[{"text": "The seventh season of the Kannada-language version of Indian reality television series \"Bigg Boss\" premiered on 13 October 2019. Sudeep returned as the host of the show for the seventh time. Based on votes given by viewers, Shine Shetty was the season winner. He was awarded a cash prize of 50 lakhs with an additional 11 lakh from other various sponsors, with a Tata Altroz car, for the first time in \"Bigg Boss Kannada\" history. Production. On Day 1, 18 contestants entered the \"Bigg Boss House\". Due to show's popularity and more contestants in the house, the show was extended to another two weeks instead of the regular 98 days format and this season is the second longest season in the \"Bigg Boss Kannada\" version as compared to previous seasons. indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction. indicates that the Housemate was immune prior to nominations. indicates the contestant has been evicted. indicates the contestant walked out due to emergency. indicates the contestant has been ejected. indicates the house captain."}, {"text": "Rathin Ghosh is currently the Food and Supplies Minister of West Bengal in the third Mamata Banerjee Government. He is an Indian politician belonging to the All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Madhyamgram in 2011, 2016, and 2021. In 1998, he joined the Trinamool congress and won the Madhyamgram Municipality election by defeating Left Front (Ruling party of state at that time) and went on to become the first TMC Chairman of North 24 Parganas. Under his leadership, TMC got the first Municipal Board in North 24 Parganas. Earlier, Ghosh was a congressman who went on to become the Chairman of the Madhyamgram Municipality in 1999. Ghosh was a corporator in the 2004 municipal board. This was after the elections were rigged by left front leader, Subhash Chakraborty. Ghosh is also known for his huge development works all over the Madhyamgram. He has been chairman of the municipality three times and four times the Corporator, as well as being the MLA of West Bengal Assembly three times. He is also a full-time social worker who undertakes the study responsibility for hundreds of poor children. In 2021, after the West Bengal"}, {"text": "Legislative Elections, CM Mamata Banerjee made him the Cabinet Minister of Government of West Bengal. Ghosh is currently Food and Supplies Minister of West Bengal in third Mamata Banerjee Government."}, {"text": "Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform v Bailey [2012 IESC 16], was an Irish Supreme Court case in which the Court held they did not have the jurisdiction to order the surrender of a non-Irish citizen for the commission of a crime committed in Ireland. Ian Bailey was accused of murdering a French citizen in Ireland. The French judicial authorities requested the extradition of Bailey from Ireland to France so to question him about the crime. However, the issue in this case was that Bailey is not a French citizen, rather his nationality is British. This case dealt with an unprecedented question of law as usually the person requested by the issuing state is a national of that state. The significance of this case was that the Supreme Court dealt with a situation where Bailey was a British national yet the French authorities requested for his extradition. Nevertheless, the Court decided that Bailey could not be surrendered because the French had not actually charged him with a crime. Background. A European Arrest Warrant for Bailey by the French government for the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Ireland. Bailey resisted the extradition order to France. Bailey had previously"}, {"text": "been investigated for the murder by Irish authorities but was not charged. The Supreme Court had been told by the High Court to consider the public importance of an extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecute a person for an offense which the DPP had decided not to prosecute. The Court looked at a number of statutes to decide whether the surrender of Bailey would be a violation of the Irish statutes, or if it is unfair to him, or whether it would be an abuse of power. Ian Bailey was accused of murdering of Sophie Toscan du Plantier some time during 23 December 1996 in Co Cork. On 18 March 2011, the High Court delivered a judgement which decided to surrender Bailey to France. However, after the Court certified to the Supreme Court that this case involved a point of law of public importance, Bailey appealed to the Supreme Court. He did so on the basis of section 16(12) of the European Arrest Warrant as amended by section 12 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. The Supreme Court held that the requirements of section 21A of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 (the 2003 Act) had not been satisfied. Meaning,"}, {"text": "there had been no decision made to prosecute Bailey for the alleged murder of du Plantier by French authorities. Without such a decision, it would be unlawful to extradite him to France. Hence, the appeal was allowed on foot of section 44 of the European Arrest Warrant Act but not on the basis of section 42 of the same Act. Main issues. The main issue to be considered by the court was how the nationality of Bailey, as a British citizen, having allegedly committed a crime in Ireland would effect the ability of the Irish courts to order his surrender to the issuing state that is France. Holding of the Supreme Court. The question before the Court was whether the surrender of Bailey is against section 44 of the 2003 Act when the alleged crime was committed in Ireland and when he himself is not a national of the requesting state. An additional problem was that the DPP had decided not to prosecute Bailey due to insufficient evidence. Usually extradition orders are requested when a national of the requesting state commits a crime in that state but flees the country. However, in this case the alleged offence was committed in"}, {"text": "Ireland. Nevertheless, under French laws, the courts there can request for the return of an accused who has murdered a French citizen even if that murder did not happen in France. Also, it is important to note that Bailey was questioned by the Gardai in relation to the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and his file at the DPP's office had been reviewed multiple times. Yet, the decision to not prosecute him remained the same. This Court had to analyse section 44 of the 2003 Act, section 42 of the same Act as amended by the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 (the 2005 Act), section 21A of the 2003 Act as amended by the 2005 Act and finally section 37 of the 2003 Act. Section 44 prohibits the surrender of a person if the offence which is alleged against him or her is executed outside the requesting state or if the alleged offence was committed outside of Ireland. In addition, Bailey is a British citizen. So, under Irish laws only Irish citizens can be susceptible to a charge of murder in Ireland. The High Court judge gave value to interpreting section 44 in light of other sections in"}, {"text": "the 2003 Act.The lower court judge ultimately concluded that section 44 does not prohibit the surrender of Bailey nor does Article 4(7) of the Framework Decision. However the latter section is not part of Irish legislation. Section 44 allows Ireland to extradite someone who is accused of committing a crime outside the issuing state in circumstances where the Irish State would exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction in reciprocal circumstances. The Court decided that it needed to reverse the situation and look at whether the Irish state has any jurisdiction if it was in the shoes of French authorities. Accordingly, it was said that Ireland cannot request for the surrender of a British citizen from France for the murder of an Irish citizen alleged to have been committed by that British citizen. A murder in another state is not an offense which may be prosecuted in Ireland unless it is committed by an Irish citizen. Hence, the Court decided to allow the appeal in relation to section 44 because Bailey cannot be extradited to France when he is not a French citizen. The next issue was section 42 as amended. It states that a person cannot be surrendered where the DPP or the"}, {"text": "Attorney General has yet to decide whether the person should be prosecuted or not. This does not apply in the case of Bailey because the DPP had already made a decision after reviewing his file. Likewise, section 42(b) also does not apply to Bailey because it says where proceedings are brought against an accused for an offence outlined in the European arrest warrant by the State, that person cannot be surrendered. However, proceedings were not brought against Bailey anyway. Bailey sought to rely on section 42(c) which had been amended. Court said there is no right to not be prosecuted. Decisions of the prosecutor may be influenced or changed if new evidence emerges no matter how compelling the facts of a case are. Denham J said that Bailey has a right to due and fair procedures, but he had not established that he has a right to not be surrendered. Hence, an appeal on the basis of section 42 was not allowed as the law in Ireland is focused on the amended section and not the original subsection c which Bailey relies on. Subsection c was taken out of section 42 after the amendment. The third problem was section 21A"}, {"text": "of the 2003 Act as amended. Member States of the European Union are obliged to surrender people under the Framework Decision. Section 21A as repealed states that in order to extradite a person, the requesting state must first have decided to charge and put that person on trial. The warrant that the French authorities submitted did not. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal on the first and third grounds of appeal. The Court unanimously overturned the order of the High Court. Subsequent developments. Bailey successfully resisted extradition again in 2017. French authorities formally charged Ian Bailey and he was convicted \"in absentia\" by a French judge in 2019. The French renewed their extradition request following the conviction."}, {"text": "Hipposideros einnaythu, the house-dwelling leaf-nosed bat, is a species of bat found in Myanmar. Taxonomy. The holotype specimen used to describe this species is a female collected in 2010 at the sea level, in the state Rakhine State, Myanmar. This new species was clearly distinguished from two other species of \"Hipposideros\" previously known in the region: \"Hipposideros nicobarulae\" and \"Hipposideros ater\". Range and habitat. All the specimens recorded so far were found in human habitations."}, {"text": "Misak Terzibasiyan (born 1964) is a Dutch architect. Misak Terzibasiyan's mother, Vappu Viuha, was of Finnish descent; his father, textile designer Edward Terzibasiyan, had Armenian roots. Misak studied at Eindhoven University of Technology from 1985 to 1991 graduating in Architecture, Urban Design and Building Sciences. After graduating, he worked between 1991 and 1994 as an architect in Cologne. He furthered his architectural career with various offices in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2003. In 2003, Terzibasiyan set up his own architectural studio UArchitects in Eindhoven. He is a member of the welfare committee in various municipalities and regularly publishes on de Architect website. Buildings. As part of his firm UArchitects, Terzibasiyan has built schools (such as De Brug in Belgium and De Vogelsgeluk in southern Netherlands), detention facilities and private housing. Awards and nominations. Since 2003, Misak has received national and international awards and nominations, including first prize for the Community School in Bocholt, Dirk Roosenberg Prize in 2015 with 't Hofke, Victor de Stuers Prize 2017 with IKC de Geluksvogel. Other awards also include Edu Build Award in 2011, the 2014 German Design Award with Split-View, the American Architecture Prize 2016 in the category \"Education\" and the BB Green"}, {"text": "Award 2017 in China for Modern Collective Living, second prize at the World Architecture & Design Awards 2019 with IKC de Geluksvogel. Shortlist nomination 2019 for Worldwide Brick Award with IKC de Geluksvogel."}, {"text": "Sports Center station is an underground metro station of Line 3 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. It situates on the crossing of Zhongxing Road and Jingjia Road. It's opened on June 30, 2019. Exits. Sports Center station has 3 exits."}, {"text": "Marlene West (born 8 June 1972) is a Jamaican-born squash player who has represented both Jamaica and Cayman Islands at the international competitions. She initially pursued her career in swimming and water polo before switching to squash. She has competed at the Commonwealth Games on five occasions representing Jamaica and Cayman Islands in two different time intervals. She is also a four time Cayman Islands national champion in the women's singles and she is regarded as one of the best squash players to have represented Cayman Islands. She has claimed medals in international events even after the age of 40's. She achieved her highest PSA career ranking of 71 in May 2010 during the 2010 PSA World Tour. Career. Jamaica (1987-2006). Marlene started to compete in National Swimming Championships from 1987 and also captained the Jamaican national water polo team. However she pursued her major part of her career in squash and joined the Professional Squash Association in 1994. She represented Jamaica at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which was her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance. Marlene also competed at the 2003 Pan American Games, which is her only appearance at a Pan American Games event. She also took part at the"}, {"text": "2006 Commonwealth Games, which was also the last appearance she made for Jamaica before moving to Cayman Islands. Cayman Islands (2006-present). She represented the Cayman Islands at the 2010 Commonwealth Games which was also her debut Cayman Islands appearance at an international event. She then went onto compete at the 2014 and in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She also competed at the 2012 Women's World Open Squash Championship and became the first player from Cayman Islands to compete at a World Open Squash Championship. She made her Island Games debut in 2011 and claimed two medals at the event. Marlene claimed three gold medals at the 2019 Island Games at the age of 47 on her first Island Games event after six years due to the non inclusion of squash in 2015 and 2017 editions."}, {"text": "Rafiqur Rahaman is an Indian politician belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Amdanga in 2011, 2016 and 2021."}, {"text": "Amit Kumar (born 20 June 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy on 7 January 2019."}, {"text": "Mohammad Shoyeb (born 14 October 1997) is an Indian cricketer who made his first-class debut for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2018\u201319 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018. To the end of the 2022/23 season, that remains his sole appearance in senior cricket."}, {"text": "Norway has participated in every edition of the World Athletics Championships since 1980."}, {"text": "Sturnira bakeri is a species of bat found in South-America. Taxonomy. \"Sturnira bakeri\" was described as a new species in 2014. Its description was the result of molecular and morphological new analyses. The holotype had been collected in El Oro, which is in western Ecuador. The eponym for the species name \"bakeri\" is the scientist Robert James Baker, for his significant contribution \"to the evolution of Neotropical phyllostomids\". Range and habitat. So far, this species was recorded in three countries of South-America : Ecuador, Peru and Colombia."}, {"text": "Matthaios K. Paranikas (; 1832\u20131914) was an ethnically Greek scholar, philologist teacher and writer of the 19th and early 20th centuries who was born in and a national of the Ottoman Empire. Biography. Paranikas was born in 1832 in Vitsa of Zagori. He successfully graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina, the \"Philolosophical School\" of the University of Athens and finished his studies in the University of Munich where he got the Philosophy Teacher degree. From then he became a teacher in many Greek schools of the Ottoman Empire including the \"Zappeion Greek girls' school of Constantinople\", Theological School of Halki and in Madytos. He served as a headmaster in schools of Chalkidona, Adrianople and the famous Evangelical School of Smyrna (1878-1885). He was an early member of the \"Greek Phlilological Society of Constantinople\" (\"\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a6\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a3\u03cd\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\") since 1863 when it was established just in 1861. There he made many historical and philological researches, of which many of them were published in the philological magazine of the society, in the Athenian philological magazines \"Parnassos\" and \"Pandora\" but as well as in the \"Ecclesiastical Truth\" magazine of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He served as a headmaster of the Phrontisterion of Trapezous in"}, {"text": "the periods of 1895-96 and 1903\u201304, when he retired. He died in 1914 at the age of 71 or 72."}, {"text": "Light Green Line may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jeanne Ad\u00e8le Bernard (1868\u20131962), known as Jenny Sacerdote and Madame Jenny, was a French couturier known for the \"little grey suit\". Her fashion brand was Jenny, and in 2018 a brand La Suite Jenny Sacerdote was established, paying tribute to her name. Personal life. Jeanne Ad\u00e8le Bernard was born in P\u00e9rigueux in the Dordogne in 1868. Her mother and grandmother worked in fashion, but she studied to become an academic before turning to fashion at the age of 39. She bought the chateau of Ch\u00e2teau-l'\u00c9v\u00eaque, the former summer palace of the Bishop of P\u00e9rigueux, in 1923. She married Emil Sacerdote in 1909 and they divorced in 1940. She died in Nice in 1962. Career. Sacerdote opened her first shop at 1 rue de Castiglione in 1909. She developed the \"Jenny neck\", a boat neck, in 1911 and the \"little grey suit\" in 1915. By 1915 her premises at 70, Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, included 22 workshops, a restaurant, and showrooms decorated by Robert Mallet-Stevens. It was said that she invented the \"little black dress\" before Chanel. Her fashion house closed in 1940. Sacerdote became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1926, for services to fashion. She was only the second woman"}, {"text": "to be granted this honour. External links."}, {"text": "Inge Koch is an Australian statistician, author, and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics. Koch is the author of \"Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data\" (2013), and is a Professor in Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Previously, she has worked as an associate professor at University of Adelaide and taught statistics at the University of New South Wales. From 2015 to 2019, she was the Executive Director of Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI)\u2019s \"Choose Maths Program\", encouraging girls and young women to participate in mathematics. In 2004, she cofounded the Girls Do the Maths movement at the University of New South Wales. Koch completed her PhD in Statistics at the Australian National University in 1991. Her dissertation, \"Theoretical Problems in Image Analysis\", was supervised by Peter Gavin Hall. She completed an MSc at the University of Oxford, and her M.Phil. at the University of London."}, {"text": "Frank Evans (1 October 1930 \u2013 6 February 2007) was an English jazz guitarist Career. Evans started playing guitar at the age of eleven. His first recording was with Tubby Hayes and Tony Coe on \"Jazz T\u00eate \u00e0 T\u00eate\" in 1966. After years of touring, Evans focused on his career as a solo jazz guitarist and operated from his home town of Bristol. In the late 1970s, he started Blue Bag Records, releasing his albums \"Noctuary\", \"Soiree\", and \"...For Little Girls\". In February 1978, he was featured on the cover of \"Guitar: The Magazine for All Guitarists\". He performed on television and radio, including the BBC One show \"Parkinson\" and an ITV show called \"Frank Evans and Friends\". As a composer and arranger, he worked on soundtracks for television drama and documentary programs. Discography. With Tubby Hayes"}, {"text": "Hugh Martin (1914\u20132011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. Hugh Martin may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Daouda Gu\u00e8ye Di\u00e9m\u00e9 (born 23 October 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Iraqi club Al-Kahrabaa. He has also played for the Senegal national team. Club career. Di\u00e9m\u00e9 began his career at the Ziguinchor-based club Zig Inter; he then played for Port Autonome and Jaraaf, whom he captained in the Senegal Premier League. He was one of five nominees for best local player in 2018. Following a season at Bekaa in the Lebanese Premier League, Di\u00e9m\u00e9 joined Shabab Sahel on 22 May 2019. He moved to Ahed on 27 January 2020, to compete in the 2020 AFC Cup. On 19 January 2021, Di\u00e9m\u00e9 transferred to Al-Qasim in the Iraqi Premier League. International career. Di\u00e9m\u00e9 represented Senegal internationally at the 2018 African Nations Championship qualification, scoring a goal in a 3\u20131 win over Sierra Leone on 22 July 2017. \"Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Di\u00e9m\u00e9 goal.\" Honours. Shabab Sahel"}, {"text": "Yamunotri Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Yamunotri is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "David Garc\u00eda Ilund\u00e1in (2 April 1971 \u2014 18 June 2002) was a Spanish chess Grandmaster (GM). Biography. Garc\u00eda participated in the 1988 World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 age group, and also in the 1991 World Junior Chess Championship in U20 age group. One of his first successes in the international arena was in 1991, when he shared 3rd place in international chess tournament in Montpellier. In 1992 he shared 3rd place in the Open tournament in Candas. In 1993, he shared 1st - 6th place in the Spanish Chess Championship. In 1994, Garc\u00eda shared 2nd place in Open tournament in Las Palmas, and in 1995 he shared 2nd place in Manresa and Benasque. In the following years Garc\u00eda achieved further successes, including a shared 1st place in Le\u00f3n (1996, tournament B), a shared 2nd place in Terrassa (1996), 1st place in Fomento (1998), a shared 2nd place in Montcada i Reixac (1999), and a shared 1st place in Paretana (1999). Notably, Garc\u00eda played for Spain in the 1996 Chess Olympiad and 1997 the European Team Chess Championship. In 1996, he was awarded the FIDE Grandmaster title. Garc\u00eda played in chess tournaments until the end of 2001. Six months"}, {"text": "later, he died due to a brain tumour."}, {"text": "Amanda Jayne Broderick (born 1971) is a British marketer, academic and academic administrator who has been the vice-chancellor and president of the University of East London since September 2018. She is also professor of international business. Biography. With family origins in Afghanistan, Belgium, Ireland and Hull, Broderick was born in 1971 and brought up in Staffordshire, England. She graduated from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK with a 1st Class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in marketing and psychology and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in international business. Career. She previously lectured at the University of Newcastle, the University of Salford, Durham University, Coventry University, Aston University and De Montfort University. Before moving to Newcastle University, she was pro-vice chancellor (International Priorities) and founding executive dean of the College of Business & Law, University of Salford; principal of St. Cuthbert's Society (a college of Durham University) and deputy dean of Durham Business School. She also led the development of the University Academy 92, founded by the Class of \u201992 and Lancaster University and launched in September 2017. In 2019, she was elected as UK representative on the Association of Commonwealth Universities Council. Research. Broderick's expertise lies in the fields"}, {"text": "of international business, marketing psychology and strategic communications. She has authored two seminal texts in her field and has a track record in research and enterprise funding. Professional service. During her tenure as dean at Salford, it was the 2014 Times Higher Education Business School of the Year. In 2019, she was elected as UK representative on the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Council."}, {"text": "The Humanitarian Society () is a philanthropic institution founded in Milan in 1893 by a bequest made by . History. The Humanitarian Society is one of the longest standing institutions in Milan. It was founded thanks to the determination and mission of Jewish international merchant and enlightened patron, . In 1892, he decided to bequeath his considerable assets (over ten million lire of the time) to ensure that the newly established Humanitarian Society \u2013 to be managed by Milan Municipal Authority \u2013 was engaged in every possible way in \"helping the underprivileged become independent, providing them with support, employment and education, and more generally working to achieve the best educational and socio-cultural development in every sector of individual and collective life.\" From the time of its foundation, the secretary of the philanthropic institution was Osvaldo Gnocchi-Viani, promoter of the first Chamber of Labour in Milan. Reformist politicians and intellectuals like Filippo Turati, Emilio Caldara, and above all brothers Ugo and Giulio Pisa, dedicated women like and Maria Montessori, professionals like Alessandro Mazzucotelli, Eugenio Quarti, , artists from Arturo Toscanini to Victor de Sabata, all pledged their support. The Humanitarian Society became effective from 1902, after a long legal battle and"}, {"text": "not without being targeted by some hostility against its mission to promote social justice. It can be said that thanks to its positive achievements, for over twenty years the Humanitarian Society was an important experiment in Italian social and political life. Its officers were elected in public assemblies and their declared intention was to combine assistance and training for employment, social commitment and education, emancipation and culture, thereby growing \"basic charity into fruitful constructive support.\" In 1904, the Humanitarian Society promoted the establishment of the Istituto di Credito per le Cooperative S.A., contributing a large part of the initial capital. This bank was the financial division for the development, for example, of labour cooperatives active in public procurement. As Enrico Decleva declared, the Humanitarian Society's executive pursued \"a plan linked to the belief that the improvement of professional skills has a direct and significant influence on the economic condition of the worker, and the parallel certainty that the skilled worker, the accomplished and absolute master of a trade, rarely risks unemployment.\" Worker districts in Milan. From 1902, with and at the helm, the Humanitarian Society devised interesting examples of public housing, with attached educational facilities (Montessori Children's Houses, forerunners of"}, {"text": "the current condominium nursery). From 1905 to 1908, two model quarters were designed by the architect and built in what were then the southwestern suburbs of Milan: in Via Solari, the (First Worker District of the Humanitarian Society); and to the north, the (Second Worker District of the Humanitarian Society), in Viale Lombardia. The two quarters occupied a rectangular area and developed a continuous unit of 12 buildings linked around an exterior perimeter and enclosing a vast courtyard filled with greenery and fenced gardens, perfect for family socialization. Each district had 200 flats of various sizes, from studios to three-room units. An innovative feature for the time, given that the dwellings were for the working classes, was the presence of a small facilities room in each, fitted with a toilet, sink and direct waste pipe down to the cellars. It is no secret that prior to that time, public housing until then was designed with a running balcony and had a single squat-down toilet and a sink per floor and landing therefore shared by several dwellings. The Humanitarian Society was mentioned by Carlo Emilio Gadda in his novel \"\". Educational services. The Humanitarian Society was able to propose a solution"}, {"text": "to underemployment by instituting various types of professional day and evening courses. Employment offices were set up in various Italian cities. One of the most memorable schools of arts and industry was Monza's University of Decorative Arts, later called ISIA. The institution also financed a network of worker libraries. The Humanitarian Society set up agricultural offices and promoted consumer cooperatives for farm labourers and factory workers. At the same time, in Italy and Europe, it opened offices for emigrating abroad, the most noteworthy being the in Milan, built in 1907 at the old central railway station. The Society published studies and research on every aspect of labour (unemployment, health conditions, employment offices, alcoholism, work-related illnesses, etc.). From 1924, the government placed the institution, of which Senator was president, under a commissioner. Resumption of activities after World War 2. The Allied bombings of 1943 razed the buildings in Via Daverio, Via San Barnaba, Via Pace, and Via Fanti to the ground: over 120,000 cubic metres of rubble, but immediately after the War, Riccardo Bauer began a successful reconstruction. The education of young people with lifelong training of adults was resumed. Worker libraries, film clubs and focus on the prison system were"}, {"text": "re-opened. \"The reconstruction of a body like the Humanitarian Society appeared a worthy and priority task to me, and justified setting aside direct political involvement,\" Bauer recalled, \"even if I still felt the need for political action, but conceived it differently, as a contribution to a cultural and moral political maturity which must be the primary underpinning of a real democracy (...). I immediately began to study a plan that started from the extant degraded situation and went on a material reconstruction of the completely derelict buildings, and then to the operational reconstruction of the institution, which could not fail to have extreme significance in the situation in which the country found itself, having to face social problems that were not easy to solve. I was thinking of a revival and modernization of the venerable and worthy foundation dedicated to the progress of workers and the needy.\" Despite financial difficulties, the body of initiatives and structures set in motion by Bauer was significant. From the reopening of the vocational schools (day and evening, refresher and specialization courses) to the rebirth of the famous \u201cScuola del Libro\u201d (the book school whose teachers included Bruno Munari and ); publication of a fortnightly"}, {"text": "emigration bulletin (a working tool for branch offices in direct contact with workers looking to emigrate, but still \"unable to establish themselves as bodies of serious information because they are absolutely ignorant of any certain information and therefore unable to work efficiently\"); the recovery of the centre for social studies; residential adult education courses; the network of cultural service centres activated in Southern Italy on behalf of the Cassa del Mezzogiorno project (in Sardinia, Cagliari, Alghero, Carbonia\u2013Iglesias are still active). Last but not least, in the 1950s, establishment of secondary schools for employment guidance and placement, the first example of a middle school preparing students for the world of work (in the 1970s merged into a state institution, ITSOS). In 1947, Bauer wrote that \"The Humanitarian Society is revived with complex initiatives in its sights, aiming for the systematic preparation of tangible social progress, affirming that idea of harmonious technical, moral and civic advancement of workers which has been the soul of the institution since its origins. Suffice it to say that the Humanitarian Society is gradually rising from its ashes to be once more a small world in which all problems encountered by people working and living in society"}, {"text": "are addressed; in which provisions for enabling tangible improvement, tangible material and moral refinement of the workers in each category are basically studied, developed and implemented.\" Then, the long wave of the extreme Left protest reached the institution, Bauer was forced to resign and again it was placed under a commissioner. Then an ill-fated state law revoked the educational authorizations and the schools were taken over by Lombardy Regional Authority. Nonetheless, the Humanitarian Society did not die. Its new executive refashioned its social commitment, giving life to new forms of \u201cassistance\u201d while also developing the cultural machine: in the 1990s, the Humaniter Foundation was founded as a centre for voluntary work, solidarity and leisure. Theatre, music, cinema, art, and poetry summer festivals in the cloisters were put in place, as were competitions and scholarships, not forgetting conferences, refresher courses, exhibitions, and book publications. The Humanitarian Society School. The Humanitarian Society School for \"arts and trades\" was and still is a historical branch of the Humanitarian Society, even today, in its headquarters in Via Daverio, behind Milan's Palazzo di Giustizia. The school was the forerunner to Monza's famous ISIA, established in 1922. The first president of the School was lawyer ,"}, {"text": "a member of the educated Milanese bourgeoisie. From 1913 to 1924, he was succeeded by his vice-president, Senator , a private banker and co-owner of the Zaccaria Pisa bank, also active in Milanese public life. Augusto Osimo was designated general manager for two decades. Notable modernist designer Enzo Mari taught at the school in the 1970s. The Humanitarian Society founded by continues its activities today, still pursuing the original statutory purpose, which was to \"enable the underprivileged, without distinction, to achieve a situation in which they could help themselves, and to work for the professional, intellectual and moral advancement of workers\"."}, {"text": "Gangotri Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Gangotri is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "The 2019 CRO Race is a road cycling stage race that took place in Croatia between 1 and 6 October 2019. It is the fifth edition of the race through Croatia organized by Top Sport Event company, but first under new name and logo. The race is rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2019 UCI Europe Tour. Teams. Eighteen teams were invited to start the race. These included four UCI WorldTeams, five UCI Professional Continental teams and nine UCI Continental teams. UCI WorldTeams UCI Professional Continental Teams UCI Continental Teams"}, {"text": "Ghansali Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Ghansali is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "The Communist Revolutionary Party (, PRC) or CRP, previously known as Communistes, is a French political party officially founded in March 2002 after a split of the French Communist Party (PCF). Its founder and first national secretary was . History. The \"Communistes\" organization was founded in June 2000, when a group of FCP militants of \"L'appel des 500\" (\"The Call of 500\") left the party during the 30th Congress held in Martigues. Their coordinator at the time was , former senator and member of the FCP National Committee, who left the party declaring: In March 2002, \"Communistes\" held its founding congress and defined itself as the party which would replace the FCP and as a revolutionary party. The congress elected Rolande Perlican as the National Secretary and she was reconfirmed during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Congress in June 2004, 2006, 2008 and November 2010 respectively. In December 2012, she was replaced by Antonio Sanchez, who would be re-elected in November 2014. \"Communistes\" merged with the Union of Revolutionary Communists of France (\"Union des r\u00e9volutionnaires-Communistes de France\", URCF) in 2015 and became the Communist Revolutionary Party (\"Parti r\u00e9volutionnaire Communistes\", PRC). URCF regained its independence in the following year and with"}, {"text": "the Intervention Communiste collective founded Communist Revolutionary Party of France (\"Parti communiste r\u00e9volutionnaire de France\"). Ideology. The party declares itself as a \"revolutionary party of avant-garde\" with Marxism\u2013Leninist ideology. Other characteristics of the group are its self-declaration as \"the only communist party in France\", the denial of common actions with other communist organizations close to Marxism\u2013Leninism and the \"orthodoxy\". The PRC is against every alliance with left forces which are criticized for their reformist policy supporting capitalism. According to CRP members, the Communist Party of France has left the class struggle and has formed alliance with other left forces, the Socialist Party in particular after its participation to the \"programme commun\" and then to the second Mauroy cabinet, including their involvement into the Plural Left. Elections. \"Communistes\" tries to present its candidates to local and national elections, mainly in cities like Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Ivry-sur-Seine, Villejuif or Audincourt. The party presented 21 candidates for the 2004 French cantonal elections, obtaining between the 0.71 and 5.47% of votes (an average of 1.8%). At the 2007 legislative elections, it obtained 45 seats (between 0.17 and 2.04%) and 16 at the 2008 cantonal elections (1.07- 6.08%). \"Communistes\" presented 23 candidates to the"}, {"text": "2011 cantonal elections and took part to the 2017 legislative elections. For the 2012 presidential election, the party presented Christophe Ricerchi as candidate. At the 2014 European Parliament election in France, CRP proposed candidates in every electoral district of metropolitan France; however, preferences did not exceed the 0.1%. The \"Parti r\u00e9volutionnaire Communistes\" presented itself to the 2019 European Parliament election with Antonio Sanchez as front-leader, obtaining 1 413 votes corresponding to the 0.01% of preferences. It was the only list to not have the bulletin validated by the Propaganda commission, invalidating almost all the votes, unless a copy was previously deposed in every town hall."}, {"text": "Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on low-growing plants such as grasses or other multicellular organisms, such as algae. Many species of animals can be said to be grazers, from large animals such as hippopotamuses to small aquatic snails. Grazing behaviour is a type of feeding strategy within the ecology of a species. Specific grazing strategies include graminivory (eating grasses); coprophagy (producing part-digested pellets which are reingested); pseudoruminant (having a multi-chambered stomach but not chewing the cud); and grazing on plants other than grass, such as on marine algae. Grazing's ecological effects can include redistributing nutrients, keeping grasslands open or favouring a particular species over another. Ecology. Many small selective herbivores follow larger grazers which skim off the highest, tough growth of grasses, exposing tender shoots. For terrestrial animals, grazing is normally distinguished from browsing in that grazing is eating grass or forbs, whereas browsing is eating woody twigs and leaves from trees and shrubs. Grazing differs from predation because the organism being grazed upon may not be killed. It differs from parasitism because the two organisms live together in a constant state of physical externality (i.e., low intimacy). Water animals that feed by rasping"}, {"text": "algae and other micro-organisms from stones are called \"grazers\u2013scrapers\". Graminivory. Graminivory is a form of grazing involving feeding primarily on grass (specifically \"true\" grasses in the Poaceae). Horses, cattle, capybara, hippopotamuses, grasshoppers, geese, and giant pandas are graminivores. Giant pandas (\"Ailuropoda melanoleuca\") are obligate bamboo grazers, 99% of their diet consisting of sub-alpine bamboo species. Cecotrophy. For lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, pikas), easily digestible food is processed in the gastrointestinal tract & expelled as regular feces. But to get nutrients out of hard-to-digest fiber, lagomorphs ferment fiber in the cecum (in the GI tract) and then expel the contents as cecotropes, which are reingested (cecotrophy). The cecotropes are then absorbed in the small intestine to utilize the nutrients. This process is different from cows chewing their cud but with similar results. Capybara (\"Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris\") are herbivores that graze mainly on grasses and aquatic plants, as well as fruit and tree bark. As with other grazers, they can be very selective, feeding on the leaves of one species and disregarding other species surrounding it. They eat a greater variety of plants during the dry season, as fewer plants are available. While they eat grass during the wet season, they have to switch"}, {"text": "to more abundant reeds during the dry season. The capybara's jaw hinge is not perpendicular; hence, it chews food by grinding back-and-forth rather than side-to-side. Like lagomorphs, capybara create, expel & eat cecotropes (cecotrophy) to get more nutrition from their food. They may also regurgitate food to masticate again, similar to cud-chewing by a cow. As with other rodents, the front teeth of capybara grow continually to compensate for the constant wear from eating grasses. Their cheek teeth also grow continuously. Pseudoruminant. The hippopotamus is a large, semi-aquatic mammal inhabiting rivers, lakes, and mangrove swamps. During the day, they remain cool by staying in the water or mud; reproduction and childbirth occur in water. They emerge at dusk to graze on grasses. While hippopotamuses rest near each other in the water, grazing is solitary. Their incisors can be as long as and the canines (tusks) up to ; however, the canines and incisors are used for combat, and play no role in feeding. Hippos rely on their broad, horny lips to grasp and pull grasses which are then ground by the molars. The hippo is considered to be a pseudoruminant; it has a complex three- or four-chambered stomach but does"}, {"text": "not \"chew cud\". Non-grass grazing. Although grazing is typically associated with mammals feeding on grasslands, ecologists sometimes use the word in a broader sense to include any organism that feeds on any other species without ending the life of the prey organism. Use of the term \"grazing\" varies further; for example, a marine biologist may describe herbivorous sea urchins that feed on kelp as \"grazers\", even when they kill the organism by cutting the plant at the base. Malacologists sometimes apply the word to aquatic snails that feed by consuming the microscopic film of algae, diatoms and detritus\u2014a biofilm\u2014that covers the substrate and other surfaces underwater. In marine ecosystems, grazing by mesograzers such as some crustaceans maintains habitat structure by preventing algal overgrowth, especially in coral reefs. Benefits. Environmental. Grazer urine and feces \"recycle nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other plant nutrients and return them to the soil\". Grazing can allow for the accumulation of organic matter which may help to combat soil erosion. This acts as nutrition for insects and organisms found within the soil. These organisms \"aid in carbon sequestration and water filtration\". Biodiversity. When grass is grazed, dead litter grass is reduced which is advantageous for birds such"}, {"text": "as waterfowl. Grazing can increase biodiversity. Without grazing, many of the same grasses grow, for example brome and bluegrass, consequently producing a monoculture."}, {"text": "Ada Chaseliov (March 30, 1952 \u2013 October 27, 2015) was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actress. Life. Chaseliov was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952. She studied at drama school before her film debut in 1973 in \"Um Virgem na Pra\u00e7a\". In 1974, she made her first appearance on TV in the telenovela \"Supermanoela\". The actress participated in several soap operas on Rede Globo, including the Brazilian telenovela \"Guerra dos Sexos\" in 1983, where she played the jealous and tormented Manoela, and the telenovela \"Bel\u00edssima\". These series were both created by S\u00edlvio de Abreu. Her greatest achievement on TV is said to be the villain Leonor in the miniseries \"A Muralha\", which was broadcast on the free-to-air Brazilian network Rede Globo in 2000. Chaseliov appeared on Brazilian television as a judge in the soap opera \"Amor \u00e0 Vida\" in 2013. It was her last appearance in a telenovela. She died in S\u00e3o Paulo in 2015 from cancer. She had a daughter, Mila Chaseliov, with film director Ney Sant'Anna."}, {"text": "Dhanaulti Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Dhanaulti is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency."}, {"text": "The Administration of Muslim Law Act is a Singapore statute that pertains to regulation of Muslim religious affairs, establishing the creation of a religious council to offer advice on matters related to the Muslim religion, and the creation of a Syariah Court in Singapore. The act was passed in 1966 and came into force on 1 July 1968. History. Background. When Singapore became a crown colony in 1867, administration of Muslims religious matters received attention by the Colonial Office in London. During this period, Muslims in Singapore have had their own judicial system that involved marriage, divorce and other civil affairs, regulated by the colonial government. In 1877, 143 influential Muslims brought a petition for a religious functionary, also known as the Qadi, to appoint as the Muslim marriage registrar. These Muslims highlighted the importance of a proper recording system for Muslim Marriages, and there were multiple instances of Muslim families being cheated by \u2018Qadis\u2019 who did not turn up on the wedding date. Attorney-General Roland Braddell drafted a bill to raise the issue of the English law\u2019s impact on the Muslim community in Singapore, and introducing this new law would be helpful to the Muslim community. This led to"}, {"text": "the Mahomedan Marriage Ordinance V 1880, which states the laws and regulations on Muslim marriage and divorce, under the control of the State Governor. The ordinance gave a legal framework for Muslim religious affairs. In 1915, the Mohamed Advisory Board was formed, expanding their scope to \u201creligious affairs, customs, health and conditions.\u201d The board was renamed as the Muslim Advisory Board in 1945. The board continued to work after the Mohamed Advisory Board, advising the Government on matters regarding the Muslim community in Singapore, and matters that needed the regard of the Muslim community\u2019s point of view. In 1957, while Singapore was under self-rule, the Singapore Legislative Assembly established the Syariah Court through the Muslim Ordinance. The Court claimed jurisdiction of cases whereby both parties were Muslim who were involved in matrimonial disputes. Centralised Islamic authority. The idea of a centralised authority, a Majlis, was developing over in the Malay states. Talks about a centralised governing body in Singapore started in 1948, calling for the creation of a new centralised Muslim authority or enabling a currently existing organisation to represent Muslims in Singapore. In 1960, four Muslim organisations \u2013 Muslim Advisory Board, All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, Singapore Religious Teachers\u2019 Association"}, {"text": "and the Mohammadiah Movement \u2013 voiced out the need to create a centralised authority that \u201cunites all sections of the Muslim community.\u201d Ahmad bin Ibrahim, Singapore\u2019s State Advocate General at that time, headed this movement. 1952-1968: Administration of Muslim Law Bill. In 1952, the Administration of Muslim Law Enactment was passed in Selangor. This legislation incorporated the Qadi and the Shariah Court, and the legislation of a religious council. Many other Malay states followed suit, including Singapore. Ahmad drafted the Administration of Muslim Law Bill. In 1960, Minister of Labour and Law K. M. Byrne moved the Bill to the Singapore Legislative Assembly. The aim of the bill was to restructure the organisations and matters pertaining to the Muslim religion and law, following the administration of the law in other Malayan states. This bill was introduced to replace the Muslim Ordinance 1957, strengthen the Shariah court and establish the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS). The bill also enabled the Yang di-Pertuan Negara to appoint a head for the Majlis, a Mufti, a maximum of two Muslim people in the Legislative Assembly and a minimum of 10 people to form the Majlis committee. The Law Minister established a Select Committee in"}, {"text": "1961, providing a platform for the public to submit written representations regarding the bill. The Majlis's scope of authority was the only matter up for debate. These representations have indicated that the Majlis should expand their duties, especially about wakaf. Those who did not agree with the bill noted that it was not right for a secular government to pass legislation governing, regulating, and governing Islam. In September 1963, Singapore became part of the Federation of Malaysia. Muslim religious matters in these states were under Malaysia's Head of State because there was no Malay Sultan. Ahmad had to edit the Bill to adapt to these changes. However, Singapore separated from the federation on 9 August 1965. On 30 December 1965, the Administration of Muslim Law Bill was introduced for the second time in Parliament by Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Othman Wok. The bill aimed to \u201crepeal and re-enact law relating to Muslims and to make provision for regulating Muslim religious affairs and to constitute a Council to advise on matters relating to the Muslim religion.\u201d Othman read the bill for the third time on 17 August 1966. He reiterated that the implementation of AMLA will have no personal,"}, {"text": "sectional or political influences on the Majlis, assuring that the Majlis will prioritise the interests of the Muslim community in Singapore. The bill was passed later on. However, AMLA was only established officially on 1 July 1968 after finding suitable candidates for the Majlis President, Mufti and Secretary. Functions of the law. The enactment of the AMLA created three major institutions: the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS), the Syariah Court, and the Registry of Muslim Marriages (ROMM). Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS). MUIS has several key responsibilities mentioned in Section 5, which include: Syariah Court. With the enactment of AMLA, the Muslim Ordinance 1957 was repealed. The Syariah Court possesses the authority to adjudicate all cases and proceedings that involve solely Muslim parties or those who were wedded under Muslim law, and pertain to conflicts related to marriage and divorce. Two changes were made in 1999 and 2009. In 1999, AMLA was amended to heighten the authority of the Court as well as to provide more support to the Court to handle its backlog. In 2009, AMLA made the processes simpler for Muslims to implement rulings issued by the Syariah Court. If there is a violation of Syariah Court orders,"}, {"text": "people have the option to file a Magistrate's complaint at the District Court. Registration of Muslim Marriages. Previously, the registration of Muslim marriages and divorces were handled by the Syariah Court. Under the AMLA, marriages conducted according to Muslim law and the annulment of divorces involving both Muslim parties are recognized. In 1978, the management of Muslim marriages was under the authority of the Registry of Muslim Marriages."}, {"text": "Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales III, billed as The Grand Finale, was a professional boxing match contested on November 18, 2006, for the WBC International super featherweight championship. Background. The bout took place at the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States and was distributed by HBO PPV. The bout is the last of the Pacquiao-Morales trilogy, widely considered one of the greatest boxing trilogies of all time. The fight also marked a return to HBO for Pacquiao, and the first fight in his four-year contract with Top Rank as his promoter. The fight. Similar to the second fight, Pacquiao entirely dominated the fight, scoring a total of three knockdowns to knock out Morales in the third round. Aftermath. The winner of the fight was supposed to become the mandatory challenger of WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera, but it was cancelled due to a legal dispute between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions. Undercard. Confirmed bouts:"}, {"text": "Pratapnagar Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Pratapnagar is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency. Pratapnagar tehsil is included in this constituency."}, {"text": "Palazzo Giustinian Pesaro is a Gothic palace located in Venice, Italy, in the Cannaregio district and overlooking the Grand Canal. The palazzo is situated between Ca' d'Oro and Palazzo Morosini Sagredo. History. The palace dates back to the late 14th century; it was renovated later during the 18th and 19th centuries. The building was converted from a residence to a hotel business in 2006. The palace was owned by the prominent Giustiniani family. Architecture. The small palace has an atypical L-shaped plan and a garden towards the Grand Canal. The perfectly restored Gothic fa\u00e7ade presents the results of numerous modifications that have affected it over the past centuries. The palazzo has two noble floors decorated by quadriforas shifted the right, so the fa\u00e7ade looks asymmetrical. Each quadrifora is supported by a pair of single-light windows from the left side. All the ogival openings are surrounded by serrated frames and decorated by the typical flower on top. The balconies were added in the 16th century. Further 17th-century interventions can be seen on the left side of the palace, the one overlooking the large garden. In the 1800s, a top floor was added. The palazzo was remodeled inside and restored in 1970."}, {"text": "Arcushallen is an indoor arena located in Lule\u00e5, Sweden. It opened in 1986 and is primarily used for concerts and sporting events."}, {"text": "John Michael Tolkin (born July 31, 2002), nicknamed \"JMi\", is an American professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for club Holstein Kiel and the United States national team. Club career. Youth and early career (including New York Red Bulls II). Tolkin was raised in Chatham Borough, New Jersey, where he attended Chatham High School. Tolkin joined the New York Red Bulls Academy in 2015. During the 2019 USL Championship season he appeared for New York Red Bulls II. He made his professional debut on July 10, 2019, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 4\u20133 victory over Bethlehem Steel. During the match, he recorded his first professional assist on Tom Barlow's equalizer in the 82nd minute. New York Red Bulls. After appearing for New York Red Bulls II in 2019, Tolkin moved up to the club's MLS roster on January 14, 2020. Tolkin made his MLS debut on May 8, 2021, appearing as a substitute against Toronto FC in a 2\u20130 victory. On May 29, 2021, Tolkin made his first start for the club in a 2\u20131 victory over Orlando City SC, earning praise for his play during the match. Tolkin scored his first professional goal on"}, {"text": "August 18, 2021, in a 1\u20130 win against the Columbus Crew. On May 10, 2022, Tolkin scored his first goal of the season for New York in a 3\u20130 victory over DC United, helping his club advance to the round of 16 in the 2022 U.S. Open Cup. On August 18, 2022, Tolkin helped New York to a 2\u20131 victory over Atlanta United scoring the deciding goal. On October 5, 2022, Tolkin signed a new contract with New York tying him to the club until 2027, with an option for 2028 On November 18, 2022, Tolkin was named New York Red Bulls Defender of the Year for the 2022 season. On August 20, 2023, Tolkin scored his first goal of the season for New York, an 88th-minute free kick, to help his club to a 1\u20130 victory over rival DC United. On October 21, 2023, Tolkin scored from the penalty spot in stoppage time to lead New York to a 1\u20130 victory over Nashville SC. With this win the club qualified for the MLS Cup Playoffs for a record 14 straight seasons. On October 25, 2023, Tolkin scored on a freekick and assisted on two other goals for New York"}, {"text": "in a 5\u20132 victory over Charlotte FC, helping his club advance to the first round of the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs. On 1 June 2024, Tolkin made his 100th league appearance for New York, a match in which he scored on a free kick in a 1\u20130 victory over Orlando City SC. On 30 November 2024, Tolkin assisted Andr\u00e9s Reyes on his headed set piece goal against Orlando City SC, sending the Red Bulls to MLS Cup 2024 in a 1\u20130 victory, where they went on to lose 2-1 to the LA Galaxy. Holstein Kiel. On January 16, 2025, Tolkin transferred to Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel for a transfer fee of $3 million including a sell on fee. A day after the signing, due to outcry from some fans, the club released a statement in which Tolkin distanced himself again from his controversial social media likes, maintaining they are incompatible with his personal values and that he respects all people. Tolkin had previously liked social media posts mocking the LGBTQ community, critical of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, questioning the existence of gravity and the January 6 United States Capitol attack and supporting flat Earth beliefs. Tolkin had also"}, {"text": "previously apologized for the behavior in a CBS Golazo interview during the 2024 Olympic games. Tolkin made his debut for Holstein Kiel, when he came on in the 79th-minute for Dominik Javor\u010dek in a 2\u20132 draw with VfL Wolfsburg on January 24. Personal life. Tolkin's uncle gave him the nickname \"JMi\" when he was young, and his teammates and family refer to him as \"JMi\". He says he does not answer to \"John\". Honors. Individual"}, {"text": "M. Sharon Lewis Malcolm (July 11, 1947 \u2013 September 30, 2019) was an American politician. Malcolm was born in Park Lake, Michigan. She served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2018 until her death. Malcolm was a Republican. Prior to her appointment to the House of Delegates, she served as the Assistant Doorkeeper for the West Virginia House of Delegates, and later as the Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms for the West Virginia Senate."}, {"text": "This is a list of songs that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Top Download Songs Chart in 2019."}, {"text": "Roser Maestro Moliner (born in Puerto de Sagunto, 18 November 1988) is a Spanish communist politician and member of the Congress of Deputies since the 13th legislature. She is a member of the United Left of the Valencian Country and the Communist Party of the Valencian Country. Biography. She was previously a councillor in Sagunto, Valencian Community. She was elected for the office in the 2015 Spanish local elections for the United Left of the Valencian Country. In the 2015 Spanish general election she ran for the Congress of Deputies for the Valencia constituency. In March 2019, she won the primary elections of the United Left of the Valencian Country for the April 2019 Spanish general election. She was the head of the candidature promoted by the Communist Party of the Valencian Country, competing with the candidature of Esther L\u00f3pez Barcel\u00f3, which was closer to the United Left direction. The primaries list headed by Maestro was initially formed by women only, but it had to be modified to comply with the parity law."}, {"text": "C.K. Chatterton (1880\u20131973) was an American artist whose oils, watercolors, and gouaches, painted in realist style, showed the houses and streets of villages, towns, and harbors of upstate New York and the Maine coast. Critics said his work possessed directness and candor as well as an ability to capture the play and pattern of light. One of them praised his \"power to find in narrow streets with trolley cars and railway culverts something stimulating in design and warm with a sense of human living.\" His paintings were, another wrote, \"smiling without falsification of sentimentality.\" Chatterton trained at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, Walter Appleton Clark, and others. Among his fellow students, Edward Hopper and Gifford Beal became studio mates and friends. He was professor of art at Vassar College for many years. There he taught live drawing along with the more usual techniques of landscape and portraiture in oil and watercolor. Early life and training. Chatterton was raised in Newburgh, New York, where he attended local public schools through his high school graduation in 1897. While he was in the elementary grades he obtained grudging approval from his father to attend art classes taught by the"}, {"text": "artist, Lydia Edgar, in nearby Middletown on the understanding that he would draw and paint as a hobby. Shortly after approving the classes Chatterton's father died of consumption, leaving an estate large enough to support the remaining family members. On graduating from high school Chatterton decided he would train to be a professional illustrator. In 1900 he enrolled in the New York School of Art where Howard Chandler Christy and Walter Appleton Clark taught classes in illustration. He chose that school partly because, like Lydia Edgar's, its approach was based on working from life. After studying illustration for two years Chatterton began to study painting in watercolor and oil. He said he made the change when his friend and fellow student, Edward Hopper, told him \"Chat, it's time you started to paint.\" At first Chatterton's painting instructors William Merritt Chase, Frank DuMond, Luis Mora, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Things changed dramatically in 1902 when Robert Henri took DuMond's place and introduced an approach to art that was entirely new to Chatterton. Where before the emphasis had been on visual accuracy in drawing, the new emphasis was on emotional spontaneity. Chatterton said that to Henri \"the idea and the emotion were"}, {"text": "all-important, the manner of conveying them negligible.\" To a meticulous craftsman like Chatterton this was a revolutionary idea. He said, \"To those of us who were technically clever, this was baffling and occasionally galling,\" but he nonetheless adopted the method as his own. In addition to Hopper, his fellow students at this time included George Bellows, Gifford Beal, Edward Hopper, Guy P\u00e8ne du Bois, and Rockwell Kent. Leaving the New York School in 1904, Chatterton returned to Newburgh where he lived with his widowed mother and worked out of a studio that he shared with Gifford Beal. Together the two men painted local street and harbor scenes while earning money by making commercial art for local businesses. Career in art. Unlike most professional artists of his time Chatterton rarely contributed works to group exhibitions in commercial galleries. In 1908 a painting of his called \"Snow Clad Town\" appeared first in a juried group exhibition at the National Academy of Design and later as part of a traveling exposition held in Argentina and Chile. This painting can be seen at left. When, in 1910, Robert Henri began to arrange group shows in New York's MacDowell Club, Chatterton included his paintings along"}, {"text": "with those of others of Henri's former students. When a painting of his called \"A Peep at the Side Show\" was included in an exhibition by the American Watercolor Society in 1912, the critic for the \"New York Herald\" described it in detail and said it was \"a good picture of a not uncommon scene in the rural districts in spring and summer.\" He showed again at New York Watercolor Club in 1913 and the following year won a prize for best watercolor shown in an exhibition at New York's Salmagundi Club. There is a gap during the next decade during which there are no records of exhibitions in which Chatterton participated. In that time he married, took up teaching positions, and was employed as a superintendent of art education in the Newburgh public school system. Early on, he spent summer holidays in a rented studio in Newburgh where he made large paintings of the city's street scenes. Later\u2014beginning in 1919\u2014he began to spend summers in the summer resort and art colony of Ogunquit, Maine. This marked a change in his choice of subjects. Where before he mostly painted street and harbor scenes on the Hudson River in the vicinity"}, {"text": "of Newburgh, he now began to find subjects in the villages on the coast of southern Maine. Chatterton's painting, \"Henry Wear's Place,\" of about 1920 (shown at right) is an example of his early work in Maine. When it was shown in 1927, Margaret Breuning of the \"New York Evening Post\" said \"'Henry Weare's Place' with its beautiful elm, and umbrageous fountain spreading its beneficence over the little frame house huddling close to its great trunk, reveals the newer, mellower vein that this artist is developing with no loss of power in statement or design.\" In 1925 Chatterton convinced the Wildenstein Gallery to mount a solo exhibition of his work and the following year the gallery included his painting \"Clinton Square, Newburgh\" in a group of representative American paintings in a traveling exhibition that toured Europe and South America. When Wildenstein gave him a second solo exhibition in 1927 Margaret Breuning said his works were \"\"stimulating in design and warm with a sense of human living\" A critic for the \"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" added, \"What Edward Hopper has done for the mansard roof of architecture of the 80's, Chatterton has accomplished for the early American homestead.\" Later that year Chatterton"}, {"text": "began a relationship with a gallery owner that would persist for the remainder of the gallery owner's life. The owner was Robert Macbeth and the gallery bore his name. Macbeth, who was a staunch supporter of American artists like Chatterton, had little respect for European modernist influences in American art. Calling these influences \"bizarre and unintelligible,\" he said the American public could be relied upon to choose art that was worthwhile over art that was \"merely amusing.\" Over the nine years from 1929 to 1938 Chatterton showed paintings in four solo and three group shows at Macbeth. Although he stopped showing in commercial galleries after Macbeth's death in 1940, his work continued to be shown in noncommercial exhibitions in New York and across the country. In 1936 he was one of 40 artists chosen to represent New York City in a national exhibition of American art that was held in the newly completed International Building of Rockefeller Center. In that year and two others his paintings were included in group shows of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. He showed at the annual exhibition of American art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1936), the large and successful Municipal Art Exhibit"}, {"text": "in New York (1936), the Albany Institute of History and Art (1939), the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco (1940), and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington (1935, 1941, and 1943). During the early 1940s Chatterton participated in a number of group exhibitions and one solo exhibition held by the Dutchess County Art Association. Vassar College, where he was professor of art, gave him exhibitions during the same period and in 1947 mounted a major retrospective of works from his own holdings, holdings of private collectors, and the Brooklyn Museum. The following year he was given another retrospective, this one, sponsored by the Hudson River Conservation Society, featured his 1918 painting, \"Clinton Square, Newburgh.\" Further retrospective exhibitions occurred in 1959 (at the Bethlehem Art Gallery, Salisbury Mills, N.Y.) and 1963 (at Vassar College). In 1965, for the first time since 1936, his paintings were shown in a Manhattan commercial gallery. George Chapellier, owner of the gallery that bore his name, gave Chatterton a solo exhibition consisting of 50 paintings and drawings dating from 1899 to 1958. Remarkably, 25 works were sold during the first week of the show. After Chatterton's death in 1978 he was given exhibitions at the Robert"}, {"text": "Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas, (1977), Barrett House in Poughkeepsie (1982), and the ACA Gallery in New York (1989 and 1999). Artistic style and critical reception. Chatterton shared a common point of view with the men who were students with him at the New York School of Art. They rejected what they saw as unrealistic impressionism and what they considered to be lifeless academic realism. He did not, however, share with them a tendency to show the underside of life in New York City. In this he followed one of Henri's precepts: \"Do not imitate; be yourself.\" If he chose not to show urban grittiness, he also chose not to show empty landscapes. Instead he depicted small-town architecture, work-a-day streets and harbors, and, as often as not, people at their ease. Early in his career a critic praised Chatterton for his \"fresh vision of the world, his power to find in narrow streets with trolley cars and railway culverts something stimulating in design and warm with a sense of human living\" and credited him with the \"power to impose formal discipline upon the most refractory of factual motifs and give them coherent harmony of organization and relevance.\" Another said he"}, {"text": "possessed a strong, forthright technique and praised his sentiment of place, taking \"the white houses, the tall elms and dusty streets of New England towns as the important things in a picture.\" Writing in 1934 of that year's solo exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery, the critic for the \"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" noted this sense of place and said Chatterton's point of view was \"characterized by certain serene enjoyment of actualities that amounts almost to a philosophy of life.\" He also wrote that Chatterton's \"manner of setting down his reactions has the integrity of his point of view which is characterized by directness and candor.\" A year later another critic noted Chatterton's skill in rendering \"the homey quality of small-town life\" and remarked on the feeling of peace and quiet he was able to evoke. Writing of a solo exhibition held in 1963 a critic noted another aspect of his style, writing that he was famous for his skill in capturing the play and pattern of light. Although Chatterton's best-known subjects were houses and harbors, he frequently showed figures in either village or (as shown at left) rural scenes. Similarly, although his oil paintings were highly regarded, he was also credited"}, {"text": "with skill in gouache and (as shown at right) watercolor. Art teacher. On leaving the New York School of Art in 1904 Chatterton returned to his childhood home Newburgh where he continued to paint. Not long after the first exhibition of his work in 1908, he obtained employment as an art instructor in a private school near his home. In 1915, against advice from his New York friends but with encouragement from Robert Henri, he took a job as artist-in-residence at Vassar College and in the same year was appointed superintendent of art education in Newburgh public schools. Studio art classes were not then the norm in liberal arts classes and Chatterton's differed from others in having students paint from life in the way he himself had been trained. When, in 1919, Vassar began giving course credit for the art classes he taught, a member of the faculty complained, he later said, that the school \"might as well give credit for plumbing.\" After he began spending summers in Ogunquit he began teaching classes there. In 1919, while still retaining his position at Vassar, Chatterton was promoted as head of a new department of industrial art in the Newburgh high school."}, {"text": "He gave up this job some years before he received appointment as Vassar's professor of art in 1928. By 1933 the courses he taught at the college included life drawing and painting, portraiture, composition, and landscape. He continued teaching there until his retirement in 1948. Personal life and family. Chatterton's father was Charles L. Chatterton (1853\u20131893). He was a partner in the Newburgh law firm of Round & Chatterton. He died aged 40 of consumption. Chatterton's mother was Julia Lendrum Chatterton (1858\u20131934). She was the organist at Newburgh's Calvary Presbyterian Church. In 1915 Chatterton married Margaret A. Meakim (1888\u20131968). She, like her mother-in-law was an organist. A Poughkeepsie native, she received musical training at the New York Institute of Musical Art and during the 1920s and 1930s and until the outbreak of World War II she performed in services and in concerts at Newburgh's Trinity Methodist Church. The couple had one child, a daughter named Julia, born in 1917 or 1918. In 1945 she married J.M. Van De Water, who was then serving in the Navy on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. She had previously been a teacher in a private school in Baltimore, then an editor on H."}, {"text": "L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine, and subsequently a freelance editor. Chatterton was unostentatious and possessed a quiet and retiring demeanor. Students, who called him \"Chatty,\" saw him as kindly and sympathetic. At the time of his death Chatterton was living in Poughkeepsie. He died on July 1, 1973, in a nursing home in New Paltz and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newburgh."}, {"text": "A relatively small number of outfield association footballers have played in goal during a match, usually due to the injury, dismissal or other unavailability of the usual goalkeeper."}, {"text": "The 56th Golden Horse Awards () took place on November 23, 2019 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2018 and 2019. The ceremony was televised by TTV. In the news. Following a boycott by China's national film governing board National Radio and Television Administration due to political tensions between Taiwan and China, films from Mainland China were completely absent from the list of nominees. Hong Kong director Johnnie To, who was announced as the jury president for the 56th Golden Horse Awards in June 2019, resigned his position in late September after Hong Kong film studios were reportedly pressured to withdraw from the awards ceremony; To cited his reason as having \"previously signed film production contractual obligations\". Following the announcement of the Chinese boycott, some production companies in Hong Kong also pulled films from consideration at the award ceremony. Despite this, there were a number of Hong Kong titles in the awards running which include \"Suk Suk\", \"My Prince Edward\" and documentary \"Bamboo Theatre\". Maserati announced on Sina Weibo in October 2019 that it had ended sponsorship of"}, {"text": "the Golden Horse Awards, stating in part, \"Maserati always respects China's territorial integrity, history and culture, and firmly upholds the one-China principle.\""}, {"text": "The 2014 Anaheim mayoral election was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the mayor of Anaheim, California. It saw the reelection of Tom Tait. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan."}, {"text": "Heavy Metal Rules is the fifth studio album by American glam metal band Steel Panther, released on September 27, 2019. This is the band's last album to feature bassist Lexxi Foxx. Background. During the recording of the album, vocalist Michael Starr was diagnosed with nodules of the vocal chords, and had to undergo surgery to remove them which put the album on hold for several months. The album is named after the \"philosophy\" of the \"Zebraman\" from the 1986 documentary film \"Heavy Metal Parking Lot\". Critical reception. \"Heavy Metal Rules\" received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics, being criticized for its lyrics and overall lack of refreshment, being called unfunny and repetitive. However, the band's performances, particularly the guitars and the drums, were praised. \"NME\"s Jordan Bassett gave the album a wholly negative review, awarding the album one star out of five and stated that the band is \"not funny\", summarizing that their \"gag involves dumb guitar riffs and even dumber lyrics about sex, babes and metal\" and describing it as \"gleeful misogyny\" and \"incel rock\". Bassett concluded by writing that \"If you have never had sex, you might like this album. [...] It's only got one star because"}, {"text": "the NME content management system doesn't currently support 0 stars.\" Giving the album a score of two out of five, Luke Morton of \"Kerrang!\" felt that the band \"continue to run the joke into the ground\" on the album, opining that their \"glam parody shtick is stale\" and calling the album largely \"forgettable\". Writing for \"Metal Hammer\", Adam Reese rated the album two stars out of five and said that the album features \"more swears than songs\", writing that the band's \"impact has begun to diminish over recent releases\". Although highlighting the \"tasty riffs\" on \"Always Gonna Be a Ho\" and the \"batter[ing]\" on the songs \"All I Wanna Do Is Fuck (Myself Tonight)\" and \"Fuck Everybody\", Rees concluded that \"Heavy metal does indeed rule, as do an on-form Steel Panther, but album five isn't the best case for either.\" A positive review came from Dom Lawson of \"Blabbermouth.net\", who gave the album 7.5 out of 10 and wrote that \"rather than battling with the law of diminishing comic returns, the band's musical brilliance and irrepressible sense of mischief has pushed them to make their finest record in a decade\". Reviewing the album for \"Ultimate-Guitar.com\", Travis Lausch judged that while"}, {"text": "the band continue \"to be unrepentant against the political correctness grain\", \"when taken as a parody of 80s hair metal with tongue firmly planted in cheek [...] they can actually come off as quite entertaining, and there's no denying one basic fact about this band: [they] can \"play\".\" In conclusion, Lausch felt that \"There's a lot to love for fans of shred guitar, hair metal riffing, and musical debauchery, overall.\" \"Loudwire\" named it one of the 50 best metal albums of 2019."}, {"text": "Mir Muhammad Baqir Iradat Khan, also known by his title Azam Khan, was a Mughal official who served as Subahdar of Bengal Subah from 1632 to 1635. Azam Khan's real name was Mir Muhammad Baqir. He was originally from Iraq and came to Indian subcontinent during the reign of Jahangir. Jahangir appointed him as \"Khan-i-Saman\". Then, he was appointed as Subahdar of Kashmir. Later, he was appointed as Mir Bakhxi too. Shahjahan honoured him with the title \"Azam Khan\", and appointed him as Grand Wazir in 1628. When Azan Khan was the ruler of Bengal, the English had warm relation with the authority. During his tenure, Bengal faced chaotic administrative and military situation, because Assamese King Pratap Singh made sporadic raids in Kamarupa. For this, he was removed from his post and Islam Khan II appointed as Subahdar of Bengal."}, {"text": "The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945 is a 2015 book by Will Iredale. It deals with the actions of the Fleet Air Arm of Great Britain's Royal Navy during 1945, in the final stages of World War II in the Pacific theater."}, {"text": "Tegar Infantrie Sukamto (born 8 May 1999) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga 1 club Persita Tangerang. Club career. PSIS Semarang. PSIS Semarang was his first professional club after playing with the junior team, he made his debut in a match against Persipon Pontianak replacing Muhamad Yunus. RANS Cilegon. In 2021, Infantrie signed a contract with Indonesian Liga 2 club RANS Cilegon. He made his league debut on 28 September against Dewa United. Persikabo 1973. Infantrie was signed for Persikabo 1973 to play in Liga 1 in the 2022\u201323 season. He made his league debut on 25 July 2022 in a match against Persebaya Surabaya at the Pakansari Stadium, Cibinong."}, {"text": "Gay Su Pinnell (born June 28, 1944) is an American educational theorist and a professor emerita at the School of Teaching and Learning at the Ohio State University. She is best known for her work with Irene Fountas on literacy and guided reading, a teaching framework that laid the groundwork for the Fountas and Pinnell reading levels. Pinnell was a prominent figure featured in Sold a Story, a podcast by APM Reports, that investigates the way reading is taught in schools, specifically focusing on the influential authors and a publishing company that promote a disproven approach to reading instruction. The reporting highlights the experiences of teachers who felt misled by what they were told was the correct way to teach reading. It also investigates the company, Heinemann, and the authors, including Fountas and Pinnell, who have been instrumental in promoting this approach. These authors and their materials have been widely adopted in schools, leading to significant financial gains for the publishing company Heinemann. The report also explores the concept of \"balanced literacy\" and how it has been criticized by those advocating for \"The Science of Reading\". The report notes that 65% of fourth graders in the US are not proficient"}, {"text": "readers, and discusses how the methods promoted by Fountas and Pinnell can be detrimental to some children's reading development. In 2024, a group of parents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts, which alleged that a group of professors and their publishers, including Pinnell, used \u201cdeceptive and fraudulent marketing\u201d to sell their popular reading materials. Education. Pinnell's parents were educators in Portales, New Mexico and Pinnell has an undergraduate degree from Eastern New Mexico University. In 1975, Pinnell earned her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University where she worked on the language with first-grade students. In 2018, Lesley University awarded Pinnell an honorary doctorate to recognize her contributions to childhood literacy. Career. Working with Irene Fountas, Pinnell developed a system of guided reading for teachers which assigns letters (A through Z, commonly known as the Fountas and Pinnell reading levels) to students based on their reading ability and comprehension. Their work is also known as leveled reading, and establishes guidelines to identify books for children by reading level. Pinnell's books include \"Guided Reading Good First Teaching for All Children\" that was reviewed by Harvard Educational Review, \"Literacy Quick Guide\" for pre-K to 8th grade, and \"Matching Books to Readers\" that was reviewed"}, {"text": "by Education Review. Pinnell also contributed financially to literacy programs for young children, including multiple contributions to Ohio State's Literacy Collaborative and she endowed the Mary Fried Endowed Clinical Professorship at Ohio State University in 2020. Eastern New Mexico University named her Philanthropist of the Year in 2019."}, {"text": "\"Named after Eric Bernal of Las Cruces, New Mexico, 'Bernal\"' is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States."}, {"text": "Andrei Fyodorov, Andrey Fedorov or their combinations may refer to the following Russian people:"}, {"text": "John Mason Loomis (January 5, 1825 \u2013 August 2, 1900) was a nineteenth-century American businessman and lumber tycoon from Chicago who was known for developing the city of Ludington, Michigan. He was involved with the Pere Marquette Lumber Company, which also operated salt distilleries that in turn influenced the salt industry of northern Michigan. The village of Pere Marquette benefited from these local industries and developed into the city Ludington. Loomis served as a colonel in the Illinois militia, mobilized as part of the Union Army during the American Civil War, held several commands, and fought in several major battles. He was recommended twice for promotion to brigadier general. Loomis was also active in Chicago real estate investments and charitable causes. His legacy is the Loomis Chaffee School, a college preparatory school. Early life and education. Loomis was born in Windsor, Connecticut, on January 5, 1825. His parents were Colonel James Loomis and Abigail (nee Sherwood Chaffee) Loomis, both of English descent. His father, a farmer, merchant and miller, was also a native of Windsor. He also served for many years as colonel of the First Regiment of Connecticut State Militia. The first of the Loomis family in America was"}, {"text": "Joseph Loomis from Braintree, Essex County, England. He came to Boston in the ship \"Susan and Ellen\" in 1638. In 1640, he bought a large tract of land in Hartford County, Connecticut, where the Farmington River enters the Connecticut River at the site of the city of Windsor. John Loomis was named after a prominent officer in the colonial forces of the Connecticut Colony who was distinguished for his gallantry during the French and Indian War. His mother was from Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, and was descended from a family of high social standing. Loomis attended public school in Connecticut and received initial business training working at his father's store as a teenager. Business career. At 23, Loomis took over an existing lumber concern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The business was successful and in 1852 Loomis moved it to Chicago, where he formed a partnership, Loomis & Ludington, with James Ludington of Milwaukee. The partnership succeeded until 1861, when Loomis entered the American Civil War. In 1864, he left the army and returned to Chicago to find his lumber business had been mishandled and destroyed by its managers. Still interested in sales, he became a commission merchant. He prospered and later became"}, {"text": "a partner with John McLaren, forming John Mason Loomis & Company. For many years, his company on South Water Street was the leading lumber firm in the city. In 1869 the Pere Marquette Lumber Company was formed with Loomis as treasurer. He, assisted by others in the Marquette Co., was instrumental in moving the Mason County Michigan county seat from Lincoln to Ludington. Loomis and Delos L. Filer pledged $1,000 towards a new county office building which was completed in 1874. In 1879, Loomis became the president of Pere Marquette. Loomis's other interests included experiments with salt mining, when he determined that the brine of flowing salt water from a well could be distilled to produce usable salt. The Pere Marquette Lumber Company pioneered burning scrap lumber to operate salt distilleries. Other local entrepreneurs copied Loomis's techniques, establishing the salt industry in northwestern Michigan. The village of Pere Marquette benefited from these local lumber and salt industries and developed into the city of Ludington. Military service. When he was 18, Loomis became a captain in the Connecticut state militia. He was then appointed as a midshipman in the United States Navy, but opportunities for active service and travel were rare"}, {"text": "so he resigned. He then joined the United States Merchant Marine, traveling to China and other Asian countries, returning to Chicago in 1845. He then moved to Milwaukee. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Loomis was a first lieutenant in the Chicago Light Guard with a reputation as a devoted and skilled military leader. This prompted Governor Richard Yates to request that Loomis take command of a regiment for service in the field. Yates' request was supported by several influential men in Chicago, and Loomis accepted. In August 1861, Loomis took over the 26th Illinois Infantry Regiment as colonel. Loomis's regiment participated in the Battle of Island Number Ten, the Battle of Iuka, the Siege of Corinth, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Battle of Jackson, Mississippi, the Second Battle of Chattanooga and the Battle of Farmington, Tennessee. The \"St. Louis Globe Democrat\" reported that he acquitted himself well as he rallied his men at the Second Battle of Chattanooga. He led the 26th at the Battle of Missionary Ridge. One memorial tribute described the regiment's effort as a great achievement for a group of citizen soldiers. During his army career he commanded the First Brigade \u2013 Second Division"}, {"text": "of the Army of the Mississippi (1862); Second Brigade \u2013 Second Division (1862), First Brigade \u2013 First Division (1863), and First Brigade \u2013 Fourth Division (1863\u201364) of the Army of the Tennessee. He also commanded the First Division, 16th Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee. Loomis hoped for promotion to brigadier general and was recommended twice by General Ulysses S. Grant and once by General William T. Sherman for the post, but was turned down. Loomis also served with the 16th Corps Support Group. Loomis fought in 57 battles and skirmishes and marched with his men for more than . He resigned his commission on April 30, 1864, due to fatigue. He returned to Chicago and became a prominent real estate owner who was also active in support of veteran affairs. After the war, Colonel Loomis became a Companion of the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Personal life. In 1849, Loomis married Mary Hunt, the daughter of Milo Hunt of Chenango County, New York. Loomis and his three brothers and one sister all lost their children during their lifetimes, leading them to form the Loomis Institute, helping educate young"}, {"text": "boys and girls. In 1874, they incorporated the Institute into the Loomis Chaffee School, a New England boarding and day school in Windsor, Connecticut. For its first 40 years, the school offered free education to those between twelve and twenty years of age. Loomis was on the board of directors of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, a charity for those left homeless and destitute after the fire of 1871. He donated money and time to the society and similar charities for twenty years. Loomis helped organize George H. Thomas Post Number 5 of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1879, Loomis founded the Illinois Commandery of MOLLUS, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and became its commander in 1884, succeeding Philip Sheridan. Loomis also served as treasurer in 1879 and head of the U.S. Volunteers from 1880 to 1883 He was a devout Episcopalian and active in Chicago's Grace Episcopal Church, where he was also a prominent donor. Loomis was a Republican. Although not considered a politician by historians Hyland MacGrath and George Irving Reed, Loomis was active in the selection of candidates to governmental offices. Loomis retired in 1885. He built a"}, {"text": "home at 55 Lake Shore Drive, in Chicago, dying in that city on August 2, 1900, and is interred at Rosehill Cemetery. Legacy. In 1910, his widow left over $1.1 million () as an endowment to the \"Loomis Institute\" for charitable purposes."}, {"text": "Sergei Fyodorov, Sergey Fedorov, Serhiy Fedorov or their combinations may refer to:"}, {"text": "Memory technique may refer to:"}, {"text": "Dimitrios \u039c. Sarros (; 1869/70-1937) was a Greek scholar, teacher, soldier and writer of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Biography. Sarros was born in 1869 or 1870 in Vitsa of Zagori. He graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina and later from the \"Philosophical School\" of the University of Athens. He initially was appointed as a teacher to a school of Piraeus (1897). He later taught in Larnaca and in the Pancyprian Gymnasium of Nicosia. In 1902 he was appointed as a teacher to Serres and Alexandroupoli, where he got involved with the Macedonian Committee and became an active member of the Macedonian Struggle. Later, he served as a teacher in the Phanar Greek Orthodox College, the \"Joachimio Greek Girls' School of Constantinople\" and in Thessaloniki. He was also a member of the \"Greek Philological Society of Constantinople\" (\"\u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a6\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 \u03a3\u03cd\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\") and contributed as a judge and rapporteur in literary and folklore competitions of the philological magazine of the Society. At the same time, he developed nationalistic actions, as in 1912 he organized the first congress of teachers of the enslaved Hellenism of Asia Minor and attended a \"Great National Assembly\", thus being expelled and imprisoned by the Ottoman"}, {"text": "authorities. After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he taught in Corfu and later in Kallithea. In 1926 he became an educational advisor of the Greek Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education until 1935."}, {"text": "\"Who Do You Think You Are?\" is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004. In each episode, a celebrity traces their family tree. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. The programme has regularly attracted an audience of more than 6 million viewers. More than 150 episodes have been produced. List of episodes. Series 12 (2015). On 23 June 2015, the BBC confirmed the lineup for Series 12, which began on 13 August 2015. Series 13 (2016\u201317). On 13 July 2016, the line-up for the 13th series was confirmed. The series began on 24 November 2016. Series 14 (2017). On 23 June 2017, the BBC announced the line-up for the programme's 14th series, which would again comprise 10 episodes. Series 15 (2018). On 10 May 2018, the BBC announced the line-up of celebrities taking part in Series 15, which aired during the summer of 2018. Series 16 (2019). On 9 June 2019, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 16. The line-up features Kate Winslet, Daniel Radcliffe, Sharon Osbourne, Mark Wright, Naomie Harris, Paul Merton, Katherine Ryan and Jack and Michael Whitehall. The series began on 22 July 2019."}, {"text": "Series 17 (2020). On 23 September 2020, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 17, consisting of only four episodes as production was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The line-up features Jodie Whittaker, David Walliams, Ruth Jones and Liz Carr. Series 18 (2021). On 13 September 2021, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 18, consisting of seven episodes. The line-up features Ed Balls, Judi Dench, Pixie Lott, Joe Lycett, Alex Scott, Joe Sugg and Josh Widdicombe. The series began on 12 October 2021. Series 19 (2022). On 10 May 2022, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 19, consisting of five episodes. The line-up features Sue Perkins, Richard Osman, Matt Lucas, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ralf Little. The series began on 26 May 2022. Series 20 (2023). On 5 May 2023, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 20. The line-up features Emily Atack, Kevin Clifton, Claire Foy, Dev Griffin, Bear Grylls, Lesley Manville, Chris Ramsey, Chris & Xand van Tulleken and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The series began on 1 June 2023. Series 21 (2024). On 11 June 2024, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 21, in"}, {"text": "commemoration of the programme's twentieth anniversary. The line-up features Rose Ayling-Ellis, Melanie C, Gemma Collins, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Vicky McClure, Paddy McGuinness and Olly Murs. Series 22 (2025). On 21 March 2025, the BBC announced the celebrities taking part in Series 22. The line-up features Aisling Bea, Andrew Garfield, Mishal Husain, Ross Kemp, Diane Morgan, Fred Sirieix, Layton Williams and Will Young. Home media. Series 1\u201311, 13, 15-17 of \"Who Do You Think You Are?\" are all available on Region 2 DVD. A box set of series 1\u20134 is available, distributed by Acorn Media UK."}, {"text": "Frendi Saputra (born 27 January 1992), is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Liga 2 club Barito Putera. Club career. PSIS Semarang. He was signed for PSIS Semarang to play in Liga 1 in the 2018 season. Frendi made his debut on 25 March 2018 in a match against PSM Makassar at the Andi Mattalatta Stadium, Makassar. Dewa United. On 29 January 2023, Frendi signed a contract with Liga 1 club Dewa United from PSIS Semarang. Frendi made his league debut for the club in a 1\u20131 draw against Madura United."}, {"text": "Palei may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Spruce Lodge, at 29431 W. US Hwy. 160 in South Fork, Colorado, is a hotel complex whose main original building was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The original lodge is a Rustic style log building with a hipped roof, built upon a concrete basement foundation. It has a two-story porch supported by round wood posts. One other building, the \"Cook's Cabin\", is deemed contributing; three more buildings are non-contributing."}, {"text": "Idyll in Budapest () is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ansoldi and Gabriele Varriale and starring Germaine Aussey, Osvaldo Valenti and Sergio Tofano. It was shot at the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Marcello Avenati."}, {"text": "Mosquito Down is a 2014 book by Frank Dell and Brett Piper. It is an account of Dell's time during World War II with Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force flying a de Havilland Mosquito bomber, being shot down over Germany, and his time with the Dutch resistance in 1944\u20131945."}, {"text": "Nagata Tokuhon (1512 - 1630) was a medieval Japanese physician. He was in the service of the Takeda clan of Kai Province, and later served the Tokugawa clan. Nagata's medical philosophy emphasised \"natural\" healing processes during a period when medicine in Japan tended to follow the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Unlike his contemporaries, Nagata believed in allowing patients to heal without interference. One example of his method is provided by the story of his treatment of a Japanese nobleman who was suffering from a fever: Nagata asked the man what he desired and on being told that his patient felt the need for watermelon, fresh air and cold water, provided these things. The patient recovered despite the treatment being at odds with the teachings of Chinese medicine. Consequently, although his training was in Chinese medicine, he is considered to be one of the main figures in the revival of Japanese medicine, mixing contemporary post-Sung techniques with ancient native practices. Nagata lived to be 118 years old."}, {"text": "The Anatolian serotine bat (Eptesicus anatolicus) is a species of bat found in West Asia. Taxonomy. \"Eptesicus anatolicus\" was described in 1971 by Felten. However, a statement few years later from Harrison, who considered the specimens he examined as a sub-species of \"Eptesicus bottae\", was accepted as taxonomical reference for more than three decades. In 2006, Benda et al. suggested that \"Eptesicus anatolicus\" should regain a species status following clear morphological evidence. Range and habitat. This bat is known to forage in open areas, around streetlamps and in the semi-open area along cliffs and vegetation. This species is recorded in Turkey, Syria, Greece (Rhodes Island), Cyprus and Iran. This species is listed in the Berne Convention and is specifically targeted by the UNEP-EUROBATS convention."}, {"text": "Perinetti is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Baba Adam Shahid () was a 15th-century Muslim figure in Bengal. Biography. Baba Adam was a \"fakir\" who resided in Mecca. A Muslim villager from Kanaichang, located in the kingdom of Vikramapura (in present-day Munshiganj District, Bangladesh]), sought refuge in Mecca after facing religious persecution. The villager had attempted to perform the ritual sacrifice of a cow to commemorate his son\u2019s \"aqiqah\", a customary Islamic practice. This act, however, provoked the ire of the local ruler, Raja Vallalasena. As a Hindu monarch from the Baidya caste, he regarded the cow as a sacred animal. To preserve the sanctity of the land, he interrupted the Muslim villager from the sacrifice. The villager fled to Mecca and his account of religious intolerance compelled Baba Adam to travel to Vikramapura, accompanied by a following which numbered 7000 Muslims. His mission was not only to protect religious freedom but also to confront the reported injustice. In response, Raja Vallalasena mobilised his forces to resist Baba Adam\u2019s advance. During a critical moment in the confrontation, Baba Adam is said to have temporarily withdrawn from the battlefield in Kanaichang to a nearby cave in order to perform the afternoon prayer of Asr. There, he was discovered"}, {"text": "by the Raja, who struck him down. Baba Adam's death was regarded by his companions as martyrdom, earning him the posthumous title of \"Shahid\" (martyr). His legacy continues to be honored in the region through oral tradition and local devotion. Legacy. Adam was buried in a tomb; now situated in the courtyard of a mosque constructed by Jalaluddin Fateh Shah's officer Malik Kafur in 888 AH (1483-1484 AD). The mosque is known as Baba Adam's Mosque and is a protected monument visited by many tourists. Known in Hindu literature as \"Bayadumba the Mleccha\" (), Adam's story is mentioned in the \"Vallalacharita\". This book was written by a 16th-century Shaivist commentator by the name of Ananda Bhatta at the request of Sri Buddhimanta Khan, the Raja of Nabadwip."}, {"text": "Sherwood Lodge, in Glacier National Park near West Glacier, Montana, was built in 1919. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is located on the west shore of Lake McDonald, and includes a main lodge (Sherwood Lodge), a boat house, a garage, and a septic pump house. It consists of the northernmost eight lots of Apgar's Glacier Park Cottage Sites subdivision, bordering the lake to the front, Grist Road to the rear, and Federal land to the north. The main lodge, built around 1919, is a one-and-a-half-story log cabin. It was designed by Long Beach, California architect W. Horace Austin (1881-1942) and was built by Edward J. Cruger, Peter Aubert, and Martin Sibley. There is a second contributing building on the property. It was listed as part of a study, \"Recreational Camps on Lake McDonald, MT, 1892\u20141970 MPS\"."}, {"text": "Michael Player (September 6, 1960 \u2013 October 10, 1986) was an American serial killer who committed a total of ten murders in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Skid Row, earning him the nickname The Skid Row Slayer. Since the mid-1970s, it was the third case of a serial killer who operated in the area. Early years. Little is known about Michael Player's early life. He was born in 1960 and led a criminal lifestyle under the nickname Marcus Nisby, for which he was prosecuted several times by the Californian authorities in the late 1970s. At the turn of the 1980s, he was convicted of a robbery, and in October 1983, he was arrested while trying to commit theft, convicted again, and sentenced to six months in prison. In the summer of 1984, he was arrested for illegal possession of weapons, again convicted, and sentenced to two years of imprisonment. Having received parole in 1985, Player again committed several minor offenses, as a result of which he was arrested for violating the conditions of parole and received a 60-day prison sentence in July 1985. Murders. As victims, Player chose mostly homeless people who led a marginal existence, attacking them from behind"}, {"text": "and shooting them execution style. All of the killings were committed in the early hours of the day. The murders began on September 4, 1986, when Player walked up behind 54-year-old Rudolfo Roque and shot him in the back of the head. Roque was not homeless and had arrived from San Diego a few days earlier for the purpose of visiting a friend. After killing Roque, Michael got rid of the weapon but failed to escape in time and was detained by police. After being interrogated at the police station, he was released due to a lack of evidence. The next five murders were all of homeless people and all of them were shot while sleeping. A few days after Roque's killing, Player shot dead 66-year-old Rick Stamps. On September 13, he shot dead 31-year-old Rojello Sirven and wounded 47-year-old Joseph Griffin in the Skid Row area. Griffin initially survived, despite his serious injuries, but succumbed to his injuries due to complications on October 5. On September 20, 66-year-old Marshall Singer was shot in the back of the head. Three days later, Player shot 36-year-old David Towns, after which he committed a double murder. On September 30, he shot and"}, {"text": "killed 25-year-old Christopher Boyle and 56-year-old Leon Gaines in separate attacks. On October 7, he attacked and killed a 23-year-old Korean, Chang Kang. Like the first victim, Kang was not homeless and had come from Texas so he could visit some relatives. The day after, Player murdered 44-year-old Wayne Ellis in Athens Park while he was sleeping. On October 9, he attempted to kill Terrence Dunn, but he managed to survive. Dunn provided a description of the attacker to the authorities, on the basis of which a facial composite was created. Death and exposure. On October 10, 1986, Michael Player shot himself in a Los Angeles hotel. While investigating his death, a search was conducted on the apartment, during which police located bloodstained shoes and two pistols, .38 and .22 caliber. A ballistic examination subsequently confirmed that all the victims had been killed with the weapons belonging to Player. Terrence Dunn, the only surviving victim, also identified him from a photograph as the same man who had tried to kill him on October 9. Based on these facts, the police pinned all ten murders on the now-deceased Player, and was announced to media representatives by Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl"}, {"text": "Gates in February 1987. The reason for Player's suicide, as well as his motive for the murders, remains unclear. See also. General:"}, {"text": "The 2020 Singapore Premier League season is Tampines Rovers's 25th season at the top level of Singapore football and 75th year in existence as a football club. The club will also compete in the Singapore League Cup, Singapore Cup, Singapore Community Shield and the AFC Cup. Transfers. Pre-season. Out. \"Note 1: Shahdan Sulaiman's contract end at 2021 but transferred to Home United for undisclosed fee.\" \"Note 2: Zulfadhmi Suzliman's contract end at 2020 but transferred to Balestier Khalsa for undisclosed fee.\" Friendlies. Pre-season. Leo Cup 2020 Thailand - 26 to 30 January Team statistics. Appearances and goals. Note 4 Player scored 4 goals 5 Player scored 5 goals Competitions. Charity Shield. Hougang United was a last minute replacement for DPMM FC after DPMM pulled out from the Charity Shield due to COVID-19."}, {"text": "Logos is the debut full-length studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Selfish Things, released on 20 September 2019 through Pure Noise Records. The album was produced by Drew Fulk and it features Andy Leo of Crown the Empire, former Yellowcard frontman William Ryan Key and Underoath's Spencer Chamberlain. Background. Throughout 2018, Selfish Things were working on their debut album while being on the road to promote their EP \"Vertical Love\". Lead singer Alex Biro chose the title months before the release: \"I\u2019ve been incredibly fixated by Carl Jung, the psychoanalyst and his grand interpretation of life and the world. To achieve logos is to truly ascend. The whole album revolves around that idea and concept. I had been having a hard time coming up with a name and then I was reading \"The Red Book\" and came across that. It just stuck.\" He explains the idea behind the record: \"I want people to know that there is strength in your faults. It\u2019s just as important to suffer as it is to find moments of joy and happiness. Darkness and light need one another.\" Release and promotion. On 26 October 2018, the band released the single, \"Flood\". Biro explains: \"I"}, {"text": "felt like I needed to find a way to talk about human complacency in the face of destruction beyond gun violence. Our species has this off-putting, innate ability to let things go to shit so long as it doesn\u2019t directly impact us as individuals.\" On 22 February 2019, they revealed the single \"Drained\", that features William Ryan Key, former singer of Yellowcard. On 26 June 2019, they released \"Pride\", a song that \"defines what it feels like to be the odd man out in a place you don\u2019t belong.\" On 4 August 2019, the band announced the details of \"Logos\", and they premiered the single \"Hole\", followed by \"Blood\" on 30 August. \"Blood\" features Andy Leo of Crown the Empire on vocals. On release day, Selfish Things premiered the single \"Mind\", accompanied by a music video. Critical reception. The album has received positive reviews from critics: it has been regarded as an intimate record with a focus on human feelings and vulnerability with a \"fusion of sound from modern punk, to new age rock, to emo pop-ballad slow burners\". At the same time, it has been noted that the execution of the tracks is far from perfect, as they are"}, {"text": "\"in need of much more development\" with an \"amount of potential that doesn\u2019t feel lived up to whatsoever\". Track listing. Source:"}, {"text": "Oyanagi may refer to:"}, {"text": "Jibei Kingdom () was a kingdom of Han dynasty, in present-day northern Shandong and southern Hebei. The kingdom was first established on the lands of Qi in 178 BC for Liu Xingju, son of Liu Fei, Prince of Qi, King of Qi. In 177 BC, Xingju committed suicide after a failed attempt of rebellion, and Jibei was merged back to Qi. In 164 BC, Jibei again became a kingdom under Liu Zhi (\u5289\u5fd7), another son of Fei. After the Rebellion of the Seven States, Zhi was stripped of his fief, and part of Jibei was transferred to Liu Bo (\u5289\u52c3), a former Prince of Hengshan (\u8861\u5c71) and son of Liu Chang (\u5289\u9577), Prince of Huainan (\u6dee\u5357), while the rest was separated to become Pingyuan Commandery. Bo and his descendants held Jibei until 86 BC. Afterwards, the kingdom was abolished and merged into Taishan Commandery. Jibei Kingdom was established for a second time in 90 AD, and granted to Liu Shou (\u5289\u58fd), son of Emperor Zhang. The kingdom lasted to the end of Eastern Han. Jibei was subsequently converted to a commandery, though it would again become the fief of various imperial princes during Cao Wei and Western Jin dynasties. In"}, {"text": "140 AD, the kingdom consisted of 5 counties, Lu (\u76e7), Sheqiu (\u86c7\u4e18), Gang (\u525b), Cheng (\u6210) and Chiping (\u830c\u5e73). The population was 235,897, or 45,689 households."}, {"text": "Mary Brosnan (February 2, 1906 \u2013 January 20, 1988), also known as Mary Brosnan Kratschmer, was an American businesswoman and mannequin designer, winner of the Neiman-Marcus Fashion Award in 1966. Early life. Mary Brosnan was born in 1906 in New York. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent school and studied art at the National Academy of Design school. Career. Brosnan was portrait painter by training. During the Great Depression, she worked as a window dresser, and when the need arose for a more glamorous mannequin, she created one. She and sculptor Kay Sullivan founded Mary Brosnan Inc., in 1941, providing American-made mannequins to stores during World War II, when European mannequins were difficult to import. Brosnan moved her manufacturing from Manhattan to Long Island in 1947. Also in 1947, her company acquired a patent for a self-standing mannequin, requiring no external stand. Her 1948 mannequins became associated with the \"New Look\" of Christian Dior, because they were well-matched in proportions (broad shoulders, slim hips), and Brosnan's mannequins often used in Dior window displays. Brosnan's business was a success, and she was described as one of the \"top American businesswomen\" in a 1958 profile. In 1962, Mary Brosnan Inc., a division"}, {"text": "of D. G. Williams, occupied a 35,000 square-foot plant in Long Island City, with sculptors' studios, casting rooms, drying ovens and other facilities. In 1964 the factory was producing 150-200 mannequins a week. \"I often wonder where the old mannequins end up,\" Brosnan mused in an interview that year. \"Sometimes I imagine there's a big desert somewhere out in Arizona, where they are piled up like used cars.\" Brosnan won the Neiman-Marcus Fashion Award in 1966. \"She is the country's most eminent sculptress of the mannequins seen in store windows,\" explained one report about the award. In 1967 she made the mannequins for a show titled \"The Art of Fashion\" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Brosnan retired after 1973. Personal life. In 1956, Mary Brosnan married a Vienna-born importer, Robert Kratschmer. She died January 20, 1988, aged 81 years, from cancer, in New York."}, {"text": "Balsall Heath West is an electoral ward of Birmingham City Council covering an urban area to the south of Birmingham city centre in the West Midlands, England. The ward was created in 2018 as a result of boundary changes that saw the number of wards in Birmingham increase from 40 to 69. Boundaries. The ward was largely created from the former Sparkbrook ward. Following a review of Westminster parliamentary constituency boundaries, Balsall Heath West was moved from Birmingham Hall Green constituency (with the exception of a small area of housing between Bristol Road and Pershore Road which lay within Birmingham Edgbaston) to Birmingham Ladywood for the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Profile. The ward contains areas of Balsall Heath included in post-war slum clearance regeneration and late Victoria/Edwardian terraces. Whilst the ward does not include Edgbaston Cricket Ground it does include the areas immediately to its north and east, including Calthorpe Park. Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) comprise 83.5% of the ward's total population (compared to Birmingham ward average of 51.4% and England ward average of 19.0%). Pakistanis form the largest ethnic group in Balsall Heath West at 29.2%. Just over half of employed residents (51.1%) are in"}, {"text": "Lower Skilled Occupations, significantly higher than for Birmingham (40.7%) and England (34.1%). As of 2019, Balsall Heath West was ranked in the 10% most deprived wards in England and was the 9th most deprived of Birmingham's 69 wards. Elections results. Councillor Zhor Malik switched from Labour to the Conservatives at a council budget meeting held on 23 February 2022."}, {"text": "Long Beach, California, held an election for mayor on April 8, 2014 and June 2, 2014. It saw the election of Robert Garcia. In winning, Garcia became the first openly gay person to be elected Mayor of Long Beach. Garcia is a Democrat, but was elected without a party affiliation, as municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan. Incumbent Bob Foster was term limited."}, {"text": "Rodrigue Neti (born 28 April 1995) is a French rugby union player. His position is in the prop and he currently plays for Toulouse in the Top 14."}, {"text": "Rogozinski may refer to:"}, {"text": "Samu Pyykk\u00f6nen (born 4 September 1994) is a Finnish professional ice hockey centre currently playing for Hokki in Mestis. Pyykk\u00f6nen made his professional debut for Hokki during the 2012\u201313 Mestis season, playing eight games and scoring one goal. He then became a regular member of the team until 2017 when he joined fellow Mestis team IPK. After two seasons with IPK, Pyykk\u00f6nen returned to Hokki on 21 May 2019."}, {"text": "Tell Qudadi (), also known as Tell esh-Shuna () is an ancient site located near the mouth of the Yarkon River and Reading Power Station in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. It was discovered in 1934 by Jacob Ory and was excavated first by P. L. O. Guy in 1937 and then by Eleazar Sukenik, Shmuel Yeivin and Nahman Avigad in 1937-1938. These revealed a fortress dated to the Iron Age, which the excavators believed was an Israelite fortress built in the 10th or 9th centuries BCE and destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE. However, archaeologists Oren Tal and Alexander Fantalkin have reviewed the preliminary reports of the excavation and its finds and have concluded that the site was actually constructed in the 8th century, during Assyrian rule, and was abandoned ahead of the empire's withdrawal from the country during the late 7th century BCE. Besides the fortress, pottery from the Early Bronze Age, Persian, Byzantine and Early Arab periods was found in the site. Among the pottery found was a Greek jar from the island of Lesbos, the earliest of its kind along the whole Mediterranean coast. A preservation project was carried out in"}, {"text": "2007 by the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the site can now be seen during on the Tel Aviv Promenade. Location. Tell Qudadi is on the northern bank of the Yarkon River, just north of its estuary on the Mediterranean Sea. It is now within the municipal boundaries of the city of Tel Aviv. The site controls an historical trade route passing through the Israeli coastal plain linking Egypt with the Levant. The widest river in the coastal plain, the Yarkon River served during some historical periods as a political, social and cultural border. Tell Qudadi controls the passage on the Yarkon's shallow water and allowed its rulers to monitor trade caravans and also trade ships. From the site, other ancient settlements along the Yarkon River could have been seen, including Giv\u2018at Beth HaMitbachaim, Tell Qasile, Tel Gerisa, Tel Zeton and possibly even Tel Afek. Discovery. Until the mid-20th century, Tell Qudadi was known as a sand hill that rose a couple of metres above sea level. An aerial photograph of the site carried out by the German Air Force during World War I in 1917 showed it was completely covered in sand and soil. During Palestine campaign, the mound was"}, {"text": "used as an Ottoman military stronghold. After the British victory, a war monument was set up by the British to commemorate the battle of the crossing of the Yarkon River. This monument was made of an inscribed marble stone, which was imported from the site of Apollonia\u2013Arsuf, some to the north. Tell Qudadi was discovered for the first time in 1934 by Jacob Ory when he surveyed the region after it was reportedly robbed. It was declared a site of antiquities when it was listed in booklet of addenda to Mandatory antiquities sites. Excavations and date. A trial excavation was conducted in October 1937 on the site by P. L. O. Guy on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. He discovered a wall from the time of the Persian (Achaemenid) rule of the region in the 6th to the 4th centuries BCE as well as Iron Age and Persian pottery. Salvage excavations were carried out by Eleazar Sukenik and Shmuel Yeivin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with the help of Nahman Avigad. The excavation lasted from November 1937 to March 1938 and was funded by Pinhas Rutenberg. Two fortress from the Iron Age, one built atop"}, {"text": "the ruins of the other, were discovered. The site was excavated again in 1941, as part of a preservation plan, and in 1966, before an expansion of the Reading Power Station. As mentioned above, the fortress has two archaeological phases. The first phase, which was securely dated to the late 8th century BCE by Tal and Fantalkin. The walls survived to a maximum height of and were up to wide. The eastern wall was preserved along and the northern wall along . The rest of the walls was probably washed by the sea. The structure was founded on sandstones, and its inner walls were made of mudbricks. The fortress had a central courtyard accessed from the eastern wall. The second phase included a gate accessed by a paved road. Two burnt layers were discovered, which indicated that the fortress had been violently destroyed. Additional pottery from different periods was discovered in the site in a layer of soil on top of the ruins including, the Early Bronze Age III, Persian rule, the Byzantine Empire rule and the Early Arab period. Dating. Yeivin and Avigad disagreed on the date of the construction of the first fortress. In an article published in"}, {"text": "1960, Yeivin maintained that it was established in the 10th century BCE and linked it to biblical Solomon. Avigad who wrote the site's entry in \"The Encyclopedia of Archeological Excavations in the Holy Land\" in 1993 claimed it was established in the 9th century by the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria). As for the second fortress, the archaeologists claimed it was destroyed in the late 8th century, based on layers of destruction that could be seen inside it. They viewed the reason for the destruction to be part of the 732 BCE military campaign of the Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III in the region. The archaeologists also claimed to have found pottery from the 7th century that showed the site continued to be in use after the destruction. This reconstruction of the events was widely accepted by other scholars at the time. However, the final report of the excavation was never published, and some of their assumptions were disputed by the archaeologists Oren Tal and Alexander Fantalkin in a published in study from 2009. Tal and Fantalkin have examined the notes written by the earlier archaeologists and the pottery they had found. They came to the conclusion that the site was settled"}, {"text": "not during the Israelite period but no earlier than the late 8th century BCE (the Assyrian campaign took place in 732 BCE), more than a century after the original date given by Sukenik and Yeivin in the 1930s. Therefore, the fortress was built by the Assyrian rulers or their vassals. It was part of a chain of forts built by the Assyrians along the coast. The absence of pottery characteristic of the end of the 7th century BCE dated the abandonment of the fortress to sometime after 650 BCE, around the time of the Assyrian withdrawal of the country. Their view was further supported by a unique find: a Greek amphora (a type of jar used to store oil), from the island of Lesbos. It is the earliest known Lesbian ceramic work in the whole Mediterranean, which may have reached the site by a trade ship."}, {"text": "Cinema Rialto () is a movie theater built in 1929 in Casablanca, Morocco. It is one of the oldest cinemas in Morocco. History. Construction was completed in 1929 according to the designs of the French architect Pierre Jabin. It was designed to seat 1,350 spectators. Cinema Rialto is symbolic of a time when Casablanca was shaped by a culture of entertainment and recreation. The cinema hosted the premiers of international films and as well as performers such as \u00c9dith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Dizzy Gillespie and others. In 1943, the American entertainer Josephine Baker even performed at the Rialto for American soldiers stationed in Morocco after Operation Torch in World War II. Movie theaters became less important with the spread of technology allowing people to watch movies at home for cheaper, but Cinema Rialto still attracts visitors and tourists. Cinema Rialto was operated and owned by the Bouchentouf family since the 1950s, and was open until 2019. Specifically the movie theater was acquired by Belyout Bouchentouf. Architecture. Cinema Rialto is considered a monument of the Art Deco architecture for which Casablanca is famous, and for that reason it still draws visitors. The cinema holds 1300 seats, of which 400 are on"}, {"text": "the characteristic mezzanine level. Despite the many renovations over the years, the building's architectural style is still considered entirely Art Deco."}, {"text": "Guillaume Marchand (born 5 June 1998) is a French rugby union player. His position is hooker and he currently plays for Lyon in the Top 14. Personal life. Marchand is the younger brother of Julien Marchand, who plays with Stade Toulousain as a hooker. Honours. Club. Toulouse International. France (U20)"}, {"text": "David Idris Zacharias (born 27 December 1972), is a politician, and member representing Idah, Ibaji, Igalamela Ofu federal Constituency in the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives. He holds membership assignment on the House Committees on Appropriation, Ecological Fund and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). In September 2019, he supported a motion calling on Nigeria Boundary Commission to resolve the lingering boundary dispute involving his constituents in Ibaji local council of Kogi State and Enugu Otu in Enugu State. He is a business man with major interest in real estate and CEO Eden Multibiz Project Ltd., an Africa proprietary firm. He is a co-founder and chairman of the board of directors, Maina Court Facility Management Services Ltd and founder David Zacharias Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organization. Early life and education. Zacharias was born in Ejule, a community in Ofu local council area of Kogi State. He attended a missionary school, St. Martins primary school, Ejule. He holds West African School Certificate Examination \u2013 WASCE from Community Secondary School, Ejule, Bachelor of Science \u2013 B.Sc degree in Sociology, University of Abuja, he attended Reforming Leadership institution in Abuja. Political career. In 2015, Zacharias contested for the ticket of All Progressives Congress, APC to"}, {"text": "run for Idah federal Constituency seat in the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives but lost to his opponent at APC primaries. In 2019 he won his party\u2019s ticket and proceeded to win Idah federal Constituency seat in the National Assembly beating then incumbent Emmanuel Egwu of the People's Democratic Party, PDP at the general elections with clear margin of victory. Emmanuel Egwu not satisfied with his defeat challenged the result of the poll at election petition tribunal asking the court to nullify Zacharias\u2019 victory and declare him (Emmanuel Egwu) the winner of the poll. On August 22, 2019 the three-man tribunal sitting in Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court, Abuja unanimously ruled that Zacharias was the rightful winner of the February 2019 poll affirming his electoral victory and struck out Emmanuel Egwu and PDP\u2019s petition. Emmanuel Egwu is challenging the ruling of the tribunal at the court of appeal. Humanitarian services. Zacharias is well known in his community and across Kogi his home state for his selfless services to humanity especially in times of emergency. 2012 flood disaster. During the 2012 flood disaster that ravaged hundreds of communities across 24 states in Nigeria including Kogi State, Zacharias was very visible to"}, {"text": "the victims in his early response providing relief materials to thousands of people sacked by the flood across various communities in Kogi State. To further help cushion the immediate effect of the disaster on the victims he mobilized Life Gate Foundation and Zacharias Foundation which he is the founder and president to mobilise relief materials that were presented to the then Governor Captain Idris Wada for distribution to the victims across the state. Campaign against violent crimes. Zacharias is a vocal voice against anti social vices such as thugery, cultism and other deviant behaviors especially in his native town Ejule. In the build up to 2019 general elections, violent crimes peaked as thugs attacked political campaigns injuring and killing people. In 2015, a youth leader, Abu Jeremiah was reportedly trailed and killed by unknown gunmen. In 2011, a number of people were killed while many others sustained serious injuries following a violent clash between rival political thugs in the town. His efforts in providing self sustainable skills, employment and academic scholarships to the youths who are most vulnerable in getting involved in crimes has seen a drastic reduction in violent crimes in Ejule . David Zacharias foundation. The Zacharias foundation"}, {"text": "is founded to help the less fortunate fellow citizens on the margin of society to give them hope for survival and confidence for the future. The foundation is providing hundreds of scholarships to secondary school students across the four local council areas of Idah, Ibaji, Igalamela and Ofu that make up Idah federal Constituency for over six years. Young women and widows are benefiting from Zacharias foundation by providing them funds to start small scale businesses. The foundation spending show that it has also given funds to health care and sports related charities as well as religious groups"}, {"text": "\"Bleach\" (stylized in all caps) is a song by American hip hop boy band Brockhampton from their third studio album \"Saturation III\" (2017). Composition and lyrics. \"Bleach\" has been described as an \"abstract R&B power ballad with an aching, heartsick climax\". The production features a \"woozy synth line\" of G-funk-esque style, over which Matt Champion and Merlyn Wood perform their verses, before the beat switches to R&B style in the climax. The chorus is performed by Ryan Beatty. The bridge of the song sees a palm muted guitar riff, over which Joba provides \"silky\" falsetto vocals. The outro is performed by Bearface. Critical reception. The song was well received by music critics. Trevor Smith of \"HotNewHipHop\" remarked it \"showcases the strong R&B sensibilities of the group\". Veronica Irwin of \"The Quietus\" wrote \"'Bleach' in particular, with fading, flattening instrumental is stunning, and Beaty's hook, despite all its vagueness about 'the feeling,' has a chest-driven delivery that's absolutely heart wrenching.\" Marcus Blackwell of \"HipHopDX\" considered it one of the songs from \"Saturation III\" that \"effectively highlight a recurring major strength for the collective: relatability.\" \"HotNewHipHop\"s Patrick Lyons commented the closing minute of the song \"feels effortless in contrast with about half"}, {"text": "of \"III\" that feels more calculated than anything from Brockhampton's past.\" \"Clash\"'s Will Rosebury cited it as among the tracks that \"allow each member to express themselves more candidly, without verging on the over-sentimentality of tracks from the first two records.\" \"Live365\" ranked it as their third best song. \"Variety\" placed \"Bleach\" at number six on their list of Brockhampton's 15 best songs."}, {"text": "Abu Solaiman Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter and former cabinet secretary of Bangladesh. Career. Chowdhury joined Bangladesh Administrative Service in 1973. Chowdhury served as Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka and Pabna . He also served as Divisional Commissioner of Dhaka Division, Director Prime Minister's Office and Secretary of Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, President's Office and Cabinet Division. When he was the Secretary of Ministry of Liberation War Affairs he played an important role in shifting the grave of Matiur Rahman from Pakistan to Bangladesh. Besides, Chowdhury also served as Chairman of Bangladesh Privatization Commission and Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation. He also connected with Chattogram Samity in Dhaka. Death. Chowdhury died on 27 September 2019 in United Hospital, Dhaka."}, {"text": "The 1909 Auckland Rugby League season was the league's first ever official season. It celebrated its centenary in 2009. Four representative matches had been played in 1908 as players in Auckland attempted to showcase the new code to both Auckland residents and those elsewhere. First meeting. A meeting of players was held on Monday 12 July where it was decided to call for another meeting the following Monday and to invite all interested parties to attend. The ultimate aim was to form a league. It was also stated that \"three clubs will be formed, two in the city and one at the North Shore\". The meeting was duly held on 19 July at the Chamber of Commerce on Swanson Street. Mr. A.E. Glover, M.P., occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance of around 150 supporters and players. They were to affiliate with the Northern Union and hold a practice match on the following Saturday. \"Mr. R. Eagleton offered the league the use of three suitable playing grounds in Epsom\". The ground was located near Potters Paddock which was later converted into Alexandra Racecourse. Elections for officers were also held with 14 appointments made. North Shore Albions formed. A"}, {"text": "further meeting was held at North Shore on the Wednesday evening at the Council Chambers in Devonport with 40 in attendance, and a club was formed. It was noted that they had the playing numbers for two teams and they had \"taken the pick of the amateur players of the district club\". The club would be called North Shore Albions. On the Thursday night a preliminary meeting was held in the city with 20 players attending with the goal of forming a club that was either a city team or a combination of a city and Ponsonby team, while a Newton club was also aimed to be formed the following week as there was \"considerable dissatisfaction among the members at the management of the Auckland Union\". It was decided to play a match on the Saturday between the North Shore team and the city team. The match was duly played between North Shore and City and resulted in a win to the former by 44 points to 22. Chairman of the league, D.W. McLean spoke with a representative of \"The New Zealand Herald\" and was reported as saying the following; \"no payment would be made for playing, but the men"}, {"text": "when away from home would be recompensed for lost time. They would provide players with uniforms free in order that a team might take the field in a regulation costume, not in varied coloured pants and stockings, as is often seen even in rep. Rugby matches. Their meetings would be open to the press and full information will be given to the public of all moneys received and expended...\". He \"spoke enthusiastically of the possibilities of the new code, from which he contended the rougher elements of rugby had been removed, this providing a game which was full of bright play and sparkling situations. The liability of getting hurt had been greatly reduced by the removal of scrums and line-out play\". It was also reported that several prominent players, questioned about why they had left the Rugby Union game said that \"they were tired of the unequalness of the contests under the present system. There was no sport in being beaten by 61 points to nil as the North Shore seniors were recently by the Ponsonby team\u2026 the management of the Auckland Union was not mindful enough of the clubs\u2019 or players interests\". Ponsonby United born. At a meeting at"}, {"text": "Leys Institute on 30 July the Ponsonby club was formed. There were 50 supporters present with Mr. A Thompson chairing the meeting. Also in attendance were Mr James Carlaw, along with Arthur Carlaw, Charles Dunning, and Jack Stanaway. They called for another meeting to be held the following week to enroll players. They played a match against Newton Rangers on August 21 which they won by 16 points to 6. Representative matches. Auckland played four representative matches, though the first match was still prior to the official formation of the league. They played the New Zealand Maori team, two matches against Taranaki, one against Wellington, and a further match against Rotorua which was a largely junior side. The match versus Wellington on 9 October drew 4,000 spectators and raised \u00a3122 for the Auckland Rugby League. Auckland v NZ Maori. A match was played between Auckland and a New Zealand M\u0101ori team on 10 July which was preparing to depart for a tour of Australia. The Auckland team was victorious by 21 points to 14 in front of a crowd estimated at 3,000. Proceeds from the match were to go towards the formation and establishment of the league. Auckland City Council"}, {"text": "granted use of Victoria Park for the match to be played on Saturday, 10 July. The council allowed for an admission charge \"not exceeding one shilling for each person\u2026 with an extra shilling for every horse or vehicle, and an additional charge not exceeding one shilling for each person for admission to the pavilion\". The Maori team was preparing for a tour of Australia. They had been based in Te K\u016biti with Barclay tutoring the side. He had been a member of the last 'native' team to tour Australia. The Auckland team was preparing hard under the guidance of William Mackrell. Trial Match (Probables v Possibles). A trial match was played to choose the Auckland team to play Taranaki. At the conclusion of the game sole selector William Wynyard chose the Auckland side. It was said that it was \"not a good exhibition\" though to be expected given the circumstances. There was no scoring reported by either the Auckland Star or the New Zealand Herald. Auckland v Taranaki. Taranaki tipped over the home team 8\u20137. On 31 July a trial match was played between A and B teams before William Wynyard selected the representative side to face Taranaki. It was"}, {"text": "an uninspiring encounter, won by the Possible selection 37\u201329. Prior to the representative match a curtain raiser was played between North Shore Juniors and a City side. The match against Taranaki marked the first 'official' Auckland team as it was selected after an actual league had formed despite Auckland teams playing in 1908 while the sport was being established. Auckland v Taranaki. On 12 September a trial match was played at Eagleton's Paddock in Epsom between A and B teams. The A team won by 22 points to 8 with tries for the A team to Arthur Carlaw 2, Fred Jackson, William Mackrell, George Seagar, and Winters, with D Bradburn kicking 2 conversions. While for the B team Smith and Frederick Neighbour scored tries, and Neighbour also kicked a conversion. William Wynyard then selected the team to face Taranaki in New Plymouth and they fared better this time winning by 27 points to 11. Auckland B v Rotorua. An Auckland B travelled to Rotorua to play the local side and was trounced by a much better team filled with M\u0101ori players who had represented them in Australia. The Auckland team was largely a junior side though it did feature several"}, {"text": "more experienced players such as Richard Wynyard, Frank Woodward and Frederick Neighbour. Unfortunately Ferguson broke his leg during the match and had to be taken to the local hospital. The Rotorua side featured Riki Papakura who a week later played for Auckland against Wellington. Auckland representative matches played and scorers. The following list includes the four legitimate representative matches against New Zealand Maori, Taranaki (two matches), and Wellington. The Rotorua match is omitted as it was an Auckland Junior/Auckland XIII selection. James Grundy switched from the Ponsonby rugby club at the end of the season and made one appearance for Auckland. It appears that he did not play either code in the following season. Exhibition matches. North Shore Albions v City Rovers. A photograph of the first ever club rugby league match was published in the New Zealand Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Review publication on August 5. Frank Woodward is seen bending to tackle an on rushing player. It was played at R. Eagleton's Paddock in Epsom which was close to Alexandra Park. The paddock was located near the south west portion of the intersection of Manukau Road and Greenlane West Road. William Wynyard was the captain of the North"}, {"text": "Shore side and both he and his brother Richard were the teams coaches. Alfred Jackson played for North Shore and would go on to represent Auckland 23 times and New Zealand 3 times. Ponsonby United v Newton Rangers. Jack Stanaway (Hone Haira) coached the sides. There was no scoring published for the match as it was considered a practice game. It was reported that F. Lynch, W. Tobin, and Matthews played well in the backs for Ponsonby, with B. Kean, Warner, and Oakley playing well in the forwards. In the Newton side Will Tobin, and Haswell in the backs, and Oliver, Cole, and Curtis were \"conspicuous\" in the forwards."}, {"text": "Caladenia lateritica, also known as white primrose orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to relatively inaccessible, high lateritic plateaux in a high rainfall area in south-western Western Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two white flowers on a thin, sparsely-hairy stem. It is similar to \"Caladenia flava\" but is distinguished by its fragrant white versus yellow flowers with prominent red stripes and spots on the dorsal sepal and lateral petals. \"Caladenia lateritica\" mimics \"Conostylis setosa\" (Haemodoraceae) in terms of flowering time, height, colour and fragrance. It also shares a native bee pollinator with \"Conostylis setosa\", which provides pollen and nectar whereas the orchid is rewardless. Description. \"Caladenia lateritica\" is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with spheroid, annually replaced tubers situated 8\u201315 cm below the soil surface and forming a single, hairy, linear leaf, sometimes with purple veining below, long and wide. There are up to three flowers borne on a slender, sparsely silky-hairy raceme, tall. The sepals and petals are spreading, white with various amounts of red dots and stripes on the dorsal petal and lateral sepals. The dorsal sepal is lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, long."}, {"text": "The lateral sepals spathulate, broadly ovate-lanceolate and petals ovate with a single or sometimes multiple red stripes. The labellum is prominently trilobed with a raised yellow plate near the base of the middle lobe, yellow at the base, with rows of white calli extending from either side of the plate and the lateral lobes suffused with pink, long. The column is curved over the raised central plate, yellow, with prominent, white, lateral wings. This \"Caladenia\" is similar to \"C. flava\" fragrant white versus yellow flowers with prominent red stripes and spots on the dorsal sepal and lateral petals. It is sometimes confused with \"C. flava\" subsp. \"sylvestris\", which flowers later and has sepals and petals that are yellow at the base. Taxonomy and naming. The first formal description of this orchid was by Kingsley Dixon and Maarten Christenhusz in 2018, but the species was initially not adopted by Florabase. However, this was a taxonomic confusion as the two taxa are clearly separated by flower colour, flowering time, pollinators and scent. Distribution and habitat. \"Caladenia lateritica\" is only found on isolated lateritic plateaux south of Dwellingup and north-east of Waroona in south-western Western Australia, often forming extensive pure stands or co-occurring"}, {"text": "with \"Caladenia rosea\". They grow in shallow lateritic regolith that overlay massive bauxite, in open woodland comprising an overstory of jarrah (\"Eucalyptus marginata\"), marri (\"Corymbia calophylla\") and parrot bush (\"Banksia sessilis\"), with an understory of \"Conostylis setosa\", \"Orthrosanthus laxus\", \"Xanthorrhoea preissii\", \"Hypocalymma robustum\", \"Phyllanthus calycinus\" and \"Stylidium\" species. Ecology. \"Caladenia lateritica\" grows with white cottonhead (\"Conostylis setosa\", Haemodoraceae), with which it shares a similar stature, flower colour, scent and flowering time. The widespread and common \"Caladenia flava\" subsp. \"flava\", to which this taxon has similarities, occurs rarely in the shallow soils, open forest and well drained plateau areas where \"C. lateritica\" occurs, indicating that the new taxon has an ecological preference for the unusual geology and climate of these high plateaux. Although the species may have occurred more extensively in the region, much of the suitable habitat of similar topography and geology in the 1000\u20131200 mm rainfall zone have been now mined or are currently being mined."}, {"text": "Talovka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 1,956 as of 2010. There are 22 streets."}, {"text": "G\u00e9bler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Talovka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 161 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Talovka is located 44 km southwest of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yugovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cunniffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Steve Holman may refer to:"}, {"text": "Tataurovo (; , \"Tatuur\") is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 1,810 as of 2010. There are 22 streets. Geography. Tataurovo is located 18 km southwest of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ostrog is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Troitskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 497 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Troitskoye is located 36 km southwest of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Talovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Strange Days is a 2019 jazz album by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The album is recorded in English and Arabic. Singers Joss Stone and Sofiane Sa\u00efdi are featured on the album. Musicians performing on \"Strange Days\" include trumpeter Hayden Powell, pianist Alcyona Mick, drummer Asaf Sirkis, Idris Rahman, and cellist Ivan Hussey. The album was released in digital, CD and LP formats. The track \"Lost Revolutions\" references Atlas' 2011 song, \"Egypt: Rise to Freedom\", released in celebration of Egypt's January 25 Revolution. Production. \"Strange Days\" was recorded in London, Brazil and France and executive produced by Michael Janisch."}, {"text": "Turka (; , \"T\u00fcrkhene\") is a rural locality (a selo) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 1,450 as of 2010. There are 19 streets. Geography. Turka is located on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, by the mouth of the Turka River, north of Lake Kotokel and north of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Goryachinsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khalzanovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 120 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Khalzanovo is located 4 km northeast of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Turuntayevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Cheryomushka () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Cheryomushka is located 79 km north of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kotokel is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yugovo () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 428 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Yugovo is located 41 km southwest of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Talovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Eetu Qvist (born June 10, 1983) is a Finnish former ice hockey centre. Qvist played in the SM-liiga for SaiPa and KalPa between 2003 and 2007, playing a total of 210 games. He then spent the next seven seasons in Sweden, playing in the HockeyAllsvenskan for IK Oskarshamn, IF Bj\u00f6rkl\u00f6ven, Bofors IK and Aspl\u00f6ven HC, as well as in Hockeyettan for IF Sundsvall Hockey. On July 15, 2014, Qvist returned to Finland to sign for Iisalmen Peli-Karhut of the Suomi-sarja for one season before retiring."}, {"text": "Tel Zeton (, also known as Tell Abu Zeitun, is an archaeological site in the Pardes Katz neighborhood of Bnei Brak, Israel. It lies south of the Yarkon River. The mound rises to a height of above its surroundings and spans an area of 2\u20133 dunams (1 acre). The site was inhabited in the Middle Bronze Age and later in the Iron and Persian periods. Jacob Kaplan identified the fortified settlement from the Persian period as a Jewish settlement from the time of the Return to Zion in the 5th century BCE, thanks to an ostracon bearing a Hebrew name which appears in the Hebrew Bible from the time of Nehemiah, a Jewish governor appointed by the Achaemenid Empire to govern the autonomous Jewish province. The site was inhabited as late as the 10th century CE, during the Roman, Byzantine, Early Arab, and Mamluk periods. Tel Zeton was suggested in 1938 as the location of Gath-Rimmon mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Kaplan supported this identification while Benjamin Mazar rejected it. If correct, Tel Zeton should also be identified with two cities mentioned in Egyptian sources from the 14th and 15th centuries BCE. Excavations. The site was excavated four times. The"}, {"text": "first time was by Jacob Kaplan in 1957, on behalf of the Israel Exploration Society, promoted by the Beit Zvi center. The excavation lasted a month and yielded findings of the Persian period and halted upon reaching remains from the Iron Age. In 2000 the site was excavated by Haya Katz and revealed pottery from the Iron Age and the Persian periods. The third excavation was headed by Dor Golan in 2005 and revealed remains from the Middle Bronze Age. The fourth excavation took place in 2015 by Angelina Dagot, west of the site and revealed several installations and pottery from various periods from the Iron Age to the Mamluk rule. History. Bronze Age. The 2005 excavation revealed a settlement layer from the Middle Bronze Age II (early 2nd millennium BC). It was part of a series of settlements along the Yarkon River stretching between the large sites of Tel Gerisa and Tel Afek. Iron Age. Kaplan excavated a fortified Iron Age settlement, dated to the Iron Age II period (1000-538 BCE). In 2015 an excavation revealed that the settlement's agricultural territory extended at least west of the mound, where what seems to be a silo was found. Persian period"}, {"text": "(538 - 332 BCE). After the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Achaemenid Empire in 538 BCE, the region of the coast was administered as a province called \"Dor\". Two archaeological phases for that time were discovered during Kaplan's 1957 excavation. Kaplan identifies this settlement as a Jewish settlement from the time of the Return to Zion. Among the discoveries were a typical Persian-period stamp seal, Persian-styled, and imported Attican pottery. These pottery types are dated to the 5th century BCE. An excavation on the eastern side of the mound has revealed that the settlement was walled and did not cover the entire area of the mound. One significant discovery was an Aramic ostracon which was part of a large jug used to store olive oil or wine. The name \"Hashub\" was incised on the jug and Kaplan asserted it was the name of a household to whom the jug belonged. All appearances of the name in the Hebrew Bible are of a family name from the time of the Return to Zion, equivalent to the time of the early Persian rule when this jug was created. One particular mention in the Book of Nehemiah and the Books of"}, {"text": "Chronicles, is of a man named \"Shmaya Ben Hashub\", of the Merarite clan of the Tribe of Levi, who is among those who resettled Jerusalem and rebuilt its walls in the 5th century BCE, under Persian governor Nehemiah. There are two other examples of Jewish names found in excavations of Persian sites in the territory of Dor. These are Tell Qasile (\"Ashanyahu servant of the King\") and Tel Michal (\"Hanan son of Skwy\"), both in the same geographic region of Tel Zeton. Later periods. The western excavation revealed pottery vessels from the Early Roman period (1st century BCE to 1st century CE), Byzantine period (4th-7th centuries CE), Ayyubid and Abbasid periods (7th-10th centuries CE) and the Mamluk period (12th-16th centuries CE). Kaplan identified modern Muslim graves on the mound. Identification. F\u00e9lix-Marie Abel identified the site in 1938 with Gath-Rimmon, mentioned in the Book of Joshua as a Levite town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan. Gath-Rimmon is listed next to the Yarkon River and the cities of Yahud and Bnei Brak, in the vicinity of the site. It is believed to be the same city mentioned as Knt in the list of cities defeated by Pharaoh Thutmose III"}, {"text": "in the 15th century BCE and also the city of Gimteti, which appears in one of the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE. All of the Hebrew and Egyptian mentions of a city in the region of the Yarkon river by the name of Gath, Gimteti or Knt, suggest that it was an administrative center on the mouth of the Yarkon. Benjamin Mazar rejected Abel's identification of Gath-Rimmon with Tel Zeton and suggested the nearby Tel Gerisa instead because it is bigger than Tel Zeton and therefore more likely to be mentioned by the sources. After Jacob Kaplan's excavation on the site and the discovery of the \"Hashub\" ostracon, he supported Abel's identification, as the discovery of the ostracon may suggests it was resettled by Levites."}, {"text": "Yartsy () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Pribaykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 80 as of 2010. There is 1 street. Geography. Yartsy is located 105 km north of Turuntayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Turka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Mysore."}, {"text": "Riccardo Capellini (born 1 March 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. Club career. Juventus. He joined Juventus in June 2015. He eventually joined their Under-19 side and participated in Campionato Primavera 1 and also 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319 editions of the UEFA Youth League. He was also included for the 2018\u201319 Serie C squad of Juventus U23, but did not see any time on the field for them that season. Loan to Pistoiese. On 22 August 2019, he joined Serie C club Pistoiese on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Pistoiese on 25 August 2019 in a game against AlbinoLeffe, substituting Paolo Dametto in the 69th minute. He made his first start on 1 September 2019 against Pergolettese. Juventus U23. Capellini's first game for Juventus U23 came on 3 October 2020, in a 2\u20131 win over Giana Erminio. Loan to Mirand\u00e9s. On 20 July 2021, Capellini was loaned to Spanish side Mirand\u00e9s in the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. Benevento. On 21 June 2022, Capellini left Juventus to join Benevento."}, {"text": "Baroota Reservoir is a reservoir on the western edge of the southern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. It was built in 1921 to supply additional water to Port Pirie as part of the Beetaloo Reservoir distribution network. The dam is no longer used to supply drinking water, but is maintained as an emergency water source in the event that the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline fails. It is also used for a small amount of irrigation. The reservoir does not fill every year. When completed in 1921, it did not fill to the spillway until 1932. The original spillway was replaced in the mid-1950s and again in 1978. In 2018, Rise Renewables won grant funding of $3 million towards an estimated total cost of to accelerate a proposal to establish a pumped hydro storage facility using Baroota Reservoir. At the time, the government funded the development of several proposals, as South Australia had wind and solar power generation, and grid-connected batteries but no pumped hydro storage. If the project is developed, it is expected to provide between 200 MW and 270 MW with up to eight hours of storage. The proposal would use the Baroota Reservoir as the lower pond and establish a"}, {"text": "new upper reservoir for water to be pumped and stored. Rise Renewables also has a proposal for the Bridle Track Solar Project which could provide electricity to power the pump."}, {"text": "The Khamenei family (Persian: \u062e\u0627\u0646\u062f\u0627\u0646 \u062e\u0627\u0645\u0646\u0647\u200c\u0627\u06cc) or Khamenei dynasty is among the Iranian Azeri Sayyid families who claim to be descendants of the fourth Imam of Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/Arabic: \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u0628\u0646 \u062d\u0633\u06cc\u0646\u060c \u0632\u06cc\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628\u062f\u06cc\u0646) (known as Imam Sajjad) \u2014 according to the \"Khamenei family tree\". Their dwelling place(s) were/are in Azerbaijan (Iran), Najaf, Tafresh, etc. Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, is the most powerful member of the Khamenei political family. His descent, known as \"Sadat-e Hosseini\", is likewise connected to the third Imam, Husayn ibn Ali. An Al-Manar TV documentary broadcast in March 2020 claimed that Khamenei is the 38th descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by his son Hussain Asghar, a son of Imam Sajjad. Seyyed Ali Khamenei's father was Seyyed Javad Khamenei, and his paternal grandfather was Seyyed Hussein, who was buried in Najaf, Iraq (in the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery). Seyyed Hussein's father was Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Tafresshi, who was considered a Sayyid of Aftasi, whose family tree was connected to Sultan-al-Ulama Ahmad (also known as Seyyed Ahmad). Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Tafreshi Khamenei Tabrizi (Persian: \u0633\u06cc\u062f \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u062d\u0633\u06cc\u0646\u06cc \u062a\u0641\u0631\u0634\u06cc \u062e\u0627\u0645\u0646\u0647\u200c\u0627\u06cc \u062a\u0628\u0631\u06cc\u0632\u06cc) was the son of Seyyed Mohamad Taghi, who was the son"}, {"text": "of Mirza Ali-Akbar, who was the son of Seyyed Fakhr-al-Din Tafreshi. The descendants of Seyyed Fakhr-al-Din (also known as Mir-Fakhra) are called Mir-Fakhrayi."}, {"text": "The Johannesburg Reformed Church (GKSA) was the second congregation of the Reformed Churches in Southern Africa (GKSA) on the Witwatersrand after the Krugersdorp Reformed Church (GKSA), founded only a month earlier. On April 1, 1943, the congregation merged with the Johannesburg West Reformed Church (GKSA) (founded on December 13, 1930) and took on the latter's name. On October 22, 1950, Johannesburg West re-seceded and the main Johannesburg congregation was restored, and in 1952 it was renamed to Johannesburg-Mayfair. In 1986, Johannesburg-Mayfair, the Johannesburg East Reformed Church (GKSA) (founded February 29, 1924), and the Johannesburg Central Reformed Church all merged under the Johannesburg Reformed Church (restored) banner, but most of the suburbs that had been part of Johannesburg-Melville stayed in Johannesburg West. In 1997, Johannesburg-Melville was reformed from a merger of Johannesburg (restored) and the Johannesburg North Reformed Church (GKSA) (founded on March 1, 1924). In 1998, Johannesburg West and the Delarey Reformed Church merged as the Bergbron Reformed Church. Finally, Johannesburg-Melville was absorbed by the Randburg Reformed Church (GKSA) in 2002, joined by the Randburg East Reformed Church the following year. Background. The many GKSA members in the Johannesburg area had no congregation of their own for 10 years after"}, {"text": "the city's foundation in 1886. A pastor from Pretoria served the area, where a number of members purchased a few farms on Mint Road in Fordsburg to build a church for \u00a3719. This church was destroyed by a dynamite explosion on February 19, 1896, but the Relief Committee paid the congregation \u00a3750 in compensation. The General Conference of the Transvaal GKSA on March 16\u201317, 1896 in Heidelberg authorized the secession of Krugersdorp and Johannesburg congregations from the Rustenburg Reformed Church (GKSA). On April 25, Krugersdorp's formal foundation ceremony was attended by the Rev. Johannes de Ridder, elders H.P. Steyn and Ammi Venter (Rustenburg); and the Rev. J.L. Murray and elders J.A. Bezuidenhout and G.A. van der Walt (Potchefstroom). The Rev. P.S. Snyman of Heidelberg was chosen as the consulent. Elder S. Potgieter, assigned by the church council to buy farms from the government for a church building, acquired two plots: Vrye Gunst near what is now Piet Retief and Nooitgedacht in the Rustenburg area. Plots 15-17 and 136 were thus bought from the South African Republic (ZAR) government in October 1899. In May 1904, the eight-year-old congregation finally had a functioning church and parsonage, but financial troubles still dogged it,"}, {"text": "and the Krugersdorp council meeting of October 20, 1896, already fielded requests to remerge with the Johannesburg congregation. Johannesburg congregation founding. The Johannesburg congregation was established with 200 confirmed charter members on May 23, 1896. The general conference authorizing its foundation was attended, other than the aforementioned, by the Rev. Petrus Postma and elders R. Turkstra and P.P. Jordaan (absent upon notice) of the Pretoria Reformed Church (GKSA) and the Rev. Snyman (consulent of Krugersdorp) and elders S.J.S. du Preez and W.H. Ackermann. Its size is shown by the founding charter's article 4: \u201cThe Johannesburg congregation includes members living in the following farms and towns: Boksburg, Elandsfontein, Germiston, Rietfontein, Jeppestown, Doornfontein, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Ophirton, Turffontein, Booysens, Langlaagte, Maraisburg, Florida, [and] Auckland Park.\u201d The congregation was divided into four districts led by the following brothers: Tjaart van der Walt, Jacob Petrus Kruger, Petrus Carolus Duvenhage, and Johannes Coetsee (elders); and Johannes Lodewikus Venter, Pieter Stoker, Andries Gerhardus Nienaber, and Louis Stephanus Steyn (deacons). The first pastor candidate interviewed, Rev. Snyman, declined, but the Rev. Marthinus Postma accepted and was invested on August 28, 1897. Church and parsonage construction were the main struggles during the local land rush, and the land of"}, {"text": "the former first church on Mint Road was no exception, ultimately sold with the sites in Fordsburg for \u00a31,050. The rebuilt second church near the old site was built during the lifetime of the Rev. Willem Johannes de Klerk (1875-1943) and would be sold after the Rev. Postma's death in 1926. It served the congregation until the 1930 merger with Johannesburg West. By 1897, the Johannesburg congregation had 350 confirmed and 700 baptized members. At the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, members from Benoni, Brakpan, and Springs also attended the Johannesburg services, giving the Rev. Postma an area stretching around 70 mi (more than 110 km) from Randfontein to Springs. The need for a second pastor had to await the end of the war, though the third GKSA congregation on the Rand was founded in 1905 in Germiston. War years. At the September 9, 1899 church council meeting in Krugersdorp, Rev. Postma and Eld. S. Potgieter agreed to consider the \u201cextraordinary local conditions in light of the war between England and these Republics\u201d while planning communion services for the second Sunday in October. According to the notes, \u201cthe pastor also proposed home visits for October, but the"}, {"text": "Church Council rendered this impractical.\u201d At the December 2, 1899 meeting, half the council was absent as were \u201cmany of the brethren\u201d in the congregation on the battlefield. The notes started in article 2 that \u201cthe pastor expounded on the war that had broken out in the month of October between England and the two Republics \u2013 the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.\u201d The council decided to have congregation members appointed to serve in the stead of enlisted councilors. However, these could rarely be secured, and there would be no meetings between March 30, 1900 and November 8, 1901, while the Rev. Postma would not return until June 2, 1903. Some congregation members became POWs in Ceylon and Portugal. Among those was the Rev. Postma, who was released on parole after more than two years of captivity, but he stayed in East London to support his family teaching. \u201cBy the grace of God\u2019s benevolence,\u201d as the council notes put it, the Rev. Dirk Postma, Jr. of Rustenburg was on hand in Krugersdorp to minister to the locals as well as prisoners at the concentration camp in town, who hailed from Pretoria, Griqualand West, Heidelberg, and Rustenburg. The"}, {"text": "Krugersdorp council lent money to internees, beginning to donate it outright as conditions deteriorated. Rev. Marthinus Postma, however, was sent abroad for refusing a loyalty oath. The December 27, 1902 council notes report: The pastor asked the brother elders as the year neared an end if spiritual life in the church made progress, stagnated, or declined. A wide-ranging, quiet, serious discussion ensued. The elders concluded that the rod of war had made some more humble and receptive to the word of the Lord and salvation in Jesus Christ. However, the elders also generally concluded that the spiritual state of the congregation left much to be desired. Spiritual life could not possibly withstand such heavy divine wrath as the recent war; worldly and frivolous pursuits tempt many in this seductive world, and there is not enough love and unity among the worshipers themselves or that fire and zeal and interest in the affairs of God's eternal kingdom that should be there. In dire financial straits, the church sold valuable possessions. Only the taxes could be paid on the new church building of the Johannesburg congregation when it opened in 1903. Banks ran low, and while farms burned and livestock grew lean,"}, {"text": "city-dwellers made meager wages save for a few of the miners crawling deep underground in dry, unventilated mines. The Transvaal Colony Repatriation department offered a \u00a31,200 loan to the congregation, which was rejected at the January 26, 1904 meeting as shifting government obligations onto the church. After the war, people moved in greater numbers to cities, particularly Johannesburg, once more. This grew the congregation to the point where the building on Mint Road (south of Main Street) had become too small and was sold for \u00a33,000, to be replaced in 1903 by the edifice north of Main (now Albertina Sisulu Road) costing \u00a33,750. Growth years. At the beginning of 1904, the Krugersdorp-Johannesburg merger came to an end. On January 14, 1905, Dirk Postma of the Burgersdorp Theological Seminary, the eldest son of Rev. M. Postma, was invested by his father as pastor of Krugersdorp. 16 months later, however, the younger Rev. Postma left to head the Burgersdorp Reformed Church (GKSA). His cousin Dirk du Plessis (likewise a grandson of the elder Dirk Postma) became consulent for several years and later pastor in Krugersdorp. In 1904, the Rev. M. Postma left the Rand for Pretoria, replaced by the Rev. De Klerk"}, {"text": "(Heidelberg Seminary, 1903-1904), who also served as consulent in Krugersdorp along with Totius after the latter left Potchefstroom. In 1907, Rev. De Klerk left for the Aliwal North Reformed Church (GKSA), and in 1908 the Krugersdorp congregation was folded into the Johannesburg one once more. After many interviews, the Rev. M. Postma (who had since moved from Pretoria to the Waterberg Reformed Church (GKSA)) returned for a second stint to end an 18-month vacancy, serving this time until his death. He served Krugersdorp until the final and permanent separation in 1910. Further expansion forced the Transvaal General Conference to found a third congregation, Germiston, in March 1905. The first consulent, the Rev. H.J.R. du Plessis, had spent 11 years serving Germiston and Bethal after the Rev. J.C. van der Walt was hired. Afrikaners made up an increasing share of the local mining workforce from 1909 onward, thus swelling the ranks of the GKSA on the Rand. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, tensions ran high and many members ended up in prisons and camps or paying fines for participating in armed uprisings. The arrival of the Rev. J.V. Coetzee. In June 1915, proponent J.V. Coetzee became the"}, {"text": "curate of Johannesburg. He described his acclimation there as follows: I had accepted the position of curate of Johannesburg and came to start work in June 1915, just after a frenzied mob there had looted and burned German stores and businesses, intercepted subsequently by a pickaxe- and club-wielding assembly of Boer commandoes by the subway station. Many of the congregation members were in that militia protecting the Fordsburg-Vrededorp line, and continued to keep a close eye on things. In December 1918, after several interviews with other applicants, Rev. Coetzee was invested as co-pastor of Johannesburg, a rarity in the GKSA necessitated by the unique conditions in town. There was precedent in the Netherlands, however. The Rev. Coetzee stated: \u201cas far as I know, it was the first time in the history of our church that a congregation had two pastors, except for the early years of the Seminary in Burgersdorp when one of them was a school docent reimbursed by the congregation for part of his salary.\u201d There were thus now four pastors on the Rand, including the two in Johannesburg and the ones in Krugersdorp and Germiston. From 1919\u20131923, the Rev. J.H. Boneschans served as pastor of Germiston, succeeding"}, {"text": "J.C. van der Walt after the latter left for the Piet Retief Reformed Church (GKSA). The Germiston congregation now covered the entire East Rand from Germiston to near Springs. The peaceful cooperation of the four pastors (the Revs. M. Postma, D.P. du Plessis, Coetzee, and Boneschans), their council colleagues, and the congregations at large belied tensions that arose once more at the end of 1921. The Rand Rebellion. The Rand Rebellion of 1922 had a major impact on the congregations of the Rand. The Rev. Coetzee, an eyewitness to the Rebellion, wrote the following: The widespread labor unrest in 1921 that culminated in 1922 in armed conflict on the streets of Johannesburg greatly disrupted church life on the Witwatersrand. Many members spent months out of work, and church finances were severely strained. Collections fell sharply and pastors\u2019 estates fell into arrears. When the dust settled, a large share of the congregation was in prison or interned in Wanderers Stadium. Nearly all males in Fordsburg, Vrededorp, and Newlands were held on that cricket ground. Authorities spent days apprehending people. Heavily tried by the crisis, the Germiston congregation took on the Rev. D. Rumpff of the Heidelberg Reformed Church (GKSA) as co-pastor."}, {"text": "From 1924\u20131927, the Rev. Philippus de Klerk worked in Germiston, since the Rev. Boneschans had left for the Venterstad Reformed Church. Founding of new congregations. The western suburbs of Johannesburg were showing significant growth, including the founding of new districts, just as much as the East Rand. The Johannesburg East and North congregations seceded at the beginning of 1924 under the joint pastorate of Rev. Coetzee while Rev. M. Postma continued to lead the mother church until his death in 1926, when he was replaced by Rev. W.J. de Klerk for the second time. At the beginning of 1925, Johannesburg East and North got their own pastors, East sharing Rev. T.T. Spoelstra with Bethal and North hiring F.P.J. Snyman away from the Molteno Reformed Church (GKSA). The Rev. Snyman would work at Johannesburg North until his death on August 15, 1945. Two more congregations arose on the Rand in 1926, namely the Brakpan Reformed Church (GKSA) on the East Rand and the Vereeniging Reformed Church (GKSA) westward, the latter of which would eventually be considered part of the Rand Ring. Four years later, in 1930, arose the Johannesburg South Reformed Church (GKSA) and Johannesburg West; in 1935, so did the"}, {"text": "Benoni Reformed Church (GKSA) and the Springs Reformed Church (GKSA); in 1936 came the Boksburg Reformed Church (GKSA); in 1938 followed Delmas Reformed Church (GKSA), another Rand Ring congregation; and 1939's foundation of the Alberton Reformed Church (GKSA) and 1942's establishment of the Florida Reformed Church (GKSA) rounded out the pre-war set. From 1950 to 1954, the following joined them: the Buffeldoorns Reformed Church (1949); the Linden Reformed Church (GKSA) (1950); the Randfontein Reformed Church (GKSA) (1950); the Vanderbijlpark Reformed Church (GKSA) (1951); the Carleton Reformed Church and Johannesburg Central Reformed Church (1953); the Delarey Reformed Church (1954); and the Krugersdorp West Reformed Church (GKSA) (1954). Church operations. Concerned with reports of declining attendance in the GKSA area, Rev. Spoelstra began emphasizing missionary work, first enlisting the local Dorcas society to distribute more literature in hospitals. At a meeting of the General Conference of Rand Missionaries in 1929, concerns were raised that non-GKSA literature was being distributed while the Church itself remained \u201csilent on our Reformed principles.\u201d Unchurched Afrikaners thus remained a major concern. Therefore, the Johannesburg Central congregation was founded in 1952 in the city center to, in its founders\u2019 words, \u201cactively evangelize among the stray children of the"}, {"text": "covenant who have lost all contact with the church in the impersonal city spirit.\u201d Poor attendance of members there remained a major concern, however, at around 27% for morning services and 15% for evening ones. The GKSA actively pursued missionary work elsewhere on the Rand. Starting in 1950, Rev. Hugo du Plessis, missionary pastor of Johannesburg North, ministered to the black townships west of the city. Other area congregations supported the work, as did the Rev. J.A. Schutte of Johannesburg North. In 1955, the Moroka missionary congregation already boasted 515 members. The Rev. Du Plessis, who would be succeeded by Rev. P.G. Geertsema, began training black pastors and assistants in January 1956, leading to the foundation of the independent Dube congregation in November 1957. Congregations past and present. The following 11 GKSA congregations have existed in the Johannesburg area: The following 5 remain:"}, {"text": "Federico Veiroj (born 1976 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Veiroj studied communications at the UCUDAL. Two of his films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film."}, {"text": "The 1997 IAAF Grand Prix was the thirteenth edition of the annual global series of one-day track and field competitions organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The series consisted of three levels: IAAF Grand Prix, IAAF Grand Prix II, and finally IAAF Permit Meetings. There were seventeen Grand Prix meetings and eleven Grand Prix II meetings, making a combined total of 28 meetings for the series from 20 February to 7 September. An additional 15 IAAF Outdoor Permit Meetings were attached to the circuit. Performances on designated events on the circuit earned athletes points which qualified them for entry to the 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final, held on 13 September in Fukuoka, Japan. Danish-Kenyan runner Wilson Kipketer was the winner of the overall men's title with 114 points, while Germany's Astrid Kumbernuss topped the women's rankings with 99 points in the discus throw. Meetings. Key:"}, {"text": "The 1899\u20131900 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1899\u20131900 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his first season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Caladenia rosea is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to relatively inaccessible, high lateritic plateaux in a high rainfall area in south-western Western Australia. It is a terrestrial orchid with a single hairy leaf and up to three pink flowers on a thin, sparsely-hairy stem. It is similar to \"Caladenia flava\" but is distinguished by the perianth being pink to dark pink with prominent red striping and spotting on the dorsal sepal and lateral petals. \"Caladenia rosea\" mimics \"Hypocalymma robustum\" (Myrtaceae) in terms of flowering time, colour and scent. Description. \"Caladenia rosea\" is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with spheroid, annually replaced tubers situated 8\u201315 cm below the soil surface and forming a single, hairy, linear leaf, tinged purple and usually with darker purple veining below, long and wide. There are up to three flowers borne on a slender, fine, sparsely silky-hairy raceme, tall, with a bract in halfway up the stem. The sepals and petals are spreading, pink throughout with various amounts of deeper pink dots and stripes. The dorsal sepal is linear to ovate lanceolate, long. The lateral sepals spathulate to ovate-lanceolate and petals ovate usually with a single darker pink stripe. The labellum"}, {"text": "is prominently trilobed with a raised yellow plate near the base of the middle lobe, yellow at the base, with rows of white calli extending from either side of the plate and the lateral lobes suffused with pink, long. Column is curved over the raised central plate, yellow with prominent white lateral wings. Taxonomy and naming. The first formal description of this orchid was by Kingsley Dixon and Maarten Christenhusz in 2018, but the species was initially not adopted by Florabase. It was confused for the hybrid \"C. \u00d7 spectabilis\", which does occur in the area, but has orange flowers and occurs in very small numbers, whereas this species is fertile and is known from larger populations. Distribution and habitat. \"Caladenia rosea\" grows sympatrically with \"Caladenia lateritica\" in shallow lateritic regolith that overlays massive bauxite. The open jarrah (\"Eucalyptus marginata\") and marri (\"Corymbia calophylla\") woodland has an understory of \"Banksia sessilis\", \"Conostylis setosa\", \"Hypocalymma robustum\", \"Orthosanthus laxus\", \"Xanthorrhoea preissii\", \"Phyllanthus calycinus\" and \"Stylidium\" species. Ecology. \"Caladenia rosea\" is putatively mimicking flowers of the Swan River myrtle (\"Hypocalymma robustum\"), which has a similar colour and scent. We assume that this orchid is pollinated by the same insects as \"Hypocalymma robustum\" (probably"}, {"text": "native bees). As for \"Caladenia lateritica\", \"C. rosea\" is restricted to the shallow soils overlaying massive bauxite in a confined, high rainfall region that is now subject to strip mining for bauxite. The species is therefore threatened with extinction."}, {"text": "K\u00e9vin Monzialo Bokolo (born 28 July 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Dutch club Den Bosch. Born in France, he plays for the Congo national team. Club career. Juventus. Monzialo joined Juventus from Stade Malherbe Caen in August 2018. On 18 April 2019 he made his professional debut in Serie C for Juventus U23 in a game against Gozzano, substituting Nicol\u00f2 Pozzebon in the 85th minute. Loan to Grasshoppers. On 16 August 2019, he joined Swiss club Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich on a season-long loan with an option to buy. Lugano. On 12 October 2020, he was loaned to Swiss club Lugano. The transfer was made permanent on 22 January 2021. Loan to St. P\u00f6lten. On 19 January 2022, Monzialo joined St. P\u00f6lten in Austria on loan. Den Bosch. On 5 August 2024, Monzialo signed a two-year contract with Den Bosch in the Netherlands. International career. Born in France, Monzialo is of Congolese descent. He is a youth international for France. He was called up to the Congo national team for a set of friendlies in September 2022. He debuted with the Congo in a friendly 3\u20133 tie with Madagascar on 24 September 2022."}, {"text": "Brian L. Ott is professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Texas Tech University Press (TTUP) at Texas Tech University. He is an author and communications expert in the field of study of rhetoric and media. Ott earned his bachelor's degree from George Mason University, a master's degree and PhD from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a contributor for Newsweek, Salon, The Hill, USA Today and other publications."}, {"text": "Enrico Masseroni (20 February 1939 \u2013 30 September 2019) was an Italian Roman Catholic archbishop. Masseroni was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1963. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mondovi, Italy, from 1987 to 1996 and as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vercelli, Italy, from 1996 to 2014."}, {"text": "Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington (22 April 1825 \u2013 29 April 1901), was a British soldier and landowner. Early life. Barrington was born in London on 22 April 1825. He was the second son of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, and his wife the Hon. Jane Elizabeth Liddell, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. His elder brother was George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, MP. His younger brothers were diplomat Sir William Barrington and civil servant Sir Eric Barrington, and among his sisters were Hon. Caroline Barrington (wife of James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton) and Hon. Augusta Barrington (wife of the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York). Like his father and elder brother, Barrington was educated at Eton College. Career. Barrington served as an officer in the Rifle Brigade, and Scots Fusilier Guards from 1841 to 1845. In 1864, he succeeded Philips Cosby Lovett, of Liscombe House, as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, serving for a year until Nathaniel Grace Lambert of Denham Court became the next Sheriff. After his brother's death at Grimsthorpe Castle, in November 1886, Percy succeeded in his titles (and in the barony of Shute which was created in the Peerage"}, {"text": "of the United Kingdom in 1880 according to the special remainder for Percy's benefit). Personal life. On 3 July 1845, Barrington was married to Louisa Higgins, the only daughter and heiress of Tully Higgins. Together, they had three children: His wife died on 17 May 1884 before he succeeded to his titles. Lord Barrington died on 29 April 1901 at Westbury Manor. He was buried on 3 May 1901 at St. Peter's Churchyard in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. Descendants. Through his daughter Edith, he was a grandfather of Gerald Robarts, a British Army officer, banker, and leading squash rackets player. He was a director of Coutts & Co. until 1931. Through his daughter Alice, he was a grandfather of Evelyn Mary Campbell, who married Hubert Eaton (son of the Charles Ormston Eaton), and Sir Archibald Henry Campbell, who married Hon. Beryl Dawnay (daughter of Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe and granddaughter of Charles Molyneux, 3rd Earl of Sefton)."}, {"text": "The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design flourished in Paris from about 1895 to 1914, reaching its high point at the 1900 Paris International Exposition. with the Art Nouveau metro stations designed by Hector Guimard. It was characterized by a rejection of historicism and traditional architectural forms, and a flamboyant use of floral and vegetal designs, sinuous curving lines such as the whiplash line, and asymmetry. It was most prominent in architecture, appearing in department stores, apartment buildings, and churches; and in the decorative arts, particularly glassware, furniture, and jewelry. Besides Guimard, major artists included Ren\u00e9 Lalique in glassware, Louis Majorelle in furniture, and Alphonse Mucha in graphic arts, It spread quickly to other countries, but lost favor after 1910 and came to an end with the First World War. History. The Maison de l'Art Nouveau (1895). Art Nouveau had first appeared in Brussels, in houses completed in 1893 by Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, and Henry van de Velde, but it quickly appeared in other forms in Paris. It was introduced by the Franco-German art dealer and publisher Siegfried Bing, who wished to break down the barriers between traditional museum art and decorative art. In 1891, he had founded"}, {"text": "a magazine devoted to the art of Japan, which helped publicize Japonism in Europe. In 1892, he organized an exhibit of seven artists, among them Pierre Bonnard, F\u00e9lix Vallotton, \u00c9douard Vuillard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Eug\u00e8ne Grasset which included both more traditional gallery paintings and paintings designed especially for decoration. The Swiss\u2013French artist Grasset was already making early posters in the Art Nouveau style in 1893. In 1895, Bing opened a new gallery at 22 rue de Provence in Paris, the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, devoted to works in both the fine and decorative arts. The interior and furniture of the gallery were designed by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde. The \"Maison de l'Art Nouveau\" showed paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec, glass from Louis Comfort Tiffany and \u00c9mile Gall\u00e9, jewelry by Ren\u00e9 Lalique, and posters by Aubrey Beardsley. Bing wrote in 1902, \"Art Nouveau, at the time of its creation, did not aspire in any way to have the honor of becoming a generic term. It was simply the name of a house opened as a rallying point for all the young and ardent artists impatient to show the modernity of their tendencies.\" A change in the"}, {"text": "municipal laws and the Facade competition (1898\u20131902). One great limitation on the architecture of Paris at the end of the 19th century was a law, dating to the 1607 but still in effect in 1900, limitling the height and ornament on the facades and forbidding any elements of architecture that protruded over the sidewalk below. This was done to allow greater light to the narrow streets and to prevent pieces of masonry falling on the street below. Exceptions were often made, but the law greatly limited the freedom of architects. The second great limit imposed on architects was the design system put in place by city planner Baron Haussmann, which was immediately relaxed upon his death in 1891. In 1897, the Administration of Paris launched a competition, first for the Rue R\u00e9aumur and subsequently extending to the entire city in 1898, awarding prizes to the six most original facades, in the Concours de fa\u00e7ades de la ville de Paris. One of the winners in 1898 was Hector Guimard's Castel B\u00e9ranger, the first Art Nouveau residence in Paris. In 1902 the director of public works of Paris, Louis Bonnier, announced a reform of the law, which followed the model of other"}, {"text": "European cities. The new rules, put into effect in 1902, used proportionality as the standard; the wider the street, the higher the buildings could be, and the more variety of architecture and ornament the architects could use on the facade. The Paris Universal Exposition (1900). The Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 marked the summit of Art Nouveau in Paris, bringing together many of the artists and designers who pioneered the style, and making the style known to the forty-eight million visitors to the Exposition. Art Nouveau architecture was highlighted in the interiors of the two major pavilions of fine arts, the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais. It was also prominent in the Palace of Decorative Arts, where works of Louis Majorelle and Ren\u00e9 Lalique, Daum, and other French designers were displayed. The Paris M\u00e9tro, completed shortly after the Exposition opened, featured the Art Nouveau edicules designed for the stations by Hector Guimard. Architecture. Hector Guimard's residential buildings. The residential architecture of Art Nouveau or \"Modern Style\", as it was also known, was a reaction against the electric and historical styles that dominated Paris in the Belle \u00c9poque. A majority of the buildings in the new style were constructed in"}, {"text": "the wealthy 16th arrondissement. The first was the Castel B\u00e9ranger (1895\u201398) by Hector Guimard, built shortly after he visited Brussels, met Paul Hankar and toured the H\u00f4tel Tassel, the town house completed by Victor Horta in 1893, and which had a major impact on his style. Many of the details of the Castel B\u00e9ranger were Neo-Gothic in inspiration, including the gable windows and rain gutters. It was assembled with a multitude of materials and colors, including stone, brick and iron, and with a boldness of imagination, including curling vegetal and floral designs in wrought iron decoration around the doors and windows. The building won the competition for the best facade in Paris in 1898, and, along with his own astute marketing, launched Guimard's career. He became the most famous of Art Nouveau architects. Late in the period, between 1909 and 1912, Guimard designed a residence and studio for himself, as well as a painting studio for his wife. the H\u00f4tel Guimard at 122 Avenue Mozart (16th arrondissement). This building represented his less exuberant and more refined later style, as did the H\u00f4tel Mezzara (1910), (60, rue de La Fontaine, (16th). Other notable Guimard buildings in Paris include the early H\u00f4tel"}, {"text": "Delfau (1895), at Rue Molitor (16th), and the later H\u00f4tel Jass\u00e9d\u00e9 (1903\u20131905) at 142 Avenue de Versailles (16th), notable for its striking asymmetric angle on the corner. The H\u00f4tel Mezzara, (1910) at 60 rue de La Fontaine ((16th) was more classical in style, but also had an interesting asymmetric wing and his characteristic curves, arches, and floral wrought iron designs. He also designed an Art Nouveau synagogue in 1913 (see religious buildings). He designed a number of other buildings just before and after World War I which were not in the Art Nouveau style. Guimard's M\u00e9tro stations. Between 1896 and 1904, Hector Guimard designed the Paris M\u00e9tro station entrances, using the sinuous floral and vegetal designs that became an emblem of the style. They were prefabricated for easier installation, and one hundred and forty coverings were put into place. Most were installed in 1900. Nearly all were removed a few years later, but many were recreated in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Only two of the original edicules from 1900 are still in use; one is Abbesses (Paris M\u00e9tro) station. It was originally at H\u00f4tel de Ville (Paris M\u00e9tro) but was moved to its present location in the"}, {"text": "1970s. The other is at Porte Dauphine (Paris M\u00e9tro). It is the only edicule still in use and still at its original location. Jules Lavirotte and Alfred Wagon \u2013 the Ceramic facade (1901). Next to Hector Guimard, the Paris architect most closely associated with Art Nouveau was Jules Lavirotte. He is best known for a group of several buildings in the 7th arrondissement, particularly the Lavirotte Building at 29 Avenue Rapp (7th arrondissement), completed in 1901, and a winner of the Paris facade competition in that same year. The particular feature of the building is the lavish ceramic sculptural ornament on the facade, which was intended as an advertisement for the Paris ceramics firm of Alexandre Bigot. Lavirotte made another extravagant facade in the same neighborhood, at 3 Square Rapp (7th arr.) and another, the so-called \"Ceramic Hotel\" on the other side of the Seine, at 34 Avenue de Wagram (8th around.) (1905) This building was a facade competition winner in 1905. The exuberant style of Lavirotte was pushed even further by architect Alfred Wagon, who is best known for the building at 24 Place \u00c9tienne Pernet (15th arrondissement), made for a building contractor named Duroc, and covered with sculpted"}, {"text": "vegetation. It is considered one of the most extravagant examples of Art Nouveau in Paris. Office buildings. The architect Frantz Jourdain was best known for the La Samaritaine Department store, but also designed office buildings in the later, more moderate Art Nouveau style. It was often blended with neo-classicism and other Belle-Epoque styles. It was used by companies which wanted to show they were modern, but would not take any risks. One example is the La Semeuse Building (1912), Frantz Jourdain for the offices of La Semeuse de Paris, the financial institution that provided credit to the La Samritaine department store. Much of the building has been modernized, but the entrance features an Art Nouveau door and ironwork and stained glass windows by the architect's son. Department stores and shops. The Paris department stores were early showcases of the Art Nouveau style, particularly in their interior galleries. Since gas lighting risked fires, and the reliable tungsten filament for electric light bulbs was not available before 1902, The buildings ere illuminated by large glass skylights over circular courtyards, ringed by galleries open to the courtyard. The most famous example is the Galeries Lafayette department store on Boulevard Haussmann, built by architect"}, {"text": "Georges Chedanne and his pupil Ferdinand Chanut. The building was begun in 1895, and the central dome and Art Nouveau staircases accessing it we're completed in 1912. Two later interior courtyards were destroyed in earlier remodeling, but the central courtyard, with its colorful glass cupola, has been restored, along with the Art Nouveau stairways. The department store La Samaritaine at 13 rue de la Monnaie (1st arr.) on the right bank of the Seine, was designed Frantz Jourdain and opened in 1905. It had a stylized Art Nouveau exterior and glass-covered interior court. A second building in Art Deco style by Henri Sauvage was added in 1926. The original building was entirely remodeled in 2018, while preserving the Art Nouveau facades and some of the elements of the interior. The style was also used in a number of smaller Paris shops, though few survive in their original form. One shop, the jewelry shop of designer Georges Fouquet, with an interior by graphic artist Alphonse Mucha, is now found in the Carnavalet Museum of the history of Paris. Churches. Several churches were built in Paris which incorporated Art Nouveau features, usually combined with other styles, including neo-Gothic. The most notable example"}, {"text": "of Art Nouveau-Gothic is the \u00c9glise Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre (1894). The architect was Anatole de Baudot, a follower of Viollet-le-Duc, a professor of French architecture at the School of Chaillot, which trained experts in historical restoration, and professor of medieval architecture at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts. Following the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc, he used modern materials, including an iron frame interior, combined with sculpture by Pierre Roche and ceramic tiles by Alexandre Bigot, who tiles were used in the facades of many Art Nouveau buildings. The open interior with its iron columns and arches was a strikingly modern. Furniture \u2013 Hector Guimard and the Nancy School. Furniture was another important domain of the Art Nouveau. In some cases the architects themselves designed the furniture to match the exterior and interior decoration of the house, based on sinuous and curving lines and other forms based upon nature. This was the case of the H\u00f4tel Guimard, the residence of Hector Guimard. The objective of both architects and furniture designers was to create a style which was different from the predominant neoclassical and Beaux-Arts styles which were dominant before Art Nouveau. Sometimes the Art Nouveau furniture and other decorative objects resembled the Rocaille or Rococo style"}, {"text": "of the reign of Louis XV, with its curving floral and vegetal designs, particularly in table legs, drawer handles and other ornament. The weakness of the Art Nouveau furniture style was that, since the furniture matched the decoration and architecture of the room, the furniture could not be changed or added to without disrupting the harmony of the room. This was one reason why the popularity of Art Nouveau decoration was short-lived. Louis Majorelle was another major figure in Art Nouveau furniture design. His house and workshops were in Nancy in Lorraine, but he also had a large residence and showroom in Paris, and he was a leading participant in all of the major expositions and salons of the period. Majorelle's furniture pieces were hand-made individually, rarely in a series, and used expensive and exotic materials. The Cabinet by Louis Majorelle illustrated in the gallery below, from about 1900\u20131910, (now in the Dallas Museum of Art) is crafted of mahogany, oak and walnut, with inlays of exotic hardwoods. combined with handles and other decoration of bronze. Eug\u00e8ne Vallin was another important figure in Art Nouveau furniture. Like Majorelle, his workshop was in Nancy, and he and Majorelle were founders of"}, {"text": "the \u00c9cole de Nancy, a group of artisans who created the distinctive Nancy style of art Nouveau, which became popular in Paris. In the second part of the Art Nouveau period, from 1900 until 1914, Majorelle and most of the members of the Nancy School modified the Art Nouveau style, making it less ornate, with cleaner lines and simpler forms, Glassware. Much of the Art Nouveau glassware in Paris came from the city of Nancy, in Lorraine, in eastern France. That city was the home of the workshops of \u00c9mile Gall\u00e9 and of the Daum Studio, and had a large number of skilled craftsmen. Daum specialized in lead glass or crystal, which it made by a traditional Glass casting process. Art Nouveau glassware preceded Art Nouveau in other media; floral vases and cups by the Daum Studio were displayed as early as the 1889 Paris Exposition. The glassware from Nancy was one of the major features at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It predominantly featured the same motifs as the furniture and other media; flowing lines and floral designs, with rich colors. The Daum process often involved modeling the glass while it was hot, and adding polychrome powdered enamels which vitrified"}, {"text": "on the surface. The handle was molded and added while it was hot. Ceramic art. Ceramic sculpture and objects were an important component of Paris Art Nouveau. Ceramic tiles and decoration were featured on the facades of buildings, and appeared as works of sculpture. A major ceramics workshop had been founded in Paris by the Alsacian Th\u00e9odore Deck in the 1870s. He began to create works based on floral patterns and Japanese designs and techniques. Technical developments advanced under his pupil, Edmond Lachenal, who used bright polychrome glazes. Other important figures in ceramic arts included Auguste Delaherche, Cl\u00e9ment Massier, and Jean Carri\u00e8s. The ceramics manufacturer Alexandre Bigot was a major figure in Paris ceramics. His pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (1900) was entirely covered in ceramic sculpture on classical and Art Nouveau themes, including bicycles. The Pavilion was demolished at the end of the Exposition, but many of the decorations were preserved. His ceramics also lavishly covered the facades of the Paris houses designed by Jules Lavirotte. Metalwork and sculpture. Decorative ironwork and metal sculpture were important elements of Art Nouveau, used in the decoration of facades, in small statues and in the handles and other ornament on furniture. One"}, {"text": "of the most versatile artists was the painter and bronze sculptor Georges de Feure. Born in Belgium, he moved to Paris, and became a lead designer for Art Nouveau gallery owner Siegfried Bing. Besides metal work, He designed furniture, wrote for newspapers, and created stage sets and posters for the Le Chat Noir cabaret. His work was featured at the Exposition Universelle de Paris, and in 1901 he was named a Chevalier de la L\u00e9gion d'honneur for his contribution to the decorative arts. Examples of his work can be found at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris. Jewelry. Art Nouveau jewelry, modelled after natural and floral forms, was particularly popular. One classic example is the Cascade Pendant designed by Alfons Mucha and made by Fouquet, now on display at the Petit Palais. It represents a cascade of opals, diamonds and slightly misshapen, or \"Barocco\", pearls, along with gold and enamel. He used opals because of their delicate pale color and misshapen pearls to offer unusual but more natural forms. He also employed circles of tiny diamonds around larger stones to frame and highlight them. The interior of his jewelry shop, designed by Mucha, is now on display at the"}, {"text": "Carnavalet Museum. The Fouquet firm, headed by Georges Fouquet, and its jewelers borrowed from many different periods and styles. Most subjects for jewelers were taken from the natural world, including peacocks, butterflies and dragonflies, and flowers. Others were drawn from mythology, or figures of mermaids, themes, butterflies, and mermaids, they also sometimes drew inspiration from the art of Ancient Egypt, China and Japan. One distinctive feature of Art Nouveau jewelry was that the value of the piece did not depend primarily upon the value of the precious jewels or gold used, as in traditional jewelry. Many of the materials used were semiprecious and oddly-shaped stones and pearls. The value was determined by the imagination and the reputation of the designer. Mucha and other Art Nouveau illustrators often collaborated with jewelers, Eug\u00e8ne Grasset, best known for his theatrical posters and magazine illustrations, made designs for objects ranging from combs to belt buckles created by Paris jewelers. Ren\u00e9 Lalique, best known for glass art, was also a major figure in Paris Art Nouveau jewelry design. Like Fouquet, he combined more traditional materials, such as diamonds and emeralds, with semi-precious stones, amber, ivory, pearls, enamels, horn and other natural materials to create original"}, {"text": "and imaginative forms. He also used cabochons, which were convex, polished gemstones, rounded rather than faceted. He particularly created diadems and pendants in the form os plants, insects, and mythical figures. Louis Aucoc and his family firm, where Lalique had been an apprentice, was another important creator of Art Nouveau jewelry. Other notable jewelry creators included Lucien Gaillard, Paul Follot, and Paul and Henri Vever. Graphic arts. Posters and magazine covers, advertisements and illustrations were among the most popular forms of Art Nouveau in Paris. They were made possible by the invention of color lithography in 1879, and further improvements which permitted more colors and mass production of better quality images. The subjects of posters were almost always women, whose long, curling hair became a central element of the design, often combined with flowers and vegetal designs. Paris in the 1890s was covered with colorful Art Nouveau posters selling bicycles, beverages, medicines, voyages to the South of France, all with the same spirit of movement and gaiety. Alfons Mucha was the best-known of the poster designers, particularly for the theatrical posters he created for actress Sarah Bernhardt, beginning with a memorable poster for her starring role as Gismonda in 1895,"}, {"text": "Mucha also designed sets and costumes for Bernhardt, as well as jewelry. Bernhardt herself recognized the value of his posters as art objects, and reserved a certain number of posters for sale to collectors. The skirts and costumes of dancers, flying into billowing forms, were another popular motif, used in the early Art Nouveau by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and by Jules Ch\u00e9ret, depicted the dancer Loie Fuller surrounded by a cloud of whirling fabric. Other important early figures in the genre included Eug\u00e8ne Grasset, who taught at the major schools of graphic arts and design in Paris, and who published books of images in the new style, and Jules Ch\u00e9ret, who became famous for his posters of actresses and dancers in twisting Baroque poses. Painting. Art Nouveau painting was decorative, intended to harmonize with architecture and interior design, usually in the form of murals, panels or screens. Most of the major painters of the period, such as Renoir and Monet were considered exclusively studio artists in other schools. However, some painters specifically made work in an Art Nouveau style, specifically for decoration. The best known painters in this category were the members of Les Nabis. Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard and"}, {"text": "the other Nabis often made decorative paintings tailored to particular rooms or settings. They were often inspired by Japanese panel paintings, which had become very popular in Paris during the period, largely through the efforts of Siegfried Bing and his Maison de l'Art Nouveau beginning in 1895. As with other forms of Art Nouveau, the subjects painted were very often women in floral settings. The floral patterns were sometimes in gardens or sometimes on the walls, and were often very stylized and abstract, with a strong Japanese influence. In some cases, the artists created murals; At the end of the Art Nouveau period, Maurice Denis painted an Art Nouveau mural on the interior of the upola of the new Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, Paris (1908\u201311) Paris museums with Art Nouveau collections. Several Paris museums have notable collections of art, design and architecture from the period. They include:"}, {"text": "The End and Other Beginnings is a collection of science fiction short stories for young adults by Veronica Roth. The short stories include a tale of friendship and revenge, plus two of the stories are new additions to the Carve the Mark universe. Contents. The six stories are: Development of the book. On October 4, 2018 HarperCollins announced a two-book deal with Roth. In an interview Roth talked about how her writing has changed. \"my process is different now, because I\u2019m learning from each book. I do a lot more planning now, a lot more outlining, a lot more research. I know what questions to ask myself before I start. That\u2019s the thing about writing\u2014you can learn a lot from reading, a lot from critique, but you learn the most from actually doing it.\u201d Reception. One reviewer stated \"Though they\u2019re all worlds that feel ripe for more storytelling and diving into, each novella has a complete arc.\""}, {"text": "NWA Powerrr is a professional wrestling streaming television program produced by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that premiered on October 8, 2019. , the series streams on X. Beginning July 29, 2025, the program will move to The Roku Channel in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. \"Powerrr\" features wrestlers performing in matches and getting interviewed. These elements together create and further the storylines of the NWA while building towards the promotion's events. History. On May 1, 2017, Billy Corgan bought the National Wrestling Alliance, including its name, rights, trademarks and championship belts. Full ownership took effect on October 1, 2017. Corgan, Vice President Dave Lagana, and their production team would rebuild the NWA brand, acknowledging its history from its original inception in 1948, while gradually transitioning into a singular entity. In September 2019, NWA announced tapings for a weekly television show, later revealed to be titled \"NWA Powerrr\". The first tapings were held on September 30 and October 1 at the GPB Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, which has since been dubbed the \"NWA Arena.\" The series would debut on October 8, 2019 on the NWA's YouTube channel. The program's air time, 6:05 PM, is a call back to the"}, {"text": "classic \"World Championship Wrestling\" show by former NWA member Jim Crockett Promotions that would air at 6:05 PM on Saturdays from the early 1970s until 1992. WOAI-TV San Antonio news reporter Joe Galli and longtime pro-wrestling manager/executive Jim Cornette were the initial commentators. Championship Wrestling from Hollywood owner David Marquez serves as an interviewer and ring announcer. Kyle Durden serves as backstage interviewer. Following the November 19 episode of \"NWA Powerrr\" being listed, it was quickly taken down due to remarks by Cornette which some deemed racist. NWA released a statement the next day stating that Cornette resigned. He was subsequently replaced by Stu Bennett who joined Galli on commentary beginning with NWA's December 14 pay-per-view, Into the Fire. 2021\u2013present. After the NWA went on a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, television tapings for \"Powerrr\" would resume in March 2021 as part of a new distribution agreement with FITE TV. On Tuesday, April 13, the NWA debuted a companion series titled \"Powerrr Surge\", which features additional wrestler interviews, unseen matches, and recaps from the previous \"Powerrr\" episodes. On January 5, 2022, the NWA announced that \"Power\" would return to YouTube, airing on Fridays after the Tuesday premiere on FITE."}, {"text": "In January 2023, \"Power\" returned to Tuesday nights on YouTube. On October 23, it was reported that NWA signed a deal with The CW to air \"Powerrr\" on the CW app. \"Powerrr\" debuted on the CW app on February 6, 2024. In February 2024, \"Powerrr\" was given the 2023 \"Worst Television Show\" award by \"Wrestling Observer Newsletter\". Episodes of \"Powerrr\" expired on the CW app on September 30, 2024. The program began what was reported as a five-week run on X with the episode that aired October 1, 2024. \"Powerrr\" continued to air on X into mid-2025. Beginning July 29, 2025, \"Powerrr\" will begin streaming for free on The Roku Channel in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, putting it head-to-head against WWE's \"NXT\" on Tuesdays, which airs on The CW. Episodes. For its first fifteen seasons, \"Powerrr\" focused on storylines leading into then-upcoming pay-per-view events. With the discontinuation of live broadcasts following the show's move to The CW app, the sixteenth season onward would be taped during the NWA's Signature Live Events. The third season was to culminate with the Crockett Cup, but the event was cancelled due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. On-air personalities. In addition to the"}, {"text": "wrestlers (male and female), managers/valets, and referees, the show features various on-air personalities including authority figures, commentators, ring announcers, and backstage interviewers."}, {"text": "The Izyum\u2013Barvenkovo offensive (17 July 1943 \u2013 27 July 1943) was a Soviet offensive operation of the Southwestern Front against part of German Army Group South during the World War II. The aim of the operation was to tie down German reserves during the Battle of Kursk and overrun the German forces located in Donbas. Soviet troops managed to cross the Donets river and seize the bridgehead, but the German counterattacks stopped the further advance. Background. The Soviet command believed that German troops on the southern section of the Eastern Front were greatly weakened. There were no tank divisions left in the 1st Panzer Army in this sector (for example, in the XL Panzer Corps there were only three ordinary infantry divisions). Only one tank battalion remained in the reserve 17th Panzer Division. So, the South-Western Front was supposed to strike three Guards Armies (1st and 8th in the main direction and the 3rd in the auxiliary) and to break the German defenses. After that, the Soviet tank formations (23rd Tank Corps and 1st Guards Mechanized Corps) were to enter the breakthrough. In the Stalino region they were to connect with the troops of the Southern Front and, thus, encircle"}, {"text": "German troops in Donbass. Compensating for the lack of tanks, German troops relied on their fortifications created since March 1943. In addition, Soviet intelligence seriously underestimated the strength of opposed infantry divisions (especially their equipment with artillery and machine guns). The Southwestern Front did not have a numerical superiority over the 1st Panzer Army, but it included many experienced Guards units. Indeed, the 8th Guards Army (then 62nd Army) excelled during the defense of Stalingrad. Orders of battle. Two armies of the Soviet Southwestern Front (6th and 57th) were not involved in the operation. Also, 6th Army, 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf of German Army Group South were not involved. The 23rd Panzer Division of XXIV Panzer Corps was sent towards Mius river. Soviet forces Axis Forces Action. The Germans noticed Soviet preparations and on 14 July Hitler ordered the XXIV Panzer Corps from the reserve of Army Group South shifted back behind the 1st Panzer Army. The Soviet offensive began on July 17. The 1st and 8th Guards Armies managed to cross the Seversky Donets River, capture new bridgeheads on the right bank and advance to a depth up to 5 kilometers. However, the advance stopped there,"}, {"text": "because Soviet troops were unable to crack the defense system completely and so the tank units could not operate freely in a greater depth. The German command quickly used at first the reserves of the 1st Panzer Army and then the XXIV Panzer Corps. Attacks of the 3rd Guards Army in the auxiliary direction were completely unsuccessful. In the following days there was a fierce head-on battle. The German units launched counterattacks, trying to liquidate the Soviet bridgeheads. They did not achieve full success, but suppressed the Soviet troops and completely ruled out the possibility of an operational breakthrough. Both sides suffered serious losses. So, the 17th Panzer Division in a few days lost 91 officers and 2,446 soldiers, Generalleutnant Walter Schilling was killed. Opposing them, the 79th Guards Rifle Division lost 4,681 men and the division commander Batyuk died of a heart attack soon after the end of the operation. Military historian Ziemke said about Izyum\u2013Barvenkovo offensive along with the Mius offensive: \"Those were small battles, like so many others quickly lost in the rush of greater events, but, nevertheless, enormously costly for both sides.\" Results. Soviet troops failed to realize the plan of the offensive, the German troops"}, {"text": "in Donbas avoid encirclement and defeat. Soviet historiography claims that the operation shackled the German reserves necessary for the Battle of Kursk."}, {"text": "Gremlin Have Pictures is a solo album by 13th Floor Elevators singer Roky Erickson, released in 1986. Described by \"Billboard\" writer Morgan Enos as \"a grab-bag of acid rockers, acoustic ballads and assorted oddities\", it compiles material recorded between 1975 and 1982 in various venues, and with three backing bands, the Aliens, the Explosives, and Blieb Alien. It includes a cover of the Velvet Underground's \"Heroin\". Reception. \"Pitchfork\" reviewer Jason Heller said that \"\"Gremlins\" provides a candid peek under Erickson\u2019s hood during his most potent years as a solo artist. Top to bottom, it\u2019s a revelation ... jagged and unhinged enough for the chaos of Erickson\u2019s subconscious to bleed through.\" He particularly praised the acoustic songs, especially \"I\u2019m a Demon,\" which he called \"an eternal, elemental performance, a roughhewn mass of outsider self-exorcism that echoes alongside Hasil Adkins, Syd Barrett, Jonathan Richman, Daniel Johnston, and Alex Chilton.\" \"Austin Chronicle\" writer Scott Schinder called Erickson's 1980s albums, released after his half-decade involuntary stay in a Texas psychiatric hospital, \"the clearest glimpse into his raging musical soul.\" He described \"Gremlins Have Pictures\" as \"in some ways the most compelling\" album of this era, \"a stylistic and chronological scattering of live tracks, alternate"}, {"text": "versions, and stray songs (that) offers a vivid, unvarnished account of Roky Erickson's singular talent and vision.\" \"Billboard\"'s Enos said that \"I Have Always Been Here Before\" \"may be the most gorgeous, primeval ballad (Erickson) ever wrote.\" Jason Ankeny of AllMusic was less positive, saying that of the three backing bands, \"only the Explosives are remotely competent, although Roky himself is surprisingly together.\" He also praises the song \"I Have Always Been Here Before,\" noting that on it, \"Erickson acknowledges a connection between himself and fellow walking casualty Syd Barrett.\""}, {"text": "Morgan Saint (real name Morgan Gildersleeve; born 1997 ) is a singer-songwriter from Mattituck, New York. She is signed with Epic Records. Her debut EP, \"17 Hero\", came out in 2017, and her second EP, \"Alien\" in 2018, both of which have received positive reviews, and \"millions of streams\" Saint opened for Goldfrapp on their national tour. In July 2020, Saint brought out the E.P. \"Help\", \"Her most personal project yet.\" \u201cWith the Title track HELP being featured in the Movie \"Songbird\" featuring KJ Apa and Sofia Carson An upcoming LP will feature the released singles \"Did You Loose Your Heart\" and \"End of Time\". She graduated from Parsons School of Design and majored in illustration."}, {"text": "The East Pauwasi languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in north-central New Guinea, on both sides of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border. They may either form part of a larger Pauwasi language family along with the Western Pauwasi languages, or they could form an independent language family. Languages. According to Timothy Usher, the East Pauwasi languages, which seem to form a dialect chain, are: Usher also identified the Karkar (Yuri) language as Pauwasi. Lexical reconstruction. Some lexical reconstructions of Proto-East Pauwasi by Usher (2020) are: Vocabulary comparison. The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database. The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. \"m\u0259ndai\", \"m\u0259ndini\", \"mindimna\" for \u201chead\u201d) or not (e.g. \"kolk\", \"\u0259ndai\", \"gwane\" for \u201cbone\u201d)."}, {"text": "The West Pauwasi languages are a likely family of Papuan languages spoken on the Indonesian side of New Guinea. They may either form part of a larger Pauwasi language family along with the Eastern Pauwasi languages, or it they could form an independent language family (or more than one family). Languages. The languages are, The three branches differ substantially from each other."}, {"text": "Choo Yilin is a Singapore-based fine jewelry company founded in 2009. It first became known for its modern take on traditional jade jewelry, and has subsequently also created jewelry using other gemstones such as spinels and pearls. In October 2019, the brand announced that it would be going on an indefinite hiatus. History. Establishment. The brand was created in 2009 by founder Choo Yilin, who created her eponymous brand with the intention of modernising jade jewelry. She has cited both the gemstone's cultural significance in Asia and the need to create a link between the traditional stone and the style of the modern day, because \"the younger generation do not have that sort of emotional connection with [jade] because they always associate it with their grandmothers.\" In addition, founder Choo Yilin has also expressed the desire to promote the appreciation of jade outside of Asia, by \"creating jade pieces in such a way that it can connect deeply with a non-Chinese audience as well... to show the world that jade is beautiful beyond cultural borders.\" Awards & Impact. In 2010, Choo Yilin was nominated for the Mort Abelson design award for jewelry, the first Asian designer to have done so."}, {"text": "The brand was also named one of Singapore Tatler's 10 Best Singapore Jewellers in 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2018, Choo Yilin's pieces were worn by Singaporean actress Janice Koh to the LA premiere of the movie Crazy Rich Asians. A subsequent media campaign by the Singapore Tourism Board also featured the brand's jewelry. Choo Yilin has also been commissioned by the Singapore Tourism Board and the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs to design and produce jewelry pieces for prominent individuals such as Amanda Seyfried, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, and Sasha and Malia Obama. Collaborations. Choo Yilin has created special jewelry collections in collaboration with YTL Hotels and Singapore Airlines. International Reach. The brand has showcased its work at jewelry shows in London, New York and Paris. In 2017, Choo Yilin was invited by the Singapore Tourism Board to be one of seven Singaporean designers to showcase their work at an exposition in New York City. In September 2019, the brand announced plans to expand to other markets, including Malaysia and the United States. Indefinite Closure. In October 2019, the brand announced that it would be taking an indefinite hiatus. Founder Yilin Choo has reportedly stated that the hiatus is"}, {"text": "not for financial reasons. Instead, the brand will \"work on \u2018laying the foundations for Choo Yilin v2.0, the next chapter of our journey of love, heritage, and becoming.\u2019\" Jewelry. Jade. Choo Yilin is primarily known for its jade jewellery. It uses Type A jadeite sourced from Myanmar that is custom-cut for the brand. Designs. The brand's jewelry often uses traditional Peranakan motifs, which are of cultural significance to people in the Southeast Asia region. Other motifs include Asian botanicals such as bamboo and cherry blossom. While it was still operational, Choo Yilin also offered bespoke services for its jewelry pieces, and is particularly well known for its customised \"Si Dian Jin\", a set of four jewelry pieces that are an integral part of a Chinese bride's traditional wedding trousseau."}, {"text": "Lechia Gda\u0144sk was a Polish multi-sports club based in Gda\u0144sk, Poland. Formed in 1945 the club held many different sections until 2002 when the teams started to operate as their own organisations. While run as their own organisations now, many of the teams that were part of the singular sports club often still hold the name \"Lechia\". Overview. Football (men's first team). Men's football: Lechia Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 1945\" The most well known and supported section of the sports club has been the men's football team. Honours: Ekstraklasa - Third place (2): 1956, 2018\u201319 Polish Cup - Winners (2): 1982\u201383, 2018\u201319<br>Runners-up (2): 1955, 2019\u201320 Polish Super Cup - Winners (2): 1983, 2019 Football (men's second team). Men's football: KS Lechia Gda\u0144sk II (second team) - \"formed 1953\" The second team for Lechia Gda\u0144sk which is mostly used as to develop players from the academy and to assess who is ready to play in the first team. III liga - Runners-up: 2014\u201315 IV liga - Winners: 2009\u201310<br>Runners-up: 2008\u201309 Woman's football. Woman's football: Lechia Gda\u0144sk Ladies - \"formed 2019\" The team were created in 2014 as Bia\u0142o-Zielone Lechia Gda\u0144sk and focused on football training for girls in youth teams. Bia\u0142o-Zielone Gda\u0144sk was"}, {"text": "closely linked with AP Lotos Gda\u0144sk and Lechia Gda\u0144sk in its early years. Since 2019 it been associated with the men's football team and took the name \"Lechia Gda\u0144sk Ladies\". Men's rugby union. Men's rugby union: RC Lechia Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 1956\" The men's rugby team is the most successful section of the sports club. The club is the only in Poland to have never been relegated from the top division, and is the second most successful team in Poland's rugby history. Honours: Ekstraliga - Winners (13): 1960, 1961, 1970, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999\u201300, 2000\u201301, 2001\u201302, 2011\u201312, 2012\u201313, 2013\u201314<br>Runners-up (11): 1963, 1971\u201372, 1972\u201373, 1981\u201382, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2009\u201310, 2015\u201316<br>Third place (15): 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973\u201374, 1976\u201377, 1980\u201381, 1987, 1988, 1998\u201399, 2003\u201304, 2007\u201308, 2008\u201309, 2010\u201311, 2014\u201315 Polish Cup: - Winners (12): 1977, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013 Men's rugby sevens. Men's rugby sevens: RC Lechia Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 1996\" A section of the main Lechia Gda\u0144sk rugby club. The Lechia rugby sevens team is the joint most successful rugby sevens team in Poland. Honours: (rugby sevens) Polish Sevens Championship - Winners (8): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018<br>Runners-up (2):"}, {"text": "2009, 2017<br>Third place (3): 1996, 1997, 2021\u201322 Women's rugby sevens. Women's rugby sevens: Bia\u0142o-Zielone Ladies Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 2009\" \"(not associated with the Lechia name since 2015)\" The women's rugby sevens section was created in 2009 as \"RC Ladies Lechia Gda\u0144sk\" in close connection with the men's team and other Lechia clubs. The section is the most successful in Poland's women's rugby sevens. The team separated from Lechia rugby in 2015 and became \"Bia\u0142o-Zielone Ladies Gda\u0144sk\". Honours: Polish Women's Sevens Championship - Winners (12): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2013\u201314, 2014\u201315, 2015\u201316, 2016\u201317, 2017\u201318, 2018\u201319, 2019\u201320, 2020\u201321, 2021\u201322<br>Runners-up: 2010<br>Third place: 2009 Polish Cup - Winners (5): 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Cycling. Cycling club: Klub Kolarski Lechia Gda\u0144sk. The cycling team was most successful during the 1950\u2018s and early 1960\u2019s, notably winning the Tour de Pologne twice. The cycling section runs more as a club now and doesn\u2019t take part in major cycling events. Famous former riders include: Henryk Kowalski and Micha\u0142 Bogdziewicz. Honours: (team) Tour de Pologne \u2013 Overall classification (2): 1957, 1961<br>Stage wins: 1 (1959) Polish Mountain Bike Championship; \u2013 Elite classification runners-up: 2003 <br>Marathon classification winners: 2003 Honours: (cyclist) Henryk Kowalski \u2013 Tour de Pologne overall classification (2): 1957,"}, {"text": "1961<br>Stage wins: Stage 1 (1959) Micha\u0142 Bogdziewicz \u2013 Polish Mountain Bike Championships \u2018Elite\u2019 classification runner-up: 2003 <br>Polish Mountain Bike Championship Marathon classification: 2003 Athletics. Athletics club: Klub Lekkoatletyczny Lechia Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 1945\" The athletics club was created in 1945 and provided a way for the inhabitants of Gda\u0144sk with better sporting opportunities. Athletes from KL Lechia Gda\u0144sk have taken part in both the Olympics and World Championships. Honours: Lechia athletes have achieved results in the following sporting competitions; Olympics - Bronze medal: 1960 Summer Olympics, Kazimierz Zimny (5000m) <br>4th place: 1948 Summer Olympics, Mieczys\u0142aw \u0141omowski (shot put) <br>9th place: 1980 Summer Olympics, Bernadetta Blechacz (javelin)<br>11th place: 1992 Summer Olympics, Katarzyna Radtke (racewalking 10k) Smaller sections. The Lechia Gda\u0144sk sports club also included the following sections: Basketball club: Baltia Gda\u0144sk - \"formed 1945, dissolved 1946\". The club was formed in 1945 when the sports club used the name Baltia and was dissolved before the sports club started to use the name \"Lechia\" later that year. Boxing club: KS BOP Boks/Boks Lechia Gda\u0144sk \"formed 1945, dissolved 1952\". Formed in 1945 the club was dissolved a few months later. In January 1948 the section was reactivated before dissolving again in 1952 due"}, {"text": "to the merging of multiple boxing clubs in the Gda\u0144sk area. Hockey clubs: in its early years the Lechia sports club had sections for both field and ice hockey. Tennis club: Gda\u0144skie Towarzystwo Tenisowe Lechia Gda\u0144sk. Volleyball club: \"formed 1945, dissolved 1946\". Weightlifting club: part of KL Lechia Gda\u0144sk. Lechia Gda\u0144sk also included clubs in handball, skiing, shooting, swimming, chess, table tennis, wrestling, and sailing. Sections list. A list of all known teams and clubs that have played under the Lechia name."}, {"text": "The historiography of the Philippines includes historical and archival research and writing on the history of the Philippine archipelago including the islands of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Before the arrival of Spanish colonial powers the Philippines did not actually exist. Southeast Asia is classified as part of the Indosphere and the Sinosphere. The archipelago has direct contact with China during Song dynasty (960-1279) and has been a part of the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires. Overview. Historiography of the Philippines refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to study the history of the Philippines. The Philippine archipelago has been part of many empires before the Spanish empire has arrived in the 16th century. The pre-colonial Philippines uses the Abugida writing system that has been widely used in writing and seals on documents though it was for communication and no recorded writings of early literature or history Ancient Filipinos usually write documents on bamboo, bark, and leaves which did not survive unlike inscriptions on clays, metals, and ivories did like the Laguna Copperplate Inscription and Butuan Ivory Seal. The discovery of the Butuan Ivory Seal also proves the use of paper documents in ancient Philippines. The arrival"}, {"text": "of the Spanish colonizers, pre-colonial Filipino manuscripts and documents were gathered and burned to eliminate pagan beliefs. This has been the burden of historians in the accumulation of data and the development of theories that gave historians many aspects of Philippine history that were left unexplained. The interplay of pre-colonial events, the use of secondary sources written by historians to evaluate the primary sources, do not provide a critical examination of the methodology of the early Philippine historical study. Organizations. Scholarly organizations and societies have been formed which usually hold conferences, publish journals and promote historical knowledge and studies. Government agency. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines is a government agency of the Philippines whose mission is \"the promotion of Philippine history and cultural heritage through research, dissemination, conservation, sites management and heraldry works and aims to inculcate awareness and appreciation of the noble deeds and ideals of our heroes and other illustrious Filipinos, to instill pride in the Filipino people and to rekindle the Filipino spirit through the lessons of history. Professional association. The Philippine Historical Association is the largest professional association of historians in the Philippines founded in 1955 by a group of prominent Filipino historians which"}, {"text": "includes Encarnacion Alzona, Gabriel Fabella, Gregorio Zaide, Nicolas Zafra, Celedonio Resurreccion, Teodoro Agoncillo and Esteban de Ocampo. Non-governmental organization. The Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History and Religion is a Non-governmental organization founded in 2013. This group initiates, facilitates, and organizes conferences and other academic events. They disseminate information on scholarship and research opportunities and publication of journals, books, and newsletters in the national and international communities to increase awareness about Philippine culture, history, and religion. Pre colonial period. Indian culture has long reached the archipelago during the period of Pallava dynasty and the Gupta Empire that led to the Indianized kingdoms established in the Philippines. A clear evidence is the use of pre-colonial Philippines use of honorific titles. No other significant historical documents from this period except for Laguna Copperplate Inscription, a legal document inscribed on a copper plate dated 900 CE which is the earliest known calendar dated document found in the Philippines. Ma-i, an ancient sovereign state located in what is now the Philippines is notable in the history of the Philippines for being the first place in the archipelago ever to be mentioned in any foreign account which was first documented in 971 AD,"}, {"text": "in the Song dynasty documents known as the History of Song. Its existence was also mentioned in the 10th-century records of the Sultanate of Brunei. Until the year 1000 CE, maritime societies exists in the archipelago but there was no significant political state unifying the entire Philippines. The region included only numerous small administrative divisions (ranging in size from villages to city-states) under the sovereignty of competing thalassocracies ruled by datus, rajahs, sultans or lakans. Colonial period. The first recorded document that mentions the archipelago was Antonio Pigafetta's chronicle on his narrative record of the journey of a Spanish expedition in search of the Spice Islands published sometimes between 1524-1525. Another notable document was Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas published in 1609 based on the author's personal experience and documentations from eye-witnesses of the survivors of Miguel L\u00f3pez de Legazpi's expedition. Documents published are chronicles by the early Spanish explorers and navigators and religious records of Spanish friars of their Catholic mission during the Spanish colonial period. Post colonial period. The historiography of the post-colonial period focused on the Philippine revolutions and the Philippine\u2013American War as historians saw the colonial era as a prelude. The critical role"}, {"text": "played by the Filipinos in shaping the Philippine national history in this period is well highlighted and analyzed based on the accounts on the revolution and the Philippine\u2013American War as it describes the social, economic, political, and cultural conditions of the Philippines. Historian Reynaldo C. Ileto in his seminal work on \"Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910\", the historiography of the Philippine Revolution was explored in a new meaning. Historian Vicente L. Rafael introduced poststructuralist theories in the analysis of the colonial society on his \"Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule\"."}, {"text": "Constantin Popescu (3 September 1928 \u2013 2 November 2018), nicknamed Pilic\u0103, was a Romanian professional handball manager and author of books on handball. He is the most successful coach in the history of Romanian female handball. He had pioneered handball in Romania. He graduated from the I.E.F.S., being the disciple of Professor Victor Cojocaru."}, {"text": "Angoya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 665 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Angoya is located 97 km northeast of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Uoyan is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baykalskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 675 as of 2010. There are 15 streets. Geography. Baykalskoye is located 68 km southwest of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zarechny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "A Sun () is a 2019 Taiwanese drama film directed and co-written by Chung Mong-hong. The film stars Chen Yi-wen, Samantha Ko, Wu Chien-ho, Greg Hsu, and Liu Kuan-ting. Its story centres on Chen Jian Ho (Wu), a troubled teenager who has been arrested, and Hao (Hsu), Ho's accomplished brother who commits suicide due to familial pressure. It explores Ho's re-entry into society and his father's efforts to acknowledge his son, something he had never done. Juvenile delinquency and suicide are the film's main themes, with visual motifs including light and dark. The film, which incorporates many conventions of Asian cinema, also explores socioeconomic inequality in Taiwan. The film was conceived after a high-school friend told Chung about a crime he had committed as a teenager. This became the opening sequence, which prefaces the narrative. Chang Yao-sheng was enlisted to co-write the screenplay with Chung, a process which took over a year. Filming began in 2018, with a tight 38-day schedule for budgetary reasons. Chung asked the cast not to consult him about their acting and rehearse on their own, although he would often direct them during filming. He was also the film's cinematographer under the pseudonym of Nagao Nakashima."}, {"text": "Lai Hsiu-hsiung edited the film to a runtime of 155 minutes, Chung's longest film by far, and Lin Sheng Xiang composed the score. \"A Sun\" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019, before its theatrical release in Taiwan. The film under-performed financially, as did Chung's previous films. It was released on Netflix in 2020; poor marketing contributed to it not receiving much attention, before Peter Debruge of \"Variety\" called it the best film of 2020. The film received many positive reviews for its story, diversity of themes, audiovisual quality, and acting. It received a number of accolades, including 11 nominations at the 56th Golden Horse Awards; it received the Best Feature Film award and the Best Director award for Chung. The film was the Taiwanese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, where it made the 15-film shortlist. Plot. In 2013 Taipei, troubled teenager Chen Jian-ho and his friend, Radish, approach a young man named Oden at a restaurant; to Ho's surprise, Radish cuts off Oden's hand with a machete. Ho is sentenced to juvenile detention, and Radish receives a harsher sentence. Ho's father, Wen, disowns him; however, his wife Qin still"}, {"text": "visits their son in prison. Wen focuses on Ho's shy older brother, Hao, who is attending a cram school in preparation for medical school. Wen is pestered for money at his job as a driving instructor by Oden's father; he refuses to pay, claiming no legal responsibility because his son did not injure Oden. Fifteen-year-old Wang Ming-yu and her guardian, Yin, meet Qin; she is pregnant with Ho's child. Although Qin supports Yu throughout the pregnancy, Ho is not informed of it. Hao tells him, and Ho rages against the longtime secrecy. When Hao commits suicide by jumping from the apartment balcony, Hao's romantic interest Guo Xiao-zhen tells Qin that Hao felt overwhelmed by the constant attention and scrutiny on him, and had nowhere to be alone. Ho and Yu marry; Wen continues to ignore him when he is released a year and a half later, and Ho works at a car wash to support his family. Wen, tormented by visions of his dead son, goes out one night to buy cigarettes. He sees Ho at a convenience store at which his son had taken a night shift; they speak briefly about Hao, and seem to reconcile. Ho is approached"}, {"text": "for money three years later by the recently released Radish, but he refuses. Radish later tells him to fire a gun at a legislator's office, and he grudgingly does so. Wen offers him money to stay away from his son; Radish refuses, and visits Ho late at night at the car wash, coercing him to borrow a client's car and go for a drive. They stop on a highway, where Radish tells him to enter a forest and deliver a package; he is paid a large sum of money. Upon returning, Radish is missing, and he flees. A group of thugs kidnap Ho sometime later and demand the money because Radish was found dead. After Ho complies, they beat him, give him another large sum of money, and drop him off. Atop Qixing Mountain, Wen tells Qin that he had been skipping work to tail Ho and Radish. Wen saw their late-night drive, then attacked Radish when Ho left to get the money, dragging Radish into the forest and killing him with a rock. As Qin reacts in horror, Wen explains that this was the best way he could think of to help his only remaining son. Ho and his"}, {"text": "mother later bond over a stack of old notebooks which Wen had given Hao at medical school, each labeled with Wen's motto: \"Seize the day, decide your path\"; all are empty. Ho steals a bicycle and he and Qin ride it through a park, the ambivalent Qin gazing at the surrounding scenery. Production. Background and pre-production. Director Chung Mong-hong conceived \"A Sun\" when he met his once-troubled high-school friend, who told him about how he and his friend had cut off someone's hand in his youth and how it affected him psychologically for some time. Later, while having dinner with friends and family, he visualized a hand boiling in a hot pot; this drove him to write the film. After writing the opening sequence, Chung began to think about suicide (a common occurrence in Taiwan) and the familial and social effects of suicide and juvenile delinquency. The family members were given a traditional upbringing. Although no other films were creative inspirations, he later discovered that the plot is reminiscent of \"Fargo\" (1996); the latter begins with a light scene, followed by a lingering chaos. With making \"A Sun\", Chung also aimed to explore the unknown within the story's themes. Chung"}, {"text": "wanted another person to write the screenplay, but struggled to find the right person. He called Chang Yao-sheng perfect: collaborative and analytical, with a novelist's style. According to Chung, this helped him and others understand the feelings he wanted to evoke. He had finished a rough screenplay, with core elements of the film, in 40 days. He employed a typist to outpour his stream of thoughts onto the screenplay. The collaborative nature of producing \"A Sun\" was new to Chung, who had worked harder on his previous films; he described those films as worse, and called \"A Sun\" more stylistically diverse. As co-writer of the screenplay, Chung struggled to develop the characters; he wanted everyone in the story to be involved in driving it, saying that that would give the characters \"life.\" Chang researched juvenile delinquency, and interviewed a former juvenile delinquent to ensure a realistic depiction. One year was spent on writing the film. When casting the film, Chung wanted a four-person family and for its adult characters to be around his age. Chen Yi-wen was the first to be cast as Wen. He and Chung had collaborated in \"Godspeed\" (2016), and Chung believed that Chen could do justice"}, {"text": "to Wen (whom he described as unsuccessful and \"a useless father\"). He called Chen \"fun\" and stylistically unique. Chung equated the father's mind\u2013body dualism with sunshine and shadow, related but separated. Greg Hsu met Chung twice before being cast as Hao, and noted his awkward communication. Wu Jian-he, preparing for his role as Ho at least six or seven months before, talked with teenagers who had been imprisoned; this gave him insight into the merciless atmosphere of a prison. Chung did not try to develop a deep relationship with the cast, and conducted no group preparations; he simply asked them to bring the screenplay home, learn their characters, and come on set to portray them. He largely attributed this to his lack of knowledge about acting. Investors included Chung's 3 NG Film (also its production company), MandarinVision, Eight Eight Nine Films, MirrorFiction and UNI Connect Broadcast Production. The Ministry of Culture supported the production, and Chung\u2019s frequent collaborator Yeh Ju-feng and his wife Tseng Shao-Chien were producers. Yeh found the last two lines of the screenplay memorable; they translate as \"Ah-Ho takes his mother for a ride on a bicycle, and the sun dazzlingly shines on the fallen leaves, bit"}, {"text": "by bit\". Filming. Principal photography of \"A Sun\" began in September 2018 and took 38 days, a tight schedule given the film's 155-minute runtime. Chung attributed the schedule to the lack of popularity of his films in the Taiwanese market. Its financing was not completed during filming, a recurring problem with Chung's films. Eventually, the team settled a budget of NT$ 44million (US$ as of 2018). Despite his desire to use film stock, Chung decided to use digital cinematography instead; he said that the warmth of a film (characteristic of film stock) is not solely dependent on the medium, but on the production collaboration. The latter part of the opening sequence was shot on the first day; it was the most lighthearted day for Chung, who remembered laughing at the model hand in the soup. Area gangsters appeared as extras. The opening shots of Ho and Radish riding a motorcycle were filmed in July 2018, during Typhoon Maria. Filming required a quick call for the production team to rush to Civic Boulevard. Since Chung was satisfied by the windy rain, he told actors Wu and Liu Kuan-ting to stop riding as soon as the camera stopped filming. During a scene"}, {"text": "in which Ho is beaten by fellow inmates, the production team did not want Wu to be injured; cast members were told to ease up but keep the fight looking realistic. Because of the film's solar motif, the weather largely determined its shooting schedule; this often meant changing a scheduled time to be able to film scenes in daylight. The Qixing Mountain scene was achieved by waiting during the filming days for a day when several weather forecasts predicted sunlight. Blue and yellow were chosen as the main colour tones. According to Chung, blue represents sorrow and apathy, and yellow represents warmth. The final shot (with the Sun shining through leaves) was challenging to film, although it is a common phenomenon when driving. The mountain scene was backlit with sunlight, often blocked to evoke the scene's dualism. Chung had considered depicting Hao's death, but decided to allude to it by having him exit as the camera looks at the opposing wall and his shadow grows. During filming, Chung remembered not feeling confident that the film would work. \"A Sun\" is a melodrama; more familiar with art films, he struggled to balance the genres. Chung originally wanted the mountain scene to"}, {"text": "be more cooler and more restrained, but later understood that melodramatic elements are often inevitable. He would often scold the cast and crew, annoying them; during editing, he saw that their scenes were effective and well-executed. Dark humor has its moments in the film, such as raw sewage being sprayed on Wen's workplace from what seems like a proton pack from the \"Ghostbusters\" films. This kind of humor was reminiscent of Chung's previous films as well. Like his other films, \"A Sun\" was filmed by Chung under the pseudonym of Nagao Nakashima. According to Chung, his role as director-cinematographer was easier in this film. He came to think of the camera as \"a very powerful tool\", through which he could analyze the cast's every move as director. The cast would often be interrupted when Chung felt their performances were substandard, occasionally disturbing the sound mixers. He considers cinematography a tool to depict the scope of a scene: \"As long as the lighting and colors are right, the atmosphere will pop out as the actors step in,\" he said. Despite pushing the cast, he also allowed for fluidity. Chung has cited \"Raising Arizona\" (1987), \"Stranger Than Paradise\" (1984), \"Down by Law\""}, {"text": "(1986), and \"Lost Highway\" (1997) as influences, and the cinematography of \"Last Tango in Paris\" (1972) was also an inspiration. Chung would keep the camera recording until his vision was achieved, a technique he used since he filmed car commercials early in his career. Post-production. \"A Sun\" was edited by Lai Hsiu-hsiung, who had collaborated with Chung on \"Godspeed\", \"The Great Buddha+\", and \"Xiao Mei\" (2018). With a running time of 155 minutes, it is Chung's longest film by far, which the production team agreed on as being the right length. The film's sound designer Tu Duu-chih, known for his work on \"Millennium Mambo\" (2001), initially proposed trimming it; others said, though, that every scene in the final cut is important. In the film, Hao tells a dark version of the story of Sima Guang. In Hao's version, Sima Guang and several children are playing hide-and-seek. When everyone is caught, he insists that one person is still missing. They reach a water tank and break it open, revealing another Sima Guang hiding in the darkness. Reviewing the scene, Chung felt that it needed animation to be more effective. Three-dimensional computer animation was unavailable in Taiwan and he did not want"}, {"text": "to spoil the scene's emotion, so he commissioned Chung Shao-chun, a hand-drawn animator who has acquired a specific style. After showing him a rough cut, the animator collaborated with Chung to give the one-minute scene \"the feeling of an ambiguous personal pursuit.\" The animation, as well as visual effects, were under the banner of XYImage Music. The 17-track film score was composed by Lin Sheng-xiang, who also composed the score for Chung's \"The Great Buddha+\" (2017). In early 2018, Chung described the opening sequence to him. During filming, he told Lin to write the music for the funeral scene and perform it live while filming. He assembled bassist Toru Hayakawa and harmonicist Toru Fujii to perform four versions of the music at a rented studio in Taipei, followed by a live version at the funeral home the next morning. The scene was heavily edited, however; a montage was used, accompanied by the music. To compose \"A Sun\" score, Lin studied classical music and slide guitar; the latter was achieved by cutting stainless steel pipes. His philosophy was, \"Let the music follow the characters and the story, and as soon as you hear the music, it can evoke feelings towards the"}, {"text": "film.\" Sadness receives a touch of grace, and Lin tried to avoid boredom or sensationalism. He considered the score an \"invisible cast\", with a major role in amplifying the characters' emotions, and the film's dualism was an influence. A variety of musical and cultural backgrounds diversify the score. Lin also collaborated with musicians from Taiwan and two audio engineers, from Taiwan (Zen Chien) and Germany (Wolfgang Obrecht), whom he considered outstanding. Each family member has their own theme music, played in a variety of styles to depict the film's plot development. Hao's theme is heard four times; one version, \"\u52d5\u7269\u5712\" (\"The Zoo\"), uses a French horn to evoke warmth. Ho's theme was derived from \"\u7e23\u9053184\" (\"Country Road 184\"), a song on the album \u83ca\u82b1\u591c\u884c\u8ecd (\"The Night March of the Chrysanthemums\"), with rearranged chords and rhythm. Wen's theme, \"\u628a\u63e1\u6642\u9593 \u638c\u63e1\u65b9\u5411\" (\"Seize the Day, Decide Your Path\"), is heard three times. Lin was inspired to write the song after seeing, on set, the scene in which Wen awakens after a nightmare about Hao. An organ and guitar were used. Other instruments include a \"yueqin\", double bass, violin, viola, and synthesizers. \"\u82b1\u5fc3\" (\"Flowery Heart\"), a song by Wakin Chau, is sung by Ho's"}, {"text": "fellow inmates before his release from prison. The end credits song, \"\u9060\u884c\" (\"Distant Journey\") is a sung version of Hao's theme. Its lyrics tell the story of a person who \"wanted to be the most distant star\"; after venting to an acquaintance, he points to the night sky, and surrenders his life to it. The soundtrack album was released on 25 October 2019 on compact disc, and digitally four days later. It was produced and published by Foothills Folk, and distributed by Feeling Good Music. Titles. The original title of the film, in traditional Chinese characters, is (). It is taken from the last fragment of the last sentence of Hao's suicide text, which reads: \"I [...] wished [...] that I could hide in the shade. [...] But I could not. I had no water tanks, no shades, just sunlight. 24 hours uninterrupted, radiant and warm, shining on all things.\" Chung had always wanted a film of his to be composed of four characters with positive connotations, however ironic in context. Academic and filmmaker Jerry Carlson interviewed Chung, who mentioned the film, in 2019. Chung had already thought of its English title as \"A Sun\"; he was uncertain, however, since"}, {"text": "the Solar System only has one sun. After hearing the film's plot, Carlson approved of the title despite the grammatical error. Chung came to realize that the universe consists of more than one sun, and was aware of the homonyms \"a Sun\" and \"a son\". In the film, Wen lies that he only has one son (Hao); he disowned Ho. He also deludes himself that he is living in accordance with his motto of \"seize the day, decide your path\", and Chung wanted to explore the effects of delusion in \"A Sun\". Themes. According to Chung, his intention with \"A Sun\" was to explore the familial and social effects of juvenile imprisonment and suicide. The film, he said, is not about joy but a reflection about family, society, and life's hardships. Its motifs of light and dark have been discussed, and Chung said that the Sun symbolizes hope. The family's love is like sunshine, with shadows: personal secrecy and a lack of space to open up. Chung said, \"We have all been hurt, so much so that we can be each other's Sun.\" Family is not depicted as utopian, but a place where everyone shares the same values and intentionslike"}, {"text": "shade in a sunlit expanse. Wen's mind\u2013body dualism is symbolized as he and Qin hike up Qixing Mountain, traversing light and dark. The film's upbeat scenes primarily appear as sunlight, before the approach of shadows and bad weather. Hao personifies everyday pressures. In his confession scene, Wen is behind the Sun (symbolizing the pressure of truth on him); Qin is facing the Sun, as she slowly learns the truth. Wen confesses outdoors, symbolizing his self-imposed natural pressure; Hao's suicide-text scene is intercut with shots of him in the city, symbolizing the pressure placed on him by society. Chung challenges the idea that parents unconditionally love their children, arguing that children need understanding as well as love. The family has archetypically strict, traditional parents. The film's depiction of Taiwanese family dynamics is said to be accurate: family members are often discordant and distant despite loving each other. Silence is also an integral element in the film, as it sparks misunderstandings and incidents. Wen is a central figure, treating the other characters a certain way while their reactions are reflected on him. In light of this disconnection, understanding is a central theme of the film. The film's depiction of parental favoritism has"}, {"text": "been compared to that of \"Waves\" (2019) and \"Ordinary People\" (1980). \"A Sun\" is also seen as gently critical of a patriarchal society. Fathers like Wen can neglect their children with poor (or no) communication, although Wen's murder of Radish is quasi-heroic. In cultural discourse analysis, this and Hao's suicide are both seen as a conflict between personal agency and futility. Wen is described as ignorant and mean on the surface, but has good intentions and is confused about how to implement them. The film also defies absolutist characterizations. Chung said that it has no binary characterization, and personalities periodically change. Sylvia Cheng of \"Elle\" said that no characters in the film can be directly attributed to the conflicts; \"every family is riddled with holes\", and \"life is a process of constant mistakes\". Although Hao's suicide may have some roots in his personality, the main cause is the familial pressure set on him, something that does occur often in real life. In the final scene, Qin gazes at the sunny scenery with a slightly-joyful look, although she is tormented by what happened to her two sons. The film also suggests that sometimes, misery and hardships are needed to expose secrets,"}, {"text": "and either the relationship breaks or refreshes. In a structural analysis, Hao can be seen as a manifestation of good and Radish a manifestation of evil. In a post-structuralist analysis, however, both characters are simply a moral message to Ho. Hao and Radish die because of their unrealistic natures, their deaths shaping Ho's identity as a realistic mix of good and evil. Although Radish is depicted as antagonistic, his background makes his behavior pardonable. Wen's attachment to the slogan \"Seize your day, decide your path\" illustrates a Taiwanese phenomenon that originated in the 1960s. In the film, like some Taiwanese people, Wen considers it his moral principle despite not really living by it. His decision to murder Radish, however, seems to him to be a vindication of his slogan. Patrick Brzeksi of \"The Hollywood Reporter\" considered the film's moral as: \"Life ... is too complicated to live under the harsh light of moral purity.\" Moral ambiguity is seen in the film's last scene, in which Ho steals a bike and Qin (despite some reservations) decides to go along. According to Chung, certain morals can be violated as long as no one is hurt. Socioeconomic inequality in Taiwan is explored in"}, {"text": "\"A Sun\". Wen's motto does not reflect his life; Ho works at a car wash after his release from prison, and Radish becomes a gangster against a backdrop of poverty. Brian Hioe wrote that the film's treatment of the subject is lighter than \"The Great Buddha+\" and \"The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful\" (2017). \"A Sun\" criticizes the Taiwanese judicial system, in which Ho's prison offers no education. Radish injures Oden but Wen, ironically, is expected to pay his hospital bill; the film stresses social support systems and the awareness of responsibilities. Chung called \"A Sun\" a humanist film. Brian Hioe of the \"No Man is an Island\" website wrote that the film's crime drama genre became common in Taiwanese cinema after the 2014 Taipei Metro attack, whose chronology is similar to the opening scene of \"A Sun\". Filmmaker Ang Lee found a Buddhist spirituality in the film; each character's destiny seems to be determined by their actions, a common theme in Asian cinema. \"A Sun\" existentialism is exemplified by shots of lonely characters against wide, scenic backgrounds. Radish dyes his hair orange when he is released, suggesting evil and resentment. Release. \"A Sun\" had its world premiere at"}, {"text": "the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019, before the film's Asian premiere at the 2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival on 3 October. It was then screened at the 24th Busan International Film Festival four days later. Successive festivals included the Tokyo International Film Festival and the 56th Taiwanese Golden Horse Film Festival on 13 October. The 2019 Singapore International Film Festival screened the film on 25 and 27 November. Its American premiere was at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on 6 January 2020. The film's Taiwanese theatrical run began on 1 November 2019, and ended on 1 December. Applause Entertainment, its distributor, released three trailers; one was a teaser montage without dialogue, and another was a shorter version of the first. Netflix. Netflix acquired the rights to \"A Sun\" in late 2019, and released it as a Netflix original film on 24 January 2020. Poor marketing cost the film the expected amount of critical and general coverage; David Ehrlich of \"IndieWire\" wrote that it was \"buried\" in the Netflix catalog. Another \"IndieWire\" writer, Tom Brueggemann, cited an overload of new titles on the platform, causing a failure to market them. When it became Taiwan's Academy Award"}, {"text": "for Best International Feature Film entry at the 93rd Academy Awards, Netflix released two trailers on YouTube; one was unlisted so only people with access to the link could view it, however, and the other was distributed by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency. The film later received some attention with the help of American critic Peter Debruge, who published a \"Variety\" listicle calling it the best film of 2020; a niche following was soon seen. Chung said that he did not expect the film to boom in popularity with the Netflix acquisition, but for it to be accessible globally. He called this crucial due to fading access to Taiwanese cinema since the 1980s. Chung was happy with Deburge's article, calling it \"an encouragement for Taiwanese filmmakers, and even for Taiwan herself\"; since the popular Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang films, Taiwanese cinema was rarely discussed due to the changing nature of the industry (particularly in Taiwan). Major publications, such as \"The New York Times\" and \"The Guardian\", did not review the film. Reception. Box office. According to data from the Taiwan Film Institute between 4 and 10 November (its approximate opening week), \"A Sun\" played in 44 theaters in Taiwan;"}, {"text": "it grossed NT$4,550,861, with 19,172 tickets sold. The revenue was a 38.11% increase from its 1\u20133 November. Over the next six days, two theaters stopped screening the film; it grossed $3,258,810 with 13,686 tickets sold, a 28.61% decrease. It earned $14,157,606 with 59,687 tickets sold the following week, a 5.40% drop. Eight theaters added the film in its final week for a 122.79% increase in earnings: $6,806,407, with 28,844 tickets sold. \"A Sun\" grossed a total of $20,964,013 with 88,531 tickets sold, a box-office bomb. Chung's previous films had also been unsuccessful. He said that the average Taiwanese filmgoer was not fond of his films, although his wife encouraged him to make films for their own sake and not for the box office. Chung said that his films were for a niche group whose appreciation was more than enough, and he wanted to make films until he loses interest. Wang Zu-peng of \"The News Lens\" opined that audiences should give Chung \"less alienation and more affection\", allowing his poetry film to envelop them. Critical response. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes marked \"A Sun\" as generally well-received, with a approval rating based on critics; many called it one of the best films"}, {"text": "of 2019\u20132020 as well as a masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema. Writing for \"Sight & Sound\", Tony Rayns called it \"the most impressive film of recent times\"; Debruge called it \"a world-cinema stunner\" built on mastery. A number of critics enjoyed the film's treatment of its themes. The good and the evil are balanced; subgenres including crime, drama, and comedy coalesced smoothly, allowing for good pacing and a compelling narrative. According to David Ehrlich of \"IndieWire\", this made \"A Sun\" \"a riveting moral odyssey\". The plot also praised for its organic flow and rich nuance, with A-Hao's suicide scene compared to the films of Lee Chang-dong. Critics noted that the violent opening scene, reminiscent of the films of Quentin Tarantino, was a preface to the film's spectrum of emotions. Its natural motifs and emotional ambiguity were also praised. Chung's style was compared to Edward Yang, Ang Lee, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Barry Jenkins and Lulu Wang; the film was compared to Yang's \"A Brighter Summer Day\" (1991) and \"Yi Yi\" (2000), and some critics said that \"A Sun\" makes Chung a possible member of New Taiwanese Cinema. His camera framing, which attempted to disconnect the characters from their environment, was compared to the"}, {"text": "films of Michael Haneke. The cinematography's use of natural light was also praised, though Han Cheung of the \"Taipei Times\" lamented the runtime as a bit too short. \"A Sun\" cast was praised for their performances, which increased the film's emotional weight. Pramit Chatterjee of \"Mashable\" praised Wu and Hsu's performances. Chen's performance deepened his short-tempered character, conveying his ambivalent personality. Liu's performance gave Radish a distinct menace. Ko added a kind strength to Qin, with Kevin L. Lee of \"Film Inquirer\" comparing her performance as a mother to Regina King's in \"If Beale Street Could Talk\" (2018), and Cheung opining that with Chen, they intensify the film's \"suffocating tension\". The female cast were praised for their uniqueness. The supporting cast were praised equally with the starring ensemble, with Liu successfully portraying the manipulative Radish. Cheung lamented some of the female characters' insignificant arcs, noting that the film mostly explore men, though said it is none more than nitpicking."}, {"text": "Verkhnyaya Zaimka () is a rural locality (a selo) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 616 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Verkhnyaya Zaimka is located 53 km east of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kichera is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "In October 2019, the 2019\u20132020 Hong Kong protests saw a further escalation of violence. It became evident that the protests were unlikely to end soon, and that they posed the biggest popular challenge to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping since his ascension to CCP general secretary in 2012. To bring the situation under control, Chief Executive Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era powers to impose an anti-mask law, aimed at preventing protesters from hiding their identity. Observers considered the law, which came into force on 4 October, as a precedent for possible wider use of emergency powers at the expense of citizens' freedoms and in addition democratic rights, as they even saw the possibility of the upcoming District Council elections being cancelled based on the emergency law. The mask ban did, however, not achieve the desired effect, but rather proved a further focal point of protests. In November, the High Court ruled the mask ban to be unconstitutional, although in April 2020, an Appeal Court ruled that it was constitutional in the case of unlawful assemblies. The month began with major protests in several parts of the city on occasion of the Chinese National Day. On that day, for the"}, {"text": "first time in the protests, a protester was shot by police; he was critically injured in the torso, but survived. Police defended this use of potentially lethal force against accusations that it had been disproportionate. Another act of violence that stood out was the slashing of a police officer on 13 October. On 6 October, a taxi driver caused serious leg injuries to a woman when he drove into a crowd of protesters, an act which was seen by protesters as deliberate. On the same day, there was a first confrontation of protesters with the Chinese People's Liberation Army when protesters targeted their Kowloon Tong barracks with laser lights and were shown warnings from inside in response. Events. 1 October National Day protests. On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong protesters marked a \"national day of mourning\". In defiance of a police ban on the annual march that the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) had applied for, four veteran democrats led a rally from Causeway Bay to Central, mourning the victims of Chinese Communist Party rule and calling for the end of one-party rule in mainland China. Simultaneously, protesters held rallies in"}, {"text": "Wong Tai Sin, Tuen Mun, Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin and Sham Shui Po, which drew tens of thousands of participants altogether. The protests were initially peaceful, but violent incidents occurred later during the day. MTR stations and businesses that were thought to be associated with the mainland were vandalised.Officers had fired multiple warning shots in locations such as Yau Ma Tei and Wong Tai Sin. In Tsuen Wan, a police officer fired a live round at Tsang Chi-kin, an 18-year-old male secondary school student, to his chest at point blank range with a revolver. This incident happened as the man was assaulting the police officer who ran in to retrieve a fellow officer chased and beaten to the ground by a crowd of protesters. Before being shot, the student was holding a white pipe and a kickboard; when collecting evidence after the shooting, the police took away his mask, his helmet, his kickboard along with a metal rod found from nearby, but without his white pipe. It was the first live round fired at a person by the Hong Kong police in this series of protests. The protester was taken to the emergency room of Princess Margaret Hospital and in"}, {"text": "critical condition. The Hong Kong Police called the shooting \"heartbreaking\" and added that \"[t]he police officers' lives were seriously threatened. To save his own and his colleagues' lives, [the officer] fired a live shot at the attacker.\" The Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Dominic Raab said that \"the use of live ammunition is disproportionate\". Human rights organisation Amnesty International urged \"the Hong Kong authorities to urgently review their approach in policing the protests to de-escalate the situation and prevent more lives being put at risk\" and reiterated its call for an independent investigation. Away from the city's protest scenes, the profane phrase \"Celebrate His Mom\" (\u300c\u8cc0\u4f62\u8001\u6bcd\u300d) showed up in the form of a massive, black vertical protest banner on Devil's Peak. At the same time, Hong Kong citizens crowdfunded to buy whole-page newspaper advertisements on over nine newspapers in different countries to \"showcase\" this phrase globally. The countries included South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Argentina, and Mexico. On 28 January 2022, eleven of the protesters in Wong Tai Sin were found guilty of rioting while one was acquitted. On 1 April, three of the group were sentenced to a training centre, with judge Edmond Lee"}, {"text": "citing their young age and the brevity of their riot as mitigating factors. Tsang Chi-kin was sentenced on 18 October 2023 to 3.5 years in prison for rioting and assaulting a police officer, and to 11 months and two weeks for perverting the course of justice, after having pleaded guilty to all three charges the previous month. According to police, he and three others had hidden in safe houses for two years until their arrest in July 2022; Yip Ho and Ansen Wong were jailed for 20 and 10 months respectively for perverting the course of justice, with Ho having been accused of having helped to conceal the group. Seventeen-year-old Alex Wong was sentenced to a training centre for perverting the course of justice. Fung Ching-Wah, another of the four who had hidden, had been sentenced to four months in jail in September 2023 for rioting and perverting the course of justice. 2 October solidarity protests for the injured student. Protests continued after Tsang was shot by the police. The students and the alumni of his secondary school Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College rallied outside the campus to show their support for Tsang, who was charged with"}, {"text": "rioting and assaulting officers while still in hospital. About 250 demonstrators gathered at West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts to support him and other protesters who were arrested. In the afternoon, protesters and office workers gathered in Central, Hong Kong and briefly occupied Connaught Road Central. They shouted slogans to condemn the Hong Kong police, such as \"Hong Kong police intentionally commit murder\" and \"disband the police force now\". Protesters also showed up in Tsuen Wan, where they damaged a mahjong house said to have links to triad groups and started a fire near New Territories South Regional Police Headquarters. Protesters also briefly occupied roads and thoroughfares in Wong Tai Sin and Causeway Bay. In Tuen Mun, Tai Wai and Tseung Kwan O, protesters vandalised several MTR stations. Railway operator MTR Corporation became a target of vandalism after it was accused of cooperating with the police and closing its stations before major protests took place. 3 October protests against anti-mask law. On 3 October, protesters gathered at 11 shopping malls throughout Hong Kong, including New Town Plaza, Yoho Mall and APM to protest against the anti-mask law. The gathering in Cityplaza near Tai Koo station escalated into intense conflicts between protesters and"}, {"text": "the police, which used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse protesters. At 10:20 pm, the MTR announced that it would close the Kwun Tong station, in response to which protesters nearby damaged its facilities. The MTR then announced the imminent closure of Tai Po Market station, Ngau Tau Kok station and Tai Koo station. 4\u20136 October protests against the emergency law. 4 October. After Carrie Lam invoked the controversial Emergency Regulations Ordinance to impose a law which bans the wearing of face masks in public gatherings, many protesters defied the new law and wore face masks to show their discontent. Protesters first showed up in Central, Hong Kong and chanted slogans, such as \"Hong Kong people, resist\". After the government announced the enactment of the law, which would be effective the following midnight, many universities cancelled their afternoon classes and many malls closed early. The protesters became more radical at night and showed up in various districts in Hong Kong. Protesters occupied Harcourt Road, Nathan Road, Lung Cheung Road and other major thoroughfares. They also damaged facilitates in several railway stations and Light Rail stations, causing the MTR to suspend all of its train services that day. Pro-Beijing shops"}, {"text": "and corporations thought to have ties to Mainland China, such as Bank of China and Maxim's Catering, were vandalised. The riot police confronted the protesters in Aberdeen and fired the first tear gas canister in the Southern District. In Yuen Long, an off-duty officer was cornered and assaulted by the protesters after being suspected of bumping into protesters in his car. During the altercation, he shot a teenage boy with live ammunition in his left thigh, and then was further assaulted by protesters, having petrol bombs thrown at him. The police issued a statement saying that the officer acted in self-defence. The boy was admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital. After midnight, riot police officers with full gear entered the hospital. Hospital Authority expressed concerns regarding the police's presence in the hospital because its staff and patients feared that they might obstruct the hospital's operations. The following day, many MTR stations, banks, and shops remained closed. Lam said that the law was invoked only to quell the violence and insisted that Hong Kong was not in a state of emergency, despite the use of the emergency regulations ordinance. Reuters described the introduction of the anti-mask law as \"counterproductive or even inflammatory\","}, {"text": "while \"Vox\" opined that the new law might further infuriate the protesters. 5 October. Protesters staged demonstrations in various districts across the city, setting barricades on main thoroughfares and blocking traffic. Dozens of protesters occupied Castle Peak Road in Yuen Long, singing and chanting anti-government slogans. Several dozen protesters also blocked Lung Cheung Road at Wong Tai Sin, throwing \"hell money\" and disrupting traffic at some point. Meanwhile, barricades were put up on Nathan Road in Mong Kok, with protesters also surrounding the Mong Kok police station and hurling abuses. A very large group of people, which some reports said numbered in thousands, started a defiant march in Causeway Bay to express their opposition to the government's introduction of the anti-mask law. Many of the protesters were wearing face masks, an act that had become illegal as per the emergency laws. Several hundred masked protesters formed a human chain and moved from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po, also in a demonstration against the government's new anti-face mask law. 6 October. Protesters marched on the streets of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon on 6 October to protest Lam's decision to invoke the emergency law. Protesters continued to wear different"}, {"text": "types of face masks in defiance of the anti-mask law. The march was largely peaceful until the police confronted the protesters and began shooting tear gas canisters. Hardline protesters began hurling objects and petrol bombs at the police while the latter deployed water cannons to disperse protesters. A RTHK reporter caught fire and suffered burns to his face after being hit by a Molotov cocktail in Wan Chai. RTHK condemned the use of violence and called all parties to show restraint. In an escalation of conflict in Sham Shui Po district in Kowloon, a taxi under attack from some protesters, inadvertently rammed into a crowd and severely injured a female protester. The driver, who was pulled out of the cab and immediately surrounded by a large crowd and badly beaten, was admitted to hospital with several rib fractures. The driver said he had lost HK$20,000 ($2,550) in cash and a watch valued at HK$140,000 during the course of the incident; his taxi was also damaged. Police classified the case as \"rioting, wounding, criminal damage, theft, and traffic accident causing injury\". Protesters accused the taxi driver of deliberately ramming his car into the crowd of protesters. Actress Celine Ma was attacked"}, {"text": "by protesters after she filmed the protesters vandalising a Bank of China ATM in Mong Kok with her phone and provoked the protesters by attempting to punch and kick one of them. In Kowloon Tong, police arrested several students and entered the Hong Kong Baptist University campus without permission. At night, the garrison of People's Liberation Army raised a warning flag against the protesters who were shining laser light on the exteriors of the garrison building, marking the first military response during the protest. On 23 April 2022, a district judge convicted 11 people for rioting in Wan Chai. On 30 June 2022, another man was sentenced to 43 months in prison for rioting. 8 October Ma On Shan incident. On 8 October, protesters gathered inside the shopping mall MOSTown to sing several protest songs such as \"Glory to Hong Kong\". However, after some protesters vandalised the Ma On Shan station, a group of riot police stormed the plaza. A group of security guards attempted to guard the door to prevent their entry as the mall is a private area. During the storming, a reporter from \"Stand News\" who was live streaming was attacked by the police, who pepper-sprayed her,"}, {"text": "removed her glasses and took her charging cable. Disgruntled protesters later briefly protested outside Ma On Shan police station. Around the same time, protesters continued to confront with the police in various locations including Whampoa Garden, Mong Kok near Prince Edward station, Tai Po, and Tseung Kwan O, where a bicycle was thrown to a police officer who suffered injuries and was hospitalised. 9 October solidarity rally for Edward Leung. Hundreds of supporters of jailed pro-independence activist Edward Leung gathered outside Hong Kong's Court of Appeal and queued as early as sunrise to get a seat in the public gallery. Leung was jailed due to his involvement in the 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest and had launched an appeal against his six-year prison sentence. Supporters chanted the slogan \"liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times\", which was Leung's campaign slogan during the 2016 New Territories East by-election. 10 October march. Dozens of people held a protest outside the Tsim Sha Tsui police station to mark World Sight Day by showing their support for a woman who suffered a serious eye injury during an anti-government protest on 11 August. Protesters \u2013 many of them wearing masks in defiance of a"}, {"text": "new ban implemented last Saturday \u2013 chanted protest slogans and held up signs saying \u2018five demands, not one less.\u2019 On the other hand, a pair of black vertical protest banners, a couplet, was hung at the main entrance of Hong Kong University accusing the university officials for not speaking up against police brutality, and for not defending Hong Kong freedom. The couplet should read from right to left: \"Watching From The Sideline You Ruin Hong Kong's Future. Turning a Blind Eye You Consent to Tyranny's Murders\" (\u300c\u4f60\u51b7\u773c\u65c1\u89c0\u89aa\u624b\u65b7\u9001\u9999\u6e2f\u672a\u4f86\u300d \u300c\u4f60\u8996\u800c\u4e0d\u898b\u6dea\u70ba\u6bba\u4eba\u653f\u6b0a\u5e6b\u5147\u300d). 12 October march. Over a thousand protesters marched in an unauthorised protest from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po to protest against the government's decision to invoke the emergency law. Protesters wore face masks in defiance of the anti-mask law. The march was largely peaceful with little police presence. 13 October citywide conflicts. Protesters confronted with the police after flashmobs of protesters showed up in various districts in Hong Kong including Mong Kok, Tseung Kwan O, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon Bay, Sha Tin and Tai Po. The flashmob strategy was used to avoid arrest as railway operator MTR Corporation was accused of cooperating with the police to arrest protesters. Protesters continued to"}, {"text": "vandalise MTR stations, and sprayed graffiti on Chinese companies and pro-Beijing corporations. The police deployed tear gas to disperse the protesters in various districts. In Kwun Tong, a protester slashed the neck of a police sergeant from behind with a box cutter. The officer, at the time, was handling a criminal damage case at Kwun Tong MTR station. He suffered a 5 cm deep neck wound that severed a jugular vein and vocal cord from the protester's attack. He was transported to United Christian Hospital in serious condition. Two people were arrested at the scene, including the suspected assailant. The suspect, an 18-year-old student, was later charged with wounding a uniformed police officer with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, which carries the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The injured officer continued to be doxed after the attack, with the senior public prosecutor Vincent Lee Ting-wai disclosing that the prosecution would apply for a gag order to ensure the injured officer's anonymity out of safety concerns. A homemade remote-controlled bomb was detonated, as told by the police, with the intention to kill or harm police officers. The explosion was set off near police officers who were clearing a roadblock built"}, {"text": "by protesters at the intersection between Fife Street and Nathan Road in Mong Kok. There were no casualties reported. On 10 October 2023, five protesters were jailed for between 10 and 37 months. They were ruled to have been participating, along with about 30 others, in the false imprisonment of a plainclothes police officer in Tseung Kwan O; during the two minutes he was held, which were ruled by the judge to be a non-premeditated riot, the police officer had sustained head and limb wounds from being kicked and hit with hard objects. The charges had related to false imprisonment, participating in an unlawful assembly, rioting, breaching a mask ban, and wounding. A sixth defendant, a minor, was to be sentenced after the ruling in another case. 14 October marches. 14 October protest at Hong Kong Design Institute. Chan Yin-lam, an avid swimmer and a protester, was declared dead in late September after her corpse was found floating naked in the sea near Yau Tong. Police claimed that after investigations, there had been nothing suspicious about the circumstances of Chan's death, which they considered to be a suicide, though many refused to trust the police. Students from Youth College and"}, {"text": "Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) Tiu King Leng campus gathered to demand the campus management to release the CCTV footage on the evening of 19 September, where Chan was last seen before her death. Campus management only released partial footage, causing disgruntled students to vandalise the glass panels of the campus. The Vocational Training Council later released additional CCTV clips after 200 students, amid class suspension, rallied inside the campus to support an online appeal for an indefinite class boycott. However, in a new development to clarify the death, the mother of the student believed her daughter committed suicide. 14 October rally for the Human Rights and Democracy Act. A rally, using the slogan \"Fight with Hong Kong, justice to our victims,\" was held at night on 14 October at Chater Garden, calling on the United States to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, which would sanction officials for undermining autonomy in Hong Kong. Organiser Ventus Lau received a Letter of No Objection from the police, making this the first protest with police approval since the emergency law was invoked. The rally began at 7 pm. Crowds split from the public park and onto adjacent"}, {"text": "roads, turned on their phone flashlights, and chanted protest slogans, such as \"Hongkongers, resist\" as they marched along with a massive vertical protest banner. The crowd sang protest songs including \"Glory to Hong Kong\". The event saw speeches from several figures including activist Joshua Wong and politician Au Nok-hin. Organisers announced that more than 130,000 people took part in the rally. The government issued a statement saying that it regretted the assembly and criticised any foreign interference into the \"internal affairs\" of Hong Kong. 15 October basketball march. Dozens of basketball fans took to Southorn Playground in Wan Chai to show their support for Daryl Morey and expressed their sometimes racist disdain for superstar LeBron James, after both had stirred up controversy with their comments about the protests. 18 October human chain. During the night of 18 October, protesters organised a human chain protest against the anti-mask law. Some protesters distributed masks to other participants, while some chanted slogans such as \"five demands, not one less\". Many protesters wore surgical masks to conceal their identity, though some also donned photographic masks of Carrie Lam, Xi Jinping, Winnie the Pooh and Guy Fawkes. 20 October Kowloon protest. Following a police ban"}, {"text": "on a protest applied by the Civil Human Rights Front and the attack on CHRF convenor Jimmy Sham, protesters marched from Tsim Sha Tsui to the West Kowloon station to protest against the government's decision to invoke the emergency law and condemn police brutality. The peaceful protest was led by Figo Chan, the vice-convener of CHRF alongside former lawmakers including Albert Ho and Leung Kwok-hung, though some protesters splintered off to Nathan Road and it soon escalated into confrontations between the protesters and the police. The protesters continued to target MTR stations, Mainland Chinese-funded stores and Best Mart 360, which was accused of having ties to Fujianese triads, and hurled objects and petrol bombs at the police, whereas the police fired numerous tear gas canisters and deployed water cannon trucks. The conflict soon spread to other districts including Mong Kok and Sham Shui Po. Chan claimed that 350,000 people joined the march. After Sham was attacked by a group of suspected South Asians, pro-protest members of ethnic minorities showed their solidarity with the protesters by distributing cold water to them at the entrance of Chungking Mansions, while some local protesters guarded the Kowloon Masjid and Islamic Centre, demanding passers-by not"}, {"text": "to vandalise the mosque out of retaliation. Before the protest, Sham had issued a statement, saying \"Let us connect with and protect each other. Do not label anyone by ethnicity in the movement. I believe that everyone who joins this path to democracy are our brothers and sisters, regardless of nationality, language, color and race\". However, the police's clearance action, which saw blue-dyed water being sprayed on the gates of the mosque, led to condemnation from CHRF and the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Volunteers arrived an hour later to help clean the gate, while the police issued a statement saying that the mosque had not been its intended target and apologised to the mosque. Carrie Lam later followed up with an official apology. Former Indian Association of Hong Kong president Mohan Chugani, who was sprayed outside the mosque alongside lawmaker Jeremy Tam and businessman Phillip Khan, refused to accept Lam's apology, while Khan believed that the police intentionally sprayed the mosque and that the act was an \"insult to the Islamic religion\". 21 October vertical protest banner on Devil's Peak. After making its rounds inside various shopping malls in Hong Kong, this 20-meter yellow vertical protest banner has now"}, {"text": "made its way to Devil's Peak. The words demanded \"We Long for Glory To Hong Kong\" (\u300c\u6211\u9858\u69ae\u5149\u6b78\u9999\u6e2f\u300d). 24 October solidarity rally for the Catalan protests. The rally was initiated by Chow Shue Fung, the former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Student Union, and Ventus Lau to support the protesters in the 2019 Catalan protests. The organisers said that the number of gatherings exceeded 3,000 people. Hong Kong protests have been cited as an inspiration by the Catalan protesters for its \"leaderless\" model. A solidarity rally for the Hong Kong protests was held outside the Chinese Consulate-General in Barcelona on the same day. 25 October human chain. Hundreds of people formed a human chain in Tseung Kwan O saying they still believe the death of a 15-year-old student in the area is suspicious. Hong Kong Design Institute student Chan Yin-lam was last seen on the school's campus in Tiu Keng Leng on 19 September. Her body was found in the sea off Tseung Kwan O three days later. 26 October rally by medical professionals. A peaceful rally of hundreds of medical professionals was conducted in a park in central Hong Kong. They protested against alleged violence employed by"}, {"text": "police against protesters, and also police arresting medical professionals working on the front-lines of the protests. 27 October Tsim Sha Tsui protest. An unauthorised protest was conducted in the afternoon near the Peninsula luxury hotel. Police were already present, and within minutes of the start of the protest, tear gas and pepper spray was employed as the protesters fought with police. This led to people in the Peninsula hotel lobby being affected by the tear gas. At night, police travelled northwards from Tsim Sha Tsui, employing tear gas and water cannons (but without stinging blue dyed water used the previous week). A hill-top vertical protest banner with the words \"Hong Kong Police Intended Murder\" (\u300c\u9999\u6e2f\u8b66\u5bdf\u84c4\u610f\u8b00\u6bba\u300d) written in Chinese used in earlier protests made its way to its final destination: Beacon Hill, where it was then retrieved by firefighters within hours. 28 October Tuen Mun protest. Many Tuen Mun residents reported an unknown irritating smell, suspected to be tear gas, starting from 4 pm. Smells that resembled that of tear gas were reported near Kin Sang Estate and Shek Pai stop; some people who felt unwell were sent to hospital. Initially, firefighters suspected the smell to be the result of a"}, {"text": "chlorine leakage from Tuen Mun North West Swimming Pool, though staff at the swimming pool reported no gas leakage. It was later reported that the gas was leaked from Tai Hing Operational Base opposite Kin Sang Estate, though police denied that they had released any gas. In a joint statement, 10 District Council candidates from Tuen Mun condemned police for \"neglecting the safety of local residents and testing tear gas near residential areas\", requesting police to explain details of the situation and apologise to Tuen Mun residents. Roy Kwong, a Democratic member of the Legislative Council, said he had sent a letter to the Hong Kong Police Force requesting Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo to explain whether police leaked tear gas or related gases, suspecting that in such a case the health of local residents and animals would be adversely affected. Several hundred people gathered at the Tai Hing Operational Base at night, in response to the irritating smell. Riot police were sent out to confront the crowd. Some protesters chanted slogans and pointed laser pens at officers, whilst police shone bright lights at the protesters. Protesters set up a makeshift roadblock on a street outside the base, threw bricks"}, {"text": "and a petrol bomb at a Bank of China branch, and damaged the glass door of a Fulum Group restaurant suspected to be sympathetic to gangs which have attacked them. Police responded with tear gas canisters after warning, some of which was fired onto the podium of Blossom Garden, a private housing estate nearby, and some to the seventh floor of Yat Sang House, Siu Hin Court. 30 October Tuen Mun protest. A second protest in response to the suspected tear gas leak occurred at night. More than 70 people, mostly Tuen Mun residents, were arrested. Man Shek Fong-yau, a former police constable who organised several pro-Beijing events, appeared outside the Tai Hing Operational Base at 8:30 pm with around 30 people. The group chanted the slogan \"Hong Kong cockroaches, the vermin of the times\", a play on the pro-democracy slogan \"Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times\", and was seen arguing with residents. Residents refused to leave after police raised a blue warning flag stating that they were engaged in an unlawful assembly. Several black-clad protesters began to form roadblocks 20 minutes later. Police ordered residents to kneel down with their hands in the air or behind their"}, {"text": "backs at the lobby of Yat Sang House, Siu Hin Court. A man and a woman who appeared to taunt the police entered a Japanese restaurant in the area when officers tried to chase them. Two of the restaurant's shopkeepers refused to allow the police to enter the restaurant to arrest the pair. The police then pulled the shopkeepers out of the restaurant and arrested them, then ordered the original suspects to show their identification documents. At around midnight, protesters hurled petrol bombs at the police base, and the police responded by firing three bean bag rounds from inside the base."}, {"text": "Microsoft Flight Simulator is a 2020 flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is a sequel to \"Microsoft Flight Simulator X\" (2006) and a reboot of the \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" series, which began in 1982. The game's development began six years prior to its release. It was released on August 18, 2020, for Windows, with a virtual reality (VR) version released in December of the same year as part of the free Sim 2 update. \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" is the first game in the series to see a VR and console release, with it being released on the Xbox Series X and Series S on July 27, 2021. \"Flight Simulator\" simulates the topography of the Earth using data from Bing Maps. Microsoft Azure's artificial intelligence (AI) generates the three-dimensional representations of Earth's features, using its cloud computing to render and enhance visuals, and real-world data to generate real-time weather and effects. \"Flight Simulator\" has a physics engine to provide realistic flight control surfaces, with over 1,000 simulated surfaces, as well as realistic wind modeled over hills and mountains. Some places are handcrafted, introduced in region-specific updates. To augment its realism, the Azure"}, {"text": "AI incorporates real-time elements like natural weather and real-world air traffic. \"Flight Simulator\" was released to critical acclaim, with universal praise for its visuals and realism, and it was cited by critics as the \"safest way to travel\" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several reviewers placed it on their favorites' lists and called it the most aesthetically pleasing game of 2020, though there was criticism of its slow loading times, inaccuracies in rendering certain buildings, and unrealistic aerodynamics models. It has been considered one of the greatest video games and it received several accolades, most notably winning \"Best Sim/Strategy Game\" at The Game Awards 2020, and \"Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year\" at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. A sequel, \"Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\", was released in November 2024. Gameplay. As a flight simulation video game, \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" has a tutorial segment divided into sequences that allow players new to aviation, or to flight simulators, to learn the basic controls, the flight instruments, and other topics deemed essential for them to know before flying; it ends with a takeoff and landing test. Throughout the tutorial, fictional pilot Captain Jess Molina assists players. It offers landing challenges at some of the most"}, {"text": "famous and dangerous airports and the player is graded based on \"how close to the center of the runway you land, how long it takes your plane to come to a full stop, and the touchdown's smoothness.\" Another gameplay mode features three sight-seeing bush trips set in Nevada, Patagonia and the Balkans. \"Flight Simulator\" has an artificial intelligence (AI) air traffic controller (ATC) and a virtual co-pilot who can assist players when they are unable to perform actions like requesting landing clearance or going through checklists. It has several helper features: \"Assistance\" enables waypoint arrows at the taxiways, showing players where to go; \"Route & Waypoints\" enables markers to guide players in the sky; \"Landing Path\" guides players on landing; \"Travel To\" allows the pilot to jump to certain points of the flight (climb, cruise, descent, approach, finals \u2013 similar to time-lapse), condensing long-haul flights; an \"Active Pause\" pauses the flight, allowing players to explore the surrounding area or take a break. There are subtitles available for radio transmissions. These features are not available during challenges. The game also features a \"legacy\" option to enable a flight model from the first \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" (1982). \"Flight Simulator\" allows players to"}, {"text": "search for fauna, either by filtering for it on the world map or selecting \"Fauna Markers\" when in mid-air. The \"Autorudder\" feature keeps the plane on the centre line of taxiways and runways when the player cannot control it. Another feature allows the player to enter a geographic coordinate to find a location. The gameplay screen features a toolbar of buttons which allow the player to open the various windows for air traffic control, the camera views, modify checklists, view the navigation log, see objectives, view the visual flight rules (VFR) map, etc. The gaming interface also has the VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) compass, and the altimeter, throttle, engine, fuel, flaps, and trim tabs controls. Additional features like the head-up display (HUD) are accessible from the settings. \"Flight Simulator\" features no animations or depictions of damage or collision when an aircraft crashes. Instead, it cuts to black and provides a one-line message explaining why the plane crashed. Damaging the plane without crashing can degrade the aircraft's flight characteristics and so cause the aircraft structure to fail, which will place a message saying the aircraft exceeded limits but not exactly which limits were exceeded. Due to its complex amount of topographical,"}, {"text": "scenery and object data, \"Flight Simulator\" requires a certain speed of Internet connection for seamless gameplay. \"Windows Central\" states that a minimum of 5 Mbit/s is required, with at least 20 Mbit/s recommended and 50 Mbit/s being ideal. \"Flight Simulator\" has an offline mode, which uses the latest pre-cached data saved to the local hard drive. Two caches exist, a rolling cache (controlled automatically by the simulator) and a manual cache (which can be set by the user). The rolling cache is written to when the user goes to flight mode, caching the local objects and scenery, and updates as the pilot flies around the virtual world. The user sets the manual cache locations and amount of detail to be stored, and the user can determine the storage sizes used in both methods - as well as turn them off if required. Features. The Standard edition of \"Flight Simulator\" includes over 20 flyable aircraft; the Deluxe has five more, and the Premium Deluxe edition has ten additional airplanes compared to the basic version. Most of the aircraft are of American, French, or German origin, with a few manufactured by Austrian, Czech, and Slovenian companies. Aircraft included in the Deluxe version"}, {"text": "include those manufactured by Diamond Aircraft, Cirrus Aircraft, and Textron Aviation Inc., while aircraft exclusive to the Premium Deluxe version includes the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner and the Cessna Citation Longitude, and several general aviation aircraft. \"Flight Simulator\" includes around 37,000 manually edited airports from around the world based on real-world satellite images. The Standard, Deluxe, and Premium Deluxe edition include, respectively, 30, 35, or 40 hand-crafted airports that replicate their real-world counterparts. Airports in the Deluxe edition include those in the United States, Europe, and Africa, while those exclusively for the Premium Deluxe version include Heathrow and Dubai Airports, in addition to those from the US and Europe. The addition of third-party aircraft and airports, including those from \"Flight Simulator X\" are supported within the simulator, as are additions of other services. Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM) and the International Virtual Aviation Organisation (IVAO) are examples of online flight-simulation networks supported within \"Flight Simulator\" since release that allow pilots to talk to human air traffic controllers (instead of the AI ones) and to each other where there is no ATC coverage. These services add to the realism of flight simulators, and VATSIM was even used in 2008 to test"}, {"text": "proposed real-world changes to ATC before implementation. Many of the third-party add-ons are repaints or exclusive liveries. In addition, there are other add-ons (mods) for things such as recording flights, and a weather mod designed by Weather Preset Pro. The Microsoft team has said that they \"welcome [all third party developers] onboard,\" and that they are \"critically important\". To simplify things, an in-game marketplace was created on the game's website featuring a variety of third-party content. This includes the stock world updates, and some third-party mods such as A32NX by FlyByWire Simulations for the Airbus A320neo control systems. The team is committed to introducing new paid downloadable content (DLC) every \"two or three months\". Technology. \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" uses its in-house graphics and physics engine while using Microsoft Azure to provide over two petabytes of world map data taken from the cloud on demand. Microsoft partnered with Blackshark.ai, who developed a solution that uses Microsoft Azure and AI to analyze map data and photogrammetry to generate photorealistic 3D models of buildings, trees, terrain, and so on. This allows the simulator to depict parts of the world in 3D photorealism, and others in high definition. \"Flight Simulator\" generates its terrain and"}, {"text": "scenery objects initially from satellite imagery or fly-by image scans. Due to distortion from the fly-bys, color correction and shadow removal were essential. An \"offline procedural generation AI\" uses those and the data from Bing Maps to generate the scenery and objects for the virtual world. This can be enhanced using human intervention to assemble photorealistic objects and scenery for even higher levels of realism. \"Flight Simulator\" features multiple terabytes of texture and height map data. According to Alex Battaglia of \"Eurogamer\", \"Using a base mesh and textures, the game utilises your [I]nternet connection to stream even higher quality terrain data onto your PC as you play, via the Azure cloud\". This means that as the pilot flies around the world, the game downloads area-specific high quality scenery and objects which he says \"boost the game's fidelity and diversity that I've yet to see in any other release\". Bing Maps updates every 28 days, allowing for \"Flight Simulator\"s to stay up to date with reality. In rare cases where certain areas are blurred or pixelated on Bing Maps it \"uses procedural techniques to fill in the blanks and make sure there is \"something\" in the space\". Some other places, however,"}, {"text": "were blurred on purpose using clouds, filled with generic instead of specific graphics. Developer Asobo Studio scanned the interiors and exteriors of aircraft with a 3D scanner to create their realistic looks, polished with modeling and printing. Textron Aviation helped with the realism of the Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft. There are realistic physics and weather systems, and utilization of real-world weather data. For instance, if it is raining somewhere in real life, it can rain in-game. Individual clouds have their own behaviours and impact aircraft performance depending on its location within the system. \"Flight Simulator\" features a draw distance and allows the player to see storms on the horizon, with lightning cracking inside the clouds. \"Flight Simulator\" is the first flight simulator to enable worldwide visual flight rules (VFR), a feature not seen in contemporary flight simulators used by airlines to train and test pilots. Through cloud-based technology, \"Flight Simulator\" sends data to the computer or console in real time, with AI being utilized to extrapolate geometry from a blend of satellite and flyover imagery. Other sources of data include terrain data for landscaping, data for foliage density, real-time meteorological data, and air traffic updates. A separate atmospheric renderer simulates"}, {"text": "accurate humidity and pollution. Skyscrapers cast shadows over each other that darken as the player reaches street level and cities disperse light at night that radiates the sky. Cloud technology is used to calculate, among other things, the way air flows around natural structures such as mountains to cause pockets of turbulence, or stream in the world's real-time air traffic, and time of day and weather. The game's detailed physics were chained to the aircraft itself: for instance, certain aircraft speeds determine the speed of the water streaming through the aircraft's windows, and certain wind movements determine the shape of turbulence. Volumetric lighting is used for various effects, including illuminating water droplets, which can cover the entire cockpit window, and with everything being simulated in real time. Light sources such as the sun, moon, or city lights scatter appropriately through the environment, pollution levels and humidity affect refraction and overall visibility, and the atmosphere is layered the same as it is in the real world. Clouds are volumetrically modelled, with 32 layers determining shape, density, and \u201cfuzziness\". At times, \"Flight Simulator\"s reflection system uses ray marching by retranslating voxels. Otherwise, the reflection system uses a mix of screen-space reflections and"}, {"text": "cube maps to show reflections on more distant bodies of water. In addition to a complex lighting system, \"Flight Simulator\" makes use of highly detailed shaders. The game uses screen-space reflections (an optional feature selected by players) extensively, and bokeh depth of field. \"Flight Simulator\" populates the world with animals and roads with vehicles, grasses have individual blades, and water flows realistically based on wind direction, creating the illusion of a living world. The game world includes over 2 million cities and towns, 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, and 37,000 real-world airports. This approach allows Microsoft to flag artifacts and visual anomalies from a bird's-eye view, clearing up the input for a world-building algorithm. The result is fed into Microsoft's artificial intelligence, stringing the environment together in the cloud, and then streamed to the computer (PC) or console in real time. \"Flight Simulator\" features various animal species that can even be viewed at ground level, including birds, elephants, giraffes and bears. It allows the player to scout, chase and interact with real-world storms as they occur in real time. Development. France's Asobo Studio developed \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" published by Xbox Game Studios. The game was announced at E3 2019"}, {"text": "on June 9, 2019. It is the first major entry in the \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" series since 2006's \"Flight Simulator X\" (\"FSX\"), following a long period of uncertainty over the future of the series after the closure of Aces Game Studio in 2009. The game was mainly developed by 120 people. Six years before its release, Microsoft began working with Asobo on a product called \"HoloTour\" for Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality headset. They built a digital version of Machu Picchu's vast mountainside and vistas versus normal buildings at street level. Microsoft executives and Neumann consulted with the Bing Maps team to use their detailed photogrammetry data of Machu Picchu, which included the ruins, to create a HoloLens replica of it. Neumann later used Bing Maps photogrammetry data for Asobo to build a flight demo for the city of Seattle, The technology incorporates Microsoft's discontinued Photosynth project, which generates 3D models from 2D photos. Wanting to use the technology for a game, project leader J\u00f6rg Neumann realized that Microsoft possessed \"Flight Simulator\". David Denhart of Aces Game Studio had archived its flight simulator work, which was given to Asobo. The franchise's return after a 14-year time span is partially credited to"}, {"text": "the business model of Xbox Game Pass, allowing for a wider variety and diversity of games. Xbox chief Phil Spencer said that \"Flight Simulator\" is part of Microsoft's renewed commitment to PC gaming. According to Spencer, their head of global partnerships Sarah Bond worked on the Game Pass \"with the indie montage\" and all the games set to launch on Game Pass, then announced it for PC, as well as Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. \"I didn't know if the PC community was going to be watching or not, but we went \"Flight Sim\", we went \"Age\", we went \"Wasteland\"\u2014I wanted people to know that we want to make sure we're building games and supporting games that respect what the PC community loves\", he elaborated. On bringing back \"Flight Simulator\", he said: \"We do have some pilots on the teams that are big fans of flight, and flight sims, and flying themselves, who are passionate about it, so we said, 'okay, let's see what we can do'.\" Reflecting on the legacy of the series to the aviation community, Spencer thought, \"Can we do something new with \"Flight Sim\"? Can we actually move it forward in an interesting way?\" Neumann said there"}, {"text": "is a pilot shortage crisis, and he felt the simulation would \"create a funnel\" for future pilots. On CNN, he said: When you meet pilots a lot of them that say 'you know what? -- my interest in this whole thing started with \"Microsoft Flight Sim\" many years ago'. Some people choose that as a career, and we do hope to inspire this new generation. Ever since we showed our trailer we've been called by almost every airplane manufacturer and they all tell us there's a pilot crisis, but for us it's about priority-setting. We're excited about making a sim, and if we can help with the pilot crisis in some shape or form - we'll try when the time is right.\" Regarding the aircraft 3D scanning technology, Asobo recalled that, although scanning saves time and simplifies the work, scanning an aircraft can take a full day, depending on its size. Veteran pilots checked and ensured the accuracy of the aircraft models after scanning. Neumann met with Meteoblue, a Swiss company, to incorporate their realistic, real-time, and worldwide weather data into the product. To port realistic weather, the Earth is divided into 250 million boxes, and meteorological and climatological data"}, {"text": "are embedded in them. Further layers of data are placed higher up in the skies to the stratosphere. Using data of the forces on the weather at each location, Meteoblue's system created a set of mathematical equations incorporated in the game that forecast weather conditions. A team of audio directors, designers, and recordists were in charge of the audio incorporated into \"Flight Simulator\". The team worked with a pilot who provided the aircraft. They had a tight schedule of two and a half hours per day; they managed to record three planes per day. 30 aircraft types and five turbofans were recorded using Sennheiser and Audix microphones to record the audio. A Shure VP88 was used to record propeller sounds. To record cockpit sounds, a small portable rig was used that recorded in quadraphonic and ambisonic sound formats at the same time. Biome systems were used to create soundscapes for different environments and times on Earth. All of these recordings were recorded using Audiokinetic Wwise. The Azure Cognitive Services plays a role in improving the pilot and ATC automated dialogue: they built a universal text-to-speech model using 3,000 hours of data to achieve naturalness in dialogue, and used pre-built as"}, {"text": "well as volunteer-submitted audio in order to give different accents to ATCs of different regions. Sometime after its unveiling at E3 2019, Microsoft organized a temporary Insider Program, where members could access the alpha and beta versions of the game, and provide the developers with immediate feedback, suggestions and criticism. Those willing to volunteer for the program underwent a selection session; if they were chosen, they had to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that they would not share their gameplay or their thoughts on the game's under-maintenance version. One volunteer broke their agreement and shared footage to YouTube; Microsoft used their copyrights to have the videos removed immediately. That individual lost the testing privileges. In November 2019, \"FSX\" had a beta \"branch\" which gained telemetry data that would help the development of \"Flight Simulator.\" It was available at no cost for all \"FSX\" and \"FSX Steam Version\" players. Updates. \"Flight Simulator\" is constantly updated with \"World Update[s]\" and \"Sim Update[s]\". The former concerns geographically specific updates, while the latter concerns updates on the game in general. Updates in general are essential to retain the game's realistic stature, as photogrammetry may be outdated, or an early render may be inaccurate. The"}, {"text": "first was \"World Update I: Japan\", was released on September 29, 2020, after Tokyo Game Show 2020 Online. It features photogrammetry for Sendai, Takamatsu, Tokushima, Tokyo, Utsunomiya, and Yokohama, as well as handcrafting for Hachijojima, Kerama, Kushiro, Nagasaki, Shimojishima, and Suwanosejima airports. It adds landing challenges set in Japan. Most notable of all was during Thanksgiving 2020, when \"World Update II: USA\" was released. 50 structures in the United States were handcrafted, including the Las Vegas Strip, which lights up at night and four handcrafted airports: Atlanta Hartsfield\u2013Jackson, Friday Harbor, Dallas/Fort Worth and New York Stewart. Early into 2021, Microsoft released an update named \"Let It Snow\", which unveiled real-time snow and winter environments for winter locations. This is then succeeded with four World Updates concerning various places in Europe, as well as five Sim Updates including a special \"Game of the Year\" update, made as a tribute to fans of the game. At E3 2021, an expansion pack in response to the release of ' was announced to be released in late 2021, featuring the aircraft and carrier seen in its trailer; when the film is announced to be released much later on May 27, 2022, the expansion pack"}, {"text": "was also delayed to be released alongside the film. In 2022, three new updates were implemented concerning Australia, the Iberian Peninsula, and Italy, Malta and Vatican City, as well as one Sim Update and a second update for United States territories, which also added \"Halo Infinite\"\u2019s \"Pelican\" as new aircraft. In August 2022, a \"40th Anniversary Edition\" update was announced, which arrived in November 2022. As a tribute to the franchise's long-running trajectory, the update included several historical planes, helicopters and gliders, along with classic airports and missions from previous installations of the franchise. An expansion based on \"Dune\" and ' is set to be released on November 3, 2023. Microsoft frequently receives feedback from users of \"Flight Simulator\" via their forums, including requests for helicopters, structure updates, inaccurate detail fixes, and the need for improved systems. Some fixes have been made, others are planned, are under investigation, or have begun. The \"Flight Simulator\" team constantly receives feedback from players and has said the game is updated when it is received. Release. The first people to play \"Flight Simulator\" \u2014 journalists, bloggers, influencers, and flight simmers \u2014 were invited by the developer team to Rainier Flight Service, a flight school"}, {"text": "in Renton, Washington. Attendees also flew post-gameplay in a real Cessna aircraft with Justin Fancher, Rainier's flight instructor. On July 13, 2020, Microsoft began accepting preorders, and on August 18, 2020, \"Flight Simulator\" became available for the PC. The company said the game was the largest release in its history, and announced three versions of the title\u2014Standard, Deluxe, and Premium Deluxe\u2014each providing an incremental set of airplanes to fly and additional airports with more detailed scenery and objects. In addition to digital licenses from Microsoft Store and Steam, the game is also available on the PC version of the Xbox Game Pass subscription service, allowing for the first one-month play of the Standard version of \"Flight Simulator\" for just US$1, as opposed to the normal purchase price of US$69, and at US$3.99 for subsequent months subscriptions. At E3 2021, Microsoft announced that the game will be released for Xbox Series X and Series S on July 27, 2021, with undated announcements going back to December 11, 2020. Anticipating a wider range of players, Microsoft made several modifications in order to make gameplay more accessible, like adding four more tutorial sequences, diversifying the AI abilities, as well as adding the option"}, {"text": "of slander floats and skis in aircraft so that it can land anywhere. Indeed, the game was released on the platform on time as announced. Video game critics were provided a preview of it several days ahead of public release. A Microsoft spokesperson stated that plans for its release on Xbox One will be discussed sometime in 2021, although Microsoft stated that the Series X version of the game would be playable on Xbox One via Xbox Cloud Gaming in 2022. It was later released on Xbox One and Cloud Gaming on March 1, the latter allowing gameplay on smartphones, tablets, and PCs with lower-than-required specifications. Bluetooth and Xbox Wireless Controllers are also supported with the Cloud. The game is available for purchase worldwide, except for China; although some aspiring Chinese players are finding ways to purchase it via Steam and the Microsoft Store. Microsoft did not explain why it is unavailable in China, but it has been suggested by the \"South China Morning Post\" that it could be an \"approval issue\", a lack of Internet capacity for the Azure data services to \"keep it running smoothly\", or because of the high quality of the mapping data used \"that would"}, {"text": "potentially bring up a lot of issues with the content for Chinese regulators\". Other releases. Aerosoft, a German developer and publisher of simulation software, announced in July 2020 that they partnered with Microsoft to release a physical version in Europe. Released corresponding with the PC, the physical version is more suitable to install from for those with slower Internet connections. It is available in two editions, Standard and Premium Deluxe and comes with 10 dual-layer DVDs, a printed manual, and a keyboard reference chart. The DVDs are each able to store a maximum of 8.7 gigabytes (GB), and so contain around 90 GB of data that consists of the installer and basic content, including aircraft and the standard-definition default world; however, an Internet connection allows the patches and updates to be downloaded during installation. An active Internet connection is needed for the simulator to update itself when needed. As with the digital versions, after installation the game does not require an active Internet connection and can be played offline; users also have the option to stream more details for the world, better ground imagery, real-world weather and ATC data from Microsoft's servers. Project leader J\u00f6rg Neumann stated that a virtual"}, {"text": "reality (VR) version of \"Flight Simulator\" was the \"very first feedback\" they received after the unveiling at E3 2019, however aspirations of creating a VR version in the game series has been in his mind as far as 2016. They only started developing it in June 2019. In July at a developer livestream on Twitch, they announced a VR version of \"Flight Simulator\". It was later released on December 22, 2020, designated as a free update. While it was previously announced to only be supported on Microsoft Mixed Reality devices, Asobo announced that it is supported on all OpenXR and SteamVR devices The first device that will be supporting the game is Hewlett-Packard's Reverb G2; it was the headset's launch title. Support for other devices will be launched after the Reverb launches. In the VR version, two new tutorials were released, including one using the Airbus A320neo. Corresponding with the VR update, \"real-time snow and true-to-life ice coverage to the entire planet\" was introduced by Microsoft. Microsoft announced \"new performance optimizations\" which reduces the complications of the \"hefty\" required specifications: an i5-8400/Ryzen 5 1500X, GTX 970, and 16 GB of RAM. Reception. Critical response. \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\", within PC as"}, {"text": "well as Xbox Series X and Series S, received \"universal acclaim\" from video game critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Within the site, the game is rated the third-best PC game of 2020, behind \"\" and \"Hades,\" as well as the tenth most discussed game. On OpenCritic, another aggregator, it was rated \"Mighty\" based on 86 critics, along with the summary: \"\"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" is a technical marvel, with an insane amount of polish, incredible realism, and phenomenal controls.\" Many reviewers have placed it among the best games of the year and a gaming essential, with Kat Bailey of \"USGamer\" awarding it August 2020's Game of the Month. Reviewers considered the graphics and realism of \"Flight Simulator\" as the reason it stands out, with Tokarev Kirill of \"80 LEVEL\" and Chad Sapieha of Common Sense Media describing its authenticity as unprecedented, and other critics calling it an aesthetic feat within PC gaming. It has also been said to be a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that appears once a generation, and is predicted to see everlasting legacy. Despite some technical issues, Engadget Devindra Hardawar found the VR version of the game realistic, to the extent that its visuals resonated with him. \"Shacknews\""}, {"text": "and \"VG247\" described the game as revolutionary within the series, as it is the first entry to be used widely by those outside the aviation community. Thus, many critics suggest that non-aviation lovers will also adore the game, especially due to its inherent futuristic sensation. Mark Hachman of \"PC World\" also opines that the game allows for a free exploration of Earth, without worrying about contributing to climate change. It has been labeled the best-looking video game of all time as well as the best-looking flight simulator, albeit being disclaimed as a still-imperfect \"work in progress\". The Xbox Series X and Series S version was also raved among reviewers, with the accessibility additions being praised. Most reviews focused mainly on the graphical and visual side. Although the graphics are noted to be smaller, with the resolution of the affordable, US$299 version downgraded from 4K to 1080p, it did not ruin the experience, which was still similar to the original. The frame rate was also found to be better than the PC version. Contemporarily, it was considered the best releases for the platform, and was described as next-generation. According to Matt Brown of \"Windows Central\", the memorable hint within the game's"}, {"text": "visual still retains. He recommended the Series X version over the Series S, though stated the Series S is also great. Poor accessory support was also stressed upon its release. Many reviewers were dismayed over the lack of gameplay difference from the PC, with the use of controls being described as irritating. Because of the game's routine updates prior to the Xbox release, Gianluca Musso of the Italian \"Eurogamer\" opined that Xbox players have more enjoyment than PC players, at least from that viewpoint; he also recommended it as a Series X and Series S starter. The mainstream media also viewed \"Flight Simulator\" in a positive light. According to Paul Sillers, writing for CNN, \"Flight Simulator\" might be \"the safest way to travel\" during the COVID-19 pandemic, and because of the global economic conditions in the wake of COVID-19, is being used by furloughed pilots to keep their skills fresh. As \"a comprehensive simulator that steadily guides players from square one to being able to fly, combined with kitchen-sink graphics\", \"The Guardian\" concluded that \"Flight Simulator\" \"captures the wonder of flight, and the spiritual and emotional rush of seeing the world in a different way\". Writing for \"The New York"}, {"text": "Times\", Farhad Manjoo describes the game as \"more than a technical achievement or a marketing demo\", writing the experience it offers is akin to an online life. \"The game plunged me into sustained meditations on the permeability between the real [and online world]\u2014[offering] me some hope of a more realistic kind of online life in the future.\" Sales. Within the first few weeks of release, over one million users had played \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\". Market intelligence firm Jon Peddie Research noted in August 2020 that simulator enthusiasts are among the most active gamers online, projecting that \"Flight Simulator\" fans would spend $2.6 billion over the next three years on the game. Peddie also predicted that there would be more than 2.27 million copies sold, and that Intel, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) might benefit from this, as the game is shown to have operational shortcomings, which may increase the demand for more advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs). Following its console debut, the Xbox version was the third best-selling game across Xbox platforms in the U.S. in July 2021. \"Microsoft Flight Simulator\" dropped to fifth-position in the Xbox charts the following month. Audience response. Game"}, {"text": "developer Rami Ismail conducted a casual test of the accuracy of the game performing an in-game real-time flight from Montreal to Amsterdam while simultaneously travelling commercially on that same route and found the game's flight to be accurate within minutes of the real flight. He described the game \"absolutely staggering\" and \"wild\". Investigative journalist Giancarlo Fiorella used the game to detour around El Helicoide, currently a building used for detaining political prisoners in Venezuela and SEBIN offices in Bolivia, the northeastern area of Damascus, Battle of Aleppo sites, and the Uyghur camps in Xinjiang. He concluded the game is not a viable tool for geolocation and investigative works, but said that if it improves to absolute realism, it \"might actually help us with geolocation when we\u2019re trying to figure out where a video or picture was taken\". Initial criticism focused on the simulator's loading times. On Steam, the long in-game installation frustrated many users, forcing them to exceed two hours of gameplay and lose the right to a refund. This resulted in a review bomb, several users demanding refunds and the game's rating dropping. However, Doug Lombardi, Vice President of Steam's owner Valve, says they have addressed this issue. The"}, {"text": "download times had been either slow or stuck. \"Windows Central\" said such bugs are expected saying: \"Just remember, it's launch day.\" There were also reports that features exclusive to the Deluxe and Premium Deluxe version could not be loaded. \"PCGamesN\" compared the problem to a delayed flight: although it may irritate passengers at first, the result will do otherwise. Some users reported inaccuracies in rendering buildings like the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., and Buckingham Palace in London, which were mistakenly rendered as a generic skyscraper and an office block, respectively. Because of a typographical error in the height of a Melbourne suburban building in OpenStreetMap, data which had been used by Bing Maps and then used by Asobo, the flight simulator initially rendered a two-storey building as 212 storeys\u2014inserting an improbably thin and tall skyscraper into the suburb. Users also discovered the system is unable to render palm trees, making them into obelisks \"jutting forth from the pavement like so many teeth\". The TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida had also been misrendered as an office building with grass roofs. Many users on the \"Flight Simulator\" support forums also reported instability and game crashes without an obvious cause. Despite"}, {"text": "this, Tom Warren of \"The Verge\" said \"the glitches are more amusing than they are game breaking\". Engadget's Jessica Conditt opined such bugs represent what the amateur flight simulation genre is all about: creating a planet sandbox where players can do whatever they want. Further negatives were voiced by pilots, expressing disappointment with the game's unrealistic aerodynamics and the aircraft's \"sluggish\" response. At \"Gizmodo\", a pilot commented on the overly sensitive control surfaces at slow airspeeds, noting that it could be fixed \"if the physics model accounted more for reduced airflow over [them]\". Popular destinations. Large numbers of users have been attracted to several destinations. In August 2020, many players went to the Little Saint James island in the US Virgin Islands, where the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly molested underage girls. YouTubers and Redditors shared their experiences and shared the island's coordinates. \"The Independent\" opines that the conspiracy theories of which the Epstein case are the subject are a main driver of interest. It was quickly noted that the game failed to render the island in a detailed fashion; \"Vice\" noticed the game does not include the island's iconic dome and said the activity \"is just another way"}, {"text": "for people to satisfy their fascination with one of the most horrible stories in recent memory, and not that different than sending drones to film the island and chartering private boats to explore its buildings\". In addition, many players have travelled to their own homes via the game, with Asobo revealing in a November 2020 survey that 70% of players had immediately flown to their homes or hometown. \"Flight Simulator\"'s weather has been noted for incorporating real-time data of notable weather abnormalities. During the 2020 Western United States fires, players discovered that smoke from the wildfires had been incorporated into the game's weather model and was visible to players. Although details were not perfectly accurate, \"Polygon\" journalist Austen Goslin stated that it \"does help to contextualize just how big the fires are, and how much of [California] is impacted by them\". As Hurricane Laura was approaching Texas and Louisiana, players flew inside the Category 4 hurricane. \"The Washington Post\" added the inaccuracy of the wind speeds, and that the hurricane did not swirl. Mathias M\u00fcller, head of Meteoblue said: \"Yesterday\u2019s hurricane was very beautiful to look at and was accurately predicted by our models even days ahead. We are very"}, {"text": "happy that real-time weather is now part of \"Flight Simulator\". It was a long journey as integrating these massive amounts of data required the solution of many problems.\" He said that Laura inspired them to improve \"Flight Simulator\"s weather quality. The Suez Canal soon became popularized among players following the obstruction of the canal by the \"Ever Given\" ship, with the vessel later becoming a downloadable mod. Players using it shared their flights on social media."}, {"text": "Davsha (; , \"Dabshaa\") is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2010. Geography. Davsha is located 158 km south of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kurumkan is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pauwasi may refer to:"}, {"text": "Cleburne County High School is a public school in Heflin, Alabama, United States, serving students in grades 8 to 12 in Cleburne County, Alabama. It has about 280 students. Old Cleburne County High School is a historic school building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tigers are the school mascot and the school colors red and white. Its football team was established in 1924. Old Cleburne County High School. The old Cleburne County High School building, also known as Old Cleburne County High School, is at 911 Willoughby St. in Heflin, Alabama. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It was built around 1936 and served as a school until 1984."}, {"text": "Dushkachan (; , \"Dushukachan\") is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2010. There are 3 streets. Geography. Dushkachan is located 10 km northeast of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhneangarsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Marceli\u0107 () is a Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Kumora () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 565 as of 2010. There are 21 streets. Geography. Kumora is located 230 km east of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novy Uoyan is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Michael Ijemuan Folorunsho (born 7 February 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Napoli. He also plays for the Italy national team. Club career. Folorunsho spent his youth years with Lazio and played for their Under-19 squad. On 18 July 2017, he signed with Serie C club Virtus Francavilla. Folorunsho made his professional Serie C debut for Virtus Francavilla on 26 August 2017, in a game against Lecce. He played 60 Serie C games for Virtus Francavilla in the two seasons. On 13 July 2019, Folorunsho signed for Serie A club Napoli on a permanent deal. He was sent on loan two days later to Serie C club Bari for two years. Napoli sent Folorunsho on loan to several clubs in the Serie B: Reggina in 2020\u201321, Pordenone and Reggina in 2021\u201322, and Bari in 2022\u201323. On 16 August 2023, Folorunsho agreed to join Serie A club Hellas Verona on loan for the duration of the 2023\u201324 season. On 11 January 2025, Folorunsho signed for Fiorentina on loan with an option to make the deal permanent. International career. In March 2024, Folorunsho received his first call-up to play for Italian senior squad from head"}, {"text": "coach Luciano Spalletti. However, he remained on the bench during friendly games with Venezuela and Ecuador played in the United States. Later that year, on 6 June, Folorunsho was included in the Italian squad for the UEFA Euro 2024. On 9 June, he debuted in a friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Stadio Carlo Castellani, coming as a substitute to goalscorer Davide Frattesi in the 76th minute as Italy won 1\u20130. Personal life. Folorunsho is of Nigerian descent. Honours. Individual"}, {"text": "Alan Sheppard sometimes spelt \"Allan Sheppard\" is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for North Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. Background. Sheppard represented NSW Country in 1978 before being offered a playing contract by North Sydney. Playing career. Sheppard made his first grade debut for North Sydney in round 1 1979 against Cronulla-Sutherland at North Sydney Oval which ended in a 7\u201334 loss. Sheppard made a total of 18 appearances for Norths in his debut year as the club finished last on the table and claimed the wooden spoon after winning only 2 games all year. Sheppard finished as North Sydney's top try scorer in 1979. For the following two seasons, Norths finished towards the bottom of the ladder before finishing third in 1982. Sheppard missed out on the entire 1982 season due to injury. Sheppard played with Norths until the end of the 1985 season before retiring."}, {"text": "is a Japanese female professional squash player who represents Japan women's national squash team internationally. She achieved her career-highest PSA ranking of World No. 127 in January 2018 during the 2017-18 PSA World Tour. Career. She entered the Professional Squash Association in 2017 and competed in the Nissan Open Championships as a part of the 2016-17 PSA World Tour. Her best result at a PSA World Tour came at the Greater Bendigo International Open 2019 which was part of the 2019\u201320 PSA World Tour where she reached quarterfinals of the event and lost to Australia's Sarah Cardwell. She was part of the Japanese squad which competed at the Women's World Team Championships in 2012, 2016 and in 2018. Risa also represented Japan at the 2018 Asian Games, making her Asian Games debut appearance and claimed a bronze medal with the team in the women's team event at the 2018 Asian Games along with Misaki Kobayashi and Satomi Watanabe. At the 2019 Women's Asian Individual Squash Championships, she progressed to round two of the event and lost to Malaysia's Wen Li Lai."}, {"text": "Sabyasachi Dutta is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress and was MLA from Rajarhat New Town Vidhan Sabha Constituency. He has also served as the first Mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, he joined BJP. Early life and education. Born to Gouri Sankar Dutta, Sabyasachi Dutta got a Bachelor of Laws in the year 1994 from South Calcutta Law College under Calcutta University. Political career. Dutta started his political career from Indian National Congress and later joined the All India Trinamool Congress in the late 1990s. Sabyasachi Dutta was elected councilor in the Bidhannagar Municipality for the first time in the 2000 Municipal elections. He was re-elected in the 2005 and 2010 Municipal elections. In 2011, he was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly from Rajarhat New Town constituency. In 2015, after the merger of several municipalities and the establishment of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, he was elected as the Mayor of the corporation. In 2016, he won for the second time as Member of Legislative Assembly. Before joining BJP, he was a member of the All India Trinamool Congress. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party on"}, {"text": "1 October 2019 in presence of BJP President Amit Shah. He has been appointed the Secretary of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 1 June 2020. In October 2021, Dutta returned to All India Trinamool Congress exactly after two years. Controversy. In 2019, he stated that \"Bengal is now becoming a second Pakistan\". In 2021, Sabyasachi Dutta remarked that he would send those who oppose \"Jai Shri Ram\" to Pakistan."}, {"text": "Uoyan () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 334 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Uoyan is located 162 km east of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novy Uoyan is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Adyaksha In America is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language romantic comedy. It was written by Shafi and directed by Yoganand Muddanna, in his directorial debut. Produced by People Media Factory, It features Sharan and Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. The supporting cast includes Sadhu Kokila and Rangayana Raghu. The score and soundtrack for the film is done by V. Harikrishna and cinematography is done by Sudhakar Siddharth and Anish. The editing is done by K. M. Prakash. The film marks the 25th film of actress, Ragini Dwivedi. The film is a spiritual sequel to the 2014 film \"Adyaksha\" and a remake of 2015 Malayalam film \"Two Countries\" starring Dileep and Mamta Mohandas in the lead. Synopsis. A. Ullas is a scamster living in a small town who will do anything for good money. A confusion leads him to marry a rich NRI girl, who has an alcohol problem. Then Ullas tries to sweep away the money of the girl and things becomes complicated Production. The principal photography of the film was held in April 2018 in America. First actor Sharan was on board for the project. Later actress Ragini Dwivedi was on board. Then V. Harikrishna was on board to"}, {"text": "score music for the film. The makers announced that it will be a sequel project to the 2014 comedy hit Adyaksha. The film's major portions have been shot in America. Only few portions of the film has been shot in Bengaluru and Mysuru. Release. The film was released on 4 October 2019 in Karnataka. Music. The film's background score and the soundtracks are composed V. Harikrishna. The music rights were acquired by D Beats music company. Reception. \"Times of India\" wrote \"Adhyaksha in America is a script that is tailor-made for Sharan fans. This remake of the Malayalam film Two Countries sticks to the original narrative, while it also has the elements that a Kannada comedy lover would want. The film has more than its share of laughs, and it is picturised well with a good cast too\"."}, {"text": "Kholodnaya () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 345 as of 2010. Geography. Kholodnaya is located 77 km east of Nizhneangarsk (the district's administrative centre) by road."}, {"text": "Gilbert Genesta (born as Royden Joseph Gilbert Raison DelaGenesta; March 29, 1878 \u2013 November 9, 1930) was an American escape artist and magician who died while performing a water barrel escape. Biography. He first became interested in magic sometime about 1890 when he witnessed a school house show in Foxburg, Pennsylvania. He went on to perform professionally as Genesta, the wizard of wonders. Death. On November 9, 1930, Genesta was performing a trick in a vaudeville theater in Frankfort, Kentucky. He would attempt to escape from a water-filled milk can, a trick made famous by Harry Houdini. Prior to the performance his milk can had been dropped, damaging the secret escape hatch and rendering it inoperable. Genesta's assistants were unaware of this, and he drowned before he could be freed."}, {"text": "The Koenigsberger ratio is the proportion of remanent magnetization relative to induced magnetization in natural rocks. It was first described by . It is a dimensionless parameter often used in geophysical exploration to describe the magnetic characteristics of a geological body for help in interpreting magnetic anomaly patterns. formula_1 The total magnetization of a rock is the sum of its natural remanent magnetization and the magnetization induced by the ambient geomagnetic field. Thus, a Koenigsberger ratio, \"Q\", greater than 1 indicates that the remanence properties contribute the majority of the total magnetization of the rock."}, {"text": "The Sault Plat River () flows north/south on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Sept-Rivi\u00e8res and Minganie RCM, in C\u00f4te-Nord region, Quebec, Canada. Part of the river is located in the municipality of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre, and is visible from The Whale Route (138). Toponymy. The toponym \"Rivi\u00e8re du Sault Plat\" was made official on December 5, 1968 in the place name bank of the Commission de toponymie du Qu\u00e9bec. The name first appeared officially on a map in 1969 in the \"R\u00e9pertoire g\u00e9ographique du Qu\u00e9bec\". The river was not named on 1913 & 1927 maps by Gustave Rinfret or Edgar Rochette (1890-1953). Geology and geomorphology. Considered a geological heritage, the furrows of glacial erosion in the rock where the Plat de Sault River flows make it of exceptional geological interest. The site offers remarkable geological and geomorphological landscapes to admire and study. The rocks of the river show furrows of glacial erosion. The Sault Plat River flows in a trough-like shape carved into the rock of the Canadian Shield by the passage of glaciers during the last glaciation.The erosion marks due to the mechanical abrasion of the ice, the grooves, are up to 5 metres wide, the"}, {"text": "depth generally corresponds to a third of the width. The elongation of the groove corresponds to the direction of the glacial flow some 18,000 years ago. The bedrock of the area belongs to the Grenville Geological Province. This 34 km long river flows over eye-eyed granite orthogneiss. Located to the west of Minganie RCM, the Sault Plat watershed is bordered to the east by the Tortue River watershed and to the west by the Bouleau River watershed. It covers an area of 93 km2. The Sault Plat River empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence at 50\u00b017'34\" N and 65\u00b026'35\" W, 50 km west of the village of Rivi\u00e8re-au-Tonnerre and 70 km east of the city of Sept-\u00celes. Soil and subsoil. On the edge of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the coastal plain area is 5 km wide. It is characterized by an escarpment of nearly 100 m of difference in altitude by the sea and by a relatively flat plateau gradually rising to an altitude of 150 m at its northern limit. Upstream, with an average altitude of up to 300 m, the piedmont zone divides the dominant physiography and corresponds to the rest of the catchment area. At"}, {"text": "the northern end of the watershed, rounded rocky hills rising to 533 make up the relief. The subsoil of the watershed is composed of magmatic rocks, mostly an assemblage of undeformed granite and pegmatite. A band of migmatite more than 5 km wide crosses the basin from east to west in its center. The bedrock is covered only by a thin layer of discontinuous glacial deposits not exceeding a thickness of 1 m. The coastal fringe is characterized by the regression and transgression of the Goldthwait Sea, which has left a large amount of marine clay and silt sediments covered by deltaic sandy sediments. A series of giant glacial grooves located on the bed of the river near the mouth and visible from the Route des Baleines (138) is listed as an exceptional geological site. Hydrology. Entirely located in the Minganie RCM, the Sault Plat River watershed includes three major lakes.<br> Lake Delaunay, located in the centre of the watershed, occupies an old glacial valley in a \"U\" shape and has a very elongated shape in the north/south axis (8 km long by a few hundred metres wide, for an area of 3.06 km2). Environnement. An important migratory stopover for"}, {"text": "birds, the C\u00f4te-Nord offers many favourite sites to observe 350 listed species at leisure. Avian fauna. Birding lists at the mouth of the Sault Plat River in 2021, 2020, 2016, by various field observers of eBird Quebec managed by Qu\u00e9becOiseaux. Flora. On the coastal plain, the forest cover of the watershed is dominated by Balsam fir and Black spruce forest, in the piedmont zone, the Black spruce forest with Fir and moss dominates."}, {"text": "To The Stars Inc., formerly known as To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences Inc., is a San Diego-based company co-founded by Tom DeLonge (guitarist of Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves), Harold E. Puthoff (parapsychologist), and Jim Semivan (author). The company, which is composed of aerospace, science, and entertainment divisions, has produced music recordings, books, television shows and films. A focus of the company is the promotion of UFOs and other fringe science. History and funding. The company was founded in 2017 as a public benefit corporation by Jim Semivan, Harold E. Puthoff, and Tom DeLonge. The Entertainment Division was created by acquiring DeLonge's previous media company, To the Stars, Inc. In September 2017, the company began offering $50 million worth of public stock through a Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding campaign. According to SEC filings, as of October 2018 only $1 million of those shares had been sold and the company had a $37.4 million deficit, largely from a stock incentive plan for its employees, prompting Ars Technica and Vice to question its financial sustainability. In 2022, the company rebranded from To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science and became known more simply as To The Stars. Entertainment."}, {"text": "The entertainment leg of To the Stars, often referred to as To the Stars Media, publishes albums, books, TV shows and films. To the Stars, Inc., the original company folded into the current entity in 2017, was announced in 2014 as a record label which debuted with Angels & Airwaves' fifth studio album \"The Dream Walker\" and DeLonge's first solo album, \"To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends\". To the Stars began releasing books, graphic novels and children's picture books in 2015, many of which were co-published by Simon & Schuster. Most of the company's books deal with topics of the supernatural, ufology and science fiction. The publishing division most prominently publishes novels in the ' fictional series, co-authored by DeLonge and A. J. Hartley, as well as the \"Sekret Machines\" non-fiction companion series ' co-authored by DeLonge and Peter Levenda. It also publishes the space-based series \"Cathedrals of Glass\" by Hartley, the young adult series \"Poet Anderson\" by DeLonge and Suzanne Young, and the young adult adventure series \"Strange Times\" by DeLonge and Geoff Herbach. The company co-released the short animated film ' in 2014, but its first major project was the History Channel series ' in 2019. A"}, {"text": "feature film based on the \"Strange Times\" book series was in production, but it was repurposed into a television series for Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). To the Stars has also started production on a documentary TV series and a feature film for the \"Sekret Machines\" franchise. Most recently, the company produced Tom DeLonge's feature directorial debut, \"Monsters of California\" (2023). Upcoming projects include the animated series \"Breaking Bear\" for Tubi, and \"Sekret Machines\" for TV with Legendary. Promotion of UFOs and fringe science. The science and aerospace divisions are devoted to the \"outer edges of science\" such as investigating unidentified flying objects. Harold E. Puthoff described their goals as \"imagine having 25th-century science \"this\" century.\" One of their potential projects is an \"electromagnetic vehicle.\" Vice reported that the company would participate \"in the investigation of UFOs and other fringe science projects\" and that \"many of the technologies or phenomena being researched by the company are based on highly speculative theories that toe the line of pseudoscience\". To the Stars has detailed the risks involved with this research to potential investors, including possible failure to produce results in areas such as beamed energy propulsion launch systems and telepathy. Despite the company's"}, {"text": "work being primarily associated with ufology, Luis Elizondo stated: \"None of us at TTSA consider ourselves \u2018Ufologists\u2019 or part of the \u2018Ufology culture,\u2019 in fact, most of us come from a U.S. government background (both Defense and Intelligence).\" Vice reported that the company's \"partnership with the U.S. Army may mean that it fancies itself as a military contractor\", but that the organization \"swings between being contenders for military contracts and a UFO research organization\". Elizondo left the company in late 2020. The VAULT. The \"Virtual Analytics UAP Learning Tool\" (VAULT) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT team collects, analyses and provides their authentication of UFO sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained through declassified government materials. Three videos from the VAULT taken during the USS Nimitz UFO incident and the USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents were publicly confirmed by the US Navy in September 2019 as authentic videos taken by Navy pilots. The videos were part of a campaign by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who at the time was associated with To the Stars, who said that he wanted to shed light on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secretive Department"}, {"text": "of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings. In April 2020, the same footage released by the company was subsequently declassified and officially released by the Navy. The company, with assistance from Christopher Mellon, who worked formerly for the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Department of Defense, engaged congress and arranged classified congressional hearings with the pilots involved in the incidents aimed at understanding potential threats to aviators. ADAM Research Project. The company's ADAM Research Project is promoting what they believe to be an \"extraterrestrial\" metal for commercial and military applications. In July 2019 the company stated it had acquired and was studying \"potentially exotic materials\" as part of its Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials (ADAM) research project. Steve Justice, To The Stars's COO and former head of Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works said in a statement that \"the structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application\u201d and that the materials would be studied in an attempt to reverse engineer them. Regarding the origin of the materials he stated: \u201cthey've been collected from sources with varying levels of chain-of-custody documentation, so we are focusing on verifiable facts and working"}, {"text": "to develop independent scientific proof of the materials' properties and attributes.\" In its SEC filing, the company is recorded as having paid $35,000 for several items including \"six pieces of Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal\" and a piece of aluminum. According to the company, the metals are believed to be from an unidentified flying object, and were previously \"retained and studied\" by ufologist Linda Moulton Howe. Moulton Howe claimed in 2004 that the metals become a \u201clifting body\u201d when subjected to electromagnetic radiation, but TTS recognized this claim was not substantiated and stated they were working on \"[verifying] facts and working to develop independent scientific proof of the materials' properties and attributes.\" Today, however, she claims she has had the samples tested by Carnegie Science's Department of Technical Magnetism in 1996 and again by Harold E. Puthoff and others on several occasions. According to a letter from Puthoff in 2012 the tests were unable to prove the alien origin of the samples or any \"interesting/anomalous outcome\" but suggested that one additional test was remaining that required special equipment which was not readily available. The company has partnered with research labs founded by Puthoff to study the materials further. Critics say there is no"}, {"text": "evidence to support the claim that the materials are \"otherworldly in origin\" or that they may be \"scientifically important\". Commenting on similar reports of \"Alien Alloys\", American Chemical Society expert panel member Richard Sachleben considers such claims \"quite impossible\". According to Sachleben, \"I don't think it's plausible that there's any alloys that we can't identify\". May Nyman of Oregon State University Department of Chemistry criticized claims of extensive research to identify an unknown alloy, saying, \"if we had such mysterious metals, you could take it to any university where research is done, and they could tell you what are the elements and something about the crystalline phase within a few hours.\" Chris Cogswell, who holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and hosts the Mad Scientist Podcast, states that \u201cthe chances of it being important scientifically are extremely slim\" and suggested that the Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc pieces may be slag from an industrial process such as the Betterton-Kroll process. On October 17, 2019, the company announced it entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. The five-year contract will focus on \"inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics,"}, {"text": "quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion.\" According to the U.S. Army, no public funding will go to the group, but at least $750,000 will be provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the Stars technologies. The contract states that To the Stars will provide samples in its possession of \u201cmetamaterials\u201d, any data or \u201cobtained vehicles\" that use \u201cbeamed energy propulsion,\u201d and any information or technology related to \u201cactive camouflage\u201d for testing and analysis of potential application on Army ground vehicles. Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that the US government has approached To the Stars since \u201cIf materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here.\u201d According to Halleaux, the Army is also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars and \"TruClear Global\", a company that creates custom video screen billboards, aimed at providing \"advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele.\" Published works. Books and graphic novels. Sekret Machines Cathedrals of Glass Poet Anderson Strange Times Other"}, {"text": "Amida \"Ada\" Neretniece (1924-2008) was a Soviet Latvian film director. Life. Neretniece's father was a Latvian rifleman and Soviet commissar and her mother was an accountant. She worked with Sergei Eisenstein. When she graduated from Leningrad Secondary School No. 24 the school was evacuated and was in Kirov. In 1949 she completed her course at the All-State Institute of Cinematography. She worked at the Riga Film Studio from 1949 (making documentary until 1954). Her first feature film she directed was \"Rita\" in 1957. The film took the 1959 award for directing at the Baltic and Belarusian Film Festival in Vilnius and a prize at the All-Union Film Festival in Kiev. In 1966 she was directing spy films with a heavy bias towards a Soviet version of the Second World War. In 1988 she was voted best director at the Lielais Kristaps film festival in Latvia for her film \"Z\u012bl\u0113\u0161ana uz j\u0113ra l\u0101psti\u0146as\" (The Divination of the Lamb). In 1989 she directed the film \"Stranger in the Village. In 2003 Kin Lats created a montage of her films with an interview to honour her work titled DOMINANTE. Kinore\u017eisore Ada Neretniece. She directed the film is 1992 . It wasa Latvian film"}, {"text": "based on Honor\u00e9 de Balzac's play \"The Stepmother\". The film was a co-production of the Latvian film studio AL KO and the Russian creative association Ekran. Ada died in 2008 in Riga."}, {"text": "Willers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Wapei may refer to:"}, {"text": "Harri\u00ebt Balfour also Schoonebeek and Kirke (c. 1818 \u2014 3 December 1858) was a freed slave from Nickerie, Suriname. Biography. Balfour was the daughter of a slave woman and the plantation owner, Dr. James Balfour from Dalgety in Fife, Scotland. First mentioned in the slave registers of Berbice dated 1 February 1819, her details are given as \"Premiere, \u00bd year old, mother: Diena\", which means she was born in July or August 1818. Balfour was at the time practicing medicine in the British Colony of Berbice. Her mother, Diena, is registered as a 21-year-old black field worker, a slave belonging to the Dutchman Jan van der Woordt, who had been the first owner of the Woordtsburg plantation. When Balfour moved to Nickerie to run the Waterloo plantation in 1819, he indicated Premiere's name as either Premiere or Herri\u00ebt. By the late 1830s, James Balfour was the owner of 700 slaves and lived at \"Waterloo\" plantation with Harri\u00ebt. \"A German soldier, August Kappler, who visited Balfour at Waterloo plantation in 1838, described him as an eccentric man \u2018who had immeasurable wealth and was always working to obtain more\u2019 but who, despite his success, lived \u2018alone, without wife or children, except for"}, {"text": "a mulatto, who he fathered with one of his slaves\u2019\" Born into slavery in the Dutch colony of Surinam, Harri\u00ebt Balfour remained enslaved - even after the emancipation of slaves in the British colonies in 1834 - until her father died in 1841. Her father's funeral consisted of a feast presided over by his corpse in a coffin, to which all significant people in Nickerie were invited. He was then buried in a brick tomb, placed between the sugar mill and the slave houses \u2013 so that the slaves would continue to pass by him each day. Once a year, the grave was opened and cleaned until Amir Sankar, the owner of Waterloo since 1936, ended the ceremony. The day before he died, Balfour published an official request for Herriet to be freed from slavery. He died on 13 July 1841 and Herriet's manumission was granted on 4 August. After her father's death, Herriet was briefly given the Dutch surname of Schoonebeek, one register recording her name as Henriette Schoonebeek. Jan van Schoonenbeek was the surveyor of the Woordtsburg plantation where she was born. On 29 December 1841, her name was officially changed to Herriet Balfour. She married her first"}, {"text": "cousin, David Kirke in early 1842, and travelled with him to Scotland. She bore two daughters but both died young. The couple then returned to Nickerie in 1848 and had a son, James who died when three years old. Death and legacy. Harri\u00ebt Balfour died in Nickerie on 3 December 1858. Her husband had died in January 1850. A Kirke family memorial commemorates her, her husband and children and stands in Cairneyhill in Fife."}, {"text": "Francesco Mezzoni (born 24 July 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Virtus Entella. Club career. Carpi. He spent his youth years at Carpi and was called up for the senior squad on several occasions during 2016\u201317 Serie B and 2017\u201318 Serie B seasons, but did not see any field time. Napoli. On 31 August 2017, he joined Serie A club Napoli. For the next two seasons, he played for the club's Under-19 squad in Campionato Primavera 1 and UEFA Youth League, without any call-ups to the senior squad. Loan to Carrarese. On 1 August 2019, he joined Serie C club Carrarese on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Carrarese on 24 August 2019 in a game against Pontedera, playing the whole game. He finished the loan with 13 league appearances, 8 of them as a starter, and 1 goal. Loan to Pontedera. On 30 January 2020, he moved on loan to Pontedera. He played in 4 games (3 as a starter) before Serie C season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Loan to Feralpisal\u00f2. On 17 September 2020, he joined Feralpisal\u00f2 on loan. Loan to Pro Vercelli."}, {"text": "On 8 January 2021, he joined Pro Vercelli on loan. Loan to Pistoiese. On 31 August 2021, he was loaned to Pistoiese. Loan to Ancona. On 14 July 2022, Mezzoni moved on loan to Ancona. Loans to Perugia. On 10 August 2023, Mezzoni joined Perugia on loan. Mezzoni was included in the matchday squad of Napoli for the first time since he signed in the first three games of the 2024\u201325 season, however, he remained on the bench. On 30 August 2024 he returned to Perugia on a new loan. Virtus Entella. For the 2025\u201326 season, Mezzoni signed with Virtus Entella in Serie B. International career. He first represented his country with the Under-18 squad on 7 February 2018 in a friendly against France."}, {"text": "Don't Slander Me is an album by the American musician Roky Erickson, recorded in 1982 or 1983 and released in 1986. It features former Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady as part of Erickson's backing band, as well as former members of the Aliens. The recording of the album took two months, from May 14 to July 16, 1982. The song \"Burn the Flames\", recorded on the last day, was featured on the soundtrack for the 1985 horror movie \"The Return of the Living Dead\". \"Haunt\" would later appear in the 1999 film \"Boys Don't Cry\". During the few years that the album's tracks went unreleased, a different version of the title track came out as a single in 1984, with a new version of Erickson's \"Starry Eyes\" on its B-side. Background. After recording his album \"The Evil One\" with California-based band the Aliens in 1979, Roky Erickson was released from Austin State Hospital into the care of his mother. Staying in Texas, he enlisted a number of local punk rock acts to be his backing band: first a couple of pickup gigs with the Reversible Cords and Sterling Morrison's group the Bizarrors, then more extensively with Austin bands the Explosives"}, {"text": "and the Resurrectionists, as well as the Nervebreakers in Dallas. The material they played largely drew from the Aliens' arrangements of songs from \"The Evil One\" and the handful of Erickson's 1970s singles that had preceded the album, plus a couple of 13th Floor Elevators hits and material from Erickson's larger body of unreleased songs. Of these bands, the Explosives would stick with Erickson the longest, touring behind him through 1981 until they could no longer tolerate the singer's erratic behavior due to deteriorating mental health. A new lineup of the Aliens were playing in the Bay Area. The drummer, D.H. Peligro, left to join the Dead Kennedys and was replaced by Paul Zahl of Tuxedomoon and the Flamin' Groovies. Band manager Craig Luckin eventually reunited the core of the group to record a follow-up to \"The Evil One\", with Erickson on vocals and guitar, Billy Miller on electric autoharp, Motown artist Andre \"Mandr\u00e9\" Lewis on keyboards, and lead guitarist Duane Aslaksen handling musical arrangements and production as Stu Cook had on the previous album. Zahl recruited his SVT bandmate, former Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady, to fill out the group. The basic tracks and overdubs were done at Site"}, {"text": "Studios in San Rafael, California. The recording process went smoothly and quickly in comparison to the previous album's long, difficult, and often interrupted sessions. Originally titled \"Burn the Flames,\" CBS UK funded the album's recording, planning to release the record as a follow-up to their 1980 \"Roky Erickson and the Aliens/TEO\" album, but upon hearing the finished product, CBS executives balked. Luckin managed to secure CBS's funding, but was forced to shop the record to a new buyer. In the interim, Erickson had backup bands for live gigs, including a somewhat reunited version of the 13th Floor Elevators. In 1984 he recorded five songs with a group of Austin-based musicians fronted by producer Speedy Sparks, including three tracks that he'd done for the unreleased \"Burn the Flames\" album. Two of these saw release as the single \"Don't Slander Me\" b/w \"Starry Eyes\" that year for Sparks' tiny Dynamic Records label, followed by the full five-song \"Clear Night for Love\" EP on French label New Rose in 1985. In 1986, Enigma Records subsidiary Pink Dust eventually picked up the \"Burn the Flames\" album three years after it was recorded, releasing it as \"Don't Slander Me\" alongside a repackaged compact disc of"}, {"text": "\"The Evil One\" and the live compilation \"Gremlins Have Pictures\" culled from seven years worth of Erickson backed up by his various bands. Demon Records issued \"Don't Slander Me\" in the U.S., added three tracks from \"The Evil One's\" session not previously available outside the U.S. Songs. Many songs on \"Don't Slander Me\" were in Erickson's live sets for several years. He had been performing \"Bermuda,\" \"Can't Be Brought Down,\" \"Starry Eyes,\" and the album's title track as early as 1975 with his band Blieb Alien, and then the Aliens, Nervebreakers, and Explosives. An early Blieb Alien version of \"Starry Eyes\" had been a local country radio staple when it first appeared as a B-side in 1975, and the Aliens' first recording of \"Bermuda\" made waves within the punk movement as a single in 1977. A version of \"Can't Be Brought Down\" was recorded for \"The Evil One\" but never finished. Although the album contains spooky, sinister, and vampiric songs like \"Burn the Flames,\" \"Haunt,\" and the re-recorded \"Bermuda,\" \"Don't Slander Me\" marks a departure from the pure horror rock of \"The Evil One.\" A new version of \"Starry Eyes\" inserts itself as a sentimental love song while the both"}, {"text": "\"You Drive Me Crazy\" and \"Nothing in Return\" show Erickson returning to his rockabilly roots of Buddy Holly fandom. Reception. Upon its release, \"Don't Slander Me\" garnered mixed reviews. \"The Village Voice\"s Robert Christgau called it \"a garage rant about blues theology\" and said that the album \"sounds like a bunch of would-be old farts (with genuine article Jack Casady lending a touch of authenticity) latching onto the old wildman for the kind of magic carpet ride other music lovers only collect.\" Ira Robbins' 1987 \"New Music Record Guide\" called it \"typically gripping,\" adding that, \"the inclusion of two [Buddy] Holly-inspired pop tunes makes for a bizarrare contrast to \"Burn the Flames.\" In a 1988 column for \"Spin\", underground music critic Byron Coley dedicated a page to reviewing a roundup of several Erickson releases that were flooding the market. While praising most of them, he called \"Don't Slander Me\" \"Roky's least satisfying effort ever,\" saying that it was \"a bland, bored set of tunes.\" The \"Los Angeles Times\" noted, \"There's a menacing edginess underlying some of the tunes\u2014for all the bouncy garage-rock spunk of the title track, you wouldn`t want to ignore its repeated warning.\" In retrospective reviews, \"Austin Chronicle\""}, {"text": "writer Scott Schinder called Erickson's 1980s albums, released after his half-decade involuntary stay in a Texas psychiatric hospital, \"the clearest glimpse into his raging musical soul.\" He described \"Don't Slander Me\" as more ragged and less focused than Erickson's previous album, 1981's \"The Evil One\", but a grabber nonetheless, anchored by such classics as 'Bermuda' and the title track, and revealing a romantic edge in the Buddy Holly pastiches 'Starry Eyes' and 'Nothin' in Return.'\" \"Pitchfork\" reviewer Jason Heller said that \"Don\u2019t Slander Me\"'s \"cleanliness and control ... makes for a more palatable but less vital Erickson\" than on the 1981 disc \"The Evil One\", but that its mix of \"souped-up garage rock\" and \"ringing, jangly \" power-pop were still powerful, calling the song \"Burn the Flames\" \"good, clean, Halloweenish fun\". After Erickson's death, \"Billboard\" writer Morgan Enos called \"Don't Slander Me\" Erickson's \"attempt to embrace the punk era,\" and praised the love song \"Starry Eyes\" as \"a heartfelt jangler worthy of the Byrds. It proved Erickson\u2019s music stretched far beyond horror-show tomfoolery: like his hero Buddy Holly, he was a consummate melodic master, and he could write ballads with the best of them.\" Mark Deming of AllMusic called the"}, {"text": "album \"one of Erickson's strongest rock albums, with his voice sharp as a switchblade... While Erickson was at the height of his legendary eccentricity when \"Don't Slander Me\" was recorded, this album sounds passionate, focused, and coherent on all tracks.\" Track listing. Bonus tracks. The three bonus tracks had appeared on 1981's U.S. version of \"The Evil One\" but not on any releases in the U.K. Together with the 1987 U.K. 12-track \"TOE\" reissue retitled \"I Think of Demons\", they encompassed all 15 songs from Roky Erickson and the Aliens' \"TOE\" sessions. The tracks also appear as side three of Light in the Attic's 2013 double-LP re-release of the album with an etching by artist Travis Millard on side four."}, {"text": "This is a list of rural localities in Saratov Oblast. Saratov Oblast (, \"Saratovskaya oblast\") is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Saratov. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,521,892."}, {"text": "Sara Lezana M\u00ednguez (born 5 March 1948) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer and actress. In 1960, she made her debut on Teatro Valle Incl\u00e1n in Madrid with \"Historia de los Tarantos\", by Alfredo Ma\u00f1as. Then she made her film debut on \"Los Tarantos\" with Carmen Amaya, and then she appeared in \"En el extra\u00f1o viaje\" by Fernando Fern\u00e1n G\u00f3mez, \"La b\u00fasqueda\" by Angelino Fons, \"La Carmen\" along Juli\u00e1n Mateos, \"Casa Manchada\" along Stephen Boyd, \"Donde hay patr\u00f3n...\" along Manolo Escobar, and \"Historia de S\". She appeared in Spaghetti Western films like \"Gunfight in the Red Sands\" (1963), \"Fall of the Mohicans\" (1965), and \"Murieta\" (1963). She worked with the actor Daniel Mart\u00edn and the torero Palomo Linares. In 1968 she started her own dance business, Ballet Flamenco de Madrid, and between 1970 and 1980 she worked in Japan, United States, Canada, South America and Europe. She worked with the guitarist Pep\u00edn Salazar. In 1980 she opened a property, Casa Sara, for which she worked with the guitarists Paco Izquierdo and Rafael And\u00fajar, and the singers Antonio \"Cuquito\" de Barbate and Pepe el Malague\u00f1o. With the business she released \"Carmen\" at teatro Rialto, \"Espa\u00f1a baila flamenco\" at Teatro Mu\u00f1oz Seca"}, {"text": "and \"Flamenco Feeling. El sentimiento\" at Teatro de las Esquinas."}, {"text": "Irwin Abraham Meltzer Hyman (March 22, 1935 \u2013 February 7, 2005) was an American school psychologist known for his research on, and opposition to, corporal punishment of children. Early life and education. Hyman was born on March 22, 1935, in Neptune, New Jersey. He received his B.A. from the University of Maine in 1958, followed by a M.Ed. in 1961 and Ed.D. in 1964, both from Rutgers University. Career. Hyman worked at the Vineland Training School (then known as the American Institute for Mental Studies) as chief of clinical services from 1966 to 1967. He then briefly taught at Newark State College before joining the faculty of Temple University in 1968. He was initially an associate professor of school psychology at Temple, and in 1975, he was named a full professor there, a position he held until his death. At Temple, he founded the National Center for the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives in the Schools, after his research found evidence of negative effects of corporal punishment on children. He also served as director of the Center. Honors and awards. In 1999, Hyman received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science and Profession of Psychology from the Pennsylvania"}, {"text": "Psychological Association. In 2002, he received the Legends in School Psychology Award from the National Association of School Psychologists. Personal life and death. Hyman died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 7, 2005."}, {"text": "Acne () is a 2008 Uruguayan coming-of-age film directed by Federico Veiroj. The film showed in the Director's Fortnight portion of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Plot. A thirteen-year-old guy desperately looking for his first kiss against all odds."}, {"text": "Elaine Chew is an operations researcher and pianist focused on the study of musical structures as they apply to musical performance, composition and cognition, the analysis of electrocardiographic traces of arrhythmia, and digital therapeutics. She is currently Professor of Engineering at King's College London, where she is jointly appointed in the Department of Engineering (Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences) and the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine). Biography. Born in Buffalo, New York, Chew grew up in Singapore, returning to the US after high school for further studies. She received a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Mathematical and Computational Sciences with honours and Music with distinction from Stanford University. Her PhD thesis in the Operations Research Center at MIT was focused on the mathematics of tonality. Chew holds diplomas in piano performance from Trinity College, London. Career and research. Chew has designed a theory of tonality called the spiral array model. This is a mathematical model using spirals to describe how humans perceive pitches, chords and keys in mainstream Western music. Chew wrote \"Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality,\" a book about her work"}, {"text": "on mathematical and computational techniques for automated analysis and visualisation of tonal structures, in 2014. Chew was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2001 to 2011, where she was the inaugural honouree of the Viterbi Early Career Chair and founded the Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory. At USC, Chew encouraged her students to use technology to explore expressivity in music. Chew was Professor of Digital Media in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London from 2011 to 2019, where she founded the Music, Performance, and Expressivity Laboratory at the Centre for Digital Music. From 2019 to 2022, Chew was a senior Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Science et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (STMS) Laboratory and also affiliated with the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Sorbonne University, and the French Ministry of Culture. As a concert pianist, Chew plays for audiences while communicating her research, often by showing mathematical visualisations alongside the performances."}, {"text": "Non-Steroidal Aromatase Inhibitors (NSAIs) are one of two categories of aromatase inhibitors (AIs). AIs are divided into two categories, steroidal aromatase inhibitors (SAIs, type 1 inhibitors) and non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors (type 2 inhibitors) that is based on their mechanism of action and structure. NSAIs are mainly used to treat breast cancer in women. NSAIs binding is a reversible process where NSAIs binds to the aromatase enzyme through non-covalent interactions. When aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are used to treat breast cancer the main target is the aromatase enzyme which is responsible for the high estrogen level. Medical use. Cancer. NSAIs are used to treat hormone-dependent breast cancer. If almost all cancer cells express either estrogen or progesterone receptors it is a possibility that anti-estrogen treatment will work. If there are more hormone receptors on the cancer cells then the treatment is more likely to be efficient. The receptors need estrogen and progesterone to grow and when the hormones are not present the cancer cell gets no message to proliferate and can possibly die. AIs inhibit the enzyme aromatase that converts testosterone to estrogen and that is used clinically in treatments of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Currently, two types of NSAIs are"}, {"text": "used for breast cancer, anastrozole and letrozole. They are used as first-line therapy in metastatic breast cancer and also in adjuvant treatment. Ovulation induction. The NSAI, letrozole is also used for ovulation induction in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Generally, clomiphene citrate is used to induce ovulation, but for some women that treatment is unsuccessful or resistant occurs. In those cases, letrozole has been used because it blocks estrogen and therefore reduces negative estrogen feedback at the pituitary gland. The release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) from the pituitary gland is decreased because estrogen maintains negative feedback on the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. When estrogen production is blocked by inhibition of the aromatase, it releases the hypothalamic-pituitary axis from the estrogenic negative feedback. Thus, increasing the FSH secretion and stimulates the progress of ovarian follicles. Therefore, NSAIs in women with PCOS contribute a prominent effect. Studies have shown that letrozole does not have adverse anti-estrogen-like effects on endometrial thickness and cervical mucus which seems to be explained by a short half-life. Letrozole seems to be just as effective as clomiphene citrate for ovulation and pregnancy rate as it has shown to be very effective both in terms of ovulation rate and live"}, {"text": "birth rate. Other uses. Aminoglutethimide is an NSAIs and therefore inhibits aromatase among other biosynthesis and is for example used to treat absence seizures, Cushing's syndrome, postmenopausal breast cancer and prostate cancer Adverse Effects. The first aromatase inhibitor that was discovered was aminoglutethimide, classified as first-generation AIs. It is still used today despite causing side effects such as lack of target enzyme specificity which also has effects on other cytochrome P450 enzymes. Furthermore, it affects the synthesis of aldosterone, thyroid hormone and cortisol. Clinically, aminoglutethimide has caused undesirable central nervous system side effects for example ataxia, lethargy and dizziness. Later generations, second and third were developed with the aim of higher potency, safety and selectivity. They inhibit aromatase specifically but not other biosynthesis like the first-generation, therefore many adverse effects are avoided. Generally, they are well tolerated and have few serious adverse effects. There are some common adverse effects like flushing, headache, musculoskeletal pain and vaginal dryness. Pharmacology. Aromatase. Aromatase is an enzyme that belongs to the cytochrome P450 family located on chromosome 15. In the human body, the aromatase consists of 10 \u03b2-strands (1 major sheet and 3 minor sheets) and 12 \u03b1-helixes. Its function is to catalyze the"}, {"text": "final step of estrogen synthesis which is the aromatization of androgen to estrogen. To be more specific it involves hydroxylation which uses NADPH as a donor for electrons and a C-19 methyl group is removed, which leads to the creation of aromatic ring. Binding site and binding. The active binding site of the aromatase enzyme is a subunit with a heme moiety (Fe2+). This heme moiety is in relation to the \u03b2-face that the natural hormone androstenedione coordinates with. The structure of androstenedione contains two ketones that form hydrogen bonds with the amino acids, Asp309 and Met374. Also, in the active binding site the 17-ketone group interacts with the amino acid, Arg115. Additionally, at the binding site, androstenedione make Van der Waals forces with several amino acids, more specifically Arg115, Ile133, Phe134, Phe221, Trp224, Ala306, Thr310, Val370, Val373, Met374and Leu477. The binding of the NSAIs depends on the binding site of the aromatase as it has to fit into the substrate-binding site of the aromatase enzyme. NSAIs are not as specific as SAIs and therefore other enzymes may be inhibited which also have cytochrome P450 groups. It has been possible to develop selective drugs against cytochrome P450 aromatase where the"}, {"text": "amino acid sequence of the P450 arom is well defined from other members of the P450 cytochrome family, resulting in more specific inhibition of the aromatase. The binding of NSAIs to the aromatase is non-covalent and reversible. NSAIs are competitive inhibitors and when they disconnect from the active binding site the inhibition of the aromatase stops. Therefore, a continuous amount of NSAIs is required to inhibit aromatase. Third-generation NSAIs have a profitable positioned triazole group and a flat aromatic ring, that has a good fit to the binding site of aromatase. The triazole group coordinates with the heme group (Fe2+) at the active binding site of the aromatase enzyme and potently inhibits the hydroxylation that aromatase is responsible for. Mechanism of action. Estrogen is a sex-hormone that plays a major role in women's body function. Estrogen also plays a major role in stimulating breast cancer as it binds and activates the estrogen receptor (ER). When the ER is activated it activates other genes that are responsible for multiple actions of the breast cancer. Activated ER has an effect on cellular division, protease activity, inhibition of cell death and formation of new blood vessels. Aromatase inhibitors affect the ability of estrogens"}, {"text": "production from androgens by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme activity which is a part of the estrogen pathway. The two categories of AIs are based on their mechanism of action and structure. The three generations of NSAIs inhibit estrogen production in various places in the metabolic pathway. These generations all have in common that they inhibit the aromatase enzyme that is responsible for the conversion of testosterone and androstenedione to estradiol and estrone. The first- and second-generation of NSAIs, aminoglutethimide and fadrozole also have a reducing effect on the production of aldosterone and cortisol. Third-generation, anastrozole and letrozole are very selective, they only inhibit the aromatase enzyme and do not have an effect on other steroidogenic pathways. Mechanism of NSAIs is a reversible binding process where NSAIs binds to the aromatase enzyme through non-covalent interactions. NSAIs do not destroy the enzyme like SAIs do. An interaction occurs with a heme group of cytochrome P450 in the aromatase enzyme. Pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetic properties for NSAIs are variable. Aminoglutethimide has an oral administration and a usual dosage range between 250 and 100 mg/day. The drug has good oral bioavailability, it absorbs rapidly and completely. Aminoglutethimide has a good distribution around the body and is"}, {"text": "partly metabolized in the liver by acetylation. The elimination half-life of the drug is 12,5 hours and 34-54% of the drug is excreted unchanged in the urine. Anastrozole is administered orally and has a standard daily dose of 1 mg. Anastrozole has good oral bioavailability and is rapidly absorbed. It takes 2\u20133 hours for the drug to reach maximum serum concentration. It has been shown that the ingestion of food does not significantly influence the plasma concentration of the drug at a steady-state. It takes 7 days of treatment to reach 90-95% of the steady-state serum concentration. Anastrozole distributes completely around the body and only 40% of the drug is bound to plasma proteins. The elimination of anastrozole is slow and the elimination half-life is 40\u201350 hours. Most of the drug dose is excreted in the urine but some part is excreted in feces. The largest part of the drug dose is metabolized and less than 10% is excreted unchanged. The liver is the main site of drug metabolism and the drug is metabolized by glucuronidation, hydroxylation and N-dealkylation. The metabolites are mainly excreted in the urine. Letrozole has a standard daily dose of 2,5 mg and the drug has"}, {"text": "around 99,9% oral bioavailability. That means that the drug is absorbed fast and entirely. Intake of food does not affect the extent of absorption, but it has a small reducing effect on the rate of absorption. It takes 2\u20136 weeks of treatment to reach 90-95% of the steady-state serum concentration. Letrozole distributes rapidly around the body and is thoroughly distributed to tissues. Around 60% of the drug is bound to plasma proteins, especially albumin (55%). The elimination of letrozole is very slow and the elimination half-life is approximately 2 days. The main route of elimination of the drug is metabolism in the liver to the pharmacologically inactive metabolite carbinol. Caused by the cytochrome P450 isoenzymes 3A4 and 2A6. There is also the metabolism of the drug to other unknown metabolites. Synthesis. The synthesis of NSAIs is completed in numerous ways, for example, the synthesis of the most potent drug of NSAIs letrozole was acknowledged by Bowman et al. They described two synthesis methods, the first method had a serious limitation because of a detectable amount of undesirable isomer present. The second method uses n-butyllithium that is corrosive and harmful substance, therefore, it needs a certain storage, treatment and discarding. For"}, {"text": "example, the synthesis of letrozole that takes 60 minutes gives a yield of 80%, begins with 4-cyanobenzyl bromide followed by alkylation of triazole. The latter step is carbanion generation and nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Structure and function. Structure-activity relationship (SAR). In general NSAIs have azole ring system like imidazole and triazole attached to planar aromatic structures. Heterocyclic nitrogen atom is an important factor for NSAIs structure-activity relationship as it interacts with heme iron of the P450 enzymes which inhibit hydroxylation reactions for aromatization. Other parts of the structure interact with the apoprotein moiety of the active binding site on the aromatase enzyme. The combination of binding to the heme group and the active site results in great effect and specific features. The most effective NSAIs are azole derivatives, they have a high affinity for the aromatase enzyme. There are azole derivatives containing imidazole ring such as fadrozole and liarozole together with derivatives containing 1,2,4 triazole ring such as letrozole, anastrozole and vorozole. The effect of 1,2,3-triazole instead of 1,2,4-triazole has been examined in the letrozole structure. It has shown that the position of the nitrogen atom in either position 3 or 4 of the 1,2,4 triazole is important for good inhibition"}, {"text": "of aromatase. The derivatives containing triazole ring are used as first-line NSAIs, and they are all well tolerated, selective and highly effective. The most effective aromatase inhibitor is letrozole; it can inhibit 99% of the aromatase enzyme in peripheral tissues. Some studies have shown that the selectivity of NSAIs can be increased with a change of the triazole system with bioisosteres and also by enhancing the aromatic structures in the side chain. It has been demonstrated that the arrangement of imidazole or imidazole-methyl ring could give better inhibition than triazole, tetrazole or other azoles. Additionally, NSAIs that contain 4-pyridylmethyl group is considered more effective than others. Letrozole has a 1,2,4 triazole ring which is important for binding with Fe2+ in the heme moiety of the aromatase enzyme. Also, the cyano benzyl moiety is significant because it partly imitates the steroid backbone of the natural hormone androstenedione. The cyano groups are at the para position of the benzonitrile, they are electron-withdrawing and that is important for the activity as it acts as carbonyl group of androstenedione. Two aryl groups also play an important role in the inhibition. Quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR). QSAR models have been made to figure out the"}, {"text": "most-valuable structural and physicochemical parameters for NSAIs inhibitory activity. These models demonstrate a precise understanding of NSAIs effectiveness. Dipole moment and molar refractivity are considered to be the most meaningful physicochemical properties that affect the inhibition of aromatase. This implies that bulky, complex, flexible and steric characteristic of molecules is important. Also, often the hydrophobic properties matter. Thereby, NSAIs activity is mostly dependent on the size and shape of the drug structure along with steric characteristics and interaction of the azole group to the heme prosthetic group. History. Independent work leading to initial discovery. In the 1920s the initial discovery of estrogens and the bioactivity in urinary extracts contributed the momentum for greater understanding of the structure, biosynthesis, secretion, and the function of the various estrogens. This was mainly due to the independent work of Edward Doisy and Adolf Butenandt who isolated estriol, estrone, and estradiol from urine of pregnant women. By blocking biosynthesis using drugs, it has been seen that employing agents that specifically affect estrogen production has shown the highest promise. Thus, by creating an aromatic ring in the steroid molecule the final step in the pathway of estrogen biosynthesis is inhibited, and this gave rise to the"}, {"text": "trivial name of aromatase for the enzyme catalyzing this reaction. In 1960 aminoglutethimide was marketed as an anticonvulsant. Later in 1963, a doctor at the Sinai Hospital in Detroit proclaimed that it produced increased symptoms of Addison's disease. With more lab work it was discovered that it had a blocking effect on steroidal biosynthesis. Later on, in the 1970s it was used in women with breast cancer. Subdivision of Aromatase inhibitors. Aromatase inhibitors have been distinctively sub-divided into two main groups due to their difference in mechanism of action and structure. Type I inhibitors that are steroidal aromatase inhibitors and type II inhibitors that are non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors. The evolution of aromatase inhibitors has progressively increased in potency and specificity with each generation from discovery. The progression has been necessary as the first-generation of drug-induced inhibitors of the enzyme were not particularly potent and lacked specificity that would often produce side effects unrelated to estrogen deprivation. Thus, development from first-generation to third-generation has given remarkable specificity and potency. Drug development for specific treatment. Initial studies on estrogen and its enzymatic activity and function was a component of the birth control pill. Investigations showed that inhibition of the enzyme might have"}, {"text": "extensive practical application for treatment of hormone-dependent breast cancer, alterations of ovarian and endometrial function, and treatment of benign disorders such as gynecomastia. The unraveling of aromatase enzyme varied function has thus shown an extensive success in the field of endocrinology concerning breast cancer therapy. They have provided one of the first molecular targets for rational drug development in the treatment of cancer."}, {"text": "Pingyuan Commandery () was a historical commandery of China, existing from Han dynasty to Tang dynasty. It was centered around present-day northwestern Shandong province. The commandery was carved out of the Jibei Kingdom during Emperor Jing of Han's reign. Pingyuan administered 19 counties and marquessates in late Western Han, including Pingyuan (\u5e73\u539f), Ge (\u9b32), Gaotang (\u9ad8\u5510), Chongqiu (\u91cd\u4e18), Pingchang (\u5e73\u660c), Yu (\u7fbd), Ban (\u822c), Leling (\u6a02\u9675), Zhu'e (\u795d\u963f), Yuan (\u7457), Eyang (\u963f\u967d), Luoyin (\u6f2f\u9670), Li (\u6738), Fuping (\u5bcc\u5e73), Ande (\u5b89\u5fb7), Heyang (\u5408\u967d), Louxu (\u6a13\u865b), Longpou (\u9f8d\u54e3), and An (\u5b89). In Eastern Han, Pingyuan twice became a kingdom or principality. It was granted to Liu Sheng (\u5289\u52dd), son of Emperor He in 106, and to Liu Shuo (\u5289\u78a9), brother of Emperor Huan in 148. The kingdom was abolished in 206 and Pingyuan was administered as a commandery again. Pingyuan consisted of 9 counties, namely Pingyuan, Gaotang, Ban, Ge, Zhu'e, Leling, Shiyin (\u6fd5\u9670), Ande and Yanci (\u53ad\u6b21) in 140 AD. In late Eastern Han, a new principality, Leling, was created, and Leling and Yanci counties were transferred to the new principality. After Han dynasty, the commandery was successively held by Cao Wei, Jin and Liu Song dynasties. During Emperor Ming of Song's"}, {"text": "reign, it was conquered by Northern Wei. It was abolished in early Sui dynasty. In Sui and Tang dynasties, Pingyuan Commandery became the alternative name for De Prefecture. It administered 6 counties in 742: Ande, Changhe (\u9577\u6cb3), Pingyuan, Pingchang, Jiangling (\u5c07\u9675) and Anling (\u5b89\u9675)."}, {"text": "Gaku Stories (\u304c\u304f\u3082\u306e\u304c\u305f\u308a \"Gakumonogatari\"), also published under the title My Boy: A Father's Memories, is an I Novel by Japanese author Makoto Shiina. It was published in 1985 by Shueisha. The same publisher also published a sequel, Zoku Gakumonogatari, in 1986. The title character, Gaku, is modelled on Shiina's eldest son of the same name. And the story, told from Shiina's point of view as a father, depicts the family's life over the course of Gaku's kindergarten days and the six years of elementary school leading up to his enrolment in lower secondary school. It also addresses Gaku's rebellious phase, and the personal growth and independence he achieves through it. The novel was the first of Shiina's I Novels, and is one of the author's defining works. The novel and its sequel were later edited and rereleased as a single work, Gakumonogatari: Revised Edition (\u5b9a\u672c \u5cb3\u7269\u8a9e \"Teihon Gakumonogatari\"), which this article also addresses. Outline and author background. Gaku Stories. Published in May 1985 by Shueisha. The novel is composed of nine sections: \"Fragrant Olive\", \"Swallowtail Butterfly\", \"Indian Trumpet\", \"Dandelion\", \"Operation Mackerel Scad\", \"The Eagle and the Pig\", \"Thirty Years\", \"Goby Fishing\", and \"The Two Day Present\". A paperback edition of"}, {"text": "the novel featuring an afterword by Shigeta Sait\u014d was published by Shuiesha Bunko in September 1989. Both editions of the book were illustrated by Hitoshi Sawano. The book also saw publication in English under two titles: \"Gaku Stories\", published in 1991 as part of Kodansha's English language collection, and \"My Boy: A Father's Memories\", published in 1992 by Kodansha International. The various sections of the novel were serialised between November 1983 and April 1985 in Seishun no Dokusho, a literary magazine published by Shueisha. Initially, there was no plan to serialise \"Gakumonogatari\", but instead to have Shiina pen a thirty-page short story each issue. However, Shiina's first submission for this project - a story called \"Fragrant Olive\" which starred his son and was the author's first I Novel - received positive feedback from the editor. And this led to the story becoming a serialised I Novel based around Gaku and his family. The work was only given a collective title when the time came to gather the nine sections and publish them as a book, and no title existed at the original time of publication. Gaku's upbringing took place during a significant period of transition in both the author's work"}, {"text": "and his family life, as Shiina stumbled into writing from a career as a salaryman. And Shiina found that in his thirties, his early years as a father overlapped with his debut as an author. This made gathering material for a serialised novel difficult, so he began to write about his family life instead, reasoning that the exploits of his mischievous son could easily fill a novel. This was what gave rise to the work. One point of note is that Y\u014d Watanabe, Gaku's older sister and Shiina's eldest daughter, does not appear in the novel. Shiina has offered two reasons for this. Firstly, he had been unable to find a good opportunity to introduce her in \"Fragrant Olive\" and \"Swallowtail Butterfly, the first two chapters, and after that point, the central theme of the work had become a serialised account of the relationships between members of a family, making it difficult to suddenly introduce an older sister into the mix. Secondly, Y\u014d herself, upon learning that her father was writing stories based on the family, warned him at an early stage not to write about her. Zoku Gakumonogatari. Published in July 1986 by Shueisha. Composed of eleven sections: \"It's"}, {"text": "a Bright Spring\", \"The Boy's Month of May\", \"Operation Eavesdropping\", \"The Story of Gaku\", \"The Mystery of Yokochin\", \"The Champion Belt\", \"A Camellia In Winter\", \"A Spooky Wave\", \"Bones and Setsubun\", \"The Scent of Darkness\", and \"Departure\". A paperback edition was published by Shueisha Bunko in November 1989, with an afterword by Tomosuke Noda. As with previous editions, the illustrations were provided by Hitoshi Sawano. The various sections were serialised in Seishun to Dokusho between May 1985 and June 1986. The stories dealing with Gaku primarily focus on the events that took place during his later years of elementary school, depicting his rebellious days and his struggles to assert his independence from his father and find his feet as a young man. And the story closes with \"Departure\", a chapter which depicts the gy\u014dza party thrown for Gaku to celebrate his entry into lower secondary school, as well as the day of his welcome ceremony. Gakumonogatari: Revised Edition. Published in August 1998 by Shueisha. A single volume that contains edited versions of the previous two books. This edition notably saw the removal of two chapters that did not have any great connection to the family's life, \"Indian Trumpet\" and \"A"}, {"text": "Camellia in Winter\". Shiina also made additional edits throughout the two novels. Additionally, this edition includes Gakumonogatari and Me (\u300c\u5cb3\u7269\u8a9e\u300d\u3068\u50d5 \"Gakumonogatari to Boku\"), an essay by Gaku Watanabe in which the subject of the novel gave his own impressions of his family life, his feelings about being used as a model for his father's work, and the reactions he had encountered from being the son of an author. This marked the first time that Gaku had commented on these things in any significant way. Synopsis. Gaku Stories. The narrator, a jack of all trades writer, and his wife, who works at a kindergarten, bring a new son into their household in Kodaira, Tokyo. They give the boy the name Gaku, meaning \"mountain peak\", due to their shared love of climbing. From his kindergarten days, Gaku displays a great sense of curiosity, which often gets him into trouble, as he uproots the neighbours' sweet potatoes with some friends and engages in other mischief. Living in an area crammed with English language schools and preschools, Gaku's parents struggle to settle on a direction for their son's education, before eventually enrolling him in an elementary school. Gaku enjoys a liberal upbringing, and becomes"}, {"text": "so popular that during Valentine's Day in his fourth year of school, he receives chocolates from three separate classmates. On the other hand, he enjoys much less success in his studies, picking fights with older students, and becoming a wild problem child who draws the ire of his teachers, leading his parents to be frequently called to the school. In his fourth year of school, Gaku takes his first trip to Lake Kameyama, where Mr. Noda, a friend of the narrator, lives. After being taught how to fish there, he becomes completely absorbed with the hobby, focusing on it to a degree of concentration that he has never shown to anything before. The narrator playfully asks Gaku to catch him a Japanese catfish from the Tama River, and is shocked when the boy not only looks into how to catch one, but eventually succeeds. In the summer holidays of his fifth year of school, Gaku leaves home to go canoeing down the Kushiro River with Mr. Noda. During his son's absence, the narrator reflects on his own hazy memories of boyhood. The winter of Gaku's fifth year of school arrives. The narrator, who was away from home the previous New"}, {"text": "Year due to research for his writing, makes time in his schedule, and plans an overnight fishing trip to Inatori in Higashiizu for Gaku. During this trip, Gaku discusses fishing setups and bait with the owner of the local fishing shop in specialist language that is completely alien to his father. He also uses tools his father has never seen before to skilfully catch a sea ruffe, leading the author to realise that his son is pushing into a world he has no knowledge of. One month later, the narrator, who is by then in the bitterly cold region of Irkutsk, calls home for the first time in a while. As the line crackles and threatens to cut off, he hears that Gaku fell into the ocean while fishing in Kamogawa. This deeply shocks the narrator, and he interrogates Gaku on the details, but Gaku, in sharp contrast to his father's concern, appears quite unfazed by the incident. In a cruel twist of fate, the line is cut due to the poor reception. And resigning himself to not getting any further details, the author replaces the receiver, gives a deep sigh, and bursts into solitary laughter. Zoku Gakumonogatari. Returning home"}, {"text": "from a two-month excursion to Siberia, the narrator finds himself a little directionless. During this period, he attends a party, where a friend, Hitoshi Sawano warns him semi-jokingly that he is too invested in his son's affairs; that children will always break away from their parents eventually, and that if Shiina expects to always see eye to eye with his son, he will be in for a big shock. These words quickly come to pass; by the time Gaku's sixth year of school approaches, he has already far outstripped his father at fishing and canoeing, and has learned to mend tears in his sweat pants and make quick meals like ramen for himself after school. The play wrestling that takes place in the parlour of the Shiina household each night, too, has become so fierce that it's no longer a game, and Gaku has developed to the point where he's able to throw his father with judo techniques. As time passes, more and more signs appear that Gaku is drifting away from his parents. He becomes infuriated when his parents come to see his final sports day in his sixth year of elementary school without telling him. When the summer"}, {"text": "holidays come and he goes on a trip down the Tokachi River with his father, Mr. Noda, and some others, he spends more time with Tottan and Mittan, two brothers from his class, than with his father. He also rejects having his hair cut in the bathroom at home, which has been a tradition since his kindergarten days. And over the course of several months, he steadily disposes of many of the various magazines and toys from his childhood days scattered around his room. The narrator views this process of tidying as Gaku \"shedding his childhood\". The final winter of Gaku's elementary school days brings further troubles for the narrator. After a brave battle against the illness, Toshio Hoshimi, who served as the leader for the narrator's expedition across Siberia, succumbs to his cancer, and passes away. The narrator is unable to bear the thought of the man's six-year-old daughter crying in front of a father who has becomes nothing but a small pile of bones, and eventually finds himself unable to collect Toshio's bones to have them put them into an urn. He also has to deal with the rumours of murder that surround the disappearance of his high"}, {"text": "school friend Kishino, a former boxer who participated in the Tokyo Olympics, as well as his mother in law's stroke. During these difficult days, the narrator attempts to recall if he saw his own father's remains after his passing in his sixth year of elementary school, but though he clearly recalls the moments before and after the funeral, he doesn't remember any important details. As he takes Gaku to a clothes store to have him measured for his new uniform, he wonders whether his own father was hoping to live long enough to see him in a high school uniform too. During Gaku's final spring vacation, he plans a one-week excursion to Lake Kameyama with six friends including Tottan and Mittan. He warns the narrator not to come, and he and his friends make a success of the trip all on their own, without even asking Mr. Noda for help. Just before Gaku starts lower high school, the narrator invites Mr. Noda and various other friends to the house and throws a gy\u014dza party for his son. And as the cherry blossoms fall from the trees, the day of Gaku's entrance ceremony arrives. With this, the sweet-natured days of Gaku's"}, {"text": "boyhood with his father come to an end, and the narrator feels as if his son has begun to take the first steps into his own world."}, {"text": "Aar-Einrich is a \"Verbandsgemeinde\" (\"collective municipality\") in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is in Katzenelnbogen. It was formed on 1 July 2019 by the merger of the former \"Verbandsgemeinden\" Hahnst\u00e4tten and Katzenelnbogen. It takes its name from the river Aar and the Einrich hills. The \"Verbandsgemeinde\" Aar-Einrich consists of the following \"Ortsgemeinden\" (\"local municipalities\"):"}, {"text": "Simon Brockwell is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for North Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. Brockwell also played for Leigh in England. Background. Brockwell represented NSW Country in 1980 before signing with Norths for the 1981 season. Playing career. Brockwell made his first grade debut for North Sydney in round 1 1981 against South Sydney at Redfern Oval which ended in a 22-7 victory with Brockwell scoring a try. Brockwell ended the season as the club's top try scorer with 10 tries. In 1982, Norths had one of the best seasons finishing third on the table. Brockwell played in both finals games as Norths crashed out in the semi-finals against Eastern Suburbs. During the off season in Australia, Brockwell signed a contract to play with English side Leigh. Brockwell returned to Australia with Norths and played in the club's 1986 finals loss against Balmain at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Brockwell played one finals season for the club in 1987 before retiring."}, {"text": "Tarania Caresh Clarke (3 October 1999 \u2013 31 October 2019) was a Jamaican footballer who played as a midfielder for Waterhouse F.C. and the Jamaica women's national team. She also represented Jamaica on the under-17 and under-20 national teams. On 31 October 2019, Clarke was stabbed to death in the Jamaican capital of Kingston, after a dispute over a mobile phone. A woman was arrested for her murder. Early life and education. Clarke graduated from Excelsior High School where she captained the soccer team for three years. She planned to attend Daytona State College in Florida. International career. Clarke represented Jamaica at the 2014 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship, the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification and the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship. She made her senior debut for Jamaica on 30 September 2019. International goals. \"Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first\" Death. On 31 October 2019, Clarke was stabbed to death in the Jamaican capital of Kingston, after a dispute over a mobile phone. A woman was arrested for her murder."}, {"text": "The Sirocco 15, named for the North African wind, is a Canadian trailerable sailboat that was first built in 1970. Production. The design was built by Sirocco Boatworks in Canada. The company completed 350 examples of the type, but it is now out of production. Design. The Sirocco 15 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a nearly plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and an iron swing keel. The boat has a cuddy cabin. It displaces and carries of iron ballast. The boat has a draft of with the keel extended and with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering and can be equipped with a spinnaker for downwind sailing. For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker. The design has a hull speed of . See also. Similar sailboats"}, {"text": "Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (16 March 1956 - 2 July 2018) was a Russian zoologist, carcinologist, hydrobiologist and biogeographer. His scientific research focused on taxonomy and distribution of malacostracan crustaceans, particularly orders Mysida, Lophogastrida and Leptostraca, and marine biogeography and hydrobiology of Arctic, Antarctic and temperate seas of the World, and he published over 120 works. V.V. Petryashov spent all his professional life in St. Petersburg in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a senior researcher he also curated the malacostracan crustacean collection of the Zoological Institute. Named taxa. Mysida: Lophogastrida: Leptostraca: Taxa dedicated to V.V. Petryashov. \"Boreomysis (Petryashovia)\" Daneliya, 2023 (Mysida: Mysidae: Boreomysinae)"}, {"text": "Lena Micko (born 18 June 1955, officially Eva-Lena Micko) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician from Ume\u00e5. She served the L\u00f6fven cabinet as Minister for Public Administration from 2019 to 2021. She succeeded Ardalan Shekarabi. She has previously served as councillor for Link\u00f6ping Municipality and she was the Chairperson of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions between 2015 and 2019."}, {"text": "Palazzo Gritti (also Palazzo Gritti Dandolo) is a palace in Venice, Italy, located in the Cannaregio district and overlooking the Grand Canal between Palazzo Memmo Martinengo Mandelli and Palazzo Correr Contarini Zorzi. History. The palace is of medieval origin, bearing the classic lines of the Venetian Gothic architecture. Palazzo Gritti was subjected to a heavy renovation in the 17th century, when its geometry was radically altered, but not its size. Architecture. The fa\u00e7ade consists of three levels, featuring a large a round-headed portal on the ground floor, with direct access to the canal. The two noble floors have a symmetrical structure and are decorated by pentaforas in the central parts flanked by pairs of single-lancet windows on each side; all these openings have stone balustrades. To the right of the main structure there is a smaller building belonging to the Palazzo Gritti complex. It is also of three floors, with a portico supported by small columns on the ground floor; on the fa\u00e7ade there are two bas-reliefs, depicting the coats of arms of the Gritti and the Dandolo families, who were the respective owners. This minor building is originally of the 16th century but was rebuilt in the 19th century."}, {"text": "Eugenio D'Ursi (born 7 May 1995) is an Italian football player who plays as a forward for club Crotone. Club career. He made his professional debut in Lega Pro for Aversa Normanna in the 2014\u201315 season and spent the first seven seasons of his senior career in Serie C and Serie D. In July 2019, his rights were bought by Serie A club Napoli. On 30 July 2019, Napoli loaned him to Serie C club Bari on a 2-year term. On 3 August 2021, he joined Pescara on loan. On 22 August 2022, D'Ursi was loaned to Foggia, with an option to buy. On 6 January 2023, D'Ursi signed with Crotone."}, {"text": "Sakkigoni is a Nepali TV series that airs every Thursday on Himalaya TV at 8:00 pm. It is one of the most popular television programs in Nepal. The producers are JPT Creation Pvt Ltd. Kumar Kattel with Arjun Ghimire as the writer and director of the show. The story is based on the rural lifestyle of lower-middle-class people. The show stars Arjun Ghimire, Kumar Kattel, Rakshya Shrestha, Hari Niraula, and Sagar Lamsal as the main characters. The show, originally airing on Nepal Television, was halted in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2020, it was announced that the show would return on 10 December 2020, now airing on Himalaya TV was airing on OSR Digital's official YouTube channel now it airing on JPT Creation official YouTube channel 8:30 pm. Season 3 started on 25 May 2023. Controversy. In October 2019, Som Dhital, producer of the Nepali sitcom \"Bhadragol\", filed a complaint with the Metropolitan Police Crime Range, Teku, against the \"Sakkigoni\" team, many of whom had formerly worked on his series. Previously he had instructed the team not to produce a new series that included any characters or plotlines similar to those from his sitcom. Additionally, Dhital"}, {"text": "told the media that if another series with identical content were to run on the same television network, it would severely affect \"Bhadragol\". Writer Kumar Kattel and actor Arjun Ghimire rejected the allegations, stating that the agreement between Media Hub and JPT Creation had stated that after 2076 Ashadh (June\u2013July 2019) the rights related to the characters and plotlines would be released to the second party, JPT Creation."}, {"text": "Plenasium is a genus of ferns in the family Osmundaceae. It is recognized in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but kept within a more broadly circumscribed genus \"Osmunda\" by other sources. The genus is known from Early Cretaceous to present. Taxonomy. , the \"Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World\" accepted the following four species: Phylogeny of \"Plenasium\" The following fossil species are also accepted."}, {"text": "\"Jungle Bill\" is a song by Swiss electronic band Yello, released in 1992. It was released as the third single from Yello's seventh album Baby. The song was written by Yello members Boris Blank and Dieter Meier and appears on the band's compilation album \"Essential Yello\". Track listings. 7\" single 12\" single CD single"}, {"text": "Milica Djordjevic or \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107 (born 1984 in Belgrade, Serbia), is a composer of contemporary classical music and one of the most important representatives of the younger generation of composers in international musical life. She lives in Cologne. Life and background. Djordjevi\u0107 grew up in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. As a young child she hoped to become a concert pianist or a painter. She went to classical gymnasium and specialized music school, which she decided to enroll during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when her refuge was not a bunker but playing the piano for virually endless hours of air raids. During teenage years she seriously considered a career in physics, theatre or art. Both painting and physics are still an important part of composer's life: her first impulse for sound representation, i.e. the notation, is a drawing and physics is inextricably linked to music. Some of the examples of this very broad field of interest and inspiration are \"The Death of the Star-Knower \u2013 petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I&II\" from 2008/09 : Djordjevi\u0107 fantasized about the concept of time crystals and worked with this idea in her first two sting quartets \"The Death"}, {"text": "of the Star-Knower \u2013 petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I&II\" from 2008/09. The concept of time crystals only became known in physics a few years later and was theoretically proposed by Frank Wilczek in 2012 and in terms of practical application, time crystals could one day be used as quantum computer storage. \"\u010cvor\" for winds, brass, percussion and piano is very, very intimate: she finished it in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). \"Mit o Ptici\" for choir and orchestra has the most direct inspiration in literature \u2013 verse epos Bird by Miroslav Anti\u0107, whereas Jadarit, Concerto for Percussion and String Orchestra is politically engaged. Djordjevi\u0107 graduated composition from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where she also finished studies of Sound and Music Recording and Production as well as specialized training in electronic music. She finished postgraduateat the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, where she studied with Ivan Fedele and graduated with honors. She continued her professional accomplishments in Paris, where she was enrolled in composition and computer music Cursus1 at IRCAM and then in Berlin, where she finished 3rd cycle studies at HfM Hanns Eisler in the class of Hanspeter Kyburz. Since 2025, Djordjevi\u0107"}, {"text": "has been professor for composition at the L\u00fcbeck Academy of Music. Djordjevi\u0107's music is described as \"rough, often even raw in the gesture\", as a \"vital tonal language that refuses less harmony and beautiful sound than that it gives the experience of the elemental quite pleasurably: tones of the earth\u2019s emanations.\" Awards. In 2015, she won the Belmont Prize for New Music from the Forberg-Schneider Foundation. In 2016, she won the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Her first monographic CD was published by WERGO in the Edition Contemporary Music (\"Edition Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Musik\") of German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) and it won the Prize of the German record critics \u2013 Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2017. In 2020 she was awarded Claudio Abbado Composition Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2023 she was nominated for the German Music Authors' Prize for orchestra composition. Music. The music of Milica Djordjevi\u0107 is contemporary in a manner that can be almost terrifying. Expressive vehemence lurks beneath its thin veneer. Raw, archetypal voices, recognizable from the sonic world of the Balkans, radically shape her subject-matter with the resources of the avant-garde, far removed from folk music. Heavily rhythmic and almost physical in its presence, the atmosphere"}, {"text": "erupts with searing rigour like a grandiose and purifying thunderstorm. Her music is at once alien and familiar \u2013 alien in that it releases darkness, fear, things hidden and suppressed; familiar in that it brings these things to an explosion and causes their splinters to glisten. It has nothing to prettify, but much to say. Djordjevi\u0107's works are present at major European festivals, concert series and radio stations and are performed by renowned performers, ensembles and orchestras such as Berliner Philharmoniker, Arditti Quartet, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, ensemble modern, Ensemble Recherche, JACK Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten, Peter Rundel, Marco Blaauw, Ilan Volkov, Luca Pfaff, Teodoro Anzellotti, Enno Poppe, Alexander Liebreich, Peter Veale, Bas Wiegers, Clemens Schuldt, Sylvio Gualda, Francesco Dillon... Works. Source: LARGE ENSEMBLE & ORCHESTRA. Mali svitac, \u017eestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesno\u0161ljivom lepotom [Little Firefly, fiercely illuminated and terrified by unbearable beauty] for symphony orchestra, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation on the occasion of the Philharmonie\u2019s 60th birthday (2023) Nalet, for large ensemble (2023) Jadarit, concerto for percussion and string orchestra (2022) O drve\u0107u, ne\u017enosti, Mesecu... for orchestra (2022) \u010cvor, for winds, brass, percussion and piano (2021) Mit"}, {"text": "o ptici, for choir and orchestra (2020) Quicksilver, for symphony orchestra (2016) Sky limited, for string orchestra (2014) ZAPIS, for 12 percussionists (2013) Put belih kostiju [The journey of a weather-beaten skeleton] for symphony orchestra(2009) The Firefly in a Jar II, for symphony orchestra(2008) The Firefly in a Jar, for chamber orchestra (2007) CHAMBER. transfixed. (2022) transfixed: (2022) FAIL again, for e-violin and e-organ (2022) transfixed (2020) transfixed\u2019 (2020) INDIGO R-offprint 1, for string quartet (2020) Pod vodom raskr\u0161\u0107a snova (2019) Indigo (2017) Rdja (2015) Phosphorescence (2014) How to evade? (2011) The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time II (2009) The Death of the Star-Knower, petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I (2008) SOLO. Treperenje, studija I [Flicker, study I] (2023) Nailing clouds II (2023) Jadarit II (2023) Role-playing 1: strings attached (2019) Nailing Clouds (2019) Pomen II (2018) ...mislio bi \u010dovek: zvezde [\u2026w\u00fcrde man denken: Sterne] (2015) ume\u0161 li ti da laje\u0161? \u2013 ne-komunikacja za solo kontrabas [do you know how to bark? \u2013 non-communication for Double bass solo] (2010/11) FAIL (2010) VOCAL. Hladan ti dah do grla, for voice and ensemble (2016) I ti"}, {"text": "ho\u0107e\u0161 da se volimo [Und du willst dass wir uns lieben] for soprano and accordion (2015) Kakva mi je to pa igra for voice and percussion (2014) Manje te u majke groze [one less horror for your mother] for soprano, bass clarinet, accordion, violin, viola and violoncello (2011)"}, {"text": "Ada Castells Ferrer or Ada Castells (born 28 November 1968) is a Catalan professor, writer and journalist. Life. Castells was born in Barcelona in 1968. Her first novel \"El dit de l'\u00e0ngel\" involved her Protestant ancestors. It was published in Catalan (and Spanish) in 1998. Castells was a professor in 1999. In 2004, her novel about the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, \"Tota La Vida\", was published. In 2010 she had teaching obligations at two universities and other colleges. Her 2012 book \"Pura Sang\" (Pure Blood) was set in Minorca and it won the 32nd Premi Sant Joan Unnim for Catalan literature. Her 2019 novel \"Mare\" involves the differing memories of a woman and her daughter."}, {"text": "Phanerosorus is a genus of ferns in the family Matoniaceae. Species. , Plants of the World Online and the \"Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World\" accept the following species:"}, {"text": "Fluoroaspirin is the fluoroacetate ester of salicylic acid. It is the fluoroacetate analog of aspirin. Like other fluoroacetate esters, fluoroaspirin is highly toxic."}, {"text": "Anthrols (sometimes called anthranols) are the hydroxylated derivatives of anthracene. For the monohydroxo derivatives, three isomers are possible: 1-anthrol, 2-anthrol, and 9-anthrol. The latter exists as a minor tautomer of 9-anthrone."}, {"text": "Ahed () is Arabic for covenant or vow. Ahed may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Seminars in Reproductive Medicine is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical review journal covering the field of reproductive medicine. It was established in 1983 as Seminars in Reproductive Endocrinology, obtaining its current name in 2000. It is published by Thieme Medical Publishers and the editors-in-chief are Richard S. Legro and James Segars. According to the \"Journal Citation Reports\", the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.585."}, {"text": "Ann-Marie Theresa Cording, n\u00e9e Devally (born 1959), is a female former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Devally finished second behind Barbara Simmonds in the high jump event at the 1979 WAAA Championships before becoming the British high jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships and the 1981 WAAA Championships. In between the two WAAA titles Devally married Ian Cording in Bedford during late 1980 and competed under her married name thereafter. Cording represented England in the high jump event, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia."}, {"text": "Calea UK is a supplier of parenteral nutrition based in Runcorn, part of Fresenius Kabi. In July 2019 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency imposed restrictions on the company following an inspection which it said had revealed contamination risks and that its production processes did not meet required standards. The resulting disruption of supplies to patients who rely on total parenteral nutrition was declared a national emergency by NHS England. Intravenous feed bags were imported from Norway and Germany for 511 patients. These bags are only a temporary expedient because they do not provide vital nutrients and electrolytes, such as potassium. Dozens of patients were admitted to hospital as a result. The actions of the regulator were denounced as reprehensible by clinical members of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, who said there wasn\u2019t any apparent forward planning or mitigation plan around what would happen when they were closed down. Calea said it \u201cwas directed by the MHRA to make an immediate change to the process by which we add trace elements and vitamins to our parenteral nutrition bags, and we complied with the instruction. As a result, the time taken to produce bags has increased considerably"}, {"text": "and this has, unfortunately, affected the supply to patients. The MHRA stated there was no evidence to indicate that any of the Calea products manufactured and supplied to patients were contaminated. Approximately 2.8 million products were aseptically manufactured by Calea for patients and hospitals in the intervening 2015-2019 period.\u201d The agency said they had found bacterial contamination in the production area and that the manufacturing processes in Runcorn did not meet guidelines. Patients complained that they were left starving when supplies did not arrive, and that they were given no information. There were about 130 patients affected in Wales. The substituted supplies made some of them very ill. About 2500 patients are receiving intravenous nutrition and fluids in the UK at any one time. It is expected that it will be some time before regular supplies are resumed. The industrial capacity is very small. The action of the agency has been widely condemned by clinicians."}, {"text": "Po\u017eareport.si is a Slovenian news and opinion website and blog that focuses on political and corruption events, investigative reporting into government corruption, nepotism, government controlled corporations, and personal disclosures about Slovenian politicians, media, and local media personalities and celebrities. The website offers mainly original content and it publishes up to two articles per day. Po\u017eareport was first to publish some of the largest scandals in Slovenia, including a politically sensitive Bari\u010devi\u0107 affair. In the current Slovenian government, three government ministers and some other office holders resigned soon after articles about them were published by Po\u017eareport. It was founded and it is primarily edited by Bojan Po\u017ear, an investigative journalist; the name \"Po\u017eareport\" is a play on words, with \"\" () being both Po\u017ear's surname and the Slovene word for fire. History and production. Po\u017eareport was launched in 2007 by Bojan Po\u017ear who had until 2016 been an editor-in-chief of \"Direkt\", owned by daily newspaper \"Dnevnik\". In 2016, Po\u017ear published a book \"Melania Trump: The Inside Story,\" depicting life of the First Lady of the United States when she still lived in Slovenia. Since 2017, the Po\u017eareport team runs a daily television political show \"Faktor\". The first producers and journalists were"}, {"text": "Vladimir Vodu\u0161ek, Bojan Po\u017ear and Sebastjan Jereti\u010d. As of October 2019, \"Faktor\" is made by Alju\u0161 Pertina\u010d, Bernard Br\u0161\u010di\u010d and Bojan Po\u017ear. Notable cases. The Bari\u010devi\u0107 \"Bullmastiff Affair\". On February 2, 2010, media reported a respected medical doctor named Sa\u0161a Bari\u010devi\u0107, who regularly treated country's elite including government ministers, was killed by his own dogs. The three Bullmastiffs were well known to Slovenian public from events a few years earlier, when they attacked and severely injured a bypasser on a street. Although at that time the dogs were at first determined to be too dangerous to be kept alive, the Administrative Court, with judge Bo\u0161tan Zalar, the brother of a minister of justice Ale\u0161 Zalar, ruled that the dogs should be returned to Bari\u010devi\u0107. On February 5, 2010, Po\u017eareport published an article that the police officers found a dildo with a condom near Bari\u010devi\u0107's dead body. According to Po\u017eareport, the article was viewed more than a million times, which makes it the most read article in the history of Slovenia. This claim has not been disputed. The article published a crime scene photo, secretly taken by a police officer, showing a mutilated human body, a plastic penis nearby, and an"}, {"text": "alive dog, which was visibly bloody around its anus. It also published numerous details, leaked from the police investigation, including the Bari\u010devi\u0107's last words, when the police found him naked and still alive. The article also stated that for decades Sa\u0161a Bari\u010devi\u0107 had been a transgender female. In subsequent weeks, the police carried out internal investigation to find a person who leaked the crime scene photographs to Po\u017eareport. In several subsequent articles, Po\u017eareport described the friendship between Sa\u0161a Bari\u010devi\u0107 and Minister of interior Katarina Kresal and her domestic partner attorney Miro Senica. Articles suspected that there was another person in a garage besides Bari\u010devi\u0107's dogs. The morning after the tragedy, Minister of Interior unexpectedly did not appear at the weekly government meeting, she reported that she was skiing in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and a few days later she appeared with a bound on her arm. Media published photos from the crime scene of the morning after the Bari\u010devi\u0107's death, showing Ministry of Agriculture State Secretary Sonja Bukovec crying and hugging sister of Bari\u010devi\u0107. In the parliament, a motion of no confidence (called interpellation in Slovenia) was initiated against the Minister of Agriculture Milan Poga\u010dnik for numerous irregularities in the events"}, {"text": "related to Bari\u010devi\u0107's dogs and the minister resigned. DNA of all three dogs was found on the condom. Peter Vilfan tax evasion. In January 2019, Po\u017eareport published a series of articles revealing tax evasion by the Prime Minister Marjan \u0160arec's Cabinet State Secretary Peter Vilfan. On January 15, Vilfan made a public statement denying allegations. On March 1, 2019, Vilfan resigned. Articles and resignation of minister Jure Leben. In February and March 2019, Po\u017eareport published a series of articles disclosing documents that showed how minister Jure Leben and Public Relations agency Futura transferred money from the state budget. Leben resigned due to corruption investigation and \"media pressure\". Withdrawals of political candidatures. On March 6, 2019, Po\u017eareport disclosed that the European Parliament candidate Katja Damij is heavily in debts and owes unpaid taxes. In another article, Po\u017eareport disclosed that she emailed her business partners denying that she was in debts, and then the political party replaced her with another candidate. On September 3, 2018, Po\u017eareport disclosed that a minister candidate Tugomir Kodelja had been fired from his previous job due to improper behavior. On September 5, prime minister Marjan \u0160arec removed him from the candidates' list. Court proceedings. Po\u017eareport and Bojan"}, {"text": "Po\u017ear have been sued several times. Most of these lawsuits were unsuccessful, including nine lawsuits by attorney Miro Senica. Senica and former minister Katarina Kresal filed criminal charges against Po\u017eareport or Po\u017ear eight times, and the authorities dropped all of them. In 2009 and 2019, in separate cases, Bojan Po\u017ear was convicted for defamations of Edvard Oven and Viktor Knavs, the father of Melania Trump, but appellate courts annulled both convictions and ruled in Po\u017ear's favor. Knavs claimed that Po\u017eareport had published that he had been in jail, and Po\u017ear claimed that the disputed sentence was removed from the website in half an hour as soon as he was informed that it may be false."}, {"text": "Vincente Alb\u00e1n (1725 in Quito, Ecuador - Unknown) was an Ecuadorian painter, member of the Quite\u00f1a School, noted for his idealized paintings of Indigenous (Yumbo people) and Latin American-born people in their native outfits. These paintings display a variety of social classes and information on the clothing of the time. Exploring Latin American identity, his work was commissioned by Jos\u00e9 Celestino Mutis, who wanted to bring local flora into the mind of the country. The paintings were created via an oil on canvas technique. Paintings of this era such as this were often used as a method of showing American territory and the resources it provides. People shown in Alb\u00e1ns work were shown wearing gold and silver to demonstrate the continents wealth."}, {"text": "Suk Suk () (the title means \"Uncle\" in Cantonese) is a 2019 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Ray Yeung. It presents the story of two secretly homosexual married men in their twilight years. The film was selected to compete in the \"Panorama\" section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot. Pak, a 70-year-old taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired 65-year-old single father at a park. Despite the families that they had built, the encounter sparks a desire that they had both suppressed and leads to a contemplation of a life together. Release. The original title \"Suk Suk\" was changed to \"Twilight's Kiss\" for USA and Canada by North American distributor Strand Releasing. The original title \"Suk Suk\" was changed to \"Un Printemps \u00e0 Hong Kong\" for France by French distributor Epicentre Films. The original title \"Suk Suk\" was changed to \"Suk Suk - Um Amor em Segredo\" for Brazil by Brazilian distributor Vitrine Filmes The film was showcased in 'LGBTQ+ Visions & Horizon: Queer Unbound at NYAFF' at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival on July 14, 2024. Reception. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film approval rating based on reviews,"}, {"text": "with an average rating of . According to Metacritic, which sampled six critics and calculated a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, the film received \"generally favorable reviews\". Elizabeth Kerr from \"The Hollywood Reporter\" describes \"Suk Suk\" as Ray Yeung's \"most accomplished, mature film to date, and Yeung demonstrates a keen eye for the social dynamics that impact us and how we respond to them, and finds space to bask in the simple pleasures, basic generosity and the safety net that is family while simultaneously dealing with homophobia, ageism and faith.\" Wendy Ide from \"Screen Daily\" described \"Suk Suk\" as \"a gentle, understated storytelling with subtly observant camerawork to match\". Zhuo-Ning Su from \"The Film Stage\" writes, \"In lucid, carefully non-judgmental strokes, Yeung recreates the easy familiarity of (hetero-normative) family life that both men have gotten used to.\" Sight & Sound indicates, \"Suk Suk is a loving, considerate tale of queer love in later life. Elaborating an affair between two elderly men in present-day Hong Kong, Ray Yeung proves himself as an astute observer of human affection and social obligation in his third feature film.\" Alissa Simon from Variety describes, \"Strong performances by veterans Tai Bo and Ben"}, {"text": "Yuen make the protagonists\u2019 struggle concrete and affecting.\""}, {"text": "The 2019 Tucson mayoral election was held on November 5, 2019. It saw the election of Regina Romero. Nominations. Primaries were held August 27, 2019. Three candidates ran in the Democratic primary, one official write-in ran in the Green primary, while none ran in either the Libertarian or Republican primaries. Democratic primary. Polls. Not running in Democratic Primary Republican primary. While both Frank Konarski and Sam Nagy filed paperwork to run for the Republican nomination, neither met the signature requirements to get on the ballot. General election. Regina Romero was elected the first-ever female mayor of Tucson, and the first Hispanic mayor of the city since the Latino Estevan Ochoa was mayor from 1875 to 1876. This is the first time in over 30 years that Republicans have not run a candidate in an open-seat Tucson mayoral race."}, {"text": "Gillian Green (n\u00e9e Dainty) (born 24 November 1958), is a female former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Dainty became the British 1500 champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1980 WAAA Championships and retained her title the following year at the 1981 WAAA Championships. Dainty represented England and won a silver medal in the 1,500 metres, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. Dainty married Ian Green in Walsall in 1983 and competed under her married name thereafter and shortly afterwards won her third WAAA title at the 1983 WAAA Championships. Three years later she represented England in the 1,500 metres event again, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "Rui Diogo is a Portuguese American biologist, researcher, speaker, and writer at Howard University with several published scientific books, whose research (including those of his lab ) covers social issues such as racism, sexism, etc., using scientific data from many different fields of science (interdisciplinarity). His studies regarding evolutionary remnants in human babies in the womb has been widely reported. In 2017, he proposed Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. Education. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and later did a PhD in biology at the University of Liege, Belgium, a postdoc at the King's College London, a postdoc at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Madrid and then a master's and a Ph.D. at the Department of Anthropology of George Washington University, United States. Work. He is an associate professor of anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine (US). He was among the 10 most cited/influential anatomists worldwide in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 . Diogo is an advocate of the extended evolutionary synthesis and has proposed a revision of evolutionary theory, which he has termed ONCE: Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. He wrote about this theory in his book"}, {"text": "\"Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior\", published in 2017. According to ONCE, evolution is mainly driven by the behavioural choices and persistence of organisms themselves, whilst natural selection plays a secondary role. The book was positively reviewed as an \"impressive work that is jam-packed with complex concepts and ideas\". More recently, he has expanded his research to ecological and cultural conservation, both in Africa (he is the current recipient and single PI of NSF's grant \"Excellence in Research: The Visible Ape Project\" (NSF, Award Number: 1856329) and Asia (he is the current recipient and single PI of NSF's grant \"The Making of a University Hub for Basic Cultural Anthropological Research Related to Cultural and Biodiversity Conservation\" (NSF, Award Number: 2309069). His groundbreaking research on these topics and on human evolution has gained widespread recognition and attention from major global media outlets, including BBC, CNN, and The New York Times, with more than 600 media pieces published in more than 50 countries about his research. Engaging with a diverse audience, he has participated in numerous TV interviews, documentaries, TED talks and radio shows, collaborating with media outlets worldwide. Having traveled to 150 countries, he is committed to challenging norms and advocating for"}, {"text": "inclusivity, significantly influencing global discourse about human evolution, biology and diversity, as exemplified by three of his later books, the highly-acclaimed \u201cEvolution Driven by Organismal Behavior\u201c and, more recently, \u201cMeaning of Life, Human Nature and Delusions\u201c, and \u201cDarwin\u2019s Racism, Sexism and Idolization\u201c. Most relevant talks/science divulgation articles. TED talk on Human Behavior & Sexuality. TEDx Porto, April 2, 2022. https://www.ted.com/talks/rui_diogo_monogamia_poligamia_poliamoria_o_que_e_natural The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/racist-and-sexist-depictions-of-human-evolution-still-permeate-science-education-and-popular-culture-today-202011 Sapiens - https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-mating-relationships/"}, {"text": "Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy (17 December 1823 \u2013 22 May 1853) was a Hungarian poet. She came to wider public prominence as a result of her shocking suicide, and most of her poems were published only posthumously. By the final part of the nineteenth century her work had been largely forgotten. It has undergone a revival since the 1970s, however. Life. Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy was born in Rimavsk\u00e1 Sobota, a mid-sized market town which at that time was in Hungary, which in turn was part of the Austrian Empire. (Today, following frontier changes, Rimavsk\u00e1 Sobota is in southern Slovakia.) While she was still very small the family relocated to Sz\u00e9cs\u00e9ny at the edge of the Hungarian plain to the north of Budapest. The move seems to have come about in connection with her father's work. S\u00e1muel Ferenczy descended from various prominent and aristocratic families. Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy's mother, born Ter\u00e9z Ballay, was the daughter of a minor landlord in the area. The sculptor Istv\u00e1n Ferenczy (1792\u20131856) was a cousin. There is no sign of much wealth having passed down to S\u00e1muel Ferenczy: sources indicate that Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy and her siblings grew up in conditions of some material hardship. The otherwise dilapidated little town of"}, {"text": "Sz\u00e9cs\u00e9ny was dominated by the baroque manor house of the Forg\u00e1ch family, and it was for the Forg\u00e1ch family estate that S\u00e1muel Ferenczy worked, initially and briefly as a bookbinder, and later as manager of the distillery. In 1846 the Forg\u00e1chs succumbed to their growing indebtedness and sold the estate at Sz\u00e9cs\u00e9ny to the politician-writer Ferenc Pulszky. It is not clear what impact this had on Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy who by now was a young adult, but she would continue to live in Sz\u00e9cs\u00e9ny for the rest of her life. Because of the family's modest circumstances, Ferenczy's literary development is believed to have been in large measure the result of self-education. Her father's work as a book binder ensured ample access to books. Her mother died while she was still young, leaving Ter\u00e9z and her three siblings as semi-orphans. She acquired an awareness and then a love of poetry from an early age. As a young woman she spent time in Pest where she met some of the literary celebrities of the day, including the poet and , possibly at the home of her kinsman, the sculptor Istv\u00e1n Ferenczy. Her poems are undated which means that sequencing them chronologically presents a"}, {"text": "challenge. They deal with the trials and storms of love, and are tempered with an underlying strand of melancholy which appears to have intensified over time. Her first piece of published prose writing appeared in the Pest fashion magazine \"Esk\u00fcszeg\u0151\" and was a semi-autobiographical piece concerning a love tragedy (\"...saj\u00e1t szerelmi trag\u00e9di\u00e1j\u00e1t\"). Lajos Ferenczy, a trainee priest, seems to have been the sibling to whom Ter\u00e9z was closest. One source describes him as \"her confidant, comforter and support in her disappointments and loneliness\" (\"...a bizalmasa, csal\u00f3d\u00e1saiban, mag\u00e1nyoss\u00e1g\u00e1ban vigasztal\u00f3ja, seg\u00edt\u0151je\"). Lajos, however, took up arms in the freedom struggle and was killed on 20 June 1849. His memory is preserved in his sister's poem \"\u00d3 ne k\u00e9rdj\u00e9tek\" (\"loosely, \"Do not ask\"\"). The loss exacerbated Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy's tendency to melancholy. It was only in 1853, which would be the year of her death, that her poems began to appear in newspapers and journals. At least one source notes that suicide already ran in the Ferenczy family, and on 22 May 1853 driven, it is reported, by disappointment in love and continuing grieving over her brother's death, Ter\u00e9z Ferenczy shot herself in the heart. As the pathologist's report points out without sentiment, she"}, {"text": "narrowly avoided the main chambers of her heart, but nevertheless succeeded in killing herself. Reports of her death led to a surge of interest in her poetry, with the first of several collections published in 1854."}, {"text": "Hawaii police may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ariana Ince (born March 14, 1989) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the javelin throw. She represented her country at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships without qualifying for the final. In addition, she won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games. Her personal best in the event is 64.38 metres set in Zagreb in 2022. She qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"Dire Wolf\" is a ballad by the Grateful Dead, released as the third track on their 1970 album \"Workingman's Dead\". The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter after watching a film adaptation of \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\". The music, containing elements of country and folk music, was composed by Jerry Garcia on the same day. The song tells the story of a man who plays cards with a dire wolf on a cold winter's night in \"Fennario\"; the lyrics have been variously interpreted. The piece became a staple of the Grateful Dead's performances, and was played more than two hundred times between 1969 and 1995. Background and composition. A few months before the release of their album \"Aoxomoxoa\" in 1969, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and his then-partner Christie Bourne began sharing a house with the band's guitarist Jerry Garcia, his wife, and his step-daughter. Living in close proximity gave an impetus to their collaborative song-writing: Hunter and Garcia wrote every song on \"Aoxomoxoa\". Some time later, Hunter and Carolyn Garcia spent an evening watching a film adaptation of \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\". According to Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, Carolyn later remarked that the hound was a"}, {"text": "\"dire wolf\". However, according to Hunter himself, as quoted in the \"Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics\", he and Garcia were speculating about the identity of the hound in the story, and came up with the idea that it may have been a dire wolf. Hunter wrote the lyrics the next morning, based on images that the phrase conjured for him, and Garcia wrote the music to them later that day. Lyrics and music. \"Dire Wolf\" is a ballad, with influences from country and folk music. Its style was described in an AllMusic review as \"impressionistic\", and as being similar to the writing of Bob Dylan. It is narrated by a character common to Grateful Dead songs, a \"workingman\", who is \"an underdog without pretense or slick-ness, part of the old gritty America\". The narrative is \"deceptively simple\": the story tells of the man sitting down to dinner on a cold winter's day in \"Fennario\", after which the listener never sees him again. The narrator says that he wakes in the middle of the night to find a dire wolf outside his window. The wolf is invited in for a game of cards, and despite the frequent refrain \"don't murder me\", he"}, {"text": "eventually \"collects his due\". The location named \"Fennario\" appears in the folk song \"The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie\", including in the Grateful Dead's version of that song. It refers to a fictional location; a friend of the band members commented in an interview that it was the perfect name for a generic place, because it was evocative, and had four syllables. In contrast, music writer Buzz Poole speculated that the name may be derived from Fenrir, a mythical Nordic wolf who was chained up by the gods. The phrase \"don't murder me\", repeated in the chorus, was a reference by Garcia to his experiences driving around the San Francisco Bay Area at the time that the Zodiac Killer was active. The lyrics have been interpreted to suggest that the man's difficulties were self-inflicted, perhaps as the result of a profligate lifestyle. This theme, of whether humans are victims of forces outside of them or creators of their own destinies, is a recurring one in the band's music. Poole comments that the lyrics intentionally hearken back to an earlier period of United States history, and of the \"calculated risks of Manifest Destiny\". The \"red whiskey\" referred to American Bourbon, whereas the"}, {"text": "now-extinct dire wolf was also exclusively from the Americas. According to McNally, the wolf in the lyrics symbolizes the devil, who, in their \"postmodern, post-Christian cosmology\", they invited in to their homes for a game of cards, and tried to have a good time with. Release and performances. The studio recording of the song was released as the third piece on the album \"Workingman's Dead\" in May 1970. Its first known performance was at San Francisco's California Hall, on June 7, 1969. The song became a staple of the Grateful Dead's live performances; the electric version of the song was typically featured on the band's first set. According to \"The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs\", \"Dire Wolf\" was played 226 times between 1969 and 1995, and was played every year, except for 1975. Sixty-three of these performances were in the first two years after the song was written. In later years, the acoustic version of the piece became more common. The structure and pace of the song did not change much over the years. It was sung most often by Garcia, although an early version featured Bob Weir on vocals, with Garcia playing the pedal steel guitar instead. An AllMusic"}, {"text": "review of this version praised Garcia's \"sweet\" guitar playing as a \"great feature\" of the song. Its lyrics have led to it being described as an essential Grateful Dead song by commentators."}, {"text": "The Digital Trust Center is a Dutch organisation, with the main goal to help entrepreneurs with safe digital entrepreneurship. The organisation is an initiative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy () and is supported by the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), the Royal Association MKB-Nederland), the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, the National Cyber Security Centre / Platform for the Information Society, Platform Netherlands, NLdigital, and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. Target group. The Digital Trust Center's target group consists of 2.2 million companies: from freelancers to large companies. These are all companies in the Netherlands that do not belong to the so-called vital sectors, such as banks, telecom, energy and water companies. Companies in these vital sectors have the National Cyber Security Centre as a partner within the central government. Mission. The Dutch Trust Centers mission is to increase the resilience of businesses to cyber threats with a focus on two key tasks. Its first task is to provide businesses with reliable and independent information on digital vulnerabilities and concrete advice on the action they should take, by means of a digital platform and other facilities. Its second task is to foster cyber"}, {"text": "security alliances between businesses. Both tasks aim to help businesses improve their cyber security arrangements and to increase their resilience to cyber threats."}, {"text": "The 1900\u201301 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1900\u201301 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his second season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Marco Carnesecchi (born 1 July 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Atalanta. Club career. Atalanta. Carnesecchi started playing for the Under-19 squad of Atalanta in the 2017\u201318 season. He was first called up to the senior squad on 14 January 2019 for a 2018\u201319 Coppa Italia game against Cagliari, but remained on the bench. Loan to Trapani. On 25 July 2019, Carnesecchi was loaned to the newly-promoted Serie B club Trapani. He made his professional Serie B debut for Trapani on 22 September 2019 in a game against Salernitana. He played the whole game. Loan to Cremonese. On 5 January 2021, Carnesecchi was loaned to Serie B club Cremonese for the remainder of the 2020\u201321 season, having spent the first few months as an unused substitute at Atalanta. In his first season at Cremonese, Carnesecchi kept 8 clean sheets in 20 matches. His loan was subsequently extended for another season. On 31 August 2022, Carnesecchi returned to Cremonese on a new loan, with the club now in Serie A. International career. Carnesecchi was first called up to represent his country for the under-17 squad in October 2016 and made his debut on 14"}, {"text": "December 2016 in a friendly against Hungary. He was selected for Italy's 2017 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squad, but did not make any appearances behind first-choice Simone Ghidotti. He was the first-choice goalkeeper for Italy at the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship as the team was eliminated in the group stage. At the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, he made two appearances in the group game against Japan and the third-place game against Ecuador, backing up Alessandro Plizzari in other games. On 6 September 2019, he made his debut for the Italy U21 squad in a friendly against Moldova. On 24 January 2022, Carnesecchi accepted a call-up by Italy national team manager Roberto Mancini to join the \"Azzurri\" for a three-day training camp in Coverciano. Honours. Atalanta Individual"}, {"text": "Murieta is a 1965 American biographical Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Diana Lorys, Sara Lezana and Sancho Gracia. The film is about Joaquin Murrieta. Plot. Based on real life events - Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife killed by bandits, Murieta takes out his vengeance by forming a gang of outlaws who rob the countryside. Murieta is eventually cornered by the marshal, who persuades him to end his crusade. But when Murieta is later wounded and convalescent, his gang operates a reign of terror without his knowledge, leading to his death at the marshal's hands in a final battle."}, {"text": "Pleskow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Brockless is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Ghadimi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Reverse engineering of printed circuit boards (sometimes called \u201ccloning\u201d, or PCB RE) is the process of generating fabrication and design data for an existing circuit board, either closely or exactly replicating its functionality. Obtaining circuit board design data is not by necessity malicious or aimed at intellectual property theft. The data generated in the reverse engineering process can be used for troubleshooting, repair, redesign and re-manufacturing, or even testing the security of a device to be used in a restricted environment. Uses. Legacy product support. Legacy systems need maintenance and replacement parts to operate past their intended life cycle. Demand for parts that are no longer being manufactured can lead to material shortages of parts, called DMS/DMSMS. There is much demand that entire government divisions have been created to regulate and plan the obsolescence of those systems and parts. Areas commonly affected by technical obsolescence include power station controls, ATC and aviation controls, medical imaging systems, and many aspects of military technology. There are many legacy systems developed in the 70s, 80s or 90s whose original manufacturer is no longer in business or no longer has the original design data, but whose original equipment is still in use. In many"}, {"text": "cases exact form, fit and function is required, either that so parts can \u201chandshake\u201d properly with the existing framework, or to avoid requirements of time-consuming and costly testing. For industries with highly regulated electronics, (like military or aerospace) this approach can vastly reduce the time required to fabricate replacement parts for system repairs, since the new part's specifications match the original design exactly and therefore do not need to undergo the same level of rigorous re-certification and testing that would be required of a newly designed or revised circuit board. For example, a power company in Florida was forced to shut down due to the failure of a single, inexpensive PCB, which had no replacement parts and no data available to print them. The failure occurred during peak usage hours, and a power outage at that time can cost a power company thousands of dollars per hour. An engineering firm successfully reverse engineered the PCB to generate an exact copy of the PCB using the destructive imaging and milling process, and the power station was subsequently able to resume normal operation. Benchmarking. The process can be used to provide important benchmarking information about newly acquired products, prototype PCBs or any"}, {"text": "circuit board the company does not own. For example, reverse engineering a circuit assembly reveals whether or not the fabricator has exactly matched the design specifications of the board. The process can be used to inspect for counterfeit or malicious circuits embedded in a PCB, or, if a new product has been purchased by a company, to create schematics or other documentation that may not have been included with the product. Use with additive manufacturing. Data from the reverse engineering process can be used to immediately repair or reprint a circuit board using additive manufacturing techniques on multi-headed 3-D printers. In situations where resources are limited like on a ship, submarine, space, or forward deployment, the reverse engineering process can enable a crew to maintain electronics equipment without being required to bring along spare parts. In an ideal scenario, the crew would have access to the design data to use with the 3D printer, but in the event that crew did not have the proper data for the PCBs, they would need to reverse engineer the artifact on hand to create more. Malicious intent. Data from reverse engineering can be taken with good intentions but mitigating intellectual property theft and"}, {"text": "maintaining privacy is increasingly important. Obfuscating PCBs, or hiding the intent of processing is one way to help deter theft. Another is using physical unclonable functions (PUFs) as a digital fingerprint on your PCB that is impossible to recreate. Methods. Types. Destructive RE. Destructive reverse engineering (DRE) is a process where all layers of the board are imaged and subsequently removed by various milling techniques or tools. While it is possible to use nearly any camera or image source for this method, purpose-built RE systems utilize calibrated image sources that allow for extremely accurate reproduction of the design data for the board. This allows an engineer to match the exact form, fit and function of the original PCB. The drawback to this method is that it destroys the PCB. If the data comes from the last remaining circuit card in existence, it cannot be compared to a sample since little or no circuit board remains at the end of the destructive process. Also, care must be taken during the milling process to avoid damaging the copper. If areas of copper are removed before they are imaged, this represents a permanent loss of data which can only be rectified by existing"}, {"text": "documentation of the PCB, or by reverse engineering a second, identical board. Non-destructive RE. There is a growing desire and need for non-destructive reverse engineering technology (NDRE), especially in scenarios like the one mentioned above where there is only a single PCB that can be used. Non-destructive PCB RE (NDRE) mean that the circuit board itself is not destroyed in the process; however, most non-destructive techniques require removing components from the surface of the board. The primary difference between DRE and NDRE methods are in the way that images for the board are captured before new data is generated - in some cases optical images of the top and bottom of the board are captured, then merged with X-ray images of the boards internal layers. Once all images of all of the layers of the board have been captured the process of generating digital manufacturing data is similar to the destructive process. X-ray computed tomography. In recent years, X-ray computed tomography-based imaging processes have advanced to the point that they are able to capture images of the circuit board well enough to isolate individual layers and the features on each of these layers. For simpler boards, X-ray or CT Scans"}, {"text": "can provide high enough resolution images to reverse engineer a board without requiring the use of destructive milling. Generally, a high resolution CT scanning machine will capture images of the board in 2-D slices, varying the angle and intensity. The resulting image captures of the board are computationally assembled into a 3-D volumetric model, and images of each layer can then be extracted. Additional research is underway presently to improve the procedure of CT scanning, volumetric data reconstruction, and circuit layer extraction. In principle this process seems fairly simple, however certain issues such as the non-planarity of circuit layers, resolution and size limitations, and X-ray artifacting greatly complicate the extraction of usable circuit images. X-ray/CT imaging processes suffer many drawbacks, including resolution, equipment costs, and beam hardening and other X-ray artifacts which can distort images or make them harder to use for the reverse engineering process. Additionally, some IC chips can be damaged by exposure to powerful X-rays, so the board must be depopulated before being imaged if components are going to be salvaged for reuse. Another drawback is the time involved in creating the images used to generate circuit board design data. In one study, a Versa 510 X-ray"}, {"text": "machine was used to image a 6 layer board, measuring about - the imaging and processing of the cloud data took over 18 hours to complete. By comparison, destructive reverse engineering can produce high resolution, calibrated optical images of the same 6 layer board in under 2 hours at very low cost by a skilled operator. Flying probe test. Often, a flying probe test machine (FPT machine) can also be used to generate data from a circuit board. Unlike destructive methods, with this process the PCB can generally be reused. But the only output from this process is a list of connections between surface pads on the board, also known as a netlist. The netlist is entirely dependent on the electrical connectivity of the PCB. If a PCB has become damaged or delaminated over the course of its life-cycle, it is possible that either via barrels or the copper traces have become broken, and if the damage occurs on the inner layers of the PCB, the FPT operator will have no way to know about the damage. The resulting netlist will reflect the breaks in the track, and should not be used to produce a schematic or additional boards. Additionally,"}, {"text": "a netlist is a fairly narrow data format that only provides insight into whether different component pins are connected or not. There is no information about the internal geometries of the copper circuits, which are crucial to proper functionality of radio emitting circuits, or circuits with differential signalling. It is impossible to create an identical PCB using this method. These drawbacks mean that this method is generally reserved for the creation of schematics or for troubleshooting and repair purposes. Films. Before the digital age of data processing and storage, PCB designers created and stored the designs on Mylar/BoPET drafting films, which were used in the photo-resistive fabrication process for circuit boards. These films were oftentimes the only copy of the design data for the board. While their primary use was in the manufacturing of PCBs they also doubled as their own storage media. Ultimately these films can disintegrate with time and use, so the design must be imaged and converted to vector formatting in order to be used for future fabrication. The reverse engineering of film sets is roughly the same process as reverse engineering a PCB - each layer is imaged, and Gerber/vector data is created for the different"}, {"text": "circuit layers. Final outputs and reproduction. Whether the board is reverse engineered using a destructive or non-destructive method, the result is that a netlist is obtained. While the netlist itself cannot be used to create an identical replacement, it can be used to generate supporting data for the board like a schematic. Whereas a netlist is a simple ASCII-based text file that simply lists all of the connections of the board, a PCB Schematic relays the same information in a more visual manner. In addition, a schematic can be merged with the bill of materials (BOM) and component pick and place data to further enhance its usability in troubleshooting scenarios, or can be used as a base for the design of a brand new PCB. If a destructive RE process has been used or images for all PCB layers have been captured using X-ray imaging, the resulting data should include not only a netlist, BOM, and/or Schematic, but also a complete graphical layout of the copper layers of the board. This data can be represented in a vast number of different formats, but the most common data formats created in the reverse engineering process include the following: The data produced"}, {"text": "in the reverse engineering process can be immediately sent to a PCB manufacturer for fabrication of replica/\"clone\" PCBs, or be used for creation of supporting documents."}, {"text": "Cole Baker Uvila (born January 30, 1994) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Amateur career. Uvila attended Port Angeles High School in Port Angeles, Washington. Undrafted out of high school, Uvila attended Pierce College in Lakewood, Washington, for two years (2013\u20132014). He posted a 5\u20132 record with a 1.77 ERA and 74 strikeouts over 64 innings in 2014. Uvila then transferred to Georgia State University to play for the Georgia State Panthers for two seasons (2015\u20132016). He posted a 1\u20136 record with a 4.24 ERA and 46 strikeouts over 54 innings in 2015. Uvila entered 2016 as the Friday night starter, but suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament injury of the elbow during his third game of the season, resulting in Tommy John surgery that ended his season. Uvila transferred to Georgia Gwinnett College for his final season of college baseball. He posted a 4\u20132 record with a 4.75 ERA and 80 strikeouts over 55 innings in 2018. Uvila was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 40th round, with the 1199th overall selection, of the 2018 MLB draft. He signed with Texas for a $1,000 signing bonus. Professional career. Texas Rangers. Uvila spent his debut season of 2018"}, {"text": "with the Spokane Indians of the Low-A Northwest League, going 1\u20130 with a 1.42 ERA and 48 strikeouts over innings. Uvila opened the 2019 season with the Hickory Crawdads of the Single-A South Atlantic League, and threw 7 scoreless innings for them before being promoted to the Down East Wood Ducks of the High\u2013A Carolina League. He finished the 2019 season going a combined 7\u20133 with a 2.23 ERA and 95 strikeouts over innings. Uvila played for the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League following the 2019 season, and was named a Fall League All-Star. Uvila did not play in 2020 due to the cancellation of the Minor League Baseball season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Uvila opened the 2021 season with the Frisco RoughRiders of the Double-A Central. He was promoted to the Round Rock Express of the Triple-A West on July 31, after going 2\u20132 with a 2.90 ERA and 42 strikeouts over 31 innings for Frisco. Uvila struggled to an 8.74 ERA with 18 strikeouts over innings for Round Rock. Baltimore Orioles. On December 8, 2021, the Baltimore Orioles selected Uvila from the Rangers in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft. Uvila spent"}, {"text": "the 2022 season with the Triple-A Norfolk Tides, making 42 appearances and recording a 3.48 ERA with 45 strikeouts and 12 saves in 44.0 innings pitched. Uvila returned to Norfolk to begin the 2023 season, pitching in 3 games and logging a 2.25 ERA with 3 strikeouts in 4.0 innings of work. He was released by the Orioles organization on May 19, 2023."}, {"text": "The 1901\u201302 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1901\u201302 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his third season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Hepsibeth Hemenway (March 25, 1763 - Feb. 17, 1847) was a Nipmuc Indian known particularly as a baker of wedding cakes for the wealthy in Worcester, Massachusetts. During her early years she struggled as a laundress and cook to support her family yet towards the end of her life she became quite successful. She is remembered today primarily by older families as a great cook and for having an excellent hand in making wedding cakes. Her portrait now hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum to remember her for her achievements as an Indian woman. Family and life. On March 25, 1763, Lydia Bowman and Crosman became parents to their daughter Hepsibeth. Lydia was a Nipmuc Indian, and Crosman was a white man, making Hepsibeth a child of mixed race. Although Hepsibeth had both of her parents in her life on town records, she is listed primarily as the daughter of Lydia Bowman. This is due to the fact that it was illegal for an Indian woman and white man to be married at the time of her birth. Hepsibeth was 21 years old when she lost both of her parents. Her father, Crosman, died in the Revolutionary War and a"}, {"text": "few months later, in 1784, her mother, Lydia, died a pauper. Having to support herself, Hepsibeth worked as a servant for judge Timothy Paine and his family. She worked for this family until 1789 when she met Revolutionary War veteran Jeffrey Hemenway. In 1792, 29 year old Hepsibeth married Jeffrey Hemenway, a 53-year-old man of Indian and African-American descent. During their time as a married couple, they had eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood. In 1819, Jeffrey died, leaving Hepsibeth a widow at age fifty-six. Having to support her family by herself, Hepsibeth took in laundry, and also cooked and made wedding cakes. Wedding cakes. After the passing of her husband, Hepsibeth moved to a smaller home on Mechanic Street in Worcester near the Hope Cemetery. In her new home, she began to focus on her work as a laundress, cook, and baker of wedding cakes, for which she is most remembered. Although there is little information on where Hepsibeth learned her cooking and baking skills, it is assumed that she taught herself while working for the Paine family. With her position as a servant, she helped the Paine family by preparing food in their kitchen. There is"}, {"text": "no surviving record to show exactly what Hepsibeth's famous cakes looked like, however they are explained to be different from modern cakes. One customer described her wedding cake in this way: \u201cIts garb was purely white; Paradisiacal grains were scattered over its surface, & it was studded with gilded almonds. In the centre towered a beautiful collection of artificial flowers & round its body was a wreath of laurel.\u201d When Hepsibeth died in 1847, her daughter Hannah Hemenway continued her cake business. While a girl, Hannah assisted her mother when she made wedding cakes for her prominent customers. Hannah wanted to keep up the tradition because her mom, Hepsibeth, was well known in Worcester, and many people recommended her cakes to others for their wedding days. The hand-made cakes were always in demand, and for many years, Hannah followed in her mother's footsteps as a cake baker. Portrait. In the 1840s, artist Henry Woodward painted a portrait of Hepsibeth Hemenway. Woodward was introduced to Hepsibeth when he was sent to paint a picture of the Hope Cemetery. At the time, many were questioning if the space of the cemetery was being rightfully used. Some argued that the bodies needed to"}, {"text": "be moved because children needed space to play, while others disagreed. Since Hepsibeth lived so close to the Hope Cemetery, Woodward included the clothes line of laundry that was in Hepsibeth's yard in his painting. Woodward was said to be intrigued by Hepsibeth and decided to paint a portrait of her. In the 1840s, it was rare for a woman of a mixed-race background to have a portrait painted. In the portrait, Hepsibeth wears elaborate clothing which are believed to be passed down from the upper class customers of her cake business. The portrait portrays what looks to be a middle to upper-class woman of Native American descent. In 1895, the portrait of Hepsibeth Hemenway became a part of the Worcester Historical Museum located in Worcester, where she was well known."}, {"text": "Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self is a novel by author Pauline Hopkins that was serialized in \"The Colored American Magazine\" from November 1902 to November 1903, during the four-year period in which Hopkins served as its editor. The novel follows the adventures of Reuel, a mixed-race American, as he travels to Nubia from America while treasure hunting. The novel explores issues of love, identity, trauma and spirituality through the perspective of the African-American community. Plot summary. The novel starts with Reuel Briggs in his apartment alone in Boston, Massachusetts, ruminating on his financial troubles as a medical student. Determined to improve his friend's mood, Aubrey persuades Reuel to attend a \"Negro music\" concert. There Reuel witnesses the talented Dianthe Lusk, a light-skinned \"Negress\" from the South, perform in the Fisk University Singers and becomes infatuated with her beautiful voice and appearance. They attend a house party hosted by Molly Vance, who is engaged to Aubrey, and her brother, Charlie. The group decides to visit the local Hyde House, which is rumored to be haunted, where Reuel encounters a spectral form of Dianthe, who requests Reuel's help. That next morning, Reuel is called to treat the victims of a"}, {"text": "train accident. Among them is Dianthe, seemingly dead, but he revives her using a form of mesmerism. The revived Dianthe has no memory of her former self and Reuel's colleagues believe he has performed a miracle. Reuel and Aubrey persuade Dianthe to live with the Vance family under another name until she recovers and relearns her identity. Reuel falls in love with Dianthe during the stay and proposes to her. She accepts. Wanting to provide for his fianc\u00e9e, he approaches Aubrey for work. Aubrey Introduces Reuel to a job on a dangerous but lucrative archaeological expedition to Nubia. Reuel, Charlie, and Aubrey's servant, Jim Titus, prepare for the expedition, and Aubrey stays in Boston with Molly and Dianthe. Charlie and Reuel frequently write back home, but eventually stop receiving correspondence. They travel first to Egypt, and then via desert caravan to Nubia, where they seek the treasures of Meroe. They encounter many dangers on their journey. Soon after their arrive at the ruin, however, they receive news from America that Molly and Dianthe drowned in a boating accident on the Charles River near Boston. Mad with grief, Reuel disappears into the city's ruins to die. But he is kidnapped by"}, {"text": "unseen foes. He awakens in a luxurious palace within the hidden city of Telassar, built by the inhabitants of Meroe. A native man named Ai, who had passed as a local guide for the expedition, reveals his identity as a councilor and minister of Telassar. Ai introduces Reuel to Candace, the Queen of Telassar, and he begins to fall in love with her. Meanwhile, Charlie and Titus search for Reuel, eventually discovering a secret passage beneath the ruins of Meroe. Telassar's soldiers capture them, but the two manage to escape into the city's tombs where they find a hoard of precious metals and gemstones guarded by serpents. Charlie is rescued by Ai and others, but Titus is mortally wounded. Before he dies, Titus confesses that Aubrey had ordered him to murder Reuel so that he would never return from Africa. To substantiate Titus's confession, Reuel commands Ai to use his people's magic to spy on Aubrey. They learn that Aubrey murdered Molly and faked Dianthe's death so as to marry her in secret. Enraged, Reuel and his companions return to America to seek revenge on Aubrey. While being coerced by Aubrey to marry him, Dianthe gradually regains her memory and"}, {"text": "meets Hannah, an elderly former slave of the Livingstons. Hannah comforts Dianthe and teaches her that she, Aubrey, and Reuel are siblings, and that their mother\u2014Hannah's daughter, Mira\u2014is of Nubian descent enslaved by Aubrey's father. Distraught, Dianthe attempts to poison Aubrey in the night, but he thwarts her and forces Dianthe to drink the poison. Aubrey flees the estate that next morning and abandons Dianthe to her fate. She tries to cling to life, but Reuel arrives at the Livingston estate as Dianthe dies. While traveling alone, Aubrey receives a vision that Dianthe still lives and quickly returns home, and is greeted by Reuel's men. They subdue Aubrey and condemn him. Their magic causes him to drown himself in a river. After Aubrey's death, Reuel learns they are all of one blood. Shocked by this news, Reuel returns to Telassar to serve as King and to teach his people about the new world. Background. The novel's title was inspired by Acts 17:26 in the Bible: \"Of one blood I made all nations of man to dwell upon the whole face of the earth (...) No man can draw the dividing line between the two races, for they are both of"}, {"text": "one blood!\" Hopkins's main purpose in writing the novel was to expose and unravel the entangled genealogies of blacks and whites, the irrefutable evidence that they were literally, biologically, \"of one blood\". The text's collective argument, according to its introduction, is that blood has so effortlessly mixed between the two races that any attempt to disentangle them is rendered impossible. The novel is considered as a novel that \"deals in no uncertain terms with both the temporal and spiritual solution of the greatest question of the age- The Negro.\" According to Colleen O'Brien, critics often regard it as one of the earliest articulations of Black internationalism because it is the first African-American novel to both feature African characters and take place in Africa. The novel was published in the same year that W. E. B. Du Bois originated the famous phrase \"the color line\" in his 1903 collection of essays \"The Souls of Black Folk\", in which the phrase describes the hypothetically dividing line between the white and black races. Hopkins's originating the text in Boston honed in on one of the epicenters of debate in the United States on \"blood\", bloodlines, and roots of \"human family\". The selection of"}, {"text": "\"The Hidden Self\" as the subtitle serves as a \"metaphor for the suppressed history of oppressive social and familial relations under the institution of slavery.\" Of One Blood was rereleased in 2022 as part of the Radium Age Series of classic science fiction from the MIT Press. This new edition includes an introduction by Minister Faust. Faust writes: \"By interweaving fantastical delights with historical realities, Hopkins\u2019 Afritopian novel dramatizes the glory not just of what could have been, but what could still be, if we find the power to free our civilization from a philosophy of exploitation, degradation, and death, and replace it with what one nineteenth-century Liberian poet demanded of a new African nation: liberty, 'proud science,' glories, and art, to 'Arise and now prevail/O\u2019er all thy foes;/In truth and righteousness\u2014/In all the arts of peace\u2014/Advance, and still increase/Though hosts oppose. Themes. The novel drifts between two genres, romanticism and realism, as the protagonist, a Harvard medical student, moves from one country to the other. Focusing on Reuel's racial passing as a white man, \"Of One Blood; Or, The Hidden Self\" begins in The United States and slowly progresses to Africa with his discovery of the hidden city and"}, {"text": "advancement from \"passer to prophet\". Haitian culture. Though recognized for its affiliation with twentieth-century Africanisms, the novel also employs concepts popularly associated to Haitian culture. According to Mary Grace Albanese, the matrilineality of the novel's female characters Hannah, Mira, and Dianthe Lusk resonates with historical and mythologized Haitian perceptions of womanhood, and the preternatural abilities and practices displayed throughout the novel are significant to Haitian Vodou. The burden of royalty. In the story, scholar Melissa Asher Daniels has stated that by journeying into the hidden world, Reuel's royal bloodline not only makes him the heir to a long, rich history of African achievement, but also crowns him as king to a body of people that he previously rejected being a part of. This prophecy that his being there is fulfilling not only burdens him, but drags Reuel into a world that he may not have otherwise accepted. Race. People were associated with a particular race by their physical features. In the United States, race stands as a dominant governing characteristic that dictates an individual's social standing. Moving to the African part of Hopkins's narrative of a Utopian world, it is presented as an important factor for cultural worth but otherwise"}, {"text": "meaningless. Even with the \"one drop\" rule, Reuel was able to pass as a white male even though he is African American. Physical features do not always define your race and that was a dominant message in the novel as race is a social construct. Mysticism. Seen most prominently through the sages that serve the queen and the temple in which they meet, mysticism remains a strong underlying theme as Reuel ventures through the hidden city, blanketed over by the power of kings that were his forefathers. This can also be seen as Reuel tries to interpret various visions throughout the novel that depict upcoming events in his travels and Dianthe's resurrection. Culture. Reuel leaves America with no knowledge or care for his ancestral history; he sees culture more as a crutch than a gift and it's this mindset of blissful ignorance that leads him towards a relationship he'll regret. He felt disconnected from his African American roots because of his persistence to identify himself as an Anglo-Saxon. He's comfortable passing for white because it means that the world must see him for everything else that he is. The resolution for many, if not all of his problems, is found"}, {"text": "while later embracing where he came from. Love and trauma. The idea of love is one that is common throughout the novel, but the accuracy of saying these relationships stem from love is something that could be questioned. When it comes to Reuel and Dianthe, love only comes after major trauma. Reuel may have loved her (or at least lusted after her) but was she ever really in the mindset to return these feelings? Looking at Aubrey, everything between him and Dianthe was forced but he wanted a relationship because Reuel had her. It plays into society's ideology that as a \"white\" man, he had rights to everything and more that a black man could have, so why not just take it? Consent was never something he considered. Hopkins used Dianthe to portray the sexual abuse and trauma that many African-American women underwent during and after slavery. Hysteria. Dianthe's character is used to depict that the horrible diagnosis of hysteria that affected many women was not something that was only put upon white females. She portrays many of the symptoms that were used by physicians to diagnose patients and even goes through similar treatments. Water. Water is the source of"}, {"text": "life, but it's also a means for travel (by boat and portal), a carrier of death in form of poison, the final resting place for two characters, and a mirror that reflects images that onlookers in the novel may not care to see. An ocean is what separates our protagonist from the hidden city but it's also what carries him back. Molly and Aubrey are both drowned at different points and both times, Reuel uses water to transport to or away from the bodies. Memory. It's the loss of memory that not only stimulates a relationship between Reuel and Dianthe, but also causes a lot of conflict throughout the story line all together. The three siblings cross paths when they do but fail to remember their origins until the very end. These memories lead Reuel back to Africa. Science vs. spirituality. Blood plays a major role in the novels main theme to describe that the human race, no matter origin or social class, stem from one birthplace, a scientific argument that Hopkins strongly supports. She also uses science to explain African spirituality that can be seen through the novel's mystic undertones by simplifying concepts of fate that a sceptic audience"}, {"text": "would otherwise not believe. Incest. White-passing children of an enslaved woman, as seen through Reuel, Aubrey, and Dianthe. Incest is one of many common narratives buried beneath the nightmare that was American chattel slavery. Sometimes it happened by accident as white captors destroyed any information of their African lineage. In other scenarios, it was forced to increase numbers. History. Although the novel is a work of fiction, Hopkins uses historical and literary sources, as well as travelogues, to construct a historical argument. Her argument, which ran counter to many histories of that time, was that the ancient cultures of the Nile Valley were African in origin, not imported to the area from elsewhere."}, {"text": "Kamal Deshapriya Sirisena (), is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and television, as well as a television host, cricket commentator and media personality. Personal life. His father Ananda Sirisena was a radio artist. His mother Agnes Tissera (b. 1928) was an actress and radio artist. He completed education from Nalanda College, Colombo. Career. In 2017 he was appointed channel head of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). In February 2018 he resigned from the post by citing personal reasons. Several reports informed that the resignation was due to disputes over match telecasting rights with SLC deputy secretary, Ravin Wickramaratne. He also worked as a co-coordinating secretary of National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) and as the Sihala Urumaya Spokesman. His first cinema acting role was in the 2014 film, \"Siri Daladagamanaya\", directed by Sanath Abeysekara."}, {"text": "James Obergefell ( ; born July 7, 1966) is an American civil rights activist who was the lead plaintiff in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case \"Obergefell v. Hodges\", which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Obergefell had sued the state of Ohio in 2013 due to the state's lack of legal recognition of Obergefell's marriage to his husband, John Arthur (1967\u20132013). Obergefell was the Democratic nominee for the 89th legislative district of the Ohio House of Representatives in the 2022 elections. Early life. James Obergefell was born on July 7, 1966. Obergefell graduated from Sandusky High School in 1984 and went on to attend the University of Cincinnati, where he earned a degree in secondary education and German. He attended graduate school at Bowling Green State University. Out of college, he was a high school German teacher. In his mid-twenties, Obergefell came out, first to his eldest sister. His mother's death preceded his coming out, but the rest of his family were largely \"unsurprised and unperterbed\". While his father was not always supportive, Obergefell found a strong relationship with his aunt Paulette. Obergefell began to attend an Episcopal Church but later declared himself an atheist. Court cases. In"}, {"text": "2011, Obergefell's longtime partner John Arthur was diagnosed with ALS. In July 2013, Obergefell and a gravely ill Arthur were legally married in Maryland. However, after meeting with Al Gerhardstein, a civil rights attorney, they were told that due to Ohio's same-sex marriage ban, Obergefell could not be listed as Arthur's surviving spouse on his death certificate. They filed a lawsuit, and the Ohio case became known as \"Obergefell v. Kasich\". A federal judge agreed to hear the case the following court day due to Arthur's illness. The judge ruled in Obergefell's favor, but the state of Ohio appealed to a higher court and won, resulting in Obergefell's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Arthur died in October 2013, and soon Obergefell devoted his time to the legalizing of same-sex marriage nationwide with the Supreme Court case \"Obergefell v. Hodges.\" The two questions that would drive Obergefell's appeal to court would be: 1) whether it was constitutional for states to discriminate between gay and straight couples in granting marriage licenses, and 2) whether the Constitution required every state to recognize legal marriages of same sex couples who were married in another state. \"Obergefell v. Hodges\" was decided on Friday, June"}, {"text": "26, 2015, with five of the nine Supreme Court justices ruling in Obergefell's favor. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion for the case, stated in the court: \u201cNo union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.\u201d After winning the case, Obergefell stated, \"It affirms what millions across the country already know to be true in their hearts: our love is equal. The four words etched onto the front of the Supreme Court 'equal justice under law' apply to us, too.\" President Barack Obama reached out to congratulate Obergefell and thanked him for \"his leadership that has changed our country.\" Obergefell has stated that he did not take his case to court for financial reasons. According to Obergefell, federal recognition of his marriage would only grant him $255 in additional Social Security benefits and potentially a small disability benefit when he retires. Media appearances. In 2016, Obergefell was invited by Michelle Obama to attend Obama's final State of the Union address. When asked about the event, Obergefell said: \"We the people. This core American"}, {"text": "belief is why the other marriage-equality plaintiffs and I, and so many others before us, stood up to fight for our rights.\" When Justice Kennedy retired in 2018, Obergefell declared that he felt \"despondent\" believing the loss of Kennedy could have negative repercussions for the LGBTQ+ community, such as \"Obergefell v. Hodges\" being overturned. Obergefell stated that Justice Kennedy's legacy was undermined by his decision to retire during a Trump presidency because Obergefell \"wouldn't trust any Justice nominated by this president to respect and protect LGBTQ+ rights.\" Career. Prior to his experience in court, Obergefell was a consultant and realtor in Ohio. He consulted along with his partner Arthur. After the case won in the Supreme Court in 2015, Obergefell spent a year traveling around the globe to speak about the case and his own life. Obergefell cofounded Equality Vines, the first cause-based wine label that supports organizations devoted to civil rights and equality. He works with Keppler Speakers as a speaker and an activist. He also co-authored the book \"Love Wins\" (2017) with Debbie Cenziper. The book explores the lives of the lovers and lawyers who were essential to the victory of \"Obergefell v. Hodges\". In February 2016, soon"}, {"text": "after the court ruling, Obergefell moved to Washington, D.C., to continue pursuing his political endeavors. After three years of activism in D.C., Obergefell decided to move back to Ohio to be closer to his family. When asked about his favorite memory from his time in D.C., Obergefell said, \"To be in that courtroom and have it finally sink in as Justice Kennedy [read] the decision that we won, and that John could finally rest in peace. And that people like us around the country could get married, it's hard to top that.\" In a 2019 interview with Washington, D.C.\u2013based station WUSA (TV), Obergefell said he was looking forward to working on advancing LGBT and minority rights on a state level, starting with his home state of Ohio, since additional federal progress seemed unattainable to him at the time. In January of 2022, Jim Obergefell ran for the Ohio House of Representatives for the state's 89th legislative district, covering Erie, Huron, and Ottawa counties. In the August 2022 Democratic primaries, Obergefell ran unopposed and won. He was defeated by Republican incumbent D. J. Swearingen. Obergefell volunteers to officiate weddings, having officiated at eight same-sex weddings and one opposite-sex wedding after winning"}, {"text": "his case. Personal life. In the early 1990s, at Uncle Woody's, a bar near the University of Cincinnati, Obergefell met John Arthur, the man he would eventually marry. They began dating, moved in together, and worked together in IT consulting and client relations management at several companies. Several years into their relationship, Arthur was diagnosed with ALS. Obergefell acted as Arthur's carer for the remainder of their relationship. By 2013, Arthur became bed-bound, and Obergefell and Arthur decided to get married. Same-sex marriage was illegal in their home state of Ohio, so close friends and family of the couple pooled together to rent a medically equipped plane for the couple to travel to a state where same-sex marriage was legal for their wedding. On July 11, 2013, the couple got an ambulance to escort Arthur to a private plane that flew Arthur, Obergefell, a nurse, and Arthur's aunt Paulette, who performed the ceremony, to Baltimore/Washington International Airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where the marriage ceremony was performed while the plane sat on the tarmac. Arthur died on October 22, 2013. Recognition. In 2016, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati honored Obergefell with the Everyday Freedom Hero award."}, {"text": "The award is given to people whose actions are deemed to reflect the ideals of the underground railroad. The city council of Cincinnati declared April 28 (the day the oral arguments were made in \"Obergefell v. Hodges\") John Arthur Day in honour of the couple. The mayor of the city, John Cranley, referred to Obergefell as a \"historic figure\" for the city and the United States as a whole. In 2015, Obergefell was featured on \"Foreign Policy\"'s Global Thinkers and \"Out\" magazine's Out 100 lists. He was also appointed to the National Advisory Board for the GLBT Historical Society and the Board of Advisors for the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. Obergefell has also been honored by the ACLU of Southern California, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and the Santa Clara University School of Law."}, {"text": "Stanislav Alexeyevich Molchanov () is a Soviet and American mathematician. From 1958 to 1963 he was a student at the Mathematical and Mechanical faculty, Moscow State University (MSU), where he graduated in 1963 with a master's thesis \"On one problem from the diffusion process theory\" supervised by Eugene Dynkin. At MSU Molchanov graduated in 1967 with Russian Candidate degree (Ph.D.) with thesis \"Some problems in the Martin boundary theory\" and in 1983 with Russian Doctor of Sciences degree (higher doctoral degree) with thesis \"Spectral theory of random operators\". At MSU he was from 1966 to 1971 an assistant professor, from 1971 to 1988 an associate professor, and from 1988 to 1990 a full professor in the department of probability theory and mathematical statistics. He was a visiting professor from 1991 to 1992 at the University of California, Irvine and from 1992 to 1993 at the University of Southern California. In 1994 Molchanov became a full professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been a visiting professor at the International School for Probability Theory in St. Flour, the Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum, the ETH Zurich, the EPFL Lausanne, the TU Berlin, Paris (University Paris IV and VI), Ottawa, Rome,"}, {"text": "Santiago de Chile, Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute, and Bielefeld. His research deals with geometrical approaches to Markov processes (Martin boundaries and diffusion on Riemannian manifolds) and with spectral theory (localization in random media and spectral properties of Riemannian manifolds). His research on applied mathematics includes physical processes and fields in disordered structures involving averaging and intermittency with applications to geophysics, astrophysics, oceanography. With regard to physical processes, he has done research on wave processes in periodic and random media, quantum graphs, and applications to optics. With Ilya Goldsheid and Leonid Pastur he proved in 1977 localization in the Anderson model in one dimension. With Michael Aizenman, Molchanov proved in 1993 localization for large coupling constants and energies near the edge of the spectrum. In 1990 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society."}, {"text": "Trysull and Seisdon is a civil parish in the district of South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Trysull and Seisdon and the surrounding countryside. All the listed buildings are in the villages, apart from a lock on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and a bridge crossing it. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, the earlier of which are timber framed. The other listed buildings include a church, a public house, two road bridges, two mills, and a war memorial."}, {"text": "Tel Hashash or Tell el-Hashash () is an archaeological site in the heart of the Bavli neighborhood of Tel Aviv. It is one of the ancient sites along the Yarkon River, located 800 meters south of the river, overlooking Tell Qasile on the northern bank of the river. The site was excavated in the 1960s by Jacob Kaplan on behalf of the Old Jaffa Museum of Antiquities, and in the 1980s by Haya Ritter Kaplan of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The excavations exposed remains of the first century CE and the late Byzantine period. Excavations. In 1953, Jacob Kaplan surveyed the site and found mostly Roman pottery from the 1st century CE as well as Early Bronze Age pottery. Kaplan later excavated the site in 1966 and discovered tombs and pottery from the 1st century BCE to the 1st century CE as well as a structure and tombs from the 4th century CE. In 1980, Haya Ritter-Kaplan excavated the site and discovered a small fortress from the time of Byzantine emperor Heraclius in the early 7th century CE. Ritter Kaplan returned to the site in 1983-1984 and found more Byzantine remains as well as Hellenistic remains including two coins of"}, {"text": "Ptolemy II Philadelphus (3rd century BCE). In 2014 a salvage excavation was undertaken south of Tel Hashash under the direction of Yitzhak Marmelstein and Amir Gorzalczany. The excavation discovered tombs from the Middle and Late Bronze Age, Hellenistic pottery and an Ottoman well."}, {"text": "The National People's Movement (NPM; Sinhala: \u0da2\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0da2\u0db1\u0dad\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0dca\u200d\u0dba\u0dcf\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dba, Tamil: \u0ba4\u0bc7\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf \u0bae\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b87\u0baf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd) is a non-governmental political organization established on 18 December 2018 following the merger of the Deshodaya and United Professionals Movement, along with 17 other civil society groups composed of intellectuals, professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs, youth leaders and village communities. On 29 September 2019, the NPM endorsed former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Mahesh Senanayake as their candidate in the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election. Partners. The National People's Movement consists of the following organizations:"}, {"text": "Nadir Zortea (born 19 June 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for club Cagliari. Club career. Atalanta. Zortea played for Atalanta under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319 seasons. Loan to Cremonese. On 30 July 2019, Zortea joined Serie B club Cremonese on a two-year loan. Zortea made his professional Serie B debut for Cremonese on 24 August 2019 in a game against Venezia. He substituted Michele Castagnetti in the added time. Loan to Salernitana. On 19 July 2021, Zortea joined Serie A club Salernitana on loan. Loan to Sassuolo. On 31 January 2023, Zortea moved on loan to Sassuolo, with an option to buy. Loan to Frosinone. On 18 January 2024, Zortea moved on a new loan to Frosinone. Cagliari. On 17 July 2024, Zortea officially transferred to fellow Serie A side Cagliari on a permanent deal."}, {"text": "William David Hanna (August 31, 1941 \u2013 January 13, 1981), known as David Hanna, was an American artist who produced drawings, paintings, and sculpture in graphite, watercolor, egg tempera, drybrush, bronze, and marble. Hanna lived and worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Bristol, Maine. His art predominantly focused on the structures, furnishings, and people of those regions. Biography. Early life. David Hanna was born in 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the youngest child of a large working-class family. Hanna left school at the age of 14 to work at a gas station and then a dance studio. In 1959, he married Carolyn Jean Elco, a dance instructor. From 1960 to 1964, Hanna served in the Army Special Services, Airborne Division in Laos and Vietnam. While in the military, he earned the equivalent of a high school diploma. Career. In 1964, Hanna returned to Pittsburgh and began pursuing a career as an artist. His work was first shown in an exhibit at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 1965, where he displayed 17 paintings. In 1966, he moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, to study the Brandywine tradition of American realist painting. That same year, members of the Mellon family organized an exhibit of Hanna's work"}, {"text": "in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and by 1967, his work had been featured at galleries including the International Art Gallery in South Hills, Pennsylvania, and the Washington Gallery of Art in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. In 1967, Hanna moved with his family to Bristol, Maine. The family first resided in the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse and later in a house in the village of Round Pond. A large body of work between 1968 and 1975 includes paintings and drawings such as \"Two Different Horizons\" (1971), \"Night Watch\" (1971), and \"Final Farewell\" (1975) depicting Captain Alexander Breede (d. 1971), a retired seaman. Hanna continued to paint, draw, and sculpt through the 1970s. His work was shown in museums and galleries including the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, drawing interest from collectors and commentators including Paul A. Chew, a former director of the Westmoreland, and George Nama, an artist and teacher of draftsmanship and printmaking at the University of Pittsburgh. In a critical essay, Chew wrote: \"It is gratifying to see David Hanna develop a personal, stylistic interpretation of the American tradition of realist painting that has been established by some of our greatest artists\u2014Winslow"}, {"text": "Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Edward Hopper.\" In 1971, Hanna was included in the traveling exhibition \"Brandywine Tradition Artists: Featuring the works of Howard Pyle, Frank E. Schoonover, the Wyeth Family, Charles Colombo, David Hanna (1971-1972),\" which showed in six museums across the United States. During the 1970s, Hanna also contributed works to a 1973 book titled \"The White House Gardens: A History and Pictorial Record\" with commentary by Rachel Lambert Mellon, often known as Bunny Mellon, a renowned horticulturalist, gardener, and art collector whose family owned a number of Hanna's works. The exhibition \"David Hanna: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings\", organized in 1977 by Chew at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, featured 78 artworks including depictions of Hanna\u2019s children such as \"A Million Miles Away\" (1971), the architecture and furnishings of his native Pennsylvania, and the landscape, buildings, and inhabitants of Maine and other New England states, such as \"The Keith House\" (1974-1975). Hanna suffered a fatal heart attack on January 13, 1981, while traveling in Pennsylvania. He was survived by his wife and seven children. A memorial exhibition was organized at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in May 1981. In 2018, the estate of David Hanna began a catalogue"}, {"text": "raisonn\u00e9 project to document the artist's body of work."}, {"text": "The Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) (Spanish: \"Liga de Campeones de Baloncesto de las Am\u00e9ricas\", Portuguese: \"Liga dos Campe\u00f5es de Basquetebol das Am\u00e9ricas\") is Pan-America's premier men's basketball club competition. Founded in 2019, it replaced the FIBA Americas League as the highest level league in the Americas. The winner of each year's competition qualifies to the annual FIBA Intercontinental Cup. Each season exists of 12 teams that qualify through their domestic leagues and the league is typically organized between December and April of the following calendar year. Thus far the league has been won by four different teams. Argentine team Quimsa and Brazilian team Flamengo are the only teams to win the championship twice. History. Background. The first panamerican tournament for men's clubs was held in 1993. The competition lasted until 2000 and in 2007 FIBA started a new league and not a tournament: the top South American teams would no longer play in the Liga Sudamericana. Launch. On 24 September 2019, FIBA launched the Panamerican competition, which derives its name and branding from the European Basketball Champions League. The competition replaced the FIBA Americas League as premier league in the Americas, President Horacio Muratore stated: \"This is not a"}, {"text": "succession of Liga de las Am\u00e9ricas, but rather a new product of our development project that will foster a balance between representation and quality\". The competition consisted of twelve teams, which had to qualify through their domestic leagues. The inaugural season started on October 28, 2019. On October 30, 2021, Quimsa won the inaugural championship after winning the final in Montevideo. Canadian clubs Edmonton Stingers and Brampton Honey Badgers are the only North American teams to participate in the competition so far. Format. As for the competition's format, the first phase of the BCLA will feature four groups of three teams each, with two qualifying teams per group that move on to the Quarter-Finals, which will be a best-of-three series. The Semi-Finals and the Final will also be decided in a best-of-three format. Clubs qualify for the competition mostly based on performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Although exceptional, some teams can be wildcarded. Performance. Performance by head coach. Only one head coach has appeared in multiple finals, as Gustavo de Conti of Flamengo coached in four. All-time participants. The following is a list of clubs who have played in the Basketball Champions League Americas at any time"}, {"text": "since its formation in 2019 to the current season. Broadcasting rights. In selected South American countries, the tournament aired live on DSports. In Puerto Rico, available via WAPA-TV. In the United States, available via FanDuel TV. In Brazil, available via Globo's SporTV. For countries without broadcasting rights, BCLA also available via Basketball Champions League Americas YouTube channel."}, {"text": "The 1902\u201303 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1902\u201303 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his fourth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Colin Simms (born 1939) is a British biologist, curator and poet. Career. Biologist and curator. Simms was appointed Keeper of Biology at the Yorkshire Museum in 1964. He held this position until 1982. Poet. Simms has produced several collections, and more than forty pamphlets, of poetry, inspired by wildlife and the natural world. These varied works were collected into a series of publications, organised by the subject, by Shearsman Books. The first publication was \"Otters and Martens\" in 2004, followed by \"The American Poems\" (2005), \"Gyrfalcon Poems\" (2007), \"Poems from Afghanistan\" (2013), and \"Hen Harrier Poems\". In a 2015 Guardian review of \"Hen Harrier Poems\", Simms' poetry of the last half-century was described as of \"huge importance, thrilling for the rigour and commitment of its vision\". He won 3rd prize in the inaugural Laurel Prize for environmental poetry in 2020, for \"Hen Harrier\". His work, in a discussion of great Yorkshire poets, has also been described as \"not as well known as it should be\"."}, {"text": "The John Clifford Grimsley House is a historic residence in Fayette, Alabama, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. History. John Clifford Grimsley was born in Henry County, Alabama, in 1872. He went into business with his brothers working in the naval stores in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. In 1909 while living in Falco, Alabama, Grimsley and his brothers purchased the Fayette County Bank and relocated to the town of Fayette. They built a new bank building, which was destroyed in a fire in 1911 that also destroyed most of downtown Fayette. In addition to the bank, the Grimsleys owned a horse and mule trading business and a mill, gin, and ice company. In 1915, Grimsley purchased of land north of town and built a house that was completed the following year. Grimsley died in 1959, and his wife gave the property to their daughter, Emily, in 1971. Emily died in 2013, and as of 2018, the property was owned by her two daughters. Architecture. The house was designed by North Carolina architect John David Gullett in Classical Revival style. It is a two story brick veneer structure with a hipped"}, {"text": "roof and large dormers on the front and rear. The fa\u00e7ade has a full-height recessed porch, supported by four fluted Ionic columns. The windows on the first floor have limestone lintels topped with arched stucco panels and keystones. A second-floor balcony sits above the central entrance, which has sidelights and a fan light. The entrance opens into a large living room, with a dining room, bedroom, breakfast room, kitchen, and a small pantry on also on the first floor. The second floor has a has a center-hall plan, with three bedrooms and a bathroom. The house retains most of its original detailing, including wooden crown moulding, baseboards, and door and window surrounds, and varnished single-panel doors. The living room, dining room, and first floor bedroom have original fireplace mantels with tile inserts."}, {"text": "CS Universitatea \u0218tiin\u021ba Bucure\u0219ti, commonly known as \u0218tiin\u021ba Bucure\u0219ti, is a women's handball team based in Bucharest, Romania, that competes in the Divizia A. In 1961, they became the first team to win the European Champions Cup."}, {"text": "Closer to Grey is the sixth (chronologically seventh) and final studio album by American electronic music band Chromatics, released through Italians Do It Better without prior announcement on October 2, 2019. It is their first album in seven years, and follows the continuing delay of \"Dear Tommy\", originally teased in 2014. On March 31, 2020, the band released a companion album titled Faded Now which included remixes from \"Closer to Grey\", as well as covers and new material. All the tracks that compose this double feature are included in the deluxe edition of \"Closer to Grey\", as well as instrumental and a cappella versions of some songs. Background. The title track, \"Closer to Grey\", was released in 2014 through Johnny Jewel's SoundCloud. The first track, \"The Sound of Silence\", is a cover of the Simon & Garfunkel song. The tenth track, \"On the Wall\", is a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain song. The cover of the record represents \"Closer to Grey\" as the seventh Chromatics album, turning \"Dear Tommy\" (the would-be sixth unreleased album) into a \"lost\" record. Track listing. All tracks written by Adam Miller and Johnny Jewel, except noted."}, {"text": "The 2020 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 2004. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland. The championship began on 1 August 2020 and ended on 3 October 2020. On 3 October 2020, Blarney won the championship after a 1-20 to 0-15 win over Castlelyons in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 2008. Blarney's Mark Coleman was the championship's top scorer with 1-50. Format change. On 26 March 2019, three championship proposals were circulated to Cork club delegates. A core element running through all three proposals, put together by the Cork GAA games workgroup, was that there be a group stage of 12 teams and straight relegation and promotion. On 2 April 2019, a majority of 136 club delegates voted for Option A which would see one round of games played in April and two more in August \u2013 all with county"}, {"text": "players available. Team changes. To Championship. Promoted from the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship From Championship. Promoted to the Cork Senior A Hurling Championship Participating teams. The club rankings were based on a championship performance 'points' system over the previous four seasons."}, {"text": "Su Lingdan (, born 12 January 1997) is a Chinese athlete specialising in the javelin throw. She represented her country at the 2019 World Championships without qualifying for the final. Her personal best in the event is 63.29 metres set in Gumi in 2025."}, {"text": "Robert Meakin (born December 16, 1964) is a Canadian curler and curling coach. He is a and a 1995 Labatt Brier champion. Personal life. His daughter is Breanne Knapp (n\u00e9e Meakin), Canadian female curler, and . He is married and also has a son. He currently works as vice president, sales and marketing at Pride Electronics Inc."}, {"text": "There were at least four special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1965, during 89th United States Congress. Elections are listed by date and district. List of elections. ! ! !"}, {"text": "This is a list of speakers of the People's Consultative Assembly, the bicameral legislature of Indonesia. The list does not include chairs of the Central Indonesian National Committee. From 1960 to 1971 the assembly was named the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly. Key:"}, {"text": "Enrico Del Prato (born 10 November 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back, right-back or defensive midfielder for and captains club Parma. Club career. Atalanta. Del Prato is a product of Atalanta youth teams and started playing for their Under-19 squad in the 2016\u201317 season. In the 2017\u201318 Serie A and 2018\u201319 Serie A seasons, he was called up to the senior squad on several occasions (including the 2019 Coppa Italia Final), but remained on the bench every time. Loan to Livorno. On 13 July 2019, he was loaned to Serie B club Livorno. He made his professional Serie B debut for Livorno on 24 August 2019 in a game against Virtus Entella, substituting Andrea Luci in the 74th minute. He first appeared in the starting lineup and played his first full game on 24 September 2019 against Cosenza. Loan to Reggina. On 11 September 2020, he joined Serie B club Reggina on loan. Parma. On 31 August 2021, after remaining with Atalanta for the entirety of the preseason, Del Prato joined Serie B club Parma on a one-year loan. Del Prato transferred to Parma on a permanent deal on 21 June 2022. International career. He"}, {"text": "was first called up to represent his country in November 2016 with the Under-18 squad. He was selected for Italy's squad at the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, but did not make any appearances as Italy finished as runners-up. At the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, he started every game, except for the group stage game against Japan, as Italy finished in 4th place. On 6 September 2019 he made his debut for Italy U21 in a friendly against Moldova. Honours. Parma"}, {"text": "Reilly Paterson (born 22 August 2000) is a US-raised Jamaican footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Evansville Purple Aces and the Jamaica women's national team. Early life. Paterson was raised in Temecula, California. International career. Paterson made her senior debut for Jamaica on 30 September 2019. International goals. \"Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first\""}, {"text": "Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (born 31 October 1965) is a German psychiatrist and professor in the Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University. He is also the director and CEO of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, as well as medical director of their Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. His research includes work on the genetics of complex psychiatric disorders. He has also used neuroimaging to study the neurobiological basis of mental disorders such as Williams Syndrome, and the effects of living in urban areas on mental health and the human brain. Life and career. Meyer-Lindenberg was born in Bonn. He studied medicine in Bonn and at Cornell University in New York, and mathematics at the Fernuniversit\u00e4t Hagen. He has been a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn since 1984. He is the grandson of the diplomat Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg and the great-grandson of the left-liberal politician Oscar Meyer and the philatelist Carl Lindenberg. His medical and scientific work took him via Bonn and Giessen, where he was trained as a neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, to the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda (Maryland). In 2007, he succeeded Fritz Henn as director of the Central Institute of Mental Health, medical director"}, {"text": "of the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy there and full professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. The scientific focus of Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg's work is on researching risk and protective mechanisms in serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression using imaging, genetic and environmental methods. As a \"highly cited researcher\" he has been regularly identified as one of the most cited scientists in his field. In 2009 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in 2011 a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and in 2022 a member of the Academia Europaea. Meyer-Lindenberg is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards, including Brain Mind Institute \u2013 Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Lausanne, Robert-Sommer Award for Schizophrenia Research, Research Priority Program on \"Foundation of Human Social Behavior\" \u2013 University of Zurich, The Loop Zurich \u2013 Medical Research Center, \"Endosane Pharmaceuticals\", Neurotorium and The Brain Prize and a member of the board of several professional societies such as the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is site spokesperson at the German Center for Mental Health and serves as Editor-in-Chief of"}, {"text": "Neuroscience Applied as part of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Executive Committee (2022\u20132025)."}, {"text": "Martine Reicherts (born 13 April 1957) is a Luxembourgish politician who served as European Commissioner in 2014 and as the European Union's Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture until her retirement in 2018, when she was replaced by Themis Christophidou. She had previously held the post of Director-General of the Office for Official Publications of the European Union. She was born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, and educated at the European School, Luxembourg I. She studied at the University of Luxembourg, University of Nice, University of Aix-en-Provence and University \"Paris II\" and has a Master of Laws and a D.E.A. in Business Law. After practising as a lawyer at the bar in Luxembourg from 1980 to 1984 she worked at the European Commission from 1984 until her retirement in 2018. From 1988 to 1991 she taught taxation at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She served as a European Commissioner in the Barroso Commission, with a portfolio of Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship."}, {"text": "Nara B. Milanich is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, specializing in Latin America; and the comparative histories of family, childhood, gender, reproduction, and social inequality. Her most recent book is \"Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father\" (2019), published by Harvard University Press. She was interviewed about the book for \"Science Friday\" by Ira Flatow. Early life and education. Milanich is the daughter of archeologist Jerald T. Milanich and anthropologist Maxine Margolis, who have been professors at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. She earned her BA degree at Brown University and her master's and doctorate degrees at Yale University. Career. Milanich joined the Barnard faculty in 2004. In addition to paternity and the family, her scholarly interests include modern Latin America, Chile, law, and social inequality. Her awards include the Columbia University, Heyman Center Society of Fellows, 2015\u201316; ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, 2014\u201315; and the Grace Abbott Book Award from the Society for the History of Children and Youth (2009) for Children of Fate. Milanich has received the \"Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars\" from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars from the National Endowment for"}, {"text": "the Humanities, which cited her \"Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1800\u20131930\". She has published in scholarly journals and popular publications including \"Scientific American\"; \"Salon\"; and \"Time Magazine\". Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father. Milanich's book \"Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father\" was described as \"a solidly researched and enlightening new book\" in \"The New Yorker\". The book was also reviewed in The Economist, \"Salon\" interviewed Milanich in an article about the book. Milanich and her book were the subjects of an article in \"The Atlantic\". \"Paternity\" was also noted in the \"New York Times Review of Books\"."}, {"text": "The Shawmut Historic District, in Valley, Alabama, United States, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The listing included 275 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site on . It is roughly bounded by 25th Boulevard, 29th Boulevard, 20th Avenue, 35th Street, and 38th Boulevard. It includes work by the Lockwood, Greene & Company. The architecture is in the Bungalow/Craftsman and Depression modern styles."}, {"text": "Cale Fleury (born November 19, 1998) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Coachella Valley Firebirds of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the third round, 87th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2017 NHL entry draft. Playing career. Fleury was drafted in the fourth round, 87th overall by the Kootenay Ice in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft. Fleury began playing with the Ice in 2014, and was named team captain during his third and final full season with the team. On November 11, 2017, Fleury was traded to the Regina Pats to help bolster their roster in hopes of going on a deep playoff run. Fleury was selected 87th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2017 NHL entry draft in Chicago. On October 4, 2018, Fleury signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Canadiens. He was assigned to Montreal's AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket, where he played his first season at the professional level. On October 1, 2019, it was announced that Fleury would appear in the Canadiens' opening night roster. On November 16, 2019, Fleury earned his first"}, {"text": "NHL point, scoring a goal during a 3\u20134 overtime loss against the New Jersey Devils. He split the 2019\u201320 season between the Canadiens and their minor league affiliate Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League. On July 21, 2021, Fleury was selected from the Canadiens at the 2021 NHL expansion draft by the Seattle Kraken, reuniting him with his brother Haydn. Personal life. Fleury\u2019s older brother Haydn was his teammate on the Seattle Kraken and was selected seventh overall in the 2014 NHL entry draft by the Carolina Hurricanes."}, {"text": "Tiziano Motti (born February 7, 1966) is an Italian musician and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. He represented the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats within the European People's Party group parliamentary group. He is well known for raising a variety of issues including child protection and animal rights. History. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy. In 2006, he founded Tiziano Motti Foundation. In 2009, he was elected as an independent member of the European Parliament. In 2010, he authored a resolution to help create a European Rapid Alert System against pedophiles. He raised and stood by various issues in support of animal rights. Career. Before joining politics in 2009, Motti worked as an entrepreneur in the publishing sector. In 2004, he founded a non-profit organization \u2013 \"L'Europa dei diritti.\" He started from subordinate roles and founded \"Citizen Guides\" in the year 2000. In 2005, he founded the local newspaper \"Il Giornale di Reggio\". He produced the television format \"Noi Cittadini\" in collaboration with Italian actor, Antonio Lubrano and broadcast it, which based on citizens rights. In 2012, he started his musical career as an artist, DJ, and musician. Motti performed"}, {"text": "in a live concert organized for the victims of the May 2012 earthquake. In 2014, Motti released his album Siamo Tutti Assolti in March. The album comprised 12 tracks and two remix versions of La Verit\u00e0. Siamo Tutti Assolti was launched by Universal Music Italia. Motti was a part of the Radio Bruno Estate tour in July 2014."}, {"text": "John David Gullett (born 1875 or 1880; died 1935) was an American architect based in Goldsboro in Wayne County, North Carolina. He practiced in North Carolina from 1920 until his death in 1935. Several of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It has been asserted that he \"is chiefly remembered for the Colonial- and Classical Revival-style dwellings he designed in Goldsboro.\" Thirteen works by Gullett in North Carolina, all built of brick between 1922 and 1935, are known to have survived to 2000. \"Of these, the former Mount Olive High School remains one of his most significant designs in its utilatarian yet refined treatment of Classical Revival decoration and form.\" That school has also been described as Gullett's \"most ambitious undertaking\". Gullett was born either in 1875 or 1880 in Amite City, Louisiana. Per his 1935 obituary he trained as an architect in Mississippi. By 1908 he was an architect in Birmingham, Alabama, partnering with Daniel Helmich (1854-1917) who designed the 1901 Birmingham City Hall and retired in 1913. Gullett had an office in the Brown-Marx Building in Birmingham in 1910, at which time he was living with Daniel Helmich and Helmich's wife. Gullett"}, {"text": "married sometime during 1910-1912, and became a draftsman for architect H.B. Wheelock in 1912. He left that employment by 1917 and was again practicing on his own in 1917. The Wheelock Building, a brick Classical Revival style commercial building designed by Wheelock's firm, has exterior details similar to those of Gullett's later non-residential works in North Carolina. Gullett took and passed North Carolina's Architectural Board exam in 1920 in order to practice in North Carolina, which he did until his death in 1935. Works include: Gullett died of a heart attack on October 19, 1935, in North Carolina. His remains were buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama. After his death Allen J. Maxwell, Jr., \"thought to have been Gullett's protege, took over Gullett's unfinished commissions.\""}, {"text": "Kollo Daniel Sanou (born 1 December 1951) is a Burkinab\u00e9 film director as well as a screenwriter and producer of both fiction and documentary films. Biography. Sanou was born in Borodougou in 1951. He studied at the Institut National des Arts in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for his undergraduate degree and then earned his master's degree at the in Paris, France. Career. Since 1977 Sanou has directed or been the screenwriter of over 25 documentary, fiction, and animated films. He also directed the television series \"Taxi Brousse\", serving as producer as well from 2001 to 2004. His first film of note was \"Paweogo\" (The Immigrant), released in 1982 with production by CINAFRIC, a company set up by local businessman Martial Ou\u00e9draogo to produce and distribute local Burkinab\u00e9 films. However, shortly after the completion of the film, CINAFRIC went bankrupt and had to close due to lack of investment. \"Paweogo\" would be the only film the company ever produced. The film was, however, nominated for that year's FESPACO awards, although it did not win. Sanou served as director and screenwriter for the 2004 film \"Tasuma\", a comedy-drama of a Burkinab\u00e9 war veteran who had fought for France abroad returning to his home"}, {"text": "village. The film was well received by critics although Dave Kehr noted that the film fell back on old tropes of African cinema such as a folkloric theme and the setting of the noble village."}, {"text": "is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Takarai started her career illustrating covers for novels in 2004 and later debuted as a manga artist in 2007 with \"Seven Days\". She also publishes manga under the pseudonym Octo."}, {"text": "Ada Lundver (9 February 1942 \u2013 6 October 2011) was an Estonian film actress and media personality. She appeared in nearly thirty films. Life. Lundver was born in K\u00e4ina Parish (now, Hiiumaa Parish), on the island of Hiiumaa in 1942. She used to spend each summer on the island with her grandmother. In 1960 Lundver was working in a shoe factory in Tallinn. The following year, her life was transformed as she was acting with the State Philharmonic of the Estonian SSR. She was chosen from nearly 250 other applicants. She completed a course in pop singing before acting more. She and Eve Kivi became the most well known Estonian actresses. She made films in the 60s, and signed an agreement to make more films in 1969 - becoming the \"German slut in Russian movies\". She married Mikk Mikiver in 1971 and then made many more films. She made nearly thirty in total including \"Cold Land\", \"What Happened to Andres Lapeteus\" and \"Noon Barge\". Her marriage to Mikk Mikiver ended in 1983. Lundver drank a lot after her career subsided. She died in Tallinn in 2011 and was buried at the city's Forest Cemetery beside her husband."}, {"text": "Andrea Colpani (born 11 May 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or right winger for club Monza. Club career. Atalanta. Colpani is a product of the Atalanta Youth Sector, and started playing for their under-19 squad in the 2016\u201317 season. In the 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319, he was called up to the senior squad on several occasions, including the 2019 Coppa Italia Final, but did not make any appearances. Loan to Trapani. On 17 July 2019, Colpani was loaned to newly-promoted Serie B club Trapani on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie B debut for Trapani, on 24 August 2019, against Ascoli. He started the game and played the first 63 minutes. Colpani played 34 league games for Trapani, as well as two games in Coppa Italia. Monza. On 22 August 2020, Colpani was sent on a two-year loan to newly-promoted Serie B side Monza, with an option and conditional obligation to purchase. He scored his first goal on 16 March 2021, as a substitute in a 2\u20130 home win over Reggiana. On 1 November 2021, Colpani scored his first goal of the 2021\u201322 season, helping Monza beat Alessandria 1\u20130. Following Monza's Serie A"}, {"text": "promotion on 29 May 2022, Colpani's obligation for purchase clause was triggered. Colpani made his Serie A debut during the 2022\u201323 season on 21 August, coming on as a substitute in a 4\u20130 defeat away to Napoli in the second matchday. He scored his first Serie A goal on 26 August, in a 2\u20131 home defeat to Udinese. On 10 August 2023, Monza renewed Colpani's contract until 30 June 2028. On 26 August 2023, Colpani scored his first brace in a 2\u20130 Serie A win against Empoli. He left the club with 133 games and 18 goals in all competitions. Fiorentina. On 26 July 2024, Colpani joined fellow-Serie A side Fiorentina on a one-year loan with an option for purchase. International career. Colpani was selected for Italy's 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup squad, and made four appearances at the tournament\u2014three as substitute\u2014as Italy finished in fourth place. Colpani played 16 games between 2018 and 2019 for the under-20 team. On 3 September 2020, Colpani scored a free kick for Italy U21 on his debut, in a friendly against Slovenia. Colpani was called up to the senior Italy squad for UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying matches against North Macedonia and Ukraine on"}, {"text": "17 and 20 November 2023, respectively. Style of play. Due to his similarities with Javier Pastore, Colpani is sometimes nicknamed \"El Flaco\"."}, {"text": "Tiernny Arlene Wiltshire (born 8 May 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for the club Stade de Reims F\u00e9minines. Born in the United States, she represents Jamaica internationally. Club career. Wiltshire previously played for Israeli Ligat Nashim club Maccabi Emek Hefer during the 2020\u20132021 season. She made 14 appearances and scored seven goals (four regular-season league goals, two national cup goals, and one league cup goal). She returned to the U.S. upon the end of the season and joined the Houston Dash as a trialist. In 2021, Wiltshire signed a short-term contract with Finnish Kansallinen Liiga team Kuopio Palloseura. On 25 August 2022, Wiltshire was signed with the Houston Dash as a forward for the remainder of the 2022 season. Wiltshire signed with French club Reims on September 2, 2023. International career. Wiltshire made her senior debut for Jamaica on 30 September 2019."}, {"text": "Sentani Kota is a town (\"kelurahan\") located in the district of Sentani, Jayapura Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia. It lies some 40 kms west of the city of Jayapura, and contains Sentani International Airport, the main port of entry for the province. The adjacent town (\"kelurahan\") of Hinekombe - part of the same built-up area - is the location of the administrative seat of Sentani District, while Sentani District is the capital of Jayapura Regency. The town is located to the north of Lake Sentani and to the south of the Cyclops Mountains. In mid 2022 Sentani town had 24,482 inhabitants and Hinekombe town had 21,724 inhabitants. Transportation. Sentani is served by Sentani International Airport. The village is linked to Jayapura by a paved highway. Climate. Sentani has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with moderate to heavy rainfall year-round."}, {"text": "Diego Bianchi (born 1969 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian visual artist. He lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Life and career. Diego Bianchi received his degree in graphic design from the University of Buenos Aires in 1992, after which he participated in a critique seminar run by Pablo Siquier between 2002 and 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, Bianchi also participated in a program for visual artists co-run by the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas and the University of Buenos Aires, funded by the Beca Kuitca scholarship. He subsequently received a scholarship to attend Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, USA), from which he graduated in 2006. Bianchi has accrued extensive teaching experience, leading numerous workshops around the world. These include a number of critique seminars at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella Buenos Aires (2013, 2015); an Antiproject workshop at the Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste Berlin in Dresden, Germany (2016); and an artist workshop at the Mandale Fruta Lugano in Buenos Aires (2017). He has received a number of awards, including the arteBA-Petrobras Award to the visual arts in 2007 and the Grant of Secretar\u00eda de Cultura de la Naci\u00f3n in 2006. He is represented by the Galerie Jocelyn"}, {"text": "Wolff in Paris, France. He won the Konex Award from Argentina in 2022. Artistic Work. A prominent figure on the Latin American art scene, Diego Bianchi\u2019s artistic work is made up of eclectic sculptures and installations, often utilizing elements of performance, which address both aesthetic standards and socio-political subjects. His pieces are constructed with visually transgressive materials that range from discarded objects such as chairs, pipes or electronics, to colorful casts of various body-parts, seemingly put together in a haphazard manner to create curious constructions that fill up the exhibition space. While the choice of material remains relatively open, Bianchi often works with smooth surfaces, placing and attaching them in various constellations. The discarded elements \u2013 which could be considered as trash \u2013 are transferred by the artist into a new context through their placement in a different artistic ecosystem, aesthetically working to \"desanctify the work of art\" through their constant reconstructions. This approach is most visible in Bianchi\u2019s recent exhibition at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, \"El presente est\u00e1 encantador\" (2017), in which a number of individual sculptures made up of haphazardly fused and seemingly random elements take over the space holding the museum\u2019s permanent collection, directing"}, {"text": "the viewer into a dialogue with his precedents. Diego Bianchi\u2019s work is situated on the border between realist and conceptualist traditions, with many of his approach being traceable to the oeuvre of European artists such as Piero Manzoni, Daniel Spoerri, Giuseppe Penone, and Arman. One of the more dominant themes of Bianchi\u2019s work is the repetitive use of the human body as an artistic element. While visible already in his earlier works, the emphasis on the physical has become more influential in his recent sculptures and installations. Citing the words of feminist artist Barbara Kruger, he takes an approach in which the \u201cbody is more a battlefield than a temple\u201d, and therefore an object to be dismembered and distorted. These recent works, such as \"Pooldance 4\" (2017) or \"Multileg\" (2017), actively assemble and dis-assemble the borders between the human and the object. Linked to overarching themes of deconstruction and unraveling, these works disrupt the viewer\u2019s expectations and play with the borders between the personal and the impersonal. \"The Suspension of Disbelief\" (2014) is a work which activates these notions in a performance piece. Taking over the entire room, the installation is activated by the performer who suspended on a web"}, {"text": "of strings attached to his clothing and to his body: the mouth, a finger, his uncovered penis or from both sides of his t-shirt. Every movement also moves the strings, connecting the body to eerie objects that resemble severed body-parts formed out of latex or plastic, or to everyday objects such as a broom or a chair. The preoccupation with the physical appears also in earlier installations, such as the entrance designed by the artist for his exhibition \"Imperialismo Minimalism\" (2006) at the Sendros Gallery in Buenos Aires. Placing a steep wooden ramp over the stairs located in the entry to the gallery, Bianchi forces visitors to engage in a physical effort to enter the space as they are left to climb up the construction with the help of ropes. In addition to aesthetic considerations, Bianchi\u2019s work also examines political themes linked to the precarious socio-economic situation in his home country and the critique of an (art) consumer society, grappling with the paradox created by the simultaneous decay of social norms thanks to the ongoing global crisis and the more hopeful outlook to the future. Starting at the early 2000s, his pieces reflect the evolution of this process brought to"}, {"text": "the foreground by the spread of neoliberalist policies in Latin America, expressed through an extensive engagement with the relationship between bodies, objects and the spaces which they inhabit. At the same time, through exhibitions such as \"Shutdown\" (2016), the artist engages with the perceived numbness of the contemporary art world towards social issues, and the disconnect between the proliferation of aesthetically idyllic art and the more brutal world which it inhabits."}, {"text": "This is a list of biker metal bands. Biker metal is a fusion genre of punk rock, heavy metal, rock and roll, and blues."}, {"text": "This is a list of occult rock bands. Occult rock is a proto-metal style of rock music."}, {"text": "Robert August Olson (April 14, 1917 \u2013 July 18, 1987) was an American soil scientist. He was a professor of agronomy at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, and one of the first to prove and warn that nitrogen fertilizers could harm crops and pollute groundwater. Education and career. Olson was born in Fullerton, Nebraska, and grew up in eastern Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, where he received an AB in chemistry and soils, and after service as a naval air navigator during World War II, an MS degree in soils. His MS thesis was titled \"The Relation of Soil Properties and Fertilization to Winter Wheat Production in Nebraska\", and was advised by R. H. Rhoades. Upon completion of the master's degree, he was hired in 1948 as a professor of agronomy at the same university, where he remained for most of his career. He retired and was granted emeritus status in 1986. Other than teaching at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, Olson served as a consultant at the OECD in Paris in 1958 and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1962. Between 1967 and 1969 he served as manager of the Food for Hunger Campaign Fertilizer"}, {"text": "Program for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. After the Chernobyl disaster, he helped assess and mitigate the effects of the disaster on agriculture. He authored over 100 topical publications and book chapters and was associate editor of \"Soil Science Society of America Journal\" and soils editor of \"Agronomy Journal\". Selected publications. Source: Death. Olson died on July 18, 1987, from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. Honors and awards. Olson was a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and of the Soil Science Society of America. He received the ASA International Service Agronomy Award, the Agronomic Achievement Award-Soils, the Soil Science Distinguished Career Award, the SSSA Bouyoucos Soil Science Distinguished Career Award, among others. In 2019, he received the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln."}, {"text": "The Hollywood Walk of Fame star is misspelled! Auguste's name is missing the 'e'."}, {"text": "Fabriciana is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, commonly found in Europe and Asia. The genus was erected by T. Reuss (T. Reu\u00df) in 1920. Taxonomy. This taxon used to be considered a subgenus of \"Argynnis\", but has been reestablished as a separate genus in 2017. Species. Listed alphabetically:"}, {"text": "Paradise-crows are members of the genus Lycocorax in the family Paradisaeidae (birds-of-paradise). There are two species:"}, {"text": "Rising Sun is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist and flautist, Najee. Critical reception. Jonathan Widran of AllMusic says in reference to the track \"Moody's Mood for Love\", \"Straight-ahead jazz critics have found it easy to dismiss Najee as a groove happy lightweight over the years, but tracks like this -- and so much of the powerful playing on this disc -- prove once and for all that he's a serious jazz player. Who just happens to like commercial R&B and play it like nobody's business.\" Jeff Winbush of \"All About Jazz\" gives the album 3\u00bd out of 5 stars and says, \"Najee's Rising Sun is stylish and sophisticated, and the fact that it should be very, very popular doesn't diminish the fact that it's a great listen all the way through.\" \"Smooth Jazz\" concludes their review with, \"Najee is the mellow romantic side of smooth jazz, authentic.\" Brian Soergel of \"Jazz Times\" begins his review with, \"Soprano saxophonist Najee has made it to his 10th solo CD, which means he must be doing something right.\" Ian Cooke reviews for \"The Urban Music Scene\" and writes that, \"Blending various shades of straight-ahead as well as contemporary jazz, classic R&B"}, {"text": "and even indie rock, this set continues Najee\u2019s innovative ideas.\" Track listing. All track information and credits taken from the album liner notes."}, {"text": "Heritage management in the Philippines is guided by laws and agencies that create regulations for potentially destructive behaviors such as excavations and demolition. Legislation pertaining to heritage management consists of Republic Acts and Presidential Decrees. Organizations such as UNESCO, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the Heritage Conservation Society are also referred to in laws. Republic Acts are pieces \"of legislation used to create policy in order to carry out the principles of the Constitution.\" They are written by Congress and approved by the President. The National Heritage act is a Republic Act which created the Philippine Registry of Cultural Property and gave ultimate power to the National Museum of the Philippines. The Local Government Code is a Republic Act which required the national government to collaborate with local governing bodies when preparing to damage land. The General Appropriations Acts are Republic Acts which required certain agencies to avoid damaging cultural properties including bridges, train stations, capitol buildings, and universities. The Indigenous Peoples' Act was a Republic Act which gave consideration and ownership to indigenous people who would be affected by any excavation or damage. The Cultural Properties Preservation and Protection Act required digging teams to report"}, {"text": "findings to the Director of the National Museum. The purpose of Presidential Decrees was and is \"to arrogate unto the Chief Executive the lawmaking powers of Congress.\" Presidential Decree No. 105 defined National Shrines and enforced their safety by threatening violators with 10 or more years in prison, a fine of 10,000 pesos, or both. Presidential Decree No. 374 provided a definition for the phrase \"National Cultural Treasure\". Presidential Decree No. 374 added certain sites to the list of Philippine National Cultural Treasures. Presidential Decree No. 1505 made it illegal to \"modify, alter, repair, or destroy\" the natural state of national shrines and landmarks without consent from the National Historical Institute of the Philippines, punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison or a fine between 1,000 and 10,000 pesos. These laws can be separated into categories such as built environment, indigenous peoples' laws, and intangible heritage. The National Cultural Heritage Act is an example of built environment legislation, the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act is an example of indigenous peoples' legislation, and both Presidential Decree No. 374 and the Cultural Properties Preservation and Protection Act refer to National Cultural Treasures which include intangible heritage. Heritage management in the Philippines is"}, {"text": "not only about archaeology, it is about peoples' relationship to, and ownership of, their culture. Republic Acts. National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009. (Republic Act No. 10066). An act which established a Philippine Registry of Cultural Property, which was to be controlled by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. It also gave protection to buildings that were more than 50 years old. It established categories of cultural property, such as works by a national artist, archaeological and traditional ethnographic materials, archival material dating to at least 50 years, and works of national heroes. It created guidelines for anthropological research, such as a requirement to communicate with the National Museum of the Philippines before organizations can be allowed to excavate and a requirement to document findings with the Philippine Registry of Cultural Property. The National Cultural Heritage Act also prohibited acts such as destroying, modifying, or mutilating any world heritage site and selling or distributing material that was lost by its rightful owner. Local Government Code of 1991. (Republic Act No. 7160). An act established to decentralize the decision-making process as it pertains to Philippine land and cultural artifacts. It was an effort to give a voice to communities"}, {"text": "by appointing local stakeholders who would collaborate with the national government. It required the national government to periodically consult with the appointed Local Government Units (LGU) before it could be allowed to implement any program within its jurisdiction, especially programs with potential to disrupt or disturb culturally important artifacts in their original state. General Appropriations Act of 2015. (Republic Act No. 10651). An act that made it the responsibility of the department of education to \"preserve and restore the existing Gabaldon school buildings as part of the preservation of the country's cultural heritage\". Gabaldon school buildings were built in the Philippines during the American Colonial period and are considered to be of significant cultural value. The Gabaldon school buildings are also protected by Republic Act No. 10066 and Republic Act No. 11194. They made it illegal to demolish these buildings. General Appropriations Act of 2016. (Republic Act No. 10717). An act that added \"other heritage school buildings\" to the list of things that the department of education was required to preserve and protect. It also required \"prior approval of government cultural agencies and proper consultation with stakeholders and cultural groups\" in order to demolish cultural properties. These cultural properties included"}, {"text": "but were not limited to provincial capitol buildings, city hall, municipal hall, monuments, fountains, parks and plazas, state colleges and universities, lighthouses, bridges, public hospitals, train stations, museums, public libraries, stadiums, prisons and government offices. The act also held agencies responsible for structures such as roads and bridges which impacted heritage conservation when being built. General Appropriations Act of 2017. (Republic Act No. 10924). An act that referred to Republic Act No. 10066 and required agencies mentioned in it (National Parks Development Committee, Department of Public Works and Highways, Department of Tourism, and more) to consult with the NCCA before carrying out their responsibilities. It also called for the protection of built heritage and cultural landscapes, including but not limited to provincial capitol buildings, city hall, municipal hall, monuments, fountains, parks and plazas, state colleges and universities, lighthouses, bridges, public hospitals, train stations, museums, public libraries, stadiums, prisons and government offices. It required approval of government cultural agencies, the NCCA, and stakeholders, to alter, renovate, or demolish important cultural properties. Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997. (Republic Act No. 8371). An act created to \"makes provisions for the promotion and recognition of the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples, with"}, {"text": "a view to preserve their culture, traditions and institutions and to ensure the equal protection and non-discrimination of members\". It was intended to recognize, \"protect and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples, creating a national commission on indigenous peoples, establishing implementing mechanisms, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes\". Cultural Properties Preservation and Protection Act. (Republic Act No. 4846). An act that required that anyone wishing to excavate would obtain written permission from the Director of the National Museum of the Philippines. It requires archaeologists supervising excavations to be certified by the Museum and requires archaeologists to catalogue their excavations and to halt digging when they find any artifacts, because any findings must be reported to the Museum Director. It required any digging on government or private property to be carried out by the Museum or a group authorized by the Museum. Presidential Decrees. Presidential Decree No. 105. A law signed in 1973, \"declaring national shrines as sacred places and prohibiting desecration thereof\". Presidential Decree No. 105 also designated \"certain places in the country as National Shrines because they were the sites of the birth, exile, imprisonment, detention or death of great and eminent leaders of the nation\""}, {"text": "and puts pressure on the Philippine government to protect National Shrines as hallowed places. Convicted violators of Presidential Decree No. 105 are subject to 10 or more years' imprisonment, a fine of 10,000 or more pesos, or both, at the discretion of the court. Presidential Decree No. 374. A law signed in 1974, also known as the Cultural Properties Preservation and Protection Act, which created guidelines for the National Museum to follow when processing National Cultural Treasure. It required that \"any cultural property exported or sold locally must be registered with the National Museum.\" It defined a National Cultural Treasure as the following; \"a unique object found locally, possessing outstanding historical, cultural, artistic and/or scientific value which is highly significant and important to [the Philippines].\" Presidential Decree No. 375. A law that built upon Presidential Decree No. 374 and was also signed in 1974. This law added the Basilica of Taal, Church of Santa Maria, Barasoin Church, Tirad Pass, Miagao Church, the battle site of the Battle of Mactan, San Sebastian Church, and the Church of Santo Ni\u00f1o to the list of National Cultural Treasures. Presidential Decree No. 1505. A law signed in 1978 which prohibited \"the unauthorized modification, alteration,"}, {"text": "repair and destruction of original features of all national shrines, monuments, landmarks and other important historical edifices.\" Presidential Decree No. 1505 also made it unlawful to \"modify, alter, repair, or destroy\" the natural state of national shrines, landmarks, and other sites deemed important by the National Historical Institute of the Philippines, without written consent of the chair of the institute. Convicted violators of Presidential Decree No. 1505 are subject to anywhere between 1 and 5 years in prison or a fine between 1,000 and 10,000 pesos. Other Agencies. UNESCO. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization functions to designate world heritage sites, which are places that hold outstanding universal value to humanity and humanity's history. The title \"world heritage site\" provides protection since most of the statutes and laws regarding preservation of Philippine heritage give protection to UNESCO world heritage sites. Included in the list of World Heritage Sites in the Philippines are the rice terraces in the Cordilleras, and sites currently being considered for addition to the list are located in Butuan, the Cagayan Valley, and the Tabon Cave complex, where Tabon man was found. The National Museum of the Philippines. The National Museum of the Philippines was"}, {"text": "given power by the National Museum Act of 1998, or Republic Act No. 8492. It was an act that cut the Museum's ties to the NCCA and the Department of Education. It placed the Museum under the Office of the President only. The National Museum's function is to \"obtain, keep, study and present material evidence of man and his environment\" and \"inform the general public about these activities for the purpose of study, education and entertainment.\" National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts is \"the official government agency for culture in the Philippines.\" It makes policies regarding, and gifts grants to, anything associated with the \"preservation, development and promotion of Philippine arts and culture.\" Intramuros Administration. The Intramuros Administration was created under Presidential Decree No. 1616 with the mandate of ensuring the restoration and orderly development of Intramuros as a monument to the Hispanic era of Philippine History. Heritage Conservation Society. The Heritage Conservation Society (HCS) is an organization which aims to protect and preserve built heritage and historical or cultural sites, to uphold that \"heritage and culture should be developed and preserved for national identity.\" HCS utilizes volunteerism and advocacy work"}, {"text": "to contribute to the preservation of Philippine built heritage, which is HCS's is primary concern. HCS defines conservation as \"all the processes and measures of maintaining the cultural significance of a cultural property including, but not limited to, preservation, restoration, reconstruction, protection, adaptation or any combination thereof.\" Cultural ownership. Due to the nature of museums, their primary interest is not to advocate on behalf of cultural groups, but to collect items of cultural and historical significance. Therefore, artifacts found during excavations tend to end up with museums and organizations instead of being returned to the people with whom they belong. There are acts and laws that have been working to combat this problematic phenomenon around the world:"}, {"text": "Lorenzo Peli (born 24 January 2000) is an Italian football player who plays for club Pianese. Club career. Atalanta. Peli is a product of Atalanta youth teams and started playing and won the title for their Under-19 squad in the 2018\u201319 season. In the 2017\u201318 and 2018\u201319 seasons he was called up to the senior squad on several occasions, but did not make any appearances. Loan to Como. He joined the newly-promoted Serie C club Como on loan in July 2019. He made his professional Serie C debut for Como in September 2019 in a game against Renate. He substituted Alessandro Gabrielloni in the 81st minute. Loan to Reggina. In August 2020 he went to Reggina (newly promoted to Serie B) on loan. Return to Como. In January 2021 he returned to Como on loan. The loan was extended on 16 July 2021. Loans to Novara and Pontedera. On 15 July 2022, Peli joined Novara on loan. The loan was terminated early on 31 January 2023. On the same day, Peli was loaned to Pontedera in Serie C. Loan to Ancona. On 17 August 2023, Peli was loaned by Ancona. International. In 2017 and 2018, he played several friendlies for"}, {"text": "the Italy national under-18 football team."}, {"text": "The Advisory Circular AC 20-152A, Development Assurance for Airborne Electronic Hardware, identifies the RTCA-published standard DO-254 as defining \"an acceptable means, but not the only means\" to secure FAA approval of electronic hardware for use within the airspace subject to FAA authority. With the 2022 release of Revision A (effectively a complete rewrite and remarkable expansion) this Advisory Circular becomes a very important instrument for completing and updating some DO-245 guidance and providing applicants with clarifications and additional information on that standard. Initially, the DO-254 was commonly interpreted as applying only to complex custom micro-coded components within aircraft systems with Item Design Assurance Levels (IDAL) of A, B, or C. DO-254 guidance on \"simple\" electronic hardware and other topics needed some clarification. However, Revision A of this AC clarifies that AC 20-152() and DO-254 apply to the type certification of \"all\" electronic hardware aspects of airborne systems, including all simple electronic hardware, although at greatly reduced effort. Revision A also defines 29 objectives \"additional\" to those identified in DO-254. Applicants choosing to follow DO-254 under the authority of AC 20-152A must also accomplish all of these additional objectives that apply to their particular hardware. Specifically excluding COTS microcontrollers (see AC"}, {"text": "20-115()/DO-178C), complex custom micro-coded components include field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), programmable logic devices (PLD), and application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), particularly in cases where correctness and safety can not be verified through testing alone, necessitating methodical design assurance. \"Simple\" devices are those that are verifiable with testing alone, such that the FAA may agree that methodical design assurance is unnecessary. For DAL D hardware, as long as the applicant follows DO-254, the applicant does not need to apply this advisory circular since the FAA does not expect to examine the life cycle data. However, if the applicant chooses to follow other design practices for DAL D hardware (as permitted by this AC) the FAA will review the data. One new objective in AC 20-152A explicitly states DO-254's application to circuit board assemblies (CBA) that contribute to to hardware DAL A, DAL B, or DAL C functions. With the release of the expanded AC 20-152A and its companion AC 00-72, Best Practices for Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance Using EUROCAE ED-80() and RTCA DO-254(), chapters 3 through 6 of FAA Order 8110.105A were removed in a Revision B released in 2024 to eliminate any duplication or conflict with the new ACs."}, {"text": "The removed sections had been published as an expedient solution to the concerns of both authorities and applicants. These were removed because the FAA now avoids using internal FAA Orders and Notices to provide guidance and clarifications to applicants. Where this pair of new ACs replace material in Order 8110.105, AC 20-152A provides new guidance to close gaps in DO-254 while AC 00-72 provides \"additional information\" on some of the new objectives in AC 20-152A."}, {"text": "Nellie Miller (born February 14, 1988) is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. She won the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December 2017. Her horse, Sister, also won the AQHA/WPRA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year that season. Life. Nellie Miller was born Nellie Williams on February 14, 1988, in Cottonwood, California. Her father Sam trains all of her horses. He first trained a horse named Blue Duck. Blue Duck was initially Sam's roping horse but became Williams' barrel riding horse. Sister, Nellie's current horse was also trained by the family. She was named Sister due to being Blue Duck's half-sister. Nellie was 12 years old when she started barrel racing. Sam taught her all about horse riding. She competed on the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Career. Miller turned professional in barrel racing by joining the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) in 2008. She competed in barrel riding sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) each year and qualified for the NFR four times. She won the World Barrel Racing Championship at the NFR in 2017. She also won many"}, {"text": "rodeos during the regular seasons of the years 2010 through 2019, including major rodeos such as Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and RodeoHouston in Houston, Texas. Season 2019. Miller came into the NFR this year in the number one position, which was her first time to do so. Some highlights from this season: Miller came in second place in the standings for the California Circuit. She was co-champion at Cheyenne Frontier Days. She was the co-champion at the Stonyford Rodeo in California. She won the Santa Maria Elks Rodeo in California. She won the Stampede Days Rodeo in Bakersfield, California. She won the Red Bluff Round-Up in California, which is her hometown rodeo. She won the Helzapoppin in Buckeye, Arizona. She won RodeoHouston for the second time in a row. Summary. Miller qualified for the NFR four times, in 2010, 2017, 2018, and 2019. She finished 5th in the 2019 World Standings with $235,898.96 in total yearly earnings. Her career earnings as of 2019 are $876,021. Horse. Miller's horse, registered name Rafter W Minnie Reba, nicknamed Sister, was named the AQHA/WPRA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year in 2017. She was also named the Horse with the Most Heart"}, {"text": "that same year. Sister is a blue roan Quarter Horse mare. Sister is by KS Cash N Fame out of Espuela Roan, a daughter of Blue Light Ike. Personal. Nellie Williams met James Miller in Las Vegas, Nevada. They got married in Las Vegas. They have two daughters. Her favorite rodeo is the California Rodeo Salinas."}, {"text": "Julius Rantaeskola (born March 22, 1993) is a Finnish professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for KalPa of Liiga. Career. Rantaeskola had spells on Jr. A SM-liiga for HIFK and Jokerit before making his professional debut with a loan spell at Kiekko-Vantaa of Mestis during the 2013-14 season. He became a permanent member of Kiekko-Vantaa on June 4, 2014 and played the next four seasons with the team. He had rejoined Jokerit on May 2, 2017 on a two-way contract after they entered co-operation with Kiekko-Vantaa but spent the 2017\u201318 season on loan at Vantaa for his fourth successive season with them. On May 18, 2018, Rantaeskola joined IPK of Mestis where he led the team with 40 points (18 goals and 22 assists) in 50 games. His performances earned him a try-out with IPK's parent club KalPa alongside Tuomas Vartiainen. He made his debut for the team on September 14, 2019 against HIFK. Nine days later, KalPa announced that both Rantaeskola and Vartiainen would remain with the team until the end of the season after a successful try out."}, {"text": "Michel Berger (born 10 January 1941) is a Belgian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "CSU UV Timi\u0219oara, formerly known as \u0218tiin\u021ba Timi\u0219oara or Universitatea Timi\u0219oara, is a women's handball team based in Timi\u0219oara, Romania that competes in the Divizia A. External links."}, {"text": "Winchelsea is a town in East Sussex, England. Winchelsea may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Daniel Moussiaux (born 17 September 1945) is a Belgian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Caltex Tournament was a golf tournament held at Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, from 1955 to 1972. History. Bob Charles and Peter Thomson each won the event five times, while Kel Nagle won it four times and Dave Thomas won it twice. There were no playoffs and three of the tournaments ended in a tie. From 1963 the tournament was part of the New Zealand Golf Circuit."}, {"text": "Saint-Denis de La Chartre ( or \"\") was a Roman Catholic church building located on the \u00cele de la Cit\u00e9 in Paris, France. It was demolished in 1810. Location. The church was situated on at the northern corner of , in front of . It stood at the beginning of the Pont Notre-Dame in the corner of today's and History. Even though the church may have existed in the beginning of the 11th century, the current building was built in the 12th or 13th century in the alignment of the northern part of the former Gallo-Roman walls. It was surrounded by a small feudal plot. The church was the seat of one of the 14 parishes of La Cit\u00e9 that were founded in the mid-eleventh century. The population of the parish was evaluated at 1,060 around 1300. The parish was transferred to Saint Symphorien's in 1618 and merged with the parish of Sainte Madeleine in 1698. The church was re-built in the 14th century and demolished in 1810."}, {"text": "Jean-Louis le Clerc (born 19 January 1940) is a Belgian former field hockey player. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Sube y baja (aka Up and Down) is a 1959 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Teresa Vel\u00e1zquez, Domingo Soler, Carlos Agost\u00ed and Alejandro Ciangherotti. The film's art direction was by Gunther Gerszo. Plot. Don Gaspar, the owner of a successful, prestigious sporting goods store, decides to hire a poor uncouth sports fan as a salesman, after seeing him play an American football game and being impressed. In the meantime, a millionaire woman named Lucy, who is infatuated with Jorge Maciel, a world famous professional athlete who will spend his vacation in Acapulco, is determined to enamor him and takes her chance alongside her sister, much to the chagrin of her friend, who is himself interested in Lucy. Due to a sort of eccentricity Maciel is unknown to everyone since he adamantly refuses to be photographed. When Cantinflas starts working in the store, his lack of business savvy and destructive nature cause numerous incidents of distrust among prospective customers. Regardless, Don Gaspar does not fire him despite the constant accusations of Se\u00f1or Robalo, the manager who sees all the disasters, due to the hunch that he'll be very useful for something. However, when Cantinflas insults"}, {"text": "Don Gaspar's wife Don Gaspar reluctantly degrades him to become the elevator's operator, and later decides to send him to Acapulco to try to convince Jorge Maciel to sign an advertising contract that will garner much more income to Don Gaspar's company. Cantinflas, when traveling to Acapulco with his \"compadre\" and registering at the hotel, is given suite No. 7 as a courtesy. He is mistaken by accident with Jorge Maciel by Lucy after being told Maciel would stay in that suite. After recognizing Lucy who unknowingly had met Cantinflas in the elevator, he decides to take his chances after and confessing their mutual attraction he tells her about his plan to meet Maciel. When he hears she believes him to be Maciel he decides to maintain the charade despite knowing that the true Jorge Maciel is due to arrive. The hotel requests his competition in several sports categories to highlight \"his\" presence, from which he wins all. The real Jorge Maciel arrives at the hotel and finds out about Cantinflas' usurpation by reading an announcement of \"his\" competition in a boat race. Despite his companion's demand he decides not to unmask Cantinflas because he wants to know who he"}, {"text": "is and what he wants. He stays with a false name and keeps an eye on the man all the time without being noticed. In the end, Lucy, very much in love with the fake Maciel, proposes that they live together far away. Shortly afterwards, in a costume party done in Maciel's honor the real Maciel reveals himself to Cantinflas and asks for an explanation. After stating the whole purpose of his visit he explains that upon meeting Lucy and falling in love with her, he decided to impersonate him to maintain that love since he was unable to tell her the truth. Maciel promises not to tell her anything and forgives him for everything. However, Lucy's friend discovers it all by hearing their conversation in secret. The next morning, Lucy learns that the fake Maciel left the hotel at dawn without telling her anything, and her friend who discovered who he is offers to take her to meet up with \"Jorge\". Cantinflas returns to the sporting goods store and Don Gaspar, furious about failing the mission he entrusted to him, returns him to his elevator operator post to pay back the 100000 pesos spent on the trip; however, afterwards"}, {"text": "Jorge Maciel voluntarily appears at the store and presents himself to Don Gaspar to tell him that he will sign the document, only in return for the happiness of the person sent to achieve that purpose. Lucy and her friend arrive at the sporting goods store, and seeing that her hero was nothing more than an elevator operator, she leaves very angry and disappointed. Just as Cantinflas is about to leave heartbroken Se\u00f1or Robalo arrives to tell him Don Gaspar wants to talk to him. Don Gaspar appoints him general manager of the store for having managed to sign the contract with Jorge Maciel. In the end, Cantinflas, now general manager of the store, meets Lucy again and both reconcile."}, {"text": "Guy Miserque (16 July 1945 \u2013 9 April 2020) was a Belgian field hockey player. He competed at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. Miserque started playing hockey in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre with Park Woluwe when he was about 9 years old. He won the Belgian cup with that team in 1964 and then transferred to Uccle Sport, where he won the national championship 10 times. They played three finals of the EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, in 1976, 1977 and 1984. Miserque played 190 times for the Belgian national hockey team, and was seen as the best Belgian player from the 1960s until the 1980s, and perhaps of the whole 20th century. He was crowned player of the year in 1966. He competed at four consecutive Olympic Games and only missed out on the 1980 Moscow Olympics because Belgium boycotted these. Professionally, Miserque was a physical education teacher. Miserque died following a protracted illness on 9 April 2020. He was 74."}, {"text": "Claude Ravinet (born 24 March 1943) is a Belgian field hockey player. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Guy Verhoeven (18 March 1938 \u2013 31 July 2020) was a Belgian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Burkina Faso competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019."}, {"text": "Eric Van Beuren (born 5 July 1942) is a Belgian former field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "On the Wall may refer to:"}, {"text": "Rilind Nivokazi (born 26 January 2000) is a Kosovan professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Swiss Challenge League club Bellinzona. Club career. Early career and Atalanta. Nivokazi at the age of 8, he started playing football in , he besides being was part of , he was part even of (2011), Bastia (2011\u20132013) and (2013\u20132014). On 23 May 2014, Nivokazi joined with youth team of Italian giants Atalanta. In 2017\u201318 season, he started playing for Atalanta's under-19 squad. Loan at Bologna Youth Sector. On 18 January 2019, Nivokazi joined Campionato Primavera 2 club Bologna, on a six-month-long loan. One day later, he made his debut in a 2\u20133 away win against SPAL after coming on as a substitute at 57th minute in place of Kaloyan Krastev. On 16 February 2019, he scored his first goal for Bologna in his fifth appearance for the club in a 2\u20132 away draw over Hellas Verona in Campionato Primavera 2. Loan at Lecco. On 10 July 2019, Nivokazi joined newly-promoted Serie C club Lecco, on a season-long loan. On 25 August 2019, he was named as a Lecco substitute for the first time in a league match against Arezzo. His debut with"}, {"text": "Lecco came thirteen days later in a league match against Novara after coming on as a substitute at 76th minute in place of Marco Moleri. Foggia. On 1 February 2021, Nivokazi joined Serie C side Foggia and receiving squad number 30. Twelve days later, he made his debut in a 0\u20132 home defeat against Catanzaro after coming on as a substitute at 81st minute in place of Ibourahima Bald\u00e9. Chiasso. On 4 August 2021, he signed with Swiss club Chiasso. Lugano. In December 2022, Nivokazi joined Rapperswil-Jona, before moving to FC Lugano in July 2023, where he was going to play for the clubs reserve team. Bellinzona. On 30 July 2024, Nivokazi moved to Bellinzona. International career. From 2016, until 2017, Nivokazi has been part of Italy at youth international level, respectively has been part of the U16, U17 and U18 teams and he with these teams played ten matches and scored two goals. On 15 March 2021, Nivokazi received a call-up from Kosovo U21 for the friendly matches against Qatar U23. Eleven days later, he made his debut with Kosovo U21 in first match against Qatar U23 after being named in the starting line-up. Personal life. Nivokazi was born"}, {"text": "in Perugia, Italy to Kosovo Albanian parents from Gjakova."}, {"text": "Nischal Basnet is a Nepalese film director and actor who primarily appears in Nepali language films. He made his directorial debut in 2012 with the crime-thriller \"Loot\" and wrote screenplay for the film. The film focuses on Hakku Kale (played by Saugat Malla), who masterminds a bank robbery. The film received mixed reviews from the critics, some of whom criticized the script for not being original. According to \"The Kathmandu Post\", the film \"changed the discourse of the Nepali film industry\". \"Loot\" earned 25.5 million Nepalese rupees (approximately US$218,000 in 2019), making it Nepal's highest-grossing film of 2012. Basnet went on to win the Dcine Award for Best Debut Director. In 2014, Basnet acted in and produced Ram Babu Gurung's romantic drama \"Kabaddi\". In the film, Basnet plays Bibek, who tries to abduct a gangster's daughter. The same year, Basnet directed the dark comedy \"Talakjung vs Tulke\". The film is set during the Nepalese Civil War, which lasted from 1996 to 2006. Basnet won the Film Critics Society of Nepal Award for Best Director and the National Film Award for Best Director. \"Talakjung vs Tulke\" was selected as the Nepalese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th"}, {"text": "Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. In 2017, Basnet directed \"Loot 2\", the sequel to \"Loot\". \"Loot 2\" grossed 60.1 million Nepalese rupees (approximately US$524,000 in 2019) at the box office, surpassing the lifetime box office gross of \"Loot\". After directing \"Loot 2\", Basnet starred in \"Dui Rupaiyan\" (2017), portraying Jureli, one of two characters on a quest to find two rupees. In 2018, Basnet appeared in Dinesh Raut's \"Prasad\", playing the role of Ramesh alongside actors Bipin Karki and Namrata Shrestha.\"\" For his role in the film, Basnet was nominated for a Dcine Award and the Kamana Film Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role. Besides acting and directing, Basnet has served as a judge on \"Sarwanam Theater\" (2018)\",\" \"Nepal Idol\" (2019) and \"Nepal's Mega Cinestar\" (2019). He has also sung \"Udhreko Choli\", \"Hit Geet\", and \"Ghyampe\"."}, {"text": "The 2020 Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship was the inaugural staging of the Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and the 111th staging overall of a championship for middle-ranking intermediate hurling teams in Cork. The draw for the group stage placings took place on 19 November 2019. The championship was scheduled to begin in April 2020, however, it was postponed indefinitely due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. The championship eventually began on 1 August 2020 and, after being suspended once again on 5 October 2020, ended on 7 August 2021. On 7 August 2021, \u00c9ire \u00d3g won the championship after a 2-16 to 1-17 defeat of Aghabullogue in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. It was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1985. Cormac Duggan was the championship's top scorer with 4-35. Format change. On 26 March 2019, three championship proposals were circulated to Cork club delegates. A core element running through all three proposals, put together by the Cork GAA games workgroup, was that there be a group stage of 12 teams, straight relegation, and one team from the divisions/colleges section to enter at the preliminary quarter-final stage. On 2 April"}, {"text": "2019, a majority of 136 club delegates voted for Option A which would see one round of games played in April and two more in August \u2013 all with county players available. Team changes. From Championship. Promoted to the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship Regraded to the Cork Lower Intermediate Hurling Championship Regraded to the South East Junior A Hurling Championship Regraded to the City Junior A Hurling Championship Participating teams. The club rankings were based on a championship performance 'points' system over the previous four seasons."}, {"text": "Kurt Koffka (; March 12, 1886 \u2013 November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor. He was born and educated in Berlin, Germany; he died in Northampton, Massachusetts, from coronary thrombosis. He was influenced by his maternal uncle, a biologist, to pursue science. He had many interests including visual perception, brain damage, sound localization, developmental psychology, and experimental psychology. He worked alongside Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang K\u00f6hler to develop Gestalt psychology. Koffka had several publications including \"The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology\" (1924) and \"The Principles of Gestalt Psychology\" (1935) which elaborated on his research. Personal life. Kurt Koffka, born March 18, 1886, in Berlin, Germany, was raised by Luis Levy and Emil Koffka. His mother listed herself as Protestant despite having Jewish heritage. His father was a lawyer, and his younger brother, Friedrich Koffka, went on to become a judge. In spite of the prevalence of law in his family, Kurt Koffka decided to pursue science as he was motivated by his maternal uncle, who was a biologist. Koffka married Mira Klein, a participant in his experimental research, in 1909, but they later divorced. In 1923, he married Elisabeth Ahlgrimm who completed her PhD"}, {"text": "at Giessen, but they divorced in 1926. He remarried Mira until their second divorce in 1928 when he remarried Elisabeth to whom he remained married until his death. Koffka was forced to alter his lifestyle after developing a heart condition called Coronary thrombosis. However, his condition did not hamper his work ethic as his lecturing and scientific projects occupied his time until he died. Koffka died on November 22, 1941, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and left many of his projects unfinished. Education. Kurt Koffka's academic career began at the school of Wilhelmsgymnasium where he attended from 1892 to 1903. In 1903, Kurt Koffka traveled to Scotland to study at the University of Edinburgh for a year. His time at the University of Edinburgh was crucial as he developed a greater understanding of the English language which was a valuable tool for spreading his message in the future. In 1904, he returned to Berlin where he attended the University of Berlin for three years. He chose to pursue psychology as he believed the subject matter of psychology was best suited towards his interests. While studying at the University of Berlin, Koffka examined his personal colour vision in Willibald Nagel's physiological laboratory. He"}, {"text": "was interested in visual perception due to his own red-green blindness, which led him to study color vision and after-images. This work culminated in Koffka's first publication in 1908 called \"Untersuchungen an einem protanomalen System\" [Studies on a protanomalous system]. This paper analyzed different properties of colour including contrast as well as the effect of brightness and wavelengths on colour. The figure ground phenomenon was also studied. Koffka completed his dissertation called Experimental-Untersuchungen zur Lehre von Rhythmus [Experimental studies on the teaching of rhythm] securing him his Doctor of Philosophy in 1908. He worked with Carl Stumpf during the pursuit of his doctorate. Career. After receiving his doctorate in 1908, Koffka worked at the University of W\u00fcrzburg as an assistant to Oswald K\u00fclpe who greatly influenced his work. After K\u00fclpe left, Koffka continued to work as an assistant to Karl Marbe. In 1910, Koffka became an assistant to Friedrich Schumann at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt on Main to study the perception of motion, alongside Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang K\u00f6hler. Koffka considered this period in his life significant to his scientific development. Koffka later became a professor at the University of Giessen. The University of Giessen assigned Koffka the Privatdozent"}, {"text": "title in 1911 and the ausserordentlicher while working with August Messer. Eighteen articles and six experimental works were completed over the twelve years that Koffka spent at Giessen. Koffka spent time at Professor Sommer's Psychiatric Clinic located in Giessen in the midst of World War I. They focused on subjects diagnosed with brain trauma, but focused on aphasia cases. He also studied the localization of sounds to be of aid to the army and navy. In 1924, Koffka moved to the United States of America and retained a research professor position at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, beginning in 1927. His priority during this time was work regarding visual perception. In 1932, Uzbekistan was undergoing significant changes as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, and in just over a decade saw a transition from a feudal aristocracy to a modern developing nation. It was at this time that Koffka traveled there to join others in researching the impact of the rapid pace of social, cultural, and economic development on affected individuals' cognition; the new generation was the first in Uzbek history to be fully literate and receive a formal education. His work did not result in any publications. However,"}, {"text": "while in Uzbekistan, an illness, diagnosed as relapsing fever, rendered Koffka very ill but, in spite of his condition, he began to work on his book, \"The Principles of Gestalt Psychology\", which was published in 1935. Once this book was completed, Koffka's previous self-limitations were eased as he allowed himself to delve into areas he previously felt were inappropriate for his specialty. This broadened scope was evidenced by his incorporation of psychology in other fields of interest including the arts and ethics. He spent the year 1939-1940 visiting Sir Hugh Cairns at the Nuffield Institute in Oxford. Contributions to psychology. Learning. Koffka believed that most of early learning is what he referred to as, \"sensorimotor learning,\" which is a type of learning which occurs after a consequence. For example, a child who touches a hot stove will learn not to touch it again. Koffka also believed that a lot of learning occurs by imitation, though he argued that it is not necessary to understand how imitation works, but rather to acknowledge that it is a natural occurrence. According to Koffka, the highest type of learning is ideational learning, which makes use of language. Koffka notes that a crucial time in"}, {"text": "children's development is when they understand that objects have names. Gestalt psychology. Koffka gained his initial interest in Gestalt psychology after participating in Wertheimer's phi phenomenon study. In 1910, Kurt Koffka worked alongside Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang K\u00f6hler at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt. They focused their research on sensory information and memory, and later became the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology. Max Wertheimer is often credited with developing the idea of Gestalt psychology, but they were influenced by Christian von Ehrenfels's idea that a holistic melody is more than a simple combination of various sounds. This later becomes essential to theories of Gestalt psychology which convey that complete perception is more meaningful than its individual parts put together. The \"Gestalt Principles\" were developed to delve into how the human eye perceives visual elements. The principles help to provide ways to understand how complex visual elements can be broken down into simpler parts. The principles also try to demonstrate how the human eye perceives shapes as a single \"object\" instead of splitting the object into simplified components of the object being seen. Some of the most commonly used principles were proximity, similarity, and continuation. \"Gestalt principle of proximity\" discussed that"}, {"text": "visual elements close to one another will be perceived as a whole. \"Gestalt principle of similarity\" establishes that people tend to categorize objects that share the same traits into a group. \"Gestalt principle of continuity\" reveals how people perceive lines or curves as a whole if they \"touch\" one another. Koffka needed to provide empirical evidence for the new theory. To accomplish this, Koffka formulated a three-stage proposition that revolutionized existing assumptions of psychology: In 1922, Kurt Koffka published an article called \"Perception: An Introduction to the Gestalt-Theorie\" in the Psychological Bulletin to introduce Gestalt psychology to the American academics. The article focused on describing how Gestalt psychology studies various perceptual phenomena using different theories from existing ones. After its publication, it led to the criticisms of Gestalt psychology that it was overly focused on perception, and lacked contribution to overall themes of psychology. Aesthetic Gestalt (1940). In 1940, Kurf Koffka traveled to Philadelphia and attended a conference at Bryn Mawr which brought together many different well-known figures from different fields of study to approach art from different perspectives. At the time, many subjects such as culture, ecology, evolution, emotion, psychology, knowledge, physiology had been treated as their own independent"}, {"text": "fields with no connection to one another. Kurt Koffka attempted to make a multidisciplinary theory of art known as the Aesthetic of Gestalt. Koffka's presentation at the conference advanced the scientific theory of art, but it is a neglected theory that has mostly been forgotten after its publication. The main focus in Aesthetic theory is the appreciation of beauty in art pieces. There are 3 components in the relationship: the self (the spectator), the extraordinary art piece, and the connection between the two. Aesthetic of Gestalt illustrates that the self (the individual) sees that there is an important message when observing the art piece. Koffka identifies three problems with the aesthetic experience. The first is contingency. While behaviourists believe that art naturally evokes an emotional response, Koffka argued that the previous associations must exist to understand that redness for example means passion. This previous association is a rational and intelligible interaction that draws on a look-up table, not blindly resorting to the look-up table. The second problem is with the empathy-based art theories about aesthetic and how the fact that people put their own emotions onto the art piece is paradoxical. In order for an art piece to be appreciated,"}, {"text": "the self must first recognize the emotion they must attribute to the piece. The third problem is that empathy logic implies that emotions projected by the self onto the art piece are to be felt by others. However, just because the person perceives that red is passionate does not mean they are feeling the same passion themselves. Honours. In 2006, members of the Department of Psychology of Justus Liebig University Giessen founded the Kurt-Koffka medal to honour scientists who have made extraordinary advances to the fields of perception or developmental psychology. Publications. \"Perception: An Introduction to the Gestalt-theorie\" (1922). In 1922, Kurt Koffka published an article called \"Perception: An Introduction to the Gestalt-Theorie\" in the Psychological Bulletin to introduce Gestalt psychology to the American academics. The article focused on how Gestalt psychology describes three main points which are sensation, association and attention with a different scope than other existing theories. Sensation puts forward the idea of the \"bundle-hypothesis\" which means that the world is made up of elements that come together to create stimuli in our world. The second listed concept of association is acknowledged by Koffka as the primary factor that decides what is coming and going in regards"}, {"text": "to our ideas. It is association that puts one idea forward over another idea in our train of thought and ties all those separate elemental ideas together. The final point of attention is described as a \"scapegoat\" by Koffka. If one's attention fails to notice a stimulus, then the correlated response to that stimulus will not happen, even though the stimulus is present. After its publication, Koffka's article led to the criticisms that gestalt psychology was overly focused on perception, and lacked contribution to overall themes of psychology. \"The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology\" (1924). One of Koffka's most notable contributions to psychology was his book entitled, \"The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology\". The English translation of this book was done by Robert M. Ogden. Koffka had two main goals in writing this book. His first goal was to utilize Gestalt principles to present an innovative view of childhood phenomena. His second goal was to provide educators with an up-to-date resource in order to facilitate effective teaching. In this book, Koffka focused on mind development in children and outlined four ways in which development occurs. Firstly, he stated physical movements must become"}, {"text": "more advanced and precise as children grow older. As infants, we begin with rudimentary motor skills and with development we can engage in more complex physical activities. Secondly, he believed infants must develop their sensory integration skills and learn to become effective perceivers of their environment. Thirdly, Koffka stated that children must utilize their motor and sensory systems as they are dependent on each other to create a coherent whole which is utilized to facilitate appropriate behaviour. Lastly, Koffka thought children must learn to rely on their cognition when acting as opposed to their impulses. \"The Principles of Gestalt Psychology\" (1935). This book addressed applied psychology but mainly focused on the research concerning perception, memory, and learning. Koffka published this book in 1935 and it changed the basic ideas within research involving perception. Veridical perception states that objects people see in the environment will have relatively consistent characteristics such as size, and color. Before this book was published, researchers had assumed that there was no need to explain the features of veridical perception. Koffka rejected the idea that researchers should only focus on illusions within people's perception, because he thought it was always necessary to understand why people perceive objects"}, {"text": "the way that they do. This book approaches the topic of veridical perception in a phenomenological and holistic manner that supported the Gestalt Principles as well as other research that supported the Gestalt orientation. This work also explored the notion of behavioural environments. A person's behaviour can result from one's own behavioural environment or another person's behavioural environment. This means that someone can see and understand their actions one way and another person could see the same actions and understand them completely differently. Psychologists need to be mindful to view an individual's behaviour from the other individual's behavioural environment rather than their own."}, {"text": "Dwight Hillis Wilson Sr. (October 18, 1909 \u2013 March 27, 1962) was an American archivist, researcher, and teacher. He was the first archivist of Fisk University. Personal life. Wilson was born on October 18, 1909, in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father, a Methodist minister, was also born in South Carolina while his mother came from Pennsylvania. On June 12, 1935, he and his wife, Gheretein Ridgeley, were married in Washington, D.C. They had one son, Dwight Hillis Wilson Jr. Career. Wilson earned his degrees from Kittrell College, Shaw University, and Howard College (now University). For his master's thesis, the subject was \"Shelley as Revolutionist.\" He was also awarded with a Doctor of Letters degree from Allen University in 1939. On May 9, 1931, Wilson and 8 others were inducted into Alpha chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity as Neophytes. After his schooling, he taught at Morris Brown College from 1935-1936, before becoming the first archivist of Fisk University. After World War II, he was a member of the Allied Force Records Administration and worked in Caserta and Rome. His colleague, Ken Manden, recalled that Wilson was courageous and \"always held his own\u2014no mean feat for any archivist under such circumstances"}, {"text": "but, if I may say so, a remarkable one for an American Negro confronting what may have seemed to him to be a devious politico-military cabal.\" He was also a prominent member of the Society of American Archivists and served as Chair on the Committee on College and University Archives. He was the first African American to chair an SAA Committee. In 1949, Wilson was awarded the Certificate of Recognition of the National Urban League for \"outstanding achievement in archival work.\" Wilson wrote several articles for books and journals throughout his life, especially \"The American Archivist\". One of his better-known works is the article \"No Ivory Tower: The Administration of a College or University Archives,\" published in July 1952 through the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Death. Wilson died on March 27, 1962, due to an illness he had had since childhood, in Washington, D.C. He was buried in Washington, D.C. three days later. His wife, Gheretein, wrote a pamphlet after his death, stating that Wilson \"opened up new dimensions of mind and spirit for many people...He was as proud of the blistering letter he wrote condemning plans to build a dog"}, {"text": "pound on a lot earmarked for a school as he was of a poem or an article.\""}, {"text": "Duke of Ragusa may refer to:"}, {"text": "Thomas Braun (1876\u20131961) was a Belgian lawyer and French-language poet. He also published under the pen names Bonissart, Brunissart, and Ranhissart. Life. Braun was born in Brussels on 8 September 1876, the son of Senator Alexandre Braun and Fanny Marcq. He was educated at the Institut Saint-Louis in Brussels, spending his vacations in the Ardennes at Bagimont (now a subdivision of Vresse-sur-Semois). He took the candidature in law at the Facult\u00e9 Saint-Louis in Brussels, spent some time in Bonn, and completed his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain. Even before graduating, he was publishing verse and prose under a variety of pen names in a wide range of periodicals, including \"L'Avenir du Luxembourg\", \"L'Avenir social\", \"La Justice sociale\", \"Le Luxembourg\", \"La Belgique\", the \"Journal de Bruxelles\", \"L'Etudiant\", \"La Famille\", \"La Petite revue belge\", \"Chasse et p\u00eache\", and \"La Revue v\u00e9locip\u00e9dique belge\". In 1895, he went to Paris to meet Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was a founding member of \"L'Escholier\" and the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Bruxelloise des Etudiants Catholiques (\"G\u00e9\"), and a regular contributor to new reviews such as \"Le Drapeau\", \"Durendal\", and \"Le Spectateur catholique\". From 1898 onwards, he was very active in the legal profession. He co-authored two legal works,"}, {"text": "one on trademarks and one on patents. In 1900, he married Marguerite Van Mons. They lived in Brussels, with a summer home in the Ardennes at Maissin (now a subdivision of Paliseul). During the First World War he was an active defence lawyer for Belgians brought before the tribunals established by the forces of occupation. After his first wife's death in 1919, he married H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Moeller (Henry Moeller's niece and editorial assistant at \"Durendal\"). He was elected to the Acad\u00e9mie royale de langue et de litt\u00e9rature fran\u00e7aises de Belgique in 1939, but was installed only in 1946. He was among the founders of the Acad\u00e9mie Luxembourgeoise. He died in Ixelles (Brussels) on 11 September 1961."}, {"text": "is a Japanese manga written by Venio Tachibana and illustrated by Rihito Takarai. \"Seven Days\" was serialized in the quarterly boys' love manga magazine \"Craft\" from 2007 to 2009. The story was released in two parts: \"Seven Days: Monday-Thursday\" and \"Seven Days: Friday-Sunday\". A live-action film duology adaptation for both books was released in 2015. Plot. Yuzuru Shino, a bored and disillusioned third-year high school student, hears a rumor that T\u014dji Sery\u014d, a popular student at school, will accept anyone who asks him out at the beginning of the week and end their relationship after seven days of dating. Yuzuru decides to ask T\u014dji out as a half-hearted joke, but, to his surprise, T\u014dji accepts their date. Over the course of seven days, Yuzuru's feelings for him grow, and he begins to dread the impending day where they will inevitably end their relationship. (drama CD); portrayed by: Takeshi James Yamada (film) (drama CD); portrayed by: Tomoki Hirose (film) Media. Manga. \"Seven Days\" is written by Venio Tachibana and illustrated by Rihito Takarai. It was serialized in the quarterly boys' love manga magazine anthology \"Craft\" from 2007 to 2009. The chapters were later released in bound volumes by Taiyoh Tosho under"}, {"text": "the Million Comics Craft Series imprint. The first volume was released under the title \"Seven Days: Monday-Thursday\" in 2007, while the second volume was released as \"Seven Days: Friday-Sunday\" in 2009. Drama CD adaptations of both books were released. In October 2009, Digital Manga Publishing announced at Yaoi-Con that they were distributing the books in English under the Jun\u00e9 imprint. In March 2019, Viz Media took over English distribution rights and published both books as an omnibus titled \"Seven Days: Monday-Sunday\" under the SuBLime imprint. Film. Two live-action film adaptations were announced in 2015, each adapting both books in the series. Both films are directed by Takeshi Yokoi, with screenplay by Natsuko Takahashi. The films star Tomoki Hirose and Takeshi James Yamada, with Hinako Tanaka, Y\u016bki Hiyori, Rin Ishikawa, Itsuki Sagara, and Yukihiro Takiguchi in supporting roles. The first film, \"Seven Days: Monday-Thursday\", premiered on June 6, 2015 in Humax Cinemas in Tokyo, followed by other theaters in Japan. The second film, \"Seven Days: Friday-Sunday\", premiered on July 4, 2015. Prior to the film's release, a behind-the-scenes DVD of \"Seven Days: Monday-Thursday\" was released on May 20, 2015, where it debuted at #73 on the Oricon DVD Weekly Charts. Pony"}, {"text": "Canyon released both movies as a set on DVD and Blu-ray on December 16, 2015. The DVD peaked at #48 on the Oricon DVD Weekly Charts, while the Blu-ray peaked at #59 on the Oricon Blu-ray Weekly Charts. Reception. \"Seven Days\" was ranked #5 as one of the best boys love stories in \"Kono BL ga Yabai! 2010 Fujoshi Edition\". In 2018, it was selected by visitors of the website \"Nijimen\" as one of the best boys' love manga for newcomers to the genre. \"Seven Days\" was part of the inspiration behind the 2019 novel \"Date Me, Bryson Keller\" by South African author Kevin van Whye, who wrote the novel out of his critiques on \"Seven Days\" and the genre in general with respect to \"actual and realistic LGBT culture.\""}, {"text": "Timothy Carter (born 24 June 1944) is a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The Natal Native Pioneer Corps, commonly referred to as the Natal Pioneers, was a British unit of the Zulu War. Raised in November/December 1878 the unit served throughout the war of 1879 to provide engineering support to the British invasion of Zululand. Three companies were formed each comprising around 100 men and clad in old British Army uniforms. The units served at the battles of Isandlwana, Eshowe and Ulundi. Background. The British High Commissioner for Southern Africa Sir Henry Bartle Frere had been attempting to form a confederation of British possessions in Southern Africa. As part of this ambition the annexation of Zululand was planned, this led to the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. As part of preparations for this war the British military commander Frederic Thesiger (later and more commonly known as Lord Chelmsford) began gathering forces in the Colony of Natal for an invasion of Zululand. Chelmsford's plan called for an invasion by five columns of troops, though manpower shortages required him to reduce this to three. The Right Column (formerly No. 1 Column) under Charles Pearson advanced on the eastern coast, the Left Column (formerly No. 4 Column) under Evelyn Wood was to launch a feint on the"}, {"text": "west flank and Chelmsford's Centre Column (comprising the former Nos. 2 & 3 Columns) struck for the Zulu capital at Ulundi. The former No. 5 Column under Hugh Rowlands was assigned to defend the border of Transvaal with the Zulu kingdom. The columns would need to march along existing tracks in Zululand and all supplies would need to follow them by wagon. These tracks were ill-formed and only used occasionally by traders. They turned to quagmires in the rain and were occasionally broken by steep sided dongas (dry river beds). River fords (locally known as drifts) were impassable in high water and quickly ruined when trafficked heavily. Engineering teams would be necessary to maintain the tracks and drifts to allow the columns to pass through and supplies to reach the troops. Formation. Chelmsford, guided by the commander of No. 2 Column Anthony Durnford - a seasoned South African campaigner, raised a force of pioneers from the black subjects of Natal. This was a development of the Natal government's isiBhalo levy system by which for years men had been pressed into duty to carry out road repairs. Durnford took the best men from the Natal Native Contingent (NNC), which had been"}, {"text": "raised as an auxiliary fighting force, to form the Natal Pioneers. Three companies were raised, with a nominal strength of 5 white officers, 4 black officers and 96 men (though only No. 2 Company reached this strength). It had originally been intended that each company would be commanded by a regular British Army officer of the Royal Engineers, but there were too few to spare, and Durnford had to turn to the Natal government to supply suitable men. The Natal Colony also supplied the equipment for the troops: each man was provided with a pickaxe, shovel or crowbar and the non-commissioned officers were issued with a rifle. The men were issued uniforms of cast-off pre-1872 British Army issue red frock jackets; these were the traditional red coats but with the cuff facings and collar removed (these were coloured to identify individual British Army regiments). The Natal Pioneers were also issued knee-length white canvas trousers, a blue pillbox hat with a yellow band and a British Army greatcoat. Durnford had intended that the entire NNC would be similarly uniformed but a lack of supply left them to make do with only a red rag tied around the head as an identifying"}, {"text": "badge. The Natal Pioneers were raised in November and December 1878. They served throughout the war of the following year and were disbanded in October 1879, after the Zulu capitulation. No. 1 Company. No. 1 Company was commanded by Lieutenant J Nolan and numbered 80 men. The unit was assigned to Chelmsford's Centre Column for the invasion and were put to use almost immediately after the initial crossing of the Buffalo River into Zululand at Rorke's Drift on 11 January. The marshy ground around the Bashee River proved impassable to Chelmsford's wagon train and Nolan's Pioneers were called into action to construct a corduroy road. At the camp at Isandlwana the company occupied a position adjacent to the road that ran through the southern portion of the British position. They were intended to provide protection to the road and at night mounted a special guard detail over it. Chelmsford left the camp with around half his troops on the morning of 22 January 1879 to conduct a recognisance in force around the Mangeni Falls, where elements of the Zulu army had been spotted. Nolan and the majority of No. 1 Company joined this force to help clear the road for"}, {"text": "the artillery and assist in the crossing of several dongas on the route. A small detail of one officer and ten men was left behind at the camp where it was caught up in the disastrous British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana later the same day. The remainder of Nolan's company returned from the Mangeni and later served with Wood's Left Column. During the second invasion of Zululand later in the year it was assigned to Wood's Flying Column. Nolan, who had by then been promoted to captain, and his company fought in the British victory at the Battle of Ulundi on 4 July, the final pitched battle of the war. His forces by then amounted to 4 officers and 46 men, together with 4 horses. The company, was positioned in the centre of the British square at Ulundi and suffered no losses bar Lieutenants Hickley and Andrews who were wounded in action. No. 2 Company. No. 2 Company was commanded by Captain Beddoes and comprised 104 men, being the only company of the Natal Pioneers to ever reach full strength. The company was assigned to Pearson's Right Column and worked in the vanguard, preparing the road ahead of"}, {"text": "the column's advance. On 20 January 1879 the company, together with two companies of The Buffs, worked to create a crossing of the Amatakulu River. During this time Lieutenant Main commanded the unit and was mentioned in dispatches to the British House of Commons for the role he played in repairing the tracks ahead of the column. Half of the company was besieged at the mission station of Eshowe from January to April 1879. The men distinguished themselves in the battle, carrying out scouting work as well as their regular engineering duties. The pioneers were renowned for venturing out of the settlement to gather mealie (maize) and pumpkins which they sold to the other defenders; despite being fired upon repeatedly by the besieging Zulu none of the pioneers were killed. No. 3 Company. No. 3 Company under Captain Allen consisted of 80 men and served with Durnford's Column. It may have been wiped out alongside the rest of Durnford's command at Isandlwana."}, {"text": "Aimone Cal\u00ec (born 11 February 1997) is an Italian football player who plays for Serie D club Romana. Club career. In his youth career he represented Roma and Lazio. He made his professional Serie C debut for Carrarese on 18 September 2016 in a game against Cremonese. From 2017 to 2019 he played in the fifth-tier Eccellenza league. In July 2019 he was signed by Serie A club Atalanta, who then on 13 July 2019 loaned him to Catanzaro in Serie C for a two-year term with a purchase option. On 8 August 2020 he signed a 3-year contract with Viterbese. The contract was terminated by mutual consent on 30 December 2020. He then returned to one of his previous club Montespaccato, which was promoted into Serie D."}, {"text": "Bulgaria competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, 27 September\u20136 October 2019."}, {"text": "Ernest Barnes (born 20 April 1937) is a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Luke Fox can refer to:"}, {"text": "Fidelis C. Obikwu (born 12 June 1960), is a male former athlete who competed for England. Biography. Obikwu was studying at North Carolina University in 1982 and became the British decathlon champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1982 AAA Championships in Birmingham. Shortly afterwards he represented England and won a bronze medal in the decathlon, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. He won the Atlantic Coast Conference decathlon titles in 1982 and 1984 and finished second behind Greg Richards in the decathlon event at the 1986 AAA Championships in Wrexham."}, {"text": "Bruce Judge (born 3 April 1942) is a New Zealand field hockey player and businessman. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. In 1986, the New Zealand \"Rich List\" estimated Judge's personal fortune to be at least $250 million. This made him, at the time, the fifth richest New Zealander. His companies, Judge Corp and Ariadne, were 'iconic symbols of the 1987 sharemarket boom and crash'. When Judge Corp collapsed, it had debts around $350m. Although Bruce Judge was investigated, he was never officially charged with any offence."}, {"text": "Brian Robert Maunsell (16 October 1935 \u2013 12 February 1987) was a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Maunsell later worked for the University of Otago in the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences. Maunsell died on 12 February 1987. The Brian Maunsell Memorial Service to Sport Award, presented annually by Sport Northland, is named in his honour."}, {"text": "Timothy Jenkins (born February 6, 1991) is an American football coach. Based in Parker, Colorado, Jenkins has tutored Phillip \"PJ\" Walker, Luis Perez, Michael O'Connor (Canadian football), and Isaac Harker, among others. High School career. Jenkins is a 2009 graduate of ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch, where he played on the football team from 2005 to 2009. Jenkins was named first team All-Southern league during his senior season. College career. Jenkins was a four-year starter at Quarterback for Fort Lewis College. Jenkins ranks among Fort Lewis College's career leaders in completions (2nd all time), passing yards (3rd all time), and passing touchdowns (4th all time). Jenkins was named RMAC offensive player the week on two occasions, for the week of September 20, 2010 and October 17, 2011. He was chosen as the National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame - Colorado Chapter player of the week for the week of October 1, 2012. Jenkins was also named the 2009 RMAC Offensive Freshman of the year. Fort Lewis went 8-34 in Jenkins\u2019 four years with the program. Professional career. Jenkins was rated the 58th best Quarterback in the 2013 NFL draft by NFLDraftScout.com. St. Louis Rams. On May"}, {"text": "13, 2013, Jenkins was signed by the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent. He was waived by the Rams on August 27, 2013. Calgary Stampeders. On October 22, 2013, Jenkins was signed to the Calgary Stampeders practice squad. He was waived by the Stampeders on October 31, 2013. Jenkins Elite. In 2013, he established Jenkins Elite, a sports firm specializing in Quarterback, Wide Receiver, Running Back, and Lineman skill training based out of Parker, Colorado. Jenkins Elite launched a Sugar Land, Texas location in November 2020, and has announced that it will be opening a Scottsdale, Arizona location in March 2021. Notable trainees. Jenkins has developed quarterbacks including Harlon Hill-winner Luis Perez. Other pro-clients include Phillip Walker, Isaac Harker, Alex Snyder, Grant Kraemer, Michael O'Connor (Canadian football), and Austin Apodaca. Jenkins also currently works with the following notable college Quarterbacks, Ty Evans NC State and Elite 11 Quarterback, Alex Padilla Iowa, Fred Payton Jr. Coastal Carolina University, Hollis Mathis College of William & Mary, Joe Mancuso University of Richmond, Kory Curtis Bryant University, and Tyler Vander Waal Wyoming."}, {"text": "John Anslow (6 October 1935 \u2013 6 April 2017) was a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. Anslow died on 6 April 2017."}, {"text": "Grantley Judge (born 7 May 1940) is a New Zealand field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"John Cena\" is a song by South African rapper Sho Madjozi. It was made about the WWE professional wrestler John Cena. It was released as a single through Flourish & Multiply Records on 27 September 2019, after being performed on the global music platform, COLORS, uploaded on 15 August 2019. The song was written by Sho Madjozi and produced by Tboy Daflame and DJ Exit. Background. \"John Cena\" was written independently by Sho Madjozi. On 14 August 2019, COLORS announced Sho Madjozi would be the next artist to be featured on the platform. COLORS and Madjozi uploaded the performance on the next day. The song was produced by Tboy Daflame, who previously produced Madjozi's 2018 songs, which include \"If I Die\" and the single, \"Idhom\", all from her debut album \"Limpopo Champions League\". The song was released as a single to streaming and digital platforms through Flourish & Multiply Records on 27 September 2019. Composition. \"John Cena\" is a gqom song with hip hop vocals featuring the languages Tsonga, Swahili and English in its lyrics. According to Cape Talk and 702, Madjozi said: \"I grew up watching American professional wrestler John Cena, so it was only natural to make a"}, {"text": "jam about him.\" Live performances. As her debut, Sho Madjozi performed the song on COLORS, standing next to the mic in the studio covered with blue background. After the formation of the social media challenge \"John Cena Challenge\", many individuals engaged on the challenge, leading the song to become viral. Following the spread of the challenge, John Cena himself was featured on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\", where he was asked by Ellen DeGeneres to dance to the song alongside Stephen Boss. The song was also performed by Sho Madjozi at several events throughout South Africa and other regions, including the Afropunk Festival held on 13 October 2019 in Atlanta, US. Madjozi performed the song on \"The Kelly Clarkson Show\" in November 2019. During the performance, she was surprised by John Cena dancing right behind her while she was performing. It was the first time she met Cena in person. On 17 November 2019, Madjozi performed the song on the finale of the South African-franchise of the reality television singing competition \"Idols\", for season 15."}, {"text": "Matteo Pedrini (born 16 January 2000) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for Serie D club Atletico Ascoli. Club career. He played in the 2018\u201319 season in Serie D for Rezzato. On 17 July 2019, he joined Serie C club Giana Erminio on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Giana Erminio on 25 August 2019 in a game against Renate. He started the game and played 73 minutes. He scored his first professional goal in the next game on 1 September 2019 against Olbia. On 31 August 2020, he joined Grosseto on loan. On 13 January 2021, he moved on a new loan to Bisceglie. On 13 July 2021, he was loaned to Mantova."}, {"text": "Brenda Zlamany is an American artist best known for portraiture that combines Old Master technique with a postmodern conceptual approach. She gained attention beginning in the 1990s, when critics such as \"Artforum\"'s Barry Schwabsky, Donald Kuspit and John Yau identified her among a small group of figurative painters reviving the neglected legacies of portraiture and classical technique by introducing confrontational subject matter, psychological insight and social critique. Her early portraits of well-known male artists, such as Chuck Close and Leon Golub, reversed conventional artist/sitter gender and power dynamics; her later projects upend the traditionally \"heroic\" nature of portraiture by featuring underrepresented groups and everyday people. Zlamany has exhibited at institutions including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, National Museum, Gda\u0144sk, and New-York Historical Society. Her work has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, and commissions from Yale University, World Bank and \"The New York Times Magazine\", among others; it belongs to public collections such as the Neuberger Museum of Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and career. Brenda Zlamany was born in 1959 in New York City and raised in Queens, New York."}, {"text": "After a family move to Connecticut, she applied to and was accepted into the Educational Center for the Arts, an arts high school in New Haven; she attended from 1974 to 1977, living on her own in various informal arrangements. During that time, she worked for a city program painting murals, illustrated a children's book, and was invited to attend the Yale College Before College Program, where she studied printmaking, painting and anthropology. Following high school, she studied at Wesleyan University (BA, 1981), the Tyler School of Art in Rome, S. W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1984, Zlamany took advantage of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship and moved to New York City, working as a master printer with artists such as Julian Schnabel, Vija Celmins and Sol LeWitt, and making etchings at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. After moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, she began painting and attracting attention with animal still lifes. Between 1984 and 1994, she was featured in solo exhibitions at Hallwalls and E. M. Donahue Gallery (New York), Sabine Wachters Fine Arts (Brussels) and Galerie Quintessens (Utrecht), in group shows at White Columns, Art in General and Artists"}, {"text": "Space, and alongside artists including Bruce Nauman and Andy Warhol, in shows at Jack Tilton and Blum Helman. In subsequent years, Zlamany has had solo exhibitions at the Stux and Jessica Fredericks galleries (New York), the Fine Arts Center (UMass) (2001) and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2012), and appeared in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, National Portrait Gallery, and several European museums. She continues to live in Williamsburg with her daughter, Oona. Work and reception. Critics note Zlamany's portraiture for its conceptual slant, postmodern interrogations of the male gaze, traditional subject matter, beauty and representation, and Old Master technique. John Yau and others connect her work, in sensibility if not style, back to figurative modernists such as Alice Neel, Otto Dix and Ivan Albright, contemporary painters like Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Gregory Gillespie and Alex Katz that integrate elements of abstraction into representational work, and postmodern artists such as John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton and Lisa Yuskavage who have ushered in new, critical and democratic forms of portraiture in recent decades. Distinguishing her from artists that appropriate or parody classical technique, Donald Kuspit placed Zlamany amid a tendency he called \"new Old Masterism\" that sought \"to"}, {"text": "restore the beauty lost to avant-garde innovation.\" Other reviewers, such as \"The New York Times\"' Holland Cotter, have invoked painters such as Rembrandt, Zurbar\u00e1n and Chardin in describing Zlamany's handling of color, surface and paint application. Early animal still lifes. Zlamany first attracted notice for meticulously rendered paintings of animal carcasses (birds, blowfish, snakes, sharks, iguanas), isolated and floating ambiguously in dark, painterly abstract fields (e.g., \"Shark Head #2\", 1992). She began this work in the mid-1980s as a way to connect to visceral experience and elements of art practice\u2014painting, craft, beauty\u2014that she felt women were discouraged from pursuing. Reviewers noted her mastery of academic glazing techniques, delicate sense of color and texture, and paint application suggestive of both Old Master and Abstract Expressionist technique; in psychological terms, they described the paintings as \"disquietingly seductive,\" vaguely allegorical, icon-like contemplations of life, death, desire and spirituality. Janine Cirincione wrote that they \"teeter on the edge of abstraction and representation, old master bravura and postmodern theory, between the seductive and the gruesome,\" with freewheeling art historical borrowings that challenged both traditional pictorial values and contemporary negations of representational work. Barry Schwabsky likewise noted the work's conceptual preference for investigating materiality and illusionism"}, {"text": "and art's \"half-feared, half-desired\" fascination with representation and beauty over realism. In a later series, Zlamany painted posed, live snakes that emphasized linear decoration, pattern and male sexuality while subverting traditional cultural associations of snakes with the feminine. Portraiture. In 1992, Zlamany painted her first human portrait and exhibited it alongside animal still lifes, interested in how the out-of-fashion genre would be received. Positive response inspired her 1994 show, \"Twelve Men and Twelve Birds,\" a deadpan pairing of dead bird and artist portraits (including Chuck Close, Glenn Ligon, Gary Stephan). Writers described them as terse, moody, glowing likenesses that emerged from velvety black, reflective backgrounds and emphasized composition, surface and volume rather than personality or photographic reproduction. Her 1995 show at Sabine Wachters featured portraits of the gallery's other artists\u2014generally middle-aged, bald, male conceptual artists\u2014that Guy Gilsoul called meticulously painted, inaccessible \"mixtures of attraction, and repulsion, fascination and aversion.\" In conceptual terms, critics such as Robert C. Morgan deemed this work a provocative deconstruction that coaxed \"exemplars of art world virility\" into a passive role in order to glimpse male reality and sexual and power dynamics, reversing centuries of objectification of female subjects. John Yau described them as possessing a"}, {"text": "\"disturbing eroticism\" sealed off in dark anonymous space and embalming glazes that dissolved the subjects' power. In the late 1990s and 2000s, Zlamany, continued painting portraits of male artists and other public figures, while expanding her practice to include a wider range of figurative subjects and a series of Southeast Asian landscapes. Her multi-paneled \"Color Studies\" works configured monochrome panels and portraits (of Chuck Close, Evander Holyfield, and John Yau) mixed figuration and abstraction, riffing on modernist color theory, rectangles (e.g., the boxing ring), negative space, and Close's use of repetition and the grid. They emphasized the minimal nature of Zlamany's work, which had long eschewed architecture and landscape elements and iconographic cues in favor of composition, proportion, ground color and manner of representation as means of conveying narrative or psychological content. During this time, Zlamany also produced portraits of artists Leonardo Drew, David Humphrey, David Hockney, and Alex Katz among others; the latter two were National Portrait Gallery competition selections. In 1998, Zlamany painted portraits of her pregnant sister and two sets of self-portraits, one nude and one in profiled poses recalling works by della Francesca; her 2007 show \"Facing Family\" featured portraits of her parents and daughter. Critics"}, {"text": "such as Donald Kuspit continued to note her confrontation with representational conventions and Old Master technique and devices in these works and the later \"Self-Portrait with Oona nursing\" (2003\u20134), a stark contemporary rendering of the Madonna and Child motif. They also noted her ability in these works to create narrative, context and inner presence. \"The Itinerant Portraitist\". Zlamany's international, multiyear project, \"The Itinerant Portraitist\" (2011\u2013 ), explores portraiture focused on nontraditional subjects: indigenous communities in Taipei, orphaned Emirati girls, taxicab drivers in Cuba, and nursing home residents in the Bronx. The series began with a Fulbright Grant-supported project in which she painted 888 watercolor portraits from direct observation of people in remote Taiwan, accompanied by her daughter, Oona, who is fluent in Mandarin; it was realized in the multimedia installation, \"888: Portraits in Taiwan\" (exhibited in Taipei and New York, 2012). In later chapters of the project, Zlamany began signaling the social and political implications of specific habitats. In 2017 she painted 100 elderly residents of the Hebrew Home in the Bronx using a \"camera lucida\"; that work was exhibited at the Derfner Judaica Museum and documented in the collaborative video, \"100/100\" (2019, with composer Aaron Jay Kernis), which played"}, {"text": "several film festivals and won the Best Documentary Short prize at the Greenpoint Film Festival. She continued the project in 2018 with her \"Climate in America\" portraits of Key West and Sonoma wine country residents and diverse Alaskans during a residency in Denali National Park. In 2020\u201321, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she painted mask-wearers in upstate New York. Public works. Zlamany has received portrait commissions from individuals, publications and institutions such as the World Bank and Yale University, among others. She produced portraits of Osama bin Laden (cover), Slobodan Milosevic and Mirjana Markovi\u0107, Marian Anderson, and Jeffrey Dahmer for special issues of \"The New York Times Magazine\". She won a national competition for her first Yale commission, \"Yale's First Women Ph.Ds., 1894\" (2015), which commemorates the first seven women to earn Ph.D. degrees at the university. The painting involved extensive research on the women and late-19th century costuming, hairstyles and objects; its composition was developed through the use of paper cutouts of the women in various poses and relationships. \"The Davenport Dining Room Scene\" (2018) is a two-canvas group portrait of a departing college dean among a mix of eight professors, students, and university employees of the university that he"}, {"text": "had formed friendships with during several decades at the school. Yale later commissioned Zlamany to paint the portrait of Elga Ruth Wasserman, who led the effort in 1969 to include the first cohort of women undergraduates and to facilitate coeducation; the colorful painting depicts her seated at a table, with assorted books by and about women spread in front of her. In 2022, The Rockefeller University unveiled Zlamany's commissioned group portrait, \"Five Trailblazing Women Scientists at The Rockefeller University\" (2021), which she created after on-campus research into the scientists and their clothing, instruments and furniture. Zlamany was one of three artists selected in 2023 to paint portraits of prominent 19th-century Black abolitionists\u2014in her case William and Martha Brown\u2014for the Great Hall gallery of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts. Collections and recognition. Zlamany has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship (2011), awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2006), Peter S. Reed Foundation (2018) and New York Foundation for the Arts (1994), and artist residencies at Denali National Park, ADAH Abu Dhabi, Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Triangle Arts Trust, among others. Her work belongs to the public art collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Deutsche Bank,"}, {"text": "Neuberger Museum of Art, Museum Kaneko, The Rockefeller University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, World Bank and Yale University."}, {"text": "The 1980 Harlow District Council election took place on 1 May 1980 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council."}, {"text": "Marian Rita Weinbaum Fischman (October 13, 1939 \u2013 October 23, 2001) was an American psychologist who researched narcotics and addiction. Life. Born Marian Rita Weinbaum in Queens, New York, Fischman lived her early years in an apartment above her father's drugstore. She attended Barnard College before completing a master's in psychology at Columbia University and a doctorate from University of Chicago. Her thesis addressed the effects of methamphetamine on Rhesus monkeys and \"found persisting effects on decreased dopamine and serotonin in the Rhesus monkey brain, suggesting long-term damage.\" In 1984, she began research on cocaine and other drugs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and began to examine, in physiology, how healthy, nonincarcerated human cocaine users become psychologically tolerant to larger and larger doses. To do so, she set up a residential laboratory where users could live free for up to four weeks at a time while studies continued. According to her obituary,The addicts she recruited for her experiments were given drugs, food, hospital rooms with sound and video equipment, and pay. She also made an open offer to help any addict get treatment, but none of her subjects accepted.Fischman met her second husband, Herbert Kleber, at a scientific meeting"}, {"text": "in Washington D.C. in 1987. Together they founded a research center in drug addiction at Columbia University in 1992 and Fischman was appointed a professor with tenure at Columbia. According to Kleber, Fischman was \"the first research scientist since Freud to use controlled scientific experiments with humans to directly examine cocaine's effects.\" As co-director of one of the center's divisions, she managed five laboratories where studies were conducted to measure how patients changed physiologically and behaviorally when they were under the influence of drugs. Her models went on to become an established basis for studying potential medications to treat drug abuse. She also expanded from her concentration on studying addiction and also tested drugs that were being designed to combat the effects of cocaine and heroin. Marian Fischman, who first married physician Donald Fischman, died at 62 on October 23, 2001, at NewYork\u2013Presbyterian Hospital from complications with colon cancer. She was survived by Kleber and a son, two daughters, two stepdaughters, mother, and a brother. She was residing in Manhattan at the time of her death. Selected works. According to WorldCat.org, Fischman is listed as author or co-author of 23 works in 31 publications."}, {"text": "Victor Warren (born 19 August 1937) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The original Castleford Pottery operated from c. 1793 to 1820 in Castleford in Yorkshire, England. It was owned by David Dunderdale, and is especially known for making \"a smear-glazed, finely moulded, white stoneware\". This included feldspar, giving it a degree of opacity unusual in a stoneware. The designs typically included relief elements, and edges of the main shape and the panels into which the body was divided were often highlighted with blue overglaze enamel. Most pieces were teapots or accompanying milk jugs, sugar bowls and slop bowls (but not cups and saucers), and the shapes often derived from those used in contemporary silversmithing. This style was used by other potteries, in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and probably elsewhere, and the tendency in recent decades is to call pieces that are not marked (the great majority) Castleford-type wares. These were made by several potteries in the same period. The Castleford Pottery depended largely on exports to Europe, especially the Baltic, and apparently owned its own ships. Like other English potteries, the disruption to trade from the Napoleonic Wars was a blow from which it never recovered. The works, on what is now Pottery Street, Castleford, had been a pottery under previous owners since"}, {"text": "about 1770, and continued to be so after the sale by Dunderdale in 1820. It is claimed that the same premises operated as a pottery from c. 1770 until the last business, Clokie & Co, closed in 1961. The \"Pottery River\", an ox-bow branch of the River Calder, gave easy access to barges. The sculptor Henry Moore, who came from Castleford, attended pottery painting classes in the town in the 1920s. Castleford-type. The teapots often have a straight-sided octagonal shape, imitating designs in silver. The reliefs follow the general artistic taste of the period, with mild Neoclassicism shading into Romanticism. The lids of the teapots are often either hinged, or slide out to the rear, the lid piece including a section of the \"gallery\" or border around the top hole in the pot. Sowter & Co of Mexborough, South Yorkshire, and Chetham & Woolley of Longton, Staffordshire, in The Potteries, were two of the other potteries that made Castleford-type wares. The number \"22\" is often impressed on the base of otherwise unmarked pots, and this has been associated with Sowter & Co. \"Basalt ware\" teapots and other large teaware items are the other main type of object associated with Dunderdale's"}, {"text": "Castleford Pottery. These, also made elsewhere, are in a similar style (without enamel) and sometimes both types are found from the same moulds. They also made pearlware of good quality, some of which was transfer-printed in ornate designs in the style which was becoming popular after 1800. Unlike Wedgwood's Jasperware and other types, where the reliefs were made separately and applied, in Castleford-type wares the reliefs were carried in the moulds, into which the clay was pressed, with two mould for the halves of the main body, the handle being joined later. Marks. Most pieces are unmarked, but some have impressed marks on the base of \"DD CASTLEFORD\" until 1803, when David Dunderdale took John Plowes as a partner. Thereafter \"DD & CO CASTLEFORD\" or \"DD & CO CASTLEFORD POTTERY\" were used. Background. Although Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire was by this period much the most important pottery centre in England, there were other areas with significant groups of potteries. Yorkshire, with good clay and coal from nearby, had several, most importantly Leeds Pottery; many made stoneware. Teapots and coffee pots, made without the cups needed to serve tea, had always been a staple of British stoneware since the Dutch"}, {"text": "Elers brothers began British stoneware in around 1690. Starting in London, they moved to Staffordshire and were much imitated in the area. They usually added small relief elements to teapots, but these were generally plant motifs, either Chinese or Western in style. By about the 1740s Staffordshire potters were making teapots with bolder relief designs, in particular those shaped as camels, in a creamy salt glazed stoneware. These were rather crude in design, but much more refined stonewares, still very often using relief decoration, were produced by Wedgwood from the 1760s onwards, soon followed by their many imitators. In particular Josiah Wedgwood greatly improved the existing black or dark brown stoneware called \"Egyptian black\", which he renamed \"Black Basaltes\" when he perfected his version in 1769. This type is now called \"black basalt\" or \"basalt ware\". It was also popular for teapots, supposedly because it showed off by contrast the white hands of the hostess as she poured tea. The Castleford Pottery was one of many imitators of basalt wares, which derived their colour from manganese and iron added to the body mixture."}, {"text": "Ronald Charles Aldridge (born 8 July 1933) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Tony Boyd (born 2 April 1932) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Julia Vargas-Weise (1942 \u2013 1 April 2018) was a Bolivian photographer, screenwriter, educator, and film director. Biography. Julia Vargas-Weise was born in Cochabamba in 1942. She trained professionally at the Ecole des Arts et M\u00e9tiers in Vevey, Switzerland. She became known as the first female professional photographer in Bolivia. She overcame discrimination to obtain fair recognition and valuation of her work, and from 1963 to the end of her life, she participated in 30 international photo exhibitions, including 17 solo exhibitions. In 1980, she founded and directed a non-governmental organization which held audiovisual workshops for children and adolescents. In 1984, she worked in the film industry for the first time, as a still photographer for the feature \"Los Hermanos Cartagena\". She went on to direct three films, including 2015's \"Sealed Cargo\", which was selected as Bolivia's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but was not nominated. It also won special jury awards at the International Film Festival of India and the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Julia Vargas-Weise died in Barcelona on 1 April 2018 at age 76."}, {"text": "John Gilbert Young (born 22 February 1934) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Patrick Ruttle (11 January 1931 \u2013 11 March 2019) was a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Kala Suri Thangamma Appakutty (7 January 1925 \u2013 15 June 2008) was a Sri Lankan philanthropist, veteran religious personality, educator and social activist. She is recognised for her notable works on Saivism and was regarded as one of the main pillars in developing Hinduism in Sri Lanka. Career. Thangamma had her primary education at Ramanathan College, Chunakam. She became a well trained teacher in 1945 and served as a teacher at the Union College, Tellippalai for 12 years. She continued her teaching for nearly 31 years before calling her time in 1976. She pursued her career mainly in charity and religious work after she retired from teaching. She lectured on the importance of Saivism and helped renovate and establish temples including the Tellippalai Durga Kovil. Thangamma became a pundit in Tamil and Saivism in 1952. She was also well known for her social work during the Sri Lankan Civil War, during which she helped several women and children who were terribly affected. She was also instrumental in developing Education in Jaffna by helping construct libraries and schools. Recognition. The University of Jaffna honored her with an honorary doctorate degree in 1998 for her contributions in the development of education in"}, {"text": "Jaffna. The Government of Sri Lanka honored her with the prestigious title Kala Suri in 1991 recognising her services towards the society. Death. Appakutty died at the age of 83 on 15 June 2008 due to illness."}, {"text": "Peter Buckland (born 21 March 1941) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Re(cord) (stylized as \"re(CORD)\") is the sixteenth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Koda Kumi. It was released on November 13, 2019, which coincided with Kumi's 37th birthday. It was released in four editions: CD only, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray and a CD+3DVD fan club edition. Prior to the album, Kumi released nine digital singles to help promote the album: \"Eh Yo\", \"Summer Time\", \"Do Me\", \"Goldfinger 2019\", \"Put Your Hands Up!!!\", \"OMG\", \"Strip\", \"Get Naked\" and \"Again\". Of those released, three had corresponding music videos. \"Goldfinger 2019\", \"Strip\" and \"Again\". It debuted at number four on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart. Background. The album was preceded by nine digital singles: \"Eh Yo\", \"Summer Time\", \"Do Me\", \"Goldfinger 2019\", \"Put Your Hands Up!!!\", \"OMG\", \"Strip\", \"Get Naked\" and \"Again\". All nine singles were placed on the album. The album was released in four editions: CD only, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray and a limited fan club CD+3DVD edition. The CD contained four new tracks, along with the previously released digital singles and the unreleased cover of Ricky Martin's \"Livin' La Vida Loca\", which had been released on avex's official YouTube in July. The first DVD and Blu-ray contained the corresponding music videos for \"Again\", \"Goldfinger 2019\""}, {"text": "and the aforementioned \"Livin' La Vida Loca\", and the album exclusive \"k,\", along with a dance version. The second and third DVD were only released on the CD+3DVD fan club edition. The second DVD housed the behind-the-scenes making videos for the music videos \"Goldfinger 2019\" and \"Livin' La Vida Loca\", and the overall making video for the album. The third DVD held the making video for \"Again\". To help promote the album, four of the nine singles were used for promotional purposes. \"Eh Yo\" was used as the Hanazono support song for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. She performed \"Summer Time\", \"Eh Yo\" and \"Do Me\" during \"a-nation 2019\" on August 18, 2019. On August 10, She performed the cover of Hiromi Go's \"Goldfinger '99\" at the 2019 Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival. \"Strip\" was used as the theme song for part two of \"Otona no Tsuchi Dora\" series. Promotional activities. To help promote the album, some of the songs were used for promotional purposes. \"Eh Yo\" was used as the Hanazono support song for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Koda Kumi debuted the song on June 15, 2019, with a performance at Tenn\u014dji Park in Tenn\u014dji-ku, Osaka for the \"100"}, {"text": "Days To Go\" event. She also performed \"Eh Yo\" during TV Tokyo's \"Music Festival 2019\", along with her 2007 song \"Ai no Uta\". She performed \"Summer Time\", \"Eh Yo\" and \"Do Me\" during a-nation 2019 on August 18, 2019. On August 10, Kumi performed the cover of Hiromi Go's \"Goldfinger '99\" at the 2019 Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival. \"Strip\" was used as the theme song for part two of the Tokai TV and Fuji TV series \"Otona no Tsuchi Dora\" , titled \"Rika\" . A special promotional video was uploaded on avex's official YouTube on October 15, 2019. The album exclusive track \"Merry Go Round\" was used in a television commercial for T-Garden's \"loveil\" contact lenses. Commercial performance. \"Re(cord)\" debuted in the top five of the daily Oricon Albums Charts at No. 4, becoming Kumi's third consecutive album to not take the number one spot (\"AND\" charted at No 6 and \"DNA\" charted at No. 2). Within the first week, the album sold 13,533 copies. By the end of the second week, the album had dropped in rank to No. 49, selling an additional 940 units. Single: Eh Yo. \"Eh Yo\" is the first single released by Japanese artist Koda"}, {"text": "Kumi post her studio albums \"DNA\" and \"And\", and sixty-third overall. It became her first single in nearly two years, with her last being \"Never Enough\" (2017). It also became the first of three digital singles she would release in July 2019, alongside \"Summer Time\" and \"Do Me\". The single was released as a digital single on July 3, 2019. Information. \"Eh Yo\" is the sixty-third single released by Japanese singer-songwriter Koda Kumi on July 3, 2019. It was officially announced on June 17, 2019, having debuted on June 15 with a performance at Tenn\u014dji Park. The single became her first in nearly two years, with her prior being \"Never Enough\" in December 2017. Due to having no physical release, the song did not chart on the Oricon Singles Chart. However, the song was given a five star ranking on the popular digital music store RecoChoku. The single was released as a digital download, and distributed among sites like RecoChoku, iTunes and Amazon Music. The song was written and composed by Kumi's husband, Back-On lead vocalist Kenji, who is credited at \"Hi-yunk\". The lyrical portion was written by Kumi herself. To help promote the song, \"Eh Yo\" was used as"}, {"text": "the Hanazono support song of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Cover art. The single's cover art was inspired by her 2019 concert tour \"Live Tour 2019 \uff5ere(LIVE)\uff5e\", which held a dual concept from her ' and ' concert tours. Music videos. While two of the corresponding singles had their music videos placed on the first DVD/Blu-ray, there were two that were not added: \"Strip\" and \"Get Naked\". \"Strip\" featured Koda Kumi in the stylized kimono she wore during promoting and the tour for \"Live Tour 2019 re(LIVE)\", which carried a dual concept from her \"Black Cherry\" (2006) and \"Japonesque\" (2012) studio albums. Other scenes included her in a glass box, donning a dress similar to the one she wore during her introductory performance for \".\" \"Get Naked\" was filmed on the same set the album covers were shot. In the video, Kumi is shown entangled in the cords, symbolizing being a \"slave to music\". She is also shown carrying a blacklight, which is typically used to find substances that cannot be seen by the naked eye. A preview of the video was uploaded to Avex's official YouTube. The music video for \"k,\" is an upbeat dance number. Kumi said the"}, {"text": "dance was based on her workout routine, which typically includes yoga and light strength training. In the video, Kumi and her dancers wear bright colors (lime green and orange in one segment and pink and yellow in the other) while performing the dance with similarly colored backdrops. Other scenes include Kumi donning braids with balloons tying off the ends, lifting her hair. The style gained coverage on various sites, becoming known as \"colorful balloon hair\". The style received predominantly positive comments, though some were questioning the young style on the seasoned artist. The video was uploaded on her official YouTube a week prior to the album's release on November 5 to assist promotion. An alternate dance version was also released on the album, which omitted the scenes of her \"balloon hair\" and only focused on the dances between the two sets. For \"Again\", Kumi revisited past styles, taking from two of her most popular winter-time ballads, \"Ai no Uta\" (2007) and \"You\" (2005). The teardrop crystals and a similar dress from \"Ai no Uta\" were used, as was walking in the snow wearing a knit cap and large shawl from \"You\". The message, overall, was to grow with the past,"}, {"text": "instead of from it. The music video was uploaded on the official YouTube on October 29, 2019. The videos for \"Goldfinger 2019\" and \"Livin' La Vida Loca\" were predominantly the same. On July 20, 2019, Koda Kumi released the cover of Ricky Martin's hit \"Livin' la Vida Loca\" via Avex's official YouTube. Three weeks later on August 13, she released \"Goldfinger 2019\", which was the Japanese remake.\" Both videos were nearly identical, with only slight changes. Both videos open with Kumi spinning down onto the stage via a cloth rope while donning bright, translucent yellow garb. As the song picks up, people begin to dance on the dance floor as various signs light up. During the chorus, both Kumi and the dancers perform the same choreography. An alternate version of Kumi is approached by a Caucasian male. After he treats her to a night out, she leaves him, watching on in satisfaction as he tries and fails to find her. It then breaks to an aggressive beat where Kumi and the dancers perform a modern hip-hop dance. This portion of the video was performed in black and white. When it picks up to the prior set, the dancers, including Kumi,"}, {"text": "are shown dancing in the rain. The video ends with Kumi performing the tango with another dancer as the credits roll."}, {"text": "Derrick Anderson (born 20 June 1936) is a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Panagiotis Louka (; born 8 September 2000) is a Cypriot footballer who plays as a forward for AEZ Zakakiou. Club career. Atalanta. Loan to iClinic Sere\u010f. He joined \u0160KF Sere\u010f on loan from Atalanta Bergamo in August 2019. He made his professional Fortuna liga debut for \u0160KF Sere\u010f on 14 September 2019 in a game against Ru\u017eomberok. He substituted Maj Rori\u010d in the 68th minute."}, {"text": "Peter Vander Pyl (9 November 1933 \u2013 25 April 2019) was a Canadian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Ivory Coast competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019."}, {"text": "FtsK is a protein involved in bacterial cell division and chromosome segregation. In \"E. coli\", is one of the largest proteins, consisting of 1329 amino acids. FtsK stands for \"Filament temperature sensitive mutant K\" because cells expressing a mutant \"ftsK\" allele called \"ftsK44\", which encodes an FtsK variant containing an G80A residue change in the second transmembrane segment, fail to divide at high temperatures and form long filaments instead. FtsK, specifically its C-terminal domain, functions as a DNA translocase, interacts with other cell division proteins, and regulates Xer-mediated recombination. FtsK belongs to the AAA (ATPase Associated with various cellular Activities) superfamily and is present in most bacteria. Structure. FtsK is a transmembrane protein composed of three domains: FtsKN, FtsKL, and FtsKC. FtsK functions to coordinate cell division and chromosome segregation through its N-terminal and C-terminal domains. The FtsKN domain is embedded in the cytoplasmic membrane by four transmembrane \u03b1-helices. The FtsKL domain extends from the membrane into the cytoplasm. This linking domain varies in length across many bacteria. Found at the cytoplasmic end of the linker domain, the FtsKC segment of the protein is responsible for enabling the activity of the Xer recombination system upon the formation of a chromosome"}, {"text": "dimer. Additionally, the FtsKC domain is composed of three subdomains: \u03b1, \u03b2, and \u03b3. The \u03b1 and \u03b2 subunits aggregate to form a hexamer that possesses the ability to translocate DNA through ATP hydrolysis. The ATP hydrolysis sites are found on the \u03b2 subunits of the hexamer. The \u03b3 domain is responsible for the control of the hexamer. It mediates the attachment of the hexamer to double-stranded DNA, controls the directionality of the translocase, and initiates chromosome dimer segregation. Mechanism of action. The \"dif\" site. The \"dif\" site is found at the intersection between the monomers of the chromosome dimer. It corresponds to where chromosomal replication ceased and is also the site of Xer mediated segregation. Translocation of the FtsKC hexamer stops when it reaches the location of the Xer recombinase complex that is associated with the \"dif\" site. Binding site. Guanosine rich areas of DNA, which are found at the ends of the \"dif\" region, are the sites of translocation initiation. These sites are referred to as KOPS motifs. Upon binding a KOPS motif, the FtsK hexamer forms and proceeds towards the \"dif\" region. Movement toward the \"dif\" region is facilitated by the polarity of the KOPS motif. Translocation."}, {"text": "There are three proposed mechanisms of DNA translocation: the rotary inchworm, the staircase, and the revolution mechanism. The rotary inchworm mechanism involves two points of contact between DNA and the subunits of the FtsKC hexamer. These points of contact correspond to an \u03b1 and a \u03b2 domain. A conformational change in the \u03b1 subunit can cause the DNA to shift. This shift is followed by a conformational change in the \u03b2 subunit (which also causes the DNA to move). The repeated conformational changes lead to the translocation of DNA. Conversely, the staircase mechanism sees the \u03b1 and \u03b2 subunits of the hexamer interacting with the double-stranded DNA in a sequential and overlapping manner. Conformational changes in each subunit cause movement in the spatial position of the DNA strand. Additionally, the revolution mechanism entails the passing of DNA through a channel formed by the hexameric FtsKC domain. In general, the chromosome dimer is translocated so that the site of resolution is near the divisome and so one copy of the genetic material ends up in each daughter cell. FtsK is the fastest DNA translocation pump, with rates of up to 7 kb s\u22121 it is also a very efficient one. Recombinase"}, {"text": "(Xer D) activation. During bacterial replication, in the presence of a dimer the XerCD mechanism is introduced to divide the dimer into two monomers. FtsK is responsible for the activity of the Xer recombination reaction. Specifically, FtsKc is summoned if a chromosome dimer is present at the mid-cell point. The Xer mechanism is activated by overexpression of FtsK, therefore it appears that FtsK activates the Xer recombination. FtsK turns on the activity of XerCD upon expenditure of ATP. The recombination apparatus is made up of four monomers, two being Xer D and two being Xer C, that belong to a family of tyrosine recombinases. The interaction of Xer D and the \u03b3 subunit of FtsKC results in the activation of the recombinase. Contact between Xer D and the \u03b3 subunit is facilitated by the translocation of DNA. Specifically, translocation stops when the FtsKc hexamer reaches the \"dif\" site. Role in cell division. FtsK is a part of the divisome of bacteria and coordinates cell division with the resolution of chromosome dimers. FtsKN stabilizes the septum and aids in the recruitment of other proteins to the site of cell division. The N-terminal 220 residues of FtsK are sufficient to promote cell"}, {"text": "division in \"Escherichia coli\". However, additional evidence suggests that the N terminus is not the only part of FtsK that is involved in cell division. In an experiment done by Dubarry, a suppressor mutation allowed the cells to survive without FtsKN. When segments of the FtsK cytoplasmic linker domain were fused to other divisome proteins that can attach to the membrane, such as FtsW, only those fusions that contained the FtsK linker region were able to restore normal cell growth, providing convincing evidence that the linker region of FtsK plays an important role in cell division. Other studies have shown that part of the FtsKN domain (which is in the periplasm) is involved in the construction of the cell wall. Phylogeny. FtsK is a member of the AAA motor ATPases. The phylogenetic tree of FtsK originates at the divergence between ssDNA and dsDNA translocases where TraB, FtsK, T4CPs and VirB4s arose. Each of these show structural similarities and the parent branch of FtsK arose along with other branches of TraB, TcpA, and FtsK. Although FtsK has its own phylogeny and branches within, TraB is similar to a sister protein branch that can be traced back to the timeline of FtsK."}, {"text": "A common protein that derives from one of the phylogenetic branches of FtsK is SpoIIIE, which is essential for chromosome segregation in some Gram positive bacteria. FtsK is found in most bacteria including \"E. coli\", \"Staphyloccus\", and \"Streptomycetes\" and in certain Archaea, where the phylogenetic tree is similar to that of bacteria. FtsK family proteins have divergent branch lengths, making it difficult to provide an exact evolutionary timeline. The phylogeny of FtsK can therefore be compared to the time that protein groups VirB4/VirD4 diversified, and slightly earlier than TraB and TcpA as they only occur in Actinomycetota and Bacillota."}, {"text": "St. Mochta's F.C. is an Irish association football club based in Clonsilla, Dublin. Their senior team play in the Leinster Senior League Senior Division. They also regularly compete in the FAI Cup, the FAI Intermediate Cup, the FAI Junior Cup and the Leinster Senior Cup. History. St. Mochta's were founded in September 1949 when founder Barth O'Brien put a motion to the AGM of the St. Mochta's Branch of the Catholic Young Men's Society (CYMS) that a football section be formed within the branch. At the time, it was unsure exactly what type of \"football\" the club would play, considering that it could mean association football, rugby football, or gaelic football. After a vote from aspiring members, association football or soccer was chosen. In its early years, the club played its football at Somerton on the same grounds where Castleknock GAA club now play and briefly in Coolmine Lane, close to Coolmine railway station before permanently establishing themselves at Porterstown. In the early 1960s the CYMS became defunct but the club continued on as St. Mochta's. Later years. In 2017 the club won the Leinster Senior League Senior Division for the first time. In October 2018, the Football Association of"}, {"text": "Ireland announced that St. Mochta's would be receiving \u20ac20,000 in funds to help fund a full-sized astroturf pitch at the club's Porterstown Road facility. In July 2019, the club celebrated its 70th anniversary with a glamour friendly tie against English League One side Bristol Rovers. Hailed as 'the biggest club the ... side have ever played', the match ended in a 7\u20130 loss for St. Mochta's. The club were runners up in the 2023\u201324 Leinster Senior Cup, losing 3\u20131 to St Patrick's Athletic at Richmond Park on 8 October 2024. Honours. (1): Winners 2016-17 (2): Winners 2022-23 (3): Winners 2024-25"}, {"text": "Lanrui Feng (, 16 September 1920 \u2013 28 February 2019) was a well known Chinese economist born in Guiyang, Guizhou, China. As a member of the Chinese Communist Party, Lanrui Feng used to be the chief editor of \"Shanghai Youth Daily,\" editorial committee of \"China Youth Daily\", and a fellow of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has been included on the Who's a Who multiple times on various versions globally and has been called by media \"a successful Chinese lady\". Early life and education. Lanrui Feng was born into a fairly well-off family in 1920. She was against the Chinese traditional education system and actively participated in related student revolutions since she was young. Because of this, she was kicked out of the school three times. In 1938, she joined the Chinese Communist Party. Lanrui Feng followed the government's arrangement in 1940 to move to Yan'an, China to work for the Chinese Youth Committee and learnt English at the same time. In the same year, Lanrui Feng married Dongming Wei (\u9b4f\u4e1c\u660e) and they divorced in 1944. Two years later, she married Li Chang (\u674e\u660c) in fall 1946. After the second marriage,"}, {"text": "Feng moved along her husband Li Chang's job arrangement from Yan'an to Shanghai, then Harbin. In 1954, Feng went to the Central Party School to study political economy."}, {"text": "Shapludu () is a Bangladeshi political thriller by Golam Sohrab Dodul starring Arifin Shuvoo and Bidya Sinha Saha Mim which was released in theaters across Bangladesh on 27 September 2019. Plot. Irfan has been the moral political guardian to Arman the way Ahsan has been to him. Then why does a series of unfortunate events- female trafficking, drug smuggling, disappearing of a foreign journalist, a bomb blast- occur in their small town of Thanchi? Who are they that prey on the aborigines at night? Who are they, who roam around with blood-spattered faces and weapons in hand during Vaisavi? Why does Arman continuously end up as the scapegoat? Where do someone's gains lie in Arman's death? While finding answers to these questions, Arman falls into a rabbit hole of ghoulish truths, making him lose his credence. Right there starts Arman's striking journey to save Pushpa, and his country. It is a story of Arman's love for Pushpa, of Ahsan and Irfan's love for their country. In some ways, it is a story of selling out your country, of Titli's life in orphanage, of Nazrul's sacrifice, and of Arman's mother's death. In hindsight, it is a story patriotism. Society has its"}, {"text": "fair share of different types of people. Some amongst them resort to using others for their benefits; sometimes putting the entire society, even their nation at stake. They wear masquerades of noblemen. But once people hit rock bottom, they possess an inevitable ability to capsize and use those masquerades as a boomerang to the impostors. 'Shapludu' is a tale of those who turn the tables; a suspense thriller based on those who give those swindlers a taste of their own medicine in order to save themselves, their loved ones, and their nation."}, {"text": "Lana Rhoades is an American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress. She has appeared in publications such as \"Hustler\", \"Penthouse\" and \"Playboy\". Early life. Rhoades was raised by a single mother in a suburb of Chicago with an older sister who suffered from schizophrenia. According to Rhoades, most of the household's attention was devoted to caring for her sister, leaving little love or guidance for her. She came to admire the glamorous lifestyle of \"Playboy\" models such as Anna Nicole Smith who were featured on the TV series \"The Girls Next Door\". According to Rhoades, she began using narcotics with her first boyfriend and acted as an accomplice in several burglaries. When she was 16, she was sentenced to youth detention at the Warrenville Youth Center. She was released for good behavior after one year, having obtained her GED certificate. Career. After her release from Warrenville, Rhoades began her foray into legal sex work by hostessing at a Tilted Kilt restaurant, performing in a strip club, and then appearing in her first pornographic film aged 19. Rhoades made her adult film debut in 2016 and left the industry by late 2017. Rhoades told \"Playboy\" that her first talent"}, {"text": "agent was aggressive and controlling, not giving her time off to see a doctor for medical issues arising from constantly being penetrated on set. After a hiatus of three or four months, she began working again with a different agent, describing their role as \"coax[ing] girls into doing more and more for the least amount of money\", according to \"Playboy\". Following a stint of approximately a year in pornographic films, she transitioned into a career as a social media influencer. By 2019, she was the most-searched actress on Pornhub, garnering 345 million views. In February 2020, she was hired by Brazzers as a marketing consultant. Rhoades has been open about exploitation and abuse in pornography, and has discouraged other women from entering the industry. She has stated that she earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per month by posting nude photos and videos to OnlyFans, which allows her to control how her body is portrayed. In 2021, Rhoades began to promote the cryptocurrency PAWGcoin, and developed an NFT image project in November of that year which was launched in 2022. After the launch, she transferred out 509 ethereum (ETH) worth $1.5 million, abandoning her NFT project following the $1.8 million"}, {"text": "launch, according to internet investigator Coffeezilla. Rhoades co-hosts the podcast \"3 Girls 1 Kitchen\", and designed a lingerie line with Yandy, whose parent company is \"Playboy\". Personal life. Rhoades announced on her podcast \"3 Girls 1 Kitchen\" that she gave birth to a son in January 2022. According to a 2021 \"Playboy\" profile, she owns two houses, in Los Angeles and in Chicago."}, {"text": "Yuriy Gorodnichenko () is an economist and Quantedge Presidential professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Gorodnichenko is also a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor., a leader of the Ukrainian initiative at CEPR, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Gorodnichenko was the chair of the International Academic Board of the Kyiv School of Economics. Gorodichenko is a coeditor of the American Economic Review. Previously, he was a coeditor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Monetary Economics. Gorodnichenko also serves on the editorial board of . Gorodnichenko is a cofounder of VoxUkraine. Gorodnichenko is a member of the executive committee of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES). A significant part of his research has been about monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles. Gorodnichenko coauthored several proposals on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. His work was published in"}, {"text": "leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of European Economic Association, and many others. Gorodnichenko received awards for his teaching and research, including Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, World Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance, Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, fellow of the Econometric Society, R.K. Cho Prize in Economics, and others. Gorodnichenko's research was funded by the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Social Security Administration, Google, and other agencies and firms. RePEc ranks Gorodnichenko as the top young economist in the world."}, {"text": "Manul Chudasama is an Indian television actress. She made her television debut in 2019 by playing lead role of Rani in \"Ek Thi Rani Ek Tha Raavan\". In same year she portrayed Princess Amrapali in \"Tenali Rama\". Career. Manul Chudasama started her career through television commercials. Manul made her debut in television with \"Ek Thi Rani Ek Tha Raavan\" in 2019. She played the protagonist, Rani, opposite Sheezan Mohammed Khan. Later she was replaced from the series for \"not being sensuous enough\" claims by makers. Later on she played Princess Amrapali in Sony SAB's \"Tenali Rama\" in the same year. In 2022 she played lead role of Goddess Radha in Dangal's Brij Ke Gopal opposite Paras Arora but it went off-air soon in the same year. In February 2023 she stepped into the shoes of actress Tunisha Sharma as Princess Mariam in Sony SAB's Ali Baba opposite Abhishek Nigam after Sharma's demise."}, {"text": "Graham Dunstan Martin (21 October 1932, Leeds \u2013 27 March 2021) was a British author, translator, and philologist. Martin was an opponent of materialist philosophy. He was the author of \"Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists\" which gravitates towards idealism and neutral monism as an alternative. He also authored \"Living On Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value\" which argued for purpose and value in the universe."}, {"text": "Kazakh Khanate \u2013 Golden Throne is a 2019 Kazakhstani drama film directed by Rustem Abdrashev. It was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film is the second in a series, which was launched with \"Diamond Sword\" in 2017."}, {"text": "The 2019 South Korean Figure Skating Championships were held from January 11\u201313, 2019 at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul. It was organized by the Korean Skating Union. This was the 73rd edition of these championships held. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles on the senior and junior levels and ice dancing on the junior level for the title of national champion of South Korea. The results of the national championships were used to choose the Korean teams to the 2019 World Junior Championships and 2019 World Championships. Senior results. Cha Jun-hwan and You Young both won their third senior national titles. International team selections. Four Continents Championships. The 2019 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Anaheim, California, United States from February 7\u201310, 2019. World Junior Championships. The 2019 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Zagreb, Croatia from March 4\u201310, 2019. World Championships. The 2019 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Saitama, Japan, from March 18\u201324, 2019."}, {"text": "Mykhaylo Kokhan or Mykhailo Serhiiovych Kokhan (; born 22 January 2001) is a Ukrainian athlete specialising in the hammer throw. He won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Career. He represented his country at the 2019 World Championships finishing fifth the final. His personal best with a senior implement was 77.39 metres set in Doha in 2019. He improved it with 80.78 m im Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r on 5 July 2021. International competitions. 1Sum of the best marks in the two stages."}, {"text": "London Westside B.C. are an English basketball club, based in the North Kensington area of West London, England. History. The club was founded in 2000, with strong links to the local community and to provide opportunity for talented local players to develop. Westside had much early success in the regional leagues, and entered the English Basketball League for the first time in 2004. The club was severely disrupted by the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, with their main home venue out of action for a considerable period as a hub for the relief effort. The club were later awarded funds from the Grenfell Young People's Fund, raised by readers who donated to the London Evening Standard's Dispossessed Fund Grenfell Appeal, to support their youth development work. Men's National League Division 3 South League Champions: 2010-11 Men's National League Division 3 Playoffs Champions: 2010-11 Men's National Founders Cup: 2002-03 Academy. The club is partnered with St Charles College, who compete in the Academies Basketball League. The ABL is the second-tier under 19's competition in the United Kingdom. St Charles were runners-up in the competition in 2019. Teams. For the 2019\u201320 season, Westside will field the following teams: Senior Men - National"}, {"text": "League Division 2 South U18 Men - National League U18 Premier South U16 Boys - National League U16 Premier South U16 Girls - National League U16 Premier South U14 Boys - National League U14 Premier South East Home Venue. Westside are based at Kensington Leisure Centre and St Paul's School, London."}, {"text": "Kyle John Solomon Alexander (born October 21, 1996) is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for T\u00fcrk Telekom of the Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL).<ref name=\"Kyle Alexander/Forward\"></ref> He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. High school career. Alexander was born in Scarborough, Ontario and grew up in Milton, Ontario and attended Orangeville Prep in Orangeville, Ontario, where he would originally play soccer and volleyball before picking up basketball in grade 11. Alexander would become roommates with Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray. Additionally, Alexander played AAU basketball with the CIA Bounce, again teaming up with Murray. College career. Alexander played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers for 4 years. As a senior, he averaged 7.3 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.7 blocks and 23.8 minutes per game. Alexander helped lead the team to the Sweet Sixteen, shooting 61.4 percent from the field and 42.9 percent from three-point range. Professional career. Sioux Falls Skyforce (2019\u20132020). After going undrafted in the 2019 NBA draft, Alexander joined the Miami Heat for the 2019 NBA Summer League. On July 15, 2019, Alexander was signed by the Heat to a training camp contract. Following training camp, Alexander was added to the roster of the Heat's NBA"}, {"text": "G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce. Miami Heat (2020). On January 15, 2020, Alexander signed a two-way contract with the Miami Heat. The following day, it was announced that Alexander was sidelined with a knee injury. He made his NBA debut on August 6, 2020, where he played one minute off the bench and recorded one rebound in a 130\u2013116 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. The Heat reached the 2020 NBA Finals, but lost in 6 games to the Los Angeles Lakers. Fuenlabrada (2020\u20132022). On December 2, 2020, Alexander signed with Fuenlabrada of the Spanish Liga ACB. He averaged 9 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. On August 23, 2021, Alexander re-signed with the team. Scarborough Shooting Stars (2022). On May 16, 2022, Alexander signed with the Scarborough Shooting Stars of the CEBL. Valencia (2022\u20132023). On July 22, 2022, Alexander signed with Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB. On June 26, 2023, he parted ways with the club. Hapoel Tel Aviv (2023\u20132024). On July 26, 2023, he signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. T\u00fcrk Telekom (2024\u20132025). On July 11, 2024, he signed with T\u00fcrk Telekom of the Turkish Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL). Personal life."}, {"text": "Alexander is the son of Joseph and Audrey Alexander. His father Joseph played college basketball for the Niagara Purple Eagles from 1982 to 1986. He has two sisters, named Kayla and Kesia. His sister Kayla is also a professional basketball player and was a member of the Canada women's national basketball team for Team Canada at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, and formerly of the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA."}, {"text": "Platycheirus aeratus, commonly known as Coquillett's sedgesitter, is a species of hoverfly. ; Length: ;Head:The face is vertical and thinly grey pollinose, featuring a shining tubercle. The oral margin is rounded and not produced forward. ;Legs:The legs are mostly dark, except for the ends of the femora, the fore tibia, the bases and ends of the mid and hind tibia, as well as the fore and mid tarsomeres, which are all pale. The fore femur features a nearly basal tuft of 2-3 long, thin, wavy, closely appressed white setae, while the rest of the femur has only long, fine, wavy black pile. The fore tibia is somewhat broadened from base to end and is covered with fine wavy black pile. The first fore tarsomere is broadened slightly past the base, is parallel-sided, and is slightly narrower than the fore tibia. The remaining fore tarsomeres are unmodified. The mid tibia has dense, fine black pile on its lower front for three-quarters of its length. Additionally, the first hind tarsomere is slightly swollen. Overall, the legs are otherwise unmodified. ;Thorax: Sparsely grey pollinose with short yellow and wavy pile ;Wings: Brown-tinted and entirely microtrichose. The Halter is yellow, ;Abdomen: Is thin and"}, {"text": "even-sided. The tergites are entirely dark pollinose except tergites 3 and 4 have small, circular spots near the anterior margin. Distribution. The species occurs in northern Europe, from Norway into Karelian Russia and on into Asia to eastern Siberia, as well as in North America from Alaska south to California and Colorado (where it occurs at 3-4000 m elevation). Ecology. Like other species in its genus, the species can remain nearly motionless in flight. Known larvae feed on aphids. External links."}, {"text": "The James H. Bounds Barn, in Marshall County, Oklahoma near Kingston, Oklahoma, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. According to its National Register nomination, the barn \"is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a four-crib log barn representing late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century farming and ranching in the Chickasaw Nation and Oklahoma between 1895 and 1950. The use of square-notching, which is a simpler technique associated with the waning of log construction proficiency, supports a late nineteenth-century construction date. After 1950 agriculture in Oklahoma had become largely mechanized and began to intensify and specialize enough that general-purpose barns, especially log barns, became increasingly obsolete. Unlike frame-constructed barns, log barns could not be easily electrified or plumbed, and they were essentially useless for storing machinery. The James H. Bounds Barn was never modernized, but it did remain in use for hay storage until the late 1980s.\""}, {"text": "Slawee Kadir (born 28 June 1933) is a former Hong Kong field hockey and Lawn bowls player. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Career. Kadir appeared at the 1964 Olympic Games, where he competed in the men's tournament field hockey tournament at the 1964 Olympics Games, in Tokyo, Japan. He also represented Hong Kong at Hockey in 1962 and 1966 Asian Games. Kadir started bowling in 1953 and won three national titles at the Hong Kong National Bowls Championships. He won the fours in 1985, 1992 and 1993 representing the Indian Recreation Club. Personal life. Kadir is a retired as a prison officer."}, {"text": "Julie Ann Remache is an American economist who currently works as selected deputy SOMA manager at the Federal Reserve of New York. Remache has worked at the Federal Reserve of New York since 2000, where she held several positions before being promoted to Senior VP in February 2015. She briefly worked in the private sector between 2008-2009, but returned to the Federal Reserve in January 2009 as Director for Portfolio Analytics. In this position, Remache was part of a team responsible for buying $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as part of the Federal Reserve's MBS purchase program during the 2008 financial crisis. Education. Remache obtained her bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics at Boston University. Remache then went on to complete a master's in Economics at Boston University as well. She holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification. Career. Remache joined the Federal Reserve of New York in 2000 as a trader and analyst. In January 2008 she was promoted to Markets Officer but shortly after, in March 2008, she took a job at Robeco-Sage Capital Management as Vice President. After nine months at Robeco-Sage, Richard Dzina, senior VP at the New York Fed, offered her a new position"}, {"text": "at the Bank. Remache accepted the position and returned to the Bank in January 2009, where she was responsible for developing and implementing the Federal Reserve's MBS purchase program. In January 2010 she was promoted to Assistant Vice President of the Markets Groups. In February 2015 she was promoted to her current position of Senior Vice President in the Markets Group. In 2011, Remache appeared on \"The Invention of Money\" episode of NPR's This American Life, where she discussed how, starting in November 2008, her Domestic Capital Markets team at the Federal Reserve injected $1.35 trillion into the economy by purchasing mortgage-backed securities. In July 2015 she presented on monetary policy at the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) 16th annual Economic Measurement Conference in Washington D.C. In May 2016, she organised a conference at Columbia University on the topic of the implementation of monetary policy after the 2008 financial crisis. Select research. Remache's research primarily focuses on the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchases (otherwise known as quantitative easing) during the 2008 financial crisis. She has published two papers on the topic with Joseph Gagnon, Matthew Raskin and Brian Sack: \"The financial market effects of the Federal Reserve\u2019s large-scale asset"}, {"text": "purchases\" and \"Large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve: did they work?\" Remache published an article for Medium in 2017 along with Antoine Martin, Senior VP and Head of Money and Payments at the Federal Reserve. She has contributed to the Federal Reserve's \"Liberty Street Economics\" blog on several occasions on the topic of System Open Market Account (SOMA)."}, {"text": "Farid Khan (born 18 February 1936) is a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Frederic Samuel \"Eric\" McCosh (born 6 January 1938) is a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "\"The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done\" is a Christian hymn that is traditionally sung at Easter to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. It was originally a 17th-century Latin hymn, \"Finita iam sunt proelia\"; the popular English-language version is an 1861 translation by the English hymnwriter Francis Pott. Text. The text of the hymn extols the triumphant Christ whose victory over death and Hell is described as a battle, as related in the Harrowing of Hell. The hymn also makes reference to Christ breaking the chains of hell and to Christ in Majesty. Each verse concludes with an \"Alleluya!\" refrain. <poem>The strife is o'er, the battle done; Now is the Victor's triumph won; O let the song of praise be sung. Alleluya! Death's mightiest powers have done their worst, And Jesus hath his foes dispersed; Let shouts of praise and joy outburst. Alleluya! On the third morn he rose again Glorious in majesty to reign; O let us swell the joyful strain. Alleluya! He brake the age-bound chains of hell; The bars from heaven's high portals fell; Let hymns of praise his triumph tell. Alleluya! Lord, by the stripes which wounded thee From death's dread sting thy servants free, That"}, {"text": "we may live, and sing to thee. Alleluya!</poem> Tune. \"The strife is o'er\" has a metre of 8.8.8 with \"Alleluya\", and is it commonly sung to one of two hymn tunes. The most common is the tune , adapted from a 1591 setting of the \"Gloria Patri\" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina from a \"Magnificat tertii toni\". The additional \"Alleluya\" refrain was set to music by William Henry Monk. <score override_audio=\"The strife is o'er.ogg\"> \\new Staff { \\clef treble \\time 3/2 \\key d \\major \\set Staff.midiInstrument = \"church organ\" \\set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \\override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t \\relative c\" \u00ab { a2 a a | b1 a2 | a( g) fis | a1. \\bar\"||\" fis2 fis fis | fis1 fis2 | fis( e) d | e1. \\bar\"||\" \\break a2 a a | b1 a2 | a( g) fis | a1. \\bar\"||\" r2 a2 d | cis1. | d1. \\bar\"|.\" } \\\\ { fis,2 fis fis | g1 fis2 | fis( b,) d | e1. | d2 d d | d1 d2 | d( b) b | cis1. | cis2 fis fis | g1 fis2 | fis( b,) d | e1. | r2 d2 fis | e1. | fis1. }"}, {"text": "\u00bb \\new Lyrics \\lyricmode { The2 strife is o'er,1 the2 ba1 -- ttle2 done;1. Now2 is the Vi1 -- ctor's2 tri1 -- umph2 won;1. O2 let the song1 of2 praise1 be2 sung.1. \"\"2 Al2 -- le -- lu1. -- ya! \\new Staff { \\clef bass \\key d \\major \\set Staff.midiInstrument = \"church organ\" \\relative c' \u00ab { d2 d d | d1 d2 | cis( e) d | cis1. | a2 a a | b1 a2 | a( g) fis | a1. | a2 d d | d1 d2 | cis( e) d | cis1. | r2 d2 a | a1. | a1. } \\\\ { d,2 d d | g1 d2 | fis( e) b' | a1. | d,2 d d | b1 fis'2 | d( e) b | a1. | fis'2 d d | g1 d2 | fis( e) b' | a1. | r2 fis2 d | a1. | d1. } \u00bb \u00bb \u00bb </score> An alternative popular tune for this hymn is (transcribed in a typical setting below), named after its composer Melchior Vulpius, who originally wrote it for the hymn \"Gelobt sei Gott im h\u00f6chsten Thron\" in his 1609 \"Gesangbuch\". \"The strife is o'er\" first appeared"}, {"text": "with this setting with threefold \"Alleluyas\", arranged by Henry George Ley, in the 1925 hymnal \"Songs of Praise\". <score sound=\"1\"> \\new Staff { \\clef treble \\time 3/4 \\key c \\major \\set Staff.midiInstrument = \"church organ\" \\set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \\override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t \\relative c\" \u00ab { c4 b a | g2 g4 | a2 b4 | c2. | c4 c d | g,2 c4 | b a2 | g2. | g4 e a | g2 f4 | e d2 | c2. \\bar\"||\" c'2 b4 | c4.( b8) a4 | g2 fis4 | g4.( f!8) e4 | d c b | c2. \\bar\"|.\" } \\\\ { e4 g f | d2 g4 | f2 f4 | e2. | e4 e a | g2 e8 fis | g2 fis4 | d2. | c4 c c | d( e) d | c2 b4 | c2. | g'2 g4 | e2 f4 | g4( e) d | d( b) c | a g g | g2. } \u00bb \\new Lyrics \\lyricmode { The4 strife is o'er,2 the4 ba2 -- ttle4 done;2. Now4 is the Vi2 -- ctor's4 tri -- umph2 won;2. O4 let the song2 of4 praise be2 sung.2. Al2 -- le4"}, {"text": "-- lu2 -- ya!4 Al2 -- le4 -- lu2 -- ya!4 Al4 -- le -- lu -- ya!2. \\new Staff { \\clef bass \\key c \\major \\set Staff.midiInstrument = \"church organ\" \\relative c' \u00ab { g4 g c | c( b) c | c2 d4 | g,2. | a4 a8 b c[ d] | e4( d) c | d e( d) | b2. | c4 g a | b( c) a | g g( f) e2. | e'2 d4 | c2 c4 | c4.( b8) a4 | g( d) c | f e d | e2. } \\\\ { c4 e f | g4.( f8) e4 | f( e) d | c c' b | a g f | c'( b) a | g c,( d) | g2( f4) | e4 c f | f( e) f | g g,2 | c4 e g | c2 g4 | a4.( g8) f4 | e4( c) d | b( g) a | f g g | c2. } \u00bb \u00bb \u00bb </score>"}, {"text": "Petra Persson is a Swedish economist and Assistant Professor in Economics at Stanford University. Persson is best known for her work in Public and Labour Economics where her research focuses on the interactions between family decisions and the policy environment. Specifically, Persson's research agenda is centered on studying government policy, family wellbeing, and informal institutions. Persson is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research where she has produced notable research on paternity leave, family ruptures, and maternal health. Previously, Persson was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program. Education and career. Persson attended Stockholm University where she completed her B.A. in Political Science and Mathematics. Persson went on to complete her M.Sc. in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and her Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia University. Persson wrote her PhD dissertation on relationships and communication, with chapters on social insurance and the marriage market, attention manipulation and information overload, and paternalism and libertarianism. Persson started her career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, followed by work at the World Bank as a Research Associate. Thereafter, Persson worked"}, {"text": "in postdoctoral fellow positions at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Center for International Development. She currently works as an Assistant Professor in Economics at Stanford University and is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professionally, Persson is a referee for the American Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and the National Science Foundation. Teaching. In her current role as Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Persson teaches two PhD courses in the Department of Economics. In Economics 243, Persson examines household interactions with the social insurance system, including Social Security, health insurance, unemployment insurance, parental insurance, and targeting of social insurance. In Economics 300, Persson teaches third-year PhD students on the development of a research paper. Academic affiliations. In her academic career, Persson has worked in a number of academic affiliate and fellow positions: Research. Persson has focused on interactions between family decisions and the policy environment, with her research centered around three key themes: Research on family behavior and government policy. Social Insurance and the Marriage Market (2018). In her 2018 paper, \u201cSocial Insurance and the Marriage Market\u201d, Persson analyzes how linking survivors\u2019"}, {"text": "insurance to marriage affects the marriage market. Using data from Sweden's elimination of survivors' insurance in 1989, Persson finds that eliminating survivors\u2019 insurance lowers the long-run rate of entry into marriage from cohabitation, raises divorce rates for matched but unmarried couples, and increases assertiveness of matching for both unmatched and unmarried individuals. Further, Persson's findings suggest that marriage is commonly used as a mechanism for long-term financial planning. When Dad Stays Home (2019). Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater assess, through a regression difference-in-differences (RD-DD) model, the impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. Starting from Kim Weeden et al. (2016)'s finding that mothers face greater expectations to be \"on call\" for unforeseen domestic needs, Persson's paper analyzes father's demand for workplace flexibility and the spillover effects on maternal wellbeing. Persson employs administrative data from Sweden's \u201cDouble Days\u201d reform whereby both parents could use full-time leave benefits at the same time for up to 30 days. Through this analysis, Persson finds that increasing a father's temporal flexibility reduces the risk of the mother experiencing postpartum health complications. Moreover, Persson reaffirms that mothers currently bear a disproportionate burden from both career costs and a fathers' inability to respond to"}, {"text": "domestic shocks. Research on family behavior and family wellbeing. Financing from Family and Friends (2015). In reviewing the informal finance market, Persson investigates why borrowers tend to prefer formal financing despite family and friend investors being willing to accept below-market or negative returns. Persson finds that familial loans are associated with shadow costs and a lack of formal liability, which drives borrowers to formal lending markets. Specifically, Persson reviews the effects of social debt, where borrowers provide disproportionate favors to compensate lenders for providing capital at below-market rates. Persson's research observes that social lending intermediaries such as community lending pools can harness social capital while minimizing familial shadow costs. Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation (2016). In this \"American Economic Review\" paper, Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater study how exposure to maternal stress from familial ruptures affects later mental health. Specifically, they use empirical data from Sweden to isolate the in-utero effect of exposure to the death of a maternal loss compared to babies born who experience a loss within the first year of life. The authors find that this exposure is related to negative birth outcomes, increased risk of infant hospitalization, and increased take-up of"}, {"text": "ADHD medications during childhood and anti-anxiety and depression medications in adulthood. Their findings suggest large potential welfare gains by preventing fetal stress from family ruptures and socioeconomic factors. After being accepted for publication, their preprint attracted criticism for allegedly omitting citations of similar studies. The paper was updated to include a reference to a similar paper before being published. A comment criticised how the authors defined the control group, arguing that their definition risked finding a significant effect when there is none. Persson and Rossin-Slater agreed with the critique and said that their results were mostly unchanged after they re-estimated them using the control group suggested by the comment. Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution (2018). Through this paper with Samuel Lee, Persson studies the prostitution market with both voluntary and coerced workers. In this analysis, Persson attempts to identify a policy tool that would restore the benchmark outcome that would arise under a laissez-faire market without any coerced workers. Persson examines several policies, including decriminalization, criminalization of buyers or suppliers, and licensing, identifying that each policy is either ineffective against trafficking or harm voluntary suppliers. Persson ultimately highlights an alternative policy combining the Dutch and Swedish models, where prostitution is"}, {"text": "licensed and johns who buy sex from unlicensed prostitutes are criminalized, which would restore the benchmark outcome whereby trafficking is decreased and voluntary prostitution increases. The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intra-Family Expertise (2019). Working with Yiqun Chen and Maria Polyakova, Persson explores the correlation between income and health, specifically through familial access to health expertise. Persson uses Sweden as an empirical setting, which has minimal inequality in terms of formal access to health care and still find strong socioeconomic gradients. Leveraging a quasi-experimental approach using non-parametric data from admissions lotteries to Swedish medical schools, Persson finds that access to intra-family medical expertise can explain 18% of the health-socioeconomic status (SES) difference. Persson further illustrates that access to intra-family expertise has a number of positive health impacts, increasing life expectancy, reducing lifestyle-related disease, and improving drug adherence. Persson further finds that the effects of lack of access to expertise are larger at lower income brackets, which is commonly where access to expertise is lower. Recognition and awards. Through her academic career, Persson has received several grants and awards, including the Fulbright Scholarship in 2007, Hewlett Foundation/IIE award in 2012, Spectrum Grant in 2016, and a research grant"}, {"text": "from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development in 2019. Persson completed a research fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's women and public policy program in 2012. Additionally, Persson has worked at Stanford University as an IRiSS faculty fellow and Brown faculty fellow."}, {"text": "Jo\u00e3o Bosco Quevado da Silva (8 March 1937 \u2013 27 May 2013) was a Macau-born Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. da Silva attended school at Pedro Nolasco Commercial School and emigrated to Hong Kong in 1956, where he worked for HSBC before turning his hobby for hockey into a full-time job."}, {"text": "Shiann Salmon (born 31 March 1999) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. She represented Jamaica at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in women's 400 metres hurdles. Career. Salmon competed at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships, placing second in the Women's 400 meters hurdles event and third in the Women's 400 meters relay. In 2019 Salmon finished second at the Jamaican Championships, qualifying her for the 2019 World Championships, where she made the semi-finals. She won the 400 m hurdles and the 400 m mixed relay gold medals in the 2021 NACAC U23 Championships. In 2022, Salmon ran a new personal best of 53.82 s over 400 m hurdles to place second at the Jamaican Championships thus qualifying her for the 2022 World Championships where she made the semi-finals. She also competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, winning silver medals in the 400 m hurdles and Women's 4x400 m relay. At the 2023 World Championships, Salmon won a silver medal in the Women's 4x400 m relay, for her run in the heats. In 2024, Salmon finished third over 400 m hurdles at the Jamaican Championships, and qualified for"}, {"text": "the 2024 Summer Olympics. She ran a personal best of 53.13 s to qualify for the final, where she finished sixth. She won her first Diamond League at the Athletissima in Zurich, in a new personal best of 52.97 s, her first time under the 53-second barrier. Statistics. Personal Bests. Personal bests (main event in bold):"}, {"text": "Viola angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the genus \"Viola\". Taxonomy. This species was first described in 1857 by the Chilean paleontologist and zoologist Rudolph Amandus Philippi. In 2019 the husband-and-wife team of rock gardening enthusiasts John Michael Watson and renamed the species to V. wikipedia, after Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia. They did so believing that the name \"V. angustifolia\" was a later homonym, and thus illegitimate. Indeed, the name \"\"Viola angustifolia\" had been published prior to Philippi's description, in 1824 by the Swiss historian and botanist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Charles Jean Gingins de la Sarraz, in the famous \"Prodromus\" of Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle. However, this publication cites it as a \"nomen nudum\" synonymous to the species \"Pigea banksiana\", which is now known as \"Hybanthus enneaspermus\". The name had been proposed on a specimen sheet collected in India, but had never been validly published. As such, this name is what is known as a \"pro synonymo\", a name which cannot be considered as validly published because it is merely a synonymy citation. Therefore, Philippi's description is in fact the first valid publication of the name \"V. angustifolia\"\", and \"V. wikipedia\" is thus a superfluous and illegitimate name. Description."}, {"text": "It is closely related to \"V. acanthophylla\", \"V. bustillosia\", and \"V. cheeseana\", the latter being newly described by Watson and Flores. It is differentiated from these other species by having a \"leaf margin shallowly long-serrate. Peduncle clearly shorter than leaves\". Distribution. The species is presumed to be endemic to the Santiago region of Chile. It is known only from a specimen collected in 1855."}, {"text": "This is a list of notable Neue Deutsche H\u00e4rte (NDH) bands."}, {"text": "Mehdi Torkaman (; born March 8, 1989) is an Iranian footballer who plays as a left back for Mes Rafsanjan in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Career. Saipa. He made his debut for Saipa in last fixtures of 2011\u201312 Iran Pro League against Naft Abadan while he substituted in for Roozbeh Shahalidoost. Pars Jam. Torkaman signed a two-year deal with Pars Jam on 16 June 2019 and returned to first tier of Iran football."}, {"text": "Rui da Silva (born 5 January 1939) is a Macau-born Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Daniel Francisco Castro (born 3 July 1937) is a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Packey Gardner (29 May 1929 \u2013 20 May 2012) was a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Lionel Guterres (born 7 September 1931) is a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "The 2019 SMU Mustangs women's soccer team represented Southern Methodist University during the 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The regular season began on August 22 and concluded on October 31. It was the program's 26th season fielding a women's varsity soccer team, and their 7th season in the AAC. The 2019 season was Chris Petrucelli's eighth year as head coach for the program. Schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"| Non-conference regular season !colspan=6 style=\"| American Athletic Conference regular season !colspan=6 style=\"\"| American Athletic Conference Tournament"}, {"text": "Bengal roofs are sloping dome-shaped roofs with drawn-down corners associated with late Mughal and Rajput architecture of Northern India. It is believed that stone roofs of this type did not emerge until the 16th century and can be traced back to rural models with straw or reed roofs in the rainy regions of Bengal. Description. Characteristic features of the Bengal roofs are the broad partial dome-like shape of the roof with runners down the corners. There are several common types of Bengal roofs: the \"do-chala\" type has only two hanging roof tips on each side of a roof divided in the middle by a ridge; in the rare \"char-chala\" type, the two roof halves are fused into one unit and have a dome-like shape; the double-storey \"at-chala\" type has eight roof corners, four on each level. History. Such roof forms appeared for the first time in the 16th century on royal architecture of Rajputs and Mughals. Early examples are in the Bengali ruined city of Gaur, including the Mausoleum of Fateh Khan, the son of a general of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Distribution. Two of the first Mughal buildings with echoes of Bengal roof shapes are the two outbuildings of"}, {"text": "the private palace (\"Khas Mahal\") built by Shah Jahan around 1635 for two of his daughters in the Red Fort of Agra. A few decades later, his son Aurangzeb constructed the roof of the Pearl Mosque (\"Moti Masjid\") in the Red Fort of Delhi in a similar manner. However, it is especially notable in the architecture of the Rajput princes and merchants of Rajasthan, especially the countless jaroka-the roofs of the 1799 Palace of the Winds (\"Hawa Mahal\") in Jaipur, and the roofs of the houses of rich merchants (\"havelis\") in Jaisalmer, Mandawa and elsewhere. Some of the later memorial pavillons (\"chattris\"), built in the 18th and 19th centuries on the incineration sites of the Hindu princes of Jaisalmer and their family members, are also covered with such roofs. Similarly, since the 19th century, the builders of many Sikh temples have used this element as the coronation of their gurdwara, especially Maharaja Ranjit Singh at the Golden Temple of Amritsar."}, {"text": "John Jude \"Johnny\" Monteiro (born 28 November 1938) is a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Kerstin Griese (born December 1966 in M\u00fcnster) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2000. In addition to her parliamentary work, Griese has been serving Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the governments of Chancellors Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz since 2018. She also belongs to the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). Education and profession. The daughter of a pastor, Griese grew up and went to school in Gerbrunn (in Lower Franconia, Bavaria) and in D\u00fcsseldorf. After graduating from high school in 1985, she completed a degree in Modern and Eastern European History, as well as in political science, at the Heinrich Heine University in D\u00fcsseldorf, which she finished in 1997 with an M. A. (Magistra Artium) degree. From 1987 to 1997, Griese worked first as a freelancer, and then until 2000 as a research associate, at the Memorial for the Victims of National Socialism in D\u00fcsseldorf. Political career. Since 1986, Griese has been a member of the SPD and was initially involved in the Juso-Hochschulgruppe D\u00fcsseldorf. From 1989 to 1990, she was"}, {"text": "president of the AStA, and from 1990 to 1992 president of the student parliament, of the Heinrich Heine University. From 1989 to 1993, she was a member of the Federal Coordinating Committee (Federal Board) of the Juso-Hochschulgruppen, which she also represented in the Juso Federal Board. From 1994 to 1997, she was Deputy Chairwoman of the Lower Rhine Jusos. She was considered a representative of the undogmatic-reform socialist wing of the Jusos. From 1995 to 2011 and since 2013 she has been a member of the Federal Executive of the SPD. From 1996 to 1999 she was chairwoman of the Youth Commission of the SPD Executive Board, from 2006 to 2011 she was a member of the leadership of the Forum Kinder und Familie and the steering group of Zukunftswerkstatt Familie. Since 2008, she is spokeswoman for the working group Christians in the SPD and district chairwoman of the SPD in Kreis Mettmann. Member of the German Parliament, 2000\u2013present. On 11 May 2000 Griese entered the Bundestag as a successor for the departed MP Willfried Penner. In the 2002 general election, she was elected directly with 45.3% of the first votes for the federal constituency Mettmann II (Heiligenhaus, Ratingen, Velbert"}, {"text": "and W\u00fclfrath). In 2005, she was re-elected with 43.5% of the first votes. In 2009, she only received 35.6% of the first votes and was not elected. On 23 July 2010 she reentered the Bundestag after Angelica Schwall-D\u00fcren was appointed State Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media in the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2013 general election, she received 37.1%, and in 2017, 30.6% of the first votes. In each case, she entered the parliament via the SPD state list. In parliament, Griese chaired the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2002 to 2009. Within her parliamentary group, she was speaker of the group of young delegates - \"Youngsters\" - in the SPD parliamentary group from 2001 to 2002., and was a member of the SPD Group Bureau. From 2006 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2018, she was SPD parliamentary group representative for churches and religious organizations. From 2014 to 2018, she was chairwoman of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. She is a member of the progressive-reformist Network Berlin. Parliamentary State Secretary, 2018\u2013present. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017"}, {"text": "federal elections, Griese was part of the working group on social affairs, led by Karl-Josef Laumann, Barbara Stamm and Andrea Nahles. On 14 March 2018 Hubertus Heil appointed Griese as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. Church and Diakonie. From 1979 to 1989, Griese was active in the youth work of the Protestant parish D\u00fcsseldorf-Urdenbach and in the church district of D\u00fcsseldorf. From 1987 to 1989 she was a youth delegate to the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. From 2001 to 2016 she was a deputy member of the Synod of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland. Since 2003, she has been a member of the EKD synod, which she previously served as a deputy member for six years. In 2015 she was elected to the church leadership, the 15-member council of the EKD. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as a full-time federal executive member of the Diakonisches Werk of the EKD, responsible for social policy. Political positions. Childcare. Griese argues for conditions that enable German women to have \"children, work, career and success\". She stated \"The birth rate is highest in Europe,"}, {"text": "where the female employment rate is high and childcare is well regulated.\" She continued stating that for that reason, the federal government was investing billions in childcare and parental benefits. She criticized the current German tax regulations for married couples, whose benefits she wants to limit. To her, it is absurd that \"forty percent of couples who benefit from spousal splitting do not need to support children.\" In the question of child protection, Griese had spoken in favor of compulsory pediatric examinations for all children, with the goal of detecting health problems early. To her, it represents \"a building block for the protection of the children.\" In the revision of the Pregnancy Conflict Law on the issue of medical indications for abortion and late termination, Griese presented a lead bill of her own, which contradicted the majority opinion of the SPD parliamentary group. Together with Katrin G\u00f6ring-Eckardt (Greens) and Andrea Nahles (SPD), she pleaded for a binding reflection period, as well as a commitment of the doctor to mediate in a consultation and to establish contacts with disability organizations. The draft submitted by Griese and others largely corresponded to the law finally passed by the Bundestag. As a rapporteur, Griese"}, {"text": "played a key role in the inclusion of video games in the Protection of Young Persons Act and worked on the age classification for video games. Saying, \"A pure prohibition policy is no use,\" she turned against demands to ban so-called \"killer games.\" Griese criticized that the federal government annually provides 300,000 euros for the Deutscher Computerspielpreis, while the board games do not receive similar funding for their game of the year award, saying, \"The alternative to the digital computer game can also be an analog board and card game. Perhaps it would be good to pay tribute to this segment of culture.\" Abolition of conscription. Griese had campaigned for an abolition of conscription, and thus for alternative civilian service for conscientious objectors. She wanted to ensure that the funds released were invested in the Voluntary Social Year and that the emergence of a new voluntary culture among young people was encouraged. She had criticized the creation of the Federal Volunteer Service as \"impractical,\" saying, \"Anyone who intervenes in the structure of volunteer services will destroy a lot.\" Religious affairs. Griese missed \"real progress for ecumenism in practice\" in the relationship between the Christian churches because, in her words, \"Rome"}, {"text": "denies the Protestant Christians an encounter on an equal footing.\" She criticized that the Pope \"conveys an unworldliness that contradicts my Christian understanding of an inviting faith,\" and the fact that she sees \"a lot of exclusion in the Catholic Church.\" Griese advocated the preservation and reform of the church labor law. She appealed to the churches to accept workers' right to strike and to exclude diaconal companies that \"are the 'black sheep' because they use outsourcing and temporary contracts to cut their costs.\" She called for a universally binding labor contract for the social sector, so that \"especially private providers cannot continue to depress wages.\" Griese, together with Michael Brand (CDU/CSU) and other MPs of all parliamentary groups, had written a group petition providing for a ban on commercial suicide assistance. \"My job is to stop the activities of assisted suicide groups or individuals who intentionally and deliberately make suicide assistance a regular subject of their activity,\" said Griese. She warned, \"Death on prescription, with an invoice number, could become the norm in the country.\" The Brand/Griese bill prevailed over three other cross-party motions by a majority of 360 out of 602 votes. Griese complained that there is still"}, {"text": "no proper Islamic religious education in schools for the majority of Muslim students, stating that, \"For a successful integration, there must first be offers.\" To Griese, as long as Islamic religious studies are not offered nationwide, it would be inevitable for many Muslim families to resort to the offers of the mosque associations."}, {"text": "Operation Karbala 3 (Persian: \u0639\u0645\u0644\u06cc\u0627\u062a \u06a9\u0631\u0628\u0644\u0627\u06cc 3), also known as the Battle of Al-Ummiyah, was an operation during Iran\u2013Iraq War, which was launched by Iran from 30 August to 2 September 1986 with the operation code of \"Hasbonallah wa Ne'mal Wakil (Persian/Arabic: \u062d\u0633\u0628\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0648 \u0646\u0639\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u06a9\u06cc\u0644)\". The main impetus of the operation was to capture and destroy two Iraq docks (Al-Umayyah and Al-Bakr). Alongside the main goal, there were other goals, too; amongst: Operation. The Iranians began the offensive on 30 August by attacking two Iraqi terminals with a large force of about 2,000 men from the Naval Revolutionary Guards in light boats armed with machine guns, rockets and mortars. The Iranians managed to take partial control of the Al-'Amiq installations and hold them for 24 hours. The Iraqis launched a counterattack involving naval infantry, special forces and naval forces on 2 September which destroyed 25 Iranian boats, killed several Iranian soldiers and captured many more. One of the Iraqi shore-to-sea missile regiments fired missiles at the Iranian forces at al-'Amiq, forcing them to retreat from the port. Iraq regained control and defeated an Iranian attempt to occupy the two ports and the northern gulf's naval battle arena. The"}, {"text": "Iraqi counterattack was highly successful due to the excellent coordination among the missile boats, artillery, missile units, helicopters, planes and port defense forces. Iran attempted two additional attacks on al-'Amiq on the nights of 4\u20135 September and 21\u201322 November, however both were defeated by the Iraqi defense forces supported by air force planes. Claims by Iranian newspapers. Iranian newspapers claimed that the fulfillment of \"operation WalFajr-8\" by destruction of the most significant naval base of Iraq, aborting its access through the north of Persian Gulf; making a safe naval area for shipping; and performing a naval operation and indicating a powerful presentation of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval forces in Persian Gulf. Iranian newspapers claimed that as a result of operation Karbala-3, Iranian forces captured more than 100 Iraqi combatants, and 63 Iraqi forces were killed. Meanwhile, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran annihilated 2 Iraqi fighter planes, a frigate, 15 anti-aircraft guns and 2 radar devices, plus obtaining 4 Iraqi radar devices. The operation finally finished after two days battle between Iran and Iraq."}, {"text": "Kader Rahman (29 December 1938 \u2013 16 December 2024) was a Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Rahman died on 16 December 2024, at the age of 85."}, {"text": "Joaquim Jos\u00e9 \"Jock\" Collaquo (17 March 1934 \u2013 9 January 2012) was a Macau-born Hong Kong field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics."}, {"text": "Pseudobatos buthi, the spadenose guitarfish, is a ray in the family Rhinobatidae. Described in 2019 based on 82 museum specimens, little is known about this species in the wild. All 82 museum specimens were collected in the 1940s and 1950s and sat hidden at UCLA's fish collection and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County until they were described by PhD student, Kelsi Rutledge. It likely is similar in ecology and behavior to its closest relative, \"Pseudobatos productus\". This species is found in the Gulf of California and is a fairly small ray, with an intermediate body form between that of a shark and a ray. It is benthic and found in shallow water, spending most of its time on the seafloor in sandy, muddy, coastal regions. It is different from other species due to its morphological characters, including a more narrow head and snout, as well as no spots or scales and thorns between orbits and down its snout. This species garnered a lot of media attention due to the describer, Rutledge, who posted mock birth-announcement style photos with a preserved museum specimen, including Forbes, Spectrum1 News, Smithsonian Magazine."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1885 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "The 1982 Harlow District Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council. Election result. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1978 election."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1888 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "The following lists events that happened during 1889 in the Kingdom of Belgium."}, {"text": "Sarah E. Turner (born July 25, 1966) is an American professor of economics and education and Souder Family Endowed Chair at the University of Virginia. She also holds appointments in the university's Department of Economics, the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and the School of Education and Human Development (formerly the Curry School of Education). She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. Education. Turner received her Bachelor of Arts in economics with \"magna cum laude\" (high honors) from Princeton University in 1989. She earned her doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in December 1997. While at the University of Michigan, Turner earned the NICHD Trainee title for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the Population Studies Center (1994\u20131997), and the Regent's Fellowship for Graduate Study (1992\u20131994). Career. Turner has been University Professor of Economics and Education at the University of Virginia and the Souder Family Endowed Chair since 2008 and 2014, respectively, having joined the department as an assistant professor of education and economics in 1997. She was Economics"}, {"text": "Department chair from 2013 until 2016. Turner has been on the Spencer Foundation Major Grants Program Committee (1999\u20132001), and she was Baccalaureate & Beyond part of the Technical Advisory Committee (2001\u20132003), AERA (Division L) Program Committee (2005\u20132006) and the APPAM Program Committee (2006). She was an editor for the Journal of Labour Economics (2012\u20132014), American Economic Review (2011\u20132017), and the Education Finance & Policy (2018-present). Turner has also held private sector jobs such as working for J.P. Morgan in New York, NY as a Research Assistant from 1989 to 1990, and for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York, NY as a Research Associate for the publication \"The 'Flight from the Arts and Sciences': Trends in Degrees Conferred.\" from 1990 to 1992. Research. Turner is best known for her work on the economics of education in the United States. Her research specializes in the economics of educational policy, and the economics of higher education. Much of Turner's work explores how higher educational opportunities - in colleges and universities - affects the labor market, including the behavioral effects of financial aid policies, such as student aid programs, social insurances, and social welfare programs. Some of her more recent papers include"}, {"text": "\"Public Universities: The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce\", which investigates and analyses the correlation between the decline in state funding per student and educational and research outcomes of schools, and \"The Right Way to Capture College 'Opportunity'\", which suggests measurement challenges in identifying whether high educational institutions actually provide opportunities for low-income students. As of today, Turner's research has been cited in 6,966 working and published papers as she continues to analyze economics of education in the United States. She is currently collaborating with John Bound at the Russell Sage Foundation in order to examine the mobility of high-educated workers through the U.S. census data. Selected work. \"A Letter and Encouragement: Does Information Increase Postsecondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?\" (2018) This paper by Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner explores methods that increase enrollment in postsecondary programs. This paper suggests how the dissemination and timing of information sent to Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients greatly impact their decision to enroll. The enrollment in postsecondary programs is necessary as it increases the chances to future employment, something that is necessary as unemployment rates rise in an undesirable amount in the United States: from 6.5 percent in 2008 to 10 percent in"}, {"text": "2009. Regardless of the potential for significant federal financial assistance and the low cost of returning to school for the unemployed, very few do due to its difficult navigation characteristics. The federal government's 2009 initiative called \"Pell Letter\", where more than 20 million individuals were sent letters, had an overall impactful effect on enrollments: it increased by 40 percent above the baseline. It suggests how an information nudge or letter intervention can affect one's decision, and in this case, for the better as more individuals choose to enroll in postsecondary institutions. This paper's findings propose how well-coordinated information intervention can be more cost-efficient than raising financial aid policies to increase postsecondary enrollment participation. \"What High-Achieving Low-Income Students Know About College Options\" (2015) Turner co-authored this article with Caroline Hoxby. Turner and Hoxby propose a project called Expanding College Opportunities (ECO), which is an intervention designed to test their hypothesis on how the high-achieving low-income students were less likely to apply in postsecondary institutions that have more resource-intensive characteristics as their net prices were harder to ascertain. The ECO intervention presents guidance on how to apply in higher education, its costs, graduation rates, the institution's resources, and no-paperwork fee waivers. Rather"}, {"text": "than recommending a higher education institution, the ECO intervention gave information with the freedom of choice for the individual. \"Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers\" (2014) As time passes, technology is improving. For this reason, it is a given that there is a rise of importance to Information Technology (IT) positions as they are slowly coming to dominate, in this case, the United States' economy. There is a tremendous increase in foreign-born in IT occupations from around 15.5 percent in 1993 to around 31.5 percent in 2010. This paper emphasizes the understanding of the role of higher education in the U.S. and immigration policies in this transformation. \"Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much - Or Not Enough?\" (2012) Christopher Avery and Sarah Turner study the benefits and costs of student loans and how it is changing over time. The authors suggest that we are now in the midst of what they call an \"education bubble\". They illustrate how current generations are overestimating the economic value that higher education provides, and many of them would be better off saving or using the money in something else. The combination of wage"}, {"text": "decline in entry-level positions and the tuition increase have placed many students in a no-win situation, pressuring them to make a financial risky decision and apply for student loans. On the other hand, the premium of a postsecondary degree in comparison to a high school degree has nearly doubled in the last three decades. In this paper, Turner and Avery analyze a framework that takes into account student loans (not as an anecdote) as something that can be optimally invested for postsecondary benefits. In enrolling in a college or university, it is most likely the first major capital investment that one will make. For many students, it will be the first time they encounter a formal loan. Similar to buying lottery tickets, we expect large sums of benefits. However, the gains are variable. In particular, one needs to take into account the probability of completing the degree, the field of study, and the earnings differences linked to the different levels of degrees. The observation that colleges and/or universities are good investments for students still leaves many significant unanswered research questions about a student's decision to obtain a degree/diploma and their borrowing behaviour. Awards. In 2002, Turner received the Milken Institute"}, {"text": "Award for Distinguished Economic Research."}, {"text": "Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. In the 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team and the 2024 Olympic Champion with the Dutch mixed team. Bol holds the world record in the 400 metres short track with a time of 49.17 seconds set on 2 March 2024; the European record in the 400 metres hurdles with a time of 50.95 seconds set on 14 July 2024, making her the second-fastest woman of all time in the event; the European record in the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay with a time of 3:07.43 minutes set on 3 August 2024; and four Dutch records in individual events and relays. She also has world-best performances in the 300 metres hurdles, 500 metres short track, and mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay short track. She is a four-time medalist (one"}, {"text": "gold) at the Olympic Games, an eight-time medalist (four gold) at the World Championships (outdoor and indoor), a silver medalist at the World Relays, four-time champion in the Diamond League, a twelve-time medalist (eleven gold) at the European Championships (outdoor and indoor), a gold medalist at the European Games, and a ten-time medalist (five gold) at the Dutch Championships (outdoor and indoor). Bol's highest World Athletics Rankings were No. 1 in the 400 metres hurdles in 2021\u20132025, No. 3 in the 400 metres in 2023 and 2024, and No. 2 of women overall in 2023 and 2024. She was European Athletics Rising Star of the Year in 2021 and European Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023. Early life and background. Femke Bol was born on 23 February 2000 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. She has an older brother. As a child, Bol practised judo for a year after she had broken her arm twice and her doctor had recommended the sport to help her learn how to fall. Around 2008, she started practising athletics at a local club, following her brother who was already a member there. In an interview, Bol said about the sport: \"It was always a way"}, {"text": "to clear your mind and just have fun and not think too much about other things. That's still what I like so much about it.\" In 2014, she transferred to another local club, AV Altis, where her coach discovered her talent for longer sprints. She worked as a volunteer scanning tickets during the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam. Bol attended secondary school in Amersfoort, after which she became a student of communication sciences at Wageningen University. As of 2023, she was in a relationship with Belgian pole vaulter Ben Broeders. In 2024, the couple bought a house in Heelsum, Netherlands. In 2025, the couple got engaged. During the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, she called on people to donate money for humanitarian aid to the victims of the 2023 Turkey\u2013Syria earthquakes a month earlier. Since 2025, she has been an ambassador for Free a Girl, a non-profit organisation that is committed to rescue girls from situations of sexual exploitation. Youth and junior career. Bol focused on the 400 metres distance in 2015, at age 15, and started winning Dutch age-group competitions. She won five national youth titles in the 400 m (outdoor and indoor) between 2015 and 2017,"}, {"text": "and four junior titles in 2018 and 2019 (400 m outdoor, indoor, and hurdles). In 2016, she started training with coach Bram Peters at the athletics track of Ciko'66 in Arnhem, where her parents drove her almost daily. At the international competitions, she progressed steadily. Competing against athletes up to two years her senior, Bol did not advance from the 400 m heats at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia. Two years later, the 17-year-old participated in the European Under-20 Championships held in Grosseto, Italy and reached the semi-finals of the event. In 2019, her last year as a junior competitor, she claimed her first national title (indoor 400 m) in a senior competition. In June, in the third hurdles race of her life, Bol broke Dutch U20/U23 records and achieved World Championship qualifying standard when winning a meet in Geneva with a time of 55.94 s. In July, she won a gold medal in the 400 m hurdles at the European U20 Championships in Bor\u00e5s, Sweden. In September, she ran her first professional race at the Gal\u00e0 dei Castelli in Bellinzona, Switzerland. In October, at the Doha World Championships in Qatar, the 19-year-old reached the semi-finals"}, {"text": "with a new personal best of 55.32 s in the heats of the 400 m hurdles, becoming the second-fastest European U20 woman in history. She also helped her national women's team place seventh in the 4 \u00d7 400 m relay. Since November 2019, she has been training at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal near Arnhem, coached by Switzerland's Laurent Meuwly and her previous coach Bram Peters as assistant coach. Senior career. 2020: First senior Dutch record and first senior successes. Bol was forced to train on gravel paths in the woods and on grass fields when COVID-19 quarantine measures were first enacted in March 2020. Despite this, she raced in Papendal in July and broke by almost a second the national 400 m hurdles record of 54.62 s set by Ester Goossens in 1998. First, running in the rain, she took almost a second off her 2019 best with a time of 54.47 s, which could not be ratified as only one other athlete competed. Two weeks later, she achieved 53.79 s, the fourth-fastest European under-23 time in history. During this pandemic season, the Dutchwoman won all her following races over the barriers: two Diamond League events staged in"}, {"text": "2020 as one-off exhibition competitions, and three Continental Tour events. First she stayed ahead of all her competitors in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r, Hungary on 19 August, to repeat this achievement four days later at the Stockholm Bauhaus-galan winning her first Diamond race. In September, she won in Ostrava (300 m hurdles), Bellinzona, and Rome. She reduced her open 400 metres pre-2020 best by 1.85 s down to 51.13 s. 2021: Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist. Bol started her unbeaten indoor campaign on 30 January, beating her previous best in the 400 metres by more than 1.5 s to break a Dutch record in a time of 50.96 s at the Vienna Indoor Track & Field meet in Austria. The previous record was set a few minutes earlier by Lieke Klaver, who in turn broke Ester Goossens' mark which had stood at 51.82 s since 1998. Bol then won all her following seven races at the distance in four events, improving in every final. Competing in the World Indoor Tour, she powered to meet records in Metz (50.81 s) and Toru\u0144 (50.66 s), then clocked 50.64 s at the Dutch Indoor Championships, and finally lowered her record to 50.63 s when winning at the"}, {"text": "European Indoor Championships in Toru\u0144, Poland. She took there her second gold medal anchoring the women's 4 \u00d7 400 m relay to a championship record. Her individual mark made her the fastest European woman since 2009. The 21-year-old started the 2021 outdoor season by competing at the World Relays to set a 400 m national record of 50.56 s on 29 May at the IFAM meeting in Oordegem. She then started improving her own Dutch hurdling record when winning Diamond League meetings, beginning with a time of 53.44 s on 10 June in Florence. At the time it was also European U23 record, breaking a 37-year-old mark. On 19 June, she returned to the 400 m flat event during the European Team Championships in Romania and bettered her record with a 50.37 s performance. On 1 July in Oslo, she lowered her hurdles record in a time of 53.33 s. She then took almost a second off with a Diamond League record of 52.37 s on 4 July in Stockholm, where she beat Shamier Little by 0.02 s. This race was only the second in history, after the 2017 USATF Championships, in which three women recorded times below 53 seconds"}, {"text": "as third-placed Anna Ryzhykova finished in 52.96 s. Bol, meanwhile, became the fourth fastest woman of all time with the sixth-fastest result ever, missing the European record by just 0.03 s. On 6 July, she won the event at the Continental Tour meet in Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r with a time of 52.81 s, edging out Little in 52.85 s again. Having won the Diamond race in Gateshead, England on 13 July, she extended her unbeaten streak in her specialist event to 12 races in total. It was her third consecutive victory over Little, but this time Bol dominated, running away by about 10 metres. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July and August 2021, Bol ran six 400 m races with hurdles and flat, including three under 50 seconds relay legs. In the 400 m hurdles final, Bol finished third after Sydney McLaughlin (51.46 s \u2013 world record) and Dalilah Muhammad (51.58 s \u2013 inside previous world record). With her time of 52.03 s, she broke the European record and became the third-fastest woman of all time at the event with the fourth-fastest result ever. It was the first ever Olympic medal for the Netherlands at the event. Before Bol's individual"}, {"text": "final on 4 August, she helped the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 m relay team set a national record in the final with her 49.74 s split, and later she anchored the women's 4 \u00d7 400 m relay to consecutive Dutch records in the heat and in the final, clocking splits of 49.14 s and 48.97 s respectively. On 8 August, she reached a 400 metres hurdles ranking of No. 1 in the World Athletics Rankings for the first time. After the Games, in August and September, she continued her Diamond League dominance over the barriers, winning in Lausanne and the Z\u00fcrich final with meet records of 53.05 s and 52.80 s respectively to claim her first Diamond trophy. At the former, she finished clear ahead of Shamier Little and Dalilah Muhammad, while in Z\u00fcrich Bol held off Little again. Having skipped the USA's event in Eugene and ran 400 m flat in Paris (50.59 s, 4th), she remained unbeaten in the Diamond race with six wins out of six races. While still in Switzerland, on 14 September, she ended her breakthrough season with another meet record in Bellinzona, staying unbeaten in 11 of her 12 hurdles races in 2021. In"}, {"text": "2021, Bol gradually improved her personal bests, setting eleven national records with five more as a member of relay teams. Bol also set a Diamond League record, three Diamond League circuit's meet records, and five meet records at the World Athletics Indoor Tour and Continental Tour events. She went under 53 seconds in the 400 m hurdles four times that season, had an individual win-loss record of 16\u20134, and was voted European Athletics Rising Star of the Year. 2022: World indoor and outdoor silver medalist and triple European champion. Bol opened her indoor season returning to Metz, France, where she bested her previous meeting record in the 400 m (50.72 s), and also won her 200 metres heat with a new personal best (23.37 s). Then she returned to Toru\u0144, Poland, to beat her local meet record again (50.64 s). On 27 February, at the Dutch Indoor Championships, she improved her own national record with a 50.30 s clocking which was also faster than her outdoor best, and putting her 12th on the world indoor all-time list. At the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade about three weeks later, Bol won the silver medal, after she fell at the finish line"}, {"text": "during the semi-finals, in a time of 50.57 s behind Miller-Uibo who ran 50.31 s. Bol also anchored the Dutch women's 4 \u00d7 400 m relay to silver thanks to her closing surge from fourth into second, with the fastest split of the race of 50.26 s. The 22-year-old started her outdoor season on 31 May at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, where she ran a world best over the 300 m hurdles. She clocked a time of 36.86 s, which was 1.3 s faster than the previous best set by Zuzana Hejnov\u00e1 in 2013. She continued with Diamond League wins in Rome, Oslo, and Stockholm, breaking a meet record in Oslo before posting 52.27 s in Stockholm to improve her own Diamond League record with 0.10 s which she set the previous year. At the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July, Bol first ran the final leg of the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 m relay. After taking the baton a distant third, she anchored the Dutch team to a silver and a national record thanks to her split of 48.95 s, the second-fastest female split of the entire race. In the 400 m hurdles, she equalled her"}, {"text": "season's best (52.27 s) to finish behind McLaughlin (who lowered her world record to 50.68 s) and ahead of Muhammad in third (53.13 s). The Dutch women's 4 \u00d7 400 m squad lost the baton in the heats and was disqualified despite a qualifying position. After the championships in August, she went for the first time under 50 seconds in the 400 m flat and set a national and meet record with a time of 49.75 s at the Silesia Diamond League. The same month, she completed the gold hat-trick at the European Championships in Munich, becoming the first female sprinter to complete a 400 m double at a major championships as she won one-lap events both with and without hurdles. Her time for the open 400 m of 49.44 s was the fastest at a Europeans since Stuttgart 1986 and a new national record, while over the barriers Bol set a championship record. She rounded off her Munich campaign by producing a 48.52 s anchor leg to land the Netherlands gold and a national record in the 4 \u00d7 400 m relay, moving from third to first around the final bend; their result was also the fastest at a"}, {"text": "Europeans since 1986. Bol became only the second Dutch athlete after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1950 to win three gold medals at the event. In her return to the Diamond League, Bol set another meet record over the barriers in Lausanne, and then concluded her third senior season with a victory at the Z\u00fcrich final, successfully defending her Diamond League title. She achieved six marks under 53 seconds that year, staying unbeaten in 11 out of her 12 hurdles races, posted an individual win-loss record of 13\u20134, and was crowned European Female Athlete of the Year. 2023: World indoor 400 m record and double world champion. On 4 February, Bol improved by nearly 0.7 s the indoor world best performance in the less frequently run distance of 500 metres with 1:05.63 min, also faster than the outdoor record (1:05.9 min), at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, USA. Competing again in Metz, France, she set new Dutch indoor records in both the 200 m and 400 m. Bol clocked a lifetime best in the former (22.87 s), and was the fourth woman in history to go under 50 seconds with 49.96 s in the latter. She next triumphed with"}, {"text": "a meet record in Li\u00e9vin (50.20 s). On 19 February at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, she sliced 0.7 s off her best with a landmark 49.26 s, breaking the longest-standing world record in a track race. This was at the time the 49.59 s indoor 400 m record, set by Jarmila Kratochv\u00edlov\u00e1 back in 1982. After setting an outright lifetime best, Bol said, \"this was almost a perfect race\". She capped her record-breaking indoor campaign by successfully defending her European 400 m title at Istanbul 2023 with the third mark under 50 seconds in the that season (49.85 s), a global record. She added her seventh European title anchoring the Netherlands to a 4 \u00d7 400 m relay victory with a new Dutch and championship record, making them the third-fastest national women's team in history. Training for the 2023 outdoor season, Bol practiced a different stride pattern for the 400 m hurdles in an effort to become faster. Previously, she took fifteen steps between the hurdles throughout the race, which meant she could jump over each hurdle with the same leg leading. Now, she tried out fourteen steps between the first few hurdles, which made her alternate between"}, {"text": "her legs for the jump, only to change it to fifteen steps for the last hurdles. Bol tried this new setup in competition for the first time in Oordegem, Belgium on 27 May, where she ran sixteen steps after hurdle seven instead of fifteen and nonetheless set a world lead of 53.12 s. Bol continued to win three Diamond League races over hurdles in Rome, Oslo, and Lausanne, setting meet records in all three of them. On 23 July, Bol made her first ever appearance at the London Diamond League. After leading from the first barrier, Bol continued to widen her lead throughout the entire race. At the finish line, she stopped the clock at a time of 51.45 s, which was a 0.58 s improvement of her personal best in the 400 hurdles. With her performance in London, Bol became the third woman in history to run the 400 metres hurdles under 52 seconds. Her time of 51.45 s was the third-fastest time ever and made her the second-fastest woman of all time, as only world record holder McLaughlin-Levrone had run faster. This time also further lowered her own European and Diamond League records. On 25 July, she reached"}, {"text": "a women's overall ranking of No. 2 in the World Athletics Rankings for the first time, with only Faith Kipyegon ranking higher. On 19 August, during the 4 \u00d7 400 m mixed relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Bol fell within metres of the finish line, while vying with Alexis Holmes of the USA for first place. Landing face first, Bol lost the relay baton over the finish line, making it impossible for the Netherlands team to legitimately finish the race and resulting in a DNF. On 24 August, she gained her first world title when she won the final of the 400 m hurdles in 51.70 s. She then continued her success on 27 August with her anchor leg in the women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, passing Nicole Yeargin of Great Britain and Stacey-Ann Williams of Jamaica shortly before the finish line, earning her a second gold medal at these World Championships, together with team members Eveline Saalberg, Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters, and Lisanne de Witte (heat only). After the world championships, Bol won her 400 metres hurdles races at the Gal\u00e0 dei Castelli in Bellinzona, Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, and Prefontaine Classic in"}, {"text": "Eugene, setting meeting records on all three occasions and becoming the 2023 Diamond League champion in 51.98 s, her third time under 52 seconds of the season, on 17 September. In 2023, Bol won all of her twenty individual 400 m flat and hurdles races and became European Athlete of the Year for a second time. 2024: Two world records, double world indoor champion, and triple Olympic medalist. On 3 February, Bol started her 2024 indoor season in Metz, where she won the 400 metres short track with a meeting record of 49.69 s. Here she also finished first in the 200 metres short track in 22.64 s, setting both a Dutch indoor record and a meeting record. On 10 February, she won the 400 metres short track in Li\u00e9vin in 49.63 s, another meeting record and the 4th-best result of all time. At the 2024 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn on 18 February, she improved her own world record in the 400 metres short track with 0.02 s to 49.24 s, after running 50.55 s in the heats a day earlier. At the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Bol competed in the 400 m short track, where she"}, {"text": "won her heat in 52.00 s and her semi-final in 50.66 s. In the final, she won the gold medal in 49.17 s, improving her world record for a second time this year. In an interview after the final race, Bol had a high-pitched voice because of body exertion, which was compared online to the voice of Mickey Mouse. She then anchored the Dutch women's relay team in the 4 \u00d7 400 m short track relay heats (3:27.70 min) and final, where she finished first in 3:25.07 min, setting a Dutch record and winning her second gold medal of these championships, together with Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters, Eveline Saalberg (heat only), Myrte van der Schoot (heat only), and Lisanne de Witte. On 28 April, Bol opened her 2024 outdoor season in Willemstad, Cura\u00e7ao, where she competed in two distances at the Cura\u00e7ao SprintFest. She ran the 100 metres in 11.47 s finishing in fifth place and the 150 metres in 17.10 s finishing third, which were both personal bests. On 4\u20135 May, she competed in the 2024 World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. Bol ran the anchor leg in the heat of the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 m relay with Isayah"}, {"text": "Boers, Klaver, and Isaya Klein Ikkink, finishing in a championship record of 3:12.16 min and qualifying the Dutch mixed relay team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In the final, she anchored the mixed team to a silver medal in 3:11.45 min, where the United States won in 3:10.73 min. On 2 June, Bol ran her first 400 m hurdles race of the season at the Bauhaus-galan in Stockholm, Sweden, which she won in 53.07 s. Bol competed in three events at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, Italy. On 7 June, she won a bronze medal in the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 m relay, when she anchored the Dutch team with Liemarvin Bonevacia, Klaver, and Klein Ikkink finishing in 3:10.73 min after the Irish and Italian teams. Bol had a split time of 49.21 s, which made her the fastest female competitor in this mixed relay final. On 11 June, she successfully defended her European title in the 400 m hurdles, winning in a championship record of 52.49 s, after running 54.16 s in the semifinals a day earlier. She received a Golden Crown for her final hurdles performance of 1253 points, because this was the highest World Athletics score"}, {"text": "in the women's sprints and hurdles category at the championships. On 12 June, Bol anchored the Dutch women's 4 \u00d7 400 m relay team with Klaver, Peeters, and De Witte with a split time of 50.45 s to the first place in 3:22.39 min, winning her second gold and third medal of the championships. On 29 and 30 June, Bol competed in the 200 m at the 2024 Dutch Championships in Hengelo, where she ran 23.14 s in her semi-final and an outdoor personal best of 22.80 s in the final, finishing in third place after Tasa Jiya and Klaver. On 7 July, she won the 400 m in a meeting record of 50.02 s at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games also in Hengelo. On 14 July, Bol competed in the 400 m hurdles at R\u00e9sisprint International in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. She finished in 50.95 s, breaking her own European record from 2023 and going under 51 seconds for the first time. It was the third-fastest time in history, only Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was faster when she ran her 2022 and 2024 world records. Bol donated her bodysuit from the race to the Museum of World Athletics the following year. On"}, {"text": "20 July, she won the 400 m hurdles race in 51.30 s at the 2024 London Athletics Meet, breaking her own meeting record and Diamond League record. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Bol competed and medalled in three events. On 3 August, she anchored the Dutch team with Eugene Omalla, Klaver, and Klein Ikkink in the mixed 4 x 400 metres relay to win gold in a European record of 3:07.43 min. The time was 0.02 s off the world record set by the team of the United States in the first round a day earlier. Bol passed Naomi Van den Broeck of Belgium (fourth place), Amber Anning of Great Britain (bronze medal), and Kaylyn Brown of the United States (silver medal) and had a split time of 48.00 s, making her the fastest female runner of the race. In the 400 metres hurdles, she ran 53.38 s in the first round on 4 August and 52.57 s in the semi-finals on 6 August. On 8 August, she won a bronze medal in 52.15 s in the 400 m hurdles final, finishing after McLaughlin-Levrone in a world record of 50.37 s and Anna Cockrell in a personal best of 51.87"}, {"text": "s. On 10 August, Bol anchored the Dutch women's team with Klaver, Peeters, and De Witte in the 4 \u00d7 400 m relay to a silver medal in a national record of 3:19.50 min, 4.23 s after the team of the United States in gold position and 0.22 s before the bronze team of Great Britain. On 11 August, triple medalists Bol and Harrie Lavreysen (track cycling) were the flag bearers for the Netherlands at the Olympic closing ceremony. On 13 August, Bol became a knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau as an Olympic gold medalist. Bol won her next two 400 m hurdles races in the Diamond League, ensuring qualification for the season final in Brussels: on 22 August, she set a meeting record of 52.25 s at the 2024 Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland, and on 25 August, she set another meeting record of 52.13 s at the 2024 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorz\u00f3w, Poland. On 14 September, she won the Diamond League final in Brussels in 52.45 s, finishing more than a second before the rest of the field, which brought Bol the fourth Diamond League trophy of her career. 2025: Double European indoor champion in relays. In"}, {"text": "January, Bol announced that she was not going to compete in individual events during the 2025 indoor season, but only in relays. She explained her decision on social media: \"It gives me the opportunity to have some more time processing everything that has happened and prioritize more things outside of the sports that are important to me.\" She opened her indoor season with the mixed 4 \u00d7 400 m relay during the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships for a home audience in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 6 March 2025. Her team, also including Nick Smidt, Eveline Saalberg, and Tony van Diepen, won a gold medal in a championship record of 3:15.63 min, which made them the fastest national team of all time in this short track event. This performance was not recognised as a world record because World Athletics had determined that the initial short track world record was to be 3:12.44 min or faster. It was also not recognised as European record, because the initial short track European record was to be 3:15.50 min or faster. It was, however, recognised as Dutch record. She continued at these championships with the women's 4 \u00d7 400 m relay on 9 March 2025."}, {"text": "Teamed with Lieke Klaver, Nina Franke, and Cathelijn Peeters, she won a second gold medal in a Dutch record of 3:24.34 min. Half an hour after the race, the team was disqualified for hindering other runners, but this decision was successfully appealed and reversed. Bol opened her outdoor season with a 400 m hurdles race at the Rabat Diamond League meeting in Morocco on 25 May, where she finished in a new meeting record of 52.46 s. She started with her nonpreferred leg, so she could take fourteen steps between the hurdles until the sixth hurdle, one hurdle less than in the previous season, and from there fifteen steps between the remaining hurdles while jumping with her preferred leg in an effort to become faster this season. Two weeks later, she continued with a meeting record of 52.51 s in the 400 m hurdles at the FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands. She broke her own meeting record with a time of 52.11 s at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in Sweden on 15 June. In Ostrava, Czech Republic, on 24 June, she ran a 400 metres without hurdles and finished in third place in 49.98 s, after Salwa Eid Nasser"}, {"text": "and Lynna Irby-Jackson. Three days later, at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid, Spain, Bol won the 400 metres in a championship record of 49.48 s, which contributed to a fourth place overall for the team of the Netherlands, their highest ever position in these team championships. Back to the 400 m hurdles, Bol won the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 11 July, setting a meeting record and world leading time of 51.95 s. She also won the Diamond League meeting in London on 19 July with a time of 52.10 s. Personal bests. Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Individual events. Season's bests. Key: World records. In her career, Bol set three world records in the 400 metres short track and three world best performances in the 300 metres hurdles, 500 metres short track, and mixed 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay short track. Key: Competition results. Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. World rankings. In her career, Bol has had three event rankings and an overall ranking in the World Athletics Rankings. Key: 400 metres hurdles champion (4): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 400 metres hurdles wins, other events"}, {"text": "and times (in seconds) specified in parentheses: * 2020 (2): Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (54.68), Rome Golden Gala (53.90) * 2021 (6): Rome Golden Gala in Florence (53.44 ), Oslo Bislett Games (53.33 ), Stockholm (52.37 ), Gateshead British Grand Prix (53.24), Lausanne Athletissima (53.05 ), Z\u00fcrich Weltklasse (52.80 ) * 2022 (6): Rome (53.02), Oslo (52.61 ), Stockholm (52.27 ), Chorz\u00f3w Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (400 m, 49.75 ), Lausanne (52.95 ), Z\u00fcrich (53.03) * 2023 (6): Rome Golden Gala in Florence (52.43 ), Oslo (52.30 ), Lausanne (52.76 ), London (51.45 ), Brussels Memorial Van Damme (52.11 ), Eugene Prefontaine Classic (51.98 ) * 2024 (5): Stockholm (53.07), London (51.30 ), Lausanne (52.25 ), Chorz\u00f3w (52.13 ), Brussels (52.45) * 2025 (4): Rabat Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athl\u00e9tisme (52.46 ), Stockholm (52.11 ), Monaco Herculis (51.95 ), London (52.10) 400 metres hurdles wins, other events and times (in seconds) specified in parentheses: * 2020 (3): Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r Gyulai Istv\u00e1n Memorial (54.67), Ostrava Golden Spike (300 mH, 38.55 ), Bellinzona Gal\u00e0 dei Castelli (54.33) * 2021 (3): Hengelo FBK Games (54.33 ), Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r (52.81 ), Bellinzona (54.01 ) * 2022 (2): Ostrava (300 mH, 36.86 ), Hengelo (53.94 ) * 2023 (3): Oordegem"}, {"text": "International Flanders Athletics Meeting (53.12 ), Hengelo (400 m, 50.11 ), Bellinzona (52.79 ) * 2024 (2): Hengelo (400 m, 50.02 ), La Chauds-de-Fonds R\u00e9sisprint International (50.95 ) * 2025 (1): Hengelo (52.51 ) 400 metres short track wins, other events and times (in seconds or minutes:seconds) specified in parentheses: * 2020 (1): Metz Meeting Moselle Athl\u00e9lor (52.47 ) * 2021 (2): Metz (50.81 ), Toru\u0144 Copernicus Cup (50.66 ) * 2022 (2): Metz (50.72 ), Toru\u0144 (50.64 ) * 2023 (4): Boston New Balance Indoor Grand Prix (500 m , 1:05.63 ), Metz (49.96 ) & (200 m , 22.87 ), Li\u00e9vin Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (50.20 ) * 2024 (3): Metz (49.69 ) & (200 m , 22.64 ), Li\u00e9vin (49.63 )"}, {"text": "Judith Bluck (1936\u20132011) was a British sculptor known for her large scale public works in a variety of materials but most notably in bronze and brick. Biography. Bluck was born in London and originally focused on photography, painting and engraving but eventually came to concentrate on large sculptural commissions, often working with pressed bricks. Bluck was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1978, was a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and of the Art Workers Guild. Her 24 metre long brick relief, \"The Legend of the Iron Gates\" for the Sainsbury's supermarket in Wilmslow was awarded the Otto Beit Medal by the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1989. Bluck won both bronze and silver medals from the Societe des Artistes Francais in Paris. As well as Britain and France, Bluck's work has also been exhibited in the United States and in New Zealand."}, {"text": "Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha (; also reported as Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha) is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language romantic drama film directed by Nissam Basheer (in his directorial debut), written by Aji Peter Thankam, and produced by Magic Frames. It stars Asif Ali and Veena Nandakumar, Jaffar Idukki, Basil Joseph and Shine Tom Chacko in the supporting roles. William Francis composed the film's music. The plot follows newly wed Sleevachan and Rincy as they begin their married life. \"Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha\" was released in theatres on 22 November 2019. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success at the box office. Plot. Sleevachan, a organic farmer lives with his mother in a village. Despite being over 30 years he has not shown an interest in marriage. Once when he returns home from work, he finds his mother fainted and lying on the kitchen floor. Realising that there should be someone around in the house with his mother while he is away, he decides to get married. He marries Rincy in an arranged marriage. Since, Sleevachan has not much socialised with women and stays a virgin, he is nervous to approach Rincy for making love. Rincy is comfortable and supportive"}, {"text": "when Sleevachan tries to make an advance, but he draws back. Each night, Sleevachan makes excuses to stay away from home. Rincy begins to suspect Sleevachan is deliberately avoiding her and, when asked, he avoids her question. While hanging out with friends, Sleevachan hears them saying that wives have high regards for husbands who has shown them good physical potential during sex. On that night, a drunk Sleevachan starts doing sex on a sleeping Rincy and it accidentally becomes a rape. She gets hospitalized and treated. Sleevachan returns to his senses and realises his mistake. Rincy is heartbroken and tells Sleevachan that she does not want to continue their marriage and asks him to take her back to her home. In the following days, Sleevachan tries to rectify and reconcile by going out of his way to help Rincy. She, however keeps quiet and discourages him. On the night they part away, Rincy tells she forgives Sleevachan and they decide to remain as a couple, and have sex that night. The credits roll by showing the clips of their honeymoon. Soundtrack. Lyrics are written by B. K. Harinarayanan and Vinayak Sasikumar, all music is composed by William Francis. Release. The"}, {"text": "film released on 22 November 2019 across 132 screens in Kerala, to highly positive reviews from the critics as well as the audience. It got the theatre release in Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and UAE on 5 December 2019. It was screened at 51st International Film Festival of India in January 2021 in Indian Panorama section. Critical reception. Anna Mathews of \"The Times of India\" rated the film with 3 stars out of 5, and said that \"there are no tense, twisty moments. It's a simple story, nicely acted by even the supporting cast, and actually feels quite pleasant to watch an uncomplicated love story that makes you tear up and smile at the end\". She praised the performances of Asif Ali, Veena Nandakumar and the rest. Baradwaj Rangan of \"Film Companion\" wrote that \"this could be a fascinating case study of how \"arrogance\" on screen (like in \"Arjun Reddy\") makes it less easy for us to fully embrace a character, while innocence and humility make us sympathise more readily\". Box office. The film received positive reviews from the critics and became commercial success. The film collected \u20b921.08 lakhs from 6 weeks in the United States box office."}, {"text": "Liudmila \"Emily\" Zamourka (n\u00e9e Grekova; born 1967/1968) is a Moldovan-American singer and musician. She came to prominence in late September 2019 after an LAPD officer filmed and posted a video of her singing a Puccini aria at Wilshire/Normandie station. The video subsequently became popular over social media. Overview. In 1991 Zamourka moved from Moldova to the United States and became homeless in Los Angeles for two years when she suffered serious health problems and had to pay for her medical bills. The artist, who taught lessons in piano and violin, was forced to take up numerous jobs. She also said she ended up in the streets two or three years ago after an unknown vandal stole and destroyed her violin and with it her means of making money. Five GoFundMe pages helped Zamourka get off the streets and get her a new violin surpassed $80,000 towards the goal of $85,000. Since her subway singing, Zamourka performed at the unveiling of the Historic Little Italy sign in downtown San Pedro on Saturday October 5, 2019 before a live audience that praised her with uproarious applause. She performed there only one song: the same Puccini aria she sang on the viral video."}, {"text": "Recording offer. On October 3, 2019, two time Grammy nominated record producer Joel Diamond publicly offered Zamourka a recording contract. Due to complications working with Zamourka, Diamond later withdrew his offer."}, {"text": "Niccol\u00f2 Corrado (born 19 March 2000) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for club Frosinone. Club career. Inter. He joined Inter youth teams in the summer of 2016 from Prato. From the 2017\u201318 season he started to play for Inter's Under-19 squad. Loan to Arezzo. On 21 August 2019, Corrado was loaned to Serie C club Arezzo on a season-long loan deal. Ten days later, on 31 August, he made his professional debut in Serie C for Arezzo in a 1\u20130 away defeat against Pianese, he was replaced by Samuele Sereni after 55 minutes. Three more weeks later, on 19 October, he played his first entire match for the club, a 1\u20131 home draw against Alessandria. On 25 November, Corrado scored his first professional goal in the 55th minute of a 3\u20131 home win over Novara. Corrado ended his season-long loan to Arezzo with 20 appearances, all as a starter, and 1 goal. Arezzo reach the play-off, however the club was elibimated by Robur Siena in the first round but he had not been called up for the match. Loan to Palermo. On 3 September 2020, Corrado was loaned to Serie C club Palermo on a"}, {"text": "season-long loan deal. Three weeks later, on 27 September, he made his debut for the club as a substitute replacing Roberto Crivello in the 63rd minute of a 2\u20130 away defeat against Teramo. On 9 November he played his first entire match for Palermo, a 1\u20131 home draw against Catania. Corrado ended his season-long loan to Palermo with only 7 appearances, 4 of them as a starter, all in the first part of the loan, during the season he remained an unused substitute 11 times. Corrado also helped the club to reach the play-off, however Palermo was eliminated by Avellino 1\u20131 on aggregate in the round of 16, he remained on the bench for both matches. Loan to Feralpisal\u00f2. On 21 July 2021, Corrado was signed by Serie C side Feralpisal\u00f2 on a season-long loan deal. Ternana. On 5 July 2022, Corrado joined Ternana on a permanent deal. On 9 January 2024, Corrado was loaned by Modena for the rest of the season. Brescia. On 8 July 2024, Corrado signed a four-year contract with Brescia. Brescia went bankrupt at the end of the 2024\u201325 season, making him a free agent. Frosinone. On 17 July 2025, Corrado joined Frosinone in Serie"}, {"text": "B, with a three-year contract. International career. He was first called up to represent his country in 2016 for Under-17 squad friendlies. He was selected for the 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squad and made two late substitute appearances as Italy was eliminated at group stage. Honours. Club. Inter Primavera"}, {"text": "Spectra is a professional association of LGBTQIA+ mathematicians. It arose from a need for recognition and community for mathematicians who belong to gender and sexual minorities. History. Spectra has its roots in meetups arranged at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) and a mailing list organized by Ron Buckmire. It arose in reaction to the JMM being scheduled to occur in Denver in 1995 when the state of Colorado voters approved the anti-gay 1992 Colorado Amendment 2. In December 1992 David Pengelley wrote letters to members of the AMS and MAA urging them to move the meeting out of Colorado, feeling that it would be offensive to the many homosexual participants to attend a meeting in an openly hostile and potentially dangerous place. Moreover, he thought that such a decision could help ensure that similar political decisions do not become a national trend. In the same month, James Humphreys also sent a letter with a similar message. Then, in the meeting in San Antonio of January 1993, the AMS and MAA agreed to move the meeting from Denver to San Francisco. There, at the 1995 JMM meeting, James Humphreys, Robert Bryant, and others organized a reception for LGBT mathematicians, called \"LGBT"}, {"text": "Math\", which would become \"Spectra\" in 2015\".\" The LGBT Math reception became an annual event, with a listserv organized by Ron Buckmire. The most popular topics of conversation involved the gay-friendly quality of one\u2019s home institution and the fear of not being able have career advancements or even to be fired on the ground of \"moral turpitude\" if they would be openly gay. The association's name was coined by Robert Bryant and Mike Hill and references the mathematical concept of a spectrum as well as the rainbow flag. After 20 years of recurrent LGBT Math meetings, the newly founded Spectra held its first official activity in 2015, a panel at the JMM of the same year. Board. Many prominent mathematicians have served on the Spectra board, including Robert Bryant, Ron Buckmire, Moon Duchin, Mike Hill, Lily Khadjavi, Doug Lind, and Emily Riehl. Out and Ally lists. Spectra maintains a list of mathematicians who are out in the LGBTQIA+ community as well as a list of allies for the community. The goal of the list is to serve as support for mathematicians at various places on their own LGBTQ+ journeys and also as a resource for people looking to learn more"}, {"text": "about the climate at various universities. Each mathematician on the list has a profile with, e.g., name, position, location, pronouns, and contact preferences. Any identity words or pronouns listed were given by the person being profiled when they completed an online form to be listed. Activism and engagement. Spectra continues to work toward increased visibility of LGBTQIA+ mathematicians, through conferences, workshops, panel discussions, and designated lectures. The association is also working with scholarly publishers around transgender mathematicians and their names in published works. Spectra also helps to start student chapters in universities. Panel discussions at the JMM. Spectra has been sponsoring JMM panels on issues related to LGBTQ+ members of the mathematics community, including the following: Conferences. Spectra also organizes conferences, including the following:"}, {"text": "Delos L. Filer (September 17, 1817July 26, 1879) was a businessman involved in developing Manistee County and the towns of Manistee, Filer City and Ludington in the state of Michigan. He owned sawmills and related businesses. Biography. Early life and education. Filer was of Scottish ancestry and born in Herkimer County in the state of New York on September 17, 1817. He attended local public schools for his initial training. Because of his scholastic interests he became a teacher in the New York District School system soon after graduating from high school. Mid life. Filer was also a farmer and businessman early in his adult life. He was interested in the lumber industry and merchandising. He left New York in 1849 when his family moved to Racine, Wisconsin. There, he became a traveling salesman selling cigars and tobacco. His merchandising territory was Wisconsin and Illinois. Filer was in this occupation for four years and then came to Manistee, Michigan, in the fall of 1853. He became bookkeeper for the accounting firm E. & J. Canfield earning $400 () per year, after having been previously employed with the Canfields in Racine. To supplement his income for his family of four children,"}, {"text": "he used basic knowledge of medicine to help the sick. Filer saved up enough money by 1858 to buy property. First he bought some land containing timber and then a half-interest in the Batchelder mill property that included a sawmill. He was successful in operating his half of the sawmill business and eventually bought out the other half-interest. Success in operating the Batchelder mill he owned outright gave him the opportunity to buy additional surrounding land containing timber. Filer then bought the McVickar estate in 1862. Together with the Batchelder mill, that brought Filer's land to the equivalent of two-thirds of what is today Manistee. In 1866, Filer established D. L. Filer & Sons in 1866 with his sons Delos W. Filer and E. Golden Filer; he also purchased at the south end of Manistee Lake where they built a sawmill. Another part of that acreage became Filer City, a suburb of Manistee. The management of the sawmill firm was done mostly by Filer's sons. According to Lumberman (1905), the \"mill was improved until it produced 100,000 feet of lumber, 250,000 wood shingles, and 50,000 wooden lath slats daily\". The Filer & Sons lumber mill ran out of timber and"}, {"text": "went out of business in 1914. Marriage. Filer married S.A. Paine in 1838; she died in June 1839, leaving a daughter. His second wife Juliet died in 1864 leaving four children: Mary J. Filer, E. Golden Filer, Frank Filer, and Delos W. Filer. He was married a third time on January 23, 1866. He married Mary M. Pierce of Manistee, who had a daughter, Grace. Later life and death. While traveling, Filer became ill in Denver and returned to Ludington, where he died on July 26, 1879. Filer had been president of and a main stockholder in the Pere Marquette Lumber Company and Pere Marquette Boom Company. He ran Filer & Sons of Manistee and Cream City Iron Works of Filer, Stowell & Company of Milwaukee. His worth was estimated to be somewhere between $500,000 () and $1,000,000. He is buried in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee."}, {"text": "The fifth season of Dancing on Ice began airing on 15 November 2019 and ended on 20 December 2019 on Sat.1. The series was once again filmed in the Magic Media Company Coloneum at Ossendorf in K\u00f6ln, which was set up for the first and fourth series. Daniel Boschmann and Marlene Lufen both returned for their second season as hosts. Daniel Weiss was returned for his fourth series as a judge, as well as Katarina Witt and Judith Williams were returned for their second series, Cale Kalay was not returned this year on Ice panel. The competition was won by Eric Stehfest with professional partner Amani Fancy. Couples. On October 10, 2019, Sat.1 announced the 10 couples for this year. indicates the couple eliminated that week indicates the couple were in the skate-off but not eliminated indicates the winning couple indicates the runner-up couple indicates the third-place couple indicate the highest score for that week indicate the lowest score for that week \"\u2014\" indicates the couple(s) that did not skate that week Scoring chart. Average chart. This table only counts for dances scored on a traditional 30-point scale. Live show details. Week 1 (15/17 November). 15 November. The couple with"}, {"text": "the lowest votes from Live 1 will compete against the couple with the lowest votes from Live 2 in the skate-off on 17 November. 17 November. The couple with the lowest votes from live will compete against the couple with the lowest votes from Live 1 (Peer & Katharina) in the skate-off."}, {"text": "Record and replay debugging is the process of recording the execution of a software program so that it may be played back within a debugger to help diagnose and resolve defects. The concept is analogous to the use of a flight data recorder to diagnose the cause of an airplane flight malfunction. Recording and replaying. Record and replay debuggers record application state at every step of the program's process and thread execution, including memory interactions, deterministic and non-deterministic inputs, system resource status, and store it to disk in a log. The recording allows the program to be replayed again and again, and debugged exactly as it happened. Usage. Recordings can be made in one location and replayed in another, which makes it useful for remote debugging. Record and replay debugging is particularly useful for debugging intermittent and non-deterministic defects, which can be difficult to reproduce. Record and replay debugging technology is often fundamental to reverse debugging and time travel debugging."}, {"text": "UPS Flight Forward Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS (United Parcel Service) focused on drone delivery. The company was formally launched in July 2019, and on October 1, 2019, became the first company to receive the Federal Aviation Administration's full Part 135 Standard certification, allowing the company to operate an unlimited remote-controlled drone delivery network in the United States. History. Partnership with Matternet. In March 2019 UPS partnered with drone startup Matternet, to start delivering medical samples via unmanned drones at WakeMed's hospital in Raleigh, N.C. With the approval of the FAA and the North Carolina Department of Transportation, UPS and Matternet planned to conduct daily routine flights transporting medical samples or specimen, such as blood samples. The drones would be loaded by medical professional at the origin facility, then the drone would fly along a predetermined route to a fixed landing pad at WakeMed's main hospital and central pathology lab. Formation of a dedicated subsidiary and FAA 135 Standard certification. In July 2019 UPS announced formation of a wholly owned subsidiary called UPS Flight Forward Inc. that would focus on parcel delivery by drones. As the first order of business, it applied for FAA certification. On October"}, {"text": "1, 2019, UPS announced that UPS Flight Forward Inc. became the first company to receive FAA's full \"Part 135 Standard certification\". The certification permits operation of remotely controlled drone airline, unlimited in the number of drones and the number of hubs and able to fly at night."}, {"text": "William Somerville Shanks ARSA, RSA, RSW (28 September 1864 \u2013 28 July 1951) was a Scottish artist who was a tutor in painting and drawing at the Glasgow School of Art for 29 years. His painting \"Tiddley Winks\" sold for \u00a3181,250 at Sotheby's in 2008, a record for the artist. William Somerville Shanks was born in Gourock in Renfrewshire in 1864 to Helen and John Shanks (1923-1913), a horse proprietor who worked as a clothier and tailor in his native town of Paisley where generations of his family had been weavers. According to the 1871 census they were living at 1, George Place in Gourock with their four children: Mary, William, Agnes and Archibald. The 1881 census reveals that by then the family were living in Glasgow where William Somerville Shanks was working as a pattern designer for a curtain manufacturer. However, William Shanks had ambitions to be an artist, and after attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art under Francis Henry Newbery he made painting his career, in 1889 travelling to Paris to improve his skills, studying for three years at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. In Paris Shanks became influenced by the"}, {"text": "paintings of \u00c9douard Manet. His painting \"Tiddley Winks\" was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1897 and at one time was owned by Eliot Hodgkin who sold it to art dealer Charlotte Frank, the aunt of Anne Frank; Sir David Montagu Douglas Scott obtained it from her in 1962 for \u00a360. On loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 2007 to 2008, it sold at Sotheby's in 2008 for \u00a3181,250, a record for the artist. Shanks was to become a regular exhibitor at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy. Later Shanks was to return to the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) as a tutor of painting and drawing, remaining there for the next 29 years. A painter in oil and watercolours of portraits, interiors and still life but who preferred to work in oils, at the GSA Shanks was Assistant Professor (Drawing and Painting) Antique and preparatory life 1910 to 1911; Assistant Professor (Drawing and Painting) Life, head life, portrait and costume model, painting, antique and still life 1913 to 1914 and 1924 to 1925; Lecturer (Drawing and Painting) Drawing, painting and composition 1925 to 1926 and"}, {"text": "1929 to 1930; Drawing and Painting (School of Design, Pictorial and Commercial Art) 1930 to 1931; Drawing and Painting (Drawing and Painting) 1934 to 1935. In 1922 he received a silver medal at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais. Although not a member of the Glasgow Boys Shanks was clearly influenced by their work and would have known Edward Atkinson Hornel and George Henry. Shanks was elected an Associate (ARSA) of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1923 and elected Member of the RSA in 1933. Shanks lived at 8 Parkgrove Terrace in Glasgow. A self portrait (see above) is held in the Collection of National Galleries of Scotland."}, {"text": "George Millington Woodwark (27 April 1923 \u2013 4 June 2012) was a British cardiologist who moved to Vancouver Island, where he established cardiac catheterizations and founded Canada's first heart defibrillation unit. He was one of the Westminster Hospital medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Early life and education. George Millington Woodwark was born on 27 April 1923, the son of Sir Arthur Stanley Woodwark, and a cousin of Sir Peter Bottomley. He was one of the Westminster Hospital medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Career. In 1948, he was listed temporary surgeon lieutenant in the Navy. On 21 February 1948, he married Carol Mary Jenkins. He arrived in New York on 19 June 1958 on the \"RMS Mauretania\" en route to Colorado General Hospital, Denver. His ship had departed from Southampton on 13 June 1958 and he was accompanied by his wife Megan. In the early 1960s, he arrived on Vancouver Island. There he established cardiac catheterizations and founded Canada's first heart defibrillation unit. He taught paramedics at the Royal Jubilee Hospital. Death. He died on 4 June 2012, survived by his wife Sheila and four children."}, {"text": "Professor Ada M. Coe (December 1, 1890 \u2013 December 13, 1983) was an early American hispanist teacher. Life. Coe was born in Ohio at Milford Center. She was able to go to Wesleyan University of Ohio. She started to teach at International College of Barcelona after she graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1913. She taught there until 1916 and the following year she was working at Wellesley College. In 1918 she led a Spanish American literature course at Wellesley. This was the first Spanish course open to American women. She was awarded a master's degree by Wellesley in 1922 and went to work at the Columbia University, as well as the Universities of Toronto and Madrid. By 1947 she was a full professor and led her department in 1936 for two years and in 1951 for five years when she retired from Wellesley in 1956. In 1952 she had published work relating to the US hispanist Archer Milton Huntington. Coe became a full member of the Hispanic Society of America in 1957 . Coe died on December 13, 1983, in Warren, Pennsylvania."}, {"text": "Ernst Gustav Zipperer (born 23 February 1888 in Ulm; died 26 May 1982 in Heilbronn) was a German painter and printmaker.\"\" Life. Parental home, education and World War I. Ernst Gustav Zipperer was born in Ulm in 1888 as the son of the upholsterer Ernst Hermann Zipperer and his wife Friederike. Zipperer and his younger brother Max grew up in the immediate vicinity of Ulm Minster. After his schooling in Ulm from 1894 to 1902, at his father\u2019s request, he followed in his footsteps and trained as a saddler and upholsterer. After passing his journeyman's examination in 1905 and working both in the family business and for a time for another employer, he followed his inclination for art and attended the arts and crafts school in Hanover from 1907 to 1909. He then transferred to Paul Heinrich\u2019s academy in Hildburghausen for further qualification (1909 \u2013 1910). From October 1910 to November 1911, he did his military service as a volunteer in Neu-Ulm. He then attended the arts and crafts school in Kassel where he obtained a qualification as drawing teacher for secondary schools and teacher training institutions (1911 \u2013 1913). Following that, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in"}, {"text": "Munich for one term as a student of Heinrich W\u00f6lfflin. In March 1914, Ernst Zipperer took up his first post as trainee drawing teacher at Berlin-Lichterfelde Grammar School. However, this was interrupted due to being drafted into war service in Masuria, East Prussia in August 1914. In World War I, Ernst Zipperer served as an officer. He was seriously wounded near Minsk in Russia in 1915 due to a head shot and lost his left eye. As a consequence, he underwent treatment at the Eye Hospital in Stuttgart for a period of one year. As a result of his injuries, he suffered from severe headaches and spells of dizziness as well as kidney problems for the rest of his life. In June 1917, he returned to Berlin-Lichterfelde Grammar School and qualified as drawing teacher in September. From October 1917 to September 1918, he served as district officer in Rastenburg in East Prussia. Berlin. In 1918, Ernst Zipperer married Elisabeth Nestler (born 3 November 1894 in Hildburghausen; died 5 June 1977 in Heilbronn). Following their wedding, he took up the post of art teacher at Hermann von Helmholtz Grammar School in Berlin-Sch\u00f6nefeld. The couple had three children: Ernst Wilhelm (1919 \u2013"}, {"text": "2005), Gisela (1921 \u2013 1928) and Vera Charlotte (born 1931). In 1920, he moved to Berlin-Friedenau Grammar School where he taught until 1940. There, until 1940, he influenced a whole generation of young people. His pupils included persons such as the resistance fighter Friedrich Justus Perels, the columnist Friedrich Luft and the politicians Egon Bahr and Peter Lorenz. Zipperer was deeply respected by his pupils and many remained in close contact with him until his death. He enjoyed a deep friendship with Helmut Ammann who became a prominent sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Ernst Zipperer\u2019s first years of teaching in Berlin also marked the beginning of his first major creative phase which lasted until 1940. During these two decades, Zipperer produced a significant body of work. He traveled extensively throughout Germany and to various European countries in order to study and produce art works. His preferred technique at the time was drypoint etching and with this technique he became known both in and outside Germany. In Berlin, Zipperer developed friendships with the artists Heinrich Zille and Max Liebermann. He was particularly close to the sculptor August Gaul, in whose house he lived for almost one year in 1917. Gaul appreciated"}, {"text": "and sponsored Ernst Zipperer. Through Gaul, a member of the Executive Committee of the Berlin Secession, Zipperer came into contact with Berlin arts world. In 1931, Zipperer bought Tannenburg Castle, a castle dating back to the Staufer period, with its farm estate near the village of B\u00fchlertann in Ellwangen District (now Schw\u00e4bisch Hall District) in north-east W\u00fcrttemberg. He leased the associated farm estate and continued to work in Berlin. Tannenburg and B\u00fchlertann, W\u00fcrttemberg. As a disabled war veteran, Ernst Zipperer retired from teaching in 1940 and moved from Berlin to Tannenburg Castle. Under extremely difficult conditions, he managed the farm estate until the return of his son Ernst Wilhelm from the war and captivity (1940 \u2013 1948). In 1951, he handed over the castle and the farm estate to his son and, in 1963, left the castle to move to the home of his daughter Vera in B\u00fchlertann. With the deterioration of his remaining eye\u2019s sight, he had to give up his artistic work in 1972. He spent the last years of his life at the home of his daughter who had since moved to Flein near Heilbronn. Ernst Gustav Zipperer died on May 26, 1982, at the age of"}, {"text": "94 and was buried in B\u00fchlertann. Work. The artistic work of Ernst Zipperer covers his early work until 1918, the creative phase in Berlin (1918-1940) and his late work (1950-1972). According to the current status, about 1,300 works have been documented. Early work (until 1917). Already as a child and during his apprenticeship, Ernst Zipperer showed a particular talent for drawing. During this period, many drawings and sketches evolved, but most of them are now lost. From the period of his artistic education in Hanover, Kassel and Munich, numerous studies on perspective and shadowing as well as technical drawings still exist. Under the influence of Prof. Heubach in Hanover Zipperer turned its attention to the drawing of architecture. At the same time he created landscapes, portraits, nudes, ornaments and still lifes, which he mainly executed as pencil drawings, rarely as watercolors. During his wartime deployment in Russia (1914 \u2013 1915), his artistic talent expressed itself in a wide variety of ways. Due to a lack of photographic resources, he sketched military combats which were used in connection with strategic decisions. In the trenches, he sketched portraits of fellow soldiers and officers as a memento to be sent to their families."}, {"text": "Two small drawings from this period are extant. His severe war injury was followed by a one-year convalescence period at the Eye Hospital in Stuttgart. After regaining the sight of his remaining eye, he produced many art works, while still in hospital. In numerous sketches and drawings, he focused on people who showed considerable signs of what they had gone through during the war. Some pictures of that time clearly show the influence of Heinrich Zille. Berlin Phase (1918 \u2013 1940). In 1919 Ernst Zipperer discovered drypoint etching for himself. He drew and etched castles, city views, churches, landscapes, portraits, flowers and animals - mostly in small to medium format. The main topic in this phase was architecture. He found more than 40 motifs alone in his hometown of Ulm. On his numerous travels he made pencil drawings as preliminary studies for the later etchings. A total of more than 300 drypoint etchings were created, which were characterized by careful area division, well thought-out image composition and formal design ability. Added to this was the perspective effect of his pictures, which he succeeded convincingly despite one-eyed. Zipperer achieved an increase in spatiality and expression by drawing inspiration from Chiaroscuro. Also"}, {"text": "characteristic was the staffage found in many etchings, which discreetly guides the eye of the beholder. \"The many moving strokes, which sometimes had an almost shimmering effect - combined with a strict mold design - that was typical Zipperer\". But he was not just concerned with the reproduction of reality. \"Zipperer did not represent dead objects, but things that have a destiny and therefore life.\" Rather, he sought the creative translation of his perception into the artistic. \"He knew how to express what weaves the visible in emotional mood\". That Zipperer was also \"a portrait drypoint etcher of rank and depth\" is shown by his portraits, which he executed as pencil drawings and etchings. During training in Kassel he had received an award for portrait drawing. In the mid-twenties, Zipperer occasionally colored etchings by hand. As towards the end of the decade increasingly colored etchings were required, he had many of his motifs in color print. Numerous etchings were commissioned by cities, companies, art dealers or private individuals. A large part of the etchings was published by various publishers as art cards and sold through the art trade. Zipperer worked for decades with the copper printing company Wilhelm Schneider in"}, {"text": "Berlin, where the copper plates were stored. A larger number of plates were lost during the Second World War and in the subsequent turmoil or got into unauthorized hands. This explains that pirate prints came into circulation as a result. With his drypoint etchings Ernst Zipperer became known in Europe and America - less by exhibitions than by the very successful distribution of his pictures by some art publishers and numerous art shops in Germany and abroad. In addition to pencil drawings and etchings, Zipperer began working with pastels in this phase, sometimes in larger formats. Also some sketches in different techniques, which served for demonstration purposes in the classroom, are preserved from this time. Ernst Zipperer\u2019s wife Elisabeth contributed considerably to his work since she kept him free from the burden of day-to-day activities. She handled business correspondence with the copperplate printers, art dealers and prospective buyers. Likewise, she helped to organize the countless visits of art lovers. Creative break (1941 \u2013 1949). During World War II and the immediately succeeding years, Ernst Zipperer\u2019s artistic activities almost came to a complete stop. The difficult conditions of everyday life at the castle left no scope for art. Late work (1950"}, {"text": "\u2013 1972). After the turmoil of the war and the handover of Tannenburg to his son, Ernst Zipperer was able to devote himself entirely to his art. He left the era of drypoint behind him and entered a new intense phase of artistic creation. The late work of the artist is characterized by experimentation and new ideas. For Zipperer, the movement runs along the art-historical development of his time from realistic-naturalistic to abstract-reductionist representation. At the same time, the realistic and abstract modes of expression do not stand for a closed stage of artistic recognition. Rather, both exist side by side. Abstract depictions are again followed by a landscape or a bouquet of flowers. He is always looking for \"ground under his feet,\" as he called it. It is a further thematic arc that spans the \"complexity of its meaningful images\". In many cases, these are already well-known motifs that recur again and again - often in a reduced form - trees in the landscape, a ravine and clouds above; especially the clouds occupied him throughout his life. In addition, there are themes such as \"peace\" and \"quiet\", but also \"division\" and \"destruction\", which he translates abstractly. \"Everything you can"}, {"text": "think of, you can also draw\", the artist described his own spectrum in later years. Increasingly employed Ernst Zipperer, who was influenced Protestant in the parental home, but in his old age increasingly took up Catholic thought, religious and biblical themes: The Psalms, the story of creation, Job and the Gospel of John. He also transformed the music of Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky into colors and forms. Ernst Zipperer found in pastel and oil pastels, but also in tempera and oil paint adequate materials to express his imagination and his mystical inwardness - sometimes cautious-mindful, then again powerful-dynamic. In the gravure printing of the heliogravure Zipperer did in 1955 in cooperation with his Berlin printing on new ways on how he could spread some of his large-sized pastel paintings in large numbers. It is a fine-printing process that transfers the original to a copper plate in a complex photo-chemical process. The heliogravure makes a very differentiated reproduction of halftones possible and thus creates a wealth of color power. The prints, also known as hand copper, met with great interest in the art trade and in the personal environment of the artist. They were affordable, allowing a wider audience access to"}, {"text": "this art. There is not a single self-portrait by Ernst Zipperer. However, he draws a picture especially in his late works: In it he shows how he sees the visible and invisible world with his inner eye. In addition to some extensive, there are many smaller private collections with works by Ernst Zipperer. Individual works are held in German museums or municipal archives. Ernst Zipperer\u2019s artistic estate is managed by his daughter Vera Prior and grandson Lothar Zipperer. Exhibitions (selection). October 1927 in Offenburg, \"Die Kunstausstellung im B\u00fcrgersaal\", Offenburger Zeitung, October 15, 1927 1927 in Braunschweig, \"Kunstgewerbemesse Elisabeth Osterloh\" October 1929, \"Der Radierer Ernst Zipperer,\" Buchhandlung der Soldiner Zeitung, October 3, 1929 April 1931 in Ulm, \"Zipperer-Ausstellung im Kunsthaus G\u00f6bel,\" Ulmer Tagblatt, April 16, 1931 September 1931, Ausstellung von Zipperer-Radierungen in der Kunsthandlung Karl Balkheimer, Ulm October 1933 in Ellwangen, \"Zur Ausstellung von Radierungen Ernst Zipperers\", Ipf- und Jagstzeitung / Ellwanger Tagblatt, October 28, 1933 July 1963 in Ellwangen, \"Ausstellung im Bilderhaus Alois Raible\", Aalener Volkszeitung/Ipf- und Jagstzeitung, July 6, 1963 April 1972 in B\u00fchlertann, \"Ein Stiller im Lande\", Kreissparkasse B\u00fchlertann, Haller Tagblatt, April 22, 1972 February 1978 in Ulm, \"Ulmer Motive \u2013 ins K\u00fcnstlerische \u00fcbersetzt\", Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Frey,"}, {"text": "Ulmer Zeitung, February 11, 1978 June 2002 in B\u00fchlertann, Heimatverein B\u00fchlertann, Haller Tagblatt, June 28, 2002 April 2006 in Dresden, \"Villa Eschenbach zeigt allerlei Kunst um das Monet\u00e4re\", Leipziger Volkszeitung, April 24, 2006 October 2010 in Nersingen-Oberfahlheim bei Ulm, \"Alte Ulmer Ansichten, Radierungen von Ernst Zipperer\", S\u00fcdwestpresse Ulm, October 15, 2010 June 2013 in B\u00fchlertann, \"Ein\u00e4ugiger Blick auf die Heimat,\" Heimatverein B\u00fchlertann, Hohenloher Tagblatt, June 28, 2013 June 2016 in B\u00fchlertann, \"Zipperer-Werke im Rathaus\", Heimatverein B\u00fchlertann, Haller Tagblatt, June 23, 2016 July 2018 in Schw\u00e4bisch Hall, \"Ernst Zipperer (1888 \u2013 1982) \u2013 Auf den Spuren seiner Kunst\", H\u00e4llisch-Fr\u00e4nkisches Museum Schw\u00e4bisch Hall, Haller Tagblatt, July 17, 2018 Bibliography. 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Richter, Rainer: \"Heimatverein B\u00fchlertann zeigt Bilder von Ernst Zipperer\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. June 29, 2016, p. 29. Christ, Michaela: \"Auf Spurensuche.\" In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. February 9, 2017, p. 21. Oklmann, Verena: \"K\u00fcnstlerenkel sucht nach Bildern\". In: Schw\u00e4bische Zeitung. Ravensburg. June 27, 2018, p. 18. Snurawa, Ralf: \"Von der Natur zur Reduktion.\" In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. July 17, 2018, p. 13. Weber, Werner: \"Meisterliches altes Rothenburg. Sonderausstellung im H\u00e4llisch-Fr\u00e4nkischen Museum mit Zipperer-Kaltnadelradierungen.\" In: Fr\u00e4nkischer Anzeiger. Rothenburg o. d. Tauber. Vol. 204, September 4, 2018. Lober, Bettina: \"Andenken an den Malersopa\". In: Haller Tagblatt: Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. September 13, 2018, p. 11. Unauthorized, non-autographed writings - chronological. \"Bilder aus Heimat und Welt\". In: Sonntagsbeitr\u00e4ge der Weser-Zeitung. Bremen. November 27, 1927. Untitled. In: Braunschweigische Landeszeitung. Braunschweig."}, {"text": "December 21, 1927. \"Zur Ausstellung von Radierungen Ernst Zipperers\". In: Ipf- und Jagst-zeitung / Ellwanger Tagblatt. Ellwangen. Vol 115 115 (1933), No. 237, October 28, 1933, p. 5. \"Die Kunstausstellung im B\u00fcrgersaal\". In: Offenburger Zeitung. Offenburg. No. 237, October 15, 1927, p. 4. Untitled. In: Vaterst\u00e4dtische Bl\u00e4tter. L\u00fcbeck. (1927/28) No. 3, October 30, 1927, p. 3f. Untitled. In: Hamburger Illustrierte. Hamburg: Verlag Biroschek (1928), No. 31. \"Der Radierer Ernst Zipperer\". In: Soldiner Zeitung. Soldin. Vol. 83 (1929) No. 232, October 3, 1929, p. 2. \"Kunstausstellung im Kunsthaus G\u00f6bel\". In: Ulmer Tagblatt. Ulm. No. 87, April 16, 1931. \"Der Maler auf der Tannenburg\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. No. 226, September 30, 1961. \"Ernst Zipperer von der Tannenburg stellt aus\". In: Aalener Volkszeitung / Ipf- und Jagstzeitung. Aalen. No. 153, July 6, 1963, p. 11. \"Die Tannenburg \u2013 eine Trutzveste aus der Stauferzeit\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. May 14, 1966, p. 8f. \"Jedes Bild ist ein Wettlauf mit der Sonne\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. October 29, 1966, p. 8f. \"\u201aDer Weg\u2018 - Vision und Auftrag, Ernst Zipperer zum 80. Geburtstag\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. February 23, 1968, p. 9. \"Sparkasse wird zur Gem\u00e4ldegalerie.\" In: Aalener Volkszeitung / Ipf-"}, {"text": "und Jagstzeitung. Aalen. No. 92, April 21, 1972, p. 21. \"Der Maler und Kunsterzieher Ernst Zipperer wird 85\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. February 23, 1973, p. 26. \"Das Schlo\u00df zeichnerisch verewigt.\" In: Heilbronner Stimme. Heilbronn. March 3, 1973. \"Ulmer Motive \u2013 ins K\u00fcnstlerische \u00fcbersetzt\". In: S\u00fcdwestpresse Ulm. Schw\u00e4bische Donauzeitung. Ulm. Vol. 34 (1978) No. 35, February 11, 1978, p. 15. \"Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Frey in Ulm zum 90. Geburtstag\". In: Ulmer Zeitung. Ulm. February 11, 1978. \"Ernst Zipperer zum 90. Geburtstag\". In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. No. 45, February 23, 1978. \"Ernst Zipperer in Flein gestorben.\" In: Haller Tagblatt. Schw\u00e4bisch Hall. No. 121, May 28, 1982, p. 24. \"Blick \u00fcber die D\u00e4cher.\" In: S\u00fcdwestpresse Ulm. Schw\u00e4bische Donauzeitung. Vol. 38 (1982) No. 124, June 2, 1982, p. 20. \"Ernst Zipperer in Schw\u00e4bisch Hall\". In: S\u00fcdwestpresse Ulm, Ulm, August 7, 2018, p. 21."}, {"text": "Gints Gilis (born 7 November 1970) is a retired Latvian football midfielder. He was a son of J\u0101nis Gilis."}, {"text": "Maj Rori\u010d (born 7 February 2000) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ilirija 1911. Club career. Internazionale. Rori\u010d joined Internazionale youth teams in the summer of 2016. In 2018, he made several appearances for the senior squad in pre-season friendlies, including the 2018 International Champions Cup. He started playing for their under-19 squad in the 2018\u201319 season. On 14 February 2019, Rori\u010d was called up to the senior squad's official game for the first time, for the Europa League match against Rapid Wien, but remained on the bench. Loan to Sere\u010f. On 27 August 2019, Rori\u010d joined Slovak club Sere\u010f on a season-long loan. He made his Slovak First League debut for Sere\u010f on 31 August 2019 in a home fixture against Pohronie, starting the game and playing the full 90 minutes in an eventual 3\u20133 draw. Rori\u010d scored his premier goal for Sere\u010f in a third round of the 2019\u201320 Slovak Cup fixture against Petr\u017ealka, securing a 3\u20130 win."}, {"text": "Harmonious construction is a principle of statutory interpretation used in the legal system. It holds that when two provisions of a legal text seem to conflict, they should be interpreted so that each has a separate effect and neither is redundant or nullified."}, {"text": "Sergejs Ivanovs (born 2 May 1971) is a retired Latvian football midfielder."}, {"text": "Najee's Theme is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist and flautist, Najee. This album earned Najee a Grammy Award Nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1988. Critical reception. Peggy Oliver of \"The Urban Music Scene\" writes, \"It is hard to fathom that thirty years have passed since the single \u201cNajee\u2019s Theme\u201d and the supporting album blazed the R&B and jazz charts, which for a debut recording was a remarkable accomplishment in itself.\" She gave the album 4\u00bd out of five stars. \"The New Pittsburgh Courier\" did a piece on Najee and remarked about the album, \"Najee became a top name in instrumental and jazz music circles after releasing, \u201cNajee\u2019s Theme\u201d in 1986.\" Track listing. All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes."}, {"text": "Two Medicine Falls is a waterfall located on the Two Medicine River in the southeastern portion of Glacier National Park, Montana, US."}, {"text": "The V\u00e9ronique River () is a river in the C\u00f4te-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, opposite to Anticosti Island. Location. The V\u00e9ronique River drains Lake V\u00e9ronique and Little Lake V\u00e9ronique. It flows for about from Lake V\u00e9ronique at its mouth. The mouth of the river is in the municipality of Baie-Johan-Beetz in Minganie Regional County Municipality. The river enters the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the northeast of the Baie Quetchou, just east of the Baie Johan-Beetz. The Quetachou River enters the northwest of the same bay. The bay is about east of Havre-Saint-Pierre. Basin. The river basin covers . It lies between the basins of the Watshishou River to the east and the Quetachou River to the west. It includes part of the unorganized territory of Lac-J\u00e9r\u00f4me as well as part of Baie-Johan-Beetz. The river has low volume and the current is slow. Donat Devost and his sons set up a sawmill on the V\u00e9ronique River around 1953. Six years later the mill was sold to Lorenzo Tanguay. In 1969 Tanguay moved the sawmill to Lac Sal\u00e9 and closed the business. Environment. A map of the ecological regions of"}, {"text": "Quebec shows the river in sub-regions 6j-T and 6m-T of the east spruce/moss subdomain. The north of the V\u00e9ronique valley has potential for use by moose (\"Alces alces\"), and traces of moose were found in the region in 1978 and 1979. Beaver (\"Castor canadensis\") is well represented in the river basin. The V\u00e9ronique River has low potential for Canada goose (\"Branta canadensis\") and average potential for surface ducks and diving ducks. Fish. The river is used by Atlantic salmon (\"Salmo salar\"), brook trout (\"Salvelinus fontinalis\") and American eel (\"Anguilla rostrata\"). Atlantic tomcod (\"Microgadus tomcod\") has also been reported. It is narrow, its bed is littered with trees and the vegetation along its course is dense, so it is not attractive for sport fishing. It is not officially a salmon river, and does not have the physical characteristics preferred by salmon. The bed of the river is clay and mud along almost its entire length. However, juvenile salmon were found in samples in 1980 and 1984, so there must be some good spawning areas."}, {"text": "Vadims Mikuckis (born 10 June 1971) is a retired Latvian football midfielder."}, {"text": "Rumors of War is a series of artworks by Kehinde Wiley examining equestrian portraiture in the canon of Western art history culminating in a bronze monumental equestrian statue by the artist of an African-American young man (with dreadlocks in a ponytail, jeans ripped at the knees and Nike high-top sneakers). The statue was created as a response to the statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart in Richmond, Virginia in particular and similar statues of high-ranking Confederate Army officers, some of which still stand in the United States despite persistent calls for their removal. Since the installation of \"Rumors of War\" in Richmond, all of the statues of the military leaders of the Confederacy have been removed from Monument Avenue where they had been since the first decade of the 20th century. In September 2019 Wiley unveiled the work in Times Square in the borough of Manhattan in New York City with the backing of the Malcolm X Shabazz High School band from Newark, New Jersey. There it was displayed amidst a sea of electronic billboards. This project was produced in collaboration with Times Square Arts, Sean Kelly Gallery and UAP. The work, which is Wiley's largest at 27 feet high"}, {"text": "and 16 feet wide, stood in Times Square from September 21, 2019 until December 1, 2019. The work then traveled to its permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, on Arthur Ashe Boulevard, where it is situated directly next to the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and near where once were located a volley of Confederate statues and monuments that populated the city's Monument Avenue. It is the most expensive commission in the history of the museum. The statue was unveiled a second time in Richmond on December 10, 2019. Wiley first employed the title \"Rumors of War\" in 2006 for a series of four large paintings which examine European equestrian portraiture and were premiered at the Deitch Projects gallery in New York City. It has also been pointed out that Wiley in titling the work may have been citing a biblical passage from Matthew 24 ... \"Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences,"}, {"text": "and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake\"... The bronze statue is placed upon a limestone pedestal into which the titular phrase is inscribed. External links. On \"CBS This Morning\" - Statue depicts black man on horseback \"speaking back\" to people looking at Confederate monuments"}, {"text": "Ivan Grigorievich Drachenko (; 15 November 1922 16 November 1994) was a Soviet Il-2 pilot and the only aviator awarded both the title Hero of the Soviet Union and been a full bearer of the Order of Glory. Early life. Drachenko was born on 15 November 1922 to a Ukrainian peasant family in Velikaya Sevastyanovka village. Before entering the military in 1941 he complete high school and trained at the Leningrad aeroclub. During the early phase of World War II he was a student at the Tambov Military Aviation School of Pilots, away from the front. Combat career. After graduating from the academy in Tambov, Drachenko was deployed to the warfront as an Il-2 pilot. He fought in the battle of Kursk. While over Kharkhov on 14 August 1943 he rammed an enemy fighter to save his regimental commander, but was seriously injured in the process. After parachuting out he became unconscious and was captured by the Axis. While detained in a prison camp near Poltava, a Soviet doctor operated on him, but was unable to restore sight in his right eye. In September he managed to escape from the camp and get over to Soviet lines. Kept in a"}, {"text": "Moscow hospital until March 1944 and fitted with a glass eye, when he returned to flying he did not disclose his visual impairment on military documents, and only his close friends ever found out in the war. In addition to flying standard ground-attack missions, he also performed reconnaissance flights; after a mission on 6 April 1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd class on 5 July 1944 for gathering valuable intelligence. While over enemy territory he was attacked by 5 Fw 190 fighters, but he managed to escape and make a safe landing with his damaged plane. Not long later during a flight over Ia\u0219i he again repelled attacks from German fighters before going on to his target, a railway station. For doing so he was awarded on 5 September 1944 his first Order of Glory 2nd class. By August 1944 he totaled 100 sorties on the Il-2, for which he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union, which was awarded on 26 October 1944. For success in aerial combat engagements and ground attack missions was awarded another Order of Glory 2nd class in November 1944, having been nominated in October, but it was not"}, {"text": "until over a decade after the war that the issue with the duplicate awards was fixed and he was made a true full bearer of the order. Postwar. After the war Drachenko entered the air force academy, but was forced to leave for the reserve in 1947 for medical reasons. He then attended law school at the University of Kiev, which he graduated from in 1953. He later became the principal of the school and served as the deputy director for the Palace of Culture in Kiev before his death on 16 November 1994."}, {"text": "Lila \u00c1lvarez Garcia (26 February 1915 \u2013 28 December 1999) was an Ecuadorian pianist, choir director, and musical art teacher. Graduating from the National Conservatory of Music, she moved to Guayaquil to work and teach."}, {"text": "Wilhelm Julius Heinrich Kahts (born 20 February 1947 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Kahts made his test debut for the Springboks on 31 May 1980 at Newlands in Cape Town against the touring British and Irish Lions team, captained by Bill Beaumont. He scored his first and only test try during his sixth test match and first at his home ground, Loftus Versveld, on 8 November 1980 against the touring French team. His last test match, was the losing test against the South American Jaguars of Hugo Porta in Bloemfontein on 3 April 1982."}, {"text": "Aleksandrs Fedotovs (born 29 March 1971) is a retired Latvian football midfielder."}, {"text": "I\u013cja Novikovs (born 12 August 1977) is a retired Latvian football midfielder."}, {"text": "Emir Murati (born 7 March 2000) is an Italian-Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liechtnsteiner club FC Balzers. Club career. Milan. He is a product of AC Milan academy and started playing for their under-19 squad in the 2017\u201318 season. Loan to Rende. On 29 August 2019 he joined Serie C club Rende on a season-long loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Rende on 29 September 2019 in a game against Potenza. He substituted Markus Soomets in the 57th minute. Loan to Vibonese. On 30 January 2021, he was loaned to Vibonese."}, {"text": "Archibald Douglas Russell (May 28, 1853 \u2013 November 27, 1919) was an American financier and philanthropist. Early life. Russell was born on May 28, 1853, in New York City and as a child, lived there and at his parents' summer home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was a son of Helen Rutherfurd (n\u00e9e Watts) Russell (1815\u20131906) and Archibald Russell (1811\u20131871), who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and became a lawyer after studying law with Sir Patrick Fraser Tytler and emigrated to the United States in 1836. Among his siblings were Anna Watts Russell (wife of Henry Lewis Morris), Eleanor Elliott Russell (wife of Arthur John Peabody, nephew of George Peabody), John Watts Russell, and architect William Hamilton Russell. His father was also a founder of the American Geographical Society and the Ulster County Savings Institution, near where Russell had his country seat in Ulster County. His paternal grandparents were Eleanor (n\u00e9e Oliver) Russell and Dr. James Russell, a former president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His mother was the only surviving child of his maternal grandparents, Dr. John Watts and Anna (n\u00e9e Rutherfurd) Watts (daughter of U.S. Senator John Rutherfurd). Through his maternal grandfather, he was a great-grandson of"}, {"text": "Robert Watts (son of John Watts and brother of U.S. Representative John Watts) and Lady Mary Alexander (daughter of William Alexander, Lord Stirling). He was educated at private schools in New York before entering the business world. Career. Russell began his career with Brown Bros. & Co., the established banking firm founded by George Brown in 1818. He later went into partnership, as the senior member, with Douglas Robinson Jr. (husband of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson) and Elliott Roosevelt (father of Eleanor Roosevelt), as Russell, Robinson & Roosevelt, a banking and real estate firm. Douglas and Elliott were the brother-in-law and brother of President Theodore Roosevelt. He served as the third president, succeeding Morris K. Jessup, of the Five Points House of Industry, of which his father was a founder and the first president. Russell served as a director of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the Greenwich Savings Bank, the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, the Princeton University Press, and the University Power Company. He also served as a trustee of Princeton University, a vestryman of Trinity Church, Princeton, the domestic corresponding secretary of the American"}, {"text": "Geographic Society, and a member of the board of governors of the New York Institute. Personal life. In 1884, Russell was married to Albertina Taylor Pyne (1859\u20131918), a daughter of Albertina (n\u00e9e Taylor) Pyne and the English-born Percy Rivington Pyne, the president of National City Bank. Her two brothers were Percy Rivington Pyne II and Moses Taylor Pyne and her grandfather was Moses Taylor, an early president of National City Bank. Together, they were the parents of five children, four of whom survived to adulthood: He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Riding Club, the Union Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Century Association and the Princeton Club of New York. His wife was widely known for her contributions that allowed for the construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (today known as the Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C. His wife died at their home, 34 East 36th Street, on February 11, 1918. Russell died at his home in New York on November 27, 1919. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His entire estate, estimated at $50,000,000, was left to his children. Residences. In New York, the Russells lived at"}, {"text": "34 East 36th Street. In 1903, Russell hired his brother William Hamilton Russell, a partner in the architecture firm of Clinton and Russell, to build Edgerstoune, a Tudor Revival mansion on his Princeton estate. Edgerstoune, which cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 to construct, was located across the street from Drumthwacket the estate of his brother-in-law, Moses Taylor Pyne (and currently the official residence of the governor of New Jersey), and directly adjoining the estates of Junius Spencer Morgan, William T. White, and C. B. Lambert. After his death, the 274-acre Edgerstoune estate was sold by his son-in-law, Governor John Gilbert Winant, to Albert Robertshaw who planned a large real estate development with a country club. Less than a month later, it was sold to Professor John G. Hun, headmaster of the Hun School of Princeton for $350,000. Descendants. Through his son Archibald, he was a grandfather of A. Douglas Russell III, Louise Russell (wife of John Evelyn duPont Irving), Isabel Russell (wife of Robert S. Potter) and a great-grandfather of Linda Potter (born January 13, 1956) who married Timothy Shriver, a member of the Kennedy Family through his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a younger sister of President John F. Kennedy."}, {"text": "Through his youngest daughter Constance, he was a grandfather of Constance Winant (1921\u20131978) (wife of Peruvian scientist Carlos Valando); John Gilbert Winant Jr. (1922\u20131993) (who served as a bomber pilot in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Colditz, before his removal in April 1945 as one of the \"Prominente\" to be used as a bargaining chip by Himmler and the SS as the end of the war approached; he was eventually released); and Rivington Russell Winant (1925\u20132011) (who also served in World War II and later became treasurer at the United Nations)."}, {"text": "Jurijs Molotkovs (born 6 June 1974) is a retired Latvian football midfielder."}, {"text": "Niko Bartulovi\u0107 (23 December 1890 \u2013 1945) was a Croatian and Yugoslav writer, publisher, journalist and translator known for being one of the founders and ideologists of the Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists in 1921. He joined the Chetniks during World War II. Before World War II. Bartulovi\u0107 was born on 23 December 1890 in Stari Grad, Hvar, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia). Bartulovi\u0107 was the editor of journal \"Pu\u010dka sloboda\". In 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand he was arrested. Bartulovi\u0107 initiated and organized the publishing of the literary magazine \"Knji\u017eevni jug\" in 1918 while Branko Ma\u0161i\u0107 provided financial sources. At the end of 1918, after World War I, he publicly proclaimed in Zagreb that Dalmatia would join the Kingdom of Serbia alone, if Zagreb did not want to do so. Bartulovi\u0107 is known as one of founders of the Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists (ORJUNA) in 1921, and one of its main ideologists. On 28 May 1933 he was one of the speakers during a great anti-revisionist meeting held in Belgrade against attempts to revise the post-WWI peace agreements which was broadcast by Radio Belgrade, Radio Zagreb and Radio Ljubljana. During World War II. In spring of 1943 Bartulovi\u0107"}, {"text": "and two of his associates from Split travelled to Kola\u0161in in the Italian governorate of Montenegro and met with the Chetnik ideologist Dragi\u0161a Vasi\u0107. Bartulovi\u0107 eventually joined the Chetniks. When the Chetniks entered Dubrovnik at the end of 1943, members of the local ORJUNA established numerous Chetnik detachments that were merged into the Chetnik Battalion \"Lastovo\". It was speculated that Bartulovi\u0107 died as member of Chetnik forces at the end of 1943. Still, Bartulovi\u0107 participated in the Ba Congress held between 25 and 28 January 1944 where he was elected as member of the committee of the Yugoslav Democratic National Union, a new political party established during the congress. After the capitulation of Italy in late 1943, the German forces occupied Split and put Bartulovi\u0107 to prison because of his contacts with Yugoslav government-in-exile, and he remained in German prison from 29 March to 26 October 1944. Death. Many post-war Yugoslav published works contain an inaccurate date of his death as 1943. Some sources state that he was murdered in 1945, based on orders of the Communist Party of Croatia, with full knowledge and support of Vladimir Bakari\u0107 and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, because he was a Chetnik. Freemasonry."}, {"text": "According to some sources Bartulovi\u0107 was a freemason. Together with Ferdo \u0160i\u0161i\u0107, Grga Novak and Vasilj Popovi\u0107, Bartulovi\u0107 allegedly belonged to the influential Freemason lodge \"Dositej Obradovi\u0107\", which spread ideas about integral Yugoslavism within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, Bartulovi\u0107 belonged to a group of Croats from Dalmatia who wished to establish a \"Yugoslav Revolutionary Movement\" which would include all Croats who had not aligned themselves with the communists or Usta\u0161e and establish military units under the name of the \"Yugoslav Legion\". Bibliography. Bartulovi\u0107's bibliography includes:"}, {"text": "The following is a comprehensive list of awards and nominations received by Ozuna, a Puerto Rican Latin trap and reggaeton singer who is regarded as the \"New King of Reggaeton\". Ozuna has won two Latin Grammy Awards\u2014both for \"Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi\"\u2014from ten nominations, as well as five \"Billboard\" Music Awards, twelve \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards, six Latin American Music Awards, e\u00ecght Lo Nuestro Awards, and four \"Guinness World Records\"."}, {"text": "Molenda is a Polish-language surname. The word \"molenda\" used to mean \"miller\", from Latin \"molendinator\". Notable people with this surname include:"}, {"text": "Firehouse Strategies is a public relations consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC. It was founded in 2016 by Republican strategists Terry Sullivan, Alex Conant, and Will Holley, who served on Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign. Firehouse has led public affairs campaigns for Fortune 10 companies, trade associations, and nonprofits. Firehouse has conducted polls and surveys regarding the 2018 midterm elections, and 2020 campaigns. Firehouse Strategies had 15 employees in May 2019. In 2019, the firm was nominated as Boutique Agency of the Year by the Holmes Report."}, {"text": "Rihards Butkus (born 25 August 1972) is a retired Latvian football defender."}, {"text": "Diversity ideology refers to individual beliefs regarding the nature of intergroup relations and how to improve them in culturally diverse societies. A large amount of scientific literature in social psychology studies diversity ideologies as prejudice reduction strategies, most commonly in the context of racial groups and interracial interactions. In research studies on the effects of diversity ideology, social psychologists have either examined endorsement of a diversity ideology as individual difference or used situational priming designs to activate the mindset of a particular diversity ideology. It is consistently shown that diversity ideologies influence how individuals perceive, judge and treat cultural outgroup members. Different diversity ideologies are associated with distinct effects on intergroup relations, such as stereotyping and prejudice, intergroup equality, and intergroup interactions from the perspectives of both majority and minority group members. Beyond intergroup consequences, diversity ideology also has implications on individual outcomes, such as whether people are open to cultural fusion and foreign ideas, which in turn predict creativity. There are two major categories of diversity ideology that are frequently compared and contrasted with each other: colorblindness and multiculturalism. Both ideologies have been shown to have mixed effects on intergroup relations: in general, colorblind ideology is associated with lower"}, {"text": "stereotyping but greater prejudice, especially implicit prejudice. On the other hand, multicultural ideology is associated with greater stereotyping but reduced prejudice, including both implicit and explicit prejudice. The ideologies are differently accepted by majority and minority groups, and often lead to divergent outcomes for groups depending on their position in the social hierarchy. Besides the two most commonly studied diversity ideologies, there is another emerging ideology termed polyculturalism. Research suggests that polyculturalism has mostly positive implications for intergroup attitudes, but given the novelty of this ideology, further exploration of its full spectrum of effects is needed. The supporters of diversity ideologies suggest that diversity and equality in the workforce, including at senior level, can increase company profits while providing morale and fairness, as Dr Miranda Brawn, diversity campaigner and founder of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation have said. Colorblindness. In a colorblind ideological approach, \u201cprejudice derives from people\u2019s emphasis on superficial and irrelevant group categories (e.g., race), and therefore prejudice can be decreased by de-emphasizing group memberships\u201d (p. 216). Therefore, colorblindness aims to address bias and reduce prejudice by neglecting all differences between social groups and avoiding drawing any distinction between people based on group categorizations. The ideology became"}, {"text": "prominent during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It was proposed as a strategy to eliminate blatant racism of Whites against Blacks in America. By explicitly recognizing that race does not and should not matter, colorblindness was intended to treat all races as identical, so that race could no longer be used as a basis to discriminate. Colorblind ideology derives from classic social psychology research on group categorization. Social identity theory posits that people have a natural tendency to identify with groups based on common social identity, and due to the motivation to maintain positive distinctiveness, people display ingroup favoritism, i.e. giving preferential treatment to ingroup versus outgroup members in evaluations and behaviors. As a result, group categorization and affiliation is associated with the primary source of intergroup conflict, which leads to a lardy body of work studying how changing group boundaries, such as recategorizing or minimizing group membership can help reduce ingroup bias and promote intergroup harmony. This literature reflects the core value of colorblind ideology, i.e. de-emphasizing group memberships in order to improve intergroup attitudes. Forms. Research has identified two forms of colorblindness, respectively focusing on group similarities and individual uniqueness. With the similarity approach, a common"}, {"text": "ingroup identity is emphasized, e.g. \"We all belong to nation X.\" By stressing a superordinate identity that everyone across groups belongs to, the salience and importance of intergroup differences is downplayed. With the uniqueness approach, individual differences are emphasized. Each individual is seen as unique and contributes distinct values. When individual identity is underscored as the most valuable, no meaningful comparisons should be made based on group categorizations. However, research suggests that the uniqueness approach may not be effective because focusing on each individual's unique qualities in daily encounters is too cognitively taxing for people and can impair social interactions. At the same time, even if outgroup members' unique values are stressed, people tend to neglect stereotype-inconsistent information and when they do, they tend to categorize these outgroup members as subcategories and thus do not change perceived stereotypes of outgroups. Moreover, critics of colorblind ideology argue that it largely neglects people's need to affiliate and belong, especially for marginalized group members who have greater need to identify with their groups. Distinction from assimilation. Assimilation refers to the belief that in order to promote intergroup harmony, minority groups should give up their group identities and adopt the dominant mainstream culture. The"}, {"text": "underlying idea is that if a society is culturally homogeneous, no prejudice could take place. However, this ideology may in itself reflect racism because it assumes the superiority of the majority group's culture while devaluing identities and cultures associated with minority groups. Assimilation is often compared to colorblindness as an intergroup ideology. Some researchers contend that colorblindness is a similarly racist approach as assimilation because both require minority groups to forgo their group identity and devalue minority groups' meaningful traditions and cultures. On the other hand, other researchers argue that while assimilation promotes a unitary cultural ideal by the dominant standard and requests conformity and submission, colorblindness as a diversity ideology is intended to promote a larger whole with which everyone identifies and to facilitate equal treatment of majority and minority group members. Research suggests that assimilation as an intergroup ideology is linked to higher social dominance orientation, or the tendency to support social hierarchy and anti-egalitarianism. It is associated with the most negative intergroup consequences, including greater stereotyping, more negative intergroup attitudes, and less support for liberal public policies promoting social equality for majority group members. Effects. Acceptance by majority and minority groups. Although colorblindness is intended to be"}, {"text": "a hierarchy-attenuating ideology that promotes equal treatment of all social group members, it is differently accepted by majority and minority group members. Research shows that the adoption of colorblindness by majority groups is associated with external motivation to control prejudice as it serves the purpose of ego protection. When White participants were concerned about appearing biased or faced normative pressure, they were more likely to avoid talking about race or recognizing race differences, suggesting the strategic use of colorblindness to appear egalitarian. Colorblindness can also serve as a tool to defend the status quo by majority groups. When anti-egalitarian White participants were exposed to intergroup threat, they used colorblindness to rationalize inequality and legitimize the racial status quo. From a developmental perspective, children learn to avoid expressing racial prejudice and minimize racial categorization around age 10. On the other hand, minority groups tend to seek more identification with their minority group identities, which is not recognized by the colorblind ideology. Therefore, while White Americans have been shown to be more likely to endorse colorblind ideology, Black Americans are more likely to endorse multicultural ideology where their unique racial identity is acknowledged. Stereotyping and prejudice. The effects of colorblind ideology on"}, {"text": "intergroup relations are mixed. In terms of stereotyping and prejudice, colorblindness is associated with decreased stereotyping of minority groups. People who are primed with colorblind ideology favor counterstereotypical minorities over stereotypical minorities. These findings suggest that colorblindness increases people's preference for individuals who display attributes atypical of their social groups and cross the group boundary. The colorblind ideology is also found to suppress expression of explicit prejudice in the short term, especially when intergroup conflict is high and more threat is triggered in the dominant group. However, implicit prejudice against minority groups rebounds at a later time point. The findings suggest that colorblindness may not reliably reduce prejudice, especially implicit prejudice, for sustained period of time. Intergroup interactions. In terms of intergroup interactions, research suggests that colorblind ideology is associated with worse intergroup attitudes towards minority group members. Colorblindness promotes a prevention orientation in people as it emphasizes not harboring certain perception and performing certain behaviors. Therefore, trying to consciously suppressing bias against outgroups and negativity in intergroup interactions can impair majority group's cognitive ability and executive functions. As a result, inducing majority group members to adopt a colorblind ideology and to ignore racial differences in intergroup interactions, which leads"}, {"text": "them to consciously exert to appear non-prejudiced, can paradoxically increase their tendency to express more negative attitudes and discriminate against minority groups. Majority group members can exhibit more negative nonverbal behaviors and be perceived as less friendly by their minority interaction partners. Moreover, in some research colorblindness is linked with greater ethnocentrism and in-group favoritism, i.e. favoring ingroup members and perceiving them in more positive light than out-group members. However, there are also some studies finding that colorblindness decreases ethnocentrism. From minority groups' perspective, evidence suggests that the adoption of colorblind ideology by majority group members also impairs minority performance and their perceived risk of discrimination. As a result, interacting with colorblind majority group members increases minority's cognitive taxation. This set of findings suggest that colorblindness may be more effective to address explicit bias than implicit unintentional bias in intergroup interactions between majority and minority groups. Sensitivity to racism. Colorblindness is associated with reduced awareness of racism and sensitivity to microaggressions as well as reports of them among majority group members. In the educational setting, research suggests that in schools advocating for colorblind ideology, White teachers who deemed themselves as being fair still discriminated against Black students, giving Black students"}, {"text": "more severe punishments and favoring White students in class elections. Similarly, children who were exposed to the colorblind ideology were less likely to perceive race-biased behaviors as discriminatory. Therefore, while colorblindness takes the stance of facilitating egalitarianism, it may prevent racism from being recognized and addressed. Multiculturalism. In a multiculturalism ideology, \u201cprejudice derives from a lack of knowledge of and respect for other groups\u201d and prejudice can be decreased by learning about other groups and appreciating the differences (p. 220). Its focus is on embracing, appreciating and learning about and from differences between social groups in order to promote justice and equality, and to better improve the living conditions of minority group members. In contrast to colorblindness that advocates for neglecting differences and avoiding discussion of group categorization, multiculturalism states that minority groups' unique histories, traditions and pasts should be recognized and appreciated. Therefore, multiculturalism is commonly viewed as the competing ideology directly contrasting with colorblindness. Forms. Three forms of multiculturalism are identified in social psychology research. First, the \"important difference\" form focuses on only recognizing that differences between groups exist and understanding the variety of perspectives, experiences and lives of different groups. Second, the \"appreciate contributions\" form emphasizes also"}, {"text": "the importance to appreciate each group's unique positive contribution and value to the diverse society. Lastly, the \"maintain culture\" form, directly in opposition to assimilation ideology, puts emphasis on paying attention to groups', especially newcomers to the society like immigrants, ability to maintain their unique identities and cultures. These forms are not mutually exclusive with each other, and many intergroup researchers study multiculturalism in some combined forms. Effects. Intergroup attitudes and interactions. Research shows that multiculturalism has positive implications for intergroup attitudes. Individual difference in multiculturalism ideology is related to different intergroup attitudes, such that people who score higher on measure of the ideology and support for multicultural policies are more tolerant of outgroups. Similarly, a meta-analysis of multicultural education programs indicates that multiculturalism as diversity ideology positively influences intergroup attitudes. With regard to prejudice, dominant group members who endorse multiculturalism exhibit less explicit and implicit prejudice towards minority members. Moreover, priming a multiculturalism ideology in majority group members is shown to increase their inclusivity, including increased capability of perspective-taking, more positive perception of minority group members, less ethnocentrism or ingroup bias, and less tendency to discriminate. From minority groups' perspective, because multiculturalism is more aligned with minority groups' need"}, {"text": "to identify with their unique group identity, minority groups are more likely than majority group members to support multiculturalism. Minority groups' psychological engagement in the workplace increases when working with colleagues who endorse multiculturalistic attitudes, an effect mediated by the perception of reduced intergroup bias. Stereotyping. However, research has also identified some negative effects associated with multiculturalism. While multiculturalism tends to decrease prejudice, some studies suggest that multiculturalism is associated with stronger stereotyping of minority group member, such that stereotypical minorities are viewed as favorable by White participants than counterstereotypical minorities when they are exposed to multicultural ideology. At the same time, multiculturalism, by putting great emphasis on how groups are distinctively different from each other, may be at risk of promoting greater division between groups and foster a more salient \u201cus\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d mindset. Therefore, the ideology may encourage people to restrict themselves to only their associated group membership rather than cross group boundaries. Some research supports that multiculturalism endorsement is associated with greater beliefs that racial differences are fixed and nonchangeable, which may explain why multiculturalism leads to greater stereotyping Majority group resistance. Another weakness of multiculturalism is that when intergroup conflict and perceived threat is high, multiculturalism"}, {"text": "can backfire and promote more hostility towards minority groups among majority group members. The more identified they are with their ingroup, majority group members experience more symbolic threat, and thus endorse multiculturalism less. When White participants perceived greater threat from racial minority groups, they endorsed multiculturalism ideology to a lesser degree, showed less tolerance of outgroups, and expressed more hostility towards their minority interaction partners. One reason underlying the role of threat in influencing the relationship between multiculturalism and improved intergroup attitudes is that majority groups are likely to perceive multiculturalism as exclusionary to minority groups and feel threatened about their status. Research finds that dominant group members identify with the multiculturalism ideology less than their minority counterparts. White participants were slower to associate multiculturalism with their self-concept than racial minorities, and were faster to pair exclusion with multiculturalism in an implicit association test. However, after being exposed to an \"all-inclusive multiculturalism\" message that intentionally frames the dominant group as being part of the diversity, the automatic pairing becomes slower. Comparison with colorblindness. As two major competing diversity ideologies, multiculturalism and colorblindness are frequently studied together to contrast their effects on intergroup interactions and attitudes. In one of the first"}, {"text": "set of studies directly comparing multiculturalism and colorblindness, researchers found that in the colorblind condition with a message of how intergroup harmony can be achieved by focusing on a superordinate identity and treating every individual as unique, participants were more likely to exhibit prejudice and ethnocentrism but less likely to display stereotyping of minority groups, as compared to the multiculturalism condition with a message stressing how diversity is valuable and group differences should be recognized. Compared to colorblindness, multiculturalism is also associated with greater collective self-esteem, such as identification with and sense of belonging to the ingroup, for minority groups. In a recent meta-analysis examining the relationship between different diversity ideologies and prejudice, researchers show that assimilation has a positive association with prejudice, multiculturalism has a small negative association with both explicit prejudice and implicit prejudice, and colorblindness has a very small negative correlation with prejudice. Compared to control group, priming a colorblind ideology is associated with lower explicit prejudice and ingroup bias, but with higher implicit bias than multiculturalism. Reviewers have drawn similar conclusions that the multiculturalism ideology has a more positive effect on intergroup relations and attitudes than colorblind ideology. Polyculturalism. In a polyculturalism ideology, each group's culture"}, {"text": "is not viewed as standing alone but rather receives influence from other groups\u2019 culture and traditions too. All cultures and people are conceptualized as the products of historical and contemporary interactions among many different groups, and deeply interconnected by intersecting histories. This ideology is developed based on historians' work that recognizes the existence of multiple racial and ethnic groups and focuses on the connected history, past and traditions among groups as well as their mutual influence. For example, historian Robin Kelley underscores interracial shared past by writing, \"All of us, and I mean ALL of us, are the inheritors of European, African, Native American, and even Asian pasts, even if we can\u2019t exactly trace our blood lines to all of these continents.\" Similarly, in this discussion of the historical roots of Kung Fu, historian Vijay Prashad shows that although considered as a uniquely Asian cultural product, Kung Fu has also been greatly influenced by African cultures and evolved as it received influence from multiple cultures in the world. Therefore, polyculturalism pays more attention to the interactions and connections between different racial groups. Unlike assimilation and colorblindness, polyculturalism does not require giving up one's unique social group identity or being assimilated"}, {"text": "into a dominant culture. Unlike multiculturalism, besides recognizing group differences and preserving the values of each group, polyculturalism moreover focuses on emphasizing the interconnectedness of one group's identity with other groups' identities. Effects. Intergroup attitudes and endorsement of equality. Social psychology research on polyculturalism has suggested generally positive effects on intergroup attitudes and endorsement of social equality. Polyculturalism is found to be associated with less support for social dominance and hierarchy, greater willingness to make intergroup contact, and greater support for public policies and institutions that promote social equality, such as affirmative action. It is also linked to improved and more positive intergroup attitudes towards minority groups. When dominant group participants endorsed polyculturalism more, they had less negative attitudes towards the LGBTQ community and less sexual prejudice. Moreover, preliminary evidence suggests that majority and minority groups are equally likely to support this ideology. The findings indicate that polyculturalism ideology could lead to greater endorsement of social equality, greater interest in and comfort with diversity and differences, and lower evaluative bias. Openness to change and foreign ideas. One reason why polyculturalism promotes more positivity in intergroup relations is that polyculturalism can encourage greater willingness to learn about different cultures and open"}, {"text": "to criticize and change one's own culture. As a downstream consequence, research finds that polyculturalism fosters creativity on problems that emphasizes cultural integration, an effect driven by greater propensity for foreign idea inclusion. Colorblindness, on the other hand, impaired creativity in problem-solving tasks that required associations between cultures. Potential weaknesses. There are some potential issues associated polyculturalism. Polyculturalism might lead group members to perceive that the cultural traditions and attributes valued by and unique to their respective ingroup as de-emphasized. When people deem their ingroup contribution to these values as greater than outgroups, they can view outgroups as more deviant than interconnected, which could have negative impact on intergroup harmony (see Ingroup Projection Model). As the study of this ideology is in an early stage, the weaknesses of polyculturalism and how it might incur backlash await further examination."}, {"text": "Susan Lerner Cohn is a professor of pediatrics and section chief of oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. She is recognized for her contributions to pediatric oncology research. Cohn received her BA in biology from Northwestern University in 1976. Four years later, she completed her MD degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and then did her pediatrics residency at Michael Reese Hospital in 1984 and a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at Lurie Children's Hospital and Northwestern University in 1987. In 2019, Cohn was replaced by Walter Stadler as dean for clinical research. Awards. In 2016, Cohn became a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In 2019, the American Association for Cancer Research awarded her with the Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for her \"Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research\"."}, {"text": "The 2019 English Open (officially the 2019 19.com English Open) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 14 to 20 October 2019 at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2019\u201320 snooker season and the first of the 2019 Home Nations Series. The event was the fourth edition of the English Open, first held in 2016. Betting company 19.com sponsored the tournament. The defending champion was Stuart Bingham, who defeated Mark Davis 9\u20137 in the 2018 final. Bingham lost 1\u20134 to Si Jiahui in the second round of the tournament. Mark Selby defeated David Gilbert 9\u20131 in the final to win his 16th ranking title. A total of 71 century breaks were made during the tournament. Tom Ford made the highest break of the event, his fifth career maximum break, and the second 147 of the season, in the of his 4\u20133 win over Shaun Murphy in the last 16. Format. The English Open was first played in 2016 as a world ranking tournament and a part of the Home Nations Series. The 2019 event was held in the K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley, England. The event was the fourth ranking"}, {"text": "tournament of the 2019\u201320 snooker season, and the first of four Home Nations Series events. The event followed the China Championship and preceded the World Open. Stuart Bingham, who defeated Mark Davis 9\u20137 in the 2018 final was the defending champion. All matches were played as the best of 7 until the quarter-finals, at which point the number increased: 9 in the quarter-finals; 11 in the semi-finals; and the best of 19 frames in the final. Chinese sports prediction website 19.com sponsored the event, which was broadcast by Quest in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland; in Europe by Eurosport; NowTV in Hong Kong; Superstars Online, Youku and Zhibo.tv in China; DAZN in Canada; Truesport in Thailand and Sky Sport in New Zealand. Prize fund. The event's total prize fund was a total of \u00a3405,000, with the winner receiving \u00a370,000. The breakdown of prize money for the tournament is shown below: Summary. Rounds one to four were played between 14 and 17 October as the best of seven frames. Tian Pengfei defeated Gerard Greene, Alan McManus and Dominic Dale to reach the last 16 round. He met Si Jiahui, who had defeated the defending champion Stuart Bingham in"}, {"text": "the second round 4\u20131. Tian completed a whitewash over Si Jiahui. Tom Ford, seeded 24, completed 4\u20130 wins over Peter Lines and Lu Ning before defeating Kyren Wilson 4\u20132. In the last 16, Ford played Shaun Murphy, and made a maximum break in the final frame to win the match 4\u20133. Twelfth seed David Gilbert defeated Stuart Carrington, amateur Ryan Davies, Kurt Maflin to meet Zhao Xintong in the last 16, which he won 4\u20133. Ricky Walden received a bye in his second round match against Sam Craigie, after Craigie failed to arrive before defeating Michael Holt 4\u20133 to reach the last 16. There he met Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and won 4\u20132. Chinese player Mei Xiwen defeated Yan Bingtao, Li Hang and Elliot Slessor. He met five-time World Snooker Championship winner Ronnie O'Sullivan, defeating him 4\u20133. Mark Selby, ranked sixth defeated Barry Pinches, Martin O'Donnell and Matthew Selt before defeating Xiao Guodong 4\u20131 to reach the quarter-finals. Mark Allen completed two whitewashes over Andy Lee and tenth seed Barry Hawkins to progress to the quarter-finals. World number 80 Lee Walker defeated Chen Zifan and Robbie Williams to play world number one Judd Trump in the last 32. Trump did not a"}, {"text": "ball in the opening two frames as Walker won the match 4\u20132, and defeated Gary Wilson to reach the quarter-finals. The quarter-finals were played on 18 October as the best of 9 frames. Ford completed a 5-0 whitewash over Tian. Allen defeated Walker, who won only frame 5. Selby defeated Mei, who had led by three frames. The match between Gilbert and Walden went to a as Gilbert won 5\u20134. The semi-finals were played as the best of 11 frames on 19 October. The first was held as Gilbert defeated Ford 6\u20133. Allen and Selby faced off in the second semi-final, as Selby led 3\u20131 but later trailed 3\u20135. Selby took the last three frames to win the match 6\u20135. The final was played on 20 October between Selby and Gilbert, as the best of 17 frames held over two . Selby won the first five frames with breaks of 88, 68, 79 and 85 before Gilbert won frame six with a century break. Selby made a of 130 in frame seven, before a 97 in the last frame of the session put him 7\u20131 up. Selby won both of the two frames in the second session, with a century"}, {"text": "break in frame 10 to win 9\u20131. After the win, Selby commented, \"It's been a long time since I won my last tournament .. I've been second guessing myself wondering if I am doing things right.\" He also commented that Gilbert would win a ranking event soon. This was the 16th career ranking win for Selby. Main draw. The results from the event are shown below. Seeded players have their seedings in brackets. Players highlighted in bold denote match winners. Century breaks. A total of 71 century breaks were made during the event. The highest was a maximum break made by Ford in the final frame of his 4\u20133 win over Murphy."}, {"text": "Ada Maria Thil\u00e9n (May 10, 1852 \u2013 June 14, 1933) was a Finnish painter known for her landscapes. Life. Ada Thil\u00e9n was born in Kuopio in 1852. Her left eye was damaged from birth, and she had to use a glass eye for the rest of her life. Her father was the Senate Treasury Chamber Councilor Julius Gustaf Reinhold Thil\u00e9n (1812\u20131887) and her mother was Vilhelmina Angelika Elisabet Ehrnrooth (1827\u20131890). Thil\u00e9n studied with the Finnish-Swedish painter Hjalmar Munsterhjelm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm and under L\u00e9on Bonnat and Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me in Paris. She went on painting trips, including Brittany in 1886. Thil\u00e9n participated in exhibitions of Finnish Artists in 1893, 1895, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1906 and 1924. Thil\u00e9n painted landscapes and portraits in oils and also worked in pastel and watercolor. Her works are stylistically representative of French realism of the 1880s, which also had Italian influences. The Finnish National biography believes that her profile is less than her contemporaries because of her modesty and because she has not attracted the same level of academic interest. In 1896 she painted her own self portrait. She continued to use a glass eye and this did not"}, {"text": "seem to affect her success as an artist. She had a long friendship with three other female artists: Helene Schjerfbeck, Maria Wiik and Helena Westermarck (with whom she once shared a studio). These Swedish and Finnish female painters all studied together between 1876 and 1878 under Professor Adolf von Becker. She debuted as an artist in 1876, initially representing landscapes, with an idealistic and romantic vision of art, influenced by her first teachers. In 1880 she began to study in Paris at the Tr\u00e9lat Academy, where she had the French painters L\u00e9on Bonnat and Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me as professors. Other Finnish artists studying in the Parisian academy at the time included Helene Schjerfbeck, Helena Westermarck, Ellen Favorin and Alma Engblom, who along with Thil\u00e9n, went on to study at the Acad\u00e9mie Colarossi, under the tutelage of realist salon artists Gustave Courtois and Louis-Joseph-Rapha\u00ebl Collin. Her Parisian teachers, along with the influence exerted on her by the Finnish painters Fanny Churberg and Hilda Granstedt during the summer of 1880, were key in Thil\u00e9n's evolution towards portrait painting and the typical French realism of the time, with Italian influences, which is reflected in her most famous work, The Blue Bell Girl of 1890."}, {"text": "Thil\u00e9n used oil paints, as well as watercolors and pastels, and her works were usually small in size and nature-themed. Her work is characterized by simplicity, emotion and mastery of drawing and color. In 1896 Thil\u00e9n painted her self-portrait. She made trips to several destinations, in which she dedicated herself to painting landscapes and portraits."}, {"text": "Big Branch is a long 2nd order tributary to the Haw River, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Course. Big Branch rises west-northwest of Mandale in Alamance County, North Carolina and then flows east to the Haw River about 1.5 miles northeast of Mandale. Watershed. Big Branch drains of area, receives about 47.1 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 426.73 and is about 47% forested."}, {"text": "This list of rail trails in Michigan lists former railroad rights-of-way in Michigan that have been converted to rail trails for public use. A rail trail may still include rails, such as light rail or streetcar. By virtue of their characteristic shape (long and flat), some shorter rail trails are known as greenways and linear parks. , Michigan has the most total mileage (2,381) of any state."}, {"text": "K station may refer to:"}, {"text": "St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Cima da Conegliano, created \"c.\" 1505\u20131506, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It references the sacra conversazione pieces by Giovanni Bellini, whilst the landscape shows the artist as an early adopter of the new style of Giorgione. The work was commissioned by the spice merchant Benedetto Carlone for the chapel dedicated to St Peter Martyr in Corpus Domini, a church in Venice, where he planned to be buried. It shows the saint dressed in Dominican habit. The church was suppressed under the Napoleonic occupation of Italy and the painting arrived in Brera in 1811."}, {"text": "The 1903\u201304 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1903\u201304 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his fifth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "Javon Anthony Bess (born April 1, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Igokea m:tel of the Bosnian League and the ABA League. He played college basketball for Michigan State and Saint Louis. Early life and high school. Bess was born in Columbus, Ohio, grew up in Gahanna and moved to the suburb of Pickerington to live with his aunt and uncle when he was in eighth grade because of family issues. He attended Pickerington High School Central and helped the Tigers win the 2012 Ohio High School Athletic Association Division I state basketball title as a sophomore. He moved back to Gahanna at the end of the school year to be with his parents and enrolled at Lincoln High School. As a junior, Bess averaged 18.5 points and 7.5 rebounds and was named second team all-Central District. Rated a three star recruit, Bess committed to play college basketball at Michigan State University over offers from Dayton, Kansas State, UMass and Xavier going into his senior year. As a senior, Bess averaged 22.0 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game and was named first team All-State and the Ohio Division I Co-Player of the Year. College career. Michigan"}, {"text": "State. Bess began his collegiate career at Michigan State. After missing the first 10 games of his freshman season while recovering from a broken foot, he played in 12 games as a freshman, starting three and averaging 2.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per game. Bess's season ended early after re-breaking his foot. Bess began his sophomore season as a starter for the Spartans but his playing time went down significantly as the season progressed. He finished the year with 2.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 11 minutes played per game. He announced that he would be leaving the program after the end of the season. He initially committed to transfer to Akron, but de-committed to play at Saint Louis University. Saint Louis. Bess sat out his junior season due to NCAA transfer rules. In his first season playing for the Billikens, Bess led the team with 13.3 points per game and total rebounds with 244 (7.8 per game) and was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference All-Defensive team. As a redshirt senior, Bess averaged 15.2 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per game and was named second team All-Atlantic 10, All-Defense and the Defensive Player of the Year. Professional career. Bess"}, {"text": "agreed to sign with the New Orleans Pelicans as an undrafted free agent on June 21, 2019. Bess officially signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the team on September 24, 2019. Bess was released by the Pelicans on October 19, 2019. Following his release, Bess joined the Pelicans' NBA G League affiliate, the Erie BayHawks. On November 17, 2019, Bess had 19 points, three rebounds and one assist in a loss to the Lakeland Magic. He missed four games in November and December 2019 with an ankle injury. In June 2021, Bess signed with Tindast\u00f3ll of the Icelandic \u00darvalsdeild karla. On June 15, 2022, he has signed with BG G\u00f6ttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga. On June 17, 2024, he signed with T\u00fcrk Telekom of the Turkish Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi (BSL). On July 5, 2025, he signed with Igokea m:tel of the Bosnian League and the ABA League. The Basketball Tournament. Bess joined Big X, a team composed primarily of former Big Ten players in The Basketball Tournament 2020. He scored 11 points in a 79\u201374 win over alternate D2 in the first round."}, {"text": "State Route 229 (SR 229), also known as R W Moore Memorial Rt Highway, is a very short long north-south state highway in Hickman County, Tennessee. It is the only access road in and out of Turney Center Industrial Complex, a state prison. SR 229 is a very curvy and rural two-lane highway for its entire length, and it parallels the Duck River for the majority of its length. Some maps, such as Google Maps, show SR 229 continuing north along Only Road and Dyer Road to pass through the community of Only, even though this is not recognized by TDOT as part of SR 229 and is actually a former alignment of SR 50."}, {"text": "Yevgeniy Korotovskiy (Russian: \u0415\u0432\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0413\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u0434\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439, born 1 June 1992 in Smolensk) is a Russian hammer thrower. His personal best is of 77.29 m in Sochi, Russia on 24 February 2018. He finished third at the 2019 European Throwing Cup. He qualified as an ANA for the final at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, where he finished 12th."}, {"text": "Drue is a name. Notable people with this name include:"}, {"text": "The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Barton Wright 0-6-2T were tank engines introduced by Barton Wright between 1877 and 1883. This was the first use of the type in Britain. Design and construction. Locomotive superintendent William Barton Wright began by rebuilding a Jenkins tank with wheels in 1877 with side tanks and a trailing Webb radial axle, this being the first example of this type in the Britain. Further conversions ensued and a total of 18 were rebuilt by 1883. Ten new locomotives, the first taking the number 141, were ordered from Kitson in 1880 with driving wheels for freight traffic, these between designed to share components such as boilers, wheels, cylinders and motion as the existing 1876 engines. 14 of passenger variant of the design were supplied by Kitson in 1881 having driving wheels and a longer total wheelbase. A further 40 were delivered from D\u00fcbs & Company between 1882 and 1883. Ernest Ahrons noted that the purpose of the design was to provide additional coal and water compared to a . He dismisses the idea the design improves the curving properties of the locomotive, said this only applies when running bunker first. When running chimney first additional force"}, {"text": "is placed on the leading outward wheel flange. He notes that on routes with severe curves there have been cases where the types have had to be replaced with locomotives with a arrangement. Service. They were as being described as \"probably the most useful type on the LYR in their day\". They were noted for being capable of managing a train of 12 coaches of 12 tons up the 1 in 27 gradient to . Most were withdrawn in the early 1900s with a few lasting into LMS service in the late 1920s and early 1930s. One of the goods engines, No. 146 was fitted with a crane in 1924 and survived until 1931. About twenty of the passenger variety lasted into LMS service, with four surviving until 1932, and No. 247 with motion removed serving as a carriage warmer until the mid-1960s."}, {"text": "The Silver Shell for Best Actress (Spanish: \"Concha de Plata a la mejor actriz\"; Basque: \"Aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra\") was one of the main awards presented at the San Sebasti\u00e1n International Film Festival to the Best Actress of a competing film. The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with a gender-neutral Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance the following year."}, {"text": "The 1988 Volvo U.S. National Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Racquet Club of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States that was part of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 18th edition of the tournament was held from February 15 through February 21, 1988. First-seeded Andre Agassi won the singles title. Finals. Singles. Andre Agassi defeated Mikael Pernfors 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 7\u20135 Doubles. Kevin Curren / David Pate defeated Peter Lundgren / Mikael Pernfors 6\u20132, 6\u20132"}, {"text": "Bertha Maude Horack Shambaugh (February 12, 1871 \u2013 August 30, 1953) was an American photographer and writer. Early life. Shambaugh was born in Belle Plaine, Iowa on February 12, 1871, later moving in 1880 to Iowa City with her parents and two younger brothers. She became interested in art and music because of her father while she learned of classic literature from her mother. From 1890 to 1891, she took more than 100 pictures of the Amana Colonies. From 1889 to 1895, Shambaugh was taught by Thomas Macbride at the State University of Iowa. She married Benjamin Shambaugh on August 11, 1897, after first meeting him at one of his lectures about the history of Iowa City. Career. As part of the 1901 Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the State of Iowa, she completed a study about the industrial phases of the Amana society. In 1896, her essay about the Amanas appeared in the \"Midland Monthly\". She published an article about the same subject in October 1902 for World Today, featuring her photographs. In 1908, her book \"Amana: Community of True Inspiration\" was published by the State Historical Society of Iowa. Shambaugh has been named"}, {"text": "\"the chief historian of Amana\"."}, {"text": "The Disputation on the Trinity is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Sarto, created \"c.\" 1517, now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. At the top of the painting is a vision of the Holy Trinity. Seated in the foreground are Saint Sebastian and Mary Magdalene, the latter modelled on the artist's wife Lucrezia del Fede. Behind them stand four male saints, from left to right Augustine of Hippo (with his bishop's staff), Saint Lawrence (with the gridiron of his martyrdom), Peter Martyr (holding a book, wearing a Dominican habit and with a sword in his head) and Francis of Assisi (in his order's habit and bearing the stigmata). History. Some art historians argue the work was commissioned by the Peri family due to its inclusion of saints linked to that family. It was the third painting Sarto produced for the Augustinian Church of San Gallo in Florence \u2013 the others were the \"San Gallo Annunciation\" and a \"Noli me tangere\". All the monastery's goods were moved to the church of San Jacopo tra Fossi for safety in 1529 just before the Siege of Florence. That church was destroyed soon afterwards. The date painted on the"}, {"text": "step is a later addition, but Vasari's \"Lives of the Artists\" records it was produced after the \"Madonna of the Harpies\" (1517), and this dating is generally accepted by comparison with other works from that time. Bocchi's account of the painting states it was damaged in the 1557 flood, but no trace of such damage was found in a 1985 restoration. The work is included in a 17th-century inventory of the Galleria Palatina, spending some time at the Uffizi (1697\u20131716) before returning decisively to the Galleria Palatina in 1829, where it was hung in the Sala di Saturno."}, {"text": "Bethel Military Academy was a school near Warrenton, Virginia in Fauquier County. It operated from 1867 until 1911 and had several prominent alumni. The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill in 1901 incorporating the school. The bill included a requirement that one student chosen from each district of Virginia was granted tuition free admission to the school. The 1896 Maryland Aggies football team played against Bethel Academy. Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternity had a branch at the school for a few years. Buttons worn on a uniform from the school include the Virginia state seal of Virtus slaying the giant."}, {"text": "Dark Suns () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien \u00c9lie and released in 2018. The film examines the epidemic of murder as consequence of the illegal drug trade in Mexico. It centres on \"the stories of disappeared women\" and \"the violence against journalists, union leaders, social rights activists, and priests\", primarily through the personal testimonies of surviving friends, colleagues and family members of murder victims. The film premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in November 2018, and received a commercial run in 2019 alongside other film festival screenings. In 2023 \u00c9lie followed up with \"The White Guard (La Garde blanche)\", which delved further into the issue of state-sponsored violence in Mexico. Critical response. In a review for \"Film Inquiry\", the film was described as \"remarkably constructed despite the non-linear storytelling.\" The reviewer added, \"Dark Suns is utterly vital and haunting, chronicling a staggering history of crime and injustice that needs \u2013 and has long needed \u2013 urgent attention from any higher-up with a conscience. It's often difficult to stomach, but these stories need to be told.\" For the \"Modern Times Review\", \"Julien Elie's Mexico is a nightmare where anyone can disappear, anybody can get killed, and everybody"}, {"text": "is in constant danger. Criminals produce mass graves while countless people look for the bones of loved ones.\" Awards. The film won the Sichtwechsel Film Award at Filmfest Hamburg in 2019. It received three Prix Iris nominations at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020, for Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Fran\u00e7ois Messier-Rheault and Ernesto Pardo) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Aube Foglia)."}, {"text": "Ardasan () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 163 as of 2010. There are 4 streets. Geography. Ardasan is located 25 km north of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yagodnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Baraty (; , \"Borootoi\") is a rural locality (a settlement) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 589 as of 2010. There are 14 streets. Geography. Baraty is located 20 km southwest of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zagustay is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Derry's Clock Tower (or Derry's Cross) is a free-standing clock tower in the city of Plymouth, England. The clock and the nearby former bank are the only buildings to survive the Blitz and postwar development in the immediate area. On 1 May 1975, English Heritage listed the clock tower at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance. History. Built in 1862, it was intended as a personal gift for the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward (the future Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia, the daughter of Christian IX of Denmark. The clock tower was a gift from William Derry (1817\u20131903), the Mayor of Plymouth between 1861\u201362. Prior to the destruction of the area in World War II, the clock stood at a major junction of the city comprising George Street, Union Street and Lockyer Street and was commonly regarded as the centre of Plymouth. Present day. The structure remains standing in its original location and can be found behind the new Theatre Royal. The clock in the tower has worked for almost all of its 157-year history, including during the Blitz, but as of 3 September 2019, the clock is not functioning. The repairs to"}, {"text": "the clocks internal mechanism were completed and it is again working. The actual date it was restored is unknown but was visually confirmed as working on 22nd June 2023."}, {"text": "Bilyutay (; , \"B\u00fcliuute\") is a rural locality (a selo) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 212 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Bilyutay is located 96 km southeast of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podlopatki and Verkhny Mangirtuy are the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Bulak (; , \"Bulag\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2010. Geography. Bulak is located 7 km northeast of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gusinoozyorsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Burgastay (; , \"Burgaastai\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 96 as of 2010. Geography. Burgastay is located 38 km south of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoselenginsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "In graph theory, a maximally matchable edge in a graph is an edge that is included in at least one maximum-cardinality matching in the graph. An alternative term is allowed edge. A fundamental problem in matching theory is: given a graph \"G\", find the set of all maximally matchable edges in \"G.\" This is equivalent to finding the union of \"all\" maximum matchings in \"G\" (this is different than the simpler problem of finding a \"single\" maximum matching in \"G\"). Several algorithms for this problem are known. Motivation. Consider a matchmaking agency with a pool of men and women. Given the preferences of the candidates, the agency constructs a bipartite graph where there is an edge between a man and a woman if they are compatible. The ultimate goal of the agency is to create as many compatible couples as possible, i.e., find a maximum-cardinality matching in this graph. Towards this goal, the agency first chooses an edge in the graph, and suggests to the man and woman on both ends of the edge to meet. Now, the agency must take care to only choose a maximally matchable edge. This is because, if it chooses a non-maximally matchable edge, it"}, {"text": "may get stuck with an edge that cannot be completed to a maximum-cardinality matching. Definition. Let \"G\" = (\"V\",\"E\") be a graph, where \"V\" are the vertices and \"E\" are the edges. A \"matching\" in \"G\" is a subset \"M\" of \"E\", such that each vertex in \"V\" is adjacent to at most a single edge in \"M\". A \"maximum matching\" is a matching of maximum cardinality. An edge \"e\" in \"E\" is called maximally matchable (or allowed) if there exists a maximum matching \"M\" that contains \"e\". Algorithms for general graphs. Currently, the best known deterministic algorithm for general graphs runs in time formula_1 . There is a randomized algorithm for general graphs in time formula_2 . Algorithms for bipartite graphs. In bipartite graphs, if a single maximum-cardinality matching is known, it is possible to find all maximally matchable edges in linear time - formula_3. If a maximum matching is not known, it can be found by existing algorithms. In this case, the resulting overall runtime is formula_4 for general bipartite graphs and formula_5 for dense bipartite graphs with formula_6. Bipartite graphs with a perfect matching. The algorithm for finding maximally matchable edges is simpler when the graph admits"}, {"text": "a perfect matching. Let the bipartite graph be formula_7, where formula_8 and formula_9. Let the perfect matching be formula_10. \"Theorem:\" an edge \"e\" is maximally matchable if-and-only-if \"e\" is included in some \"M-alternating cycle\" - a cycle that alternates between edges in \"M\" and edges not in \"M\". \"Proof\": Now, consider a directed graph formula_11, where formula_12 and there is an edge from formula_13 to formula_14 in \"H\" iff formula_15 and there is an edge between formula_16 and formula_17 in \"G\" (note that by assumption such edges are not in \"M\"). Each \"M\"-alternating cycle in \"G\" corresponds to a \"directed cycle\" in \"H\". A directed edge belongs to a directed cycle iff both its endpoints belong to the same strongly connected component. There are algorithms for finding all strongly connected components in linear time. Therefore, the set of all maximally matchable edges can be found as follows: Bipartite graphs without a perfect matching. Let the bipartite graph be formula_7, where formula_8 and formula_25 and formula_26. Let the given maximum matching be formula_27, where formula_28. The edges in \"E\" can be categorized into two classes: \"Theorem:\" All formula_29-lower edges are maximally matchable. \"Proof\": suppose formula_30 where formula_31 is saturated and formula_32"}, {"text": "is not. Then, removing formula_30 from formula_29 and adding formula_30 yields a new maximum-cardinality matching. Hence, it remains to find the maximally matchable edges among the \"M\"-upper ones. Let \"H\" be the subgraph of \"G\" induced by the \"M\"-saturated nodes. Note that \"M\" is a perfect matching in \"H\". Hence, using the algorithm of the previous subsection, it is possible to find all edges that are maximally matchable in \"H\". Tassa explains how to find the remaining maximally matchable edges, as well as how to dynamically update the set of maximally matchable edges when the graph changes."}, {"text": "Deben () is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 158 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Deben is located 81 km south of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nur-Tukhum is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Dede-Sutoy (; , \"Deede S\u00fctei\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 360 as of 2010. Geography. Dede-Sutoy is located 33 km east of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tokhoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yenhor (; , \"Yonkhor\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 195 as of 2010. There are 8 streets. Geography. Yenhor is located 51 km south of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novoselenginsk is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yekhe-Tsagan (; , \"Yekhe Sagaan\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 399 as of 2010. There are 6 streets. Geography. Yekhe-Tsagan is located 41 km southwest of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. 5818-y km is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "\"We Print The Truth\" is a 1943 science fiction/fantasy short story by Anthony Boucher. It was first published in \"Astounding Science Fiction\", in December 1943. Synopsis. When editor John McVeagh is offered a gift by a supernatural being, he asks that his newspaper only ever print the truth. This has consequences beyond what he could have imagined. Reception. \"We Print the Truth\" was a finalist for the 1944 Retro Hugo for Best Novella. In his 2015 review of Boucher's work, Jeffrey Marks noted the presence of Boucher's thematic \"passions\": religion (the story begins with characters discussing \"God's love for truth and the responsibility of humans to record that truth\") and mystery (the first section of the story involves a murder investigation \u2014 which, Marks emphasizes, is \"sensational, but not remotely science fiction\"). Writing for \"The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\", Brian Stableford called it \"moralistic\" and \"perhaps [Boucher's] finest work\"."}, {"text": "Zhargalanta () is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 935 as of 2010. There are 11 streets. Geography. Zhargalanta is located 22 km north of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tokhoy is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1939\u201340 Akron Firestone Non-Skids season was the Akron Firestone NonSkids' third year in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which was also the third year the league existed. Eight teams competed in the NBL, comprising four teams each in the Eastern and Western Divisions. The NonSkids were one of two teams from Akron, Ohio in the league, the other being the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots. The NonSkids played their home games at Firestone Clubhouse. For the second season in a row, the Non-Skids finished the season with a league best record (19\u20139) and won the Eastern Division. They then went on to repeat as league champions, once again topping the Western Division's Oshkosh All-Stars, three games to two in a best-of-five series, for the second consecutive season. Head coach Paul Sheeks repeated as the league's Coach of the Year Award. Players Soup Cable (First Team) and Jack Ozburn (Second Team) earned All-NBL honors for the second straight season as well. Playoffs. Eastern Division Semifinals. (E1) Akron Firestone Non-Skids vs. (E2) Detroit Eagles: \"Akron wins series 2\u20131\" NBL Championship. (E1) Akron Firestone Non-Skids vs. (W1) Oshkosh All-Stars: \"Akron wins series 3\u20132\""}, {"text": "Zalan () is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 74 as of 2010. There are 2 streets. Geography. Zalan is located 54 km southeast of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zurgan-Debe is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1904\u201305 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University during the 1904\u201305 collegiate men's basketball season. The head coach was John Kimmell, in his sixth season coaching the Sycamores. The team played their home games at North Hall in Terre Haute, Indiana."}, {"text": "The Venus Italica is a marble sculpture commissioned by Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte and fashioned by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Canova finished the original work in 1802 and modelled two further variants which he completed in 1819. The work was to serve as a replacement for the \"Venus de Medici\" sculpture, a copy of an antique work by Cleomenes of Athens, which had been seized, taken to France and placed in the Louvre in 1802 by orders of Bonaparte. After Napoleon's abdication the \"Venus de Medici\" was returned to Italy on 27 December 1815 and is since on display in the \"Room of Venus\" in the \"Galleria Palatina\" at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. History. Early 19th century president of the \"Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze\" (Florence Academy of Fine Arts) Count Giovanni degli Alessandri encouraged the ingenious Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova to create a copy of the \"Venus de Medici\". Canova approved and set to work on the \"Venus Italica\", which is considered to be one of his masterpieces in both, artistic conception and craftship. According to art critic Edward Lucie-Smith the artistic expression of sexual vulnerability is conveyed better than on the original \"Venus de Medici\". Most viewers have"}, {"text": "noticed Canova's superior craftmanship on marble surfaces and textures. His unique technique and ability to achieve the illusion of human flesh has been called the \"Direct touch\". Canova would eventually begin to display his studio works in candlelight. Intrigued by the effects of the light and shade of the candles on the translucent marble surface Canova soon began to further soften the transitions between the various parts of the statue and rub them down with special tools and pumice stone, sometimes for weeks or months. Finally he would apply an unknown compound of patina onto the flesh of the sculpture to lighten the skin tone. This process has been called the \"Last touch\"."}, {"text": "Zaozerny () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 800 as of 2010."}, {"text": "Zurgan-Debe (; , \"Zurgaan Debe\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 878 as of 2010. There are 39 streets. Geography. Zurgan-Debe is located 64 km southeast of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road."}, {"text": "Mengey () is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2010. There is 1 street."}, {"text": "Nizhny Ubukun (; , \"Doodo B\u00fckhen\") is a rural locality (a selo) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 207 as of 2010. Geography. Nizhny Ubukun is located 42 km northeast of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khargana is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Delvin Rumbino (born 3 June 1995) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship club PSIS Semarang. Club career. Perseru Serui. In 2018, Rumbino joined Liga 1 club Perseru Serui. He made his debut on 25 March 2018 in a match against Persebaya Surabaya. On 31 July 2018, Rumbino scored his first goal for Perseru in the 93rd minute against Persebaya Surabaya. Persela Lamongan. In 2019, Rumbino joined Liga 1 club Persela Lamongan. He made his debut on 17 May 2019 in a match against Madura United. On 15 November 2019, Rumbino scored his first goal for Persela in the 43rd minute against Persija Jakarta. PS Barito Putera. He was signed for Barito Putera to play in Liga 1 in the 2020 season. This season was suspended on 27 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season was abandoned and was declared void on 20 January 2021. Persis Solo. In 2021, Rumbino signed a contract with Indonesian Liga 2 club Persis Solo. He made first 2021\u201322 Liga 2 debut on 26 September 2021, coming on as a starter in a 2\u20130 win against Bekasi City at the Manahan Stadium, Surakarta. PSM Makassar (loan). In 2022,"}, {"text": "Rumbino signed a contract with Indonesian Liga 1 club PSM Makassar, on loan from Persis Solo. He made his league debut on 8 January 2022 in a match against Madura United at the Ngurah Rai Stadium, Denpasar. PSIS Semarang. Rumbino officially joined PSIS Semarang for the 2022\u201323 Liga 1 competition. He made first 2022\u201323 Liga 1 debut on 23 July 2022 in a match against RANS Nusantara at the Jatidiri Stadium, Semarang."}, {"text": "Nur-Tukhum (; , \"Nuur T\u00fckhem\") is a rural locality (an ulus) in Selenginsky District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The population was 674 as of 2010. There are 30 streets. Geography. Nur-Tukhum is located 69 km south of Gusinoozyorsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novodesyatnikovo is the nearest rural locality."}]