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Habarattawila | Habarattawila is a small town in Sri Lanka. It is located within Southern Province. |
Oberliga Südwest (1945–63) | The Oberliga Südwest () was the highest level of the German football league system in the southwest of Germany from 1945 until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. It covered the two states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
Overview
The league was introduced as the highest level of football in the French occupation zone in 1945, replacing the Gauligas as such. As was the French occupation zone, the Oberliga was split into a northern and a southern zone. The northern zone continued till 1963 to form the Oberliga Südwest while the southern zone was integrated into the Oberliga Süd in 1950. Until then, the champion of the Oberliga was determined by a home-and-away final between the two group winners.
The clubs in the Oberliga Süd came from the following Gauligas:
Gauliga Westmark
Gauliga Moselland
Gauliga Baden (southern half only)
In addition to the Oberliga Südwest, four other Oberligas were formed in Germany in the 1940s.
Oberliga West (formed in 1947)
Oberliga Nord (formed in 1947)
Oberliga Berlin (formed in 1945, originally with clubs from west and east Berlin)
Oberliga Süd (formed in 1945)
Next to the Oberliga Berlin, the Oberliga Südwest was the smallest of the five Oberligas. Considering this, it is still impressive that it won two German titles through the 1. FC Kaiserslautern, led by the German captain Fritz Walter, still a legend in Kaiserslautern and Germany.
Set below the Oberliga were originally the Amateurligas. In 1951 the 2. Oberliga Südwest was formed to fit in between.
With the reintroduction of the German championship in 1948, the winner and runners-up of the Oberliga Südwest went on to the finals tournament with the other Oberliga champions.
In 1950, the southern group of the Oberliga Südwest was disbanded and its clubs joined the Southern German Football Association.
From 1948 to 1951 the clubs from the Saarland did not take part in the Oberliga Südwest, playing their own competition instead. The 1. FC Saarbrücken even took part in the French second division in 1948–49, winning the division but being refused further participation.
The 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Wormatia Worms and 1. FSV Mainz 05 took part in all of the 18 seasons of the Oberliga Südwest.
In 1978, the Oberliga Südwest was reformed, as the third tier of German football, but still covering the same region. From the clubs that played the last season in 1963, the 1. FSV Mainz 05, FK Pirmasens, SV Südwest Ludwigshafen, TuS Neuendorf and Eintracht Bad Kreuznach also saw the first season of the new league.
Founding members of the Oberliga Südwest (northern group)
1. FC Saarbrücken
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Borussia Neunkirchen
Wormatia Worms
VfR Frankenthal
FK Pirmasens
Phönix Ludwigshafen
1. FC Idar
BFV Hassia Bingen
1. FSV Mainz 05
Disbanding of the Oberliga
With the introduction of the Bundesliga, two teams from the Oberliga Südwest were admitted to the new Bundesliga. The remaining clubs went to the new Regionalliga Südwest together with six clubs from the 2nd Oberliga Südwest, one of five new second divisions.
While the admittance of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern as the most prolific team of the Oberliga and champion of 1963 was logical, the pick of the 1. FC Saarbrücken was more than dubious, having only finished 5th in the Oberliga that year and coming in below the other Saarland side, Borussia Neunkirchen.
Qualifying for the Bundesliga
The qualifying system for the new league was fairly complex. The league placings of the clubs playing in the Oberligen for the last ten seasons were taken into consideration, whereby results from 1952 to 1955 counted once, results from 1955 to 1959 counted double and results from 1959 to 1963 triple. A first-place finish was awarded 16 points, a sixteenth place one point. Appearances in the German championship or DFB-Pokal finals were also rewarded with points. The five Oberliga champions of the 1962–63 season were granted direct access to the Bundesliga. All up, 46 clubs applied for the 16 available Bundesliga slots.
Following this system, by 11 January 1963, the DFB announced nine fixed clubs for the new league and reduced the clubs eligible for the remaining seven places to 20. Clubs within the same Oberliga that were separated by less than 50 points were considered on equal rank and the 1962-63 placing was used to determine the qualified team.
Of the seven clubs from the league applying, the 1. FC Saarbrücken qualified early even though FK Pirmasens and Borussia Neunkirchen were less than ten points behind in the overall ranking and finished better in 1962–63. The rumor persists that Saarbrücken was chosen because it was from the home state of the later DFB chairman Hermann Neuberger (Chairman from 1975 to 1992), a very influential figure in German football. The DFB justified the choice of the 1. FCS with the fact that the club had a superior infrastructure to the other two. The 1. FC Kaiserslautern also qualified.
Points table:
Source: DSFS Liga-Chronik , page: B 12, accessed: 4 November 2008
Bold Denotes club qualified for the new Bundesliga.
1 Denotes club was one of the nine selected on 11 January 1963.
2 Denotes club was one of the 20 taken into final selection.
3 Denotes club was one of the 15 applicants which were removed from final selection.
4 Denotes club withdrew Bundesliga application.
Honours
The winners and runners-up of the Oberliga Südwest:
Bold denotes team went on to win German Championship.
Placings & all-time table of the Oberliga Südwest
The final placings and all-time table of the northern group of the Oberliga Südwest:
Source:
Source:
* Denotes clubs from Saarland, which did not take part in the competition from 1948 to 1951.
Placings in the Oberliga Südwest (southern group)
The final placings of the southern group of the Oberliga Südwest:
Source:
Until 1949, clubs in this league were not permitted to carry their pre-war name. Names given are the ones carried after 1949. |
Changis-sur-Marne | Changis-sur-Marne is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Demographics
The inhabitants are called Changissois for men and Changissoise for women. |
HMS Adventure | Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named Adventure. A thirteenth was planned but never completed:
Adventure was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645.
was a 32-gun ship launched in 1646, rebuilt in 1691 and captured by the French in 1709.
was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1709 and broken up in 1741.
was a fourth rate ship of the line launched in 1741, rebuilt as a 32-gun fifth rate in 1758, and sold in 1770.
was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1768.
was a survey ship, originally a collier named Marquis of Rockingham. She was purchased in 1771 and renamed Rayleigh, then renamed Adventure later that year. She accompanied on James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific (1772–1775). She returned to mercantile service after Cook's expedition; she was sunk in the Saint Lawrence River in 1811.
was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784 and broken up in 1816.
HMS Adventure was a 10-gun transport launched in 1809 as . She was converted to a survey ship in 1817 and renamed HMS Adventure in 1821. She was sold in 1853.
HMS Adventure was an iron screw storeship, launched in 1855 as . She was renamed HMS Adventure in 1857 and was broken up in 1877.
HMS Adventure was to have been a torpedo ram. She was ordered in 1885 but was cancelled before her launch.
was a river gunboat launched in 1891, transferred to British Central Africa in 1896 and sold in 1921.
was an Adventure class scout cruiser launched in 1904 and sold in 1920.
was a minelayer launched in 1924. She was used as a repair ship from 1944 and was sold in 1947. |
Numa T. Delouche | Numa T. Delouche (October 10, 1888 – July 7, 1965), was a Democrat from Cloutierville in south Natchitoches Parish, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for one term between 1944 and 1948, along with Sylvan Friedman of nearby Natchez, Louisiana.
Delouche was married to the former Mary Vercher (1903-1979); their child, Numalee Pauline Delouche (1928-1934) died at the age of six. The Delouches are interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery in Cloutierville. |
Mala Polana | Mala Polana (; ) is a village northeast of Velika Polana in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia. |
Ershad Yousefi | Ershad Yousefi (, born September 19, 1981 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian football goalkeeper who most recently plays for Foolad in Iran Pro League.
Club career
Club Career Statistics
Last Update 25 May 2015
International career
He was the goalkeeper of Iran national under-20 football team at the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Argentina. In 2002, he was the reserve goalkeeper for Iran national football team at the West Asian Football Federation Championship, but did not make an appearance. In 2005, he was goalkeeper for Iran Under-23 team that participated in the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia.
Honours
Foolad
Iran Pro League (1): 2013–14
Sepahan
Hazfi Cup (1}: 2003–04 |
Pedra Branca, Paraíba | Pedra Branca, Paraíba is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. |
John A. Whitaker | John Albert Whitaker (October 31, 1901 – December 15, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Whitaker was born in Russellville, Kentucky. He attended the public schools, Bethel College, and the University of Kentucky. He later studied law, attained admitted to the bar in 1926, and commenced practice in Russellville.
He was Logan County Attorney from 1928 to 1948, and a delegate to all the State Democratic conventions from 1924 to 1950.
Whitaker was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Earle C. Clements. He was reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Russellville, Kentucky, December 15, 1951.
He was interred in Russellville's Maple Grove Cemetery.
Whitaker was the grandson of Addison James, who also served in Congress. |
Balambangan Island | Balambangan Island () is an island in Kudat Division, Sabah, Malaysia. It is located off the northern tip of Borneo and is situated just about 3 kilometres west of Banggi Island. It is now part of the Tun Mustapha Marine Park.
History
Alexander Dalrymple, an officer of the British East India Company (EIC), concluded an agreement with Sultan Bantilan Muizzud-Din on 12 September 1762 whereby the Sultanate of Sulu ceded the island of Balambangan to the company, and Dalrymple took possession of the island on 22 January 1763. The establishment of a factory on Balambangan was officially approved by a committee of the board of directors in 1768 and Dalrymple was offered the role of management of the new settlement.
However, Dalrymple quarrelled with the directors, and his insistence on absolute management of Balambangan led to his dismissal in March 1771. Dalrymple was replaced by John Herbert who commanded the Britannia as it transported soldiers, goods, and supplies from India in 1772, and arrived at Balambangan in December 1773. The settlement traded opium, munitions, and fabrics with the Tausugs and Maguindanaons. Herbert's mismanagement of Balambangan and poor relations with the Tausugs resulted in the settlement's destruction on 26 February 1775 at the hands of Moro pirates, and Herbert and other survivors escaped to Brunei.
In the second half of the 18th century, the Dutch from Batavia attempted to settle the island's western coast, but withdrew by 1797.
In 1803, in response to the restitution of the Moluccas to the Dutch as per the Treaty of Amiens of 1802, Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, decided upon the resettlement of Balambangan, and instructed R. J. Farquhar, the British Resident at Amboina, to manage the expedition. Farquhar reestablished the settlement at Balambangan by the end of September 1803, where he remained until he left for Penang on 7 December, and a commissioner was appointed to manage the settlement. Balambangan came under the jurisdiction of Penang, and as lieutenant governor of Penang, Farquhar planned to fortify the settlement on Balambangan, but the resumption of war with France led the court of directors of the EIC to veto the plan, and the island was abandoned in 1805.
In December 1805, five members of the ill-fated crew of shipwrecked schooner Betsey made it off Balambangan Island in a small boat despite being attacked by eleven natives; however, one sailor died in the boat due to his injuries. |
UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick | UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick (also known as UFC Fight Night 135) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that was held on August 25, 2018 at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.
Background
The show was the UFC’s third visit to Nebraska, with the previous two events contested in Omaha.
A lightweight bout between former WSOF Lightweight Champion Justin Gaethje and Al Iaquinta was expected to serve as the event headliner. However on June 28, it was announced that Iaquinta withdrew from the bout and was replaced by James Vick.
Bryan Barberena was expected to face Jake Ellenberger at UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes. However, Barberena pulled out of the fight citing a leg injury and the bout was scrapped. The pairing was rescheduled for this event.
Alexa Grasso was expected to face former Invicta FC Strawweight Champion Angela Hill at the event, but pulled out on July 19 due to a knee injury. She was replaced by Cortney Casey.
Antônio Braga Neto was expected to face The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia light heavyweight winner Andrew Sanchez at the event. However, Neto was removed from the bout on August 2 due to undisclosed personal issues and replaced by Markus Perez.
Results
Bonus awards
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses:
Fight of the Night: Cory Sandhagen vs. Iuri Alcântara
Performance of the Night: Justin Gaethje and Eryk Anders |
Rüdiger Heinze | Rüdiger Heinze (born December 14, 1971 in Riesa, Germany) is a film producer and Screenplay writer.
Life and work
In 1997 he went to Ludwigsburg to study Film direction and later Film Production at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. In 2003 Rüdiger Heinze earned his university degree. He has worked several times as a Film director. In 2008 he co-founded the production company Zum Goldenen Lamm.
Rüdiger Heinze produced the film The Two Lives of Daniel Shore, which was written and directed by Michael Dreher and was released in 2009.
Filmography (Selection)
2003: The Troublemaker (Der Ärgermacher) , (Television producer)
2004: Don't Look for Me (Such mich nicht), (Film producer)
2005: Rabenkinder (TV movie), (Film Producer)
2006: Der Generalmanager oder How to sell a Tit Wonder (Co-Director)
2007: Blind Flight (Blindflug), (Co-Producer)
2009: Parkour (Screenplay writer, Film Producer)
2009: Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore (Film Producer)
Awards and nominations
Winner of the Sat.1 Talent Award for a comedy concept |
Super Bowl LIII | Super Bowl LIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2018 season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Los Angeles Rams, 13–3. The game was played on February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. This was the first Super Bowl played at that stadium, and the third one held in Atlanta.
The Patriots' victory was their sixth, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most Super Bowl championships. New England, after finishing the regular season with a 11–5 record, advanced to their 11th Super Bowl appearance, their fourth in five years, and their ninth under the leadership of head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The Rams, who finished the regular season with a 13–3 record under 33-year-old head coach Sean McVay and third-year quarterback Jared Goff, advanced to their fourth Super Bowl appearance overall, and their first one since relocating back from St. Louis to Los Angeles in 2016. Super Bowl LIII was a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI, a 20–17 Patriots win over the Rams that gave the Belichick–Brady tandem its first Super Bowl championship. Coincidentally, the Patriots reached that Super Bowl with an 11–5 record as well. With the Rams now playing in Los Angeles, Super Bowl LIII marked the first Super Bowl appearance of a Los Angeles-based team since the then-Los Angeles Raiders' victory in Super Bowl XVIII and the Rams' first Super Bowl appearance as a Los Angeles-based team since Super Bowl XIV. This marked the 14th meeting in a major sports championship between the Los Angeles and Greater Boston areas.
Super Bowl LIII was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl game in history, eclipsing the previous record of 14–7 held by Super Bowl VII, and the lowest-scoring league championship contest since a 14–0 score was recorded during the 1949 NFL Championship Game. It also marked the first Super Bowl with no touchdowns scored by either team in the first three quarters, as the Patriots and the Rams battled to a 3–3 tie as they entered the fourth quarter. New England then scored 10 unanswered points for the victory, as their lone touchdown tied them with the New York Jets in Super Bowl III for the fewest touchdowns by a winning Super Bowl team. The Rams ended up as only the second Super Bowl team to not score a touchdown, joining the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI. Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who caught 10 passes for 141 yards, was named Super Bowl MVP.
The broadcast of the game on CBS, along with the halftime show headlined by U.S. pop group Maroon 5, saw the smallest Super Bowl audience in 10 years.
Background
Host-selection process
On May 19, 2015, the league announced the four finalists that would compete to host Super Bowl LIII in 2019, LIV in 2020, and LV in 2021. NFL owners voted on these cities on May 24, 2016, with the first round of voting determining the host for Super Bowl LIII, the second round deciding a different site for Super Bowl LIV and the third round deciding the site for Super Bowl LV. The four finalists for Super Bowl LIII, all in the Southeastern United States, were:
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia: This would be the first Super Bowl played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium after it opened in 2017. The city had previously hosted two Super Bowls at the Georgia Dome, with the last being Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000.
Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida: South Florida had previously hosted 10 Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLIV in 2010.
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana: New Orleans had previously hosted 10 Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida: Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls, with the last being Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.
After three votes, Atlanta was awarded Super Bowl LIII at the NFL owners' meeting on May 24, 2016. The losing candidates, except for New Orleans which removed itself from the voting for all games except Super Bowl LIII due to event conflicts in 2020 and 2021, were then pitted against SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California for Super Bowl LIV and Super Bowl LV hosting rights. Miami eventually won the rights to host Super Bowl LIV and Los Angeles won the rights to host Super Bowl LV. However, on May 23, 2017, NFL owners opted to award Super Bowl LV to Tampa and give Super Bowl LVI to Los Angeles after it was announced that SoFi Stadium would open in 2020 due to construction delays. New Orleans would be awarded Super Bowl LVIII.
The NFL unveiled the official logo for Super Bowl LIII in February 2018; it is a navy blue-tinted version of the design introduced at Super Bowl LI, and the overall branding of the game featured use of blue and red. The host committee logo featured a stylized overhead rendition of Mercedes-Benz Stadium's roof.
Teams
New England Patriots
The Patriots finished the 2018 season with an 11–5 record to earn the #2 seed in the AFC and their 17th season with at least ten wins in their 19 years under 66-year-old head coach Bill Belichick. They went on to join the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills as the only teams in NFL history to ever reach three consecutive Super Bowls. Though the team had only two Pro Bowl selections, they scored 436 points (fourth in the league) while giving up only 325 (seventh fewest).
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady earned his 14th Pro Bowl selection at age 41, finishing the season with 4,355 passing yards and 29 touchdowns, with only 11 interceptions, while also rushing for 35 yards and two more scores on the ground. These totals made him just the second quarterback in NFL history to amass 70,000 career passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards. His top receiver from the previous season, Brandin Cooks, was traded to the eventual Super Bowl rival Rams, but Julian Edelman, who had missed the previous season with an torn ACL injury, returned to catch 74 receptions for a team-leading 850 yards and six touchdowns, while also returning 20 punts for 154 yards. Other key receivers included Chris Hogan (35 receptions for 553 yards and three touchdowns) and Josh Gordon (40 receptions for 720 yards and three touchdowns), though Gordon would end up leaving the team to focus on his mental health after 11 games when faced with a suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Tight end Rob Gronkowski added 47 receptions for 682 yards and three touchdowns. Meanwhile, the running game featured a dynamic new weapon, rookie halfback Sony Michel, who lead the team with 931 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns, along with veteran James White who racked up 1,176 yards from scrimmage while leading the team in receptions (87) and total touchdowns (12). On special teams, receiver Cordarrelle Patterson returned 23 kickoffs for 663 yards and a touchdown, an average of 28.8 yards per return (third in the NFL), while also catching 21 passes for 247 yards, rushing for 228 yards and scoring four touchdowns on offense.
On defense, defensive end Trey Flowers led the team with 7.5 sacks and also forced three fumbles. Linebacker Kyle Van Noy led the team in total tackles (92), while also recording 3.5 sacks, a forced fumble and two fumble recoveries. In the secondary, safety Duron Harmon lead the team in interceptions for the second year in a row with four, while Pro Bowl cornerback Stephon Gilmore intercepted two passes and forced two fumbles. Safety Patrick Chung also made an impact with 84 total tackles to go with an interception and a fumble recovery. The Patriots secondary also featured twin brothers Jason McCourty and Devin McCourty, who both had an interception each. Devin had 82 tackles, while Jason had 70.
Los Angeles Rams
The Rams finished the 2018 season earning the #2 seed in the NFC, before knocking off the fourth seeded Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round and top seeded New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship to earn their fourth Super Bowl in franchise history. The Rams went from 2004 to 2016 without recording a winning record. After relocating from St. Louis back to Los Angeles and posting a dismal 4–12 season in 2016, the team's fortunes changed with the hiring of 30-year-old head coach Sean McVay, the youngest head coach in NFL history. Under McVay and second year quarterback Jared Goff, who recovered from a lackluster winless rookie season to record a triple digit passer rating, the Rams improved to an 11–5 record in 2017. Then in 2018, they won their first eight games and finished the year with a 13–3 record, tying the Saints for the best record in the NFC.
The Rams offense ranked second in the NFL in both points scored (527) and yards gained (6,738). Goff continued to improve in his third season, setting new career highs in passing yards (4,688, fourth in the NFL), passing touchdowns (32), passer rating (101.1), rushing yards (108) and rushing touchdowns (two). His top receiver was Robert Woods, who caught 86 passes for 1,219 yards and 6 touchdowns. Brandin Cooks, an off-season pickup from the Patriots via trade, also made a big impact with 80 receptions for 1,204 yards and 5 scores. The team's #3 receiver, Cooper Kupp, suffered a season ending injury after catching 40 passes for 566 yards in 8 games, forcing Goff to rely heavily on other targets like Gerald Everett (32 receptions) and Josh Reynolds (29). Pro Bowl running back Todd Gurley was the team's leading rusher with 1,251 yards (fourth in the NFL) and 17 touchdowns, while also catching 59 passes for 580 yards and five more touchdowns. His 17 rushing touchdowns led the league, while his 22 total touchdowns gave him 132 points, fifth in the NFL. Running back C. J. Anderson, who made the Rams his third different team in 2018 after signing up with them in December, also was a key aspect of the running game, finishing the season with 405 yards and leading the team in rushing in both of their playoff victories. On special teams, JoJo Natson returned 26 punts for 280 yards, while kicker Greg Zuerlein made 87.1% of his field goals, including a franchise postseason record 57-yard kick to defeat the Saints in overtime in the NFC championship game.
The Rams defense featured Pro Bowl defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who led the league in sacks with 20.5, as many sacks as the rest of the team combined. He also had 59 tackles (25 for loss), four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Veteran defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh was second on the team with 4.5 sacks, while also getting 59 tackles and recovering two fumbles. Pro Bowl linebacker Cory Littleton led the team in total tackles with 125, while also picking up four sacks, three interceptions and blocking two punts. The Rams also had a strong secondary, led by John Johnson (119 tackles and four interceptions), Marcus Peters (three interceptions), Lamarcus Joyner (78 tackles) and Aqib Talib.
Playoffs
In the playoffs, the Patriots earned a first-round bye as the AFC's second overall seed. In the divisional round, they defeated the Los Angeles Chargers 41–28, scoring touchdowns on five of their first six possessions. Brady passed for 343 yards and a touchdown, while running back Sony Michel rushed for 129 yards and three touchdowns. They then defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 37–31 in the AFC Championship Game, scoring the game-winning touchdown in overtime. The Patriots held a 14–0 lead at halftime, before the Chiefs rallied to take the lead 21–17 in the fourth quarter. From there, both teams took turns taking the lead, until the Chiefs forced overtime with a 39-yard field goal by Harrison Butker to tie the game 31–31. In overtime, Rex Burkhead scored a two-yard touchdown to win the game. Michel ended up rushing for a combined total of 242 yards and five touchdowns in the Patriots' two playoff games, setting an NFL record for postseason rushing touchdowns by a rookie. In the AFC championship game, the Patriots defense held Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill and tight end Travis Kelce, who had both gained over 1,300 receiving yards during the season, to a combined total of just four receptions for 65 yards.
Meanwhile, the Rams also had a first-round bye as the NFC's second overall seed. They started off the divisional round by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 30–22. The Rams gained 273 yards on the ground with running backs Todd Gurley and C. J. Anderson rushing for over 100 yards each. They then defeated the New Orleans Saints 26–23 in the NFC Championship Game, scoring a game-winning field goal in overtime. The Saints jumped out to an early 13–0 first quarter lead, before the Rams rallied to close the lead to 13–10 at halftime. In the fourth quarter, Greg Zuerlein tied the game at 20–20, with just over 5 minutes remaining. The Saints moved the ball to the Rams' 13 yard line, but could not gain a first down. On third down, quarterback Drew Brees threw a pass to receiver Tommylee Lewis, who was covered by Nickell Robey-Coleman. Though Robey-Coleman knocked Lewis to the ground and the pass fell incomplete, no penalty was called and the Saints' Wil Lutz kicked a 31-yard field goal to take the lead. The Rams took possession and sent the game to overtime with a 48-yard field goal by Greg Zuerlein. In overtime, Brees threw an interception on their first drive and Zuerlein kicked a 57-yard field goal to win the game.
Pre-game notes
The game was a rematch of Super Bowl XXXVI between the Patriots and the Rams; the Rams at the time were based in St. Louis. However, only one player, Patriots starting quarterback Tom Brady, remained on either roster from that contest. Bill Belichick, the Patriots' head coach in the previous contest, also remained in that position for this game. Super Bowl LIII featured record setting age differences between each team's starting quarterbacks and head coaches, pitting 41-year-old Brady against 24-year-old Jared Goff, as well as 66-year-old Belichick against 33-year-old Sean McVay.
The then-St. Louis Rams won their sole Super Bowl title in Atlanta, Super Bowl XXXIV, hosted at the now-demolished Georgia Dome in 2000, which was located adjacent to Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
As the designated home team in the annual rotation between AFC and NFC teams, the Rams elected to wear their royal blue and yellow throwback uniforms for the game, which they have previously worn for six home games including a home playoff game during the 2018 season. The Patriots wore their standard white away uniforms.
Boston and Los Angeles teams of other professional sports have met in the championship rounds, popularizing the "Beat L.A." chant and the hashtag "#BeatLA". The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers have contested a record twelve NBA Finals. Furthermore, Los Angeles Galaxy and New England Revolution have contested three MLS Cups. The Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers faced off in the 2018 World Series, and with the Patriots and Rams meeting in Super Bowl LIII, it was only the second time in 50 years that two cities' MLB and NFL teams have competed for the league title in the same season (or calendar year), the first time being in 1969 when the New York Jets and Baltimore Colts competed for Super Bowl III in January 1969 followed by the 1969 World Series featuring the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles. The Patriots faced another Los Angeles-based team in the same playoffs, the Chargers in the divisional round, en route to their Super Bowl meeting with the Rams.
Associated events
Pre-game events and entertainment were centered around Downtown Atlanta, with State Farm Arena having hosted Super Bowl Opening Night, the Georgia World Congress Center hosting the Super Bowl Experience and Super Bowl Live at Centennial Olympic Park. State Farm Arena also hosted the inaugural Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, a three-night concert series that was headlined by Ludacris and Migos (night 1), Aerosmith and Post Malone (night 2), and Bruno Mars and Cardi B (night 3). The show competed with a "Super Saturday Night" concert held by DirecTV at a temporary venue near Atlantic Station, headlined by the Foo Fighters and featuring Roger Taylor, Zac Brown, Tom Morello, Perry Farrell and Dave Koz as special guests.
The NFL officially launched its centennial commemorations at Super Bowl LIII, ahead of its 100th season. A themed, two-minute advertisement was aired during the game.
Broadcasting
United States
CBS broadcast Super Bowl LIII as part of an annual cycle between the three main broadcast television partners of the NFL, marking the 20th time it has broadcast the game. As with CBS's most recent Super Bowl (Super Bowl 50), ESPN Deportes aired a Spanish-language broadcast of the game (additional to CBS's SAP channel Spanish version). CBS's coverage utilized a total of 115 cameras, including 8K resolution cameras (for the first time in a U.S. network sports telecast) in the end zones, as well as field-level and "up close" augmented reality graphics (with the latter generated from a wireless, handheld camera).
Digitally, the game was available via the CBS Sports app, CBSSports.com, the Yahoo! Sports app, Tumblr app, the NFL app and through CBS's subscription service CBS All Access. The Yahoo! Sports app and Tumblr app streams are part of a long-term deal between then NFL and Verizon Media.
Westwood One affiliates carried the game on radio for free, with SiriusXM carrying the game in eight languages and hometown broadcasts from Boston's WBZ-FM and Los Angeles's KSPN and KCBS-FM, along with the main feed on Sirius XM NFL Radio.
Advertising
With a base price slightly higher than $5 million for a 30-second ad, the cost of commercial time remained even with the previous three events. There were fewer spots sold overall in comparison to the previous Super Bowl; CBS aired more than double the number of promos for its own programming (as well as that of its subscription service CBS All Access) than NBC did at Super Bowl LII. Despite this, Kantar estimated its total revenue to be the third-highest in Super Bowl history, at $382 million.
Perennial Super Bowl advertiser Anheuser-Busch made its largest-ever advertising purchase for a single game, with a total of eight different commercials of various lengths (covering five-and-a-half minutes of airtime) across seven product brands, including three being advertised during the game for the first time. CBS rejected an ad from medical cannabis company Acreage Holdings advocating for legalization.
For the first time in its history, the NFL itself won USA Todays Super Bowl Ad Meter survey determining the best commercial aired during the game, with an advertisement launching a campaign celebrating its 100th season.
Lead-out programs
CBS's lead-out program was the series premiere of the talent competition series The World's Best. After late local programs, CBS also aired a special Sunday-night episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Ratings
Initial overnight Nielsen Ratings measured a 44.9 rating for the game, down 5% from the previous year and the lowest rating for a Super Bowl since Super Bowl XLIII ten years prior. 98.2 million viewers were measured, the fewest since Super Bowl XLII. Jemele Hill of The Atlantic attributed the low ratings "to the game being the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever, moderate national interest in the Rams, the lingering bad taste from the huge blown call in the NFC Championship Game, and Patriots fatigue". In New Orleans, whose Saints had lost the NFC Championship in part because of the blown call, ratings were down 51% compared to Super Bowl LII as Louisianans boycotted and refused to watch the game. Outside the Boston market, where the 57.1 overnight rating was the highest among local markets, the highest-rated markets were in Richmond, Virginia and Buffalo, New York (the latter having traditionally high ratings for sporting events and being the home of the Patriots' division rivals the Buffalo Bills); Los Angeles was near the national average. A downturn of approximately 5% was noted during the halftime show. The fewer television viewers did not migrate to online or mobile platforms; viewership online and on mobile only totaled 2.5 million viewers, which was not an appreciable enough change to affect the overall viewership decline.
International
In Canada, the game was aired by CTV, CTV 2 and TSN. Unifor purchased time on the Canadian broadcast to air an attack ad criticizing General Motors' decision to close the Oshawa Car Assembly plant, defying demands from the company to pull the ad because they deemed it to be misleading.
In Australia and New Zealand, ESPN Australia aired an ESPN-produced broadcast of the game that featured the Monday Night Football commentary crew of Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten and Booger McFarland (McFarland was in the booth rather than the controversial sideline vehicle he used that was abandoned before the end of the 2018 MNF season). It would prove to be Witten's last commentary appearance for the time being, due to his unretirement and return to the Dallas Cowboys.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the game was broadcast on the free-to-air channel BBC One, and paid-subscription channels Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports USA.
Entertainment
The musical artists who agreed to perform at the show—including Gladys Knight, Maroon 5, Travis Scott, and Big Boi—were criticized by media outlets, other artists, and members of the public for performing at Super Bowl LIII because of the NFL's alleged blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick for protesting police brutality by kneeling during the pre-game national anthem. Several artists, including Jay-Z and Cardi B, turned down offers to perform at the game in support of Kaepernick.
Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies became the first male cheerleaders to perform at a major US sporting event. Scott Winer was the first openly gay cameraman to film the Super Bowl.
Pre-game
The NFL had Mercedes-Benz Stadium's retractable roof open for the pre-game ceremonies, then closed it prior to kickoff.
Atlanta natives Chloe x Halle performed "America the Beautiful". Gladys Knight, also from Atlanta, performed "The Star-Spangled Banner". D.C. resident Aarron Loggins performed a sign-language interpretation for both songs.
Bernice King—the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr.—and civil rights movement leaders Andrew Young and John Lewis participated in the coin toss ceremony. King had the honors of flipping the coin.
Halftime show
On January 13, 2019, the NFL announced that pop band Maroon 5 would headline the Super Bowl LIII halftime show. They were joined by Big Boi of Outkast and Travis Scott as guests. A short clip featuring the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants and a clip from the 2001 episode "Band Geeks" was aired as a tribute to series creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in November due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), as a response to a petition on Change.org calling the NFL to have the song "Sweet Victory" performed at the halftime show. The full clip of the "Sweet Victory" song, including a dedication to Hillenburg, was played inside the stadium prior to the game.
Game summary
First half
The Patriots received first possession as Cordarrelle Patterson returned the opening kickoff 38 yards to the Patriots' 39-yard line and the team picked up 27 yards with their next five plays. But on Tom Brady's first pass attempt of the day, Nickell Robey-Coleman, who was notable for a non-pass interference call in the NFC Championship two weeks ago, deflected the ball, allowing linebacker Cory Littleton to make an interception. The turnover had no avail, and following a punt, the Patriots drove 45 yards in 11 plays, the longest a 19-yard catch by tight end Rob Gronkowski. Placekicker Stephen Gostkowski missed a field goal attempt from 46 yards, still keeping the score at zero. The Rams were again unable to move the ball and again, the Patriots threatened to score when Brady completed a 25-yard pass to Julian Edelman at the Rams 45-yard line. But on the next play, Brady was sacked by defensive end John Franklin-Myers and fumbled the ball. Center David Andrews recovered the fumble, but the team was only able to get as far as the Rams' 40 before 4th down and had to punt with 18 seconds left in the first quarter.
After forcing another three-and-out, the Patriots managed to drive 39 yards in seven plays, most of which came from another 25-yard completion from Brady to Edelman. Gostkowski finished the possession with a 42-yard field goal, giving the team a 3–0 lead with 10:29 left in the second quarter. After the next three drives ended in punts, the Patriots took the ball and drove 36 yards to the Rams 32-yard line. But on a 4th-and-1 conversion attempt, Brady threw an incomplete pass with 1:16 left on the clock.
The two teams went into their locker rooms with the Patriots leading, 3–0, the second lowest halftime score in Super Bowl history and the lowest since the 2–0 halftime score in Super Bowl IX after the 1974 season. In the entire first half, the Rams had gained just 57 yards and two first downs, both record lows for coach Sean McVay. This was also the first time that McVay's Rams had ever been shut out in a first half.
Second half
The defensive battle continued into the second half as both teams punted twice (one of them was a Super Bowl record 65-yard punt by the Rams' Johnny Hekker). With 6:33 left in the third quarter, the Rams opened their first drive of more than five plays and their first not to end in a punt, moving the ball 42 yards in 10 plays. On the third play of the drive, Jared Goff completed a 15-yard pass to Brandin Cooks and later made his first third-down conversion with an 18-yard pass to Robert Woods on 3rd-and-6. On 3rd-and-7 from the Patriots' 26-yard line, Goff was sacked for a 9-yard loss by Dont'a Hightower, but Greg Zuerlein was able to pull off a 53-yard field goal, the second-longest in Super Bowl history, to tie the game at 3–3 with 2:11 left in the third quarter. The Patriots took the ball back and drove to the Rams' 44-yard line, but could not go any further, and had to punt on the first play of the fourth quarter. For the first time in Super Bowl history, both teams had gone three quarters without scoring a touchdown.
After forcing the Rams to punt, the Patriots mounted the longest drive of the game as Brady completed an 18-yard pass to Gronkowski, a 13-yard pass to Edelman, a 7-yard pass to running back Rex Burkhead and a 29-yard pass to Gronkowski, bringing them to the Rams' 2-yard line. On the next play, Sony Michel gave the Patriots the lead with a touchdown run, extending his rookie postseason rushing touchdown record to six. With the extra point by Gostkowski, the Patriots had a 10–3 lead with seven minutes left in regulation. On the first play of the Rams' next drive, Goff completed a 19-yard pass to Cooks and later converted a 3rd-and-9 with an 11-yard throw to Josh Reynolds. On the next play, his 17-yard completion to Woods moved the ball to the Patriots' 27-yard line. But with just over 4 minutes left in the game, Goff threw a pass that was intercepted by Stephon Gilmore on the 3-yard line.
The Rams needed to force a punt or turnover, but were unable to contain the Patriots on the ground. On the second play of the Patriots' possession, Michel stormed through the line for a 26-yard run. After he picked up 10 more yards with his next two carries, Burkhead's 26-yard run gave the Patriots a first down on the Rams' 33-yard line. Three plays later, Gostkowski succeeded on a 41-yard field goal, giving the Patriots a 13–3 lead with 1:12 left on the clock. Taking the ball back on their own 25, Goff completed a 10-yard pass to Woods, as well as completions to Cooks for gains of 24 and 21 yards, moving the ball to the Patriots' 30-yard line. With 8 seconds left, the Rams decided to kick a field goal, which would have been followed by an onside kick attempt, but Zuerlein missed wide left from 48 yards, and the Patriots ran out the last few seconds of the game clock.
Totals
Brady completed 21 of 35 passes for 262 yards, with one interception. Edelman was his top target with 10 receptions for 141 yards, while Gronkowski made six receptions for 87 yards in his final NFL game (he announced his retirement in March 2019). Michel was the top rusher of the game with 94 yards and a touchdown. Gilmore had five solo tackles and an interception. Goff finished the day 19-for-38 passing, for 229 yards and an interception. Cooks was his top receiver with eight receptions for 120 yards. Littleton had 10 tackles (six solo) and an interception. Hekker punted nine times for 417 yards, an average of 46.3 yards per punt, and put five punts inside the 20. The Rams were only the second team in Super Bowl history to not score a touchdown, the first having been the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI after the 1971 season.
Brady became the first player in NFL history to win six Super Bowls, surpassing Charles Haley's sole record of five. Brady, also, at age 41, became the oldest quarterback to win a Super Bowl, and Bill Belichick became the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl, at age 66. Edelman was named the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, the first wide receiver so recognized since Santonio Holmes in Super Bowl XLIII after the 2008 season. Despite holding the Rams to just three points, no Patriots defender received a vote.
Box score
Final statistics
Statistical comparison
Individual statistics
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Starting lineups
Officials
Super Bowl LIII had seven officials. The numbers in parentheses below indicate their uniform numbers. John Parry became the second referee in a row to retire after officiating the Super Bowl after Gene Steratore, who retired after Super Bowl LII.
Referee: John Parry (132)
Umpire: Fred Bryan (11)
Down judge: Ed Camp (134)
Line judge: Jeff Bergman (32)
Field judge: Steve Zimmer (33)
Side judge: Eugene Hall (103)
Back judge: Terrence Miles (111)
Replay Official: Jim Lapetina
Replay Assistant: Chad Adams
Alternate Referee: Ron Torbert (62)
Alternate Umpire: Mark Pellis (131)
Alternate Wing: Tom Stephan (68)
Alternate Deep: Michael Banks (72)
Alternate Back Judge: Rich Martinez (39)
Celebration
On the morning of February 5, the Patriots celebration duck boat parade was held in Boston, starting at Boylston Street and ending at City Hall Plaza. The date of the parade was unseasonably warm for New England. The high temperature for the day was 65 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low of 40. Temperatures in Boston during this time of year average in the mid to low 40’s. It was attended by an estimated 1.5 million fans. |
Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek | Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek (13 January 1843 – 1927) was a landscape painter from the Netherlands. He was the son of Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek, who taught him to paint.
Koekkoek was born in Hilversum and between 1850-1877 he was active in Amsterdam and the Hague. Like other members of his family, he is known for wooded landscapes. Jan Pontijn was his pupil.
Koekkoek died in England. |
Salvador Cosío Gaona | Salvador Cosío Gaona (born 26 January 1961) is a Mexican politician from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. From 2000 to 2003 he served as Deputy of the LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Jalisco. |
Davy Jones (album) | Davy Jones is the second solo studio album by English recording artist and actor Davy Jones. It includes the single, "Rainy Jane", which reached No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Charts
Davy Jones reached number 205 on Billboard Top Albums chart.
Track listing
"Road To Love"
"How About Me"
"Singin To The Music"
"Rainy Jane"
"Look At Me"
"Say It Again"
"I Really Love You"
"Love Me For A Day"
"Sitting In the Apple Tree"
"Take My Love"
"Pretty Little Girl"
"Welcome To My Love"
Bonus Tracks (2012 CD release by Friday Music)
"Girl"
"I'll Believe In You"
"Take My Love" (mono)
"Road to Love" (B side)
"How About Me" (mono)
"I Really Love You" (mono)
External links
https://www.amazon.com/Recordings-1971-72-Original-Recording-Remastered/dp/B007IX38J2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339366
www.davyjones.net |
Billsmoor Park and Grasslees Wood | __NOTOC__
Billsmoor Park and Grasslees Wood is the name given to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland, North East England, designated in 1954. Billsmoor Park is an extensive alder woodland of a sort increasingly uncommon in the county; the much smaller Grasslees Wood is an oak woodland.
Location and natural features
Billsmoor Park and Grasslees Wood are situated towards the north of Northumberland, in the north-east of England, north of Elsdon and west-south-west of Rothbury. Billsmoor Park, formerly a deer park, lies on the valley sides of the Park Burn, a north-running stream set amidst a west-facing lower slope at the south of the Simonside Hills. The roughly square park, extending to about , falls from above sea level at the south-east & south-west, to the centrally located stream which falls from to through the site. The B6341 road forms an eastern boundary of the park. The much smaller Grasslees Wood, slightly north of the park and on the other side of the road, is a strip of woodland up to wide and occupying , and is orientated in a north-east - south-west direction at about .
Both park and wood are listed as an increasingly uncommon examples of an alder and oak woodlands, their scarcity arising out of clearfelling and over-grazing which prevents new growth from being established.
Vegetation
Wooded areas of Billsmoor Park support alder (Alnus glutinosa) with some hazel (Corylus avellana) on lower lying wet soils, and an undergrowth of soft rush (Juncus effusus), tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa), wood-sedge (Carex sylvatica), greater-tussock sedge (C. paniculata) and pendulous sedge (C. pendula). Birch is found on steeper sections of the valley. Above the woodlands, open areas of the site support bracken and occasional birch, with grassland composed of mat grass (Nardus stricta), sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina), sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) and common bent (Agrostis capillaris). In very wet areas of the site, mire vegetation arises, including bog myrtle (Myrica gale), broad-leaved cottongrass (Eriophorum latifolium), grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) and purple moor-grass (Molinia caerulea) and, around springs, yellow pimpernel (Lysimachia nemorum), bugle (Ajuga reptans) and water mint (Mentha aquatica).
Grasslees Wood is dominated by sessile oak (Quercus petraea) with some birch (Betula pubescens). Groundcover indicative of a dry acid soil includes sweet vernal grass, common bent, creeping soft-grass (Holcus mollis), wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), tormentil (Potentilla erecta) and bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), together with remote sedge (Carex remota), oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris) and enchanter's nightshade (Circaea lutetiana).
The condition of Grasslees Wood was judged to be favourable-recovering in 2013, with some concerns about deer grazing noted. Billsmoor Park was found to have an 'unfavourable-recovering' condition in the same year, with enclosures erected preventing deer grazing appearing to work well. |
2005–06 Luton Town F.C. season | The 2005–06 season was the 120th season in the history of Luton Town Football Club, and the club's 85th consecutive year in the Football League. This was the club's first season in the second tier of English football since the 1995–96 season.
Mike Newell's Luton side made a strong start to the season, topping the table after the first three games and staying in the play-off places until mid-December. However, a poor second half to the season saw Luton eventually slip down the table to finish in tenth place, albeit above more-fancied sides such as Southampton and Leicester City. Striker Steve Howard was Luton's top goalscorer for the fifth season running, scoring 15 goals in total, despite playing parts of the campaign as a makeshift centre-back following injuries to most of the Luton defence. Indeed, this proved a common occurrence throughout the season, with Luton's relatively small squad forcing team members to play out of position when injuries or suspensions materialised.
Kenilworth Road was expanded at the beginning of the season to accommodate over 700 more fans and, combined with the large away followings of clubs such as Leeds United, Norwich City and Wolverhampton Wanderers, this saw the highest average attendance for Luton since their relegation from the top division in the 1991–92 season.
This article covers the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.
Background
The 2004–05 season had seen Luton promoted to the second tier of English football, winning the League One title with 98 points and both the most goals scored and fewest goals conceded. Six Luton players had been named in the Team of the Year, with 20-year-old centre-back Curtis Davies being named League One Player of the Year. Key players Sol Davis, Kevin Nicholls, Ahmet Brković and Steve Howard had all agreed contract extensions with the club in the face of transfer speculation, while squad players Lee Mansell and David Bayliss had been released.
Review
July and August
Wrexham's Trinidad and Tobago international winger Carlos Edwards joined Luton on a free transfer on 1 July. The club released utility player Alan Neilson and long-term injured defender Ian Hillier the same day. On 4 July, Luton signed Rowan Vine on a three-year contract from Portsmouth for £250,000. Vine had spent the previous season on a year-long loan at Luton, playing in 49 games.
The club began pre-season with a mini-tournament in Bulgaria, losing to Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia, and drawing with Cypriot Second Division club APEP. A day after returning to England, the club signed Aberdeen's Finnish international defender Markus Heikkinen and Reading forward Dean Morgan on free transfers. Both Heikkinen and Morgan signed two-year contracts. Young striker Calvin Andrew joined League Two club Grimsby Town on loan for a month on 4 August.
Luton began their season on 6 August with a 2–1 away win to recently relegated Crystal Palace, with Steve Howard and Ahmet Brković scoring, and captain Kevin Nicholls uncharacteristically missing a penalty. After the game, Luton manager Mike Newell reacted to comments in the Crystal Palace match programme that had suggested the game would be Luton's "cup final". Newell stated that "I do not expect to read condescending comments from fellow professionals." Three days later, Luton beat another side just relegated from the Premier League, winning 3–2 against Southampton at Kenilworth Road. New signing Dean Morgan scored the winning goal in stoppage-time. A 0–0 home draw with Leeds United was followed a week later with a 2–1 defeat to Stoke City in which Steve Howard was sent off for spitting at Carl Hoefkens. Howard received a three-game ban after Luton's appeal was rejected.
The club progressed into the second round of the League Cup with a 3–1 win over Leyton Orient on 23 August. Luton won their third league game on 27 August, Ahmet Brković scoring a bicycle kick and Kevin Nicholls a penalty to secure victory over Leicester City.
Luton were close to signing Ghanaian international midfielder Anthony Obodai from Ajax during the month, but the move fell through on 28 August due to complications with his visa.
Warren Feeney scored his first Luton goal in a 2–1 home victory against Millwall on 29 August to put Luton into third position in the table. Defender Curtis Davies scored the other goal in what would prove to be his last game in a Luton shirt; on 31 August, transfer deadline day, Davies moved to Premier League side West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £3 million – both a Luton and West Brom record in terms of money received and spent respectively. Midfielder Michael Leary moved to Bristol Rovers on a one-month loan the same day.
September and October
Luton drew 1–1 at home to title favourites Wolverhampton Wanderers on 10 September, Kevin Nicholls scoring a late goal, and then lost 1–0 to Queens Park Rangers three days later for their second defeat of the season. A 1–0 win over Hull City came on 17 September, followed by a 2–2 draw with Sheffield Wednesday a week later. Steve Howard scored all three of Luton's goals. In between these two league games, Luton lost 1–0 to Reading in the League Cup. Luton ended the month with an impressive 3–0 win over the previous season's play-off finalists Preston North End to sit in third place in the table, drawing praise from Preston manager Billy Davies. Midfielder Kevin Nicholls won the Championship's Player of the Month award for his performances.
The club beat Cardiff City 2–1 at Ninian Park on 1 October, midfielder Peter Holmes scoring one goal and setting up another. Bottom-of-the-table Crewe Alexandra beat Luton 3–1 on 15 October, but the club bounced back a few days later to defeat Norwich City 4–2 and return to their almost customary third place in the table. Plymouth Argyle scored a stoppage-time equaliser to deny Luton a win on 22 August, and the club then lost their fourth league game a week later, going down 1–0 at Coventry City.
Off the field, Luton loaned out youth player Thomas Ward to Dagenham & Redbridge, midfielder Stephen O'Leary to Tranmere Rovers, and Calvin Andrew for a second spell at Grimsby Town.
November and December
On 1 November, chairman Bill Tomlins announced that the club had changed its plans to build a new stadium near to Junction 10 of the M1 motorway, after being told the site would not be viable if Luton Airport was to earn permission to build a new runway. Instead, the owners began exploring the possibility of building a new stadium in time for the 2008–09 season near to Junction 12 – almost six miles away from their existing home of Kenilworth Road. Manager Mike Newell exhibited the first signs of a strained relationship with the club's board, criticising the lack of direction from the owners and stating that "[the owners] have been in 18 months, so why has it taken them 18 months to find out they can't build a stadium at Junction 10?"
The club lost three consecutive matches against Sheffield United (0–4), Burnley (2–3) and Norwich City (0–2) through early to mid-November, pushing them down the table to seventh place. Luton then beat Crewe Alexandra 4–1 and Crystal Palace 2–0, their ninth and tenth wins of the season, to end November in fifth position in the table. The club loaned out reserve goalkeeper Dino Seremet to League One club Doncaster Rovers for a month on 24 November.
Luton won just one of their six league games throughout December, pushing them out of the play-off positions, which they would not return to for the rest of the season. A heavy loss to leaders Reading on 3 December was followed up with narrow defeats to Southampton and Stoke City. A 1–1 draw on Boxing Day at Derby County was trailed by a 3–0 victory over strugglers Brighton & Hove Albion two days later. The club then lost 1–0 to Ipswich Town on New Year's Eve to drop to tenth in the table.
Match results
Luton Town results given first.
All results, goals, attendances etc. taken from Soccerbase and verified with match reports from LutonFC.com.
Legend
Friendlies
Football League Championship
FA Cup
Football League Cup
League table
Player statistics
Last match played on 30 April 2006. Players with a zero in every column appeared either as unused substitutes or were assigned squad numbers.
Managerial statistics
Only competitive games from the 2005–06 season are included.
Awards
Awarded on 23 April 2006.
Transfers
In
Out
Loans out |
Mike Vrabel | Michael George Vrabel (; born August 14, 1975) is an American football coach and former linebacker who is currently the head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State University, where he earned consensus All-American honors. He was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft, joined the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, where he became an All-Pro and a three-time Super Bowl champion, then finished his career with the Kansas City Chiefs.
After retiring as a player following the 2010 season, he was the linebackers and defensive line coach at Ohio State for three seasons. His NFL coaching career began in 2014 with the Houston Texans as linebackers coach and then defensive coordinator, before being hired in 2018 as head coach of the Titans.
Early years
Vrabel was born in Akron, Ohio. He is a 1993 graduate of Walsh Jesuit High School in nearby Cuyahoga Falls, where he was a standout on their football team.
Playing career
College
Vrabel accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Ohio State University, where he played defensive end from 1993 to 1996. He compiled twelve quarterback sacks as a sophomore, thirteen as a junior, and forty-eight tackles and nine sacks as a senior. As a senior in 1996, he was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American. Vrabel finished his career at Ohio State by being named the Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year in both 1995 and 1996, becoming only the second player to ever win the award twice (Wendell Bryant of Wisconsin being the other). He totaled thirty-six sacks and sixty-six tackles for a loss.
He was named to the Ohio State Football All-Century Team in 2000, and in 2012 was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.
National Football League
Pittsburgh Steelers
Vrabel was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round (91st overall) of the 1997 NFL Draft. He spent the first four seasons of his career in Pittsburgh. His most notable play as a Steeler came in his rookie season, when he sacked Drew Bledsoe in the 1997–98 AFC Divisional Playoffs to clinch a 7–6 win for the Steelers. Vrabel had 12 tackles and 2.5 sacks in 1998, 9 tackles and two sacks in 1999 and 15 tackles, one sack, and one fumble recovery in 2000.
New England Patriots
Vrabel joined the New England Patriots as a free agent for the 2001 season. He played in every game on defense, starting in 12. He would occasionally come in as an eligible receiver, lining up as a tight end. Belichick took advantage of this in 2004 in Super Bowl XXXVIII. In the fourth quarter, Tom Brady threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Vrabel, making Vrabel the first defensive player to score a Super Bowl touchdown on offense since William "Refrigerator" Perry did so for the Chicago Bears against the Patriots in 1986's Super Bowl XX. Vrabel was one of the defensive stars as well; he had two sacks (one forcing a fumble) of Carolina Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme.
In Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, Vrabel caught a two-yard touchdown pass despite being held by Philadelphia's Jevon Kearse, a feat pictured on the cover of the 2005 NFL Record and Fact Book. The reception made him one of 17 players to catch two or more touchdown passes in Super Bowls.
Vrabel finished with ten career receptions in just 14 targets, all for touchdowns. He caught one in 2002, two in 2004, three in 2005, and two in 2007 in the regular season, and one each in Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX, all with the Patriots, and one each in 2009 and 2010 with the Chiefs (thrown by former Patriot Matt Cassel). According to the website Cold Hard Football Facts, no other player in NFL history has a better record of converting receptions to touchdowns. His versatility was good enough for NFL Network to rank him #7 on their Top 10 episode of the Most Versatile Players.
In Week 8 of the 2007 season, Vrabel forced three fumbles, had three sacks, recovered an onside kick, and scored an offensive touchdown against the Washington Redskins, for which he was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week. In December 2007 he was selected to start at the Pro Bowl; in January 2008 he was named to the NFL All-Pro team for the 2007 season.
On December 26, 2005, on the final Monday Night Football game on ABC, Vrabel became, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the first player—since the official recording of sacks began in 1982—to have two touchdown catches and a sack in the same game.
Though right outside linebacker had been Vrabel's primary position in the Patriots' 3-4 scheme in his first four seasons with New England, in 2005 Vrabel moved to inside linebacker, because of the limited effectiveness of inside backers Monty Beisel and Chad Brown, although he had never before played inside in the NFL. By the time Tedy Bruschi had returned from injury, he and Vrabel were the two men starting inside. Rosevelt Colvin successfully filled Vrabel's old spot, and many cite the change in positions as a major contributor to the Patriots' rebound in the second half of the season. Vrabel moved inside again late in the 2006 season after Junior Seau broke his arm.
Kansas City Chiefs
On February 27, 2009, the Patriots traded Vrabel to the Kansas City Chiefs for what was originally announced as an undisclosed draft pick. The following day it was revealed that Patriots traded both Vrabel and Matt Cassel in exchange for the Chiefs' second round pick, the 34th overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft.
NFL statistics
Coaching career
Ohio State
Vrabel retired on July 10, 2011 to become the linebackers coach at Ohio State. On December 21, 2011 new Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer decided to keep Vrabel on as part of his coaching staff as defensive line coach.
Houston Texans
On January 10, 2014, Vrabel was hired by the Houston Texans as a linebackers coach. During his three seasons as linebackers coach, the Texans ranked third in the NFL in yards allowed per game. In January 2016 news outlets reported that the San Francisco 49ers offered Vrabel their defensive coordinator job; Vrabel declined the offer and remained in Houston. In January 2017 the Texans named Vrabel as their defensive coordinator, moving previous coordinator Romeo Crennel to assistant head coach. He coached players such as JJ Watt, Jadeveon Clowney, Whitney Mercilus, and Benardrick McKinney.
Tennessee Titans
On January 20, 2018, Vrabel was hired as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans on a five-year deal. On September 16, 2018, Vrabel beat the Houston Texans 20–17 in Week 2 for his first career win as a head coach. On September 30, 2018, he led the Titans to a 26–23 overtime victory over the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles in a Week 4 upset. On November 11, 2018, Vrabel beat his former longtime coach Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in a 34–10 Week 10 victory. Under Vrabel, the Titans' defense improved from the 13th-ranked defense in 2017 to the eighth-ranked defense in 2018. Vrabel and the Titans narrowly missed the playoffs by one game and finished the 2018 season with a 9–7 record.
The 2019 season saw the Titans once again finish 9-7, however, this occurrence would be enough to make the playoffs as a six-seed. During a 16-0 shutout loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 6, Vrabel elected to bench quarterback Marcus Mariota in favor of Ryan Tannehill, a move that would remain for the remainder of the season as the Titans won seven of their final ten games despite starting 2-4.
In the Wild Card round, Tennessee upset the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 20-13, led by running back Derrick Henry's 204 yards from scrimmage, to advance to the Divisional round against the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens, where they would once again pull off an upset, winning 28-12 behind another breakout performance from Henry with 202 scrimmage yards along with a passing touchdown on a trick play. With the win, the Titans advanced to their first AFC Championship game in seventeen seasons, where they were eliminated by the eventual Super Bowl LIV champion Kansas City Chiefs, losing 35-24.
Head coaching record
Personal life
Vrabel and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons, Tyler and Carter. Tyler currently plays offensive line for the Boston College Eagles football team. Carter committed to play baseball at Wabash Valley College in September of 2019. Vrabel founded the "Mike's Second and Seven Foundation" with his former Ohio State teammates Ryan Miller and Luke Fickell to promote literacy in the Ohio area.
In March 2011, Vrabel was arrested and charged with a Class D felony for theft at an Indiana casino. According to reports from Kansas City television station KMBC and ProFootballTalk.com, the incident involved eight bottles of beer at a deli. Vrabel was released after posting a $600 bond. |
Stefanía Maggiolini | Stefanía Teresa Maggiolini Fort (born 15 October 1986) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player, who played as a defensive midfielder. She has been a member of the Uruguay women's national team. She currently manages the women's under–19 team of Defensor Sporting.
Maggiolini previously played for Club Nacional, Rampla Juniors and CA River Plate in Montevideo and UE L'Estartit in Spain.
As a member of the Uruguay national team, she played 20 games in U19, U20, First team and 2007 Pan American Games.
Club career
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Maggiolini started her career with Club Nacional de Football. In 2003, she was the top scorer making 17 goals in the first division with only 14 years.
International career
Maggiolini represented Uruguay at the 2004 South American U-19 Women's Championship and the 2006 South American U-20 Women's Championship. At senior level, she played two Copa América Femenina editions (2003, 2006 and 2010) and the 2007 Pan American Games. |
Karen Gallardo | Karen Pamela Gallardo Pinto (born 6 March 1984 in Copiapó, Atacama) is a Chilean athlete. She competed for Chile in discus at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Personal bests
Shot put: 13.48 m – Santiago de Chile, 24 October 2009
Discus throw: 60.48 m NR – Santiago de Chile, 22 October 2011
Competition record |
Raavitsa | Raavitsa (also known as Raavitse) is a village in Karula Parish, Valga County, in southeastern Estonia. It borders the town of Valga in the west, Tartu–Valga railway in the northwest and Valga–Pechory railway in the south. Raavitsa has an unused station named "Raavitse" on Tartu–Valga line.
The centre of Valga is 5 km away, it's accessible via Tambre tee.
Raavitsa has a population of 67 (as of 1 January 2004). |
Samsung NX500 | The Samsung NX500 is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera announced by Samsung in February 2015. Like the flagship Samsung NX1, it has a 28-megapixel back-illuminated sensor, but lacks the electronic viewfinder of the top model. It succeeds the Samsung NX300. |
Pantelamprus fimbripedana | Pantelamprus fimbripedana is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found on Borneo.
Adults are a pale fawn colour, squamous (scaly), silky. The forewings are rounded at the tips, with a broad white streak which extends along more than half of the middle length of the costa and is convex towards the disc. There are a few black and brown speckles and a broad brown streak which extends from near the tip of the white mark to the interior angle. The costa is convex towards the base and the exterior border is slightly convex and oblique. |
September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) | Sep. 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 21.
Saints
Saint Phoebe, Deaconess of Cenchreae near Corinth (1st century)
Hieromartyr Aristion of Alexandria (Kelladion), Bishop of Alexandria Scabiosa (modern Iskenderun) (c. 167)
Hieromartyr Anthimus of Nicomedia, Bishop of Nicomedia (302)
Hieromartyr Theophilus the Deacon, and martyrs Dorotheus, Mardonius, Migdonius, Peter, Indes, Gorgonius, Zeno, Virgin Domna, and Euthymius (302)
Martyr Basilissa of Nicomedia (309)
Martyr Zenon, immersed in a cauldron of boiling lead.
Martyr Chariton, thrown into a pit of boiling lime.
Martyr Archontius.
Venerable Theoctistus of Palestine, fellow ascetic with Venerable Euthymius the Great (451)
Saint Constantine the New (Heraclius Constantine), Emperor of Byzantium, in the Church of the Holy Apostles (641)
Saint Trivelius Theoktist (Khan Tervel of Bulgaria), who played an important role in defeating the Arabs during the Siege of Constantinople in 717–718 (721)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saints Euphemia, Dorothy, Thecla and Erasma, a group of virgin-martyrs in Aquileia in Italy, venerated in Venice and Ravenna (1st century)
Saint Mansuetus (Mansuy), Bishop of Toul in France, Confessor (c. 350)
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Sens in France (c. 455)
Saint Macanisius (Mac Nisse of Connor), the founder and first bishop-abbot of Connor (514)
Saint Auxanus (Sant'Ansano), Bishop of Milan (568)
Saint Maurilius, Bishop of Cahors in France (580)
Saint Natalis, a priest in Casale in Piedmont (6th century)
Saint Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604) (see also: March 12)
Saint Remaclus, Bishop of Maastricht (c. 663)
Saint Frugentius, a monk at Fleury Abbey, martyred with St Aigulphus, Abbot of Lérins in France (675)
Saint Aigulphus of Provence (Ayou, Ayoul), Abbot of Lérins (c. 676)
Saint Hereswith, a princess from Northumbria in England, and sister of St Hilda, she ended her life as a nun at Chelles Abbey in France (c. 690)
Saint Regulus (Reol), a monk at Rebais in France with St Philibert, later Archbishop of Rheims and founder of the monastery of Orbais (698)
Saint Sandalus (Sandila, Sandolus, Sandulf), a martyr in Cordoba in Spain under the Moors (c. 855)
Saint Edward the Martyr, Martyr and King of England (978) (see also: March 18 and February 13 - translation of relics)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Saint Ioannicius II, First Serbian Patriarch, Wonderworker (1354)
Blessed John "the Hairy", Fool-for-Christ of Rostov (1580)
New Martyr Polydorus of Leucosia, Cyprus, at New Ephesus (1794)
New martyrs and confessors
New Hieromartyr Pimen (Belolikov), Bishop of Vernensk and Semirechensk (1918)
New Hieromartyr Meletius (Golokolosv), Hieromonk of the Issyk-Kul Holy Trinity Monastery, Kyrgyzstan (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Sergius Fenomenov, Basil Kolmikov, Philip Shatsky, and Vladimir Dmitrievsky, Priests (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Basil Krasivsky and Parthenius Krasivsky, Priests (1919)
New Hieromartyrs Andrew Dalnikov and Theophan Sokolov, Priests (1920)
New Hieromartyrs Vladimir Sadovsky and Michael Sushkov, Priests (1921)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Sushchevsky, Priest (1923)
New Hieromartyr Euthymius Krygovich, Priest, and 4 martyrs with him (1924)
New Hieromartyr Romanus Marchenko, Priest (1929)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Zinoviev, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Elias Bazhanov, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Peter Sorokin, Deacon of Alma-Ata (1953)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Theotokos of Pisidian Sozopolis (608)
Repose of Priest Peter of Uglich, Fool-for-Christ (1866)
Translation of the relics (1953) of St. Nektarios (Kephalas) of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker (1920)
Translation of the relics of Venerable Anthimos (Vagianos) of Chios (1960)
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BCC-RAPID | Brisbane City Council - Realtime Advanced Priority and Information Delivery (BCC-RAPID) is a
bus priority and passenger information system developed by Brisbane City Council that is in use on the South-East and Inner-Northern busways and will be implemented on the Northern and Eastern Brisbane busways when they are constructed. It aims to improve road capacity by encouraging people to use buses.
RAPID is built upon Brisbane City Council's BLISS ITS platform and uses existing traffic signal infrastructure to track the buses and to lower communications costs.
RAPID uses detector loops in the road and transponders on buses to track the location of buses
on the road and busway network. The data collected is used in a complex mathematical formula to predict the arrival time of buses at all busway stations and selected stops on the suburban network. The predicted arrival times are displayed on electronic signs for the information of people waiting at these stops.
Operations staff are able to use the system to identify the precise location of buses within the road network. Specifically the system displays bus numbers, route numbers, driver numbers, how early or late a bus is, where it originated and where it will terminate.
The system also has the ability, when configured, to provide traffic light priority to buses if they are running late. This is possible because the same detection loops in the road network are used to control the traffic lights throughout the city.
The system has had significant problems, with information displays frequently being inaccurate, and buses simply not arriving, or their information simply disappearing from the screens. |
Monte Tanarello | Monte Tanarello (Italian) or Mont Tanarel (French) is a 2094 metres high mountain located on the French-Italian border.
Etymology
Tanarello is the diminutive form of Tanaro, the main right-hand tributary of river Po. The river rises between Monte Saccarello and Monte Tanarello as a stream named Tanarello and becomes Tanaro after receiving the waters of another stream called Negrone.
History
The mountain up to World War II was totally belonging to Italy but, following the Paris Peace Treaties, signed on February 1947, is now shared between Italy and France.
Geography
The mountain stands on the main chain of the Alps between Passo Tanarello (2042 m) and Passo Basera (2036 m). Its Italian side belongs to the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont (Tanaro valley), and the French one to Alpes-Maritimes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Roya valley).
SOIUSA classification
According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:
main part = Western Alps
major sector = South Western Alps
section = Ligurian Alps
subsection = Alpi del Marguareis
supergroup = Catena del Saccarello
group = Gruppo del Monte Saccarello
subgroup = Nodo del Monte Saccarello
code = I/A-1.II-A.1.a
Environment
The eastern side of the mountain is gentle and grassy while the western one is a little more rocky and steep.
Access to the summit
The mountain is easily accessible by unmarked traks departing from Passo Tanarello or Passo Basera. The summit can also be accessed by mountain bike or with snowshoes.
Mountain huts
Rifugio Sanremo (2,054 m) |
Samuel Town, Sierra Leone | Samuel Town is a village in the Western Area Rural District of Sierra Leone. The major industry in the town is farming. Samuel Town lies about five miles from the Rural District main city of Waterloo and approximately 20 miles outside Freetown.
Demographics
The Mende people are the principal inhabitant of Samuel Town and they also make up the vast majority of the population in the town. The Limba and Krio are the largest minorities that reside in the town.
History
Samuel Town was originally known as Samai Town, named after its founder, a great Mende warrior from the south of Sierra Leone, named Pa Samai. Pa Samai is believed to have fought in the Boma War and the First World War. |
Villa di Pratolino | The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1820. Its remains are now part of the Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached from the main road to Bologna.
History
The villa was built by Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in part to please his Venetian mistress, the celebrated Bianca Cappello. Villa and gardens were designed by his court architect, designer and engineer Bernardo Buontalenti, who completed the construction from 1569 to 1581. It was sufficiently finished to provide the setting for Francesco's public wedding to Bianca Cappello in 1579. In its time it was a splendid example of the Mannerist garden.
Francesco had assembled most of the property, which was not a hereditary Medici possession, by September 1568, and construction began the following spring.
The garden was laid out along a perfectly straight down-slope axis passing through the center of the villa, which stood midway. Down the central descent, the visitor still walks under a cooling arch of fountain jets, without getting wet.
Michel de Montaigne, one of the earliest visitors to leave a description of Pratolino, saw it in 1581, and considered it to have been built, he thought when visiting Villa d'Este, "precisely in rivalry with this place". A long description was published by a Florentine, Francesco de' Vieri, in 1586. Giusto Utens included a view of the southern half of the villa complex among his series of lunettes containing bird's-eye views of the Medicean villas, painted in 1599. Six views were etched by Stefano Della Bella in the mid-17th century, and the picture is rounded out by further 18th century descriptions. Nevertheless, Pratolino has not survived, as other Medici villas have.
Though the villa and its fountains were kept in repair, after Francesco's death it was deserted; in the eighteenth century some of its sculptures were removed to adorn the extension of the Boboli Gardens, and the place was left to fall into decay; by 1798 a German visitor was impressed with the romantic ruin of it. Grand Duke Ferdinand III decided to capitalize on the air of overgrown wildness; in 1820 it was decided to demolish the villa, and the garden was then re-designed in the English landscape manner and became one of the most romantic gardens ever seen in Tuscany. In 1872 the complex was sold by the heirs of Leopold II, former Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Prince Pavel Pavlovich Demidov who restored the Paggeria, or pages' lodgings of the former residence, as the Villa Demidoff di Pratolino. The property was eventually inherited by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Later the park was bought by the province of Florence who maintain the park and open it for public use from April through October.
The complicated iconography of the garden is embodied in the brooding statue of "Appennino" (1579-1580), a colossal sculpture by Giambologna, which originally seemed to emerge from the vaulted rockwork niche that once surrounded him. Multiple grottoes with water-driven automata, a water organ, surprise jets that drenched visitors' finery when the fontanieri opened secret spigots, offered striking juxtapositions of Art with imitations of rugged Nature.
Notes
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Noah Fant | Noah Fant (born November 20, 1997) is an American football tight end for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and was drafted by the Broncos in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
Early years
Before his high school years Fant attended Morton Magnet Middle school and played football for them as well. For high school Fant attended and played high school football at Omaha South High School.
College career
During his sophomore season at Iowa, Fant tied the national record for touchdowns by tight ends with 11, and led the nation in yards per catch, averaging 16.5. Fant's 11 touchdown receptions set a school record for touchdown catches by a tight end. Fant's efforts garnered him Third Team All-Big Ten honors for the 2017 season. Prior to the 2018 season, Fant was named a preseason All American.
On November 30, 2018, Fant announced that he was declaring for the 2019 NFL Draft.
Statistics
Source:
Professional career
Noah Fant was selected 20th overall by the Denver Broncos in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
2019
Fant made his NFL debut in Week 1 against the Oakland Raiders. In the game, Fant made two catches for 29 yards and rushed one time for -5 yards in the 24-16 loss.
In week 4 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Fant caught 2 passes for 31 yards and his first career touchdown in the 26-24 loss. During Week 9 against the Cleveland Browns, Fant finished with 3 catches for 115 receiving yards, including a 75-yard touchdown as the Broncos won 24-19. During Week 14 against the Houston Texans, Fant finished with 4 catches for 113 yards and a touchdown as the Broncos won 38-24.
NFL statistics |
Tihu | Tihu (Pron:ˈtɪhuː) is a town and a town area committee established in 1951 in Nalbari district in the Indian state of Assam.
The ancient name of Tihu was 'Dihu'. According to Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha, 'DI' means 'water' and 'HU' means 'flow'. 'Dihu' is actually a word of Bodo language. The ancient name of the town came from the name of the river 'Dihu', which flows through the heart of Tihu Town. According to Assamese scholar, Banikanta Kakati, the name of the river transformed to 'Tihu' as time passed by. So the name of the town too changed to 'Tihu'.
The peopling and settlement in the area indicates replacement of early inhabited people in town and many parts of its adjacent areas to present scenery. At present, Tihu's revenue circle consists of 39 villages (out of which 11 villages are under Bodoland Territorial Council area) and an urban centre. Tihu town itself covers .
The Tihu River originates from a lake in Bhutan, the Singra River (called in olden days, now it is known as Tihu River). The Tihu used to play a vital role of communication for trade and commerce in the area before connected by roads.
A famous mill was located in Tihu which was known as 'Tihu Daga Rice Mill'. The mill was mainly used to extract rice from paddy and mustard oil from mustard seeds. Due to extremist activities, the mill had to be shut down immediately in the mid 1990s.
Demographics
India census, Tihu had a population of 4301. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Tihu town has an average literacy rate of almost 80 %, much higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 84%, and female literacy is 79%. In Tihu, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.
How to reach
Tihu is well connected to the outer world through rail and road. It is from Guwahati, the capital of Assam and 25 km from Nalbari, the District Headquarters. The East West Corridor (NH 31) of India is just 3 km from main town. The rail station is situated towards the south of the town. Seven daily passenger trains and Kamrup Express provide connectivity to Guwahati, Bongaigoan and Kolkata. Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Airport which connects to all major cities of India and South East Asia is just 90 km from Tihu
Industries in Tihu
Tihu is a small industrial township since the British reign. It had many big mills including Sintex and Daga Mill. Various business people from all over India came to the town for trade. But mismanagement and insurgency problem in the region made these industries to close down and Tihu lost the title of Industrial Hub. Despite these problems, Tihu is on the verge of getting a new makeover in the industrial arena again. The North East Mega Food Park is the upcoming mega projects in Tihu (Nathkuchi).
North East Mega Food Park
The upcoming Mega Food Park is going to increase the GDP of Tihu. The park will host Food Processing units with investment in the range of 100 Cr. The Mega Food Park Project will have a Central Processing Centre (CPC) at Nathkuchi, Tihu covering 50 acres of land supported by a network of six Primary Processing Centres (PPC) and 19 Collection Centres(CC) spread across the entire NE Region.
Shopping facilities
The Daily market is situated at the heart of the Town. All types of amenities from vegetables to electronics are readily available in the market.
Educational institutions
Tihu College, established in 1963, is one of the premier institutes of higher education. The college is affiliated to Gauhati University and offers courses on HS and TDC in both Arts and Science.
The only private college in the town is Aryabhatta Junior college for H.S in Arts & Commerce.
There are many government and private schools mainly:
Tihu High School
Tihu Girl's High School
Tihu Lower Primary School
Jatiya Vidyalaya, Tihu
Vivekananda Vidya Niketan
Angel Academy, Tihu
Sankardev Sishu Vidya Niketan, Tihu
K.K.Handiqui State Open University, Study Centre IYDE, TIHU
Maharshi Vidya Mandir
Nalanda Public School
Tihu College, Tihu
Temples
The Haladhibari Kalimandir is located in Tihu in Assam, India. Ranakuchi Helchapara Manasa Mandir.
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João Neves | João Neves (born 6 November 1963) is a Portuguese judoka. He competed in the men's extra-lightweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. |
Haaparannan sanomat | Haaparannan sanomat ('Haparanda News') was a Finnish-language twice-weekly liberal newspaper published from Haparanda, Sweden, between 1916 and 1917. It was linked to the Swedish-language newspaper Haparanda Nyheter. Arwi Hällfors was the editor of the newspaper. |
Barg-e Najaf | Barg-e Najaf (, also Romanized as Barg-e Najaft; also known as Najaft) is a village in Gerit Rural District, Papi District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 122, across 23 families. |
Chah-e Shakari | Chah-e Shakari (, also Romanized as Chāh-e Shakarī) is a village in Banaruiyeh Rural District, Banaruiyeh District, Larestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 13, in 6 families. |
Commissioner of Health of the City of New York | The Commissioner of Health of the City of New York is the head of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The commissioner is appointed by the Mayor of New York City, and also serves on the city's Board of Health with the chairperson of the Department's Mental Hygiene Advisory Board and nine other members appointed by the mayor.
History
The Metropolitan Board of Health, which was the predecessor agency to the Department of Health and consisted of sanitary and vital statistics bureaus, had its first meeting on March 5, 1866. The modern Department of Health, under a single commissioner, was formed by the New York City Charter revision pursuant to Chapter 137 of the Laws of 1870 passed by the New York State legislature. In the early years after its formation, commissioners were sometimes political appointments, with no experience in medicine or related fields. In 2002, the Department of Health was merged with the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services to form the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Qualifications
City regulations currently require that the commissioner of health must be a doctor of medicine, and have either
an M.P.H. degree, an M.B.A. or M.P.A. degree with concentration in the health field, or an equivalent degree and at least five years' teaching experience college or university public health, or
at least five years' experience in public health administration.
Duties
According to the New York City Charter, the commissioner is broadly responsible for preparing plans for construction and operation of medical and health care facilities and establishing their priorities, has the power to compel the testimony of witnesses and produce reports and documents in matters regarding health, and assess penalties up to $1,000 for violations or failures to comply with health notices or regulations. These duties involve regulating and overseeing matters ranging from reportable contagious diseases, to registration of birth and deaths, restaurant inspections, selling food from carts, selling tobacco products to minors and monitoring of smoking in public areas, regulation of wild animals, and sending health alerts to the public and doctors.
List of Commissioners of Health of the City of New York |
Bullets and Daffodils | Bullets and Daffodils is a musical about the life of the war poet Wilfred Owen, created by musician and composer Dean Johnson and directed by Dean Sullivan. The musical is based on Owen's poems set to music by Johnson, with the addition of new songs written by Johnson to help narrate the story of Owen's life.
Performances
Johnson attended the Birkenhead Institute as Owen had done previously and had become influenced by his poetry during his teenage years. The first performance of the musical was in 2010 at the Birkenhead Central Library, and subsequently moved to the Lyceum Theatre in Port Sunlight, Wirral, narrated by Sullivan.
The musical moved to the Forum Theatre in Chester in March 2012, including contributions from John Gorman and David Gilmour.
On 9 June 2012, a preview of the West End's performance took place at Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton, featuring Chloe Torpey as Susan Owen, Phil Gwilliam and Charlotte Roberts. Danny Morris made a special guest appearance playing the part of Wilfred Owen.
The London première of the musical occurred on 29 July 2012 in the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, directed by Illy Hill and featuring Christopher Timothy and Wet Wet Wet's Graeme Clark.
A UK tour based around places that Wilfred Owen visited or stayed in during his lifetime has been organised for Autumn 2012 with dates in Blackpool, Stratford upon Avon, Dunsden, Oswestry, Heswall, Nelson and Ripon. In October, the musical was performed at Dunsden Green, Oxfordshire, where Owen lived from September 1911 to February 1913.
Reception
Time Out described the musical as "Bizarre and intriguing, in equal parts." |
Christoph Soukup | Christoph Reinhold Soukup (born October 11, 1980 in Vienna) is an Austrian professional mountain biker. Riding the sport for more than 15 years, Soukup has won fourteen Austrian national championship titles in men's mountain biking (both cross-country and marathon races), and later represented his nation Austria in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), where he installed top-fifteen finishes in the same tournament. Throughout his sporting career, Soukup has been training and racing professionally for more than a decade on the Hitec Sports Team, although he had appeared short stints under a sponsorship contract on Fuji and Mérida Biking Team.
Soukup first competed for Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished fifteenth in the men's cross-country race with a time of 2:22:50, trailing behind Polish rider and four-time Olympian Marek Galiński on a tight sprint duel by 36 seconds.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Soukup qualified for his second Austrian squad in the men's cross-country race by receiving an automatic berth from the Austrian Cycling Federation () and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), based on his top-five performance at the World Cup series, World and European Championships, and Mountain Biking World Series. Despite having suffered a sore throat and slight fever shortly before the race, Soukup recorded his highest career position on a 4.8-km sturdy, treacherous cross-country course with a much stronger, sixth-place time in 2:00:11, but narrowly missed the Olympic podium by two minutes.
Soukup also sought a bid for his third Austrian squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but decided to pull himself off shortly from the final stage of the UCI World Cup in La Bresse, France due to a sustained scaphoid injury.
Career achievements
2004
1st Kos Cup (Cross-country), Greece
1st XC Samobor (Cross-country, Elite/U23), Samobor (CRO)
15th Olympic Games (Cross-country), Athens (GRE)
2005
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Austria
2006
7th Stage 6, UCI World Cup, Schladming (AUT)
2007
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Austria
11th UCI World Championships (Cross-country), Fort William (GBR)
2008
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Austria
1st Heubach MTB Classic, Heubach (GER)
5th European Championships (Cross-country), Sankt Wendel (GER)
6th Olympic Games (Cross-country), Beijing (CHN)
6th UCI World Championships (Cross-country), Val di Sole (ITA)
7th Stage 4, UCI World Cup (Cross-country), Fort William (GBR)
2009
1st Kamptal Klassik, Austria
3rd Overall, Afxentia Stage Race, Cyprus
3rd Stage 1 & 3
4th UCI World Championships (Marathon), Graz (AUT)
2010
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Haiming (AUT)
6th European Championships (Cross-country), Haifa (ISR)
2012
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Stattegg (AUT)
2013
1st Austrian MTB Championships (Marathon), Graz (AUT)
3rd Austrian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Austria |
Marshall Academy | Marshall Academy is a 3K to 12th grade college preparatory school in Holly Springs, Mississippi that opened in 1968. According to the school's website, Marshall Academy is "built on Christian principles and the love of learning." The school's teams compete as the Patriots and Lady Patriots.
History
In 1965, Marshall Academy was the first private school in Mississippi to receive a charter according to the school's website. It opened in 1968 with 150 students in grades 1 through 8 in temporary facilities leased from the First Baptist, First Methodist, and Christ Episcopal Churches. A high School, a pre-school, and kindergarten were added in 1969.
Marshall Academy opened in the 1960s during the era of desegregation when many segregation academy schools opened catering to families that opposed integration and did not want their children to go to school with African Americans. The school is now open to "students desiring a college preparatory education of any race, color, creed, religion, gender, or ethnic origin" and does not discriminate according to the school's website.
The school's website says it is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) and the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS).
Sports
In 1969 it joined The Northern Division of an athletic conference with Fayette Academy of Somerville, Tennessee, Tunica Institute of Learning of Tunica, Mississippi, Kirk Academy of Grenada, Mississippi, Bayou Academy of Skene, and Pillow Academy in Leflore County, Mississippi.
In 2017 the school's softball team coached by Carlton Gibson became Class AA state champions. The team also won state championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2017 the school's football team competed in the Southeastern Commission of Independent Schools Kickoff Classic in Montgomery Alabama. In 2017 alumnus Traci Rodgers became coach of the Lady Patriots basketball team.
In 2018 a volunteer assistant softball coach at the school was arrested for an assault on a child in his family. Bruce Branch was named the school's head baseball coach in 2018. A fourth grader from the school won a state spelling bee that ended in a two-way tie.
Alumni
Fox News reporter Shepard Smith went to Marshall Academy and graduated in the class of 1982. In a 2005 interview he said his class was the largest in the school's history when he graduated with about 60 others. After high school he moved to Florida with his mom before returning to Mississippi to study journalism at the University of Mississippi. |
Shepherd's Guide | "Shepherd's Guide" is the title given to several books, that were published to help shepherds identify stray herds. The books depict patterns of sheep marking, in the ear and on the wool, and name their owner with his residence.
One of the earliest Shepherd's Guide was prepared for parts of Cumberland by Joseph Walker, in 1817. Hosgson's 1849 Guide was delivered to a list of subscribers, while Gate's new shepherd's guide for Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, of 1879, has numerous pages of advertisements. While all of those feature a detailed engraving of sheep (repeated with different marks), the books from the late 19th and 20th centuries have a line sketch. Some were designed as pocket-books, and others were bigger. The later books are attributed to various farmer associations, and cover a wider perimeter.
The books are useful as a genealogical and local history resource, and as collectibles.
List of Shepherd's Guides |
Ząbki | Ząbki is a town in central Poland with 31,884 inhabitants (2013). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, just northeast of Warsaw.
History
Ząbki is a young city, having obtained city status in 1967. It is located away from Warsaw city center. It borders Warsaw to the south and west, the city of Marki to the north and Zielonka to the east.
Transport
Railway line connects the city to Warszawa Wileńska, proximity to expressways makes for easy road access both to the north of Warsaw via Trasa AK, and south via Trasa Siekierkowska and Lazienkowska.
Several bus routes connect Ząbki with Warsaw: lines 145, 190, 199, 718, 738, 740, 805 and night buses N61 and N62. |
System migration | System migration involves moving a set of instructions or programs, e.g., PLC (programmable logic controller) programs, from one platform to another, minimizing reengineering.
Migration of systems can also involve downtime, while the old system is replaced with a new one.
Migration can be from a mainframe computer which has a closed architecture, to an open system which employ x86 servers. As well, migration can be from an open system to a Cloud Computing platform. The motivation for this can be the cost savings. Migration can be simplified by tools that can automatically convert data from one form to another. There are also tools to convert the code from one platform to another to be either compiled or interpreted. Vendors of such tools include Micro Focus and Metamining. An alternative to converting the code is the use of software that can run the code from the old system on the new system. Examples are Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench, Morphis - Transformer and products for LINC 4GL.
Migration may also be required when the hardware is no longer available. See JOVIAL. |
Mikey Nicholls | Michael Nicholls (born 20 August 1985) is an Australian professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, known by the ring name Mikey Nicholls. He is best known for his work in the Pro Wrestling Noah promotion, where, as part of The Mighty Don't Kneel with partner Shane Haste, he is a former two-time GHC Tag Team Champion. Other promotions he has wrestled for include the WWE in their promotion WWE NXT as Nick Miller, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and Ring of Honor in the United States.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (2001–2011)
Nicholls started training in Perth at the Dynamite Factory, the wrestling school of Explosive Pro Wrestling. He moved to California and started working for promotions in the United States, such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, NWA Pro, and World League Wrestling.
Nicholls has trained at the New Japan Pro-Wrestling's L.A. Dojo, based in Los Angeles. He wrestled for NJPW in Tokyo in 2006. Also in 2006, Nicholls unsuccessfully challenged for the NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship.
In June 2007, after NWA split with TNA, Nicholls was involved in the Reclaiming the Glory tournament to crown a new NWA Heavyweight Champion, but was defeated in the tournament by Fergal Devitt. In September 2007, Nicholls defeated champion Karl Anderson and Ryan Taylor in a 30-minute Iron Man match for the Empire Wrestling Federation American Championship. In 2009, Nicholls wrestled for Ring of Honor.
Pro Wrestling Noah (2011–2016)
On 23 February 2011 Nicholls made his debut in Pro Wrestling Noah as he had a try-out match against his teammate Shane Haste. A month after the try-out match both men started to work full-time with the Japanese promotion. Nicholls competed in both the 2012 and 2013 Global League tournaments as a singles competitor. On 7 July 2013 Haste and Nicholls, known together as The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK), won the GHC Tag Team Championship after they defeated Toru Yano and Takashi Iizuka. On 16 September, Nicholls unsuccessfully challenged Kenta for Noah's top title, the GHC Heavyweight Championship. At the end of 2013, the Tokyo Sports magazine named Nicholls and Haste the tag team of the year, making them the first foreign team to win the award since Stan Hansen and Vader in 1998. Nicholls and Haste lost the GHC Tag Team Championship to Maybach Taniguchi and Takeshi Morishima on 25 January 2014. They regained the title from Dangan Yankies (Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura) on 10 January 2015. They lost the title to K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer) on 11 February. On 28 December 2015, Noah announced that Nicholls and Haste would leave the promotion following their contracts expiring at the end of the year. On 11 February 2016, Noah announced that Nicholls and Haste would return to the promotion the following month to take part in a five-show-long farewell tour, entitled "Departure to the World". Their final Noah match took place on 10 March and saw them defeat Naomichi Marufuji and Mitsuhiro Kitamiya.
Other promotions (2012–2016)
After starting out in Noah, Nicholls returned to the United States and Ring of Honor in February 2012. He and Haste won a tournament at ROH Rise & Prove, defeating two other teams to qualify for a match against the Briscoe Brothers. At the ROH Showdown in the Sun iPPV in March 2012, the Briscoe Brothers defeated Nicholls and Haste in a Proving Ground match.
Also in February 2012, Nicholls and Haste wrestled television matches for NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Also in March 2012, Nicholls and Haste started wrestling for Ohio Valley Wrestling, during their stint there, they were defeated in a title match for the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship by Rudy Switchblade and Jessie Godderz.
On 20 December 2014, Nicholls and Haste made their debut for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, when they, along with Naomichi Marufuji, were revealed as Toru Yano's tag team partners at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome on 4 January 2015. At the event, the four defeated Suzuki-gun (Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, Shelton X Benjamin and Takashi Iizuka) in an eight-man tag team match.
WWE (2015–2018)
In June 2015, Nicholls and Haste took part in a WWE tryout camp. In February 2016, it was reported that Nicholls and Haste were scheduled to join WWE's NXT brand following their Noah farewell tour.
On 25 March 2016, WWE confirmed the signings of both Nicholls and his tag team partner, Shane Haste. They began training at the WWE Performance Center in April, while working for the promotion's developmental branch NXT. During the 19 May NXT tapings, Haste and Nicholls were renamed Shane Thorne and Nick Miller, respectively, while TMDK was renamed TM-61. On the 19 November, at NXT TakeOver: Toronto, TM-61 lost in the finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic to The Authors of Pain. Thorne then had knee surgery, which was expected to sideline him for seven to nine months. He returned on 14 September. TM-61 then entered the 2018 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, being eliminated by The Authors of Pain in the first round. The team was officially renamed “The Mighty” on the 6 June episode of NXT. On December 14, Miller requested and was granted his release from WWE. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Miller asked for his release in order to spend more time with his family in Australia.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2019–present)
On February 24, 2019, it was announced that Nicholls would be returning to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and would be competing in the 2019 New Japan Cup. Rocky Romero subsequently revealed him as the newest member of the faction Chaos. Chaos is a group Romero is a member of, that is led by Kazuchika Okada. He would defeat Hikuleo in the first round, but would be eliminated by Okada in the second round.
Championships and accomplishments
Empire Wrestling Federation
EWF American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Explosive Pro Wrestling
EPW Heavyweight Championship (3 times, current)
EPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shane Haste
EPW Match of the Year (2002) – vs. Jimmy Payne at Retribution
EPW Wrestler of the Year (2004, 2005)
EPW Best Wrestler of the first five Years (2006)
EPW Telethon Rumble winner (2009)
NWA Pro Wrestling
NWA Australian National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Australian National Championship Tournament winner (2007)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #154 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
Pro Wrestling Noah
GHC Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Shane Haste
Global Tag League Fighting Spirit Award (2015) – with Shane Haste
Ring of Honor
Rise and Prove Tournament (2012) – with Shane Haste
Tokyo Sports
Best Tag Team Award (2013) – with Shane Haste |
Károly Fellinger | Károly Fellinger (born 1963) is a Hungarian poet, writer, local historian living in Slovakia.
Life and works
Born in Bratislava, Károly Fellinger lives in Jelka since his childhood. During his high school years in the Hungarian Academic Grammar School of Galanta, he was the editor in chief of the school journal and the founding editor of the quarterly review Words of Jelka (Jelčianské slovo) between 1993 and 2003. He used to work as an agronomist, now he runs his own smallholding. He has published 20 books in Hungarian so far. Most of them are collections of poems for adults and children, a village monograph and tales. As a mythographer, he collected the tales and legends of Mátyusföld (region of the Mátyus, Matúšova zem). His volumes of poetry have been published in English, German, Romanian, Serbian, French, Russian, Slovak and Turkish. He has been awarded the Golden Opus Prize of the SZMÍT (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia) twice and the Imre Forbáth Prize for the best collection of poetry written in Hungarian in 2014. In 2013, he was the winner of the Bóbita poetry contest of the Hungarian Writers' Association. He was a deputy of the municipal council for twenty years and the deputy mayor for years.
In 2014, his volume of selected poetry was translated in English and published in Canada. His poem was featured in the international anthology Poems for the Hazara in 2014. In the same year, Károly Pallai devoted an English language analysis to the poetry of Fellinger. His first collection of poems in French was published by the prestigious Éditions du Cygne in Paris (Bétonnière ivre, 2015). In 2016, he received the prestigious Madách Award of the Slovakian Literary Fund for his collection of poems Különbejárat. In 2016, he was the only Slovakian author to be published in the 2015 edition of the World Poetry Yearbook (China). In 2016, his poems were selected and published in the yearly anthology of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia. In 2016, his poems were published in Spain (Dios está ausente) and in Canada (Sieve of Light in the Pine Forest), and a volume of his best poems (Fellinger Károly legszebb versei) was also released.
In 2017, his tales were published in a bilingual, Hungarian-English edition (A Kincsesláda-The Treasure Chest). His poems were featured in Empty Mirror and Setu (United States), Sipay (Seychelles), A New Ulster (Northern Ireland), Ygdrasil (Canada) and in the prestigious Belgian review Traversées. In 2017, he received the Tibor Simkó Prize of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia for his collection of tales Ilka vára. In the same year, he was awarded the Medal of the Chairman of the Trnava Self-Governing Region for his contribution to culture. His new poems were published under the title Köti a sötétséget by Media Nova and his second collection of poems in French appeared in Paris (À l'affût de Dieu, Éditions du Cygne). His poem "Elbocsátó" was translated in English by Károly Sándor Pallai and published in the international poetic anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism (India).
He is a member of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia and of the Hungarian Writers' Association.
Literary prizes
2017: Medal of the Chairman of the Trnava Self-Governing Region for cultural contribution
2017: Tibor Simkó Prize (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia)
2016: Madách Award (Literary Fund of Slovakia)
2014: Imre Forbáth Prize (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia)
2013: Bóbita Poetry Prize (Hungarian Writers' Association)
2011: Golden Opus Prize (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia)
2010: Golden Opus Prize (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia)
Major works
2018: Szimering, Kalligram Kiadó, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018: Hullámvasút, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás (poems in Hungarian), Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2018: Mindjárt gondoltam, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás (poems in Hungarian), Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2017: ΦΩΣ ΣΤΙΣ ΠΕΥΚΟΒΕΛΟΝΕΣ poetry by ΚΑΡΟΛΟΣ ΦΕΛΙΝΓΚΕΡ (poems in Greek), OSTRIA, Athens, Greece.
2017: À l'affût de Dieu (poems in French), Éditions du Cygne, Paris, France
2017: Köti a sötétséget (poems in Hungarian), Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2017: A Kincsesláda – The Treasure Chest (tales in Hungarian-English bilingual edition), AB-ART, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016: Fellinger Károly legszebb versei (poems in Hungarian), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2016: Sieve of Light in the Pine Forest (poems in English), Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2016: Dios está ausente (poems in Spanish), Luhu Editorial, Alcoy, Spain
2016: Ilka vára, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2016: Kéreggyűjtés (poems in Hungarian), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2015: Különbejárat (poems in Hungarian), Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2015: Pokora (poems in Slovak), Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2015: Bétonnière ivre (poems in French), Éditions du Cygne, Paris, France
2015: Kincsesláda (tales), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2015: Zavesa iz lucsej szveta (poems in Russian), Vest-Konszalting, Moscow, Russia
2015: Tevazu (poems in Turkish), Siirden Yayincilik, Istanbul, Turkey
2014: Din cartea uitarii (poetry in Romanian), Tipo Moldova, Iași, Romania
2014: Humility (poetry in English), Libros Libertad, Surrey, Canada
2014: Jancsi és Juliska (poems), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2014: Csigalépcső (selected poems for children), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2013: Poniznost (poetry in Serbian), Umetnicka Scena Siveri Janos, Mužlja, Serbia
2013: Demut (poetry in German), Windrose, Frauenkirchen, Austria
2013: Morzsabál (poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2013: Alázat (selected poems), AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2012: Rész és egész (poetry), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2011: Mákom van (poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2011: Csomagmegőrző (selected poems), Mosonvármegye Könyvkiadó, Mosonmagyaróvár
2010: Dióbölcső, mákfejcsörgő (poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2009: Hajléktalan búzavirág (tales and legends), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2008: Szélkergető kerek köpeny (poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2006: Fűhárfa (poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2004: Fészek az égen (poetry), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1997: Jóka-nevezetességek, Honismereti Kiskönyvtár, Komárno, Slovakia
1997: Égig érő vadkörtefák (tales and poems for children), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1996: Csendélet halottakkal (poetry), Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1991: Áramszünet (poetry), Madách, Bratislava, Slovakia |
The Memories Attack | The Memories Attack is a Canadian indie pop duo from Atlantic Canada. The group consists of Eric's Trip guitarist Chris Thompson and Ron Bates of the pop group Orange Glass.
History
Thompson and Bates met during childhood and had worked together previously under Thompson's solo project Moon Socket. They composed their self-titled debut album while living in separate cities, recording in Bates' basement studio when Thompson was able to make the trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia from his home in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The album appeared on the !earshot National Top 50 chart in January, 2007.
Their music has been described as "hazy, sludgy pop" with an "infectiously upbeat, if delicate, feel".
Their track "Love in the Time of Hate" has been in frequent rotation at CBC Radio 3 and reached No. 1 on the R3-30 chart the week of April 26, 2007.
Their second album was released in December 2008 on East Coast label Noyes Records.
Discography
2006: The Memories Attack
2008: The Memories Attack |
Subrata Mukherjee | Subrata Mukherjee is an Indian politician who is the Cabinet Minister of Panchayats & Rural development and Water Investigation & Development in the Government of West Bengal. Earlier, he has been Minister for Public Health Engineering. He is a MLA, elected from the Ballygunge constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.
He is a former Mayor of Kolkata and Home Minister of West Bengal in Siddhartha Shankar Ray's Government.
Political career
In 1999, he joined hands with Mamata Banerjee, parting ways with the Indian National Congress. This decision came from the Congress MLA, as INTUC denied him of the nomination to the governing body of the ILO for the second term. He was made the Mayor of Kolkata in 2000, as a Trinamool Congress candidate. However, even after being the Mayor as a Trinamool leader, he decided not to resign as a Congress member of the Legislative Assembly. As Mayor, he had dreamt of a 300 ft-high Kolkata gate on EM Bypass, which would have cost Rs. 20-crore. However, the project could not see the daylight, as it could not obtain clearance from the Pollution Control Board.
Ahead of the civic polls in 2005, Mukherjee quit Trinamool Congress following differences with the party chief and returned to the Congress.
In May 2010, he left the Indian National Congress again and rejoined Trinamool Congress, leaving the post of Pradesh Congress Working President.
In 2011, after the Trinamool Congress won a majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, he was made Minister for Public Health Engineering under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In December 2011, he was given the additional charge of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development ministry, and replaced Chandranath Sinha.
In February 2012, he was made the All India President of the INTTUC, instead of Sobhandeb Chatterjee. In 2019 Loksabha Elections he fought from Bankura and lost to Subhas Sarkar of BJP.
Under the leadership of Shri Subrata Mukherjee, the Public Health Engineering Department of the West Bengal Government launched some very innovative yet useful water treatment projects. The Water ATM was installed in Ekdalia Evergreen Club during the Durga Puja Festival of 2015, which would dispense 1 liter of Purified, chilled drinking water at Rs. 2. Seeing the success of the Water ATM during the pujas, the current Chief Minister of the state, Smt. Mamata Banerjee took up the project across the state. The Public Health Engineering Department also took up the project of providing packaged mineral water, Prandhara, in the same year. |
Dholmara | Dholmara is a small village of Kokrajhar District, Assam, India. The place is well known for golden langur monkeys. |
Development of musical theatre | Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre developed from several lines of antecedents that evolved over several centuries through the 18th century when the Ballad Opera and pantomime emerged in England and its colonies as the most popular forms of musical entertainment.
In the 19th century, following the development of European operetta, many of the structural elements of modern musical theatre were established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s in England, and the musical theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan early in the 20th century. The Princess Theatre musicals in New York City during the First World War, and other smart shows like Of Thee I Sing (1931) were artistic steps forward beyond revues and other frothy entertainments of the early 20th century and led to the modern "book" musical, where songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that is able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter.
Early antecedents: Antiquity to Middle Ages
The antecedents of musical theatre in Europe can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece, where music and dance were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. The dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles composed their own music to accompany their plays and choreographed the dances of the chorus. The 3rd-century BCE Roman comedies of Plautus included song and dance routines performed with orchestrations. The Romans also introduced technical innovations. For example, to make dance steps more audible in large open-air theatres, Roman actors attached metal chips called sabilla to their stage footwear, creating the first tap shoes. The music from all of these forms is lost, however, and they had little influence on later development of musical theatre.
By the Middle Ages, theatre in Europe consisted mostly of travelling minstrels and small performing troupes of performers singing and offering slapstick comedy. In the 12th and 13th centuries, religious dramas, such as The Play of Herod and The Play of Daniel taught the liturgy, set to church chants. Later "mystery plays" were created that told a biblical story in a sequence of entertaining parts. Several pageant wagons (stages on wheels) would move about the city, and a group of actors would tell their part of the story. Once finished, the group would move on with their wagon, and the next group would arrive to tell its part of the story. These plays developed into an autonomous form of musical theatre, with poetic forms sometimes alternating with the prose dialogues and liturgical chants. The poetry was provided with modified or completely new melodies.
Renaissance to the 1800s
The European Renaissance saw older forms evolve into commedia dell'arte, an Italian tradition where raucous clowns improvised their way through familiar stories, and later, opera buffa. In England, Elizabethan and Jacobean plays frequently included music, with performances on organs, lutes, viols and pipes for up to an hour before and during the performance. Plays, perhaps particularly the heavier histories and tragedies, were frequently broken up with a short musical play, perhaps derived from the Italian intermezzo, with music, jokes and dancing, or were followed by an afterpiece known as a jigg, often consisting of scandalous or libellous dialogue set to popular tunes (anticipating the Ballad Opera). Court masques also developed during the Tudor period that involved music, dancing, singing and acting, often with expensive costumes and a complex stage design, sometimes by a renowned architect such as Inigo Jones, presented a deferential allegory flattering to a noble or royal patron. Ben Jonson wrote many masques, often collaborating with Jones. William Shakespeare often included masque-like sections in his plays.
The musical sections of masques developed into sung plays that are recognizable as English operas, the first usually being thought of as William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes (1656), originally given in a private performance. In France, meanwhile, Molière turned several of his farcical comedies into musical entertainments with songs (music provided by Jean Baptiste Lully) and dance in the late 17th century. His Psyche was the model for an English opera by Thomas Shadwell, The Miser produced in 1672. Davenant produced The Tempest in 1667, which was the first Shakespeare plot set to music, and was then adapted by Shadwell into an opera in 1674 (composed by Matthew Locke and others). About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often considered the first true English-language opera. Blow was followed by Henry Purcell and a brief period of English opera. After the death of Charles II in 1685, English opera began to fall out of fashion.
By the 18th century, the most popular forms of musical theatre in Britain were ballad operas, like John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), that included lyrics written to the tunes of popular songs of the day (often spoofing opera), and later the developing form of pantomime and comic operas with original scores and mostly romantic plot lines, like Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl (1845). Meanwhile, on the continent, singspiel, comédie en vaudeville, opéra comique and other forms of light musical entertainment were emerging. Other musical theatre forms developed by the 19th century, such as music hall and melodrama. Melodramas and burlettas, in particular, were popularized partly because most London theatres were licensed only as music halls and not allowed to present plays without music. Some unlicensed theaters avoided the legal restrictions by providing supposedly free musical shows while serving tea at wildly inflated prices. In 1820, a new ordinance restricted all unlicensed theater productions to no more than six songs, which had to be an organic part of the play rather than a break or digression. In any event, what a piece was called did not necessarily define what it was. The Broadway extravaganza The Magic Deer (1852) advertised itself as "A Serio Comico Tragico Operatical Historical Extravaganzical Burletical Tale of Enchantment."
The first recorded long-running play of any kind was The Beggar's Opera, which ran for 62 successive performances in 1728. It would take almost a century before the first play broke 100 performances, with Tom and Jerry, based on the book Life in London (1821), and the record soon reached 150 in the late 1820s. Colonial America did not have a significant theatre presence until 1752, when London entrepreneur William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad-operas such as The Beggar’s Opera and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. By the 1840s, P.T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. Other early musical theatre in America consisted of British forms, such as burletta and pantomime. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown from around 1850, seeking less expensive real estate prices, and did not arrive in the Times Square area until the 1920s and 1930s. Broadway's first "long-run" musical was a 50 performance hit called The Elves in 1857. New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene's "musical burletta" Seven Sisters (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances.
1850s to 1880s
Around 1850, the French composer Hervé was experimenting with a form of comic musical theatre that came to be called opérette. The best known composers of operetta were Jacques Offenbach from the 1850s to the 1870s and Johann Strauss II in the 1870s and 1880s. Offenbach's fertile melodies, combined with his librettists' witty satire, formed a model for the musical theatre that followed. In 1957, Mark Lubbock traced the development of musical theatre from Offenbach to Gilbert and Sullivan and eventually to Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein, writing: "Offenbach is undoubtedly the most significant figure in the history of the 'musical'. In the mid-19th century in England, musical theatre consisted of mostly of music hall, adaptations of the French operettas (played in bad, risqué translations) and musical burlesques (the culmination of which were seen at the Gaiety Theatre beginning in 1868). In reaction to these, a few family-friendly entertainments were created, such as the German Reed Entertainments.
In America, mid-18th century musical theatre entertainments included crude variety revue, which eventually developed into vaudeville, minstrel shows, which soon crossed the Atlantic to Britain, and Victorian burlesque, first popularized in the US by British troupes. The first original theatre piece in English that conforms to the modern conception of a musical, adding dance and original music that helped to tell the story, is generally considered The Black Crook, which premiered in New York on September 12, 1866. The production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances, in no small part because of its scantily-clad female ballet chorus. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a "musical comedy." Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 (The Mulligan Guard Picnic) and 1885, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. These musical comedies featured characters and situations taken from the everyday life of New York's lower classes and represented a significant step from burletta, minstrel shows, variety and burlesque, towards a more legitimate theatrical form. They starred high quality singers (Lillian Russell, Vivienne Segal, and Fay Templeton) instead of the ladies of questionable repute who had starred in earlier musical forms.
The length of runs in the theatre changed rapidly around the same time that the modern musical emerged. As transportation improved, poverty in London and New York diminished, and street lighting made for safer travel at night, the number of potential patrons for the growing number of theatres increased enormously. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits and improved production values. The first play to achieve 500 consecutive performances was the London (non-musical) comedy Our Boys, opening in 1875, which set an astonishing new record of 1,362 performances. This run was not equaled on the musical stage until World War I, but musical theatre soon broke the 500 performance mark in London, most notably by the series of more than a dozen long-running Gilbert and Sullivan family-friendly comic opera hits, including H.M.S. Pinafore in 1878 and The Mikado in 1885. These were sensations on both sides of the Atlantic and, along with the other changes in the theatre, raised the standard for what was considered a successful run. Only a few 19th century musical pieces exceeded the run of the Mikado: The Chimes of Normandy (Les Cloches de Corneville) ran for 705 performances in 1878 in London, and Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson's 1886 hit, Dorothy (a show midway between comic opera and musical comedy), set a new record with 931 performances.
Gilbert and Sullivan's influence on later musical theatre was profound, creating examples of how to "integrate" musicals so that the lyrics and dialogue were designed to advance a coherent story. Their works were admired and copied by early authors and composers of musicals such as Ivan Caryll, Lionel Monckton, P. G. Wodehouse, and Victor Herbert, and later Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Yip Harburg, Irving Berlin, Ivor Novello, Oscar Hammerstein II and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other British composers of the 1870s and 1880s included Edward Solomon and F. Osmond Carr. The most popular British shows, beginning with the Savoy operas, also enjoyed profitable New York productions and tours of Britain, America, Europe, Australasia and South Africa. These shows were fare for "respectable" audiences, a marked contrast from the risqué burlesques, melodramas, minstrel shows, bawdy music hall shows and French operettas that dominated the stage prior to Gilbert and Sullivan and drew a sometimes seedy crowd looking for less wholesome entertainment.
1890s to the new century
Charles H. Hoyt's A Trip to Chinatown (1891) was Broadway's long-run champion (until Irene in 1919), running for 657 performances. Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were both pirated and imitated in New York by productions such as Reginald de Koven's Robin Hood (1891) and John Philip Sousa's El Capitan (1896). A Trip to Coontown (1898) was the first musical comedy entirely produced and performed by African Americans in a Broadway theatre (largely inspired by the routines of the minstrel shows), followed by the ragtime-tinged Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk (1898), and the highly successful In Dahomey (1902). Hundreds of musical comedies were staged on Broadway in the 1890s and early 20th century composed of songs written in New York's Tin Pan Alley by composers such as Gus Edwards, John Walter Bratton and George M. Cohan (Little Johnny Jones (1904)). Still, New York runs continued to be relatively short, with a few exceptions, compared with London runs, until the 1920s. Tours, however, were often extensive, beginning with the original Broadway cast.
Meanwhile, musicals had spread to the London stage by the Gay Nineties. George Edwardes had left the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte's Savoy Theatre. He took over the Gaiety Theatre and, at first, he improved the quality of the old burlesques. He perceived that audiences wanted a new alternative to the Savoy-style comic operas and their intellectual, political, absurdist satire. He experimented with a modern-dress, family-friendly musical theatre style, with breezy, popular songs, snappy, romantic banter, and stylish spectacle at the Gaiety, Daly's Theatre and other venues. These drew on the traditions of comic opera and also used elements of burlesque and of the Harrigan and Hart pieces. He replaced the bawdy women of burlesque with his "respectable" corps of dancing, singing Gaiety Girls to complete the musical and visual fun. The success of the first of these, In Town in 1892 and A Gaiety Girl in 1893, confirmed Edwardes on the path he was taking. These "musical comedies", as he called them, revolutionized the London stage and set the tone for the next three decades.
Edwardes' early Gaiety hits included a series of light, romantic "poor maiden loves aristocrat and wins him against all odds" shows, usually with the word "Girl" in the title, including The Shop Girl (1894) and A Runaway Girl (1898), with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. These shows were immediately widely copied at other London theatres (and soon in America), and the Edwardian musical comedy swept away the earlier musical forms of comic opera and operetta. At Daly's Theatre, Edwardes presented slightly more complex comedy hits. The Geisha (1896) by Sidney Jones with lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross and then Jones' San Toy (1899) each ran for more than two years and also found great international success, for example in Australian productions by J. C. Williamson.
The British musical comedy Florodora (1899) by Leslie Stuart and Paul Rubens made a splash on both sides of the Atlantic, as did A Chinese Honeymoon (1901), by British lyricist George Dance and American-born composer Howard Talbot, which ran for a record setting 1,074 performances in London and 376 in New York. The story concerns couples who honeymoon in China and inadvertently break the kissing laws (shades of The Mikado). The Belle of New York (1898) ran for 697 performances in London after a brief New York run, becoming the first American musical to run for over a year in London. After the turn of the 20th century, Seymour Hicks (who joined forces with American producer Charles Frohman) wrote popular shows with composer Charles Taylor and others, and Edwardes and Ross continued to churn out hits like The Toreador (1901), A Country Girl (1902), The Orchid (1903), The Girls of Gottenberg (1907) and Our Miss Gibbs (1909). Other Edwardian musical comedy hits included The Arcadians (1909) and The Quaker Girl (1910).
Operetta and World War I
Virtually eliminated from the English-speaking stage by competition from the ubiquitous Edwardian musical comedies in the 1890s, operettas returned to London and Broadway in 1907 with The Merry Widow, and operettas and musicals became direct competitors for a time. In the early years of the 20th century, English-language adaptations of 19th century continental operettas, as well as operettas by a new generation of European composers, such as Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus, among others, spread throughout the English-speaking world. In America, Victor Herbert produced a string of famous operettas (The Fortune Teller (1898), Babes in Toyland (1903), Mlle. Modiste (1905), The Red Mill (1906) and Naughty Marietta (1910)), often with librettist Harry B. Smith, as well as some intimate musical plays with modern settings. In English-speaking countries, during World War I, German-language operetta lost its popularity.
Among other British and American composers and librettists of the 1910s, the team of P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern stood out. Following in the footsteps of Gilbert and Sullivan, their "Princess Theatre shows" paved the way for Kern's later work by showing that a musical could combine light, popular entertainment with continuity between its story and songs:
The theatre-going public needed escapist entertainment during the dark times of World War I, and they flocked to the theatre. Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy's 1919 hit musical Irene ran for 670 performances, a Broadway record that held until 1938's Hellzapoppin. The British public supported far longer runs like that of Maid of the Mountains (1,352 performances) and especially Chu Chin Chow. Its run of 2,238 performances was more than twice as many as any previous musical, setting a record that stood for nearly forty years until Salad Days. Revues like The Bing Boys Are Here in Britain, and those of Florenz Ziegfeld and his imitators in America, were also extraordinarily popular. A new generation of composers of operettas emerged in the 1920s, such as Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg.
The primacy of British musical theatre from the 19th century through 1920 was gradually replaced by American innovation in the 20th century. Edwardes' competitor and counterpart in the U.S. was Charles Frohman and his Theatrical Syndicate. George M. Cohan's and Herbert's musical entertainments after the turn of the century gave way to the Princess Theatre shows and a profusion of other musicals as Kern and other Tin Pan Alley composers began to bring new musical styles such as ragtime and jazz to the theatres. The Shubert Brothers took control of the Broadway theatres after the war as new writers like the Gershwin brothers (George and Ira), Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hart began to produce shows. Musical theatre writer Andrew Lamb notes, "The triumph of American works over European in the first decades of the twentieth century came about against a changing social background. The operatic and theatrical styles of nineteenth-century social structures were replaced by a musical style more aptly suited to twentieth-century society and its vernacular idiom. It was from America that the more direct style emerged, and in America that it was able to flourish in a developing society less hidebound by nineteenth-century tradition."
The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
The musicals of the Roaring Twenties, borrowing from vaudeville, music hall and other light entertainments, tended to emphasize star actors and actresses, big dance routines, and popular songs, at the expense of plot. Typical of the decade were lighthearted productions like Sally; Lady Be Good; Sunny; No, No, Nanette; Oh, Kay! and Funny Face. While the books of these shows may have been forgettable, they featured stars such as Marilyn Miller and Fred Astaire and produced dozens of enduring popular songs ("standards") by, most notably, Jerome Kern, the Gershwin brothers, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Vincent Youmans, and the team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, popular music was dominated by musical theatre composers and lyricists. These musicals and the standards they produced, including "Fascinating Rhythm", "Tea for Two" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", became popular on both sides of the Atlantic ocean.
Many shows were revues, series of sketches and songs with little or no connection between them. The best-known of these were the annual Ziegfeld Follies, spectacular song-and-dance revues on Broadway featuring extravagant sets, elaborate costumes, and beautiful chorus girls. These spectacles also raised production values, and mounting a musical generally became more expensive. Shuffle Along, an all-African American show was a hit on Broadway. In London, stars such as Ivor Novello and Noël Coward became popular. Meanwhile, operettas, which had been nearly absent from the English-speaking stage since World War I, had a last burst of popularity; works by continental European composers were successful, as were those by Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml in America, which included Rose-Marie and The Student Prince respectively. The last hit operetta of the era on Broadway was Romberg's The New Moon in 1928.
Progressing far beyond the comparatively frivolous musicals and sentimental operettas of the decade, Show Boat, which premiered on December 27, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York, represented an even more complete integration of book and score than the Princess Theatre musicals, with dramatic themes told through the music, dialogue, setting and movement. This was accomplished by combining the lyricism of Kern's music with the skillful craft of Oscar Hammerstein II, who adapted Edna Ferber's novel and wrote lyrics for the show. One historian wrote, "Here we come to a completely new genre – the musical play as distinguished from musical comedy. Now ... the play was the thing, and everything else was subservient to that play. Now ... came complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity." However, Bordman argues, "Show Boat is certainly an operetta with its many arioso passages, its musical depth and seriousness, and its romantic story set, in typical operetta fashion, in the long ago and far away." Nevertheless, as the Great Depression set in during the post-Broadway national tour of Show Boat, the public turned back to light, brassy, escapist entertainment, and no follow-up was produced so seriously treating serious social themes until Oklahoma! in 1943.
The motion picture mounted a challenge to the stage. At first, films were silent and presented only limited competition to theatre. But by the end of the 1920s, films like The Jazz Singer could be presented with synchronized sound. "Talkie" films at low prices effectively killed off vaudeville by the early 1930s. Historian John Kenrick commented: "Top vaudeville stars filmed their acts for one-time pay-offs, inadvertently helping to speed the death of vaudeville. After all, when 'small time' theatres could offer 'big time' performers on screen at a nickel a seat, who could ask audiences to pay higher amounts for less impressive live talent?"
1930s to Oklahoma!
The Great Depression affected theatre audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as people had little money to spend on entertainment. Only a few stage shows exceeded a run on Broadway or in London of 500 performances during the decade.
Many shows continued the lighthearted song-and-dance style of their 1920s predecessors. The revue The Band Wagon (1931) starred dancing partners Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, while Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) confirmed Ethel Merman's position as the First Lady of musical theatre, a title she maintained for many years. British writers such as Noël Coward and Ivor Novello continued to deliver old fashioned, sentimental musicals, such as The Dancing Years. Similarly, Rodgers & Hart returned from Hollywood to churn out a series of Broadway hits, including On Your Toes (1936, with Ray Bolger, the first Broadway musical to make dramatic use of classical dance), Babes In Arms (1937), and The Boys From Syracuse (1938), and Cole Porter wrote a similar string of hits, including Anything Goes (1934) and DuBarry Was a Lady (1939). The longest-running piece of musical theatre of the 1930s was Hellzapoppin (1938), a revue with audience participation, which played for 1,404 performances, setting a new Broadway record that was finally beaten by Oklahoma! five years later.
However, a few creative teams began to build on Show Boat'''s innovations, experimenting with musical satire, topical books and operatic scope. Of Thee I Sing (1931), a political satire with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Morrie Ryskind, was the first musical awarded the Pulitzer Prize.1944 awards, Pulitzer.org, accessed July 7, 2012 As Thousands Cheer (1933), a revue by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart in which each song or sketch was based on a newspaper headline, marked the first Broadway show in which an African-American, Ethel Waters, starred alongside white actors. Waters' numbers included "Supper Time", a woman's lament for her husband who has been lynched. Porgy and Bess (1935), by the Gershwin brothers and DuBose Heyward, featured an all African-American cast and blended operatic, folk, and jazz idioms. It has entered the permanent opera repertory and, in some respects, it foreshadowed such "operatic" musicals as West Side Story and Sweeney Todd. The Cradle Will Rock (1937), with a book and score by Marc Blitzstein and direction by Orson Welles, was a highly political pro-union piece that, despite the controversy surrounding it, managed to run for 108 performances. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's I'd Rather Be Right (1937) was a political satire with George M. Cohan as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Kurt Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday, based on source writings by Washington Irving, depicted New York City's early history while good-naturedly satirizing the good intentions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Despite the economic woes of the decade and the competition from film, the musical survived. In fact, the move towards political satire in Of Thee I Sing, I'd Rather Be Right and Knickerbocker Holiday, together with the musical sophistication of the Gershwin, Kern, Rodgers and Weill musicals and the fast-paced staging and naturalistic dialogue style created by director George Abbott, showed that musical theatre was beginning to evolve beyond the gags and showgirls musicals of the Gay Nineties and Roaring Twenties and the sentimental romance of operetta. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943) completed the revolution begun by Show Boat, by tightly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with a cohesive and more serious plot, and songs and dances that furthered the action of the story and developed the characters. It was also the first "blockbuster" Broadway show, running a total of 2,212 performances, and was made into a hit film.Everett 2002, p. 124 |
Happy ending problem | The "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement:
Theorem: any set of five points in the plane in general position has a subset of four points that form the vertices of a convex quadrilateral.
This was one of the original results that led to the development of Ramsey theory.
The happy ending theorem can be proven by a simple case analysis: if four or more points are vertices of the convex hull, any four such points can be chosen. If on the other hand, the point set has the form of a triangle with two points inside it, the two inner points and one of the triangle sides can be chosen. See for an illustrated explanation of this proof, and for a more detailed survey of the problem.
The Erdős–Szekeres conjecture states precisely a more general relationship between the number of points in a general-position point set and its largest convex polygon, namely that the smallest number of points for which any general position arrangement contains a convex subset of points is . It remains unproven, but less precise bounds are known.
Larger polygons
proved the following generalisation:
Theorem: for any positive integer N, any sufficiently large finite set of points in the plane in general position has a subset of N points that form the vertices of a convex polygon.
The proof appeared in the same paper that proves the Erdős–Szekeres theorem on monotonic subsequences in sequences of numbers.
Let f(N) denote the minimum M for which any set of M points in general position must contain a convex N-gon. It is known that
f(3) = 3, trivially.
f(4) = 5.
f(5) = 9. A set of eight points with no convex pentagon is shown in the illustration, demonstrating that f(5) > 8; the more difficult part of the proof is to show that every set of nine points in general position contains the vertices of a convex pentagon.
f(6) = 17.
The value of f(N) is unknown for all N > 6; by the result of it is known to be finite.
On the basis of the known values of f(N) for N = 3, 4 and 5, Erdős and Szekeres conjectured in their original paper that
They proved later, by constructing explicit examples, that
but the best known upper bound when N ≥ 7 is
Empty convex polygons
There is also the question of whether any sufficiently large set of points in general position has an "empty" convex quadrilateral, pentagon, etc.,
that is, one that contains no other input point. The original solution to the happy ending problem can be adapted to show that any five points in general position have an empty convex quadrilateral, as shown in the illustration, and any ten points in general position have an empty convex pentagon. However, there exist arbitrarily large sets of points in general position that contain no empty convex heptagon.
For a long time the question of the existence of empty hexagons remained open, but and proved that every sufficiently large point set in general position contains a convex empty hexagon. More specifically, Gerken showed that the number of points needed is no more than f(9) for the same function f defined above, while Nicolás showed that the number of points needed is no more than f(25). supplies a simplification of Gerken's proof that however requires more points, f(15) instead of f(9). At least 30 points are needed: there exists a set of 29 points in general position with no empty convex hexagon.
Related problems
The problem of finding sets of n points minimizing the number of convex quadrilaterals is equivalent to minimizing the crossing number in a straight-line drawing of a complete graph. The number of quadrilaterals must be proportional to the fourth power of n, but the precise constant is not known.
It is straightforward to show that, in higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces, sufficiently large sets of points will have a subset of k points that forms the vertices of a convex polytope, for any k greater than the dimension: this follows immediately from existence of convex k-gons in sufficiently large planar point sets, by projecting the higher-dimensional point set into an arbitrary two-dimensional subspace. However, the number of points necessary to find k points in convex position may be smaller in higher dimensions than it is in the plane, and it is possible to find subsets that are more highly constrained. In particular, in d dimensions, every d + 3 points in general position have a subset of d + 2 points that form the vertices of a cyclic polytope. More generally, for every d and k > d there exists a number m(d,k) such that every set of m(d,k) points in general position has a subset of k points that form the vertices of a neighborly polytope.
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Unsung Heroes (Ensiferum album) | Unsung Heroes is the fifth album by Finnish folk metal band Ensiferum. It was released on 27 August 2012 through Spinefarm Records.
Recording and production
In February 2012, the band entered the studio and started recordings for the then untitled album. The band also announced on their Facebook page they would keep their fans up to date on their Mobile Twilight Tavern and with a weekly studio diary on Spinefarm's YouTube channel. The album would also include guest appearances by members of Die Apokalyptischen Reiter and the Finnish singer and actor Vesa-Matti Loiri. In late March, the band was in the final stages of the recordings for the album and completed recordings in early April.
In May, the band revealed the title for the album, Unsung Heroes and announced its release date, 27 August 2012. The album would also be released through Spinefarm Records. Then in late June the band unveiled the album cover artwork, again designed by Kristian Wahlin. On 9 July they posted on their Facebook page a YouTube video with Burning Leaves, one of their new songs on the album.
On 17 July the band posted a link with the making of their new video clip for In My Sword I Trust, also a new song to be featured on the album. The video was shot in Wrocław, Poland by Grupa 13 who were also recruited for the recent video clips of other notable bands like Amon Amarth and Behemoth. The actual video was uploaded on August 8 on Spinefarm's YouTube channel, which reached over a hundred thousand views within the first week.
Track listing
Personnel
Ensiferum
Petri Lindroos - harsh vocals, guitar, backing vocals
Markus Toivonen - guitar, acoustic guitars, dulcimer, bouzouki, clean vocals, backing vocals
Sami Hinkka - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals (harsh/clean)
Janne Parviainen - drums, backing vocals
Emmi Silvennoinen - keyboards, hammond, grand piano, pump organ, backing vocals
Guest musicians
Vesa-Matti Loiri - speech on "Pohjola"
Laura Dziadulewicz - vocals on "Celestial Bond"
Ulla Bürger - soprano vocals on "Passion, Proof, Power"
Lassi Lógren - nyckelharpa
Timo Väänänen - kantele
Pasi Puolakka - flute, descant & sopranino Recorders
Kasper Mårtenson - moog
Volk-Man, Ady & Fuchs (Die Apokalyptischen Reiter) - additional voices on "Passion, Proof, Power"
Heidi Parviainen (Dark Sarah, ex-Amberian Dawn) - choir vocals
Crew
Kristian Wåhlin - album artwork
Hiili Hiilesmaa - production, engineering and mixing |
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Jean-Marie Raymond | Jean Marie Raymond (born 1949) is a French classical guitarist, composer, conductor and teacher.
Life
Guitarist, composer, teacher and conductor, Raymond studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris with Alberto Ponce and Javier Hinojosa. He was also a student of the world-renowned master Emilio Pujol. He studied musical composition with Yvonne Desportes and conducting with Désiré Dondeyne, both Grand prix de Rome. First Prize in classical guitar, he also obtained the State Diploma and the Certificate of Aptitude. In 1977, he played as a soloist under the direction of Seiji Ozawa with the Orchestre de Paris. He produced a recording ("Four-handed Guitar" now "Kizuna" in its expanded reissue) with his long-time friend, the great Japanese guitarist Minoru Inagaki. He performs internationally as a soloist and with the Trio Sortilèges (flûte, guitar, cello). Une grande partie de ses compositions est publiée aux Productions d’OZ, Quebec.
Discography
CD "KIZUNA": Solos and classical guitar duets with Japanese guitarist Minoru Inagaki.
CD "AQUARELLES": Classical guitar solos. Works from the repertoire and personal compositions.
Composer
His best-known compositions, when no publisher is indicated, are published at Productions d'Oz.
Allégorie en forme de valse - ed. Alphonse Leduc.
As always (homage to Per-Olov Kindgren)
Ballad for a Friend (homage to Akira Asada)
Canto bajo la Luna
Chanson d'Elfée
Comme une pavane - ed. Alphonse Leduc.
Complainte
Cuando me vuelvo en el camino
Dans la brume
Deux aquarelles
El azul de tus ojos
Souvenirs d’Algarve
Elégie
Evocation nostalgique (homage to Nobutaka Nakajima)
Incantation magique
Jardin secret
Juanito, el guitarrero (homage to Jun Nakano)
Kizuna (homage to Minoru Inagaki)
Kobe in my heart (homage to Nobuko Tanaka)
La Cité d’Emeraude (homage to Sylvain Lemay)
Ma fille (homage to Oriane Bellini)
Memories of Tateshina
Night Song
Paysage catalan
Poema nostalgico
Pour un reflet dans l’eau
Rising Sun
Sakura's Flowers
Santa Ana Cruz
Snow in my heart
Snow Sonata
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Storybook
Song for Johanna
Sous le ciel d'Akashi (homage to Minoru Inagaki)
Suite des Constellations
Andromède
Orion
Cassiopée
Souvenirs de Cervera - ed. Alphonse Leduc.
Sweet Bonnie Dickinson
Three friends in Kyoto
Un jour de septembre
He has also composed many pieces for various instrumental ensembles such as:
A la lumière de l'aube (duo)
Alter Ego (duo) (homage to Minoru Inagaki)
As The Seasons Go By (quartet)
Au loin vers le sud (duo) - ed. Alphonse Leduc.
Géralda (duo) - ed. Alphonse Leduc.
Melancolie for guitar quartet
Quant au matin tu t'éveilles (trio)
A Rainbow for Minoru (duo) (homage to Nobuko Tanaka and Nobutaka Nakajima)
Sous le ciel d'Akashi (in solo form, on the one hand, and quintet, on the other) (homage to Minoru Inagaki).
Twilight Serenade (guitars and string quartet)
Career
En 1999, with Thierry Frebourg, CEO of Studio Press (Roularta Media Group), he founded the magazine which occupies a major place in the landscape of the specialized press for the guitar.
In 1977, he played as a soloist with the Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Seiji Ozawa. He regularly performs in France and abroad as a soloist but also with the "Trio Sortilèges" (flute, guitar, cello). He produced a record (Kizuna) with his long time Japanese friend Minoru Inagaki, First Prize of the Conservatoire de Paris and concert player, and a CD as soloist. |
JDC West | Jeux du Commerce West, JDC West Business Competition or informally, JDC West is an annual business competition featuring top business schools and students from across Western Canada, as well as the largest undergraduate business competition in Western Canada. The first competition, hosted by UBC, occurred January 20-23, 2006, and attracted over 400 students. JDC West was modeled after Jeux du Commerce and allows the competition to move from host university/city to host university/city each given year.
Structure
Each university sends one team of 50+ representative students to participate respectively in one of 10 Academic Competitions, 1 Parliamentary Debate, 1 Athletic Competition or 1 Social Competition. Points are awarded and accumulated towards a team being declared "School of the Year".
Academics
There are 10 core Academic Competitions. That being said, an organizing committee may add any number of additional academic cases, providing that the core academic cases (listed below) are included. Each competition has 3 students from each team participate. In each case competition participants have a fixed amount of time to review the facts and prepare before presenting to the industry judges and experts.
Current academic events for JDC West are:
Accounting
Business Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Human Resource Management
International Business
Business Technology Management
Marketing
Not-for-profit Business Strategy (added in 2009)
Taxation (removed for 2019)
Operations Management (added for 2019)
Debate
Each debate team has 4 students. They have 30 minutes to review the proposal before presenting. As it is in parliamentary style, one team is designated Team Government and the other Team Opposition.
Athletics
The hosting school chooses the sport each year. The teams include both male and female competitors.
2006: Indoor Soccer (Futsal)
2007: Handball
2008: Dodgeball
2009: Volleyball, Westcoast Kickball, Inner Tube Water Polo, Relay (6 X 200)
2010: Indoor Soccer played on two 190 x 90’ fields on FIFA sanctioned Polytan artificial turf.
2011: Inner-Tube Water Basketball & Ultimate Frisbee
2012: Flag Football & Yukigassen
2013: Doctor Dodgeball & Netball
2014: Floor Hockey & Tchoukball
2015: European Handball & Schtick Disc
2016: Dodgeball & Floor Ringette
2017: Korfball & DBL Ball
2018: Quidditch & Tchoukball
2019: Tsegball & D-Hoops
Social
Each social team has 4 students - two males and two females. The social portion of the JDC West competition is arguably the most arduous on its competitors who are on-call for ten social challenges to be completed in less than 48 hours at any time of day or night. These entertaining challenges are known to include spirit, mental and physical challenges that bring the 4 students together in a way no team sport could. These challenges test students adaptability, enthusiasm and team work to the extreme.
Additional awards
Participation - Focuses on the spirit of each school during the competition weekend. The team that cheers the hardest, shows up for the most events, and is the life of the party takes the prize.
Charity - Has two awards. One for the number of hours that school commits to their charities of choice and the second for the amount of dollars raised for their charity of choice.
Participating schools
The following schools are or have been participants in JDC West:
History of the Games
History of JDC and JDC West
The original Jeux du Commerce, French for "Commerce Games" started as a Business Student Competition in 1989 in Eastern Canada. They were created in 1988 thanks to the initiative of some students of HEC MONTREAL who wanted to strengthen the links between the students of business administration through the province of Quebec. Mister Patrice Bourbonnais was the student heading a team of co-founders, including Patrick Bérard and Benoît Lessard, as well as others students. The School of Hautes Etudes Commerciales (French business school) of Montreal was the first institution host of the Games (Sets) of the Business in January, 1989. Jeux du Commerce grew throughout the years and became one of the largest events hosted by REFAEC. In 2003, Yannick Denis-Trudel, the president of REFAEC at the time had a vision to expand "the games" to the rest of Canada. In an attempt to unify the country under the Jeux du Commerce banner, he took on the task of inviting a group of delegates from across Canada to visit the games and see what they were all about. Students returned to their schools excited, but lacked a bit of direction in terms of establishing the games in their own regions. The year after, Yannick made another attempt to get the rest of Canada excited about the games and created a competing team called "Team Rest of Canada" or "Team ROC". The intention was to allow those visiting the games to actively take part in the games, rather than just watch from the sidelines. Student's went back to their respective schools with an excitement to bring Jeux du Commerce to their respective regions. At Roundtable 2005, one bid to host the event in the Western Region by students from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Co-Led by Jeff Potter and Nik Laufer-Edel. Another bid was put forth for the Ontario region by Guelph Humber. The Western bid was approved by the presidents of the western business schools of the Canadian Business School Council and allowed JDC West to take its first steps to be actualized.
In 2006, over 1,200 business students from 13 Eastern universities in Canada chose to compete. Since its inauguration, the JDC has become a prestigious annual event noted for its academic excellence and superior teamwork development. Like JDC West, JDC consists of Athletic, Social, Debate and community involvement components.
The JDC legacy expanded to Ontario schools in 2009, in a competition branded as JDC Central.
Following the success of 'Jeux du Commerce' a desire was expressed to create similar games in Western Canada, ultimately leading to a Commerce Competition on a national scale. The Western Games were dubbed JDC West. JDC West has exemplified professionalism and excellence, while focusing on the unique challenges facing a Western Canadian business student. The academic structure of the competition is maintained, encouraging students to strive for excellence and professionalism, while continuing the goodwill and good sportsmanship that JDC has been known for.
The JDC West Business Competition was incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2010 prior to JDC West 2011. In 2011, a volunteer Board of Directors was voted in by the Presidents of the participating business schools' students societies in collaboration with their JDC West Team Captains. This board is composed of active JDC West alumni and the current Organizing Committee's External Co-Chair. The board's main roles are to oversee the long-term strategy, risk mitigation, relationship management and high level financial health of the competition to ensure its long-term sustainability.
Competition venues
External links
JDC West |
Viktor Sukhodrev | Viktor Mikhaylovich Sukhodrev (; 12 December 1932 – 16 May 2014) was a Russian–English interpreter for high-ranking Soviet politicians including Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Alexei Kosygin.
Early life and education
Sukhodrev was born into the family of a Soviet intelligence officer who worked in the United States. As a young boy during World War II, Sukhodrev spent six years in London with his mother, who worked at the Soviet trade mission. He attended the Soviet Embassy School in London beginning at age 8. He returned to Moscow at the age of twelve and later graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages.
Career
In 1956, Sukhodrev began his career in the translation bureau of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Sukhodrev translated Nikita Khrushchev's famous quote "We will bury you", among others. In the 1980s Sukhodrev was the deputy head of the Department for the United States and Canada at the Soviet MFA. In 1999 he penned the memoir book Yazyk moy – drug moy (My Tongue is My Friend).
During a career of nearly thirty years, Sukhodrev was present at numerous high-profile summits and deal-makings. Richard Nixon called Sukhodrev "a superb linguist who spoke English as well as he did Russian", while Henry Kissinger called him "unflappable" and a "splendid interpreter". According to the International Herald Tribune, "Sukhodrev was present but not present, emptying himself of ego, slipping into the skin of the man who was speaking, feeling his feelings, saying his words".
Soviet and U.S. officials alike considered him to be the best interpreter in the world between Russian and English and he would sometimes be the only interpreter at bilateral meetings. He had a very good understanding of idiomatic expressions in English with a firm grasp of the varied nuances of meaning in different parts of the English-speaking world. His memory was prodigious: he only required a few notes to be able to deliver a perfect translation of a 20-minute speech. In 2012, Sukhodrev received the Russian national prize Translator of the Year.
Personal life
Sukhodrev was married twice. His first wife was actress Inna Kmit. His second wife was Inga Okunevskaya. Sukhodrev died in Moscow on 16 May 2014 at the age of 81. |
Orchestre de Paris | The Orchestre de Paris () is a French orchestra based in Paris. The orchestra currently performs most of its concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris.
History
In 1967, following the dissolution of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, the French Minister of Culture, André Malraux, and his director of music, Marcel Landowski, engaged conductor Charles Munch to create a new orchestra in Paris. Soon after its creation, Munch died in 1968, and Herbert von Karajan was hired as an interim music advisor from 1969 to 1971. Successive music directors include Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, and Semyon Bychkov. Christoph von Dohnányi served as artistic advisor from 1998 to 2000.
During his tenure, Barenboim saw a need for a permanent chorus for the orchestra, and engaged the English chorus master Arthur Oldham to create the Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris in 1976. Oldham remained with the Chorus till his retirement in 2002. From 2002 to 2011, Didier Bouture and Geoffroy Jourdain shared direction of the Chorus, which is now run by Lionel Sow.
Christoph Eschenbach was music director from 2000 to 2010. He conducted recordings of music of Luciano Berio, Marc-André Dalbavie, and Albert Roussel with the orchestra. In May 2007, Paavo Järvi was named the orchestra's sixth music director, effective from the 2010–11 season. Järvi is scheduled to conclude his tenure with the Orchestre de Paris at the conclusion of his current contract, at the end of the summer of 2016. In June 2015, the orchestra announced the appointments of Daniel Harding as its 9th principal conductor, and of Thomas Hengelbrock as principal guest conductor, effective September 2016. In January 2018, the Orchestre de Paris announced that Harding is to stand down as its principal conductor, following the close of the 2018–2019 season.
In 1998, Crédit Lyonnais, which had control of the Salle Pleyel, sold the hall to the French businessman Hubert Martigny. The Salle Pleyel was closed in 2002, which left the orchestra without a resident hall. The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Théâtre du Châtelet both presented the orchestra during the 2001–02 season. By the fall of 2002, the orchestra had secured the Théâtre Mogador, where it played its next four seasons. In 2003, the French government secured a new arrangement whereby Martigny would pay for renovations to the Salle Pleyel, and rent the hall to the Cité de la Musique, which would then be scheduled to purchase the hall in the year 2056. After renovations, the Salle Pleyel reopened in September 2006 and became once more the Orchestre de Paris's home base. The orchestra took up residence at the new Philharmonie de Paris, near the Cité de la Musique in the Parc de la Villette, after the opening of the hall ceremony which took place on 14 January 2015.
Music directors
Charles Munch (1967–1968)
Herbert von Karajan (musical advisor, 1969–1971)
Sir Georg Solti (1972–1975)
Daniel Barenboim (1975–1989)
Semyon Bychkov (1989–1998)
Christoph von Dohnányi (artistic advisor, 1998–2000)
Christoph Eschenbach (2000–2010)
Paavo Järvi (2010–2016)
Daniel Harding (2016–2019)
Pop charts
The Orchestre de Paris found itself in an unusual situation in 1989, when its performance of Ravel's Boléro became a hit on the Dutch pop chart. The recording, made in 1982 under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, was released as a CD-single to coincide with the success of the song "No more boleros" by the Dutch pop singer Gerard Joling, which included parts of the Ravel work. With its playing time of 17 minutes, the Orchestre de Paris single remains the longest recording ever in the Dutch Top 40. |
Ion Baciu | Ion Baciu (born 12 May 1944) is a retired bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Romania. He won the world title in 1967 and a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics, placing sixth in 1972. |
Centered in the Universe | Centered in the Universe is a fulldome presentation that premiered the evening of October 29, 2006 at the "Galactic Gala" which marked the reopening of the renovated Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. The 33-minute planetarium program utilizes a Zeiss Universarium star projector and an innovative laser video projection system developed by Evans & Sutherland to create an immersive environment. A live presenter narrates the script.
Synopsis
As the audience is seated, the planetarium dome is suffused with a cool blue light, with a suggestion of clouds. The presenter walks to the center of the theater and flourishes a glowing ball, representing a star, about the size of a grapefruit, which he/she alternately lights and dims to accent a description of how various cultures interpreted celestial phenomena such as the cycle of day and night. At the conclusion of the introduction, the orb fades, the theater darkens, and the audience experiences a simulated sunset projected by the laser video system. As the sunset proceeds, the star projector rises to simulate the night sky. The lecturer asks the audience to imagine how mysterious the stars must have seemed to ancient people, and then demonstrates, using the star projector, how people invented constellations in an effort to make sense of the randomly scattered stars. In accelerated time, we see the complex motions of the sun, moon, and planets.
The scene dissolves to ancient Alexandria, Egypt. We see the Great Library and the Pharos Lighthouse. In a courtyard, next to a pool surrounded by torches, we see the 2nd Century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy adjusting an armillary sphere to chart star positions. Behind Ptolemy is a small table on which rests a scroll. We approach the scroll and see that it depicts a geocentric model of the universe. Paintings on the scroll morph into 3D representations of the sun, earth, and planets, which hover above the scroll and rotate within a complex system of crystalline spheres, illustrating the earth-centered model of the universe that persisted until the Renaissance.
The flame from a lamp pans across the field of view and dissolves to a candle flame burning above the workshop table of Galileo Galilei in Italy around the year 1610. We move into a courtyard where Galileo is observing with his telescope. On an easel lit by a lantern we see his sketches of the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus. These drawings also morph into 3D objects to demonstrate how Galileo's observations transformed our perception of the planets and helped establish the Copernican model of the solar system.
The film transports the audience through a series of environments, such as Mount Wilson Observatory in the early 1920s, when Edwin Hubble discovered the true nature of the Andromeda Galaxy and the expansion of the universe. Over the desk of an anonymous modern researcher we see a representation of the Big Bang. The device of transforming raw data, such as sketches and photographs, into 3D objects is used to suggest how scientists must apply imagination to interpret their observations.
Towards the end of the show, the audience experiences a simulated flight through clusters of galaxies, into the Milky Way Galaxy, our solar system, skimming the surface of Mars, where the probable and tragic loss of oceans beckon the audience to wonder about the future of our planet, and then finally returns to Earth, landing on the front lawn of Griffith Observatory.
The presenter once again appears with the glowing "star" and delivers an epilogue, summarizing that of all the things we have learned about the Universe, one of the most amazing discoveries is that Earth and everything on it, including its inhabitants, are made from the clouds of dust and gas that lace the Milky Way Galaxy; that we are, in fact, made of stardust, which would possibly explain humanity's fascination with the night sky.
Technical challenges
According to Andrew Hofman, Visual Effects Supervisor, "Centered in the Universe" presented unique challenges. "Some long-established practices in conventional film making are simply not available in the dome venue." For instance, changing lenses is not an option in a dome show; there is only one lens: the 180-degree fisheye, which makes near objects appear distorted while objects only a few feet from the virtual camera appear very tiny. Developing a visual style to work within this limitation was integral to the success of the show. The sheer size of the image files was also daunting. Each frame was composed of 17 million pixels, as opposed to the mere 3 million required for conventional cinema. "Software behaved erratically, machines ran out of RAM; hard drives filled up and networks, even air conditioning, were overtaxed."
The Visual Effects Producer, Bill Murphy, had to create a schedule and budget for a production "that was not fully scripted requiring images never before created for a physical space that was not yet built." Delays in the delivery of the laser video projectors required animators to continue making color adjustments until a few days before the premiere, as the projectors themselves kept changing.
Artistic challenges
Although every frame of the film was created using computer graphics, conventional artwork played an important role in developing the look and feel of the show. Art Director Chris Butler did extensive research to design props and sets that would allow the 3D animators to create historically authentic environments. The animators visited the dome of the telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory to photograph the building before constructing it in Maya (software) as it might have appeared in 1925, when Edwin Hubble worked there. "Dixon insisted on authenticity; from the location of planets in the sky to the kind of feather in Galileo's quill pen, everything was meticulously researched", according to Executive Producer Ann Hassett. Animators studied photographs provided by Galileo expert Dava Sobel to ensure that architectural details of the astronomer's house were modeled correctly.
Musical score
Centered in the Universe features an original orchestral score blending avant-garde and classical motifs composed by Alan Ett, Scott Liggett, and William Ashford from Alan Ett Music Group. The soundtrack is available from the iTunes store. |
Borough Road Gallery | The Borough Road Gallery is an art gallery at London South Bank University on Borough Road in south London, England.
The gallery celebrates the artist David Bomberg who taught at the Borough Polytechnic, now London South Bank University. The gallery includes the Sarah Rose Collection of his pictures and those of other artists in the Borough Group, totalling around 150 works.
The gallery opened in June 2012, financed by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. Artists whose works are featured include: David Bomberg (1890–1957), Dennis Creffield (born 1931), Cliff Holden (born 1919), Thomas Holden (born 1957), Edna Mann (1926–1985), Dorothy Mead (1928–1975), and Miles Richmond (1922–2008). |
The Curse of Love | The Curse of Love is a 'lost' album by English indie rock band The Coral. The album features 12 previously unreleased tracks that were recorded on an 8-track recorder between their albums The Invisible Invasion (2005) and Roots & Echoes (2007). The album was released on October 20, 2014.
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Rapp Brush | Major General Isaac Rapp Brush (November 7, 1889 – March 6, 1958) was a United States Army officer who commanded the 40th Infantry Division from 1942 to 1945 during its World War II involvement in the United States armed forces' reconquest of the Philippines.
The 40th Infantry Division or "Sun Burst" Division was prior to its World War II activation on March 3, 1941 divisions of the California, Nevada and Utah Army National Guard. During its World War II service, the 40th Infantry Division or its members were awarded 3 Distinguished Unit Citations, 1 Medal of Honor, 12 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Distinguished Service Medal, 245 Silver Stars, 21 Legions of Merit, 30 Soldier's Medals, 1036 Bronze Star Medals and 57 Air Medals. |
Branko Benzon | Branko Benzon (29 August 1903 – September 1970) was a Croatian physician, diplomat and politician.
Pre-war life
Benzon was born in Postira, on the island Brač in 1903. He attended medical school at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Medicine where he specialized in cardiology. He published a number of works dealing with pathology and the treatment of heart disease. Soon he became primarius of the section for heart diseases in Merkur's Sanatorium in Zagreb.
Even though he was a respectable doctor, he was fired in 1932 for his political attitudes. He was member of the Ustaše branch in Croatia with a pro-German orientation. When Vladko Maček filed a complaint against him to the court, Benzon fled to Slovakia. Soon he emigrated to Germany where he led the radio-station, "Velebit". He represented Ustaše for Germany at the time. In the name of Ante Pavelić and Mile Budak on 31 March 1940, he transmitted a memorandum to the Foreign Minister of Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop in which he asked for German support in the creation of Croatian state within its historical boundaries.
Diplomatic career and emigration
With the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia, he returned to Zagreb and joined the political leadership. He was named Croatian Ambassador to Germany in April 1941, but because of diplomatic misbehaviour, was forced to resign on 10 October 1941. In 1942, he became Croatian Ambassador to Romania, and from 1944 until 1945, was Ambassador to Hungary. His involvement in the Lorković-Vokić coup put him in disagreement with Croatian leadership and did not return to Zagreb.
After the war he went to Spain and then emigrated to Argentina where he worked in Direction for Immigrants. After the fall of his friend President Juan Domingo Perón in 1955, he went to Venezuela and became chief of section in the American hospital in Caracas.
While in Central America, he established a smuggling ring for getting Nazi war criminals out of Europe. Benzon was responsible for bringing over 100 former officers overseas, including Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor from Auschwitz known for his human experiments. The war criminals came from cities around the globe where they contacted Argentinian spies and Italian sympathisers, receiving new identities and papers classifying them as technicians.
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34 Kudi | 34 Kudi is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Udupi taluk of Udupi district in Karnataka. |
The Local (film) | The Local is a 2008 action-drama film directed, written by and starring Dan Eberle. It also stars Maya Ferrara, Karl Herlinger, Beau Allulli, David F. Nighbert, Paul James Vasquez, James Alba, and Paul Bowen. The film follows Noname, a small-time drug trafficker hired by a wealthy out-of-towner to help free his drug-addicted daughter.
Plot
Noname (Dan Eberle) is a mysterious, lowly drug courier in Brooklyn, New York looking for escapism from his tortured and violent past. He rents out the basement of a married couple, struggling to stay clean from drugs and make ends meet with no job or money, which has him resort to working for psychotic drug dealers, particularly Sig (George Tchortov) and Big Black (Paul Bowen)
Under surveillance by wealthy out-of-towner, Frank (David F. Nighbert), and his associate, Joe (Paul James Vasquez), Noname confronts them in their car, where he is offered $5000 in return for his cooperation, later revealed they want him to emancipate Frank’s heroin-addicted, estranged daughter Claire (Maya Ferrara) from the drug house of his boss, Big Black.
During his errands, Noname meets drug dealer, Blueboy (Beau Allulli), and elderly leukemic woman, Anne Thomson (Janet Panetta), both who befriend him. However, some of his trafficking stops turn up botched, landing him in trouble with his dealers, as he is kidnapped and nearly killed by one of Sig’s enforcers.
Later, Blueboy is busted for drug possession and Anne dies from her illness. Barely scraping by, Noname robs money from a businessman. When his tenant Joe (Torben Brooks) discovers his life by finding a syringe in his basement, he is evicted from the premises and sleeps at the train station. Blueboy soon finds him at a restaurant, explaining he was bailed out of jail, but is being sent to rehab. Before they go their separate ways, Blueboy helps out Noname by giving him some cash.
Delaying the task long enough, Noname takes back up the $5000 offer by Frank and Joe. He kills Big Black after taking out one of his right-hand men Horse (James Alba). The other man Rottweiler (Karl Herlinger) escapes, while Noname removes a drugged Claire from the apartment. They board a train at the station that Rottweiler is a passenger on. Once Claire is taken into care by Joe during a train stop, Noname confronts Rottweiler, killing him in the process. Outside the station, Noname helps Frank reconcile with Claire and set her on a path to get clean. He tells Claire that Frank is family and will take care of her. Noname receives his $5000 owing and in the final shot, he watches on from the bridge as Frank, Joe, and Claire drive away.
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Anthrenocerus trimaculatus | Anthrenocerus Trimaculatus is a species of beetles, native to Australia. It is within the genus Anthrenocerus and the family Dermestidae. |
LA Weekly | LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as president and editor until 1991. Voice Media Group sold the paper in late 2017 to Semanal Media LLC.
According to its website, LA Weekly has been the premier source for award-winning coverage of Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, [and] events." The LA Weekly also recognizes outstanding small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles, with their annual LA Weekly Theater Awards, established in 1979. Starting in 2006, LA Weekly has hosted the LA Weekly Detour Music Festival every October. The entire block surrounding Los Angeles City Hall is closed off to accommodate the festival's three stages.
Some of its best known writers were Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who left in early 2012, and Nikki Finke, who blogged about the film industry through the Weekly website and published a print column in the paper each week, leaving in June 2009 after the blog she founded, Deadline Hollywood Daily, was acquired by an online firm.
History
The paper was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as its editor from 1978 to 1991 and its president from 1978 to 1992. Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon and Pete Kameron. The majority of its core of initial staff members came from the Austin Sun, a similar-natured bi-weekly, which had recently ceased publication.
Although some former employees have complained about personnel moves since the Weekly parent company's acquisition by New Times Media in 2004 (which assumed the Village Voice Media name in 2005), the paper has won a Pulitzer Prize, and broke the story of the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer. Some of those disgruntled ex-employees complained when New Times replaced news editor Alan Mittelstaedt with New Times editor Jill Stewart. But in the 2009 LA Press Club Awards, the Weekly won six first-place awards, including three by staff writer Christine Pelisek, who was honored as the city's best reporter in investigative reporting, hard news, and news feature.
Harold Meyerson, once the Weekly political editor, charged in a departing email to Weekly staffers in 2006 that the new owners had grafted a cookie-cutter template for editorial content onto the publication.
Writers once closely associated with the Weekly but let go by the paper's current management include Meyerson, classical music critic Alan Rich, theater critic Steven Leigh Morris, film critic Ella Taylor, and columnist Marc Cooper. Internal cutbacks have resulted in the paper eliminating the position of managing editor, letting go several staff writers and other editorial department positions, as well as cutting the entire fact checking department. On June 1, 2009, the paper announced that Editor-in-Chief Laurie Ochoa, who began helming the paper in 2001 (before the New Times acquisition), was "parting ways" with the Weekly. On that same day, ads for her replacement appeared on Craigslist and Journalismjobs.com. Though some speculated that Stewart was a shoo-in for the position, the job quickly went to Drex Heikes, formerly of the Los Angeles Times. When Heikes left in 2011, he was replaced by Sarah Fenske.
The management of LA Weekly said staff cuts were necessary owing to poor economic conditions. However, some of the cuts are likely attributable to philosophical differences with the paper's then-owners, who have since sold the chain. Former staff writer Matthew Fleischer said at the time that "as part of the company's 'plug-and-play' management strategy, editors, writers and ad directors were moved from city to city within the chain, without regard for local knowledge. Any old-school Village Voice Media manager who resisted the metamorphosis was denounced as a 'lefty,' a 'throwback,' and worse. They were fired or simply fled."
Since 2008, LA Weekly has hosted a food and wine festival, now dubbed The Essentials, that draws sizable crowds. In 2009, former Los Angeles Times food writer Amy Scattergood became food blogger at LA Weeklys Squid Ink, and was later promoted to food editor. In late 2009, the paper hired Dennis Romero, formerly of Ciudad magazine, as a full-time news blogger. Following the recession, in 2012 the paper added food critic Besha Rodell, a James Beard nominee and former food editor of Atlanta's Creative Loafing. Then in 2013, LA Weekly named Amy Nicholson as its lead film critic. In 2016, LA Weekly named multimedia journalist and Emmy-winning producer Drew Tewksbury as managing editor.
2012 sale
In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media’s papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group. The paper won journalism awards before and after this transition, with two of its news writers, Patrick Range McDonald and Gene Maddaus, winning the Los Angeles Press Club's nod for Journalist of the Year.
For a time in the Los Angeles market, LA Weekly competed against two now-defunct publications, including Brand X (a weekly published by the Los Angeles Times and produced by a crew that included former LA Weekly staffers) and LA CityBeat, a smaller alternative weekly newspaper owned by Southland Publishing, which ceased publication in March 2009. Southland also owns the Pasadena Weekly, (helmed by veteran LA-area newsman Kevin Uhrich) and The Argonaut on the Westside of Los Angeles, and other print products in Southern California.
2017 sale
In November 2017, the publication was sold to Semanal Media LLC. In December 2017, it was revealed that the new owners of Semanal Media LLC include "David Welch, a Los Angeles-based attorney with ties to the cannabis industry; philanthropist Kevin Xu, an investor with biotech firm Mebo International; attorney Steve Mehr; boutique hotelier Paul Makarechian; real estate developer Mike Mugel; and Southern California investor Andy Bequer", all residents of Orange County, California. The new operation manager is Brian Calle.
In August 2018, David Welch sued the other co-owners, alleging "they've pillaged the company." |
Sphinx ligustri | Sphinx ligustri, the privet hawk moth, is a moth found in most of the Palearctic ecozone. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Description
It has a wingspan (generally deflexed at rest), and is found in urban areas, forests and woodlands.
The male privet hawk moth can make a hissing sound, if disturbed, by rubbing together a set of scales and spines at the end of its abdomen.
The larvae are usually found between July and August: and bury themselves in the earth when preparing to become a pupa. They then fly in the following June.
Diet
As its name describes, the caterpillars feed on privets, as well as ash trees, lilacs, jasmine, and a number of other plants.
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Nowe Karmonki | Nowe Karmonki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radłów, within Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Radłów, north-east of Olesno, and north-east of the regional capital Opole.
The village has a population of 449. |
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi | Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi (1876–1920) [] founded and ruled the Idrisid Emirate of Asir.
Biography
He was born at Sabia (now a county of Saudi Arabia). He was a grandson of Sayyid Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi, a native of Fez, who was head of a religious fraternity (tariqa) at Mecca and who acquired land at Sabia, settled there and died in 1837. The descendants of Sayyid Ahmed appear to have increased in wealth and influence and to have gradually supplanted the ruling sherifial family of Abu ‛Arish.
Sayyid Muhammad was educated partly at Al-Azhar University and partly by the Senussi at Kufra, and subsequently resided for a time in the Sudan, at Argo Island. On his return to Asir, his one ambition was to render that district independent of the Ottoman Empire. He gradually expanded his political power to include Mikhlaf el Yemen and a large part of the Tihamah, with control over several tribes outside these limits. He threw in his lot with the Allies in World War I, and was the inexorable foe of the Imam of Yemen.
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Geoff Meggs | Geoff Meggs is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2017. He was first elected in the 2008 municipal election, and resigned his seat on city council in 2017 to accept a job as chief of staff to John Horgan, the Premier of British Columbia.
Background
Meggs was born in Ontario and grew up in Willowdale, Toronto and Ottawa. His father, who was trained as an Anglican priest, was a broadcaster with the CBC, and his mother was a nurse who retired to become a homemaker. Meggs graduated from the University of Toronto. After graduating he joined the Canada World Youth exchange program and spent time in Malaysia. He eventually relocated to Vancouver in 1976. Meggs' career includes time as a journalist, a communications director in the offices of former Premier Glen Clark and former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, an executive director of the BC Federation of Labour, and president of Tideline Communications.
He is the author or co-author of four published books, including Salmon: The Decline of the West Coast Fishery (Douglas & McIntyre, 1991), which won the 1992 Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, and Cork Lines and Canning Lines; the Glory Years of Fishing on the West Coast, with Duncan Stacey (Douglas & McIntyre, 1992).
Politics
Meggs ran as part of the Vision Vancouver slate in the 2008 election. He received 49,538 votes, in ninth place out of a field of 32 candidates for Vancouver councillor, the fewest votes among the seven elected Vision Vancouver councilors.<ref name="gselect">"Racism is alive and well in Vancouver municipal politics", Georgia Straight, November 16, 2008.</ref> In 2011, Meggs was re-elected as a Vision Vancouver city councillor with 56,183 votes, sixth out of a field of 40 candidates.
In June 2014, Meggs faced a court petition to remove him and fellow councillor Kerry Jang from office for allegedly violating rules on conflict of interest in connection with the rezoning of a public housing project.
Family
Meggs and his wife, Jan O’Brien, live with his daughter Claire in False Creek. Their oldest daughter, Caitlin, lives and works in Victoria.
Works
2018: Strange New Country: The Fraser River Salmon Strikes of 1900–1901, 236 pages. Harbour Publishing.
2012: The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 (co-authored with Rod Mickleburgh), Harbour Publishing.
1995: Salmon: The decline of the British Columbia fishery, 274 pages. Douglas & McIntyre.
1992: Cork Lines and Canning Lines'' (co-authored with Duncan Stacey). Douglas & McIntyre. |
Narco (film) | Narco is a 2004 French film about Gus (played by Guillaume Canet) a narcoleptic, whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his narcolepsy.
Plot
The main character Gus experiences vivid dreams during his narcoleptic episodes, which inspire him to create comic book style art of extremely high quality. When Samuel Pupkin, the psychiatrist who runs a group attended by Gus, learns of this, he recalls his own desire to be a comic book artist, instead of following the family tradition of psychiatry, a dream prevented by his lack of artistic talent. Motivated by greed, jealousy, and desire for fame he hatches a plot, involving figure skating assassins, to steal Gus's work and pass it off as his own. The attempt on Gus's life fails but he ends up in a coma. Pupkin pays Gus's wife and best friend (who have begun an affair) for the art and sells it to a failed-comedian turned successful publisher, who in turn plans to erase the text and replace it with his own, and in this way have his genius for comedy finally recognized.
When Gus awakens from his coma, he reports to the police that someone is trying to kill him, but as he can think of no reason why, the police dismiss his claims. He then discovers that he is no longer narcoleptic, but finds it convenient to pretend he still is. In this way he discovers the affair of his wife and best friend, and through further investigation the theft of his work. The publisher angry that because of the Pupkin's deception, Gus could cause problems for them, demands that Pupkin solve it. Pupkin once more sends the assassins after Gus, but Gus's best friend, after wrestling with his conscience, talks them out of killing him. The police now believe his story and investigate the publisher who goes to jail, where he finally finds success as a comedian, performing for the other inmates. Pupkin goes insane and is confined to a hospital. Gus reconciles with his wife and finally gets a job.
In a minor role, Jean-Claude Van Damme appears as an imagined version of himself, when one character who idolises him as the ultimate 'Karate man', imagines a conversation where he acts as that character's conscience.
Cast
Guillaume Canet - Gustave Klopp
Zabou Breitman - Pamela
Benoît Poelvoorde - Lenny Bar
Guillaume Gallienne - Samuel Pupkin
François Berléand - Guy Bennet
Jean-Pierre Cassel - Gus's father
Vincent Rottiers - Kevin
Philippe Lellouche - Hervé
Laurent Lafitte - The host
Léa Drucker - The twin
Gilles Lellouche - The twin
Anne Marivin - The objects woman
Lionel Abelanski - The supermarket director
Philippe Lefebvre - The gym teacher
François Levantal - The twins's father
Jean-Noël Brouté - The doctor
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Constance of France, Countess of Toulouse | Constance of France (1124–1176) was a French princess of the House of Capet, the only daughter of Louis VI of France and his second wife Adélaide de Maurienne. Amongst her siblings was Louis VII, who succeeded their father in 1137.
Life
In 1140, Constance married Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, son of Stephen, King of England. The couple were married for thirteen years until Eustace's death, they had no children.
The following year, Constance was married to Raymond V, Count of Toulouse. The marriage was arranged by her brother, who was in need of allies against Henry II of England, particularly after the latter bolstered his presence in France by marrying Louis's former wife, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine.
The marriage was an unhappy one, a factor that can explain the tense relationship between Raymond and Louis. After a decade of marriage, Raymond broke from Louis and moved towards a partnership with Frederick Barbarossa. Constance wrote to Louis, complaining that she was isolated in Toulouse; the courtiers ignored her and her servants did not obey her orders. In addition, Constance was displeased by her husband taking mistresses. In 1165, Constance fled from Toulouse and returned to Paris.
In 1166, with the support of Antipope Paschal III and Frederick, Raymond repudiated Constance. Having lost the favour of Louis, Raymond was forced to perform homage to Henry for Toulouse at Limoges in 1173.
Issue
Raymond and Constance had five children together, they were:
Raymond VI, who succeeded his father
Aubri, died 1180
Azalais of Toulouse
Baldwin of Toulouse, born 1165, executed on the orders of Raymond VI in 1214
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Wissman | Wissman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dave Wissman (born 1941), American baseball player
Johan Wissman (born 1982), Swedish athlete |
Haifa Women's Coalition | The Haifa Women's Coalition is a coalition of four women's organizations in the Israeli city of Haifa: Isha l'Isha – Haifa Feminist Center, Kayan – Feminist Organization, Haifa Rape Crisis Cente and Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women. The coalition works for women's rights awareness and supports women victims of domestic and sexual violence. Jewish and Arab women in Israel work under one roof, creating a contact point for Northern Israeli women of all backgrounds.
Overview
Isha l'Isha, Aswat, Kayan and the Haifa Rape Crisis Center have gained international recognition. In 2008, Aswat was awarded the Go visible Award of the city of Vienna, an initiative of the Austrian Green Party. Rauda Morcos, then the head of Aswat, was awarded the Felipa de Souza Award of the OutRight Action International in 2006.
Aswat was the first public organization for Arab lesbians in the Middle East and Rauda Morcos was for a long time the only openly gay member of Aswat. The group has supporters in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, but most Arab lesbians hide their sexual preferences for fear of reprisals. The first conference of Aswat in March 2008 was met with a high level of response from supporters but also from opponents of gay rights. Israel's Islamic Movement had requested cancellation of the conference. The organizers refused, and members of the Islamic Movement demonstrated in front of the conference building.
Aswat aims to strengthen cooperation with feminist organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The women see their struggle for gay rights in connection to the Palestinian struggle against the occupation, and also aim to show solidarity with Palestinian homosexuals in the OPT whose situation is even more difficult than that of Palestinian homosexuals in Israel.
Kayan called public and media attention inter alia with its research about mobility among women in Arab villages and towns in Northern Israel. This first study of the topic showed the complete lack of public transportation in Israel's Arab localities, and convinced the Ministry of Transport to install bus lines in Sakhnin, Arara, Umm el Fahm and other Arab towns and villages. The project "Women Demand Mobility" also involved women's community activism in Mghar and other villages without public transportation, where women installed bus lines out of their own initiative.
Israeli media also reported widely about an environmental project where women from Mghar raise environmental awareness among children and youth. Environmental work by women is a novelty in Arab society, empowers women and helps the community at the same time.
Isha l'Isha's achievements for the prevention of trafficking of women are of utmost importance. The organization succeeded in raising public awareness for the problem, including the installation of a parliamentary committee that deals with the issue. Traffickers of women face heavier punishments today thanks to Isha l'Isha's initiative, and Isha l'Isha is regarded a central reference and expert on the topic in Israel.
In July 2000, the Haifa Rape Crisis Center, along with the other nine national rape crisis centers, received the Volunteer Award presented by the President of Israel. The award is in recognition of the Centers’ “ important pioneering contribution to Israeli Society” and their “contribution to the uprooting of the epidemic of sexual violence from Israeli Society and on the support given to survivors.”
Criticism
Especially the quarter policy of the Israeli feminist movement, which is also implemented in the Haifa Women's Coalition, is subject to criticism. The quarter policy aims to ensure equal representation of Israel's large population groups - Mizrahi women (Jews who descend from the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus), Ashkenazi women (Jews who descend from European countries), Lesbian and Palestinian women. On the one hand, there are basic discussions about the implementation and usefulness of this policy. On the other hand, it is asked why Russian women, a large minority in Israel today, are not represented. In reaction to this criticism, the quarter system was expanded to accommodate additional groups that make up Israeli society.
The different identities of the women are an ongoing topic of discussion. Women from minority groups often feel dominated by Ashkenazi women and unequally represented. The building of coalitions and the sharing of resources shall provide answers to these questions. |
Tearing Down the Walls | Tearing Down the Walls is the third studio album by American singer, actress and musician, E. G. Daily, which was released in 1999.
Background
Tearing Down the Walls was Daily's first album since 1989's Lace Around the Wound. After the end of her record deal with A&M, Daily focused on her voice acting career. Marking a return to music, Daily worked with Grammy-winning music veterans and producers Brad Gilderman and Harvey Mason, Jr. for the majority of Tearing Down the Walls, while "Pretty Baby" was produced by Bernie Larsen and Daily. Although the album didn't garner any commercial success, critical reception was favorable. To promote the album, Daily would perform live on July 18, 1999, at the Phoenix, Arizona stop of Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair, a travelling music festival tour that "showcases the best in women's pop music".
In 2007 Daily went on "The Changing Faces Tour", which celebrated the Tearing Down the Walls album, as well as the launch of her first two albums - Wild Child and Lace Around the Wound – available on iTunes that May. Additionally the first single "Don't Even Care" was reported for release on June 13, 2007, and this single was meant to be serviced to Mainstream/Top 40/Hot AC radio. The album was released nationwide again on September 18 with exclusive bonus tracks; "Home," "Earthlings," "Just for You" and "Tryin'". All songs were new material, although "Just for You" was a re-recorded version of the song that appeared on her 1985 debut album Wild Child.
The song "Breath of Heaven" is the album's only cover and was first recorded by Christian music/pop singer Amy Grant from her 1992 album Home for Christmas. On October 23, 2007, Daily released the song as an MP3 single via her own label E. G. Daily Productions. "All I Want" was written by Daily and Grammy-winning writer/producer John Shanks.
During October 2002, Daily was interviewed by Matt Cibula for Ink 19. Asked whether the album was personal, Daily replied: "All my records are. They're like diaries, you know? Some of the songs on that record were written before I had kids, some after, and some were written during my marriage. I don't know how to write songs that aren't personal." Speaking of the album, Daily said: "I was very particular with that record. I produced and released it, and I needed someone with good chops to co-produce it. I found Brad Gilderman, who is a great engineer and mixer. He worked on "When Will I See You Again." And he's done mixes for Babyface. Anyway, he was the guy who had mixed that track, and I had a really awesome time making that. I'd already rehearsed the band, so he was able to just come right in."
Release
The album was independently released in early 1999 on CD in America only (on Amazon and record stores nationwide), via Daily's own label E. G. Daily Productions (Tommy T), along with Sumthing Distribution. The CD remains in print. During 2007, Daily released the album as an MP3 download on sites such as Amazon and iTunes via E. G. Daily Productions. Additionally, this coincided with the launch of the bonus track version of the album.
Critical reception
Alex Henderson of AllMusic stated: "You certainly have to admire Daily's flexibility; not everyone could portray a talking pig [Babe: Pig in the City] and then turn around and record an introspective singer/songwriter offering like Tearing Down the Walls. This album has a very reflective tone, and "personal" is definitely the watchword on "Someday," "Here It Goes Again," "The Walls," and other songs she wrote or co-wrote. At 38, Daily was still best known for her Madonna-ish hit of 1986, "Say It, Say It," but you won't find any high-gloss dance music or urban contemporary on this intimate, often confessional pop/rock date."
The professional body piercer Elayne Angel mentioned the track "All I Want" in an interview with Jodie Michalak. When asked for the song on her iPod right now and the one she kept replaying, Angel stated "It's a song called "All I Want" by E. G. Daily. It may be a little obscure, but I really like her music - and she's a really cool lady. If you're not familiar with her work, you should check it out!"
Track listing
Personnel
E. G. Daily - Vocals, Lead Guitar, Piano, Harmonica, Producer (all tracks)
Jeff Kluesner - Rhythm Guitar (all tracks except track 7)
Randy Mitchell - Rhythm Guitar (track 7)
Jeff McElroy - Bass Guitar (all tracks except track 7)
Ralf Balzer - Drums (all tracks except track 7)
Nick Vincent - Drums (track 7)
Brad Gilderman, Harvey Mason Jr. - Producer (all tracks except track 7)
Bernie Larsen - Producer (track 7) |
Dean Pees | Russell Dean Pees (born September 4, 1949) is a former American football defensive coach. He served as the defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, and Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL), and was also the head coach at Kent State University from 1998 to 2003, compiling a record of 17–51.
Coaching career
College football
Pees began his college coaching career in 1979 at the University of Findlay as their defensive coordinator and secondary coach following six years as a high school coach. In 1983, Pees moved to Miami University, where he was also the defensive coordinator and secondary coach of the team. From 1987 to 1989, Pees served as the secondary coach at the United States Naval Academy. Pees then took the defensive coordinator job, under Nick Saban, at the University of Toledo, which he held for four seasons with the team. He spent the 1994 season under head coach Lou Holtz as the secondary coach for the University of Notre Dame. From 1995 to 1997, Pees worked as the defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach again under Saban at Michigan State University. In 1998, he earned his first head coaching job at Kent State University. Pees left the program after the 2003 season with a six-year record of 17–51.
NFL
New England Patriots
Prior to the 2004 NFL season, Pees left Kent State for the Patriots, spending two years as the Patriots' linebackers coach under head coach Bill Belichick, another Saban associate. Pees had coached alongside Bill's father, Steve Belichick, at Navy in the late 1980s. After the 2005 season, Pees was promoted to defensive coordinator, replacing Eric Mangini, who became the head coach of the New York Jets. With his contract set to expire following the 2009 season, Pees chose not to return to the Patriots on January 14, 2010.
Baltimore Ravens
On January 26, 2010, Pees was hired as the linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens. On January 27, 2012, Pees was promoted to defensive coordinator by head coach John Harbaugh. Pees was on the coaching staff that won Super Bowl XLVII. Pees announced his retirement on January 1, 2018.
Tennessee Titans
On January 29, 2018, Pees was hired as the defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans under head coach Mike Vrabel. On January 20, 2020, Pees announced his retirement from football for the second time.
Head coaching record |
52 Cygni | 52 Cygni is a giant star in the northern constellation of Cygnus with an apparent magnitude of 4.22. Based on its Hipparcos parallax, it is about away.
52 Cygni is a probable horizontal branch (red clump) star, fusing helium in its core, although there is a 25% chance that it is still on the red giant branch (RGB) and fusing hydrogen in a shell around an insert core. As a clump giant it would be 2.27 gyr old, but only 910 myr if it is an RGB star. It shines with a bolometric luminosity of about at an effective temperature of 4,677 K. It has a radius of .
At an angular separation of 6.0″ from 52 Cygni is a faint magnitude 9.5 companion. |
Helium dimer | The helium dimer is a van der Waals molecule with formula He2 consisting of two helium atoms. This chemical is the largest diatomic molecule—a molecule consisting of two atoms bonded together. The bond that holds this dimer together is so weak that it will break if the molecule rotates, or vibrates too much. It can only exist at very low cryogenic temperatures.
Two excited helium atoms can also bond to each other in a form called an excimer. This was discovered from a spectrum of helium that contained bands first seen in 1912. Written as He2* with the * meaning an excited state, it is the first known Rydberg molecule.
Several dihelium ions also exist, having net charges of negative one, positive one, and positive two. Two helium atoms can be confined together without bonding in the cage of a fullerene.
Molecule
Based on molecular orbital theory, He2 should not exist, and a chemical bond cannot form between the atoms. However, the van der Waals force exists between helium atoms as shown by the existence of liquid helium, and at a certain range of distances between atoms the attraction exceeds the repulsion. So a molecule composed of two helium atoms bound by the van der Waals force can exist. The existence of this molecule was proposed as early as 1930.
He2 is the largest known molecule of two atoms when in its ground state, due to its extremely long bond length. The He2 molecule has a large separation distance between the atoms of about 5200 pm (= 52 ångström). This is the largest for a diatomic molecule without ro-vibronic excitation. The binding energy is only about 1.3 mK, 10−7eV or 1.1×10−5 kcal/mol, or 150 nanoelectron Volts. The bond is 5000 times weaker than the covalent bond in the hydrogen molecule.
Both helium atoms in the dimer can be ionized by a single photon with energy 63.86 eV. The proposed mechanism for this double ionization is that the photon ejects an electron from one atom, and then that electron hits the other helium atom and ionizes that as well. The dimer then explodes as two helium cations ions repel each other with the same speed but opposite directions.
A dihelium molecule bound by Van der Waals forces was first proposed by John Clarke Slater in 1928.
Formation
The helium dimer can be formed in small amounts when helium gas expands and cools as it passes through a nozzle in a gas beam. Only the isotope 4He can form molecules like this; 4He3He and 3He3He do not exist, as they do not have a stable bound state. The amount of the dimer formed in the gas beam is of the order of one percent.
Molecular ions
He2+ is a related ion bonded by a half covalent bond. It can be formed in a helium electrical discharge. It recombines with electrons to form an electronically excited He2(a3Σ+u) excimer molecule. Both of these molecules are much smaller with more normally sized interatomic distances. He2+ reacts with N2, Ar, Xe, O2, and CO2 to form anions and neutral helium atoms.
The helium dication dimer He22+ is extremely repulsive and would release much energy when it dissociated, around 835 kJ/mol. Dynamical stability of the ion was predicted by Linus Pauling. An energy barrier of 33.2 kcal/mol prevents immediate decay. This ion is isoelectronic with the hydrogen molecule. He22+ is the smallest possible molecule with a double positive charge. It is detectable using mass spectroscopy.
The negative helium dimer He2− is metastable and was discovered by Bae, Coggiola and Peterson in 1984 by passing He2+ through cesium vapor. Subsequently, H. H. Michels theoretically confirmed its existence and concluded that the 4Πg state of He2− is bound relative to the a2Σ+u state of He2. The calculated electron affinity is 0.233 eV compared to 0.077 eV for the He−[4P∘] ion. The He2− decays through the long-lived 5/2g component with τ∼350 μsec and the much shorter-lived 3/2g, 1/2g components with τ∼10 μsec. The 4Πg state has a 1σ2g1σu2σg2πu electronic configuration, its electron affinity E is 0.18±0.03 eV, and its lifetime is 135±15 μsec; only the v=0 vibrational state is responsible for this long-lived state.
The molecular helium anion is also found in liquid helium that has been excited by electrons with an energy level higher than 22 eV. This takes place firstly by penetration of liquid He, taking 1.2 eV, followed by excitation of a He atom electron to the 3P level, which takes 19.8 eV. The electron can then combine with another helium atom and the excited helium atom to form He2−. He2− repels helium atoms, and so has a void around it. It will tend to migrate to the surface of liquid helium.
Excimers
In a normal helium atom two electrons are found in the 1s orbital. However, if sufficient energy is added, one electron can be elevated to a higher energy level. This high energy electron can become a valence electron, and the electron that remains in the 1s orbital is a core electron. Two excited helium atoms can react with a covalent bond to form a molecule called dihelium that lasts for short times of the order of a microsecond up to second or so. Excited helium atoms in the 23S state can last for up to an hour, and react like alkali metal atoms.
The first clues that dihelium exists were noticed in 1900 when W. Heuse observed a band spectrum in a helium discharge. However, no information about the nature of the spectrum was published. Independently E. Goldstein from Germany and W. E. Curtis from London published details of the spectrum in 1913. Curtis was called away to military service in World War I, and the study of the spectrum was continued by Alfred Fowler. Fowler recognised that the double headed bands fell into two sequences analogous to principal and diffuse series in line spectra.
The emission band spectrum shows a number of bands that degrade towards the red, meaning that the lines thin out and the spectrum weakens towards the longer wavelengths. Only one band with a green band head at 5732 Å degrades towards the violet. Other strong band heads are at 6400 (red), 4649, 4626, 4546, 4157.8, 3777, 3677, 3665, 3356.5, and 3348.5 Å. There are also some headless bands and extra lines in the spectrum. Weak bands are found with heads at 5133 and 5108.
If the valence electron is in a 2s 3s, or 3d orbital, a 1Σu state results; if it is in 2p 3p or 4p, a 1Σg state results. The ground state is X1Σg+.
The three lowest triplet states of He2 have designations a3Σu, b3Πg and c3Σg. The a3Σu state with no vibration (v=0) has a long metastable lifetime of 18 s, much longer than the lifetime for other states or inert gas excimers. The explanation is that the a3Σu state has no electron orbital angular momentum, as all the electrons are in S orbitals for the helium state.
The lower lying singlet states of He2 are A1Σu, B1Πg and C1Σg. The excimer molecules are much smaller and more tightly bound than the van der Waals bonded helium dimer. For the A1Σu state the binding energy is around 2.5 eV, with a separation of the atoms of 103.9 pm. The C1Σg state has a binding energy 0.643 eV and the separation between atoms is 109.1 pm. These two states have a repulsive range of distances with a maximum around 300 pm, where if the excited atoms approach, they have to overcome an energy barrier. The singlet state A1Σ+u is very unstable with a lifetime only nanoseconds long.
The spectrum of the He2 excimer contains bands due to a great number of lines due to transitions between different rotation rates and vibrational states, combined with different electronic transitions. The lines can be grouped into P, Q and R branches. But the even numbered rotational levels do not have Q branch lines, due to both nuclei being spin 0. Numerous electronic states of the molecule have been studied, including Rydberg states with the number of the shell up to 25.
Helium discharge lamps produce vacuum ultraviolet radiation from helium molecules. When high energy protons hit helium gas it also produces UV emission at around 600 Å by the decay of excited highly vibrating molecules of He2 in the A1Σu state to the ground state. The UV radiation from excited helium molecules is used in the pulsed discharge ionization detector (PDHID) which is capable of detecting the contents of mixed gases at levels below parts per billion.
The Hopfield continuum is a band of ultraviolet light between 600 and 1000 Å in wavelength formed by photodissociation of helium molecules.
One mechanism for formation of the helium molecules is firstly a helium atom becomes excited with one electron in the 21S orbital. This excited atom meets two other non excited helium atoms in a three body association and reacts to form a A1Σu state molecule with maximum vibration and a helium atom.
Helium molecules in the quintet state 5Σ+g can be formed by the reaction of two spin polarised helium atoms in He(23S1) states. This molecule has a high energy level of 20 eV. The highest vibration level allowed is v=14.
In liquid helium the excimer forms a solvation bubble. In a 3d state a He molecule is surrounded by a bubble 12.7 Å in radius at atmospheric pressure. When pressure is increased to 24 atmospheres the bubble radius shrinks to 10.8 Å. This changing bubble size causes a shift in the fluorescence bands.
Magnetic condensation
In very strong magnetic fields, (around 750,000 Tesla) and low enough temperatures, helium atoms attract, and can even form linear chains. This may happen in white dwarfs and neutron stars. The bond length and dissociation energy both increase as the magnetic field increases.
Use
The dihelium excimer is an important component in the helium discharge lamp.
A second use of dihelium ion is in ambient ionization techniques using low temperature plasma. In this helium atoms are excited, and then combine to yield the dihelium ion. The He2+ goes on to react with N2 in the air to make N2+. These ions react with a sample surface to make positive ions that are used in mass spectroscopy. The plasma containing the helium dimer can be as low as 30 °C in temperature, and this reduces heat damage to samples.
Clusters
He2 has been shown to form van der Waals compounds with other atoms forming bigger clusters such as 24MgHe2 and 40CaHe2.
The helium-4 trimer (4He3), a cluster of three helium atoms, is predicted to have an excited state which is an Efimov state. This has been confirmed experimentally in 2015.
Cage
Two helium atoms can fit inside larger fullerenes, including C70 and C84. These can be detected by the nuclear magnetic resonance of 3He having a small shift, and by mass spectrometry. C84 with enclosed helium can contain 20% He2@C84, whereas C78 has 10% and C76 has 8%. The larger cavities are more likely to hold more atoms. Even when the two helium atoms are placed closely to each other in a small cage, there is no chemical bond between them. The presence of two He atoms in a C60 fullerene cage is only predicted to have a small effect on the reactivity of the fullerene. The effect is to have electrons withdrawn from the endohedral helium atoms, giving them a slight positive partial charge to produce He2δ+, which have a stronger bond than uncharged helium atoms. However, by the Löwdin definition there is a bond present.
The two helium atoms inside the C60 cage are separated by 1.979 Å and the distance from a helium atom to the carbon cage is 2.507 Å. The charge transfer gives 0.011 electron charge units to each helium atom. There should be at least 10 vibrational levels for the He-He pair. |
Vajira Hospital | Vajira Hospital (, ) is one of the first hospitals in Thailand, founded by King Rama VI. It is a teaching university hospital of the Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital, Navamindradhiraj University. It is situated on Samsen Road, Dusit District, Bangkok, Thailand.
Background
Vajira Hospital is funded and operated by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). Following the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital (then BMA Medical College) it has been a teaching hospital since. It now houses the campus of the Faculty of Medicine, and also the training center of the Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing which are faculties of Navamindradhiraj University. Vajira is known for its excellency in clinical services, medical education and urban medication programs.
The hospital serves a large numbers of patients, serving more than 700,000 out-patient visits and around 30,000 in-patient admitted annually, predominantly in general healthcare, it also has various specialized departments and excellency centers such as a Cardiovascular center, an Oncology center, Neurosurgery center, Kidney center, and a Trauma center, one of Bangkok's finest Emergency Medicine center, and many more, serving as a referral center for many other hospitals. It has an in-patient capacity of 900 beds, the largest operated by the BMA, and within some of the country's largest hospitals.
History
Public healthcare facilities or modern hospitals only became available in Siam in the late 19th century. But the number and quality of facilities were still insufficient to meet the rising public demand. When H.M. the King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) ascended to the throne, he follow a royal tradition that Kings of Siam would build temples and monasteries in order to contribute to Buddhism. However at the time, there were already large numbers of religious sites in Bangkok, so H.M. the King Vajiravudh decides on building a hospital instead, as to improve the lives of citizens, providing efficient primary healthcare. He donated money from his own private funds for the establishment of the hospital. The hospital was built in an area once called “Himmapan Garden” located in the northern part of Bangkok, near the bank of Chao Phraya River.
The hospital was opened by King Vajiravudh on January 2, 1913 (B.E. 2455). The King named the hospital "Wachiraphayaban" (วชิรพยาบาล) translated "Vajira Healthcare" or simply "Vajira Hospital". The Hospital was appointed to the Nakhonban Ministry (กระทรวงนครบาล) for administration, but currently operated by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. It was one of the earliest built modern hospitals in Bangkok, serving areas of northern Bangkok and northern part of Thonburi areas.
In 1923 Prince Mahidol, the father of Thai modern medicine, was appointed director of the Hospital. Vajira hospital underwent immense changes and improvements. It expanded from its historic site next to Samsen road to the edges of the Chao Phraya River. In 1954 it became a teaching hospital for its nursing school, now Kuakarun college of nursing. In 1985 it became a Medical School known as the Faculty of Medicine Srinakharinwirot University. Srinakharinwirot medical student attend clinical years training at Vajira hospital. Later on in 1993 the BMA Medical College was established, which headquarters here in Vajira hospital. BMA medical students spends their pre-clinic years at Mahidol University and clinic years in Vajira hospital. At the time Vajira hospital handles over 600 medical students, in clinic years alone.
By 1998 Vajira Hospital and BMA Medical College were merged to form a unity in healthcare services and education, under the name "BMA Medical College & Vajira Hospital". In 2010 BMA Medical College & Vajira Hospital along with Kuakarun College of Nursing joined to form a new University named University of Bangkok Metropolis, with the medical school's name changed to "Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital, University of Bangkok Metropolis". |
Panford Beck | Panford Beck is a minor watercourse that is entirely in the county of Norfolk, eastern England. This small short beck rises within the Parish of North Elmham a mile north east of the village of Brisley (). The beck is a tributary of the Black Water which eventually joins the River Wensum. The headwater is a small pool by the side of a lane. From here the beck flows south across open farmland where various streams and ditches contribute to its flow. After a distance of it joins the Black Water. |
Laemodonta siamensis | Laemodonta siamensis is a species of small air-breathing saltmarsh snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.
Distribution
The distribution of Laemodonta siamensis includes:
Japan. It is critically endangered and endangered (CR＋EN) in Japan.
Thailand |
Santa Maria in Via, Camerino | Santa Maria in Via is a Baroque style Roman Catholic church and Marian Shrine in Camerino, in the province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.
History
The church was designed at the site of former small oratory, acquired by the Cardinal Angelo Giori between 1639 and 1642. In 1643, the Cardinal acquired a venerated 13th-century image of the Madonna and Child attributed to the Master of Camerino. The Cardinal commissioned Andrea Sacchi to design the church, consecrated in 1654.
The layout is elliptical with four lateral semicircular chapels. The chapel of the crucifix and a baptistery occupy the anterior chapels, while towards the apses is the oratory of the confraternity and the sacristy, opening to the aedicule with the icons of the Virgin. The icon was restored in 1973. The icon has writing in gothic letters stating “Virgo parit Christum velut angelus intimat ipsum”.
The original brick ceiling collapsed during an earthquake in 1799, and was replaced by trussed roof. The interior is decorated with faux polychrome marble (scagliola)and completed only in 1896 by dall'Adami of Rome and the Ferranti of Tolentino. The church was damaged again by the 1997 earthquake and reopened for worship in September 2006.
The nave ceiling was frescoed by Giuseppe Rinaldi, known as lo Spazza, and depicts the Life and Mysteries of Mary. The presbytery was painted by Orazio Orazi, depicting the icon of the Madonna and Child of the Master of Camerino putatively arriving from Smyrna (Izmir) and its coronation.
In the chapel to the right, was once the tomb of Cardinal Giori, it now houses the crucifix with which in 1750, St Paolo della Croce, founder of the Passionists, blessed the people of Camerino, while promulgating his eremitic monastic mission. The paper mache crucifix was derived from a Chapel in the Strada di Beldiletto.
Cardinal Giori originally aimed to endow each of the four chapels with three master paintings. Ultimately, many of the paintings are copies of Baroque masterworks. In the first chapel on right, the paintings depict Saints Francis of Sales and Paola by Andrea Sacchi. The Second chapel has a copy of the altarpiece of St Michael Archangel by Guido Reni. In the chapel near the entrance, is a Flagellation of Christ by a painter influenced by Caravaggio. The sacristy has two canvases by Valentin de Boulogne, depicting St John the Baptist and St Jerome, restored in 1973. In the oratory, are depiction of seven apostles, by a follower of Sacchi, and a St Andrew, copy of a work by Simon Vouet. |
Park Kun-ha | Park Kun-ha (born 25 July 1971 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a retired South Korean footballer.
Career
He started his professional career in 1996 as the founding member of Suwon Samsung Bluewings. At first, he played as a striker and scored many goals and help the Bluewings to win the championship in 1998 and 1999 and Asian Champions Cup and Asian Super Cup in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Later, he changed his position to defender and helped the Bluewings to win their third championship in the history.
He retired in 2006 and became an assistant coach of the first team at the Suwon Bluewings. In 2009, he became the manager of Suwon Bluewings U18 team (Maetan High School Football Club).
With Bluewings, he won three K-League championships and also won the Rookie of the Year award in the 1996 season.
Club statistics
National team statistics
International goals
Results list South Korea's goal tally first. |
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host | The Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Host is one of the award categories presented annually by the Critics' Choice Television Awards (BTJA) to recognize the work done by television hosts.
Winners and nominees
2010s
Multiple wins
2 wins
Tom Bergeron
Cat Deeley
Multiple nominations
7 nominations
Tom Bergeron
6 nominations
Cat Deeley
5 nominations
RuPaul
3 nominations
Ted Allen
Phil Keoghan
Gordon Ramsay
2 nominations
Anthony Bourdain
Nick Cannon
Carson Daly
James Lipton
Ryan Seacrest |
Josef Nairz | Josef Nairz (born 5 November 1942) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the 1960s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
Nairz also won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1963 FIBT World Championships in Igls. |
I-52 Mine layer vehicle | The I-52 is a mine-laying vehicle designed in Ukraine by the Kriukiv Machine-building Works.
Purpose and composition
The I-52 Mine-laying vehicle is intended for distant antipersonnel and Anti-tank mine laying. The vehicle ensures mine-laying in all weather and climatic conditions, during daylight or at night, in any temperature and on hilly terrain.
The I-52 can also deploy mines while moving.
The vehicle includes multipurpose chassis MT-LBU and equipment which consists of:
mine-laying control panel placed in control compartment;
container unit for transportation and firing of mines from clusters;
container unit lifting mechanism from traveling position to fire position;
container adjusting mechanism;
container unit traversing mechanism. |
Neudenau | is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Jagst, 17 km north of Heilbronn. |
Juan Manuel Corzo Román | Juan Manuel Corzo Román (born 3 October 1961) is a Colombian lawyer and politician, currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2002. A Conservative party politician, he was first elected to Congress as Representative for the Department of North Santander in 1998. He ran and was elected Senator of Colombia in 2002, continuing to be re-elected in 2006 and 2010; he forms part of the First Commission of the Senate.
On 12 April 1999 Corzo was kidnapped along with the 39 other passengers of an Avianca Fokker flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by a command of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist terrorist guerrilla group, and was held captive for 17 months until his release in September 2000.
Personal life
Juan Manuel was born on 3 October 1961 in Cúcuta to Luis Corzo Ramírez, a lawyer and notary, and his wife Lucila Román. He is married to Isabel Carmenza Sanmiguel Maldonado, a former Miss North Santander, and together have two children: Silvia and Luis Javier. |
Marco Odermatt | Marco Odermatt (born 8 October 1997) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. He races in all alpine disciplines and specializes in Giant slalom. Odermatt competed for Switzerland at two Junior World Championships and the 2019 World Championships. He gained his first World Cup podium at Kranjska Gora in
Career
At the 2016 Junior World Championships in Sochi, Russia, Odermatt was 11th in the Downhill, took bronze in the Super-G, failed to finish the Alpine combined, won gold in the Giant slalom, and failed to finish the Slalom. He made his World Cup debut in March 2016 in a giant slalom at St. Moritz.
At the 2018 Junior Worlds in Davos, Odermatt won an unprecedented five gold medals (Combined, Downhill, Super-G, Giant Slalom, and Team event).
Season 2020
Odermatt gained his first World Cup win in December 2019 in the Super-G at Beaver Creek, Colorado.
World Cup results
Season standings
Race podiums
World Championship results
Junior World Championship results |
Chetverikov ARK-4 | The ARK-4 was a single-engine Soviet flying boat design produced by Chetverikov.
Specifications |
Radiradirah | Radiradirah was a New Zealand comedy sketch show that originally aired from the 21 May to the 9 July 2010, with a total of 8 episodes.
It featured several well known New Zealand comedians such as Rhys Darby, David Fane, Oscar Kightley and Madeleine Sami, as well as the voicing talents of internationally recognised comedian and music artist Jemaine Clement.
Episodes
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Gofer (disambiguation) | A gofer is an errand runner.
Gofer may also refer to:
Gofer (programming language), educational version of Haskell
GOFER, mnemonic device for a decision-making discipline |
Reliant (YT-803) | Reliant (YT‑803) is a United States Navy .
Construction and commissioning
The contract for Reliant was awarded 10 September 2007. She was laid down by J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington and launched 10 July 2010. Reliant was delivered to the Navy 28 September 2010.
Operational history
Reliant is assigned to the Navy Region Northwest. |
Indigo (Maja Keuc album) | Indigo is a debut album by Slovenian vocalist Maja Keuc. There's 11 songs on the album that are a mix of pop, jazz, soul and blues rhythms. Half of the songs are in English and there is a remixed version of Eurovision song No One.
Track listing
"Zmorem" ( 1 in Slovenia)
"Free Love" (5 in Slovenia)
"Tako lepo mi je"
"Na pol poti"
"Krog"
"You're A Tree And I'm A Balloon"
"Get This Party Started"
"Go With The Flow"
"Again (feat. Camall)"
"Ta planet" (1 in Slovenia)
"No One (remix)"
Album of the year and best femim Artist in 2012 Slovenias Music Awards |
Royal Unibrew | Royal Unibrew is a brewing and beverage company headquartered in Faxe, Denmark. Its brands include Ceres, Faxe, Albani and Royal. Royal Unibrew also has a strong presence in the Baltic region, where it owns Vilniaus Tauras, Kalnapilis (both in Lithuania), and Lāčplēša Alus (in Latvia). As of 2018 it owns the brewery in France that produces the Lorina soft drink brand. It also brews and markets Heineken in Denmark.
History
The company was founded in 1989 through the merger of the breweries Faxe, Ceres and Thor under the name Bryggerigruppen. Odense-based Albani merged with the company in 2000. In 2005, the name of the company was changed to Royal Unibrew.
Operations
Denmark
RoyalUnibrew is the second largest beer company in Denmark with a market share of about 25%.
Baltic countries and Poland
Royal Unibrew acquired Lithuanian breweries Vilniaus Tauras and Kalnapilis in 2001 and a controlling interest in Latvian brewery Lāčplēša Alus in 2004. The company also owns the Latvian soft drink company Cido.
Royal Unibrew entered the Polish beer market with the acquisition of Browary Polskie Brok-Strzelec S.A. in April 2005.
It was followed by the acquisition of Browar Łomża in 2007. In December 2010, Van Pur Breweries bought the Polish branch of the Danish Royal Unibrew group. In exchange, Royal Unibrew received 20% of shares of Van Pur in Poland with Van Pur retaining buyers options of the shares. In 2011 Van Pur, owned five breweries with the total production capacity of 4 million hectolitre of beer annually. October 15, 2012 Van Pur exercised its buyers option on the 20% shares previously held by Royal Unibrew for 111 PLN.
France
In 2018 the soft drink brewery that produces the brand Lorina was acquired.
List of subsidiaries
Royal Brand
The largest brand of Unibrew is Royal. It is based on Ceres' Ceres Royal Export and Faxe's Faxe Pilsner/Classic. Royal Export was also brewed by the other breweries in the group, but later the Pilsner and Classic were added to make a complete family of beer as is traditional in Denmark. |
Grant Birthplace | The Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township Clermont County Ohio was the birthplace of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who was born there in 1822. The home was built in 1817, and in 1821 Jesse Root Grant wed Hannah Simpson Grant (Ulysses's parents) and they moved into the home where they paid $2 a month rent. The future president lived in Point Pleasant for less than a year, as his family moved to Georgetown one month before his first birthday.
The Ohio Historical Society operates the site as a historic house museum. Today it is furnished with items that once belonged to Grant, as well as a few period items. In 1998, the birthplace and several associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.
The Grant Birthplace and surrounding areas have been found to be a historical archaeological site. As part of making the site ADA-compliant, a small-scale construction project in the summer of 2010 involved the replacement of stone gutters at the site. Ohio State Historic Preservation Office staff archaeologists conducted a test excavation of some of the areas surrounding the gutters, discovering foundations of an 1810s tannery.
Previous archaeological work in and around the Grant Birthplace included the retrieval of early nineteenth-century pottery from a small midden being impacted by the replacement of a nearby bridge in 1984, as well as a field survey of open areas in the birthplace grounds before the construction of a small building at the site in 2005; the latter project recovered only a couple of insignificant lithic flakes from an unidentified prehistoric period. |
Central Platoon School | Central Platoon School was a platoon school, where students were divided into groups (platoons) thst switched between classroom studies and vocational as well as hands-on and recreational activities, in Brush, Colorado. It was designed by the Denver architectural firm Mountjoy & Frewen and has also been known as Central Elementary School. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The school is at 411 Clayton St. and occupies a complete block with an L-shaped plan. Mountjoy & Frewen was a partnership between Frederick E. Mountjoy and Frank W. Frewen, Jr..
A platoon school plan, also known as the Gary Plan, was devised by William Albert Wirt in 1907 in Gary, Indiana. The plan divided the students into two groups, where one platoon would use the academic classrooms and the other platoon would be using shops, nature studies, the auditorium, the gymnasium, and other outdoor facilities. This allowed all of the school facilities to be in use through the entire school day, and it also promoted the intellectual, manual, and recreational development of the students. |
Unfair practices | Unfair practices may refer to
Unfair business practices
Unfair competition
Unfair labor practice |
Stefanos Stefanopoulos | Stefanos Stefanopoulos (, 3 July 1898, Pyrgos, Elis – 4 October 1982, Athens) was a Greek politician, and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1965 to 1966.
He was a moderate conservative, and served as a cabinet member during Alexandros Papagos' government. He even served as acting Prime Minister for a day after the latter's death on 4 October 1955.
On 17 September 1965, he became Prime Minister of Greece during the period of the "Apostasia", supported by conservatives and defecting members of the Centre Union party. Unable to gain a parliamentary vote of confidence, his government fell on 22 December 1966. |
Vernix caseosa | Vernix caseosa, also known as vernix, is the waxy or cheese-like white substance found coating the skin of newborn human babies. It is produced by dedicated cells and is thought to have some protective roles during fetal development and for a few hours after birth.
Etymology
In Latin, vernix means varnish and caseosa means cheesy.
Characteristics
Composition
Vernix has a highly variable makeup but is primarily composed of sebum, cells that have sloughed off the fetus's skin and shed lanugo hair. 12% of the dry weight of vernix is composed of branched chain fatty acids, cholesterol, and ceramide. Vernix of term infants has more squalene and a higher wax ester to sterol ester ratio than preterm infants.
Comparison of lipid components of vernix caseosa, stratum corneum and skin surface (sebaceous):
Amino acid composition of vernix caseosa:
Morphology
Cells of vernix are typically polygonal or ovoid in shape and lack nuclei. Nuclear ghosts are frequently observed. Vernix corneocytes lack desmosomal attachment and this distinguishes them from corneocytes found in mature stratum corneum. Thickness of a corneocyte is 1-2 µm. These cells are surrounded by a layer of amorphous lipids lacking typical lamellar architecture present in mature stratum corneum.
Physical properties
Vernix is not uniformly distributed, but rather present in form of cellular sponges. The critical surface tension of vernix is 39 dyne/cm. Despite its water content (82%), vernix is nonpolar. These features point towards the "waterproofing" function of vernix, thereby preventing heat loss soon after birth.
Biological properties
Vernix provides electrical isolation for the fetus, which is presumably an important aspect of developing fetal anatomy. Early scientific studies indicated increased evaporative heat loss in infants when vernix was removed soon after birth; but newer reports confirm that washing skin surface after birth reduces evaporative water losses compared to surface of newborns in which vernix is left in situ. Vernix is hydrophobic. Vernix is believed to assist in the development of the human intestinal microbiota.
Secretion
The sebum in vernix is produced in utero by the sebaceous glands around the 20th week of gestation. Vernix appears primarily in full term infants, while premature and postmature births generally do not display any.
Postdates desquamation (flakey skin in babies born >42 weeks) is thought to be due to loss of vernix.
Functions
Vernix is theorized to serve several purposes, including moisturizing the infant's skin, and facilitating passage through the birth canal. It serves to conserve heat and protect the delicate newborn skin from environmental stress. Vernix is also thought to have an antibacterial effect; though there is little evidence to support a chemical role of vernix in protecting the infant from infection, it may form a physical barrier to the passage of bacteria.
Non-human observations
In 2018, Tom Brenna at Cornell University published an account of vernix-like material obtained (with the help of San Diego Seaworld) from pups of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Mass spectrometry of the material showed it to be fundamentally the same as human vernix, in both BCFA (branch-chain fatty acids) and squalene content. In their study, the presence of vernix throughout the infant gastro-intestinal tract, as well as in the meconium (first excretion), in both human and sea lion neonates, argues that the function of vernix may not be as an external skin protection, as often described in the literature, but as a preparation of the newborn GI tract against water-borne bacteria. A potential cause of fatality in premature human infants is necrotizing enterocolitis, which occurs when the foetal ingestion of its own vernix along with the amniotic fluid has not been completed.
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Vini Vishwa Lal | Vini Vishwa Lal () is an Indian screenwriter who works in Malayalam cinema. Vini's debut movie was Second Show(2012) directed by Srinath Rajendran(debut) . Its also the first movie of Dulquer Salman, Sunny Wayne and Gauthami Nair in their acting career. His next film Koothara starring Mohan Lal, Tovino Thomas, Bharath and Sunny Wayne in the lead released in June 2014. In 2015 Starring Pournami a road trip movie starring Sunny Wayne and Tovino Thomas was penned by Vini. The film later dropped due to some budget issues. His latest movie Theevandi released on 7 September 2018, starring Tovino Thomas and Samyuktha Menon.
Vini also played acting roles in Malayalam movies, first in Ladoo followed by Theevandi and Kalki.
Personal life
Vini Vishwa Lal was born in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala on 25 May 1985. He is the eldest child of G Viswanathan Pillai, (Retd) District Transport Officer at Kerala State Road Transport Corporation and Dr. S Nirmala Devi, (Retd) Principal at Farook Training college - Kozhikode. He has a younger brother Nivi Viswa Lal, a film musician working for Malayalam film industry. Vini grew up in Feroke, where he did schooling at Al-Farook residential school in Feroke, kozhikode. He later studied in CUIET - Calicut University Institute of Engineering and Technology and graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Where he was classmate of Srinath Rajendran - Malayalam movie director and Sunny Wayne - Malayalam movie actor who was his senior.
Vini married to Rinisha in 2013, who currently works as software engineer in Nielsen at InfoPark.
Filmography
Writer
Actor
Others |
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