[{"text": "County Hall () is a municipal facility in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. History. The original building on the site was commissioned by James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond as the new home for Kilkenny Grammar School and was completed in 1667. The current building, which was designed by Charles Vierpyl in the Neoclassical style to replace the original facility, was completed in 1785. A serious fire engulfed the building and left the roof badly damaged in 1980; pupils and teachers had to move out while major repairs were carried out. It remained the home of what became Kilkenny College until the school moved to modern facilities at McAdoo Hall on the Celbridge House site in 1985. Kilkenny County Council, which had previously been accommodated in offices at John's Green House, moved into the building in 1994."}, {"text": "Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol (; born 23 January 2002) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for club Manchester City and the Croatia national team. A product of Dinamo Zagreb youth academy, Gvardiol made his professional debut for the club in 2019, and went on to win two league titles as well as the Croatian Cup. He moved to Bundesliga club RB Leipzig in 2021, where he won two DFB-Pokals before he was signed by Manchester City in 2023 for \u00a377 million, making him the most expensive defender in footballing history. A former Croatian youth international, Gvardiol made his debut for the senior side in 2021, and represented them at UEFA Euro 2020, the 2022 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2024, helping his country to third place at the 2022 tournament. Early and personal life. Gvardiol was born on 23 January 2002 in Zagreb, Croatia. His father, Tihomir, a native of Novigrad near Zadar, works as a fisherman. His mother, Sanja, a native of the Srednjaci neighbourhood of Zagreb, works as an employee of a wholesale company. His older sisters Lorena and Franka are a fashion model and a handball player, respectively. As a youth footballer for"}, {"text": "Dinamo Zagreb, Gvardiol struggled with playing time and initially considered quitting football to sell fish. However, he decided to continue his career after a family friend drew up a mental map to encourage him. Club career. Early career. Gvardiol started playing football at the age of seven when his father Tihomir, once an amateur player in his native Novigrad, took him to Tre\u0161njevka. While there, he was spotted by Lokomotiva and Zagreb. However, at the last minute, he received an offer from Dinamo Zagreb which his family accepted.Initially, he played as a left-back or a central midfielder until Dinamo academy coach Dalibor Poldruga\u010d moved him to the centre-back position. Soon after, Gvardiol started drawing interest from prominent European clubs, including Manchester City, Lille, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Inter Milan and Roma. He played a key part in Dinamo's 2018\u201319 UEFA Youth League campaign, where they reached quarter-finals before losing 4\u20132 to Chelsea in a penalty shootout. After being impressed by his performances for youth teams, senior Dinamo coach Nenad Bjelica called Gvardiol up to the senior team for pre-season games in Slovenia in summer 2019. On 2 July, he scored in a 2\u20130 friendly win over Austria"}, {"text": "Klagenfurt. On 10 October 2019, he was included in \"The Guardian\"s \"Next Generation\" list. Dinamo Zagreb. 2019\u201320 season. Gvardiol made his league debut for the senior Dinamo team on 18 October in a 4\u20132 victory over Gorica, coming on for Mario Gavranovi\u0107 in the 87th minute. In his second league appearance for the club on 2 November, he scored the only goal in a 1\u20130 victory over Inter Zapre\u0161i\u0107. That made him the sixth youngest league goal scorer for Dinamo, after Alen Halilovi\u0107, Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107, Niko Kranj\u010dar, Ante \u0106ori\u0107 and Tin Jedvaj. On 12 February 2020, in a UEFA Youth League play-off against Dynamo Kyiv, Gvardiol successfully converted a penalty in a shootout as Dinamo won 4\u20133 and qualified for the round of 16. In the round of 16 against Bayern Munich on 4 March, Gvardiol deflected Leon Dajaku's shot into his own net to set the score to 2\u20132. In the resulting shootout, he successfully converted his attempt again as Dinamo won 6\u20135 and progressed to the quarter-finals. On 25 June, Gvardiol signed a five-year contract with Dinamo. On 5 July, in the derby against Rijeka when the league title was already secured, Gvardiol deflected Franko Andrija\u0161evi\u0107's shot into"}, {"text": "his own net as Rijeka won 2\u20130, which would eventually cost coach Igor Jovi\u0107evi\u0107 his job. 2020\u201321 season. On 26 August, in the Champions League qualifier against CFR Cluj, Gvardiol came on as a substitute for Mario Gavranovi\u0107 in the 54th minute following K\u00e9vin Th\u00e9ophile-Catherine's red card. The game led to a penalty shootout, with Gvardiol successfully converting his attempt, as Dinamo won 6\u20135 and progressed to the third qualifying round. In late August and early September, the media reported on the interest of the newly promoted Premier League side Leeds United, whose manager Marcelo Bielsa offered \u20ac22 million to sign the 18-year-old Croat. However, Gvardiol refused the offer and opted to stay in the Prva HNL and develop further. On 16 September, in a Champions League qualifier against Ferencv\u00e1ros, Gvardiol made an error that led to Myrto Uzuni's winning goal for 2\u20131 as the Hungarian champions knocked Dinamo out to the Europa League play-offs. However, on 28 September, it was announced that Gvardiol signed for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig on a five-year contract for \u20ac16 million, plus various add-ons. The fee was the highest ever paid for a Croatian teenager and the third highest ever paid for a Croatian"}, {"text": "defender, only behind Dejan Lovren and Duje \u0106aleta-Car. Gvardiol remained at Dinamo for the remainder of the season. On 22 October, he debuted for Dinamo in a senior UEFA competition in a goalless draw against Feyenoord in the Europa League. On 16 November, Gvardiol tested positive for COVID-19, which forced him to miss the derby against Osijek, now managed by Bjelica, on 21 November. On 10 December, Gvardiol scored his first goal in a senior UEFA competition, as Dinamo defeated CSKA Moscow 3\u20131 in the Europa League. After completion of the Europa League group stage, Gvardiol's performances were highly praised, as Dinamo conceded only one goal and topped their group. On 28 February 2021, Gvardiol scored the opening goal and assisted the third one in a 3\u20130 victory against Slaven Belupo. However, after a quadriceps injury in training in early March, he was forced to miss both legs of Dinamo's Europa League Round of 16 tie against Tottenham Hotspur, which Dinamo won 3\u20132 on aggregate. He returned for the quarter-final match against Villarreal on 8 April, which ended as a 1\u20130 loss. Three days later, he scored his third goal of the season in a 2\u20130 victory over Lokomotiva. On"}, {"text": "22 May, Gvardiol played his last game for Dinamo, 1\u20130 victory against \u0160ibenik. RB Leipzig. Gvardiol made his Bundesliga debut on 20 August 2021 in a 4\u20130 victory over VfB Stuttgart, playing the entire match. He quickly established himself in Leipzig's starting XI and attracted attention with his good plays. On 15 September 2021, he made his Champions League debut in a 6\u20133 defeat to Manchester City. On 11 December, he scored his debut goal for Leipzig in a 4\u20131 victory over Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach. He significantly contributed to Leipzig's good form during the beginning of Domenico Tedesco's tenure as manager, after the poor start of the season during previous manager Jesse Marsch's term. On 23 January 2022, he scored his second goal of the season in a 2\u20130 victory over VfL Wolfsburg. By the end of the season, Gvardiol helped Leipzig win the DFB-Pokal and reach the semi-finals of the Europa League, accomplishing both feats for the first time in the history of the club. Furthermore, the DFB-Pokal victory was also the first major trophy title in the history of the club. On 12 August, \"France Football\" announced Gvardiol as one of the nominees for the 2022 Kopa Trophy, where"}, {"text": "he eventually finished in sixth place. On 1 September, Gvardiol extended his contract with RB Leipzig until 2027, with the club having rejected Chelsea's \u20ac90 million offer for the player. On 25 October, Gvardiol scored his first ever Champions League goal in a 3\u20132 victory over Real Madrid. The game was Madrid's first defeat of the season. On 22 February 2023, Gvardiol scored an equaliser in a 1\u20131 draw with Manchester City in the Champions League round of 16. Aged , he became the youngest Croatian player ever to score in a Champions League knockout phase. Manchester City. On 5 August 2023, Premier League club Manchester City announced the signing of Gvardiol on a five-year deal, making him the third Croatian to join the club's first team after Vedran \u0106orluka and Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107. The fee was undisclosed, but reported to be around \u00a377 million (\u20ac90 million), making Gvardiol the second most expensive defender in the world. Gvardiol made his Premier League debut for Manchester City on 11 August in a 3\u20130 victory over Burnley, coming on for Rico Lewis in the 79th minute. He was given his first Manchester City start in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup against Sevilla, playing"}, {"text": "the full 90 minutes, with his team winning 5\u20134 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1\u20131 draw in regulation time. Three days later, he started his first Premier League game in a 1\u20130 home win against Newcastle United. On 6 September, Gvardiol was announced as one of the nominees for the 2023 Ballon d'Or. He scored his first Manchester City goal on 9 April 2024, in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid, which ended in a 3\u20133 draw at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. Four days later, he recorded his first goal and assist in the Premier League in a 5\u20131 victory over Luton Town. On 11 May, Gvardiol scored the first brace of his career to help City overtake Arsenal in the Premier League title race with a 4\u20130 away win at Fulham. Eight days later, Gvardiol played the entire match against West Ham United, which Manchester City won 3\u20131, securing the league title. The triumph made Gvardiol and his teammate Kova\u010di\u0107 the second and third ever Croatians to win the Premier League, after Dejan Lovren in 2020. On 28 September 2024, Gvardiol scored his first Premier League goal of the 2024\u201325 season in a 1\u20131"}, {"text": "draw against Newcastle United. On 27 April 2025, he scored his first FA Cup goal, a header following an Omar Marmoush corner, sealing City's 2\u20130 victory against Nottingham Forest and helping his team reach their third successive final in the competition. On 12 June 2025, Gvardiol was named the Manchester City Player of the Season. International career. Gvardiol earned his first call-up to Croatia national under-21 team in October 2019, at the age of 17, when coach Igor Bi\u0161\u0107an listed him in the squad for Under-21 Euro 2021 qualifiers against Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Gvardiol debuted on 14 November against the former opponent, being named in the starting line-up, as Croatia won 3\u20131. On 8 October 2020, he scored the tenth goal in Croatia's 10\u20130 victory over San Marino, the largest victory in the history of the national team. On 9 March 2021, he was named in Bi\u0161\u0107an's 23-man squad for the group stage of the tournament; however, he was forced to miss it due to a quadriceps injury. On 17 May, he was named in Bi\u0161\u0107an's 23-man squad for the knockout stage of the tournament, as well as Zlatko Dali\u0107's 26-man squad for the UEFA Euro 2020. After"}, {"text": "losing 2\u20131 to Spain after extra time in the Under-21 Euro quarter-final, Gvardiol joined the senior team. He made his senior debut in a friendly 1\u20130 defeat to Belgium on 6 June, coming on as a substitute to Borna Bari\u0161i\u0107 at half-time. One week later, he earned his first start for the national team, in a 1\u20130 defeat against England in Croatia's opening game of Euro 2020. At the age of , he became the youngest ever player to play for Croatia at a major tournament, surpassing Mateo Kova\u010di\u0107. He went on to start all Croatia's games at the tournament. On 8 October 2021, he scored his debut goal for Croatia in a 3\u20130 World Cup qualifying victory against Cyprus. On 9 November 2022, Gvardiol was named in Dali\u0107's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A day later, in a Bundesliga match against Freiburg, Gvardiol broke his nose after colliding with Willi Orb\u00e1n and prominently wore a face mask during the tournament as a consequence. He received extended praise for his defensive performance in the group stage, especially in the decisive match against Belgium on 1 December that ended up as a goalless draw and saw Croatia qualify"}, {"text": "for the knockout stage for the third time in history. On 17 December, in the third place play-off against Morocco, Gvardiol scored his first goal for Croatia at a major tournament. At the age of , he became the youngest ever player to score for Croatia at a major tournament, surpassing Ivica Oli\u0107. He was named Man of the Match, as Croatia won 2\u20131 and claimed their second bronze and third overall World Cup medal in history. Despite being a favourite for the FIFA Young Player Award, he lost it to Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez. On 5 June 2023, Gvardiol was named in Dali\u0107's 23-man squad for the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals; however, on 10 June, he was ruled out due to an abdominal wall injury and replaced by Dion Drena Beljo. On 7 June 2024, Gvardiol was named in Dali\u0107's final 26-man squad for the UEFA Euro 2024. Gvardiol played all three group stage games in their entirety, as Croatia failed to progress to the knockout stage. On 18 November 2024, in a 1\u20131 group stage draw with Portugal, Gvardiol scored the equaliser and secured Croatia a spot in the 2024\u201325 UEFA Nations League quarter-finals. Style of play. Gvardiol has"}, {"text": "been described as a modern-day centre-back who can perform all the necessary defensive tasks of a traditional defender while also providing his team with serious ball progression when in possession. Gvardiol is a left-footed centre-back who is comfortable on the ball and has the ability to break up play with robust tackles. He is also constantly looking to play forward and break opposition lines with his passing. He is most commonly used as a ball-playing defender like Manchester City teammate John Stones or a wide centre-back like Manchester City teammate R\u00faben Dias. His ability on the ball, pace, and intelligence of movement on and off the ball helps him perform both roles seamlessly. He can also be used as a wing-back, primarily on the side of his strong foot, the left. In his time at RB Leipzig, he was used as a left-back in a back four or the left-most player in a back two or three. Gvardiol can break the opponent's lines and is a good dribbler under pressure. He can carry the ball forward when space presents itself and slide a smooth pass to a teammate farther up the field. He is a strong and powerful runner, capable"}, {"text": "of surging forward with the ball at his feet to break lines of pressure. He can muscle past defenders and create space for himself and his teammates. He is also known to be able to link up with attackers higher up in the field to create and finish chances. Gvardiol has been described by pundits as having a level of maturity in his play style beyond his years. His left-footedness provides an excellent outlet for his team as it allows them to line him up alongside a right-footed partner. He also has good attributes for a defender in spotting danger and having the speed to stop it. He is capable of changing direction quickly to deal with the ball in behind, as well as having the pace and strength to face fast and strong wingers with through balls. \"Scores and results list Croatia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gvardiol goal.\" Honours. Dinamo Zagreb RB Leipzig Manchester City Croatia Individual"}, {"text": "The Buena Park Historic District is a residential historic district in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. First developed in the 1890s, the district was originally planned to be an upper-class suburban neighborhood of Chicago with spacious homes. Development in the early twentieth century made the neighborhood denser, and while it was still a wealthy neighborhood by 1930, it featured many apartment buildings as well. The district's houses reflect Chicago's architectural development at the turn of the century; while its nineteenth-century homes have Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival designs, its twentieth-century houses exhibit newly popular styles such as the Prairie School and Classical Revival. The district's apartment buildings were designed in part to match the character of its houses, as doing so portrayed a sense of luxury and domesticity to its affluent residents; as a result, they largely used the same styles as the twentieth-century homes and often included courtyards to replace lawns. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1984."}, {"text": "Ean Libya (Arabic: \u0639\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u064a\u0628\u064a\u0627) is an online, Tripoli based Arabic language news website focusing on events in Libya, North Africa. The Editor in Chief is Dr Ramadan Mohammed supported by Editorial Director Ali Hussein."}, {"text": "Jesse Albanie (born 6 August 1999) is a South African cricketer. He made his List A debut on 3 November 2019, for North West in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge. He made his first-class debut on 25 November 2021, for North West in the 2021\u201322 CSA 4-Day Series."}, {"text": "Baxu and the Giants is a 2019 Namibian bilingual drama short film written and directed by Florian Schott. The film stars Steven Afrikaner and Camilla Jo-Ann Daries in the lead roles. The theme of the film is based on poaching in modern rural Namibia. The film was released on 14 September 2019. Prior to the release of the film, it was regarded as one of the most anticipated Namibian films of 2019. It received critical acclaim from the critics for its editing and cinematography. The film was also premiered in few international film festivals. The portions of the film were shot in Tubuses and in Erongo Region. The film has won several awards and nominations in international film festivals. It was also released in Netflix and became the first Namibian short film ever to be released in Netflix. It was revealed that Netflix deal was initiated in March 2020 with the support and assistance of a South African sales agent when the film was premiered at the 2020 RapidLion International Film Festival. Synopsis. A story of how rhino poaching triggers social change in rural Namibia, seen through the eyes of a 9 year old girl. Production. The film was commissioned"}, {"text": "by the Legal Assistance Centre with the aim of sensitising youngsters and teenagers on the issue of rhino poaching. The film was made with the intention of making awareness against rhino poaching and was also made for the purpose of donations to the Save the Rhino organisation in Namibia. Release. The film had its release in September 2019 before being officially selected for film premiere in various international film festivals. The film had its first public screening in Namibia on 6 February 2020 at the DHPS Auditorium for free of charge. The filmmakers announced that the film would be globally released from 20 March 2020 for free in their official website baxuandthegiants.com. It was meant that the film could be downloaded by the public from the website for free. Awards and nominations. 10 year old child actress Camilla Jo-Ann Daries was highly praised for her performance as a 9 year old teenager in the film and bagged the Best Actress award at the 2019 Namibian Theatre and Film Awards. She became the youngest Namibian actress to receive the relevant award."}, {"text": "Lieutenant General Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava, PVSM, AVSM is a former General Officer in the Indian Army. He last served as the Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army. He assumed office on 1 April 2018, taking over from Lt Gen Suresh Sharma. Career. Shrivastava is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He was commissioned into the Bengal Sappers of the Corps of Engineers in 1980. During his career, He has attended the Defence Services Staff College, Army War College, Mhow and the National Defence College, New Delhi. Shrivastava is a Post Graduate in Docks and Harbour from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and has M Phil degrees from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore and Madras University. Shrivastava commanded an Engineer regiment during Operation Parakram and an Engineer Brigade. He later served as the Director General Combat Engineers. In February 2017, he took over as the Director General Border Roads Organisation (DGBR) from Lt Gen Suresh Sharma who went on to become Engineer-in-Chief. As the Engineer-in-Chief, he served as the Senior Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Engineers. Shrivastava was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2018 for his outstanding services and achievements in fast-tracking the"}, {"text": "execution of Indo-China Border Roads. He was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal in 2020 during his tenure as Engineer-in-Chief."}, {"text": "Hilary Denise Arko-Dadzie is a Ghanaian IT specialist and business strategist. She is the first woman to be appointed as the corporate services executive of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) based in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is also the first woman to have been appointed to the five member executive committee role of ARIPO. Education. Arko-Dadzie attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she acquired a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. She holds an MBA in General Management from the University of East London in UK, as well as IT and Project management certifications from Cisco, and George Washington University. Career. Arko-Dadzie is currently the first woman to become the corporate services executive of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation and the first woman to be appointed to the five member executive committee role of ARIPO. Before her appointment, she worked with Airtel, serving as director of TowerCo for Airtel Ghana now Airtel Tigo and acting head for Airtel Sierra Leone. When she joined Airtel Ghana in 2009 as project manager, she was in charge of strategic projects such as the introduction of Airtel Ghana's 3.75 G offering, Mobile Number Portability and the creation and launch"}, {"text": "of Airtel Premier."}, {"text": "Nhlanhla Dlamini (born 4 January 1998) is a South African cricketer. He made his List A debut on 6 October 2019, for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019\u201320 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge."}, {"text": "Zerbini is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Lactifluus acrissimus is a species of milk-cap fungus in the family Russulaceae. Found in Benin, the species was described in 2003. It is found in savanna woodlands."}, {"text": "Goodbear is a sketch comedy double act composed of Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment. Their 2019 show \"Dougal\" was nominated for 'Best Show' at the 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Formation. Barnes and Perryment met at Leeds University, where they were members of The Leeds Tealights. In 2012, their Leeds Tealights Edinburgh show \"Sexy Chubby\" was directed by Jamie Demetriou. Edinburgh (2015\u2013present). Goodbear's debut fringe show was at the 2015 Fringe. Since then, they have received critical acclaim from \"The Guardian\"\", The Sunday Times\"\", The Telegraph\"\", The Scotsman\"\", Chortle\", and many more. Their live shows are directed by George Chilcott, artistic director of Dugout Theatre, and accompanied by an original score by Max Perryment. In 2019, their show \"Dougal\" was nominated for 'Best Comedy Show' at the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards, presented by Rose Matafeo and Stephen Fry. In 2020, \"Dougal\" was also nominated for a Chortle Award."}, {"text": "Rajesaba Maktumasab Yankanchi (also known as Raju Talikote) is an Indian actor and comedian. He was one of the participants in Bigg Boss Kannada (season 7)."}, {"text": "Mario Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 (; born 16 November 2001) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. He is under contract with 2. Bundesliga club Hamburger SV. He was banned for 2 years for doping on 30 March 2023. The ban was later extended to November 2026. Club career. Early career. Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 started playing football by joining RNK Split academy, before moving to the academy of Dalmatian giants Hajduk Split in 2016. Initially a defensive midfielder, he was moved back to the centre back position in the youth teams. In October 2018, he was included in \"The Guardian\"'s \"Next Generation\" list. Hajduk Split. On 18 August 2019, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 made his Prva HNL debut for Hajduk in the 3\u20130 victory over Gorica. However, he did not proceed to get many opportunities during Damir Buri\u0107's tenure at the club. On 16 November, he fractured his arm while on international duty in Elbasan, in Croatia U20's friendly 1\u20130 victory over Albania, which sidelined him for three months. During the tenure of Igor Tudor at the club, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 solidified his spot in the starting XI following the COVID-19 suspension of the league and injuries of Ardian Ismajli and Nihad Mujaki\u0107. He scored his first"}, {"text": "goal for Hajduk Split on the 16 June 2020 in the 2\u20133 defeat to Vara\u017edin. On 25 July, the last matchday, he was shown two yellow cards and sent off in the 1\u20134 victory over Inter Zapre\u0161i\u0107. Ahead of and during the 2020\u201321 season, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 attracted attention of various Serie A clubs, most notably Napoli. However, club president Luk\u0161a Jakobu\u0161i\u0107 stopped the transfer, dubbing Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 the \"club project\". On 27 January 2021, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 scored the opener in a 3\u20131 derby defeat to Dinamo Zagreb. On 20 March, he assisted Marin Ljubi\u010di\u0107 for the only goal in a 1\u20130 derby victory over \u0160ibenik. In the beginning of May, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 sparked significant interest from Celtic and Torino. On 12 May, he scored the first goal and provided Stipe Biuk with an assist for the fourth in a 4\u20130 victory over Gorica. Hamburger SV. On 31 August 2021, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 signed a two-year loan deal with 2. Bundesliga club Hamburger SV, with an option to buy. He made his debut on 18 September in a 2\u20130 victory over Werder Bremen. Despite initial struggles, within the first three months he became a nailed-on starter, and his performances led to the club signing him permanently on"}, {"text": "15 March 2022. On 16 April, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 scored his debut goal for Hamburg, a free kick in a 3\u20130 victory over Karlsruhe. On 12 November 2022, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 failed a drug test, prompting German Football Association (DFB)'s anti-doping department to launch an investigation. On 30 March 2023, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 was banned by the DFB Sports Court for two years due to EPO doping. The club and the player filed an appeal for the ban due to multiple irregularities during the investigation; however, Nationale Anti Doping Agentur (NADA) did the same seeking a four-year ban. The ban is set to run retroactively from 15 November 2022 to 14 November 2024. In August 2024, Court of Arbitration for Sport extended the ban until 15 November 2026. International career. Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 was part of Dario Ba\u0161i\u0107's 18-man squad for UEFA Under-17 Euro 2017. He made one appearance at the tournament, in the 1\u20131 draw with Spain, as Croatia finished at the bottom of the group. He earned his first call-up to Croatia under-21 team in August 2020, ahead of UEFA Under-21 Euro 2021 qualifiers against Greece and the Czech Republic. He made his debut on 12 November, in a 2\u20132 away draw with Scotland. On 9"}, {"text": "March 2021, Vu\u0161kovi\u0107 was named in Igor Bi\u0161\u0107an's 23-man squad for the group stage of the tournament. On 17 May, he was named in Bi\u0161\u0107an's 23-man squad for the knockout stage of the tournament. Personal life. Vu\u0161kovi\u0107's great-grandfather Marko made three appearances for Hajduk Split on the liberated territory of Vis during World War II, and later worked as a club executive. Vu\u0161kovi\u0107's grandfather Mario, whom he was named after, attended the Hajduk academy in the 1970s and won a junior league title during Tomislav Ivi\u0107's tenure. Vu\u0161kovi\u0107's father Danijel is a former player who played as a defender. His brother, Luka and cousin, Moreno, are also professional players who play as defender and forward respectively. He named Sergio Ramos as his football idol."}, {"text": "Philip Jablon (born ) is an American independent researcher, known for photographing and documenting historic movie palaces and stand-alone movie theaters in Thailand and neighbouring countries through his blog, the \"Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project\". Jablon first came across Thailand's old stand-alone theaters while studying at Chiang Mai University, and was inspired to photograph and document the disappearing buildings. He started publishing photos through his blog in 2009 and has since continued with the project. His work has been exhibited and published in book form. Biography. Jablon is from Philadelphia. He says his interest in Asian culture began around age 12\u201313, when he saw the Hong Kong film \"\". He graduated in Asian studies from Temple University, and began graduate studies in sustainable development at Thailand's Chiang Mai University in 2006. His project documenting stand-alone movie theaters in Thailand began in 2009, after coming across an old theater in Chiang Mai, only to find that it had already been demolished when he returned to visit a few months later. He started the blog as a side project during a time when he was having difficulty with his master's thesis. Eventually, he adopted the subject as his thesis topic, and continued"}, {"text": "working on the project after graduating. Jablon has photographed and documented old stand-alone theaters throughout Thailand, as well as in Myanmar, Laos and, to a lesser extent, Cambodia and Vietnam. He would travel from town to town, photographing the buildings and interviewing staff and locals. He has received sponsorship from the Jim Thompson Foundation and the Thai Film Archive, though more recently he has been paying out of his own pocket. Jablon's documentation effort came as the buildings were fast disappearing\u2014he reckons about thirty stand-alone theaters were still operating in Thailand when he began the project, a number that had fallen to four by 2016. Of the almost 250 buildings he had photographed by 2019, probably half had disappeared. Jablon's work has been shown at various international exhibits, and he has written as an advocate for architectural conservation. His first book, \"Thailand's Movie Theatres: Relics, Ruins and the Romance of Escape\", was published in 2019. He now splits time living in Philadelphia, where he works and saves up funds for his research, and Chiang Mai."}, {"text": "The Renfe Class 269 is a class of electric locomotives operated by Renfe in Spain. They were built by CAF and Macosa under license from Mitsubishi. Variants. Multiple variants of the Class 269 exist: Technical specifications. The locomotives are equipped with monomotor bogies, which have two gears. They use rheostatic braking. History. The locomotives were introduced in 1973. A total of 265 locomotives have been built. Four Class 269 locomotives were sold to Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), the Chilean national rail operator, in 2003. Further withdrawn Class 269 locomotives went on sale in 2010."}, {"text": "Llannerch railway station was a private railway station on the Vale of Clwyd Railway. It was located close to Llannerch Hall, the home of Whitehall Dod who was a director of the Vale of Clwyd Railway company. From the opening of the line in October 1858 Dod had the right to stop trains for his use at this location until December 1871 when Dod's privilege expired, the railway having been acquired by the London & North Western Railway in 1867."}, {"text": "Kai Wegner (born 15 September 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Governing Mayor of Berlin since April 2023. He served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2005 to 2021. In 2019, he became the chairman of the CDU in Berlin. Early life and education. Wegner was born 1972 in West Berlin and became an insurance salesman. Political career. Member of the German Parliament, 2005\u20132021. Wegner joined the CDU in 1989 and served as vice chair of the party in Berlin from 2000 to 2002. Wegner was a member of the German Bundestag from the 2005 until 2021, representing Berlin's Spandau district. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy from 2005 until 2013 before moving to the Committee on Building, Housing, Urban Development and Local Government and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's spokesperson on building and housing since 2018. From 2011 until 2016, Wegner served as secretary general of the CDU in Berlin, under the leadership of chairman Frank Henkel. In May 2019 he succeeded Monika Gr\u00fctters as"}, {"text": "chair of the CDU in Berlin. Member of the State Parliament of Berlin, 2021\u2013\"present\". In October 2020, Wegner announced his candidacy for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the 2021 Berlin state election; he eventually lost against Franziska Giffey. He has since been serving as his parliamentary group's chairperson and thereby the leader of the opposition. Wegner was appointed as CDU delegate to the Federal Conventions for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022. Mayor of Berlin, 2023\u2013\"present\". Following the large gains made by the CDU in the 2023 Berlin state election, Wegner became Berlin\u2019s first conservative mayor in 22 years and formed the Wegner senate. Political positions. In June 2017, Wegner voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election, Wegner first endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz and later Jens Spahn to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair. For the 2021 national elections, he later endorsed Markus S\u00f6der as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel. When Merz argued in 2023 that the Christian Democrats may look to work together with the far right Alternative for Germany at the municipal"}, {"text": "level, Wegner sought to distance himself from that suggestion, arguing on Twitter that \"the CDU cannot, doesn't want to, and will not cooperate with a party whose business model is hate, division and exclusion.\" In April 2024, he condemned a conference of pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin held during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying that \"Berlin does not tolerate antisemitism, hatred, and incitement against Jews.\" Personal life. Wegner lives in Spandau, Berlin. He is Protestant, divorced, and has two children with his second wife and one with his first wife."}, {"text": "The 2019 Scottish League Cup final was an association football match that took place on 8 December 2019 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. It was the final match of the 2019\u201320 Scottish League Cup, the 74th season of the Scottish League Cup (known as the Betfred Cup for sponsorship reasons), a competition for the 42 teams in the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). It was contested by Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers, in their 15th meeting in League Cup finals. As both teams participated in European competitions they entered the competition in the second round. Matches from the second round onward were contested on a one-off basis, with 30 minutes extra time used for matches tied after 90 minutes, and then a penalty shoot-out if they are still level. To qualify for the final Celtic beat Dunfermline Athletic, Partick Thistle and Hibernian. Rangers beat East Fife, Livingston and Heart of Midlothian. Celtic won 1\u20130, with a goal from centre back Christopher Jullien, side footing to the net from close range after a free-kick from the left in the 60th minute. It was Celtic's 19th Scottish League Cup win, and 10th straight domestic trophy (three Scottish Premiership titles, three Scottish Cups"}, {"text": "and four Scottish League Cups). Route to the final. As both clubs participated in European competitions, they both received a bye through the 2019\u201320 Scottish League Cup group stage."}, {"text": "Rondinelli da Silva Vieira (born 11 March 1999), commonly known as Rondinelli da Silva or simply Da Silva, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Club career. Gr\u00eamio. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Da Silva joined the Gr\u00eamio's Academy at the age of 16 in 2015. Southern. On 11 July 2024, Da Silva joined Hong Kong Premier League club Southern. However, he left the club only 2 days after the announcement."}, {"text": "Governor Legge may refer to:"}, {"text": "Carl Lewis Mickens (born August 2, 1960) is an American politician. He is a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 42nd District, being first elected in 2015. He is a member of the Democratic party."}, {"text": "Jhonata Varela da Silva (born 4 July 2000), commonly known as Jhonata Varela, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder and left-back for S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9. Club career. Gr\u00eamio. Born in Natal, Brazil, Jhonata Varela joined the Gr\u00eamio's Academy at the age of 16 in 2017. Honours. Gr\u00eamio"}, {"text": "Frances Dee Cook (born September 7, 1945, Charleston, West Virginia) was a career foreign service officer who was the US ambassador to the Republic of Burundi from 1980\u20131983, Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, 1989\u20131993 and she was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman on December 28, 1995. As ambassador to Oman and Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, she was the first female chief of mission in the Persian Gulf, and the first female head of post in the Middle East for the United States. Cook heads her own international business consulting firm, The Ballard Group, and is managing director of the Quincy Group, a strategic advisory firm and merchant bank. Early life and education. Cook was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Nash and Vivian Cook but grew up in Homestead, Florida. She earned a BA from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in 1967. In 1978, she received a M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Career. After joining the Foreign Service in 1967 and completing language school, Cook\u2019s first assignment was to be Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, Ambassador to France from 1968\u20131969. Her future"}, {"text": "posts included being a member of the U.S. Delegation to Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1970\u20131971; U.S. Consulate General, Sydney, Australia, 1971\u20131973; U.S. Embassy, Dakar, Senegal, 1973\u20131975; Personnel Officer for Africa, USIA, 1975\u20131977; Director of the Press Office, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, 1978\u20131980; Consul General, Alexandria, Egypt, 1983\u20131986; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Assistance, Bureau of Refugee Programs, 1986\u20131987; Director, Office of West Africa Affairs, Department of State, 1987\u20131989; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Regional Security Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, 1993\u20131995. From 2010\u20132020, Cook served as a member of the board of trustees at The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM), an American-style degree-granting institution in Aix-en-Provence, France, which includes IAU College, a study abroad institute for undergraduates."}, {"text": "The 1995 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 24th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. Southern Connecticut State (21-1-1) defeated South Carolina\u2013Spartanburg, 2\u20130, in the final. This was the fourth national title for the Owls, who were coached by Ray Reid."}, {"text": "Kathy L. Sykes (born June 29, 1963) is an American politician who served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 42nd district from 2016 to 2020. She is a member of the Democratic party."}, {"text": "William Alexander Fry (September 7, 1872 \u2013 April 21, 1944) was a Canadian sports administrator and newspaper publisher. Fry founded the \"Dunnville Chronicle\" in 1896, managed local hockey and baseball teams in the 1910s, then served as president of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) from 1922 to 1924. At the national level, he was president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) from 1928 to 1930, was a Canadian Olympic Committee member and British Empire Games committee member from 1927 to 1938, and served as president of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C) from 1934 to 1936. He sought better working relationships with the National Hockey League and the American Amateur Athletic Union, to compensate Canadian teams for developing senior ice hockey players. He aimed to implement standardized ice hockey rules for all leagues under CAHA jurisdiction. He recommended control of the Allan Cup be transferred from its trustees to the CAHA, who then reinvested profits into minor ice hockey in Canada. This coincided with growing interest in the playoffs for the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup. He presided over the AAU of C when it was losing direct control of amateur sport in Canada, and had"}, {"text": "recently split ways with the Canadian Track and Field Association. The CAHA, the Canadian Lacrosse Association and the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association were each challenging the definition of what was an amateur athlete. He was against profiting from sports, believed in maintaining the ideals of amateur sport and wanted the younger generation \"to play the game for the game's sake\". When it became apparent the CAHA was close to breaking away from the AAU of C in 1936, he said the decision was \"the most important matter ever to come before an amateur body in Canada\". In defending the old definition of amateur, journalist Ralph Allen compared Fry to a captain sinking with his ship; whereas journalist and former Olympian Bobbie Rosenfeld remembered Fry as a man who fought for true amateurism in sport, in the face of growing professionalism. He retired from sports in 1938, and his career was recognized with life membership in the CAHA and the OHA, and an appointment to Ontario Athletic Commission. Early life and newspaper business. Fry was born on September 7, 1872, in Dunnville, Ontario, the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Fry. He attended Dunnville Secondary School until age 16, then"}, {"text": "began working full-time in the newspaper business. He was hired in 1888 as apprentice by Robert White, publisher of the \"Dunnville Gazette\". Fry worked for two years at the \"Gazette\" then moved to Ingersoll, Ontario, at age 18. He apprenticed four years with the \"Ingersoll Chronicle\", then later worked six-month tenures in Tillsonburg, and Buffalo, New York. During the five years as a newspaper apprentice, he learned the trade including editorials, advertising, typesetting and running printing presses. Fry returned to Dunnville in 1896 at age 24, and founded his own paper named the \"Dunnville Chronicle\". He purchased the printing business owned by A. M. Moote, and added a hand-operated Washington press with financial assistance from his brother. The first issue was published on September 4, 1896, and competed directly with the \"Gazette\" and \"Monck Reformer\" in a town of approximately 2,000 people. He priced subscriptions for the \"Chronicle\" at $1 per 15 months, which undercut his \"Gazette\" competition at $1 per 12 months. He adopted a motto for the \"Chronicle\"; \"For the Cause that Lacks Assistance \u2013 'Gainst the Wrongs that Need Resistance \u2013 For the Future in the Distance \u2013 And the Good that We Can Do\". Writer Harold"}, {"text": "Melick stated the motto was likely derived from a poem by Scottish Anglican divine Thomas Guthrie. Fry also grew his business by handling printing contracts for local municipalities. He regularly upgraded printing equipment to stay ahead of his competitors, and maintain printing contracts. He installed a hand-powered Taylor drum cylinder in 1900, then added a natural gas engine in 1902 to run the press. He installed a linotype machine in 1907 which enabled his paper to run its own stories in a quicker timeframe, rather than republishing material from out of town papers. He upgraded the linotype in 1921, and expanded the format from six to eight columns per page when he installed a Babcock Optimus press in 1928. Fry moved his business to a larger building in 1903, and again in 1926. He outlasted the \"Monck Reformer\" which ceased operation in 1925, then bought the assets of the \"Gazette\" in 1940 after its owner died. Fry was a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, and participated in its annual conventions. He wrote a weekly editorial in the \"Chronicle\" known as \"Old Bill's Column\", including his own wit and observations. In an interview given with the \"Toronto Star\" in"}, {"text": "1935, Fry explained his desire to stay with a weekly paper by stating, \"I'm smarter than the daily paper guys. The weekly doesn't get you down\". Community involvement. Fry was involved in local sports including baseball and ice hockey teams. He was the baseball manager of the 1907 Dunnville club, which won 17 games, lost six and tied one game during the season. The team played home games at Jubilee Park in Dunnville, and regular opponents included teams from Brantford, Buffalo, Hamilton and Welland. Fry stated in a 1935 interview, that his first love for a sport was ice hockey. He served as the business manager and secretary for the Dunnville Mudcats hockey club, which competed in the intermediate division of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) during the 1910s. The team's name derived from Fry's interest in mudcat fishing in the nearby Grand River. Fry was a member of the local Lions Club and the Masonic lodge. He provided space upstairs from his printing shop for the Dunnville Masonic Temple. His service to local organizations included being a director and treasurer of the Dunnville Agricultural Society Fair in 1908, the local chamber of commerce, the board of governors for the"}, {"text": "Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, and the Dunnville public utility commissioner. Despite his involvement in service groups, he declined more than once to be a candidate for mayor of Dunnville when asked. Fry had community musical interests, and played cornet in the Dunnville band. He managed the local opera house, directed and produced performances of H.M.S. Pinafore at several theatres, sang as a tenor, and served as choir director of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville during World War I. After the war, Fry and fellow members of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association travelled to France and Belgium and visited graves of fallen Canadian soldiers. He located the graves of two soldiers from Dunnville on request of the parents of Arthur Smith and Fla Vanderburgh. He negotiated with authorities in Europe to let him take the wooden cross grave markers back home to Canada. He reportedly never let the crosses out of his sight until delivering them personally to the parents. One of the two crosses is displayed on the wall above the front door of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville, and was featured in a Remembrance Day ceremony in 2014. Ontario Hockey Association. Fry served as a convenor with"}, {"text": "the OHA in the late 1910s, before being elected to the league executive committee. Fry was the OHA's vice-president from 1920 to 1922, then served as president from 1922 to 1924. He was acclaimed as president of the OHA, succeeding A. E. Copeland of Midland. Fry's executive committee included W. A. Hewitt as secretary, and J. F. Paxton as treasurer. Fry and his committee were re-elected in 1923. Fry represented the OHA at the 1923 general meeting of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) in Winnipeg. He asked for a discussion on body checking, and a clearer definition of what was legal. The CAHA declined to include women's hockey in its organization at the same meeting, and Fry voted against inclusion since he felt women had ample opportunity in other sports where physical contact was not a factor. Fry nominated Toby Sexsmith for a second term as CAHA president explaining that a two-year term was necessary to be effective and familiar with the issues, rather than a customary one-year term. Fry recommended on behalf of the OHA to have the Toronto Granites as the 1923 Allan Cup champions represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics. After the"}, {"text": "Toronto Granites won gold at the 1924 Winter Olympics, he sat on the committee to arrange a victory reception for them. At the 1923 general meeting of the OHA, Fry introduced a motion to put $2,000 towards a World War I memorial educational scholarship at the University of Toronto for those who served in the Canadian Armed Forces. At the semi-annual CAHA meeting later in 1923, he made successful motions to eliminate commercial names from teams in the CAHA, and to strengthen the abilities for the provincial association to decide on matters under its jurisdiction. In April 1924, Fry spoke out against the migration of senior ice hockey players to the United States, without Canadian teams being compensated for developing those players. He looked for a working relationship between the CAHA and professional teams. At the 1924 general meeting of the CAHA, he requested better representation for Canada at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which was represented by the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C). On December 2, 1924, Fry was succeeded by William Easson of Stratford as president of the OHA. At the 1925 general meeting of the OHA, Fry advised on several issues as the past-president."}, {"text": "He spoke against a proposal by Conn Smythe to have the Ontario Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union champion go directly into the Eastern Canada Allan Cup playoffs, that would bypass the OHA playoffs and not guarantee an Ontario representative in the Allan Cup. When western provinces in Canada wanted to raise the junior age limit to 21, Fry noted that the OHA had more junior teams that the rest of the country combined, and there was no reason for \"the tail to wag the dog\", and keeping the lower age limit was a bargaining chip to gain concessions from professional teams. When proposals were tabled to prevent an OHA team from using any player who had a pending professional contract, he recommended seeking clarification from the AAU of C for the status of those players. Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Fry was elected vice-president of the CAHA on March 26, 1926, and served in the role for two years. In November 1926, he recommended profits from Allan Cup playoff games exceeding $5,000 be turned over to the CAHA whose work had earned the money, instead of Allan Cup trustees dictating how the money was spent. At the CAHA general meeting in March"}, {"text": "1927, he formally requested to have the CAHA take control of the Allan Cup and its profits from the trustees, and use the funds to build amateur hockey in Canada. He felt the move justified as the CAHA had evolved and was able to manage its own affairs. His motion asked for H. Montagu Allan to donate the cup to the CAHA, and establish an Allan Cup committee which included current trustee William Northey. Fry was re-elected vice-president on March 28, 1927. He presided over the 1928 general meeting where the commercial team names were discussed again, and the handling of expenses for the Canada men's national ice hockey team. Fry succeeded Frank Sandercock as president of the CAHA on March 29, 1928, and the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association was welcomed as a new branch of the CAHA. He was re-elected as CAHA president and AAU of C governor on March 29, 1929. During his tenures as president, he set up a separate finance committee to oversee income and expenditures Allan cup profits. He aimed to implement standardized ice hockey rules for all leagues under CAHA jurisdiction. He was also part of the AAU of C group which selected the"}, {"text": "first members of its committee to choose which teams would represent Canada at the Olympics. In response to the Trail Smoke Eaters being disqualified in the 1929 Allan Cup playoffs for an unsigned player, Fry motioned for any active professional athletes being banned from holding management positions on am amateur team. The CAHA executive set aside 5 percent of profits from Allan Cup and Memorial Cup games for a minor ice hockey development fund. At the end of his term as president, Fry stated that \"remarkable progress\" was made in Canadian amateur hockey with respect to growing interest in the playoffs for the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup, and loyalty to amateur principals of the AAU of C. On March 29, 1930, Fry was succeeded as CAHA president by Jack Hamilton. Fry was immediately named to a committee to establish a better relationship with the professional leagues. In May 1930, Fry and W. A. Hewitt attended the 1930 general meeting of the National Hockey League (NHL) asking for a better working agreement. The CAHA recommended players remain in amateur hockey until a year after graduating from junior hockey, and offered to sanction its players to attend NHL practices, and standardize"}, {"text": "playing rules with the NHL. The CAHA continued negotiations after the NHL appointed Conn Smythe and James Strachan to a working agreement committee. Results of the negotiations where discussed at the 1933 general meeting of the CAHA, and Fry recommended that players who unsuccessfully tried out for a professional team would still retain amateur status. Amateur Athletic Union of Canada. Committee member. Fry was a standing committee member for the AAU of C from 1927 to 1934, and participated on the Canadian Olympic Committee and the British Empire Games committee. He regularly travelled to international sporting events at his own expense, on behalf of the CAHA and the AAU of C. At the 1927 AAU of C general meeting, he spoke against the intermingling of professionals and amateurs in baseball as proposed by Alberta, and wanted to keep amateurs separated. He accompanied the Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team won the gold medal representing Canada in ice hockey at the 1928 Winter Olympics hosted in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was a committee member of the 1930 British Empire Games, hosted in Hamilton, Ontario. In November 1930, Fry gave a lengthy prepared speech in response to criticism of the management"}, {"text": "of amateur sport in Canada. He stated that, \"I feel that we should reiterate our continued confidence and belief in our work, and our determination to pursue it to our objective\". He further defended the CAHA and the AAU of C by stating, \"There was never a time in the history of the world when civilization realized more its responsibility to our youth, to the unfortunates and underprivileged, and there is no nation in the world where more time and money is being spent in living up to that responsibility than in Canada\". At the 1931 general meeting of the AAU of C, Fry was named to the legislation committee, and named chairman of the registration committee. He was also appointed as a member-at-large to the AAU of C executive committee. Fry served on the Canadian Olympic Committee's winter sports committee to prepare for the 1932 Winter Olympics hosted in Lake Placid, New York. When the 1931 Allan Cup champions Winnipeg Hockey Club were chosen to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics, Fry said the team was the \"best bet\" Canada had in team sports at the Olympics. He accompanied the team to the 1932 Winter"}, {"text": "Olympics in which they won the gold medal representing Canada. Fry was named to the Canadian Olympic Committee's summer sports committee to prepare for the 1932 Summer Olympics hosted in Los Angeles, California. He was part of the delegation that went to Ottawa to lobby Edgar Nelson Rhodes, the Canadian Minister of Finance, for funds to cover travel expenses for athletes. He travelled with the Canadian delegation to Los Angeles, and self-published his own book covering Canadian achievements at the winter and summer games. His 1933 book, \"Canada at the tenth Olympiad, 1932 : Lake Placid, New York, Feb 4 to 13 - Los Angeles, California, July 30 to Aug. 14\", was printed by the \"Dunnville Chronicle\" presses and dedicated to Canadian sportsperson Francis Nelson who died in 1932. At the 1932 general meeting of the AAU of C, delegates discussed whether professionals in one sport could play as an amateur in another sport. The association upheld current ban against it, but agreed to further study as to how it relates to the Olympic Games and international sporting organizations. Fry called for maintaining the ideals of amateur sport and said, \"it was a question of implanting proper ideals in the"}, {"text": "young generation\", and \"to play the game for the game's sake\". In February 1933, Fry was named again as chairman of registration committee, and as a member-at-large on the executive committee. He was elected vice-president of the AAU of C in March 1933, via mail-in vote of the executive. He recommended suspension of the Alberta branch due to breaking AAU of C principles, when five active \"class A\" professionals were reinstated as amateurs. He and fellow executives met with members of the Alberta branch regarding not waiting long enough to reinstate former professionals as amateurs. They agreed that a proposal would be submitted for the next AAU of C general meeting to reinstate a \"class A\" professional after a two or three-month trial. The AAU of C made no suspensions, and the players in question were expected to apply for reinstatement at the general meeting. At the AAU of C general meeting in November 1933, Fry urged for means to keep branch registrations committees in close touch with the national committee. He requested the power for national committee to be able to act when irregularities were reported. The registration committee was empowered to reinstate athletes as amateurs who had not"}, {"text": "been professionals in three years. His resolution to allow professional and amateur teams to play each other in sanctioned games was defeated. Delegates to the meeting moved forward a proposal for players attending tryouts to remain as an amateur, after Fry had explained that the CAHA would not change its mind on the matter whether or not approved by the AAU of C. In 1934, Fry was named chairman of the Canadian delegation committee to the 1934 British Empire Games. He oversaw the pregame trials in Canada, and travel arrangements to the games in London, England. AAU of C president J. Howard Crocker declined another term for health reasons, and Fry became the presumed heir since he had been appointed vice-president for the last two years. President. First term. Fry was acclaimed as president of the AAU of C on November 18, 1934. He took over the reins at a time when The Canadian Press reported the AAU of C was losing direct control of amateur sport, since the Canadian Track and Field Association was no longer under its direct control. The \"Winnipeg Free Press\" stated that the AAU of C was \"on the verge of becoming a registration only"}, {"text": "organization\". The AAU of C set up a committee to oversee amateur boxing and amateur wrestling which were still under its control, and decided to reduce its expenses by sending a smaller delegation of Canada's best chances to win medals at the upcoming Olympic Games. Fry also named himself chairman of the amateur reinstatement committee. The AAU of C recommended to its branches to spend a portion of registration fees to promote and increase team sports. In December 1934, the University of Manitoba appealed to Fry and the AAU of C regarding a decision by the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association (MAHA) which did not require university students be released from a private club team to play for the school team. Fry agreed with the university, stating that students are under the jurisdiction of the school unless released by the school to play for a club team. He also stated that AAU of C rulings should be respected by affiliated organizations, such as the MAHA. In January 1935, Fry warned Canadian amateur sports bodies to beware of persons looking to profit from sport. He reminded everyone that the AAU of C was there for sport's sake and for the youth, whereas"}, {"text": "professional leagues were antagonistic and would stop at nothing to make a profit. He cautioned sports bodies of being too accommodating towards professional requests, and cautioned AAU of C branches against misinterpreting rules for their own benefit to register athletes. Fry sought a better working arrangement with the United States' Amateur Athletic Union to track the movement of athletes across the border. He later upheld a decision by the OHA which prevented players who went to the United States from returning to competition in Ontario. At the 1935 CAHA general meeting, he supported a by James T. Sutherland to establish more cooperation with professional teams, and speak out against the continuous raiding of amateur team rosters midseason. Fry reversed his stand in 1932, and now felt it was okay for professionals in one sport to be registered as an amateur in another sport. Delegates to the 1935 general meeting of the AAU of C voted against allowing any mixing of amateur and professionals. The same meeting saw Fry allow the AAU of C's advisory committee on the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation to investigate cancelling an affiliation with the federation due to internal problems within the women's group. On November 19,"}, {"text": "1935, Toronto's \"The Mail and Empire\" accused the Ottawa Rough Riders of using an illegal player in a recent match against the Toronto Argonauts. Editor Edwin Allen stated that the player \"Roy Berry\" was an alias for Bohn Hilliard, a Texas Longhorns footballer who had played semi-professional baseball. The Ottawa branch of the AAU of C took a strict view of amateurism, and called for the suspension of all players in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) who played against Hilliard, which would also prevent any IRFU team from playing for the 23rd Grey Cup. A day later, Fry stated the Ottawa branch had no authority to suspend IRFU players, but cautioned playing against Ottawa until the issue was rectified. On November 22, 1935, Fry suspended the entire Ottawa team citing proof of an illegal player, but lifted the suspensions a day later when empowered by the AAU of C executive to deal with future developments from this as he saw fit. In February 1936, Fry announced the suspension of nine members of the Ottawa team from amateur sport. Second term. Fry was re-elected president of the AAU of C on November 23, 1935, at the general meeting. At the"}, {"text": "same time, the AAU of C adopted resolutions to ask its sports bodies to investigate and eliminate hypocrisy and dishonesty in the pursuit of profits. The union imposed a one-month delay for players transferring to Canada before a registration card would be issued, to give time to investigate a player's background and amateur eligibility. Fry had proposed to declining registration to players who had not been out of professional sports in the last three years, but the union rejected the idea. He later appointed Jack W. Hamilton as chairman of the AAU of C registration committee, which The Canadian Press reported was the most important committee within the AAU of C. The AAU of C had yet to decide by November 1935, which team would represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics, since the Halifax Wolverines who were the most recent 1935 Allan Cup champions had disbanded. Fry stated attempts were made to bring the Wolverines team back together for the Olympics, but its players had gone separate ways for personal and financial reasons. In December 1935, he announced the Port Arthur Bearcats who were runners up in the 1935 Allan Cup, as \"the logical choice\" to"}, {"text": "represent Canada. In January 1936, four members of the Wolverines were invited to play with Port Arthur at the Olympics, but declined when travel expenses were not covered for their families. Fry defended the decision by CAHA president E. A. Gilroy and the AAU of C, stating that it was not their responsibility to cover expenses beyond the players. Canada's dominance at the Olympic hockey tournament ended in 1936, when the Great Britain men's national ice hockey team which included British-Canadian dual citizens captured the gold medal over Canada who won silver. In the wake of Canada not winning the Olympic gold medal, the CAHA pushed for changes and proposed a new definition of amateur at the April 1936 general meeting of the CAHA, which were contrary to existing AAU of C principles. The new definition mentioned four points including; payments allowed for work time lost while playing games, players are allowed to make money as a hockey player but not have a second job, professional and amateur teams could play one another in games sanctioned by the CAHA, and professionals in another sport could be amateurs in hockey. The \"Winnipeg Tribune\" speculated that support would be strong for the"}, {"text": "measures which could cut ties with the AAU of C, and the \"old guard\" of amateurism would lose. Fry was in attendance at the meeting, and cautioned delegates that the decision was \"the most important matter ever to come before an amateur body in Canada\". He further stated, \"It would be a sorry day for the AAU of C should it split with its strongest supporter, the CAHA. As a former CAHA president, he sympathized with the resolution, but did not give approval. Fry was reported to have agreed with the first three points, but disagreed with professionals in one sport being amateurs in hockey. Journalist W. G. Allen noted that Fry had changed his mind again when it came to professionals in one sport being amateurs in another. In May 1936, Fry stated in a letter to the new CAHA president Cecil Duncan, that the AAU of C would not entertain proposals to change the definition of amateur. Fry went on to say that changing the definition of amateur would sever ties with the AAU of C, and leave the CAHA not in good standing with the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG), meaning that Canada could not"}, {"text": "play in the Olympics, World Championships, and go on exhibition tours. Duncan was critical of Fry for publishing quotes from the letter in the \"Dunnville Chronicle\", before the letter was received. CAHA first vice-president W. G. Hardy asserted that Fry broke a promise to conduct a mail-in vote of AAU of C to decide on the matter, and consider updating the antiquated definition of amateur at the next AAU of C general meeting. CAHA second vice-president George Dudley referred to Fry as \"Somersault Bill\", due to the changing stand on the vote. In defending the AAU of C definition of amateur, journalist Ralph Allen compared Fry to a captain sinking with his ship. IOC president Avery Brundage defended Fry and the \"old guard\" position on amateurism, and eligibility for the Olympics. Fry travelled with the Canadian delegation to 1936 Summer Olympics hosted in Berlin, and self-published a second book on Canadian achievements. His 1936 book, \"Canada at eleventh Olympiad 1936 in Germany : Garmisch-Partenkirchen, February 6 to 13, Berlin, August 1 to 16\", was printed by the \"Dunnville Chronicle\" presses and subtitled an official report of the Canadian Olympic Committee. He wrote that Canadians did very well at the 1936"}, {"text": "Olympic games despite having one-tenth of the population of other countries. He opined that the length of the Canadian winter negatively affected summer training, and that Canadian athletes were underfunded compared to other countries. In October 1936, Fry called for AAU of C branches to attend the upcoming general meeting in November, and uphold \"the continued safeguarding\" of amateur principles. The statement was made after the British Columbia branch sponsored a change to the amateur definition in the Canadian Lacrosse Association and the Canadian Amateur Basketball Association (CABA), and in reference to the \"four points\" changes by the CAHA. He stated that during his visit to the 1936 Summer Olympics, he was assured by the LIHG and the International Amateur Athletic Federation would not recognize organizations who supported professionalism in sports. At the AAU of C general meeting in November 1936, the CABA threatened withdrawal unless grievances were resolved over registrations. Fry's motion was passed that made three years become the waiting period to be reinstated as an amateur. Delegates rejected three of the CAHA's four points, accepting only exhibition games between amateurs and professionals. The status of the alliance with the CAHA was left in limbo and unclear. The"}, {"text": "general meeting concluded on November 23, 1936, with Jack Hamilton succeeding Fry as president of the AAU of C . Past-president. In May 1937, Fry was named to the AAU of C committee for the Canadian delegation at the 1938 British Empire Games hosted in Sydney, Australia. Fry remained vocal in his opposition to growing professionalism in sport. AAU of C vice-president Sydney Halter tabled a proposal in November 1937, which allowed each member sports association to accept the definition of amateurism as defined by its respective international sport governing body, in an attempt to reunite the associations under the AAU of C umbrella. Fry stated that the AAU of C should not allow payments to amateur athletes as was now allowed by the CAHA. In November 1938, he was appointed to a commission to explore uniting the four separate branches in the AAU of C in Ontario. Fry attended the silver jubilee of the CAHA at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg in April 1939, which included 11 of the 13 past presidents. Honours and awards. Fry was made a life member of the CAHA on April 6, 1932, and was made a life member of the OHA in"}, {"text": "1934. He was appointment to Ontario Athletic Commission in 1937, by Mitchell Hepburn, the Premier of Ontario. His appointment to the Commission was honoured at a banquet in Toronto on January 10, 1938, where he was presented a silver plate by the OHA. Fry was made an honorary president of the Haldimand County Hunters and Anglers Association, and the Hamilton Old Boys Football Association. He also had honorary membership bestowed upon him by the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, the Dunnville Kinsmen Club, the officer's mess of the Dufferin-Haldimand Rifles of Canada, and the officer's mess of the No.6 Service Flying Training School. Personal life. Fry met and married his wife Pearl Campbell while in Ingersoll for work. He and his wife had one son and three daughters. The couple maintained a residence in Dunnville, and a summer cottage on the Lake Erie shore. He was a member of both the Dunnville Golf and Country Club and the lawn bowling club. He called Hamilton, Ontario his adopted city, and frequently travelled there to attend home games for the Hamilton Tigers football club. Death and legacy. Fry died at the Hamilton General Hospital, on Friday, April 21, 1944. He was interred at"}, {"text": "Riverside Cemetery in Dunnville. The \"Dunnville Chronicle\" and the \"Welland Tribune\" reported that Fry was well known throughout the Niagara Peninsula, and that his funeral was well-attended by members of the sports associations with which he served. He was remembered by journalist and former Olympian Bobbie Rosenfeld as a man who fought for true amateurism in sport, in the face of growing professionalism. His son, William C. Fry, took charge of the \"Dunnville Chronicle\" in 1944. In 1961, the business was purchased by County Newspapers Limited, becoming part of the Thomson Newspapers chain. The paper later became part of Sun Media, who published the paper until closing operations due to cost-cutting measures. The final issue of the \"Dunnville Chronicle\" was issued on November 28, 2012; 116 years after its founding by Fry."}, {"text": "Felipe Rodrigues da Silva (born 30 June 2001), commonly known as Morato, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for club Nottingham Forest. Club career. Born in Francisco Morato in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Morato was 18 when he moved from the youth ranks of S\u00e3o Paulo to Benfica in September 2019, on a contract lasting until 2024. The transfer fee was \u20ac6 million and the Brazilian club retained 15% of the rights to his next transfer. Benfica. On 22 September 2019, Morato made his professional debut for Benfica B in the LigaPro, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1\u20130 loss at Leix\u00f5es. He made his first-team debut on 21 December in the final game of the Ta\u00e7a da Liga group stage, again featuring for the entirety of a 2\u20132 draw at Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. In the same season, he played 10 games as the under-19 team came runners-up in the UEFA Youth League, scoring in a 3\u20132 group win at Olympique Lyonnais on 5 November. On 27 September 2020, Morato scored his first professional goal to open a 2\u20131 loss for the reserves at Mafra; on 17 October he was sent off"}, {"text": "in a 1\u20130 loss away to Arouca. He made his Primeira Liga debut the following 30 April in a 2\u20130 win at Tondela, as an added-time substitute for Pizzi. On 23 May, he started in the 2021 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final, lost 2\u20130 to Braga in Coimbra; he had days earlier been told that he would be on the bench for that game. Morato was given a run in the first team at the start of the 2021\u201322 season, due to injury to veteran Jan Vertonghen. He scored his first goal for them on 2 November, in the first half of a 5\u20132 loss at Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League group stage. The following season, under new manager Roger Schmidt, Morato earned a place in the starting eleven over Jan Vertoghen, and following a run of four consecutive wins and three clean sheets, he was named the Primeira Liga's Defender of the Month for August. Nottingham Forest. On 30 August 2024, Morato signed a five-year deal with Premier League side Nottingham Forest for a reported transfer fee of \u00a312.6 million. International career. Morato was called up in November 2019 to the Brazil national under-20 football team, for games"}, {"text": "against Peru and Colombia. Honours. Benfica Individual"}, {"text": "Walter Horstmann Thomas (1876\u20131948) was an American architect from Philadelphia whose career spanned 44 years. He is best known for approximately eighty church designs. Early life. Thomas was the younger of two children of Richard Newton Thomas, an Episcopal priest who served several Philadelphia parishes, and Clara Horstmann. Thomas was educated in private schools, including the Hamilton School and Episcopal Academy. Grand tour. On December 29, 1888, Thomas\u2019 twelfth birthday, his family sailed from New York for a six-month trip to Europe, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey. Thomas kept a diary of this adventure that documents observations of the people and places he saw. In a photo of their party, taken at the Temple of Karnack in Luxor on February 13, 1889, Walter is the youngest in the group. His sister Emma stands to his left and their father, Richard N. Thomas behind her. Education. Thomas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899 with a BS in architecture [15], then interned in the office of Edgar Seeler [6] until March 1901 when he and his UPenn classmate and Zeta Psi brother Clark Wharton Churchman sailed to Paris. Thomas enrolled in atelier Lambert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He"}, {"text": "passed the entrance exams in May 1902 [13], and also studied planning in ateliers Chaussemiche and Faure-Dujarric. He travelled around Europe visiting architectural sites, recording his impressions in sketches and photographs. Early career. When Thomas returned to Philadelphia in 1904, he established a partnership with Clark Churchman as Churchman & Thomas. Early clients were fraternity brothers and family members. Thomas\u2019 uncle, George C. Thomas, a partner at Drexel & Co. bankers, was an important client who directly commissioned several projects, mostly church-related. Thomas joined the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1907 [15] and, by 1912, was attending executive committee meetings of the Philadelphia Chapter as recording secretary. He was also a member of the T-Square Club during this period [1]. In 1908, John Molitor joined the firm which then became Thomas, Churchman & Molitor [15]. TC&M designed a variety of buildings, including trolley stations and a new house for Zeta Psi fraternity on the UPenn Campus. World War I. As World War I started, the Thomas, Churchman & Molitor partnership dissolved. John Molitor left in 1914 to lead Philadelphia\u2019s new Division of Housing and Sanitation. Thus, some projects designed in 1914 are attributed to Thomas & Churchman. Clark Churchman"}, {"text": "left in 1915 to work with interior designer E.J. Holmes. Thomas worked on his own during the next three years, much of the time on one of his early landmark buildings, the Chapel of the Mediator P.E. Church, West Philadelphia. In 1918 Thomas volunteered for the YMCA supporting the American Expeditionary Forces; in August he sailed to Europe and was assigned to manage decoration and maintenance of YMCA huts throughout France. Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick. Thomas returned to Philadelphia in the summer of 1919 and briefly continued his solo practice. In 1920 he formed a new partnership with Sydney E. Martin and Donald M. Kirkpatrick [15], both of whom had worked for Thomas, Churchman & Molitor prior to the war. Thomas became more active with the Philadelphia Chapter of AIA, becoming vice president 1926-1927 and president 1928-1930 [15]. During his presidency, the AIA formed a design committee and, in coordination with developer Joseph Greenberg, designed and built the Architects Building at 17th and Sansom Streets. Upon its completion this location became the hub of Philadelphia architectural activity for the next two generations. Thomas designed several large church projects during this period, one of which is a unique, non-sectarian, \u201cecclesiastical\u201d building,"}, {"text": "the Girard College Chapel in Philadelphia. TMK won a competition in 1930 and the winning design and resulting building were widely published in the architectural press. [27, 28] Thomas & Martin continued their partnership after Donald Kirkpatrick left in 1930, although there were few new commissions. Major projects during the 1930s included a science building, library addition, and a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Bureau of Architecture of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist minister Elbert M. Conover established a Philadelphia office of the \u201cBureau of Architecture of the Methodist Episcopal Church\u201d (BAMEC) in 1919. Conover promoted his concepts of church design through popular, widely distributed books and pamphlets. Conover employed young architecture graduates to provide design review services. In 1924 Conover engaged Walter Thomas as \u201cConsultant\u201d to BAMEC [15] to provide direction for the young staff and to lead the design of new church projects that were requested by Methodist congregations around the country. As the young architects gained experience, several obtained professional registration. Notable among these were Thoralf Sundt and Bruce Wenner (registered in 1927), [15] and Hensel Fink and Harold Wagoner (registered in 1933). [15] Thus, Thomas was the principal designer for BAMEC\u2019s new church projects during this"}, {"text": "period, while Sundt & Wenner were the architects of record. Conover\u2019s books include many drawings and photos of Thomas\u2019 designs, however many of Conover\u2019s attributions for buildings are technically inaccurate, listing design participants as if they were also architects of record [7], [8], [9]. Thomas\u2019 consulting arrangement ended in 1933, when BAMEC\u2019s Philadelphia office closed. Elbert Conover subsequently established the \u201cInterdenominational Bureau of Architecture\u201d (IBA), with an office in New York City. The IBA used a business model in which Conover recommended established architects instead of using in-house design staff. City Architect and Philadelphia City Planning Commission. In December 1929, Philadelphia Mayor Mackey appointed Walter Thomas to his cabinet as the City Architect. This position had, as recently as 1928, been occupied by Thomas\u2019 former partner John Molitor. Although Thomas\u2019 term as City Architect lasted only for the 1930 calendar year, Thomas continued working for the city for the next six years as Secretary and Technical Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC). Thomas initiated and managed PCPC research into numerous planning issues, especially concerns relating to impacts of increasing automobile and truck traffic. Other planning subjects included: location of the city\u2019s airport; updating building and zoning codes; preservation"}, {"text": "of historic structures; mitigation of slums; providing more efficient municipal services; providing more recreation facilities; more schools; further planning for public districts within the city, especially the Parkway area, the University of Pennsylvania and Civic Center, the new Pennsylvania Railroad station and Post Office at 30th Street and the banks of the Schuylkill River; and coordination of multi-modal transportation systems. [12] As the depression intensified in the mid-1930s and, after the Roosevelt administration developed its various agencies and boards, the PCPC used some of the federal funding thus made available to further the planning projects cited above. Public housing. By the spring of 1937, as federal funding started to become available for public housing, Thomas accepted the position of Technical Director to the newly-formed Philadelphia Housing Authority. His responsibilities included supervising all of the planning, architecture and engineering for programs involving four housing projects, totaling roughly 3,000 dwelling units. This work continued until 1942 when war expenditures severely limited federal spending for domestic programs. World War II. The Thomas & Martin partnership ended in 1940. Sydney Martin maintained the current clients, including Bryn Mawr College, and formed his own firm. Around 1940 Thomas was one of the founding members of"}, {"text": "the Church Architecture Guild of America. He was elected president of this group in 1945. Thomas also taught two courses in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1944.[16] Thomas & Wagoner, Thomas & Antrim. In the early 1940s, Thomas received requests to design churches, many referred by his long-time friend Elbert Conover. Thomas reconnected with Harold Wagoner in 1944, who had been one of the staff architects under his direction at BAMEC from 1926-1933 and who had worked for T&M from 1936-1939. In 1944, Wagoner had just been discharged from the Army after designing building camouflage during the war. The new firm, titled \u201cWalter H. Thomas, Architect and Harold E. Wagoner, Associated Architect,\u201d was established to pursue ecclesiastical work. Thomas formed a similar partnership around the same time with Walter Antrim to pursue municipal projects. Antrim had worked for TMK from 1922-1929 and in various positions under Thomas at the PCPC and the Housing Authority in the 1930s. Thomas & Antrim\u2019s main project was a vocational school for the Philadelphia School Board. The Thomas & Wagoner partnership's project list grew quickly. In June 1947, Thomas & Wagoner's list of current church projects to show prospective clients"}, {"text": "included twenty-three projects in fifteen states then proceeding in various stages of design. By the time of Thomas\u2019 death, a year later, Richmond, VA, First Presbyterian Church stated in its fundraising brochure that \u201cThomas & Wagoner had thirty church projects underway in sixteen states.\u201d [26] Thomas did not see most of these completed however, due to the economic impact of World War II which had seriously disrupted availability of materials, labor and capital for non-war-related work. Harold Wagoner eventually completed those projects, the construction of several of which lasted through the 1950s. Personal life. In October 1906, Walter married Natalie Taylor, daughter of Nathan A. Taylor and Florence N. Supplee. They had two daughters, Claire (Rava\u00e7on) (1907-1997) and Florence (Davis) (1909-1999). Natalie died in March 1913. Thomas married Ruth Boomer in December 1919. They had one son, Brooks Thomas (1931-2010). Thomas was member of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Overbrook, Philadelphia and served on its vestry. He was the secretary for the P.E. Church City Mission for many years. He was a Mason and belonged to several Philadelphia area clubs. Selected architectural works. Documented examples of the work of Walter H. Thomas and his various partnerships are listed below. Dates"}, {"text": "indicate the approximate completion of design. Names of projects are those used at the time of design. References. 1. T-Square Club & Philadelphia Chapter AIA (1905-1931). \"Annual Architectural Exhibition\" Catalogs. 2. \u201cThe Bureau of Architecture of the Methodist Episcopal Church\u201d, \"Architectural Record\", January 1921, pp.95-96. 3. Tatman, Sandra L. & Moss, Roger W. (1985). \"Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects 1700-1930\". Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. pp. 783-786. 4. W.H. Thomas Obituary, (5 May 1948), \"Philadelphia Inquirer\" 5. Thomas, George E. and David B. Brownlee. (2000) \"Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania.\" Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 6. Walter Horstmann Thomas, Biography by Sandra L. Tatman \u2013 Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/24157 7. Conover, Elbert Moore (1928). \"Building the House of God\". New York: The Methodist Book Concern. 8. Conover, Elbert Moore (1945). \"Planning Church Buildings\". New York: The Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture. 9. Conover, Elbert Moore (1948). \"The Church Builder\". New York: The Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture. 10. Conover, Elbert Moore (1949). \"The Church School and Parish House Builder\". New York: The Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture. 11. \"Annual Report\" of The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist"}, {"text": "Episcopal Church, 1919-1939, Philadelphia, PA. The Methodist Book Concern. 12. Thomas, Walter H. (1936). \"Recreation and the City Plan\". Philadelphia: Fairmount Park Art Association. 13. Delaire, E. (1907). \"Les Architectes \u00c9l\u00e8ves de L\u2019\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts\". Paris : Librairie de la Construction Moderne 14. Noffsinger, James Philip (1955). \"The Influence of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts on the Architects of the United States\". Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 15. American Institute of Architects National Archives, Washington, D.C., Member Records. 16. University of Pennsylvania Bulletin (1941-1944). School of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, PA. 17. \"The Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders\u2019 Guide\", numerous editions 1904-1940, https://www.philageohistory.org/BuildersGuide/ 18. \"Newport Mercury\", Various Articles, 1925-1926, Newport, RI 19. \"Housing in Philadelphia 1932.\" Annual report of the Philadelphia Housing Association. Philadelphia, PA. 20. \"Stone of Help A History of Ebenezer Lutheran Church\", 1995, Columbia, SC 21. \"The Trainer Church,\" The Bureau of Architecture of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1928, Philadelphia, PA. 22. \"Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,\" Various Dates, Identification Numbers, Survey Codes 23. \"American Architect\", Various Issues 1921-1929, New York, NY. 24. Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project, The Architects Building, https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display_allarchitects.cfm/107018 25. Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project, The Robin Hood Dell, https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display_alldates.cfm/121733 26. Institutional"}, {"text": "Archives (publicly available non-published materials housed at the referenced institution) 27. \"Pencil Points,\" October 1931, pp.819-830, Competition for Girard College Chapel 28. \"Architectural Record,\" June 1933, Cover, pp. 380-422, The Girard College Chapel 29. \"Architectural Forum\", May 1938, v. 68, n. 5, p. 376-377"}, {"text": "Aristarchus () was the name of at least two people of classical antiquity known to be physicians:"}, {"text": "The Bridge is a 2017 Nigerian film produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan. Plot. A prince from a royal family decides to marry a lady from a wealthy home but their parents do not agree to their relationship due to tribal differences. As a result of this they get married secretly. This leads to things falling apart in their lives."}, {"text": "The Sheridan Park Historic District is a residential historic district in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Developed between 1891 and 1929, the district is a collection of single-family homes, small apartment buildings, and a handful of larger apartment hotels. The homes were built early in the district's development, with nearly all of them completed by 1910; at the time, the district was planned as a spacious suburb and categorized with North Shore communities. The apartments were all built in the twentieth century as the dense city core of Chicago expanded into the district. The district includes a large collection of six-flat apartments in particular; small apartments such as these, which were only three stories tall, fit neatly among the single-family houses of the original neighborhood. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1985. Despite the federal historic designation, in the 1990s and 2000s, many of the finer homes in the district were torn down to be replaced with new condominium developments. These teardowns included the oldest home in the district located on the 4600 block of North Beacon Street. Teardowns in the district continue and most recently in early 2020, two mixed-use,"}, {"text": "residential-commercial buildings on the east side of the 4600 block of North Clark Street were demolished. The lack of protection afforded by the federal historic district designation led residents on Dover Street in 2005 to begin seeking city landmark district designation. The process was completed in 2007. Since that time, a number of historic properties on Dover Street have been successfully renovated and expanded while maintaining their historic facades. Among the noteworthy architects whose work can be found on Dover Street are James Gamble Rogers, who later designed many buildings for Northwestern and Yale universities, and E.E. Roberts, a prairie-school contemporary of Frank LLoyd Wright."}, {"text": "Oehrenfeld, also \u00d6hrenfeld (), is a part of Ilsenburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Geography. The \"Karrberg\" and Dr\u00fcbeck are located at the northern side of the village. In the east is the village of Darlingerode, also part of \"Ilsenburg\". On the northern Edge of \"Oehrenfeld\" is the \"Rohrteich\". In the southwestern part there on a path to Plessenburg is the Harschenh\u00f6llenklippe. History. In 1753/64 the \"gr\u00e4fliche Zeughaus\" was constructed. Until 30 June 2009 Oehrenfeld was a part of Dr\u00fcbeck. On 1 July 2009 both were incorporated into Ilsenburg."}, {"text": "Kamel Kawaya (born 6 June 1998) is a Syrian footballer who currently plays as a winger for Tishreen. Club career. In 2020, Kawaya transferred to Tishreen."}, {"text": "Ocean One may refer to:"}, {"text": "The 1989 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft was the sixth season of premier German touring car championship and also fourth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft. The championship was the last to run under heavily modified Group A regulations, including the use of air restrictors. The champion was Roberto Ravaglia with 3 victories driving a BMW M3 Evo. 1989 was the final season of DTM that featured turbocharged engines until 2019, as in 1990 the DTM would move to a more unique ruleset varying greatly from the traditional Group A regulations."}, {"text": "Flygare is a Swedish surname, meaning \"someone who can fly\". It is unusual for ending with \"are\" and was originally a name for Swedish soldiers from the 17th to the 19th century, but also present in industrial communities of Uppland. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "\u00cdsak Bergmann J\u00f3hannesson (born 23 March 2003) is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for German club 1. FC K\u00f6ln and the Iceland national team. Club career. \u00cdA. Having been born outside of Iceland, while his father J\u00f3hannes Karl Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson was playing for Aston Villa, \u00cdsak started his career with local family club \u00cdA in Akranes in Iceland. In 2017 he went on trial with both Ajax and Brighton & Hove Albion. In 2018, he played his first senior game with \u00cdA, aged 15, in the Icelandic second tier, with his father managing \u00cdA at the time. Later that year, he agreed a move to IFK Norrk\u00f6ping in Sweden, though the transfer didn't go through until 2019. IFK Norrk\u00f6ping. \u00cdsak made his Norrk\u00f6ping debut in the Swedish Cup on 21 August 2019, starting and scoring against IFK Timr\u00e5. He made his Allsvenskan debut on 26 September 2019, aged 16, coming on as a substitute against AFC Eskilstuna. Before the Swedish 2020 season, he was named the most promising player in the league. He was in the starting line-up for Norrk\u00f6ping for most of the season. In October 2020, he was named one of the 60 most promising"}, {"text": "players in the world, born in 2003, by British paper \"The Guardian\". Copenhagen. On 1 September 2021, \u00cdsak joined Danish Superliga club Copenhagen on a deal until June 2026. Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf. On 9 August 2023, \u00cdsak joined 2. Bundesliga club Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf on loan until the end of the 2023\u201324 season. After a good season in which \u00cdsak recorded seven goals and nine assists in 37 games for D\u00fcsseldorf, the club confirmed on 14 June 2024 that they had triggered his buyout clause - around \u20ac2 million according to media reports. According to media reports, \u00cdsak signed a contract until June 2029. 1. FC K\u00f6ln. On 1 June 2025, \u00cdsak signed a five-year contract with 1. FC K\u00f6ln, recently promoted to Bundesliga. International career. \u00cdsak has featured for Iceland at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. In November 2020 he was called up to the senior squad for UEFA Nations League match against England. He made his debut in that match at the age of 17 years and 240 days, becoming the fifth youngest player to debut for the Icelandic national team. He only became the third youngest player from Akranes to debut for the national team, as Akranes is"}, {"text": "the home town of four of the six youngest players to debut for the national team. Personal life. \u00cdsak was born in England on 23 March 2003, to his parents, former international J\u00f3hannes Karl Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson, known as Joey Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson who is currently the assistant manager of the Icelandic national football team and his mother J\u00f3fr\u00ed\u00f0ur Mar\u00eda Gu\u00f0laugsd\u00f3ttir who works in Akranes's high school, Fj\u00f6lbrautask\u00f3li Vesturlands. \u00cdsak also has three younger brothers called J\u00f3el Thor (2005), Daniel Ingi (2007) and Emil Karl (2010). His maternal cousin is Oliver Stef\u00e1nsson, who is also contracted to Norrk\u00f6ping. His paternal grandfather is manager Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson. His paternal uncles are Bjarni Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson, \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0ur Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsson and Bj\u00f6rn Bergmann Sigur\u00f0arson. His maternal aunt is Magnea Gu\u00f0laugsd\u00f3ttir. His father, grandfather, aunt and uncles have all won senior caps for Iceland. In addition, his grandfather managed the senior side. His girlfriend is Basketball player Agnes Perla Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, a former youth international. \"Scores and results list Iceland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each \u00cdsak goal\". Honours. Copenhagen Iceland"}, {"text": "Robert Fair may refer to:"}, {"text": "This is a list of Serbian Twenty20 International cricketers. In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Serbia and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 will have T20I status. This list comprises all members of the Serbia cricket team who have played at least one T20I match. It is initially arranged in the order in which each player won his first Twenty20 cap. Where more than one player won his first Twenty20 cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname. Serbia played their first T20I matches during the 2019 Hellenic Premier League in October 2019. \"Statistics are correct as of 8 June 2025.\" List of players. Note: The following match includes a missing catcher in the Cricinfo scorecard and hence statistics (as of 4 November 2019):"}, {"text": "Alvin Poh (born 10 November 1984) is a Singaporean Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist. He is best known for co-founding Vodien Internet Solutions, growing it to be the largest hosting provider in Singapore. Early life and education. Poh was born in Singapore. He came from a working-class family in Kovan, where his mother worked as a clinical assistant while his father worked multiple jobs. Poh has claimed that the lack of an allowance spurred him to find ways to have an income, and eventually was one of the reasons that led him to co-found the company with his school-mate. After nearly flunking out of high school, Poh started focusing on his grades. Eventually, he managed to do well enough to become a scholarship recipient of the National Infocomm Scholarship, which provided for his university education. He made the Dean's List for both years that he was in Singapore Management University and graduated with a BSc (IS Management) \"summa cum laude\", from Singapore Management University, and winning the Monetary Authority of Singapore Academic Excellence Award. He also graduated with a MSc (IS Management) \"summa cum laude\" from Carnegie Mellon University. Career. In 2002, Poh was 17 when he co-founded his"}, {"text": "first company, \"Vodien Studios\", a web design firm that provided services such as graphic design, web design, web development, and web hosting services. Later, the company pivoted, restructuring and removing several business functions and services. In August 2005, Vodien Studios renamed itself \"Vodien Internet Solutions\" and became a specialised web hosting services provider. On July 30, 2009, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore approved the incorporation of Vodien Internet Solutions Pte Ltd, a registered private limited company to reflect the next stage of the company's growth. Subsequently, the company grew rapidly over the next decade. In July 2017, Poh sold the business to Dreamscape Networks (DN8:ASX), a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, most popularly known for operating the domain name registry, Crazy Domains. The deal was valued at SGD30 million, and allowed the combined entity to expand into Southeast Asia through Singapore. In July 2018, Poh stepped down from his position as Vodien's CEO and currently remains as a significant shareholder of Dreamscape Networks, where Poh owns 5.5 per cent of the company. Philanthropy. Poh's philanthropy work focuses primarily on tertiary education. In 2018, Poh donated to and created the \"Alvin Poh Endowed Scholarship\" at Singapore"}, {"text": "Management University with a donation of SGD250,000. The scholarship fund aims to provide funding primarily to financially needy undergraduate students who demonstrate a combination of good academic results and student life activities."}, {"text": "Omugwo is a 2017 Nigerian comedic movie written by Kemi Adesoye and directed by Kunle Afolayan under the production studio of Golden Effects Pictures in partnership with African Magic Films. Kunle Afolayan, who is known for his whodunit movies, diverted to provide the audience with comic relief. The comedic movie is one of the three movies commissioned by African Magic Films to be produced in collaboration with him. The movie, though comical, addresses the vital issue in the African settings: motherhood. It prioritizes the African traditional rites in motherhood, and it stars actors and actresses such as Ayo Adesanya, Patience Ozokwor, Omowunmi Dada and Ken Erics. Synopsis. The movie follows the story of a young couple, a civil engineer and an Online Radio Personality. After the delivery of their child, the duo's mother moved in to take care of the newly delivered mother in respect to the Igbo culture called Omugwo. The movie took a comic and dramatic turn when the household had to battle with the different cultural backgrounds of the two mothers and the postpartum depression of the wife. Premiere. The movie was privately screened at Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos prior to its release in cinemas across"}, {"text": "the country. The screening was attended by celebrities and notable personalities in the movie industry, such as Africa Magic, Silverbird Distribution companies' stakeholders, Founder/CEO of the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Ms. Chioma Ude, Mahmood Ali-Balogun, Chris Ekejimbe, Kate Henshaw, Mr. Seun Shoyinka, Yomi Fash-Lanso and Funsho Adeolu. See also. IMDb"}, {"text": "William F. Sullivan (March 12, 1864 \u2013 September 27, 1911) was a professional baseball player. He appeared in one game in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Maroons of the Union Association in 1884."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball team represented San Diego State University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Aztecs, led by third-year head coach Brian Dutcher, played their home games at Viejas Arena as members in the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 30\u20132, 17\u20131 in Mountain West play to be regular season Mountain West champions. They defeated Air Force and Boise State to reach the championship game of the Mountain West tournament where they lost to Utah State. Although they were a virtual lock to receive an at-large bid to and a high seed in the NCAA tournament, on March 12 the NCAA Tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Aztecs finished the season 21\u201313, 11\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They defeated UNLV and Nevada to advance to the championship game of the Mountain West tournament where they lost to Utah State. They did not get selected for the NCAA or NIT tournaments, and despite having 21 wins, they did not seek participation in other post season tournaments such as the CBI or CIT. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9"}, {"text": "style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament Source"}, {"text": "Alexis Ricardo Cuello (born 18 February 2000) is an Argentine footballer currently playing as a forward for San Lorenzo, on loan from Club Almagro."}, {"text": "Joakim Karlberg (born 18 March 1964) is a Swedish speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Squamacula is an extinct artiopodan arthropod from the Cambrian Series 2. The type species \"S. clypeata\" was described in 1997 from the Chengjiang biota of Yunnan, China. At the time of description there were only two known specimens of \"S. clypeata\", but now there are at least six known specimens. In 2012 a second species \"S. buckorum\" was described from the Emu Bay Shale of Australia. Etymology. The genus \"Squamacula\" is derived from the Latin word \"squama\", meaning scale, and the diminutive suffix -\"culus\", indicating that the animal is relatively small. The species \"clypeata\" is derived from the Latin word \"clypeatus\", meaning shield-shaped. It was named this in reference to its shield-like outline. Description. \"Squamacula clypeata\" is flattened (dorsoventrally). It has 11 segments in total: the cephalon (the head), nine thoracic tergites (each of which covers a somite), and one pygidium. It has a doublure, a piece of exoskeleton that covers part of the underside of the animal. Its doublure is, on average, about twice as long as the length of its cephalon. It has been hypothesized that this large doublure could have aided the animal in digging through sediment to find food, as it was thought to have been"}, {"text": "both a predator of small animals and a scavenger. \"Squamacula clypeata\" has one pair of antennae attached to its cephalon, but no other appendages or auditory or visual structures. No mouth is present in the specimens, but the gut is present, so \"S. clypeata\" must have had a mouth, which is thought to have been between the cephalon and doublure on the underside. \"Squamacula clypeata\" has one pair of biramous appendages (an appendage which branches into two) per thoracic tergite. The endopod (inside branch) has seven segments, the first six of which are roughly even in size and shape, with small spines on the underside, and the last of which terminates with a claw and appears to have been used for walking and eating, as the claw could be useful in grabbing hold of and tearing up food. The exopod (outside branch) was not segmented, but flap-like, with setae (bristles) near the tip, which may have been used for both locomotion and respiration. \"S. buckorum\" differs from \"S. clypeata\" in that it has 11 thoracic tergites, which appear to exhibit less overlap that those of \"S. clypeata,\" though the differences between the two species are relatively minor. The species also"}, {"text": "preserves elements of the gut tract not preserved in \"S. clypeata\" , which show that it was narrow annulated tube running along the midline of the animal, with three or possibly four pairs of midgut glands within the cephalic shield, with other gland pairs extending along the trunk. Taxonomy. In phylogenetic analyses, \"Squamacula\" has consistently been placed as the earliest diverging and most primitive member of Artiopoda, a clade that includes trilobites and a variety of morphologically similar soft-bodied forms. A close relationship has been proposed with the genus \"Thulaspis\" from the Sirius Passet site of Greenland. Implied weights parsimony phylogeny after Berks et al. 2023."}, {"text": "Martis Karin Ersdotter (V\u00e5mhus, 2 July 1829 \u2013 5 January 1902, V\u00e5mhus) was a Swedish businesswoman from V\u00e5mhus in Dalarna. She is the best known of the \"H\u00e5rkulla\" (\"Hair-kulla\"), the famous category of travelling businesswomen from Dalarna who manufactured and sold hair jewellery all over Europe in the 19th century. As other \"h\u00e5rkullor\", she made business trips in Europe to sell her products, and she was to become perhaps the most successful of these. She was a supplier of hair jewellery to Queen Victoria, whom she met during a business trip to Scotland. She used the fact that the queen was her client in her business and had it printed on her business cards, many of which are preserved from the 1850s. She was married to Martis Mats Andersson and was the mother of Anna Matsdotter (1862-1943) and the maternal grandmother of Eric Wickman."}, {"text": "Paul Jones was lynched on November 2, 1919, after being accused of attacking a fifty-year-old white woman in Macon, Georgia. Lynching of Paul Jones. On Sunday, November 2, 1919, Paul Jones allegedly attacked a white woman about outside of Macon. Paul Jones was chased through town until he was cornered in a rail boxcar, where the woman positively identified him. A white mob of 400 people quickly assembled and over the protests of Sheriff James R. Hicks they seized Jones. His body was riddled with bullets after being lynched, \"saturated with coal oil\" and lit on fire. He was still alive as the flames consumed his body and the mob watched as he writhed in pain. There were no arrests. Aftermath. These race riots were one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer of 1919, which included terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods. In some cases, black community groups resisted the attacks, especially in Chicago and Washington DC. Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an"}, {"text": "estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively. Both had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching into the millions of dollars. Bibliography. Notes References"}, {"text": "Robert Eugene Fritts (May 3, 1934 \u2013 September 28, 2015) was an American diplomat and Foreign Service Officer. At the time of his appointment as U.S. ambassador to Rwanda at age 39, was the youngest ever ambassador in the Foreign Service. He later served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana. Born in Chicago, he was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a major in political science with a focus on international relations, Fritts served as a Navy officer on destroyers before entering the U.S. Foreign Service in 1959. After his retirement in 1991, he moved to Williamsburg and taught at the College of William & Mary and was a senior fellow with the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2015, he died of lung cancer. Foreign Service career. When nominated to be ambassador to Rwanda, he was serving as deputy chief of mission in Khartoum, Sudan, where he \u201carrived the day of the murder of Ambassador Noel and DCM George Curtis Moore and distinguished himself in the handling of the difficult situation there in the aftermath of the assassinations\u201d. His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes international relations officer in the Bureau of European Affairs,"}, {"text": "economic-commercial officer in Luxembourg, followed by Japanese language and area studies at the Foreign Service Institute. He went on to posts as economic officer in Tokyo, economic-commercial officer, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Deputy Director, Office of Japanese Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was assigned to Jakarta, Indonesia, as economic officer and in 1973 became deputy chief of mission in Khartoum, Sudan."}, {"text": "Andrey Bobrov (born 13 June 1964) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Robert Reford may refer to:"}, {"text": "The history of adultery in English law is a complex topic, including changing understandings of what sexual acts constituted adultery (whereby they sometimes overlap with abduction and rape), unequal treatment of men and women under the law, and competing jurisdictions of secular and ecclesiastical authorities. Prosecution for adultery as such ceased to be possible in English law in 1970. Early medieval England. Prior to the unification of England in the tenth century, various forms of adultery were punishable in laws codified by Anglo-Saxon kings. These laws defined adultery in terms of damage to men's property, since women were to be under the control of male relatives or, after marriage, their husbands. Compensation payments were linked, as in many other kinds of crime, to the social rank of the offended man, and the laws do not indicate a religious dimension to the conceptualisation of adultery in the law. The probably seventh-century Law of \u00c6thelberht, king of Kent, permitted men to seek compensation or revenge in cases where men had sex with women under their control. Clause 31, for example, reads \"if a freeman lies with [another] free-man's wife, he shall pay [the husband] his wergeld and procure a second wife with"}, {"text": "his own money, and bring her to the other man's home\". The ninth-century Laws of Alfred of Wessex include similar provisions, including an explicit statement that it was legal for one man to attack another \"if he finds another with his wedded wife, behind closed doors or under the same blanket; or [if he finds another man] with his legitimate daughter (or with his legitimate married sister); or with his mother, if she has been legally married to his father\". Following the unification of England around the early tenth century, English kings promulgated further law-codes that began to conceptualise adultery in terms of Christian sin. These included the law codes of Cnut. Not unlike previous laws, the code specified fines in the case of an adulterous husband, or religious penance in cases viewed as minor (adultery with a slave), but also prescribed corporal mutilation for female adulterers\u2014cutting off their nose and ears\u2014as well as the forfeiture of all the woman's property to her husband. Although Cnut's laws show the influence of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, it has been argued that this violent punishment of women reflects long-standing custom that had simply not previously been codified rather than religious influence. Later"}, {"text": "medieval England. The principle that men might legally kill adulterers found with women under their control persisted following the Norman Conquest in the \"Leis Willelmi\", but the \"Leges Henrici Primi\" of around 1114\u20131118 decreed that the King should have the executive authority to punish an adulterous man, and that adulterous women should be punished by bishops. During the twelfth century, as English common law emerged, the punishment of adultery was shifted from the secular authorities to the ecclesiastical ones. Ecclesiastical authorities did not impose death penalties, but the killing of a male adulterer by a male cuckold was not outlawed in secular law, leaving scope for lawful revenge-killing. In time, however, adultery came exclusively to be a concern of the Church courts, and was not a crime at common law. There is evidence, however, that local secular courts sometimes exercised judgements in adultery cases; in one thirteenth-century or early fourteenth-century case, for example, a monk was put in the stocks for adultery. Moreover, juries would at times refuse to condemn cuckolds who killed adulterers \"in flagrante delicto\", in practice facilitating the ancient custom of revenge-killing by cuckolds. Meanwhile, although adultery might not be prosecuted in the secular courts \"per se\","}, {"text": "adulterous acts might become part of the basis for prosecution for rape or abduction, though by the late fifteenth century such prosecutions had fallen out of use. Modern period. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction over adultery cases continued from the medieval period until the passage of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 brought jurisdiction over marriage, divorce and adultery from the ecclesiastical courts into the secular ones. Ecclesiastical punishments for adultery prior to 1857 involved forms of penance, sometimes public, such as appearing before the parish congregation in a penitential white sheet. Adultery was outlawed in secular statute law briefly under the Commonwealth of England in the 1650s. Following a long series of attempts to legislate against adultery in Parliament which failed to win the vote, the Rump Parliament passed the Commonwealth (Adultery) Act in May 1650, \"inter alia\" imposing the death penalty for adultery, that was defined as sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her husband. Both partners would be liable for death sentence in such case. If a man (married or unmarried) had sex with an unmarried woman (including widow), that would be fornication, punishable only by three months for first offenders (applicable to both partners). However,"}, {"text": "like all legislation passed by the Commonwealth, the act was repealed following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. A more lasting change during the early modern period was that it became possible to prosecute for adultery in English common law due to developments in the common-law concept of loss of consortium, which made it possible for a cuckold to bring a civil case against an adulterer under tort law. 'Consortium' in this context means \"(the right of) association and fellowship between two married people\"; 'loss of consortium' was an act that deprived one spouse (initially only the husband) of the services which the other spouse was expected to provide. In the 1619 case Guy v. Livesey, it is clear that precedent had been established by that time that exclusive access to sexual services was considered to fall within the concept of 'consortium', and that an adulterer might therefore be prosecuted for depriving a cuckold of exclusive access to the sexual services of his wife. From the early eighteenth century, the term for this kind of crime came to be 'criminal conversation' (where 'conversation' is a euphemism for 'sexual intercourse'). Another avenue for prosecuting an adulterer for loss of consortium"}, {"text": "was to accuse them of 'enticement' (wooing a spouse such that she desired to leave her husband). The possibility of seeking damages against an adulterer in tort law persisted until the passage of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970. Adultery also had an important position in English divorce law. The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 moved litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishing a model of marriage based on contract rather than sacrament and widening the availability of divorce beyond those who could afford to bring proceedings for annulment or to promote a private Bill. The Act did not treat women's and men's grounds for divorce equally; a husband could petition for divorce on the sole grounds that his wife had committed adultery, whereas a wife could only hope for a divorce based on adultery combined with other offences. The Act also altered the handling of adultery in English law: it abolished the crime of criminal conversation, but maintained the principle that 'since a wife's adultery caused injury to the husband, it entitled him to claim compensation from the adulterer', implying that the wife was the property of the husband \u2013 not least because"}, {"text": "wives could not claim compensation from adulterous husbands. Compensation was no longer, however, paid to the cuckold, but to the court, and damages were not to be punitive or exemplary but purely to compensate a husband's loss of consortium (marital services) of his wife and damages to his reputation, honour, and family life. After World War I, reforms to divorce law put men and women on a more equal footing. The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 made adultery a ground of divorce for either spouse (previously, only the man had been able to do this; women had to prove additional fault). The Matrimonial Causes Act 1937 added further grounds for divorce: cruelty, desertion and incurable insanity. The Divorce Reform Act 1969 introduced no-fault divorce based on separation. The divorce law was further liberalized by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020."}, {"text": "Sociae Mimae was a guild for female stage artists, \"mimae\" (essentially singers, dancers and actresses), in Ancient Rome. It is the only Ancient Roman guild exclusively for women of which there is currently any information. The guild financed its own burial grounds and was apparently quite well off. Stage acting was divided in to several categories: saltatrix (dancer), gesticularia (performer fo gestures), embolaria (musician), women who performed pantomime, dance (solo or in group), singing (solo or in group), musical actors, actors in speaking roles, and gladiatrix (gladiators). Most female actors did not perform speaking roles, but there were a minority of elite actresses who did have such roles. All of these professions were formally and technically classified as infamis, dishonorable professions (for both women and men). Because of this, they were often performed by slaves hired out by their enslavers; by former slaves; or by freborn people born in to the profession. The guild has been referred to as the only guild in Ancient Rome reserved for women. While women are confirmed to be active in a number of professions, and were allowed to both be members in, and the protectors of, several guilds, among them the Merchant Guild, no"}, {"text": "other guild exclusively for women are known. Sociae Mimae was able to afford their own grave yard in Rome, which indicate that it was a guild with resources. While the income of an average actors was no higher than that of a common laborer, stage performers also received personal gifts from the audience and from private benefactors. This caused them to be sometimes referred to as prostitutes, but a gift from a benefactor was not necessarily given in exchange for sex. There were also individual actresses who were employed at theatres for speaking parts and could receive a high income, and there are examples of female stage artists in Ancient Rome who lived lives in luxury. The Ancient stage acting profession existed until at least the fall of West Rome and in the East Rome (Byzantine Empire) until at least the 6th century. After the introduction of Christianity as a state religion in the 4th century, actors, who were already considered infamis, were subjected to even more accusations of imorality, and seen as symbols of the sins of the old Pagan society. Particularly female actors were condemned as prostitutes and harlots, and all actors were pressured to leave their profession"}, {"text": "for a life of pious virtue, or heavily condemned as sinners. In Carthage, so many actors left the profession that the city authorities asked actresses to return to the profession in 413 because the profession was about to die out. By the 5th century, the Christian condemnation of actresses resulted in the profession dying, and there were examples where women were forced in to the profession, something which was banned in Eastern Rome in 535."}, {"text": "Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyncl (3 November 1962 \u2013 31 January 2022) was a Czech speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics. He died on 31 January 2022, at the age of 59."}, {"text": "The 2018 Leitrim Senior Football Championship was the 112th edition of Leitrim GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Leitrim, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage. Mohill were the defending champions after they defeated Glencar\u2013Manorhamilton in the previous years final. However the successful defence of their title was scuppered in the final when losing to rivals Aughawillan. Aughnasheelin made their return to the senior grade after 8 seasons in the Intermediate grade by winning the 2017 Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship. On 14 October 2018 Aughawillan claimed their 12th S.F.C. crown and first since 2016 when defeating the defending champions Mohill in the final by 0-14 to 1-9 at P\u00e1irc Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada. Bornacoola were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing the relegation final to St. Patrick's Dromahair. Their 21 years in the top-flight of Leitrim club football spanned back to 1998. Team changes. The following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2017 Leitrim I.F.C. From S.F.C.. Relegated to"}, {"text": "2018 Leitrim I.F.C. Group stage. All 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. The top 4 teams in both groups proceed to the quarter-finals. The 5th and 6th placed teams in each group will enter a Relegation Playoff. Group A. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4: Round 5: Group B. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4: Round 5: Knock-Out Stage. Relegation Playoffs. Relegation Semi-Finals: Relegation Final:"}, {"text": "Liu Yanfei (born 15 February 1967) is a Chinese speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics, the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The William D. Kuhre House, at 8586 S. 150 East in Sandy, Utah, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was substantially remodeled around 1910, with addition of a full-width porch on the front, stuccoing of the second-story exterior walls, and more, in style typical of early twentieth-century architecture, not of the 1890s Victorian period in which the house was built. Its arrangement is of foursquare type. The house was deemed significant for association with William D. Kuhre, who lived here from 1890 until the 1930s. He was mayor of Sandy, was a member of the school board for many years, was bishop of the Sandy Ward of the LDS church, and was a partner in Jensen & Kuhre Lumber and Hardware Company. Kuhre, born January 21, 1863, at Ephraim, in Sanpete County, Utah was orphaned on October 17, 1865 when his Danish immigrant parents were killed by Indians under Chief Blackhawk; young William was taken but was left unharmed. He was adopted by John and Ellen Dobbie who moved to Salt Lake City and brought up William there. William moved to Sandy in 1881 and worked as bookkeeper at"}, {"text": "the Pioneer Ore Sampling Mill for many years. The property has two more contributing buildings, including an old summer kitchen and wash house."}, {"text": "Kim Kwan-kyu (born 15 March 1967) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Hozumi Moriyama (born 5 November 1967) is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The 7th New York Veteran Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was active in the Eastern Theater. Service. The 7th New York Veteran Infantry was organized at Hart Island (Bronx) and was mustered in by companies from March 29 to October 31, 1864, under the command of Colonel George W. Von Schack. The regiment included some men from the 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The some companies of the regiment were attached to the 52nd New York Volunteer Infantry until July 22, 1864, and upon completing recruitment it was assigned to the 1st Division, 2d Corps, Army of the Potomac, serving in both the 3rd Brigade and the Consolidated Brigade. Detailed service. The 7th New York Veteran Infantry Regiment served from the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, starting on July 22, 1864, until April 2, 1865. They were involved in various engagements and operations, including a demonstration north of the James River in July 1864, the Mine Explosion at Petersburg in July 1864, and actions at Deep Bottom in August 1864. The regiment also participated in reconnaissance to in December 1864, engagements at Dabney's Mills and Hatcher's Run in"}, {"text": "February 1865, and the Watkins House skirmish in March 1865. They were present at the surrender of Robert E. Lee and his army at the Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Afterward, they marched to Washington, D.C., in May, took part in the Grand Review on May 23, and were later stationed at Hart's Island, N.Y., until their muster out on August 4, 1865. Casualties. During their service, the regiment lost 3 officers and 52 enlisted men who were killed or mortally wounded, and 73 enlisted men to disease, totaling 128 casualties."}, {"text": "Hwang Ik-hwan (born 19 May 1965) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Kilkenny Courthouse, also known as Grace's Castle, is a judicial facility in Parliament Street, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. History. The site was previously occupied by Grace's Castle, a structure dating back to the 13th century. It was used as a prison from 1566 and some of the features of these aspects of the earlier building still survive at basement level. The current building, which was designed by Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1792. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Parliament Street; it was arcaded on the ground floor with flights of steps leading up to the end bays; the central section featured a tetrastyle portico on the first floor with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a modillioned pediment. The building was originally designed as a judicial facility, but following the implementation of the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993, it also became the meeting place of Kilkenny County Council. By the second half of the 20th century the county council had moved to new offices at John's Green House."}, {"text": "Kangal is a town and a district of Sivas Province in Turkey. Kangal may also refer to:"}, {"text": "Gregor Jelonek (born 16 September 1968) is a Canadian speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 Winter Olympics. He went to the Olympics as a coach five times: Turin, Vancouver, Sotchi, PyeongChang and Pekin. His athlete, Laurent Dubreuil won the silver medal at the 2022 Olympics in the 1000m."}, {"text": "is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Guy Eby (November 9, 1918 \u2013 July 30, 2021) was an American airline captain who kept the commercial airplane he was flying (American Airlines Flight 182) from colliding with another one (TWA Flight 37) on November 26, 1975, following a mistake from an air traffic controller in Cleveland, Ohio. Early life. Eby was born on November 9, 1918, in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He received the Air Medal in 1946 for his services for United States Navy (1938\u20131950) against Japan in 1945 towards the end of World War II. He flew in the Berlin Blockade. He joined American Airlines in 1950. 1975 Michigan mid-air incident. The two planes, carrying a combined 319 passengers and crew members\u2014192 passengers and 13 crew members on board American Airlines Flight 182, plus 103 passengers and 11 crew members on board Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 37\u2014were reportedly just away from each other as they flew over the city of Carleton, Michigan. Eby's plane (an American Airlines DC-10 flying that day as Flight 182) was headed towards Newark, New Jersey, from Chicago, Illinois; it had originated in San Francisco, California. The other plane (a TWA Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flying that day as Flight 37) was heading from"}, {"text": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Los Angeles, California. Eby quickly lowered his plane's altitude at amidst a significant cloud cover, an action which ultimately saved the lives of his passengers and the flight crew. All 10 flight attendants plus 14 passengers suffered injuries on the American Airlines plane (the incident occurred while dinner was being served), and it was forced to make an emergency landing in Detroit. At the time, Eby had already logged flight time of nearly 22,000 hours. Had the collision not been avoided, it would have been the deadliest aviation disaster in the history of United States up to that time. The TWA plane involved in the incident was later destroyed by a fire on July 30, 1992, while flying as TWA Flight 843. Later life. Eby retired from American Airlines in 1978. Eby turned 100 on November 9, 2018, in Ormond Beach, Florida, where he had resided since 1983. One of the passengers in the American Airlines Flight 182, Burt Herman (who was flying with his wife Elaine, his twin daughters Laura and Leslie and son Larry at that time), wrote and published a book about Eby and the incident, called \"Eby: Master of the Moment\" in 2018."}, {"text": "He died in Ormond Beach on July 30, 2021, at the age of 102."}, {"text": "John Baskfield (born June 29, 1965) is an American speed skater. He competed in the men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "is a Japanese speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Waldemar Kozuschek (10 May 1930 \u2013 10 August 2009) was a German-Polish surgeon and professor, who performed the first kidney transplant in Poland. Early life and education. Kozuschek was born in 1930 in Gleiwitz, Weimar Germany (Gliwice, Poland). He did his medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Wroc\u0142aw, studying surgery under Wiktor Brossa and nephrology under Zdzis\u0142aw Wiktor. He graduated from Wroc\u0142aw University and its Medical Academy in 1954. He then worked at the Municipal Hospital under Julian Czerwiakowski, in the same city, specializing in general surgery. Ten years later, Kozuschek obtained his Ph.D. from the same alma mater, which was followed by habilitation in 1970 at the Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice. Career. Kozuschek and his family left the Polish People's Republic and immigrated to West Germany, where by 1972 he found a position at the University of Bonn. He worked there at first as an assistant professor and eventually was promoted to the deputy head of the Department of Surgery. From 1975 to 1996, Kozuschek worked at first as associate professor at the Ruhr University Bochum and in 1978 was promoted to full professor. He then became the head of the University's Hospital"}, {"text": "and between 1982 and 1985 served as vice dean and dean of the Faculty of Medicine as well as a member of the university senate from 1983 to 1989. Kozuschek joined Surgery Clinic in Bochum in 1993 in which he founded an internationally known organ transplant center, which was the first one where kidney and liver transplants were performed side-by-side with pancreatic cancer studies. During his career, Kozuschek had collaborated with the University of Strasbourg, Nice and Windhoek as well as Wroc\u0142aw University of Environmental and Life Sciences and Wroc\u0142aw Medical University. He is known for the first kidney transplant in Poland that happened in 1965 as well as successful kidney transplant operation on a living donor in 1966. He was also a co-founder of the German-Polish Society of the University of Wroc\u0142aw. He died in Bochum, Germany."}, {"text": "Frank Longo is an American puzzle creator and author of more than 90 books, which have sold more than 2 million copies. Longo is known for creating unusual crosswords, such as one on a 50x50 grid, the \"Jumbo Puzzles\" compilation of 29x29 puzzles and is the creator and author of The New York Times Spelling Bee anagram puzzle. Longo is noted as an influence by several puzzle creators, including Brendan Emmett Quigley and Joanne Sullivan."}, {"text": "Stuart Heydinger (5 May 1927 \u2013 6 October 2019) was a British photojournalist and portrait photographer. He was chief photographer at \"The Observer\" from 1960 to 1966. Life and work. Heydinger was born in Kingston upon Thames, south west London. In 1960 he joined \"The Observer\" as chief photographer until he quit in 1966. He freelanced until 1968. In the early 1970s he travelled in the Basque country, drawing, painting and photographing people. In 1979 he moved to Germany where he worked taking photographs for theatres and made landscape photographs."}, {"text": "Mark Greenwald (born December 1, 1968) is an American speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics. In 2010, he became the Executive Director of US Speedskating."}, {"text": "Aleksandr Klimov (born 12 August 1965) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed in at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "The Gidhaur Chieftaincy was a principality which controlled parts of South Bihar for much of the early-modern period. The chieftaincy was ruled by the Rajputs and its territory involved present day Jamui district, Deoghar district and part of Munger district. Origins. The Gidhaur chieftaincy was founded by Bir Bikram Shah who was a Chandel Rajput. The family accounts detail that his family originally held a small chieftaincy in Mahoba in Bundelkhand but were driven out by various foreign incursions including the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni. From here they arrived in the Rewa area where they established the estate of Bardi. Bir Bikram Shah, who was the younger brother of the chief of Bardi, left his home and arrived in South Bihar where he established his power in the region by defeating the chief, Nagoria in 1262. From here, he continued to expand the extent of his chiefdom. The Gidhaur chiefs were part of a larger movement of Rajput immigrants into Bihar from the 13th century onwards which included the rulers of Kharagpur Raj and Deo Raj. The Gidhaur dynasty's first capital may have been the nearby town of Khaira, where there are ruins of an old stone fort. Another"}, {"text": "prominent ruined fort that probably belonged to the Gidhaur dynasty is Naulakhagarh, a bit southwest of Khaira at the foot of the hills. Although popularly attributed to Akbar or Sher Shah, the Naulakhagarh fort likely was built by the Gidhaur rajas while they were based at Khaira, and Naulakhagarh may have served as a capital as well. History. Mughal period. After Bir Bikram Shah's death in 1339, he was succeeded by various descendants however Raghunath Singh was the first of his descendants to receive much attention in sources from the time. The 16th-century historian, Abbas Sarwani noted that Raghunath Singh accepted the rule of Sher Shah Suri and assisted him in his war against Humayun. Such was Sher Shah's trust in him, that he was even deputed to escort Saif Khan. His son was Bariar Singh who ruled Gidhaur till 1572. After Bariar Singh came Raja Puran Mal who was a contemporary of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. In 1580, Puran Mal joined a rebellion against the imperial authority which was led by Masum Khan Kabuli. Abu Fazl detailed that Puran Mal rescued Masum Khan and his soldiers from Munger where they were trapped by Mughal soldiers. Puran Mal's disloyalty to"}, {"text": "the Mughals seems to have been temporary however as later sources note that he served with the Mughal commander, Shahbaz Khan Kamboh in an expedition against the Afghans. His son, Hari Singh, was kept as a hostage for the Mughals to ensure his continued compliance with the imperial authority. Puran Mal also engaged in multiple clashes with the neighbouring chief of Kharagpur Raj, Sangram Singh and defeated him. Both the Raja\u2019s were known to have a deep enmity. Puran Mal is also known for constructing the Baidyanath Temple at Deoghar, which happened in 1596. A Sanskrit inscription at the temple refers to him as \"n\u1e5bpati\", or \"lord of men\". Puran Mal's capital was at Lachhuar, west of Gidhaur. After Pural Mal's death, the principality was divided between his sons Hari Singh and Bishambhar Singh. Because Hari Singh was being kept as a hostage in Delhi, he was absent when Puran Mal died, and Bishambhar Singh had taken charge of ruling the principality in the meantime. The two brothers ended up working out a friendly agreement: Hari Singh would receive territories in \"pargana\"s Gidhaur and Bishazari, while Bishambhar Singh would keep the rest. Hari Singh's descendants were the rajas of Gidhaur,"}, {"text": "while Bishambhar Singh's descendants were the \"kumar\"s of Khaira. Subsequent chiefs of Gidhaur seemed to have maintained their loyalty to the Mughal authorities and supported them in various expeditions. In the war of succession between Dara Shikoh and Shah Shuja in 1658, both princes appealed for the assistance of Raja Dal Singh of Gidhaur who ended up supporting the former. The rulers of Gidhaur were granted the title of \"raja\" in 1651, via a firman (which still exists) issued under Shah Jahan and dated to 21 Rajab, 1068 AH. British period. The British East India Company assumed control of the region in the 18th century. By the time when Raja Shyam Singh's elder son Raja Amar Singh sat on the throne, the British rule had started spreading in the country.The Raja supported the Bengal Nawab in the battle of Buxar, as a result his kingdom was seized and a large part of it was settled with the Ghatwals in the form of Ghatwali tenure.According to Bangal District Gazeteer and two reported cases i.e Gopi Ram Bhotica Vs. Thakur Jagarnath Singh reported in Indian Law Reports 1929(Pat) page 4 and Sukhdeo Singh Vs. Maharaja Bahadur of Gidhaur reported in 1951 AIR"}, {"text": "288(SC) it is clear that after seizure of considerable part of estate of Gidhaur, Jagir of Katauna was settled with the family of Gidhaur Raj and two ghatwali taluk i.e Maheshwari and Dumri were also settled directly to the Chandel Raja of Khaira and Gidhaur due to irresponsible behaviour of their ghatwal. Raja Gopal Singh regained it's estate from British Raj, but with a less area than to their ancestors and in the form of a Zamindari estate. Gidhaur chief, Raja Jai Mangal Singh assisted them during the suppression of Santhal rebellion and the Indian rebellion of 1857. For his services, he was granted the title of Maharaja and made an Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1865. Notable rulers. Gidhaur was ruled by the following Rajas after its establishment:"}, {"text": "The 2018\u20132020 CSV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup were a beach volleyball double-gender event. Teams from South American countries were split into groups of four, where an elimination bracket determined the 2 teams to advance to the next stage from the sub-zones. The winners of the event qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Phase 1. Men. Pool A. Pool A was contested in Bras\u00edlia, Brazil. Pool B. Pool B was contested in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Pool C. Pool B was contested in Coquimbo, Chile. Women. Pool A. Pool A was contested in Bras\u00edlia, Brazil. Pool B. Pool B was contested in Coquimbo, Chile. Pool C. Pool C was contested in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay."}, {"text": "Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders (1882 \u2013 1939) was an early British aircraft designer and manufacturer. Early life. Richard Leonard Flanders (later Howard-Flanders) was born in Italy to British parents in 1882. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then served an engineering apprenticeship at Brazil Straker and Company of Bristol. In 1909 he joined A.V. Roe before forming his own company (L. Howard Flanders Limited) at Brooklands Aerodrome in 1910. Aircraft designer. He designed a built a series of monoplanes including the Flanders F.4 that was entered in the Military Trials of 1912. It was damaged and unable to compete in the trials. A small number of his aircraft were built for the British Army. Howard-Flanders had a serious motorcycle accident and during his convalescence his company had to close down. He joined the aircraft department of Vickers Limited and later in 1917 moved to the engine section. After he left Vickers he worked for a number of companies including English Electric and the Bristol Aeroplane Company. In 1921 he was registered with the Teachers Registration Council when he was Assistant Master at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1920 to 1923 In the 1930s he was secretary of the British"}, {"text": "Gliding Association. Family life. Howard-Flanders married Millicent Franks in 1914. He died in 1939 in Bristol aged 56."}, {"text": "Aleksey Valerievich Ryabinin (, born April 3, 1970) is a Russian Public Ombudsman for Copyright and Intellectual Property. Russian economist, politician and writer. Member of the Moscow City Parliament (2009\u20132014), a member of Russian Journalist Union. Biography. Aleksey Ryabinin was born on April 3, 1970, in Murom, Vladimir Region. In 1993 he graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1996 Ryabinin graduated as PhD in economics. In 1998\u20132009 \u2013 CEO in Institute of Industrial Economics and Management (Moscow, Russia). Chief editor of journal \"Russian Industrial Politics\". In 2009\u20132015 \u2013 a Member of the Moscow City Parliament, a Head of Committee of Economics and Science. Since 2015 \u2013 a Member of Council of \"Business Russia Association\" (\"\u0414\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f\"), a Head of Committee of Publishing. Public Ombudsman for Copyright and Intellectual Property. A member of Russian Journalist Union and International Federation of Journalists. Public and scientific activities. Aleksey Ryabinin is the author of many articles about economic development, industrial and scientific progress and innovations. Chairman of the editorial board of scientific journals \"Industrial Policy in the Russian Federation\" (since 2007) and \"The Municipalities in the Russian Federation\". The work of A.Ryabinin on labor relations and social partnership (2002) is included"}, {"text": "as a compulsory literature of the course on labor law at the Russian Universities. In the monograph \"The Development of the Scientific and Technical Potential of Moscow\" (2012) A.Ryabinin, as noted by other researchers, proved that abandoning the movement towards a new urban economy and investing in the technological development of Moscow in the future may lead to a narrowing of the \"window of opportunity\" for development. In 2001\u20132002, under the general editorship of A.Ryabinin, the two-volume scientific encyclopedia \"All Russia\" on settlements and regions of the Russian Federation was published. Alexey Ryabinin was elected as a deputy of the Moscow municipal parliament (2004 and 2008) and a deputy of the Moscow City Parliament (2009). Member of the Board of Business Russia Association. Ombudsman for Copyright and Intellectual Property, Member of the Russian Philosophical Society. Central Council Member of the Russian Society of Innovators and Inventors, Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. Literary works. Aleksey Ryabinin is the author of several books for children. \"Riddle of the Sphinx\", \"Theseus\", \"Apple of Discord\". The books written on the plots of Ancient Greek mythology. In 2017 his book for children \"The Apple of Discord\" was published, in which the ancient"}, {"text": "myths and legends about the history of the Trojan War were retold in an accessible form. The book received numerous positive reviews. It was compared with the books of Russian classics as \"a new interpretation of the ancient Greek cultural heritage in the context of the challenges of the 21st century\". The fascination of presentation and ease of reading were noted. At the beginning of 2018, the book \"The Apple of Discord\" was awarded the Ernest Hemingway Literary Prize for 2017 in the nomination \"Children's Prose\". In 2018 Aleksey Ryabinin published his second book in the genre of ancient mythology for children, \"Theseus\", about the adventures of one of the central figures of ancient mythology \u2013 Theseus. The book also received positive reviews in the press. In 2019 another children's book published on the theme of ancient mythology \u2013 \"Riddle of the Sphinx\". Several theatrical shows came out from Ryabinin's books, which received good reviews in the press. In 2019 Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and Astrakhan Theater released his play of the \"Game of the Gods\" (A.Ryabinin and E.Isaeva). The play received the prize of modern drama of the Ministry of Culture of Russia. The characters of Ryabinin's books"}, {"text": "are the heroes of ancient mythology Theseus, Oedipus, Diomedes, Athena, Zeus, Dionysus, Antigone and many others."}, {"text": "Gordon Goplen (born 1 May 1964) is a Canadian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1999."}, {"text": "Song Yong-hun (born 13 January 1972, ) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Mecodema godzilla is a large-bodied ground beetle endemic to the North Island, New Zealand. It was described from two specimens, which are housed in two different entomological collections, the Auckland Museum and Lincoln University. Diagnosis. Can be distinguished from other North Island \"Mecodema\" species by: Description. Length 34.3\u201336.4 mm, pronotal width 10.1\u201311.2 mm, elytral width 11.7\u201312.9 mm. Colour of head and pronotum black to glossy black, elytra matte reddish-brown to matte black, ventrally (including legs) brown to matte black. Natural history. Found on the scree and tussock slopes of Mt Ruapehu."}, {"text": "Andrea Kdolsky (n\u00e9e Pelucha, born 2 November 1962) is an Austrian physician and retired politician (Non-party, until 2023 \u00d6VP) who was Minister for Health, Family and Youth in the Gusenbauer government. Kdolsky was born and grew up in Vienna. She originally began studying law and economics, but ultimately completed a Doctor of Medicine in 1993 at the University of Vienna. She subsequently worked as an anaesthesiologist. From 11 January 2007 to 2 December 2008 Kdolsky was Minister for Health, Family and Youth in the cabinet of Alfred Gusenbauer. She was \u00d6VP Minister. After retirement from politics she became a consultant on health care. Andrea Kdolsky is a former member of the Austrian People's Party. In March 2023 she left the party after a state government was formed from the \u00d6VP and the FP\u00d6 in Lower Austria after the state elections in January 2023. She rejects the FP\u00d6 under state party leader Udo Landbauer."}, {"text": "Serghei Spivac (born January 24, 1995) is a Moldovan professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional since 2014, he has also formerly competed for World Warriors Fighting Championships, Eagles Fighting Championship, N1 Pro and Real Fight Promotion. As of June 24, 2025, he is #8 in the UFC heavyweight rankings. Mixed martial arts career. Early career. Serghei Spivac made his MMA debut in September 2014 with the Ukrainian promotion Real Fight Promotion, at 19 years old. He faced Andrey Serebrianikov as his first opponent. He won the fight in the last minute of the first round, by way of TKO. His second fight was with the Ukrainian-based World Warriors Fighting Championships, at WWFC Ukraine Selection 1, where he faced Evgeniy Bova in the main event. Spivac won the fight in the first round by way of a kimura. His second fight with World Warriors Fighting Championships was during WWFC: Ukraine Selection 4, in the main event. His opponent was Yuri Gorbenko, whom he defeated in the first round through an armbar. Spivac would than fight against Dimitriy Mikutsa, under the N1 Pro organization. Spivac submitted Mikutsa through an armbar"}, {"text": "during the last minute of the second round. Under the banner of Eagles Fighting Championship, Spivac faced Artem Cherkov. Spivac would beat him in the first round, by way of a head kick. After a year-long layoff, Spivac would return to the World Warriors Fighting Championships. His first opponent was Luke Morton, whom he beat by KO. In his next fight Spivac fought against the MMA veteran Travis Fulton for the vacant WWFC Heavyweight Championship, a fight which he won in the first round by a rear naked choke. He would defend the title 10 months later against the Croatian fighter Ivo Cuk, winning the bout in the first round by TKO. His last fight with WWFC was his last title defense, five months after his fight with Cuk, against Tony Lopez. He defeated Lopez by a neck crank in the last minute of the first round. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Spivac made his UFC debut during UFC Fight Night 151, at 23 years old, against Walt Harris, replacing Alexey Oleynik. He suffered the first professional loss of his career. Harris pushed Serghei up to the cage, dazed him with a left straight and dropped him to the floor with a"}, {"text": "barrage of knees. After a series of grounded strikes, the referee awarded Harris a win, after 50 seconds, by way of TKO. Five months later, Spivac fought against Tai Tuivasa at UFC 243. Spivac would begin the fight being cautious of Tuivasa's power. Spivac was dropped once in the first round by a leg kick. Spivac then began catching Tuivasa's leg kicks and would take the Australian down. Whenever the Australian would return to his feet, Spivac would pursue takedowns. The fight ended in the fourth minute of the second round, Spivac took Tuivasa down for the 7th time in the fight. He was able to obtain the mount and after several hard punches and elbows he was able to obtain an arm triangle choke, awarding him his first UFC win. Spivac faced Marcin Tybura on February 29, 2020, at UFC Fight Night 169. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Spivac was expected to face Carlos Felipe on May 9, 2020, at then UFC 250. However, on April 9, Dana White, the president of UFC announced that this event was postponed to a future date Eventually the bout was scheduled on July 19, 2020, at UFC Fight Night 172."}, {"text": "He won the fight via majority decision. Spivac was expected to face Tom Aspinall on October 11, 2020 at UFC Fight Night 179. However Spivac withdrew from the bout for undisclosed reason and he was replaced by promotional newcomer Alan Baudot. Spivac was scheduled to face Jared Vanderaa on December 12, 2020, at UFC 256 However, Vanderaa tested positive for COVID-19 during fight week and had to be pulled. The pair eventually met on February 20, 2021, at UFC Fight Night 185. Spivac won the fight via technical knockout in round two. Spivac faced Alexey Oleynik on June 19, 2021, at UFC on ESPN 25. He won the bout via unanimous decision. Spivac faced Tom Aspinall, replacing Sergei Pavlovich, on September 4, 2021, at UFC Fight Night 191. He lost the fight via technical knockout in round one. Spivac was scheduled to face Greg Hardy, replacing Aleksei Oleinik, on January 22, 2022, at UFC 270. However, just a week before the event Hardy withdrew due to a finger injury and the bout was removed from the event. The pair was moved to UFC 272. Spivac won the fight via technical knockout in round one. Spivac faced Augusto Sakai on August"}, {"text": "6, 2022, at UFC on ESPN 40. He won the fight via technical knockout in round two. Spivac was expected to face Derrick Lewis in the main event of UFC Fight Night 215 on November 19, 2022. However, Lewis was forced to pull out of the event due to non-COVID, non-weight cutting illness and the bout was cancelled. The pair was rescheduled for UFC Fight Night 218 on February 4, 2023. Spivac won the fight via an arm-triangle choke in round one. This win earned Spivac his first \"Performance of the Night\" bonus award. Spivac faced Ciryl Gane on September 2, 2023, at UFC Fight Night 226. He lost the fight via technical knockout in the second round. Spivac faced Marcin Tybura in a rematch on August 10, 2024 at UFC on ESPN 61. He won the fight via an armbar submission in the first round. This fight earned him another \"Performance of the Night\" award. Spivac faced Jailton Almeida on January 18, 2025 at UFC 311. He lost the fight by technical knockout at the end of the first round. Spivac was scheduled to face Shamil Gaziev on May 17, 2025 at UFC Fight Night 256. However, for unknown"}, {"text": "reasons, their bout was moved to UFC 316 on June 7, 2025. In turn, Gaziev pulled out due to a broken finger and was replaced by Waldo Cortes-Acosta. He lost the bout via unanimous decision. 10 out of 13 media outlets scored the bout for Spivac. Personal life. Spivac and his wife Marina have a daughter who was born in 2020."}, {"text": "The 2019 New York City Marathon was the 49th running of the annual marathon race held in New York City, New York, which took place on November 3, 2019. The men's race was won by Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor in a time of 2:08:13. The women's race was won in 2:22:38 by Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei, making her official debut at the distance. The men and women's wheelchair races, were won by American Daniel Romanchuk (1:37:24) and Switzerland's Manuela Sch\u00e4r (1:44:20), respectively. A total of 53,508 runners finished the race, comprising 30,794 men and 22,714 women. Course. The marathon distance is officially long as sanctioned by World Athletics (IAAF). The New York City Marathon starts at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, New York City. The first two miles of the course stay on the island, before the runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn. The streets in this borough are flat and the runners remain here until mile 12. The runners then enter Queens before crossing the Queensboro Bridge at mile 13. After crossing the bridge, the runners enter Manhattan and run down First Avenue. The runners then enter The Bronx for miles 19 and 20 and pass the 'Entertainment Zone' which"}, {"text": "includes bands and dancers. The course then re-enters Manhattan for the final . After running through Harlem, there is a slight uphill section along Fifth Avenue before it flattens out and runs parallel to Central Park. The course then enters the park around mile 24, passes Columbus Circle at mile 25 and re-enters the park for the finish. Field. In the women's race, 2018 winner Mary Keitany and half-marathon world record holder Joyceline Jepkosgei were favorites. Keitany was a four-time winner of the race, but Jepkosgei had never run a marathon race before. Also racing were Des Linden, Worknesh Degefa, and Ruti Aga, the respective winners of the 2018, and 2019 Boston Marathon, and 2019 Tokyo Marathon. The men's field included three sub-2:06 runners; Tamirat Tola, Lelisa Desisa, and Shura Kitata, all of whom are from Ethiopia. Desisa was the favorite, however, having won the 2013 and 2015 Boston Marathon, and the 2018 New York City Marathon. 2017 winner Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya also raced. In the wheelchair race, the men's favorite was 20-year-old Daniel Romanchuk who had won the 2018 edition, 2019 Chicago Marathon, 2019 Boston Marathon, and the 2019 London Marathon. Also racing were David Weir, Ernst Van"}, {"text": "Dyk, and Marcel Hug, all previous winners of the race. In the women's wheelchair race, the favorite was Manuela Sch\u00e4r who had won the last six World Marathon Majors in a row. She faced the greatest competition from Americans Tatyana McFadden, Amanda McGrory, and Susannah Scaroni. The wheelchair race started at 8:30 EST (), the women's at 9:10 EST and the men's at 9:40 EST. The winners of the men and women's races each won $100,000, and $25,000 each in the wheelchair category whilst a prize of $25,000 was given to the fastest man and woman from the United States. The temperature on the day of the race was an \"ideal\" . Race summary. In the women's wheelchair race, Sch\u00e4r took an early lead and won with little competition from the other athletes in a time of 1:44:20. McFadden and Scaroni finished second and third in 1:48:19 and 1:51:37, respectively. The men's wheelchair race, on the other hand, was much more tightly contested. Romanchuk pulled away early on and had put a 20-second gap between himself and Hug at the mark, but this was reduced to nine seconds at . They went through in 31:11 side-by-side and at halfway were"}, {"text": "both over a minute ahead of the chasing group comprising Weir and Aaron Pike. At the gap had been brought down to 50 seconds and 10 kilometres later, the two groups had joined up. Once again, Romanchuk was able to get clear of the rest, and crossed the finish line in first place just one second ahead of Hug, as was the case the previous year. Romanchuk finished in 1:37:24, Hug in 1:37:25, Weir finished three seconds behind in 1:37:28, and Pike finished 5 seconds behind in 1:37:33. The men's handcycle race was won by Omar Duran and the women's was won by Devann Murphy. In the women's race Linden broke away from the leading pack and had built up a 15-second gap by which extended to 31 seconds by mile 11, but she was later caught by a pack of four before the halfway mark. American Sara Hall dropped out with a stomach illness after . At into the race, Keitany and Jepkosgei were in the lead together, but later, Jepkosgei began to pull away and had put a four-second gap between the two. The lead further increased to 16 seconds by mile 25 and she eventually finished in"}, {"text": "a time of 2:22:38, 54 seconds ahead of Keitany who finished second. Ruti Aga finished third in a time of 2:25:51. Jepkosgei's time is the second fastest on the course, behind the 2003 performance by Margaret Okayo. She was also the youngest winner, at the age of 25, since Okayo won in 2001. Sinead Diver, at 42-years-old, was the oldest woman to finish in the top five since Priscilla Welch won in 1987. Jepkosgei, in addition to the $100,000 of prize money, also earned $45,000 for finishing in under 2:23:00. Linden won the prize for fastest American, finishing sixth in 2:26:26. In the men's race, Desisa dropped out after due to tightness in his hamstring. ABC News suggested that the cause was his \"taxing\" victory in the marathon event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar just 29 days earlier. The leading group went through in 30:32, and halfway in 1:04:49, with fourteen still present. Brett Robinson broke away from the pack and led through mile 15 in 1:14:13, but was caught within the next mile. The group had dwindled to just five runners when they reached mile 20 in 1:38:59; Kamworor, Girma Bekele Gebre, Albert Korir, Kitata,"}, {"text": "and Tola. The group further broke up and Kamworor eventually left Korir in the 24th mile and was able to win the race in 2:08:13. Korir finished in second with a time of 2:08:36. Girma Bekele Gebre, an unsponsored Ethiopian who started with the open field instead of the elite runners, finished in third place in 2:08:38. He also came to the race with no agent, and had stayed with a friend in The Bronx. Jared Ward won the prize for the top American, finishing sixth in 2:10:45. Non-elite race. There were 53,627 finishers from 141 countries in the non-elite race, up from 52,812 in 2018, making it the largest marathon in history. The race had a 98.9 percent completion rate with 578 dropping out. Results. Sources:"}, {"text": "Yury Pavlovich Klyuyev (; born 7 October 1960) is a Soviet speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Timo J\u00e4rvinen (18 November 1966) is a Finnish speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Wei Fu-chan () is a Taiwanese surgeon. Wei was born in Tainan and earned a degree in medicine at Kaohsiung Medical College. He received training in plastic surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, led by superintendent , who suggested that Wei \"go abroad to bring home something new.\" Subsequently, Wei pursued medical fellowships at the University of Toronto in Canada and the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Micro Surgery at the University of Louisville in the United States. Upon completing his surgical training in 1983, Wei returned to Taiwan, and began his own microsurgery training program at Chang Gung in 1984. Four years later, Wei helped establish the Microsurgical Intensive Care Unit at Chang Gung. In 1994, Wei took charge of Chang Gung's Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Following the addition of other surgeons, Wei turned from trauma surgery to head and neck reconstruction. In 2013, Wei operated on a woman from Hong Kong injured in the Manila hostage crisis of 2010. Prior to Wei's treatment, the woman had gone through 32 surgeries. Wei's team worked without fully detailed medical records, and the surgery itself took more than ten hours. The Discovery Channel filmed the operation, and"}, {"text": "aired footage as a portion of a three-part documentary series titled \" Taiwan Revealed\", which was scheduled to premiere on 5 June 2014 in Taiwan, before being aired in 35 other regions across Asia during June and July 2014. The first viewing was held at the Taipei Guest House on 3 June 2014. Wei has taught at China Medical University and Taipei Medical University. After a stint as vice superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei, he was promoted to director, and served as dean of the Chang Gung Medical College between 2003 and 2011. On 5 July 2012, Wei became the first surgeon elected to Academia Sinica membership. In 2018, Wei received one of three individual Global Healthcare Awards from the Taiwan Global Healthcare Association. In 2019, Wei, Yuan-Pern Lee, and Yuan-Tsong Chen were awarded Taiwan's . In 2020, Wei became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the \"Asian Scientist\"."}, {"text": "The Best Brewing Company of Chicago Building is a historic brewery building at 1315-1317 W. Fletcher Street in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was built in 1893 for the Best Brewing Company of Chicago, replacing a smaller 1885 brewery on the site that the company had bought in 1891. The company, which was founded by the Hasterlik family, was one of many German-owned breweries in Chicago at the time. Architect Oscar Beyer designed the building, which features decorative brickwork, arched windows, and a cornice. The company brewed beer at the plant until Prohibition, when it switched to other goods such as ice and malt syrup. After Prohibition ended, the company began brewing beer again, and it brought innovations to the Chicago market such as canned beer and private labels for the chain stores it sold to. While the company was bought out by the Metropolis Brewing Company of New York City in 1950, beer was brewed at the plant until 1961. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1987."}, {"text": "The European Union Training Mission in the Central African Republic (EUTM-RCA) is a European Union multinational training mission headquartered in Bangui, Central African Republic. 8 EU member-states (France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden), as well as 5 non-EU countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Serbia and Republic of North Macedonia) have contributed troops to the mission. EUTM RCA, in its 3rd Mandate, continues relying on three pillars: Strategic Advice, Education and Training. The mission will continue to follow an integrated, flexible, modular and responsive approach whereas Forces Arm\u00e9e Centrafricaine (FACA) activities will be fully integrated in this approach. Application of the Rule of Law, mainly International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the main streaming of Gender and Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict matters is taken into account in the development of all these activities. History. On 19 January 2015, the European Council adopted Decision 2015/78 on the establishment of the European Union Military Advisory Mission in the Central African Republic (EUMAM CAR), launched in March 2015. This mission, whose mandate was to provide strategic advice to the Central African army1, ended on 16 July 2016. On 8 October 2015, the President of the Central African Republic"}, {"text": "requested that the European Union continue its support to the Central African forces in collaboration with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (UNMISCA). On 14 March 2016, a crisis management concept for a training mission in CAR was adopted by the council. Finally, the President of the Central African Republic formally invites the Union to deploy EUTM CAR in the country5. Finally, the Council adopted Decision 2016/610 establishing EUTM RCA on 19 April 2016. This is the third European training mission launched in Africa, after those in Somalia and Mali. Rapidly, due to the proximity of the mandate between the two missions, the first officers - 40 platoon or company officers - were trained in July 2016. The aim of this initial training is to \"train the trainers\" in order to enable the Central African army to become more autonomous and to renew itself without outside help1. In July 2016, the training of the battalions could not begin because this task was not being carried out by EUMAM CAR. At the beginning of September 2016, the first company of the Central African Territorial Infantry Battalion begins its training, which ends on 23 December 2016."}, {"text": "During this training, around 195 soldiers and officers are trained. On 7 January 2017, as part of its mandate, a Support and Services Battalion carpentry shop is inaugurated on its camp (BSS camps) close to the EMA. At the beginning of February 2017, 35 Georgian soldiers arrive to take part in the mission as a \"protection force\". On 7 March 2017, one of the soldiers of the mission died of a severe form of malaria after his return to France. On 30 July 2018, the Council of the European Union extended the mission's mandate for two years, until 19 September 2020. The Council allocated a budget for the common costs of EUTM CAR of approximately \u20ac25.4 million for the period from 20 September 2018 to 19 September 2020. Mission. EUTM RCA's mission is to \"make the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) modern, efficient and democratically accountable. To this end, the military mission provides: In addition, EUTM RCA complements the activity of the EU Delegation in CAR by providing expertise in various fields, including security and the rule of law. It also interacts with MINUSCA to ensure coherence in the reform of the armed forces and the deployment of units. EUTM"}, {"text": "RCA is part of a more general EU approach to combining security (EUFOR RCA, EUMAM RCA and EUTM) and development to stabilise peace, a project cell is set up to \"identify and implement projects to be financed by the Union, Member States or third countries, which correspond to its objectives and contribute to the implementation of the mandate\". Comprehensive training takes place in the context of Security Sector Reform (SSR). To this end, the missions for the restructuring of Defence are of the order of :"}, {"text": "Bruno Milesi (born 1 February 1965) is an Italian speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Through Her Eyes is a 2017 Nigerian film that was directed and written by Nadine Ibrahim. Plot. The movie is a short documentary that gives insight about how children in Nigeria are abducted and made to be terrorists. It tries to explain the point that no child is born a terrorist."}, {"text": "Alisher Mirzoev (born 22 June 1998) is a Tajik professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He also holds Russian citizenship (as ). Career. Prior to the 2021 Kyrgyz Premier League season, Mirzoev was registered by Alay Osh."}, {"text": "Cucullanorhynchus is a monotypic genus of acanthocephalans (thorny-headed or spiny-headed parasitic worms). It contains a single species, Cucullanorhynchus constrictruncatus, which infests leopards in Vietnam. Taxonomy. The National Center for Biotechnology Information does not indicate that any phylogenetic analysis has been published on \"Cucullanorhynchus\" that would confirm its position as a unique genus in the family Oligacanthorhynchidae. Description. The trunk of \"C. constrictruncatus\" has an anterior hood in both sexes and the posterior is constricted in females. Distribution. The distribution of \"C. constrictruncatus\" is determined by that of its hosts. \"C. constrictruncatus\" has been found in Vietnam. Hosts. The life cycle of an acanthocephalan consists of three stages beginning when an infective acanthor (development of an egg) is released from the intestines of the definitive host and then ingested by an arthropod, the intermediate host. Although the intermediate hosts of \"Cucullanorhynchus\" are not known, without exception for the order Oligacanthorhynchidae, this intermediate host is a lizard or insect. When the acanthor molts, the second stage called the acanthella begins. This stage involves penetrating the wall of the mesenteron or the intestine of the intermediate host and growing. The final stage is the infective cystacanth which is the larval or juvenile state"}, {"text": "of an Acanthocephalan, differing from the adult only in size and stage of sexual development. The cystacanths within the intermediate hosts are consumed by the definitive host, usually attaching to the walls of the intestines, and as adults they reproduce sexually in the intestines. The acanthor are passed in the feces of the definitive host and the cycle repeats. There are no known paratenic hosts (hosts where parasites infest but do not undergo larval development or sexual reproduction) for \"Cucullanorhynchus\". \"Cucullanorhynchus constrictruncatus\" has been found parasitizing leopards. There are no reported cases of \"C. constrictruncatus\" infesting humans in the English language medical literature."}, {"text": "Herbert Dijkstra (born 13 July 1966) is a Dutch speed skater and sports commentator. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Roland Freier (born 16 January 1964) is a German former speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics representing East Germany."}, {"text": "Mariam Yalwaji Katagum (born November 18, 1954, Azare, Bauchi State), serves as Nigeria's Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment. Previously, Katagum was Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO. Education. In 1976, Mariam Y. Katagum obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Graduate Certificate in Education at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. In 1985, she earned a Master in Administration and Planning at the University of Lagos. In 1999, Katagum obtained a Certificate in Social Development Policy, Planning and Practice at the University College, London. The same year she was awarded a UNESCO Fellowship. Career. Katagum started her professional career with National Youth Service, at the Water Board, Jos. In 1977-1981, Katagum was a Senior Education Officer at the Federal Government College, Azare. Later she served at Federal Scholarship Board, Lagos (1981-1984). Next fifteen years she was posted to the Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO (1985-2000). In 2000-2001, Katagum was a Director for Special Projects at the National Primary Education Commission in Abuja. Starting from 2001, Katagum served as the Secretary General of the Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO. In 2004, Katagum gave a final speech at UNU-UNESCO Conference on Wars in the 21st Century in"}, {"text": "Paris. Starting from 2006 Katagum was supervising the National and International Partnership Division of the Federal Ministry of Education. In June 2009, Katagum was appointed Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO. She served on a number of national and international Committees and Panels including the Board of Trustees of the African World Heritage Fund (2009-2011), the West Africa Group in UNESCO (2009-2012), the E-9 Group in UNESCO (2010-2012), the UNESCO Headquarter\u2019s Committee (2011-2013), the PX Commission of the Executive Board (2013) and others. In 2017, Katagum attended Gala Night of the Africa Week, 2017 organized by the Africa Group at UNESCO Headquarter in Paris. In July 2019, Katagum was nominated as a Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment from Bauchi state in Nigeria by the president Muhammadu Buhari. As a Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Katagum advocates implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as vital to achieving the gains which Nigeria stands to benefit."}, {"text": "L\u00fc Shuhai (, born 20 July 1966) is a Chinese speed skater. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres event at the 1988 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Bruno Nogueira Barbosa (born 28 April 1994), commonly known as Bruno, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Speran\u021ba Nisporeni."}, {"text": "Jeff Klaiber (born February 15, 1962) was an American speed skater. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics."}, {"text": "Isaiah Hodgins (born October 21, 1998) is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL draft. Early life. Hodgins attended Berean Christian High School in Walnut Creek, California. A 4-star recruit, he committed to Oregon State University (OSU) to play college football over offers from Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington State, among others. College career. Hodgins entered his true freshman year at Oregon State in 2017 as a starter. Overall he started six of 11 games, catching 31 passes for 275 yards and two touchdowns. As a sophomore in 2018, he started nine of 11 games, recording 59 receptions for 876 yards and five touchdowns. He returned as a starter his junior year in 2019. Following a junior season where he caught 86 passes for 1,171 yards and 13 touchdowns, Hodgins announced that he would forgo his senior season and declared for the 2020 NFL draft. Professional career. Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills selected Hodgins in the sixth round, 207th overall, of the 2020 NFL Draft. On May"}, {"text": "7, 2020, Hodgins signed a four-year, $3.45 million contract, including a $158,888 signing bonus, with the Bills. He was placed on injured reserve on September 6, 2020. He was designated to return from injured reserve on November 24, and began practicing with the team again, but underwent shoulder surgery on December 8 and missed the remainder of the season. On August 31, 2021, Hodgins was waived from the Bills and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. On December 26, 2021, Hodgins made his NFL debut in the Bills' week 16 game against the New England Patriots. After the Bills were eliminated in the Divisional Round of the 2021 playoffs, he signed a reserve/future contract on January 24, 2022. On August 30, 2022, Hodgins was waived by the Bills and signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on October 8. Hodgins caught his first four NFL passes in a 38\u20133 week 5 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was waived on November 1. New York Giants. On November 2, 2022, the New York Giants claimed Hodgins off waivers. He emerged as a key member of the Giants' offense during the second"}, {"text": "half of their 2022 season, catching touchdowns in four of his last five regular season games and racking up 351 yards on 33 receptions. During the NFC wild card round playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings, Hodgins finished with 105 receiving yards and a touchdown on eight receptions as the Giants earned a 31-24 victory. On February 16, 2023, the Giants re-signed Hodgins on a one-year contract. In the 2023 season, he appeared in all 17 games and started nine in the 2023 season. He finished the season with 21 receptions for 230 yards and three touchdowns. On August 27, 2024, Hodgins was waived by the Giants and re-signed to the practice squad. San Francisco 49ers. On January 7, 2025, Hodgins signed a reserve/future contract with the San Francisco 49ers. Personal life. Hodgins' parents are Stephanie and James Hodgins. His father was a fullback in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams. His brother, Isaac, plays college football at Oregon State at the defensive line position. Hodgins is a Christian."}, {"text": "Hakkunde is a 2017 Nigerian movie directed and written by Oluseyi Asurf. Plot. A young man who graduated from the university is battling with self-identity and how he tries to surpass it and make a difference in his community and society."}, {"text": "The 2012 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on November 6, 2012, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor-president Kip Holden. Since Holden won an outright majority in the first round, no runoff was necessitated."}, {"text": "Robert Goldston may refer to:"}, {"text": "The Imamzadeh Hosein Reza (), also known as the Imamzada Husain Rida, a Shi'ite funerary monument and religious complex, located in Varamin, in the province of Tehran, Iran. The building dates from CE, during the Timurid era, and is located near local railway station, in the city's main cemetery. The building was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 20 December 2000 and is administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran. Architecture. The building is octagonal in shape, featuring a recessed blind arch on each of its eight faces. Originally free-standing, later modifications included an entrance iwan on the east side and a small domed tomb on the south side. Over time, two of the original four entrances were blocked. The exterior is adorned solely with brickwork, using bricks measuring , including many reused ones. The brickwork shows signs of clumsiness, with thick brownish mortar filling gaps at corners where angled bricks were not used. Variations in mortar and brick color at the top of the octagon and dome suggest restoration work. Despite its modest height relative to width, the tall blind arches on each face create a sense of verticality. Notably, no scaffold holes"}, {"text": "are visible on the exterior, adding to its architectural intrigue. The interior is square with four recesses. All surfaces are covered with plaster, which has recently been given an unhappy coating of green on the inscription, light blue below it and white above. The lower panels have modern round arches. The zone of transition is divided into eight and sixteen-sided areas. An aluminium zarih was installed inside the tomb in 1991. The most interesting feature of the mausoleum is its stucco decoration. Two patterns are used to frame the arches of the squinch zone; one, mainly geometrical, round the squinch arches, the other mainly vegetal, round the arches in between. The elegant \"thulth\" inscription just below the squinch zone begins on the back wall of the west recess. A Quranic inscription accompanied the following phrase at the end: The decade of the figure is not quite clear; a case could also be made for 821. Structurally the monument presents no innovations. The fourteenth century tomb towers of Qom, e.g. the Imamzada Ja'far, present close parallels. Had the monument not been dated one might have been tempted to ascribe it to the fourteenth century. The remains of stucco decoration on the"}, {"text": "double minaret portal at Qum was probably one factor in its attribution to CE, when in fact is preserved on one of the minarets. The importance of the Imamzada Husain Rida lies in the extension of the \"terminus ante quem\" for this type of stucco decoration, which had died out by the middle of the fifteenth century."}, {"text": "91-93 Fifth Avenue is an eight-story store and loft building between 16th and 17th Streets in the Ladies\u2019 Mile Historic District of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Louis Korn for Henry and Samuel Corn and built between 1895 and 1896. Previous tenants include the Oxford University Press (1900, 1905) and Clarendon Press (1905)."}, {"text": "In November 2019, six car bombings occurred in northern Syria. The bombings mostly happened in Tell Abyad and one in Al-Bab. The ISIL claimed responsibility for one, and the other five were alleged by Turkey to have been committed by the PKK. Background. The 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria began in October 2019, supporting the Syrian opposition. Bombings. On 2 November 2019, a car bombing in a busy street of Tell Abyad killed 13 and injured dozens more. The bombing occurred in the middle of a marketplace in the district center of Tell Abyad near the border with Turkey. The bombing killed and injured mostly civilians. Turkey said that the YPG and PKK conducted the bombings. On 10 November 2019, a car bombing occurred near Tell Abyad, killing 8 people and wounded numerous others. Turkey once again stated that YPG and PKK were behind the attack. The attack happened outside of a bakery, targeting fighters but the blast killed only civilians. On 11 November 2019, a triple car bombing occurred in Qamishli, killing 6 people and wounding 21. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack which happened in a commercial district and near a hotel. On 16 November 2019, a"}, {"text": "few car bombs detonated near a bus station and a taxi station in Al-Bab, killing at least 19 and injuring around 50 others. Turkey condemned the attack and said the PKK was behind the bombing. On 23 November, another car bomb targeted Tell Abyad; it killed ten people and wounded over 25 others. On 26 November, a car bomb went off in the Turkish-controlled area west of Ras al-Ayn, killing at least 17 people and injuring 20 others. The attack happened at a local village market. Turkey blamed the YPG and PKK for the attack."}, {"text": "The 2019 Leitrim Senior Football Championship was the 113th edition of Leitrim GAA's premier gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Leitrim, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Leitrim in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage. Aughawillan were the defending champions after they defeated Mohill in the previous years final. However the successful defence of their title was scuppered at the quarter-final stage when losing to the same opposition. Fenagh St. Caillin's made their return to the senior grade after 11 seasons in the Intermediate grade by winning the 2018 Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship after a final replay victory against Annaduff. This was their first I.F.C. triumph in 44 years. On 13 October 2019 Glencar/Manorhamilton claimed their 7th S.F.C. crown and first since 2011 when defeating Ballinamore Se\u00e1n O'Heslin's in the final after extra time by 0-16 to 0-15 at P\u00e1irc Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada. Aughnasheelin and St. Patrick's Dromahair were relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. as they were both defeated in their Relegation Semi-Finals, thus ending their respective 2 and 5 year stays in the senior"}, {"text": "ranks. Gortletteragh were also relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. after losing the Relegation Final to Fenagh St. Caillin's. Their 7 years in the top-flight of Leitrim club football spanned back to 2013. Format Changes. A motion passed by Leitrim GAA proposes to commence the restructuring of the County Championships from the end of the 2019 season as follows with the stated intention of reviewing this model at the end of the 2021 season with a clear view towards proposing a further reduction of teams at each championship grades at the higher levels depending on standards of play and competitiveness. The draw for the 2019 Senior Football Championship will consist of two seeded groups of six teams as follows: The top four teams in Group A and B will contest the quarter-finals in the following format: 1st -vs- 4th; 2nd -vs- 3rd; 3rd -vs- 2nd; 4th -vs- 1st. Competitions will conclude with an open draw for the semi-finals and Final. Teams who finish in 5th and 6th places in Group A and B will play two Relegation Semi-Finals (5th -vs- 6th across respective groups). Defeated Semi-Finalists will be relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. The two winning Semi-Finalists will contest the Relegation"}, {"text": "Final with defeated team also suffering relegation. Hence, three teams will be relegated to I.F.C. for 2020. These format changes leave a net result of 10 teams in the S.F.C. for 2020 to be played in two groups of five teams. Team changes. The following teams have changed division since the 2018 championship season. To S.F.C.. Promoted from 2018 Leitrim I.F.C. From S.F.C.. Relegated to 2019 Leitrim I.F.C. Group stage. All 12 teams enter the competition at this stage. The top 4 teams in both groups proceed to the quarter-finals. The 5th and 6th placed teams in each group will enter a Relegation Playoff. Group A. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4: Round 5: Group B. Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4: Round 5: Relegation Playoffs. Teams who finish in 5th and 6th places in Group A and B will play two Relegation Semi-Finals (5th -vs- 6th across respective groups). Defeated Semi-Finalists will be relegated to the 2020 I.F.C. The two winning Semi-Finalists will contest the Relegation Final with defeated team also suffering relegation. Hence, three teams will be relegated to I.F.C. for 2020. Relegation Semi-Finals: Relegation Final:"}, {"text": "Hercules Stewart of Whitelaw (died 1595) was a Scottish landowner and outlaw supporter of Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell. Early life. He was a son of John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham (d. 1563), who was an illegitimate son of James V of Scotland by his mistress Elizabeth Carmichael. Hercules Stewart was a half-brother of Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, son of Jean Hepburn. His half-sister Christiane Stewart was appointed as one of the ladies to rock the cradle of James VI in March 1568. Career as a rebel. A letter from an English soldier at Berwick denouncing a Captain Carey in 1588 claimed that he frequently allowed Hercules Stewart and the Earl of Bothwell access to the garrison town. Hercules Stewart supported his brother, the rebel earl, against James VI of Scotland. In 1591 Stewart and the younger Hamilton of Samuelston executed a man called Purdy without trial. In March 1592 he was thought to be in hiding in Northumberland with the earl, the younger Laird of Niddry, and others who had tried to access the king's presence by force at Holyroodhouse. In June 1592 he was declared guilty of treason in the Parliament of Scotland. In November"}, {"text": "1592 Hercules and a number of Bothwell's supporters, including John Wemyss of Logie, were pardoned for their treasons. In April 1594 Bothwell's supporters dug in at Leith, repairing the old fortifications. They withdrew to Niddrie where, on 5 April 1594 Hercules Stewart was given command of a section of Bothwell's troops and fought and defeated the king's soldiers under the Master of Glamis and the Earl of Home, who split into two groups and retreated towards Edinburgh Castle and Holyroodhouse. This engagement is sometimes known as the \"Battle of Leith\". Hercules Stewart wrote letters for the Earl of Bothwell, although the English agent George Nicholson and the courtier Roger Aston suggested that Hercules Stewart was not in the earl's confidence. Stewart was denounced by the Privy Council of Scotland for conspiracy with Bothwell on 9 January 1595. The other conspirators were Alexander, Lord Spynie, Archibald Wauchope younger of Niddry, Gilbert Pennycuke, William Chirnsyde, Sym Armstrong of Whitehaugh, and Josias Stewart, brother of Andrew, Lord Ochiltree. Josias's mother and sisters were ladies in waiting to Anne of Denmark. Stewart and William Trotter were captured by William Hume on 6 February 1595 at West Houses near Newbattle who tried to get him"}, {"text": "pardoned. It was suspected that Trotter incriminated Stewart. John Colville was at the arrest, and promised that he would be spared. Hercules and Josias Stewart was interrogated and revealed information about a band or league between Bothwell and the Catholic rebel Northern earls. Stewart and a man called Sym (Sym Armstrong, younger of Whitehaugh) were hanged on 18 February 1595 in the market place of Edinburgh. Family. Hercules married Mary Whitelaw or Quhytlaw, daughter and co-heiress of Patrick Whitelaw of Whitelaw. They were divorced in 1592. In February 1593 she married William Hume, who worked in the king's stable. They had a daughter, Margaret Stewart. In 1620, a French woman, Jacqueline Quenlie, petitioned the Privy Council of Scotland that John Hamilton of Ferguslie was her husband in Ireland, and he had married Margaret Stewart unlawfully and taken two coffers of her belongings to Paisley. Jacqueline then withdrew her claim to be the wife of John Hamilton and received her goods."}, {"text": "The Big Footprints is a 1977 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A British television director, Colin Tait, representing the BBC (on contract) and his American counterpart, Abe Finkel, representing CBS, get drawn into a battle between two old rivals in Kenya. Alex Kirby-Smith is a hunter with a government contract to cull elephants (an important source of food and ivory) so the land can be used for cattle and crops, while his rival, Cornelius van Delden, is trying to preserve the elephants. Since there is a drought, van Delden feels that there is no need for culling the herd, while Kirby-Smith is determined to fulfill his government contract. Tait wants to enlist van Delden to take him to a mountain called Porr on the east shore of Lake Rudolf (then forbidden territory) to investigate some rumored ancient rock dwellings, while Finkel is enamored with elephants, so convinces Tait to let him tag along. The inevitable clash between van Delden and Kirby-Smith leads to murders, both human and animal."}, {"text": "The First Lady is a 2015 Nigerian movie produced and directed by Omoni Oboli. Plot. A prostitute, who is tired of the kind of work she does, is doing everything in her power to stop and is also looking unto a man to save her from her predicament."}, {"text": "HuskySat-1 is an artificial satellite designed at the University of Washington. It was launched by Cygnus NG-12 from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0 on Wallops Island, Virginia to low earth orbit on November 2, 2019. It is a CubeSat, and will demonstrate onboard plasma propulsion and high gain telemetry for low Earth orbit that would be a precursor for an attempt at a larger CubeSat designed for orbital insertion at the Moon. The satellite was designed by Husky Satellite Lab, a registered student group, in Johnson Hall, and was controlled from there using three antennae installed on the roof. A pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) provides propulsion. It is the first PPT to use sulfur as a fuel. Students at Raisbeck Aviation High School designed an onboard camera. The satellite will test an experimental 24 GHz data transmitter, after which it will become an amateur radio satellite operated by AMSAT. The high data rate will enable much more data to be transferred during the 9- to 15-minute time windows the satellite is visible from the control station. HuskySat is the first satellite designed by students in Washington state. The satellite decayed from orbit on 12 April 2023."}, {"text": "Ridgefield is a proposed station along NJ Transit's (NJT) Northern Branch Corridor Project extension of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in Ridgefield, New Jersey. The station site is located along the Northern Branch just west of U.S. Route 1/9 (Broad Avenue) at the overpass of the Hendricks Causeway (County Route S124), southwest of Remson Place. The station is designed to have two side platforms. Parking for 269 vehicles is planned, for which approximately 3 acres will be acquired. As of 2019 NJ Transit bus 127 and 165 stopped in the vicinity of the station on Broad Avenue. Rail service in Ridgefield began in 1859 by a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. while the area was still called the English Neighborhood. The Erie Railroad Ridgefield Freight Station (#1911) was located at Edgewater Avenue nearby Dutch Reformed Church in the English Neighborhood. and was demolished to make way for the creation of Remson Place after Hendricks Causeway was built in the 1930s. The railroad also had a station in the borough at Morsemere. Early plans and studies from the 1990s for the HBLR system had originally conceived a terminus in Ridgefield at the Vince Lombardi Park & Ride at the New Jersey Turnpike"}, {"text": "and still under consideration as part of the Passaic\u2013Bergen\u2013Hudson Transit Project."}, {"text": "Andreas Nyhaug (born 24 March 1973) is a retired Norwegian football defender. He started his career in R\u00e5de IL and represented Norway as a youth international. He went from Moss FK to Viking FK in 1997, then Skeid Fotball in 1998 before moving to Telemark in 1999; first playing for IL Skarphedin. Finishing in bronze position in the 1996 Eliteserien, Viking qualified for the 1997-98 UEFA Cup. Kinderv\u00e5g played one of the UEFA Cup matches, the home leg against Vojvodina Novi Sad where Viking progressed after a penalty shootout. After the 1997 season, \"Stavanger Aftenblad\" reported that Nyhaug would leave Viking. He had offers from Odd and Skeid, but would study law in Oslo. Outside of football, Nyhaug became a lawyer."}, {"text": "Lancaster County School District is a school district headquartered in Lancaster, South Carolina. It serves Lancaster County."}, {"text": "The Uruguayan Youth Standing or Uruguayan Youth at Attention () was a right to far-right student organization in Uruguay during the 1970s. This relatively short-lived organization (it was dissolved in 1974) had a Patriotic and anti-Communist orientation and was opposed to the insurgency of the Tupamaros and other far-left organizations. It experienced rapid growth, but its armed struggle efforts were relatively less successful. A factional undercurrent of the group desired a national revolution along the lines of Falangism. The main colours of their flag represent the two traditional major Uruguayan political parties: the National Party (white) and the Colorado Party (red). Presidents Jorge Pacheco Areco and Juan Mar\u00eda Bordaberry both spoke positively of the group."}, {"text": "The 1979 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach Bill Mondt, the Lobos compiled a 6\u20136 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 229 to 211. The team's statistical leaders included Casey Miller with 555 passing yards, Jimmy Sayers with 696 rushing yards, Derwin Williams with 250 receiving yards, and kicker Alan Moore with 49 points scored."}, {"text": "Jos\u00e9 Enrique Ayarra Jarne (April 23, 1937 - March 18, 2018) was a Spanish Catholic priest and organist. He was most noted for being the principal organist of the Seville Cathedral from 1961 until his death in 2018. Ayarra earned the title of piano teacher from the Conservatory of Saragossa at the age of 11. He earned degrees in Gregorian Chant and Organ from the Institut Catholique de Paris. Ayarra completed a degree in theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Ayarra died in Seville at the age of 80 from a cerebral hemorrhage."}, {"text": "Beeveria is a genus of moss endemic to New Zealand, in the family Daltoniaceae. It is a monotypic genus with characteristics of the type species, including solely the species Beeveria distichophylloides. The name honours the New Zealand bryologist Jessica Eleanor Beever. Habitat. \"Beeveria distichophylloides\" is saxicolous and grows in a wide variety of places in lowland to montane forests. It favours calcareous rocks such as limestone and can be mainly found growing in cave entrances, along the side of shaded streams, and in ravines and gorges. It has, however, been found on logs and even on the base of trees. \"Beeveria distichophylloides\" also prefers areas with high rainfall and enjoys growing on damp surfaces. Distribution. Endemic to New Zealand and found in the North, South, and Chatham Islands."}, {"text": "Buford High School may refer to:"}, {"text": "Nurul Islam Moni is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Barguna-2. Career. Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as an independent candidate in 1988. Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as an independent candidate in 1991. He had received 19,616 votes while Golam Kabir of Awami League came second with 13,764. Moni was elected to parliament from Barguna-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He had received 44,014 votes while his nearest rival Md. Golam Sarowar Hiru of Awami League got 24,772. Anowar Hossain Monju of Jatiya Party came third with 19,350. He received a plot in Chittagong City from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. On 4 November 2007, Moni was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in a corruption case by Barguna District court. His brother, Saiful Islam Jamal, was also sentenced to jail in the verdict. They went on the ran and surrendered to the Barguna court on 29 October 2008. Judge Md Musharraf Hossain sent them to jail upon surrender. Moni sought nomination from Bangladesh Nationalist Party for Barguna-2 constituency for the 11th parliamentary election in 2018. The party nominated him for the election. In September 2022, Moni's"}, {"text": "motorcade was attacked by Awami League activists injuring him and 50 activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party."}, {"text": "Sven Andersson (born 18 April 1945) is a Swedish football defender who mostly played for IF Elfsborg and was capped three times for Sweden."}, {"text": "Sacred Water is a 2016 Rwandan documentary film directed and produced by Olivier Jourdain. Plot. A young woman travelled to a village where kunyaza, a sexual technique to facilitate ejaculation by women, was practiced and was very important to men. The film explores and the cultural connotations attached to it."}, {"text": "Monitor Latino (stylised monitorLATINO) is a singles chart founded in 2003 which ranks songs on chart based on airplay across radio stations in Argentina, as in most Latin American countries and Hispanic radio stations in the United States, using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Monitor Latino launched in Argentina in June, 2016, providing four different charts: the Argentina Top 20 (general airplay), the Argentina National Top 20 (local songs only), the Argentina Anglo Top 20 (music in English only), and the Argentina Latin Top 20 (music in Spanish only). Initially, the Argentine Monitor Latino charts were based purely on spins (the number of times a song is played). In March 2021, side charts based on audience (the number of people that listen to a song while it is being played) were also launched. Argentina Airplay. This is a list of the number-one hits from 2016 onwards on the Argentina Airplay chart, ranked by Monitor Latino. \u2013 Number-one single of the year \u2013 Number-one single of the following year Argentina National Songs. This is a list of the number-one Argentine hits of the 2010s on the Argentina National Airplay chart, ranked by Monitor Latino. \u2013 Number-one single of"}, {"text": "the year \u2013 Number-one single of the following year Argentina Anglo Airplay. This is a list of the number-one English-language hits of the 2010s on the Argentina Anglo chart, ranked by Monitor Latino. \u2013 Number-one single of the year \u2013 Number-one single of the following year"}, {"text": "Campbell's Kingdom is a 1952 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A British man, ill and largely inactive since the Second World War, inherits land in the Canadian Rockies. He travels there to investigate his grandfather's instinct that there are valuable oil reserves under the land. Innes wrote about his travels in Canada to research \"Campbell's Kingdom\" in Chapter 5 of his non-fiction book \"Harvest of Journeys\" (1960). Film adaptation. In 1957, the book was made into a British film of the same name directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, and Barbara Murray."}, {"text": "Ski jumping at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics will take place in Les Tuffes, France."}, {"text": "Lactarius acutus is a member of the large milk-cap genus \"Lactarius\" in the order Russulales. Found in Guinea, the species was described in 1955 by French botanist Roger Heim."}, {"text": "Gemma Dryburgh (born 11 June 1993) is a Scottish professional golfer. Amateur career. Dryburgh played college golf at Tulane University. She competed in the 2014 Curtis Cup and the 2014 Espirito Santo Trophy. Professional career. Dryburgh played on the LET Access Series in 2015, making the cut in three of four events. She played on the Symetra Tour in 2016 and 2017, making three cuts in five events in 2016 and six cuts in ten events in 2017. She played on the ALPG Tour for the 2016\u201317 season, notching her first professional victory at the Oatlands Ladies Pro Am. Dryburgh has played on the Ladies European Tour since 2016 with a best finish of T6 at the 2017 Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open. Dryburgh has played on the LPGA Tour since 2018. She made her major championship debut at the 2019 Women's PGA Championship. Amateur wins. Source: Professional wins (5). LPGA Tour wins (1). ^ Co-sanctioned with LPGA of Japan Tour Results in LPGA majors. \"Results not in chronological order.\" CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> NT = no tournament<br> T = tied World ranking. Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year. Team appearances."}, {"text": "Amateur Sources: Professional"}, {"text": "Diana Valencia (born 1978) is a Colombian planetary scientist and astrophysicist. She is an associate professor of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Scarborough, and of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto. Valencia\u2019s research characterizes planets with masses between gas giants and Earth\u2019s. Biography. Diana Valencia immigrated from Colombia to Canada with her parents when she was studying a B.S. in Physics from University of Los Andes, Colombia. Though from a family of engineers, she intended to become a historian or economist in Colombia. Ultimately, she was influenced by her chemical engineer mother, despite her mother's misogynistic experiences in Colombia. Once in Canada, she realized there were career opportunities for women in the sciences and earned a B.A., then M.S. in Physics at University of Toronto. Valencia was inspired to apply for post-graduate programs and was accepted into Harvard University as a doctoral student. Selected academic work. In 2006, Valencia's first major publication, \"Internal Structure of Massive Terrestrial Planets\", proposed the first mass-radius relationship for rocky exoplanets that associated mass, radius, and internal structure of solid planets more massive than Earth. 2007's publication, \"Radius and Structure Models of the First Super-Earth Planet\", recognized that exoplanets of different compositions would have"}, {"text": "different mass and radius measurements as quantified by degeneracy pressures, including exoplanets with iron cores, rocky mantles, and icy/liquid shells. Recognizing that human interest in the habitability of extra-solar planets drives much of their investigation, and that plate tectonics plays an important role in life on Earth, another 2007 publication, \"Inevitability of Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths\", was the first published investigation to propose that larger-massed terrestrial planets should experience plate tectonics due to thinner, weaker lithospheres and higher stresses. In 2013, \"Bulk Composition of GJ 1214b and Other Sub-Neptunian Exoplanets\", attempts to show an atmospheric exoplanet's composition was attained based on planetary mass and radius, and its evolution and internal characteristics. 2018\u2019s \"Habitability from Tidally Induced Tectonics\" introduced the mechanism of vertical recycling of carbon through a planet's volcanic activity and sequestered carbon onto, and with, the basaltic oceanic crust settling (\"foundering\") and re-entering the mantle. This heat-pipe tectonism is equivalent to Earth's plate tectonics, enabling carbon-silicate cycling, thereby maintaining Earth habitable for billions of years. \"Can a Machine Learn the Outcome of Planetary Collisions?\", published 2019, explores improved methods of predicting the outcome of planetary collisions thought to be important in the last stages of planet formation. This machine"}, {"text": "learning approach seems a promising avenue. The methodology identifies variables needing further investigation to build better predictive models as large ratio of target to impactor masses and low velocities."}, {"text": "Facundo Hern\u00e1n Far\u00edas (born 28 August 2002) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Estudiantes. Club career. Far\u00edas started off with Escuela de F\u00fatbol UNL, prior to having a stint in the academy of Corinthians Santa Fe. In 2015, Far\u00edas headed off to Col\u00f3n's youth system. November 2019 saw the midfielder moved into the club's first-team squad, ahead of a Primera Divisi\u00f3n home fixture with Atl\u00e9tico Tucum\u00e1n. Far\u00edas' professional debut subsequently arrived, as he featured for the final nineteen minutes of a defeat at the Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao L\u00f3pez on 2 November after replacing Mauro Da Luz. Far\u00edas scored three goals in eight Copa de la Liga Profesional matches; versus Defensa y Justicia, Central C\u00f3rdoba and Atl\u00e9tico Tucum\u00e1n. In July 2023, he was signed by Inter Miami, playing alongside fellow Argentine Lionel Messi. After suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in pre-season training, he was ruled out for the entire 2024 season. On 31 January 2025, it was confirmed that he had returned to Argentina to sign for Estudiantes. International career. In 2015, Far\u00edas was called up to the Argentina U15s. Far\u00edas received call-ups to train with the Argentina U17s in 2019. In October"}, {"text": "2023, Farias received his first call up to the Argentina national team for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Paraguay and Peru. However, he was an unused substitute in both games. Honours. Col\u00f3n Inter Miami"}, {"text": "SA Sultan is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Chandpur-4. Early life. SA Sultan Titu was born in Chandpur District. Career. Sultan was elected to parliament from Chandpur-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. Bangladesh Football Federation. On 26 November 2001, Sultan, a member of the BNP-led coalition government, was appointed president of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) , replacing AM Azizul Haque, who had been initially elected by the previous Caretaker government. On 20 December 2001, Sultan replaced the elected body of the BFF led by general secretary, Harunur Rashid, with an ad-hoc committee. On 10 January 2002, FIFA banned the BFF for violating FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) laws that only recognize a democratically elected committee to run a member's football authority. The ban was lifted on 11 February 2002, after the original elected committee was reinstated. Eventually, Rashid resigned alleged to have been forced by Sultan who remained in the president's seat after being unopposed in the 26 April 2003 BFF elections. In June 2007, FIFA extended the tenure of Sultan's executive committee for another year. During his tenure as president, Sultan failed to hold district and division"}, {"text": "leagues on a consistent basis, while the country's top-tier league, the Dhaka Premier Division League, was held only four times from 2001 to 2006. Sultan's reign did see some success, with Bangladesh winning the 2003 SAFF Gold Cup as hosts and the introduction of the first professional national league, the B.League, in 2007. Under Sultan's regime, Bangladesh also hosted the 2006 AFC Challenge Cup, the biggest football tournament to have taken place in the country. On 15 December 2007, Sultan sent his resignation to FIFA, citing to personal reasons. On 16 December 2007, FIFA rejected Sultans resignation and threatened to ban the federation if an executive member resigned before the 2008 polls. Nonetheless, despite facing heavy criticism for his previous decision to reign, along with numerous disputes with journalists, Sultan remained as BFF president until the 2008 elections. On 28 April 2008, Sultan's tenure as president officially ended, with Kazi Salahuddin taking over his role. Awards. Sultan received the National Sports Award in 2005."}, {"text": "Patrick Carignan (born October 11, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Carignan played junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Saint-Jean Lynx and Shawinigan Cataractes from 1991 to 1995. In the 1994\u201395, Carignan won the Jean B\u00e9liveau Trophy after scoring 137 points, including 100 assists, in 71 games. He was also named in the QMJHL's First All-Star Team and the CHL Third All-Star Team. Carignan went on to play professionally in Europe, playing in Germany for Heilbronner EC of the 2nd Bundesliga and in France for Anglet Hormadi \u00c9lite and Diables Rouges de Brian\u00e7on of the FFHG Division 1 and Boxers de Bordeaux of the \u00c9lite Ligue."}, {"text": "Jang-Mei Wu is a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in complex analysis, potential theory, quasiconformal mapping, and partial differential equations. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign. Education. Wu did her undergraduate studies at National Taiwan University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, \"An integral problem for positive harmonic functions\", was supervised by Maurice Heins. Recognition. With Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Fan Chung, Winnie Li, Mei-Chi Shaw, and Chuu-Lian Terng, Wu is one of a group of six women mathematicians from National Taiwan University called by Shiing-Shen Chern \"a miracle in Chinese history; the glory of the Chinese people\". She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 class, for \"contributions to conformal and quasiconformal mapping theory and potential theory\"."}, {"text": "Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature is a 1975 book of critical literary theory by the critic Jonathan Culler. First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, it won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 1976 for an outstanding book of criticism. It is hailed as the \"most thorough and influential account\" in the English-speaking world of the school of structuralism as a critical theory of literature."}, {"text": "Chebsey is a civil parish in the Borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. It contains 16 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains villages, including Chebsey, Norton Bridge, and Shallowford, and the surrounding countryside. Apart from a church with Norman origin, all the listed buildings are houses, cottages and farmhouses, the earliest of which are timber framed or have timber framed cores."}, {"text": "Tony Brooks-James (born December 6, 1994) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks. College career. Brooks-James played four seasons for the Oregon Ducks. He finished his collegiate career with 3,302 all-purpose yards (1,863 rushing, 392 receiving and 1,047 on kick returns) and 21 total touchdowns (18 rushing, two receiving and one kick return). Professional career. Atlanta Falcons (first stint). Brooks-James was brought in for a rookie mini camp invite, he impressed and signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent on May 11, 2019. He was waived at the end of training camp. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brooks-James was signed to the practice squad of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of September 2, 2019. He was waived on October 8, 2019. Pittsburgh Steelers (first stint). Brooks-James was signed to the Steelers practice squad on October 15, 2019. He was promoted to the active roster on November 2 and made his NFL debut the next day. He was released on November 16. Minnesota Vikings. Brooks-James was signed to the Minnesota Vikings practice squad on December 11, 2019. He signed a reserve/future contract"}, {"text": "with the Vikings on January 12, 2020. He was waived on August 8, 2020, but re-signed a week later. He was waived on September 2, 2020. Atlanta Falcons (second stint). On November 23, 2020, Brooks-James was signed to the Falcons practice squad. He was elevated to the active roster on November 28 for the team's week 12 game against the Las Vegas Raiders, and reverted to the practice squad after the game. He signed a reserve/future contract on January 4, 2021. He was released on July 26, 2021. Pittsburgh Steelers (second stint). On August 3, 2021, Brooks-James was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was waived on August 28, 2021. Birmingham Stallions. Brooks-James was selected in the 27th round of the 2022 USFL draft by the Birmingham Stallions. On March 8, 2023, Brooks-James was released by the Stallions."}, {"text": "Isabel Mackensen-Geis (born 29 September 1986 as \"Isabel Mackensen\") is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2019. Early life and education. Mackensen-Geis was born in Schwetzingen and grew up in Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim (where she still has her home). After passing her Abitur in 2006 at the in Neustadt an der Weinstra\u00dfe, she studied political science and history at the University of Trier, graduating with an MA in 2012. Political career. Mackensen-Geis became an SPD member in 2009 and was chair of the Palatinate regional section of the Young Socialists in the SPD from 2013 to 2017. In 2019, she was elected a member of the district council of Bad D\u00fcrkheim. In the 2017 German federal election, Mackensen was the SPD candidate for the Neustadt \u2013 Speyer district and came second with 25.3% of the vote. Mackensen became a Bundestag member via her party list after Katarina Barley, having been elected to the European Parliament, resigned her seat in the German parliament. She served on the Committee on Food and Agriculture and was re-elected via the SPD-list in the 2021 German federal election. Within her parliamentary group, Mackensen-Geis"}, {"text": "belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Mackensen-Geis was part of her party's delegation in the working group on environmental policy, co-chaired by Rita Schwarzel\u00fchr-Sutter, Steffi Lemke and Stefan Birkner."}, {"text": "The 1996 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 25th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. Grand Canyon (12-4-5) defeated Oakland, 3\u20131, in the tournament final. This was the first national title for the Antelopes, who were co-coached by Peter Duah and Petar Draksin."}, {"text": "The Press Herald Building (also known as the Gannett Building) is a historic building in Portland, Maine, built in 1923 and expanded in 1948. It is strategically located across Congress Street from Portland City Hall. It was occupied by the \"Portland Press Herald\" newspaper until 2010. In 2015, the renovated building reopened as the Press Hotel. Portland Press Herald headquarters. Built in 1923, replacing the Portland Business College building, the seven-story structure held the offices of the \"Portland Press Herald\" from 1923 until May 2010. An addition was added to the north side of the building in 1948 after the former Davis Block at 390 Congress Street was demolished. In the 1940s, News of the Day bulletin boards outside the building's Federal Street entrance showed the day's headlines to street traffic. The newsroom was located on the second floor. Smoking was allowed in the newsroom and waste basket fires were common. The press was located in the basement. Later a press plant was built across the street at 385 Congress Street, connected to the Press Herald Building by a tunnel running under Congress Street. In 1988, the newspaper opened a $40 million print plant at 295 Gannett Drive in South"}, {"text": "Portland. In 2010, under Richard Connor's ownership, the newspaper sold the building and adjacent former printing plant and moved its news staff to the nearby One City Center office building. In 2016, the newspaper moved its newsroom from One City Center to its print plant in South Portland, but continues to keep an office at One City Center for use by news and advertising staff. Press Hotel. In 2012, the building was sold to developer Jim Brady with the aim of turning the structure into a hotel. In 2015, the renovated building reopened as a boutique 110-room hotel known as the Press Hotel. The hotel was sold to a San Francisco-based real estate private equity firm in 2021. Guest rooms include custom wallpaper printed with headlines from the \"Portland Press Herald\" and each room has design elements take from a 1920s editor's office. A wall stacked floor-to-ceiling with typewriters is part of the front lobby design, and an art gallery and a gym are located in the basement. Preservation award. In 2016, Greater Portland Landmarks awarded a Preservation Award to the Press Hotel for the adaptive reuse of the Press Herald Building."}, {"text": "These Hands is a 1992 Tanzanian documentary produced and directed by Flora M'mbugu-Schelling. Plot. The film portrays the struggle of a Mozambican woman in a local mine, determined to make a difference despite all odds."}, {"text": "The Mayor of Lagos is the debut studio album by Nigerian singer Mayorkun. It was released on November 16, 2018, through Davido Music Worldwide. The album's production was handled by Speroach Beatz, Cracker Mallo, Fresh VDM, Kiddominant, DJ Coublon, Phantom, Northboi, Killertunes and Lussh. Mayorkun enlisted Davido, Sarkodie, D'banj, Patoranking and other label mates to appear as guest artists on the album. Preceding the album's release were five singles: \"Mama\", \"Che Che\", \"Bobo\", \"Fantasy\" and \"Posh\". The album won Best R&B/Pop Album at The Headies 2019. Background and promotion. In 2017, Mayorkun embarked on a nationwide campus tour, performing at over 35 schools and headlining \"The Mayor of Lagos\" year-end concert in Lagos. On December 31, 2017, Mayorkun announced on Twitter that he would release the album in 2018. Shows for the \"Mayor of Lagos\" concert series were held in Ibadan and Abuja. A date for the concert's Lagos edition was announced. Mayorkun performed in six cities during his tour of the United Kingdom in 2018, and also performed with Davido at the Wireless Festival. \"The Mayor of Lagos\" was made available for pre-order on November 9, 2018 and for purchase and online streaming on several music platforms, including Amazon"}, {"text": "Music, Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify. It debuted and peaked at number 15 on the \"Billboard\" World Albums chart in December 2018. Composition. \"The Mayor of Lagos\" opens with \"Feelings (Intro)\", a mid-tempo song that addresses Mayorkun's career beginnings and vulnerable side; the song ends with a phone prayer between him and his mother. In the party track \"Sope\", Mayorkun celebrates his life and is thankful for everything. In the romantic track \"Tire\", he talks about his passion and what he is willing to do for his love interest. The party track \"Fantasy\" is inspired by Olu Maintain's \"Yahooze\". The mid-tempo song \"Aya Mi\" is composed of talking drums and Yoruba chants. The Northboi-produced \"Posh\" is a dance song. \"Oshepete\" is an Afrobeats-inspired record. \"Drama Queen\" combines elements of rock music with jazz and was described as one of the album's standouts. \"Mofo\" is a dancehall track. \"Red Handed\" is an Afrobeats song with a reggae-inspired beat; its title was derived from Shaggy's \"It Wasn't Me\". The dance track \"Bobo\" was produced by Killertunes and Lussh. \"Che Che\" and \"Mama\" were both produced by Kiddominant. Critical reception. \"The Mayor of Lagos\" received generally positive reviews from music critics and consumers."}, {"text": "\"Naijaloaded\" granted the album 8 stars out of 10, saying Mayorkun has \"proved beyond every reasonable doubt that he's here to stay.\" Joey Akan said the album has \"very little low points\" and opined that Mayorkun \"knows the sound spectrum along which he is allowed to pick and choose.\" Ehis Ohunyon of Pulse Nigeria awarded the album 3.5 stars out of 5, describing it as a \"project that hits the right notes and hands Mayorkun the keys to the city filled with pop anthems.\" Conversely, Dennis Peter of \"Nigerian Entertainment Today\" criticized Mayorkun and said the album proves he has \"zero creative bones in his body.\" Track listing. Track notes"}, {"text": "Adella Brown Bailey (1860\u20131937) was an American politician and suffragist. Life. Bailey n\u00e9e Brown was born on February 8, 1860, in Aurora, New York. In 1880 she married Dewey C. Bailey with whom she had one child. Brown's husband, Dewey, was the mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1919 through 1923. Along with her husband, Adella was involved in political life in Denver, active in the Republican Party and serving in 1920 as an alternate delegate from Colorado to the Republican National Convention. Brown was clubwoman. She was a member of the Women's Club of Denver (WCD), serving as president for four terms. She was also involved with the Equal Suffrage Association. Nichol died in 1937. External links."}, {"text": "<mapframe text=\"Cluster of outbuildings associated with Kensington Palace, including Wren House\" width=242 height=242 zoom=18 latitude=51.50594 longitude=-0.18898/> Wren House is a house on the grounds of Kensington Palace in London. Wren House has been occupied by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, one of Queen Elizabeth II's cousins, since 1978. When Kensington Palace was made the Royal Residence, architect Christopher Wren was tasked to expand the existing structure. He added a cluster of cottages that included: Wren House; Ivy Cottage, the home of Princess Eugenie of York; and Nottingham Cottage, the former home of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex."}, {"text": "The 2019 Kulgam massacre refers to the killing of seven Bengali Muslim labourers in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack was carried out by members of Hizbul Mujahideen, according to Jammu and Kashmir Police it was planned by the group's commander, Ajaz Malik. Attack. The 2019 Kulgam massacre occurred when terrorists entered a home housing Bengali Muslim labourers in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. These men came to Kulgam to work in the apple orchards there. The terrorists, who are suspected of being Kashmiri separatists, lined up the men and killed seven of them. One of them named Baharaduddin, survived after being left for dead. Consequences. The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, identified 130 labourers still working in Jammu and Kashmir and is supporting their return to their home state for safety reasons, although some of them are opting to remain in the union territory. The bodies of the victims were returned to their families by the Ministry of Home Affairs."}, {"text": "The University of London Press (also known as UoL Press) is a publishing house that is part of the University of London. Based in the School of Advanced Study at Senate House, it \"seeks to facilitate collaborative, inclusive, open access interchange, within and beyond the academy.\" History. The University of London Press was originally established in 1910. From 1949 to 1979 it was known as Athlone Press. In 2019, the University of London Press was relaunched as an open access publisher, and in 2023 the Press rebranded with a new logo, website and mission, aiming to \"open up humanities research\" It is a founding member of the Open Institutional Publishing Association. Publishing. The University of London Press publishes cutting-edge humanities research. They are a non-profit, predominantly open access university press and offer authors a friendly, professional and collaborative publishing experience. They publish 20\u201425 books a year across the humanities disciplines, publishing work that highlights the importance of humanities research and opens up debate. They publish with a wide range of partners who benefit from the experience and flexibility they offer in meeting the needs of specific disciplines and research institutions. The Press is an integral part of the School of"}, {"text": "Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London, which has enabled them to forge long-lasting and productive relationships within SAS, across its international renowned humanities institutes and with leading scholars. Several of their book series are published in association with the institutes (listed below) and other scholarly associations such the Royal Historical Society, and offer important venues for new humanities research both within and across disciplines. The University of London Press has partnerships with the following institutes of the School of Advanced Study:"}, {"text": "The second season of \"The Great Kiwi Bake Off\" premiered on TVNZ 2 on 3 November 2019 with hosts Hayley Sproull and Madeleine Sami and judges Dean Brettschneider and Sue Fleischl returning for the season. This season saw each episode expanded to ninety-minutes and featured the Signature, Technical, and Showstopper challenges on every episode instead of just the finale like the previous season. The season was won by Trevor \"Trev\" Hall with Heather Andrew and Naomi Toilalo finishing as runner-ups. Bakers. Ages, names, and hometowns stated are at time of filming. Bakers progress. Colour key: Baker eliminated Star Baker Winner Episodes. Episode 1: Cake. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake 12 lamingtons in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Sue, the bakers had ninety minutes to bake a Battenberg cake. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a two-tiered mirrored glazed cake that reflected the baker's personality in four hours. Episode 2: Biscuits. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake 24 identical savoury sandwich biscuits in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Sue, the bakers had seventy-five minutes to bake 36 macarons, 18 dark chocolate & orange and 18"}, {"text": "white chocolate & raspberry. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a 3-D biscuit selfie that reflected a photograph of the baker in a memorable place in four hours. Episode 3: Celebration. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake 24 ANZAC biscuits in ninety minutes. For the technical challenge set by Dean, the bakers had three hours to bake 12 hot cross buns. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a scary Halloween cake in four hours. Episode 4: Pastry. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake a freestanding tart with a pastry base, a custard filling, and fruit in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Dean, the bakers had two-and-a-half hours to bake an apple tarte tatin. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake and assemble a religieuse \u00e0 l'ancienne that resembled a nun consisting of two flavours of decorated \u00e9clairs and a \"head\" of profiteroles in four hours. Episode 5: Bread. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake a diameter pizza in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Dean, the bakers had two-and-a-half hours to bake a chocolate kugelhupf. For the showstopper"}, {"text": "challenge, the bakers had to bake a bread centrepiece in four hours. Episode 6: International. For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake 12 identical Cornish pasties in one hour and forty-five minutes. For the technical challenge set by Sue, the bakers had two hours to bake nastars. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a freestanding charlotte cake with homemade sponge fingers, a set mousse, and three layers of genoise sponge in four hours. Episode 7: Dessert (Semi-Final). For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake six cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9es that had to be br\u00fbl\u00e9ed traditionally in the oven instead of with a blowtorch in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Sue, the bakers had two hours and thirty minutes to bake 12 Opera cakes. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a freestanding jelly creation that was 50% jelly with the rest an edible structure of the bakers' choosing and was at least tall in five hours. Episode 8: Christmas (Final). For the signature challenge, the bakers had to bake 24 mini Christmas pies in two hours. For the technical challenge set by Dean, the bakers had three hours to bake"}, {"text": "two Christmas stollens. For the showstopper challenge, the bakers had to bake a Christmas tree meringue with sugar work in five hours."}, {"text": "Kumekucha is a 1987 Tanzanian documentary produced and directed by Flora M'mbugu-Schelling. Plot. Women taken charge of their destiny by empowering themselves through education enabling them to make a difference in the society."}, {"text": "Salvatore Adduce (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian politician. He served as member of the Regional Council of Basilicata from 1995 to 2000. In 2001 he was elected at the Chamber of Deputies for the 14th Legislature; and served at the Italian Senate from April 2006 to April 2008. Adduce ran for the office of Mayor of Matera at the 2010 local elections, supported by a centre-left coalition. He won and took office on 13 April 2010. He ran for a second term in 2015, but lost to the centre-right candidate Raffaello De Ruggieri."}, {"text": "Jacob Sergi Kasanin (1897-1946) was a Russian born, American trained psychiatrist who introduced the term \"acute schizoaffective psychoses\" in 1933. He was known as Yasha to those close to him. He was born in Slavgorod, on 11 May 1897, and moved to the United States in 1915. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in 1919, Doctor of Medicine in 1921 and a Master of Science in Public health in 1926. He went on to train is both Psychiatry and Neurology at Boston State Hospital, Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. From 1928 to 1932 he was a Senior Research associate at Boston Psychopathic Hospital studying social causes of Mental disorder. When Director of the Department of Mental Hygiene of the Federated Jewish Charities in Boston his research interest was blood sugar curves in Epidemic encephalitis. Whilst in Russia in 1930 he became acquainted with Lev Vygotsky and his work. He translated his work Thought In Schizophrenia into English. In 1933 in The American Journal of Psychiatry he published a paper entitled '\"The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses\" which he had presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in"}, {"text": "Philadelphia in May or June 1932. In his article Kasanin described 9 cases studies who had both schizophrenic or Psychotic symptoms and Affective symptoms. Whilst at the Michael Reese Hospital he conducted research with Eugenia Hanfmann on Schizophrenic thinking this was following on from Vygotsky's work and was funded by the Masonic Foundation. Together they wrote Conceptual Thinking in Schizophrenia, from this a test was developed called the Hanfmann-Kasanin Test. From 1939 he was Chief of Psychiatry at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. He also engaged in Private Practice. He was president of the Association of American Orthopsychiatrists from 1941 to 1942. During World War II he served as a psychiatrist to the 9th service command of the army. He died suddenly on the 4 May 1946."}, {"text": "The British Betrayal of the Assyrians is a book published in 1935 written by Yusuf Malek. As Malek was an Assyrian who fought alongside the British during World War I as an Interpreter officer, and later a government official in the subsequently established country of Iraq which was under British Administration until 1932, his writings come from first hand experiences. Through the book, Malek reproduces letters from government officials while chronologically narrating the events which led to the formation of Iraq and the subsequent massacre of Assyrians, known as the Simele massacre."}, {"text": "Julianna Sophia Tymoczko (born 1975) is an American mathematician whose research connects algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including representation theory, Schubert calculus, equivariant cohomology, and Hessenberg varieties. She is a professor of mathematics at Smith College. Education and career. Tymoczko grew up in Western Massachusetts, and studied discrete mathematics at Smith College as a high school student. She was an undergraduate at Harvard University, and wrote a senior thesis on the homotopy groups of spheres, \"The -components of the stable homotopy groups of spheres\", with Joe Harris and Michael J. Hopkins as faculty mentors. After graduating in 1998, she moved to Princeton University for graduate study, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2003. Her dissertation, \"Decomposing Hessenberg Varieties over Classical Groups\", was supervised by Robert MacPherson. After being a Clay Liftoff Fellow, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, and Hildebrandt Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, she took a tenure-track position at the University of Iowa in 2007. In 2011 she returned to Smith College as a faculty member. She was promoted to full professor in 2019. Recognition. Tymoczko was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 class, for \"contributions to algebraic geometry and combinatorics, and for"}, {"text": "outreach and mentorship\". Personal life. Tymoczko is one of three children of Thomas Tymoczko, a logician and philosopher of mathematics at Smith College, and comparative literature scholar Maria Tymoczko of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her brother, Dmitri Tymoczko, is a music composer and music theorist. She is married to Marshall Poe, a historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."}, {"text": "Brian Tarantina (March 27, 1959 \u2013 November 2, 2019) was an American stage, screen, and television character actor. He was known for his roles on such shows as \"One Life to Live\", \"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\", and \"Gilmore Girls\". Early life. Tarantina was born in New York City on March 27, 1959, to father Frank William Tarantina and an unknown mother. He attended what is now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where he then began to pursue an acting career. Death. Shortly after midnight on November 2, 2019, Tarantina was found dead at his home in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. At the time of his death, his publicist attributed the cause to \"complications from a severe health crisis he experienced a few months [prior].\" However, New York City Chief Medical Examiner report released in December 2019, stated that he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and diazepam. Stage appearances. Off-Broadway. Source Broadway. Source"}, {"text": "Sir Thomas Cokayne or Cockayne (27 November 1520 \u2014 15 November 1592) was an English soldier, huntsman, and MP for Derbyshire in March 1553. Early life and education. Thomas Cokayne was born on 27 November 1520 to Francis Cokayne of Ashbourne, Derbyshire and his wife, Dorothy (daughter and heiress of Thomas Marrow of Berkswell). He was born into the family of Cokayne, who first settled in Ashbourne in the mid-12th-century, and were one of the oldest families in Derbyshire, in possession of many estates in their home county, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire. On 5 August 1538, aged 18, Cokayne came into his father's inheritance. Francis had been the head of the family for only 16 months, and his death left the underage Cokayne its new head. The following year, he was admitted to Gray's Inn, and Cokayne put himself into the service of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury. Military career. Like his grandfather, Thomas Cokayne \"the Magnificent\", Cokayne was a keen soldier, commended by contemporaries as \"a bold and [...] worthy knight\". In 1544, he took part in the Rough Wooing of Scotland, alongside Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and was knighted on 11 May 1544, for his part"}, {"text": "in the Burning of Edinburgh. In a 13 August 1548 muster, he was listed among the captains selected \"For the Battaile\", as part of the relief for George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury at the Siege of Haddington. Later in life, Cokayne credited \"many extraordinary favours\" to the earls of Shrewsbury, evidently grateful for his military service. He was among those who, in the reign of Elizabeth I, confronted the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines. In 1587, on her way to her final imprisonment and eventual execution at Fotheringhay Castle, he attended Mary, Queen of Scots' travel \"with but a small trayne\" as far as Derby. He was evidently a trusted subject, selected on this occasion as \"sound in religion [...] and faithful to her Majesty\". Public offices and duties. According to C. J. Black, writing for The History of Parliament: \"under Elizabeth, Cokayne was evidently one of the local pillars of church and state\". His first public office was as the commissary of musters for Derbyshire in 1546 (an office he held again in 1577 and 1584). He held the offices of Justice of the peace for Derbyshire in 1547, 1555, and for Warwickshire in 1554; he"}, {"text": "was sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire from 1549 to 1550 and from 1559 to 1560, and of Derbyshire alone from 1569 to 1570, from 1579 to 1580, and from 1585 to 1586. He was commissary for relief in 1550, for subsidy in 1563, and \"to inquire into Jesuits and seminarists\" in 1585; keeper of Ravensdale Park in May 1553; collector for loans in Derbyshire in 1562; and steward for the manors of Ashbourne and Hartington by 1590. In the parliament of March 1553, Cokayne was the Member of Parliament for Derbyshire. He probably obtained this office thanks to the lobbying of the Earl of Shrewsbury, as the Earl had been vocal in his support of summoning the parliament; though Cokayne was no doubt aided by his previous qualifications as a soldier, sheriff and justice of the constituency. Black gives no detail of his actions as a member past a pithy statement that he \"was probably more happily seated on a horse than in the Commons\". Cockayne performed several less official duties as a respected and Conformist subject of the Queen. In 1564, he advised Scottish Protestant, Thomas Bentham, on the religious conformity of his fellow justices of the peace in"}, {"text": "Derbyshire; he was charged with investigating the dispute between the Earl of Shrewsbury and his Glossopdale tenantry in 1581; he questioned a correspondent of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1584; and he impounded the belongings of the Derbyshire-born attempted assassin of Elizabeth, Anthony Babington, in 1586. He showed his faith in the Crown with a donation of \u00a350 to the Armada loan in 1588. \"A Short Treatise of Hunting\" (1591). Being \"a professed hunter, and not a scholler\", as he admitted in its dedication, Cokayne compiled a collection of hunting tips in old age \"for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen\", and published them under the title \"A Short Treatise of Hunting\" in 1591. With 52 years' experience in hunting, Cokayne was quick to commend the sport as a pastime; \"hunters\", he wrote in its preface, \"by their continual travail, painful labour, often watching, and enduring of hunger, of heat, and of cold, are much enabled above others to the service of their prince and country to the wars [...] and their minds also by this honest recreation the more fit and the better disposed to all other good exercises\". He also drew attention to its use in saving England"}, {"text": "\"from the hurt of foxes and other ravenous vermine\". Though he was wont to shield hunting from the \"carping speaches of the enemies thereof\", he warned his readers against using the sport as \"an occupation to spend therein daies, moneths, and yeres, to the hinderance of the service of God, her maistie or your Countrey\". Cokayne dedicated the \"Treatise\" to his patron, the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, and illustrated the book with woodcuts of various game animals. Personal life, death and monument. About 1540 (and definitely by 1545), he married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth (his stepfather). Thomas and Dorothy had seven daughters and three sons. Their joint funerary monument lists their children in Latin as: Cokayne was frequently visited by the chronicler Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed being a steward of an estate neighbouring Cokayne's Pooley Hall in Warwickshire. Cokayne composed his will on 8 December 1591, naming Dorothy and Francis, his eldest son, as his executors, with Sir Humphrey Ferrers and Sir Edward Littleton as supervisors. His will made mention of a previous incident, \"in regard of some debts he was then entered into\", that made him mistrust Francis, but by the time of his death,"}, {"text": "he evidently had no misgivings. Cokayne specifically requested that his executors \"use no vain pomp nor foolish ceremonies which I have always accounted superstitions\" in his funeral. Cokayne died on 15 November 1592 and was buried that night; Dorothy died 3 years later, on 21 December 1595. After their deaths, Thomas and Dorothy had a joint memorial raised in St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne. Many of his ancestors had similar memorials in the church, but Thomas was the last of the family to erect one. The monument is a large alabaster and marble tomb in the Renaissance style. Its main feature is a recess, where full-length figures of Thomas and Dorothy face each other, while kneeling over a prayer desk (which is inscribed with a Latin memorial). Beneath these figures are two panels, with kneeling figures of their children in miniature: three sons under Thomas and seven daughters under Dorothy."}, {"text": "The Soviet Historical Encyclopedia is the Soviet encyclopedia of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1961\u20131976) on the history of peoples of the whole world until the 70s of the 20th century. Content. Includes articles-terms on the history of the Soviet Union and foreign countries, especially on recent history. Many articles are given detailed chronologies, which are integral parts of articles devoted to the Soviet Union, Union republics and foreign countries. Articles are accompanied by statistical tables, maps (historical, political, ethnographic), diagrams, illustrations. Editors. In different years, the members of the main editorial board were:"}, {"text": "Fenusa pumila, the birch leafminer, is a species of sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae. It is found in Europe and has been introduced into North America. In North America it may have two to four generations per year and the average first occurrence of adults is after 65 growing degree-days."}, {"text": "A Good Time is the second studio album by Nigerian singer Davido. It was released on November 22, 2019, via Davido Music Worldwide, RCA Records and Sony Music. The album features guest appearances from Chris Brown, Summer Walker, Gunna, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Dremo, Peruzzi, Popcaan, Zlatan, Yonda, Wurld and Naira Marley. Its production was handled by Speroach Beatz, Tekno, Shizzi, Kiddominant, P2J, London on da Track, and Fresh VDM, among others. To promote the album, Davido announced plans to embark on a North American tour, which was scheduled to begin in the winter and end in 2020. However, the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Background and promotion. Davido recorded \"A Good Time\" in Atlanta and told \"Vibe\" magazine he wanted to make music in a new environment. He labeled the album an Afrobeats project and said it would incorporate other musical styles. Davido disclosed the album's title during an event held in Lagos in September 2019, and said the record would be released the following month. He also unveiled snippets of four songs from the album during the event. Following his performance at Powerhouse 2019, Davido told Power 105.1's DJ Self that the album will"}, {"text": "feature collaborations with A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Summer Walker, Gunna, and Chris Brown, among others. \"A Good Time\" was produced entirely by Nigerian producers, except for one track. The cover art features images of Davido and his father, and a sculpture of his late mother. The album's lead single, \"If\", was released on February 17, 2017. The song was produced by Tekno, who supposedly ghost wrote it for Davido. \"If\" was certified diamond by the Recording Industry of South Africa, indicating shipments of 200,000 units. It won Best Pop Single and Song of the Year at The Headies 2018. Reviewing for OkayAfrica, Sabo Kpade described the song as a \"slow burner\" with an \"unfussy beat that sounds hollowed out and isn't cluttered with instruments\". The music video for \"If\" was produced by Tunde Babalola and directed by Director Q, who filmed it in London. Davido teamed up with menswear designer Orange Culture to release a capsule collection inspired by \"If\". The album's second single, \"Fall\", was released on June 2, 2017. The song samples a line from Kojo Funds's \"Dun Talking\" and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa. \"Fall\" was one of the top-100-most-Shazam-searched singles"}, {"text": "in America in January 2019, and was a top-10 record on Shazam in New York. In February 2019, it became the longest charting Nigerian pop song in \"Billboard\" history. \"Fall\" was ranked at number 163 on \"Pitchfork\"s list of the 200 Best Songs of the 2010s. The accompanying music video for \"Fall\" was directed by British video director Daps. In December 2018, the video surpassed 100 million views, becoming the most viewed video by a Nigerian artist on YouTube at the time. The Speroach Beatz-produced track \"Assurance\" was released on April 30, 2018, as the album's third single. The song was described as a love track and samples the phrase \"Biggie Biggie\", which was popularized by Osita Iheme. Davido dedicated \"Assurance\" to his girlfriend and released it to coincide with her 23rd birthday. Speroach Beatz claimed in an interview with Konbini Channels that Davido spent half an hour recording the song, while he created the beat in an hour. Reviewing for \"Native\" magazine, Toye Sokunbi said the song \"speaks volumes for the importance of clarity in the age of emojis, validation from our loved ones and putting love first, against all odds\". The accompanying music video for \"Assurance\" was directed"}, {"text": "by Meji Alabi. The Chris Brown-assisted track \"Blow My Mind\" was released on July 26, 2019, as the album's fourth single. Produced by Shizzi, the song was initially intended to be released as the album's lead single. Musically, \"Blow My Mind\" contains lyrics pertaining to a girl who simply blows Davido's mind. In the Edgar Esteves-directed visuals for \"Blow My Mind\", Davido and Chris Brown spend quality time in a motel with their significant other. The video became the fastest Nigerian music video to reach one million views in 11 hours, surpassing the records of Wizkid's \"Fever\" and \"Come Closer\". It also became the Nigerian music video with the highest number of views within the first 24 hours of its release. The album's fifth single, \"Risky\", was released on October 23, 2019. It features guest vocals by Jamaican singer Popcaan, who previously enlisted Davido to appear on his 2018 single \"Dun Rich\". The video for \"Risky\" was directed by Meji Alabi and pays homage to the crime drama series \"Top Boy\". In the video, a female member of Davido's and Popcaan's crew informs them to police. On December 19, 2019, Davido released the Meji Alabi-directed music video for \"Sweet in"}, {"text": "the Middle\", which features clips of an arid Lagos landscape and post-apocalyptic scenes that are reminiscent of \"Mad Max\" films. On March 3, 2020, Davido released the video for \"1 Milli\", which was recorded by Director K and depicts a wedding celebration between he and his love interest. The video contains a ceremonial scene of a middle-aged woman who rides a horseback while dressed in a traditional attire. It was criticized for bearing a striking resemblance to \"Entitled\", a 2018 short film by Nigerian-British filmmaker Adeyemi Michael. Director K clarified on Instagram he was inspired by Michael's work and wanted to \"recreate the iconic shot of Michael's mother on horseback\". On April 23, 2020, Davido released the Daps-directed music video for \"D&G\". In it, he and Summer Walker are decked from head-to-toe in Dolce & Gabbana clothing. The video was filmed in Los Angeles while Davido was on his North American tour. Davido told CNN that all proceeds from the \"D&G\" video will support the Dolce & Gabbana and Humanitas Together for Coronavirus Research Fund. Critical reception. Tara Joshi of \"The Guardian\" awarded the album 3 stars out of 5, commending Davido for offering a \"broader array of sonic palettes\"."}, {"text": "Joshi also wrote that the album \"can drift into sunshine-infused listlessness, but it\u2019s rescued by Davido\u2019s undeniable charisma and intricate understanding of warm, uplifting pop instrumentation\". \"Pitchfork\"s Sheldon Pearce granted the album an 8.3 rating out of 10, describing it as a \"buoyant, unsinkable record\" and applauding Davido for providing \"not just an integrated sound all his own but a clear vision for its future\". \"The Native\"s Toye Sokunbi said that from a sonic standpoint, the album \"emblemises Davido's resolute Africa-first creative gaze while expending a wide-range of collaborators as homage to afropop's expansive inspirations and influences\". Also reviewing for \"The Native\", Debola Abimbolu said \"A Good Time\" relieved Davido from the \"pressure of delivering songs that instantly resonate as club bangers\". Moreover, Abimbolu opined that all five singles \"lose some of their gloss when they all run together and are padded out with different versions of the same piano-heavy afropop beat\". In a mixed review for \"Pulse Nigeria\", Motolani Alake said the album didn't have \"multiple groundbreaking and mind-blowing songs\" despite being cohesive. TooXclusive's Oluwatobi Ibironke rated the album 7 out of 10, echoing similar sentiments made by Alake. \"Jaguda\"s Arthur Shur gave the album a rating of 6"}, {"text": "out of 10, describing the listening experience as \"a physics wave motion\". Shur also said the album is \"average\" when previously released singles are omitted. Track listing. Credits adapted from \"The Native\" magazine and the website Modern Ghana. Notes"}, {"text": "What Lola Wants is a 2015 American action thriller film written and directed by Rupert Glasson and starring Sophie Lowe."}, {"text": "Patricia A. Resick is an American researcher in the field of post traumatic stress disorder. She is known for developing cognitive processing therapy. Biography. After earning her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1976, Resick served as Assistant to Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota, 1976-1980, and Associate to Full Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1981\u20132003. She developed cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in 1988 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where she conducted an open trial, the first treatment manual and a randomized controlled trial. She has subsequently worked with Candice M. Monson and Kathleen M. Chard among others to refine and further test the approach. While at this university, Resick supervised Sherry Falsetti on her doctoral dissertation. Together they developed the Modified PTSD Symptom Scale (MPSS). Also while in Saint Louis, she developed the Center for Trauma Recovery and was awarded an endowed Curators' Professorship in 2000. In 2003 she moved to Boston as Director of the Women\u2019s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System, which she held for a decade. Also in 2004, she became a professor of psychiatry at Boston University. In 2006 she"}, {"text": "initiated a program to disseminate CPT throughout the VA. Resick was elected to the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) from 1992 to 1995. The organisation was then renamed the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), and she was elected its President in 2003\u201304. She also served on the board of directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) from 1997 to 2003. In 2009, she was elected President of the ISTSS. In 2013, she moved to Duke University in Durham. She is currently the Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, and a member of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Resick was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She was on two sub-workgroups for the DSM-5. Resick has published over 300 articles and chapters and 10 books."}, {"text": "Suwi is a 2010 Zambian film written and directed by Musola Cathrine Kaseketi and co-directed by Sandie Banda. Plot. The movie gives insight of a young lady who had accident leaving her to be handicapped, she later found love with a person living with AIDS of which made her happy."}, {"text": "Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014), is a United States Supreme Court case involving the use of force by police officers during high-speed car chases. After first holding that it had jurisdiction to hear the case, the Court held that the conduct of the police officers involved in the case did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. Near midnight on July 18, 2004, Donald Rickard led police officers on a high-speed car chase ending in a parking lot, where officers fired fifteen shots into Rickard's car as he continued to flee. Rickard and his passenger both died from a combination of gunshot wounds and injuries sustained when the car eventually crashed. Rickard's daughter sued the officers who shot Rickard, arguing that they had used excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The officers moved for summary judgment, arguing they were entitled to qualified immunity because their actions did not violate law that was clearly established at the time of the car chase. The district court denied this motion, and the court of appeals affirmed. On May 27, 2014, the Supreme Court reversed, holding that the officers did not violate"}, {"text": "the Fourth Amendment. In a unanimous (9\u20130) decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court found that Rickard's actions posed a \"grave public safety risk\" and that the officers \"acted reasonably in using deadly force to end that risk\". The Court also found that the number of shots fired was also reasonable, writing that \"if police officers are justified in firing at a suspect in order to end a severe threat to public safety, the officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended\". Finally, the Court found that even if the officers' conduct did violate the Fourth Amendment, they would still be entitled to summary judgment based on qualified immunity because their actions did not violate clearly established law at the time of the incident. Background. Prior case law. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the federal government, and the Fourteenth Amendment extends this prohibition to state governments under the incorporation doctrine. In the course of their duties, police officers must sometimes make split-second decisions in situations where they believe there is a serious threat to the lives of themselves or the public. The use of force by police officers"}, {"text": "to counter such threats constitutes a Fourth Amendment seizure. The Supreme Court has previously held in such cases as \"Tennessee v. Garner\" (1985) and \"Graham v. Connor\" (1989) that the use of force, including deadly force, by a police officer does not violate the Fourth Amendment if it is \"objectively reasonable\" in light of the circumstances confronting them. Prior to \"Plumhoff\" the Supreme Court had also examined the use of force against fleeing motorists specifically. In \"Brosseau v. Haugen\" (2004), the Supreme Court upheld the use of force by a police officer who fired her gun into the back of a suspect's car after chasing the suspect on foot. The Court held in \"Scott v. Harris\" (2007) that a \"police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders does not violate the Fourth Amendment, even when it places the fleeing motorist at risk of serious injury or death.\" In both cases, the Court confirmed that the standard of review for force against fleeing motorists is the same \"objective reasonableness\" standard as that in \"Graham v. Connor\". If a person believes that the use of force against them is unjustified, 42 U.S.C. \u00a71983"}, {"text": "allows them to file a civil action, claiming a violation of their constitutional rights. In general, police officers are protected from individual liability from these claims by the qualified immunity doctrine, which prevents government officials, including police officers, from being held individually liable for federal civil rights violations unless their conduct violated clearly established law at the time in question. In \"Johnson v. Jones\" (1995), the Supreme Court held that a defendant entitled to qualified immunity in these kinds of cases cannot immediately appeal a district court's order regarding a motion for summary judgment \"insofar as that order determines whether or not the pretrial record sets forth a genuine issue of fact for trial\". Facts of the case. Around midnight on July 18, 2004, Lieutenant Joseph Forthman of the West Memphis, Arkansas, Police Department pulled over a white Honda Accord driven by Donald Rickard because the car had only one working headlight. A woman named Kelly Allen sat in the car's passenger seat. During the traffic stop, the lieutenant noticed an indentation in the car's windshield that, according to him, was \"'roughly the size of a head or basketball'\". He then saw beer in the car and asked whether Rickard"}, {"text": "had been drinking, which Rickard denied. Rickard appeared nervous and failed to produce a driver's license when asked; the lieutenant asked him to step out of the car, but Rickard sped away. The lieutenant, later joined by other officers, pursued Rickard in a high-speed car chase down Interstate 40 that reached speeds beyond per hour. The chase lasted approximately five minutes. According to a video of the car chase, Rickard nearly struck 29 other drivers, struck two different patrol cars, and nearly struck another patrol car. Rickard drove east, crossing the Mississippi River into Tennessee. The officers attempted unsuccessfully to use a \"rolling roadblock\" to stop Rickard. After exiting Interstate 40, Rickard collided with the cruiser of one of the officers and spun out into a parking lot in Memphis, Tennessee. Rickard temporarily stopped next to a building, and officers approached his car on foot. Rickard then began to back up, and an officer pounded against his passenger-side window with his firearm. Rickard subsequently collided with another police cruiser, and even though Rickard's bumper was flush against the cruiser, he continued to use his accelerator. At this point, Sergeant Vance Plumhoff fired three shots into Rickard's car. Then, as Rickard"}, {"text": "continued \"fleeing down\" a street, officers Troy Galtelli and John Gardner fired twelve additional shots in the direction of Rickard's car, making the total number of shots fired in the incident fifteen. Rickard then lost control and crashed into a building. He and Allen died from a combination of gunshot wounds and crash injuries. Lower court proceedings. Whitne Rickard, Rickard's minor daughter, filed a legal action under 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983 against Plumhoff and the other officers, alleging that the officers had violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by using excessive force against her father. The officers filed a motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee denied this motion on January 20, 2011, holding that the officers' conduct violated clearly established law at the time of the incident. Before the case could proceed, the officers appealed the district court's denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which initially dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, citing the Supreme Court's decision in \"Johnson v. Jones\", but later vacated that judgment and instead affirmed the District Court's holding on October 9, 2012. Supreme Court. The"}, {"text": "officers filed a petition for a writ of \"certiorari\" with the Supreme Court. The petition was distributed for six times before the Court granted \"certiorari\" on November 15, 2013. Two questions were presented in the petition: (1) \"whether the Sixth Circuit wrongly denied qualified immunity to Petitioners by analyzing whether the force used in 2004 was distinguishable from factually similar force ruled permissible three years later in \"Scott v. Harris\" [...]\", and (2) \"whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity by finding the use of force was not reasonable as a matter of law when, under Respondent's own facts, the suspect led police officers on a high-speed pursuit [...]\". Opinion of the Court. Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion of the Court on May 27, 2014. Writing for a unanimous Court, Alito first addressed whether the Court had jurisdiction to hear the case as an interlocutory appeal. Alito then wrote that the officers' conduct did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Finally, Alito stated that the officers would still be entitled to qualified immunity even if their actions had violated the Fourth Amendment. The Court reversed the judgment of the Sixth Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings"}, {"text": "consistent with its opinion. Jurisdiction. In general, federal law (specifically ) only allows courts of appeals to hear appeals from the \"final decisions\" of district courts, and Alito acknowledged that an order denying summary judgment \"is generally not a final decision within the meaning of \u00a71291 and is thus generally not immediately appealable\". However, summary judgments based on qualified immunity are an exception to this general rule, since qualified immunity is \"an immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability\". Alito rejected the respondent's argument that the Court's decision in \"Johnson v. Jones\" prevents the Court from having jurisdiction in this case, stating that in \"Johnson\", the summary judgment order was not appealable because \"it merely decided 'a question of evidence sufficiency', \"i.e.\" which facts a party may, or may not, be able to prove at trial\". In the case of \"Plumhoff v. Rickard\", however, the officers raised legal issues, and Alito stated that \"deciding legal issues of this sort is a core responsibility of appellate courts\". Fourth Amendment. Moving to his constitutional analysis of the case, Alito explained that he was beginning his analysis of whether the officers violated \"clearly established law\" by answering whether the officers"}, {"text": "actually violated the Fourth Amendment, citing the Court's decision in \"Saucier v. Katz\" (2001). Alito reaffirmed the Court's decisions in \"Graham v. Connor\" and \"Tennessee v. Garner\" that excessive force claims against law enforcement officers are evaluated under the \"objective reasonableness\" standard of the Fourth Amendment, which \"requires analyzing the totality of the circumstances\". Examining the facts of the case \"from the perspective 'of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with 20/20 vision of hindsight'\", Alito concluded that the officers had acted reasonably and had not violated the Fourth Amendment, stating:Under the circumstances at the moment when the shots were fired, all that a reasonable police officer could have concluded was that Rickard was intent on resuming his flight and that, if he was allowed to do so, he would once again pose a deadly threat for others on the road.Alito wrote there was \"no basis for reaching a different conclusion\" from the Court's decision in \"Scott v. Harris\", stating that \"Rickard's outrageously reckless driving posed a grave public safety risk\" and that \"the police acted reasonably in using deadly force to end that risk\". Furthermore, Alito stated that the degree of force that the officers used when"}, {"text": "firing 15 shots into Rickard's car was also reasonable, writing that \"if police officers are justified in firing at a suspect in order to end a severe threat to public safety, the officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended\". In Rickard's case, Alito stated that \"during the 10-second span when all the shots were fired, Rickard never abandoned his attempt to flee\" and that the case would be different \"if petitioners had initiated a second round of shots after an initial round had clearly incapacitated Rickard and had ended any threat of continued flight, or if Rickard had clearly given himself up\". The presence of a passenger in Rickard's car does not affect this analysis because the question in the case is \"whether petitioners violated Rickard's Fourth Amendment rights, not Allen's\". Qualified immunity. Finally, Alito wrote that even if the officers' conduct had violated the Fourth Amendment, they \"would still be entitled to summary judgment based on qualified immunity\". Alito reiterated that an official is \"entitled to qualified immunity unless it is shown that the official violated a statutory or constitutional right that was '\"clearly established\"' at the time of the challenged conduct\". Citing the Court's decision"}, {"text": "in \"Ashcroft v. al-Kidd\" (2011), Alito stated that a defendant in a qualified immunity case is said to have violated a \"clearly established right\" only when \"the right's contours were sufficiently definite that any reasonable official in the defendant's shoes would have understood that he was violating it\". In the case of \"Plumhoff\", Alito wrote that the Court's decision in \"Brosseau v. Haugen\", in which the Court found reasonable the conduct of a police officer who fired shots at a fleeing vehicle, \"squarely demonstrates that no clearly established law precluded petitioners' conduct at the time in question\". Analysis and reception. Legal implications. In a legal analysis published in \"Criminal Justice Review\", a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publishing, Darrell L. Ross of Valdosta State University discussed the legal and practical implications of \"Plumhoff\". According to Ross, \"lower courts are reminded of how to assess issues pertaining to qualified immunity, particularly in use of force cases\". Specifically, the \"correct standard, as reiterated by the Court\u2014which was never discussed by the Sixth Circuit\u2014is whether the right was sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood what he or she is doing violates that right.\" During the course of the Court's"}, {"text": "review of the case, the justices watched audiovisual recordings of the car chase that led to Rickard's death. In an analysis published in the \"Fordham Law Review\", Denise K. Barry compared \"Plumhoff\" to the case \"Tolan v. Cotton\" (2014), in which the Supreme Court summarily vacated a motion which granted summary judgment to a police officer on the basis of qualified immunity. In \"Tolan\", no audio-visual evidence was available for the Court to review. In comparing the cases, Barry argued that \"the Court decided \"Tolan\" and \"Plumhoff\" as it did because in \"Tolan\", the evidence was purely testimonial, while in \"Plumhoff\", an audiovisual record was available to the Court\". In her analysis, Barry proposed that judges \"must undergo further education regarding the near impossibility of experiencing audiovisual evidence objectively\", concluding that rather than judges, \"more often than not, a jury should view the audiovisual evidence, bringing to this purported objective evidence a variety of viewpoints and perspectives\". Effect on law enforcement. In his analysis of \"Plumhoff\", Ross also commented that police are reminded of the Court's principles regarding the use of deadly force in accordance with \"Graham\", especially as it pertains to fleeing motorists. Specifically, Ross wrote, \"Whether force appears"}, {"text": "reasonable is measured from the perspective of the officer at the moment the officer decided to use it.\" Ross also emphasized the implications of the Court's analysis over the number of rounds fired: police officers \"are not trained or required to shoot to wound\", he wrote, \"nor are they trained to shoot warning shots prior to responding with deadly force\". According to Ross, \"Justice Alito confirmed the fact officers are trained to keep shooting until the threat is stopped\". Finally, Ross wrote, \"Police administrators are encouraged to review and revise their current use of force and pursuit policies consistent with this decision.\" Ross recommended that \"administrators should provide training to their officers on use of force legal issues and principles that emerge from \"Rickard\", \"Graham\", \"Scott\", and \"Brosseau\"\". In an article published in the \"UC Davis Law Review\", Sharon R. Fairley, a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, wrote that \"law enforcement experts and agencies generally agree that firing at or into moving vehicles is an unsound police tactic\", arguing that \"the Court should reconsider its opinion [in \"Plumhoff\"] that using deadly force is almost always a more effective way to end a vehicle pursuit than merely abandoning"}, {"text": "the pursuit\". In the \"Michigan Journal of Race & Law\", Jonathan M. Smith of the David A. Clarke School of Law wrote, \"While the \"Plumhoff\" Court emphasized the dangerousness of a high-speed chase, it ignored the fact that the chase would cease as soon as the police stopped chasing the suspect.\" Given the danger posed by high-speed chases, Smith commented that \"the National Institute of Justice issued recommendations in 1990 to limit the use of high-speed chases and to pursue alternatives, including ceasing the pursuit and tracking down the car at a later time through its license plate number\". In an article published in the \"Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review\", John P. Gross, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, discussed \"Plumhoff\" in the context of multiple cases related to qualified immunity and commented that they \"give little guidance to law enforcement agencies attempting to develop use of force policies\". Gross compared \"Plumhoff\" to the 2015 case \"Mullenix v. Luna\", describing both as \"especially problematic\" because both \"approved of shooting into a car in an effort to stop a fleeing suspect despite the fact that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies instruct"}, {"text": "officers to never fire into a moving car\". Reactions and criticism. Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, wrote an opinion piece published in \"The New York Times\", in which he described the Court's decision as \"deeply disturbing\", arguing that there are alternatives to shooting at fleeing vehicles, such as \"shooting out the car\u2019s tires\" or \"taking the license plate number and tracking the driver down later\". In the article, Chemerinsky also opposed the doctrine of qualified immunity, arguing that it poses an unreasonable burden for individuals alleging violations of constitutional rights. In a blog post published in \"The Hill\", Jonathan R. Nash, a professor of law at Emory University School of Law, argued that the Court's decision in \"Plumhoff\" was inconsistent with the precedent it set in \"Scott\", commenting that the Court \"jettisoned \"Scott\"'s careful balancing in favor of an approach designed to give the police substantial leeway in terminating chases\". Nash stated there were differences between the facts in \"Plumhoff\" versus the facts in \"Scott\", which he felt should have compelled the Court to a different conclusion. For example, in \"Scott\", the police used a maneuver that caused the driver to spin"}, {"text": "out of control, whereas in \"Plumhoff\", the police used their firearms. Additionally, in \"Scott\", the driver was the only one in the fleeing car, whereas in \"Plumhoff\", Rickard had a passenger. In a post published in the blog \"Crimes and Consequences\", Kent Scheidegger commented that in light of \"Scott\", \"it is clear enough that there was no Fourth Amendment violation on the straight merits of the case, and it is virtually beyond dispute that the officers were entitled to qualified immunity\". On that basis, Scheidegger speculated that the reason \"Plumhoff\" was distributed for conference numerous times was because the Court was considering reversing the Sixth Circuit as a summary disposition."}, {"text": "The Ilsenburg Factory is a protected historical monument in Ilsenburg in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. The building complex is from around 1840 and was the seat of the upper Administration of the princely smelting works. Today, the buildings are used as residences. In neoclassical style, the building material was Rogenstein (a term describing a specific type of oolite in which the cementing matter is argillaceous). The four buildings are each two stories, arranged around a courtyard. Except for the northern house, where the facades are unpaved."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 North Dakota State Bison men's basketball team represented North Dakota State University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bison, led by sixth-year head coach David Richman, played their home games at the Scheels Center in Fargo, North Dakota as members of the Summit League. They finished the season 25\u20138, 13\u20133 in Summit League play to finish in a tie for the Summit League regular season championship. They defeated Denver, Oral Roberts, and North Dakota to become champions of the 2020 Summit League tournament. They earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, however, the tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Bison finished the season 19-16, 9-7 in Summit League play to finish in a tie for third place. They defeated Oral Roberts in the quarterfinals, Western Illinois in the semifinals, and Omaha to win the Summit League tournament, and obtained a 16 seed in the East regional of the 2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. In the First Four, they defeated North Carolina Central before losing to the number 1 overall seeded Duke. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| The Summit"}, {"text": "League tournament Source"}, {"text": "Preah Buddha Rangsey Temple, also spelled Phra Buddha Ransi Temple, is a Cambodian Theravada Buddhist temple located in the Whitman neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2004, the Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association relocated the temple to the dilapidated St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, which was built in 1903. The temple also managed to acquire a vacant synagogue across the street, that serves as a crematory. There is also a second location in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. It was founded by the Khmer Buddhist Humanitarian Association and the monks of the first location in Philadelphia they formerly resided in."}, {"text": "Tymoczko is a surname. Notable people with the name include"}, {"text": "Wilsoniana is a genus of plant-parasitic oomycetes segregated from \"Albugo\". The name is in honor of the American mycologist G.W.Wilson"}, {"text": "\"Very Special Part\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson and produced by Jackson with Berry Gordy. It was released as the second single from his 1982 album, \"Let Me Tickle Your Fancy\"."}, {"text": "Letuli Toloa was an American Samoa paramount chief and the longest-serving President of the American Samoa Senate (at the time of his death). From 1989 until his death on January 30, 1996, Paramount Chief Punefu-ole-motu Letuli Toloa served as Senate President. Personal life. Toloa received the chiefly title \u201cLetuli\u201d while serving for the U.S. Coast Guard in Pago Pago. Letuli Toloa died on January 30, 1996, during his sixth term as Senate President. He was survived by his wife, Saolotoga Savali Letuli, and their six children and ten grandchildren. Career. Toloa served over twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard before serving as Governor for the Western District from 1974-1977. He also served as a Police Commissioner prior to entering the Senate. In 1978, he was appointed Commissioner of Public Safety for American Samoa. Three years later, in 1981, Chief Toloa became a Senator representing his district in the American Samoa Senate. In 1989, Letuli was elected as President of the American Samoa Senate."}, {"text": "Grand Nomenon (3,488m) is a mountain of the Graian Alps in Aosta Valley, Italy. Despite being a fine pyramidal peak in its own right, Grand Nomenon lives somewhat in the shadow of its giant southern neighbour Grivola. The summit however provides a fantastic panorama and climbs usually start from the Cogne Valley to the north."}, {"text": "Pustula is a genus of plant-parasitic oomycetes segregated from \"Albugo\". The name is derived from Latin's meaning \"blister\"."}, {"text": "Willard Washington Bean (May 16, 1868 \u2013 September 25, 1949) was an American middleweight boxer and a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1905, Bean claimed the title of middleweight champion of the world. He was also instrumental in the acquisition of a number of significant properties for the LDS Church, including the Hill Cumorah. Biography. Willard Washington Bean was born on May 16, 1868, the seventh of ten children, to George Washington Bean and Elizabeth n\u00e9e Baum. In 1875, when he was about seven years old, his family moved to Sevier County, Utah. They lived on the west side of the Sevier River, about three miles east of the village of Richfield. From 1894 to 1895 he studied at Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University). He then went on to be a Physical Education Instructor at the University of Utah for two years. He also served as a member of both the Salt Lake City and Richfield police departments, and edited the \"Richfield Reaper\". Bean married Gussie Dee n\u00e9e Felts in the Manti Utah Temple on May 3, 1899, and they had two children. They divorced in August 1908. On September"}, {"text": "18, 1914, he married Rebecca Rosetta Peterson, with whom he had another four children. Boxing record. He had his boxing debut on September 4, 1897, losing on a points decision. His career lasted for 18 fights, with a record of eight wins, three draws, and seven losses. However these are only the recorded fights, it is likely that Bean fought in additional contests that haven't been acknowledged. In 1905, Bean claimed the title of middleweight champion of the world. Although it was not until 1910 with the formation of the International Boxing Union that world title fights were created, until that time champions were generally recognized by public acclamation. The World Middleweight boxing champion at the time was Tommy Ryan. Missionary work. In 1907, the LDS Church purchased the farmhouse and surrounding land in Palmyra, New York, that was originally owned by Joseph Smith Sr. In 1915, Bean was sent as a missionary to live at the farm, the first members of the church to live in Palmyra in eighty-four years. He was instrumental in acquiring additional properties of historical significance to the church, including the Hill Cumorah. Through his and his family's work three branches of the church were"}, {"text": "subsequently established in the area. They were released from their mission in 1939, and returned to Salt Lake City, where Bean died on September 25, 1949. In the media and popular culture. \"The Fighting Preacher\" is a 2019 drama film depicting the 24-year missionary service of Willard and Rebecca Bean in Palmyra, New York. The film was written and directed by T. C. Christensen."}, {"text": "Jinn is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Nijla Mu'min. Starring Zoe Renee and Simone Missick, it is a coming-of-age story about a Black Muslim teenage girl, Summer, who converts to Islam at her mother's behest. The film premiered at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival on March 11, 2018 and received Special Jury Recognition for Writing. Plot. Summer is a teenage girl with divorced parents in her last year of high school. Her mother, Jade, a meteorologist, has been secretly attending a mosque and reading the Quran. Finally feeling at peace with her decision to convert she begins to open up about her new faith to Summer, but quickly begins pressuring her to join the Islamic faith as well. Summer initially thinks her mother's conversion is a joke, spurred on by a crush on the imam. Her father also dismisses it as a fad of her mother's but suggests Summer play along. Summer begins going to the mosque while still living the way she wants in her downtime by drinking, going to parties, and leaving her hair uncovered. While dancing with her friends Summer posts a picture of herself to Instagram in a bra wearing"}, {"text": "a hijab with the hashtag halal hottie. Jade begins to consider changing her name to an Arabic one to better fit her faith and wears her hijab on air. Summer also begins to take the faith more seriously and becomes intrigued by the Muslim idea of jinn. She also befriends Tahir, one of her classmates who attends the same mosque as she does and who shows her what a devote Muslim life could look like. As she concentrates on her faith her halal hottie post goes viral and she is later targeted by the Imam who publicly scolds her for her actions. Summer begins to feel torn as she enjoys certain aspects of the Muslim faith but also the freedom of the secular life she lived before her conversion. Summer confesses to Tahir that she has a crush on him and despite her flirtatious attitude she has never been intimate with anyone. She and Tahir have sex. They are later caught kissing by Tahir's mother who bans her from their house. Summer runs away from her mother and goes to stay with her father. Tahir's mother contacts Jade about Summer's relationship with Tahir and though she does not discuss her"}, {"text": "suspicions that Tahir and Summer are having sex, Jade realizes it anyway. Jade visits Summer at her father's apartment and tells her that as long as she is practicing safe sex and the relationship is consensual she supports her. Jade also decides to loosen her restrictions and to practice her faith in a way more suited to her and her daughter's needs. Summer learns that she has been accepted to school for dance and, with the support of her parents and the reluctant approval of Tahir's mother, continues her relationship with him. Production. \"Jinn\" is Nijla Mu'min's debut feature film. The film was inspired by Mu'min's experiences growing up in the Bay Area's Black Muslim community. Mu'min was born into a Muslim family. Her father converted to Islam in the 1960s and her mother converted when they married. Actress Simone Missick also was an executive producer for the film. Release. Jinn premiered at 2018 SXSW Film Festival. Critical reception. \"Jinn\" received positive critical reception. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 22 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.70/10. The website's critics' consensus reads, \"A coming-of-age story distinguished by sensitivity and strong performances, \"Jinn\" heralds debuting writer-director Nijla"}, {"text": "Mu'min as a remarkable talent.\" Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews. Reviewing for \"The A.V. Club\", Katie Rife stated, \"It presents Islam, a religion too often demonized in Western media, as a compassionate faith, and the women who practice it as independent and strong.\" In a review for \"Variety\", Amy Nicholson wrote, \"Jinn\u201d is the rare coming-of-age story that doesn't simply pat kids on the head and tell them they just need to love themselves. Instead, Mu\u2019min holds her characters accountable for the way they discombobulate each other's lives, while giving them the space to do better, if they can figure out what better is.\" \"The New York Times\" selected the film as a Critic's Pick."}, {"text": "Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery is a Cambodian Theravada Buddhist temple located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The monastery was founded in 1986 in a South Philadelphia row house. In 2010, the community acquired a 238,000-square-foot plot of land, where the current temple stands. The temple complex took nearly a decade to complete as the project was funded over time through donations from the local community."}, {"text": "Heather George (1907\u20131983) was a commercial photographer known for her industrial, fashion and outback photography, and a designer and painter. Early life. Heather George was born on 29 April 1907 in Gordon, New South Wales to father Wesley, a builder, and mother Helen. She attended public primary schools and then a boarding school in the Blue Mountains which was a better climate for her asthma. After secondary education she went to East Sydney Technical College to study art and commercial art amongst fellow students including Dahl Collings, Elaine Haxton, Joshua Smith, taught by sculptor Rayner Hoff, and later continued her studies in British-born James S. Watkins' private Sydney art school in order to concentrate on drawing. On leaving Technical College in 1927 George went to live with her family in Canberra after its official opening, where her father and his partner had built a number of its early buildings. There, she taught art at St Gabriel's Church of England Grammar School and arts and crafts at the Y.W.C.A. She joined the Artists' Society of Canberra and was the first woman to be on its council. On return to Sydney some years later George practised as a commercial artist designing in"}, {"text": "the then-emerging field of neon signs for businesses and theatres. After a break from study of some years Heather again took up training in painting with fellow students Helen Lempriere, Matcham Skipper, Lesley Sinclair and Madeleine Jorgensen under the tonalist artist Justus Jorgenson in Melbourne, where she worked in textile design at Vida Turner's firm at 191 Queen Street. Photographer. By 1938, at the age of 31, George had taken up photography professionally and worked at Noel Rubie\u2019s portrait and industrial photography studio in Sydney. Taken by Rubie, a wistful portrait of George, who was an actor and artist as well as a photographer, appears full-page in a 1938 issue of \"The Home : an Australian quarterly\" over the caption \"Miss Heather George, of Artarmon, is a youthful Sydney artist who has lately abandoned painting for photography\". She later practiced at a series of Melbourne and Victorian country photography studios. By the late 1950s George had become a freelance photographer and photojournalist, photographing Sydney\u2019s older suburbs, and stately homes in Hunters Hill She moved to Victoria and recorded the nineteenth-century slate-tiled warehouses of the St James Buildings, the demolition of the Eastern Markets and the construction of the King Street"}, {"text": "Bridge, the watch-tower of Melbourne\u2019s fire station, and mud-brick buildings in Eltham. In 1952 George stayed for months in the outback of the Northern Territory, where her sister and her sister's husband were stationed at several reservations, and there photographed indigenous subjects for whom she developed great respect and love, including the Warlpiri people whom she described as among Australia's \"most hardy and interesting aborigines\", and others on the reserves, including school children at Areyonga Aboriginal Reserve, or working in cattle stations including Wave Hill. George shared her time between Melbourne and Sydney, and after 24 years based in Melbourne, settled in Paddington in the sixties, the suburb in which her grandfather Tom George was for many years an alderman and at one time Mayor. She continued to be a regular contributor of photographs for \"Walkabout\", and many articles of the 60s feature her pictures of that suburb, of Woolloomooloo, Castlecrag, and of other features of Sydney, including Taronga Park Zoo, the Butler Stairs of Kings Cross, the multi-storied Chevron-Hilton hotel at Potts Point under construction, the emerging street caf\u00e9s Macquarie Street, and the Mitchell Library. She travelled to Hobart for pictures of the Cat and Fiddle Square Her work"}, {"text": "also appeared in \"Hoofs and Horns\", \"Pix\", \"Women's Day\", as well as the National Trust Magazine. Later life. George discontinued her work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s but continued to draw and paint. She died in 1983."}, {"text": "The 1988 King Cup was the 30th season of the knockout competition since its establishment in 1956. Al-Nassr were the defending champions but they were eliminated by eventual champions Al-Ittihad in the semi-finals. Al-Ittihad won their 6th title after defeating Al-Ettifaq 1\u20130 in the final. This was the first final to be held in the King Fahd International Stadium. As winners of the tournament, Al-Ittihad qualified for the 1989 Arab Cup Winners' Cup. Round of 16. Both Al-Ettifaq and Ohod received a bye to the next round. Al-Ettifaq received due to their participation in the 1988 Gulf Club Champions Cup. Ohod received a bye to the lack of teams participating in this round. The matches of the Round of 16 were held on 31 March and 1 April 1988. Quarter-finals. The matches of the Quarter-finals were held on 7 and 8 April 1988. Semi-finals. The four winners of the quarter-finals progressed to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were played on 12 April 1988. All times are local, AST (). Final. The final was played between Al-Ittihad and Al-Ettifaq in the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh. Al-Ittihad were appearing in their 11th final while Al-Ettifaq were making their 6th appearance."}, {"text": "The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine ) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the Septuagint published in 1587, and commissioned by Pope Sixtus V. The printing of the book \"was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587\". Hence why a second on the publication date of the book \"has been added in many copies with the pen\". This edition is based on the \"Codex Vaticanus\". The text of this edition of the Septuagint became mostly the standard for all the later editions of the Septuagint for three centuries after its publication, until Rahlfs published his edition of the Septuagint which became the new standard. Antonio Carafa directed the work on the edition of the Roman Septuagint. The Roman Septuagint was published \"by the authority of Sixtus V, to assist the revisers who were preparing the Latin Vulgate edition ordered by the Council of Trent\". Names. This work has been given multiple names: External links. Original edition: Other"}, {"text": "James Dunbar Margach CBE (1910 \u2013 23 March 1979) was a British journalist. He was born in Elgin, Scotland and began his career in journalism, aged 22, as the Westminster correspondent for the \"Aberdeen Free Press and Journal\". In this role he got to know Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, both of whom told him sensitive political information. He later became the political correspondent for \"The Sunday Times\", retiring in 1976. In a career spanning more than 40 years Margach knew 11 Prime Ministers and his unopinionated journalism helped generations of politicians from all parties to entrust him with their confidences; he was friends both with the far-left MP James Maxton and the Conservative peer Lord Swinton. Shortly before he died he wrote his memoirs \"The Abuse of Power\" which, as Ferdinand Mount noted, \"portrays most of the prime ministers he was intimate with as vain, bullying, deceitful, paranoiac, unscrupulous and vengeful. But what is so strange is that for virtually half his life he lived with these monsters and never wrote a thing in his newspaper about what they were really like\". He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1969 Birthday Honours."}, {"text": "Skarp may refer to:"}, {"text": "Donnison School (initially known as The Girls' Free School) is an English former school in the East End neighbourhood of Sunderland. It opened in 1798 to provide a free education to girls, funded by a bequest from Elizabeth Donnison. In the early 21st century it became a media and heritage centre. Early history and curriculum. When she died in 1764, school founder Elizabeth Donnison left \u00a31500 in her will to fund a school which would provide a free education for female pupils from poor families. The school opened to 36 pupils in 1798 and was also known as The Girls' Free School. Students from the ages of 7 to 16 were taught needlework, spinning, sewing and knitting in addition to reading and writing. Pupils were also provided with clothes and shoes. This type of charity school for deprived girls was part of a wider movement to educate girls and women in Britain, but the Donnison School was the first of its kind in Sunderland. The school was located next to the Sunderland workhouse, constructed in 1740. Elizabeth Donnison was married to Sunderland businessman James Donnison, who died in 1777. This was her second marriage, having previously been married to Charles"}, {"text": "Guy. Elizabeth Donnison was featured in the 'Rebel Women of Sunderland Project', an exhibit commissioned by Sunderland Culture and created by novelist Jessica Andrews and illustrator Kathryn Robertson in 2020. In 1827, Elizabeth Woodcock funded the construction of a schoolmistress' cottage on the site. The school closed at some point between 1905-1910 and the buildings became the caretaker's cottage to the Church of the Holy Trinity. They were Grade II listed in 1978. Current usage. During the 20th century, Donnison School fell into disrepair. In 2001 it was purchased by the charity Living History North East from the Church of England. Five years later, the charity received a grant of \u00a3287,000 from Sunderland City Council and the National Heritage Lottery Fund to repair and refurbish the school. It became known as the Donnison School Heritage and Education Centre in 2007, hosting lectures, school visits, and a regional oral history centre. The school building and schoolmistress' cottage is in the East End neighbourhood of Sunderland, an area also referred to as 'Old Sunderland'. The buildings are located on Church Walk near the Trafalgar Memorial and the Holy Trinity Church, near to Sunderland Town Moor and the Sunderland Docks."}, {"text": "Nakshathra Nagesh is an Indian actress and television host who has worked in Tamil films and television shows. Career. Nakshathra was schooled at Chettinad Vidyashram in Chennai. She studied hotel management at IHM, before moving into the entertainment industry as a video jockey. She first worked on Thanthi TV by hosting the show \"Vaanavil\" before moving on to work as a host on television shows such as \"Sun Singer\" for Sun TV, and as an awards host for ceremonies such as Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and the South Indian International Movie Awards. Nakshatra also acted in short films such as \"En Iniye Pon Nilave\", while also making appearances in small roles in the feature films, \"Settai\" (2013) and \"Vaayai Moodi Pesavum\" (2014). She then appeared alongside an ensemble cast in Balaji Mohan's web series, \"As I'm Suffering From Kadhal\", which marked one of the first Tamil language web-series. A reviewer noted that Nakshatra \"looks fantastic and plays her role perfectly.\" Nakshatra subsequently took on a leading role in Khushbu's television series \"Lakshmi Stores\", which marked her first lead appearance on a primetime Tamil television drama. Portraying the timid Bhagyalakshmi, Nakshatra won critical acclaim for her portrayal of the character. In 2018,"}, {"text": "she was also listed by the \"Chennai Times\" as the fourth most \"desirable woman on television\". Personal life. Nakshathra got engaged to Raghav in early 2021, and they married on 9 December 2021."}, {"text": "The Chillum Road Line, designated as Route F1 was a daily bus route operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Cheverly station of the Silver and Orange Lines of the Washington Metro and Takoma station of the Red Line. The line operated every 25\u201338 minutes during peak hours, 60 minutes during weekday off peak hours, and 58\u201362 minutes on the weekends. Trips roughly took 50\u201360 minutes. Background. Route F1 operated daily service between Cheverly station and Takoma station via Chillum Road, Queens Chapel Road, Eastern Avenue, Bladensburg Road, Annapolis Road, Landover Road, Hospital Drive, and Tuxedo Road. Route F1 operated out of Landover division. History. The Chillum Road Line was simply derived off its predecessor route known as the K6 New Hampshire Avenue\u2013Suburban Line, which began operation in the 1940s as a Capital Transit Company bus route, and operated via New Hampshire Avenue between White Oak and the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue & Eastern Avenue NE in Chillum, Maryland. During the 1950s, the K6 was converted into a DC Transit Route, renamed as the, New Hampshire Avenue-Chillum Road Line and was extended from its terminus at the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue & Eastern Avenue N.E. in"}, {"text": "Chillum, Maryland to the intersection of 34th Street & Rhode Island Avenue in Mount Rainier, Maryland, via Eastern Avenue NE, Chillum Road, 19th Avenue, La Salle Road, Carson Circle, Queens Chapel Road, 25th Street, Arundel Road, Russell Avenue, 28th Place, Upshur Street, Rainier Avenue, 34th Street, Eastern Avenue NE, Rhode Island Avenue, and 34th Street. In 1968, the K6 was rerouted to operate on the New Hampshire Avenue corridor south of the intersection of Eastern Avenue NE towards Federal Triangle alongside the K4 and K9 DC Transit Bus Routes. During this exact time, K6's routing between Mount Rainier and Chillum was replaced by DC Transit's East Riverdale - Cheverly Line Routes B4, B6, and B8 were extended from their original terminus at Mount Rainier to Chillum. Then, eventually during the early 1970's when DC Transit's East Riverdale - Cheverly Line Routes B4, B6, and B8 were discontinued, B2 was extended from its original terminus at Mount Rainier, to Chillum in order to replace their routing between Mount Rainier and Chillum. On February 4, 1973, both B2 & K6 became Metrobus Routes when WMATA bought DC Transit, which was struggling financially and merged it with three other failing bus companies throughout"}, {"text": "the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, to form its own, \"Metrobus\" System. On February 19, 1978, shortly after the Takoma station opened, B2 was truncated to only operate between Mount Rainier, Maryland and Anacostia. The segment of its routing between Mount Rainier and Chillum, was replaced by the F2 Metrobus Route and renamed the Chillum Road Line. F2 operated on the same exact routing as B2 between Mount Rainier and Chillum, only with the exception that it was extended to the Takoma station, via Eastern Avenue NE/NW, and Carroll Street NW. Prior to this time, F2 originally operated as part of the Michigan Avenue Line, alongside Route F4, between the intersection of 29th Street NE & Randolph Street NE (Mount Rainier) (F2)/ Eastern Avenue NE & Michigan Avenue NE (Avondale) (F4) and Archives in Downtown Washington D.C. It was initially a Capital Transit Company Bus Route in 1929, and then later on as a DC Transit Bus Route during the 1950s, well before becoming a WMATA Metrobus Route on February 4, 1973. On December 3, 1978, route F2 was extended from its terminus at Mount Rainier Terminal, to the newly opened Cheverly station, in order to replace route 88's routing between"}, {"text": "Mount Rainier and Cheverly, Maryland, via Rhode Island Avenue, 38th Street/38th Avenue, Bladensburg Road, Annapolis Road, Landover Road, Prince George's Hospital, Cheverly Avenue, and Columbia Park Road. On December 11, 1993, when West Hyattsville station opened, F2 was rerouted to operate on Queens Chapel Road north of 25th Street in Mount Rainier, then via Ager Road to serve the West Hyattsville Metro Station before returning back to Queens Chapel Road in the southbound direction via Ager Road. During this same exact time, F2 was rerouted to operate between Cheverly station and Prince George's Hospital, via Columbia Park Road, Arbor Street, Tuxedo Road, Kenilworth Avenue Service Roadway, Kenilworth Avenue, Lydell Road, Pepsi Place, Hospital Drive, Prince George's Hospital. Except for these route changes, F2's routing between the Cheverly and Takoma Metro Stations remained the same. F2's original routing between the Cheverly Metro Station and Prince George's Hospital was replaced by the F8 and F13 Metrobus Routes. On January 24, 1999, a new route F1 was created to operate alongside the F2 between Takoma and Cheverly stations, only with the exception that it would operate between the intersections of Rhode Island Avenue and Arundel Road in Mount Rainier, Maryland, via Eastern Avenue"}, {"text": "NE and Varnum Street rather than operating via F2's routing via Eastern Avenue NE, 34th Street, Rainier Avenue, Upshur Street, 28th Place, and Russell Avenue. Route F1 would operate on weekdays and Route F2 would operate during early morning, late night, and weekends when TheBus Route 12 did not operate. F1 had a prior incarnation as the Avondale - Federal Triangle Express Line, which operated between Avondale and Federal Triangle as a DC Transit Route and eventually became a WMATA Metrobus Route on February 4, 1973, which ultimately got discontinued on February 19, 1978. During the COVID-19 pandemic, route F1 was suspended beginning on March 16, 2020, while route F2 operated on its Saturday schedule. However beginning on March 18, 2020, the route was further reduced to operate on its regular Sunday schedule with the supplemental trips not operating and having weekend service suspended. Route F1 resumed service on August 23, 2020, and route F2 was reverted to its regular operating hours. On December 17, 2023, all Route F2 service was discontinued and replaced by Route F1, which added new weekend service. Also route F1 was rerouted to operate along Russell Avenue instead of 25th Avenue between Queens Chapel Road"}, {"text": "and Arundel Avenue in Avondale. As part of WMATA's Better Bus Redesign beginning on June 29, 2025, the F1 was combined with the T14. The F1 portion between Takoma and Mount Rainier mostly remained the same, then the route was rerouted to serve Fort Lincoln, remaining along Eastern Avenue NE, before following the T14's routing between Mount Rainier and New Carrollton station. The line was renamed into the P42. This also partially reincarnates the former Route B9 routing between Colmar Manor and Fort Lincoln. Service between West Hyattsville and Mount Rainier was replaced by Route C41 which was an extension of the former Route B2."}, {"text": "Landka is a mobile software development company focused on educational apps. Notable products include Back in Time, Kiwaka and Art Legacy. History. The Portuguese company was founded in 2010 and gained notability with its flagship product Back in Time, an education iPad app about world history. Back in Time was released in September 2011 and brought instant success to \"Landka\", being featured in the App Store worldwide and reaching the top sales of iPad book apps in nearly 40 countries. This project won \"Landka\" a World Summit Award (UN based initiative) in Learning and Education and was later ported to Windows thanks to a partnership between \"Landka\" and Intel. Back in Time was distinguished by The New York Times and selected for the top 10 apps of the year. Later developments included ThinkO, a brain-training game released in 2012 that reached the top1 downloaded apps in Brazil, and Kiwaka (2014), an educational game to teach children about astronomy developed in collaboration with ESA and ESO. In 2015, \"Landka\" released Overpaint, an educational game about colors and Art Legacy, an education book app about the most relevant paintings in the history of art, that won the company another nomination for the"}, {"text": "World Summit Awards."}, {"text": "Guadalupe Sabio Buzo (born 4 June 1977) is a Spanish scientist and Professor at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre, which is part of the Carlos III Health Institute. Her research focuses on stress-activated kinases and the development of diseases associated with obesity. She was awarded the Scientist Prize in 2012 and selected as one of the Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain in 2017. Early life and education. Sabio was born in Badajoz in 1977. She attended the Colegio del Santo \u00c1ngel and the Institute of San Fernando. She studied veterinary sciences at the University of Extremadura, and graduated in 2000 with an extraordinary award. She has said that she chose to study veterinary science as she liked animals very much, and that this could help her understand the origins of diseases. She moved to the United Kingdom for her doctoral studies, where she joined the University of Dundee as a Medical Research Council European graduate student. She completed her doctorate on p38 delta kinases in 2005. Whilst her PhD had taught her how to research \"in vitro\", Sabio was keen to translate her research into mouse models. She joined the research group of Roger Davis at the Howard"}, {"text": "Hughes Medical Institute where she studied the impact of stress on kinases proteins. In 2009 she was awarded Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal funding to join a biotechnology laboratory in Spain. Research and career. Sabio joined the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre in 2011. Sabio is investigating the molecular mechanisms that are associated with obesity, and how they can predispose patients to other conditions such as hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatocellular carcinoma is a type of liver carcinoma, and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths. Whilst there is chemotherapy available, it can only increase a patient's life by three months. Sabio researches p38gamma, a kinase protein that is expressed excessively in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, and whether inhibition of this protein could reduce the cancer. She is developing drugs that inhibit p38gamma for the treatment of liver cancer. She has also investigated the C-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNK) protein, which is known to control obesity. She believes that obesity will be a major challenge for future generations, and it should be taken as seriously as smoking. By considering fat, adipose tissue, as an endocrine organ she believes people will think more carefully about how to care for it. She believes that the"}, {"text": "best antidotes to obesity are exercise and diet. In 2017 Sabio was inducted into the European Molecular Biology Organization. Sabio has been involved in several initiatives to promote women in science. She has called for more research into the symptoms of disease experienced by women."}, {"text": "The Pyongyang Defence Command (), also known as the Pyongyang Defense Corps is a military area and corps of the Korean People's Army based out of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The PDC is composed of 70,000 KPA personnel who, alongside the Supreme Guard Command and the III Corps, are responsible for the defense of the capital. According to North Korea analyst Joseph F. Bermudez, the command operates, unlike its two counterparts, inside the Pyongyang area. It reports directly to the General Staff Department and is considered to be one of the many levers of power in the KPA. History. The command was established under the Ministry of National Defence (now the Ministry of People's Armed Forces) in 1955 with the aim of defending the national capital from the South Korean Army and the Eighth United States Army following the UN offensive into North Korea. It was incorporated into the KPA order of precedence command in the 1960s and became independent 30 years later in the 1990s. In the 1980s, it reported to Unit 963, but was later removed from its order of battle. The 2014 Defense White Paper, published by the ministry on 21 December 2012, said the"}, {"text": "Pyongyang Defense Command subordinated artillery units were transferred to the General Staff Department of the KPA to unify the artillery command system. A notable commander of the command was Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho, who commanded it from 2003 to 2009 and later became the KPA Chief of the General Staff. He was the last person known to have commanded the PDC. Another notable commander was Pak Ki So who was the predecessor to Ri who served from 1995 to 2003. Duties. It is primarily responsible for the protection of the capital and its state and party assets. The command utilizes the Youth Hero Motorway as a military route for the southern DPRK alongside the III Army Corps. During a potential Coup d'\u00e9tat or a foreign invasion, tank divisions are deployed to the highway to cut off access to the capital. The airspace of the capital is defended by the Pyongyang Air Defense Command of the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force. The commanding officer of the command is usually a billet of Colonel general and is traditionally in charge of all ceremonial military parades on Kim Il Sung Square."}, {"text": "Harriet Samuel (n\u00e9e Wolf) (8 March 1836 \u2013 6 February 1908) was an English businesswoman and the founder of H. Samuel, one of the United Kingdom's best-known high street jewellery retailers. Life and career. Harriet Wolf was born on 8 March 1836 in London, the daughter of Schreiner Wolf of Great Yarmouth and his wife Matida. When her husband Walter Samuel (1829\u20131863) died, she took over her father-in-law's Liverpool clock- and watch-making business and moved it to Manchester, where Edgar, her son, took over the firm's retailing side, while she headed its mail order business. The first H. Samuel shop opened in Preston in 1890. The business then developed into one of Britain's best-known high street jewellery retailers. After Samuel's death, the headquarters of H. Samuel was moved to Birmingham and, as of 2019, it has over 300 branches throughout the UK. She married Walter Samuel and they had four children together: Evelyn, Arthur, Florence and Edgar. Samuel died on 6 February 1908 and is buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery."}, {"text": "\"Let Me Tickle Your Fancy\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the first single from his 1982 album, \"Let Me Tickle Your Fancy\". It features the group Devo."}, {"text": "May Davenport Seymour Eckert (1883\u20131967) was an American stage actress descended from a long line of famous actors and later a patron of the arts scene in New York. She was the daughter of actor and stage manager William Gorman Seymour and actress May Marian Caroline Davenport. She had three siblings. Her maternal grandparents were E. L. Davenport and Fanny Vining Davenport, two famous mid-19th century actors. Her mother May Marian was a sister of famous 19th-century star Fanny Davenport and Hollywood actor Harry Davenport. May Eckert married William Stanley Eckert in 1908; one of their children was actress Anne Seymour who usually dropped her surname professionally. May Seymour began her theatre career c.1901. In 1903 she was appearing in \"The Little Princess\" on Broadway. Other Broadway plays were \"The Lady of Lyons\", \"The Triumph of Love\", \"The Ruling Power\", \"Brother Jacques\", \"Beauty and the Barge\", \"The Marriage of William Ashe\". In 1905 she appeared in \"A Doll's House\" produced by Charles Frohman and starring Ethel Barrymore. She appeared in the double-bill 1905 Frohman presentation \"Pantaloon/Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire\" which between the two plays featured all three Barrymore siblings Ethel, Lionel and Jack. After her children became adults she appeared with daughter Anne"}, {"text": "for nine years on radio in a program called \"Against the Storm\". She also became involved with the Museum of the City of New York creating a theater collection of memorabilia and becoming its curator. Eckert died in New York October 5, 1967."}, {"text": "Maria von Wedemeyer Weller (23 April 1924 \u2013 16 November 1977) was an American computer scientist, who emigrated from Germany to the US after the Second World War. She was known in the field of computer science for her role in developing emulation capability. She was also notable as having been the fianc\u00e9e of the German Protestant theologian and Resistance worker Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Life. Maria von Wedemeyer was born in 1924 at P\u00e4tzig in the Neumark area of Brandenburg to Hans von Wedemeyer, a landowner / gentleman farmer, and his wife Ruth (n\u00e9e von Kleist-Retzow). Maria was the third of their seven children. Relatives came from the Bismarck family and other Prussian noble families. She grew up on her parents' estate at P\u00e4tzig. Relationship with Bonhoeffer. Von Wedemeyer first met Bonhoeffer in the urban home of Ruth von Kleist-Retzow, her maternal grandmother, when she was 11 or 12 years old. He was conducting confirmation classes for Maria's elder brother and cousins; and the grandmother asked if Maria could be included. Bonhoeffer interviewed her and refused to have her join the class due to her \"immaturity\". Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer were reintroduced seven years later when Bonhoeffer was on a writing"}, {"text": "retreat at Ruth von Kleist-Retzow's country home, Klein-Kr\u00f6ssin. Notwithstanding their age difference of 18 years \u2014 she was 18 years old and he was 36 \u2014 they developed a rapport. They became engaged on 13 January 1943. Less than three months after their engagement, Bonhoeffer was arrested for his activities in resisting the Nazi government. He and von Wedemeyer corresponded during his imprisonment in Tegel Prison and she was permitted to visit him \"fairly regularly, at least once a month\". After he was implicated by association with the Abwehr members who planned the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Bonhoeffer was transferred to the Gestapo high security prison at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse and was permitted no further contact with her or his family. Bonhoeffer, and most of the other incarcerated members of the 20th of July plot, were ultimately executed just before the end of the war. Bonhoeffer was hanged at the Flossenb\u00fcrg concentration camp on 9 April 1945. Bonhoeffer's remaining possessions from his time in prison were returned to his parents, including the letters that Maria had written to him. His parents returned those letters to her and, as result, she possessed their (essentially) complete correspondence. Computer science career and"}, {"text": "marriages. Following the war, von Wedemeyer began studying mathematics at the University of G\u00f6ttingen (1945-1947); then at the University of Frankfurt (1947-1948). From 1948-1950, she continued her studies on a scholarship to Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, graduating with an MA in 1950. In 1949, she returned to Germany to marry Paul Werner Schniewind (born 1923), son of the theologian Julius Schniewind, and they decided to emigrate to the United States. They had two children before their marriage ended in divorce in 1959. During this time, she initially was employed as a statistician, but soon moved on to writing code (in machine language) at the pioneering computer company, Remington Rand UNIVAC. Following her divorce from Schniewind, she married an American semiconductor manufacturer, Barton L Weller, but they divorced in 1965. Following this divorce, she returned to the computer industry, joining Honeywell Information Systems, which was based near Boston, and advanced from being a technical employee to a series of management positions. In 1974, she gave a presentation on the development of the decompiler at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Donation of Bonhoeffer letters. In 1966, she donated the Bonhoeffer letters and manuscripts that she possessed (including the original of"}, {"text": "\"Faithfully and Quietly Surrounded by Good Powers\", \"Jonah\", \"The Death of Moses\" and \"The Past\") to the Houghton Library of Harvard University, with access to them restricted until 2002. She published selected excerpts from the letters in 1967 under the title 'The Other Letters From Prison' in the journal of the Union Theological Seminary. The publication of this article resulted in extensive coverage in the media - with articles on the front page of the \"New York Times\", and in \"TIME\", \"Newsweek\" and other publications. Death. She died of cancer, in 1977, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was survived by her two sons and one stepdaughter. Her ashes are buried at the von Wedemeyer family gravesite in Gernsbach, Germany, where a memorial tablet to her, created by Andreas Helmling, was placed in the cemetery chapel in September 2009. Fifteen years after her death, the complete correspondence with Bonhoeffer was published by her elder sister, Ruth-Alice von Bismarck (wife of Klaus von Bismarck) as \"Brautbriefe Zelle 92 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Maria von Wedemeyer 1943-1945\". This book has subsequently been translated into English, French, Japanese and other languages."}, {"text": "The China-Brazil Fund is a bilateral investment cooperation fund established by the Chinese and Brazilian governments to funnel Chinese infrastructure and industrial investment into Brazil. The fund is seen as mutually beneficial as infrastructure has lagged in Brazil while China purchases Brazilian grain that is transported to port before shipment to China. Fundraising. The fund was jointly established by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management and Sino-Latin American Production Capacity Cooperation Investment Fund (Claifund). The initial contribution for the fund was US$20 billion with US$15 billion from the Claifund and US$5 billion from the Brazilian Development Bank and Caixa Econ\u00f4mica Federal. Investments. The fund is focused on infrastructure development according to remarks in 2017 by then Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang. The fund is expected to invest heavily in Brazilian railways. The Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Development and Management announced five projects, four in infrastructure and one in industry, were to be funded in May 2018."}, {"text": "Christopher John Kempczinski is an American business executive, and the president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's Corporation. Early life and education. Christopher John Kempczinski was born in Boston, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the son of Richard Kempczinski, who was a professor of surgery and Chief of Vascular Surgery at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and Ann Marie Kempczinski (), who was a primary school teacher at Terrace Park Elementary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1987 from Indian Hill High School in suburban Cincinnati. Kempczinski earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1991, and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1997. He is of Polish descent. Career. Kempczinski started his career with Procter & Gamble in brand management, and worked for four years in its soap sector division, before leaving to attend Harvard Business School (HBS). After HBS, he became a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on consumer products and pharmaceuticals. In 2000, Kempczinski joined PepsiCo in its corporate strategy & development group, and in 2006, was named the Vice President of Marketing for the Non Carbonated Beverages Division of Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages. Before joining McDonald's, Kempczinski"}, {"text": "worked for Kraft Foods as executive vice president of growth initiatives, and president of Kraft International. He left Kraft in September 2015. Kempczinski joined the McDonald's global strategy team in late 2015, and was promoted to president of McDonald's USA in October 2016 where he oversaw the business operations of approximately 14,000 restaurants. In November 2019, he succeeded Steve Easterbrook as president and CEO. Easterbrook was fired for violating company policy by having a relationship with an employee. Shortly after joining the company, Kempczinski moved to create a \"more professional culture\" among executives and other staff, focusing on human resources. In November 2020, Kempczinski launched a new digital approach to sales mainly for drive thru, home delivery and pick up, known as \"Accelerating the Arches.\" In 2023, McDonald's unveiled 'Accelerating the Arches 2.0,' focusing on delivery, drive-thru, and development. In 2021, Kempczincki apologized to employees and the public for private remarks he made about the gun deaths of children at McDonald's. In correspondence with Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago, he blamed parents of the victims: \"With both, the parents failed those kids which I know is something you can't say. Even harder to fix.\" Publication of the exchange \"sparked outrage.\" Chicago"}, {"text": "civic groups and the Service Employees International Union demanded Kempczinski apologize, saying \"Your text message was ignorant, racist and unacceptable coming from anyone, let alone the CEO of McDonald's.\" In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kempczinski decided to suspend sales and operations for all company-owned restaurants in Ukraine indefinitely, while continuing to compensate Ukrainian employees. Similar operational changes were initially implemented in Russia, until McDonald's announced a complete withdrawal of business in the country in May. In Russia, his plan impacted 853 restaurants and approximately 62,000 employees. In a 2022 speech addressing the Economic Club of Chicago, Kempczinski expressed concerns about the impact of crime on business in the city and encouraged public\u2013private partnerships to enhance safety. As of March 2024, Kempczinski is also chairman of McDonald's. Compensation. In 2021, Kempczinski's total compensation from McDonald's was $20 million. In 2023, Kempczinski's total compensation from McDonald's was $19.2 million, or 1,212 times the median employee pay at McDonald's for that year. Recognition. Kempczinski received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Hill Foundation, and was named a person \"shaping retail's future\" by the NRF Foundation (the philanthropic branch of the National Retail Federation). Personal life. Kempczinski is married with"}, {"text": "two children. He has run marathons, and as of 2020 was running at least a week."}, {"text": "Mieszko Fortu\u0144ski (born 1 April 1992 in Lubin, Poland) is a Polish professional pool player. He was the winner of the Euro Tour event 2016 Italian Open. Fortu\u0144ski is a three-time winner of the European Pool Championships, winning the ten-ball event in 2019, and the represented Poland in the team event, winning in 2015 and 2018."}, {"text": "Pierre Patron (born 20 August 1997) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Quevilly-Rouen. Life and career. Patron was born in Vannes in 1997, and raised in Saint-Av\u00e9. His father was a driving instructor and his mother a childminder. He played football for his hometown club, Vannes OC from age 10 to 15, before spending the next four years with Brest. During that time, he passed his \"baccalaur\u00e9at\" and began a . As a 17-year-old, he played in the senior squad that won the 2015 Coupe de Bretagne Senior, and the following season, he made one appearance in the fifth-tier Championnat de France Amateur 2 (CFA2) and was part of the under-19 squad that reached the semi-final of that season's Coupe Gambardella, in which they lost to a Monaco under-19 side featuring the already first-team regular Kylian Mbapp\u00e9. He was however second-choice goalkeeper behind Gautier Larsonneur at under-19 level, and was released in 2016. After trials with Lorient, Angers and Clermont, Patron signed for the latter as fourth-choice goalkeeper, with the prospect of moving up the pecking order if he had a good season with the B-team in the CFA2. He played 19 matches, and"}, {"text": "in his second season trained regularly with the professional group while playing 20 matches in the 2017\u201318 Championnat National 3 (successor to the CFA2). In August 2019, he was one of several younger players selected to start the Coupe de la Ligue first round match against third-tier Laval, which Clermont won 3\u20130. He was named as substitute goalkeeper for the Ligue 2 team on 12 occasions that season, but never took the field. He signed for Le Mans, newly promoted to Ligue 2, in June 2019. Initially third choice goalkeeper, a dislocated finger for Yoann Thuram gave Patron a seat on the bench, and when J\u00e9r\u00e9my Aymes was injured while making a clearance 11 minutes into the Coupe de la Ligue round of 32 match against Nice on 30 October, Patron made an unexpected first-team debut. He conceded twice in his first few minutes on the field, but kept a clean sheet thereafter as Le Mans beat the Ligue 1 side 3\u20132 to go through to the next round. Three days later, Patron made his first appearance in Ligue 2, away to Clermont where he had spent the previous three years; he kept a clean sheet as Le Mans won"}, {"text": "1\u20130. On 4 July 2022, Patron signed a contract with Charleroi in Belgium for the term of 2 years, with an option for 2 more. On 19 June 2024, Patron agreed to move to Quevilly-Rouen for two seasons."}, {"text": "The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in the Upper Swaledale village of Muker, in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of four churches in the ecclesiastical \"Parish of Swaledale with Arkengarthdale\". The church was constructed in 1580, but previous to this, a chapel-of-ease had stood on the site which came under the Church of St Andrew in Grinton. Until the consecration of St Mary's, baptisms, weddings and funerals, had to be conducted at the church in Grinton. The Church of St Mary the Virgin, is noted for being a rare example of a house of worship being built during the Elizabethan era. Ecclesiastical background. The parish registers for Grinton record that in August 1580, the Bishop of Chester, William Chaderton, visited to Until the consecration of the graveyard, deaths occurring in Muker, Keld and Upper Swaledale, involved carrying the deceased along the Corpse Road to Grinton for burial, some to to the east. This process could take three days to accomplish and involved many stops. The church at Muker was thus allowed to carry out its own affairs, whilst still being tied to St Andrew's at Grinton. St Mary's stayed as a daughter church to"}, {"text": "the parish church in Grinton for 300 years when it was finally granted its own parish in 1892. The church was the focus of much religious activities in the area after the chapel at Keld was destroyed. Some records point to the destruction being part of a riot linked to the Dissolution. Speight, writing in \"Romantic Richmondshire\", describes the village as: \"The grey, old village of Muker, with its plain little church, stands under the precipitous scars of Kisdon...\" History. The church was built in 1580, which makes it rare as an example of an Elizabethan church; not many places of worship were built at this time. Originally, the roof was thatched, being replaced with slate in 1791. It is thought that the tower was shorter when first built, than it is now, being adapted in 1719. Glynne describes the tower as being \"wholly devoid of character\", the windows as being Perpendicular, and the whole structure as \"mean and ugly\". The tower measures almost by , with the nave and chancel measuring in length, and wide. In the 1890s, some frescoes were revealed underneath the paintwork/whitewash, however, these were deemed worthless and so not kept. Earlier stonework, possibly from the"}, {"text": "14th century, is included in the walls of the church, and the original bells in the tower were thought to have been brought up the valley from Ellerton Priory, after the Dissolution. The bells were undated, but their narrow shape indicated a \"Medieval date\". The church has a variety of stained glass, one of which (the east window) depicts the surrounding countryside, the River Swale and Straw Beck. The church was renovated in 1890, when the west gallery was removed, something which not only made the church smaller, but was also unpopular with local parishioners. The entrance to the church is a via the south door, over which a sundial is affixed. Besides the church, a grade II listed font is extant, though located in the churchyard, south of the porch door. It is possibly the original 1580 font. Parish and diocese. The church is located in the parish and benefice of Swaledale with Arkengarthdale, a community of four churches, the other three being St Andrew's Grinton, St Mary's, Arkengarthdale, and Holy Trinity at Low Row. Historically, the church was in the Diocese of Chester, but is now in the Diocese of Leeds."}, {"text": "\"Paradise in Your Eyes\" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. Released in February 1982, it served as the second single from his 1981 album \"I Like Your Style\"."}, {"text": "Joe Bertram may refer to:"}, {"text": "The molecular formula C7H9N2O (molar mass: 137.16 g/mol) may refer to:"}, {"text": "GothBoiClique (also abbreviated as GBC) is an American emo rap collective based in Los Angeles, California. It was formed in 2012 by Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Cold Hart, and Horse Head. The group's name comes from a beat that Cold Hart sent to Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. In 2016, the group released their first mixtape, \"Yeah It's True\". History. GBC was formed in 2012 through Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (WPSE) attempting to put together a group through Tumblr with the intention of forming a collective of musicians who could mutually collaborate with and produce for one another and draw connections between the emo, trap, dark wave, black metal and indie rock scenes. The founding line-up consisted of Wicca Phase, Cold Hart and Horse Head, taking their name from a beat titled \"Gothboiclique\" that Cold Hart had produced, which when WPSE read the name he jokingly tweeted \"RT if you\u2019re goth boi clique\". The members of the group continued mostly independently for the next two years, despite continuing to recruit newer artists. In 2014, the members met each other in person, and soon after GBC became a sub-group of the newly-founded hip hop collective Thraxxhouse, a Seattle-based offshoot of Raider Klan."}, {"text": "This led to Lil Tracy (then known as Yung Bruh) joining Thraxxhouse later on in 2014, and quickly became a fan of GBC. In a 2018 interview with Pitchfork, he stated that he owned a secondhand GBC shirt that he wore \"every day, to bed, in the morning, everywhere\" and that he \"looked up to Wicca Phase almost like on a stan level\". He soon asked Horse Head to ask WPSE if he could join, who allowed, saying \"Well, he wears the shirt enough!\" In 2015, Thraxxhouse broke up, however GBC continued to operate independently. On September 25, 2016, Lil Peep announced that he had officially joined the group soon after the release of his mixtape \"Hellboy\". The group released their debut collective mixtape \"Yeah It's True\" on June 25, 2016. On November 15, 2017, Lil Peep was found dead on his tour bus when his manager went to check on him in preparation for that night's performance at a Tucson, Arizona venue. In 2018, WPSE and GBC affiliates Lil Zubin, Jon Simmons, Nedarb, Fantasy Camp and Foxwedding formed Misery Club, a sub-group of GBC. In June 2019, GBC headlined a sold-out European tour. On June 28, 2019, they released"}, {"text": "the single Tiramisu, before departing on a North American headline tour. In 2020, Horse Head left GothBoiClique, but rejoined in autumn of 2022. Members. Current members. Source:"}, {"text": "\"You're a Part of Me\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes. It was produced by Mentor Williams and features on her self-titled album, released in 1975. It became Carnes\u2019 first chart hit as a solo artist, reaching number 25 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. In 1978, Carnes re-recorded the song as a duet with Gene Cotton. Their version reached number 36 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"You're a Part of Me\" was first released by Susan Jacks, whose version reached number 41 on the Canadian Singles Chart, number 11 on the AC chart, and number 90 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Critical reception. \"Billboard\" likened \"You're a Part of Me\" to the music of Olivia Newton-John, describing it as a \"pretty ballad\". Commercial performance. \"You're a Part of Me\" entered the Canadian AC chart on January 31, 1976. It spent a total of six weeks in the Top 50, peaking at number 25."}, {"text": "Vladimir Ivanovich Kozlovsky (; 1867\u20131930) was an Impressionist painter from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Biography. At the age of 13 years, Vladimir Kozlovsky entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied with Konstantin Korovin and Isaac Levitan. His professional development was heavily influenced by his friends as well as his teachers, Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Polenov and Vasily Perov. After graduation in 1887, Vladimir went back to Kiev and was soon accepted by the Kiev Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1890 - 1896). Kozlovsky's early paintings won multiple awards in Kiev and Moscow during these years, including \"Quiet Monastery\" (1892), \"Sweet home\" (1893), \"Noon\" (1894) and \"Pine Forest\" (1895). By the beginning of the 20th century, Kozlovsky became one of the Russian impressionists, joining the growing art movement in the country. In his paintings, Vladimir connected the landscape painting traditions of his teacher, Vasily Polenov, with genre scenes of Vasily Perov, vividly describing simple life of Ukrainian peasants. In 1915, Vladimir Kozlovsky was a founding member of the Kiev Society of Artists (1914-1919) and served as Secretary of this society for 5 years. His paintings were exhibited throughout the Russian"}, {"text": "Empire, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Zhytomyr and other cities. Several of his most famous pieces, such as \"Winter\", \"Printemps\", \"Road to Zhytomyr\", \"Pond\", \"At the river\", and \"Fishermen\" were published as postcards. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many painters had to leave the country. The new communist ideology was particularly hostile to the \"bourgeois\" impressionist art movement, deemed to be incompatible with the communist values. Vladimir Kozlovsky remained in Kiev and started working as an illustrator of children's books, cooperating with the same publishing houses that earlier were publishing his paintings. Vladimir Kozlovsky died in 1930, and was buried in the old Baikove Cemetery in Kiev."}, {"text": "John Joyce (1937 \u2013 29 October 2019) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Dublin Senior Championship St Vincent's. He played at senior level for the Dublin county team for seven years, during which time he usually lined out as a full-forward. Joyce began his football career at club level with St Vincent's. After winning a Dublin Minor Championship medal in 1955, he subsequently broke onto the club's senior team. Joyce won the first of four successive Dublin Senior Championship medals in 1957 before bring his overall tally to six with further wins in 1962 and 1964. At inter-county level, Joyce was part of the successful Dublin minor team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1955. He joined the Dublin senior team in 1956. From his debut, Joyce was ever-present as an inside forward and made a combined total of 61 National League and Championship appearances in a career that ended with his last game in 1963. During that time he was part of the All-Ireland Championship-winning team in 1958. Joyce also secured four Leinster Championship medals and a National Football League medal. Joyce is currently Dublin's second-highest goalscorer of all time, having scored 39\u201355 in 61 appearances. At"}, {"text": "inter-provincial level, he was selected to play in several championship campaigns with Leinster, winning two Railway Cup medals. Joyce scored 5\u20133 against Longford in 1960, which remained a record highest individual scorer in any championship football match until 2002 when Rory Gallagher of Fermanagh matched it with 3\u20139. Joyce then lost the joint record to Cillian O'Connor of Mayo's four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park."}, {"text": "Methylnicotinamide may refer to:"}, {"text": "Veronika Khek Kuba\u0159ov\u00e1 (born 1 June 1987 in Rakovn\u00edk) is a Czech actress. In December 2019 Khek Kuba\u0159ov\u00e1 won the tenth season of StarDance with her professional partner Dominik Vodi\u010dka. From 2015 to 2023 she was a permanent member of the Dejvice Theatre. Personal life. On 17 April 2025, Khek Kuba\u0159ov\u00e1 announced on Instagram her pregnancy and pause in her career."}, {"text": "\"I'm Just Too Shy\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson, a former member of The Jackson 5. It was released as the first single from his 1981 album, \"I Like Your Style\", in September of that year. \"Record World\" said that \"Jackson's fragile falsetto skips lightly over q delicate, mid-tempo rhythm while high harmonies carry the hook.\""}, {"text": "The Big Star Parade (German: Die gro\u00dfe Starparade) is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Adrian Hoven, Renate Holm and Gunther Philipp. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans J\u00fcrgen Kiebach and Gabriel Pellon. It was shot at the Spandau Studios and on location in Bavaria and Hamburg."}, {"text": "Ch\u00f9a B\u1ed3 \u0110\u1ec1, also known as the B\u1ed3 \u0110\u1ec1 Buddhist Temple is a Vietnamese Buddhist temple located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The temple was established Christmas Day in 1994 after Vietnamese immigrants of the Asian American Buddhist Association of Philadelphia raised to $130,000 to purchase the abandoned Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz. It is the first Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Philadelphia. In 1995, a resident monk was murdered. The incident delayed renovations to the building until the end of 1997."}, {"text": "Alice Davies (1870 - \"alive in\" 1919 ) was a British suffragette and nurse. She was imprisoned for protesting for women's right to vote by smashing windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'. Life and activism. Born in 1870, to parents in Liverpool and had at least one brother, who later had a son Frederick Lesley Stuart Davies, serving in the WWI Army Cycle Corps. Alice Davies joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to protest for women's right to vote. Davies became the Liverpool WPSU Branch organiser from June 1910 to September 1912, trying to move the approach of the four branches in the area to holding more large indoor events and social functions, away from the frequent street meetings outside factories and smaller 'At Homes' in more affluent areas that were a feature before her. The groups in the Cheshire side of the Mersey continued the street events with speakers from Liverpool and beyond, and from November 1910 WSPU had toned down its militancy for a period. The branch shop did not do well during that time with a drop from over \u00a318 annual profit"}, {"text": "from written material sales to just over19shillings (less than \u00a31) as it became a more exclusive 'members meeting' place. As most of the suffragette literature had been sold at street meetings to spread the message about 'votes for women' to the public, the change in management may reflect lost opportunities to increase support for the cause. Davies organised Holiday Campaigns' in the Lake District, and used Vida Goldstein and Beatrice Harraden, from the national movement to support this. In 1911, Davies was writing to encourage local members to join a deputation to London to attempt to speak to Prime Minister Lloyd-George on 21 November. During 1912, Davies was one of the two hundred women arrested during a protest which took place on 1 and 4 March 1912, which was a second wave of window smashing protests in the wealthy London shopping area, the West End, in Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea. This took place at the same time as the Parliament was debating a Conciliation Bill (which was to have given some women the right to vote but was not passed). Davies said at her trial that 'women were determined to fight for the same human rights enjoyed by men. They"}, {"text": "were tired of being treated as aliens & would continue their struggle until they had reached their objective.' Davies's sentence was three months and she went on hunger strike. Whilst she was away the Liverpool WSPU continued and members praised Patricia Woodlock as a public speaker, the temporary branch organiser. In recognition of Davies suffering in prison, the WSPU awarded her a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' designed by Christabel Pankhurst, with the ribbon in the colours of the movement - green, white and purple, representing 'hope, purity and dignity' and dated 4 March 1912. The presentation box was inscribed ALICE DAVIES - BY THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION IN RECOGNITION OF A GALLANT ACTION, WHEREBY THROUGH ENDURANCE TO THE LAST EXTREMITY OF HUNGER AND HARDSHIP, A GREAT PRINCIPLE OF POLITICAL JUSTICE WAS VINDICATED.National Archive record lists those who were imprisoned and later subject to the pardon granted to all suffragettes when the WSPU discontinued militancy at the start of World War One; she was listed there as Alice 'Davis', but the record states it was created from later recollections of suffragette activists and not from original prison or court documents. Women imprisoned who went on hunger strike were"}, {"text": "frequently force-fed and despite not being treated as 'political prisoners' were supportive of each other, in whatever way they could. One example of this that Davies took part in Holloway Prison, was the creation by sixty-eight women of what became known as The Suffragette Handkerchief: secretly embroidering their name, initials or full signature on a common piece of cloth, right under the eyes of the prison wardresses (probably in the exercise yard), and smuggled out by Mary Ann Hilliard and now in The Priest House Museum, West Hoathly on display there and with similar items it can also be viewed online. On return to Liverpool, Davies may have been hesitant for the abilities of her team so organised a campaign meeting at the Sun Hall, Liverpool jointly with two other organisations (NUWSS and the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA), for the first time, as well as building relations with the local Men's League for Women's Suffrage and the newly developing Church League, but the publicity focussed on the CUWFA role. Davies also organised a visit by Emmeline Pankhurst to the Hardman Hall, which was written up in \"Votes for Women,\" February 2012\".\" Dr. Alice Ker spoke warmly of"}, {"text": "Davies, during their time in Holloway together, and Davies gave her an appropriate low key release 'welcome' and garden party, rather than the big public events for the release of Patricia Woodlock and others. It appears that Davies moved away from the area after the next summer campaign in the Lake District, to London, She had joined the Women's Tax Resistance League, and had to have two silver candlesticks auctioned to affray unpaid taxes, an event celebrated by a small procession to Grosvenor Gardens and speeches, led by the organisation's founder, Anne Cobden-Sanderson. Later life. Davies became a Nursing Sister at Westminster, and served in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (during World War One) but does not seem to appear in later key records of the suffragette or the women's rights movements. She wrote to her nephew Frederick Lesley Stuart Davies, a private in the Army Cyclist Corps. King's Liverpool Regiment and Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was discharged injured in 1919. Davies's date of death is unknown."}, {"text": "Marlene Beatriz Mendoza Bobadilla (born 5 April 1994) is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a defender for Cerro Porte\u00f1o. She has also played for the Paraguay women's national team. International career. Mendoza played for Paraguay at senior level in the 2018 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina."}, {"text": "\"You Like Me Don't You\" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the second single from his 1980 album, \"Jermaine\", in January 1981. \"Record World\" said that \"Jermaine exhibits a sense of maturity and confidence that make this a totally engrossing piece.\""}, {"text": "Saul Kussiel Padover (April 13, 1905 \u2013 February 22, 1981) was a historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City who wrote biographies of philosophers and politicians such as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson. Early years and education. Padover was born in Rozwad\u00f3w, then in Austria-Hungary, but now in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1920. Padover earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He completed graduate coursework at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and received a Master of Arts and in 1932. He later received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Civil Service. Padover worked in the United States Department of Interior, as a political analyst for the Federal Communications Commission, and as an intelligence officer for the Office of Strategic Services.<ref name=\"isreview/46/germany\"></ref><ref name=\"researchgate/338674932\"></ref><ref name=\"compromised-identities/facilitating-aryanisation\"></ref> Padover supervised civilian members of the Psychological Warfare Division (PWD).<ref name=\"time.com/26 March 1945/Wallow\"></ref> His service was notable for his leaking the identity of U.S.-appointed mayor of Aachen Franz Oppenhoff; Heinrich Himmler subsequently ordered the assassination of Oppenhoff. Academia and writing career. Padover wrote editorials for \"PM\", a short-lived liberal newspaper. In 1949, he joined the graduate faculty"}, {"text": "of The New School. He also directed the General Seminar, the New School's interdisciplinary seminar for faculty. Personal life and death. Padover was married first to Irina Padover, and following the death of his first wife, to Peg Fenwick, screenwriter of the film \"All That Heaven Allows\". Padover died on February 22, 1981."}, {"text": "The 2019 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 200 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on November 9, 2019, at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 200 laps on the oval, it was the 32nd race of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, sixth race of the Playoffs, and the final race of the Round of 8. Background. Track. ISM Raceway is a 1-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona, near Phoenix. The motorsport track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. ISM Raceway has also hosted the CART, IndyCar Series, USAC and the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The raceway is currently owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation. Practice. First practice. Christopher Bell was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 27.736 seconds and a speed of . Final practice. Christopher Bell was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 27.661 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying. Christopher Bell scored the pole for the race with a time of 27.180 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying results. . \u2013 Playoffs driver Race. Summary. Christopher Bell started on pole and led for the first"}, {"text": "48 laps. The first caution occurred when Michael Annett and Riley Herbst tangled. Bell lost the lead to Tyler Reddick for one lap, but quickly took it back and won Stage 1. Bell and Austin Cindric were tagged for speeding on pit road. Cole Custer and Justin Allgaier exchanged the lead afterwards. Bell also won Stage 2 after briefly taking the lead. Bell lost his chance of winning the race after a spin on lap 117 caused him to go one lap down. However, Bell was already locked into the finale from his win at the previous week's race. Chase Briscoe took the lead on the restart, but lost it to Allgaier as Briscoe only took fuel on the last caution (he had hoped for another caution to occur). Allgaier held onto the lead, holding off a charging Custer to take the victory and advance to the final 4. Reddick and Custer also made the championship 4 on points, eliminating Cindric, Briscoe, Annett, and Noah Gragson. Stage Results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 60 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 60 Final Stage Results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 80 . \u2013 Driver advanced to the Championship 4. . \u2013 Driver was eliminated from the playoffs."}, {"text": "Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (CTBC) is a Tibetan Buddhist community at 954 N. Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1989 by Lama Losang Samten, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and sand mandala master, along with a group of his students. Lama Losang Samten previously served as the personal assistant to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In 1988, he was sent by the Dalai Lama to New York City to create the first Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala in the Western Hemisphere. While in New York, Lama Samten was invited to Philadelphia to construct a sand mandala at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 1989, he began teaching Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the Tibetan language and culture, at the museum. During this time, he commuted from New York City with a translator. After two years, as Lama Samten prepared to return to his monastery in India, a group of his students petitioned the Dalai Lama through letters requesting that he appoint Lama Samten as a permanent teacher in Philadelphia. The Dalai Lama agreed, leading to the establishment of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center. History. The Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia was established"}, {"text": "in 1989, with Lama Losang Samten as Spiritual Director. Initially, teachings were held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Eventually, Lama Losang\u2019s students began searching for a permanent home for their sangha (Buddhist community). Their first dedicated location was a rental on the second floor of a building on Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia. Members performed extensive renovations, and the sangha met there for several years. When the building owner required the space back, the sangha entered its first nomadic phase, returning to the University of Pennsylvania Women's Center. In the early 2000s, an opportunity arose to purchase a house owned by a member in the suburb of Upper Darby. Although the purchase was completed, attendance declined due to limited public transportation access and the area\u2019s difficulty to reach without a car. A zoning dispute further complicated their use of the property, and it was sold in 2007. This led to another nomadic period. The sangha eventually found a semi-permanent home in a converted industrial building housing artists\u2019 lofts at 9th and Spring Garden Streets, where they remained for about six years. After a fire in another unit caused the building to be condemned, the sangha began"}, {"text": "a third nomadic phase and decided to once again pursue a permanent home. In 2017, a modest brick building was purchased at 954 N. Marshall Street, on the edge of the Northern Liberties neighborhood. This once-bustling market corridor historically included many Jewish-owned businesses that thrived during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The building had previously housed a women\u2019s clothing store, a chicken processing facility, and, according to local residents, a gambling operation. When the center officially opened in 2017, Lama Losang\u2019s long-held vision of a place dedicated to the study and cultivation loving-kindness and compassion was realized. The Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia was named and blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Lama Losang\u2019s Approach to Teaching. Lama Losang Samten entered Namgyal Monastery in Dharamshala, India as a young boy after fleeing Tibet with his family and settling in Nepal for several years. At the monastery, he received firsthand teachings from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and other great Buddhist thinkers, and he retains a deep love of learning to this day. Lama Losang is a recognized expert in Tibetan ritual dance and a master of sand mandala creation, having created several hundred mandalas across North"}, {"text": "America and South America in the last 35 years. He long dreamed of establishing a center where people would feel comfortable and welcome to learn about Buddhism. His teaching style often includes references and metaphors drawn from Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism, helping make his teachings accessible and relatable to his diverse student body. Lama Losang identifies as a caretaker\u2014a role he cultivated during his early years in monastic life and continues to express at the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia (CTBC). Outside of formal teaching, he can often be found tending to the physical upkeep of the center, whether by cleaning the refrigerator or applying a new coat of sealer to the wooden doors. When it comes to teaching, Lama Losang emphasizes the original words of the Buddha over modern interpretations or commentaries. He is not focused on the number of students who \"take refuge\" in Buddhism and does not seek to retain students through obligation. Rather, he encourages individuals to engage with the CTBC community while remaining open to receiving teachings from other teachers and traditions. His life is dedicated to becoming a better human being, and he believes Buddhist training offers many profound lessons on how"}, {"text": "to live with compassion, mindfulness, and purpose. Location and Facilities. The CTBC is located in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 2017, it is housed in a small brick building on a street that was once a bustling marketplace and is now a mix of old and new housing, restaurants, and other small businesses. The center is situated between two major east\u2013west corridors, Girard Avenue and Spring Garden Street, and between 6th and 7th Streets running north\u2013south. When it was purchased, the building was a gutted shell. In previous incarnations, it had served as a clothing store, a chicken processing facility, and a gambling parlor. The electrical and plumbing systems were derelict, and the building required a complete renovation. Programs and Activities. Sunday Sangha is held weekly at the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, led by Lama Losang Samten or, in his absence, by senior students who have studied with him for many years. Participants may join the sessions either in person or virtually via Zoom. The center is non-sectarian and describes itself as a diverse and inclusive community of practitioners. In addition to Sunday Sangha, the center offers several recurring weekly programs: Meditation and Dharma"}, {"text": "Study Group \u2013 A weekly study group that explores classical Buddhist texts and their relevance to contemporary life. Meetings take place Thursdays from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. via Zoom. Heart Sutra Practice \u2013 Held periodically; schedule available on the center\u2019s website. Medicine Buddha Practice \u2013 Offered on select dates; see the calendar for details. Throughout the year, additional teachings are offered by Lama Samten, senior members, and visiting teachers. More information can be found on the official website. Associated Sanghas and visiting teachers. Lama Losang has students in communities across the country who attend Sunday Sangha via Zoom. He visits sanghas in Winnipeg, Canada, El Paso, Texas, Chico, California annually, lecturing, holding retreats and creating sand mandalas. Visiting Teachers. Over the years, the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia has hosted many notable teachers and practitioners of Buddhism, including the following: Geshe Monlam \u2013 from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India. Kenzur Rinpoche \u2013 Abbot of Namgyal Monastery, where Lama Losang studied. Ani Tenzin Palmo \u2013 Buddhist nun, subject of \"A Cave in the Snow\" and author of \"The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion. A Modern Commentary on the 37 Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva\". Amy Miller \u2013"}, {"text": "Tibetan Buddhist nun. Lama Lena \u2013 Teacher of Dzogchen and Mahamudra meditation. Gelek Rinpoche \u2013 Tibetan Buddhist teacher and founder of Jewel Heart. Sogyal Rinpoche \u2013 Dzogchen master and author of \"The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying\". Geshe Michael Roach \u2013 monk and author. Takser Rinpoche \u2013 Eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. Ngari Rinpoche \u2013 Younger brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. Glenn Mullin \u2013 Buddhist scholar and translator. Lama Rinchen \u2013 Teacher. Barry Kerzin \u2013 American physician and Buddhist monk, personal physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Palden Gyatso \u2013 Tibetan monk who was held as a political prisoner in China for 33 years. Garchen Rinpoche \u2013 Founder and spiritual director of the Garchen Buddhist Institute in Chino Valley, Arizona. Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche \u2013 Tibetan Buddhist teacher and translator. Loten Namling \u2013 Singer and performer of Tibetan heritage. Cultural performances by monks for advanced study and practice of Buddhism from: Sera Monastery, Ganden Shartse Monastery, Ganden Jangtse Monastery, Gyuto Monastery and Namgyal Monastery External links. Homepage"}, {"text": "KSBO may refer to:"}, {"text": "\"Little Girl Don't You Worry\" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the first single from his 1980 album, \"Jermaine\", in October that same year. \"Record World\" called it a \"unique, well-crafted [song with Jermaine's] bold vocal up front with spanking percussion & chorus cushions.\""}, {"text": "Park Wood and Goulding's Wood is a Local nature reserve north-west of Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is owned by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and managed by the Woodland Trust. This mature wood is mainly oak and beech on clay soils. There are several sequoia trees which were planted in the Victorian period. There are ponds and dells in the north of the site, which is dominated by rhododendrons. There is access from Marlow Road."}, {"text": "The 2019 Ford EcoBoost 300 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series race held on November 16, 2019, at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Contested over 200 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) oval, it was the 33rd and final race of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity 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. Tyler Reddick was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 32.594 seconds and a speed of ."}, {"text": "Qualifying. Tyler Reddick scored the pole for the race with a time of 32.322 seconds and a speed of . Qualifying results. . \u2013 Playoffs driver Race. Summary. Tyler Reddick started on pole, and was challenging by Cole Custer in the opening laps. On lap 32, a caution was thrown for debris being stuck in the wall, causing Reddick and Custer to pit while Christopher Bell and Justin Allgaier stayed out. Custer managed to charge back to the front, only finishing behind teammate Chase Briscoe in Stage 1. On lap 59, Custer made a pit stop for a loose wheel, causing him to go down one lap. He managed to weave past Austin Cindric and restarted in the final stage on the lead lap. In the closing laps, Custer caught up to Reddick and took the lead. Reddick slid past Custer with under 20 laps remaining and pulled away, winning the race and the championship. Stage Results. Stage One \"Laps:\" 45 Stage Two \"Laps:\" 45 Final Stage Results. Stage Three \"Laps:\" 110 . \u2013 Driver won the championship . \u2013 Playoffs driver"}, {"text": "Co-op News is a UK-based monthly news magazine and website for the global co-operative movement. First published in Manchester in 1871 as The Co-operative News, the paper is the world's oldest co-operative newspaper. Originally a weekly newspaper, the paper moved to being published fortnightly in 2006, and finally monthly in 2017. Recent years have also seen the newspaper re-brand and move to its current news magazine format. The paper is based in Holyoake House, Manchester and is published by the Co-operative Press, a consumer co-operative whose members are the subscribers of the paper. In 1883 the paper began publishing a Women's Corner, edited by Alice Acland. This fomented the establishment of the Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation later that year. The League was later renamed to the Women's Co-operative Guild. In 1971 the \"Scottish Co-operator\" \u2013 founded 1893 \u2013 was merged into the \"Co-operative News\"."}, {"text": "Isaac Levido (born 1983) is an Australian political strategist who was the head of the British Conservative Party's campaigns in the 2019 United Kingdom general election and 2024 United Kingdom general election. Early life. Levido was raised in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. The eldest of three boys, his father, Justin, was a local councillor who inculcated in the junior Levido a love for politics at a young age. He studied at the Port Macquarie-based St Agnes' Primary School, St Joseph's Regional and MacKillop College, furthering his education in Canberra and the United States at Georgetown University. Career. While in the United States, Levido worked on several Republican campaigns for U.S. Senate. He was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Sir Lynton Crosby, whom he had met while working for the Conservative Party's 2015 general election campaign. Levido was then hired by Crosby's consultancy CTF Partners and was in charge of running its office in Washington, D.C. Levido was also involved in the party's 2017 general election campaign, as well as Zac Goldsmith's campaign during the 2016 London mayoral election. During the 2019 Australian federal election, he was a deputy of the campaign director for the Liberal Party of Australia, Andrew Hirst."}, {"text": "Levido headed the Conservative Party's successful campaign in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. In March 2020, Levido was tasked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to improve the government's coronavirus-related messaging; Levido is credited with coining the slogan, \"Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\". In May 2020, he moved into an office in Downing Street to work on a snappy slogan for the easing of the UK Government's coronavirus restrictions. When Dominic Cummings, the Chief Adviser to Johnson, was infected with coronavirus in March 2020, it had already been decided that Mr Levido would temporarily take his place. Levido left Downing Street in July 2020 to found Fleetwood Strategy. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for political service. The \"New Statesman\" named him as the fifteenth most powerful right-wing figure in the UK in 2023. He worked with Rishi Sunak on the Conservative Party's strategy in the 2024 United Kingdom general election."}, {"text": "\"You're Supposed to Keep Your Love for Me\" is a song written by Stevie Wonder and recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the first single from Jackson's 1980 album, \"Let's Get Serious\". \"Record World\" said that \"Jackson's reading is dreamy.\""}, {"text": "Land is a 2021 psychological drama film directed by Robin Wright in her feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam. It stars Wright, Demi\u00e1n Bichir and Kim Dickens. The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, and was released in the United States on February 12, 2021, by Focus Features. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot. After a traumatic experience, Edee Holzer tries therapy, revealing to her therapist that she tries to avoid people. She leaves the city and moves to Wyoming where she purchases a small, remote cabin with land and resolves to live in solitude without any modern conveniences connecting her to the outside world, including telephones or cars. Initially, Edee struggles with basic provisions, including chopping firewood and fishing. When a black bear enters her cabin, eating her food, and destroying most of the rest of her supplies while she hides in her outhouse, she reaches her breaking point. Without a fire for heat or food to eat, she tries to hunt but cannot bring herself to shoot a deer she has in her sights. Overwhelmed, she attempts to take her life by shooting herself with"}, {"text": "the hunting rifle, stopping short when she remembers her sister Emma pleading she not hurt herself. During a violent snowstorm, the metal roof of her cabin becomes somewhat dislodged by the wind, making loud noises. She leaves the cabin to attempt repairs and is injured, but manages to get back inside. Local hunter Miguel and his nurse friend Alawa, rescue her and help her recover. As she refuses to leave, Miguel remains to look after Edee by preparing her food, replenishing her supply of firewood, and restocking the rest of her cabin. Edee thanks Miguel for his kindness in helping her, but explains that she came to her cabin to be alone and wants to keep it that way. He understands and offers to help equip her with better survival skills, so she can have the life of solitude that she wants. He shows her how to trap in the winter and hunt in the fall to provide herself with food. Over time they develop a friendship as Miguel continues to join her to hunt, harvest crops, and explore her land. Miguel shares that his wife and daughter died in a car accident eight years prior, while Edee simply reveals"}, {"text": "that she used to have a family. He later remarks that if she does not want to talk about her past, she ought to consider what she wants her future to be like. Edee suspects Miguel searched her history on the internet, although he does not even know her last name, so points out it is impossible. Miguel asks Edee to watch his dog while he goes away for a while. While he is gone, Edee retrieves a collection of old photos revealing she was married with a son, and the father and son she saw fishing earlier on had been an apparition of her family. Months pass and Miguel has not returned, so Edee packs her belongings and ventures off of her land for the first time since her arrival to find him. She makes her way into town on foot and eventually finds Alawa working at the local hospital. Alawa takes her to see Miguel, who is bedridden and dying from throat cancer. On his deathbed, he confesses that he was driving the night his wife and daughter were killed and the accident happened because he was intoxicated. Edee responds that her husband Adam and son Drew were"}, {"text": "killed in a random shooting in a concert hall. She thanks him for helping her heal and the life he gave back to her. Departing with his phone that he gave her, she calls her sister Emma for the first time since arriving in Wyoming. Production. In April 2019, it was announced Robin Wright would star in and direct the film, from a screenplay by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam. In October 2019, Demi\u00e1n Bichir and Kim Dickens joined the cast of the film, with Focus Features distributing. Jessica Lange was set to star in the lead role but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Principal photography took place over 29 days in October 2019 in the Rockies west of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. The great changes of weather in those parts meant that the four seasons of the two years of the screenplay's duration could be filmed in just one month. Edee's cabin was located on Moose Mountain, and the Elbow River in the Bragg Creek area is featured in many scenes. The town scenes were filmed in Didsbury, Alberta, at the Didsbury District Health Services (hospital), on 19th Avenue (JD's Restaurant) and 20th Avenue. Release. The film premiered"}, {"text": "at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It was theatrically released in the United States on February 12, 2021. It was released on video on demand on March 5, 2021. Box office. \"Land\" grossed $2.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $585,207 in other territories, for a total gross of $3.1 million. \"Land\" opened alongside \"Judas and the Black Messiah\" and grossed $899,010 from 1,231 theaters in its opening weekend ($1.1 million over the four-day frame), finishing fifth at the box office. In its second weekend the film dropped 44% to $500,010. Critical response. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 69% based on 183 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, \"\"Land\"s lovely vistas can't compensate for a hollowness at its center.\" On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating \"generally favorable\" reviews."}, {"text": "In\u00e9s Mar\u00eda Jhonson Pe\u00f1a (born 10 December 1989) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Deportivo Cuenca. She was a member of the Ecuador women's national team. International career. Jhonson capped for Ecuador during the 2014 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina."}, {"text": "John L. Wimbush (January 1854 \u2013 15 March 1914) was an English landscape and portrait painter. Born in London, England, Wimbush first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889 and went on to mount several other exhibitions there over the years. The spelling Wimbush is not found in his birth record. It is believed that letter 'L' did not stand for anything. It was just an initial. He died at Totnes \u2013 an artistic area in Devon on the South Coast \u2013 age 60 on 15 March 1914. A newspaper report in the Exeter & Plymouth Gazette ( 19 March 1914) shows that Wimbush died in the Dartmouth Cottage Hospital and was actually a resident of Dartmouth. He was buried at Townstal ( NOT Totnes ) - 18th March, and had lived a long time in Dartmouth where he was a benefactor to several groups. Bishopsgate and Warwick. John L. Wimbush's father was Edward John Winbush, Licensed Victualler (from 1856) of the \"Magpie and Punchbowl\" hotel, Bishopsgate. From records at the General Register Office, a 'John Winbush' was born in London in January 1854 probably at the hotel. He was baptised in the family church, St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate, on 12"}, {"text": "February 1854. John was the second born and the second son of a family of 11. He ultimately had 5 brothers and 4 sisters. The building \"100 Bishopsgate\" now stands on the original site of the \"Magpie and Punchbowl\". On the 1871 census Winbush was registered as living at 58 Bishopgate Street London. He was listed as an 'Artist student'. At this time he was 17 years of age. On the census document his name was given as John Winbush. His grandfather John Wimbush (also spelt Winbush and born circa 1791), was the Licensed Victualler (from 1849) of the \"Old Fourpenny Shop\" hotel, Warwick. John L. Wimbush possibly spent some time living with his Wimbush grandfather in Warwick. In both 1891 census and the 1901 census he had registered as being born in Warwick. In those days, there were many alternative spellings for family names. As all the Winbush children were well educated, it appears that there was a definite decision on his part to change the spelling of his name. As there was another artist, Henry B Wimbush, John Wimbush may have wanted to differentiate the two Wimbush names and added the 'L.' From then on he went by"}, {"text": "the name John L. Wimbush. However, in his final years (for the 1911 census in Devon) he used the name, John Lewis Winbush. John Wimbush developed as an artist and around 1874 had his own studio. Initially he may have shared the studio with other artists. Fitzroy Street. Initially Wimbush was based in London. He became a friend of the American painter, James McNeill Whistler. Whistler lived for a time at No. 8 Fitzroy Square in Camden Town. John Wimbush's career as an artist was centred around this same area for the last part of the 19th century. Wimbush moved in artist circles and his path would have crossed with many other major artists of the day. There was a vibrant community of artists around Fitzroy Square and Fitzroy Street. He was friends with the artist Albert Ludovici. One of Wimbush's friends was Walter Sickert. Sickert took up painting in 1881. He then became a pupil and etching assistant to James Whistler. Although Sickert was 8 years younger than John they may have been fellow students. Sickert later became a prominent art teacher and the subject of the book, \"\". A painting by Wimbush, \"An opium den At Lime Street\""}, {"text": "was painted in 1889. It is the only painting known that includes an address. The Lime Street referred to is in the district of Limehouse. Lime Street is less than 1 kilometre from Bishopsgate. Limehouse and Lime Street sometimes mistakenly thought to be derived from the nickname for the seamen that disembarked there, who had earned the name Lime\u2014juicers or limeys after the obligatory ration of lime juice the Royal Navy gave their sailors to ward off scurvy. The area achieved notoriety for opium dens in the late 19th century, often featured in pulp fiction works by Sax Rohmer and others. The name Limehouse, originally spelt Lymehouse, actually goes back to the 1300s and referred to the lime kilns that were once there. Wimbush exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1889, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904. The painting \"An opium den At Lime Street\" was exhibited (as work 1772) in 1889, then titled \"Lingering Clouds\". The Mutualart website notes: John L. Wimbush is a 19th Century painter. John L. Wimbush's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realised prices raining from $338 USD to $53,278 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork."}, {"text": "Since 1998 the record price for this artist at an auction is $53,278 USD for An Opium Den at Lime Street, sold at Sotheby's London in 2008. Sotheby's auction notes said that the painting \"An opium den at Lime Street\" was valued at \u00a340,000 \u2013 60,000 and sold for \u00a336,050. In 2008 \u00a336,050 converts to the $53,278 USD figure given above. It is signed J.L. WIMBUSH.: further signed, titled and inscribed on an old label attached to the stretcher oil on canvas 101 by 152 cm.: 40 by 60 in. PROVENANCE Lucian Freud and thence to his friend Charlie Thomas who gave the picture to Marianne Faithfull; Private Collection EXHIBITED Possibly Royal Academy, 1889, no. 1772 as Lingering Clouds An Opium Den at Lime Street John L. Wimbush The following notes on the painting, \"An opium den at Lime Street\" are found on the 'Invaluable' web-site. Notes: PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 'I am engulfed, and drown deliciously. Soft music like a perfume, and sweet light Golden with audible odours exquisite, Swathe me with cerements for eternity. Time is no more. I pause and yet I flee. A million ages wrap me round with night. I drain a million ages of"}, {"text": "delight. I hold the future in memory.' It is likely that this picture is the one entitled Lingering Clouds exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889, the title alluding to the rings of thick smoke swirling above the recumbent figures in an East End opium den. The image of the Chinatown opium den run by wicked Oriental immigrants luring innocent Westerners into a life of destitution and addiction, was one made popular in late nineteenth century literature and lurid newspaper stories. East London opium dens appear in Charles Dickens' \"The Mystery of Edward Drood\" and famously in Oscar Wilde's 'Picture of Dorian Gray' and the Sherlock Holmes adventure \"The Man with the Twisted Lip\". The most infamous dens were at New Court in Shadwell and colourful newspaper accounts of denizens of New Court were popular abounded. The poet Arthur Symons, whose description of opium smoking is given above, wrote to a friend in 1892 and gave this enlightening account of the hold that the drug had on the addicted: 'I open this again to tell you of a strange girl I met at Franhaus' [the home of a popular novelist of the time] last night \u2013 an extraordinary looking young"}, {"text": "Jewess, about 20, with a long lithe body like a snakes. Great red dangerous mouth, and enormous dark amber eyes that half shut and then expand like great poisonous flowers. 'Nuffing amuses me,' she said, with her curious childish lisp, 'everything bores me. Nuffing ever did amuse me. I have nuffing to amuse me, nobody to be amused with. I don't care for men, women's talk always bores me. What am I to do? I don't know what to do with myself. All I care for is to sleep. Tell me what is there that will give me a new sensation? And she lay back and gazed at me through half-shut lids. I bent down and whispered 'Opium.' Her eyes opened with almost a flat of joy. 'Yes, there is opium. Where can I get it?' (Antony Clayton, \"Decadent London \u2013 Fin de Siecle City\", 2005, p. 81) Although many potentially dangerous and addictive narcotics were readily available over the counter at many Victorian pharmacies, towards the end of the nineteenth century, opium was increasingly perceived to be a great threat to the moral fabric of the country. Following the two Opium Wars, the trade from China to Europe expanded"}, {"text": "greatly, from a hundred tons in 1800 to two thousand tons in 1837. The advances in steam navigation in the 1870s led to an influx in Chinese immigrants to Europe and with them came a ready supply of the drug and the proprietors of the dens that opened in the slums of the larger cities. Newspapers and authors portrayed London as the European centre of opium smoking particularly around Limehouse and Shadwell, but this was unjustified and the number of regular visitors to London opium dens probably did not exceed a few hundred and no nineteenth-century photograph has ever been found of a London opium smoker. The image of the debauched and sordid opium addict languishing in East End dens was largely the invention of artists and writers. In Wimbush's painting, the three figures are Chinese men clearly under the influence of opium and the purpose of the picture appears to have been to depict a social ill threatening the moralities of the age. The men are reclining on a low bed so that they are able to hold the long pipes used for smoking the opium, heated over the glowing lamp shown on a tray brought by a servant."}, {"text": "This painting has a fascinating provenance having been owned by the artist Lucien Freud and later by the singer Marianne Faithfull. The word 'provenance' means a chronology of ownership. Lucien Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud and was himself a well known British artist specialising in figurative art. Marianne Faithfull, was the girlfriend of Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones. A letter from James McNeill Whistler refers to John Wimbush. In the letter to a Mrs Pennell, dated 28 November 1897, Whistler closes with: I wish you would send for Ludovici \u2013 and read him my letters, that he may know, for I am fond of him, and he will then be ready to meet Sickert when he comes upon him in the little restaurant in Charlotte Street. He might ask Walter if he is writing a pleasing article for the Baronet on the trial. Ludovici must tell Wimbush. Take care of this letter \u2013 we may require it. 'Ludovici must tell Wimbush' was written in the right-hand margin at right angles to the main text. Charlotte Street starts just a couple of houses from 8 Fitzroy Street and is a continuation of Fitzroy Street. The painting \"Waiting for"}, {"text": "a Bite\" is signed J. L. Wimbush/1901 (lower left) and signed 'Royal Academy Exhibition/No 2/J. L. Wimbush/8 Fitzroy Street/Fitzroy Square/Waiting a Bite' (on the artist's label, attached to the reverse). This gives us an address for John Wimbush as 8 Fitzroy Street but also Fitzroy Square. There is a bit of confusion here as 8 Fitzroy Street is a few doors away from Fitzroy Square. 8 Fitzroy Square is a separate place. 8 Fitzroy Square is where Whistler lived for a time. This painting, \"Waiting for a Bite\", has been made into a jigsaw. It is known that Whistler used Wimbush's studio at Fitzroy Street for photography late in the 1890s. He brought in some photographers to take pictures of his paintings. As the light was not good for the photographer, some canvasses were moved out in the hall, some were put on the roof, but the best place was discovered to be Mr. Wimbush's studio on the same building. In 1901 Wimbush's studio was in Fitzroy Street. This and Fitzroy Square is the address for Wimbush's studio while he was in London in the 1890s and early 1900s. James Whistler died in 1903. For a time early in the"}, {"text": "1900s, after Wimbush left for Dartmouth in Devon, 8 Fitzroy Street became Walter Sickert's studio. In 1907 Sickert formed the Fitzroy Street Group, an organisation created to support artists. This group first met at 8 Fitzroy Street before moving to 19 Fitzroy Street. In 1917 Sickert painted \"Entrance to 8 Fitzroy Street, Whistler's Studio\". Although, Sickert's painting refers to 'Whistler's Studio' it may have been Wimbush's studio that Whistler was using at the time. From the 1800s and into the early 1900s Fitzroy Street developed a reputation as a Bohemian area. Numerous people of note lived in the vicinity. The artists, writers and intellectuals who lived and worked in the area in the late 19th and early 20th century included Clive Bell, Ford Madox Brown, Quentin Crisp, Thomas Musgrave Joy, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Lytton Strachey, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Rimbaud, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf. Lord Salisbury served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times over 13 years starting in 1885. His home was at 21 Fitzroy Square. Dartmouth. According to Whistler's web-site John Wimbush moved to Dartmouth around 1902. Why he moved to Dartmouth and where exactly in that location his studio"}, {"text": "and residence was is also unknown. Interestingly the painter Henry B. Wimbush also did numerous illustrations and drawings around Devon and Cornwall at this time and possibly the website devoted to Whistler above confuses the two. Henry B. Wimbush was a book illustrator and postcard artist. In Dartmouth, he painted the mayor, Charles Peek. This painting is currently held at the Dartmouth Guildhall. Charles Peek was mayor from 1911 to 1914 and then again from 1919 to 1921. The date on the Charles Peek painting is 1912. This would have been one of the last paintings done by Wimbush as he died 2 years later in 1914. Some of his paintings included a small white dog with black marking which was thought to be his. In the 1911 Devon census a 'John Lewis Winbush', is listed, with profession as a 'painter artist'. The surname in this entry is 'Winbush', not 'Wimbush', with the middle-name as 'Lewis', rather than the letter 'L'. John Wimbush died in the artistic area of Totnes in Devon 15 March 1914 at age 60 - just prior to the start of World War 1. Totnes is about 25 kilometres north west of Dartmouth. He is possibly"}, {"text": "buried in the Totnes cemetery as J L Wimbush. Wimbush left a will with probate dated 2 February 1915. His estate went to his older brother Edward Thomas Winbush, science master and to Thomas Braithwaite, jeweler. His effects totaled \u00a373 16s 7d. A list of some of his paintings provided below. A number were auctioned in the years 1993 \u2013 2018. The Australian architect Harry Winbush is a nephew of John Wimbush. A list of major paintings by John L. Wimbush. \"The mischievous magpie\" 29.8 x 24.1 cm 1886 12 March 1997 \"An Opium Den At Lime Street\" J. L. Wimbush Further signed, titled and inscribed on an old label attached to the stretcher 1889 \u00a336,050 Sotheby's 9 December 2008 \"Waiting for a bite\" J. L. Wimbush /1901 Inscribed and signed 'Royal Academy Exhibition/No 2/J. L. Wimbush/8 Fitzroy Street/Fitzroy Square/ Waiting a Bite' (on the artist's label, attached to the reverse) Oil on canvas 1901 Christie's 15 March 2012 \"The Music Lesson\" J. L. Wimbush 188\u2019 Oil on canvas 60.9 x 45.7 cm \u00a31,155 \u2013 \u00a31,650 Invaluable \"A cook preparing the fish\" John L. Wimbush A cook preparing the fish, signed lower right and unclearly dated oil on canvas, 60.5"}, {"text": "x 51 cm \u00a3800 \u2013 \u00a31200 Venduehuis, The Hague 15 November 2017 \"A peasant woman in a headscarf\" 38 x 28 cm Oil on board \"The toy seller\" J. L. Wimbush Pair with The vegetable barrow 76.8 x 51.1 cm \u00a35000 \u2013 \u00a37000 Invaluable September/ 3 December 2008 \"The vegetable barrow\" J. L. Wimbush Pair with The toy seller 76.8 x 51.1 cm \u00a35000 \u2013 \u00a37000 Invaluable September/ 3 December 2008 \"Man with music score\" John L. Wimbush Oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm framed \u00a3370 \"Wash day\" 2 June 1993 \"The night watch\" John L. Wimbush Oil on board, 20 x 33 cm unframed Undisclosed Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers 31 August 2016 \"As Cores da Arte\" John L. Wimbush \"An English sailor\" John L. Wimbush Oil on canvas 51 x 36 cm \"A girl Turning Heads as she returns from market\" John L. Wimbush Oil painting on canvas, framed canvas size: 102 x 59 cm plus frame provenance: Delightful, large scale Victorian genre oil painting depicting a young girls turning heads in Private UK collection 11 September 2018 \"Turning Heads (Series)\" John L. Wimbush Large Victorian Oils \"Portrait of a girl\" Dartmouth Museum \"The jester\" Dartmouth Museum \"Charles"}, {"text": "Peek, Mayor of Dartmouth 1912\" Dartmouth Guildhall The art market website Artnet has a list of Wimbush paintings. Notes. Hotels operated within the John Wimbush family:"}, {"text": "Dancing with the Stars returned for a fourth series which began on 5 January 2020 on RT\u00c9 One. Nicky Byrne and Jennifer Zamparelli returned as hosts for a fourth and second series, respectively. The spinoff show \"Can't Stop Dancing\" did not return. Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry and Julian Benson returned as judges. In November 2019 it was confirmed the professional dancers, Curtis Pritchard, Ksenia Zsikhotska, Valeria Milova and Vitali Kozmin would not be returning for this series. They were replaced by Laura Nolan, Kylee Vincent, Pasquale La Rocca and Stephen Vincent. The final on 15 March 2020 was won by Lottie Ryan alongside professional dancer Pasquale La Rocca. Couples. On 1 December 2019, Glenda Gilson was announced as the first celebrity to be taking part. The remaining celebrities were announced across the following week. \"Red numbers\" indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week. Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week. the couple eliminated that week the returning couple that was called forward and eventually last to be called safe, but was not necessarily in the bottom the returning couple that finished in the bottom two and competed in the Dance-Off the winning"}, {"text": "couple the runner-up couple Scoring chart. Average chart. This table only counts for single dances scored on a traditional 30-points scale. It does not include the Team Dance or Marathon scores. Highest and lowest scoring performances. The highest and lowest performances in each dance according to the judges' scale are as follows. Weekly scores and songs. \"Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry, Julian Benson.\" Week 1. Guest act: Series 3 champions, Mair\u00e9ad Ronan and John Nolan performing a Viennese waltz to 'You Are the Reason'. Week 2. Guest act: Vincent Simone and Ksenia Zsikhotska performed an Argentine tango to 'La cumparsita'. Week 6: Switch-Up Week. Guest act: Julian Benson with Fly Youth performing, 'Cha Cha Boom'. Week 7: Love Week. Dance-Off Judges' votes to save Week 8: Orchestra Week. \"Individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry, Darren Bennett.\" Due to an illness, Darren Bennett filled in for Julian Benson for the night. All performances this week are accompanied by the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra. Dance-Off"}, {"text": "Judges' votes to save Week 9: Team Dance Week. Darren Bennett filled in for Julian Benson for the second week running. Dance-Off Judges' votes to save Week 10: TV Themes Week. For the third week running Darren Bennett filled in for Julian Benson. Guest act: The cast of \"On Your Feet!\" performing a Gloria Estefan medley. Dance-Off Judges' votes to save Week 11: The Final. This week was scheduled to be the semifinal, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on the day of that it would be the final and the public would crown their winner. The couples first performed one unlearned dance followed by a trio dance. For the trio dances each couple was joined by one eliminated pro dancer. Darren Bennett filled in for Julian Benson for the fourth week running. Guest act: Nathan Carter performing 'May the Road Rise'. Highest scoring dance Lowest scoring dance No dance performed"}, {"text": "Apapacho () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Marquise Lepage and released in 2019. The film centres on Karine (Laurence Leboeuf) and Estelle (Fanny Mallette), two sisters on a trip to Mexico to participate in a Day of the Dead ritual honoring and mourning the recent suicide of their sister Liliane (Eug\u00e9nie Beaudry). The film opened in theatres on October 18, 2019."}, {"text": "Nicolas Favarin (born April 29, 1980) is a French professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently serves as player-head coach and general manager for Brest Albatros Hockey of the FFHG Division 1. Favarin previously played in the Ligue Magnus for Ours de Villard-de-Lans, Br\u00fbleurs de Loups and Gothiques d'Amiens. He also played for the France men's national ice hockey team in the 2004 IIHF World Championship."}, {"text": "Chikako Mese is an American mathematician known for her work in differential geometry, geometric analysis and the theory of harmonic maps. She is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. Education and career. Mese graduated from Elk Grove High School (Elk Grove Village, Illinois) in 1987. As a softball player at Elk Grove, she broke the national record for the number of runs scored in a season, with 69 runs. Although primarily a catcher, she played in seven different positions for her team, and also tied the state record for the most walks in a season, 35. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1991 from the honors program at the University of Dayton, majoring in mathematics, and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University in 1996. Her dissertation, \"Minimal Surfaces and Conformal Mappings Into Singular Spaces\", was supervised by Richard Schoen. Before joining the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 2004 as an associate professor, she held assistant professorships at the University of Southern California and Connecticut College. At Johns Hopkins, she became the first tenured female mathematician. She was promoted to full professor in 2007, and chaired the mathematics department from 2008 to 2011. Recognition. In 2007, Elk"}, {"text": "Grove High School recognized Mese as a distinguished alumna. She was named a Simons Fellow by the Simons Foundation in 2017. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 Class, for \"contributions to the theory of harmonic maps and their applications, and for service to the mathematical community\"."}, {"text": "Academic Lyceum Physics and Technology School, (also Physical-Technical School, abbreviated \"PhTS\", \"FTSH\"), a St. Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a Russian high school founded in 1987 by Zhores Alferov. The Physics and Technology School is the only high school in Russia belonging to the Russian Academy of Sciences, and regularly places students in international math, physics, and science olympiads. History. The Physics and Technology School was founded in 1987 by Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov and colleagues at the Ioffe Institute, originally under the administrative umbrella of the Ioffe Institute. The groundwork for the school was laid by two employees of the Ioffe Institute, Igor Alexandrovich Merkulov and Mikhail Georgievich Ivanov, beginning in 1983, who were later joined by the current head of the Ioffe computer center, Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko. In 1984, the three convinced Vladimir Maksimovich Tuchkevich, the director of the Ioffe Institute, and with his help received permission to create a vocational school. However, the funds were still not in place in 1986. Towards the end of 1986, Zhores Alferov became a supporter of project, and with Alferov taking over from Tuchkevich as the director of the Ioffe Institute in 1987, funds"}, {"text": "were secured to found the school in 1987. The first classes began in September 1987. In 2009, PhTS was officially joined with the St. Petersburg Academic University, also founded by Zhores Alferov. The St. Petersburg Academic University was first founded by Alferov as the Research and Education Center of the Ioffe Institute in 1997, and then received a charter to become a university in 2002. The Physics and Technology secondary school and the Academic University had been located on the same campus site, but the organizational change in 2009 integrated them into the same administrative structure. The St. Petersburg Academic Institute has a three-part structure; it joins the Russian Academy of Sciences, a national organizing body for professional scientists, with the university structure of the Academic Institute, offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, as well as with the Physics and Technology School secondary school. Due to this unique structure, the PhTS is the only high school in Russia that is a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of Alferov's goals in creating the Academic Institute structure was to invigorate a leading scientific research institute with the exposure to gymnasium students, creating a pipeline of future scientific researchers. Class body"}, {"text": "and achievements. PhTS class body is roughly 200 students, with grades 8 through 11. The available majors include physics, mathematics, computer science, and English. Students of PhTS place annually in the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), and additional International Science Olympiads. The Physics and Technology School is regularly ranked second overall among high schools in St. Petersburg, with the Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 specializing in mathematics placing first. Teaching staff. A significant portion of the Physics and Technology School teaching staff have PhDs, due to the integration with the Saint Petersburg Academic University. A number of the teaching staff graduated from PhTS lyceum themselves; as of 2019 twelve of the 26 full-time and 25 part-time teachers were graduates of the PhTS. Notable alumni. From 1989 through 2018, 1514 students graduated from PhTS. Notable alumni include Partnerships and funding. PhTS has several learning exchanges with the United States, an initiative begun by Alferov. One such exchange is with the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy high school founded by Leon Lederman. Alferov spent 6 months at the University of Illinois in 1970 and built lasting relationships with scientists there. In addition to the Foundation for Support of Education in"}, {"text": "Society (Alferov Foundation), PhTS lists the Open Society Institute founded by George Soros and Siemens in Russia as funding sources."}, {"text": "\"Castles of Sand\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson. It was released as the first and only single from his 1978 album, \"Frontiers\", in March of that year. The song was heavily sampled in the song \"Somehow, Someway\" by Jay-Z off his album, The Blueprint 2 (2002), which featured fellow rappers Scarface and Beanie Sigel produced by Just Blaze."}, {"text": "Anita Udeep is an Indian screenwriter and director, who has worked on Tamil and English language films. Career. Anita initially studied an engineering degree in Chennai, before enrolling at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to do a master's degree in Film and TV Production for three years. During her time in the United States, Anita made a series of short films such as \"Flowery Thorn\" and \"Om\", while also working as an intern for Steven Spielberg's science fiction miniseries \"Taken\" (2002). Anita had a strong interest in the Indian film industry and initially worked as a singer in Tamil films after returning to India. Her early songs included \"Azhagiya Asura\" from D. Imman's album for the Tamil slasher film \"Whistle\" (2003), was a hit. She also produced a Tamil pop album \"Mugangal\". Aged 25, Anita opted to direct her first feature film in 2003 and subsequently made the English language film \"Knock Knock, I'm Looking to Marry\" for her home production studios NVIZ Entertainment. Starring actors Rathi Arumugam and Suhaas Ahuja in the lead roles, the film was made by a young crew including cinematographer Preetha Jayaraman and music composer Mahesh Shankar. She later directed the animated film \"Gulliver's"}, {"text": "Travel\" for Pentamedia, and the film got short listed for the semifinals at the Oscar awards. Anita continued her interest in films by opting to make Indian language films and wrote, produced and directed the Tamil college drama \"Kulir 100\u00b0\" (2009) starring Sanjeev and Riya Bamniyal in the lead roles. The script was based on the lives of wealthy college kids in a Boarding school in Ooty. The film garnered pre-release publicity owing to its popular music album, and the film fared average at the box office . Anita then worked with actress Oviya for the coming-of-age film \"90ML\" (2019), which garnered publicity prior to its release for its tackling of historically taboo subjects in Tamil cinema. Despite the controversies and negative reviews, the film did very well commercially and was a hit at the box office. Personal life. Anita is married to Udeep and has 2 sons."}, {"text": "Erub Island is a locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. The locality contains only Darnley Island (also known as Erub Island). In the , Erub Island had a population of 326 people. Demographics. In the , Erub Island had a population of 328 people. In the , Erub Island had a population of 326 people. Education. Tagai State College operates across 17 campuses on the Torres Strait Islands. The Darnley Island has a primary (Early Childhood-6) campus of Tagai State College ()."}, {"text": "Tim Roxborogh is a New Zealand media personality, travel-writer and music reviewer. He hosts a Sunday evening programme on Newstalk ZB, and writes for The New Zealand Herald. Early life. The youngest child of John & Jenny Roxborogh, a Presbyterian minister and English teacher respectively, Tim's parents moved their young family from New Zealand to Malaysia when he was only one and a half years old. Career. Radio. Upon returning to New Zealand, while still in high school, Tim's knowledge of the Bee Gees enabled him to win a radio competition through Classic Hits. The prize included a meeting with the Bee Gees backstage on their 1999 tour to New Zealand. This opened the door at the age of 17 for his first on-air role in radio on a twice-weekly segment called 'Beat the Professor' talking music trivia with callers on Peter Sinclair's programme on Classic Hits. Tim started filling in on the breakfast programme on Easy Listening i at the age of 24 and at 26 years old he landed the breakfast role full-time. Over the course of his subsequent career Tim has gone on to interview numerous top international acts including Fleetwood Mac, Lionel Richie, Sheryl Crow, John"}, {"text": "Mayer, Burt Bacharach, Russell Crowe, Cliff Richard, Michael Buble, Hall & Oates, and has interviewed Barry Gibb at least seven times. In 2012 Roxborogh shifted into talk radio being paired with Pam Corkery to create Newstalk ZB's Sunday night talkback programme \"The Two\". When Pam departed Newstalk ZB in 2014 to work for The Internet Party, TVNZ journalist Tim Wilson joined Roxborogh on \"The Two\". Between 2016 and 2018 Tim also ran a digital soul and R&B radio station \u2018Coast Soul\u2019 on iHeartRadio with a 2-hour broadcast show airing Sunday evenings on Coast. In May 2018 Tim Roxborogh and Tim Wilson were moved to Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 3-6pm on Newstalk ZB, creating the new show \"The Weekend Collective\". At the end of 2019 Tim Wilson moved to anchor Sunday nights with Tim Beveridge replacing him alongside Roxborogh on \"The Weekend Collective\". Tim moved to hosting Newstalk ZB's Sunday evening talkback show in early 2023. Television. In 2021 Tim co-hosted travel series \"Uncharted New Zealand\" alongside Carolyn Taylor, which was broadcast on Three between November 2021 and January 2022. Tim then went on to work for Stripe Studios as Senior Writer & Researcher on the 2023 series \"Izzy &"}, {"text": "Beaver's French Connection\". Documentary. Tim's knowledge of the Bee Gees led him to be nominated by Barry Gibb to become an advisor for the 2020 documentary \"\". The Documentary went on to be nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Sound Editing. Writing. Tim's writing on both music and travel has appeared in a range of publications including The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Woman's Weekly, New Zealand Listener, Let\u2019s Travel, and M2. Family life. Tim married Aimee Roxborogh in 2017. The couple met in high school and reconnected later in their thirties. They now have two children."}, {"text": "Inside Airbnb is an investigatory/watchdog website launched by Murray Cox in 2016. It reports and visualizes scraped data on the property rental marketplace company Airbnb, focusing on highlighting illegal renting on the site and gentrification caused by landlords buying properties to rent on Airbnb. History. Cox, an Australian-American community activist who moved to Brooklyn in 2008, first scraped information from the Airbnb website in 2014 and compared it to a public data release from the company in December 2015 for New York City. Working with a Canadian, Tom Slee, he found the company had removed over 1000 listings that violated New York's multiple dwelling law just before the data was released. They published a report titled \"How Airbnb\u2019s Data Hid the Facts in New York City\" in February 2016. Airbnb said the listings were removed for violating policy, and it has since enforced a \"one host, one home\" policy in New York. Inside Airbnb has since published several more reports, including on how the service affects affordable housing in Los Angeles. After initially welcoming Airbnb with little regulation, Australian local government has used Inside Airbnb data following concerns about pressure on housing supply and affordability. As of 2019, the site"}, {"text": "provides data on 80 cities around the world. Reception. Airbnb says Cox's scraped data are inaccurate, because not all listings are active, some properties may be listed multiple times, and Inside Airbnb reports mean income rather than their preferred metric of median income, but Prof. David Wachsmuth of McGill University says the data are a good representation. Nicole Gurran and Peter Phibbs of the University of Sydney found that \"This data source has some critical limitations ... Nevertheless, the data provide a useful basis for examining and monitoring Airbnb practices and penetration across local and regional housing markets\". Airbnb has repeatedly criticised the site, including calling it \"garbage\", though Cox met with representatives from the company in February 2019. Funding. As of 2019, the site costs around $10,000 per year to operate, with those costs covered by cities, researchers, and the hotel trade paying for data access."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Youngstown State Penguins men's basketball team represented Youngstown State University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Penguins, led by third-year head coach Jerrod Calhoun, played their home games at the Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio as members of the Horizon League. They finished the season 18\u201315, 10\u20138 in Horizon League play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They defeated Milwaukee in the first round of the Horizon League tournament before losing in the quarterfinals to UIC. They accepted and invitation to the CollegeIndsider.com Tournament. However, the CIT, and all other postseason tournaments, were cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous season. The Penguins finished the 2018\u201319 season 12\u201320 overall, 8\u201310 in Horizon League play, to finish in a four-way tie for sixth place. In the Horizon League tournament, they were defeated by Oakland in the quarterfinals. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Virgin Islands Tour !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Horizon League regular season !colspan=12 style=| Horizon League tournament !colspan=12 style=| CIT Source"}, {"text": "Jack Cable (born February 18, 2000) is an American computer security researcher and software developer who currently serves as a Senior Technical Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He is best known for his participation in bug bounty programs, including placing first in the U.S. Department of Defense's Hack the Air Force challenge. Cable began working for the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service in the summer of 2018. After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020. There, Cable served as a technical advisor to help protect state election systems against foreign hacking attempts. Cable rejoined CISA in 2023 to help lead the agency's Secure by Design initiative. For his work, Cable was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018. Cable has spoken on vulnerability disclosure and election security at conferences including the DEF CON Voting Village, Black Hat Briefings, and the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival. In 2019, Cable helped launch Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education. Biography. Cable grew up in the Chicago suburbs and attended New Trier High"}, {"text": "School. He began programming in middle school and discovered bug bounty programs at the age of 15 after finding a vulnerability in a financial website. Cable has founded a cybersecurity consulting firm, Lightning Security. Cable studied computer science at Stanford, where he received a B.S. in computer science. Cable joined cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group in 2021 as a Security Architect. Ransomware research. In 2021, Cable identified a workaround in a ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000, for which he was acknowledged by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Cable also launched Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker that aims to address the ransomware visibility problem."}, {"text": "The Crash VI Aniversario or The Crash Sexto Aniversario (Spanish for The Crash 6th Anniversary Show) is a professional wrestling supercard event, scripted and produced by the Mexican \"lucha libre\" wrestling company The Crash Lucha Libre, which took place on November 4, 2017 at Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez in The Crash Lucha Libre's home town of Tijuana, Baja California. The event commemorated the creation of The Crash Lucha Libre in November 2011 and is their biggest show of the year. The main event match was the payoff of a long running storyline feud between Bestia 666 and Jack Evans. The two rivals faced off in a \"Lucha de Apuestas\", hair vs. hair match to settle it once and for all. The show ended with Bestia 666 pinning Evans. Forcing Evans to be shaved bald as a result. In the semi-main event, Rey Mysterio defeated Penta el 0M, La M\u00e1scara, and Rush to become the very first wrestler to hold The Crash Heavyweight Championship. Among the remaining six matches, the Aniversario show featured Ark\u00e1ngel Divino successfully defending The Crash Junior Championship against Astrolux, Mirage, Tiago, \u00daltimo Maldito, and Black Boy. Keyra retained The Crash Women's Championship against Baronessa, Christi Jaynes, and Lacey"}, {"text": "Lane Production. Background. The Crash Lucha Libre began operating on 2011, focusing mainly on promotion professional wrestling event in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Their first show was held on November 4, 2011 with a main event of El Hijo del Santo and Latin Lover defeating El Hijo del Solitario and Marco Corleone. The Crash held shows on a limited schedule over the next couple of years; 4 in 2012, 4 in 2013, 2 in 2014, and 5 in 2015. The group held The Crash V Aniversario show on November 26, 2016, the first time they billed one of their shows as a direct celebration of their anniversary. Storylines. The Crash VI Aniversario show featured eight professional wrestling matches scripted by The Crash with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform in the ring."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Moldovan Women's Cup () was the 23rd season of the Moldovan annual football tournament. The competition started on 17 November 2019 and concluded with the final held on 19 August 2020. A total of eight teams had their entries to the tournament. Final. The final was played on 19 August 2020 at the Zimbru Stadium in Chi\u0219in\u0103u."}, {"text": "C'mon C'mon is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Mike Mills, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Scoot McNairy, Molly Webster, Jaboukie Young-White, and Woody Norman. It had its world premiere at the 48th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021, and was given a limited theatrical release by A24 starting on November 19, 2021. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for its performances, direction, and black-and-white cinematography. Plot. Johnny is a single, middle-aged radio journalist who is currently working on a project that entails traveling the country with his producing partners to interview children and teenagers about their lives and thoughts about the future. While in Detroit, he calls his sister Viv, with whom he has not spoken since their mother's death from dementia a year earlier. They have a nice conversation, and Viv asks Johnny if he can come to Los Angeles and watch her nine-year-old son Jesse, as she has to travel to Oakland to help Paul, her estranged husband and Jesse's father who struggles with bipolar disorder, get settled there. Johnny agrees, and he and Jesse quickly forge a bond as they get to know each other and Johnny shows Jesse how"}, {"text": "to operate his audio equipment. Viv discovers Paul is doing worse than she had thought and feels she should stay in Oakland until she can convince him to seek medical attention, so Johnny, who needs to return to work, convinces Viv to let him take Jesse with him to his home in New York City. He finds caring for Jesse while trying to work increasingly difficult, and one night, after Jesse disappears at a store, Johnny snaps at his nephew. While trying to apologize, he lets slip that Viv is try to help Paul, rather than just for a visit, but, eventually, Viv and Johnny are able to smooth things over with Jesse. From time to time, Jesse asks Johnny questions about his relationship with Viv and his personal life, and it is revealed that Johnny and Viv fought over how to care for their mother as her health deteriorated, that Johnny told Viv to leave Paul the first time Paul had issues with his mental health, and that Johnny was once in a long-term relationship with a woman, Louisa, whom he still loves. Paul checks himself into a treatment center, but asks Viv if she will stay nearby until"}, {"text": "he is better, so Johnny, feeling confident, agrees to keep watching Jesse. When his producing partners begin to pressure him about an opportunity to interview some children in New Orleans and he loses Jesse on the street, however, he realizes he is in over his head and buys Jesse a plane ticket back to L.A. On the way to the airport, Jesse says he needs to use the bathroom, but then locks himself inside, saying he does not want to go home yet. Johnny takes Jesse with him to New Orleans. He apologizes for wanting to send Jesse away, and the pair get back on good terms as Johnny works and they explore the city. When Viv calls with the news that Paul is doing much better and the doctors are sending him home, so she is coming to get Jesse, Jesse becomes upset and runs off. At first, he will only say that he is \"fine\", but Johnny helps him vent his frustrations by yelling and kicking the air. Jesse asks Johnny if he will be like his father when he grows up, and Johnny says he does not think so, as Viv has taught him how to deal"}, {"text": "with his emotions in a healthier way. Viv flies to New Orleans and takes Jesse home. Back in New York, while listening to the recordings from New Orleans, Johnny hears a message from Jesse, in which he says that Johnny is probably his best friend. Johnny later sends Jesse a voice recording recounting their time together and reiterates a promise to remind Jesse about anything he forgets as he grows up. Production. In September 2019, it was announced Joaquin Phoenix had been cast in the film, which Mike Mills would direct from a screenplay he wrote, and that A24 would handle distribution. Gaby Hoffmann joined the cast the following month, and Woody Norman's involvement was announced in February 2020. Principal photography began in November 2019 and ended in January 2020. The film was shot, largely in sequence, in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, and New Orleans. In December 2019, Robbie Ryan revealed that he was working as the film's cinematographer. In the film, Joaquin Phoenix's character, Johnny, works as a radio journalist. Co-star Molly Webster, who plays Roxanne, is a real-life public radio journalist and Senior Correspondent for WNYC's Radiolab. The children who appear in the interview scenes were"}, {"text": "not actors, and their authentic responses to Phoenix and Webster's questions were recorded for inclusion in the film. Music. The National's Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner, contributed to the film's score; the former made his feature film scoring debut. A soundtrack to the film, consisting of their score, released as their first album from A24 Music, the subsidiary music label of the producers, a week before the film's release, and preceded with \"I Won't Remember?\" as the lead single. Release. \"C'mon C'mon\" had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021. It screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Rome Film Festival and the San Diego International Film Festival, among others. The film was given a limited theatrical release in the U.S. by A24 starting on November 19, 2021. Reception. Box office. In its opening weekend the film made $134,000 from five theaters, with its per-venue average of $26,800 being the best for a limited release since February 2020. Its second weekend, the film made $293,800 from 102 theaters, and its third, the film earned $462,022 from 565 theaters. Critical"}, {"text": "response. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 212 reviews, with an average score of 8.1/10; the site's critics consensus reads: \"The sweet chemistry between Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman is complemented by writer-director Mike Mills' empathetic work, helping \"C'mon C'mon\" transcend its familiar trappings.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\". Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson praised the film, saying that it \"inspires us all to be braver, more playful and more inventive in our quest to face the mess of this world we all share.\""}, {"text": "Edwin Kentfield (11 January 1802 \u2013 29 August 1873) also known as Jonathan Kentfield, was an English player of English billiards. He claimed the Billiards Championship in 1825 and held it uncontested until 1849. Biography. Edwin Kentfield was born at Brighton in 1802. In about 1815, John Carr, better known as Jack Carr, took a job as a billiard marker, a role that involved keeping the score of billiards matches. In this role, he learned how to play billiards with the use of , which was at that time almost unknown. He successfully played challenge matches for money, to the extent that by 1825 he had backers for him to play for 100 guineas a side against any challenger. In 1825 Kentfield challenged Carr, but Carr was too ill to play, and Kentfield assumed the title of Champion, for which he was unchallenged for 24 years. Kentfield authored a book on billiards, which was published in 1839 In 1849, John Roberts Sr sought to challenge Kentfield for the title, and when Kentfield declined to play, Roberts took the title of champion. Kentfield ran a billiards club in Brighton, which was offered for sale at auction in 1864 following his bankruptcy."}, {"text": "He died on 29 August 1873. Kentfield's highest was 196."}, {"text": "Marcel Berry (born August 28, 1997) is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for the Kansas City Comets in the Major Arena Soccer League. Career. College & Amateur. Berry played four years of college soccer at the College of William & Mary between 2015 and 2018. While in college, Berry appeared in the NPSL in 2017 with Virginia Legacy 76, and the USL PDL in 2018 with Des Moines Menace. Following college, Berry also played a single game for NPSL side Charlottesville Alliance. Professional. In September 2019, Berry signed for NISA side Stumptown Athletic ahead of the league's inaugural season. Berry joined the Major Arena Soccer League's Harrisburg Heat ahead of the 2019\u201320 season. In 2021, Berry signed with the St Louis Ambush. Berry joined the Kansas City Comets in October 2024. Amateur. In June 2023, Berry joined Newtown Pride FC for TST (The Soccer Tournament). Newtown Pride FC won the competition."}, {"text": "Tara Elise Brendle is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory, which involves the intersection of algebra and low-dimensional topology. In particular, she studies mapping class group of surfaces, including braid groups, and their relationship to automorphism groups of free groups and arithmetic groups. She is a professor of mathematics and head of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. Education and career. Brendle received her B.S. in mathematics, magna cum laude, from Haverford College in 1995. At Haverford, she won All Middle-Atlantic Conference honors in 1992 for her volleyball playing, and won honorable mention in the 1995 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman of the Association for Women in Mathematics for her undergraduate research in knot theory. She received her M.A. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1996 and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Columbia under the supervision of Joan Birman in 2002.. After receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia, Brendle was a National Science Foundation VIGRE Assistant Professor at Cornell University and an assistant professor at Louisiana State University. She moved to her present position at the University of Glasgow in 2008. Recognition. Brendle became a member of the Young"}, {"text": "Academy of Scotland in 2014. She was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 class, \"for contributions to topology and geometry, for expository lectures, and for service to the profession aimed at the full participation of women in mathematics.\" She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021, and in the same year won the Senior Whitehead Prize \"for her fundamental work in geometric group theory, concentrating on the study of groups arising in low-dimensional topology, and for her exemplary record of work in support of mathematics and mathematicians\"."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Runnin' Rebels were led by first-year head coach T. J. Otzelberger and played their home games at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada as members of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 17\u201315, 12\u20136 in Mountain West play to finish in a three-way tie for second place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament to Boise State. Previous season. The Runnin' Rebels finished the 2018\u201319 season 17\u201314, 11\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament to San Diego State. On March 15, head coach Marvin Menzies was fired. He finished at UNLV with a three-year record of 48\u201348. On March 27, UNLV hired South Dakota State head coach T. J. Otzelberger as their next head coach. Offseason. 2019 recruiting class. No recruits. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament Source"}, {"text": "The 60th Illinois General Assembly met from 1937 to 1939. John H. Stelle was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and thus \"ex officio\" President of the Senate. George M. Maypole of Chicago was President \"pro tempore\" of the Senate. Louie E. Lewis was the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Districts. Illinois was divided into 51 districts, each of which elected one Senator and three Representatives. Districts were last reapportioned in 1901 and would not be reapportioned again until 1947. The counties of each district were as follows:"}, {"text": "Evgeny Shtembuliak (, born 12 March 1999, Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Shtembuliak was born in Chornomorsk near Odesa, but sometimes has listed the latter as his birthplace. He played on the Ukrainian team in the Under 16 Chess Olympiad in 2014. Shtembuliak won the World Junior Chess Championship and the Ukraine Championship in 2019. In February of 2022 Shtembuliak escaped the Russian invasion of Ukraine to return to the United States where he teaches chess. He raises funds to support his country during the war crisis by conducting chess camps for kids."}, {"text": "\"The New Client\" is the second episode of the sixth season of the American animated comedy-drama television series \"BoJack Horseman\", and the 62nd episode overall. Directed by Amy Winfrey and written by Nick Adams, it was released on Netflix on October 25, 2019, alongside the first half of the sixth season. At the 47th Annie Awards, this episode was selected to represent the show in the category of Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production and went on to win the award. Plot. Princess Carolyn's nanny quits her job after complaining about the schedule. From then on, the episode uses visual copies of Princess Carolyn to represent her multiple maternal responsibilities. At work, her assistant Stuart reminds her about a photoshoot for \"Manatee Fair\" magazine's \"Hollywoo Women Who Do It All\" issue. Due to her duties with the baby, Princess Carolyn tells Amanda Hannity she cannot go to the shoot, but soon changes her mind when Hannity tells the story of Karen Kitada, the creator of a successful television series whose career started to collapse after having a baby. After Todd is fired from What Time Is It Right Now, Princess Carolyn asks him to babysit while she is at the"}, {"text": "photoshoot. Princess Carolyn dozes off as Todd speaks and misses what he says, only hearing \"Sure, I'd be happy to,\" leading Princess Carolyn to drop the baby with him. At the photoshoot, the other guests discuss organizing an event in support of women like themselves. Though exhausted, Princess Carolyn reluctantly agrees to participate, and eventually winds up with all of the responsibilities of organizing. Exhausted and overwhelmed by demands from the event, her career, and motherhood, Princess Carolyn is mistaken as drunk, and is checked into BoJack's rehab facility. She falls asleep on a porch and wakes up two days later. Upon arriving at the now-finished event, she converses with Vanessa Gekko about her struggles and doubts as a mother. Gekko reassures her that her baby is just another job. Ahead of the women's event, Princess Carolyn, on her way out of the clinic, calls Todd asking about the baby. Todd actually said he was busy, but since Princess Carolyn did not hear, she forced him into caring for the child. At a meeting he had scheduled, Todd mentioned \"Untitled Princess Carolyn Project\" (the baby's temporary name) and rumors spread among television producers about a potential Princess Carolyn project. Princess"}, {"text": "Carolyn takes advantage of the situation\u2014during a meeting with Pinky, she sells Pinky on the \"Birthday Dad\" script as a television show, with Kitada as showrunner. Princess Carolyn settles on the name 'Ruthie' for the baby. Critical response. \"The New Client\" received generally positive reviews from critics. Les Chappell of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode a B+ rating, commenting, \"It's an episode about trying to have it all that almost manages to have it all itself.\" He also praised Princess Carolyn's lead, the episode's visual effects, and the overall story arc. Hannah Giorgis of \"The Atlantic\" glorified the scene between Princess Carolyn and Vanessa Gekko, noting the potential changes in the former character. She wrote, \"Though it focuses on a character with relative financial comfort and career stability, 'The New Client' effortlessly weaves Princess Carolyn's struggles into the show's ongoing critique of the capitalist entertainment industry. In the past, \"BoJack\" has taken aim at greedy studio executives, mega-conglomerates, and wealthy celebrities, and the new episode also nods to the recent writers' strikes that have shaken up Hollywood.\""}, {"text": "Ragna Ahlb\u00e4ck (1914 \u2013 2002) was a Finnish ethnographer and archivist. Early life. Ragna Ulrica Ahlb\u00e4ck (n\u00e9e Nikander) was born on 17 July 1914 in Porvoo. She grew up in Turku where her father, cultural historian and professor , taught at \u00c5bo Akademi University. Niklander completed her doctoral dissertation in 1955. \"K\u00f6kar: n\u00e4ringslivet och dess organisation i en utsk\u00e4rssocken\" established her as a pioneer in the area of Nordic studies. Family life. Ragna married the linguist . The couple had a son, , who became a theologian and librarian. Career. Ahlb\u00e4ck served over 44 years as archivist for , the Swedish Literature Society's folklore archive in Finland. She began her professional work in 1937, which included field work throughout Finland, and later, Sweden. In 1965 she moved to Malax where she founded the Kvarken Boat Museum with her husband. Later life. Alback died in Pargas on 6 September 2002. Her extensive research archives, including a number of films from the 1950s and 1960s featuring traditional farming and fishing practices, are held at the Swedish Literature Society archives."}, {"text": "The 1980 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Joe Morrison, the Lobos compiled a 4\u20137 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 364 to 246. The first game of the season proved to be most notable victory for the team, as the Lobos upset BYU, 25-21. The Jim McMahon-led Cougars went undefeated the rest of the season, finishing with a 12-1 record and #12 national ranking in the final Associated Press poll. The team's statistical leaders included Robin Gabriel with 1,083 passing yards, Jimmy Sayers with 691 rushing yards, Ricky Martin with 850 receiving yards, and kicker Pete Parks with 58 points scored."}, {"text": "Mecodema kokoroiho is a large-bodied ground beetle that is endemic to Warawara Forest Park, Pawarenga, Northland, New Zealand. The species name (etymology) was provided by Te Rarawa Joseph Cooper, Waipuna marae, Panguru, Northland. The specific name \"kokoroiho\" means \u2018a beetle found with the fern root\u2019. Description. The species is 27\u201334 mm in length, with a pronotal width of 6.5\u20139 mm and an elytral width of 8\u201311 mm. The body is matte to glossy black, the coxae and femur are dark reddish-brown, and the tibiae black. \"M. kokoroiho\" is distinguished from other North Island \"Mecodema\" species by: Ecology. The adults of \"M. kokoroiho\" are readily found at night along the edges of mixed broadleaf forest, but are not as common in areas of Warawara Forest that have high kauri (\"Agathis australis\") densities."}, {"text": "Manolo Caro (born 1985) is a Mexican director, known for films including \"Tales of an Immoral Couple\" and the Netflix series \"The House of Flowers\" and \"Someone Has To Die\". He also directed the film \"Perfect Strangers\". All of these star Caro's frequent collaborator Cecilia Su\u00e1rez. Early life. He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1985, son of Norma Alicia Serrano and Gil Caro. He studied architecture at the TEC de Monterrey, Mexico City campus, and later studied directing at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Ba\u00f1os, in Cuba, and at the studio of Juan Carlos Corazza, in Madrid. Caro first met Cecilia Su\u00e1rez when he was a teenager and she visited his high school to listen to a reading of \"Los cuervos est\u00e1n de luto\"; the pair were introduced after the reading by his teacher, Su\u00e1rez' cousin. Career. Caro has his own production company, called Noc Noc Cinema, which is a division of Woo Films. By November 2019, the Woo/Noc Noc body of development was seen as one of the strongest across both TV and film in Mexico. His first feature film was 2013's \"No s\u00e9 si cortarme las venas o dej\u00e1rmelas largas\", which he adapted"}, {"text": "from a play he wrote. He is the only Mexican director to have been in the country's box office top ten for three consecutive years. In May 2019, Caro signed an exclusive four-year deal with streaming platform Netflix, which had hosted his show \"The House of Flowers\" since 2018, to create more television shows; at the time he was developing \"Someone Has To Die\" for the platform; the Netflix Latin America and Spain VP said of Caro at the time that he has a \"great talent [...] for relevant, unique and personal stories [that] makes him one of the most interesting and playful voices of his generation\". Su\u00e1rez has said that Caro's background as an architect allows him to find new and unique angles for filming, adding that he also finds unique spots with characters. Of Caro's works up to 2019, only \"Amor de mis amores\" does not star Su\u00e1rez. Caro is openly gay."}, {"text": "Deragh Campbell (born May 4, 1989) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz\"\u2014Veslem\u00f8y's Song\" (2018), \"MS Slavic 7\" (2019), and \"Point and Line to Plane\" (2020)\u2014have screened at film festivals internationally. Campbell has also starred in three of Kazik Radwanski's feature films; she played a small role in \"How Heavy This Hammer\" (2015), the lead role in \"Anne at 13,000 Ft.\" (2019), and opposite Matt Johnson in \"Matt and Mara\" (2024). Campbell received the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association and Best Actress in a Canadian Film from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Career. Born on May 4, 1989 in Toronto and raised in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Deragh Campbell is the daughter of actor Benedict Campbell and theatre director Jackie Maxwell. Campbell studied creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec before deciding to pursue an acting career. Campbell made her film debut in Matthew Porterfield's 2013 independent feature film \"I Used to Be Darker.\" She was named as one of the Toronto International Film Festival's \"Rising Stars\" in 2015, alongside Stephan James, Aliocha Schneider, and Karelle Tremblay. Since then, she has appeared in"}, {"text": "several films, including \"How Heavy This Hammer\" (2015), and \"Fail to Appear\" (2017). Campbell's collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz have screened at festivals around the world. Since 2018, she has portrayed the character of Audrey Benac in five of Bohdanowicz's films: \"Veslem\u00f8y's Song\" (2018), \"MS Slavic 7\" (2019), \"Point and Line to Plane\" (2020), \"A Woman Escapes\" (2022) and \"Measures for a Funeral\" (2024). Campbell was a credited co-director of \"MS Slavic 7\" as well. In 2019, Campbel starred in Kazik Radwanski's third feature film, \"Anne at 13,000 Ft.\", which premiered in the Platform Prize competition and received an honourable mention from the jury at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Campbell starred opposite Michaela Kurimsky in Hannah Cheesman's short film, \"Succor\", which was an official selection for the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2023, Campbell appeared in M. H. Murray's directorial debut, \"I Don't Know Who You Are\", which premiered in the Discovery program at the Toronto International Film Festival. She also starred in Lucy Kerr's directorial debut, \"Family Portrait,\" premiering at the 2023Locarno Film Festival. In 2024, Campbell starred opposite Matt Johnson in Radwanski's fourth feature film, \"Matt and Mara'."}, {"text": "The 1981 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Joe Morrison, the Lobos compiled a 4\u20137\u20131 record (3\u20134\u20131 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 231 to 225. The team's statistical leaders included Robin Gabriel with 1,783 passing yards, Mike D. Carter with 595 rushing yards, Keith Magee with 706 receiving yards, and kicker Pete Parks with 49 points scored."}, {"text": "In planetary geology, a saxum (, plural saxa) is a large surface boulder on an extraterrestrial body. So far the term has been used for: \"Saxum\" is the Latin word for a rock. The feature name was introduced in 2019 for the Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission to Ryugu."}, {"text": "State Route 288 (SR 288) is a north-south state highway in Warren and DeKalb counties of Middle Tennessee. Route description. SR 288 begins in Warren County at an intersection with US 70S/SR 1 just east of McMinnville. It heads northeast along Old Rock Island Road, a former alignment of US 70S, for a short distance before turning northwest along Hennessee Bridge Road. The highway winds its way northwest through farmland for several miles, where it crosses a bridge over the Collins River, to merge onto Francis Ferry Road and pass through Midway, where it has an intersection with SR 287. SR 288 crosses into DeKalb County and winds its way through hillier terrain as Belk Road to pass through Antioch, where it becomes Antioch Road. It continues northwest to pass through Keltonburg, where it turns onto Keltonburg Road and crosses a bridge over a creek, before the highway turns completely west through flatter farmland for several miles before SR 288 comes to an end at an intersection with SR 56 just south of Smithville. The entire route of SR 288 is a rural two-lane highway."}, {"text": "The 2008 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on October 4, 2008, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor-president Kip Holden. Since Holden won an outright majority in the first round, no runoff was necessitated."}, {"text": "Thomas Speight (6 July 1844 \u2013 25 May 1921) was owner of Thomas Speight & Co. Mohair Merchants in Bradford, Yorkshire and was Mayor of Bradford from 1896 to 1898. Background and Civic Life. Thomas Speight was born in Catterall, Lancashire, England on 6 July 1844. He was a successful inventor and businessman and became the owner of Thomas Speight & Co. Mohair Merchants in Bradford, Yorkshire and built a large factory, the Burlington Works, in Thornbury. In 1986, \"Councillor\" Thomas Speight was a director of the Peoples Palace theater on Manchester Road. In 1894, at age 50, he turned his hand to civic affairs and represented Bradford Moor Ward. Two years later, in November 1896, Thomas Speight was elected Mayor of Bradford and served until November 1898. In 1897, he presided over the celebrations occasioned by the 50th anniversary (golden jubilee) of the incorporation of Bradford as a city and the 60th anniversary (diamond jubilee) of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. Known as the \"Jubilee Mayor\", his image appears on the reverse of a commemorative medal struck for the occasion. In 1898, Speight was instrumental in establishing Cartwright Hall, an art gallery in Lister Park. Speight lived in"}, {"text": "Scarr Hall (now Bradford Moor golf club). Speight died in 1921 and is buried in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford. A detailed biography of Speight and his family was compiled by D. Broomfield in 2021. Speight was preceded in office by William Willis Wood (1844\u20131921), who was Mayor of Bradford from 1894 to 1896. Personal. Notably, Speight's daughter, Annie, married Wood's eldest son, Arthur (1861\u20131905) in 1889. Their only son, Stanley Speight Wood (1889\u20131918), served in the Royal Army Service Corps and died in Baghdad, Iraq, in World War I."}, {"text": "Marili is a 1959 West German romantic comedy film directed by Josef von B\u00e1ky and starring Sabine Sinjen, Paul Hubschmid and Helmuth Lohner. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Hennings and Erich Kettelhut. It was made in Eastmancolor. Reception. A review in the \"Lexikon des internationales Films\" stated: \"A comedy attempt that seeks to parody the success of the film \"Stefanie\" (1959); however, the director's irony remains vague and fades into banality.\" \"Cinema\" considered that the film was a \"completely banal \"My Fair Lady\" rip-off.\""}, {"text": "The 2020 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held from November 3 to 9, 2019 at the Foyer des loisirs et de la culture in Jonqui\u00e8re, Saguenay, Quebec. Quebec won the event, having gone undefeated throughout the tournament. It was only the second championship for \"La Belle Province\". Quebec skip Jean-S\u00e9bastien Roy had home ice advantage as a native of Jonqui\u00e8re. Teams. The teams are listed as follows: Round robin standings. \"Final Round robin standings\" Round robin results. All draws are listed in Eastern Time (). Draw 1. \"Sunday, November 3, 6:30 pm\" Draw 2. \"Monday, November 4, 2:00 pm\" Draw 3. \"Monday, November 4, 7:00 pm\" Draw 4. \"Tuesday, November 5, 9:30 am\" Draw 5. \"Tuesday, November 5, 2:00 pm\" Draw 6. \"Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm\" Draw 7. \"Wednesday, November 6, 9:30 am\" Draw 8. \"Wednesday, November 6, 2:00 pm\" Draw 9. \"Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pm\" Placement round. Seeding pool. Standings. \"Final Seeding Pool Standings\" Results. Draw 10. \"Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am\" Draw 11. \"Thursday, November 7, 2:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm\" Draw 13. \"Friday, November 8, 9:30 am\" Draw 15. \"Friday, November 8, 7:00 pm\" Championship pool. Standings. \"Final Championship Pool Standings\""}, {"text": "Results. Draw 11. \"Thursday, November 7, 2:00 pm\" Draw 12. \"Thursday, November 7, 7:00 pm\" Draw 14. \"Friday, November 8, 2:00 pm\" Draw 15. \"Friday, November 8, 7:00 pm\" Playoffs. Semifinals. \"Saturday, November 9, 9:30 am\" Bronze medal game. \"Saturday, November 9, 2:30 pm\" Final. \"Saturday, November 9, 2:30 pm\""}, {"text": "Bruno Maynard (born February 25, 1971) is a French former professional ice hockey player. He is currently the general manager of Corsaires de Nantes of the FFHG Division 1. Maynard played for Y\u00e9tis du Mont-Blanc, Hockey Club de Reims, Br\u00fbleurs de Loups, Chamonix HC, Ours de Villard-de-Lans, Dragons de Rouen and Brest Albatros Hockey. He also played in the 1993 World Ice Hockey Championships for the France national team."}, {"text": "Tono or To\u00f1o is a masculine given name or nickname that is a diminutive form. Tono is a Catalan, Galician and Spanish diminutive form of Anton, Antoni and Antonio and To\u00f1o is a Spanish diminutive form of Antonio. Both spellings are in use in Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Falkland Islands, while T\u014dno is a japanese surname."}, {"text": "The 2004 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on September 18 and November 2, 2004, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It saw Democrat Kip Holden unseat Incumbent Republican Mayor Bobby Ray Simpson."}, {"text": "Hussein Mohammed was an Ugandan military officer who served as commander of the Uganda Army's Eagle Colonel Gaddafi Battalion, stationed in Jinja, during the rule of Idi Amin. Biography. Hussein Mohammed was a Muslim as well as a Nubian and/or Kakwa. At some point, he joined the Uganda Army, and rose in the ranks despite being illiterate, serving as corporal by 1968. Ugandan Colonel Bernard Rwehururu speculated that Hussein was deeply involved in the preparations of the 1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat which brought Amin to power. He quickly rose to higher commands under the new regime, though the exact timing of his promotions is disputed. Rwehururu stated that Hussein was directly promoted to lieutenant colonel after the coup, whereas businessman Conrad Nkuutu claimed that Hussein was a colonel and served as \"Garrison Commander\" of the Gaddafi Barracks in Jinja by 1973. Journalist Faustin Mugabe described Hussein as lieutenant colonel and \"Commanding Officer\" in Jinja by March 1974. In contrast, the BBC reported that Hussein was still major by 1975, and was appointed lieutenant colonel in April of that year. In any case, Hussein played an important role in quelling dissent during Amin's rule. In January 1973, Military Intelligence officers kidnapped"}, {"text": "Minister for Works Shaban Nkutu at Jinja. Nkutu's family asked Jinja's District Commissioner Mzee Hezron Kakuyo for help. Suspecting that the Gaddafi Battalion was involved in the minister's disappearance, Kakuyo contacted Hussein. The two met at Crested Crane Hotel, where Hussein angrily rebuffed Kakuyo's appeals for Nkutu's life, falsely claiming that the minister \"has already been freed by the army and returned to his residence at Rippon Gardens (Jinja). Find him there and never ask me about him again!\" Idi Amin's government later declared Nkutu a traitor; the minister's body was eventually found floating in the Nile. In March 1974, Amin was almost overthrown in a coup attempt. To appease the disquieted soldiery, he appointed Mustafa Adrisi Chief of Staff. Adrisi promptly vowed to \"crack down on errant soldiers\" who abused their power, one of whom was Amin's own brother Idi Nebbi (alias \"Moshe Amin\"). To teach the latter a lesson, Adrisi forced Nebbi into the boot of his car and ordered him driven to Jinja. Upon arriving there, the driver reported to Hussein who telephoned the Chief of Staff, telling him that \"your driver has reported to me with the 'luggage' inside the boot.\" He then sent the two"}, {"text": "back to Adrisi. Terrified by the experience, Nebbi consequently behaved better; other soldiers heard of the story, and discipline in the Uganda Army improved. In April 1975, Hussein was promoted to head of the entire Gaddafi Battalion by President Amin during a meeting at Nakasero officers' mess, succeeding Isaac Maliyamungu. When the Uganda\u2013Tanzania War broke out, the Gaddafi Battalion helped to secure eastern Uganda. Rebels crossed the border and attacked the town of Tororo on 2\u20134 March 1979. The Gaddafi Battalion helped to repulse the raid. Regardless, the war turned against Uganda, and the country's capital Kampala fell to the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) and allied rebels on 10\u201311 April 1979. The new Ugandan government was installed and appealed to the remaining Uganda Army forces to give up. Hussein was reportedly inclined to do so, and addressed his men at the Gaddafi Battalion barracks. A police officer later claimed that many soldiers were violently opposed to surrender, as they belonged to the West Nile tribes and feared execution as partisans of Amin. Fighting broke out among the troops, and the battalion disintegrated. With his troops no longer following orders, Hussein deserted his post and fled to Kenya in early"}, {"text": "April, accompanied by \"many\" other soldiers of the battalion. He surrendered at the border crossing of Malaba. The Kenyan government granted him asylum, and he consequently relocated to Nairobi. According to journalist Jonathan C.R., Hussein's defection was \"the final proof that Amin was abandoned by all but the diehards\". His flight reportedly left \"no one\" in control of Jinja. Regardless, some troops of the Gaddafi Battalion continued to resist until Jinja was captured by the TPDF on 22 April 1979."}, {"text": "Petra del Carmen Cabrera D\u00edaz (born 19 May 1990) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Brazilian S\u00e9rie A1 club Real Bras\u00edlia FC and the Venezuela women's national team. International career. Cabrera played for Venezuela at senior level in two Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina editions (2014 and 2018) and the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Brown Bears men's basketball team represented Brown University in the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bears, led by eighth-year head coach Mike Martin, played their home games at the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island, as members of the Ivy League. Previous season. The Bears finished the 2018\u201319 season 20\u201312 overall, 7\u20137 in Ivy League play, to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place. Due to tiebreakers, they failed to qualify for the Ivy League tournament. They were invited to the CBI, where they defeated UAB in the first round, before falling to Loyola Marymount in the quarterfinals. Schedule and results. !colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style=| Ivy League regular season Source"}, {"text": "Andrew James Headley Holgate (born 31 December 1958 in Reigate) is a British journalist and critic. Since 2008 he has served as Literary Editor of \"The Sunday Times\". Holgate studied Modern History at Durham University."}, {"text": "The Elsinore Sugar Factory, in Sevier County, Utah, near Elsinore, Utah, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Two buildings of the factory complex of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company survive: a factory office and rooming house building, and a warehouse building. These buildings were deemed significant for association with the company, which was \"the single most important agri-business in Sevier County history. The factory's economic and social impact on local communities, as assessed by a recent county wide historical survey, exceeds that of any other business enterprise for the years 1911 to 1928. Also, the Elsinore plant is significant as a good representative of the overall sugar beet industry in Utah and as an example of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company's contribution to the history of the state.\" The factory office and rooming house building is a one-and-a-half-story rectangular-plan building. Its ground floor is brick and includes segmental arches at its openings. Above it is frame-built with shingle siding. Paired shed dormers break the roof along the broad sides. There is a small portico with a gable roof over the rear entrance. The factory office used the ground floor; above were rooms"}, {"text": "for seasonal employees. The warehouse is a large brick building, also rectangular in plan and with a gable roof, and also with segmental arches over openings. The appearance of a cornice is created by brick corbelling at the roof line. The complex was built by E.H. Dyer & Sons. The term Weight Station Inn has also applied."}, {"text": "The 2000 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on October 7 and November 7, 2000, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It saw the election of Bobby Ray Simpson. This was the last time a Republican was elected mayor-president until 2024."}, {"text": "The Ron's Phillips 66 Service Station, at 278 N. Main St. in Centerville, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It was built in 1960 to replace the previous service station, blown down in a windstorm in 1959. According to a 2007 news article, \"Randall, now 76, is a burly former Davis High football player turned rodeo cow cutter who likes to do the cha-cha. He could easily drive the two minutes to his shop but chooses to take the 90-minute scenic route by horse. That's three hours a day, just to get to work and back.\""}, {"text": "Mi peque\u00f1o gran hombre () is a 2018 Mexican comedy film directed by Jorge Ram\u00edrez Su\u00e1rez. The film premiered on 7 December 2018, and it stars Jorge Salinas and Fernanda Castillo. It is an adaptation of the Argentine film \"Coraz\u00f3n de le\u00f3n\" directed by Marcos Carnevale. The plot revolves around the life of a successful lawyer, divorced, who knows a charming and charismatic man, although there is a detail with which he finds it difficult to deal: his small stature. The film has a budget of just over 4 million pesos, which was granted by the Comisi\u00f3n de Filmaciones del Estado de Jalisco. It was filmed in Guadalajara, Jalisco (including Bar El Callej\u00f3n de los Rumberos), the Centro Hist\u00f3rico de la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, and beaches in Paseo Chapultepec."}, {"text": "Stefan Colakovski (; born 20 April 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward. Colakovski is currently a free agent, having most recently played for A-League club Wellington Phoenix. Born in Australia, he has represented Macedonia at youth level. Early life. Colakovski is Macedonian-Australian (with aromanian ethnic background). He was a fan of the previously named Melbourne Heart (now as \"Melbourne City\"). Club career. Melbourne City. After playing in Melbourne City's youth setup for three years, on 4 November 2019, Colakovski made his senior professional debut against Wellington Phoenix in the A-League. On 1 February 2020, Colakovski was offered a full senior deal contract for Melbourne City. Colakovski scored his first A-League goal in a Melbourne Derby match in the 2020\u201321 season by scoring the sixth and final goal in a 6\u20130 win against Melbourne Victory. Colakovski scored his second A-League goal for Melbourne City against Macarthur FC in the 2021 A-League Finals Series. He assisted Marco Tilio for his second goal in the A-League to put Melbourne City through to the Grand Finals. Perth Glory. In June 2022, it was announced that Colakovski signed with Perth Glory on a two-year deal. In May 2024, at the conclusion"}, {"text": "of his contract, he announced he's departing Perth Glory to take up an opportunity overseas. Wellington Phoenix. After Colakovski's move to Europe didn't come into fruition, he returned to the A-League Men and signed a one-year deal with Wellington Phoenix. Suffering knee injuries throughout the season, Colakovski made only six appearances for the club, before being released at the end of the season."}, {"text": "Leury Isabel Basanta Gil (born 7 April 1993) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Colombian club Am\u00e9rica de Cali. She has been a member of the Venezuela women's national team. International career. Basanta played for Venezuela at senior level in the 2014 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina and the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. International goals. \"Scores and results list Venezuela's goal tally first\""}, {"text": "The Smoot Dairy Farmhouse, at 1697 N. Main St. in Centerville, Utah, was built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is a one-and-a-half-story Tudor Revival brick house, built upon a raised concrete foundation. Tudor Revival features include \"distinctive round-head windows in the English Tudor style\" and its \"steeply-pitched front gables\". According to its National Register nomination, \"the history of the property begins in 1935, when the Smoot family obtained the land and transferred a herd of dairy cows to Centerville. Until a devastating fire in 1963, the Smoot Dairy was one of the largest privately owned dairy farms in Utah. The farmhouse, which also served as an office, was one of only two buildings to survive the fire. Within a year of the fire, with aid from their Centerville neighbors, the Smoot family built the most modern dairy operation in the state. The period of significance ends in 1964 with the phoenix-like rise of the Smoot Dairy. During the historic period, the Smoot Dairy sold milk on site and made deliveries to an estimated 2,000 households in Centerville and the surrounding communities. The Smoot Dairy provided dairy products to numerous restaurants"}, {"text": "and hotels in the larger cities of the Wasatch Front, and was the regional dairy provider for United Airlines for thirty-two years. In addition, Edgar Smoot raised prizewinning pure-bred Jersey stock on loan to breeders throughout the western United States. The farmhouse is the only extant historic resource representing the Smoot family\u2019s important contributions to the Centerville community.\" It is located at the corner of Main Street and Jennings Lane (1700 North), which is the northeast corner of the original dairy farm's property. A garage is a non-contributing building on the property."}, {"text": "The 1996 Baton Rouge mayoral election was held on September 21, 1996, to elect the mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It saw the reelection of incumbent Thomas Edward \"Tom Ed\" McHugh."}, {"text": "John Cai Tiyuan (; 25 December 1920 - 24 November 1997) was a Chinese Catholic priest and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shantou between 1981 and 2000. Biography. Cai was born into a Catholic family in Jiexi County, Guangdong, China, on December 25, 1920. In 1936 he was accepted to Jieyang Petrus Monastery. He was ordained a priest in February 1949. In 1981, he became the first priest to be elected by the Catholic Patriotic Association after the Cultural Revolution. In 1986, he was elected as one of two vice presidents for the government-approved Catholic Diocese Conference affiliated with the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. He eventually became the leader of the conference's liturgical commission. Cai celebrated his first Chinese Mass in February 1993. In July of the following year, he was elected President of the Guangdong Provincial Patriotic Association. He also became a member of the 7th National People's Congress in 1988, and was re-elected in 1993. He died on November 24, 1997."}, {"text": "Storm in a Water Glass (German: Sturm im Wasserglas) is a 1960 West German comedy film directed by Josef von B\u00e1ky and starring Ingrid Andree, Hanns Lothar and Therese Giehse. It is an adaptation of a play by Bruno Frank, which had previously been made into a 1931 film of the same title, and, in 1937, in Great Britain, as, \"Storm in a Teacup\". It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut and Johannes Ott."}, {"text": "Lilian Prunet (born February 15, 1978) is a French former professional ice hockey defenceman. Prunet played in France's Ligue Magnus for Club des Sports de Meg\u00e8ve, Hockey Club de Reims, Dragons de Rouen, Scorpions de Mulhouse and Y\u00e9tis du Mont-Blanc. He also played in the 2004 IIHF World Championship for the France national team."}, {"text": "(Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)titanium trichloride is an organotitanium compound with the formula Cp*TiCl3 (Cp* = C5(CH3)5). It is an orange solid. The compound adopts a piano stool geometry. An early synthesis involve the combination of lithium pentamethylcyclopentadienide and titanium tetrachloride. The compound is an intermediate in the synthesis of decamethyltitanocene dichloride. In the presence of organoaluminium compounds and other additives, it catalyzes the polymerization of alkenes."}, {"text": "African-American man, Jordan Jameson was lynched on November 11, 1919, in the town square of Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas. A large white mob seized Jameson after he allegedly shot the local sheriff. They tied him to a stake and burned him alive. Background. Arkansans were on edge after the deadly Elaine massacre (September 30\u2013October 1, 1919) in rural Elaine, Arkansas. During the riots, hundreds of black people were killed and according to the \"Encyclopedia of Arkansas\", \"the Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States.\" On November 7, 1919, Columbia County Sheriff Benjamin E. Greer, was heading to the Jordan Jameson house along with deputies Duke Emerson and John Althin. While at the house an altercation broke out which escalated to a shoot out where Greer was shot in the head. In the confusion, Jameson escaped into the forest. Lynching. As word spread that Greer had been killed a white mob quickly formed and started to patrol the area on the lookout for Jameson. At 1:00 AM on November 11, 1919, a posse of ten men: J. T. Bussey, Will Moody, Otha Dickson,"}, {"text": "Charles Dickson, Charley White, J. A. Sands, Monroe Henry, Ernest Kimball, W. M. Owen, and Will Toland found Jameson and his wife in a house. He was coaxed outside with a promise that the men wouldn't hurt his wife. After Greer had been killed Governor Charles Hillman Brough appointed Dave Futch as the new sheriff of Magnolia. He tried to bring the situation under control and arrest Jameson but the mob refused to listen or listen to the local law enforcement. On November 11, 1919, at around 5:00 a.m., Jameson was taken to the public square of the city of Magnolia and tied to a stake. Flammable material was stacked around him and in front of a growing crowd of people, it was lit on fire slowly burning Jameson alive. His body was eventually turned over to the black community. Aftermath. These race riots were one of several incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called American Red Summer of 1919. Terrorist attacks on black communities and white oppression in over three dozen cities and counties. In most cases, white mobs attacked African American neighborhoods. In some cases, black community groups resisted the attacks, especially in Chicago and Washington"}, {"text": "DC. Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively. Both had many more non-fatal injuries and extensive property damage reaching into the millions of dollars. Bibliography. Notes References"}, {"text": "Riad Mammadov (real name \"Riad Mamedov\", , ; born 11 January 1989 in Baku) - pianist, musicologist, performer of jazz and classical music. At the invitation of Theodor Currentzis, he was appointed special musical adviser to the opening ceremony of the First European Games of 2015 in Baku. He is a member of music festivals in Russia, Azerbaijan, Canada. Riad Mammadov is one of several professional musicians in the world who work in the jazz-mugam genre. Biography. Riad Mammadov was born in the family of artists. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and postgraduate programme with the degree in \u201cpiano\u201d under supervision of Professor K. Knorre, an Honoured Artist of Russia. He also graduated from academic postgraduate programme as a music expert directed by Professor V. Kholopova. He was a student of such prominent music teachers as V. Merjanov, O. Bonduryanskiy, M. Lidskiy, E. Nazirova, S. Beybutova and others. While studying Riad Mammadov became a scholarship holder of Azerbaijan Prezindetial Fund named after H. Aliyev. Upon graduating he was invited as guest artist to the Tchaikovski Opera and Ballet Theatre. Artistic director T. Currentzis. Riad Mammadov performed with Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, State Chamber Orchestra named after G. Garayev, and"}, {"text": "also with MusicAeterna orchestra, Veritas, Moscow Youth chamber orchestra, Niagara Silkway, Canadian chamber orchestra, New Munich orchestra, State Academic Chamber orchestra of Novosibirsk Philharmonia headed by the famous conductors, such as T.Currentzis, F.Chizhevsky, M. Emelyanychev, F. Ibrahimov, A. Skoryer, T.Geokchayev, E.Quliyev and others. He also played with Belgian, US and Hungarian jazz \u201cBig Bands\u201d. One can name more than 15 countries where Riad Mammadov has already performed, among which one can mention the Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Alexandrinsky Theatre, the Azerbaijan State Philharmonia named after M.Magomayev, Grand stage of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after P.I.Tchaikovsky, Sante-Chantier Castle, the Concert Hall of Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e etc. The pianist was also a participant of such music festivals as Niagara Music (Canada), Diaghilev festival (Russia), Primavera Classica (Russia), Music ark project by Vladimir Martynov (Russia), Summer jazz festival in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Music Festival (Azerbaijan), Caspian Jazz and Blues Festival, International Baku Jazz Festival (Azerbaijan), International music festival in Gabala (Azerbaijan), Electro Jazz Festival in Electrotheatre Stanislavsky and others. His performances were broadcast on TV and radio in Russia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Belgium and"}, {"text": "the USA. Riad Mammadov is an author of a number of scientific articles on classification of genres in Azerbaijan modern music. In addition Riad Mammadov has teaching experience. In April 2020, two music releases by Riad Mammadov appeared at once. The debut single in the genre of jazz-mugham with the composition \"Waiting for Aziza\" and the debut mini-album of classical music \"Surrogate Dreams II\", which features pianos by Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Debussy. During self-isolation in the spring-summer of 2020, he wrote and recorded a vinyl record \"You are an Island\" with two piano pieces on one side and one ambient composition on the other."}, {"text": "Frank R. Mills (January 24, 1868 \u2013 June 11, 1921) was an American stage and silent film actor. In the 1890s he acted in a number of plays as a young juvenile. He is frequently mistaken for other actors with the name \"Frank Mills\". He began in films in 1906 in the historic Australian feature \"The Story of the Kelly Gang\". He died in an insane asylum in June 1921. He was married to Helen MacBeth."}, {"text": "This is a list of National Rail stations in the ceremonial county of Durham by 2017/2018 entries and exits, based on the UK Office of Rail and Road reports 2016-18. Note that Horden station opened in 2020 so received no entries and exits in this period."}, {"text": "The HPP Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Helsinki, Finland, since 2019."}, {"text": "Cameroonian Civil War may refer to any of these internal conflicts in Cameroon:"}, {"text": "Andy Gillion (born 4 September 1988) is a British-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. He is best known as the former songwriter and lead guitarist of the melodic death metal band, Mors Principium Est. His debut solo album, \"Neverafter\", was released on 15 November 2019. The first single, \"Skyless\" features Jeff Loomis of Arch Enemy, and Sam Paulicelli (66Samus) of Decrepit Birth. As of 2017, Gillion is endorsed as an Elixir Strings Artist, as well as a Fractal Audio Artist. Biography. In 2011, Andy Gillion was selected as the new songwriter/lead guitarist for the melodic death metal band, Mors Principium Est from over 200 applicants. Since then, he has written and released four albums with the band, under AFM Records: \"...And Death Said Live\" (2012), \"Dawn of the 5th Era\" (2014), \"Embers of a Dying World\" (2017) and \"Seven\" (2020). In 2016, Gillion was a runner up in the final of the Guitar Idol Competition and performed live at the 100 Club in London, UK. In November 2019, his debut solo album, \"Neverafter\" was released. The first single, \"Skyless\" features Jeff Loomis of Arch Enemy, and Sam Paulicelli (66Samus) of Decrepit Birth. The album also features Paul Wardingham and Christina Marie"}, {"text": "of \"The Voice\". The record was co-produced, mixed, and mastered by Thomas \u201cPlec\u201d Johansson, who previously worked with bands like Soilwork and Scar Symmetry. Andy has authored a novel set during the Second World War entitled 'Far From Grace' which was published on Amazon. Andy also composed and played the soundtrack for the Game 'Metal Heads', released by Otreum Games in March 2021. \"Neverafter\" (2019). \"Neverafter\", his debut solo album, was released on 15 November 2019. It is a predominantly instrumental concept album composed of symphonic, progressive and melodic death metal elements. The music tells the story of a young girl, Aria, and her journey through a dreamworld as she searches for resolution after the loss of her mother. The album features Jeff Loomis of Arch Enemy, Sam Paulicelli (66Samus) of Decrepit Birth, Paul Wardingham and Christina Marie of \"The Voice\". The record was co-produced, mixed, and mastered by Thomas \u201cPlec\u201d Johansson, who previously worked with bands like Soilwork and Scar Symmetry. As described by Metal Injection, \"Gillion has truly created an epic masterpiece that would have raised Chopin's brow if he were still alive\", while MetalSucks commented, \"predictably, the results are magnificent\" \"Arcade Metal\" (2022). \"Arcade Metal\", his second"}, {"text": "solo album, was released on 2 September 2022. It is an instrumental concept album. It features Matt Heafy of Trivium, Jeff Loomis of Arch Enemy, Per Nilsson of Scar Symmetry, Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage, Li-sa-X, Stephen Taranto and Paul Wardingham, and drums throughout by 66Samus of Decrepit Birth. \"Exilium\" (2024). \"Exilium\" is the third solo album by Andy Gillion."}, {"text": "Rolf Walter Mathewes is a Canadian paleoecologist. He is a full professor and former associate dean of science at Simon Fraser University. Education. Mathewes attended Princess Margaret Secondary School and was taught biology by Rene Savenye. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University before achieving his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Career. Mathewes joined the Faculty of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University in 1975. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1982 before becoming a full professor in 1987. A few years later, he served a three year term as Associate Chair of Biology and was elected president of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynolygists. On August 1, 2000, he was appointed Associate Dean of Science at Simon Fraser University. In 2001, he co-published \"Late Quaternary paleoenvironments of Northwestern North America: implications for inland versus coastal migration routes.\" In 2004, Mathewes was repeatedly contacted by the Vancouver Police Department to analyze evidence at the crime scene. A few years later, in 2007, he was part of a group of researchers working at Simon Fraser University's Centre for Forensic Studies. In 2011, Mathewes was honoured with Simon Fraser University's Outstanding Alumni Award. A few years"}, {"text": "later, while collaborating with Bruce Archibald and researchers from Naturmuseum Senckenberg, he discovered three extinct fossil species of big-headed flies. Only one of the fossils was well-enough preserved to be named as a new species. In 2019, Mathewes was part of an archeology team that discovered proof of life in Haida Gwaii that dated back 13,000 years, which indicated that the land was occupied approximately 2,200 years prior to the previous estimates of 10,000 to 10,800 years ago."}, {"text": "Samuel David Silvey was a British statistician. Among his contributions are the Lagrange multiplier test, and the use of eigenvalues of the moment matrix for the detection of multicollinearity."}, {"text": "Duthieeae is a tribe of grasses, subfamily Pooideae, containing eight genera."}, {"text": "Kim Clijsters was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Venus Williams. The score was 6\u20133, 6\u20133. Seeds. The first four seeds received a bye into the second round. Qualifying. Qualifying seeds. The first six seeds received a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Shakespears Sister Ride Again was an all-UK concert tour by British-Irish/American rock act Shakespears Sister. The tour was announced as part of their reunion in May 2019. Prior to their reunion and the tour's announcement, band members Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit hadn't spoken in twenty-seven years following a well publicised feud. The tour was announced in support of their compilation album \"Singles Party\" and their EP \"Ride Again\". Consisting of 14 dates, \"Shakespears Sister Ride Again\" launched on October 31, 2019, in Nottingham and concluded on November 20, 2019 in Brighton. Background. Shakespears Sister initially parted in 1993, shortly after the release of their million-selling album \"Hormonally Yours\" and following tensions between Fahey and Detroit. Fahey intermittently revived the name Shakespears Sister as a solo act, releasing albums online. In May 2019, Fahey and Detroit announced that they would reunite on stage later in the year. A UK tour, titled \"Shakespears Sister Ride Again\", was announced during the same month. A new single, \"All the Queen's Horses\", was released on 15 May, with an accompanying music video. This was followed by the compilation album, \"Singles Party\", in July 2019. The duo performed \"Stay\" on \"The Graham Norton Show\" on"}, {"text": "10 May 2019; their first TV performance together since 1993. They also announced that they were recording an EP of new material. The EP \"Ride Again\" was released on 25 October 2019, and was followed on the 31 October with the opening night of \"Shakespears Sister Ride Again\". Setlist. The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on November 1, 2019, at the New Theatre Oxford. It may not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour."}, {"text": "Jelena Dokic was the defending champion, but lost in semifinals to Kim Clijsters. Serena Williams won the title by defeating Kim Clijsters 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final. Seeds. The first four seeds received a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "D\u014dzen Ueno (\u4e0a\u91ce\u9053\u5584, 1939\u2013present) is a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kegon school. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the 219th head priest (bett\u014d) at T\u014ddai-ji. He currently presides as senior monk and is board chairman of the board of directors at T\u014ddaiji Gakuen."}, {"text": "KVMX may refer to:"}, {"text": "Alexyar Carolina Ca\u00f1as Garc\u00eda (born 5 December 1996) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ecuadorian Super Liga Femenina club Carneras UPS. She was a member of the Venezuela women's national team. Club career. Ca\u00f1as is a former player of Zamora FC. She signed for Cortulu\u00e1 in September 2018. International career. Ca\u00f1as represented Venezuela at the 2015 South American U-20 Women's Championship and the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. At senior level, she played the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. She was also selected for the 2018 Copa Am\u00e9rica Femenina, but did not play. International goals. \"Scores and results list Venezuela's goal tally first\""}, {"text": "Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but lost in quarterfinals to Kim Clijsters. Clijsters defeated Daniela Hantuchov\u00e1 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final. She received a Porsche Boxster-S as a prize. Seeds. The first four seeds received a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Kim Clijsters was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, by defeating Magdalena Maleeva 6\u20131, 6\u20132 in the final. Seeds. The first two seeds received a bye into the second round."}, {"text": "Kalim Uddin Ahmed is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former member of parliament for Sunamganj-5. Career. Ahmed was elected to parliament from Sunamganj-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001."}, {"text": "Ma\u00eblle Pistoia (born 4 January 2001), better known as simply Ma\u00eblle, is a French singer. She is the winner of the of the French version of the talent show \"The Voice\". In April 2019, she released her first single, titled \"Toutes les machines ont un c\u0153ur\" (lit. \"All machines have a heart\"). Biography. Born in January 2001, Ma\u00eblle Pistoia is from Tournus in the department of Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire, Burgundy. She has two older sisters. In her childhood she studied piano. 2018: \"The Voice\". Ma\u00eblle's musical career started in 2017, when she submitted a video audition for the seventh edition of the French version of \"The Voice\" and became a contestant. At her blind audition, she performed Guillaume Grand's \"Toi et moi\", accompanying herself on piano. Three of the four judges, Florent Pagny, Zazie, and Mika turned their chairs. Ma\u00eblle chose Zazie as her coach.<ref name=\"Un jour / Un talent : Retour sur le parcours de Ma\u00eblle - The Voice Kids | TF1\"></ref> For the final audition, she sang Chris Isaak's \"Wicked Game\". During the duels, Ma\u00eblle battled Gulaan singing Sting's \"Fragile\", and it was she who Zazie chose to advance to the live rounds.<ref name=\"Duel Gulaan / Ma\u00eblle : apr\u00e8s les"}, {"text": "larmes, les mots touchants de Gulaan \u00e0 sa coach Zazie ! - The Voice Kids | TF1\"></ref> During the first live round, she sang Korgis' \"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime\" and was \"saved\" by the public. In the quarterfinals, she sang London Grammar's \"Wasting My Young Years\" and was \"saved\" by the public. In the semifinal, she sang France Gall's \"Diego libre dans sa t\u00eate\" and was chosen by the public for the final over B. Demi Mondaine. In the final held on 12 May 2018, Ma\u00eblle performed first Harry Styles' \"Sign of the Times\", then Vianney's \"Je m'en vais\" in duo with him, and finally Michel Berger's \"Seras-tu l\u00e0\" in duo with Zazie. She won the final with 55,3 % of the public vote, becoming the first female and, at 17 years of age, the youngest candidate to ever win the French talent show. On 14 July 2018, in Louhans, Ma\u00eblle gave her first public concert. 2019: First single and first album. On 5 April 2019, Ma\u00eblle released her first single. Titled \"Toutes les machines ont un c\u0153ur\", it was composed by Calogero (who also produced the recording), with lyrics by Zazie. Three days before her BAC (in Social"}, {"text": "& Economics Sciences, or SES), she was in Barcelona shooting the music video for this song. Directed by Nur Casadevall, it premiered on YouTube on 29 July 2019. On 6 September 2019, Ma\u00eblle released (on YouTube) a music video for a live version of another track from her forthcoming album, a song titled \"L'Effet de masse\". The song entered the French download chart at number 68 (during the week of 13 September). On 23 September 2019, she released (on YouTube) a music video for yet another new song from her upcoming album, \"Le Pianiste des gares\". At the end of September, Ma\u00eblle was nominated for the 2019 NRJ Music Award in the category \"French Revelation of the Year\". On 4 October 2019, she released (on YouTube) a music video for the song \"Sur un coup de t\u00eate\". The song entered the French download chart at number 75 (during the week of 11 October). Her first album, titled simply \"Ma\u00eblle\", was released on 22 November 2019. The entire album was composed and produced by Calogero."}, {"text": "The Crash V Aniversario or The Crash Quinto Aniversario (Spanish for The Crash 5th Anniversary Show) was a professional wrestling supercard event, scripted and produced by the Mexican \"lucha libre\" wrestling company The Crash Lucha Libre, which took place on November 26, 2016, at Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez in The Crash's home town of Tijuana, Baja California. The event commemorated the creation of The Crash Lucha Libre in November 2011 and is their biggest show of the year. The main event was a traditional \"lucha libre\" best-two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team match, the most common match type in Mexico, that saw independent circuit top workers Jeff Hardy, Rey F\u00e9nix, and Rey Mysterio Jr. facd and defeat Jeff Cobb, Nicho el Millonario, and Teddy Hart two falls to one. Flamita successfully defended The Crash Cruiserweight Championship against Extreme Tiger when the referee stopped the match after Extreme Tiger hurt his shoulder during the match. The show also introduced the brand-new The Crash Women's Championship, which Sexy Dulce won by Keira in a Singles match. The show featured three additional matches. Production. Background. The Crash Lucha Libre began operating on 2011, focusing mainly on promotion professional wrestling event in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico."}, {"text": "Their first show was held on November 4, 2011, with a main event of El Hijo del Santo and Latin Lover defeating El Hijo del Solitario and Marco Corleone. The Crash held shows on a limited schedule over the next couple of years; 4 in 2012, 4 in 2013, 2 in 2014, and 5 in 2015. The Crash V Aniversario show on November 26, 2016, was the first time they billed one of their shows as a direct celebration of their anniversary. In subsequent years The Crash has held an Aniversario show each year, building them into their biggest show of the year. Event. The Crash V Aniversario show featured six professional wrestling matches scripted by The Crash with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as \"rudos\" in Mexico, those that play the part of the \"bad guys\") or faces (\"t\u00e9cnicos\" in Mexico, the \"good guy\" characters) as they perform in the ring. Aftermath. Flamita would remain The Crash Cruiserweight Champion until June 2, 2017, where he lost the title to Rey Horus, ending his reign after 293 days. After becoming the first The Crash Women's Champion, Sexy Dulce held the title for"}, {"text": "290 until April 5, 2017, when she lost a match to Keira that also included Lacey Lane and Santana Garrett where she was not pinned."}, {"text": "Sayyid Ali Muhammad-Ali Al Tajer (; born 1962) is an Iraqi painter and art historian. He studied drawing at the University of Baghdad's College of Fine Arts. He currently stands as a member of the Association of Iraqi Artists, as well as the Organization of Iraqi Fine Artists. Early life and education. Al Tajer was born in Karbala in 1962 to lawyer, Muhammad-Ali Al Tajer. He hails from the noble Al Faiz family, and claims agnatic descent from Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and her husband, Ali. He moved to Baghdad to pursue his studies, and enrolled at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad, earning a bachelor's degree in 1987, then went on to earn a master's degree in drawing in 1992. Career. In the late seventies he went on to work as an illustrator for several magazines and newspapers in Iraq. Eventually he participated in a collective exhibition held for the international Annual Festival of the Child. In 1982 he produced his first animated film for the educational channel on Iraqi state television. Then throughout the eighties he was participating in different exhibitions across the country. In 2000, Al Tajer participated in his first international exhibition, in"}, {"text": "Beirut, and went on to participate in other countries, such as Jordan, Bahrain, and Oman. Art. Al Tajer's art typically depicts daily urban life in Iraq, featuring customs and traditional aspects of Iraqi culture. Flowers, and particularly roses, are commonly used motifs. He has cited the painters James Ensor and Marc Chagall as sources of inspiration. In 2015, Al Tajer exhibited a painting series entitled \"Babylon\", which combined moments of day-to-day life in Iraq with symbolic objects and people. As a researcher, Al Tajer has explored Iraqi folk heritage, as well as the role of ancient myths, human and animal motifs in Iraqi folk art."}, {"text": "John Chynoweth Burnham (July 14, 1929 \u2013 May 12, 2017) was an American historian who was a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1963 to 2002. He was an expert on the history of science, medicine, psychology, and psychiatry. He served as president of the American Association for the History of Medicine from 1990 to 1992, and as editor-in-chief of the \"Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences\" from 1997 to 2000. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association."}, {"text": "Claudia Emmanuela Santoso (born 27 October 2000) is an Indonesian singer. She is known for winning the ninth season of \"The Voice of Germany\" and became the first person of Asian descent who won the title, broadcast by the German television channels ProSieben and Sat.1 in 2019. She started gaining wide public attention after performing her rendition of The Greatest Showman soundtrack \"\" in the blind audition The Voice of Germany. The footage of her blind audition has been one of the most viewed videos in The Voice of Germany history. Before joining The Voice of Germany, she also took part in many children's singing competitions in Indonesia such as \"Akademi Fantasi Indosiar Junior\" in 2008, \"Idola Cilik\" in 2011 and \"Mamamia Show\" in 2014. Life and career. Santoso attended music school since the age of 4. She participated in the talent search events in Indonesia, including \"AFI Junior\" in 2008, \"Idola Cilik\" in 2011 and \"Mamamia Show\" in 2014. Santoso\u2018s maternal uncle encouraged her to pursue her higher education in Germany and sent her to a German language course at the Goethe-Institut Indonesia in Bandung up to the A1 level. During her school holiday, she attended Inlingua Language School"}, {"text": "in Munich, taking A2 level courses. After graduation from high school in 2018, Santoso attended the University of Munich in Germany. In February 2019, Santoso auditioned for The Voice of Germany in Munich, competing against approximately 2,000 participants. She passed through the competition to the Blind Audition stage. During the Blind Audition stage, Santoso performed the song \"Never Enough\" from the soundtrack of the film The Greatest Showman. She chose Alice Merton as her coach. The video of her Blind Audition performance became one of the most watched videos in The Voice of Germany history. During the televised competition, Santoso performed the songs \"Castles\", \"I Have Nothing\" and \"Goodbye\". With 46.39% of the popular vote, Santoso was declared the winner of The Voice of Germany season 9 and was the first Asian to win the event. On the final of The Voice of Germany, Santoso sang her first single, \"Goodbye,\" as a duet with Merton. The song was released on November 10, 2019 and appeared on the charts on iTunes Indonesia and several European countries. Concert tours. Headlining"}, {"text": "Kazi Rafiqul Islam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Bogra-1. Career. Rafiqul Islam was elected to parliament from Bogra-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001."}, {"text": "Pioch is a surname. It is mainly of Polish origin, a variant of the personal name Piotr. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "K. M. Anowarul Islam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Pabna-3. Career. Islam was elected to parliament from Pabna-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001."}, {"text": "Antiquaobatis is an extinct genus of ray from the Early Jurassic (Late Pliensbachian) of Europe, containing the single species A. grimmenensis. It is the oldest known described member of the Rajiformes, and is based on a single tooth from Pliensbachian of Northern Germany. It was recovered from the Grimmen Clay Pit, on Spinatum strata that belongs in the region to the Komorowo Formation. The holotype is a single antero-lateral tooth, very small and slightly asymmetrical, measuring 0.25 mm in maximum height and 0.26 mm in maximum width, that has an overall morphology, that suggests a consistent referral to Batoidea, encompassing all skates and rays. The tooth has an overall rather gracile crown morphology, different from any other know jurassic batomorphs, indicating closest affinities to the monotypic genus \"Engaibatis schultzei\" from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian of Tanzania. Paleoenvironment. The Late Pliensbachian level of the Grimmen clay pit was thought to be part of the Allenstein (Komorowo Formation), but due to being composed by sandstones there was a strong disagreement linking the fluvial Olsztyn with Germany, as it comes from the Mazury area - the easternmost part of the Polish basin - and there is no link with the local Amaltheenton Beds, unlike the"}, {"text": "Komorowo Formation. The described tooth of \"Antiquaobatis\" is considered to come from allochthonous origin, as it has suffered massively from post-mortem breakage in many cases, most probably due to extensive reworking and redistribution generated by current activities. This taxon probably lived on the marine areas that were located in closer proximity to the Fennoscandian mainland, such as the paralic depositional environments of the Sorthat Formation of Bornholm, Denmark. But it also could have been moved from the Polish Basin, as on the deposition of this tooth it was flooded by the sea, as proven by the find of ammonites on central Poland. A Nectobenthic lifestyle has been suggested for Jurassic batomorphs, specially complete taxa such as Belemnobatis and Spathobatis, that are superficially similar to extant members of which are generally characterized by sharing a bauplan similar to extant Rhinobatidae, adapted to eat hard-shelled prey. \"Antiquaobatis grimmenensis\" appears to have used different, less specialized and probably more opportunistic feeding strategies, as suggested by the gracile and high tooth morphology."}, {"text": "Mieczys\u0142aw Jan G\u0119barowicz (17 December 189318 February 1984) was a Polish art historian, soldier, dissident, museum director and custodian of cultural heritage. He studied history and the history of art at Lw\u00f3w University. During the 1940s and 1950s he was responsible for saving many Polish cultural works in Lviv, including books and manuscripts, from being destroyed or dispersed. G\u0119barowicz's studies were interrupted by World War I, when he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1918, he fought for the Poles in the Defence of Lw\u00f3w.After graduating from university, he lectured at the Jan Kazimierz University (now the University of Lviv), where he was awarded a doctoral degree in 1921. The following yerar he took up a post in the Ossolineum in Lw\u00f3w, where he became a curator. Between 1923 and 1938 he lectured in art history at Lw\u00f3w Polytechnic. After the outbreak of World War II, he became one of the directors of the Ossolineum. During and after the war, G\u0119barowicz secretly organised the dispatch of items from the collections of the Ossolineum to safety in Krak\u00f3w and Wroc\u0142aw. In February 1952 he was dismissed as a director by the Soviet authorities, but was allowed to work in Lviv as"}, {"text": "a research librarian. He was forced to retire in 1962, and died in Lviv in 1984. A published author, his research on the art of Ukraine and Lviv was published posthumously. Early years. G\u0119barowicz was born in Jaros\u0142aw, one of three sons in a patriotic Polish family. His mother was Bronis\u0142awa, n\u00e9e Smolek. His father, Teofil, was a railway engineer who served as assistant station master in Stanis\u0142aw\u00f3w and later as station master in Buczacz. In 1912 Mieczys\u0142aw completed his schooling at Buczacz Lyceum and was already a member of two clandestine Polish youth organizations, \"Zet\" and Zarzewie. He went on to study history and the history of art at Lw\u00f3w University. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, when he served in the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1915 until the end of the war in 1918. He fought alongside the Poles in the Defence of Lw\u00f3w during the Polish\u2013Ukrainian War, after which he was able to graduate. Between 1920 and 1922 G\u0119barowicz was a lecturer in the History faculty of Jan Kazimierz University in a newly-independent Poland. In 1921 he was awarded a doctoral degree at the university. In 1922 he took up"}, {"text": "a post in the National Ossoli\u0144ski Institute, known as the in Lw\u00f3w, where the following year he was promoted to curator of the . He continued with academic duties and undertook research and lecturing assignments in Italy, France. Belgium, Spain, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. In 1928 he became an assistant professor in the History of Art the Department of Humanities at the university. In 1936 he became an honorary professor at Jan Kazimierz University. Between 1923 and 1938 he also lectured in art history at Lw\u00f3w Polytechnic. World War II. Following the start of the invasion of Poland and the sudden death on 18 September 1939 of , the director of the Ossolineum, G\u0119barowicz found himself along with and , as a director of the Institute. In December 1939 the Soviet authorities had installed the Polish Communist activist Jerzy Borejsza as director. In 1941, the Germans occupied Lviv, and Wis\u0142ocki was murdered in unexplained circumstances. G\u0119barowski was secretly nominated as lead director of the institute. From this time until the return of the Soviet occupiers in July 1944, he strove to safeguard the priceless collections of the Ossolineum. In 1944, he arranged a covert consignment of 2,300 literary manuscripts by"}, {"text": "train to Krak\u00f3w. Included were works by the Polish poet, playwrights and authors Juliusz S\u0142owacki, Aleksander Fredro, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Reymont, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Adam Mickiewicz. The original manuscript of Mickiewicz's \"Pan Tadeusz\" was despatched from Lviv, as well as 2,400 Polish publications and prints, and several hundred coins. These would later become the core of the relocated Ossolineum in Wroc\u0142aw. G\u0119barowicz decided to remain in Lviv when the renewed occupation began. Post-war. 1946 saw G\u0119barowicz become deputy manager of the Faculty of Theory and History of Art of the renamed Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Thanks to his efforts, in July 1946 as \"a gift of the Soviet People to the People of Poland\" a further 7,083 manuscripts, 35,565 antiquarian books and 107,397 prints from the 19th and 20th centuries arrived in Wroc\u0142aw. In March 1947 a further 67,000 books followed. His decision to stay in the city as custodian of the remaining Polish heritage in Lviv was conditional on his accepting Soviet citizenship and rejecting not only the offer to become director of the National Museum in Krak\u00f3w, but also the offers of professorships at the universities of Wroc\u0142aw and Toru\u0144. In February 1950, together with other long-term employees"}, {"text": "of the Library, G\u0119barowicz was dismissed, on the grounds of being an \"undesirable element\". He was able to find work as a librarian in different Lviv institutions that recognised his status as that of a \"junior researcher\". He travelled to Poland in 1957, where he declined an offer to become director of the Ossolineum in Wroc\u0142aw. In 1962, when aged 69, the Soviet authorities offered him advancement to a \"senior researcher\". Later that year he was forced into retirement, probably in response to the publication in Poland of his \"Study of the history of the arts in Late Renaissance Poland\". He was also punished by being barred from accessing any of the archives in his erstwhile national collection. In 1970, the Polish government awarded G\u0119barowicz a medal for developing the National Ossoli\u0144ski Institute. In 1981, the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences commissioned him to write an autobiography as part of a compendium of biographies of leading Polish academics. When the Polish authorities balked at the completed manuscript, it was published a year later by a small Catholic publisher, ZNAK. G\u0119barowicz wrote research papers, despite his straitened circumstances and a lack of access to the Ossolineum sources. Two"}, {"text": "well-received studies on the art of Ukraine and of Lviv were published posthumously: \"The oldest iconostasis of the volosian orthodox church in Lw\u00f3w\" (Wroc\u0142aw, 2016) and \"Mater Misericordiae - Pokrow - Pokrowa in the art and legends of East-Central Europe\" (Wroc\u0142aw, 1986). G\u0119barowicz died in Lviv in 1984 and was buried at Lyczakow cemetery in the city. He was remembered as the \"Pope of the Polish diaspora\" in Lw\u00f3w. A lecture hall in the National Ossoli\u0144ski Institute is named in his honour. Legacy. Aside from his scholarly work, it is probably due to his leadership, determination and guile in wartime, the Occupation of Poland (1939\u20131945), during the Fourth Partition and after, that a major part of Polish cultural heritage survived and was made available to succeeding generations. Largely owed to his initiative are:"}, {"text": "Young\u2019s Book Exchange is known as the first African-American bookstore. It was located at 135 West 135th Street in New York City. It was founded in 1915 by George Young, who was a Pullman porter during the 1900s, and became a bibliophile of African-American literature. His bookstore was known as the \"Mecca of Literature\" for African-American citizens. This bookstore housed approximately 8,000\u201310,000 volumes. About the founder. George Young was born in Virginia to two slaves recently freed. He later married Ellen Thomas Young and had a daughter, Sara Elizabeth Young. Young was a Pullman porter, hired to work on the railroads as a porter on sleeping cars. He was known to many different people all over the world, one friend being Frederick Douglass. Young was also the national treasurer of the John Brown Memorial Association and the superintendent of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School. Young died following a heart attack at the age of 65 in St. Luke's Hospital. Collection. Books by African authors included the older \"Letters of Ignatius Sancho\" and the \"Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa\". Beside these were more recent treatises: Duse Mohamed, \"In the Land of the Pharaohs\"; Sol T. Plaatje, \"Native"}, {"text": "Life in South Africa;\" J. E. Casely Hayford, \"Ethiopia Unbound\", \"Gold Coast Native Institutions\", and \"The Truth About the West African Land Question\"; Dr. James Africanus Beale Horton, \"West African Countries and Peoples and A Vindication of the African Race\"; John Mensah Sarbah, \"Fanti Customary Laws\"; Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther, \"Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers\"; Prof. Benjamin Brawley of Howard University, \"A Social History of the American Negro;\" George W. Williams, \"History of the Negro Race in America\"; William Wells Brown, \"The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements\" and \"The Rising Son\"; W. E. B. Du Bois, \"The Negro\"; Joel Augustus Rogers, \"Superman to Man\"."}, {"text": "State Route 289 (SR 289), also known as North Spring Street, is a short north-south state highway located entirely in the city of Sparta, Tennessee. Route description. SR 289 begins at an intersection with US 70/SR 1 (West Bockman Way) in a business district just across the Calfkiller River from downtown. It heads north north through some neighborhoods before passing through some industrial areas, where it has an intersection Sewell Drive, which provides access to Saint Thomas Highlands Hospital. SR 289 then has a Y-intersection with SR 135 (Roberts Matthews Highway) just shortly before coming to an end at an interchange with SR 111. The entire route SR 289 is a two-lane highway. History. For its entire length, SR 289 represents the former two-lane alignment of SR 111 prior to the new 4-lane freeway being built."}, {"text": "Ezra 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the book of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE (the so-called \"Chronicler\") is the final author of these books. The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes the activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. This chapter focuses on the commission of Ezra by Artaxerxes I of Persia, and the start of his journey from Babylon to Jerusalem. Text. This chapter is divided into 28 verses. The original text of verses 1\u201311 is in Hebrew language, verses 12\u201326 are in Aramaic, and verses 27\u201328 are in Hebrew again. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew/Aramaic are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008). There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint"}, {"text": "version include Codex Vaticanus (B; formula_1B; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; formula_1A; 5th century). An ancient Greek book called 1 Esdras (Greek: ) containing some parts of 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah is included in most editions of the Septuagint and is placed before the single book of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah (which is titled in Greek: ). 1 Esdras 8:1\u201327 is an equivalent of Ezra 7 (In Artaxerxes' reign). Ezra the man and the mission (7:1\u201310). This part introduces Ezra, a priest and devout teacher of the Mosaic Law, the leader of another group of Jews leaving Babylonia for Jerusalem during the reign of Artaxerxes the king of Persia, thereby skipping almost sixty years of history about the remaining years of Darius and the entire reign of Xerxes. Ezra's priestly heritage (verses 1\u20135, cf. ) connects him to the great priests in history (ultimately to Phinehas, Eleazar, and Aaron the high priests) to validate his authority, before presenting his devotion and integrity (verse 6). Verses 7\u201310 contains the summary of Ezra's journey. \" Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of"}, {"text": "Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the high priest\u2014 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, given by the Lord God of Israel. Because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him, the king granted him all his requests.\" \"And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.\" \"And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.\" \"For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.\" Verse 9. Ezra had determined to depart (\"go up\") on the first day of"}, {"text": "the first month (Nisan; Assyrian: \"Nisanu\"; part of March and April), but the rendezvous with his group apparently took place on the 9th day of the same month, and the journey actually commenced on the 12th day (cf. , ), lasted throughout 18 days of Nisan, and the three months Iyyar, Sivan, and Tammuz; in all about 108 days. The straightline distance from Babylon to Jerusalem is over 500 miles, but following traditional route, Ezra's caravan should make a long detour by Carchemish to avoid the desert area, so the total journey could hardly have been less than 900 miles (cf. ). The King's Commission (7:11\u201326). This part, written in Aramaic, records how Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, provided Ezra with 'a letter of commission, authorization, and support as well as limitations' for his journey and mission to Jerusalem. \"Artaxerxes, king of kings,\" \"To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven:\" \"Perfect peace, and so forth.\" Ezra's Praise (7:27\u201328). The last two verses (in Hebrew) are Ezra's own memoirs where he praised God's provision, care, and goodness, that became his source of courage for the journey ahead."}, {"text": "Governor Manrique may refer to:"}, {"text": "Kevin Doherty is an American college football coach. He is the defensive coordinator coach at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a position he has held since the 2023 season. Doherty served as the head football coach at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania for one season, in 1998, compiling a record of 0\u201310."}, {"text": "Ny\u016bd\u014d shinn\u014d (\u5165\u9053\u89aa\u738b, lit. \"ordination prince\") is a title bestowed to imperial sons who left the court and took tonsure as Buddhist monks. Ordination resulted in relinquishment of imperial status and devotion to the welfare of the imperial family through prayer and ritual service. Other names used to designate the same status include Ny\u016bd\u014d-no-miya (\u5165\u9053\u5bae, lit. \"Imperial ordination\") and Ubasoku-no-miya (\u512a\u5a46\u585e\u5bae, lit. \"Imperial up\u0101saka\"). This title was reserved for those who had already been declared imperial prince by imperial proclamation (\u89aa\u738b\u5ba3\u4e0b). By contrast, those declared prince after ordination held the title \"hosshinn\u014d\" (\u6cd5\u89aa\u738b, lit. \"Dharma prince\")."}, {"text": "Metropolitan Mark (, secular name Sergey Anatolievich Golovkov, ; born 31 March 1964), is a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church. He holds the title of \"Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, head of the Ryazan Metropolis\", as well as \"Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungary\". In the past he was titular bishop of Bogorodsk, or the title given to the head of the Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Italy. Early life. Graduating from high school in his hometown of Perm in 1981, Golovkov then enlisted in the Soviet Army. He served his mandatory time in the army from 1982 to 1984. Academic life. In 1984 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, after which in 1988 he entered the Moscow Theological Academy. In September 1990, he was appointed assistant head of the Church and Archaeological Cabinet at the academy. From 1990 to 1992 Golovkov taught courses relating to the scriptures of the New Testament at the academy. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy with a Ph.D. in theology. Priest. On 19 October 1990 he was tonsured a monk at the famous Russian Orthodox monastery named Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, and was"}, {"text": "ordained a hierodeacon in the same location on 21 November 1990. He was finally ordained a hieromonk on 7 January 1991. August 12, 1992 Fr. Mark was assigned by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate to be a member of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. On the Eastern Orthodox feast day of Pentecost in 1997, Golovkov was elevated to the rank of Hegumen, or leader of a major monastery, by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Jerusalem. In 1997 while an official in the Moscow-based Russian mission in Jerusalem, Mark (Golovkov) played a critical role along with then Patriarch Alexy II in convincing Yasser Arafat in expelling the owners of Mount of Olives Monastery, the only Eastern Orthodox monastery and church in the city of Hebron. The church had been under the property of the Russian Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), but after dispute over custody, the hierarchy of the Moscow Patriarchate asked the Palestinian authorities to forcibly remove the current contingent. Mark (Golovkov) spoke to the media, saying: \"We're ready to receive them all, but for a long time, the Mount of Olives Monastery did not allow Russian priests to enter. Muslims, Jews, atheists,"}, {"text": "Buddhists can enter, but God forbid that a Russian priest enter. They must understand that they're not recognized by anyone, and that all the properties they call theirs were built and bought by Russia for Russian money to serve Russian pilgrims. Yet the Russian Patriarch cannot enter the monastery to pray.\" December 28, 1999: Made deputy chairman of the Department of External Church Relations (DECR), with responsibility for caring for administrative and practical affairs of DECR, including cooperation with state institutions in various countries. On 26 January 2000 he was appointed rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Khoroshev, Moscow. On 3 May 2000 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Bishop. On 26 December 2003 he was chosen by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to be bishop of and vicar of the Moscow diocese. On 14 January 2004, in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, he was consecrated bishop of Yegoryevsky and vicar of the Moscow diocese, he was also bestowed his apostolic name Mark by then Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, later Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. On 11 February 2009 he was appointed by Patriarch Kirill as temporarily chairman of the Department"}, {"text": "of external church relations. On 31 March 2009 the Holy Synod decided to appoint Mark (Golovkov) secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate for foreign institutions. He was also entrusted with the interim administration of the Russian Orthodox dioceses of Vienna-Austria and Budapest-Hungary. From 16 July 2013 to 22 October 2015 Mark (Golovkov) served as the metropolitan archbishop of the Patriarchal parishes in Italy. He was succeeded by Anthony (Sevryuk) on 26 October 2015. On 26 February 2019 Mark (Golovkov) was replaced by Ignatius (Deputatov) in the patriarchal administration of the Russian Orthodox church. Along with the resignation of the metropolitan of St. Petersburg, this was seen by some observers and journalists as part of an ongoing trend of Kirill removing old bishops mostly ordained and appointed by his predecessor and replacing them with younger bishops who reflect his personality and views. On August 30, 2019, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was appointed ruling hierarch of the diocese of Budapest Hungary with the title \"Metropolitan of Budapest and Hungar\u0443\" within the specified diocese. On June 7, 2022, by decision of the Holy Synod, he was released from his duties as administrator of the Budapest-Hungarian diocese. Hilarion (Alfeyev) replaced him"}, {"text": "Views. Mark (Golovkov) has written and spoken numerous times about the importance of architecture in the Orthodox church, both in modern times and historical. While supervising the restoration projects of Orthodox religious buildings primarily in Moscow Oblast and Russia as a whole, he spoke of the importance of preserving the historical appearance and atmosphere of these buildings, saying that the architectural traditions are important in Orthodox spirituality. Mark (Golovkov) was one of many leaders of Christian denominations to express their opposition of Saudi Islamic scholar and cleric Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, when the latter declared that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. As then head of the department of Russian Orthodox churches abroad, Mark (Golovkov) called the sheikh's fatwa \"alarming\" and told the \"Interfax\" news agency he hoped that Saudi Arabia's neighbors in the region \"will be surprised by the calls made by this sheikh and ignore them\"."}, {"text": "The was the mandatory switchover from analog to digital terrestrial television broadcasting that began in 2008 and continued through early 2012. The switchover itself took place between 24 July 2011 and 31 March 2012, and involved television stations across all five major commercial networks, the entire network of NHK's broadcast transmitters, and television stations that are part of the JAITS group. Japan was the first country in eastern Asia to cease broadcasting television signals in analog. Background. On 1 December 2003, Tokyo Broadcasting System, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV and Nippon Television Network- the 5 major TV networks in Tokyo- became the first broadcasters to begin broadcasting in digital. Unlike analog television (which used NTSC-J and relied mainly on VHF signals (channels 1\u201312) in large markets and UHF signals (channels 13\u201352) in smaller markets), digital television (which uses ISDB) totally relies on the utilisation of UHF signals. For this reason, the digital channels had to be amended in some areas of the country so that they do not coexist with the then-existing analog channels. This process took place between February 2003 and March 2007. This was not the first time, however, that digital television began appearing in Japan, as"}, {"text": "the NHK's Broadcasting Satellite services began broadcasting in digital in December 2000. Those services, however, were open only to those with digital satellite systems. The MUSE Hi-Vision system, which began broadcasting in 1991, was switched off permanently on 30 September 2007, almost four years after the first digital terrestrial broadcasts began. Technology. Televisions without digital receivers required ISDB-T converter boxes or DVD recorders in order to convert the digital signal into a receivable analog signal. Many of the old analog-era devices had standard image quality, but the digital televisions and tuners that were distributed in the first few years of digital terrestrial broadcasts were only usable for a limited amount of time. As a result of this, the initial cost of digital equipment was expensive; in mid-2007, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications requested television manufacturers to release specialized digital tuners for around \u00a55,000 or lower. Although digital television tuners became widely available to the general population, low income households could not be able to afford the cost of the tuners themselves, even after the prices of the tuners themselves decreased between 2008 and 2010. The ministry responded by distributing tuners free of charge to all low income households;"}, {"text": "this prevented a situation that would have been similar to the coupon-eligible converter box program during the 2009 digital switchover in the United States. Unlike the United States, however, new antenna equipment was also required on the top of any building that was equipped with a digital television tuner. This led to reception issues in the months preceding the planned switchover. Digital broadcasts could be received with little or no issues within the transmission error's processing capability, but could not be received at all if this capability is exceeded. Process. As a result of the confusion that was arisen with regards to the transmission of the analog and digital broadcast signals at the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications implemented several measures to ease confusion in the time leading up to the digital switchover. Beginning on 24 July 2008, three years before the planned shutdown of the analog transmitters themselves, a permanent DOG consisting of the word \u201c\u30a2\u30ca\u30ed\u30b0\u201d (analog) was placed on the top right corner of the screen to indicate the analog broadcast. This would change as follows: 2008\u20132009. Between October 2008 and February 2009, the ministry opened up the local service in all 47 prefectures"}, {"text": "of Japan, which would serve customers who had inquiries about the digital transition. These agencies were available as alternatives to the national service, which itself utilized Navi Dial. On 6 April 2009, the northeastern portion of Ishikawa Prefecture (corresponding to the cities of Suzu and Noto) was chosen by the ministry as the test market for the digital transition; other areas of the country were expected to conduct similar tests. Periodically throughout the year, analog broadcasts would be suspended for a certain amount of time on some days. Delivery of all digital tuners to the mentioned areas of northeastern Ishikawa was expected to be completed by 30 November 2009. 2010. Beginning on 22 January 2010, analog broadcasts of all commercial television stations in the northeastern part of Ishikawa Prefecture were suspended for a total of 48 hours; KTK, HAB, MRO, and ITC participated in the digital television transition test. NHK was excluded from the test as they were the official conduit of emergency information in the area. On 24 July 2010 at noon, the first phase of the digital switchover began in the northeastern part of Ishikawa Prefecture (which served approximately 8,800 households at the time of digitalization); the auxiliary"}, {"text": "transmitters of all five television stations serving the area were immediately switched off at that time. Beginning in September 2010, all television stations were required to display information about the digital television transition in the area of the analog television broadcast that is covered by the letterboxes. This continued until just before noon on the day of the digital switchover, albeit with minor updates being inserted periodically. 2011. T\u014dhoku earthquake reaction. The 11 March 2011 earthquake in Tohoku devastated many households in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima, where major power and water outages were reported. Rolling blackouts in some areas of the country that were not seriously affected by the earthquake would take place for the remainder of March; this required the analog auxiliary transmitters in the Kant\u014d region to stop broadcasting for a short period of time. On 22 April 2011, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced that the shutdown of analog transmitters in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures would be postponed for up to a year following the original shutdown date of 24 July 2011 out of respect for the victims of the disaster; the television stations licensed to those three prefectures would be"}, {"text": "subsidized for half the cost of maintaining the old analog equipment. The final transition date in those areas would be moved to 31 March 2012 per an announcement made on 5 July 2011. Shutdown of analog services. On 1 July 2011, television stations across 44 of the 47 prefectures that were scheduled to shut down their analog services on the original date began displaying a countdown clock in the lower left corner of the screen indicating the number of days remaining until the analog services ended. Seventeen days later, the ministry's digital television call center hours were temporarily extended to accommodate additional inquiries. On 24 July 2011 at noon, regularly scheduled programming ended on all analog signals in 44 of the country's 47 prefectures, as well as on Wowow and the NHK's BS1 and BS Premium channels (the Open University of Japan shuttered analog broadcasts three days earlier). The end of the transmission of regular programs took place minutes before the start of the third game of the 2011 Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, which was being transmitted by TV Asahi. In addition, special episodes of \"Waratte Iitomo!\" (which was aired on Fuji Television) and other variety shows covering the"}, {"text": "digital transition were aired by other television stations. For independent stations, some of them aired baseball tournament as their last regular programming on analogue. One of dual NNN-FNN stations,Television Oita Sistem ended their broadcasting with a special closing at their master control room . At the stroke of noon, all programming on the analog signal was replaced with a white-on-blue warning message signifying the end of regular programming, as well as the phone numbers of the digital television call center and the television station's inquiry helpline. This message, which varied between stations in different prefectures but maintained the same basic format, was aired continuously for about twelve hours; the transmitters themselves signed off the air shortly before midnight on that day (with stations in most areas airing legal sign-off notices as well). This was necessary because the ministry changed the transmitter shutoff time from noon to midnight due to technical reasons. 2012: Shutdown of analog services in eastern T\u014dhoku. In February 2012, there was a consolidation of digital television call centers in areas where the switchover was already completed. On 12 March 2012, the sixteen television stations serving the area that was impacted by the 2011 earthquake (Iwate, Miyagi, and"}, {"text": "Fukushima prefectures) began displaying the aforementioned countdown clock. As with the earlier shutdown, the business hours of the digital television call centers in all three prefectures were temporarily extended as well. When regular programming on the analog signal ended at noon on 31 March 2012, the aforementioned warning messages were still displayed as usual, but there was no fanfare except for those that were broadcast by both NHK and TBC shortly before regular programming ended. At midnight that same day, the analog transmitters themselves switched off, marking the completion of the digital switchover in Japan. Cable television. Cable television providers across Japan were not initially affected by the digital switchover, as analog cable services were expected to continue for a short amount of time after the transmitters themselves ceased operations. However, some stations that were not part of the country's five major commercial television networks were no longer offered on analog cable after 24 July 2011. By 2015, most analog cable systems ceased operations."}, {"text": "Paul C. Lambert (born March 14, 1928) was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador from 1990 to 1992. He submitted his resignation in December 1991 saying Ecuador is \u201ca country plagued by corruption and excessive bureaucracy.\u201d Background. Lambert was born in New York City on March 14, 1928. He graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1950) before continuing his education at Harvard Law School (J.D. 1953). He served in the US Army (G-2) after graduating from law school (from 1953 to 1955). Lambert began working as a lawyer in 1955 with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York City. From 1966 to 1990, Lambert was a partner of Breed, Abbott & Morgan leaving when he became a United States Ambassador. Lambert joined the law firm McLaughlin & Stern as a partner in early 2004, focusing on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and Surrogate's Court litigation. During his legal career, Lambert \u201chas been involved in some of the most significant estate and trust litigations of the last several decades, including Matter of Rothko, Estate of J. Seward Johnson, Matter of Stillman and Matter of Rockefeller.\u201d Long active in New York State politics, Lambert was a member"}, {"text": "of the Executive Committee of the New York State Republican Party from 1983 to 1990 and served as a Steering Committee and Finance Committee member of the 1988 George Bush for President election campaign. He served as a member New York Delegation to the Republican National Conventions in 1984, 1988, and 1992. Lambert has been an active supporter of Yale. He has contributed in many ways including serving as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni, as a Director of the Yale Alumni Fund, and as a member of the Yale Development Board, the Honorary Degree Committee, and the University Council. Because of his efforts, he was awarded the Yale Medal in 1988."}, {"text": "Christian Ditter (born 1 June 1977) is a German director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, television and commercials. He is best known for his films \"\", (2009) \"Love, Rosie\" (2014) and \"How to Be Single\" (2016) and the Netflix series \"Girlboss\" (2017). Early life. Ditter was born on 1 June 1977 in Giessen, Hesse. He graduated from the in 1996 and went to the University of L\u00fcneburg from 1997 to 1998, majoring in Applied Cultural Studies. He then focused his studies on directing at the University of Television and Film Munich from 1998 to 2006. Career. While in school, Ditter's short films \"Enchanted\" (2000) and \"Grounded\" (2003) won numerous awards at international film festivals. His debut feature film \"French for Beginners\" hit theaters in 2006. He subsequently directed on the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Television Award-winning series \"Turkish for Beginners\" (2007) and on the award-winning series \"Doctor's Diary\" (2008). In 2008, he adapted the popular German children's book, \"The Crocodiles\", for the big screen. The film won over fifty audience and jury awards at international film festivals and was followed up by two sequels, ' (2009) and ' (2010), which he directed and produced respectively."}, {"text": "He moved on to writing and directing Germany's first major adventure film shot entirely in 3D, \"Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods\", which debuted at No. 1 in the German box office. In 2014, he directed his first English-language feature \"Love, Rosie\" starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin. In 2016, he followed it up with his U.S. debut \"How to Be Single\" starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie. After working with Kay Cannon on \"How to Be Single\", they partnered with Charlize Theron's company Denver and Delilah to create the Netflix series \"Girlboss\" in 2017, loosely based on the book \"#Girlboss\" by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso. Ditter served as the showrunner-director of the Netflix series \"Biohackers\", of which the first season was released in 2020."}, {"text": "The Khanqah and Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay or Complex of Sultan Barsbay is an Islamic funerary complex built by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in 1432 CE in the historic Northern Cemetery of Cairo, Egypt. In addition to its overall layout and decoration, it is notable for the first stone domes in Cairo to be carved with geometric star patterns. Historical background. Sultan al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Barsbay ruled from 1422 to 1438 CE, a relatively long reign for the standards of the Mamluk period in Egypt. During that time, he built at least three notable buildings: the Madrasa of Barsbay, built in 1423-24 (near the beginning of his reign) on al-Muizz Street; his mausoleum complex in the Northern Cemetery, described on this page; and a Friday mosque in the town of al-Khanqa, north of Cairo, in 1437. He apparently had a reputation simultaneously for being greedy and bad-tempered but also for being generous to the poor and to Sufis (the latter tendency being evident in this mausoleum and khanqah complex). His reign was marked by relative security and stability, with few wars or rebellions. However, in 1427 he invaded Cyprus, captured its king (from the House of Lusignan) and forced him to"}, {"text": "pay tribute. He also diverted the Indian Ocean trade routes through Jeddah (closer to Cairo) and introduced a state monopoly on sugar and pepper. The revenues from this military victory and these trade policies may have helped him finance his construction projects, and may have encouraged him to build this new mausoleum complex in the Northern Cemetery later in his reign (after having already built a madrasa with attached mausoleum in the city center, mentioned above). When Barsbay built this mausoleum and khanqah complex, Faraj ibn Barquq's own nearby khanqah and mausoleum had already been completed a couple decades earlier and a north-to-south road (still present today) had developed between here and the Citadel. Barsbay's own complex was clearly designed around this road, and features elements on both sides of it. His complex was completed in 1432. Architectural description. The mosque and the sultan's mausoleum. This funerary complex includes Barsbay's own royal mausoleum, to which is attached a mosque and prayer hall to the south which is accessed from the street through an entrance portal and vestibule. To the right of the entrance are also two sabils. The minaret on the exterior of the mosque appears to be a crude"}, {"text": "reconstruction from a later period and does not correspond to the Mamluk architectural style. The mosque (prayer hall). The mosque measures about 15 by 20 meters, its longer side being aligned with the road. The interior of the mosque is split into three aisles (running parallel to the street), of which the central one is sunken or lower in relation to the others. The aisles are separated from each other by rows of three arches resting on columns with classical capitals (presumably Roman or Byzantine). The interior's most remarkable feature is the rich and varied multi-coloured marble mosaic pavement which covers the floors (although often obscured under the mosque's carpeting) and even appears on the windowsills. By contast, the walls and the \"mihrab\" (niche symbolizing the direction of prayer) are very plain; something seemingly common to Sufi khanqahs but not to regular mosques of the time. The mosque interior receives much light compared to other mosques of the period thanks to the structure's layout and its many windows, which include modern stucco windows carved in traditional patterns. The mosque's painted ceiling is also a later restoration. The mosque's minbar. The mosque today also contains a minbar (pulpit next to the"}, {"text": "mihrab) that is sometimes cited as the most beautiful and accomplished work of its kind in Cairo. Like most Mamluk minbars of the period it is made of wood and inlaid with ivory across a surface decorated with complex geometric star patterns. One detail that differs from other minbars of this type is that the geometric patterns have slightly curved lines instead of straight lines, subtly enhancing their visual effect. The minbar originally belonged to the Mosque of al-Ghamri which was built in 1451 in the Bab al-Shari'a area of Cairo. It was moved to Barsbay's mosque when al-Ghamri's mosque was demolished in 1884. The craftsman of the minbar is known from historical sources and is named as Ahmad ibn 'Isa al-Dimyati, who was also responsible for constructing minbars for the Mosque of Mecca and the later Mosque of Qijmas al-Ishaqi. The construction of the minbar was originally financed by a merchant and scholar named Ibn al-Radadi. Barsbay's mausoleum and dome. Barsbay's mausoleum is accessed through the mosque. The interior of the mausoleum, unlike the interior of the mosque, has a mihrab and walls that are lavishly decorated with marble paneling and mosaics inlaid with mother-of-pearl, as are the floor"}, {"text": "and the sultan's cenotaph/tomb. Just below the dome, the pendentives of the chamber (the transition between the square chamber and the round base of the dome) are sculpted with muqarnas, as was common in Mamluk architecture. The exterior of the stone dome of the mausoleum is carved with a remarkable interlacing geometric star pattern. Along with some of the adjacent tombs in this mausoleum complex (see below), this is the first example of such a geometric pattern carved into the stone domes of Cairo or of Mamluk architecture, marking an important evolution from the earlier, simpler \"chevron\" or zig-zag patterns found on the nearby Mausoleums of Faraj ibn Barquq or on the dome of Barsbay's own earlier Madrasa-Mausoleum in the center of Cairo. The arrangement of the mausoleum at the northern end of mosque, standing next to the street and unencumbered by any other architectural elements on three sides, allowed it to be both highly visible from the road as well as accessible to Muslims inside the mosque who could offer prayers to the Sultan's tomb; both important considerations in Mamluk funerary architecture. Other structures related to the complex. The khanqah. Further south, extending from the mosque and mausoleum but"}, {"text": "now ruined, is a long structure that acted as part of the khanqah (a lodge and establishment for Sufis) and included living cells for the Sufi residents. Further to the south of the khanqah, on the same side of the street, is another long, semi-ruined building that was once the \"Takiyya\" (another type of khanqah) of Ahmad Abu Sayf, also built in the 15th century but not part of Barsbay's original complex. The other tombs. On the eastern side of these main structures is a \"musalla\" (open area for Islamic funerals), and all around this is a cemetery with tombs and several smaller mausoleums belonging to Barsbay's family members and favourite amirs. Two domed mausoleums stand behind the mosque, to the east. The one closest to the mosque has lost its dome and may have been dedicated to Barsbay's parents. The one a little further away, now standing against the eastern wall of the cemetery, consists of a dome raised on top of a structure with open arches and is dedicated to Barsbay's brother Yashbak. The dome of the tomb furthest to the north belongs to an amir called Gani Bak al-Ashrafi, who built his own madrasa complex in the"}, {"text": "city but who was beloved of Barsbay and buried here instead. According to one author, his tomb is dated to 1427 (earlier than the main complex built in 1432). However, another analysis proposes that it was either built after Barsbay's main dome or that the carved pattern on its dome was executed later, judging by the increased sophistication of the geometric patterns and their arguably better adaption to the curved surface of the dome. The dome of Yasbhbak's tomb (mentioned above) may also be one of the earliest domes carved in this way. Between Barbsay's mausoleum and Gani Bak's tomb stands another tomb (distinguished by its plain dome) which belongs to a Mamluk named Qurqumas (not the same Qurqumas who built his monumental complex further north). It was originally built in 1511 in front of al-Hakim's Mosque on al-Muizz Street, but was moved here when that mosque was restored in the 20th century. The zawiya and other structures on the west side of the street. To the west, across the street from the mosque and mausoleum, was once a zawiya consisting of a domed chamber and a hospice for Sufi travelers. Only the domed structure remains today, which is sometimes"}, {"text": "identified as the \"Qubba al-Rifa'i\" (\"Dome/tomb of al-Rifa'i\", referring to the founder of the Sufi order to which the zawiya was dedicated). It was likely used as an oratory or ceremonial hall where Sufi ceremonies such as the \"dhikr\" were performed. The interior of the dome chamber was probably redecorated in the 19th century, featuring scallop-shell carving in the triple-niche pendentives, as well as other plasterwork. Further south from here, on the same side of the street but surrounded by modern buildings, is an anonymous tomb which is thought to belong to Barsbay's mother, known as Khadija Umm al-Ashraf, possibly dating to 1440. Function. While the focus of the complex was the sultan's mausoleum, the attached structures were designed to offer services to a small group of Sufis, a function that was common to many Mamluk funerary establishments in Cairo's cemeteries. The khanqah was devoted to serving 17 Sufis and their leader. The Sufis were from the al-Rifa'i order, which was popular with the common people. The mosque was also listed in the \"waqf\" document as a madrasa for teaching 4 Sufi students in Islamic law within the framework of the Hanafi madhhab."}, {"text": "Eric Dooley (born July 14, 1965) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Grambling State University, positions he has held since 2024. He was the head football coach at Southern University from 2022 to 2023. Dooley served as the head football coach at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas from 2018 to 2021. A former Grambling State University player, Dooley also spent one season in the Arena Football League with the Arizona Rattlers in 1993."}, {"text": "Issa Soumar\u00e9 (born 10 October 2000) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for French club Le Havre. Club career. On 22 October 2019, Soumar\u00e9 signed a professional contract with Orl\u00e9ans for four years. He debuted for Orl\u00e9ans in a 2\u20131 Ligue 2 loss to Stade Malherbe Caen on 1 November 2019. On 6 August 2021, he signed a four-year contract with Beerschot in the Belgian top division. On 31 January 2022, Soumar\u00e9 was loaned to Ligue 2 club Quevilly-Rouen until the end of the 2021\u201322 season. On 12 July 2022, the loan to Queville-Rouen was renewed for the 2022\u201323 season, with an option to buy. On 3 July 2023, Soumar\u00e9 signed for Ligue 1 club Le Havre following their promotion the previous season as champions, signing a three-year deal with the club. In January 2024, Soumar\u00e9 joined Ligue 2 club Auxerre on loan until the end of the season. International career. Soumar\u00e9 is a youth international for Senegal. Honours. Auxerre"}, {"text": "D\u00e1rio Ant\u00f3nio Marcelino (born 22 October 1992) is an Angolan cyclist, who last rode for Angolan amateur team ACT. National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 3rd Road race 3rd Road race, National Road Championships National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 3rd Road race 1st Road race, National Road Championships National Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race 4th Overall Tour de C\u00f4te d'Ivoire National Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Tour du Faso 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Overall Volta Angola 8th Time trial, African Road Championships 1st Time trial, National Road Championships"}, {"text": "The Kular Range (, \"Khrebet Kular\"; , Kular Sis) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Eveno-Bytantaysky National District of the Sakha Republic, Russian Federation. This range is one of the places in Yakutia where yedoma are found. Geography. The Kular Range extends in an arch north of Batagay-Alyta to the NE for about , west and NW of the Bytantay River and west of the Yana, after it joins that great river. In the northeast rise the Kyundyulyun mountains, a prolongation beyond the Yana River and to the southeast the Yana Plateau. The highest point of the Kular Range is an unnamed high summit. It is one of the main subranges of the Verkhoyansk Range system. To the west it is limited by the Omoloy River valley, beyond which rises the Sietinden Range, which runs in a parallel direction. The range is deeply cut by wide riverine intermontane basins in its middle part. Rivers Baky and Ulakhan-Kyuegyulyur have their source in the range. The Yana-Indigirka Lowland lies to the northeast. Ulakhan Sis Range. Near the northern end of the Kular Range, at \u2014about north of the Arctic Circle, there is"}, {"text": "a branch of the main range running northwards named Ulakhan Sis. It is about long and its highest point is . The Yana River meanders northwards east of the Ulakhan Sis Range and beyond it rises the Magyl-Tasa Massif. Khayrdakh Ridge. The Khayrdakh Ridge ( ) is a smaller subrange of the Kular Range located between the lower course of the Bytantay and the Baky. Flora. The mountains are covered with mountain tundra and in the valleys with larch forests and tundra."}, {"text": "Chelsea Louise Polk (born 1969) is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction, best known for the debut novel \"Witchmark\" which won the World Fantasy Award in 2019. A blend of murder mystery and fantasy, \"Witchmark\" is set in a gaslamp secondary world and is followed by two sequels, \"Stormsong\" and \"Soulstar\". Life and career. Polk was born in 1969 in New Westminster, British Columbia and grew up in Surrey and Edmonton. Polk is non-binary and has referred to their gender as a \"lava lamp.\" They began writing in their thirties, publishing short fiction in magazines such as \"Abyss & Apex\" in the early 2000s. Polk was influenced by the works of fantasy author Tanith Lee, in particular the \"Tales from the Flat Earth\", the historical mystery and fantasy novels of Barbara Hambly, and the \"Valdemar\" novels by Mercedes Lackey. Polk's first novel \"Witchmark\", featuring a murder mystery set in an alternate history Edwardian England, was written in 2014 and published in 2018. \"Witchmark\" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and received nominations for several awards including the Nebula and Locus Awards. In 2019, Polk was listed by the \"CBC\" as one of \"19 Canadian writers to watch\". \"Witchmark\""}, {"text": "is the first book of the \"Kingston Cycle\", with the sequel \"Stormsong\" listed by \"CBC Books\" as among the Canadian fiction to watch for in 2020. The third and concluding book of the series, \"Soulstar\", was published in 2021. Other works by Polk include a historical fantasy set in Regency era England, \"The Midnight Bargain\", which was nominated for several speculative fiction prizes and was a contender in the 2021 edition of Canada Reads. \"Even Though I Knew the End,\" a period novella set in early 1900s Chicago about a damned woman fighting for a chance to be with the woman she loves, was nominated for multiple major awards and won the Nebula Award. Polk expressed surprise at the flood of nominations, saying that they didn't think it was \"an award book.\" In 2023, Polk underwent treatment with ketamine and blogged about their experience. Their intent was to manage Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder impacting their life and writing career. As of 2020, Polk resides in Calgary, Alberta."}, {"text": "Mecodema jacinda is a large-bodied ground beetle endemic to Maungatautari Sanctuary, Waikato, New Zealand. It is the largest species of \"Mecodema\" found on Maungatautari, which also has the medium-sized \"M. curvidens\" inhabiting the forest. It is named after former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Diagnosis. Differing from all other North Island \"Mecodema\" species by: Description. Length 29\u201336 mm, pronotal width 7.9\u201310.2 mm, elytral width 9.1\u201311.6 mm. Colour of entire body matte to glossy black (especially pronotum). Natural history. Relatively common and can be found under logs and rocks in native forest."}, {"text": "Myname 2nd Single is the second single album by South Korean idol group Myname. It was released on January 25, 2013, by H2 Media and distributed by Kakao M. Following a series of photo and video teasers, the album and its lead single \"Just That Little Thing\" were concurrently released. \"Myname 2nd Single\" peaked at number four on South Korea's national Gaon Album Chart, shifting over 14,000 units domestically since its release. Background and music structure. After concluding domestic promotions for \"Hello and Goodbye\" (\"Myname 1st Single\", 2012), Myname spent the subsequent months breaking into the Japanese music market. They were featured in a manga series, hosted a cooking program, and held concerts at the end of the year. The group's popularity in Japan outpaced its popularity in their home country. Singer Hwanhee, who formed the group, decided on \"Just That Little Thing\" to serve as the single for the album. Myname began practicing the choreography for the song during the summer. Due to their constant preparation for live performances, all the members began showing early symptoms of varicose veins. \"Just That Little Thing\" infuses electronic and retro music into its sound. The lyrics express a man's inability to break"}, {"text": "away from a woman he loves, in spite of her constantly being deceitful. Vocalist Gunwoo described the song's addictiveness as \"wild\". \"Dumbfounded\" is an R&B song that employs acoustic instruments and synthesizers. JunQ wrote the lyrics for his rap. Release and promotion. H2 Media announced \"Myname 2nd Single\" and published individual teaser photos of the group members on January 14. Directed by Hong Won-ki, a music video teaser for the lead single \"Just That Little Thing\" was unveiled three days later. A second music video teaser for the dance version music video was uploaded on January 21. Shortly before the release of the physical CD, H2 Media discovered that Psy's \"Gangnam Style\" was included as the sixth track on \"Myname 2nd Single\". A representative for the label explained that the album was manufactured during the height of the song's popularity, and an error led to \"Gangnam Style\" being added. As a result, the agency was forced to destroy all 20,000 albums printed and produce them again. \"Myname 2nd Single\" and the music video for \"Just That Little Thing\" were simultaneously released on January 25. Myname began promoting \"Just That Little Thing\" on weekly music chart shows two days later by"}, {"text": "performing the song on Seoul Broadcasting System's (SBS) \"Inkigayo\". Myname made additional performances on SBS MTV's \"The Show\", Mnet's \"M Countdown\", MBC Music's \"Show Champion\", and KBS2's \"Music Bank\". Commercial performance. On the chart dated January 27 \u2013 February 2, 2013, \"Myname 2nd Single\" debuted at number four on South Korea's national Gaon Album Chart. According to Gaon Music Chart's year-end report, the single album sold 14,576 copies domestically and ranked at number 93 on its list of best-selling albums."}, {"text": "Floris \"Floor\" de Zeeuw (13 October 1898 \u2013 21 September 1979) was a Dutch footballer and football coach, notably for Feyenoord Rotterdam. Football career. Feyenoord goalkeeper. De Zeeuw played in the position of goalkeeper for Feyenoord, beginning in youth teams. As goalkeeper of the first squad during the years 1922 to 1924, he won the Dutch national championship of 1924. Feyenoord's magazine described De Zeeuw in 1923 as \"a calm and sophisticated keeper, who always manages to keep his composure.\" De Zeeuw participated in 23 championship league games for Feyenoord 1, of which 21 (out of a maximum of 22) were in 1922\u20131923. He kept his goal clear in Feyenoord's 2\u20130 victory over the Netherlands national football team of 1928. From 1927 or earlier, he played on the veteran team of Feyenoord. De Zeeuw continued playing for the veterans at least until 1933. Manager. Starting in the 1930s De Zeeuw coached lower squads of Feyenoord. He served as an assistant trainer of Richard Kohn for Feyenoord's first squad. De Zeeuw obtained coach certification in 1943. In the 1940s and 1950s, he managed Fluks Dordrecht (1942\u20131943?), VV Papendrecht (1946\u20131947; 1951), Rood-Wit Willebrord (1947\u20131950), Zwart-Wit '28 (1951\u20131952), De Musschen Rotterdam, and ASWH"}, {"text": "(1954\u20131958). Author. De Zeeuw published a series of articles in the sports weekly \"Sportkroniek\" of 1947, titled \"Voetbal-geheimen onthuld\" (\"football secrets revealed\"). He also published articles on football strategy in the magazine of VV Papendrecht, while functioning as Papendrecht's coach. Life and death. Floris de Zeeuw was born in Rotterdam as the son of Pieter de Zeeuw (1876-1943), a bricklayer, and Barbara \"Betje\" Veldhoen (1876-1911). In 1924 he married Adriana \"Sjaan\" van Oudgaarden. The couple had two sons and a daughter. De Zeeuw died in the Rotterdam borough of Hoogvliet."}, {"text": "Tim Hutchinson (born 1949) was a U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1997 to 2003. Senator Hutchinson may also refer to:"}, {"text": "WVWB may refer to:"}, {"text": "Abul Kalam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Narayanganj-5. Career. Abul Kalam was elected to parliament from Narayanganj-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001."}, {"text": "Bryan Alberto Silva Teixeira Jr. (born 1 September 2000) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Austrian club Sturm Graz. Born in France, he plays for the Cape Verde national team. Career. On 17 July 2019, Teixeira signed his first professional contract with Clermont. He made his professional debut with Clermont in a 1\u20130 Ligue 2 win over on 2 November 2019. He spent the second half of the 2019\u201320 season on loan at Concarneau. He made five appearances in Championnat National before the season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, he joined Orl\u00e9ans, newly relegated to Championnat National, on a season-long loan. On 31 August 2021, he joined Austrian club Austria Lustenau on loan for the 2021\u201322 season. On 30 June 2022, Teixeira returned to Austria Lustenau on a permanent basis and signed a contract until the summer of 2024. On 7 January 2023, Teixeira joined Sturm Graz on a contract until 2026. On 1 February 2024, Teixeira was loaned by 1. FC Magdeburg in Germany. The loan was extended for the 2024\u201325 season. International career. Born in France, Teixeira is of Cape Verdean descent. He debuted with the Cape Verde national"}, {"text": "team in a friendly 1\u20130 loss to Ecuador on 11 June 2022, coming on as a substitute. \"Scores and results list Cape Verde's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Teixeira goal.\" Honours. Austria Lustenau"}, {"text": "The Tualatin Park & Ride is a transit center located in the Oregon city of Tualatin, served by the Portland metropolitan transit agency TriMet. It is located adjacent to the Bridgeport Village shopping center. Current service. In addition to TriMet service, service south to Wilsonville is provided by SMART transit. The following bus lines serve this location:"}, {"text": "Negative gearing in Australia deals with the laws in the Australian income tax system relating to net loss suffered by a taxpayer on their investment property, commonly called negative gearing. Negative gearing can arise in a number of contexts; for example, with real estate investments, it arises when the net rental income is less than the mortgage loan interest payable, and with shares, when net dividend income is less than the interest payable on a margin loan. General. For income tax purposes, Australia allows the offsetting of property losses against other types of income, such as wage or business income, with only a few limits or restrictions. Negative gearing by property investors reduced personal income tax revenue in Australia by $6.7 billion in the 2014-15 financial year and $10.9 billion in the 2023-24 financial year. That figure is expected to be $12.3 billion in 2024-25. Negative gearing continues to be a controversial political issue in Australia and was a major issue during the 2016 and 2019 Australian federal elections, during which the Australian Labor Party proposed restricting but not eliminating negative gearing and to halve the capital gains tax discount to 25%. An analysis found that negative gearing in Australia"}, {"text": "provides a greater benefit to wealthier Australians than the less wealthy according to a report from the Grattan Institute. Federal Treasurer at the time, Scott Morrison, in defense of negative gearing, cited tax data that showed that numerous middle-income groups (he mentioned teachers, nurses, and electricians) benefit in larger numbers from negative gearing than finance managers. History. Traditionally, Australian taxpayers have been allowed to negatively gear their investment properties, in the strict sense of investing in property at an initial loss. Negative gearing was restricted by a prohibition on the transfer of contingent property income and the property losses could not offset income from labour. It is assumed this applied to losses as well as income, but this is unclear in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936. In 1983, the Victorian Deputy Commissioner of Taxation briefly denied Victorian property investors the deduction for interest in excess of the rental income, so losses could not be transferred nor moved to a future tax year. That ruling was quickly overruled by the federal tax commissioner. The Hawke government's reversion to the earlier system in which property losses could not offset income from labour was unpopular with property investors. These investors claimed this"}, {"text": "reversion had caused investment in rental accommodation to dry up and rents to rise substantially. This was unsupported by evidence other than localised increases in real rents in both Perth and Sydney, which also had the lowest vacancy rates of all capital cities at the time. Taxation. In general, an investor can claim the loss on holding an investment property, reducing the investor's total taxable income accordingly. On the other hand, in some contexts, the investment losses are ignored, such as in the case of determining the thresholds for the Medicare levy surcharge, the private health insurance rebate, and in calculating the HELP Repayment Income, as well as other Centrelink income-tested allowances and benefits. In addition to the tax benefits of negative gearing, the investor typically would take into account the anticipated increase in the market value of the property and the tax treatment of capital gains under Australian law. For example, if the investor has held an investment property for more than twelve months, then only 50% of the capital gain is taxable. Arguments for and against. It's true, according to Real Estate Institute data, that rents went up in Sydney and Perth. But the same data doesn't show"}, {"text": "any discernible increase in the other state capitals. I would say that, if negative gearing had been responsible for a surge in rents, then you should have observed it everywhere, not just two capitals. In fact, if you dig into other parts of the REI database, what you find is that vacancy rates were unusually low at that time before negative gearing was abolished.Eslake is referring to changes in inflation-adjusted rents (i.e., when CPI inflation is subtracted from the nominal rent increases). These are also known as real rent changes. Nominal rents nationally rose by over 25% during the two years that negative gearing was quarantined. They rose strongly in every Australian capital city, according to the official ABS CPI data. However, as nominal changes include inflation, they provide a less clear picture of how rents changed in effect, and how changes, such as disallowing property losses to offset other types of income, affect rent. Effect on housing affordability. In 2003, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) stated in its submission to the Productivity Commission First Home Ownership Inquiry: there are no specific aspects of current tax arrangements designed to encourage investment in property relative to other investments in the"}, {"text": "Australian tax system. Nor is there any recent tax policy initiative we can point to that accounts for the rapid growth in geared property investment. But the fact is that when we observe the results, resources and finance are being disproportionately channelled into this area, and property promoters use tax effectiveness as an important selling point. They went on to say that \"the most sensible area to look for moderation of demand is among investors\", and that: the taxation treatment in Australia is more favourable to investors than is the case in other countries. In particular, the following areas appear worthy of further study by the Productivity Commission: i. ability to negatively gear an investment property when there is little prospect of the property being cash-flow positive for many years; ii. the benefit that investors receive by virtue of the fact that when property depreciation allowances are \"clawed back\" through the capital gains tax, the rate of tax is lower than the rate that applied when depreciation was allowed in the first place. iii. the general treatment of property depreciation, including the ability to claim depreciation on loss-making investments. In 2008, the report of the Senate Select Committee on Housing"}, {"text": "Affordability in Australia echoed the findings of the 2004 Productivity Commission report. One recommendation to the enquiry suggested that negative gearing should be capped: \"There should not be unlimited access. Millionaires and billionaires should not be able to access it, and you should not be able to access it on your 20th investment property. There should be limits to it.\" A 2015 report from the Senate Economics References Committee argues that, while negative gearing influences housing affordability, the primary issue is a mismatch between supply and demand. The impact of negative gearing on house prices has been studied academically. The Grattan Institute estimated that Negative Gearing and the Australia Capital Gains Tax discount raise house prices by 1-2%. The economist Gene Tunny estimated the impact at 4%. ANU estimated the effect in detail and got 1.5%. Deloitte Access Economics found an average of 4%. Politics and economics. Negative gearing continues to be a controversial political issue in Australia and was a major issue during the 2016 Australian federal election and the 2019 Australian federal election, during which the Australian Labor Party proposed to eliminate the tax-deductibility of negative gearing losses against non-investment income (with some exceptions) and to halve the"}, {"text": "capital gains tax discount to 25%. An analysis found that negative gearing in Australia provides a greater benefit to wealthier Australians than the less wealthy. In 2024 a People's Commission into housing affordability was underway where the impacts of negative gearing on housing affordability in Australia was being investigated."}, {"text": "S. M. Akram (; 1943 or 1944 \u2013 16 December 2024) was a Bangladeshi politician and government bureaucrat. He was a member of parliament for Narayanganj-5. Life and career. Akram was born to Peer Mohammad Master in Alinagar village, in what is now Bandar Upazila of Narayanganj District. Akram was elected to parliament from Narayanganj-5 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1996. In 2011, Akram sought the Awami League nomination in the first election for Mayor of Narayanganj. The party instead chose Shamim Osman as their candidate. Akram withdrew from the race and threw his support behind another Awami Leaguer, Selina Hayat Ivy, who went on to win. Later that year Akram resigned from the Awami League, saying he felt ill used by the national party in the mayoral election and in other instances. Akram died in Dhaka on 16 December 2024, at the age of 80."}, {"text": "The 1915\u201316 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously \"North Carolina\", \"Carolina\" or \"Tar Heels\") was the sixth varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina. Roster and schedule. !colspan=6 style=\"background:#4B9CD3; color:#FFFFFF;\"| Regular season"}, {"text": "The fourth season of \"Doctor Doctor\" (known as \"The Heart Guy\" outside of Australasia), an Australian drama television series, premiered on Nine Network on 5 February 2020. The season will consist of 10 episodes. In the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States, the show was released in November and December 2019. This season will see Dustin Clare, Kate Jenkinson and Robyn Nevin joining the cast. Season four was intended to premiere on Nine in late 2019; however, it was delayed until 5 February 2020. It received its world premiere in the United Kingdom on Drama on 16 November 2019. Episodes. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Reception. Award nominations. AACTA Awards (2020) International release. The Drama channel in the United Kingdom was the first channel to screen the fourth season. It screened two episodes every Saturday night at 10 pm and 11 pm from 16 November 2019. Acorn TV in the United States released the fourth season in its entirety on 9 December 2019. Sveriges Television in Sweden aired the fourth season (with the show titled \"Hj\u00e4rtats v\u00e4gar\" in Swedish) with three episodes a week which started on 27 November and finished on 18 December 2019."}, {"text": "J\u00e1nos Greguss (; 3 May 1838, Pozsony- 31 May 1892, Budapest) was a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. He was also a popular art teacher. Biography. After studies in Nuremberg and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, he studied at the Polytechnic University in Vienna. Following his graduation, he was awarded a stipend by J\u00f3zsef E\u00f6tv\u00f6s that enabled him to study abroad. Upon his return, he was appointed as a teacher at the Royal Drawing School. He painted with a loosely Academic approach and was heavily influenced by German art. In terms of subject matter, he tended to prefer simple, cheerful scenes; mostly from family life. In his later years, he created some realistic landscapes. His favorite areas in which to paint were those around Lake Balaton. In addition to his art, he created illustrations for the works of S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi and was a regular contributor to \"\" (The Sunday News), an illustrated weekly newspaper. Among his best known students were , Adolf F\u00e9nyes, Lajos M\u00e1rk and J\u00e1nos Tornyai. Many of his works may be seen at the Hungarian National Museum."}, {"text": "Alex Szab\u00f3 (born 26 August 1998) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Kecskem\u00e9t. Club career. In July 2021 Szab\u00f3 signed for Kecskem\u00e9t."}, {"text": "Massimiliano Quilici (3 April 1799 - 18 October 1889) was an Italian composer. Born in Lucca, Quilici began his studies under his uncle Domenico Quilici; later he attended the Liceo Musicale di Lucca, of which he would later become director. His opera \"Francesca da Rimini\" premiered at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca in 1829, and his opera \"Batrolomeo della Cavalla\" was first seen at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in 1838; the former is to a libretto by Felice Romani, while the latter is set to a text by Jacopo Ferretti. \"Francesca da Rimini\" is recorded as having been a fiasco at its premiere. A third opera, \"La penna del Diavolo\" of 1861, is also recorded as having been performed in Florence. He also wrote much sacred music, including a \"Requiem\". He died in the city of his birth, and is interred in the Cimiterio di Lucca. Quilici was the music teacher of Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca; his other pupils included Ferdinando Taglioni."}, {"text": "Arthur William Forster Bligh (1905-1998) was an Australian architect, who designed a number of Art Deco buildings in Queensland in the twentieth century. Early life. Arthur W. F. Bligh was born on 27 May 1905 in Mosman, New South Wales to A.C.V. Bligh a grazier and his wife. He became an articled pupil of architect William Hodgen in Toowoomba, Queensland from 1922-1926. He began his own practice as an architect from 1926-33 in Toowoomba and then from 1933 in Brisbane. He became a registered architect in 1929. After taking on domestic, commercial, industrial and ecclesiastical projects in Toowoomba, he moved to Brisbane in 1934. He formed a partnership with Colin Jessup. Bligh was a well known architect of Art Deco style blocks of flats during the 1930s until the war intervened. He volunteered during WW2 in the Australian Army. He was employed by the USA Service Drawing Office in 1942. Following the War he returned to private practice. In 1956 Bligh and Jessup entered into partnership with Athol Bretnall and Ronald Voller. Their practice was named Bligh Jessup Bretnall and Partners. His son, Graham entered the partnership in 1965. The firm is now called Bligh Voller Nield Architects and operates"}, {"text": "as BVN Architects. In the 1960s the Nicklin government of Queensland was keen to move forward with the 'Bligh Plan' put forward by him for significant urban planning changes. It proposed inner city revival and urban planning, blocking off areas of the city from vehicular access, developing pedestrian precincts, open parkland and the redevelopment of the Roma Street Markets. Arthur Bligh retired in 1974. Personal life. Bligh married Millie Gaydon in 1930. He died on 8 August 1998 in Brisbane. He was survived by his wife and two sons. His grandson Christopher Bligh is also an architect. Notable works. New Redeemer Lutheran Church, Toowoomba (1929) St Patricks Cathedral, Toowoomba (alterations), 1930 St James Church, Toowoomba (1931) 13 Apex Street, Clayfield (1934) Heilbron Holiday Apartment block, Mooloolabah Beach (1936) Marford Court, Spring Hill (1936) Carmel Court (1937), South Brisbane Regina Court (1939) Sans Souci Private Hospital, Gold Coast (1938) Ellenglaze, Toowoomba (1938) Yale Apartments, Upper Edward Street, Brisbane (1940) Dorelle, Highgate Hill (1940) Hartle Court, New Farm (1941) Carmody Road, St Lucia Adelea, New Farm (1941) Bowling Centre, Greenslopes (1959) Camden, 11 Hillside Crescent, Hamilton (1959) AMOCO service stations (1960) Buildings, Queensland Agricultural College, Gatton (1964) Supreme Court Building, George and"}, {"text": "Adelaide Street, Brisbane (1967\u201368) Legacy. Copies of his plans are held in the University of Queensland, Fryer Library and State Library of Queensland collections."}, {"text": "The Mission Ballroom is a concert venue located in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The building opened in August 2019 with a capacity of nearly 4,000 patrons. Operated by AEG Presents Rocky Mountain, the venue is viewed as a competitor to the Live Nation operated Fillmore Auditorium. Background. The ballroom is a project that took 11 years to come to fruition. Chuck Morris, CEO of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, helped spearhead the project. After searching for the right spot, it was finally settled on the River North Art District, near the historic Denver Coliseum. Works Progress Architecture designed the space with unique flexibility allowing it to transform depending on capacity. The venue can accommodate 2,200 to 3,950 guests in the bowl-like seating arrangement - providing each guest with unrivaled sightlines. With assistance from Westfield Development, the music venue will be the anchor for the North Wynkoop District. This will be a mixed-use development space featuring retail and commercial spaces, a boutique hotel and residential housing. This project is expected to be complete by 2023. The venue was announced to the public in April 2018, with construction beginning shortly afterwards. Initial designs and concepts were submitted in"}, {"text": "2016. Morris cites the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Brooklyn Steel and The Anthem as design inspiration. Financed by FirstBank, the 60,000 sqft space will provide patrons with a club experience providing clear sight lines and state-of-the-art lighting and sound. With a sound system designed by D&B Audiotechnik, the venue will be the first to use a noise-cancelling system that will eliminate muddled noise caused by sounds emanating from the sides and rear of the system's speakers. The space is also designed with a moving stage to accommodate crowds of 2,200 to 3,950. Each configuration can utilize a large dance floor area for general admission, with reserved seating allocated on both sides of the stage. VIP sections are available with a bar area. Speaking about the venue, Don Strasburg, Co-President of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest stated:\"We wanted to come up with a room that was purely focused on live music, but able to function properly for multiple types of audiences [...] We created a front row along the balcony rail that will always be general admission. We know there are certain people who want a higher level of experience, however, it's really important that the energy from the most"}, {"text": "die-hard fan, no matter what their income, goes directly to the artists.\" Construction completed July 2019. The venue opened on August 7, 2019 with a performance by The Lumineers."}, {"text": ", a Japanese civil servant, is the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Asakawa, who took office on 17 January 2020, is the 10th president of ADB. He was formerly special adviser to Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan, and to Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister of Japan and minister of finance. He was also formerly the vice minister for international affairs in the Ministry of Finance in Japan. Early life. Born in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, Asakawa attended Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, graduating with a BA in 1981. He joined the Ministry of Finance in Japan the same year. Asakawa later studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in the United States, graduating with an MPA in 1985. Work with government. A brief summary of Masatsugu Asakawa's career in the Ministry of Finance in Japan is as follows: President of Asian Development Bank. On 2 December 2019, it was announced that Asakawa had been unanimously elected by Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) as the 10th president of the Bank. The Government of Japan nominated Asakawa as a candidate for position of president ADB in"}, {"text": "September 2019. The former ADB president, Takehiko Nakao, announced that he would retire as ADB president on 16 January 2020 so Asakawa took up his position as ADB president on 17 January 2020. In the first instance, Asakawa was expected to serve out the remainder of the five-term presidential term which Nakao began in November 2016. After he took over, ADB made significant contributions to the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing a $20 million package and a $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Facility. The regular five-year election for the position of ADB president was held as scheduled in mid-2021. Asakawa was the only candidate and received unanimous support for a five-year term beginning on 24 November 2021. In 2024, Asakawa announced his resignation effective on 23 February 2025. Other positions. Between 1989 and 1992 Asakawa was seconded by the Japanese Ministry of Finance to serve as an Executive Assistance to the fifth president of the Asian Development Bank, Kimimasa Tarumizu, in Manila. Asakawa has also worked in various positions in other international agencies. Between 1999 and 2000 he served as head of the Technical Assistance Management Unit in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund."}, {"text": "He has also held several positions at the Committee on Fiscal Affairs, OECD while concurrently serving in his duties at the Ministry of Finance including: Asakawa also served as executive assistant to the prime minister during the period of the Aso Cabinet (2008\u20132009). He served as visiting professor at the Graduate School of Economic Science, Saitama University in Tokyo from 2006 to 2009, and at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo from 2012 to 2015."}, {"text": "Governor Turner may refer to:"}, {"text": "Klim Gavrilov (born 27 March 2000) is a Russian racing driver currently racing in the TCR Europe Touring Car Series. He won the 2019 FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup representing Team Russia. Racing record. Complete TCR Italy Touring Car Championship results. \u2020 \u2013 Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance."}, {"text": "Carolina Bassi (10 January 1781 \u2013 12 December 1862) was an Italian contralto who knew Rossini, Meyerbeer, Donizetti and Bellini. Life. Bassi was born in Naples to a musician family. Her brother Nicola, was a famous buffo bass; and another brother, Adolfo, who was a composer, operatic tenor and also an impresario of the Teatro Nuovo in Trieste. She retired in 1828, devoting herself to teaching opera singing. She died in Cremona in 1862. Family. Bassi was married to Cremona's nobleman, Pietro Manna. They had a son, Ruggero Manna (1808\u20131864), a composer and Chapel Master of the Cathedral of Cremona from 1835 to 1864. Musical career. Bassi was known as \"La Napoletana\", one of the noted singers of her era. She was the first interpreter of many works of her repertoire. The roles that gave her a particular success were \"Semiramide riconosciuta\", \"Margherita d'Anjou\", \"L'esule di Granata\", all by Meyerbeer, \"Bianca e Falliero\" by Rossini, and some works by Giovanni Pacini and Saverio Mercadante. She performed in many noted Italian and foreign theatres, including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro La Fenice in Venice. She sung"}, {"text": "in premiere performances of the following operas:"}, {"text": "David Dowd is an American football coach and former player. He was the first head football coach at Charleston Southern University in North Charleston, South Carolina, serving from 1991 to 2002, compiling a record of 34\u201394. Since leaving collegiate coaching, Dowd has served in a number of coaching roles in South Carolina high schools."}, {"text": "Li Xiaomeng (), better known by her in-game name Liooon, is a Chinese professional \"Hearthstone\" player. She is the first woman to win the Hearthstone Grandmasters Global Finals and to win a BlizzCon Esports tournament. On November 2, 2019, representing China in Hearthstone Global Finals, she defeated Bloodyface (Luna Eason, representing United States) to become the Hearthstone Global champion, claiming a prize of $200,000 (USD). She was the first woman to win a BlizzCon Global Championship, and the first Hearthstone Global Champion from mainland China since the start of tournaments in 2014. In an interview after winning the championship, she shared a story that more than two years ago, she went to her first Hearthstone tournament as a backup for the game. While waiting in line, she was mocked by a male player, who said that: \"If you are a girl, you should not wait in line here. It's not for you.\" She then gave a sentimental speech for women in Esports: \"I want to say for all the girls out there who have a dream for Esports competition, for glory, if you want to do it and you believe in yourself, you should just forget your gender and go"}, {"text": "for it.\" Her Battle.net name \"VKLiooon\" is composed of the name of her team, \"VK\", and a deliberately misspelling of Lion."}, {"text": "Magic Touch is a live album by the Chicago blues guitarist Magic Sam, accompanied by the harmonica player Shakey Jake. The set list only included one Magic Sam original, \"All Your Love\", his signature tune first recorded for Cobra Records in 1957. Four feature Shakey Jake on vocal and/or harmonica, including his composition \"Sawed Off Shotgun\". Several of the songs are contemporary 1965\u20131966 R&B blues-style songs popularized by Junior Parker, Little Joe Blue, Jimmy Robins, and Jimmy McCracklin performed in Magic Sam's distinctive style. The low-fidelity recording was made by George Adins, a Belgian blues and amateur field recording enthusiast. The Dutch Black Magic label released the original album in 1983 and indicated that the performance was recorded in 1968 at Silvio's, a club in Chicago. The 1993 Black Top Records CD reissue notes that it was recorded in December 1966. Critical reception. In a review for AllMusic, blues historian Bill Dahl commented:"}, {"text": "The International Medal is an award presented by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, to individuals who are non-UK citizens or residents. It is awarded to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to engineering. Background. The medal is given annually to recognize individuals who have made sustained personal achievements in any field of engineering. Individuals are foreign nationals who are not citizens nor residents of the UK. Winners. Source: RAE"}, {"text": "James M. Patton (born ) was an American football player and coach. Patton played college football as a guard and quarterback at Oklahoma A&M for three years before graduating in 1938. After graduating, he served as the athletic director and football and basketball coach at Marietta, Oklahoma. One year later, he became the football and basketball coach at Sasakwa, Oklahoma. Two years later, he became an assistant football coach at Guthrie, Oklahoma. In the spring of 1942, Patton enlisted in the United States Navy. He played on the 1942 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team. In 1943, he served as an instructor in the Navy's V-12 program at Washburn University. He was promoted to the rank of ensign in 1944 and played for the Fort Pierce Amphibs in 1945. After being discharged from the Navy in 1946, Patton returned to coaching at Davis High School Davis, Oklahoma, for two years. He was then an assistant football coach at Cameron Junior College\u2014now known as Cameron University\u2014in Lawton, Oklahoma, for two years in 1948 and 1949. His 1948 team won the state junior college championship. In 1950, he was hired as an assistant football coach at New Mexico College of Agriculture and"}, {"text": "Mechanic Arts (now known as New Mexico State University). He served in that capacity for three seasons from 1950 to 1952. In August 1953, he was named the acting head coach of the New Mexico A&M football team. He served as head coach for the 1953 and 1954 seasons. His 1954 team compiled a 0\u20139 record, the worst in school history. He resigned in December 1954. His overall record as head coach was 2\u201316."}, {"text": "John Thomas \"Doc\" Redmon (January 4, 1892 \u2013 December 17, 1949) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines in 1921. He also served as the school's athletic director during the 1921\u201322 academic year. Redmon played college football at Indiana University and professionally for the Wabash Athletic Association and Pine Village Athletic Club"}, {"text": "Hairareb is a 2019 Namibian drama film directed by Oshoveli Shipoh on his directorial debut. The film stars David Ndjavera and Claudine de Groot in the lead roles. The plot of the film is loosely based on a novel with the same title written by August C. Bikeur and the title role was played by the lead actor David Ndjavera. The film was released on 30 August 2019. Prior to the release of the film, it was regarded as one of the most anticipated Namibian films of 2019. It received critical acclaim from the critics for its narrative, direction and cinematography. Production. The project was announced by newcomer Oshoveli Shipoh as his maiden directorial venture and the principal photography commenced in October 2018 and went on floors continuously until January 2019. The official teaser was unveiled in October 2018. The portions of the film were mostly shot and set in Okarundu and in Otjimbingwe. The film is produced by production studio Ndapunikwa Investments in association with the Namibia Film Commission. The official trailer of the film was unveiled on 1 March 2019. Synopsis. The plot follows a flashback storyline where a boy finds a diary in the past and begins"}, {"text": "to read it, revealing the life of his father and his hidden truths. Plot. Hairareb (David Ndjavera), a wealthy farmer fighting hard to stay afloat in the terrible drought, then marries a young attractive beautiful lady Ininis (Claudine de Groot) with hidden motives. When he marries her, he struggles to talk to her independently. The relationship between them slowly starts to break up due to their personality differences. Nominations. The film received seven nominations at the 2019 Namibia Theatre and Film Awards (NTFA)."}, {"text": "Jerome Moon is an American politician. A Republican, he represents District 8, encompassing parts of Blount County, in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Moon, the former chair of the Blount County Commission, was appointed the State House seat vacated by Art Swann on December 13, 2017. Career. In 2023, the Tennessee House voted on motions to remove three sitting Democratic representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin J. Pearson for disrupting proceedings with a protest as demonstrators were at the capitol voicing their outrage over a mass shooting at a Nashville school that left six dead. Moon voted in favor of all three resolutions: HR63, to remove Pearson; HR64, to remove Johnson; and HR65, to remove Jones. Pearson and Jones were expelled, while Johnson was not."}, {"text": "Ezra 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE (the so-called \"Chronicler\") is the final author of these books. The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes of activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. This chapter follows Ezra's journey to Jerusalem and includes a genealogy of those returning with him (parallel to chapter 2). Text. This chapter is divided into 36 verses. The original text of this chapter is in Hebrew language. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008). There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; formula_1B; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; formula_1A; 5th century)."}, {"text": "An ancient Greek book called 1 Esdras (Greek: ) containing some parts of 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah is included in most editions of the Septuagint and is placed before the single book of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah (which is titled in Greek: ). 1 Esdras 8:28-67 is an equivalent of Ezra 8 (List of latter exiles who returned). The Caravan (8:1\u201314). Large groups of Jews had returned to Jerusalem in past years, but many faithful men and their families still lived in Babylonian territories, some of whom at this time packed their belongings and assembled with Ezra to return to Judea. The list in this part is a parallel to the famous \"\"Golah\" List\" (\"List of the Exiles\") of Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7, but notable here is the predominance of priestly associations before any Davidic identification. \"Now these are the chiefs of the households of the fathers and the genealogical register of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:\" Verse 1. Emboldened by God's involvement (chapter 7), Ezra recruited family heads and those registered with them to accompany him to Jerusalem (as noted in Ezra 2, 'Jewish society was organized around men and their"}, {"text": "extended families'). \"of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom;\" \"of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel;\" \"of the sons of David, Hattush,\" Verse 2. The list begins with the priests, reflecting 'Ezra's own station as a priest', formed by two patriarchal families: the descendants of Phinehas (Gershom) and Ithamar (Daniel), as the two descendants of Aaron the high priest. After listing the priestly line, Ezra registers the political line of Israel, which is the descendants of David (royal line), indicating that 'the memory of Davidic ancestry continued in the postexilic community'. One family accompanying Ezra, Hattush, is a descendant of David (so called \"Davidide\"), and he would be the fourth generation after Zerubbabel (cf. : \" \u2026the sons of Zerubbabel\u2026 Hananiah\u2026 And the sons of Hananiah\u2026 the sons of Shechaniah. And the sons of Shechaniah\u2026 Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah\u2026 Hattush\u2026\"). The record of \"Hattush\" 'makes any other date than 458 [BC] difficult'. Final preparations (8:15\u201330). Before departing from Babylonia. Ezra enlisted Levites to join his caravan, as well as 'called for a general fast to petition God's protection, and entrusted the money and valuable articles to consecrated priests'. \"Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and"}, {"text": "we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there.\" Verse 15. The presence of the Levites (\"sons of Levi\") was significant to Ezra because, under Law of Torah, the Levites were 'responsible for the transport of temple articles'. \"For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.\" Verse 22. In contrast to Nehemiah, who accepted an armed guard, Ezra chose to rely on God's protection (cf. ; ). The journey (8:31\u201332). Completing all the preparations, Ezra and his caravan 'embarked on the journey' from Babylonia to Jerusalem. \"Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.\""}, {"text": "\"So we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.\" Verse 32. According to , Ezra and his caravan arrived on the first day of the fifth month. Taking care of business (8:33\u201336). This part records that Ezra meticulously transferred the articles and finances, performed the required rituals of sacrifices, and delivered the edict of the Persian king. \"Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the Lord.\" Verse 35. After Ezra's group safely arrived in Jerusalem (verses 31\u201332), they offered sacrifice (verse 35), not because king Artaxerxes ordered them to do (), nor as an \"isolated act of thanksgiving\", but because \"they were reconstituted as the people of God and therefore \"must\" worship\" God."}, {"text": "John Marion Williams (December 10, 1935 \u2013 September 2, 2021) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi from 1972 to 1990, compiling and record of 122\u201381\u20133 and winning an NCAA Division II Football Championship in 1989. Before he was hired at Mississippi College in December 1971, Williams coached high school football in the state of Mississippi. Williams died on September 2, 2021, at his home in Jackson, Mississippi."}, {"text": "Congregation of Xavi\u00e8res () is an institute of religious sisters recognized by the Catholic Church on February 4, 1963, during the Second Vatican Council . The institute was founded in France in 1921 by Claire Monest\u00e8s with the support of Jesuit priest Antonin Eymieu and is a part of the Ignatian family of religious congregations. It has been of pontifical right since 2010. History. The congregation takes its name from the admiration that Claire Monest\u00e8s had for the missionary work of Francis Xavier, who was one of Ignatius of Loyola's early companions. Ignatius, soon after founding the Society of Jesus, decided that the Society would not accept women. There are therefore no women Jesuits or Jesuit sisters as such, but many women's communities are inspired by Ignatian spirituality. Claire Monest\u00e8s opened her first community in Marseille with L\u00e9onie Fabre in 1921, notably to assist young working women. In a room on rue de Breteuil she opened a recreational center and restaurant for young women working near the Old Port. In 1934, she founded a community in the parish of Saint-M\u00e9dard in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement. Claire Monest\u00e8s died on February 14, 1939. The members of the congregation were between"}, {"text": "20 and 35 years of age. They were dispersed with the outbreak of World War II. It was not until 1960 that the community foundations in France came together again, those at Cr\u00e9teil, Toulouse, Nice, La Rochelle, and Aix-en-Provence. In 1967 they extended their work to Abidjan, Africa, in response to the call of the Jesuits to collaborate with INADES (African Institute for Economic and Social Development, now CERAP). Other foundings followed: in Korhogo, also in Ivory Coast, in 1972; in N'Djamena, Chad, in 1983; in Abobo, Abidjan, in 2002; in Yaound\u00e9 in 2006. The last foundation was in 2012. In July 2017, Sister Christine Danel became the Superior General of Congregation. In May 2019 Pope Francis named Xaviere sister Nathalie Becquart along with two other women as consultors for the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, marking a historic first for the Catholic Church. In February 2020, she was made undersecretary of the Synod, making her the first woman to have a vote in that body. She had earlier served as the Director of the National Service for Youth Evangelization and Vocations in France, and was the first woman to hold"}, {"text": "that position. Whether they are secretaries, youth leaders, doctors, engineers, librarians, theologians, teachers, chaplaincy leaders, psychologists, nurses, managers; whether they work in a company or provide school support, the Xaviere live in small communities, close to people's homes and workplace. The Xaviere number about one hundred. They are spread over twenty communities on three continents: Africa, Europe and America."}, {"text": "The Cumming Bandstand, in front of the Forsyth County Courthouse in Cumming, Georgia, was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It is located at the junction of Court Square North (Main St.) and Court Square East (Dahlonega St.) in Cumming. It was deemed \"significant as one of a very small number of extant historic bandstands on county courthouse squares in Georgia. Although other historic bandstands exist in city parks and on current and former military bases, relatively few were ever built and very few remain on county courthouse squares. Only two are currently listed in the National Register-both are included in historic downtown districts (in Bainbridge, Decatur County, and Sandersville, Washington County)\u2014and no other National Register-eligible bandstands on county courthouse squares are known to exist at this time.\""}, {"text": "Forsyth County Courthouse may refer to:"}, {"text": "Ksenia Alexeevna Konkina (; born 5 July 2001) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With her former skating partner, Pavel Drozd, she is the 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy and 2019 CS Warsaw Cup silver medalist. Personal life. Ksenia Alexeevna Konkina was born on 5 July 2001 in Krasnogorsk, Russia. Career. Early career. Konkina began skating in 2005. Early in her career, she competed with Georgy Reviya. Konkina/Reviya placed fourth at 2015 JGP United States and won two junior international medals, at the 2015 Lake Placid Ice Dance International and 2015 Tallinn Trophy. 2016\u20132017 season. Konkina teamed up with Grigory Yakushev in 2016 and won silver at the 2016 Tallinn Trophy. They placed fifth at the 2017 Russian Championships. 2017\u20132018 season. Konkina/Yakushev were assigned to their first Junior Grand Prix events. They won silver at 2017 JGP Austria and bronze at 2017 JGP Croatia. Konkina/Yakushev placed sixth at the 2018 Russian Championships. 2018\u20132019 season. Konkina teamed up with Alexander Vakhnov ahead of the season and moved to train with him under Svetlana Liapina in Moscow. They won bronze in their only international competition, 2018 JGP Canada, together. Pavel Drozd announced that he was teaming up with Konkina in November"}, {"text": "2018. She moved to Alexander Zhulin's group to train with him. Konkina/Drozd made their international debut at the 2019 Open Ice Mall Cup, where they won the bronze medal. 2019\u20132020 season. Konkina/Drozd opened their season by winning the gold medal at 2019 NRW Trophy in Dortmund, Germany. They then won silver at the 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy behind Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko of the United States. Konkina/Drozd again won silver at 2019 CS Warsaw Cup, behind France's Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac. 2020\u20132021 season. Konkina/Drozd were scheduled to make their Grand Prix debut at the 2020 Rostelecom Cup, but withdrew. The team split later in the season. Their coach, Alexander Zhulin, announced that Konkina had contracted an unspecified serious illness and its effect on her health prevented her from continuing her career. Competitive highlights. \"GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix\" Detailed results. \"Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.\""}, {"text": "Gordon Montador (1950 - 1991) was a Canadian book editor and publishing executive. He was most noted as executive director of the Canadian Book Information Centre, a marketing and public relations agency which sought to publicize and promote Canadian literature. Originally from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, he was educated at Carleton University before joining Macmillan of Canada as a sales representative. Openly gay, he was a prominent early activist as a host of \"Gay News and Views\", one of Canada's first LGBT-oriented television series, and as an organizer of Gay Days, one of the precursors to the contemporary Pride Toronto. He established his reputation as an editor when the first book he ever edited, Oonah McFee's novel \"Sandbars\", won the Books in Canada First Novel Award. He subsequently spent some time in Los Angeles in 1979 and 1980, attempting to write a novel and helping his friends Norman Laurila and Richard Labont\u00e9 to set up the city's LGBT bookstore A Different Light, but had returned to Canada as director of the Canadian Book Information Centre by 1983. In 1987, he acquired shares in the publishing firm Summerhill Press, a publisher of non-fiction titles. The company's most successful title, Sherman Hines's"}, {"text": "photography book \"Extraordinary Light: A Vision of Canada\", enabled the company to announce in 1989 that it would try to expand its catalogue of books for the coming year. Montador became gravely ill with AIDS in 1991, threatening the financial viability of Summerhill Press. He died on May 27, 1991, and by August Summerhill Press had been acquired by the Newfoundland-based firm Breakwater Books. In September, a group of his friends collaborated with the Writers' Trust of Canada to create the Gordon Montador Award, a literary award honouring non-fiction writing, in his memory. The award was presented until 1999, following which it was superseded by a reorganization of the Writers Trust awards program."}, {"text": "Loretto Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Woodlawn-Chicago is a former Catholic high school for girls in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. History. The school was established by the Loreto Sisters and opened in August 1906. The school admitted its first African-American students in 1949. As Woodlawn's demographics changed in the 1950s, the school's did as well. By 1960, it had only ten Euro-American students and by the early 1970s it had a completely African-American student body. The school closed in 1972. The building was sold to the Woodlawn Community Development Corporation and served as substance abuse treatment center called Entry House. Entry House closed in 2012, and the building was sold at a foreclosure auction on October 28, 2019. It was included in Preservation Chicago's 7 Most Endangered list in 2019."}, {"text": "is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshi Shiibashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine \"Weekly Sh\u014dnen Jump\" from March to November 2019, with its chapters collected in four volumes. Viz Media and Shueisha simulpublished the series in English on their \"Shonen Jump\" and \"Manga Plus\" digital services, respectively. Plot. Set at the elite Teiyo Private Academy, Kiito Sonomiya\u2014a charismatic member of the privileged \"Life Lovers\" group\u2014has his orderly life upended when he falls for Yui Kamio, a seemingly perfect honor student. Unbeknownst to him, Yui harbors a split personality: her gentle, admired self, \"White Yui\", and the violent delinquent \"Black Yui\", who emerges when her lock-shaped hair accessory is removed. Feared as the \"Dark Deity\", Black Yui's ruthless fighting skills make her infamous among students. When Yui's childhood friend Nao Ebisuno entrusts Kiito with a spare hair lock to control her transformations, he is thrust into chaos. As they struggle to suppress Black Yui's outbursts, vengeful delinquents constantly target them, forcing Kiito to navigate the turmoil of Yui's dual personas and the conflicts they unleash. Publication. Written and illustrated by Hiroshi Shiibashi, \"Yui Kamio Lets Loose\" was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine \"Weekly Sh\u014dnen Jump\" from"}, {"text": "March 11 to November 25, 2019. Shueisha collected its 36 chapters in four volumes, released from July 4, 2019, to February 4, 2020. Viz Media and Shueisha simulpublished the series in English on their digital services \"Shonen Jump\" and \"Manga Plus\", respectively. Viz Media announced the digital release of the volumes in November 2019. The volumes were released from February 25 to August 25, 2020."}, {"text": "Aruba participated in the 2019 Parapan American Games. They sent the same size delegation as the previous games. Competitors. The following table lists Aruba's delegation per sport and gender."}, {"text": "Edward T. Grigware (April 3, 1889 - January 10, 1960) was an American painter. He painted murals for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as well as for banks. Life. Grigware was born on April 3, 1889, in Paceville, Michigan. Grigware first lived in Chicago, where he joined the Chicago Association of Painters and Sculptors, and his artwork was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1927. In 1936, he moved to Cody, Wyoming, where he painted the mural inside the Cody Mural Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1940s. He also painted murals in LDS chapels in Los Angeles and Honolulu, as well as banks in Spokane and Seattle. His artwork was added to the collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington. Grigware married Blanche Lanaghen in 1913, and he was widowed in 1959. He died of a heart attack on January 10, 1960, in Cody, Wyoming. His funeral was held at St Anthony Catholic Church, and he was buried in Riverside Cemetery."}, {"text": "Ezra 9 is the ninth chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE (the so-called \"Chronicler\") is the final author of these books. The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes the activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. This chapter and the next deal with the problem of intermarriage, starting with the introduction of the crisis, then Ezra's public mourning and prayer of shame. J. Gordon McConville suggests that this chapter is central to the Book of Ezra because it draws a sharp contrast between what the people of God ought to be and what they actually are. Text. This chapter is divided into 15 verses. The original text of this chapter is in Hebrew language. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008)."}, {"text": "There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: formula_1S; 4th century; only Ezra 9:9 to end), Codex Vaticanus (B; formula_1B; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; formula_1A; 5th century). An ancient Greek book called 1 Esdras (Greek: ) containing some parts of 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah is included in most editions of the Septuagint and is placed before the single book of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah (which is titled in Greek: ). 1 Esdras 8:68-90 is an equivalent of Ezra 9 (Repentance from mixed marriages). The report (9:1\u20132). Some Jewish leaders in Jerusalem reported to Ezra about 'the misconduct of various leaders and members of the community'. \"For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.\" The response (9:3\u20135). Hearing the report, Ezra responded with a \"public act of contrition\" in his function as \"the official representative of the community\". \"And when I heard this thing,"}, {"text": "I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.\" Verse 3. The action also denoted 'horror' on receiving shocking intelligence or hearing shocking words, such as: In the New Testament is also recorded: The prayer (9:6\u201315). Being a leader of the community, Ezra offered a \"public prayer of confession\" which is \"sincere, personal, emotional and forthright\". The Jerusalem Bible describes the prayer of Ezra as \"also a sermon\"."}, {"text": "AFA Sports is a Nigerian company that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of athletic and leisure footwear, apparel and accessories. It is a private company with its headquarters based in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Origins and history. AFA means \u2018Africa For Africa\u2019. The company was started by Ugo Udezue, a former NBA Agent working with BDA Sports in United States. His original idea was to create a Basketball league that would cater for professional basketball players in Africa which lead to the establishment of the Continental Basketball League, CBL. What was actually unplanned was the birth of AFA Sports, which was borne out of the desire to meet the kit demand of the Continental Basketball League. However, the Nigerian National Basketball team D\u2019Tigers had a major kitting challenge going into the Afro Basket 2017 competition and AFA became their jersey sponsors. This sponsorship was a major game changer for them. Sponsorship. Nigeria Male basketball Team (D\u2019Tigers). AFA sports was the jersey sponsor of the Nigeria Male basketball team, D\u2019Tigers. On the 22nd of February 2018, AFA Sports officially released a for the Nigeria Senior Male basketball team, D\u2019tigers as they prepared to take off for"}, {"text": "Bamako, Mali for the 2019 FIBA Africa World Cup qualification. Nigeria Women\u2019s Basketball Team (D\u2019Tigress). In 2018 ahead of the FIBA Women Worldcup, AFA Sports was confirmed as the official apparel sponsor of the Nigeria's Women Basketball team. This partnership made the organization the first African sports apparel manufacturer to feature in a major international tournament. On the 4th of August 2019, AFA unveiled a for the team. The notable change in the Jersey is the infusion of the Contemporary African Tribal print which is visible in the neck and tight region of the Jersey. Nigeria Volleyball Federation. In 2017, AFA partnered with the Nigeria Volley Federation as the official jersey sponsor of the Female Volleyball team. The Defenders. On March 6, 2019, it was officially announced that AFA Sports will be the Kit sponsor of the Defenders Basketball Team ahead of the African Basketball League tournament. CBL Sponsorship. AFA Sports was the headline sponsor of the Continental Basketball League (CBL). As the headline sponsor, they kitted out all the five teams that competed in the tournament. The teams were Abidjan Raiders, Eko Kings, Lagos City Stars, Lagos Warriors, Yudunde Giants and Libreville Izobe Dragons. Brand Ambassador. AFA Sports on"}, {"text": "27 August 2019 announced Nigeria's point guard Ezinne Kalu as their brand ambassador. This came after the Nigeria Women's Basketball Team, won the FIBA 2019 Afro Basket Tournament for the 2nd time in a row and Ezinne was named the most valuable player of the tournament. Products. AFA CTG 1. The CTG 1 is AFA's first sneaker. It is a basketball sneaker and is made of Contour Traction Grip technology. Its most notable feature is the Map of Africa embossed on the sole. The CTG1 was launched in 2017 and was first featured by the Nigerian's Women's basketball team at the 2017 Women Afro Basket Competition. AFA L-IV. AFA sports named this tracksuit the L-IV as a representation of the concept of the 54 African countries. The tracksuit has the flag of the fifty-four African countries printed on it. AFA has a range of other products such as basketballs, headbands, lifestyle sneakers, polo and hoodies."}, {"text": "Season 5 of Dance Plus (tag line Undekha, Unsuna & Unbelievable) started 9 November 2019 on Star Plus and is produced by Urban Brew Studios in association with Frames Productions. The season is hosted by Raghav Juyal. Super judge. Remo D'Souza, the super judge, is an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and film director. Captains. The following are the four captains of the season. International squad challenge. From \"Dance plus\" season 3, D'Souza added a new challenge for dancers. Here he will invite an international dance artist every week. Score chart. The scores were given in the following manner: <br> 1. Each captain gave a challenge to two teams. One performer from each of the two challenged teams performed. A captain can score out of 10. The performer belonging to that captain cannot give the score. The score were given by the challenger and the non challenged team captain. <br> 2. Remo had a power of giving the score out of 20. Remo also had the power to give double plus to the team and the team got additional 10 points. <br> 3. Second round is the International Squad round. Remo gave the score out of 20. Artists from each team"}, {"text": "performed. The team whose score is equal to that of the International Squad, got their score doubled for that round. <br> 4. Top two teams with Highest Scores (sum of scores from previous rounds) proceed for the final showdown and the winner is decided by Remo. The team whose artist won the final showdown is the winner of that week. <br> 5. Winning captain chose two performers from their team to advance to Top 10 and Remo chose amongst them. <br> 6. After Top 10 is chosen (8th week onwards), Remo scored out of 20 but he also gave an additional 10 points (double plus). Also, teams can score an additional 10 points after winning bonus battle."}, {"text": "Joseph T. Coleman (November 5, 1912 \u2013 September 5, 1979) was an American football player and coach. He played college football, basketball, and baseball at Texas Christian University (TCU) and was captain and quarterback of the 1934 team. He was a high school coach in Odessa, Texas, from 1938 to 1941 and 1946 to 1950, where he coached future Iowa Hawkeyes football coaching legend Hayden Fry. His 1946 team was undefeated and won the Texas state championship and compiled a 77\u201318\u20133 record at Odessa. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. In April 1951, he was hired as the head football coach at New Mexico A&M. He compiled a 3\u201315\u20131 record in two seasons at New Mexico A&M. After leaving New Mexico A&M, Coleman returned to Odessa where he was a partner in an athletic supply company. He was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association's Hall of Honor in 1971. He died in 1979 in Odessa of an apparent heart attack."}, {"text": "Pirate Dad (Spanish: Un pap\u00e1 pirata, ) is a 2019 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Humberto Hinojosa. The film premiered on 25 October 2019, and is stars Miguel Rodarte, and Luis de la Rosa. Plot. The plot revolves around Ian, a 16-year-old rebel teenager, who for his graduation video faces a \"botarga\" (mascot) and is forced to work to amend his mistake. Everything will get tangled up when Ian learns that his dad is not his real father. The two have a very close relationship, they are even similar, so this news causes both to be disappointed. Ian embarks on a journey with the objective of finding Andr\u00e9, his biological father, who lived his glory days in the 80s as a telenovela actor, but is currently an alcoholic who works as a \"botarga\". What started as a nightmare becomes a lucrative business of clandestine fights and extravagant people who spend the day dressed up as pets."}, {"text": "Zofia Czernow (born 1950) is an economist and Polish politician. Previously involved in local politics in Jelenia G\u00f3ra, she was elected to the Sejm, lower house of the Polish parliament, in 2011, 2015, 2019."}, {"text": "Michael Capps is an American politician who was born in Wichita, Kansas. A Republican, he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for the 85th district from 2018 to 2021. Early life and family. Capps was born in 1978. In profile interviews, he reported that he was born and raised in the northwest Wichita suburb of Valley Center, by a single mother, and never knew his biological father until age 18. As a kid, he said, he participated in wrestling, but was not interested in sports, and preferred involvement with computers, software and gadgets. He reported graduating high school in 1996, subsequently becoming involved with his church, \"mentoring disciple students.\" Four years later, he joined the U.S. Air Force, serving around the globe, including in combat situations in the Middle East, until 2003. He indicated he was a radio operator on C-130 transports, including in combat service during the events of 9/11. Capps reported that, when he returned to Kansas, he again became involved in his church. At age 27, he became a single father to a seven-year-old boy who was assigned to him while Capps volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2005. Capps adopted the boy"}, {"text": "- the son of a disabled, terminally ill mother. However, she entered remission, and by mutual arrangement remained engaged with her son, who lived with his adoptive father, Capps, until adulthood. Business activity. Capps engaged in various businesses, particularly in computers and business consulting. He founded Integrated Technologies of Kansas (\"itKansas\" or \"ITK\"), a computer services firm, reportedly in 2005 (another report says 2008). The firm developed experience working in federal government support. In 2015, Capps sold ITK to Cybertron International, Inc., a larger local computer services firm, and became Cybertron's employee, as vice president of technology services, for less than a year. In 2016, Capps reported that he was the CEO of Ray Alan and Associates, Inc., a \"business coaching and consulting firm\" serving \"small business owners.\" Electoral career. 2016. In 2016, Capps ran for the Kansas House of Representatives for the 95th District against incumbent Democrat Tom Sawyer. Each was unopposed in the primary. Sawyer won with 54.4% against 45.5% of the vote for Capps. 2018. In 2018, Capps filed to run for the seat in Kansas House District 97, using an address on South Chase Street, in south Wichita. But, several months before the election, Chuck Weber,"}, {"text": "the incumbent Representative for House District 85 - a staunchly Republican district that includes parts of north Wichita, plus suburbs to the north (Bel Aire and Kechi) and Benton northeast of Wichita - decided to withdraw from his run for re-election. Capps changed his campaign filing, and ran for the District 85 seat, instead, reporting his address as 3103 North Governeour, Wichita, with a mailing address of 6505 E Central Ave #110. When Capps said he lived at the Governeour street address, a home which had been scheduled to be sold at auction on June 27, 2018, Democrats complained it was not Capps' true address. However, the state Objections Board, all Republicans - Lieutenant Governor Tracey Mann, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach - refused to uphold the complaint. In 2018, Capps reported that he was endorsed by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Family Policy Alliance of Kansas, and Kansans for Life. During the summer before the election, incumbent Weber resigned his 85th District seat in the Legislature, effective July 14, 2018. The Sedgwick County Republican Central Committee appointed candidate Capps to fill the remainder of Weber's 85th District term, while Capps was running"}, {"text": "for that seat, though the legislature did not meet during those months. Abuse allegations. Not long after Capps's appointment to the vacant seat, allegations of child abuse surfaced. The Kansas GOP cut ties with Capps after it was revealed that the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) had found him responsible for emotional abuse of boys, in 2017, in his work as a volunteer Court-appointed special advocate (CASA). Capps denied the allegations, countering that the agency had investigated him in retaliation for his reporting of a foster parent's misconduct. (The agency's findings against Capps were reversed by the state Office of Administrative Hearings, which found them \"unsubstantiated\", and cited DCF procedural errors). The local CASA office said it suspended Capps from his role. He resigned from CASA, and was subsequently decertified from the work. Republican Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, Ron Ryckman Jr., asked him to withdraw from the November election race for his District 85 seat. \"Unfortunately, he has chosen to remain a candidate,\" the party's letter said. \"Mr. Capps has been made aware that his decision to stay in the race is not supported by the Kansas Republican Party.\" State House elections. Capps won the"}, {"text": "2018 election with 54% of the vote, to 46% for Democrat Monica Marks, but remained ostracized by his own party. In 2020, he lost the Republican primary to Patrick Penn, who received 74.4%, 3,349 votes. 2019. Capps was sworn in to serve a full two-year term as a Kansas State Representative on January 14. 2019. Prior to the start of the 2019 legislative session, Capps pre-filed his first piece of legislation, HB 2025, aimed at including a person who has filed a petition for adoption in the definition of an interested party in the child in need of care code. While HB 2025 never emerged from committee, Capps spoke frequently during the 2018 election campaign on the importance of reforming the Kansas Department of Children and Families. Capps also introduced HB 2285, a bill creating the Kansas legal tender act; providing for sales exemption from and modification for sales of specie legal tender. This was ultimately consolidated into other legislation passed in the 2019 session. The Kansas Policy Institute gave him a 94% fiscally conservative evaluation in 2019. 2019 Wichita mayoral election slander allegations. Attack ad project. During a contested Wichita mayoral runoff nonpartisan election to be held on November"}, {"text": "5, 2019, in an attack on the challenging candidate, Brandon Whipple, a Democrat, a salacious video appeared on-line. The anonymously produced and circulated video was created by Matthew Colborn at the behest of Wichita Republican political officeholders. The video made a false claim of sexual harassment against Whipple. The allegation had, in fact, been copied word-for-word from an actual claim, made against an anonymous Republican state senator in a \"Kansas City Star\" article two years earlier. Cover-up. Elaborate covers had allegedly been implemented by the perpetrators of the smear against Whipple, in Wyoming and New Mexico, where state laws permit registered agents for mail forwarders and corporation principals to conceal the actual identities of the parties they represent. An investigation by the \"Wichita Eagle\" revealed that the producer of the defamation was Capps. The video had been filmed a downtown Wichita office building that Capps shared with Wichita City Councilman James Clendenin, an alleged ally of the then-incumbent mayor, Jeff Longwell. After the Sedgwick County, Kansas Republican party chair, Dalton Glasscock, publicly called for Capps to resign, Capps then falsely claimed, less than two days before the November 2019 election, that it was Glasscock who had actually approved the production"}, {"text": "of the video, an allegation which Glasscock denied. However, in August 2020, Colborn originally said that he was first approached by Glasscock to make the video, for which he was given a script and promised $20,000 for the work. Colborn further said that Capps had nothing to do with the making of the video, but that Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell, provided him with the intended script. Colborn said he was paid by a $10,000 check drawn on a firm owned by Capps. Glasscock truthfully denied any role in the making of the video. When a Wichita Eagle reporter went to the claimed Capps' residence in the wake of the October 2019 accusations about the fabricated attack video against Whipple, an unidentified young man living in the home said he was \"house sitting\" and hadn't seen Capps \"in a while.\" Initial lawsuit. Whipple, who was elected Wichita mayor, sued videographer Colborn and two unnamed parties for slander. In his suit, others were subpoenaed to testify. O'Donnell, who faced reelection on November 3, 2020, was subpoenaed and was scheduled to give testimony by October 15, 2020, though conditions specified in the judge's order made it unlikely that it would be made"}, {"text": "public before election day. O'Donnell and Clendenin admitted they raised the money for the smear but had been misled to believe it was going to be used for billboard rentals. After the \"Wichita Eagle\" investigation revealed Capps involvement in the attack ad project, Sedgwick County Republican Party leaders unanimously decided to make a public demand for Capps to resign. Capps, however, when informed before the announcement, November 1, 2019, threatened to drop a \"nuclear bomb\" on the local party leaders if they followed through on the plan - \"naming\" people, threatening to bring down the whole party with him. A surreptitious audio recording of the exchange had been made by Colburn, but would not become public for nearly a year. Two days later, on November 3, 2019, Capps met with co-conspirators Michael O'Donnell (by then Sedgwick County Commissioner) and Wichita City Councilperson James Clendenin, to find a way to attribute the blame for the ad on the county party chair, Glasscock. Unbeknownst to the three elected public officials, that meeting too, was secretly recorded by a fourth party\u2014their video producer Colborn\u2014for which evidence would emerge in late October, 2020. 2020 lawsuit and recordings revealed. Investigation and charges. In February 2020\u2014represented"}, {"text": "by the area's former U.S. Attorney, Randy Rathbun\u2014now-Mayor Whipple brought suit against the person who produced the video, Matthew Colborn, and an obscure group calling itself \"Protect Wichita Girls, LLC.\" In the process, Whipple's attorney issued a subpoena for e-mails between O'Donnell and Sedgwick County Republican Party Chair Glasscock. In October 2020, through Rathbun, Whipple amended the defamation and conspiracy lawsuit to include Capps, O'Donnell (now Sedgwick County Commissioner), and Wichita City Councilman James Clendenin as defendants. The suit alleged that the co-conspirators attempted to blame their complex, interstate conspiracy on the Sedgwick County Republican Chairman, Dalton Glasscock. It also alleged that they attempted to create marital discord in Whipple's own family, through false allegations. The amended lawsuit further asserted that O'Donnell wrote the script for the false ad, Clendenin raised money for promoting it, and Capps attempted to hide their identities by creating a cover organization in New Mexico. Audio recording revelations. On October 23, 2020, a secret audio recording emerged of a meeting of the alleged conspirators, with their video producer, Colburn (who secretly recorded the meeting), discussing the attack ad project and cover-up. Extensive excerpts of the recording were published in the local newspaper and played on"}, {"text": "local television, showing that the three Republicans had, indeed, conspired largely as alleged, with O'Donnell heard saying: \"Like I\u2019ve always learned in politics, it's always avoid the truth at all expense, right? And just go on the attack.\" Whole copies and excerpts (audio and print), of the secret recording, were published online by local media, including the city's main newspaper, the \"Wichita Eagle\" and Wichita's CBS-TV affiliate KWCH-TV. Removal or resignation demands and inquiry. The revelation prompted immediate condemnations from throughout the Wichita area, including calls from three of O'Donnell's four fellow County Commissioners (mostly Republican) for O'Donnell to resign, and withdraw from his re-election race. Similar demands were made by the Sedgwick County Republican Party, which announced on social media, October 24, 2020: \"This week's events bring to a head the malicious and dishonest actions of Michael Capps, Michael O\u2019Donnell, and James Clendenin over the past year. We have stated from the beginning that this type of politics and actions would not be supported by the Sedgwick County Republican Party. We have said, and repeat, that those involved in this video ad campaign and the misinformation campaign are not fit to serve in public office and should step down.\""}, {"text": "The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce, and its political action committee, concurred. On October 25\u201326, the Sedgwick County District Attorney announced a joint investigation\u2014by his office, the Wichita Police Department and the Sedgwick County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2014into whether Capps and his co-conspirators could be forced from public office. State statutes prevent the legal ouster of a state official within 180 days before the end of their term in office, or within 120 days after its start\u2014with the result that Capps, and co-conspirator O'Donnell (who was running for re-election) were immune from normal ouster proceedings until the election, and\u2014if O'Donnell were re-elected\u2014immune from such proceedings during the first 120 days of his new term (Capps had been defeated in his primary election bid for re-election). Capps threats revealed. By October 26, Sedgwick County Republican Party leaders released an audio recording of Capps' November 1. 2019 confrontation and threats. Official reactions. Congressman Estes. October 26, 2020, U.S. Congressman Ron Estes, a Wichita Republican who represented (which included the districts of Capps, O'Donnell and Clendenin), called for their resignations. Wichita City Council. During the next weekly Wichita City Council meeting, October 27, 2020, the council voted 5-0 to censure Capps co-conspirator Clendinin, a City"}, {"text": "Council member. (Clendenin and Mayor Whipple recused themselves from the discussion and vote.) However, the council remained divided on whether to call for Clendenin to resign. The council also voted to condemn Capps and O\u2019Donnell for their roles in the plot. On December 22, Clendenin resigned his seat, effective December 31, 2020. Sedgwick County Commission. The next day, the Sedgwick County Commission unanimously (O'Donnell abstaining) passed a resolution censuring O\u2019Donnell and formally requesting his resignation. The resolution also said that if O\u2019Donnell were to win re-election in the next week's election, he should decline to serve the new term. Sedgwick County District Attorney. On November 25, Mark Bennett, the Sedgwick County D.A. moved to have the state take up the case of the removal of Capps from office, since the D.A. is precluded from doing so by statute. Kansas Attorney General. Responding to a petition from Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt responded that he lacked the authority to remove Capps. per state law, which allows only four methods for removal of a state representative: Defeat in an election; expiration of the official's term of office; recall election; or expulsion by a vote of the"}, {"text": "state House of Representatives. He noted that state law forbids recall elections in the last 200 days of a representative's term. He also noted that, because the legislature would not meet before the election, the Legislature could not oust Capps, either. COVID-19 relief fraud and money laundering charges. In December, 2020, the \"Wichita Eagle\" published an analysis of public records and other sources that purported to indicate that Capps and his business partner, Wichita City Council member Clendenin, had acquired federal, state and county government financial aid that was primarily intended to assist businesses suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, beyond what they should have been eligible for - a total of $495,200 - possibly fraudulently. The report revealed that Capps and Clendenin had apparently acquired the funds to ostensibly pay salaries of nonexistent employees. The enterprises for which Capps sought money were Midwest Business Group LLC, Krivacy LLC, and the Fourth and Long Foundation \u2014 the same entities used to make the false attacks against Mayoral candidate Brandon Whipple in 2019. Capps said that, following his closure of the \"Fourth and Long Foundation\" on October 19, 2020, he was attempting to return the $95,000 it had received from the U.S."}, {"text": "Small Business Administration. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett confirmed that his office had been investigating the situation since September 2020. Within days of the \"Eagle's\" publication of their findings, Sedgwick County Commissioner David Dennis urged County officials to audit County funds given to Capps' enterprises, and if appropriate, demand their return. In September 2021, Capps was indicted by a federal grand jury on nineteen counts of fraud and money laundering pertaining to COVID-19 relief funds, and state and local economic development funds. According to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas, Capps defrauded government agencies for more than $450,000, supposedly payroll for nonexistent employees. On December 21, 2022, Capps was found guilty of 12 of 18 counts by the jury. (One of the original 19 charges was dismissed at beginning of the trial.) The businesses and nonprofit organizations served to launder a dark money campaign that falsely smeared mayoral candidate Brandon Whipple, a Democrat who won that seat. The funding for that video was provided by construction and real estate interests which supported former Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell, a Republican. The video was filmed at the Midwest Business Group office. \"Krivacy\" registered a domain name (protectwichitagirls.com)"}, {"text": "before the video was published online. Those donors underwrote the faked video by writing checks to the nonprofit \"Fourth and Long,\" Foundation, a 501(c)(3) supposed youth sports charity. That allowed the payments to be kept anonymous and declared by the underwriters as ostensibly tax deductible. Mayor Whipple sued Capps plus James Clendenin and former Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell in state court for defamation. The convictions mean that Capps could be fined millions of dollars as well as being sentenced to decades in prison. Verdict. The jury found Capps guilty on three counts of making false statements to apply for loans through the Paycheck Protection Program and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Applying for Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) with the SBA and Working Capital Grant loans from the Kansas Department of Commerce, convictions said Capps lied about the number of employees he had and the revenue brought in through ventures that include \"Krivacy, LLC,\" and the \"Fourth and Long Foundation.\"' He was also convicted of making a false statement to a bank for a PPP Loan, as well as lying about employee numbers and incoming revenue. The jury also found Capps guilty of one count of bank fraud, four"}, {"text": "counts of wire fraud, and four counts of money laundering. The jury acquitted Capps on one count of making a false statement, one count of wire fraud, and four counts of money laundering. A sixth count of wire fraud, in addition to the four convictions and one acquittal, was dismissed, court records show. On May 11, 2023, Capps was sentenced by Federal Judge Eric Melgren to 27 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release. That was considerably less than the 51 months of incarceration for which the U.S. Attorney had asked. Capps was also sentenced to pay a $318,647.21 fine and to the forfeiture of $178,193.17 he had gained in illegal proceeds. Convicted on 12 counts, Capps appealed the sentence to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. On August 13, 2024, the appellate division found against Capps, who had moved to Oklahoma while his appeal was pending. The prosecution also found that he had established residence in Panama, in an effort to retain the proceeds of his swindling of the Federal government and to prevent recapture of those ill-gotten gains. However, because of court-ordered restrictions he had been unable to maintain that residence status since Panama"}, {"text": "requires visiting that country a minimum of once every two years. Former employer lawsuit victory. In January 2022, former Capps' employer Cybertron was awarded $200,000 from Capps by a District Court Judge for violations of a non-compete agreement."}, {"text": "Rockin' Wild in Chicago is a live album by the American blues musician Magic Sam, compiling tracks recorded in Chicago between 1963 and 1968, that was released by the Delmark label in 2021. Reception. AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson stated \"the sound quality ranges from barely decent to genuinely bad (by '60s standards). But the performances themselves are generally excellent. Magic Sam was among the most exciting Chicago bluesmen of the '60s, and the singer/guitarist is downright explosive ... because the sound is as disappointing as it is, \"Rockin' Wild in Chicago\" isn't recommended to casual listeners ... strictly for the late bluesman's more devoted fans, who will probably want a copy despite the inferior sound.\" \"The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings\" said \"this is a testing experience for even the most hardcore enthusiast ... Sam is as forceful and energetic as ever ... but his vocals are frequently close to inaudible ... A set for extreme collectors and obsessives\"."}, {"text": "\"She Was Killed by Space Junk\" is the third episode of the HBO superhero drama miniseries \"Watchmen\", based on the 1986 DC Comics series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Lila Byock and directed by Stephen Williams, and aired on November 3, 2019. It introduces the character of Laurie Blake (Jean Smart), formerly the vigilante Silk Spectre but now a member of the FBI's Anti-Vigilante's Task Force. The title of the episode is a quotation from a song by Devo, \"Space Junk.\" Synopsis. Laurie Blake - formerly the second Silk Spectre, but now a member of the FBI Anti-Vigilante Task Force - is instructed by Senator Joe Keene Jr. and the FBI to investigate the situation in Tulsa. Instead of a large team, she opts to only bring Dale Petey, a novice agent who is well-versed in the history of the Minutemen. On arrival, Laurie finds the police are preparing for Judd's funeral and is concerned that a full investigation of Judd's death was not completed. Laurie and Dale meet Angela before the funeral, and Laurie offers to talk to Angela later. At the funeral, a Seventh Kavalry"}, {"text": "member wearing a bomb vest equipped with a dead man's switch emerges from a nearby tomb and seizes Senator Keene. Laurie uses a hidden gun to kill the hostage taker, and Angela drags his body into Judd's grave and pushes the casket atop it, smothering the explosion. Police investigate the tomb. Laurie comes by as Angela explores the tunnel used by the Kavalry. Laurie makes it clear to Angela that she knows there are many questions around Judd's death, including the empty space in his closet where something had been hung and the wheelchair tracks near the tree Judd was lynched from. Angela remains cold to Laurie's warnings. That night, Laurie pulls a large blue vibrator from her luggage, but after a moment, goes to sleep with Dale instead. Later, Laurie uses a special phone booth to leave a recorded message for Doctor Manhattan on Mars. She tells Manhattan an elaborate joke alluding to her former allies Nite Owl, Doctor Manhattan, and Ozymandias, shown in pieces throughout the episode. Exiting the booth, Laurie is nearly hit by Angela's car falling out of the sky. Laurie looks up to see Mars in the night sky, and lets out a laugh. The"}, {"text": "Blonde Man unsuccessfully tests a survival suit made from equipment found around the castle on one of the Phillips clones. The Blonde Man declares he needs stronger material and attempts to hunt bison, but the Game Warden appears on a hillside to warn him off. The Blonde Man issues a defiant response to a written warning from the Game Warden about his imprisonment and signs it \"Adrian Veidt\", before preparing to return to hunt in his Ozymandias costume. Production. \"She Was Killed by Space Junk\" is focused on the character of Laurie Blake, previously known as the second Silk Spectre, played by Jean Smart. Lindelof said that of the main characters from the Watchmen comic book, Laurie's was left unfinished: in the aftermath of the squid attack on New York City, Laurie joins up with Daniel Dreiberg, the second Nite Owl, to return to vigilantism despite it being outlawed, and considering if she will become like her father, Edward Blake known as The Comedian. Lindelof had to consider what would likely happen to Laurie in the thirty-years' time between the comic book and the television show: one idea he came up with was that Laurie had experienced how to be"}, {"text": "a vigilante in her mother's footsteps in the comic book, so in the years after, she would try to see what is like to do the same in her father's. From those combined experiences, Lindelof felt Laurie would come to see vigilantism as troublesome, and thus why she joined the FBI's Anti-Vigilante Task Force. As such, Laurie was written as a very defensive character, trusting few others and rarely showing feelings or talking about her past, having closed up on that period of her life. Lila Byock wrote Blake's scenes so that her level of agency would contrast with the younger Silk Spectre character in the comic book. She also explained that the vibrator scene was pitched as a joke until Lindelof responded approvingly. The Haliburton briefcase Blake uses to transport it has elicited comparisons to \"Pulp Fiction\". Lindelof likened Laurie's character to that of Sigourney Weaver in \"Working Girl\", and had considered Smart as an actor that could play a similar role. Smart had not read the graphic novel before hearing about the role, but signed on as she considered Laurie an interesting character with \"all sorts of baggage\" from her past. The episode also affirmed that Jeremy Irons"}, {"text": "played Adrian Veidt, previously the vigilante Ozymandias. Up until this episode, HBO had publicized Irons' role under the alias \"Blonde Man\", though following the premiere, many television critics and viewers guessed Irons was playing Veidt. Damon Lindelof considered Veidt's return essential for the show, as Veidt was Lindelof's favorite character from the original comic book limited series and who raised a number of \"contradictory feelings\" when considering how to write for him. Lindelof said that while Veidt within the Watchmen comic book was nearly in full control of every action, he wanted to write Veidt in a situation where events were out of his control. Irons said he was drawn to play the character after hearing a summary of Veidt's story from the original comic book series and the ideas he had for Veidt in the television show, calling the character an \"enigma\" and that the proposed role \"was fascinating, off-the-wall, bizarre and thoroughly mesmeric to play\". The opening of the show features Laurie Blake leading a faked bank robbery to capture the vigilante Mister Shadow, played by Lee Tergesen. Mister Shadow was written as a parody of Batman. Costume designer Meghan Kasperlik drew out a Batman-like outfit which had"}, {"text": "included high-tech gadgetry, which became part of Mister Shadow's character as a rich person with too much money using it for crime-fighting. The costume was fabricated with help of one of the local Atlanta fabricators that had previously done work on the various Marvel Cinematic Universe films. The episode's exact title is a line taken from the lyrics of \"Space Junk\" from the Devo album \"\", which Laurie is shown listening to when Senator Keene arrives. Reception. Critical. On Rotten Tomatoes, the episode has an approval rating of 100% with an average score of 8.82 out of 10, based on 31 reviews. The site's summary states \"Not only does Jean Smart's brilliant performance as the former vigilante turned FBI agent Laurie Blake raise the stakes, but her arrival in Tulsa connects \"She Was Killed by Space Junk\" to its comic book past in an exciting way.\" Ratings. The episode had an estimate 648,000 viewers on the first night of broadcast."}, {"text": "Mary R. Galinski is a professor of medicine at the Emory Vaccine Center, Hubert Department of Global Health of the Rollins School of Public Health, and the Department of Medicine of the Emory University School of Medicine. Education and career. Galinski obtained her Ph.D. in molecular parasitology from Sackler Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the New York University School of Medicine at which she later served as faculty member of its Department of Medical and Molecular Parasitology before joining Emory University School of Medicine in 1998. In 1999, she joined Yerkes National Primate Research Center of the Emory Vaccine Center and prior to any positions, in 1992, as an assistant professor, she founded Malaria Foundation International the mission of which was to begin development and search for solutions to the health, economic and social problems caused by malaria. Research. In 2006, Galinski, Alberto Moreno, and Esmeralda Meyer established Emory's International Center for Malaria Research, Education, and Development (ICMRED), with founding members from Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Vietnam, and a number of African countries. In 2012, Galinski worked with Jessica Kissinger of the University of Georgia and was a founder of Georgian consortium. The same year, with the funding from the"}, {"text": "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, she established the Malaria Host-Pathogen Interaction Center. In 2014, Galinski spoke at the University of Georgia's ninth annual Voices from the Vanguard. In 2016, with a grant from DARPA, Galinski's research team from Emory University School of Medicine have collaborated with scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia to develop a vaccine to cure malaria."}, {"text": "\"Don't Let It Break Your Heart\" is a song by English singer-songwriter Louis Tomlinson, and the fourth single from his debut studio album \"Walls\". It was released on 23 November 2019. It features a light guitar melody, which builds up to a lively chorus introducing the drums. Background. In an official press release, Tomlinson described the track as the one he's \"really proud of\" and \"a song about hope and seeing the glass as half full\". Critical reception. Mike Wass of \"Idolator\" described the song as, \"a touching anthem about moving forward in the face of hardship,\" \"anthemic, uplifting and very radio-friendly,\" and Tomlinson's \"best solo single.\" Saskia Postema of Euphoria Magazine called the song \"an honest and empowering anthemic ballad\" and praised Tomlinson's \"conversational and simple yet colorful narration of his own feelings\" that \"conveys emotion both in his writing and in his voice\". Ilana Kaplan of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote that the song was \"an empowering look at leaving heartbreak behind for something better\". Writing for \"MTV\", Patrick Hosken described \"Don't Let It Break Your Heart\" as \"an ode to perseverance that finds rainy-guitar verses giving way to a full-throated, chant-ready chorus that could sit alongside the biggest One"}, {"text": "Direction arena anthems like \"Steal My Girl.\" Live performances. Tomlinson premiered the track before its official release at Coca Cola Music Experience in Madrid on 14 September 2019. He also performed it live at Telehit Awards in Mexico on 13 November 2019 and at Hits Radio Live Manchester on 17 November 2019. On 23 November 2019, Tomlinson performed the song on \"\". Music video. The music video, starring actor Geoff Bell and directed by Charlie Lightening, was released on 2 December 2019. It continues the narrative from Tomlinson\u2019s previous two videos, \"Kill My Mind\" and \"We Made It\", a story about two lovers on the run amid the emotional wreckage of a criminal entanglement. Tomlinson appears in the music video as a getaway driver caught in a gangland heist."}, {"text": "Quadra is the fifteenth studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released on February 7, 2020. It is a concept album based on numerology, the number four and its significance as depicted on Quadrivium. The band went to Sweden to work with producer Jens Bogren for the recording of \"Quadra\". The album is the band's most successful record since 1998's \"Against\", charting in 17 countries and entering the top 20 in seven countries (eight, considering the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart). It is also their most successful album in Germany and Switzerland to date, exceeding the chart positions of \"Roots\" (1996), with positions number five and number 13, respectively. This is the band's final studio album with drummer Eloy Casagrande before his departure from the band in 2024. Concept. Guitarist Andreas Kisser explained that the concept of the album is based on Quadrivium, which are the four subjects, or arts (namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), taught after teaching the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning four ways. The concept was discussed with the well known music photographer Marcos Hermes who was responsible for the picture of the album cover. Based on this, the band divided the 12-track"}, {"text": "album into four sections of three songs each. The first being thrash metal songs, based on the classic Sepultura sound. The second section is inspired by the groove-percussion oriented sound the band explored in \"Roots\". The third part has more progressive songs inspired by the track \"Iceberg Dances\" from \"Machine Messiah\", but is not all instrumental tracks. Side four features slow-paced and melodic tracks, similar to the song \"Machine Messiah\". Quadra is also the Portuguese term for sports court. Kisser stated that \"everyone grows up in a different Quadra, shaped by rules and definitions. We are all determined by these concepts, our relationships, our careers. Our whole lives.\" When Derrick Green was asked during an interview with \"BraveWords\", \"Which Sepultura album are you most proud of?\", he replied, \"Definitely \"Quadra\". It's the latest album, and we really worked so hard on it. We have so many different elements from the past that have helped us get to here \u2013 where we are at right now. So, without a doubt in my mind, this is the strongest album that we've done together. And I'm extremely proud of it.\" Reception. \"Quadra\" received positive reviews. Thom Jurek of AllMusic wrote in a review:"}, {"text": "\"\"Quadra\" is Sepultura's first album to actually stand on equal qualitative footing with their classic trilogy. It offers a series of tough, meaty, adventurous songs, that abundantly indulge raw power and emotion. Bogren's production and Sepultura's execution are in perfect balance. Further, Green delivers a career-defining performance here. It is the first Sepultura album in decades to measure favorably alongside the band's classic output\". Blabbermouth's Dom Lawson wrote that \"Quadra\" \"plainly and loudly showcases the sound of a band at the height of their powers, both in terms of creativity and musicianship\" and calls the album \"one of their finest records yet\". Metalriot.com chose \"Quadra\" as their number one album of 2020. Morgan Y. Evans wrote that the album ,\"...is nothing short of a monument to a lifetime in metal, the determined triumph of a legacy name never saying die and following their trusted vision over popular opinion. \"Quadra\" works on every level. In a year filled with so much death even the band's name vibrates on some heavy karmic level, but \"Isolation\" especially resonates deeply in a time of so much social upheaval for justice reform.\" The website Collector's Room included \"Quadra\" on the top 50 Brazilian metal albums"}, {"text": "of all time. \"Metal Hammer\" named it as the 30th best metal album of 2020. At the 2020 Metal Storm Awards, the album won a Metal Storm Award for Best Thrash Metal Album."}, {"text": "Become the Hunter is the sixth studio album by American deathcore band Suicide Silence. The album was released on February 14, 2020 through Nuclear Blast. Two years after its release, drummer Alex Lopez would depart from the band. Although Lopez is credited for drums on the album, they were actually recorded by Whitechapel's former touring drummer Ernie Iniguez, who later officially joined Suicide Silence in Lopez' place. Musical style. After the overwhelmingly negative fan reaction to the nu metal direction heard on the band's self-titled album, \"Become the Hunter\" features a return to the deathcore sound the band is known for. Additionally, Dom Lawson of Blabbermouth.net noted sludge metal influences on \"Two Steps\" and \"In Hiding\". Reception. \"Become the Hunter\" received positive reviews from critics and has been hailed as the band's \"return to form\". Blabbermouth.net's Dom Lawson called the album \"the perfect follow-up to \"You Can't Stop Me\"\", while Naomi Sanders of \"Distorted Sound\" called \"Become the Hunter\" \"a massive step up from the last album.\" A more mixed review come from Joe Smith-Engelhardt of \"Exclaim!\", who stated \"the new record isn't a perfect show from them, but it is a return to form.\" Smith-Engelhardt said the album feels"}, {"text": "like a logical follow up to \"You Can't Stop Me\" and praised the band's use of guitar solos on the album, saying \"instead of shoehorning in a solo for every song, they sparingly bring them in and have a great structure to each one.\" He said \"Skin Tight\" was the weakest song on the album, citing its atmospheric instrumental section and vocal delivery, comparing those moments to \"Suicide Silence\". The review concluded by saying \"if you can pretend their last album never happened, it's a fantastic collection of songs and any fan of the genre will be able to find some things they like, but ultimately, it does feel like their switchback was done to save their career.\" Personnel. Suicide Silence Additional musicians Production"}, {"text": "Kuljinder Singh Sidhu is an Indian actor, writer and film producer, who has appeared in Punjabi films. Kuljinder made his debut as an actor and writer with the movie Sadda Haq, which he also produced. Apart from this, he has produced and written the story and screenplay of the 2014 Punjabi film Yoddha: The Warrior, in which he played lead role antagonist Rahul Dev. He has received Ptc Best Actor Award by Critics and Ptc Best Screenplay Writer Award by Critics, for the film Sadda Haq."}, {"text": "Maria Fleming Tymoczko (born 1943) is a scholar of comparative literature who has written about translation, medieval Celtic literature, and modern Irish literature including the works of James Joyce. She is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the former president of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. She is known for her calls for a more international and multicultural perspective on translation. Education and career. Tymoczko is of Slovak descent through her grandmother, and grew up speaking English, Slovak, and (from neighbors) Italian. She lived in her grandmother's house in Cleveland, Ohio at a time and place where \"it was assumed that most people spoke at least two languages\", and has said that this upbringing strongly influenced her view of translation. She earned a bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College in 1965, majoring in Romance languages with a minor in biochemistry. After a year as a Fulbright Scholar at Aix-Marseille University, she returned to Harvard University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1968 and completing her Ph.D. in Celtic and Romance languages and literatures in 1973. Her dissertation, \"The Personal Names in the Ulster Sagas: A Tool for Understanding the Development of"}, {"text": "the Cycle\", was supervised by John V. Kelleher. After postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she became an assistant professor of Irish studies for the Five College Consortium in 1974, and in 1977 moved to the comparative literature department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, one of the Five Colleges. Books. Tymoczko's first book, \"The Irish \"Ulysses\"\" (University of California Press, 1994) was co-winner of the 1995 Book Award for Literary and Cultural Criticism from the American Conference for Irish Studies. The book argues that in \"Ulysses\", James Joyce was seeking to create an Irish literature, and teases out many parallel passages from \"Ulysses\" to the Irish literary tradition that, according to Tymoczko, were deliberate references by Joyce. calls some of the comparisons stretched and suggests that many readers will not be convinced, but still calls it \"a book that every Joycean must read\". And although criticizes her style of reasoning, \"from like to like\", as weak without a comparison of how many other things are also like, he nevertheless says that she \"establishes [it] beyond any quibble\". supports her thesis as unsurprising, pointing to Joyce's later use of Irish texts in \"Finnegans Wake\". Her next book forms"}, {"text": "a bridge between this early work on Irish literature and her later work on translation as a general topic. \"Translation in a Postcolonial Context\" (St. Jerome Publishing, 1999) won the Michael J. Durkan Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies for best book in Irish language and cultural studies. It studies multiple 19th- and 20th-century translations of old Irish literature, particularly concentrating on the \"T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faailnge\", and the ways in which these translations were colored by the context of the colonization and decolonization of Ireland. It also expresses a clear preference for literary translation over scholarly translation, as later exemplified by Seamus Heaney's . In her third book, \"Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators\" (St. Jerome Publishing, 2007), Tymoczko clearly articulates her call for a new view of translation bringing greater diversity into its theory and practice. She argues that the view of translation as faithfully transmitting a text's original meaning is only one way of looking at translation, stemming from its origin in the translation of the Bible. Instead, following Gideon Toury, she argues that any text viewed within its culture as a translation should be considered one, that there are many types of translation, that the boundaries of"}, {"text": "what makes a translation are fuzzy and dynamic, and that viewing translation in this way can help bring a diverse and international viewpoint to the subject. Tymoczko is also the editor of: Personal life. Tymoczko was married for many years to philosopher Thomas Tymoczko (1943\u20131996) of Smith College. They had three children, including music composer and theorist Dmitri Tymoczko and Smith College mathematics professor Julianna Tymoczko."}, {"text": "Ezra 10 is the tenth and final chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the tenth chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, but modern scholars generally accept that a compiler from the 5th century BCE (the so-called \"Chronicler\") is the final author of these books. The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes the activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. This chapter and the previous one deal with the problem of intermarriage, especially the solution of it, ending with a list of those who sent away their \"foreign\" wives and children; a somber note which finds relief in the Book of Nehemiah, as the continuation of the Book of Ezra. Text. This chapter is divided into 44 verses. The original text of this chapter is in Hebrew language. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008). There is also a"}, {"text": "translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: formula_1S; 4th century), Codex Vaticanus (B; formula_1B; 4th century), and Codex Alexandrinus (A; formula_1A; 5th century). An ancient Greek book called 1 Esdras (Greek: ) containing some parts of 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah is included in most editions of the Septuagint and is placed before the single book of Ezra\u2013Nehemiah (which is titled in Greek: ). 1 Esdras 8:91-9:36 is an equivalent of Ezra 10 (Putting away of foreign wives and children). The consensus (10:1\u20136). Ezra's public humiliation and prayer attracted a group of people who joined him in 'demonstrations of sorrow over the sins of Israel', and as a result, they made a consensus of the resolution. \"Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly.\" Verse 1. The Hebrew shows that the people were assembling during Ezra's prayer. The Jerusalem Bible describes the prayer of Ezra as \"also a sermon\"."}, {"text": "\"And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, \u201cWe have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this.\" Verse 2. The people acknowledged that they been unfaithful to God, in breach of the law. The laws to which Ezra must have referred would have been those found in , and . These passages contain prohibitions, very similar in character, directed against intermarriage with the nations that dwelt in Canaan, on the ground that such marriages would inevitably lead to idolatry and to the abominations connected with idolatrous worship. \"Then Ezra arose, and made the leaders of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore an oath.\" Verse 5. Although Ezra has been given Persian authority, his choice of action to make the leaders, priests, Levites, and all Israel \"swear an oath\" to abide by a covenantal agreement reflects \"internal politics\", in contrast to Nehemiah, who prefers 'to command and order'. The assembly (10:7\u201315). The whole community was assembled \"in"}, {"text": "the street of the house of God\" to \"confront the intermarriage issue and to decide on the divorce proposal\". The commission (10:16\u201317). Following the majority opinion, Ezra appointed a commission by selecting 'men who were family heads' to form the official investigation of the intermarriage cases. The guilty (10:18\u201344). After the results of the commission's investigation were announced, an official list was created to record 'those found guilty of marrying pagan women."}, {"text": "John Richard Cluff (June 27, 1950 \u2013 July 2, 2024) was a Canadian journalist who hosted the CBC Radio Vancouver morning program \"The Early Edition\" from 1997 until 2018. He was a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Radio Television Digital News Association. Early life and education. Cluff was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 27, 1950. His father was a former Air Force radio host, performer, and record producer in Toronto. After being kicked out of school in grade 10, Cluff later attended college as a mature student. He attended Seneca College and the University of Western Ontario where he worked at the student radio stations. After attending graduate school, he earned a position with the CBC. When Cluff began working at Seneca's student radio show, his father discouraged him from thinking of radio as a career. He was especially opposed to the CBC \"because the CBC is full of left-wing communists. And radio is a dead-end career.\" Career. Cluff began his career at CBC in 1976 as a radio journalist focusing on sports. As a sports journalist, he covered eight Olympic games and five Commonwealth games."}, {"text": "Cluff was one of the few journalists allowed to enter Moscow and Prague during the World Hockey Championships at the time of the Cold War. Cluff was sent as a reporter to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he reported for two hours on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing with limited preparation. Upon his return, the vice presidents of CBC asked him if he would host his own show. He was later asked by Susan Englebert to take up a three-year position in Vancouver as host of \"The Early Edition,\" which was later extended. Cluff began his 20-year career as host of \"The Early Edition\" in September 1997. In 1999, he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. In June 2017, before announcing his retirement, Cluff underwent open-heart surgery after living with hereditary heart disease. In December 2017, it was announced that Stephen Quinn would replace Cluff. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Radio Television Digital News Association. Personal life. Cluff and his wife had two children. He died from cancer on July 2, 2024, at the age of 74."}, {"text": "The Gordon Montador Award was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to honour non-fiction writing on social issues. Created in 1991 in memory of book editor and publisher Gordon Montador, the award was presented until 1999, when it was superseded by a reorganization of the Writers' Trust Awards. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, presented for the first time in 2000, encompassed much of the same subject area; although the Cohen award was never formally stated by the organization to be an official replacement for the Montador award, no new winner was ever announced for the Montador award after the Cohen award was introduced."}, {"text": "The Vanderhoof Aquatic Centre is an indoor aquatic centre in Vanderhoof, British Columbia. The building was designed by Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects Inc., built at a cost of $12 million and opened in January 2019. The facility features a six-lane 25-meter lap pool, 1,500 sq ft leisure pool and 35 person hot tub. The facility is owned by the District of Vanderhoof and operated by the YMCA of Northern BC. Funding. The District of Vanderhoof applied for and successfully received $6 million from the federal government and $1.4 million from the federal gas tax fund. Vanderhoof additionally received a municipal loan of $3 million and also received a donation of $1 million from Vanderhoof Community Forest. Community crowdfunding and fundraisers raised an additional $300,000."}, {"text": "Eraser Wars is a 2017 Japanese animated science fiction action film. Its director, AKIRA, was in 7th grade at the point of completion and release of the film. All characters are portrayed using rubber erasers. The film was digitally released in Japan, the United States, and the European Union on Amazon Prime in 2018. A sequel and spin-off film, \"MIDNIGHT ~ Eraser WARS spin off\", has also been produced starring actress Hinako Saeki and Kayo Hoshino."}, {"text": "The Kamata Mosque () is a mosque in Kamata District, \u014cta, Tokyo, Japan. Overview. The mosque was established in 2001 and is situated in a 3-story building. The mosque is accessible within walking distance north of Kamata Station of JR East."}, {"text": "\"The Four Horsemen\" is a song from the concept album \"666\" by the psychedelic rock band Aphrodite's Child, considered the album's most renowned track. It has received regular airplay on AOR stations since its release in 1972. Like the album, the song is based on the Book of Revelation. Background. \"666\" was created as a concept album retelling the story of the Book of Revelation, the Apocalypse of John, the book of the Bible that attacked on the tyranny of the Roman Empire at the time it was written, and the album goes through a number of famous passages and themes, including the Whore of Babylon (Rome), The Beast (Nero), and, in this case, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The song's lyrics mostly paraphrase the text of Revelation 6. The song's structure is marked by a dynamic contrast, with Roussos singing over an echoed keyboard drone and wind chimes in the verses, and the chorus containing traditional rock instrumentation highlighted by Sideras' drumming. The song culminates in a two-minute wah guitar solo by Koulouris over heavy drumming by Sideras and a repeated \"fa fa fa\" background chant by Roussos. In the song, as in , \"The Lamb\" is presented"}, {"text": "with a sealed scroll. This lamb is often taken to mean Jesus (who was referred to as The Lamb of God who will take away the sin of the world\" in ). The Lamb begins opening the scroll in both the book and the song. It has seven seals, and as each of the first four is opened, it releases some crisis represented by a horseman. These horsemen are described in part by the color of their horses, especially in the song: Impact. Receiving significant airplay on album-oriented radio, the song went on to be covered or sampled by a number of bands. \"The Four Horsemen\" influenced Beck's \"Chemtrails\", which has a similar structure, and The Verve's \"The Rolling People\", which quoted the \"fa fa fa\" chant. The chorus was also sampled, in a slowed-down fashion, on Daniel Lopatin's \"A7\", from \"Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1\". The song is popular among metal and techno acts, forming a significant list of covers and samplings."}, {"text": "P. K. Ramachandran Nair is an Indian American agricultural scientist, Distinguished Professor of Agroforestry and International Forestry at the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida. He is known for his pioneering contributions to the science of agroforestry, for which he received global recognition including the Humboldt Prize (2006). The specific areas of his research include agroforestry in the tropics and subtropics, integrated farming systems, soil carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, ecosystem services, and soil fertility management. He has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 17 books and over 80 book chapters. Nair is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India, He has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the Kerala Agricultural University, the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; University of Guelph, Canada; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; and Kyoto University, Japan. Early life and education. Nair was born and raised in Kerala, India. He received a B.Sc. in Agriculture in 1961 and an M.Sc. in Agronomy in 1968,"}, {"text": "both from Kerala University. He then received a Ph.D. in Agronomy from Pantnagar University in 1971. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow for a year at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in England. Career. In 1972, Nair joined the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at Kasaragod, Kerala, as an Agronomist.[1] In 1976, he moved to Germany as a Senior Humboldt Fellow at Goettingen University; there he received a Doctor of Science degree in Tropical Agriculture. In 1978, Nair joined ICRAF, the World Agroforestry Centre, a CGIAR Institution, which he co-founded, and moved to Nairobi, Kenya, and served as a principal scientist for about 10 years. In 1987, he joined the University of Florida as professor, becoming Distinguished Professor in 2001. At the University of Florida, he initiated the Agroforestry Program. In 2001, he was named a Distinguished Professor. From 1994 to 2005, Nair was the Editor-in-Chief of \"Agroforestry Systems\". He has also served as the Chief Editor of the Agroecology and Land Use section of the journal \"Frontiers in Environmental Science\" as well as on the Editorial Boards of several journals. He created the book series, \"Advances in Agroforestry\" in 2004 and has"}, {"text": "served as its editor for 13 years. Nair initiated the World Agroforestry Congress series and organized the first one in Florida in 2004. A plenary session at the fourth Congress (2019), in Montpellier, France, was dedicated to him, acknowledging his contributions to the field. Research and work. In the 1960s, Nair's work was focused on multiple cropping and soil fertility management in the tropics and subtropics. Since the early 1970s, working at the Plantation (tree) Crops Institute in India, he applied the principles of multiple cropping to tree-based systems and developed the multistory cropping system with tree crops, which would later become an example of the sustainable multistrata agroforestry systems of the tropics. He investigated the patterns of light profile and soil-resource utilization in sole stands (monocrop) of coconut plantations in comparison with intercropping systems, which provided a major scientific foundation for the emerging field of agroforestry. His publications during the early 1970s on multiple cropping, 'multi-storeyed cropping\u2019, 'integral agroforestry\u2019 and others, published in international agricultural research and allied journals marked the beginning of his career-long contributions to the development of the subject. In the 1980s, his research at ICRAF was focused on soil productivity under agroforestry systems. The major"}, {"text": "areas included decomposition patterns of the foliage from different multipurpose trees used in tropical agroforestry systems, dynamics of soil organic matter and nutrients, and complementarity in nutrient sharing among components of multi-strata systems. This research was conducted in various tropical ecological regions and resulted in numerous publications, including a book: \"Soil Productivity Aspects of Agroforestry.\" During the 1980s, Nair also spearheaded a global inventory of agroforestry systems, with financial support of the US-AID and collaboration of numerous institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The results were published in a book \"Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics\" (1989). In 1993, Nair wrote the book, \"An Introduction to Agroforestry\" (publisher: Springer), as a college-level textbook in agroforestry. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Thai languages. In the early 2000s, Nair started focusing his research on soil carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems as a strategy for climate-change mitigation, in collaboration with a group of colleagues from different continents. These efforts continued for nearly two decades, and led to recognizing the important role of deep-rooting trees in sequestering carbon in soil, thereby reducing the emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Understanding the variations in soil carbon sequestration in different soil"}, {"text": "types depending on the soil characteristics and development of land-use systems to exploit the potential for climate-change mitigation were the other major outputs of this effort. The research has produced more than 20 journal articles, a book, and numerous conference presentations to international gatherings. In addition to carbon sequestration, Nair has also worked on other aspects of ecosystem services of agroforestry systems including biodiversity conservation, soil-degradation control, and water-quality enhancement in soils."}, {"text": "Luis de la Rosa is a Mexican actor, best known for his role as Mexican singer Luis Miguel as a teenager in the biographical drama series \"\", and as Bruno Riquelme de la Mora in \"The House of Flowers\", both productions of Netflix. Subsequently, he had a leading role in the 2019 Mexican film \"Un pap\u00e1 pirata\". Career. De la Rosa studied in Canada for some time as a teenager. He started acting in 2017 by doing the play \"Les Mis\u00e9rables\" in his school, where he played Gavroche. Subsequently, he was chosen by the producer of the film \"Mientras el lobo no est\u00e1\"."}, {"text": "The Sangeet Ratna Award is given by the Government of Uttar Pradesh and was set up in the memory of Ustad Bismillah Khan. The award was announced in 2006 by then Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav."}, {"text": "Air Marshal Amit Tiwari, PVSM, AVSM, VM is a retired officer of the Indian Air Force. He served as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), Central Air Command. He assumed the office on 1 February 2021 succeeding Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar and served till 31 May 2021. He is succeeded by Air Marshal Richard John Duckworth. Previously, he served as AOC-in-C of Southern Air Command. Early life and education. Amit is an alumnus of National Defence Academy. He is also a graduate of Defence Services Staff College, College of Defence Management and National Defence College. Career. Amit was commissioned in the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot in June 1982. He is a qualified flight instructor, and has a flying experience of over 3500 hours on various fighter aircraft. In his career, he has held several positions including team leader of Surya Kiran aerobatic squadron, station commander of a forward base, air attache at Indian embassy in Afghanistan, as well as air defence commander and senior officer-in-charge of administration at an operational command. His other appointments include assistant chief of air staff (training) at air headquarters and commandant air force academy. Prior to his appointment as AOC-in-C, Southern Air command,"}, {"text": "Amit served as Air Officer in charge of Personnel at air headquarters, VayuSena Bhawan in New Delhi. Honours and decorations. During his career, Amit has been awarded the VayuSena Medal (VM) and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) and the Param Vishisht Seva Medal in 2021 for his service. Personal life. Amit is married to Poonam Tiwari."}, {"text": "PNS \"Shamsheer\" (FFG-252) is the second F-22P \"Zulfiquar\"-class guided missile frigate currently in active service with the Pakistan Navy since her commissioning in 2009. Operational history. \"Shamsheer\"s steel cutting was held at the Hudong\u2013Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai, China on 13 July 2007\u2013 the official date of her keel laying. She was officially launched on 31 October 2008, completing a number of sea trials in China. On 19 December 2009, she was commissioned in the Pakistan Navy in China, with Adm. Numan Bashir, then-Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), sponsoring and overseeing the commissioning of the ship from China. She is the namesake of \"Shamsheer\", which means \"Sword\" and is a special type of sabre with a 5\u201315\u00b0 curve from top to tip. Upon commissioning, she embarked on a long journey from Shanghai, China to Karachi, Sindh, and later paying a four-day state visit to Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka. On 23 January 2010, \"Shamsheer\" reported to her home base, Naval Base Karachi. Upon her arrival at the Naval Base, a celebrating reception was held at the deck of the \"Shamsheer\", attended by Chinese Vice Admiral Tian Zhong and Vice-Admiral Asif Sandila, Vice Chief of Naval Staff. In 2014, \"Shamsheer\" visited"}, {"text": "Port Klang for a goodwill visit, with a passing exercise planned with the Royal Malaysian Navy. In 2015, \"Shamsheer\" was deployed in the Indian Ocean where she was deployed in Yemen to participate in evacuating the foreign and Pakistani nationals from Yemen after the civil war ensued. In February 2018, \"Shamsheer\" provided medical assistance to Iranian fishermen \"in the open sea\". As of 2019, \"Shamsheer\" is deployed in Persian Gulf as part of the regional maritime security patrol, paying visits in Oman, Bahrain, and Iran. In March 2022, a flotilla of Pakistan Navy warships including Shamsheer visited the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX 2022) at Hamad port, organized by Qatar Armed Forces. In April 2022, \"Shamsheer\" visited Port Mina Salman, Bahrain. In October 2022, two personnel were injured while working at the forecastle after Shamsheer entered rough seas while en route to South Korea before attending the annual Japanese fleet review. The ship sent a Distress signal to the Philippines after which it anchored at Santa Ana port from where NOLCOM forces transported the injured personnel to a Hospital. PNS Shamsheer was deployed in the Red sea because of the attacks made on international ships and vessels"}, {"text": "by the Houthi Rebels of Yemen Starting from late 2023, following the Gaza war."}, {"text": "Carey Bell's Blues Harp is the debut album by the American blues musician Carey Bell, recorded in Chicago in 1969, that was released by the Delmark label. Reception. Allmusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated \"It's a mite ragged around the edges, but Bell's 1969 debut session certainly sports the proper ambience -- and no wonder, with guitarists Eddie Taylor and Jimmy Dawkins and pianist Pinetop Perkins on hand to help out. No less than four Little Walter covers and two more from Muddy Waters' songbook dot the set, but many of the best moments occur on the original numbers\". \"The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings\" said \"Neither band does more than run through the changes with indifferent precision ... Bell is an intermittently effective vocalist but his harmonica playing lacks adventure and inspiration\". Track listing. All compositions by Carey Bell except where noted"}, {"text": "The Poeciliini is a tribe of killifishes from the \"livebearer\" family Poeciliidae, consisting of six genera and just over 100 species. Genera. The genera classified in this tribe are:"}, {"text": "The Girardini is a tribe of killifishes from the \"livebearer\" family Poeciliidae, consisting of three genera and 10 species. The tribe was originally delineated by Carl Leavitt Hubbs in 1924. Genera. The genera classified in this tribe are:"}, {"text": "Aristeas () was part of a duo, along with Papias, of sculptors from Aphrodisium in Cyprus who made the two statues of centaurs, known as the Furietti Centaurs, in dark grey marble which were found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Lazio in 1746, and are now in the Capitoline Museums. The statues bear the inscription \u0391\u03a1\u0399\u03a3\u03a4\u0395\u0391\u03a3 \u039a\u0391\u0399 \u03a0\u0391\u03a0\u0399\u0391\u03a3 \u0391\u03a6\u03a1\u039f\u0394\u0399\u03a3\u0399\u0395\u0399\u03a3. From the style of the statues, and from the place where they were discovered, German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann supposed that they were made during the reign of Hadrian. Other statues of centaurs have been discovered, very much like those of Aristeas and Papias, but of better workmanship, from which some writers have inferred that the latter are only copies. The two centaurs are fully described by Winckelmann, and figured by sculptors Bartolomeo Cavaceppi and Giovanni Battista Foggini."}, {"text": "Rishab Chadha is an Indian actor who mainly appears in Hindi films, shows on Indian television, and web series. He is best known for his roles in \"Drishyam\", \"Khoobsurat\", \"Lupt\" and \"Aadat Se Majboor\". Early life and education. Rishab Chadha was born on 20 June 1994 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He completed his schooling from Gopal Sharma Memorial School and graduated from R. D. National College, Bandra with a degree in BMM. Acting career. Rishab Chadha started his acting career at a very young age with Zee TV serial \"Aladdin\" in 2007 and there was no looking back for him. He gained popularity as a teenage artist in television and appeared in many children shows. He was a part of \"Disney's Best of Luck Nikki\" (2011) and \"The Suite Life of Karan & Kabir\" (2012). He has also acted in the series \"Khauff Begins... Ringa Ringa Roses\" (2013) on Life OK and in \"Kota Toppers\" (2015\u201316) on UTV Bindass. He was last seen on television in SAB TV show \"Aadat Se Majboor\" (2017). Besides working in television, Rishab Chadha regularly appears in web series. He started his web series career in 2016 with \"Shaadi Boys\" on Voot. He has recently worked"}, {"text": "in \"Boys with Toys\" (2019) for Hungama App and \"Bhootpurva\" (2019) on ZEE5. Rishab Chadha has made his Bollywood debut in 2014 with \"Khoobsurat\". He was seen in 2015 release \"Drishyam\". After making his acting debut at the age of 13 Rishab Chadha went on work in many television commercials. He has appeared in more than 150 commercials in his twelve years long career. Some of his notable commercials are Sprite, eBay.in, Dell, KFC, ViseAC, IDEA, KOPIKO, Lotte Choco Pie, Kala Hit, Kingfisher Radler etc. Apart from working in small and big screen, Rishab Chadha has acted in commercial theater for three years with Out of the Box production. The Gone Case, Frying Pan and 786 are some of his notable theatrical works."}, {"text": "\u200cThe 2019 Asian Club League Handball Championship was the 22nd edition of the championship held under the aegis of Asian Handball Federation. The championship was hosted by Korea Handball Federation at Indoor Handball Hall, Samcheok (South Korea) from 7 to 17 November 2019. It was the official competition for men's handball clubs of Asia crowning the Asian champions whose winner will also qualify for the 2020 IHF Super Globe. Draw. The draw was held on Saturday, 7 September 2019 in the Millennium Hotel & Convention Centre, Salmiya, Kuwait at 19:00 hours in the presence of representatives of the participating clubs. Seeding. Teams were seeded according to the AHF COC regulations and rankings of the previous edition of the championship. Teams who had not participate in the previous edition were in Pot 4. \u25cf Doosan Handball Club withdraw from the championship before the final draw."}, {"text": "Heartaches and Pain is an album by the American blues musician Carey Bell, recorded in Chicago in 1977, but not released by the Delmark label until 1994. Reception. AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: \"Legendary producer Ralph Bass supervised this quickie session back in 1977, but it failed to see the light of day domestically until Delmark rescued it from oblivion. They did the blues world a favor: it's a worthwhile session, Bell storming through a mostly original setlist\". \"The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings\" wrote: \"Given the conditions, it's hardly surprising the musicians went for proficiency rather than inspiration ... One can't blame the musicians for the exploitative nature of the session but the results are invariably no more than pleasant\". Track listing. All compositions by Carey Bell except where noted"}, {"text": "91.1 Spirit FM (DWPS 91.1 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Our Lady's Foundation. Its studios and transmitter relocated in Brgy. Pinontingan, Gubat, Sorsogon. History. DWPS was founded in 1994 by Romeo Escasinas and Sarah Florano. Broadcasting from Zulueta St., it was a community radio station of Gubat. On December 30, 2022, it signed off and it\u2019s equipment was donated to the local St. Anthony of Padua Parish Church. In March 2024, it returned on air under the church's management."}, {"text": "Balaupasakage Yasodis Tudawe (25 September 1915 \u2013 22 January 2000) was a Sri Lankan communist politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, serving two terms as a member of parliament and one term as Deputy Minister of Education. He studied at St. Servatius' College, Matara. Early life and career. Born in 1915 to a poor family in the village of Tudawa in Matara. Having completed his schooling, Tudawe became a teacher at the C.C. School at Gabadaweeadiya, Matara. He studied at St. Servatius' College, Matara. He soon joined the Teachers' Association, Co-operative Society and the Youth Buddhist Society. He later became the District Secretary, Matara of the National Teachers Union of Ceylon. Political career. He joined the Communist Party of Sri Lanka and rose to the post of District Secretary of the party and was a member of the Central Committee of the party. He was arrested by the police on charges of violating the curfew law during the 1953 Hartal, which had taken place in the country in the wake of the 1953 rice price hike. He was a founding member of the Matara Co-operative Hospitals Society. He represented Ceylon in the International Co-operative"}, {"text": "Conference in Poland. When the Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin arrived in Matara in 1962, Thudawe translated his speech into Sinhala. As a long-standing member of the Ceylon Communist Party, he was elected to parliament at the 1965 general election in the Matara electorate and was re-elected at the subsequent 1970 general election by a majority of the votes. Tudawe was appointed Deputy Minister of Education in the United Front government led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. He was defeated in the 1977 general election, in which for the first time the Communist Party was left without parliamentary representation, however he thereafter elected as the opposition leader of the Matara Municipal Council. In the first Provincial Council election held in 1988, Tudawe was elected to the Southern Provincial Council and held the position of opposition leader and helped the Communist party to work on a correct path. He was elected Minister of the Southern Provincial Council in 1993, but the council was confined only to a few days because it was defeated by a no-confidence motion. Despite losing the re-election, he managed to continue his political career and public service. Assassination attempt. On 1 October 1987, the JVP which was engaged"}, {"text": "in their second insurrection, launched a wave of attacks on other left wing parties. On 1 October the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and Ceylon Communist Party offices were attacked and burnt, and B. Y. Tudawe was shot by JVP gunmen whilst he watched television at his home in Matara, the following day the Communist Party offices in Matara were also attacked. Although hospitalised for a long period, he made a complete recovery and returned to politics carrying the JVP assassin's bullets till the day he died. Personal life. B. Y. Thudawe was married Ramyalyn Tudawe in 1944 and has one child, Ranjini Tudawe. Death. He died on January 22, 2000, at the age of 84 due to sudden illness."}, {"text": "T\u014dyama Atsuko (\u9060\u5c71 \u6566\u5b50, born December 10, 1938) is a Japanese former bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology. She is a trustee of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the head of the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka. Early life and education. Toyama was born in Kuwana, Mie, Japan. She grew up in Shizuoka. She graduated from Tokyo University. Career. After graduation in 1962 Toyama joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology. She was one of the first women to become a bureaucrat there, rising quickly to head departments and bureaus. She worked mostly in higher education, and became the director-general of the higher education bureau. After leaving government work, she became the ambassador to Turkey in June 1996 and the director of the National Museum of Western Art in April 2000. Toyama was the Minister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology in the first Koizumi Cabinet in 2001. She worked there for two and a half years, until 2003. During her tenure Toyama released a plan to reform Japan's national universities by reorganizing internal structures and make thirty of Japan's universities \"world-class\". There"}, {"text": "were also changes to how researchers obtain funding, including the newly established \"Centers of Excellence\", which made academic departments compete for funding. The \"Toyama plan\" was built on work that she had done during her previous government work. Toyama was the president of the New National Theater Foundation, the Toyota Foundation, the Panasonic Foundation and the Japan Ikebana Art Association. Toyama also taught at the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. In April 2013 Toyama was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun. In 2017 she became the head of the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka. Toyama is also a trustee of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games."}, {"text": "The Mexican \"Lucha libre\", or professional wrestling promotion The Crash Lucha Libre (The Crash) has produced and scripted a number of wrestling shows since their creation in November 2011.. Some of these shows have become annual events, some are special one-off events, normally indicated by a special main event match or being promoted under a special name, and some are The Crash's normally promoted shows. Many of the annual and special events are headlined by a \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet match\", where a wrestler will put his wrestling mask or hair on the line. The group holds their Anniversary show each year in November and will on occasion co-promote a show with other promotions such as Major League Wrestling, Fight Club: Pro or Revolucha. The majority of the shows are held in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico at the Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez."}, {"text": "Barbados participated in the 2019 Parapan American Games. They sent the same size delegation as the previous games. Competitors. The following table lists Barbados's delegation per sport and gender."}, {"text": "Certified Hitmaker is the second studio album by American rapper Lil Mosey. It was released on November 8, 2019, by Mogul Vision Music and Interscope Records. This serves at the follow-up to his 2018 release \"Northsbest\". The album contains features from Chris Brown, Gunna, Trippie Redd and AJ Tracey. Every song on its standard edition was produced by Royce David, who also produced the majority of songs on \"Northsbest\". It was reissued on February 7, 2020, coinciding with the release of Mosey's hit single \"Blueberry Faygo\". A deluxe edition, marketed as \"Certified Hitmaker (AVA Leak)\", was released on August 14, 2020, and includes additional features from Lil Baby and Lunay. \"Certified Hitmaker\" was supported by three singles: \"G Walk\", \"Stuck in a Dream\" and \"Live This Wild\", as well as two additional singles: \"Back At It\" and \"Top Gone\", in the lead up to the release of its deluxe. \"Certified Hitmaker\" debuted at number 12 on the US \"Billboard\" 200, earning 23,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Background. A deluxe edition, marketed as \"Certified Hitmaker (AVA Leak)\", was released on August 14, 2020. It was supported by two singles: \"Back at It\" and \"Top Gone\". Three new songs were"}, {"text": "also added to the tracklist, \"Bands Out Tha Roof\", \"My Dues\", and \"Focus on Me\". Singles. \"Certified Hitmaker\" was supported by a total of six singles. The first single, \"G Walk\" was released on June 7, 2019. The song features a guest appearance from Chris Brown. While the high-profile collaboration was initially unexpected, Mosey had notably sampled Brown's 2005 hit single \"Yo (Excuse Me Miss)\" in \"Greet Her\", the seventh song on \"Northsbest\". The second single, \"Stuck in a Dream\" featuring Gunna was released on September 17, 2019. The music video was also released on Lil Mosey's YouTube channel the same day. The single peaked at number 62 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 dated November 23, 2019, as well as number 34 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. The third single, \"Live This Wild\" was released on November 5, 2019, a few days before the release of \"Certified Hitmaker\". Its music video was released a week later on November 14, 2019. Although it failed to chart on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, it managed to peak at number 80 on the Canadian Hot 100. The fourth single, \"Blueberry Faygo\" was originally an unreleased song that was leaked online. It"}, {"text": "was being uploaded on to Spotify and other platforms under many different names. For a period of time the song kept being posted and taken down. Eventually, the song became one of the biggest trending songs on Spotify. The song was officially released on February 7, 2020, and was later included on the album's reissue on the same day. The music video was released on March 26, 2020, and was directed by Cole Bennett. The single became Lil Mosey's most successful song to date, peaking at number 8 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In Canada, the song peaked at number 8 on the Canadian Hot 100. It also managed to peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and number 62 on \"Billboard\"'s Global 200 charts respectively. The fifth single, \"Back At It\" featuring Lil Baby was released on June 26, 2020, in the lead up to the album's deluxe. The song reached number 9 on the US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. The final single, \"Top Gone\" featuring Lunay was released on August 5, 2020. \"Certified Hitmaker\" debuted at number 12 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, earning 23,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. This"}, {"text": "became Lil Mosey's highest-charting album to date. The album also debuted at number 9 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It ranked number 72 on the \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart of 2020."}, {"text": "Dick Abraham Willebrandts (Rotterdam, 29 July 1911 \u2013 29 December 1970) was a Dutch pianist, composer and bandleader in the swing era. Early life and career. The son of Dirk Willebrandts and Sara Bongers, Dick Willebrandts was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He married Maria Margaretha Lucas on 9 October 1935. In 1925 Dick Willebrandts started his career as a pianist in the sextet set up by his brother Philip Willebrandts, for whom he wrote several arrangements. Around 1928 Willebrandts became a member of German and Danish big bands who performed in the Netherlands. Between 1935 and 1937 Willebrandts was a pianist with \u201cThe Internationals\u201d, a big band formed by Jack de Vries (1906-1976) and his brother the jazz trumpeter Louis de Vries (1905-1935). Louis died in a car crash in 1935. From 1937 to 1940 Willebrandts was employed by the Dutch broadcaster AVRO as a pianist with the AVRO Dance Orchestra, the band leader of which was Hans Mossel. Willebrandts also wrote arrangements for the AVRO Dance Orchestra. World War II. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, the AVRO Dance Orchestra was forced to disband. Willebrandts continued to perform for the Dutch radio from 1940 to"}, {"text": "1942. In 1942 he found a sponsor who helped him to form a big band: Dick Willebrandts and His Dance Orchestra. Recordings were made by Decca Records, the label that also sponsored his concert tours in the Netherlands. As the war continued the big bands had to commit to a special repertoire in order to be allowed to perform before an audience. Each big band had to be a member of the Nederlandsche Kultuurkamer, the Dutch equivalent of the German Reich Chamber of Culture, a government agency in Nazi Germany that was extended to the occupied territories. A rejected inscription resulted in an occupational ban. The Nederlandsche Kultuurkamer played an important role in the Nazi oppression of modern art and music that was considered \"degenerate art\", such as American jazz and swing music. This supposedly \"degenerate music\" was much more popular with the public than the Nazis thought. Among the members of Willebrandts' big band were Wim Kroon (bass), Aldert Dekker (drums), Bep Rowold, Cees Verschoor, Tinus and Kees Bruyn (saxophone), Tony van Hulst (guitar), Kees van Dorsser, Francis Bay en Frans van der Meer (brass instruments). Willebrandts himself played the piano. Trombonist, composer and arranger Pi Scheffer played the"}, {"text": "trombone in Willebrandts\u2019 big band. Dick Willebrandts and his band blended jazz and entertainment. The vocalists were Jan de Vries and Nelly Verschuur. During World War II Nelly Verschuur was very successful, especially with two songs both written by Jaap Valkhoff: \u201cDiep in mijn hart\u201d (\u201cDeep in My Heart\u201d) (1943) and \u201cDenk je nog aan die tijd' (\u201cDo You Remember Those Days\u201d) (1943). Both songs were recorded between August and December 1943 in Hilversum for the Deutsche Europasender (D.E.S.) in Studio B of the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation. Nelly Verschuur also sang the English version \u201cDeep in my Heart\u201d. Dick Willebrandts\u2019 big band often performed for the by the Nazis controlled Dutch radio. From August 1943 until September 1944 several recordings were made for propaganda purposes which were broadcast via the broadcaster Calais II, the new name of the Dutch radio station Hilversum II. Dick Willebrandts was \"dienstverpflichtet\" by the German occupiers to work for the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. It was agreed upon with the sixteen members of his orchestra that Dick Willebrandts and his orchestra would continue to play because they all had families to support. Calais II was part of the German Europasender during the Nazi regime, and the counterpart of"}, {"text": "the British black propaganda broadcaster Soldatensender Calais. After Mad Tuesday, September 5, 1944, the situation changed dramatically. Broadcasts had alleged that Breda had been liberated which caused rumours that the liberation of the occupied Netherlands by the Allied forces was at hand. Dick Willebrandts' big band was disbanded. Some musicians were arrested, others had to go in hiding, like Willebrandts himself. Dick Willebrandts gave financial help and shelter to two Jewish families in his family home in Rotterdam and in Hilversum so as to avoid their deportation during the Holocaust years. Later career. Nazi Germany was defeated between 4 and 8 May 1945 during which the remaining German armed forces surrendered unconditionally. This resulted in the liberation of the Netherlands on 5 May 1945. Now life became briefly difficult for Dick Willebrandts. Just like Theo Uden Masman, another famous Dutch big band leader of The Ramblers, who had equally played for the Germans during the occupation, Willebrandts was not allowed to lead a big band for a period of six months. During this time Willebrandts worked as a pianist in a bar in his home town of Rotterdam. In 1947 Willebrandts was re-employed by the AVRO and in 1955 he"}, {"text": "once again became a band leader of an orchestra and a dixieland band. In 1960 the trombonist and band leader Pi Scheffer asked Willebrandts to join the radio orchestra, the \u201cOK Wobblers\u201d. To honour Willebrandts the record label Grannyphone published in 1989 a cd \u201cDick Willebrandts and his Radio-Orchestra\u201d with previously unrecorded numbers which Willebrandts had played for the Deutsche Europasender (D.E.S.) in 1943. This cd was rewarded with an Edison Award, an annual Dutch music award for outstanding achievements in the music industry. Retirement and death. In 1963 Dick Willebrandts had a heart attack of which he recovered, yet it ended his career. He died on 29 December 1970 as the result of a fatal heart attack."}, {"text": "104.1 Yes FM (DZVM 104.1 MHz) is an FM station owned by MBC Media Group and operated by Star East Production & Marketing Services. Its studios and transmitter are located at the 2nd Floor, Public Market, Brgy. Poblacion, Urdaneta, Pangasinan."}, {"text": "Guijar Islet is an island locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. It consists solely of Poll Island (also known as Guijar Islet). In the , Guijar Islet had \"no people or a very low population\". Guijar Islet's postcode is 4875. Demographics. In the , Guijar Islet had \"no people or a very low population\". In the , Guijar Islet had \"no people or a very low population\"."}, {"text": "Kapali Road railway station is a railway station on Kharagpur\u2013Puri line, part of the Howrah\u2013Chennai main line under Khurda Road railway division of East Coast Railway zone. It is situated at Kalahandia, Andhaipalli in Bhadrak district in the Indian state of Odisha. History. In between 1893 and 1896 the East Coast State Railway constructed Howrah\u2013Chennai main line. Kharagpur\u2013Puri branch was finally opened for public in 1901. The route was electrified in several phases. In 2005, Howrah\u2013Chennai route was completely electrified."}, {"text": "The 2019\u201320 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State University during the 2019\u201320 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Broncos, led by tenth-year head coach Leon Rice, played their home games at ExtraMile Arena as a member of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 20\u201312, 11\u20137 in Mountain West play to finish in a tie for fifth place. They defeated UNLV in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West tournament before losing in the semifinals to San Diego State. Previous season. The Broncos 13\u201320, 7\u201311 in Mountain West play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place. They defeated Colorado State in the first round of the Mountain West tournament to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to Nevada. This was the first time in Boise State history that they lost 20 games in a season. Schedule and results. !colspan=9 style=| Exhibition !colspan=9 style=| Regular season !colspan=9 style=| Mountain West tournament"}, {"text": "Beatrice Pelloni is an Italian mathematician specialising in applied mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, the editor-in-chief of the \"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A: Mathematics\", and the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures. Education and career. Pelloni was born on 28 June 1962 in Rome. After earning a laurea from Sapienza University of Rome in 1985, she entered graduate study at Yale University, but had to take several periods of time off from the program to raise three children. She completed her Ph.D. at Yale in 1996. Her dissertation, \"Spectral Methods for the Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations\", was supervised by Peter Jones. While still a graduate student, Pelloni also worked as a researcher for the Institute of Applied Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research & Technology \u2013 Hellas (IACM-FORTH). After completing her doctorate she was a research associate at Imperial College London and then joined the University of Reading as a lecturer in 2001. At Reading she became a professor in 2012. She moved to Heriot-Watt University in 2016. Recognition. Pelloni was the Olga Taussky-Todd"}, {"text": "Prize Lecturer at the 2011 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, speaking on \"Boundary value problems and integrability\", and the 2019 Mary Cartwright Lecturer of the London Mathematical Society, speaking on \"Nonlinear transforms in the study of fluid dynamics\". She was elected Fellow of the IMA in 2012, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020."}, {"text": "Violante Camporesi, or Camporese (23 December 1785 \u2013 1839), was an Italian soprano. Life. Born in Rome in 1785, she was the daughter of an architect, Giulio, and Maddalena Belli. After marrying Giustiniani, she found herself in financial difficulties and therefore thought of dedicating herself to singing professionally. She retired from active singing in 1829 and died in Rome in 1839. Musical career. Camporesi performed for the first time in public in 1809 singing arias in a concert in Rome, which were followed by numerous concerts that soon made her famous even outside Italy. She was hired for Napoleon's private concerts to perform in Paris. While in Paris, she trained with Girolamo Crescentini for quite some time to improve her vocal qualities. The political events of those years forced her to leave the country to England where she debuted at Theatre Royal Haymarket on 11 January 1817 in Cimarosa's opera, \"Penelope\". She made her debut at La Scala on 26 December 1818 as Sesto in Mozart's \"La clemenza di Tito\". Her noted performances includes Mozart's \"Don Giovanni\", \"La clemenza di Tito\", \"Le nozze di Figaro\" and Rossini's \"La gazza ladra\", \"Otello\", \"La donna del lago\", \"Bianca e Falliero\". She was"}, {"text": "a sought after and an acclaimed performer in London and La Scala. After retiring in 1829, Camporesi participated in private concerts performing music by Bo\u00efeldieu and to Naples with Ferdinand Ries for musical entertainment."}, {"text": "Delese Mimi Darko is a Ghanaian pharmacist. In 2017 she became the first woman to be appointed chief executive officer of the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority by Nana Akuffo-Addo. In 2025 she was appointed Inaugural Director General of the African Medicines Agency. Early life and education. Darko attended Achimota School in Accra. In 1991 she graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she trained as a pharmacist. She later obtained a master's degree in business administration from the University of Northampton. Her father is K. G. Osei. She is the fourth of five children. Career. Darko joined the Food and Drugs Board in the early 1990s. The organisation was subsequently renamed the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), and Darko has served there in various capacities. She has worked in every department of the institution, starting from the laboratory. She also helped in the setting up of two technical advisory committees to assist the board in their work. She was the designer of the current logo of the FDA. Darko was the lead for a collaboration between the FDA and the UK-MHRA in the area of medicine safety, which is now multi-divisional at the FDA with"}, {"text": "anti-counterfeiting as one of the key areas of support. Prior to her appointment as the chief executive officer, she was the head of Safety, Monitoring and Clinical Trial Division. In 2025 the Conference of State Parties of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) appointed her as the inaugural Director General of the Agency. Other activities. Since it began in 2017, Darko has been a member the Scientific Advisory Group of the WHO R&D Blueprint, a global strategy and preparedness plan for research activities during epidemics, chaired by Jeremy Farrar. Other international and local advisory committees she serves on include: Recognition. In 2018 Darko was nominated for the United Nations Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs Awards. In 2019, Darko was awarded the GliTZ Africa award for Ghana Women of the Year Honours for excellence in health. She was also given a special recognition award at the 13th Gong-gong Awards. Personal life. She is married to Rexford Darko."}, {"text": "One Radio 101.3 (DYWA 101.3 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Wave Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Pier 2, Catbalogan. The frequency is formerly owned by Manila Broadcasting Company."}, {"text": "Last Night is an album by blues musician Carey Bell released by the BluesWay label in 1973. Reception. The AllMusic review by Bill Dahl stated: \"Nothing flashy or outrageous here, just a meat-and-potatoes session produced by Al Smith that satisfyingly showcases Bell's charms ... backed by a combo that boasted a daunting collective experience level\". Track listing. All compositions credited to Carey Bell except where noted"}, {"text": "Syeda Aroob Shah (born 31 December 2003) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays as a right-arm leg break bowler for Pakistan. In October 2019, she was added to Pakistan's squad for their series against Bangladesh. She made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut for Pakistan, against Bangladesh, on 4 November 2019. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Pakistan, also against England, on 17 December 2019. In January 2020, she was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. In December 2020, she was shortlisted as one of the Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year for the 2020 PCB Awards. She was named in the Pakistan squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Shah was part of the Pakistan squad for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier at home in April 2025."}, {"text": "Manjuri Road railway station is a railway station on Kharagpur\u2013Puri line, part of the Howrah\u2013Chennai main line under Khurda Road railway division of East Coast Railway zone. It is situated at Ageibehera in Bhadrak district in the Indian state of Odisha. History. In between 1893 and 1896 the East Coast State Railway constructed Howrah\u2013Chennai main line. Kharagpur\u2013Puri branch was finally opened for public in 1901. The route was electrified in several phases. In 2005, Howrah\u2013Chennai route was completely electrified."}, {"text": "The Flaming Arrow Lodge, at 15521 Bridger Canyon Rd. in Bozeman, Montana, was built in 1934. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The builder was Wallace R. Diteman; architect was Arthur L. McKinney It is a Rustic lodge. It was the \"centerpiece\" of the Flaming Arrow Ranch. In its National Register nomination, it was deemed significant in partbecause of its stylistic design features, method of construction, and association with a distinct and specific architectural expression as it evolved in the West during the period of 1910- 1940. It is an excellent example of the Western Rustic style, a romanticized and embellished, later version of the building technology used by the pioneering forefathers as they settled in the West. During the opening years of the twentieth century, log construction was refined and exaggerated as it was applied to dude ranches, summer camps and recreational facilities, designed to lure tourists to the state. The Lodge, once centerpiece of the Flaming Arrow Ranch, serves as a visual reminder of the dream of the Arthur L. McKinney family to create a boys' \"vocational/educational\" camp, a summer theatre, and schools of art and drama in the inspirational Bridger Mountains."}, {"text": "Though the dream was not to become a reality, the Flaming Arrow Ranch ultimately established Bridger Canyon as a major outdoor recreation area (Criterion A) and introduced recreationists, \"dudes,\" and Boy Scouts to rustic camp living for many years. The Flaming Arrow Lodge and the McKinneys residence (now under separate ownership) are all that remain of the ranch."}, {"text": "A referendum on the financing of a new public hospital in Vaduz was held in Liechtenstein on 24 November 2019. The proposal was approved by 56% of voters. Background. In 2011 a referendum was held after the Landtag voted to build a new hospital in Vaduz at a cost of 83 million Swiss francs, which would have been financed by a loan. Voters rejected the proposal by 58% to 42%. Following the referendum, a commission was set up to implement a new, more modest project, as the cost of the hospital was deemed to be the primary reason for the rejection. The new proposal would cost 65.5 million Swiss francs, also financed by a loan. The Landtag voted in favour of the proposal on 5 September 2019 by a margin of 17-8, with MPs subsequently voting to make the loan conditional on a favourable result in a new referendum. The vote took the form of an optional referendum of parliamentary origin on a budgetary issue; under Article 66 of the Constitution, the budget allocated by the Landtag is the subject of a request for a unanimous vote by the deputies."}, {"text": "Ivana Jorovi\u0107 was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Zhu Lin won the title after Peng Shuai retired at 6\u20133, 1\u20133 in the final."}, {"text": "Dulakhapatna railway station is a halt railway station on Kharagpur\u2013Puri line, part of the Howrah\u2013Chennai main line under Khurda Road railway division of East Coast Railway zone. It is situated at Jhatiasahi, Bandalo in Jajpur district in the Indian state of Odisha. History. In between 1893 and 1896 the East Coast State Railway constructed Howrah\u2013Chennai main line. Kharagpur\u2013Puri branch was finally opened for public in 1901. Dulakhapatna derives its name from Dular Khan, the general of Tarakote Raj, who in the late 1740s, was awarded with the village where presently the station stands. The route was electrified in several phases. In 2005, Howrah\u2013Chennai route was completely electrified."}, {"text": "King of Noise () is an extended play (EP) by South Korean folktronica band Electron Sheep. It was released on September 30, 2015, and is the first album of Electron Sheep as a band. Background. After their second album \"Forest\" released in 2007, Lee Jongbeom's solo project Electron Sheep announced that he would return to the band form after the hiatus, and Lee said he decided to form a band around the time he thought about the performance. They announced the release of their new album, beginning with the release of their single \"Kung Kung (\ucff5\ucff5)\" in April 2015. Critical reception. The album was released to high critical acclaim. Cho Jihwan of Weiv described the album as \"\"King of Noise\" is an album that has undergone quite a radical change, and a style that is not common in Korea\", and the webzine ranked it 8th in its Korean Albums of the Year 2015 list. The selection committee for 2016 Korean Music Awards Park Byeongwoon described the album as more bizarre and more beautiful, and above all, it gave a sentimental and wonderful finish. Track listing. All music written by Electron Sheep."}, {"text": "Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan were the defending champions, but chose not to participate. Nao Hibino and Makoto Ninomiya won the title, defeating Sofia Shapatava and Emily Webley-Smith in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20130."}, {"text": "Willden is a surname. Notable people with the name include:"}, {"text": "Ruy Senderos (born 8 August 1988) is a Mexican actor. He is known for his performance as Heriberto Casillas in the Telemundo series \"El Se\u00f1or de los Cielos\". Although he previously had a notable character in the Argos Comunicaci\u00f3n series \"Infames\". Senderos has had main characters in series as \"La fiscal de hierro\" (2017), \"Ninis\" (2018), and currently in \"Julia vs. Julia\" (2019)."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sturt on 21 February 1981 following the resignation of Tim Fischer () to successfully contest the seat of Murray at the 1980 by-election. By-elections for the seats of Cessnock, Oxley and Maitland were held on the same day. Results. <includeonly> Tim Fischer () resigned to successfully contest the 1980 Murray by-election.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Glatzel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Madine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Andrew Chiu Ka-yin (; born 17 July 1985) is a Hong Kong politician, democracy activist, experienced accredited mediator and arbitrator. He is a member of the Democratic Party, strategy committee member of the Professional Commons, chairperson of Hong Kong Society of Accredited Mediators and convenor of Power for Democracy, as well as an elected member of the Eastern District Council for Tai Koo Shing West since 2008. Biography. He was born and educated in Hong Kong, graduated with a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the Open University of Hong Kong and a master's degree in Public Administration from Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2017, he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree in Public Administration from SABI University, an online private higher education institute registered under French Government's 'Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation', in recognition of his contributions and commitments to the public sector over a decade, including the fact that Chiu was the youngest elected representative in the 2007 Hong Kong local elections (22 years old). Chiu joined the Democratic Party in 2004 and was first elected to the Eastern District Council in Tai Koo Shing West in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. He was"}, {"text": "also a central committee member of the Democratic Party from 2010 to 2014. He was on the Democratic Party ticket in the 2012 Legislative Council election in District Council (Second). The ticket received 316,468 votes and successfully secured a seat for James To. In 2014, he succeeded Joseph Cheng Yu-shek to become the convenor of the Power for Democracy, a mediating platform for electoral coordination between the pro-democratic parties. During his tenure as convenor, the group coordinated several mock polls and primaries for the pro-democrats, including the 2015 District Council election and the primaries for March 2018 Legislative Council by-elections. Chiu was elected vice-president of the Eastern District Council in 2020. On 6 January 2021, Chiu was among 55 members of the pro-democratic camp who were arrested under the national security law, specifically its provision regarding subversion. The group stood accused of organising and participating in unofficial primary elections held by the camp in July 2020. Like most of the group, Chiu was released on bail on 7 January. After he was charged, Chiu decided to resign as a member and Vice-Chairman of Eastern District Council, effective on 9 July 2021. Tai Koo Shing attack. On 3 November 2019, during"}, {"text": "a protest at Cityplaza, Tai Koo Shing, Chiu was attacked by a pro-Beijing, Mandarin-speaking, knife-wielding man, when he tried to stop a fight after the attacker assaulted several people. His left ear was partially bitten off by the attacker. Doctors made an unsuccessful attempt to reattach the ear. Chiu later said, \u201cI am worried there will be more casualties and I urge residents and young people to protect themselves. They cannot underestimate the violence and fierceness of the regime.\u201d"}, {"text": "Vinod Nikole (15 September 1975) is an Indian politician and member of the 14th & 15th state Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Dahanu constituency as member of Communist Party of India (Marxist)."}, {"text": "Dario Juri\u010dan (born 16 December 1976) is a Croatian film director, producer, and political activist. In 2019, he briefly changed his legal name to Milan Bandi\u0107. Although he has written, directed and produced several fictional short films, he is best known for his feature documentary films \"Gazda\" and \"Gazda: Po\u010detak\", which examine Croatian businessmen Ivica Todori\u0107 and Miroslav Kutle. Early life and education. Juri\u010dan was born in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia, in 1976. He earned his bachelor's degree in comparative literature and German studies from the University of Zagreb. Afterwards, he also earned his degree in filmmaking from the London Film Academy. Film career. Juri\u010dan has been working as an independent film director and producer since 2003. He is a staff member of the Blank Film Incubator workshop in Zagreb. His 2010 short film \"Ima\u0161 ti neku pri\u010du?\" () was screened in the competition program of the 64th Locarno International Film Festival. He was awarded for Best Screenplay at the 2012 Croatian Film Days for his film \"I, J, K, L\". In 2016, Juri\u010dan released his first feature documentary film \"Gazda\" () which focuses on Croatian businessman Ivica Todori\u0107 and his company Agrokor. In 2018, Juri\u010dan released a sequel to \"Gazda\","}, {"text": "\"Gazda: Po\u010detak\" (). It examines the failures of transition, privatization, and the justice system in Croatia. The story revolves around Miroslav Kutle, one of the biggest tycoons of the 1990s. Juri\u010dan plans to release a third part of The Gazda film series, \"Kumek\", which will focus on the Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandi\u0107. A part of that plan was to legally change his own name to Milan Bandi\u0107. His request to change his name was later rejected by the Ministry of Public Administration, but this decision has since been revoked and he is allowed to be named Milan Bandi\u0107 again. Political career. On 18 September 2019, Juri\u010dan announced that he will run for president at the 2019 Croatian presidential election. In November, the Constitutional Court approved his running under his legal name and overturned a previous decision of the Ministry of Public Administration that forbade him to use the name of the Zagreb mayor. On 3 December, he submitted some 13,000 signatures to the State Electoral Commission. On the election day (22 December), he recorded 87,882 votes or 4.61% of the total votes which made him 5th on the first round rankings and unsatisfactorily for the second round. Filmography. \"Source\""}, {"text": "Bastide is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "The Bytantay (; , \"B\u0131tantay\") is a river in the Republic of Sakha in Russia. It is a left hand tributary of the Yana, and is long, with a drainage basin of . Course. The river begins in the eastern flank of the Verkhoyansk Range at an elevation of . It heads roughly northeast with the Kular Range to the northwest and then joins river Yana from the left from its mouth. There are more than two thousand lakes in the basin of the Bytantay. The main tributaries of the Bytantay are Billah and Tenki on the right; and Khobol, Achchygy-Sakkyryr, Ulakhan-Sakkyryr and Kulgaga-Suoh on the left. The Ulakhan-Sakkyryr joins the Bytantay a short distance to the east of Batagay-Alyta."}, {"text": "Major-General Kenneth Reid van der Spuy (18 March 1892 \u2013 26 May 1991) was a South African Air Force officer. He saw service with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. In 1913, the South African government started a flying school and advertised for prospective pilots in the Government Gazette. Van der Spuy was one of only 10 selected. Six of the original group of pilots were chosen to undergo further training in Britain and Van der Spuy was part of this group. When he passed his final examination on 2 June 1914, and was granted the certificate of the Royal Aero Club, he was South Africa's first qualified military pilot. Early in 1915, van der Spuy was part of a group who were asked to establish a South African Aviation Corps in England and go to South West Africa to assist the South African forces under General Louis Botha. Van der Spuy later became the first South African Air Force pilot, when he attested on 1 April 1921."}, {"text": "Pandam Amada (English: \"In Pursuit Of\") is a 2019 Manipuri film directed by O. Gautam and produced by Sarokons. It stars Bonney Takhelmayum and Archana Konsam in the lead roles. The film was premiered at MSFDS on 8 September 2019. It was world premiered at the 18th International Dhaka Film Festival held at Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11 to 19 January 2020. \"Pandam Amada\" was selected among 15 films screened in the Children's Film Section of the festival. The film also got selections in the 18th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai and Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival, 2020. The movie was nominated for 9th MANIFA 2020 under various categories. It won many awards, including the Best Feature Film Award in the Manipur State Film Awards 2020. Synopsis. Malem is an innocent, a kind-hearted and a sporty boy. He has a close childhood friend called Nganba. The two close friends get separated after passing out together from high school as the former joins a new school under his father's recommendation. Malem gets to meet a new circle of friends and his life rolls up to the phase of mischievous behaviour and eventually, he gets caught being drunk by police. While Malem struggles"}, {"text": "to recover from the trauma of the incident, his friend Nganba faces health complications and gets hospitalised. When Malem learns that Nganba's condition is critical and needs money for operation, he decides to take part in a marathon race with a strong intention to win. Now, Malem's only objective is to help his friend by putting the winning cash prize in the operation. Soundtrack. Tony Aheibam composed the soundtrack for the film and Eikhoi Yambung wrote the lyrics. The songs are titled \"Naken Tha\" and \"Exam Loire\". \"Naken Tha\" became a hit song number and reached more than 8 million views on YouTube. The online copyrights of the songs were procured by Mami Taibang. Accolades. \"Pandam Amada\" won many awards at the 13th Manipur State Film Awards 2020, including the Best Feature Film Award. At the 9th MANIFA 2020, the movie won four awards out of the 14 nominations. The award ceremonies for both were postponed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic."}, {"text": "Christo Wagenaar (born 11 March 1952 in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Wagenaar played for Northern Transvaal in the South African provincial competitions. He was part of the Northern Transvaal team that won the Currie Cup in 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1981. Wagenaar played in only one test for the Springboks which was against the World XV on 27 August 1977 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Accolades. Wagenaar was one of the five Young Players of the Year in 1975, along with Tommy du Plessis, Hermanus Potgieter, De Wet Ras and Corrie Pypers"}, {"text": "Dirk Cornelius Froneman (born 14 April 1954 in Winburg, Free State, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Froneman made his provincial debut for the Free State in 1976 and was part of the Free State team that won the Currie Cup in 1976. Froneman played his only test match for the Springboks against the World XV on 27 August 1977 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. Accolades. Froneman was one of the five Young Players of the Year for 1976, along with Wouter Hugo, Divan Serfontein, Nick Mallet and LM Rossouw."}, {"text": "Hermanus Lambertus Potgieter (born 11 January 1953 in Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a former South African rugby union player. Playing career. Potgieter attended the University of Stellenbosch for two years in 1973 and 1974, after which he relocated to the University of the Free State. He went on the play his senior provincial rugby for the Free State and Eastern Province. Potgieter made his test match debut for the Springboks against the World XV on 27 August 1977 at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria and scored a try on his test debut. Accolades. Potgieter was one of the five Young Players of the Year in 1975, along with Tommy du Plessis, Christo Wagenaar, De Wet Ras and Corrie Pypers. In 1977 he was one of the five players nominated for SA Rugby Player of the Year, when Moaner van Heerden received the award."}, {"text": "Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan (\u79fb\u4f4f\u8005\u3068\u9023\u5e2f\u3059\u308b\u5168\u56fd\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af \"Ij\u016bsha to Rentai suru Zenkoku Nettow\u0101ku\"), abbreviated as SMJ (\u79fb\u4f4f\u9023 \"Ij\u016bren\"), is a non-partisan advocacy organization and umbrella of migrant interest and support organizations founded 1997 in Japan. Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan was founded in 1997 by 66 migrant support groups and 72 individuals, who started to meet on a regular basis at the \"nationwide forum for solidarity with migrant workers\" (\"ij\u016b r\u014dd\u014dsha to rentai suru zenkoku f\u014dramu\") in 1996. Since June 2015 SMJ is legally incorporated as Non-Profit Organization (NPO) under the Japanese NPO-law. Among the SMJ\u2019s members are organizations as well as individuals. The SMJ\u2019s office is located in Bunky\u014d ward, Tokyo. The largest part of its revenue comes from membership fees and subscriptions. Activities. SMJ describes its activities as advocacy, networking, and publicity. Authors observed the organizations\u2019 potential for deliberative democracy and global citizenship education. Publications. SMJ publishes the monthly Japanese language magazine Migrants Network. One issue costs 500 Yen and can be purchased via subscription. The SMJ has also edited several non-fiction books on different migration issues. Most of them have been published by Akashi Shoten, a publisher in Tokyo specializing in education, social and minority issues in Japan."}, {"text": "Policy demands. In 2002 the SMJ demanded wide-ranging reforms of foreigner policies in Japan. As the SMJ\u2019s proposal touched all aspects of migration and foreigners living in Japan, it has been one of the most encompassing in Japan so far. In ten chapters it recommended policy revisions that concerned the rights of foreigners as workers, women\u2019s rights, education and citizenship of children, the role of the local self-government, the treatment of asylum seekers, the rights of foreigners in court and proclaimed the aim of ending racism and xenophobia in Japan. A central demand of SMJ is abolishing the Technical Intern Training Program and creating a visa category for foreign nationals finding employment in Japan without restriction on skills and educational attainment. Further legal changes proposed by SMJ include the introduction of a basic law on the human rights of foreigners, a law that prohibits discrimination based on race and ethnicity, a constitutional reform that guarantees more basic rights to foreigners, a separation of the law on immigration and refugee recognition and abolishing of the Alien Registration Act. It also urged the Japanese government to completely ratify all international human rights conventions, as well as to withdraw its reservations concerning the"}, {"text": "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Advocacy. The SMJ has no formal ties to political parties in Japan. In July 2008, the former Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which was in power from August 2009 to December 2012, published a report on foreign workers policies. Besides other institutions and interest groups, the DPJ\u2019s committee also invited SMJ representatives as external advisors during the drafting process. Since its establishment in 1997, SMJ and its partner organizations regularly met with bureaucrats from several ministries at least twice a year in March and November, and SMJ members have appeared as external councilors in parliamentary commissions of the National Diet in 2003, 2004 and twice in 2009. In the media. SMJ regularly serves as information sources for journalists reporting on migration issues in Japan. Ippei Torii, the secretary general of SMJ, appeared in the 2009 documentary movie \"Sour Strawberries \u2013 Japan\u2019s Hidden Guest Workers\". On 17 September 2019 the Japanese public broadcaster NHK aired a 40 minutes feature on Torii. International recognition. When in 2010 the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante, visited Japan he also met with SMJ. As a result, Bustamante\u2019s"}, {"text": "report widely adopted SMJ\u2019s view on the Technical Intern Training Program stating that \"situations amount to slavery or trafficking,\" and that since there was \"no effective system [...] in place to monitor the situation of trainees and technical interns and offer them protection and referral mechanisms, they remained particularly vulnerable and became victims of serious abuses\". In July 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry awarded Ippei Torii with the title of \"TIP Report Hero,\" for being \"a forceful leader in anti-trafficking efforts as the secretary general for Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan (SMJ), which has provided shelter and assistance to more than 4,000 foreign workers in Japan who have escaped from exploitative conditions or sought help recovering unpaid wages. [...] Mr. Torii meets regularly with various ministries that are responsible for oversight of the program, and he has provided guidance to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. His persistence has kept this issue squarely before the press and on the political agenda in Japan\"."}, {"text": "La Herradura is a coastal town on Spain's Costa Tropical, part of the borough of Almu\u00f1\u00e9car, in the province of Granada, Andaluc\u00eda. It is on Granada's south-western coast, 70 kilometres east of M\u00e1laga. History. La Herradura's first settlers have been dated to prehistoric times. Several tombs with remains of bronze weapons were found in El Pago de la Mezquita in the 19th century. In 1950 another similar, but better documented, discovery in El Sapo was dated to the 15th century BCE. There are vestiges of habitation from Roman times, in places such as in the country house de la Argentina, in the ravine of Las Tejas, and in the construction of the old road from M\u00e1laga to Almer\u00eda. There are also the remains of a hermitage or rural mausoleum of Byzantine design from the sixth century AD in the upper course of the river Jate. More information is available post-dating the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, such as the existence of a farmhouse called \"S\u00e4t\" or \"Xat\". Abd al-Rahman I arrived in La Herradura in 755 from Damascus, prior to the foundation of the Califato de C\u00f3rdoba. The area was the scene of a battle in the Muwallad revolt in the"}, {"text": "9th century. The raisins exported from this [Al-Andalus] region were considered the best in the Islamic world at this time. The watchtower of Punta de la Mona, restored in the 18th century and now serving as the base for a lighthouse, dates from the Nasrid period. It was part of a chain of watchtowers running along the coast that were rebuilt in the late 16th century to guard against corsairs. Cerro Gordo has a similar 10.5-meter-high tower that was part of this warning system, using smoke signals during the day and fire at night. In 1764, Charles III of Spain ordered the construction of nine fortresses along this coast and La Herradura castle was finished in 1768. This defensive system of forts and towers was reinforced before the Peninsular War. French forces later took La Herradura castle before guerilla soldiers under the Mayor of Otivar recaptured it. It served as the barracks of the Carabineros and then the Civil Guard before becoming a cultural centre, used for concerts and similar events. Originally on the seafront, the castle now stands well back from the shore because of sea-level changes. On 19 October 1562, 25 Spanish galley warships from a fleet of"}, {"text": "28 sank in La Herradura Bay in the La Herradura naval disaster, with the loss of up to 5,000 of those aboard. A monument on La Herradura's seafront commemorates the tragedy. Erected in 1990, it is by Granada-based sculptor Miguel Moreno. In the 19th century, several families of Italian fishermen settled in La Herradura. During the 20th century the rapid growth in tourism experienced throughout Spain caused major changes in La Herradura. In modern times, there has been a call by a small group for separation from the municipality of Almu\u00f1\u00e9car, without any success to date. Geography. La Herradura is on the Spanish shore of the Mediterranean, standing on the horseshoe-shaped bay from which it takes its name (\"La herradura\" is Spanish for horseshoe). Its two-kilometre-long sand and pebble beach is divided into several parts by rocky promontories and a river outlet. An unusual feature of Playa La Herradura are its stands of palm trees. Behind the beach is the main street, Paseo Andr\u00e9s Segovia, lined with caf\u00e9s, restaurants, bars, shops and apartments. The older town of La Herradura was built with typical whitewashed Andalucian houses on the steep sides of a wadi of the same name running down to"}, {"text": "the eastern side of the beach. As the settlement has grown from a fishing village into a tourist resort, more modern developments have spread along both sides of the bay and into the surrounding hills. It is the most western coastal urban area of the province of Granada and borders the town of Maro, in the district of Nerja. Inland is the Sierra de la Almijara, popular for hiking. La Herradura is the only coastal town in Granada with an indigenous nature reserve. The Maro\u2013Cerro Gordo Cliffs Natural Park is a small area of natural flora and fauna between Cerro Gordo, the headland at the western end of La Herradura Bay, and the town of Maro. Both the land and the seabed, which preserves corals and endangered species, were declared a Natural Site in the 1980s by the Autonomous Government. The flora includes Mediterranean pines, carob, juniper, boxwood, olive and palm trees, while the fauna is most notable for numbers of wild mountain goats (Iberian Ibex). There are various coastal hiking trails of varying lengths and difficulty. The reserve is a major attraction for La Herradura's many diving centres, as well as nature photographers and birdwatchers. The eastern headland of"}, {"text": "Punta de la Mona separates the town from the marina of Punta de la Mona, formerly called Marina del Este, the beach of Los Berengueles and the naturist beach of El Muerto which borders Cotobro ravine. To the west of Cerro Gordo is the naturist beach of Cantarrij\u00e1n, which borders the province of M\u00e1laga. Limits. La Herradura is bordered to the north by the municipality of Ot\u00edvar, to the east by the ravine of Cotobro and the town of Almu\u00f1ecar, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the west by the ravine of Cantarrij\u00e1n and the municipality of Nerja. Demography. According to the Spanish National Statistical Institute, in 2012 La Herradura had 4,248 inhabitants. Culture. Celebrations. Saint Joseph (San Jos\u00e9 [sa\u014b xo\u02c8se] in Spanish), the town's patron saint, is honoured every year with a fair and other events around March 19. Fiesta de las Cruces (Day of the Cross), or Cruz de Mayo (May Cross), is celebrated from May 1 to 3. The night of San Juan from June 23 to 24 sees bonfires lit on the beach. At midnight, people wash their eyes in the sea, for good luck throughout the year. Traditionally, the sea was not"}, {"text": "considered safe enough to swim in for the summer season until it has been blessed on this date. Holy Week celebrations are led by the Brotherhood of La Herradura, who parade a series of holy images through the town. These include the images seen during San Jos\u00e9 and the Virgen del Carmen celebrations. La Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of fishermen and sailors, is celebrated on July 16. A flower-covered effigy of the Virgin Mary \u2013 Stella Maris, \"Queen of the Sea\" \u2013 is paraded through the streets and taken out to sea in a flotilla of fishing boats, with a firework display at night. Dawn Rosary takes place in the early hours of December 21 to 24, a tradition that dates back to the end of the 19th century. An image of the Virgin Mary on a banner, flanked by two lanterns, is carried through the streets of the town. The parade is accompanied by musicians with string instruments, bells and triangles, and singers praising the Virgin. The parade ends with a mass, and typical Andalucian carols. Eminent personalities. , president of Interpol between 2000 and 2004, was born in La Herradura in 1946. He was the first Spaniard"}, {"text": "and first native Spanish speaker to run the institution. How to get to La Herradura. By road: La Herradura can be reached via the coastal highway A7, with connections from Almer\u00eda to the East and from Malaga to the West. Access from the North is available via the A-44 highway, also known as Autov\u00eda de Sierra Nevada-Costa Tropical. By train: There are no nearby train connections to reach La Herradura. By sea: La Herradura boasts its own marina, Marina del Este, which offers docking for private boats. However, it is a smaller marina and does not accommodate large ships or cruises. Alternatively, you can access La Herradura via the Port of Motril, located less than 20 kilometers away, which offers ferry services and commercial cruises. By air: La Herradura does not have its own airport. The closest airports are Federico Garcia Lorca Airport in Granada-Jaen (GRX) and Malaga - Costa del Sol Airport (AGP). Malaga Airport is the most common airport to reach La Herradura due to its better air connections. From either airport, you can take a direct bus to La Herradura from the respective bus stations. Taxis are available at the arrivals terminal in both airports. The approximate"}, {"text": "cost for a taxi from Malaga Airport to La Herradura ranges from 115 to 140 euros, depending on various factors. Car rental companies and pre-booked private transfer services are also available at both airports, but there is no shared shuttle service."}, {"text": "The Speedway Grand Prix of Russia is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. It was introduced in 2021 Speedway Grand Prix. The first staging was planned for 28 August 2021 at the Anatoly Stepanov Stadium in Tolyatti. The 2022 edition was cancelled following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine."}, {"text": "Steve Parsons is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for the Gold Coast and North Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition, ARL and NRL competitions. Playing career. Parsons made his first grade debut for the Gold Coast Seagulls as they were then known against Canterbury-Bankstown in round 19 1995 at the Seagulls Stadium. Following the conclusion of the 1995 season, The Seagulls brand was liquidated and resurrected briefly as The Gladiators and then as The Chargers. In 1996, Parsons played in England for Keighley Cougars. In 1997, Parsons played in the Gold Coast's first ever finals campaign. Parsons featured in both matches, the qualifying final victory over the Illawarra Steelers and the semi-final defeat against Eastern Suburbs. The following year in 1998, Parsons played in what was to be the Gold Coast's last season. Parsons played in the Gold Coast's final game as a club which came in round 24 1998 against Cronulla-Sutherland at Carrara Stadium. After the liquidation of the Gold Coast, Parsons signed for North Sydney. Parsons scored a try for Norths in their final home game at North Sydney Oval in the top grade as they"}, {"text": "defeated Melbourne 24\u201320. The following week, Parsons played in what would be North Sydney's final game as a first grade team when they faced off against the North Queensland Cowboys at the Dairy Farmers Stadium in Townsville. Norths would win the match 28\u201318. Following the conclusion of the 1999 NRL season, Norths controversially merged with rivals Manly-Warringah to form the Northern Eagles as part of the NRL's rationalisation strategy. Parsons was not offered a contract to play with the newly formed team for the 2000 NRL season."}, {"text": "Kynurenine aminotransferase 3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the \"KYAT3\" gene. It is one of the Kynurenine\u2014oxoglutarate transaminases."}, {"text": "Andr\u00e1s Huszti (born 29 January 2001) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Feh\u00e9rv\u00e1r on loan from Zalaegerszeg. Club career. On 26 May 2021, Huszti joined Zalaegerszeg on loan for the 2021\u201322 season. On 16 June 2022, Zalaegerszeg made the transfer permanent and signed a three-year contract with Huszti. On 14 February 2024, Huszti was loaned by \u00dajpest."}, {"text": "Laurens van der Meulen, also Laureys or Laurent van der Meulen, known in England as Laurence Vander Meulen (1643\u20131719), was a Flemish sculptor, painter and frame-maker who, after training in his native Mechelen, worked for some time in England. He is best known there for having created the statue of King James II now in Trafalgar Square, together with the Flemish sculptor Peter van Dievoet, while working in the workshop of Grinling Gibbons. He is also known for his wood carvings of frames and medallions. Life. He was born in 1645 in Mechelen, the son of Pieter, originally from Erondegem, and Elisabeth Schuermans from Mechelen. At the time Mechelen was one of the prime centres of sculpture making in Flanders, next only to Antwerp. He started training as a sculptor in the workshop of Pieter van der Stock and was registered in the Mechelen Guild of Saint Luke on 10 November 1665. Pieter van der Stock had himself started his traineeship only five years earlier under Coenraet van Kerckhoven. He travelled to England in 1675 where he joined the London workshop of the (Rotterdam-born) English sculptor Grinling Gibbons. Gibbons was mainly known as a sculptor for his fine carvings of"}, {"text": "floral motifs. Other experienced Flemish sculptors such as Arnold Quellin (the son of Artus Quellinus II), John Nost, Anthony Verhuke and Peter van Dievoet also worked in Gibbon's London workshop as \"servants\", i.e. collaborators. As these Flemish artists were not trainees they were never entered in the Draper's records. In a document dated 1679 van der Meulen, Quellin and Verhuke are referred to as servants of Gibbons. In the Gibbons workshop he worked on various commissions but the contributions of the various artists active in the workshop are not always identifiable. He is known to have collaborated with Peter van Dievoet on the creation of the statue of King James II during his stay in the workshop of Grinling Gibbons. Van der Meulen returned in 1687 to his home town and was admitted as a master sculptor of the Mechelen Guild of Saint Luke in 1689. He became a dean of the Guild in 1691. On 26 August 1691 (or possibly 31 January 1704) he married Cornelia Theresia de Croes. His wife's sister Joanna Maria was married to the sculptor Jan Lucas Faydherbe, son of the prominent Mechelen sculptor Lucas Faydherbe. Van der Meulen had one child. It is recorded"}, {"text": "that he painted a portrait of his daughter. He died at Mechelen. He must have enjoyed quite a high reputation as Philip V, the King of Spain, is believed to have ordered a mirror frame representing the union of Spain and France from him. This work was ultimately not delivered to the King as the Southern Netherlands ultimately passed from Spanish to Austrian control as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with the Peace of Utrecht. He died in Mechelen on 26 October 1719 and was buried in the St. Rumbold's Cathedral. Work. He sculpted statues and was active as a painter, but was mainly a creator of decorative sculptures such as picture and mirror frames, allegorical medallions, tables, etc. He decorated many churches and houses with his ornaments composed of garlands of finely chiseled flowers similar to the fine carvings of a goldsmith. In addition, he created religious statues of saints and the Virgin and some busts, as is attested by listings in various catalogues. He carved four bas-reliefs representing the four elements which were intended as chimney decorations. He created in his decorative works complicated trophies, deeply carved and superimposed, with motifs of"}, {"text": "foliage, flowers, birds and crustaceans sometimes accompanied by putti. His execution of the human figure did not match the perfection of the still-life elements in these works. Some of his wood works were so subtly carved that the foliage and branches on the edges moved and quivered at the slightest movement. He was paid to make the foliage decorations on the columns of the main altar of the Church of Our Lady across the river Dijle in Mechelen. The Mechelen sculptors Frans Langhemans and Jan Frans Boeckstuyns also worked on this altar."}, {"text": "Sema Salur is a Turkish-American mathematician, currently serving as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Rochester. She was awarded the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize for 2014\u20132015, a prize intended to give a recently promoted associate professor a year-long fellowship at Cornell University; and has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation Research Award beginning in 2017. She specialises in the \"geometry and topology of the moduli spaces of calibrated submanifolds inside Calabi\u2013Yau, G2 and Spin(7) manifolds\", which are important to certain aspects of string theory and M-theory in physics, theories that attempt to unite gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces into one coherent Theory of Everything."}, {"text": "K. (C.) v K. (J.) [2004 IESC 21; [2004] 1 IR 224], is an Irish Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the doctrine of estoppel (where the court can prevent someone going back on his/her word) could not be used to change the status of a person, when the status, as a matter of law, never actually changed. Background. The respondent had previously been married. This marriage had failed and the respondent sought to secure a divorce against it. He was assured by an attorney he met socially that a divorce could be secured for him without any difficulty, despite the absence of certain required legal requirements of residency among other matters. Documents had been prepared based on incorrect information regarding the address of residence referring to Ohio. The respondent then travelled to Ohio to attend the divorce hearing and the divorce had subsequently been secured. In 1983, the appellant and respondent were married at the Registry Office in Dublin. The application of registry was on the basis the respondent was a bachelor. There had been no reservation or impediment noted during the marriage ceremony. When the appellant's and respondent's relationship broke down in 2001, the appellant"}, {"text": "sought a decree of judicial separation in the Circuit Court. In response to this, the respondent, filed his counter claim, seeking a declaration pursuant to s29(1) of the Family Law Act 1995 that the divorce he obtained in the United States of America could not be recognised in Ireland, and a declaration pursuant to s29(1) of the Family Law Act, that the marriage originally entered into by the appellant and the respondent was void and had no effect. The question was whether the Circuit Court had the jurisdictions, regarding the findings it made, to conclude that the respondent could be estopped from denying his marriage to the appellant. The Circuit Court Judge set out his findings as follows:\"I have found that in this case, given the particular facts of the case, justice can only be achieved by the use of estoppel whereby the respondent would not be allowed challenge, at this remove, the validity of his original divorce.\" He held: \"I believe that justice between the parties can only be achieved by prohibiting or estopping the respondent from attacking the validity of his divorce and by definition the validity of his marriage to the applicant. However, given the law as"}, {"text": "stated, I accept that the concept of estoppel as a remedy, well suited to offer a solution in this case, is a judge made and developed principle. I believe it is preferable for the parties to this action that prior to a final determination of the case that the Supreme Court be consulted on this issue.\" The question posed by the Circuit Court Judge set out for the Supreme Court was:\"Whether [the Circuit Court is] entitled to hold in these proceedings as a matter of law...that the respondent is estopped from denying that he is married to the applicant\" Holding of the Supreme Court. The Court accepted that the Ohio divorce would not be recognised in the Irish State. Consequently, the ceremony of marriage between the appellant and the respondent that took place in 1983 was invalid. However, it was acknowledged that such a situation would allow for considerable injustice to the appellant and also the respondent's previous wife who believed she had been divorced from the respondent. In answering the question posed, however, the Supreme Court answered in the negative - the respondent could not be estopped from denying that he was married to the appellant. It was held"}, {"text": "the injustice flowed from the fraudulent actions of the respondent inducing the appellant into an invalid marriage. However, legal marital status is a matter of importance not just to the parties to the marriage and their family, but for the world at large. An invalid marriage could not be made valid when it was void from the very beginning. Denham J, in delivering her judgment made her conclusion in light of the decision set out in \"Gaffney v Gaffney\" where it was established \"that estoppel may not be used, to change a person's status when that has not occurred, to prevent a party demonstrating that a foreign divorce decree was given without jurisdiction\". The Court held that \"[u]nless Gaffney is overruled by this court it is a governing authority on this issue\" McGuinness J, Fennelly J and McCracken J agreed with this conclusion. Murray J also, fully agreed with this judgement, added that the appellant would have an actionable remedy on the grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation. Murray J went on to note that \"[i]n order for such an action to be considered...an appropriate remedy for the infringement of constitutional rights any order which a court may make where deceit is"}, {"text": "established should provide a reasonable measure of compensation for the consequential and foreseeable loss which a plaintiff has sustained\". Subsequent developments. This case was considered in \"AR v DR\", where it was highlighted that Denham J had observed the decision in \"Gaffney v Gaffney\" regarding how \"the prohibition on the use of estoppel in cases where marital status is relevant has been a kernel concept of Irish law\". Acknowledging the wariness of the courts in allowing for the reliance on estoppel regarding a party's legal or family status."}, {"text": "Elevated Road Amritsar is a 4.5 km long, elevated expressway located in Amritsar, Punjab. It connects Bhandari bridge in the city to canal road near the mall of Amritsar. It also serves as a corridor for Metrobus Amritsar. Metrobus stations were also built along with elevators at major junctions of Bus Stand and Guru Ramdas Dental Hospital. There is also a future plan to extend the corridor till Guru Nanak Dev University. The road was built at a cost of Rs. 350 crores. The entire stretch is built on single-pier pillars. The road also connects commuters to Canal road and Amritsar junction railway."}, {"text": "John Carr was an English player of English billiards. He was known as an early exponent of the use of in billiards, and for playing billiards matches for money in the 19th century. Biography. In about 1815, Carr took a job as a billiard marker at the Upper Rooms in Bath, a role that involved keeping the score of billiards matches. In this role, his employer John Bartley taught Carr how to play billiards with the use of , which was at that time was a rare skill. Carr would conceal his method by seemingly aiming at the centre of the and only changing to strike to the side of the cue ball when actually playing the shot. Carr would claim that these shots were possible due to the use of a special \"twisting ,\" which he would sell for half a crown a box. The boxes actually contained normal chalk. Carr successfully played challenge matches for money, but lost most of his winnings through gambling. He had a successful playing tour in Spain playing the Spanish version of billiards, but, as he had in England, soon lost most of the proceeds. Carr success in challenge matches for money led"}, {"text": "to him having backers for him to play for 100 guineas a side against any challenger by 1825. In 1825 Kentfield challenged Carr, but Carr was too ill to play, and Kentfield assumed the title of Champion, for which he was unchallenged for 24 years."}, {"text": "Foreign Body is a 2016 Tunisian drama film directed and written by Raja Amari. Plot. A young lady escaped from her home in Tunisia and illegally migrated to France. She finds joy and struggles in her journey."}, {"text": "The 2019 Ando Securities Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was sponsored by Ando Securities. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Tokyo, Japan between 11 and 17 November 2019. Singles main-draw entrants. Other entrants. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following player received entry as a lucky loser:"}, {"text": "The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal has the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week."}, {"text": "A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Sturt on 13 January 1917 following the resignation of John Cann who resigned to take the position of assistant commissioner of the New South Wales Government Railways. Cann had been elected as a candidate at the 1913 election, however he was expelled from the party for voting against Labor's censure motion on 10 November 1916. Results. <includeonly> John Cann resigned.</includeonly>"}, {"text": "Wilhelmson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:"}, {"text": "Craiglon Bridge Halt railway station may have served the Craig-Lon Colliery and its workers near Pembrey, but this business was closed in the 1930s. It continued to serve the inhabitants of the Lando area between 1932 and 1953 and was one of several basic halts opened on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway in Carmarthenshire, Wales. A firing range was located nearby in WWII. History. The station was opened on 1 February 1932 by the Great Western Railway on the Kidwelly and Burry Port section of the line and was closed by the British Transport Commission in 1953 with the last passenger train running on Saturday 19 September 1953. It was on the southern section of the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway with Pembrey located to the south and Pinged to the north. A public house, the Butchers' Arms, stood across the road bridge to the west. The station is shown as open in 1945 - 1947 after the Craig Lon colliery had been closed. By 1951 - 1961 the station is shown as closed. The railway was originally a freight only line, but stations were established due to pressure from the public. Craig-lon Colliery had opened in"}, {"text": "the 18th century, was extended in the 19th and joined with others in 1918 to form the Pembrey Collieries Ltd but closed in the 1930s. In WWII part of the site was used as a firing range. The line had been built on the course of an old canal with resulting tight curves, low bridge clearance and a tendency to flooding. The freight service continued for coal traffic until 1996 by which time the last of the local collieries had closed down. Infrastructure. The station had a one single carriage length wooden platform on the western side of this single track line with a small shelter. The halt lay slightly to the north of the road bridge. The station had no public sidings, but a single siding exchange freight facility was present to the south with an exchange siding for Craig or Graig Lon Colliery and a track ran up to the Craig Lon colliery. The overbridge remains, once a canal bridge prior to the railway and cyclepath and walkway. The Kidwelly route was used for coal trains, resulting in the lifting of track between Trimsaran Road and Burry Port by 2005. Services. The station was open for use by"}, {"text": "the general public and by miners from Craig Lon colliery. Remnants. The section of the old line between Burry Port and Craiglon Bridge Halt is now a footpath and cycleway, however the old entrance to the halt is still in use."}, {"text": "The Church of the Holy Innocents is a heritage-listed Anglican church at 130 Rossmore Avenue West, Rossmore, City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter and Edmund Blacket and built from 1848 to 1850 by William Munro. The property is owned by Anglican Church Property Trust Diocese of Sydney, though it was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 24 August 2018. History. Traditional owners. The original inhabitants of the Liverpool area were the Gandangara people. The pre-European landscape of the area consisted of open eucalyptus woodland. Across this country the Gandangara people utilised many of the flora and fauna resources during everyday life. Many aspects of the local landscape would have held spiritual importance for the Gandangara people. It is unknown if the land upon which the Cabramatta village or the church lands associated with the Church of the Holy Innocents was used for any specific economic, settlement, or spiritual/sacred purposes by the Gandangara. British settlement. From the early 1800s European settlers began to encroach on Gandangara lands and settle on what they named the Liverpool plains. Directly organised British colonisation of the area commenced in the 1810s during the"}, {"text": "governorship of Macquarie (1810\u20131821) through the alienation of land and the imposition of the rule of British law. Land alienation proceeded through the issuing of large land grants to prominent settlers who had the means to establish extensive stock runs. This resulted in the area being sparsely settled with family estates dotted throughout the landscape. These stock runs were often quite isolated with the main meeting and social places being the few local churches or other public amenities such as stores, pubs, and post offices situated along the main thoroughfares of the region. Colonisation of the area continued during the 1820s and 1830s under Governors Brisbane (1821\u20131825) and Darling (1825\u20131831). However, by the mid-1820s there was a change in the surveying system of the colony undertaken under the orders of Lord Bathurst, which took a more progressive outlook to the future of the colony. This was in response to difficulties in the land surveying department in the early and mid-1820s where the surveying of the numerous grants allocated by Governors Macquarie and Brisbane had not yet been carried out. Lord Bathurst's plan required that the colony be systematically surveyed and split up into counties, hundreds, and parishes and that township,"}, {"text": "village, public road, school, burial ground, and church reserves be situated in appropriate locations for future need as the local population increased and more free settlers immigrated to the colony. This systematic survey of the entire colony, the Nineteen Counties or the Limits of Location, was eventually carried out by Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Surveyor General from 1828. Overall, the imposition of this settlement model on the Australian landscape was one of the early attempts by the British authorities to recreate a British agricultural landscape, dotted with small farms and villages, in the colony. Lord Bathurst's also ordered that one-seventh of the land of each county, according to extent and value, was to be put aside as the Clergy and School Estate. The purpose of this estate was to fund and support the Established Church of England and its clergy in the colony, as well as the education of the colony's youth in Anglican principals. To manage these grants, Lord Bathurst detailed that a Clergy and School Lands Corporation should be established to manage their sale, which would then provide funds for the religious and educational development of the colony. During the surveying of the colony a township reserve was"}, {"text": "situated in the Parish of Cabramatta, within the County of Cumberland, located to the southwest of Liverpool on the east bank of South Creek. This township was also named Cabramatta and formed the only township reserve allocated to this parish, as the remainder had been granted away during the 1810s and early 1820s. This township reserve was close to the estates of \"Horningsea Park\" (Joshua John Moore) and \"Cow-de-knaves\" (John Jamieson) and in 1830 the \"Bellfield Farm\" estate was established to its north. A school and church reserve was allocated to the Cabramatta village reserve when it was created around 1827. This reserve was one acre in size and came, over time, to comprise an eastern half for a school and church and a western half for a burial ground. Due to the excesses of Governor Macquarie with regard to the construction of public buildings in Sydney and other areas of the colony during his period in office, Colonial officials in London dictated that public needs be met more modestly by Governor Brisbane during his tenure. As a result of this and Lord Bathurst's new plan for the surveying of the Colony, Brisbane established the Clergy and School Lands Corporation"}, {"text": "in 1826 to manage the provision of education and religious needs to the colony. This corporation was run by a committee of Anglicans which included Archdeacon Thomas Hobbs Scott, the Reverend Samuel, and three prominent Anglican laymen. One of its goals was to provide simple schools and rectories for the local populations in rural areas. It was to have been financed by the sale of the Clergy and School Estate lands, as well as other investments, but funds were slow to be amassed via this method since no land was allocated to the corporation until 1828 (due to issues in the colonial surveying department). As a result, the corporation had only limited funds to operate during its early years. Thus, they operated by building modest, often timber, vernacular buildings in places of need that could serve as both schools and churches. To facilitate this the architects, Joshua Thorp and William Aird, provided the corporation with some designs for simple chapels and school-church buildings. Ultimately, the Clergy and School Lands Corporation was not a success and its activities were suspended in 1829, before its charter was finally revoked in 1833, following complaints from the other denominations about the dominance of the"}, {"text": "Anglicans. In 1827 the Clergy and School Lands Corporation built a simple slab timber school/church hall on the southeast corner of the church reserve in Cabramatta township. This small building was typical of those constructed by the corporation in rural areas to serve the educational and religious needs of these small communities. The hall had a capacity of 100 people and from its opening the acting school master was the Reverend A. Lideliard. This new hall was located in the vast parish of the Cow Pastures which was under the stewardship of the Reverend Thomas Hassall (1794\u20131868) from its conception in 1826. It is likely that Hassall occasionally visited this hall to perform services as he toured his parish, with regular services being conducted by a local curate. Soon after the construction of the school/church hall in 1828 the building required further additions and repairs. These works were carried out by an Edward Pender and consisted of laying flooring and skirting, providing church furniture (sofas, a table, and seating for children), and lining and jams for the windows and doors. By 1829 the building was being used once every Sunday for services and in 1830 Reverend Hassall was noted as"}, {"text": "being the rector or officiating minister of Cabramatta which still had a population of a 100. This suggests that in the years following its construction the hall was used by the populations of the surrounding estates regularly for worship and teaching, along with perhaps other community purposes. Education was the purview of the Church of England during this period and it is likely that the local minister, Reverend Hassall, arranged for the appointment of a qualified headmaster or mistress of the school. After the school/church hall at Cabramatta was erected a cemetery was established at the rear of the school and church reserve. The first recorded burial in this cemetery was a four-month old baby boy, William Fox, on 22 November 1829. This burial and several others during the 1830s and 1840s were registered at surrounding churches (such as St Lukes, Liverpool). It is possible that earlier burials from 1825 or 1827 onwards occurred in the church grounds, but these were unregistered. From 1848, when new lands were granted to the Anglican Church under the Church Act for the construction of the Church of the Holy Innocents, this cemetery was officially granted as a burial ground and a register of"}, {"text": "burials kept from 1851. Despite the repairs made in 1828, by 1832 the slab timber school/church hall was beginning to fall into disrepair and Archdeacon William Broughton advised Reverend Hassall that the building needed to be repaired or demolished. Consequently, in December 1832, Hassall commissioned substantial repairs to the hall by Joseph Heron to improve the buildings suitability as a church. The documentation for these repairs reveals that the building had a school room and two small \"back\" rooms. At this time there was still one chaplain (Hassall) servicing Cabramatta and the surrounding region, which was now described as the Cook district and also included Mulgoa, South Creek, Camden, and Stone Quarry Creek. The following year (1833) Robert Bell, the owner of the estate to the north adjoining the Cabramatta town reserve, petitioned the government to finally establish a township and offer the town allotments at auction. Bell hoped to add to his estate through this process and provide himself with a road access to his property via Bringelly Road. Following this request the government further investigated the site, but the Surveyor General reported to the Colonial Secretary that the reserve was not on the great road, was \"ill-watered\" and,"}, {"text": "therefore, not suitable for the establishment of a town. Consequently, it was not until 1840 that the town allotments were put up at auction and Robert Bell was able to purchase the majority to add to his estate. Plans for a permanent church at Cabramatta. In 1836 the local Anglican community were using the hall (log built school house) for services on a fortnightly basis with its capacity being recorded as 60 people. The passing of the Church Act this year encouraged Bishop Broughton to begin plans to construct a permanent and substantial church at Cabramatta for this district. At this time the populations of the surrounding estates were growing and a need was seen for a more permanent and auspicious church. Two hundred pounds was soon subscribed, mainly by the local population, for the cost of this church. The local community felt that this new church should be dedicated to the Holy Innocents. This name indicates the \"high church\" leanings of the local congregation and their designs for the church. In contrast \"low church\" churches are normally named after saints. The Feast of the Holy Innocents, after which the church is named, is more of an orthodox catholic tradition."}, {"text": "Governor Burke's (1831\u20131837) 1836 Church Act granted state recognition and support for the main denominations operating in Australia: the Church of England, Presbyterian Church, and Catholic Church. It provided extra funding through a pound for pound subsidy for new churches costing between 600 and 2000 pounds. However, before a church could be built the local area was required to prove, through a petition, that at least 150 residents of the particular denomination were present and would use and support the church. This Act was designed to forward the construction of churches of these denominations across the colony while also providing funding for the stipends of ministers and, generally, improve the moral condition of the still largely convict population. To further encourage new church construction the Act also made additional land grants available for churches and schools. However, it required new churches to be designed by a professional architect and approved by the colonial architect. Through recognising and assisting other denominations this Act served to diminish the power of the Church of England in Australia, which had previously been the de facto Established Church of the colony. This was especially so after Bourke later extended the Act to include the Methodist,"}, {"text": "Wesleyan, and Baptist Christian denominations, as well as Judaism. In this manner, the Act helped to foster a religious pluralism in the colony. Broughton had arrived in Australia in 1829 to fill the post of Archdeacon of NSW. He was a High Churchman and firm supporter of the Church of England and would not countenance deviation from its established rules in the colony. At the time of his arrival there were only eight parish churches in the colony (of which the majority had been constructed by Macquarie) and Broughton soon sought to remedy this situation. When back in England in 1835\u20131836 he organised for an annual 1000 pound grant from the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, as well as other immediate gifts, that allowed him to bring clergy to Australia and begin the work of building churches and rectories throughout the colony. As an amateur architect and enthusiast in ecclesiological architecture Broughton also procured suitable drawings and working plans for churches. While the 1836 Church Act gave considerable impetus to church expansion, great organisation was required to see a church constructed, and Bishop Broughton was a tireless and long travelling organiser who helped see the construction of"}, {"text": "many churches. He consecrated or dedicated almost a hundred church buildings throughout his long episcopate career demonstrating his organisational skills and dedication to this cause. In 1836 Broughton was elevated to the Bishopric of the new see of Australia. Just prior to this, in 1835, he had been exposed to the work of the Oxford scholars that came to be known as Tractarians. Although Broughton never considered himself a Tractarian, he was influenced by their work and sympathised with and supported them by giving them appointments where possible. This support of the Tractarians, and by extension the Cambridge Camden Society, led Broughton to establish Gothic architecture as the most suitable for ecclesiological architecture in the colony. Prior to the mid-1830s gothic ornamentation had only been used on the exterior of new churches in an amateur fashion and it was only just beginning to be seen as a suitable style for \"modern\" ecclesiological architecture. This state of affairs continued into the early 1840s due to a lack of skilled tradesmen and competent and knowledgeable architects, despite the incentives of the Church Act. It was not until the mid-1840s that an influx of Scottish tradesmen and architects such as Edmund Blacket began"}, {"text": "to alleviate this situation. Prior to this the Anglican Church Act norm had been small symmetrical churches with almost double cube proportions, symmetrical north and south porches placed midway along the length of the church, western bell-cotes, and detailing such as buttresses, hood-moulds, and pinnacles. From the 1840s there was a definitive move toward medievalism in Anglican ecclesiological architecture as the Gothic Revival movement took hold in the colony and by the mid-1840s there was a definite commitment to archaeological fidelity (a commitment to correct medieval detail) in gothic architecture. The construction of the Church of the Holy Innocents. Throughout the early 1840s efforts continued towards the construction of a permanent church at Cabramatta, but it appears that funds were slow to be raised due to the collapse of the colonial wool industry. This is likely as many of the local large estates holders were among those who subscribed towards the construction of the church, including the holders of \"Vermont (J. J. Riley Esq)\", \"Berling (Mrs S. Lowe)\", \"Bellfield (Robert Bell Esq)\", \"Retreat Farm (Alfred Kennerley Esq)\", \"Newstead\", \"Eastwood\", \"Wilton Park (A. J. Lidingtone)\", and \"Exeter Farms\". In 1845 when the Reverend George Vidal was appointed to the Parish of"}, {"text": "Denham Court and the Cabramatta area was subsumed into this parish it was reported that services at the school/church hall were held fortnightly and attended by an average of 20 people. However, while services were held as Cabramatta regularly, confirmations and marriages were held at St Mary's Denham Court. Despite the incentive of the Church Act and the assistance of Bishop Broughton it took the local congregation and the Anglican Church until 1846 before the necessary funds (311 pounds) were gathered to commence the design and construction of the new church at Cabramatta. Bishop Broughton chose a Gothic Revival design produced by one of the Cambridge Camden Society's leading architects, Richard Cromwell Carpenter. Carpenter had designed and built St John the Baptist Church at Cookham Dean in Berkshire, England in 1844\u201345 and it was a copy of this design that Bishop Broughton had acquired through Reverend William Horatio Walsh, a correspondent of the Society's journal. Reverend Walsh had met Edmund Blacket when he had been appointed to finish Christ Church St Laurence in 1843 and been introduced to Gothic architecture by him. They, subsequently, became close friends as Christ Church was Blacket's parish church and Reverend Walsh, therefore, his Rector"}, {"text": "and one of his great supporters. The finished design of Christ Church in 1845 was unapologetically High Church and Tractarian and caused a great scandal among the Evangelical Anglicans in the colony . Reverend Walsh became a leader among the colonial Tractarians, which explains his promotion of Carpenter's Gothic Revival inspired church design to Bishop Broughton. The Church of St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean, had been described and lauded in the societies' journal \"The Ecclesiologist\" when it was completed in 1845, to which Bishop Broughton and other members of the colonial clergy subscribed. In this article it was described as a fourteenth century style church of \"a very simple\" and \"most satisfactory design\" but \"not mean or starved\" and \"of unpretending but solemn character\". It is highly likely that it was these properties of the design that brought it to Broughton's attention and inspired him to acquire copies of the drawings. Previously a copy of this design had been acquired by Bishop Nixon of Tasmania and it was used to construct a church at Buckland, Tasmania between August 1846 and January 1849. Edmund Blacket, soon after his arrival in the Colony in 1842, had come to the attention of"}, {"text": "Broughton. He subsequently made use of Blacket's knowledge of Gothic architecture to further his plans to provide proper ecclesiological buildings within his diocese. Blacket, as Diocese Architect, amended and drew up the construction plans for the new Cabramatta church based on the Carpenter design provided to him by Bishop Broughton. The dictates of Gothic Revival architecture at this time commended and encouraged the authentic replication of medieval designs. In this tradition Blacket kept most of the prominent elements of Carpenter's design, while decreasing the size of the church, changing its construction materials from stone to brick, adding to some aspects of the design, and designing the interior nave and chancel furniture and trimmings. He likely also set out the tracery geometry for the building. Blacket also definitely designed the beautiful fourteen century style stone font as this design is extant within his papers at the Mitchell Library. In this manner, the Church of the Holy Innocents remained an authentic Carpenter design while being adapted to an Australian location and landscape. In December 1849 Blacket became the Colonial Architect and in this capacity had the responsibility of supervising the continued construction of the church. Prior to the construction of the church,"}, {"text": "a survey was undertaken of the church lands in March 1848 in association with the granting of additional lands for the new church under the Church Act (this included the original church reserve). Following this grant the church lands now comprised three acres which were described as: two roods for a school house associated with the United Church of England and Ireland; two roods for a dwelling house, garden, and other appurtenances for the clergyman; and one acre for a burial ground. The trustees of these church lands were John Campbell, James John Riley, and Edward Lummas Moore. Two road reserves were also added to the Cabramatta town plan to the east and west of the new church lands at this time. The foundation stone for the Church of the Holy Innocents was laid on 28 December 1848 (Holy Innocents Day) by Bishop Broughton with an accompanying ceremony. Holy Innocents Days or the Feast of the Holy Innocents is a festival held by the Christian Churches that commemorates or mourns the massacre of male children by King Herod during his attempts to kill the infant Jesus (the Slaughter of the Innocents). These children were considered to be the first martyrs"}, {"text": "by the early church. For some years prior to this the local congregation had continued having services in the school/church hall and on this day a service was held in the building that was officiated by the Reverend George Vidal. Bishop Broughton's speech at the ceremony was somewhat political in tone, referring to recent events that had eroded the position of the Church of England as the colony: It is likely that Broughton was making a statement with the design and construction of this church about the status of the Church of England in colonial society and what its future directions should be (i.e. High Church and Tractarian). Its first reverend, George Vidal, was a recognised \"High Churchman\" and Tractarian and was sympathetic to the ideals of Bishop Broughton and the Camden Cambridge Society. Construction of the church began immediately afterwards and was overseen by the builder William Monroe. Monroe was a local Liverpool builder already with some experience in church construction within the local area. He had immigrated to the colony in the early 1840s as part of a scheme to encourage tradesmen to settle in the colony. Munro's detailed accounts of the building works are extant at the"}, {"text": "NSW State Archives, which shows that he was a skilled and experienced builder and able to produce a first rate result with minimal drawings and supervision. His later building work included a Catholic church at Berrima that brought him to the attention of Bishop Polding who became his patron. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s he steadily gained in experience so that he could act as an architect and by the late 1850s he had been appointed Diocese Architect of the Sydney Catholic Church, a position he served throughout the 1860s. Later in 1873 he also acted as the architect for the Presbyterian College of St Andrew at Sydney University. However, he has been described as a poor architect, despite his experience in building a number of churches designed by prominent architects. According to the common procedures of the Church Act the construction work was regularly inspected by Edmund Blacket acting as Colonial Architect. His inspections allowed him to certify the accounts for the construction and report to the Colonial Secretary so the government funds for the work, 350 pounds, could be paid out. The church was completed in October 1850, just under two years after the commencement of construction, and"}, {"text": "it was consecrated by Bishop Broughton on 7 November 1850. The following year a brief report appeared in the Ecclesiologist, authored by Canon Horatio Walsh, describing its small nature but commenting that \"its forms and details within and without show[ing] a most satisfactory example of ecclesiological development\". Operation of the Church of the Holy Innocents. Throughout its life the Church of the Holy Innocents at Cabramatta, and then Rossmore, has been situated in two Parishes: Denham Court and Cobbitty. It was attached to the Parish of Denham Court up until 1877 when it was moved into the boundaries of the Parish of Narellan-Cobbitty. It was then moved back into the boundaries of the Parish of Denham Court in 1901. From 1901 to 1925 this \"parish\" was known as the Mission District of Denham Court and Rossmore (which included Minto until 1916). In 1926 Denham Court and Rossmore were made a parish. At the time of the construction of the Church of the Holy Innocents the incumbent for the Parish of Denham Court was the Reverend George Vidal (1815\u20131878) who became one of the High Churchmen of the colony. He is known to have had some sympathy for the ideals of"}, {"text": "the Cambridge Camden Society and Tractarianism. Reverend Vidal was ordained by Bishop Broughton as a Deacon in 1840 and as a Priest in 1841 before being appointed to the Parish of Denham Court in 1846. He remained in this parish, serving at St Mary the Virgin Church at Denham Court and the Church of the Holy Innocents at Cabramatta until 1855 when he was transferred to the parish of Mulgoa (near Penrith). In 1867 he was appointed incumbent of Christ Church, St Laurence, Sydney and soon after appointed a canon. He remained in this position until his death in 1878. After the construction of the Church of the Holy Innocents the original timber slab school/church hall continued to be used as a community hall (and possibly a school) until c.1886 when a new weatherboard and galvanised iron hall was built. This was during the early years of the Parish of Cobbitty's management of the church. This new Church Hall was intended to serve as a place where community gatherings could be held and funds raised for the upkeep of the church and church yard. From 1902 the hall was also used as a school until 1920 when Rossmore Public School"}, {"text": "was established on the opposite side of Bringelly Road, During WWII the hall was again used as a government school for a brief period from 1939 onwards. Community gatherings continued to be held in the hall until 1982 before the building was demolished in 1987. The current brick rectory to the southeast of the churchyard was constructed in the same year with the Reverend Ross Nicholson serving as the first curate. The old school/church hall was not demolished when the new church hall was built in the 1880s and it appears to have continued in some form of use up until 1931 when it was destroyed by bushfires according to oral tradition. Appendix 1: The Tractarian Movement and Cambridge Camden Society. The early nineteenth century was a time of revolution in doctrine and liturgy for the Church of England as it faced challenges to its dominance and a curtailment of its privileges in Britain as the UK moved more towards secularism and religious pluralism. These changes led many Anglicans to fight back against what they saw as unjust attacks against the proper English Church and attempt to revitalise it to restore its prominence. The Oxford or Tractarian movement, named after"}, {"text": "their publication \"Tracts for the Times\", was formed at Oxford in 1833 as a new school of churchmanship. Initially, it was a focussed on ascertaining the rightful position and nature of the Church of England within contemporary society. It had been formed as a protest against the State and liberal pressure being directed against the Church of England at the time and was part of the Church taking stock of its purpose and mission. However, as it rapidly grew and was influenced by the Romantic Movement it morphed into a widespread affirmation of the spiritual and historical integrity and apostolic character of the Church of England. It insisted that the sacramental character of the Church be given proper reverence. The movement argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. Overall, Tractarianism focussed on the Catholic heritage of the church and the apostolic succession, espoused that the liturgical emphasis should be on the sacraments, and was strongly opposed to any segregation in church based on social differentiation. At this time the liturgical emphasis of the Church of England was on the spoken word with the pulpit being the focus of"}, {"text": "attention and there was commonly social segregation through the use of rented pews for the wealthy and open galleries for the poor. The emphasis of Tractarianism on the sacraments reflected the devotion of the movement to the supernatural. For them the sacraments acted as \"an outward sign of an invisible inward happening\" where the minister was the magical link between the congregation and God. Symbolism served as the means by which the link between the real and supernatural worlds were expressed. In this manner the following architectural forms symbolised or represented: the nave the Church Militant; the rood the Church Expectant; the chancel the Church Triumphant; three steps the Trinity; the octagonal form Eternity; the eagle for St John; the alb purity; and the stole as the priest's reminder of the yoke of his responsibilities. The Tractarians also incorporated the Gothic (or medieval) spirit into their movement. This involved both the incorporation of this spirit into theology, but also the interrelating of Gothic architecture with \"historical Anglican thought and practice\". Tractarianism was, overall, a divisive movement, as among its supporters it generated much excitement, but at the same time it brought about resolute and firm opposition among its, often Evangelical,"}, {"text": "opponents. The nature of the movement to look towards the medieval past for inspiration led its liberal critics to label it as retrogressive and its Evangelical opponents as pro-Roman Catholic and a threat to the Protestant Church. Indeed, several of the movement's leaders seceded to the Roman Catholic Church. There was some focus by this movement on colonial spheres where a lack of establishment allowed greater scope for change, particularly in contrast to the restrictive conditions in England. This was especially the case during the earlier phases of the movement when its ambitions were Empire wide in scope. The early nineteenth century was a period of expansion of the British Empire and in each new colony the Church of England was forced to establish itself. The Tractarians perceived this to be an excellent opportunity to create models of their new order to demonstrate to their British audience and acted to provide support for colonial bishops in terms of clergy, funds, and designs, just when they were most needed. In NSW the reduction of the Church of England to denominational status after the 1836 Church Act garnered the movement some sympathy among colonial clergy. It became established in the colonial church"}, {"text": "in the 1840s under the patronage of Bishop Broughton and invigorated the local church, but at the cost of more than a century of conflict within its circles. Generally, \"High Churchmen\", such as Bishop Broughton were persuaded by the Tractarian arguments, but the older, usually Evangelical, colonial clergy were opposed to and infuriated by it. The Cambridge Camden Society, later the Ecclesiological Society, was originally established to study the design and execution of ecclesiastical ornaments and buildings. This organisation was closely allied with the Tractarian movement as their goal was to provide structural expression for the liturgical and doctrinal ideals they developed. They eventually settled on Gothic architecture as being the most fitting for church construction and promoted these designs in Britain and across her colonies. In accordance with their goals they had very stringent architectural standards and design requirements. The society advocated an architectural form known as \"symbolic sacramentality\" which was a system where the material fabric of the structure was designed to symbolise or embody some abstract meaning and through which an expression of liturgy could be articulated structurally. In essence the society aimed to develop a style that could best embody \"both liturgical and architectural beauty without"}, {"text": "striving for effect\". This society aimed to implement the reformations of the Tractarian Movement through igniting a change in ecclesiological architecture in England. The favoured design or icon of the society ultimately came to be an idealised version of the 14th Century English country parish church and particularly the designs modelled after this type by its favoured architects in the 1830s and 1840s. This design stressed the proper definition and separation of the nave and chancel; the allocation of the chancel with fair proportions; the placement of the font at the entrance to the church; the addition of an exterior porch; the provision of aisles with the subsequent threefold division of the nave symbolising the holy trinity; the provision of an un-galleried nave furnished with open benches; the establishment of the chancel, sanctuary, and altar as the focus of the congregation through their elevation with steps (ideally three each); the sub-division of the chancel into a chorus cantorum and sacrarium; and the alignment of the church so that it faced east. Church design should also encourage the exclusion of the congregation from the chancel. A tower was not considered an essential element, but if provided should be at the west"}, {"text": "end or at the crossing of the church if it featured transepts. The most ideal gothic style was the Decorated dating to between 1260\u20131360 (13th\u201314th Centuries) and building materials stone, or less so flints, with bricks only being used as an alternative when neither was available. In this manner, a church should emphasise auditory and hierarchal values in its architecture. This design was in contrast to the traditional early nineteenth century style that featured high box pews, triple-decker pulpit, and a western gallery containing harmonium and choir. The society's development during the 1830s\u20131850s coincided with an intense period of church building in England which was often rationalised as being a response to population growth associated with the Industrial Revolution. At this time the society was optimistically encouraging the building of churches and growth of the faith in anticipation and in response to population growth, as well as a means of re-converting much of the wayward rural population that were in need of redemption. As such, many of its members held a missionary zeal to spread the word of Tractarianism and develop a common faith across the Empire. This period lasted until the early 1860s (after 50 years of intense church"}, {"text": "building) when the emergence of a secular alternative eroded the power of the church and led to a decrease in church attendance and patronage. In accordance with the interest of the Tractarian movement in Colonial spheres the Cambridge Camden Society also attempted to spread their influence in this direction. This took the form of dispersing acceptable drawings for a range of ecclesiological correct church designs, including most prominently those of the rural country parish church design, through clerical networks and their own publications to assist in educating and training colonial clergy and architects in ecclesiology. This was particularly achieved through colonial clergy gathering appropriate designs and information on their visits back to England. There was some attempt to provide suitable designs for different climates, but usually faithful English designs were favoured by local populations, despite their unsuitability in some cases. Ultimately Tractarianism and the Cambridge Camden Society brought about a gradual move towards a more sacramental form of worship and the introduction of a separate choir within the Church of England over the second half of the nineteenth century. This resulted in most churches across England being converted in accordance with the Cambridge Camden Society's requirements (through the construction of"}, {"text": "new churches or the restoration or remodelling of existing churches) and the substitution of music for speech in common doctrine in accordance with the shift from the word and the pulpit to the altar and the sacraments. Consequently, over this time Tractarianism gradually replaced Evangelicalism as the norm in the Church of England in Britain. In the colony Tractarianism, despite some crises, continued to develop under Bishop Broughton up until his death in 1853. The new Bishop of Australia was the Evangelical Bishop Barker and he encouraged the Anglican Colonial Church to move towards an Evangelical revival that generally preferred the Low Church approach to Anglican worship. Appendix 2: Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812\u20131855). Richard Cromwell Carpenter throughout his career rose to become one of the most prominent ecclesiastical architects in England. He was strongly associated with the Gothic Revival Movement, Victorian High Church, and Cambridge Camden Society. Carpenter was born in Clerkenwell, London, in 1812 and educated at Charterhouse School. His professional career began in 1827\u20131828 when he was apprenticed to John Blyth and it was soon discovered that he had an inclination for ecclesiastical architecture. His architectural career began to take off in the 1830s with his first executed"}, {"text": "commissions being for secular projects. In 1840 he married Amelia Dollman (1821\u20131891) and together they had four children. Carpenter's career as an ecclesiastical architect blossomed during the 1840s. Between 1840 and 1841 he was introduced to the Cambridge Camden Society by A. W. N. Pugin, a leading architect of the Gothic Revival movement, and became a convert to the movement and soon one of the society's favoured architects. He was strongly associated with the \"High Church\" and the Cambridge Camden Society over his career with these connections providing a great many of his firm's commissions. Over his career he designed 28 churches, of which half were built, and several cathedrals, which all remained unexecuted. He also restored 36 churches, two cathedrals, and an abbey. Among his church designs were characteristic plans for town and rural churches that came to mark a \"Carpenter\" church. His \"town\" churches were usually substantial hall churches that were intended to be accompanied by a dominant spire. His \"rural\" churches were an idealised reproduction of a fourteenth century country parish church. They were small and simple and featured a separate chancel and nave and western bell cote, as well as an emphasis on mass in their"}, {"text": "design. They had the following characteristics: a dominant nave and chancel that featured a structurally evidenced division; aisles that were subsidiary spaces; a bell-cote to summon the laity to worship and which signified the consecration; nave and chancel featuring sharply pitched roofs and aisles with lean-to roofs and a lack of a clerestory; an elevated chancel and raised altar; buttresses serving structural and symbolic purposes; the use of local and honest building materials; and the overall style being first or second pointed. Towards the end of his career several of Carpenter's designs were included in the Cambridge Camden Society's second edition of the Instrumenta ecclesiastica, which was the premier design book of the society. This edition was published in 1856, a year after Carpenter's death from tuberculosis at the age of 42 at his home in London. At his death some members of the society considered Carpenter architectural skill to be superior to that of Pugin as he was \"safer and more equable\" and had an exquisite eye for colour. His success was deemed to lie in his ability to ensure the keeping of \"the harmony of parts and general unity of proportion\" within his designs. The Church of the"}, {"text": "Holy Innocents is based on Carpenter's \"rural\" church design. In particular the design of St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean, Berkshire (1844\u20131845) which was exported to Australia and resulted in the design of the Church of the Holy Innocents and St John the Baptist, Buckland, Tasmania (1846\u20131848). Specifically, the followings aspects of the Church of the Holy Innocents are characteristic of this design: the steep roofs (unnecessary in the Australian climate), dominant bell cote and gable cross, symbolic buttresses, wooden porch, and geometric widows. In this manner, the Church of the Holy Innocents is strongly associated with this strand of Carpenter's ecclesiastical career and demonstrative of his notable designs and his connections with the Cambridge Camden Society and Tractarianism. Appendix 3: Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817\u20131883). Blacket is recognised as one of Australia's leading architects of the nineteenth century, especially in the field of ecclesiological architecture. He was an innovator in ecclesiological architecture from the 1840s through to the 1880s, who, over his long career, produced a large number of high quality churches. Blacket was born at St Margaret's Hill, Southwark, Surrey, England on 25 August 1817. His father was the merchant James Blacket and his mother was Margaret Harriet (nee"}, {"text": "Ralph). He was educated at Mill Hill Congregational College and then spent three years in the family trade business before deciding to pursue a different calling. Initially he found employment in his brother's mill in Yorkshire before joining the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company around 1837 as a surveyor and engineer. While working for this company he became a skilled draftsman and surveyor, which were skills that were to serve him admirably later in life. His success as an engineer prompted his father to reward him with the funds to undertake a year travelling England sketching and recording details of medieval architecture. Between 1838 and 1841 he undertook many similar smaller journeys during which he produced many picturesque sketches of medieval architecture. After leaving Yorkshire in 1841 Blacket spent a year in London employed in inspecting schools for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Blacket married Sarah Mease (1818\u20131869) on 21 May 1842 at Holy Trinity Church, Wakefield, Yorkshire, after overcoming considerable opposition to the match amongst both families. His father's reluctant approval allegedly required that Blacket leave the country, but it is also possible that the new couple sought the opportunities of the new Australian colony for their own purposes. Soon"}, {"text": "after they married, Edmund and Sarah sailed to Sydney, arriving on 3 November 1842. Blacket is thought to have carried letters of introduction to Bishop Broughton and Charles Nicholson, which allowed him to be appointed valuator to Bourke ward, Sydney and, most importantly, the inspector of the Church of England schools in the colony at the start of 1843. This position required that he design and supervise the construction of many school buildings, parsonages, and churches, and he was allowed to establish a private practice in May 1843. This role allowed him to present his architectural skills to Bishop Broughton who at the time was undertaking a rigorous campaign of church building and required someone with good architectural skills to assist him. Therefore, Blacket was soon able to establish a modest architectural practice and become known colloquially as the \"Church Architect\". Over the following years, he won respect for his sound work on a number of commissions and demonstrated his outstanding knowledge of Gothic styles through the construction of a number of new churches, as well as the redesign and completion of a number of unfinished cathedrals. This led him to be officially appointed Diocese architect by Bishop Broughton in"}, {"text": "1847. On 1 December 1849 Blacket was appointed Colonial Architect, replacing Mortimer Lewis, and he remained in this position until September 1854. During this time he remained Diocese architect and continued to oversee work on a number of cathedrals and churches he has begun previously to this appointment. However, generally, this period was a time of stagnation in the colony's building industry due to the gold rushes that drew away the local workforce. On 30 September 1854 Blacket became The University of Sydney official architect, while retaining the right of private practice, and he subsequently designed many of its original buildings. From this time his reputation spread and grew throughout the colony and his architectural practice thrived accepting commissions on schools, colleges, banks, hospitals, commercial buildings, domestic buildings, and numerous Anglican churches. This diversity of work allowed him to be more creative architecturally and further develop the Gothic style in his ecclesiological work, while also experimenting with the Italianate style for commercial buildings. Sarah Blacket died in 1869 leaving Edmund with four sons and four daughters to raise and provide for. Three of his sons, Cyril (1858\u20131937), Arthur, and Owen, spent time in Blacket's practice. Cyril had joined the practice"}, {"text": "in 1872 and afterwards spent time travelling Britain, Western Europe, and North America, before returning in 1880 and becoming a partner. This caused the firm to become Blacket & Son. Edmund passed away only a few years later, on 9 February 1883, at his home in Petersham. Blacket was a stout and steadfast Anglican known for his good public character. He was respected and admired across the colony for his honesty, diligence, accuracy, fortitude, and propriety. Through his architectural career he scattered the colony with many handsome gothic churches and fulfilled one of his life's great ambitions. Blacket was a self-taught architect and dedicated adherent of the \"archaeological\" or correct school of Gothic architecture and was in this way not a Tractarian, but an Anglican of the Established Church. Archaeological gothic was the Early Victorian fashion, as publicised by the Camden Cambridge Society, and required strict adherence to and understanding of medieval gothic styles. As an archaeological gothicist Blacket's goal when building new churches was to create replicas of English medieval parish churches. To accomplish this during the early portion of his career (up to around 1860) Blacket operated by basing his designs on existing English churches (usual contemporary Gothic"}, {"text": "Revival churches) and then incorporating published medieval details available in copy or pattern books, magazines, newspapers, or his own note books. This was the approach any colonial architect had to use when designing a gothic building in Australia. While operating in this manner Blacket created some beautiful and imposing churches and he was particularly well known for his meticulous detailing and how he exploited good craftsmanship to reveal the intrinsic qualities of building materials. Blacket had a deep knowledge of gothic architecture and he continued to keep abreast of developments in the Gothic Revival movement and this allowed him to consistently, knowledgably, and effectively piece together the stylistic motifs of his churches. During the early stage of his colonial career Blacket's ecclesiological work was dominated by Bishop Broughton and his amateur architectural desires and motivations for the colonial church based on his High Church ideals and support for the Cambridge Camden Society and Tractarian movement. Broughton's connections in England (and his trips back there) allowed him to keep abreast of ecclesiological advances which influenced his designs for ecclesiological architecture in the colony. Blacket's youth, inexperience, and social obligations required that he submit to Broughton's architectural designs and the requests of"}, {"text": "other clerics and influential laymen that he design exact replicas of notable English village churches. Consequently, between 1843 and 1845 Blacket was merely involved in drawing up designs developed or provided by Bishop Broughton and ensuring that they were faithfully and competently built. The trend for English replicas in ecclesiological architecture continued through the 1840s and 1850s due to the English and Anglican backgrounds of Blacket's clients. This was in order to recall the glories of medieval England, as well as demonstrate the manner of proper Anglican worship. In time Blacket became the leading colonial architect specialising in catering to this Anglomania. The 1840s was Blacket's time of major experimentation. It is possible to view his early ecclesiological works as experiments with the wide range of forms and styles permitted within the strict English tradition and precepts of the Gothic Revival. This was despite the fact that the majority of the churches he designed during this period were replicas of English designs. These churches and cathedrals were created by following specific designs sent from England or available in magazines, newspapers, and pattern books. This was in accordance with the dictates of the premier Camden Cambridge Society architects, such as Pugin,"}, {"text": "who encourage the following of English tradition in church design and not personal originality. Overall, Blacket's work during this period allowed him to develop a series of prototypes for specific styles he would consistently use throughout his career. After Blacket became Diocese architect in 1847 and Colonial Architect in 1849 he grew in confidence and assurance and began to be more resolute with relation to his design choices for new buildings, allowing him to express his own voice. His time as colonial architect did not produce many public buildings, but it was successful in terms of routine maintenance and administration. Bishop Broughton died in 1853 and his successor Bishop Frederic Barker abhorred Tractarians and ecclesiologists and had no interest in architecture which gave Blacket free rein on further church designs. However, he still heavily favoured Gothic designs over the rest of his career according to his conviction that Early English styles were proper for small churches and Perpendicular styles for collegiate buildings. During the 1850s and 1860s Blacket moved beyond imitation utilising his experience from the 1840s to create his own vision of the English medieval parish church based on his own repertoire of designs and building details. This resulted"}, {"text": "in him refining a type of small stone rural church that was to be reproduced a large number of times across different areas of the colony throughout the remainder of this career. These churches were based on the medieval English ideal and featured \"separately-roofed parts, little bellcotes, gabled roofs, and pointed windows\" and Blacket's variant was perfect for the predominately rural NSW colony. This became the archetypal Victorian Church of NSW and it was continually requested by Blacket's clients. The 1860s also became the era of the Blacket town church which became archetypal among Anglicans throughout the rest of Blacket's Career. By this time, as ecclesiological architecture moved away from Pugin's strict emulative medievalism, more innovative and original Gothic Revival churches were beginning to be produced in the High Victorian style. Blacket kept up with this architectural trend throughout the late 1860s and 1870s actively bringing in the High Victorian style into his ecclesiological work. Unfortunately, Blacket's later churches are less inventive or varied than his early ones as once he became the dominant authority on ecclesiological architecture in the colony he tended to safely reproduce churches of particular styles based on the design repertoire he developed in his youth."}, {"text": "In conclusion, Kerr (1983:13) has characterised Blacket's architectural career as containing three periods: the 1840s experimental period which created the most important churches for the development of church architecture in the colony of the time; the 1850s\u20131860s period of individual expression and development of a repertoire of designs for specific building types and features which resulted in the construction of his most loved churches; and the late 1860s to early 1880s experimentation with High Victorian Gothic styles which created his major ecclesiological works. Description. This item comprises the Church of the Holy Innocents (and its original furnishings), its associated cemetery and churchyard, and the archaeological site of the original slab timber school/church hall. These features are situated on four lots which were granted to the Church of England in 1848 under the 1836 Church Act. They are nonsequentially arranged from north to south as 1, 4, 2, and 3. Archaeological site of the original school/church hall. The original slab timber school/church hall was constructed in 1827 by the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. It was located in the southeast corner of the original 1825 Church Reserve and is thought to have been a simple, cheap, multipurpose building like others constructed"}, {"text": "by the corporation. According to oral tradition it was destroyed by a bushfire in 1931 after it had been replaced by a new Church Hall in . Its archaeological remains are potentially extant within the churchyard in the southeast corner of the current Lot 4. This area comprises an indistinct flat platform area adjacent to two pepper trees. Unfortunately, no archaeological features or artefacts are evident besides this platform. However, this site could feasibly contain archaeological resources such as foundation remains and preserved construction materials including post-holes, hearths, or wall-base slots. Other occupational deposits, such as underfloor layers or rubbish pits, may also be present within, and surrounding, the site. Cemetery. The cemetery was originally contained within the western half of the original church reserve (the present Lot 4) to the rear of the original school/church yard. The first known burial in the cemetery was conducted in 1829 and it continued to be used throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A few burials are present from the twenty-first century, with the most recent being from 2007. The cemetery continues in use today and is mostly confined to Lot 4, but intrudes slightly into Lot 2. Due to how the cemetery"}, {"text": "was originally located at the rear of the original church reserve, burials have spread from the rear fence of the churchyard towards the Church Street frontage over time. After the construction of the Church of the Holy Innocents in 1848\u20131850 this involved the burials spreading along its south side in the area that provided access to the church (via the porch). Some burials are located directly behind the church, and a few are present on its north side (where the vestry entrance is located). As such, the oldest burials in the cemetery, which comprise a typical variety of Georgian and Early Victorian graves and monuments, with some featuring fine detailing, are located in the rear section. This section includes graves for a number of members of the original pioneer families of the local area such as the Bells from nearby Bellfield Farm. Burials from the early twentieth century are located closer to the west side of the church and around the current path from the church porch to the parking area. The most recent burials are located on the east side of the cemetery. In all, the cemetery comprises approximately 100 extant graves or memorials. Those with visible inscriptions date"}, {"text": "from the 1840s through to the recent past. However, there are several sandstone graves that are now too eroded for their inscriptions to be made out. Around a dozen headstones have also fallen over and become disassociated with their original graves. Some of these are lying across the cemetery and others have been rested up against the north side of the church. The remaining graves and headstones range in condition from poor to good with subsidence being a major issue. A fair number of headstones are listing to one side and are in danger of collapsing. However, there are plans in 2017 for conservation works by the Diocese of Sydney to stabilise these headstones. Remarkably the cemetery has suffered little to no vandalism likely due to its semi-rural location. According to available historical records there must be a fair number of unmarked graves in the cemetery, particularly those dating to the earliest periods of use (late 1820s\u20131840s). An unusual hardwood engraved gravestone is preserved in the vestry that possibly belongs to John McKaughan and dates to 1848. It is unknown where this gravestone was originally located. As of a site inspection on the 28 November 2016 the cemetery has recently"}, {"text": "been subjected to good gardening maintenance following the acquisition of the property by the Diocese of Sydney. This has resulted in the removal of much of the previous vegetation overgrowth at the rear of the cemetery and the general cleaning-up of the whole area. Churchyard. The churchyard is confined mostly within Lot 4 (but perhaps partially within Lot 2) and is generally well kept and features scattered various tree plantings, but mostly eucalyptus. However, due to a lack of fencing around this feature it blends into the undeveloped Lot 1 to the north and the carpark and modern buildings to the south in Lots 2 and 3. As such, today the Churchyard is to some degree indistinct and difficult to demarcate, where in the past it featured fences to separate it from the surrounding lots. The church property only features a complete fence along its west and south boundaries: on the west side this consists of a modern wire fence and on the south side a modern corrugated metal fence. However, there are elements of an older fence along the east boundary which is evident as a long low mound. Other extant fence elements include corner posts at the north"}, {"text": "and south ends and four matching posts and a surviving panel of a white picket fence in poor condition around the driveway entrance to the churchyard. These large hardwood posts have decorative \"onion dome\" carved tops and their associated picket fence features turned timber pickets. Square wooden posts from a former picket gate are also located at the rear of the cemetery along the west boundary of the property where a former grass pathway from the church porch to the rear of the property was located. A modern driveway leads from the front gate of the churchyard to the south side of the church. A few remnant pine and cypress trees from former more extensive plantings along this feature are extant along its length. Another paved path leads from the church porch to the dirt carpark on Lot 2 adjacent the new Church Hall. It bisects the early 20th Century section of the cemetery. One or two pine trees from former extensive plantings along the Church Street frontage are also extant. The southern Lots 2 and 3 contain the dirt carpark, brick rectory (1987), and stone and brick church hall (1980s). The rectory is currently leased out to tenants and"}, {"text": "the Church Hall is leased to the local Baptist Church for services and other community uses. The brick rectory, stone and brick church hall, and dirt carpark do not add to the significance of the place and are considered to be non-contributory features. The northern Lot 1 is undeveloped and is covered in a small stand of immature eucalyptus trees (dating to after the 1940s). Recently the grass beneath them has been mowed back and cleaned up removing any high grass or low bushes. This lot is considered to add to the significant setting of the church and is a contributory feature. The Church of the Holy Innocents. The following is summarised from the 1989 Conservation Study by Noel Bell, Ridley Scott & Partners except where otherwise noted. It includes comparisons of the Church of the Holy Innocents with the available historical drawings of Carpenter's design for the Church of St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean that illustrate how Blacket reinterpreted and amended this design adding his own distinct flavour to the church. Exterior. The Church of the Holy Innocents is a small rural church with a two-bay nave, a disproportionally large chancel/sanctuary, a north vestry, a south open timber"}, {"text": "porch, and a simple brick bell-cote at the western end of its steep shingled gabled roof. It is orientated in the traditional manner, east-west, with the sanctuary at the east end. The layout of the church is of the English type (rather than the antipodean) with the porch on the south side of the nave, the vestry on the north side of the chancel, and the pulpit in the northeast corner of the nave. Usually in Australia these features are on the opposite sides. The church is founded on clay or slate and is built on brick foundations. It features a sandstone plinth course with a chamfered weather which projects out from the walls. Above this is a slate damp proof course. The church walls are constructed of fine-quality red-blue mottle sandstock bricks within a soft lime mortar in English bond face brickwork. They are reinforced with engaged brick buttresses placed at all the corner returns and along the wall length at regular intervals. At sill height along the nave walls and the east wall of the chancel is a continuous projecting sandstone string course. The entire church also features sandstone tracery and trimmings on the doors, windows, and buttress"}, {"text": "caps. The brickwork at the top of the walling is corbelled out to form the eaves detail and support the thrust of the roof framing. Overall, the buttress and string courses of stone trim break the wall at regular intervals and create a pleasing contrast . The bricks used in the church construction are of a very regular gauge (230 x 65mm) showing that they are of good quality. The sandstone dressings on the building have been tooled to a very high standard, but the very fine grained sandstone if of an inferior quality. It was quarried locally at Cobbitty. The use of brick, highlighted with sandstone, to construct the church is illustrative of Blacket's adaption of the Cookham Dean design (which was built in stone) to suit local conditions. All six church windows are of a gothic style and feature elaborate stone tracery. The four nave windows and the single example in the vestry all have two lights and simple quatrefoil tracery in the heads. The large east chancel or sanctuary window is far more detailed with three lights and a very elaborate tracery panel (varied quatrefoil) and features a brightly coloured geometric glass design. This glass design was"}, {"text": "funded by the women of the parish in 1850. Research by Robin Hedditch suggests that the stained glass east window was likely locally made by a glazier using a restricted palette of coloured stained glass. These types of windows are characterised by the use of plain, unpainted coloured (stained glass), a restricted colour palette, and simple geometric patterns favouring straight lines. During this period it was costly to import stained glass windows from Britain and there were no trained stained glass artists in the colony until the early 1840s. Consequently, many churches built during this time conquered this situation by employing a local glazier (lead and plumbing tradesmen) to make a \"stained glass\" window using local materials. These materials consisted of sheets of imported stained glass in a limited range of colours (generally crimson, purple, green, blue, yellow, and amber) that the glazier would cut into simple, non-figurative, geometric designs. This naive style was shortlived as by the 1850s the goldrushes brought wealth to the colony and the ability to commission windows from Britain or from newly arrived British trained stained glass artists. This research is ongoing and when completed could prove that this style of stained glass windows represents"}, {"text": "a rare, local response to the fashionable Gothic Revival movement by non-trained glass artists using locally available materials. This could mean that the east window is one of the earliest known surviving examples of \"stained glass\" in Australia while also being a rare example of naive 1840s locally-made stained glass windows. The east window is also likely an excellent example of this naive style as the local glazier when to great lengths to create a suitably rich, gothic design with the limited means available. The glazier was also largely successful in devising simple lead lines to showcase the rich, but limited, colour range of available stained glass. The design also appears to be attempting to emulate the highly prized \"mosaic\" effect that was a hallmark of Gothic Revival windows combined with a Victorian love of \"crazy\" design. The glazier's skills is also apparent in the use of clear glass in the background to highlight the bright colours and the repeating geometric pattern. This creates an effect of restless colour within a strong vertical repeating framework that is impressive within the church given its size and the east window being its main decorative object (submission provided by Robin Hedditch). Another element"}, {"text": "of the church design elaborated by Blacket is the well-shaped hood moulds terminating in an uncarved label stop which each window features. This is a common Blacket detail that was designed to allow the carving of bosses or decorative features in the future. Blacket's reinterpretation of the design is also evident in the internal form of the windows as each features chamfered stone reveals that follow the external gothic pointed arch. In contrast, the windows on Carpenter's drawings have revealing arches. All the church windows feature wire mesh security fittings on the exterior. One of the north windows in the nave and the vestry window have been modified and fitted with a small rectangular hinged section to allow air flow into the building. The church features three doors: two external and one internal. All are constructed of solid cedar (60mm thick) and are ledged and hung internally and close boarded externally and retain their original Gothic style hardware. The external arched porch entry door is of a double door type, and hung on hard forged decorative \"gothic\" strap hinges and features catches and a rim lock. It originally was grained in imitation of oak but is now painted. The single"}, {"text": "type external vestry door is of a similar design but is square headed. Due to its greater exposure to the elements this door is showing signs of weathering and is deteriorating. It appears to have had one panel replaced in the recent past in an unsympathetic manner. The single type interior arched vestry door is similar to the other doors, but its external face is different with it featuring alternating higher and lower panels (a ribbed design). Each of the gabled roofs of the church (nave, chancel, vestry, and porch) are pitched at 60 degrees in order to give perfect balance to the proportion of the wall below. The nave roof is the highest indicating its importance as the home of the congregation. Each of the three other roofs break down far below the line of the nave roof indicating their subordinate function. The roofs were originally covered in hardwood shingles, but those on the nave were replaced in the 1940s with asbestos shingles. The nave roof is capped with a rolled ridge capping and features a fine stone capped bell cote at its western end. The east end of the Nave roof originally featured a stone cross that was"}, {"text": "removed sometime after the 1970s. In contrast to Cookham Dean this bellcote is provided with added emphasis by being separated from the main wall plane by the gable verge. This change is further evidence of the refinement of the design by Blacket as he commonly used this design feature on smaller churches throughout his career. Otherwise the bell cote is in keeping with the Carpenter \"Rural\" church design of the church. The bell cote was restored in 1991 as part of works on the west facade. The hardwood (cedar) shingles covering the chancel, vestry, and porch roofs were removed during restoration work between 1991 and 1993 and replaced with hardwood \"she oak\" shakes. Unfortunately, this replacement lining on these roofs has now become weathered and is deteriorating. However, there are plans by the Diocese of Sydney to undertake conservation works in the near future. The chancel roof appears to be in good condition except for its guttering on the north side which has become dislodged at the east end and is caught on the vestry roof. The timber framed open porch is finely detailed and features a sharply pitched timber shingled roof and stone flagging. It leads straight into the"}, {"text": "southern entry of the nave. While today this feature is open its lower panels were originally filled in with cedar planking to make this structure half-open. It was completely restored in 1992\u20131993 which involved it being dismantled and rebuilt with any deteriorating elements being replaced with appropriate replacements. This restoration process also involved re-levelling and re-aligning the porch with the chancel entrance. This porch is different from the Carpenter drawings and marks another refinement or amendment of the design by Blacket. It is markedly different in terms of proportion (being far larger in relation to the church proportionally than its Cookham Dean counterpart) and is far less elaborate as it lacks the carvings and cusping of Cookham Dean. Comparatively this feature of the church is likely unique for this period (late 1840s) in NSW/Australia. Internal. The church interior is generally plain or restrained in detail and economical in style, but is well proportioned and fitted out. Originally, the internal walls were lime washed and the stone window reveals bare, but both these surfaces have been painted in the recent past. The interior walls of the nave have also been rendered to create a dado to counteract rising damp. The exposed,"}, {"text": "stained, hammer beam truss roof ceiling and the dark Australian red cedar interior furnishings provide a pleasing contrast to the otherwise white interior of the church. This interior design of the church would have almost wholly been the responsibility of Blacket as the Cookham Dean drawings to not provide any details or instructions on how the church interior was fitted out. The entire interior space of the church is floored with sandstone flagging. On top of this in the nave are two banks of open timber seating on raised timber platforms. Open pews on raised timber boxes such as these are common in Blacket churches and are evident of his addition to Carpenter's design. This design also results in the centre of the nave featuring a narrow stone flagged aisle leading to the chancel. On the north and south sides of the nave exterior small modern ventilation holes have been created to air the space beneath these timber platforms. At the rear of the nave in the southwest corner is a large sandstone font designed in a fourteenth century style by Blacket directly adjacent the interior entrance from the porch. This beautifully carved feature has in the past been considered"}, {"text": "to be over elaborate when compared to the general plain and economical nature of the church interior. A simple Australian red cedar pulpit is located in the northeast corner on a raised sandstone platform and is accessed by possibly concrete steps (these may be a modern addition). The pulpit has been lowered sometime in the recent past by around 50 cm as indicated by marking on the surrounding walls. The nave contains several memorials fitted on to its walls including: An honour roll inscribed with the names of 23 men from the district who served in both World Wars (north wall). A marble plaque sacred to the memory of Lieutenant William Brown who fell at Mouquet, France, on 3 September 1916 (north wall). A marble plaque sacred to the memory of Henry Robert Lowe, born 2 November 1831 \u2013 died 19 October 1880, of \"Briling\" Farm (east wall); and A marble plaque scared to the memory of Laura Lowe, born 1830 \u2013 died 9 July 1902 (south wall). The chancel is separated from the nave by a brick chancel arch. This section of the church is narrower than the nave and two steps higher. The sanctuary is separated from the"}, {"text": "chancel by another step and a low cedar communion rail (sacred to the memory of Mr and Mrs A. V. McCann \u2013 1962). Within the sanctuary there is a decorative carved stone sedilia on its southern wall and decorative plaster dados on the walls. During the site inspection on 28 November 2016 a small range of furniture was arranged throughout the chancel and sanctuary, including four chairs, an alms box, a pray kneeler, and a rectangular timber altar along the east wall of the sanctuary, beneath the window. Generally the existing furniture, with the exception of the modern communion table, is similar to that described in Munro's accounts suggesting that they are original. In 1989 the original communion table was known to survive, but its location was not mentioned. As of 1989 the original High Victorian Gothic design communion set survived and was still in use. They comprised a solid silver Chalice and Pattern housed in a wooden carry case and were of English manufacture and possibly of an A. W. G. Pugin design. Within the chancel are also two small brass vases and a brass cross that lack any subscriptions and a book of common prayer scared to the"}, {"text": "memory of Charles Henry Thorsby. The alms dish, bible, and prayer book in the church are all thought to be original furnishings. The vestry opens off the north side of the chancel and during the site inspection (28 November 2016) was used partially as storage. It is decorated in the same manner as the nave and chancel, but its sandstone flagging appears to be subsiding in the northwest corner and the walls in the southwest corner have been water damaged from a leak in the roof. The church ceiling consists of a simplified hammer beam roof with close butted boarding and an arched brace and collar tie. This design is considered to be extremely fine and is evidently more elaborate than Carpenter's drawings indicating that it is another refinement of this design by Blacket. Condition. As at 10 July 2017, The Church of the Holy Innocents retains most of its original fabric and has not been modified in an extensive manner. However, poor maintenance during the recent past has resulted in the deterioration of some of the wooden elements of the structure, such as the porch, chapel, and vestry roofs, and external vestry door. This has in turn resulted in"}, {"text": "some water and pest damage to the church interior, particularly along the south wall of the chancel and the southwest corner of the vestry. However, recent efforts by the Diocese of Sydney at improving maintenance of the church has enhanced its condition and there are plans to conduct restoration works on the church and its grounds in the near future. The Church of the Holy Innocents has good integrity and intactness as the majority of its original fabric is extant. The churchyard has fair integrity and intactness as it retains most of its original fabric, but is in need of maintenance works. The churchyard has only poor integrity and intactness as its boundary fence has been removed, although it still exists as an open space. Modifications and dates. The Church of the Holy Innocents features no major modifications \u2013 it is still largely original in form \u2013 although there have been some small alterations to different aspects of the building (i.e., removal of the stone cross on the nave roof, lowering of the pulpit, replacement of the original cedar shingles on the nave roof with asbestos shingles, etc.). Previously, there have been three renovation projects undertaken to restore the church:"}, {"text": "one in the late 1940s, one in the 1960s, and the other in the early 1990s. In 1946, prior to the celebrations for the centenary of the church, a refurbishment project was undertaken. This involved restoring the roof, repairing the stone flagging, and re-varnishing the ceiling The third phase of restoration works proceeded from the conservation study undertaken in 1989. It had identified several elements of the building that required urgent attention, and consequently, between 1990 and 1993, work was undertaken to: These works were undertaken with the assistance of a financial grant from the Heritage Council (Heritage Assistance Program) and were conducted in a sympathetic manner. Until recently, this item existed in an open rural setting, but the surrounding landscape has been progressively becoming semi-rural over the past few decades as development has extended along Bringelly Road associated with the proposed second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek. Heritage listing. As at 28 July 2017, The Church of the Holy Innocents, churchyard, and cemetery is of state heritage significance because of its historical, associative, technical, aesthetic, research, rarity, and representative values. The church is the result of an unusual partnership of two prominent ecclesiastical architects: Richard Cromwell Carpenter, one of"}, {"text": "the leading English architects of the Cambridge Camden Society, and Edmund Blacket, the most prominent Australian ecclesiastical architect of the nineteenth century. It is the only church in NSW based on a design by Richard Cromwell Carpenter and only one of three in Australia. This church is one of the earliest Gothic Revival churches in NSW recognised as being correct in its medieval detail and thus, an important, rare and representative example of this new wave of church architecture. Its highly detailed, Gothic Revival design renders it remarkable in a state context as a small rural church. The church is also designed according to the principles of the Tractarian Movement, facilitating a change in liturgical emphasis from the pulpit and the spoken word, to the altar and the sacraments associated with a separate choir. The application of a Tractarian design in this small rural church embodies wider debates within the Church of England under Bishop Broughton. The church is also strongly associated with the main group of proponents of the Gothic Revival and Tractarian Movements operating in, or in association with, the Church of England during the 1840s in NSW: Bishop Broughton, Edmund Blacket, Reverend Horatio Walsh, and Reverend George"}, {"text": "Vidal. The church, churchyard, cemetery, and archaeological site are associated with several important pieces of legislation relating to the governance and position of religion, and specifically the Church of England, in colonial society during the early nineteenth century. As such, these original features and the church land is able to tell a story about the changing nature of religion and the position of the Church of England in the early colony. The retention of the semi-rural nature of the church, churchyard, and cemetery into the twenty-first century also demonstrates the historic rural landscape and isolation that made the finely designed Gothic Revival Church of the Holy Innocents a remarkable and rare place of worship. Church of the Holy Innocents was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 24 August 2018 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. The Church of the Holy Innocents is of State historical significance due to its Tractarian design that forms an important early example of this type of architecture in NSW. Bishop Broughton's decision to use the English Tractarian design of Richard Cromwell Carpenter illustrates"}, {"text": "the progressive changes in the Church of England during this period associated with the Tractarian Movement and Cambridge Camden Society, which controversially promoted a change in liturgical emphasis from the pulpit and the spoken word to the altar and the sacraments associated with a separate choir. Through its design, this church reflects contemporary debates within the Church of England under Bishop Broughton. The Church of the Holy Innocents is an important early example of the Colonial Church's participation in the Gothic Revival movement, which was Empire wide in scope. The Gothic Revival movement, under the influence of Edmund Blacket, was to dominate ecclesiastical architecture in the colony for the majority of the nineteenth century. This item is of State historical significance as the site and its development materially demonstrate a range of early nineteenth century legislation related to church building, religious development, and the provision of education within the colony of NSW. The original small reserve for the church, cemetery, and school within the Cabramatta village reserve from 1825 is linked to the restructuring of the colonial surveying system carried out by Governor Brisbane. The archaeological remains of the slab timber church/school hall and the early portion of the cemetery"}, {"text": "are linked to the Clergy and School Lands Corporation (1826\u20131833), and the Church of the Holy Innocents and the land from the second land grant are linked to the 1836 Church Act. In this manner, the item illustrates the attempts by Colonial authorities during this period to develop and improve the colony's moral condition through the establishment of strong religious institutions that had a widespread presence throughout society. It also demonstrates the slow loss of pre-eminence of the Church of England in the colony during this period. The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history. The Church of the Holy Innocents and its stone font potentially have a strong historical association of State significance with Edmund Thomas Blacket (1817\u20131883), a prominent ecclesiastical architect renowned for his contributions to the Gothic Revival movement. As Diocesan Architect, Blacket adapted and executed Richard Cromwell Carpenter's design for the Church of the Holy Innocents, and he oversaw its construction as Diocese and then Colonial Architect. While it is still recognisably a rural \"Carpenter\" church, Blacket's elaboration of Carpenter's design is clearly apparent. This church belongs"}, {"text": "to the experimental period of Blacket's career when he was still developing his design repertoire and confidence in Gothic Revival architecture. It could be considered to be one of his early successes in Gothic Revival architecture as it has been described as \"perfect a mediaeval replica as was ever realised in the colony\". Blacket also designed the church's stone font, as well as potentially all the internal fittings and furniture. This item is one of the finest small rural churches Blacket built over his long career. The church is also strongly associated with the main group of proponents of the Gothic Revival and Tractarian Movements operating in, or in association with, the Church of England during the 1840s in NSW. This group included Bishop Broughton, the main promoter of the Gothic Revival; the Reverend Horatio Walsh a leading Tractarian in the Colonial church; Edmund Blacket, the leading architect of the Gothic Revival; and the Reverend George Vidal, the first minister of the church and a well-known Tractarian and promoter of the Gothic Revival. These clergy and architects encouraged the use of Carpenter's design for this church and oversaw its successful completion as part of a wider effort of promoting these"}, {"text": "two movements within the Church of England. The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. The Church of the Holy Innocents is of technical significance at a state level due to its Tractarian design which was cutting edge at the time. This design was approved by the Cambridge Camden Society, and prepared by one of their favoured architects, Richard Cromwell Carpenter. While many of the other churches Blacket designed early in his career were based on English designs in the same manner, they do not have the architectural precedents of the Church of the Holy Innocents, which is recognisably a \"Carpenter\" church embodying the principles of the Tractarian Movement. Thus, it is archetypal of the early stages in NSW of the Empire-wide Gothic Revival movement that was to dominate ecclesiastical architecture in the colony for the next several decades. Its architecture and its high level of detailing for a small rural church renders it exceptional within the state context \u2013 the vast majority of small churches were built to vernacular designs with much less exacting attention to construction. Historically the Church of the Holy Innocents was also"}, {"text": "exceptional aesthetically for its rural location and picturesque backdrop that finely expressed its isolation, and made this a remarkable and rare place of worship. Over recent decades this rural landscape has been gradually developed to the stage that it is now semi-rural in nature, but the historic rural and isolated nature of this place is still appreciable at the site through the undeveloped lot to the north. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. As the only church associated with Richard Cromwell Carpenter within NSW, and only one of three in Australia, the Church of the Holy Innocents has great research potential within the context of Gothic Revival architecture, and the state's ecclesiastical architecture in general. It can also contribute positively to the study of the Tractarian Movement and High Church within the Church of England in the colony during the early nineteenth century. The archaeological site of the slab timber school/church hall potentially has good research potential due to its connection with the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. The corporation primarily built plain, cheap, and multi-purpose school/church buildings during its existence between 1826"}, {"text": "and 1833 and reportedly only one of these is extant. This archaeological site potentially provides an important resource to investigate the simple wooden buildings erected during this program through any foundation remains or construction materials preserved at the site (post-holes, hearths, wall base slots, etc.). Through other occupational deposits (underfloor layers or rubbish pits) it also has the potential to provide information on activities undertaken within the structure throughout its lifetime. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The Church of the Holy Innocents is rare in NSW as an early small scale rural Gothic Revival church and a small rural church of a Tractarian design. It is also rare in the context of NSW ecclesiastical architecture as being the only church in NSW, and one of three in Australia, based on a design by Richard Cromwell Carpenter. This design had been purposefully imported to the Colony by the adherents of the Tractarian movement to stimulate the construction of ecclesiastically correct churches in the Australian context. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. The Church"}, {"text": "of the Holy Innocents is representative in the state context as a small rural church of Gothic Revival design of good integrity and intactness. It is representative of a well-designed and executed small rural church, innovative in its application of Tractarian design principles. Most other small rural churches of this period were of vernacular design. Its design is also representative of the early stages of the Gothic Revival and Tractarian Movements in the Church of England in the colony during the 1840s and the expression of the values and goals of these movements in the context of a small rural church."}, {"text": "Taxation in Sri Lanka mainly includes excise duties, value added tax, income tax and tariffs. Tax revenue is a primary constituent of the government's fiscal policy. The Government of Sri Lanka imposes taxes mainly of two types in the forms of direct taxes and indirect taxes. As of 2018 CBSL report, taxes are the most important revenue source for the government, contributing 89% of the revenue. The tax revenue to GDP ratio is just about 11.6 percent as of 2018, which is one of the lowest rates among the upper-middle income earning countries. At present, the government of Sri Lanka also face major challenges regarding the continuous budget deficits where government expenditures have exceeded the government tax revenue. Indirect taxes in the forms of excise duties, VAT and tariffs are the key contributors to the government tax revenue with 74% while direct taxes including income tax, Pay-as-you-earn tax and Economic Service Charge contribute only around 9%. However the tax regime is expected to witness major changes following the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election which took place on 16 November 2019. The Maithripala Sirisena led government also announced that the carbon tax will be removed with immediate effect as of 1"}, {"text": "December 2019. In November 2019, newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa approved mandate to abolish taxes such as PAYE, NBT, Withholding tax, Capital Gain tax, Bank Debit tax and to reduce VAT tax rate from 15% to 8%. Tax evasion is a rampant and prevalent issue in Sri Lanka. Income taxes. As of 2016, income tax contributes to 15% of the overall government tax revenue. The highest ever income tax proportion to the tax revenue was recorded at 35% in 2007. However the income tax contribution, started to decline from that point. The income taxes are collected by the Department of Inland Revenue under the provisions of Inland Revenue Act, no 24 of 2017. In addition to the income tax, PAYE tax is also charged by the Department of Inland Revenue in accordance with the terms of Section 114 of Inland Revenue Act no 10 of 2006 or Section 83 of the Inland Revenue Act No 24 of 2017. However the new amendments which were published on 19 December 2022 have increased the PAYE tax rates significantly and reduced the annual personal income reliefs to 12 million rupees. VAT. VAT remained as the main contributor to the government revenue until 2014,"}, {"text": "later it was surpassed by the excise duty. VAT is imposed on mainly goods and services under the provisions of Act no 14 of 2002. VAT on foreign digital services. In July 2025, Sri Lanka\u2019s Inland Revenue Department announced that an 18% Value Added Tax (VAT) would be applied to a wide range of digital services provided by non-resident suppliers to Sri Lankan consumers. The new regulation, issued via Gazette No. 2443/30 under the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Act No. 4 of 2025, will take effect from October 1, 2025. Covered services include cloud computing, streaming platforms, digital advertising, e-commerce, and online booking platforms. Excise duty. The tax became the most significant tax from 2015. It is imposed mainly on the production of drugs, alcohol, petroleum products and motor vehicles. Tariffs. Until 2019, tariffs provided the third major contribution to the government tax revenue with nearly 20%. However in 2019, the Sri Lankan government implemented measures to curtail import expenditure and to promote exports in order to avoid the trade deficit. Subsequently, the import levy imposed on the imports also reduced from 19% to 16%. Tariffs are highly imposed on imported motor vehicles at present. However Duty-free permit, a tax"}, {"text": "concession is also granted specially for the government officials to import vehicles into Sri Lanka. Maral tax. Maral prevailed in Sri Lanka as a quite unpopular tax during the ancient times. It was imposed on the properties owned by those who were dead. The tax system was scrapped during the British rule in the country. Complications and issues. Sri Lankan tax system is regarded as one of the most complicated tax structures in the world. Inefficiencies in the administration of taxes, social attitudes among general public about the tax system, lack of knowledge among the public on their obligation are some of the issues which have made severe problems to the government when financing the budgetary expenditures. In addition, the tax system of the country is also treated as inequal."}, {"text": "Aguadulce is a Spanish town in the municipality of Roquetas de Mar, province of Almer\u00eda, in the autonomous community of Andaluc\u00eda. It is located in the region of Poniente Almeriense, about 14 kilometres from the city of Almer\u00eda, along the national road (N-340a) and 14 km along the dual carriageway (A-7) In 2018, it had a population of 16176 inhabitants (INE), although during summer the population triples due to tourism, the main economic engine of the town. History. The towns of Aguadulce, Las Hortichuelas and Campillo del Moro did not originally belong to the municipality of Roquetas de Mar, but they were added in the first third of the 20th century. The reason was that the Enix Town Council, to which these places belonged, proposed to cede to Roquetas de Mar if this municipality undertook the payment of the debits that Aguadulce had. This decision was communicated to the residents of Aguadulce, no claim was made, and on 24 June 1927 the Roquetas Town Council agreed to add this town with the proposed conditions. In the years 1928 and 1929 the boundaries were made, adding also a part of the municipality of V\u00edcar. However, in 1931 the Town Council of"}, {"text": "Enix, requested that the land previously ceded be returned, to which Roquetas agreed, but there was a protest from a resident of Aguadulce and in 1932 the Town Council of Roquetas agreed to rescind the decision taken in 1931. From then on, a series of disputes between the two municipalities followed. In Aguadulce it was not the same as in El Parador de las Hortichuelas, because its census was more significant. There were a few numbers of houses, having a bit more of 200 neighbours. The houses were on each side of the main road, but there were also some other streets perpendicular to this main street, and almost all of them were in direction to the mountain. There were some important houses, if we compare them with those of that time. These road houses, a rudimentary petrol pump, a grocery store and a chapel were the most characteristic of this locality. During the first third of the 20th century, modern means were incorporated, causing a change in the lifestyles of the population, such as the construction of a new road, means of communication: telephone, telegraph and transport, it took place the installation of the first bus line, and the"}, {"text": "first public lighting for electricity was hired in 1936 thanks to a workers society called \u201cDesde la Buena Uni\u00f3n\u201d, which in that year requested the change of the street lights. Aguadulce was more populated that El Parador, and although service were scarce, it had two schools and they celebrated their patron celebrations in honor of the Virgen del Carmen. In the summers, the population increased slightly due to the incipient tourism that began in those times. We must not forget that it was in Aguadulce were the influx of tourists began to arrive. In 1964 Aguadulce was declared the First National Interest Center of Spain. The few holidaymakers who arrived in this town did not stay in luxurious chalets or splendid mansions on the shore of the beach, but in modest houses that they rented or bought in the center of the neighbourhood, making on the shore of the beach a hut to enjoy sunbathing and sea bathing, and that once they finished the holidays they were disarmed until the next year. And so it went from having 27 houses and 300 inhabitants in 1950 to become the headquarters of a stable population that exceeds 15,000 inhabitants and that during"}, {"text": "the summer months the figure triplies, reaching about 45,000 people. In April 2019 it was formed Aguadulce en Marcha, led by Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez, in order to solve the town problems and create Aguadulce as \"Entidad Local Aut\u00f3noma\". Transport and communications. By road, the Mediterranean Highway (A-7) connects Aguadulce with the rest of the province of Almeria and all Spain. In addition, the N-340a road runs through all the locality and connects it with the city of Almeria and with El Parador de las Hortichuelas, La Puebla de V\u00edcar, La Gangosa and Roquetas de Mar. The nearest airport is 25 km away. As for maritime communications, it has a marina and the commercial port of Almeria is 8 km away. It has no railway connection on its own, although the Almeria railway station is very close by and the buses can be taken at the same railway station connect continuously with Aguadulce. Art, monuments and sites of interest. The archaeological site of La Ribera de Algaida or Ribera de Turaniana is a set of archaeological remains discovered in 1859 that chronologically cover from the end of the Bronze Age, through the Argaric culture, fundamental during Roman times, to the"}, {"text": "Muslim period. Is located along the coast. It occupies an area of between 12 and 13 hectares approximately. La Ribera de la Algaida was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) with the category of Archaeological Zone by Decree 174/1991 on 17 September 1991, code 40790004, inscribed as \"Archaeological Zone\" (BOE number 249, page 33777, 17 October)."}, {"text": "Besa () is a Serbian-British television series produced by and Red Planet Pictures. Synopsis. Inspired by a true story and from an original idea by Sr\u0111an \u0160aper, the plot follows Uro\u0161, a family man and a businessman from Belgrade who kills the daughter of Dardan, an Albanian drug lord, in a road accident. To atone for her death and in order to protect the lives of his own family, he is forced to start working as a hitman for the Albanian mob. Besa is an Albanian cultural precept, usually translated as \"faith\" or \"oath\", that means \"to keep the promise\" and \"word of honor\". Production. \"Besa\" brought together writer/producer Tony Jordan and several Serbian screenwriters and script doctors, as well as international and regional actors, in creating the first TV series in the Adriatic region that compares with the standards of British television drama. Besa features a mixture of local and international talent, with Taken costars Radivoje Bukvi\u0107 and Arben Bajraktaraj playing the leads. Director Du\u0161an Lazarevi\u0107 previous credits include Misfits, Vera, Death In Paradise, Silent Witness. The series gathered more than 200 actors from the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia, as well as foreign actors from Albania, United"}, {"text": "Kingdom and France. Besa was set up as an international co-production between and Red Planet Pictures. It was filmed for 120 days on numerous attractive locations throughout the Balkans. International sales and Distribution is handled by MBC Studios. The second season was shot from 2020 to 2021 in Montenegro, Serbia and Estonia. Awards. At FEDIS, the 9th International festival of domestic television series, \"Besa \"won the Golden Antenna award for Best TV series produced in Serbia, as well as for Best Music by composer Nemanja Mosurovi\u0107 and Best Photography by the director of photography Igor \u0160unter."}, {"text": "Turning Up may refer to:"}, {"text": "Arup\u00e4\u00e4 is a village in Tartu Parish, Tartu County, Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 28."}, {"text": "\"Turning Up\" is a song by Japanese boy band Arashi, released as a single on November 3, 2019. It is the band's first digital single of their career, and follows the band opening official social media accounts and making their music available for streaming and download for the first time. Background. The song was announced during a YouTube Live press conference on November 3, where Arashi made several announcements, notably that they had set up accounts on all major social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Weibo and TikTok), and all 65 of their singles would become available to stream later the same day, making their music officially available outside of Asia for the first time. The music video was also premiered later the same day through the band's channel on YouTube. Music video. The music video was released on November 3, 2019, the same day as the song. The video begins with a news broadcast about a \"storm\" (Arashi, \u5d50 in kanji, meaning \"storm\" in Japanese). Part of the video was shot on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. In addition to the music video, two making-of videos were uploaded to the band's official YouTube channel, with one based in Los"}, {"text": "Angeles, and the other in Tokyo. An official choreography video was also made available. Remix version. On January 24, 2020, Arashi released a remix version of the song, by DJ, record producer and re-mixer R3hab, in digital download, streaming, and as a music video in YouTube. The remix version lacks the rap made by Sho Sakurai for the original version. The remix peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and topped on the Billboard Japan Top Download Songs."}, {"text": "The Embassy of Germany in Bagdad is the diplomatic mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in Iraq. In addition, the Consulate General is working in Erbil as the second German representation in the Kurdistan Region in the north of the country. The embassy Baghdad is located in the district of Jadriyah. Ambassador is Ole Diehl. The Federal Intelligence Service has an office at the Embassy in Baghdad and the Consulate General in Erbil."}, {"text": "Inayet Giray (1597\u20131637, reigned 1635\u20131637) was for two years khan of the Crimean Khanate. He was removed and executed by the Turks because he could not make the Crimeans fight in Persia. His conflict with the Turks was unusually violent. Ancestry and early life. He was a son of Gazi II Giray (1588\u20131608). Gazi's sons were, at least, Tokhtamy\u015f, Sefer, Inayet, Husam, Saadet and Aivaz. When Gazi died he appointed his son Toqtam\u0131\u015f Giray as khan. The Turks rejected this and appointed Sel\u00e2met I Giray (1608\u20131610). Tokhtamysh and his brother Sefer were killed by Selyamet's men. The remaining brothers, Inayet, Husam, Saadet and Aivaz were sent to Turkey for safety. Members of the Giray family living in Turkey were potential replacements if the Turks chose to remove the ruling khan. Selyamet was followed by Janibek in 1610, Mehmed III Giray in 1623, and Janibek again in 1628. In 1635 Janibek was removed by the Turks. Inayet was chosen as his replacement with the support of Khan Temir. He promised to lead the Crimean army against Persia. Background. From 1538 the Turks began demanding Crimean troops to fight in their wars. Crimeans would generally fight in the west but disliked fighting"}, {"text": "the Persians, apparently because of the long distance and lack of loot. In 1551, 1584 and 1628 (partly) khans were removed by the Turks for refusing to fight in Persia. This was the time of the Ottoman\u2013Safavid War (1623\u20131639). Also at this time the steppe warlord Khan Temir was very active and a problem for all his neighbors. A major event in this period was a shift in the nomadic population. In 1618 the Kalmyks began moving west and reached the Volga around 1630, a process that continued until, perhaps, the fall of 1635. They allied with the Russians in Astrakhan. As a result, the Volga Nogais began moving west toward Crimea. The newcomers were settled on the steppes north of Perekop, greatly increasing the potential number of Crimean troops. Khan Temir tried to gain control of some of them, without much success. Reign. In March 1635 Inayet and his brothers left for Crimea. After reaching the capital he spent several months getting to know the local nobles and organizing the Persian expedition. He appointed his brothers Husam and Saadat as kalga and nureddin. By fall his army was in Circassia. Since it was near the end of the campaigning"}, {"text": "season, he marched back to Crimea. Next spring (1636) ambassador Asan-Aga arrived from Istanbul. In the name of Murad IV, he demanded that the khan immediately lead 60000 Crimeans to Persia, otherwise threatening to execute Inayet and his brothers. Ships to transport them were sent to Balaklava. Inayet called a meeting and the nobles unanimously refused to go to Iran. When Inayet insisted the nobles bluntly told him that if he were removed, they could live with another khan. Several things made the problem worse. Khan Temir was to the north and might attack if troops left Crimea. In addition to the unusually violent threat, the ambassador had not brought the usual gifts and the Kaffa governor had refused Crimea the usual share of taxes. When the Crimeans would not budge the ambassador threatened to make the Crimeans pay a tax as if they were non-Muslim subjects. Given this final insult, Inayet called a kurultai in which the khan, nobles and commoners all swore the resist the Turks. If they were defeated they swore to burn their houses and retire to the steppe. The ambassador left for Istanbul. Inayet now found himself in the same position as Mehmed III Giray"}, {"text": "in 1624 and 1628. He expected to be attacked by Khan Temir from the north and the Turks from the south. He did the obvious thing and took Kaffa by surprise. He executed the Turkish governor and appointed a Crimean governor for Kaffa and the whole south coast. The sultan was tied down by the Persian war so he sent an ambassador revoking the command to fight Persia and asked Inayet to go fight the Poles. Inayet assumed that they planned to invade when his troops were out of Crimea so he threw the ambassador in jail. The next problem was Khan Temir. Khan Temir rejected an offer of alliance. At some point Inayet had sent a letter to the Polish king suggesting friendship. In the summer of 1636 he sent another letter announcing his break with Turkey and offering a kind of subjection in return for a joint war against the Turks. Wladislaw IV had better sense, although, as usual, he would not necessarily restrain the Zaporozhians. Inayet offered to pay the Cossacks for help. They offered 5000 men but sent only 600 under ataman Pavel Bout. In January 1637 Inayet set out for Budjak. It is said that"}, {"text": "he had 150,000 Crimeans and Nogais, as opposed the Khan Temir's 12000. Khan Temir had asked for Turkish support and received none. He told his men to make the best deal they could and fled south to Kiliya, where he stored his treasures, and then on to Istanbul. At Akkerman Inayet met the Budjaks under Urak, Salman Shah and the sons or brothers of Khan Temir. The khan forgave them and told them to move east toward Crimea. He sent a letter to the Sultan threatening invasion if Khan Temir was not surrendered. Husam Giray captured Kiliya and returned with Khan Temir's treasure. Murad IV first tried diplomacy. He said that he was not displeased with the removal of the Budjaks, would not dethrone Inayet and suggested that Inayet prove his prudence by going back to Crimea. In May he learned that the Turks were assembling a fleet, so he withdrew to Crimea. Inayet led the captured Budjaks eastward. He crossed the Dnieper and left his brothers Husam and Saadet in charge of the Budjaks. The brothers spent a few days feasting with the Budjak leaders at the Jan Kerman fortress. On the night before the Budjaks were to cross"}, {"text": "the river the brothers set up their tent on the edge of the camp. At dawn they were awakened by shouts and gunshots and found themselves surrounded. Salman Shah tried to restrain his men, but both brothers were cut down. The Crimeans from Jan Kerman could only bury the dead. On 13 June 1637 a Turkish fleet arrived at Kaffa. Along with janissaries was Inayet's replacement, Bahad\u0131r I Giray. Inayet decided to give up. The next day he sailed for Istanbul to explain himself to the sultan. On 1 July 1637 both Inayet and Khan Temir appeared before the sultan. Since he had captured Kaffa and Kiliya, killed a Turkish governor and threatened to attack Istanbul, he had no case. He was taken away and strangled. Inayet was given a proper funeral and buried at Aziz Eyub-Ansai in Istanbul. Khan Temir was sent away to be a governor of a province in Anatolia, but, nine days after Inayet, he was also strangled."}, {"text": "Nikola Sedlak (born 13 December 1983) is a Serbian chess player who holds the titles of Grandmaster (GM) (2003), Serbian Chess Championship winner (2010), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (2014), and EU Individual Open Chess Championship winner (2007). Career. In 2000, Sedlak won Yugoslav Youth Chess Championship in U18 age group. In 2001, he won silver medal in Yugoslav Junior Chess Championship in U20 age group. In 2002, Sedlak shared 1st place in Montenegrin Chess Championship. In 2010, he won Serbian Chess Championship. In 2014, Sedlak won bronze medal in Serbian Chess Championship. Sedlak is winner of many international chess tournaments, including winning or sharing first place in Budapest (1999), Pula (2003), North Sea Cup in Esbjerg (2004), Subotica (2005), Zadar (2007), Boris Kosti\u0107 memorial in Vr\u0161ac (2008), Sarajevo (2009). In 2007 in Arvier he won 3rd Individual Open Chess Championship. Sedlak played for Yugoslavia and Serbia in the Chess Olympiad: Sedlak played for Yugoslavia and Serbia in the European Team Chess Championships: In 2000, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title three years later."}, {"text": "Bahad\u0131r I Giray (1602\u20131641, reigned 1637\u20131641) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate. Much of his reign was spent dealing with Azov which had been captured by the Cossacks. He died from wounds or illness while returning from the failed Azov campaign in 1641. He was the father of Selim I Giray and, through him, the ancestor of all khans who reigned after 1700 except for Devlet III. Early life and enthronement. He was the son of Sel\u00e2met I Giray who reigned from 1608 to 1610. During his father's reign he was sent to Turkey as a \u2018rekhin\u2019 or honorable hostage. He grew up on an estate near Yambol. He was described as handsome, learned, eloquent and something of a poet. In June 1637 the Turks deposed \u0130nayet Giray and placed Bahadir on the throne. As kalga and nureddin he chose the brothers Islyam and Safa Girai. Just after coming to the throne he learned that the Don Cossacks had captured Azov. Reign and Azov problem. Azov, or Azak as it was then called, lies at the northeast corner of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Don River. In 1471 the Turks captured it from the Genoese."}, {"text": "They used it mainly to collect customs, control trade and to prevent the Don Cossacks from raiding into the Black Sea. Around 1630 the Kalmyks arrived from further east and drove many of the Nogais westward. This removed a screen that protected Azov from the Don Cossacks. In the spring of 1637, when \u0130nayet Giray was away fighting the Budjaks, the Don Cossacks besieged Azov. The garrison thought it was safe behind its walls, but the Cossacks dug a mine under the wall, filled it with gunpowder and blew it up. They burst through breach and killed everyone in the fort (28 June). The news reached Crimea just after Bahadir came to the throne. This was a major problem for all the neighboring powers. Some thought that it might be the beginning of a Russian push south similar the Russian capture of Astrakhan 81 years before. It also raised the possibility of a Russo-Turkish war, something that neither of the two powers wanted. The matter was complicated by the murder of Foma Kantakuzin. He was a Christian in the Ottoman service who was sent as an ambassador to Moscow. Like all such people, he travelled along the Don, where the"}, {"text": "Cossacks were expected to provide supplies and guards. He passed through just as the Cossacks were preparing their attack on Azov. He tried to warn the Turks and the Cossacks killed him. In September Bahadir sent an army under Safa Giray to the Muscovite border. He did little damage but achieved the khan's purpose of reminding the tsar that Crimea was dangerous. The tsar sent ambassadors to Crimea and Istanbul claiming that the Don Cossacks acted on their own, which was basically true, although Russia informally provided them with gunpower and other supplies. Sultan Murad, who was tied up with the siege of Bagdad, ordered the Crimeans to retake Azov. He also ordered them to send 10,000 soldiers to Armenia. The khan called a meeting of his nobles. There was no objection the eastern campaign, so Safa Giray left with part of the army The nobles objected that the Crimean horsemen could not take a walled fort without artillery and engineers. Since this was true, Bahadir chose a policy of diplomacy and delay. In the spring of 1638 ambassadors were sent to Azov, but the Cossacks refused to leave. Murad threatened to remove Bahadir. Toward the end of summer Piyale"}, {"text": "Pasha arrived with a fleet. The khan accompanied him to Azov where he cut off supplies from Russia but could do nothing with the fort without artillery. When winter approached, he returned to Crimea. In 1639 the same pattern threatened to repeat itself. Bahadir proposed to attack the Dnieper Cossacks since they were more dangerous than the Don Cossacks. Murad rejected this. Further delay was imposed by the Mansur conspiracy (below). As winter approached, the Azov campaign was put off until next year. Late in the year Murad ordered the khan to raid Poland and bring back at least 8000 slaves for the Turkish galleys. Kalga Islyam Giray obtained the required number near Kiev. Konetspolski pursued him but was stopped by snowstorms (February 1640). On this campaign Nureddin Safa Giray died. Ottoman\u2013Safavid War (1623\u20131639) ended, thereby freeing up troops for Azov. In the spring of 1641 the Turks sent large forces to Azov under Deli Hussein. Since there was now artillery the Crimeans had no objection to the campaign. By July they reached the Don. Deli Hussein first tried to storm the fort and lost hundreds of men. He then tried bombardment. Soon most of the walls and buildings were"}, {"text": "destroyed, but the ground was soft and trenches soon replaced walls. Both sides dug gunpowder-filled mines and blew them up. The Crimeans served mainly as a screen to prevent supplies from reaching the fort. The Turks began to run low on gunpowder. As autumn approached Bahadir announced that he was going home because the Crimeans could not winter on the steppe. If Crimeans could not endure a steppe winter then neither could janissaries, so Deli Hussein lifted the siege. Bahadir, who had been growing ill for several years, died at Gozlev soon after returning to Crimea. Deli Hussein spent the winter in Kaffa, returned to Istanbul, and was not punished for his failure. In the spring of 1642 the tsar ordered the Don Cossacks to abandon Azov. (Azov was taken by Russia in 1694, lost in 1711 and finally taken in 1774.) Budjaks, Cossacks and the Mansur conspiracy. At this time the Budjak Horde was very active and a problem to all its neighbors. The sultan wanted them out of the way. In early 1637 Inayet Giray defeated them and led them east toward Crimea. They revolted, killed Inayet's two brothers and returned to Budjak. Bahadir sent kalga Islyam Giray"}, {"text": "and Gulum Bey of the Mansurs to Akkerman to bring them back. Fearing punishment for the murders and lacking Turkish support, the horde offered to submit to Poland, its traditional enemy and victim. When the Poles did nothing they submitted and moved back toward Crimea. (1637 or 1638) The Zaporozhian Cossacks were growing increasingly disobedient to their Polish masters. In 1635 the Poles began building the Kodak Fortress near the head of the Dnieper rapids to control the Cossacks and block Crimean raids. Within a few months the place was destroyed by Cossack rebels. In the summer of 1637 the rebels chose Pavel Bout as their hetman, but he was soon defeated. The rebels gathered at Zaporozhye planning a new campaign. They appealed to Crimea, but the khan refused. A group of Nogais joined them. In the spring of 1638 a Polish army went to Zaporozhye and was defeated by the Nogais. The Poles eventually won, Kodak was restored and the rebellious Cossacks spread out, increasing the Cossack population east of the Dnieper. The Mansur clan held the northwestern steppe-like part of Crimea and had connections with the steppe peoples. Gulum, the Mansur bey, saw that the Budjaks were discontented"}, {"text": "and disorganized. Knowing that they had been good fighters under Khan Timur, in 1639 he began planning to take them over. To support this risky plan he made contact with the Azov Cossacks, who, in turn, were trying to gain support of the local Nogais. Bahadir soon learned what was going on. He invited the Budjak nobles to his palace and killed them all. Salman Shah and the last son of Khan Temir fled to the Volga nomads, but were sent back and killed. Safa Girai was sent to slaughter the Mansur leaders including Gulum bey. This coup was authorized by a fatwa from the Kaffa mufti, which implies Bahadir had good evidence of a plot."}, {"text": "Professor Paul Waako (born 20 February 1967), is a Ugandan pharmacologist, academic and academic administrator, who serves as the Vice Chancellor of Busitema University, a public university in the Eastern Region of Uganda, since 1 May 2019. Background and education. Waako was born on 20 February 1967 at Mukuta Village, in Mayuge District, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. After attending local primary and secondary schools, he was admitted to Makerere University School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in East Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree and a Master of Science degree in Pharmacology, both awarded by Makerere University, in Uganda. His Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Pharmacology was obtained from the University of Cape Town, in South Africa. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, obtained from the Uganda Management Institute, in Kampala. Career. For a period of ten years, he chaired the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He was then appointed Dean of Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, serving in that capacity from 2013 until 2019. As Vice Chancellor at Busitema University, he succeeded Professor Mary Okwakol, the founding Vice Chancellor, whose"}, {"text": "term of office ended on 30 April 2019. Family. Professor Waako is married to Engineer Ziria Tibalwa Waako, an electrical engineer, who serves as the chief executive officer of Uganda's Electricity Regulatory Authority, since November 2016. Together, they are parents to five children."}, {"text": "Billy Mitchell (13 October 1854 \u2013 21 March 1931) born as William Mitchell was an English player of English billiards. Biography. Mitchell was born on 13 October 1854 at Birchinlee in Derbyshire. He became a marker, a role that involved keeping the score of billiards matches, at the Angel Hotel, Sheffield, at the age of 13. He later worked at Bradleys, a billiard room in Scarborough, and started playing matches for money at the age of 15. In 1882, he made the first four-figure break seen in public, a 1,055 against William Peall. In October 1887, Peall and Mitchell played at the Royal Aquarium in a 15,000-up match advertised as the \"All-in Championship.\" Despite this billing, it was not actually recognised by the recently formed Billiard Association as a championship match. On the last day, Mitchell was almost 2,000 points behind Peall, but with a series of breaks including 801 and 912, recovered to win the match 15,000\u201313,733. The second of these unofficial matches was staged in March 1888 at the same venue, and this time Peall won by a large margin, 15,000\u20136,753, including a record break of 2,031. Mitchell won the first of three \"Championship of the World\" tournaments"}, {"text": "promoted from 1889 to 1891 by manufacturers George Wright and Company, finishing behind Peall in the other two. During his career, Mitchell compiled over 1,000 four-figure breaks the highest being a 1,620 which included 536 consecutive of the from the . He died on 21 March 1931 at the Fir Vale Hospital, Sheffield."}, {"text": "Diego Silva (born March 13, 1997) is a footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Stumptown Athletic in the NISA. Born in Argentina, Silva represents the United States internationally. Career. Youth. Silva played in his native Argentina with Defensores Del Dorado and later spent two years with Racing Club, before moving to the United States. In the United States, Silva joined the Real Salt Lake academy for three years. College & Amateur. Silva went to play two years of college soccer at the University of Maryland in 2015 and 2016. In 2018, Silva spent the season with USL PDL side FC Tucson, making two appearances and tallying two assists. Silva remained in the USL PDL, now rebranded as USL League Two, in 2019. Initially signing for Ogden City SC, but later moving to Park City Red Wolves, where he made three appearances for the club. Professional. In July 2019, Silva signed for NISA side Stumptown Athletic ahead of the league's inaugural season."}, {"text": "The Embassy of Germany in Kabul was the diplomatic mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in Afghanistan. The Consulate General also operates in Mazar-i-Sharif as a second German mission in the country. The embassy in Kabul is located in the diplomatic district of the capital on Wazir Akbar Khan, Mena 6 in Kabul. The current Ambassador is Axel Zeidler. History. In 2013, Germany opened the consulate general in a former hotel in Mazar-i-Sharif, the second German diplomatic mission other than the embassy. The devastating bomb attack in Kabul on May 31, 2017, which killed 150 people and injured 400, took place near various embassies, including the German Mission. The embassy buildings were so badly damaged that demolition was considered. The office of the German foreign intelligence service BND at the embassy was also badly damaged. After the attack, all employees from Afghanistan were initially withdrawn, with only one core team continuing to work from NATO headquarters. 30 Bundeswehr soldiers from the German Resolute Support Mission protected the grounds of the embassy until its reopening. Since 15 August 2021, the embassy is closed until further notice."}]