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Mikazuki (song) | 10000689-0 | Information
"Mikazuki" was originally supposed to be Ayaka's first single but was pushed back. A music video was produced before Ayaka's first single, "I Believe", was even released. The song was used as a commercial song for a chain of Japanese record stores and later used for a drama known as @Human. When the single was released, it became Ayaka's first number-one single.
Chart performance
In April 2009, when the Recording Industry Association of Japan created the RIAJ Digital Track Chart "Mikazuki" debuted at No. 40. The song charted below the Top 40s until the release of her compilation album Ayaka's History 2006–2009 on September 23, 2009, when it peaked at No. 18. On the Billboard Japan Hot 100, the song debuted at No. 60. It was certified "platinum" and a million seller by the RIAJ.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications
Charice version
In 2010, Filipino pop singer Charice, now known as Jake Zyrus, recorded an English version of the song entitled "Crescent Moon" as part of the Japanese edition of his self-titled international debut album, Charice. It was released as a promotional single in Japan on June 23, 2010 via iTunes, and is the third overall single from Charice. |
Juan Carlos Portantiero | 10000705-0 | Juan Carlos Portantiero (9 August 1934 – 9 March 2007) was an Argentine sociologist.
He graduated in Sociology in University of Buenos Aires, and went into exile during the last illegal military government (1976–1983) because of threats received. He moved into Mexico, where he founded the Controversia journal.
After the return of democracy (1983), he became one of the most respected Argentine scholars and had a direct influence on politics as an advisor to Unión Cívica Radical president Raúl Alfonsín and member of the advising team dubbed Grupo Esmeralda.
He served as dean of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences from 1990 to 1998.
Selected works
Estudios sobre los orígenes del peronismo ("Studies on the Origins of Peronism", 1970), with Miguel Murmis
Los orígenes de la sociología clásica ("Origins of Classical Sociology", 1978)
Estudiantes y política en América Latina ("Students and Politics in Latin America", 1978)
Estado y sociedad en el pensamiento clásico ("State and Society in the Classical Thinking", 1985)
Ensayos sobre la transición democrática en la Argentina ("Essays on Argentina's Democratic Transition", 1987)
''Juan B. Justo, el patriarca socialista |
Irma | 1000071-0 | Irma may refer to:
People
Irma (name), a female given name
Irma (singer), full name Irma Pany, a Cameroonian female singer-songwriter
Places
Irma, Alberta, Canada, a village
Irma, Lombardy, Italy, a comune
Irma, Wisconsin, USA, an unincorporated community
177 Irma, a fairly large and dark main belt asteroid
Brands and enterprises
Irma (supermarket), a Danish supermarket chain
IRMA board, an early interface card for PCs and Macs
Irma Hotel, a landmark built in Cody, Wyoming by "Buffalo Bill" Cody (it is still open for business as both a hotel and restaurant)
Irma Records, an Italian record label
Other uses
Irma (dog), a Dickin Medal-winning dog
Operation Irma, a series of airlifts of civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo
SS Irma (1905), a Norwegian merchant ship sunk in controversial circumstances in 1944
Tropical Storm Irma, various storms named Irma
Hurricane Irma, the 9th named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
Institute of Rural Management Anand
Irma (steamship) (sank 1911, Costa Rica) |
Sabine (crater) | 1000072-0 | Sabine ( ) is a lunar impact crater that forms a nearly matching pair with Ritter to the northwest. The two rims are separated by a distance of only a couple of kilometers. To the west is the bowl-shaped crater Schmidt, and farther to the north are Manners and Arago. Its diameter is 30 km. It was named after Irish physicist and astronomer Edward Sabine.
Description
The outer rim of this crater is roughly circular and relatively featureless. The interior floor has a pair of small craterlets and a central rise. There is a ridge at the western edge of the floor that is concentric with the inner wall.
About 85 km to the east-southeast is 'Statio Tranquillitatis' (Tranquility Base), the landing site of the Apollo 11 mission and the first human beings to step on the Moon.
Ranger 8 flew over Sabine prior to impact in Mare Tranquilitatis. |
Sabine (crater) | 1000072-1 | Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Sabine.
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU, after the three astronauts of Apollo 11.
Sabine B — See Aldrin.
Sabine D — See Collins.
Sabine E — See Armstrong.
A crater near the southeast rim of Sabine was referred to as Dark Crater by the Apollo 11 astronauts. |
The Zorcerer of Zo | 10000731-0 | System
The game uses the Prose Descriptive Qualities (PDQ) system — also used in Atomic Sock Monkey Press's Dead Inside, Truth & Justice, and Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot, as well as the second edition of Ninja Burger — simplified to increase the flexibility and simplicity required for telling whimsical tales of magic and fairies. PDQ offers three different levels of task resolution for any situation, in order to let players resolve encounters in as much or as little detail as possible.
PDQ also has three system elements of general interest: an abstracted system for damage or failure in conflicts, a method for generating future game events (or "Story Hooks") by taking damage, and a player-driven Hero Point system.
The core mechanic is to add 2d6 plus a freeform stat or set of stats, and compare to a difficulty number either a fixed difficulty number or the opponent's roll. In conflicts, the amount which you beat another character's roll by is the amount of damage or failure ranks (see below). Stats are rated in five named ranks: Poor [-2], Average [+0], Good [+2], Expert [+4], and Master [+6]. |
The Zorcerer of Zo | 10000731-1 | Compared to the standard PDQ system, ZoZ streamlines character creation, magic, and conflict resolution.
Setting
The whole of the first chapter of The Zorcerer of Zo consists of a discussion and analysis of the fairy tales genre and how aspects of it can be implemented in an RPG. Topics addressed include Fairytale Elements, Fairytale Settings (The Kingdom Entire, Otherworldly Visitors), Talking Animals & Living Objects, Fairytale Magic, Happily Ever Afters, Fairytale Tone: Nice vs. Neutral vs. Nasty, Fairytale & Nursery Rhyme Adventures, and an extensive bibliography, filmography, and list of games. |
The Zorcerer of Zo | 10000731-2 | Chapter 3 is an overview of the game system, where the rules have been simplified even from the basic PDQ system to support unfettered play, and Chapter 4 details character creation with numerous examples. These sections contain valuable advice for including children of varying ages in the game. Chapter 5 contains game master (GM) advice and techniques to foster a fairytale-like quality when creating and running stories.
The last two sections, as well as a substantial appendix, detail an example of campaign creation and play, from the initial pitch to the "Happily Ever After" conclusion. These sections include GM and player comments that give insight on how a group can produce satisfying, in-genre stories.
History
The game was originally published in PDF and Print on Demand format in November 2006, and a print version became available through distributed retail in December 2006.
Awards
The Zorcerer of Zo won the Outie Award for Best New RPG of 2006.
Reviews |
Secchi (lunar crater) | 1000074-0 | Secchi is a small lunar impact crater formation on the northwest edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It was named after the 19th-century Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi. To the northeast is the crater Taruntius. The western rim is joined with a section of the minor Montes Secchi range. The rim of this crater has been opened in the northern and southern ends, leaving two curved ridges facing each other across the crater floor. To the south is a pair of rilles designated the Rimae Secchi. These lie near the edge of the mare, and have a combined length of about 40 kilometers.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Secchi. |
Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award | 10000745-0 | Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award is presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association every third year to recognize the best book written in English in the field of library history, including the history of libraries, librarianship, and book culture.
The award is named after Eliza Atkins Gleason, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in librarianship in 1940. Her Ph.D. was earned at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School under advisor, Carleton B. Joeckel. The dissertation was revised and published in 1941 by the University of Chicago Press as The Southern Negro and the Public Library; a Study of the Government and Administration of Public Library Service to Negroes in the South.
The Library History Round Table also sponsors the Justin Winsor Prize (library).
The Library History Round Table, was established in 1947. Historical articles appeared on the 50th anniversary in the journal, Libraries & Culture and the 75th in the journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society . |
William Cleland (poet) | 1000076-0 | William Cleland (c. 166121 August 1689) was a Scottish poet and soldier.
William was the son of Thomas Cleland, gamekeeper to the Marquess of Douglas, chief of the House of Douglas. He was probably brought up on the Douglas estate, centred at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, and was educated at St Andrew's University. Immediately on leaving college he joined the army of the Covenanters, and was present at the Battle of Drumclog, where, says Robert Wodrow, some attributed to Cleland the manoeuvre which led to the victory. |
William Cleland (poet) | 1000076-1 | He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Cameronian regiment raised from the Marquess' tenantry and a minority of the western Covenanters who consented to serve under William II. The Cameronians were entrusted with the defence of Dunkeld, which they held against the fierce assault of the Jacobites on 21 August at the Battle of Dunkeld where William Cleland was killed. His Major was wounded and the command fell to George Munro. The defeat of the Jacobites at Dunkeld ended the Jacobite rising, but Cleland fell in the struggle from gunshot wounds to the head and liver.
His Collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions was published posthumously in 1697. Of Hullo, my fancie, whither wilt thou go? only the last nine stanzas are by Cleland. His poems have small literary merit, and are written, not in pure Lowland Scots, but in English. with a large admixture of Scottish words. The longest and most important of them are the mock poems On the Expedition of the Highland Host who came to destroy the western shires in winter 1678 and On the clergie when they met to consult about taking the Test in the year 1681. |
Film Ventures International | 10000773-0 | Film Ventures International (FVI) was an independent film production and distribution company originally located in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1970s. FVI garnered a notorious reputation within the industry for producing films that were highly derivative of many blockbusters of the era. The company mainly specialized in producing and distributing B movies and horror fare.
History
The entrepreneur who spearheaded the company was Edward L. Montoro. He wrote, directed, and produced the company's first feature film Getting Into Heaven in 1968. The adult film was made for $13,000 and grossed almost 20 times its cost. |
Film Ventures International | 10000773-1 | FVI acquired Beyond the Door for $100,000 and the film went on to earn $9 million at the box office, making it one of the most successful independent releases of that year. Detailing a woman possessed by a demon, Beyond the Door was labeled a rip-off of The Exorcist. Warner Bros. promptly filed a lawsuit, claiming copyright infringement. The lawsuit failed after it was determined Warner Bros. had no rights to key horror scenes depicted in The Exorcist.
FVI produced and distributed Grizzly in 1976, one of the first of the Jaws imitations. Montoro financed the film for $750,000 and it was directed by William Girdler. Grizzly was a surprise hit, earning more than $39 million and becoming the most financially successful independent film of 1976. Montoro decided to keep the profits for himself, resulting in a lawsuit against FVI by Girdler and producer/screenwriters Harvey Flaxman and David Sheldon. FVI eventually returned the profits to the filmmakers. Montoro's FVI worked with Girdler on the animal horror thriller Day of the Animals the following year, though this collaboration did not achieve the success of Grizzly. |
Film Ventures International | 10000773-2 | Demise
In 1980, FVI acquired the rights to the Italian film Great White, a thinly veiled Jaws rip-off starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow. Montoro and FVI spent over $4 million in advertising in the U.S., but Universal Pictures promptly filed a lawsuit, claiming that the film was too derivative of Jaws. Universal won the lawsuit and Great White was pulled from the theaters after just one week of release. The failure of Great White was a major monetary loss for FVI. |
Film Ventures International | 10000773-3 | In 1987, Film Ventures International attempted to return to film production with a co-venture of April Films to set up a film project called The Prank, and received a three-picture co-production deal over the next 12 months and with the acquisition of co-production and distribution of other ventures, after becoming a subsidiary of INI Entertainment Group (at that time it was called Independent Network Inc.). That year, Film Ventures International acquired the rights to two feature films, namely Operation: Take No Prisoners and Phantom Empire, two of the action films that were churned out for a ten-picture acquisition and in-house production blueprint for the next twelve months, slated to go through 1988.
In other media
Some of their films, including fan favorites Pod People and Cave Dwellers, were eventually riffed by the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. |
Silberschlag (crater) | 1000079-0 | Silberschlag is a small, circular Impact crater in the central portion of the Moon. It was named after German astronomer Johann Silberschlag. It lies between the craters Agrippa to the southwest and Julius Caesar to the northeast. Silberschlag is bowl-shaped and is joined at the northern rim by a small ridge.
Just to the north is the prominent Rima Ariadaeus, a wide, linear rille that runs toward the east-southeast. This cleft is about 220 kilometers in length, and continues to the edge of Mare Tranquillitatis to the east.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Silberschlag. |
List of Desert Island Discs episodes | 10000791-0 | The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely. The rules state that the chosen luxury item must not be anything animate or indeed anything that enables the castaway to escape from the island, for instance a radio set, sailing yacht or aeroplane. The choices of book and luxury can sometimes give insight into the guest's life, and the choices of guests are listed here. |
List of Desert Island Discs episodes | 10000791-1 | From mid-2011 selected episodes have been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and also on BBC6 Music. The episodes on BBC Radio 4 Extra have included some 60-minute versions of the show; many of these open with additional lead-in and lead-outs from presenter Kirsty Young, often featuring sections of other interview footage or recordings featuring the guest of the episode in question. Some, but not all, of these extended versions, also feature extended in-programme material not used on the original broadcast. Episodes repeated on BBC6 are those concerning musicians and figures in the music industry.
1942–1946: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1942–1946)
1951–1960: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–1960)
1961–1970: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–1970)
1971–1980: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1971–1980)
1981–1990: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–1990)
1991–2000: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1991–2000)
2001–2010: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–2010)
2011–2020: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2011–2020)
2021–present: List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2021–present) |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-0 | The Valley is a 27,111 capacity sports stadium in Charlton, London, England and has been the home of Charlton Athletic Football Club since the 1920s, with a period of exile between 1985 and 1992. It is served by Charlton railway station, which is less than a five-minute walk away from the stadium. An alternative route is the Jubilee line; exiting at North Greenwich, and changing for route 161, 472 and 486 buses, which stop outside the stadium. |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-1 | History In the 1923–24 season, Charlton played at The Mount stadium in Catford but in a much more highly populated area. A proposed merger with Catford South End FC fell through and thus Charlton moved back to the Valley.
In 1967, Len Silver the promoter at Hackney made an application to open Charlton as a British League speedway club, and plans were put forward to construct a track around the perimeter of the football pitch. The application to include speedway at the Valley was enthusiastically supported initially, but was eventually ruled out on the grounds of noise nuisance.
For many years, the Valley was one of the largest Football League grounds in Britain, although its highest maximum capacity of 75,000 was only half the capacity of Glasgow's Hampden Park. However, Charlton's long absence from the top level of English football prevented much-needed renovation, as funds dried up and attendances fell. Charlton were relegated from the First Division in 1957 and did not return until 1986, and in 1972 were relegated to the Third Division for the first time in the postwar era. |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-2 | In 1988, the ownership of the club and the Valley was again united, and in a "grass roots" effort that harkened back to the ground's initial construction, thousands of supporters volunteered to clean the ground, eventually burning the debris in a huge bonfire on the pitch. By this time, however, the large terraces were no longer seen as desirable or safe. Charlton Athletic supporters then proposed to completely rebuild the stadium in order for Charlton to return there at the beginning of the 1990s. However, the Greenwich Borough Council overwhelmingly turned down plans to renovate the ground. Club supporters formed their own local political party, the Valley Party, in response to the council's decision. The party ran candidates for all but two Greenwich Council seats, sparing the two councillors who had approved the new stadium plans. The party won almost 15,000 votes in the 1990 local elections, successfully pressuring the council to approve the plans for the new stadium. |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-3 | In 2004 the Unity Cup was held at the Valley with Nigeria winning the competition.
Charlton's former owner Roland Duchâtelet retained ownership of The Valley after selling the football club in 2020; subsequent owner Thomas Sandgaard negotiated a lease for the club to use the stadium until January 2035.
On 24 September 2022, the Valley held a charity match hosted by the YouTube group Sidemen against other major YouTube personalities who formed the YouTube All-Stars, most notably Darren Watkins, also known as IShowSpeed, with Mark Clattenburg as the match referee. The match, the Sidemen's third one at the Valley, ended 8-7 for the Sidemen and raised over £1,000,000 split between the Teenage Cancer Trust, CALM, Rays of Sunshine and M7 Education charities. |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-4 | Stands
The Covered End
Capacity: 9,743
The North Stand was built as a replacement for the 'covered end', and is still called by this name. It was built during the 2001–02 season as part of the developments to bring the Valley's capacity to 26,500 after promotion to the Premier League in 2000. The North Stand houses the most vocal supporters in the ground in particular the upper tier alongside a drum, along with restaurants and executive suites.
A safe standing area will be installed in the Covered End Upper ahead of Charlton's 2024-25 season, it will have a capacity of 1,064. The club has also received provisional permission to install a safe standing area in the Covered End Lower.
Alan Curbishley Stand |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-5 | Capacity: 5,802 West Stand
Capacity: 8,097
The West Stand was built in 1998 after Charlton's first promotion to the Premier League and is also two tiered. This is the main stand at the Valley with the largest capacity, and also houses the club's offices, as well as the director's box, board room dug-outs, changing rooms and the commercial centre (ticket office). There are also many conferencing rooms in this stand which are used for official and community events. There is a large statue of Sam Bartram, (considered to be Charlton's finest player) at the entrance of the West Stand.
Jimmy Seed Stand |
The Valley (stadium) | 1000081-6 | Capacity: 3,469 Details
Records
Loudest rock concert ever: The Who, 31 May 1976 – 126 db, measured at a distance of from the speakers
Record attendance: 75,031 v. Aston Villa, 12 February 1938 (FA Cup Fifth Round)
Record league attendance: 68,160 v. Arsenal, 17 October 1936 (Football League First Division) - (Arsenal won, 2-0, and Denis Compton scored one goal)
Record all-seater attendance: 27,111 v Chelsea, 17 September 2005; v. Tottenham Hotspur, 1 October 2005; v. Liverpool, 16 December 2006; v. Chelsea, 3 February 2007; v West Ham United, 24 February 2007; v. Sheffield United, 21 April 2007 (all Premier League)
Average attendances
The Valley's highest average attendance came in the 1948–49 season when crowds averaged 40,216, making Charlton one of only thirteen clubs in English football to achieve a seasonal average of 40,000+. The Valley's lowest average attendance is 5,108 from the 1984–85 season.
Highest
Lowest
Average attendance for every season since 1993–94, the first full season since Charlton returned to the Valley.
*Last 5 home matches played behind close doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
**Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all home matches were played behind closed doors except for two matches which had limited crowds. |
William Francis Gibbs | 10000812-0 | William Francis Gibbs (August 24, 1886 – September 6, 1967) was an American naval architect of the mid-twentieth century.
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Gibbs brothers were among the promoters leading the United States government and military to subsidize the cost of building the ultimate ocean liner. In the end, Gibbs and Cox was awarded the contract to design and supervise the building of SS United States, which entered service in 1952. While in the class of the largest liners, it was much lighter and considerably faster than contemporary vessels. It was built with a high emphasis on safety, using a minimum of flammable materials.
Early years
Gibbs was born in Philadelphia on August 24, 1886, to financier William Warren Gibbs and Frances Ayres (Johnson) Gibbs. He graduated from the DeLancey School in 1905 then entered Harvard College where he followed his own curriculum of science and engineering, studying plans of British battleships in his dormitory room. He left without a degree in 1910. He then attended Columbia Law School from 1911 to 1913, receiving a Bachelor of Law and Master of Arts in economics, both in 1913. At his father's request, he practiced law for the next two years. |
William Francis Gibbs | 10000812-1 | Gibbs & Cox
In February 1922 the Gibbs brothers started their own naval architecture firm, Gibbs Brothers, Inc.; their first major contract was to convert the former German liner Vaterland into the American luxury liner . When shipbuilders Blohm + Voss asked over $1 million for the original plans, Gibbs decided to draw his own. Between 100 and 150 draftsmen documented the existing ship and designed its new layout. Gibbs Brothers was renamed Gibbs & Cox in 1929.
The Gibbs designed a series of four trim white-hulled ocean liners for the Matson Lines service to Hawaii, starting with the design of in 1924. Malolo was built at William Cramp & Sons under the Gibbs Brothers' exacting supervision and tolerances. At the time she was launched, Malolo was the largest and fastest passenger liner built in the United States. During sea trials in May 1927, Malolo was rammed by ; the Gibbs brothers' modern design and safety features were credited with keeping the disabled ship afloat while she was towed back to the yard. Three sister ships to Malolo would be built in the 1930s: and in 1931 and in 1932. |
William Francis Gibbs | 10000812-2 | During the war, Gibbs & Cox created plans for thousands of American warships and cargo vessels, including destroyers, LST landing craft, minesweepers, tankers, cruisers, and Liberty ships. Between 1940 through 1946, 63 per cent of all merchant ships of 2,000 tons up and 74 per cent of all American naval vessels (destroyers, landing craft, escort carriers, etc.) were built to the designs or working plans of Gibbs & Cox.
After the war, the Gibbs brothers were among the promoters for the US government and military to subsidize the construction and operation of a new 1,000-foot ocean liner. After overcoming resistance in the Truman administration for government involvement and competing designs, Gibbs & Cox was awarded the contract to design and supervise the construction of the . This ship was the culmination of Gibbs career, and he was fastidious in the incorporation of fire safety concepts, to the point that the United States surpassed most present day passenger ships in fire prevention and containment. The design was also revolutionary in the use of lightweight materials and construction techniques, including a welded hull and aluminum superstructure. While rivaling the largest liners for physical size, she was much lighter, enabling higher speeds. |
William Francis Gibbs | 10000812-3 | In remarks accepting the Franklin Medal for his work in designing the United States, after recounting the ship's many achievements and the efforts of so many in making those achievements possible, Gibbs stated "My sole contribution in this performance is the fact that I took the responsibility for failure."
Later years
In 1953 Gibbs was awarded the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal. In 1955 he was awarded the first Elmer A. Sperry Award. He died in New York City on September 6, 1967, two weeks after his 81st birthday.
Fulton-Gibbs Hall, the marine engineering building at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, is named in honor or Gibbs, along with Robert Fulton. The Gibbs Brothers Medal, awarded by the United States National Academy of Sciences for outstanding contributions in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, was established by a gift from Gibbs and his brother. |
William Gibbs | 10000819-0 | William Gibbs may refer to:
People
William Gibbs (Australian politician) (1879–1944), Australian Senator
William Gibbs (businessman) (1790–1875), English businessman who developed Tyntesfield
William Gibbs (New Zealand politician) (1817–1897), New Zealand MP
William Gibbs (schoolboy) (1865–1877), British boy who committed suicide, causing a government inquiry
William B. Gibbs Jr. (1905–1984), American educator and activist
William C. Gibbs (1789–1871), Governor of Rhode Island from 1821 to 1824
William D. Gibbs (1869–1944), president of what became the University of New Hampshire, USA
William Edward Gibbs (1890–1934), British chemical engineer
William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), American naval architect
William F. Gibbs (1895–1987), American businessman, politician, and farmer
William Henry Gibbs (1823–1902), Canadian politician
Other uses
William Gibbs School for Girls, Faversham, Kent, England
William Gibbs House, a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
Llanwddyn | 10000850-0 | Llanwddyn () is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. The community is centred on the Lake Vyrnwy reservoir. The original Llanwddyn village, about northwest, was submerged when the reservoir was created in the 1880s.
Geography
Llanwddyn borders the county of Gwynedd to the northeast, with the Powys communities of Llangynog and Pen-y-Bont-Fawr to the northwest, Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa to the south east and Banwy to the southwest. The community is sparsely populated, but includes the village of Abertridwr as well as the new village of Llanwddyn. |
Llanwddyn | 10000850-1 | In 2011, only 38% of the population could speak Welsh, a decline from 60% in 2001.
Lake Vyrnwy
The main feature of the community is the reservoir, which drowned the original village when it was created in the 1880s.
Climate
History
By the mid-19th century the village of Llanwddyn consisted of thirty seven houses, a church and two chapels, three pubs and several shops. The population of the parish had dropped from 668 in 1831 to 443 in 1871. In 1873 the local vicar, Reverend Thomas H. Evans, published a mass of information about Llanwddyn in Volume VI of the Montgomeryshire Collections. He described the abundance of water with, for example, one third of the valley being regularly under water during the winter.
In 1877 the expanding English city of Liverpool identified the Vyrnwy Valley as a suitable site for a reservoir to supply fresh water to its citizens. A parliamentary bill was drawn up to authorise the construction of a dam and reservoir. The population of Llanwddyn were not consulted, though they presented a signed petition against the proposals. |
Llanwddyn | 10000850-2 | A new village was constructed below the dam to house the original residents. It included a church, dedicated to St Wddyn, which was consecrated on 27 November 1888, the day before the valve of the dam was finally closed. A hydroelectric power plant was built for the village in 1902. The reservoir brought jobs and relative prosperity to the community, with the population remaining relatively stable for the next 70 years.
In 1974, ownership of the estate passed from the Liverpool Corporation to the Severn Trent Water Authority .
Governance
Llanwddyn has a community council which has up to seven locally elected councillors.
Llanwddyn also gives its name to the Llanwddyn electoral ward which elects a councillor to Powys County Council. At the May 2017 council election Bryn Davies won Llanwddyn as Plaid Cymru's first seat on Powys Council.
Cultural references
The flooding of Llanwyddn is referenced in W.G. Sebald's 2001 novel Austerlitz; the titular character is disturbed and affected by his imagining of the drowned village after being shown the Vynrwy reservoir by his adoptive father, who was born there. |
Sosigenes (crater) | 1000088-0 | Sosigenes is a lunar impact crater on the west edge of Mare Tranquillitatis. Its diameter is 17 km. It was named after ancient Greek astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria. It lies to the east of the large walled plain Julius Caesar. The crater rim has a high albedo, making it relatively bright. It has a small central rise at the midpoint of the floor.
To the east on the mare is a formation of parallel rilles designated the Rimae Sosigenes. These follow a course to the north, and have a length of about 150 kilometers. The small, bowl-shaped crater Sosignes A lies across one of these rilles.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Sosigenes. |
Incident response team | 10000895-0 | Incident response team members ideally are trained and prepared to fulfill the roles required by the specific situation (for example, to serve as incident commander in the event of a large-scale public emergency). As the size of an incident grows, and as more resources are drawn into the event, the command of the situation may shift through several phases. In a small-scale event, usually only a volunteer or ad hoc team may respond. In events, both large and small, both specific member and ad hoc teams may work jointly in a unified command system. Individual team members can be trained in various aspects of the response, either be it medical assistance/first aid, hazardous material spills, hostage situations, information systems attacks or disaster relief. Ideally the team has already defined a protocol or set of actions to perform to mitigate the negative effects of the incident. |
Incident response team | 10000895-1 | Examples of incidents The other type is organizational: this would be an incident that happens on a smaller scale and affects mostly just single company or organization. Examples of organizational incidents can include: bomb threats, computer incidents such as theft or accidental exposure of sensitive data, exposure of intellectual property or trade secrets, and product contamination.
Incident response teams
Predefined roles are typically filled with individuals who are formally trained and on standby at all times, during scheduled hours. These teams are organized by ranks with a clearly defined chain of command. Examples include:
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT): Originating in the 1960s in the city of Los Angeles, California, USA. SWAT is a small, well-armed, and well trained, tactical unit that is designed to deal with overly dangerous situations as quickly as possible. Officer John G. Nelson was the LA police officer who proposed the idea of this specialized unit as a way to counter the recent wide spread sniper attacks that had been occurring around the nation. |
Incident response team | 10000895-2 | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): The FBI is the United States' highest ranking form of law enforcement. It deals with terrorist activity, federal offenses, national security, and investigating organized criminal activity. The FBI was created in 1908 through the efforts of President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles Bonaparte. Starting off as an undermanned team of 34 agents specializing in tracking down criminals who had evaded state law enforcement, the bureau eventually grew and took on more responsibility. This significant role change came to the forefront during World War I where they began working in the likes of counterespionage, selective service, and sabotage. In more recent years, with the threat of terrorism looming in the United States, the FBI has become the leading investigator of terrorist activity, and has even created internal special task forces to investigate such matters, known as JTTFs. |
Incident response team | 10000895-3 | Hazardous Materials Management (HAZMAT): Working for the United States Department of Defense, HAZMAT was created to respond and clean up hazardous materials. The materials that this organization can deal with include: gases, vapors, liquids, or any other material that can be categorized as a health or physical hazard by the OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.1200. This response team is often associated with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association), due to their reliance on the standards that have been put into place by these two organizations.
Emergency medical technician (EMT): Emergency medical technicians are the people who drive and work inside of ambulances or, in more serious cases, helicopters (e.g. medflight). They are expected to be trained in basic medical care, such as resuscitating and stabilizing patients, and are also expected to be able to safely transport patients from the scene of the incident to a hospital so that victims can receive proper care. |
Incident response team | 10000895-4 | Police: Police officers, also known as law enforcement officers, are the most basic form of emergency respondents. They respond to incidents that can range from domestic disputes to natural disasters to terrorist attacks. Law enforcement departments were created to establish peace and order in society by investigating crimes, enforcing the laws in place, and punishing those who break these laws. There are many different fields of police, these include: uniformed officers (i.e. the common local police officer), special jurisdiction police (e.g. campus police), sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, state police officers, specialized assignments (e.g. SWAT), detectives, and game wardens.
Volunteer and ad hoc teams |
Incident response team | 10000895-5 | Campus Response: Campus response teams are groups of individuals that get together to form a team to help ensure the safety and protection of their fellow students on a university, or other school campus. Many universities around the world encourage their students to be active in this type of organization to keep students aware of the dangers on campus and help respond to incidents that happen. Members of campus response teams normally train in CPR and other types of basic first aid, as well as what to do until proper respondents can arrive on the scene.
St. John Ambulance: The St. John Ambulance Association, created to teach volunteers how to perform basic first aid, was founded in 1877 in the United Kingdom. Since then, the organization has spread around the world. Now having multiple volunteer groups in numerous countries such as: United States, New Zealand, and Canada. |
Incident response team | 10000895-6 | Community emergency response team (CERT): CERT, or Community Emergency Response Team, is a governmental program in the United States that is designed to allow citizens to sign up to learn the skills they need to be able to assist themselves and their peers in the event of a disaster. The program gives lessons in things such as fire safety, search and rescue, basic medical/first aid skills, etc. Volunteers are also encouraged to actively be a part of the community emergency preparedness planning so that they can be more involved, but also so that they can establish a relationship with the professional emergency respondents that they will work beside during a disaster. CERT offers a few different types of programs- Teen, Campus, and Workplace. There is CERT Basic Training available for community members who wish to be educated and help in emergency situations. This training educates volunteers in the hazards that could affect their specific area. The basic training is backed up by research and will guide members to be leaders in their community and prepare them for what to do before, during, and after an emergency situation. |
Charles Lee Lewes | 1000092-0 | Charles Lee Lewes (1740 – 13 July 1803) was an English actor.
Biography
He remained a member of the Covent Garden company until 1783, appearing in many parts, among which were Fag in The Rivals, which he created, and Sir Anthony Absolute in the same comedy. In 1783 he removed to Drury Lane, where he assumed the Shakespearian rôles of Touchstone, Lucio, and Falstaff. In 1787 he left London for Edinburgh, where he gave recitations, including Cowper's "John Gilpin". For a short time in 1792 Lewes assisted Stephen Kemble in the management of the Dundee Repertory Theatre; in the following year he went to Dublin, but he was financially unsuccessful and suffered imprisonment for debt. He employed his time in compiling his memoirs, published after his death by his son. He was also the author of some dramatic sketches. Lewes was three times married; the philosopher George Henry Lewes was his grandson.
Works
Comic Sketches (London: H.D. Symonds, 1804)
Memoirs (London: Richard Phillips, 1805)
Family
Charles Lee Lewes was also the name of George Henry Lewes' eldest son, who curated his father's extensive library upon the latter's death in 1878. |
Category (Kant) | 10000937-0 | Meaning of "category"
The word comes from the Greek κατηγορία, katēgoria, meaning "that which can be said, predicated, or publicly declared and asserted, about something." A category is an attribute, property, quality, or characteristic that can be predicated of a thing. "…I remark concerning the categories…that their logical employment consists in their use as predicates of objects." Kant called them "ontological predicates."
A category is that which can be said of everything in general, that is, of anything that is an object. John Stuart Mill wrote: "The Categories, or Predicaments—the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language—were believed to be an enumeration of all things capable of being named, an enumeration by the summa genera (highest kind), i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed, which, therefore, were so many highest Predicates, one or other of which was supposed capable of being affirmed with truth of every nameable thing whatsoever." |
Category (Kant) | 10000937-1 | The Categories do not provide knowledge of individual, particular objects. Any object, however, must have Categories as its characteristics if it is to be an object of experience. It is presupposed or assumed that anything that is a specific object must possess Categories as its properties because Categories are predicates of an object in general. An object in general does not have all of the Categories as predicates at one time. For example, a general object cannot have the qualitative Categories of reality and negation at the same time. Similarly, an object in general cannot have both unity and plurality as quantitative predicates at once. The Categories of Modality exclude each other. Therefore, a general object cannot simultaneously have the Categories of possibility/impossibility and existence/non–existence as qualities. |
Category (Kant) | 10000937-2 | The table of judgments
Kant believed that the ability of the human understanding (German: Verstand, Greek: dianoia "διάνοια", Latin: ratio) to think about and know an object is the same as the making of a spoken or written judgment about an object. According to him, "Our ability to judge is equivalent to our ability to think."
A judgment is the thought that a thing is known to have a certain quality or attribute. For example, the sentence "The rose is red" is a judgment. Kant created a table of the forms of such judgments as they relate to all objects in general.
This table of judgments was used by Kant as a model for the table of categories. Taken together, these twelvefold tables constitute the formal structure for Kant's architectonic conception of his philosophical system.
The table of categories
Schemata
Categories are entirely different from the appearances of objects. According to Kant, in order to relate to specific phenomena, categories must be "applied" through time. The way that this is done is called a schema. |
Dionisio Arce | 10000946-0 | Dionisio Arce (14 June 1927 – 5 November 2000) was a Paraguayan footballer.
Arce played as a forward and was known for his ability to handle the ball and heading skills. He started playing for Paraguayan side Sportivo Luqueño before moving to Italy to play for several teams until the end of his career. He died in 2000, in the city of Bracciano. |
Tu Ángel de la Guarda | 10000971-0 | Tu Ángel de la Guarda (Your guardian angel) is Gloria Trevi's second album, and it contained one of her signature songs and her most widely known hit, "Pelo Suelto". It also contained other hit songs such as "Tu angel de la guarda", "Ya no", "Virgen de las virgenes", and "Hoy me ire de casa". This album was very controversial different from other artists' albums such as Lucero. "Virgen de las virgenes" mocked girls who said they were virgins but had actually lost their virginity, and "¡Ya no!" went against the machismo movement of México. Following the release of the album, Gloria was working hard in promoting radio, television and print media. Trevi first traveled abroad visiting American Union countries, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and received a Gold and Platinum for high sales achieved.
This album sold around 2,800,000 copies in Mexico, which was ranked tenth of the best selling albums of all time in the country.
Track listing
Singles
"Pelo suelto"
"Tu ángel de la guarda"
"Agárrate"
"Hoy me iré de casa" |
2006 SEC men's basketball tournament | 10000974-0 | The 2006 SEC men's basketball tournament took place from March 9–12, 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. The SEC Championship Game was televised by CBS.
The top two teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions received byes in the first round, which were Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, and Florida and played their second round games on March 10, 2006. The SEC Tournament winner (Florida) received the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament en route to winning the 2006 NCAA National Championship.
Final SEC Regular Season Standings |
1981 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's overall | 10000977-0 | Men's overall World Cup 1980/1981
Final point standings
In men's overall World Cup 1980/81 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms, best five slaloms and best three combined count. |
USS Pensacola (AK-7) | 10000998-0 | USS Pensacola (AK-7/AG-13) was a cargo ship in the United States Navy.
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transport Service in January 1918, Pensacola carried supplies from the United States to French and British ports. Returning from Brest to Philadelphia on 2 December 1918, she steamed to New York and sailed for Turkey on 25 January 1919 with a cargo for the Syrian-Armenian Relief, arriving at Constantinople on 12 March. Following her return to the United States on 15 April, Pensacola carried passengers and cargo to bases in the Caribbean. Returning to Norfolk on 9 June 1919, she was reassigned to the Navy Trans-Pacific transport service.
She operated in the Pacific until becoming a station ship at Guam 15 March 1922. Classified AK-7 (Cargo Ship) on 17 July 1920, Pensacola was reclassified AG-13 (Miscellaneous Auxiliary) on 26 June 1922.
She decommissioned at Mare Island, California on 14 March 1925, was struck from the Navy Register the same day, and was sold to M. Davidson of Stockton, California, on 5 August 1925. |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-0 | Early years
RAF Lindholme started life as an expansion scheme aerodrome built on the wide expanse of Hatfield moors, some east of Doncaster. The site, to the east of the A614 Thorne to Bawtry road, was a mile south of the small village of Hatfield Woodhouse, the name first selected for the new station, however, stores and correspondence was getting waylaid between the station and Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire, so in August 1940, the name was changed to Lindholme. Work began in the spring of 1938 taking in approximately of pasture for the airfield itself and a further 150 for the camp and support facilities.
Three Type-C hangars fronted the south-west side of the bombing circle, with a fourth and fifth behind the two outer hangars. The administration, technical and barrack area lay alongside the A614. As was common with these expansion scheme airfields, the construction of buildings took place over several months and the pace was only quickened by the outbreak of war. It officially opened in June 1940 under No.5 Group, No. 50 Squadron RAF and its Hampdens arrived the following month. |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-1 | During the first two years of war, a bomb store had been constructed on the far side of the A614 as had a taxi spur with three pan hardstandings. A perimeter track and over 30 pan hardstandings had also been built during this period. By 1942 Lindholme was due for upgrading and the construction of concrete runways was put in hand. However, extension of the airfield was somewhat restricted by the Hatfield Moor Drain on the eastern boundary but more land was acquired to the north necessitating the closure of two roads, one to the hamlet of Lindholme. Because of these physical restrictions, only two runways were built, 14–32 and 04–22, both of which were extended to and respectively. A new bomb store was fashioned on land to the north of the station, which resulted in obstruction of seven pan dispersal points. Two others were lost due to the construction of a new perimeter track. Even so, the station ended up with 41 pans and one loop type. A few additional camp sites were added to the south of the main area giving the station maximum accommodation for 2,192 men and 365 females. |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-2 | Heavy Conversion Unit 1946 – 1980
The immediate post-war years found Nos.57 and 100 Squadrons with their Lincolns in residence from May to September 1946. Wellingtons joined Lindholme with No. 5 Air Navigation School Wellington T.10s, Avro Ansons, and also 3 Vickers Valettas, coded A, B, and C.
In November 1952 things changed quite dramatically, when Bomber Command Bombing School (BCBS) arrived from RAF Scampton, using up to 18 Lincolns and 8 Varsities. In addition in 1958 there was an Anson C19 (serial VM387), and also the first Hastings arrived – TG503.
BCBS reduced in size quite dramatically in 1959 and 1960 and in the latter year there seemed to be only 4 Lincolns left, but this type was being replaced by Hastings. All the Lincolns had gone by 1961, with 8 Hastings, including the forerunner TG503, having replaced them. |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-3 | By 1968 the Bomber Command Bombing School had become Strike Command Bombing School and in 1972 moved out.
Hangars were used for storage by a USAF detachment during the height of the Cold War and later for various RAF ground units and Strike Command stores, where parts for front-line aircraft were stored.
Lindholme also had an interesting approach pattern with a visual circuit of 800 feet. This was so that the approach did not interfere with the approach for neighbouring RAF Finningley's runway 20.
During the late 1950s a site was built (later to become Northern Radar) to house the Type 82 radar and operational control building that controlled three air defence Bristol Bloodhound SAM 1 missile sites distributed within a 25-mile radius of the site. The site was part of the Fighter Command air defence network and was called a Tactical Control Centre (TCC). It became operational around 1961 and undertook these tasks for the duration of the SAM 1 missile life span before going over to area radar control functions. There were similar sites at RAF North Luffenham (Rutland) and RAF Watton (Norfolk). |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-4 | Northern Radar Northern Radar was a JATCRU (Joint Air Traffic Control Radar Unit) located at the RAF Lindholme site but housed discretely on the opposite side of the A614 road to the airfield. Northern Radar was one of a number of JATCRUs around the UK whose civil task were to provide area radar cover for the then three area Air Traffic Control Centres (ATCCs), Scottish (located at Redbrae House, Prestwick), Preston (Barton Hall), and London (at West Drayton). JATCRUs were created to provide this area radar cover as the ATCCs did not have radar facilities and were purely procedural control centres. The JATCRUs were located at RAF units using civil and military staff and radio communications, but military radar.
Other JATCRUs in the UK included Southern Radar at Sopley near Bournemouth, Western Radar at Aberporth in Wales, Ulster Radar at Bishops Court in Northern Ireland, Eastern Radar at Watton in East Anglia, Border Radar at Boulmer in the Northeast of England, Highland Radar at Buchan in the North of Scotland and Midland Radar at North Luffenham in Rutland. All of which came under the control of Military Air Traffic Operations (MATO). |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-5 | The site had a Type 82 Radar installation (known as Orange Yeoman) but it also had remote links to other military radar heads.
Latter years
From the mid 1960s to the early 1970s, Lindholme was used as a weekend gliding airfield by the Humber gliding club, a member of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association. It was used extensively by the Sheffield Scouting movement as a base for gliding activities to attain Scout airman badges.
By 1980, Lindholme had been reduced to the status of a relief landing ground for RAF Finningley.
In 1974, RAF Lindholme became home to 643 Gliding School Air Training Corps, who moved in from RAF Hemswell on 1 April. They operated winch-launched Cadet Mk 3 and Sedbergh gliders, conducting air experience and glider pilot training for Air Cadets. 643 GS remained at Lindholme until the airfield closed in 1982, whereupon they moved to RAF Scampton.
By 1985, the whole camp was sold and turned into HM Prison Lindholme. |
RAF Lindholme | 10001001-6 | Before installation at Lindholme this TARE, one of two, had been installed in transportable cabins, originally destined for RAF Gan (Maldives) or RAF Episkopi (Cyprus). Though hardstandings were constructed at the intended sites the cabins were never deployed, having been overtaken by defence cuts. The TAREs were stored and then removed from the cabins. The first was installed at RAF Boddington as No 9 Signals Unit, and the second eventually arrived at Lindholme. The opening of 840 Signals unit allowed the RAF to close the Signals unit at RAF Stanbridge and sell off a large part of that site. It also gave the Defence Communications Network much-needed diversity by providing a third TARE (RAF Rudloe Manor and RAF Boddington being the others) at a critical point in the Cold War. The unit was commanded by a Squadron Leader of the Engineering Branch and was divided into two flights, Engineering Flight and Operations Flight. As the unit operated 24 hours a day, a watch system was worked with a small engineering shift and a larger operations shift with a Warrant Officer running each watch.
Units
The following units were here at some point: |
1977 Manitoba general election | 1000102-0 | The 1977 Manitoba general election was held on October 11, 1977, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which took 33 seats out of 57. The governing New Democratic Party fell to 23 seats, while the Liberal Party won only one seat.
Results
Note:
* Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.
Riding results
Party key:
PC: Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
L: Manitoba Liberal Party
NDP: New Democratic Party of Manitoba
SC: Manitoba Social Credit Party
Comm: Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba
RWL: Revolutionary Workers League
WDP: Western Democracy Party (see by-elections)
M-L: Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada - Manitoba (see by-elections)
Ind: Independent
Arthur:
James Downey (PC) 2280
Earl Sterling (NDP) 1172
Murray Lee (L) 901
Assiniboia:
Norma Price (PC) 7863
(incumbent)Stephen Patrick (L) 4271
Max Melnyk (NDP) 2106
Birtle-Russell:
(incumbent)Harry Graham (PC) 3058
Peter Merry (NDP) 2608
Doug MacIsaac (L) 1169
Brandon East:
(incumbent)Leonard Evans (NDP) 4217
James Thornborough (PC) 3195
James Manishen (L) 558
Brandon West:
(incumbent)Edward McGill (PC) 5680 |
1977 Manitoba general election | 1000102-1 | Henry Carroll (NDP) 4601 John Gross (SC) 107
Burrows:
(incumbent)Ben Hanuschak (NDP) 4103
Ken Alyluia (PC) 1688
Anne Percheson (L) 490
Charleswood:
(incumbent)Sterling Lyon (PC) 10559
Maureen Hemphill (NDP) 4216
Beverly Riley (L) 1493
Churchill:
Jay Cowan (NDP) 2280
Mark Ingebrigtson (PC) 1992
Andrew Kirkness (L) 1140
Crescentwood:
(incumbent)Warren Steen (PC) 3253
Muriel Smith (NDP) 3181
Charles Huband (L) 2702
Dauphin:
James Galbraith (PC) 4590
(incumbent)Peter Burtniak (NDP) 4330
Elmwood:
(incumbent)Russell Doern (NDP) 4136
Ken Gunn-Walberg (PC) 3282
Ken Vincent (L) 675
Emerson:
Albert Driedger (PC) 3125
(incumbent)Steve Derewianchuk (NDP) 2153
Gabriel Catellier (L) 1439
Flin Flon:
(incumbent)Thomas Barrow (NDP) 2917
Nyall Hyndman (PC) 2522
Walter Shmon (L) 309
Fort Garry:
(incumbent)Bud Sherman (PC) 10052
Ruth Pear (NDP) 4157
Beth Candlish (L) 2423
Fort Rouge:
(incumbent)Lloyd Axworthy (L) 4153
Julian Hugh McDonald (PC) 3486
Ermano Barone (NDP) 2863
Gimli:
Keith Cosens (PC) 4515
George Schreyer (NDP) 3795
Gladstone:
(incumbent)James Ferguson (PC) 4635
William Werbiski (NDP) 2151
Sid Lachter (L) 662
Inkster:
(incumbent)Sidney Green (NDP) 5175
Barrie Jones (PC) 2711
Barry Krawchuk (L) 934
Kildonan:
(incumbent)Peter Fox (NDP) 5658
James Hanson (PC) 4651
Norman Stapon (L) 929
Lac Du Bonnet:
(incumbent)Samuel Uskiw (NDP) 5037
John Vaags (PC) 3795
Robert Dyne (L) 515
Lakeside:
(incumbent)Harry Enns (PC) 3987
Phillip Schwarz (NDP) 1494 |
1977 Manitoba general election | 1000102-2 | Douglas Clifford (L) 1034 (incumbent)Robert Banman (PC) 4914
Alphonse Fournier (NDP) 1601
Robert Rempel (L) 924
Logan:
(incumbent)William Jenkins (NDP) 2956
Rita Serbin (PC) 1449
Piercy Haynes (L) 578
Minnedosa:
(incumbent)Dave Blake (PC) 3912
John Martens (NDP) 2311
Albert Moad (L) 474
C.V. Hutton (SC) 272
Morris:
(incumbent)Warner Jorgenson (PC) 4484
Alphonse Lenz (NDP) 1152
Donald Macgillivray (L) 516
Osborne:
Gerald Mercier (PC) 3803
(incumbent)Ian Turnbull (NDP) 3707
Gilbert Paul (L) 655
Larry Johnston (RWL) 47
Pembina:
Donald Orchard (PC) 5214
Vic Epp (L) 1141
Marianne Martin (NDP) 1117
Portage la Prairie:
Lloyd Hyde (PC) 3552
Peter Swidnicki (NDP) 2067
Hugh Moran (L) 1893
Radisson:
Abe Kovnats (PC) 4535
(incumbent)Harry Shafransky (NDP) 3757
Evelyne Reese (L) 1394
Rhineland:
(incumbent)Arnold Brown (PC) 3610
Jacob Heinrichs (NDP) 1001
Ray Hamm (L) 943
Jacob Froese (SC) 813
Riel:
(incumbent)Donald Craik (PC) 10412
Doreen Dodick (NDP) 6427
Charles Greene (L) 2539
River Heights:
(incumbent)Sidney Spivak (PC) 6175
David Walker (L) 1662
Jill Oliver (NDP) 1091
Roblin:
(incumbent)Wally McKenzie (PC) 3291
Kenneth Mikolayenko (NDP) 2351
Joe Andronyk (L) 410
Rock Lake:
(incumbent)Henry Einarson (PC) 4243
Ronald Devos (L) 1167
Eric Irwin (NDP) 1029
Rossmere:
(incumbent)Edward Schreyer (NDP) 9246
Henry Krahn (PC) 8516
Brian Norris (L) 680
Rupertsland:
(incumbent)Harvey Bostrom (NDP) 2141
George Weiss (PC) 1625 |
1977 Manitoba general election | 1000102-3 | Norman Gunn (L) 741 (incumbent)Laurent Desjardins (NDP) 4266
Peter Poitras (PC) 1833
George Ricard (L) 1699
St. George:
(incumbent)Bill Uruski (NDP) 3103
Albert Rohl (PC) 2568
Duncan Geisler (L) 369
St. James:
(incumbent)George Minaker (PC) 5199
Curtis Nordman (NDP) 2853
John Wilson (L) 749
St. Johns:
(incumbent)Saul Cherniack (NDP) 3845
John Borger (PC) 1892
Myroslaw Tracz (L) 733
Don Plowman (Comm) 81
St. Matthews:
Len Domino (PC) 3119
(incumbent)Wally Johannson (NDP) 2995
Roy Yerex (L) 459
Richard Stonyk (SC) 72
Ste. Rose:
(incumbent)A.R. Pete Adam (NDP) 2611
Arthur Erickson (PC) 1830
John Fleming (L) 1219
Selkirk:
(incumbent)Howard Pawley (NDP) 5519
Tom Denton (PC) 4452
Edward Motkaluk (L) 573
Seven Oaks:
(incumbent)Saul Miller (NDP) 7597
Carl Zawatsky (PC) 6777
Sue Juravsky (L) 798
Charles Watson (Comm) 70
Souris-Killarney:
Brian Ransom (PC) 4519
Howard Nixon (NDP) 1500
Jean Strath (L) 1207
Springfield:
Bob Anderson (PC) 5843
(incumbent)Rene Toupin (NDP) 3995
Rita Roeland (L) 700
Sturgeon Creek:
(incumbent)Frank Johnston (PC) 7407
Don Simpson (NDP) 2655
Peter Moss (L) 1736
Swan River:
Douglas Gourlay (PC) 3909
Leonard Harapiuk (NDP) 3179
The Pas:
(incumbent)Ron McBryde (NDP) 3471
Percy Pielak (PC) 1965
Edwin Jebb (L) 714
Thompson:
Ken MacMaster (PC) 3947
(incumbent)Ken Dillen (NDP) 3031
Oliver Monkman (L) 283
Transcona:
Wilson Parasiuk (NDP) 6474
Tony Leonard (PC) 4749
Douglas Dennison (L) 767 |
1977 Manitoba general election | 1000102-4 | Virden: Edward Arndt (NDP) 1635
Wellington:
Brian Corrin (NDP) 3591
Geoff Dixon (PC) 2376
Mario Santos (L) 591
Winnipeg Centre:
(incumbent)Bud Boyce (NDP) 2217
Philip Lee (PC) 1587
Ken Wong (L) 727
Post-election changes
Rossmere (Edward Schreyer appointed Governor-General of Canada, December 7, 1978), October 16, 1979:
Victor Schroeder (NDP) 6191
Harold Piercy (PC) 5961
E.J. Sandy Clancy (L) 523
Linda J. Penner (WDP) 39
Manuel Gitterman (M-L) 21
River Heights (res. Sidney Spivak, April 12, 1979), October 16, 1979:
Gary Filmon (PC) 3473
Jay Prober (L) 2477
Don Jewison (NDP) 697
William Hawryluk (WDP) 19
Fort Rouge (res. Lloyd Axworthy, April 6, 1979), October 16, 1979:
June Westbury (L) 2659
Vic Savino (NDP) 2291
Julian Hugh McDonald (PC) 1830
Sidney Green (NDP) changed his party affiliation to Independent NDP on December 4, 1979.
Robert Wilson was expelled from the Progressive Conservative caucus on November 20, 1980, and from the Progressive Conservative party on November 28, 1980. On June 17, 1981, he was expelled from the legislature, having been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Ben Hanuschak (NDP) became an Independent MLA on February 26, 1981. On February 27, 1981, Bud Boyce left the NDP caucus.
On March 3, 1981, Green, Hanuschak and Boyce announced their membership in the new Progressive Party of Manitoba. |
Zygmunt Steuermann | 10001021-0 | Zygmunt Steuermann (5 February 1899 – December 1941) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward and is one of the most renowned members of the Hasmonea Lwów Football Club.
Life
Born in Sambor, then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, Steuermann was Jewish and a member of a Polonized Jewish family. His older brother was pianist Eduard Steuermann. His older sister was the actress and screenwriter Salka Viertel. As a child, he was nicknamed Dusko. |
Zygmunt Steuermann | 10001021-1 | He also played twice in the Poland national team, scoring four goals: three in a match against Turkey in 1926 and one against the USA in 1928. He was one of only two first-timers in the history of the Poland national team to score a hat-trick in the first match, the other being Józef Korbas (in 1937 against Bulgaria).
During the Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he fled Warsaw and settled in his hometown, which was then annexed by the USSR. He returned to Korona Sambor, which was soon afterwards closed down and recreated as Dinamo Sambor by the Soviet authorities. Following the Nazi take-over of eastern Poland, he was arrested and sent to the Lemberg Ghetto, where he died in December 1941 aged 42.
Clubs
1920–1921 Korona Sambor
1921 ŻKS Lwów
1923–1932 Hasmonea Lwów
1929 Legia Warsaw
1930–1932 Hasmonea Lwów
1932–1939 Korona Sambor |
Llangwyllog | 10001038-0 | Llangwyllog () is a small village and ancient parish in the centre of Anglesey, Wales.
It is found three miles to the north of the island's capital, Llangefni, and two miles north of Llyn Cefni, the island's second largest body of water. The settlement was once far more important than it is today, reaching a population of 277 in 1821, whereas the 1971 census showed only 75 people living there.
The Anglesey Central Railway used to operate a station in the village until its closure in 1993. The tracks however still run through the village and there is a significant railway cutting in the village.
The parish church is St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog; the first church here was founded by St Cwyllog in the 6th century.
One historic event said to have taken place here in 1134 was a battle between Owain Gwynedd, the first king of Wales, and the armies of the Erse, Manx and Norsemen, who had invaded the island. In the end the Welsh leader was triumphant. |
John Tiplady Carrodus | 1000104-0 | John Tiplady Carrodus (1836–1895) was an English violinist.
Life
Carrodus was born on 20 January 1836, at Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He took violin lessons from his father Thomas Carrodus, who was a barber and music-seller. He made his first appearance as a violinist at the age of nine, and before the London public four years later. He had the advantage of studying between the ages of twelve and eighteen at Stuttgart, with Bernhard Molique. He also “ became a 'follower of Spohr', who expressed his admiration for the Englishman's playing.”
On his return to Britain in 1853 Sir Michael Costa got him engagements in the leading orchestras. He was a member of the Covent Garden opera orchestra from 1855. He made his debut as a solo player at a concert given on 22 April 1863 by the Musical Society of London, and succeeded Prosper Sainton as leader at Covent Garden in 1869. He led the Covent Garden orchestra for twenty-five years. He also took over from Sainton as the Leader of the Three Choirs Festival orchestra in 1882. |
John Tiplady Carrodus | 1000104-1 | For many years, Carrodus had led the orchestra of the Philharmonic Society and those of the great provincial festivals. The coveted Carrodus violin, made by Guarneri in 1743, was said to have belonged to Carrodus.
Carrodus was constantly striving "for improving the standard of string playing in English orchestras." He was famous for setting extremely high standards in his own playing and in that of his pupils. Lilian Baylis was one of his notable students. He taught her violin at the Royal Academy of Music.
In addition to editions of the treatises of Loder and Spohr, Carrodus published his own “Chats to violin students on how to study the violin.” He published two violin solos and a , and was a very successful teacher. He edited a popular six-volume edition of violin duets for Pitman's Sixpenny Musical Library.
He died at Hampstead, London on 13 July 1895 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. |
Araquistáin | 10001050-0 | Araquistáin () is a Spanish surname of Basque origin. People bearing this surname include:
José Araquistáin (born 1937), Spanish footballer
José María Araquistain (born 1948), Spanish footballer
Luis Araquistáin (1886–1959), Spanish politician and writer |
Schrammelmusik | 10001052-0 | Schrammelmusik () is a style of Viennese folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in Austria. The style is named for the prolific folk composers Johann and Josef Schrammel.
The Schrammel brothers
In 1878, the brothers Johann Schrammel (1850–1893) and Josef Schrammel (1852-1895), musicians, violinists and composers from Vienna, Austria, formed an ensemble with guitarist Anton Strohmayer, son of the celebrated composer Alois Strohmayer. The Schrammel brothers played two violins, accompanied by Strohmayer on a double-necked contraguitar. Inspired by both urbane and rustic traditions, the three musicians performed folk songs, marches, and dance music, most often for audiences at wine taverns (Heurigen) and inns around Vienna. At first the trio called themselves the "Nussdorfers" after the village of Nussdorf where they often performed. |
Schrammelmusik | 10001052-1 | The Schrammels composed more than 200 songs and music pieces in just seven years. Johann Schrammel died in 1893, followed two years later by Josef. Each brother was 43 years old at his death, and both died of nephritis.
Style
A typical Schrammelmusik ensemble consists of two violins or fiddles, a double-necked contraguitar, and a G clarinet (also known in Austria as a picksüßes Hölzl). Often a button accordion, called a Schrammelharmonika, is included.
Performers strive for a melancholy, "crying", but melodious sound. The style is influenced by folk music from Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Moravia and Bavaria.
Several of Vienna's composers of formal music have also been Schrammelmusik enthusiasts, including Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, and Arnold Schönberg.
Modern performers
Modern performers of Schrammelmusik include Extremschrammeln, Edi Reiser, Karl Hodina, Roland Neuwirth, Wiener Thalia Quartett, Malat Schrammeln, Alfons Bauer, Rudi Knabl, Anton Karas, and Peter Havlicek.
Recordings
The album Continental Cafe contains five tracks of Schrammelmusik, by a group called Wiener Konzertschrammeln. The record was issued by Cook Records in the 1950s and reissued by Smithsonian Folkways in 2004. |
Stevinus (crater) | 1000106-0 | Stevinus is a lunar impact crater located in the southeast part of the Moon. To the southeast is the large crater Furnerius. Just to the northeast is Snellius and the Vallis Snellius crater valley. To the west-northwest lies Reichenbach. To the west-northwest of Stevinus is the tiny crater Stevinus A, a feature that possesses a small ray system and a displays a high albedo.
Stevinus has a high inner wall and a central peak at the midpoint of the interior floor. The inner walls are slumped, so that the side slopes down sharply, then more gradually. There are several small ridges on the floor, in addition to the peak. Due to its ray system, Stevinus is mapped as part of the Copernican System.
It is named for Simon Stevin, a 16th-century Belgian mathematician and engineer.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Stevinus. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-0 | Pilgrim High School (also known as Pilgrim, or PHS) is a suburban high school in the Pilgrim Park neighborhood of Warwick, Rhode Island. It is a part of Warwick Public Schools. The school is single-storied and features multiple hallways for specific subjects. Multiple renovations occurred in the school, most recently in 2016, before the consolidation process began. The school logo is the shape of an American Revolution soldier head formed by the words "Pilgrim High School Patriots", although the letter "P" in the official colors is used for most athletic teams. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-1 | Pilgrim was historically well-known for sports, most notably the baseball team as they won multiple state championships all through a dynastic period. Most of the school's championships were won throughout the 1970s. In recent years, the school's athletics entered a renaissance. Most recently, the cheerleading, boys' ice hockey, and boys' soccer teams won division championships. The football team, after posting only three winning seasons between 1995 and 2018, finally appeared (but lost) in the state's Division III Super Bowl since their latest appearance in 1995.
History
Background and opening era (1960s)
In the early 1960s, the early baby boom population began entering high school, and the population of Warwick skyrocketed to almost 70,000 residents during the post-war era with the popularity of the suburb. To accommodate the sudden growth of families, in 1955, the city consolidated all of its then-operating high schools at the time into one building, Warwick Veterans High School. The former establishments, Aldrich, Gorton, and Lockwood, were converted into junior high schools. All of them have since closed, with Gorton becoming Warwick Public Schools' main offices in 2016, and Lockwood shuttering in June, 1979, now redeveloped into condominiums. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-2 | Still, Pilgrim's student population kept increasing. Morry implemented the double session schedule to avoid cramped conditions at the new school.
The golden era (1970–early 90s)
Despite the population peaking in the early 1970s, the number of students attending Pilgrim contributed to athletics, and they are responsible for the success of sports teams throughout the decade. In 1968, the boys' cross country team gave the school its first division championship, ushering an era of Pilgrim's dominance in athletics. The following year, the cross country team gave Pilgrim its first state title.
The baseball team was still consistent when they first played in 1963, and in 1970, they won their first championship, the first of five in the decade. In the 1970s, Pilgrim's baseball team had a 110–34 record (a 76.4% win percentage), six division titles, and five state titles starting in 1970, a threepeat from 1972 to 1974, and 1978. Pilgrim lost the championship in 1979, but their power continued until 1984, when the team finished off with a losing record. Although the baseball team in the 1980s was inconsistent with their records, they managed to win the 1980 and 1990 championships. and competed for the 1992 title. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-3 | The famed Morry had the Pilgrim football field dedicated to him. After he retired in 1983, Morry was succeeded by incumbent vice principal Ralph J. Hoffman. However, the latter was named as the school department's hearing officer, and in 1987, he left the school. Edmund B. "Smiley"Miley served as the principal of Pilgrim after Hoffman, a tenure that would last until 2002. He was derisively nicknamed "Smiley" by students due to his serious demeanor.
Post-golden era (early 90s–2014)
After years of instability, some teams began to emerge from an era where they lacked championships. The baseball team continued to appear in the playoffs, while the girls' cross country team won their first division title. The football team made two appearances in the division championship in 1992 and 1995. Boys' soccer, boys' swimming, girls' basketball, girls' cross country, girls' indoor track, softball, and wrestling are some of the notable teams that won titles in the 1990s to the early 2000s. The school's second track was installed in 1995 to replace the original cinder track, and was used frequently that it showed decrepit conditions twenty years later. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-4 | One notable lowlight during Pilgrim's post-golden era included a traffic accident during the 2009 school year. In April that year, fifteen-year old sophomore Kimberly Pisaturo was crossing the street while wearing headphones and looking at her phone, when a school bus transporting students to Providence struck her near the school. The driver, Rebecca Toolin, was unaware of the situation until she pulled over. The victim's family requested privacy due to the tragedy, but a YouTube video was uploaded in memory of her.
Students' disinterest in metalwork helped convert one room from a shop classroom and storage area to a media studio for audiovisual courses as a result of a $95,600 grant by The Champlin Foundations late in 2013. The plan was conceived the previous year when the faculty created a movie and screened it as a fundraising event by the Pilgrim Film Society club. Principal Cote, along with two English teachers, a music teacher, and a technology education teacher, were involved with filling out the application required to acquire the grant. With the money, the budget allowed eight iMac desktops with preloaded applications for appropriate classes, audio and camera equipment, lighting fixtures, microphones, and the like. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-5 | 1989 acid incident Soon after, the student walked to a nearby Mister Donut. One of the students that were with him in the lavatory offered him some acid. The group of students involved then moved on to the McDonald's located in the former Warwick Plaza (now a Walmart), where Doe obtained thirty hits of acid after following instructions of a student that purchased the drug from another person (Student A) that was part of the group in the lavatory. Doe hid the acid in his cigarette pack. Later that day, Doe returned to "B"'s house, where they found out from a classmate that "somebody flipped out at school", and "A"'s father was attempting to find the students involved or his own son. As the father knew "B" was included as part of the group, Doe fled out of the house in fear of uncertain harm. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-6 | Consolidation era and sports renaissance (2011–present)
In late 2011, talks about consolidating Warwick's secondary schools surfaced. The committee reviewed options for the fates of the affected schools, and what strategies the department would apply to benefit unifying them. Some alternatives included closing two junior highs and sending all students to an old senior high, converting to a 7–12 model, or closing only one school. The school department already once considered 7–12 schools in the early 1980s according to a report by local television station WJAR, but faded into insignificance as times passed. The plans were put on hold until 2013, when the department's Long Term Facilities Planning Committee developed scenarios for a five-year plan on the futures of the secondary schools. Pilgrim's student population was one-third than it had in the late 1960s, as 1,021 were attending during the 2014 school year. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-7 | On the first day of the "new" Pilgrim, traffic stopped in the middle of Warwick Avenue, and the street leading towards drop-off roads and back parking lots were congested and unorganized. Vets students found themselves unable to find their buses, and even police officers attempted to guide motorists, but with no success. Habershaw described the traffic jam as a "perfect storm". Some parents found alternate routes by dropping their children off at the nearby Holliman Elementary, which prompted administrators to consider opening a drop-off route there, but no developments occurred.
Today, the students of Pilgrim experienced what many consider a renaissance. The establishment of more clubs occurred as the teachers' union successfully negotiated a contract effective November 2017. A political involvement club, established by a 2019 graduate of the school and an English teacher, attracts diverse numbers of students on learning debates, gaining confidence, and meeting actual politicians to help keep the club running and discuss certain topics involving the government. However, the club saw no activity after 2018. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-8 | Homecoming Dance Controversy
On November 6, 2021, a time when COVID-19 cases were rising in the state, a video surfaced on the internet showing principal Gerald Habershaw without a mask alongside students at Pilgrim's annual homecoming dance. Soon after, Pilgrim saw a rise in COVID-19 cases, reporting 59 new student cases and 6 new faculty cases soon after the homecoming dance. As a result, the school moved to distance learning, which ended on November 29.
On November 22, Habershaw was placed on paid leave until further investigation, with assistant principal Pam Bernardi becoming acting principal until further notice. However, on November 27, Habershaw unexpectedly died from a heart attack at the age of 57. Later that day, his brother revealed that Habershaw tested positive for COVID-19 a few days after the homecoming dance but was recovering. Habershaw had been fully vaccinated and was not hospitalized leading up to his death.
On November 28, a memorial service was held at the high school, with hundreds attending.
2022 Election Demolition and Replacement Ballot Measure |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-9 | Principal history
Demographics
Racial and special need demographic data as of the 2017–18 school year:
Extracurriculars and other activities
Clubs
Pilgrim offers various clubs that serve the hobbies of growing population of diverse students. Students, with the assistance of a teacher, can help form a club. In many cases, some organizations might form, only to die out in little time. Because of the infrequent updating of the official website, the following list might be inaccurate.
Academic decathlon
Art
Chess
Cheerleading (formerly known as the "Patri-Ettes")
Chorale
Class executive committees
Concert band
Drama (The Pilgrim Players)
Dungeons & Dragons
Environmental
Guitar
Lifesaver
Lifesaver CTE
Mock trial
Model legislature (mock government)
National Honor Society
Newspaper
Peer mentoring
Photography
Pilgrim Film Society
Ping-pong
Robotics
Unified Pilgrim Project
Studio 107 CTE
Sailing
Yearbook
In the past, Pilgrim once had an anime club, a bowling team, a diversity club, a gay-straight alliance, language clubs, a "life smarts" club, and Students Against Destructive Decisions, in the late 2000s. The arts, automotive, backgammon, career, dance, gaming, fine art, flag corps, history, judo, metalwork, microcomputer, project "close-up/in-site", and skiing clubs were active in the 1980s, and even a rifle club in the early 1970s. |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-10 | Activities and events Sports
As a member of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League, the Pilgrim Patriots was known in the 1970s for earning multiple division and state championships. By the end of the 1990s thru the 2010s, however, the Patriots suffered a period of time winning only a small number of championships. Since then, the Patriots found themselves successful again by the late 2010s. Athletic participation requires good academic standing. Students are taught that they represent the school as a whole while playing in sports.
Sports offered
Pilgrim offers sixteen sports for their students to have an opportunity to play in:
Baseball (boys only)
Basketball
Cheerleading
Cross country
Field hockey (girls only) |
Pilgrim High School | 10001064-11 | Golf (co-ed) Football (boys only)
Ice hockey
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball (girls only)
Swimming
Tennis
Track and field (indoor and outdoor)
Volleyball
Wrestling (co-ed)
Unified basketball and volleyball are also offered, and its teams compete in the RIIL tournament. Rugby union is also offered, but it is not an official RIIL sport. Pilgrim is the first and so far the only public high school in the state to compete in rugby matches.
Sports championship history
Most of Pilgrim's championships were won in the 1970s and 2010s. Please note that this table may be incomplete. Perfect football season 12-0 2019
Notable alumni
For over fifty years, Pilgrim has taught over thousands of students, some of them gaining notability later in their lives, both locally and nationally. Noted alumni of the school include:
Scott Avedisian, former mayor of Warwick (1983)
Patrick Sheehan, PGA professional golfer (1987)
Chris Terreri, college All-American, Olympian, and two-time Stanley Cup champion (1982)
Dan Wheeler, professional baseball pitcher (1995)
James Woods, actor, Primetime Emmy Award winner, and Mike Toreno of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (1965)
Pete Gaynor, former Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and former Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
Zoco | 10001070-0 | Zoco may refer to:
Ignacio Zoco (1939–2015), Spanish soccer player of the 1960s
Zoco, Tibet
A brand name of the Spanish liqueur Patxaran |
Otago | 100011-0 | Otago (, ; ) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately , making it the country's second largest local government region. Its population was
The name "Otago" is the local southern Māori dialect pronunciation of "Ōtākou", the name of the Māori village near the entrance to Otago Harbour. The exact meaning of the term is disputed, with common translations being "isolated village" and "place of red earth", the latter referring to the reddish-ochre clay which is common in the area around Dunedin. "Otago" is also the old name of the European settlement on the harbour, established by the Weller Brothers in 1831, which lies close to Otakou. The upper harbour later became the focus of the Otago Association, an offshoot of the Free Church of Scotland, notable for its adoption of the principle that ordinary people, not the landowner, should choose the ministers. |
Otago | 100011-1 | History
The Otago settlement, an outgrowth of the Free Church of Scotland, was founded in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing. Captain William Cargill, a veteran of the Peninsular War, was the secular leader. Otago citizens subsequently elected him to the office of provincial Superintendent after the New Zealand provinces were created in 1853.
The Otago Province was the whole of New Zealand from the Waitaki River south, including Stewart Island and the sub-Antarctic islands. It included the territory of the later Southland Province and also the much more extensive lands of the modern Southland Region.
Initial settlement was concentrated on the port and city, then expanded, notably to the south-west, where the fertile Taieri Plains offered good farmland. The 1860s saw rapid commercial expansion after Gabriel Read discovered gold at Gabriel's Gully near Lawrence, and the Central Otago goldrush ensued. |
Otago | 100011-2 | New Zealand's first university, the University of Otago, was founded in 1869 as the provincial university in Dunedin.
The Province of Southland separated from Otago Province and set up its own Provincial Council at Invercargill in 1861. After difficulties ensued, Otago re-absorbed it in 1870. Its territory is included in the southern region of the old Otago Province which is named after it and is now the territory of the Southland region. The provincial governments were abolished in 1876 when the Abolition of the Provinces Act came into force on 1 November 1876, and were replaced by other forms of local authority, including counties. Two in Otago were named after the Scottish independence heroes Wallace and Bruce. From this time the national limelight gradually shifted northwards. |
Otago | 100011-3 | Geography The country's fourth-longest river, the Taieri, also has both its source and outflow in Otago, rising from rough hill country and following a broad horseshoe-shaped path, north, then east, and finally southeast, before reaching the Pacific Ocean. Along its course it forms two notable geographic features – the broad high valley of the Strath-Taieri in its upper reaches, and the fertile Taieri Plains as it approaches the ocean.
Travelling east from the mountains, the Central Otago drylands predominate. These are Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands dominated by the block mountains, upthrust schist mountains. In contrast to Canterbury, where the Northwest winds blow across the plains without interruption, in Otago the block mountains impede and dilute the effects of the Nor'wester. |
Otago | 100011-4 | Comparatively similar terrain exists in the high plateau land of the Maniototo Plain, which lies to the east of Central Otago, close to the upper reaches of the Taieri River. This area is sparsely populated, but of historical note for its importance during the Central Otago Gold Rush of the 1860s. The townships of Ranfurly and Naseby lie in this area.
In the southeastern corner of Otago lies The Catlins, an area of rough hill country which geologically forms part of the Murihiku terrane, an accretion which extends inland through the Hokonui Hills in the Southland region. This itself forms part of a larger system known as the Southland Syncline, which links to similar formations in Nelson (offset by the Alpine Fault) and even in New Caledonia, away.
The Catlins ranges are strike ridges composed of Triassic and Jurassic sandstones, mudstones and other related sedimentary rocks, often with a high incidence of feldspar. Fossils of the late and middle Triassic Warepan and Kaihikuan stages are found in the area.
Climate
Weather conditions vary enormously across Otago, but can be broken into two broad types: the coastal climate of the coastal regions and the more continental climate of the interior. |
Otago | 100011-5 | Typically, winters are cool and wet in the extreme south areas and snow can fall and settle to sea level in winter, especially in the hills and plains of South Otago. More Central and Northern Coastal areas winter is sunnier and drier. Summers, by contrast, tend to be warm and dry, with temperatures often reaching the high 20s and low 30s Celsius. |
Otago | 100011-6 | Population
Otago Region covers . The population is as of which is approximately percent of New Zealand's total population of million. The population density is people per km2. About percent of the population resides in the Dunedin urban area—the region's main city and the country's sixth largest urban area. For historical and geographical reasons, Dunedin is usually regarded as one of New Zealand's four main centres. Unlike other southern centres, Dunedin's population has not declined since the 1970s, largely due to the presence of the University of Otago – and especially its medical school – which attracts students from all over New Zealand and overseas.
Other significant urban centres in Otago with populations over 1,000 include: Queenstown, Oamaru, Wānaka, Port Chalmers, Cromwell, Alexandra, Balclutha, Milton and Mosgiel. Between 1996 and 2006, the population of the Queenstown Lakes District grew by 60% due to the region's booming tourism industry. |
Otago | 100011-7 | Ethnicities were 85.2% European/Pākehā, 9.9% Māori, 3.4% Pasifika, 8.5% Asian, 2.2% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders, and 1.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
Otago Region had a population of 225,186 at the 2018 New Zealand census. There were 85,665 households, comprising 110,970 males and 114,219 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.97 males per female.
The percentage of people born overseas was 21.7, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 55.8% had no religion, 33.4% were Christian, 0.2% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.8% were Hindu, 0.7% were Muslim, 0.7% were Buddhist and 2.1% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 42,816 (22.8%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 31,122 (16.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $30,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 26,988 people (14.4%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 92,418 (49.2%) people were employed full-time, 30,396 (16.2%) were part-time, and 6,048 (3.2%) were unemployed. |
Otago | 100011-8 | In line with the region's Scottish heritage, Presbyterianism is the largest Christian denomination with 17.1 percent affiliating, while Catholicism is the second-largest denomination with 11.5 percent affiliating.
Politics
Local government
The seat of the Otago Regional Council is in Dunedin. The council is chaired by Andrew Noone .
There are five territorial authorities in Otago:
Queenstown-Lakes District
Central Otago District
Dunedin City
Clutha District
Waitaki District |
Otago | 100011-9 | Parliamentary representation Two list MPs are based in Dunedin – Michael Woodhouse of the National Party and Rachel Brooking of the Labour Party. One-time Labour Party Deputy Leader David Parker is a former MP for the Otago electorate and currently a list MP.
Under the Māori electorates system, Otago is also part of the large Te Tai Tonga electorate, which covers the entire South Island and surrounding islands, and is currently held by Te Pati Maori Party MP Takuta Ferris.
Ngāi Tahu governance
Three of the 18 Ngāi Tahu Rūnanga (councils) are based in the Otago Region. Each one is centred on a coastal marae, namely Ōtākou, Moeraki and Puketeraki at Karitane. There is also the Arai Te Uru Marae in Dunedin.
Economy
The subnational gross domestic product (GDP) of Otago was estimated at NZ$14.18 billion in the year to March 2020, 4.38% of New Zealand's national GDP. The regional GDP per capita was estimated at $58,353 in the same period. In the year to March 2018, primary industries contributed $1.25 billion (9.8%) to the regional GDP, goods-producing industries contributed $2.38 billion (18.6%), service industries contributed $8.05 billion (63.0%), and taxes and duties contributed $1.10 billion (8.6%). |
Otago | 100011-10 | Education
Otago has numerous rural primary schools, several small town primary and secondary schools, and some larger schools in Dunedin. Most are state schools which do not charge tuition, except for international students. Some are state integrated schools, former private schools with a special character based on a religious or philosophical belief that has been integrated into the state system, but still charge "attendance dues" to cover the building and maintenance of school buildings. These schools are not owned by the government, but otherwise they like state schools cannot charge fees for tuition of domestic students but may request a donation. As Dunedin was founded by Presbyterian Scottish settlers there are a Presbyterian girls' and boys' school in the city. Unlike other major cities in New Zealand, Dunedin does not have any private intermediate or high schools, as all remaining private intermediate and high schools have been integrated into the state system. |
Terrestrial Tones | 10001101-0 | Terrestrial Tones are Dave Portner (Avey Tare) of Animal Collective and Eric Copeland of Black Dice. The two were roommates who began recording together when both of their respective primary bands went on temporary hiatus in November 2004.
Discography
Albums
Blasted (2005, Psych-o-path Records)
Oboroed/Circus Lives (2005, UUAR)
Dead Drunk (2006, Paw Tracks)
EPs and singles
"Bro's" (2006, Panda Bear single, contributed remix) |
Strabo (crater) | 1000111-0 | Strabo is a lunar impact crater that is located near the northeastern rim of the Moon. At this angle the crater appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. It is attached to the north rim of the walled plain De La Rue. To the west is the smaller crater Thales. To the north is a chain of three comparably sized craters designated Strabo L, Strabo B, and Strabo N.
The inner rim of Strabo is terraced, with a small crater lying across the eastern wall. The interior has been flooded in the past by lava, and is now relatively flat.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Strabo. |
Sulpicius Gallus (crater) | 1000115-0 | Sulpicius Gallus is a small, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that lies near the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis. The crater is named after the 2nd century BC Roman astronomer Gaius Sulpicius Gallus.
About 10 kilometers to the south and east is the Montes Haemus range that forms the edge of the Serenitatis basin. This crater has a relatively high albedo, with a sharp-edged rim that displays little appearance of wear. There is a small rise at the midpoint. Recent deposits of highland material have been observed within the crater interior. This material was observed to be orange by Apollo 17 astronauts during their LMP ascent.
To the northwest is a rille system designated the Rimae Sulpicius Gallus. These extend to the northwest for a distance of about 90 kilometers, curving and branching out to follow the edge of the mare.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Sulpicius Gallus. |
Phono-semantic matching | 1000117-0 | Phono-semantic matching is distinct from calquing, which includes (semantic) translation but does not include phonetic matching (i.e., retention of the approximate sound of the borrowed word through matching it with a similar-sounding pre-existent word or morpheme in the target language).
Phono-semantic matching is also distinct from homophonic translation, which retains the sound of a word but not the meaning.
History
The term "phono-semantic matching" was introduced by linguist and revivalist Ghil'ad Zuckermann. It challenged Einar Haugen's classic typology of lexical borrowing (loanwords). While Haugen categorized borrowing into either substitution or importation, camouflaged borrowing in the form of PSM is a case of "simultaneous substitution and importation." Zuckermann proposed a new classification of multisourced neologisms, words deriving from two or more sources at the same time. Examples of such mechanisms are phonetic matching, semanticized phonetic matching and phono-semantic matching.
Zuckermann concludes that language planners, for example members of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, employ the very same techniques used in folk etymology by laymen, as well as by religious leaders. He urges lexicographers and etymologists to recognize the widespread phenomena of camouflaged borrowing and multisourced neologization and not to force one source on multi-parental lexical items.
Examples |