[{"text": "Amad Diallo (born 11 July 2002), sometimes known mononymously as Amad, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for club Manchester United and the Ivory Coast national team. As a versatile player, he could also be deployed as a wing-back. Born in the Ivory Coast, Amad moved to Italy as a child. He joined the Atalanta youth system in 2015, where he won two Campionato Primavera 1 titles. In 2019, he scored on his debut for the senior team. In January 2021, Amad joined Manchester United, and had loan spells at Rangers and Sunderland. Amad made his senior international debut for the Ivory Coast in March 2021, in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification game. Early life. Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Amad emigrated to Italy at a young age. He started out at Boca Barco's youth team in September 2014, where he impressed at a Christmas tournament the same year; he was the tournament's top goalscorer as the youngest on the field. Amad was officially registered to the team on 14 January 2015. Club career. Atalanta. 2015\u20132020: Youth. With a number of Serie A clubs being interested in him while at Boca"}, {"text": "Barco, Amad moved to Atalanta in 2015. While initially starting with the under-14s during the 2015\u201316 season, Amad quickly moved to the under-15 team. He played in the Final Eight, scoring against Roma in the final and helping his side win the league title. During the 2016\u201317 season, he played for the under-15 side before moving to the under-17s in 2017\u201318, where he scored 12 goals in 27 appearances. In 2018\u201319, Amad scored 12 goals and made seven assists in 16 under-17 games, and six goals and six assists in 26 games in the Campionato Primavera 1, the under-19 championship. He won the 2018\u201319 season with Atalanta. In 2019, Amad won the Supercoppa Primavera, providing both assists in a 2\u20131 win over Fiorentina. He scored six goals and made six assists in 25 league games, helping Atalanta win the Campionato Primavera 1 in 2019\u201320 for a second successive season. 2019\u20132021: Senior. Amad made his Serie A debut on 27 October 2019, coming on as a 79th-minute substitute against Udinese, and scored his first goal four minutes later in a 7\u20131 home win. He became the first player born in 2002 to score in the Italian top flight. His first UEFA"}, {"text": "Champions League call-up came on 11 December 2019, as an unused substitute in a 3\u20130 away win against Shakhtar Donetsk. Amad's first league game in the 2020\u201321 season was on 28 November 2020, as a 77th-minute substitute against Hellas Verona; Atalanta lost 2\u20130 at home. Amad made his Champions League debut on 1 December, after being subbed on in the 68th minute against Midtjylland in a 1\u20131 home draw. Manchester United. 2020\u201321: Debut season. On 5 October 2020, Manchester United agreed to sign Amad in January 2021, pending the agreement of personal terms, passing a medical and the issue of a work permit. The reported fee was of \u20ac21.3 million \u2013 \u20ac37 million including bonuses. Amad officially joined on 7 January 2021, on a five-year contract with the option of an extra year. Amad scored a brace on his debut for the Under-23s, in a 6\u20133 win over Liverpool on 30 January. He was first called up to the senior team on 9 February, as an unused substitute in an FA Cup fifth round match against West Ham United, which ended in a 1\u20130 Manchester United win after extra time. On 18 February, Amad made his first-team debut for United"}, {"text": "as a substitute for Mason Greenwood in a 4\u20130 away win over Real Sociedad in the first leg of the Europa League round of 32 tie. His first goal for United came on 11 March, in a 1\u20131 home draw against AC Milan in the first leg of the Europa League round of 16 tie. On 11 May, Amad made his league debut against Leicester City, assisting Greenwood's goal in a 2\u20131 defeat; the goal was the first time in 15 years a teenager assisted another for a Premier League goal. Amad played his first game of the 2021\u201322 season on 8 December 2021, starting the UEFA Champions League group stage match against Young Boys. 2022\u201323: Loans to Rangers and Sunderland. Amad was loaned to Scottish Premiership club Rangers on 27 January 2022, for the remainder of the season. He made his debut on 29 January, scoring the opener of the game as a starter in a 3\u20133 away draw to Ross County. On 31 August 2022, Amad joined Sunderland in the EFL Championship on a season-long loan. He scored his first goal for Sunderland on 22 October, in a 4\u20132 home defeat to Burnley. With three goals in five"}, {"text": "games in December, Amad won the EFL Young Player of the Month award. Amad finished the season with 14 goals and 4 assists across all competitions, which made him Sunderland's top goal scorer that season, including a free kick from 25 yards in the play-off semi-final against Luton Town. 2023\u201324: Breakthrough season at Manchester United. Amad played his first game for United in over two seasons on 30 December 2023, as a substitute in the 2\u20131 league defeat away to Nottingham Forest. On 17 March 2024, Amad scored the winning goal in the last minute of extra time in a 4\u20133 win against Liverpool in the 2023\u201324 FA Cup quarter-finals; he received a second yellow card and was sent off after taking his shirt off in celebration. Amad's first Premier League goal came on 15 May, scoring United's second goal in a 3\u20132 victory against Newcastle United. 2024\u201325 season. Following the dismissal of Erik ten Hag, Amad saw regular playing opportunities, first under interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, then head coach Ruben Amorim. On 7 November, in Van Nistelrooy's penultimate game in charge, Amad scored his first brace for the club in a 2\u20130 win against PAOK in the UEFA"}, {"text": "Europa League. On 24 November 2024, he started as a wing-back in Amorim's first match against Ipswich Town which ended in a 1\u20131 draw. He assisted Marcus Rashford's opening goal in the second minute. On 15 December, he started as an attacking midfielder away to local rivals and reigning champions Manchester City, where he won a late penalty that Bruno Fernandes converted to equalise, then scored the winning goal in the final minutes in their 2\u20131 victory. His winning goal in that match was later voted Manchester United's goal of the season. On 5 January 2025, he scored a late equaliser in a 2\u20132 draw against Liverpool at Anfield. On 9 January, he signed a new contract until 2030. On 12 January, Amad made his 50th appearance for United, coming on as a substitute in their FA Cup third round match against Arsenal, which ended in a 1\u20131 draw after extra time. He scored United's second penalty in the shoot-out, which they won 5\u20133. On 16 January, Amad scored his first senior hat-trick in 12 minutes against Southampton in a 3\u20131 victory, helping Manchester United to come from behind in the second-half. He became the first Manchester United player to"}, {"text": "score a hat-trick since Cristiano Ronaldo against Norwich City in April 2022. On 15 February 2025, Amorim confirmed that Amad had damaged his ankle ligaments in training, and was out for the remainder of the 2024\u201325 season. He returned to training two months later, on 30 April 2025. He played his first match after his injury against Brentford and scored in a 4\u20133 defeat. On 21 May 2025, Amad featured in the 2025 UEFA Europa League final as a starter, losing to Tottenham Hotspur; consequently, he became the first player in history to lose three UEFA Europa League finals. International career. Amad was first called up to the Ivory Coast national team on 18 March 2021 for their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Niger and Ethiopia on 26 and 30 March, respectively. He made his debut against Niger, coming on as an 86th-minute substitute. On 5 June 2021, Amad scored his first international goal in a friendly against Burkina Faso, through a 97th-minute free kick, to help his team win 2\u20131 at home. On 3 July 2021, Amad was named in the Ivory Coast under-23 team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Amad made his Olympics debut, and"}, {"text": "assisted a goal, in a 2\u20131 win against Saudi Arabia on 22 July. He made four appearances at the tournament. Style of play. A winger who is also capable of playing as a mezzala, Amad is a quick and dynamic player with a high technical ability and a good vision of the game. The fact that he is two-footed makes him a versatile player. He is capable of both creating chances and cutting inside mainly from the right flank, even playing as a right wing-back under Ruben Amorim. Amad possesses quick acceleration and dribbling skills, often dribbling using small touches on the ball and taking on defenders rather than bursting into space. He is known to perform back-heel passes and other tricks. Legal issues. In July 2020, an investigation into the trafficking of football players was launched by the public prosecutor's office of Parma. Among the involved was Hamed Mamadou Traor\u00e9, a distant relative of Amad and his alleged brother Hamed Traor\u00e8, who was accused of posing as their father to facilitate their immigration into Italy. The investigation also questioned the relationship between Amad and Hamed. On 9 February 2021, Amad was found guilty of violating the Italian Sports Justice"}, {"text": "Code to join the football club \"ASD Boca Barco\" in 2015 under the name \"Diallo Amad Traor\u00e9\". He was accused of falsifying documents to fake a relationship with Hamed Mamadou Traor\u00e9, an Ivorian citizen resident in Italy, and request a family reunification. Amad requested a plea bargain, with the Federal Prosecutor's Office imposing a fine of \u20ac48,000. Personal life. Diallo received his Italian passport in December 2020. On 11 July 2020, the day of his 18th birthday, Amad changed his Instagram name from \"Amad Traor\u00e9\" to \"Amad Diallo\", with a caption reading \"don't call me Traor\u00e9 anymore\". In September 2020, his name was legally changed to Amad Diallo. \"Scores and results list the Ivory Coast's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Amad Diallo goal.\" Honours. Manchester United Rangers Individual"}, {"text": "The men's shot put event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 25 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland."}, {"text": "Sarah Smarsh (born 8 August 1980) is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. Background. Smarsh was born in rural Kansas and grew up on farms and in small towns. Her family moved frequently, and she attended eight schools before she reached ninth grade. As a first generation college student, she attended the University of Kansas starting in 1998, and received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. While in fifth grade, Smarsh wrote a story about her family for a class assignment. Her teacher at the time sent the story to a national children's magazine, where it was then published. After the story was published, Smarsh told her family that she would one day publish a full book about them. She has been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She has written for publications including the \"Columbia Journalism Review\", \"The New York Times\", \"The Guardian\", and \"The New Yorker\". Published works. Published in 2018, \"Heartland\" is an autobiographical work which focuses on the lives of her family members, white blue-collar residents of the Midwestern and Southern United States; the book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize and"}, {"text": "a 2019 recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award. \"She Come By It Natural\" (2020) is a collection of essays about Dolly Parton, provoked by stereotyped coverage of rural people in the context of the 2016 election. The book was a finalist for the nonfiction category of the National Books Critics Circle Award. Other works. In 2019, Smarsh started the podcast \"The Homecomers.\" The podcast spotlights and interviews people from rural and working class communities, similar to the ones that Smarsh herself grew up in, in order to dispel stereotypes about themselves and the places where they live."}, {"text": "Prasadpur (official name \" Prosadpur \") is a village in Haripal (community development block) in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in West Bengal, India. Location. Prasadpur is located at . It is situated between Jagatballavpur and Jangipara. Transport. Prasadpur is 2.5 km apart from Ahilyabai Holkar Road (State Highway 15). Roads of the village are mainly made with red mud. Train. Nearest railway station is Bargachia railway station on Howrah-Amta line. It is nearly 10 km away from Prasadpur. Demographics. According to 2011 Census of India total population was 1019, where male population was 488 (47.89%) and female population was 531 (52.11%) among them 652 (63.89%) were literate (Male:315, Female:337). 137 were in age group 0-6 yrs. Education. A Primary School is situated nearly middle of the village which is established in 1969. There is no high school there. Cultural and religious views. People of Prosadpur practices mainly Islam and Hinduism. There is a Mosque, an Eidgah and two Temple in here. Prasadpur is famous for Baba Panchananda Temple. (\u09ac\u09be\u09ac\u09be \u09aa\u099e\u09cd\u099a\u09be\u09a8\u09a8\u09cd\u09a6 \u09ae\u09a8\u09cd\u09a6\u09bf\u09b0)\u0964 Main festivals is Eid and Durga Puja. Males mainly wear Panjabi, pajamas, Shirt, Dhuti, Lungi and Trousers and females are wear Sari, Churidar and Shalwar kameez. Economy. Agriculture"}, {"text": "is the main economic backbone. Irrigation system are moderate. A DVC Canal is present which carries water for agriculture from river Damodar. Groundwater also is used in irrigation purpose. Produced vegetable. No small or big industries are here."}, {"text": "The 2012 Linafoot season, the top division of the Congolese Association Football Federation, was the 51st edition since its establishment. It began on 12 February 2012 and ended on 20 November 2012. During the mid-season break it was decided the second half of the season would consist of 10 rounds of matches only; 3 entire rounds were cancelled. Clubs. A total of 14 teams are contesting the league, played under a round-robbin format. League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>"}, {"text": "The 1993 Durham mayoral election was held on November 2, 1993, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Sylvia Kerckhoff, who unseated incumbent mayor Harry E. Rodenhizer Jr. Kerckhoff became the city's first female mayor."}, {"text": "Governor Russell may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Jingle Cross Cyclo-cross festival, also known as Jingle Cross, is a cyclo-cross race held annually in Iowa City, Iowa, and founded and directed by John Meehan, a pediatric surgeon who has been involved in professional cycling both as a physician for the former Bissell Pro Cycling team and a race director and promotor for Jingle Cross. Jingle Cross began as a small grassroots race with a single day race in 2004 and 60 competitors and expanded to two days in 2006. The 2007 edition was the first year with UCI events and expanded to 3 days in 2009 adding night time racing. Jingle Cross upgraded to a UCI C1 event in 2010 and soon became the largest cyclo-cross festival in North America. Jingle Cross was part of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup from 2016 to 2019.. The 2020 edition of Jingle Cross was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jingle Cross is known for its challenging and holiday themed course. Originally held in December and late November, the venue and race course features many Christmas themed obstacles such as the Luge Run, Holly-Jolly Hell Hole, and Christmas Barn. The most famous element is Mt. Krumpit, a challenging climb which"}, {"text": "riders have to traverse in multiple locations as many as 3 times per lap. Jingle Cross moved to September in 2016 in order to be part of the UCI World Cup Series but kept the Holiday theme. Other events at the festival include an expanding gravel series and events for children. The festival also includes the Jingle Cross Doggy Cross, a cyclo-cross themed event for dogs, an international wine walk, an Oktoberfest, and a music festival. Jingle Cross is owned and operated by Jingle Cross, Inc, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All proceeds from all festival activities are donated to local children's charities with the University of Iowa's Stead Family Children's Hospital as the primary beneficiary. Children from the hospital take part in the winner's podium celebration."}, {"text": "The Anglican Church of St Leonard at Lower Lemington in the parish of Batsford in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England, was built in the 12th century. It is a grade I listed building. History. Parts of the nave of the church, including the nave were built in the 12th century, although there may have been a church on the site in the 11th. The chancel is Early English and the porch and vestry are from the 19th century. Until the dissolution of the monasteries the church belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey. The fabric of the chancel was damaged during the English Civil War. The parish is part of the Moreton-in-Marsh benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester. Architecture. The limestone building has stone slate roofs. The floors are flagstone. It consists of the nave, which is supported by buttresses, chancel, porch and vestry. Above the roof of the chancel is a bellcote. The 12th century doorway which used to open to the outside is now the entrance to the vestry. Some of the stained glass is by Joseph Edward Nuttgens. The furnishings include a 12th-century font. Above the chancel arch are the arms of George III erected to commemorate the Battle"}, {"text": "of Waterloo."}, {"text": "Daniel Robin Layus (born September 10, 1984) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist and primary lyricist for the band Augustana. On October 21, 2016, he debuted his first solo work, an album titled \"Dangerous Things\". Early life. Layus was born in Southern California. In 2002 at Greenville College in Illinois, Dan Layus brought friends Josiah Rosen, Kyle Baker, and Simeon Lohrmann together to write and create music. Career. Augustana (2002\u20132005). Augustana began by re-recording the song \"More than a Love Song\", a song which Dan had written for his high school girlfriend while living in California. In 2003, when Layus was 19, Augustana released their debut album, \"Midwest Skies and Sleepless Mondays\". Later that year, the band recorded and released 25 copies of the Mayfield EP. Dan Layus decided to move back to Southern California with bandmate Josiah Rosen, where they eventually found their drummer, Justin South. The band joined numerous tours with artists such as Switchfoot, Maroon 5, The Fray, Counting Crows, Dashboard Confessional, O.A.R., Snow Patrol, The Damnwells, Goo Goo Dolls, Acceptance, Cartel, and OneRepublic, as well as having their own headlining tours. The band released the EP, \"All the Stars and Boulevards\","}, {"text": "on September 6, 2005 Josiah Rosen left the band soon after. He was replaced by Chris Sachtleben, while keyboardist Dan Lamoureux was added (and later replaced by John Vincent). Augustana (2006\u20132010). At the beginning of 2007, the band embarked on their second headlining tour, supported by Vega4. The band also opened for Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional in late 2007. The band released their second album, \"Can't Love, Can't Hurt\", on April 29, 2008. Citing personnel problems, the band had to cancel their European/North American tour for fall 2010. Augustana (2011\u20132013). Augustana's self-titled, fourth full-length album was released on April 26, 2011. Augustana parted ways with Epic Records shortly after the album's release and on November 11, 2011, Dan Layus announced that all remaining members had amicably parted ways when bassist, Jared Palomar, guitarist, Chris Sachtleben, drummer, Justin South, and keyboardist, John Vincent, decided that they were finished with Augustana. Layus announced that he would continue to tour and perform under the name Augustana. On July 22, 2013, Layus announced that Augustana was signed to a new record deal. Augustana (2014\u20132016). In early 2014, Layus announced that the band had signed with Razor & Tie, reforming the band with new"}, {"text": "members and touring as Augustana. He also premiered the first single, \"Ash and Ember\". On April 22, 2014, under the name 'Augustana', Layus released the album, \"Life Imitating Life\", on which he played all of the instruments. He also premiered the first single, \"Ash and Ember\". In summer of 2015, Layus opened for One Direction. On September 2, 2015, Augustana released three new tracks (\"Climb\", \"Must Be Love\" and \"You Can Have Mine\") on an EP titled \"Side A\". In 2016, Augustana began touring as an opener for the Dixie Chicks on their DCX MMXVI World Tour. On August 3, 2016, Augustana's social media sites changed their names to Dan Layus, as he was the sole remaining and founding member, as well as lead singer-songwriter. Solo work (2016\u20132019). After Augustana broke up, Layus transitioned into an Americana artist and fully embarked on a solo career. Layus and his family relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2013. Layus began composing professionally three days a week, nine to five, for Nashville publishing house, \"Warner-Chappell Music\", where he befriended, then began writing with, young Music Row talents like Maren Morris. Layus released the album, \"Dangerous Things\", on October 21, 2016. \"Dangerous Things\","}, {"text": "which was released with Plated Records, was met with enthusiastic reviews. Rolling Stone magazine called Layus \"one of Americana's most articulate newcomers.\" The album was recorded at \"South by Sea Studios\" in Nashville. Layus used a minimalist production style of fiddle, pedal steel, acoustic guitar, and piano. The sibling duo, the Secret Sisters, provided background vocals on a number of tracks. Layus drew inspiration for the song \"Driveway\" from the real life experience of a friend when he observed his buddy sitting alone in his truck in the driveway as he was going through a divorce. When he was writing the song and was unable to finish the idea he played it for his wife. Though not a songwriter, she threw in some words and helped Layus to finish the track. Layus has played the Grand Ole Opry twice both at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry House. His Opry debut was at Opryland. He shared the bill with the veteran country singer, Connie Smith. He performed at the Ryman during a special Opry New Year's Eve show with the Americana band, Old Crow Medicine Show. In 2017, Layus toured with LeAnn Rimes during her"}, {"text": "\"Remnants\" Tour. In 2018, Layus began touring again under the name Augustana. In 2019, Layus co-wrote the third track on the album The Highwomen, which is the debut studio album by country music supergroup the Highwomen. The group is made up of band members Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris, and Amanda Shires. The album and track were released on September 6, 2019, by Elektra Records. Layus co-wrote the song with band member, Maren Morris, and songwriter, Maggie Chapman. Augustana (2019). On August 28, 2019, as Augustana, Layus released the song \"For Now, Forever\" was released as a single with \"The Heart of It\" as its B-side. He has stated that the songs were inspired by watching classic '80s movies for the first time, such as, The Karate Kid, Dirty Dancing, and Footloose. Layus began a headlining Fall 2019 Tour as Augustana on August 24 with musician, Zac Clark, opening. He also opened for band, Daughtry, at eight shows. Augustana (2025). In 2025, guitarist, Chris Sachtleben and bassist, Jared Palomar would rejoin the band and they will be performing with Augustana this summer of 2025 just after 14 years of absence from the band. Personal life. Layus married his longtime"}, {"text": "girlfriend, Nina, on January 18, 2008. They met and began dating prior to the release of his first record with Augustana when they moved in together. They have four children, Eloise, Townes, Mary, and Prudence Jane, who was born December 15, 2017. They reside in Franklin, Tennessee. Layus has been sober since 2011."}, {"text": "The First North Carolina Provincial Congress was a meeting of the provincial congress of the \"de facto\" provincial government of North Carolina, composed of 71 deputies from 35 counties (six not being represented) and nine towns (three not being represented). The congress convened in Newbern, on August 25, 1774, and ended on August 27, 1774, during the final two years of Josiah Martin's gubernatorial administration. Colonel John Harvey was unanimously chosen as moderator. History. Resolutions. The deputies to the First Provincial Congress deliberated in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts (Boston Port Act) by British rulers. The following resolutions were passed by this congress on August 27, 1774 and are listed below as they appear in the minutes of the sessions. \"We his Majesty's most dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the deputies from the several Counties and Towns, of the Province of North Carolina, impressed with the most sacred respect for the British Constitution, and resolved to maintain the succession of the House of Hanover, as by law Established, and avowing our inviolable and unshaken Fidelity to our sovereign, and entertaining a sincere regard for our fellow subjects in Great Britain viewing with the utmost abhorrence"}, {"text": "every attempt which may tend to disturb the peace and good order of this Colony, or to shake the fidelity of his Majesty's subjects resident here, but at the same time conceiving it a duty which we owe to ourselves and to posterity, in the present alarming state of British America, when our most essential rights are invaded by powers unwarrantably assumed by the Parliament of Great Britain to declare our sentiments in the most public manner, lest silence should be construed as acquiescence, and that we patiently submit to the Burdens which they have thought fit to impose upon us.\" \"The act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port Act, as it tends to shut up the Port of Boston and thereby effectually destroy its Trade and deprive the Merchants and Manufacturers of a subsistance which they have hitherto procured by an honest industry, as it takes away the Wharves, Quays and other property of many individuals, by rendering it useless to them, and as the duration of this Act depends upon Circumstances founded merely in opinion, and in their nature indeterminate, and thereby may make the miseries it carries with it even perpetual,\" \"That they assert our rights"}, {"text": "to all the privileges of British subjects particularly that of paying no taxes or duties but with our own consent, and that the Legislature of this province, have the exclusive power of making laws to regulate our internal Polity subject to his Majesty's disallowance.\" \"That should the British Parliament continue to exercise the power of levying taxes and duties on the Colonies, and making laws to bind them in all cases whatsoever; such laws must be highly unconstitutional, and oppressive to the inhabitants of British America, who have not, and from their local circumstances cannot have a fair and equal representation in the British Parliament, and that these disadvantages must be greatly enhanced by the misrepresentation of designing Men inimical to the Colonies, the influence of whose reports cannot be guarded against, by reason of the distance of America from them or as has been unhapily experienced in the case of the Town of Boston, when the ears of the administration have been shut, against every attempt to vindicate a people, who claimed only the right of being heard in their own defence.\" \"That therefore until we obtain an explicit declaration and acknowledgment of our rights, we agree to stop"}, {"text": "all imports, from Great Britain after the first day of January 1775, and that we will not export any of our Commodities to Great Britain after the first day of October 1775.\" \"That they concur with the Deputies or Delegates from the other Colonies, in such regulation, address or remonstrance, as may be deemed most probable to restore a lasting harmony, and good understanding with Great Britain, a circumstance we most sincerely and ardently desire and that they agree with a majority of them in all necessary measures, for promoting a redress of such grievances as may come under their consideration.\" Signed: JOHN HARVEY, Moderator, Richard Cogdell, Wm Thomson, Solomon Perkins, Nathan Joyner, Sam. Jarvis, Sam. Johnston, Thos. Benbury, Thos. Jones, Thos. Oldham, Thos. Hunter, Ferqd Campbell, M. Hunt, Nick Long, Benj. Williams, William Hooper, Wm Cray, Thos. Harvey, Edward Everigin, Edward Salter, Sam. Young, Joseph Spruil, Joseph Hewes, John Geddy, Sam Spencer, Wm Thomas, Roger Ormond, Thos. Respess, Jr, Wm Salter, Walter Gibson, Wm Person, Green Hill, R. Howe, John Campbell, James Coor, Sam. Smith, Willie Jones, Benj. Patten, Allen Jones, Benj. Harvey, J. Whedbee, Joseph Reading, Wm Kennon, David Jenkins, Abner Nash, Francis Clayton, Edward Smythwick, Lemuel Hatch,"}, {"text": "Thomas Rutherford, R. Caswell, Wm McKinnie, Geo. Miller, Simon Bright, Thos Gray, Thos Hicks, James Kenan, William Dickson, Thos. Person, Rothias Latham, Needham Bryan, John Ashe, Thomas Hart, Andrew Knox, Joseph Jones, John Simpson, Moses Winslow, Robert Alexander, I. Edwards, William Brown, Jeremiah Frasier Deputies. The following is a full list of deputies to the first congress by constituency. Members of provincial congress serving in the Continental Congress are also indicated."}, {"text": "Barbara Neski (n\u00e9e Goldberg; January 13, 1928 \u2013 March 23, 2025) was an American architect who co-founded the architectural firm Neski Associates with her husband, Julian Neski, in New York City. Neski died on March 23, 2025, at the age of 97. Education. Neski grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree from Bennington College in 1949. During her third semester there, she became aware of the nearby Robinson House, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which Marcel Breuer had designed. It inspired her, suggesting what domestic architecture could be. She went on to earn her Masters of Architecture (M.Arch.) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, then directed by Walter Gropius. She found that being a woman in the M.Arch. program was viewed as an \u201coddity,\" often not taken seriously. For example, at least one professor, Hugh Stubbins, would completely \u201cignore [her]\u201d during individual \"desk crits\" (one-on-one faculty critiques of student work in progress), \"not even look[ing] at [her] drawings.\u201d Early career. In 1952, Neski began working in the office of architect Jos\u00e9 Luis Sert, helping design urban plans for the Latin-American cities of Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, and Havana, Cuba. At Sert's office, she met Julian Neski, her future"}, {"text": "design partner and husband, whom she married in 1954. They moved together to architect Marcel Breuer's office, where she helped develop plans for a factory in Canada, a house in Connecticut, and a library for Hunter College, in New York City. In 1959, the Neskis collaborated on the American National Exhibition in Moscow with an American design team that included Peter Blake, Buckminster Fuller, and Charles and Ray Eames. Neski Associates. In the early 1960s, the couple started its own firm and designed more than 35 houses, 25 of them in the Hamptons, NY. Their practice was one of equals with both husband and wife participating fully in all aspects of the work. They became known for their modernist vacation homes. The Neskis kept their office small, in part to better manage all aspects of the work, enabling them to have direct involvement in each project. Barbara Neski taught at Pratt Institute between 1978 and 1992 and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1985. Bibliography. \"GA Houses\" 13, 1983, ADA Edita Tokyo"}, {"text": "The 1995 Durham mayoral election was held on November 7, 1995, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Sylvia Kerckhoff. Results. Primary. The primary took place on October 10, 1995."}, {"text": "The Hudson Bay Post is a monthly newspaper. It is the only newspaper in Churchill, Manitoba. It is available in Churchill, Thompson, and Winnipeg."}, {"text": "Ronald Alan Fintushel (born 1945) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional geometric topology (specifically of 4-manifolds) and the mathematics of gauge theory. Education and career. Fintushel studied mathematics at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign with a master's degree in 1969. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton with thesis \"Orbit maps of local formula_1-actions on manifolds of dimension less than five \" under the supervision of Louis McAuley. Fintushel was a professor at Tulane University and is a professor at Michigan State University. His research deals with geometric topology, in particular of 4-manifolds (including the computation of Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) with links to gauge theory, knot theory, and symplectic geometry. He works closely with Ronald J. Stern. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker, with Ronald J. Stern, with talk \"Construction of smooth 4-manifolds\" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 1997 Fintushel received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University. In 2016 a conference was held in his honor at Tulane University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Fintushel is a"}, {"text": "member of the editorial boards of \"Geometry & Topology\" and the \"Michigan Mathematical Journal\"."}, {"text": "Lorenzo Lopez (born November 1, 2001), is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the UNLV Rebels. Club career. After playing with the Portland Timbers academy, Lopez appeared for Portland's USL Championship side Portland Timbers 2 on October 15, 2019, as a 76th-minute substitute during a 4\u20131 loss to El Paso Locomotive. Lopez joined the Oregon State Beavers men's soccer team in 2020. Lopez transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ahead of the 2023 season."}, {"text": "Franz-Josef Wuermeling (8 November 1900 \u2013 7 March 1986) was a West German CDU politician and minister who served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs from 1953 to 1962. Early life and education. Wuermeling was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin in 1900. His father, Bernhard, worked at the Reichsamt des Innern and the Reichsarbeitsamt, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Labour in the German Empire. Wuermeling attended school in Berlin and studied law and economics at M\u00fcnster University, Hamburg University and Freiburg University. He served in the German Navy in the First World War. Political career. Wuermeling was the mayor of Linz for a year in 1945 before being elected to the Rhineland Landtag (Parliament) where he served as a Secretary in the State Ministry of the Interior from 1947 to 1949. In the 1949 German federal election, Wuermeling was elected to the West German Bundestag. Adenauer cabinet. After the 1953 election, Wuermeling was appointed the first Federal Minister for Family Affairs. Wuermeling would stay in the post through Adenauer's second, third and fourth ministries until December 1962. He introduced the so-called \"\" which enabled families with children to travel at a discounted price. Honours. Wuermeling received the"}, {"text": "following honours:"}, {"text": "Joseph Blackett was an English professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby County, Middlesbrough and Leicester Fosse. Personal life. Blackett served as a sergeant in the Army Service Corps and the Labour Corps during the First World War. Honours. Middlesbrough Leicester Fosse"}, {"text": "The Aayash Dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia, opened in 2005. It is located in 'Asir region, in the southwest of the country, and its main purpose is to control flood."}, {"text": "A latent space, also known as a latent feature space or embedding space, is an embedding of a set of items within a manifold in which items resembling each other are positioned closer to one another. Position within the latent space can be viewed as being defined by a set of latent variables that emerge from the resemblances from the objects. In most cases, the dimensionality of the latent space is chosen to be lower than the dimensionality of the feature space from which the data points are drawn, making the construction of a latent space an example of dimensionality reduction, which can also be viewed as a form of data compression. Latent spaces are usually fit via machine learning, and they can then be used as feature spaces in machine learning models, including classifiers and other supervised predictors. The interpretation of the latent spaces of machine learning models is an active field of study, but latent space interpretation is difficult to achieve. Due to the black-box nature of machine learning models, the latent space may be completely unintuitive. Additionally, the latent space may be high-dimensional, complex, and nonlinear, which may add to the difficulty of interpretation. Some visualization techniques"}, {"text": "have been developed to connect the latent space to the visual world, but there is often not a direct connection between the latent space interpretation and the model itself. Such techniques include t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), where the latent space is mapped to two dimensions for visualization. Latent space distances lack physical units, so the interpretation of these distances may depend on the application. Embedding models. Several embedding models have been developed to perform this transformation to create latent space embeddings given a set of data items and a similarity function. These models learn the embeddings by leveraging statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms. Here are some commonly used embedding models: Multimodality. Multimodality refers to the integration and analysis of multiple modes or types of data within a single model or framework. Embedding multimodal data involves capturing relationships and interactions between different data types, such as images, text, audio, and structured data. Multimodal embedding models aim to learn joint representations that fuse information from multiple modalities, allowing for cross-modal analysis and tasks. These models enable applications like image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal sentiment analysis. To embed multimodal data, specialized architectures such as deep multimodal networks or multimodal"}, {"text": "transformers are employed. These architectures combine different types of neural network modules to process and integrate information from various modalities. The resulting embeddings capture the complex relationships between different data types, facilitating multimodal analysis and understanding. Applications. Embedding latent space and multimodal embedding models have found numerous applications across various domains:"}, {"text": "Mitchell Ferguson (born April 29, 2003), is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for Notre Dame Fighting Irish. via the Portland Timbers academy. Club career. After playing with the Portland Timbers academy, Ferguson appeared for Portland's USL Championship side Portland Timbers 2 on October 15, 2019, as an 84th-minute substitute during a 4\u20131 loss to El Paso Locomotive. In 2022, Ferguson attended the University of Notre Dame to play college soccer."}, {"text": "The Schwanenburg Castle (English: Swan Castle), in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Dukes of Cleves resided, was founded on a steep hill. It is located at the northern terminus of the Kermisdahl where it joins with the Spoykanal, which was previously an important transportation link to the Rhine. History. It is already conceivable that in Roman times there was a military base at this point, high above the Rhine, halfway between Xanten and Nijmegen. The Swan Castle was first mentioned in 1020 in the monastery annals. The Swan Tower collapsed on 7 October 1439. \"300 years before God's birth Caesar has built this\". This can be read on an inscription above the entrance of the Swan Tower, which was installed by Adolph I, Duke of Cleves after the tower was rebuilt. The knight's hall, built around 1170, stood where today the car park surrounded by lime trees is located in the outer courtyard. Remains of the richly decorated hall have been excavated in the courtyard of the castle and can be seen today. In 1663, the Stadtholder of the Great Elector; John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen approved a renovation of the Schwanenburg in the Dutch Baroque style by architect Pieter Post"}, {"text": "and commissioned the construction of extensive gardens that greatly influenced European landscape design of the 17th century. Significant amounts of his original plan for Kleve were put into effect and have been maintained to the present, a particularly well-loved example of which is the Forstgarten. In the middle of the 18th century, the building was reduced by collapse and demolition to its present size. Since then, the judicial authorities are located at the castle, and today the castle is the seat of the district and district court of Kleve. In the Swan Tower, a small geological museum is located. On 7 October 1944, Kleve was subjected to a huge bombardment. These attacks resulted in huge damage to the town. The bombardment destroyed the historic centre of Kleve, including the Swan tower. The castle was rebuilt between 1948 and 1953. Swan tower. The old castle has a massive tower, the Schwanenturm (Swan tower) 180 feet (55 m) high, that is associated in legend with the Knight of the Swan, immortalized in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. Lohengrin first appears as \"Loherangrin\", the son of Parzival and Condwiramurs in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. Wolfram's story is a variation of the Knight of the Swan"}, {"text": "tale, previously attached to the Crusade cycle of medieval literature. Loherangrin and his twin brother Kardeiz join their parents in Munsalv\u00e4sche when Parzival becomes the Grail King; Kardeiz later inherits their father's secular lands, and Loherangrin remains in Munsalv\u00e4sche as a Grail Knight. Members of this order are sent out in secret to provide lords to kingdoms that have lost their protectors and Loherangrin is eventually called to this duty in Brabant, where the duke has died without a male heir. His daughter Elsa fears the kingdom will be lost, but Loherangrin arrives in a boat pulled by a swan and offers to defend her, though he warns her that she must never ask his name. He weds the duchess and serves Brabant for years, but one day Elsa asks the forbidden question. He explains his origins and steps back onto his swan boat, never to return. From Dutch legends of the Swan knight we read that Dietrich, Count of Cleves, in Westphalia and Teisterbant died in 713 and his daughter Beatrix had to succeed him. Pepin of Herstal, duke of Brabant, who could have helped her, also died (714). In 715 Beatrix was attacked from all sides. She fled"}, {"text": "to her castle in Nijmegen (Valkhofburcht). Then Elias Lohengrin appears, with a golden sword, silver shield with a double, golden cross, a hunting horn and a beautiful ring with a diamond. He defeats the besiegers, marries Beatrix, and becomes king of Francia. They have three sons: Diederik, Godfrey, and Konrad. Afterwards Beatrix lives in a tower on the river close to Kleve. She died young and was later remembered as the \u2018White Woman of the Swan Tower\u2019. Diederik inherited the golden sword and silver shield and succeeded his father in the county of Cleves. Godfrey became count of Lohn and inherited the hunting horn. And the youngest, Konrad, became ancestor of the counts of Hessen and inherited the ring with the diamond. Lohengrin was told that he had fought the Moors with Charles Martel. The legend in historical context. There is almost no reliable information about the local power relations in the area of \"Kleve\" in the early Middle Ages. The few statements by some historians are also controversial. According to one of these sources to 711, a daughter of a noble family named Beatrix married a Count Aelius (or Helios) Gralius, who was a follower of Charles Martell. This"}, {"text": "count had possessed areas in the area of Teisterbant as a fief. The son of this marriage had been known as Theodoric I from 742 both Count of Teisterbant and the first Earl of Cleves. Among his descendants, the counties Teisterbant and Cleves were divided. The last descendant of this noble family in Cleves was Count Nufried, after his death in 1008 this family line has died out. A \"Beatrix\" from a noble house is also mentioned in a legend or fairy tale as the ancestor of the Counts of Cleves, who married a swan knight Elias. At least since the 15th century, the Counts and Dukes of Cleves derived their origin from this swan knight Elias (Aelius = Elias), who is related to the figure of Lohengrin. About Beatrix of Cleves, Countess of Teisterband. Walter, Count of Teisterbant, in the Dukedom of Gelre, District of the Betuwe, died either 724 or 742 (Oudheusden). His daughter and heiress Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, married around 711 Theodoric, Stadtholder and Lord of Cleves. Their daughter and heiress Beatrix, Countess of Teisterbant, got married after the death of both her parents to Elias, Aelius, or Elius Grail, Gralius, Graielis, or Grajus, a great"}, {"text": "hero, Stadtholder of Nijmegen and (purely legendary) first Count of Cleves. She died 734."}, {"text": "Association in psychology refers to a mental connection between concepts, events, or mental states that usually stems from specific experiences. Associations are seen throughout several schools of thought in psychology including behaviorism, associationism, psychoanalysis, social psychology, and structuralism. The idea stems from Plato and Aristotle, especially with regard to the succession of memories, and it was carried on by philosophers such as John Locke, David Hume, David Hartley, and James Mill. It finds its place in modern psychology in such areas as memory, learning, and the study of neural pathways. Learned associations. Associative learning is when a subject creates a relationship between stimuli (e.g. auditory or visual) or behavior and the original stimulus. The higher the concreteness of stimulus items, the more likely are they to evoke sensory images that can function as mediators of associative learning and memory. The ability to learn new information is essential to daily life and thus a critical component of healthy aging. There is substantial research documenting aging-related decline in forming and retrieving episodic memories. The acquisition of associations is the basis for learning. This learning is seen in classical and operant conditioning. Law of Effect. Edward Thorndike did research in this area and"}, {"text": "developed the law of effect, where associations between a stimulus and response are affected by the consequence of the response. For example, behaviors increase in strength and/or frequency when they have been followed by reward. This occurs because of an association between the behavior and a mental representation of the reward (such as food). Conversely, receiving a negative consequence lowers the frequency of the behavior due to the negative association. An example of this would be a rat in a cage with a bar lever. If pressing the lever results in a food pellet, the rat will learn to press the lever to receive food. If pressing the lever resulted in an electric shock on the floor of the cage, the rat would learn to avoid pressing the lever. Classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is an example of a learned association. The classical conditioning process consists of four elements: unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response (UCR), conditioned stimulus (CS), and conditioned response (CR). Without conditioning, there is already a relationship between the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response. When a second stimulus is paired with the unconditioned stimulus, the response becomes associated with both stimuli. The secondary stimulus is known as the"}, {"text": "conditioned stimulus and elicits a conditioned response. The strength of the response to the conditioned stimulus increases over the period of learning, as the CS becomes associated with UCS. The strength of the response can diminish if CS is presented without UCS. In his famous experiment, Pavlov used the unconditioned response of dogs salivating at the sight of food (UCS), and paired the sound of a bell (CS) with receiving food, and later the dog salivated (CR) to the bell alone, indicating that an association had been established between the bell and food. Operant conditioning. In operant conditioning, behaviors are changed due to the experienced outcomes of those behaviors. Stimuli do not cause behavior, as in classical conditioning, but instead the associations are created between stimulus and consequence, as an extension by Thorndike on his Law of Effect. B.F. Skinner was well known for his studies of reinforcers on behavior. His studies included the aspect of contingency, which refers to the connection between a specific action and the following consequence or reinforcement. Skinner described three contingencies: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and punishment. Reinforcements create a positive association between the action and consequence in order to promote the continuation of the"}, {"text": "action. This is done in one of two ways, positive reinforcers introduce a rewarding stimulus, whereas negative reinforcers remove an aversive stimulus to make the environment less aversive. Punishments create a negative relationship between the action and the consequence so that the action does not continue. Mood. The overall content of moods, compared to emotions, feelings or affects, are less specific and are likely to be provoked by a stimulus or event. The present studies investigated the constituents of the occurrent experience of specific moods like sad or angry mood states. Moods are typically defined by contrasting them with emotions. Several criteria exist for distinguishing moods from emotions, but there is a widely shared consensus that the core differentiating feature is that moods, in contrast to emotions, are diffuse and global. Watson introduced a white fluffy rabbit to an infant, and created a connection between the rabbit and a loud noise. This experience for Little Albert associated a feeling of fear with the rabbit. Acquired equivalence. Acquired equivalence is defined as a learning and generalization paradigm in which prior training in stimulus equivalence increases the amount of generalization between two stimuli even if they are superficially dissimilar. Therefore, if two"}, {"text": "different stimuli share the same consequence, they predict the same outcome. Let us suppose that there are two girls Anna and Sarah, who have nothing in common other than they both love pets. When you learn that Sarah has a dog, you immediately predict that Anna will love Sarah\u2019s dog. The area in the brain responsible for the acquired equivalence is the hippocampus; hence, in cases when the hippocampal region is damaged, there are deficits of acquired equivalence. In acquired equivalence, the stimuli are not categorized based on their characteristics (physical, emotional) but based on their functional characteristic (preference about the same thing). During this paradigm, it is learned to create compositions from different categories, and for this reason, some researchers agree that acquired equivalence can be a synonym to categorization. Both humans and non-humans have the ability for acquired equivalence. An example of acquired equivalence is from the studies Geoffrey Hall and his colleagues have conducted with pigeons. In one study, the pigeons were trained to peck when they see the light with different colors. After that, the researchers paired certain colors to appear in sequence and provided food when the pigeons peck only in few sequences. Thus, the"}, {"text": "pigeons learned that in those sequences, if they peck, they will certainly receive food. Those sequences had something special that the pigeons could also learn; certain two colors were followed by food when they are followed by certain one color, so the two colors somewhat equivalent. Let us assume, as there were six colors, that red and green when followed by only yellow, led to food. Similarly, blue and brown, when followed by only white, also led to food. In this way, the pigeons learned that red is in a way equivalent to green, and blue to brown, because they are paired with the same color. The next step was to teach the pigeons that pecking on red alone leads to food while pecking to blue alone does not. At this point, the researchers presented the pigeons with the second colors (i.e., green and brown) that were paired with the same color (i.e., yellow or white) with which the first colors were also paired (i.e., red and blue), which made the colors with the same pairing color (i.e., red and green as pairing with yellow and blue and brown as pairing with white) equivalent in the pigeons\u2019 eyes. So, at"}, {"text": "this third step, the pigeons were presented with the green light and after that with the brown light, and to the researchers\u2019 surprise, the pigeons showed a quick response with a strong pecking to the first color while not responding to the second. This result shows that the pigeons have learned the equivalence of two colors from their co-occurring and their having similar consequence in one occurrence. This idea of equivalence showed its effect when the pigeons were in a totally different context and saw one of the two colors leading to a certain consequence; they believed that the other color would also lead to the same consequence, as it is equivalent to the first. The pigeons learned to generalize from one color to another because of their history of co-occurring. Memory. Memory seems to operate as a sequence of associations: concepts, words, and opinions are intertwined, so that stimuli such as a person\u2019s face will call up the associated name. Understanding the effects of mood on memory is central to several issues in psychology. It is a primary topic in theories of the relation between affect and cognition. Mood's effect on memory may mediate the influence of mood on"}, {"text": "a variety of behaviors and judgements associated with decision making, helping, and person perception. Understanding the relationships between different items is fundamental to episodic memory, and damage to the hippocampal region of the brain has been found to hinder learning of associations between objects. Testing associations. Associations in humans can be measured with the Implicit Association Test, a psychological test which measures the implicit (subconscious) relation between two concepts, which was created by Anthony G. Greenwald in 1995. It has been used in investigations of subconscious racial bias, gender and sexual orientation bias, consumer preferences, political preferences, personality traits, alcohol and drug use, mental health, and relationships. The test measures the associations between different ideas, such as race and crime. Reaction time is used to distinguish associations; faster reaction time is an indicator of a stronger association. A D score is used to represent the participant's mean reaction time. If the participant's mean reaction time is negative, then that individual is thought to have less implicit bias. If the participant's mean reaction time is positive, then that individual is thought to have more implicit bias. A D score for each participant is calculated by deleting trials that are greater than"}, {"text": "10,000 milliseconds, deleting participants that respond quicker than 300 milliseconds on over 10% of trials, determining inclusive standard deviations for all trials in Stages 3 and 4 and also in Stages 6 and 7. Mean response times are determined for Stages 3, 4, 6, and 7, the mean difference between Stage 6 and Stage 3 (MeanStage6 - MeanStage3) will be computed as well as the mean difference between Stage 7 and Stage 4(MeanStage7 - MeanStage4), each difference is divided by its associated inclusive standard deviation, and the D score is equivalent to the average of the two resulting ratios. In psychology, association can sometimes be synonymous with correlation. When something is referred to as having positive association or positive correlation, it describes high or low levels of one variable happen with high or low levels of another variable. Other common types of association are negative association, zero association, and curvilinear association."}, {"text": "August Wolfstieg (21 June 1859, Wolfenb\u00fcttel \u2014 27 May 1922, Wolfenb\u00fcttel) was a German \"Geheimrat\", chief librarian of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, and Freemasonry researcher. In 1899, he was admitted in the Masonic Lodge \"Pythagoras zum flammenden Stern\" (Pythagoras to the Flaming Star) in Berlin. He was also Reich Commissioner for Books and Libraries at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904."}, {"text": "The Alakool dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1979 and located in Madinah region."}, {"text": "Cavan Courthouse () is a judicial and municipal facility in Farnham Street, Cavan, County Cavan, Ireland. History. The building, which was designed by William Farrell in a neoclassical style and built in ashlar limestone, was completed in 1824. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Farnham Street; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature. There were three sash windows on the first floor and a pediment above. A memorial outside the building commemorates Thomas Ashe,a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. The building was originally used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which established county councils in every county, it also became the meeting place for Cavan County Council."}, {"text": "Moses Khabane Khongoana is a Mosotho film director and maker. Early life. Khongoana studied Media, Communication, and Broadcasting as part of his degree in Television and Film Production at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology. His first award-winning independent film, \"Bullet,\" was featured in several international film festivals, including the Luxor African Film Festival. He also holds a Certificate in Business Studies from the City and Guilds of London Institute. Khongoana is a member of the Motion Picture Association of Lesotho, participating in various operational groups and committees aimed at developing a formal television and film industry in Lesotho. Additionally, Khongoana has collaborated with numerous artists, NGOs, government bodies, and private institutions on various projects. Filmography. AWARDS WINNING PRODUCTIONS Bullet (Short Film) \u2013 Producer, Director & Cinematographer \u2022 Best Short Film Award at Lesotho Film Festival 2015 Lenaka-la-Balimo (Feature Film) - Script Editor, Director, Editor &Cinematographer \u2022 Best Feature Film Award at Lesotho film festival 2016. True Hearts (Short Film) \u2013 Writer, Animator, Director and Editor \u2022 Special Mention Award at Lesotho film festival 2017 The Legacy (Short Film) \u2013 Cinematographer and Editor \u2022 Jury Award at Lesotho Film Festival 2017 Phokojoe Ea Matsatsa (Short Film) \u2013Director, Cinematographer & Editor \u2022"}, {"text": "Special Mention Award at Lesotho film festival 2018 Appreciate Me (Short Documentary Film) \u2013 Producer, Director, Cinematographer & Editor \u2022 United Nations Lesotho Media Competition \u2013 Best Media Feature/Short Doc Film Awards. Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Sri Paduka Limkokwing Award for Creativity and Innovation 2016. Maluti Mountain Brewery Kickstart Grand Award 3rd Round United Nations Lesotho Media Competition \u2013 Best Media Feature/Short Doc Film Filminute International Film Festival 2018 \u2013 Top 5 World Best One Minute Films Selected for YAFMA AWARDS 2019 - (Belgium). Lesotho Film Festival 2015, Best Student Film Award. Lesotho Film Festival 2016, Best Feature Film Award. Lesotho Film Festival 2017, Special Mention Award Lesotho Film Festival 2017, Jury Award Lesotho Film Festival 2018, Special Mention Award Lesotho Film Festival 2015, Certificate of Appreciation. Lesotho Film Festival 2016, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2016, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2017, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2017, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2017, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2018, Certificate of Participation. Lesotho Film Festival 2018, Certificate of Participation. Golden Frames International Short Film Festival 2016, Certificate of Screening (Mumbai, India) International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka 2016, Certification of Participation (Bangladesh, India)"}, {"text": "Luxor African Film Festival 2016, Nominee (Egypt) Ginora Film Festival 2016, Nominee (Spain) Industry BOOST Competition 2016, Finalist (Miami, Florida) Afro film festival \u201cAnanse\u201d 2016, Official selection (Colombia, U.S.A) Indiewise virtual festival 2017, Official selection (Florida, Miami) Wiper Film Festival 2016, Official selection (U.S.A, New York) Josiah Media Festival 2016, Official selection (U.S.A, New York)"}, {"text": "Yunque may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Al-Alab dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1974 and located in Riyadh region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control."}, {"text": "The Al-Hifah dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1981 and located in Asir region."}, {"text": "James Forman (1928\u20132005) was an African-American leader in the civil rights movement. James Forman may also refer to:"}, {"text": "The Man Who Knew is a 1918 British thriller novel by Edgar Wallace. A detective investigates the death of a South Africa diamond magnate in London. Adaptation. In 1961 it was turned into the film \"Partners in Crime\", directed by Peter Duffell as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at Merton Park Studios."}, {"text": "Thomas P. Shoesmith (January 25, 1922 \u2013 April 26, 2007) was an American diplomat who served as the ninth United States ambassador to Malaysia from December 12, 1983, until his retirement February 14, 1987. Early life and education. Shoesmith was born in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stroudsburg High School in 1939 and continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1943. He spent five years in the United States Army. When he returned, he earned a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University. He entered the Army as a private in 1943 and in 1944, spent about a year at Yale University under the Army Specialized Training Program in the Japanese language program. Shortly afterwards, he entered the Japanese language program under the Military Intelligence Language School at the University of Michigan. When he finished, he was commissioned in 1945, sent to Japan as a Japanese language officer serving in the G-2 Section of SCAP for two years. Career. He moved to Washington, DC to begin his career with the government. In 1955, he was inducted into the United States Foreign Service, beginning a 32-year tenure with the department."}, {"text": "During his career, he served in Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. He was appointed ambassador to Malaysia in 1983. He assigned to Hong Kong as a consular officer, also assigned to Macau. After two years, he was reassigned to the Political Office. Death. Shoesmith died of cancer at his home in Springfield, Virginia and was survived by his wife, Martha Houser Shoesmith. He had two children."}, {"text": "James Corea may refer to:"}, {"text": "Rai Kids (formerly called Rai in Italian) is an Italian production company based in Turin. It is owned and operated by (RAI), the national broadcasting company of Italy. The company produces shows for children and is directed by Luca Milano, former deputy director of Rai Fiction. History. In April 2017, Rai Kids' parent company Rai restructured their children's programming had merged the animation and children's drama production units of Rai Kids' fellow division Rai Fiction with RAI's own children channels Rai Yoyo and Rai Gulp into one production division named Rai Ragazzi becoming the main in-house production, acqusitions and co-producer of Rai's animated and children's drama programmes as former head of animation at Rai Fiction Luca Milano heading the new structure as director."}, {"text": "Jang In-won (born 1936) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "In October 2019, a 61 year-old man from South Wales was sentenced for 33 years for serious sexual offences against three of his daughters, spanning 20 years, one of whom was also his granddaughter. He frequently raped his daughters from the ages of 12, 13, or 14, fathering six of his own grandchildren with one. He also arranged for other men to rape his daughters. The offender cannot be named to protect the lifelong anonymity afforded to his victims. Crimes. The offender brainwashed, manipulated and systematically raped three of his daughters during a 20-year period. Grooming. He groomed and controlled his daughters by invoking magic. He immersed them in a \"false world\" involving \"witchcraft and mysticism\" and convinced them that they were receiving emails from a psychic named Amelia Sanctuary, which were really from him. The messages demanded sex with him and with other men. First daughter. The offender controlled and sexually abused his first daughter for about 20 years. He began raping her when she was 14 years old, making her pregnant in a matter of months. She agreed to deceive social services by claiming the baby's father was a boy at her school. Then her father raped her"}, {"text": "\"nearly every night\", making her pregnant a second time at 16. She became pregnant nine times in total, giving birth to six children. DNA evidence proved he is the father of all six. Two of the pregnancies ended with a miscarriage and one was ended by abortion tablets given to her by her father to conceal it. He was extremely controlling towards her and emotionally manipulated her, saying for example: \"We are soul mates, we have been together through so many lifetimes. We are meant to be together.\" He gave her a \"witch's ring\" and emailed instructions to her that he pretended were from the psychic Amelia, including to drink his urine. He groomed her into believing all of this was \"a normal upbringing\". When on bail following his arrest, he continued raping her, pitching a tent near a beach for this purpose. After he covered up a resulting pregnancy by giving her abortion tablets, she was too frightened of him to seek medical treatment and later recalled, \"I was too chicken to go to the clinic\". Second daughter. The offender raped his second daughter \"hundreds of times\" for four years during her teens and also had her raped by"}, {"text": "a second man. This daughter's first time being forced into sex by her father occurred in a forested area. Then he raped her \"at least two to three times a week\" in various locations including her bed and his car. The second man, a family friend, raped her in his own bedroom in a nearby flat, watched by her father. She believes he paid her father. She eventually escaped the abuse by leaving her home. She was initially too frightened to report the crimes due to fears about \"losing contact with her siblings\". She later reported the abuse to police because she feared for other \"girls in the family of that age\". Granddaughter. The offender also controlled and systematically raped one of the daughters of his first victim from when she was aged 12 or 13 until her late teens. DNA evidence proved that he is both her father and grandfather. He intimidated and controlled her by again invoking witchcraft and by tying her up and sexually assaulting her when she rejected his demands, making her \"too scared\" to refuse him. He concealed the abuse by demanding she keep it a secret and by telling her \"Nobody will believe you"}, {"text": "and you will be thrown in the loony bin\". He raped her several times a week in various locations, such as the family home, his car, a caravan and a lay-by. He continued sexually abusing her while on bail following his arrest. Trial. In late September 2019, the offender went on trial in Swansea Crown Court for 36 rape counts and for an assault by penetration count. One of the rape counts was for procuring rape. He denied all counts. He cannot be named due to the legal necessity of protecting the lifelong anonymity of his victims. On 10 October 2019, the jury unanimously convicted him on all 37 counts, after deliberating for four and a half hours. He remained expressionless during the verdict and was remanded in custody. Paul Jones, a Detective Chief Inspector at Dyfed\u2013Powys Police, said the perpetrator committed \"the most serious sexual offences\" with an impact that \"is very difficult to summarise\". He thanked the victims for \"their bravery and composure\", which \"led to the conviction of a very dangerous offender\". He added: \"I want anyone who has suffered abuse to know that if you find the courage to come forward, you will be taken seriously,"}, {"text": "and police will work tirelessly to bring offenders to justice.\u201d Sentencing. On 18 October, Judge Paul Thomas QC jailed the offender for 33 years, with a further seven years on extended licence, saying that his \"totally evil\" crimes \"plumbed the depths of depravity\". He told the \"cowardly\" and \"wicked\" abuser: \"You raped them countless times, well into the hundreds. You took advantage of their extreme vulnerability caused by their age and circumstances and abused them cynically, mercilessly, evilly.\""}, {"text": "The Araer dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1985 and located in Asir region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control. In addition to flood control, the dam manages water resources by storing rainwater, which can be utilized for agricultural and municipal needs."}, {"text": "Steven Brown (born 7 May 1987) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He won the 2019 Portugal Masters. Amateur career. Brown won the 2011 English Amateur. The same year he was runner-up in the European Amateur, losing to Manuel Trappel in a playoff, and runner-up to Andy Sullivan in the Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He represented Great Britain & Ireland in the successful 2011 Walker Cup, winning the decisive half point against Blayne Barber that secured the victory. Professional career. Brown turned professional after the 2011 Walker Cup. He played on the Alps Tour in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, he won twice and finished third in the Order of Merit to earn a place on the 2014 Challenge Tour. He played some early-season Alps Tour events in 2014, winning the opening event of the season, the Red Sea El Ain Bay Open, for his third win on the tour. Brown played on the Challenge Tour from 2014 to 2017. He had a successful season in 2017 with seven top-10 finishes, including being a runner-up in the Irish Challenge. He finished the season 12th in the Order of Merit to earn a place on"}, {"text": "the European Tour for 2018. Brown was involved in a four-way playoff for the 2018 Made in Denmark tournament, losing out to Matt Wallace after Wallace birdied the second playoff hole. He finished the season 97th in the Order of Merit. Brown had a disappointing 2019 season until late in the year when he finished 11th in the Open de France and then won the Portugal Masters the following week. Amateur wins. Source: Professional wins (4). European Tour wins (1). European Tour playoff record (0\u20131) Team appearances. Amateur"}, {"text": "Choi Yeong-bae (born 9 November 1938) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Al-Mahzamah dam is a dam in Saudi Arabia opened in 1980 and located in Asir region. The main purpose of the dam is flood control."}, {"text": "Louisiana's 39th State Senate district is one of 39 districts in the Louisiana State Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Gregory Tarver since 2012, following his defeat of incumbent fellow Democrat Lydia P. Jackson. Geography. District 39 covers the northern two-thirds of Caddo Parish in Ark-La-Tex, including most of Shreveport and all of Blanchard and Vivian. The district is located entirely within Louisiana's 4th congressional district, and overlaps with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th districts of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Recent election results. Louisiana uses a jungle primary system. If no candidate receives 50% in the first round of voting, when all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of party, the top-two finishers advance to a runoff election."}, {"text": "Shuji Kobayashi (born 17 April 1939) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Shabelskaya-Bork (, 1855 \u2013 August 15, 1917) was a writer, actress and entrepreneur in the Russian Empire. Biography. Shabelskaya-Bork was born into a noble family of the Russian Empire's Kharkov Governorate. She lived in Germany for much of her life. Around 1903, she married A.N. Bork, after whom she took the name Shabelskaya-Bork. Around the age of thirty, she acquired literary fame, but greater widespread recognition only came with the publication of the novel \"Satanisty XX veka\" (\"Satanists of the 20th Century\") (published 1913; reprinted 1934, 2000, 2004, 2011). In 1902, Shabelskaya was accused by her former lover, the Minister of Finance Vladimir Kovalevsky, for forgery of bills in his name totaling 120 thousand rubles. In 1903, calligraphic examination confirmed that the bills were counterfeit. However, Shabelskaya insisted on transferring the case from a commercial court to a criminal one. The defense of Shabelskaya was led by the attorney Sergey Margolin. On November 23, 1905, E. A. Shabelskaya was declared acquitted in court. The civil lawsuit filed in the amount of 120,000 rubles by Privy Councilor Kovalevsky was left without consideration. Subsequently, Shabelskaya released the novel \"Vekselya anterprinyorshi\" (\"Promissory Notes of an Entrepreneur\"), based on the materials of"}, {"text": "the case. After the 1905 Russian Revolution, she became an ideological monarchist, supporting the mass monarchist Black Hundreds movement. She worked for about seven years in the \"Russkoe znamya\", the newspaper of the Main Council of the Union of the Russian People (URP), working closely with Alexander Dubrovin. At the end of 1913, she left the newspaper due to a personal conflict with Poluboyarinova. Shabelskaya-Bork died on August 15, 1917, at 10 a.m. in the Sust-Zareche estate of the Novgorod Governorate after a long illness. Around April 1922, Alexander Amfiteatrov wrote memoirs about her similar to an obituary. Officer Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork, who took the pseudonym in honor of Shabelskaya-Bork (real name Popov, pseudonym Srariy Kiribey), participated in the assassination attempt on Pavel Milyukov in March 1922. The conspiracy led to the death of Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, the father of the famous writer Vladimir Nabokov. Popov claimed to be the godson of Shabelskaya-Bork, although he actually only met her in 1916."}, {"text": "Lev Zaytsev (born 13 June 1937) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Partners in Crime is a 1961 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen. The screenplay was by Robert Banks Stewart, based on the 1918 Edgar Wallace novel \"The Man Who Knew\". It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from 1960 to 1965. Plot. The plot revolves around control of the soft drink company Cool Kups following the murder of the company chairman Harold Strickland. During the police investigation the company is temporarily controlled by Frank Merril. Reception. \"The Monthly Film Bulletin\" wrote: \"Unexciting addition to the Edgar Wallace series, with little or no subtlety or originality. Bernard Lee is adequate as the Inspector, and Graham Leaman makes much of a tiny part as a Yard ballistics expert.\""}, {"text": "Harald Norden (born 15 December 1933) is a German former speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The 1981 Durham mayoral election was held on November 3, 1981, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the election of Charles Markham, who unseated incumbent mayor Harry E. Rodenhizer Jr. Results. Primary. The date of the primary was October 6. Candidate Jim Farthing had withdrawn on September 21, but remained on the ballot and received votes."}, {"text": "Keith Edward Meyer (June 20, 1938 \u2013 July 27, 2010) was an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Bo Karenus (10 March 1937 \u2013 25 October 2007) was a Swedish speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Keijo Tapiovaara (born 18 May 1939) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Pieter van Schaeyenborgh (also van Schayenburch, and several other spellings; 1600, Antwerp1657, Alkmaar) was a Flemish painter, who worked in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his career. He is known for his still lifes of fish. Life. Few details of his life and career are known. He was born to a family of fishmongers in Antwerp. He has been identified with the Peter Schaeyenborch who was in 1610 registered with the painters' guild (the Guild of Saint Luke) in Antwerp (\"\") as an apprentice of Dani\u00ebl Christiaenssen. In 1635, he was registered with the painters' guild in Alkmaar, and was active there until his death. In 1656 and 1657, the executors of the estate of Johan van Nordingen de Jonge (i.e. 'the Younger'; 1625/26-1656) paid him 48 and 56 guilders respectively for two paintings commissioned before van Nordingen's death. He also painted one of the two coats of arms for van Nordingen's grave; he and the other painter, Laurens van Oosthoorn, received 36 guilders each. He taught the marine painter Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff (1628\u20131669). Work. Van Schaeyenborgh, Pieter de Putter and Jan Dirven were among the earliest Netherlandish painters to specialise in still lifes of fish as"}, {"text": "the main subjects of paintings rather than as incidental features in larger compositions. He painted still lifes of fish, in oils, said to be very well executed. In 1914, some of his paintings were held on loan by the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. Until 1974, that museum held several of his paintings on loan from \"armenhuis van Nordingen\"; presumably in Alkmaar, which had been founded using a legacy from van Nordingen. As of 2019, the museum displays his \"Visstilleven met gezicht op Egmond\" ('Still life of fish with view of Egmond') in its permanent collection. In 2019, a group of van Schaeyenborgh's paintings was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. The catalogue praised his depictions of fish which look as if they have just been caught, with beautiful scales and water droplets you can almost touch."}, {"text": "Dick Hunt (born October 31, 1935) is an American speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Blood is the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Allison Moorer. The album was released on October 25, 2019, and is her first release on her own record label Autotelic. The album was distributed by Thirty Tigers, who also distributed her 2017 duets album with her sister Shelby Lynne. It is a companion piece to Moorer's first autobiography \"Blood: A Memoir\", which was released on October 29, 2019. \"Blood\" is Moorer's fourth album with producer Kenny Greenberg, who worked with her on her first two albums and on her 2015 release \"Down to Believing\". Background. Like \"Down to Believing\", her previous solo release, \"Blood\" (and its associated memoir) is a collection of tracks relating the emotions and trauma that Moorer and Lynne went through during their childhoods growing up in a troubled home in southern Alabama which ultimately resulted in the murder-suicide of their parents in 1986. Moorer stated that she considers these songs to be her most revealing, personal and finest works to date. The song \"I'm the One to Blame\", the only track on the album not written by Moorer, was composed by her sister Shelby Lynne, who found the unfinished lyrics to the song in one of their"}, {"text": "father's briefcases. The album features re-recordings of \"Cold Cold Earth\" which appeared as a hidden track (due to Moorer's unwillingness to address the topic openly on an album) on Moorer's second album \"The Hardest Part\", and \"Blood\", which featured on her 2015 album \"Down to Believing\". The cover of the album is a photograph of Moorer as a child looking happy, with the cover of the memoir being a similar photograph that also included Shelby Lynne. Personnel. Credits adapted from AllMusic. Commercial performance. The album debuted at No. 23 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. It sold 1,300 copies in the United States in the first two weeks. It has sold 2,100 copies in the United States as of December 2019. Tour. The album was preceded by the release of \"All I Wanted (Thanks Anyway)\" and acts as a companion to Moorer's memoir of the same name, which was released on October 29, 2019. Moorer embarked upon a special hybrid tour which incorporated conversation about the book with performances of songs from the record alongside some of her earlier hits. On this tour, she was joined by special moderators who joined her in conversation including her husband Hayes Carll, her sister"}, {"text": "Shelby Lynne, Paul Janeway, Kyle Tibbs Jones, Jennifer Palmieri, NPR Music's Melissa Block, songwriter Mary Gauthier and music journalist Mario Taradell."}, {"text": "Stewart McGlashan or McGlashen (1807\u20131873) was a Scottish sculptor and mason, responsible for creating the company Stewart McGlashen (sic) which flourished from 1842 to 1974. He was responsible for devising a series of machines capable of creating highly polished granite (sometimes with a mirror finish) for the first time, and capable of carving intricate designs accurately and fast. At his time he was not held in high esteem by sculptors who saw him as undermining their artistry. Despite not being \"hand-carved\" the artistry value of his work is exceptionally high. He was very fond of the use of pink and red granites rather than the typical grey granites. His work is usually done as a single piece of granite, except in unusual pieces such as the Dean Cemetery pyramid. His work was in high demand and changed the face of cemetery design, also adding immeasurably the durability of monuments. Life. He was born in Campbeltown in western Scotland on 2 November 1807, the son of James McGlashen or McGlashan, a builder. He was christened on 17 November. In 1842 he set up a monumental mason business at the entrance to the newly opened Southern Necropolis in Glasgow, living at that"}, {"text": "time at 81 Lawmoor Place, nearby to the south (now demolished). In 1846 he moved to Edinburgh and set up a yard immediately north of the entrance to Dean Cemetery (later absorbed into the first cemetery extension in 1871). He was living at Canonmills Bridge where he had a second yard and an office. This was more publicly visible, and in theory served Warriston Cemetery in the north of the city. By 1865 he was living in a house at 6 Huntly Street, close to the Canonmills yard. He brought his son, Stewart McGlashan (1844\u20131904) into the firm around this time, creating McGlashan & Son. From 1881 (without explanation) the spelling of the company changed to McGlashen. From around 1875 they had a sister company (involved in quarrying) the Edinburgh Granite and Stone Company. He died of heart disease at home 1 Eyre Place in Canonmills, Edinburgh on 9 September 1873. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery. The modest granite stone lies in the overgrown area to the south-west and is hard to access. In 1898 the company opened a third yard at 8 Grange Road serving Grange Cemetery. Stewart McGlashan Jr was also buried in Warriston Cemetery. His grave"}, {"text": "is marked by a \"typical\" McGlashan Celtic cross. The company became a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty in 1974. The Canonmills office and yard on Canonmills Bridge survived until 2019 when they were demolished for a housing development. Family. In 1833 he married Mary Buchanan (1810\u20131907) at the Barony Church in Glasgow. They had at least nine children, two of whom died in infancy."}, {"text": "was a fighter pilot officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. He participated in various battles and campaigns throughout the Pacific War and survived the war. Early career. Hideki Shing\u014d was born in Saga Prefecture. He enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in November 1933 and graduated from the 59th class in July 1933. He was eventually assigned to carrier \"Kaga\"'s fighter squadron. He flew Mitsubishi A5M from \"Kaga\" during the early stages of Second Sino-Japanese War. In March 1938 he was transferred to Japan, where he served as an instructor at various naval air bases until he was transferred to Formosa (then part of the Empire of Japan). Pacific War. Lieutenant Shing\u014d became the leader (Hik\u014dtaich\u014d) of Tainan Air Group when it was formed in Tainan on 1 October 1941. On 8 December 1941, he led 44 Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters that escorted Mitsubishi G3M and Mitsubishi G4M bombers in the Attack on Clark Field at the beginning of the Invasion of Philippines. In January 1942, his unit covered landings at Balikpapan on Borneo during the Invasion of Dutch East Indies, and then moved its base of operations there after the airfield was captured"}, {"text": "by ground forces. While a part of the Tainan Air Group was engaged in the air battle over Surabaya on 3 February, he led 14 A6M Zeros for a sweep over Malang. In April he was reassigned to 6th Air Group, where he stayed until May. On 1 July 1942, Lieutenant Shing\u014d was transferred to carrier \"Sh\u014dkaku\" and became its fighter squadron leader. In late August 1942, he led Combat Air Patrol (CAP) over the IJN carrier force during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Following the battle, his squadron was temporarily sent to a newly built airfield on Buka in the Solomon Islands, where he led several missions to Guadalcanal, before they rejoined the carrier. During one of these missions, his aircraft was damaged and he was forced to crash-land near Guadalcanal. However, he was rescued and safely returned to his unit. In late October 1942, Lieutenant Shing\u014d participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. He led a group of five A6M Zero fighters to escort the second strike wave on United States Navy (USN) carriers that consisted of 19 Aichi D3A dive bombers and 16 Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers, and which was under the command of"}, {"text": "Lieutenant Commander Mamoru Seki. During the attack on USN carriers, he and his Zero fighters descended to a lower altitude and closer to the enemy ships in order to draw the anti-aircraft fire away from the friendly dive bombers. His group then sought to escort the dive bombers on their way out after they dropped their bombs, however, they were not able to locate them. Neither they were able to encounter any USN Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters, however, they later found a PBY Catalina flying boat and badly damaged it. On 1 July 1943, 331st Air Group was formed at Saeki on Kyushu and Lieutenant Commander Shing\u014d became its commander (Hik\u014dtaich\u014d). In August they were transported to Indian Ocean area by carrier Jun'y\u014d, where they operated from land bases in Dutch East Indies and on Andaman and Nicobar Islands. On 5 December 1943, his group participated in a large joint Army and Navy strike on Kolkata. His 27 A6M Zero fighters escorted nine G4M bombers and engaged with the defending Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters of Royal Air Force. In March 1944 he was reassigned. After that, Lieutenant Commander Shing\u014d served as a commander of various units, including 341st"}, {"text": "Air Group, which operated the new Kawanishi N1K fighters. He survived the war and later served in Japan Self-Defense Forces from 1954 to 1962."}, {"text": "Lebohang Motlomelo is a Mosotho filmmaker, director, writer and cinematographer. Awards. He won his first award or recognized locally with the movie The Ghost and had international recognition with the film."}, {"text": "The first Russia-Africa Summit was held on 23\u201324 October 2019 in Sochi, Russia, co-hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. 43 heads of state or government were in attendance. Putin emphasized \"state sovereignty\" and Russian willingness to offer aid or trade deals \"without political or other conditions\", said that \"an array of Western countries are resorting to pressure, intimidation and blackmail of sovereign African governments,\" against which Russia was well suited to help African states push back. The second Russia-Africa Summit was scheduled for October 2022 in Addis Ababa, but was then rescheduled to 26\u201329 July 2023 in Saint Petersburg."}, {"text": "This is a List of United States Air Force aircraft maintenance squadrons."}, {"text": "\"Say So\" is a duet recorded by American R&B singer-songwriter PJ Morton and features additional vocals by American pop/R&B singer JoJo. The track was solely written and produced by PJ Morton. It was released on February 14, 2019, through Morton's very own label Morton Records/Empire as the lead single from Morton's sixth studio album \"Paul\" (2019). The acoustic version of the song was featured on Morton's \"The Piano Album\" (2020). Composition. \"Say So\" was written by PJ Morton while also handling the song's production for his sixth studio album \"Paul\" (2019). The song includes additional vocals from American R&B singer-songwriter JoJo. Morton also handled majority of the song's instrumentation except for bass which was played by DJ Raymond. The track was recorded with guidance by Reggie Nicholas at The Parlor recording studio in New Orleans, Louisiana. The mixing of \"Say So\" was done by Kevin \u201cKD\u201d Davis at Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles, California and eventually, the mastering was done by Will Quinnell at Sterling Sound in New York. Music video. The music video for \"Say So\" was shot on location in New Orleans with director Nathan Corrona. In describing the videos concept Morton states \"I really love how the"}, {"text": "simplicity of this video matches the simplicity of the song. There are no deep lyrics. No big words. If you love me, just say so. It's such a simple sentiment that we can all relate to... I just wanted it to capture a real-life relationship\". The video follows JoJo and Morton at their houses performing the song in their bedroom, Morton and JoJo are never shown together, but their \"tumultuous connection is palpable\". Morton packs up his things and attempts to drive away, only to return, suitcase in hand at JoJo's door. The video made its world premiere on July 10, 2019, and debuted through NYLON magazine. Credits and personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Paul\", Morton Records."}, {"text": "Nisaea or Nisaia ( or \u039d\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1\u03af\u03b1) was the Saronic port town of the ancient polis Megara. In Greek mythology, Nisaea was founded by one of Pandion II's sons, Nisos, who named the region given to him by his father Nisaea, after himself. Control of Nisaea slipped back and forth between Athens and Megara both before and during the Peloponessian War. Athenian allies of the Megarians built long walls which connected Nisaea to Megaris. According to Thucydides, the length of the walls that connected the port to Megara were eight Greek stadia, while Strabo claims the walls to have been 18 stadia in length. A temple of Demeter was located on the road near Nisaea, and a temple of Poseidon located within the port town. Nisaean Megara is thought to have been the birthplace of poet Theognis, but his birthplace is not known for certain The location of the ancient port town remains in debate by historians. Foundation myth. During the reign of the mythical Athenian King Pylas, Pandion II fled to Megara where he then married Pylia, the daughter of Pylas. After Pylas was exiled from Athens for the murder of his uncle Bias, Pandion then succeeded his father-in-law as"}, {"text": "King of Athens. Pandion divided Attica into 4 regions, giving each of his 4 sons - Aigeus, Lykos, Pallas, and Nisos - reign over one of the regions. Pandion's son Nisos was awarded the Megarid, which Nisos then named Nisaea, after himself. When the King of Crete Minos attacked Nisaea, Megareus, son of Poseidon, came from Onchestus in Boeotia to assist Nisos in the war against Minos. Following the war, Megareus married Iphino\u00eb, the daughter of Nisos. Megareus then succeeded Nisos on the throne, and Nisaea was renamed Megara after himself. The name of Nisaea was henceforth confined to only the port-town, while inhabitants of Megara were occasionally called Nisaei to distinguish them from the Megarians of Sicily, their colonists. History. In 561 BC, Peisistratos led an Athenian army to seize Nisaea, where he was successful. Salamis was very close to Nisaea, so Athenians frequently took control of the Megarian port. The Athenians were allies of Megara beginning , and built two long walls connecting Megara with Nisaea. In 446 BC, the Megarians returned to the Peloponnesian League, and revolted against Athens. The Megarians allied with Peloponnesian troops, and together they overthrew and eliminated the Athenian garrisons in Megaris. The"}, {"text": "Athenians held Nisaea for a short period of time, but then surrendered it in the Thirty Years' Peace made with Sparta and Spartan allies. Peloponnesian War. In the first years of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC), Nisaea was defeated in a naval battle against an Athenian fleet. Following their defeat, eight thousand Peloponnesian soldiers marched to Nisaea, and boarded 40 stolen Magarian ships at the port to attack Athenian strongholds. Following the attack, an Athenian fleet blockaded the harbour of Nisaea to prevent shipments from being received or sent out. In the fifth year of the war (427 BC), the Athenians under Nicias took possession of the island of Minoa, which allowed Athenian forces to seize full control over Nisaea. In the eighth year of the war (424 BC), the long walls which had acted as a Peloponnesian garrison were breached and Nisaea fell to the Athenians after a siege of two days. Nisaea became the port of Megara once again in 409 BC. The walls of Nisaea which had been damaged during the Peloponnesian war were rebuilt in 343 BC by Athenian army leader Phocion as a symbol of understanding between Megara and Athens. Culture. Resources and trade. Nisaea"}, {"text": "was the only Saronic port of Megara, and was used to ship resources across the gulf and receive resources as well. Aristophanes describes natural salt pans found on the coast near Nisaea, where salt was collected and exported to Athens. Megarians produced high quality wool used for clothing and winter attire which was shipped for trade from Nisaea over the Saronic gulf. Megarians profited significantly from the exports and imports which travelled through Nisaea. Religion. Nisaea housed a temple dedicated to Poseidon, who was predominant to Megarian colonies. Thucidydes noted a shrine dedicated to Enaylius located near the harbour of the port town. A sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros was near Nisaea, which dated back to the Archaic period. An account by Pausanias describes how the roof of the Demeter Malophoros temple had collapsed due to deterioration. The cult of Demeter was brought to Nisaean Megara by colonists in the Archaic period. Neither locations of the temples are known, which is also the case for the location of Nisaea itself. Poetry and prose. A poet by the name of Theognis is debated to have been from either Nisaean Megara or Megara Hyblaia in Sicily. Although significant figures such as Plato doubted"}, {"text": "that Theognis was from Nisaean Megara, Theognis' poetry about the Persian Wars is said to be distinctly Megarian, but his origin still remains uncertain. Historians consider it more likely that Theognis is from Nisaean Megara. The poet Semonides mentions the port as \"the navel of the Nisaians\" in another poem about the Persian Wars, which was believed to be written in the 5th century. The second-century Greek writer Athenaeus preserves a fragment of the lost poem \"Georgica\" of Nicander in his \"The Deipnosophists\". In this lost poem, Nicander declares the roses of Nisaea second only to Emanthian roses as the most fragrant and beautiful. Geography. Nisaea was the only known Megarian port on the coast of the Saronic Gulf. The exact site of Nisaea is debated because Thucydides' description of the coastal area of Nisaea does not describe the region as it is seen today. A theory of the location of Nisaea which considers the accounts of Strabo, Thucydides, and Pausanias, assumes that Nisaea was located in between Minoa and the mainland. The site of Nisaea has been thought to be located near modern Pachi, which has an Island similarly named Nisis Pachaki in close proximity to Pachi. Some historians"}, {"text": "also suggest that it is possible the coastal site has been washed away over time."}, {"text": "AerCaribe S.A., operating as AerCaribe, is a Colombia-based carrier operating both domestic and Americas-wide executive, charter and cargo services, as well as specialized fuel and military transport. The carrier is based at El Dorado International Airport in Bogot\u00e1, with a secondary base at Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport in Lima operating as AerCaribe Peru, and operates a fleet of turboprop and jet aircraft. History. AerCaribe began operations in 2006 with a fleet of Antonov turboprop aircraft, with domestic services in Colombia. AerCaribe operates its own 3,000sqm hangar at El Dorado, with departure and VIP lounges, conference rooms, and a restaurant. The carrier is certified by Antonov to offer maintenance and restoration works on Antonov aircraft in Colombia and Latin America, as well to act as a representative of Antonov in the sale and purchase of Antonov aircraft. In 2011, AerCaribe launched its first subsidiary, AerCaribe S.A.C. Peru, operating as AerCaribe Peru. It is a Peruvian-based carrier which operates scheduled and charter cargo services from its base in Lima Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport within Peru. In 2015, AerCaribe received its first of three converted B737-300P2Fs (passenger to freighter) from PEMCO World Air Services, in Tampa, Florida, US. The aircraft offers 11 pallet"}, {"text": "positions, a full-featured cargo loading system with retractable sill plate and over-rideable side restraints, all engineered to deliver good reliability and a 48,000lbs (22 tonnes) maximum payload. In 2019, it was announced that AerCaribe was looking into commencing operations from its base in Colombia, and its sub-base in Peru under its subsidiary AerCaribe Peru, to the United States. On 14th October 2020, one of the An-32s crashed while landing in Iquitos. The aircraft was destroyed, but the crew survived. Destinations. AerCaribe and AerCaribe Peru both offer scheduled and charter cargo services from their respective bases within Colombia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as within Peru. Fleet. , both AerCaribe and AerCaribe Peru operates the following aircraft:"}, {"text": "Ice hockey at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Vaudoise Ar\u00e9na in Lausanne, Switzerland from 10 to 22 January 2020. A total of four events were contested: a men's and women's tournament (six teams per gender), alongside a mixed 3x3 tournament for each gender. The 3x3 competition replaced the skills challenge that was held in the first two editions. A country could enter a maximum of 26 athletes (17 for the team tournament, plus 4 in the boys' 3x3 tournament and 5 in the girl's 3x3 tournament). Hosts Switzerland were permitted to enter in each event, meaning the NOC could enter 43 athletes. Qualification. Team tournament. The top ten NOC's ranked in the combined ranking from the 2018 and 2019 editions of the IIHF World U18 Championships and IIHF World Women's U18 Championships will be allowed to enter a boys' or girls' team, with the top ranked country choosing first and so on. Each country can only enter one team, with the exception being hosts, Switzerland, which can enter a team in both tournaments. Each team will consist of 17 players. 3x3. The top 15 countries in each respective (and hosts Switzerland), will be allowed to enter"}, {"text": "one goaltender each. Each team will consist of 13 players (2 goaltenders and 11 players). Each nation can enter a maximum of three players for the boys' competition and four for the girls'. The host nation Switzerland has been allocated the maximum quota. Each NOC (that organizes a skills challenge competition) will be allocated one quota spot. All other spots will be awarded using a ranking list of all athletes that contested the skills competition across all countries, respecting the maximum quota per NOC. Men. The final quotas were released on November 1, 2019. Women. The final quotas were released on November 1, 2019."}, {"text": "Kolbj\u00f8rn Skaare (6 April 1931 \u2013 3 June 2017) was a Norwegian numismatist. Early and personal life. Skaare was born on 6 April 1931 in Strinda Municipality (in current Trondheim Municipality) to Sevald Skaare and Thora Rogne, and grew up in Vang Municipality, where his father was assigned with the agricultural research farm of . He married Marit Olafsdatter Bj\u00f8rnstad in 1959. He died in Oslo on 3 June 2017. Career. After finishing his secondary education at Hamar Cathedral School, Skaare studied history, Latin and Greek language at the University of Oslo. He was assigned with the Coin Cabinet (Myntkabinettet) from 1954, as conservator from 1958. He graduated as dr.philos. in 1976 with the thesis \"Coins and Coinage in Viking-Age Norway\", and was appointed professor in numismatics at the University of Oslo in 1985. From 1979 to 1986 he was secretary for the \"Commission internationale de numismatique\", and served as president of the society from 1986 to 1991. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, where he also was a board member and served as preses. Among his research results is a re-evaluation of the chronology of Norwegian middle age coins. He contributed to the"}, {"text": "research publication series \"Nordisk Numismatisk \u00c5rsskrift\" and elsewhere, and to popularization through books and newspaper columns. His books include the two-volume \"Norges mynthistorie\" from 1995, \"Pengesedler i Norge\" (1996), \"Bysantinske mynter\" (1998), and \"Fra Ptolemaios den f\u00f8rste til Harald den femte. Herskerbilder p\u00e5 mynt\" (1998). He was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1995."}, {"text": "Paneurhythmy (Bulgarian: \u041f\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0438\u0442\u043c\u0438\u044f) is a system of physical musical exercises developed by Peter Deunov between 1922 and 1944, focused on achieving inner balance and harmonization. The emphasis of the exercises is on giving and receiving, with the goal of creating a conscious exchange with the forces of nature. Paneurhythmy is practiced for both physical fitness and spiritual development. The creator of paneurhythmy defines it as a science: \"Paneurhythmy is a science that regulates one's physical, spiritual, and mental functions and is a combination of human thoughts, feelings, and actions. Overview. Etymologically, paneurhythmy is derived from three roots: \"Pan\" meaning the whole, everything, the cosmic, \"Eu\" meaning \"the true\" or \"supreme\", the essential, and \"rhythm\" meaning periodicity and correctness of movement. The prefix \"pan\" implies expression of rhythm that is innate to nature. Based on these etymological roots, paneurhythmy directly translates to Cosmic Sublime Rhythm. The composer of the music and movements of paneurhythmy, Peter Deunov (also known as Beinsa Douno) developed the exercises in the 1930s in Bulgaria in an adaptive process, excluding some and adopting others in order to discover their optimal form. In Deunov's words: \"Currently, the paneurhythmic figures have only the contours of movement. Later they will"}, {"text": "gain their substance, their core meaning, and details\". The idea of living with harmony with nature is prominent in the practice of paneurhythmy. Based on Deunov's recommendations, paneurthythmic exercises were to be done in the early morning and outside, preferably in a green meadow, and were most effective in the Spring, beginning 22 March. In his opinion, this was the time when nature was most receptive and contained the most prana, or living energy that could be absorbed by the human body. Paneurhythmy also contains an emphasis on building a new culture of love, fraternity, and freedom. Deunov believed there was a direct connection between thought and movement, that through the harmony between music, movement, and ideas, paneurhythmy was capable of promoting creative forces within the greater society. Over time, Paneurhythmy has attracted the attention of people from different cultures and nationalities, despite the 40-year communist regime in Bulgaria that forbade such practices. The collective dancing at Seven Rila Lakes in the Rila mountains on 19\u201321 August can be singled out as the largest gathering, with over 2000 practitioners attending per year from a variety of countries, including France, Canada, Italy, Ukraine, and Russia. Structure. Paneurhythmy is composed of three"}, {"text": "parts: \"28 Exercises,\" \"Sun's Rays,\" and \"Pentagram,\" which are performed one after the other. They consist of different exercises and are characterized by different features, way of arrangement and movement of the participants, duration. Each exercise has a certain philosophical idea expressed through its music, movements, name and lyrics. All exercises, as well as the three sections, are arranged in a meaningful sequence, they are believed to represent successive moments of individual and collective human development. A typical paneurhythmy session complete with all three parts is 70 minutes long, however practicing the first 28 exercises independently with breaks in between is acceptable and takes 50 minutes. Paneurhythmy is practiced to strictly determined music. In most cases participants will move in a circle surrounding the musicians (instrumentalists and often singers or a choir) who typically perform in the center of the circle. 28 Exercises. The first part, \"28 Exercises,\" is a set of 28 exercises performed with a partner while moving in a circle with the musicians and/or singers in the center of the circle. Each of the exercises reveal an idea expressed through the name, the movements, and the music of the exercise. The first ten exercises, also known as"}, {"text": "\"The First Day of Spring,\" are performed sequentially without pausing. They represent the symbolic awakening of the soul, as nature is awoken in the Spring. In Deunov's opinion, focus on the movement of each exercise and the ideas associated to the exercise was key to performing the exercises correctly. His belief was that the exercises had to be performed thoughtfully and with love, rather than mechanically. Sun's Rays. \"Sun's Rays\" is a composition performed after the 28 exercises. The participants, arranged in pairs, form two groups: 12 rays to symbolically represent the opening of the twelve gates of life as expressed through the 12 signs of the zodiac, and an outside circle around the rays representing the wheel of life. Acting as radii, the 12 rays approach the center symbolizing the reception of vital forces and then go backward to infuse these forces into the outer circle. In the following motion, each partner in a pair performs circles around the other. These motions represent stages of development in which mankind is trapped in a circle of material consciousness. The third and fourth movements symbolize liberation from this circle and the subsequent joy associated with such release, as expressed through the"}, {"text": "singing and clapping of the participants. Pentagram. The third part of paneurhythmy, \"Pentagram,\" is a symbolic representation of the path of the human soul to perfection, with each ray of the pentagram representing love, wisdom, truth, justice, and virtue respectively. The pentagram is also a metaphor for a cosmic man in motion, with the apices being the head, two hands, and two feet. The exercise is performed with five pairs of participants which move and exchange places, symbolizing that the positive virtues of an individual must be in motion in order for the qualities to have effect. Afterwards, the participants march forward, representing that the embodiment of the virtues has been achieved. These motions are repeated five times. Therapeutic potential. In the first published book on paneurhythmy from 1938, the exercises were defined primarily as a method for maintaining good health - in particular, as an intelligent interchange between man and nature with the goal of promoting health through rhythmic and harmonic movements, combined with corresponding music, concentration of thought, and correct breathing. Paneurhythmy is a non-competitive, social, wellness-related and interdisciplinary physical activity that is suitable for all ages. Due to the diversity of the exercises, it is theorized that"}, {"text": "they engage muscles and joints to improve the locomotion and balance of the human body. A number of studies have been performed to indicate potential positive effects of the practice on participants. A preliminary study in 2004 reported that the majority of participants indicated an improvement in the mental, physical and social aspects of their health, followed by a controlled study in 2007, which indicated significant improvement in the quality of life due to health improvement as a results of 6 months of paneurhythmy training. Other studies suggest a decrease in perceived stress and ego resiliency. Paneurhythmy has also been studied as a potential method of physical education, with one study suggesting significant improvements in balance, speed, and agility while another provides a comparative analysis of paneurhythmy and eurhythmy ."}, {"text": "Heinz Wolfram (17 January 1935 \u2013 10 June 2022) was a German speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Sepp Biebl (born 30 December 1936) is a German speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Valery Kotov (born 8 March 1939 - died 23 February 1993) was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1960 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Pallas Projects/Studios (PP/S, Pallas Studios, Pallas Contemporary Projects) is an artist-run and non-commercial gallery and studio space in Dublin, Ireland. History. Pallas Projects was founded in 1996. The founders of Pallas say its survival is owed to \u201ca stubborn willingness to adapt and transform\u201d. Having had several locations in Dublin, the gallery and studio space is currently housed at the end of an alley in an old school building in the Coombe. Projects and exhibitions. \"Offside\" was a 2005 project in The Hugh Lane and included works by Albano Afonso, Antistrot, Anna Boyle, Rhona Byrne, Mark Cullen, Brian Duggan, John Dummet, Brendan Earley, Andreas Gefeller, Niamh McCann, Alex McCullagh, Nina McGowan, Nathaniel Mellors, Clive Murphy, Adriette Myburgh, Cris Neumann, Paul O\u2019Neill, Garrett Phelan, Abigail Reynolds, Mark Titchner, Rich Streitmatter-Tran. It also had two off-site locations, including a partially inhabited public housing apartment building \u2013 the exhibitions in this location were titled: \"Pallas Heights\". In 2009 Pallas hosted a solo exhibition by Stephanie Syjuco called \"Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures,\" in which the artist made sculptures from Google SketchUp models out of cheap materials. \"The Future is Self-Organised \u2013 Artist-Run Spaces\" was an exhibition curated by Pallas Projects at the Limerick"}, {"text": "City Gallery of Art. A number of artist-run spaces and projects from Ireland and abroad were represented, as well as artists who have worked with Pallas over its 20 year history, in this 2015\u201316 exhibition. Since 2010, Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, the directors of Pallas Projects, annually invite two curators to assist in a thematic survey show, titled: Periodical Review. It is ostensibly an exhibition of contemporary artistic activity in Ireland in the preceding year."}, {"text": "The list of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Slovenia consisted of 26 skaters and 3 goaltenders. Men's ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920 (it was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and was permanently added to the Winter Olympic Games in 1924). Slovenia has participated in two tournaments, the first in 2014 and most recently in 2018, though from 1964 until 1984 they participated as part of Yugoslavia. Slovenia's best finish has been seventh place, at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Eighteen players were in both Olympic tournaments Slovenia has participated in, while eleven have played in all nine games Slovenia played. Jan Mur\u0161ak has scored the most goals, 4, assists, 5, and point, 9, for Slovenia at the Olympics."}, {"text": "The Ceylon Morning Leader was an English language daily newspaper in Ceylon. In 1907 the De Soysa family bought the proprietary rights of the defunct \"Ceylon Standard\" and started publishing the \"Ceylon Morning Leader\". Ownership of the newspaper later passed to a syndicate comprising W. A. de Silva, C. E. A. Dias, Charles Peiris and James Peiris. De Silva later became the sole owner. The \"Ceylon Morning Leader\" was edited by Armand de Souza until his death in 1921. The paper was then edited by J. L. C. Rodrigo for a short period. The paper campaigned for democratic reforms to the Legislative Council of Ceylon and supported indigenous arts and culture which were largely ignored by other English language newspapers. In December 1914 the Supreme Court of Ceylon jailed de Souza for a month after he wrote critical editorials but he was released after six days due to protests. The paper was noted for its critical coverage of the 1915 anti-Muslim riots and the declaration of martial law. In 1926 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike wrote a series of six articles in the paper in which he advocated federalism. Newspaper baron D. R. Wijewardena bought the \"Ceylon Independent\" and forced"}, {"text": "the \"Ceylon Morning Leader\" out of business in 1932."}, {"text": "NGC 4746 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located 107 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by John Herschel during a sky-survey on March 29, 1830."}, {"text": "Meena Warpudkar is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from Parbhani, Maharashtra, India. She was Mayor of Parbhani Municipal Corporation. Personal life. Meenatai Warpudkar married Suresh Warpudkar on 29 June 1974. The couple have one son and two daughters. her husband is four time MLA and a former minister of state of Government of Maharashtra currently representing Pathri (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Political career. Meenatai Warpudkar started her political career as Indian National Congress corporator of Parbhani Municipal Corporation. she was elected as mayor of Parbhani Municipal Corporation on 15 May 2017. She received 40 votes in favour while her rival Alia Anjum got 18 votes in house. References."}, {"text": "Dominik Kram\u00e1r (born 6 September 1988) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman. Career. Kram\u00e1r played in junior level for HK Poprad, HK 31 Ke\u017emarok and HC Ko\u0161ice between 2003 and 2008. He also had two loan spells with Slovak 1. Liga side HK Trebisov and also played one game for HC Ko\u0161ice's senior team during the 2007\u201308 season. Kram\u00e1r then spent the 2008\u201309 season in the Czech Republic, playing in the Czech 1. Liga for SK Kada\u0148 and in the Czech 2. Liga for HC Kl\u00e1\u0161terec nad Oh\u0159\u00ed. In 2009, Kram\u00e1r returned to his hometown team HK Poprad and spent the next four seasons with the team before moving to HC 46 Bardejov of the Slovak 1. Liga. In 2014, he joined Ferencv\u00e1rosi TC of the MOL Liga, playing sixteen games before finishing the season with Rapaces de Gap in the French Ligue Magnus. On 14 June 2016, Kram\u00e1r joined fellow Ligue Magnus team Lions de Lyon. He then spent the next two seasons playing for French teams Boxers de Bordeaux and Br\u00fbleurs de Loups. On 24 April 2019, Kram\u00e1r returned to HK Poprad."}, {"text": "Todd Souza (born December 13, 1964) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 3 Toyota for his own team, Central Coast Racing. He has also previously driven in what is now the NASCAR Xfinity Series, making two starts in 2007, and part-time in what is now the ARCA Menards Series East. Racing career. He attempted to make his debut in the NASCAR Busch Series (now the Xfinity Series) in 2005 at the series' inaugural race at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez road course in Mexico City. Fielding his own No. 97 Chevrolet, Souza failed to qualify. He returned later that year at the other road course on the schedule, Watkins Glen, and did not qualify again. After not entering any races in 2006, Souza returned to the Busch Series in 2007, again at Mexico City, but now using the No. 13, his West Series car number. Unlike two years earlier, he made the field this time. After finishing a solid 23rd in his debut, he attempted one other race that year, Phoenix in November, where he successfully qualified for the race but crashed out and finished 40th."}, {"text": "That race is his last start in the series to date. Souza has competed in NASCAR's West Series since 2006. He has one career win in the series, coming at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah in 2008. He completed his first full-time season in 2017 before scaling back to part-time for the 2018 season. Souza's 2019 season was highlighted by two top-three finishes: a third-place run at Colorado National Speedway (his first podium in two years) and a runner-up finish at Meridian Speedway. He also made headlines at Gateway after on-track contact with Hailie Deegan, calling her \"spoiled and rotten\" and deeming her move \"disrespectful.\" Souza's crew chief is Michael Mu\u00f1oz, who has worked with him since the late 2000s. On April 14, 2022, Souza stated in an interview for the ARCA website that he might only run part-time in the West Series in 2023 in a new second car for his own team with someone else replacing him in his No. 13 car full-time. Although Souza did return for another full season in 2023, which he confirmed would be his final season as a driver, he and his team did debut a second part-time car, the No. 3, at"}, {"text": "Shasta with him driving that car and Tyler Reif driving his No. 13 car in that race. On January 3, 2024, it was announced that Reif will run full-time in the No. 13 car in 2024, with Souza returning to the series part-time in the No. 3 car. He would end up running full-time in the No. 3, with the exception of the race at All American Speedway, where Kyle Keller drove the No. 3 instead. In 2025, Souza would return to the No. 3 car at Tucson Speedway, where he led the most laps of any driver in the race. Motorsports career results. ARCA Menards Series. ARCA Menards Series West. Season still in progress"}, {"text": "Apple Podcasts (known as simply Podcasts in Apple operating systems) is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows. Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, visionOS, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. In 2024 does not support opus. History. Apple was an early promoter of podcasts (the term is a portmanteau of Apple's iPod music player and \"broadcast\"), and added playback functionality to iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and built a directory of shows in its iTunes Music Store, starting with 3,000 entries. In April 2020, Apple Podcasts surpassed one million shows. In June 2021, Apple launched the option for podcast creators to implement paid subscriptions through podcast channels. Market share. Apple Podcasts had an estimated 28 million U.S. monthly listeners and 23.8% market share in March 2021, the first month it fell behind Spotify Podcasts as the top podcasting platform in"}, {"text": "the U.S. This was a decrease from Apple's 34% market share in 2018. Application platforms. iOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS versions. A standalone Apple Podcasts app was announced at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of iOS 6. Apple released the app early on the App Store on June 26, 2012. It adds a new \"stations\" feature for discovering new podcasts. It is a standard app on CarPlay. A standalone Apple Podcasts app was brought to 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs on September 24, 2012, with the Software 6.0 update. The tvOS-based 4th generation Apple TV launched in October 2015 without the ability to play podcasts. This was despite a Podcasts icon appearing on the home screen in commercials, in-store demo loops, and developer documentation. Apple Podcasts was added with tvOS 9.1.1 released on January 26, 2016. Apple Podcasts was added to the Apple Watch with watchOS 5 on September 17, 2018. On the WWDC 2023 (June 5, 2023) the Apple Vision Pro was announced and with that visionOS 1 with Apple Podcast. On March 5, 2024, Apple added transcripts to the Podcasts app on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4. Transcripts are available"}, {"text": "for English-, French-, Spanish-, and German-language podcasts macOS and Windows versions. Apple Podcasts for macOS and Microsoft Windows was initially available as part of the iTunes app, which added support for podcasts in version 4.9 in June 2005. Apple announced at WWDC 2019 that iTunes for macOS would be split and replaced by the Music, TV and Podcasts apps with the release of macOS Catalina. Apple Podcasts remains available through iTunes on Microsoft Windows. Web version and other platforms. On August 19, 2024, 19 years after the initial launch of Apple's podcast directory on iTunes, Apple finally released a web interface for Apple Podcasts, expanding access to users without iTunes installed on their computers, and computers running operating systems other than Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows. Unlike Apple Music, there is currently no Apple Podcasts app available for Android. Smart speakers. Apple's HomePod family supports Podcasts using a voice user interface. Support for Apple Podcasts was added to the Amazon Echo line in December 2019. Reception. Critical reviews of the Apple Podcasts app have generally been mixed. In 2012, Engadget stated it \"offers an opportunity to break through the clutter of iTunes\". In 2017, \"Slate\" criticized it for glitches and"}, {"text": "low-quality audio. In 2019, \"Vulture\" called the app \"a bummer\" and \"bare-bones and fairly clunky, even when it comes to basic functions like subscribing.\""}, {"text": "Jim Cowell may refer to:"}, {"text": "Renato Scrollavezza (April 14, 1927 \u2013 October 14, 2019) was an Italian luthier. He is considered influential in post-war Italian violin making. His daughter, Elisa Scrollavezza, has continued the family activity in Parma alongside her husband, Andrea Zanr\u00e8. Biography. Scrollavezza was born in Castelnuovo Fogliani, Italy on April 14, 1927, to his parents who were farmers. Scrollavezza grew up in Noceto, but during the Second World War his family faced both poverty and famine. He recounted stories of hiding in ditches from planes and escaping bombing. By the age of 18, he weighed 50 kilos and had lost all his teeth. He started his career has an apprentice to a furniture maker but started to make his own instruments by the age of 17. He taught himself to produce his own instruments until 1950 where he was accepted at the Cremona Violin Making School and later graduated under the tutelage of Peter Tatar in 1954. Scrollavezza then went on to win second place in Cremona's National Violin Making Competition. In 1975, Giorgio Paini, the president of the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, invited Scrollavezza to reopen the Parma School of Violin Making as a part of the conservatory. Scrollevazza taught instrument making"}, {"text": "from 1975 to 2014, with notable students like Jason Price, Andrea Zanr\u00e8, and, his daughter, Elisa Scrollavezza. In the 1980s, Scrollavezza stopped producing instruments, focusing on teaching and research. In 1988, Scrollavezza was selected by the city of Genoa to be the curator of Niccolo Paganini's Il Cannone Guarneri."}, {"text": "Naziha Arebi (born 1984) is a Libyan-British film director, producer, writer and artist. Her films have been shown at international film festivals, and her documentary film \"Freedom Fields\" was nominated for a BAFTA award. Biography. Arebi was born in 1984 to an English mother and Libyan father and was raised in Hastings, East Sussex. She studied film at Central Saint Martins in London. Arebi moved to Tripoli, Libya during the 2011 uprising to explore her dual heritage and her fathers homeland. In 2012, she co-founded HuNa Productions, a Tripoli-based film collective. Arebi directed and produced the film \"Freedom Fields\", which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film was subsequently shown at over 70 other international film festivals. It follows three women, their Libyan football team and the challenges they faced after the country descends into the 2011 civil war and was filmed over five years. Her writings and photography have also been published in multiple magazines and newspapers. She has shot documentaries supported by news outlets \"Al Jazeera\" and \"The Guardian\". Arebi works as a programme consultant for Sheffield DocFest. She also works with organizations such as UN Women and BBC Media Action."}, {"text": "George Marston may refer to:"}, {"text": "Garth Derick Wright (born 9 September 1963) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Wright played for Eastern Province and Transvaal in the South African domestic competitions. He made his test debut for the Springboks in the third test against the visiting New Zealand Cavaliers team on 24 May 1986 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Wright scored his first and only test try in his second test, the fourth test against the Cavaliers. He was capped 7 times and scored 1 try for the Springboks and also played a further five tour matches."}, {"text": "Thomas Hope Blyth (16 October 1876 \u2013 16 December 1949) was an English footballer who scored on his only appearance in the Football League for Newcastle United. He played as a centre forward. Personal life. Blyth worked as a schoolmaster. He served as a bombardier and a signaller in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War."}, {"text": "This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction fantasy LGBT epistolary novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It was first published by Simon & Schuster. It won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2020 Locus Award for Best Novella, the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best Novella. Plot. Agents Red and Blue travel back and forth through time, altering the history of multiple universes on behalf of their warring empires, whose timelines are mutually exclusive. In secret, the two begin leaving each other messages \u2014 initially taunting, but gradually developing into flirtation, and then love. When Red's commanding officer detects the interaction between Red and Blue, she forces Red to send Blue a message that will poison her when read. Even though Red warns Blue of the danger, she reads the message and succumbs to the poison anyway, fearing Red\u2019s treason will be discovered if she does not. Some time later, Red, now listless and distraught, finds another message hinting that Blue faked her own death. Red returns to each point in their correspondence and collects traces of"}, {"text": "Blue\u2019s DNA from her letters, allowing her to sneak into Blue's empire and give her immunity to the poison during childhood, an episode related in an earlier letter. This incident is discovered and Red is arrested by her own empire; the day before her scheduled execution, Red receives a final letter from Blue indicating that she is breaking her out of prison and inviting her to fight together against both their empires. Writing process. Red's letters were written entirely by Gladstone, and Blue's by El-Mohtar. Although they wrote a general outline beforehand, \"the reactions of each character were developed with a genuine element of surprise on receiving each letter, and the scenes accompanying [the letters] were written using that emotional response\". Reception. \"Publishers Weekly\" called \"This Is How You Lose the Time War\" \"exquisitely crafted\" and \"dazzling\", with \"increasingly intricate wordplay\", and stated that it \"warrants multiple readings\". NPRs Jason Sheehan compared it to the film \"The Lake House\" (if one \"strapped [\"The Lake House\"] up in body armor, covered it with razors, dipped it in poison and set it loose to murder and burn its way across worlds and centuries\"), and said that the book makes a virtue of"}, {"text": "what he felt to be the characteristic weaknesses of both the time travel genre and the epistolary format. Cheryl Morgan argued that its central message\u2014\"soldiers on either side of a war often have far more in common with each other than they do with the people who sit safely at home and issue orders\"\u2014is one \"that the world needs to hear\". Tor.com's Lee Mandelo found in the book \"a poetic internal structure\", prose that was \"sharp, almost crisp\" rather than \"lush\", and a \"focus [which] remains on the personal as opposed to the global\"; Mandelo also observed that it \"has an argument to make\u2014several, actually\u2014about conflict, love, and resistance\", and treats the time war as \"an object lesson, a conceit, the unending and reason-less conflict that consumes generations, centuries, now and forever.\" \"Den of Geek\"s Natalie Zutter praised the novel's approach to gender identity: Red and Blue \"both use she/her pronouns, but neither fits the heteronormative mold of femininity\"; each of them \"performs gender in a dozen different ways\", such that \"[t]he more that Blue and Red appear in different forms, the less their gender actually matters.\" At \"Strange Horizons\", Adri Joy lauded the novel as \"an absolute emotional masterpiece,"}, {"text": "sending readers on a gut-wrenching feelings rollercoaster of the highest calibre.\" She noted that \"the Time War itself [...] is largely incomprehensible beyond its most basic points\", but specified that \"every little aside of... description works to set the scene in the most effective possible way\", including the \"impermanence\" of the messages delivered between Red and Blue. \"Black Gate\" found it to be neither \"a riddle to parse\" nor \"a tangled, hard sci-fi puzzle-box of time travel to unravel\", with its final revelation being \"fairly obvious from the first chapter\", but emphasized that the revelation in question was nonetheless \"quite \"emotionally\" fulfilling\", ultimately concluding that \"it's fun to watch goddesses fall in love [...] and Blue and Red feel very much human.\" Awards. \"This Is How You Lose the Time War\" won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2019, the 2020 Locus Award for Best Novella, the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2020 Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction, the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best Novella, and was a finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award in the Novella category. Additionally, it was a finalist for the inaugural Ray Bradbury"}, {"text": "Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction at the 2019 \"Los Angeles Times\" Book Prizes; and for the 2019 Kitschies in the Novel category; and achieved second place in the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Social media. In May 2023, three years after its release, \"This Is How You Lose the Time War\" received an unexpected boost in popularity, ascending Amazon's bestseller rankings to number three overall and number one in science fiction. This was because of a series of viral tweets by a fan of the manga and anime series \"Trigun\" with the display name \"bigolas dickolas wolfwood\" who recommended the book to their followers. \"I do not understand what is happening but I am incomprehensibly grateful to bigolas dickolas\", El-Mohtar wrote in response. \"Wolfwood\" was subsequently nominated for the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Related Work for their tweets, but declined to appear on the ballot. Adaptation. El-Mohtar announced in 2019 that the book has been optioned for television, with scripts to be written by herself and Gladstone. She also specified that the genders of the characters \"are not up for negotiation\"."}, {"text": "Tracey Poirier (b. 1974) is an officer in the Army National Guard. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps and United States Army, she has served in the military since 1991, and has been the director of the joint staff for the Vermont National Guard since 2022. Poirier's command assignments included the 186th Brigade Support Battalion (2013 to 2016) and 124th Regiment (Regional Training Institute) (2019 to 2021). She was promoted to brigadier general in July 2023, and her awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, and Army Achievement Medal. Early life. Tracey L. (Jones) Poirier was born in 1974 and is originally from Genesee, Pennsylvania. A 1992 graduate of Northern Potter High School, she was her class valedictorian. Poirier joined the United States Army Reserve in 1991, and served as a unit supply specialist in Wellsville, New York. Poirier attended Norwich University with a Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship from 1992 to 1996. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Media Communications. Poirier was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, a first for a Norwich University graduate, and studied at Hertford College"}, {"text": "of the University of Oxford, where she received a Master of Studies degree in Social Anthropology in 1997 and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in 1998. Start of career. Poirier served in the Marines for eight years, including postings with United States Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii. While stationed in Hawaii, she deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Poirier joined the Vermont Army National Guard in 2006, and her assignments included company commander, Tactical Information Operations Course instructor, and personnel staff officer (S-1) of the 124th Regiment (Regional Training Institute). She later served as S-1 of the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team's rear detachment during the brigade's deployment to Afghanistan, and support operations officer for the 186th Brigade Support Battalion. Continued career. Poirier commanded the 186th Brigade Support Battalion from September 2013 to April 2016. She then attended the United States Army War College (AWC), from which she graduated in June 2017 with a Master of Strategic Studies degree. Poirier was an AWC Carlisle Scholar as well as a Distinguished Graduate. In 2017 and 2018, Poirier again served"}, {"text": "in Iraq, this time with Joint Special Operations Command. She commanded the 124th Regiment from April 2019 to April 2021. She was the first female commander of the 124th Regiment Regional Training Institute. In January 2021, Poirier left her position as assistant vice president for student affairs at Norwich University to become the full-time chief of staff for the Vermont Army National Guard. In May 2022, she was assigned as the Vermont National Guard's full-time director of the joint staff. She was promoted to brigadier general in July 2023, to date from November 2022, the first female member of the Vermont Army National Guard to attain general officer's rank. Family. Poirier is married to Colonel Leonard J. Poirier, who assumed command of the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in 2022. They are the parents of four children, and reside in Barre Town. Awards. Poirier's awards include: In 2018, Norwich University began construction of a memorial staircase to commemorate the bicentennial of the school's 1819 founding. The steps were built between the southeast corner of the Upper Parade Ground and the Sullivan Museum and History Center, and contain the names of 78 prominent individuals, including Poirier, who are associated with the"}, {"text": "university. Effective dates of promotion. Poirier's effective dates of promotion are:"}, {"text": "The EKZ CrossTour is a cyclo-cross racing series held annually in Switzerland since 2014. It is held over 5 races, and the rider with the most total points is declared the winner."}, {"text": "August meeting is an annual congress held by the Igbo women in August. It is a massive homecoming whereby Igbo women in the diaspora and the cities travel back to their matrimonial villages to meet with their local counterparts to discuss matters about the community development, conflict management, human development, and other socio-economic and cultural initiatives. The meeting is a three days ritual and it is divided into three parts, the first is held at the village level, the second within the community, and the third is held in churches where thanksgivings are held to mark the end of the meeting. History. The origins of the August meeting can be traced back to the 1940s, possibly influenced by Church Missionary Societies that aimed to empower women's voices. The timing of the meeting is significant. August coincides with the end of the farming season, a time of rest when schools are also on break. This allows Igbo women, both those residing in their hometowns and those who have migrated to cities or abroad, to conveniently return home and participate in the annual congress. Challenges. In the early years of the August meeting, the rich and influential women used the avenue of"}, {"text": "the August meeting to intimidate other women by wearing expensive clothing, wrappers, and jewelry. This act made a number of women to lose interest and discouraged them from attending and consequently the turn out for the meeting dropped in various communities. A lot of marriages also failed as wives mounted pressure on their husbands to get the latest clothing and wrapper for the August Meeting. This issue was addressed when the decision was taken that women should appear in prechosen uniforms, which put an end to the pressure and competition. Cinematography. A stage play titled \"August Meeting\" was performed in 2018 at the Lagos Theatre Festival. The stage play tour continued to other states in the country such Abuja and Anambra. A movie titled \"August Meeting\" was also released in 2001."}, {"text": "James Crombie may refer to:"}, {"text": "ERF Medien e. V. (German: Evangeliumsrundfunk) is a German evangelical media corporation, based in Wetzlar, Hesse. The Corporation is producing Radio- and TV as well as online content with Christian-evangelical messages. The organization was founded in 1959 as Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF) (\"gospel broadcast\"). Theologically, ERF Medien is close to the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. ERF is partner of Trans World Radio. The funding is almost exclusively through donations from listeners, viewers, online users and friends with annual revenues of 17.3 million euros (as of 2018). In addition, there is an ERF Foundation since 2001, whose statutory purpose is to provide financial support to the broadcaster. Program. ERF produces ten foreign-language radio programs for the German-speaking region. The TV program \"ERF1\" is distributed via Satellite (DVB-S at Astra 1M), Live-stream and since 1 April 2009 also in some digital cable networks in Germany (DVB-C). Network. ERF has a close media partnership with the missionary campaign ProChrist and the evangelical Christian Media Foundation (SCM). History. In Tangier, Morocco, the German missionary Helmut G\u00e4rtner came into contact with US missionaries who had been conducting radio missions for some time. He was responsible for the German Christians in Spain and agreed to establish a German-speaking"}, {"text": "department for the US missionaries. Thus, starting in 1956, broadcasts from Tangier also began in German. In October 1959, at G\u00e4rtner's instigation, a German branch was founded in Wetzlar, central Hesse, under the name \"Evangeliums-Rundfunk\" (ERF). The first broadcast was originally scheduled for the summer of 1960. Trans World Radio was broadcasting from the transmitter facilities previously built by the Nazis on Mount Agel in Monte Carlo. A medium wave transmitter was added in 1964. However, technical difficulties meant that the broadcast launch had to be postponed several times. On February 5, 1961, the ERF went on air via the shortwave transmitter of TWR Monte Carlo. From 1964, the ERF also broadcast from Monte Carlo to Germany via medium wave. Key figures in the early years were theologian Walter Quiring and journalist Horst Marquardt. Marquardt headed the ERF until 1993. In 1995, the ERF received its first license for private broadcasting in Hesse, allowing it to broadcast nationwide on medium wave. The ERF Foundation, founded in 2001, supports the work financially. In addition to producing radio programs, the ERF launched its own television program in 1979."}, {"text": "Albert Chandler (15 January 1897 \u2013 28 January 1963) was an English professional footballer who made over 160 appearances as a right back in the Football League for Derby County. Personal life. Chandler served in the Border Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps during the First World War."}, {"text": "This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in New Hampshire and any other surviving structures from the First Period. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology; or else be denoted as estimates in the separate lower list. Verified. Ages of the buildings listed in this table have been verified with dendrochronology or architectural survey."}, {"text": "Apocephalus paraponerae is a species of fly in the family Phoridae discovered by Borgmeier in 1958. This species is a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant \"Paraponera clavata\" (commonly known as the bullet ant) and uses both visual and chemical cues to locate its host. \"A. paraponerae\" can locate fighting or injured ants through host-produced alarm pheromones. Female flies are attracted to the ant to feed and oviposit, while males are attracted to feed and locate females for mating. There is some evidence that suggests that \"A. paraponerae\" is a cryptic species complex of at least four genetically distinct species. Description. In 2001, it was suggested that \"A. paraponerae\" may be a cryptic species complex of at least four genetically distinct, but morphologically indistinguishable species of flies that attack several different ant hosts. Evidence for this claim includes the fact that host-location cues used by \"A. paraponerae\" to locate two of the host species differ. Furthermore, these two ant species differ consistently in body size. In addition, mtDNA analysis reveals high sequence divergence between populations, but low sequence divergence within populations. Anatomy. Larvae. The larva of \"A. paraponerae\" generally resembles that of other, related phorids. However, \"A. paraponerae\" larvae possess"}, {"text": "an unusual anterior crosspiece joining the cornua of the cephalopharyngeal skeleton. Adult. Adult \"A. paraponerae\" are small phorids that are about 1.5-2.0 mm long. Notably, female flies possess modified, sclerotized ovipositors which are used to deposit eggs in adult \"P. clavata\". Distribution and habitat. The geographic range of \"A. paraponerae\" is generally coextensive with that of its host, \"P. clavata.\" They both occupy the neotropical region and are widespread in the lowland rainforests of Brazil, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and northern Argentina. Life history. The \"A. paraponerae\" life cycle begins when an adult female deposits eggs in a \"P. clavata\" worker ant. Egg hatching and larval development occur very rapidly following oviposition. Oviposition. Upon discovering an injured ant, \"A. paraponerae\" females repeatedly probe the ant's body with their ovipositors, focusing primarily on sutures, areas of overlap between sclerites, and ruptures in sclerites. When laying eggs, females completely extend their ovipositors, allowing the egg to pass through the female reproductive tract. Eggs. While most parasitic members of the \"Apocephalus\" family deposit only single eggs into their hosts, \"A. paraponerae\" females typically deposit more than one egg per host. Furthermore, several flies may deposit eggs into a single host. Compared to other phorids,"}, {"text": "the \"A. paraponerae\" egg stage is extremely short, usually lasting only 6.5\u20137 hours. Larvae. \"A. paraponerae\" larvae develop rapidly within hosts, emerging about 48 hours after hatching. Because females typically deposit several eggs into a single host, and several flies may deposit eggs into the same host, it is not uncommon for up to 20-25 larvae to develop successfully from a single host. Pupae. The pupal stage of \"A. paraponerae\" occurs outside of the host and lasts around 17\u201326 days, which is much longer than that of other phorids. The long pupal stage may compensate in some way for the very short larval stage. After this long period of pupation, \"A. paraponerae\" ecloses as adults. Adult. The life history of adult \"A. paraponerae\" resembles that of both a parasitoid and a scavenger. Both male and female flies are attracted to injured \"P. clavata\" to feed on wounds. After oviposition, females frequently feed on fluid oozing out of oviposition wounds. Males may be attracted to injured ants not only to feed but also to mate with female flies that are attracted to those ants. Food resources and parasitism. Host range. An experimental test of potential host range in \"A. paraponerae\" showed"}, {"text": "that adults were able to develop successfully in seven species in four genera: \"Paraponera clavata\" (the natural host), \"Pachycondyla villosa, P. apicalis, O. opaciventris, E. tuberculatum, E. ruidum,\" and \"P. obscuricornis.\" The number of eggs that developed into pupa differed across host species. \"Pachycondyla apicalis\" had the highest percent success of puparia, and \"P. clavata\" had the second-highest percent success. The success of larval development in species other than the natural host suggests that larvae are not highly adapted to \"P. clavata\" hosts. However, ant species in the subfamilies Myrmicinae and Formicinae were not suitable for larval development, indicating a taxonomic limit to host range. Host finding. \"A. paraponerae\" utilize both visual and chemical cues to locate injured or freshly killed hosts for feeding and egg-laying. These injuries species are often the result of interspecies aggression and serve as ideal hosts for \"A. paraponerae\" to lay their egg on. Studies have shown that \"A. paraponerae\" can distinguish among different ants based on body size. When ant workers of varying species and sizes were treated with hexane to remove species-specific chemical signatures, \"A. paraponerae\" was found to prefer larger \"P. clavata\" over other tested species. In addition to visual cues, \"A."}, {"text": "paraponerae\" are also attracted to 4-methyl-3-heptanone and 4-methyl-3-heptanol, which are major products of the mandibular glands of the host ant \"P. clavata\". As these chemicals are released by fighting, injured, and freshly killed workers, \"A. paraponerae\" may use these pheromones to locate suitable targets for feeding or egg-laying. In an experiment, \"A. paraponerae\" were found to be equally attracted to ants that were treated with hexane, but unwilling to lay eggs on them. This suggests that \"A. paraponerae\" is either unwilling or unable to lay eggs on ants lacking the characteristic chemical signals of 4-methyl-3-heptanone and 4-methyl-3-heptanol. More research is necessary on additional host-finding cues, as \"A. paraponerae\" are not attracted to other ant species with the same mandibular gland components as \"P. clavata.\" Geographic variation in host-finding cues. Research conducted at Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in Panama and La Selva Biological Research Station in Costa Rica demonstrated geographic variation in host-finding cues. \"A. paraponerae\" used 4-methyl-3-heptanone and 4-methyl-3-heptanol as a host location cue at La Selva, but did not do so at BCI. This is the first reported example of geographic variation in host finding cues in a phorid parasitoid."}, {"text": "\"Throw to the wolves\" is an English metaphorical idiom, meaning to sacrifice someone to save or benefit oneself or one's group. \"Throw under the bus\" is a more modern equivalent. \"Throw to the wolves\" is also sometimes used more generally to describe abandoning someone for any reason (such as some unwanted trait or property of the victim herself), cognate with \"throw to the lions\" and \"throw to the dogs\", which also derive from the supposedly man-eating appetites of a beast, or \"kick to the curb\" or \"throw under the bus\". Origins and use. The story and its derivative metaphor are found in America and Europe, from at least the 19th century. A Russian idiom with the same meaning is \"lighten the sleigh\" (\u043e\u0431\u043b\u0435\u0433\u0447\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438). The idiom was current among American immigrants from Russia \u2013 including especially ethnic Germans \u2013 to the American Great Plains. In Russia, many folktales concerning wolves are told. One such type of tale concerns a troika or other sleigh, or a convoy of sleighs, beset by wolves. One or more passengers are thrown out, to satisfy the wolves or at any rate slow them while they devour their prey, usually to no avail. Other tales tell"}, {"text": "of parents sacrificing their children to save themselves. In one, a couple throws their baby to the harrying wolves; the baby is not noticed by the wolves, who go on to kill and devour the couple. In one tale, a wedding party of three sleighs is attacked by packs of wolves. Two sleighs are destroyed, and the drivers of the third eject the bride and groom, but to no avail; everyone is killed. In a similar tale the drivers sacrificing the wedding party survive, but are shunned by society. The American novelist Willa Cather's 1918 novel \"My \u00c1ntonia\" contains a variation of this version: the characters Peter and Pavel are revealed to have done exactly this, and to have been driven by shunning to emigrate to Nebraska, where the novel is set. The English writer Robert Browning's 1879 poem \"Iv\u00e0n Iv\u00e0novitch\" uses this motif; a mother throws her children to wolves attacking her sleigh, and barely survives. The axeman Iv\u00e0n Iv\u00e0novitch, upon hearing her tale, immediately and summarily beheads the woman, for which act he is absolved by the village priest. An 1855 book, \"The Englishwoman in Russia\", has a similar tale and ending and may have inspired Browning's poem."}, {"text": "In \"The Silent Speaker\", a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout, Archie Goodwin comments on a client who is willing to frame a confederate for murder by saying, \u201cIt reminds me of that old picture, there was one in our dining room out in Ohio, of the people in the sleigh throwing the baby out to the wolves that were chasing them.\" Drs. P's 1974 song, , his most popular, is an extensive reimagining of the story, and the metaphor remains commonly understood and in current use on both sides of the Atlantic into the 21st century."}, {"text": "Raja Meziane (; born 1988), is an Algerian singer, songwriter, lawyer, and activist. Life. Meziane was born in 1988 in Maghnia, a town in Tlemcen Province in north-west Algeria, where she grew up in the city of Chouhada. Her father, Ahmed (\"H'mida\") Meziane, a college professor of natural sciences, died young from a cardiac disease when she was eight years old. Initiated to music and theatre among scouts, she recorded her first album of children's songs at the age of 16. In 2007, while a law student at the universit\u00e9 de Tlemcen, she entered the talent show Alhane wa chabab in which she was a finalist. After releasing two albums, with some songs criticising the regime, in 2013 she attempted to make a feature film for which she wrote the screenplay and the music of the soundtrack. Unable to finance this project, she decided to devote herself to her job as a lawyer. However, the \"b\u00e2tonnier\" of Algiers refused, with no explanation, to issue her practice certificate. Having succeeded in neither art nor law, in 2015 she moved to the Czech Republic, where she found an environment conducive to the development of her artistic career. During October 2019 Meziane was"}, {"text": "listed as one of the BBC's 100 most influential women of the year."}, {"text": "Alleyne Clarice Zander (9 February 1893 \u2013 12 October 1958), was an Australian artist, art curator, gallery manager and publicist, born Alleyne Clarice Peel in Coleraine, Victoria. She became known in Australia for organizing the \"British Contemporary Art\" exhibitions in Melbourne in 1932 and 1933 after moving to London in 1930 where she was appointed gallery manager of The Redfern Gallery. In 1934 she began working for the Royal Academy of Art, later becoming a full time employee. Zander was pivotal in reorienting the then conservative academy toward wider public engagement, being responsible for exhibition organisation and public engagement, becoming 'the public face of the academy'. For the New Burlington Galleries she helped organise and promoted exhibitions by Picasso, Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico and travelled to Nazi Germany to research works for Twentieth Century German Art made in response to the Nazi's degenerate Art exhibitions. She was the long term partner of political cartoonist Will Dyson until his death in 1938. Fearing a German invasion of Britain she returned to Australia in 1940, partly because of her Jewish surname by marriage."}, {"text": "Tkhinvali () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Nicola Rollock is a British academic, writer and activist. She is professor of social policy and race at King's College London, having previously been reader in equality and education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has written several books, including \"The Colour of Class: The educational strategies of the Black middle classes\" (2014). She has been included in the \"Powerlist\" of the most influential black Britons and has received the \"PRECIOUS\" award for her work in racial equality. Early life and education. Rollock was born in South West London, England, to parents from Barbados. Her father encouraged her to focus on her education; she enjoyed reading as a child, and eventually studied English literature. She studied psychology at the University of Liverpool and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1994. Rollock's further education included a Postgraduate Certificate in Family and Couple Therapy at Birkbeck, University of London. She was appointed head of education at the Runnymede Trust in 2001. For her doctoral studies she moved to the UCL Institute of Education, where she researched the educational attainment of black students in British secondary schools. Research and career. After completing her doctorate in 2006, Rollock was appointed a postdoctoral fellow"}, {"text": "at London Metropolitan University, where she spent three years, before returning to the UCL Institute of Education as a research associate. Her research revealed that black children still faced an attainment gap, even if they were as rich as their white counterparts. She has presented her research as evidence to parliament on the attainment of black pupils. Together with the Runnymede Trust, Rollock published \"The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry 10 Years On\", which looked at how British policing must evolve to support the diverse British population. The recommendations included sharing effective practice on recording racist incidents across the criminal justice system, improving the monitoring of racially motivated crime, increasing public scrutiny, addressing the retention and progression of black staff and reviewing the effectiveness of Stop and Search. The report was presented to the Home Office and Ministry of Justice in 2009. In her 2019 report \"Staying Power\" (the title of which pays homage to Peter Fryer's 1984 that documents the history of Black people in Britain), Rollock identified that there were fewer than thirty black British women professors in the United Kingdom, as of February 2019. This shockingly low number (there are 18,000 professors, more than 14,000 of whom are white"}, {"text": "men) was covered in \"The Guardian\", \"Vogue\" and \"Stylist\". Rollock identified that the underrepresentation of black women was due to explicit bias, bullying and racial stereotyping. Rollock is committed to making the black women professors more visible, as well as encouraging and supporting more women in to academia. The Black Female Professors Forum was established by Iyiola Solanke in 2019. In 2019, Rollock was appointed to the Home Affairs Select Committee \"Macpherson Report: Twenty Years On\" inquiry, which will examine progress in the two decades since the Murder of Stephen Lawrence. She was appointed lead on the black and minority ethnic (BAME) attainment gap at Goldsmiths, University of London. In this role, she leads a working group that engages academic and professional services staff as well as students to understand the origins of the achievement gap, and implement various solutions. The efforts are part of a wide Government of the United Kingdom initiative to end inequalities between different ethnicities in higher education. Rollock serves on the Wellcome Trust Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group and the British Science Association Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. She is a member of the BBC Academy. Rollock provides regular comment on racial inequality to"}, {"text": "the media. She has criticised universities for engaging \"with race in superficial ways\". Related to her research, Rollock curated the touring exhibition \"Phenomenal Women: portraits of UK Black female professors\", aiming \"to challenge perceptions of what a professor looks like, to highlight the intersectionality of race and gender and to showcase the achievements of this under-represented group of academics.\" Featuring photographs by Bill Knight, \"Phenomenal Women\" was displayed at locations including in 2020 at London's Southbank Centre and at the University of Cambridge in 2021. Rollock is a Distinguished Fellow of the Faculty of Education of the University of Cambridge. In September 2021, she was appointed Professor of Social Policy and Race at King's College London. Rollock is the founding editor of the Routledge journal \"Whiteness and Education.\" She has written for \"The Conversation\" and the \"Financial Times\". Awards and honours. Rollock's awards and honours include: Selected publications. Her publications include:"}, {"text": "The Vernal Tithing Office is a historic building in Vernal, Utah. It was built in 1887 by Harley Mowery as a tithing building for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a gable-front building with some elements of Greek Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 25, 1985."}, {"text": "Gomi () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "Chanieturi () is a village in the Ozurgeti Municipality of Guria in western Georgia."}, {"text": "The Air Balloon is a road junction and former pub in Birdlip, Gloucestershire, England. The junction is on the A417 at a significant congestion point. The pub was open from the late 18th century to 2022, when it closed as part of road improvements, and was subsequently demolished. Location. The pub stood next to a roundabout junction on the A417, a major road between Swindon and Gloucester via Cirencester. The A436 meets the A417 at this point; the two roads together form a de facto bypass of Cheltenham between Oxford and Gloucester. History. The pub opened in 1784 and was probably named after one of the first British balloon flights: the launching of a small hydrogen balloon by Edward Jenner on 2 September of that year, which flew from Berkeley Castle to Kingscote and then on to a field near Birdlip. This was the year after the pioneering flights of the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon and Jacques Charles's hydrogen balloon in Paris. It was known as the Balloon by 1796 and renamed the Air Balloon in 1802. By 1856, the landlord was brewing beer on-site. The premises were part of the Cowley Manor estate until some time early in"}, {"text": "the 20th century. The pub was bought by Greene King in 2004. In 2020 the menu included burgers, steaks, vegetarian food, \"pub classics\" and a lunchtime carvery. Closure. The pub was under threat of demolition as it sat alongside a short section of single-carriageway road which is otherwise a high-quality route between the M4 and M5 motorways. Although the junction has been said to be a notorious accident blackspot, from 1999 to 2014 there were an estimated 340 casualties along the whole section of road, which National Highways said was below average for the type of road. In March 2019, Highways England proposed improvements that would include demolition of the pub, stating that the local geography and steep hills made it otherwise impossible to build a high-quality road meeting modern safety standards. The road could not be routed elsewhere as it would cut through Barrow Wake, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Highways England stated that it would consult landowners and assess the social impact of the pub's demolition in a further design stage. As of June 2021, the pub was open, but was expected to be demolished. The landlord subsequently announced in December 2022 that the pub"}, {"text": "would close on New Year's Eve, and then it would be demolished. Actor John Challis' widow said the couple used to visit the pub regularly, and she was sad to see it close. A spokesperson for Highways England expressed surprise at the pub's closure, saying it could have stayed open longer. There were additional concerns that a now-closed prominent landmark could become a magnet for vandalism. The premises were demolished in December 2023 as part of the construction work. On 21 July 2024, four people were killed after a car crash on the A436 between the Air Balloon and Seven Springs. References. Citations Sources"}, {"text": "The Mocking of Christ (or Christ Mocked) is a small 13th-century panel painting by the Italian artist Cimabue, in tempera on a poplar panel. It depicts the mocking of Jesus and is one of three panels known from Cimabue's Diptych of Devotion. It was discovered in the kitchen of an elderly woman in northern France. In October 2019 it sold at auction for \u20ac24 million, a record for an artwork predating the 16th century. It is believed to be the first work by Cimabue to have been auctioned. Following an export ban, it was acquired by the Louvre in 2023. Description. \"The Mocking of Christ\" measures and depicts the mocking of Jesus prior to his crucifixion. The work is painted with egg tempera on a gold leaf background, on a thinned and slightly bowed poplar panel prepared with layers of gesso ground in which a canvas is embedded. It is thought to date from 1280. The panel is thought to be part of a diptych with four painted scenes on each wing, depicting the passion of Christ, sometimes known as the Diptych of Devotion. Two other scenes by Cimabue, painted on wood panels of similar size, have been identified as"}, {"text": "parts of the same diptych: the \"Virgin and Child with Two Angels\" in the collection of the National Gallery in London (discovered in Suffolk in 2000) and \"The Flagellation of Christ\", in the Frick Collection in New York since 1950. \"The Mocking of Christ\" is one of only a dozen works that have been attributed to Cimabue, none of which were signed by the artist. It shares similarities with Cimabue's other works in the way that the facial expressions and buildings are depicted and in the use of light and perspective. The National Gallery describes the polyptych as representing \"a crucial moment in the history of art\" as it comes from a time when Italian painters began to move away from the Byzantine tradition towards a more naturalistic representation of events. It is the only known small-scale work of Cimabue to use the same techniques to display a crowd of figures that can be seen in other, larger-scale works, such as his frescoes at Assisi. The scene follows the biblical account in Matthew 27:27\u201330. Christ, in a red robe and blue cloak, is standing at the centre of the composition, with his eyes uncovered in the Byzantine style: in contemporary"}, {"text": "depictions from Northern Europe, he would be seated and blindfolded. He is impassive, with arms limp and a sorrowful expression, among a crowd of slightly shorter men who are angrily striking Christ with rods, a sheathed sword, or their bare hands; one appears to be reaching up to remove Christ's halo. To either side stands a person with a sheathed sword; buildings in the background in Byzantine reverse perspective frame the scene under a luminous gold sky. An infrared reflectogram has revealed Cimabue's underdrawing. Damage to the paint shows the panel was removed from the bottom left corner of a frame, and the edges have been evened-up with a dark border. It is suspected that an original red border is underneath, like the two other surviving paintings from the diptych, which also show similar woodworm holes. With the other two panels, they appear to be three of a set of four panels, with the upper right panel missing. A reconstruction of an unusual eight-panel Florentine diptych of c. 1320 by the Master of San Martino alla Palma suggests that the fourth panel would be a crowd scene of the Betrayal of Christ, while the four panels of a hypothesised second"}, {"text": "leaf would depict the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Entombment, and the Last Judgment. A similar Venetian diptych of c. 1300 in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts also has six Passion scenes, with the Virgin and Child and the Last Judgment. All seem to be associated with communities of Clarissan nuns in northern Italy. Discovery and sale. The painting was discovered hanging above the hotplate in the kitchen of an elderly woman living in Compi\u00e8gne, northern France. The woman was in her nineties and was selling the house, which had been built in the 1960s, and moving from the area. Ahead of the move in June 2019 the owner called in a local auctioneer to determine if any of her possessions were worth selling; the remainder were to be thrown away. The owner and her family recognised the \"Mocking of Christ\" only as an old religious icon and thought it had little value. The owner could not remember how the work came to be in her possession, but thought it to be of Russian origin. The auctioneer had only one week to evaluate the contents of the house, but noticed the \"Mocking of Christ\" almost immediately. They thought"}, {"text": "it to be of an Italian primitivist nature and possibly worth \u20ac300,000 to \u20ac400,000. The owner was advised to send it away for testing and it went to Eric Turquin and his colleagues at the Turquin Gallery in Paris. Testing under infrared light revealed similarities with other works by Cimabue and it was attributed to the artist. Some other items from the house sold at auction for \u20ac6,000 and the remainder were sent to landfill. The work was put up for auction at the Act\u00e9on H\u00f4tel des Ventes, in Senlis, Oise, on 27 October 2019 with an estimate of \u20ac4\u20136 million. Some 800 people attended the auction and there was interest from several foreign museums. The work reached a hammer price of \u20ac19.5 million, which reached \u20ac24 million once selling fees were included. The winning bid was placed by the London-based dealer Fabrizio Moretti, on behalf of two anonymous collectors. This set a new world record for a pre-1500 artwork sold at auction. The price was believed to be so high as it was the first time a work by Cimabue had sold at auction. Both seller and purchaser decided to remain anonymous, though the buyers have been reported to"}, {"text": "be two Chilean nationals living in the United States. On 23 December 2019 the French government put in place a 30-month ban on export of the work. It was hoped that funds could be raised to purchase it so it can go on display at the Louvre alongside the artist's \"Maest\u00e0\". It was finally acquired by the Louvre in November 2023."}, {"text": "William Meath Baker (1 November 1857 \u2013 15 January 1935) was an English pottery owner, benefactor, landowner and High Sheriff. He was born in Hilderstone, Staffordshire, the son of the Revd. Ralph Bourne Baker and his wife Francis Crofton Singer, daughter of Joseph Henderson Singer, Bishop of Meath. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1875, at the age of 18, he succeeded his father to the family pottery works of William Baker and Co in Fenton, Staffordshire and the country house of Hasfield Court in Gloucestershire. His father had inherited both properties from his unmarried elder brother William in 1865. William Meath Baker established himself as a country squire at Hasfield, having little active involvement in the management of the Fenton pottery, and serving as a JP for Gloucestershire and High Sheriff for 1896\u201397. He was a keen mountain climber and his obituary appeared in the 1935 edition of the Alpine Journal despite him never having been a member of the Alpine Club. He was loyal to his Staffordshire roots and in the late 1880s funded at his own expense the building of Fenton Town Hall and other buildings in the town. He was a"}, {"text": "close friend and patron of the composer Edward Elgar and is the \"W.M.B.\" on whom Variation No IV of his \"Enigma Variations\", composed in 1899, was based. The variation reflected Baker's impetuous and volatile nature. Two other variations were based on other members of the Baker family. The Fenton Pottery business ceased trading in 1932 during the Great Depression. He died in 1935. He had married twice, to Hannah Corbet in 1884 (who died in 1906) and secondly Sybill Wyrley-Birch in 1909. He had three sons by his first wife. Hasfield Court passed to his second son, Francis Ralph, his eldest son having become a Roman Catholic priest."}, {"text": "Harry W. Stevenson (1874\u20131944) was an English champion player of English billiards. He held the world professional title in billiards five times, including two times that he was declared champion without playing. Biography. Stevenson was born in Hull and became a billiards marker, a role that involved keeping the score of billiards matches. He moved to South Africa, but returned to England by 1893. In 1900, Stevenson and Edward Diggle challenged Charles Dawson for the Billiards Association title. Stevenson beat Diggle in the preliminary round, compiling a break of 648 in the match, but lost 6,775\u20139,000 to Dawson. In January 1901, Stevenson beat Dawson to win the title, but Dawson then won it back in April. Following the April match, Stevenson challenged Dawson again. The match was due to be played within three months of the challenge being made, but both players agreed to a postponement until November. Although Dawson was aware that the match was due to be played in November, he organised an exhibition match with Diggle in Glasgow for that month and was unavailable for the championship match. Stevenson refused a further extension, and was awarded the title. Dawson and Stevenson contested for the title again in"}, {"text": "1903, with Dawson winning a close match 9,000\u20138,700. Following this, the championship was not contested for several years. In 1908, the Billiards Association declared Melbourne Inman the champion. The Billiards Control Club (BCC), formed in 1908, promoted a championship for which Stevenson was the only entry, and he was therefore declared the BCC champion. Inman challenged Stevenson for the BCC title, and they played in 1910, but the match was abandoned following the death of Stevenson's wife on 4 May 1910, with Stevenson leading at that point by just 158. Stevenson subsequently beat Inman for the title twice, in October 1910 and April 1911. Stevenson declined to defend the title in 1912, opting instead to undertake an exhibition tour. Stevenson played Inman again 1919, but was soundly beaten, 9,468\u201316,000. His highest break at billiards was 1,016, made in 1912. Sidney Felsted wrote in \"The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes\" in 1913 that \"Stevenson possibly represents the prettiest and most stylish player the world has ever seen.\" World Professional Billiards Titles. Billiards Association Billiards Control Club"}, {"text": "Gareth Huw McKinley is Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Education. McKinley was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree followed by a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree as a student of Downing College, Cambridge. He moved to America to complete his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology supervised by Robert C. Armstrong. Research and career. McKinley's work focuses on understanding the rheology of complex fluids such as surfactants, gels and polymers, which are ubiquitous in foods and consumer products. His research interests include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, microfluidics, extensional rheology, field-responsive materials, super-hydrophobicity and the wetting of nanostructured surfaces. McKinley served as director of MIT's program in polymer science & Technology (PPST)- now Program in Polymers & Soft Matter (PPSM) - from 2004-2009. McKinley is also co-founder of Cambridge Polymer Group, a Boston-based company employing 20 people and specializing in bespoke instrumentation, materials consulting and orthopedic polymeric materials. Awards and honours. McKinley was awarded the 2013 Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology and the 2014 Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology. He served as editor of the \"Journal"}, {"text": "of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics\" (JNNFM) from 1999 to 2009. A passionate educator, he has won the Bose Award for Teaching and the Jacob Pieter Den Hartog Outstanding Educator Award from MIT. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States in 2019."}, {"text": "The 2019 World's Ultimate Strongman took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates between October 24 and 25. The winner of the inaugural World's Ultimate Strongman Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson did not partake this year due to taking a small break from competing. 2019 World's Strongest Man Martins Licis also did not partake due to injury. The competition had four-time World's Strongest Man \u017dydr\u016bnas Savickas as a referee; 2017 World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall and 2016 Europe's Strongest Man Laurence Shahlaei were commentators of the event. This years event was held over two days with first day consisting of only one event; the max deadlift. This event was performed with the Burj Khalifa in the background. The second day and the remainder of the events were performed at the Meydan Racecourse. This is also where the athletes were staying for the competition."}, {"text": "The Doughgirls is a three-act play written by Joseph Fields. Producer Max Gordon staged it on Broadway, where it debuted at the Lyceum Theatre on December 30, 1942. The play is a comedy about three unmarried women sharing a room in an overcrowded hotel in Washington, D.C. during World War II. The Broadway production was a hit that ran for 671 performances and closed on July 29, 1944. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1944. Cast and characters. The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below: Film adaptation. Warner Bros. paid $250,000 for the right to adapt the play as a movie. James V. Kern and Sam Hellman wrote the screenplay, which had to remove the play's implications of extramarital sex to be accepted by the censors at the Breen Office. Kern directed the film, which was titled \"The Doughgirls\"."}, {"text": "Miroslav Krist\u00edn (born January 22, 1982) is a Slovak professional ice hockey right winger currently playing for HK Spartak Dubnica nad V\u00e1hom of the Slovak 1. Liga. He previously played in the Slovak Extraliga for MHK Dubnica, HK Dukla Tren\u010d\u00edn and MsHK \u017dilina. He also played in the Ligue Magnus in France for Ducs de Dijon from 2005 to 2011. Krist\u00edn played in the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in 2001 and 2002 for Slovakia. Krist\u00edn's younger brother Matej Krist\u00edn is a goaltender also currently playing for HK Spartak Dubnica nad V\u00e1hom."}, {"text": "Mowery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Bonnie Jean Dorr is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine translation, automatic summarization, social computing, and explainable artificial intelligence. She is a professor and director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida She is professor emerita of computer science and linguistics and former dean at the University of Maryland, College Park, former associate director at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Education. Dorr is a graduate of Boston University, and earned both a Master's (1986) and a Ph.D. (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, \"Lexical Conceptual Structure and Machine Translation\", was supervised by Robert C. Berwick. Academic career. Dorr joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1992. At Maryland, she became the founding co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, and associate dean of the university's College of Computer, Math, and Natural Sciences (formerly College of Computer, Math, and Physical Sciences). She has also worked as a program director at DARPA beginning in 2011 while on leave from Maryland. She joined the Florida"}, {"text": "Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in 2014. In January 2022, she joined the University of Florida as a professor, where she founded and now serves as director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory. Book. Dorr is the author of \"Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon\" (MIT Press, 1993), a revision of her doctoral dissertation. It describes an approach to interlingual machine translation in which, rather than directly translating text from one language to another, it goes through an intermediate form represented using conceptual semantics. The translations between the syntax of each natural language handled by the system and this form are made using government and binding theory, in contrast to the more typical approach from that time which performed this sort of translation using phrase structure grammars and the unification of feature structures. Her system was embodied in the UNITRAN system, and translated between English, Spanish, and German. However, her work was criticized for its lack of completeness (inability to handle certain common grammatical structures in these languages). Subsequently to Dorr's work, rule-based machine translation systems such as hers have largely been supplanted by statistical machine translation and neural machine translation, and some of Dorr's own later"}, {"text": "work instead focuses on data-driven approaches to machine translation and prioritization of explainability in the face of the recent push for large language models (e.g., ChatGPT). Recognition. Dorr was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics for 2008. She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow. She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2013 for \"significant contributions to natural language understanding and representation, and development of the widely recognized methods for interlingual machine translation\". In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and in 2021 she was elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery."}, {"text": "Beno\u00eet Ramampy (1947-1996) was a Malagasy film director. Life. Ramampy was born in Ambalavao in 1947. He trained in Paris at the world music record label Ocora and Radio France. On his return to Madagascar, he studied at the Malagasy Production Centre. His short film \"The Accident\", about a son who tragically kills his father, won the award for best short film at the 4th FESPACO."}, {"text": "The Hill-Woodman-Ffrost House in Durham, New Hampshire, is purportedly one of the oldest buildings in the U.S state of New Hampshire. Located within the Durham Historic District, the owners claim that the \"original homestead\" was built in 1649. The building is now part of a hotel known as the Three Chimneys Inn & ffrost Sawyer Tavern. History. In 1649, Valentine Hill built a home north of the Oyster River near his mill. The tavern's back ell is alleged by the owners to be Hill's original house, with later additions made by Nathaniel Hill around 1680. In 1694, the house survived a Native American attack, the Raid on Oyster River, which destroyed many of the buildings in the area. Jonathan Woodman eventually inherited the property from his Hill family members; he deeded it to George Frost at some point after 1796, and the Frost family owned it until the 1980s."}, {"text": "The 2019 One80 L-style World Masters was a major tournament on the BDO/WDF calendar for 2019. It took place from 23 to 28 October at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex, which hosted the PDC World Darts Championship from 1994 to 2007. Adam Smith-Neale was the reigning men's champion after defeating Glen Durrant in the previous year's final by 6 sets to 4, but lost in the Last 128 to Hannes Schnier of Austria. John O'Shea won his first major title with a 6 sets to 4 win over Scott Waites. He became the third non-seeded World Master in three consecutive years. Lisa Ashton was the defending women's champion after defeating Casey Gallagher 4 legs to 2 in last year's women final. She defended her title successfully with a 5 to 4 legs final win over Anastasia Dobromyslova. The youth tournaments were won by Keane Barry and Katie Sheldon of the Republic of Ireland. It was the first time three Irish players won the Singles tournaments of the World Masters. The tournament was beset with problems, including: These irregularities led to the BDO, a founder member of the World Darts Federation, being demoted to associate status by the WDF. The"}, {"text": "tournament was the last World Masters organised by the BDO after the collapse of the organisation in September 2020. Following the tournament, the World Darts Federation announced plans to launch the WDF World Masters in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic these plans were pushed back to 2021, and then 2022. Men's seeds. The seedings were finalised on 10 September. For the fourth consecutive year, there were 16 seeds (a decrease from 32 between 2012 and 2015), but with a change from last year, all seeds started playing in the Last 128. Women's seeds. It was announced before the start of the event that the Ladies seeds were to rise from 8 to 16. No reason for the change was given."}, {"text": "The Valley River is a river in Southwestern Manitoba, Canada, whose valley separates the Duck Mountains from the Riding Mountains. It drains an area of approximately 2880 km2. The river begins in the Duck Mountains and then descends into its valley where it passes through Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve, Grandview, and Gilbert Plains before emptying into Dauphin Lake. In 1889, the Shaw Brothers Lumber Company opened a flour mill and a sawmill on the river."}, {"text": "Mary Ann Hilliard (1860\u20131950) was an Irish nurse and suffragette. She was arrested for breaking windows in March 1912, and while imprisoned contributed to the Suffragette Handkerchief. Biography. Mary Ann Hilliard was born in Cork in 1860, to Dominick Hilliard, accountant and Margaret Duke and had two brothers and a sister. Known as Minnie, she trained as a nurse in England from 1876 and was a senior staff member at the Alexandra Children's Hospital, Bloomsbury, London in 1908. Hilliard was involved in the suffragette window-breaking by around 200 protestors in March 1912, and was arrested and sentenced to two months hard labour. Hilliard and sixty-seven other Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) suffragettes who were imprisoned in Holloway Prison embroidered their names on a cloth which became known as The Suffragette Handkerchief. This was a brave act of defiance in a prison where the women were closely watched at all times, and it is thought that Hilliard started it, as she kept the souvenir of her fellow prisoners afterwards. Signatories include Eileen Mary Casey, Alice Davies, Edith Downing, Katharine Gatty, Margaret Macfarlane, Helen MacRae, Alice Maud Shipley, Frances Williams and other leading women from WSPU mass window-smashing protests. Hilliard's own"}, {"text": "embroidered name is in blue thread on the right of the title 'Votes for Women' (which she may have embroidered), and 'Holloway Prison, March, 1912'. Although Hilliard may have intended to donate it to the British College of Nurses, according to the British Journal of Nursing in March 1942, she was said to have kept it until she died in 1950. The location of the item after Hilliard's death is unknown; it resurfaced in the 1960s at a jumble sale. Later life. Hilliard was a war nurse in World War One with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and served at the front in Italy, nursing prisoners. Her health deteriorated in the 1920s and she retired from nursing to live in Wembley, London. She died in 1950. Her funeral was at Park Lane Methodist Church and cremation at Golders Green."}, {"text": "Mary Joyce Cansfield (n\u00e9e Patrick; 8 October 1929 \u2013 12 October 2019) was an English crossword compiler, compiling under the name Machiavelli for \"The Listener\". Early life. Mary Joyce Patrick was born in Reigate, Surrey, England on 8 October 1929, as the younger child to Geoffrey Patrick (1899\u20131965), a solicitor at Somerset House in Strand, London, and his wife, Mary Ada \"May\" (n\u00e9e Dulake; 1901\u20131974), a housewife. She had an elder sister, Patricia \"Pat\" Elliott (n\u00e9e Patrick; born 1927). Cansfield studied for her undergraduate degree in statistics at Westfield College, University of London. Career. Cansfield became known as a crossword compiler, compiling under the name Machiavelli for the BBC's weekly magazine \"The Listener\". Cansfield set over 1,000 puzzles for \"The Times\" daily newspaper. Cansfield played Scrabble, a word game, since 1958, having been introduced to the game by her cousins while staying in a log cabin in Canada. She was the UK National Scrabble Champion in 1980. She achieved the highest score in a tournament with 855 in a qualifying game for the 1986 National Scrabble Championship. She competed in the 1991 World Championships. She was featured in the Guinness Book of Records with the highest-ever triple word score of"}, {"text": "301. In 2003, she won the Mensa Games Scrabble Championship for the fifth time. She was a member of the Aireborough Scrabble Club. Cansfield appeared on the ITV game show \"Winner Takes All\" in 1976. Cansfield won the first ever series of the Channel 4 game show \"Countdown\" in 1982. She appeared on the 500th episode of \"Countdown\", which was broadcast on 2 February 1987. She appeared on \"Countdown Masters\" in 1989. She appeared on three episodes of \"Countdown\" in 1996. Cansfield was named the 1983 Brain of Mensa, hosted by Magnus Magnusson, the presenter of the BBC quiz show \"Mastermind\". Cansfield appeared on two episodes of the BBC game show \"Catchword\" in 1988. Cansfield, in her early career, was involved in the running of an early mainframe computer at the UK's Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Later on, she worked at the University of Leeds as a statistician. Personal life. Cansfield (then Patrick) married James Mike Cansfield (born 1929), a printer, in Lewes, East Sussex in October 1974. Cansfield died in Ringmer, East Sussex on 12 October 2019, four days after her 90th birthday, following a long illness. She was survived by her husband. Her funeral service"}, {"text": "took place at The Ceremony Hall, Wealden Crematorium on 28 October 2019."}, {"text": "Dave's Picks Volume 32 is a 3-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on March 24, 1973. It was released on November 1, 2019 in a limited edition of 20,000 copies. Critical reception. On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, \"Later [in 1973, the Grateful Dead] would launch their own record label with the release of their sixth studio album, \"Wake of the Flood\", and... [they] were still honing a number of that album's cuts here, including the luminous \"Here Comes Sunshine\" and the lovely \"Stella Blue\". An air of poignant uplift surrounds parts this Philadelphia show \u2013 included here in its entirety \u2013 which took place just a couple of weeks after the death of founding member Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan.\" In \"Glide Magazine\", Doug Collette wrote, \"No inclusions are more striking, however, than the segues of \"He\u2019s Gone\"> \"Truckin'\"> \"Jam\"> \"Dark Star\"> \"Sing Me Back Home\"... Concluding the string with the doleful likes of Merle Haggard's song is an ideal set-up for the celebratory air the band conjures up immediately after: \"Sugar Magnolia\" is a deservedly exhilarating transition at this, one of the group\u2019s favorite venues.\" Track"}, {"text": "listing. Disc 1 \"First set:\" Disc 2 \"Second set:\" Disc 3 \"Encore:\" Personnel. Grateful Dead Production"}, {"text": "Chucky Bartolo (born Andrew Bartolo; 5 July 1993) is a Maltese stand-up comedian and drag queen. Currently based in Glasgow, his career breakthrough came as a writer and journalist for Lovin Malta after years of garnering a small following on YouTube as a vlogger. Bartolo is openly gay and uses his platform to speak out against hate speech and fight for reclamation of derogatory slurs. Since November 2018, he has written and starred in four stand-up specials, and was the closing speaker of TEDx University of Malta's 2019 edition, 'Quirks'. In 2018, Bartolo also starred as the \"Dame\" in Malta's National Theatre (\"Teatru Malta\")'s first pantomime and returned to the role in 2019 and 2020. To comply with COVID-19 safety regulations, the pantomime was moved to air on select national radio stations and is the only one taking place on the island in 2020. In 2020, Bartolo also collaborated with the Government of Malta's Children's Festival, \u017bigu\u017cajg, to put on a digital show encouraging children to write creative stories and bring a modern twist to old fairytales. The digital programme was then brought to Malta as a live theatre production of the same name, \"Fab Fantasy Fables with Chucky\", in"}, {"text": "2022. Bartolo is the narrator and voice-over artist of the first-ever season of reality TV drama Love Island Malta which aired in 2023. In September 2023, Bartolo hosted and performed at EuroPride 2023's official drag show, The Drag Spectacular, in Valletta."}, {"text": "Luna Yin (; born 30 July 1993) is a Chinese C-pop (Mandopop) singer songwriter born in the city of Taixing, in the province of Jiangsu. She has released two EPs and one studio album. As a composer, she has created songs for other singers such as He Jie and Ada Zhuang amongst others. Biography. Yin was born in Taixing, Jiangsu Province on 30 June 1993. In 2010, when she was only a teenager, with the artistic name of Robot 5, she started her music career as an independent singer by singing covers and her own compositions in weibo and the QQ Music platform. In 2012, two years after her start, she signed a contract with the company GOGOMUSIC, in which she took part both as a performer and as a singer. From then on, she started releasing her original songs, she kept on composing music and also participated in the compilation albums of her record label. She released songs both as a solo singer and also collaboration with other artists of her music company. One year later, Yin released her first EP entitled \"If you love me\" that contained five songs. That same year, she composed for Ada Zhuang a"}, {"text": "song called \"About that\", which received a certain grade of media attention. In 2014, the singer went on with her career as a singer and composer, she released new songs and a new EP, which also contained two songs and also an album with all her original songs composed before the start of the career inside the label GOGOMUSIC. The same year, the performer also collaborated with Miro, another female singer from her music company. With her, she released an EP with three songs called \"Falling in love with a gay man\". In 2015, Yin released a new EP entitled \"Simply you don't love me enough\", which's title track was accompanied with a music video. As a result, this song had a much better reception than her previous music releases. That year, she also composed a track called \"Borrowed\" that was included in the soundtrack of the Hunan Television TV drama Tornado Girl and also participated as an actress in the comedy film \"Teenager\". In the following years, the performer went on releasing new music for her releases, for films and for TV dramas. In 2017, she won an online song contest with the song \"Ill be OK\" and one"}, {"text": "year later, she released her first studio full-length album entitled \"Trainee witch\"."}, {"text": "\"Y'a pas que les grands qui r\u00eavent\" is the a 1989 song by Belgian singer Melody. Written by Guy Carlier and Jean-Pierre Millers, it was released as her debut single in August 1989, when she was 12-years-old. Later, it was included on Melody's debut album, \"Danse ta vie\", released in 1991. It achieved success in France, peaking at number two for one month. Chart performance. In France, \"Y'a pas que les grands qui r\u00eavent\" debuted at number 43 on the chart edition of 19 August 1989, climbed and reached the top ten in its sixth week, and eventually spent consecutive four weeks at number two in November, being blocked by Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers' \"Swing the Mood\" which topped the chart then. It remained for 19 weeks in the top ten and 28 weeks in the top 50. It achieved Gold status, awarded by the Syndicat National de l'\u00c9dition Phonographique. On the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles, it debuted at number 96 on 30 September 1989, reached a peak of number 12 in its 11th week, and fell off the chart after 21 weeks of presence, nine of them in the top 20. Cover versions. The song was covered and"}, {"text": "released in July 2021 by 12-year-old French singer Valentina."}, {"text": "The Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) in Rhode Island is provided by the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, and is one of the child care programs in the state. The program helps families subsidize child care payments. It is a program designed for Rhode Island and uses guidelines and funding from the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant, along with state funding. CCAP, along with other federal and state programs, such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Rhode Island Works program, CCAP is aimed to help impoverished children and their families financially. Eligibility. Like most state programs, there are requirements in eligibility to sign up and receive subsidies. It is aimed to help children under the age of 13, however, children 13-18 can receive subsidies if the child has special needs physically or mentally. Every child recipient must be a US citizen and resident of Rhode Island, however, the parent applying does not need to provide evidence of citizenship, but does need to provide proof of relation to the child, along with proof of living at the same residency. Families must also provide verification of employment or schooling/training in order"}, {"text": "to be approved. There is a 20-hour a week minimum work requirement for low income families applying, or proof of attending some type of school or other program that would prevent a parent from taking care of the child. There are different thresholds for income and household size that determine how much assistance someone is eligible for. The general threshold are families whose income is under the 180 percent of the federal poverty line. Providers for child care must also be approved in order to be given assistance. The recipients of the care can choose the type of care they want, as long as the provider has been deemed eligible. The providers are usually licensed day cares, but family members and even neighbors can act as a child care provider as long as they get approved by the program. Financing. CCAP is both federally funded and generally funded from the state, with a majority being federal. The Child Care and Development Block Grant is the basis for the federal funding the program receives, and state revenue takes care of the rest of the budget. For the year 2015, the total budget for CCAP was $51.1 million. State funding for expenditures"}, {"text": "in 2014 totaled 19.7%, and federal funding being 80.3% for that year. Total expenditure dropped from $73.8 million in 2007, but it has been steadily increasing since 2012. The number of people enrolled in CCAP affects its expenditures. As of 2019, there are currently 9,125 families in the state signed up for CCAP. Enrollment in 2007 was roughly 11,000, and dropped by 27.2% in 2008, which explains why expenditures also dropped around that time. Enrollment has also been increasing steadily since 2012. Child care providers. CCAP is open to recipients choosing whatever makes them comfortable with who provides child care for their children. There are three approved providers for CCAP: Licensed enters, certified family providers, and approved family/friends. Family or friends can become child care providers for recipients as long as they apply to become approved. As of 2014, Licensed centers were the largest settings where children received subsidies for their care, totaling 73.3% of all subsidies. Certified family providers were responsible for 25.8% of subsidies, as family/friends only totaled 0.8% of all subsidies. Recipients. The largest age group of children that received subsidies from CCAP were pre-school ages, which was 41% of all CCAP recipients in 2014. Regular school"}, {"text": "aged children took account for 35% of recipients, and infants/toddlers took up 23.2% of recipients for 2014. CCAP applies to different amounts of child care needed. Recipients require a variety of different times, including: full day, evening, half day, pre/post school, weekend, or even summer child care. The program does not have a limit to the required time of child care a recipient needs. Expansion. There has been an interest in expanding the program, as the amount of child care assistance needed in the state is larger than the amount of care providers. This is especially true in more rural parts of the state, such as Foster, Glocester, Burrilliville, Coventry, and North Kingston. In these more spread out rural areas, there isn't as many providers that residents need. This creates long wait times to get a child care provider, sometimes up to 9 months. There has been no recent changes in CCAP that is helping expand child care to these areas."}, {"text": "Robert Walker Crumley (20 May 1876 \u2013 27 January 1949) was a Scottish professional footballer who made over 130 appearances in the Scottish League for Dundee as a goalkeeper. Personal life. Crumley's younger brother James was also a goalkeeper. After service with the Gordon Highlanders during the Second Boer War, Crumley served as a sergeant in the Black Watch during the First World War and saw action on the Western Front and at Salonika. He ended the war in the Labour Corps. Crumley received a war pension for malaria and rheumatism. Honours. Dundee"}, {"text": "The 1987\u201388 Lake Superior State Lakers men's ice hockey team represented the Lake Superior State University in college ice hockey. In its 6th year under head coach Frank Anzalone the team compiled a 33\u20137\u20136 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the second time. The Lakers defeated St. Lawrence 4\u20133 in overtime to win the championship game at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York. Season. Regular season consistency. The Lakers had played well ever since Frank Anzalone took over in the middle of the 1982\u201383 season. With the success of the program he was able to recruit players who had a good chance at playing professionally. Included in the bumper crop of freshmen were goaltender Bruce Hoffort and New Jersey Devils draft pick Jim Dowd. While the newcomers, particularly Hoffort, would make major contributions to the team it was the upper classmen who led the way. Mark Vermette, who scored only a single goal in his freshman season, exploded out of the gate and helped Lake Superior build an early lead in the conference standings. The Lakers never found themselves on any long winning streaks but they rode Vermette's sudden scoring flurry to wins almost every weekend. The"}, {"text": "Lakers lost only a single game in each of the first three months of the season and ended 1987 with as many ties as losses (3 each). The second half of the season was no different with the Lakers continuing to build on their lead in the CCHA, losing only one more conference game the rest of the year and finishing with a massive 10-point lead over second-place Bowling Green. The Lakers won only their second CCHA title (the first in 14 years) and were ranked so highly that it was possible for them to make the NCAA tournament bases solely on their regular season. They had achieved such heights with a combination of scoring and tough, physical play they earned them around 1,000 penalty minutes in just 38 games. CCHA tournament. Lake Superior ran through 8th-place Ohio State winning the quarterfinal series handily. For the championship rounds the Lakers headed to Detroit to face Western Michigan, who had given them fits during the season. The semifinal saw no difference as the two teams fought to a 4\u20134 draw in regulation, leading to the fourth overtime game on the season between the two. This time the Lake State was able"}, {"text": "to emerge as the victor and head to the conference championship game. The final gamed followed a similar pattern to the semifinal with the Lakers and Bowling Green knotted at 2-all after 60 minutes but the Lakers could not get a second consecutive overtime goal and missed a chance to win their first ever conference tournament. NCAA tournament. Despite the loss, Lake Superior had won 30 games by that point, a new program record, and were given the #2 western seed, allowing them to bypass the first round of the tournament and await their opponent at home. After a week off, the Lakers played host to Merrimack, a Division III team who had received the final At-Large bid into the tournament. Despite not much being expected of them, the Warriors had taken down the Hockey East champion in the first round then stunned the Lakers in game 1 of the quarterfinals 3\u20134. Fortunately for lake Superior, at the time the tournament format had the first two rounds being two-game total-goal series and they could get away with a poor effort in one game. Sure enough Lake Superior rebounded with 5\u20131 win in the second and took the series to advance"}, {"text": "to their first Frozen Four. In the national semifinal Lake State faced its toughest challenge yet, the top-ranked Maine Black Bears. It was, however, the Lakers' tenacity that won out in the end. While Mane came in with the top offense in the country, Lake Superior was able to win the majority of puck battles and double up the vaunted easterners 6\u20133. For their first championship appearance, Lake Superior faced an equally unlikely opponent in St. Lawrence who had outlasted western powerhouse Minnesota the night after. The two unheralded teams each tried to play their game and it was St. Lawrence who looked to be the better of the two early. With the Lakers getting into penalty trouble the Saints fired 20 shots on goal in the first period but Hoffort stood tall and turned everything aside. St. Lawrence was finally able to solve Hoffort in the second period, pumping three goals into the net in the middle frame. Third-period controversy. With the game tied 3\u20133 late in the third period, St. Lawrence got the puck near the front of the net and had an opportunity to score when future U.S. Congressman Pete Stauber intentionally knocked the net off of"}, {"text": "its moorings. This violation would normally cause a penalty shot to be called, but referee Frank Cole only called for a face-off. The building, full of St. Lawrence partisans, booed what they felt was an obvious missed call but the Lakers were able to escape unscathed. The game headed into overtime and wear and tear of playing back-to-back games started to show on St. Lawrence. Lake Superior attacked the Saints' cage and just before the 5-minute mark, Vermette slid a rebound through a maze of bodies into the net and gave Lake Superior its first national title. Awards and honors. Bruce Hoffort's 49-saves in the title game helped him earn the tournament MOP and was joined by Kord Cernich and Mike DeCarle on the All-Tournament team. Mark Vermette led the NCAA in goals, setting a program record with 45 on the season and is the only Laker in history to reach the 40-goal plateau (as of 2019). His goal-scoring frenzy made him a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award but that year it would go to Minnesota's Robb Stauber, Pete's brother. Vermette had to settle for being named an AHCA first-team All-American while head coach Frank Anzalone received the Spencer"}, {"text": "Penrose Award as the national coach of the year. Hoffort's 2.65 goals against average was also the best for qualifying goalies in the nation. Vermette was named the CCHA Player of the Year, the first Laker to win the award, while Anzalone won the CCHA Coach of the Year. Vermette and Hoffort were named to the All-CCHA First Team while Cernich and DeCarle made the Second Team. Schedule. The team's schedule was a s follows: !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Regular Season !colspan=12 style=\";\" | !colspan=12 style=\";\" | Roster and scoring statistics. The roster and scoring statistics were as follows: Players drafted into the NHL. 1988 NHL Entry Draft. The player selected in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft were as follows:"}, {"text": "Beryl Dean MBE (2 August 1911 \u2013 2001) was a British embroiderer. She was known for rejecting the traditional Victorian designs and for creating her own contemporary embroidery designs. Life. Dean was born in Bromley in 1911. Her mother, Marion, was a natural artist and her father was a share dealer. She gained her skills at the Royal School of Needlework. She graduated in 1932 and went on to study dress design and leatherwork at Bromley School of Art. Her early promise was recognised in 1935 when the Royal College of Art gave her a Royal Exhibition. In 1946 she left the Eastbourne School of Art, where she was lecturer for seven years, to join King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne. In response to concern that textile skills were diminishing, Dean helped the Needlework Development Scheme who were trying to re-energise needlework teaching in schools. Dean rejected the traditional Victorian designs used in religious embroidery and sought to create her own contemporary designs. In the 1950s she took on commissions from Guildford and Chelmsford Cathedrals, King's Lynn Minster, St Martin's Church, Dorking, and St Giles' in Northbrook, Illinois. In 1958 she published her book \"Ecclesiastical Embroidery\" and lectures on the subject"}, {"text": "in Britain and America. In 1968 she established new interest in the subject when she helped curate an exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral, and groups of people interested in contemporary ecclesiastical embroidery formed in Britain. In 1969, with funding that included the descendants of the Knights of the Garter, Dean set out on a five-year task to create five embroidered panels to hang in the Rutland chantry of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The five panels represent the annunciation, the visitation, the adoration of the magi, the temptation of Christ in the wilderness, and the miracle at Cana. Only one of the panels is normally on display to the public. Dean designed a cope for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977, depicting churches in the diocese of London including St. Paul's Cathedral. This was worn by the Bishop of London at the jubilee celebrations. Dean died on 27 March 2001. Her 1984 piece \"Head of Christ\" is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The embroidery, which uses a difficult technique, was inspired not by a commission, but by Dean's imperative to give good use to some remaining skeins of Japanese gold thread."}, {"text": "James Mathias may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Pat O'Leary Line (also known as the Pat Line, the O'Leary Line, and the PAO Line) was a resistance organization in France during the Second World War. The Pat O'Leary escape line helped Allied soldiers and airmen stranded or shot down over occupied Europe evade capture by Nazi Germany and return to Great Britain. Downed airmen in northern France and other countries were fed, clothed, given false identity papers, hidden in attics, cellars, and people's homes, and escorted to Marseille, where the line was based. From there, a network of people escorted them to neutral Spain. From Spain, British diplomats sent the escapees home from British-controlled Gibraltar. Many different escape lines were created in Europe, of which the Pat Line was the oldest. Collectively, the many escape lines helped 7,000 Allied military personnel, mostly airmen, escape occupied France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The Pat Line received financial assistance from MI9, a British intelligence agency. \"Pat O'Leary\" was the pseudonym of Albert Gu\u00e9risse, one of the early leaders of the line, which helped more than 600 Allied soldiers and airmen escape from France to Spain. More than 100 volunteers or \"helpers\" as they were often called, mostly French, working for"}, {"text": "the Pat Line were arrested and imprisoned by Vichy French or German authorities. Most were imprisoned for the remainder of the war, but many were executed or died in concentration camps. Overview. The Pat O'Leary Line was one of many escape and evasion networks in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France during World War II. Along with networks such as the Comet Line, the Shelburne Escape Line, and others, they are credited with helping 7,000 Allied airmen and soldiers, about one-half British and one-half American, escape Nazi-occupied Western Europe during World War II. Approximately 12,000 people, nearly all civilians and almost one-half women, were engaged in the work of the escape lines. About 500 of them were captured and executed or died in concentration camps. Many more were imprisoned by the Germans. In the words of a member of the escape lines, \"it was raining aviators\" over Europe at the height of World War II. For example, on one day, 14 October 1943, 82 bombers with 800 crewmen of the U.S. Eighth Air Force were shot down or crash-landed in occupied Europe. Most of the crewmen were killed or captured, but some were rescued by escape lines and made it back"}, {"text": "to Great Britain. \"The morale of airmen on bases rose considerably when they saw their buddies miraculously reappear after having been shot down over occupied Europe.\" For the allies, the rescue of downed airmen by the Pat and other escape lines had a practical as well as a humanitarian objective. Training new and replacement air crews, especially pilots, was expensive and time-consuming. Rescuing airmen downed in occupied Europe and returning them to duty became a priority of the allies. History. The Dunkirk evacuation of France by British forces in June 1940 left thousands of British and Allied soldiers stranded on the European mainland. Most surrendered or were captured by the Germans, but more than 1,000 made their way to Vichy France, nominally independent, especially the coastal city of Marseille where many took refuge in the British Seaman's Mission headed by a Presbyterian minister named Donald Caskie. Donald Darling, working for the British intelligence agency MI9, in Portugal (later Gibraltar) engaged businessman, Nubar Gulbenkian, to lay the groundwork for a network of people to guide stranded allied soldiers over the Pyrenees mountains to neutral Spain from where they could be repatriated to the United Kingdom. As the war went on most"}, {"text": "of the escapees became airmen shot down over occupied Europe. The initial leader of what became known as the Pat O'Leary Line was a Scottish soldier, Ian Garrow. Taking advantage of the limited freedom of movement initially accorded him by the Vichy government, he organized the escape system, recruited dozens, and later hundreds, of volunteer workers for the escape line, and found funds for the expenses of housing, transporting, and documenting the Allied soldiers and airmen. At first, some of the exfiltrations to Spain were by sea, but the more common route was for local guides (often smugglers familiar with the Pyrenees), to accompany the soldiers and airmen on foot across the border to Spain. The escapees were escorted onward by train or car, usually by diplomat Michael Creswell, to the British Consulate in Barcelona or the British Embassy in Madrid, and hence to Gibraltar where the MI9 office was headed by Donald Darling. Garrow gathered funds for the expenses of the escape line from residents of Marseille, but MI9 later financed the costs. Garrow was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy police in October 1941. Garrow's successor as leader of the Pat Line was Albert-Marie Gu\u00e9risse, a medical officer"}, {"text": "in the Belgian army. After Belgium's surrender to the Germans in 1940, Gu\u00e9risse escaped to Britain through Dunkirk. He then joined the French-crewed ship, Le Rhin, which had been accepted for special operations and renamed HMS Fidelity. He gained a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve under the name of \"Pat O'Leary.\" He was of French-Canadian origin and became a British intelligence operative. On 25 April 1941, during a mission to place SOE agents on the French Mediterranean coast near Collioure, he was arrested by the Vichy police. He escaped and joined Garrow in Marseille, with the hope to make his way to Gibraltar and resume his original naval service. Garrow enlisted him as an assistant. After Garrow was arrested, Gu\u00e9risse took over as chief of the escape network. Gu\u00e9risse expanded the reach of the escape line's operations. Working for the escape line became more dangerous in November 1942 when the German military occupied Vichy France and took control of much of the government. Gu\u00e9risse was arrested by the Gestapo on 2 March 1943, betrayed by Roger le Neveu who had worked with the Pat Line but had been bribed or blackmailed to work for the Germans. The arrest"}, {"text": "of Gu\u00e9risse and many others nearly destroyed the O'Leary Line, but a 61-year-old woman named Marie Dissard (code named \"Fran\u00e7oise\") revived the Line in summer 1943. Dissard lived in Toulouse and sheltered many downed airmen in her apartment and escorted them or directed their escort to Spain. Airey Neave, the MI9 agent who supported the Pat O'Leary line, said that the eccentric Dissard and her cat were \"almost the sole survivors\" of the Pat Line. Under the leadership of Dissard, the remnants of the O'Leary Line are often called the \"Fran\u00e7oise Line.\" According to Neave, the Pat Line helped more than 600 allied soldiers and downed airmen escape from France to Spain and return to England. Routes. The O'Leary Line collected allied soldiers and, after 1940, mostly airmen from northern France, plus a few from other countries. The military personnel were passed down from safe house to safe house and escort-to-escort to Marseille. As exfiltration by felucca down the French and Spanish coasts to Gibraltar became more dangerous, the Line used land routes through the easternmost Pyrenees, and, as that also became more hazardous, shifted its main routes to the high Pyrenees further west which were not patrolled extensively by"}, {"text": "German soldiers, French police, and Spanish border guards. With the arrest of many O'Leary Line workers and leaders in Marseille, the primary collection point for escapees in 1943 and 1944 became Toulouse. The most famous of the routes is known as the \"Freedom Line,\" (\"Chemin de la Libert\u00e9\"). From Toulouse, the airmen were taken to the town of Saint-Girons at the foot of the Pyrenees. From there the guide and escapees hiked across the border, via the slopes of Mont Valier, in elevation, and onward to the small town of Esterri d'Aneu in Spain. The distance from Saint-Girons to Esterri d'Aneu was only in straight line distance, but it involved several days of climbing steep slopes, often through snow and ice. The job of guiding allied airmen across the Pyrenees to Spain was usually handled by the Ponz\u00e1n group, headed by the Spanish anarchist . The Ponz\u00e1n Group was based in Toulouse. The Ponz\u00e1n group had no affection for the British and Americans, but accepted money and arms from the allies to further their objective of overthrowing the Franco government of Spain. Ponz\u00e1n was captured in 1943 and executed in 1944 by the Germans. Betrayals. Given the large number of"}, {"text": "helpers involved in escape lines, their isolation from each other, and their geographic dispersion, the escape lines were relatively easy to infiltrate by German agents. The Pat O'Leary line was nearly destroyed by two betrayers: Harold Cole, code name \"Paul,\" and Roger Le Neveu, called \"Roger Le Legionnaire.\" Cole worked his way into the confidence of the Pat line by successfully escorting several groups of airmen from Lille in northernmost France to Marseille. The former English soldier was captured by the Germans in December 1941, and gave the Germans information which led to the arrest of several dozen helpers working for the Pat Line, nearly destroying the Line in northern France. Le Neveu, a Frenchman, similarly worked his way into the confidence of the Pat Line and was responsible for the arrest of Albert-Marie Gu\u00e9risse and other Pat Line helpers in Marseille in March 1943. Notable members of the Line. The government of France later recognized 475 men and women, 89 percent of them French, for their work with the Pat Line helping allied soldiers and airmen escape occupied Europe. Many others gave occasional assistance to the Pat Line. Prominent helpers of the Pat O'Leary Line were George Rodocanachi, a"}, {"text": "medical doctor, and his wife, Fanny; the afore-mentioned Donald Caskie; and Louis Nouveau, a businessman, and his wife, Ren\u00e9e. All three men were arrested and spent the rest of the war in prison. Rodocanachi died in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Fanny Rodocanachi survived the war in Marseille and Ren\u00e9e Nouveau escaped to Great Britain. Nancy Wake was a courier for the Pat Line and, along with her husband, Henri Fiocca, sheltered many airmen in their luxurious Marseille apartment. Wake escaped to Spain in 1943; the Gestapo arrested and executed Fiocca. Andr\u00e9e Borrel evaded arrest as a member of the Pat Line and became an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and was later captured and executed. Mary Lindell, resident in Paris, collected downed airmen and sent them to the Pat Line in Marseille. She founded the \"Marie-Claire Line\" and was imprisoned by the Germans. In Lyon, SOE agent and American Virginia Hall assisted downed airmen and the Pat Line. SOE agent Anthony Brooks, worked with the Pat Line in 1941. Alfonsina Bueno ran a house on the line in Banyuls-sur-Mer until her arrest in February 1943."}, {"text": "Kevin Donnelly Nichols is an American bishop who has served as the ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem since 2018. Initially ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, Nichols was received into the Episcopal priesthood in 1999. Prior to serving as Bishop of Bethlehem, Nichols worked as a rector for several small parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, for which he also served as president of the diocesan Standing Committee. Nichols was also nominated and appointed as a member of the Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church (TREC). Biography. Nichols was originally ordained a Roman Catholic priest after receiving his Master of Divinity from St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. On December 11, 1999 he was received into the Episcopal priesthood and became rector of St Stephen's Church in Pittsfield, New Hampshire and then of St Andrew's Church in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He was also chief operating officer and canon for mission resources in the Diocese of New Hampshire. On April 28, 2018, Nichols was elected Bishop of Bethlehem on the first ballot of a special convention that took place in the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was consecrated on September"}, {"text": "15, 2018, at the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. He was installed in the Cathedral of the Nativity on October 12, 2018."}, {"text": "Jimmy McKinnell may refer to:"}, {"text": "George Arthur Gill was an English professional footballer who made 196 appearances as a goalkeeper in the Football League and the North Eastern League for Hartlepools United. Personal life. Gill served in the Tyne Electrical Engineers during the First World War."}, {"text": "The 1910\u201311 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the first varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. The school created a committee to determine if the school should go forward with forming a team as there was increasing pressure from students, the student run newspaper \"The Tar Heel\", in-state schools that fielded teams who wanted to form a state league, and the University of Tennessee inquired about scheduling a game in February 1911. Equipment was purchased and installed at Bynum Gymnasium after a period of uncertainty of where the team would play its home games. Then track-and-field head coach Nathaniel Cartmell \u2013 who had little experience with basketball \u2013 was chosen to coach as there were no funds to be allocated for hiring another coach. After choosing players for the first team, Cartmell finalized the schedule in January, which was limited as many other programs had already created their schedules before the Tar Heels made their team. North Carolina opened their season with a victory against Virginia Christian 42\u201321 in front of an estimated 200 spectators. The squad won their next four games, winning by double digits"}, {"text": "against two opponents and by three or less against the other two. The team traveled to Wake Forest where they lost their first game after the Baptists handily outscored the Tar Heels in the second half. The team rebounded with a win against University of Tennessee before they dropped two closely contested games against Virginia and Virginia Christian. Carolina defeated Woodberry Forest easily before they played their final game, a rematch, against Virginia. Virginia won the game after taking a lead into halftime and only being outscored by two points in the second half, despite one player from each team being ejected following an altercation where a North Carolina player bit a Virginia player on the shoulder. The team was viewed as a success and thought to have played their hardest in each game this led \"The Tar Heel\" to write that \"... basketball has come to stay.\" Formation. Basketball was first played at the University of North Carolina as early as 1903, but it was formally introduced in 1906 by Dr. Robert Lawson. Lawson obtained a rule book, placed peach baskets for rims and fielded a team. During the 1909\u201310 academic year there was a school group that played"}, {"text": "basketball and had their photo published in the school annual \"The Yackety Yack\". In late 1910, students showed an eagerness to field a basketball team when the editors of \"The Tar Heel\" published articles in the newspapers and mentioned it would \"relieve some of that January and February monotony.\" In addition, Wake Forest College showed interest in creating a statewide basketball league. On September 24, 1910, student Marvin Ritch who had been away from the university previously, returned, prompting \"The Tar Heel\" editors expressed their hope again for him to form a team and schedule games. Four days later, it was revealed that University of Tennessee had inquired about scheduling a basketball game on February 24. The following week, \"The Tar Heel\" commented that \"Carolina will certainly have a basketball team this winter,\" as well as mentioning that former Olympian and current track-and-field coach Nathaniel Cartmell was interested in fielding a team. The writers continued, stating that basketball interest had waned on campus in the years prior and some had even considered cutting up the basketball area for tennis courts. A four\u2013person committee was formed to investigate the \"advisability\" of forming a basketball team at the school. The committee determined"}, {"text": "several matters including: basketball was popular in college sports, many leading Southern colleges and universities had established teams which were as popular as other varsity sports, and it would be a source of revenue. One issue was found as the team would have no were to play, but despite this, the committee suggested the school form a team at once. By the end of November, the a home court had yet to be determined, to which \"The Tar Heel\" editors suggested Memorial Hall since it was only used two or three times a year then. In addition, former Olympian and current track and field coach Cartmell had been named head coach. It was revealed later that there weren't funds to hire another coach, so Cartmell was approached even though knew little about basketball. On December 3, a basketball \"apparatus\" was ordered and upon its installation in Bynum Gymnasium and that practices would be from 7 to 9 PM. The baskets were installed on December 12 and each night after that students showed up to practice at the set time, with around 25 coming the first night. The practice that night reportedly had slick floors and backboards were \"too lively.\" Roster"}, {"text": "and schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season Regular season. Coach Cartmell also had the duty of scheduling the games for the newly formed basketball team, along with serving as the referee or umpire depending on the half. The preliminary schedule was announced in mid\u2013January and was noted to be difficult to make as most schools had their schedules already created by the point Cartmell began the process. In total there were eleven games and it was found to be a good schedule as it included \"some of the best teams of this and other States.\" The team's first game was a home game against Virginia Christian on January 27. Before the game, captain Ritch told the team \"... play for team and forget yourself.\" \"The Tar Heel\" commented that the North Carolina players looked nervous in the opening minutes and, despite this, neither team got an advantage greater than five in the first half. Entering half\u2013time the score was 13\u201311 Carolina. At halftime, Cartmell cursed at the team \"good and artistically\" before the action resumed and Caroline opened the first five minutes of the half making five baskets to Virginia Christian's nil. Virginia Christian began to play better following, but"}, {"text": "it did not prove enough as the Tar Heels won 42\u201321. \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that the game was attended by \"a number of people\" which they estimated to be around 200 people, which they speculated most had not seen a basketball game contested before and stated they left happy with the experience. The next opponent was the Durham Y.M.C.A. in a game where the referee called several fouls and the pace of the game was very slow. Carolina won handily 60\u201318, while 10 of the Y.M.C.A.'s points came as a result of fouls. No individual stats were recorded for the first three games of the season. The Wake Forest Anti-bonders (variously \"Baptists\" and \"Water Babies\") traveled to Chapel Hill where the two played a close game. North Carolina led the whole game, but primarily over a margin of 3 points. \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that the Baptists had better team chemistry, but just did not make the easy shots that received. The Baptists were led by strong performances from Turner and Dowd, but were unable to overcome the Tar Heels' advantage and lost the game 28\u201331. Following their third straight victory, \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that the players should"}, {"text": "not think they're the best in the South and that they needed to improve their passing and general teamwork. Carolina squared off against the Davidson Predestinarians next on February 8. The Tar Heels scored 15 points to Davidson's 8 in the first half; however, Davidson played much better defense in the second half and were able to score several baskets. Their efforts fell short as they lost 27\u201325. The Charlotte Y.M.C.A. team came to Chapel Hill for the next match\u2013up on February 15, where the Tar Heels won the game 42\u201328 after being separated by four points at halftime. It was not that the team showed improved passing relative to previous outings. Ritch scored a season high 18 points, which broke the early program record set by Tillet against Davidson when he had 8 points. Next on the schedule was a rematch against Wake Forest in the team's first away game. The Baptists and Tar Heels stayed close in the first half as the Baptists held a slight lead at 15\u201310 entering the half. The second half was dominated by Wake Forest as they scored 23 points to Carolina's 6, bringing the final score to 38\u201316 and handing the Tar"}, {"text": "Heels their program's first loss. \"The Tar Heel\" reported that the Carolina squad played \"decidedly off color\" and lacked their usual game, while \"The Charlotte Observer\" reported it was the \"toughest game of basketball ever on the home field of Wake Forest...\" Tennessee traveled to Chapel Hill for the next game, which was played in Bynum Gymnasium following a dance and the floor was \"slick\" and preventing the team's from playing fast. Despite this, Carolina outscored Tennessee 26\u20136 in the first half and maintained the lead for the remainder, closing it out 40\u201321. In advance of the next game against Virginia, \"The Tar Heel\" stressed the game's importance as it read: \"... we are ready to do anything that is fair and square to beat the Old Dominion representative.\" The rules for the game were different than the seven Carolina had played prior, Virginia played the game under intercollegiate rules which allowed dribbling. Previously, the Tar Heels had played under the Y.M.C.A.'s rules. In addition, Virginia's players all outweighed the Tar Heels'. In front of a crowd of 400, the game remained scoreless for the first four minutes before Virginia opened the game's scoring. Virginia and Carolina entered halftime tied"}, {"text": "at 9\u20139 after Ritch making a foul shot and Hanes making a \"difficult\" shot. Virginia stretched their lead to four, at 13\u20139, upon the opening of the half. Carolina managed to close the gap to one, 16\u201315. With two minutes remaining, the North Carolina's Ritch missed a shot and the next possession saw the Haynes miss a foul shot to level the score. Virginia made one more basket before time expired, to bring the final score to 18\u201315. The Tar Heels traveled to Lynchburg, Virginia for a rematch against Virginia Christian. Carolina had the advantage at the half 17\u201312, but the Christians rallied and in the closing seconds the score was level at 31 apiece. Virginia Christian's Stickley sunk a shot in overtime to give the Christians the win 33\u201331. The following day, the Tar Heels played against Woodberry Forest in what was described as a slow game where the home team Woodberry was \"outclassed.\" After the Tar Heels' victory, coach Cartmell felt his team's performance was poor and said: \"They are on a bloody slump.\" The final game of the season took place in at Virginia's home venue. Virginia won the first half with a score of 16\u20137. In"}, {"text": "the second half, Ritch bit Virginia's Bertram on the shoulder and then hit the ground. Both were subsequently ejected. Virginia's early advantage proved to be enough as the Tar Heels outscored Virginia in the second half 9\u20137, bringing the final score to 24\u201316. \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that North Carolina shot poorly throughout the game and thus Virginia did not have to try its best after establishing the early lead. Ritch closed the season as the leading scorer with 76 points. Aftermath and legacy. \"The Charlotte Observer\" wrote after North Carolina's loss to Wake Forest that the team was very good considering it was their first year and expected them to be one of the best in the South in a few years time. Following the team's final game, \"The Tar Heel\" wrote that the season was a success, the students supported the squad well, and felt that \"... basketball has come to stay.\" The newspaper writers felt that the team fought \"like snarling cats\" in each game. It further stated that Virginia was one of the best teams in the South and thus their losses their did not look bad. Four of the team's members were from Charlotte and"}, {"text": "planned to play together in the summer, which \"The Tar Heel\" felt would make for a \"well trained team next year.\" The \"Greensboro Daily News\" agreed and stated the Tar Heels performance for the season was \"beyond expectations.\""}, {"text": "\"Chariot d'\u00e9toiles\" is the second single by Belgian singer Melody. She released it in 1990. The song debuted in France at number 42 during the week of 10 March 1990, climbing to number 15 for one week in May. The song would later appear on Melody's debut album, \"Danse ta vie\", which was to be released in 1991."}, {"text": "Kupelwieser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "James Cutting may refer to:"}, {"text": "Dobrivoje \"Dobrica\" Milutinovi\u0107 (11 September 1880 \u2013 18 November 1956) was a Serbian actor. He acted in both film and theatre roles. A theatre is named in his honour, and the lifetime achievement award for actors in Serbia is based on a ring he received. Work. His family was originally from Srem. Milutinovi\u0107 enrolled in gymnasium in Kragujevac where he started acting as a student. Milutinovi\u0107 played both heroic and romantic roles in the theater, which earned him respect and popularity. He starred in many roles, including Romeo, King Lear, Don Carlos, Othello, Uriel, Hajduk Veljko, Maksim Crnojevi\u0107, Tsar Du\u0161an, and Mitke in \"Ko\u0161tana\". He was a member of the National Theater in Belgrade from 1899 until his death. In addition to theater, he starred in films. In the 1911 film \"The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Kara\u0111or\u0111e\" he played the role of Janko Kati\u0107. He also starred in \"Ulrih Celjski i Vladislav Hunjadi\" (1911) and he played the role of Grandfather \"Djed Vuk\" in the 1947 movie \"This People Will Live\". Legacy. The theater in Sremska Mitrovica was named \"Dobrica Milutinovi\u0107\" in 1974. Historian Jovan Dereti\u0107 dubbed him \"the cult name of Serbian theatre\". On the occasion"}, {"text": "of the 40th anniversary of his work in 1937, Milutinovi\u0107 was awarded a ring. Since 1980, a copy of it is regularly awarded as a prestigious lifetime achievement to Serbian actors. The award is named after him - Dobrica's ring (Serbian: Dobri\u010din prsten)."}, {"text": "Augusta Metcalfe (November 10, 1881\u2013May 9, 1971) is a 1983 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame inductee. Metcalfe, a genuine product of the West, is widely recognized as one of its foremost painters. Life. Augusta Metcalf was born Augusta Isabella Corson on November 10, 1881, in Vermillion, Kansas. Metcalf's parents originated from Pennsylvania. They moved to Illinois briefly. Then they moved to Kansas where Metcalfe was born. Then they moved from Kansas with their four children to Oklahoma in 1886. In 1886 when they moved to Oklahoma, it was to what is now known as the Oklahoma Panhandle. It was known at that time as No Man's Land, which was being applied to the Public Land Strip. While they lived there, the 1890 Organic Act made the strip part of Oklahoma Territory, which brought it homestead rights. In 1893, the Corsons claimed a homestead at the mouth of Turkey Creek on the Washita River near Durham, Oklahoma. Durham is in the Western half of Oklahoma Territory which would become Day County. Later it would become Roger Mills County. Metcalfe was raised on that homestead. With neither school attendance or art lessons, she still won first prize in the state"}, {"text": "fair in 1911 for one of her paintings. It was here on this 640 acres that Metcalfe lived her remaining years. Career. Metcalfe was often referred to as \"the Sagebrush Artist\" due to her use of oils and watercolors. She used these types of paints to produce images that came from her own experiences of ranch life in Oklahoma in its early years. In 1905, Metcalf married James Metcalfe. They had one child, Howard Metcalfe. In 1908, James left them. She took up the ranch operations but always found time to paint her scenery of western life. Her paintings were awarded prizes in state fairs and shows. Her paintings were displayed in galleries, including New York City. In 1950, Life Magazine featured reproductions of some of her art. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1968. Legacy. Metcalfe died on May 9, 1971, in Oklahoma. The former homestead of Augusta Metcalf was made into a museum after her death. The estate is now referred to as the Break O' Day Farm & Metcalfe Museum. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. The acreage of the property is still"}, {"text": "640 acres. There are many exhibits on the property."}, {"text": "The Near Room is a 1995 British film directed by and starring David Hayman. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival before its distribution in the United Kingdom in 1997. The film is set within the \"Glasgow Noir\" genre, blending elements of drama and thriller. The title refers to a metaphorical place where one's most nightmarish fears and dreadful imaginings reside. It also marked the film debut of James McAvoy Plot. Journalist Charlie Colquhoun spends his career in a rumble, with danger of a lawsuit by lawyer Harris Hill, Colquhoun's old schoolmate, while defending a client. Elise Gray, Coulquhoun's ex-wife, passes onto Charlie the job of finding a missing teenager, Tommy. In a fate of events, his life gets mangled with dodgy characters, in the underground world with murder, blackmail, child prostitution and rape. Critical response. The response to this movie was mixed. Derek Elley, \"Variety\", says:"}, {"text": "The House at 555 Deer Valley Road, at 555 Deer Valley Rd. in Park City, Utah, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a one-story frame pyramid house, one of 28 nominated for National Register listing in 1984. About this one: \"Unlike a majority of Park City's pyramid houses which have truncated hip or clipped gable roofs, this house has a true pyramid roof. It is an archetypal example of the pyramid house, one of the simplest, most clearly stated examples of the pyramid house type in Park City. Its square plan, pyramid roof, and symmetrical facade with a hip roof porch spanning the width of it are the principle elements of the type. There is a second door on the west side of the building over which a simple porch was added. There is a rear shed extension attached to the north side which projects past the west side of the building. In Park City houses the projection of a rear shed extension was often made to provide space for a wood or coal shed. In-period rear extensions are part of Park City's architectural vocabulary. Although in many"}, {"text": "cases an extension represents a major alteration of the original house, it usually contributes to the significance of a house because it documents the most common and acceptable method of expansion of the small Park City house. The windows on the south and east sides of the house are the one over one double hung sash type.\" In 1984 the house was in good condition and its original integrity had so far been preserved. In 2019, the house appears to have been renovated since 1984 and looks, from the street, to be still in good condition."}, {"text": "Rhode Island Works is a program intended to provide financial and employment services for needy families in order to give children a healthy growth. The program was intended to provide families of low income the necessary aids such as food, shelter, clothing, child care, and medical care as well as assisting parents in finding employment. Applicants for the program are eligible if they are living in the state of Rhode of Island and also if they meet the Department of Human Services eligibility requirements that are set forth. Background. Rhode Island Works was introduced in 2008 as a means to provide aid to low-income families who are struggling to find jobs and the proper amenities for their children. It replaced the former program known as the Family Independence Program (FIP) which was created in 1996. The program came to be after each states were provided a block grant under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF. The grants from TANF allowed each state to use the money in their own program to help the low income families within their state base on needs of the people. Unlike the previous program FIP, RI works became more restrictive in the"}, {"text": "new changes it implemented such as limiting the amount of time family remains in the program from 60 months to 48 months. The cash assistance that is used to help low income families are controlled at the state level. They are to decide the amount of money that is needed to give to a family that has no income and after the level of cash assistance is set for each level. The states also have to decide the earning disregard and the benefit reduction rate. Earning disregard is how much a family can make and continue to keep the benefit and the benefit reduction rate is the level in which benefits are reduced and the earning increased above the earning disregard. The states are free to set the benefit levels and make adjustments that they see fit their state welfare program. Eligibility requirements. In order to be accepted into the program there are many qualifications that are required for a family to meet: The family must have a child or a pregnancy that requires dependency. There is also an income limit in which the family must meet as well as the asset limits. An applicant must also be a U.S."}, {"text": "Citizens or an eligible non-citizen. When it comes to the cash assistance, the amount of money each family receives depends on the incomes, household size, and the living condition the family is in. In a two parent household, either one or both of the parents must work a combined of at least 35 hours a week. The program also allows minors under the age of 18 who are parents or pregnant to receive cash assistance. When it comes to minors who are parents, they must live at home with their parent or legal guardian. If they are unable to live with a parent or legal guardian, their living arrangements must be approved and monitored by the Youth Success Program. The cash assistance will be given to the minor parent through their parent, legal guardian or whom ever is their primary care provider. While receiving the cash assistance, the minor parents must enroll in secondary education in order to continue receiving money from the program. \"\" Time limit. After July 1, 2008, all applicants that were applying for cash assistance were limited to 24 months out of any 60-month period for a lifetime limit of 48 months. A family may continue"}, {"text": "to receive cash assistance after the time limit if they are able to provide proof of hardship. The Department of Human Services can only continue to provide cash assistance after the time limit if exempted families who claim hardship does not exceed 20% of the average monthly number of families that need assistance in a fiscal year. Rhode Island is not the only state that has a low time limit policies. In fact, many states have changed the time limit on their version of the TANF program. For example, the state of Arizona reduced their TANF time limit to 24 months. This resulted in the benefits of over 3,500 low-income families to end and many other families will find that their benefit are slowly getting cut as they get closer to the 24 months time period. Even in the state of Maine where their program had no time limit as long as the families were working or are involved in work related activities, enacted a 60-month time limit policy. Effect of the program. It has been reported that over 4,100 families receive the RI Works benefit and they live in almost every city in Rhode Island. Besides the family about"}, {"text": "7,200 children and 2,400 adults also receive the benefits that the program has to offer. In about one-third of families, the children are the ones receiving the assistance because their parents are disable. Officials of Rhode Island are working to repeal the 24 month time limit because of the belief that it is not enough time for the parents to gain skills needed to retain a job. They are also looking to improve the program by allowing parents to receive 2 years of education at the Community College of Rhode Island to further their training and education. \"\" In the health care field, there are some disagreement on whether the program help participants retain their job. When training welfare recipients in health care occupations, it does not assure that they will partake in the sector. It does not take away from people's dissatisfaction in the job such as the emotional investments and lack of competitive wages. For people who feel they are compensated unfairly, they may be unwilling to continue with the job. Instead, dissatisfaction will lead to higher turnover rates in the job."}, {"text": "Abdul Nasser Qardash (; born 1967; sometimes identified as Abdel Nasser Qirdash or Kardesh, also known as Hajji Abdullah al-Turkmani) is an Iraqi militant who in 2019 was wrongly reported as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was also nicknamed \"The Professor\" and \"Destroyer\". Qardash was a high-ranking and very influential member of ISIL with close connections to its first caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and tipped as a potential candidate for ISIL leadership succession. However days after the death of al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was ultimately chosen as the new declared leader of ISIL. Qardash was captured by Iraqi security forces in 2020. Early life. Born as \"Tahah Abdel Rahim Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani\" in the mainly Iraqi Turkmen city of Tal Afar, Iraq, in 1967, Qardash is an ethnic Turkmen. He studied in the Islamic Sciences college in the nearby city of Mosul. He lived in Mosul's Musharafah neighborhood during his early years. Qardash was a Major General within the army of Saddam Hussein, but became part of the Ansar al-Islam rebel group in 2003. Qardash was jailed in 2003\u20132004 or 2005 by the US authorities with al-Baghdadi in Camp Bucca, a"}, {"text": "detention facility in Basra, following the invasion of Iraq and the ousting of Saddam Hussein's regime. ISI. Qardash joined the Islamic State of Iraq in 2007. He became a religious commissar in ISI in Nineveh, later in al-Jazira, and in early 2008 became ISI's \"wali\" of al-Jazira. He organized a number of military operations against Iraqi forces on behalf of ISI. In early 2010, he became assistant and consequently, with the approval of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi \"wali\" of the northern provinces including Mosul, South Mosul, al-Jazira and Kirkuk. ISIL. At the end of 2011, Qardash met Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who appointed him as governor of the Baghdad province serving in the Baghdad region. He was trusted with the industry and development portfolios for ISIL. He reportedly played a major part in convincing al-Baghdadi to branch out into Syria during the early Syrian civil war. Qardash consequently moved to Syria to establish firearm and explosive factories and storage facilities, and met Al-Baghdadi almost a hundred times for coordination of ISIL operations. After the rift between ISIL and Al Nusra Front, he was assigned governor \"wali\" of al-Sharqiyyah including Syrian Al-Hasaka, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa. In early 2014, he was appointed wali"}, {"text": "of ISIL's al-Barakah province. After the declaration of ISIL's caliphate, he rose further in the ranks. He was appointed deputy emir of the Delegated Committee. He served as assistant to Abu Mohammad al-Adnani. After the latter's death on 30 August 2016, Qardash was appointed emir of the Delegated Committee after al-Adnani and deputy leader to Caliph al-Baghdadi . At some point, he questioned al-Baghdadi's decisions and was punished, but still retained general favor. He became the \"supervisor of development and manufacturing\", holding this position unil 2017. He was known as \"The Professor\", because he graduated in Islamic Studies in Mosul, whereas the nickname \"The Destroyer\" stemmed from his reputation as a ruthless persecutor. He is also famous as head of security for Islamic State operatives, and as the coordinator of ISIL terrorist cells in North Africa and Europe. During the International military intervention against ISIL, Qardash oversaw operations against the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo and the Syrian Arab Army in Deir ez-Zor. Qardash also personally oversaw the selection of suicide bombers and the conduct of suicide operations for the Islamic State. He supervised the fabrication and storage of mustard gas eventually used against Iraqi forces. Qardash also helped command"}, {"text": "ISIL troops in the Siege of Koban\u00ee, various Palmyra offensives (Tadmur), and finally during the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, Baghuz being the last stronghold of ISIL in Syria. At the end of the operations in Baghuz on 23 March 2019, he surrendered and was arrested. As of 2014, Qardash was in his mid-50s. Reputed ISIL leader. There were reports, refuted later, that Qardash assumed the position of leadership of ISIL on 27 October 2019 following the death of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Barisha raid conducted by the United States Army in northwest Syria. A statement in August 2019 attributed to ISIL's propaganda arm, the Amaq News Agency, said that Qardash had been named al-Baghdadi's successor. Some analysts dismissed the statement about Qardash assuming ISIL leadership as a fabrication. Rita Katz, a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of SITE Intelligence, noted that the statement used a different font when compared to other statements and it was never distributed on Amaq or ISIL channels. Declaration of al-Qurashi as leader. The allegedly false statement re-emerged in October 2019 following the death of al-Baghdadi, and was reported on by several news organizations, including \"Newsweek.\" A few days later, on 31 October,"}, {"text": "ISIL presented Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as the name of the individual who was Baghdadi's successor, and not Qardash. Rumoured death. Hisham al-Hashimi, an ISIL analyst and counter-terrorism advisor to the Iraqi government, said in October 2019 that, according to Iraqi intelligence sources, Qardash had died in 2017 and his daughter was being held by Iraqi intelligence. He said Qardash's death had been confirmed by both his daughter and other relatives. As of 31 October, his death has not been confirmed by other sources. Capture. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) said in May 2020 that they had taken custody of Abdul Nasser Qardash. Qardash is the highest ranking Islamic State officer to ever be taken into custody. INIS issued a statement saying \"Today, the terrorist named Abdul Nasser al-Qardash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. The arrest came after accurate intelligence.\" INIS also distributed a picture of a somber and thin Qardash wearing a long-sleeved flannel shirt. On 21 May 2020, the Iraqi National Intelligence Services further elaborated that Qardash was in charge of manufacturing chemical warfare agents to attack Iraqi troops. It said: \"Qardash was responsible for the production and development of mustard gas, which"}, {"text": "was used for attacking Iraqi forces across the country. He plays a prominent role in the negotiation process between the group [ISIL] and its factions, as well as with other terrorist movements\". There are conflicting reports however that Qardash may have been initially arrested in Syria in 2019 by Kurdish forces but was handed over to the Iraqi authorities only recently (May 2020). The Syrian Democratic Forces affiliated with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had captured Qardash after the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani and kept him for months before delivering him to the Iraqi authorities. SDF/YPG quoted his full name as Taha Abdel Rahim Abdallah Bakr Al-Ghassani Al-Makni Hajji Abdul Nasser Qardash (), also known as Abu Muhammad, born in 1967 in Tel Afar and living in Hayy Mshayrfeh, Mosul. His transfer to Iraq was coordinated with the US-led International Coalition. After his capture, al-Qardash confirmed in an interview with Al Arabiya television: \"There was a massive reevaluation of the Islamic State after it lost vast areas including Kobani and many other areas. There were three of us, myself [Qardash], Omar al-Furkan and Ayoub Rakawi, who sat with the leadership to review our steps.\" After the death of Al-Baghdadi,"}, {"text": "none of the three emerged as ISIL leader as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was declared the eventual leader and caliph of the Islamic State."}, {"text": "George Gao may refer to:"}, {"text": "Licinia (flourished 1st century BC) was a Roman Vestal Virgin. She known in history for the case against her for incest with her cousin Marcus Licinius Crassus, who allegedly attempted to frame her for breaking her vow of chastity in order to acquire her property. Licinia belonged to a prominent family. She became a Vestal in 85 BC, and remained a Vestal until 61. She was the cousin of \"triumvir\" Marcus Licinius Crassus. Their close relationship gave rise to rumors. Licinia was eventually publicly accused of having broken her vow of chastity by incest with her cousin after an occasion in which she had been closeted alone with him. Licinia refuted the charge by stating that the man in question was her cousin and that they had been alone only to discuss the purchase or sale of some of her property. Her defense was successful and she was freed from charges. Plutarch described the case: \"And yet when he was further on in years, he was accused of criminal intimacy with Licinia, one of the Vestal virgins and Licinia was formally prosecuted by a certain Plotius. Now Licinia was the owner of a pleasant villa in the suburbs which Crassus"}, {"text": "wished to get at a low price, and it was for this reason that he was forever hovering about the woman and paying his court to her, until he fell under the abominable suspicion. And in a way it was his avarice that absolved him from the charge of corrupting the Vestal, and he was acquitted by the judges. But he did not let Licinia go until he had acquired her property.\""}, {"text": "A special election to the United States House of Representatives for was held March 3, 2020, the same day as the California presidential primaries. As no candidate received a majority, a runoff took place on May 12, 2020, between the top two finishers Christy Smith and Mike Garcia. Garcia's win was the first time Republicans flipped a Democratic-held House seat in California since 1998. Katie Hill, who had been elected in 2018, had resigned on November 3, 2019 after reports of an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer and allegations of sexual relations with her congressional staff, as well as nude photos of her which were published without her consent. Steve Knight, who had represented the district until 2019, ran in the primary but did not advance to the runoff. By winning the special election, Garcia finished the remaining balance of Hill's term in the 116th Congress. A separate primary and general election on March 3, 2020, and on November 3, 2020, respectively, was held to determine the representative for the 117th Congress; Garcia narrowly defeated Smith in a rematch and again for a second full term in 2022. Background. Buck McKeon (R) represented the district from 1993 until he"}, {"text": "retired in 2014. Steve Knight (R) then won over Tony Strickland (R) in the 2014 election and served until he was defeated by Katie Hill (D) in 2018 by 8.8 percentage points. Hill resigned in October 2019 following a scandal in which she admitted to an \"inappropriate relationship\" with a campaign staffer and nude photos of her were published without her consent. On November 15, 2019, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, issued a proclamation declaring a special election for the 25th Congressional District on May 12, 2020, with a primary on March 3, 2020. In recent presidential elections the district narrowly voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, while Hillary Clinton (D) won the district by 7 percentage points in 2016. Candidates. California uses a primary system in which all candidates run in a single primary regardless of political party. In regular congressional elections, the top two vote getters in the primary advance to a runoff election regardless of party affiliation or vote tally. However, in the special election for the balance of Hill's term, had a candidate received more than 50% of the primary vote, they would have been automatically elected and"}, {"text": "the runoff election cancelled. On October 31, 2019, at least a dozen people had filed paperwork with the FEC to run for the seat. According to the certified list of candidates signed by the Secretary of State of California on January 15, 2020, six Democrats and six Republicans had filed for the special election and would appear on the ballot. Democratic candidate Christopher Smith ended his campaign shortly after participating in the January 9 debate. While stopping short of a full endorsement, he stated, \"among the remaining field, the progressive candidate with the best chance of winning is Cenk Uygur.\" Special election. The special election and the primary election for the regular general election for California's 25th congressional district was held on March 3, 2020. The normal primary election determined which two candidates would advance to the 2020 general election, while the special election was to determine who will finish the remainder of Hill's term. No candidate in the special election received more than 50% of the vote so the top two candidates advanced to a runoff to be held on May 12, 2020. Several candidates were on the ballot in both elections on March 3, as these elections concern"}, {"text": "two different Congresses. Debates. On December 22, 2019, Democratic candidates Christopher Smith, An\u00edbal Vald\u00e9z-Ortega and Cenk Uygur called on Christy Smith, Robert Cooper III and Getro Elize to attend a primary debate \"to be held tentatively at College of the Canyons on Thursday, January 9, 2020\". \"The Talk of Santa Clarita\", an interview podcast within the district that hosted a Democratic debate during the 2018 election and has interviewed both Christy Smith and Cenk Uygur, also volunteered to host a primary debate for the Democratic candidates on January 25, 2020. Uygur stated on January 4 that all of the Democratic candidates, with the notable exception of Christy Smith, will attend a debate in Palmdale (at Transplants Brewing Company) on January 9, 2020. Despite receiving an offer by the other candidates to change the date of the debate to better accommodate her, Christy Smith's campaign has stated that her work in the State Assembly prevents her from attending the debate, which was set to be moderated by \"The Talk of Santa Clarita\". Christy Smith's campaign was given several opportunities to debate on different dates at different venues, including future debates unrelated to the Brewing Company debate, but her campaign also declined,"}, {"text": "with no reasons given. Runoff. Since no candidate in the March 3, 2020, special election received more than 50.0% of the vote, a runoff election between the top two finishers was held on May 12, 2020. Notes. Partisan clients External links. Official campaign websites Public forum with candidates"}, {"text": "PDRA may refer to:"}, {"text": "James Nutter may refer to:"}, {"text": "Fushanosaurus (; meaning \"Fushan lizard\", after the Fushan Museum where its remains are stored) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Shishugou Formation from Xinjiang Province in China. The type and only species is Fushanosaurus qitaiensis (). It is solely known from the holotype specimen FH000101, a complete right femur. The holotype femur of \"F. qitaiensis\" is long. By comparison to two other giant sauropods from Asia, \"Ruyangosaurus\" and \"Daxiatitan\", \"Fushanosaurus\" was estimated to have been approximately long, which would then make it one of the longest known dinosaurs. \"Fushanosaurus\" was originally described as a titanosauriform, but the features initially believed to indicate titanosauriform affinities are actually more widespread among sauropods, and \"Fushanosaurus\" may be a mamenchisaurid, the only group of sauropods definitely known to be present in the Shishugou Formation."}, {"text": "Stary Achkhoy (, \"Ja\u015fxoy-Khotar\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status. Municipally, Stary Achkhoy is incorporated as Staro-Achkhoyskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Geography. Stary Achkhoy is located on both banks of the Achkhu River. It is located south-east of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and south-west of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Stary Achkhoy are Bamut in the west, Achkhoy-Martan in the north-west, Katyr-Yurt in the north-east, and Yandi in the east. History. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Stary Achkhoy was renamed to Kizilovo, and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast. In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Stary Achkhoy. Population. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Stary Achkhoy were ethnic Chechens."}, {"text": "K\u00f2u (\u5bc7) is a Chinese surname. It originates as a title denoting status as a police officer, and is a shortened for of Sikou (\u53f8\u5bc7). A 2013 study found it was the 240th most common surname, shared by 380,000 people or 0.029% of the population, with the province with the most people being Henan. Kou may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Shoreline Apartments are a historic apartment building at 2231 E. 67th Street in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1928, the sixteen-story building was one of the tallest in South Shore upon its completion. Marketed as luxury apartments, the building's units had six to seven rooms and included space for housekeepers, modern appliances, and additional amenities such as laundry service. Architect Henry K. Holsman designed the Gothic Revival building. Holsman's design features a brick exterior with a stone base, arched windows at the base and the penthouse, and stone quoins and patterned brick on the third and fourth floors. The design extends to the building's lobby, which includes decorative arches, ceiling beams, and wrought iron light fixtures. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 2017."}, {"text": "Emily Margaretta Roebling Cadwalader (died May 15, 1941) was an American socialite and philanthropist, based in Philadelphia. She is best known as the owner of two historic yachts, the USS \"Sequoia\" and the MV \"Savarona\". Early life. Emily Roebling was the daughter of Charles Gustavus Roebling and Sarah (or Sallie) Ormsby Mahon Roebling. Her father was an engineer, president of John A. Roebling's Sons, a steel wire and cable company. Her Prussian-born grandfather, John Augustus Roebling, was best known as the civil engineer behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Roebling was raised in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1905 she rescued her father's stable of horses during a fire, and assisted firefighters in their work. In 1908 she unveiled the bronze statue of her grandfather in Trenton. She was an avid tennis player and horsewoman, and was considered one of the first women in Trenton to drive her own automobile. Wealth and philanthropy. Blind education. Roebling took an interest in blind education in New Jersey, and was appointed to a commission to study the needs of blind residents of the state before she married and moved to Philadelphia. As part of that work, she organized an exhibit of work by blind crafters of"}, {"text": "New Jersey, including handmade lace, crochet, and knit items, at Atlantic City in 1909. She was also editor-in-chief of the newspaper for the 1908 Charity Fair in Trenton. Fairwold. After marriage, Cadwalader lived part-time in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in a house known as Fairwold. They expanded the house significantly, adding a ballroom, a pipe organ, and a solarium among other features. Fairwold was used as a convalescent hospital during World War I, while the Cadwaladers lived in their Philadelphia townhouse. Since 1995, Fairwold has been a synagogue of the congregation Or Hadash. Yachts. Cadwalader had a longtime interest in yachts. Her first yacht, purchased in 1924, was the 85-foot \"Sequoia\". The following year she acquired the \"Sequoia II.\" The USS \"Sequoia\" became property of the United States government in 1931, and was used by presidents from Herbert Hoover to Gerald Ford. President Jimmy Carter ordered the \"Sequoia\" to be sold in 1977. As of autumn 2019, it was being restored in Belfast. Cadwalader was the original owner of three German-made yachts named \"Savarona\", purchased in 1926, 1928, and 1930. The last \"Savarona\", at the time, was the \"largest, most luxurious, most expensive private yacht ever created\". In 1937 the yacht"}, {"text": "was a factor in charges of tax fraud against the Cadwaladers. The Cadwaladers sold the 440-foot yacht to Turkish president Kemal Atat\u00fcrk in 1938. The yacht remains in Istanbul and was restored in the 1990s; it is still considered \"one of the world's largest yachts\". After a scandal in 2010, the Turkish Cultural Ministry purchased the \"Savarona\", and it is now used by the Turkish president for hosting state events. Personal life. Emily Roebling married banker Richard M. Cadwalader Jr., the grandson of Thomas McCall Cadwalader, in 1909. She died at her home in Fort Washington in 1941."}, {"text": "The Saunders-Roe P.192 Queen was a British jet-powered seaplane project designed by Saunders-Roe after the Second World War. It was intended for the carriage of passengers on intercontinental flights, especially between Great Britain and Australia. No prototype was built because of a lack of funding. Design and development. Before the Second World War, the British aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe (often known as Saro) had initiated plans for transatlantic seaplanes. In 1939 the firm planned a machine of 85 to 90 tons, but the start of the war altered priorities. When Saro resumed in 1943, the studies had grown to 150 tons and ultimately became the Saunders-Roe Princess, of which only three were built. Despite this failure, Saro was contacted by J. Dundas Meenan, consulting engineer from the firm Heenan, Winn & Steel, on behalf of the Peninsular & Oriental (P & O) shipping company. He was interested in a plane that could carry at least 1,000 passengers under the conditions of comfort of an ocean liner. Saro proposed project P.192, a 670-ton seaplane powered by 24 Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway jet engines with of thrust each. The aircraft was designed to have flown at a cruising speed of and an altitude between"}, {"text": ". Its range would have been . The route between London and Sydney had already been planned, via Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta, Singapore and Darwin (Australia). The fuselage would have had 5 decks with passengers divided into 6 person compartments with seats that could convert into berths for the night, in a similar fashion to railway carriages. First class passengers would have had their own bars, dining rooms and washrooms. A galley would have served all decks via freight elevator. The crew was to have consisted of 7 flight crews with their own rest quarters, and 40 cabin crew, as well as a steward as on a liner. The engines were installed away from the hull to avoid spray ingestion on takeoff and landing. They were to have been supplied with air through intakes in the leading edge of the wing during flight, and another set of intakes on the top of the wing while on the water. Water rudders facilitated manoeuvring on the water. Neither P & O nor the government were willing to finance the project, it did not go beyond the stage of the drawing board."}, {"text": "The House at 577 Deer Valley Road, at 577 Deer Valley Rd. in Park City, Utah, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a small four-room house, which at some point was located 577 Deer Valley Rd. Its current and previous location(s) are confusing for the editor to understand from the Utah State Historical Society's cryptic description. But it seems Deer Valley Rd. may be the continuation, coming east out of town, of Heber Avenue. This house may formerly have been on the north side of Heber Avenue (aka Deer Valley) at number 204 Deer Valley Rd. There is a home now at which could possibly be the house; this is at the eastern end of a block of recent construction housing, whose western end appears to be the National Register-listed House at 555 Deer Valley Road. Different possible locations can be seen in map linked at right. It is a one-story frame hall and parlor plan house with a gable roof. It has a rectangular form, with a generally symmetrical front facade with three bays, with its door set slightly off-center between two windows. A woman named \"Rachel"}, {"text": "Urban was the principal madame of Park City's red light district,\" which was concentrated nearby, on Heber Avenue and the lower portion of Deer Valley Road, but there is no evidence \"that this house was one of her 'business houses'\"; the documented red light district is \"not known to have extended this far east out of town.\""}, {"text": "WRLZ may refer to:"}, {"text": "The curling competitions of the 2022 Winter Olympics were held at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre, one of the Olympic Green venues. Curling competitions were scheduled for every day of the games, from February 2 to February 20. This was the eighth time that curling was part of the Olympic program. In each of the men's, women's, and mixed doubles competitions, 10 nations competed. The mixed doubles competition was expanded for its second appearance in the Olympics. A total of 120 quota spots (60 per sex) were distributed to the sport of curling, an increase of four from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A total of 3 events were contested, one for men, one for women, and one mixed. Qualification. Qualification to the Men's and Women's curling tournaments at the Winter Olympics was determined through two methods (in addition to the host nation). Nations qualified teams by placing in the top six at the 2021 World Curling Championships. Teams could also qualify through Olympic qualification events which were held in 2021. Six nations qualified via World Championship qualification placement, while three nations qualified through qualification events. In men's and women's play, a host will be selected for the Olympic Qualification Event"}, {"text": "(OQE). They would be joined by the teams which competed at the 2021 World Championships but did not qualify for the Olympics, and two qualifiers from the Pre-Olympic Qualification Event (Pre-OQE). The Pre-OQE was open to all member associations. For the mixed doubles competition in 2022, the tournament field was expanded from eight competitor nations to ten. The top seven ranked teams at the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship qualified, along with two teams from the Olympic Qualification Event (OQE) \u2013 Mixed Doubles. This OQE was open to a nominated host and the fifteen nations with the highest qualification points not already qualified to the Olympics. As the host nation, China qualified teams automatically, thus making a total of ten teams per event in the curling tournaments. Competition schedule. Curling competitions started two days before the Opening Ceremony and finished on the last day of the games, meaning the sport was the only one to have had a competition every day of the games. The following was the competition schedule for the curling competitions: Results summary. Men's tournament. Playoffs. Semifinals. \"Thursday, 17 February, 20:05\" Bronze medal game. \"Friday, 18 February, 14:05\" Gold medal game. \"Saturday, 19 February, 14:50\" Women's"}, {"text": "tournament. Playoffs. Semifinals. \"Friday, 18 February, 20:05\" Bronze medal game. \"Saturday, 19 February, 20:05\" Gold medal game. \"Sunday, 20 February, 9:05\" Mixed doubles tournament. Playoffs. Semifinals. \"Monday, 7 February, 20:05\" Bronze medal game. \"Tuesday, 8 February, 14:05\" Gold medal game. \"Tuesday, 8 February, 20:05\" Participating nations. A total of 114 athletes from 14 nations (including the IOC's designation of ROC) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Some curlers competed in both the 4-person and mixed doubles tournament, therefore, the numbers included on this list are the total athletes sent by each NOC to the Olympics, not how many athletes they qualified. Both Australia and the Czech Republic made their Olympic sport debuts."}, {"text": "Yandi (, \"Yandi-Khotar\") is a rural locality (a \"selo\") in Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status. Municipally, Yandi is incorporated as Yandinskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is the only settlement included in it. Geography. Yandi is located on the right bank of the Netkhoy River. It is located south-east of the town of Achkhoy-Martan and south-west of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Yandi are Katyr-Yurt and Valerik in the north-east, Gekhi in the east, Shalazhi in the south-east, and Stary Achkhoy in the west. History. In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Yandi was renamed to Orekhovo, and settled by people from other ethnic groups. From 1944 to 1957, it was a part of the Novoselsky District of Grozny Oblast. In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old name, Yandi. Population. According to the results of the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Yandi were ethnic Chechens."}, {"text": "Thomas Chung (born 1988) is an American visual artist and assistant professor of art and painting based in Anchorage Alaska whose work deals mainly with topics of globalization and healing culture. He is best known for the controversy surrounding his painting \u201cEverything\u201d that includes a depiction of the severed head of Donald Trump being held by actor Chris Evans. Early life and education. Chung was born in New Jersey and grew up in New York and Hong Kong. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 2010 from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. He studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. He received his master of fine art degree in 2013 from the Yale School of Art. Career. Chung participated in the 2012 group exhibition \u201cGifted and Talented\u201d in Manhattan, New York, curated by performance artist Clifford Owens. His work was featured on PBS in May 2019 for its series \u201cIndie Alaska.\u201d He had a solo exhibit in 2018 at the Anchorage Museum titled \u201cEverything is Sacred.\" His work is in the permanent collection of the Anchorage Museum and appears in the book \"North-Finding Place in Alaska\". In 2020 Chung and University"}, {"text": "of Alaska paintings students created a stained-glass inspired mural in downtown Anchorage in partnership with the Anchorage Museum. \"Everything\" controversy. In response to the result of the 2016 US presidential election, Chung created the painting \u201cEverything\u201d to comment on the inseparability of racial inequity and American culture and history. The painting was displayed at the University of Alaska\u2019s Kimura Gallery in April 2017 as part of a regularly scheduled faculty show. Images of the painting on the internet caused local TV stations to cover the story which then went national. The motif of nude actor Chris Evans holding the severed head of Donald Trump was covered by the Fox News television program America's Newsroom and featured on Fox News Insider, as well as other news media outlets such as The Associated Press. This resulted in threats to the artist, hate mail, and the need for a police escort. Shortly after the controversy began, University of Alaska Anchorage President Jim Johnsen issued a campus-wide statement in support of Professor Chung and free speech. \"A vital and vibrant university, regardless of the campus, must be a place of ideas and debate,\" Johnsen wrote, \"\u2026a place where the most controversial ideas abound, and"}, {"text": "where assumptions and positions are openly tested.\" The painting \u201cEverything\u201d and its related aftermath has been cited in news media about the limits of free speech. The subsequent controversial photo of comedian Kathy Griffin holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump has been linked to Chung\u2019s painting in conversations about free speech. Personal life. Chung lives in North Anchorage."}, {"text": "Gilles Carbonnier is the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and professor of development economics at Geneva\u2019s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHIED). Carbonnier is an academic, development economist and humanitarian. His fields of expertise include tax governance and development finance, humanitarian and development policies, natural resource governance, as well as business and human rights. Carbonnier pioneered the scholarly field of humanitarian economics with the publication of \"Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market\" (Oxford University Press 2016). Early life and studies. Carbonnier was born in 1965 and grew up in Neuch\u00e2tel, Switzerland. In his youth, he worked and travelled across Latin America. This experience led him to study development economics and prompted a life-long interest in global development. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Neuch\u00e2tel in 2001 with a thesis on \"The Economics of War-torn Countries.\" Career. Carbonnier\u2019s career trajectory combines academia, humanitarian action, international trade and development. Academia Since 2007 Carbonnier has been a full professor in the Department of International Economics at Geneva\u2019s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), where he was also Director of Studies in 2015-18. Carbonnier was the founder and"}, {"text": "first Editor-in-Chief of the e-Journal \"International Development Policy\" (2010-2018). Over the same period, he was President of the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action and Vice-President of the European Association of Development Studies. Carbonnier has been a visiting professor in several academic institutions including the American University of Beirut (Issam Fares Institute); the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and SciencesPo - Paris. ICRC & humanitarian action Carbonnier first joined the ICRC in1989, working as a field delegate in El Salvador, Sri-Lanka, Ethiopia and Iraq through to 1991. He returned as economic adviser in 1999-2006 and developed ICRC\u2019s relations with the private sector. In 2018 he was appointed vice-president, representing the ICRC internationally, engaging with states and other stakeholders on international humanitarian law (IHL) and humanitarian access. He has promoted humanitarian innovations with the scientific community and linkages between humanitarian action and sustainable development for people caught in protracted crises. International Trade and Development After short assignments in the 80\u2019s with the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico and Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs (Keizai Koho Center), Carbonnier joined the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs where he conducted multilateral trade negotiations under the"}, {"text": "GATT/WTO and trade-related development work (1992-1996). He also served as an adviser to Vietnam\u2019s accession to the WTO (1996-1999). He is a member of the Council on Economic Policies, and a former member of the Swiss Advisory Committee on International Cooperation (2008\u201319) and Independent Evaluation Committee (2009\u201314). Between 1993-1996 he undertook electoral supervision missions with the UN and OSCE in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mozambique and Ukraine. Carbonnier speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese."}, {"text": "The Shaw Brothers Lumber Company was a forestry company that had logging operations and sawmills along the Manitoba Escarpment. Manitoba Operations. James and Thomas Shaw began their careers as flour millers and sawmillers in Ontario. In 1889, they moved to Dauphin, MB and opened a flour mill and a sawmill on the Valley River. Logs for the sawmill were cut down in the Duck Mountains, and were then floated down the river to the sawmill. In 1899, they moved their mill to Edwards Creek at the base of the Riding Mountains. By 1914, they had stopped their operations in Manitoba to focus on their operations in the Northwest Territories. Northwest Territories Operations. In 1901, the brothers began logging in the Pasquia Hills, north of Prairie River, Saskatchewan, in what was then the District of Saskatchewan in the Northwest Territories. A saw- and planing-mill was also built near Prairie River. In 1906 (the year after Saskatchewan became a province), they built their own railway called the Shaw Logging Railroad to transport logs to their mill, and finished product from their mill to the Canadian Northern Railway line that ran between Erwood and Melfort. They owned and used two Type B Geared"}, {"text": "Shay Locomotives, which were able to run fully loaded on grades up to 12%. In addition to wood, they also used to transport passengers. By 1920, their Saskatchewan operations had also closed down."}, {"text": "This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Maine in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Maine and any other surviving structures from the First Period or oldest buildings of their type in Maine. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; dendrochronology; or other secondary source."}, {"text": "The 1983 Durham mayoral election was held on November 8, 1983, to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Charles Markham"}, {"text": "Maitreyasamitin\u0101\u1e6daka is a Buddhist drama in the language known as Tocharian A. It dates to the eighth century and survives only in fragments. The drama revolves around the Buddha Maitreya, the future saviour of the world. This story was popular among Buddhists and parallel versions can be found in Chinese, Tibetan, Khotanese, Sogdian, Pali and Sanskrit. According to Friedrich W. K. M\u00fcller and Emil Sieg, the apparent meaning of the title is \"Encounter with Maitreya\". There is an Old Uyghur translation of the Tocharian text, called Maitrisimit nom bitig. It is a much more complete text and has been dated to between the eighth and eleventh centuries. The fragments of the Tocharian text come from six different manuscripts, five from the Shikshin Temple and one from Qocho. Albert Gr\u00fcnwedel and Albert von Le Coq discovered the Tocharian text during the third German Turfan expedition in 1906, when the Tocharian languages had been extinct for more than a millennium and were unknown to modern linguists. The Uyghur text is represented by four manuscripts, two from Turfan, one from Qomul dated 1067 and one of uncertain provenance in the collection of \u014ctani K\u014dzui. A colophon to the Uyghur text notes that it"}, {"text": "was translated from a language called \"toxr\u00ef\". Under the assumption that this name was connected to a Central Asian people known as the \"Tocharoi\" in ancient Greek texts, and since the \"Maitrisimit nom bitig\" shows a \"clear dependence\" on the \"Maitreyasamitin\u0101\u1e6daka\", scholars began to refer to the unidentified language of the latter as \"Tocharian\". According to the colophon, the Tocharian version was \"compiled\" or \"put together\" by \u0100ryacandra from source texts in Indian languages, while the Uyghur translation was the work of Praj\u00f1\u0101rak\u1e63ita. The \"Maitreyasamitin\u0101\u1e6daka\" was originally a long text consisting of twenty-seven acts of ten to fifteen leaves (twenty to thirty pages) each. The Tocharian fragments come from manuscripts of high aesthetic value, indicating a text that was meant to be read. There are stage directions, however, such as \"lc\u00e4r po\u00f1\u015b\" (\"all have left [the scene]\") at the end of each act, which suggests that it was also performed. It is in the \"champu\" style with sections of prose mixed with sections of verse. The \"Maitrisimit\" translation is all prose."}, {"text": "Condition Critical is the debut full-length studio album by American rock band White Noise Owl. Initially due shortly after their debut EP \"Until We Meet Again\", the release saw multiple delays before receiving its final release date, November 1, 2019. The album's first single, \"Something, was released over two years prior to the album release, on August 1, 2017. The second single, \"Maybe It's Time\", was released in October 2019. Background. Four of the song's track's \"Feed\", \"Bomber\", \"Are You Breathing\", and \"End Over End\", all originate from the band's 2014 debut EP, \"Until We Meet Again\". These initial sessions were quick and fruitful; guitarist Chris Shy contacted vocalist Pete Murray shortly after Lo-Pro's third studio album's release in 2013, and the EP was released in March 2014. The songs were written over emails between Shy and Murray, and after sessions went well, Murray recruited past Lo-Pro bassist John Fahnestock as bassist, while Shy recruited Evanescence drummer Will Hunt, a musician he had always desired to work with historically. The band did not all work together in one place until the first day of the songs recordings. Work on a follow-up, full-length album started shortly after the EP's release, with"}, {"text": "the band entering the studio in August 2014. However, the band went quiet for over a year, with Hunt later giving an update in October 2015 that the band had been working on new material \"for the better part of a year\", but that progress was slow due to the members other commitments, complications with record labels, and wanting to take their time with perfecting the music. The album's initial 2015 release date was later delayed into 2016. The band again went quiet through 2016 and the first half of 2017, until August 2017. On August 1, the band released the album's first single, \"Something\", alongside a music video. The band also announced the album's name, \"Condition Critical\", and a new release date - late 2017. Despite the announcement, the album would not release that year, or 2018. In September 2019, a new release date was announced, November 1, 2019. A second single, \"Maybe It's Time\", was released in October 2019. Personnel. Band Production"}, {"text": "The Last Tomahawk or The Last of the Mohicans () is a 1965 Western adventure film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor and Marie France. It was a co-production between France, Spain and West Germany. It is loosely based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel \"The Last of the Mohicans\", with the setting moved forward more than a century to the American West of the post-Civil War-era. Another version \"Fall of the Mohicans\" was made the same year. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Andalucia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans J\u00fcrgen Kiebach."}, {"text": "Mahaan Kanakku (; formerly known as Gandhi Kanakku), is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Sampath Arumugam, an assistant to Sasi. The film stars Ramana and Reecha Sinha in her debut. The music was composed by A. K. Rishal Sai. Production. The film began production under the title \"Gandhi Kanakku\". The title was later changed to \"Mahaan Kanakku\" after a case was filed against the name, as the title demeaned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Editor Suresh Urs forayed into acting through this film. Release and reception. The film was released on 30 December 2011 to mixed reviews. Devadarshini won the Norway Tamil Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress. A critic from \"Maalai Malar\" wrote that \"Borrowing lakhs of lakhs from beggars is an interesting activity. It is a trademark to hold revenge films with a smile on the face of a hurt heart. For the eyes bored of love stories, the social problem was portrayed in a compelling screen story\"."}, {"text": "Richard Anthony Santucci MD, FACS is an American reconstructive urologist who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. Santucci is a graduate of the American Urological Association (AUA) Leadership Program Class of 2009, was a member of the AUA Urotrauma Guidelines panel, the AUA Urotrauma Legislation Task force, the World Health OrganizationInternational Consultation on Urologic Diseases (ICUD-urethra), and was an advisor to the US Marines Dismounted Blast Injuries Task Force. He recently served as the co-Chairman of the AUA Urethroplasty Guidelines panel, and. spent 18 years as a reconstructive urologist. He is the former Director of the Center for Urologic Reconstruction and Specialist-in-Chief for Urology at the Detroit Medical Center, focusing on urologic reconstruction and trauma including urethral stricture disease, ureteral injury, buried penis, and a variety of complex genital reconstruction surgeries. Santucci is the co-editor of the texts \"Emergencies in Urology\", \"Atlas of Urethroplasty\", and \"Penile Reconstructive Surgery\". He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the online open-access Urology journal \"Advances in Urology\", and co-creator of the high definition surgical video website, iclinics.org. His most highly cited article, Santucci RA, Joyce GF, Wise M. Male urethral stricture disease. \"The Journal of Urology\". 2007 May;177(5):1667-74 has been cited 397 times according"}, {"text": "to Google Scholar He is now a Senior Surgeon at Crane Surgical Services in Austin, Texas."}, {"text": "Angela Dalle Vacche is a professor emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology within its School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She is a scholar of film studies, with a specialization in world cinema and Italian cinema, and has authored multiple books. One of her notable works, \"Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema,\" delves into the concept of the Italian diva and its significance in promoting \"emancipation and self-discovery\" for female viewers in Italian cinema. Education. Dalle Vacche received her M.S. in American Studies in 1980 from Mount Holyoke College. In 1985, she received her doctorate in Films Studies from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation received honorable mention in the Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Contest. Career. Dalle Vacche worked as an associate professor at Yale University from 1987-1997, and Emory from 1997-2001, where she was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching award in 2000. In 2001, she joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a tenured professor of film studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Dalle Vacche has lectured internationally. In the summer of 2016, she lectured on Cinema and the Museum at the Institute for Marketing and Technology in Lucca,"}, {"text": "Italy and traveled throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia lecturing on similar topics. She has taught classes on a wide range of film-related topics, including \u201cIdentity in Film\u201d, \u201cVampires, Modernity, Technology in Literature and Film,\u201d and \u201cCinema and Architecture, Space and Landscape.\u201d Dalle Vacche has published several books and articles on Italian cinema. Two of her books, \"Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema\" and \"The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema\", explore the roles that gender, culture, and history have played in the genre. Her articles on the topic include \u201cLe Paysage du cinema italien\u201d in CinemAction and \u201cThe Diva-Image in 1911: Visual Form, Cultural Paradigm, Perceptual Model\u201d in Cinema and Other Arts. Dalle Vacche has directed films on Italian cinema. \"Art Forum\" declared the 2000 New York Film Festival showing of her short film, \u201cPassion and Defiance: Silent Divas of the Italian Cinema,\u201d as \u201cBest Event of the Year.\u201d"}, {"text": "Brian Verbeek (born October 22, 1966) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He is the younger brother of former NHL player Pat Verbeek. Verbeek was drafted 242nd overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. He turned professional the same year, spending a season with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the International Hockey League. He then played a season in Finland, playing two games in SM-liiga for KooKoo and 17 games in the 1. Divisioona for Karhu-Kissat. Verbeek then played 27 games for the American Hockey League's Binghamton Whalers during the 1988\u201389 season. He is currently the head coach of the Potomac Patriots of the United States Premier Hockey League. As head coach, he led the 2024-2025 Patriots Premier team to USPHL Nationals Tournament, winning the Southeast Region Divisional Playoffs, defeating the Hampton Roads Whalers 5-4 (OT) on Tuesday March 4, 2025."}, {"text": "Deborah Chatsis was the Ambassador of Canada to Vietnam, Director of South Asia Relations, Global Affairs Canada, Ambassador of Canada to Guatemala and High Commissioner to Belize. Chatsis was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia; she grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan as a member of Ahtahkakoop First Nation. A University of Saskatchewan graduate (Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1983 and a Bachelor of Laws 1986), she continued on to earn a Master of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa in which she specialized in international law. After a break in her educational career, she returned to school, this time from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she earned a Master in Public Administration. She attended as a Fulbright Scholar from 2006 to 2007. The University of Saskatchewan awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws in 2015."}, {"text": "This is a list of military parades held in Hong Kong since 1945. British Hong Kong. 1945. The first parade of British Forces Overseas Hong Kong since the reclamation of Hong Kong from Japanese rule took place on 9 October 1945 near The Cenotaph. The parade saw personnel of the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force take part, as well as troops from the Republic of China. 1996. The last Royal Air Force parade in the territory took place on 15 September 1996, on the 56th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The parade was conducted by the No. 28 Squadron RAF. The unit was the last of its kind to be pulled out of Hong Kong ahead of the transfer ceremony the following July. It was attended by Chief Secretary for Administration Anson Chan and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong Bryan Dutton. 1997. An evening parade at HMS Tamar was held during the Hong Kong handover ceremony on 30 June. It included a farewell address by Governor Chris Patten as well as an address by Charles, Prince of Wales on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. Hong Kong SAR. 1998. On 7 May 1998, the first"}, {"text": "military parade of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison took place on Stonecutters Island at Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the HKSAR's establishment. It was attended by Jiang Zemin who was Chairman of the Central Military Commission and was on his second visit to the region. 2004. On 1 August 2004, the first military parade on PLA Day in the entire PRC took place. The 3,000-strong parade specifically marked the 77th anniversary of the founding of the PLA. The parade was presided by the PLA commander in HKSAR, General Wang Jitang. It also saw the unprecedented attendance of anti-CPC lawmakers in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong at the parade. Beginning at 10:30 that morning, the parade began with the performance of \"March of the Volunteers\" and was concluded with a performance by the PLA Hong Kong Band. It was the first major appearance for the PLA Hong Kong Garrison Honour Guard Battalion, which was formed back in the fall of 1997. 2007. It took place on Stonecutters and celebrated the CCP's 80th anniversary and the HKSAR's 10th anniversary. It was the first to be held on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment"}, {"text": "Day. 2012. It was commanded by General Zhang Shibo and was presided over by Central Military Commission chairman Hu Jintao. It celebrated HKSAR's 15th anniversary. 2015. A parade in honor of the platinum jubilee of the end of World War II took place on V-J Day in 2015. It took place with the participation of cadet/ youth organizations as well as the Hong Kong Police Force. It was attended by Lau Kong-wah as the presiding officer in his position as Secretary for Home Affairs. The parade route went through Kowloon Park in Tsim Sha Tsui. 2017. The parade was held in honor of the 20th anniversary of the accession of Hong Kong into the PRC and the 90th anniversary of the PLA. It was commanded by General Tan Benhong and attended by Central Military Commission chairman Xi Jinping. It was the largest parade in the HKSAR's existence, being held at Shek Kong Airfield in the presence of 20 formations including one from Shenzhen Military Base. The 20 formations accounted for over 3,000 troops combined. 60 armoured vehicles, 61 vehicles that specialised in surveillance, command, communications, defence, engineering, missile delivery, interference and field rescue and prevention. Twelve types of military helicopters"}, {"text": "were on show. It was also the first to include the new military greeting \"Hello Comrades!\", to which the troops respond with \"Hello Chairman!\". This was a replacement of the greeting used since the 35th anniversary of parade on Tiananmen Square in 1984 when \"Hello Leader!\" was the response by troops."}, {"text": "The premiership of Jason Kenney began on April 30, 2019, when Jason Kenney and his cabinet were sworn in by Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Lois Mitchell. Kenney was invited to form the 30th Alberta Legislature and became the 18th Premier of Alberta, following the 2019 Alberta general election where Kenney's United Conservative Party (UCP) won a majority of seats in the Alberta Legislature leading to the resignation of Premier Rachel Notley. Kenney stepped down as leader of the UCP party on May 18, 2022, after receiving 51.4% of the UCP party members' votes. His premiership ended shortly after Danielle Smith won the subsequent leadership election and was sworn in as premier. The approval rating for Premier Kenney's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the lowest in Canada, falling to 33% in June 2021. By December 1, 2020, Kenney's overall approval rate among Albertans had dropped to 30% from 60% in September 2019. In March 2020, the reasons for the drop in popularity had included the UCP's response to the 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests\u2014including the bill targeting those who disrupt critical infrastructure with severe penalties. Other concerns included aggressive cuts in the 2019 and 2020 budgets designed to balance"}, {"text": "the budget and support the oil and gas sector. Reductions to funding for post-secondary institutions and to municipalities and the freeze on spending on health and public schools also raised questions. The provincial government unilaterally changed the way doctors could bill the province and warned that there would be freezes or cuts to government employees in the spring of 2020. Concerns were raised about the cost of the Canadian Energy Centre and about the March 4 decision to \"fully or partially [close] 20 provincial parks and seeking \"partnerships\" for 164 more.\" The bill that targeted those who disrupt critical infrastructure with severe penalties also raised concerns. By April 7, 2020, a combination of interconnected unprecedented global events\u2014including the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the COVID-19 recession, the 2020 stock market crash, and the 2020 Russia\u2013Saudi Arabia oil price war with the resulting \"collapse in oil prices\"\u2014represent what Premier Kenney called \"the greatest challenge\" in Alberta's \"modern history, threatening its main industry and wreaking havoc on its finances.\" By April 19, 2020, as the collapse in the price of oil worsened, Alberta's benchmark crude oil\u2014Western Canadian Select (WCS)\u2014descended to negative pricing. By May 2021, the price of WCS had increased to $USD54.78, representing"}, {"text": "an increase of $USD40 a barrel compared to June 2020. By January 7, 2021, faced with the controversy related to international visits undertaken by members of the caucus and the cabinet, as well as key staff, during the pandemic. Alberta, at one point, had the highest total COVID-19 case in Canada. In response, the UCP experienced a \"sharp decline\" in the polls. Alberta intends to join TC Energy in their $15 billion North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11 claim against the United States over the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation, according to a July 7, 2021 \"Financial Post\". This represents a potentially very expensive and very long legal challenge, which the US has never lost. Of the Albertans surveyed on their voting intentions for the 2023 provincial elections\u201441% said they would vote for the NDP, 30% for the UCP, and 20% for the Wildrose Independence Party, according to a June 2021 Angus Reid Institute poll. The UCP government also ranked lowest in Canada in its response to COVID-19, with only 33% of Albertans approving of their response as of June 2021. Faced with a potential caucus revolt, Kenney called for a leadership review on May 18, 2022, where he"}, {"text": "would go on to receive 51% approval from the party membership. While technically sufficient for him to remain leader of the party under the United Conservative Party's constitution, Jason Kenney nonetheless announced, moments after the results were released, that he would resign as UCP leader, and Premier of Alberta (albeit he will only formally leave office once the party elects a new leader). Reuters described his leadership style as \"uncompromising\", \"tenacious\" and \"combative\". 2019 election. Kenney won the United Conservative Party leadership election October 28, 2017. He previously represented Calgary Midnapore. In the 2019 Alberta general election held on April 16, 2019, Kenney won with won 54.88% of the popular vote and 63 seats in the legislature. The 30th Alberta Legislature was constituted after the general election on April 16, 2019. Cabinet and Office of the Premier. On April 30, the cabinet was sworn in by Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Lois Mitchell. Ministers in the newly formed cabinet included Travis Toews who was appointed President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance on April 30, 2019. Doug Schweitzer as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, Jason Nixon as Minister of Environment and Parks , Sonya Savage as Minister of Energy,"}, {"text": "Nixon was appointed House Leader, and Doug Schweitzer, Ric McIver, and Savage were appointed as Deputy House Leaders on April 30, 2019. By September 2021, during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as Alberta's health system was overwhelmed, Premier Kenney faced criticism from all sides including from the official opposition and some MLAs those in the UCP caucuswho allegedly challenged his leadership. Critics, who included 2 UCP MLAs blamed Premier Kenney for his \"inaction on the fourth wave of the pandemic, saying he waited too long to introduce new measures and that delay will cost lives.\" In response, Premier Kenney shuffled his cabinet, replacing Tyler Shandro as Minister of Health with Jason Copping. Tyler will replace Copping as Minister of immigration. Overview. The UCP government repealed the federal Carbon Tax in 2019 and replaced it with a provincial carbon tax on industrial emitters, which does not tax consumers directly. In 2019, the government began a series of corporate tax cuts with the goal of becoming the most competitive rate in Canada\u20148% by 2022\u201323. The government deferred arbitration on public sector wages. They established the commission an inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns, called the Canadian Energy Centre\u2014a 'war room'. A"}, {"text": "report was commissioned on Alberta's finances by Janice MacKinnon's task force, that recommended freezes and cuts that would help to reach the UCP's goal of eliminating the deficit by 2023. It focused on slashing health care costs and various measures related to the public sector, including education. The report's mandate did not include the impact of potential revenue if a provincial sales tax were introduced. By September 2019, polls showed that Premier Kenney had a 60% approval rate. The November 2019 fall budget closely followed the MacKinnon's August report's recommendations. The first presumptive COVID-19 case in Alberta was announced by Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health on March 5, 2020. On March 17, Premier Kenney declared a public health state of emergency. By the end of his first year as premier, Kenney's overall performance approval rate had dropped to 47% with the leader of the opposition rising to 46% approval rate. During the Spring Sitting of the 1st Session of the 30th Alberta Legislature, which spanned May through July, 2019, the Kenney government passed about thirteen pieces of legislation, including the Act to Repeal the Carbon Tax, the Alberta Corporate Tax Amendment, and the Public Sector Wage"}, {"text": "Arbitration Deferral Act. Premier Kenney established a one-year $2.5 million Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns and a Calgary-based $30 million 'war room' to \"fight misinformation related to oil and gas\". Bill 32, \"Restoring Balance in Alberta's Workplaces Act, 2020\", was introduced by Labour Minister Copping, on July 7, 2020. Minister Copping said Bill 32 will counterbalance \"significant changes\" made during the NDP tenure, that favoured unions at the expense of the \"rights of job creators\". There are numerous changes to \"workplace rules and union activities\" which include where and how unions can picket and an opt out option which allows union members to choose to have their \"union dues go to political parties or causes.\" The November 16, 2020 Leger poll, showed that support for Premier Kenney's response to the COVID-19 pandemic was at 37%, which was much lower than that of any other provincial leader. As Premier Kenney's poll numbers fell, there were signs of a potential electoral split on the right, which could contribute to the NDP winning in the next provincial election. During the UCP caucus meeting in October 2020, in a lengthy response to a question from a delegate about the potential for Alberta separating"}, {"text": "from Canada if the Liberals won another term in the 2021 Canadian federal election in 2021, Premier Kenney responded that his patriotism was to the country, Canada. By July 2020, there were two registered provincial separatist parties\u2014the Independence Party of Alberta led by Cory Morgan, a blogger and columnist for the Western Standard, and the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta, established in July 2020 with the merger of the Wexit Alberta party and the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta with Paul Hinman as leader, and 40% of Albertans\u2014mainly in rural Alberta\u2014supported separation. According to a 2022 investigative report by journalists Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell and based on interviews with UCP staffers, both current and former, the efforts made by the office of the premier to \"stymie transparency and accountability...are unlike anything they have seen in their many combined years working for other governments\". This included a systemic and regular email deletion protocol called \"records management\". Carbon price and carbon tax. As promised in his election platform, Premier Kenney's first piece of legislation was Bill 1: An Act to Repeal the Carbon Tax, which had been put into place in November 2015 during the premiership of Rachel Notley. Premier Kenney"}, {"text": "was one of four provincial premiers that challenged the constitutionality of Canada's carbon tax. Kenney has loudly \"denounced\" carbon taxes and threatened \"more legal action\" after a Saskatchewan superior court dismissed the legal \"challenge of the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax.\" Both Ford and Kenney were strongly critical of carbon taxes saying they will \"either trigger a recession or sink the oil patch,\" according to an October 10, 2019 article in \"The National Observer\". Premier Kenney had said that Climate Leadership Plan introduced by Rachel Notley \"crippled the Alberta economy.\" This claim was refuted by the November 15, 2019 Government of Alberta report, \"Economic Assessment of Climate Policy in Alberta,\" which was submitted by the Kenney's government as a court document to the Alberta Court of Appeal, as part of Alberta's constitutional challenge of the federal government's carbon tax. The Alberta government's \"own analysis\" revealed that Notley's carbon tax economic effect was \"an average reduction in annual growth of Alberta's gross domestic product (GDP) of only 0.05%.\" Carbon price. In December 2019, the federal government accepted Kenney's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) Bill 19 legislation\u2014a provincial carbon tax on industrial emitters\u2014which helps Canada reach its Paris Agreement goals."}, {"text": "Industrial emitters will pay \"$30 per tonne of emissions\" with an estimated reduction in emissions of \"32 megatonnes in 2030.\" The funds collected will go towards \"deficit reduction and technological advancements with respect to climate change.\" There is no carbon tax on consumers. Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns. On July 4, 2019, Premier Kenney announced a one-year $2.5 million Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns. The inquiry will include interviews, research, and potentially, public hearings. Kenney announced the creation of the public inquiry along with the \"Energy War Room\" in a release by the UCP party during his election campaign. Kenney cited \"the intrepid reporting of journalist Vivian Krause,\" who has spent ten years examining foreign funding of Canadian environmental non-profit organizations (ENGOs). In a talk at Manhattan Institute on September 12, 2018, \"The Real Fuel of the Future: Natural Gas\", Kenney said that there were \"domestic economic benefits from an expanded shale gas industry,\" but there was a \"potential American upset of the former hegemony in global gas trade.\" Kenney said that these \"fake accounts advocated for 'the complete abandonment of specific fuel sources, such as fossil fuels, by touting exaggerated claims about alternative energy sources,' while sometimes"}, {"text": "both promoting and mocking climate change, all intended to \u201cgenerate further domestic [U.S.] controversy.\" Minister Schweitzer appointed a forensic accountant, Steve Allan, as commissioner of the Public Inquiry, which is tasked with investigating foreign-funded efforts to undermine the oil and gas industry. In November 2019, \"CBC News\" reported that Allan, and \"two other business associates\" had supported and/or campaigned for Schweitzer in 2018 and 2019, and that Allan had awarded sole-source contracts for them after he was appointed to the $290,000 job as Commissioner. In response to a request for an investigation into a violation of Alberta's Conflicts of Interest Act, in July 2020, Alberta's ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler found that Minister Schweitzer did not breach the Act when he appointed Allan. In July 2019, shortly after his appointment as chair of the Public Inquiry, Allan had awarded a $905,000 sole-source contract for the inquiry to the Calgary law firm, Dentons Canada LLP, where he was a former partner, and where, Toby Allen, Allan's son is a \"partner and his good friend, Quincy Smith, also works\", according to the \"Canadian Press\" (CP), and other media sources. In her ruling Trussler said, \"It does stretch credibility that Mr. Allan did not"}, {"text": "consider whether or not there may possibly be a conflict of interest in his engaging of Dentons as counsel for the inquiry, given that, for all intents and purposes, the firm gave him free office space and both his close friend (although that alone is not significant) and his son were partners at the firm...[However], [n]either the minister, his children, nor his direct associates had any personal or particular interest in, or anything to gain from, the appointment of Mr. Allan as inquiry commissioner\". In September 2019, Vancouver-based Ecojustice issued a letter of warning of potential legal challenge to commissioner Allan asking for a response within 30 days. On July 27, 2020, Ecojustice requested that the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta stop the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns until the court gave its ruling on their November judicial review application. The University of Calgary's Martin Olszynski and Shaun Fluker from the Faculty of Law, raised concerns about the Alberta Inquiry \"from the perspective of the rule of law and procedural fairness.\" Their colleagues said that the Inquiry could unjustifiably violate the \"freedom of expression of the Canadian organizations it is aimed at as well as those associated with"}, {"text": "such organizations, including their members and supporters.\" On June 25, Minister Savage announced that the deadline for the Public Inquiry's final report has been extended to October 30, 2020, from July 2 and that the Inquiry's budget has been increased from $2.5 million to $3.5 million. The added funds will be diverted from the Canadian Energy Centre's budget. Commissioner Allen provided inquiry participants with several reports funded and commissioned by the Public Inquiry and a reading list, which included \"False Alarm: How Climate Change Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Climate\" by Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg, and \"\" by Michael Shellenberger. Both Lomborg and Shellenberger are climate change denialists. The commissioned readings include a 133-page report by United Kingdom-based historian, Tammy Lynn Nemeth\u2014the \"Nemeth Report\", an Energy in Depth report entitled \"Foreign Funding Targeting Canada's Energy Sector\", and a background paper\u2014the \"Cooper Report\" by Barry Cooper, a University of Calgary political scientist professor and key member of the Friends of Science. Energy war room. In June 2019, Premier Kenney announced the creation of a Calgary-based $30 million 'war room' to \"fight misinformation related to oil and gas.\" In an October 9, 2019 press release, Minister Savage announced"}, {"text": "the appointment of former journalist and lobbyist Tom Olsen as CEO and managing director of the war room which will be called the Canadian Energy Centre Limited (CECL). The Canadian Energy Centre Limited is a private corporation, which means that it is not subject to Alberta's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP Act). Premier Kenney's press secretary Christine Myatt said that keeping CECL's internal operations secret is a \"tactical and/or strategic advantage to the very foreign-funded special interests the CEC is looking to counter.\" CEC's board of directors is composed of Minister Savage, Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, Doug Schweitzer, and Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment and Parks. The Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) was launched on December 11 by Premier Kenney, Minister Savage and Olsen at a press conference at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). The CEC will \"highlight achievements in Alberta's oil and gas sector\" and will \"refute what it deems to be misinformation about the industry.\" Kenney said the centre will \"counter misinformation\" \"coming from some environmental groups and others seeking to landlock Alberta's oil and gas\". On December 11, Olsen described the centre as a place to tell the story of"}, {"text": "the oil and gas industry in Alberta, which includes rebutting its critics respectfully. A December 14 \"Medicine Hat News\" opinion piece, that was critical of the CEC, said that the centre was not \"subject to freedom-of-information searches and could be used to stifle legitimate dissent and commentary on the oil and gas industry.\" In his December 18 rebuttal, Olson, who is a former \"Calgary Herald\" journalist, said that \"oversight\" of the CEC is \"rigorous\" and that the centre is subject to the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act, the Whistle Blowers Act and audits by Alberta's auditor general. Olsen said that \"campaigns to shut down new pipeline projects and damage the reputation of our oil and gas industry have received tens of millions of dollars from U.S. environmental foundations.\" This has resulted in the \"landlocking of Alberta energy\" which had resulted in the loss of jobs, \"tens of billions of dollars\" in capital, less money for public services, as well as \"lower value for their shareholders that include many of the country's biggest pension plans and investment funds.\" The CEC logo, which was unveiled at the launch, was also used in the December 11 promotional video, on the CEC's website, \"on"}, {"text": "the wall of its downtown Calgary office, and on signs\". By the evening of December 18, \"social media users\" on Twitter began to share side-by-side versions of the CEC logo and the \"trademarked symbol\" for Progress Software Corporation, the Massachusetts-headquartered \"software giant\"\u2014Progress Software, A December 19 Canadian Press report said that the icons were \"identical, stylized sharp-angled depictions of what appear to be radiating waves... the Progress one is emerald-green and the war room version is two shades of blue.\" According to a CP report, the Massachusetts-headquartered \"software giant\"\u2014Progress Software sent an email that morning saying that it was \"looking into whether Alberta's new energy war room has violated the company's trademarked logo.\" In a December 19 statement, the energy centre's CEO and managing director, Tom Olsen, said that the logo was pulled and was to be replaced. Olsen said that the \"design debacle\" \"mistake\" was an \"unfortunate situation\". He said that the CEC was in \"discussions\" with the marketing agency\u2014Lead & Anchor \"to determine how it happened\". The CEC had selected Lead & Anchor over eight other contractors proposed to the CEC by the Calgary marketing agency, Communo. Steven Lee, the founder of the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES)"}, {"text": "became the first to be \"scrutinized by the centre\". Lee was criticized in a December 10 post entitled \"Alberta father irked by charity group that targets fossil fuel industry\" that was posted on the newly launched CEC website. An irate parent was concerned about the presentation and the Three Percent Project handout given to his fifteen-year-old son at his Airdrie, Alberta school on December 5, 2019. Lee received a phone message from a caller saying, \"I'm a reporter with the Canadian Energy Centre. Our website is launching next week and we will be writing a story about the 3% Project, which has raised concerns among some parents who reached out to us following presentations at their children's schools.\" The 3% Project is a \"flagship project\" of FES, established by then-19-year-old Steve Lee in 2012. On June 25, 2020, Minister Savage announced that a million dollars would be transferred from the CEC's budget to that of the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns. In March 2021, the government-funded war room launched a petition against Netflix's Bigfoot Family, a cartoon for children because it was \"brainwashing our kids with anti-oil and gas propaganda.\" Kenney defended the petition, saying the cartoon attempts to"}, {"text": "\"defame, in the most vicious way possible, in the impressionable minds of kids, the largest industry in the province.\" University of Alberta's Andrew Leach, said the war room's \"quixotic crusade\" was \"mind-boggling\". Fair Deal panel. On November 9, 2019, in a speech at the Manning Centre in Red Deer, Premier Kenney announced the creation of a Fair Deal panel, to respond to the \"frustration, the anger, and even the fear felt by many Albertans and other Western Canadians, arising from our current circumstances within the Canadian federation.\" Panel member, Jason Goodstriker, who died in January 2020, had previously served as the Alberta Regional Chief for the Assembly of First Nations and was also a councillor with the Kainai Nation. On March 16, when the report was submitted there were eight members on the Panel\u2014Oryssia Lennie, a retired civil servant, who chaired the Panel, Preston Manning, former premier Peter Lougheed's son, Stephen Lougheed, former MLA Donna Kennedy-Glans, Moin Yahya, and UCP MLAs, Drew Barnes, Tany Yao, and Miranda Rosin. Equalization payments in Canada. Among other things, Kenney had demanded \"reforms to the equalization formula.\" \"CBC News\" reported on May 16 that the panel had submitted its final report. Kenney said that"}, {"text": "he would not release either the report or the province's response to the public, until \"the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is over.\" The 64-page report made 25 recommendations that would, if implemented remove some control from the federal government, which includes pushing for changes to the Fiscal Stabilization Program that respond to concerns that Albertans are now \"receiving a $2.4 billion equalization rebate.\" The panel advised the province to \"proceed with the proposed referendum on equalization,\" to replace the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in rural Alberta with a provincial police force, to create an Alberta Pension Plan to replace and withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan. An article in the \"Calgary Herald\" and in \"The Tyee\" said that these ideas were introduced in the Firewall Letter sent to then-premier Ralph Klein on January 24, 2001, from Stephen Harper, who was then president of the National Citizens Coalition at that time; University of Calgary professors\u2014Tom Flanagan, Ted Morton and Rainer Knopff; Andrew Crooks, then-chair of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation; and Ken Boessenkool, who had previously served as Stockwell Day's former policy adviser. A 2015 \"National Post\" article summarizes the Firewall Letter as a plea for Albertans to insulate themselves"}, {"text": "against an \"increasingly hostile government in Ottawa.\" Proposals in the letter included \"creating a provincial pension plan (like the QPP); a provincial police force (like the SQ or OPP); collecting its own provincial income tax (as Quebec does); forcing Senate reform back on to the national agenda; and taking over complete provincial responsibility for health care.\" Public sector wages. On June 20, 2019, the Public Sector Wage Arbitration Deferral Act (Bill 9)\u2014informally known as the \"bargaining rights bill was passed into law. Bill 9 was introduced by Minister Toews in order to \"suspend and delay\" hearings related to wage arbitration for public sector workers until after the MacKinnon panel report was submitted. is a bill, informally known as the \"bargaining rights bill\". The bill affected Alberta's 180,000 public service employees represented by unions in 24 collective agreements. United Nurses of Alberta (UNA). In January 2020, the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) started a collective bargaining process. On July 7, 2021, Finance Minister Toews said that Alberta Health Services was asking for a 3% salary rollback for nurses as part of the negotiation process. Toews said that the government \"The needs to \"bring wages in line with other large provinces\" as"}, {"text": "nurses in Alberta earn approximately 5.6% \"more on average than comparable provinces\". He said that, this \"does not diminish our deep respect for the exceptional work and dedication of public sector workers.\" The UNA negotiator said that, \"Every profession in Alberta is paid higher than comparator provinces \u2014 we used to call that the Alberta advantage.\" Corporate tax lowered. The Alberta government has set a goal of balancing the budget by 2022\u20132023. As part of Premier Kenney's \"main strategy to lure investment to the province, stimulate job growth, and resurrect the oilpatch\" promised during his electoral campaign in their April 2019 campaign platform \"Alberta Strong and Free,\" on June 28, 2019, the Job Creation Tax Cut (Alberta Corporate Tax Amendment) Act (Bill 3), introduced by Minister Toews, came into law. Bill 3 included further reductions in Alberta's corporate tax rate in four stages to lower the \"corporate tax rate for all businesses, from 12 to 8% by 2022-23\". The first cut from 12 to 11% came into effect on July 1. The second cut of 10% will come into effect in January 2020; a third decrease of 9% on January 1, 2021, and a fourth cut of 8% cut that"}, {"text": "come into effect on January 1, 2022. Toews repeated the campaign pledge when he announced Bill 13, saying that the \"cuts should create at least 55,000 jobs in Alberta\". As well the Alberta's revised tax rates \u2014will increase the province's \"international competitiveness\" as they will be lower than those of 44 out of 50 American states, according to Toews. According to an October 26, 2019 \"CBC News\" article, when Bill 3 \"came into effect on July 1, it gave Alberta the lowest corporate tax rate in Canada.\" Bill 3 \"formalizes\" one of the UCP's election promises. Several economists were cited by the UCP in their April 2019 Alberta Strong and Free Platform, including Jack Mintz, Bev Dahlby, and Aaron Stokes of Stokes Economics. Mintx said that the tax cuts would \"lead to the creation of at least 55,000 full-time private sector jobs\". Dahlby estimated that the cuts would \"generate a $12.7 billion increase in nominal GDP\", a \"6.5% increase in per capita real GDP\", and a \"$1.2 billion in additional government revenues by 2023-24.\" The Stokes analysis predicted the \"cut will result in $1 billion less net revenue for the province by 2022-23.\" On March 4, 2019, the UCP had"}, {"text": "announced their intention to cut corporate taxes by one third with a prediction of adding $13 billion to Alberta's economy. On January 1, 2021, the UCP's corporation tax will drop to 9% on New Year's Day 2021 and 8% in 2022, which would represent the \"lowest rate in Canada by a 30 per cent margin\". The UCP's Job Creation Tax Cut was intended to lead to the \"creation of at least 55,000 new jobs, according to economist Jack Mintz. Since 2009, the unemployment rate in Alberta hit its lowest point\u20144.3%\u2014in September 2013 and its highest\u20149.1%\u2014in November 2016. Alberta had experienced boom years in the energy sector starting in 2010, but this boom was followed by a \"long and deep\" recession that lasted from 2014 to 2017\u2014driven by both low commodity pricing globally and controversial political policies from both the Provincial and Federal Government. When the UCP government were elected in the spring of 2019, Alberta's economy was still in recovery. Overall, by July 2019, about 35,000 jobs had been lost in mining, oil and gas alone. Since 2014, sectors that offered high-wage employment of $30 and above, saw about 100,000 jobs disappear\u2014\"construction (down more than 45,000 jobs), mining, oil and"}, {"text": "gas (down nearly 35,000), and professional services (down 18,000),\" according to the economist, Trevor Tombe. In 2013, oil tax revenues brought in 9.58 billion, or 21% of the total Provincial budget, whereas in 2018 it had fallen to just 5.43 billion, or 11% of the Provincial budget. In 2013, the energy industry had provided 7.7% of all jobs in Alberta. In 2017, 140,300 jobs representing 6.1% of total employment of 2,286,900 in Alberta in 2017 was due to the energy industry. The unemployment rate in Alberta peaked in November 2016 at 9.1%. The unemployment rate in the spring of 2019 in Alberta was 6.7% with 21,000 jobs added in April. By July 2019, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate had increased to 7.0% and remained at about that level since then. By August 2019, the employment number in Alberta was 2,344,000, following the loss of 14,000 full-time jobs in July, which represented the \"largest decline\" in Canada according to Statistics Canada. According to Statistics Canada, in November, Alberta lost 18,000 jobs and the unemployment rate was 7.2%, \"with declines occurring in a number of industries, led by wholesale and retail trade. On a year-over-year basis, total employment in the province was"}, {"text": "little changed.\" As UCP popularity declined considerably by December 2019, the polling agency, ThinkHQ Public Affairs Inc., said that \"governments tend to get more blame for the economy when times are tough than they do credit when times are good.\" Economic Recovery Council (March\u2013June 2020). In March 2020, Premier Kenney created the twelve member Economic Recovery Council composed of policy and industry experts, to advise the government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy price crash. Jack M. Mintz chairs the twelve member committee. Council members include Clive Beddoe, who served as WestJet's CEO and who was co-founder of AIMco serving on its board from until 2013, AIMCo's CEO Kevin Uebelein, Robert Blakely, TorQuest Partners' Brent Belzberg, Mainstreet Equity Corporation's Bob Dhillon, Canadian Western Bank's Chris Fowler, Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada, Morgan Construction and Environmental's Peter Kiss, ATCO's Nancy Southern, ARC Financial's Mac Van Wielingen, and Zainul Mawji, who is on the executive board of Telus Corporation. As president of Telus Home Solutions, Mawji focused on increasing the market share in Canada's western provinces, and the Telus \"consumer health product line.\" The Council \"will also focus on strategies for long-term recovery from the"}, {"text": "crisis, including efforts to accelerate diversification of the Alberta economy.\" On June 29, 2020, when Premier Kenney outlined his plans for economic growth, he said that the Economic Recovery Council had \"urged the government to act quickly\" to get \"out of the economic slump caused by low oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic.\" The council told Kenney that, \"Now is the time to make a move, to get noticed...The fiscal crisis here will be completely insurmountable unless we get back to growth. For us, this is the key strategy to do so.\" The plan included infrastructure investment in \"highways, bridges and other projects\". It also eliminating most \"use of temporary foreign workers to ensure Albertans are first in line for jobs.\" The plan included lowering the corporate tax rate to 8% from 10% on July 1, instead of in 2023 as he had originally announced in 2019. Concerns were raised that the immediate implementation of the corporate tax cut to 8%, two years earlier instead of phasing it in over time, is a \"gift to firms that have already made investments and are earning profits on those investments\". It will not attract new job-creating businesses, as it is not \"new"}, {"text": "information for anybody in Bay Street plotting a big move of employees that would take years.\" Blue Ribbon Panel on Alberta's Finances. In August 2019, Janice MacKinnon's task force submitted the report commissioned by Premier Kenney, \"Report and Recommendations: Blue Ribbon Panel on Alberta's Finances\". According to \"Maclean's\", Premier Kenney had \"mandated\" that the panel \"figure out how to balance the provincial books without raising taxes.\" McKinnon, who was Saskatchewan's finance minister, found that \"Alberta spends more per person on its public sector, and compensates its teachers, doctors and other workers more generously, than other major provinces.\" The panel recommended that the post-secondary tuition freeze be lifted, and suggested \"various measures to slash health-care costs and government-wide program reviews.\" 2019 Budget. On October 24, 2019, Minister Toews announced the UCP's first provincial budget. \"The National Post\" said that it fulfilled their \"promise of slight austerity\" with \"cuts to spending programs and the elimination of hundreds of bureaucracy jobs\". \"The Post\" said that these and the corporate tax cuts \"were the key planks of a four-year plan to bring the budget into balance.\" The goal is to reduce government spending by $4-billion over four years. The 2019-20 budget will \"run a"}, {"text": "deficit of $8.7 billion\" which is approximately \"$2-billion higher than in 2018-19.\" \"The Post\" said that the changes in post-secondary education were \"significant\" with a 12-per-cent funding cut. and a reduction in \"government grants to post-secondary institutions\". Together that represents a $1.9 billion in cuts in post-secondary education. Post-secondary institutions will be allowed to increase tuition. The Alberta government has set a goal of balancing the budget by 2022\u20132023. The UCP's budget decision to de-index disability benefits met with outrage, according to \"The Star\". Many people were \"vocal about their disdain surrounding the UCP's decision to reverse the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH)\u2019s tie to inflation\", including Arlene Dickinson, formerly with the \"Dragon's Den\". There are currently approximately 70,000 Albertans who receive AISH. On October 28, the Minister Toews introduced Bill 20, an omnibus bill which included a clause through which the government of Alberta could withdraw the $1.53-billion grant it had promised for Calgary's Green Line \"with just 90 days' notice and without cause.\" Minister Toews introduced a second omnibus bill, Bill 21, on October 28, as part of his budget that allows the provincial government to \"cancel its master agreement with doctors if the two sides"}, {"text": "can't negotiate a new deal.\" In an October 30 open letter to all members of the Alberta Medical Association, Dr. Christine Molnar, AMA director, said that the \"bill effectively gives government the power of pre-approval to cancel any physician services agreement without recourse. This is a violation of the sanctity of contracts.\" The bill would also give the government control over where new doctors can work starting in March 2022, in order to provide better service to rural areas. According to an October 31, 2019 \"CBC News\" article, the UCP is \"working off\" August 2019, Janice MacKinnon's August 2019 \"Report and Recommendations: Blue Ribbon Panel on Alberta's Finances\". 2020 Budget. Minister Toews tabled the UCP's second provincial budget on February 27, 2020. Toews said that the $CDN56.8 billion budget is based on an \"anticipated 38 per cent increase in energy royalties.\" The increased energy royalties depends heavily on the success of the UCP's corporate tax rate cuts to spur revenue growth through an infusion of capital from private investment and the resulting expansion in both \"oil production and pipeline capacity.\" The only other revenue streams in this budget are \"a vaping tax and the extension of a tourism levy on"}, {"text": "short-term rentals.\" David Taras, a political scientist from Mount Royal University said that this budget signaled that the UCP was \"not blinking\"\u2014They are \"sticking with [their game plan] the \"policy of cuts and deficit reduction in the face of what appears to be a province that's bleeding jobs.\" The budget included a proposed 10-year strategy intended to increase tourism spending to $20 billion by 2030, which a Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism spokesperson said was \"ambitious but reasonable\". \"Only $45 million of the overall ministry budget is [currently] dedicated to tourism\" and millions were cut from the tourism budget in this and previous budgets. The Tourism Industry Association of Alberta chair said that this \"audacious\" plan does not \"reflect\" the \"conversations\" held during the \"pre-budget planning sessions\" the government had with \"hundreds of industry professionals\" in Calgary and Edmonton to \"discuss recommendations with the government on how to boost the tourism industry.\" Province-wide, the budget cut $53 million from 2020 through 2023, from affordable housing maintenance. The budget increases homeowners' education property taxes by 3.1% in 2020\u20132021, which the government predicts will add revenue of \"$102 million to a total of $2.6 billion.\" Operational funding of $8.2 billion"}, {"text": "for kindergarten to Grade 12 education will remain at 2019 levels, in spite of population growth and inflation. The $20.6 billion budgeted for health received the same criticism from the Opposition party. In their February 28, 2020 report, Moody's Investors Service said that the 2020 budget was credit neutral. According to Moody's, the UCP fiscal plan is subject to \"significant uncertainties, driven by weak resource sector investments and pipeline projects which are subject to regulatory, political, and other types of delays, much of which is beyond the control of the government.\" By April 7, 2020, a combination of interconnected unprecedented global events\u2014including the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the COVID-19 recession, the 2020 stock market crash, and the 2020 Russia\u2013Saudi Arabia oil price war and the resulting \"collapse in oil prices\", represent, what Premier Kenney described as \"the greatest challenge\" in Alberta's \"modern history, threatening its main industry and wreaking havoc on its finances.\" Alberta's credit rating. On December 3, 2019, Moody's downgraded Alberta's credit rating from Aa2 stable from Aa1 negative. According to Mount Royal University's political science professor, Duane Bratt, factors influencing the downgrade include the UCP's budget plan that led to an increase in the deficit and concerns about"}, {"text": "labour unrest with thousands of public sector jobs set to be eliminated. Moody's report said that Alberta's economy's \"structural weakness\" lies in its concentration and dependency on non-renewable resources (NNRs) combined with a \"lack of sufficient pipeline capacity to transport oil efficiently,\" \"no near-term expectation of a significant rebound in oil-related investments,\" and \"revenue pressures related to UCP cuts to corporate tax rates.\" Minister Toews blamed the downgrade on the NDP's tenure, during which the province had also experienced a credit rating downgrade, from its very high credit rating of AAA to Aa1. Premier Kenney said in an interview that \" financial institutions \u2014 and this apparently includes Moody's \u2014 are buying into the political agenda emanating from Europe, which is trying to stigmatize development of hydrocarbon energy.\" The October 9, 2020 Moody's Investor Service report downgraded Alberta's credit rating to Aa3 (stable) reflecting \"outsized deficits\" resulting from the \"dual impact of continued low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic\". Strengths included its \"supportive institutional framework including ongoing and extraordinary federal transfers\", which Moody's expects will increase to represent 20-25% of Alberta's total revenues in 2021 and 2022. With Premier Kenney's June 29, 2020 announcement of the accelerated decrease in"}, {"text": "the corporate tax rate, Finance Minister Toews said that the cuts and \"financial supports could jeopardize\" Alberta's credit rating. Towes said that the estimated cost of the tax cut would range from $200 million to $300 million in FY 2020 and $100 million and $200 million in FY2021. Canada's credit rating was downgraded from AAA by Fitch, which is one of the three largest credit agencies in the United States. On June 30, 2020, Fitch downgrading Alberta's Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR), Long-Term Local Currency IDR, and Senior unsecured bonds from 'AA' to 'AA\u2212'. Fitch also affirmed that Alberta's Short-Term IDR is 'F1+.' As well, Alberta's Rating Outlook on the long-term ratings was revised from Stable to Negative. The ratings consider Alberta's stimulus plan which was announced on June 30 which included the \"acceleration of certain capital projects\" without giving \"details on plan impacts to revenues, expenditures and debt issuance.\" The higher risk rating was also informed by the lack of \"formally detailed current fiscal challenges\" and \"firm details on a path toward an eventual recovery\", which could lead to \"further deterioration in credit quality.\" Ministry of Energy. Sonya Savage, whose background in energy and the environment includes"}, {"text": "major projects, such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines and with her work as an executive of Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), was appointed Minister of Energy on April 30, 2019. She is tasked with overhauling the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER)\u2014one of the UCP's campaign promises with the aim of implementing \"shorter timelines for project approvals.\" On April 30, the UCP proclaimed Bill 12 which gives \"Alberta the power to restrict oil and gas exports to British Columbia. According to the \"Calgary Herald\", this \"could provoke a quick court challenge\" the Premier of British Columbia, John Horgan. On April 30, Premier Kenney \"pragmatically backed away\" from the campaign promise to \"remove the 100-megatonne cap on oilsands emissions.\" According to the \"Calgary Herald\", Bill C-48 regarding an \"oil tanker ban off the northern coast of British Columbia\" threatened the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines project that Savage had worked on. She was also involved in \"CEPA's examination of Bill C-69, Ottawa's overhaul of how major energy projects \u2014 including oil and gas pipelines \u2014 are reviewed by the federal government.\" In February 2019, the previous government signed a crude-by-rail program agreement with two railway companies\u2014and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Canadian"}, {"text": "National Railway (CNR) with a goal of reducing the Western Canadian Select price discount that has been exacerbated by the \"lack of pipeline capacity\". Through the four-year, $3.7-billion agreement the \"province would have purchased and shipped 120,000 barrels of crude a day.\" The NDP had estimated that the program would have generated \"revenue of $6-billion\", according to \"The Globe and Mail\". The Kenney government cancelled the agreement shortly after taking office because the \"financial risks were too high\". By the end of October 2019 Minister Savage was in ongoing negotiations with the railways related to the \"number and complexity of the contracts.\" In November, 2019 Premier Kenney visited Texas in a four-day trip to create more investment in Alberta's oil and gas industry. A \"The Globe and Mail\" article said, \"A single talisman has defined Jason Kenney's time as premier of Alberta: oil.\" Kenney campaigned on supporting the oil and gas industries and expanding the pipeline system. By 2018, \"chronic pipeline bottlenecks\" and as a result \"industry and governments millions of dollars a day in lost revenue.\" Following the December 2 announcement of mandatory oil production cut backs in Alberta, the price of WCS rose to c.US$26.65 a barrel. The"}, {"text": "differential between Western Canadian Select\u2014the benchmark price for Alberta heavy crude\u2014and West Texas Intermediate (WTI)\u2014which had averaged at US$17 for the decade from 2008 to 2018\u2014widened to a record of around US$50, and the price of WCS plummeted to US$5.90. In response, the NDP government under then-Premier Rachel Notley, had set temporary mandatory production limits which resulted in the price of WCS rose to c.US$26.65 a barrel. On March 24, 2020, as the price of oil plunged more than 5%, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced a program to help the oil industry which would include a \"backstop for banks that lend to the energy sector.\" The price of oil of WCS collapsed and descended to negative pricing by April 19, 2020. From June 2020 to June 2021, the price of WCS increased by $USD40 a barrel to $USD54.78. According to economist Trevor Tombe in June 2021, the unexpected increase in the price of oil \"alone could lead to five or six billion dollars in additional revenue\" for the Alberta\" to alleviate some of the pressure of the projected $18-billion deficit which is projected. Tombe said that \"Each day that oil prices remain at their current level that's worth somewhere"}, {"text": "between $10 million to $15 million to the Alberta budget.\" TC Energy Keystone XL. By March 31, 2020, the \"federal government had already bought Trans Mountain\" and was \"committed to getting it built\" and Enbridge's Line 3 was making progress. In what Kenney described as a \"bold move to retake control of our province's economic destiny\", the province agreed to help finance the construction of TC Energy's Keystone XL oil sands pipeline in southern Alberta, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska with \"agreements for the transport of 575,000 barrels of oil daily\". \"The New York Times\" reported that \"[d]espite plunging oil prices\" in March\", Kenney said the \"province's resource-dependent economy could not afford for Keystone XL to be delayed until after the coronavirus pandemic and a global economic downturn have passed.\" Alberta \"has agreed to invest approximately $1.1 billion US as equity in the project, which substantially covers planned construction costs through the end of 2020. The remaining $6.9 billion US is expected to be funded through a combination of a $4.2-billion project-level credit facility to be fully guaranteed by the Alberta government and a $2.7-billion investment by TC Energy.\" Kenney has said that the Keystone XL will create \"1,400 direct"}, {"text": "and 5,400 indirect jobs in Alberta during construction and will reap an estimated $30 billion in tax and royalty revenues for both Alberta and Canada over the next twenty years. TC Energy \"expects to buy back the Alberta government's investment and refinance the $4.2 billion loan\" when the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) pipeline is operational starting in 2023. Keystone XL will add up to 830,000 bpd from Western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska. From there it connects to \"other pipelines that feed oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.\" According to the Canadian Energy Regulator, in 2018, Alberta produced 3.91 million bpd of crude oil, which represents 82% of the total production in Canada. According to a March 31, 2020 article in \"The New York Times\", because of Kenney, Russ Girling, TC Energy CEO, announced that construction of its $8-billion US Keystone XL oil sands pipeline's Canada-United States border crossing, in rural northeast Montana, would begin in April in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerns were raised by the office of the Montana's Governor, Steve Bullock about the added strain on \"rural health resources during the coronavirus pandemic\", with the arrival of a hundred or more pipeline construction workers in rural Montana."}, {"text": "At the time of the announcement northeastern Montana had only one confirmed COVID-19 case. In a May 20 interview on the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors (CAODC) podcast, Minister Savage told the podcast host, John Bavil, that Green party leader, Elizabeth May's May 6 comment that \"oil is dead\" was not \"gaining resonance with ordinary Canadians\" because Canadians need oil. \"Canadians are just trying to get by.\" Savage added that Canadians were \"not going to have tolerance and patience for protests that get in the way of people working\", and that the \"economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic favours pipeline construction\", according to Canadian Press journalist, Bob Weber. Savage told Bavil that \"Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can't have protests of more than 15 people...Let's get it built.\" The comment received wide media coverage. On June 9, 2021, TC Energy announced the termination of the US$9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project. U.S. President Joe Biden had \"revoked a key permit\" that was crucial to the pipeline. The \"Financial Post\" reported on July 7, 2021, that Premier Kenney intends to join TC Energy in their $15 billion North American Free Trade Agreement"}, {"text": "(NAFTA) Chapter 11 claim against the US over the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, \"to recover damages resulting from the revocation of the Keystone XL project's presidential permit.\" The \"Post\" said that this \"would be the first time a level of government is directly involved in a NAFTA dispute as an investor.\" Citing an international trade lawyer, the article said that \"these types of cases generally drag on for years\". The legal challenge is \"daunting\"; the \"United States has never lost a Chapter 11 free trade case...It will be a long, expensive and challenged by the unlimited resources of the United States government.\" A law professor interviewed by the Post said that Alberta's claim is \"unclear\" since the province only became an investor in early 2020. Claims are baed on the period in which you were an investor. Orphan wells. As part of Government of Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan, the federal government announced on May 1, 2020, that up to $1.72 billion will go to the governments of Alberta and the Alberta Orphan Well Association\u2014as well as Saskatchewan and British Columbia\u2014to \"clean up\" orphan wells and \"inactive oil and gas infrastructure\". According to the Alberta provincial government, Alberta's"}, {"text": "Site Rehabilitation Program \"will access up to $1 billion\" of the federal government's COVID-19 Plan. By May 20, Alberta had already received 24, 000 applications. Grassy Mountain coal project. Premier Kenney rescinded the 1976 Coal Policy on June 1, 2020, and lifted restrictions on coal mining exploration and development on large areas of environmentally sensitive land. The Grassy Mountain Coal Project was a 2,800-hectare mountain top removal open-pit metallurgical coal mine in Rocky Mountains' Crowsnest Pass in southern Alberta, proposed by a large Australian mining company\u2014Benga Mining Limited (Benga)\u2014in 2014. The project's critics, including well-known country singers Corb Lund and Paul Brandt, said that it threatened the region's watersheds with selenium poisoning. Opponents of the Grassy Mountain project included local ranchers, some of whom began a \"Save Our Mountains\" campaign and formed the Livingstone Landowners Group. The Group commissioned a comprehensive report by land use ecologist Brad Stelfoxon and five other scientists, to \"model the impacts of proposed projects on water security in an arid county.\" The report found that \"even limited coking coal mining would create intractable problems with water quality and quantity, including selenium contamination.\" In a June 17, 2021 joint statement, Ministers Savage and Nixon acknowledged acceptance"}, {"text": "of the recommendations of the federal-provincial Joint Review Panel, which had denied approval of the Grassy Mountain coal project. Sturgeon Refinery. According to a July 6, 2021 announcement by Kenney, the government of Alberta has acquired North West Redwater Partnership's equity stake in the \"over-budget and behind-schedule\" $10-billion Sturgeon Refinery, an crude oil upgrader in Sturgeon County northeast of Edmonton, representing 50% of the $10-billion project, with the other 50% owned by Canadian Natural Resources. The province is now a co-owner with Canadian Natural Resources, which also owns 50% of the refinery. Ministry of Justice. In February 2020, against the backdrop of anti-pipeline rail blockades, Teck Resources \"withdrew its application to build the $20-billion Frontier oilsands mine in Alberta. In response, on February 25, Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer announced the tabling of the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (Bill 1), which will \"impose stiff new penalties for anyone who purposefully blocks critical infrastructure including railways and roadways.\" The Bill was in its 3rd reading in May 2020. By mid-June opposition to the legislation \"continued to grow\". This included an \"online petition to withdraw the legislation\" with 350,000 signatures. Some University of Calgary law professors critiqued Bill 1, saying that it"}, {"text": "violated freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association, the \"right to liberty, and the right to equality\". On April 29, 2020, Minister Schweitzer \"rescinded the appointments of seven public members\" of the Provincial Court Nominating Committee (PCNC)\u2014a committee that vets court judges in Alberta. Currently, Alberta's PCNC is composed of \"eight government appointees and three ex-officio members\". Schweitzer appointed Leighton Grey, Harvey Cenaiko, Pat Nelson, Christa Nicholson, and David Ross to a three-year term, to replace Mona Duckett, as well as Lise Gotell, Anne Wilson, Kanchana Fernando, and Linda Many Guns, who had been appointed by Kathleen Ganley, the former NDP justice minister, to diversify the PCNC, according to the CBC. Leighton Grey resigned from the PCNC in June 2020, after a CBC investigation revealed his \"recent comparison of a future COVID-19 vaccine to Auschwitz tattoos and posting of a video that called Black Lives Matter a \"leftist lie\" controlled by a Jewish philanthropist.\" Minister Schweitzer defended Grey, saying that PCNC members were \"not required to surrender their right to personal views\". In a CBC interview, the chair of Alberta's Edmonton-based Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association raised concerns about the lack of \"adequate background checks\", and screening candidates for PCNC membership. Kaycee"}, {"text": "Madu, who was named as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Alberta on August 25, 2020, said in a statement in early October, that according to the Fair Deal Panel, Albertans want a provincial police to replace the RCMP. Madu added that the establishment of a provincial police force would also limit \"Ottawa's reach into the province,\" which aligns with the UCP's \"firewall\" policy. In response to the recommendation of the Fair Deal Panel, the UCP administration hired the consulting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to undertake a C$2 million feasibility study of a potential transition towards a provincial police force. An October 2 statement issued by the RCMP's Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki, in response to the study, said that Alberta has 4,500 RCMP employees who work in the province and \"proudly call\" Alberta their home. Kathleen Ganley, New Democratic Party (NDP) justice critic, acknowledged that while there were possible merits to the proposal, she was surprised by the timing, questioning why the UCP was \"pushing ahead during a pandemic.\" The deficit is on track to reach a \"record-setting $24-billion\" and \"public services are under strain\". A Mount Royal University professor estimated that it would cost approximately C$110 million annually and that"}, {"text": "unlike the current system with the federal government paying 30%, the provincial government would be responsible for paying the expenses of a provincial police force as well as maintaining vehicles, building, and equipment. Energy minister Sonya Savage assumed Madu's position in an acting capacity in January 2022, during Madu's leave of absence. Premier Kenney placed Madu on leave from his cabinet position pending the conclusion of a probe into Madu's phone call to the Edmonton police chief regarding Madu's his 2021 traffic ticket. Ministry of Education. In November 2019, the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) announced it would be cutting the positions of hundreds of teachers following the UCP 2019 cuts to the education funding in the UCP's fall budget, In response, Alberta's Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said she would launch an \"independent financial audit\" as well as a \"governance review\" of the CBE. LaGrange said that the CBE had used taxpayer dollars recklessly. She said that the \"audit and governance review will give government a path forward on helping the CBE prioritize the classroom and find efficiencies elsewhere in its operations.\" In early December LaGrange \"provided a \"one-time exception\" on the annual $15 million \"maintenance renewal funding\" to the"}, {"text": "Alberta Board of Education. This allows school boards to use the funds to reverse the layoffs of 317 temporary teachers. On June 13, 2020 Demetrios Nicolaides, Alberta's Advanced Education Minister, announced that McKinsey & Company\u2014an American consulting firm headquartered in New York with an office in Calgary\u2014has been commissioned to undertake a $3.7-million comprehensive review of the province's education system, including Alberta's \"network of 26 institutions\". Based on their findings, there could be \"substantial changes starting in 2021\". Ministry of Environment and Parks. On March 3, 2020, the Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon said that the province could not \"continue to spend $86 million of Albertans' tax dollars\" on the \"province's parks, recreation areas and other protected areas\"\u2014areas that bring in only $36 million. An Alberta Parks March 5 statement entitled, \"Optimizing Alberta Parks\", listed changes that would come into effect in 2020 as part of a cost-saving initiative. The UCP government would \"fully or partially close\" \"20 provincial parks\" and was \"planning to hand over 164 others to third-party managers\". The \"Canadian Press\" said that this represents \"more than one-third of all the province's parks, recreation areas and other protected areas.\" The statement included the possibly of"}, {"text": "selling Crown land. In response to concerns, Nixon said in a March 5 \"Calgary Herald\" interview, \"We are not selling any Crown or public land \u2014 period.\" According to a March 17 \"Global News\" article, the province listed a 65-hectare plot of land east of Taber in a March 31 auction with a starting bid of $440,000. According to documents released under the freedom of information legislation at the end of July 2020, Minister Nixon had been advised by \"his most senior staffers\" that prior to closing parks, he should have at least \"two rounds of consultation\". Nixon's office and communications told staff that \"there would be no public input for changes\" he was \"planning for Alberta parks.\" Ministry for Economic Development, Trade and Tourism. By April 7, 2020, the Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism Tanya Fir, said that the technology sector would be \"a key part of diversifying Alberta's economy.\" Fir is reviewing recommendations in a report by an Innovation Capital Working Group, a working group of \"tech sector, academic and business leaders\" created by the province in December 2019, to \"develop ways\" to support and grow Alberta's tech sector. The UCP eliminated The Interactive Digital Media"}, {"text": "Tax Credit, the Capital Investment Tax Credit, and the Alberta Investor Tax Credit, which had provided a \"30 per cent tax credit to investors who put money into specific industries such as clean technology and digital animation.\" Trent Johnsen, a veteran member of Alberta's tech sector, who has been involved with Innovate Calgary among others, said that Alberta was \"betting exclusively on oil and gas. What is Alberta doing to become a successful player in the 21st century of the new economy?\" Ministry of Finance. The \"Boards and Commissions and Government Enterprises Act\", which was part of the November 2019 UCP budget Bill 22, presented by Finance Minister, Travis Toews, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) became the \"investment manager of all public sector pensions\". Bill 22 added the Alberta Teachers' Retirement Fund (ATRF) assets to other pension plans already managed by AIMCo. On January 4, 2021, Alberta Teachers' Retirement Fund (ATRF) was notified that Minister Toews had granted AIMCo veto power in negotiations towards an investment management agreement that began a year ago between the ATRF and AIMCo. In November 2019, Minister Toews said that AIMCo had \"provided an annual return of 9.9% on Albertans' investments\" in the decade ending"}, {"text": "in 2019. By April 2020, AIMCo was managing about \"$119-billion on behalf of 375,000 members of provincial public retirement programs as well as public accounts such as the province's $18-billion Heritage Savings Trust Fund.\" According to an April 21, 2020 \"Globe and Mail\" article, AIMCo lost over $4-billion during the coronavirus pandemic, by investing in stocks that were dependent on a stable market. This represents over a \"third of AIMCo's 2019 net investment income of $11.5-billion.\" On June 29, 2020, Premier Kenney and Minister Toews announced what Kenney called the \"largest infrastructure build in Alberta history,\" representing spending of $10 billion on job-creating projects, including \"health-care facilities, pipelines, schools, drug treatment centres\" and more. Under minister Toews, who resigned on May 31 to run for the leadership of the UCP, the UCP was heavily criticized for its lack of accounting in the 2019 and 2022 Office of the Auditor General (OAG) reports. In the \"Alberta Treasury Board and Finance Fiscal 2021 Annual Reporting of COVID-19 Initiatives\", which was released on June 29, the OAG examined the 20 ministry annual reports with a focus on \"analysis and financial information\". Ministry of Jobs, Economy and Innovation. In April 2022, Minister Schweitzer promised"}, {"text": "that the province would invest $66 million in the tourism sector. On May 4 Schweitzer pledged a $3.4 million annual investment in artificial intelligence project. Alberta's unemployment rate was 5.9% in April compared to 5.8% in 2015. In April the province added 9,800 full-time and 6,100 part-time positions. Of the positions added 11,000 were in trades, 4,500 jobs in health care, 3,000 in education, 3,000 in transport and warehousing. Of the positions lost in April, building and other supports lost 4,000 positions, other services lost 4,000, and the information, culture and recreation sector lost 2,000 positions. By May 2022, unemployment rates in Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake census region were slowly decreasing with 300 more full-time jobs and 700 more part-time jobs filled in April compared to March 2022. Of these added positions, 400 were in retail and construction, 200 in health care, 200 in transportation, 200 in warehousing, 100 in financial services, 100 in real estate and 100 in insurance. Of the lost positions, 400 were in the oil industry however, 200 in public administration, 100 in business and support services. Schweitzer said that more work is needed to increase employment. The Alberta at Work program has received $600 million from"}, {"text": "the province. Kathleen Ganley, the NDP Energy Critic, said that the province has not created a \"single job\" in the oil and gas sector. Ganley noted that while job numbers are slowing improving, wages are not keeping up with inflation and \"income taxes, property taxes, tuition, auto insurance, and utilities\" have all increased under the UCP. When Schweitzer laid off Ariella Kimmel who had served as his chief of staff at the Department of Jobs, Economy and Innovation when he was minister, he said he had no complaints about her work but he had wanted someone else in that senior position. Kimmel filed a wrongful dismissal lawsuit in 2021, in which she alleged that she had been harassed, then fired when she raised concerns that another employee had been sexually harassed by a \"senior government staffer\". Ministry of Health. Termination of master agreement with AMA (February 20, 2020). On February 20, Tyler Shandro, Alberta's Minister of Health announced that he was ending the province's long-standing master agreement with Alberta's physicians. The new rules, which include \"new fee rules on extended patient visits that doctors\", came into effect on March 30. On April 9, the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) filed a"}, {"text": "lawsuit against the Ministry of Health citing the unilateral termination of the long-standing master agreement with the Alberta government, the \"government's conduct during negotiations\", and Bill 21 as \"some of the reasons for filing the claim\". At the time of the announcement, doctors were concerned that these rules would make it unsustainable for some clinic in rural Alberta to remain in practice. Shandro said that ending the master agreement was \"difficult but necessary\" because of the need to cut costs in the \"$20.6-billion health system\". According to a survey of 300 doctors in Alberta, by July, 44 rural communities would be \"directly affected by recent government changes to the way physicians can bill for services\". By April 21, Sundre, Stettler and Lac La Biche had \"already been informed some of their doctors will be withdrawing emergency and obstetric services in hospitals.\" Although Minister Shandro first responded to concerns that doctors would leave rural Alberta, by promising to quickly replace them, by April 20, Shandro's press secretary acknowledged that rural communities \"face long-standing challenges in recruiting and retaining physicians\" and announced that they were \"preparing to announce changes to support rural physicians very soon.\" Babylon. In early March Minister Shandro announced"}, {"text": "an amendment to the billing code for doctors in the province, capping their fees at \"$20 a call to provide COVID-19 telephone advice to patients.\" With physical distancing COVID-19 protocols in place, Alberta's physicians had been asking Minister Shandro to make it easier for them to provide care for their own patients virtually. On March 16, Minister Shandro announced that the provincial government had \"signed an agreement\" with Telus Health, \"a new virtual health care support, called the TELUS Health Babylon app\u2014a private initiative. At that time, Alberta doctors expressed shock and dismay that the UCP government had brought in Babylon, a private initiative by Telus Health. In a March 21 interview with \"Postmedia\", Alberta Medical Association President, Christine Molnar, said \"Physicians are under extreme strain. Not only have doctors had their master agreement terminated by the province and face changes to the way they are supported financially and can provide services but they also don't have a billing code implemented that allows them to provide virtual care in their offices...On top of all that, they are facing possible \u2014 actually, certain exposure directly to a deadly virus...Physicians are feeling devalued, disenfranchised and unsupported.\" On April 21, Alberta's Information and"}, {"text": "Privacy Commissioner, Jill Clayton, announced that her office was \"launching two investigations\" into the controversial Babylon app by Telus Health.\" Concerns about \"privacy compliance\" had emerged following the Commissioner's review of a May 2019 privacy impact assessments (PIA) submitted by Babylon Health Canada Limited and the second PIA submitted by a Calgary-area physician. Minister Shandro welcomed the review. The Telus Babylon app was launched before Minister Shandro even requested that Clayton review the app service to ensure the privacy of Albertans was respected. At the time of its launch, doctors providing virtual services through the Telus Babylon app were receiving higher payments that Alberta doctors. Bill 46 and Netcare. In November 2020, Minister Shandro introduced Bill 46, an omnibus bill that amends the Health Information Act, among other legislation. Bill 46 would put his office in charge of Netcare access. Concerns were raised about increasing the number of people who have access to Netcare\u2014the electronic health records of all Albertans. In November, when Minister Shandro again neglected to consult the Office of the Privacy Commissioner before introducing major changes through added to the Health Information Act, Clayton, who oversees the Act, expressed \"shock\" to learn of the proposed clauses to"}, {"text": "the Act only on the morning that the changes were made public. Alberta's Insulin Pump Therapy Program. In May 2022, the cancellation of Alberta's Insulin Pump Therapy Program, which provides about the 4,000 Albertans with Type A diabetes with expensive and life-saving insulin pumps, was announced. The program will end in August 2022. Minister of Labour and Immigration. In May 2019, the UCP government created a two-tier minimum wage which allowed businesses to pay teen students $13 an hour starting on June 26, 2019, which Kenney had promised in March as part of his election campaign. In response to a UCP campaign pledge that questioned the hike in the minimum wage from \"$10.20 in 2015 to $15 in 2018\" under the NDP government, the Minister of Labour and Immigration, Jason Copping created a 9-person panel led by Joseph Marchand, a University of Alberta economist, to review minimum wage in August 2019. Critics questioned the number of panelists from industries that would benefit from having a lower minimum wage, and the presence of one waiter on the panel who was related to one of the restaurant owner panelists. Minister of Community and Social Services (CSS). According to a September 12 \"Calgary"}, {"text": "Herald\" based on a \"Postmedia\" report, a senior source within the CSS department\u2014who spoke on the \"condition of anonymity\"\u2014confirmed that there was a \"push to potentially make some cuts\u201d to Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH), that 69,785 depend on. The source said that the cuts would \"not be minor\"\u2014they would be \"significant.\" In response to the report, on the afternoon of September 11, 2020, Rajan Sawhney, Minister of Community and Social Services, posted a statement on her Facebook account, saying that \"there have been no changes to program eligibility, benefits, or program funding\" to the AISH program. The next morning, September 12, 2020, on Facebook, she addressed \"those of you who have had a sleepless night, due to the stress of yesterday's news\", saying \"let me provide you with some reassurance... let me state definitively that there will be no cuts to AISH financial benefits.\" The UCP's decision to de-index AISH benefits announced in the 2019 budget was poorly received in October 2019. Infrastructure. On June 1, 2020, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that the federal government will advance the 2020-21 federal Gas Tax Fund in a single payment of $2.2 billion in June to \"3,600 communities across Canada\","}, {"text": "instead of spreading the payment over the year, to help cities \"cover COVID-19-prompted budget shortfalls.\" Alberta municipalities responded that this is not enough, and they wrote to Premier Kenney \"asking the province to work with Ottawa to find emergency funding.\" On June 19, Premier Kenney and Transportation Minister Ric McIver announced that the province will \"spend another $200 million on municipal infrastructure projects\", earmarked for \"local transportation infrastructure and waterworks projects.\" It is anticipated that this will create \"thousands of jobs\". Technical and Corporate Services. Issues Manager. The Kenney administration created a new position entitled issues manager, reporting to the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Technical and Corporate Services. The issues manager identifies and manages both \"strategic and operational issues\" based on the UCP's \"policies, procedures and processes\". In August 2019, Premier Kenney hired Matt Wolf as issues manager, a position he had held during the premiership of then Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper. Wolf had previously worked for the UCP as chief of staff. Wolf also worked in the private sector for Sun News Network from 2011 to 2015. Matt was implicated in the so-called 2017 \"kamikaze\" campaign against Brian Jean but has denied any wrongdoing. In March"}, {"text": "2019, just prior to the provincial election, the \"Edmonton Journal\" had revealed internal emails that showed collaboration between Wolf and Jeff Callaway's campaign, through Cameron Davies, Callaway's co-campaign manager. The leaked documents included regular communication between Davies and Wolf discussing \"ads and memes, research, timelines of ad drops, strategy tips\" \"talking points\", \"speaking notes, message planning, graphics and videos\". Lorne Gibson, then Alberta's elections commissioner, had investigated Callaway's campaign in which he had allegedly served as a \"kamikaze\" candidate for Kenney. By November 2019, just after Gibson had handed out 15 fines against 15 people totalling C$207,223, which included a C$15,000 levied against Davies, Gibson's position as commissioner was eliminated by the UCP administration. The RCMP has continued its investigation. In April 2020, Kenney and other UCP members were cleared in an ethics probe. The Ethics commissioner wrote in her report that \"it appears Matt Wolf, a senior staff member in the premier's office, may have been involved in some \"questionable political shenanigans\" but said there is no evidence to suggest the premier knew about them.\" By October 28, 2020, the 2017 UCP leadership race was still under investigation by Alberta's election commissioner and the RCMP. Office of the Ethics"}, {"text": "Commissioner. Ethics Commissioner, Marguerite Trussler, cleared Premier Kenney and UCP staff in a conflict of interest investigation against Premier Kenney, Doug Schweitzer, Jason Nixon and others, over the firing of Lorne Gibson, Alberta's election commissioner in November. Response to COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Premier Kenney declared a state of emergency on March 17, which gives the province or the provincial health authority the right to \"acquire or use property, require a qualified person to help out, authorize the conscription of people needed or authorize the entry into buildings or onto land without a warrant\" under the Public Health Act. Although the order may lapse after 30 days, it can be renewed. Ontario and British Columbia also declared a state of emergency as the number of cases increased. By March 17, there were 23 new cases representing the \"largest day-over-day increase yet in the province\" resulting in total of 97 people in Alberta with the virus. Confirmed cases across the province include 20 in the Calgary zone, 20 in the Edmonton zone, 3 in the Central zone, 1 in the South zone, and 3 in the North zone. Premier Kenney set out the UCP government's"}, {"text": "COVID-19 strategy to Albertans in his April 7 address from the Cabinet room in the Legislature\u2014\"Protecting lives and livelihoods\". In a call for unity, he cited former American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the architect of 1933 New Deal: \"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of (our) unity.\" He cited Preston Manning, \"In a fierce prairie storm, he said, cattle often get spooked, turn tail, and try to run from it, getting separated and lost. But the buffalo, which Indigenous people have always revered as a symbol of life on the prairies, herd closely together and face the storm head on, coming out of it strong and united.\" On July 21, 2020, Education Minister, Adriana LaGrange and Premier Kenney announced that schools \"will open in September at near-normal operations with protections in place to limit the spread of the virus, including extra cleaning, hand sanitization and reorganizing classrooms to allow for more space.\" On July 24, 2020, Premier Kenney retweeted that he found Danielle Smith's \"Calgary Herald\" opinion piece entitled \"Let's get kids back to class and protect those really at risk\", an interesting"}, {"text": "perspective. In a November 10, 2020 podcast interview with Cory Morgan, Premier Kenney said that in terms of stringency of response to the pandemic, if Sweden is 1 on 10 and Australia is 10, Alberta is 3, which is the \"sweet spot\". Premier Kenney went into isolation on November 12 after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. In a November 15 interview and in the Morgan podcast, Kenney described his approach as one informed by responsible freedom. A November 23 article in the \"Star\" headlined with \"Where is Jason Kenney\", as critics said he had not been seen for two weeks, when the number of COVID-19 cases in Alberta exceeded that of any other province. On November 22, the daily number of cases in Alberta was higher than in Ontario, even though Ontario's population is three times greater than Alberta's. On November 25, 2020, Kenney declared a state of public health emergency, and introduced new \"targeted restrictions\" which included online classes for high schools. Alberta was the only province to not issue a mandatory province-wide face-covering. Kenney said that he did not \"want to create a backlash\" by mandating masks in rural Alberta, where there are fewer cases"}, {"text": "of COVID-19. Kenney said he had been cautioned against it by a rural MLA who said that, while many of his constituents have begun to wear masks, they would take the masks off the \"moment the government tells them to wear it.\" On December 8, with 1,727 new cases, a new record of 20,388 active cases, with 654 people hospitalized and 112 in intensive care units, and a total of 640 Covid-related deaths, Premier Kenney imposed new and more stringent COVID-19 restrictions. The premier rejected criticism that his failure to act more forcefully had resulted in unnecessary deaths. He dismissed these comments as \"Alberta bashing.\" On June 18, 2021, Kenney announced his Open for Summer plan, which was conditional on having 70% of eligible Albertans receiving their first vaccination. Alberta became the first province to enact a major shift in its approach to COVID-19, which Shandro described as an \"inevitable next step\" that other provinces would soon follow. By the end of July, 65% of Albertans had received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 95% of all new COVID-19 cases were concentrated in the unvaccinated. On July 28, Hinshaw announced that Alberta Health was downgrading the risk from"}, {"text": "pandemic to endemic, treating COVID-19 like other respiratory viruses. She announced the scaling back of isolation requirements, asymptomatic testing and most contact tracing. Kenney was on vacation for 23 days from August 9 through September 2 in order to avoid \"burn-out\". During that period, the fourth wave of the pandemic caused a \"worsening health crisis\" in the province and overwhelmed front-line health workers, who were themselves \"burning out\". Nurses were being called back from vacations and Alberta Health Services was \"mandat[ing] them to work overtime. On September 15, 2021, with the number of COVID-related deaths at one per hour, Kenney declared a public health emergency in Alberta, and announced new COVID-related restrictions and measures, including a vaccine passport. During the previous week, there were more than 10,000 active COVID-19 cases in Alberta which was \"more than Ontario and Quebec combined.\" On September 15, which was then the \"deadliest day\" of the province's fourth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said that, \"I have (worked with) six premiers, two prime ministers, I've worked with dozens of big city mayors \u2014 some of whom were embroiled in scandal and lots of trouble \u2014 and I have never seen a"}, {"text": "government this incompetent.\" Nonessential Trips Abroad Controversy. Controversy erupted in Kenney's premiership when over the Christmas holidays in 2020, his chief of staff, municipal affairs minister, and five other MLA's travelled abroad during the holidays contrary to their own government's public health warnings of non-essential travel. By January 2, 2021, the issue \"became a big story in Canada\", according to the Washington Post. Premier Kenney, at first, decided that those concerned would not be punished unlike Ontario's finance minister Rod Phillips who immediately resigned, when his weeks-long trip to the St. Barts, a luxury destination in the Caribbean, was revealed by the media, along with his dated social media posts implying that he was still in Canada. Kenney claimed personal responsibility saying he had not been clear enough in the guidelines. Jamie Huckabay, Kenney's chief of staff's UK Christmas vacation, as well as that of MLA for Grande Prairie, Tracy Allard, who as Alberta's Municipal Affairs Minister is also responsible for emergency preparedness, and therefore ultimately for the rollout of the vaccine. Allard left for Hawaii on December 19. By Monday, January 4th, Kenney changed his position amid public outcry, and announced the resignations and loss of position, of Tracy"}, {"text": "Allard, who resigned as municipal affairs minister; Jeremy Nixon, who resigned as a parliamentary secretary; Jason Stephan, who resigned from the Treasury Board; Tanya Fir, Pat Rehn, and Tany Yao who lost their roles on legislative committees. No provincial government more than Alberta during the pandemic has seen so many caucus members leave the country during December, regardless of pandemic health warnings. The Leger report placed Kenney's approval rate for handling of the pandemic as the lowest in Canada, at 30%. Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act. On November 27, 2019, the Alberta government published the \"political staff salaries and contracts\" as required by the Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act, also known as the \"Sunshine List\". According to their website, most of the salaries fall below the disclosure threshold, which was $111,395 in 2019. \"Medicine Hat News\" reported that 14 of Kenney's political staff salaries were above the threshold\u20142 were over $224,000, four were about $200,000, and the rest were more than $114,000. The total is over $2.9 million. Kenney had cut his own annual salary in 2019 to about $186,000. The Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Franco Terrazzano, called these salaries \"eye-popping.\" Responses to Kenney's premiership. A March"}, {"text": "3 CBC article listed the reasons for Kenney's drop in the polls to 47% in March 2020 approving his overall performance from 60% in September 2019. In the March polls, 46% of Albertan's approved of Notley's performance. This included the blockades as well as the UCP's \"aggressive approach to bolster the province's oil and gas sector and balance the budget through cuts\". Other controversial actions taken by the UCP include, \"cutting funding for post-secondary institutions while lifting the tuition cap\"; \"reducing funding to municipalities; \"imposing unilateral changes to the way doctors bill the province; making clear it wants freezes or cuts to government employees' pay when collective agreements come up for negotiation this spring; spending $30 million per year on a war room now called the Canadian Energy Centre; making its first bill of the new sitting one that targets those who disrupt critical infrastructure with severe penalties; and \"fully or partially closing 20 provincial parks and seeking \"partnerships\" for 164 more.\" Polling results. According to Research Co.'s March 11 to March 13, 2022 online survey of 600 adults in Alberta, 45% of decided voters would vote NDP and 30% would vote UCP. In terms of approval of Premier Kenney's"}, {"text": "performance, 26% approved and 66% disapproved. ThinkHQ Public Affairs September 29 to October 1, 2021 poll found that 22% of Albertans approved of Kenney's performance and 77% disapproved. Approval of Kenney's and UCP performance. In September 2019, with a 60% approval rating, Kenney was one of the top-three most-popular premiers in Canada with only Premier Moe of Saskatchewan and Quebec's Fran\u00e7ois Legault winning higher approval ratings by a small margin. and 60% in September 2019. According to an Angus Reid Institute poll undertaken in June 2021, only about 31% of respondents approved of Kenney's track record. Earlier Angus Reid polling reports said that, \"Albertans have grown increasingly critical\" of Premier Kenney and the UCP \"government's response to the coronavirus, and the province's finances are in historically poor shape with oil revenues plummeting and pandemic-related economic shocks persisting.\" The June 2021 report said that \"both sides\" of Alberta's \"political spectrum\" have been angered by Kenney's response to the pandemic; they are critical of his approach to pandemic-related restrictions. According to a ThinkHQ Public Affairs Inc. poll released on December 16, 2019, Albertans who disapprove of the performance of the UCP government were in the majority at 53%, which reflects a \"considerable"}, {"text": "slide in public approval\" since October. Of the respondents who voted for the UCP in spring, 21% disapproved of Kenney by December 16. In ThinkHQ's poll the opposition to the UCP was \"considerably more intense than support\"\u201438% said they strongly disapproved with only 16% strong approving. Reasons for the slide in popularity by December 2019, included growing concerns about both employment and the economy with \"many voters\" concerned with the \"unexpected consequences related to budget-tightening by the new Kenney government.\" Voter intent. According to a June 2021 Angus Reid Institute poll, only 30% of respondents reported that they would vote for the UCP in the 2023 election, 41% would vote for the NDP, and 20% for the Wildrose Independence Party. A January 6\u20137, 2021 Mainstreet Research survey on voting intentions showed the UCP in a \"sharp decline\"\u201441% said they would vote for the NDP, 26% for the UCP, and 9% for the Wildrose Party with 16% undecided. A May 2020 poll had found that 56% of those polled did not want Kenney as Premier. Kenney's s disapproval rating with the highest of all the regions polled. However, at that time, in spite of a \"drop in his approval numbers\", 46%"}, {"text": "of Albertans, polled in May 2020 by CBC News-Road Ahead, had said they would \"vote for Jason Kenney's UCP.\". According to Mount Royal University political science professor, Duane Bratt, Kenney's poll numbers reflect the UCP's \"clash with doctors over pay\" during the pandemic. A CBC News-Road Ahead survey led by Pollster Janet Brown completed by June 1, 2020, found that most Albertans approved the federal, provincial and municipal governments' responses to the pandemic. Seventy per cent of Albertans approved the provincial government's response and 62% approved of the federal government's response. Approval of handling of the pandemic. In May 2021, Alberta had the \"worst COVID-19 outbreak in North America\", for which UCP critics laid the blame on the Alberta government's \"relatively relaxed approach to restrictions\". By late December, 2020, Kenney's approval rate among Albertans for handling of the pandemic was already the lowest in Canada, at 30%. By late November 2020, pollsters said that Kenney's UCP government was criticized by those who want more restrictions to bend the curve in response to the record high number of cases of the coronavirus. Criticisms of Kenney's response to COVID-19 included the controversial June 1 dinner party Kenney hosted at the Sky Palace"}, {"text": "with Nixon, Toews, Shandro and a staff member in which photographic evidence showed they were breaking \"his own government's COVID-19 public health rules\". Kenney apologized and \"admitted that he has tried to observe the rules throughout this difficult period but has not 'always done that perfectly'.\" Leaked polling. According to a March 22, 2022 Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) letter posted on the MRIA's Twitter account, a syndicated study by Janet Brown, a veteran Alberta pollster, was leaked to the media by the UCP governing political party without Brown's permission and published without context and lacking crucial data. The MRIA said that the UCP's \"abuse of power\" should be \"vigorously condemned.\" Leadership review and resignation. On September 17, 2021, Joel Mullan, UCP Vice President of policy, said the future of the UCP party was at stake as he called on the board to meet to consider initiating an early leadership review of Premier Kenny. According to a September 21 \"Western Standard\" article, Mullan called on Kenney to resign as immediately as leader of the party he had founded 4 years ago in response to concerns raised by the UCP membership \"over the last several months\". Mullen said that Kenney"}, {"text": "had \"painted himself into a corner on several occasions\" and had failed to offer a \"measured approach with communications.\" \"The Toronto Star\" reported that Alberta's health-care system had \"buckle[d] under the pressure\" of a poorly handled COVID-19 crisis and Kenney had been criticized by \"all parts of the political spectrum\". Kenney is facing a party leadership review on April 9, 2022, in Red Deer at a UCP SGM. The results of the review are expected on May 18, 2022. Kenney was under intense criticism by his caucus which was threatening a revolt for his response to the pandemic and for his style of leadership, which was described as \"uncompromising\", \"tenacious\" and \"combative\" in a \"Reuters\"' article. Kenney had called for a leadership review in an attempt to prevent a caucus coup. On May 18, 2022, after receiving 51.4% of the UCP party members' votes, Kenney stepped down as UCP leader."}, {"text": "47th Street is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1998. The album formed part of Thompson's efforts to revitalize the Sutherland Hotel one of the last remaining links to the 47th Street Jazz Scene in Chicago. Reception. AllMusic reviewer Tim Sheridan stated that \"Thompson's terrific ode to a unique time and place in African-American history is filled with exciting musical ideas while also remaining accessible\". In \"JazzTimes\", Duck Baker observed: \"He adapts his playing, with a minimum of fine tuning, to a gamut of styles from blues and swing to hard bop and free jazz. You could say that one hears the range and rambunctiousness of Lester Bowie tempered with some of Booker Little\u2019s purpose and lyricism. One hears Chicago, that\u2019s for sure. The supporting cast, while too extensive to credit individually, is never less than excellent ... A proud statement by all concerned\". Track listing. All Compositions BY Malachi Thompson except where noted"}, {"text": "State Route 276 (SR 276), also known as Thompson Creek Road, is a short north\u2013south state highway in eastern Bedford County, Tennessee, United States. It connects the community of Raus, and SR 130, with U.S. Route 41A (US 41A). It is a two-lane highway for its entire length and traverses rural and flat farmland for the majority of its course."}, {"text": "Rodrigo Francisco Pinto Vieira Fernandes (born 23 March 2001) son of Jos\u00e9 Ant\u00f3nio Vieira Fernandes and T\u00e2nia Vaz Pinto, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga Portugal 2 club Porto B. Club career. Fernandes was born in Lisbon and formed exclusively at his hometown's Sporting CP. He made his professional debut for Sporting on 27 October 2019 in a 3\u20131 Primeira Liga home win over Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es, playing the final two minutes as a substitute for Eduardo Henrique. On 7 November of the same year, Fernandes made his debut in UEFA competitions, coming off the bench to replace Idrissa Doumbia in the final minutes of a 2\u20130 away victory over Rosenborg in the Europa League. On 1 September 2021, Fernandes signed for Sporting CP's rivals FC Porto, in a direct swap with 17-year old Marco Cruz. He was assigned to Porto's B team, competing in the Liga Portugal 2."}, {"text": "Vladimir Kapitonovich Nikolsky (; 20 September 1894, Yaroslavl \u2013 17 October 1953, Moscow) was a Soviet historian, ethnologist, translator, religious scholar, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1943), and professor. Biography. He was born into the family of an army podporuchik. At age 18, he entered Moscow University. In 1916 he graduated from the of Moscow University. He was a student of . He was left at the university to prepare for a professorship. From 1918 to 1925 he taught at the ; from 1925 to 1930 \u2013 at the ; since 1934 \u2013 at the (head of the commission on the history of the pre-class society at the Department of the History of the Ancient World), professor of the Department of Ancient History of the . From 1942 to 1953 he was the head of the Department of Ancient History of the and professor of the Department of General History of the . His first published studies, begun in his student years, were devoted to the Zemsky Sobors in Russia in the 17th century. However, the main area of his scientific interests was the history of primitive society and the early forms of religion. Numerous articles and brochures are mainly of"}, {"text": "a popular scientific nature, devoted to the problems of anthropogenesis, the origin and early forms of religion. In 1926 he was on a business trip to Europe, where he studied modern literature about early forms of religion in libraries. In the same year he published a large article in the magazine Antireligioznik, devoted to various theories of the origin of religion, where he devoted considerable attention to criticism of the theory of urmonotheismus, and in 1929 he made a large report on this subject at the Communist Academy. In the late 1920s to the early 1930s, under his editorship and with his preface, translations of the works of European scholars on the history of culture and primitive religion (Heinrich Cunow (The History of the Economy), Lucien L\u00e9vy-Bruhl (Supernatural in Primitive Thinking), Edward Burnett Tylor (Primitive Culture), James George Frazer (The Golden Bough)), were published at Ateist and publishing houses. In 1931, under his editorship, the first volume of the work Religious Beliefs of the Peoples of the USSR () was published. In 1943, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the theme of the Primeval Community (). In 1952 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nikolsky died after"}, {"text": "a short illness. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Work. List of scientific works: Books. In Russian In Yiddish In German In Hungarian In Bulgarian In Slovak In Croatian In Serbian In Slovenian In Yakut"}, {"text": "The 1946\u201347 Chicago American Gears season was the Gears' third year in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which was also the tenth year the league existed. Twelve teams competed in the NBL in 1946\u201347, comprising six teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions. Chicago played their home games at International Amphitheatre. Despite finishing tied for third place in the Western Division, the American Gears made a surprise playoffs run by winning the first series three games to two (3\u20132) over the Indianapolis Kautskys, followed by a 2\u20130 sweep of Oshkosh All-Stars in the semifinals. They then went on to win their first league championship 3\u20131 over Eastern Division champion Rochester Royals. Player-coach Bobby McDermott (First Team), George Mikan (First), and Bob Calihan (Second) earned All-NBL honors. Roster. Note: Bob Cotton, Bill McDonald, Irv Noren, Les Rothman, and Bob Synnott were not on the playoffs roster. Playoffs. Opening Round. (2W) Indianapolis Kautskys vs. (3W) Chicago American Gears: \"Chicago wins series 3\u20132\" Semifinals. (1W) Oshkosh All-Stars vs. (3W) Chicago American Gears: \"Chicago wins series 2\u20130\" NBL Championship. (1E) Rochester Royals vs. (3W) Chicago American Gears: \"Chicago wins series 3\u20131\""}, {"text": "The Kanosh Tithing Office is a historic building in Kanosh, Utah. It was built in 1870 in Kanosh, Utah as a tithing building for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed with elements of Greek Revival architectural style. It was acquired by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1952. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 25, 1985."}, {"text": "Jeanette Mundt (born 1982, USA) is an American painter, best known for her works in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. In her different bodies of work, Mundt combines iconic references with others that are more personal and intimate in her quest to perpetually reconfigure the image\u2014gesturing towards how our understanding is always in flux and therefore we can\u2019t possibly be consistent in our seeing, in our psychic space. Work. Mundt\u2019s dynamic, formally omnivorous practice freely taps a variety of input, ranging from art historical references to personal photographs. Reworking and repurposing motifs from sources as diverse as Odilon Redon, illuminated manuscripts, medieval tapestries, Wade Guyton, and Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald, Mundt\u2019s recent paintings eschew adhering to an individual style in favor of a poly-aesthetic approach. Two ongoing currents in Mundt\u2019s practice come to the fore in recent times: an interest in painting elements in motion, such as fire and light, and bringing art historical imagery into new configurations that explore the ambiguous space between how we consume images in everyday life and art. Her richly seductive works, which construct images from multiple sources, speak to questions of painting, depiction, correction, and construction. The mood of these works\u2014which are in turns contemplative, sensual, foreboding,"}, {"text": "and celestial\u2014respond to the rage and rapture that pervade a cultural moment marked by climate change, the rise of religious extremism, and the curtailment of women\u2019s rights. Jeanette Mundt\u2019s individual paintings avoid offering direct commentary on social and political issues but read in relation to one another. They nonetheless absorb and reconfigure the conflicting currents that shape their time. In \"God Told Him to Wait\", Mundt' solo exhibition at Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Berlin in 2023, she oscillates between figuration and abstraction, between the bodies of women and those of animals, between religious iconography and the language of the glitch\u2014a tendency that Bettina Funcke describes as \"defocalizing\": letting things in, trying out different perspectives, aesthetics, and approaches, which allows her works to \u201cflicker with flexibility and vulnerability.\u201d Painting, or more precisely looking at painting has the capacity to create new worlds. It can induce an urge to identify in the viewer, which is undercut by the medium\u2019s own hermeticism. Difficult painting refuses, it resists easy assimilation and pat answers. Exhibitions (selection). Solo Group Weblinks. Jeanette Mundt's profile on the website of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9, Berlin Jeanette Mundt's profile on the website of Company Gallery, New York Jeanette Mundt in Contemporary Art Library Jeanette Mundt's personal"}, {"text": "website"}, {"text": "Tom Leatherwood (born August 20, 1956) is an American politician serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives from Tennessee's 99th house district, since 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. The 99th district includes the Northeast part of Shelby County, Tennessee, including the Town of Arlington, City of Lakeland, City of Millington, parts of North and East Bartlett, and unincorporated Northeast Shelby County. In 2023, Leatherwood supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented. Background and education. Leatherwood was born in Memphis, Tennessee on August 20, 1956. Leatherwood graduated from the University of Memphis with a B.S. in geology in 1979. After graduation, he worked in the oil exploration industry. He decided to backpack through 25 countries around the world. His trip lasted fourteen months. After returning from the backpacking trip, he decided to become a teacher. He received his teaching certificate from Middle Tennessee State University. He then taught high school in Millington, TN for eight years. He is married to Melissa and has five daughters. Political history. Tennessee State Senate. In 1992, Leatherwood challenged popular Republican Senator Leonard Dunavant for the Tennessee"}, {"text": "Senate in District 32. According to the Nashville News, \"Leatherwood said he ran against Dunavant simply because Dunavant sponsored a bill to impose a state income tax during former Gov. Ned McWherter\u2019s administration.\" Leatherwood was the victor in the election and attributes much of the success due to his opposing of the income tax in the state. Though he ran on defeating the state income tax, people closely involved with the movement were very skeptical of his real motives. Steve Gill, a leader in the anti-tax movement was quoted as saying, \"I don't know him. Don't know that I have ever met him. And if he was fighting AGAINST the state income tax during the Sundquist years it is news to me. He was apparently one of those guys hiding in back rooms meeting with the advocates of an income tax trying to find a \"middle ground\" as I recall. Those were the Republicans that were secretly BACKING the tax, not opposing it. If he can't be honest about that little piece of history, I have a hard time believing anything else he is saying. When he appeared on the show a while back he actually attacked the tax protesters"}, {"text": "who really did stop the income tax as being \"out of control\" and essentially unnecessary to the process. If the protesters had not been there, Tennessee would have a state income tax...thanks to guys like Tom Leatherwood.\" In 2014, Tennessee passed a Constitutional Amendment banning the state income tax. The amendment was sponsored by Senator Brian Kelsey (Republican - District 31) and Representative Glen Casada (Republican - District 63). Shelby County Register of Deeds. After leaving the Tennessee Senate in 2000, Leatherwood set his sights on the Shelby County Assessor's Office. He narrowly lost to Democrat Rita Clark in a four-way race. Soon after his defeat, Leatherwood decided to run in a special election for the Shelby County Register of Deeds. Longtime Register of Deeds, Guy Bates, died while in office. This created a special election in November 2000. Leatherwood held the Register of Deeds position for 18 years. He won re-election in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. In 2010, term limits (two terms) became effective and Leatherwood was unable to run for Register of Deeds again in 2018. Because of the term limits, he decided to run for Shelby County Circuit Court Clerk in the 2018 election cycle. He"}, {"text": "won the Republican primary but lost the general election to the Democrat, Temiika Gipson. Archiving problems at Register's Office. In 2005, Leatherwood approached the State Legislature and lobbied to have the law on archiving records changed. The Senate Bill was SB1753 and was sponsored by Senator Curtis Person. The House Bill was HB2064 and sponsored by Representative Beverly Marrero and co-sponsored by Representative Tre Hargett. The House conformed to SB1753 and it was assigned Public Chapter Number 144 by the Secretary of State. In 2019, newly elected Register of Deeds, Shelandra Ford, made an unexpected announcement about the archiving of records in Shelby County. In a letter to clerks and other officials she stated, \"the previous records retention, maintenance and pulling of records by my office for other elected officials, judges and or the public will cease 30 calendar days from receipt of this letter.\" In the same letter, Ford stated that the problem was one of \"critical issue of the storage, maintenance and records retention.\" Soon, she came before the Shelby County Commission and asked to hire new employees to alleviate the backlog of archiving. Initially, the Commission rejected her request. However, during the meeting she told those present"}, {"text": "that the Register's Office had a nearly 15-year backlog and that Leatherwood had not properly overseen the archiving. She was quoted as saying, \"it would take one employee 246 years to scan the backlog of materials from 2005 through 2018. It would take five people 49 years, 10 people 25 years, 20 people 13 years and 50 people five years.\" In December 2019, the Shelby County Commission approved $168,412 to hire two full-time employees and three temporary workers. Ford said that the backlog of archiving was a \"catastrophe\" and that fixing the problem, \"would take years and not be cheap.\" In July 2021, the Shelby County Commission was presented with a proposal to fix the archiving problem left by Leatherwood. According the proposal, there were nearly 80 million documents that were left unarchived. Those documents were divided into \"high priority\" and \"low priority\". The number of documents was evenly divided with approximately 38 million in each category. Two options to fix the archiving problem were listed in the proposal. One option was to outsource the archiving to a private company. The proposal stated that archiving just the high priority items would cost approximately $15 million and take approximately five years."}, {"text": "Congressional campaigns. While Shelby County Register of Deeds, Leatherwood attempted two separate runs for the United States Congress. In 2008, Leatherwood ran for the 7th Congressional District against sitting Republican Congressman Marsha Blackburn. The race became heated when Leatherwood sent a letter to supporters accusing Blackburn of illegally using campaign money and, \"talking the talk\" but not \"walking the walk.\" A Collierville, TN resident then made a FEC complaint against Leatherwood. The complaint alleged that, \"Leatherwood\u2019s advertisements didn\u2019t have him approving the message in his own voice, didn\u2019t disclose who paid for his yard signs, and didn\u2019t show his campaign\u2019s website as an expense on his campaign disclosure reports.\" In 2016, Leatherwood once again decided to run for Congress. After the 2010 Census, Leatherwood's Congressional district changed from the 7th district to the 8th district. Unlike the 2008 race, the 2016 race had a very crowded primary field. Once Congressman Stephen Fincher announced his retirement, the Republican flood gates opened with potential candidates. In all, thirteen candidates were on the Republican primary ballot. Leatherwood finished a distant 6th with only 4.3% of the vote. The Educational Savings Account (ESA) controversy. In 2019, Governor Bill Lee announced that he would be"}, {"text": "introducing legislation that created Educational Savings Accounts (a.k.a. school vouchers) in Tennessee. Under his proposal, $7,300 of public money would be provided to parents who unenroll a student from their school district and allow them to use the funds on private school or other education-related expenses. Parents enrolling in the program would get a debit-type card to pay for tuition or other approved expenses. The bill was controversial from the start. Public school supporters say that using public funds to fund private education undermines the public education system. Pro-voucher supporters believe that parents with children in failing public schools should be able to send their children to private schools using taxpayer money. Leatherwood, who is a former high school teacher and whose wife is a current elementary school teacher, originally voted against the bill in the House Education Subcommittee. During the subcommittee meeting he said, \"I am concerned that having these accounts out there could draw some people who aren't as dedicated or concerned about home schooling as some have been in the past. \u2026 It just takes one or two bad cases to tarnish an entity or an institution.\" Leatherwood was the only Republican on the subcommittee to vote"}, {"text": "against the bill. The bill originally affected three counties in Tennessee; Davidson, Knox, and Shelby. When the bill came to the floor for a vote, the vote total was 49\u201349. Speaker Glen Casada took the unprecedented step of leaving the vote open for 40-plus minutes. During that time, Speaker Casada and Governor Lee and his staff allegedly attempted to sway no-voters. Members were seen being taken one-by-one onto the patio behind the Speaker's desk. Eventually, Representative Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) changed his vote with the promise that Knoxville Schools would be removed from the bill. Leatherwood swapped his vote during the full House Education Committee meeting and voted yes on bill. He also voted yes for the bill during the controversial floor vote. According to \"The Tennessean\", Leatherwood was the recipient of $30,000 in the Governor's amendment budget. However, a pro-public education watchdog group reports that Leatherwood received $110K for sidewalks in Bartlett and $30K for creating a cybersecurity classroom at Arlington High School.\" In the end, the Educational Savings Account bill passed by a vote of 50\u201348. The FBI and TBI are reportedly investigating alleged bribes and kickbacks in return for voting yes on the bill. Controversial airplane ride. Several"}, {"text": "months after the controversial vote on Educational Savings Accounts, the Republican Party of Shelby County held their annual Lincoln Day Gala. Governor Bill Lee was scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker. Also on that day, the Tennessee General Assembly held a special meeting to replace Speaker Glen Casada after he was embroiled in several scandals. Only two Republican Representatives in Shelby County voted for the ESA Bill; Tom Leatherwood and Mark White (R-Germantown). Attention was brought upon the pair when they arrived via airplane with Governor Lee. No other Shelby County Representatives or Senators were on board the airplane. Marriage bill controversy. As a member of the 112th General Assembly, Representative Leatherwood sponsored HB 0233. The companion bill in the Senate, SB 562, was sponsored by Senator Janice Bowling. The bill's caption text stated, \"As introduced, deletes statutes on marriage licensing and ceremonies; limits the jurisdiction of circuit courts and chancery courts in cases involving the definition of common law marriage to the principles of common law marriage.\" During a Children and Family Affairs Subcommittee meeting Representative Leatherwood stated, \u201cSo, all this bill does is give an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a"}, {"text": "conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law.\" Later in the hearing he admitted, \u201cThere is not an explicit age limit.\" Representative Mike Stewart (D-Nashville) stated during the hearing, \"I don\u2019t think any normal person thinks we shouldn\u2019t have an age requirement for marriage.\" News of the omission of a specific age limit spread fast. Major news outlets around the world reported that bill would allow child marriage in Tennessee. Major news outlets such as \"Newsweek\", NBC News and many others reported on the bill. After worldwide condemnation and backlash, Senator Janice Bowling amended SB 562 to say, \"\"One (1) man and one (1) woman, if both have attained the age of majority, may file with the office of the county clerk in the county in which one (1) of the parties to the marital contract resides a document entitled \"Record of Marital Contract at Common Law.\"\" When asked in a later committee hearing, Leatherwood stated that, \"Yes, I am opposed to child marriages.\" The bill also upset gay rights activists. Dakota Galban said the bill, \"Does not come from a place of kindness and understanding but rather a place of prejudice and contempt.\" Republican Representative Johnny"}, {"text": "Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) also highlighted another problem with the bill. He inferred that since this bill allowed people to get married without a license, it also legalized bigamy and polygamy in Tennessee. Garrett said, \"We\u2019re going to legalize bigamy in this state.\""}, {"text": "XNXX is a Czech-French pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It was founded in 1997 in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark. , it is the 42nd-most-visited website in the world and the fourth most-visited adult website after Pornhub, XVideos, and XHamster. XNXX is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos, another popular pornographic website. A \"Business Insider\" ranking from 2018 placed it in the three most popular porn sites worldwide. History. WGCZ Holding's ownership was first revealed in 2014 when WGCZ brought a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy case against a similar domain in 2014. In 2018, the Government of India blocked XNXX, among other porn websites, after a Uttarakhand High Court court order demanding the same in a rape case where the perpetrators stated they were motivated to do so after watching online pornography. In January 2023, \"The Financial Times\" reported that WGCZ tube sites XVideos and XNXX receive 6 billion visits a month."}, {"text": "The Moodys is an American comedy television series based on the Australian show \"The Moodys\". It stars Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins as a cantankerous married couple who reunite with their three adult children in Chicago for the Christmas season. It premiered December 4, 2019, on Fox, and aired two half-hour episodes back-to-back for three weeks, for a total of six episodes for its first season. In July 2020, Fox renewed the series for a second season which premiered on April 1, 2021. The series was originally to be called \"A Moody Christmas\"; the Australian series on which it is based was called \"A Moody Christmas\" in the first series. On April 16, 2021, Fox took \"The Moodys\" off the Thursday schedule. The remaining three episodes of the second season are rescheduled to air on Sundays starting June 6. On June 17, 2021, the series was canceled after two seasons. The series finale aired on June 20, 2021. Episodes. 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Critical response. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an approval rating of 64% with an average rating of 6.28/10, based on 14 reviews. The website's critical consensus states, \"A solid cast and some decent jokes set the table, but \"The Moodys\"{{'s}} stale take on a curmudgeonly Christmas is too bah humbug in a bad way.\" On Metacritic, the first season has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\"."}, {"text": "Mixtape Madness is a British urban music outlet and an entertainment and distribution platform based in London, United Kingdom. The platform was founded in 2010 by a group of friends. Mixtape Madness is the 3rd biggest media outlet platform in the UK, behind GRM Daily and Link Up TV. Overview. Mixtape Madness was formed in 2010 as a place where users could go and stream or download British mixtapes without having to go to American websites that lacked a focus on British music, such as DatPiff. Mixtape Madness hosts talk shows called \"MMTalks\" that feature people involved in the British urban music industry. The topics covered are varied, with some focusing on how to build a music business, or how to build your profile as a musician. Mixtape Madness also has a YouTube channel, where artists can release music. Various artists have released their music through the platform, such as Headie One, Unknown T, SL, and EO. In July 2018, Mixtape Madness hosted a stage at The Butterfly Effect Festival in London. On 1 April 2019, Mixtape Madness partnered with Caroline International in a worldwide sales and distribution deal. Caroline would also be responsible for marketing services when required. Mixtape"}, {"text": "Madness partnered with the FIFA eWorld Cup, an esports competition that was hosted at The O2 in London, to bring 4 hip hop artists to perform and compete in a rap competition in the arena prior to the eWorld Cup's final. The winner out of the 4 artists would receive a FIFA Head 2 Head Freestyle Champion 2019 award. Big Jest and Deekayy both attended the competition, with the latter winning the award after a vote held by the in-house crowd and social media. Freestyle series. The Mixtape Madness YouTube channel hosts three freestyle series' called \"Next Up\", \"The Cold Room\" and \"Mad About Bars\", the latter is hosted by Tweeko, a renowned British Sound Engineer and the third of which is hosted by Kenny Allstar. Artists such as Unknown T, Skengdo & AM, and M Huncho have received significant attention through their Mad About Bars freestyles. Unknown T personally credited Mad About Bars for being \"huge\" for him and for \"opening doors\". Skengdo & AM's freestyle has over 30 million views, substantially higher to most other Mad About Bars. Loski's Mad About Bars freestyle had over a million views, before being removed by YouTube."}, {"text": "Dallas Fuel is an American esports team founded in 2017 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Fuel began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "The Peter Quarnberg House is a historic house in Scipio, Utah. It was built in 1900 by Antone Peterson, an immigrant from Sweden, for Peter J. Quarnberg, also an immigrant from Sweden who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his parents before settling in Scipio in 1872. Quarnberg married Caroline Marie Hanseen, also an immigrant from Sweden, and they had five sons and two daughters. They resided in this house, designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It later belonged to their son Archie, followed by his daughter Coleen Quarnberg Memmot. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 26, 1982. Quarnberg was born January 22, 1854, in \"Wermlingbo\" (perhaps Vamlingbo?), Gotland, Sweden. The Hanseens were also immigrants from Gotland."}, {"text": "Lisa Aisato N'jie Solberg, pen name Lisa Aisato (born 23 July 1981), is a Norwegian visual artist, illustrator and author of picture books. Personal life. Aisato was born in Kolbotn, Norway, to a Norwegian mother and Gambian father. Among her siblings is her sister Haddy N'jie. Aisato resides in Skj\u00e6rhalden, Hvaler. Career. Aisato is educated at the art institutions and . She made her picture book debut in 2008, with \"Mine to oldem\u00f8dre\". Further books are \"Odd er et egg\" from 2010, \"Fugl\" from 2013, and \"En fisk til Luna\" from 2014. She has illustrated books by others, including Tor \u00c5ge Bringsv\u00e6rd, Gaute Heivoll (\"Svalene under isen\" from 2012), Maja Lunde (\"Sn\u00f8s\u00f8steren\" from 2018), and Linn Sk\u00e5ber (\"Til ungdommen\" from 2018). She regularly contributes with illustrations to the newspaper \"Dagbladet\" supplement \"Magasinet\". Aisato was awarded Teskjekjerringprisen in 2016, together with her sister and cowriter Haddy N'jie, for the book \"Snart sover du. Et \u00e5rs god natt\". Her book \"Odd er et egg\" was basis for the animated short film \"Odd is an Egg\", directed by Kristin Ulseth, which won a prize for \"Best animated short\" at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. The film was also nominated for prizes at"}, {"text": "Berlin International Film Festival, and Edmonton International Film Festival. Her 2019 book \"\" (\"Life \u2013 illustrated\"), a collection of illustrations supplied with poetic texts, was met with good reviews and sales figures."}, {"text": "Murray R. Ursulak is a Canadian curler, and . Personal life. His distant cousin Wally is a and . His brother Randy is a curler too, and were teammates when they won the . His son Richard Ursulak was drafted 280 overall in the 2006 WHL Bantam draft by the Tri-City Americans."}, {"text": "His Master's Voice (, ) is a 2018 Hungarian science fiction film by Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi loosely based on the novel \"His Master's Voice\" by Polish science fiction writer Stanis\u0142aw Lem. The film follows a man who thinks he saw his father in a documentary about a mysterious incident in Colorado, around which a conspiracy theory had been formed. He embarks on the search of his father, who had fled Communist Hungary years ago. Eventually he finds his father, now a well-off university professor with a new family, but whose life is still affected by his previous work to decode the \"message from space\". The film was backed by a $2.54 million grant from the Hungarian National Film Fund. While the majority of filming was in Hungary, \"His Master's Voice\" was also shot in various locations around Ottawa, Canada. The film has elements of mockumentary, featuring shots with outdated cameras and formats. \"His Master's Voice\" premiered at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival. At the 2019 Fantasporto International Film Festival, the film received the prize for the Best Visual Effects."}, {"text": "Bongkoch \"Bee\" Satongun (; born 1976) is a native Thai chef and restaurateur. She is known for her restaurant, Paste Bangkok, which received a Michelin star. Chef Bee has expanded the Paste brand to neighboring Laos and recently opened a third venue in Australia. Early life and career. Prior to the opening of Paste, Satongun spent years researching the history of Thai cuisine, re-creating ancient recipes and culinary techniques alongside chef, husband and business partner, Jason Bailey. Both Satongun and Bailey had humble beginnings, from Satongun's childhood memories of pounding herbs with pestle on mortar to assist her mother's street food stall business in Bangkok, to Bailey's experiences growing up in the Southern Highlands of Australia. She met her husband on one of his earlier research trips to Thailand. Paste Bangkok. In 2012, Satongun and Bailey opened their first Paste restaurant in the neighborhood of Thonglor. In 2015, they opened a new iteration of Paste in Gaysorn shopping mall, located in Bangkok's Ratchaprasong district adjacent to the Intercontinental Hotel. At Paste, dishes represent regional Thai cuisine, taking inspiration from ancient Thai recipes and royal family cookbooks. Chef Bee hopes to do away with the notion of Thai food as 'cheap"}, {"text": "takeaway', and re-frame the cuisine in the minds of her diners. In 2018, Paste Bangkok was awarded its first Michelin star in the inaugural Michelin Guide Bangkok. Paste Bangkok retained its one-Michelin-star rating in 2019. As of 2021, it retains its one Michelin star. Other restaurants and pursuits. In 2018, Satongun and Bailey opened their first overseas branch of Paste, Paste Laos at the Apsara in the town of Luang Prabang. Currently, Bailey is working on the development of Paste in Australia."}, {"text": "Freebop Now! (subtitled {20th Anniversary of the Freebop Band}) is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 1998. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Don Snowden stated \"\"Freebop Now!\" is designed both as a manifesto for Malachi Thompson's aesthetic principles and a 20th anniversary celebration of his Freebop Band concept. But it's a rather disjointed disc jamming together two sextet sessions with different goals ... while that doesn't derail \"Freebop Now!\", it's not the strongest disc in Thompson's consistently interesting catalog\". On All About Jazz Jack Bowers said \"Thompson states in his liner notes that Free-bop \"takes the most exciting elements of bop and combines [them] with the exploratory aspects of avant-garde jazz,\" which seems a more accurate description of his band's purpose. Thus Free-bop strives to broaden the parameters of Jazz without abandoning the music's customary precepts of order and discipline. It is \"free\" only in the sense that Thompson and his colleagues seek to rearrange the basic building blocks of bop and upraise them to a new and more exciting plane. In fact, the Free-bop Band sounds for the most part much like many other bop-based groups who try as best"}, {"text": "they can to communicate within the vernacular ... Except for a few minor bumps in the road, this is high-caliber bop, Free or otherwise\". Track listing. All compositions by Malachi Thompson except where noted"}, {"text": "The 2016 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of Allen Joines. This election saw mayoral elections in Winston-Salem shift from odd-numbered years to presidential election years."}, {"text": "\u00c5sa Svensson was the defending champion, but did not compete this year. Vera Zvonareva won the title by defeating Conchita Mart\u00ednez Granados 6\u20131, 6\u20133 in the final. Seeds. The first two seeds received a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Shannon Stubbs (born December 8, 1979) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Lakeland in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. She was re-elected to represent the same riding in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. Background. Shannon Stubbs was born near Chipman, Alberta in 1979. She claims partial Ojibwa ancestry and is the daughter of Bruce Stubbs. She is the granddaughter of Eileen Stubbs, a former mayor of Dartmouth. Her mother died when she was 14. Of her grandmother, Stubbs has stated that \u201c...She wasn\u2019t partisan; she was all over the political map, but right and wrong mattered to her. I try to remember that and hope it will guide me in politics.\u201d Stubbs went to Lamont High School and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours) in English and Political Science from the University of Alberta. During her university years, she served as an intern in Leader of the Opposition Preston Manning's office, and as an assistant to MP Deborah Grey. Stubbs is married to former Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills MLA Shayne Saskiw. Political career. Provincial politics. While working as a bureaucrat for the provincial government, Stubbs"}, {"text": "ran in the 2004 Alberta election for the governing Progressive Conservatives against Raj Pannu in Edmonton-Strathcona, placing a distant second. She later left the party and became involved with the Wildrose Party, serving as Danielle Smith's chief of staff from 2010 to 2012 and the party's Director of Legislative Affairs from 2012 to 2014. In 2011, Stubbs won the Wildrose nomination in the riding of Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, held by premier Ed Stelmach, with hopes of overturning him in the 2012 Alberta election. He subsequently resigned and retired from politics, but Stubbs was defeated by PC candidate and former Strathcona County councillor Jacquie Fenske. Federal politics. Stubbs was elected in the 2015 federal election to represent the Conservative Party in the newly recreated riding of Lakeland with a 74% popular vote. She was appointed to the position of deputy critic for natural resources by Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose. Here, she serves on the House's Standing Committee on Natural Resources. She also serves as vice-chair for the Special Committee on Pay Equity. Shortly after Stubbs was elected in 2015, the federal government announced the relocation of an Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada case-processing centre in Vegreville, Alberta to be moved to"}, {"text": "Edmonton for better access. Being a subject of controversy, the centre officially closed in September 2018. Stubbs, however, won a 2017 Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year award for MP that best represents constituents for her efforts to keep this centre open. During her first term, Stubbs participated in 497 Chamber Interventions, 338 Committee Interventions, and 892 Chamber Votes. She seconded Bill C-406 which was an Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (foreign contributions). This Bill, however, did not become a law. In September, 2016, Stubbs presented petition e-216 to the House of Commons. In May 2018, Stubbs sponsored motion M-167, the instruction to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to undergo a study on rural crime in Canada. This motion was jointly seconded by 17 members and was agreed to on May 20, 2018. Stubbs was in full support when Conservative leader Andrew Scheer ran for leadership in the 2017 Conservative Party leadership election. Stubbs was re-elected with 83.9% of the votes for her riding during the 2019 federal election, making Canadian history for receiving the highest percentage for a female candidate. During the ensuing 43rd Canadian Parliament, she introduced one private member bill, Bill C-221,"}, {"text": "\"An Act to amend the Income Tax Act\" (oil and gas wells) which sought to create a tax credit for corporate expenses incurred during the decommissioning of old and inactive oil and gas wells. It was brought to a vote on March 10, 2021, but defeated with only the Conservatives and Green Party members voting in favour. After Erin O'Toole became the Conservative Party leader, he reassigned Stubbs, effective September 8, 2020, to be the Official Opposition Shadow Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. In 2021 Stubbs again received a Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year award for Member of Parliament that \"Best Represents Constituents.\" Following the Canadian federal election in September 2021, where the Conservative Party gained no seats and remained in opposition, Stubbs criticized O'Toole for his campaign leadership, and , was the only MP calling for an early leadership review within 6 months. In early December 2021, O'Toole referred Stubbs for investigation by the House of Commons for allegedly creating a toxic workplace environment in her office. \"The Globe and Mail\" and The Canadian Press independently confirmed an incident in where some of Stubbs's employees felt pressured into painting a room in her house. Stubbs told \"The"}, {"text": "Globe\" that the housepainting was a gift and that the referral was reprisal by O'Toole over her criticism of her leadership."}, {"text": "Kid Food by Bettina Elias Siegel is a 2019 book about the shift in children's eating habits and fast food culture. The book offers parenting advice for raising children to eat a healthy diet in a food environment dominated by processed foods. Background. \"Kid Food\" was Siegel's first published book. It was influenced by her experiences as an advocate for improving the nutritional quality of American school lunch meals and running her blog \"The Lunch Tray\". For the book, Siegel researched the history of children being served different food from adults and how it was advertised to consumers."}, {"text": "The Edward and Elizabeth Partridge House is a historic house in Fillmore, Utah, designed in the Gothic Revival style. It was built in 1871 by stonemason Lewis Tarbuck for Edward Partridge Jr., a farmer, merchant leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and politician who served as a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1873 and as the mayor of Fillmore in the mid-1870s. Partridge was the bishop of the Fillmore ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1864 to 1877; he was also a missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1854, and again in 1882\u20131885. He had two wives, Sarah Lucretia Clayton and Elizabeth Buxton, and 17 children. His first wife and children resided in Provo while Partridge and his second wife lived in this house. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 14, 1993."}, {"text": "Hinchinbrook was built in America in 1812. By 1814, she was carrying mails for the Post Office Packet Service from Falmouth, Cornwall. In May 1814, she repelled an attack by an American privateer in a single-ship action. She was wrecked in May 1816. Career. \"Hinchinbrook\" first appeared in \"Lloyd's Register\" in 1815, in the section listing Falmouth Packets. Her master was James, and her owner the Government Post Office. She had been raised in 1814. She also appeared in the regular listing with the same information, but the addition of the voyage Falmouth\u2013Jamaica. On 14 February 1814, \"Hinchinbrook\" sailed for the Leeward Islands. Engagement: On 2 May 1814, \"Hinchinbrook\" was at when she encountered an American privateer of 18 guns. An engagement ensued during which the privateer, which was full of men, unsuccessfully twice attempted to board \"Hinchinbrook\". After two hours and twenty minutes, the privateer withdrew. \"Hinchinbrook\" had one man killed and eight wounded, one of whom died later. Her sails, rigging, and masts were damaged, and she had four feet of water in her hold. She also lost some of her mail, which was hanging in slings in case it needed to be jettisoned, and which a shot"}, {"text": "carried away. The privateer was , which had a crew of 175 men. Her losses are unknown. \"Hinchinbrook\" returned to Falmouth from the Leeward Islands on 20 May. On 31 March 1815, Captain James sailed from Falmouth, bound for New York. \"Hinchinbrook\" arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 25 April, and left on 28 April. She arrived at New York on 4 May, and left on 18 May. She arrived at Halifax again on 23 May, and left on 28 May. She arrived back at Falmouth on 22 July. At some point Captain Dunston replaced James. On 17 December, Captain Dunstone (acting) sailed from Falmouth, bound for New York. \"Hinchinbrook\" arrived at Bermuda on 16 January 1816, and left the next day. She arrived at New York on 2 February, and left on 9 March. She arrived at Halifax on 17 March, and left on the 21st. She arrived back at Falmouth on 15 April. Loss. \"Hinchinbrook Packet\", was wrecked on 7 May 1816, on Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to a Mediterranean port. Her mails were saved and forwarded on a vessel hired for the occasion."}, {"text": "The Live Through This Tour was an international concert tour by the American alternative rock band Hole, spanning late 1994 through 1995, in support of their second studio album, \"Live Through This\". The tour included dates in 14 countries and was widely documented in the media due to frontwoman Courtney Love's raucous stage behavior throughout, which divided critics. Initially planned to begin in the early summer of 1994, the tour was postponed after the death of the band's bassist, Kristen Pfaff, on June 16 that year. In August, the band hired Canadian bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, and commenced the tour, with their first date being the 1994 Reading Festival. The tour was also highly anticipated as it marked Love's first public performance since the suicide of her husband, Kurt Cobain, in April. During the first week of the band's North American dates, Hole opened for Nine Inch Nails (who were simultaneously on the Self Destruct Tour) before proceeding as a headlining act. Supporting acts included Madder Rose, the Melvins, and Veruca Salt. The tour was subject of a series of legal troubles for Love as well, involving physical altercations between herself, crowd members, and other musicians. In addition to"}, {"text": "Love receiving death threats at some performances, she was arrested twice during the tour, and pleaded guilty to punching Kathleen Hanna at a Lollapalooza date. She was also unsuccessfully sued by two male concertgoers who alleged she struck them during a performance in Florida in March 1995. Overview. Days before the release of Hole's second album, \"Live Through This\", frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in their Seattle home. The \"Live Through This\" Tour was slated to begin in the summer of 1994, but was temporarily halted after the death of the band's bassist, Kristen Pfaff, of a heroin overdose. On August 19, 1994\u2014one week before the band's scheduled debut performance at the Reading Festival\u2014the group hired Melissa Auf der Maur, a Canadian bassist from Montreal. The first week of the tour after the Reading Festival had Hole as a supporting act for Nine Inch Nails before they embarked as a headliner for the following concerts. In 1995, the band made appearances at several Big Day Out festival dates, and went on to join Lollapalooza in North America, performing with the traveling festival throughout the summer of 1995 alongside Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill. Reception. Critical"}, {"text": "response to the \"Live Through This\" Tour varied, with some local critics lambasting Love's performances. Reviewing their opening performance of the tour at the 1994 Reading Festival, critic John Peel wrote that Love's disheveled appearance \"would have drawn whistles of astonishment in Bedlam,\" and that her performance \"verged on the heroic ... Love steered her band through a set which dared you to pity either her recent history or that of the band ... the band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage.\" \"New York Times\" critic Jon Pareles gave a favorable review of the band's fall 1994 concert in New York City, describing the music as \"fierce, exploding from restrained verses to vehement choruses.\" Reviewing a September 26, 1994 performance in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Eric Deggans lambasted the band, writing that \"Love's seeming disinterest in relating to the crowd or delivering a show ultimately sabotaged what could have been a legendary experience... Love and her musicians charged through the songs with an urgency that suited their angry, disillusioned message.\" Journalist Natasha Kassulke, reviewing an October 1994 performance in Madison, Wisconsin, criticized Love's behavior during the concert,"}, {"text": "writing that \"Ninety minutes was all it took to reduce Courtney Love, the angry bleached-blonde singer... into a half-naked, modern day Ophelia.\" Jon Casmir, reviewing a January 1995 date in Sydney, Australia, similarly found Love's onstage antics offensive, noting that she \"picked up one of the plastic baby dolls strewn around the stage, mimed giving birth, then threw it straight into the audience,\" though he conceded that \"in all likelihood, this was one of those shows which will burn into myth, the subject of reminiscence and folklore for a long time to come.\" Casmir concluded that \"For someone who wants to avoid the circus that surrounds the Cobain mythology, [Love] went out of her way to give the gawkers a freak show.\" Love's tendency to ramble between songs was noted by numerous reviewers. Drummer Patty Schemel recalled: \"It was hard [for Courtney] to continually try to push those feelings down. Certain things would remind her [of Kurt], and a lot of times onstage it would come out.\" In a retrospective, VH1 referred to the tour as \"a series of emotionally-charged shows that were part therapy, part eulogy, and completely legendary.\" Legal and safety troubles. At the band's October 1994 appearance"}, {"text": "at the WFNX Birthday Bash event in Boston, the radio station received an anonymous call from a person threatening to shoot Love to death onstage during the event. Prior to the concert's commencement, a man was ejected from the club after a gun was found in his possession. The tour went on to garner significant media attention, largely related to a series of subsequent legal troubles involving Love; in January 1995, en route to Melbourne to commence the band's Australian tour dates, she was arrested for disrupting a Qantas Airways flight after getting into an argument with a stewardess. Six months later, on July 4, 1995 at a Lollapalooza date in George, Washington, Love punched Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna in the face after alleging she had made a joke about her daughter. She pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was sentenced to anger management classes. On July 31, Love walked offstage in the middle of a set after someone threw shotgun shells at her during the band's Lollapalooza performance near Pittsburgh, suggestive of her husband, Cobain's, suicide. Further media attention came in November 1995 when two male teenagers attempted to sue Love for allegedly punching them during a"}, {"text": "concert they attended in Orlando, Florida in March 1995. The judge ultimately dismissed the case on grounds that the teens \"weren't exposed to any greater amount of violence than could reasonably be expected at an alternative rock concert.\" Commenting on her legal troubles and performances during this period, Love stated that she was abusing Rohypnol at the time, and could not recall much of the tour. Other acts. Supporting Supported"}, {"text": "is a Japanese professional baseball infielder/outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He is the world record holder with a record of 13 consecutive games with stolen bases. Early baseball career. Shuto participated three times in the Japan National Collegiate Baseball Championship and once in the Meiji Shrine Baseball Championship while studying at the Tokyo University of Agriculture Hokkaido Okhotsk. In 2017, he was selected most valuable player in the Hokkaido Universities Baseball League. Professional career. On October 26, 2017, Shuto was drafted as a developmental player by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. In 2018 season, he played in informal matches against the Shikoku Island League Plus's teams and amateur baseball teams, and played in the Western League of NPB's second leagues. On October 3, despite being a developmental player, he was selected as the Japan national baseball team for the 2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup because of his speed and defense. On March 26, 2019, Shuto signed a 6 million yen contract with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks as a registered player under control. In the 2019 season, he played mainly as a defensive player and a pinch runner and"}, {"text": "recorded 25 stolen bases while being caught five times while batting .196/.212/.294 in 102 at bats. On October 30, 2020, Shuto achieved 13 games consecutive stolen bases, breaking the NPB record for Yutaka Fukumoto's 11 games consecutive stolen bases in 1974 and the MLB record for 12 games consecutive stolen bases for Bert Campaneris in 1969. In 2020 season, Shuto won the Pacific League stolen bases leader award with a record of 50 stolen bases, and hitting .270/.325/.352 in 307 at bats, with a one home run, a 27 RBIs. In the 2020 Japan Series against the Yomiuri Giants, Shuto contributed to the team's fourth consecutive Japan Series championship with one hit, one stolen base and good defense. December 17, Shuto was honored for the Pacific League Stolen bases Leader Award and NPB Commissioner's Special Award at the NPB AWARD 2020. In the 2021 season, he had played in the season opener, but on June 10 he broke the index finger of his right hand and was dropped from the first team registration. He also underwent surgery on his right shoulder on September 10, the team announced. Because of this, he only played in 70 games, finishing the season with"}, {"text": "a .201 batting average, three home runs, five runs batted in, and 21 stolen bases. On June 7, 2022, Shuto recorded a total of 100 stolen bases in the interleague play against the Hanshin Tigers. He also hit his first walk-off home run on June 18 against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and his first lead-off home run on August 4 against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. In 2022 season, he finished the regular season with a .267 batting average, five home runs, a 15 RBI, and a 22 stolen bases in 80 games. On April 11, 2023, Shuto recorded a three stolen bases in a game against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He also recorded a total of 150 stolen bases in the against the Orix Buffaloes on September 23, 2023. Shuto played 114 games, and finished the season with a .241 batting average, a 2 home runs, a 36 stolen bases, and a 17 RBIs. His 36 stolen bases are tied with Hiroto Kobukata for the top record in the Pacific League, and he was honored with the Pacific League Stolen bases Leader Award at NPB AWARD 2023 for the first time since the 2020 season. International career. On October"}, {"text": "3, 2018, despite being a developmental player, he was selected as the Japan national baseball team for the 2018 U-23 Baseball World Cup because of his speed and defense. On October 1, 2019, unusual case, Shuto was evaluated for base-running technique as a pinch runner and was selected as the Japan national baseball top team for the 2019 WBSC Premier12 tournament. He led the tournament with four stolen bases. Shuto was called up to the Japan national baseball team for the Samurai Japan Series 2022 and recorded a stolen base against the Australia on November 10, 2022. Shuto joined Samurai Japan for the 2023 World Baseball Classic, where he is remembered for scoring the winning run on a walk off double by Munetaka Murakami in the semifinals against Mexico. He was pinch running for Masataka Yoshida, who drew a walk the previous at-bat. He ran from first to home in 10.28 seconds, maxing at 30.4 feet per second."}, {"text": "Stadio Guido Teghil is a stadium in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. It has a capacity of over 5,000. It was the host for Italy v Spain in the 2021 Rugby League World Cup qualifiers in November 2019. It is also the current home venue of association football Serie B club Pordenone for the 2020\u201321 season. Facilities. The main ground has a capacity 5,000. It has four football pitches and a six lane athletic track with lighting for all."}, {"text": "The Big East Conference is a high school athletic conference comprising small high schools in east central Wisconsin. Formed in 2015, all members are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. History. The Big East Conference was formed in 2015 from the merger of two previously established conferences for small high schools in east central Wisconsin. Nine schools in the Central Lakeshore Conference (Cedar Grove-Belgium, Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah, Howards Grove, Kohler, Oostburg, Ozaukee, Random Lake, Sheboygan Christian and Sheboygan Lutheran) joined with five smallest schools in the former Olympian Conference (Hilbert, Manitowoc Lutheran, Mishicot, Reedsville and St. Mary Catholic) to form the current fourteen-member circuit. For most sports, the Big East Conference is subdivided into North and South Divisions: Football-only alignment. The Big East Conference's initial football lineup featured two cooperative programs due to the small size of its member schools. Hilbert and Stockbridge joined forces for football until the 2017 season, and three programs (Kohler, Sheboygan Christian and Sheboygan Lutheran) combined to form KLC Football. The only full member to have never participated in football is Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah, who has sponsored eight-player football since 2012. When St. Mary Catholic entered into a cooperative with Valley Christian in Oshkosh in 2017,"}, {"text": "they transitioned into eight-player football and left the conference the year after. In February 2019, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association, the WIAA released a sweeping football-only realignment for Wisconsin to commence with the 2020 football season and run on a two-year cycle. The Big East Conference lost two of its ten football members to realignment: KLC to the Eastern Wisconsin Conference and Mishicot to the Packerland Conference . The eight remaining schools (Cedar Grove-Belgium, Hilbert, Howards Grove, Manitowoc Lutheran, Oostburg, Ozaukee, Random Lake and Reedsville) continued on and maintained this alignment through the 2022-2023 realignment cycle. In 2024, Ozaukee and Random Lake entered into a cooperative agreement to run a joint football program, leaving the Big East Conference with seven football-playing members. That number will increase back to eight for the 2026-2027 cycle, with full members Mishicot rejoining from the Packerland Conference."}, {"text": "The 2009 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 3, 2009, to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of Allen Joines."}, {"text": "Robert Spotts Graham (January 9, 1881 \u2013 July 6, 1967) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina for at least one season in 1907 and likely part of the previous season in 1906. Grahamwas a 1902 graduate of Hampden\u2013Sydney College and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1906. The 1915 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football guide listed him as a resident of Norton, Virginia and a registered referee."}, {"text": "The 2005 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 8, 2005, to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of Allen Joines."}, {"text": "In music theory, inversions higher than the third require extended chords; the fourth inversion requires a ninth chord, the fifth an eleventh chord, etc. Regarding these extensions, the writer Marcus Miller notes that: Fourth inversion. The fourth inversion of a ninth chord is the voicing in which the ninth of the chord is the bass note and the root a minor seventh above it. In the fourth inversion of a G-dominant ninth, the bass is A \u2014 the ninth of the chord \u2014 with the third, fifth, seventh, and root stacked above it, forming the intervals of a second, a fourth, a sixth, and a seventh above the inverted bass of A, respectively. <score lang=\"lilypond\" vorbis=\"1\"> \\override Score.TimeSignature \\override Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t \\set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) \\time 4/4 \\relative c' { </score> Fifth inversion. The fifth inversion of an eleventh chord is the voicing in which the eleventh of the chord is the bass note and the root a perfect fourth above it. In the fifth inversion of a G-dominant eleventh with eleventh, the bass is C \u2014 the eleventh of the chord \u2014 with the root, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth stacked above it, forming the intervals of"}, {"text": "a second, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh above the inverted bass of C, respectively. <score lang=\"lilypond\" vorbis=\"1\"> \\override Score.TimeSignature \\override Score.SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t \\set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1/4) \\time 4/4 \\relative c' { </score> Sixth inversion. The sixth inversion of a thirteenth chord is the highest possible diatonic inversion, since the diatonic scale has seven notes. (The \"seventh\" inversion of the dominant thirteenth chord is root position.) Higher inversions would require chromaticism and either nonscale tones or scales with more than seven tones. Arrangement of notes above the bass. Any voicing above the bass is allowed. For example, a fourth inversion must have the ninth chord factor in the bass, but it may have any arrangement of the root, third, fifth, and seventh above that, including doubled notes, compound intervals, and omission of the fifth (A-G-B-D-F, A-B-D-F-G-B, A-G-D-F, etc.)"}, {"text": "Gazi Mohammed Shahjahan Jwel (born 1 February 1960) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Chittagong-11. Career. Shahjahan was elected to parliament from Chittagong-11 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001."}, {"text": "The 8th Massachusetts Battery (or 8th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery) was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The units personnel enlisted for six months in 1862, but during its brief service it participated in the battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam. The battery was mustered out on 29 November 1862, having lost one enlisted man killed in action and 10 men dead of disease. Service. The 8th Massachusetts Battery was organized at North Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 24 June 1862 for a six-month enlistment. The battery left Massachusetts and arrived in Washington, D.C., on 27 June. It served in Samuel D. Sturgis's Reserve Corps in the Military District of Washington through August. For the remainder of its career, the 8th Massachusetts Battery served in the 1st Division, IX Corps. The battery was mustered out on 29 November 1862, having lost one enlisted man killed in action and 10 men dead of disease. History. The 8th Massachusetts battery remained in camp near Fairfax Seminary, Virginia from 1 July to 8 August 1862. It moved first to Alexandria, Virginia, and then to Aquia Creek and Falmouth, Virginia during 8\u201311 August. The"}, {"text": "battery participated in Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia from 16 August to 2 September. It fought at Groveton on 29 August, Second Bull Run on 30 August, Chantilly on 1 September, South Mountain on 14 September, and Antietam on 16\u201317 September 1862. During the Second Battle of Bull Run and campaign, the 8th Massachusetts Battery under Captain Asa M. Cook and 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery E under Samuel Nicholl Benjamin were part of Isaac Stevens's division in the IX Corps. The corps was led by Jesse L. Reno. Stevens's division consisted of six infantry regiments organized into three brigades. Cook's and Benjamin's batteries reported losses of three killed and 10 wounded during the campaign. The Battle of Chantilly was fought in a rainstorm. Learning that a Confederate column under Stonewall Jackson was trying to turn the Federal right flank, John Pope sent Reno's corps and other units to intercept it. Stevens was killed during the action. The 8th Massachusetts and Benjamin's batteries were part of Orlando B. Willcox's 1st Division at the Battle of South Mountain on 14 September. About 2:00 pm, Willcox's division reinforced Jacob Dolson Cox's Kanawha Division which was skirmishing with Confederate forces. Willcox deployed his troops"}, {"text": "on Cox's right and drawn back at an angle like an inverted V. A section of Cook's 8th Massachusetts Battery unlimbered at the apex of the angle, about from the summit. These guns dueled with John Lane's Confederate battery for a short time before one gun was disabled. Another gun was moving up to replace the damaged piece when James W. Bondurant's Confederate battery suddenly opened a heavy fire from a distance of . Cook's limber drivers panicked and rode to the rear through the lines of the 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. While some of the gun crews also fled, Cook and others maintained their position, sustaining losses of one killed and four wounded. Finally, Cook ordered his men to withdraw into the woods, abandoning the guns. Soon afterward, Willcox's troops advanced and drove the Confederate infantry back. Cook's guns were recovered and the battery again opened fire on Confederate troops near Turner's Gap. Later in the action Cook's and Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Light Artillery (George W. Durell's) silenced Lane's battery. At the Battle of Antietam on 17 September, the 8th Massachusetts Battery was commanded by Cook. The unit now counted four officers and 122 enlisted men and"}, {"text": "sustained one man wounded during the action. The battery's armament consisted of four 12-pounder James rifles and two M1841 12-pounder howitzers. During the assault on Burnside's Bridge, the 8th Massachusetts and six other batteries pounded the Confederate defensive position. Initially, Cook's battery took a position south of the bridge on the east side of Antietam Creek and fired on Benjamin F. Eshleman's Confederate battery. The Federal batteries were unable to suppress the opposing artillery file until the Union infantry seized a bridgehead. At that time, 4th U.S. Artillery, Battery E (Joseph C. Clark's), 5th U.S. Artillery, Battery A (Charles P. Muhlenberg's), and Durell's battery crossed the creek, followed by Cook's battery. The batteries moved west about to the ridge crest to support the infantry's advance. Cook's and Clark's batteries advanced to the J. Otto house in support of Willcox's division. A section of the 8th Massachusetts battery under Lieutenant John N. Coffin advanced in front of the infantry and came under close range fire from Confederate guns. In the late afternoon several of A. P. Hill's brigades reached the field and began attacking the Union left flank. The soldiers of John Gregg's brigade, wearing captured blue uniforms, tricked some Federal"}, {"text": "units by calling out, \"Cease fire, you are firing upon your own men\". Hugh Boyle Ewing's Union brigade marched into this confused situation and was mistakenly targeted by Cook's battery and Federal infantry, which caused friendly fire casualties. Later, Coffin's section of two 12-pounder howitzers disrupted the 35th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it retreated through its ranks. Soon after, Coffin's section took post on the right flank of the 35th Massachusetts and helped it hold its position. One of Coffin's shells exploded next to a gun in David G. McIntosh's Confederate battery, mortally wounding a gunner. The battery remained at Antietam Creek until 6 October 1862. It moved to Washington, D.C., to refit on 5\u20139 October. From the capital, the unit marched to Pleasant Valley, Maryland from 21 to 26 October. Its final movement was to Falmouth from 26 October to 19 November, where the unit was mustered out."}, {"text": "William Whipple House at 88 Whipple Road in Kittery, Maine is one of the oldest houses in Maine and was the birthplace of Founding Father, Revolutionary War general, and Declaration of Independence signatory, William Whipple. The oldest portion of home dates to circa 1660 and was occupied first by Robert Cutt who fortified it as a garrison house. William Whipple was born in the house in 1731 and later he moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire after his marriage in 1767. In 2017 the house was restored by its new owner Michael Sullivan."}, {"text": "Charles Ulysses DeBerry (April 21, 1910 \u2013 October 11, 1969) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at North Carolina A&T University from 1942 to 1944, compiling a record of 10\u201311. DeBerry was later the chair of the physical education department at Winston-Salem State University. DeBerry attended North Carolina A&T he participated in four varsity sports: football, basketball, baseball, and track. He received his PhD degree from NYU. Dr. DeBerry served as Principal of the Bladen County Training School/Bladen Central High School in Elizabethtown, NC. He also served on the staff at Winston Salem State University. Dr. DeBerry was married to Nellie Hunter DeBerry and had one son. He died on October 11, 1969, at L. Richardson in Greensboro, North Carolina, following a short illness."}, {"text": "Interstate 80/90 exists as a concurrency as:"}, {"text": "The 1997 Winston-Salem mayoral election was held on November 7, 1997, to elect the mayor of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It saw the election of Jack Canvanagh, who defeated incumbent mayor Martha Wood. This was the last time a Republican,or anyone other than Allen Joines won the mayorship of Winston Salem Primaries. The date of the primaries was September 26, 1997."}, {"text": "The Massachusetts Korean War Memorial is installed in Charlestown, Boston's Charlestown Naval Shipyard Park, within the Boston Navy Yard, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The 1993 memorial was commissioned by the Massachusetts Korean War Veterans Committee. It features a bronze sculpture of a soldier on a granite base. The memorial was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's \"Save Outdoor Sculpture!\" program in 1997."}, {"text": "Interstate 90/94 exists as a concurrency as:"}, {"text": "Chlorine oxide trifluoride or chlorine trifluoride oxide is a corrosive colorless liquid molecular compound with formula . It was developed secretly as a rocket fuel oxidiser. Production. Chlorine oxide trifluoride was originally made at Rocketdyne by treating dichlorine monoxide with fluorine. Other substances that could react with fluorine to make it includes sodium chlorite , and chlorine nitrate . The first published production method was a reaction of dichlorine monoxide with oxygen difluoride . Yet other production methods are reactions between or and chlorine fluorides. A safer approach is the use chlorine nitrate with fluorine. Reactions. As a Lewis base it can lose a fluoride ion to Lewis acids, yielding the difluorooxochloronium(V) cation . Compounds with this include: , , , , , , , , , , , , . Functioning as a Lewis acid, it can gain a fluoride ion from a strong base to yield a tetrafluorooxochlorate(V) anion . These include (potassium tetrafluorooxochlorate(V)), (rubidium tetrafluorooxochlorate(V)), and (caesium tetrafluorooxochlorate(V)). These three salts are white crystalline solids. This allows purification of , as at room temperature a solid complex is formed, but this decomposes between 50 and 70 \u00b0C. Other likely impurities either will not react with alkali fluoride,"}, {"text": "or if they do will not easily decompose. Chlorine trifluoride oxide fluoridates various materials such as chlorine monoxide, chlorine, glass or quartz. at 200 \u00b0C Chlorine trifluoride oxide adds to chlorine fluorosulfate: The reaction also produces . Chlorine trifluoride oxide can fluoridate and add oxygen in the same reaction, reacting with molybdenum pentafluoride, silicon tetrafluoride, tetrafluorohydrazine (over 100 \u00b0C), , and . From the main result was . From , the results were and . It reacts explosively with hydrocarbons. With small amounts of water, is formed along with HF. Over 280 \u00b0C decomposes to oxygen and chlorine trifluoride. Properties. The boiling point of chlorine trifluoride oxide is 29 \u00b0C. The shape of the molecule is a trigonal bipyramid, with two fluorine atoms at the top and bottom (apex) (Fa) and an electron pair, oxygen and fluorine (Fe) on the equator. The Cl=O bond length is 1.405 \u00c5, Cl-Fe 1.603 \u00c5, other Cl-Fa 1.713 \u00c5, \u2220FeClO=109\u00b0 \u2220FaClO=95\u00b0, \u2220FaClFe=88\u00b0. The molecule is polarised, Cl has a +1.76 charge, O has \u22120.53, equatorial F has \u22120.31 and apex F has \u22120.46. The total dipole moment is 1.74 D."}, {"text": "Crossroads Village is a living history museum in Genesee County, Michigan, near Flint. It is operated by the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission alongside the Huckleberry Railroad. Initially proposed as a Flint River recreational area and a farm museum, it was opened as a historical village in 1976. Crossroads Village is home to 34 buildings, many which are restored 19th-century buildings, as well as amusement rides, a narrow-gauge railroad, and a replica paddlewheel steamboat. It also hosts numerous events and festivals throughout the year. The village is located at 6140 Bray Road in Genesee Township. History. The City of Flint drew up a master plan in 1950 that included an upstream Flint River recreational area. In 1965, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation offered land-purchasing financial assistance with conditions, including establishing a commission. Thus, Genesee County formed its Parks and Recreation Commission the following year. A farm museum was proposed for the area. Additionally, residents concerned about the loss of historical buildings as the county developed met to discuss the issue. The farm museum would have a historical village adjacent to it with donated buildings moved there. Crossroads Village and the Huckleberry Railroad opened on July 4, 1976. Starting in"}, {"text": "2018, the Sloan Auto Fair was moved from the Flint Cultural Center to the village due to the Flint Institute of Arts' expansion. On April 23, 2020, Genesee County Parks Director Barry June announced that Crossroads Village and the Huckleberry Railroad would not open for the 2020 summer season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A late opening was planned in October 2020. It was the first time that the park had been forced to delay opening since it was first opened in 1976. Attractions. Crossroads Village is home to 34 buildings, many which are restored 19th-century buildings: it includes the oldest operating gristmill in Michigan as well as a barbershop, blacksmith shop, cider mill, and general store. The T.N. North and Son Bank was moved from Vassar and the town hall was moved from Clayton Township. Crossroads Village is also home to amusement rides, the narrow-gauge Huckleberry Railroad, and replica paddlewheel steamboat \"Genesee Bell\", the latter of which both operate along Mott Lake. Amusement rides at Crossroads Village include a C.W. Parker Superior Wheel (a Ferris wheel) built in 1910, a C. W. Parker carousel built in 1912, Venetian swings, and pony carts. The carousel was built in Leavenworth,"}, {"text": "Kansas, installed in California for 30 years, and purchased by a private collector in Michigan before it was acquired by Crossroads Village with a $175,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1983. In 2010, \"Michigan History\" magazine named the carousel the \"happiest place in Genesee County\". Huckleberry Railroad. The Huckleberry Railroad is a narrow-gauge railroad that runs from Crossroads Village alongside Mott Lake on former Pere Marquette track. The railroad has 11 wooden coaches, a caboose, and two steam locomotives: former Alaska Railroad Baldwin 4-6-0 #152 and former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad K-27 class #464. Events. Major events held at Crossroads Village include 19th-century \"school days\" field trips for students and teachers at Stanley Schoolhouse (which dates to 1883), an annual Labor Day picnic and parade, a Railfans Weekend, Halloween and Christmas festivities in the village, and Day out with Thomas train excursions (since 2006). Since 2018, Crossroads Village is also the location of the Sloan Museum Auto Fair, which was previously held at the Sloan Museum in the Flint Cultural Center. In media. In 2009, Crossroads Village was the set for the feature film \"Alleged\", which is based on the 1925 Scopes trial. It starred"}, {"text": "Brian Dennehy as defense attorney Clarence Darrow and Fred Thompson as prosecutor William Jennings Bryan."}, {"text": "The Sandy Tithing Office is a historic building in Sandy, Utah. It was built in 1906-1907 as a tithing building for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Iy was designed in the Victorian Eclectic style, with a pyramid roof and a gabled pavilion. The bishop of the Sandy ward at the time was William D. Kuhre. The builder and architect are not known. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 25, 1985."}, {"text": "Lars Peter Fred\u00e9n (born 9 August 1951) is a Swedish diplomat who has held several ambassadorships during his career. Career. Working in the Swedish Foreign Service since 1982, Fred\u00e9n was Ambassador to China and Mongolia from 2010 to 2016. Previous ambassadorships have taken him to Zagreb, Skopje, Pristina and Tirana. From 2003 to 2006, Fred\u00e9n was the Head of the International Affairs Department at the European Space Agency in Paris. He was also the Security Policy Aid to the Prime Minister (1992\u20131994) and Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow (1995\u20131998). He studied at Shandong University, Peking University, and Harvard."}, {"text": "Elsinore is a 2019 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Golden Glitch for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The game follows the character of Ophelia from William Shakespeare's \"Hamlet\". In \"Elsinore\", Ophelia has a vision of the deaths of everyone in Elsinore Castle and relives the same four days again and again as she works to prevent the tragedy that will fall over everyone. Development on \"Elsinore\" took over seven years, and was carried out on nights and weekends by its development team. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, who noted that fans of \"Hamlet\" would appreciate it but that the game's slow pace could be sometimes frustrating. Gameplay. \"Elsinore\" is a point-and-click adventure game based on William Shakespeare's play \"Hamlet\". The player controls the character of Ophelia as she experiences a time loop leading up to the tragedy at the end of the play. During the four days leading up to those events, the player moves Ophelia throughout Elsinore Castle and talks with its residents in order to manipulate the outcome of events. The conversations the player has leads to unforeseen outcomes in which tragedy still occurs in other ways\u2014furthermore, every time Ophelia dies, the time loop"}, {"text": "begins again, four days before the end of \"Hamlet\". To manipulate events, the player talks to the castle's residents about events that they have witnessed or expect to occur. The game provides a \"Hearsay\" menu, which shows which topics can be broached. As Ophelia goes through multiple loops and witnesses scenes, she remembers these when she wakes up again and can bring them up to other characters. The game also includes a branching timeline that shows the player possibilities they can be aware of, showing both the location of an event to happen and the time of it. Outside of Ophelia's deaths, the game has 13 unique endings that change based on the player's choices throughout the game. Plot. The plot of \"Hamlet\" revolves around the Danish court of the recently deceased King Hamlet. Denmark fears that an invasion from Prince Fortinbras of Norway could be imminent. Prince Hamlet, son of the recently deceased king and nephew to King Claudius, meets his father's ghost. The ghost reveals that he was murdered by Claudius and makes Hamlet vow to avenge his death. Believing him to be Claudius, Hamlet accidentally kills Polonius, enraging Polonius' son, Laertes. After an attempt to kill Hamlet"}, {"text": "fails, Claudius and Laertes plot to murder him in a duel by using a poisoned sword and poison in the prince's drink. Ophelia, Laertes' sister, drowns Hamlet returns for Ophelia's funeral and gets into a fight with Laertes. Hamlet and Laertes duel, and through various means both of them die along with Claudius and Queen Gertrude. Fortinbras arrives as Hamlet's heir and takes the crown of Denmark. \"Elsinore\" begins with a vision of the deaths of everyone in Elsinore Castle, similar to the play's ending. Ophelia then manipulates events to achieve a different outcome. If the player does nothing, the events unfold as in the play and everyone dies. After Ophelia's first death, a time loop begins where she wakes up at the moment of \"Hamlet\" where Prince Hamlet is behaving erratically in her room. Ophelia's actions directly affect the plot in sometimes unpredictable ways. If Ophelia continually talks to people in Elsinore Castle about the supernatural dreams she has been having, the characters will send Ophelia off to an institution because they are convinced she has gone insane. In order to convince Hamlet to ally with Ophelia and to have him trust her with his plot, the player must"}, {"text": "search Queen Gertrude's chambers for evidence that she was not complicit with the murder of her late husband. By confronting King Claudius with evidence that he has murdered Queen Gertrude, Claudius arranges a private meeting with Ophelia and murders her. The game enlarges Ophelia and Laertes' roles, and adds additional characters such as Othello, and Peter Quince from \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\". Quince replaces the acting troupe from \"Hamlet\", and is one of the few characters that is aware of Ophelia's time loop. Several characters have also been adapted for the game, making Rosencrantz and Guildenstern female and Ophelia and Laertes are biracial with experience of racial discrimination. A lady-in-waiting named Brit and a cook round out a more gender balanced cast. The initial plot of Elsinore generally follows the plot of Hamlet, with two key exceptions: the night before Laertes leaves for Paris, Ophelia receives a vision of herself falling at the bottom of a lake, her brother stabbed to death by Hamlet, her father stabbed in another location by Hamlet, Hamlet kneeling at the behest of a mysterious spirit resembling the late King Hamlet, and the entire royal court reaching an unceremonious end. In the next few days,"}, {"text": "she faints several times and feels as though time itself is collapsing\u2014she also meets a mysterious playwright and actor, Peter Quince, who seems to have a cryptic knowledge of her life and tells her they will meet again. Second, on Saturday morning, Ophelia is stabbed by an unknown assailant who claims that she is the \u201clamb\u201d whose blood must be spilled in order for the throne of Denmark to fall. Then, she wakes back up in her bedroom, as if nothing had happened. Everything is the same, however, Peter Quince remembers what happened to her. Having established that Quince is the only person who can truly understand her predicament, Ophelia comes to take advice from him and assistance in regards to unraveling the mysteries of Elsinore Castle, which she believes will allow her to escape from the time loop. Optionally, Ophelia can meet with Quince to discuss his playwriting, where-in he reveals every play is one he comes up with in the moment, and gain the ability to influence the content of his plays. This is not necessary to reach any of the endings, however. Eventually, Ophelia will uncover the identity of the spy\u2014Lady Brit, also known as Birgitta Sophie"}, {"text": "Brockenhuus, Queen Gertrude\u2019s lady-in-waiting\u2014and get her imprisoned by Bernardo, the Captain of the Guard. Then, on Saturday Morning, Quince will disguise himself as the spy and surprise her, revealing more of his mysterious power: he promises that Brit will never trouble Ophelia again, and that he is going to \u201ctrim the fat\u201d from the act of Ophelia\u2019s story. Eventually, Ophelia will also meet the ghost of King Hamlet, who can remember the previous time loops, and who is trapped as a spirit even if he is able to be avenged in one loop. He has spent countless hundreds of time loops trapped in the same four-day cycle\u2014even being trapped, he reveals, in a time loop while he was alive. He reveals that he kept notes with Ophelia\u2019s father, Polonius, and instructed him to burn them, but they were not. He also says that he was searching for something before his death, but cannot remember what. Ophelia learns she must willingly cause the death of her own father in order to discover the notes, something she does with regret\u2014perhaps the first, but not the last, of many intentional murders she will commit. Furthermore, once Ophelia meets the Ghost, Quince will appear"}, {"text": "in her bedroom when she wakes up and put Hamlet on \u201cpause,\u201d declaring that he and the Ghost are old acquaintances. Most crucially, Ophelia learns from the notes that Hamlet lived through a time loop in which his wife abandoned him for his brother, and where at the end of every loop he was either poisoned or something worse happened. His only salvation was to find something called the Hand of Dionysus, but he could not. Eventually, he gave up to despair. Once Ophelia has read the notes, she can then discover from her father that the truth about important events from the reign of Hamlet\u2019s grandmother, Queen Astrid, are contained within a shack near the docks. The shack contained the victims of plague, notably Ophelia\u2019s mother, Elise, who was sent away to a sanitarium when she fell ill, despite her noble status, by King Hamlet because of her African ancestry. At about the same time, Quince tells Ophelia of a special play he performs called the \u201cMirthful Merchant,\u201d in which a strange merchant gives all he meets ironic, cruel, useless gifts\u2014ugly dolls for grieving mothers, dentures for young men and women, and candy for old gumless people\u2014before realizing he"}, {"text": "is depressed; he resigns to kill himself by letting the waves overtake him, but he is saved and given a mysterious artifact, that compels him to write stories, and gives him eternal life. One day, however, this artifact was stolen from him, and now he is trapped in Elsinore. This artifact, called the Hand of Dionysus or the Book of Fates was in fact taken by Lady Simona, the mistress of Queen Astrid\u2019s husband, King Alexander, when she fled the walls of Elsinore. Lady Simona became queen after Astrid\u2019s suicide, but she was wracked by guilt for some unknown reason\u2014which she confided in Elise was that she used the Book to choose one of many \u201crotten outcomes\u201d. This is the same book that King Hamlet was searching for. However, Ophelia can learn from Othello, the Barkeep in Castle Town, that an old lady named Simona visits every Sunday afternoon. The invasion led by Prince Fortinbras always provides an end to the loop if Ophelia is able to survive it. However, by imprisoning him\u2014by befriending Lady Brit, which can be done before she is revealed to be a spy and learning that he is hiding in the town surrounding the Castle\u2014Ophelia"}, {"text": "can delay the invasion, providing her enough time to meet Simona. Initially, Simona proves stalwart in refusing to divulge any information about her past, but once Ophelia mentions her mother, Simona reveals the truth of the time loop: the reason Ophelia is trapped is not because of the book, but because of Peter Quince. Quince gave Simona the opportunity to avoid her death, and to let Astrid die in her place, as well as the opportunity to choose any of one of many thousands of fates. Quince, however, is not responsible for the tragedy befalling Elsinore, and Simona stresses that creating a perfect world is impossible. Even worse, Ophelia must use the Book to choose a fate from the Book of Fates, which Simona gives to her, quickly, lest Quince strip her of the ability to choose and choose for her. Upon receiving the Book, Ophelia wakes up in her bed and is confronted by an angry Quince. He declares that now she has the Book, she must choose a fate in order to free him from Elsinore. Ophelia, however, declares that she is disgusted by him and will not choose a fate. Quince then retorts that he has incredible"}, {"text": "power and will force her into choosing a fate through brute force and torture. Contrary to Simona\u2019s words, Quince cannot choose for Ophelia, but he can make her life a \u201cliving hell\u201d\u2014a hell which Ophelia can choose to subject herself to in one of the endings. From here, there are 11 endings within the Book, each with a discussion between all of the characters in a metaphysical theater resembling that of Quince\u2019s performances. Each ending involves a sacrifice in return for something gained. For example, Ophelia can give up her elevated status as the daughter of a Duke to escape Elsinore with her family. However, knowing that choosing any of these endings will free Quince, Ophelia may balk at these choices and choose to try and rebel against Quince. Ophelia tells the ghost of King Hamlet that Quince is powerful and demonic, upon which he tells his son that the two must work together against Quince. Both Hamlets and Ophelia surprise Quince during the play, but he unveils more of his power, and kills the majority of Elsinore\u2019s residents without touching them. However, Queen Gertrude is able to stab him, seemingly freeing Ophelia from the loop. When she awakes, time"}, {"text": "has restarted, and she begins living out the \u2018perfect day\u2019. Hamlet no longer accosting her, her father does not confront her angrily, but tells he about the party she is due to miss if she stays in bed. There are other changes in this timeline. Most notably, King Hamlet has now died of plague, and both Claudius and Hamlet mourn his loss. Laertes proposes to Brit during the royal dinner, and everyone congratulates him. Ophelia can discuss their plans for the future with everyone in Elsinore\u2014but the veracity of these plans is cast into doubt when Ophelia discovers Brit\u2019s dead body, and hears an invisible audience begin to laugh at her predicament. Ophelia finds her way to the Great Hall, where the royal family is cheering on the play and demands Ophelia get on the stage and continue acting\u2014they declare that the dead bodies outside are for the crows and in-important. When Ophelia does so, Quince appears and taunts her, puppeteering all the residents of Elsinore and tossing them around like rag-dolls. He states that he must extract a \u201cpermanent penalty,\u201d and banishes the Ghost permanently. In all future loops, the Ghost is no longer available for Ophelia to discuss"}, {"text": "with. Ophelia then kills herself out of despair, waking back up in her bed. Ophelia meets one last time with King Hamlet, who declares she must use the only power she has to choose a fate, calling her a friend before he disappears forever. Despite this, Ophelia can still choose to relinquish this power and keep Quince imprisoned, at the cost of never being able to again choose a fate. In the second secret ending, Quince gives Ophelia a taste of his power: the ability to choke, throw like a ragdoll, and finally execute mercilessly any character of her choosing simply by commanding their \u201cexit\u201d like a stage direction. If Ophelia uses this power\u2014which cannot be used against Quince\u2014against all residents of Elsinore, Quince declares that she and him have reached an understanding: she has realized that everyone in Elsinore is simply a character in a play, and he invites her to see other plays with him. She accepts, and the two travel the universe, using the Book\u2019s power to trap thousands of others in time loops, Quince watching with amusement, Ophelia studying with the utmost curiosity. If the player relents and chooses to \u201cReturn to Elsinore,\u201d Ophelia expresses displeasure"}, {"text": "with seeing any of the rest of the characters and chooses to explore an empty, mostly gray-scaled castle. While she reacts emptily to most objects, she expresses sorrow that she will probably never meet her deceased mother, curiosity over the erasing of her friends and family, and resignment that she could never be the savior the late King wanted her to be. Eventually, Ophelia leaves the Castle forever, and continues her journey with Quince to discover the secrets of the universe. Development. Team lead and writer Katie Chironis and game designer Connor Fallon originally met in Carnegie Mellon University's Game Creation Society. Development of \"Elsinore\" began in 2010. Chironis and Fallon originally created \"Elsinore\" as part of a game jam, scrapped the project entirely, and then decided to create it from the ground up again. Chironis was inspired to make a \"Hamlet\" game by both her high school Shakespeare teacher and from the college writing classes she took at Carnegie Mellon. Chironis and Fallon wanted to create a game that would have a tragic story but in an interactive medium, eschewing the \"power fantasy\" games that are commonly created. By combining the tragedy of the play with the goal of"}, {"text": "\"winning\" games, the development team thought they could have a fresh take on \"Hamlet\". Chironis and Fallon created their company, Golden Glitch, with five others that had been part of the Game Creation Society, and worked on the project during nights and weekends while keeping their day jobs. The founders received no payment until after the game went on sale, and the team's four contractors were paid from their personal salaries from their other jobs. In 2015, Golden Glitch created a Kickstarter for \"Elsinore\", which was successfully funded and raised over $32,000. Despite an original targeted release date of September 2016, the game was not released until 2019. \"\" provided inspiration for how to implement time loops in the game, and Golden Glitch drew inspiration from anime and visual novels which had many examples of time loops as a plot mechanic. Golden Glitch decided to focus on Ophelia as the protagonist because of her lack of agency in \"Hamlet\". Her early exit by suicide in the play means that she is uninvolved in much of the action that comes later on, and it gave the development team room to try to make her a stronger character. The team also decided"}, {"text": "to make Opheila a woman of color, and created her with the idea that she was of Moorish descent through her mother's line. The writers believed that this modification and some others allowed them to ensure that all of the characters had more fleshed out and unique storylines. Reception. Praise for the game was centered especially on the writing, and the mostly perceived success of adapting \"Hamlet\" towards a video game medium. \"Wired\"s Julie Muncy praised \"Elsinore\" for its \"beautiful writing\" and \"humanistic flourishes\". The \"Los Angeles Times\"s Todd Martens commented positively on the game's parallels with modern experiences. \"Polygon\"s Cass Marshall compared the game positively to \"Long Live the Queen\", but noted that unlike in that game, \"Elsinore\"s mechanics meant that progress always felt positive, praising the deep levels of character that can be explored. \"GameSpot\"s Phil Hornshaw listed the game in \"GameSpot\"s \"Best of 2019: Editor's Spotlight Awards\" and praised the game for being full of \"well-executed ideas\". Criticism for the game's long waiting periods was tempered by feelings on the overall game. \"Kotaku\"s Harper Jay noted that the slow pace \"wouldn't be for everyone\" but felt that if players could make it through it, the game was"}, {"text": "a worthwhile experience. \"US Gamer\"s Eric Van Allen noted that the waiting periods can \"grate\" after a while, but that the game was largely successful in creating a positive narrative experience. Accolades. The game was nominated for \"Excellence in Design\" and \"Excellence in Narrative\" at the IGF Awards, and for \"Best Original Choral Composition\", \"Best Original Song\" with \"Fair as a Rose\", and \"Best Original Soundtrack Album\" at the 18th Annual G.A.N.G. Awards. \"Elsinore\" won the award for \"Best Adventure/Role Playing Game\" at Intel Level Up 2016. In 2024, \"Game Rant\" included the game on the list of the 10 Best Games Based On Shakespeare's Plays."}, {"text": "Esports Stadium Arlington (ESA) is a North American esports facility, convention center, and theater located in Arlington, Texas. The 100,000 sqft venue originally was the largest dedicated esports facility in North America and holds 2,500 spectators. Description. Esports Stadium Arlington measures of total space and has the capacity to hold 2,500 seated spectators. History. In March 2018, the city of Arlington announced plans to develop the largest esports stadium in the United States that was scheduled to open later that year. The project was a collaboration between the city, Esports Venues LLC, which is owned by Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman, Populous, who designed the stadium, and NGAGE Esports. The venue officially opened on November 26, 2018. In December 2020, all but two of Esports Stadium Arlington employees were laid off. President Jonathon Oudthone left the company for undisclosed reasons, with Luke Bauer, chairman of the Texas Rangers ownership committee, becoming the new president of the venue. In January 2022, esports and gaming company Envy Gaming, now OpTic Gaming, acquired the operating contract for Esports Stadium Arlington from Esports Venues LLC. Events. The venue's first hosted event was FACEIT's Esports Championship Series Season Six Finals, a global competition for \""}, {"text": "in November 2018.\" After shutting down operations due in February 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ESA hosted its first live event since the pandemic began \u2014 a match between the Dallas Fuel and Houston Outlaws of the Overwatch League in July 2021. Since the OpTic Gaming merger, the stadium has hosted many OpTic events such as Call of Duty League majors, Halo Championship Series majors, and Off-Season events. Other notable events include: the Esports Awards in 2019 and 2021, PGL Dota 2 Major in 2022, the first in North America since 2016, and Smite World Championships in 2023 and 2024. On May 16, 2024, the venue became a theater, as its first non-video gaming events were announced, as All Elite Wrestling held a residency at the venue, billed as the Path to All In summer series. The summer series consisted of five consecutive weeks of its Saturday night television show \"Collision,\" a live \"Battle of the Belts\" special, a \"Rampage\" taping, as well as Ring of Honor's \"Death Before Dishonor\" pay-per-view and tapings for its weekly TV show. The venue was initially scheduled to be the host of the \"Sonic the Hedgehog\" fan convention, \"Sonic Expo 2024\", which would've"}, {"text": "featured Johnny Gioeli of Crush 40. However, the convention was moved to the Meqsuite Convention Center and Arena."}, {"text": "The People's Armed Police Honour Guard Battalion (), also known as the PAP Honor Guard is the main honor guard and police unit of the People's Armed Police of China, the country's Gendarmerie force. Since then, it has been a part of the Beijing Mobile Detachment, 1st Mobile Contingent Command (since 2018), formerly as part of the 1st Division, BAPC. History. It was formed on 23 November 1984 in the aftermath of the state celebrations of the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. In 1987, the eleventh battalion of the 8th Division of the Beijing Armed Police Corps was reorganized into the 7th Battalion of the BAPC. In 2005, it was reorganized into the 13th Battalion, 1st Division. Later changed to the 11th Battalion, nicknamed the ceremonial battalion. Duties. Its duties include: On 1 May 2016, the PAP renewed the new nameplate, chestplate and armband. The new armbands are divided into general armbands and eight special service armbands, one of which is used on the dress uniforms of the guard of honor. Major activities. The guardsmen of the honor guard have had the honor of being present during important state visits to the PRC. It has also provided"}, {"text": "ceremony duties such as the march in of the Flag of China during social events such as the 11th Asian Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the World Conference on Women, 1995. Domestic events included all Chinese National Day Parades and the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, during which it raised the flag of China at the outset and provided ceremonial security for the inspection. Among other events, it also took part in the 2001 Universiade, Expo 2010, 2013 Asian Youth Games and the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. National Color Guard. The Beijing National Color Guard Company of the People's Armed Police, active from 1984 to 2017, was responsible for the execution of the raising and lowering the national flag at Tiananmen Square every day. In the evening, a flag-lowering ceremony would take place in preparation for the next day. In 2018, the People's Liberation Army took control of the ceremony from the PAP following the attachment of the National Color Guard Company to the PLA Honour Guard, which according to the \"Xinhua News Agency\", marked a \"new era\" of national civil-military ceremonies."}, {"text": "Ogarkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 74 as of 2002. Geography. Ogarkovskaya is located 30 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bukhara is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ogibalovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 97 as of 2002. Geography. Ogibalovo is located 39 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kurshiyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ozhiginskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2002. Geography. Ozhiginskaya is located 65 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishutinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The following is a list of cricket video games."}, {"text": "Aniela Pawlikowska known as Lela Pawlikowska, (11 July 1901, Lw\u00f3w - 23 December 1980, London) was a Polish artist, illustrator, and society portrait painter who came to prominence in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and '60s. Life. Aniela Pawlikowska was born to a family with a rich literary and scientific heritage. Her mother was Maryla Wolska, a Polish poet, the daughter of Wanda M\u0142odnicka, n\u00e9e Monn\u00e9, muse and fianc\u00e9e of the painter Artur Grottger, herself a writer and translator. Her father was , engineer, inventor, author on mathematical logic, linguist, an early pioneer of the Polish petroleum industry, and associate of the Canadian petroleum entrepreneur, William Henry McGarvey. Aniela was the youngest of five children. Her older sister was the writer and poet, Beata Oberty\u0144ska. Aniela was home-schooled. One of her tutors was a family friend, the university professor of philosophy and psychology and artist, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Witwicki. Aniela (\"Lela\") Wolska's artistic talent was noted early; she held her first solo exhibition at age nine. On that occasion, 54 of her works were exhibited by the Lw\u00f3w Society of Friends of Fine Art (\"Towarzystwo Przyjaci\u00f3\u0142 Sztuk Pi\u0119knych\"). Her home education did not conclude with a matriculation examination, so she attended"}, {"text": "lectures on the history of art given at Lw\u00f3w University by Professors Bo\u0142oz-Antoniewicz and as an auditor. In 1923 Lela Wolska married , a bibliophile, writer, and publisher. She joined him at the family seat of Medyka, near Przemy\u015bl. \"Medyka\" was also the imprint her husband's small publishing and printing enterprise which specialised in small runs of literary works for which Lela provided the illustrations. They had three daughters and a son. The family would also spend a lot of time at their mountain chalet, \"Pod Jedlami\" (\"The Firs\"), in Zakopane. It had been designed for Micha\u0142's father, , by the modernist artist, Stanis\u0142aw Witkiewicz. With her husband's active support she continued her studies in art at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts with Wojciech Weiss and Kazimierz Sichulski. In the 1930s she exhibited widely in Lw\u00f3w, Krak\u00f3w, Warsaw and Zakopane and abroad in Leipzig, Rome, Florence and Turin. With the outbreak of World War II she took her four small children to Lw\u00f3w where she went to live with her sister in the Wolski villa, known as \"Za\u015bwiecie\". In May 1940 already after the first wave of Soviet deportations of Poles to Siberia, she managed to get a laissez-passer"}, {"text": "for herself and the children into the Nazi General Government. They were taken in by a relative, the political activist and poet , on her estate in Goszyce. In April 1942, thanks to her husband's intervention, she was able to travel to Italy to join him in Rome. In Rome she provided for the family by painting portraits of Italian aristocrats and diplomats stationed there. It was also a time of family tragedy when the Pawlikowskis' second daughter died of leukemia. By the end of 1946 the family had moved to London to join the thousands of demobilised allied Polish military personnel who were allowed to settle in the United Kingdom, now that their homeland had been given over to Soviet Ukraine as part of the Yalta Accord. In London she continued to support the family through portrait commissions so that she became one of the most sought after portrait painters in the country. In 1955 her popularity led to a solo exhibition at London's \"Parsons Gallery\" which was deemed one of the cultural events of the year, not least among the Polish emigrant community. Among her sitters were Princess Alexandra of Kent, the daughters of Alfonso XIII and the"}, {"text": "wartime SOE agent, Krystyna Skarbek. She continued to work virtually to the end of her life, despite losing the sight in one eye. From 1962 she would visit Poland for several months each year and stay in Zakopane in the family chalet. Her husband was killed in a road traffic accident in 1970. She died in 1980 in a Polish care home, \"Antokol\" on the outskirts of London. Her ashes were laid to rest in Poland. Fate of \"Medyka\". After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the village of Medyka, and therefore the Pawlikowski estate, found themselves annexed by the Soviet Union. With 1948 border adjustments between the new Polish People's Republic and its neighbour, Medyka found itself once again just over the Polish side of the new border. The Pawlikowski estate became state property and was turned into a State Agricultural Farm (\"PGR\"). In the 1960s it was decided to demolish the palace on the grounds that it was a vestige of the earlier \"bourgeois hegemony\". Fortunately, the family had taken the precaution at the outbreak of war to donate part of its valuable collections to the Ossolineum in Lw\u00f3w and to take other parts to their chalet"}, {"text": "in Zakopane. The gamble paid off, as most of the archive managed to survive in scattered form. Pawlikowska and the family never returned to Medyka after the war to see the devastation of the place where they had spent the happiest time of their lives. It was a fate shared by the totality of Polish landowners in the Kresy region of Poland and marked a \"caesura\" in history and the obliteration not only of a way of life, but also of a centuries-old hugely rich and diverse cultural heritage centred on the city of Lw\u00f3w. Works. Given Pawlikowska's creativity may be defined by her highly traditional and conservative background, undoubtedly influenced by her husband's, patriotic and nationalistic views, as the main champion of her work, at a time of deep crisis for the nation coupled with exile in the Free World, she did not seek to join the Avant-garde but sought instead in her own words, to \"make links between the basic elements of art and means of expression with her Polishness\". Her inspiration coupled with the mature style of her creativity, enable her work to be characterised as art d\u00e9co style. Illustrations. Her public debut, aside from the Juvenilia,"}, {"text": "were illustrations and graphic designs for a first library edition of her husband's work, \"Agnieszka albo o Pannie na nied\u017awiedziu\", \"Agnes or the Maiden atop the Bear\", (Medyka 1925). It was a pastiche on a medieval Incunable, particularly on the \"Balthasar Behem Codex\", well known to her and which inaugurated the publishing venture of the Medyka Library series which until it ceased in 1939, went on to produce 15 richly illustrated titles, generally the work of Pawlikowska. Among her significant contributions were two volumes by Beata Obesity\u0144ska, \"A Guitare and others\" - \"Gitara i tamci\" (Medyka 1926) and \"The tale of Brothers Frost. A Calendar dream\" - \"O Braciach Mro\u017anych. Sen kalendarzowy\" (Medyka 1930). Notable were her gouache colour and black and white linocut illustrations for Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's \"God's Madman\" - \"Szale\u0144cy Bo\u017cy\" (Krak\u00f3w 1929). In London Pawlikowska illustrated over a dozen titles for Veritas, a Polish religious publishing foundation. Religious themes. Sacred topics were central to Pawlikowska's creativity, especially of Marian inspiration. Her portfolio of ten linocuts, \"Bogurodzica\" (Mother of God), overlain with watercolours and gilded are a reference to folk woodcarvings and paintings on glass. They were published by Medyka in 1930. Commenting on this \"art d\u00e9co\" series,"}, {"text": "and other single works after the war, Pawlikowska said: \"those pictures are on a religious theme, but my aim was to express them in Polish, not drawing on any pattern or style, rather perhaps relying on folk art (...) the point was to reflect the world through the Marian calendar and traditions, for example, Our Lady of Sowing, Our Lady of Berries, Our Lady of Herbs... and also to convey it by the simplest artistic means through line and thereby to confer as much expression as possible\". A similar intention lies behind the style of the coloured linocut of \"St. Hubertus\" of 1936. The period after the war saw the creation of several important religious works by Pawlikowska. Among them are the 1947 depiction of \"Saint Stanis\u0142aw Szczepanowski, bishop and martyr\" for the altar of the Marian Fathers' chapel at Fawley Court in Buckinghamshire England, and two paintings whose fate is unknown, one from 1947 the other dated 1962. There are reproductions of \"Prayer for the souls in purgatory\" (1947) and \"Father Maksymilian Kolbe\" (1962). Throughout her career, she designed many Christmas and Easter cards. Portraiture and landscapes. Pawlikowska devoted her entire life to the study of the human form"}, {"text": "and to nature. Her sketchbooks were filled with human figures, plants and animals as part of her uninterrupted daily atelier. She was an amateur botanist and an acute observer. Her landscapes, chiefly in watercolour, were initially a throwback to the 19th-century. Later they clearly referred to a growing fascination with Japanese painting and colour experimentation of the Interwar period. A separate chapter in her creative work were the studies of interiors - mainly of the palace in Medyka. After the war, knowing she could never return to her home, she immortalised those interiors from memory substituting artistic style for the eroded detail. Her portraiture that was to become the mainstay of \u00e9migr\u00e9 family life and support for the chalet in Poland, oscillated initially between a style redolent of secessionism and new experiments with colour and form. However, the pressures of wartime and the difficult period in Italy of necessity turned much of her artwork into a commissioned commodity. It gained popularity in high society, but at the price of a reversion into traditional academic art. From her \u00e9migr\u00e9 years, only a handful of works survive that were untainted by the loss of hope of ever returning to her homeland or"}, {"text": "by the increasing rigour of having to earn her living. Among them are three still lives and a painting of roses. They are outstanding works torn out of the daily drudgery and mark the artist's farewell to creative freedom. As though painted in haste in meaty oils is the painting \"Roses\", then in disharmonious colour comes the grotesque \"Pinocchio and the doll\" (circa 1943), \"Black pudding on straw\" (1960), and finally, \"clay pots\" (1970) were the last expressions of the artist's soul. Of her commissions in England, a certain \"relic\" remains in the form of a pastel drawing of the infant head of the future Diana, Princess of Wales."}, {"text": "Antona is a surname. Notable people with this name include the following:"}, {"text": "A Line Made by Walking is a 1967 sculpture by British artist Richard Long. The piece was made when Long walked a continuous line into a field of grass in Wiltshire, England, and then photographed the result. The work is considered to be an important early work in the history of both land art and conceptual art. It has been described as among Long's signature works, and as his \"best-known early piece\". History. \"A Line Made by Walking\" was made in 1967 when Long was a 22-year-old art student at Saint Martin's School of Art, London. At the time, Long commuted regularly between his home in Bristol and the school, a journey of around 120 miles. Stopping in Wiltshire, he found a grassy area and walked a straight path in it repeatedly until a line was visible. He then took a black and white photograph of the result. The work was considered innovative at the time as it proposed that the simple act of walking could be an art form, and that art could be produced by the foot as well as the hand. The piece also questioned whether the performance \u2013 or the document of the performance \u2013 was"}, {"text": "the actual artwork. As such it presented a challenge to what was traditionally understood to be as sculpture. The work, which set the tone for Long's career as an artist, was one of his earliest pieces and his first walking-based piece. In the context of Long's career, \"A Line Made by Walking\" manifested the artist's fascination with trails and traces as mapped histories, a very prevalent theme in his work. \"A Line Made by Walking\" established Long as a minimalist and conceptual sculptor; it was also an early example of land art. Long created several pieces which hark back to the 1967 original including circles or organic paths, some in snow, dust, or even charred grass. These include \"Walking a Line in Peru\" (1972), a narrow path walked across a wide plain, leading to the foothills of distant mountains; \"A Line and Tracks in Bolivia\" (1981), approximately 150 feet long with accompanying tracks intersecting; \"Sea Level Waterline\" in Death Valley, California (1982), a path walked at the zero foot contour, representing sea level in low-lying Death Valley; and \"A Line in Nepal\" (1983), a forest path approximately 50 feet long. Collections. The work is held in the collections of the"}, {"text": "Tate Museum, London, the Courtald Gallery, the Getty Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland. It has also been on display in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as part of a major exhibition of Long's work held by that museum in the 1970s and 1980s. The 2017 novel, \"A Line Made by Walking\", by Sara Baume, is named for the artwork."}, {"text": "The Confederation of the Polish Crown (, KKP), often shortened to The Crown (), is a far-right political party in Poland. The party was founded by Grzegorz Braun as a personal political vehicle. As such, the party and its views largely stem from Braun's own personal positions. It has been described as ultranationalist and traditionalist, and the party advocates for Jesus Christ to be \"enthroned\" as the \"King\" of Poland. The party's goals are to \"fight for the good of Poland, secure the sovereignty of the Polish State, defend Poland's Catholic faith, ensure that Polish families are prosperous, and help shape social life based on the principles of Latin civilization\". History. Formation (2019\u20132022). The origin of Korona can be traced to an organization Braun founded in 2015 called Pobudka ( 'wake up call'). A network of Braun's supporters across 41 constituencies, Braun would formally transform his base into KKP in time for the 2019 Sejm election where he would win Constituency no. 23 in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. The party's founding congress would be held on 7 September 2019, where Braun had one of his supporters, W\u0142odzimierz Skalik, installed as the party's vice president (with Braun being president) and general secretary."}, {"text": "The party would be officially registered by Polish courts on 24 January 2020. At its formation, the party had been in a coalition with KORWiN, later known as New Hope, and the National Movement called Confederation. Braun was the Korona candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary. He lost to Krzysztof Bosak during the final round of voting and then immediately endorsed his candidacy. Braun has been described as a far-right politician, anti-vaccination activist, and antisemite. Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022\u20132025). Braun is often accused of pro-Russian rhetoric. In June 2022, Braun and few other members of the party co-signed a pro-Russian declaration stating that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a consequence of NATO enlargement, as well as Ukrainian language laws that \"discriminated against the Russian minority\". The party called for an end to the war through the conclusion of a \"compromise between Russia and Ukraine\". Then in September 2022, Braun participated in an anti-Ukrainian protest, in which he made the following statement: \"Stop the Ukrainianisation of Poland. Stop the de-Polonisation of Poland. It is about making Poland Polish.\" This statement was later aired by the state-owned Russian television channel Russia-1. In response to backlash, the party doubled down"}, {"text": "on Braun's statement; Jacek \u0106wi\u0119ka, the personal assistant of Grzegorz Braun, stated: \"And this is the success of our action, which the leftists and liberals can only envy us! There is nothing else left for them.\" Expulsion from Confederation (2025\u2013present). Braun would again seek the Confederation nomination in the 2025 presidential election, however, instead of a US-styled primary which the coalition had run in 2019 to determine its candidate, the Council of Leaders (which Braun is a member of) chose to nominate S\u0142awomir Mentzen from New Hope even though Braun had support from Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Despite this Braun would push ahead with his own candidacy stating \"I will be a candidate in this election, with God and human help.\" Due to his rejection of a ruling from the leadership council the internal coalition court would vote in favor of expelling Braun and Korona from Confederation entirely on 17 January 2025. Braun, who did not attend the ruling, refused to appeal. During the campaign, Braun and KKP were consistently given 2-4% in polls, but would outperform these polls on election day, earning 6.34% of the electorate or 1,242,917 votes. This, combined with Mentzen and Confederation also outperforming polls, surprised many because"}, {"text": "if all Confederation and KKP voters voted for the Law and Justice candidate Karol Nawrocki, he would have won the first round with 50.69% of the vote. This is almost exactly what happened on election day, as Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote in what was described as an upset, with 92.6% of Braun and 87.2% of Mentzen voters that turned out in the second round voting for him. Creation of parliamentary circle. On 4 June 2025, the Confederation of the Polish Crown announced the creation of its own parliamentary circle in the Sejm, composed of Roman Fritz, W\u0142odzimierz Skalik and S\u0142awomir Zawi\u015blak. Fritz and Skalik, elected on the list of Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 2023 election, left their party in March 2025 and joined Braun's party as independent MPs. However, since Braun is a MEP and not an MP of the Polish Sejm, his party fell short of three MPs - a minimum amount of MPs needed to form a parliamentary circle. In June 2025, Zawi\u015blak, an MP of Law and Justice, left his party and defected to Braun, granting the Confederation of the Polish Crown its third MP and thus allowing it to found its own"}, {"text": "parliamentary circle. Views. Monarchism. Despite the party's name, Korona does not seek the restoration of the Kingdom of Poland or any royal dynasty and is therefore not a monarchist political party. Instead the party seeks to \"enthrone Christ as King of Poland\" as part of the so-called \"enthronement movement\" which was established by Polish Americans in Chicago which financed \"Radio of Christ the King\" as the movement's main organ which Braun appears on and the party regularly collaborates with. The network has been heavily criticized for allowing known pedophiles on the air including Piotr Glas. In 2012 the Polish Episcopal Conference rebuffed the movement, saying \"thinking that it is enough to call Christ the King of Poland, and everything will change for the better, must be considered illusory, even harmful to the understanding and realization of Christ\u2019s salvation in the world.\" The party had been trying to get Archbishop Andrzej Dzi\u0119ga to break ranks from the conference and perform an enthronement ceremony himself but he resigned from his position after an internal church investigation into mismanagement in 2024. However, by 2013 the conference formed a committee to look into \"intronization\" and worked with lay groups both in Poland and among"}, {"text": "Polish Americans to draft a \"Jubilee Act of Acceptance of Jesus Christ as King and Lord\". Catholicism. Catholicism has been a key part of the party and Braun's own personal ideology, despite being denounced by the Catholic Church in Poland. Braun states that he emphasizes the Catholic aspect of his ideology because there are too many \"pagans\" that submit to \"tribal chauvinism\" among the other nationalist and libertarian circles. Braun also stated that personal freedom, liberty, and the concept of nations as a whole would've been impossible without the Catholic Church and Latin civilization. Freemasonry. In the party's charter, Freemasons are forbidden from joining."}, {"text": "Tunnelen, also released under the English title The Tunnel, is a 2016 Norwegian short science fiction film written and directed by Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal, based on a short story by Alice Glaser. It should not be confused with the 2019 full length Norwegian film with the same title. Plot. A family returning home from a swim are caught in slow-moving traffic among a sea of identical black hearselike self-driving cars along a multilane highway leading to a tunnel. At times the tunnel must be closed, forcing all vehicles to shut down and giving people time to stand outside. Peter befriends a girl named Eva from a car in the next lane. As they approach the tunnel, it becomes apparent that it is used as a means of population reduction. While passing through it, they are concerned that they will be caught in it during the next closure. A car from another lane decides to change lanes within the tunnel, delaying the family's progress. They make it out of the tunnel just before its next closure. Peter looks around but cannot find Eva's car. Release. The short film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 16 April 2016. It was later included"}, {"text": "as a special feature on the home video release of \"The Autopsy of Jane Doe\". Awards. The short film won the M\u00e9li\u00e8s d'Argent at the 2016 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival. Reception. In a positive review for Deluxe Video Online, Neil Worcester wrote: \"From the opening credits, I was thrilled with The Tunnel.\" Analysis. In an interview with \"Rue Morgue\" about the production of \"The Long Walk\", which he is no longer involved in, \u00d8vredal noted: \"I did a short film called The Tunnel that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival three years ago, and it's a very similar story. When I read the script [of \"The Long Walk\"], which is so close to the book\u2014it really honors what King wrote in a beautiful way\u2014I felt like I had told the story, but in a different way, which connected to the idea of being on a journey you cannot stop. It's an unstoppable journey, and the only way out is death, really.\""}, {"text": "Okulovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 68 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 50.5 km, to Derevenka is 1.5 km. Derevenka, Chernovskaya, Fedyuninskaya, Kholdynka, Zasukhonskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Okulovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 26.5 km, to Baza is 10 km. Repnyakovskaya, Lupachikha, Karpovskaya, Levkovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Shamsul Alam Pramanik ( \u2013 30 January 2023) was a Bangladeshi National Party politician who was a member of parliament for Naogaon-4. Career. Pramanik was elected to parliament from Naogaon-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001. He had faced accusations of supporting Bangla Bhai, an Islamist terrorist, and his extremist organisation. He was sued by the government of Bangladesh for providing financial support to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an extremist terrorist organisation, in 2008. Death. Pramanik died from complications of diabetes on 30 January 2023, at the age of 70."}, {"text": "Okulovskaya-1 () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Okulovskaya-1 is located 9 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pelevikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Eugene Sering Acevedo is a Filipino business executive. He is the President and chief executive officer of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Previous to this, he held senior leadership positions in three banks. He was president and CEO of Philippine National Bank, Chairman of CitySavings, and managing director with Citibank He was born in Cebu City, was raised in Surigao del Sur, and studied at the De La Salle John Bosco College in Bislig, where he graduated high school valedictorian. Before becoming a banker, Acevedo was a Physics Lecturer at the University of the Philippines - National Institute of Physics. Acevedo took his master's degree in Business Management at Asian Institute of Management where he was the Javier Nepomuceno Scholar, and had the highest GPA in his class. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He graduated BS Physics, magna cum laude, from the University of San Carlos where he was a DOST scholar, National Science and Technology Awardee for Academic Excellence, Student Council Chairman and, later, recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award. Acevedo is keenly interested in banking innovation and transformation. He is also armed with a wide and deep understanding of digital technology"}, {"text": "and strategy, with certifications from leading global educational institutions. He completed the Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Programs of MIT, the Oxford Fintech Programme, and the Berkeley Digital Transformation Course. He is a Digital Marketing Professional certified by The Wharton School, has User Experience accreditation from the British Computer Society Chartered Institute of IT and is a qualified Blockchain and Crypto-currency Expert with the Blockchain Council. He has also completed the Executive Data Science Certification of the Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Trustee of De La Salle John Bosco College, Chairman of the FINEX Financial Inclusion Committee, and starting 2019, an Executive-in-Residence at the Asian Institute of Management. In January 2024, Acevedo, dubbed as 'The Consummate Banker' was chosen among 'People of the Year 2024' by renowned People Asia (December 2023-January 2024 issue), the only Philippine banker in the list. Asiamoney recognized Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation with the Philippines' Best Bank for Digital award for the fourth consecutive year. Other awards include the Grand Champion for Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion by the Bankers Institute of the Philippines, the Eye on Innovation Award by Gartner, YouTube Challenger Award for its viral and out-of-the-box"}, {"text": "digital ad campaigns generating combined views of over 17 million, Asia Pacific Enterprise's Inspirational Brand Award, and 3-peat recognition as Best Retail Bank by Global Banking & Finance Review. Acevedo launched RCBC Boz mobile application, the ATM Go as part of RCBC's Barangayan Banking, digital banking platform and RCBC Pulz, among others. Acevedo is currently enrolled in data science course at Asian Institute of Management. He revealed nurturing his fur baby Yale Acevedo. Current Directorships. Acevedo also serves as Chairman of Rizal Microbank and RCBC Forex Brokers Corporation, Vice Chairman of RCBC Leasing and Finance Corporation, Director of RCBC Rental Corporation, RCBC Capital Corporation, RCBC International Finance Limited and RCBC Investment Limited."}, {"text": "Olekhovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 32 km, to Baza is 23 km. Bucherovskaya, Semyonovskaya, Korotyginskaya, Dorkovskaya, Antsiferovskaya, Fedyayevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Olshukovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Olshukovskaya is located 12 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malaya Klimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Olyushino () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2002. Geography. Olyushino is located 40 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ogibalovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Olyushinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 35 as of 2002. Geography. Olyushinskaya is located 45 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yeskinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Osiyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Osiyevskaya is located 47 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kubinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ospodarevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 42 as of 2002. Geography. Ospodarevskaya is located 2 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Antona is a genus of moths. Antona may also refer to"}, {"text": "Otradnoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Otradnoye is located 19 km, by road, northeast of Vozhega, the district's administrative center. Funikovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pavlovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 13 km. Podolnaya, Samoylovskaya, Ivanovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Pavlovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 50 km, to Derevenka is 5.5 km. Olyushinskaya, Yeskinskaya, Guryevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Pavlovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 25 km, to Baza is 5 km. Kozlovo, Turabovskaya, Bolshaya Nazarovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "The discography of albums and singles released by American country music artist T. G. Sheppard comprises 23 studio albums, six compilation albums, one live album, and 45 singles. Between 1974 and 1991, Sheppard has charted 42 songs on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, including 14 that reached number one."}, {"text": "Padinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Padinskaya is located 14 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchekotovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The Anadyr Lowlands () are a low alluvial plain located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography. The lowlands are crossed by the Anadyr River in the middle and the Velikaya in the south. They are bound by the Pekulney Range of the Chukotka Mountains to the northwest, west of which lie the Parapol-Belsky Lowlands (\u041f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u043e-\u0411\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043d\u0438\u0437\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c) beyond which rise the Anadyr Highlands, and by the Rarytkin and Ukvushvuynen ranges of the Koryak Mountains to the south. The mouth of the Anadyr River flows into the Anadyr Gulf of the Bering Sea to the east. The harbor city of Anadyr is located by the mouth on the shore of Onemen Bay in the estuarine area of the river. The lowlands are a flat, mostly marshy tundra plain with a maximum height of above sea level. The whole area is dotted with lakes, the largest of which are Krasnoye and Yanragytgyn. Besides the Anadyr, rivers Velikaya, Tumanskaya, Tretya and Kanchalan, flow across the lowlands. A few isolated small mountain ranges rise above the plain, such as the Ushkany, Zolotoy and Dionysia ranges. Geologically the Anadyr Lowlands are composed of loose Quaternary sediments, constrained by permafrost."}, {"text": "Panteleyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2002. Geography. Panteleyevskaya is located 27 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ulitinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pankovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Pankovo is located 67 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Syrnevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Florida Mayhem was an American esports team founded in 2017 that competed in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Mayhem began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2018 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance. All-time roster. Last updated: 4 February 2024"}, {"text": "Church music during the Reformation developed during the Protestant Reformation in two schools of thought, the regulative and normative principles of worship, based on reformers John Calvin and Martin Luther. They derived their concepts in response to the Catholic church music, which they found distracting and too ornate. Both principles also pursued use of the native tongue, either alongside or in place of liturgical Latin. Background. The Protestant Reformation, which rapidly spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, created sweeping changes in many facets of society. A call for reform and a subsequent break from the Roman Church by Martin Luther and his followers in 1521 following the Diet of Worms created an irreversible schism in the Church, and while this divide was more immediately noticeable politically, the Protestant movement changed many aspects of Europeans' daily lives through the reformed doctrine and practices of the new churches. One of the most noticeable changes to take place was the way in which Christians worshiped through music. Before and during the Reformation, much of Catholic worship music consisted of highly florid choral works, Gregorian plainchant, and responsive songs in praise of God and in honor of the Virgin Mary. Protestant reformers, however,"}, {"text": "sought to change Catholicism's perceived \"dangers of overly theatrical performances, the unwarranted expense of elaborate ceremonies and enormous pipe organs and the uselessness of text unintelligible to the common man.\" The urge for reform in these areas created two main schools of thought: One which adhered to the regulative principle of worship music, and one which followed the normative principle, with the latter becoming far more prevalent as time progressed. The dissension between these two groups led to stark contrasts in worship practices. Emergence of Protestant church music. Normative principle of worship, and Martin Luther. The normative principle provides an elastic interpretation to the Bible and God's intention about worship music, claiming: \u201cWhat the Scripture forbids not, it allows; and what it allows is not unlawful; and what is not unlawful may lawfully be done.\" This doctrine gave its followers great artistic and creative freedom in organizing worship services and composing hymns. Normative principlists often incorporated organ and other instruments into church music, and were not as stringent as regulative principlists on restricting the combination of various mediums of worship. The most notable follower of the normative principle was Martin Luther. Being a friar, Luther's life was steeped in the"}, {"text": "musical traditions of Roman chant and he had a deep love for music as a singer, lutenist, and composer. Luther would make use of his musical skills to become a tool for promoting the teaching reforms of the Reformation. Luther strongly supported worship music and emphasized its importance in the church, and was once witnessed remarking: Luther's hymns date from 1523 to 1543. The earliest Lutheran hymnal was the \"Achtliederbuch\" or First Lutheran hymnal of 1524, with eight hymns by Luther and by Paul Speratus. Luther wrote 37 hymns which survive today, though he perhaps wrote additional texts which were passed around informally. Well known of Luther's hymns, and still in use, are \"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland\" (Savior of the Nations, Come), Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her\" (From Heaven Above to Earth I Come), \"Christ lag in Todesbanden\" (Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands), \"Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott\" (Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord), \"Wir glauben all an einen Gott\" (We All Believe in One True God), \"Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin\" (In Peace and Joy I Now Depart), \"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott\" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God), \"Erhalt uns,"}, {"text": "Herr, bei deinem Wort\" (Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word), \"Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir\" (Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee), \"Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist\" (We now implore God the Holy Ghost) and \"Vater unser im Himmelreich\" (Our Father, Thou in Heaven Above). These and many of the other hymns by Luther would constitute the base of many chorale-based compositions by Sch\u00fctz, Bach, Brahms, and others. Luther built on traditional hymns in words and melodies, Latin chants, German songs, secular and sacred folk songs, and hymns from the Bohemian community. Claims that some of Luther's hymns were based on bar tunes or drinking songs perhaps expounded from the use of popular tunes in his hymns, and from later musical terminology that referred to many of these hymns as being in bar form. However, there is no evidence that actual drinking songs were used as hymn tunes. In addition to hymns, Luther also composed German liturgical chants used in the Deutsche Messe (German mass) of 1526, as well as chant settings for various canticles, litanies, and a motet. Luther's most notable musical legacy is his development of hymnody in the vernacular German language. His"}, {"text": "intent was to include the laity in the liturgy, although the development of congregational singing among Lutherans was to be an uneven, and gradual process over the next three centuries. Involving the laity with singing hymns was a teaching tool. Some hymns were modeled after sections of Luther's Small Catechism, such as \"Vater unser im Himmelreich\" which was based on the Lord's Prayer. The hymns could by sung unaccompanied, but organs and choir supported congregational singing where such resources were available. Organ music would play a large role in Lutheran music later on. Luther said that music ought to be \u201caccorded the greatest honour and a place next to theology\u201d due to its great importance. During the Reformation, Luther did much to encourage the composition and publication of hymns, and wrote numerous worship songs in German. In keeping with the normative principle, Luther popularized the use of songs inspired by Scripture, as opposed to Calvinist metered or even word-for-word recitations of the Psalms and other biblical texts. For example, Luther's widely popular hymn \"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott\" while based on Psalm 46, contains language not directly taken from Scripture. This combination of Biblical language with composers' additions and"}, {"text": "basic ornamentation in Lutheran hymns allowed Luther and his followers to include emotional musical phrasing which appealed to a broader audience. However, Luther's approval of textual elaboration and musical complexities in chorales did not mean that he completely disregarded Protestant orthodoxies. While Luther supported the use of polyphony, he still made it clear that he regarded the main purpose of hymns as teaching the populace about Scripture and worshiping God. One reason for Luther's adoption of the normative principle and his application of it with his own church music was to more effectively disseminate his ideas, particularly to other German speaking areas. Luther's hymns were primarily written in the vernacular and consisted of universal themes such as hope, peace, and grace, which transcended socioeconomic boundaries. Luther also increased the popularity of his songs by setting religious text and his own improvised lyrics to secular folk tunes known well throughout German provinces. Luther even penned hymns which touched on political issues and promoted the Reformation. In his zeitungslied (newspaper song), \"Ein neues Lied wir heben an\" (A new song here shall be begun), Luther condemned the burning of Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, two young Augustinian canons active in the"}, {"text": "Reformation. He commended their faith and witness to the gospel while and censuring their condemnation. These qualities made Luther's works well received across Germany, and many were soon translated into other languages. \"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott\" (A Mighty Fortress is Our God) in particular has since been translated into 53 languages. Regulative principle of worship, and John Calvin. Many Protestant reformers, drawing from the Bible and the concept of \"Sola scriptura,\" Latin for \"by scripture alone,\" argued that worship music ought to be derived directly from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. This concept came to be known as the regulative principle. Its adherents asserted that \u201cworship is by divine warrant\", and that God intended mankind to worship Him through Scripture only, since the Bible serves as God\u2019s revelation to man on how He is to be worshiped. For instance, in the \"Heidelberg Catechism\", the author, German Reformed theologian Zacharias Ursinus states, \u201cQ. What does God require in the second commandment? / A. We are not to make an image of God in any way, nor to worship Him in any other manner than he has commanded in His Word.\u201d Followers of the regulative principle vehemently"}, {"text": "opposed worship music containing text not from Scripture verbatim, and thus their worship services contained only hymns arranged from the Psalms (hence the term \"psalmody\"). Regulative principlists were often firm and intransigent in their beliefs, as is seen in the Belgic Confession, where the author decrees, \"The whole manner of worship which God requires of us is written in it [the Bible] at length. It is therefore unlawful for any one [sic], even for an apostle, to teach otherwise than we are now taught in Holy Scripture: yes, even if it be an angel from heaven, as the apostle Paul says.\" There were many prominent theologians and church leaders during the Reformation who adhered to the regulative principle. On one extreme, Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), a Swiss priest, rejected all forms of music within worship. He \u201cremoved all art works from the church... [and] destroyed organs and other musical instruments\u2026 because according to him, they promoted self-indulgence.\u201d However, most regulative principle advocates still promoted the use of worship music in the church, only in the sense that only Scripture could be used in songs. John Calvin (1509-1564) was a regulative principle supporter who encouraged worship music. A Frenchman, Calvin studied civil"}, {"text": "law in Paris and Orl\u00e9ans, but was soon pressured to leave France due to heavy opposition to his Protestant sympathies. He eventually relocated to Geneva, where he further synthesized his doctrine and continued to aid the reform movement, especially through his theological dissertations. Calvin\u2019s attitude towards music in the Church was complex. Like all who followed the regulative principle, he was extremely cautious about how worship music was utilized, because he believed God laid out very specific directions in the Bible on how one could worship. For example, Calvin initially allowed the use of instruments in worship music, but \u201cadvocate[ed] a careful and skillful use\u201d of them. In fact, he later banned instruments from being used in his congregation, claiming that they were too strongly tied to antiquated and unorthodox methods from before the Reformation. Calvin also asserted that \u201cThere could be no worship of God without the proper preaching of the Word.\u201d In selecting hymns for church services, Calvin avoided anything that may have invited \u201csensuality and self-gratification.\u201d To this effect, many of the songs which received his approval were simple in nature and lacked the melodic and harmonic complexities of many Catholic masses. They were \u201csung syllabically,\u201d and"}, {"text": "the melodies moved primarily by conjunct motion, avoiding large and uncomfortable intervals. One element which Calvin added to worship music was children\u2019s choirs. Calvin was deeply concerned for the piety and religious devotion of parishioners, and posited that children could \"teach adults simplicity, childlike devotion, and a sincere heart when singing, even though there might be problems with intonation and the like.\" While many Protestants, including followers of Martin Luther, objected to Calvin\u2019s rather staunch approach to music, Calvin did much to develop a new form of music separate from hundreds of years of Catholic doctrine and ritual. His use of the vernacular in the recitation of the Psalms made worship music more accessible and comprehensible to the public, and his simple melodies and inclusion of children\u2019s choirs encouraged congregational participation in worship services. Anglican church music. During the same time period of that Luther and Calvin were active on the mainland, England too was influenced and experienced its own distinct reformation movement. King Henry VIII, after failing to convince Pope Clement VII to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, proclaimed himself head of the Church of England, an action which was"}, {"text": "officialised in Parliament\u2019s 1534 Act of Supremacy. After this, England\u2019s political ties to Rome were severed, but although the Church of England adopted a primarily Calvinist theology, it still retained many of the ecclesiastical traditions of Catholic services, to the dismay of the more conservative Calvinists. Given England\u2019s unique situation, English Protestant music emerged as its own distinct genre during and after the Reformation. In some ways, it reflected elements of Calvinism; for instance, Calvinist psalmodies were exceedingly popular in mid-sixteenth century England. However, English congregations also utilized materials which would be considered more Lutheran in style, including broadside ballads which were repurposed for religious use. A particularly common source of worship material in English churches was the Second Book of Common Prayer, commissioned by the Protestant King Edward VI in 1552. The English Reformation oversaw the proliferation of English Protestant composers and the writing of many English psalters (musical arrangements of the Book of Psalms). This was in part due to a reaction against Catholic worship music following the English Reformation. English Protestants particularly denounced Catholic music due to the fact \u201cthat it was performed in a foreign tongue [Latin],\u201d which they saw as conflicting with parts of Scripture"}, {"text": "and therefore with the will of God. Because of this, English clergymen and composers began to form a unique canon of English worship music distinct from that of continental Europe. Perhaps the most notable early English Protestant composer was Issac Watts, known as the \u201cFather of English Hymnody\". Watts broke with the popular Calvinist theology of the time by altering his arrangements of the Psalms to better reflect Christian elements found only in the New Testament, as is evident by the title of his work, \"The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament\". Another prominent English composer of the time was Benjamin Keach (1640-1704), a minister and leader of the Particular Baptist denomination. Keach is responsible for being the first songwriter to popularize the singing of hymns as opposed to purely Psalms in English churches, and his song collection, titled \"A Feast of Fat Things,\" became a staple in many English Protestant churches. While many English composers experimented with polyphonic chorales and the use of multiple instruments, the English Crown, under the young Protestant King Edward VI, began to tightly restrict these elements during a brief revival of English-Calvinist regulative theology. However, many of these restrictions"}, {"text": "on church music were lifted with Edward VI\u2019s premature death and the Catholic Mary Tudor\u2019s ascension to the throne in 1553. Icelandic church music, 1550\u20141594. A suggestion of what the earliest Lutheran liturgies in Iceland may have sounded like is found in two manuscript fragments now in Sweden (Stockh perg 8vo no. 10 and S. 252a), discovered by musicologist \u00c1rni Heimir Ing\u00f3lfsson in 2019. They suggest that an early interim solution was to sing plainchant with the texts translated into Icelandic, such as the chants \"Ecce dies veniet,\" \"Inviolata,\" and \"Puer natus est nobis,\" to name but a few. When they were eventually published, the 1589 Missal and 1594 \"Graduale\" were widely distributed and would shape Icelandic church singing for more than two centuries. The final (nineteenth) edition of the \"Graduale\" was published in 1779 and it was in use until the nineteenth century, although by that time the melodies themselves had been much transformed through oral transmission. While both sources ostensibly build on Danish models, they are quite different from the Danish publications and perhaps suggest an urge for the Icelandic bishops to assert the independence of the Icelandic church vis-a-vis the Danish one. See also. Topics Liturgies Hymnals"}, {"text": "Secular music"}, {"text": "Patrakeyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 22 as of 2002. Geography. Patrakeyevskaya is located 66 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishutinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "James Hahn (born 1950) was the 40th mayor of Los Angeles, California. James or Jim Hahn may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Pelevikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Pelevikha is located 9 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Okulovskaya-1 is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pharmaceutical manufacturer Deva Holding A.S. is a Turkish Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of more than US$480 million and a staff of approximately 2,300 across its operations in Turkey, Germany, USA and New Zealand. Background. Established in 1958, Deva Holding A.S. is Turkey\u2019s second-largest pharmaceutical company and is primarily engaged in the production and distribution of pharmaceutical and veterinary products."}, {"text": "Perepechikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Perepechikha is located 18 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Maryinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pesok () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Pesok is located 2 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pesok () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Pesok is located 2 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rising Daystar is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1999. Reception. AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson stated: \"When Malachi Thompson calls his music 'free bop,' it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors 'the tradition' without being enslaved by it. Recorded at three separate sessions in 1997, 1998, and 1999, \"Rising Daystar\" is primarily a hard bop/post-bop CD ... But while \"Rising Daystar\" is more inside than outside ... the Chicagoan isn't limited to that approach ... he detours into the avant garde and savors the pleasures of dissonant outside improvisation\". In \"JazzTimes\", Tom Terrell observed: \"Feeling their collective hard bopping, free jazzing, Afro-head swinging inner child, Malachi and Freebop get all the way open\". Track listing. All Compositions BY Malachi Thompson except where noted"}, {"text": "Pestinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Pestinskaya is located 16 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bykovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Petrovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2002. Geography. Petrovka is located 22 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Savinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Petrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Petrovo is located 71 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krapivino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Olympia Bonaparte, Princess Napol\u00e9on (\"Olympia Elene Marie\"; n\u00e9e Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg, born 4 January 1988), is the consort of Jean-Christophe, Prince Napol\u00e9on, the disputed head of the House of Bonaparte and, in the view of Bonapartists, the pretender to the abolished French imperial throne. Early life and family. Countess Olympia Elene Marie von und zu Arco-Zinneberg was born on 4 January 1988 in Munich to Count Riprand von und zu Arco-Zinneberg (1955-2021) and his wife, Archduchess Maria Beatrice of Austria-Este. Through her father she is a great-great-granddaughter of Ludwig III and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, the last king and queen of Bavaria. Through her mother she is the granddaughter of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta. She is a great-granddaughter of Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the last emperor and empress of Austria. Olympia is also the great-great-great-great-grandniece of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, the second wife of Napoleon I. Personal life. Olympia graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science and from Columbia University in 2015 with a Master of Arts degree in art history. She played on the women's college club ice hockey teams of both Yale and"}, {"text": "Columbia. She currently works in London as the creator and chief curator of a photography collection. She met Jean-Christophe, Prince Napol\u00e9on during a semester studying abroad in Paris. They became engaged in May 2019. Her engagement ring includes a diamond from the tiara of Eug\u00e9nie de Montijo, the last Empress of the French and wife of Napoleon III. Olympia and Jean-Christophe first held a civil marriage on 17 October 2019 at the town hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine. They then held a religious Catholic ceremony on 19 October 2019, celebrated by Antoine de Romanet at the Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides, followed by a reception at the Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau. The wedding festivities were attended by members of European royal and noble families including Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg; Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg; St\u00e9phanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg; Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este; Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece; Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark; Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark; Nina Flohr; Prince F\u00e9lix of Luxembourg; Princess Claire of Luxembourg; Prince Christian of Hanover; Princess Christian of Hanover; Princess Beatrice of York; and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Their wedding marked the first time in over two hundred"}, {"text": "years that a marriage between the House of Habsburg and the House of Bonaparte had taken place. The Princess gave birth to a son, Louis Charles Riprand Victor J\u00e9r\u00f4me Marie, on 7 December 2022 in Paris."}, {"text": "Petrovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Petrovskaya is located 10 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novozhilikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pekhtach () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Pekhtach is located 65 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozlovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Peshkovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Peshkovo is located 14 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Sorozhinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pilyevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia, populated by 14 people as of 2002. Geography. Pilyevo is located 58 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bykovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pogorelka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Pogorelka is located 61 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Norine is a given name. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Pogorelovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Pogorelovo is located 13 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shchekotovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Easy Street were an English soft rock band which consisted of Ken Nicol, Peter Marsh and Richard James Burgess. History. Marsh had a long-standing musical partnership with his then brother-in-law, Ken Nicol, during the 1970s. They first signed to CBS in 1973, and were known as the duo Nicol & Marsh. In 1975, after the addition of Richard James Burgess, they became known as Easy Street, named after the duo's 1974 album \"Nicol & Marsh's Easy Street\". As the trio Easy Street, they released two albums, the eponymous \"Easy Street\" in 1976 and \"Under the Glass\" in 1977. The single \"I've Been Lovin' You\" reached No. 81 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 during the first week of August 1976. Easy Street toured in Europe and the US and were the 1976 runners-up of the UK TV show \"New Faces\". The collaboration between Marsh and Nicol ended after the release of the duo's final album, 1978's \"Nicol & Marsh\". An interview with Nicol implied that Marsh was moving in a different direction, specifically appearing to refer to a growing collaboration between Marsh and Burgess. After Easy Street. Ken Nicol settled in the U.S. in 1979 and performed as a solo"}, {"text": "artist, and later as lead singer and co-writer for the band Versailles. He returned to England in 1988 and continued as a solo performer. He later joined the bands the Ashley Hutchings Dance Band, the Albion Band and Steeleye Span. Nicol has released a number of solo albums since 1988, with his latest album, \"Things\" in 2015. Peter Marsh has worked as a singer, songwriter and record producer. He was a member of the new wave bands Twist and Blanket of Secrecy, and has worked with such artists as Vangelis, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Godley & Creme, Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter. Marsh released the solo albums \"Stop the Clock\" (2013) and \"Back to the Beginning\" (2017). Richard James Burgess has been a singer, songwriter, drummer, engineer and producer since the mid-1970s, most notably as a member of the band Landscape. He produced new wave band Spandau Ballet's first two albums and first seven singles. He has worked with many other artists during his 50-year music career. As well as a musician, Burgess is also an author, manager and marketer."}, {"text": "Church is the third studio album by Swedish electronic dance music act Galantis. It was released on 7 February 2020 through Big Beat and Atlantic, and includes the singles \"Bones\", \"I Found U\", \"We Can Get High\", \"Holy Water\", \"Faith\", in collaboration with Dolly Parton and Mr Probz, and \"Fuck Tomorrow Now\". Track listing. Notes"}, {"text": "John Willats (died April 2006) was a psychologist and artist known for his research on pictorial systems of depiction and perspective, which included a taxonomy of the methods of visual projection used by various artists. He was considered an expert on children's drawings and how children develop drawing abilities. Biography. Willats studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He had degrees in mechanical sciences and psychology. He worked under the supervision of Richard Wollheim at London University. He was teaching sculpture and drawing at Walthamstow School of Art when along with Fred Dubery, he published his first book, \"Drawing Systems\" Willats was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Polytechnic of East London and was an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Birmingham. He was a professor at Loughborough University. In 2000, Willats completed a sculpture celebrating the millennium in a former hometown of Bradford-on-Avon, England. The sculpture is a life-sized representation of a mill girl, known as \"Millie\", that celebrates the town's history. Research. In \"Perspective and other drawing systems\" (1983)\",\" Willats and Dubery defined formal categories for pictorial systems, which they called projection systems. Willats posited that people have an innate capability to understand the grammar of"}, {"text": "pictorial depictions, which is related to Chomsky's theory of universal grammar. In \"Making sense of children's drawings,\" Willats proposed that children learn drawing in a manner comparable to language learning, by picking up increasingly complex rules of depiction."}, {"text": "Country Boy is the seventh LP by American country singer-songwriter Don Williams. Released on September 13, 1977, on the ABC-Dot label, the album reached number 9 on the \"Billboard\" Country Albums chart. \"Country Boy\" was the second of two Don Williams albums released in 1977, along with \"Visions\", which was released in January. Three singles were released from the album, and all three were top-10 country chart hits: \"I'm Just a Country Boy\" was released first in 1977, and was Williams' second consecutive number-one hit (following \"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend\"). The following two singles released in 1978 were \"I've Got a Winner in You\", which reached number seven, and \"Rake and Ramblin' Man\", which reached number three. Background. Don Williams spent the summer of 1977 touring in road shows with Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, and Emmylou Harris, and splitting his time recording in the studio. Willams produced the album himself, and contributed writing on some of the songs. The single \"I'm Just a Country Boy\" was released in August 1977 in advance of the album, and in the \"Billboard\" review for the single it was described as: Beautiful, soft arrangement of the old evergreen should take Williams back"}, {"text": "to No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart and perhaps establish him on the Hot 100 pop chart...instrumentation kept mainly in the background, focusing attention on the flawless Williams delivery.The prediction was correct, and by the week before the release of the album, the single went from number 51 to number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart. Williams' record label, ABC/Dot, developed a strategy to cross-market Williams to the US Pop market, and \"I'm Just a Country Boy\" was released to pop stations that played both country and rock music. Shortly before the release of the \"Country Boy\" album, Don Williams was announced as a finalist for best male vocalist by the Country Music Association Awards. In October it was announced that Williams would also perform on the 11th annual CMA Awards, hosted by Johnny Cash. Upon release of the album in September, he embarked on a short tour of England before returning to the US to play Las Vegas in November. Williams was especially popular in England and Europe in 1977, where he collected a gold and silver album awards for \"Visions\", \"Harmony\", and \"You're My Best Friend.\" The decision to market him to a mainstream"}, {"text": "American audience was in large part driven by his unexpected success in Europe. Track listing. from the original vinyl Side A Side B Personnel. Source:"}, {"text": "The Holy Eucharist Cathedral Also Cathedral of the Holy Eucharist () It is the name that receives a religious building affiliated with the Catholic church that is located in New Westminster, a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of Metro Vancouver. The cathedral is the mother church of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of New Westminster (Latin: \"Eparchia Neo-Vestmonasteriensis Ucrainorum\"; ) which was created in 1974 by the bull \"Cum territorii\" of Pope Paul VI. It is one of the 2 Catholic cathedrals in the Vancouver area, the other being that of the Holy Rosary that follows the Roman or Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. In 2018 the cathedral received 2 pieces of Mother Teresa of Calcutta's hair, so the creation of a reliquary was commissioned to protect them Its current administrator is the Bishop Michael Kwiatkowski."}, {"text": "Ashleigh Maree Ross (born 7 October 1999), also known as Ashi Ross, is an Australian actress, singer, dancer, fashion designer, influencer and model, best known for her roles as Charlotte in \"Back of the Net\" (2019), Xeon in 26 episodes of \"The Gamers 2037\" (2020-2021) and Andrea in \"The Red Shoes: Next Step\" (2023). Life and career. Ashleigh Ross was born on 7 October 1999 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to her father Jim and mother Joy. Ross has two older sisters. Ross started dancing and gymnastics when she was 4 years old. She also began her acting career in 2009 at age 9 when she played May in an episode of \"My Place\". In 2010 at age 10, she appeared as Okinawa in an episode of \"Spirited\", as well as playing Scout in 2 episodes of \"Dance Academy\". Major theatre roles for TML Enterprises that Ross has played were Jane Banks in \"Mary Poppins\" in 2011 and Jemima Potts in \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\" in 2012. In 2014 at the age of 14 when Ross began modelling for the popular Australian dance brand \"Energetiks\", she designed and launched her exclusive dancewear line, called \"Ashi by Energetiks\". On the"}, {"text": "same year, Ross guest starred in an episode of \"Creative Kids\". In 2015, she played Linda Brent in an episode of \"A Place to Call Home\", as well as guest starring in an episode of \"The Talk\". On the same year when Ross started off her career as a dancer, assisting RADAR technique workshops, she also assisted \"Dance Moms\" star Abby Lee Miller in the United States a few times. In 2016, Ross did a Turn board commercial with Mackenzie Ziegler, as well as guest starring in an episode of \"Australia's Got Talent\". In March 2017, Ross won a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for the category \"Favorite #famous\". In 2019, Ross played Charlotte in the sports comedy \"Back of the Net\", alongside \"The School for Good and Evil\" star Sofia Wylie. On the same year, Ross also played Bridget Devlin in the short film \"Ritual\". In the 2020s, Ross played Xeon in 26 episodes of \"The Gamers 2037\", as well as playing Andrea in the 2023 dance film \"The Red Shoes: Next Step\"."}, {"text": "Guangzhou Charge is a Chinese esports team founded in 2018 that competes in the Overwatch League (OWL). The Charge began playing competitive \"Overwatch\" in the 2019 season. All rostered players during the OWL season (including the playoffs) are included, even if they did not make an appearance."}, {"text": "Casey Mongillo (born October 22) is an American voice actor, who has played roles in animation and video games. Mongillo is best known for portraying lead character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of \"Neon Genesis Evangelion\" in 2019, and has also played Emporio Alni\u00f1o in \"\", Shou Suzuki in \"Mob Psycho 100\", and Raichu, Scorbunny, Raboot, Cinderace, Chrysa, and Allister in the \"Pok\u00e9mon\" anime. Career. In 2019, Mongillo voiced the main character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix dub of the anime series \"Neon Genesis Evangelion\", replacing Spike Spencer, who played the part in the original ADV Films dub. Mongillo tweeted that playing Shinji was \"one of the greatest honors of my life\". Noel Kirkpatrick of \"TV Guide\" praised Mongillo's portrayal of Shinji, saying they excelled at switching \"between sarcasm and sadness, delight and detachment\", and that they did \"a better job of capturing Shinji's pre-teen voice\" than Spencer. Aja Romano of \"Vox\" wrote that it was laudable that Netflix cast a non-binary actor to play Shinji. Carol Grant, in an opinion piece for \"Vice\", wrote that Shinji being played by a trans actor made the series feel more queer, saying that \"Mongillo's delivery captures the delicate interplay between"}, {"text": "the masculine and feminine aspects of Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered anxieties to life\". Mongillo was nominated for Best Performance by a Voice Actor (English) in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards for their performance as Shinji. Mongillo released a single, \"Everything Is Alright\", on the iTunes Store on April 3, 2012."}, {"text": "Guo Dehong (; March 1942 \u2013 22 October 2019) was a Chinese historian. A specialist in modern Chinese history and the history of the Chinese Communist Party, he served as President of the China Modern History Society. Biography. Guo was born in March 1942 in Changyi, Shandong, Republic of China. He graduated from the Department of History of Shandong University in 1967. Guo was a specialist in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, modern Chinese history, and Mao Zedong thought. He published more than 300 research papers, more than 10 monographs, and edited over 60 other books. He won more than 20 national awards including multiple National Book Prizes. He was a professor and doctoral advisor at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, and served as President of the China Modern History Society. Guo died on 22 October 2019 in Beijing, aged 77. Selected works. Source:"}, {"text": "Corregidora (1975) is a fiction novel written by Gayl Jones set in Kentucky in the late 1940s. The novel centers around Ursa Corregidora, who was recently hospitalized after an accident involving a flight of stairs. The first three sections of the novel follow Ursa through her recovery, her changing relationships, and her profession as a blues singer. The final two sections of \"Corregidora\" flash forward to 1969 when Mutt returns. Jones uses a fragmented style of writing to incorporate the Corregidora family history of trauma into Ursa's present narrative. Overall, \"Corregidora\" considers difficult themes of generational trauma, preservation of memory, domestic and sexual violence, and womanhood and motherhood. Literary critics have highly regarded Jones' writing in this novel. Summary. Section I. The novel opens with Ursa Corregidora recounting her marriage with Mutt Thomas and the \"accident\" on the staircase behind Happy's Caf\u00e9. Ursa wakes up in the hospital, and soon after, Tadpole McCormick brings her to his home above Happy's. Tadpole takes care of Ursa while she is recovering, and the reader learns that Ursa had a hysterectomy as the result of falling down the stairs. Through Ursa's memories, the reader discovers that Ursa's Great Gram was a slave who"}, {"text": "was raped by her master and other men who would pay for her. When Ursa is five years old, Great Gram describes how she was also forced to sleep with the master's wife, and Ursa is slapped for questioning the story. While recovering, Ursa is paid a visit by her neighbor, Cat Lawson, who tells Ursa that Mutt has been hanging outside of Happy's, hoping to see her. Ursa then admits to Cat that she was pregnant when the accident happened, and she lost the baby. Ursa visits the doctor and states that she is filing for divorce from Mutt. After her appointment, Ursa goes to stay with Cat for the remainder of her recovery, but this does not last long. Jeffy, a young teenage girl, touches Ursa's breasts while she is sleeping, and later, Ursa hears Cat threatening Jeffy in her bedroom early in the morning. Ursa returns to stay with Tadpole, and the couple begin a sexual relationship. That night, Ursa begins singing at Happy's again, and after her show, Jimmy asks Ursa if she would speak to Mutt, telling her she is pitying herself. Upstairs, Tadpole learns that Mutt signed the divorce papers and asks Ursa to"}, {"text": "marry him. Ursa and Tadpole get married with Cat as their witness, and Cat speaks to Ursa alone after the wedding. Ursa barely acknowledges Cat and refuses to ignore what she heard that night in Cat's bedroom. The section ends with Ursa singing to Tadpole, and the newlywed couple making love. Section II. The section opens with Ursa speaking to Sal and calling on memories about how she is often mistaken to be Spanish. In the apartment, Tadpole tells Ursa that Cat is planning on moving to Versailles. Ursa's sex with Tadpole is uncomfortable for her and more for his pleasure. When Ursa wakes up from a night of irregular sleep, Tadpole describes how his Papa was a slave that became a blacksmith, but his Mama was denied the land he had bought when she went to claim it. Then, Ursa remembers how her Great Gram remained with Corregidora after slavery was abolished, but in 1906, Great Gram and Gram moved to Louisiana and began working. Tadpole urges Ursa to be more relaxed during sex, but Ursa is still uneasy. Ursa is reminded of her arguments with Mutt over the men who watched her sing at Happy's. Ursa gets an"}, {"text": "offer to sing Saturdays at the Spider and takes the job. One night, Tadpole doesn't come to pick up Ursa, and she finds him in bed with Vivian, a young new singer. Tadpole says that Vive can do more him than Ursa can, and Ursa leaves to check into the Drake hotel. A few days later, Tadpole shows up to apologize, but Ursa does not feel sympathetic to his pleading. Ursa begins singing full-time at the Spider, and Max, the Spider's owner, praises her singing and how she has helped his business. Max makes a sexual advance on Ursa, but Ursa denies him and makes him promise not to come onto her ever again if she is to continue working. The text begins to flash forward to conversations between Mutt and Ursa about rekindling their romance and the blues. Ursa describes to Mutt how her life is tied into the lives of her ancestors and how the memories of their trauma still affect her. Ursa returns to her small hometown, Bracktown, to see her Mama who is making preserves for her neighbor. Ursa seeks for more history than Corregidora, asking her mother about who her father was. Ursa learns that"}, {"text": "her father, Martin, worked at a restaurant across the street from the depot, where Mama used to have lunch. Mama was very shy and would not respond to Martin when he asked her about herself. One day, Mama had dinner at the restaurant too, and Martin offered to ride the bus with her. They stopped by his house to get his jacket, and Mama went upstairs with him. After Ursa was conceived, Mama was surprised by her own actions and stopped speaking to Martin. When Martin sent Mama money awhile later, Mama returned the money to him. At his house in Cincinnati, Martin beat Mama, claiming that she used him to get pregnant. In the present, Ursa and Mama begin walking back to the bus station. Mama then describes the brief time that she was married to Martin before he left. Great Gram had begged him to marry Mama, and they lived in the house of the Corregidora women together. While Mama did not talk to Martin about Corregidora much, he could hear Great Gram and Gram remembering their trauma. Mama was not having sex with Martin, and after a fishing trip, Gram caught Martin watching her powder her breasts."}, {"text": "Gram and Martin cursed at one another, and Martin started walking outside the house to get to the front room. After their conversation, Ursa gets on the bus and heads back into the city. Section III. The third section opens with Ursa remembering the suicide of the Melrose woman and her childhood friend, May Alice. May Alice was older than Ursa and taught Ursa what penises and periods were. In high school, May Alice started having sex with a boy from school, Harold, and became pregnant. After Mama told Ursa not to hang around May Alice anymore, Ursa did not see her until she had her baby and once more before she moved. Mary Alice asked Ursa why she didn't like her any longer and called Ursa a child for not telling her. Then, Ursa remembers how Mama did not like her singing the blues, which led her to move to the city and apply at Happy's. Ursa remembers meeting Mutt at Happy's, sitting with him after her performance and talking about the blues. After this, Ursa and Mutt began talking in Ursa's dressing room, where Ursa learned that Mutt's great-grandfather bought his and his wife's freedom. When his great-grandfather"}, {"text": "got into debt, they took his wife, and he went crazy. That night, Mutt made a sexual advance, but Ursa turned him down, remembering the Corregidora women. They did not have sex until their wedding night. After four months, Mutt began watching the other men at Happy's and pressuring Ursa to stop performing. Ursa remembers the building tension between them over Mutt's jealousy and mood swings. One Friday night, Mutt and Ursa go to Dixieland to see a band from Chicago. Mutt embarrasses Ursa by grabbing her butt and trying to grind, so Ursa does not take his hand to dance again and goes to the bathroom instead of singing. The married couple went home, and Mutt defends his actions and threatens her for not taking his hand. The next night Mutt shows up to Happy's drunk and is thrown out after trying to take Ursa off of the stage. When Ursa leaves Happy's after the evening show, Mutt drunkenly returns to confront Ursa and knocks her down the stairs. Section IV. This section flashes forward to June 1969 when Ursa is forty-seven and still working at the Spider. Ursa speaks to a man who is performing at the Drake"}, {"text": "hotel about the blues and remembers how Corregidora raped her Great Gram. Ursa had not seen Sal since she left Happy's and had only run into Tadpole a few times since leaving him. She heard that Tadpole had gotten together with Vivian and sold Happy's. Ursa saw Jeffrene downtown who told her that she had pneumonia recently. Jeffrene also mentioned that Cat was living in Versailles and had a hair accident, and she asked Ursa if she would go see her. Section V. Jim still came into the Spider at least once a week, and once got drunk and harassed Ursa. Sal came in to talk to Ursa after her show, telling her that she had seen Mutt. Ursa admits that she had been thinking about Mutt but does not know how she feels about him. Soon after, Mutt came into the Spider while Ursa was singing; she sang to him but knew she hadn't forgiven him. Mutt asked Ursa if she would come back with him, and she said yes. Back at the Drake hotel, Mutt and Ursa have oral sex, and Ursa thinks about what Great Gram did to Corregidora to make him both hate and desire her."}, {"text": "The novel ends with Mutt holding Ursa, and Ursa crying against him. Themes. Generational trauma. Gayl Jones opens the novel in the 1940s, but the temporal landscape of the Corregidora women begins in 19th century Brazil with Great Gram or \u201cDorita\u201d \u2014 the woman with the coffee-bean skin, the \u201cfavorite\u201d of Corregidora, the Portuguese slaveholder. Jones\u2019 novel traces the histories of the Corregidora women through Ursa, the great-grandchild of Dorita, illustrating a genealogical history contrived through an economy of sexual violence rendered by slavery. In turn, the Corregidora women embody a practice of remembrance, or \u201cholding up evidence\u201d by \u201cmaking generations\u201d, in such a way that specifies their wombs as a site of redoubling- a redoubling that centralizes their purported reproductive capacities as a conduit for both reprisal and redress that renders their trauma legible. For Ursa, the space of the past consumes and entraps her, becoming her identity. The past becomes a restricting force as Ursa longs for an individual life separate and outside of Corregidora. Ursa Corregidora's narrative is intertwined with the histories of the slave owner, Corregidora, and her female ancestors. Ursa's Great Gram was a slave of Corregidora who he raped, and she became pregnant with"}, {"text": "Gram. Gram was then raped by Corregidora and became pregnant with Ursa's mother. Ursa's family moved to Louisiana after the abolition of slavery in Portugal. At as early as five-years of age, Ursa describes her grandmother telling her these histories and insisting she remember them. Ursa carries the history of these traumas with her everywhere, and they impact how she develops her relationships. Both Mutt and Tadpole question the significance of the stories of Corregidora and how they affect Ursa's romances. The generational trauma passed down by her maternal ancestry is a prominent topic throughout the novel. The connection between trauma and memory is often discussed in scholarly articles about \"Corregidora\". In particular, academics have considered how Ursa's familial trauma under slavery affects her romantic relationships in the present. In her critical essay, Stella Setka discusses the impacts of this \"traumatic rememory\" inherited from her ancestry. Setka considers how this collective trauma influences Ursa's sexuality and agency. Preservation of memory. Ursa describes a pressure from her mother and grandmother to \"make generations.\" After one night with Martin, a man who worked at the caf\u00e9 across the street, Ursa's mother becomes pregnant with her. She describes that her whole body wanted"}, {"text": "Ursa. Ursa feels this urge to \"make generations\" but is unable to do so after her hysterectomy. Ursa's grandmother emphasizes how important it is to continue sharing their histories of sexual violence and slavery. The women use their lineage and oral history as a documentation of the truth to be used as evidence. By preserving these memories through their children, the Corregidora women plan to ensure that their stories are never forgotten. Literary scholars have emphasized how the Corregidora actively preserve memory through their oral histories. According to this discussion, the ongoing recounting of Corregidora history becomes enmeshed with the present narrative in the novel. Abdennebi Ben Beya is one of the scholars analyzing this tension between past and present. Beya considers history to be a haunting presence in \"Corregidora\", emphasizing the simultaneous mourning and healing in re-experiencing this trauma. The carrying forth, working through and bearing witness to trauma(s) are memory preservation methods. Great Gram, Gram, Mama and Ursa each carry re-membering(s) in their bodies and in their names. The repetition of Corregidora's is how Great Gram, Gram, Mama and Ursa hold on to what Christina Sharpe calls a \"long psychic and material reach\" (p. 4) of the traumas"}, {"text": "of chattel slavery and sexual violence. How they respectively respond to, live, witness and work through these traumas spills out into their interactions with each other and the other Black people they encounter, live with, have sex with and socialize with throughout the text. Ursa is both a witness to generations of trauma, through the re-hearing of the stories and through living with the women who lived the recounted experiences, and positioned to work through its effects in ways that Great Gram, Gram and Mama will never be able to. Ursa also represents what will not be worked through as she cannot/will not create more generations. There is a witness and work stoppage with Ursa and the last man she is with in the novel. At first thought, Ursa's return to Mutt seemed like a choice rooted in an inability to work through the trauma she experienced in her own body and those of her foremothers. Upon deeper reflection, Ursa's return resonates as her way of continuing that work and witnessing through confronting a vehicle of trauma (Mutts verbal abuse, controlling demands and later physical violence) in ways that her foremother did not narrate directly to her, but she senses"}, {"text": "or realizes. \u2018\u2018In a split second I knew what it was, in a split second of love and hate I knew what it was, and I think he might have known too.\" (p. 62) Jones leaves the reader in that moment of remembering, re-enacting and mal/attempt towards reversal. Sexual and domestic violence. The initial conflict presented in the novel is how Ursa's fall causes her to lose a fetus and her uterus. While Ursa's neighbors and friends claim that it was an accident, Ursa states that Mutt knocked her down the stairs, indicating that it was an instance of domestic violence. Ursa's mother is also hit repeatedly by Ursa's father when visiting him to return an envelope he sent with money. Since Ursa's grandmothers were raped by their slaveowners, Jones writes a violent history for all of the Corregidora women. Ursa's hysterectomy and the history of violence in her family affect how she navigates her sexuality throughout the novel. In critical essays that discuss \"Corregidora\", the theme of sexual and domestic violence is connected to the themes of trauma and history. Because the violence in Ursa's intimate relationships is reflected in the rape and trauma the Corregidora women underwent in"}, {"text": "slavery, scholars draw connections between painful collective memories and the violence in the present narrative. Specifically, Joanne Lipson Freed points out the duplication of sexual exploitation in each of the lives of each Corregidora woman. Freed ties the repetition of trauma into the collective memory of the African American community. Particularly in Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman's \"Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race\", Abdur-Rahman reads incest as a motif in contemporary Black women's literature. Moving from Baldwin to Morrison to Jones to concretize incest as motif, she encapsulates the ways in which incest as a figurative sexual arrangement is conditioned upon an unintelligibility \u2014 a \u201cdisruptive chronology\u201d, fragmented subjectivities, and traces of the tragic, the obscene, and parodic \u2014 made manifest by the line of Corregidora women that ends and finds release with Ursa (Abdur-Rahman 127). The unintelligibility of the text rests alongside her contention that black woman/motherhood and black girlhood \u201cexist along the same continuum of black female representation\u201d \u2014 such as Ursa's incapacity for to speak plainly and her reliance on the blues. Womanhood and motherhood. The Corregidora women Ursa recounts in the novel form a matrilineal ancestry. Particularly, Ursa describes the histories of her Great"}, {"text": "Gram, Gram, and Mama. Ursa describes how the Corregidora women were compelled to \"make generations,\" connecting motherhood to remembering their trauma. Ursa describes a responsibility in her family to become women by bearing children. When Ursa has a hysterectomy, she also concerns herself with how being unable to have children will affect her womanhood. Ursa's loss of a child also connects motherhood and womanhood to the violence in \"Corregidora\". Academic articles that evaluate Jones' \"Corregidora\" recurrently analyze the themes of womanhood and motherhood. Scholars consider how these two topics are connected in the experiences of the Corregidora women. Ifeona Fulani analyzes how the mother-daughter relationships in the novel frame the black female subject. Fulani takes a psychological approach to understanding this correlation, noting the influence of gender and conflict on the community. Critical response. Gayl Jones' use of language in \"Corregidora\" has been highly regarded since its publication in 1975. Particularly, critics have placed Gayl Jones among a canon of Black women writers for her manipulation of structure and speech as literary devices. Critics have also praised Jones' emphasis on the oral history of African American language. Other than the overall favorable critical response Jones has received for \"Corregidora\", the"}, {"text": "novel has been critiqued for lacking detailed physical descriptions of its characters. In an interview by Claudia Tate, Gayl Jones describes her intention to draw on the African American tradition of oral storytelling. Tate's subsequent remark that \"Corregidora\" felt like a private story in her reading forms the critique that the novel is unable to reproduce an oral history. Writers including James Baldwin and Maya Angelou have commented on \"Corregidora\" as honest and painful as well as a murky American tale (respectfully)."}, {"text": "Satyaprakash () was a Gujarati language weekly founded by social reformer and journalist Karsandas Mulji with an intention of social reform. Launched in 1855, it ran until 1861 and later was merged with \"Rast Goftar\", another newspaper published in Bombay. History. Karsandas Mulji, a social reformer and journalist, previously wrote for the \"Rast Goftar\" and \"Stribodh\" magazines, but readership of these magazines were mostly limited to Parsis. He therefore established \"Satyaprakash\" in 1855 with the help of Mangalbhai Naththubhai. He edited it while Rustomji Ranina was the publisher. His articles addressed forward Hindu caste leaders and attacked social customs and religious practises. Mulji addressed various social issues such as female education, excessive spending in pompous marriages, indecent songs sung during marriages, and the funeral ritual of chest beating. The caste leaders were unhappy about these articles and tried to excommunicate Mulji from his Kapol Vaniya caste, but could not garner support from within the community. \"Satyaprakash\" merged with the \"Rast Goftar\" in 1861, and the merged entity continued publishing under the latter name until 1921. Notable articles. Among the notable articles which Mulji wrote for the weekly was one titled \"Gulamikhat\" (), in which he criticised the sign campaign and"}, {"text": "the process of law-making by Vaishnavas so that Maharaj (religious heads) should not have to visit the court due to religious status. After publication of the article, there were some attempts to appease Mulji with large amounts of money, but these failed. Following this incident, Mulji wrote a few articles\u2014namely \"Maharajo ne vinanti\" () and \"Dharmguruo ni satta\" ()\u2014in which he openly expressed his anger. An article by Mulji published on 21 September 1860, titled (), criticised Vaishnava Archaryas (Hindu religious leaders) for their behaviour, which resulted in the Maharaj Libel Case in 1862. Reception. Vaishnava religious heads started publishing a pamphlet called \"Swadharmvardhak ane Sanshaychedak\" (). In the pamphlet, they labelled Mulji and other social reformers greedy, atheists, and idiots. In its response, \"Satyaprakash\" accused religious heads of being frauds and called their religious books poisonous. Jadunath Maharaj, Vaishnava religious head, wrote a fiery article in \"Chabuk\" and in the response, Mulji wrote . Mulji's articles led to the Maharaj Libel Case, which Mulji won."}, {"text": "Florida's 5th House district elects one member of the Florida House of Representatives. The district is represented by Shane Abbott. This district is located in the Florida panhandle, and encompasses part of the Emerald Coast. The district covers all of Walton County, Holmes County, Washington County, Jackson County, and part of northern Bay County. The largest city in the district is Marianna. As of the 2010 census, the district's population is 159,198. This district contains Chipola College, located in Marianna, and the Baptist College of Florida, located in Graceville."}, {"text": "The 2019 Ford EcoBoost 200 is a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on November 15, 2019, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 134 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the 23rd and final race of the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series season. Background. Track. Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the Verizon IndyCar Series, the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the Championship Cup Series. From 2002 to 2019, Homestead\u2013Miami Speedway hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series. Ford Motor Company sponsored all three of the season-ending races, under the names Ford EcoBoost 400, Ford EcoBoost 300, and Ford EcoBoost 200, respectively. The weekend itself was marketed as Ford Championship Weekend. The Xfinity Series held its season-ending races at Homestead from 1995 until 2020, when it was moved to Phoenix Raceway, along with NASCAR's other two series. Practice. First practice. Grant Enfinger was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of"}, {"text": "32.141 seconds and a speed of . Final practice. Stewart Friesen was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 32.664 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying. Qualifying was cancelled due to rain. Stewart Friesen was awarded the pole for the race due to his win in the previous week's race. Qualifying results. . \u2013 Championship 4 driver Race. Summary. Stewart Friesen started on pole, but Ross Chastain quickly pressured him and overtook him by the first lap. However, he was unable to pull away from Friesen and the two built up a large lead over the remainder of the field. Austin Hill caught up to them and overtook Chastain to take the stage win. Brett Moffitt won the race off pit road after Hill was blocked. Chastain caught up to Moffitt in a similar manner he did to Friesen at the beginning of the race. Hill again caught up to the leaders and passed them, remaining in the lead to take the second stage win. On lap 51, a caution was thrown for Ray Ciccarelli leaking fluid onto the track. Christian Eckes moved to the front on slightly worn tires. In the final round of"}, {"text": "green flag pit stops, Eckes pitted 10 laps before the others, while Hill stayed out for an extra 9 laps before pitting. Friesen was hit by Angela Ruch while entering his pit stall, costing him significant time. He later lacked long run speed, eliminating his chances of winning. Hill won the race by around 1.5 seconds over Matt Crafton, who became the 2019 champion despite not winning a single race during the season. Eckes finished third, giving Kyle Busch Motorsports the owner's championship. Chastain finished fourth and Moffitt finished fifth. Joe Nemechek, who started 23rd and finished 14th, broke Richard Petty's all-time start record across NASCAR's top 3 series, starting his 1,186th NASCAR race. Stage Results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 40 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 40 Final Stage Results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 54 . \u2013 Driver won the championship . \u2013 Playoffs driver"}, {"text": "The Sundarbans settlements refer to the areas of the Sundarbans that were cleared of forests for human habitation in the present North 24 Paganas and the South 24 Parganas districts in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview. As per the \"District Human Development Report\" for the South 24 Parganas, the Sundarbans area, in the southern part of the erstwhile 24 Parganas district, includes 102 deltaic islands, out of which 54 are inhabited and the rest is reserved forest. The area spread over 25,500 km2 having around 3.9 million people or about 40% of the total population of the area. According to the December 2001 census there were 271 Royal Bengal Tigers and other animals in the Indian portion of the Sundarban forest, spread across 9.630 km2. The floor of the Sundarbans varies from 0.9 m to 2.11 m above sea level. Tidal saline water from the Bay of Bengal alternatively drowns and exposes the islands twice a day throughout the year. Around 3,500 km of earthen embankments, protecting the inhabited islands, have been facing the daily onslaught in a cyclone-prone area for more than a century. Amitav Ghosh writes that, Sir Daniel Mackinnon Hamilton, a Scotsman, had travelled to"}, {"text": "Kolkata to work for the MacKinnon & McKenzie, a company with which he had family connections. The company sold tickets for P&O shipping line, then one of the largest in the world. Hamilton became head of the company and master of an immense fortune, one of the richest men in British India. Another man may have taken his money and gone away but Hamilton set his eyes on the deltaic islands in south Bengal. In 1903, he bought of the tide country from the government \u2013 it included such islands as Gosaba, Rangabelia, and Satjelia. His efforts at developing these places brought in other people into these islands. They were people who dared not only to struggle against nature but also the predators that lived there \u2013 tigers, crocodiles, sharks and lizards. They killed so many people that Hamilton gave rewards to people who killed them. In December 1932, Rabindranath Tagore visited and stayed at Gosaba in the house of Sir Daniel Hamilton. History. Our knowledge of the past of the Sundarbans area is patchy. However, various tracts of what is now the South 24 Parganas have recognisable historical antecedents. Scholars accept that the more accessible and less hostile areas"}, {"text": "of the Indian portion of the Sundarbans had human habitation till the 15-16th century. From that time, geological and tectonic movements resulted in the main course of the Ganges shifting eastward and the Padma becoming the main distributary of the Ganges. Consequently, there was a marked decline in the supply of fresh water to what is now the Indian Sundarbans. Long before the British came, there were people like Mubarra Ghazi, a fakir, who converted the forested western (left) bank of the Hooghly into paddy lands. The forests were the Sundarbans fresh water swamp forests, now virtually extinct. In the early 16th century, the Portuguese arrived on the scene. The estuarine southern parts of Bengal remained under effective control of the Portuguese pirates and free-booters. The Arakanese pirates were also there. The area got depopulated and the forests extended. With the treaty of 1757 between Mir Jafar and the East India Company, the British acquired the zamindari rights of the 24 Parganas. The area around Kolkata was uncultivated waste land and the western limit of the Sundarbans was just about 7 miles away. The British were keen to bring the Sundarbans under cultivation and convert them into revenue paying assets."}, {"text": "The forest was not given a thought. Reclamation of the Sundarbans meant surveying and mapping the area. It started in 1810. Lieutenant W.E.Morrieson and his brother Captain Hugh Morrieson, worked for about a decade, and produced the base materials on which later maps of the area were developed. Subsequently, Ensign Prinsep worked on mapping the area. Since places did not have names, he termed the geographical areas as \u201clots\u201d. In the 1830s, William Dampire and Lieutenant Hodges mapped the entire area, renumbering the lots from 1-236. \u201cPrinseps Line\u201d and \u201cDampire-Hodges Line\u201d mark the furthest limits of the Sundarbans. Ideas about conservation of forests started seeping in from the 1830s but the Sundarbans have shrunk dramatically. From a reasonable estimate of the forested area, at the beginning of the 19th century, at 6,550 sq miles or almost 17,000 sq km down to 10,217 sq km (5.955 sq km in Bangladesh and 4,262 sq km in India). Forest clearing. Clearing of the forests effectively started in 1781. The \"present settlements originate from the plan conceived by Clod Russell, then Collector General in 1771, whereby the forest land had been divided into plots to be leased out to prospective landlords. Clearing of the"}, {"text": "forest effectively started from 1781 by Tillman Henkel, then magistrate of Jessore district\". In about a century the Hingalganj, Hasnabad, Sandeshkhali I, Sandeshkhali II, Minakhan and Haroa CD blocks (all in the North 24 Parganas district in 2016), the Canning I, Canning II, Jaynagar I, Jaynagar II, Mathurapur I, Mathurapur II and Sagar CD blocks (all in the South 24 Parganas district in 2016) had been fully or substantially cleared of forests. Thereafter, much of the interiors of the Kakdwip, Namkhana, Patharpratima, Basanti, Kultali and Gosaba CD blocks were cleared for human settlement. People started moving into the area. The refugees from the erstwhile East Pakistan were the last to come in large numbers between 1951 and 1971. The Canning I, Canning II, Jaynagar I, Jaynagar II, Mathurapur I, Mathurapur II, Kakdwip and Namkhana CD blocks are a little away from the forests and are being attached/ connected to the mainland. Their conditions are similar to the other mainland CD blocks in the district, but the Basanti, Gosaba, Kultali, Patharpratima and Sagar CD blocks are largely isolated from the mainland. These islands are mostly separated from the deep forest by a river. Electric connections are rare, and transport and communications,"}, {"text": "other than river transport, are not there. Around 95% people depend on rain-fed agriculture. The Sagar CD block lies at the mouth of the Hooghly River, which carries fresh water and so things are a little different there. The sea level, around India, is estimated to be rising at 2.55 mm per year. In the last 70 years, 220 km2 of forest land has been submerged and the process continues. Poverty. As per the \"Human Development Report\" for the South 24 Parganas district, published in 2009, the poverty rates were very high in the Sundarban region with all the thirteen CD blocks registering poverty ratios above 30% and eight CD blocks had more than 40% of the population in the BPL category. The Sundarban region remains the most backward region in terms of quality of life. As per rural household survey in 2005, the proportion of households in the South 24 Parganas with poverty rates below poverty line was 34.11%, way above the state and national poverty ratios. As per the Human Development Report for North 24 Parganas district, the economic scenario is equally gloomy, except for Hasnabad and Sandeshkhali II CD blocks, both of which had population below poverty"}, {"text": "line at slightly below 30%. Two blocks had between 30 and 40%, one between 40 and 50% and the highest at 59.7%. Physiographically the Sundarbans consist of the marine delta zone. As the sea receded southwards, in the sub-recent geological period, a large low-lying plain got exposed. Both tidal inflows and the rivers have been depositing sediments in this plain. In the Sundarbans overwhelming majority of the population is dependent on agriculture. The saline soil of the area is unfit for cultivation. Moreover, the irrigation facilities have not been extended to a satisfactory scale. Agriculture mostly remains a mono-cropped activity. Dominique Lapierre's floating hospitals. Four launches with doctors carrying medicines, sophisticated portable X-ray and echo-cardiograph machines, provided by the French author Dominique Lapierre move along the waterways of the Sundarbans to its furthest corners. Residents of such places as Sandeshkhali, Basanti, Gosaba and Kultali have expressed their gratitude to him for his support when he came in 2004. Since 1981, Lapierre has dedicated half of his royalty earnings from his books to sustain a humanitarian movement in the slums of Kolkata and the deprived areas of rural Bengal. For his work, Lapierre was made a citizen of honour of Kolkata."}, {"text": "He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the 2008 Republic Day honours list. As of 2007, over the years Lapierre's foundation has an enviable record in the Sunderbans: 100,000 people with tuberculosis have been treated, floating operation rooms have carried out 3,000 operations, 9,000 children have been treated for leprosy and they perform 30 cataract operations per day. A major portion of his book royalties amounting to about $3 million annually was spent in the Sundarbans, As of 2010, Lapiere\u2019s foundation was operating 14 projects in India mostly in the Sundarbans. His floating dispensaries covered 54 islands. He is seeking support for projects for the poor, but the response is not there. He says, \u201cI want Indians to be concerned about the poor. After all, isn\u2019t it their country too?\u201d"}, {"text": "Vikramarka Vijayam is a 1971 Indian Telugu-language folk film under the direction of Giduturi Suryam. Ramakrishna, S. V. Rangarao and Mannava Balaya played the lead roles."}, {"text": "officially translated into English as the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State was a document presented on 11 November 1933 at the Albert Hall in Leipzig. It had statements in German, English, Italian, and Spanish by selected German academics and included an appendix of signatories. The purge to remove academics and civil servants with Jewish ancestry began with the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, passed on 7 April 1933. The vow of allegiance was signed by those who remained, in support of Nazi Germany. Philosopher Martin Heidegger in his inaugural lecture in May 1933 as rector of the University of Freiburg, and who was later in October appointed \"F\u00fchrer of the university\", said (translated): \"The much celebrated \"academic freedom\" is being banished from the German university; for this freedom was not genuine, since it was only negative. It meant primarily freedom from concern, arbitrariness of intentions and inclinations, lack of restraint in what was done and left undone. The concept of freedom of the German is now brought back to its truth\". After World War II, Heidegger was dismissed from the university"}, {"text": "and banned from teaching after denazification hearings at Freiburg. List of institutions. The academics of the following institutions were included as signatories: Signatories. There were nearly 900 signatories to the document including the following professors and academics apart from some independent scholars. A. Karl von der Aa (Leipzig ), Narzi\u00df Ach (G\u00f6ttingen psychologist), Eberhard Ackerknecht (Leipzig veterinarian), Gustav Aeckerlein (Freiberg physicist), Friedrich Ahlfeld (Marburg geologist), Karl Albrecht (Hamburg), Karl Alnor (Kiel), Hermann Altrock (Leipzig sports trainer), Friedrich Alverdes (Marburg zoologist), Georg Ansch\u00fctz (Hamburg psychologist), Christian Aretz (Bonn scientist), Emil Artin (Hamburg mathematician), Richard Augst (Dresden) B. Ernst Baars (Marburg chemist), Adolf Bach (Bonn Germanist), Heinrich Barkhausen (Dresden physicist), Sophie Barrelet (Hamburg), Julius Bartels (Eberswald geophysicist), Karl Hugo Friedrich Bauer (Leipzig chemist), Lorenz Bauer (Theologian), Friedrich Baumann (Marburg physician), Karl Baumann (Bonn physicist), Max Baur (Marburg pharmacist), Werner Bavendamm (Dresden botanist), Fritz Beckert (Dresden), Hermann Beenken (Leipzig art historian), Paul Johannes Beger (Hannover mineralogist), Johannes Behm (G\u00f6ttingen theologist), Carl Julius Peter Behr (Hamburg ophthalmologist), Hans Hermann Bennhold (Hamburg), Ewald Berge (Leipzig veterinarian), Walther Bergt (Dresden geologist), Erhard Berndt (Leipzig agronomist), Georg Berndt (Dresden physicist), Luise Berthold (Marburg Germanist), Helmut Berve (Leipzig historian), Theodor Beste (Dresden administrator), Erich Bethe (Leipzig philologist), Kurt"}, {"text": "Beyer (Dresden civil engineer), Robert Bierich (Hamburg physician), Wilhelm Biltz (Hannover chemist), Ludwig Binder (Dresden electrotechnician), Lothar Birckenbach (Clausthal chemist), Herbert Birtner (Marburg musicologist), Fritz Bl\u00e4ttner (Hamburg teacher), Max Le Blanc (Leipzig chemist), Edwin Blanck (G\u00f6ttingen soil scientist), Wilhelm Blaschke (Austrian mathematician), Hermann Block (Hamburger teacher), Otto Blum (Hannover civil engineer), Werner Blume (G\u00f6ttingen anatomist), Paul B\u00f6ckmann (Hamburg Germanist), Ernst Boehm (Leipzig teacher), Gerhard Bohne (Kiel), Gerrit Bol (Dutch Mathematician, Hamburg), Otto Friedrich Bollnow (G\u00f6ttingen philosopher), Conrad Borchling (Hamburg Germanist), Bruno Borowski (Leipzig Anglicist), Wilhelm B\u00f6ttger (Leipzig chemist), Kurt Brand (Marburg pharmacist), Erich Brandenburg (Leipzig historian), Wilhelm Braeucker (Hamburg surgeon), Gustav Brandes (Dresden zoologist), Ludolph Brauer (Hamburg aviation medicine specialist), Friedrich Braun (Leipzig Germanist), Hermann Braune (Hannover chemist), Erich Br\u00e4unlich (Leipzig orientalist), Gustav Bredemann (Hamburg agronomist), Hellmut Bredereck (Leipzig chemist), Franz Brenthel (Freiberg metallurgist), Roland Brinkmann (Hamburger geographer), Georg Brion (1873\u20131950, Freiberg), Joachim Brock (Marburg pediatrician), Johannes Brodersen (Hamburg anatomist), Ernst Broermann (Bonn psychologist), Paul Brohmer (Kiel biologist), Leo Bruhns (Leipzig art historian), Otto Brunck (Freiberg chemist), Curt Brunst (Dresden), Eberhard Buchwald (Danziger physicist), G\u00fcnther Budelmann, Alfred Burgardsmeier (Bonner Kirchenhistoriker), Felix Burkhardt (Leipzig statistician), Otto Burmeister (Rostock teacher), Werner Burmeister (Hamburg art-historian), Adolf Busemann (Dresden aeronatician), Adolf Butenandt (Danzig Chemist"}, {"text": "and later Nobel prize winner) C\u2013D. Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen (G\u00f6ttingen theologian), Ernst Carlsohn (Leipzig chemist), Wilhelm Cauer (G\u00f6ttingen mathematician), Peter Claussen (Marburg botanist), Paul Cohrs (Leipzig veterinarian), Hermann Cranz (Mechanical engineer, Hannover), Nikolaus Creutzburg (Geographer, Danzig), Rudolf Criegee (Marburg chemist), Adolf Dabelow (Marburg physician), Hans Dachs (Regensburg), Petrus Dausch (Theologian), Rudolf Degkwitz (senior) (Hamburg physician), Friedrich Delekat (Dresden theologian), Alfred Dengler (Eberswald forester), Georg Dettmar (Hannover technician), Gustaf Deuchler (Hamburg teacher), Paul Deutsch (Leipzig economist), Max Deutschbein (Marburg Anglicist), Hans Diller (Hamburg philologist), Rudolf Dittler (Marburg ophthalmologist), Ottmar Dittrich (Leipzig linguist), Walter D\u00f6pp (Marburg botanist), Hans D\u00f6rries (G\u00f6ttingen geographer), Carl Dolezalek (Civil engineer, Hannover), Heinz Dotterweich (Dresden zoologist), Friedrich Drenckhahn (Rostock teacher), Johannes von den Driesch (Bonn teacher), Karlfried Graf D\u00fcrckheim (Kiel psychologist), Herbert W. Duda (Leipzig Orientalist), Gerhard Duters E. August Eber (Leipzig veterinarian), Margarete Eberhardt (Hamburg teacher), Adolf Eberle (Moral theologian), Georg von Ebert (N\u00fcrnberg), Friedrich August Ebrard (Hamburg law historian), Heinrich Eddelb\u00fcttel (Rostock biologist), Richard Egenter (Theologian), Rudolf Ehrenberg (G\u00f6ttingen biologist), Walter Ehrenstein (Danzig psychologist), Hermann August Eidmann (Hannoversch M\u00fcnden, entomologist), Karl Eimer (Marburg physician, Otto Eiselin (Danzig architect), Ludwig Eisenhofer (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Curt Eisfeld (Hamburg administrator), Ernst Elster (Marburg Germanist), Otto Emicke (Freiberg mineralogist), Josef"}, {"text": "Engert (Regensburg philosopher), Willi Enke (Marburg psychiatrist), Wilhelm Ernst (Hamburg), Ben Esser (Bonn music teacher), Erich Everth (Leipzig publicist) F. Theodor Fahr (Hamburg pathologist), Rudolf Fahrner (Marburg Germanist), Ferdinand Fehling (L\u00fcbeck-Hamburger historian), Karl Feist (G\u00f6ttinger pharmacist), Friedrich Feld (Berlin), Rainer Fetscher (Dresden geneticist), Fritz Fichtner (Dresden art historian), Paul Ficker (Dresden teacher), Otto Fiederling (Hannover architect), Carl August Fischer (Hamburg), Eugen Fischer (physician), Friedrich Fischer (TH Hannover), Otto Flachsbart (Technician TU Hannover), Ulrich Fleck (G\u00f6ttingen neurologist), Hans Fliege (Marburg dentist), Wilhelm Flitner (Hamburg teacher), (Hamburg Japanologist), Gustav Fl\u00fcgel (Danzig), Johann Ulrich Folkers (Rostock historian), Alfred Forke (Hamburg Sinologist), G\u00fcnther Franz (Marburg historian), Otto Franzius (Civil engineer, Hannover), Hans Freese (Dresden architect), Julius Fressel (Hamburg gynaecologist), Joseph Freundorfer (Bishop of Augsburg), Hans Freyer (Leipzig sociologist), Walter Freytag (Hamburg), Ernst Friedrich (Leipzig geographer), Johannes Friedrich (Leipzig Rector), Theodor Frings (Leipzig Germanist), Otto Emil Fritzsche (Freiberg engineer), Gotthold Frotscher (Danzig musicologist), Hugo Fuchs (G\u00f6ttingen anatomist), Vinzenz Fuchs (theologian), Erwin Fues (Hannover physicist) G. Hans-Georg Gadamer (Marburg philosopher), Kurt Gaede (Hannover civil engineer), Paul Gast (Hannover geographer), Julius Gebhard (Hamburg teacher), Arnold Gehlen (Leipzig sociologist), Willy Gehler (Dresden civil engineer), Hans Gehrig (Dresden), Oscar Gehrig (Rostock art historian), Karl August Geiger (moralist), Otto Gei\u00dfler"}, {"text": "(Hannover ), Wilhelm Gei\u00dfler (Dresden civil engineer), Felix Genzmer (Marburg), Herbert Gerdessen (1892\u2013 , Rostock), Ernst Gehrhardt (forest researcher), Hans Geyr von Schweppenburg (forest researcher), Gustav Giemsa (Hamburg chemist), Wilhelm Giese (Hamburg), Josef Giesen (Bonn art historian), Otto Glauning (Leipzig), Engelhardt Glimm (Danzig chemist), Hermann Gmelin (Danzig romanist), Otto Goebel (Hannover), Kurt G\u00f6cke (Dresden orthopaedist), August G\u00f6tte (Clausthal geologist), Arthur Golf (Leipzig), Fritz Goos (Hamburg physicist), Hugo Grau (Leipzig veterinarian), Georg Grimpe (Leipzig zoologist), Waldemar Grix (Danzig electronics engineer), Franz Groebbels (Hamburg physician), Walter Gro\u00dfe (Leipzig economist), H. Gro\u00dfmann (G\u00f6ttingen geneticist), Hermann Gro\u00dfmann (Leipzig economist), Rudolf Grossmann (Romanist) (Hamburg), Eduard Gr\u00fcneisen (Marburg physicist), Georg Wilhelm Gr\u00fcter (Marburg ophthalmologist), Herbert Grundmann (Leipzig historian), Georg Grunwald (Regensburg theologian), Adolf G\u00fcntherschulze (Dresden physicist) H. Rudolf Habermann (1884\u20131941, Hamburg dermatologist), Fedor Haenisch (Hamburg radiologist), Reinhard Haferkorn (Danzig Anglicist), Konstantin von Haffner (Hamburg zoologist), J\u00f6rgen Hansen (Kiel geographer), Karl Hansen (Hamburg teacher), Richard Hanssen (Hamburg ophthalmologist), Richard Harder (G\u00f6ttingen), Helmut Hasse (Marburg mathematician), Kurt Hassert (Dresden geographer), Edwin Hauberrisser (G\u00f6ttingen dentist), Herbert Haupt (Leipzig veterinarian), Johann Nepomuk Hebensperger (historian), Erich Hecke (Hamburg mathematician), Otto Heckmann (G\u00f6ttingen astronomer), Enno Heidebroek (Dresden engineer), Martin Heidegger (philosopher), Robert Heidenreich (Leipzig archaeologist), Georg Heidingsfelder (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Alfred Heiduschka (Dresden"}, {"text": "food chemist), Willi Heike (1880\u20131944, Freiberg metallurgist), Franz Hein (Leipzig), Wilhelm Heinitz (Hamburg musicologist), Rudolf Heinz (Hamburg), Heinrich Heiser (Dresden engineer), Emil Heitz (Hamburg), Sven Helander (economist), Gustav Heller (Leipzig chemist), Karl Helm (Marburg Germanist), Eberhard Hempel (Dresden art historian), Johannes Hempel (G\u00f6ttingen theologian), Friedrich Hempelmann (Leipzig zoologist), Ernst Hentschel (Hamburg zoologist), Eduard Hermann (G\u00f6ttingen linguist), Ernst Hertel (Leipzig ophthalmologist), Johannes Hertel (Leipzig Indologist), Julius Herweg (Hannover physicist), Alois Herzog (Dresden textile engineer), Franz Heske (Dresden forester), Herbert Hesmer (Eberswald forester), Paul Hesse (G\u00f6ttingen agronomist), Theodor Hetzer (Leipzig art historian), Max Heuwieser (church historian), Johannes Erich Heyde (Rostock philosopher), Theodor Heynemann (Hamburg gynaecologist), Emil Hilarius (Dresden teacher), Heinrich Hildebrand (Marburg), Leo von Hibler (Anglicist in Leipzig and Dresden), Emanuel Hirsch (G\u00f6ttingen theologian), Alexander H\u00f6fer (Dresden sculptor), Emil H\u00f6gg (Dresden architect), Otto H\u00f6lder (Leipzig mathematician), Cornelius H\u00f6lk (Marburg teacher), Robert H\u00f6ltje (Danzig chemist), Alexander Hoffmann (Leipzig administrator), Hans Hoffmann (Hamburg), Walter Hoffmann (Freiberg), Albert von Hofmann (Marburg historian), Erich Hofmann (G\u00f6ttingen linguist), Johannes Hofmann (librarian, Leipzig), Paul Hofmann(Dresden), Gustav Hopf (Hamburg dermatologist), Carl Horst (Marburg art historian), Joseph Anton Huber (Dillingen), Alfred H\u00fcbner (G\u00f6ttingen Germanist), Valerius H\u00fcttig (Dresden aircraft engineer), Reinhard Hugershoff (Dresden geodesist ), Karl Humburg (Hannover technician) I\u2013J. Edgar"}, {"text": "Irmscher (Hamburg botanist), Otto Israel-Oesterhelt (Dresden geodesist ), Bernhard Iversen (Kiel music teacher), Arnold Jacobi (Dresden zoologist), Eduard Jacobshagen (Marburg anatomist), Peter Jaeck (Marburg sports researcher), Fritz J\u00e4ger (Hamburg sinologist), Erich Jaensch (Marburg psychologist), Walther Jaensch (Berlin sports medicine), Eduard Jahn (botanist), Maximilian Jahrm\u00e4rker (Marburg psychologist), Eduard von Jan (Leipzig Romanist), Christian Janentzky (Dresden Germanist), Heinz Janert (Leipzig soil scienst), Harro de Wet Jensen (Marburg Anglicist), Christian Jensen (Hamburg physicist), Peter Jensen (Marburg Hittitologist), Gerhard de Jonge (Danzig engineer), Wilhelm Hermann Jost (Dresden architect), Erich Jung (Marburg law expert), Heinrich Junker (Leipzig linguist), Hubert Junker (theologian) K. Felix K\u00e4mpf (Leipzig physicist), Alfred Kaestner (Dresden zoologist), Alfred Kal\u00e4hne (Danzig physicist), Paul Kanold (Hannover architect), Helmuth Kanter (Hamburg geographer), Oskar Fritz Karg (Leipzig Germanist), August Karolus (Leipzig physicist), Walter Kayser (Berlin sports researcher), Eduard Keeser (Hamburg pharmacologist), Karl Kegel (Freiberg mining engineer), Erwin Kehrer (1874\u20131959, Marburg gynaecologist), Egon Keining (Hamburg dermatologist), Gustav Keppeler (Hannover chemist), Otto Kestner (Hamburg physician), Karl Kiefer (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Hans Kienle (G\u00f6ttingen astronomer), Sebastian Killermann (PTH Regensburg, theologian), Heinz Kindermann (Danzig), Karl Kindler (Hamburg pharmacologist), Paul Kirn (Leipzig historian), Walter Rudolf Kirschbaum (Hamburg neurologist), Otto Kirschmer (Dresden physicist), Julius Kister (Hamburg bacteriologist), Rudolf Klapp (Marburg surgeon), Heinrich Klebahn"}, {"text": "(Hamburg mycologist), Johannes Klein (Marburg), Ludwig Klein (Hannover machine maker), Otto Klemm (Leipzig psychologist), Wilhelm Klemm (Danzig), Felix Klewitz (Marburg physician), Martin Klimmer (Leipzig veterinarian), Erich Klinge (Berlin-Charlottenburg), August Klingenheben (Hamburg Africanist), Friedrich Klingner (Leipzig philologist), Otto Kloeppel (Danzig architect), August Klughardt (1887\u20131970, Dresden optician), Friedrich Knauer (Hamburg), Alfred Kneschke (Dresden mathematician), Hans Otto Kneser (Marburg physicist), Werner Kniehahn (Dresden machine maker), Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (Hamburg Internist), Wilhelm Knoll (Hamburg sports medicine specialist), Emil Koch (Hamburg geographer), Peter Paul Koch (Hamburg physicist), Carl Walter Kockel (Leipzig geologist), Paul Koebe (Leipzig mathematician), Franz K\u00f6gler (Freiberg civil engineer), Walter K\u00f6nig (Dresden), Max Koernicke (Bonn agronomist), Alfred K\u00f6rte (Leipzig philologist), Rudolf K\u00f6tzschke (Leipzig historian), Friedrich Kolbeck (Freiberg geologist), Willy Kolz (Rostock teacher), Harald Koschmieder (Danzig meteorologist), Walter Kossel (Danzig physicist), Franz Kossmat (Leipzig geologist), Gerhard Kowalewski (Dresden mathematician), Maximilian Krafft (Marburg mathematician), Werner Krauss (Romanist) (Marburg), Erich Krenkel (Leipzig geologist), Ernst Kretschmer (Marburg psychiatrist), Julius Krieg (Regensburg theologian), Martin Kr\u00f6ger (Leipzig chemist), Felix Krueger (Leipzig psychologist), Fritz Kr\u00fcger (Romanist) (Hamburg), Gerhard Kr\u00fcger (Marburg), Friedrich K\u00fcch (Marburg archivist), Karl K\u00fcpfm\u00fcller (Danzig electrotechnician), Hermann K\u00fcmmell (Hamburg surgeon), Josef K\u00fcrzinger (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Hans Kuhn (Marburger Germanist), Friedrich Kutscher (Marburg), Karl Kutzbach (Dresden machinist) L. Max Otto"}, {"text": "Lagally (Dresden mathematician), Albrecht Langel\u00fcddeke (Hamburg psychiatrist), Otto Lauffer (Hamburg folklorist), Fritz Laves (G\u00f6ttingen mineralogist), Joseph Lechner (Eichst\u00e4tt canon), Kurt Leese (Hamburg philosopher), Bruno Lehmann (Dresden), Max Rudolf Lehmann (N\u00fcrnberg economist), Rudolf Lehmann (Leipzig ethnologist), Walther Lehmann (Hamburg), Erich Lehmensick (Kiel teacher), Hans Lemmel (Eberswalde), Wilhelm Lenz (Hamburg physicist), Philipp Lersch (Leipzig psychologist), E. H. Lieber, Otto Lienau (Danzig ship builder), Paul Lindemann (Hamburg), Joseph Lippl (Regensburg Old Testament scholar), Hans Lipps (Marburg philosopher), Friedrich Lipsius (philosopher), Theodor Litt (philosopher), Helmut Loebell (Marburg physician), Ernst Lommatzsch (Marburg philologist), Hans Lorenz (Danzig engineer), Alexander Lorey (Hamburg radiologist), Alfred Lottermoser (Dresden chemist), Heinrich Lottig (Hamburg physiologist), Rudolf L\u00fctgens (Hamburg geographer), Robert Luther (Dresden) M. Gerhard Mackenroth (Marburg jurist), Johannes Madel (Freiberg geologist), Dietrich Mahnke (Marburg philosopher), Erich Manegold (G\u00f6ttingen chemist), Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt (Folklorist), Otto Mattes (Marburg zoologist), Eduard Maurer (Freiberg metallurgist), Friedrich Mauz (Marburg psychiatrist), Kurt May (G\u00f6ttingen Germanist), Martin Mayer (Hamburg physician), Franz Xaver Mayr (Eichst\u00e4tt), Hans Mayer-Wegelin (Hannoversch M\u00fcnder forest researcher), Harry Maync (Marburg Germanist), Rudolf Meerwarth (Leipzig statistician), Hans Meerwein (Marburg chemist), Carl Meinhof (Hamburg Africanist), Edwin Meister (Dresden textile engineer), Konrad Mellerowicz (Berlin economist), Gerhard Menz (Leipzig economist), Heinrich Menzel (Dresden chemist), Eugen von Mercklin (Hamburg archaeologist),"}, {"text": "Walther Merk (Marburg jurist), Adolf Meyer (Hamburg biologist), Hans Meyer (Hamburg), Heinrich Meyer-Benfey (Hamburg Germanist), Adolf Meyn (Leipzig veterinarian), Fritz Micheel (G\u00f6ttingen chemist), Eugen Michel (Hannover architect), Heinrich von Minnigerode (Marburg jurist), Hermann Mirbt (G\u00f6ttingen jurist), Waldemar Mitscherlich (G\u00f6ttingen political scientist), Max Mitterer (Passau theologian), Walther Mitzka (Marburg linguist), Willy M\u00f6bius (Leipzig physicist), Hans Georg M\u00f6ller (Hamburg), Eugen Mogk (Leipzig Nordist), Bruno Moll (Leipzig economist), Wilhelm Mommsen (Marburg historian), Max Momsen (Kiel teacher), Lorenz Morsbach (G\u00f6ttingen Anglicist), Adolf Muesmann (Dresden architect), Peter M\u00fchlens (Hamburg public health), Conrad M\u00fcller (Hannover mathematician), Erich M\u00fcller (Chemist), Friedrich M\u00fcller (Dresden), Kurt M\u00fcller (G\u00f6ttingen), Wilhelm M\u00fcller-Lenhartz (Leipzig agronomist), Paul Mulzer (Hamburg dermatologist), Karl Mylius (Hamburg) N. Alwin Nachtweh (Hannover engineer), Adolph N\u00e4gel (Dresden engineer), Emil Naetsch (Dresden mathematician), Ernst Georg Nauck (Hamburg physician), Hans Naujoks (Marburg gynaecologist), Friedrich Neesen (Danzig civil engineer), Walter Nehm (Clausthal mine surveyor), Harald Nehrkorn (Hamburg mathematician), Friedrich Wilhelm Neuffer (Dresden civil engineer), Willy Neuling (Hamburg economist), Ernst Richard Neumann (Marburg mathematician), Friedrich Neumann (Germanist) (G\u00f6ttingen), Johannes Neumann (Hamburg veterinarian), Kurt Neumann (Hannover engineer), Rudolf Otto Neumann (Hamburg bacteriologist), Karl Nieberle (Leipzig veterinarian), Arthur Philipp Nikisch (Dresden jurist), Hermann Noack (Hamburg), Johannes Nobel (Marburg Indologist), Bernhard Nocht (Hamburg tropical medicine specialist),"}, {"text": "Max Nordhausen (Marburg botanist) O\u2013P. Karl Justus Obenauer (Leipzig Germanist), Erich Obst (Hannover geographer), Franz Oehlecker (Hamburg haematologist), Julius Oelkers (Hannoversch M\u00fcnder forest researcher), Fritz Oesterlen (Hannover engineer), Wolfgang Ostwald (Leipzig chemist), Max Pagenstecher (Hamburg jurist, Georg Pallaske (Leipzig veterinarian), Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia (Hamburg phonetician), Erwin Papperitz (Freiberg mathematician), Erich Parnitzke (Kiel art teacher), Enrique Paschen (Hamburg physician), Siegfried Passarge (Hamburg geographer and folklorist), Walther Pauer (Dresden energy researcher), Gustav Pauli (Hamburg art historian), Friedrich Peem\u00f6ller (Hamburg physician), Balduin Penndorf (Leipzig economist), Hans Pesta (Hamburg teacher), Rudolf Peter (Hamburg teacher), Ulrich Peters (Kiel rector), Richard Petersen (Danzig engineer), Hans Petersson (Hamburg mathematician), Robert Petsch (Hamburg Germanist), Heinrich Pette (Hamburg neurologist), Wilhelm Pfannenstiel (Marburg eugenicist), Georg Pfeilschifter (M\u00fcnchen church historian), Kurt Pietzsch (Leipzig geologist), Wilhelm Pinder (M\u00fcnchen art historian), Hans Plischke (G\u00f6ttingen ethnologist), Ernst Pohlhausen (Danzig mathematician), Hermann Potthoff (Hannover engineer), Georg Prange (Hannover mathematician), Julius Precht (Hannover physicist), Heinrich Prell (Dresden forester), Anton von Premerstein (Marburg historian), Edgar Pr\u00f6bster (Leipzig orientalist), Arthur Pr\u00f6ll (Hannover aircraft engineer), Arthur Pr\u00fcfer (Leipzig musicologist) R. Paul Rabe (Hamburg), Michael Rackl (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Georg Raederscheidt (Director of the Bonn academy of pedagogy), Berthold Rassow (Leipzig chemist), Fritz Rauda (Dresden architect), Hans Rebel (G\u00f6ttingen dentist), Otto Reche"}, {"text": "(Leipzig anthropologist), Joachim von Reckow (Marburg dentist), Konstantin Reichardt (Leipzig Nordist), Eduard Reichenow (Hamburg biologist), Ferdinand Reiff (Marburg chemist), Adolf Rein (Hamburg historian), Hermann Rein (G\u00f6ttingen physician), Richard Reinhardt (Leipzig veterinarian), Richard Reisig (Leipzig teacher), Viktor Rembold (Danzig ship builder), Heinrich Remy (Hamburg chemist), Theodor Remy (Bonn forester), Oscar Reuther (Dresden archaeologist), Johannes Max Hugo Richter (Leipzig), Paul Riebesell (Hamburg actuary), Wilhelm Rieder (Hamburg surgeon), August Rippel (G\u00f6ttingen microbiologist), Curt Risch (Hannover railway engineer), Eberhard Rimann (Dresden geologist), Curt Risch (Hannover civil engineer), Joachim Ritter (Hamburg philosopher), Erich Rix (Marburg pathologist), Ernst Roedelius (Hamburg surgeon), Karl R\u00f6der (Hannover engineer), Fritz R\u00f6ssel (Hamburg physician), Georg Rohde (Marburg philologist), Hermann Rose (Hamburg geologist), Heinrich Roth (Elektrotechnician) (Danzig, 1880\u20131945), Konrad Rubner (Dresden forester), Hans Rudolphi (Leipzig geographer), Georg R\u00fcth (Dresden engineer), Alfred Ruete (Marburg dermatologist), Wilhelm Ruhland (Leipzig botanist), Max Rumpf (N\u00fcrnberg sociologist), Hermann Gustav Runge (Hamburg physician) Sa\u2013Sch. Ewald Sachsenberg (Dresden academic administrator), Horst von Sanden (Hannover mathematician), Curt Sandig (Leipzig economist), Heinrich Sauer (Hamburg), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (Berlin physician), Erich Sch\u00e4fer (N\u00fcrnberg economist), Karl Theodor Sch\u00e4fer (Regensburg theologian), Wilhelm Sch\u00e4perclaus (Eberswald zoologist), Carl Schall (Leipzig chemist), Georg Schaltenbrand (Hamburg neurologist), Johannes Scheffler (Dresden), Johannes Scheiber (Leipzig chemist), Walter Scheidt (Hamburg eugenicist), Georg"}, {"text": "Scheller (N\u00fcrnberg), Martin Schenck (Leipzig chemist), Harald Schering (Hannover technician), Siegmund Schermer (G\u00f6ttingen veterinarian), Karl-Hermann Scheumann (Leipzig geologist), Carl Arthur Scheunert (Leipzig veterinarian), Eberhard Freiherr von Scheurl (N\u00fcrnberg jurist), Martin Schieblich (Leipzig veterinarian), Ernst Schiebold (Leipzig mineralogist), Carl Schiffner (Freiberg metallurgist), Ludwig Schiller (Leipzig physicist), Bernhard Schilling (Dresden mathematician), Friedrich Schilling (Danzig mathematician), Werner Schingnitz (Leipzig philosopher), Arthur Schleede (Leipzig chemist), Carl Schlieper (Marburg zoologist), Josef Schmid (Dillingen theologian), Ernst Schmidt (Danzig physicist), Harry Schmidt (Leipzig chemist), Johannes Schmidt (Leipzig veterinarian), Jonas Schmidt (G\u00f6ttingen zoologist), Werner Schmidt (Eberswalde forest researcher), Wolfgang Schmidt-Hidding (Marburg Anglicist), G. Schmitthenner, Eugen Schmitz (Dresden musicologist), Leonhard Schm\u00f6ller (Passau theologian), Friedrich Schneider (Bonn), Hermann Schneider (Leipzig philosopher), Paul Schneider (Hamburg), Wilhelm Schneider-Windm\u00fcller (Bonn), Franz Schob (Dresden psychologist), Roland Scholl (Dresden), Richard Scholz (Leipzig historian), Richard Schorr (Hamburg astronomer), Gerhard Schott (Hamburg oceanographer), Hugo Schottm\u00fcller (Hamburg bacteriologist), Friedrich Schreiber (Dresden), Alfred Schr\u00f6der (Dillingen theologian), Bruno Schr\u00f6der (Dresden archaeologist), Edward Schr\u00f6der (G\u00f6ttingen Germanist), Joseph Schr\u00f6ffer (Eichst\u00e4tt theologian), Paul Schubring (Hannover art historian), Walther Schubring (Hamburg Indologist), Levin Ludwig Sch\u00fccking (Leipzig Anglicist), Alfred Sch\u00fcz (Hamburg historian), Hans Schulten (Hamburg internist), Bruno Schultz (Dresden economist), Helmut Schultz (Leipzig, musicologist), Ernst Schultze (Leipzig), Walter Schultze (Hamburg teacher), Leonhard Schultze-Jena (Marburg zoologist),"}, {"text": "Otto Theodor Schulz (Leipzig historian), Alfred Schulze (Marburg Romanist), Franz Arthur Schulze (Marburg physicist), Otto Schulze (Danzig), Gerhard Schulze-Pillot (Danzig engineer), Paul Schulz-Kiesow (Hamburg researcher), Rudolf Schulz-Schaeffer (Marburg jurist), Friedrich Schumacher (Geologist, Freiberg), Otto Schumm (Hamburg chemist), Kurt Schwabe (Dresden chemist), Carl Leopold Schwarz (Hamburg public health specialist), Paul Schwarz (Leipzig Orientalist), Bernhard Schweitzer (Leipzig archaeologist), Alfred Schwenkenbecher (Marburg Internist), Friedrich Schwerd (Hannover engineer), Wilhelm Schwinning (Dresden metallurgist) Se-Sz. Wilhelm Seedorf (G\u00f6ttingen agroeconomist), Walter Seiz (Danzig engineer), Emil Sieg (G\u00f6ttingen Indo-Germanist), Arthur Simon (Dresden chemist), Aladar Skita (Hannover chemist), Alexander Snyckers (Belgian linguist), Emil S\u00f6rensen (Dresden engineer), Max Graf zu Solms (Marburg sociologist), Julius Sommer (Danzig mathematician), Curt Sonnenschein (Hamburg tropical medicine specialist), Adolf Spamer (Dresden Germanist), Curt Sprehn (Leipzig veterinarian), Paul Ssymank (G\u00f6ttingen historian), Franz Stadtm\u00fcller (G\u00f6ttingen anatomist), Martin Stammer (Rostock theologian), Otto Hermann Steche (Leipzig zoologist), Kurt Steinbart (Marburg art historian), Martha Steinert (Kiel teacher), Wilhelm Steinkopf (Dresden chemist), Edmund E. Stengel (Marburg historian), Hermann Stephani (Marburg musicologist), Johannes Evangelist Stigler (Eichst\u00e4tt mathematician), Hans Stobbe (Leipzig chemist), Karl St\u00f6ckl (Regensburg physicist), Rose Stoppel (Hamburg botanist), Werner Straub (Dresden psychologist), Reinhard Strecker (Eberswald), Wilhelm Strecker (Marburg chemist), Rudolf Streller (Leipzig economist), Hermann Stremme (Danzig soil scientist), Bernhard Struck (Dresden"}, {"text": "folklorist), Fritz St\u00fcckrath (Hamburg teacher), Otto Stutzer (Freiberg geologist), Paul Sudeck (Hamburg surgeon), Heinrich S\u00fcchting (Hannoversch M\u00fcnden soil scientist), Karl S\u00fcpfle (Dresden public health expert), Heinrich Sulze (Dresden civil engineer), Karl Friedrich Suter (Leipzig art historian) T\u2013U. Ernst Tams (Hamburg geophysicist), Jehangir S. Tevadia (Hamburg Indologist), Horst Teichmann (Dresden physicist), Fritz Terhalle (Hamburg economist), Adolf Teuscher (Dresden teacher), Karl Thalheim (Leipzig economist), Alfred Thiel (Marburg chemist), Hermann Thiersch (G\u00f6ttingen archaeologist), Georg Thilenius (Hamburg folklorist), Arthur Thost (Hamburg physician), William Threlfall (British Mathematician in Dresden), Friedrich Tobler (Dresdnen botanist), Maximilian Toepler (Dresden physicist), Rudolf Tomaschek (Marburg physicist), Reinhold Trautmann (Leipzig Slavist), Erich Trefftz (Dresden mathematician), Emil Treptow (Freiberg mining engineer), Karl Tripp (Marburg biologist), Walter Ehrenreich Tr\u00f6ger (Dresden mineralogist), Carl von Tyszka (Hamburg economist), Hans Ueberschaar (Leipzig Japanologist), Jakob Johann von Uexk\u00fcll (Hamburg environmental researcher), Walther Uffenorde (Marburg physician), Wolfgang Heinz Uhlitzsch (Freiberg), Egon Ullrich (Marburg Mathematician), Hermann Ullrich (Leipzig botanist), Adalbert von Unruh (G\u00f6ttingen jurist) V. Siegfried Valentiner (Clausthal physicist), Max Vers\u00e9 (Marburg physician), Wilhelm Vershofen (Economist), Wilhelm Ernst Vetter (Dresden theologian), Ernst Vetterlein (Hannover architect), Hermann Vogel (G\u00f6ttingen agronomist), Paul Vogel (1877\u20131960; Leipzig teacher), Richard Vogel (Dresden), Rudolf Vogel (G\u00f6ttingen physicist), Sebastian Vogl (Passau historian), Eckhardt Vogt (Marburg physicist),"}, {"text": "Walter Voigtl\u00e4nder (Dresden teacher), Hans Volkelt (Leipzig psychologist), Wilhelm Volz (Leipzig geographer), Friedrich Vo\u00df (G\u00f6ttingen entomologist), Otto Voss (Hamburg neurosurgeon) W. Friedrich Wachtsmuth (Marburg art historian), Kurt Wagner (Marburg Germanist), Friedrich August Wahl (Marburg gynaecologist), Gustav Wahl (Hamburg librarian), Bernhard Walde (Dillingen theologian), Michael Waldmann (Regensburg theologian), Andreas Walther (Hamburg sociologist), Paul Erich Wandhoff (Freiberg geographer), Otto Wawrziniok (Dresden metallurgist), Anton Weber (Dillingen), Constantin Weber (Dresden mechanic), Ewald Weber (Leipzig veterinarian), Hermann Robert Weber (Danzig zoologist), Werner Weber (G\u00f6ttingen mathematician), Edgar Wedekind (Hannoversch M\u00fcnden chemist), Rudolf Wedekind (Marburg palaeontologist), Emil Wehrle (Marburg jurist), Ludwig Weickmann (Leipzig geophysicist), Walther Weigelt (Freiberg), Walter Weigmann (Leipzig economist), Karl Friedrich Weimann (Leipzig historian), Paul Weinrowsky (Kiel physicist), Franz Heinrich Wei\u00dfbach (Leipzig Orientalist), Friedrich Weller (Leipzig Indologe), Hermann Wendorf (Leipzig historian), Ferdinand von Werden (Eichst\u00e4tt art historian), Paul Werkmeister (Dresden engineer), Otto Westphal (Hamburg historian), Wilhelm Weygandt (Hamburg psychiatrist), Georg Wiarda (Dresden mathematician), Paul Wichmann (Hamburg dermatologist), Walter Wickop (Hannover architect), Eilhard Wiedemann (Eberswald), Kurt Wiedenfeld (Leipzig economist), Gebhardt Wiedmann (Dresden physicist), Heinrich Wienhaus (G\u00f6ttingen chemist), Friedrich Adolf Willers (Freiberg mathematician), Hans Winkler (Hamburg botanist), Hugo Wippler (Leipzig artist), Wilhelm Wirth (Leipzig philosopher), Hans Adolf Wislicenus (Dresden forester), Karl Wittmaack (Hamburg physician), Michael Wittmann (Eichst\u00e4tt),"}, {"text": "Georg Wobbermin (G\u00f6ttingen theologian), Gerhard W\u00f6rner (Leipzig jurist), Georg Wohlmuth (Eichst\u00e4tt philosopher), Walther Wolf (Leipzig Egyptologist), Ludwig Wolff (G\u00f6ttingen Germanist), (Eberswald zoologist), Richard Woltereck (Leipzig zoologist), Ferdinand Wrede (Marburg linguist), Heinz-Georg W\u00fcnscher (Leipzig veterinarian), Feodor W\u00fcnschmann (Leipzig economist), Heinz Wulf (Hamburg physician), Wunniger, Franz Wutz (Eichst\u00e4dt theologian), Johann Wysogorski (Hamburg geologist) Z. Eduard Zarncke (Leipzig philologist), Rudolph Zaunick (Dresden librarian), Oskar Zdralek (Dresden engineer), Egmont Zechlin (Marburg historian), Paul Zenetti (Dillingen geologist), Peter Zepp (Bonn geographer), Erich Ziebarth (Hamburg historian), Hans-Willi Ziegler (Rostock psychologist), Ludwig Zimmermann (Marburg historian), Waldemar Zimmermann (Hamburg), Friedrich Zoepfl (Dillingen church historian), Ernst Zyhlarz (Hamburg Africanist)"}, {"text": "Bharaate () is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language action drama film written and directed by Chethan Kumar. The film is produced by Suprith under the Sri Jagadguru Movies banner and presented by Sriimurali under Aagastya Enterprises. It features Sriimurali in a dual role, alongside Sreeleela. The supporting cast includes Tara, Rangayana Raghu, Suman, P. Sai Kumar, P. Ravi Shankar, Ayyappa P. Sharma, Sharath Lohitashwa, All Ok and Sadhu Kokila. The score and soundtrack were composed by Arjun Janya, while cinematography and editing were handled by Girish R. Gowda and Deepu S. Kumar. \"Bharaate\" was released on 18 October 2019, receiving mixed reviews but becoming a commercial success at the box office. Plot. Jagan is a tourist guide and an Ayurvedic practitioner in Jodhpur. Radha, a tourist, visits Jodhpur with her friends and subsequently tries to commit suicide at Mehrangarh, but she is stopped by Jagan, who convinces her to enjoy her trip instead. Radha eventually leaves the city without saying goodbye to Jagan. Later, Jagan's mother takes him to Badami to perform a puja, where he meets Radha again. Jagan attempts to propose to Radha at the bus station, but she is attacked by Veerappa's henchmen. Jagan rescues Radha, who reveals"}, {"text": "that she is from the royal Ballala family and that her father will not accept the marriage proposal. Jagan consoles her and promises to convince her family. He arrives at their village just in time to thwart attackers sent by Pallava, a rival of Ballala's. During the festival of Durga Puja, the Ballala family is engaged in a conflict with a rival group and Jagan intervenes again. He confesses that his grandfather is Jayarathnakara and that he comes from the Rathnakara family. The Ballala family then offers an alliance with the Rathnakaras by proposing the marriage of Ballala's brother to Rathnakara's daughter, who rejects the proposal. Dejected and angry, Ballala's brother attacks everyone at the Ratnakara residence in an attempt to kill Rathnakara's daughter, but he is accidentally slain by Jagan's father. In retaliation, Ballala slaughters the Rathnakaras but spares Jagan and his parents and instructs them to leave the city forever. The feuds between the four families continue, leading first to Radha's captivity, an ensuing gang battle, and ultimately, a truce. Jagan and Radha are finally reunited after many travails, and they receive everyone's approval to marry. Soundtrack. The music was composed by Arjun Janya and released on Anand"}, {"text": "Audio. Release. \"Bharaate\" was released on 18 October 2019. Reception. Critical response. Vinay Lokesh of \"The Times of India\" gave the film 3.5/5 stars and wrote, \"\"Bharaate\" is tailor made for those who have a penchant for commercial films.\" A. Sharadhaa of \"The New Indian Express\" gave it 3/5 stars, stating, \"Catering to popular tastes, Bharaate brings across Chethan's brand of cinema and sees Sriimurali subliminally pushing forward his image.\" S. Shyam Prasad of \"Bangalore Mirror\" rated the film 2/5 stars and wrote, \"The problem with this film is too much of everything.\" Aravind Shwetha of \"The News Minute\" stated that the \"storyline is a hotchpotch of situations from standard commercial films.\" Box office. \"Bharaate\" earned 83.6 million on its first day. By the end of its theatrical run, it grossed 120 million and completed 100 days at the box office."}, {"text": "The 2019 O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on November 2, 2019, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 200 laps on the asphalt speedway, it was the 31st race of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, fifth race of the Playoffs, and the second race of the Round of 8. Background. Track. Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas \u2013 the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track measures around and is banked 24 degrees in the turns, and is of the oval design, where the front straightaway juts outward slightly. The track layout is similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway (formerly Lowe's Motor Speedway). The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the same company that owns Atlanta and Charlotte Motor Speedways, as well as the short-track Bristol Motor Speedway. Practice. First practice. Tyler Reddick was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.801 seconds and a speed of . Final practice. Ross Chastain was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.733 seconds and a"}, {"text": "speed of . Qualifying. Tyler Reddick scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.316 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying results. . \u2013 Playoffs driver Race. Summary. Tyler Reddick began on pole, but Christopher Bell took the lead on lap 6. Bell dominated in the first half, winning both stages. When the final stage began, Austin Cindric grabbed the lead and led until Chase Briscoe had a flat right rear tire and made contact with the wall, bringing out a caution on lap 129. Reddick briefly got the lead but lost it to Chastain, who took and kept the lead on lap 144. On lap 151, Noah Gragson tried to squeeze between Harrison Burton and Jeb Burton. He got tapped by Harrison and wrecked his car after spinning through the grass for his first DNF of 2019. The race was briefly red-flagged. Chastain continued to lead on the restart, but Reddick hit the inside wall and brought out a late caution. Briscoe was also struggling as his right front tire disintegrated with 25 laps remaining, but NASCAR didn\u2019t throw a caution. This forced Briscoe to ultimately finish 22nd. Bell regained the lead on the lap 170"}, {"text": "restart and he never looked back. He ultimately took the win, leading 101 laps and finishing ahead of Chastain by 5 seconds. Bell also secured a spot in the Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. After the race, Briscoe, Michael Annett, Cindric, and Gragson were below the playoffs cutoff point. Stage Results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 45 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 45 Final Stage Results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 110 . \u2013 Driver advanced to the next round of the playoffs. . \u2013 Playoffs driver"}, {"text": "KSLN-TV (channel 34) was a television station in Salina, Kansas, United States, which broadcast in two separate incarnations on the same license from 1962 to 1965. The station was the ABC affiliate in Salina throughout its existence, but operating on a UHF channel and with extremely low-power facilities for a full-service TV station, it could not compete effectively with the VHF television stations received in Salina. The station closed in 1965 and began a quest to move a VHF allocation to Salina, which ended in failure when the Federal Communications Commission ruled the proposal technically deficient in 1968. History. Prairie States era. KSLN-TV was built by Prairie States Broadcasting Company, a business of Mel and Tom Gleason of York, Nebraska, which owned two stations in that state. The station's studios and transmitter were located on the 10th floor of the United Building in downtown Salina. Getting it there was an arduous effort in which the transmitter was hoisted under the building's elevator, which then had to be sent all the way to the top and hand-cranked to the elevator headhouse to bring the equipment to the 10th floor; the transmitter also had to be twisted to fit through the elevator"}, {"text": "shaft. Even though equipment was being installed as early as November 1960, KSLN-TV did not sign on until January 2, 1962, with a dual affiliation with ABC and NBC. Sale and new ownership. On May 17, 1963, Prairie States took KSLN-TV off the air and announced that it would sell channel 34 to a new buyer: the Mid-America Broadcasting Company, which also owned the cable television system in Salina. The month before, Prairie States had filed to sell channel 34 to Mid-America for $43,000. An objector soon appeared: the Wichita Television Corporation, owner of the Kansas State Network and applicant for a TV translator of the KSN station at Great Bend, KCKT, which would serve Salina. Wichita Television claimed that the sale of KSLN to Salina's cable system created a conflict of interest. The Federal Communications Commission approved the sale in February 1964, saying that the CATV system was small\u2014with just 122 subscribers\u2014and that Prairie States had been forced to pull the plug on channel 34 due to financial difficulties. The general manager of Mid-America announced that the station would make technical improvements in new equipment and modernized studios. KSN maintained its filing for the KCKT translator on channel 74"}, {"text": "and took out a full-page ad in the \"Salina Journal\" congratulating Mid-America on its purchase of KSLN-TV\u2014the very purchase to which it had objected\u2014and touting its attempts to build the translator to give Salina reliable NBC network service. KSLN-TV returned to air August 1, 1964, once more as Salina's ABC affiliate. Channel 34 complemented the ABC lineup with local newscasts and an afternoon children's show known as \"Bar 34\". In pursuit of VHF. However, Mid-America was not able to profitably run KSLN-TV, just as Prairie States had failed. In late October 1965, the station announced it would ask for authority to \"temporarily\" cease operations effective November 1 and begin a fight to get a VHF television channel allocated to Salina; channel 34's management said that \"every possible effort\" would be made to reopen KSLN-TV as a VHF station. The KSLN bid to bring VHF television to Salina\u2014whose assigned channels were 18, 34, and 44\u2014would have changed the educational assignment of channel 9 at Lincoln Center to channel 6 and substituted commercial channel 9 for channel 34 in Salina. The Lincoln Center assignment would necessitate a waiver of station spacing rules. In its arguments, Mid-America stated that the conversion rate of"}, {"text": "VHF sets to tune its channel 34 station was low, and that KSLN-TV had ceased operations twice for financial reasons. Mid-America's own studies found that the conversion rate in Salina was 20 to 30 percent; a 1966 American Research Bureau study commissioned by KSN pegged the figure at 36 percent inside the city and just 8 percent outside of it. It further argued that KSLN-TV could not compete with advertising dollars with the VHF stations in town, which included the network stations in Wichita as well as KCKT and ABC affiliate KHTL-TV of Superior, Nebraska, and that the KSN translator (K74CN) had contributed to channel 34's financial woes. However, Mid-America's filing presented station spacing challenges. It proposed that the channel 6 allocation be able to locate its transmitter with KSLN-TV in Salina. However, channel 6 there would be short spaced by to KTVC at Ensign, Kansas. While local business groups in Salina supported the position, other broadcasters, including the channel 6 stations in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Omaha, Nebraska, filed oppositions, as did KSN. The other broadcasters claimed that Mid-America had not done enough to promote UHF television in Salina, failing to do any promotion whatsoever, and that its minimal facilities"}, {"text": "made it a \"glorified translator\". The FCC, in its decision on January 10, 1968, denied the petition from Mid-America, saying that Salina was still an area for potential development of UHF, that it had inadequate VHF service, that Mid-America would be better served trying to increase KSLN-TV's power, and that the changing of the educational assignment to channel 6 would create a \"degraded and limiting\" facility that could not provide appropriate service. Some of channel 34's equipment, still owned by the Salina cable system, was loaned to help the Kansas State University closed-circuit TV system resume operations after a fire gutted the Nichols Gym where the equipment was located. Later uses of channel 34 at Salina. The channel 34 assignment would be occupied in 1971 by translator station K34AA, which relocated from channel 78 (as K78CV). The move marked the return of ABC programming to channel 34, as K34AA was a translator for KAKE-TV of Wichita. K34AA moved to channel 22 as K22CP in 1989 and remains a repeater for KAKE as KHDS-LD. A construction permit for channel 34 was issued in 1984 for a station that would have been known as KHCT; this station, which never signed on, would"}, {"text": "have been an independent."}, {"text": "Muhammad ibn al-Fath Wasul ibn Maymun al-Amir () () was the tenth Midrarid emir of Sijilmasa. He was the first Midrarid ruler to adopt Maliki Sunni Islam. Biography. He was a son of al-Fath Wasul ibn Maymun al-Amir (), and cousin of his predecessor, al-Muntasir Samgu ibn Muhammad and was an enemy of the Fatimids and supporter of the Caliphate of C\u00f3rdoba. It is known that he served in the Umayyad armies in al-Andalus at the Battle of Simancas on August 1, 939, and had converted to Maliki Sunnism, the prevailing \"madhhab\" on the Iberian Peninsula. He carried out a coup in 942\u2013943 against the 13-year-old al-Muntasir and his grandmother who acted as regent, and took the power; al-Muntasir was imprisoned. Considered a partisan of the Umayyads, his assumption of power alarmed the Fatimid Caliph. Muhammad sought the support of the Berbers to make war on the Fatimids. He assumed the caliphal title of \"amir al-mu'minin\" and the regnal title \"al-Shakir li-llah\" (\"the grateful one toward God\") and from 944 to 950 started minting coins called \"mathaqil shakiriyya\". These moves irritated the Fatimid government, which decided to put an end to it. The caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah sent the general"}, {"text": "Jawhar against Sijilmasa. The general, when he arrived, addressed the notables, demanding the delivery of Ibn Wasul, but they refused; despite this, Ibn Wasul left the city with his family and treasures and his most loyal supporters, towards the fortress of Tasagdalt. On September 958, Jawhar entered the city without fighting and changed the \"shakiriyya\" coins to Fatimid coins. Ibn Wasul left his refuge and approached the city to see what was happening. He was recognized by a member of the Matghara tribe, who handed him over to Jawhar, and on October of the same year, Ibn al-Fath was taken prisoner, chained, and sent to al-Mansuriyya with the Maghrawa emir of Fez, Ahmad ibn Bakr, captured at the same time, and some children of the notables of the city of Sijilmasa as hostages. They arrived in al-Mansuriyya on November 959. He was confined in a castle and received a humiliating treatment by being taken around in a cage. Jawhar appointed a governor whose name was not known, but shortly after leaving the city he was expelled by the rebellious population who proclaimed again the al-Muntasir Samgu ibn Muhammad."}, {"text": "The 1911\u201312 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the second varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. After the first season, it was announced that star player and captain Marvin Ritch was named manager for the upcoming year's team. He assumed scheduling duties and released a tentative schedule in December. Newspaper outlets deemed it to be one of the toughest schedules to be played. However, before the start of the semester and college basketball season, Ritch left the team to work as a secretary for Congressman Edwin Y. Webb. North Carolina opened the season at home with a five-game home-stand, the first of which came against the Durham Y.M.C.A. The Tar Heels led for majority of the match, only to lose the game in the closing minutes. Carolina then squared off against Elon College and William & Mary, which the Tar Heels won the former handily and played a closer game in the latter. A physically larger Guilford College faced Carolina next. Guilford emerged victorious 35\u201320 in a game marred by many foul calls. After beating Virginia Christian, North Carolina dropped the next three games. Their loss"}, {"text": "against Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (V.P.I.) was attended by over 2,000 people. The team closed the season beating Wake Forest. The Tar Heels established a large lead in the early second half and went scoreless for the game's remainder. The \"Alumni Review\" reported after the V.P.I. game that \"... basketball has come into its own in this state.\" Roster and schedule. After the conclusion of the Tar Heels' inaugural season, the school's Athletic Association announced the previous season's leading scorer Marvin Ritch as team manager, along with teammate William Tillet as his assistant. He assumed the duties of putting together the schedule for the upcoming season. In October, Ritch returned to his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he told the newspapers that he felt North Carolina's team would be the best in the state. In mid-December, a tentative schedule was made public that featured 17 games between January 5 and February 29. Writers from the student run newspaper \"The Tar Heel\" commented on the schedule saying it was \"... one of the longest and hardest ever attempted by a North Carolina College.\" The games against the Charlotte Y.M.C.A. and Guilford College were thought to be"}, {"text": "early tests before the team travels north into Virginia and around Washington D.C. to play the likes of Georgetown, Virginia, and V.P.I., which were all thought to be difficult opponents. Wilmington's \"The Morning Star\" felt the schedule was tough, stating the team would have to \"hustle some.\" In particular, they viewed the three schedule games against Virginia to be the \"big feature\" and the writers expected the attendance and crowd involvement to be similar to the school's match-ups in football and baseball. The final slate of games differed from the tentative schedule and did not feature the three proposed games against Virginia, a second game against V.P.I., and the single games against Georgetown, Catholic University, Davidson, and Roanoke College. Prior to the season, Ritch was also unanimously re-elected as captain of the basketball team. On December 18, 1911, \"The Charlotte News\" reported that Ritch again returned to Charlotte and told the press that he \"may not be able to return to 'the Hill' in the spring.\" The writers commented that if he did not, the basketball team would suffer in his absence. Before the season opened on January 5, \"The Evening Post\" confirmed Ritch's absence as they announced his appointment"}, {"text": "to be the private secretary for North Carolina Representative Edwin Y. Webb in Washington D.C. According to \"The Morning Star\", Ritch leaving led to a \"distinct dismay among the student body.\" Junius Smith was named captain upon Ritch's departure. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season Regular season. On January 5, Durham's Y.M.C.A. team traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to face the Tar Heel in their season\u2013opening match. The Y.M.C.A. brought a strengthened team that featured a couple players who were members of Trinity College's team the prior year. These additions were thought to have made the team better and quicker. North Carolina remained in front for much of the game; however, in the closing minutes, the Y.M.C.A. rallied to take the lead and won 29\u201318. One writer commented that the Tar Heels missed Ritch's presence. Chapel Hill's Bynum Gymnasium hosted Elon College four days later, where the Tar Heels beat them 36\u20135 with a strong performance from captain Junius Smith. The Tar Heels were thought to have played fast and showed improved teamwork relative to their opening game. The Tar Heels faced William & Mary on January 12. The first half featured back-and-forth scoring and visiting team led the Tar"}, {"text": "Heels 19\u201315 at the half. William & Mary's Metcalf scored several points from foul shots. Carolina held William & Mary to just three points for the whole second half, while the Tar Heels scored 15 more points to seal the victory. Smith again was said to have played the best for the Heels, while Tillett and Hanes were also thought to have played well. Following the game there was a break in the schedule due to the school's exam schedule from January 15 to 25. \"The Tar Heel\" reflected on the team's performance by stating they did not have great teamwork or a star player, but just needed practice and could develop into a fast and \"good, fighting quint.\" Guilford College defeated the Tar Heels 35\u201320 on January 31. The Guilford players were reportedly heavier than the Carolina starting five, and although the Tar Heels played good defense, their overall teamwork was lacking, and they could not withstand Guilford's \"machine-like force\". The game had \"a great many fouls\", and Guilford's Hoyos took seven foul shots while North Carolina's Smith took eight. Virginia Christian arrived in Chapel Hill for the Tar Heels' next game on February 2. The contest was closely"}, {"text": "fought for the first half as it closed with a Tar Heel advantage of 3 points, 18\u201315. The second half was dominated by North Carolina as they scored 25 points to Virginia Christian's 2, bringing the final score to 45\u201317 in Carolina's favor. The team traveled to Durham for a rematch against their Y.M.C.A. team on February 12. The Y.M.C.A. made more field goals while the Tar Heels made more foul shots, which resulted in a 26\u201318 victory for Durham. Durham's Holcomb led all scoring and made some long range shots. V.P.I. arrived in Chapel Hill four days later for the next game. The teams played a close game in the first half, where both managed to counter the opposing team's scores frequently. The Tar Heels were led by strong performances from Tillett and Carrington, who helped create a halftime lead of 21\u201317. As Carolina held the lead early in the second half, Tillett was removed from the game. Tillett's defense proved to be a critical reason for Carolina's success and shortly after his removal, V.P.I. gained the lead. They extended their lead and won 37\u201328, anchored by the Legge brothers who each scored five apiece. \"The Tar Heel\" regarded"}, {"text": "the game as the \"best played and hardest fought game\" at Bynum all season long. On February 19, a third match against the Durham Y.M.C.A. happened and proved to be close throughout. Carolina led going into halftime 17\u201316, but the Durham squad managed to gain the lead and win the game 29\u201328. On February 26, Wake Forest and North Carolina faced off in Raleigh, North Carolina. A crowd of nearly 1,000 filled the auditorium to see the contest. The game featured several fouls on both teams (5 on Carolina and 11 on Wake Forest) and inconsistent performances by both teams. Carolina won the first half of the game 10\u20136 with multiple baskets from Smith. The Tar Heels continued to score and reached 18 points; however, Wake Forest began to click on offense and scored seven shots in the final ten minutes, sinking one as time expired. Their efforts fell short as the game ended 18\u201315 in Carolina's favor. Aftermath. Following the game against V.P.I., where an estimated 2,000 people attended, the \"Alumni Review\" wrote that \"... basketball has come into its own in this state.\" When the season ended, \"The Tar Heel\" published a column where it discussed the basketball"}, {"text": "championship of North Carolina. The editors spoke of the parity between the North Carolina\u2013based squads and felt that all of them had an equal right to the championship. In September 1912, \"The Tar Heel\" published a column where it commented on the season, blaming the poor performance on the fact the team started practice after Christmas, while most other successful teams started in October."}, {"text": "Yulia Sachkov (; born 28 December 1998) is an Israeli kickboxer of Russian descent. She is the 2019 World Kickboxing Champion in the under-48 kilogram (114.5 pound) weight class of K-1 style kickboxing. Biography. Sachkov was born in Kazachstan to Russian parents. She serves in the Israel Defense Forces as an outstanding athlete. She is the 2016 World Cup Junior Kickboxing Champion, the 2017 European Junior Kicking Champion, the 2018 World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) Senior World Kickboxing Champion, winner of the 2018 WAKO Croatia Kickboxing Open Gold Medal, winner of the 2018 WAKO Bestfighter in the World Cup Championship, winner of the Absolute Champion in the K-1 and KL European Cup, and winner of the 2019 WAKO Austria World Cup. Sachkov was awarded the Israeli Young Athlete of the Year Award by Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev in 2017. She lost a preliminary match at Bellator 209 to Viktoria Makarova by TKO (punches) in the first round. Sachkov is the 2019 World Kickboxing Champion, having won the gold medal in Sarajevo in Bosnia in the under-52 kilogram (114.5 pound) weight class of K-1 style kickboxing at 21 years of age. Kickboxing record. ! style=background:white colspan=9"}, {"text": "| ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 | ! style=background:white colspan=9 |"}, {"text": "Thokozile Muwamba (born 1993) is a Zambian pilot. In 2017, she became the first female fighter pilot in Zambia. In her first year of study at Zambia's Copperbelt University, she quit to join the country's military in 2012. A few years later, she became a beneficiary of a Zambia Air Force project to introduce females into the male dominated field in 2015. She currently holds the rank of second lieutenant in the Zambia Air Force."}, {"text": "Central Bank of Sri Lanka bond scandal which is also referred as CBSL bond scam was a financial laundering scam which happened on 27 February 2015 and caused losses of more than US$ 11 million to the nation. The bond scam is also regarded as the largest reported financial scam in Sri Lanka despite the country's reputation of having a solid visionary banking system over the years. This was a major blow to the Sri Lankan economy and was also major setback to the newly elected government under the leadership of Maithripala Sirisena which commenced its first term as of 8 January 2015. Arjuna Mahendran was appointed as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka replacing Ajith Nivard Cabraal. This bond issue also caused disputes between the Government of Sri Lanka and Government of Singapore over the extradition requests of Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka. On 3 September 2019, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified that the government would consider the extradition request from Sri Lanka once the necessary supporting information and documents were released. In the same month with the approval of Singapore, Sri Lankan government lodged extradition of ex-governor Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka. Arjuna Mahendran."}, {"text": "Arjuna Mahendran, a Singaporean Tamil nationality of Sri Lanka origin was controversially appointed as the CBSL governor in 2015 succeeding Ajith Nivard Gabral. It was reported that the current CBSL governor Indrajit Coomaraswamy was to be appointed to that position but was withdrawn by the latter due to being busy in other projects. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe apparently appointed Arjuna Mahendran as CBSL governor but without the consent of the President. Background. On 27 February 2015, newly appointed CBSL governor Arjuna Mahendran advertised the sale of Rs. 1 billion in 30 year government bonds at a coupon of 12.5% Despite several accounts erroneously cite an indicative rate of 9.5%. The sale was oversubscribed with 36 bids of totaling Rs. 20 billion. The majority of bidders, 26, bidded for Rs. 100 million or less at a rate of 9.5%\u201310.5%. However, a few bidders, including Perpetual Treasuries Limited, wanted interest rates of 11%\u201312%. On 27 February 2015, the CBSL accepted Rs. 10 billion in bids at rates of 9.5%\u201312.5%, which meant that the base value of the auction doubled twenty times. The issuing of ten times the advertised bonds, and at a higher than expected rate, was alleged to cost the Sri"}, {"text": "Lankan government an additional Rs. 1.6 billion ($ 10.6 million), though this alleged loss was disputed by the Leader of the House of Parliament. A petition was lodged in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka contesting the methodology used to allege such a loss. Perpetual Treasuries was issued, directly and indirectly, with Rs. 5 billion in bonds at 12.5%. Perpetual Treasuries was one of the primary dealers in the sale and is owned by Mahendran's son-in-law Arjun Aloysius. The primary dealer had also appointed the sister of the former Central Bank Governor Ajit Nivard Cabraal onto the Board of its holding company. Aftermath. This situation became a controversial political issue in Sri Lanka as the newly elected Sri Lankan Government of President Maithreepala Sirisena came to power with a slogan of good governance in the country. A three-member Committee of eminent lawyers was appointed to investigate the issue and the report produced by the committee claimed that there was no direct involvement by Mahendran in the deal. The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka did not grant leave to proceed in a fundamental rights case that requested a separate inquiry into the bond issue, as no laws were broken. Mahendran denied"}, {"text": "any wrongdoing in the controversial bond auction and asserted that he was ready to face any inquiry to prove his innocence. He also said he had been made a victim due to his own transparency. On the other hand, former governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Ajith Nivard Cabraal who preceded Mahendran charged that a higher hand was involved in the scandal given the scale of the cover-up attempts by the Sri Lankan government. Cabraal himself is the subject of several investigations by the law enforcement authorities on alleged misconduct during his tenure as Governor. Investigations. On 28 October 2016, the Committee On Public Enterprises, after a lengthy investigation, found Mahendran responsible for the Bond Issue Scam and recommended legal action be taken against the above. However President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that he had appointed a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry to further investigate the case. This commission consisted of commission\u2019s chairman Justice K. T. Chitrasiri and members Justice Prasanna Jayawardena and retired Deputy Auditor General, V. Kandasamy. During the inquiry, Mahendran defended his actions before the Commission stating that he had not acted in a manner detrimental to the interests of the Government. Prasanna Jayawardena was"}, {"text": "appointed to the Supreme Court as a judge by President Maithripala Sirisena in June 2016. In January 2017, he was appointed by President Sirisena to a three member Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry in the investigate the Bond Issuance at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which published its report in December 2017. The commission handed over the report on Central Bank bond issuance to the President Maithripala Sirisena on 30 December 2017 and the Presidential Secretariat made available the full report in PDF form from its website for public viewing. In the findings of the report, Arjuna Mahendra was held directly responsible for causing a loss of LKR 11,145 million to public institutions. However, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that 'No financial loss will be caused to the government on account of the Central Bank Bond issue since the government will recover the Rs 9.2 billion involved from Perpetual Treasures Ltd. according to the procedure recommended by the Presidential Commission. The Central Bank functioning under the Ministry of National Policy has already blocked and retained a fund of Rs 12 billion belonging to the Perpetual Treasures Ltd' The prolonged nature of the inquiry may be linked to a"}, {"text": "growing rift between Sri Lanka's President and Prime Minister and the two political parties they each represent in an increasingly fraught coalition government. A group of ministers from the President's party along with opposition MPs failed in a recent attempt to pass a motion of no-confidence against the Prime Minister in Sri Lanka's Parliament. A key issue in the motion was the Prime Minister's alleged interference in the Central Bank. The President has subsequently had to prorogue Parliament In 2016 October COPE revealed that Governor of the Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran should be held responsible for the Bond Issue Scam and legal action should be taken against him. However President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that he has appointed a Commission of Inquiry to further investigate the case. In March 2019, President of Sri Lanka revealed that Singapore didn't respond to his phone call in early January in a request to return Arjuna Mahendran to Sri Lanka for inquiries and he also slammed the Singaporean government of sheltering the suspect. But the allegations were refuted by Singapore and revealed Colombo failed to provide valid documents and evidences on deporting of Mahendran to Sri Lanka."}, {"text": "Sheldon Renan (born 1941) is an American writer and filmmaker. His first book, \"An Introduction to the American Underground Film\", was published in America by Dutton in 1967. In England, it was printed by Studio Vista (1968) as \"The Underground film. An introduction to its development in America.\" It was the first book about underground film. He is a graduate of Yale University and a Rockefeller Grant recipient. Career. \"The Blue Mouse and the Movie Experience\". Prior to publishing \"An Introduction to the American Underground Film\", Renan published his essay \"The Blue Mouse and the Movie Experience\" in a special \"Expanded Arts Issue\" of \"Film Culture\". It was a rumination on the Blue Mouse Theatre in Portland, Oregon. In November 1966, Renan had a contract with E. P. Dutton to write a book about underground film. He returned to Portland to work on the book. He watched films at the Blue Mouse, a once first run theatre that had descended to grindhouse fare, where he had seen Hollywood product as a child, to witness how film itself had changed, and also how film had changed him. In 2014 Andrew V. Uroskie wrote the book \"Between the Black Box and the"}, {"text": "White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art\". Uroskie identified \"The Blue Mouse and The Movie Experience\" as an important text, one of a series of seminal articles written in the '60s that captured the transformation of art and film from traditional, rigid, academic works to more open and liminal works that included happenings, expanded cinema and \"new media\". His interview of the Kuchar Brothers was published in \"Film Culture\" magazine in 1968. \"An Introduction to the American Underground Film\". As the first book about underground film, Renan's book began a serious look at such filmmakers as George and Mike Kuchar, Jack Smith, Marie Menken and many others. It has also been used as a text book in many college film classes. Motion pictures. Renan worked as an advertising copywriter 1964\u20131968 in New York, San Francisco, and Japan. His first screenplay (with Donald Richie) was for \"Basic Film Terms\" (1970). In 1975 he wrote the PBS series \"The Japanese Film\" (co-written with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer). In 1979 he directed the documentary short \"The Electronic Rainbow: An Introduction to Television\". In 1981 he directed the feature documentary \"The Killing of America\". In 1984 he wrote and directed the feature"}, {"text": "film \"Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse\". In 1987 he directed the feature documentary \"AIDS: What Everyone Needs to Know\". It was produced by the Aids Project LA, Churchill Films and the UCLA Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Immunology and Disease. In 1990 he wrote the screenplay for the feature film \"Lambada\", based on a story by, and directed by Joel Silberg. Jon Pareles, in his review for the \"New York Times\"', said \"Lambada\" is the kind of bizarrely updated old hat in which the club's kindly bouncer, Big, tells a reluctant student, Ramon, \"You got potential - college potential...(and) has a burnished, big-budget glow.\" In 1994 he wrote the screenplay for the Untouchables TV episode \"Only For You.\" Renan appears in the films \"Godard in America\" (Ralph Thanhauser, director, 1970) and \"Birth of a Nation\" (Jonas Mekas, director, 1997). Pacific Film Archive. Renan was the founding director of the Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, 1967\u20131974. He had first approached both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum, before Peter Selz, Berkeley Art Museum's first director, said yes to Renan's proposal of a film archive. He had envisioned an"}, {"text": "institution devoted to the exhibition, preservation, and study of cinema. Renan led the Pacific Film Archive through 1974. National Endowment for the Arts media funding panel. Renan was one of nine on the 1970 NEA funding panel. The others were Roger Englander (Chairman), Arthur Mayer, Dean Myhr, Donn Pennebaker, James Blue, David Stewar, George Stoney and Willard Van Dyke. It was Renan's idea that the NEA should fund regional film centers. Through his championship, the NEA funded film centers in Chicago, Detroit, Berkeley and Portland, Oregon. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opened in 1971. The Northwest Film Center in Portland opened in 1971. The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago opened in 1972. The Detroit Film Theatre opened in 1974. All four currently survive. \"Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse\". Renan's book \"\" was published in 1984. It announced a treasure hunt for an object hidden somewhere in the United States, that when found would result in a half million dollar prize. In May 1984 the \"New York Times\" had reported \"In September, Warner Books will publish \"Treasure,\" a book containing a complete set of clues to help readers"}, {"text": "find a sculpted gold horse. Warner will publish \"Treasure\" in conjunction with IntraVision, a New York packager and producer. Written by Sheldon Renan and a writer identified as Dr. Crypton, whose monthly column appears in \"Science Digest\", the $12.95 book will contain all the necessary clues. Those clues will also be available in the form of a home video cassette and disk that follow the story line of the book, a cable television show, a record album and a combination of board, computer and video games. In 1986 the \"New York Times\" published a follow up article about students at Lakeland Schools in Westchester who were sure they were hot on the trail of the prize and were already figuring out what to do with the prize money. In 1989 the Times published a final follow up article. It gave background on the treasure hunt craze of the early 1980s \"The treasure hunt promotions peaked with two best sellers published in the early 1980s, \"Masquerade,\" by Kit Williams, which offered $35,000 to the finder of a golden hare, and \"Who Killed the Robins Family\" by Bill Adler and Thomas Chastain, which offered $10,000 to the reader who submitted the best"}, {"text": "answer to their puzzle. Both books sold more than a million copies each.\" It quoted John Baker, editor of \"Publishers Weekly\", saying \"there are no industry figures, but none of the 10 or so treasure books and videos since 1982 have matched the success of the first two.\" The article announced the treasure could not be found and those searching should give up and quit. In accordance with the rules, since the treasure was not found, the $500,000 was donated to charity, specifically to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America. The article quoted several disgruntled searchers, including Deborah Holmes of Monroeville, Pa. \"There are a lot of angry people.\" Treasure was also released as a straight to video feature film, laserdisc, and an episodic television show that aired on pay cable channels. A Symposium on Bruce Conner. On Sep 23, 2016, at MOMA, an all day event celebrated the life of Bruce Conner. Renan's one-hour talk centered on a 1967 panel he had chaired, in which Bruce Conner threw the only copy his film \"Leader\" into the audience, in an act of artistic \"filmicide\". Corporate writer. Renan has written for major corporations including Intel, Xerox, AT&T, Apple, Sony and others."}, {"text": "For the public sector his clients have included the U.S. Military Health Service and the Department of State. His speeches for CEO's include for every CEO of Xerox since 1990. His first assignment for Intel was for their launch of the 486 chip. For the entertainment industry he has written for Disney, Universal Studios, and Busch Seaworld."}, {"text": "The 1931 Auckland Rugby League season was its 23rd. The inaugural Fox Memorial Shield was won by Marist Old Boys who defeated Devonport United 12\u20135 in the final round to win by 2 competition points over the same side. This was Marists second ever first grade title after previously winning it in 1924. Devonport United were coached by James O'Brien, the former Devonport player and New Zealand international and they went on to win the Roope Rooster competition defeating Ponsonby United in the final. This was their second time winning the Roope Rooster after they won the inaugural title in 1915. They also beat Marist Old Boys to win the Stormont Shield Trophy for the second year in a row. Alongside these feats Devonport also won the inaugural reserve grade competition with a 5\u20135 draw in the final securing them the 1 competition point they needed to edge out Ponsonby United. Richmond Rovers won the Stallard Cup by winning the reserve grade knockout competition, defeating Newton Rangers reserves in the final 13\u20135. On the final day of the season Mr. Samuel Harris of the Newton Rangers team had a heart attack while running with the ball in the final of"}, {"text": "the Seven-A-Side charity tournament. The game was called off with no result given. He had played with Newton for 2 seasons after moving to Auckland from Hikurangi. He was single and 26 years of age at the time. Eastern Suburbs toured New Zealand at the end of the season and played 5 matches including 3 at Carlaw Park against Devonport, Devonport-Marist combined, and an Auckland Colts side. Season News. Fox Memorial Shield replaces Monteith Shield. It was the first season where the premier senior teams had competed for the Fox Memorial Shield. Prior to 1931 the trophy awarded was the Monteith Shield (1920\u20131930), and before that the Myers Cup (1910\u201314) (there were no trophies awarded during WW1 despite the first grade championship being competed for each season). The donor of the Monteith Shield had written to the league asking permission to withdraw the trophy from club competition and that the league play for a new trophy named after Edward Vincent Fox who had passed away the season previous and who had been heavily involved in Auckland Rugby League for a long period of time. The new trophy was being donated by friends of Fox. The trophy was finished and presented"}, {"text": "to the league in September. It was described thus; \"measuring 27 inches across by 22 inches deep, the base is a handsome sample of polished rimu, with overlay of contrasting p\u016briri, on which is an ornate centrepiece in oxidised silver depicting an incident of play in the New Zealand v Australia match of 1926\". The donators of the trophy even went to the extent of sending the silver piece to England to have it effectively reproduced. The Auckland City Council Parks Committee designated the following of its grounds to the league code: Auckland Domain (2), Outer Domain (1), Victoria Park, Auckland (1), Walker Road (2), Western Springs Reserve (1), Grey Lynn Park (1), and 1 additional ground at Grey Lynn to alternate between rugby and league. Financial statement and annual report \u2013 From childhood to manhood. The annual report to be filed at the annual general meeting showed that the league had a \u00a39,711 5/9 surplus with total assets of \u00a310,534 19/4. As there were smaller crowds in 1930 the gate receipts were \u00a32,282 12/, down from \u00a33,465 10/5 in 1929. The Junior Management Committee reported that the number of juniors registered was 1,930 compared with 984 the previous year,"}, {"text": "and 63 teams took the field. At the annual general meeting Mr. James Carlaw said that \"this is a very important meeting, as we have now reached our twenty-first birthday, and have developed from childhood to manhood\". Mr. Phelan presented trophies to the various winners from the previous season. At the Devonport annual meeting Mr. A. Ferguson who was a member of the New Zealand Council and who was presiding over the meeting said that the league game in New Zealand needed to follow the Australian model. He stated that they \"demonstrated the value of physical fitness, which was produced by intensive, scientific training\". Senior competition restructuring and Carlaw Park gate takings. A management committee meeting which also included the special committee setup the previous year to look into the restructuring of the Senior A and Senior B competitions adjusted their original plans. It had been decided at the end of the 1930 season to reduce the Senior A competition from eight teams to six, thus forcing teams into merging with one another. After the meeting this was adjusted to seven teams. The teams would be Devonport, Richmond Rovers, Ellerslie-Otahuhu (which also included the M\u0101ngere United club, who could then"}, {"text": "choose their own name), Marist Old Boys, City, Newton, and Ponsonby United. The Kingsland team which had been removed from the A grade asked for permission to join with the Marist Old Boys. While the Parnell club which has existed since 1921 amalgamated with City Rovers. The B grade (essentially the second division which had run from 1925 to 1930) was still to be eliminated. The league would encourage B grade players to try out for the reserve grade teams in the A grade clubs. In a major development for the rugby league game in Auckland the special committee recommended that winning teams would be granted 12.5% of the net gate takings each weekend with losing teams sharing a \"trifle less\". The league would also enforce a rule where every Senior A club must field a reserve grade team \"of sufficient calibre to satisfy the management committee\". If they failed to do so they would be vulnerable to being removed from the A grade. The league also reserved the right to set the two lowest teams together at the end of the season against each other in a match and eliminating the losers, or compelling them to improve their standard"}, {"text": "of play or withdraw from the league. Eastern Suburbs tour of New Zealand. In mid October the Eastern Suburbs club team from Sydney toured New Zealand. They began their tour with a match against Northland in Whangarei on Thursday, October 8 before meeting the Auckland championsDevonport at Carlaw Park two days later. They then travelled to Hamilton where they played South Auckland while also fitting in a trip to see the sights of Rotorua. Eastern Suburbs were captained in their match with South Auckland by Fred Tottey who had attended Hamilton Boys High School in his teens and Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland before that. Eastern Suburbs then travelled back to Auckland where they played against a combined Marist-Devonport team who inflicted the touring sides only defeat with a 14\u201313 defeat before a crowd of 15,000. Their final match was against an Auckland Colts side which included several current or future New Zealand internationals, namely Ted Mincham, Len Scott, Dick Smith, Wilf Hassan, Bert Leatherbarrow, and Ed St George before returning home with 4 wins and a loss. Rule changes. At the Management Committee meeting prior to the start of the season it was decided to adhere to the"}, {"text": "latest rules, where a team forcing the ball in their own in goal area would take a drop kick from the 25-yard line as opposed from their own try line. There was an adjustment to the weight allowance from the fourth grade down, and sixth grade players should be under 18 and a half on 1 May. At a following Management Committee meeting it was reported that the English Rugby League had advised that at scrum put in's the loose head would be transferred from the defending team to the attacking team. On 15 August a referee was assaulted by a player after a match between the City and Newmarket Fourth Grade teams at Western Springs Stadium. He had ordered off a player from each team. The City player came back on the field and his team refused to remove him so the referee called the match off. He was then harassed by a number of players and one of them then fought with him, \"the pair rolled on the ground fighting for a few minutes, the referee holding his own until some spectators intervened and separated\" them. New clubs at Papakura and Glenora, and several amalgamations. On March 26"}, {"text": "the Papakura Rugby League club was formed with 60 players enrolling. They applied to the Papakura Town Board for use of the reserve at Papakura. This was granted as the entire club had switched over from Rugby Union meaning they had no competition for the field. The council said that if a representative rugby game was being played on the field then the league team could use Prince Edward Park (which later became their home ground and remains so to this day). On Saturday, 18 April they played a practice match with Mount Wellington at Papakura. The match was won by Mount Wellington by 8 points to 5. Papakura's points came from an unconverted try to Johnstone, and I. Wilson kicked a penalty goal. They held their first social on the evening of Wednesday 22 April at the Paragon Theatre. The Kingsland Athletic club joined with Marist Old Boys meaning their senior players would join those of Marist. Kingsland were already an amalgamated club involving Kingsland Rovers and Grafton Athletic (originally named Maritime and not to be confused with the Grafton Athletic club which existed from 1914 to 1922). This placed Marist as one of the early favourites to win"}, {"text": "the Senior Grade. This was discussed in an article on the prospects of all the teams in the New Zealand Herald. The Ellerslie United, Otahuhu Rovers, and M\u0101ngere United clubs combined to form a senior team with the M\u0101ngere Senior B team being regraded to first junior (2nd grade) with the team playing as part of the Ellerslie-Otahuhu side. However M\u0101ngere United then sent a deputation to a Management Committee meeting asking to be able to play as a separate institution as a junior club rather than be a part of the Ellerslie-Otahuhu amalgamation. They wished to be affiliated under their own name rather than amalgamate with Ellerslie. Several speakers from M\u0101ngere they said that they wished to play league football but maintain their own identity as a M\u0101ori team. The League said that there should be a conference with Ellerslie and in the meantime they would play for one week with Ellerslie. At a league meeting on 27 May the league decided to uphold their earlier ruling and enforce the amalgamation with the decision reviewed at the end of the season. It was expressed that the M\u0101ngere players were willing to play as the league suggested. Mr. Jim Rukutai"}, {"text": "suggested that M\u0101ngere be granted permission to retain their identity for twelve months, subject to all transfers being through the Ellerslie-Otahuhu United Club. The chairman of the league said \"he did not think that there was any objection to M\u0101ngere playing as the M\u0101ngere section of the amalgamated club, but it was the duty of the League to uphold Ellerslie-Otahuhu Club\". In the meantime he thought \"moral suasion should be used by the members and the position would right itself\". At the Management Committee meeting on 10 June it was reported by the chairman that the M\u0101ngere and Ellerslie clubs had reached a satisfactory agreement and that \"the M\u0101ori senior team,\u2026 was willing to continue playing the league code. It was intended that M\u0101ngere should apply for the resignation of its players who had already played for Ellerslie\" The matter would be deferred for one week. It was announced at a City Rovers club meeting that the Parnell club had amalgamated with them. They would enter teams in the senior, reserve senior, first junior, third intermediate, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades, and also in the primary school competition. Ten of the Parnell senior B players were regraded to first"}, {"text": "class juniors and would play for that particular City Rovers side. In June a new club was registered in the Glen Eden district and was named Glenora. They entered a team in the third grade intermediate. There was a team in the area named Glen Lynn at the time which was a combination of the New Lynn and Glen Eden sides of the late 1920s, and so to distinguish them Glenora chose that name as some of their players were from the Oratia area, and the name was initially spelled as Glen Ora. Fox Memorial Shield (1st grade championship). The Senior Grade was reduced from 8 teams to 7 for the 1931 season. Each team had to field a reserve side and their matches were to be played prior to the A team's matches at the same venue. Fox Memorial fixtures. Round 1. In Round 1 Marist won after time however the play was continued erroneously. Time was up but the time keeper allowed additional tackles and did not ring the bell until after the winning try had been scored. Richmond protested the result and after multiple meetings it was eventually decided by the league Management Committee to replay the"}, {"text": "match. During the game Ray McKinnon (Richmond) fractured his leg and was treated at Auckland Hospital before being sent home. For Devonport, Alf Scott came out of retirement while his brother Len Scott returned from a year in Fiji. He had been a winger for four seasons for Devonport but played in the loose forwards in this match and was reported to have played well. Puti Tipene Watene was unable to play fullback for City due to having influenza and was replaced by Kerr, a recruit from the Parnell club and he was said to have played well. Ben Davidson played a good game in the City backs after returning to City the previous season after playing 67 games in England for Wigan. Round 2. In the match between Marist and Ponsonby, Heck Lunn (Ponsonby) left the field in the 2nd half with a broken rib and was taken to Auckland Hospital. Frank Delgrosso started the game for Ponsonby at the unfamiliar position of halfback, though the veteran had by now played at every position in the backline for Ponsonby, Auckland, and New Zealand. Marist did well to win after losing their forward Young in the first half who was"}, {"text": "replaced by Fraser Webberley, and then Carter went off injured in the second half forcing Alan Clarke into the backs and then later he was forced from the field through injury too. Horace Hunt debuted for North Shore after coming on for the injured S Casey in the forwards. Hunt was the Auckland cricket side's wicket keeper and interestingly Verdun Scott played for the North Shore side later in the decade and also become the Auckland wicket keeper and ultimately New Zealand wicket keeper. Round 3. The Round 3 match between Richmond and Newton was the first ever senior league match played at Western Springs Stadium which had opened for cycling and field sports in 1929. Round 4. Ray Lawless the Richmond forward received a bad kick to the face during their win over the Ellerslie-Otahuhu side on Carlaw Park 2 and it was thought he would miss several games but in fact played the following week. He had played a game for the senior side in 1929 as a promoted junior but did not begin to establish himself in the senior side until this season. He went on to represent New Zealand from 1932 to 1935. New Zealand representative"}, {"text": "and future M.P. Puti Tipene (Steve) Watene kicked five goals for City in their win over Marist. Round 5. Following Newton's loss to Marist their halfback Arthur Porteous collapsed due to concussion and was taken to Auckland Hospital. Ted Brimble scored all of Newton's points with three tries in their 18-9 loss to Marist. Within one minute of the kickoff R. O'Donnell of Devonport was injured tackling Stan Prentice and had to leave the field being replaced by J Harding who had just finished playing a reserve grade game. Ernest Ruby made his first appearance of the season for Devonport after coming out of retirement. He played for City in 1924 and 1925 before moving to Devonport. He ultimately played for them from 1926 to 1932 after originally being a junior for the short lived Riverhead Rugby League Club in 1916. As a M\u0101ori he was one of the earliest to play in the Auckland rugby league competitions which was very P\u0101keh\u0101 dominated in the 1910s and 1920s. He played nine games for Auckland from 1927 to 1931. Samuel Harris was likely on debut for Newton in this match on the wing. He tragically died in a 7-a-side match at"}, {"text": "the end of the season after collapsing at Carlaw Park. Round 1 replay. This match was replayed from Round 1 when the time keeper allowed play to continue well after the bel should have been rung. In the replayed match Herb Carter for Marist was ordered off for \u201crough play\u201d. Charles Gregory and Gordon Campbell both of Marist then left the field with injuries leaving Marist to hang on with 10 men for the last few minutes of the game. Round 6. The game at Western Springs was played on a very poor field with a wet and greasy ball and a field that was close to a 'quagmire' with both teams failing to score a single point. Hec Brisbane in his ninth season of 1st grade rugby league scored three tries for Marist in their easy 39-3 win over the Ellerslie-Otahuhu side. It was reported that M Lee, the Richmond fullback had broken his collarbone and would not play again this season. The Herald reported an amusing incident in the Marist v Ellerslie-Otahuhu game when Leslie Olliff (Ellerslie-Otahuhu) fed the scrum and the Marist hooker reached down with his hand to pick up a shilling piece he saw on"}, {"text": "the ground. The referee, Frank Thompson who was unaware penalised him for using his hands in the scrum, with Donovan then handing the coin to a member of the crowd. Round 7. Marist and Devonport met in a top of the table match with Devonport first with a 5\u20130 record and Marist second with a 4\u20131 record. Marist's win saw them draw level. Marist wore white arm bands as a mark of respect to George Drew, a senior player who had been killed by a fall of earth at Waitakaruru 4 days earlier at the age of 28. Round 9. In the Richmond \u2013 City match both Stan Prentice and Steve Watene were both sent off for fighting. At their hearing the both denied fighting but admitted to struggling with each other after a tackle, and after hearing evidence the case against them was dismissed. At the Devonport Domain the game between Devonport and Newton was held up by a draught horse coming on the field and standing in front of the Devonport goal posts. It was eventually sent running off to surrounding farm land. Round 11. Stanley Francis, the Newton captain played his final game for Newton before a"}, {"text": "transfer to Wellington for work. It was intended that his team mate Ronald Kirkup fly him to Wellington as he was a qualified pilot and a pupil of the Auckland Aero Club but due to the \"squally\" weather conditions they were unable to fly. Instead Francis had to travel by the Limited express on the Monday evening. Newton's match against Ponsonby was played at Stafford Park in Northcote, the home ground of the Northcote and Birkenhead Ramblers who had teams in the lower grades. There was a large attendance to witness the match with proceeds going towards the local Ex-Servicemen's Association. In City's match with Marist they tried C Reynolds at fullback and Puti Tipene Watene on the wing, but neither was at home there and they switched places too late to make a difference. Watene did manage to score a try though and kick a conversion and penalty. Marist saw winger Pat Meehan score three tries on the wing in their 8 point win. Round 12. The Round 12 match at Devonport between the hosts and Ellerslie-Otahuhu was one with paid entry after permission was granted by the Devonport Borough Council. A sum of \u00a312 5/ was raised to"}, {"text": "assist the Devonport Welfare League's funds. Unofficially the Devonport v Ellerslie-Otahuhu match was referee Les Bull's 100th time officiating an Auckland senior club team match. He was the first referee to achieve this in Auckland Rugby League. Robert Alderton, the City halfback was kicked on the arm and dislocated his elbow. He managed to finish the last 20 minutes of the match however. Richmond fullback Merv Lee returned from his broken collar-bone but was said to have played without confidence. Round 13. The Round 13 matches were played in terrible conditions which saw the cancellation of almost all league in Auckland. The match between Marist and Ellerslie-Otahuhu played at Papatoetoe was abandoned at halftime due to the north-westerly squalls making playing conditions impossible. The score of 21\u20133 in favour of Marist was declared the final score. City was severely understrength with 5 of its regular players absent. The match played on the number 2 field at Carlaw Park had pools of water on the field and the Auckland Star reported that a group of young women watching had to take refuge in the time keepers and press box where they \"barracked\" the whole match. While in the Ponsonby-Devonport match Lou"}, {"text": "Hutt of Ponsonby was ordered off near the end of the match. Round 14. With Marist's 12-5 win over Devonport they secured the championship for Marist. The match was essentially a final with both teams tied on 20 competition points. Marist's only other championship win to this point came in 1924. All of Marist's points came from tries with wingers Pat Meehan and George Batchelor scoring two tries each while Devonport's came from a try to hooker P. Masefield and a penalty to prop Alf Scott. Scott was in his final full season for North Shore and had represented Auckland at rugby league and also cricket as a wicket keeper. His younger brother was Verdun Scott who would also go on to represent Auckland and New Zealand as a wicket keeper as well as representing New Zealand on their 1939 rugby league tour of England. Roope Rooster knockout competition. Semi finals. The semi finals were postponed initially due to poor weather before being played on 12 September. The match between Ponsonby and Richmond went to extra-time after it was 20\u201320 at the end of regular time. This was very rare as usually tied games were replayed. Ponsonby went on to"}, {"text": "win 28\u201320. Final. Twenty two year old hooker Bert Leatherbarrow debuted for North Shore. He had been born in England in 1909 but moved with his family as a child to Auckland. He would go on to play for North Shore seniors from 1931 to 1934 before transferring to Ponsonby in 1935 and then to Mount Albert in 1937 where he played over 100 games and was selected for the 1939 New Zealand tour of England at the age of 30. In 1943 he switched to City Rovers where he won a championship with them in 1944, the fourth of his career with three different clubs. He scored a try in Devonport's Roope Rooster win which was the second time they had won the trophy after a 15-10 win over Newton in 1915, the first season the trophy had been competed for. Future New Zealand international Dick Smith and current international Allan Seagar also scored tries for the winners. Top try scorers and point scorers. Top try and point scorers for A Grade, Roope Rooster matches and the Stormont Shield match. Frank Delgrosso of Ponsonby was the top point scorer for the 3rd time in his career with 70 points."}, {"text": "He was regularly in the top 5 point scorers in the first grade competitions and to this point in his career had amassed more than any other player, with over 650 points. Len Scott (Devonport) was the top try scorer with 12, closely followed by George Batchelor (Marist) and Pat Meehan with 11, and Stan Prentice (Richmond) with 10. Senior reserve grade standings. The standings include the 'final' between Devonport and Ponsonby which was a 5\u20135 draw. This meant Devonport won the title as they finished the competition with one more point that Ponsonby. A Round 11 result between Marist and City is unknown as it was not reported in the newspapers while the score between Devonport and Ellerslie-Otahuhu in Round 12 is also unknown, though Devonport were the victor. Senior reserve grade fixtures. The Round 13 matches at Carlaw Park were cancelled due to the poor weather conditions and the necessity to protect the ground for the Senior matches to follow immediately afterwards. Charity day tournament and death of a player (Samuel Harris). On 31 October a Charity Day was held at Carlaw Park. It featured a Seven-A-Side tournament, an 'old timers' match, a match between the referees and"}, {"text": "St Johns Ambulance, and several running races. The proceeds would all go to the St John Ambulance Brigade. Mr. Samuel Harris of the Newton team collapsed and died from heart failure a few minutes from time in the final. Harris had played for the Newton seniors after joining the club in 1930 and had scored a try in a match earlier in the season. He had played in their earlier matches and had participated in a running race but had complained of feeling too unwell to run again. He collapsed while running with the ball and despite immediate attention from members of St, John Ambulance he died almost immediately. The match was called off. Harris had joined Newton in 1930 and was originally from Hikurangi. His funeral was held in Hikurangi on 4 November. Other club matches and lower grades. Lower grade competitions. The Mid-Week competition which was running once again was made up of nine teams. It was decided to allocate the Monteith Shield to the championship. This had formerly been awarded to the winner of the Senior grade champions, but as of this year the newly presented Fox Memorial Shield would replace it. The Waitemata (Endean) Shield would"}, {"text": "be awarded to the team scoring the most championship points in the second round, and the \"Nuko\" Cup to the winner of the two lower teams on the ladder. Marist were awarded the Davis Shield for scoring the most competition points in the junior grades. Second grade. Point Chevalier won the second grade championship for the first time. They were closely followed all season by Mount Albert and Papakura. Papakura were the only side with all of their results reported so the for and against and win/loss records are slightly incomplete. Papakura won the knockout competition on September 12 when they beat Mount Albert 26\u20130 in the final. Mount Albert had defeated Point Chevalier in one semi final while Papakura beat Northcote 8\u20135 in the other. On July 18 the City side played Huntly and won 5-3 while on August 15 Point Chevalier beat a Riverhead side 11\u20136 at Hobsonville. On August 22 Papakura played a South Auckland (Waikato) side and won 8\u20133. Then at the end of the season a second grade representative side played the Wednesday Competition representatives and lost 23\u20136. The second grade representative side was called 'Auckland Juniors'. On October 17 they also played the Devonport"}, {"text": "reserve grade side who had won the championship and won 18 to 3. Ponsonby withdrew after 9 rounds having defaulted at least 2 of their matches. Third Grade Open standings. Marist Old Boys won the championship when they defeated Ponsonby United in the final on August 29 by 4 points to 2. It was Marist's first time winning this grade. Devonport defaulted their first two matches and then withdrew from the competition, while Ellerslie entered a side but withdrew after the first week with it unknown if the match was played or not. Glen Lynn played until round 12 before withdrawing. On May 30 when Marist had their bye they played a Waiterimu, a Waikato side, and won 3\u20132. In the knockout competition Marist beat Devonport 8\u20130 in one semi final and Ponsonby beat Glenora 8\u20133 in the other. Glenora had recently formed and entered a team in the 3rd Grade Intermediate competition but decided to enter a team in the 3rd Grade Open knockout competition. They beat Richmond 3\u20130 to make the semi-final where they were beaten. Marist and Ponsonby drew 5\u20135 in the knockout final therefore a replay was needed. Ponsonby won the replay 8\u20132 on September 26."}, {"text": "Third Intermediate Grade standings. Richmond Rovers won the 3rd grade intermediate championship for the 4th time in their history. It was only in the 6th year of competition. There were a large number of results not reported so the standings are very incomplete. The competition was notable because Glenora fielded their first ever side when they entered a team in round 6 on June 6. They lost the match to Akarana 16\u20130. In the knockout competition Richmond beat Mount Albert in one semi final while Akarana beat City 10\u20134 in the other semi final. Richmond then completed the double when they defeated Akarana 6\u20133 in the final on September 12. Glenora were knocked out in the first round on August 22 by Mount Albert 6-4 and then entered a side in the 3rd grade open knockout competition. Glen Lynn (an amalgamated club between Glen Eden and New Lynn) withdrew after 8 rounds. Fourth Grade standings. Marist won the championship and the knockout competition when they beat Richmond 13\u20130 on October 10. It was the first time they had won the fourth grade competition in its 20th year of running. Glen Lynn entered a team but did not play a game"}, {"text": "before withdrawing. Ellerslie defaulted their first two matches and then withdrew. Mount Wellington withdrew after 3 rounds despite winning in round one and a default win over Ponsonby in round 3. Ponsonby withdrew after defaulting in the third round while Avondale withdrew after 14 rounds. Fifth Grade standings. Marist won the championship for the fifth grade for the second time with the previous being the year prior in 1930. They also won the knockout competition when they beat City in the final 6\u20133 on October 3. Marist had beaten Ponsonby in one semi final while City beat Devonport in the other. There were a significant number of scores not reported so the standings are incomplete. Papatoetoe and Newmarket both entered teams but neither had a result reported and Newmarket withdrew after round 1 and Papatoetoe after round 2. Mount Albert withdrew after 17 rounds near the end of the championship, with Ellerslie withdrawing a week later. Sixth Grade standings. Newmarket won their first ever sixth grade championship when they defeated Richmond 3\u20132 in the final on September 26. They had won the schoolboys championship in 1928 and 1929 so may have included some of those players coming through the grades."}, {"text": "Ellerslie withdrew after 3 rounds having defaulted their 2nd match and neither of their other results reported. Newmarket also won the knockout competition by the same score over the same opponent on October 17. Newmarket had beaten Marist on one semi final while Richmond beat City 14\u20136 in the other. Seventh Grade standings. Richmond Rovers A won the seventh grade championship for the second consecutive year. It had been inaugurated in the 1930 season effectively replacing the Sixth grade B competition. Ellerslie were runners up but they had 5 results not reported, with Richmond A having a significant number of scores not reported either so the standings are incomplete. Richmond A also won the knockout competition when they beat Ellerslie 3\u20132 on September 12. Ellerslie beat City in one semi final and Richmond beat Point Chevalier in the other. Primary schools standings. There were a large number of results not reported and therefore the standings are significantly incomplete. It is unknown who won the championship. Richmond initially entered a B team as well but they had two fixtures organised but no scores reported before withdrawing. On October 10 a schoolboy \"City Representatives\" side played a \"Suburbs Representative\" side with the"}, {"text": "City team winning 20 points to 9. Despite their respective team names the players were made up of players from all over Auckland and no specific geographic area. City included Johnston, Bennett, Filmer, Moore (Newmarket), Legge, Robertson, Bell (City), Zaninovitch (Newton), Sime, Moyle (Devonport), Duncan (Papatoetoe), McInnarney, Haynes (Ellerslie), Hall (Avondale), and Bauern (Richmond). The Suburbs team included Franklin, Stanaway (Newmarket), Stenberg, D. Gildard (Avondale), Beer (Ellerslie), Turner, Williams, Korsache (Richmond), Sullivan, McArthur, York (Devonport), Paltridge, Skinner (Northcote), Burgess (Newton), and Mullins (Papatoetoe). Mid Week Competition standings (Monteith Shield). The league was known as the Mid Week competition and also the Wednesday competition. The championship winners were awarded the Monteith Shield, with the Endean Shield to the team scoring the most championship points in the second round. Waterside Workers won the competition after Stonex and Stormont's defaulted to them in the final round. If they had played and lost then Auckland Locomotives would have had a chance to win the championship. George Gardiner played for the Waterside Workers side. The New Zealand Fertilisers side withdrew after 6 rounds while a Combined Taxis side entered the competition for the second round. No team was allowed to play more than three players"}, {"text": "who took part in Saturday football though it is unclear if that was only in the senior grades, and no team was allowed to field more than one representative player. On October 14 a combined City Markets and Combined Taxis side played in the knockout final against a Combined Boards and Nicholson Park team but the result was not reported. Two weeks prior they had defeated Auckland Locomotives and Waterside Workers in the semi-finals respectively. During the season City Markets was thrown out of the competition for fielding an unregistered player but was readmitted after assurances that they would follow the rules in the future. On August 26 the match between Waterside Workers and Stonex and Stormont's was abandoned with minutes to go with the Waterside team leading 8\u20135. Spectators had encroached on the field at Victoria Park and the referee was unable to clear them and so called the game off with a replay later required. The games attracted large crowds, particularly the ones at Victoria Park which often drew thousands of interested onlookers. The ground was particularly close to the waterfront where most of the Waterside Workers would have been employed. The two bottom teams played off on"}, {"text": "September 30 for the \"Nuks\" Cup with Ellerslie Town Board Rovers beating Nicholson Park 8 to 3. On October 10 a Midweek representative team played the Taupiri seniors in Taupiri and won 24\u201312. They also played the Auckland Juniors and won 23 to 6. Other notable matches. Wellington XIII v Marist. When Marist had a bye they travelled to Wellington to take on a Wellington XIII at the Winter Show Stadium, later known as Rugby League Park in the suburb of Newtown and now known as Newtown Park. Alan Clarke was unable to travel and was replaced by Jim Johnson in an otherwise near full strength team. Jim O'Brien accompanied the side as manager. Marist won comfortably scoring 12 tries to 5 but only managing to convert two of them. Pat Meehan and Pat Young both scored hat tricks, with George Batchelor scoring 2. City United (Whangarei XIII) v Richmond. Richmond travelled to Whangarei on their bye and was met by the City United side which featured players from other clubs. George Davis was injured early in the match and was replaced by Ray Lawless, as was W Jones who was replaced by Biddick. City United lock E O'Callaghan scored"}, {"text": "all three tries for them while for Richmond future New Zealand coach, Bill Telford scored one of their three tries. Papakura (2nd Gr.) v South Auckland juniors. This match was the curtain raiser to the Northland v South Auckland representative game at Carlaw Park. After the scores were locked at 0-0 at halftime the Papakura team moved ahead through tries to Ivan Wilson and J Clarke, with W Francis converting Clarke's try. Evans, the South Auckland halfback scored late in the match. Newton v Hamilton. In the second half of the match the Newton halfback, Arnold Porteous was injured and left the field being replaced by \"Muir\". This was likely S. Muir, one of the Muir brothers in the Hamilton reserves. Lower Waikato v Marist and Hamilton v Mt Albert 2nd Grade (Sunshine League Cup). Marist who had just been crowned champions of Auckland travelled to Hamilton to play a very strong Lower Waikato side which featured six New Zealand representatives (George Tittleton, Edwin Abbott, James Jones, Joe Menzies, Wally Tittleton, and Tom Timms). The match was a double header to raise money for the Hospital Patients Sunshine League which provided funds for hospital patients in Hamilton. Marist trailed 0-8"}, {"text": "at halftime but rallied with tries to George Batchelor (2), and Alan Clarke, with Clarke also kicking a conversion and Norm Campbell kicking a drop goal. In the curtain raiser between Hamilton and Mt Albert, J Glasgow (Hamilton) broke his arm and was taken to hospital, while Robinson (Hamilton) also left the field with concussion. Ellerslie-Otahuhu v City (Whangarei). The City club side from Whangarei traveled to Auckland to play Ellerslie-Otahuhu in Ellerslie. The match raised funds for the local unemployment fund. Brady scored first for the local side which gave them a 3-0 halftime lead but the City side scored two second half tries to win an uninspiring match. Hikurangi v Auckland Watersiders. The Auckland Watersiders fielded a rugby league team at Hikurangi, north of Whangarei on September 5. The Hikurangi side was particularly strong with several Northland representative players. For the Watersiders they featured a handful of senior rugby league players in the Auckland competition including George Gardiner who played at centre and kicked two good conversions. The Northland team broke out to a 13-0 halftime lead and withstood a comeback to win by 9. The crowd was said to be \"below the usual number\" due to the"}, {"text": "industrial dispute. Hamilton v Ponsonby. Hamilton travelled to Hamilton to Hinemoa Park and were thrashed 35-14. Hamilton led 23-0 at halftime and although Ponsonby improved their effort in the second half with Frank Delgrosso scoring twice they were still well beaten. For Hamilton their winger, Griffiths scored 4 tries while Cotter and Astle scored doubles. Representative season. It was a very quiet year on the representative team front. There was a match played between North Island and South Island, but the Auckland team's only match was against Northland. Auckland junior teams played two matches and a colts side played against the touring Eastern Suburbs team from Sydney who were the recently crowned premiers of the New South Wales Rugby League competition. Representative fixtures. Auckland v Northland. In a surprise result Northland had defeated South Auckland to lift the trophy. Auckland played Northland but the match was not for the Northern Union Shield and so they decided to play several young players including future Kiwi Albert Laing who had not yet even played a first grade match and could only manage a 19 all draw."}, {"text": "Podolnaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7 as of 2002. Geography. Podolnaya is located 16 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Samoylovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Podsosenye () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Podsosenye is located by road 14 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre). Padinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pozhar () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Pozhar is located 21 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Petrovka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pozharishche () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2002. Geography. Pozharishche is located 19 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Novaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pozdeyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. Pozdeyevskaya is located 51 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zavrag is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokrovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Pokrovskaya is located 77 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuritsino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokrovskoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 102 as of 2002. Geography. Pokrovskoye is located 18 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baza is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Pokkunny Siva Temple () is an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva is situated at Vadavannur village of Alathur of Palakkad district in Kerala state in India. The temple is a part of 108 famous Shiva temples in Kerala. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva. Legend has it that Lord Parasurama installed the Shiva Linga at the pond (Perumkulam) in Alathur. The temple was built by the King of Kollamkodu kingdom. The legend. Lord Parashurama installed the idol of Siva in the pool as a way to diminish the harshness of the great deity and bring him peace. In other temples, the deity is worshiped facing to a pond or other pool to reduce the temper of Lord Shiva. Whatever the case, the temple is located in the vast pond. One side of the temple pond may have been erected to reach the temple which was formerly the temple pond. One can see the temple standing in the pond (Perumkulam ). History. This temple was once owned by the king of Kollengode Palace. The old name of Kollengode was Venganad. Venganad Nambi or the king of Kollengode was the ruler of Venganad comprising the five lands. He was"}, {"text": "also the leader of over a thousand Nair families in the area. God of Kachamkurichi was the lord of the king of Kollengode but, Vadavannoor Thevar (Pokkunny Siva) was his favorite."}, {"text": "Popovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was two in 2002."}, {"text": "Popovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 64.5 km, to Mishutinskaya is 1.5 km. Agafonovskaya, Checheninskaya, Ozhiginskaya, Mishutinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Popovka () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 69 km, to Sosnovitsa is 1 km. Grishinskaya, Sosnovitsa, Vasilyevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Popovka Kalikinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Popovka Kalikinskaya is located 72 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikitino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Porokhino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Porokhino is located 56 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tarasovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "V\u00e9ronique Cortier is a French mathematician and computer scientist specializing in cryptography. Her research has applied mathematical logic in the formal verification of cryptographic protocols, and has included the development of secure electronic voting systems. She has also contributed to the public dissemination of knowledge about cryptography through a sequence of posts on the \"binaire\" blog of \"Le Monde\". She is a director of research with CNRS, associated with the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. Education and career. Cortier studied mathematics and computer science at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure de Cachan from 1997 until 2001, earning a master's degree and completing her agr\u00e9gation. She remained at Cachan for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 2003 with the dissertation \"Automatic Verification of Cryptographic Protocols\" supervised by Hubert Comon. She joined the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2003, completed a habilitation in 2009, and became a director of research with CNRS in 2010. Recognition. Cortier was the 2003 winner of the of the for the best French dissertation in computer science. She also won a second dissertation prize, from \"Le Monde\". In 2015 she became"}, {"text": "the second woman to win the INRIA and French Academy of Sciences Young Researcher Award for her work on Belenios, a secure electronic voting system. In 2022 she won the CNRS Silver Medal."}, {"text": "Talking Horns is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson recorded and released by the Delmark label in 2001. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Alex Henderson stated \"the improvisers favor an inside/outside approach and divide their time between hard swinging post-bop and more abstract, AACM-minded avant-garde jazz. ... Thompson, true to form, insists on keeping his options open -- the trumpeter sees no reason why he cannot be influenced by Freddie Hubbard one minute and Lester Bowie the next. As a result, Talking Horns is unpredictable -- you never know from one track to the next if the sextet will go in a straight-ahead post-bop direction or an AACM-influenced avant-garde direction. But whatever direction the sextet chooses, this album is consistently strong and serves as a fine example of Midwestern acoustic jazz\". In JazzTimes Aaron Steinberg wrote \"\"Talking Horns\" isn\u2019t really a recording of manifesto-fueled excitement or much of a departure for the trumpeter, however. Thompson\u2019s outfit reinvestigates familiar territory-robust hard-bop edged with squeally outbursts-with moderation and restraint. On the mostly vamp or groove-based tunes, the rhythm section ticks off measures without any real sense of urgency. Even free-blown passages come across as a little tame. Thompson himself plays with"}, {"text": "a big, brassy sound but turns in able if not particularly memorable solos\". All About Jazz said \"On his latest Delmark release, trumpeter Malachi Thompson has as a not-so-ulterior motive illustrating that jazz, in its free manifestation, continues as a vibrant creative medium. He and World Saxophone Quartet alumni, Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, acquit themselves famously in this endeavor and offer a tasty plate of avant-garde music ... \"Talking Horns\" captures the essence of jazz that the best albums do: heavy, fat groovin\u2019 that sways the body combined with incisive, intelligent improvisation that excites the mind\". Mark Corroto was less impressed noting \"The good news is trumpeter Malachi Thompson mixes multiple styles and approaches on his latest release. But that is also the bad news. Thompson packs a wealth of music into his discs. ... Thompson\u2019s eclecticism informs us of jazz history, but that also distracts from a singular message ... His tendency to display multiple directions leaves the whole less than the sum of the musical parts\". Track listing. All compositions by Malachi Thompson except where noted"}, {"text": "Cortier is a surname. Notable people with this name include:"}, {"text": "Nicol & Marsh were an English soft rock duo which consisted of Ken Nicol and Peter Marsh. Career. Nicol & Marsh released two albums and several singles. Their debut album was 1974's \"Nicol and Marsh's Easy Street\". After the duo joined forces with Richard James Burgess, the trio became known as Easy Street. As the trio Easy Street, they released two albums, \"Easy Street\" in 1976 and \"Under the Glass\" in 1977. After Easy Street's 1977 album \"Under the Glass\", Nicol & Marsh released one last album in 1978, the eponymous \"Nicol & Marsh\", to which their partnership dissolved; an interview with Nicol implied that Marsh was moving in a different direction, saying: \"...what happened is what happens to a lot of people, and you start to try other things, writing with other people and we were making too much of a departure from what was working originally. So then the album would seem too diverse; one track would appear very different to another because, say, Pete would have written it with the drummer.\" Both Nicol and Marsh went on to have successful solo careers as singer-songwriters, guitarists and producers, releasing solo material as well as becoming members of other"}, {"text": "bands and working with other artists. Among the bands Nicol was a member of are the Ashley Hutchings Dance Band, the Albion Band and Steeleye Span. Marsh was a member of the new wave bands Twist and Blanket of Secrecy."}, {"text": "Mapa Mudiyanselage Suraj Laksiri (born on 2 January 1980 as ) [Sinhala]), popularly as Suraj Mapa, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and television as well as a Teledrama Producer, model, dancer, and a choreographer. Mapa is best known for the roles in many television serials such as \"Olu\", \"Pooja\", and \"Haara Kotiya\". Apart from acting, he owns partnership in the brand named \"Elsa Clothing\". Personal life. He was born on 2 January 1980 in Kandy, Sri Lanka as the youngest of the family with two elder sisters. His father was a businessman and his mother was a housewife. He completed education from Trinity College, Kandy and did his Advance Level examination in 1999. Then, Mapa attended a course in Hotel Management earning a Diploma in Hotel Management and worked for one year in his father's hotel \u2013 \u2018Hotel Zurich Park\u2019. He also studied at IDM and gained a Diploma in Computer Studies. During this period he worked for \u2018Suntel\u2019 as a customer care executive. As a model he has walked the ramp for Lou Ching Wong the fashion designer and for Nayana the popular hair dresser. Later he obtained qualifications in Marketing through SLIM. His father died on"}, {"text": "13 July 2016 and mother Dayani Mapa died on 17 August 2018 by a blood clot in the brain. His mother's sister, Suneetha Ratnayake was a popular dancer. Acting career. Mapa started his acting career in 2000 with the television serial \"Mage Sanda Oba\" directed by Prasanna Vithanage. He was starring the main role, which gained him large popularity and also selected for Upcoming Actor award in year 2002. During the very early stage of his carrier, he appeared in the serial \"Suriya Daruwo\" in 2002, which made him popular. He was also nominated as the Best Upcoming Actor in 2003, for the lead role in the serial \"Olu\" directed by Shirly P. Delankawala which made his turning point in the career. In the serial, he was starring a role of a young English Teacher named \"Asanka\". Later he won the award for the Most Popular Actor in both Sumathi Awards and Raigam Tele'es awards in 2005 and 2006 for the role. In 2005, he won the award for the most popular Sri Lankan actor in the UAE. Then he acted in the serial \"Pooja\" directed by Eranga Senarathne. In the serial, he played the role \"Nirmala\", a famous Writer"}, {"text": "who was leading a battle to save his child and the family. With that success, he played several lead roles particularly as the lover in the serials such as; \"Sapumali\", \"Poojasanaya\", \"Ridee Siththam\", \"Sepalika\", \"Muthu Wessak\", and \"Mage Sanda Oba\". In 2016, he acted in the serial \"Kalu Araliya\" by performing multiple roles as famous actor Vishwa Disanayaka, servant Muni and a disabled person. Then he was nominated for the best actor award for the serial as well. In 2017, he acted in the sci-fi serial \"Lokantharayo\" directed by Thushara Thennakon, where Mapa screened dual roles. In the same year, he appeared in the popular crime serial \"Haara Kotiya\" where he played the role of gang leader \"Nepolion\". In 2018, he acted in the serial \"Amuthu Rasikaya\" with the role of \"Vijitha\", where he obtained award nominations. Mapa started his film career with a supportive role in 2004 comedy film, \"Clean Out\" directed by Roy de Silva. He also acted in Belgium film \"Semi Tower\". He acted in the film \"Sikuru Hathe\" directed by Giriraj Kaushalya, which became a blockbuster hit and became the highest-grossing film in 2007. In 2019, he appeared in the film \"Uththara\". Apart from television serials"}, {"text": "and films, he also acted in several single episode teledrama such as \"Sansara Sewanali - Podi Hamuduruwo\" and \"Thunkal Sihinaya\" as well the telefilm \"Mathaka Sihina\". Dancing career. Mapa started dancing at school age and excels in Latin American dance. He studied dancing under Neomi Rajaratnam and performed at many events both locally and internationally such as \"Footwork Dance Sport 2002\". Mapa's talented in Latin Dance. Mapa always works on positioning himself as an actor with dancing capabilities. His maiden dance show titled \"Elements with Surya\" was held at Bishop's college auditorium on 14\u201315 May 2010 at 7 p.m. On 27 February 2016, Mapa organized a dance show with over fifty dancers. The show was held at the Dharmaraja College Auditorium from 10.00 am and 6.30 pm. In 2013, he contested for the reality program \"Derana City of Dance, The Ultimate Level\" telecast by TV Derana and in 2018 \"Hiru Mega Stars\" telecast by Hiru TV. In the same year, he learned Kandyan dance traditions under Kulasiri Budawatta and became a Ves Kandyan dancer in 2014. In 2015, Mapa started \"Suraj Dance Academy\" where he conducts workshops in Colombo & Kandy. Other work. Mapa contributed as a producer for the"}, {"text": "serial \"Dagammadiyawa\". He was also starring in it and was awarded a Merit Award in Sumathi Awards Ceremony. In 2008, he hosted the reality shown Sirasa Dancing Stars season 1 together with Nirosha Perera, which later won the most popular award in 2008. Apart from that, he acts as the Head of Sales & Marketing for Elsa Clothing brand which was launched together with 2 other partners."}, {"text": "Besa Mumba (born 9 December 1996) is a Zambian pilot. She is currently the youngest female commercial pilot in Zambia and Africa. Education. Mumba was born on 9 December 1996 in Lusaka. She started schooling in 1999 at Sunshine Primary School. Before going for flight training in South Africa, she had her high school education at St Mary's. Career. Mumba trained at the South African Flight Training Academy in Heidelberg where she acquired her Private pilot licence after two years in 2015. After an extra training at SIMU Flight in Pretoria, she obtained her Commercial pilot licence in July 2015. She then joined Proflight Zambia, in 2016, where she currently works as a First Officer."}, {"text": "Joseph E. Oliger (September 3, 1941 \u2013 August 28, 2005) was an American computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. Oliger was the co-founder of the Science in Computational and Mathematical Engineering degree program at Stanford, and served as the director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science. Early life and education. Oliger was born in Indiana in 1941, the son of salesman Emmert Oliger and homemaker Catherine Oliger, and grew up on a farm in Greensburg, Indiana. Oliger graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.S. in mathematics in 1966, and later continued on to complete an M.S. in applied math in 1971. From 1965 to 1973, Oliger worked as a computer programmer and analyst at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. There, Oliger met Heinz-Otto Kreiss, who was a professor at Uppsala University at the time, and they began working together. Kreiss became Oliger's PhD advisor, and Oliger completed his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1973. Research focus. Oliger is known for his work on numerical methods to approximate solutions of partial differential equations, with applications to weather forecasting. For example, in his early work with Heinz in 1972, for a model"}, {"text": "problem on wave propagation Oliger determined to what order of Fourier analysis was required to guarantee a desired level of accuracy. Along with Marsha Berger and Philip Colella, Oliger developed the technique of adaptive mesh refinement. One adaptive mesh refinement algorithm first developed by Berger and Oliger, and later refined by Berger and Colella, is taught today and referred to as the Berger-Oliger or Berger-Oliger-Colella method. Stanford University. In 1974, Oliger joined the Computer Science department at Stanford University as an assistant professor. In 1987, Oliger co-founded the Science in Computational and Mathematical Engineering degree program at Stanford with three colleagues. As a professor at Stanford, Oliger graduated over 20 PhD students and currently has over 100 academic descendants. Oliger was the author of the widely used textbook, \"Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods\", with Bertil Gustafsson and Heinz-Otto Kreiss. Oliger served as the director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science in the 1990s. In 2001, Oliger retired from Stanford."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Sallaberry (16 December 1858, Madrid - 22 June 1927, Madrid) was a Spanish architect and urbanist who worked in the Neoplateresca style. Life and work. He began his studies in 1875 at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid and obtained the title of Architect in 1881. In 1888, he was put in charge of site preparation for what is now known as the Cementerio de la Almudena. Among his most familiar buildings are the (1894) and two theaters; the and the , which display his eclecticism. He was also responsible for th restoration of the fa\u00e7ade of the , following a disastrous fire in 1915. The Casino de Madrid and the Banco Hispano Americano have both been designated a \"Spanish Property of Cultural Interest\". After 1904, he was an Academician at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. In his role as an urban planner, his most notable work involved the initial layout of the Gran V\u00eda; performed in collaboration with . This project kept him occupied from 1905 until his death. He also oversaw the transference of the to its present location. He was married to Mar\u00eda Monasterio and they had three daughters."}, {"text": "He died at his home on the Calle de la Montera and was interred at the Saint Isidore Cemetery."}, {"text": "Arimitsu (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Linafoot Ligue 2 also called Vodacom Ligue 2 (for sponsorship reasons), is an annual football competition played by Congolese amateur football clubs and organized by Congolese Association Football Federation. This national competition, created in 2012, is still struggling to win in such a vast country, where the local and provincial championships remain extremely popular. In order to best respond to the problem of distance and to reduce travel costs for the teams, the single pool solution has been ruled out in favor of a classic phase consisting of 3 groups divided into zones."}, {"text": "Petersfield is located in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews in Manitoba, Canada. It was the birthplace of First Nation war hero and community activist Tommy Prince. In Summer, Petersfield plays host to the Petersfield Community Club Mallard Park Market, a popular local destination for locally handmade crafts, baking, vegetables, etc."}, {"text": "Prendes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Proletarsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 419 as of 2002. There are 11 streets. Geography. Proletarsky is located 19 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Pokrovskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Blue Jazz is the final studio album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson released by the Delmark label in 2003. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek stated \"Trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Malachi Thompson has outdone himself with \"Blue Jazz\" ... Thompson and his notion of reinventing the manner in which a brass-driven big band explores the relationships between harmony and rhythm, and the more tenacious linguistic commonalities between bebop and free jazz have never been as articulately or gracefully rendered as they are in this pair of suites. The band is stellar ... The two suites, \"Black Metropolis\" and \"Blues for a Saint Called Louis,\" are stunning compositions in and of themselves. ... The spirit is raucous, joyous, and utterly sophisticated; it looks forward and back across 20 years of Thompson's own free bop amalgam, but also through the entirety of jazz history. The album is, simply put, a singular achievement and one of the great big band records in recent years, and a serious candidate for big band album of 2003\". In JazzTimes John Litweiler observed \"Trumpeter Thompson solos at length throughout \"Blue Jazz\". He\u2019s a fanciful player, a master of the lyrical side of \u201950s late-bop players"}, {"text": "... But he cares less about hard bop\u2019s flair and great formal sophistication-instead, his lines are diffuse, so inspired passages often jostle uninspired ideas ... There\u2019s pleasure in Thompson\u2019s soulful compositions and arrangements. Like his friend Lester Bowie, he presents a variety of settings for his five trumpets and four trombones, with plenty of blues and backbeats\". Track listing. All compositions BY Malachi Thompson except where noted"}, {"text": "Rakishevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Rakishevo is located 67 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yelenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Repnyakovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 31 as of 2002. Geography. Repnyakovskaya is located 27 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Okulovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rubtsovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2002. Geography. Rubtsovo is located 15 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Shcheglikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ruchyevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 5 as of 2002. Geography. Ruchyevskaya is located 60 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Anufriyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Savinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 153 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 8 km. Pelevikha, Okulovskaya-1, Gridinskaya, Davydikha are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Savinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 91 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 24 km, to Gridino is 4 km. Konevka, Shchegolikha, Malaya, Pozhar, Petrovka, Levinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Salnik () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Salnik is located 65 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozlovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Attock Cement Pakistan Limited ( ), trading as Falcon Cement, is a Pakistani cement manufacturer headquartered in Karachi, with manufacturing plant in Hub, Balochistan. It was incorporated in Pakistan on 14 October 1981 as a public limited company. It is a subsidiary of Pharaon Investment Group Limited Holding S.A.L, Lebanon. Atock Cement is listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. History. Attock Cement was established in 1981 and commercial production starting in 1988 with a capacity of 0.6 million tons per annum. In 2002, Attock Cement was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Attock Cement went through a series of expansions, and now the company has a production capacity of 3 million tons annually as of 2018. Former subsidiary. ACPL also made investment in a cement grinding unit in Iraq through a joint venture with the Iraq-based Al Keetan Commercial Agencies to form a subsidiary. ACPL holds 60 percent of the company. The mill has a capacity of 0.9 million tons. In May 2023 the Attock Cement Company announced its intention to sell its Iraq operations to Iraqi interests. Products. Attock Cement Pakistan Limited is principally engaged in manufacturing and sale of cement. The company is also engaged in exporting clinker"}, {"text": "and cement both in bags and bulk to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Africa, Iraq, Sri Lanka and many other countries. The company also has the facility of supply of cement in bulk and also produces the low alkali cement for some regions of its market. Its products include Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), which is a product under the Falcon Brand used in all types of general construction. OPC can be used in concretes, mortars, grouts and premix concrete. The company's Falcon Block Cement (FBC) product is offered for block and precast slab makers."}, {"text": "Samoylovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Samoylovskaya is located 16 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podolnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Orlean may refer to:"}, {"text": "Safonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Safonovskaya is located 56 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Timoshinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Semyonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 68 km, to Beketovskaya is 16 km. Barkanovskaya, Miguyevskaya, Vershina are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Semyonovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 66 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 32 km, to Baza is 22 km. Bucherovskaya, Korotyginskaya, Olekhovskaya, Dorkovskaya, Fedyayevskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Senkinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Senkinskaya is located 21 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yekimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Sigovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 45 as of 2002. Geography. Sigovskaya is located 63 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Galuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Soroginskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 64 as of 2002. Geography. Soroginskaya is located 20 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Proletarsky is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Moiz Ullah Baig (born April 1997 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani Scrabble player who won the World Youth Scrabble Championship 2013 and the World Junior Scrabble Championship 2018, becoming the first player ever to win both. He won the Pakistan Scrabble Championship in 2018 and is currently the number 1 player of the country. In December 2018, with a WESPA rating of 1921, he climbed up to the 71st place in the world rankings \u2013 his career highest. Moiz was conferred with a gold medal by Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust in 2014 for his achievements in Scrabble. He was mentioned alongside Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, Asma Jahangir, and several others in the Newsline Magazine, on being one of the Pakistanis who have made a prominent mark internationally. He is referred to as the \"'giant of scrabble\"' in Pakistan\".\" Moiz was appointed as a coach of Pakistan Scrabble Team in 2016. Moiz studied at Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, NED University of Engineering and Technology, DJ Science College, and Falconhouse Grammar School. Playing History. Moiz debuted the national circuit in 2012 at age 14 and beat several top-rated players in his first tournament. He joined the international scene in 2013. 2012. Moiz won"}, {"text": "the All-Pakistan Inter-School Scrabble Championship. Later in the year, he was selected to represent Pakistan at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in the UK, but he couldn't get the visa. 2013. Moiz won the World Youth Scrabble Championship held in Dubai, UAE, becoming the first Pakistani to do so. 2014. Moiz finished 3rd at the Mind Sports International Youth Cup held in London, UK. He was unsuccessful in defending his title at the World Youth Scrabble Championship in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2015. Moiz finished runner-up at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship. 2016. Moiz missed the quarter-finals of the World Scrabble Championship 2016 in Lille, France, after losing his last match to the former World Champion Adam Logan by 1 point, finishing 15th. He was the runner-up at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship for the second time in a row. 2017. Moiz finished runner-up at both, the World Junior Scrabble Championship held in Nottingham, UK, and the Princess Youth Scrabble Cup held in Bangkok, Thailand. 2018. Moiz won the World Junior Scrabble Championship held in Torquay, UK, the Pakistan Scrabble Championship, and the Pakistan Scrabble Champions Trophy. He rose to the number 1 spot in national rankings ending Waseem Khatri's decade-long supremacy. He"}, {"text": "was selected to represent \u2018Team Rest of Asia\u2019 at the Alchemist Cup \u2013 World Team Challenge in Penang, Malaysia, where he ended up 16th among the top 50 players of the world. 2019. He was unsuccessful in defending his title at the Pakistan Scrabble Championship. 2022. Moiz won the 10th Continental Scrabble Championship in Berlin, Germany."}, {"text": "Sorozhinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Sorozhinskaya is located 14 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peshkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shiga (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIMC) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which is responsible for licensing Iranian healthcare professionals. The Iranian Medical Council is the recognized trade union for all of its registered members. IRIMC is the umbrella organization which regulates bi or multilateral collaborations between Iranian healthcare professionals and other organizations. As the main national regulatory body for healthcare professionals, IRIMC oversees doctors and other licensed health workers to ensure that they fulfil their legal duty to maintain professional competence. This regulatory organization has the power to issue a warning to doctors as well as certain allied health workers, suspend and even revoke their license to practice. History. In 1964, the Medical Council was first legislated by the Iranian Parliament which has been amended eight times in the following years. The last amendment was in 2004 when IRIMC legislation was approved by the country's Guardian Council of the Constitution. On 1 October 2021, Dr Mohammad Raeiszadeh has been elected with 150 votes as the President of Iranian Medical Council in the new term. IRIMC main bodies are as follows: Since 1996 CME has been mandatory for all health professionals. Administered by the Ministry of Health"}, {"text": "and Medical Education and the Medical Council of Iran, CME programs are routinely running in all IRIMC branches across the country. Recently IRIMC promotes the development of medical tourism through projects planned by Health Tourism Strategic Council comprising representatives of the Medical Council of Iran, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Medical Education and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism."}, {"text": "May Queen was an iron barque of 733 tons net register. It was built at Aberdeen, Scotland, launched in May 1869, and was wrecked near Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, in January 1888. Construction. \"May Queen\" was built by A. Hall and Company, Aberdeen. It weighed 733 tons net register, had a length of , and a beam of . Final voyage and stranding. \"May Queen,\" inward bound from London carrying 1,200 tons of cargo, approached Lyttelton Heads on 26 January 1888. A pilot from the port boarded the ship outside the heads, and beat up against a strong, uncertain breeze. The pilot took the vessel too close to the south shore of Lyttelton Harbour, near Red Rock. A squall called the ship to miss stays, and it was carried on to the rocks. A tug from the port endeavoured to tow \"May Queen\" free, but failed. The ship had run aground at high tide; as the tide ebbed the ship became lodged on the rocks. Rocks penetrated the hull, and boats from the port discharged most of the cargo before the ship became a total wreck. \"May Queen\" was abandoned to the underwriters on 27 January 1888. Salvage. Between 500"}, {"text": "and 600 tons of cargo was salved from the wreck, along with various cabin fittings. A mahogany sideboard and couch from \"May Queen\" are now displayed at Lyttelton Museum. Shipwreck. The wreck of \"May Queen\" lies in Lyttelton Harbour, where the ship sank. The ship lies in of water on the harbour floor, though is mostly buried in the sand and silt."}, {"text": "Ryszard Polak (26 February 1959 \u2013 9 September 2017) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He is most well known for his spell with Lechia Gda\u0144sk. Biography. Born in Sopot, Polak started his footballing career training with the youth sides of Lechia Gda\u0144sk. He made his Lechia debut on 24 April 1976 aged 17 against Ursus Warsaw. In his first spell with Lechia, he made 52 league appearances, scoring 3 goals. He had a brief spell with Zawisza Bydgoszcz in 1980 and the whole of 1981 while he did his mandatory military training, making a total of 4 appearances during his time with the club. He returned to Lechia towards the end of the 1981\u201382 season, being unable to save Lechia from relegation to the third tier. Despite being relegated to the third tier, it was a time which would become an historic period for the club. The 1982\u201383 season saw Lechia winning the III liga with Polak playing in five games of Lechias winning Polish Cup run, beating Piast Gliwice in the final 2\u20131. The following season Lechia won the Polish Super Cup final as Lechia won by beating the Polish champions Lech Pozna\u0144 1\u20130, with"}, {"text": "Polak starting the game. He also played in both games as Lechia faced European footballing giants Juventus in a European competition due to the previous season's cup win. Lechia also won promotion to the top division that season by winning the II liga for the 1983\u201384 season. Polak played 20 times and scored 2 for Lechia the following season in the I liga. That season would prove to be his last playing for Lechia, having made his final appearance for the club on 19 July 1985 against G\u00f3rnik Zabrze. In total for Lechia he made 143 appearances and scored 22 in all competitions. After his time with Lechia he spent 2 seasons with Igloopol D\u0119bica before moving to Germany. After his move to Germany he was unable to play due to injuries and failing with annual disqualification imposed on him by his native Poland. As a result, he instead played in \"Oldboy\" teams. He spent his later years working as a scout looking for players with Polish roots to potentially play for the national team. Polak has had a star on Lechia's \"'Avenue of Stars\" since September 2005. He died on 9 September 2017 aged 58. Honours. Lechia Gda\u0144sk"}, {"text": "The Alternative for Germany donation scandal () was a political scandal that broke in 2018 in which the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) was found to have accepted financial contributions in contravention of conditions within German laws regulating donations to political parties. In the three months leading up to the 2017 general election the AfD regional office for the Lake Constance area received 18 weekly payments totalling 132,000 euros documented as \"campaign donations for Alice Weidel\". Alice Weidel is deputy chairman of the regional party organisation and co-chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. At the beginning of 2018 they received a further 150,000 euros. These were not declared as required by law and apparently disguised as to their true source and aggregate amount. Further irregular contributions to AfD party politicians were identified, including to J\u00f6rg Meuthen, Guido Reil and Marcus Petzell. According to media reports, the payments came from billionaire property tycoon Henning Conle though several intermediaries and split into smaller amounts. The AfD has been ordered to pay over 500,000 euros to the federal government, including the illegal sums and penalties."}, {"text": "Canta Recio (meaning \"sings loudly\" in Spanish), was a native New Mexican settlement, now a ghost town in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States. It was located 40 miles south of Socorro, on the west bank of the Rio Grande, south of Milligan Gulch. History. Canta Recio was a small settlement, established by 1875 as the first Apache War was ending. It was located along the road on the west side of the Rio Grande, south of Fort Craig. By 1880, it was the first stop after San Marcial on the stage route to the mining towns of the Black Range. It remained in existence until 1920, when the land of the area was condemned for the Elephant Butte Reservoir and inundated. Nothing remains of this place."}, {"text": "Sosnovitsa () is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 215 as of 2002. Geography. Sosnovitsa is located 61 km southeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Grishinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stepanikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 11.6 km. Lupachi, Koroli, Korovinskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Stepanikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 67 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 21 km, to Gridino is 1 km. Shchegolikha, Levinskaya, Malaya, Gridino, Pesok, Nikitinskaya, Leshchevka are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Stepanovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Stepanovskaya is located 34 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fedyayevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Stolbikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2002. Geography. Stolbikha is located 29 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Khmylitsa is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Strokavino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 11 as of 2002. Geography. Strokavino is located 79 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Konechnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Surkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 50 as of 2002. Geography. Surkovskaya is located 47 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Baranovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Syrnevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Syrnevo is located 67 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yelenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Syamba () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 72 as of 2002. Geography. Syamba is located 10 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Molodyozhny is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tarasovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 47 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 49 km, to Beketovskaya is 3 km. Gashkovo, Bor, Gorka, Porokhino are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Tarasovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 41 km, to Baza is 26 km. Vasilyevskaya, Maleyevskaya, Ivanovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Tigino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Tigino is located 80 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mytnik is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Timoninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 73 km, to Mishutinskaya is 7 km. Yesinskaya, Alferyevskaya, Loshchinskaya, Glazunovskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Timoshinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 71 km, to Sosnovitsa is 3 km. Popovka, Vasilyevskaya, Kostyuninskaya are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Tingotomo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 16 as of 2002. Geography. Tingotomo is located 72 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kalikinsky Bereznik is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 TCR Australia Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 carsales TCR Australia Series) was to be an Australian motor racing competition for TCR cars. It was planned to be the second TCR Australia Series and was to be run as part of the renamed Motorsport Australia Championships. The Series was sanctioned by Motorsport Australia as a National Series with the Australian Racing Group appointed as the Category Manager. The series was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams and drivers. The following teams and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2020 series: Race calendar. The calendar was announced in October 2019 with seven confirmed rounds, plus two non-championship rounds. The final calendar was published in January 2020. A revised calendar, expanding into 2021 was released on 26 May 2020. Calendar changes. The series was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Todelovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2002. Geography. Todelovskaya is located 51 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Klimovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tupitsyno () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Tupitsyno is located 11 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zinenskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Turabovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Turabovskaya is located 14 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kozlovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Renate Habinger (born 11 August 1957, in Sankt P\u00f6lten) is an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator. Habinger studied graphic design at the Federal Institute of Graphic Arts and Design (1971\u20131975) and since then, she has been working as a freelance artist. In 1997, she set up the workshop the \"Schneiderh\u00e4usl\" in Oberndorf an der Melk."}, {"text": "Turovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Turovo is located 42 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Tyurikovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Tyurikovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2002. Geography. Tyurikovskaya is located 39 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Turovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Uglenskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Uglenskaya is located 39 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zarechnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ugol () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 13 as of 2002. Geography. Ugol is located 8 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nesterikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Ulitinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 21 as of 2002. Geography. Ulitinskaya is located 29 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Panteleyevskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fatyanovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2002. Geography. Fatyanovo is located 66 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gorka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fedyuninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 43 as of 2002. Geography. Fedyuninskaya is located 47 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kholdynka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fedyayevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Fedyayevskaya is located 31 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Olekhovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Filatovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2002. Geography. Filatovskaya is located 78 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kuritsino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fominskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Fominskaya is located 13 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bykovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Fomishchevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Fomishchevo is located 13 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostyuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Funikovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 12 as of 2002. Geography. Funikovo is located 19 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Otradnoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Imre Waldbauer (3 March 1892 \u2013 5 December 1952) was a Hungarian violinist and music teacher. Born in Budapest as Josef Waldbauer's son, Waldbauer was a student of Jen\u0151 Hubay. He lived in Hungary until 1945, worked as a violin and viola teacher at the Music Academy in Budapest and, together with the cellist Jen\u0151 Kerpely, founded the \"Waldbauer-Kerpely-Quartett\" (\"Hungarian String Quartet\") in 1910, which was active until 1945. A friend of B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k, Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly and Ernst von Dohn\u00e1nyi, he premiered many of their violin works and was an important interpreter of their chamber music with his quartet. In 1945 he moved to the US, where he taught at the University of Iowa until his death. Among his pupils were Paul Rolland, Kat\u00f3 Havas, Vilmos T\u00e1trai, Robert Gerle and D\u00e9nes Zsigmondy. Waldbauer died in Iowa City at age 60."}, {"text": "Unaisi Rauluni also simply known as Una Rauluni (born 18 September 1994) is a Fijian netball player and current captain of the Fiji national team who plays in the positions of goal attack or goal shooter. She has featured in two World Cup tournaments for Fiji in 2015 and in 2019. Personal life. She was born in a family where most of her family members have involved in sports. She was born in Suva and was raised up in Qarani, Qarani. She is the daughter of late former national rugby sevens and rugby union player Vesito Rauluni. Her mother Salanieta Rauluni was also a netball player. Her uncles Taito Rauluni, Peni Rauluni, Meli Rauluni and Vili Rauluni played for the national rugby union team while her cousins Jacob Rauluni, Mosese Rauluni and Waisale Serevi have also represented the national rugby team. Her elder sister Unisi is also a netball player. Career. She made her international debut at the age of 17 in 2011. She was discovered by the then national netball coach Unaisi Rokoura and stormed into the national team for the 2011 World Netball Series which was held in Liverpool. She was also a key member of the Fijian"}, {"text": "squad which emerged as winners of the Nations Cup in 2011 for the first time defeating hosts Singapore in the final. Unaisi was appointed as the captain of the national netball team for the 2019 Netball World Cup."}, {"text": "Khvostovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 72 km, to Beketovskaya is 17 km. Nikitino, Popovka Kalikinskaya, Petrovo, Chichirino are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Khvostovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Yuchkinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 41 as of 2002. Geography. The distance to Vozhega is 30 km, to Yuchka is 6 km. Ivanovskaya, Manuilovskaya, Yuchka are the nearest rural localities."}, {"text": "Khmelevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mityukovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 26 as of 2002. Geography. Khmelevskaya is located 70 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kostyuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khmylitsa () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Khmylitsa is located 28 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Stolbikha is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Khodinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 39 as of 2002. Geography. Khodinskaya is located 27 km northeast of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mikhaylovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Rao Kaixun (; born April 1964) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China. In July 2019 he has been placed under investigation by the PLA's anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force. He was promoted to the rank of major general (shao jiang) in 2010 and lieutenant general (zhong jiang) in 2017. Education. Rao was born in Yuexi County, Sichuan, in April 1964. He is of Hui ethnicity. He graduated from PLA National Defence University. Career. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1980. In 2010 he was promoted to become chief of staff of the 77th Group Army, after 30 years of grass-roots unit training. Two years later, he was appointed army commander of the 14th Group Army. In 2013, he was named head of the Operational Division of People's Liberation Army General Staff Department, replacing Bai Jianjun. That same year, he became head of Civil Defense Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense Mobilization of the Central Military Commission. In March 2016 he was appointed deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force. He concurrently served as its chief of staff in"}, {"text": "August 2017. He was a delegate to the 12th and 13th National People's Congress. Investigation. In July 2019 he was placed under investigation by the PLA's anti-corruption agency. Rao was ordered to resign as representative of the 13th National People's Congress. He was downgraded to deputy corps leader grade position."}, {"text": "Kholdynka () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 55 as of 2002. Geography. Kholdynka is located 48 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Fedyuninskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kholuy () is a rural locality (a village) in Vozhegodskoye Urban Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002. Geography. Kholuy is located 9 km south of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zadorozhye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chernovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 94 as of 2002. Geography. Chernovskaya is located 47 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Derevenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Anna Kalinskaya was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Storm Sanders won the title, defeating Lizette Cabrera in an all-Australian final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134."}, {"text": "Checheninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Mishutinskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 46 as of 2002. Geography. Checheninskaya is located 67 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mishutinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Chichirino () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 8 as of 2002. Geography. Chichirino is located 2 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Shchegolikha () is a rural locality (a village) in Tiginskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 32 as of 2002. Geography. Shchegolikha is located 21 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Malaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Kang Laiyi (; 17 September 1936 \u2013 5 October 2019) was a Chinese epidemiologist. He was a professor, chief medical doctor and director at the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He worked in public health for almost six decades, including more than 30 years in HIV/AIDS epidemiology and management. Biography. Kang was born on 17 September 1936 in Fenghua, Zhejiang, Republic of China. After graduating from Shanghai Medical College in 1957, he taught at Shanghai Medical Specialty School for five years. In August 1962, Kang transferred to the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention and worked there for the rest of his career. From 1984 to 1986, he received further training in epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto in Canada. After returning to China in December 1986, he worked in the prevention and treatment of the new disease AIDS. He was appointed Director of the Shanghai AIDS Monitoring Center in October 1991 and Deputy Director of the Shanghai AIDS Research Center in 2001. Kang later served as Chief Medical Doctor and Director at the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Kang"}, {"text": "died on 5 October 2019, aged 83. Contributions. In the 1960s, Kang worked for years on cholera prevention and treatment in the outskirts of Shanghai. He also went to Kashgar, Xinjiang to advise on the management of a cholera outbreak there. In 1970, Kang quickly detected and controlled an anthrax outbreak which killed a large number of mink in the Shanghai Zoo. When a major outbreak of dermatitis affected half a million people in Shanghai in 1972, Kang determined the cause to be caterpillars of the moth \"Euproctis similis xanthocampa\" and devised measures to control the disease. From 1978, Kang oversaw the creation of the hepatitis B vaccination program for newborns in Shanghai, the first such program in China. In 1988, when 290,000 people in Shanghai were infected with hepatitis A, Kang conducted research that determined the cause of the outbreak to be consumption of contaminated \"Anadara subcrenata\" clams. Starting in the late 1980s, Kang mainly focused on the epidemiology, intervention research, clinical evaluation, and management of HIV/AIDS. In 1989, he established one of China's first labs to isolate and detect the virus. In 1992, he organized a major epidemiological study of hepatitis C and hepatitis E involving nearly 90,000"}, {"text": "patients in four provinces. In 1998, he detected the first case of HIV/AIDS in a haemophiliac. During the 2003 SARS outbreak, Kang was a key member of the Shanghai SARS prevention group. Kang published more than 20 books and nearly 200 research papers. He received many national and municipal awards including the Distinguished Contribution Award of the National Science Congress, State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class), and the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)."}, {"text": "Shchekotovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002. Geography. Shchekotovskaya is located 14 km northwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Padinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yurkovskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2002. Geography. Yurkovskaya is located 50 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Todelovskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Devour is the fourth studio album by musician Margaret Chardiet under her music project Pharmakon. It was released by Sacred Bones Records on August 30, 2019. The first and lead single from the album \"Self-Regulating System\" was released on July 9, 2019. The second single \"Spit It Out\" followed on August 7, 2019. Critical reception. \"Devour\" was met with universal acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 83, based on 10 reviews."}, {"text": "Yagrysh () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 6 as of 2002. Geography. Yagrysh is located 78 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nikulskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yakovlevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Beketovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Yakovlevo is located 65 km west of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Salnik is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Giulia Gatto-Monticone and Anastasia Grymalska were the defending champions but chose not to participate. Asia Muhammad and Storm Sanders won the title, defeating Naiktha Bains and Tereza Mihal\u00edkov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20134."}, {"text": "Yakuninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 29 as of 2002. Geography. Yakuninskaya is located 46 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Derevenka is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yakutinskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Nizhneslobodskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 31 as of 2002. Geography. Yakutinskaya is located 41 km east of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Zarechnaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yakushevskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Yavengskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2002. Geography. Yakushevskaya is located 22 km north of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Senkinskaya is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Yakhrenga () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kadnikovskoye Rural Settlement, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 288 as of 2002. There are 8 streets. Geography. Yakhrenga is located 25 km southwest of Vozhega (the district's administrative centre) by road. Vozhega is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Molochnoye () is a rural locality (a selo) in Vologda, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 7,690 as of 2017. There are 22 streets. Geography. Molochnoye is located on the left bank of the Vologda River, 15 km northwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ilyinskoye is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Quirine Lemoine was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Francesca Di Lorenzo won the title, defeating Kirsten Flipkens in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 6\u20134."}, {"text": "Aksenovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Staroselskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2002. Geography. Aksenovo is located 32 km southwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Opuchkovo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "Akulovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Mayskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 2 as of 2002. Geography. Akulovo is located 19 km northwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dityatyevo is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 2020 OL Reign season was the team's eighth season of play and their eighth season in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. It is the team's first season under new majority owner OL Groupe, the parent company of French soccer clubs Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique Lyonnais F\u00e9minin, and the resultant new team name. After leading the team for the past two seasons, former head coach Vlatko Andonovski departed in October 2019 to become the head coach of the United States women's national soccer team. Frenchman Farid Benstiti was named the third head coach in team history in January 2020. On March 12, 2020, the preseason match schedule was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the NWSL announced on March 20 that the regular season start will be delayed. On May 27, 2020, the NWSL announced that the 2020 Challenge Cup will mark the return to action following the COVID-19 pandemic. The 25-game tournament, to be held from June 27 to July 26, will be hosted by the owner of Utah Royals FC Dell Loy Hansen. Subsequently, OL Reign resumed team preseason training in Missoula, Montana, on June"}, {"text": "1. On June 22, 2020, the NWSL announced, in conjunction with the full rules and regulations for the 2020 Challenge Cup, that the 2020 NWSL regular season and playoffs have been canceled. On August 25, 2020, the NWSL announced that the season will continue with the Fall Series, where the nine teams are divided into three regional pods and play four games each. Competitions. \"All times are in PT unless otherwise noted.\" Regular season. On February 25, 2020, the NWSL announced the full, 24-game schedule for the regular season. However, the regular season was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 22, 2020, the NWSL announced that the 2020 NWSL regular season and playoffs have been canceled. Playoffs. On June 22, 2020, the NWSL announced that the 2020 NWSL regular season and playoffs have been canceled. Transfers. For incoming transfers, dates listed are when OL Reign officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired (e.g., draft picks) are not listed. For outgoing transfers, dates listed are when OL Reign officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another team. If a player later signed with another"}, {"text": "team, her new team will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when she was officially removed from the OL Reign roster. Transfers in. Draft picks. Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as incoming transfers. Only trades involving draft picks and executed on the day of the 2020 NWSL College Draft will be listed in the notes."}, {"text": "Alexandrovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Mayskoye Rural Settlement, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2002. Geography. Alexandrovo is located 35 km northwest of Vologda (the district's administrative centre) by road. Koryakino is the nearest rural locality."}, {"text": "The 1995\u201396 B Group was the 40th season of the Bulgarian B Football Group, the second tier of the Bulgarian football league system. A total of 20 teams contested the league."}, {"text": "Sharon Fichman and Maria Sanchez were the defending champions, but chose not to participate. Robin Anderson and Jessika Ponchet won the title, defeating M\u00e9lodie Collard and Leylah Annie Fernandez 7\u20136(9\u20137), 6\u20132 in the final."}, {"text": "Whitney Osuigwe was the defending champion, but lost to Danielle Lao in the quarterfinals. Mandy Minella won the title, defeating Alexa Glatch in the final, 6\u20134 6\u20134."}, {"text": "Olga Gutmakher ( Vasiliev, ; born 9 February 1987) is an Israeli chess player and engineer who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 2004). She is a three-time Israeli Women's Chess Championship winner (2008, 2013, 2014), a Women's Chess Olympiad individual bronze medal winner (2010), and a European Women's Team Chess Championship individual bronze medal winner (2009). Biography. She grew up in Ashdod. In 1998, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U14 girls' age group. In 2002, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U15 girls' age group. In 2003, she won Israeli Youth Chess Championship in U16 girls' age group. Olga Gutmakher is three times Israeli Women's Chess Championship winner: in 2008, 2013, and 2014. Gutmakher played for Israel in the Women's Chess Olympiads: She played for Israel in the European Women's Team Chess Championships: Gutmakher graduated from Tel Aviv University as electrical engineering."}, {"text": "Nicole Gibbs and Asia Muhammad were the defending champions, but chose not to participate. Beatrice Gumulya and Jessy Rompies won the title, defeating Hsu Chieh-yu and Marcela Zacar\u00edas in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133."}, {"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament. Elisabetta Cocciaretto won the title, defeating Sara Errani in an all-Italian final, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 6\u20130."}, {"text": "The 2022\u201323 UEFA Nations League was the third season of the UEFA Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. The competition was held from June to September 2022 (league phase), June 2023 (Nations League Finals), and March 2024 (relegation play-outs). Following their win in 2021, defending champions France were unable to defend their title in the finals after finishing third in their group. Spain won the final against Croatia, 5\u20134 on penalties following a 0\u20130 draw after extra time, for their first UEFA Nations League title. Format. The 55 UEFA national teams were divided into four leagues, with Leagues A, B, and C featuring 16 teams each, divided into four groups of four teams. League D featured seven teams divided into two groups, with one containing four teams and the other containing three. The teams were allocated to leagues based on the 2020\u201321 UEFA Nations League overall ranking. Each team played six matches within their group, except for one group in League D which played four, using the home-and-away round-robin format in June (four matchdays) and September 2022 (two matchdays). In the top division, League A, teams competed"}, {"text": "to become the UEFA Nations League champions. The four group winners of League A qualified for the Nations League Finals in June 2023, which was played in a knockout format, consisting of the semi-finals, third place play-off, and final. The semi-final pairings were determined using a draw. The host country was selected among the four qualified teams by the UEFA Executive Committee, with the winners of the final crowned as the Nations League champions. Teams also competed for promotion and relegation to a higher or lower league. The group winners in Leagues B, C, and D were promoted, while the last-placed teams of each group in Leagues A and B were relegated. As League C had four groups while League D had only two, the League C team that was to be relegated was determined by relegation play-outs in March 2024. Originally, the play-outs would have involved all four of the fourth-placed League C teams, with the two losers being relegated to League D. However, due to the ongoing suspension of Russia from all UEFA competitions, the league allocation for the 2024\u201325 UEFA Nations League was changed so that only one team would be relegated to League D, ensuring that"}, {"text": "League C would still consist of 16 teams. Based on the Nations League overall ranking of the fourth-placed teams, the two worst-ranked teams qualified for the play-outs. The tie was played over two legs, with the higher-ranked team hosting the second leg. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs remained in League C, while the loser was relegated to League D. If the aggregate score was level, extra time was played without the away goals rule. If the score remained level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner. Tiebreakers for group ranking. If two or more teams in the same group were equal on points on completion of the league phase, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied: Notes Criteria for league ranking. Individual league rankings were established according to the following criteria: To rank teams in Leagues B and D, which were composed of different sized groups, the results against the fourth-placed teams in these leagues were not taken into account when comparing teams placed first, second and third in their respective groups. The ranking of the top 4 teams in League A was determined by their finish in the"}, {"text": "Nations League Finals. Criteria for overall ranking. The overall UEFA Nations League rankings were established as follows: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying. The 2022\u201323 UEFA Nations League was linked with UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying, providing teams another chance to qualify for UEFA Euro 2024. The Euro 2024 qualifying group stage took place from March to November 2023, deciding 20 of the 23 teams that advanced to the final tournament to join hosts Germany. The 53 teams were drawn into ten groups after the completion of the UEFA Nations League (seven groups of five teams and three groups of six teams, with the four participants in the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals guaranteed to be drawn into groups of five teams), with the top two teams in each group qualifying. The draw seeding was based on the overall ranking of the Nations League. Following the qualifying group stage, the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs took place in March 2024. The participants of the play-offs were not decided based on results from the qualifying group stage. Instead, twelve teams were selected based on their performance in the 2022\u201323 Nations League. These teams were divided into three paths, each containing four teams, with one"}, {"text": "team from each path qualifying for the final tournament. The group winners of Nations Leagues A, B, and C automatically qualified for the play-off path of their league unless they had already qualified for the final tournament via the qualifying group stage. If a group winner had already qualified through the qualifying group stage, they were replaced by the next best-ranked team in the same league. However, if there were not enough non-qualified teams in the same league, then the spot would go first to the best-ranked group winner of League D unless that team had already qualified for the final tournament. The remaining slots were then allocated to the next best team in the Nations League overall ranking, with the restriction that group winners of Leagues B and C could not face teams from a higher league. The three play-off paths each featured two single-legged semi-finals and one single-legged final. In the semi-finals, the best-ranked team hosted the fourth-ranked team, and the second-ranked team hosted the third-ranked team. The host of each final was drawn between the winners of the semi-final pairings. The three play-off path winners joined the 20 teams that already qualified for the final tournament via"}, {"text": "the group stage. Schedule. The schedule of the 2022\u201323 UEFA Nations League was as follows. Due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar that took place at the end of the year, the league phase was played in June and September 2022. The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 17 December 2021, the day following the draw. The fixture list for groups A4 and B1 were amended due to the postponement of Path A of UEFA qualifying for the World Cup. The relegation play-outs of League C were scheduled on the same dates as the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs. If one or more of the teams due to participate in the relegation play-outs had also qualified for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs, the relegation play-outs would have been cancelled and the lowest-ranked team in League C Nations League overall ranking would have been automatically relegated. Seeding. All 55 UEFA national teams entered the competition. The teams which finished bottom of their group in Leagues A and B, as well as the losers from the relegation play-outs of League C, from the 2020\u201321 season moved down a league, while the group winners of Leagues B, C, and"}, {"text": "D moved up. The remaining teams stayed in their respective leagues. In the 2022\u201323 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2020\u201321 Nations League overall ranking, with a slight modification: teams that were relegated in the previous season were ranked immediately below those who were promoted. The seeding pots for the league phase were based on the access list ranking. The seeding pots, draw procedure, and fixture list procedures were confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova, on 22 September 2021. The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 16 December 2021, 18:00 CET. The draw, originally planned to take place in Montreux, was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the league phase would be played in June and September 2022, no winter venue restrictions were applied in the draw. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn into the same group. Due to restrictions of excessive travel, Kazakhstan could be paired with only one of Andorra, Malta or Northern Ireland, Armenia, Iceland and Israel could not all be in the same group together and Gibraltar"}, {"text": "could not be paired with Azerbaijan if they also had two of Andorra, Malta, Kazakhstan or Northern Ireland. League C. Relegation play-outs. The League C relegation play-outs took place on 21 and 26 March 2024, after UEFA decided that Russia would be excluded from the Nations League due to the country's continued war against Ukraine: therefore, only one team (Gibraltar) was relegated from League C and two teams (Estonia and Latvia) were promoted from League D, so that the 2024\u201325 League C season would still have 16 teams. Overall ranking. The results of each team were used to calculate the overall ranking of the competition, which was used for seeding in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group stage draw. Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs. Teams who were unsuccessful in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group stage could still qualify for the final tournament via the play-offs. Leagues A, B, and C in the UEFA Nations League were each allocated one of the three remaining UEFA Euro 2024 places. Four teams who did not already qualify for the European Championship finals competed in the play-offs for each of those leagues, with the matches taking place in March 2024."}, {"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament. Andrea G\u00e1miz and Georgina Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez won the title, defeating Anna Danilina and Conny Perrin in the final, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, [10\u20133]."}, {"text": "Timea Bacsinszky was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Cristina Buc\u0219a won the title, defeating Tamara Korpatsch in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20137(11\u201313), 7\u20136(8\u20136)."}, {"text": "Estelle Cascino and Elixane Lechemia were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Akgul Amanmuradova and Ekaterine Gorgodze. Amanmuradova and Gorgodze went on to win the title, defeating Vivian Heisen and Yana Sizikova in the final, 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20133."}, {"text": "Wang Yafan was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Zhu Lin won the title, defeating Arina Rodionova in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20131."}, {"text": "Lankum are a contemporary Irish folk music group from Dublin, consisting of multi-instrumentalists Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat. Originally a duo consisting of the Lynch brothers, known as Lynched, the pair released their debut album, \"Where Did We Go Wrong?!\" in 2003. Returning to Ireland, after a spell of international touring, the brothers deepened their interest in Dublin's Irish traditional music sessions which introduced them to vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Radie Peat and violinist Cormac MacDiarmada. Recording as the core four-piece band, they released the albums \"Cold Old Fire\" in 2014 and \"Between the Earth and Sky\" in 2017. In 2018, they were named Best Folk Group at the RT\u00c9 Folk Music Awards, while Radie Peat was named Best Folk Singer. The band were nominated for the RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year in 2017 for their album \"Between the Earth and Sky\", and won the prize in 2019 and 2024 for their albums \"The Livelong Day\" and \"False Lankum\". The band's fourth studio album, \"False Lankum\" (2023), was released to widespread critical acclaim and increased the band's exposure significantly. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize and placed highly on several end-of-year lists."}, {"text": "In 2024 the band released a live album \"Live in Dublin\", recorded across three sold out nights at Dublin's Vicar Street. History. Early years, \"Where Did We Go Wrong?\" and Irish traditional sessions (2000\u20132014). Leaving school at the age of 19, multi-instrumentalist Ian Lynch moved to London and spent a year street busking and living in squats. Upon returning to Ireland, he learned that his brother Daragh Lynch had begun learning to play the guitar, and the pair soon started writing songs together: \"We started writing these really puerile half-joke, anti-authoritarian punk songs, and one that was in the style of David Bowie, about destroying the government in a cosmic way.\" Named after the brothers' surname, the duo began performing and recording under the name Lynched. Their 2003 debut album, \"Where Did We Go Wrong?\", was released on the independent label, Psalm O\u2019The Vine, and became a small success, allowing the pair to tour: \"We did a few gigs around Europe; crusty punk festivals, and then a tour of Mexico and America for three months. I was 23, and it was fucking mad.\" The brothers deepened their interest in the many Irish traditional music sessions taking place in Dublin's pubs"}, {"text": "and bars, with Ian Lynch noting that this was \"one of the most inspiring and influential things for Lankum, there would be no Lankum if it was not for the sessions.\" At these sessions the pair met singer and multi-instrumentalist Radie Peat and violinist Cormac MacDiarmada. The four core members of the band came together through mutual unemployment and the connections made from playing at the sessions. Radie Peat noted, \"That\u2019s the circumstances that brought about us in the band: a lot of time, not enough money, on the dole. Trying to find something to do with your time and playing a lot of music. Grim, but not that grim. Grim, but having quite a good time.\" \"Cold Old Fire\" and name change to Lankum (2014\u20132016). The band released their debut album as a four-piece \"Cold Old Fire\" (2014) under the original name, Lynched. The album started as a recording by the original duo of the Lynch brothers, with Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat joining the band officially during the sessions: \"I just remember it clicking so well that we were like, shall we just ask them to play on the whole album? Before we knew it we were a"}, {"text": "four-piece band. It came together so well and so quickly.\" The album was financed in part by a Deis recording grant from the Arts Council Ireland. In October 2016 they announced in a statement that they were changing their name to Lankum to avoid associations with the practice of lynching. The statement read: \"We will not continue to work under our current name while the systemic persecution and murder of black people in the USA continues.\" The name Lankum comes from the folk ballad \"False Lankum\", as sung by the Irish traveller and folk singer John Reilly. \"Between the Earth and Sky\" and \"The Livelong Day\" (2017\u20132022). In 2017, the band signed to Rough Trade Records and recorded their album \"Between the Earth and Sky\", to analogue tape with producer/ engineer Julie McLarnon, before recording the final track \"the Granite Gaze\", and mixing the album with producer John \"Spud\" Murphy in Guerrilla Studios, Dublin. It was released on 27 October 2017 and subsequently nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. \"Mojo\" named it folk 'album of the year' 2017. In 2019, the band recorded \"The Livelong Day\" with producer/engineer John \"Spud\" Murphy in the Meadows recording studio, Wicklow and in"}, {"text": "Guerrilla Studios, Dublin. It was released on 25 October 2019 and went on to win the RT\u00c9 Choice Prize 2019. In 2019, Lankum's video for \"The Young People\", directed by filmmaker Bob Gallagher, won Best Irish Music Video Award at the Irish Film Festival in London, England. \"False Lankum\" (2023\u2013present). In 2023, Lankum were nominated for the Mercury Prize for their fourth album, \"False Lankum\". They said about the prize: \u201cIt\u2019s pretty crazy, considering where we started off twenty years ago as a joke band playing at parties and squats\u2026\u201d. When asked why they thought this album had been spotted or picked up, they said: \"I think it might be the first time we\u2019ve fully nailed the sound that we\u2019ve been going for over the last few albums\u2026it took a couple of decades\". Lankum lost the award to the Ezra Collective. Lankum played three sold out concerts at Dublin's Vicar Street, 29th - 31st May 2023. These were recorded and released as the album \"Live in Dublin\" in 2024. The concerts were also broadcast in a RT\u00c9 Radio 1 programme, \"Gig on One\" broadcast 13th August 2023. In November 2023, a Lankum concert in Germany was cancelled because of pro-Palestine"}, {"text": "statements made by the band. The album won the 2024 RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize. In May 2024, Lankum's album \"False Lankum\" was nominated for the Best Album Ivor Novello Award. Artistry. Their music has been characterised as \"a younger, darker Pogues with more astonishing power\". Reviewing their third album \"The Livelong Day\" (2019) for \"The Guardian\", Jude Rogers described it as \"a folk album influenced by the ambient textures of Sunn O))) and Swans, plus the sonic intensity of Xylouris White and My Bloody Valentine\". Side projects. Radie Peat and Lankum's producer John \"Spud\" Murphy are both members of the band \u00d8XN, along with singer-songwriter and composer Katie Kim and Eleanor Myler. The band released their debut album, \"CYRM\", in 2023 to critical acclaim. Ian Lynch hosts and produces a monthly podcast, \"Fire Draw Near\", which \"investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms\". A companion compilation album, featuring his discoveries, was released in 2021 on Rough Trade Recordings. Ian released a solo album \"...And Take the Black Worm With Me\" under the name \"One Leg One Eye\" in 2022 which came about during lockdown and has performed live with George Brennan. Ian Lynch's soundtrack for"}, {"text": "Paul Duane\u2019s film \"All You Need Is Death\" was released in 2024 under his own name. Cormac MacDiarmada and Ruth Clinton from Landless play music and produce videos together as Poor Creature. They have been joined by John Dermody from The Jimmy Cake. They have a track on the compilation \"The Planet That You're On\". Cormac MacDiarmada and producer John \"Spud\" Murphy worked with Wild Beasts vocalist and bass guitarist Tom Fleming on his second solo album, \"Endless Rain\", released under the name One True Pairing. The album was recorded in Dublin and released on Domino in October 2024. Daragh Lynch has joined forces with Iona Zajac to record the song \"The Burning of Auchindoun\" and performed together for Tradition Now in 2022. He has also done a number of solo performances, including headlining the music for the Robert Tressell Festival in Dublin in 2024. Radie Peat and Cormac MacDiarmada play music together as Rue, including a version of Katie Cruel which later appeared on The Livelong Day. Members. Current members Additional live musicians Former members Discography. Studio albums Live albums Singles Other releases Ian and Darragh Lynch released \"Where Did We Do Wrong?!\" in 2003 as \"Lynched\". However, it"}, {"text": "seems that this incarnation of \"Lynched\" is not the same musical project as that of the same name which would go on to become \"Lankum\", as \"Cold Old Fire\", released in 2014 with Cormac Mac Diarmada and Radie Peat, is often described as the group's \"debut album\"."}, {"text": "Eudice Chong and Ye Qiuyu were the defending champions, but Ye chose not to participate. Chong partnered Zheng Wushuang, but lost in the first round to Feng Shuo and Guo Hanyu. Jiang Xinyu and Tang Qianhui won the title, defeating Ankita Raina and Rosalie van der Hoek in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134."}, {"text": "The James Cavanaugh House, at 564 Woodside Ave. in Park City, Utah, was built in 1891. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a one-story pyramid with a truncated pyramid roof. Its design is typical for pyramid houses with a square plan and its \"door set slightly offcenter between two groups of windows.\" The house, albeit perhaps remodeled and with a modern roof, appears to be still in place in 2019."}, {"text": "Cesare De Titta (Sant'Eusanio del Sangro, 27 January 1862\u2013 \"ibidem\", 14 February 1933) was an Italian poet who wrote in Italian, Latin and in Neapolitan Abruzzese. His mother was Sofia Loreto, and his father, Vincenzo De Titta, was a public notary. Cesare attended the Seminary of Lanciano from the age of sixteen, in order to become a priest, and studied classical languages at the Seminary of Venosa from 1881 to 1889, where he would later be its dean. Among his most important linguistic works are \"Grammatica della lingua viva\" and \"Grammatica della lingua latina\"."}, {"text": "In-water cleaning, also known as in-water surface cleaning, is a collection of methods for removing unwanted material in-situ from the underwater surface of a structure. This often refers to removing marine fouling growth from ship hulls, but also has applications on civil engineering structures, pipeline intakes and similar components which are impossible or inconvenient to remove from the water for maintenance. It does not generally refer to cleaning the inside of underwater or other pipelines, a process known as \"pigging\". Many applications require the intervention of a diver, either to provide the power, or to direct a powered tool. Methods. Manual methods: Mechanical methods: Capture and treatment of waste products. Depending on the reason for bottom cleaning, it may be desirable to capture and treat the waste dislodged from the surface. If the purpose is to remove potentially invasive alien species, then they must be removed from the water or killed. If the organisms are not a problem, it may be necessary to contain released toxins from the anti-fouling coating. Environmental impact. In-water cleaning of structures and vessels may distribute the surface contaminants in an area where they could be harmful. There are two main concerns: Effects on substrate. Some"}, {"text": "cleaning technologies can cause significant damage or degradation of the substrate, particularly removal or excessive abrasion of protective or biologically active surface coatings. In some cases removal of the upper layer of an anti-fouling paint can expose paint which has a stronger concentration of active biocides, which can reactivate the paint."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 season is Dinamo Sassari's 60th in existence and the club's 10th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball. Overview. Sassari comes from a very successful 2018\u201319 season both in the Italian league and European league. They won, indeed, the FIBA Europe Cup and for the first time of the history of the club, Sassari added a European level trophy in their palmares. In Italy, Sassari reached the finals and lost the series at the last best of 4 match, interrupting an incredible series of 15 consecutive wins in the Italian league. Coach Gianmarco Pozzecco was hired during the 2018-19 season and, since his establishment, he lost only four games in the finals against Reyer Venezia after winning 23 consecutive games amongst Europe Cup and Serie A. He got his contract extended for the next three years and immediately won the 2019 Italian Basketball Supercup in the new season. The 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Sassari ended the championship in 2nd position. Kit. Supplier: EYE Sport Wear / Sponsor: Banco di Sardegna Players. Before the early end"}, {"text": "of the season Sassari hired Jaime Smith who played for the team the previous year. During his presentation conference, on 3 March, coach Pozzecco declared that Curtis Jerrells wouldn't play anymore for the team but he was never officially released. Current roster. <section begin=roster/> <section end=roster/> Depth chart. <section begin=depthchart/> <section end=depthchart/> Competitions. SuperCup. Sassari took part in the 25th edition of the Italian Basketball Supercup as the 2019 LBA Finals runner-up and won the competition against Reyer Venezia. Basketball Champions League. After the successes of the previous year, Dinamo Sassari was promoted to the 2019\u201320 Basketball Champions League as winner of the FIBA Europe Cup. Playoffs. The 2019\u201320 Basketball Champions League playoffs start from the round of 16 and is structured on a best-of-three basis until the final four. Round of 16. The second match was played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, where Sassari was coming after two days without training. Italian Cup. Sassari qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half of the season in 2nd place. They lost the first match in the quarter finals against Happy Casa Brindisi."}, {"text": "Nasir Uddin was a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician and a member of parliament for Naogaon-4. Career. Uddin was elected to parliament from Naogaon-4 as a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate in 1991. Death. Uddin died on 13 April 2017."}, {"text": "Lila Yolanda Andrade (Mexico City, 1923 - November 3, 2015) was a Mexican teacher and writer. She studied Spanish literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was one of the founders of the General Society of Mexican Writers (SOGEM). She worked mainly as a script writer."}, {"text": "The 5th Annual Streamy Awards was the 5th installment of the Streamy Awards honoring streaming television series. The awards were held on September 17, 2015, at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by the YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Tyler Oakley. Broadcast live on VH1 and simultaneously livestreamed online, the 5th Streamy Awards were the first to be televised. Several new award categories were added for the 5th Streamys, including new Social Video awards for content on Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine, new subject categories such as Lifestyle and Documentary or Investigative, and Breakout Creator and Breakthrough Artist which were created to celebrate up-and-coming creators. The show had a positive reception in media publications and on social media. Performers. The 5th Annual Streamy Awards featured the musical performances of the following artists: Winners and nominees. The nominees were announced on August 12, 2015 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award categories were announced on September 3. 35 of the categories were announced on September 14 during the Official Streamys Nominee Reception at the YouTube Space LA. The remaining nine \"marquee categories\" were announced during the main ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium on September 17. Winners of the"}, {"text": "categories were selected by the Streamys Blue Ribbon Panel except for the Audience Choice awards which were put to a public vote. Winners are listed first, in bold. Reception. Rae Votta of \"The Daily Dot\" praised the video segments that introduced each award category for the unique spin that was added to each video by the various online content creators which produced them. Votta also felt that the imposition of a strict runtime due to the event being televised made the show flow better when compared to previous years. The musical performances were well received, particularly Future's performance of \"March Madness\" which was praised by writers for \"Spin\", \"Vulture\", \"MTV News\", and \"Vice\". Hailee Steinfeld also received praise for her performance by \"Teen Vogue\". Votta called the performances \"flashy and impressive\" but felt that they were disconnected from YouTube and online content creation. Writing for \"MTV News\", Deepa Lakshmin praised Lilly Singh's acceptance speech in which she said \"Lastly I want to say huge, huge shout-out to Google and YouTube for not being scared to put a brown girl on a billboard.\" Lakshmin called the speech \"badass\" and felt that it was especially meaningful for Indian fans of Singh's. Reception"}, {"text": "of the event on social media was positive according to analysis done by the social TV platform Canvs, using data from Nielsen Twitter TV ratings, which found that an estimated 41.5% of reaction tweets to the event contained the emotion of \"love\" and 16.2% the reaction \"congrats\". According to Nielsen, the show was the leading social non-sports program on television the day it aired."}, {"text": "Michael Leslie is an Indigenous Australian dancer and choreographer. Career and achievements. Leslie was part of a team which created the following organisations: the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts; the Black Swan Theatre Company; Marrugeku Physical Theatre; and the NAISDA Dance College. He also created the Michael Leslie Pilbara Performing Arts Program to expose local children to the performing arts. In 1993, he choreographed the first Aboriginal Australian musical, \"Bran Nue Dae\". In 2018, he performed at the Ochre Contemporary Dance Company's Australian Premiere Season of \"3 point 3.\" Recognition. In 1979 Leslie was awarded the Churchill Fellowship to further his studies, which he used in 1981. In 2010 he received the Red Ochre Award from the Australia Council for the Arts, receiving ."}, {"text": "Niels Aage Anton Nielsen (born in Vejle 25 June 1913, died 16 January 1986) was a Danish professor of Nordic languages at Aarhus University. He was also a leader in the Danish resistance movement. Life and career. Nielsen was the son of master carpenter Niels Nielsen (1883-1962) and his wife Ella Kirstine Rasmussen (maiden name) (1892-1979). He took his high school diploma at Marselisborg Gymnasium in 1933, and in 1942 he obtained a master's degree in arts from Aarhus University. Later, he held various teaching positions at the same university, until he became a professor of Nordic languages at Odense University in 1966. However, he returned to his former university in 1972. He mostly devoted his attention to studying Danish dialects, especially the different dialects in Jutland and the history of the Danish language. Niels Aage Nielsen was also a high-ranking communist member of the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation of Denmark. See also. Danish resistance movement on Wikipedia External links. Niels \u00c5ge Nielsen in the database of the resistance movement at the website of Frihedsmuseet. Niels \u00c5ge Nielsen 1913-1986"}, {"text": "Mario Gross is a Swiss curler and curling coach. He is a and a two-time Swiss men's champion (1986, 1989)."}, {"text": "An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 (born 12 November 1987) is a Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2007) and FIDE Trainer (2015). She is a three-time Serbian Women's Chess Champion (2007, 2008, 2010). Biography. An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 is a multiple medalist of the Serbian Women's Chess Championships, in which she won three gold (2007, 2008, 2010) and two silver (2011, 2012) medals. An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 played for Serbia in the Women's Chess Olympiads: An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 played for Serbia in the European Women's Team Chess Championships: An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 played for Yugoslavia in the European Girls' U18 Team Chess Championships: In 2006, An\u0111elija Stojanovi\u0107 was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title and in 2007 she received the title of FIDE Woman Grandmaster (WGM). In 2015, she became a FIDE Trainer."}, {"text": "The 2019 AMA National Speedway Championship Series was staged over three rounds, held at Ventura (June 15), Industry (August 10), and Auburn (September 21). It was won by Billy Janniro, who beat Max Ruml and Gino Manzares. It was the tenth title of Janniro's career, and his seventh in-a-row. Event format. Over the course of 20 heats, each rider races against every other rider once. The top eight scorers then reach the semi-finals, with first and second in those semi-finals reaching the final. Points are scored for every ride taken, including the semi-finals and final."}, {"text": "The Ecker Hill Ski Jump, in Summit County, Utah near Snyderville, Utah, was built in 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. According to its National Register nomination in 1986, \"The Ecker Hill Ski Jump consists of an approximately 300 foot hillside that was first groomed for jumping in 1928, a dilapidated wooden takeoff ramp, extremely deteriorated remnants of a judging or observation stand and of a wooden stairway that ascends the hill, a frame shed at the base of the hill (c. 1950?), and a small wooden judging stand that was probably built in the 1950s or later. Despite the deteriorated condition of those structures, the site retains its integrity because its principal feature, the hill itself, is still discernible as a ski jumping site.\" Numerous photos of ski jump competitions survive. It is located off Interstate 80. There is a large historic plaque at a park on Pinebrook Road, below the jump's site, which presumably commemorates the jump. It appears the hillside going up is open to hiking up. For more information about Ecker Hill, and the History of Skiing in Utah you can visit the Alf Engen Ski Museum located about"}, {"text": "2.5 miles away."}, {"text": "Vriitya Rudhravel Sasirekha Aravind (born 11 June 2002) is an Indian-born cricketer who plays for the United Arab Emirates national cricket team. He plays as wicket-keeper batsman for the United Arab Emirates cricket team. In October 2019, he was added to the UAE's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament, replacing Ghulam Shabber. In December 2019, he was named in the One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2019 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. Aravind made his ODI debut against the United States on 8 December 2019. Later the same month, he was named in the UAE's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In February 2020, he was named in the UAE's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for the 2020 ACC Western Region T20 qualifier tournament. He made his T20I debut for the UAE, against Iran, on 23 February 2020. In March 2022, in the sixth match of the 2022 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series, Aravind scored his first century in ODI cricket, with 115 not out from just 76 balls. Personal life. Aravind was born in Chennai, India. He studied at Kings School Al Barsha in Dubai. He moved to England in 2020 to attend"}, {"text": "Loughborough University."}, {"text": "Robert Gerle (1 April 1924 \u2013 29 October 2005) was an American classical violinist and music educator of Hungarian origin. Life. Born in Abbazia, Gerle was a violin student of . He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and at the Hungarian National Conservatory. As a Jew he came during the Second World War to a labour camp, from which he fled in 1945. Via Paris he came to Luxembourg, where he worked for a short time as a radio soloist. In 1950 he came to the US as a scholarship holder of the University of Illinois. In the 1960s he appeared as a violin soloist in the US and Europe and recorded works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Barber and others. In 1965, he was a soloist with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series. For his performance of all Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with his wife, the pianist Marilyn Neeley, he received an Emmy Award for television in 1970. In the same year he married Neeley. Gerle taught violin at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and at the Mannes School of Music in New York. From 1972"}, {"text": "he taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and at the Catholic University of America. He also conducted the Friday Morning Music Club and the Washington Sinfonia. Gerle published the violin textbooks \"The Art of Bowing Practice\" (1991) and \"The Art of Practicing the Violin\" (1983) as well as memoirs entitled \"Playing It by Heart: Wonderful Things Can Happen Any Day\" (2005). Gere died in Hyattsville, Maryland, at age 81."}, {"text": "Silverglen Nature Reserve is a 460 hectare conservancy on the Umlaas River located aside the suburb of Silverglen, Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The reserve is the largest piece of coastal grassland and bush clump mosaic in Greater Durban, and is home to the first medicinal plant nursery in Africa, established in 1986. Fauna and flora. Silverglen Nature Reserve has the highest number of tree and bird species of any of the nature reserves in Durban. Over 280 grassland plant species, and over 35 grass species are naturally occurring in the reserve. Of the 120 tree species in the reserve, notable specimens include the forest milkberry, red beech, forest bushwillow and the silver oak. The reserve attracts a number of bird species, including the Narina trogon, green malkoha, and Burchell's coucal. Crime and land invasions. The nature reserve was closed to the public during the 1990s due to violent crime, but was reopened in 2017. In 2018, residents from the nearby Umlazi township began illegally demarcating land in the reserve for settlement in what has been named a land invasion. The eThekwini Municipality has since erected a fence around the reserve to prevent further attempts at land grabs, and following"}, {"text": "the discovery of a body in the reserve, an entrance was shut down by authorities. In March 2021 two municipal game rangers on patrol were killed by unknown gunmen. Following the discovery of another body in the reserve in April 2021, two men were arrested for murder."}, {"text": "Line 3 of Hefei Metro () is a metro line in Hefei. The line opened on 26 December 2019. Future Development. A southern extension was approved by the NDRC. The extension is expected to open in December 2023. Guanyi is a reserved station and will not open in short-term."}, {"text": "Satoshi Shinpo (born 26 October 1941) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Thomas Bryce Dawson (born 15 February 1942) is a British speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Jean-Pierre Gu\u00e9ron (born 24 August 1944) is a Swiss speed skater, who competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Gy\u00f6rgy Iv\u00e1nkai (born 10 June 1937) is a Hungarian speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam (5 May 1940 \u2013 3 March 2017) was a Mongolian speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics, the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Mih\u00e1ly Martos (born 1 February 1945) is a Hungarian speed skater. He competed in 500 meters and 1500 meters men's speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Peter Toyfl (born 7 August 1941) is an Austrian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Aksana Gataullina (born 17 July 2000) is a Russian pole vaulter. She competed as an authorised neutral athlete in the pole vault events of 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships, 2018 Russian Athletics Championships and 2019 European Athletics U20 Championship. She is the daughter of Olympic silver medalist Rodion Gataullin."}, {"text": "Manfred Zojer (born 1 June 1939) is an Austrian speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Fran\u00e7ois Brueren (born 16 January 1940) is a Belgian speed skater. He competed in the men's 500 metres event at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "John II Mavrocordatos (12 March 1712 \u2013 29 July 1747) was a Phanariote who served as prince of Moldavia from 1743 to 1747. Life. Younger son of Nicholas Mavrocordatos, he remained in the shadow of his elder brother, Constantine. He replaced the latter in Moldavia on the occasion of one of his many changes of office as Hospodar of Moldavia from July 1743 to May 1747. John II Mavrocordatos married successively Maria Giuliano and Sultana Mano, of whom he had:"}, {"text": "Old\u0159ich Tepl\u00fd (born 27 May 1940) is a Czech speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Spin echo small angle neutron scattering (SESANS) measures structures from around 20 to 2000 nm in size. The information is presented as a real-space (similar to g(r)) as opposed to a reciprocal space (q(r)) mapping. This can simplify the interpretation for some systems. SESANS is useful for studying processes that occur over relatively long time scales, as data collection is often slow, but large length scales. Aggregation of colloids, block copolymer micelles, St\u00f6ber silica particles being a prime examples. The technique offers some advantages over SANS but there are fewer SESANS instruments available than SANS instruments. Facilities for SESANS exist at TUDelft (Netherlands) and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK)."}, {"text": "The Prague Castle skeleton (given the identification number IIIN199) is a human skeleton that was discovered in 1928 at Prague Castle in Czechoslovakia, now part of the Czech Republic. The burial was excavated by archaeologist Ivan Borkovsk\u00fd as part of a Czech National Museum project. The skeleton was dated to the 9th or 10th century AD and was associated with high-value burial goods. Ethnic identification of the deceased became controversial. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, Borkovsk\u00fd was forced to withdraw a book he had published identifying early Slavic influence in the region. He was also forced to publish a journal article identifying the burial as Germanic or Nordic, to support a Nazi claim of early German involvement in the region. After the end of the war and with Prague under Soviet occupation Borkovsk\u00fd published a paper retracting this earlier work and identifying IIIN199 as a nobleman of the P\u0159emyslid dynasty. The skeleton was kept in storage until 2004 and, though it has been tested extensively since then, a definitive identification has not been possible. Discovery. The skeleton was discovered in the third courtyard of Prague Castle on 11 July 1928 by Ukrainian-born archaeologist Ivan"}, {"text": "Borkovsk\u00fd, who was leading a National Museum excavation project. The project was investigating a burial ground thought to be associated with an early hill fort on the site of Prague Castle dating to AD 800\u20131000. It was a continuation of work begun in 1925 by Karel Guth, the head of the National Museum's archaeological department, that sought to identify archaeology associated with Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia. Borkovsk\u00fd did not initially write a paper on the discovery of the skeleton as he was of insufficient academic rank, being only an assistant to the head of archaeology at the museum. Guth himself tended to publish papers a long time after excavation, and these often contained little detail. Borkovsk\u00fd was more prominent by the 1930s but was keen to keep a low profile on the potentially controversial matter of ethnic identification of the burial as he was seeking to obtain Czechoslovak nationality. The body belonged to a male; he was likely buried around AD 800\u20131000 and was given the identification number IIIN199. It was found just below the courtyard surface and was in a wooden chamber measuring by , which was probably originally covered by a burial mound. The courtyard was constructed"}, {"text": "as part of a rebuilding of the castle in the late 11th century, and the graveyard was partially levelled to accommodate it. However, the integrity of graves seems to have been respected, and the courtyard's paving slabs successfully protected IIIN199 until the 20th century. IIIN199 was found to be exceptionally tall for the period, some in height, with robust bones that suggested a muscular build. The skeleton was buried lying on his back with his head angled to the left. The skeleton's right hand was found to be resting on the handle of a metre-long iron sword, which was the only sword to be found in all 1,500 early medieval graves excavated at the castle. Two knives were located near the body's left hand, and at the right elbow an object was found that could have been either a razor or a fire steel, which would have been an important status symbol. At the skeleton's feet were a small wooden bucket (often used by Vikings as ceremonial drinking vessels) and an iron axe head. Near the pelvis were found remains of a leather bag that held a small, decorated flint. Historical identification. Czechoslovakia was invaded by Germany in 1939. The"}, {"text": "occupying German forces were keen to provide proof of Germanic heritage in the region. They accused Borkovsk\u00fd of not publishing the discovery of the skeleton as they claimed it was of a German or Nordic man, not of a Slav. They forced him, under threat of being sent to a concentration camp, to withdraw a book he published that identified pottery remains he had found as the oldest Slavic pottery in Europe. The Nazis destroyed most copies of the book. When Borkovsk\u00fd did eventually publish the finding of the remains, his paper supported the \"Nazi-influenced Nordic interpretation\". The paper's original title was \"A warrior grave from Prague Castle\", but it was amended before publication to \"A Viking grave from Prague Castle\" by Lothar Zotz, the German historian who edited the \"Altb\u00f6hmen und Altm\u00e4hren\" journal. The paper linked the trefoil decoration on the fire steel to similar designs on German axes and the sword to one found in German Silesia. Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of the war. Borkovsk\u00fd narrowly escaped being sent to a Soviet gulag as he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis. After explaining he had been forced to write the pro-Nazi"}, {"text": "paper, he published a second article on the skeleton in 1946 that identified the subject as a noble of the early P\u0159emyslid dynasty. This identification of the skeleton had been earlier expounded by Borkovsk\u00fd's superior at the National Museum. Borkovsk\u00fd's 1946 paper identified IIIN199 as an 860s AD burial, predating Christian influence in the area. Reassessment of the identification of IIIN199 was not possible during the Cold War due to the political ramifications, though anthropologist Emanuel Vl\u010dek published a paper in the 1970s that claimed the burial must be later in the 9th century and not related to the P\u0159emyslids. Modern assessment. The remains and grave goods were kept in storage and away from public view until 2004. A modern study of the remains identified the fire striker as a common piece of Viking equipment. Indeed, the majority of the skeleton's possessions have been identified as resembling Viking equipment. The sword has been identified as a high-quality item almost certainly crafted in Western Europe. It is of a type used by the Vikings in northern, western and central Europe. The knives and bucket have been identified as being manufactured near Prague. The cause of death has not been determined, but"}, {"text": "the man is thought to have died at around age 50. Analysis of the strontium isotopes in the skeleton's teeth has shown that he grew up in Northern Europe, likely on the southern Baltic coast or in Denmark. This area was home to the Vikings, Slavs and Baltic tribes. Jan Frolik of the Czech Academy of Sciences has suggested that the individual came to Prague as a young man to serve the early dukes of Bohemia (either Bo\u0159ivoj I or Spytihn\u011bv I). These dukes founded the P\u0159emyslid dynasty from their seat at Prague Castle. Due to the complex national identities of early-Medieval Europe, it is possible that the individual regarded himself as a Viking, a Slav or both. This is reflected by the mixed origin of his possessions. Due to his high-status grave artifacts and prominent burial location, the man likely held a position of prominence in the castle. The University of Helsinki was working on DNA analysis of the skeleton that could help elucidate his ethnicity. The amount of modern testing carried out on IIIN199 has been described as second only to the remains of \u00d6tzi the Iceman. The conflicting assessments of IIIN199 have been described as reflecting \"the"}, {"text": "fate of Czechoslovakia and Central Europe, as the burial became entangled with Czech identity, Nazi occupation and the manipulation of archaeology\"."}, {"text": "The Trans Global Projects, also known simply as TGP, is a UK-based corporate group with activities in the project logistics and freight forwarding sectors. The Group is headquartered in Kent, England, with offices across six continents. Industry sectors served by TGP include Oil & Gas, Power, Mining & Materials, Petrochemical, Renewables, Construction & Infrastructure, and Aviation. In addition to project logistics management, the company's core activities encompass ship chartering, aviation logistics, logistics consultancy and transport engineering. TGP also offers a wide spectrum of services in global freight forwarding, supply chain management and integrated logistics as well as value-added services such as biosecurity, procurement, customs brokerage and insurance. History. Trans Global Projects was founded in January 1988 as a subsidiary of the Trans Global Group, one of the UK's largest independent multimodal transport organisations. One year after its founding, TGP embarked on a global expansion programme, opening its first overseas office in Antwerp in 1989. In 1999, the company won its first \u201cmega project\u201d on the giant Karachaganak Gas Condensate project in Western Kazakhstan. The $220 million US contract ran for five years, and during that time, TGP was responsible for the movement of 1.6 million tonnes of cargo as well"}, {"text": "as managing all logistics-related services on the project. TGP took the next step in its development in 2007, when Breezeline International Group Ltd, a co-investor owned by members of the senior management team, acquired full ownership of the TGP group of companies. In December 2013, TGP was ranked the 64th fastest growing private company in the UK in a Fast Track 100 report. The company was also ranked the second largest in the Fast Track 100 league table in terms of its annual turnover. In 2015, TGP continued its substantial growth, acquiring the Swiss logistics specialist Natco AG. Two years later, TGP acquired Germany's Natco GmbH and became a majority stakeholder in the Brazilian transport company NPT Brasil Projetos & Transportes Internacionais LTDA (NPT), which was later renamed to TGP Brasil. In 2018, TGP was awarded the contract for project logistics management for a shipment of equipment and construction materials to the British Antarctic Survey\u2019s (BAS) Rothera Research Station at Rothera Point by BAM, a global construction and engineering company. The equipment and materials were to be used to build a new wharf to house the UK's new state-of-the-art polar research vessel RSS Sir David Attenborough. TGP successfully delivered the"}, {"text": "first Arctic shipment in January 2019, and as a result of this Antarctica project's success, the company was shortlisted for \"Excellence in Engineering\" at the 2019 Heavy Lift Awards. In January 2020, the Group once again returned to the polar region, completing a delivery to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. This shipment included construction material to modernise the British Antarctic Research Station at King Edward Point as well as build a new berthing facility to accommodate RRS Sir David Attenborough. In 2021, TGP continued to grow its focus on the renewable energy industry and secured a contract for the transport of approximately 320,000 freight tons of wind turbine components. Over the nearly year-long contract, TGP delivered 57 sets of 3 MW offshore turbines for two wind farm projects in Vietnam. In 2022, TGP was contracted to support Invictus Energy Limited\u2019s first-of-its-kind oil and gas exploration project in northern Zimbabwe with the delivery of time-critical equipment from Australia to the drill site. In 2023, TGP celebrated its 35th anniversary."}, {"text": "Ri Sung-ryool (born 5 December 1942, ) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Bo Ollander (25 July 1943 \u2013 9 March 1973) was a Swedish speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Herbert H\u00f6fl (born 1 March 1941) is a German speed skater. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Gregory Callimachi (, ; 1735 \u2013 9 September 1769) was a Phanariote who served as Prince of Moldavia from 1761 to 1764, and 1767 to 1769. Origin. Gregory Callimachi was the son of the Grand Dragoman, and then Prince of Moldavia, John Theodore Callimachi, and Ralitsa Chrysoskoleos. He became hospodar of Moldavia as successor of his father in May 1761. Replaced by Grigore III Ghica in March 1764, he returned to his throne in January 1767. Reign. It was the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 that led to his death: accused of collusion with the Russian Empire, he was deposed in June 1769 and sent to Istanbul where he was tried and sentenced to death for treason with the Grand Dragoman Nicolas Soutzo and the Grand Vizier Ya\u011fl\u0131k\u00e7\u0131zade Mehmed Emin Pasha. In September 1769, Callimachi is tied up and his severed head is exposed to the B\u00e2b-\u0131 H\u00fcm\u00e2y\u00fbn, that is to say to the outer door of the Topkap\u0131 Palace, with a yafta (explanatory notice) specifying his crimes. Family. Gregory Callimachi married Helena Mavrocordatos, from whom he had two children:"}, {"text": "Bessie Ada Charles (1869 \u2013 4 November 1932) was a British architect. In 1900, she became one of the first women to enter the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Early life. Bessie Charles, her sister Ethel Charles and brother Ronald Charles were born in Calcutta to Thomas Edmonton Charles (1834\u20131906), a doctor in private practice (also later honorary physician to King Edward VII), and Ada Henrietta Charles (1848\u20131931/2). The family left India in 1877, settling at first in Cannes, then for twenty years spent their summers in Switzerland and winters in Rome, and visiting to England annually. Ethel and Bessie Charles were both educated privately and together read modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford for a year in 1891\u20132. Despite being presented at court, their father encouraged both daughters to explore a profession. Career. Between 1892 and 1895, Bessie and Ethel were articled to Sir Ernest George and Peto, the architectural practice of Ernest George and Harold Peto. In 1892 they were proposed for membership of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, but withdrew after opposition. They attended the school of architecture at The Bartlett (University College London), studying architecture as a fine art, a course in architectural history"}, {"text": "(second class certificates, 1892\u20133); however, they did not take the professional elements of the programme, which were not thought appropriate for women students. They were the first women to study architecture at UCL. In 1900, Bessie took the qualifying examination for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and was elected, one year after Ethel. From 1898 to 1905 Ethel and Bessie Charles lived together in Marylebone, London, in a building which provided accommodation for single professional women. Both sisters lived from time to time in the family home in Camberley, Surrey, but they shifted the focus of their architectural practice to Clift Cottage in Flushing, Cornwall. Their most notable work is a Bible Christian Chapel at Mylor Bridge, near Falmouth (1907)."}, {"text": "The International Soling Association (ISA) is the governing body for the Soling class, recognised as an international class by World Sailing. The International Soling Association was founded as soon as the Soling became an international class in 1967. Originally an owners' club, it became a very self-supporting organization who provided great support for the whole Soling community and guarded the Soling one-design during her Olympic tour of duty as well as in the present time. Object. The object of the ISA is to promote the Soling class throughout the world, to co\u2010ordinate competition under uniform rules, and to maintain the integrity of the one\u2010design nature of the class in co\u2010operation with World Sailing and the national soling associations (NSAs). Governance. The operation of the ISA is in the hands of the ISA committee and is lay down within a set of rules. ISA Committee. Source: 1 January 2022 \u2013 31 December 2022 Rules. The ISA rule set consist of the following documents: National Soling associations. . there are 24 national Soling associations (NSA) active and there are three countries with individual fleets. Since 1968 over fifty countries (not counting the no longer existing countries like the USSR, Yugoslavia and East-Germany)."}, {"text": "International trophies. International championships. Under auspices if the ISA the following annual international regattas are organized. These events are open for sailors of all nationalities. For these regattas the ISA championship rules applies. The notice of race and sailing instructions must written be as close as possible to the ISA standard notice of race and the ISA standard sailing instructions and must be approved by the ISA Championship Committee: The national Soling associations will organize there national Soling championships and local regattas."}, {"text": "The White Church of Karan (; ) is a Serbian Orthodox parish church in the village of Karan, U\u017eice Municipality, Serbia. It is dedicated to the Annunciation to Mary. The church was listed as a Cultural Monument of Great Importance. History. The church was established by \u017dupan Petar Brajan between 1340 and 1342 on the site of a former Roman worship house, according to the tombs excavated by archaeologists near the building. Architecture. The White Church is typical of the Ra\u0161ka architectural school. It has three bays and is topped by a cupola. The eastern part of the church has a semi-circular apse with a stone iconostasis. The narthex dates back to the late 19th century. The church has 14th-century frescoes. The western frescoes represent \u017dupan Brajan and his wife Struja, his son and three daughters, while the eastern frescoes show Emperor Stefan Du\u0161an with his wife Jelena and his son Uro\u0161, as well as saints of the Nemanji\u0107 dynasty (namely Simeon, Sava and Milutin). Other frescoes depict scenes from the Old Testament, as well as scenes of Mary's life and the Virgin Mary with angels."}, {"text": "Alexander (I) Mavrocordatos (, ; 1742 \u2013 27 March 1812), nicknamed Delibey for his cunning, was a Phanariote who served as Prince of Moldavia from 1782 to 1785. Life. Son of Constantine Mavrocordatos and Catherine Rosetti, he succeeded in May 1782 to Constantine Mourouzis, deposed by the Sublime Porte following the intrigues of the Russian ambassador in Constantinople. He owes his appointment to this same ambassador. Mavrocordatos was dismissed in January 1785 at the request of Rajtschewitsch, consul of Austria in Moldavia, who complained to the Ottoman government to have been badly received by Mavrocordatos, despite being the representative of the Holy Roman Emperor. But it is possible that in fact this is only one aspect of the Austro-Russian struggle for influence in Moldavia: the Habsburgs already had occupied Bukovina since 1775, and the Russian czars coveted the Budjak and the mouths of the Danube, and each Empire advanced its pawns in the region. According to Alexandre A.C. Sturdza, Mavrocordatos was known for his \"versatility and difficult character\" which gave rise to his Turkish nickname \"Delibey\"."}, {"text": "Alexander (II) Mavrocordatos (, ; 1 July 1754 \u2013 8 February 1819), surnamed Firaris (, from ) was a Phanariote who served as Prince of Moldavia from 1785 to 1786. Life. Alexander was the son of John II Mavrocordatos, and served as Grand Dragoman from 1782 to 1785, before being Hospodar (Prince) of Moldavia from January 1785 to December 1786, succeeding his cousin Alexander I Mavrocordatos. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1787\u20131792 he sided with the Russian Empire, which began to pose as a protector of Christians in the Balkans. At the end of the war he fled to Russia, whence his nickname (\"firari\" meaning \"fugitive\" in Turkish). He obtained the title of Russian Prince and died in Moscow on February 8, 1819. Alexander II Mavrocordatos had married Zaphira or Zamfira Caradja. The couple had only one daughter who became maid of honour to the Empress Catherine II of Russia."}, {"text": "Tochi Phil Chukwuani (born 24 March 2003) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Austrian Football Bundesliga club Sturm Graz. Club career. Nordsj\u00e6lland. Born in Herlev to Igbo Nigerian parents, Chukwuani started playing football in the youth of B.93 before moving to the youth academy of Superliga club FC Nordsj\u00e6lland. He practiced with the first team at age 14, and head coach Flemming Pedersen stated that he was \"one of the top players of the future\". In July 2019, Chukwuani signed a three-year contract, keeping him in Nordsj\u00e6lland until 2022. On 22 September 2019, Chukwuani made his professional debut in the Superliga in a 2\u20131 home win over AaB, thereby becoming the sixth youngest player to appear in a game in the league. He came on as a substitute in the 82nd minute for Magnus Kofod Andersen. On 17 July 2020, Chukwuani scored his first senior goal in a 6\u20133 away loss to eventual champions Midtjylland. With the goal, he became the club's youngest scorer in league history, a record that was broken the following season by teammate Andreas Schjelderup at 16 years and 284 days. He finished the season with 9 total appearances his"}, {"text": "which he scored one goal. On 5 April 2022, it was reported that Chukwuani had signed with Italian Serie A club Hellas Verona. Among others, the well-known transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano posted a picture of Chukwuani back in April, wearing a Verona jersey. However, according to an Italian newspaper on 14 July 2022, Chukwuani failed the medical check in Verona because the medical staff had found a minor heart defect and as there were strict rules in Italy regarding heart problems, the transfer was no longer possible. Lyngby. After training with Lyngby Boldklub for several weeks, the club confirmed on 31 August 2022, that Chukwuani had signed a two-year deal with the newly promoted Danish Superliga team. He made his debut for the club on 4 September, starting in a 2\u20130 home loss to Randers. On 7 May 2023, he scored his first goal for \"De Kongebl\u00e5\", opening the score in the second minute of a 2\u20131 league victory against Midtjylland. Sturm Graz. On 20 March 2024, it was announced that Chukwuani would be joining Austrian club Sturm Graz from the summer. International career. He is a youth international for Denmark. Honours. Sturm Graz"}, {"text": "Sevil is a lyrical psychological drama opera written in 1949\u20131952 with music by Fikret Amirov to a libretto by Talat Eyyubov based on Jafar Jabbarly's play \"Sevil\". The premiere of the opera was held on December 25, 1953, at the Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theater. \"Sevil\" is the first Azerbaijani opera written in a modern lyrical and psychological genre. The melody, which is the main expression of Fikrat Amirov's work, plays an emotional beginning in the music of the opera. The composer used a variety of musical forms in the opera \u2013 aria, arioso, ensembles and choral episodes. History. Fikrat Amirov started the opera in 1949. Writing the opera's libretto, the poet Talat Eyyubov tried to keep the play's main essence. Some scenes of the play have been combined with the requirements of the opera genre, and the work has been compact. Fikret Amirov, who mainly kept the idea and plot of Jafar Jabbarly's play, made some changes to deepen the social features. The second scene incorporates non-revolutionary demonstration scenes, a prologue at the beginning of the opera, and scenes from the third scene. The work also features other opera genres (especially the historical genre). Taking into consideration the"}, {"text": "development, composition, dramatic structure of events in the opera, etc., it seems the composer has benefited from classics, in particular the traditions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's dramatics. However, the compositional methods of classical operas are synthesized in the opera \"Sevil\" with the national folklore of the musical language and with all modern intonation vocabulary. Music. The opera combines two opposing social forces, represented by the progressive group of characters (Sevil and her friends) and the \u201cdying world\u201d (Balash and his environment). The contradictions of the social and psychological merits of the participants create a contradiction between the image-thematic and the compositional structure in the opera. The work originally consisted of 4 scenes. But later it was edited by the author to adapt to the 3- and 2-page versions. The work consists of an introduction, three acts, and two drawings. The first act features Sevil's sad arias and song. Arias is written in the spirit of folk songs. The second act consists of three parts. The third part is march music, which consists of separate replicas of Sevil in the background of \u201cWarszawianka\u201d. The opera opens with very unusual overtones. It has a very interesting structure: the introduction of the symphonic"}, {"text": "orchestra, the caller`s call, the female chorus. Thus, the overgrowth prologue consists of three parts. The first and third sections are instrumental. The central part of the overture-prologue is vocal. The orchestra entry to Aria is based on the personal tragedy of Sevil and Balash (main characters). The theme of the first part is bayat-shiraz. The final duo of Sevil and Balash is still on their personal tragedy leitmotif. In the final edit, the scene ends with this duet. The dramatic conflict in the opera is based on the discovery of two conflicting character groups. The first group is represented by the people, and the second group is the vulgar environment. Representatives of the vulgar environment are opened in a comic-satirical manner by Abdulbay and Mammadali bay. At the opening of the pair, grotesque cartoons sometimes appear. In the duo of Abdulbay and Mammadali bay, the dining genre features. The waltz, one of the brightest instrumental numbers in the opera, has an important role. Scene design and choreography. The chief artist of the theater, Eyyub Fataliyev designed the play according to the idea and content. Honored Art Worker Badura created costume designs for Afghan opera. Nijat Malikov and Razia Yusifova,"}, {"text": "the choreographers of the theater, worked on the chorus with enthusiasm and managed to make it sound good. The chorus in the second act, the final chorus, the prologue, and the epilogue, were particularly influential. Conductor assistant \u2013 Honored Artist, orchestra concertmaster Nazim Rzayev has performed various works on string instruments. The People's Artist, Stalin Prize Laureate, artistic director, Niyazi masterfully opened the composer's compositions, created harmony between the orchestra and individual soloists, choral and dance, and promoted orchestrated professionalism. Premiere. The first premiere of the opera \"Sevil\" took place on December 25, 1953. Before the first performance, two public reviews were held. On December 21 of the same year, the second public performance of the opera was held. The composition of the performance was given by the People's Artist of the USSR Mehdi Mammadov. The conductor was Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, an Honored Art Worker. The artistic composition of the performance was performed by Honored Art figures Anvar Almaszade and Izzet Seyidova. The performers were Vera Abisheva (Sevil), Rashid Behbudov (Balash)."}, {"text": "The Burnley Embankment is an embankment carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal across the Calder and Brun valleys in Burnley, Lancashire. Also known as the Straight Mile, the embankment is long and the canal runs up to above the valley floor. The structure was chosen as one of the original Seven Wonders of the Waterways, and has been awarded a Red Wheel by the Transport Trust. Background. The building of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal began in 1770, but work on the over-budget project was suspended during the American War of Independence, leaving separate sections extending from the two cities. Under the original plan, the canal's route would have passed Burnley on the northern side of the River Calder, crossing at Whalley via an aqueduct. Burnley would have been connected by a branch heading up the valley. Before work on the canal resumed heading west from Gargrave, in 1790, permission was obtained to move the route to the south, with the river crossing between Filly Close in Reedley Hallows and Ightenhill. By the fourth act, Leeds and Liverpool Canal Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 94), this part of the route was settled, moving south again. At Burnley, the River"}, {"text": "Calder and its tributary the Brun meet in a broad valley, building the crossing still further up the Calder was considered, but the Towneley family objected to the canal coming so close to Towneley Hall. Construction. The embankment was built between 1796 and 1801 as an alternative to lock flights on each side of the valley. The embankment was designed by Robert Whitworth, who oversaw its construction until his death in 1799; he was succeeded by former inspector of works Samuel Fletcher. The construction of the embankment cost \u00a322,000 (about \u00a31.6 million in 2019). The embankment used of earth, much of which came from the digging of the nearby Gannow Tunnel and the Whittlefield cutting. The earthwork is long, it is aligned approximately north\u2013south with the towpath on the western side. At the northern end was the Bank Hall estate, owned by John Hargreaves. The estate is now the site of Thompson Park, where the Sandy Holme Aqueduct carries the canal over the River Brun. Here, Godley Lane had to be diverted to meet the bridge that was constructed. While at the southern end, Finsley was presumably a farm before the arrival of the canal saw it converted into a"}, {"text": "wharf and important maintenance yard. The 1700 house became the home of the engineer who operated the swing bridge originally thought to be a sufficient crossing for Finsley Gate. About halfway along the embankment, the canal crosses Yorkshire Street (previously known as East Gate)\u2014the only method of crossing the waterway at any point along its length. This is known as \"The Culvert\", although it is an aqueduct not a culvert. This was originally constructed in 1797 as a single horseshoe archway, from end to end, with a maximum height above the roadway of and maximum width of . A sandstone retaining wall on the east side of the embankment, immediately north of Yorkshire Street, features four lime kilns built at the time of the embankment. A further two kilns, on the west side of the embankment, were built to provide lime mortar for masonry and clay for puddling the canal. The aqueduct over the River Calder is closer to the southern end, having been built between 1795 and 1796. Visually similar to the original road crossing, the portals are described as a \"single semi-circular-headed arch with radiating voussoirs\". There are pilasters to either side of the arch with many of"}, {"text": "the stone blocks decorated with shortbread vermiculation, and tapered wings support the surrounding earth. Considerable time had to be allowed for the embankment to settle before it was stable enough to carry water, but once it was ready the canal opened to Clayton-le-Moors in 1801. Operational history. The town lies at the centre of the Burnley Coalfield, and the canal was routed through the town to provide transportation for the coal industry. During the first half of the 19th century, Fulledge Colliery to the east side of the embankment was linked to the canal by a tramroad. On the other side, the Burnley Drift passed under the southern end. A mine owned by Rev. Hargreaves caused a major collapse of the embankment as it extracted coal from directly underneath. The Calder culvert had to be partly rebuilt. There was also a short dock branch for coal loading at the very end, next to Finsley Gate. In the latter half of the century, the older coalmines closed and their sites were built over, but the embankment continued to be used by the colliers. The coal dock at the south end was filled in, superseded by a coal yard connected to Towneley"}, {"text": "Colliery, located next to Finsley Wharf. Although the tramroad from Fulledge was removed, another was added on the opposite bank to supply the town's gasworks on the south side of the Calder. Another coal yard was established on the east side of the embankment, next to Central Mill, connected by a more complex system of tramroads that allowed coal to be delivered from Rowley and Bee Hole pits\u2014opened in 1862 and 1872 respectively\u2014and raise it up to a wharf. A triangular stone structure that survives on the canal side here probably supported a return wheel for the system. Another change that may have influenced the altered route of the canal was the rapid growth in the cotton industry here after 1780. The area between the south end of Church Street and the embankment became dominated by factories during the early 19th century. The earliest factory development was Scar Top Mill, built as a woollen mill in 1787 and later used for cotton spinning. This was joined by Hill Top Mill in 1820 and Rishton Mill after 1830. Later they were extended, with Hill Top and Rishton mills expanding up the embankment to access to the towpath. By the turn of"}, {"text": "the 20th century, twelve mills were operating alongside the embankment\u2014all but two of which supported the town's textiles industry. Their location was likely influenced by the decision the canal proprietors took in the 1840s to allow water to be taken from the canal to power the mill engines. The embankment, carrying the canal above the mills, provided a suitable head of water for the mill owners and sluices were built to control abstraction. Both Hill Top and Rishton mills, once among the town's largest cotton mills, were demolished to make way for an Odeon Cinema which was built in 1937. Other businesses which used the embankment included three corn mills that had been established on the western side by 1851. The oldest, built in 1809 a little way south of Yorkshire Street, had already been converted for other uses. Both Hill Top, built around 1838, and Pilling Field (1825) mills had been constructed up the embankment, with direct access to the towpath. Pilling Field\u2014also known as Aqueduct Mill\u2014was the last corn mill to close in Burnley; production ended in 1912 and it was demolished in 1939 after John Greenwood and Sons was taken over by Rank Hovis McDougall. Also at"}, {"text": "the north end, a rope walk was established on the embankment, parallel to the canal. Influence on Burnley. The canal embankment shaped the built environment in Burnley. At the time of its construction, the embankment was on the periphery of the town centre and followed a route through open fields. With Burnley becoming a port on the canal, the town expanded during the 19th century\u2014the population doubled in the first 20 years\u2014and land near the canal was used for terraced housing (including some back-to-backs) and numerous cotton mills, warehouses and wharves. Although the arrival of the canal was a very significant event in the growth and development of Burnley, stimulating the local textile and coal trade, the embankment became a physical barrier to the eastward expansion of the town. By 1851, buildings occupied much of the space on the western side, but only a small area around the recently opened St Mary's Church to the east. At this time Burnley Wood was still developing as a discrete settlement. In 1878 Godley Lane was closed to be replaced by Ormerod Road, and the Finsley Gate swing bridge was replaced with a fixed one in 1885. Two side tunnels (known as the"}, {"text": "\"gimlet holes\") were added to The Culvert in 1896 to allow pedestrians to cross the embankment without using the main portal. The entire Culvert was rebuilt in 1926 and 1927, increasing the height and widening the aperture to \u2014the 1797 structure (and additional pedestrian tunnels) were no longer suitable for the increased traffic, the expansion of the Burnley Corporation Tramways, and the introduction of double-decker bus services. On the aqueduct is a crane, used for the movement of stop planks to temporarily dam the canal for maintenance. Legacy. In 1997, the aqueduct over the River Calder, situated within the embankment, was given Grade II listed status. The four lime kilns near The Culvert gained the same status at the same time. In June 2012, a Transport Trust Red Wheel commemorated the engineering of the waterway, stating that it was the \"largest canal embankment in Britain\"."}, {"text": "Alison Willow Yarrington FSA (was born in May 1951), is a professor of history of art at the University of Loughborough and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She was formerly Richmond Professor of Fine Art at the University of Glasgow. She is the chairperson of the editorial board of the \"Sculpture Journal\"."}, {"text": "Horacio V\u00e1squez is a Santo Domingo Metro station on Line 2. It was open on 1 April 2013 as part of the inaugural section of Line 2 between Mar\u00eda Montez and Eduardo Brito. The station is located between Ram\u00f3n C\u00e1ceres and Manuel de Jes\u00fas Galv\u00e1n. This is an underground station built below Expreso V Centenario. It is named in honor of Horacio V\u00e1squez."}, {"text": "The 2020 1. divisjon (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football league season. Teams. In the 2019 1. divisjon, Aalesund, Sandefjord and Start were promoted to the 2020 Eliteserien, while Notodden, Skeid and Tromsdalen were relegated to the 2020 2. divisjon. Lillestr\u00f8m, Troms\u00f8 and Ranheim were relegated from the 2019 Eliteserien, while Stj\u00f8rdals-Blink, Grorud and \u00c5sane were promoted from the 2019 2. divisjon. League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Play-offs. Promotion play-offs. The 3rd to 6th placed teams took part in the promotion play-offs; these were single leg knockout matches. In the first round, the 5th placed team played at home against the 6th placed team. The winner of the first round then met the 4th placed team on away ground in the second round. The winner of the second round then met the 3rd placed team on away ground. The winner of the third round advanced to play the 14th placed team in Eliteserien on neutral ground in the Eliteserien play-offs for a spot in the top-flight next season. Relegation play-offs. The 14th-placed team took part in a two-legged play-off against the winners of the 2. divisjon play-offs to decide who would play in the 2021 1."}, {"text": "divisjon. \"Stj\u00f8rdals-Blink won 6\u20131 on aggregate.\""}, {"text": "\u00c1ngel Yesid Torres Qui\u00f1ones (born 6 April 2000) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Dynamo Kyiv. Career. Balzan. On 22 June 2022, Torres joined Balzan F.C. of the Maltese Premier League. In his only season with the club he scored 15 league goals and provided 6 assists, helping his team secure qualification to the UEFA Conference League. Central Coast Mariners. On 30 August 2023, recently-crowned A-League champions Central Coast Mariners announced the signing of Torres on a two-year contract. Torres made his debut for the club in an away AFC Cup fixture against Malaysian club Terengganu FC, and his league debut in the Mariners first game of the new season as defending champions, against Adelaide United in Adelaide. In the Mariners third game of the league season against Perth Glory in Perth, Torres was given a straight red card for slapping an opposition player, Jacob Muir, in the back of the head. On 17 December 2023, in his seventh league appearance for the club, Torres scored his first hat-trick for the club against Melbourne City at AAMI Park. On 8 April 2024, Torres' manager tweeted that he would not be renewing his contract with the"}, {"text": "Mariners for a second season, and had offers from clubs in 15 countries. Legal Issues. Later that month, on 23 April 2024, it was revealed that Torres had been arrested by NSW Police. He was taken to Gosford Police Station where he was charged with two counts of common assault, intimidation and aggravated sexual intercourse without consent. He has since been released on bail. Torres was stood down by the Mariners. On 4 April 2025, Torres was found not guilty of all charges against him. Dynamo Kyiv. Following his acquittal of all charges in Australia, on 6 May 2025, Torres joined Ukrainian Premier League leaders, Dynamo Kyiv on a 3 year contract. Honours. Club. FC Porto"}, {"text": "Laisani Waqa (born 1 January 2002) is a Fijian netball player who plays for Fiji in the positions of goal attack or goal shooter. She was included in the Fijian squad for the 2019 Netball World Cup which was also her maiden appearance at a Netball World Cup. She also represented Fiji at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, her maiden appearance at a Commonwealth Games event."}, {"text": "\"Start wit Me\" is a song by American rapper Roddy Ricch, featuring vocals from fellow American rapper Gunna. The song was released as the second single from Ricch's debut studio album, \"Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial\", on October 25, 2019. The song was written by the artists and the producers JetsonMade and Jasper Harris. Composition and lyrics. The song's beat has been compared to that of American rapper DaBaby's sound. Lyrically, Ricch \"tweaks cliches just enough to stay unpredictable\", rapping about his extravagant lifestyle and his \"brand new draco\", with him and Gunna throwing warning shots to any opposers threatening to step to them. Critical reception. Upon its release, \"Pitchfork\" named it the \"New Rap Song of the Day\", with the magazine's Sheldon Pearce praising producer JetsonMade's flute line and \"caroming drums that elevate the song\". Music video. A music video to accompany the release of \"Start wit Me\" was first released onto YouTube on October 28, 2019. It was directed by Spike Jordan and shot in California, giving off \"street vibes with various foreign cars, guns, and girls\". According to Heran Mamo of \"Billboard\", the video \"depicts the real-life peril a neighborhood like Ricch's Compton hometown regularly goes"}, {"text": "through when a group plots and carries out; a drive-by shooting on another [group], juxtaposing the resulting bloodshed with the local kids' sidewalk chalk drawings\". Conversely, Mamo further noted, Ricch \"feels richer than ever in the cinematic clip, as he sits atop a Rolls-Royce (coincidentally with the star's same initials) and brags about his new guns and designer jewels alike\". Live performances. On December 16, 2019, Roddy Ricch performed the song live, alongside an 8-piece orchestra, at Peppermint Club in Los Angeles for Audiomack's \"Trap\" \"Symphony\" series. Personnel. Credits adapted from Tidal."}, {"text": "Bessie Clarksone (1584\u20131625) was a Scottish exemplar of godly life whose growing faith was recorded by her minister after her death. Life. Clarksone was possibly born in Lanark in 1584 and certainly died there in 1625. She is known because of the conversations that she had with her minister William Livingstone. He published a book after her death recording the dialogue between himself and Clarksone for three and a half years prior to her death. The book aims to present her eventual recognition of her faith although critics have noted that it appears to focus more on the intercessions of the minister (and author). The book claims to be a revised edition, but only one edition appears to have ever existed. The book is one of several published but a reviewer has felt that this is the most unconvincing book. Livingstone did not witness her death and had to rely on others to record her \"victorious faith\" as she \"raised her eyes to heaven\". Clarksone died in Lanark in 1625, and the book by her minister was published in 1630. Only one copy of the book now exists and it is held in the British Library."}, {"text": "Culin may refer to:"}, {"text": "Bernard James Lee was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Bury and in the Scottish League for Leith Athletic. Personal life. Lee served as a private in the Royal Scots during the First World War. Honours. Bury"}, {"text": "Harvey Dent is the birth name of Two-Face, a fictional character. Harvey Dent may also refer to:"}, {"text": "was a dive bomber pilot and officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. He is best known for being the commander of the dive bomber squadron of carrier \"Sh\u014dkaku\" and for leading strikes against United States Navy (USN) carriers in both Battle of the Eastern Solomons and Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, where they severely damaged \"Enterprise\" on two occasions. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Early career. Mamoru Seki came from a military family; his father was a captain in IJN and participated in Battle of Tsushima, while his uncle on his mother's side was Vice Admiral Sakonji Seiz\u014d. He enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1926 and graduated from the 58th class in November 1930. In April 1932, he was commission as ensign. In 1933, he was selected for the navy pilot training program at Tateyama Air Group. He became one of the first pilots in IJN that specialized in dive bombing and conducted pioneering research and development of dive-bombing techniques. After that, he served as an instructor at Kasumigaura Air Group near Tokyo. Later on, Seki became a flight division leader (Buntaich\u014d) in"}, {"text": "the dive bomber squadron of carrier \"Ry\u016bj\u014d\" and participated in Canton Operation during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938. In October 1941, he was promoted to lieutenant commander. He was then transferred to Usa Air Group in \u014cita Prefecture on Kyushu and served as an instructor when the Pacific War started. Pacific War. In July 1942, Lieutenant Commander Seki was transferred to the carrier \"Sh\u014dkaku\" as its group commander (Hik\u014dtaich\u014d), as well as its dive bomber squadron leader. In late August 1942, he participated in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. There he led the first strike wave against the USN carriers that consisted of 27 Aichi D3A dive bombers and 15 Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters. Lieutenant Keiichi Arima led one of the three flight divisions (ch\u016btai) within his strike force, while fighter escorts were led by Lieutenant Yasuhiro Shigematsu from \"Sh\u014dkaku\" and Lieutenant Moriyasu Hidaka from \"Zuikaku\". Seki's strike hit \"Enterprise\" with three bombs that severely damaged the carrier. The second strike wave, led by Lieutenant Sadamu Takahashi of \"Zuikaku\", failed to locate the enemy carriers and therefore missed the opportunity to finish off \"Enterprise\". In late October 1942, \"Sh\u014dkaku\" participated in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands,"}, {"text": "where Lieutenant Commander Seki led the second strike wave that consisted of 19 Aichi D3A dive bombers, 16 Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers and nine A6M Zero fighters. Like in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, one of the three flight divisions (ch\u016btai) within his strike force was led by Lieutenant Arima. The Zero fighter escort was led by Lieutenant Hideki Shing\u014d, who was the fighter squadron leader of \"Sh\u014dkaku\". Seki's strike hit \"Enterprise\" with two bombs and scored one near-miss with another bomb that caused severe damage to the carrier. However, during the attack, Lieutenant Commander Seki was hit by anti-aircraft artillery and his D3A caught fire and disintegrated. His bomb missed \"Enterprise\" and landed in the water close to the side of the carrier. He was one of many experienced carrier pilots lost in the battle; among them was his academy classmate Lieutenant Commander Shigeharu Murata, who led the first wave strike that crippled \"Hornet\". He was posthumously promoted to commander."}, {"text": "Don Deedson Louicius (born 11 February 2001) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for MLS club FC Dallas and the Haiti national team. International career. He made his debut for Haiti national football team on 25 March 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Belize. He scored his first two goals for Haiti against Jamaica in a CONCACAF Nations League match against Jamaica. \"Scores and results list Haiti's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Deedson goal.\""}]