Liestal is twinned with:
See also
Waldenburgerbahn
Nanosurf
References
External links
Official website of Liestal
Cities in Switzerland
Cantonal capitals of Switzerland
Liestal (capital)
Cultural property of national significance in Basel-Landschaft |
A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender. Utility dinghies are usually rowboats or have an outboard motor. Some are rigged for sailing but they differ from sailing dinghies, which are designed first and foremost for sailing. A dinghy's main use is for transfers from larger boats, especially when the larger boat cannot dock at a suitably-sized port or marina.
The term "dinghy towing" sometimes is used to refer to the practice of towing a car or other smaller vehicle behind a motorhome, by analogy to towing a dinghy behind a yacht.
Etymology
The term is a loanword from the Bengali , Urdu , and Hindi .
Types
Dinghies usually range in length from about . Larger auxiliary vessels are generally called tenders, pinnaces or lifeboats. Folding and take-down multi-piece (nesting) dinghies are used where space is limited. Some newer dinghies have much greater buoyancy, giving them more carrying capacity than older boats of the same size.
Whaleboats are among the classic "pulling" (rowing) boats, with a sharp bow, fine stern lines and a canoe stern. Despite being somewhat more tippy, with less cargo capacity than prams, they row, motor and sail well because of their fine lines. Prior to the introduction of fibreglass as a construction material, dories were more popular because their ease of assembly and, thereby, lower cost.
Whitehall rowboats were the water taxis of the late 1800s until the invention of the small gasoline outboard. Considered one of the most refined rowboats for harbour and lake use, Whitehall rowboats are a descendant of the captain's gig which was used for a similar purpose on a naval vessel.
Dories are sharp-ended boats traditionally made of wood but now also produced in fibreglass or aluminium. They cut the water well, but their initial stability is low, making them feel tippy in flat water; a loaded dory becomes more stable as it is loaded. Dories are not generally used as service boats to yachts; they were used in large numbers in the cod fishing business, launched in numbers from the deck of a schooner hove to on the Grand Banks or other fishing ground. A dory can be landed or launched through surf where a Whitehall may founder. Dories are seldom called dinghies.
Prams are usually short with transoms at both bow and stern. They are difficult to tip and carry a lot of cargo or passengers for their length but are slower to row because of their short length and extreme rocker, although a skeg and/or bilge runners can make a difference, and even without they will row better than an inflatable. Popular as tenders on sail boats with limited deck space.
Some inflatable boats have a rigid deck and transom which allows an engine to be used for propulsion. They row poorly and do not tow well because of their blunt bows and large wetted surface area, but they are exceptionally buoyant.
Rigid safety dinghies are designed to row, motor, tow, and sail. In addition to their self-rescue lifeboat functionality, these boats serve as everyday tenders and as recreational boats. They are extremely buoyant and/or unsinkable and have great carrying capacity relative to length (see photo above).
Space issues
On yachts shorter than , there is usually not enough room for a reasonably sized dinghy. A dinghy is useful to avoid the need for expensive dock or slip space, so owners of small yachts compromise by carrying a small rigid dinghy or deflated inflatable, or by towing a larger dinghy. Space can be saved by storing items in containers or bags that are tied to the dinghy. Dinghies are sometimes used as lifeboats. Recently, self-rescue dinghies have returned to use as proactive lifeboats that can be sailed to safety.
Rigid dinghies for small yachts are very small, about , usually with a pram (blunt) bow to get more beam (width) in a shorter length. Larger dinghies are towed and should have reserve buoyancy, an automatic bailer, and a cover to prevent them from being lost at sea. Most masters prefer a tow cable long enough to put the dinghy on the back side of the swell to prevent the dinghy from ramming the transom of the yacht.
Inflatables are inconvenient to tow and take extra time to inflate but are very compact and fit easily into place while at sea. Space can also be saved by using a sectional two-piece rigid dinghy that is towed while in harbour and disassembled into two nesting pieces while off-shore; typically the bow section fits inside the stern and is stored upside down on deck. There are several types of collapsible rigid dinghy that dismantle into a series of flat panels for easy stowage.
Inflatable tubes can be fitted to an existing hard dinghy, increasing buoyancy and stability.
Hardware and materials
A dinghy should have a strong ring on the bow. The ring secures the painter (the line that anchors the boat to a dock), and is used for towing and anchoring. Ideally, the dinghy should also have two other rings (one on each side of the stern transom) which, with the bow ring, are used for lifting and securing the dinghy for stowage.
The only other essential pieces of hardware are rowlocks (also known as oarlocks). Conventionally, a dinghy will have an oar on each side. A single sculling oarlock or notch on the transom is less common, but requires less space; and is used with a single sculling oar moving back and forth, never leaving the water, as used on a sampan.
Many modern dinghies are made of synthetic materials. These require minimal care and do not rot but can suffer from fibre glass pox which is caused by the ingress of saltwater through the gel coat. Inflatable dinghies can be made of fabrics coated with Hypalon, neoprene or PVC. Rigid dinghies can be made of glass-fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) but injection-moulded one-piece hulls are also available. Other materials for modern rigid dinghies include aluminium, marine plywood which tends to be much lighter than most types and, with the advent of sturdy, UV resistant polyurethane varnishes, wood. Some wooden dinghies (especially of classic or historical form) are built using the carvel or clinker methods. Favoured woods, in order of rot-resistance, are white oak, black locust, species of cedar and pine, true as well as African and Asian mahoganies, fir and spruce. Rot resistance depends on paint as well as protection from rainwater. Plastic hardware is sometimes used, but bronze and stainless steel are good corrosion-resistant materials for hardware, although stainless steel can be subject to crevice corrosion after many years especially in a boat using an outboard or other motor and must be inspected. Stainless steel should never be used for fittings permanently in the water. Owners should check that the correct grade of stainless steel is used in a fitting. Working boats may use lower-cost galvanized steel, but the hardware may need to be re-galvanized or replaced eventually.
The dinghy is generally carried inverted amidships on yachts, on top of the coachroof where there is the most space. It is useful for a dinghy carried this way to have handholds built into the bottom, making launching easier and providing handholds on deck.
Most yachts launch their dinghies by hand or with a simple lifting tackle rigged from the main mast. Davits over the transom is convenient and elegant, but sailing in a heavy following sea could cause the loss of a dinghy. If a dinghy is towed, an extra line with a loop in the end (known as a lazy painter) can be attached to a dinghy so that if the towing line breaks, there is a line to grab with a boat hook. This makes retrieval easier at sea, especially if the boat is partially swamped.
In some countries dinghies have names or registration numbers. On hard dinghies these are usually on the bow, on inflatables on the inside of the transom.
Propulsion
Oars
Small dinghies under are usually powered by rowing with one set of oars. Beyond it is feasible to have two or even three rowers, normally using a pair of oars. In some models, sliding thwarts allow far more powerful rowing while in others, a removable thwart can permit standing rowing. Some self-rescue dinghy/yacht tender dinghies have two sets of oarlocks (rowlocks) and an adjustable middle seat to allow for ergonomically efficient rowing positions. A single sculling oar with an oarlock on the rear transom can be a compact emergency oar. Inflatable dinghies without a rigid bottom are difficult to row more than a short distance, and are usually powered with an outboard motor, or, if necessary, paddled.
Motor
Another option is an outboard motor. Two horsepower per meter can reach hull speed. will put a flat-bottomed dinghy on plane. A dinghy with a hard V-bottom hull and a outboard can reach speeds of . The gas tank is usually placed under the rear thwart. Engines always swing up so the dinghy can be grounded without damage. Since the transom may need to be cut down for the engine to fit properly, an engine well should be used to prevent low waves from splashing over the transom and flooding the boat.
Sail
A typical sail choice for a dinghy is gunter rig with a shorter mast that fits within the hull when unstepped. Sprit rigs have no boom, and the advantage that the sail can be brailed up out of the way against the mast when rowing or motoring. Lug rigs are another common single sail type used in small dinghies, both standing and balanced (with some area forward of the mast), and usable with or without a boom.
Traditional working dinghies have a lee board that can be hooked over the side. This does not split the cargo space. A sailing rudder is usually tied or clipped to a simple pair of pintles (hinge pins) on the transom with the bottom pintle being longer so that the rudder can be mounted one pintle at a time. The rope keeps the rudder from floating off in a wave. Both rudders and lee boards have swiveling tips so the dinghy can be landed. Rudders are often arranged so the tiller folds against the rudder to make a compact package.
Racing dinghies usually have a daggerboard or centreboard to better sail upwind. The trunk is in the middle of what would otherwise be cargo area. A self-rescue dinghy intended to be used as a proactive lifeboat has leeboards on either side, to allow for maximum open cockpit area.
Solar
Solar propulsion uses hybrid flexible solar panels integrated into the bimini top supplying power to a lithium battery bank. Twin in-hull trolling motor produce of thrust powering the solar dinghy to depending on weather conditions. Alternate power is supplied by a propane outboard for increased speed and range.
Other equipment
Additional U.S. Coast Guard required and non-required items that should always be on a dinghy:
These are the U.S. Coast Guard's minimum requirements for recreational boats:
Personal flotation devices for every occupant
Bell, whistle
Visual distress signals
Fire extinguisher
Ventilation (boats built on or after 8/1/80)
Back-fire flame arrestor (gasoline engines installed after 25 April 1940)
These next items are not a Coast Guard requirement but should always be kept on board to maximize safety:
Oars
Bucket
First aid kit
Blanket
Rope
This equipment should be in a bag made of water-resistant materials.
Andersen-style self-bailers are also useful for engine-driven and sailing dinghies. These slot-shaped seacocks project into the stream below the hull and open when submerged and moving rapidly using the venturi effect. The downside of this solution is that if the boat is beached in sand, it can clog the self-bailers until the boat is inverted and the sand removed. These devices do not replace a hand-bailer as they are only useful if the vessel is moving.
A small anchor can be used to allow the crew of the dinghy to fish or rest. Dinghy anchors are usually either a mushroom shape, a small folding grapple hook or the more modern and efficient Danforth type, with floating rope that will avoid being cut by snags on the bottom. The mushroom is used in locations where the bottom is very muddy, while the grapple works better in rocks. Some persons prefer a small Danforth or plow, because of their superior holding power in all but rocks, but these have sharp edges, and need to be set with a little care. Even a dinghy should have a length of chain attached to the anchor - the same length as the dinghy. The warp then attaches to the short chain with a wired shackle. This gives added weight and help in setting an anchor. It also stops the warp fraying on sharp rocks when the dinghy swings to and fro with the tide. Generally an anchor warp should be 4 times the depth of the water. In strong winds this can be extended to 8 times the depth but most dinghies are not seaworthy enough to be anchored securely in such storm conditions.
A dinghy should not be able to scratch the mother-boat's paint; therefore a fender made from a length of heavy rope (or a strip of polyurethane) can be tied loosely to the outside of the bulwarks. This also provides a handhold for launching, or for people overboard to climb into the boat. Many modern dinghies have a molded ridge of plastic to replace the rope. A fitted acrylic canvas cover can shed seas or act as a shade or storage cover. Traditionally it toggles to the fender-rope or is suspended from the gunter (small folding mast) but can also be tied to a few points and secured with snaps or Velcro. Depending on the design there may be a large locker under a thwart.
See also
Boat building
Dinghy sailing
Dinghy racing
420 (dinghy)
Laser (dinghy)
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
Yule, Sir Henry, & Arthur Coke Burnell (1886) Hobson-Jobson: Being a Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms: Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive. (J. Murray).
Smyth, Admiral William Henry. The Sailor's Word-Book. An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. BLACKIE AND SON, London, 1867.
External links
Directory of dinghy classes
Dinghy classification by ISAF
World of Boats (EISCA) Collection ~ Dutch Pram Dinghy
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Bengali words and phrases
Hindi words and phrases
Ship's boats |
The ceremony for the 34th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation in 2006, was held on February 11, 2007, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California.
The nominations were announced on December 4, 2006.
Winners are marked in bold text.
Production nominees
Best Animated Feature
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
Open Season
Over the Hedge
Best Home Entertainment Production
Bambi II
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Winnie-the-Pooh: Shapes & Sizes
Best Animated Short Subject
No Time for Nuts
Adventure Time
Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Don't Download This Song"
Best Animated Television Commercial
United Airlines - "Dragon"
Candace Kane's Candy Factory - "Ka-chew!"
ESPN - "Believe"
Hilton Hotels & Resorts - "Dancing Couple"
Saint Louis Zoo - "Giraffe"
Best Animated Television Production
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Charlie and Lola
The Fairly OddParents
King of the Hill
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
Best Animated Video Game
Flushed Away: The Game
Monster House
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
Individual achievement
Animated Effects
Scott Cegielski – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Keith Klohn – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
David Stephens – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
Erdem Taylan – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
John David Thornton – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
Character Animation in a Feature Production
Gabe Hordos – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Line Andersen – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Carlos Baena – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
Bobby Podesta – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
Kristof Serrand – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Television Production
Yu Jae Myung – Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Blind Bandit" – Nickelodeon
Joshua Jennings – Moral Orel – ShadowMachine Films
Eileen Kohlhepp – Family Guy – Fox TV
Sihanouk Mariona – Robot Chicken – ShadowMachine Films
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Nico Marlet – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
Peter de Sève – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
Carter Goodrich – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
Character Design in an Animated Television Production
Mike Kunkel – The Life & Times of Juniper Lee "Party Monsters" – Cartoon Network Studios
Ben Balistreri – Danny Phantom "King Tuck" – Nickelodeon
Carlos Ramos – The X’s "Homebody" – Nickelodeon
Eric Robles – The X’s "You Only Sneeze Twice" – Nickelodeon
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
David Bowers & Sam Fell – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Gil Kenan – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
John Lasseter – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
Carlos Saldanha – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
Directing in an Animated Television Production
Giancarlo Volpe – Avatar: The Last Airbender “The Drill” – Nickelodeon
Shaun Cashman – The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy “Hill Billy” – Cartoon Network Studios
Craig McCracken – Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Bus the Two of Us” – Cartoon Network Studios
Guy Vasilovich – Growing Up Creepie “The Tell-Tale Poem” – Mike Young Productions
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Randy Newman – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
John Debney – The Ant Bully – Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in Association with Legendary Pictures, a Playtone Production in Association with DNA Productions
Gordon Goodwin – Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas – Warner Bros. Animation
Laura Karpman – A Monkey’s Tale – Dedica Group
John Powell – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
Music in an Animated Television Production
James L. Venable & Jennifer Kes Remington – Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: "One False Movie" (Cartoon Network Studios)
Brad Benedict, Mark Fontana & Erik Godal – Squirrel Boy: "A Line in the Sandwich" (Cartoon Network Studios)
John King – Shorty McShorts' Shorts: "Boyz on Da Run Part 1" (Walt Disney Television Animation)
Steve Marston – Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks: "The Gift" (Mike Young Productions)
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Pierre-Olivier Vincent – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
William Cone – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
Andy Harkness – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
Michael Humphries – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
Paul Shardlow – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
Production Design in an Animated Television Production
Martin Ansolabehere – Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends “Good Wilt Hunting” – Cartoon Network Studios
Alan Bodner - The Life and Times of Juniper Lee “Water We Fighting For” - Cartoon Network Studios
Bob Boyle – Wow! Wow! Wubbzy – “Tale of Tails” – Produced by Bolder Media, Inc. in association with Film Roman, a Starz Company.
Dan Krall – My Gym Partner’s A Monkey “Grub Drive” – Cartoon Network Studios
Sue Mondt – Camp Lazlo “Hard Days Samson” – Cartoon Network Studios
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Gary Graham Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
Thom Enriquez Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
William H. Frake III Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
Kris Pearn Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
Simon Wells Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production
Li Hong – The X's “You Only Sneeze Twice” – Nickelodeon
Troy Adomitis - American Dragon: Jake Long “Breakout” – Walt Disney Television Animation
Ben Balistreri – Danny Phantom “Urban Jungle” – Nickelodeon
Shaut Nigoghossian – Danny Phantom “Reality Trip” – Nickelodeon
Adam Van Wyk – Hellboy “Sword of Storms” – Film Roman, a Starz Media Co.
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Ian McKellen – Voice of the Toad – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Voice of Zee – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
Sam Lerner – Voice of Chowder – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
Spencer Locke – Voice of Jenny – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
Wanda Sykes – Voice of Stella – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
Eartha Kitt – Voice of Yzma – The Emperor's New School “Kuzclone” – Walt Disney Television Animation
Keith Ferguson – Voice of Blooregard – Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Squeeze the Day” – Cartoon Network Studios
Mila Kunis – Voice of Meg Griffin – Family Guy “Barely Legal” – Fuzzy Door Productions
Russi Taylor – Voice of Ferny – Jakers! “Mi Galeon” – Mike Young Productions
Patrick Warburton – Voice of Kronk – The Emperor’s New School “Kuzclone” – Walt Disney Television Animation
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais and Chris Lloyd & Joe Keenan and Will Davies – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
Rich Burns – Brother Bear 2 – DisneyToon Studios
Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab & Pamela Pettler – Monster House – Columbia Pictures Presents an ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
Dan Fogelman – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
George Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris & Warren Coleman – Happy Feet – Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in Association with Village Roadshow Pictures, A Kennedy Miller Production in Association with Animal Logic Film
Writing in an Animated Television Production
Ian Maxtone-Graham – The Simpsons “The Seemingly Neverending Story” – Gracie Films
Kirker Butler – Family Guy “Barely Legal” – Fuzzy Door Productions
Tom Sheppard – My Gym Partner’s a Monkey “Nice Moustache” – Cartoon Network Studios
Dan Vebber – American Dad “American Dad Afterschool Special” – Fuzzy Door Productions/Underdog Productions
John Viener – Family Guy “The Griffin Family History” – Fuzzy Door Productions
Juried awards
June Foray Award
Significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation.
Stephen Worth
Winsor McCay Award
Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation.
Bill Plympton
Genndy Tartakovsky
Andreas Deja
Ub Iwerks Award
None
Special Achievement
None
Certificate of Merit
Bill Matthews
Michael Fallik
Marc Deckter
Eric Graf
References
External links
34th Annual Annie Nominations and Awards Recipients
2006
2006 film awards
Glendale, California
Annie Awards
2006 awards in the United States |
High anterior hairline is a condition in which the frontal hairline which defines the top and sides of the forehead is unusually high. This can mean that either the distance between the trichion (hairline) and glabella is more than 2 SD above the mean, or that this distance is apparently (subjectively) increased.
Conditions
High anterior hairline is seen in the following conditions and syndromes:
ADNP-related multiple congenital anomalies - intellectual disability - autism spectrum disorder
Alacrima, achalasia, and intellectual disability syndrome
Blepharophimosis - intellectual disability syndrome, MKB type
Cardiac malformation, cleft lip/palate, microcephaly, and digital anomalies
Coffin-Siris syndrome 12
Congenital disorder of glycosylation, type Iw, autosomal dominant
Congenital heart defects and ectodermal dysplasia
Curry-Jones syndrome
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 83
Granulocytopenia with immunoglobulin abnormality
Intellectual developmental disorder with hypertelorism and distinctive facies
Intellectual developmental disorder, X-linked 108
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia-retinitis pigmentosa syndrome
Neurodevelopmental disorder with hypotonia and brain abnormalities
Neurodevelopmental disorder with hypotonia and dysmorphic facies
Neurofacioskeletal syndrome with or without renal agenesis
Noonan syndrome 4
Orofacial cleft 15
SIN3A-related intellectual disability syndrome due to a point mutation
Singleton-Merten syndrome 1
See also
Hair loss
Low anterior hairline
References
Anatomical pathology
Hair
Face |
Anna Katarina is a Swiss actress.
Early life
Anna Katarina is the daughter of cellists from Bern, where she was born. She is a classically trained pianist.
Career
She came to the US in her twenties whereupon she joined a circus and acting school. She played the lead role of Tamara de Lempicka in the play Tamara, which ran in Los Angeles in the 1980s; prior to her, the role was played by Anjelica Huston.
Other roles include the Poodle Lady in the feature film Batman Returns and Isabelle Jeunet in six episodes of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. She has made guest appearances in an episode of both Law & Order and its sister show Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She performed supporting roles in "Haven", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; the TV movie The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990), and the Pink Panther feature film remake (2006).
Filmography
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987, TV series) – Valeda Innis
Slaves of New York (1989) – Mooshka
The Blood of Heroes (1989) – Big Cimber
The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990, TV movie) – Bella / Ashenko
Law & Order (1991, TV series) – Elena Skolnick
Batman Returns (1992) – Poodle Lady
A Weekend with Barbara und Ingrid (1992) – Barbara
Omega Doom (1996) – Bartender
The Game (1997) – Elizabeth
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1997, TV series) – Helen Reynolds
The Pink Panther (2006) – Agent Corbeille
Zodiac (2007) – Society Woman (uncredited)
Star Trek (2009) – Vulcan Council Member #2
Angels & Demons (2009) – Docent
Boardwalk Empire (2010) – Isabelle Jeunet
The Dictator (2012) – Angela Merkel
References
External links
Swiss film actresses
1956 births
Living people
Actors from Bern
Swiss television actresses
Swiss emigrants to the United States |
Rivetina dolichoptera is a species of praying mantis in the family Rivetinidae.
See also
List of mantis genera and species
References
D
Insects described in 1894 |
"L'eccezione" () is a 2002 song by Italian singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli and the title track and lead single of the album with the same name.
The song peaked at number 4 of the FIMI singles chart.
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Carmen Consoli – producer, author, associated performer, recording arranger, vocals
Francesco Barbaro – producer
Massimo Roccaforte – producer, associated performer, recording arranger
Maurizio Nicotra – producer, associated performer, recording arranger
Leandro Misuriello – associated performer, recording arranger
Puccio Panettieri – associated performer, recording arranger
Santi Pulvirenti – associated performer, recording arranger
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
2002 songs
2002 singles
Carmen Consoli songs |
Alexandra Theodora Frosterus-Såltin (6 December 1837 – 29 February 1916, Vaasa) was a Finnish-Swedish genre painter and illustrator, who is also known for her altarpieces.
Biography
She was born in Ingå, Finland, in 1837. Her father, Benjamin, was a theology professor and her mother, Vilhelmina, was Finland's first female graduate student. Her mother died when he was seven, and her father remarried in 1846. Most of her childhood was spent in Vaasa, where her father was a church official. At the age of fourteen, she left home to become a private student of Robert Wilhelm Ekman in Turku, and studied with him for five years.
In 1858, on Ekman's recommendation, she was asked to provide drawings for a publication by Raittiuden Ystävät (a Finnish temperance society), an anti-alcohol booklet called ('The Life Story of Pernicious Tommy'). Her drawings were engraved by F. O. Liewendahl (fl.1850s-1860s) and the booklet was reissued for many years. The story itself (by an unknown writer) came to be referenced in several popular songs, as recently as 1982 by the Finnish rock band Eppu Normaali.
Later in 1858, she held her first exhibition of serious works at the Finnish Art Society and received a scholarship. She went to Düsseldorf to continue her studies, but had to take private lessons again, as the Academy did not accept women at that time. Originally, she had wanted to study with Adolph Tidemand, but he did not give private lessons, so she studied with the religious painter Otto Mengelberg instead, staying with him until 1862. After that, she was able to study in Paris, where she had her first experience painting with live models at the workshop of Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier.
She returned to Vaasa in 1866 to marry Fredrik Viktor Såltin (1833–1873), who was a doctor. This left her temporarily isolated from the art world, although she continued to paint scenes of her home and family. After finding herself a widow with three children, she decided to become an art teacher, inspired by the recent death of her old mentor, Ekman. The following year, finding her income insufficient, she moved to Turku to become a teacher at the Art Society's drawing school, where she remained through 1889.
Her salary was never very high, however, so she also taught at secondary schools and, in 1877, began accepting commissions for church paintings, which she continued to do until 1915. Her first altarpiece, depicting Jesus at Gethsemane, was in the Törnävän Church, in Seinäjoki. Gradually, her painting took precedence over her teaching. She eventually created about 70 altarpieces, most of which are variations on a few basic designs. About 50 of them still exist. Some have been reproduced on postcards.
Illustrations from
References
External links
1837 births
1916 deaths
People from Ingå
People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Swedish-speaking Finns
19th-century Finnish painters
20th-century Finnish painters
20th-century Finnish women artists
Finnish women illustrators
Religious artists
Finnish women painters |
Ernst Seidl (born 29 January 1950) is an Austrian sailor. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1950 births
Living people
Austrian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Austria
Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman
Place of birth missing (living people) |
The 1979 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.
Schedule
References
Penn
Penn Quakers football seasons
College football winless seasons
Penn Quakers football |
Cmune is a Chinese software developer which was established in 2007. Cmune is the maker of UberStrike, a cross-platform computer game. Cmune has offices in Beijing, China and San Francisco, United States.
Developed initially under the name Paradise Paintball, the first-person shooter (FPS) Uberstrike is a casual and multiplayer free-to-play 3D browser game. As of November 2012, it was the largest FPS inside Facebook. It was also available on its own website, and on the App Store for Mac and iOS. The company was shut down later in 2020.
As of June 13, 2016, the game has been offline.
Recognition
On 28 May 2009, Paradise Paintball was selected as one of the winners Facebook fbFund 2009 program. The fbFund is run by Facebook, Accel Partners and The Founders Fund. Cmune was nominated for two Unity Awards: the Community Choice Award, which is chosen via poll, by users, and The Cross Platform Award.
Games
Cmune has developed 3 games in total. UberStrike, DeadHeads and UltraHunt. The company also worked on PAYDAY: Crime War for a few months.
UberStrike was an online FPS for PC's and later becoming available on iOS. Game was shut down in 2016 but original website www.uberstrike.com is still up.
DeadHeads was an online FPS for Android and iOS. The game was shut down in around 2020. Website is still up to this day at deadheads.webflow.io
UltraHunt was a battle royale game for Android and iOS. It originated in 2018 and was in closed pre-alpha stage. Not so much is known about that game.
UberStrike
Paradise Paintball was launched in November 2008. The game was ranked number 1 worldwide on Apple Dashboard for four months after its debut in November 2008 and was the first real-time 3D multiplayer game launched on Facebook and MySpace, where it was awarded "Best New App" at GDC in March 2010. Paradise Paintball was touted as the first 3D browser based game with real time micropayment systems, where users are able to purchase virtual goods without having to quit the game.
Paintball Paradise was renamed 'UberStrike' on November 16, 2010. The game also had a forum where every player could seek training, visit clan threads, sell signature art, etc. On April 13, 2016, Cmune announced the closing of Uberstrike through the game's website homepage and the game servers were terminated on June 13, 2016.
In 2019, fans created a patch of the game. The game can be played without official Uberstrike servers. Link to the Discord server with installation instructions: https://discord.gg/hhxZCBamRT
DeadHeads
DeadHeads was launched back in May 2017. It offered 12 weapons and lots of skins to them, 4 survivor characters (with each having own skins) and 5 infected characters (with each having own skins). There were 10 maps in total, with some being taken from UberStrike: Turbine, Transit, Outpost, New Hongkong, Lunar, Hangar, Ground Zero, Garrison, Basilica and Aqualab. This game had a discord server which is still up to this day and can be accessed from the official website. The game was shut down in 2020 with studio as well.
UltraHunt
UltraHunt was launched in 2018 as closed pre-alpha. It was supposed to be a battle royale for Android and iOS devices. Website is still available via ultrahunt.webflow.io . Very little is known about it as of 2022.
See also
Online gaming in China
Notes
https://www.destructoid.com/paintball-3d-becomes-the-first-facebook-fps--170927.phtml
http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/19/4006744/uberstrike-developers-planning-for-tablet-release
External links
CMUNE Home Page
Chinese companies established in 2007
Privately held companies of China
Video game companies of China |
The Caleb Martin House is a historic house at 42 Mill Pond Road in Bethlehem, Connecticut. With its oldest portion dating to 1730, it is one of the community's oldest buildings, exhibiting a wealth of construction detail through its 18th-century transformation from a small single-pile house to a full saltbox. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Description and history
The Caleb Martin House stands on southwest of the village center of Bethlehem, at the end of Mill Pond Road, a short street off Connecticut Route 132. It is set east of the Mill Pond, an old impoundment on the Weekeepeemee River. It is a -story timber-framed structure, with a side gable roof, large off-center chimney, clapboarded exterior, and rubblestone foundation. The house has a saltbox profile, with the rear roof extending down to the first floor. The second floor hangs over the first in front, as does the main roof over the second floor. The interior follows a typical Georgian center chimney plan, with a small front vestibule that includes a narrow winding stair, and parlor spaces on either side of the chimney. The kitchen extends across the rear of the main block, with a large fireplace and beehive oven; a second oven is also found in the basement level of the chimney.
The oldest portion of the house, built in 1730, is a three-bay section with the main chimney. By 1745 the house had been extended to include the full five-bay facade and the leanto section in the rear. Although the house has since been extended by additions in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the main block has been well cared for, retaining either original materials or carefully matched replacements. Also of note is that the house stands on land that is substantially the same as its original 1724 land grant; only a few acres have been subdivided from it. Caleb Martin, the house's original builder, was a descendant of the original proprietors of Woodbury, of which Bethlehem was a part until 1787.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Houses completed in 1730
Houses in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Bethlehem, Connecticut |
The 1948 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 7 Conference in the 1948 college football season. The team was coached by George Clark.
Nebraska was ranked at No. 87 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.
The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Before the season
Nebraska athletic director and one-time head football coach Adolph J. Lewandowski brought back the coach he initially chose as his own replacement for 1945, George Clark, who had departed Nebraska after just that one season. With the unsuccessful tenure of previous head coach Bernie Masterson ended, Lewandowski was able to turn to the last, most recent coach that had provided a glimmer of hope to the Cornhuskers in nearly a decade. So it was that after seven straight losing seasons, the coaching staff once again suffered a shakeup in hopes of ending the downward spiral of Nebraska football as the Cornhuskers entered their first-ever 10-game season.
The 1948 season was the first to see Colorado's athletic teams participate in conference play, as the Big 6 Conference subsequently became known as the Big 7 Conference. Nebraska and Colorado were set to meet again on the field for the first time since 1907, now as part of regular season conference play.
Schedule
Roster
Coaching staff
Game summaries
Iowa State
The Cornhuskers opened the season and welcomed Coach Clark back with a win, the third straight over the Cyclones. The home opening victory snapped Nebraska's six-season opening game losing streak, and the Cornhuskers improved over Iowa State to 33-8-1.
Minnesota
Unsurprisingly, given Minnesota's historical dominance over Nebraska, even as the Cornhuskers continued to seek stability, the Golden Gophers had little trouble with Nebraska in Minneapolis. Minnesota had now defeated the Cornhuskers in nine straight games, and continued to pull away in the series, 24-4-2.
Colorado
Although Nebraska and Colorado had met on the field six times before, this was the first since a 22-8 Nebraska victory from 1907, and the first time the teams had met as conference foes. The Buffaloes sent Nebraska back to Lincoln with a 6-19 loss, but still lagged in the series at 2-5.
Notre Dame
When Notre Dame arrived in Lincoln, they brought with them a #2 AP Poll ranking and were probably not seriously worried about getting a fight from the Cornhuskers. Nebraska avoided the shutout, but allowed the Fighting Irish 44 points to take home a convincing win and improve over the Cornhuskers to 7-5-1. Notre Dame went on to finish the season undefeated at 9-0 and still at #2.
Kansas
Nebraska dropped a second straight game to Kansas for the first time since 1909, as the Cornhuskers continued to struggle for success. Although Nebraska still held a dominating 40-11-3 series lead over the Jayhawks, losses over the last several seasons were piling up everywhere.
UCLA
After one year off, Nebraska and UCLA met again for their second-ever meeting, this time in Lincoln. The Bruins had been ranked #4 last time, as the Cornhuskers had been sent home smarting from a shutout loss 0-18. This time, UCLA came to Lincoln unranked, but the outcome was unchanged. Nebraska dropped another homecoming game, the fifth straight loss of the season, and fell to 0-2 against UCLA.
Kansas State
If there was any consolation to the Cornhuskers that things could be worse, it was the Kansas State Wildcats that continued to bring the good news. Amidst a record string of consecutive losing seasons, the Cornhuskers handed Kansas State a shutout. The 32-0 defeat of the Wildcats was Nebraska's sixth-straight victory over the team from Manhattan, and the Cornhuskers improved to 26-4-2 in the series.
Oklahoma
By the time the Cornhuskers arrived in Norman to face the #9 Sooners, there wasn't much to fight for. With only two conference wins so far, any chance of a league title was out of sight. Oklahoma rolled over Nebraska without much effort, but the 14-41 loss showed that the Cornhuskers were not completely out of the game. This was the sixth straight defeat of Nebraska in the series, and their all-time lead of 16-8-3 over the Sooners continued to shrink.
Missouri
In front of a crowd reduced by over a third from the last home game, Nebraska fell to Missouri to close out the 1948 home season. It was their fourth straight loss to the Tigers in a row, but Missouri still had some distance to cover to catch up in the series, as they still trailed the Cornhuskers 14-24-3.
Oregon State
The Cornhuskers brought the 1948 season to a close with a long road trip to Portland to face Oregon State. Nebraska historically dominated the Beavers, but had lost a decision against them in the last meeting of the squads last year. This year would come to the same result, as the Cornhuskers fell once again and allowed Oregon State to narrow the series to 2-5.
After the season
Coach Clark's return did not bring about the hoped-for results, though one year is hard to judge by. His return to program was cut short after this season, but he still holds the distinction of being the only Nebraska head football coach to serve at different times. Combined with his 1945 performance, his Nebraska career total was a disappointing 6-13-0 (.316), while his conference record stood at 4-7-0 (.374). With eight straight losing seasons now strung together, the Cornhusker football program fell to 120-37-11 (.747) against conference foes, and to 316-148-31 overall (.670). Once again Nebraska sought a head football coach, who would be the fifth over the previous nine years.
References
Nebraska
Nebraska Cornhuskers football seasons
Nebraska Cornhuskers football |
HTC P3600 (codename Trinity) is a handheld PC by HTC Corporation.
Features include:
Quad-band GSM/GRPS/EDGE
Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA
802.11b/g Wifi
Bluetooth 2.0
GPS
Irda
USB 1.1
Features
Communications
UMTS / HSDPA tri band: UMTS 850, UMTS 1900, UMTS 2100
GPRS / EDGE / GSM quad band: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
Integrated GPS
External links
HTC P3600
HTC Source news blog dedicated to HTC devices
P3600
Windows Mobile Professional devices
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
Barry Wickens is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Primarily a violinist and guitarist, he also plays mandolin, viola, Appalachian dulcimer (psaltery), dobro and keyboards. He is best known for being one of the longest-serving members of Steve Harley's rock group Cockney Rebel, and for being a former member of the pop group Immaculate Fools. He is also a violin teacher for Brighton & Hove Music & Arts.
Outside of Cockney Rebel and Immaculate Fools, Wickens has been involved in recording sessions for a number of artists, including John Martyn, Lick the Tins, Howard Jones, The River Detectives, Thrashing Doves, Martin Grech, along with TV and radio recordings of the Americana musicians The Milroys, and Folk Alliance Award nominee Diana Jones. He has also performed with Nick Pynn at a number of live events.
Biography
Wickens was taught piano by his father at the age of seven, and became a member of Worcester Cathedral choir two years later. At the age of 10, Wickens moved to the Isle of Wight where he began learning the violin, and self-taught guitar. During his teenage years he explored various violin styles, and in 1972 received an Isle of Wight LEA Scholarship for funded violin studies. He went on to study violin, piano and composition at the Trinity College of Music in London. Between 1974 and 1978, he completed the violin performers course with piano and composition second studies at the college. In 1978 he became a Licentiate, as well as a Fellow of Trinity College of Music, and completed a composition course and basic film technique at London International Film School.
In 1977 he achieved a Leonard Smith Prize for Violin and Piano Duo. The following year, 1978, Wickens gained an Arved Kurtz Prize for Violin Playing, the Beethoven Violin Prize, another Leonard Smith Prize for Violin and Piano Duo, as well as the Kantrovitch Prize for Solo Strings. Following his education Wickens began playing around small venues in London, and worked with a number of acts including Steve Knightly's band, Short Stories, and the English acoustic roots and folk duo Show of Hands.
Wickens first met Steve Harley in 1982, during which time Wickens was in Short Stories. In 1984, Wickens joined Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel as violinist and guitarist. Wickens' debut performance with the band was at London's Camden Palace in 1984. This show was professionally filmed and released on VHS under the name "Live from London". Although the band wouldn't go on tour again until the 'Comeback: All is Forgiven' tour of 1989, Wickens would continue to tour with the band until the early-1990s. The Brighton and Northampton concerts of the 1989 tour were also professionally filmed, and the footage edited to create a VHS titled "Steve Harley + Cockney Rebel: Live". He was involved in the recording of Harley's solo album Yes You Can, which was released in 1992. He performed on and co-wrote the track "Victim of Love", and also played violin on "Promises" and "The Lighthouse". Wickens left the band in 1992, and was replaced by Nick Pynn.
In 1989, Wickens had become a member of the pop band Immaculate Fools, who had achieved a couple of minor hits in the UK. During the late 1980s the band underwent a major line-up change, when Wickens joined the group along with three other new musicians. He recorded, co-produced, co-wrote and toured with the group, and during his time with the band released the albums Another Man's World (1990), The Toy Shop (1992), Woodhouse (1995) and Kiss and Punch (1996).
In 1997 Wickens formed the music production company Hydraphonic - a partnership project with Immaculate Fools' guitarist, Brian Betts. Using their writing, recording and production skills, the company has served various advertising agencies and publishers such as Sony/ATV, Universal Music and Sonoton. During the 1990s, he co-founded the contemporary Irish trio, Clann na Mara, alongside Paul Gillieron and J Eoin. Around the same time Wickens and Brian Aldwinckle formed the folk duo The MacNamaras.
After leaving Immaculate Fools in 1998, Wickens returned as a key member of Cockney Rebel. He has remained with the group since, performing as part of the full rock band line-up as well as the three-man acoustic shows. With the band he has performed at the Glastonbury Extravaganza, and the Isle of Wight Festival, as well as many of Europe's major rock festivals. The band's 2004 performance at Isle of Wight was released as a DVD in 2005.
Wickens featured playing violin and guitar on five tracks from Harley's 2003 live album Acoustic and Pure: Live, as well as all tracks on the 2004 live album Anytime! (A Live Set). He provided violin, guitar and backing vocals for Cockney Rebel's 2005 studio album The Quality of Mercy, as well as Harley's 2010 studio album Stranger Comes to Town. On the former album he helped co-write "Journey's End", and on the latter album co-wrote the lead single "Faith & Virtue" with Harley, and also received a writing credit on the track "Take the Men and the Horses Away". In 2018, Wickens released his debut solo album, Where Birdsong Meets Aeroplane, through his label Observation Records.
Personal life
Wickens married Georgia Georgiou on 10 March 1990. They live in Brighton, East Sussex, with their two sons, Nicholas and Michael.
Acclaim
Wickens' violin playing has been highly praised. Of his performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2005, eFestivals reviewer Karen Morrison noted that he performed a "stupendous exhibition in virtuoso violin - so good he does it twice at Harley's bidding." A performance at the O2 Academy at Bournemouth in November 2010 saw Bournemouth Echo writer Lucas Maybe describe Wickens as "fantastically sensual". Jo Davison of the Sheffield Star reviewed a November 2010 acoustic show from Cockney Rebel at the Memorial Hall, noting that "masterly violinist Barry Wickens, and James Lascelles on keyboards created something spine-shiveringly beautiful."
Alan Cooper, writing for the Portsmouth Evening News spoke of a Cockney Rebel concert at the King's Theatre during February 2011, noting "solos particularly from Wickens, were blissful." Martin Hutchinson, in a review of the band live at the HMV Ritz in Manchester during December 2011 for the Bolton News, noted "Wickens' violin solo in "The Lighthouse" was amongst the highlights of the show." In the York Press, Dan Bean reviewed a Cockney Rebel concert at the Harrogate Royal Hall in November 2013, and commented: "The band is uniformly excellent, but special praise goes to violinist and occasional guitarist Barry Wickens, whose extended solos received and deserved standing ovations."
Discography
Solo career
Where Birdsong Meets Aeroplane (2018)
Selected credits
Steamboat Bluegrass Band - Bluegrass Express (1974)
Crannog - Crannog (1980)
Lick the Tins - Blind Man on a Flying Horse (1986)
Thrashing Doves - Trouble in the Home (1989)
The River Detectives - Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1989)
Chanter - Lyra Celtica (1992)
Ramona 55 featuring Angie Brown - "Anywhere Out of This World" (single, 1992)
John Martyn - Couldn't Love You More (1992)
Howard Jones - recording project (1993)
Clann na Mara - Roots Run Deep (1995)
Chanter - Chanter Live at the Victoria (1995)
The MacNamaras - Celtic Dogs (1998)
Aidan Burke - Feel the Bow (2004)
Marcus Shelton - The Constant Fight with Contentment - (2005)
Martin Grech - March of the Lonely (2007)
Clann na Mara - The Enchanted Way – Live in Sete 2013 - (2013)
Immaculate Fools
Another Man's World (album, 1990)
The Toy Shop (album, 1992)
Woodhouse (album, 1995)
Kiss and Punch (album, 1996)
No Gods... No Masters (compilation, 1998)
Steve Harley (and Cockney Rebel)
Steve Harley - Yes You Can (album, 1992)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Live at the BBC - (compilation, 1995)
Steve Harley - Acoustic and Pure: Live (live album, 2003)
The Steve Harley Band - Anytime! (A Live Set) (live album, 2004)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Quality of Mercy (album, 2005)
Steve Harley - Stranger Comes to Town (album, 2010)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Birmingham (Live with Orchestra & Choir) (live album, 2013)
Steve Harley - "Ordinary People" (single, 2015)
Steve Harley - Uncovered (album, 2020)
References
External links
Official website
Discogs entry
Living people
1956 births
British male violinists
British male guitarists
Alumni of Trinity College of Music
21st-century violinists
21st-century British male musicians
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel members |
Yania Ferrales Monteagudo (born 28 July 1977) is a Cuban discus thrower.
Her personal best throw is 66.00 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Havana.
Personal bests
Discus throw: 66.00 – La Habana, 10 February 2006
Achievements
References
External links
Sports reference biography
Tilastopaja biography
Picture of Yania Ferrales
1977 births
Living people
People from Morón, Cuba
Sportspeople from Ciego de Ávila Province
Cuban female discus throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
Olympic athletes for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
21st-century Cuban women |
HGO Trust (HGO) (formerly Hampstead Garden Opera) was founded in 1990 by Roy Budden as an evening class at the Hampstead Garden Institute, London. Its objectives are to advance public education in the art and science of music with emphasis on operatic music.
Objectives
HGO brings live opera, fully staged with orchestra, and offers performance opportunity and training to young singers. It performs two fully staged operas each year, usually in original language. Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Highgate Village, in the London Borough of Camden, was HGO's home from March 2001 until May 2016 when it relocated to the Jacksons Lane Theatre in Highgate. HGO is affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association.
Productions
The original intention was to concentrate on the major operas of Mozart, but the repertoire has expanded to encompass works by others as well.
The HGO production of Mozart's Così fan tutte won Best Opera Production 2012 at the Off West End Awards.
HGO's productions for 2018 were Verdi's La traviata and Domenico Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto. In May 2019 it produced George Frideric Handel's Partenope which was a finalist in the Off West End Awards in 2020. Its 2019 production of La bohème won a NODA London Opera Award in 2020.
In August 2020 HGO was the first company to stage a live opera performance in North London after the COVID-19 epidemic when it produced Gustav Holst's opera Sāvitri at Lauderdale House.
Board
The Directors of the Company and Trustees of the Charity, as of April 2020, are:
David Conway – Chairman
Alastair Macgeorge – Chairman Emeritus
Roger Sainsbury
Martin Musgrave – Deputy Chairman
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
HGO's Co-Presidents are Dame Emma Kirkby and Howard Williams.
Productions 2009 – date
April 2009 - Carlisle Floyd: Susannah .
November 2009 - Henry Purcell: Dido and Æneas, and John Blow: Venus and Adonis.
April 2010 - Mozart: The Clemency of Titus.
November 2010 - Mozart: The Magic Flute. This was the first time an English opera company used the Stephen Fry translation of the libretto, as seen in Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film version.
April 2011 - George Frederic Handel: Semele.
November 2011 - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover.
April 2012 - Mozart: Così fan tutte.
November 2012 - Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo.
April 2013 - Jonathan Dove: Mansfield Park.
November 2013 - Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro.
April 2014 - Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto.
November 2014 - Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring.
April 2015 - Handel: Xerxes
November 2015 - Mozart: Don Giovanni
May 2016 - Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo:I Pagliacci.
November 2016 - Mozart: The Magic Flute.
May 2017 - Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea.
November 2017 - Jonathan Dove: The Enchanted Pig.
May 2018 - Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata.
November 2018 - Domenico Cimarosa: The Secret Marriage.
May 2019 - Handel: Partenope.
November 2019 - Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
November 2021 - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
Recent productions
In August 2020, the company staged Gustav Holst's opera Sāvitri at Lauderdale House.
The company produced a new edition of Francesco Cavalli's 1643 opera L'Egisto at The Cockpit Theatre, London, in June 2021.
In March 2022, the company gave the British premiere of the 1774 Hebrew-language oratorio Ester by the Austrian composer Cristiano Lidarti with libretto by Jacob Raphael Saraval. The performance at the Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb raised £1,200 for the Red Cross Ukraine Emergency Appeal.
References
External links
British opera companies
Musical groups established in 1990
Opera in London
Music charities based in the United Kingdom |
Houston ( ) is a city in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 997 at the 2020 census.
History
The community was named after Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas.
In 1852, William McSpadden platted the original site of the Village of Houston. McSpadden had served under Sam Houston in the Mexican–American War. Pioneers followed him into the area and by 1854 there were stores and a school among the approximately 40 buildings in the settlement.
Houston was incorporated in 1874.
2007 flood
The 2007 Midwest flooding caused the Root River to rise to , which is about a foot short of the height of the dike protecting the town, necessitating evacuation of the community.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 979 people, 418 households, and 239 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 456 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.5% White, 0.4% Native American, and 0.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.1% of the population.
There were 418 households, of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.8% were non-families. 39.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.98.
The median age in the city was 38.8 years. 25.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.8% were from 25 to 44; 20% were from 45 to 64; and 23.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 46.1% male and 53.9% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,020 people, 434 households, and 255 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 459 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.02% White, 0.49% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.10% from other races, and 0.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.20% of the population.
There were 434 households, out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.6% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.2% were non-families. 37.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.85.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.7% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 28.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,236, and the median income for a family was $38,462. Males had a median income of $31,161 versus $21,691 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,087. About 8.2% of families and 10.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.8% of those under age 18 and 16.9% of those age 65 or over.
Arts and culture
Annual cultural events
"Houston Hoedown Days" is the last full weekend in July. The event includes tractor pulls, the Minnesota State Horsepull, dances and flea markets.
The "International Festival of Owls" is held each year in Houston, and is the only full-weekend, all-owl event in North America.
Parks and recreation
Houston is the eastern terminus of the Root River segment of the Blufflands State Trail.
Sports
In November 2008 the Houston Hurricanes won the Minnesota 9-Man Football State Championship. They ended their season with a 14–0 mark. This was the first state championship in school history, with the exception of five state appearances by the girls track team, which included a state title in 2006.
Five seniors from the 2008 state championship football team went on to play college football—three at UW-La Crosse and two at Luther College.
Education
Houston Public Schools serves Houston. With the program K12 Inc., Houston Public Schools has developed the Minnesota Center for Online Learning and the Minnesota Virtual Academy. Open to students statewide, these programs are unique in that there are no others of their kind in Minnesota.
U.S. News & World Report named Houston High School of Houston, Minnesota one of America's "Top 100 Schools" in a study published December 8, 2008 entitled “America’s Best High Schools.” https://www.usnews.com/directories/high-schools/ .
Houston Public Schools was also ranked #6 in the state of Minnesota by the U.S. News & World Report
Infrastructure
Transportation
Minnesota State Highways 16 and 76 are two of the main routes in the city.
Notable people
Everett Bidwell, Wisconsin legislator, served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin Senate; born in Houston.
John Q. Briggs, Minnesota legislator and businessman, lived in Houston, MN.
Francis Martin Kelly, third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona; born in Houston.
Jeanne Poppe, Minnesota legislator and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives; born in Houston.
John J. Sliter, Minnesota legislator, served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was a member of the Houston School Board.
Gallery
See also
Houston Public Library (Minnesota)
References
External links
City of Houston Minnesota Website
Houston Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
City-Data.com
Cities in Minnesota
Cities in Houston County, Minnesota |
The National Planetarium (), also known as the National Museum Planetarium (shortened as NM Planetarium), was a planetarium owned and operated by the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila. It was a dome located in Rizal Park between the Japanese Garden and Chinese Garden on Padre Burgos Avenue in the central district of Ermita. It opened on October 8, 1975.
History
The building of a space museum in Rizal Park was proposed by Philippine Weather Bureau chief and Philippine Astronomical Society founder Maximo Sacro Jr. to National Museum Director Godofredo Alcasid Sr. in 1970. It was presented to then National Parks and Development Committee chair and First Lady Imelda Marcos who approved the project and immediately instructed the Bureau of Public Works to prepare plans for the building. Construction of the building began in 1974 with help from Japanese engineers. The planetarium cost US$100,000 to build with funding provided by the Japanese government as part of its war reparation to the Philippines. Presidential Decree No. 804-A was signed by then President Ferdinand Marcos on September 30, 1975 which formally established the National Planetarium. The building was formally inaugurated on October 8, 1975 with Maximo Sacro Jr. as its first curator.
The National Planetarium was closed in late 2018 and was reopened in January 2019 after two months of renovation. It was closed from April 2020 until July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planetarium's closure was announced on October 11, 2021 to give way for the "decommissioning" of the planetarium building. The administration also disclosed that a plan for a "new National Planetarium" is under development.
As of 2022, the former National Planetarium building currently houses headquarters of the National Parks Development Committee, the government agency attached to the Department of Tourism with the mandate of administering Rizal Park, where the national planetarium structure is located.
Museum exhibits and facilities
The National Planetarium was high and had a seating capacity of 310. It was equipped with a GM-15-S Goto starball projector acquired in 1975. It featured four daily regular shows and a permanent exhibit in the main building featuring paintings of Philippine astronomical myths and beliefs and diorama representations of the Solar System, major constellations and astronomists.
In 2012, the National Planetarium had more than 40,000 visitors, mostly students from Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Its exhibition drew over 2,000 visitors.
References
Planetaria in the Philippines
Buildings and structures in Ermita
Buildings and structures completed in 1975
Museums in Manila
Tourist attractions in Manila
1975 establishments in the Philippines
National Museum of the Philippines
Establishments by Philippine presidential decree |
The 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East was the 32nd season of the K&N Pro Series East, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the New Smyrna 175 at New Smyrna Speedway on February 11 and concluded with the Crosley 125 at Dover International Speedway on October 6. Harrison Burton entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Tyler Ankrum won the championship, 84 points in front of Tyler Dippel.
Drivers
Notes
Schedule
On December 6, 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Greenville-Pickens and Berlin were dropped from the schedule in favor of Gateway and a second race at New Hampshire. All races in the season - with the exception of the race at New Jersey Motorsports Park, of which extended highlights were shown on NASCAR America - were televised on NBCSN on a tape delay basis. In addition the New Smyrna 175 and the Apple Barrel 125 were shown live on FansChoice.tv.
Notes
Results and standings
Races
Notes
1 – Starting grid was set by the fastest lap times from the first Who's Your Driver Twin 100 race.
2 – The qualifying session for the Great Outdoors RV Superstore 100 was cancelled due to weather. The starting line-up was decided by Owners' championship.
3 – The qualifying session for the Monaco Cocktails Gateway Classic 125 was cancelled due to weather. The starting line-up was decided by Practice results.
Drivers' championship
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. * – Most laps led.
Notes
1 – Bill Hoff and Brandon McReynolds received championship points, despite the fact that they did not start the race.
2 – Scored points towards the K&N Pro Series West.
See also
2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series
2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West
2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series
2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series
2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
References
External links |
The 2009–10 Liga II was the 70th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The season started on 15 August 2009 and ended on 5 June 2010.
The format has been maintained to two series, each of them consisting of 18 teams. At the end of the season, the top two teams of the series promoted to Liga I and the bottom fifth places from both series relegated to Liga III. Two more teams relegated this season due to the format changing applied starting with the next season.
Team changes
To Liga II
Promoted from Liga III
Râmnicu Sărat
Steaua II București
Victoria Brănești
Gaz Metan CFR Craiova
Fortuna Covaci
Baia Mare
Tricolorul Breaza
Silvania Șimleu Silvaniei
Săgeata Stejaru**
Relegated from Liga I
Argeș Pitești**
Farul Constanța
Otopeni
Gloria Buzău
From Liga II
Relegated to Liga III
Liberty Salonta**
Buftea**
Știința Bacău
ACU Arad
Progresul București
Prefab Modelu
FCM Târgoviște
Forex Brașov
Mechel Câmpia Turzii
Promoted to Liga I
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Unirea Alba Iulia
FC Ploiești
Internațional Curtea de Argeș
Note (**)
FC Argeș Pitești was relegated for match fixing, Gaz Metan Mediaș, which initially relegated, was spared from relegation.
CS Buftea sold its Liga II place to third tier club Săgeata Stejaru.
Liberty Salonta withdrew at the end of the season, CFR Timișoara, which initially relegated, was spared from relegation.
League tables
Seria I
Seria II
Top Scorers
Seria I
23 goals
Viorel Ferfelea (Sportul Studențesc)
20 goals
Costin Curelea (Sportul Studențesc)
16 goals
Vasile Olariu (Victoria Brănești)
5 goals
Marius Nae (Sportul Studențesc)
Seria II
15 goals
Paul Batin (UTA Arad)
13 goals
Valentin Lemnaru (Universitatea Cluj)
12 goals
Victor Astafei (Arieșul Turda)
Kallé Soné (Otopeni)
Raymond Lukács (Bihor Oradea)
Dan Roman (Târgu Mureș)
Adrian Voiculeț (Argeș Pitești)
7 goals
Adrian Dulcea (Argeș Pitești)
6 goals
Iulian Tameș (Argeș Pitești)
5 goals
Robert Roszel (Baia Mare)
See also
2009–10 Liga I
2009–10 Liga III
2009–10 Liga IV
References
Liga II seasons
Rom
2009–10 in Romanian football |
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead is a series of parody films written by James Riffel as spoofs adding his own scripts on already known films and television footage after deleting the original scripts from the films.
Part 1
Part 1 remains obscure and as yet unreleased, as it was created at a public access station where Riffel took several student films he had made at New York University, some video footage, super 8 home movies, and other materials, and edited them in a few days. It was never released and is, according to Riffel, "back at my parents' house at the bottom of one of the closets".
Part 2
Titled Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2 sometimes with the added title in Shocking 2-D is a 1991 horror spoof written and directed by James Riffel under the alias Lowell Mason. It is also known as NOTDOT. Although referred to as Part 2, it is the first in the series to be publicly released. Thefilm was created by re-dubbing the 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead with comedic dialog, and by adding new clips.
NOTDOT was screened at the New York City Horror Film Festival in October 2005.
Title
With 41 words in its title, 168 characters without spaces, and 201 characters counting spaces, it holds the distinction of being cited as the movie with the longest English language title, but of the title, Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide wrote, "Most people cite Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D (1991) as the longest English-language title of all time, but it's clearly a gimmicky joke."
Part 3
A follow-up film was called Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3. It was done on a budget of $92.37 and done in answer to Steven Spielberg's 2005 film War of the Worlds that cost $200 million.
Part 4
A film also made in 2005 called Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 4, which was a re-dubbing of the 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game. It was done for a total sum of $99. Riffel also added some scenes from his own, mostly representing two drunk guys answering questions about various matters and parachuting into the Everglades. It was released online and aired a few times on the internet, but no DVD was released of "Part 4". The film was made as a challenge to Peter Jackson who was remaking a classic King Kong into a lengthier modern version in 2005.
Part 5
Titled Night Of The Day Of The Dawn Of The Son Of The Bride Of The Return Of The Revenge Of The Terror Of The Attack Of The Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating, Crawling, Alien, Zombified, Subhumanoid Living Dead — Part 5 is a spoof written by James Riffel and released in 2011.
The movie is only fifty minutes long and is a parody of the golden age of television comparing what was considered appropriate television in the 1950s and 1960s and what is considered appropriate TV today. Riffel took an episode of The Andy Griffith Show and Bonanza replacing the dialogue with what Riffel believes are words and music that are more along the lines of what today's TV viewers are used to.
This was the first movie that Riffel wrote to be used for charity. Despite being Part 5, it is actually the fourth movie in the series to be released to the public. The title contains 41 words and contains 177 characters with no spaces, making it one of the longest movie titles ever made.
References
External links
IMDB.com: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror (Part 2)
All Movie.com Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror (Part 2)
IMDB.com Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3
IMDB.com Night Of The Day Of The Dawn Of The Son Of The Bride Of The Return Of The Revenge Of The Terror Of The Attack Of The Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating, Crawling, Alien, Zombified, Subhumanoid Living Dead, Part 5
Movie trailer
Film series introduced in 1991
American film series
American comedy horror films
American independent films
Living Dead films
American parody films
American zombie comedy films
Parodies of horror
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
Phlox adsurgens, the northern phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae. It is native to the United States, in Oregon and a section of the northern Coast Ranges of California, where it belongs to the flora in forested and wooded mountain habitat. This decumbent herbaceous perennial has erect branches up to long. The oval leaves are long and oppositely arranged in pairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of five-lobed pink flowers.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The Latin specific epithet adsurgens means "rising upwards".
References
External links
The Jepson eFlora 2013
CalPhotos
adsurgens
Endemic flora of the United States
Flora of California
Flora of Oregon |
Uncensored from Texas Death Row is a series of articles originally started by Paul Colella that gives readers an impression of life on Death Row in Texas through the eyes of the inmates.
Richard Cartwright took over when Colella was released from Death Row on August 12, 2003, after having had his sentenced reduced to 20 years imprisonment. After Cartwright's execution on May 19, 2005, Clinton Lee Young took over.
One notable contributor was Hank Skinner, the human rights activist convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Twila Busby and her children in 1993.
See also
Capital punishment in Texas
References
External links
Paul Colella - New Beginnings . deathrow.at. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
Richard Cartwright. Archived from the original on 2007-01-28. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
Uncensored from Texas Death Row. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
Offenders No Longer on Death Row. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
Richard Cartwright - Uncensored from Death Row. Archived from the original on 2007-02-01. Retrieved on 2007-11-26.
Penology
Magazine articles
Capital punishment in Texas |
John Jackson Mackay, Baron Mackay of Ardbrecknish (15 November 1938 – 21 February 2001) was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician.
Early life
Mackay was born in 1938, the son of Jackson and Jean Mackay, and was educated at Campbeltown Grammar School, the University of Glasgow (BSc) and Jordanhill College of Education, where he graduated with a Diploma in Education. Mackay started his career as a mathematics teacher, becoming Head of Mathematics at Oban High School.
Political career
He was a Tory candidate for the Western Isles in the February 1974 election having, in the climate of the era, accepted he could realise his original Liberal Parliamentary ambitions only by joining the Conservatives. He contested Argyll in October 1974 and was Member of Parliament for the constituency from 1979 to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Argyll and Bute from 1983 to 1987, when he lost the seat to the Liberal candidate Ray Michie – the daughter of Lord Bannerman, a local Liberal.
Mackay was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1982 to 1987 with responsibility for Health and Social Work and was Commons Scottish spokesman on Agriculture (which was the responsibility of the Earl of Mansfield sitting in the Lords). Against the advice of officials he supported a Private Member's Bill on solvent abuse, a scourge of the time, which became law in 1983. In Health he threw himself into the 1982 NHS strikes and a modernisation of mental health legislation.
House of Lords
Following his defeat, he was given a life peerage as Baron Mackay of Ardbrecknish, of Tayvallich in the District of Argyll and Bute. He rejoined the government as a Lord in Waiting in 1993. In January 1994, he joined the Department of Transport as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, being promoted later that year to become Minister of State at the Department of Social Security, a post he held until 1997. During this time he was held in high regard by both the civil servants who worked with him and by the ex-Service community with whom he had regular contact in his role as War Pensions Minister. In addition, he was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1996 Birthday Honours and was appointed to be a deputy lieutenant of the city of Glasgow on 7 January 1997. In opposition, he served as deputy leader of the Conservative peers.
Death
He died in 2001 in Wandsworth at the age of 62.
References
Sources
Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983 (London: Times Books, 1984).
Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987 (London: Times Books, 1988).
Roth, Andrew "Obituary: Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish", The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
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UK MPs 1983–1987
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Karen Fukuhara (born February 10, 1992) is an American actress best known for her roles as Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana in the 2016 superhero film Suicide Squad and as Kimiko Miyashiro/The Female in the Amazon Prime original series The Boys (2019–present). Fukuhara is also known for voicing the character Glimmer from the Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and Kipo from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
Early life and education
Fukuhara was born to Japanese parents in Los Angeles. Her first language was Japanese, and she attended Japanese language school on Saturdays for 11 years. She has a younger brother. Fukuhara began practicing karate in middle school, and became a brown-striped belt before leaving for college.
Fukuhara attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) while working as a reporter for a sports show on NHK in Japan. She was a member of the a cappella group Medleys, whose alumni include fellow actress Kelly Marie Tran. Fukuhara graduated from UCLA in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Theater.
Career
Fukuhara got her start in the entertainment industry in middle school when she was cast as a host for Movie Surfers, a short form entertainment news program on the Disney Channel.
Prior to her acting debut, Fukuhara worked various part-time jobs, including as a translator, subtitle editor, and waitress at a reggae-themed sushi restaurant.
In 2016, Fukuhara made her film debut as Katana in the DC Comics superhero film Suicide Squad, which was released in August 2016. Although she had prior martial arts experience, Fukuhara trained for about two months during pre-production in order to learn how to wield a sword correctly.
In 2019, Fukuhara appeared in Stray (alongside Christine Woods, Miyavi, and Ross Partridge).
Fukuhara voiced the characters Sewer Queen and Alexis in the Cartoon Network series Craig of the Creek. In 2018, she began voicing Glimmer in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a reboot of the 1985 animated television series.
In 2019, she began starring as Kimiko in the Amazon Prime series The Boys, based on the comic book of the same name.
In 2020, she voiced the titular lead character of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. The series is based on the short-lived webcomic named Kipo.
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Dino Hotić (; born 26 July 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań. Born in Slovenia, he represents the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
Hotić started his professional career at Maribor, who loaned him to Veržej in 2013 and to Krško in 2016. In 2020, he joined Cercle Brugge.
A former Slovenian youth international, Hotić made his senior international debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019.
Club career
Early career
Hotić started playing football at local club Domžale and later at Bravo, before joining Maribor's youth academy in 2011.
In July 2013, he was sent on a season-long loan to Veržej. In January 2016, he was loaned to Krško until the end of season.
Cercle Brugge
In January 2020, Hotić was transferred to Belgian outfit Cercle Brugge for an undisclosed fee, reported to be around €1.2 million. He made his official debut for the team on 19 January against Antwerp. On 8 February, he scored his first goal for Cercle Brugge in a triumph over Mechelen.
Lech Poznań
On 12 July 2023, Hotić moved on a free transfer to Polish Ekstraklasa side Lech Poznań, signing a three-year deal.
International career
Despite representing Slovenia at all youth levels, Hotić decided to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina at senior level as his parents are of Bosnian descent from Ključ.
In October 2019, his request to change sports citizenship from Slovenian to Bosnian was approved by FIFA. Later that month, he received his first senior call-up, for the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Italy and Liechtenstein. He debuted against the latter on 18 November.
Career statistics
Club
International
Honours
Maribor
Slovenian PrvaLiga: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19
Slovenian Cup: 2012–13
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Men's association football midfielders
Slovenian men's footballers
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Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina men's international footballers
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Tyrolit is an Austrian company that develops, manufactures and markets abrasive products as well as concrete sawing and drilling equipment. With 29 production locations on 5 continents, the TYROLIT group belongs to the world’s largest producers of bonded abrasives. The company is based in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria. TYROLIT, a registered trademark, was named after the mineral Tyrolite, first described in 1845 in Tyrol.
History
Tyrolit was cofounded on February 13, 1919, by Daniel Swarovski to manufacture grinding wheels for the production of Swarovski crystals. During World War I, the Swarovski Group was cut off from supplies of grinding wheels, and was thus forced to develop and produce its own grinding wheels. After the war, it was decided to commercialize this activity and to start a separate company: thus, Tyrolit was born.
In 1950, the company relocated from the Swarovski Headquarters in Wattens to a new location in Schwaz. One of the largest drivers of growth of the company was the market launch of the glass fiber reinforced cutoff and grinding wheel SECUR in 1952. The glass fiber reinforcement greatly improved the security of the tools against centrifugal breakage.
In 1991 Tyrolit acquired both the US company Diamond Products and the Swiss company Hydrostress. These acquisitions added significant presence in the market for concrete drilling and sawing systems.
Further major acquisitions took place in 2004 with the purchasing of the Czech company Carborundum Electrite, in 2009 with the purchasing of the US company Radiac and in 2014 with the purchasing of the South African company Grinding Techniques.
Organization
The Tyrolit Group is organized in four divisions:
Metal / Precision – serves the metal fabrication and precision machining markets
Construction – serves the construction industry
Stone / Ceramics / Glass – serves the stone, ceramic tile and glass industries
Industrial Trade – sells stock articles such as cutoff wheels through industrial distributors
Brands
The Tyrolit Group operates under the following brands:
Tyrolit: Global brand for all grinding solutions
Tyrolit Hydrostress: drilling and sawing equipment for the construction industry
Radiac: US producer of conventional bonded and superabrasive grinding wheels
Diamond Products: US producer of diamond tools and equipment for the construction industry
Carborundum Electrite: Czech producer of conventional bonded grinding wheels
Grinding Techniques: South African producer of conventional bonded grinding wheels
SISA: Chinese producer of ceramic abrasive grains and conventional bonded grinding wheels
Egeli Egesan: Turkish producer of conventional bonded grinding wheels and sandpaper
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Saint Cuthburh or Cuthburg, Cuthburga (; died 31 August 725) was the first Abbess of Wimborne Minster. She was the sister of Ine, King of Wessex and was married to the Northumbrian king Aldfrith.
Life
Cuthburh was the daughter of Cenred of Wessex. In addition to her brother Ine, she also had a brother Ingild, who was an ancestor of Alfred the Great, and a sister Cwenburh. Her marriage to Aldfrith allied him with Ine, one of the most powerful kings in Anglo-Saxon England. Cuthburh was Aldfrith's only known wife. Aldfrith had at least two sons, Osred and Offa, it is believed Cuthburh was the mother of Osred, Offa it is not certain. It is also believed they were the parents of a daughter Osana, who would later be known as Saint Osana.
According to a report by Florence of Worcester, written long afterwards, at some time before Aldfrith's death in 705 he and Cuthburh "renounced connubial intercourse for the love of God". Following this, Cuthburh entered Abbess Hildelith's nunnery at Barking Abbey. Cuthburh is traditionally associated with the "Cuthburh" mentioned in the dedication of Aldhelm's treatise De virginitate. It is thought that she was in some way related to Aldhelm. After Aldfrith's death, around 705, Cuthburh and Cwenburh established a double-monastery in her brother's kingdom of Wessex, at Wimborne, Dorset.
She is described as austere, and she communicated with prelates through a little hatch in the nunnery at Wimborne. Among Saint Boniface's surviving letters is an anonymous account of a vision of Abbess Cuthburh in Hell.
Cuthburh died on 31 August 725 at Wimborne and is said to be buried under the wall of the chancel.
In 1538, Wimborne Minster being in need of repair, the guardians of the church wrote Thomas Cromwell for permission to melt down the silver reliquary containing Cuthburh's head. As a few years later, the tower collapsed, it is surmised that the reliquary was confiscated to the King's use. It is not mentioned what then happened to her head.
The feast day associated with her is 31 August.
See also
House of Wessex family tree
References
Sources
Farmer, D. H. (1987). The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, p. 96. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Lapidge, Michael, "Cuthburg", in M. Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
Mayo, C.H. (1860). History of Wimborne Minster: The Collegiate Church of Saint Cuthberga and King's Free Chapel at Wimborne, (pp. 4–6). London: Bell and Daldy. archive.org
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Alberto Jacometti (1902–1985) was an Italian journalist and socialist politician. He served as a deputy at the Italian Parliament and as a secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party for a short period between 1948 and 1949. He resigned from the party one year before his death in 1985.
Biography
Jacometti was born in San Pietro Mosezzo, Province of Novara, on 10 March 1902. He joined the Italian Socialist Party and participated in World War I. When the oppression of the Fascist rule intensified he left Italy and settled in Paris in 1926. There he edited a publication entitled L'iniziativa. In 1929 he settled in Belgium and contributed to a publication, Problemi della Rivoluzione italiana. From 1941 he became part of the National Committee of Liberation for the Novara province.
Following his return to Italy Jacometti was elected as a member of the National Council. Being a member of the Italian Socialist Party he led the centrist faction along with Riccardo Lombardi. In the congress held on 18 April 1948 Jacometti was elected as the secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party succeeding Lelio Basso who had resigned from the office. Before the election Jacometti, Riccardo Lombard and Giuseppe Romita led the opposition group against Basso's leadership. Jacometti's term as the secretary general was brief and ended in 1949 when he was forced to resign from the office due to the opposition of Pietro Nenni and Lelio Basso.
Jacometti served at the Italian Parliament until 1963. He left the Italian Socialist Party in 1984 due to his conflict with the party leader Bettino Craxi. Jacometti died in his hometown, Novara, 10 January 1985.
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Jass () is a family of trick taking, Ace-Ten card games and, in its key forms, a distinctive branch of the Marriage family. It is popular in its native Switzerland as well as the rest of the Alemannic German-speaking area of Europe, Italian South Tyrol and in a few places in Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Oregon and Washington USA.
The most common variant of Jass is Schieber (in Vorarlberg also known as Krüzjass), which is played by two teams of two players each. It is often considered Switzerland's national card game, and is so popular there that the Swiss have come to apply the name Jass to trick-taking card games in general.
It is estimated that there are over 70 variants of Jass. The game is so widespread in Switzerland that it is regularly featured on radio and television, for example, radio programmes by SRF1 and the weekly television programmes of Donnschtig Jass ("Thursday Jass") and Samschtig Jass ("Saturday Jass") on Schweizer Fernsehen. An estimated 3 million Swiss play Jass regularly and it has been described as a Swiss national game.
Distribution
Jass is popular throughout the Alemannic German-speaking area of Europe which includes German-speaking Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Alsace region in France, Vorarlberg, the westernmost province of Austria, southwestern Germany (in the south of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg), as well as in Romansh-speaking Swiss Graubünden and the French-speaking area of Switzerland and German-speaking South Tyrol in Italy. It is also played in a few places in the state of Wisconsin and in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA.
Name
Jass, first mentioned in Switzerland in 1796, was originally the name of the highest trump, the Jack, in a family of related games originally spread from the Netherlands during the Late Middle Ages.
Today, Jass is the name of the game. The traditional 36-card, Swiss-German-suited pack with which it is played is called Jasskarten.
By extension, Jass is often used of any game played in Switzerland with such cards.
The Jack of the trump suit is not known as Jass in the contemporary game. It is called Bauer, Trumpf Puur or simply Puur.
The name Schieber, the most popular variant, is from the verb schieben "to push", from the act of "pushing" the responsibility of choosing trumps on one's partner.
Deck
Jass is played with a deck of 36 cards (A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6) Swiss-French or Swiss-German cards (A, K, O, U, B (= 10), 9, 8, 7, 6). The Swiss-German packs have an Ober, Under and Banner instead of the Queen, Jack and Ten of the French pack. The Swiss-French cards are in the ordinary French suits but have a distinctive design. The Swiss-German cards use Swiss suits, a variant of German suits, and also have a distinctive design. In Austrian Vorarlberg, cards of the Salzburg pattern are used (see illustration).
The game is traditionally played with Swiss suited playing cards east of the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line and with the French in western Switzerland.
The Swiss suits are Rosen (roses) Eicheln (acorns), Schilten (shields) and Schellen (bells).
Schieber rules
Jass is essentially a game of points which are scored for three features known as Stöck, Wiis, Stich, respectively, "marriages, melds, tricks".
To win, the player (or team) must be the first to reach a score of 2500 points (or whatever target score is agreed on beforehand). Play ceases the moment one side reaches the target score, for which purpose it is important to remember that scores accrue in order "marriage, melds, tricks".
The standard Schieber involves four players, sitting in two partnerships, opposite each other. 9 cards are dealt in batches of 3s.
Match type
Eldest (holder of 7 of Bells or Diamonds) may nominate the trump suit in the first match. The privilege of declaring trumps is passed around the table in counter-clockwise direction for each subsequent match (variant: each deal from the second onwards is made by a member of the side which won the previous deal, so that the losing team has the advantage of making trumps and leading first.)
The player who may nominate the trump suit may pass (schieben) the privilege to his partner, who must then exercise it. If elder leads without making any announcement, whatever is led becomes trump.
There are a number of conventional expansions of the type of play that can be chosen beyond the four trump suits, and modifications to the value of the tricks. Most commonly:
It is usual to double all scores made in contracts with Schilten (Shields) or Schellen (Bells), which are the suits starting with Sch- (these are replaced by the "black" (schwarz) suits – Spades and Clubs – when playing with a French suit) as trump, treble contracts in "tops-down" in "bottoms-up". The game target may then be raised to 2500, or 3000.
Schieber is usually played with two additional bids, Oben-abe and Unden-ufe, which may reasonably be translated respectively as "tops-down" and "bottoms-up". Both are played at no trump, so that there is no Puur (Under of trump) or Nell (9 of trumps), nor cards worth 20 and 14. Instead, all Eights count 8 points each when captured in tricks, thus maintaining the total of 157 points for tricks, including 5 for the last. In "tops-down", cards rank from Ace high to Six low and in "bottoms-up" their trick taking power is in reverse order, being Six the highest in its suit, and Seven the second highest, down to Ace. For Unden-ufe the point value of 11 is transferred from Ace to the Six. Reversed ranking also applies to melds of equal length, that is, a sequence of 7 8 9 beats another of 8 9 10, although four Jack still count 200 and so beat all else. If the game is also using the rules for multiplying points outlined above, the points in Oben-abe are multiplied by three, and the points in Unden-ufe by four.
A team taking all nine tricks score 100 extra for the "match" if they were the team that chose trump, thus a total of 257. If the team that didn't choose trump takes every trick, the number of points they win from Stich is doubled, on top of any other multipliers that may have already been considered. This is called a "counter-match".
Another call that may be added is Misere , meaning "Misery". Play proceeds based on the rules for Oben-abe ("tops-down") meaning there is no trump, and points gained are not multiplied by anything. At the end of the hand, all points won from Stich are given to the opposite teams than that won them.
Tricks
The trump Jack, also called Puur, counts 20 and is the highest card in the game. The trump Nine, or Nell, Näll, is the second best card. Plain suit numerals below 10 count nothing. The total value of all counters in the pack is 152, that is, 62 in trumps plus 30 in each plain suit. Winning the last trick scores an additional 5 points. Hence the total possible for the third scoring feature, "tricks", is normally 157 points.
The rank of the cards, from highest to lowest, and their values in card points are shown in the following table:
The no-trumps game called Obenabe and Undenufe, in which the ranks are reversed, are shown in the following table:
Marriage
Marriage (Stöck): A marriage is the holding in one hand of the König and Ober (King and Queen) of trumps. Its holder claims it upon the second of them to a trick. Its score of 20 is recorded as if made before those for melds and tricks, even though it is not revealed until after melds have been declared.
Melds
Meld (Wys or Weis): A meld is a suit-sequence of three or more cards, or a quartet of Aces, Kings, Queens, or Jacks scoring as follows:
Four Jacks: scores 200
Four 9's: scores 150
Five or more in suit sequence: scores 100
Four A, K, Q, 10: scores 100
Four in suit sequence: scores 50
Three in suit sequence: scores 20
A card may not be used in two melds at once, though the trump King or Queen may belong to a meld in addition to being married, that is, a player holding four Kings and a sequence of four to the Ace or King would count only 100 for Kings, not also 50 for the sequence.
Only the holder of the best meld may score for it, but he may also score for any other melds he holds involving entirely different cards, and in a partnership game, his partner also scores for those held by his partner. The holder of the best meld is found in the following way as each player contributes a card to the first trick. The leader declares the value of his best meld. The next, upon playing his card says "good" (gut) if he can't beat; otherwise he declares a higher value or the same value and the number of cards it contains. A longer meld beats a shorter, so the previous player then says "not good" if he can beat it, "good" if he can't, or "equal" (gleich). If equal, the next states its rank if a quartet, or its top card if a sequence. A higher rank beats a lower, and the previous player again says "not good". "good", or "equal". Equality must mean a sequence is in question, which the second player can then only win by truthfully announcing "in trumps". Otherwise, all else being equal, the previous player wins by prior position. The next player in turn then competes, if he can, with the winner of the first contest. As before, the pecking order is: value, length, height, trump, position.
Play
Eldest leads to the first trick and the winner of each trick leads to the next. The trick is taken by the highest card of the suit led, or by the highest trump if any are played. If trumps are led, suit must be followed if possible, except that a player whose only trump is the trump Jack (also called Puur, Buur or Bauer), need not play it but may discard any card instead. If a plain suit is led, players must follow suit or trump, as preferred, but any trump played must be higher than any other already played to the trick. Only if unable to follow suit may any of the players then renounce.
Tactics
The tactical elements of the Schieber derive mostly from the situation of two players each needing to cooperate without seeing, or being allowed to communicate about, the hand the other is holding.
The choosing of the trump suit at the beginning of each match is a crucial decision. If the choosing player holds a mediocre hand, he must decide whether to make the call and hope that his partner holds at least some of the cards his hand is missing, or whether to "push" (schieben) the responsibility away in the hope that his partner has an unambiguosly strong hand.
Once the match is in progress, players need to keep track of which cards have been played, especially which card of each suit is currently the highest left in play and which trumps have been played. If the player in the lead plays a card that is certain to take the trick (called a Bock), the partner needs to recognize this and contribute as many points to the trick as he can (known as Schmieren, see schmear) without sacrificing valuable cards that he may still need to use for taking a later trick.
Two-hand variants
Schaggi Haas
In Schaggi Haas ("Johnny Hare"), the two players cut every time for the deal; the player with the lowest card deals 12 cards each in packets of 4, turns the next for trump and then deals one more packet of 4, face down as a personal talon. The remaining 3 cards are placed face down and half-covering the trump upcard. A player with the trump 6 may 'rob' the trump upcard. Players may attempt to 'better' (bessern or schönern) their hand by discarding 4 hand cards and picking up their talon. The discards do not count to their score at the end. Forehand (non-dealer) leads to the first trick. Melding and play are as per normal. A player who takes all 12 tricks does not get a Matsch bonus as not all the cards are in play. The last trick scores 5 and game is 1000.
Schmaus
Schmaus is the Swiss Jass version of Tartl. In each deal, 9 cards are dealt to each of the two players in packets of three, and the remaining 18 cards form the stock. The top card of the stock is turned for trump. This card can be 'robbed' (rauben) by the trump Six until the 9th trick. The bottom card of the stock may not be viewed by either player; if it is, the cards are redealt by the same dealer. The non-dealer leads a card of his choice, but not a trump. Suit need not be followed nor must a trump be played if a player cannot follow. Whoever 'brings home' (Heim bringt) the respective trick takes the top card from the stock. The loser draws the second. The first nine deals are played with 9 cards each. Melding is allowed in each of the first 10 tricks, provided that new melds arise from one deal to the next. Only player with the higher meld scores for it and only one meld may be made per trick. Melds must be made in rising sequence from trick to trick. (The clever Schmaus player makes most of his points by skilful declarations of card combinations!) The player who wins the 9th deal, leads to the 10th. At this point the stock is exhausted and players must follow suit or trump if unable to follow. Game is 1000 or 1500 points as agreed. The winner of a deal, deals next.
Zweier-Sidi
A Jass variant for 2 players. The game is played with 36 cards, six are dealt face down to each player, six face up on top of the downcards and six dealt to each player's hand. So there are 12 cards in front of each player. The cards are dealt in groups of three, three face down to the non-dealer, three to the dealer, three more to the non-dealer, etc.
Before the game begins, players bid, i.e. estimate how many points they will score in the deal. Non-dealer starts the bidding with an announcement of at least 60 points. The dealer must fold or outbid this bid by at least 5 points. Either a suit game, obeabe or undeuf is played. Every type of trump counts singly; there is no melding and Stöck does not count. The maximum score is 157.
The player with the highest bid starts. He first determines trumps and then leads off. After a card lying on a face-down card has been played, the card underneath it is revealed.
At the end of the game, the points are added together and compared with the bid. If the score achieved is higher than the bid, the difference is scored by the declarer. If the number of points is lower than the bid, the opponent scores the points that the bidder undershot. Game is 50.
Example: The bid is 100 points. If the bidder reaches 105 points, he scores 5 points. If he reaches 90 points, his opponent scores 10.
One tactic is to play the cards on the table where possible to reveal the cards underneath.
Three-hand variants
Königsjass
Jass variant for three. Each player receives 3 cards thrice, the remaining 9 go to the talon. The top card of the talon is the trump card. A player with the trump Six may take the trump upcard and replace it with the Six. In addition, all players may decide in turn whether they want to exchange their hand for the talon. If a player decides to do this, he lays his cards away and picks up the talon. The player with the Six can still swap it at this point. Then the game begins. Each player plays alone and generally to 1000 or 1500 points, but also to other target scores depending on the situation.
Schaffhauserjass
An older variant for 3 players—1 vs. 2. The solo player begins the game as the dealer. 12 cards are dealt to each player, three at a time; the dealer turns up the last card to make trump. The solo player must score 350 points and the two-player team 1,000. The first to reach their goal wins. Melds are valued as per the basic rules, but the solo player does not need to win a trick to score their melds. The team that takes all tricks in a round earns an additional 100 points. Schaffhauser is typically played in sets of three games, with each player in turn being the solo player.
Unnamed 3-Hand Variant
Cards are dealt as if four players are present (nine to each hand in sets of three), and one hand is left aside. Trump is called as normal, though instead of having the option to pass, the player calling trump may choose to switch their hand for the spare hand set aside at the beginning. If they decide to switch, they may no longer look at their original hand or switch back.
This variation forgoes consistency in the strategies used for consistency in the rules of the game. Remembering which cards have been played in order to know with certainty how powerful your own are is no longer feasible, as there are nine cards that are not being played and which cannot be known by most players. The advantage is that this variation changes very little about how the game works, which makes it easier to learn quickly.
Mittlerejass
12 cards are dealt to three players. Tricks follow the usual Swiss-Jass trick rules. First card to break suit sets trump. If a non-trump is led, and second player plays a trump, third player can only play a lower trump if void of the original suit. No Stöck or Weissen. The aim is to avoid being in the middle position for total captured card points each round: Middle player gets -2 game points, and highest and lowest pt total gets +1 game points apiece. Going over 100 card-pts or getting no tricks will get you -2 (with +1 for the other two players) as well. The game may also be played without negative points ("Plus-Minus"), or by four players (called "Molotow", though different from the 4p game described below).
Four-hand variants
Coiffeur
A corruption of Quoi faire? ("what shall I play?), Coiffeur is a game for at least two teams of two that is a cross between Jass, Yahtzee and Poker. All the contract options must be played once per game by each team, the team that determined the type of contract scoring the points they achieve.
Differenzler
After assessing their cards, players must announce an amount, which they have to get as close to as possible. This variant is played in the popular show Samschtig Jass ("Saturday Jass") on Swiss TV.
Hindersi-Jass
Hindersi-Jass or Hintersich-Jass is an unusual older 'reverse' variant for four players in which the aim is to score the fewest points; however a player taking all tricks wins the deal, scoring zero, while the rest score 157 each. Players are dealt 9 cards each in packets of three and the last card is turned for trump. As usual, forehand leads and players may either follow suit or trump, but may only discard if unable to follow. Undertrumping is only permitted if the led suit is not held (this is the usual rule in reverse Jass games). The players with the two lowest scores after a partie of four games are each given a mark (Strich); the players with the two highest scores receive a minus mark (Nuller or Minusstrich). After 4 or 8 parties the winner is the player with the most marks. There is also a variant for three players.
Molotow
Molotow is a type of Jass for 4 players. The trump card (in the 1st or 2nd round) is determined by the suit played by the first player who is unable to follow suit (i.e. play a card of the same suit as the first card played in this round).
The goal of Molotow Jass is to score as few points as possible. The so-called table melding (Tischweis) poses an additional difficulty in order to achieve as few points as possible. If there is a meld on the table at the end of the round, the player who takes the trick scores the points for the meld as well. As an additional rule, it can be agreed that the players have to change their seats after each round based on the points achieved so far. Especially in smaller or public spaces (railway carriage compartments, cafés etc.) this can on the one hand attract the attention of other people and on the other hand can loosen up the game.
NASA Jass
A Jass game for 4 players. The basic idea of this variant is to make the game more difficult yet more interesting by incorporating a quiz. As well as playing normal Schieberjass, players must answer quiz questions in the following way: the player who leads poses a question from the area of general knowledge, which then goes around. If an opponent knows the answer, he gets 20 points, if the partner knows the answer, he gets 40 points, if nobody knows the answer, there are 10 penalty points for the questioner or 10 points are awarded to the opposing team. The name of this type of Jass refers to the fact that, as with NASA pilots, several tasks have to be performed simultaneously. The relatively new type of Jass was developed in student circles and can be modified by, for example, asking a question for each "hand" or by asking questions only from individual areas. Colloquially, this variant is called Nase in Switzerland, especially in the canton of Berne.
Palette Jass
Variant for 4 players (variant for 5 players, see Jass rules Puur-Näll-As). Each player bids in turn based on the cards they have received. The highest bidder takes over as the declarer and starts the game. He can ask for a card. The player with the requested card becomes the declarer's partner, but must not reveal this. Accordingly, he keeps the requested card so that it is only clear when this card is played who is playing with whom. Each deal is scored separately and generates a score for the Jass slate. The declarer receives the following points: 110–119 = 2 game points, 120–129 = 4 game points, 130–139 = 6 game points, 140–149 = 8 game points, 150–157 = 10 game points. Matsch with partner = 12 game points, Matsch as soloist = 20 points. The partner of the declarer receives half of the points. If the target is missed by the declarer, he scores the same amount in minus points. After two rounds (with everyone dealing twice), the loser is determined based on the lowest total number of points. For tips, strategies and 65 other types of jass see AGM AGMüller's Puur-Näll-As Jass Rules.
Pandur
In Pandur, four players usually play, but only three are active in the game, and each in turn sits out the hand to which he deals. The scorekeeper deals first, giving 8 cards to each player in batches of 4s from a 24-card pack made by stripping out all ranks below Nine. I addition to the usual melds, a player may announce a sequence of six or a quartet of Nines, each counting 150 points. Only the soloist may score for melds, provided that he has the best, that is, if an opponent has a better meld, it does not score itself but only prevents the soloist from scoring.
Each in turn, starting with eldest, may bid or pass, and having passed may not come in again. The lowest bid is 100 and higher bids must be multiple of 10. A numerical bid is the minimum amount the soloist undertakes to make for "marriages, melds and tricks" in return for nominating trumps and leading to the first trick.
A bid of 200 is overcalled by misère, then trumps misère, then 210 etc. In misère, the soloist must lose every trick, playing at no trump. In trump misère, the suit of the card he leads is automatically trump. Players are still required to trump when unable to follow suit, but are not obliged to overtrump. A bid of 250 is over called by Pandur, and 300 by Trump Pandur. In Pandur, the soloist must win every trick, playing at no trump and in Trump Pandur, the suit of the card he leads is automatically trump.
If successful, the soloist wins a number of game points equivalent to the bid divided by 50 (maximum 6). Misère count 4, Pandur 5, Trump Pandur 6. For a failed bid, the game value is credited to each opponent. Game is 15 points or any other agreed target. If four play, the dealer gets the value of a failed bid, but not if he stands at 13 or 14 points.
Each player drops out upon reaching the target, the game being played by three, then two. The last one left in loses the game.
Trump Misère is a bit dangerous and must be made in a very short suit, typically in order to lose a card that would be even more dangerous at no trump, that is, with three safe suits and a singleton Queen, the soloist would announce "trump" and lead the Queen. As the Jack and Nine are top trumps, this would only lose if one opponent held the 10 and the others were void. If played at no trump, there would be three cards lower than the Queen, making the bid very risky. When only two players remain, so that eight cards are out of play, any misère, is riskier than usual, especially with a trump.
Sechser–Schläpf
A normal game of Jass, except that it is played with hands of six cards rather than nine, hence the Sechser ("Sixer") in the name.
Sidi Barani
A Jass variant that is similar to Schieber, Sidi Barani is a game for 4 players, with the difference that it is not specified who can choose the contract. This right goes to the person who announces the highest score when bidding (similar to bidding in Skat). If the declarer and his partner reach this score (e.g. 120), they receive a bonus in addition to the declared number of points (e.g. 120). If they do not reach their target, the opponents receive the bonus. However, both teams score at least the points achieved. The opposing team has the option of doubling until the first card is led. If the opposing team doubles, the bonus applies twice. If the game is played for 120 points, for example, the winning team receives a bonus of 240 in addition to their score.
Veehändler
Jass for 4 players. All the cards are distributed evenly. In the first deal, the player with the Acorn Banner (Ten of Acorns) in his hand leads, then it rotates in turn.
A total of three penalty points are awarded in each deal: the first point is given to the player who takes the first trick. The second penalty point goes to the player who captures the Bell Ober in a trick and the third penalty point goes to the player taking the last trick. The player who first reaches nine penalty points (or another number if agreed) loses the game and pays the forfeit.
Suit must always be followed. The first player who is unable to follow, determines the trump suit by the card he deals. The trump card is always a suit, i.e. there is no Obeabe and Undeuf.
If a player is dealt the Ober of Bells as his only Bell (Schällenober blutt), when the first card is played he may declare that he has the "nasty card" (s’fiise Chart). Now the player who beats the Ober of Bells gets a plus point. The nasty card does not have to be declared, but it is then more difficult to avoid getting a penalty point for ending up with it.
Six-hand variants
Sechser-Schieber
A variety of Jass for 6 (hence the name; Sechser = "Sixer") in 2 groups of 3 players. The game is played with 2 packs, each player receiving 12 cards. Basically, the game works the same as normal Schieber. If two cards are the same, the one that was played later wins. Up to three 'shoves' are allowed.
Multi-hand variants
Bieter
Bieter, known as Steigerer in Austrian Vorarlberg, is a game for 3 or 5 players, played in teams of 1 against 2 or 2 against 3. Players bid the number of points they hope to win and the highest bidder names a card of his choice. The player with that card becomes his partner and form the two-man team. In the five-hand game, the two-man team only needs to score the declared points to win, whereas the three-man team has to score 1000 points. This is the version that is most like Skat.
Chratze
Jass for 2 to 7 players, players receive 4 cards each and play for a pot, the Chraztze player (Chratzender) must take 2 tricks and the other active players one trick each. Related to Austrian Kratzen.
Fahnder
Fahnder is a variant of Jass for three or four players.
Guggitaler
Guggitaler is a Swiss Jass variant for 3 to 5 players. It is a compendium game in which the aim is to score as few points as possible. It is played without trumps. The game consists of several deals, each deal having different rules. In the first deal, each rose scores 5 points, in the second each trick is worth 10, in the third each Ober scores 20, in the fourth the Rose King scores 45 and in the fifth deal, all these scores are combined. In deals 1, 4 and 5 no Roses may be led as long as you have other cards in your hand. In the sixth deal, a Domino is played, which can change the entire distribution of points. The points distribution in Domino depends on the current point rankings. With 5 players, a card (usually a 6) must be omitted.
Handjass
Handjass, also known as Butzer, Schläger, Sackjass or, in South Tyrol, Sockn, is a game for 2-5 players—every player for themself (cut-throat). The object of the game is to score 5 (or 7, 9) game points (also called points, strokes, lines, or rubs). As each player counts out after scoring 5 game points, the last player remaining is the loser. With simple scoring, however, the first player to reach 5 game points is the winner.
Game points are scored +1; they are determined by card points won via tricks taken and melds scored. There are generally two game points available each round: one for each of the two highest scoring players. If the second score is tied, the tie can be broken by cutting the deck (high card is awarded the point). Some players house-rule that if the second highest score is tied, there is no tie-breaker and no point is scored. If only one player scores greater than 21 points (or if all but one player folds), that player is awarded two game points. If a player scores fewer than 21 points in a round, they are said to be "in the hole" and earn a negative game point (valued at -1). This negative point value is also called a null, potato, apple, or wheel.
The base rules of Jass for card rank, value, and melds apply. Before each round, each player must declare whether they're staying in or folding. If they fold and turn down their hand, they sit out that round. This can be done to avoid taking a negative game point and is an important strategic consideration as one gets closer to going out/winning.
For a 5 player game, remove the six of spades from the deck. Each player receives seven cards and the dealer turns up the last card as trump. Once a player reaches 5 game points, they count out or win (depending on the scoring type). For a 4 player game (and down), the deck is restored to 36 cards and each player is dealt nine cards. For a 3 player game, each player receives nine cards, but one becomes the blind/talon/stock. Turn up the top card of the blind to determine trump. The player holding the six of trump may rob (exchange) the turned up trump. A player may exchange their hand with the blind, but they must play the hand if they do. In a 2 player game, deal as in a 3 player game, but one hand becomes the blind/talon/stock and the other hand is dead/out-of-play. In the 2 player game, a common house rule is that melds may be scored without taking a trick.
The 2-3 player game can also be played by dealing 12 cards to each player. There is no blind in a 3 player game, but each player must now score 31 card points to stay out of the hole. Dealer turns up the last card as trump. In a 2 player game, the top card of the blind is turned up to make trump.
Klammern
Game variant for 2 to 4 players. The game scores, as in darts, up to 301, 501 or 1001. The goal is to be the first to cross the line. In addition, the attacking player who chooses trumps must score more points than his opponent. Otherwise, the points are taken by the opponent.
Kreuzjass
Most popular card game in the west Austrian state of Vorarlberg. Four play in teams of two. Unlike Schieber, the privilege of choosing the trump suit may not be passed to one's partner and trumps are chosen instead by cutting. It is played to 1,000 points.
Ramsen
Not really a true Jass game, but a form of Rams played during week between Christmas and New Year (Altjahrwoche) primarily in the Upper Basle region (played for Schüfeli or salami), but also in Emmental, from the upper Lake Brienz to Meiringen, in Obwalden, in Oberaargau and in the German-Freiburg Sense District (played for sausages).
Schellenjass
Literally "Bell Jass", this is a variant for 2 to 4 players, where the aim is to avoid capturing Bells or to take all nine. If a player manages to collect all nine Bells, that is, to make a Turi, he is credited with three lines on the slate, while the other three players are empty-handed. The game is played without trumps and a Bell may only be discarded if a player can no longer follow suit. If Schellenjass is played with French-suited cards, Hearts are chosen as the relevant suit, the game is then called Herzjass.
Zuger
Zuger is a cutthroat game of temporary alliances for 2–4 players. The object of the game is to have the most points before the total score reaches 100. Meld and Stöck rules apply. The Groß Weis is standard and kreuzweis is valid. Zuger uses simple scoring where the ones unit is dropped, e.g., 123 = 12.
If 4 players are participating, the dealer sits out the round (and receives 10 points in exchange). Each player is dealt 12 cards, with the last card turned up as trump. Before play begins each player must announce whether they're staying or folding. Players may also announce “maybe” – meaning they play only if another player folds. If 2 players stay, they may agree to share 7 points each and split the meld points. Melds worth ≤ 50 points are typically shared, but many players opt to keep higher scoring melds for themselves (Stöck is rarely shared). The second player can be bribed with or demand a greater share of the trick points, divvied up from a total of 14 points. If all 3 players remain, they can negotiate as above, but only if all agree – this ends the round.
The player with the fewest points may force all players to stay if another player is within 14 points of winning.
A player who folds cannot score any points, but avoids a −10 point penalty for going “in the hole.” If all but one player folds or if one player scores a match (takes all tricks) they score a 10-point bonus. In a 3 player game, if one player fails to win a trick, the player holding the Bauer scores an 8-point bonus. The game is over when the sum of all points equals 100. Simple scoring is used, e.g., 127 = 12, a 100-point meld is worth 10 points, etc. Odd numbers are further rounded or the difference is given to the player holding the Bauer.
Older variants
Other, older Jass variants include Fischentalerjass, Bäretswilerjass, Schaffhauserjass, Raubjass, Zebedäusjass and Zugerjass.
See also
Klaberjass
Belote
Chratze
Footnotes
References
Literature
Goop, Adulf Peter (2010). Jassen: ein wichtiges Stück Volkskultur in Eintracht, pp. 11–30. (in German).
Müller, Dani (2016). Stöck, Wys, StichLenzburg: Fona. (in German).
McLeod, John and Michael Dummett. (1975). "Rules of games series: 1. Jass" in The Journal of the Playing-Card Society. Vol. III, No. 3. February, 1975. pp. 21–33. (in English).
External links
Jass English explanation of rules and play
Aelpler Gruppe Swiss Club Jass Events in SF Bay Area
Culture of Switzerland
18th-century card games
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Swiss deck card games
German deck card games
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The Epitaph World Tour was a concert tour by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, at the time intended to be the band's farewell tour. The tour commenced in June 2011 and concluded in May 2012. The tour was named after the 6th track from their Sad Wings of Destiny album.
Guitarist K. K. Downing abruptly left the band shortly before the start of the tour. He was replaced by then 31-year-old Briton, Richie Faulkner. The last date of the tour was held in an unusually small venue, London's Hammersmith Apollo. This return to Judas Priest's homeland was filmed for a live DVD.
Epitaph would ultimately turn out not to be the band's final tour, as they embarked on the Redeemer of Souls Tour two years later.
Production
On 10 May, the band announced that preparations for the tour had begun, including rehearsals, photos, stage construction, and special effects.
On 6 June, guitarist Glenn Tipton announced on his website that:
Rob Halford incident
On the 15 September 2011 show in Brasília, Rob Halford fell off his Harley-Davidson motorcycle when he rode across the stage, only to slip off as "Hell Bent for Leather" was set to be performed. This was reminiscent of an incident that occurred on the Operation Rock & Roll tour in 1991, but this time he did not sustain any major injuries. He was assisted by crew members as the intro piece began, and finished the show thereafter.
Tour dates
Setlist
According to a posting on Tipton's website on 27 January 2011, the tour will "include some classic Priest songs that we haven't played before -- and of course, the old favourites that everybody will want to hear." On 15 February, the band announced they were considering playing at least one song from each of their albums as part of the setlist.
The setlist for the first leg of the tour was as follows:
"Battle Hymn"
"Rapid Fire"
"Metal Gods"
"Heading Out to the Highway"
"Judas Rising"
"Starbreaker"
"Victim of Changes"
"Never Satisfied"
"Diamonds and Rust" (acoustic to heavy version)
"Prophecy"
"Night Crawler"
"Turbo Lover"
"Beyond the Realms of Death"
"The Sentinel"
"Blood Red Skies"
"The Green Manalishi (with the Two Prong Crown)"
"Breaking the Law"
"Painkiller"
"The Hellion"/"Electric Eye"
"Hell Bent for Leather"
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'"
"Living After Midnight"
Note: The band played a shorter set with omitted songs at certain festival appearances.
Reviews
A review of the band's performance at the Sonisphere Festival in Basel, Switzerland by RockAAA.com was favourable, praising both Rob Halford's vocal performance and Richie Faulkner's guitar playing. The reviewer said that Halford's "tone is astonishing...and [his] delivery as good as there is in the business."
Support acts
Black Label Society (12 October – 3 December 2011)
Crash (4 February 2012)
Diablo ft. Yim Jae-beom (4 February 2012)
Duff McKagan's Loaded (20 June 2011)
Exodus (10 August 2011)
HammerFall (22–25 April 2012)
Hatebreed (3 July 2011)
Kobra and the Lotus (26 May 2012)
Lamb of God (20 February 2012)
Morbid Angel (10 August 2011)
Motörhead (29 July – 2 August 2011)
Queensrÿche (15–27 July 2011)
Rival Sons (15–24 July 2011)
Sabaton (9 August 2011)
Saxon (29 July – 2 August 2011; 23–26 May 2012)
Thin Lizzy (12 October – 3 December 2011; 27 April – 4 May 2012)
Vader (10 August 2011)
Whitesnake (27 June – 10 July 2011; 10 September – 3 October 2011)
Leash Eye (14 April 2012)
Personnel
Rob Halford – lead vocals
Glenn Tipton – guitar
Richie Faulkner – guitar
Ian Hill – bass
Scott Travis – drums
References
External links
Announcement of tour by Judas Priest
2011 concert tours
2012 concert tours
Judas Priest concert tours
Farewell concert tours |
Michel Ndary Adopo (born 19 July 2000) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Atalanta.
Club career
Adopo made his professional debut with Torino in a 2–0 Serie A win over Roma on 5 January 2020.
On 29 January 2021, he joined Serie C club Viterbese on loan. On 5 August 2021, the loan was renewed for the 2021–22 season.
Adopo returned to Torino for the 2022–23 season, registering 11 appearances across all competitions. On 11 January 2023, he scored in a 1–0 Coppa Italia win over AC Milan at San Siro.
Adopo joined fellow Serie A club Atalanta on 10 July 2023.
Personal life
Born in France, Adopo is of Ivorian, Senegalese, Indian, and Vietnamese descent.
References
External links
Lega Serie A Profile
2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
French sportspeople of Ivorian descent
French men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Serie A players
Serie C players
Torino FC players
Atalanta BC players
US Viterbese 1908 players
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
France men's youth international footballers
Footballers from Val-de-Marne |
Robert Traill was a church minister at Cranbrook in Kent. He was born at Elie in Fife in 1642. He was incarcerated on the Bass Rock, an island in the Firth of Forth from July 19, 1677 to October 5, 1677. His work was often quoted by J. C. Ryle and is still published in the 21st century.
Early life
Robert's father was also a preacher called Robert. His father, Robert Traill of Greyfriars, was well known, being born in 1603, the son of Colonel James Trail, of Killcleary, Ireland, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry, Prince of Wales, and grandson of the Laird of Blebo, and Matilda Melvill of Carnbee. His mother, if Janet Annand (1605 - 1650), died while Robert was still young, although the Dictionary of National Biography records a Jean Annand who was imprisoned in 1665 for corresponding with her husband.
Robert Traill's early education was carefully superintended by his father, and at the university of Edinburgh he distinguished himself both in the literary and theological classes. At the age of nineteen he stood beside James Guthrie, his father's friend, on the scaffold. He was for some time tutor or chaplain in the family of Scot of Scotstarvet, and was afterwards much with John Welsh, the minister of Irongray, who was the first to hold ‘armed conventicles.’ He became a lifelong friend of William Guthrie of Fenwick, author of "The Christian's Great Interest".
In 1666, he was obliged to lurk for some time, together with his mother and elder brother; because some copies of a book, intitled, "An apologetic relation, &c", which the privy council had ordered to be publicly burnt, were found in Mrs Traill's house. In a proclamation of 1667 he was denounced as a 'Pentland rebel' and excepted from the act of indemnity. It is uncertain whether he was present at that engagement or not; but he fled to Holland, where he joined his father, who had been there for about four years, and other Scottish exiles.
There he continued his theological studies, and assisted Nethenius, professor at Utrecht, in preparing for the press Samuel Rutherford's ‘Examen Arminianismi.’ In 1669 he was in London, and in 1670 was ordained to a presbyterian charge at Cranbrook in Kent. He visited Edinburgh in 1677, when he was arrested by the privy council and charged with breaking the law. He admitted that he had preached in private houses, but, refusing to purge himself by oath from the charge of taking part in holding conventicles, he was sent as a prisoner to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. The sentence of in July 1677 read:
"Forasmuch as the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, finding by the Report of the Committee anent Public Affairs, that Mr Robert Traill, son of the deceased Mr Robert Traill, against whom letters of intercommuning are direct, and who is excepted forth of his Majesty's gracious act of indemnity for his being in the rebellion in the year 1666, being apprehended within the city of Edinburgh, and brought before the said Committee, and examined if since his last coming to this kingdom he had kept any house or field conventicles, did acknowledge he had kept house conventicles, but said he left it to proof as to field conventicles; and the verity thereof being referred to his own oath he refused to depone; and confessed he had conversed with Mr John Welsh on the borders, and had assisted him at preaching in the fields, but especially upon the borders of the English side, where he said he had stayed for the most part since he came last to Scotland; and that he had been in and about Edinburgh since the end of May last; and that being interrogated by what authority he took upon him to preach, he declared that, in the year 1670, he was ordained minister by some Presbyterian ministers at London; and acknowledged that he had seen the printed act of indemnity out of which his name is excepted: The said Lords do ordain the said Mr Robert Traill to be sent prisoner to the Bass, until the Council consider what further shall be done with him."
On the same day,
"The Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council do grant warrant and order to the Lord Marquis of Athole, to command such a party of horse as he shall think fit to transport the person of Mr Robert Traill from the Tolbooth of Edinburgh unto the Isle of the Bass, to remain prisoner there."
Having given a promise which satisfied the government, he was liberated a few months afterwards and returned to his charge in Kent. He afterwards migrated to a Scots church in London, where he spent the rest of his life.
Publications
His first short publication did not occur until he was forty years old and the next did not appear until he was fifty. In 1682 he published a sermon, ‘By what means can ministers best win souls?’ and in 1692 a letter to a minister in the country—supposed to be his eldest brother, William (1640–1714), minister of Borthwick, Midlothian—entitled ‘A Vindication of the Protestant Doctrine concerning Justification and of its Preachers and Professors from the unjust Charge of Antinomianism.’ This ‘angry letter,’ as Dr. Calamy calls it, was occasioned by the violent controversy which broke out among the dissenting ministers of London after the republication in 1690 of the works of Dr. Tobias Crisp. Donald Macleod called it "unrivalled". Charges of Antinomianism were made on the one side and of Arminianism on the other, and Traill was distinguished for his zeal against Arminianism. A somewhat similar controversy, known as the Marrow Controversy, followed in Scotland, and as Boston of Ettrick and others took the same side as Traill, his works became very popular among them and their adherents. He afterwards published ‘Sermons on the Throne of Grace from Heb. iv. 16’ (3rd edit. 1731), and ‘Sermons on the Prayer of Our Saviour, John xvii. 24.’ These works were devout, plain, and edifying, and were in great favour with those who were attached to evangelical religion.
Death and legacy
Traill died on 16 May 1716 at the age of seventy-four. His brother William, the minister of Borthwick, has had many clerical descendants of note, both in the church of Scotland and in the church of Ireland—among the latter James, bishop of Down and Connor (Hew Scott, Fasti, i. 266).
A collective edition of Trail's works was published in 1745 (Edinburgh, 4 vols.); other editions Glasgow, 1776 3 vols., 1795 4 vols., 1806 4 vols. (which is the best edition), Edinburgh, 1810 4 vols. These included additional works from his manuscripts: ‘Steadfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith, from Hebrews x. 23;’ ‘Sermons from 1 Peter i. 1–4;’ ‘Sermons on Galatians ii. 21.’ Further sermons from manuscripts in the hands of his relatives were published in 1845 by the Free Church of Scotland.
Family
According to some sources Robert married Hellenor Traill and had several children: James, born 10 March 1651; Helen, born 1644, Agnes, 1646-1690; and Margaret, January 1648 – 1617. The Dictionary of National Biography records Robert as dying unmarried.
Bibliography
Wodrow's History
Anderson's Scottish Nation
Agnew's Theology of Consolation
History of the Bass Rock
Life prefixed to Select Writings of Trail by Free Church Publications Committee
Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature and authorities there cited.
Works
1. A Sermon on " By what means may ministers best win souls
2. Vindication of the Protestant Doctrine concerning Justification, and of its Preachers and Professors, from the unjust charge of Antinomianism.
3. Thirteen Discourses on the Throne of Grace, from Heb. iv. 16.
4. Sixteen Sermons on the Prayer of our Saviour in John xvii. 24.
5. Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith, in twenty-one Sermons on Heb. x. 23.
6. Eleven Sermons on 1 Peter i. 1-4.
7. Six Sermons on Galatians ii. 21.
(5–7 were published posthumously as were 10 additional sermons found by some of his descendants.
References
Citations
Sources
External links
17th-century Presbyterian ministers
Covenanters
Scottish prisoners and detainees
1642 births
1716 deaths
Covenanting Prisoners of the Bass Rock
Scottish Presbyterian ministers ordained outside Scotland |
Hungary competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. 43 competitors from Hungary won 11 medals, including 4 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze and finished 25th in the medal table.
See also
Hungary at the Paralympics
Hungary at the 1992 Summer Olympics
References
Hungary at the Paralympics
1992 in Hungarian sport
Nations at the 1992 Summer Paralympics |
Brookfield is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main village in the town of Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Route 9 passes through the center of the village, leading east to Spencer and west to Ware. Massachusetts Route 148 crosses Route 9 in the village center, leading north to North Brookfield and south to Fiskdale.
Brookfield was first listed as a CDP after the 2010 census.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Census-designated places in Massachusetts |
The dalasi is the currency of the Gambia that was adopted in 1971. It is subdivided into 100 bututs. It replaced the Gambian pound at a rate of 1 pound = 5 dalasis, i.e. 1 dalasi = 0.2 pound = 4 shillings.
The derivative of dala is unknown. In numerous languages in the Francophonie, currency terms (including batut, dalasi, doromi, teemer) refer to the former 5 French West African franc note (the lowest denomination at the time), but to which the origins are not known. One speculated origin is a pronunciation of "dollar"; however, variants of dalasi in other Mandinka dialects (such as daasi) counter this speculation while butut is from Wolof butuut, "small thing".
As a result of inflation, now bututs coins have completely disappeared from circulation and the minimum monetary unit has become 50 Butut.
Coins
In 1971, coins in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 bututs and 1 dalasi were introduced. The 1 and 5 bututs were struck in bronze while the 10 bututs were brass and the 25, 50 bututs and 1 dalasi were cupro-nickel. The reverse designs of the three higher denominations were taken from the corresponding denominations of the previous currency (1, 2 and 4 shillings), with the reverse designs for the lower three coins coming from the 6, 1 and 3 pence coins, respectively. All coins of this series depict former president, Sir Dawda Jawara.
Rounding methods for the butut were described in an article published in the 1986 issue of the recreational mathematical journal Eureka, in connection with Gambian mathematical education and its relation to counting coins; individual bututs were described as having no commercial significance, while other coins were colloquially referred to using old British nomenclature.
New 1 dalasi coins were introduced in 1987, modeled on the 50 pence coin of the United Kingdom. These replaced the larger, round dalasi coins which never saw its widespread use as the lower denominations.
In 1998, a new coin series was introduced, in which the effigy of Dawda Jawara was dropped and replaced with the national coat of arms on the obverses. However, older Jawara era coins still commonly circulate as legal tender. The 1 dalasi coin was also downsized in size and weight, but none of the other coins were changed. Only 25 and 50 bututs and 1 dalasi coins are currently in circulation, they are of the 1998 issue which also included 1, 5 and 10 bututs coins but have since disappeared due to their low value.
According to the situation for 2019, bututs coins have completely disappeared due to their low value, the minimum monetary unit has become 1 dalasi.
As of October 1, 2021, according to the Central Bank of the Gambia website ( https://www.cbg.gm/ ), the reference rate (value) of the dalasi was 48 per US dollar or about 2 cents US. All of their previous currency (notes and coins) is still legal to use. However the reduced value of the dalasi has made the 1b, 5b, and 10b coins of little use. The 25b (about half a cent) and 50b (about 1 cent) are of limited use as prices tend to be set in dalasi. The 1 dalasi coin is still in use to make change for the 5 dalasi (ten cents) banknote.
Banknotes
Banknotes currently in circulation are 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 and 200 dalasis. 1 dalasi notes were issued between 1971 and 1987. Current banknotes were first issued on 27 July 1996, then reprinted in 2001. On 27 July 2006, the Central Bank of the Gambia issued a new series of notes with images similar to the preceding issues, but with improvements in their designs, paper thickness, and security features. Most noticeably, the old white borders have been removed, giving the notes full printing of its main colors. Furthermore, the 5 and 10 Dalasis are coated with a special varnish to extend circulation life. Finally, the security features of the 100 Dalasis have been upgraded by the inclusion of a silver foil on the front of the note with the image of 100 embossed into the foil.
A polymer commemorative 20 Dalasis was also put into circulation to commemorate 20 years of then-President Yahya Jammeh's rule.
On April 15, 2015, the Central Bank of the Gambia released a new family of banknotes that includes two new denominations, a 20 dalasis note to replace the 25 dalasis and a 200 dalasis note, twice the value of the previously highest denomination. All of the notes feature a portrait of Yahya Jammeh.
In February 2018, a new series of banknotes believed to be a reprinting of the 2006-13 issues, but with a new signature combination, will be released as an interim measure to replace those with the portrait of Yahya Jammeh.
A whole new series is being released during June 2019.
Commemorative banknotes
1 Dalasi (1978) - opening of the Central Bank of The Gambia's building in Banjul by President Sir Dawda Jawara.
20 Dalasis (2014) - 20 Years of Progress and Self-Reliance under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh.
See also
Economy of the Gambia
References
External links
Central Bank of The Gambia
Currencies of Africa
Currencies of the Gambia
Currencies of the Commonwealth of Nations
Economy of the Gambia
Currencies introduced in 1971
1971 establishments in the Gambia |
António Dias Teixeira (16 September 1930 – 17 October 2003) was a Portuguese footballer and later manager.
Honours
Player
Benfica
Primeira Divisão: 1949–50
Porto
Primeira Divisão: 1955–56, 1958–59
Taça de Portugal: 1955–56, 1957–58
Individual
Taça de Portugal Top Scorer: 1955–56
Manager
Varzim
Segunda Divisão: 1975–76
References
External links
1930 births
2003 deaths
Portuguese men's footballers
Primeira Liga players
FC Porto players
S.C. Braga players
S.L. Benfica footballers
Vitória S.C. players
Portugal men's international footballers
Portuguese football managers
Primeira Liga managers
Boavista F.C. managers
FC Porto managers
Leixões S.C. managers
Académico de Viseu F.C. managers
C.S. Marítimo managers
S.C. Braga managers
F.C. Famalicão managers
Varzim S.C. managers
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Lisbon |
Ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naishaburi, Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ali (Arabic and Persian: أبوالقاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي بن أبي صادق النيشابوري ) was an 11th-century Persian physician from Nishapur in Khorasan.
He was a pupil of Avicenna. As he composed a popular commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, he was known in some circles as "the second Hippocrates" (Buqrat al-thani). Ismail Gorgani, the author of Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi, completed his studies under his guidance.
His commentary on the Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Questions on Medicine, however, may have been even more popular, judging from the large number of copies preserved today. Ibn Abi Sadiq also wrote a commentary on the Prognostics of Hippocrates, on Galen's treatise On the Usefulness of the Parts, and on Razi's treatise Doubts about Galen (Shukuk ‘alá Jalinus). According to the medieval biographical sources, he completed the commentary on Galen's On the Usefulness of the Parts in the year 1068 AD, which provides us with the one firm date in his biography.
Sources
The article "Ebn Abi Sadeq" by Lutz Richter-Bernburg in Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, 6+ vols. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul and Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1983 to present), vol. 7, p. 663
Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam, Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abteilung I, Ergänzungsband vi, Abschnitt 1 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), p 160.
Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, 1st edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1889–1936). Second edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1943–49). Page references will be to those of the first edition, with the 2nd edition page numbers given in parentheses, vol. 1, p. 484 (638), Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplement, 3 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1937–1942). vol. 1, pp. 886–7
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Iran's Contribution to Medicine and Veterinary Science in Islam AD 100-900/AD 700-1500", in The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine in the Middle East and the Caucasus, ed. J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J.L. Gueriguian (Delmar, New York: Caravan Press, 1999).
See also
List of Iranian scientists
1068 deaths
Physicians from Nishapur
Year of birth unknown
Pupils of Avicenna
11th-century Iranian physicians |
Workington is the name of an industrial suburb in the South West of Harare, Zimbabwe.
Suburbs of Harare |
Julius Ludwig August Koch ( , ; 4 December 1841 in Laichingen, Württemberg – 25 June 1908 in Zwiefalten, Württemberg) was a German psychiatrist whose work influenced later concepts of personality disorders.
Koch was born in the town of Laichingen in the state of Württemberg. His father was a general practitioner physician who headed his own private insane asylum.
Koch worked as a chemist for several years and then studied medicine in Tübingen from 1863 to 1867. He subsequently worked as a physician, later joining a psychiatric hospital. In 1874 he became director of the state mental hospital in Zwiefalten (Württemberg).
Described as deeply rooted in a Christian faith, Koch's first works were philosophically-minded. In 1882 he published "Epistomological Investigations" (Erkenntnistheoretische Untersuchungen), and in 1885 "Outline of Philosophy" (Grundriss der Philosophie). In 1886 his "Reality and its Knowledge" (Die Wirklichkeit und ihre Erkenntnis) was an attempt to join the philosophy of Immanuel Kant with Christian theories.
Koch argued that the body and soul are part of the natural material world, while the mind (geist) is the way through which freedom, but also a moral claim by God, are exercised. He felt that philosophical trends against the Christianity of a nation would lead to afflictions and dangers. Overall his philosophy has been described as homespun and quite dogmatic, especially with regard to the religious elements.
Psychiatry
From 1887, Koch focused more on clinical psychiatric issues. In 1888, he published a Short Textbook of Psychiatry (Kurzgefaßter Leitfaden der Psychiatrie). There he introduced his concept of "psychopathic inferiority" (Psychopathische Minderwertigkeiten).
Between 1891 and 1893, Koch published in three parts Die psychopathischen Minderwertigkeiten (Psychopathic Inferiorities). This work provided more detail on what he intended to be a morally non-judgemental concept of individuals with various mental dysfunctions. Such conditions might have been otherwise labeled at the time as forms of moral insanity.
Psychopathic inferiority was differentiated from other forms of psychopathology such as insanity with delusions or hallucinations, or gross intellectual deficit ('idiocy'). He divided the psychopathies into congenital and acquired forms, and each of those categories into forms of increasing severity. Psychopathic "disposition" meant a recognizable mental infirmity. Psychopathic "defect" or "taint" (Belastung), meant "anomalies in excitability, a lack of harmony, an eccentric, contradictory self, peculiarities, primordial instinctive impulses and outbursts and something periodic in their behavior". Psychopathic "degeneration" meant "a habitual mental weakness either mainly in the intellectual or mainly in the moral realm or in both". The use of the term 'degeneration' was in the context of the pseudo-genetic religiously-inspired degeneration theory that was prevalent at the time.
However, Koch argued that individuals with these conditions should not be punished as severely and that there should be special institutions for them. This was on the basis that, although they were not certifiably 'insane', they had diminished responsibility. Koch's comments on free will and determinism, in both his philosophical and psychiatric work, are said to be so similar to the current debate on free will and neuroscience that some passages do not even appear historical.
Koch wrote an essay in 1894 entitled Die Frage nach dem geborenen Verbrecher (The question of the born criminal). He generally divided habitual criminals into the mentally healthy and the mentally abnormal, the latter being the 'psychopathic' criminal types. He suggested there could be acquired and congenital types. He speculated that there could be a weakness to be provoked into crime in certain environments, or a compelling drive towards crime. A criminal inclination, Koch thought, would always be accompanied by other mental symptoms. However, he thought it could occur in otherwise highly respectable people, as occasional aberrations, as a 'specific stimulus to crime.' Nevertheless, laymen in Germany soon used the term, or its shortened version 'inferiors', to refer to any individual who supposedly suffered from a constitutional inclination toward crime.
Koch retired in 1898.
Legacy
In Germany, Koch's term was generally shortened to 'minderwertigkeit' (inferiors), used interchangeably with 'degenerate', and applied mainly to criminal types. After World War I psychiatrists dropped that term and used psychopathisch instead, and its derivatives Psychopathie and Psychopathen. This was actually an attempt to avoid assumptions of biological, moral or social inferiority, and instead be neutral and 'scientific'. Koch's theories had been only loosely linked to degeneration theory and so survived the declining popularity of that theory after the war. The concept of psychopathy initially referred to not just antisocial behaviors but to a wide range of issues which later were classified in the category of 'personality disorders'.
The term 'constitutional psychopathic inferiority' eventually caught on in the US by the 1920s. The idea of 'constitutional' meant within the make-up of the person, within their physical or psychological nature. It was used by psychiatrists to classify, for example, 'the unfit or partially fit who furnish the recruiting material for so many of the neuroses and psychoses'. This included individuals who suffered shell shock during war, as well as those who simply did not seem able to function in modern society, or who committed crimes. Some psychiatrists preferred the term 'psychopathic personality'. Around the same time, Austrian Alfred Adler was developing his idea of the inferiority complex, which became widely known.
Some of the psychopathic inferiorities were later recast as abnormal personalities by Kurt Schneider, and a number of the conditions have ended up known today as personality disorders. The term psychopathy itself gained a specific and notorious meaning of a condition of amorality and anti-social or violent behaviour. Such a morally pejorative concept is said to have not been intended by Koch; he had applied the term 'psychopathic' to mean originating from an organic defect in the brain, and the term inferiority to simply refer to dysfunction. However, it was probably his concept and terminology that provided the unfortunate conglomeration of aspects of inferiority, amorality and socially harmful behavior.
References
External links
1841 births
1908 deaths
German psychiatrists
University of Tübingen alumni |
Robert Alner (21 November 1943 – 3 February 2020) was a British racehorse trainer specializing in National Hunt racing. He was based at stables at Droop, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England. He trained the winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Cool Dawn in 1998.
In November 2007 he was seriously injured in a car crash and underwent surgery after breaking a bone in his neck.
Thereafter he held his training licence jointly with his wife Sally, until they retired in 2010.
He died on 3 February 2020 at the age of 76.
References
1943 births
2020 deaths
British racehorse trainers |
The Barber Block is a building complex located at the corner of Southeast Grand and Washington Streets in Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It was built in 1890 and listed on the NRHP in 1977. It is also located within the East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District.
Among the building's occupants in the 1920s was a nickelodeon theater. After the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 caused significant damage to the building's roof, its owners considering demolishing it, but decided against doing so. The ground floor spaces have been used by various types of businesses over the decades, including a furniture store, a restaurant and a bank, while the second and third floors have always been residential, mostly as apartments but for a time as a single-room occupancy residential hotel.
The building underwent a renovation in the late 1970s and another in the 2000s.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Southeast Portland, Oregon
References
External links
Barber Block brief history in The Oregonian "Portland Then & Now" series
1890 establishments in Oregon
Commercial buildings completed in 1890
Historic district contributing properties in Oregon
National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
Buckman, Portland, Oregon
Portland Historic Landmarks |
Jan Stefan Gałecki (18 June 1932 in Zalesie, Przasnysz County – 27 April 2021 in Szczecin) was a Polish Roman Catholic titular and auxiliary bishop.
Biography
Gałecki was born in Poland and was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He served as titular bishop of Maiuca and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień, Poland, from 1974 to 2007.
Notes
1932 births
2021 deaths
Polish Roman Catholic titular bishops
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland
People from Przasnysz County
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland |
Oregon House may refer to:
Oregon House of Representatives, U.S.
Oregon House, California, a small community in California, U.S. |
Bahamut is a giant fish from Arabian mythology.
Bahamut may also refer to:
Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons), a dragon deity in Dungeons & Dragons
Bahamut (Final Fantasy), a character from the Final Fantasy video game series
Bahamut (band), a heavy metal band from Detroit, Michigan
Bahamut (album), an album by Hazmat Modine, or its title track
Bahamut, an apocalyptic dragon entity from fantasy franchise Rage of Bahamut
See also
Bahmut
Behemoth (disambiguation) |
Anna Chalon (born 30 October 1989), also known under the stage name Kiddo, is a French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and performer. She wrote and performed the song Run and Hide for the film Je l'aimais (Somebody I Loved), based on the book by Anna Gavalda. She composes and performs the title Hush Hush played during the end credits of No et moi based on the novel of Delphine de Vigan. She is the daughter of Zabou Breitman and sister of Antonin Chalon.
Biography
After obtaining her law degree from the Panthéon-Assas University, Anna Chalon studied music. She is a graduate of the London Music School and the Berklee College of Music in Boston, known as the most prestigious school of modern music in the world.
In 2009, her song Run and Hide was nominated for the World Soundtrack Awards in the category of Best Original Song written specifically for film. The song was up against those by established artists such as Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Bruce Springsteen and Allah Rakha Rahman.
The release of her first studio album was in 2012. This was done in collaboration with Jay Newland, who has worked on the first album of Norah Jones, Come Away with Me.
Filmography
2001: Se souvenir des belles choses by Zabou Breitman
2006: L'Homme de sa vie by Zabou Breitman
2009: Je l'aimais by Zabou Breitman
2010: No et moi by Zabou Breitman
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Musicians from Paris
French women singer-songwriters
French singer-songwriters
French people of Russian-Jewish descent
French women guitarists
Berklee College of Music alumni
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers
21st-century guitarists
21st-century women guitarists |
The 1997–98 Nemzeti Bajnokság II was Hungary's second-level football competition.
Teams
The following teams have changed division since the 1996–97 season.
Team changes
To NB II
From NB II
Stadium and locations
Following is the list of clubs competing in the league, with their location, stadium and stadium capacity.
League table
Relegation play-offs
Overview
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See also
1997–98 Magyar Kupa
1997–98 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
1997–98 Nemzeti Bajnokság III
References
External links
Hungary 1997/98 (RSSSF)
Nemzeti Bajnokság II seasons
1997–98 in Hungarian football
Hun |
The 2022 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament to be played on indoor hard courts. It was the 51st edition of the event, and part of the 500 series of the 2022 ATP Tour. It was held at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, from 24 through 30 October 2022. It was the first edition of the event since 2019, with the 2020 and 2021 editions cancelled due to the border restrictions in the French and German borders on the COVID-19 pandemic. Third-seeded Félix Auger-Aliassime won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Félix Auger-Aliassime defeated Holger Rune, 6–3, 7–5
It was Auger-Aliassime's 4th and last singles title of the year and the 4th of his career.
Doubles
Ivan Dodig / Austin Krajicek defeated Nicolas Mahut / Édouard Roger-Vasselin, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of 17 October 2022
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
David Goffin
Marc-Andrea Hüsler
Dominic Stricker
The following player received entry as a special exempt:
Mackenzie McDonald
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:
Stan Wawrinka
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Laslo Đere
Ugo Humbert
Arthur Rinderknech
Roman Safiullin
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Aslan Karatsev
Withdrawals
Sebastian Korda → replaced by Aslan Karatsev
Nick Kyrgios → replaced by Jack Draper
Doubles main draw entrants
Seeds
Rankings are as of 17 October 2022
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Marc-Andrea Hüsler / Dominic Stricker
Jérôme Kym / Leandro Riedi
The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
Andrey Golubev / Aleksandr Nedovyesov
The following pair received entry as lucky losers:
Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow
Withdrawals
Nick Kyrgios / Pedro Martínez → replaced by Nathaniel Lammons / Jackson Withrow
References
External links
2022 ATP Tour
2022
2022 in Swiss sport
Swiss Indoors |
Curtis John Arceneaux (October 25, 1947 – November 25, 2011) better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.
He was born in Merced, California, United States, the son of Herman Arceneaux from Ascension Parish, Louisiana and Virginia Grant of Waushara County, Wisconsin. His father was of Acadian (Cajun) descent, while on his mother's side his ancestry included English, Norwegian, Scottish, German, Dutch, Welsh, and Native American (Mohawk). Also on his mother's side he was a direct descendant of accused Salem witch Sarah Cloyce. He spent some of his preteen/early teens in France where his Air Force father was stationed for three years. He spent some of his childhood in the French countryside.
Arceneaux took his stage name from a Louisiana legend, in which a naughty child called Coco Robicheaux is abducted by a werewolf (Loup Garou or Rougarou). The name 'Coco Robicheaux' is repeated in the song "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from Dr. John the Night Tripper's 1968 album, Gris-Gris. Robicheaux claimed that he played regularly with Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) in the early 1960s, and said: "Many times I gone and played with him, all around the world, different places. Dr. John, he was very much interested in metaphysics. We had this little place on St. Philip Street. In voodoo they call the gilded splinters the points of a planet. Mystically they appear like little gilded splinters, like little gold, like fire that holds still. They’re different strengths at different times. I guess it ties in with astrology, and influence the energy. That’s what that’s about."
Robicheaux appeared in the episode "Hotshots", of the USA Network series The Big Easy, playing a New Orleans musician named "Coco", who had sold his soul to the devil. Two of Robicheaux's songs were also featured in the episode, "Broken String" and "Spiritland". Coco Robicheaux appeared as himself in four episodes of HBO's Treme, three times in season 1 and once in season 2. He was also one of ten featured musicians in a 2006 documentary titled Chasing the Groove: A New Orleans Funkumentary.
Coco Robicheaux died in November 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 64. Robicheaux died quietly, in his usual spot at his favorite bar, the Apple Barrel.
Shortly after Robicheaux's death, two second-line parades were held in his honor, both of which passed by the Apple Barrel bar. Later, more formal musical tributes were held at the French Quarter Festival in March 2012, at the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo in May 2012, and at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in May 2013. In addition, the official 2012 French Quarter Festival poster featured Robicheaux, replacing the figure of Andrew Jackson on horseback in Jackson Square.
One of his last recordings was for the Danish singer Naja Rosa's album The Place I Call Home (2012). His last recording took place on his 64th birthday, one month before his death, with singer Frenchie Moe. Mike Hood, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, Jimmy Carpenter and Jack Cruz also contributed to the song.
Discography
Spiritland (Orleans 1994)
Louisiana Medicine Man (Orleans 1998)
Hoodoo Party (Orleans 2000)
Yeah, U Rite! (Spiritland 2005)
Like I Said, Yeah, U Rite! (Spiritland 2008)
Revelator (Spiritland 2010)
References
External links
Coco Robicheaux's Myspace page
Orbiting Coco Robicheaux, by Sam Jasper
Youtube.com
2008 Bomb Magazine interview of Coco Robicheaux by Ned Sublette
1947 births
2011 deaths
Blues musicians from Louisiana
American artists
American blues singers
American male singers
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
People from Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Singers from Louisiana
Guitarists from Louisiana
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians |
Merited Athlete is an honorary title of North Korea given to sports persons. It is awarded to "athletes and workers engaged in the athletic field who make distinguished contributions to the nation's athletics, receiving the love and respect of the people for devoting themselves to national and social projects". A typical achievement is winning a regional competition in Asia. The title was instituted in November 1960.
, Merited Athletes are paid a 70-won (32-dollar) monthly pension after they retire at age 60, equivalent to an ordinary office worker's pay. Merited Athletes have also been given luxurious apartments. A Merited Athlete may become a sporting coach if they complete a four-year course at the Korean Athletics University.
Sports persons may also be awarded the titles of People's Athlete or .
Recipients
In 2001, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that 320 or more people have been awarded either the title of Merited Athlete or the related title of People's Athlete since 1986. , around 200 people in total had receive the title of People's Athlete.
List
See also
Orders and medals of North Korea
Sport in North Korea
The Game of Their Lives (2002 film)
References
Works cited
Further reading
1960 establishments in North Korea
Awards established in 1960
Orders, decorations, and medals of North Korea
Sport in North Korea
Sports trophies and awards
Honorary titles |
This is an in-complete alphabetical list of constituency election results to the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1922 general election, held on Wednesday 15 November 1922.
Notes
Change in % vote and swing is calculated between the winner and second place and their respective performances at the 1918 election. A plus denotes a swing to the winner and a minus against the winner.
England
London Boroughs
adopted as official Liberal candidate, but party withdrew support during campaign following exposure of crooked past
English Boroughs
Barrow and Furness
English Counties
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
anti-partition
Universities
References
1922
1922 United Kingdom general election |
Manifesto Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California that has released records by Dead Kennedys, Tim Buckley, Cinerama, Concrete Blonde, Cranes, The Czars, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lilys, The Rugburns, Sing-Sing,
Ken Stringfellow, Tom Waits, and The Wedding Present.
Manifesto released the entire catalogue of Dead Kennedys in 2001 after the band obtained the rights from Alternative Tentacles. Manifesto is also the home of an imprint of Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles, called FloEdCo; this imprint has released albums by The Turtles and Flo & Eddie. In November 2015, Manifesto re-released the entire catalogue of Lee Michaels that had been on A&M Records.
Manifesto is headed by Evan Cohen, a music-business and copyright lawyer and nephew of Herb Cohen, the late former manager of Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley, Linda Ronstadt, and Tom Waits.
In August 2015, the label announced that it was signing several new artists, including Puro Instinct, Drinking Flowers, Cellars, and Band Aparte.
In 2017, Manifesto released a complete box set of recordings by Allan Holdsworth, and has also unearthed further recordings by Tim Buckley and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
In November 2018, Manifesto released a nine-CD box set of the complete recordings of Kalapana from 1975 to 1983.
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
American independent record labels
Alternative rock record labels |
Luen group is one of several organized crime groups of Hong Kong, known as triads. The membership of the group exceeds 8,000 and is made up of several subgroups. These include Luen Lok Tong, Luen Tei Ying, Luen To Ying, Luen Ying She, and Luen Kung Lok.
The Luen Kung Lok reportedly run illegal gambling clubs, extortion, protection rackets and other crimes as well as legal entertainment business in Hong Kong. The triad has a strong presence in Toronto and has associates in the U.S.
See also
List of Chinese criminal organizations
External links
Chinese Organized Crime and Illegal Alien Trafficking: Humans as a Commodity
References
Gangs in Toronto
Organised crime groups in Hong Kong
Triad groups |
Le Joueur Secret (The Secret Player) is a 1927 painting by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. This surreal oil on canvas mainly depicts two baseball players at the foot of giant bowling pins and under a black leatherback turtle floating in the air. The work is part of the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , it is kept at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. The painting was included in the exhibition "Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938" co-organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and the Art Institute of Chicago which was displayed at all three venues.
See also
List of paintings by René Magritte
1927 in art
References
1927 paintings
Surrealism
Surrealist paintings
Turtles in art
Paintings by René Magritte |
Harold Richard Atteridge (July 9, 1886 – January 15, 1938) was an American composer, librettist and lyricist primarily for musicals and revues. He wrote the book and lyrics for over 20 musicals and revues for the Shubert family, including several iterations of The Passing Show.
Biography
Atteridge was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, the only child of Richard H. Atteridge and Ann T. O'Neill. He attended North Division High School, followed by college at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. In 1907 he wrote the Varsity show for the Black Friar's Club, and graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. His obituary quoted him on experience: "If my success at this work illustrates anything it marks the importance of making an early start at one's profession. ... All during college I was developing a revue and musical show technique in my work for a college organization called the Black Friars. By the time I received my Bachelor of Philosophy degree I was a fairly proficient librettist."
His professional career began in Chicago as a lyricist for a music publishing firm. He first gained attention by writing the lyrics for two songs in the Chicago production of Madame Sherry. Producer George Lederer showed enthusiasm and advised Atteridge to move to New York. He did so in September 1910. He met with Jesse Louis Lasky who engaged him for a show at the New York Folies Bergère. When that venue closed, and with a letter of introduction to J. J. Shubert, Atteridge auditioned some of his songs and was engaged to write for the Shuberts' productions. Over the next two decades, he wrote dozens of shows, often writing both book and lyrics, for Broadway, including many starring Al Jolson, and several reviews in the successful series called The Passing Show.
Atteridge married his first wife, Laura, in 1912. He married his second wife, Mary Teresa Corless, on May 1, 1923.
By 1930 he was working in Hollywood, writing film continuities. Later he wrote radio continuities for Al Jolson and Ed Wynn.
Atteridge died on January 15, 1938, of cirrhosis of the liver in Lynbrook, New York. He was survived by his wife.
Working methods
In published interviews, Atteridge spoke of the process of writing a revue.
Recalling the composition of one of the songs for which he is best known, he said, "Coming downtown on the subway the other evening I scribbled on the back of an envelope the lyrics of a one-step, 'By the Beautiful Sea,' and handed them that night to Harry Carroll. ... Carroll immediately wrote a melody for the words and now the tune is proving a favorite at local dance palaces, cabarets, and restaurants. Which goes to show that one can accomplish things of real value during otherwise idle moments."
List of works
Stage works for Broadway
The Orchid (1907) additional lyrics contributed for Broadway production
Madame Sherry (1910) lyrics
The Happiest Night of His Life (1911) lyrics
Vera Violetta (1911) book and lyrics
A Night with the Pierrots / Sesostra / The Whirl of Society (1912) lyrics
Two Little Brides (1912) lyrics
(From) Broadway to Paris (1912) book and lyrics
The Man with Three Wives (1913) book and lyrics
The Honeymoon Express (1913) lyrics
The Passing Show of 1913 (1913) book and lyrics
The Whirl of the World (1914) book and lyrics
The Passing Show of 1914 (1914) book and lyrics
Dancing Around (1914) book and lyrics
Maid in America (1915) book and lyrics
The Peasant Girl (1915) lyrics
The Passing Show of 1915 (1915) book and lyrics
Hands Up (1915) additional lyrics
The Blue Paradise (1915) additional lyrics
A World of Pleasure (1915) book and lyrics
Ruggles of Red Gap (1915) lyrics
Robinson Crusoe, Jr. (1916) lyrics
The Passing Show of 1916 (1916) book and lyrics
The Show of Wonders (1916) book and lyrics
The Passing Show of 1917 (1917) book and lyrics
Doing Our Bit (1917) book and lyrics
Over the Top (1917) book
Sinbad (1918) book and lyrics
Follow the Girl (1918) additional lyrics
The Passing Show of 1918 (1918) book and lyrics
Monte Cristo Jr. (1919) book and lyrics
Shubert Gaieties of 1919 (1919) book
The Passing Show of 1919 (1919) book and lyrics
The Little Blue Devil (1919) book and lyrics
Cinderella on Broadway (1920) book and lyrics
The Passing Show of 1921 (1920) book and lyrics
The Midnight Rounders of 1921 (1921) book
The Last Waltz (1921) book and lyrics (English version)
The Mimic World (1921) book and lyrics
Bombo (1921) book and lyrics
The Rose of Stamboul (1922) book and lyrics
Make It Snappy (1922) book and lyrics
The Passing Show of 1922 (1922) book and lyrics
The Dancing Girl (1923) book and lyrics
The Passing Show of 1923 (1923) book and lyrics
Topics of 1923 (1923) book and lyrics
Innocent Eyes (1924) book and lyrics
Marjorie (1924) book and lyrics
The Dream Girl (1924) book and additional lyrics
The Passing Show of 1924 (1924) book and lyrics
Big Boy (1925) book
Sky High (1925) book and lyrics
Artists and Models (1925) book
Gay Paree (1925) book and additional lyrics
A Night in Paris (1926) book
The Great Temptations (1926) book
A Night in Spain (1927) book
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 (1927) book
The Greenwich Village Follies (1928) book, additional lyrics
Pleasure Bound (1929) book and lyrics
Thumbs Up! (1934) book
Film work
The Ladies Man (1928) story
Her Golden Calf (1930) dialogue
Big Boy (1930) play
Poppin' the Cork'' (1933) dialogue
Notes
External links
1886 births
1938 deaths
American musical theatre librettists
American musical theatre lyricists
People from Lake Forest, Illinois
University of Chicago alumni
People from Lynbrook, New York
Deaths from cirrhosis
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American male dramatists and playwrights
Songwriters from Illinois
20th-century American male writers |
The 1969 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the Italian midfielder Gianni Rivera (Milan) on 23 December 1969. There were 26 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Rivera became the second Italian to win the award, after Omar Sívori in 1961. He was also the first Milan player to win the trophy.
Rankings
References
External links
France Football Official Ballon d'Or page
1969
1969–70 in European football |
Cutter Garcia is an American actor. He is the voice of Torn in the Jak and Daxter video game series.
Career
Garcia has made appearances in television series such as Monk, Weeds, Pretty Little Liars, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Mom. He voiced Torn in the Jak and Daxter video game series and has done voice work in the video games Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, L.A. Noire and Benno's Great Race Interactive Ride. He was also the co-host of NIGHTSHIFT from 1992 to 1993 and the writer and producer of Yummie Creative from 2000 to 2013.
Education
Garcia attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1989 to 1994 and received his bachelor's degree in journalism.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Other
References
External links
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
American male writers
Male actors from Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni
Writers from Massachusetts
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Telovac () is a settlement in Serbia located in the municipality of Bela Palanka. According to the demographic listing from 2002 Telovac had 44 inhabitants. (according to the listing from 1991 Telovac had 81 inhabitants)
Demography
In the settlement of Telovac there are 41 inhabitants over 18 years of age, and the average age of the residents is 64.6 years (61.7 years among men and 67.5 among women). In the settlement there are 26 households, and the average number of household members is 1.69.
This settlement is entirely inhabited by Serbs (according to the demographic listing from 2002).
References
Populated places in Serbia |
To Fire Zhora, also known as Dismiss Zhora () is an upcoming Russian comedy film directed by Maryus Vaysberg, the film stars Mikhail Galustyan and Danila Kozlovsky. Also starred Yelena Fomina, Vadim Andreyev, Olga Tumaykina and other popular actors.
It is scheduled to be theatrically released in 2023.
Plot
The protagonist is a man named Maksim, a punchy provincial, devoid of moral principles, building a successful career in Moscow for the capital's recruitment agency. His duties include the dismissal of top managers of large companies. One day, Maksim receives another important task - to "get rid" of the chief programmer of the IT holding Georgy.
The hero, having evaluated the “client”, comes to the conclusion that he will “get rid of” him in a couple of days, because the 40-year-old Zhora is an example of simplicity and harmlessness. However, having got down to business, Maks is faced with unforeseen difficulties and it is not so easy to fire Zhora. The matter is complicated by the fact that Georgy has an attractive half-sister, in whom the main character begins to be actively interested. Thanks to the task of dismissing Zhora, Maks will have to go through many trials in order to understand that a career and material values are not the main thing in life.
Cast
Mikhail Galustyan as Georgy "Zhora" (English: Jora)
Danila Kozlovsky as Maksim "Maks" (English: Max)
Yelena Fomina
Vadim Andreyev
Olga Tumaykina
Natalia Bardo
Yana Koshkina
Vasilisa Makarova
Production
The director's chair was taken by Maryus Vaysberg in September 2022, the premiere of another director's project took place - a remake of the cult Soviet film by Eldar Ryazanov, Russian called The Irony of Fate in Hollywood, also in English territories titled as About Fate, it starred popular foreign films: Emma Roberts and Thomas Mann.
Vaysberg also participated in writing the script for To Fire Zhora and joined Vadim Vereshchagin as a producer. Filming of the project started at the end of August 2022 in Moscow.
References
External links
2023 films
2023 comedy films
2020s Russian-language films
Russian comedy films
Films shot in Moscow
Upcoming Russian-language films |
Turbonilla tecalco is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
References
External links
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To World Register of Marine Species
tecalco
Gastropods described in 1917 |
Acrossocheilus is a genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae, native to freshwater in China, Taiwan, Laos, and Vietnam. They are fairly small, no more than in standard length.
Species
There are currently 26 recognized species of this genus. Four species have sometimes been moved to Masticbarbus, but it has yet to be widely accepted. Some species from Southeast Asia have been moved to Neolissochilus.
Acrossocheilus aluoiensis (H. D. Nguyễn, 1997)
Acrossocheilus baolacensis V. H. Nguyễn, 2001
Acrossocheilus beijiangensis H. W. Wu & R. D. Lin, 1977
Acrossocheilus clivosius (S. Y. Lin, 1935)
Acrossocheilus fasciatus (Steindachner, 1892)
Acrossocheilus hemispinus (Nichols, 1925)
Acrossocheilus ikedai (Harada, 1943)
Acrossocheilus iridescens (Nichols & C. H. Pope, 1927)
Acrossocheilus jishouensis J. Zhao, X. L. Chen & W. W. Li, 1997
Acrossocheilus kreyenbergii (Regan, 1908)
Acrossocheilus lamus (Đ. Y. Mai, 1978)
Acrossocheilus longipinnis (H. W. Wu, 1939)
Acrossocheilus macrophthalmus V. H. Nguyễn, 2001
Acrossocheilus malacopterus E. Zhang, 2005
Acrossocheilus microstoma Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936
Acrossocheilus monticola (Günther, 1888)
Acrossocheilus multistriatus Z. J. Lan, B. P. Chan & J. Zhao, 2014
Acrossocheilus paradoxus (Günther, 1868)
Acrossocheilus parallens (Nichols, 1931)
Acrossocheilus rendahli (S. Y. Lin, 1931)
Acrossocheilus spinifer L. Y. Yuan, Z. Q. Wu & E. Zhang, 2006
Acrossocheilus wenchowensis K. F. Wang, 1935
Acrossocheilus wuyiensis S. H. Wu & H. X. Chen, 1981
Acrossocheilus xamensis Kottelat, 2000
Acrossocheilus yalyensis V. H. Nguyễn, 2001
Acrossocheilus yunnanensis (Regan, 1904)
References
Cyprinidae genera
Freshwater fish of Asia |
Xyleborus viduus is a species of typical bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.
References
Further reading
Scolytinae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Beetles described in 1878 |
Ekaterina Alexandrova defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 7–5, 6–0 to win the women's singles title at the 2022 Rosmalen Grass Court Championships. It was her second WTA Tour singles title, and Alexandrova won the title despite being two points from defeat in the first round.
Alison Riske was the defending champion from when the event was last held in 2019, but she chose to compete in Nottingham instead.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Seeds
Qualifiers
Draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
References
External links
Main draw
Libéma Open - Singles
2022 Women's Singles |