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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ballesty

John Ballesty

John Patrick Ballesty (born 20 May 1945) is an Australian former national representative rugby union player who also played first-grade rugby league with the Eastern Suburbs club. Rugby union Ballesty was schooled at St.Patrick's College Strathfield, at the time they played rugby league not rugby union. He left school and initially played rugby union for Sydney Teachers College (STC). On mass a group of STC players joined Eastwood rugby culminating in a grand final loss in 1966 against a strong Randwick team brimming with Wallabies including Ken Catchpole. Ballesty was Eastwood's first Wallaby test player and the third Australian national representative to come from the Eastwood Rugby Club when he debuted against the All Blacks in Sydney in June 1968. Ballesty had replaced Wallaby great Phil Hawthorne who had switched to rugby league and the St. George Dragons. That test All Black great Coin Meads tore the hamstring of Wallaby great Ken Catchpole. The injury so severe it prematurely retired Catchpole from the game and he never played again. That same year he kicked the match winning field goal in a Test match against the France. He played in 9 tests between 1968 and 1969 for the Wallabies at fly-half before switching codes. He captained Australia in three minor matches in 1969. Ballesty returned to the Eastwood Rugby Union Club in 1980 where he held the role of Secretary-Manager and coach for two years. In that time he lifted Eastwood into First Division with the help of young future Wallabies Brett Papworth, Ian Williams and Steve Tuynman. Papworth later mirrored Ballesty's career leaving Eastwood to join the Roosters. Rugby league In 1970 Ballesty joined the Eastern Suburbs club alongside former Wallaby teammates John Brass and Alan Cardy. In 1972 he was a try-scorer in the Roosters side that lost to Manly Warringah in that year's Grand final and he received the Player of the Year award from Australian rugby league's major publication, Rugby League Week. In 1972 former Wallaby and current kangaroo Phil Hawthorne joined the Roosters but Ballesty kept Hawthorne in reserve grade. While at Easts he trained in club management before leaving to play for the Queanbeyan Blues under his Roosters coach Don Furner at the end of the 1973 season. Ballesty played NSW Country Firsts 1975–77, in 1975 when City-Country wasn't origin based but where you played, Country defeated City 19–9 in a great upset. Country was led by past Sydney premiership players Jim Morgan and Ballesty. Future star Michael Cronin kicked 5 goals. The City side contained 4 players later named in the team of the century Graeme Langlands, Robert Fulton, Ron Coote and Arthur Beetson. Country never defeated City again until the rules were changed to origin of birth. Much like the State teams in rugby league. Playing in the country meant Ballesty wasn't seen by state and national selectors regularly enough to be picked. He retired in 1979. In 1982 Ballesty joined the Canterbury Bankstown Leagues Club in 1982 as General Manager. At the time the Bulldogs were close to insolvency and the team on the brink of folding. By 2000 it was financially Australia's largest single licensed club. In 2018 Ballesty returned to the Bulldogs as a director of the football club. Personal He is married with 4 children, Martin, Brendan, Scott and Kate. Sources Bibliography Howell, Max (2005) Born to Lead – Wallaby Test Captains, Celebrity Books, Auckland NZ Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney External links John Ballesty at scrum.com 1945 births Living people Australia international rugby union players Australian rugby union players Eastwood Rugby Club players Country New South Wales rugby league team players Rugby league players from Sydney Sydney Roosters players Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union fly-halves

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%2010%3A13

Matthew 10:13

Matthew 10:13 is the thirteenth verse in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Content In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is: Καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ᾖ ἡ οἰκία ἀξία, ἐλθέτω ἡ εἰρήνη ὑμῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ᾖ ἀξία, ἡ εἰρήνη ὑμῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐπιστραφήτω. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. The New International Version translates the passage as: If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. Analysis This is the seventh precept that Jesus gave to his disciples, "that they should pray for peace for their host." If the house is deserving the peace prayed for will come to the house. Lapide notes that peace is personified in this verse, as if the person of peace were rejected by the house and so left, taking the apostles with him. Nevertheless, the passage does not say that the apostles are to pray for peace, but to let their peace rest upon the house. It is still a custom for Jews to greet one another with 'Shalom', a blessing of peace. Commentator Dale Allison suggests that "your peace" refers to the peace promised "for the eschatological age" (e.g. ): How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace. "The gift of peace is not just a social convention: the apostolic greeting should be understood as a sign of the inbreaking of the kingdom." Commentary from the Church Fathers Chrysostom: " Also observe that He has not yet endowed them with all gifts; for He has not given them power to discern who is worthy, but bids them seek out; and not only to find out who is worthy, but also not to pass from house to house, saying, And there remain until ye depart out of that city; so they would neither make their entertainer sorrowful, nor themselves incur suspicion of lightness or gluttony." Ambrose: " (in Luc. 9:5.) The Apostles are not to choose carelessly the house into which they enter, that they may have no cause for changing their lodging; the same caution is not enforced upon the entertainer, lest in choosing his guests, his hospitality should be diminished. When ye enter a house, salute it, saying, Peace be to this house." Glossa Ordinaria: "As much as to say, Pray ye for peace upon the master of the house, that all resistance to the truth may be pacified." Jerome: " Here is a latent allusion to the form of salutation in Hebrew and Syriac; they say Salemalach or Salamalach, for the Greek χαῖρε, or Latin Ave; that is, ‘Peace be with you.’ The command then is, that on entering any house they should pray for peace for their host; and, as far as they may be able, to still all discords, so that if any quarrel should arise, they, who had prayed for peace should have it—others should have the discord; as it follows, And if that house be worthy, your peace shall rest upon it; but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you again." Saint Remigius: "Thus either the hearer, being predestined to eternal life, will follow the heavenly word when he hears it; or if there be none who will hear it, the preacher himself shall not be without fruit; for his peace returns to him when he receives of the Lord recompense for all his labour." Chrysostom: " The Lord instructs them, that though they were teachers, yet they should not look to be first saluted by others; but that they should honour others by first saluting them. And then He shows them that they should give not a salutation only, but a benediction, when He says, If that house be worthy, your peace shall rest upon it." Saint Remigius: " The Lord therefore taught his disciples to offer peace on their entering into a house, that by means of their salutation their choice might be directed to a worthy house and host. As though He had said, Offer peace to all, they will show themselves either worthy by accepting, or unworthy by not accepting it; for though you have chosen a host that is worthy by the character he bears among his neighbours, yet ought you to salute him, that the preacher may seem rather to enter by invitation, than to intrude himself. This salutation of peace in few words may indeed be referred to the trial of the worthiness of the house or master." References External links Other translations of Matthew 10:13 at BibleHub 010:13

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dreaming%20Child

The Dreaming Child

The Dreaming Child is a screenplay by Harold Pinter (1930–2008), the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, which he completed in 1997 and published in volume 3 of his Collected Screenplays (2000). It has not yet been filmed but was produced as a radio play by Feelgood Films for BBC Radio Four's Unmade Movies series in 2015. It is an adaptation of the short story "The Dreaming Child" by Danish author Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). Pinter's manuscripts for this work are housed in The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library. Background The co-editor of The Pinter Review Francis X. Gillen discusses the genesis of Pinter's unpublished screenplay, based on materials in the Archive, in his essay on this work, focusing on Pinter's "political vision" in his adaptation of Blixen's short story to the film medium. According to his official website and correspondence in the Archive cited by Gillen, Pinter's screen adaptation was commissioned by actress Julia Ormond, who wanted to produce and to direct a film of this work: Julia Ormond commissioned this Pinter screenplay -- a 19th-century tale of a mother's failure to love her adopted child -- as part of her 20th Century Fox development deal as producer/director. Her first offering as producer was the television documentary Calling the Ghost based on two women's suffering in Bosnia. Talking about Pinter she told the Evening Standard in October 1997, "Working with him is the highlight of my career. I think he has done a brilliant script and I hope we will get the green light soon." At the time of Pinter's death, 24 December 2008, the film had still not been made. The screenplay was first broadcast as a radio play on BBC Radio 4 on 5 March 2015. In Harold Pinter his official authorised biographer Michael Billington quotes Pinter's comment, "I had enormous respect for both Julia and her vision … but she was intent on directing, as well as producing, the film and in the end it was this that brought the project to its knees. The money-men simply wouldn't give her the chance" (398). Billington, who describes the screenplay as "remarkable", adds, "Which is sad because Pinter's screenplay is on a level with his work for Joseph Losey. It [Pinter's comment] is also a perfect riposte to the sceptics who argue that Pinter's political engagement has diluted his aesthetic sensibility," as he finds "Pinter's keen awareness of mortality and compensating hunger for life" to be "also apparent" in this "remarkable" screenplay (398). Plot summary Billington summarizes Blixen's story in some detail, stating that it Critical analysis Billington concludes, "It is an intriguing story and you can see why Ormond and Pinter were attracted to it. But Blixen, who married her baronial cousin and later lived on a Kenyan coffee plantation"—made famous in the 1985 film adaptation of her memoir Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford—"clings to a conservative belief in fate." In contrast, Billington finds, "Pinter … retains the source's narrative structure while investing it with new meaning," one which Billington acknowledges that Gillen develops in the latter's prior comparative analysis of Pinter's manuscript of the screenplay (398–99). Gillen finds that Pinter achieves in the unpublished version of the screenplay, "both a faithful rendering and an enlargement of political consciousness" (110). Extending Gillen's perspective, Billington argues that "Pinter enriches the story by heightening its social context; and, in so doing, he demolishes the convenient myth that his political fervour has somehow diluted the art" (398–99). See also Harold Pinter and politics Works cited and further reading Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. (13). Updated 2nd ed. of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter. 1996. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. (10). Print. Gale, Steven H. Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. Lexington, KY: The UP of Kentucky, 2003. (10). (13). Print. –––, ed. and introd. The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany: SUNY P, 2001. . . Print. [A collection of essays.] Gillen, Francis X. "Isak Dinesen with a Contemporary Social Conscience: Harold Pinter's Film Adaptation of 'The Dreaming Child'." Chap. 10 in Gale, The Films of Harold Pinter 147–58. [In Gillen's articles "All references are to the unpublished manuscript," provided in advance of its publication by Harold Pinter for purposes of Gillen's research.] –––. " 'My Dark House': Harold Pinter's Political Vision in His Screen Adaption of Karen Blixen's 'The Dreaming Child'." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 1997 and 1998. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1998. 110–22. Pinter, Harold. The Dreaming Child. Collected Screenplays. In 3 vols. London: Faber, 2000. 3: 441–551. References External links "The Dreaming Child 1997" in "Films by Harold Pinter" at HaroldPinter.org: The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter Films with screenplays by Harold Pinter 1997 works

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Nathalie Richard (co-driver)

Nathalie Richard is a Canadian rally co-driver. She was the co-driver for Subaru Rally Team Canada alongside her brother Pat Richard in 2004 & 2005, and later co-drove with Antoine L'Estage over 8 seasons (2006 - 2013) before returning to Subaru Rally Team Canada with Martin Rowe. As of 2014 Richard had earned 43 overall national victories in Canada and the US. Nathalie is a three-time X Games Rally Car athlete and the most decorated co-driver in North America. In 2020, Nathalie Richard was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. Early life Richard was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and a few months later, moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. She speaks both English and French. After graduating with her Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University she lived in Toronto, Ontario for three years before moving to Australia. There she received her Graduate Diploma in Education from Wollongong University prior to working in Sydney for several years. Nathalie is a Certified Financial Planner and is President of INSIGHT Wealth Management in her hometown of Halifax. Career In 2000 Richard was the manager of her brother Pat's Subaru Rally Team Canada. After filling in occasionally as co-driver, Nathalie became Pat's regular co-driver in 2004 and 2005. Together they won the Triple Crown in 2004 by winning the Canadian Rally Championship, the SCCA (American) Championship, and the North American Rally Cup in the same year. In 2005, the Richards won the Rally America series (formerly known as the SCCA series) and Nathalie also won the North American Rally Championship. In 2006, the Richard siblings competed in the inaugural Rally competition at the X Games. In 2006, Richard started co-driving for Antoine L'Estage. Together, the duo won four Canadian national championship titles, six North American titles, and one American title. In 2007, and again in 2009, Richard competed in the X Games with Antoine L'Estage; following that, co-drivers were eliminated from X Games rally competition. In 2009 the pair began competing in a Hyundai Tiburon. In 2010, Richard and L'Estage won the Triple Crown. This was only the second time in history that the Triple Crown has been won. Nathalie won it both times (2004 & 2010). After this successful year, the pair were named as part of the 2010 All-America Auto Racing First Team, voted in by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association. Nathalie was the only female to be voted in. Other members of this 2010 team include Dario Franchitti, Kyle Busch, Will Power, and John Force. In 2012, Richard and L'Estage were presented with the Gilles-Villeneuve Trophy by Auto Sport Québec. In late 2013 they began driving a Subaru WRX STI before Nathalie reunited with her brother for his last two competitions. In 2014, Richard co-drove in another Subaru WRX STI with former Production World Rally driver Martin Rowe (Isle of Man) as Subaru Rally Team Canada. The car had been prepared by Pat Richard and his Rocket Rally Racing company. In 2015 and 2016 Nathalie co-drove for American Ramana Lagermann (in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5 and Porsche 911) and Czech George Plsek (Mitsubishi Evo). Most recent competition was in 2019, again with Ramana Lagemann in a throwback to 2004 when both competed for their countries’ respect Subaru Rally Team. Nathalie Richard was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, class of 2020. Rally Career Titles Canadian Rally Champion : 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2004 SCCA/Rally America Champion : 2010, 2005, 2004 North American Rally Champion : 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004 Canadian Ladies Champion : 2014, 2012, 2011, 2020, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004 Television career Richard has hosted several motorsports television shows including the Canadian Rally Championship series on TSN and RDS (French - Reseau des sports), the Rally America series on ESPN, and the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb on The Outdoor Channel. References External links Nathalie Richard Article at Rally America Canadian Rally Championship standings Rally America standings Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian rally drivers Rally America Rally co-drivers Sportspeople from Sherbrooke

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohai%20Ali%20Abro

Sohai Ali Abro

Sohai Ali Abro ( ) is a Pakistani actress, dancer and model, who appears in Pakistani television serials and films. She is known for her roles in serials such as Geo TV's Saat Pardon Mein (2012), Hum TV's Tanhai (2013), Khoya Khoya Chand (2013), Rishtay Kuch Adhooray Se (2013) and ARY Digital's serial Pyaray Afzal (2014). Abro made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2013 romantic drama Anjuman. Her performance earned her a nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category at Tarang Housefull Awards. Her other films include Wrong No., Jawani Phir Nahi Ani (both 2015) and Motorcycle Girl (2018), for which she received a Lux Style Award for Best Film Actress (Critic’s Choice). Early life Abro was born in Larkana, Sindh, to a Sindhi family. She is the youngest of her brother and a sister. Her both parents, who were professionally medical officers, died of natural death, when Abro was still a nine-years-old. Abro spent her younger days in Hyderabad, Sukkur and Islamabad. Eventually, she moved to Karachi, where she pursued her studies, and later her interest in the theater made her popular with prominent names in the showbiz industry. Career Abro started her career as a model and has appeared in many commercials like Shan Pickle, Coca-Cola, Mobilink and Pepsi. Abro made her acting debut with Geo TV serial Saat Pardon Mein opposite Mikaal Zulfiqar and Alyy Khan. She did a dance-performance for a reality show on ARY Digital's Naach. She also appeared in the telefilm Rangraiz Meray, which was aired on Hum TV. Later she appeared in the serial Tanhai opposite Goher Mumtaz, Ayesha Omar, Azfar Rehman, Saba Hameed and Arisha Razi, airing on Hum TV and Kyun Hai Tu opposite Mikaal Zulfiqar and Neelam Muneer which aired on Geo Kahani. Abro made her film debut with Yasir Nawaz's Anjuman, for which she was nominated for a Tarang Housefull Awards in the Best Supporting Actress category. In 2015, she acted in two Pakistani films, Wrong No. and Jawani Phir Nahi Ani, both of which were box-office hits. In 2018, she appeared in biographical drama film Motorcycle Girl, which was based on the life of female motorcyclist Zenith Irfan. It was her first major role in a film, and she received praise from critics for her performance, with Dawn.com states ''Sohai plays the role of the disillusioned but fierce and determined young adult honestly and endearingly. She is charismatic and so, so relatable. This is her shining moment, the role she'll be remembered for.'' Although the film was a critical success, it flopped commercially. Her performance in the film earned her a Lux Style Award for Best Film Actress (Critic’s Choice). Filmography Awards and nominations |- ! style="background:#bfd7ff;" colspan="4" | Tarang Houseful Awards |- | 2014 | Anjuman | Best Supporting Actress | |- ! style="background:#bfd7ff;" colspan="4" |ARY Film Awards |- | rowspan="2"| 2016 | Jawani Phir Nahi Ani | rowspan="2" | ARY Film Award for Best Actress | |- | Wrong No. | |- ! style="background:#bfd7ff;" colspan="4" |Lux Style Awards |- |rowspan="2"|2016 |Jawani Phir Nahi Ani |Best Supporting Actress in a Film |rowspan="2" |- |Wrong No. |Best Lead Actress in a Film |- |2019 |Motorcycle Girl |Best Film Actress (Critics' choice) | |- ! style="background:#bfd7ff;" colspan="4" |ARY People's Choice Awards |- | rowspan=2|2021 |rowspan=2| Prem Gali'' |Favorite Actress in a role of Bahu | |- |Favorite Jori (along with Farhan Saeed) | |} References External links Pakistani female models Living people Pakistani female dancers Pakistani dancers Pakistani television actresses Actresses from Lahore Sindhi people Pakistani film actresses 21st-century Pakistani actresses Year of birth missing (living people)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibdas%20Bhaduri

Shibdas Bhaduri

Shibdas Bhaduri (1887–1932) was an Indian footballer played as a striker. He captained Mohun Bagan in the historic IFA Shield final on 29 July 1911, where they defeated the East Yorkshire Regiment in final, with a score of 2–1 to become the first Indian team to win the competition. Playing career Bhaduri took his first formal football training from legendary coach Sir Dukhiram Majumder, who was father figure of Kolkata football and first Indian football coach. Considered as Indian football's first icon, Bhaduri began his club football career with Mohun Bagan in 1905. In the same year, he helped the team reaching Gladstone Cup final, held in Chinsurah. They won title defeating Dalhousie AC in the final, in which he scored four goals. Seeing his evasion technique in field, British sahibs of that time used to say him "Slippery Shibdas". In 1906, they won the Minto Fort tournament by defeating Calcutta FC. Ahead of the IFA Shield of 1911, he was given the opportunity of assembling a squad to fight against British army teams. Except Reverend Sudhir Chatterjee, Shibdas and other players appeared in the tournament barefooted. He captained Mohun Bagan in the tournament, in which they defeated multiple British teams. Along with elder brother Bijoydas Bhaduri, he played as a forward in the tournament and began their journey defeating St. Xavier's College 3–0. They later went on to beat Calcutta Rangers Club 2–1, Rifle Brigade 1–0 in pre-quarter and quarter final respectively. The semi-final rematch against Middlesex Regiment (after the first match initially ended in a 1–1) also went in favour of them as Mohun Bagan defeated the side 3–0 to reach the Shield final. In the final on 29 July, in front of thousands of spectators, Bhaduri scored the equalizer to level the match 1–1 before Abhilash Ghosh scoring the winner from his pass in their historic 2–1 win. That is why, July 29 is celebrated as the "Mohun Bagan Day". After winning the Shield, Bhaduri continued playing for the club and appeared until 1917. He represented Mohun Bagan consecutively in Calcutta Football League second division with players like Gostha Pal, Abhilash Ghosh and others, and appeared in the first division for the first time in 1915 when they became one of few non-military team be promoted to CFL 1st Division. He also played in Asanullah Cup in Decca in 1916 with latter stars like Umapati Kumar and Bhuti Sukul, in which Mohun Bagan went down to Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari's Sovabazar Club in final. Personal life Bhaduri was born on 6 November 1887 in Barishal, Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh). In his childhood, Bhaduri family settled in Shyambazar. Outside of football, he was a veterinarian, and was associated with Calcutta Veterinary College. Bhaduri had five brothers, Haridas, Tulsidas, Dwiajdas, Bijoydas and Ramdas; four of them except Haridas played football for Mohun Bagan. Death Bhaduri was suffering from Tuberculosis. While visiting the Indian pilgrim town of Puri in 1932, he was contracted malaria and died on 26 February, aged 44. Legacy After the Shield win in 1911, Bhaduri was felicitated by Nripendra Narayan, Maharaja of the Cooch Behar State. In 1960, the Calcutta Municipal Corporation renamed Fariapukur Street to Shibdas Bhaduri Sarani in memory of him. During the centenary celebration in 1993, the Indian Football Association (IFA) organized Shibdas Bhaduri Trophy as a tribute to him. In 2003, he was posthumously awarded the Mohun Bagan Ratna by Mohun Bagan AC. In 2011, a Bengali movie named Egaro (Egaro, the Immortal Eleven) was released, in which Shibdas Bhaduri was portrayed by actor Hirak Das. Directed by debutant director Arun Roy, the film is predominantly based on the historical events leading to a football match between Bhaduri led Mohun Bagan and British army team East Yorkshire Regiment on 29 July 1911, a time when India was under the British rule. This was the first time when Mohun Bagan, or any native team won the IFA Shield. The film commemorated that event in its centenary year 2011. Abhilash Ghosh is portrayed by Ronodeep Bose. In an upcoming Bollywood movie named 1911, based on the 1911 IFA Shield final match, Shibdas will be portrayed by actor John Abraham. In July 2022, Mohun Bagan AC announced the club awards have been named after famous personalities to be awarded to sportspersons every year henceforth, and "Best Football Player" award was renamed as Shibdas Bhaduri Award in memory of him, which was won by Liston Colaco. Honours Mohun Bagan Gladstone Cup: 1905, 1906, 1908, 1911 Minto Fort Cup: 1906 Cooch Behar Cup: 1905, 1907, 1908, 1916 IFA Shield: 1911 Trades Cup: 1906, 1907, 1908 Bengal Jimkhana Shield: 1910, 1911, 1912 Asanullah Cup runner-up: 1916 Individual Mohun Bagan Ratna Award: 2003 See also History of Mohun Bagan AC Football in Kolkata History of Indian football References Cited sources Bibliography Further reading Indian men's footballers Footballers from West Bengal 1887 births 1932 deaths Men's association football forwards Mohun Bagan SG players Calcutta Football League players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose%27s%20broadbill

Hose's broadbill

Hose's broadbill (Calyptomena hosii) is a species of bird in the family Calyptomenidae. It was described by the British naturalist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1892 and is named after the British zoologist Charles Hose, who collected the holotype of the species. It is long, with females weighing on average and males weighing . Males are bright green and have conspicuous black spots on the wings, black markings on the head, blue , black flight feathers, and a large green tuft covering most of the bill. Females have smaller forehead tufts, lime-green underparts with sky blue instead of azure blue on the , and lack black markings on the head, except for a black spot in front of the eye. The species is endemic to montane regions in north, central, and southeastern Borneo, where it mostly occurs in forests at elevations of . Omnivorous, it mainly feeds on fruit like figs and berries, supplementing its diet with insects and leaf buds. It is mainly seen alone or in pairs but can form flocks of up to 6–8 birds near fruiting trees. Breeding occurs from April to October, with clutches of 2–4 eggs being laid in delicate hanging nests. It is classified as being near-threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to a moderately rapid decline in its population caused by habitat destruction. Taxonomy and systematics Hose's broadbill was described as Calyptomena hosii by the British naturalist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1892 based on specimens collected from Mount Dulit, Borneo. The name of the genus, Calyptomena, is from the Ancient Greek words kaluptos, meaning covered, and mēnē, meaning moon. The specific name hosii, as well as the common name, is in honour of the British zoologist Charles Hose, who collected the holotype of the species. Hose's broadbill is the official common name designated by the International Ornithologists' Union. Other names for the species include blue-bellied broadbill, Hose's green broadbill, magnificent broadbill, and magnificent green broadbill. Whitehead's broadbill is one of three species in the genus Calyptomena, a genus of three bright green broadbills found in Southeast Asia. Calyptomena is one of two genera in the family Calyptomenidae, the other being Smithornis, a genus of three rather dull-coloured species found in Africa. Although species-level relationships within the family are unclear, both the genera are monophyletic (including all descendants of a common ancestor) taxa that are sister (most closely related) to each other. Description Hose's broadbill is long, with females weighing on average and males weighing . Males have bright shimmery green , with a large tuft of feathers on the forehead covering most of the bill and a thin pale green eye-ring. There is a black spot in front of the eyes and black patches behind the , on the back of the neck, and across the upper back. The have conspicuous circular black spots and the flight feathers are black with green edges. The breast is indigo blue and the belly and are azure blue. Females differ in their smaller forehead tufts, paler upperparts with a slight olive tint, and lime-green with sky blue instead of azure blue. They also have lime green eye-rings and no black on the head other than the spot in front of the eye. The iris is blackish, the bill is dark brownish-black to black, and the feet are dark olive green. Juveniles are mostly like females, but juvenile males have dark feathers on the back of the neck. Immature males are similar to adult males, but lack most of the head markings and have less blue on the underparts. The species can be differentiated from the other two species of Calyptomena , which also occur in Borneo, by its blue underparts. It can be told apart from the green broadbill by its larger size and spots on the wings, instead of bars as in the latter. Whitehead's broadbill is larger and has a black patch on the breast.The only recorded vocalisation is a low, soft, pleasant dove-like coo-wooo, with the second note upslurred. It is given while making bobbing head movements. Distribution and habitat Endemic to the island of Borneo, Hose's broadbill inhabits the northern and central parts of the island, where it is found discontinuously from Mount Kinabalu to the Müller Mountains, Kayan Mentarang, the Dulit Range, the Sambaliung Mountains, and the Sangkulirang Peninsula. It is also found in southeastern Borneo. It may be locally migratory depending on the fruiting seasons of trees it feeds on. Hose's broadbill is mainly found on hill slopes, inhabiting dipterocarp forest, lower montane forest, lowland forest on hills, and forests with limestone pinnacles (rock columns). It is mainly found at elevations of , but can be seen as low as and as high as around . Behaviour and ecology The generation length (average age of parents in the current population) of the species is 4.2years. The species is omnivorous but mainly feeds on fruit, such as figs and berries. It has been recorded eating soft, greyish-yellow berries and small orange figs covered with short, spiky hairs. It also eats insects and leaf buds. It generally forages in the lower levels of the forest. Hose's broadbills are mainly seen alone or in pairs, but small flocks of 6–8 birds are found at fruiting trees. Breeding has been observed from April to October. It makes a delicate hanging nest out of dead leaves, rattans, and bamboo, with an outer covering of green moss and lichen and a trailing "tail" made of rattan leaves. One nest measured around and was hanging from a low, sagging branch high. Clutches have 2–4 eggs. The time taken for incubation and fledging is unknown. Status Hose's broadbill is classified as being near-threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to its a moderately rapid decline in its population caused by habitat destruction at lower altitudes in its range. It is locally common and occurs in several protected areas like Gunung Mulu National Park, but becomes rarer after deforestation occurs. Lowland logging in its range has been extensive, but the species' preference for montane habitats may protect it in the short term. Surveys to understand the extent of population decline, studies to find the species' habitat preferences, and protection of areas with suitable habitats are needed to conserve the species. References Calyptomena Endemic birds of Borneo Birds described in 1892 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Richard Bowdler Sharpe

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Let's Go to Prison

Let's Go to Prison is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Bob Odenkirk and starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett and Chi McBride. The film was loosely based on the non-fiction book, You Are Going to Prison by Jim Hogshire. It was released in theatres November 17, 2006. The film was the product of creative interference on the part of the studio, according to Odenkirk, and went on to receive mostly negative reviews and was not financially successful. Plot After serving three prison sentences, repeat offender John Lyshitski plots revenge on Judge Nelson Biederman III, a tough judge who presided over each of his trials, passing him stiff sentences. John calls the courthouse to determine when he will next preside over a case, only to discover that he died three days before John's release. John turns his attention to the late judge's obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV. At a dedication ceremony for Judge Biederman, he breaks into Nelson's car, emptying his emergency inhaler. After the ceremony, John stalks Nelson in his van; a hyperventilating Nelson frantically searches through a pharmacy's shelves for a new inhaler, with his erratic behavior making the owners think he is a junkie and mistake him for a violent robber. The police arrive and arrest Nelson. John is ecstatic that Nelson has landed in the criminal justice system which he suffered in for so long at the hands of Nelson's father. Nelson is charged with felony assault. Demanding that the Biederman Foundation get him acquitted, the board nearly complies, before deciding to purposely provide Nelson with a grossly incompetent defense team at the trial. The incompetent jury find Nelson guilty and he is sentenced to three to five years in state prison. John, not satisfied with Nelson merely going to prison, decides to join him there by purposely selling narcotics to undercover cops. At his trial before the same judge Nelson had, John pleads guilty and convinces her he be sentenced to three to five years in the same prison as Nelson. John becomes Nelson's cellmate, pretends to be his friend, and gives Nelson terrible advice on surviving in prison. Despite being an unhardened and inexperienced prisoner, Nelson gets himself out of the many situations that John's misinformation creates. He meets G-Lords leader Barry, an imposing, brawny gay man who coerces him into a relationship. Despite his intimidating appearance, Barry is a sensitive romantic, supplying potential romantic partners with his finest toilet-made Merlot. Nelson angers white supremacist gang leader Lynard by ratting him out on a prison shanking, who vows to kill him after being thrown into the hole. After Lynard was released, Nelson acquires a syringe containing deadly chemicals, to commit suicide; before he can do so, Lynard attacks him in his cell. The syringe falls out of Nelson's pocket, Lynard assumes it is heroin and injects himself, accidentally killing himself, and Nelson earns the respect of and authority over the White Kingdom. Nelson reaches his one-year parole hearing relatively unharmed, and as the new leader of the white supremacist gang for "killing" Lynard. Nelson, who initially submits to being Barry's partner out of fear, grows to care for him, willingly playing along with the "relationship" to keep him happy. Nelson also protects Barry from Lynard's former cronies, who are now loyal to him. Frustrated with Nelson's newfound respect, John drugs Nelson and tattoos "white power" onto his forehead, causing Nelson's parole to not only be denied, but to recommend Nelson serves the full sentence. Enraged, Nelson confronts John, who confesses to framing Nelson, making it clear it was his father who made John the man he was, and they fight. Shanahan and his guards intervene and set up a death match between the two prisoners. When the fight comes, John and Nelson inject each other with a coma-inducing drug. The guards and prisoners believe they are dead and bury them. Just before the death match, Nelson had legally adopted Barry, who has been paroled, so he retakes control of the Biederman Foundation. Barry uses the Biederman Foundation's funds to bribe the mortician to skip the autopsy and later also digs up John and Nelson. John, Nelson and Barry begin a new chapter of life, starting a winery (the product is "toilet wine"). Cast Dax Shepard as John Lyshitski, a career felon who sought to assassinate the judge that put him away constantly, but chose to settle for his son Nick Phalen as John (8 years) A.J. Balance as John (18 years) Will Arnett as Nelson Biederman IV, the obnoxious son of the late Judge Biederman, thrown in prison after a misunderstanding, no thanks to John Chi McBride as Barry, leader of the G-Lords David Koechner as Shanahan, head guard of the prison Dylan Baker as Warden Michael Shannon as Lynard, the sadistic leader of White Kingdom Miguel Nino as Jesus Jay Whittaker as Icepick Amy Hill as Judge Eva Fwae Wun, the judge who sent both Nelson and John to prison David Darlow as Judge Biederman, the judge who constantly sent John to prison Bob Odenkirk as Duane, Nelsons lawyer who was running the Nelson Biederman foundation while Nelson was in prison Other notable actors appearing include Jerry Minor as a Breen guard, Susan Messing as a stripper, Jim Zulevic as Sgt. Barker, and Michael Hitchcock as a wine taster. Production notes The defunct Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois used for the film is the same prison featured in the beginning of The Blues Brothers (1980) and the first season of the Fox show Prison Break (2005). During the end credits, Chi McBride in character as Barry, sings a song called "Shower with U" (credited as "Barry's Love Theme" on the soundtrack) in which he repeatedly sings "I wanna take a shower with you". The studio made significant alterations during the film's editing process that made Odenkirk unhappy with the final result (which also happened with the film Run Ronnie Run!, which Odenkirk wrote). According to writers Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant's appearance on the Nerdist Podcast from August 23, 2011, changes included a happier ending, the removal of a sparse drums-only score recorded by Meg White of The White Stripes, and other alterations that made a significant change to the overall tone of the film. Reception Let's Go to Prison received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 12% based on 41 reviews. The consensus states: "Let's Go to Prison is guilty on all counts of clichéd setups, base humor, and failure to ellicit laughs." Metacritic gives it a score of 27 out of 100 sampled from 13 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Unlike the vast majority of rude bigscreen comedies these days, "Prison" may actually improve with repeat viewings, since its best aspects are offhand enough to be missed the first time around." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter did not find the film funny, and wrote "the few laughs this purported comedy contains are fully displayed in its far more amusing trailer". Box Office Mojo reports that the film opened in 11th place with a gross of $2,220,050. It closed with a domestic gross of $4,630,045. Home media The film was released on DVD March 6, 2007 with deleted scenes and an alternate ending. References External links 2006 comedy films 2006 films American prison comedy films Films about race and ethnicity Films set in prison 2000s prison films Universal Pictures films Films based on non-fiction books Films produced by Marc Abraham Films directed by Bob Odenkirk 2000s English-language films 2000s American films

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Gog Magog Hills

The Gog Magog Hills are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge in England. The highest points are situated either side of the A1307 Babraham Road, and are marked on Ordnance Survey 1:25000 maps as "Telegraph Clump" at , Little Trees Hill and Wandlebury Hill, both at . The area as a whole is undefined but is roughly the elevated area lying north west of the col at Worsted Lodge. Unlike the nearby hills of the Newmarket Ridge, which have steep sides but very flat tops, these hills have large drops between summits and as such have quite a distinctive appearance; Little Trees Hill looks particularly good from Huckeridge Hill near Sawston, and White Hill dominates the view from the National Cycle Route 11 section towards Great Shelford. The hills therefore have relatively high topographic prominence. Other tops include: Limepit Hill — Mag's Hill — Copley Hill — Meggs Hill — Fox Hill — Clarke's Hill — White Hill History In English folklore and the Matter of Britain, Gogmagog was a giant, and according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae, one of the inhabitants of Albion discovered by Brutus of Troy and his men. He was the last of the giants that they killed, and was thrown from a cliff by Corineus. The book Where Troy Once Stood argues that the ancient city of Troy was in fact located in the Gog Magog Downs; however, this is not taken seriously by scholars. The earliest mention of the name Gog Magog for this region is found in a decree of 1574, forbidding students to visit the Gog Magog Hills on pain of a fine. Random excavations around the hills revealed the remains of defences at Copley Hill and Cherry Hinton, not older than the Iron Age but the sites themselves are now known already to have been occupied in the Bronze Age. The better-preserved hill fort known as the Wandlebury Ring, which is now situated in a public park, had several concentric ditches and earthen walls, which were kept in place by wooden palisades. It was already inhabited in the Bronze Age and archaeological finds include bronze and iron objects and pottery, including "Knobbed Ware", dating from the Bronze Age. "Telegraph clump" functioned as one of the locations for the semaphore line, an optical telegraph system, between London and Great Yarmouth from around the 1820s to around 1850. The dowser and archaeologist T. C. Lethbridge claimed to have found some ancient hill figures buried in the chalk under the surface of the hills. These are purported to represent a sun-god, a moon-goddess and a warrior-god. Lethbridge's claims, however, were controversial and are not widely accepted. Part of the chalk downs have been converted into a golf course since 1901 by the Gog Magog Golf Club, but much is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Magog Down In 1989 the Magog Trust, a charity and registered company created for the purpose, bought of former farmland surrounding Little Trees Hill for £327,100 so that it could be returned to chalk grassland and opened to the public. The reserve was named Magog Down. Some of the money to buy the land came from the sale of "Gogs" to the general public: these were notional areas of land costing £5 each but without title or rights. As well as re-establishing chalkland plants and insects, Magog Down has become well used for recreation, and is very well used by dog walkers. A 5-mile running race involving two laps of the reserve and a shorter fun-run have helped raise funds for the local primary school for several years. The Cambridge University Hare and Hounds running club have also used Magog Down as the venue for their tri-annual hosting of the RAF Match. Magog Down is situated across the A1307 road from the Wandlebury country park (which itself has been managed since 1954 by Cambridge Past Present and Future). Both Magog Down and Wandlebury Country Park are very popular places to visit for fresh air and recreation on the edge of Cambridge. Naming Locals tend to refer to the open access areas on these hills as simply the Gogs, usually in reference to Magog Down, though some people may also use the term to refer to Wandlebury Country Park. The local paper, Cambridge News, tends to refer to "the Gog Magogs" as a general term, lumping Wandlebury and Magog Down together. To further confuse matters, the adjacent Gog Magog Hills Farm Shop and Cafe re-branded itself in 2016 to be called "The Gog". The postal address "Gog Magog Hills" is shared by 16 addresses on the Gog Magog Hills Estate which are mostly within the grounds of Wandlebury Country Park. Busway proposals In February 2016 the Greater Cambridge City Deal (since renamed the Greater Cambridge Partnership) published early-stage "concepts" for improved transport links along the A1307, which included the idea of a new, off-road busway apparently straight across the Gog Magog Hills, possibly through or adjacent to the edge of Magog Down. This concept was met with dismay by both Cambridge Past Present and Future and the Magog Trust. Later that month reassurances were made that any busway would not go through the hills; the formal consultation document in June 2016 still included an off-road busway option, albeit with the line on the map drawn slightly further south from Magog Down. The preferred options following the 2016 consultation were stated to include an in-bound (towards Cambridge) bus lane alongside the A1307, however by October 2017 the proposal for an off-road busway was back on the agenda again. See also Army Manoeuvres of 1912 Beechwoods nature reserve Chalk Group East Cambridgeshire Guildhall, London for the characters Gog and Magog. How their names came to be attached to these hills is unknown. References Mapping External links Ritual activity at the foot of the Gog Magog Hills Fortean Traveller: The Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire Stapleford Fun Run Hills of Cambridgeshire Iron Age sites in England Tourist attractions in Cambridgeshire Archaeological sites in Cambridgeshire Former populated places in Cambridgeshire Bronze Age sites in Cambridgeshire

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Pearleen Oliver

Pearleen Oliver (1917–2008), sometimes Pearleen Borden Oliver, was a Black Canadian church leader, an anti Black-racism activist, writer, historian and educator. She founded the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and co-led the Cornwallis Street African Baptist Church. She advocated against the exclusion of Black students from learning nursing, and against racial segregation in education. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Saint Mary's University (Halifax) in 1990. Oliver died in 2008 before being the focus of Ronald Caplan's book Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights. Early life and education Oliver was born into a Church of England-following family as Althea "Pearleen" Borden at Cook's Cove near Chedabucto Bay in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia in 1917. Her great-grandfather was an African slave, her great-grandmother was Dutch and her family was the only Black family in her community. Their daughter, Oliver's grandmother, was Catherine Jewell, who married a man from Newfoundland. Oliver lived in Cook's Cove with her nine brothers and sisters and her mother for her first two years, before moving to New Glasgow to live with her father Joseph Borden (sometimes written Bowden), who worked as a miner in Allen Mines. Her father was killed by a mining accident when she was three or four years old. her mother remarried to a potter who worked at L.E. Shaw's Clay Works in New Glasgow. Oliver attended New Glasgow High School and was the first Black graduate in 1936. She aspired to work in nursing, but was Black students were prohibited from studying nursing in Nova Scotia at the time. Career and activism Oliver was a historian, writer, and an educator who founded the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Oliver co-led Halifax’s Cornwallis Street African Baptist Church, Nova Scotia’s premier late 19th and mid 20th century Black church and hub for many lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods. The church was a cultural hub and social hub for the Black community. As a leader in the Black community Oliver campaigned against racial segregation in schools. Oliver expanded the African United Baptist Association in 1953 to include a Women’s Institute for Black women to gather annually and discuss racialized socioeconomic problems and their solutions. These women-run church clubs also raised money, through social functions like bake sales, to combat localized social inequities. She campaigned to get the book Little Black Sambo replaced from the reading list at her son's school. After repeatedly denouncing Canada’s exclusion of Black women from nursing, Halifax’s Children’s Hospital had Oliver select two Black applicants for admittance and training. Oliver selected Gwenyth Barton and Ruth Bailey, who had been rejected from multiple hospitals due to their race despite their educational qualifications. Oliver personally informed them of their admittance and invited Bailey, a Torontonian, to stay with her family until Oliver arranged Bailey’s permanent room with another family of the Cornwallis Street Church. Oliver’s church network, public speaking, and written correspondence helped Barton and Bailey become the first Black students to attend and graduate nursing school in Canada in 1948. Oliver received an honorary doctorate degree in Doctor of Humane Letters from Saint Mary's University (Halifax) in 1990. Selected publications A Brief History of the Colored Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1782–1953, Published by the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, in Halifax, 1953 Personal life, death and legacy Oliver and married William Pearly Oliver just before she graduated from high school in 1936. They had five sons William Jr., Leslie, Jules, Steven and Philip. Her brother Hector Borden was the father of the actor Walter Borden. Oliver died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 24 July 2008, aged 91. Her life was documented in Ronald Caplan's 2020 book Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights (Cape Breton Books, ISBN 9781926908816.) See also Black Nova Scotians References External links "The Dinner Church": Cornwallis Street and its Social Outreach Programs post-Pearleen Oliver Black Mother Black Daughter Film Pearleen Oliver interviews at the Nova Scotia Archives Black Canadian activists 1917 births 2008 deaths Canadian anti-racism activists People from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia Activists from Nova Scotia Black Nova Scotians Women founders Organization founders People from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia History of Black people in Canada Black Canadian women

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Peaks of Otter

The Peaks of Otter are three mountain peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking the town of Bedford, Virginia, which lies nine miles (14 km) to the southeast along State Route 43. These peaks are Sharp Top, Flat Top, and Harkening Hill. The manmade Abbott Lake lies in the valley between the three peaks, behind the Peaks of Otter Lodge and restaurant. The National Park Service preserves the peaks and lake as part of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Thomas Jefferson once wrote that "the mountains of the Blue Ridge, and of these the Peaks of Otter, are thought to be of a greater height, measured from their base, than any others in our country, and perhaps in North America." Of course this later turned out not to be the case, but not before Virginia had sent stones from the peaks to be its part of the Washington Monument. History At milepost marker 86 of the Blue Ridge Parkway stands the Peaks of Otter. Archaeological evidence under Abbott Lake indicates that Native Americans have been visiting the Peaks of Otter for at least 8,000 years for hunting, travel, and rest. European settlers started establishing the area in the mid-1700s. In 1766, Thomas Wood and his family from Pennsylvania settled a homestead on the area; National Park Service documents indicate other early residents included brothers Charles and Robert Ewing, who are asserted by some to have named the Peaks after the Ewing surname as it is pronounced in Scottish Gaelic – Clann Eóghain na h-Oitrich, or "Clan Ewing of Otter." This view may be given credence by similarly Otter-themed place names in Scotland, and the resemblance of Flat Top to Beinn Dorain in the ancestral Ewing area of Argyll and Bute. Other theories for the naming of the Peaks of Otter include the anglicizing of the Cherokee word "Otari" meaning "high places", or the naming of the mountains after the Otter River, which starts nearby and presumably got named for otters downstream. In 1834, the first local inn was created by Polly Wood, a widow who opened an "Ordinary" in her log cabin where settlers could stay the night and get a warm meal. By the 1870s, Benjamin Wilkes had opened the famous Mons Hotel, and the Peaks of Otter was home to over 20 families, a school, a church, and the hotel. One of the families included the Johnson family, which lived for three generations until the 1930s on the now-preserved Johnson farmstead. By the early 1900s, the Peaks of Otter became a popular local tourist spot and became especially noticed by the National Park Service. Abbott Lake, the lake at the base of the peaks, was man made and created in 1964 along with the official Peaks of Otter Lodge, which still stands today. Activities The primary activity at Peaks of Otter is hiking. There are three main peaks: Flat Top, Sharp Top, and Harkening Hill in order from highest peak altitude to lowest peak altitude. Flat Top is the tallest, and Harkening Hill is the smallest. Sharp Top is the most famous hike with its spectacular 360° view at the top. There is also a separate cliff formation on the other side of Sharp Top called Buzzard's Roost, which also has good views. For those who cannot hike 1.5 mile and 1,300 ft elevation gain trail up to the top of Sharp Top, there is a shuttle service that people up to within a 15-minute walk from the top. Combined within the three peaks is a little over 12 miles of hiking and extra attractions along the way. There is a flat, one-mile paved trail around Abbott Lake along with a 1.6-mile-loop trail to a waterfall roughly 2 miles north on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Johnson Farm is a historically restored site along one of the side trails towards Harkening Hill. The house and outbuildings are preserved in their 1930s form along with gardens and a small orchard. Visitors can take free tours of the farmhouse from June–September. From June–October the National Park Service provides various Ranger programs. There is also a small visitor center run by the National Park Service. Lodging includes the Peaks of Otter Lodge and the Peaks of Otter campground. There is also a large picnic area with outdoor grills. From atop the peaks, the nearbytown of Bedford can be seen. On the summit of the far side of Sharp Top is the site where a B-25 bomber crashed into the mountain during a training exercise during World War II. The wreckage was never removed, as it was too heavy and the side of the mountain was too steep to retrieve it. There is a small memorial on a rock at the top of the site, but the majority of the plane can still be found along the mountain. A bigger, more recent D-Day Memorial is located in Bedford. You can also visit orchards and vineyards of the descendants of the Johnson and Gross families, who have been living in the area since the late 1800s. References External links Bedford, Virginia Peaks of Otter Lodge The Peaks of Otter The "Peaks of Otter" Story Peaks of Otter Winery Five Army Men Die In Crash of B25 Bomber Protected areas of Bedford County, Virginia Mountains of Virginia Protected areas of Botetourt County, Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway Landforms of Bedford County, Virginia Landforms of Botetourt County, Virginia

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Willow flycatcher

The willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating, neotropical migrant bird of the tyrant flycatcher family native to North America. Taxonomy There are four subspecies currently recognized, all of which breed in North America (including three subspecies that breed in California). At one time, this bird and the alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) were considered to be a single species, Traill's flycatcher.Their song is the only reliable method to tell them apart in the field. The binomial commemorates the Scottish zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill. Subspecies The subspecies are best distinguished from each other by their songs. In addition, the four subspecies have significant genetic differences based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. Their winter ranges have been elucidated using mitochondrial DNA genetic studies of 172 birds sampled in winter combined with plumage coloration and morphological differences. The four subspecies of the willow flycatcher are: E. t. brewsteri – Little willow flycatcher The little willow flycatcher (E.t. brewsteri) is the Pacific Slope subspecies of the willow flycatcher. Described by Oberholser in 1918, it breeds in California from Tulare County north along the western side of the Sierra Nevada, and in Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade range. E. t. adastus The Great Basin/Northern Rockies subspecies of the willow flycatcher (E. t. adastus) breeds in California east of the Sierra/Cascade axis, from the Oregon border into Modoc County and possibly into northern Inyo County. Populations at high elevation just east of the Sierra Nevada crest but south of Modoc County are assumed to be E. t. brewsteri. There has been very little study of E. t. adastus in California. It was described by Oberholser in 1932. E. t. extimus – Southwestern willow flycatcher The southwestern willow flycatcher (E. t. extimus) is a federally endangered subspecies and it is known to be found in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. It was listed in 1995, at which time it was known to breed at only about 75 sites in riparian areas throughout the American southwest. The known breeding population was estimated at between 300 and 500 pairs. Breeding occurs from near sea level on the Santa Margarita River to at the South Fork Kern River and at upper San Luis Rey River in California and to over in Arizona, southwestern Colorado, and north-central New Mexico. This subspecies was described by A.R. Phillips in 1948. The largest remaining population in California is on the South Fork Kern River, Kern County. In southern California, this subspecies breeds on the San Luis Rey River, at Camp Pendleton, the Santa Margarita River and Pilgrim, De Luz, French, and Las Flores creeks; as well as on the Santa Ynez River. In 1996, breeding was confirmed along the Arizona side of the lower Colorado River at Lake Mead Delta and at Topock Marsh. Examination of museum specimens of 578 migrating and wintering E. t. extimus indicating that Guatemala to Costa Rica constitutes the main winter range. This species is experiencing population declines throughout the Southwest due to habitat loss/alteration and invasive species of grass. One of these is saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima), found throughout the Southwest, where it has replaced essential vegetation by outcompeting native species in riparian areas where the southwestern willow flycatcher is found. In two sites, one in Arizona and the other in New Mexico, native trees were able to replace patches of saltcedar and populations of willow flycatchers increased. It was documented that in these sites 90% of the willow flycatcher's nests were found in native vegetation, only 10% were in mixed vegetation (native species and saltcedar) and few were in areas dominated by saltcedar. However, it is important to note that because willow flycatchers can and do breed, in some locations, within saltcedar habitat, it can occasionally serve as vital habitat in the recovery of this species. The San Pedro River Preserve was purchased by the Nature Conservancy to preserve habitat for this subspecies. NatureServe considers the subspecies Imperiled. North American beavers (Castor canadensis) are thought to play a critical role in widening riparian width, openings in dense vegetation, and retention of surface water through the willow flycatcher breeding season. E. t. traillii The eastern nominate subspecies of the willow flycatcher (E. t. traillii) was described by Audubon in 1828. It breeds from the eastern coast of the United States to the western Rocky Mountains. Description Adults have brown-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have an indistinct white eye ring, white wing bars and a small bill. The breast is washed with olive-gray. The upper part of the bill is gray; the lower part is orangish. Distribution and habitat Their breeding habitat is deciduous thickets, especially willows and often near water, across the United States and southern Canada. They make a cup nest in a vertical fork in a shrub or tree. These neotropical birds migrate to Mexico and Central America, and in small numbers as far south as Ecuador in South America, often selecting winter habitat near water. Willow flycatchers travel approximately each way between wintering and breeding areas. This bird's song is a sneezed fitz-bew. The call is a dry whit. Food resources Willow flycatcher feed on insects; common hoverflies (Syritta pipiens) have been found in their fecal samples. They wait on a perch near the top of a shrub and fly out to catch insects in flight, also sometimes picking insects from foliage while hovering. They may eat some berries. This bird competes for habitat with the alder flycatcher where their ranges overlap. References External links willow flycatcher Birds of North America Native birds of Western Canada Native birds of Eastern Canada Birds of the United States willow flycatcher Willow flycatcher

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Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres (born 1959) is an American lawyer and economist. Ayres is a professor at the Yale Law School and at the Yale School of Management. Early life and education Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where they graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977. They played varsity basketball, ran cross country, and served as executive editor of their high school newspaper. Ayres wrote an op-ed piece their senior year called "Black Like Me" (named for the 1961 book of the same name), a controversial piece detailing the consequences of their checking the "African- American" box for race on his PSAT, which led to consideration for academic awards. Ayres graduated summa cum laude in 1981 from Yale University with a dual degree in Russian studies and economics. Ayres then received their J.D. at Yale Law School in 1986, where Ayres was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Ayres received their Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. Career Ayres has taught at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Cardoza Law Institute, the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Law School, and Yale University. Since 1994, Ayres has served as the William K. Townsend professor at the Yale Law School and is a professor at the Yale School of Management. Ayres teaches antitrust, civil rights, commercial law, contracts, corporations, corporate finance, law and economics, property, and quantitative methods. In 2006, Ayres was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and also currently serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research'. Ayres has previously served as a research fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has clerked for James K. Logan of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a post-conviction petition, Ayres was successful in vacating the death sentence for his client. Ayres has published eight books and over 100 articles in law reviews and magazines on a variety of subjects, and has been ranked as one of the 250 most prolific and most-cited legal scholars of his generation. In 2007, Ayres co-founded StickK, a web startup enabling users to enter commitment contracts to reach personal goals. Ayres currently serves on the Advisory Council of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization. Controversy In a September 2007 review of Ayres's book Super Crunchers, the New York Times''' David Leonhardt wrote that he "came across two sentences about a doctor in Atlanta that were nearly identical to two sentences I wrote in this newspaper last year." Leonhardt was particularly disturbed that "many readers will surely assume that Ayres witnessed some events" that Ayres did not. On October 4, the Yale Daily News reported that it had found nine passages in the book, some more than a couple paragraphs long, that were identical or similar to those in the Times and four other publications. In reference to Ayres's case and a similar one in Illinois, George Washington University professor of English Margaret Soltan wrote in Inside Higher Ed: "Both men simply stuck passages from other writers into their text when it suited them, and gave either minimal or no attribution. In some of the passages in question, neither used quotation marks, even when they quoted at length, verbatim." After some controversy over three weeks, Ayres apologized and said: "in several brief instances in the book, my language is too close to the sourced material and I should have used quotation marks to set it apart from my text." However, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted that Ayres insisted: "his citations are proper for a book intended for a popular audience but that he will make changes in future printings of the book." Critics were not satisfied with Ayres's explanation that they had simply made a mistake nor did critics accept that these practices were acceptable in popular books. Inside Higher Ed noted that the same behavior by students is "severely sanctioned." Professors at other universities were quite critical of Ayres's explanation and pointed out that the method used by the Yale Daily News to discover plagiarized passages was unlikely to catch them all."Plagiarism II: Yours, Mine, and Oz," Inside Higher Ed, October 9, 2007. Personal life Ayres married Jennifer Gerarda Brown, the Dean of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, in 1993. They have two kids. They support various gay rights and marriage equality causes, including Freedom to Marry. Publications Ian Ayres's books include: 2nd ed, 2006, 9th edition with Gregory Klass, 2018, Ian Ayres's two most well-known articles are: “Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations”, 104 Harvard Law Review 817 (1991) “Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules”, with Robert Gertner, 99 Yale Law Journal 87 (1989) References External links Ian Ayres's profile at Yale Law School Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small , with Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff Ayres uncovers hidden bias in racial stats in the Harvard Law Record'' Living people 1959 births Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American social sciences writers MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Yale Law School alumni Yale Law School faculty Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law faculty University of Virginia School of Law faculty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Stanford Law School faculty Academic staff of the University of Toronto University of Iowa College of Law faculty Pembroke Hill School alumni Yale School of Management faculty 21st-century American lawyers

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Storfjorden (Sunnmøre)

Storfjorden or Storfjord is a long fjord in the Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It stretches from the village of Hareid in the west to the villages of Tafjord and Geiranger in the east. The Storfjorden system branches off into several smaller fjords including the famous Geirangerfjord and Tafjorden. At the village of Stranda, the main fjord branches off into the Sunnylvsfjorden-Geirangerfjorden to the west and the Norddalsfjorden-Tafjorden to the east. The name literally means the "big" or "great" fjord, indicating that this is a long fjord and it is, in fact, the main fjord in this region. Stretching about , Storfjord is the 5th longest fjord in Norway. The Storfjord is a dominant topographical feature in the Sunnmøre region as it cuts the region in two parts that are only connected by ferry. The deepest point in the fjord is near the village of Dyrkorn in the municipality of Stordal. The landscape around Storfjorden is typical for Western Norway. The mouth of the fjord is surrounded by islands with mountains reaching above sea level. Further to the east there are higher mountains. At the villages of Tafjord and Geiranger, the mountains climb to about above sea level. Most of the Storfjorden has characteristically steep or very steep shores, interrupted by several gentle valleys stretching up to into the hinterland. In this way, the Storfjorden system is, along with the Nordfjorden, Sognefjorden, and Hardangerfjorden fjord-systems, the major samples of the typical west coast fjords highly praised by visitors. On the steep shores of the fjord, there are several historic mountain farms such as Ytste Skotet in Stordal and Me-Åkernes, Skageflå, and Knivsflå in Stranda. Branches and sections From the coast to the inland Mouth (the fjord flows out into two other fjords) Sulafjorden Vartdalsfjorden Outer Storfjorden (there are two major branches off the fjord in this area) Hjørundfjorden (which branches into the Norangsfjorden and Storfjorden) Sykkylvsfjorden Inner Storfjorden (there are two major branches off the fjord in this area) Norddalsfjorden (), which flows into the Tafjorden () Sunnylvsfjorden (), which flows into the Geirangerfjorden () Municipalities and villages This is a list of settlements along the fjord Sula Leirvågen Ålesund Vegsundet, Emleim, Valle, Sjøholt Sykkylven Aure, Ikornnes Stranda Stranda, Liabygda, Geiranger, Hellesylt Fjord Stordal, Valldal/Sylte, Eidsdal, Norddal, Tafjord Transportation Several car ferries cross the fjord, but there are no bridges or tunnels. The proposed Storfjord Bridge may one day cross the fjord, but it is cost prohibitive at this time. Here is a list of the ferry crossings: Hareid-Sulesund from Hareidlandet in the municipality of Hareid to Sula island in Sula across the Sulafjorden Leirvågen-Festøya-Hundeidvik (a 3-point ferry crossing) from Leirvågen on Sula island across the Storfjorden to Festøya in Ørsta then on to Hundeidvik across the Hjørundfjorden in Sykkylven Leknes-Sæbø across the Hjørundfjorden Ørsneset-Magerholm from Ørsneset in Sykkylven to Magerholm in Ålesund, part of Norwegian County Road 60 Stranda-Liabygda from the village of Stranda in the west to Liabygda in the east, Norwegian County Road 650 Eidsdal-Linge across the Norddalsfjorden, part of Norwegian County Road 63 Geiranger-Hellesylt a tourist route along the Geirangerfjord, only operates in the summer Due to the steep slopes along the shores, road construction is challenging and overland road transport is often limited to valleys. On the northern shore of the Storfjorden, there a continuous network of roads from Tafjord to the island of Sula using the roads 63, 650, E39, 656, 60 and 61. On the southern shore, there are only short sections of roads along the fjord itself. During summer the Hurtigruten line visits the Storfjorden and Geirangerfjorden regularly. Landslide and megatsunami At 10:00 p.m. on 8 January 1731, a landslide with an estimated volume of fell from a height of on the slope of the mountain Skafjell into the Storfjorden opposite Stranda. The slide generated a megatsunami in height that struck Stranda, flooding the area for inland and destroying the church and all but two boathouses, as well as many boats. Damaging waves struck as far as way as Ørskog. The waves killed 17 people. It was the first natural disaster in Norway to be reported and documented in historic time. Gallery References External links Storfjordnytt - local newspaper for Storfjord area StorfjordNett Storfjordens venner - society for the preservation of abandoned farms at Storfjord Fjords of Møre og Romsdal Fjord (municipality) Ørsta Stranda

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Mikhail Shekhtman

Mikhail Yurievich Shekhtman (; born 25 February 1989) is an Israeli-Russian conductor and pianist. Early life and education Mikhail was born in Moscow in 1989 to a Russian father and Jewish mother, both being biochemists working at the Moscow State University. It was Avram Shechtman, Mikhail's grandfather who deeply loved classical music and, possessing a tenor voice and often singing to young Misha at home as well as playing LP recordings, inspired him to study music. Mikhail has a sister Ekaterina, who is choir conductor and artistic director of the Intrada ensemble. Mikhail's great-grandmother's sister was Emma Shadkhan (Emma S. Woytinski), wife of Wladimir S. Woytinsky, advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Shekhtman started to play the piano at the age of six and performed her first solo concert at the age of seven. Since early childhood, Mikhail has been studying piano with Elena Aleksandrova. Throughout 2004—2008 Shekhtman studied at the Moscow State Conservatory Academic Music College with Professor Vera Khoroshina, friend of Emil Gilels and one of the favourite female students of professor Heinrich Neuhaus (teacher of S. Richter and E. Gilels). He also studied organ with Professor Natalia Gureeva. Subsequently, he continued studies at the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Professor Pavel Nersessian, graduating in 2013. Mikhail attended masterclasses by Dmitri Bashkirov, Teodor Currentzis & Michail Jurowski. In April 2019, Mikhail adopted the family name of his grandfather — Shekhtman. Performances and collaborations Shekhtman is one of the most sought-after musicians of his generation. He has been equally successful working in symphonic, operatic and chamber genres and has been awarded with German OPUS-Klassik and Bavarian radio prize. Shekhtman collaborates with leading concert venues - Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Paris Theatre des Champs Elysées, Hamburg Laeizhalle, Melbourne Recital Centre, Seattle Benaroya Hall, Seoul Lotte Concert Hall, The Mariinsky Theatre, Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of St-Petersburg Philhamonie and festivals - The Lucerne Easter Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Verbier Festival, Bad Kissingen Festival. He performs with prominent soloists - Augustin Hadelich, Ilya Gringolts, Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Peretyatko, Aida Garifullina, Maria Guleghina, Maxim Vengerov, Behzod Abduraimov, Jonathan Tetelman, Julia Lezhneva, Pavel Nersessian, Helena Tarosian, Anahit Stelmashova, Valentine Michaud. He assisted Daniel Harding, Sir Antonio Pappano and Danielle Gatti. Shekhtman collaborates with orchestras, including Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Seoul Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Spain, Il Giardino Armonico, Russian National Orchestra, St-Petersburg Philharmonic, The Mariinsky Theatre and newly based Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra. As pianist he performed under Herbert Blomstedt, Santtu-Mathias Ruvali and James Gaffigan. His concerts and recordings have been broadcast via national television and worldwide through Medici.tv, BBC Radio 3, France Musique & Bavarian Radio. Press “It was worth the entire concert just to hear her sing that one song in perfect unison with the talented pianist, Mikhail Shekhtman. The beauty of his playing, his majesty, gives chills to us all. They feed off each other beautifully and the dynamics showcase the incredible musicianship of the performers” — Victoria Kennedy. “Wonderfully delicate Mozart touch” – Herbert Blomstedt (Adventliche Concert at the Leipzig Gewandhaus) "Extraordinary sound" - Pizzicato Luxembourg (Remy Franck) "Astonishing conductor & pianist" - RG.ru (Maria Babalova) "The real star of the evening was the conductor - brilliant and charismatic Mikhail Shekhtman, who brought the house down leading the Symphony Orchestra of India" – Khushroo N Suntook (chairman and founder, NCPA) 21/11/2019 - SOI, Mumbai - Opening of the Festival 50 Years National Centre for Performing Arts) Recordings Shekhtman made his first professional recording released on Decca conducted Concerto Köln for Julia Lezhneva's new world premiere recording of Graun Opera Arias on Decca (2017) The CD was featured as 'Disc of the Month' of the Bavarian Radio. Shekhtman's concert pianist repertoire ranges from Scarlatti and Couperin to Prokofiev and Shostakovich with a focus towards works by J.S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven and Schubert. References Further sources 1989 births Living people

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Nasser El Sonbaty

Nasser El Sonbaty (October 15, 1965 – March 20, 2013) was an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He represented FR Yugoslavia at competitions. Early life Sonbaty was born in the German city of Stuttgart to an Egyptian father and a Yugoslav mother from Novi Pazar, Serbia. Sonbaty was a graduate of the University of Augsburg with a degree in history, political science, and sociology. He had two sisters and two brothers. Career Sonbaty began bodybuilding in 1983. His first competition was a Junior State Championship in Germany in 1985, where he placed 6th. His first appearance in the Mr. Olympia competition was in 1994, where he placed 7th. In total, Sonbaty competed in 13 amateur shows and 53 IFBB Pro shows. He qualified for 10 consecutive Mr. Olympia contests and entered nine Mr. Olympia competitions. His best placing in the Mr. Olympia competition was in 1997, where he placed 2nd. Sonbaty was known for posing and training while wearing his trademark round spectacles; alongside his fluency in several languages, this is likely the basis for his nickname, "The Professor". Despite weighing over 300 lbs in the offseason, he could still show his full abdominal muscles. He has been featured in many international fitness and bodybuilding magazines, articles as well as being pictured on over 60 covers. Personal life Sonbaty split his time between San Diego, California and Costa Mesa, California. He died in his sleep during a visit to Cairo on March 20, 2013. Stats Height: 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) Competition weight: between 265 lbs (120 kg) and 290 lbs (131 kg) Off Season weight: between 300 lbs (136 kg) and 315 lbs (143 kg) Pro contest history 1990 Grand Prix Finland, 8th 1990 Grand Prix France, 7th 1990 Grand Prix Holland, 8th 1991 Night of Champions, Did not place 1992 Chicago Pro Invitational, 19th 1992 Night of Champions, Did not place 1993 Grand Prix France, 3rd 1993 Grand Prix Germany, 3rd 1994 Grand Prix France, 4th 1994 Grand Prix Germany, 4th 1994 Night of Champions, 2nd 1994 Mr. Olympia, 7th 1995 Grand Prix England, 4th 1995 Grand Prix France, 3rd 1995 Grand Prix Germany, 3rd 1995 Grand Prix Russia, 3rd 1995 Grand Prix Spain, 3rd 1995 Grand Prix Ukraine, 2nd 1995 Houston Pro Invitational, 1st 1995 Night of Champions, 1st 1995 Mr. Olympia, 3rd 1996 Grand Prix Czech Republic, 1st 1996 Grand Prix England, 2nd 1996 Grand Prix Germany, 2nd 1996 Grand Prix Russia, Winner 1996 Grand Prix Spain, 3rd 1996 Grand Prix Switzerland, 1st 1996 Mr. Olympia, 3rd 1997 Arnold Classic, 2nd 1997 Grand Prix Czech Republic, 3rd 1997 Grand Prix England, 3rd 1997 Grand Prix Finland, 4th 1997 Grand Prix Germany, 2nd 1997 Grand Prix Hungary, 2nd 1997 Grand Prix Russia, 3rd 1997 Grand Prix Spain, 2nd 1997 Mr. Olympia, 2nd 1997 San Jose Pro Invitational, 2nd 1998 Arnold Classic, 2nd 1998 Grand Prix Finland, 3rd 1998 Grand Prix Germany, 3rd 1998 Mr. Olympia, 3rd 1999 Arnold Classic, 1st 1999 Grand Prix England, 6th 1999 Mr. Olympia, 6th 1999 World Pro Championships, 6th 2000 Mr. Olympia, 5th 2001 Mr. Olympia, 9th 2002 Arnold Classic, 10th 2002 Mr. Olympia, 15th 2004 Night of Champions, 15th 2004 Show of Strength Pro Championship, 14th 2005 Europa Supershow, 14th Training videos Nasser On The Way - Video Part I - 1999 Nasser On The Way - Video Part II - 2000 Nasser On The Way - Video Part III - 2001 Nasser On The Way - Video Part IV - 2002 Nasser On The Way - Video Part V - 2003 Nasser On The Way - Video Part VI - 2004 Nasser On The Way - Video Part VII - 2005 See also List of male professional bodybuilders List of female professional bodybuilders References External links Gallery of Nasser El Sonbaty (his images will be hosted here in the near future) Nasser's Official Site (Site taken down due to legal issues.) 1965 births 2013 deaths German Muslims Professional bodybuilders Yugoslav bodybuilders German bodybuilders German people of Egyptian descent German people of Serbian descent German people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/147th%20meridian%20east

147th meridian east

The meridian 147° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 147th meridian east forms a great circle with the 33rd meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 147th meridian east passes through: {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" width="130" | Co-ordinates ! scope="col" | Country, territory or sea ! scope="col" | Notes |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Arctic Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | East Siberian Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | ! scope="row" | | Sakha Republic — island of New Siberia |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | East Siberian Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Sakha Republic Magadan Oblast — from |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Sea of Okhotsk | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | Kuril Islands | Island of Iturup, administered by (Sakhalin Oblast), but claimed by (Hokkaidō Prefecture) |-valign="top" | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just east of Shikotan island, Kuril Islands (at ) Passing just west of Satawal island, (at ) |- | ! scope="row" | | Manus Island |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Bismarck Sea |- | ! scope="row" | | Long Island |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Bismarck Sea |- | ! scope="row" | | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Solomon Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Huon Gulf |- | ! scope="row" | | |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Coral Sea | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |-valign="top" | ! scope="row" | | Queensland New South Wales — from Victoria — from |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Bass Strait | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Passing just east of Hogan Island, Tasmania, (at ) |- | ! scope="row" | | Tasmania |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Pacific Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Australian authorities consider this to be part of the Southern Ocean |- | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | ! scope="row" style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Southern Ocean | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | |- | ! scope="row" | Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by |- |} See also 146th meridian east 148th meridian east References e147 meridian east

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Devilliers

Jay Devilliers

Jocelyn “Jay” Devilliers (born December 18, 1994) is a French professional pickleball player. As of August 12, 2023, he is ranked No. 4 in the world for Men's Singles, No. 7 in the world for Men's Doubles, and No. 9 in the world for Men's Mixed Doubles by the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA). Personal life Devilliers was born in Rosny-Sous-Bois, France on December 18, 1994. During his childhood, he would compete in multiple varsity sports consisting of soccer, tennis, handball, swimming, squash, badminton, table tennis and skiing. He had excelled greatly in tennis and soccer, but would have to choose one to continue in, ultimately he would choose tennis. In 2009, Devilliers would leave his home country and move to Barcelona, Spain where he would continue his training in Tennis, and while living there, completed his high school diploma and had met his future wife, Aleksandra Trifunovic. Unfortunately, after suffering a severe injury, Devillers was unable to compete at a professional level of tennis, so he made the decision to accept a College Tennis Scholarship at the Wichita State University. In 2013, Devilliers had joined the Men's Tennis Team at Wichita State University. After graduation, he would be introduce to pickleball and had noticed it had many similarities to Tennis, and how it did not require as much physical effort as tennis did, which inspired him to start competing as a hobby in 2020. He now competes full time and is working on growing the sport in his home country, France. As of August 2023, he currently resides in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Pickleball career Devilliers started his professional pickleball career in 2020, and has won multiple tournaments throughout his career. His highest PPA Career ranking was No. 2 in Men's Singles; No. 3 in Men's Doubles; and No. 2 in Mixed Doubles. As of August 2023, In the PPA he is sponsored by Bemer Group, Ultimate RepairX, and Vulcan Advanced Logic Pickleball, and currently uses the Vulcan V740 Max Jay Devilliers Signature paddle. 2020 Devilliers has won gold at the 2020 APP Cincinnati Open in the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles division, and has won gold at the 2020 APP Hilton Head in the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles division. He's won silver at the 2020 APP Hilton Head in the Men's Doubles division, and has won silver at the 2020 APP Chicago Open in the Men's Singles division. He's won bronze at the 2020 PPA Florida Grand Slam in the Men's Singles division, the APP Cincinnati Open in the Men's Doubles division, and the 2020 PPA Texas Open in the Men's Singles Division. 2021 Devillers has won gold at the 2021 APP Cincinnati Open in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 APP Indianapolis Open in the Men's Singles and Men's Doubles division, the 2021 APP Los Angeles Open in the Men's Singles and Men's Doubles division, the 2021 APP SoCal Classic Open in the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles Division, the 2021 APP Beer City Open in the Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles Division, the 2021 APP Pacific NW in the Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles division, the 2021 APP Chicago Open in the Men's Singles division, and the PPA Championship in the Men's Singles division. He has won silver at the 2021 World Pickleball Championship in the Men's Singles and Men's Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Mesa Grand Slam in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 APP Delray Beach Open in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Georgia Open Men's in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Orange County Cup in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 Newport Open in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 APP Beer City Open in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 PPA Showcase in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 APP Chicago Open in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Orlando in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2021 APP Atlanta Open in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Texas Open in the Mixed Doubles division, and the 2021 APP Hilton Head in the Mixed Doubles division. He has won bronze at the 2021 APP Masters in the Men's Doubles division, the 2021 PPA Mesa Grand Slam in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 PPA Florida Grand Slam in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 PPA Georgia Open in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 APP SoCal Classic Open in the Men's Singles division, the 2021 Newport Open in the Men's Singles division, and the 2021 PPA Championship in the Men's Singles division. 2022 Devillers has won gold at the 2022 APP Mesa Open in the Mixed Doubles division and the 2022 PPA Selkirk Showdown in the Men's Doubles division. He has won silver at the 2022 PPA JW Marriott Phoenix Open in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Indoor National Championship in the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Riverland Open in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Cincinnati Grands Slam in the Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Texas Round Up in the Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles division, and the 2022 PPA N2grate DC Open in the Men's Singles division. He has won bronze at the 2022 PPA Riverland Open in the Men's Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Austin Open in the Men's Singles, Men's Doubles, and the Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA St George Open in the Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Tournament of Champions in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Peachtree Classic in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2022 PPA Takeya Open in the Men's Singles division, and the 2022 PPA Hertz Orlando Open in the Men's Doubles division. 2023 Devillers has won silver at the 2023 PPA Arizona Grand Slam in the Men's Singles division. He has won bronze at the 2023 PPA Hyundai Masters Open in the Men's Doubles division, the 2023 PPA Indoor National Championships in the Men's Singles division, the 2023 PPA Florida Open in the Mixed Doubles division, the 2023 PPA Red Rock Open in the Men's Singles division. References 1994 births Living people Pickleball players French sportsmen

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo%20Zenti

Girolamo Zenti

Girolamo Zenti (Viterbo c.1609 - Paris c.1666) (also: Girolama de Zenti, Gerolamo de Sentis, Hieronymus de Zentis) was an Italian harpsichord maker and organ builder in the 17th century. He is known as the probable inventor of the bentside spinet and for having traveled unusually extensively to practice his trade at the courts of Europe, including Rome, Florence, Paris, London and Stockholm. Biography Information on Zentis life is fragmentary and spread wide. Zenti was born in Viterbo, near Rome, and was registered as an instrument maker in the papal capital by 1638. He was apprentice to Giovani Battista Boni, and took over the workshop at the latter's death in 1641. He took a commission at the Swedish court in 1653, serving Queen Christina for several years. He took an Organ building project in Rome in 1660, but left the instrument unfinished for Paris. By 1664 he was in service at the newly restored English court of Charles II. He received the title of The King's virginal maker, but was back in Rome before the year was out. Two years later he was again in Paris, where he died in 1666. At some point he was probably in service of the Medici family in Florence, for an inventory made at Bartolomeo Cristofori's arrival there in 1700 lists six Zenti instruments. Zenti and the bentside spinet It is not proven that Zenti invented the bentside spinet, but the earliest existing bentside spinet (1631) is by Zenti, and the instrument became popular, especially in Britain, after his travels there. The final clue giving this theory support is that in France the bentside spinet was called: espinette á l'italienne. Surviving instruments No instruments from his time in northern Europe have been discovered, but around a dozen instruments from Italy have been attributed to him, although only two with certainty, a bentside spinet and a harpsichord. The most famous is without doubt the 1631 bentside spinet now in Brussels. A true inner instrument of thinwalled cypress in an ornate outer box, single scale in brass. A harpsichord, now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, dated to the year of his death in 1666, is a single manual, 2x8', true inner-outer instrument, notably restored by Cristofori's apprentice, Giovani Ferrini, bearing the inscription: "HIERONYMUS ZENTI FECIT ROMAE A.S. MDCLXVI/ JOANNES FERRINI FLORENTINVS RESTAVRAVIT MDCCLV" The Metropolitan museum also houses an octave spinet probably by Zenti of unusually small size, possibly made for a child. In the Deutsches Museum in Munich there is an instrument traced through organological evidence to Zenti, that regrettably is a victim of Leopoldo Franciolini, a noted antiques fraudster in the late 19th century who ruined the instrument by installing two extra keyboards to pump up its price. See also List of historical harpsichord makers Giovanni Batista Giusti (harpsichord maker) Bartolomeo Cristofori References Sources Kottick EL, A History of the Harpsichord, 2003, Indiana University Press. Kipnis I, The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia, 2013, Routledge Boalch, Builders of the Harpsichord and clavichord 1480 - 1840, 1 ed, 1956, Oxford University Press. External links Photo and description of the 1666 harpsichord at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York Photo and description of the octave spinet attributed to Zenti at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York A video of Julian Perkins performing on the harpsichord attributed to Girolamo Zenti in the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park. 1609 births 1666 deaths Inventors of musical instruments 17th-century Italian inventors Italian musical instrument makers Harpsichord makers 17th-century Italian businesspeople People from Viterbo

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme%20from%20The%20Dukes%20of%20Hazzard%20%28Good%20Ol%27%20Boys%29

Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)

The "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Waylon Jennings. It was released in August 1980 as the second single from the album Music Man. Recognizable to fans as the theme to the CBS comedy adventure television series The Dukes of Hazzard, the song became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1980. Song lyrics Just the good ol' boys Never meaning no harm Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Straightening the curves, flattening the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em but the law never will Making their way, the only way they know how That's just a little bit more than the law will allow Just the good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could Fighting the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods Song history As the narrator for the movie Moonrunners (1975), Jennings was tapped to serve in the same capacity for The Dukes of Hazzard which premiered on CBS in 1979 and was based on Moonrunners. Jennings wrote the theme song for the show and recorded two versions: the television theme version and a slightly different version made commercially available on both single and album which received radio airplay. The television show version features Larry McNeely's banjo work which the commercially available version does not. Additionally, the television version's third verse contains the lyric, "Fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods", which is accompanied by a "Yee-haw!" said by characters, Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), though it is in fact Schneider's vocal used twice. The commercially available version receiving radio airplay contains a musical bridge which follows the first verse and chorus. Also, following the commercial version's second chorus, Jennings makes a tongue-in-cheek reference to his faceless appearance in the credits by singing, "I'm a good ol' boy, you know my mama loves me, but she don't understand, they keep-a showin' my hands and not my face on TV" (a statement referring to the opening shot in the television theme version where Jennings is only shown below the neck playing guitar). Most of Jennings' greatest hits albums and various compilation releases containing the "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)" feature the commercially available version. Commercial performance In November 1980, "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)" became Jennings' twelfth #1 country hit overall (tenth as a solo recording act). The song spent seventeen weeks on the Billboard country singles charts and became his biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #21. It also appeared on several other music charts. The original 1980 single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales over a million. Subsequent to the 2005 movie, the song was certified platinum in 2007 for a million ringtone sales. Note: the certification sales qualification levels had been changed in 1989. Charts Other versions The song was covered by the Swedish Lo-fi-group Loosegoats on their demo For Sale by Owner but has never been featured on any of their full-length albums. Rapper Lil Wyte sampled the song on his song "Comin' Yo Direction" off his album Doubt Me Now. The song was frequently covered live by Ween during their brief country phase. Other artists Waylon Jennings' son Shooter Jennings is known for singing "Good ol' Boys" at the Dukefests, which honor the series, and his late father. Along with Willie Nelson and Ben L. Jones (Cooter on the series), Waylon Jennings sang the song in an extended version. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song while driving The General Lee for their album The Chipmunks Go Hollywood (1982). In 2006, John Schneider (Bo Duke), Tom Wopat (Luke Duke), and Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) made a music video, as seen on the 7th Season DVD of the series. Schneider also covered the song. In The Dukes of Hazzard film adaptation (2005), a recording of Waylon Jennings was used in one scene, also, as heard on the soundtrack, by Willie Nelson (Uncle Jesse in the film). In the film The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007), country singer John Anderson sings the theme. Rock band Cage9, performed a cover version of the song was heard in the trailers from the same two films. Nike used the song in an advertising campaign featuring NFL star Randy Moss and NBA star Jason Williams, who were teammates in the same high school in rural Belle, West Virginia. The song was featured in Supernatural season 15's "Last Call" where it was sung by Jensen Ackles and Christian Kane as their characters Dean Winchester and Lee Webb. Josh Turner released a version of the song on his Country State Of Mind cd Mexican country group The Forasteros covers the theme song live. John Schneider has released 2 album versions and sung the song with Ray Stevens and several others through the years. References Further reading Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006. Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007. 1980 singles Waylon Jennings songs Comedy television theme songs The Dukes of Hazzard Songs written by Waylon Jennings RCA Records singles 1980 songs

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chong%20Lim

Chong Lim

Chong Voon Lim (born 1958 in Ipoh, Malaysia) is a Malaysian-born Australian-based musical director, keyboardist, producer, and session musician. Lim attended St. Michael's Institution for secondary education. He relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 1977, where he attended Geelong College, and then completed a mechanical engineering course at the University of Melbourne from 1978 to 1981. Lim has toured with Jermaine Jackson and John Farnham, after Farnham's long-time collaborator David Hirschfelder left to concentrate on film scores. He has toured and been music director and producer for Olivia Newton-John since 1998 and is patron of the Olivia Newton-John Foundation. Lim is a consultant for the musical instrument company Roland Corporation, producer of an album for Tommy Emmanuel and wrote music for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, was musical director and composer for the closing ceremony of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was also musical director for the stage version of Dirty Dancing, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and Kylie Minogue's Intimate and Live Tour. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours Lim was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "significant service to the performing arts as a musician, composer, producer and musical director, and to the community". Career 2000 Sydney Olympics Lim composed several pieces of work for both the 2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. He composed "Nature", an opening ceremony piece, as well as "Journey of Angels", which was played during the placing of the flags. Lim also produced two works for the Opening Ceremony including "Heroes Live Forever", as well as "Dare to Dream", which was sung by Olivia Newton-John and long-time colleague and friend John Farnham. The closing ceremony also included production by Lim, such as "Under the Southern Skies", which was performed by Nikki Webster. He also produced "We'll Be One", the theme song of the Olympics, as well as arranging "Dancing Queen" sung by Kylie Minogue at the Closing Ceremony. All of Lim's original scores of his compositions can now be found in the National Archives of Australia in Canberra. Ceremonies Lim was the musical director of the closing ceremony for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and also directed and composed "Don't Dream It's Over" sung by Sarah Blasko and Paul Kelly at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Lim also composed segments of the opening ceremony of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. From 2010 and the six years following, Lim was the musical director for the Melbourne Cup Opening Ceremonies, and was the musical director of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Melbourne. Lim also continued these successes globally, where was an arranger for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. More recently, Lim has worked on National Sporting Event entertainment such as musically directing the 2020 AFL Grand Final and 2021 AFL Grand Final half time show, in which he also arranged for and conducted the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 2020. Lim was also the musical director for the 2020-21 Big Bash League season in Tasmania, as well as the musical director and producer of the Opening entertainment for the 2021 Australian Open and 2022 Australian Open Women's Semi and Grand Final. John Farnham Lim began working for John Farnham in 1994, working as his musical director. Since this beginning, Lim has been a long-standing band and crew member, musically directing almost every tour and event that Farnham has conducted. These include: In 2016 Lim also produced John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John's Christmas album Friends for Christmas.’ Television From 1999 to 2008 Lim was the musical director for the Australian Logie Awards, which is broadcast nationally each year. Since 2004 Lim has worked as musical director for the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, running for 15 consecutive seasons. Lim musically directed for the Australian talent show It Takes Two, which ran for three seasons from 2006 to 2008 and has been music director of the Victorian Schools Spectacular since 2011. In 2020 Lim also musically directed and arranged for Amy Shark at the ARIA Music Awards. Directing and composition Lim began his musical directing career in Australia in 1997, when he directed and composed a group of works for the opening of the Atrium Crown Melbourne, which still plays to this day. This included not only works of Lim's production, but also live conducting with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 1998 Lim co-produced the original I Still Call Australia Home Qantas Advertisements with Lindsay Field. In 1998 Lim secured the role of musical director for Grease: The Arena Spectacular, which returned for a second season in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Lim has also continued to direct and compose in the Asia-Pacific region, including Citrawarna in Kuala Lumpur, Bali Agung for the Bali Marine and Safari Park, and Pearl of the Seas in the Jakarta Aquarium. From 2000, Lim continued to direct shows in Australia, including the Motown Tour in 2009 (feat The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha Reeves, The Miracles, Mary Wilson) to The Mission Estate Concert with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 2014, Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage in 2015 to Disney Under the Stars in 2015 (featuring David Campbell, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Harrison Craig and Lucy Durack). Lim was also the co-creator and musical director of Rolling Thunder the Musical. In 2017 Lim directed his first Good Friday Appeal Super Show in Melbourne, becoming an annual occurrence. Discography Charted albums Production discography In 2001 Lim produced Nikki Webster's "Strawberry Kisses", which peaked at number two on the ARIA Charts for seven consecutive weeks. It was certified gold by ARIA in its second week, and was shortly after certified platinum. Lim went on to produce David Campbell's third and fourth studio albums The Swing Sessions and The Swing Sessions 2 in 2006 and 2007 (both certified platinum), also producing Campbell's tenth studio album Back in the Swing in 2019. In 2011 Lim Produced Sarah McKenzie's first and second studio albums Don't Tempt Me and Close Your Eyes, which were both nominated for Best Jazz Album at the ARIA Awards, with Close Your Eyes winning the ARIA for that year. He also produced her studio album Secrets of My Heart, which was recorded in New York. Tours In 1998 Lim was the musical director for Kylie Minogue's Intimate and Live tour in support of her album Impossible Princess. Lim went on in 1999 to musically direct Olivia Newton-John's One Woman's Journey Tour in the United States. In 2015, Lim was the musical director of the All You Need Is Love Tour, going on in 2017 to direct the Elvis The Wonder of You Tour in Australia. Awards ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. |- | 2012 | Sarah McKenzie's Close Your Eyes | ARIA Award for Producer of the Year | |- | 2019 | Rolling Thunder | Helpmann Award for Best Composer | |} References Sources Australian Musician, issue 14, Winter 1998 External links Living people Australian musicians Australian keyboardists Malaysian emigrants to Australia Members of the Order of Australia 1958 births

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BAI (organization)

BAI (the Bank Administration Institute) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that provides research, training, and thought leadership events for the financial services industry. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, BAI also operates Banking Strategies, a daily online financial services publication. Organization BAI's mission is to give financial services leaders confidence, information, and resources in order to make smart business decisions, every day. BAI's mission is created on the belief that a strong financial services industry helps consumers, businesses, and communities thrive. BAI's members include national and global banks, credit unions, mortgage and auto loan providers, money service businesses, and larger lending institutions. In 2016, over 250,000 financial services individuals at more than 1,500 financial services organizations took compliance and professional training courses through BAI. History In 1924, several representatives of regional auditors' groups met to discuss issues in the auditing industry. Later that same year they created a national organization—the National Association of Bank Auditors and Controllers (NABAC) —and began to hold annual conventions and distribute a magazine focused on financial industry topics. In the 1940s, the NABAC established its own office—first in Cleveland and later in Chicago. And the organization began to provide both education and technical research for its members. In 1957, the organization set up the NABAC Research Institute as the first official, collective research effort for the banking industry. In 1969, NABAC rebranded as Bank Administration Institute (BAI), and had approximately 8,000 member institutions across the U.S. In 1981, BAI launched the first electronic information services—Innerline—providing 24-hour access to world news briefs, American Banker news service, financial information on 8,500 publicly held corporations, and email and online registration for BAI conferences. As of 1997, BAI co-sponsored with ECCHO (Electronic Check Clearing House Organization) the National Electronic Check and Image Exchange Conference. In 2014, BAI recognized 90 years of service to the financial services industry and provided more than 250,000 individuals with compliance and professional training. Business lines BAI is organized into three major divisions: Research, Learning and Development, and Conferences and Events. BAI's Research division conducts data analysis using account-level data provided from participating financial services organizations. Once data is gathered, the data is then analyzed and compiled using BAI's proprietary database. BAI uses the data in order to present individual organizations with a comparison of their data with the larger peer group of participating organizations. All individual company data is kept confidential, and competitive data is available to participating organizations only in aggregate. As a non-profit organization, BAI does not provide advice or consulting as a part of its research services. Comparative data is presented without additional insight or opinion. BAI Research topics include industry trends, small business banking, retail banking, and commercial banking. Analytics that can be compared include deposit performance, forecasts, market opportunities, and branch performance. BAI Learning and Development division maintains a software course catalog through BAI's proprietary learning management system, the BAI Learning Manager, which can be accessed and managed by training administrators. The catalog includes more than 250 courses for banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and other financial services organizations. Topics cover areas including financial regulations, compliance, professional skills, certifications, and human resources issues. Courses are available from entry to executive level. BAI's course catalog is regularly updated to reflect the latest regulatory trends and issues in compliance and can also be provided to a financial institution's own learning management platform. BAI compliance and professional training can be customized, is updated continually, and is compliant with national regulatory standards. BAI's Conferences and Events division hosts several industry events with the help of sponsors. Events include a comprehensive banking conference, a global awards program learning conference, executive roundtables, certification programs, and webinars throughout the year. The following are a few of the main events: BAI Global Banking Innovation Awards: An annual awards program that has operated since 2011, the BAI Global Banking Innovation Awards event recognizes innovators within the financial services industry worldwide. Nominations are submitted by the financial services organizations themselves, with winners selected by an independent judging panel, and given the awards at the annual ceremony. A majority of finalists and award winners have historically been awarded to financial services organizations located outside the U.S. BAI Beacon: Formerly two separate conferences—BAI Retail Delivery and BAI Payments Connect—BAI Beacon is a two-day "immersive experience" for those in the financial services industry. Topics include sales, marketing and product development, channel strategies, payments strategy and fraud, compliance, small business, analytics, and technology. In 2016, BAI Beacon served as the premiere of the U.S. FinTechStage. Speakers focus on innovation and industry trends. Webinars: BAI offers a variety of webinars each year month based on topics deemed relevant to the financial services industry. Topics include regulatory updates, small business banking, mobile payments, retail banking, security and fraud, and key industry trends. See also BAI (file format) References External links Business and finance professional associations Organizations based in Chicago

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Mr. Ricco

Mr. Ricco is a 1975 crime drama film directed by Paul Bogart and starring Dean Martin in his last leading film role, along with Eugene Roche, Denise Nicholas and Cindy Williams. Plot A murder charge is dropped against San Francisco black militant Frankie Steele, who is represented by liberal attorney Joe Ricco. Two police officers are then gunned down. An eyewitness, the young son of a friend of Ricco's, identifies Steele as the man he saw leaving the scene of the crime. Ricco is a lonely widower. He has a loyal secretary and a dog. His closest friend is George Cronyn, the detective in charge of the case. Cronyn is irate that Steele got away with killing a woman, Mary Justin, resulting in the deaths of two of his fellow officers. Cronyn and his men raid a hideout of Steele's organization, the Black Serpents. But while Steele manages to get away, a racist cop named Tanner kills the unarmed Calvin Mapes and plants a gun on him, then arrests his brother, Purvis Mapes. Their sister, Irene Mapes, who works in an art gallery, asks Ricco if he would be Purvis's lawyer. He agrees and uncovers evidence that Tanner was at fault. In exchange, Ricco persuades Purvis to reveal where the fugitive Frankie Steele can be found. Irene invites Ricco to the opening of a new art exhibit. Ricco also meets a woman, Katherine, with whom he becomes romantically involved. A sniper tries to shoot Ricco in his home. A neighbor, an old woman with poor eyesight, sees a man who once again resembles Steele. After a second attempt on his life, Cronyn assigns a cop named Barrett to tail Ricco wherever he goes. It makes no sense to Ricco, though, that Steele would want to kill his own lawyer. Ricco shakes the tail because he promised Purvis Mapes not to reveal Steele's whereabouts. He goes to a church and finds Steele, who denies killing the cops but blurts out that he did indeed murder the woman Mary Justin. A fistfight between the two men results, landing Ricco in the hospital. Regretting that he got a guilty man off, Ricco apologizes to Mary Justin's brother, who doesn't accept it, angrily accusing Ricco of being "an accessory." The racist cop Tanner is then found murdered. Ricco is relieved when Cronyn's men apprehend Steele. He goes to the black-tie affair at the art gallery, taking Katherine as his date and letting Barrett tag along. A sniper appears and takes aim. He hits Katherine by mistake, then shoots Barrett as well. Ricco grabs the cop's gun and gives chase. The killer wounds more cops before a shot by Ricco drops him. It is clearly Steele, but when the body is examined, it turns out to be Mary Justin's brother wearing a disguise. Cast Dean Martin as Joe Ricco Eugene Roche as George Cronyn Thalmus Rasulala as Frankie Steele Denise Nicholas as Irene Mapes Cindy Williams as Jamison Geraldine Brooks as Katherine Philip Michael Thomas as Purvis Mapes George Tyne as Lt. Barrett Production Dean Martin appeared in Mr. Ricco as his contract for appearing at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas included a commitment to star in a film for the hotel's parent company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Paul Bogart signed to direct the film in early 1974, at which stage the film was called Ricco. Reception Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "'Mr. Ricco' keeps us waiting through two hours of yawn inducing 'suspense' for an ending that's totally off the wall. There's no way to foresee it, the clues hinting at it make sense only in retrospect, and we leave feeling cheated." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded the same one-and-a-half star grade and stated, "Lackluster action (even the chase sequence is tepid) reveals the story as hackneyed for the black movie market. Dino seems hopelessly out of place without a backup chorus line of bikinied broads; the camera often catches him smiling when he should be scowling." Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "a very bad urban melodrama," adding, "Everything about the character Mr. Martin plays, a man named Ricco, looks like displaced Southern California: the tan, the hair-set and even the boredom, which suggests the fellow wants to get back to that old gang of his in the Polo Lounge as quickly as possible." Arthur D. Murphy of Variety panned the film as "a total waste of money. The film is a tedious and corny hodgepodge about a San Francisco criminal attorney whose client is suspected of murder. Compounded cliches and fatuous dramaturgy run amok in Douglas Netter's otherwise good-looking location production." Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a lethargic, mediocre melodrama," adding that "Paul Bogart's stiff direction suffers from the same low energy level that stifles the rest of the movie." Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that "Mr. Ricco never quite manages to pull itself together. Wandering nonchalantly through his customary relaxed charm routine with the aid of a shaggy dog who tactfully retrieves mis-hit balls on the golf course and provides some comic asides with the outraged owner of a virginal poodle next door, Dean Martin coolly belies the supposed atmosphere of racial tension the script works so hard to suggest." References External links 1975 films 1975 crime drama films American crime drama films Blaxploitation films Films directed by Paul Bogart Films scored by Chico Hamilton Films set in San Francisco Films shot in San Francisco Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films United Artists films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films

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Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai

"Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels; it aired November 27, 2011 on AMC, and was written by Jami O'Brien, directed by Alex Zakrzewski, and produced by Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton, Jeremy Gold, and John Shiban. The episode centers on Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) continuing his vengeful quest of justice for his wife's murder; Lily Bell (Dominique McElligott) arriving at Hell On Wheels and learning more about her deceased husband's employer, Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney), and his railroad; and Elam (Common) finding solace in the arms of another social outcast, Eva (Robin McLeavy), a prostitute bearing a Cheyenne facial tattoo. Plot Twenty miles west of Hell On Wheels, at a logging camp, Cullen learns that the mysterious "Harper" has already cut and run — direction, north. Hot on the trail, Cullen spots a figure dressed in Civil War garb, atop a horse. While viewing Harper through a pocket telescope, he sees and hears the man firing at him. Cullen returns fire. Harper strikes first, wounding Cullen's horse, which ends the pursuit. Lily Bell enters the cemetery made for the massacre victims. Thomas Durant approaches the disheveled, blood-stained woman and assumes she is Robert Bell's widow. He assures her that she is safe and asks how she found the town. She tells him "a southerner" brought her to safety, and Durant correctly guesses he was Bohannon. Durant invites Lily to lodge in his Pullman coach for her duration at Hell on Wheels, offering her clothing, food, and a hot bath (none of which she's had access to in quite some time). When Durant asks Lily if he can get her anything, she requests the reward for her retrieval, so she can give it to the person who deserves it. She doesn't name him to Durant but personally delivers the reward to Joseph Black Moon (Eddie Spears). Ridiculed that Eva, a cut-rate prostitute, will bed anything but a black man, Elam takes offense. Eva pulls him aside and explains that she will allow him to be a private customer, but for both their sakes, they must keep their liaisons a secret from the white men. At their first secret rendezvous, Eva tells Elam of the day she was sold to Indians for "three blankets and a horse". They bond over the fact that both of them were considered slaves at one time. At the saloon, the Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl) reveals to Bohannon that he knows Bohannon killed Johnson, but he doesn't know why. The Swede later pays Bohannon some money to overlook the Swede and his men taking some black powder barrels coming in on the train tomorrow. Later, on the street, Reverend Nathaniel Cole (Tom Noonan) condemns Cullen's drinking to "wash away his wickedness". Cole speaks of his own involvement in the brutal massacre called "Bleeding Kansas", a late 1850s conflict over whether or not Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state or free state. Cole was a follower of abolitionist John Brown's, and with Brown's other supporters, killed anyone who owned slaves. Cole admits that he and Cullen were like-minded when it came to slaves, but each had different motivations. The next morning, the shipment of gunpowder, which is used to loosen rocky ground, explodes on a rail car. Cullen and Lily pitch in to help the wounded, while others at Hell On Wheels attempt to clean up the damage. Once the situation seems under control, Cullen gives orders for the railroad builders to get back to the business at hand. Reception Reviews for this episode were positive. TV Fanatic's Sean McKenna thinks the series' characters are finally taking shape. "If you haven't been watching yet, it's time to stamp your ticket because Hell On Wheels is settling itself in as another of AMC's great dramas." IGN's Seth Amitin rated the episode as 7.5/10, saying the overall series still needs direction or "a story that leads its characters into something ... There's just too much going on, without enough focus." The fourth episode was seen by 3.28 million viewers and received a 1.2 rating among the 18-49 age group. Title reference The episode's title translates to: "I will never forget you". The phrase refers both to the characters' lost loves, current dreams, homelands, and various vendettas, and to "A la claire fontaine", the French song (sung in the episode by Henri (Andrew Moodie)) with the following lyrics and translation: "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, Jamais je ne t'oublierai." (I have loved you for so long, I will never forget you.) References External links TV.com: Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai TV Guide: Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai 2011 American television episodes Hell on Wheels (TV series) episodes

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Frieda Nadig

Friederike Nadig (11 December 1897 – 14 August 1970) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). One of the four women members of the Parlamentarischer Rat who drafted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1948/49, she was one of the . Life Friederike Charlotte Louise Nadig was born in Herford on 11 December 1897. Her father Wilhelm Nadig, a joiner, was a SPD politician who served in the Landtag of Prussia from 1919 to 1931. Her mother Luise Henriette Friederike Drewes was a seamstress. After being educated at a , Nadig completed vocational training as a sales clerk at the co-operative and worked as saleswoman from 1914 to 1920. From 1920 to 1922 she studied at the Social Women's School of Alice Salomon in Berlin, where she qualified as a social worker. From 1922, she was a youth social worker in the city of Bielefeld social office and volunteered in the (Worker's Welfare), a social aid organisation. In May 1933, Nadig was summarily dismissed from her job for "unreliability" based on her "Marxist attitude" and the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. After three years of unemployment and difficulties caused by the political reasons for her dismissal, she found a position at the public health office of Ahrweiler in early 1936 and stayed there until the end of the war, using her influence to protect people against Nazi euthanasia laws. In 1944/45, she was among those 2500 Ahrweiler residents who temporarily lived in the , a tunnel (part of the never-finished Strategic Railway Embankment) in a nearby mountain that was used as shelter from Allied bomb attacks. In 1946, after a query by Nadig, the city of Bielefeld annulled her 1933 dismissal, but Nadig took a salaried position at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Westfalen-Ost instead, where she was involved in the creation of retirement homes and childcare facilities. She retired from the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1966, as managing director of the regional office. Nadig died in Bad Oeynhausen on 14 August 1970. Political career Nadig became a member of the (worker's youth) in 1914 and joined the SPD in 1916. After gaining reputation as an expert for youth and women's issues within the regional SPD, she was elected a member of the provincial diet of Westphalia in 1929 and again in 1933, shortly before the provincial diet was dissolved. In the Nazi era, she was not allowed to be active politically. After the end of the war, Nadig helped rebuild the SPD in Bielefeld and in Ostwestfalen. In 1947, she became a member of the British Occupation Zone's and was later elected member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, serving from 20 April 1947 to 17 June 1950. In 1948, she was sent to the Parlamentarischer Rat in Bonn as a representative of North Rhine-Westphalia. Nadig was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1961, winning election as first-past-the post candidate three times, in the constituencies of Bielefeld-Stadt and Bielefeld-Halle. Her main political work was on women's equality in marriage and family law. Influence on the Parliamentary Council Nadig was one of only four women members of the Parliamentary Council, the four "Mothers of the Basic Law". She was one of 12 members of the , the committee responsible for foundational principles. She and Elisabeth Selbert were instrumental in having equal rights for women included in the Basic Law, and it was Nadig who proposed the SPD amendment motion to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights" in the committee session on 30 November 1948. It was rejected by the committee on that day and by the , the coordinating committee, on 3 December 1948. Selbert and Nadig organised a wide-ranging protest of women across German society, and a large number of letters and resolutions by women and women's organisations reached the Parliamentary Council. The coordinating committee then passed the equal rights amendment unanimously on 18 January 1949. Nadig attempted to explicitly include the right to equal pay, but the coordinating committee decided this was already implicit in the equal rights statement, however, this turned out not to be the case in practice. Nadig also attempted to guarantee equal rights for children born out of wedlock and worked to secure the right for conscientious objection in the Basic Law. References Footnotes Bibliography 1897 births 1970 deaths 20th-century German women politicians Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia People from Herford Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany Members of Parlamentarischer Rat

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Patrick Topping

Patrick Topping is an English DJ, music producer and the owner of the record label company Trick. With releases on Hot Creations, Hottrax and Relief Records, Topping has hit number 1's on the Beatport Tech House charts, and received DJ Awards for Newcomer DJ and Track of the Season in Ibiza for his summer hit "Forget" in 2014. He won Best Tech House DJ award in 2018. Early life Topping studied at the University of Edinburgh before starting a career as a DJ. Musical career Topping has built on his DJ career, from playing gigs at his own hometown club night formally known as Motion at Digital (Newcastle) to playing at clubs across the world including: Tomorrowland (Belgium), Awakenings (Netherlands), Winter Music Conference in Miami. In addition to this he holds a summer residency for Paradise at Ibiza's DC10. Patrick started his own label TRICK in early 2019 with his own release Watch What Ya Doing. As well a holding close ties with Jamie Jones' Hot Creations label and his first BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix was broadcast in 2015. He has helped many new artists, including Ewan Mcvicar with his release, Tell Me Something Good. In October 2020, he collaborated with his wife Hayley Topping for the single "New Reality" which was Annie Mac's Hottest Record in the World for BBC Radio 1. In 2022, Topping and his Label Trick held a residency at Ibiza’s DC10 for 9 weeks. He won DJ Mag ‘Best of British’ DJ of the year in December 2022 Discography EPs Patrick Topping – Walk On E.P Patrick Topping – Any Amounts EP [Hot Creations HOT037] Patrick Topping – Get Beasty EP [Hot Creations HOT042] Patrick Topping – Holiday [Defected Miami 2014] Patrick Topping – Too Much [Hot Creations Hot Summer Jams – HOTCCD004] Patrick Topping – Boxed Off EP [Hot Creations HOTC045] Patrick Topping – Taking Libz [Hot Creations HOTC082] Patrick Topping – Baddie EP [Repopulate Mars RPM002] Patrick Topping – Yes Chief [Kaluki Music 2017] Patrick Topping – Be Sharp Say Nowt [Hot Creations] Patrick Topping – Watch What Ya Doing [TRICK] Patrick Topping – Dungeon Freak [TRICK] Patrick Topping – Rocket Fuel [TRICK] Remixes Calvin Harris (with Dua Lipa) – One Kiss (Patrick Topping Remix) Steve Lawler – Do Ya (Patrick Topping Remix) [VIVa MUSiC – VIVA106] Sidney Charles – 303 Love Storey Feat. Hector Moralez (Patrick Topping Remix) [Avotre – AVOTRE010] Leon – Bloosh (Patrick Topping Remix) [D-FLOOR Music – DFL006] Yousef – For The Terraces (Patrick Topping Remix) [Circus Recordings – CIRCUS037] Cuartero & wAFF – Break A Sweat (Patrick Topping Remix) [Moon Harbor Recordings – MHR073] Coyu & Edu Imbernon – El Baile Aleman (Patrick Topping Remix) – [SUARA] Raumakustik – Dem A Pree (Patrick Topping Remix) – [Emerald City Music – EC007] Bookashade – Nightfalls (Patrick Topping Remix) Robyn – Ever Again (Patrick Topping Remix) Collaborations Green Velvet & Patrick Topping – Voicemail [Relief Records – RR2072] Green Velvet & Patrick Topping – When Is Now EP [Relief Records – RR2081] Mixes Patrick Topping – Essential Mix 18/04/15 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English DJs English house musicians

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Kelvin Thomas

Kelvin Skidmore Matthewson Thomas (14 September 191914 June 2019) was a Welsh conductor, composer, baritone, and author. He was the founder and conductor of The Silver Ring Choir of Bath, and one of the founders and first music director of the Bradford-on-Avon Choral Society. Background Born in Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales, Kelvin was one of the five children of the coal merchant Charles Thomas and his wife Lena Thomas. He received musical training from an early age from his musical parents. As a boy soprano from the age of five, in 1931 (aged twelve) he had a test recording for the Concord record label (the recording was never released). In 1927, the Thomas family removed from Cardiff to Bathampton near Bath, Somerset, and were later involved in the building of Bathampton Methodist Church. During his early years of performances, Thomas once performed in the same concert as the American actor and bass baritone Paul Robeson at the Colston Hall, Bristol. Having continued his musical studies (also playing the violin and piano) throughout his early years, and his interest in singing continued as a baritone (rather than soprano). After a period employed in his father's business as a coal merchant, he worked for the Engineering firm, Stothert and Pitt. Musical Activities The Silver Ring Choir of Bath In 1951, he founded the mixed voice chamber choir, The Silver Ring Choir of Bath, and was their Conductor and Musical Director for almost forty years (1951–90). During this time, the Choir featured regularly on BBC Radio and Television (1958–94), achieving great success and winning numerous competitions, including first in its class in the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The Choir also toured various countries including Germany (1961), Hungary (1971), and the United States (1976). Bradford-on-Avon Choral Society In 1986, when the pianist Gaynor Briscoe was founding the Bradford-on-Avon Choral Society, she invited him to become the Society's first Musical Director, a post which he filled for eight years (1986–94). From initial performances of part songs, anthems, and madrigals, the choir progressed to performing works such as Haydn's Creation, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Brahms's German Requiem, and later participated in annual Trowbridge and West Wiltshire Music Festivals, amongst others. Thomas also arranged and composed numerous pieces of music for these – and other – choirs (SATB), including many traditional Welsh and other melodies. One of his compositions was Samuel's Hymn, which he later recorded with The Silver Ring Choir of Bath. Other activities In addition to being a poet and composer, Thomas was also involved in several local and civic societies and organisations, including the Bathampton Historical Society, and was the author of works on local history. Thomas's lifelong involvement with Bathampton Methodist Church and musical career culminated, in 2013, in a fundraising concert held in his honour entitled My Life in Music during which his music, poetry, and compositions were performed. In 2017, aged 98, he again performed with The Silver Ring Choir of Bath in a Christmas Concert. Awards Thomas's notable local, national, and international activities and contribution to Music was recognised in his appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1981 New Year Honours List. Personal life In 1942, Thomas married Megan Jones (1921–2012), and they had five children (two boys and three girls). Singing on the weekend before he died, Thomas died, aged 99, at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, on 14 June 2019. Bibliography Books Musical arrangements Compositions Discography References External links 2019 deaths British male conductors (music) Musicians from Cardiff 21st-century British conductors (music) 20th-century composers British composers 20th-century British musicians 1919 births Welsh conductors (music) Music directors Members of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century composers 21st-century British musicians 20th-century British male musicians 21st-century British male musicians

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Marske Aerodrome

Marske Aerodrome was a First World War-era airfield used by the Royal Flying Corps, and later by the Royal Air Force, between 1917 and 1920. The aerodrome was just to the west of the village of Marske-by-the-Sea in Yorkshire (North Yorkshire), England. Marske aerodrome hosted air gunnery schools and trained pilots in tactics and methods of aerial combat so that they could be deployed to the front. Marske is known for being the aerodrome where W. E. Johns, author of the Biggles books, undertook his training, as well as being noted for some of the flying instructors who were famous among the aircrew cadre. History Whilst some civilian landing flights had been tested out on the beach below Marske, the aerodrome at Marske-by-the-Sea opened inland just west of the village on 25 June 1910. With the outbreak of the First World War, the site was surveyed for possible military use, however, it was not until the summer of 1917 that a spur was laid near Ryehills Farm at Marske from the railway line between Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea. This allowed for easy transport in of men and materials to build the aerodrome. The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) base opened officially on 1 November 1917, with the first occupants being No. 4 (Auxiliary) School of Aerial Gunnery. The site measured by and was furnished with 17 Bessonneau hangars along Green Lane at the west side, and four permanent sheds on the southern side each measuring by . The air-to-ground gunnery range was at the east end of the site on the cliff edge. Telegraph wires to the north and east were lowered to enable low flying. However, training by the No. 4 School was orientated towards pilots, whereas the back-seat gunners, were trained at No. 3 School in New Romney. In April 1918, just five days after the RFC became the Royal Air Force (RAF), both Harry Butler and W. E. Johns were posted in to No. 2 Aerial Gunnery School at Marske. During this period, the school started using the M.1c Bristol monoplane, which was delivered to Marske via the rail link. Not long after he was credited with shooting down the Red Baron, Captain Roy Brown was posted into Marske as a flying instructor. However, within three months, he had a serious accident which kept him in hospital until the First World War was over. Between April and August 1918, the 25th Aero Squadron of the United States Army Air Service, moved into Marske from Ayr to undertake training. They later deployed to France in August of the same year. On 29 September 1918, the commanding officer of one of the air training schools died when his aircraft plunged into the sea. Major Aizlewood had been practising aerial manoeuvres which were being recorded for a training film. The inquiry determined that his flying clothes became caught in the aircraft's controls. He was buried in the graveyard of St Germain's Church in Marske, overlooking the sea where he had crashed. The last school was closed in November 1919, however, the base was retained until 1920 with the site being listed as available for flying but having no facilities to cater for civilian traffic. During the railway strike of 1919, aircraft were used to deliver mail. Marske was one of the aerodromes used during the dispute. The site was re-used during the Second World War, but by the Royal Artillery, rather than the RAF. However, two pillboxes were constructed to protect the aerodrome, which was manned by regular soldiers from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, the Green Howards and the South Staffordshire Regiment. This was believed to have been in case the RAF needed to use the site as an emergency ground, and to prevent it being used by enemy forces. The four permanent hangars were demolished in the 1990s. In the early 1990s, part of the south-east corner of the site was converted into a housing estate named 'Barnes Wallis Way', after the famous wartime engineer Barnes Wallis. Its roads are named after aircraft from the Second World War, even though the site was not in use for the Air Force during that period. St Mark's Church in Marske, has an aviator's window which commemorates the death of a civilian flyer in 1912, but also has images and a dedication to the young men who trained at the aerodrome nearby. Based units Notable personnel Roy Brown (RAF officer) Captain Harry Butler Bert Hinkler, attended the gunnery school at Marske Captain W. E. Johns, author of the Biggles books Captain Stearne Tighe Edwards References Sources External links Aerial view hosted on ABCT that shows former landing zones Mapping from 1946 showing the hangars in grid NZ625225 (Erimus Hutments and the Aerodrome) Military units and formations established in 1917 Marske World War I airfields World War I sites in England Military history of North Yorkshire

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wac%C5%82aw%20Struszy%C5%84ski

Wacław Struszyński

Wacław Struszyński (; 1904–1980) was a Polish electronics engineer who made a vital contribution to the defeat of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. He designed an exceptional radio antenna which enabled effective high frequency (HF) radio direction finding systems to be installed on Royal Navy convoy escort ships. Such direction finding systems were referred to as HF/DF or Huff-Duff, and enabled the bearings of U-boats to be determined when the U-boats made high frequency radio transmissions. Early life Struszynski was born in Wieruszów near Łódź (now in Poland) in 1904. He spent his youth in Moscow, but the family returned to Poland in 1918. He received his master's degree in Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) at the Warsaw University of Technology in 1929, and joined the Polish State Telecommunication Establishment, where he became head of the Direction Finding Division. When Poland was invaded in 1939, he was evacuated from Warsaw, and reached England in 1940. Struszynski's father was chemist Professor Marceli Struszynski of the Warsaw University of Technology. During the Second World War, he worked with the Polish resistance, and analyzed the fuel used in the V2 rocket. Career World War II Radio direction finding and U-boat tracking In World War II, the U-boat wolf packs were organised by high frequency radio, in which long range communication was achieved by the reflection of radio signals from the ionosphere. German radio signals were decoded at Bletchley Park in England (termed Ultra intelligence), and when this revealed the intentions of the U-boats, convoys could be routed to avoid them. However, the convoys always had to be prepared for possible attacks. There was an urgent need for convoy escort ships to know the bearings of U-boats, by determining the direction of the source of their radio transmissions. However, the technical problems of realising a seaborne high-frequency direction finding system were severe in comparison to those of a land based system. This was mainly due to the very detrimental effect of radio signal reflections from the ship's superstructure, which could cause severe errors in the required measurement of U-boat bearings. The key to an operational system was the design of an effective seaborne direction finding antenna, which was an extremely difficult task. Struszynski's solution On his arrival in England, Struszynski joined the staff of HM Signal School (later called the Admiralty Signal Establishment), and in a very short time, he not only proposed a solution to the problem of signal reflection, but also introduced 'sense' into the antenna, to distinguish between radio signals arriving from the correct direction to those offset by 180 degrees. He also led a team at HM Signal School that developed a practical antenna, which enabled effective high frequency direction finding systems to be installed on Royal Navy convoy escort ships. A comprehensive account of the work on HF/DF at HM Signal School is given by Redgment, who worked with Struszynski during and after the war, and details of the antenna are described by Struszynski et al., and by Bauer. Importance of seaborne HF/DF The Germans considered that the technical problems of seaborne radio direction finding could not be adequately solved, and U-boats continued to use their high frequency radios, revealing their bearings to convoy escorts. An escort ship could then steer in the direction of a U-boat, forcing it to be defensive, and possibly destroying it. Alternatively, Allied aircraft could be advised of the bearings. In his authoritative book 'Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945', the American naval historian Clay Blair Jr. refers to Struszynski's achievement of antenna design as "a breakthrough of transcendent importance." He also states that "The popular rush to credit radar, and later codebreaking, for the defeat of the U-boat left the equally effective but less glamorous and more difficult to understand Huff-Duff in the shadows". Enigma historian Ralph Erskine ('Military Communications: from ancient times to the 21st Century') states, "An operational research report based on Ultra estimated that without shipborne high frequency direction finding, Allied convoy losses in early 1943 would have been 25 to 50 percent higher, with U-boat kills being reduced by one-third." This was the time of the essential defeat of the U-boat in the North Atlantic. Also, the German naval historian Jürgen Rohwer ('The Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943') concludes, after examination of official British and German records, and many lengthy discussions with the wartime Commander of U-boats, Karl Dönitz, "If we analyse the great convoy battles between June 1942 and May 1943—including both those operations which the Germans regarded as successful and those which ended as either minor successes or failures—the remarkable fact is that the outcome always depended decisively on the efficient use of high frequency direction finding". Rohwer also notes that, during the war, the Germans, being unaware of seaborne high frequency direction finding, concluded that their U-boat failures were due to Allied radar developments. Thus German records stress the relevance of radar, and not of seaborne HF/DF. Both radar and HF/DF (and ASDIC) were vital electronic techniques in the defeat of the U-boats, but HF/DF had the advantage of being able to determine the bearing of a U-boat at a range far greater than seaborne radar could achieve. Later career Struszynski subsequently worked at the Marconi Research Laboratories, later renamed the Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, England, where he was a consultant in communications research until his retirement. See also Anti-submarine warfare List of World War II British naval radar List of World War II electronic warfare equipment Radar in World War II Radio direction finder Signals intelligence References External links "HF/DF An Allied Weapon against German U-Boats 1939-1945" Improvements in and relating to radio direction-finding systems, particularly for use at high-frequency 1904 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Polish engineers British people of World War II History of air traffic control 20th-century Polish inventors 20th-century British inventors Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teseida

Teseida

Teseida (full title: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books, its notional subject is the career and rule of the ancient Greek hero Theseus (Teseo), although the majority of the epic tells the story of the rivalry of Palemone and Arcita for the love of Emilia. It is the main source of "The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and therefore is the original source of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The exact sources of Boccaccio's knowledge about the ancient Greek world are unknown, but is likely that he gained the knowledge through his close friendship with Paolo de Perugia, a medieval collector of ancient myths and tales. Jeanne de la Font gained fame in the sixteenth century by writing a French verse adaption of Teseida. Synopsis Book I: The women of Scythia rebel against the men and elect Ipolita (Hippolyta) as their queen. Teseo (Theseus) decides to purge this sin and launches an expedition into Scythia, the land of the Amazons. He attacks the fortress of Ipolita and sends her a message asking her either to surrender or to be ready to die. There his expedition is victorious against the warrior women. She finally surrenders with a pact whereby she becomes his queen. Teseo is also attracted by the beauty of her sister Emilia. Book II: Returning home to Athens with Ipolita, he encounters on the road a group of women from Thebes. They are the widows of nobles and heroes defeated by the new ruler there, Creon, who has refused to let the bodies of the vanquished be buried. At their entreaty, Teseo reroutes his army to Thebes (sending Ipolita on to Athens under guard) and there does battle against Creon. Teseo is victorious again. In the aftermath, Teseo's soldiers find two cousins nearly dead on the battlefield. They are Palemone and Arcita, who belong to the Theban royal family. So Teseo orders them taken with him to Athens to be imprisoned for life. Book III: From out of the window of their shared prison cell, both men spy Ipolita's younger sister, Emilia, and are instantly smitten. But neither has any hope of pursuing the object of his ardor. However, at the intercession of Peritoo, a friend of Teseo, Arcita is released from prison under the condition that he will leave Athens and never return. Book IV: Both men are now beside themselves with love agony: Palemone because he remains in prison where he can see Emilia but can't reach her; Arcita because he can't even see Emilia, forced as he is to stay out of Athens on pain of death. But after years pass and he has become gaunt from his love agonies, Arcita looks very different from his previous appearance. So he decides to risk all by returning to Athens under that disguise, adopting the name Penteo. There he manages to secure a position in Teseo's court and gradually gains prominence. Book V: Still in prison, Palemone eventually learns of Arcita's return and becomes wildly jealous. This leads him to make a daring escape and then confront Arcita in a grove where Arcita frequently goes to sigh out this love. The two commence a duel to the death but are soon interrupted by Teseo who happens to be leading a hunting party through that very grove. Learning who the combatants are and the cause of their dispute, he decrees that the two must fight it out formally in the lists, the victor to win the hand of Emilia. He gives the two a year to scour the world and gather a hundred of the noblest knights each. Book VI: A year later the opposing champions arrive and are described in detail, as is the arena specially built for the contest. Book VII: Just before the morning of battle, the opposing lovers, as well as Emilia (who wants to remain single), pray to their respective deities. And each receives a positive sign that seems to contradict the signs received by the others. The battle is then prepared for. Book VIII: The two opposing armies engage in a battle that is described in detail. But it soon comes down to a contest between the two lovers. Finally, Arcita gains the victory, doing so without killing Palemone. Book IX: Arcita is accidentally injured. But he is still able to celebrate his victory and marry Emilia. Book X: Then Arcita, after much suffering, dies from his wounds. Book XI: He is given a hero's funeral that is described in elaborate detail. Book XII: In the end, Teseo determines that Emilia and Palemone should marry, and this is done. Thus all the seemingly contradictory prophesies of the gods (given in Book VII) are fulfilled. References Critical Edition by Edvige Agostinelli and William Coleman, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015; Foundazione Ezio Franceschini, Firenze, Archivio Romanzo 30, (www.sismel.it); 538 pages: Contents and Introduction (pp. V-XXIII); Editorial Criteria (pp. XXV-XXXII); Appendices 1-7 (pp. XXXIII-CXXVIII); Bibliography (pp. CXXIX - CXXXI); Poem and Glosses (pp. 1–392); Notes to the Text (pp. 393–405); Notes to the Glosses (pp. 407–416). 1340 works 1341 works 14th-century poems Medieval literature Works by Giovanni Boccaccio Cultural depictions of Theseus Epic poems Hippolyta Works based on classical mythology

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bunyip%20%28musical%29

The Bunyip (musical)

The Bunyip, also known by the longer title The Enchantment of Fairy Princess Wattle Blossom, was written by Ella Palzier Campbell (aka Ella Airlie). The pantomime was a highly successful musical comedy that toured Australia for a decade within Fuller Brothers theatre circuit. The show was produced by Sydney entrepreneur Nat Philips. The premiere of the show ran for at least 97 performances and was revived several times over the following decade. Production history Music was supplied by a number of Australian stage personalities including Vince Courtney, Herbert De Pinna and James Kendis. A Melbourne National Gallery student P. Cohen was enlisted to paint the sets with Australian flowers, namely wattle and waratah, on costumes also. Venues 1916 Grand Opera House, Sydney 1917 Princess Theatre, Melbourne 1917 Majestic Theatre, Adelaide 1918 Brisbane Empire 1924 Sydney Hippodrome Synopsis The story opens with a bushfire in which all the bush creatures are bought out into the open. Then it deals with the wanderings of princess Wattle Blossom, who falls into the hands of the Bush Gnomes, a proud race with a terrible way of doing things. The Lord High Gnome decrees that the Princess shall be turned into a bunyip, and this transformation takes place on the stage. The fairy princess is then rescued by the principal boy from the race of bush gnomes. A well-received stage effect was a shadow play of girls apparently disrobing behind a backlit screen, over which the (apparently) removed clothing was thrown. The play relied heavily on comic stereotypes of the time, including a Chinese cook, bumbling Jewish clowns, fierce Aboriginal warriors, and a drunken Australian lout – all contending with Wattle Blossom, the fairy princess in the original story. Musical numbers Bunyip / words & music by Herbert de Pinna Wattle blossom time in Australia / words and music by Fred Monument ; arranged by Geo. Hurdle For you / words & music by Marsh Little Nulla nulla / words & music by Marsh Little I love you / words & music by Herbert de Pinna Mean old moon / Ella Airlie Back to Kosciusko / words and music by Ella Airlie Joan / words & music by Marsh Little Bills' enlisted / words by R. Boyer and H. de Pinna ; music by Herbert de Pinna If Captain Cook could come to life to-day / words by Con Moreni ; music by Nellie Kolle & Con Moreni Sonny mine / words & music by Herbert de Pinna Down in Australia / words & music by Marsh Little Nathan : sung by Roy Rene / by James Kendis My Chinee girl : the favourite one-step song / words and music by Vince Courtney Grey hair grey eyes / words by Nat Phillips ; music by Bert Reid Safety first / words and music by Henry T. Hayes – Dancers drilled by a child actor Mother waratah / words & music by Marsh Little Bunyip waltzes / arr. by Albert Evelyn Pierrot and Pierrette / lyric by Jean Lenox and Ray Sterling ; music by Leo Edwards Swinging along to Henty / words & music by Henry B. Hayes ; ukulele arr. by P. P. McGrath using Bishaw's method All I want is a cottage, some roses, and you / by Chas. K. Harris Characters Wattle Blossom – a fairy princess Wattle Blossom's attendant Chief Gnome Joan – principal 'girl' Jack – principal 'boy' Squatter Hadfield Mrs Wiggins Ah Fat (Chinese cook) played by Vince Courtney Swaggie swagman Extras – An Aboriginal corroboree and bush sprite dancers Arthur – a halfwit Tower – a lofty fellow Comedy duo 'Stiffy and Mo' Cast The cast changed across several venues. For example, in Adelaide the crowd was treated to a boomerang thrower safely tossing weapons above their heads Nat Philips (producer) and Roy Rene played Stiffy and Mo. Peter Brooks originally played the Swaggie, but was replaced by drag Swagman impersonator Nellie Kolle. Villiers Arnold played the Gnome in the Sydney production at the grand opera house Pearl Ladd played the bunyip at the Sydney performance Ella Airlie (the writer) played Jack the principal boy opposite Queenie Pearl as Joan the principal female lead. Dan Dunbar and Zoe Wencke joined the team later. Roy Rene continued the comic character 'Mo' he had developed in vaudeville Caddie Franks played the transformation into a Bunyip Critical reception The play was embraced with patriotic fervour. From 1917, the show drew crowded houses. The theme song was adopted by schools in New South Wales and sales of the sheet music were phenomenal. The press was unaffected by a typical Australian workers dispute between management and two stage hands who objected to the behaviour of a backstage colleague. References 1916 musicals Australian musicals Pantomime Plays set in the 1900s Musicals set in Australia Teen musicals

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premik%20Russell%20Tubbs

Premik Russell Tubbs

Premik Russell Tubbs is an American saxophonist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Career Since the 1970s he worked with a wide range of artists such as John McLaughlin, Narada Michael Walden, Jackson Browne, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Yoko Oginome, Cecil McBee, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Jean-Luc Ponty, T.M. Stevens, Wayne Shorter and many more. His saxophone was featured on hits like "How Will I Know", "Baby Come to Me and "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off". In 1983, Premik joined Lonnie Liston Smith's band, along with bass player Cecil McBee. Until 1985 he played the Montreux Jazz Festival and recorded two albums with them. From 1991 to 1994 he toured with Scarlet Rivera (Bob Dylan's violinist). They also opened shows for Spyro Gyra. The following years, he toured with jazz violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman, Clara Ponty, Wendy Starland and in 2007 as a member of Radio Massacre International. In November 2011 he toured with Chandrika Tandon and Steve Gorn. More recently he performed with Sting, Lady Gaga, Ravi & Anoushka Shankar. In April 2012, Premik was invited to perform at the Carnegie Hall in the Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund featuring Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Hudson, Bruno Mars, Katharine McPhee, Bryn Terfel, Rosanne Cash and Vince Gill. Premik has recorded several world music records along with spiritual master Sri Chinmoy, Steve Booke and Shambhu Vineberg as well as music for different short films. On April 17, 2014, he was part of the band for the "Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert", including performers Sting, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Elton John, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Hudson, Will Ferrell and many more. Premik is announced to play with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on April 25 in Croydon. Discography 1974: Mahavishnu Orchestra – Visions of the Emerald Beyond 1976: Narada Michael Walden – Garden of Love Light 1977: Narada Michael Walden – I Cry, I Smile 1980: Carlos Santana & Herbie Hancock – The Swing of Delight 1984: Lonnie Liston Smith – Silhouettes 1985: Lonnie Liston Smith – Rejuvenation 1985: Clarence Clemons – Hero 1985: Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston 1986: Jermaine Stewart – Frantic Romantic 1987: Whitney Houston – Whitney 1989: Yoko Oginome – Verge of Love 1989: Regina Belle – Stay with Me 1989: Kid 'N Play – Face the Nation 1992: Calverly – Avalon 2001: Premik Russell Tubbs – Equinox 2002: Ali Appel – Crooked Line 2004: Premik Russell Tubbs – Mission-Transcendence 2006: Gerald Jay Markoe – Celestial Music for Sitar 2007: The Mahavishnu Project – Return to the Emerald Beyond 2010: Premik Russell Tubbs & Steve Booke – Pratyavartana 2011: Fiona Joy Hawkins – Christmas Joy 2012: Fiona Joy Hawkins – Sensual Journeys 2012: Ronnda Cadle – Will's Embrace 2012: Dan Kennedy – Intuition 2012: Heidi Anne Breyer – Beyong the Turning 2012: Rebecca Harrold – The River of Life 2013: Asher Barkin – Birchos Avicha 2013: Shambhu – Dreaming of Now 2014: Masako – Call of the Mountains References External links PremikMusic.com Official Site All about Jazz Guo Flute IMDb Discogs Year of birth missing (living people) American saxophonists American male saxophonists Living people Devotees of Sri Chinmoy 21st-century saxophonists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Levett-Prinsep

Thomas Levett-Prinsep

Thomas Levett-Prinsep (born Thomas Levett; 1800/1–1849) was an English landowner in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. He took on the additional name of Prinsep on inheriting his uncle's holding of Croxall Hall. Life He was born at Wychnor Park in Wychnor, Staffordshire, the third son of Theophilus Levett, High Sheriff of Staffordshire. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1828, aged 17. In 1835, Levett inherited Croxall Hall in Derbyshire. Croxall Hall descent Croxall Hall is located eight miles (13 km) southwest of Burton-on-Trent. The Curzon family held it for 15 consecutive generations. Mary Curzon, the heiress of the Curzon family and governess to the Royal Family, married Sir Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset. John Prinsep Esq., India merchant and progenitor of the Anglo-Indian family of the same name, purchased the property from George Sackville, 4th Duke of Dorset, and became lord of the manor. The Prinseps became well known for the cattle they bred at their Croxall estate, which at was said to be the biggest family farm in Derbyshire at the time. Croxall Hall is near to Catton Hall, once a property of the Anson family, who later intermarried with the Levetts of nearby Milford Hall, distant relations of Thomas Levett-Prinsep. Thomas Prinsep, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1802, died without an heir, and so left Croxall Hall to his nephew, the son of Theophilus Levett of Wychnor Hall, High Sheriff of Staffordshire, who had married in 1794 Frances Prinsep, daughter of John Prinsep of Croxall Hall, and sister of Thomas Prinsep. Prinsep left his property to his nephew Levett on condition that he adopt the name and coat of arms of Prinsep in addition to Levett. Later life Following his second marriage, Thomas Levett-Prinsep (as now he was) returned to Croxall Hall, which he had inherited from his father. He renovated the Hall, and built The Grange to manage his farmland. The couple moved to nearby Walton Hall, Walton-on-Trent. Levett-Prinsep was a Derbyshire JP, member of the Tamworth Board of Guardians, and cattle breeder in Derbyshire. He died suddenly while crossing Teignmouth Harbour. Family and legacy Levett married: In 1831 Margaret, the daughter of Scottish merchant David Monro, a seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada who, after building a fortune in the Canadian ironworks, left North America and moved to Bath, Somerset. Following Margaret's death, in 1838 as his second wife Caroline Mary Templer. She was the daughter of Rev. John James Templer of Newton Abbot in Devon, the Rector of Teigngrace and a member of the Templer family who owned Stover House and the Stover Estate in Devon – later sold due to Templer family financial troubles to Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset. Rev. Templer's other daughter Henrietta was married to Thomas Levett-Prinsep's elder brother Theophilus Levett, who had inherited the Levett family's Wychnor Park. His children, surname Levett-Prinsep, included: A daughter of the first marriage, Margaret Catherine Levett-Prinsep, born in 1837 in Bath. In 1860 she married her cousin Robert Thomas Kennedy Levett, son of John Levett and his wife, the former Sophia Eliza Kennedy, of Wychnor Park. Thomas Prinsep Levett (died 1938), George Arthur Monro Levett (died 1940) and Robert Kennedy Levett were their children. A son, also Thomas Levett-Prinsep, heir to the Croxall estate at his early death in 1849. He married on 23 June 1868, at Stokenham, Devon, Georgina Holdsworth, daughter of Arthur Bastard Easterbrook Holdsworth of Widdicombe House (son of Arthur Howe Holdsworth): Their daughter Katherine Mary married in 1896 Lt. Col. Henry Edward Disbrow Wise, CBE, and their son Thomas Arthur Levett-Prinsep, born 1879, married in 1907 Margaret Noel Simpson, from a Yorkshire clerical family; they were the parents of Thomas Francis Anthony Levett-Prinsep (1908–1983), an artist known as Anthony Prinsep. The Levett-Prinsep heirs sold Croxall Hall in 1920, and moved to the West Country, closer to family relations there. The family eventually inherited Widdicombe House in Kingsbridge, Devon. References Sources The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, Milford, Staffordshire, privately printed Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford, M.W. Greenslade, R.B. Pugh (editors) Date of birth unknown 1849 deaths Thomas People from the Borough of East Staffordshire People from Derbyshire (before 1895) People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford High Sheriffs of Derbyshire Year of birth uncertain

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selzen

Selzen

Selzen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Selzen lies between Mainz and Worms in Rhenish Hesse on the Selz. The winegrowing centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz, whose seat is in Oppenheim. History In 782, Selzen had its first documentary mention under the name Salzen in the Lorsch codex. Grave finds from the New Stone Age (2000 BC), from Roman times (AD 100) and from Frankish times in the 6th and 7th century document a historic place. From the Early Middle Ages until the 16th century, Selzen belonged to the Worms Cathedral Foundation. The Cathedral Court was the Foundation’s tithe court. In the 15th century, the Electorate of the Palatinate acquired the chapel court and ousted the Worms Cathedral Foundation. This action is reflected in the then court seal (and in the current coat of arms), with the blazon reading in part “the Palatine lion holds in the right paw the robbed Worms key”. In 1792, the Worms Cathedral Foundation’s ecclesiastical landlordship ended, and along with that, so did the tithes payable to Worms. Such joy was brought by this that the elm at Selzen’s southeast corner was felled and the community had a bonfire. In 1797, Selzen passed with the entire département Mont-Tonnerre to the French First Republic. In 1816, however, French rule ended and it thereafter belonged to the newly formed province of Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen), which in turn belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Since 1945, Selzen has belongs to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). With the administrative reform that came into force in 1972, the municipality became part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Nierstein-Oppenheim. The Lords of Bolanden owned a castle here in the 12th century. Beginning in 1294, the Worms Cathedral Foundation held the Vogtei. After 1453 when the Foundation had to yield a half of this to the Palatinate, the stronger of the two partners bit by bit usurped the whole lordship over the village. According to a legend, in the Middle Ages, the villagers were obliged to keep the frogs in the Selz or in the pond quiet by striking the water with staves. The lordly household wanted to sleep undisturbed by any croaking. From this comes the villagers’ nickname Selzer Frösche – Selzen Frogs. Selzen, as witnessed by the Frankish grave finds, grew together from three cores of settlement, the church in the east, the Worms tithe court in the northwest and the mill in the south, near which a stone path (1617) takes the footpath to Undenheim over the Selz. As early as 1413, the Palatinate owned three estates, among which was the still existent Kapellenhof (“Chapel Estate”), where very often exhibitions are held or plays staged during the summer months. In 1572, the Romanesque church was torn down, all but the tower, which still stands today. The new Gothic building was then, in 1740 and 1741, replaced with a Baroque church which houses a Stumm organ from 1787. East of the main thoroughfare, in the sidestreets, are found several timber-frame buildings. At the end of Ostergasse are remnants of pillars from the old fortifications, the Oppenheimer Pforte (gate). Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 17 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004) Mayor The mayor is Monja Seidel. Coat of arms The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Sable, issuant from base sinister a demi-lion Or armed, langued and crowned gules, holding in his gambe dexter a key argent reversed palewise. The village’s oldest known seal dates from 1537 and shows this same composition. Culture and sightseeing Regular events On Ascension Day or Father's Day, the Cycle Path Festival (Radwegefest) is held. The Wine Festival is held in Selzen in mid June. On the second weekend in September, the kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb) is held. Every year on the 4th day in Advent, the men’s singing club and the band perform under the Christmas tree in the community core. Every December, the church parishes together with the neighbouring municipality of Hahnheim stage the activity Unser Dorf, ein Adventskalender (“Our Village, an Advent Calendar”). Within its framework, a symbolic window opening takes place each evening along with the reading of a Christmas story, a singalong and a drink. Economy and infrastructure Transport The municipality is crossed by the L 425 state road. Bundesstraße 420 lies 2 km to the south. The Autobahn A 63 can be reached by car in roughly 10 minutes. There are bus links to Nieder Olm, Mainz, Alzey and Oppenheim. References External links Municipality’s official webpage 782 establishments Populated places established in the 8th century Mainz-Bingen 8th-century establishments in Germany

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20A.%20Aaronson

Stuart A. Aaronson

Stuart A. Aaronson (born February 28, 1942) is an American author and cancer biologist. He has authored more than 500 publications and holds over 50 patents, and was the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and Chairman of Oncological Sciences at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City until March 2013, when he assumed the title of Founding Chair Emeritus of the Department of Oncological Sciences. The current Chairman of Oncological Sciences is Ramon E. Parsons. Biography Aaronson graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, with a degree in chemistry. He earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in 1966, and completed a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in England and an internship in medicine at Moffitt Hospital in San Francisco. In 1967, Aaronson joined the National Institutes of Health as a Senior Staff Fellow. He headed the Molecular Biology Section of the Viral Carcinogenesis Branch from 1970 until 1977, after which he became Chief of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute, until 1993, when he was named Chairman of Oncological Sciences at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Research Aaronson's early research established the transformation-competent but replication-defective nature of mammalian sarcoma viruses and molecularly cloned many of their oncogenes. His investigations of the v-sis oncogene established the first normal function of an oncogene and its role in growth factor signaling. His discovery of erbB2 as a v-erbB-related gene amplified in a human breast carcinoma and the demonstration of its transforming properties paved the way for targeted therapies directed against its product, and his successful isolation of KGF (FGF7), a growth factor present in the epithelialization-phase of wound healing, led to Amgen's successful phase III clinical trial and FDA approval of KGF for treatment of mucositis. Current research includes investigations into the mechanisms by which tumor suppressor genes induce permanent growth arrest/senescence, the signaling pathways involved, and investigations of the autocrine and paracrine acting growth factors PDGF, KGF, HGF, and Wnt ligands. To date 3 papers on which Stuart Aaronson is author have been retracted, and 2 papers on which he is author have received expressions of concern. Awards and honors 1982 Rhoads Memorial Award 1982 PHS Meritorious Service Medal 1989 Paul Ehrlich Award 1989 PHS Distinguished Service Medal 1990 Milken Award 1991 Chirone Prize 1991 Harvey Lecture 1991 Wadsworth Memorial Foundation Award 2005 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Excellence in Technology Transfer Award – Kepivance 2006 National FLC Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer – Kepivance: Improving the Quality of Life for Cancer Patients Patents Partial list: Publications Partial list: References External links The Mount Sinai Hospital homepage Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai homepage Activation of a Cancer Gene by Single Mutation Reported. The New York Times, September 28, 1983 Cancer Gene Linked to Flaws in Growth of an Ordinary Cell. The New York Times, February 10, 1984 The Long Road: Scientists worked for years to unravel Met's role in cancer. Cover story, Chemical & Engineering News, August 20, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20120909024225/http://www.science-fraud.org/?tag=sw-lee 1942 births Cancer researchers Living people Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty American oncologists UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of California, San Francisco alumni People from Mount Clemens, Michigan

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Bolehill Recreation Ground

Bolehill Recreation Ground, known locally as The Bole Hills is a public open space in the suburb of Crookes within the City of Sheffield, England. The grounds are administered by Sheffield City Council's Parks and Countryside Service and are classed as a district park, one of 20 throughout the city. They are spread over an area of approximately , consisting of a mixture of heathland, scrub and woodland and have been designated as a Local Wildlife Site. There are also several public amenities such as a children's playground, tennis courts, bowling greens and hut and a BMX track. The grounds stand at height of around and offer good views to the north and west over the Loxley and Rivelin valleys. History The Bole Hills were originally a clearing in the dense forest which covered the area to the west of Sheffield and were used for grazing cattle and sheep. Because of its elevated position, which produces high winds as the westerlies are funnelled over the steep ground, the area was used as a bole hill for iron ore smelting and charcoal burning, with the high winds giving the blast to raise the temperature needed in the process. Open furnaces were driven into the hillsides and outlets dug to let out the smoke; these furnaces used the surrounding woodland for fuel. Smelting using the primitive bole hill method died out at the end of the 16th century, but it left a legacy of giving the area its name. The Bole Hills then became known for sandstone quarrying, the 1850 OS map shows the area with one large quarry and several smaller ones. The large quarry was owned by the Andrews company, while one of the smaller ones was owned Mr. Unwin, who lived in Cocked Hat Cottages at the top of Tinker Lane. By 1890 the main Bole Hills quarry had reached large proportions, nearly a quarter of a mile long and 200 yards wide as it provided stone for the growing housing suburbs of Walkley and Broomhill. In September 1899 the Bole Hills area came into the possession of Sheffield Corporation as the quarrying of the area came to an end, and in 1904 they were proposing that it be used as a landfill site. Although there was some local opposition the site was used as a municipal landfill site over many years to fill in the quarry workings before being levelled off in the 1950s. The industrial past and landfill history of The Bole Hills has probably saved it from being built on, as it is hemmed in on all four sides by housing. In 1904, an Iron Church was built on the crest of the Bole Hills, at what is now the end of Loxley View Road. This was the temporary place of worship for the newly created Crookes parish and was used until St. Timothy's Anglican church was opened on Slinn Street in 1911. The iron church was moved and used as the church hall to the new building, and a stone pulpit was built on the spot where it had stood on the Bole Hills. This was pulled down in 1958. The Area Today Today the Bole Hills Recreation Ground is divided into two distinct parts; the southern (upper) part is adjacent to the suburb of Crookes and is heavily used by its inhabitants. Its amenities consists of surfaced paths for walkers, an open field, bowling greens, tennis courts and the children's playground. The open field also serves as the home ground of Sheffield Hallamshire Rugby Union Club. This upper part is also where the fine viewpoint for north west Sheffield is situated. The Bole Hill Quarry allotments are 15 plots of land which are rented out by Sheffield City Council to the general public for non-commercial gardening. They are situated between the football pitch and Moorsyde Avenue, the plots are over subscribed and there is a substantial waiting list. The southern (lower) area above Bole Hill Road consists mostly of woodland and scrub crisscrossed by rough paths. Bole Hill Wood covers an area of 4.22 hectares and is made of mixed deciduous trees. The southern area has a football pitch and a BMX cycle track. Sheffield City Council have proposed additional woodland planting in recent years and the area between the football pitch and the BMX track has been proposed. BMX Track The BMX track was built in 1983 and was one of approximately 20 that were constructed across Sheffield at the time. The Bole Hill track is one of the few that has survived as it was adopted by a group of enthusiasts who kept the track up to standard and made improvements. The track has been redesigned several times over the years and was resurfaced in 2015. The track is now home to the Sheffield Dirt Society. References Parks in Sheffield Sports venues in Sheffield

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RKSV Groene Ster

RKSV Groene Ster is a Dutch football club based in Heerlerheide. The club play its home games at Pronsebroek. The club colours, reflected in their crest, kit and name, are green and white. Formed on 2 November 1926, the club have mostly played in the lower tiers of Dutch football, but reached the final of the nationwide KNVB Cup in 1943–44, where they however lost to with a record 9–1 score to winners Willem II. This result still stands as the biggest defeat in a KNVB Cup final. The club are currently playing in the Derde Divisie (fourth tier). Groene Ster won the KNVB District Cup in the Zuid 2 (South 2) District in 2009 and 2019. History In the 1931–32 season, Groene Ster was promoted to the Tweede Klasse and in the following years emerged mainly as a cup-fighter. In 1944, the club played in the KNVB Cup final against Willem II, where they however lost to with a record 9–1 score. This result still stands as the biggest defeat in a KNVB Cup final. In 1950, Groene Ster first eliminated NAC and then managed a draw against PSV in the following round. However, the result was ultimately not enough to advance in the tournament. In later years, Groene Ster mainly competed in the Vierde Klasse and Derde Klasse, but in the 1993–94 season, the green-whites finally won promotion. Four seasons later, in the 1997–98 season, they became champions in the Tweede Klasse Zonday and in the 2002–03 season, they also won a championship in the Eerste Klasse Zondag, resulting in promotion to the fifth-tier Hoofdklasse. Their place in the division was maintained for two seasons, but in the 2005–06 season, Groene Ster again suffered relegation to the Eerste Klasse Zondag, to promptly become champion again that same season, propelling them back to the Hoofdklasse. Another relegation followed, however, as Groene Ster finished 13th and the club would compete in the Eerste Klasse for the 2007–08 season. Manager Silvio Diliberto became the club's head coach until the 2010–11 season. He became one of the most successful coaches in the history of Groene Ster. Between 2007 and 2010, the club consecutively reached the main rounds of the KNVB Cup and three years in a row they reached the KNVB District Cup finals for the South 2 district. In the 2010–11 season, Ed Hendriks returned as head coach after a four year absence. The club convincingly won the championship and thus promoted to the Hoofdklasse and qualified for the main rounds of the KNVB Cup where they lost 2–4 to VV Staphorst in the first round. The team from South Limburg stayed in the Hoofdklasse for a number of season, until Groene Ster eventually became champions of the Hoofklasse Zondag B in the 2018–19 season, promoting them to the Derde Divisie. The fourth-tier division in the Netherlands, the promotion marked the first time in club history that Groene Ster reached that level. In the Derde Divisie Zondag group, Groene Ster were accompanied by fellow Limburg club EVV. This made Groene Ster and EVV – after the professional sides of MVV Maastricht, Fortuna Sittard, Roda JC Kerkrade and VVV-Venlo – the highest ranked football teams in the province. On 30 October 2019, Groene Ster defeated Eredivisie club VVV-Venlo in a penalty shoot-out in the KNVB Cup. In the following round, Groene Ster lost to AZ. Honours Hoofdklasse Winners: 2018–19 Eerste Klasse Winners: 2002–03, 2005–06, 2010–11 Tweede Klasse Winners: 1997–98 KNVB Cup Runners-up: 1943–44 KNVB District Cup - South II Winners: 2008–09, 2018–19 References External links Official site RKSV Groene Ster Football clubs in the Netherlands 1926 establishments in the Netherlands Association football clubs established in 1926 Football clubs in Heerlen

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Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York

Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (17 August 1473), was the sixth child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, born in Shrewsbury. Richard and his older brother, who briefly reigned as King Edward V of England, mysteriously disappeared shortly after their uncle Richard III became king in 1483. Dukedoms Prince Richard was created Duke of York in May 1474 and made a Knight of the Garter the following year. From this time on, it became a tradition for the second son of the English sovereign to be Duke of York. He was created Earl of Nottingham on 12 June 1476. On 15 January 1478, in St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, when he was 4 years old, he married the 5-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, who had inherited the vast Mowbray estates in 1476. As York's father-in-law's dukedom had become extinct when Anne could not inherit it, he was created Duke of Norfolk and Earl Warenne on 7 February 1477. When Anne de Mowbray died in November 1481 her estates should have passed to William, Viscount Berkeley and to John, Lord Howard. In January 1483, Parliament passed an act that gave the Mowbray estates to Richard, Duke of York and Norfolk, for his lifetime, and at his death to his heirs, if he had any. The rights of the two co-heirs at law were extinguished; Viscount Berkeley had financial difficulties and King Edward IV paid off and forgave those debts. Berkeley then renounced his claims to the Mowbray estate before parliament in 1483. Nothing was done for Lord Howard. Heir presumptive His father died on 9 April 1483. Thus his brother Edward, Prince of Wales, became King of England and was acclaimed as such, and Richard his Heir Presumptive. This was not to last. A priest, now generally believed to have been Robert Stillington, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, testified that Edward IV had agreed to marry Lady Eleanor Talbot in 1461. Lady Eleanor was still alive when Edward married Elizabeth Woodville in 1464. The Regency Council under the late King's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, concluded that this was a case of bigamy, invalidating the second marriage and the legitimacy of all children of Edward IV by this marriage. Under Gloucester's influence, both Edward and Richard were declared illegitimate and removed from the line of succession on 25 June 1483. The Duke of Gloucester, as the only surviving brother of Edward IV, became King Richard III. Possible fate The Duke of York was sent to the Tower of London, then a royal residence, by King Richard III in mid-1483, where he was held with his brother. They were sometimes seen in the garden of the Tower, but there are no known sightings of them after the summer of 1483. What happened to the two of them—the Princes in the Tower—after their disappearance remains unknown. Tudor History was quick to blame his uncle, Richard. Thomas More wrote that the princes were smothered to death with their pillows, and his account forms the basis of William Shakespeare's play Richard III, in which Tyrrell suborns Forrest and Dighton to murder the princes on Richard's orders. Subsequent re-evaluations of Richard III have questioned his guilt, beginning with William Cornwallis early in the 17th century. In the period before the boys' disappearance, Edward was regularly being visited by a doctor; historian David Baldwin extrapolates that contemporaries may have believed Edward had died either of an illness or as the result of attempts to cure him. In the absence of hard evidence a number of other theories have been put forward, of which the most widely discussed are that they were murdered on the orders of the Duke of Buckingham or by Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond (later King Henry VII). Bones reportedly belonging to two children were discovered in 1674 by workmen rebuilding a stairway in the Tower. On the orders of King Charles II, these were subsequently placed in Westminster Abbey, in an urn bearing the names of Edward and Richard. The bones were re-examined in 1933 at which time it was discovered the skeletons were incomplete and had been interred with animal bones. It has never been proven that the bones belonged to the princes. In 1789, workmen carrying out repairs in St George's Chapel, Windsor, rediscovered and accidentally broke into the vault of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Adjoining this was another vault, which was found to contain the coffins of two children. This tomb was inscribed with the names of two of Edward IV's children: George, Duke of Bedford, who had died at the age of two; and Mary of York who had died at the age of 14. Both had predeceased the King. However, the remains of these two children were later found elsewhere in the chapel, leaving the occupants of the children's coffins within the tomb unknown. In 1486, Richard of Shrewsbury's eldest sister Elizabeth married Henry VII, thereby uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. Perkin Warbeck In 1491, in Cork, Perkin Warbeck, a young man of Flemish origin was proclaimed by a variety of Yorkist supporters led by the Irish city's former Mayor John Atwater to be Richard. He claimed to have escaped from the Tower and spent the intervening years on the run. Over the next six years, Warbeck travelled across Europe, receiving recognition from a number of monarchs including Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and James IV of Scotland as "Richard IV" of England. This support included Margaret of York, the aunt of the real Richard. Following his capture after a failed invasion of England in 1497, Warbeck was held in the Tower of London. He confessed to being an impostor, and was later executed following an attempt to escape. Arms As son of the king, Richard was granted use of the arms of the kingdom, differentiated by a label argent, on the first point a canton gules. See also List of people who disappeared Ancestry References page 218 page 248 1473 births 1480s missing person cases 15th-century English nobility Burials at Westminster Abbey Children of Edward IV of England Disappeared princes 201 Dukes of York Earls Marshal 1st Earl of Norfolk 301 Edward V of England Heirs to the English throne Richard of Shrewsbury Lords Lieutenant of Ireland Missing person cases in England Knights of the Bath Knights of the Garter People from Shrewsbury Prisoners in the Tower of London Royalty who died as children Sons of kings

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The Punisher (2004 series)

The Punisher (re-titled Frank Castle: The Punisher after issue #66; sometimes referred to as The Punisher MAX) was a comic book ongoing series published under the MAX imprint of Marvel Comics, featuring vigilante and antihero the Punisher. Publication history Garth Ennis, also writer of the 2000 and 2001 Punisher series, wrote issues #1–60 of the series. Also like the earlier series, Tim Bradstreet provided the covers for those issues. Continuing his run on the character, Ennis used the freedom of the MAX imprint to write more graphic and hard-edged stories than had previously been seen. Ennis also wrote two miniseries accompanying the main series, The Punisher Presents: Barracuda and Born, and several one-shots. With issue #61, Gregg Hurwitz replaced Ennis as writer, joining artist Laurence Campbell to do a five-issue story arc. With issue #66 released on January 21, 2009, the series was re-titled Frank Castle: The Punisher, with writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Michel Lacombe coming to the series. Victor Gischler came on board for the storyline "Welcome to the Bayou" in issues #71–74 before the title finished with issue #75, a double-length issue with stories by Thomas Piccirilli, Gregg Hurwitz, Duane Swierczynski, Peter Milligan, and Charlie Huston. The title was relaunched as Punisher MAX in late 2009, with writer Jason Aaron and artist Steve Dillon. Plot Differences from the mainstream Marvel Universe Punisher The series explicitly does not use a floating timeline like the mainstream Marvel Universe, instead presenting a Punisher who ages in real time. Gravestones and other references indicate that his family was killed in 1976. The Punisher has been active for almost 30 years at the time presented in most stories, with issue #19 specifying that he has killed approximately 2,000 people. Born also establishes that the Punisher's service in the Vietnam War is still in MAX continuity. Promotional art for the cover of Punisher #44 (March 2007), gives Frank Castle's birth date as February 16, 1950, but that was removed for the published issues. The story "Valley Forge, Valley Forge" corroborates this date, referring to Castle as "a twenty-one year old Captain" in April 1971. Another major difference is the complete lack of superheroes and supervillains in the series, although non-superpowered characters from the Punisher's past, most notably Microchip, do make appearances. Nick Fury also makes several notable appearances, with his characterization echoing Ennis' MAX-imprint Fury stories. However, the character Jen Cooke, a social worker, appeared in the Marvel Knights storyline "Hidden". She then appeared in the MAX storyline "Slavers". The character Yorkie Mitchell made appearances in both the Marvel Knights and the MAX Punisher comics. In the Civil War Files comic, just before the "Civil War" storyline was published, Iron Man talked about events in the Punisher's past from the Marvel Knights and MAX comics, which indicated that it did happen in the mainstream Marvel Universe at some point: "Captain Frank Castle, sole survivor of the Firebase Valley Forge massacre". "Although recently Castle has escalated his war on crime even further, with record-breaking body counts, he is paradoxically now rarely encountered in the field by any super hero save Daredevil". "It's almost like he inhabits two worlds, one where heroes can capture him and one where they can't, and he can slip from one to the other with ease". Many characters are past or current intelligence and military operatives from governmental agencies like the American CIA, the Soviet KGB and the British SIS and SAS and militaries and militias from the Balkans, the Middle East and the IRA, all with agendas rooted in past conflicts like the Cold War or the Yugoslav Wars. Prints Issues As of issue #66, the series was officially re-titled Frank Castle: The Punisher. Collected editions Trade paperbacks Hardcovers Complete Collections Omnibus Reception The series holds an average rating of 7.9 by 38 professional critics on the review aggregation website Comic Book Roundup. In other media Film The 2008 movie Punisher: War Zone starring Ray Stevenson is inspired by Punisher MAX, most notably incorporating characters from that series such as Gaitano Cesare, Carmine "Pittsy" Gazzerra, Ink, Cristu Bulat, Tiberiu Bulat and Maginty. The scene where Frank Castle/the Punisher kills Gaitano Cesare and the other mobsters is also taken directly from the storyline "In the Beginning", albeit cutting the head off the former instead of a headshot. Television The second season of Daredevil loosely adapts the "Kitchen Irish" story arc, while adding in the titular character into the story alongside Frank Castle/the Punisher (portrayed by Jon Bernthal). The first season of The Punisher has William Rawlins as its main antagonist, a character who first appeared in issue #14. References External links 2004 comics debuts 2009 comics endings Comics by Garth Ennis Comics set in New York City Defunct American comics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration%20des%20femmes%20du%20Qu%C3%A9bec

Fédération des femmes du Québec

The Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ; English: "Quebec Women's Federation") is a feminist organization binding individuals and groups in a common goal to "promote and defend the interests and the rights of women and to fight against all forms of violence, discrimination, marginalization and exclusion towards women" in Quebec, Canada. History The FFQ was founded in 1966 at the initiative of Thérèse Casgrain, a human rights activist and leading feminist who contributed greatly to the achievement of women suffrage in Quebec. From the beginning, the FFQ organized symposiums, conferences, information campaigns, prepared memoirs and spoke for the interests of women in all tribunes, especially parliamentary and government consultations. Between 1992 and 2002, associative membership rose from 60 to 160 organizations and individual membership from 100 to 860. Principles and mission The Déclaration de principes adopted by members during the 2003 annual congress state that the FFQ is: a place of militantism and action, analysis and reflexion, debate, training and concertation open to all women, without distinction of origin, sexual orientation, religion etc. (in accord with article 10 of Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms). participating to the current within the movement of women that fights against the systems of oppression or domination that are patriarchy, capitalism, racism, imperialism which marginalize and exploits women at the social, economic, cultural, political and religious level, in Quebec and abroad. Organization and structure Legally, the FFQ is charitable organization registered as a corporation in Quebec, Canada, and whose headquarters are in Montreal. It relies on the contributions of its members, donation and subsidies for the financing of its operations. Its decisions are taken democratically through the general assembly of all its members and a 19-member administration council oversees the conduct of the adopted policies. Activities Among the activities of the FFQ which have been most successful are the 1995 Bread and Roses March and the 2000 World March of Women. Presidents Réjane Laberge-Colas (1966-1967) Rita Racette-Cadieux (1967-1969) Marie-Paul Marcil Dandois (1969-1970) Yvette Boucher-Rousseau (1970-1973) Ghislaine Patry-Buisson (1973-1977) Sheila Finestone (1977-1980) Gabrielle Hotte (1980-1981) Huguette Lapointe-Roy (1981-1983) Denyse Bélanger-Rochon (1983-1985) Ginette Drouin-Busque (1985-1989) Constance Middleton-Hope (1989) Denise Crête (1990-1991) (interim) Germaine Vaillancourt (1991-1992) Céline Signori (1992-1994) Françoise David (1994-2001) Vivian Barbot (2001-2003) Michèle Asselin (2003-2009) Alexa Conradi (2009-2015) Mélanie Sarazin (2015-2017) Gabrielle Bouchard (2017-2020) The FFQ's president position has been vacant since Gabrielle Bouchard's departure. Prix Idola Saint-Jean Since 1991, the FFQ awards the Prix Idola Saint-Jean to a person or a group that made an exceptional contribution to the betterment of the condition of women in Quebec and the promotion of feminism, in conformity with the principles, mission and orientation of the federation. References External links Fédération des femmes du Québec (in French) Feminism in Quebec Feminist organizations in Canada Organizations based in Quebec

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South Island kōkako

The South Island kōkako (Callaeas cinereus) is a possibly extinct forest bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Unlike its close relative, the North Island kōkako (C. wilsoni), it has largely orange wattles, with only a small patch of blue at the base, and was also known as the orange-wattled crow (though it was not a corvid). The last accepted sighting in 2007 was the first considered genuine since 1967, although there have been several other unauthenticated reports. Taxonomy The South Island kōkako was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He coined the binomial name Glaucopis cinerea. The specific epithet cinereus is Latin meaning "ash-grey" or "ash-coloured". Gmelin based his description on the "cinereous wattle-bird" that had been described and illustrated in 1781 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his book A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the Leverian Museum in London that had come from New Zealand. The North Island kokako was formerly considered as subspecies of Callaeas cinerea, but since 2001 North Island birds have been officially recognised as C. wilsoni, and genetic evidence confirms their difference. Although the genus Callaeas is masculine, the species epithet cinerea is not masculinised to match, though some authors have argued it should be. Description Like the North Island kōkako, this was a slate-grey bird with long legs and a small black mask; Reischek considered its plumage slightly lighter than the North Island species. Its wattles were distinctly orange in colour with a dark blue base; young birds had much lighter wattles. It seems to have spent more time on the ground than the North Island species, but been a better flier. Kōkako have distinctive organ- and flute-like duetting calls. Early explorer Charlie Douglas described the South Island kōkako call: "Their notes are very few, but the sweetest and most mellow toned I ever heard a bird produce." Based on extant records, South Island kōkako eggs were larger than their North Island counterparts. Distribution At the time of European settlement, South Island kōkako were found on the West Coast from northwest Nelson to Fiordland, as well as Stewart Island, Banks Peninsula, and the Catlins. Subfossil bones suggest they were formerly found throughout the South Island, but forest burning by Māori eliminated them from dry eastern lowland forest. Introduced mammalian predators and forest clearance by settlers reduced their numbers further: by 1900 the bird was uncommon in the South Island and Stewart Island, and had almost disappeared by 1960. Its vulnerability compared to the North Island species was perhaps due to its foraging and nesting close to the ground. Conservation status The South Island kōkako was formally declared extinct by the Department of Conservation in 2007, as it had been 40 years since the last authenticated sighting at Mt Aspiring in 1967. In November 2013, however, the Ornithological Society of New Zealand accepted as genuine a reported sighting by two people near Reefton in 2007, and changed the bird's New Zealand Threat Classification status from "extinct" to "data deficient". Eleven other sightings from 1990 to 2008 were considered to be only "possible" or "probable". A supposed kōkako feather was found in 1995, but examination by scientists at the National Museum showed it to be from a blackbird, though doubt over this conclusion exists due to the morphology of the feather and the identity of the feather used for the DNA test. Unconfirmed sightings of South Island kōkako and reports of calls have continued, but no authenticated recent remains, feathers, droppings, video, or photographs exist. The IUCN Red List status of the species is, as of 2016, Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct). The most recent unconfirmed sighting was in November 2018, in the Heaphy Track in Kahurangi National Park. A potential kōkako call, consisting of a "a distinct couple of soft long notes" was recorded at Heaphy Track on 29 December 2021, followed by a sighting of "a bird of the right size and colour". References External links South Island Kokako Charitable Trust South Island Kokako at New Zealand Birds Online South Island kōkako Birds of the South Island South Island kōkako South Island kōkako Endemic birds of New Zealand Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN

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McCauley (surname)

McCauley and MacCauley are surnames in the English language. There are several etymologically unrelated origins for the names: all of which originated as patronyms in several Gaelic languages—Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Although the English-language surnames are ultimately derived from Gaelic patronyms, the English-language surnames, and the modern Gaelic-language forms do not refer to the actual name of the bearer's father. The Irish McCauley's originated in county Westmeath (Irish: An Iarmhí) in the Irish Midlands, province of Leinster, where at one time the area which is now Ballyloughnoe was once called "McGawley's Country, the scottish McCauleys are partly descended from the Irish McCauleys as the Irish moved to Scotland offered land by Robert the bruce" The English-language surnames are generally popular in certain parts of Ireland—both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. According to census records in the United States of America, "MCCAULEY" (McCauley) is a somewhat common surname, although "MACCAULEY" (MacCauley) is extremely rare. Etymology In some cases, the surnames are derived from the Scottish Gaelic MacAmhalghaidh, and Irish Mac Amhalghaidh. These Gaelic surnames translates into English as "son of Amhalghaidh" or "son of Amhalghadh". The Gaelic surnames originated as a patronyms, however they are no longer used to refer to the actual names of the bearers' fathers. The personal name Amhalghaidh (also spelt Amhalghadh) is an old Gaelic name, and its etymological origin and meaning are uncertain. In other cases, the surnames are derived from the Scottish Gaelic MacAmhlaidh, or the Irish Mac Amhlaoibh. These surnames translate into English as "son of Amhladh" or "son of Amhlaidh"; and "son of Amhlaoibh". The Gaelic surnames originated as a patronyms, however they are no longer used to refer to the actual names of the bearers' fathers. The names Amhladh, Amhlaidh, and Amhlaoibh are Gaelic derivatives of the Old Norse personal names Áleifr and Óláfr. Distribution, popularity Ireland (including the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland) In Ireland, the surnames are generally popular in County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland, and the province of Ulster. It is also found in numbers in County Leitrim, County Galway, and County Wexford—all in the Republic of Ireland. According to the General Register Office in Ireland, there were 30 McCauley births recorded in 1890, and there were 49 for the surname McAuley. When the numbers for these names were combined, including certain spelling variations, the data showed that there were 107 total births in Ireland—6 of which were in the province of Leinster, 90 in the province of Ulster, and 11 in the province of Connacht; the counties in which these 107 births were principally found were County Antrim and County Donegal. The similarly spelt surname McAuliffe had 39 births, and 40 in total, when combining certain spelling variations; all of these 40 were recorded in the province of Munster, and 29 of these in County Cork. United States In 1990, the United States Census Bureau undertook a study of the 1990 United States Census, and released a sample of data concerning the most common names. According to this sample of 6.3 million people (who had 88,799 unique last names), "MCCAULEY" ranked 1,431st most common last name, and was borne by 0.009 percent of the population sample. "MACCAULEY" was much less common; it ranked 70,537th most common last name, and was borne by 0.000 percent of the population sample. Within the 2000 United States Census, "MCCAULEY" was the 1,360th most common last name, with 23,926 occurrences. "MACCAULEY" did not rank amongst the top 151,671 last names. The table below shows the data concerning racial-ethnic aspects of the surnames in the 2000 United States Census. Scotland McCauley and MacCauley were amongst the 100 most common surnames recorded in birth, death, and marriage registers in Scotland, in 1995. Neither surname ranked amongst the 100 most common surnames recorded in birth, death, and marriage registrations in the combined years of 1999, 2000, and 2001. Neither surname ranked amongst the most common surnames recorded in Scotland, in the United Kingdom Census 1901. People with the surnames List of people with the surnames MacCauley and McCauley References Surnames English-language surnames Surnames of Irish origin Surnames of Scottish origin Anglicised Irish-language surnames Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames Patronymic surnames

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Yolanda Botha

Yolanda Rachel Botha (died 28 December 2014) was a South African politician and public servant who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2009 until her death in December 2014. She also served as Provincial Treasurer of the ANC's Northern Cape branch from June 2008 until her death. At the time of her death, Botha – along with John Block and Alvin Botes – was facing criminal charges in connection with her relationship to a private company, Trifecta Investment Holdings. Before her election to Parliament, from 2001 to 2009, Botha was head of the Northern Cape's provincial Department of Social Development, which had granted sizeable contracts to Trifecta. In 2011, Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests had reprimanded Botha for having failed to disclose benefits that she had received from Trifecta; and, in 2013, the National Prosecuting Authority indicted her on fraud and money laundering charges, alleging that she had received illegal kickbacks from the company. Life and career Botha matriculated in Upington in the former Cape Province in 1964. She held a bachelor's degree from the University of the Western Cape, completed in 1988. Between 2001 and 2009, Botha was head of the Department of Social Development in the Northern Cape Provincial Government. At the same time, she was a member of the governing party, the ANC, and in August 2008, at a provincial party elective conference in Moshaweng, she was elected Provincial Treasurer of the ANC's Northern Cape branch, serving under Provincial Chairperson John Block. The following year, Botha stood as a candidate in the 2009 general election and secured election to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament. She chaired Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Social Development. Botha was re-elected as ANC Provincial Treasurer, unopposed, in June 2012. She was also re-elected to a second term in her legislative seat in the 2014 general election, ranked fifth on the ANC's provincial-to-national party list for the Northern Cape. Relationship with Trifecta Holdings Parliamentary ethics probe: 2011 Soon into the legislative term, Botha was charged with misconduct in Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests. The investigation emanated from investigating reporting by the Mail & Guardian which purported to uncover that Botha had received kickbacks from Trifecta Investment Holdings, a company which had signed property leases worth more than R50-million with the Northern Cape Department of Social Development. The leases were concluded during Botha's tenure as head of department, and the Mail & Guardian alleged that Trifecta had offered Botha a 10% stake in the company and had paid to renovate her home in 2009. Botha denied that her relationship with Trifecta was corrupt or otherwise inappropriate. She said that the stake in the company had been vested in her relatives and that the home renovation was financed with a loan which she would repay to Trifecta. In August 2011, the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests found Botha guilty of breaching the parliamentary rules for failing to disclose the benefits she had received from Trifecta. It also found her guilty of "wilfully misleading Parliament" about the scale of the loan she had received from Trifecta – she had said under oath that it was worth R500,000, when in fact the renovation costs exceeded R1.2 million. She was sentenced to the maximum penalty: a reprimand and a fine of 30 days' salary. Criminal charges: 2013–2014 In 2013, Botha was indicted on criminal charges in connection with kickbacks allegedly received from Trifecta. Her co-accused included two other Northern Cape politicians, John Block and Alvin Botes, as well as other Northern Cape officials. The National Prosecuting Authority alleged that Botha, Block, and Botes had been given kickbacks in exchange for encouraging the provincial government to sign leases with Trifecta at grossly inflated rates. All pled not guilty on charges of fraud, corruption, and money laundering. The trial was ongoing when Botha died in December 2014, but Block was later found guilty of corruption and money laundering, as was Trifecta's former chief executive, Christo Scholtz; Botes was acquitted. Death and estate In November 2014, Botha's doctor told the Northern Cape High Court that she was terminally ill. She was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, which spread to her brain, and she died on 28 December 2014 in a hospital in Kimberley. After Botha's death, her family entered into a prolonged dispute with the state over the proceeds of her estate, which the National Prosecuting Authority argued constituted proceeds of unlawful activities in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. In 2016, the Northern Cape High Court ordered that Botha's family should forfeit both her home and the Trifecta shares she had been given. After a series of appeals, the dispute was heard in the Constitutional Court, which in March 2020 decided in favour of the state, ruling that the estate should forfeit the full value of the Trifecta-funded renovations. References External links 2014 deaths Year of birth missing Members of the National Assembly of South Africa African National Congress politicians 21st-century South African women politicians 21st-century South African politicians Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa University of the Western Cape alumni

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Raecia gens

The gens Raecia, also spelled Racia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned at the time of the Second Punic War. Marcus Raecius was praetor in 170 BC. However, after this the family fell into obscurity until imperial times. Origin The nomen Raecius appears to be of Oscan origin, indicating that the Raecii were probably descended from one of the Oscan-speaking peoples of central and southern Italy, such as the Sabines or the Samnites. The nomen Racilia may have been derived from Raecia, using the common diminutive suffix . Branches and cognomina None of the Raecii who appear in history during the Republic bore any cognomen, but the Raecii of imperial times used a variety of common surnames. Taurus, a bull, Gallus, a cockerel, and Leo, a lion, belong to a common type of cognomina derived from the names of familiar objects and animals. Rufus, red, was usually bestowed on someone with red hair, while Constans indicated someone steadfast or faithful. Members Marcus Raecius, one of two ambassadors sent to Massilia in 208 BC, in order to gather intelligence concerning the approach of Hasdrubal, who invaded Italy the following spring. Marcus Raecius, praetor in 170 BC, during the Third Macedonian War, levied soldiers along the Adriatic provinces, and required all of the senators to return to Rome in anticipation of the comitia. Marcus Raecius Taurus, one of the Arval Brethren in the time of Nero. Marcus Raecius Gallus, one of two persons who might be identified with Gallus, consul suffectus in AD 84. Ronald Syme proposed this identification in 1969, but later concluded that the consul was more likely to be identified with Publius Glitius Gallus. Gaius Raecius Rufus, a senator in AD 173, mentioned in an inscription from Arba in Dalmatia as the patron of Gaius Raecius Leo. Gaius Raecius Leo, a client of the senator Gaius Raecius Rufus. Racius or Raecius Constans, governor of Sardinia during the reign of Septimius Severus, was put to death on the emperor's orders, as one of those who had allegedly overturned statues of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the praetorian prefect. See also List of Roman gentes Footnotes References Bibliography Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present). George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897). Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898). T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986). Ronald Syme, "Pliny the Procurator", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. LXXIII, pp. 201–236 (1969); "P. Calvisius Ruso: One Person or Two?", in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 56, pp. 173–192 (1984). Paul A. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 186–220 (1981). John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary, Bantam Books, New York (1995). Roman gentes

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For the Record (book)

For the Record is a memoir by former British Prime Minister David Cameron, published by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins UK, on 19 September 2019. It gives an insight into his life at 10 Downing Street, as well as inside explanations of the decisions taken by his government. History Cameron signed an £800,000 contract with HarperCollins UK in 2016, selling it the rights to the publication of a 'frank' account of his time in Downing Street. The autobiography was initially planned to be released in 2018, but was delayed so that Cameron would not be seen as a "backseat driver" in Theresa May's handling of Brexit. In April 2017, it was highly documented that Cameron had purchased a £25,000 garden shed to write in, in a style similar to writers Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas. The title and publication date of the book were released in May 2019, as For the Record, to be published on 19 September, just ten days before the Conservative Party Conference and a little over a month before the UK's EU exit date. Cameron said: "It was an immense privilege to lead the Conservative Party for more than a decade and the country for over six years as Prime Minister. I am looking forward to having the opportunity to explain the decisions I took and why I took them. I will be frank about what worked and what didn't." He noted that two working titles for the book were Decisions and Right at the Centre. Synopsis Cameron said that his aim in writing the book was to "correct the record" where he thought it was wrong. It covers his decision to call the 2016 referendum on the UK's European Union membership and its outcome, which led him to quit as Prime Minister and as MP for Witney two months later. It also describes the Scottish independence referendum and his reforms to economy, welfare and education. His controversial foreign policy is mentioned, as is the 2013 legalisation of same-sex marriage under his government. The book addresses the effects of the severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy suffered by Cameron's son Ivan who died at the age of 6. For the Record is dedicated to Cameron's wife Samantha. William Collins' overview said that Cameron gives "for the first time, his perspective on the EU referendum and his views on the future of Britain's place in the world in the light of Brexit". Publication Cameron was interviewed by News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby in The Cameron Interview on 16 September. ITV said the interview was watched by an average of 3 million viewers. Excerpts of For the Record were published in The Times in the week before the book's release and Cameron became the final interview for outgoing BBC Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys. For the Record was published in the UK on 19 September 2019, with The Bookseller writing that all author profits from the £25 hardback would go to charity. It was published in the United States on 24 September, and in e-book and audio with Cameron reading the audiobook himself. HarperCollins Publishers retained the book's world rights. 20,792 copies of For the Record were sold in its first week on sale, placing it second to Margaret Atwood's The Testaments in the book charts. Reception Writing in the newspaper i, James Hanning, a biographer of Cameron, said "his book displays all the sensitivity and communication skills he showed in office... Cameron is said to have not enjoyed writing this book, but it doesn't feel that way. Despite its demands, he gives every sense of having enjoyed office. Until June 2016, that is." John Rentoul, the chief political commentator for The Independent, compared the book to Tony Blair's memoir, A Journey, and said "Cameron makes his case with style. The book is easy to read, with some nice self-deprecating touches." The Telegraph called the book "well-written and lucid" and said "To Cameron's great credit, the importance of family shines throughout this book... He details a patrician, gilded, almost Edwardian upbringing, growing up in a Berkshire rectory with a nanny, boarding school at the age of seven, Eton, Oxford. He married a beautiful and supportive wife, their happiness shaken by the birth of a disabled son Ivan, who died aged six. His account of that tragedy is heartbreaking." The Guardians Jonathan Freedland said that the book "reminds you why Cameron dominated British politics for so long. The prose is, like him, smooth and efficient. There are welcome splashes of colour." In The Telegraph, Allison Pearson called it "an exhaustive (and exhausting) case for the defence", in which "the author is like a driver who, in a moment of madness, caused an almighty pile-up and tries to convince a jury to go easy on him, offering plentiful evidence of previous good conduct." Writing in the Evening Standard, editor (and former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Cameron) George Osborne found it to be "one of the very best" political memoirs, saying "His book has been so hard for him to write. It's been a kind of purgatory for him, motivated by a sense of duty that Prime Ministers should explain why they did what they did, for the record. It's why it is so good." He clarified "I'm not neutral as Cameron is my friend." In The Times, Robert Harris called the book "a traditional exercise in self-justification" and said that its publication "could hardly be worse timed. It is as if Stanley Baldwin, another quintessential Tory leader, had published his memoirs at the height of the Blitz." References 2019 non-fiction books 2019 in British politics Books about politics of the United Kingdom Political memoirs David Cameron William Collins, Sons books Memoirs of British Prime Ministers

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Leucadendron

Leucadendron is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type. Description Species in the genus Leucadendron are small trees or shrubs that are erect or creeping. Most species are shrubs that grow up to 1 m tall, some to 2 or 3 m. A few grow into moderate-sized trees up to 16 m tall. All are evergreen. The leaves are largely elliptical, sometimes needle-like, spirally arranged, simple, entire, and usually green, often covered with a waxy bloom, and in the case of the Silvertree, with a distinct silvery tone produced by dense, straight, silky hairs. This inspired the generic name Leucadendron, which literally means "white tree". The flowers are produced in dense inflorescences at the branch tips; plants are dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The seed heads, or infructescences, of Leucadendron are woody cone-like structures. This gave rise to their generic common name cone-bush. The cones contain numerous seeds. The seed morphology is varied and reflects subgeneric groupings within the genus. A few such as the Silvertree, Leucadendron argenteum have a silky-haired parachute, enabling the large round nut to be dispersed by wind. A few are rodent dispersed, cached by rats, and a few have elaiosomes and are dispersed by ants. About half the species store the seeds in fire-proof cones and release them only after a fire has killed the plant or at least the branch bearing the cone. Many such species hardly recruit naturally except after fires. Cultivation Leucadendron plants are conventionally propagated through seedlings as well as cuttings. The seeds reach maturity over a duration of a year. This time of germination and emergence depends on the species. When using cuttings as propagating material, the season as well as the type of material used can affect the success rate of the cultivation. Cuttings are preferred as propagating material because it provides uniform offspring, whereas seedlings produce genetic variability in the offspring. The genus Leucadendron is more prone to genetic variation than a genus that tends to self-fertilize, because of its cross-pollinating nature. In the natural habitat, Leucadendron grows exceptionally well, but in the case of cultivation the specific needs of the plant have to be readily available to allow optimal production to produce high quality cut flowers and foliage. Steps for cultivation include soil evaluation, clearing, drainage, chemical correction, and the physical preparation should be critically considered five months prior to planting Leucadendrons. The selection criteria for cultivating Leucadendron species is of great importance and should be based on the agricultural ability of the plant as well as the current market standards. Selected species Leucadendron album Leucadendron arcuatum Leucadendron argenteum Leucadendron barkerae Leucadendron bonum Leucadendron brunioides Leucadendron burchellii Leucadendron cadens Leucadendron chamelaea Leucadendron cinereum Leucadendron comosum Leucadendron concavum Leucadendron conicum Leucadendron coniferum Leucadendron cordatum Leucadendron coriaceum Leucadendron corymbosum Leucadendron cryptocephalum Leucadendron daphnoides Leucadendron diemontianum Leucadendron discolor Leucadendron dregei Leucadendron dubium Leucadendron elimense Leucadendron ericifolium Leucadendron eucalyptifolium Leucadendron flexuosum Leucadendron floridum Leucadendron foedum Leucadendron galpinii Leucadendron gandogeri Leucadendron glaberrimum Leucadendron globosum Leucadendron grandiflorum Leucadendron gydoense Leucadendron immoderatum Leucadendron lanigerum Leucadendron laureolum Leucadendron laxum Leucadendron levisanus Leucadendron linifolium Leucadendron loeriense Leucadendron loranthifolium Leucadendron macowanii Leucadendron meridianum Leucadendron meyerianum Leucadendron microcephalum Leucadendron modestum Leucadendron muirii Leucadendron nervosum Leucadendron nitidum Leucadendron nobile Leucadendron olens Leucadendron orientale Leucadendron osbornei Leucadendron platyspermum Leucadendron pondoense Leucadendron procerum Leucadendron pubescens Leucadendron pubibracteolatum Leucadendron radiatum Leucadendron remotum Leucadendron roodii Leucadendron rourkei Leucadendron rubrum Leucadendron salicifolium Leucadendron salignum Leucadendron sericeum Leucadendron sessile Leucadendron sheilae Leucadendron singulare Leucadendron sorocephalodes Leucadendron spirale Leucadendron spissifolium Leucadendron stellare Leucadendron stelligerum Leucadendron strobilinum Leucadendron teretifolium Leucadendron thymifolium Leucadendron tinctum Leucadendron tradouwense Leucadendron uliginosum Leucadendron verticillatum Leucadendron xanthoconus Hybridization The drive behind the production of new Leucadendron cultivars is the production of a constant supply of new and improved quality products that are available initially from South Africa only. The genus Leucadendron is popular amongst consumers due to its colourful bracts and long vase life. Leucadendron hybrids are produced through interspecific hybridization. Crosses made within the same subsection are generally more viable in the hybridization of Leucadendrons with the quantity of seed set relative to the taxonomic relatedness of the species. Intersectional hybridization produces hybrids that show a unique set of characteristics which are favoured by consumers. One example of a hybrid produced by two Leucadendron genera is the cultivar ‘Rosette’, a hybrid between L. laureolum and L. elimense. This interspecific hybrid is however completely sterile due to autopolyploidy and thus have no use in further cultivation. The main aim of interspecific hybridization is to produce large quantities of progeny seed from the best interspecific hybrid parents. In the UK the cultivars ‘Safari Sunset’ and ‘Inca Gold’ have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. References External links Proteaceae genera Endemic flora of South Africa Flora of the Cape Provinces Flora of KwaZulu-Natal Fynbos Dioecious plants

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Indonesia Christian Church

The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI, originally: Gereja Kristen Indonesia) is an Indonesian church of Presbyterian denomination. It adheres to Calvinist theology. History GKI was established in continuity with the Indonesian Christian Church in West Java, Central Java and East Java. These three denominations were originally independent, each arising from separate missionary initiatives conducted by local and foreign missionaries. The first of these denominations to be established, later coming to be known as the Indonesian Christian Church East Java, was incorporated on 22 February 1934. Six years later, and coming to be known as the Indonesian Christian Church West Java, the second denomination was incorporated on 24 March 1940. Finally, on 8 August 1945, the Indonesian Christian Churches Central Java was incorporated. Since 27 March 1962, the three denominations have been united as the Indonesian Christian Church, with the overall governing responsibility maintained by the General Synod (Sinode Am), which aims to co-ordinate united efforts towards common goals. Both GKI West Java and GKI East Java were originally affiliated with the Dutch Hervormd mission, whereas GKI Central Java was affiliated with the Dutch Gereformeerd mission. Additionally, GKI West Java originally included a number of congregations operating as a distinct presbytery, which was affiliated with local and foreign Chinese Evangelical missions. Despite the differences in liturgy and church government between the various congregations and denominations, all the congregation from the three previous GKIs, without exception, consented to the merger at the time GKI united. Organization GKI's organization consists of the congregation, presbytery, regional synod and Synod. Each organisation respectively was led by the congregation council (session), the presbytery council, the regional synod council and the synod council. As the Synod consists of regional synods, regional synod consists of presbyteries, presbytery consists of congregations, so synod council consists of all regional synod councils, regional synod council consists of all presbytery councils and presbytery councils consists of all congregational councils. In short, synod councils consists of all GKI councils which are composed of elders and ministers. Church government in the congregation was run by an executive congregation council, the presbytery assemblies was run by an executive presbytery council, the regional synod was run by executive regional synod council and the synod was run by executive synod council. This kind of organisation was acknowledged as the presbyterial-Synodal system. What was unique of GKI Presbyterial-Synodal is that, each form of GKI church organisation has its own council as servant-leaders, not a mere executive board. Assembly The most authoritative forum to make decision in each form of the church organisation is the assembly. The assembly is respective assembly of council in its own scope. GKI hierarchy is made such that the larger assemblies, i.e. consisting of more little assemblies has more authority. For example, the assembly of the congregational council has to submit to the assembly of presbytery council, the assembly of presbytery council has to submit to the assembly of regional synod council and the assembly of regional synod council has to submit to the assembly of synod council. Regional Synods There are three regional synod in GKI: Regional Synod in East Java, Regional Synod in West Java and Regional Synod in Central Java. Statistics As of 2020, the church has 263,688 members in 231 congregations, 19 presbyteris and 3 regional synods. Presbyteries East Java Presbytery of Banyuwangi Presbytery of Bojonegoro Presbytery of Madiun West Java Presbytery of Jakarta Barat Presbytery of Jakarta Timur Presbytery of Jakarta Utara Presbytery of Jakarta Selatan Presbytery of Bandung Presbytery of Priangan Presbytery of Cirebon Presbytery of Banten Central Java Presbytery of Jakarta I Presbytery of Jakarta II Presbytery of Semarang Barat Presbytery of Semarang Timur Presbytery of Magelang Presbytery of Yogyakarta Presbytery of Solo Presbytery of Purwokerto Church Functions Church functions in GKI are ministers and elders. GKI deliberately chooses fewer church functions. Since Elder (Greek: presbuteros) is a function which GKI believed as being permanent function since the Old Testament to the New Testament. Whereas minister (Greek: episkopos) is an inherited function from the New Testament church. However, there are a few GKI congregations keeping the deacon function in their fidelity to old Calvinism. Liturgy GKI Liturgy is adapting and referring to the ecumenical Lima Liturgy and BEM (Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry) Document of the WCC. The Word of God was ministered by adapting The Revised Common Lectionary. GKI affirms two sacraments, i.e., baptism and eucharist. Decision Making Decision making in each meeting and assembly is undertaken by means of the conciliation method which is parallel to the consensus method. Ecumenical commitment GKI is committed to ecumenism by becoming an active member of the World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, and co-founder of Christian Conference of Asia and Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI). The uniting of GKI has placed GKI as the only church unity in the Indonesian ecumenical family, and one of the eight churches in the Asian and one of the eighteen churches in the global ecumenical family which forms the united and uniting churches. GKI partnering with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Uniting Church in Australia. Theology GKI values its theological heritage which originates from Pietism, Calvinism and Methodism, but prominently classified as mainline Protestant. GKI is doing theology in the context of a church living in the midst of Muslim community. GKI deliberately discontinued its ethnic bond, i.e., (Indonesian Chinese) to be a multi-ethnic national church in 1958. The church affirms the Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, the Heidelberg Catechism and GKI Confession 2014. References External links Presbyterian denominations in Oceania Presbyterianism in Indonesia Reformed denominations in Indonesia Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches Christian organizations established in 1962

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Watershed Distillery

Watershed Distillery is a microdistillery in Columbus, Ohio founded in 2010 by business partners Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo. The distillery was the second distillery opened in Central Ohio after prohibition, and Watershed brought to market the first legally distilled bourbon whiskey in Central Ohio post-prohibition in 2012. The distillery offers tours to the public and was the first distillery in Ohio to open a restaurant on-site in February 2017, following the passage of Ohio House Bill 351 in 2016. The distillery offers six spirits: vodka, two types of American style gin, bourbon, nocino and a bottled Old Fashioned cocktail. History Business partners, Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo, began working on plans for Watershed Distillery in 2008. Seeing parallels between the microdistilling industry and the booming craft beer industry, Lehman and Rigo set out to start the first distillery in Central Ohio post-prohibition. On September 1, 2010, Watershed received its official Distilled Spirits Plant license (DSP) from the TTB and picked up the keys to the space on the same morning. The duo began work on the first two spirits they were bringing to market, Watershed Vodka and Watershed Gin, and sold their first bottles to the state of Ohio in December 2010. Due to Ohio being an alcoholic beverage control state, Watershed Distillery was now permitted through an A3 permit to sell bottles through the three tier state system, but they were not permitted to sell bottles on site at their distillery. In Ohio, from 2008 through the end of 2011, only one distillery in each of the three most populous counties (Hamilton, Franklin and Cuyahoga) could hold an A3-a permit. This permit allows microdistilleries to sell their products in an A3-a permitted shop on-site. Middle West Spirits, another microdistillery in Columbus, had applied for and obtained the permit for Franklin County a few months prior to Watershed. In an effort to create change for the industry in Ohio as a whole, Greg Lehman of Watershed Distillery, Ryan Lang of Middle West Spirits and Tom Herbruck of Tom's Foolery Distillery (Cleveland, Ohio), founded the Ohio Distiller's Guild to provide a legislative voice for the state's craft distillers as well as a professional organization that would allow for easier access and sharing of resources and information. Through the guild, legislation was passed in December 2011 that freed up all micro distillers in the state of Ohio producing less than 10,000 proof gallons of high proof spirits annually to qualify for an A3-a permit which allowed them to not only sell bottles on site but also to offer samplings. In October 2015, Watershed announced its plan to quadruple production capacity by adding a new American built still from Headframe Spirits in Butte, Montana. The new still was installed in June 2016. This announcement came in the midst of efforts by the Ohio Distillers' Guild to once again influence liquor legislation in the state. At the time, both Watershed Distillery and Middle West Spirits, were at risk of losing their A3-a license and the ability to sell bottles on site because they had experienced growth and were approaching the 10,000 proof gallon annual production limit imposed on their businesses by the 2011 legislative decision. Through the efforts of the guild, House Bill 351 was pushed through both the Ohio House and Senate with few objections and was signed into law on June 28, 2016. House Bill 351 also allows Ohio distilleries to open a bar/restaurant by permitting them to apply for an A1A license. Spirits Vodka Vodka from Watershed Distillery was first sold in 2010 and at the time was made from Ohio corn sourced from local farms. The recipe has since changed and the distillers now create their vodka by blending a distillate they make from fresh pressed Ohio apple cider with their original corn distillate. Vodka from Watershed Distillery is bottled at 80 proof. Four Peel Gin Four Peel Gin, formerly Watershed Gin, is the distillery's signature gin. The name was changed late in 2011 discovering another small distiller had a "Watershed Gin" in their portfolio. Four Peel Gin is an American style gin that is known for its citrus-forward flavor. It is made of eight botanicals including orange peel, lemon peel, lime peel, grapefruit peel, coriander, allspice, cinnamon and Juniper berry. Four Peel Gin from Watershed Distillery is bottled at 88 proof. Bourbon Barrel Gin Bourbon Barrel Gin from Watershed Distillery is a barrel-aged gin the distillery created by aging their Four Peel Gin in spent bourbon barrel for a full year. They released their first batch of this brown gin in 2012 and it has since become one of their most popular products. Bourbon Barrel Gin from Watershed Distillery is bottled at 88 proof. Bourbon Bourbon from Watershed Distillery was first released in 2012 and was two years aged at the time. Current Watershed Bourbon available on shelves is three years aged and the distillery's goal is to eventually have a six-year aged bourbon. They utilize a five grain mash bill (corn, wheat, barley, rye and spelt) and age their bourbon in 53-gallon, char 4 barrels. Watershed Bourbon is bottled at 94 proof. Nocino Nocino from Watershed Distillery was first launched in late 2014. The distillers learned how to make Nocino from a local physician who wanted to see Nocino produced commercially in the United States. Watershed's Nocino is a 48 proof, black walnut liqueur made from Ohio grown and harvested black walnuts, Watershed Vodka, vanilla bean, orange peel, cloves, cinnamon and sugar. Bottled Old Fashioned Watershed Distillery launched a pre-bottled Old Fashioned cocktail in November 2014. High quality, classic craft cocktails seem to be a growing trend in the industry that distillers are pursuing. Watershed's Old Fashioned is a signature blend of bourbon, orange and aromatic bitters, raw sugar and Ohio cherry juice blended and bottled at 70 proof. Watershed Kitchen & Bar In late November 2016, Watershed Distillery announced plans to open Watershed Kitchen & Bar. Watershed became the first distillery in Ohio to open a restaurant under the new law that allows distilleries to apply for the A1A or "brewpup" license in Ohio. The Executive Chef for the restaurant is Chef Jack Moore, formerly of Jonathon Sawyer's The Greenhouse Tavern, and the bar program was run by Alex Chien. References Distilleries in the United States Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area American companies established in 2010 Food and drink companies established in 2010 Microdistilleries Food and drink companies based in Ohio Restaurants in Columbus, Ohio

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Pablo O'Higgins

Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (born Paul Higgins Stevenson; March 1, 1904 - July 16, 1983) was an American-Mexican artist, muralist and illustrator. Early life and education Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, O'Higgins was raised there and in San Diego, California. In 1922 he abandoned his first career as a pianist and entered the Academy of Arts in San Diego. Within two years he'd become a student of Diego Rivera, assisting Rivera on his murals at the National School of Agriculture at Chapingo, and the Public Education Secretariat. Mexico and murals Like Rivera, O'Higgins became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party. He immigrated to Mexico permanently in 1924, joined the party in 1927, and maintained his party membership until 1947. His political illustrations for the Daily Worker won him a year's study at the Academy of Art in Moscow on a Soviet Scholarship in 1933. In 1937, O'Higgins was the co-founder, with fellow artists Leopoldo Méndez and Luis Arenal, of the Taller de Gráfica Popular ("People's Graphic Workshop"). The Taller became inspiration to many politically active leftist artists; for example, American expressionist painter Byron Randall went on to found similar artist collectives after becoming an associate member. In May 1940 O'Higgins had the honor of being the only non-native Mexican artist with work included in the seminal "Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art" exhibit organized by the Museum of Modern Art. In 1961 O'Higgins was awarded honorary Mexican citizenship for "his contributions to the national arts and education". One of his murals can be seen at the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market, Mexico City. His 1945 mural for the Ship Scalers Union Hall in Seattle is installed in Kane Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle. The mural depicts Seattle's Ship Scalers Union's (SSU) history as a strongly anti-racist, anti-discriminatory, and progressive force in social politics. Among O'Higgins' students was the American graphic designer Bob Cato, and artist and muralist Marion Greenwood. Further reading Acevedo, Esther. "Young Muralists at the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market." in Mexican Muralism: A Critical History, Alejandro Anreus, Robin Adèle Greeley, and Leonard Folgarait. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 2012, pp. 125–147. Espinosa Campos, Eduardo. "Pablo O'Higgins: arte mural para las escuelas". In La pintura mural en los centros de educación en México. Pinacoteca 2003.é Flores, Laura. "Pablo O'Higgins: Pintura y Cambio Social." Metamórphosis, Northwest Chicano Magazine of Art and Literature. IV no. 2, col. V no. 1 (1982/1983).ó Fundación Cultural María y Pablo O'Higgins. Pablo O'Higgins, Contruyendo vidas. Mexico City 2005. Hijar, Alberto. Pablo O'Higgins: Apuntes y dibujos de trabajadores. Monterrey: Secretaría de Educación y Cultura 1987. Poniatowska, Elena and Gilbert Bosques. Pablo O'Higgins. Mexico City: Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior 1984. UNAM. Pablo O'Higgins: Voz de Lucha y Arte. Mexico City: UNAM-Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo León, Fundación Cultural María y Pablo O'Higgins, A.C., 2005. Vogel, Susan. Becoming Pablo O'Higgins. San Francisco and Salt Lake City: Pince-Nez Press 2010 References External links Works produced by Pablo O'Higgins at the Taller de Gráfica Popular - Gráfica Mexicana 1904 births 1983 deaths American communists American emigrants to Mexico American muralists Naturalized citizens of Mexico Mexican muralists Mexican communists Artists from Salt Lake City Mexican people of Irish descent San Diego High School alumni

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1867 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of English poet Lord Byron, subsequently demolished. Works published in English Canada Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly (Montreal) United Kingdom Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach" Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839) Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems United States George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight Henry Timrod, "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867" Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition (first edition 1855) John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach Other in English Australia: Adam Lindsay Gordon Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric Sea Spray and Smoke Drift Henry Kendall – "Bell-Birds" Works published in other languages France François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869 Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published Other Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik ("The Nightingale of the Mother River"), Estonia Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů ("Books of Verses"), Czech Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt), Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days"), Netherlands Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 9 – Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume) March 2 – Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian March 15 – Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English April 10 – George William Russell "Æ" (died 1935), Irish June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French June 17 – Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian August 2 – Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement August 13 – Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), Swiss-born German September 17 – Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changes his name to Noboru 升 (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka) November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American November 26 – Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5? – Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor February 2 – Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet February 23 – Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut, born 1792), Friulian poet August 31 – Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator October 7 – Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet See also 19th century in poetry 19th century in literature List of years in poetry List of years in literature Victorian literature French literature of the 19th century Poetry Notes Poetry 19th-century poetry

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Dalila Puzzovio

Dalila Puzzovio ( born 1 January 1943) is an Argentine visual artist and fashion designer active during the 1960s. Puzzovio works in the art forms of pop, happening, and conceptual art. Her artistic creativity is credited by Graciela Melgarejo as having paved the way for subsequent Argentine artists and greatly influenced the work they produced. Biography With the encouragement of her parents, Puzzovio's career was able to develop at the early age of 12. Although there is no documentation of formal education, her artistic vocation developed under the mentorship of two artists: surrealist Juan Batlle Planas and conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich. She studied under their wing up until 1961, when she exhibited her paintings for the first time in Galeria Lirolay in her hometown of Buenos Aires. Two years later, she showcased her second exhibition, Cascaras, which she developed and French artist Germaine Derbecq curated. In 1964, she was in a selected group of around 30 artists to participate in the New Art of Argentina, or "New Art of Argentina", held by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in conjunction with the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. Like many pop artists of the time, such as Delia Cancela and Eduardo Costa, Puzzovio blended her interest in art with fashion. Her work in this category led to the creation of Dalila Doble Plataforma (Dalila Double Platform). Until 1985, she focused on developing herself as a fashion designer by making costumes for film and theater and working directly in the fashion industry. Since the 1980s, Puzzovio has experimented with an array of artistic categories. During the 1980s and 1990s, her artistic advice was used to create several interior and architectural designs. Until the beginning of the 1990s, she also contributed to popular magazines such as Vogue, where she completed tasks as a writer, editor, and illustrator. From 1998 to present day, her artwork primarily consists of digital photographic collages, among the most notable is her work Hibridos (Hybrids). She currently works and resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artworks Collaborative works In 1963, she worked alongside Germaine Derbecq to create her second exhibition Cascaras (Shells). These "cascaras astrales", or astral shells, resembled empty bodies and were made of discarded orthopedic casts and other objects. According to the artist, these sculptures held the vibrations of the body it once held. Continuing with the use of casts as her primary medium, Puzzovio created Coronas para los habitantes no humanos from 1964 to 1998. This work, as described by Eduardo Squirru is illustrative of mortality and death; the color white representing the frailty of the human bone and the black representing the soul's darkness. In the 1960s, there was a surge of pop artists in Argentina, among them Puzzovio, Edgardo Gimenez, and Puzzovios' husband Carlos "Charlie" Squirru, whom she had met in 1962. During 1965, this artistic trio worked together on the design for a poster panel located on the corner of Viamonte and Florida Streets in Buenos Aires that read "¿Por qué son tan geniales?". The panel was constructed by painters from Meca publicity agency and posed the question "Why are we such geniuses" in bold, black letters. Under the question was the name of the three artists as well as a large portrait of the three artists holding items that defined their artwork: Puzzovio held empty orthopedic casts, Gimenez held industrial materials, and Squirru held a blood transfusion bag. The billboard was meant to resemble a movie advertisement and was overlooked by Argentine passersby and commuters. Inés Katzenstein wrote that it was in this self-deprecating manner that the artists publicly acknowledged the commentary of their judges and spread awareness on their names and artwork to the general public. Individual projects From 1966 to 1967, Puzzovio created Autoretrato, which was a form of self portraiture that was made by artisan film painters on a 223 x 365.5 x 100 canvas. The painting illustrated the tanned body of an international model Verushka, who laid on the sand with a bikini embedded with rich jewels. The face of the model, however, was replaced with that of Dalila Puzzovio, who happened to resemble the model. According to Maria Jose Herrera, rather than revealing an accurate representation of Puzzovio's physical appearance, this ideal self portrait illustrates an identity that the artist relates to; in this case, the artist identifies with the sexual body of a woman that complies with fashion standards. It was this painting that granted Puzzovio her first Premio Nacional Di Tella, an artistic award given in Argentina. By 1967, Puzzovio had created Dalila doble Plataforma; in this fusion of art and fashion, she created a total of 40 women's platform shoes. Puzzovio aimed to analyze how women became empowered through wearable accessories that added vibrancy and height to their physique; she predicted that women would not only feel empowered but would be able to transcend from the 1960s all the way to the 2000s. The platform shoes were evenly spread out in a glass display made up of distinct cubicles, each containing a lonesome pair. At first, their exhibition was exclusive to art galleries, such as the Centro de Arte Visuales del Instituto Di Tella, but they were eventually put on display behind the shopping windows of traditional shoe stores such as Grimoldi. Puzzovio reduplicated this object and offered it to these shoe stores for commercial use, ultimately producing a massive artwork that extended from the Di Tella to the commercial streets of Argentina. The following year, her artwork was honored through the Premio Nacional de Di Tella, which would make her a second-time winner of such award. She additionally used this artwork as the basis of El Deslumbre, an installation and performance that was showcased at arteBA, Buenos Aires' annual contemporary art fair, in 2011. This exhibition recreated the environment and atmosphere of shoe stores that originally carried her "arty-shoes". The general public that visited contributed to the mobilization of the artwork by trying on pairs of shoes and modeling them in a catwalk that was installed specifically for the event. Collections Her work is currently conserved by both private and public collectors, among those are the Centro de Arte Visuales del Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires and the Museo de Arte Moderna de Buenos Aires. Costumes for film and theater 1966 - Wardrobe for the concert "Help Valentino", with Antonio Gasalla and Carlos Perciavalle 1968 - Costumes for Mrs. Libertad Leblanc for the film "Psexoanalisis" directed by Héctor Olivera 1969 - Costumes for Mrs. Malvina Pastorino, "Pepsi", Comic Theater, Buenos Aires 1971 - Costumes and set design for Miguel A.'s musical comedy Rondano "La Vera Historia de Salomé", General San Martín Theater, Buenos Aires 1975 - Costume for the musical comedy performed by Tato Bores "Hello Tato", Teatro Estrellas, Buenos Aires 1977-78 - Costumes for the television show "Con sabor a Pinky", Buenos Aires 1981 - Costumes for the María Creuza show, Hotel Bauen, Buenos Aires References External links Official website ¿Por qué son tan geniales? ad campaign 1943 births Living people 20th-century Argentine women artists 21st-century Argentine women artists Artists from Buenos Aires Women conceptual artists Shoe designers Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine women fashion designers

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The Ambulance

The Ambulance is a 1990 American comedy thriller film written and directed by Larry Cohen. It stars Eric Roberts, Megan Gallagher, James Earl Jones, Janine Turner, Red Buttons, and Eric Braeden as the Doctor. Kevin Hagen plays a cop. In his first film role, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics has a small role as himself. Plot Aspiring comic book artist Josh Baker meets a young woman named Cheryl on the streets of New York City, who proceeds to collapse and is rushed to a hospital by an ambulance. When Josh arrives at the hospital, he is shocked to find that there is no record of Cheryl ever being admitted and he soon learns another startling discovery, Cheryl's roommate also vanished after being picked up by the same ambulance. Convinced that there is some sort of conspiracy going on, Josh proceeds to investigate the disappearances, despite the overt disdain and discouragement from Lt. Spencer. Cast Eric Roberts as Josh Baker James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Frank Spencer Megan Gallagher as Officer Sandra Malloy Red Buttons as Elias Zacharai Janine Turner as Cheryl Turner Eric Braeden as The Doctor Richard Bright as Detective Jerry McClosky James Dixon as Detective John "Jughead" Ryan Jill Gatsby as Jerilyn O'Brien Martin Barter as Street Gang Leader Laurene Landon as Patty Nick Chinlund as Hugo (as Nicholas Chinlund) Beatrice Winde as Head Nurse Kevin Hagen as Cop At Stables Matt Norklun as Ambulance Driver Rudy Jones as Ambulance Driver Stan Lee as Marvel Comics Editor Deborah Hedwall as Nurse Barbera Feinstein Susan Blommaert as Hospital Receptionist Jordan Derwin as Hospital Official Alexandra Jones as The Waitress Michael O'Hare as Hal Production Cohen later said he was inspired by "the concept of taking something that is thought of as being benign or benevolent... or anything else that has a safe and wholesome image, and turning it into an object of terror." He had done this for It's Alive (babies) and The Stuff (junk food) and wanted to do it with ambulances. "When you hear or see an ambulance on the street, it’s usually considered to be something that is going to rescue you and take care of you, a vehicle of mercy," said Cohen. "In this story, it’s actually a vehicle of murder. The whole idea of an ambulance that suddenly arrives from nowhere, picks people up, and takes them away to some dark place where they are never seen or heard of again was completely original and creepy." Cohen says at one stage the financiers wanted a "classier" title than The Ambulance so he retitled it In Thin Air. They changed their mind and the film went back to being called The Ambulance. In the May, 1990 edition of his column Stan's Soapbox, Stan Lee mentions playing himself in a scene in "an adventure mystery called Into Thin Air and refers to the name change in a later column. Cohen wanted to cast John Travolta or Jim Carrey in the lead but his producers refused. Donald Trump made a small cameo in a deleted scene. Jamie Lee Curtis was originally considered to play Officer Sandra Malloy The role of the villain was originally played by Wesley Addy. However Cohen was unhappy with his performance and recast the role with Eric Braeden. Braeden's casting came at the suggestion of Cohen's mother who was a fan of The Young and the Restless. Home media The film was released on Blu-ray on March 13, 2018 by Scream Factory. See also List of films featuring diabetes References External links 1990 films 1990 comedy films 1990 crime thriller films 1990s crime comedy films 1990s comedy thriller films 1990s English-language films American comedy thriller films American crime comedy films American crime thriller films Films about comics Films about missing people Films directed by Larry Cohen Films scored by Jay Chattaway Films set in New York City Films with screenplays by Larry Cohen Triumph Films films 1990s American films

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Charley Morgan

Charley E. Morgan (November 17, 1929 - January 7, 2023) was a legendary American sailboat racer and designer. He was best known as the founder of Morgan Yacht Corporation. Early life Morgan was born in Chicago November 1929 and raised in Florida. Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. Morgan attended the University of Tampa and took a job with Johnson Sails, located at the Jean Street Shipyard on the Hillsborough River. In 1952 he founded Morgan Racing Sails in Tampa, FL. While making sails Morgan met yacht designer George Luzier, who got him interested in designing boats. Racing In 1957, Morgan, along with Charlie Hunt, designed and built Brisote, a 31-foot plywood yawl. After successfully appealing disqualification due to a lack of engine, he entered the Havana race and took second in Brisote's division. In 1960 Jack Powell commissioned Morgan to build the 40 foot centerboard fiberglass yawl Paper Tiger.. The "famously successful" Paper Tiger won the SORC Southern Ocean Racing Conference in 1961 and 1962. Morgan Yachts Unable to find a builder to manufacture the Tiger Cub, a smaller version of Paper Tiger, Morgan founded the Morgan Yacht Corporation St. Petersburg, Florida, 1965 after graduating high school and starting his own sail company. Morgan suffered the misfortune of falling ill with tuberculosis, delaying production. Morgan asked Bidwell to join the business, delivering the first yacht in 1965. Early models included the Tiger Cub and fiberglass sloop Morgan 34. The company grossed 1.7 million in 1965. The company's first model was the Morgan 34 built in fiberglass. This was followed by the Morgan 24, 30, 41, and 45. The Morgan 41 designed by Morgan, his most popular design, became a standard in the sailing charter industry for its strength, simplicity, and space belowdecks. In response to customer feedback while operating Morgan Yacht, Morgan designed the shallow draft Morgan Out Island 41, "the most popular boat over 40 feet overall ever built." First built in 1971 the spacious boat became popular with charter companies, becoming "the standard charter boat." The Out Island 33 was designed and first produced in mid-1971 as part of the Morgan Out Island series. Morgan's involvement in the company ended in 1972. Ownership of Morgan Yacht was sold to Beatrice Foods in 1968, providing funds for Morgan to design and build the wooden 12-meter yacht Heritage to compete for selection as defender of the America's Cup. Morgan acted as skipper during the defender selection trials but lost to Intrepid. After Morgan left the company was passed from one corporate entity to another, until it came into the hands of Catalina Yachts in 1984. Catalina continued manufacturing a few models, including the Out Island 41, before the Morgan name was retired. Later life Morgan left Morgan Yachts in 1972. Beatrice Foods sold the company to Catalina Yachts in 1984 and sold a redesigned Morgan Out Island 41 from 1986 to 1993. Morgan found Heritage Yacht Corporation in 1975, producing trawlers and sailing yachts. The company was forced into bankruptcy and ownership transferred to Catalina Yachts. Heritage Yachts sold the tooling for their line of Morgan Trawlers to Chris-Craft and Morgan began working for Chris-Craft, doing design work on their trawler line. Morgan later designed the Com-pac 35 under contract for Hutchins Yachts. Designs Columbia 40 Morgan 22 Morgan 24/25 Morgan 34 Morgan Out Island 41 Morgan 41 aka M41 Morgan 42 aka M42-1 Morgan 42 aka M42-2 References 1929 births 2023 deaths America's Cup yacht designers American boat builders American yacht designers Morgan Yachts People from Chicago

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Sir Henry Martin, 1st Baronet

Captain Sir Henry Martin, 1st Baronet (1733–1794) was a naval commander whose final appointment was Comptroller of the Navy 1790–1794. Martin was born at Shroton House, Dorset, 29 August 1733. On the death of his brother George in 1748 he became the eldest surviving son of the second marriage of Samuel Martin, plantation owner of Antigua to Sarah née Wyke, 20, widow of William Irish, plantation owner of Montserrat in the West Indies. Career Martin was educated at the Portsmouth naval academy and privately by Dr Pemberton. He was appointed a captain in the Royal Navy and served in American and West Indian waters in the Seven Years' War. He married in 1761 and after the conclusion of the peace treaties in early 1763 they lived at Bishopstown near Cork where he had a leasehold farm. Considered by his father to be 'self-diffident' and in 'want of that assurance so necessary to push his way to preferment' he was given the goad of being let survive with some difficulty on limited resources from prize money and his father's marriage settlement. He returned to the Navy briefly in 1770 during a war scare and thereafter lived at Bath where his father joined them. In 1780 he was appointed resident naval commissioner at Portsmouth, a role he held for ten years. Harry Martin succeeded his half-brother, Samuel as a plantation owner in Antigua in 1788. In March 1790 he was appointed Comptroller of the Navy and later that year was elected Member of Parliament for Southampton. He was created a baronet 28 July 1791, Martin of Lockynge, Berkshire. Family Henry Martin married, 26 November 1761, Eliza Anne Gillman, daughter of Harding Parker of Passage West county Cork and widow of St Leger Hayward Gillman of Gillmansville county Cork. They had four sons and four daughters. Their youngest son, Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, was also Comptroller of the Navy 1816–1831. Sarah Catherine Martin His daughter, Sarah Catherine (c1768-1826), assembled the nursery rhyme Old Mother Hubbard. She suffered the attentions of a very young Prince William Henry and never married but while a visitor at the Devonshire house of her sister, Mrs Pollexfen Bastard, she assembled the rhyme about her sister's housekeeper for the entertainment of fellow guests though she may not be responsible for the first few lines. It was so successful she published it in 1805 as The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog. Death He died at his Town House, 51 Upper Harley Street, London on Friday, 1 August 1794 a few weeks before his 61st birthday. "In the death of Sir Henry Martin, Baronet, late Comptroller of the Navy, the world has been deprived of one of its noblest ornaments; for as such, must ever be esteemed a character replete with every virtue that can dignify human nature. His loss in public and private will be severely felt. The uprightness of his actions in his public capacity is too well known to need the testimony of an individual; and in private life, those who were so happy as to know him best, daily saw in him the kind indulgent husband, the tender affectionate father, the firm and faithful friend. The benevolence of his mind shone conspicuous in every action of his life. He lived adored by his family, beloved, esteemed, admired by his numerous acquaintance. He died sincerely lamented by all; and to fum up his character in one short line, "The feat of every virtue was his heart!"" References External links History of Parliament online |- |- 1733 births 1794 deaths Royal Navy officers Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1790–1796 Lords of the Admiralty Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Military personnel from Dorset

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Xanthus Russell Smith

Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26, 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of painters William Thompson Russell Smith and Mary Priscilla Wilson, he was educated at home by his mother, who also gave him drawing lessons. Between 1851 and 1852, he accompanied his parents and sister Mary Russell Smith on the family's tour of Europe. After returning home, he studied chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, before enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He served in the Union Navy as a captain's clerk during the American Civil War, helping to maintain the blockade of Charleston, South Carolina. He saw little action, and sketched hundreds of ships in a variety of media, including pencil and oil paint, both for official purposes and for his own pleasure. His father built a suburban villa, "Edgehill", in Glenside, Pennsylvania, a couple miles outside of Philadelphia, that included a large artist's studio. In 1879, Smith married Mary Binder, the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia lumber dealer. The Smiths settled at Edgehill, where they raised their three children, Mary Russell "Polly" (1880–1938), Xanthus Russell Jr. (1886–1961), and George Russell (1890–1943). Smith also maintained a studio at 1020 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia for over thirty years, and painted until his death at age 90. Selected works Smith did not actually participate in most of the battles he illustrated; instead, he generally consulted those who were present at the engagements. His first major work, The Monitor and the Merrimack — 1869, oil on canvas, 30 x 66 inches (76.2 x 167.6 cm.), Union League of Philadelphia — was critically acclaimed. His paintings were sometimes massive: Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina — 1872–73, oil on canvas, 56 x 123-1/2 inches (142.2 x 313.7 cm.), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — is more than 10 feet wide. There are seven known versions of the famous June 19, 1864 naval battle between the USS Kearsarge and the Confederate ship Alabama, each a unique composition: Sinking of the Rebel Cruiser Alabama by the U.S.S. Kearsage, 1868, oil on canvas, 10 x 18 inches (25.4 x 45.7 cm.), Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Regions Bank The Sinking of the Alabama, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas, 8.2 x 14.7 inches (20.8 x 37.3 cm.), private collection. Battle between Kearsarge and Alabama, c. 1870, oil on canvas, 9-5/8 x 14-7/8 inches (24.4 x 37.8 cm.), Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. The Kearsarge and Alabama, 1875, oil on canvas, 56-1/2 x 96 inches (143.5 x 243.8 cm.), Union League of Philadelphia. A popular attraction at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. The Close of the Engagement, 1886, oil on canvas, 21 x 36 inches (53.3 x 91.4 cm.), Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York City. Battle of the Kearsarge and Alabama, 1892, watercolor on paper, 19-3/4 x 29-3/4 inches (50.2 x 75.6 cm.), Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. The Sinking of the CSS Alabama, 1922, oil on canvas, dimensions unknown, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York. Commissioned by former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt . Smith's paintings and sketches were used to illustrate a large number of Civil War histories, including the 1926 biography he wrote of his former commanding officer, Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont. Examples of his work are at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the U.S. Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C. Others are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. His unpublished autobiography, An Unvarnished Tale, along with his family papers are preserved in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. References James Louis Fisher, Xanthus Smith: Civil War Painter, M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1982. Barbara McNew, "The Fury and Terrible Beauty." Naval History 14.3 (2001):26–33 Robert Wilson Torchia, Xanthus Smith and the Civil War, exhibition catalogue, Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 1999. Robert Wilson Torchia, The Smiths, Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, January 1999. External links Cunard Steamer "Parthia" Leaving Boston Harbor (1871) from Cahoon Museum, Contuit, MA. Farragut Passing the Forts below New Orleans (1872) from Philadelphia History Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Landscape sketches from Harvard University Art Museum. Landscape sketches from Princeton University Art Museum. The Civil War Naval Scenes of Xanthus Smith from Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 1839 births 1929 deaths Artists from Philadelphia 19th-century war artists People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni American marine artists Union Navy sailors Artists from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania American war artists Painters from Pennsylvania 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists

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Charles Dupuy

Charles Alexandre Dupuy (; 5 November 1851 – 23 July 1923) was a French statesman, three times prime minister. Biography He was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, where his father was a minor official. After a period as a professor of philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed a school inspector, thus obtaining a practical acquaintance with the needs of French education. In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Republican. After acting as "reporter" of the budget for public instruction, he became minister for the department, in Alexandre Ribot's cabinet, in 1892. In April 1893 he formed a ministry himself, taking as his office that of minister of the interior, but resigned at the end of November, and on 5 December was elected president of the chamber. During his first week of office an anarchist, Vaillant, who had managed to gain admission to the chamber, threw a bomb at the president, and Dupuy's calm response --"Messieurs, la séance continue" – gained him much credit. In May 1894 he again became premier and minister of the interior; and he was at President Carnot's side when Carnot was stabbed to death at Lyons in June. He then stood for the presidency, but was defeated, and his cabinet remained in office till January 1895; under this government, Alfred Dreyfus was arrested and condemned (23 December 1894). The progress of the Dreyfus Affair cast its shadow over Dupuy, along with other French "ministrables," but in November 1898, after Henri Brisson had at last remitted the case to the judgment of the court of cassation, he formed a cabinet of Republican concentration. During Dupuy's time as prime minister, a number of progressive reforms were carried out. A law implemented in June 1894 introduced a form of social insurance through a mutual fund for miners' welfare and retirement, while a law passed in November 1894 introduced the Credit Agricole mutualist savings bank for farmers. In addition, a law passed that same month set out the role of the state-owned Caisse des depots "in the construction and management of subsidised housing". In view of the apparent likelihood that the judges of the criminal division of the court of cassation—who formed the ordinary tribunal for such an appeal—would decide in favour of Dreyfus, it was thought that Dupuy's new cabinet would be strong enough to reconcile public opinion to such a result; but, to the surprise of outside observers, Dupuy proposed a law in the chamber transferring the decision to a full court of all the divisions of the court of cassation. This arbitrary act, though adopted by the chamber, was construed as a fresh attempt to maintain the judgment of the first court-martial. In the interim, President Félix Faure (an anti-Dreyfusard) died, and the accession of Émile Loubet helped placate the public. The whole court of cassation decided that there must be a new court-martial, and Dupuy at once resigned (June 1899). Although none of Dupuy's presidential bids were successful, he served, due to his position as Prime Minister, as an Acting President of the French Republic for three separate occasions during vacancies. In June 1900 Dupuy was elected senator for the Haute-Loire department. He was reelected on 7 January 1906 and 11 January 1920, holding office until his death on 23 July 1923. Dupuy's first ministry, 4 April 1893 – 3 December 1893 Charles Dupuy – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior Jules Develle – Minister of Foreign Affairs Julien Léon Loizillon – Minister of War Paul Peytral – Minister of Finance Eugène Guérin – Minister of Justice Louis Terrier – Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Colonies Auguste Alfred Lefèvre – Minister of Marine Raymond Poincaré – Minister of Public Instruction, Fine Arts, and Worship Albert Viger – Minister of Agriculture Jules Viette – Minister of Public Works Dupuy's second ministry, 30 May 1894 – 26 January 1895 Charles Dupuy – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and of Worship Gabriel Hanotaux – Minister of Foreign Affairs Auguste Mercier – Minister of War Raymond Poincaré – Minister of Finance Eugène Guérin – Minister of Justice Félix Faure – Minister of Marine Georges Leygues – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts Albert Viger – Minister of Agriculture Théophile Delcassé – Minister of Colonies Louis Barthou – Minister of Public Works Victor Lourties – Minister of Commerce and Industry and of Posts and Telegraphs Dupuy's third ministry, 1 November 1898 – 22 June 1899 Charles Dupuy – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior and Worship Théophile Delcassé – Minister of Foreign Affairs Charles de Freycinet – Minister of War Paul Peytral – Minister of Finance Georges Lebret – Minister of Justice Édouard Locroy – Minister of Marine Georges Leygues – Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts Albert Viger – Minister of Agriculture Florent Guillain – Minister of Colonies Camille Krantz – Minister of Public Works Paul Delombre – Minister of Commerce and Industry and of Posts and Telegraphs Changes 6 May 1899 – Camille Krantz succeeds Freycinet as Minister of War. Jean Monestier succeeds Krantz as Minister of Public Works. References Sources 1851 births 1923 deaths People from Le Puy-en-Velay Opportunist Republicans Progressive Republicans (France) 19th-century heads of state of France Prime Ministers of France French interior ministers Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (France) Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 6th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 7th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of Parliament for Haute-Loire French senators of the Third Republic Senators of Haute-Loire French Freemasons Antidreyfusards École Normale Supérieure alumni

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National University of Equatorial Guinea

The National University of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE, Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial in Spanish) is a public institution of higher education, being one of the main universities of Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa. It has a main campus in Malabo as well as a unit in Bata. Its current Rector is Filiberto Ntutumu Nguema Nchama. Historic The university tradition of UNGE dates back to the Spanish colonial period, when the country's first high schools were founded, anchored in the Spanish concern before the various decolonization movements that were beginning to take shape on the African continent. From the colonial period to independence The course of the UNGE began with the former Indigenous Colonial Institute (in Spanish: Instituto Colonial Indígena), created on March 30, 1935, with vocation for technical education. However, it was only on August 6, 1943, when this Institute was elevated to Indigenous Higher School (ESI; in Spanish: Escuela Superior Indígena), that in fact began higher education in Guinea. From 1958 onwards, the ESI was renamed the Santo Tomás de Aquino Higher School (in Spanish: Escuela Superior Santo Tomás de Aquino), again changing its name in 1959 to the Provincial Higher School (in Spanish: Escuela Superior Provincial). In this period the establishment existed diplomas of administration, teaching (today pedagogy) and commerce (now economic sciences). While the country became independent, under the command of the dictator Macías Nguema, the school was reformulated, being denominated in 1971 of Martin Luther King Higher School (ESMLK; in Spanish: Escuela Superior "Martin Luther King"). The school, however, had not yet been able to fulfill a broad training role, a fact that would only occur in the 1980s, with the unification of the ESMLK with the School of Teaching of Malabo, allowing mainly to expand the training of graduates to teach at primary levels and secondary. Post-coup reforms by Obiang When Teodoro Obiang took over the government in a coup in 1979, he sought to expand access to higher education through strong cooperation with UNESCO and the Spanish government. This culminated in the transformation of ESMLK, in 1984, in University School of Training of the Teachers of Malabo (in Spanish: Escuela Universitaria de Formación del Profesorado de Malabo). In addition, the National School of Agriculture (later the University School of Agricultural, Fisheries and Forestry) was created in 1987, with financing from the African Development Bank. The educational reforms proposed by UNESCO to Obiang also gave origin to the University School of Training of the Professors of Bata and to University School of Health and Environment. Formation of UNGE These four schools gave the possibility of maturing higher education to the country, while forming important technical staff. Faced with this the government saw the need to implement a university that would come to federate the institutions. The National University of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE; in Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial) was created through Law No. 12/1995 of January 6, 1995, bringing together: University School of Teacher Training of Malabo; University School of Agricultural, Fisheries and Forest Studies; University School of Teacher Training of Bata; University School of Health and Environment. In 1998 the University School of Administration was incorporated into the structure of UNGE and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences was created. In 2001 was created the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the University School of Engineering and Technique. Organisational structure In 2015 the university was organized according to the following organizational structure: Faculty of Environment; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Education Sciences of Malabo; Faculty of Educational Sciences of Bata; Faculty of Architecture and Engineering of Bata; Medical Sciences College; Faculty of Humanities and Religious Sciences. The UNGE is still composed of 3 affiliated university schools: University School of Agricultural, Fisheries and Forest Studies "Obiang Nguema Mbasogo" (Faculty of Engineering of Malabo); University School of Administration; University School of Health and Environment. Infrastructure The Main Campus in Malabo is located on Hassan II Avenue. The headquarters building of the rectory was built in 1949 and is part of the nation's architectural patrimony. The Malabo campus residence has a capacity of 200 seats. The university has a rectory headquarters in Bata. The university is still one of the responsible for the Luba Crater Scientific Reserve, developing many research projects there, mainly on the local primate population. Rectors See also Colegio Nacional Enrique Nvó Okenve References External links Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial (Spanish) Educational institutions established in 1995 Universities and colleges in Equatorial Guinea Buildings and structures in Malabo Bata, Equatorial Guinea National universities 1995 establishments in Equatorial Guinea

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Robert Titzer

Robert C. Titzer (born June 1960) is an American professor and infant researcher who claimed to create an approach to teach babies written language, which resulted in the Your Baby Can products. He has been a professor, teacher, and public speaker on human learning for around 31 years, and says that he taught his own children to read using the multi-sensory approach that he developed. He is the founder of the Infant Learning Company, a company that produces learning products for infants. Education and degrees Titzer received his teaching credentials from San Diego State University. In the late 1980s, he taught at public schools in Guam and California. In 1985, he earned a communications degree from the University of Southern Indiana. He later completed a Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and received a doctorate in human performance from the Indiana University Bloomington. At Bloomington, he did experiments in infant learning at developmental psychology laboratories. During his tenure as professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, Titzer developed a program to teach toddlers to read. He has also been a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Indiana University, and California State University, Fullerton. Publications A search of the PsycINFO database reveals three publications which include Titzer as an author. He was one of four co-authors of a paper which was published in 1999 in Psychological Review, titled "The Task Dynamics of the A-Not-B Error". The other two citations in PsycINFO include his dissertation, which concerned the infant's understanding of the visual cliff, and a paper he co-authored in 1993, "The influence of reminder trials on contextual interference effects." Occupation Initially Dr. Titzer created this program for his own daughters which he says made them independent readers at a very early age. In 1997, Titzer began selling "Your Baby Can Learn!" videos. Titzer also trains preschool teachers in many countries and he consults with learning centers and preschools in India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United States, and China. YBC is represented by LearningMojo Pvt Ltd in India and operates multiple Early Learning Centres in Karnataka, TamilNadu, Telangana, Haryana, Delhi NCR and Gujarat. Along with providing YBC products these centres help parents with YBC classes, Parent Toddler classes to help their children with Early language development. Criticism Some people have criticized Titzer's videos as being suspect because they lack rigorous scientific review and are commercial products. In November 2010, Jeff Rossen and Robert Powell of NBC's Today wrote that Titzer "calls himself an infant learning expert but actually holds a graduate degree in 'human performance' — the study of motor skills." Maryanne Wolf, Tufts University's director of cognitive neuroscience, said: "It's an extraordinary manipulation of facts" to claim that the babies are actually reading. Today interviewed ten experts who affirmed that the brains of babies and toddlers are not developed enough to read at "the level the way the enticing television ads claim they can". Titzer argued against these claims, saying that scientific research supported the effectiveness of Your Baby Can Learn. On August 22, 2014, a press release from the Federal Trade Commission related the following: "Your Baby Can Read creator, Dr. Robert Titzer, and his company, Infant Learning, Inc. d/b/a The Infant Learning Company have settled charges that they made baseless claims about the effectiveness of the Your Baby Can Read program and misrepresented that scientific studies proved the claims.". Dr. Titzer now has broken his ties with the marketing company which used infomercials to sell the products in huge numbers. He now often works with people in the field of early childhood education to market the products. Personal Titzer and his family live just outside San Diego, California. References 1960 births 20th-century American writers 21st-century American writers California State University, Fullerton faculty Indiana University alumni Indiana University faculty Living people Pennsylvania State University alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty People from San Diego San Diego State University alumni University of Southern Indiana alumni Writers from California Developmental psycholinguists

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County cricket

Inter-county cricket matches have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales. Since the late 19th century, there have been two county championship competitions played at different levels: the County Championship, a first-class competition which involves eighteen first-class county clubs among which seventeen are English and one is from Wales; and the National Counties Championship, which involves nineteen English county clubs and one club that represents several Welsh counties. History County cricket started in the eighteenth century, the earliest known inter-county match being played in 1709, though an official County Championship was not instituted until 1890. Development of county cricket Inter-county cricket was popular throughout the 18th century, although the best teams, such as Kent in the 1740s or Hampshire in the days of the famous Hambledon Club, were usually acknowledged as such by being matched against All-England. The most successful county teams were Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. There was, however, often a crossover between town and county with some strong local clubs tending at times to represent a whole county. Examples are London, which often played against county teams and was in some respects almost a county club in itself; Slindon, which was for a few years in the 1740s effectively representative of Sussex as a county; Dartford, sometimes representative of Kent; and the Hambledon Club, certainly representative of Hampshire and also perhaps of Sussex. One of the best county teams in the late 18th century was Berkshire, which no longer has first-class status. Modern county cricket All matches prior to 1988 were scheduled for three days, normally of a nominal six hours each plus intervals, but often with the first two days lengthened by up to an hour and the final day shortened, so that teams with fixtures elsewhere on the following day could travel at sensible hours. The exception to this was the 1919 season, when there was an experiment with two-day matches played over longer hours, up to nine o'clock in the evening in mid-summer. This experiment was not repeated. From 1988 to 1992 some matches were played over four days. From 1993 onward, all matches have been scheduled for four days. Teams First-class counties The eighteen first-class counties are the top league cricket teams. They are named after historic English counties and include one Welsh county. The first-class counties are: The full name of each club is the name of the county followed by the words County Cricket Club, often abbreviated as CCC. Other teams with first-class status MCC The opening first-class game of an English county cricket season has traditionally been played at Lord's between the MCC and the Champion County (the club that won the County Championship the previous year). When the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) plays against one of the first-class counties, the game is granted first-class status. MCC Universities The six MCC-sponsored University (MCCU) teams, were until 2020 also afforded first-class status for some of their matches against a first-class county. They were: Cambridge University (1827–2020) Oxford University (1827–2020) Cambridge MCCU (2001–2019) Oxford MCCU (2001–2019) Durham MCCU (2001–2019) Loughborough MCCU (2003–2019) Cardiff MCCU (2012–2019) Leeds/Bradford MCCU (2012–2019) Most of the first-class counties play three-day games against university cricket teams in the early part of the English cricket season. This is partly because the start of the cricket season coincides with the end of the university academic year, and partly because the games act as pre-season warm-ups for the county clubs. National counties The National Counties, known prior to 2020 as the Minor Counties, are the cricketing counties of England that are not afforded first-class status. A team represents the counties of Wales other than Glamorgan. There are no representative teams carrying the names of the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland which are both covered by Cumbria. Present members are: Eastern Division Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cumbria Hertfordshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northumberland Staffordshire Suffolk Western Division Berkshire Cheshire Cornwall Devon Dorset Herefordshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Wales (, , , , , , , , , and ) Wiltshire Other teams Some teams outside of the English counties have been allowed to take part in some English county cricket one-day competitions. They include: Unicorns The Huntingdonshire () club are academy level. Qualification rules An important year was 1873, when player qualification rules came into force, requiring players to choose at the start of each season whether they would play for the county of their birth or their county of residence. Before this, it was quite common for a player to play for both counties during the course of a single season. Three meetings were held, and at the last of these, held at The Oval on 9 June 1873, the following rules were decided on: Competitions First-class cricket The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales. The tournament currently has a two-division format with ten counties in Division One and eight in Division Two. One-day cricket The Royal London One-Day Cup is a 50 over one-day cricket competition in county cricket. The 18 English county sides are divided randomly into two groups of nine with each team playing each other once. The top four in each group reach the quarter-finals. The competition culminates at Lord's for the final. The Royal London One Day Cup replaced the Yorkshire Bank 40 over League. The first winners of the competition were Durham in 2014. Twenty20 cricket The Twenty20 Cup is the top Twenty20 cricket competition contested by the eighteen first-class counties. The games are limited to 20 overs per side, and the emphasis is on fast action. From 2018, the competition is called Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons. National counties cricket The competitions of national counties cricket are the National Counties Cricket Championship and the NCCA Knockout Trophy. Women's County Cricket The Women's County Championship is played each year, in a similar manner to the men's, but the Women's county game focuses upon 50 over cricket. There is also the Women's Cricket Super League, a T20 competition. Some counties are involved, and feature in a divisional structure. Promotion and relegation is a feature throughout. References Forms of cricket English domestic cricket competitions

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Kyle Keller (basketball)

Kyle Edward Keller (born January 16, 1968) is an American basketball coach, currently the head coach for the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks men's basketball team. Previously, he served as an assistant coach at Texas A&M, Kansas, Oklahoma State, UTSA, Louisiana Tech and head coach at Tyler Junior College. Early coaching career Keller started his coaching career as an assistant at Louisiana Tech. After a four-year stint, Keller joined the staff at Tyler Junior College before taking a position as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio for one season. In 1997, Keller returned to Tyler Junior College and accepted his first head coaching job. Keller joined the staff of head coach Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State in 1999, where he would remain until 2008. Keller's time in Stillwater was marred by the plane crash that killed 10 players and staffers in early 2001, including Keller's cousin, Nate Fleming, who replaced Keller on the plane during a last-minute switch. Keller's experience and that of Fleming's family in the aftermath of the crash was documented by ESPN's Outside the Lines in 2011. Following the resignation of then-head coach Sean Sutton in 2008, Keller relocated to Kansas where he served as an assistant to Bill Self. After three seasons, Keller became an assistant to Billy Kennedy at Texas A&M. In 2016, Keller accepted the head coaching position at Stephen F. Austin following the departure of Brad Underwood to Oklahoma State. Head coaching career Stephen F. Austin On April 4, 2016, Keller was hired as the head coach at Stephen F. Austin. He replaced Brad Underwood who left after 3 seasons to become the head coach at Oklahoma State. SFA athletic director Robert Hill said in a statement, "Kyle brings a wealth of experience having worked for great coaches like Eddie Sutton, Bill Self and Billy Kennedy. This experience will fit well to continue our SFA basketball culture of winning championships and making NCAA tournament appearances. He cares deeply for his players and is a wonderful husband and father. We are so happy he has agreed to become a Lumberjack. I look forward to having our fans and students get to know him." Keller won his first game as a Division I head coach against the Longwood Lancers on November 15, 2016. Keller led Stephen F. Austin to an 18–15 record in his first season. In 2017–18, Stephen F. Austin finished 28–7, won the 2018 Southland tournament as the no. 3 seed, and appeared in the NCAA tournament. Keller reached 100 wins on February 11, 2021, making him the fastest coach at SFA to reach this milestone. Keller is known for his stifling, unique defense. SFA led the nation in forced turnovers and steals in 2018 AND 2020 and are on pace to end 2021 in the top 15. In 2020, SFA was top 10 in the nation in 8 categories. In 2021, SFA is 2nd in the nation with field-goal percentage, and is Top 10 in the nation in categories. On November 26, 2019, Stephen F. Austin upset no. 1 Duke 85–83 in overtime, giving Duke their first non-conference home loss in 150 games. Stephen F. Austin finished the 2019–20 season with a 28–3 (19–1 Southland) record and the regular season Southland title. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Southland and NCAA tournaments were cancelled. He also led the team to two other Power 5 victories, 59-58 vs Baylor and 83-82 over LSU. Following the discovery of an administrative error in declaring student-athletes eligible, on May 20, 2020, Stephen F. Austin reached an agreement with the NCAA to vacate hundreds of wins across multiple sports from 2013 to 2019, including all 117 men's basketball wins from the 2014–15 to 2018–19 seasons. In 2021-2022, SFA were co-champions in the WAC. Kyle Keller is currently the 19th most winning basketball coach in all the NCAA of coaches that have been a head coach for a minimum of 4 years. Head coaching record Personal A native of Dallas, Texas, Keller attended Oklahoma State University where he played baseball. He is married to Chaunsea Keller and has two children: Kenzie and Kemper. References 1968 births Living people American men's basketball coaches Basketball coaches from Texas Basketball players from Dallas College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Junior college men's basketball coaches in the United States Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball coaches Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball coaches Louisiana Tech University alumni Oklahoma State Cowboys baseball players Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball coaches Sportspeople from Dallas Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks basketball coaches Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball coaches UTSA Roadrunners men's basketball coaches

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Fritz Brun

Fritz Brun (18 August 1878 – 29 November 1959) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Life Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Cologne, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern. From 1909 until 1941, he led the symphony concerts of the Bernischen Musikgesellschaft, and was conductor of the choral society and lieder group there. From 1926 to 1940, additionally, he was the vice-president of the Swiss music society Tonkünstlerverein. In June 1941 Brun retired, except for occasional returns to conducting. He dedicated his first violin sonata to violinist Adele Bloesch-Stöcker. In 1912 Brun married Hanna Rosenmund; they had three children. Brun died in Grosshöchstetten. Compositions Fritz Brun composed many works, his most popular being the 10 symphonies composed between 1901 and 1953, the symphonies have been considered as significant works in his country's musical life. From 2003 to 2015, these symphonies were collectively performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the Swiss conductor Adriano and released in May 2019 by Brilliant Classics. The set consists of individual recordings by the Guild Music Label. Beside the symphonies, Brun also composed 4 string quartets, a piano concerto, a cello concerto, many more including vocal works. Brun's work has been considered and compared to the style of Brahms. This might be because Brun specialized in and admired the work of Brahms, especially as a conductor. Symphonies No. 1 in B minor (1901) (premiered 1 June 1908 conducted by the composer) No. 2 in B (1911) (premiered 14 February 1911 conducted by Volkmar Andreae) No. 3 in D minor (1919) (premiered 3 March 1920, conducted by the composer) No. 4 in E (1925) (premiered 2 February 1926 conducted by Volkmar Andreae)) No. 5 in E (1929) (Chaconne/Gehetzt, phantastisch/Langsam (slow)/Rasch und wütend) (premiered 14 January 1930 conducted by Volkmar Andreae) No. 6 in C (1932–1933) (premiered 29 October 1933 conducted by Hermann Scherchen) No. 7 in D (1937) (premiered 10 November 1937 conducted by Hermann Scherchen) No. 8 in A (1938–1942?) (premiered 11 November 1942 conducted by Hermann Scherchen)) No. 9 in F (symphony/suite; five movements) (1949–50) (premiered 12 December 1960, conducted by Volkmar Andreae) No. 10 in B (1953, premiered 7 November 1955 conducted by Luc Balmer) Symphonic Prologue in E for Orchestra (3 December 1944) Concertos Piano concerto in A major (1946) Cello Concerto in D minor (1947) String Quartets No.1 in E major (1898) No.2 in G major (1921) No.3 in F major (1943) No.4 in D major (1949) Sonatas Piano and violin sonata in D minor (1906) Piano and violin sonata in D major (1951) Piano and cello sonata in F minor (1952) Other works Piano Quintet in B major (1902) Variations for piano and strings (premiered 13 October 1944) Overture to a Julibee Celebration in C major (May 1950) Orchestra Rhapsody (1958) 3 Lieder (Based on work by Othmar Schoeck) 5 Lieder "Aus dem Buch Hiob" (Translated: "From the book of Job") (1906) Divertimento for piano and strings (1954) Selected discography Fritz Brun. Complete Orchestral Works Brilliant Classics 957845; 11Cds 2003–2015, 1946 (CD11) originally released as individual recordings by the Guild Music label Sources References External links 1878 births 1959 deaths 19th-century male musicians 19th-century musicians 20th-century classical composers 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century male musicians Romantic composers Swiss classical composers String quartet composers Swiss male classical composers Swiss conductors (music) Male conductors (music) People from Lucerne 20th-century Swiss composers

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Gregory Gourdet

Gregory Gourdet (born ) is an American chef, writer, restaurateur, and former finalist on the twelfth and seventeenth seasons of Bravo's American reality television series, Top Chef. He is of Haitian descent. He is the owner of the restaurant Kann and the former executive chef and culinary director of Departure at The Nines in Portland, Oregon. His book, Everyone’s Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health, is a national bestseller. Early life and education Gourdet was born on , in New York City to Haitian immigrant parents. He was raised in Queens, and graduated high school from St. Andrew's (Delaware). He attended NYU for one year, where he studied pre-med. He then attended University of Montana (UM), where he studied wildlife biology before graduating with a degree in French. During his time at UM, Gourdet discovered his passion for cooking, and went on to enroll in The Culinary Institute of America. From there, he earned an internship with chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and was mentored by him for almost seven years. Career After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America in 2000, Gourdet went to work full-time for chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, honing his craft at three of Vongerichten's restaurants before climbing the ranks to become one of his chef de cuisines. In 2010, Gourdet took the helm as Executive Chef of Departure Restaurant and Lounge in Portland, Oregon, where he created modern Asian cuisine by combining local ingredients of the Pacific Northwest with flavors and traditions of Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Korea. In 2016, he was promoted to Culinary Director when the brand expanded to Denver, Colorado. In 2019, Gourdet ended his 10-year tenure with Departure to focus on opening his own restaurant, Kann, a wood-fired concept that strives to bring the cuisine of his Haitian heritage and the Caribbean diaspora to the American spotlight. In 2020, after COVID-19 pushed back plans to open the restaurant, Gourdet launched a Portland Kann pop-up in Portland. Kann opened in Portland in August 2022. Book In 2021, Gourdet published his first cookbook, Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health, a guide to cooking globally inspired dishes free of gluten, dairy, soy, legumes, and grains. The book was written with J.J. Goode and published by Harper Wave Books on May 11, 2021. The book is a national bestseller aiming to make healthy eating accessible. On June 11, 2022, Everyone's Table won the James Beard Award for Best Cookbook. Television appearances Gourdet first achieved television fame in 2015 when he competed on Bravo's Top Chef Season 12 and finished runner-up. He went on to make numerous other TV appearances, including competing once more on Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., and finishing again as a finalist. Filmography Awards Gourdet was named "Hottest Chef 2012" from Eater Portland. Gourdet was named "Chef of the Year" in 2013 by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. In 2014, he was given the same honor by Eater Portland. In 2016, Gourdet was awarded the CODA's 2016 Advocacy Award. He is a three-time James Beard Award semifinalist, and, in 2020, received his first nomination as a finalist for the award in the category Best Chef: Northwest & Pacific. In 2022, Gourdet's book Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health won a James Beard Media Award for Best General Cookbook. In 2023, his restaurant Kann was awarded James Beard "Best New Restaurant". Personal life Gourdet is an avid long-distance runner. He is openly gay and lives in Portland. Gourdet used to battle with cocaine and alcohol, and has been sober since 2007. See also List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon References External links Gregory Gourdet at Bravo Gregory Gourdet at IMDb Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American chefs American gay writers American people of Haitian descent Chefs from Oregon Culinary Institute of America alumni LGBT chefs LGBT people from New York (state) LGBT people from Oregon Chefs from New York City Top Chef contestants Writers from Portland, Oregon St. Andrew's School (Delaware) alumni African-American chefs

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Erasmus Darwin House

Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield, Staffordshire is the former home of the English poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin. The house is a Grade I listed building, and is now a writer's house museum commemorating Erasmus Darwin's life. Erasmus Darwin was a physician, scientist, inventor, poet, and educationalist, and lived on Beacon Street from 1758 until 1781. A founding member of the Lunar Society, it was here that he received many notable 18th-century personalities, including Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Benjamin Franklin and James Watt. History of the house Darwin purchased a medieval half-timbered building on the west side of the lower courtyard of the Vicars Choral in 1758. From 1758 to 1759 Darwin converted the building into a large Georgian town house of red brick with stucco dressings and Venetian windows. At this time the front of the house was separated from Beacon Street by a narrow deep ditch which once formed the moat of the Cathedral Close. Darwin built a bridge across the ditch descending from his hall door to the street. The ditch was overgrown with tangled bushes, which Darwin cleared and made a terrace on the bank. He planted the ditch with lilacs and rose bushes which screened his terrace from passers by. After Darwin left in 1781 the next owner filled in the ditch to make a driveway from the street to his doorway. Erasmus Darwin at home in Lichfield After the Darwins moved into the new front of their house, a wooden bridge was thrown across the ditch and a twin-tier terrace was built, causing alterations to be made to the basement windows. For 20 years this house was the base for Darwin's medical practice, for his scientific experiments, meetings of the Lunar Society, and such inventive schemes as the construction of the Trent and Mersey Canal. Amid all this, the house was also the centre of family life. Events and exhibits Erasmus Darwin House recently relaunched two exhibition rooms, with audio and visual interactives. The house is also involved in the Lichfield festival and annually takes part in the medieval market. Heritage weekend has the museum open to the public for free and cellar tours are also available. Halloween is a popular event for the house when it hosts its 'Haunted House Night' which includes storytelling, apple bobbing, games, facepainting, arts and crafts and its freeky food and drink stall. Cellar tours are pre-booked. Erasmus Darwin House has a revamped the 'Erasmus Study' Exhibition Room with a computer microscope, touch screen games and quizzes and other interactives. The parlour now has two armchairs with headphones to listen to poetry etc. and a conversation between Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward after the death of his first wife. The parlour has been recently restored and now holds an antique grandfather clock. The room also includes comfy armchairs with headphones where you can listen to Erasmus Darwin's poetry and ideas of evolution. Erasmus Darwin House also has a restored Georgian herb garden that has been faithfully recreated with plantings of the period and features a relief sculpture of Erasmus Darwin and incised text on paving slabs leading to the house created by Denis Parsons. The museum has become popular with its Erasmouse Hunt that involves finding 'mice' located around the house. Winners get their own woolly 'Erasmouse'. There has been locally noted a few adults euthasiast that enjoy the hunt also. Museum today Erasmus Darwin House is run by a charitable foundation and relies on public donations. The museum includes a gift shop and sells a range of gifts and books. The cellar is usually open to visitors via guided tours on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Erasmus Darwin House is available for conferences, receptions, parties and weddings. Three rooms are available for hire. The largest is the Seminar Room, capable of holding up to 36 people. The Exhibition Room can accommodate up to 20 people and the Library can be used for small meetings and interviews. See also Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire Listed buildings in Lichfield References Buildings and structures in Lichfield Historic house museums in Staffordshire Biographical museums in Staffordshire Science museums in England Literary museums in England Grade I listed houses in Staffordshire Grade I listed museum buildings Museums in Staffordshire Science and technology in Staffordshire

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Page (Swedish band)

Page are a Swedish synthpop band. Page are often credited with being the first band to bring synthpop music to Sweden. Their music and band members (particularly Eddie Bengtsson) influenced many subsequent Swedish synthpop acts, including Elegant Machinery, S.P.O.C.K, Sista Mannen På Jorden and KieTheVez. History Formed in 1980 by Eddie Bengtsson and Marina Schiptjenko, soon joined by Anders Eliasson, the band quickly gained underground cult-status releasing many singles such as Dansande man, Som skjuten ur en kanon, Blå fötter and Som en vind. Though most of their important influential work was released in the 1980s their first album, the self-titled Page, was released in 1991. Page continued releasing music throughout the 90's but is still most fondly remembered in the Swedish synthpop scene for their early singles, especially Dansande Man. Though the band has never officially disbanded, it has been remarkably quiet since a performance at SEMA (Swedish Electronic Music Awards) in 2000 when the band promised nothing new would ever be released under the name Page. However, a compilation covering their two decades of work was released in 2000. After a decade of silence, in 2010 Page released an album of newly recorded material called Nu, and performed two tracks live on Swedish TV show Nyhetsmorgon in May 2010. The album reached number 34 on the official Swedish album chart, Sverigetopplistan, following its release. Page performed at the ElectriXmas events in Malmö in 2012 and 2012, along with other selected shows. The latter appearance was part of a special performance by participants in the Friends of Electronically Yours album project, which was organised to raise money for charity. In 2013, Page released Hemma on the Swedish label, Wonderland Records. This led to a headline show in London, England, for the event, An Evening with the Swedish Synth. In 2018, Page returned to London, releasing the Adapted EP for the occasion. A live recording of Page's performance in Gothenburg, Sweden, in October 2019, was released by the online magazine, Cold War Night Life, as Fakta för alla Göteborg, an 87 minute concert film. The album En ny våg, which was released in 2023 on both vinyl and on CD in gatefold sleeve, contained 10 newly written songs recorded during 2022 and 2023. This time Page had worked with guest artists such as Chris Payne and R.Russell Bell known from UK groups Dramatis and Tubeway Army. Discography Full-length albums Page (1991) Hallå (var tog månbasen vägen?) (1994) Lost tapes (1994) Glad (1995) Hur så? (1996) Helt nära (1998) Nu (2010) Hemma (2013) Det är ingen vacker värld men det råkar vara så det ser ut (2017) Fakta för Alla (2019) Aska under mitt Skinn (2020) En ny våg (2023) Compilations Så pass! Page 1980-2000 (2000) Live albums Page live på SAMA 2000 (2000) Singles "Dansande man" / "Aldrig mer" (1984) "Som skjuten ur en kanon" (1987) "Blå fötter" (1987) "Som en vind" (1989) "Bilmusik" (1994) "Förlåt" (1995) "Jag väntar" (1995) "Står i din väg" (1996) "Hur mår du?" (1994) "Svänger" (1994) "På ett berg" (1994) "Ibland" (1997) "Ingenting kvar" (1994) "Som det var" (1999) References External links Page Official Website Fakta för alla Göteborg Swedish synthpop groups

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That I Would Be Good

"That I Would Be Good" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette that was first included on her fourth studio album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998). An acoustic live version of the song was recorded during a session for MTV Unplugged on September 18, 1999. The live version was released as a single in Europe in 1999 and in Canada on February 8, 2000. The lyrics relate Morissette's intimate feelings about being judged, insecurity and self-doubt, expressing in theme and variation the desire to be sufficient in the face of changing external circumstances. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised the flute solo by Morissette and its sweetness. Commercially, the single charted on the US Billboard Adult Top 40 and the Netherlands' Single Top 100. Background and writing "That I Would Be Good" was one of the songs included on Alanis Morissette's fourth studio album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998). Eventually, the album spawned four singles, with "Thank U" being the most successful single. Later, Alanis wrote the song "Still" for the soundtrack album of the 1999 film, Dogma. On September 18, 1999, Alanis recorded an MTV Unplugged special, singing songs from her previous albums, Jagged Little Pill (1995) and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), as well as previously unreleased tracks. The constant electrical buzz that can be heard throughout the track came unintentionally from Ballard recording too close to an amplifier. He re-recorded the guitar section to correct it, but Morissette immediately noticed the change - "What happened to the original?" - Ballard told her the buzz was bothering him, but she said, "No way. We've lost the magic, and you've gotta put it back." "That I Would Be Good" was chosen to be the lead single of the album, being released in December 1999. The CD single features the MTV Unplugged version of "That I Would Be Good" and live versions of "Would Not Come", "I Was Hoping" (from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie) and "Forgiven" (from Jagged Little Pill). Composition "That I Would Be Good" was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard; both wrote Morissette's biggest hits, "You Oughta Know", "Ironic", "You Learn", "Head over Feet", and "Thank U". Produced by Morissette herself, the song is a "muted" and "crawling" ballad, with a flute solo coda, where Alanis plays her own flute. Written in the key of A major, it has a moderate tempo of 84 beats per minute, while Morissette's vocals span from the low-note of B3 to the high-note of A6. Lyrically, "That I Would Be Good" claims a self-confidence independent of fluctuations in emotional state or physical appearance. It is filled with wonder over whether one still feels whole in the face of any number of life's ills: losing youth, bankruptcy, insanity, the absence of a chosen lover. According to Morissette on VH1 Storytellers and the documentary Sensitive the Untold Story (2015), the song was written during a time when there were many people in her house and she retreated to her closet to write the lyrics. She also confirmed that she wrote the lyrics and then the music at different times. Critical reception The song's studio version received positive reviews from most music critics. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone was positive, calling it "the boldest, sweetest statement" on the album, realizing that while playing the flute, "she works her ass off to get it right, but she wins you over with her sheer daring; it isn't every day that a megastar comes right out and auditions for you." Chuck Taylor of Billboard noted that the track is "intense and meaningful", praising the addition of the flute, writing that "it's unique and appealing". Taylor also saw it as "a beautiful song" and "it could turn out to be a solid return hit." Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine wrote that the song "ends with a painful yet endearing flute solo by Morissette." The unplugged version also gathered favorable reaction. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic saw that Alanis chose to perform tracks from her latest album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie on the Unplugged album "as a way to reintroduce it to an audience that largely ignored it the first time around," describing the tracks, including "That I Would Be Good" as "extremely personal songs, which benefit from the stripped-down arrangements and intimate surroundings." Neva Chonin of Rolling Stone commented that during some parts of the acoustic set, Alanis "overpowers her band", sometimes she kills them with neglect - 'Ironic' and 'That I Would Be Good,' for instance, have been whittled down to bare acoustic essentials." Commercial performance "That I Would Be Good" was a minor hit on Billboard'''s Adult Top 40 Tracks chart, peaking at number 24. It also charted on the Netherlands's Single Top 100 chart, debuting at number 75 on November 20, 1999, while peaking at number 55 the following week. It remained at the peak position for a further week, while charting for ten weeks in the chart. Covers and pop culture Kelly Clarkson covered "That I Would Be Good" during her "All I Ever Wanted Tour", being mashed up with Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody". It was later recorded and included on her third EP The Smoakstack Sessions Vol. 2 released along with her Greatest Hits: Chapter One album. For Jessica Sager of Pop Crush, "it's an unexpected combination, but thematically and sonically, they work together perfectly," also praising Clarkson's vocals on "That I Would Be Good", writing that, "Clarkson replaces the Canadian crooner’s warbling with her own soulful pipes." Alex Nagorsi of MuuMuse wrote that, "Clarkson’s soaring vocal range takes center stage to deliver a powerhouse performance." The song appeared on the popular teen drama Dawson's Creek twice in relation to one of the show's lead characters, Jennifer, played by Michelle Williams. Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun covered the song on her album Start. Track listing "That I Would Be Good" (MTV Unplugged'') – 4:07 "Would Not Come" (Reverb live) – 4:11 "Forgiven" (Reverb live) – 5:11 "I Was Hoping" (99X live) – 4:37 Charts Release history References 1990s ballads 1999 singles 1999 songs Alanis Morissette songs Maverick Records singles Songs written by Alanis Morissette Songs written by Glen Ballard

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Juan de Ribera

Juan de Ribera (Seville, Spain, 20 March 1532 – Valencia, 6 January 1611) was an influential figure in 16th and 17th century Spain. Ribera held appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia, Latin Patriarchate of Antioch, Commander in Chief, president of the Audiencia, and Chancellor of the University of Valencia. He was beatified in 1796 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1960. Biography Juan de Ribera's father was Pedro Afán de Ribera, Viceroy of Naples and Duke of Alcala. His mother died when he was very young. Ribera studied at the University of Salamanca. Ordained as priest in 1557, Pope Pius IV appointed him Bishop of Badajoz on 27 May 1562 at the age of 30. There he dedicated himself to teaching the catechism to Roman Catholics and counteracting Protestantism. He was appointed as the Archbishop of Valencia on 3 December 1568. In 1599 he ordained Alfonso Coloma as Bishop of Barcelona. King Philip III of Spain later appointed him Viceroy of Valencia in 1602, and thus he became both the religious and the civil authority. In this role he founded the Museum of the Patriarch, known among Valencians as the College of Saint John, entrusted to the formation of priests according to the spirit and the dispositions of the Council of Trent. Expulsion of the Moriscos As archbishop, Ribera dealt with the issue of Valencia's large Morisco population, descendants of Muslims who converted to Christianity at threat of exile. The Moriscos had been kept separate from the main population by a variety of decrees that prohibited them from holding public office, entering the priesthood, or taking certain other positions; as a result, the Moriscos had maintained their own culture rather than assimilated. Some of them did, in fact, still practice forms of crypto-Islam. Ribera despised the Moriscos as heretics and traitors, a dislike he shared with much of Valencia's Christian populace. With the Duke of Lerma, Ribera helped convince Philip III to at least expel the Moriscos instead. Ribera helped sell the plan by noting that all the property of the Moriscos could be impounded to provide money for the treasury. In 1609, the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain was decreed. Ribera's original proposal was in fact more extreme: he favored enslaving the entire Morisco population for work in galleys, mines, and abroad. Ribera said that Philip III could do so "without any scruples of conscience," but this proposal was rejected. If the Moriscos were to be expelled, Ribera favored enslaving and Christianizing at least the children of the Moriscos "for the good of their souls" and exiling the parents. This was also rejected, though children under 16 years of age who wished to remain in Spain were allowed, an offer very few took. Canonization Efforts to canonize Ribera, who himself had been active in attempting to canonize Ignatius of Loyola, began shortly after his death. Two concerns were raised about his possible sainthood: his failure to hold a provincial council as mandated by the Council of Trent, and his role in the expulsion of the Moriscos. His supporters played up Ribera's adherence to other parts of the Council of Trent, and tried to present the Moriscos as unconvertible ("[His conversion attempts] had no more effect on the Moriscos as if they had been stones"). Still, efforts proceeded apace, with various admiring biographies (vidas) of Ribera being published. Ribera was beatified on 18 September 1796. The cause for his canonization was officially opened on 25 November 1925, and the process of evaluating a miracle attributed to Ribera began on 26 August 1934. In 1960, his canonization was completed under the auspices of Pope John XXIII. References Patron Saint's index 1532 births 1611 deaths Clergy from Seville 16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain Viceroys of Valencia Spanish Roman Catholic saints University of Salamanca alumni 16th-century Christian saints Canonizations by Pope John XXIII 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain Beatifications by Pope Pius VI

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Sky Blossom

Sky Blossom: Diaries of the Next Greatest Generation is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Richard Lui which profiles five students across the United States who are caregivers for their disabled military veteran parents or grandparents. Variety magazine named the film as a shortlist contender for the 2021 Oscars, and also qualified for that year's awards. The film was the most widely distributed documentary of 2021. It won the "Feature Film" category of the 72nd Christopher Awards. The documentary was released in theaters nationwide for one night only through a community partnership of AMC Theatres and Universal Pictures. The film premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with a drive-in theater event on Veterans Day 2020. The film was later broadcast on MSNBC in May 2021. Synopsis Five families are profiled in the film, each with a student providing care for a veteran parent or grandparent with disabilities. The film refers to these students as the "Next Greatest Generation." Allen Family (McMinnville, Tennessee): High school cheerleader Deryn Allen has been helping her father, Chaz, an Army veteran who lost his legs after stepping on a bomb, put on his prosthetics since she was eight years old. Alvarado Family (Long Beach, California): 12-year-old Rhianna Alvarado defends her dad from bullies, who give him "ugly stares" due to his appearance, the result of exposure to burn pits. Grier Family (Wexford, Pennsylvania): Air Force veteran Bobby Grier, an aging civil rights icon, is cared for by his granddaughter, Camille, and his son, Rob Jr. Rob opens up about the strain caring for his parents put on his marriage and on his role as a father. Kapanui Family (Waimea, Hawaii): Brother and sister Kaleo and Kamaile have put their college studies on hold to look after their grandfather, Bobby, a veteran with dementia. Their grandfather is the only family they have left. Ploof Family (Howell, Michigan): 22-year-old Jenna Ploof is the primary breadwinner for her family, balancing her college studies and job with caring for her younger sister and father, Bill, an amputee who has suffered several strokes. While she was in high school, Jenna and her family briefly experienced homelessness when Bill's amputation prevented him from continuing to work as a truck driver. The film's title is inspired by a World War II era term for paratroopers coming to aid of the wounded on the ground. Production The film was shot over four years. The film is inspired by Director Richard Lui's personal experience as a caregiver for his father with Alzheimer's. Lui, an MSNBC news anchor, flew between his work in New York City and his father's home in San Francisco several times a month to help care for his father. The film is executive produced by television personality Montel Williams, actor David Hyde Pierce, Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack Jacobs, Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation CEO Linda Hope, and documentarian Jean Tsien. Style The film blends fly-on-the-wall cinema verité with animation, archival video, and interviews conducted by the producers with each of the five families. The animated scenes, drawn by former Disney animator Davy Liu, show scenes of the children's heroism in caring for family members. Composer Maria Lineva wrote original leitmotifs for each of the five families to provide a unique musical sound for each family. The score was performed by a 48-person orchestra made up of students from the Berklee College of Music. Response The film is supported by a bipartisan group of Members of the United States Congress, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Other lawmakers supporting the film include Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Susan Collins, and Senator Tammy Duckworth. The film was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the AARP The Magazine 2021 Movies for Grownups Awards. The film also won the Founders Choice Award at the GI Film Festival. Release The film was released on DVD and Digital by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on May 25, 2021. Later that week, the film was broadcast on MSNBC, with 374,000 viewers watching the 9pm broadcast. Sky Blossom began streaming on Peacock in July 2021. The film's original soundtrack, composed by Maria Lineva and performed by the Berklee College of Music Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, was released by NBCUniversal's Back Lot Music, and was qualified for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. References External links 2020 films 2020 documentary films Veterans' affairs in the United States Caregiving 2020s English-language films

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Boris Skvortsov

Boris Mikhailovich Skvortsov (; 10 July 1902 – 12 May 1946) was a Red Army major general of tank forces who rose to command the 5th Guards Mechanized Corps during World War II. Early life and Russian Civil War Boris Mikhailovich Skvortsov was born on 10 July 1902 in Samara. During the Russian Civil War, he joined a partisan detachment of the Ufa Governorate Communist Party in August 1919. With the partisan detachment and then the 2nd Consolidated Division of V. M. Azin, he fought against the forces of Alexander Kolchak in the region of Ufa, Agryz, and Izhevsk, Skvortsov became a cadet at the 2nd Volsk Machine Gun Course in May 1920, and after his graduation in November became a platoon and company commander in elements of the 3rd Reserve Brigade of the Southern Front at Rostov-on-Don, then from April 1921 in the 329th Rifle Regiment of the Separate Terek Brigade at Pyatigorsk. From August 1921 he served as assistant chief of the railroad militsiya at the Samara station, and from October of that year, was a worker of the transport Cheka at Omsk. Interwar period Transferred to the Soviet Far East in March 1922, Skvortsov served with the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic as chief of the machine gun detachment of the 2nd Border Battalion. He served with the 3rd Verkhneudinsk Regiment of the 1st Pacific Rifle Division from August of that year, and late that year fought with his unit in the campaign to occupy Primorye and Vladivostok. Subsequently, he served with the regiment as a platoon commander, chief of the machine gun detachment, and machine gun company commander. During this period, Skvortsov completed the six-month commanders refresher course of the 5th Army at Chita in 1924 and the Vystrel course in 1929. During the Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929, the regiment was deployed to the Chinese border. Skvortsov served as assistant chief and acting chief of staff of the 61st Osa Rifle Regiment of the 21st Perm Rifle Division of the Siberian Military District at Tomsk from November 1930. In May 1932, he was sent to study at the Moscow Improvement Course of the Motorized and Mechanized Forces of the Red Army at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization, and after his graduation later that year served there as a tactics instructor. In 1933 he graduated from the Red Army Officers Improvement Course at Moscow before being transferred to the Kazan Improvement Course for Senior and Midlevel Command and Technical Personnel in January 1934. At the latter, he served as a tactics instructor, chief of a course, and company commander. During this period Skvortsov graduated from the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization in 1936. From May 1937, Skvortsov commanded the separate tank battalion of the 7th Armored Motor Brigade of the 57th Special Corps, and in August 1938 was appointed assistant commander of the brigade for the technical section. In November 1938 he was transferred to the 11th Light Tank Brigade to serve as its assistant commander for personnel. With the brigade, he fought in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol and for his "courage and heroism" in battle was awarded the Order of Lenin on 17 November 1939 and the Order of the Red Banner of the Mongolian People's Republic on 21 September 1939. From October 1939 he served as inspector of the motorized and armored forces of the 1st Army Group, which was used to form the 17th Army. Appointed commander of the 11th Light Tank Brigade of the Transbaikal Military District on 10 August 1940, Skvortsov took command of the 61st Tank Division of the 29th Mechanized Corps in March 1941. World War II After Operation Barbarossa began, then-Colonel Skvortsov remained in command of the division. He became the deputy commander of the 17th Army for armored forces in June 1942. During this period, the army covered the Soviet border with China and Mongolia in the Transbaikal. Promoted to major general of tank forces on 7 February 1943, Skvortsov became commander of the 5th Guards Mechanized Corps on 2 March of that year. With the 5th Guards Tank Army, the corps distinguished itself in the Battle of Kursk. As part of a combined detachment, it played a main role in the destruction of the German III Panzer Corps in the region of Rzhavets, north of Belgorod. During the Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation, the corps advanced up to 120 km, fighting as part of the mobile group of the Voronezh Front, ensuring the capture of Kharkov by the main forces of the army. From October to December, the corps fought in heavy fighting to expand the bridgehead on the Dnieper southeast of Kremenchug. Subsequently, the corps fought in the Kirovograd offensive, the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky Offensive, and the Uman–Botoșani offensive. During these actions, the corps advanced more than 500 km in fighting, assault-crossing the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Prut, and ensured the capture of Kirovograd, Uman, and others. From early June 1944 to March 1945, the corps was in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command, then from April 1945 part of the 4th Guards Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. During the offensive of the corps, it broke through German defenses in the Jüterbog region, ensuring the entry of the main forces of the army. Continuing the offensive towards Treuenbrietzen, it liberated a concentration camp and a large number of prisoners of war. From mid-April, Skvortsov was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the Red Army. Postwar After the end of the war, Skvortsov was hospitalized for treatment of illness, which he died of on 12 May 1946. Awards Skvortsov was a recipient of the following awards and decorations: Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner (2) Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Medals Foreign orders References Citations Bibliography 1902 births 1946 deaths People from Samara, Russia Soviet major generals Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

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Priority (fencing)

Priority or right of way is the decision criterion used in foil and sabre fencing to determine which fencer receives the touch, or point, when both fencers land a hit within the same short time-frame (less than 1 second). After this window, if one fencer had already landed a hit, the electrical scoring apparatus would "lock-out," or fail to record, an opponent's subsequent hit, and thus the one fencer to land a hit is awarded the touch. In épée fencing, if both fencers land valid hits at the same time, they each receive a point. Because of this, foil and saber are considered conventional weapons. After a halt, a referee parses what happened into actions, from which it can be determined whether to award a point or not. Offensive Actions Offensive actions Attack - An attempt to hit when the opponent is not already attacking. Riposte - An attempt to hit the opponent after a successful parry Counter-Riposte - An attempt to hit the opponent after a riposte was successfully parried Counter-attacks Counter Attack - An attempt to hit when the opponent is already attacking. Other Offensive Actions Redouble/Remise/Reprise - A second attempt to hit after a previous attempt missed or was parried Redouble - an attempt to hit which follows the original attack Remise - an attempt to hit which follows the original attack, without withdrawing the arm, Reprise - a new attack executed immediately after a return to the on-guard position. Defensive Actions The parry is the defensive action made with the weapon to prevent an offensive action arriving. Point in line The point in line position is a specific position in which the fencer's sword arm is kept straight and the point of his weapon continually threatens his opponent's valid target, which gains right-of-way. Attacks on the blade A fencer can 'beat' their opponent's blade as a preparation to make an offensive action (as opposed to hitting their blade as a parry to defend against an opponent's action). Action Priority An attack has priority over a counter-attack A riposte has priority over a redouble/remise/reprise An attack made with a beat has priority over an attack made without a beat If both fencers make an attack at the same time then neither action has priority and it is considered simultaneous A point in line has priority over an offensive action if it was in place before that action started Interpretation of Priority Despite the simplicity of the underlying principles, priority rules are somewhat convoluted, and their interpretation is a source of much acrimony. Much of this acrimony is centered on the definition of attack. According to the FIE rules, an attack is defined as "the initial offensive action made by extending the arm and continuously threatening the opponent's target...". This is explained in the USFA Fencing Officials Commission FAQ: Initial refers to which fencer starts the action before their opponent does. Offensive indicates moving towards the opponent. Extending indicates that the weapon arm is moving away from the body - right of way does not require a fully extended arm. Continuously indicates that there is no "break" in the attack in which the attacker stops moving forward or holds back their arm. Threatening indicates that the attacker is in advance-lunge distance and close enough to hit, and their weapon's point (for foil) or blade (for sabre) are approaching the opponent's valid target. The general consensus is that a useful guide is for the referee to look for which fencer's arm starts straightening first. In practice, referees, especially inexperienced ones, may go for the easy option and give priority to whichever fencer happened to be moving forwards. This is technically wrong, but it is far from unusual. There is also a school of thought, subscribed to by a relatively small minority, that priority should be given to the fencer who was the first to straighten their arm fully. This, again, is out of line with the current rules. The adherents argue that this is the more classical way of doing things, but this claim is dubious, as actual practice decades ago based right of way on which fencer started straightening the arm (not which fencer completed the extension); and the reworded rules conform better to actual, traditional practice which was documented in some older editions of the rules. For example, the 1957 Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) rules says The rules do not require that the attack be made with a fully extended arm; in fact, there are outstanding international champions in foil and sabre who attack without extending the arm fully. However, in all cases, the attacker must clearly take the initiative in combat by threatening the defender's target with a forward movement of the weapon, whether by extension of the arm or a movement of the body or a combination of both. The classical schools of fencing recommend the extension of the arm on the attack because this method simplifies the task of the President of the Jury in many situations, as for example in the case of attacks which deceive the parry (see § 11 below). An attack which has failed (i.e. has missed or been parried) is no longer an attack. Priority does not automatically pass to the defending fencer, and at the moment an attack is over, neither fencer has priority. Instead, priority is gained by a fencer making an offensive action, as is always the case. If the attack was parried, the defender has the right to make a riposte, but it must be initiated without indecision or delay. Alternatively, they may initiate their own attack if the initial attack missed. The fencer making the original attack may also make a new offensive action, a renewal of the initial attack. If the attacker immediately continues their attack in the same line, it is called a remise. A parry is a defensive action made with the weapon to prevent an offensive action from landing. In practice, even a light blade contact is often sufficient to prevent an attack from landing, so long as it is not a "mere grazing of the blades" (as expressed in the rules). Therefore, it is not necessary for a parry to "close the line" (an "opposition parry"), though that may be used for tactical purposes. Consequently, foilists often parry with a sharp beating motion which does not necessarily end in a guard position that closes a line. In sabre, according to the FIE rules, "the parry is properly carried out when, before the completion of the attack, it prevents the arrival of that attack by closing the line in which that attack is to finish". In practice, sabre referees tend to look at the point of blade contact: contact of a defender's forte with an attacker's foible is generally counted as a parry, whereas contact of a defender's foible with an attacker's forte is incorrectly executed, and priority stays with the attacker. Some fencers refer to a retreat that makes an attack fall short as a "distance parry", but this is informal use: an actual parry requires blade contact. References Fencing

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Kids Love Lies

Kids Love Lies were a London pop punk band from November 2007 to July 2010. Line up The founding lineup of Kids Love Lies was Ellen Murphy (vocals), Leigh Harrison (guitar), Claudia Mansaray (bass guitar), Matty Saywell (guitar) and Raf Singer (drums), based in London. They formed as Kids Love Lies in November 2007. After auditioning around 10 singers, Ellen replied to an advert on Gumtree and auditioned several songs that the band sent her. New drummer Will Jones joined the band in January 2010, replacing Raf Singer, who departed in October 2009. Claudia Mansaray left the band in April 2010. The band announced their split in July 2010. Murphy went on to perform as Only Girl, including a collaboration with Zero 7. Sound NME said that "Firecracker singer Ellen Murphy sounds pretty much like Kate Nash would if she dropped the prim and proper act and thrashed herself into a full on Kathleen Hanna hissy fit." The Guardian's Guide has compared them to Bow Wow Wow. Tasty Fanzine said of single Count in my Head to "think Chiara L’s or a slightly more wired version of Scanners." They were influenced by Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Slits, Sleater-Kinney, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Performances They played Radio 1's Big Weekend on 10 May 2009 after being put forward by BBC Kent Introducing, the Artrocker stage at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton on 16 May 2009, and on the BBC Introducing stage at the Sellindge Music Festival in Kent on 7 June 2009. Their final live performance was at the Old Blue Last in Shoreditch, London in July 2010. They played live alongside Fight Like Apes, Scanners, The Holloways, Theoretical Girl, My Tiger My Timing, The Kabeedies, A Genuine Freakshow and Goldheart Assembly. Airplay They were played on BBC 6 Music by Tom Robinson and Marc Riley, on BBC Radio 1 by Zane Lowe, Nick Grimshaw, Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, on BBC Radio Kent's Introducing show by Jim Bursey and Jacob Rickard, and on Dublin's Phantom FM. They recorded a live session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for Huw Stephens' In New Music We Trust. They played a session on Earwax Radio on 22 October 2008. Their music was featured in the BBC Switch soap opera The Cut. Releases They self-released the Demo '08 CD on 30 January 2008, and self-released an EP, Switch Off, on 30 August 2008. Times Online said at the time that "they're already delivering fine power pop that's packed full of clever lyrics and hooks - they're surely ones to watch." Their first signed release, Count in My Head, was released on 13 April 2009 by Cherryade Records, and was a BBC Kent Introducing single of the week, featured in the New Blood section of Artrocker Magazine/Converse Music, recommended by music critic Everett True, and an NME Top Ten Track. The video was made up of 3,500 photo stills. The band's second single, Under The Bed, was released on 12 October 2009, also on Cherryade, with a video that pays homage to 80s B movies and David Lynch films. It was track of the day on The Times online on 4 November 2008, prior to its release and a Pick of the Month for Who's Jack Magazine in April 2009. Times Online said "they're already delivering fine power pop that's packed full of clever lyrics and hooks - they're surely ones to watch." Altsounds said it is "brimming with a cacophony of relentless, frenetic guitars, an energetic bassline and crashing percussion, all topped off by Ellen Murphy’s Karen O-esque vocals." It was single of the month in October 2009's Artrocker Magazine, and record of the week on the BBC Kent Introducing show. The Stars EP was released in June 2010 on Cherryade, featuring the tracks "Stars", "Stop", "White Flag Down", and an acoustic version of "Stars". Artrocker called the title track "hyperspeed indie rock with singer Ellen Murphy kung fu kicking her way outta the speakers." The EP was launched at The Heavenly Social in Central London. References External links Cherryade Records profile Kid Love Lies YouTube channel Ellen's Kids Love Lies blog English indie rock groups English pop punk groups Musical groups from London Musical groups established in 2007 Musical groups disestablished in 2010

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Gavin Peacock

Gavin Keith Peacock (born 18 November 1967) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit. As a player he was midfielder and striker from 1984 until 2002, notably playing in the Premier League for Newcastle United and Chelsea. He also played in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Gillingham, AFC Bournemouth and Charlton Athletic. He then worked in the media as a pundit, notably for BBC Sport, before in September 2008 he relocated to Canada to study theology with a view to becoming a Christian minister. Early life Peacock comes from a footballing family; his father Keith played for Charlton. Though Peacock followed Charlton Athletic as a child, he maintained a soft spot for Newcastle United. His father's side of the family are from North East England, they followed Newcastle United and Peacock in his youth owned Newcastle replica shirts; he also regularly visited South Shields on the Peacock family holidays. Peacock lived in Crayford in the London Borough of Bexley, and attended Bexley Grammar School in nearby Welling as a child. He played schoolboy international football for England. Playing career Peacock started his career at Queens Park Rangers, making 17 appearances in the First Division and scoring once before he moved to Third Division Gillingham in October 1987 in a move which was started by his father, Keith, Gillingham's manager. Peacock joined on loan initially, but signed permanently for £40,000 in December 1987. Shortly after joining, his father was sacked by the club but Gavin remained on as a player until after their relegation to the Fourth Division in 1989. He was named as the Kent side's Young Player of the Year award in his first season and then in the relegation season of 1988–89 his displays saw him recognised by the supporters who voted him as Player of the Year. He was signed by Harry Redknapp for AFC Bournemouth in a £250,000 deal on 16 August 1989, but was unable to prevent their relegation to the Third Division that season. He began the 1990–91 season still at Bournemouth, but on 30 November 1990 he made the move back to the Second Division when Jim Smith paid Bournemouth £275,000 to take Peacock to Newcastle United. Peacock himself was not the first in the family to be on the books of Newcastle, his father's cousin was at Newcastle United in the 1950s, though he did not make a first team debut. Peacock stated that his family lineage and connection to the North East was a big draw in him signing for Newcastle United when the opportunity came up with an offer from Jim Smith, the then manager of Newcastle. The Magpies were in the Second Division at the time and were founder members of the new Division One on the creation of the new FA Premier League in 1992, and in the 1992–93 season he helped them win the Division One title. He was Newcastle United's top scorer in 1991–92 with 16 goals and one of their best scorers in the promotion season with 12 goals. He was sold to Chelsea for £1.5million soon afterwards, being one of new player-manager Glenn Hoddle's first signings for the Stamford Bridge side. Peacock famously scored both home and away for Chelsea in 1–0 victories over Manchester United in the 1993–94 season. Both sides met again in the FA Cup Final, and with the score at 0–0 just before half time, Peacock hit the crossbar from 25 yards and missed a golden opportunity to gain silverware. Manchester United went on to win the final 4–0 and achieve the double. Peacock finished joint top scorer that season with 14 goals from midfield. He helped them reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1995 and the FA Cup semi finals in 1996. Peacock returned to Queens Park Rangers in 1996, having lost his place in the Chelsea team to new signing Roberto Di Matteo. He made a brief return to the Premier League in 2001 after going on loan to Charlton Athletic in 2001, where his father was now assistant manager. Peacock returned to QPR for the 2001–02 season, at the end of which he retired, having made 196 appearances in total for the club. By this stage, however, they were in Division Two. In total he scored more than 100 goals in over 540 league appearances. Media career After retiring, Peacock worked with the BBC, regularly appearing as a pundit on Football Focus, Score, Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, BBC Radio 5 Live's comedy game show Fighting Talk and the BBC Radio 4 comedy show One. He also hosted a weekly podcast on the official Chelsea website. Personal life Married to Amanda since 1989, the couple have two children: son, Jake (b. 1993), and daughter, Ava (b. 1996). They had a house in Bexley, Kent, before Peacock started his theological studies, and a small holiday home in Canada in the Rocky Mountains. He started attending the local Methodist church at the age of 18 and soon afterwards became a Christian. Near the end of his career and after he retired he began preaching in his local church St Michaels and All Angels in Wilmington. He presented a feature on Football Focus about faith in the game in December 2006. He also presented Songs of Praise on 10 February 2008, at the same time as his coverage of the Africa Cup of Nations final. Having studied theology from September 2006 at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, after completing his punditry duties at Euro 2008, he moved to Canada for a three-year masters course in divinity at Ambrose Seminary. with the intention of becoming a minister. He is currently a pastor at Calvary Grace Church in Calgary. In April 2016 he co-authored The Grand Design, a book presenting a complementarian view of gender roles. He published his autobiography, A Greater Glory: From Pitch to Pulpit, in May 2021. Honours Individual Gillingham Young Player of the Year: 1987–88 Gillingham Player of the Year: 1988–89 Newcastle United Player of the Year: 1991–92 PFA Team of the Year: 1992–93 First Division Selected publications A Greater Glory: From Pitch to Pulpit, Gavin Peacock, 2021, Christian Focus Publications, ) References 1967 births Living people Footballers from Eltham English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Newcastle United F.C. players Chelsea F.C. players Queens Park Rangers F.C. players Gillingham F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players Charlton Athletic F.C. players Premier League players English Christians Alumni of Ridley Hall, Cambridge People educated at Bexley Grammar School English association football commentators English expatriates in Canada

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List of compositions by Carl Nielsen

This table of works by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen initially lists them by genre and composition date within a genre. History Nielsen wrote music in many genres, notably symphonies, concertos and choral music, but also operas and incidental music, chamber music, solo works for violin, piano and organ as well as a considerable number of songs. Nielsen assigned an opus number only to selected compositions, from Op 1 for the Suite for String Orchestra in 1888 to Op 58 for the organ work (1930–1931). The opus number 59 was assigned posthumously to three piano pieces (1928). The FS catalogue was first compiled in 1965 by Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe. It is arranged roughly in chronological order in accordance with the publication date of the works, initially up to FS 161. Compositions discovered after 1965 were assigned higher numbers, in connection with the publication of a Nielsen CD in 1998. The CNW (Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works), compiled by the Royal Danish Library, covers all of Nielsen's known works (419 in all). The CNW catalogue numbers link to the individual catalogue entries. Each entry gives a brief description of the work in English together with links to background information and scores from the Carl Nielsen Edition. In contrast to FS, CNW numbers each of Nielsen's songs individually instead of numbering the publications in which they appeared. Table of compositions Details of collections For some works, details are given below. The details of songs, such as collections and incidental music, are found in the List of songs composed by Carl Nielsen. FS 3 Miscellaneous unpublished early manuscripts in the Royal Library, Copenhagen 3a Various brass trios and quartets (1879–1983, lost) 3b Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in G major (1881–1882) 3c Various movements for string quartet (1883–1887) 3d String Quartet in D minor (1882–1883). 3e Duo (in three movements) in A major for two violins (1882–1883). 3f (Two character pieces) for piano (1882–1883) 3g (Lullaby) (1883) 3h Fantasy Piece for clarinet and piano in G minor (1881 or 1883–1885) 3i Piano Trio in G major (1883) 3k String Quartet in F major (1887) 3l "" (A moment of pleasure, an age of pain), song for men's choir, text by J. P. Jacobsen (1887) 3m "" (Jean (Of a' the airts the wind can blaw), song for men's choir, text by Robert Burns; translated by Caralis (1887) 3n-s Various songs on texts by E. Aarestrup, J. S. Welhaven, G. B. Byron, P. B. Shelley, J. J. Callanan, R. Burns; translated by Caralis, a pseudonym for C. Preetzman (1887) 3t "" (To Athenea, who may command him anything), song for men's choir, text by Robert Herrick; translated by Caralis (1887) 3u "" (Earlier I dreamt every single night), song for men's choir, text by J. P. Jacobsen (1887) FS 22 Humoreske Bagateller. For piano. (1894–1897) " ("How do you do?") " ("The Jumping Jack") " ("The Spinning-top") " ("A Little Slow Waltz") " ("Doll's march") " ("The Musical Box") FS 51 Songs arranged for unison chorus to be used at schools (FS 35, 42, 43, 44, 45, and Vi frie Folk, text by V. Rørdam, written for the Olympic Games in London, 1908) See also List of songs composed by Carl Nielsen Notes References Bibliography Catalogues Also online: . List compiled from and . See pages 222–227, listed by genre with FS and opus numbers. Listed by FS number. See pages 212–230, chronological list with opus numbers compiled by Torben Meyer. Reprinted by Hyperion Press . See pages 251–257, listed by FS number with opus numbers. Other citations External links Complete list of Nielsen's works compiled for his 150th anniversary. Nielsen, Carl

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Robbie Tolan shooting incident

The Robbie Tolan shooting incident took place in Bellaire, Texas, on December 31, 2008, when ten-year Bellaire police veteran Jeffrey Cotton shot unarmed Robbie Tolan, son of major league baseball player Bobby Tolan, in his parents' driveway. Tolan sustained serious injuries in the shooting and charges were pressed against Cotton. On May 11, 2010, a jury reached a verdict of not guilty and Cotton was acquitted. Minority leaders and critics around the country cite the case as an example of racial profiling and institutional racism. A federal civil lawsuit was also filed by the Tolan family. The suit was later settled for $110,000. Background Robert Tolan (born July 15, 1985) is the son of Major League Baseball player Bobby Tolan of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds. He himself played professional baseball for the Washington Nationals organization. Since the shooting incident, he has not played in professional baseball, he last played for the Bay Area Toros. Robbie was shot while Sgt. Cotton was carrying out an investigation suspecting Tolan to be the driver of a stolen vehicle. However, Tolan was the registered owner of the vehicle. Shooting incident Around 2:00 a.m. December 31, 2008, Robbie Tolan and his cousin were confronted in their driveway in the predominantly white city of Bellaire, Texas, by police officers who suspected that the young men were driving a stolen vehicle. According to relatives, the two young men were returning from a late night run to Jack in the Box. Tolan's cousin, Anthony Cooper, reported that the police officers emerged from the darkness pointing a flashlight and gun at them. The officer reportedly commanded them to stop before announcing his status as a police officer. After the officer ordered them to get on the ground, Tolan's parents, Marian and Robert Tolan, came outside to attend to the unidentified noise. At this point, Cotton arrived on the scene as backup to the original officer. Robbie Tolan and other family members report that the altercation between Robbie Tolan and Cotton ensued while Robbie Tolan was lying on the porch facing away from his mother and Cotton. After Cotton pushed Tolan's mother up against the garage door, according to the Police statement, Robbie got up from the ground and turned around toward the policeman. Tolan and his mother state that Robbie did not stand, but pushed up from lying on the ground to all fours while turning around. Cotton turned and fired a shot into Robbie Tolan's chest, sending the bullet through his lung and into his liver, where it lodged and threatened his life. Cotton stated that he thought Tolan was reaching for a weapon and reacted quickly in what he thought was self-defense. Evidence of how the bullet entered through his chest and traveled through his body to lodge in his liver suggest that Tolan was on all fours or he was bent over when he was penetrated by the bullet. Afterward Cotton searched Tolan, who was on the ground, and found no weapon on his person. The police department called the shooting tragic and put Cotton on administrative leave, while rejecting that any allegation of racial profiling would be entertained by the police department. Criminal trial and acquittal The Harris County district attorney's office pressed charges against Cotton for aggravated assault by a public servant in the matter of the shooting of Tolan, claiming that he neglected the basic safety procedures before shooting Tolan. The case involved discussion of racial profiling and racial bias on the part of Cotton; Cotton is white and Tolan is black. The jury featured seven white women, three white men and two black women. Cotton was freed on $20,000 dollar bond while the case was pending. On May 11, 2010, a jury reached a verdict of not guilty and Cotton was acquitted. Minority leaders and critics around the country continue to cite the case as an example of racial profiling and institutional racism. Moreover, the jury declined to convict Cotton on a variety of lesser included offenses including assault, deadly conduct, and reckless endangerment. After the acquittal of Cotton, African American leaders and activists protested outside the police department for what they perceived to be a case of racial bias and injustice. Civil trial Pursuant to the allegations of racial bias, profiling, and discrimination, a civil suit was filed against Cotton and the city of Bellaire. The federal civil case was initially dismissed by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas based on qualified immunity, then appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where a three-judge panel upheld the dismissal from the District Court based on qualified immunity. The case was appealed to the full Fifth Circuit Court en banc who also upheld the dismissal based on qualified immunity. After a final appeal to the SCOTUS, the case was returned to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for further review. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals revised its original decision slightly, vacating a small portion of the District Court's decision, and remanded the case back to the District Court for further review. The District Court set a trial date for September 2015. A few days before the trial was scheduled to begin, the federal judge removed the City of Bellaire as a defendant in the lawsuit, which prompted the Tolan family to file a motion for the judge to recuse herself. According to Tolan's mother, on Monday, September 14, 2015, the judge dismissed all of the plaintiff's expert witnesses, but none of the defense's expert witnesses. Robbie Tolan had been under a great deal of emotional distress during the seven-year court proceeding and told his family he did not want to continue the process. While Tolan's mother wanted to continue to fight in this case, the family decided to request a settlement with the City in lieu of a trial. According to local news reports, a settlement was reached with the City of Bellaire for $110,000. References Police brutality in the United States Law enforcement in Texas 2000s crimes in Texas 2008 in Texas December 2008 crimes December 2008 events in the United States Bellaire, Texas

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Herbert Jeffreys (English Army officer)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Herbert Jeffreys ( – 17 December 1678) was an English Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of Virginia in the immediate aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion. American historian Douglas Edward Leach described Jeffreys as a "chief troubleshooter" and "the most active and expert guardsman in the political police function of the courtier army." Biography Early life and family Jeffreys was born around 1620–1625 in Kirkham, North Yorkshire, England. Available records indicate that Jeffreys married Susanna Osborne and they had seven children during the period between 1666 and 1674. The Jeffreys family resided in Yorkshire and attended Saint Michael-Le-Belfry church. Military service Jeffreys was a longtime military officer and staunch royalist. From 1642 until 1648, he fought for King Charles I in the English Civil War. During the period following, Jeffreys was in French exile, where he served on the military staff of Charles I's second son, James, Duke of York. While in Flanders, Jeffreys supported the repression of the Fronde provincial revolts between 1648 and 1653 and helped to form the Guards of Charles II. After the restoration of Charles II as King, Jeffreys served the crown as commander of Guards Garrison companies in Portsmouth, York, the Isle of Jersey, and London. He served as deputy governor of York for over eight years and assumed martial command in 1670. He attained the rank of captain and later lieutenant colonel in the English Army. Virginia political career In November 1676, Jeffreys was appointed by Charles II as a lieutenant governor of Virginia colony and arrived in Virginia in February 1677. During Bacon's Rebellion, Jeffreys was commander-in-chief of the regiment of six warships carrying over 1,100 troops, tasked with quelling and pacifying the rebellion upon their arrival. He served as leader of a three-member commission (alongside Sir John Berry and Francis Moryson) to inquire into the causes of discontent and political strife in the colony. The commission published a report for the King titled "A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the late Rebellion in Virginia," which provided an official report and history of the insurrection. On 27 April 1677 and with the support of the King, Jeffreys assumed the role of acting colonial governor following Bacon's Rebellion, succeeding his political rival Governor Sir William Berkeley after he was formally recalled to England and convinced to vacate the colony. Shortly after Jeffreys took over as acting governor, Berkeley angrily remarked that Jeffreys had an "irresistible desire to rule this country" and that his action could not be justified. He wrote to Jeffreys, "I believe that the inhabitants of this Colony will quickly find a difference between your management and mine." As acting governor, Jeffreys was responsible for appeasing the remaining factions of resistance and reforming the colonial government to be once more under direct Crown control. As acting governor, Jeffreys presided over the Treaty of 1677, the formal peace treaty between the Crown and representatives from various Virginia Native American tribes that was signed on 28 May 1677. In October 1677, Jeffreys persuaded the Virginia General Assembly to pass an act of amnesty for all of the participants in Bacon's Rebellion, and levied fines against any citizen of the colony that called another a "traitor" or "rebel." Jeffreys led efforts to rebuild and restore the state house and colonial capital of Jamestown which had been burned and looted during the rebellion. As acting governor, Jeffreys was known for suspending some of his most outspoken critics from office. He was strongly opposed by the "Green Spring faction" of members of the assembly and Governor's council, who remained loyal to Berkeley. Philip Ludwell referred to Jeffreys as "a pitiful little fellow with a periwig." Death Jeffreys died on December 17, 1678, at the age of 53–58. He was one of the first colonial governors of Virginia to die while in office and was generally unpopular among Virginia's public at the time of his death. He was immediately succeeded by Henry Chicheley as acting governor. See also Colony of Virginia Virginia History List of colonial governors of Virginia Notes References The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. External links Biography at Encyclopedia Virginia Colonial governors of Virginia 1620s births 1678 deaths English emigrants English Civil War

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Hartvig Nissen School

The Hartvig Nissen School (), informally referred to as Nissen, is a gymnasium in Oslo, Norway. It is located in the neighborhood Uranienborg in the affluent West End borough of Frogner. It is Norway's oldest high school for girls and is widely considered one of the country's two most prestigious high schools alongside the traditionally male-only Oslo Cathedral School; its alumni include many famous individuals and two members of the Norwegian royal family. Originally named Nissen's Girls' School, it was founded by Hartvig Nissen and was originally a private, progressive girls' school which was owned by its headmasters and which served the higher bourgeoisie. The school formerly also had its own teachers college. The school and its teachers college have the distinction of being both the first gymnasium and the first higher education institution in Norway which admitted girls and women, and the school and its owners played a key role in promoting female education during the 19th and early 20th century. The school was described in the British House of Commons in 1907 as "the pioneer of higher girls' schools in Norway." The school was located at the address Rosenkrantz' Gade 7 from 1849 to 1860 and at the address Øvere Voldgade 15 from 1860 to 1899. Then-owner-headmaster Bernhard Pauss moved the school to its current address, Niels Juels gate 56, and commissioned the construction of the current school building which was completed in 1899. In 1991 the school also acquired the building of its former neighbours Frogner School and Haagaas School at Niels Juels gate 52. The TV series Skam was centered on the school. The then relatively new progressive girls' school is also referenced in the 1862 play Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen. History It was established in 1849 by Hartvig Nissen and was originally a private girls' school, named Nissen's Girls' School (Nissens Pigeskole, later changed to the modern spelling Nissens Pikeskole). The school was privately owned, usually by its headmasters, until it was sold to Christiania Municipality in 1918. Nissen's Girls' School was the first institution in Norway to offer examen artium—the university entrance exam—for women. Then-owner Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss also established the first tertiary education for women in Norway, a women's teacher's college named Nissen's Teachers' College (Nissens Lærerinneskole). Nissen's Girls' School mainly served the higher bourgeoisie, and was one of three leading private higher schools in Oslo, alongside Frogner School and Vestheim School. Due to its location in the wealthy borough of Frogner and also because few working-class Norwegians attended gymnasium before the "education revolution" that started in the 1960s, it remained a school of choice for pupils from affluent families also after it was acquired by the municipality, although today, it has pupils from all parts of Oslo and with more diverse backgrounds. Its alumni include two members of the Norwegian royal family, Princess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid. From 1860 to 1899, the school was located in a building in Øvre Vollgate 15 in central Oslo. The current school building in Niels Juels gate 56 was commissioned by then-owner Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss in 1897, designed by Hartvig Nissen's son, architect Henrik Nissen, and built by Harald Kaas. The girls' school gradually became a co-educational school from the mid-1950s, after four boys were admitted in 1955 alongside hundreds of girls. Nissen's Girls' School changed its name to Nissen School in 1957 and to Hartvig Nissen School in 1963. In 1991, it also acquired the buildings of its neighbour, the former Frogner School and the former Frogner Trade School. The school is famous for its focus on theatre, having many actors among its alumni. It was also the first school in Norway to introduce a pupil's council, in 1919. Cultural depictions The school is referenced in the play Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen; Ibsen scholar Ivo de Figueiredo notes that "Love's Comedy is rich in so many ways. (...) Its most striking references, however, were to contemporary Christiania, and alert readers could spot references to places such as Kurland, a Kristiania 'Lover's Lane', and institutions such as Hartvig Nissen's girls' school." The TV series Skam revolved around the school. The show is about teen Norwegian girls and boys who live in Oslo and who attend Hartvig Nissen School. Owners Hartvig Nissen (1849–1872, sole owner until 1865, then one third) Johan Carl Keyser (1865–1899, one third) Einar Lyche (1865–1899, one third) Andreas Martin Corneliussen (1899–1900, one half) Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss (1872–1903, one third until 1899, one half until 1900 and sole owner 1900–1903) Frogner skoles interessentskap (Thorvald Prebensen, Theodor Haagaas and others) (1903–1918, sole owner) Christiania/Oslo municipality (sole owner from 1918) Notable faculty Notable people who have taught at Nissen's Girls' School/Hartvig Nissen School include: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. Ole Jacob Broch, mathematician, physicist, economist and government minister. Notable alumni Notable people who have graduated from Nissen's Girls' School/Hartvig Nissen School include: Princess Ragnhild Princess Astrid Eva Nansen, mezzo-soprano and wife of Fridtjof Nansen Margrethe Munthe, children's writer, songwriter and playwright Clara Holst, first woman to obtain a doctorate in Norway Margrethe Parm, Christian leader and scout leader Ragnhild Jølsen, writer Harriet Backer, painter Alette Engelhart, women's activist Lillebjørn Nilsen, songwriter Toril Brekke, novelist Ragna Nielsen, pedagogue Triana Iglesias, model Tarjei Sandvik Moe, actor Hege Schøyen, comedian Jon Balke, jazz musician Maria Bonnevie, actress Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, film director Lea Myren, actress and fashion model References External links Official website Further reading Nissens Pigeskole og Privatseminar, Nissens Pigeskole, Christiania, 1900 Einar Boyesen (ed.): Nissens pikeskole 1849–1924, Oslo 1924 Nils A. Ytreberg: Nissen pikeskole 1849–1949, Oslo 1949 Maja Lise Rønneberg: Hartvig Nissens skole 150 år: 1849–1999, Oslo 1999 1849 establishments in Norway Educational institutions established in 1849 Schools in Oslo Secondary schools in Norway

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Alexa Bank

Alexa Bank is a seamount in Samoa, northwest of Rotuma. The seamount reaches a depth of below sea level and has the appearance of an atoll with a flat top and steep slopes. Some active coral growth takes place at its top, but if it ever was an active atoll it has now drowned. It was probably formed by the Samoa hotspot 24 million years ago, although older volcanism about 40 million years ago has also been identified. Geology and geomorphology Local Alexa Bank rises to depths of , has an eastward elongated flat top and is long and wide, widening towards the west; such dimensions resemble these of Savaii and Upolu in Samoa. The flat top has some features of an atoll including a raised rim, and it may indeed once have been an atoll. The rim is surrounded by a narrow terrace and in turn encloses a much wider terrace, that surrounds the flat top at an average depth of . The northern and southern flanks are formed by steep scarps, with the eastern slope featuring a terrace at depth and the western slope extending as a long volcanic ridge. The upper of the Bank are formed by carbonate sediments, while the eastern slope terrace may be part of the original volcanic edifice that was carried to this depth by thermal subsidence of the oceanic crust; seismic data may support the existence of a volcano within the carbonate sediments that form the bulk of Alexa Bank as well. Such thicknesses of the sediments are comparable to these of Bikini Atoll and Eniwetok. Regional The seafloor around Alexa Bank has a rough relief, with additional seamounts known as the Louisa Bank, Morton Bank, Penguin Bank and Turpie Bank nearby; the last two are often considered to be part of Alexa Bank. The deep Alexa Trough lies west and south of Alexa Bank and is part of the Vitiaz Trench, connecting it with the Tonga Trench. The bank itself is part of the "Melanesian Border Plateau", a group of seamounts and islands along the Vitiaz Trench that are mostly of volcanic origin. Alexa Bank appears to be the westernmost extension of the Samoa hotspot trail, which has covered a length of at least. The hotspot trail is in part coincident with a large group of islands and seamounts which were probably formed by the same hotspot but also featured substantial postshield volcanism, probably owing to tectonic phenomena triggered by the Tonga Trench close by. The seafloor is part of the Pacific Plate. Composition Samples dredged from the Alexa Bank include basaltic rocks and have alkali basalt to tholeiitic composition. Isotope data display affinities to these from other Samoan volcanoes. Other rocks dredged from the seamount are argillite, breccia, shale and siltstone but they may not have originated on Alexa Bank proper. Geologic history Rocks from Alexa Bank have been dated to be 37–36.9 million years old and may be a product of Eocene volcanism. More recent age estimates are 24 million years ago, while fossil data have been inferred to justify a Cretaceous age. Alexa Bank has been considered to be a product of the Samoa hotspot, but its age may be too high to be a product of this hotspot. The newer age measurements however are consistent with the association with the Samoa hotspot. Some tectonic activity may have continued until later times, leading to the development of segmentation and tilting. The bank was probably an atoll during the Pleistocene and then drowned. It is possible that unusually rapid geological subsidence of Alexa Bank outpaced the ability of its reefs to keep up. Originally, the flat surface of Alexa was explained by wave erosion during sea level lowstands. Biology Dead corals and foraminifera occur on Alexa Bank. Some corals are still alive and form pinnacles on the surface of the bank. Algal rhodoliths and stromatoliths have been found on Alexa as well. The Japanese snake blenny has been found at Alexa Bank. Radiolarians in Eocene-Quaternary sediments south of Alexa Bank probably originate there. References Sources Eocene volcanoes Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean Volcanoes of the Pacific Ocean Undersea banks of the Pacific Ocean Western Samoan Volcanic Province

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Martin Birch

Martin Birch (27 December 19489 August 2020) was a British music producer and sound engineer. He became renowned for engineering and producing albums recorded predominantly by British rock bands, including Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fleetwood Mac, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden. Biography Birch was born on 27 December 1948 in Woking, Surrey. He began his career in music as an audio engineer with Jeff Beck, Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple, producing and engineering eleven albums for the latter. In 1980, coming from the "Deep Purple camp", he was called upon by Black Sabbath for Heaven and Hell. The band's previous albums had been self-produced and they were happy to let Birch, who had worked with Ronnie James Dio before, produce them. His "bright midrange" on the album is especially noted. He began a long tenure working exclusively with Iron Maiden in 1981, producing and engineering Killers and retiring from working with other bands for a while. Birch also produced and engineered albums for numerous artists. These included Deep Purple-related projects (Rainbow, Paice Ashton Lord, Whitesnake, Roger Glover, and Jon Lord), but also encompassed Wayne County & the Electric Chairs. On Fleetwood Mac's album Mystery to Me (1973) he is also credited playing acoustic guitar. The song "Hard Lovin' Man" from the Deep Purple album Deep Purple in Rock is dedicated to him: "For Martin Birch – catalyst". Birch retired in 1992, after producing Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark album. It was the last of the ten records he produced with the group. He appeared in Iron Maiden's music video "Holy Smoke" two years before his retirement. Birch died on 9 August 2020, at age 71. The cause of death was undisclosed. Initial tributes were paid by David Coverdale, Geezer Butler and Wendy Dio. Members of Iron Maiden offered a lengthy tribute to Birch on their official website, with Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and Rod Smallwood reflecting on his personality and his time working with the band. Selected discography Source: AllMusic unless otherwise stated. Fleetwood Mac 1969 – Then Play On (engineer) 1970 – Kiln House (engineer) 1972 – Bare Trees (engineer) 1973 – Penguin (producer, engineer, mixing) 1973 – Mystery to Me (producer, engineer, guitar) Deep Purple 1969 – Concerto for Group and Orchestra (engineer) 1970 – Deep Purple in Rock (engineer) 1971 – Fireball (engineer) 1972 – Machine Head (engineer) 1972 – Made in Japan (engineer) 1973 – Who Do We Think We Are (engineer) 1974 – Burn (engineer, mixing) 1974 – Stormbringer (co-producer, engineer, mixing) 1975 – Come Taste the Band (co-producer, engineer, mixing) 1976 – Made In Europe (producer, engineer, mixing) – recorded live in April 1975 1977 – Last Concert in Japan (co-producer, engineer) – recorded live in December 1975 Jon Lord 1971 – Gemini Suite (engineer) 1976 – Sarabande (producer, engineer, remixing) Bernie Marsden 1979 - And About Time Too (producer, engineer) Wishbone Ash 1970 – Wishbone Ash (engineer) 1971 – Pilgrimage (engineer) 1972 – Argus (engineer) Rainbow 1975 – Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (co-producer, engineer, mixing) 1976 – Rising (producer, engineer, mixing) 1977 – On Stage (producer, engineer, mixing) – recorded live in 1976 1978 – Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (producer, engineer, mixing) 1986 – Finyl Vinyl (producer) – collection Whitesnake 1978 – Snakebite (producer) 1978 – Trouble (producer) 1979 - Lovehunter (producer) 1980 - Ready an' Willing (producer, engineer, mixing) 1980 – Live... in the Heart of the City (producer, engineer) – recorded live in 1978 and 1980 1981 – Come an' Get It (producer, engineer, mixing) 1982 – Saints & Sinners (producer, engineer, mixing) 1984 – Slide It In (producer) Black Sabbath 1980 – Heaven and Hell (producer, engineer) 1981 – Mob Rules (producer, engineer) Blue Öyster Cult 1980 – Cultösaurus Erectus (producer, engineer) 1981 – Fire of Unknown Origin (producer, engineer) Iron Maiden 1981 – Killers (producer, engineer) 1982 – The Number of the Beast (producer, engineer) 1983 – Piece of Mind (producer, engineer, mixing) 1984 – Powerslave (producer, engineer, mixing) 1985 – Live After Death (producer, engineer, mixing) 1986 – Somewhere in Time (producer, engineer, mixing) 1988 – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (producer, engineer, mixing) 1989 – Maiden England (producer, engineer, mixing) 1990 – No Prayer for the Dying (producer, engineer, mixing) 1992 – Fear of the Dark (producer, engineer, mixing) Other artists 1969 – Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola (engineer) 1970 – Peter Green – The End of the Game (engineer) 1970 – The Groundhogs – Thank Christ for the Bomb (engineer) 1971 – Stackridge – Stackridge (engineer) 1971 – Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker – Hooker 'N' Heat (Mixdown Engineer) – recorded in 1970 1971 – Skid Row – 34 Hours (engineer) 1971 – Toad – Toad (engineer) 1971 – Faces – Long Player (engineer) 1972 – Silverhead – Silverhead (producer) 1972 – Toad – Tomorrow Blue (engineer) 1972 – Flash – Flash (engineer) 1972 – Nick Pickett – Silversleeves (engineer) 1973 – Gary Moore – Grinding Stone (producer, engineer) 1978 – Wayne County & the Electric Chairs – Storm The Gates Of Heaven (producer) 1978 – Roger Glover – Elements (producer) 1979 – Cozy Powell – Over the Top (producer) 1982 – Michael Schenker Group – Assault Attack (producer, engineer) References External links 1948 births 2020 deaths English audio engineers English record producers People from Woking Place of death missing

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Joseph Kinsey Howard

Joseph Kinsey Howard (February 28, 1906 – August 25, 1951) was an American journalist, historian, and writer. He wrote extensively about the history, culture, and economic circumstances of Montana. One of the state's most noted authors of nonfiction, Howard's landmark 1943 book, Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is a respected account of Montana history that has influenced later generations of historians. Howard also authored numerous other historic and literary works, and was a vocal, articulate and persuasive advocate for a variety of social, economic and environmental reforms. These endeavors earned Howard the posthumous sobriquet, "Montana's Conscience." Howard believed Montana and the rural West provided the "last stand against urban technological tedium" for the individual. He fervently believed that small towns of the sort that predominated in Montana provided a democratic bulwark for society. Howard's writings demonstrate his strong belief in the necessity to identify and preserve a region's cultural heritage. Howard worked first as a newspaper editor on the Great Falls Leader, later for the Montana Study (a statewide community development project), and as a freelance writer. His books, speeches and magazine articles, expressed his ideals of community awareness and identity, encouraging readers to retain an idealistic vision contesting the deadening demands of the modern world. Biography Howard was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and spent his early childhood years in Lethbridge, Alberta, with his family. In 1919 he moved with his mother to Great Falls, Montana, where he graduated from high school in 1923. Immediately after graduating, Howard landed a job as a reporter for the Great Falls Leader, one of the city's two daily newspapers at the time. He was promoted to news editor at the Leader in 1926, at age 20, a position he held until 1944. At the Leader, Howard developed a characteristic writing style that was simultaneously straightforward, evocative, and compelling, and within a few years his talent began to receive broader attention. Beginning in the mid-1930s Howard authored numerous nonfiction articles for national publications, including The Nation, Harper's Magazine and others. He was also a stringer covering Montana issues for Time and Life magazines. Many of the essays Howard produced for these periodicals explored the difficulties faced by Montana's Native Americans and other disenfranchised groups; others were exposés of what Howard saw as undue corporate influence in Montana economics and life, particularly by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Though primarily an author of nonfiction, Howard also wrote book reviews for The New York Times and short stories that were published in The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and elsewhere. Howard's first book-length effort was Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome, which was published in 1943. The volume was both a thoughtful history of the state, and an impassioned indictment of the corporate and bureaucratic forces that had heavily influenced much of that history. Among the book's primary targets were Anaconda Copper, which controlled much of the state's economic and political activity at the time, and the Great Northern Railway, which had lured thousands of homesteaders onto Montana land that proved wholly unsuitable for farming. The book also paid particular attention to the inappropriate and inequitable usage of the state's scarce water resources, making an open plea for reform of the system. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome proved to be an unquestioned landmark in the state's literary history, drawing significant attention both to Howard and the causes he espoused. The themes of corporate exploitation that Howard so convincingly and eloquently outlined became the primary focus of Montana historians for a generation to come, and became a primary theme in the works of K. Ross Toole, the state's most noted academic historian. Howard's book remains perhaps the most influential and evocative work ever published about Montana's past. The recognition afforded Howard by the response to Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome helped open the doors to additional writing, research, and advocacy projects. In 1944 Howard resigned his position at the Leader to become a staff member of the Montana Study, a research project largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Study was an examination of life in small-town Montana, with the goal of identifying ways to improve the quality of life in such places and thus helping ensure their preservation. Howard remained with the Study for two years, before resigning in order to return to writing full-time. Howard's second published volume was Montana Margins: A State Anthology, completed in 1946. The book is a thick collection of short fiction, poetry, and historic narratives, covering the full spectrum of Montana's geography and history. The depth and scope of the book made it a model for later regional anthologies, such as the voluminous 1988 imitation, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. The remainder of Howard's life was devoted to writing, promoting the arts in Montana, and teaching writers workshops. Aided by the support of Guggenheim Fellowships in 1947 and 1948, he devoted considerable effort to the writing of a history of Métis leader Louis Riel and his resistance movements against the Canadian government. The result of this project was the book Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest, published posthumously in 1952. Howard died of a heart attack on August 25, 1951, aged 45. He is still recognized as one of Montana's most talented, influential, and significant authors. His legacy was summed up by Bernard DeVoto in 1952, who wrote, "By the time Howard died, he came closer to being the spokesman of the West than any other writer has ever been." Principal works Montana: High, Wide and Handsome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943. Montana Margins: A State Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1952. Notes External links School of Journalism biography of Howard Short biography and picture of Howard Guide to the Joseph Kinsey Howard Papers at the University of Montana The collection consists primarily of galley proofs and other materials relating to Howard's books. Joseph Kinsey Howard Documentary produced by Montana PBS 1906 births 1951 deaths Historians of Montana People from Great Falls, Montana Writers from Montana People from Oskaloosa, Iowa 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American short story writers Historians from Iowa American male non-fiction writers

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Silvio Vietta

Silvio Vietta (born 7 August 1941, in Berlin) is a German scholar and professor emeritus of the University of Hildesheim. His work has concerned itself principally with German literature, philosophy and European cultural history. His main areas of research are the literatures of Expressionism and Romanticism, and Literary Modernity. He has also published on Martin Heidegger, with whom he had personal contact while a student, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. His recent research has been in European cultural history, in particular the history of rationality. Biography Silvio Vietta is the son of the writer Egon Vietta and Dorothea, born Feldhaus. He studied German Literature, Philosophy, English Literature and Education (1962–68) and received his PhD from the University of Würzburg in 1970 for a thesis on Language and the Reflection on Language in Modern Poetry. Vietta began his academic career as a lecturer in German at Elmira College, Elmira NY, and later taught at the German universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Mannheim and Hildesheim. In 1981 he finished his habilitation (German postdoctoral qualification) on Modern Rationality and Literary Criticism at the University of Mannheim. In 2006 he was a visiting professor at the University of Moscow (RGGU), in 2007 and 2008-09 visiting professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) and in 2012 visiting professor at the University of Campinas (Brazil). Vietta is a member of the advisory board of Angermion, the Yearbook of Anglo-German Literary Criticism (London), a member of AVUR (Agenzia nazionale valutazione ricerca Universitaria), Italy, and a member of the International German Society. In 2006, he received the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Theory Vietta has specialized in the macro-theory of the periods of Expressionism, Romanticism and Modernity, and in recent years has become one of the pioneers of 'Europeism' as a field of intercultural European Studies. In 2012 he published Texte zur Poetik (Texts on Poetics), a historical documentation of the basic European texts on poetics from Plato and Aristotle to Postmodernism and cybernetic poetics. His recent work is a long-term study of the history of rationality: Rationalität. Eine Weltgeschichte. Europäische Kulturgeschichte und die Globalisierung (Rationality: A History of the World - European Cultural History and Globalization, 2012), in which he shows how the European concept and practice of rationality has explored and conquered the world and led to the present world civilization. Vietta speaks of the "empire of rationality" as a world-governing power that includes different irrational effects. Publications Vietta, Silvio: Language and the Reflection on Language in Modern Poetry. Bad Homburg 1970. Vietta, Silvio: Expressionism. (with H.G. Kemper). Seventh Ed. Munich 2001 (1975). Vietta, Silvio: Modern Rationality and Literary Criticism. Munich 1981. Vietta, Silvio (ed.): Die literarische Frühromantik. Göttingen 1983. Vietta, Silvio: Literary Imagination. Theory and History. Stuttgart 1986. Vietta, Silvio: Heidegger's Criticism of National Socialism and Technology. Tübingen 1989. (French translation Paris 1993, Japan. Translation Tokio 1996). Vietta, Silvio: Literary Modernity. A problem-based History of German Literature from Hölderlin to Thomas Bernhard. Stuttgart 1992. Vietta, Silvio: "Die vollendete Speculation führt zur Natur zurück". Nature und Aesthetics. Leipzig 1995. Vietta, Silvio/Kemper, Dirk (Ed.): Aesthetic Modernism in Europe. Principles and Contexts since Romanticism. Munich 1998. Vietta, Silvio: Aesthetics of Modernity. Literature and Imagery. Munich 2001. Hans-Georg Gadamer/Vietta, Silvio: In Conversation. Munich 2002. Vietta, Silvio (Ed.): Modernity and Myth. Munich 2006. Vietta, Silvio: The European Novel of Modernity. Munich 2007. Vietta, Silvio: European Cultural History. An Introduction. Munich 2007. Vietta, Silvio (Ed.): Aesthetics - Religion - Secularisation I: From Renaissance to Romanticism. Munich 2008. Vol. II: Classical Modernity Munich 2008. Gehler, Michael/Vietta, Silvio (Ed.): Europe - Europeanisation - European Studies. New Scientific Methods and Contents. Vienna 2010. Vietta, Silvio (Ed.): Texts on Poetics. Darmstadt 2012. Vietta, Silvio/Rizzo, Roberto (Ed.): "sich an den Tod heranpürschen...". The Correspondence of Hermann Broch and Egon Vietta in the years 1933 - 1951. Göttingen 2012. Vietta, Silvio: Rationality: A History of the World - European Cultural History and Globalization. Munich 2012. Vietta, Silvio: A Theory of Global Civilization: Rationality and the Irrational as the Driving Forces of History. Kindle Ebooks 2013. References External links Home page at the University of Hildesheim Living people 1941 births Linguists from Germany University of Würzburg alumni

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Du%20Cann

John Du Cann

John William Cann (2 June 1946 – 21 September 2011), later known by his stage name John Du Cann, was an English guitarist primarily known through his work in the 1970s band Atomic Rooster. Life and career His early bands included the Wiltshire-based The Sonics (not to be confused with the 1960s US band of the same name) and London-based The Attack, which released "Hi Ho Silver Lining" a few days prior to Jeff Beck. He went on to lead a psychedelic, progressive, hard rock band called Andromeda, before being asked to join Atomic Rooster, when bass player and vocalist Nick Graham left the band. Cann overdubbed guitar parts and replaced Graham's vocals on three tracks of their 1970 self-titled debut album, and a second pressing featuring the overdubbed tracks was soon issued, though without crediting him on the sleeve. Cann wrote or co-wrote four songs on the album Death Walks Behind You (1970) and two for In Hearing of Atomic Rooster (1971), along with Atomic Rooster's biggest hit single, "Devil's Answer", which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1971, just before Cann left the band. Upon departing Atomic Rooster he formed Daemon, later renamed Bullet, then Hard Stuff, after discovering that the previous name had already been used by an American band, releasing two albums on Purple Records, based more heavily on aggressive guitar work. In 1974, he was a temporary guitarist in Thin Lizzy for a tour of Germany. Sometime following this, his manager suggested a name change for him from John Cann to John Du Cann. As a result of being signed to the same management company, 1977 saw the pairing of Du Cann with Francis Rossi of the British rock band Status Quo. Rossi was invited to produce Du Cann's proposed new album, The World's Not Big Enough, which remained unreleased until 1992. The session musicians for this album included Rossi on guitar, Andy Bown on keyboards, future Quo drummer Pete Kircher and bassist John McCoy. The album, mostly made up of breakneck-speed garage rock and manic proto-punk, was described in Record Collector magazine at the time as sounding like "Quo mixed with the Sex Pistols". In September 1979, Du Cann had a hit on the UK Singles Chart with "Don't Be A Dummy", an unreleased version of which (featuring vocals by Gary Numan) had featured in a Lee Cooper Jeans television advertisement in 1978. The single reached number 33 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1979, Du Cann and Crane re-formed Atomic Rooster with Preston Heyman on drums (with whom they recorded their 1980 self-titled album). Following this, after a brief spell with former Cream drummer Ginger Baker (who was released after only three weeks), Paul Hammond returned to his place on the drums, and the band released two more singles on Polydor with minimal success. In 1981, the band were booked at the last minute at the Reading Festival, but Du Cann was unable to make it, and Mick Hawksworth sat in with the band on bass guitar, while Crane took over on lead vocals. In late 1982, Du Cann had had enough of the non-success of the band, and left for the final time. In the late 1990s, he was introduced to the Angel Air record label by John McCoy. He was later active cataloguing and remastering his personal tape archive and compiling reissues for the label, for which he received full credit and royalties. John Du Cann's last ever studio recording was made in 2000, at Green Hills Studio in Norwich. It was owned by Chris Phillips, who also wrote the sleeve notes for three of the Atomic Rooster CDs released on Angel Air. Du Cann overdubbed guitar and vocals on an unused backing track that was recorded in 1980, titled "Broken Window". The track was originally added to the Rarities CD on the Angel Air label (SJPCD069), released in 2000, and later on The First 10 Explosive Years Volume 2 (SJPCD086) released in 2001. Du Cann died at his home in Norwich on 21 September 2011 after a heart attack. His personal collection of 75 guitars, 30 amplifiers, records and CDs was auctioned in January 2012. An original copy of the Andromeda LP made £800, whilst his well used 1963 Fender Strat sold for £6500. His mother was the only beneficiary of his estate. He is buried at Greenacres Burial Ground at Colney, near Norwich. His gravestone is inscribed with the first line of "Devil's Answer". References External links Atomic Rooster: John (Du) Cann Licensing 1946 births 2011 deaths English rock guitarists Musicians from Leicester Atomic Rooster members

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HMS Proselyte (1796)

HMS Proselyte was a 32-gun Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate. She was the former Dutch 36-gun frigate Jason, built in 1770 at Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her crew mutinied and turned her over to the British in 1796. She then served the Royal Navy until she was wrecked in 1801. Mutiny In 1796 Jason, under the command of Captain Gerardus Donckum, was part of a Dutch squadron that had sailed from Texel in February. She encountered difficulties and had to put into Drontheim, Norway for a refit. On 31 May 1796, Jason captured and sank the British merchant ship Maryann, which was on a voyage from Nevis to Greenock, Renfrewshire. Following this action, political disagreement and bad treatment aboard led some of Jasons crew to mutiny. They locked the captain and his followers below deck, and sailed into Greenock on 8 June. Captain John K. Pulling, of the 18-gun brig-sloop , accepted the mutineers' surrender there. When Jason surrendered she had more than 200 men aboard, so a "great party" from the Sutherland Fencibles marched from Glasgow to Greenock to take possession of the frigate. British service The Admiralty commissioned Jason as the 32-gun frigate Proselyte, and appointed Captain John Loring in September 1796 to command her. In British service she carried twenty-six 12-pounder guns and six 6-pounders. Shortly after her commissioning, on 20 February 1797, she sailed for Jamaica. On 4 June Proselyte captured the French privateer Liberté on the West Indies station. Liberté was armed with six guns but had only 13 men aboard her when Proselyte captured her as the rest of the privateer's crew were away in captured vessels. George Fowke received his promotion to Post-captain on 9 July 1798 and in December took command of Proselyte. Proselyte was part of the British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell that constituted the naval part of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in August 1799. On 8 August the British captured the Dutch hulks Drotchterland and Brooderschap, and the ships Helder, Venus, Minerva, and Hector, in the New Diep. So many vessels, or rather their crews, shared in the prize money that the share of an ordinary seaman was only 6s 8d. This amounted to about five days' wages. Proselyte was also present for the surrender of the vessels of the Batavian Republic in the Vlieter Incident. The surrender occasioned a further distribution of prize money but the London Gazette did not publish any amounts. On 28 August Proselyte captured the Prussian hoy Zeeluft. On 11 October 1800 Proselyte and the hired armed cutter Fly captured the Proteus. The next day Proselyte captured the small French cutter Victor et Natalie, off Havre. She was sailing from Dieppe to Cancalle in ballast. Then on 1 December Loire, Proselyte, and Fly captured the Danish brig Fortuna. Fowke sailed for the Leeward Islands in February 1801. In March Proselyte participated in Rear Admiral Duckworth's successful attack on the islands of St. Bartholomew and St. Martin. Proselyte, Hornet and Drake stayed at St. Martin to secure the island and to embark the garrison on 26 March, while the rest of Duckworth's force went on to St Thomas. Duckworth ordered Proselyte and Hornet to relieve Unite from the task of protecting the two newly captured islands so that Unite might escort the prisoners to Martinique and arrange and escort a convoy from there for Great Britain. Prize money for the "sundry articles of Provisions, Merchandize, Stores, and Property afloat" was available for payment on 14 January 1804. Loss While under the temporary command of Lieutenant Henry Whitby, Fowke not being on board, Proselyte was wrecked on 4 September 1801. She was on her way from St. Kitts into port at St. Martin when she struck the "Man of War Shoal" in view of Philipsburg. Fortunately, boats from Philipsburg saved all the crew. A court martial on aboard HMS Magnanime at Fort Royal, Martinique, on 7 November 1801 found Whitby guilty of negligence for not heeding the warning about the danger of the reef; the court sentenced him to a reduction in rank. The board also dismissed the master, Luke Winter, from the Navy. Whitby had left him in charge of the navigation and ignored the local standing orders, which specified where the shoal was and the bearings vessels were to follow when entering port. Wreck site Proselyte is now a popular dive site for visitors to St. Martin. She lies on her starboard side in approximately of water, just beyond the mouth of Great Bay at Philipsburg. Numerous cannon, ballast bars, barrel hoops and anchors are scattered around the wreck on the ocean floor, all heavily encrusted with coral, which has made the "Proselyte Reef" a popular dive site. The Sint Maarten Museum has put many artifacts retrieved from Proselyte on display. Notes Citations References Rotterdams jaarboekje (1900). Historisch Genootschap Roterodamum. (W. L. & J. Brusse). 1770 ships Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy Maritime incidents in 1801 Royal Navy mutinies Captured ships Ships built in Rotterdam Shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea

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Pacific Northwest oyster industry

Thousands of years prior to European settlement of the Pacific Northwest of the United States the native oyster species Ostrea lurida had been established as a valuable dietary resource for indigenous people living on the coastal waters. European settlers who began to colonize the Pacific Northwest developed an acquired taste for shellfish, especially oysters, a delicacy that were considered to be a symbol of wealth. In the early history of the Pacific Northwest, people satisfied their hunger for shellfish by harvesting naturally occurring oyster beds. It was initially believed that the populations of indigenous oysters were sufficient to supply both tribal and commercial harvest. A marketable industry was created on the export of oysters and soon exploitation of harvesting had depleted the natural oyster beds in California and Oregon. As a result, Washington state became the main supplier to areas along the coast which had failed to establish any conservation practices. Noticing the economic value and decline of natural availability, farmers began efforts to cultivate oysters to try to satisfy demand. Over the years the oyster industry of the Pacific Northwest has gone from extremely lucrative to completely nonexistent, but still the industry has been able to adapt and survive. Native American history For the centuries prior to the arrival of European settlement, the native tribes inhabiting the Pacific coast consumed animals from the sea. For example, the native people known as the Siwash or "Fish Eaters" included oysters as a main staple in their diet. Evidence of this claim has been proven by the discovery of large piles of discarded shells known as "middens" with specimens dating back 3000–4000 years. The native peoples use of the oyster was a respectful practice and their appreciation for the oyster can be found in their mythology. One legend states that humankind colonized the planet after being able to free themselves from the inside of a sealed oyster. As more white immigrants began to establish settlements along the coast the native people realized the value of oyster and began to harvest them to trade with their new neighbors. In cities such as Tacoma and Seattle it was not uncommon to see natives selling baskets of harvested oysters to the white settlers. Although evidence shows native people engaged in harvesting of oysters, the amount extracted was not great enough to deplete the naturally occurring oyster beds. Washington State Early European settlers who arrived in Washington were fueled by Manifest Destiny and held the belief that all natural resources were a gift from God. This idea allowed exploitation in the harvest of natural resources such as oysters, lumber, and salmon. The proof of this mismanagement is shown in the lack of conservation efforts taken by oyster harvesters in the early days of the industry boom. After the native oyster beds of Northern California and Oregon had been depleted, sailing ships began to travel to Willapa Bay which contained vast acreages of native oysters that had been allowed to grow for many years. Between the years 1851-1915 it is estimated that European settlers had removed more than 5 billion individual oysters from Willapa Bay without any consideration of involving cultivation techniques to seed the harvested areas for future oyster populations. Eventually Washington's native oyster beds were also depleted, but some harvesters recognized the problem and began to take measures to establish regulations on the industry. In an effort to halt the collapse the Washington state legislature passed the Callow Act in 1890 not even a year after Washington had established statehood. The act allowed oyster farmers to purchase tidelands from the government as long as they contained no natural beds. Once the native oyster beds had been exhausted farmers began to import and plant the seeds of Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas from Japan. This species proved easier to manage than the native Olympia Oyster and until the present day has been the industries primary focus in oyster growing. Exploitation of harvest is not the only factor attributed to the decline of native oyster populations, pollution has also been attributed to the industry decline. One of the most notable examples occurred in Shelton on the tides of Oakland Bay where pollution from a sulfite lumber mill killed off entire populations of planted oysters. Although there has been debate over whether the lumber mill is to blame, it has been shown that the oyster's population numbers declined during the mills time of operation and increased after it had been closed. Currently Washington's oyster industries annually harvest more than 7 million pounds of oyster meat at a value estimated around 70 million dollars. Natural oyster beds will never be able to support the numbers needed to meet market demands, but the oyster industry has continued to endure. Learning from past mistakes has led present day farming companies to employ more conservation practices to ensure water quality and healthy specimens. See also References Oysters Aquaculture in the United States Fishing in the United States History of the Pacific Northwest Economy of Washington (state) Economy of Oregon

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Steve Kravac

Steven B. Kravac (born June 17, 1964), is a Canadian-born RIAA gold-accredited record producer, recording engineer, musician and composer. He is the owner of the music label Porterhouse Records and its sub-labels Porterhouse Prime Vinyl and Porterhouse 101. He has produced albums for MXPX, Pepper, Less Than Jake, Tsunami Bomb, and Home Grown among others. Known for achieving a polished radio friendly sound, many of the acts he has worked with have enjoyed a moderate amount of commercial success. Life and career Steve Kravac was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb of the City of Vancouver. He attended Burnaby North Secondary School and while in high school began playing drums and founded his first band, Social Outcasts who played locally in support of punk acts DOA and the Angelic Upstarts. He graduated in 1982, and shortly thereafter moved across Canada to the city Montreal where he resided for twelve years. While in Montreal he attended Concordia University for two years studying photography and film before leaving the school to pursue music as a full-time career. At this time he began working on his first commercial productions including records from Canadian bands Doughboys, Asexuals and Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra. He also joined the punk band My Dog Popper, and played drums on two records as well as performing live with the group and in their side project Johnny Neon Beef. Later he would join forces with noted Canadian songwriter Alex Soria of the band The Nils. to form Los Patos, a pop rock music vehicle for Soria's songs. The line up consisted of Soria on guitar and vocals, Stephan (Hams) Hamel on bass and Kravac on drums and background vocals. The project was short lived, but one commercial track was released, a cover of Donovan's "Changes" which was on Island of Circles, a tribute album to Donovan released on the Vancouver, B.C.-based Nettwerk Records. In 1994 shortly after the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, a recording engineer position became available at Westbeach Recorders. Well known in the punk rock community, Westbeach was located in Hollywood and co-owned by Brett Gurewitz of Epitaph Records and his business partner, noted recording engineer Donnell Cameron. With a little prompting from Youth Brigade drummer Mark Stern, Donnell asked Kravac to forward him a demo reel of his work. Cameron was impressed enough with the contents of the demo to offer Kravac a position at Westbeach and three months later in March 1994 Kravac moved to Los Angeles to take the job. Kravac would remain at Westbeach for the next five years and during that time began recording some of the acts that he would eventually be best known for working with. One of the first sessions he engineered upon arrival in L.A. was the album "Cheshire Cat" by Blink-182. The record released on Cargo Records went on to be a successful release for the band and provided a springboard to other production and engineering opportunities. One of those opportunities was with the record label Tooth and Nail, a Christian music label based in Seattle Washington. Kravac produced a number of bands for the label including The O.C. Supertones album "Supertones Strike Back" which was nominated for a Dove award for Modern Rock/Alternative record of the year, in 1998 by the Gospel Music Association. It was through Tooth and Nail that Kravac also began working with the Bremerton-based band MxPx for whom he produced three full-length albums including the RIAA gold accredited album "Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo" released on A&M Records and Life in General which featured "Chick Magnet", arguably the band's most popular single and a popular record amongst their fans. Also in 1998, Steve produced, engineered, and mixed the Christian pop-punk band Slick Shoes second full-length album "Burn Out" at Westbeach Recorders for their then label Tooth & Nail. Burn Out is still one of Slick Shoes fan favorite albums, taking a more west coast hardcore approach in their guitar riffs and melodic content. Around the spring of 1999 Kravac left Westbeach Recorders to begin working as an independent record producer. Among the acts he has worked with are 7 Seconds, Guttermouth, Less Than Jake and Buck O Nine. In 1999, Steve produced, engineered, and mixed California based punk band 7 Seconds' album "Good To Go" for punk label SideOneDummy "Good To Go" was a return to 7 Seconds original 80's hardcore sound that their fans had grown accustomed to. In 2019 he released his first solo LP under the moniker Steven Bradley. The album was released to critical acclaim on September 27, 2019 and was quickly added to many Indie and College radio playlists. Described by critics as"simply note perfect, bouncy, joyous power pop". Bringing comparisons to Bob Mould, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Summer Bliss and Autumn Tears was written, produced and recorded at his own Hell's Half Acre Studio in California. While Bradley played almost all the instruments on the LP he recruiting some additional talent to round out the sound, including Wayne Kramer (MC5), Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath, Northern Pikes), Steve McDonald (Red Kross), Mike Herrera (MXPX), Danny McGough (Social Distortion, Continental Drifters) and pedal steel virtuoso Greg Leisz. The single "Capitol Hill" and its accompanying video hit a nostalgic note with other past and present residents of the Vancouver neighborhood it was named for. "The song's video features a blend of archival photos and more recent footage of Bradley's old stomping grounds, which will probably get any other ex-Burnaby residents feeling all misty-eyed as well." Bradley celebrated the release of the album by playing live shows in LA and San Diego with his band featuring Richard Lloyd of the seminal post punk band Television. Porterhouse records In 1997 Kravac created a small indie record label named Porterhouse Records (after the character Smoke Porterhouse in the film Caddyshack). The first signings were local acts with small followings: Speedbuggy and Rosemary’s Billygoat. While neither act brought the label any real commercial success the label was able to create distribution channels worldwide with these first products. Other acts signed to the label include Outlie a side project from Luke Pabich of the band Good Riddance and Lightweight Holiday a critically acclaimed indie-rock band from Cincinnati. Neither of these records met with any commercial success, and both of these bands are inactive at this time. In 2009 Porterhouse launched a sub label called Prime Vinyl to re-issue notable punk and indie releases on vinyl. The Los Angeles band X were one of the first bands to be selected for the new imprint and to date Prime Vinyl has re-released their albums Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun and More Fun in the New World. In addition to Prime Vinyl Porterhouse has started a digital only label called Porterhouse 101 to launch developing artists and to re-issue catalog digitally. Signings to the label include Kidneys featuring Brooks Wackerman of Bad Religion. Hell's Half Acre In early 2013 Steve opened the doors to his new recording studio Hell's Half Acre. Located roughly an hour north of Los Angeles in the southern California countryside his new facility is a combination of analog and digital recording equipment. Steve uses the studio to track, and mix artists he works with. Early clients at the studio have been the Calgary-based folk-punk band Jenny, and 7 Seconds. External links Porterhouse Records References Canadian rock musicians 1964 births Canadian record producers Living people

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Peter Lebeck

Peter Lebeck (died 17 October 1837, sometimes written Lebec or Lebecque) was an early settler of Kern County, California. The only certain information known about him is that he was killed by a bear, probably a California grizzly, and buried underneath a valley oak in 1837. The tree he was buried under is known as the Peter Lebeck Oak. He is attested only by his grave marker, now at Fort Tejon, but the unknown circumstances of his identity and death have cemented his position in the culture of the San Joaquin Valley. He represents the earliest known victim of a bear attack in California. Background Historical Modern-day California in the 1830s was part of the Mexican state of Alta California, initially half of the Spanish province of Las Californias (along with Baja California.) Europeans first made contact with coastal California in 1542, but the inner Tulare Valley was not explored until 1776. Anglo-Americans began to enter the area in 1826. The lower Central Valley was still politically dominated by Yokuts-speaking people. Brown bears in California The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is an extinct population of the brown bear which was formerly common across California. It was larger and more aggressive than the extant black bear, and its fearsome reputation Adult grizzlies do not climb trees effectively and respond to threats by standing their ground and warding off their attackers. Biography Lebeck may have been a Catholic French-Canadian trapper of the Hudson's Bay Company—judging by the Catholic-style Christogram seen on his grave—granted by the Governor of California to hunt in the Tulare Valley. The only primary source for his life is the epitaph, reading: The bear in question has been identified as a California grizzly, as early European-American settlers in California referred to brown bears as "x bears" due to the pattern of dark fur sometimes seen on their back. There is a single California grizzly specimen showing this pattern at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley (MVZ 16615). William F. Edgar was told by Native Americans living at Fort Tejon that Lebeck, a trapper passing through the canyon, went off by himself in pursuit of a large grizzly and shot it underneath the oak tree. Approaching it, the bear fatally mauled him. The visit was probably in 1893. Outside of this, nothing else solid is known about Lebeck. A number of apocryphal works and speculative theories have emerged regarding him, such as that he was an Acadian French spy sent by the Republic of Texas. A memoir attributed to Lebec and published in a local newspaper claims he was a Lieutenant of Engineers in the French Army named Pierre Lebecque, who was present with Napoleon on Elba. In 1915, a five franc coin, dated 1837, was found in the ruins of an adobe hospital on Fort Tejon grounds, fueling legends that he was connected to the French government. Popular interest in the gravesite The grave of Lebeck and the inscription is mentioned, along with the carcass of a bear, in the diaries of three members of the Mormon Battalion, a group of volunteers who passed through the area in 1847. The journal of Robert S. Bliss, for 31 July 1847, reads After the Mexican-American War, William Phipps Blake, accompanying the party of Robert S. Williamson, made note of the monument and an "unusual number of grizzly bears" in 1853, writing that it was a "durable monument." Fort Tejon was founded in the immediate vicinity in 1854 to suppress stock rustling and protect Native Americans in the San Joaquin Valley, with Lebeck's grave marking the north corner of the parade ground. William Ingraham Kip noticed the bark was beginning to cover the epitaph in 1855. By the time John Xantus was living at Fort Tejon, between 1857 and 1859, the inscription had been covered by new bark. In 1890, an informal group from Bakersfield called the Foxtail Rangers, including local sheriff Henry L. Borgwardt Jr., removed the bark with the permission of Edward Fitzgerald Beale and rediscovered the inscription in reverse on its underside. Four feet under the surface, they exhumed a skeleton "nearly six feet long, and broad in proportion" with "a remarkable state of preservation." The body was laid east-west, with the left arm folded over the breast. The right forearm, both feet, and the left hand were missing. Two ribs on the left side were broken. A contemporary newspaper article reports that Lebeck was buried with the bear that killed him. The exhumation has been called one of the earliest examples of historic sites archaeology in California. The removed bark was initially in the possession of the local Kern County Sheriff's Office. Truxtun Beale, Edward's son, sued in the Superior Court for possession of the carving. In 1940, the State of California acquired part of the original Fort Tejon property for a state park, however, this grant did not include the Lebeck Oak or several lesser structures. Legacy The epitaph is currently housed in the U.S. Forestry Service ranger station at Fort Tejon. The Native Sons and Daughters of the El Tejon and Bakersfield parlors placed a granite monument at the site on 5 April 1936. E Clampus Vitus dedicated a plaque on the site on 14 October 1972. Further, the Kern County division of E Clampus Vitus is named Peter Lebeck Chapter #1866. Mary Hunter Austin's novel Isidro, published serially in The Atlantic, features a Peter Lebecque, who lives in a hut in Cañada de las Uvas. He is killed by a bear and buried under an oak in Tejon Pass. Austin also describes Lebeck and the Lebeck Oak in The Flock. San Joaquin poet Don Thompson writes of Lebeck in his collection Local Color. The town of Lebec, California is named for him, and the tree he is buried under is likewise known as the Peter Lebeck Oak. The Fort Tejon Historical Park holds a "ghost night" every October 17th in reference to Lebeck. See also List of fatal bear attacks in North America Isaac Slover John "Grizzly" Adams Notes References External links Peter Lebeck Historical Marker Bark Inscription, Lebeck Oak Peter Lebeck 1837 deaths Year of birth unknown Explorers of California History of Kern County, California Individual trees in California

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Diante do Trono (label)

Diante do Trono is a label created by Diante do Trono group. He started his work officially as a record label in 2003 and launched a solo career as gospel singers André Valadão, Nívea Soares and also CTMDT. In 2009, the label stopped distributing, but in 2014 the label again distributed. Artists Current Diante do Trono Ana Paula Valadão Crianças Diante do Trono Israel Salazar Marine Friesen Former André Valadão Nívea Soares Ministério Intimidade CTMDT Trazendo a Arca Albums distributed between 2014–present Tetelestai - Diante do Trono 17 (2015) Alfa & Ômega - Marine Friesen (2015) Jesus - Israel Salazar (2015) Tu Reinas - Diante do Trono 16 (2014) Albums distributed between 1998-2009 Amigos do Perdão - Crianças Diante do Trono (2010) As Fontes do Amor - Ana Paula Valadão (2009) Para Adorar ao Senhor - Crianças Diante do Trono (2008) Com Intensidade - 10 Years Diante do Trono (2008) A Canção do Amor - Diante do Trono 11 (2008) Sobrenatural - André Valadão (2008) Ao Vivo no Japão - (2007) Príncipe da Paz - Diante do Trono 10 (2007) Marca da Promessa - (2007) Samuel, o Menino que Ouviu Deus - Crianças Diante do Trono 6 (2007) En los Brazos del Padre - Spanish version of Nos Braços do Pai (2007) In the Father's Arms - English version of Nos Braços do Pai (2007) Tempo de Festa - 10 Years Diante do Trono (2007) Rio - Nívea Soares (2007) Clássicos - André Valadão (2007) Viver por Ti - CTMDT 1 (2006) Por Amor de Ti, Oh Brasil - Diante do Trono 9 (2006) A Arca de Noé - Crianças Diante do Trono 5 (2006) Alegria - André Valadão (2006) Fan the Fire - Nívea Soares (2006) Ainda Existe Uma Cruz - Diante do Trono 8 (2005) Vamos Compartilhar - Crianças Diante do Trono 4 (2005) Milagres - André Valadão (2005) Enche-me de Ti - Nívea Soares (2005) Esperança - Diante do Trono 7(2004) Mais que Abundante - André Valadão (2004) Quem é Jesus? - Crianças Diante do Trono 3 (2004) Reina Sobre Mim - Nívea Soares (2003) Quero Me Apaixonar - Diante do Trono 6 (2003) Amigo de Deus - Crianças Diante do Trono 2 (2003) Nos Braços do Pai - Diante do Trono 5 (2002) Brasil Diante do Trono 1 - Diante do Trono (2002) Crianças Diante do Trono - Crianças Diante do Trono 1 (2001) Preciso de Ti - Diante do Trono 4 (2001) Águas Purificadoras - Diante do Trono 3 (2000) Exaltado - Diante do Trono 2 (2000) Diante do Trono - Diante do Trono 1 (1998) References Gospel music record labels Brazilian record labels

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Gary Estrada

Gary Jason Bocaling Ejercito (; born May 16, 1971), better known as Gary Estrada, is a Filipino actor and politician. He was a former talent of Viva Films during his early years, starring in action and drama films. He is also a politician, having served as a Board Member of Quezon's 2nd District from 2010 to 2016. He also unsuccessfully ran for vice mayor of Cainta, Rizal in 2019. Personal life Ejercito was born on May 16, 1971, in the Philippines to actor Jorge M. Ejercito ("George Estregan") and actress Avelina Bocaling ("Agnes Moran"). He is the half-brother of Emilio Ramon Ejercito and Gherome Ejercito. He is married to Bernadette Allyson with whom he has three daughters, Garielle Bernice, Garianna Beatrice and Gianna Bettina. He has one son Kiko Estrada from a previous relationship with actress Cheska Diaz. He was in an on-and-off relationship with then-fellow Viva artist Donita Rose from 1993 to 1997. Filmography Film Tiny Terrestrial: The Three Professors (1990) Boyong Mañalac: Hoodlum Terminator (1991) Angelito San Miguel at ang Mga Batang City Jail (1992) Jesus dela Cruz at ang Mga Batang Riles (1992) Tag-araw, Tag-ulan (1992) Apoy sa Puso (1992) Blue Jeans Gang (1992) Kapag Iginuhit ang Hatol sa Puso (1993) Hanggang Saan... Hanggang Kailan (1993) Parañaque Bank Robbery (Joselito Yuseco Story) (1993) Bratpack (Mga Pambayad Atraso) (1994) Kadenang Bulaklak (1994) Pangako ng Kahapon (1994) Anghel Na Walang Langit (1994) Campus Girls (1994) Joe D'Mango's Lovenotes, the Movie (1995) Jessica Alfaro Story (1995) The Grepor Butch Belgica Story (1995) Dyesebel (1996) Ober da Bakod 2 (Da Treasure Adbentyur) (1996) Dead Sure (1996) Do Re Mi (1996) Ikaw Naman ang Iiyak (1996) Strict ang Peyrents Ko (1997) Bayan Puri (1999) Pagnanasa (1998) Dibdiban ang Laban (1999) Sutla (1999) Mamang Shotgun (1999) Mister Mo, Lover Ko (1999) Gamugamong Dagat (1999) Senswal (2000) Madame X (2000) Waray (2000) Garapal (2000) Duwag Lang ang Sumusuko! (2001) Booba (2001) Oras Na para Lumaban (2001) Masarap Na Pugad (2002) Gising Na si Adan (2002) You and Me Against the World (2003) Sa Piling ng Mga Belyas (2003) www.XXX.com (2003) El Presidente (2012) Loyalista: The Untold Story of Imelda Papin (2023) - Bong Carrion Television References 1971 births Living people ABS-CBN personalities Gary Gary Filipino actor-politicians Filipino male comedians Filipino male film actors Filipino male television actors GMA Network personalities Male actors from Quezon Male actors from Rizal Politicians from Quezon Politicians from Rizal Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino politicians

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1680 in music

The year 1680 in music involved some significant events. Events Arcangelo Corelli begins his friendship with Cristiano Farinelli. Antonio Stradivari sets up his own business in Cremona. John Blow is forced out of his job as organist at Westminster Abbey, to make room for Henry Purcell. Georg Muffat goes to Italy to study organ with Bernardo Pasquini. Johann Philipp Krieger becomes Kapellmeister of the court at Weissenfels. First record of the marimba in Guatemala. Publications Denis Gaultier – Livres de tablature des pièces de luth Ennemond Gaultier Livre de musique pour le luth contenant une métode Pièces de luth en musique avec des règles pour les toucher parfaitement sur le luth, et sur le clavessin Classical music Heinrich Biber – Mensa sonora Dieterich Buxtehude – Membra Jesu Nostri Marc-Antoine Charpentier Filius prodigus Leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint, H.105 Laudate pueri Dominum, H.203 Concert pour 4 parties de violes, H.545 Ennemond Gaultier – Suite in D minor Johann Caspar Horn – Geistliche Harmonien Charles Mouton – Pièces de luth sur différents modes Henry Purcell Beati omnes qui timent Dominum, Z.131 Fantasias and In Nomines, Z.732-747 Pavane and Chaconne in G minor, Z.752 (Pavane) and Z.730 (Chaconne) 12 Sonatas of Three Parts, Z.790-801 Sebastian Anton Scherer – 14 Sonatas, Op.3 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinand III (Published in the Rost Codex) Giovanni Battista Vitali – Partite sopra diverse sonate Opera Pietro Simone Agostini – Il ratto delle Sabine Jean-Baptiste Lully – Proserpine Antonio Sartorio – La Flora Alessandro Scarlatti – L'honestà negli amoriBirths April 19 – Johann Friedrich Helbig, hymnist (died 1722) May 6 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, cellist and composer (died 1755) September 29 – Christian Friedrich Hunold, librettist (died 1721) November 18 (baptised) – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer (died 1730) December 11 – Emanuele d'Astorga, composer (died 1736)date unknown Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, composer (died 1759) François Campion, guitarist and composer Giovanni Antonio Guido, violinist and composer (died 1729) Deaths March 20 – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, violinist (born 1623) April 1 – David Denicke, hymnist (b. 1603) May 31 – Joachim Neander, hymn-writer (b. 1650) September 10 – Baldassare Ferri, castrato singer (born 1610) October 13 Lelio Colista, composer and lutenist (b. 1629) François Roberday, organist and composer (b. 1624) November 27 – Athanasius Kircher, composer and polymath (born 1602) December 10 – Marco Uccellini, violinist and composer December 30 – Antonio Sartorio, composer (born 1630)date unknown'' Kancherla Gopanna, composer of Carnatic music (born c.1620) Maria Francesca Nascinbeni, composer (born c.1640) Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, poet and lyricist (born 1618) 17th century in music Music by year

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Teatro Baquet

The Teatro Baquet was a theatre located in what is today Rua 31 de Janeiro in the city of Porto, Portugal. It opened in 1859 and was destroyed by fire in 1888, with the loss of 120 lives. Origins The Teatro Baquet was built by António Pereira. Work began on 21 February 1858, and the theatre was first used for a masked Carnival ball on 13 February 1859. Born in Porto, António Pereira emigrated to Spain with his family in 1828, where he learned to be a tailor. In 1836 he married Ignácia Lopez de la Rica. The couple had no children. On his return to Porto, Pereira rapidly established himself as a sought-after tailor. He started using the name "Baquet", possibly because he thought a foreign name would assist him to market his business, and established Casa Baquet, which sold the first ready-to-wear clothing in Porto. Historians are generally agreed that the origin of the "Baquet" name was a visit to Paris in which he was given it as a nickname. The word means “tub” in English. His business prospered and available evidence suggests that Baquet was able to fund the new theatre as the sole investor. The theatre was built in the same street as the Teatro Circo, which became the Teatro do Príncipe Real and is now the Teatro Sá da Bandeira, the oldest theatre in Porto. Some construction difficulties were experienced because the street was much higher than the plot of land owned by Baquet, with the result that the theatre was higher at the back than the front. As a consequence, spectators seated in the stalls had to walk down two ramps to get to their places. Design The façade was designed by Guilherme Correia and was covered entirely in granite from the Porto area. It had a neoclassical design that was similar to several other buildings in the city. The ground floor consisted mainly of doors, while the first floor had a wrought-iron balcony. At the top of the building there were four marble statues representing drama, music, painting and art. The original plan was to have 82 boxes on three floors but width limitations meant that the number had to be reduced to 68. Seating in the stalls was 236, while there was a balcony with a capacity of 178 and a gallery for 200. The second floor was ornamented with the names of leading international writers and composers, as well as the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, the playwright Gil Vicente, and the poet, playwright and novelist Almeida Garrett. The quality of the seating was said to have "fallen short of expectations" and the acoustics in the upper part of the theatre were also commented on negatively but, in general, the theatre was well received by the media. Performances After the initial opening for Carnival, the theatre remained closed until 16 July 1859, while interior decorations were being completed. After the official opening and first performance on July 16, the theatre had to immediately close for eight days because of the death of Queen Stephanie on the following day. This was considered to have represented bad luck for the theatre. For the inaugural show, Baquet hired the company of the Teatro do Ginásio in Lisbon and that company put on several different shows during the theatre's first months. However, after this opening the Baquet witnessed a long period of instability. Lacking its own theatre company, it offered space to travelling companies, resulting in unreliable performances and a failure to become associated with a specific genre. However, it did attract some of the most famous Portuguese performers of the time, such as Emília das Neves, Lucinda Simões, João Anastácio Rosa and Augusto Rosa. In 1870, the Moutinho company leased the theatre from Baquet's widow, Baquet having died in 1869. After her death in 1875, the theatre passed to her second husband, António Teixeira d'Assis, who had been a partner of Baquet and had a bronze bust of Baquet placed on the facade. On his death, it was inherited by his mother and under her ownership a number of changes were made to the interior, including the introduction of an emergency exit at the rear of the theatre. However, successive companies failed to achieve financial success at the theatre, which was finding it difficult to compete with the Teatro do Príncipe Real next door, which offered regular operettas. The fire On the night of 20 March 1888, the theatre was completely destroyed by a fire that broke out behind the stage. It was almost full for a benefit show for the actor Firmino Rosa, which included the performance of a comic opera. Following demands for an encore the scenery had to be reset and it was while this was being done that one of the backdrops caught fire. The fire spread rapidly, there was intense smoke and general panic, and people could not see where to go to escape because the gas lighting had been turned off and because there was no direct route to the exit at the rear, meaning they could not be guided by lights from outside. About 120 people died and the fire consumed the entire theatre in a few hours. There were significant delays to the arrival of the firefighters. Aftermath The tragedy affected the entire country. Queen Maria Pia immediately went to Porto to visit the victims' relatives and attend the various funeral and fundraising ceremonies, including one at Porto's Cristal Palace where artists from all over Portugal performed. The popular poet, Guerra Junqueiro, wrote a poem, called "A Tear", which was sold to raise funds. A monument to the victims was established in Porto's Agramonte Cemetery, built from materials collected from the rubble of the theatre. The fire led to the government creating new safety regulations for theatres and concert halls, although there have been several fires in Portuguese theatres since that time. Currently the location of Teatro Baquet is occupied by the Hotel Teatro, which has won awards for a design that follows a theatrical theme References Buildings and structures in Porto 1859 establishments in Portugal Theatres and concert halls in Porto

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The Pavilion (Scranton, Pennsylvania)

The Pavilion (originally known as the Montage Mountain Performing Arts Center) is an outdoor amphitheater located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, within the Montage Mountain Ski Resort. A temporary fixture was originally built in 1992, known as the Montage Mountain Amphitheater. Due to the venue's popularity, a permanent venue opened in 2000. History In 1990, the Montage Mountain Ski Area began to host music festivals to bring in additional revenue during the resort's off season. A temporary stage with open lawn seating was opened on July 3, 1992, with a concert by Chubby Checker. Known as Montage Mountain Amphitheater, the popularity of the venue placed Scranton as a secondary market within the concert industry. In 1994, the resort teamed up with Metropolitan Entertainment further expand its concert season. The temporary staging remained, and bleacher-style seating was added in addition to the lawn . The capacity grew from 5,000 to 16,000 along with a name change, the Montage Mountain Performing Arts Center. Beginning July 1994, the venue hosted an annual summer concert series. It was the success of the 1999 season that persuaded the owners to build a permanent facility. The $6 million project began construction in November 1999. The venue takes up 70 acres of the ski resort, with a wooded area separating the venue and parking spaces. Construction was completed in June 2000, just in time for the newly sponsored Coors Light Silver Bullet Concert Series. The new venue was opened on June 24, 2000 with a concert by Harry Connick Jr. The following day featured a concert by Britney Spears. The venue proved to be a financial success for the resort and the county. The first two seasons saw a revenue of $10 million. In 2002, Clear Channel Communications took over operations and management from MEG. Along with the new management came the first sponsor for the venue, Ford Motor Company. When Clear Channel became Live Nation, Toyota Motor Corporation became a new sponsor. In 2007, the roof collapsed on Valentine's Day during the Blizzard of 2007. With the roof needing to be rebuilt, the owners also replaced the seating and updated the lighting, sound and video equipment. This was all completed in time for the 2007 summer season. In 2013, Toyota's sponsorship contract was up for renewal. The car company chose not to renew the contract. The venue became The Pavilion at Montage Mountain beginning January 1, 2014. Naming history Temporary facility Montage Mountain Amphitheater (July 1992 – May 1994) Montage Mountain Performing Arts Center (June 1994 – September 1999) Permanent facility Coors Light Amphitheatre (June 2000 – May 2002) Ford Pavilion (June 2002 – May 2006) Toyota Pavilion (June 2006 – December 2013) The Pavilion (January 2014 – Present) Events The amphitheatre played host to the Tattoo the Earth Tour on July 21, 2000. The show featured performances by Slipknot, Slayer, Sevendust, Sepultura, Hed PE, Mudvayne, downset., Hatebreed, Full Devil Jacket, Famous, Amen, U.P.O., Nothingface, PPM, Cold, Relative Ash, Kid Rock, Systematic, Six Feet Under, Candiria, Lamb of God, God Forbid, Darkest Hour, Unearth, All That Remains, Dropkick Murphys, Sick of It All, Tiger Army, Converge, The Unseen, Reach the Sky, Stretch Arm Strong, Kill Your Idols and Nashville Pussy. It also featured 42 tattoo artists from Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Malaysia, Manitoba, Spain, Switzerland and the US. Van Halen played the temporary venue on August 27, 1995 and July 28, 1998. In June 2005, upon their first visit to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Toyota Pavilion, The Dave Matthews Band became the first music act to ever completely sell out the pavilion, attracting over 18,000 people. On their return in July 2006, they once again sold out the pavilion. Their performance on July 14, 2010 was recorded and released as a live album, entitled Live Trax Vol. 22. Kings of Leon were scheduled to perform during their Come Around Sundown World Tour on June 8, 2010, with The Whigs as their opening act, but the show was cancelled, due to illness. The amphitheatre has played host to many music festivals, including All That! Music and More Festival, Anger Management Tour, Crüe Fest, Crüe Fest 2, H.O.R.D.E. Festival, Lilith Fair, Lollapalooza, Mayhem Festival, Ozzfest, Peach Music Festival, Up in Smoke Tour, Uproar Festival and Vans Warped Tour. Luke Bryan was the first country artist to sell out a show at the venue. The show took place July 30, 2015 on his Kick the Dust Up Tour with Randy Houser & Dustin Lynch as openers. The Peach Music Festival, a music festival started by The Allman Brothers Band has taken place annually at the venue since 2012. It takes place over the course of several days in mid-August, and features stages around the venue and the nearby Montage Mountain Ski Resort, which is turned into a large water park in the summer months. See also List of contemporary amphitheatres Live Nation References External links The Pavilion at Live Nation Entertainment Amphitheaters in the United States Music venues completed in 1999 Buildings and structures in Scranton, Pennsylvania Tourist attractions in Scranton, Pennsylvania 1999 establishments in Pennsylvania

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Highway Blossoms

Highway Blossoms is a 2016 yuri romance visual novel developed by Studio Élan and published by Sekai Project and Élan. Set in the American Southwest, the game follows Amber and Marina on their search for a hidden treasure. The game received positive reception. Plot Highway Blossoms is set in the American Southwest and follows Amber and Marina after the former picks up the latter. The game begins in New Mexico where Amber, en route to California, comes across Marina, who just had her car run out of gas in the middle of the desert. Marina had been in search of a recently-hidden treasure that attracted many other travelers; Amber had been unaware of this situation until the two are told about it at a gas station. Marina shares with Amber that she had set out from nearby Carlsbad in search of the treasure. Skeptical about the situation, Amber chooses to help Marina in her search. The two come across a trio of treasure hunters who seek to find the treasure before Amber and Marina. Development A few years out of high school, the game's writer Josh Kaplan sought more yuri games in the indie game space, and as a result went on to co-write Highway Blossoms. Kaplan stated "In 2016, there weren't a whole lot of yuri visual novels available in English, especially on Steam." Sekai Project announced the game at Anime Weekend Atlanta on September 26, 2015, and in 2016 opened a Steam Greenlight page for the game. Highway Blossoms was initially released without any voice acting and its sound was limited to an acoustic soundtrack. An adult content patch was made freely available. The developer later released a remastered version of the game featuring voice-overs for the characters. A sequel, Highway Blossoms: Next Exit, was released as DLC in 2020. In 2021, Studio Élan announced plans for a console port. By June, 2023, Highway Blossoms had sold over 150,000 copies. Reception Highway Blossoms received positive reviews for its visuals, story, and soundtrack. Kaplan also noted that the game "ended up being unexpectedly successful," stating that "it found an audience of primarily LGBT readers who appreciated what they felt was a more realistic approach to same-sex relationships." Due to the game's success, Kaplan went on to found Studio Élan. Writing for Hardcore Gamer, Marcus Estrada rated the game 4/5 points, commenting on the high quality of the game's backdrops of natural landmarks and parks, saying they were awe-invoking. He further praised the game's CGs (cutscene graphics) and character sprites, but noted that there were multiple artists working on them, resulting in the game's visuals not feeling "entirely cohesive." With regards to the game's writing, Estrada stated that there was little to criticize, praising Amber and Marina's character development throughout the narrative. Mitch Jay Lineham of PCGamesN called Highway Blossoms "one of the finest yuri – and romance – visual novels on Steam", praising its "heartwarming story" and "stunning, atmospheric soundtrack." Jade King of TheGamer wrote that "Highway Blossoms is so soft and sweet, its narrative outfitted with minimal stakes as it hopes to take us on a journey that is equally warm and mysterious." King went on to praise the small cast, which allowed the writers to develop each character "with appropriate nuance and just the right amount of attention." Erica Friedman of Okazu rated the game 8/10 points and generally praised it, saying that the writing of Amber and Marina kept her interested in the story and that she appreciated the game for its differences from other yuri visual novels, particularly the choice to set the story on a road trip rather than the more common setting of a high school. She also said that the romance was "touching," and that the sex scenes included in the adult patch, while unnecessary, "weren't terribly written". Friedman's only major criticisms were the writing of the supporting cast, and some lack of articulation in the 2D sprites. Tyler Terese of GameRevolution wrote that "while the backdrop is plenty interesting, the main draw is the relationship between the two main characters, Amber and Marina. The duo has an undeniable chemistry, and it becomes hard to stop playing as the game's story continues on." See also List of video games with LGBT characters: 2010s Notes References Further reading 2016 video games Indie games Single-player video games Steam Greenlight games Video games set in New Mexico Visual novels Windows games Works about transport Works about treasure hunting Yuri (genre) video games Studio Élan games

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Preston Tucker (baseball)

Preston Michael Tucker (born July 6, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers. He stands tall, and weighs . Amateur career Tucker attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida. He enrolled at the University of Florida and played college baseball for the Florida Gators baseball team from 2009 to 2012. As a freshman, he was the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Freshman Hitter of the Year and the Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of the Year. In 2010, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He set school records for most hits with 341, runs batted in (RBIs) with 258 and at-bats with 1,035. He finished second in school history with 57 home runs and batted .329. Tucker was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 16th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and returned to Florida. Professional career Houston Astros The Houston Astros selected Tucker in the seventh round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. Tucker started his professional career with the Tri-City ValleyCats of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League, hitting .321/.390/.509 with eight home runs and 38 RBIs in 42 games. He started the 2013 season with the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League, and was promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Class AA Texas League after hitting .326/.384/.544 with 15 home runs in 75 games. In 60 games with Corpus Christi he hit .262/.347/.456 with 10 home runs. Tucker began the 2015 season with the Fresno Grizzlies of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. With George Springer suffering a concussion on May 6, the Astros promoted Tucker to the major leagues the next day. On May 7, 2015, Tucker got his first major league hit; a double into right field that tied the score at two and became part of a wild comeback in the 9th inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium against the closer Huston Street. In the game, he went 1-for-3 with one RBI and a walk. On May 21, 2015, Tucker hit his first major league home run in a game against the Detroit Tigers. The solo shot came in the top of the ninth inning off Tigers' closer Joakim Soria, tying the game at 5–5 and handing Soria his first blown save of the season. On March 28, 2017, the Astros optioned Tucker back to Fresno. He spent the entire 2017 season in Triple-A without making a single appearance in the majors, although he was still on the Astros 40-man roster that year. On December 15, 2017, the Astros designated Tucker for assignment. Atlanta Braves The Astros traded him to the Atlanta Braves on December 20, 2017, for cash considerations or a player to be named later. Cincinnati Reds On July 30, 2018, the Braves traded Tucker, Lucas Sims, and Matt Wisler to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Adam Duvall. Atlanta Braves (second stint) On September 2, 2018, the Reds traded Tucker back to Atlanta in exchange for cash considerations. The Braves outrighted him to the minors on October 31, 2018. He elected free agency on November 3, 2018. Chicago White Sox On February 23, 2019, Tucker signed a minor league deal with the Chicago White Sox that included an invitation to spring training. On May 10, 2019, Tucker requested his release so he could sign with the Kia Tigers of the KBO League. Kia Tigers On May 17, 2019, Tucker signed a one-year, $270,000 contract with the Kia Tigers of the KBO League. Tucker played in 95 games for Kia in 2019, slashing .311/.381/.479 with 9 home runs and 50 RBI. He re-signed with the club for the 2020 season on a one-year, $850,000 deal. In 2020, Tucker swatted 32 home runs with 113 RBI and a slash line of .306/.398/.557 in 142 games for the Tigers. On December 8, 2020, Tucker re-signed with the Tigers again, on a one-year, $1.05 million deal. Tucker endured a down season in 2021, hitting just .237/.334/.350 with 9 home runs and 59 RBI in 127 games for Kia. Following the season, on November 30, 2021, the Tigers parted ways with Tucker. Atlanta Braves (third stint) On March 31, 2022, Tucker signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves organization. In 75 games for the Triple–A Gwinnett Stripers, he batted .267/.347/.426 with 9 home runs and 47 RBI. Tucker elected free agency following the season on November 10. San Diego Padres On December 9, 2022, Tucker signed a minor league deal with an invite to spring training with the San Diego Padres. In 44 games for the Triple–A El Paso Chihuahuas, he hit .342/.468/.658 with 10 home runs and 36 RBI. On June 18, 2023, the Padres selected Tucker's contract to the 40-man roster; San Diego subsequently placed him on the 10–day injured list with plantar fasciitis in his right foot. On August 1, Tucker was designated for assignment following the team's acquisition of Garrett Cooper and Sean Reynolds. Two days later, he was released by the Padres organization. Personal life Tucker's younger brother, Kyle, played baseball at Plant High, and was selected by the Astros with the fifth overall selection of the 2015 MLB draft. Preston Tucker was married to Haley Walters in January 2022. References External links Florida Gators bio 1990 births Living people American expatriate baseball players in South Korea Baseball players from Tampa, Florida Major League Baseball outfielders KBO League right fielders Houston Astros players Atlanta Braves players Cincinnati Reds players Kia Tigers players Florida Gators baseball players Orleans Firebirds players Tri-City ValleyCats players Lancaster JetHawks players Corpus Christi Hooks players Oklahoma City RedHawks players Fresno Grizzlies players Gwinnett Stripers players Charlotte Knights players El Paso Chihuahuas players Henry B. Plant High School alumni

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Vic Emery

Victor Emery (born June 28, 1933) is a Canadian athlete and businessman. Emery was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is a gold medallist in the four man bobsleigh pilot from the 1964 Olympic Winter Games, as well as the 1965 World Championships. Involved in diverse athletics from a young age, Emery, was a "Mustang" in swimming, wrestling and skiing at the University of Western Ontario. He later graduated with an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Emery attempted to ski across the mountains from St. Moritz to Cortina in order to watch the 1956 Winter Olympics. However, there was little snow near Merano. By chance, the British Bobsleigh Team gave him a lift the rest of the way. In spite of that long ride on a bobsleigh seat in an open truck at -20, this is where his interest in the bob sport was inspired. He became a "surrogate" Spaniard on the Marquis de Portago's bob team in St Moritz's Swiss Meisterschaft, which followed the Olympics. Portago subsequently encouraged Emery to try his hand at piloting a bobsleigh by loaning him a Spanish sled. Emery, who was a Navy Reserve pilot familiar with unusual positions, became immediately hooked on bob sleighing. He and a fellow Western graduate - Lamont Gordon, gained enough competency in Lake Placid to represent Canada in the 1959 World Bobsleigh Championships in St Moritz, accompanied by Vic's brother John and Charles Rathgeb. Their performance was less than stellar in 1959, however, Emery sought guidance from the great world champion and 1956 Olympic Silver medallist, Eugenio Monti, who became a lifelong friend, mentoring Vic at annual World Championships from there on. The initial goal of Vic and his teammates was to be the first Canadian bobsleigh team to compete in the Winter Olympic Games. Squaw Valley, host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, did not build a bobsleigh run for the Games, and so, the bobsledders of the time, including Monti and other world champions, chomped at the bit for the eight years from 1956 for another chance at Olympic medals. Canada's Bobsleigh contingent realized their dream at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Without corporate or government sponsorship, they purchased their equipment and generally paid their own way. And while strong in pre-race practice runs, they were given little chance against Monti's Italian world champion team, and double silver medallist in the 1956 Olympics, also the heavily favoured Austrians, as well as the Swiss, German champions and other long standing bobsledders. In the first heat, however, the Canadians astonished everyone, with a magical run which set a track record, leading the field by over a half second. Their sled's axle was damaged when hitting a side wall in the finish straight. With little time allotted between heats, if the Canadians had missed their starting slot, the team would have been disqualified. However, Emery's rival and friend, Eugenio Monti and his mechanics, came to the rescue, adequately repairing the sled in time. The team carried on with second fastest second and third heats, and then, on the third day of the competition garnered another first place in the fourth heat to win overall by a full second. Alongside his comfort with the Igls bob Track, Vic Emery attributes their win to a fantastic team spirit credited to the number two man - Doug Anakin, a former Intercollegiate wrestling finalist, the strength of brakeman Peter Kirby, a former FIS skier for Canada and strong start helped enormously by the speed of Vic's track star brother Dr. John in the awkward #3 slot. John forsook his place as pilot of the other Canadian four man sled in favour of joining Vic's team during the last days before the four man competition. With him on board, Canada's starts became almost as good as those of the Austrian and Italian teams which came second and third. In the same Olympics, Vic Emery & Peter Kirby earned a fourth-place finish in the two-man bobsled competition. The following year, 1965, in St Moritz, Vic Emery's team, with new additions Gerald Presley and Michael Young sandwiched between him and brakeman Peter Kirby, won the FIBT World Bobsled Championship. Emery and Young finished third in the two-man event. In 1966, due to a deteriorating track which precipitated a tragic crash killing the German pilot, the World four man Bob Championships in Cortina were cancelled part way through. By 1967, the Emery team retired from bob sleighing then, however encouraged the young through their example and by recruitment to firmly establish the sport of bobsleigh on Canadian soil, now supported by bobsleigh tracks in both Alberta (1988 Winter Olympics) and British Columbia (2010 Winter Olympics). Today, after reactivating the Lake Louise Ski area and a number of other entrepreneurial, corporate and philanthropic activities, Vic Emery is retired and living in Europe - London and Oslo. The two Emery brothers, Anakin and Kirby, were inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1964 and Canada's Olympic Hall of Fame in 1971. Young and Presley also followed into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame after the 1965 win. References Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964 Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931 Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930 1933 births Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics Canadian male bobsledders Harvard Business School alumni Living people Olympic bobsledders for Canada Olympic gold medalists for Canada Sportspeople from Montreal Anglophone Quebec people Olympic medalists in bobsleigh University of Western Ontario alumni Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics

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270th Engineering Installation Squadron

The 270th Engineering Installation Squadron (270th EIS) is a cyberspace engineering & installation unit located at Biddle Air National Guard Base, Pennsylvania, United States of America. History The 270th Engineering Installation Squadron was originally activated at Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 603rd Signal Light Construction Company on 12 April 1949. Federal recognition of the unit was extended on 17 May 1949 when the unit's manpower consisted of 2 officers and 11 Airmen. By 1 Jan. 1951, the unit reached strength of 5 officers and 86 Airmen. When the 111th Bombardment Group, the unit's Pennsylvania Air National Guard host, was mobilized on 10 April 1951 for the Korean War, the 603rd was left as the only Air Guard unit in Philadelphia. Due to the large amount of military air traffic in the area, one officer and six Airmen were placed on permanent duty with a mission to refuel and service military aircraft; maintain operational service and logging record on a 24-hour, 7-day per week basis. The wire construction mission continued with the unit winning several awards for military professionalism. On 1 Oct. 1952 the unit was reorganized and designated as the 270th Communications Squadron, Operations. The mission was changed from installation to operation of base communications equipment facilities to include telephone and teletype equipment. During annual training periods, unit members were integrated with active-duty Air Force communications units. When the 111th Bombardment Group returned to Philadelphia International Airport from Spokane, Washington, the 270th was relocated to the First Regiment Armory of the National Guard at 335 – 347 North Broad and Callowhill Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The unit then returned to the Philadelphia International Airport and occupied temporary hangars where Atlantic Aviation, now Macquarie Infrastructure Company operates a Fixed-Base Operator Facility. In October 1960 the unit was reorganized and designated the 270th Ground Electronics Engineering Installation Agency (GEEIA) Squadron, and returned to the fixed communications installation mission. The gaining command at the time was the Air Materiel Command. They were then relocated to Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia until 1963 when the 111th Air Transport Group was reestablished to Willow Grove Naval Air Station, in Horsham, Pennsylvania. At that time, the 270th returned to the Philadelphia International Airport to become the sole military occupant and only Air National Guard unit in Philadelphia. In May 1970, GEEIA was absorbed into the Air Force Communications Service, which later became the Air Force Communications Command (AFCC). The 270th was designated the 270th Electronics Installation Squadron at that time. The unit was then rebranded in December 1982, to the designation of the 270th Engineering Installation Squadron with no change in mission or command. The 270th was relocated from Philadelphia International Airport to its current modern facilities at Willow Grove Air Reserve Station 15 Oct. 1985. Finally in July 2005, the 270th EIS, along with the other 19 Air National Guard and active duty Engineering Installations Squadrons, transferred from Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) to Air Combat Command (ACC). At present, the 270th EIS now falls under the 24th Air Force and Air Force Space Command. When fully mobilized as a wartime asset, the unit is gained by the 253rd Combat Communications Group located at Otis Air National Guard Base, Mass. The 270th Engineering Installation Squadron typically performs thousands of hours of real world engineering and installation of command, control, communications, and computer systems annually for the US Air Force as an adjunct to training. Previous designations 603rd Signal Light Construction Company – 12 April 1949 – 1 October 1952 270th Communications Squadron, Operations – 1 October 1952 – October 1960 270th Ground Electronics Engineering Installation Agency (GEEIA) Squadron – October 1960 – May 1970 270th Electronics Installation Squadron – May 1970 – December 1982 Bases stationed Philadelphia International Airport First Regiment Armory of the National Guard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania Biddle Air National Guard Base, Pennsylvania, United States of America. References Engineering squadrons of the United States Air Force

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John Beebe

John Beebe (born June 24, 1939) is an American psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. Beebe was born in Washington, D.C. He received degrees from Harvard College and the University of Chicago medical school. He is a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is currently on the teaching faculty. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Professional interests and activities A popular lecturer in the Jungian world, Beebe has spoken on topics related to the theory and practical applications of Analytical psychology to professional and lay audiences throughout the United States and around the world. He has been especially active in introducing training in Jungian psychology in China. Beebe is the founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, now called Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. He was the first American co-editor of the London-based Journal of Analytical Psychology. Beebe has also published in The Chiron Clinical Series, Fort Da, Harvest, The Inner Edge, Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Perspectives, The Psychoanalytic Review, Quadrant, Spring, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Theory and Psychology, and Tikkun among others. He has contributed book chapters to The Anne Rice Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Jung, From Tradition to Innovation, House, Humanizing Evil, Initiation, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision, New Approaches to Dream Interpretation, Post-Jungians Today, Psyche & City, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality, Same-Sex Love, The Soul of Popular Culture, and Teaching Jung. With Donald Sandner, Beebe is the author of "Psychopathology and Analysis", an article on Jungian complex theory used in many training programs, and with Thomas Kirsch and Joe Cambray the author of "What Freudians Can Learn from Jung". He is the author of the book Integrity in Depth, a study of the archetype of integrity, and of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness. An avid film buff, Beebe frequently draws upon American movies to illustrate how the various types of consciousness and unconsciousness interact to produce images of Self and shadow in the stories of our lives that Jung called individuation. His reviews and articles about movies have reached a wide audience. With Virginia Apperson, he is co-author of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. He can be seen discussing film in the documentary The Wisdom of the Dream. Among his better-known papers are “Attitudes Toward the Unconscious", "The Father's Anima as a Clinical and as a Symbolic Problem", "On Male Partnership", "Primary Ambivalence Toward the Self: Its Nature and Treatment", "Toward a Jungian Analysis of Character", and "The Trickster in the Arts". Eight-function model Beebe is particularly interested in the way an understanding of typology can foster the development of the capacity to take responsibility for our impact on others. Following up on Jung's theory of psychological types, where the contrasting attitudes of extraversion and introversion colored the judging (rational) functions of thinking and feeling, and the perceiving (irrational) functions of intuition and sensation, he developed an archetypal model of a dialogical self wherein conscious functions contend with more unconscious complexes in the shadow. A person's dominant (most preferred) function is the “hero” (or "heroine"), which is most closely allied with a semi-conscious complex called the “anima” (or "animus"). The hero is also challenged by an “opposing personality”. The next most preferred, or auxiliary, function is the good parent, which may be counteracted by a shadowy witch/senex complex; similarly the tertiary function (“child”) may be undermined by a more juvenile “trickster”. Finally, the anima may find itself forced to compete with a demonic personality function which threatens to destroy it. A discussion and explanation of this model can be found in C. G. Jung, Isabel Myers, John Beebe and the Guide Map to Becoming Who We Are, by Mark Hunziker (2017) and in Building Blocks of Personality Type, by Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker (2006) , pp. 177–179. Publications Psychiatric Treatment: Crisis, Clinic and Consultation, with C. Peter Rosenbaum (1975) Money, Food, Drink, Fashion, and Analytic Training (the proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Analytical Psychology), editor (1983) Aspects of the Masculine, a collection of Jung's essays, editor with a critical introduction (1989) Integrity in Depth (1992) , online version Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy (a collection of papers from the North American Conference of Jungian Analysts and Candidates, San Francisco, September, 2002), editor (2003) The Presence of the Feminine in Film, with Virginia Apperson (2008) The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916, co-editor with Ernst Falzeder (2013). Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness (2017) See also Psychological Types Myers–Briggs Type Indicator Keirsey Temperament Sorter References Further reading "John Beebe's Eight-Function Model" "John Beebe – Integrity in Depth" (review) "Understanding the Archetypes involving the eight functions of type (Beebe model)" Angelo Spoto, Review of John Beebe's Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 62/2, March 2017. 1939 births Living people Writers from Washington, D.C. 21st-century American psychologists Jungian psychologists Harvard College alumni Pritzker School of Medicine alumni University of California, San Francisco faculty 20th-century American psychologists

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The Truth about Truman School

The Truth about Truman School is a children's book by Dori Hillestad Butler that was first published on March 1, 2008, through Albert Whitman & Company. The book deals with the subject of cyberbullying and has been listed several times as a recommended read for middle school aged students. The Truth about Truman School has been listed on the ALA's Joint Presidents' Program Resources list for 2012. Synopsis The book is told through the viewpoints of several different students at Truman Middle School such as Zebby and Amr, two students that have grown frustrated with the censorship of their school paper. They decide that the solution is to create their own website, thetruthabouttruman.com, where they and others can report on what they consider to be the "real" Truman Middle School. It's intended as a place where people can speak freely, but eventually some begin to use it as a way to post cruel things about one student, namely Lilly Clarke, a popular student at Truman. Someone anonymously posts pictures of her from years ago, when she was overweight and less attractive than she is now. Amr questions whether or not it is right to leave such a picture up, but Zebby insists that the website's purpose is to allow anyone to post and comment. This decision is slightly influenced by Zebby's dislike of Lilly. The posts about Lilly are met with mixed emotions, particularly from one student by the name of Trevor. He's unpopular and dislikes Lilly's current personality, but remembers times when Lilly had defended him when both were in elementary school. Zebby begins to realize that she is becoming more popular from the website she and Amr began, and as such begins to turn a blind eye towards the activity on the website. Lilly's cyberbullying continues and escalates when someone by the online name of "milkandhoney" posts their own website falsely accusing Lilly of being a lesbian. Tensions at the school escalate, prompting Trevor to react when Lilly's boyfriend Reece tries to cheat off him during an exam. As a result, Reece begins to poke Trevor with his pencil and the actions are noticed by the teacher. The two are brought into the Principal's office, only for Trevor to get upset when she asks him what he did to provoke Reece's actions. This infuriates Trevor, who silently thinks to himself that everyone asks him what he did to deserve bullying while nobody has been asking Lilly what she did to deserve what is happening to her. Eventually Lilly becomes ostracized from the entire school, her boyfriend breaks up with her, and she constantly receives disparaging emails and messages. This comes to a head when some of her former friends send her an anonymous e-mail telling her that nobody wants her on the cheerleading team due to the accusations of being a lesbian. The continuing cyberbullying prompts Lilly to run away from home and hide in a treehouse that she used to play in with Zebby and Amr. The two find her and convince her to return home. They realize at this point that they must bring in the authorities to discover who is posting and to stop them. It's eventually revealed that Trevor is the anonymous "milkandhoney" and that he started his actions due to Lilly and her friends bullying him in the past. Themes The book deals heavily with the subject of cyberbullying and its effects on middle age students, as well as into the mindset of those participating. Other themes in the book are freedom of speech, social dynamics, and peer pressure. Reception Reception for the book has been mostly positive and the text has been used in several classrooms as an example of cyberbullying and its effect on people. The School Library Journal gave a positive review for The Truth about Truman School, saying it was "sure to initiate discussion". The review from Booklist was overall positive but noted that "characters are often painted with broad, flat strokes, particularly the popular girls, resulting in a book that reads like an after-school special". References External links 2008 children's books 2008 American novels American children's novels Novels set in elementary and primary schools Novels set in high schools and secondary schools Novels about cyberbullying Children's novels set in schools Children's books about bullying

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The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs is a play in three acts by Harry Delf. It has a medium-sized cast, one setting, and quick pacing. It is a domestic comedy, centered around the five-member apartment-dwelling Heller family, their endless bickering, and the elder daughter's suitor. The original performance was produced by Sam H. Harris, and staged by Sam Forrest. The production, which starred Ruth Nugent, Clare Woodbury, and Walter Wilson, ran on Broadway from August through October 1925 before going on tour. It had a brief revival on Broadway during October 1933, and was adapted for motion pictures on three occasions. Characters Listed in order of appearance within their scope. Leads Emma Heller is early 40's, hard-working housewife with gallstones, who wants her daughter Louise married. Joe Heller is mid-40's, a streetcar inspector, annoyed with Willie's indolence and Emma's interference. Louise Heller is 21, a stenographer, a quiet girl who loves books and doesn't often go out. Supporting Annabelle Heller is 12, a would-be flapper condemned to piano practice by her mother Emma. Willie Heller is 17, a school dropout with no job, outspoken, a pool shark and a bit of a sheik. Charles Grant is 25, a bank teller earning $40 a week, lives with and supports his mother and brother. Featured Miss Callahan is a dressmaker from the ground floor who brings Louise's blouse and enlightens Charles. Mrs. Grant is Charles' mother, a widow with two sons and a married daughter who lives elsewhere. Herbert Grant is 12 and Charles' younger brother, a bit hard-boiled in attitude. Synopsis The Hellers are a middle-class family that love one another, but often become quarrelsome due to being constrained to share a small apartment. Their eldest daughter, Louise, has taken a job just to get away from her family a few hours each day. When the play opens, the Hellers take their meals in the parlor as their dining room is being redone by painters. The parents, Emma and Joe, worry over the two older children: Emma is sure Louise will never have a boyfriend or get married, while Joe frets over Willie's lack of ambition for either school or work. Each champions the child whom the other worries about. Meanwhile, little Annabelle makes desultory classic noises on the upright piano when driven to it, but sings Red Hot Mama when freed. At dinner, Louise startles everyone by announcing that Charles Grant is coming to call. She met him at a party a few weeks earlier and they plan to go boating on Sunday. Charles proves a personable lad, and Emma tries to make Louise seem a "catch" by inflating the family's economic status. When the couple are left alone, Charles proposes to Louise, who accepts, but wants the engagement to remain a secret from her family for now. When Charles comes to collect Louise on Sunday morning, he is made aware of the inflated expectations for modern brides through the chatter of Miss Callahan. Emma again paints a rosy picture of Louise's many (fictional) suitors and the family circumstances. When Louise appears, Charles tells her he feels his salary is inadequate to support her. Louise flies into a rage at her family, denigrating them in front of Charles. She breaks off the engagement—the first her family has heard of it—and exits, as does Charles. A few hours later, Louise informs her parents she is leaving. Before she does, Willie notices Charles sitting on the front stoop. Joe sends Willie down with a tale to get Charles back up to the apartment. Joe also phones Mrs. Grant, who arrives with Herbert in tow. Herbert is told to go play with Annabelle, but demurs until Willie marches him out of the parlor. The three adults then open up about their aspirations for the young couple, who are reconciled, with Emma and Louise apologising to each other. Original production Background Harry Delf wrote the play in early 1925 while touring the West on the Gordon and Lewis vaudeville circuit. He brought it to Max Gordon and Albert Lewis, who joined with Sam H. Harris to produce it. Rehearsals began April 11, 1925, for a play which was "tenatively called The Family Upstairs". Cast Tryouts The play had two tryouts during April and May 1925. It first opened at Atlantic City on April 27, then moved to the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1925. The anonymous local reviewer for The Evening Star in Washington, D.C., gave a lot of credit to director Sam Forrest for the elaborate parlor setting, under the misapprehension of what the term "staged by" means. They also faulted star Ruth Nugent for not displaying emotional intensity in her outburst scene, and cited Claire Weldon, Lillian Garrick, and Theodore Westman for "histrionics". They concluded with "Highbrows will have to broaden their mental thoroughfares thoroughly to appreciate this". The play then went on hiatus until early August, when it was reactivated with some cast changes. Claire Weldon, who had played Emma Heller in the earlier tryouts was replaced by a Broadway newcomer, Clare Woodbury, while two featured parts were also recast. On August 6, 1925, it opened a tryout run of four days at Stamford, Connecticut. The final tryout was held at the Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City the week beginning August 10, 1925. Premiere and reception The Family Upstairs premiered on Broadway at the Gaiety Theatre on August 17, 1925. The Brooklyn Citizen reported the opening played "before a house composed largely of celebrities" that at times halted the play's action with their enthusiastic applause. Most reviews of the play emphasized the entertainment value of the play's depiction of middle-class life on the Upper East Side. The reviewer for The New York Times thought the play "makes intelligent sport of a very real American characteristic-- the success idea, the 'selling' formula applied to domestic affairs". One reviewer thought the director had told his actors "to go to it with a vengeance",, and another decried the overacting of all save Ruth Nugent and Harold Elliott. Change of venue and closing The Family Upstairs moved from the Gaiety to the Little Theatre on October 5, 1925. It is the smallest Broadway theater, and so well-suited for a production in its declining weeks. The Broadway run closed at the Little Theater on October 16, 1925. Touring company The production opened in Chicago at the Selwyn Theater on October 18, 1925. All the adult actors from the Broadway run went with the tour, while the characters of Annabelle and Herbert were re-cast. Revival The Family Upstairs was revived on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on October 27, 1933. Leonard Doyle, who produced, staged, and appeared in it, insisted it should be considered a new play not a revival, due to revisions. Other principal roles were played by Thomas W. Ross, Helen Carew, Florence Ross, and Gilbert Morgan. The minor role of Herbert Grant wasn't listed among the cast by reviewers, perhaps having been excised. One reviewer said the play "still gives evidence of being placed in another era", while another said the character of Charles Grant (played by Leonard Doyle) had haircut and clothes from 1905. The play closed October 28, 1933, after just two evening performances and a matinee. Adaptions Silent film It was adapted into the 1926 silent film The Family Upstairs. Sound film It was later adapted for the sound films Harmony at Home (1930) and Stop, Look and Love (1939). Notes References External links The Family Upstairs at the Internet Broadway Database 1925 plays Broadway plays

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List of Acts of the 3rd Session of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom

Public General Acts |- | {{|Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2022|public|39|14-07-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2023; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2022.}} |- | {{|Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy Act 2022|public|40|14-07-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision for, and in connection with, imposing a charge on ring fence profits of companies.}} |- | {{|Supply and Appropriation (Adjustments) Act 2022|public|41|25-10-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2023; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for that year.}} |- | {{|Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Act 2022|public|42|25-10-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to provide for certain social security rules which apply where life expectancy is 6 months or less to apply instead where life expectancy is 12 months or less.}} |- | {{|Health and Social Care Levy (Repeal) Act 2022|public|43|25-10-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision for and in connection with the repeal of the Health and Social Care Levy Act 2021.}} |- | {{|Energy Prices Act 2022|public|44|25-10-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision for controlling energy prices; to encourage the efficient use and supply of energy; and for other purposes connected to the energy crisis.}} |- | {{|Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022|public|45|06-12-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision about national and cultural identity and language in Northern Ireland.}} |- | {{|Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022|public|46|06-12-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision about the security of internet-connectable products and products capable of connecting to such products; to make provision about electronic communications infrastructure; and for connected purposes.}} |- | {{|Counsellors of State Act 2022|public|47|06-12-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to add His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the persons to whom royal functions may be delegated as Counsellors of State.}} |- | {{|Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2022|public|48|06-12-2022|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed and after which the Secretary of State must propose a date for another election; about the exercise of functions in the absence of Northern Ireland Ministers; to confer powers on the Secretary of State to determine salaries and other benefits for Members of the Assembly in respect of periods in which the Assembly is not functioning; and to confer powers on the Secretary of State to set the regional rate in Northern Ireland.}} |- | {{|Finance Act 2023|public|1|10-01-2023|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the national debt and the public revenue, and to make further provision in connection with finance.}} |- | {{|Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2023|public|2|08-02-2023|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to reduce, for a temporary period, the amount of stamp duty land tax chargeable on the acquisition of residential property.}} |- | {{|Northern Ireland Budget Act 2023|public|3|08-02-2023|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31 March 2023 and 2024 (including, for the year ending 31 March 2023, income); to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of those years; to authorise the use of those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland to borrow on the credit of those sums; and to repeal provisions superseded by this Act.}} |- | {{|Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Tissue Donation) Act 2023|public|4|28-02-2023|maintained=y|archived=n|An Act to make provision to extend the period following the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 5 May 2022 during which Ministers may be appointed and after which the Secretary of State must propose a date for another election; to allow the Secretary of State to propose a date for another election before Ministers have been appointed; and to amend the procedure for making regulations defining permitted material for transplantation in Northern Ireland under section 3 of the Human Tissue Act 2004 in the period until the Presiding Officer and deputies of the Assembly are elected.}} }} References Lists of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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All India Muslim Personal Law Board

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is a non-governmental organization in India that represents the interests of Muslims in matters of personal law. It was formed in 1973 with the objective of protecting and promoting the application of Islamic personal law among Muslims in India. The AIMPLB is primarily concerned with issues related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other personal matters governed by Islamic law, known as Shariah. The AIMPLB has been involved in various significant cases and debates, including those related to the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, the Shah Bano case, and the Triple Talaq issue. It has also played a role in advocating for the preservation of Muslim personal laws and resisting attempts to introduce a uniform civil code in India. The board consists of members who are scholars, legal experts, and representatives of various Islamic organizations across India. It functions as a consultative body, providing guidance and opinions on matters related to Muslim personal law. The AIMPLB does not have any legal authority or power to enforce its decisions, but it carries significant influence within the Muslim community. Description AIMPLB is a private body working to protect Muslim personal laws, liaise with and influence the Government of India and guide the general public about crucial issues. The board has a working committee of 51 ulama representing various schools of thought. In addition to this, it also has a general body of 201 persons of ulama as well as laymen, including about 25 women. However, some of the Shias and Muslim feminists have formed their own separate boards, the All India Shia Personal Law Board and the All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board, respectively but have failed to win any significant support from the Muslims or the government. Executive committee Rabey Hasani Nadvi is the incumbent president of the board and Kalbe Sadiq, Syed Sadatullah Husaini, Fakhruddin Ashraf, Sayeed Ahmed Oomeri are its incumbent vice presidents. Khalid Saifullah Rahmani is the incumbent acting general secretary after the demise of Wali Rahmani and Fazlur Rahim Mujaddedi, Zafaryab Jilani and Umrain Mahfooz Rahmani are its incumbent secretaries. Riaz Umar is the treasurer of the board. Its executive members include K. Ali Kutty Musliyar, Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi, Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi and others. Associated scholars Sayyid Minatullah Rahmani (co-founder, former General Secretary) Mujahidul Islam Qasmi (co-founder, former President) Wali Rahmani (former General Secretary) Jalaluddin Umri (former Vice President) Muhammad Salim Qasmi (former Vice President) Criticism The AIMPLB focuses primarily to defend the Sharia laws from any law or legislation that they consider infringes on it. In this role initially it has objected to any change in the Divorce Laws for Muslim women. In this regard it has even published a book – Nikah-O-Talaq (Marriage and Divorce). However, from time to time it has been hinted by the board that it might reconsider its position. It has also objected to gay rights and supports upholding the 1861 Indian law that bans sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex. The Board has also objected to the Right of Children for Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 as they believe it will infringe on the Madrasa System of Education. It has also supported child marriage and opposes the Child Marriage Restraint Act. It supports marriage age as 15 but says we do not promote it but people should have choice. It has also objected to the High Court of India Judgement on Babri Mosque. For this, it is also willing to threaten political action. The Board was in the headlines for its opposition to the live video conference of author Salman Rushdie to the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2012. After government considered making yoga compulsory in schools They argued that "there is a serious threat to our religion. There is a sinister design to impose 'Brahmin dharma' through yoga, Surya Namaskara and Vedic culture. They all are against Islamic beliefs. We need to awaken our community for launching a protest on a large scale" Model Nikahnama AIMPLB drafted a model 'nikahnama' in 2003 laying down specific guidelines and conditions on which a marriage can be annulled by both husband and wife in large sections of Sunni Muslims in Uttar Pradesh. See also All India Shia Personal Law Board All India Muslim Personal Law Board (Jadeed) List of Deobandi organisations References External links All India Muslim Personal Law Board Islamic organisations based in India Legal organisations based in India 1973 establishments in India Muslim politics in India Deobandi fiqh Deobandi organisations Sharia in India

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List of Finnish operatic sopranos

This is a list of operatic sopranos and mezzo-sopranos who were born in Finland or whose work is closely associated with that country. A Aino Ackté (1878–1944), celebrated international soprano, performed at the Paris Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden, co-founder of the Finnish Opera Emmy Achté (1859–1924), mezzo-soprano, first prima donna of the Finnish Opera from 1873 to 1878, thereafter voice teacher Alexandra Ahnger (1859–1940), mezzo-soprano with the Finnish Opera, soloist, voice teacher B Ida Basilier-Magelssen (1846–1928), soprano in concerts and opera, active in the Royal Swedish Opera and the Finnish Theatre E Maaria Eira (1924–1999), soprano performing in Italian opera and in musical films, later opera director Emma Engdahl-Jägerskiöld (1852–1930), soprano active in opera at Helsinki's Swedish Theatre, also sang in Stockholm and Oslo F Alma Fohström (1856–1936), popular operatic soprano, performing leading roles in opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre Elin Fohström (1868–1949), soprano, performed in Finland, Russia, the Baltic countries, Germany and Italy until 1897, thereafter voice teacher in Helsinki G Hanna Granfelt (1884–1952), soprano, successful in the early 20th century in Germany and later at the Finnish National Opera working with Sibelius Monica Groop (born 1958), mezzo-soprano with the Finnish National Opera, guest in Los Angeles, Paris, London and Salzburg H Katherine Haataja (born 1969), mezzo-soprano, formerly active in opera houses across Europe, now supports young singers though Operosa Anna Hagelstam (1883–1946), mezzo.soprano opera singer and song writer I Soile Isokoski (born 1957), lyric soprano in opera and concerts, performances across Europe and North America J Maikki Järnefelt (1871–1929), soprano remembered for her Wagnerian opera roles in Germany and Sweden and as a lied singer Helena Juntunen (born 1976), soprano with the Finnish National Opera, international soloist K Anu Komsi (born 1967), soprano performing in opera houses across Germany, international soloist with major orchestras L Sofia Liljegren (1765–1795), Finnish-Swedish soprano who was a popular performer at the Royal Swedish Opera in the 1780s Tamara Lund (1941–2005), soprano, performed at the Finnish National Opera and at the Staatstheater in Munich M Karita Mattila (born 1960), celebrated international operatic soprano, active mainly in Finland, Germany and the United States Johanna Nurmimaa (born 1962), actress and soprano singer, soubrette and light lyric opera roles N Camilla Nylund (born 1968), dramatic lyric soprano performing mainly in German opera houses P Lilli Paasikivi (born 1965), mezzo-soprano, international opera singer and soloist, artistic director of the Finnish National Opera R Aulikki Rautawaara (1906–1990), soprano, remembered for singing works by Grieg and Sibelius, performed at Glyndebourne and in Europe's major opera houses Pia Ravenna (1894–1964), celebrated coloratura soprano, performed at the Finnish National Opera in 32 operas and operettas, also in Monte Carlo, Egypt and Italy S Johanna von Schoultz (1813–1863), soprano, performed at opera houses in Italy and at the Italian Opera in Paris T Tuuli Takala (born 1987), classical singer and operatic soprano, active in Finland and in many of Europe's leading opera houses Irma Tervani (1887–1936), mezzo-soprano with the Finnish Opera and the Dresden Royal Opera U Irma Urrila (born 1943), soprano, performed mainly in Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm, known for her role as Pamina in Ingmar Bergman's film of Mozart's The Magic Flute V Taru Valjakka (born 1938), soprano, performed leading roles in the Finnish National Opera in the 1970s, also lied recitalist Anita Välkki (1926–2011), dramatic soprano, international career in major roles at leading opera houses, voice teacher from 1982 References operatic sopranos Finnish operatic sopranos Finnish operatic sopranos

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 18)

The following is a list of episodes from the eighteenth season of the PBS series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which aired in late 1987 and early 1988. Episode 1 (Alike and Different) Rogers attends a show full of antique cars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara agree to change jobs for a day. Aired on November 23, 1987. Episode 2 (Alike and Different) Rogers brings in a set of children's books that are done in different languages and Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of children's TV shows from three countries. Aired on November 24, 1987. Episode 3 (Alike and Different) Robert Trow dresses up in his Bob Dog costume so that Rogers can compare a real hound to a man in a dog costume. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone, except Prince Tuesday, knows Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara will trade places for a day. This leads to an inevitable misunderstanding. Aired on November 25, 1987. Episode 4 (Alike and Different) Jeffrey Gabel, who is both a circus clown and cook, prepares strudel at Brockett's Bakery. Queen Sara and Mayor Maggie trade places for a day, until a mix-up occurs with Brockett and Gabel. Aired on November 26, 1987. Episode 5 (Alike and Different) Jeff Gabel surprises Rogers by showing a few peeps. Rogers goes to a circus, where Gabel puts on his clown make-up. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Lady Aberlin in a chicken costume, much to Daniel's dismay. Aberlin gives sound advice to Daniel and to Nancy Caterpillar. Aired on November 27, 1987. Episode 6 (Nighttime) Rogers closes the curtains in his television house so that it resembles nighttime. This is so he can prepare for Mr. McFeely's delivery, a video on how flashlights are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine frightens X with a talk of stars falling from the sky. Aired on March 7, 1988. Episode 7 (Nighttime) Rogers recalls his visit to a Russian TV studio, guest-starring on Tatyana Vedeneyeva's nighttime children's show, Good Night, Little Ones!. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe still has to contend with Lady Elaine's talk of falling stars. Aired on March 8, 1988. Episode 8 (Nighttime) Mr. McFeely brings a firefighter's outfit for Rogers to try on. Chuck Aber is preparing to scuba dive at night, but first he must help his neighbors in Southwood. Aired on March 9, 1988. Episode 9 (Nighttime) Tatyana Vedeneyeva visits Rogers' television house and brings a videotape of how matrouska dolls are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes an unexpected visitor from the stars. Aired on March 10, 1988. Episode 10 (Nighttime) Mr. McFeely shows a video of people doing their jobs at night. Dawn nears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and still no one can understand the night visitor. Aired on March 11, 1988. Episode 11 (Kindness and Unkindness) A client reprimanded Mr. McFeely for delivering the wrong tape and Rogers receives it by mistake. Rogers soon reassures Mr. McFeely how important he and his service are. A difficult King Friday hears that Prince Tuesday and his classmates at school were playing music. Friday decides that Tuesday needs a different type of schooling. Aired on May 2, 1988. Episode 12 (Kindness and Unkindness) Mister Rogers and his saxophonist friend, Eric Kloss, visit a cave with Betty Aberlin as tour guide. This cave has its own organ, on which Rogers accompanies Kloss's sax. Events accelerate at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as King Friday has arranged for "Sir Thomas T. Tune" to be Prince Tuesday's new tutor. X's Cousin Mary arrives with a new Owl Correspondence School lesson. Aired on May 3, 1988. Episode 13 (Kindness and Unkindness) Marilyn Barnett shows how to start jumping rope and invites several expert rope-jumpers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is ready to take Prince Tuesday out of the school at Someplace Else. Aired on May 4, 1988. Episode 14 (Kindness and Unkindness) Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of how bicycle helmets are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is surprised to see "Sir Thomas T. Tune". Aired on May 5, 1988. Episode 15 (Kindness and Unkindness) "Sir Thomas T. Tune" convinces King Friday to allow the new schooling method. Aired on May 6, 1988. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episodes (series 18) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episodes (series 18) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood seasons