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Clara Eleonore "Clärenore" Stinnes-Söderstrom (née Stinnes; 21 January 1901 – 7 September 1990) was a German female auto racer, heiress and socialite. Together with Swedish cinematographer Carl-Axel Söderström, the two were the first to circumnavigate the world by automobile.
Early life and education
Stinnes was born in Mülheim to the German industrialist and politician Hugo Stinnes. At the age of 24 she participated in her first motor race; by 1927 she had won 17 races and was one of the most successful race car drivers in Europe. On 25 May 1927 Stinnes started to journey around the world, together with Carl-Axel Söderström, whom she had met only two days before her departure, in a mass production Adler Standard 6 automobile and escorted by two mechanics and a freight vehicle with spare parts and equipment. The journey was sponsored by the German automotive industry (Adler, Bosch and Aral) with 100,000 Reichsmark.They passed through the Balkans via Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Tehran to Moscow, where the two mechanics left, then they travelled to Siberia, crossed the frozen Lake Baikal and the Gobi desert and came to Peking. They travelled by ferry to Japan, later to Hawaii and South America. Arriving in Lima they travelled across the Andes Mountains to Buenos Aires, then back again and north through Central America. The pair continued on to Vancouver and New York. In Washington, D.C. Stinnes and Söderström were welcomed by President Herbert Hoover. They travelled by ferry to Le Havre and arrived with their car in Berlin on 24 June 1929, after a journey of by car.
Personal life
After their happy return Carl-Axel Söderström was divorced; Söderström and Stinnes married and lived on an estate in Sweden, where they raised three children of their own and several foster children. In later years they spent some time of the year in Irmenach. Söderström died in 1976, aged 82, while Stinnes survived her husband by 14 years.
Other sources
Stinnes, Clärenore: Im Auto durch zwei Welten: Die erste Autofahrt einer Frau um die Welt, 1927 bis 1929, Promedia Verlag 1996,
Stinnes C. (1927-1929). En auto a través de los continentes. Madrid. Ediciones Casiopea. 2016. (papel) (digital). Spanish edit.
Tejera, P. (2018). Reinas de la carretera. Madrid. Ediciones Casiopea. (papel) / (digital). Spanish edit.
References
External links
"Foreign News: Stinnes Daughter". Time. September 26, 1927.
"Germany: Fraulein and Swede". Time. June 11, 1928.
IMDb entry on the 2009 documentary film "Fräulein Stinnes fährt um die Welt (Fraulein Stinnes Travels the World)"
1921 births
1990 deaths
German female racing drivers
German racing drivers
People from Mülheim
Racing drivers from North Rhine-Westphalia
Circumnavigators of the globe
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Charles Wilson (20 July 1905 – 8 April 1985) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.
Biography
Wilson was born in Heeley, Sheffield. He joined West Bromwich Albion as an amateur in December 1920 and turned professional two years later. In February 1928 he moved to Sheffield Wednesday for a £3,000 transfer fee. He moved on to Grimsby Town in March 1932, before joining Aston Villa in August 1933. In June 1934 he signed for Coventry City, and remained with the club until a move to Kidderminster Harriers in July 1935. Wilson joined Worcester City in August 1936, before re-joining Kidderminster in May 1937. During the Second World War he appeared as a guest player for Charlton Athletic and Aldershot. After playing for the Kidderminster Police team in 1946, he finally retired from football in 1947. He died in Kidderminster in 1985.
References
1905 births
1985 deaths
Footballers from Sheffield
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
Aston Villa F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Kidderminster Harriers F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
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Elections were held on 15 May 2005 in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Following the last local elections in 2001, Milan Bandić of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) had been re-elected as the mayor of Zagreb. In 2002, an incident made him resign in favor of Deputy Mayor Vlasta Pavić, also from the SDP. Pavić remained formally in control of the city until 2005. In the 2005 elections, she was moved down the list of candidates to the 16th place, while the list holder and SDP's candidate for mayor was Bandić.
The elections mainly pitted two former mayors, Bandić of the SDP and Marina Matulović Dropulić of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The SDP formed a coalition with the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU), while the HDZ was in a coalition with the Democratic Centre (DC), the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), and the Croatian Demochristians (HD). The SDP gained 25 seats in the Zagreb Assembly, receiving 40.95% of the vote, with Milan Bandić winning his third term as the Zagreb mayor.
Coalitions
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) ran with the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU). Former Mayor Milan Bandić, who had to resign from his earlier term due to a driving under the influence scandal in 2002, was the list holder and the coalition's candidate for mayor. Vesna Pusić, the head of the Croatian People's Party (HNS), announced that the HNS won't be a member of the coalition due to the candidacy of Bandić. Pusić added that Milan Bandić is "at the top of each affair causing damage" to the city.
The SDP and the HNS were in coalition in the previous Assembly. Due to this breakup, the HNS ran together with the Liberal Party (LS), with Pusić as the list holder. The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) entered a coalition with the Democratic Centre (DC), the Croatian Demochristians (HD), and the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS).
Results
The turnout at the election was 35%. The SDP–HSS–HSU coalition, led by incumbent Mayor Milan Bandić, won 41% of the vote and 25 out of 51 seats in the Zagreb Assembly. Bandić was elected mayor by the new Assemby and started his third term as the mayor of Zagreb. The HDZ–DC–HSLS–HD coalition, with former Mayor Marina Matulović Dropulić as the list holder, won 9 seats, while the HSP list, led by Miroslav Rožić, finished third with 6 seats. The HNS–LS coalition won 8% of the vote and 4 seats, down from 12 in the 2001 elections. The LS was later incorporated into the HSLS.
Milan Bandić was elected mayor by the Assembly on 14 June 2005.
Assembly election
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! rowspan="2" |List holder
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
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!width="85"| Votes
!width="50"| %
!width="50"| ±pp
!width="40"| Total
!width="40"| +/−
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|bgcolor=|
|align = left | Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP)Croatian Peasant Party (HSS)Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU)
|align = left | Milan Bandić
|align = right | 102,857
|align = right | 40.95%
|align="right" style="color:green;"| +13.88
|align = right | 25
|align = right style="color:green;"| +5
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|bgcolor=|
|align = left | Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)Democratic Centre (DC)Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS)Croatian Demochristians (HD)
|align = left | Marina Matulović Dropulić
|align = right | 38,672
|align = right | 15.40%
|align="right" style="color:red;"| –4.51
|align = right | 9
|align = right style="color:red;"| –5
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|bgcolor=|
|align = left | Croatian Party of Rights (HSP)
|align = left | Miroslav Rožić
|align = right | 28,534
|align = right | 11.36%
|align = right | *
|align = right | 6
|align = right | *
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|align = left | Croatian People's Party (HNS)Liberal Party (LS)
|align = left | Vesna Pusić
|align = right | 20,368
|align = right | 8.11%
|align = right style="color:red;"| –9.43
|align = right | 4
|align = right style="color:red;"| –8
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|bgcolor=|
|align = left | Independent list of Tatjana Holjevac
|align = left | Tatjana Holjevac
|align = right | 17,497
|align = right | 6.97%
|align = right | New
|align = right | 4
|align = right | New
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|bgcolor=|
|align = left | Independent list of Boris Mikšić
|align = left | Boris Mikšić
|align = right | 14,807
|align = right | 5.90%
|align="right" | New
|align = right | 3
|align = right | New
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| align=left colspan=2 | Other lists
|align = right | 28,415
|align = right | 11.31%
|align = right |
|align = right | 0
|align = right |
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| align=left colspan=3 style="background-color:#eaecf0" | Total:
| align=right style="background-color:#eaecf0"| 251,150
| align=right style="background-color:#eaecf0"|
| align=right style="background-color:#eaecf0"|
| align=right style="background-color:#eaecf0"| 51
| align=right style="background-color:#eaecf0"|
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| align=left colspan=3 | Invalid votes:
| align=right | 4,019
| align=right | 1.57%
| align=right |
| align=right |
| align=right |
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| align=left colspan=3 | Turnout:
| align=right | 255,321
| align=right | 35.94%
| align=right style="color:red;"| –3.85
| align=right |
| align=right |
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| align=left colspan=3 | Registered voters:
| align=right | 710,344
| align=right |
| align=right |
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| align=right |
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| colspan="8" align="left" | Source: City Election Committee
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Councils of districts
See also
List of mayors of Zagreb
References
External links
Izbori
Zagreb 2005
Elections in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb
2000s in Zagreb
Zagreb local election
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The King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, managed by Hilton (KHBTCC) is a convention center located on the eastern shores of the Dead Sea, near Sweimeh. It is named after the late king of Jordan, Hussein Bin Talal (1952–1999).
The KHBTCC launched in 2005. The three-story centre hosts over 3,000 guests and has 27 conference halls, lounges, foyers, and several outdoor terraces on of floor space. It is distanced by 65 kilometers from Queen Alia International Airport and 45 kilometers from Amman.
The KHBTCC can accommodate approximately 4,000 people. The center hosted a 2007 regional meeting of the World Economic Forum and meetings of the International Monetary Fund.
External links
King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center managed by Hilton website
Jordan
Event venues in Jordan
Dead Sea
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 30 June 1965, in Strasbourg) is a French visual artist and educator. She is known for her work in video projection, photography, and art installations. She has worked in landscaping, design, and writing. "I always look for experimental processes. I like the fact that at the beginning I don't know how to do things and then, slowly, I start learning. Often exhibitions don't give me this learning possibility anymore."
She lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
Biography
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in Strasbourg, France in 1965. At the age of 17, she worked as a museum guard in Grenoble while studying at the École du Magasin of the National Centre of Contemporary Art in Grenoble. She also studied at the Institute des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, in Paris. She began her career as an artist in the 1990s, working primarily in film.
Work
Inspired by film, literature, modernist architecture, and art history, her work is often characterized by a quiet, intimate interrogation of contemporary urban life. Often she will use fragments from her international travels in her work and reassembles them into something new. "My approach to art is quite radical. It has more to do with theater and staging than making objects such as paintings or sculptures. Sometimes I think that the fetishism of objects is pathetic. It's one way to deal with art, but I'm obsessed with other things". She also hopes that her installations will encourage people to interact with them. "I want to coax people to engage with my art, in the same way that a writer might entice people to read a book".
Her early work was mainly short, minimalistic and oneiric films. She now collaborates on everything from the writing of a science fiction novel with fellow artist Philippe Parreno to working with rock singer Alain Bashung on set design. In 2008 she worked with designer M&M to realize the typeface of "Expodrome" a large time-based luminous public art work on the rooftop of a building in Geneva. In 2009, she collaborated with composer Ari Benjamin Meyers on “K62”, a performance shown at Performa 09, New York’s biennial festival of performing arts. She has also collaborated with Nicolas Ghesquière on designing displays for Balenciaga boutiques in New York and Paris. She has even designed a house for a collector in Tokyo.
For the season 2015–2016 in the Vienna State Opera Gonzalez-Foerster designed a large-scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress.
Exhibitions
Her first solo exhibition in New York City, "Equinimod and Costumes" was held in 2014 at 303 Gallery and featured an art installation of her wardrobe. González-Foerster has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, the Dia Art Foundation, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Tate Modern.
She participated in the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial, and the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Tate Modern's Turbine Hall installation
The show was entitled "The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058" and appeared in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in Londonhttps from October 14, 2008 to April 13, 2009. At the opening of the show Dominique said, " Some months ago, I used to wake up in the silence of the night to think about what I was going to do. But not anymore. People ask me, 'Are you scared?' No, I am not scared. If I was, I wouldn't do it. Rather, I'm excited. I am putting one third of my energy into just staying calm. The work is on such a scale that if you got too excited, you would explode,". The show was her first public commission in the UK and filled half of the 3,400 square meter hall. "TH.2058 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, imagines Tate Modern 50 years into the future, set in a London afflicted by perpetual rain. Tate Modern is being used as a shelter for people, a storage space for art works and for the remains of culture. The vast Turbine Hall is filled with monumental replicas of iconic sculptural works. Rows of bunk beds are scattered with books, and on a giant screen The Last Film is continuously running. Made up of short excerpts from science-fiction films, The Last Film suggests a potential state of catastrophe as well as the possibility of collective memory,".
Hispanic Society of America installation
The installation at the Hispanic Society of America in New York was installed in 2009, and was entitled "chronotopes & dioramas". The Hispanic Society of America is a museum and research library with an impressive collection of paintings, decorative objects, books, documents, prints, and photographs. However, Dominique discovered it only had a limited supply of 20th century literature and wanted to fill in the gaps. She enlisted help from experts at the American Museum of Natural History. The project involved crafting three habitats in which volumes by nearly 40 authors replaced taxidermied fauna. One evokes water and verticality; another, aridity and flatness; the third, trailing vines. They represent three zones: North America, the Desert, and the Tropics. Aside from the books, each diorama contains a single, mute trace of human presence. In the underwater ocean scene there is an oil barrel. In the desert scene there are ruins of a concrete bunker. In the tropical scene there is a desolate, glass house. They each show the wear and tear of passing time. Many of the books in the dioramas are about anxiety and exile. She also created a mural-sized calligram (an arrangement of words that creates a related visual image). This is Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope; "functioning as the primary means for materializing time in space with the novel". The installation is housed in an annex to the library.
Collections
Gonzalez-Foerster's work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Dia Art Foundation, the Guggenheim, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the M+ Museum, the Moderna Museet, and the Tate Modern.
Recognition
Gonzalez-Foerster was the recipient of an artist residency in Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto in 1996, the Mies van der Rohe Award in Krefeld in 1996, and the 2002 Marcel Duchamp Prize in Paris.
References
Further reading
"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Public-Personal Space." by Graham Coulter-Smith
External links
images of Gonzalez-Foerster's work at Galerie Jan Mot
examples of Gonzalez-Foerster's films at Anna Sanders Films
French contemporary artists
Living people
1965 births
Artists from Strasbourg
20th-century French women artists
20th-century French artists
21st-century French women artists
21st-century French artists
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The 107th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in the Coal Region and has been represented since 2023 by Joanne Stehr.
District profile
The 107th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Northumberland County and Schuylkill County. It is made up of the following areas:
Northumberland County
Coal Township
East Cameron Township
Jackson Township
Jordan Township
Herndon
Little Mahanoy Township
Lower Augusta Township
Lower Mahanoy Township
Kulpmont
Marion Heights
Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel Township
Ralpho Township
Shamokin
Shamokin Township
Upper Mahanoy Township
Washington Township
West Cameron Township
Zerbe Township
Schuylkill County
Barry Township
Eldred Township
Foster Township
Frailey Township
Hegins Township
Hubley Township
Pine Grove
Pine Grove Township
Porter Township
Reilly Township
Tower City
Tremont
Tremont Township
Upper Mahantongo Township
Washington Township
Representatives
Recent election results
References
External links
District map from the United States Census Bureau
Pennsylvania House Legislative District Maps from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Population Data for District 107 from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Government of Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Government of Montour County, Pennsylvania
Government of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
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The Grünhornlücke (el. 3280 m.) is a high mountain pass in the eastern Bernese Alps, connecting the Aletsch Glacier and the Fiescher Glacier in the canton of Valais. The pass is located between the Grünhorn on the north and the Fiescher Gabelhorn on the south.
On the west side of the pass (Aletsch Glacier) is the Konkordiaplatz. The Grünhornlücke is approximately halfway between the Konkordia Hut and the Finsteraarhorn Hut.
See also
List of mountain passes in Switzerland
References
Mountain passes of Valais
Mountain passes of the Alps
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The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation is a private cultural institution founded by the painter Salvador Dalí with the mission of promoting his artistic, cultural and intellectual œuvre. Although the Foundation manages the assets, trademark rights, intellectual property and image of the painter, it is not its owner, since Dalí bequeathed all of his assets to the Spanish State in his last will.
The foundation is also named after his wife, Gala Dalí.
Created on 23 December 1983 at Púbol Castle, Dalí presided over and directed the foundation in person from the outset. His death on 23 January 1989 inaugurated a period of transition until 1991, when the board of the foundation appointed Ramon Boixadós Malé president.
The Foundation's museums
Dalí Theater-Museum (Figueres)
Dalí-Jewels (Figueres)
Home-Museum Salvador Dalí (Portlligat)
Home-Museum Gala-Dalí Castle (Púbol)
References
External links
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
Museu Salvador Dalí a St. Petersburg (Florida)
Arts foundations based in Europe
Salvador Dalí
1983 establishments in Spain
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The Gloster II was a British racing floatplane of the 1920s. A single-engined biplane, two were built to compete in the 1924 Schneider Trophy air race. However the crash of the first prototype during testing meant that it could not be made ready for the race, which was postponed. The second aircraft was also lost in a crash.
Design and development
The 1923 Schneider Trophy race for seaplanes had been won by the United States Navy with the Curtiss CR-3, a floatplane which outclassed Britain's entry, the Supermarine Sea Lion III flying boat. In a change from previous years, where Britain's entries had been privately funded, the British Air Ministry ordered two racing seaplanes from the Gloster Aircraft Company to compete for the 1924 race.
The resulting aircraft, designated the Gloster II, was a floatplane development of Gloster's earlier Gloster I racing aircraft, which had won the annual Aerial Derby air race three years running between 1921 and 1923, and had attempted unsuccessfully to break the World airspeed record in 1922. It was a small single-seat biplane of fabric covered wooden construction, powered by a closely faired Napier Lion engine. It had short-span single bay wings and a twin float undercarriage, with radiators mounted on the struts supporting the floats.
The first aircraft, with the serial number J7504, was ready for flight testing in September 1924. However, when attempting to land after its first test flight, on 19 September 1924, the undercarriage collapsed and the aircraft sank, with pilot Hubert Broad escaping unhurt. There was insufficient time to prepare the second aircraft for the race, scheduled for October, but as no other European nation had an entry ready to compete, the Americans postponed the race until 1925.
The second aircraft was converted to a landplane and used for flight testing equipment to be used for the Gloster III racer being designed for the 1925 competition. It was lost in a high-speed crash landing at RAF Cranwell following elevator flutter in June 1925, the pilot, Larry Carter, being seriously injured, fracturing his skull.
Specifications (Gloster II seaplane)
See also
References
"British Schneider Cup Seaplane Lost" Flight, 25 September 1924. p. 630.
"The Accident to the Gloster II". Flight, 18 June 1925. p. 374.
Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919: Volume 2. London:Putnam, Second edition 1973. .
James, Derek J. Gloster Aircraft since 1917. London:Putnam, 1971. .
Mondey, David. "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy". Air Enthusiast, Seventeen, December 1981 – March 1982. Bromley, Kent, UK:Pilot Press. pp. 36–50.
1920s British sport aircraft
Schneider Trophy
Floatplanes
II
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1924
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"Ooh Yeah" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the fourth and final single from his eighth studio album Last Night on November 23, 2008, as a digital download.
Music video
The "Ooh Yeah" music video was directed by Matteo Bernardini. It starts out on the set of a pornography video shoot. People are getting ready and rushing around while the director is smoking and the makeup artist is applying makeup to some of the porn stars (whose names are Angelica La Lapin (Angel Rabbit), Crystal Menthe (Crystal Meth), Foxy Candy, and Bunny). Then the movie begins shooting. The pizza boy (whose name is Big Rod) is called by two of the girls. He brings them over pizza and then starts having wild sexual intercourse with them. This continues until the end of the music video.
Track listing
Digital single
"Ooh Yeah" – 3:38
"Ooh Yeah" – 4:53
"Ooh Yeah" – 6:33
"Ooh Yeah" – 7:52
"Ooh Yeah" – 8:16
"Ooh Yeah" – 7:28
Charts
References
External links
2008 singles
Moby songs
Songs written by Moby
Mute Records singles
2008 songs
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HM Prison Everthorpe was a Category C men's prison, located to the south-west of Everthorpe, (near Brough) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The prison was operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and was situated next to HMP Wolds.
In 2014, HM Prison Everthorpe was merged with HM Prison Wolds, and renamed HM Prison Humber.
History
Originally a borstal at its creation in 1958 to replace Dartmoor Prison, in 1991 Everthorpe Prison was converted to house male convicts.
During the Christmas and New Year period of 1995/1996, Everthorpe experienced some prisoner unrest that resulted in a large, two-day prison riot. According to investigators, the unrest was caused by official steps to eliminate drug use by inmates and also by shortages of tobacco and phonecards, which had run out over the holiday period. The prison was criticised for its lack of security, bad management and the deployment of inexperienced staff during the riot.
An inspection report from the Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in July 2004 praised Everthorpe Prison for its education and training programmes, but warned that Everthorpe needed to ensure that all inmates at the prison benefitted from these programmes.
The prison was substantially expanded in 2005. In an inspection report a year later, Everthorpe was criticised by the Chief Inspector of Prisons because places on resettlement and offending behaviour programmes had "failed to keep pace" with the increased number of prisoners held at the prison. The report also highlighted problems with bullying amongst inmates.
In January 2008 it emerged that inmates at Everthorpe had been regularly smuggling drugs, mobile phones and women's clothing into the prison. A ladder had been used by an accomplice on the outside to scale the 20-foot perimeter wall of the prison to supply these items, with the racket reportedly continuing for at least six months.
The prison
Everthorpe was a Category C training prison with a strong emphasis of on education and training. Education at Everthorpe was provided by The Manchester College and East Riding College with courses including Literacy, Numeracy, Art and Design, Information Technology, Business, wall and floor tiling, Painting and Decorating, Bricklaying, Industrial cleaning, and Computer Aided Design. The PE department at the prison also ran various Physical Education courses as well as recreational gym.
It was announced in June 2013 that HM Prisons Everthorpe and Wolds would merge into one larger prison under a new name: HM Prison Humber.
References
External links
Ministry of Justice Pages on Everthorpe
A Memorable Moral Moment—redemptive memories of Everthorpe by an ex-inmate
HMP Everthorpe - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports
Everthorpe
Everthorpe
1958 establishments in England
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Dainius Kamaitis is the Lithuanian diplomat, former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
During 2007–2012, he was the Lithuanian Governor to Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).
In 2003, he was awarded with The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania.
D.Kamaitis is the initiator and key coordinator of a series of events held under the Lithuania-Japan architecture forum known as East-East. For this initiative, he was nominated by the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania and the Čiurlionis Foundation for the award with the Čiurlionis Cup 2013 for having contributed to cultural relations between Japan and Lithuania.
In 2019, the Government of Japan awarded D.Kamaitis with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, in recognition to his contribution to strengthening and promoting friendly relations between Japan and Lithuania.
References
Lithuanian diplomats
Living people
1965 births
Ambassadors of Lithuania to Japan
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University alumni
Knight's Crosses of the Order for Merits to Lithuania
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Jamal Malik (born 1956) is a Pakistani-born German professor of Islamic Studies and the chair of Religious Studies — Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
Malik was born in 1956 in Peshawar, Pakistan. After finishing his MA in Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn (1982), Jamal Malik received his doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg (1989), and completed his post-doctoral work at the University of Bamberg (1994). In 1998, he was appointed head of Religious Studies at the University of Derby. Since 1999 he has been the Chair of Religious Studies — Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and has served as Directeur d'Etudes at EHESS (1994), in addition to having been a visiting professor at Oberlin College (1997), Jamia Millia Islamia (2004-5) and Government College Lahore (2006-7). His areas of interest include the social history of Muslim South Asia, the sociology of knowledge and Muslims in the West.
Bibliography (select)
Islam in South Asia – A Short History, Leiden: Brill, 2008 (Indian Edition: Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Ltd., 2012)
Madrasas in South Asia. Teaching Terror?, London and New York: Routledge, 2008 (editor & co-author)
Sufism in the West, London and New York: Routledge, 2006 (co-author & co-editor with John Hinnells)
Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-editor & co-author with Helmut Reifeld)
Islamische Gelehrtenkultur in Nordindien. Entwicklungsgeschichte und Tendenzen am Beispiel von Lucknow, Leiden: Brill, 1997
Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan, New Delhi: Manohar Publications, and Lahore: Vanguard Ltd., 1996
Islamisierung in Pakistan, 1977-1984. Untersuchungen zur Auflösung autochthoner Strukturen, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1989
External links
Homepage
Chair of Islamic Studies – University of Erfurt
University of Erfurt
1956 births
Pakistani educators
Academics of the University of Derby
Academic staff of the University of Erfurt
Pakistani emigrants to Germany
Living people
Academics from Karachi
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Christoph Cremer (born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is a German physicist and emeritus at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, former honorary professor at the University of Mainz and was a former group leader at Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, who has successfully overcome the conventional limit of resolution that applies to light based investigations (the Abbe limit) by a range of different methods (1971/1978 development of the concept of 4Pi-microscopy; 1996 localization microscopy SPDM; 1997 spatially structured illumination SIM (first developed in 1995 by John M. Guerra at Polaroid Corp.)). In the meantime, according to his own statement, Christoph Cremer is a member of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Otto Hahn Institute) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
His actual microscope Vertico-SMI is the world's fastest nano light microscope that allows large scale investigation of supramolecular complexes including living cell conditions. It allows 3 D imaging of biological preparations marked with conventional fluorescent dyes and reaches a resolution of 10 nm in 2D and 40 nm in 3D.
This nanoscope has therefore the potential to add substantially to the current revolution in optical imaging which will affect the entire molecular biology, medical and pharmaceutical research. The technology allows the development of new strategies for the prevention, the lowering of risk and therapeutic treatment of diseases.
Biography
Following a few semesters studying philosophy and history at Freiburg University and Munich University, Cremer studied physics in Munich (with financial support from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and completed his Ph.D. in genetics and biophysics in Freiburg. This was followed by post-doctoral studies at the Institute for Human Genetics at Freiburg University, several years in the United States at the University of California, and his "Habilitation" in general human genetics and experimental cytogenetics at Freiburg University. From 1983 until his retirement, he was teaching as a professor (chair since 2004) for "applied optics and information processing" at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics at the University of Heidelberg. In addition, he was a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing Cremer was a participant in three "Projects of Excellence" of the University of Heidelberg (2007–2012), and was also a partner in the Biotechnology Cluster for cell-based and molecular medicine, one of five clusters selected in 2008 as German BMBF Clusters of Excellence. Elected as Second Speaker of the Senate of the University of Heidelberg, Cremer was also involved in university governance and politics. In his function as adjunct professor at the University of Maine and as member of the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine), where he undertakes research for several weeks each year during the semester breaks, he was involved in the establishment of the biophysics center (Institute for Molecular Biophysics), which is linked with the University of Heidelberg through a "Global Network" collaboration.
Cremer is married to architect and artist Letizia Mancino-Cremer.
Fundamental developments
Developing the concept of 4Pi microscopy
Cremer was involved early in the further development of laser based light microscopy approaches. First ideas had their origin in his graduate student years in the 1970s. Jointly with his brother Thomas Cremer, now professor (chair) of Anthropology and Human Genetics at the Ludwigs-Maximilian University in Munich, Christoph Cremer proposed the development of a hologram-based laser scanning 4Pi microscope. The basic idea was to focus laser light from all sides (space angle 4Pi) in a spot with a diameter smaller than the conventional laser focus and to scan the object by means of this spot. In this manner, it should be possible to achieve an improved optical resolution beyond the conventional limit of approx. 200 nm lateral, 600 nm axial. However the publication from 1978 had drawn an improper physical conclusion (i.e. a point-like spot of light) and had completely missed the axial resolution increase as the actual benefit of adding the other side of the solid angle. Since 1992, 4Pi microscopy developed by Stefan Hell (Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen) into a highly efficient, high-resolution imaging process, using two microscope objective lenses of high numeric aperture opposing each other.
Development of the first DNA laser-UV-microirradiation technique for living cells
In the early 1970s, the brothers realized a UV laser micro irradiation instrument which for the first time made it possible to irradiate in a controlled manner only a tiny part of a living cell at the absorption maximum for DNA (257 nm). This replaced the conventional UV partial irradiation practiced for over 60 years. In this way, it was possible for the first time to induce alterations in the DNA in a focused manner (i.e. at predetermined places in the cell nucleus of living cells) without compromising the cells ability to divide and to survive. Specific very small cell regions could be irradiated and thus the dynamics of macromolecules (DNA) contained there quantitatively estimated. Furthermore, due to the high speed of the process using irradiation times of fractions of a second, it became possible to irradiate even moving cell organelles. This development provided the basis for important experiments in the area of genome structure research (establishing the existence of so-called chromosome territories in living mammalian cells) and led, a few years later (1979/1980) to a successful collaboration with the biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen). In this collaboration Cremer used his UV laser micro irradiation equipment to elicit cellular changes in the early larval stages of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Development of the confocal laser scanning microscopy for fluorescence
On the basis of experience gained in the construction and application of the UV laser micro irradiation instrument, the Cremer brothers designed in 1978 a laser scanning process which scans point-by-point the three-dimensional surface of an object by means of a focused laser beam and creates the over-all picture by electronic means similar to those used in scanning electron microscopes. It is this plan for the construction of a confocal laser scanning microscope (CSLM), which for the first time combined the laser scanning method with the 3D detection of biological objects labeled with fluorescent markers that earned Cremer his professorial position at the University of Heidelberg. During the next decade, the confocal fluorescence microscopy was developed into a technically fully matured state in particular by groups working at the University of Amsterdam and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and their industry partners. In later years, this technology was adopted widely by biomolecular and biomedical laboratories and remains to this day the gold standard as far as three-dimensional light microscopy with conventional resolution is concerned.
Development of the super resolution microscopy methods
The goal of microscopy is in many cases to determine the size of individual, small objects. Conventional fluorescence microscopy can only establish sizes to around the conventional optical resolution limit of approximately 200 nm (lateral). More than 20 years after submitting the 4 pi patent application, Christoph Cremer returned to the problem of the diffraction limit.
With the Vertico SMI microscope he could realize his various super resolution techniques including SMI, SPDM, SPDMphymod and LIMON. These methods are mainly used for biomedical applications
Spatially Modulated Illumination SMI
Around 1995, he commenced with the development of a light microscopic process, which achieved a substantially improved size resolution of cellular nanostructures stained with a fluorescent marker. This time he employed the principle of wide field microscopy combined with structured laser illumination (spatially modulated illumination, SMI) Currently, a size resolution of 30 – 40 nm (approximately 1/16 – 1/13 of the wavelength used) is being achieved. In addition, this technology is no longer subjected to the speed limitations of the focusing microscopy so that it becomes possible to undertake 3D analyses of whole cells within short observation times (at the moment around a few seconds). Disambiguation SMI: S = spatially, M = Modulated I= Illumination.
Localization Microscopy SPDM
Also around 1995, Cremer developed and realized new fluorescence based wide field microscopy approaches which had as their goal the improvement of the effective optical resolution (in terms of the smallest detectable distance between two localized objects) down to a fraction of the conventional resolution (spectral precision distance/position determination microscopy, SPDM; Disambiguation SPDM: S = Spectral, P = Precision, D = Distance, M = Microscopy).
Localization Microscopy SPDMphymod
With this method, it is possible to use conventional, well established and inexpensive fluorescent dyes, standard like GFP, RFP, YFP, Alexa 488, Alexa 568, Alexa 647, Cy2, Cy3, Atto 488 and fluorescein.
in contrast to other localization microscopy technologies that need two laser wavelengths when special photo-switchable/photo-activatable fluorescence molecules are used. A further example for the use of SPDMphymod is an analysis of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) particles. or virus–cell interaction.
Disambiguation SPDMphymod: S = Spectral, P = Precision D = Distance, M = Microscopy, phy = physically, mod = modifiable
3D Light microscopical nanosizing (LIMON) microscopy
Combining SPDM and SMI, known as LIMON microscopy. Christoph Cremer can currently achieve a resolution of approx. 10 nm in 2D and 40 nm in 3D in wide field images of whole living cells. Widefield 3D "nanoimages" of whole living cells currently still take about two minutes, but work to reduce this further is currently under way. Vertico-SMI is currently the fastest optical 3D nanoscope for the three-dimensional structural analysis of whole cells worldwide
As a biological application in the 3D dual color mode the spatial arrangements of Her2/neu and Her3 clusters was achieved. The positions in all three directions of the protein clusters could be determined with an accuracy of about 25 nm.
References
External links
History of Super Resolution Microscopy / Optical Nanoscopy
Christoph Cremer's lab at the imb Mainz, Germany
List of publications
Interview in World of Photonics
Festschrift "Uncovering cellular sub-structures by light microscopy in honour of Professor Cremer's 65th birthday", European Biophysics Journal
20th-century German physicists
Living people
Molecular biology
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century German physicists
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A virtual incumbent or quasi-incumbent is a candidate in an election who campaigns as though they currently hold the office being contested, though the actual incumbent is not running for re-election. Traditionally, the virtual incumbent is the nominee from the party of the sitting office-holder. In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, however, virtual incumbency was also determined less formally, either by the policies of the actual candidates or the state of the polls.
2008 U.S. presidential election
Kevin Hassett used the idea in its traditional sense when discussing Ray Fair's model, which ties the incumbent's party to the current state of the economy. In 2008, however, argued Hassett,
"it may not be possible for the Democrats to portray the Republican candidate, who has taken his own principled stands on any number of issues throughout the past seven years, as a virtual incumbent. Hence, Senator John McCain may be spared the typical negative incumbent bounce in a recession."
The concept was used in a different way on Face the Nation on November 2, 2008 by Senator Lindsey Graham to describe Barack Obama's candidacy. In that case, the assumption was that the virtual incumbent, like an actual incumbent, would be held to a higher standard by the electorate, and would therefore be less likely to win in a tight race in a given state. This argument had been previously made by Dick Morris to suggest the likelihood that undecided voters would overwhelmingly vote for John McCain:
"But as Obama surged into a more or less permanent lead in October, animated by the financial crisis, he has assumed many of the characteristics of an incumbent. Every voter asks himself one question before he or she casts a ballot: Do I want to vote for Obama? His uniqueness, charisma and assertive program have so dominated the dialogue that the election is now a referendum on Obama."
John Fund described Obama as the "quasi-incumbent" on CNN Late Edition on November 2, 2008, by which he also meant that the election had become "referendum on Barack Obama".
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, had previously described Hillary Clinton as the "quasi-incumbent" during the primaries. As in the case of Obama himself, the characterization is intended to "downplay expectations of [the challenger's] performance in upcoming polls". Katrina Vanden Heuvel has also used this term to describe Clinton: "Hillary Clinton started this race last year as the one to beat--she had the money, the machine and the name recognition that assured her of quasi-incumbent status. And, indeed, she ran as a quasi-incumbent, an establishment candidate in a change- year election."
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Political terminology of the United States
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Joe Bainbridge (11 March 1888 – 1954) was an English professional footballer. He spent ten years at Blackpool in the 1900s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club. He played as a centre-forward.
Blackpool
Bainbridge made his debut for Blackpool on 2 January 1911, in a 1–1 draw with Gainsborough Trinity at Bloomfield Road. He went on to make a further five appearances in the 1910–11 season, scoring once (in his second appearance, a 3–1 victory at Stockport County).
In the 1911–12 campaign, Bainbridge made ten league appearances. He didn't find the net in the league, but he did score in an FA Cup first-round (second replay) victory over Crewe Alexandra.
Bainbridge scored nine league goals in 1912–13, his third season with Blackpool, before being moved into a midfield role in 1913–14. After his change of position, he did not score again until the final game of the following 1914–15 term — the winner at Fulham on 24 April 1915.
In 1919–20, after four inter-war seasons, new Seasiders manager Bill Norman gave only one start to Bainbridge, at left-back as deputy to Horace Fairhurst. Blackpool lost the game, at South Shields, 0–6.
He was given two starts the following season, 1920–21, his final one with the club. The latter came in a 3–1 defeat at Nottingham Forest on 15 January 1921.
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English men's footballers
Gateshead A.F.C. players
Blyth Spartans A.F.C. players
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The Oberaarjoch (el. 3212 m.) is a high mountain pass across the eastern Bernese Alps, connecting the Fiescher Glacier in the canton of Valais to the Oberaar Glacier in the canton Bern. The pass is located between the Oberaarhorn on the north and the Oberaarrothorn on the south. Above the col, on the Valais side, lies the Oberaarjoch Hut.
The nearest settlements are Fieschertal (Valais) and Handegg (Bern).
See also
List of mountain passes in Switzerland
References
External links
Oberaarjoch on Hikr
Mountain passes of Switzerland
Mountain passes of the Alps
Mountain passes of Valais
Bern–Valais border
Mountain passes of the canton of Bern
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Giovanni Melchiorre Calosso (1759 – 21 November 1830) was an Italian priest. He is significant due to his mention in John Bosco's memoirs for having assisted Bosco greatly in becoming a priest himself.
Biography
Little to nothing is known concerning Calosso's youth. In 1872, he graduated from the University of Turin with a degree in theology. In 1813, he became a guest of his brother and the priest of the town Berzano di San Pietro. LaIn 1829, aged 70, he relocated and became Murialdo's chaplain. It was there that he met young Bosco. He was impressed by the youth's ability to memorize and recite that day's sermon, so much so that he decided to instruct Bosco personally, so that Bosco could become a priest as he wished.
One year later, on 21 November 1830, Calosso was struck by apoplexy, while Bosco was out on an errand. On his death bed, he asked to see Bosco one last time. Bosco ran to Calosso's house, where, just before he died, unable to speak because of the pain, Calosso gave Bosco the key to a drawer, telling him that what it contained was for him, and him alone. At the funeral, Bosco gave the key to Calosso's grandnephews. Contained within the safe was six thousand lira, which Bosco refused to accept, overcome with the loss of his father-figure.
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People from the Province of Asti
Clergy from Turin
Salesian Order
1759 births
1830 deaths
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Captain Frederick James Harry Thayre (20 October 1894 – 9 June 1917) was a British two-seater flying ace in World War I who, in conjunction with his observer-gunners, was credited with twenty aerial victories.
Background
Thayre was born in London on 20 October 1894. He lived in Littlehampton, Sussex, before the war.
World War I service
Thayre learned to fly as a civilian, being granted Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1478 on 29 July 1915, after soloing a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School at Brooklands, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Royal Flying Corps the same day. On completion of his military flight training he was appointed a flying officer on 29 December 1915, and was confirmed in his rank on 12 January 1916.
Thayre first flew operationally with No. 16 Squadron RFC in France, in B.E.2 two-seater aircraft, gaining his first victory on 18 March 1916 when his observer, Lieutenant C. R. Davidson, shot down an attacking German Fokker E.III fighter aircraft. On 30 April he received a mention in despatches for his "gallant and distinguished conduct in the field" from General Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in France. On 10 July, Thayre was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain, and on 1 September, he was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant.
Thayre was later posted to No. 20 Squadron, flying F.E.2d aircraft. He teamed up with Francis Cubbon, with whom he claimed two victories on 29 April 1917. On 1 May, the duo shot down an Albatros two-seater of FA 6, killing its crew of two, while on 3 May 1917 Thayre and Cubbon engaged twenty-six Albatros D.III scouts, claiming two enemy aircraft shot down. At last, having exhausted their machine gun ammunition in that fight, Thayre and Cubbon used their automatic pistols as weapons of last resort.
They would score fifteen victories together during the course of May 1917. When Britain's leading ace, Albert Ball crashed to his death on 7 May, Thayre found himself lagging only his own gunner, Cubbon, and Billy Bishop in the ace race of the Royal Flying Corps.
Killed in action
On 7 June, Thayre and Cubbon shot down and killed the five-victory ace Leutnant Weissner of Jasta 18. On 9 June 1917, their F.E.2d aircraft, No. A6430, received a direct hit from anti-aircraft fire from K Flak Battery 60 near Warneton and both men were killed.
The nineteen victories they shared included five D.IIIs shot down in flames, eleven destroyed, an Albatros C reconnaissance two-seater set afire, and another destroyed. Another D.III was driven down out of control. To that, Thayre added his victory with Davidson—a Fokker E.III fighter destroyed.
Along with his gunner Cubbon, Thayre was posthumously awarded the Military Cross, and a Bar in lieu of a second award, on 18 July 1917.
Honours and awards
Military Cross
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Frederick James Harry Thayre, Royal Flying Corps, Special Reserve.
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has consistently displayed great dash and skill and determination when acting as a pilot in bombing raids. His fine offensive spirit and determination to close with the enemy has set a splendid example to his squadron."
Bar to Military Cross
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Frederick James Harry Thayre, MC, Royal Flying Corps, Special Reserve.
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in command of an offensive patrol he showed fine leadership and skill, being personally responsible for bringing down three hostile machines. His coolness and courage enabled his small command to inflict severe losses on numerically superior forces."
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1890s births
1917 deaths
People from Littlehampton
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Flying Corps officers
British World War I flying aces
British military personnel killed in World War I
Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in France
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Alfaskop was a brand, developed in Sweden by Standard Radio & Telefon AB (SRT) and applied to data terminals and later IBM-compatible PCs. The term was also used to name Alfaskop AB, a listed Swedish IT services company., that filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
History
SRT, owned by the ITT Corporation during the 1960s, specialised in Air Traffic Control systems and military radar systems. In 1971, SRT provided the core technology for Stansaab AS, a joint venture with Saab and the state-owned Swedish Development Company. The company's primary focus was systems for real-time data applied to commercial and aviation applications. To this was added the data terminal operations of Facit in 1972.
The Alfaskop terminals quickly gained a foothold in the market for airline reservations with 1,000 in use at Scandinavian Airlines alone.
In 1978, Stansaab was merged with the Data Saab division of Saab to form Datasaab. In 1981, Ericsson, believing that growth in telecoms would be lower than that in IT, purchased Datasaab and integrated it with two of its own divisions to form Ericsson Information Systems (EIS). Accurately predicting convergence between telephony and data technologies, EIS instructed the Alfaskop group to begin working on a design for Ericsson's first PC – the EPC, which was released 16 months later in 1984.
Following market difficulties in the United States, particularly with a disappointing launch of its PC, Ericsson decided to abandon its "paperless office" strategy. In 1988, the division was sold to Nokia and later to ICL in 1990. The final act was its sale by ICL to Wyse Technology who eventually wound down manufacturing.
The Alfaskop range
Due to its work for the aviation industry, one of SRT's core competencies was the display of radar images. It was this expertise that led to the development of the Alfaskop terminal, which was inspired by the launch of IBM's range of display terminals. These terminals made interaction with computers much easier than with earlier punched card or paper tape interfaces. The alphanumeric, 80 character, 24 line terminal quickly became a standard. The Alfaskop terminals were designed to be pin compatible with the IBM equipment. The Alfaskop 3100, the first model, was designed to compete with the IBM 2260, while the later 3500 was developed in response to the IBM 3270. There followed a refreshed 3500 called System 37 followed by a System 41 – a new design. The 3500 series were also produced in Poland under the name MERA 7900.
The first Ericsson PC - the EPC, was released at the CeBit fair in Hanover in 1984. The Ericsson Portable PC followed a year later. In subsequent years, with the growth in demand for IBM-compatible PCs, several Alfaskop PC models were released.
While Ericsson had tried to build its own brand in the PC business, Nokia was willing to trade on the Alfaskop name. By 1989, they were showing the "Alfaskop Workgroup System" comprising 80386-based servers, 80286-based desktops and Ethernet or Token Ring networking. Office software included the X400-compatible Alfaskop Mail, WordPerfect and Lotus Freelance. The systems were offered with either MS-DOS or OS/2.
Commercial success
The Alfaskop terminals enjoyed considerable success, even outselling IBM in some markets, particularly in Sweden. By the early 1980s the company had accumulated profits of about one billion kronor. Customers included airlines, newspapers, police, councils and telecommunications companies.
A key benefit of the terminals was that they were IBM compatible but cost less. This meant discounts for volume customers made the terminals attractive. Reflecting the profit contribution made by Alfaskop (other product ranges at Stansaab/Datasaab were losing money), Ericsson invested 40 million kronor in the manufacturing facility at Järfalla outside Stockholm. Ericsson had predicted that their Eritex workstation comprising a telex and data terminal would take over from Alfaskop but demand continued with 100,000 units sold by 1983 with annual sales climbing above 25,000. Eritex was retired by the mid-1980s. Deliveries of Alfaskop continued through the Nokia years and by the time production ceased, more than 900 000 units had been shipped.
Alfaskop AB
From 1990, Nokia Data encouraged the development of several franchise partners to drive sales of PCs and network technologies. From 1994 these companies were co-operating closely and delivering network technologies, Microsoft solutions, and systems integration. In 1995, these companies were merged to form Alfaskop AB.
In 1997, the company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
By 2000, Alfaskop had 660 employees with 18 offices in Sweden. However, by 2001, the company was bankrupt and its remaining 400 employees were laid off. Business Wire reported that about half of the employees found employment at Meteorit AB, another IT consultancy.
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Science and technology in Sweden
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The Women's K-2 500 metres event was a pairs kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.
Medalists
Results
Heats
13 crews entered in two heats. The top three finishers in each heat advanced to the final while the rest advanced to the semifinal.
Overall Results Heats
Semifinal
The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.
Final
The final was held on 1 October.
Fischer made history in this race in three ways. First, she became the first woman to win two or more medals in four Summer Olympics. Second, Fischer became the fourth woman to earn seven gold medals. Third, she joined American swimmer Jenny Thompson as the only non-gymnastics competitors to win ten medals in the Summer Olympics.
References
2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results.
Sports-reference.com 2000 women's K-2 500 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Pairs 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 494.
Women's K-2 500
Olympic
Women's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Alexander Michael DeLeon (born April 8, 1989), also known as Bohnes, is an American singer, best known as the lead singer for the rock band The Cab. With the band, he signed to Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance in 2007, subsequently releasing their debut album, Whisper War, in 2008. In 2011, The Cab released their second studio album, Symphony Soldier. The following year, the group signed with Universal Republic Records. They released the Lock Me Up EP in 2014.
As a solo musician, DeLeon began his musical project Bohnes in 2015. He released the singles "Guns and Roses" and "Middle Finger" the same year. The following year, he released the single "Witchcraft". He released his debut extended play (EP), 206: Act I, in March 2018, and his second EP, 206: Act II, in November 2018.
Career
2004–present: The Cab
DeLeon and Cash Colligan first began playing music together at Liberty High School (Henderson, Nevada) and recorded demos as a duo which they put up on their MySpace page. At this time, future guitarist Ian Crawford went to school in Auburn, WA and started out playing his guitar in talent shows and posting them on YouTube. DeLeon asked drummer Alex Johnson, who was playing in a local hardcore band, to join The Cab. In late 2005, it became a full band with guitarist Paul Garcia, guitar/pianist Alex Marshall, and drummer Alex Johnson, playing its first show at The Alley in Las Vegas. The band signed to local label Olympus Records in January 2006 but released no material. Spencer Smith of Panic! at the Disco helped them sign to Decaydance Records in May 2007. Shortly after this, the band's members graduated from high school. During this time they decided to replace Garcia with Ian Crawford, who moved from Washington to join the band.
The band released their first studio album Whisper War, on April 29, 2008, featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy on "One of Those Nights", co-written by Stump and the first single from the CD. The video for "One of Those Nights" features members of both Panic! at the Disco and Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy.
On August 19, 2009, bassist Cash Colligan announced that he would also be leaving the band.
On June 22, 2011, The Cab announced on their website that they were departing from their label Fueled by Ramen and Decaydance Records before finally releasing their new album, Symphony Soldier. The band then release their second studio album Symphony Soldier was released on August 23, 2011,. Around the time of the release of "Symphony Soldier" the band started to experience lineup changes. DeLeon is the only consistent member of The Cab at this point.
After remaining independent for over a year, on August 31, 2012, The Cab announced that they had signed a record deal with Universal Republic. With the signing to the record label, in late 2012, the band stated, during an interview, that they have begun work on their new album, to be released in mid-2014. An EP, Lock Me Up, was released on April 29, 2014.
Bohnes
On October 31, 2015, DeLeon introduced his solo musical project, title Bohnes, uploading a minute-long teaser music video. The following month, he released his debut single, "Guns and Roses", accompanied with its music video, which premiered on Alternative Press. On December 17, 2015, he released another track, titled "Middle Finger".
On March 4, 2016, he released the single "Witchcraft".
On September 22, 2017, DeLeon released the single "Six Feet Under" with its music video premiering on the same day. In tribute to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, which took place on October 1, 2017, DeLeon released the song "702"; all proceeds from the acoustic track were donated to the Las Vegas Victims' Fund. Speaking about "702", DeLeon stated: "Las Vegas isn't about the neon lights, it isn't about the big names on the marquees or the fancy hotels with the chocolates on the pillows. Las Vegas isn't about the nightclubs, the world class chefs and restaurants. It's not about the gambling or the dollar signs. Last week, we found out what Las Vegas really is. What it has always been. What it will always be."
The song "Six Feet Under" was remixed by producer/dj Badhabit and released on October 20, 2017, followed by an acoustic version released a week later. On November 17, he released the single "My Friends". The song was remixed by various artists and the remixes were released together inside the "My Friends: Remix EP".
On February 16, 2018, DeLeon officially announced his debut extended play (EP), titled 206: Act I, with a scheduled release date for March 30, 2018. A second act, 206: Act II, was released on November 23, featuring the lead single "Straightjacket".
Other projects
On December 17, 2013, DeLeon announced that he would be releasing a clothing line featuring both male and female clothes. His clothing line is called 42799, Be the Black Sheep. The name comes from Frank Sinatra, a major influence on DeLeon, and a blog post DeLeon has written on his blog, called Black Sheep. The number 42799 related to Sinatra, because it was the number of Sinatra's mug shot.
On September 29, 2015 Panic! at the Disco released the single Victorious from their album Death of a Bachelor, which DeLeon co-wrote.
Personal life
In November 2018, DeLeon became engaged to Victoria's Secret Angel Josephine Skriver, whom he had been dating since 2013. They married in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 2022.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Alex DeLeon's Official Blog
Alex DeLeon's Clothing Line
1989 births
Living people
American male singer-songwriters
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American male singers
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Uruachi (a name in the Tarahumara language of disputed meaning;
also known as Mineral de Urachi on account of its mining activities)
is a village in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, close to the border with the state of Sonora.
It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Uruachi.
As of 2010, the town of Uruachi had a population of 1,199. up from 806 as of 2005.
The settlement was founded by Jesuit missionaries in 1736.
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Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
Populated places established in 1736
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Airports of Peru () is a private company that operates twelve regional airports in Peru. It is the first group of regional airports the government of Peru transferred to a private operator. The company was incorporated on October 30, 2006.
History
In 2013, AdP invested US$112 million in the renovation of the runways of three airports: Chiclayo, Piura y Talara.
Activity
In December 2014, AdP was 100% acquired by Talma, a Peruvian airport services company that belongs to the Sandoval group and Enfoca Inversiones.
AdP's partners comprise Swissport GBH Perú, an air cargo warehousing, ramp services, and maintenance company in the Jorge Chávez International Airport area, and GBH Investments, the holding of Swissport GBH group that brings expertise in infrastructure project management.
AdP is being advised by the ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, providing know-how, experience and expertise in airports management to Aeropuertos del Perú. ANA operates six regional airports in Portugal: Flores, Horta, Ponta Delgada, Santa María, Lisbon and Faro.
Airports operated by AdP
The following airports are operated by Aeropuertos del Perú (AdP). All but one (in Pisco) are located in Northern Peru.
References
See also
Lima Airport Partners
Jorge Chávez International Airport
CORPAC
External links
Official website
Airport operators
Transport companies of Peru
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Henry Beighton (c. 20 August 1687 – 9 October 1743) was an English engineer and surveyor.
He was born at Chilvers Coton near Nuneaton, Warwickshire and worked in the neighbouring village of Griff. In 1717, he published an engraving of the Newcomen engine erected there in 1714 by Thomas Newcomen. In 1718 he erected one at Oxclose colliery at Washington, County Durham. By measuring the work done by the Griff engine, he was able to compile a table of quantity of water that could be raised by an engine with a six-foot stroke working at 16 strokes per minute. He published this table in The Ladies' Diary which he edited at the time.
On his return to his native county he made a plane table and prepared a map of the county, which was published in 1728 at a scale of one inch to one mile.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1720 and contributed four papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, including a description of his plane table, and of George Sorocold's waterworks at London Bridge.
His interest in the working of the Griff engine brought him into contact with J. T. Desaguliers and contributed details and illustrations of hydraulic machines for the second volume of the latter's Course of Experimental Philosophy, eventually published in 1744. This included a description by Beighton of an overshot mill, with an engraving of a corn mill by the abbey in Nuneaton. This is the earliest illustration of a mill where a single waterwheel drove more than one set of machinery.
His outstanding county map of Warwickshire was one of the first soundly based on trigonometrical survey methods. A remarkably wide range of features is depicted on the map, reflecting the whole life and economy of the county: Parish churches, chapels, depopulated places, seats of nobility, chases, parks, king's houses, monasteries, castles, Roman ways, etc. Beighton's map was well ahead of its time.
References
A. W. Skempton, 'Henry Beighton, FRS' in A. W. Skempton et al., Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers: 1 1500-1830, 49.
J. T. Desaguliers, A Course of Experimental Philosophy II (1744; 1763 edition).
Alan G. Hodgkiss, Discovering Antique Maps, Shire Publications Limited, 2007
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1687 births
1743 deaths
English engineers
People from Nuneaton
Fellows of the Royal Society
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Point Penmarc'h, often spelled Point Penmarch, or in French Pointe de Penmarc'h, is the extremity of a small peninsula in Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France, and the northern limit of the Bay of Biscay.
It contains the fortified remains of a town which was of considerable importance from the 14th to the 16th centuries, and included today's commune of Penmarc'h, which covers the harbours of Saint-Guénolé and Kerity. The town owed its prosperity to its cod-banks, the disappearance of which together with the discovery of the Newfoundland cod-banks and the pillage of the place by the bandit La Fontenelle in 1595 contributed to its decline.
The Phare d'Eckmühl, a lighthouse with a light visible for , stands on the point.
See also
Penmarc'h
References
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1997. .
Headlands of Brittany
Landforms of Finistère
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Truncilla truncata, the deertoe, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae.
Deertoe are found in the Mississippi River drainage system and in tributaries of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. T. truncata is a state endangered species in Virginia. It is designated by the state of Kansas as a "species in need of conservation".
Deertoe have generalist habitat preferences and are found in both lakes and rivers.
Deertoe are believed to be bradytictic, with a gestation period of approximately 10 months. Hosts for their glochidia include freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) and sauger (Sander canadensis).
References
Unionidae
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The Battle of al-Harra () was fought between the Umayyad army of the caliph Yazid I () led by Muslim ibn Uqba and the defenders of Medina from the Ansar and Muhajirun factions, who had rebelled against the caliph. The battle took place at the lava field of Harrat Waqim in the northeastern outskirts of Medina on 26 August 683 and lasted less than a day.
The elite factions of Medina disapproved of the hereditary succession of Yazid (unprecedented in Islamic history until that point), resented the caliph's impious lifestyle, and chafed under Umayyad economic acts and policies. After declaring their rebellion, they besieged the Umayyad clan resident in Medina and dug a defensive trench around the city. The expeditionary force sent by Yazid and local Umayyads, who had since been released from the siege, encamped at Harrat Waqim, where the rebels confronted them. Despite an initial advantage, the Medinans were routed due to the defection of one of their factions, the Banu Haritha, which enabled Umayyad horse riders led by Marwan ibn al-Hakam to attack them from the rear.
Afterward, the army pillaged Medina for three days, though accounts of the plunder vary considerably. The Syrian army proceeded to besiege the rebel leader Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, though Ibn Uqba died en route. In contrast to Ibn al-Zubayr's call for a to decide the caliphate and his success in resisting the Umayyads, the rebels in Medina lacked a political program and military experience. The traditional Islamic sources list the Battle of al-Harra and its aftermath as one of the Umayyads' 'major crimes' and malign Ibn Uqba for his role in the plunder of Medina.
Location
The location of the battle was the lava field of Harrat Waqim, which straddles the eastern outskirts of Medina in the Hejaz (western Arabia). It was named after the Waqim fortress of the Banu Qurayza tribe that had been resident in the area during the pre-Islamic period and was alternatively known as Harrat Bani Qurayza or Harrat Zuhra. It formed part of the vast geological system of (basaltic deserts) which spanned the region east of the Hauran in Syria southward to Medina's environs. As a result of the fame of the battle, Harrat Waqim was thenceforth referred to in Muslim sources as 'the Harra'.
Background
Under the Islamic prophet Muhammad, beginning in 622, and the first three caliphs, Abu Bakr (), Umar () and Uthman (), Medina served as the capital of the early Muslim state, which by Uthman's time came to rule over an empire spanning Arabia, most of the Persian Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine territories of Syria and Egypt. The capital was moved to Kufa in Iraq by the fourth caliph, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali (), during the First Muslim Civil War. Ali's rival for the caliphate, the governor of Syria Mu'awiya, won the war and made Damascus capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, which he founded in 661.
Political and pious opposition to Yazid
The hereditary succession of Mu'awiya's son, Yazid, in 680 was an unprecedented act in Islamic politics. It was a point of contention among the people of Medina, especially the eminent Muslim leaders of the Hejaz. One of them, Husayn, a son of Ali and grandson of Muhammad, left Medina to lead a revolt against Yazid in Iraq. He was slain alongside his band of about seventy followers at the Battle of Karbala by the forces of the Umayyad governor Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad; Yazid is alleged to have put the head of Husayn on display in Damascus.
In 680, Yazid dismissed his cousin al-Walid ibn Utba ibn Abi Sufyan from the governorship of Medina for having failed to prevent Husayn and the other major opponent to his rule, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, a grandson of Abu Bakr, from leaving Medina. Al-Walid's replacement, the Umayyad Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq, failed to capture Ibn al-Zubayr, who took refuge in the Kaaba in Mecca, or extract from him the oath of allegiance to Yazid. Al-Ashdaq mobilized a troop of Medinans enrolled in the army, as well as (sing. ; non-Arab, Muslim freedmen or clients) of the Umayyad clan, to assault Ibn al-Zubayr, but many of the recruited Medinans were reticent to participate and paid others to fight in their place. Ibn al-Zubayr defeated this force, and partly as a consequence, Yazid dismissed al-Ashdaq and reappointed al-Walid ibn Utba in August 681. Feigning an attempted reconciliation with the caliph, Ibn al-Zubayr requested that Yazid replace al-Walid ibn Utba with a milder governor. Yazid acceded, installing his young and politically inexperienced cousin Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan in December 682.
Most of the Medinans, and many in the wider Muslim community, sympathized with Ibn al-Zubayr amid general uncertainty about the stability of Umayyad rule and the prospect of Ibn al-Zubayr coming to power. Reports of impious behavior by Yazid, including entertainment by singing girls and a pet monkey, contributed to prevailing attitudes in Medina of his unsuitability as caliph. The Medinans mainly consisted of the Ansar (native Medinans who had hosted and allied with Muhammad after his emigration from Mecca in 622) and the Muhajirun (Muhammad's early supporters who had emigrated with him). The Muhajirun were predominantly from the Quraysh, the tribe to which Muhammad, Ali, and the Umayyads all belonged. At the time of the opposition to Yazid, the Medinans were mostly the children of these two factions, which collectively represented Islam's first military generation, and felt threatened at the potential loss of the inherited military pensions brought about by Umayyad fiscal reforms. The reforms called for pensions to be given only in exchange for active military service.
To reconcile with the Medinans, Yazid requested they send a delegation to his court in Damascus. Uthman ibn Muhammad organized the Medinan embassy. Yazid attempted to win over the delegates by lavishing them with gifts and money. This proved fruitless when the delegates returned and incited the people of Medina with accounts detailing Yazid's scandalous lifestyle. The most vociferous critic among the delegates was Abd Allah ibn Hanzala. He declared that he and his sons would fight against Yazid should others not join him, and though Yazid respected him, he would use the gifts the latter gave him against the caliph. Ibn al-Zubayr took control of Mecca in September 683 and allied with Ibn Hanzala in opposition to Yazid. The leaders of the Medinan opposition dismissed counsel from Yazid's messengers and friends in Damascus to avoid rebellion as attempts to undermine the unity of the Medinans. Prominent exceptions to this united bloc included the Alids (family of Ali), Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, son of the second caliph, and the companion of Muhammad Abu Barza. They all considered the anti-Umayyad opposition in the Hejaz to be fighting for power and wealth rather than for a just and pious cause.
Economic and social grievances
Mu'awiya had acquired extensive properties and agricultural estates in Medina from its inhabitants. These lands were referred to as in the sources, a term usually reserved for conquered lands that became state property, but in the case of Medina meant acquired lands that became the personal domains of the caliph. According to reports cited by the 9th-century historian Ibn Qutayba, the people of Medina alleged that Mu'awiya purchased the lands at a hundredth of their value during hunger and desperation. The 9th-century historian al-Ya'qubi held that the properties were confiscated. The people of Medina considered the acquisitions illegitimate and damaging to their economic interests.
Mu'awiya launched cultivation and irrigation projects on the lands and derived considerable returns from dates and wheat. To meet the workforce needs for cultivation and maintenance, Mu'awiya employed numerous , consisting of war captives from the conquered provinces, including many skilled laborers. The were loyal to their patron, in this case, Mu'awiya and later Yazid. The of the Umayyads in Medina were numerous, and the sources record several instances of tensions involving them and the people of Medina. Yazid inherited the estates and of his father. The dispossessed landowners of Medina demanded the restitution of their ownership rights from Yazid. The historian Meir Jacob Kister asserts the Medinan rebellion emanated from "the conflict between the owners of estates and property in Medina and the unjust Umayyad rulers who robbed them of their property".
Prelude
Uthman ibn Muhammad was unable to control the growing opposition to Umayyad rule. According to the historian al-Mada'ini (d. 843), the inaugurating act of rebellion by the Medinans occurred during a gathering in the mosque where the attendees each tossed an article of clothing, such as a turban or a shoe, an Arab custom symbolizing a severing of ties, to renounce their allegiance to Yazid. According to the historian Abu Mikhnaf (d. 774), the first act of rebellion by the Medinans was giving allegiance to Ibn Hanzala. Afterward, they assaulted the Umayyads and their supporters in the city, together about 1,000-strong, who fled to the quarter of their leading elder, Marwan ibn al-Hakam. The latter sent urgent requests for assistance from Yazid, who dispatched an army to suppress the opposition from both the Medinans and Ibn al-Zubayr.
According to alternative accounts by al-Ya'qubi and al-Waqidi (d. 823), for up to a month leading to the battle, several attempts by the chief of Yazid's estates in Medina, Ibn Mina, to collect the crops for the caliph were disrupted by the estates' former owners, in particular from the Ansarite Balharith clan. Uthman ibn Muhammad responded by assigning a guard force to help Ibn Mina and his men gather the crops. They were met by a group of Ansar and Quraysh, who refused to allow the Umayyads' men to proceed with their work. Uthman ibn Muhammad then requested intervention by Yazid, who dispatched an expedition against the townspeople of Medina. In these accounts, the Medinans expelled and pelted the Umayyads with stones in response to Uthman ibn Muhammad's rebukes to their leaders for barring the caliph's men from the estates.
The caliph's expeditionary force consisted of 4,000 to 12,000 well-equipped Syrian Arab tribesmen, dominated by the Banu Kalb. As an incentive to the troops, who anticipated an arduous campaign ahead, each soldier was paid 100 silver dirhams over their regular stipend. Yazid's initial choice for the commander of this force, al-Ashdaq, refused the position out of a principle not to shed the blood of his fellow Quraysh, while Ibn Ziyad, still reeling from the fallout from his role in the death of Husayn, also refused. Instead, the loyal, elderly, non-Qurayshite veteran Muslim ibn Uqba was given the command. According to al-Ya'qubi, Ibn Uqba's forces were composed of equal numbers of troops from the five ('armies') of Syria: Rawh ibn Zinba al-Judhami led the men of Palestine, Hubaysh ibn Dulja al-Qayni led the men of Jordan, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ada al-Fazari led the men of Damascus, Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni led the men of Homs and Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi led the men of Qinnasrin.
Upon hearing of the Syrian advance, the Medinans reinforced the siege against the Umayyads of Medina before allowing them to leave after they gave oaths not to assist the incoming army. On their way to Syria, the exiled Umayyads encountered Ibn Uqba's army in the Wadi al-Qura region between Syria and Medina. Ibn Uqba's inquiries about Medina's defenses were rebuffed by most of the Umayyads, some of whom continued on their way north, but Marwan's son Abd al-Malik cooperated and offered valuable intelligence. Under Marwan's leadership, most of the exiles joined the expedition. In Medina, the defenders, numbering about 2,000 men, dug a trench to protect a vulnerable northern corner of the city and divided themselves into four units, two of which were commanded by members of the Quraysh, including Abd Allah ibn Muti, one by Ibn Hanzala of the Ansar and the last by a non-Qurayshite and non-Ansarite, Ma'qil ibn Sinan al-Ashja'i.
For three days, starting on 23 August, Ibn Uqba attempted negotiations with the Medinan leaders. He appealed for unity and promised two annual payments to the Medinans from Yazid and a significant price reduction on corn. Yazid may have offered these or similar terms before the expedition to a representative of the Medinans, Ali's nephew Abd Allah ibn Ja'far. According to the historian Laura Veccia Vaglieri, this indicates that economic concerns contributed to the Medinan opposition of the Umayyads.
Battle
The negotiations between Ibn Uqba and the Medinans faltered, and clashes ensued. The Medinan horsemen marched against Ibn Uqba in the Harra, and may have advanced as far as Ibn Uqba's litter, from which he commanded his troops. Upon their approach, Ibn Uqba confronted them on horseback and actively participated in the fighting. The Medinans gained an early advantage, but were ultimately overtaken by the Syrians and several Ansarite and Qurayshite notables were slain, including Ibn Hanzala, eight of his sons and a handful of other men from the Medinan elite.
Squadrons of Medinan , fighting under the command of the Yazid ibn Hurmuz, defended a large section of the ditch, and held off an assault by the Syrians, refusing demands to surrender. The historians Wahb ibn Jarir (d. 822) and al-Samhudi (d. 1533) held that Medinan lines were compromised by the defection of the Banu Haritha, whose members gave Marwan and his horse riders access through their quarter in Medina, enabling them to assault the Medinans at the Harra from the rear. The Quraysh under Ibn Muti fled the battlefield and headed for safety to Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca. According to al-Waqidi, the battle concluded on 26 August 683. The fighting lasted less than a day.
Aftermath
Conflicting accounts abound regarding the aftermath of the Syrian victory. According to Abu Mikhnaf and al-Samhudi, Ibn Uqba gave his troops free rein to pillage Medina for three days. The number of Medinan casualties incurred during the battle and immediate aftermath range from 180 to 700 members of the Ansar and Quraysh, and 4,000 to 10,000 other Medinans. Al-Samhudi further claimed that as a result of the alleged rape of Medinan women by Ibn Uqba's troops, 1,000 illegitimate children were later born by them as a result.
The account of the historian Awana ibn al-Hakam (d. 764) describes a more orderly capture, in which Ibn Uqba summoned the notables of Medina to give allegiance to Yazid at the Quba Mosque and used the occasion to execute several prominent leaders of the opposition movement, including a number from the Quraysh and Ma'qil ibn Sinan al-Ashja'i. The latter had been a close friend and belonged to the same Ghatafan tribal grouping as Ibn Uqba but was nonetheless executed for his disavowal of Yazid. A son of Caliph Uthman (), a member of the Umayyad clan, had his beard cut as punishment for suspected collusion with the Medinans, though Ali ibn al-Husayn, a son of Husayn, was well-treated on the personal instructions of Yazid. Wahb ibn Jarir likewise did not make a note of a three-day plunder of Medina, and Wellhausen doubts that it occurred.
The accounts of Abu Mikhnaf and Awana agree that following the ordering of affairs in Medina, Ibn Uqba left to subdue Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca but fell ill and died on the way in al-Mushallal. As ordered by Yazid, he left as second-in-command Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni, who proceeded to besiege Mecca in September.
Assessment
In Kister's observation, the rebellion in Medina lacked a political program, in contrast to the revolt of Ibn al-Zubayr, who called for a (consultation) to decide the caliphate. The Medinans felt assured of victory in any confrontation with the Syrians. In organizing the defense of their city, they adopted Muhammad's tactics at the Battle of the Trench, where he repulsed a siege against Medina by digging ditches to prevent the entry of enemy horsemen. At al-Harra, the Medinans lacked horses and weapons of their own, as indicated by counsel Marwan gave to Ibn Uqba, where he further advised that the Medinans were not warlike and few would have the resolve to fight. The survivors among Medina's leaders lamented the quick defeat of their pious men at the Harra, contrasting it to the successful six-month resistance against the Syrian army by Ibn al-Zubayr and his smaller coterie of supporters in Mecca. Kister considers the release of the besieged Umayyads, instead of their effective use as hostages, "heedless" and the rebels' belief that the Umayyads would not aid the Syrians or convince them to turn back "credulous".
The alleged cruelty against the townspeople of Medina by the Umayyad army became a cause célèbre that was invoked by future generations. Ibn Uqba was thenceforth known as 'Musrif', a play on his name 'Muslim', which meant "he who exceeds all bounds of propriety". The historian Michael Lecker considers the reports of Syrian atrocities in Medina as "undeniably anti-Umayyad and probably exaggerated". Moreover, Wellhausen dismisses the depiction by later Muslim and western sources of Ibn Uqba as a brutal heathen with a deep hatred for Islam, in general, and the people of Medina, in particular, as a falsity that developed over time and is unsupported by the early and more credible Muslim sources. In Wellhausen's assessment, the suppression of the Medinan revolt was not the cause of the significant decline of the city's political status; this had already been precipitated by the assassination of Caliph Uthman in 656, the aftermath of which marked Medina's end as the capital of the nascent Muslim state. The city continued to be a center for religious scholarship, Arab high culture, and a redoubt for poets and singers. Vaglieri counters Wellhausen's doubts about the extent of the army's pillage, asserting that the "[traditional Muslim] sources are unanimous on this point".
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Further reading
Battles involving the Umayyad Caliphate
Second Fitna
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The 108th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Montour County and Northumberland County and includes the following areas:
All of Montour County
Northumberland County
Delaware Township
East Chillisquaque Township
Lewis Township
McEwensville
Milton
Northumberland
Point Township
Riverside
Rockefeller Township
Rush Township
Northumberland County (continued)
Snydertown
Sunbury
Turbot Township
Turbotville
Upper Augusta Township
Watsontown
West Chillisquaque Township
Representatives
References
Sources
Government of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Government of Snyder County, Pennsylvania
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Louis Rocca (1882–13 June 1950) was an English football administrator and scout who played a pivotal role in the development of Manchester United F.C. He had several roles within the club from the 1890s to the 1940s, most notably putting them in contact with Matt Busby in 1945; Busby would go on to manage the club for 25 years.
Biography
Early years
A family of Italian gelato purveyors, Louis Rocca (senior) and his wife Mary, emigrated to England in the early 1870s and established an ice cream business at 64 Rochdale Road in the Newton Heath district of Manchester. Their son, Louis Rocca (junior), was born in Manchester between September and December 1882. He began his association with Manchester United (then known as Newton Heath F.C.) in the 1890s when he got a job as a tea boy at the club's Bank Street ground. He even played for the club's reserve team on a couple of occasions.
Manchester United
In 1902, the club was in severe financial difficulty but was saved at the 11th hour by local brewer John Henry Davies. He changed the club's colours from green and gold halves to red and white, but decided it would be more appropriate to convene a meeting of the club's fans, directors and other interested parties to determine a new name for the club. Rocca attended the meeting on 26 April 1902 and claims that, after hearing other people's suggestions of "Manchester Celtic" and "Manchester Central" be rejected for sounding "too Scottish" and "too industrial," he suggested the name "Manchester United." There is no documentary evidence that Rocca was actually the one to suggest the name "Manchester United," but Rocca maintained that Manchester United was his brainchild for the rest of his life. In 1903 Louis married Mary Emily Wrenshall and by 1911 he had taken over the family business and was living in Oldham Road in Manchester with his wife and four children. By the time of his mother's death in 1924, Louis was still managing the family ice cream and confectionery business and he was father to nine children.
Assistant manager and James Gibson
Over the years, Rocca came to be the club's chief "fixer" – if the club needed anything done, Rocca was the man for the job – until, in 1931, it was decided that he ought to be given some level of responsibility over the affairs of the team. With Herbert Bamlett's tenure as manager over, club secretary Walter Crickmer stepped into the breach as manager, with Rocca as his assistant. However, the club was yet again in financial turmoil at the time, and Rocca set about finding a new investor. The man he turned to was James W. Gibson, a partner in the clothing firm Briggs, Jones and Gibson, who had made their money in the manufacture of Army uniforms. As well as being an entrepreneur, Gibson was a fiercely proud Mancunian and unwilling to see such an integral part of the city's culture go under, so when club secretary Walter Crickmer visited Gibson at his Cheshire mansion, it didn't take much persuasion to convince Gibson to invest £2,000 in the club. Gibson then promised extra funds if other investors would match his £2,000 investment.
Chief scout
One of the legacies of the Gibson administration at Manchester United was the Manchester United Junior Athletic Club (MUJAC). Set up at the behest of the supporters', the MUJAC was charged with bringing the best young players in the local area to Manchester United, with the aim of eventually filling the first team with local talent. Rocca was appointed as the MUJAC's chief scout, and, through his connections to the Manchester Catholic Sportsman's Club, he appointed a network of scouts from the Catholic Church.
The two names that Rocca's scouting system is best known for discovering are Johnny Carey and Stan Pearson, and both go to show the breadth of the club's scouting network. Pearson was a local boy who Rocca spotted playing for Adelphi Lads' Club as a 16-year-old before signing for the club as an amateur on 1 December 1935, while Carey was a native of Dublin. Rocca had actually intended to scout another player when he went over to Ireland, but he was so impressed with Carey's air of authority that he immediately signed him for £250.
Busby
In 1932, United appointed Scott Duncan as manager, with Crickmer and Rocca reverting to their previous roles. However, Duncan resigned in 1937, and the two backroom men stepped into the breach again. They were in charge for two seasons before the outbreak of the Second World War and the suspension of all football in Britain. By the end of the war, the United board decided that a new permanent manager should be installed, and Rocca knew just the man, telling the board to "leave it to [him]". In 1930, Rocca had attempted to sign Manchester City wing-half Matt Busby for United, but the club was unable to pay the £150 transfer fee.
Nevertheless, Rocca and Busby stayed in touch, both being members of the Manchester Catholic Sportsman's Club, and when Rocca learned that Busby had been offered the manager's job at his then-club, Liverpool, he immediately wrote Busby a letter (addressed to his army regiment, in case it was intercepted by the Liverpool management) informing him of the job opportunity at United. Busby turned up at James Gibson's Trafford Park factory in February 1945 with demands for unprecedented control over the football team, but Rocca reassured his chairman that the Scot was the right man for the job and the contract was signed that day.
Later years, death and legacy
In the first few years after Busby's appointment as manager, the Manchester United team was almost entirely composed of players discovered by Rocca and his scouting system. Then, in 1948, Rocca had the ultimate honour bestowed upon him as his protégés won the FA Cup. In the team that day, Crompton, Carey, Aston, Anderson, Morris, Pearson and Mitten had all come through the youth system. However, this was to be his last major contribution to the club, as he died in 1950, bringing an association with the club of more than 50 years to an end. His legacy would continue, though, through Joe Armstrong, the man appointed as Rocca's replacement in the role of chief scout. Like Rocca, Armstrong would seek out the best young players in the Manchester area, and even further afield as the North East of England, where he discovered a 15-year-old Bobby Charlton in 1953.
In 2005, Rocca was honoured with the naming of an annual football match after him. The match was originally to be played between Salford Boys and Manchester Boys, but Manchester Boys were uninterested and Glasgow Boys were chosen as the opposition for the Salford side, in recognition of the ties between the cities of Manchester and Glasgow. The match, named "The Louis Rocca Trophy", was conceived by Salford-based artist Harold Riley, who had himself been a player for Salford Boys and a discovery of Rocca's for Manchester United, and Manchester-based restaurateur Bruno Cabrelli. Rocca was chosen as the inspiration for the match because, according to Riley, "one person never mentioned when people talk about United's history is Louis Rocca". Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson convinced Nike to provide both teams with kits for the occasion. Two matches were played on the inaugural occasion, one for the senior teams of both clubs and one for the juniors, with Glasgow Boys winning both; they won the senior match 1–0 and the junior match 5–4.
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Footnotes
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1882 births
1950 deaths
People from Newton Heath
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Truncilla is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Species within the genus Truncilla
Truncilla donaciformis
Truncilla macrodon
Truncilla truncata
References
Unionidae
Bivalve genera
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is a limited edition box set album released by Gackt on December 13, 2006. It contains nine different versions of the previously released single Jūnigatsu no Love Song, including the Chinese version duet with Leehom Wang, and four new versions. The box set also contained an aromatherapy diffuser and gold & silver foil postcards of the CD covers. It ranked 55th on Oricon's album chart.
Track listing
References
Gackt compilation albums
2006 compilation albums
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Birger Forell (September 27, 1893 in Söderhamn, Sweden - July 4, 1958 in Borås, Sweden) was a priest. He supported refugees, deported and prisoners of war during the Second World War and afterwards.
There is a memorial dedicated to him in the Swedish Church in Berlin. In 1993, a postage stamp was released to commemorate his 100th birthday.
1893 births
1958 deaths
20th-century Swedish Lutheran priests
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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In philosophy and religion the passions are the instinctive, emotional, primitive drives in a human being (including, for example, lust, anger, aggression and jealousy) which a human being must restrain, channel, develop and sublimate in order to be possessed of wisdom. Passions in religion and philosophy have a different connotation from the popular concept of passion which is generally seen as a positive emotion. The philosophical notion of passion, in contrast, is identified with innate or biologically driven emotional states regarded in ancient philosophies and the great religions as being the basis for deadly sins and seen as leading to various social and spiritual ills such as unstable relationships, broken marriages, lack of social integration, psychological disorders and other problems. In the philosophical tradition of the West passion is often placed in opposition to reason. Reason is advocated in the control of passion, something seen as desirable and necessary for the development of a mature, civilized human being. This is achieved by the cultivation of virtue. Four virtues in particular have long been seen as of especial value in this regard.
The majority of philosophies and religions advocate at the very least tempering the passions to keep them within acceptable bounds. However, most of the great religions recommend both the restraint and the transformation of the passions to the point where they no longer arise. This is true of Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism. The institution of the monastery within various religions is a means by which human beings may temporarily or permanently seclude themselves from circumstances exacerbating the arising of passion and provide a supportive environment for doing spiritual work.
Contemporary philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger has developed a view of the passions that disassociates them from human nature, and instead gives them a formless life that serve in our noninstrumental dealings with each other. Rather than the guiding force behind our relations with the world, they organize and are organized around the need and danger that is at the heart of our relations with each other. In this way, Unger rejects the traditional view of the passions as something counter to reason and which are associated with certain expressions, rather he sees them at the service of reason and their expression formed within certain contexts.
Background
The subject of the passions has long been a consideration in Western philosophy. According to European philosopher Michel Meyer, they have aroused harsh judgments as the representation of a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes. Meyer sees philosophers as having treated the passions as a given expression of human nature, leaving the question of whether the passions "torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?"
Spinoza
The seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza contrasted "action" with "passion," as well as the state of being "active" with the state of being "passive." A passion, in his view, happened when external events affect us partially such that we have confused ideas about these events and their causes. A "passive" state is when we experience an emotion which Spinoza regarded as a "passivity of the soul." The body's power is increased or diminished. Emotions are bodily changes plus ideas about these changes which can help or hurt a human. It happens when the bodily changes we experience are caused primarily by external forces or by a mix of external and internal forces. Spinoza argued that it was much better for the individual himself to be the only adequate cause of bodily changes, and to act based on an adequate understanding of causes-and-effects with ideas of these changes logically related to each other and to reality. When this happened the person is "active," and Spinoza described the ideas as adequate. But most of the time, this does not happen, and Spinoza, along with Freud, saw emotions as more powerful than reason. Spinoza tried to live the life of reason which he advocated.
See also
Passion: An Essay on Personality
Philosophy of desire
Baruch Spinoza
Passion (emotion)
Philosophy of Spinoza
Rene Descartes' Passions of the Soul
Stoic passions
References
Religious philosophical concepts
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Class 71 may refer to:
GMB Class 71, a Norwegian passenger train.
British Rail Class 71
DRG Class 71, a class of German tank locomotives with a 2-4-2T wheel arrangement operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn comprising the:
DRG Class 71.0: Standard locomotive Einheitslokomotive
Class 71.0: Prussian T 5.1
Class 71.2: Bavarian Pt 2/4 H
Class 71.3: Saxon IV T
Class 71.4: Oldenburg T 5.1
Class 71.5: BBÖ DT 1
Class 71.6: PH E
Class 71.70: PKP Class OKe1
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The Big Fish Golf Club is a public golf course in Hayward, Wisconsin, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. Golfweek has rated it the "#7 Public Course in Wisconsin". It was designed in 2004 by the renowned golf architect, Pete Dye.
Hole By Hole
External links
Big Fish Golf Club
Golf clubs and courses in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Sawyer County, Wisconsin
Tourist attractions in Sawyer County, Wisconsin
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Alvarado Estates is a neighborhood in the College area of San Diego, California. It is a gated community of over 100 homes on lots of one acre or more, with limited access streets, and has a community park. Neighborliness is fostered by the Alvarado Community Association, which is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.
See also
Communities of San Diego
References
Neighborhoods in San Diego
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The Vickers Medium Tank may refer to one of the series of tanks built by Vickers-Armstrong during the 1920s:
Vickers Medium Mark I
Vickers Medium Mark II
Medium Mark III, built by both Vickers-Armstrong and the Royal Ordnance Factory
See also: Vickers MBT, a low-cost British Main Battle Tank of the 1960s, designed for export.
History of the tank
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WNDH (103.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Napoleon, Ohio, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.
WNDH began broadcasting in 1972 and originally featured a beautiful music format, which has been updated over the years to an adult contemporary sound. The station switched to Clear Channel's Classic Hits format in early September 2014, with the former AC format moving to sister station 98.1 WDFM. The station's coverage area in Northwest Ohio includes the cities of Defiance, Bryan, and Wauseon, in addition to Napoleon.
Broadcast tower
The WNDH broadcast tower is located near the intersection of County Road J and Township Road 15 in Flatrock Township in Henry County, Ohio. Its coordinates are 41.3, -84.156111.
Programming
WNDH is affiliated with IHeartRadio, NBC News Radio and features a classic hits format. WNDH also broadcasts Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball, as well as local high school football, basketball, baseball, and other various local events in Henry County and Northwest Ohio.
References
External links
NDH
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1972
IHeartMedia radio stations
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Valle de Zaragoza is a settlement in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Valle de Zaragoza. Ranchera singer Francisco Avitia was born in Valle de Zaragoza.
As of 2010, the town of Valle de Zaragoza had a population of 2,223, up from 1,871 as of 2005.
History
Valle de Zaragoza was founded on 10 December 1780, as Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Conchos; it later became known as Pilar de Conchos.
Its current name, given to it on 28 April 1864, honours General Ignacio Zaragoza and his defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla of 5 May 1862.
References
Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
Populated places established in 1780
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Class 72 may refer to:
NSB Class 72, a Norwegian passenger train.
German passenger tank locomotives with a 4-4-0T wheel arrangement operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn comprising the:
Class 72.0: Prussian T 5.2
Class 72.1: Bavarian Pt 2/4 N
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Stephen Addam Zeff (born July 26, 1933) is an American accounting historian, and Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. He was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2002.
Life and work
Zeff was born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father ran a small industrial advertising agency. After his graduation from Highland Park High School in 1951, he went to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he obtained his BS in 1955 with a major in accountancy and his MA in 1957. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he received his Master of Business Administration in 1960 and his PhD in 1962. Recently he received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, in Finland.
During his undergraduate years, Zeff worked as an editor for the Colorado Daily, the student newspaper. He became the newspaper's managing editor in his senior year. In 1955 he became an instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the University of Michigan, he taught accounting courses, was assistant of Herb Miller revisioning accounting books, and was research assistant at its Bureau of Industrial Relations. After his graduation in 1961, he was appointed Assistant Professor at Tulane University, and Associate Professor in 1963 and Professor of Accounting in 1966. In 1978 he moved to Rice University, where he is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting since 1979.
Over the years Zeff has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been outside the United States in universities in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
Honors
In 1988, he received the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
In 1999 the AAA’s International Accounting Section named him the recipient of its International Accounting Educator Award
Hourglass Award, Academy of Accounting Historians, in both 1973 and 2001
Basil Yamey Prize, Accounting, Business & Financial History, 2004
The only non-British member of the academic panel of the Accounting Standards Board of the United Kingdom
From 1981 to 2004, he was the only non-European on the executive committee of the European Accounting Association
From 1991 to 2002, he was the International Accounting Adviser for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, which recognized him as its Honorary Research Fellow in 2003
In 2002 he was inducted as the 70th member of Accounting Hall of Fame
Selected publications
Zeff has authored and/or edited about 25 books and over 100 articles. Books, a selection:
Zeff, Stephen A. The Accounting postulates and principles controversy of the 1960s, 1982.
Zeff, Stephen A. Uses of accounting for small business. 1962.
Zeff, Stephen A. The rise of economic consequences. Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1978.
Articles, a selection:
Zeff, Stephen A. "Forging accounting principles in five countries: A history and an analysis of trends" (1971).
Dyckman, Thomas R., and Stephen A. Zeff. "Two decades of the Journal of Accounting Research". Journal of Accounting Research (1984): pages 225-297.
Zeff, Stephen A. "Political lobbying on proposed standards: A challenge to the IASB". Accounting Horizons 16.1 (2002): pages 43-54.
Zeff, Stephen A. "How the US accounting profession got where it is today: Part I". Accounting Horizons 17.3 (2003): pages 189-205.
Zeff, Stephen A. "How the US accounting profession got where it is today: Part II". Accounting Horizons 17.4 (2003): pages 267-286.
References
External links
Personal Page at Rice.
Biography at OSU's Accounting Hall of Fame
1933 births
Living people
Rice University faculty
American economists
Harvard Business School faculty
Highland Park High School (Illinois) alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Ross School of Business alumni
University of Colorado alumni
University of Chicago faculty
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Samuel Norton may refer to:
Samuel Norton (alchemist) (1548–1621), English writer
Samuel Norton, a character in The Shawshank Redemption
Samuel Tilden Norton (1877–1959), Los Angeles-based architect
See also
Sam Norton-Knight (born 1983), Australian rugby union footballer
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The Lucky Tattie is a type of traditional sweet made in Scotland. The lucky tattie is made of a white fondant solid core flavoured with cassia, and steamed and covered with cinnamon powder. The tattie used to contain a small plastic lucky charm in the centre (like a tiny animal or toy), hence the lucky. Due to health and safety concerns they were removed.
See also
List of steamed foods
References
External links
Image of lucky tatties
Scottish confectionery
Steamed foods
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The Bund II is a Hong Kong period drama television series broadcast on TVB in 1980. It is a direct sequel to The Bund, also produced and released by TVB earlier in the same year. A sequel, The Bund III, was released by TVB later that year.
Plot
The story continues from after Hui Man-keung's death in The Bund. Hui's best friend, Ting Lik, now controls the Shanghai underworld and he seeks to avenge Hui. Ting sends Chan Cheung-kwai to hunt down those responsible for murdering Hui, leading to a series of killings.
At the same time, Ting is depressed after receiving news that his lover, Ching-ching, has become a nun. He decides to find another girlfriend, whom he has no romantic feelings for, just to cheer his mother up. By coincidence, Ting meets Chu Yin-yin and he falls in love with her. Just as their relationship is developing well, Tik Wan-chi, a gentlemanly and wealthy businessman, appears and starts courting Chu. The three of them are drawn into a complex love triangle.
Tik's immense wealth actually comes from secret financial support by the Japanese. Tik invites Ting to become his business partner and Ting reaps great rewards from their partnership. However, Tik's goal is to pave a path for the Japanese to take control of Shanghai.
Ting eventually learns of Tik's background after cooperating with him for some time. He is also shocked to discover that Tik was the mastermind behind Hui's assassination. Ting enters a dilemma on whether to kill Tik. He intends to kill Tik to avenge his friend and prevent the Japanese from taking over Shanghai. However, he is also hesitant when he sees that Chu truly loves Tik and when he feels that he does not want to lose Tik as a business partner. Eventually, Ting decides to turn against Tik. His decision will stir up big trouble in Shanghai.
Cast
Ray Lui as Ting Lik (丁力)
Chow Yun-fat as Hui Man-keung (許文強)
Gigi Wong as Chu Yin-yin (朱燕燕)
Patrick Tse as Tik Wan-chi (狄雲志)
Liu Kai-chi as Chan Cheung-kwai (陳祥貴)
Mary Hon as Poon Ling (潘玲)
Chan Lap-ban as Ting Lik's mother
Dominic Lam as Kwok Chun-cheung (郭鎮昌)
Chong Man-ching as Wong Yuet-kei (汪月琪)
Cheung Kwok-keung as Man Kwok-keung (聞國強)
King Doi-yum as Kwok Chau-ha (郭秋霞)
Lo Chun-shun as Cheung (阿張)
Fung Kwok as Fai (阿輝)
Lung Tin-sang as Bo (阿保)
Cheung Sang as Kiu Ying (喬英)
Yu Ming as Pang Choi (彭才) / Uncle Cheuk (卓伯)
Tsui Kwong-lam as Fok Kei (霍基)
Cho Chai as Siu Hung (蕭熊)
Ma Hing-sang as Boss Ma (馬老闆)
Leung Oi as Sister Ping (萍姐) / Aunt Ping (平嫂)
Mui Lan as Sam (阿三)
Chow Kit as Chairman Ng (伍社長) / Manager Lee (李經理)
Kwan Kin as Kwok Tso-yin (郭祖賢)
Wong Man-yee as Miss Shanghai
Lee Ching-wai as Sister Kam (琴姐)
Natalis Chan as doctor
Lin Yin-fai as doctor
Chan Wing-fai as Lik (力打手) / Chuen (阿全) / bodyguard
Leung Kit-wah as Kwok Chau-ha's classmate / Mary (瑪莉)
Hui Yat-wah as Kwok Chau-ha's classmate
Leung Siu-tik as Robert (羅拔) / gangster Hung (流氓洪)
Lo Kwok-wai as Wong Yan (王仁) / robber
Wu Chi-lung as Wong Yung (王勇) / robber
Chung Chi-keung as Ho Sing (何勝)
Ye Fung as Tanaka (田中)
Law Lai-kuen as Secretary Tik (狄秘書)
Cheung Kwok-keung as Man Kwok-keung (聞國強)
Michael Miu as Secretary Wong (黃秘書)
Peggy Lam as Poon Ling's friend / Or (阿娥)
Man Kit-wun as Poon Ling's friend
Chan Mei-suen as Poon Ling's friend
Wong Jo-see as Lau Siu-ching (劉小青)
Lai Siu-fong as Kwok Chun-cheung's mother
Ho Kwai-lam as Lui Hon (雷漢) / Pierre
Mak Tze-wun as gangster
Bak Lan as Yeung's mother
Sheung-koon Yuk as Kwok Tso-yin's wife / Kwok Chau-ha's mother
Leung Suk-yee as Kwok Chau-ha's classmate / student
Felix Wong as Kei (阿基) / worker
Chu Kong as guard
Au Bing-nam as gangster / middle-aged man
Shek Siu-lun as warehouse guard / committee member So (蘇委員)
Tsui Kwai-heung as Japanese woman
Bak Man-biu as Murakami Taro (村上太郎) / village chief
Yeung Chung-yan as Japanese monk
Henry Lee as Japanese monk / Manager Au (區經理)
Chow Ding-yuen as Kwan (阿均)
Wong Ying-wah as Tak (阿德) / Yan (助手仁)
Kiu Hung as Inspector Yuen (袁局長)
Tan Chuen-hing as Tik Wan-chi's henchman
Mak Tai-shing as famous man
Yeung Ka-nok as worker
Chan On-ying as Poon Ling's friend
Cheung Hei as old man
Law Kwok-wai as Manager Yau (由司理)
Chun Wong as Manager Tsang (曾經理)
Lee Yeung-do as gangster / coolie / student / Sa (阿沙)
Chan Lin-sin as Kwok Chun-cheung's sister
Ho Kei-ning as Kwok Chun-cheung's brother
Lai Bik-kwong as warehouse guard / driver
Wai Yee-yan as emcee
Kwong Chor-fai as Lawyer Sam (岑律師) / Manager Sam (岑司理)
Tsui Yau-lun as Yuen (阿原) / assassin
Wong Chi-wai as Fei (阿肥)
So Hon-sang as rickshaw puller / gangster
Lui Oi-kwan as Yuen San (袁珊)
Leung Kit-fong as Aunt Man (文嬸)
Tsang Yuk-ha as dancer
Siu Siu-ling as dancer
Law Keung as assassin
Lok Kung as Mayor Ng (吳市長)
Cheung Chi-keung as fisherman Kwong (漁民廣)
Fu Yuk-lan as student
Pui Wun as aunt
Yip Ping as aunt
Mak Yiu-sun as gangster
So Ping-bo as tipster
Fong Ping as mamasan
Lau Siu-ming as lawyer
Ng Bok-kwan as assassin Hak (殺手克)
Cheng Fan-sang as assassin Chiu (殺手招)
Simon Yam as Chin (阿錢)
Wong See-yan as Secretary Chin (錢秘書)
Felix Lok as Chung (阿忠)
Ho Bik-kin as constable
Law Wai-ping as doctor
Tsang Wai-ming as coolie Sam (苦力三)
Benz Hui as driver Ming (車伕銘)
Law Chun-biu as assassin Wai (殺手羣)
Ho Kwong-lun as Ting Lik's henchman
Liu Chun-hung as Tin (阿田)
Tsui Wai-sun as Kwong (阿光)
External links
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1980 Hong Kong television series endings
TVB dramas
The Bund (TV series)
Sequel television series
Cantonese-language television shows
Television shows set in Shanghai
Triad (organized crime)
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WOGI (104.3 FM) is a radio station that broadcasts a Froggy-branded, country music, format. Licensed in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States, the station serves the Pittsburgh Media Market.
This station serves as the defacto flagship station of Forever Media, LLC (based in Pittsburgh) and simulcasts on WOGG and WOGH.
History
WOGI signed on the air April 15, 1959 as WOHI-FM, the FM sister station of WOHI, both owned by East Liverpool Broadcasting Company.
WOHI and WOHI-FM were sold to Constrander Corporation, owned by Joseph D. Coons for $175,000 on December 20, 1960.
The acquisition of the stations took effect January 27, 1961.
WOHI-FM changed callsigns to WRTS in June 1967,
and in November 1971, Coons sold both WOHI and WRTS to Frank Mangano for $290,493; however, the name of the company remained the same under the new owner.
WRTS changed callsigns once again to WELA in May 1974. In the mid-1970s, WELA was an easy listening format.
By 1981, the easy listening format was dropped in favor of a C&W format. By the late 1990s, the station had a classic hits format dubbed "Classic Hits 104."
Keymarket purchased both WOHI and WELA in 2000.
The new owner changed the callsign to WOGF on July 7, 2000, and adopted a country music format with the "Froggy" moniker; a format which continues today.
WOGF recently changed its city of license to Moon Township, Pennsylvania from East Liverpool, Ohio. The tower location remains in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
WOGF assumed the callsign WOGI in 2009, a callsign that was previously used on 98.3, which is a station in Pittsburgh that Keymarket sold to EMF in 2009. The new callsign on 98.3 is WPKV.
WOGI was partially simulcast on WOGG in Oliver, Pennsylvania for many years. The two stations had separate morning shows but were simulated throughout the day. In July 2020, the stations combined into a full simulcast are known as Froggy 104.3 and Froggy 94.9.
Currently, the station's weekday air staff consists of Mornings with Frogman Frank from 5-10AM, Katie Green Middays from 10AM-2PM, and Program Director Danger is on Afternoos 2-7PM.
References
External links
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/189898/wogg-wogi-combine-into-simulcast/
OGF
Radio stations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Pennsylvania
Country radio stations in the United States
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The Bund III is a Hong Kong period drama television series broadcast on TVB in 1980. The series is a direct sequel to The Bund and The Bund II, which were both released earlier in the same year.
Plot
The story continues from the end of The Bund II and chronicles the final years of Ting Lik's long reign as master of the Shanghai underworld.
Cast
Ray Lui as Ting Lik
Susanna Au-yeung as Yip Chau-ying
Wong Yuen-sun as Kei Sin-yung
Felix Wong
Chow Sau-lan
1980 Hong Kong television series debuts
1981 Hong Kong television series endings
TVB dramas
The Bund (TV series)
Sequel television series
Cantonese-language television shows
Television shows set in Shanghai
Triad (organized crime)
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Adam Menelaws, also spelled Menelas (born between 1748 and 1756, presumably in Edinburgh – died 31 August 1831 in Saint Petersburg, ) was an architect and landscape designer of Scottish origin, active in the Russian Empire from 1784 to 1831. Menelaws achieved success in the first two decades of the 19th century as the designer of town and country residences and parks of Razumovsky and Stroganov families, and later worked for emperor Alexander I, specializing in Gothic Revival architecture. From 1825 to 1831 Menelaws, then in his seventies, became the first house architect of Nicholas I and de facto the leading architect of the Empire. Except for this final, properly evidenced, stage, life story of Adam Menelaws remains scarcely documented and has been reconstructed by biographers based on sketchy archive data and circumstantial evidence; Menelaws still "belongs to the category of almost unknown".
Biography
The Scottish origin of Menelaws was confirmed by the architect himself to A. B. Granville, an English traveler who published a report of his journey in London in 1828. There is no other reliable evidence of his early years, education and experience prior to arriving in Russia in 1784. Members of Menelaws family were construction contractors in Argyll; Howard Colvin and Dmitry Shvidkovsky suggest that Adam Menelaws belonged to the same family, but this opinion has not been reliably confirmed by archive research. Historians split over the year of his birth: a 1784 immigration record suggests that he arrived in Russia at the age of 35, i.e. born in or around 1748, while the funeral records of the English church in Saint Petersburg state the year of his birth as 1756. In 1803 Menelaws asserted that he hails from a noble English family, but Russian authorities refused to honour his claim.
In early 1780s Charles Cameron, an architect employed by Catherine II since 1779, published a job offer in Edinburgh Evening News, signed Catherine of Russia, inviting skilled construction workers to join his Tsarskoye Selo project. 73 craftsmen, including Adam Menelaws, agreed to move to Russia (many took their families with them), causing a futile protest of the Foreign Office. All were sufficiently qualified to become professional architects or at least architect's trainees in Russia; Cameron ranked Menelaws as the one of two best stonemasons – the "vaulting master". Menelaws signed for a three-year contract to build the Cold Baths near Saint Petersburg, agreeing also to train a class of Russian craftsmen. Apparently the number of Scottish professionals was too big for Cameron, and one year later Menelaws left him and joined the service of Nikolay Lvov.
Lvov, an amateur composer, poet and Palladian architect was at that time aide to statesman Alexander Bezborodko. Historians divide over his role in Menelaws career: tradition held it that Lvov promoted Menelaws, introducing him to the Crown projects, while later researchers assert that, on the contrary, Lvov's influence slowed down Menelaws career. Instead of architecture, in May 1785 Lvov engaged Menelaws and William Heste in search for coal fossils (at that time Russian metallurgy was dependent on either charcoal or imports from England and Wales). In 1786 Menelaws found commercial-grade ("not inferior to that of Newcastle") coal near Borovichi; by 1790 the coal research team increased to 10 professionals. It is quite likely, however, that Lvov used the state-sponsored quest for coal as a cover to extract a talented architect for his own use: in 1785–1794 Menelaws was regularly involved in Lvov's construction projects. Another Scot, Walter Irving, was employed by Lvov to construct his idealist Sun Temple, a country estate in Tver Oblast; its circular arcade, resembling the henges of Britain, was later recreated in Menelaws' own designs. The rotunda motive, common to Menelaws later works, was most likely inspired by Lvov.
Menelaws married Elizabeth Cave in 1792; the ceremony was attended by Lvov, Alexey Olenin (president of the Imperial Academy of Arts) and numerous members of the English and Scottish diaspora. In 1795 Menelaws began gradually separating from Lvov's service after the construction of the Saint Joseph cathedral in Mahilyow, but the two remained in contact until Lvov's sudden death in 1803. Meanwhile, Menelaws remained a Russian state servant of a small rank since his arrival. After Lvov's death he attempted to retire immediately, but, faced with refusal in pension benefits, preferred to remain in service until 1806. According to Anthony Cross, "the late burgeoning of Menelaws talent" probably occurred only after Lvov' death, during his work for the Razumovsky family.
In the 19th century Menelaws created a string of English gardens for the Razumovskys; the best known, in Gorenki (present-day Balashikha), was included in John Claudius Loudon's An Encyclopedia of Gardening for its landscaping and a private botanical garden. Historians split on the issue whether Gorenki was designed primarily by Menelaws or by Lvov. In 1801–1802 Menelaws designed and built the Razumovsky Palace in Basmanny District of Moscow; the palace was destroyed by the Fire of 1812 and later reconstructed by Afanasy Grigoriev. Another large park, Stroganov's Maryino, was laid down near Saint Peterburg in 1813. All these landscaping projects perished by the end of 19th century. Menelaws park designs always employed a Gothic ruin as a visual anchor. Menelaws was instrumental in operations of the Maryino school established by the Golitsyns in 1819, teaching the peasants the craft of cob construction. Introduction of cob technology in Russia is usually credited to Lvov, but may also be linked directly to Menelaws's Scottish experience. Dmitry Shvidkovsky suggested that Menelaws, not Cameron, was the designer of the Razumovsky palace in Baturin, but other historians reject this opinion.
In the 1810s Alexander I invited Menelaws to redesign the Alexander's Park in Tsarskoye Selo, starting with an old dilapidated menagerie. The new plan proposed by Menelaws created an illusion of a completely novel design, yet carefully preserved the structure of a regular park shaped in the previous century; according to Lvov, Menelaws "merged the art of Kent and Le Nôtre". Menelaws designed and built 12 structures, including the Egyptian Gates and three park pavilions: the large Arsenal (1819–1834) built on the site of Mon Bijou built by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1750s, the White Tower (1821–1827), a house for the young Grand Dukes and the Chapel (1825–1828), a folly providing living quarter to the palace chaplain. Use of an eclectic, pan-European romanticism was justified as a symbol of the New Europe shaped at the Congress of Vienna, but was also a sign of Alexander's turn to mysticism. Alexander's Park was occupied by Nicholas I, then heir presumptive, who also leaned to eclecticism and medieval legacy, as would be evidenced later by his reign.
Nicholas became Menelaws' "most appreciative patron who provided him with the opportunity at a very advanced stage of life". Indeed, his most important commission, the Alexandria Park, was started when the architect was at least around 70 years old.
Shortly before his death in 1824, Alexander I granted a lot of land on the coast of Gulf of Finland, east of Petergof, to Nicholas I. The new Alexandria Park, commissioned to Menelaws, became the last, and best preserved of the architect's projects. The work started with landscaping the territory and digging two large artificial pools; after Alexander's death, Nicholas commissioned Menelaws to build his summer residence, the asymmetrical Cottage. Externally, it was more English than Gothic; Gothic influence was more obvious in the interiors designed by Menelaws. The park, laid down in English style, featured winding walkways around ponds, and had a Gothic Chapel (private church of the House of Romanov, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel) as its focal point (it was completed by Ludwig Charlemagne three years after Menelaws' death). It was suggested that Nicholas actually planned to relocate the remains of Alexander Nevsky into the chapel. The park also had facilities of the lesser rank: an animal sanctuary for old horses retired from the palace service, a farm and a menagerie with llama and elephant pavilions. Elephants lived in Alexandria until 1911 and were allowed to roam free in the summer.
Menelaws died in Saint Petersburg during the cholera epidemic of 1831.
Notes
References
Colvin, Howard (1995) A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. Yale University Press.
(biography of Charles Cameron)
Scottish expatriates in Russia
Gothic Revival architects
Russian neoclassical architects
18th-century Scottish architects
19th-century architects from the Russian Empire
Landscape or garden designers
18th-century births
1831 deaths
Deaths from cholera
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Roy Pierpoint (15 May 1929 – 12 January 2023) was a British racing driver who drove in saloons and sports cars.
Racing career
His first race was in 1949, at a BARC meeting driving a Fiat 1100 special, which he built himself: "very neat was Pierpont's (sic) F.I.A.T. 1,100 with aerodynamic but not all-enveloping bodywork, two Amal carburetters, a neat silencer in its straight exhaust pipe and an oil-cooler ahead of the main radiator." He finished seventh in a 3-lap handicap.
Pierpoint raced very little after that until 1961. In 1962 he drove in several events including the BRDC Trophy at Silverstone, the Guards Trophy and the Brands Six Hour Race where he finished third in his class alongside Bruce Halford. Also that year, he achieved some success at Hill Climb events. He continued in sports car racing in 1963 and 1964, again in the Guards Trophy. In 1968 he was in the Nürburgring 1000 km race in a Ford GT40, but did not finish. He competed in 1968 and 1969 at Denmark's Jyllands-Ringen, with two wins from four races.
Pierpoint was best known for his time driving in the British Saloon Car Championship, with a total of fourteen race wins. In his first year in 1965, he won the Championship for Alan Mann Racing, driving a V8 4.7-litre Ford Mustang: "After a struggle throughout 1965 against the Austin Mini-Cooper S of Warwick Banks,.." The championship was won after a protest against the car of Jack Brabham, which was found to have illegal modifications. He raced a Ford Falcon the following year, which was not competitive enough to defend his title. He stuck with the Falcon for another three years. In 1968 he finished fifth on points and in 1969 he finished third in the championship. He spent two more years in the BSCC, but did not come close to winning the title in a Chevrolet Camaro.
Racing record
Complete British Saloon Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)
† Events with 2 races staged for the different classes.
References
External links
BTCC.net official profile
Historic Racing profile
1929 births
2023 deaths
People from Weybridge
British Touring Car Championship drivers
British Touring Car Championship Champions
English racing drivers
12 Hours of Reims drivers
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Louis Hasselriis (12 January 1844 – 20 May 1912) was a Danish sculptor known for his public statuary.
Early life and education
Hasselriis was born in Hillerød, the son of Herman Edvard Louis H (1815–1907) and Sophie Frederikke Schondel (1802–55). Gis mother had previously been married to pharmacist in Hillerød Ebbe Madsen Andresen, 1802–38) and her new husband took over the pharmacy in connection with their wedding. He later bought a farm in .
Hasselriis apprenticed as a wood carver under Wille and later in the studio of Herman Wilhelm Bissen. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1859–66 and won the small gold medal in 1868 for David forbereder sig til kamp med Goliath.
Career
Hasselriis had his debut at the Charlottenborg Exhibition in 1863. From 1869 and for the rest of his life he lived in Rome, but retained strong links with his homeland and also with the USA. In Denmark he created a statue of William Shakespeare for Helsingør and memorials to national heroes such as Peder Griffenfeld (Copenhagen) and Hans Christian Andersen (Odense)). A copy of his Hans Christian Andersen statue exists in New Jersey.
His memorial to Heinrich Heine marks the poet's grave in Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. A full size statue of the German-Jewish poet was also created for Empress Elizabeth of Austria. After her death it was removed from its original location by the antisemitic Kaiser Wilhelm II, and was rejected when offered to the city of Hamburg. With the rise of the Nazis, it was moved out of Germany to be erected in the Jardin d'acclimatation du Mourillon, Toulon. Though it survived the war, other Hasselriis statues were melted down to make munitions.
Gallery
References
1844 births
1912 deaths
20th-century Danish sculptors
Male sculptors
19th-century sculptors
People from Hillerød Municipality
Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists
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The Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft also called the Oslo Convention was an international agreement designed to control the dumping of harmful substances from ships and aircraft into the sea. It was adopted on 15 February 1972 in Oslo, Norway and came into force on 7 April 1974. Original signatories were Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Later members included the United Kingdom (1975), the Netherlands (1975), Germany (1977), Finland (1979), Ireland (1982), and Belgium (1985).
The area covered by the treaty included the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans north of latitude 36°N, east of longitude 42°W and west of longitude 51°E, excluding the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas
The Convention prohibited the dumping of halocarbons and organosilicon (with some exceptions), mercury and mercury compounds, cadmium and cadmium compounds, non-biodegradable plastics and other persistent materials, as well as "substances which have been agreed between the Contracting Parties as likely to be carcinogenic under the conditions of disposal." It also restricted and required a permit for the dumping of arsenic, lead, copper, zinc and their compounds, as well as cyanides, and fluorides, pesticides, containers, "tar-like substances", scrap metal, and "other bulky wastes."
It also defined the considerations to be made in the issuance of dumping permits by each signatory state and required them to enforce the agreement within their territorial sea and make efforts to prevent dumping of materials outside the agreement's defined borders.
The convention was amended once, in December 1981, which amendment came into force in February 1982. The Oslo Convention was replaced by the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic or "OSPAR Convention" when it came into force on 25 March 1998.
References
External links
Full text of the Convention
Summary and ratifications.
Waste treaties
Ocean pollution
Atlantic Ocean
Environment of the Arctic
Government of the Arctic
Treaties concluded in 1972
Treaties entered into force in 1974
1974 in the environment
1972 in Norway
Treaties of Denmark
Treaties of Finland
Treaties of France
Treaties of West Germany
Treaties of Iceland
Treaties of Norway
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Francoist Spain
Treaties of Sweden
Treaties of the United Kingdom
Treaties of the Netherlands
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Belgium
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WOHC (90.1 FM) is a Christian worship formatted radio station licensed to Chillicothe, Ohio, United States and broadcasts the nationally syndicated Air1 feed. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation.
References
External links
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1992
1992 establishments in Ohio
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
Ohio
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Milroy's disease (MD) is a familial disease characterized by lymphedema, commonly in the legs, caused by congenital abnormalities in the lymphatic system. Disruption of the normal drainage of lymph leads to fluid accumulation and hypertrophy of soft tissues.
It was named by Sir William Osler for William Milroy, a Canadian physician, who described a case in 1892, though it was first described by Rudolf Virchow in 1863.
Presentation
The most common presentation of Milroy's disease is unilateral lower extremity lymphedema, and may also be accompanied by hydrocele. Males and females may have upslanting toenails, deep creases in the toes, wart-like growths (papillomas), and prominent leg veins. Some individuals develop non-contagious skin infections called cellulitis that can damage the thin tubes that carry lymph fluid (lymphatic vessels). Episodes of cellulitis can cause further swelling in the lower limbs.
Genetics
This disease is more common in women and an association with the gene FLT4 has been described. FLT4 codes for VEGFR-3, which is implicated in development of the lymphatic system.
Milroy's disease is also known as primary or hereditary lymphedema type 1A or early onset lymphedema. It is a very rare disease with only about 200 cases reported in the medical literature. Milroy's disease is an autosomal dominant condition caused by a mutation in the FLT4 gene which encodes of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR-3) gene located on the long arm (q) on chromosome 5 (5q35.3).
In contrast to Milroy's disease (early onset lymphedema type 1A), which typically has its onset of swelling and edema at birth or during early infancy, hereditary lymphedema type II, known as Meige disease, has its onset around the time of puberty. Meige disease is also an autosomal dominant disease. It has been linked to a mutations in the 'forkhead' family transcription factor (FOXC2) gene located on the long arm of chromosome 16 (16q24.3). About 2000 cases have been identified. A third type of hereditary lymphedema, that has an onset after the age of 35 is known as lymphedema tarda.
Diagnosis
Only conservative measures can be taken. Certain treatments for lymphedema disorders may possibly alleviate specific symptoms; no cure and it is usually congenital. Genetic counseling can be done. May have similar health conditions, delays, disorders, and physical traits associated with other lymphatic genetic diseases and chromosome #5 abnormalities.
Prognosis
Milroy's disease does not normally affect life expectancy.
Medscape states patients may have recurrent streptococcal cellulitis and lymphangitis, with subsequent hospitalizations for antibiotic therapy. A rare complication is the appearance of lymphangiosarcoma or angiosarcoma in patients with persistent lymphedema. Some patients may develop protein-losing enteropathy and visceral involvement. Chylous ascites and chylothorax rarely occur.
See also
List of cutaneous conditions
References
Further reading
External links
Vascular-related cutaneous conditions
Rare genetic syndromes
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25 Scorpii (abbreviated to 25 Sco) is a star in the zodiac constellation of Scorpius, located about 920 light years away from the Sun. Its apparent magnitude is 6.71, so its apparent brightness is at the limit of human eyesight and can only be seen under excellent conditions, according to the Bortle scale. The object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −1.3 km/s. It is a proposed member of the Scorpius–Centaurus association.
This is an evolved bright giant with a spectral type of K0 II. It is about two times more massive and over twelve times wider than the Sun. The star is radiating 135 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 4,700 K.
References
K-type bright giants
Scorpius–Centaurus association
Scorpius
Scorpii, 25
Durchmusterung objects
151179
082140
6225
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Breakfast is the first meal of the day.
Breakfast may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Broadcasting
Breakfast, the early-morning daypart period on a radio or television station when most listeners or viewers will be eating breakfast, e.g.:
Breakfast (Australian TV program), a 2012 Australian TV program on Network Ten
Breakfast (New Zealand TV program), a New Zealand TV program on TV One
Saturday Breakfast, a 2011–2012 Saturday edition of the daily New Zealand program
Breakfast (Philippine TV program), a 1999–2007 Filipino television program that aired on Studio 23
Breakfast, a weekday radio program on BBC Radio 3
BBC Breakfast, a British TV program simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel
Breakfast News, a 1989–2000 British TV program that aired on BBC One
Breakfast Time (British TV programme), a 1983–1989 British TV program on BBC One
CP24 Breakfast, a Canadian TV program on CP24
News Breakfast, or ABC News Breakfast, a 2008 Australian TV program on ABC1 and ABC News 24
RN Breakfast, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program
The Big Breakfast, a 1992–2002 British TV program on Channel 4
"Breakfast" (airdate 1987), the first episode of the British TV series ChuckleVision
Music
Albums
Breakfast (Chiddy Bang album), or the title song, 2012
Breakfast, a 1991 album by Mr Floppy, or the title song
Songs
"Breakfast (Associates song)", a song by the Associates
"Breakfast", a song by Brockhampton from the 2016 mixtape, All-American Trash
"Breakfast", a song by Kelis from the 2014 album Food
"Breakfast", a song by Newsboys from the 1996 album Take Me to Your Leader
"Breakfast", a song by Sly Withers from the 2020 album Gardens
"Breakfast (Syrup)", a 2012 song by Kreayshawn featuring 2 Chainz
See also
Break fast, the meal eaten after Jewish fast days such as Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av
Breakfast at Tiffany's (disambiguation)
Wedding breakfast, a British term for the meal and reception following a marriage service
Breakfast Princess, a character who first appeared in the episode "Hitman" of the animated series Adventure Time
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Luigi Petrucci (born 13 September 1956) is an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Naples, at young age Petrucci studied singing, piano and guitar, and he started his professional acting career on stage, where he worked with the companies of Eduardo De Filippo, Carlo and Aldo Giuffrè, Nino Taranto and Dolores Palumbo, among others. He made his film debut in 1981, and had his breakout with the role of Postiglione in Carlo Verdone's Compagni di scuola.
Filmography
Blues metropolitano (1984, directed by Salvatore Piscicelli)
L'amara scienza (1985)
Italian Fast Food (1986, directed by Lodovico Gasparini)
Compagni di scuola (1988, directed by Carlo Verdone)
Supysaua (1988, directed by Enrico Coletti)
Il bambino e il poliziotto (1989, directed by Carlo Verdone)
Matilda (1990, directed by Antonietta De Lillo)
Fantozzi alla riscossa (1990, directed by Neri Parenti, Paolo Villaggio)
Piedipiatti (1991, directed by Carlo Vanzina)
Mutande pazze (1992, directed by Roberto D'Agostino)
Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993, directed by Nanni Loy)
Mario il mago (1994, directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Mollo tutto (1994, directed by José Maria Sanchez)
Miele dolce amore (1994, directed by Enrico Coletti)
Le nuove comiche (1994, directed by Neri Parenti)
La classe non è acqua (1996, directed by Cecilia Calvi)
Fireworks (1997, directed by Leonardo Pieraccioni)
Rose e pistole (1997, directed by Carla Apuzzo)
I vesuviani (1997, directed by Antonietta De Lillo)
L'amore non ha confini (1998, directed by Paolo Sorrentino)
La vespa e la regina (1999, directed by Antonello De Leo)
La partita - La difesa di Lužin (2000, regia Marleen Gorris)
Mi sei entrata nel cuore come un colpo di coltello (2000, directed by Cecilia Calvi)
Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004, directed by Luca Lucini)
Ho voglia di te (2007, directed by Luis Prieto)
La maschera d'acqua (2007)
Ci sarà un giorno - Il giovane Pertini (2010)
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
Italian male stage actors
Italian male television actors
Male actors from Naples
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Rustin Parr is a fictional character from the Blair Witch series of horror films. He first appeared in Curse of the Blair Witch (1999) as an old man on death row giving his last interview before being executed for the murders of seven children, in which he was portrayed by Frank Pastor. Created by Haxan Films, the character has subsequently been represented in various other media, including novels, video games, and comic books.
Development
In developing the mythology behind the film, the creators used many inspirations. For instance, several character names are near-anagrams: Elly Kedward (The Blair Witch) is Edward Kelley, a 16th-century mystic, and Rustin Parr, the fictional 1940s child-murderer, began as an anagram for Rasputin.
When it came time to cast the role, Haxan chose Frank Pastor, who had been a free-lance gardener hired to tend to the garden around the Haxan office. His prison interview scene was filmed at the Old St. Johns County Jail in St. Augustine, Florida. Pastor attended the first screening of The Blair Witch Project in 1998 at the Enzian Theater in Maitland, Florida. But sometime after that, he vanished. When the film became a massive success, Artisan Entertainment attempted to track Frank Pastor down, but was unable to, leading to them recasting the role for the film's sequel.
Appearances
Rustin Parr made his first appearance in 1999, in the Curse of the Blair Witch, a mockumentary which aired on Syfy to promote the release of The Blair Witch Project. The footage from Curse was originally supposed to be part of the final film, but during the editing process Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez realized the most engaging part of the film was Heather, Mike, and Josh. The footage left on the cutting room floor was then repurposed for the mockumentary. As well as the films, there have been books and comics that have either expanded the universe of Rustin, or been based on a minor aspect of him.
Films and mockumentaries
Curse of the Blair Witch
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Shadow of the Blair Witch
The Burkittsville 7
Literature
Rustin first appeared outside of the film in the dossier written by DA Stern, produced to further promote The Blair Witch Project. Published on September 1, 1999, the book features newspaper articles recounting his trial, and eventual execution.
More of Rustin's backstory is learned in The Blair Witch Files: The Dark Room which was published in August 2000, when Laura Morely and Cade Merrill venture to the ruins of the Parr house, but through Laura's eyes and her camera the house is perfectly intact. Laura sees Rustin as a child along with his twin brother Dale, and their fighting and bickering. She ends up watching the past play out like a film, and sees Rustin beat Dale to death with a tree branch, although Rustin's parents tell everyone he died in a hunting accident.
The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier - September 1, 1999
Blair Witch: The Secret Confession of Rustin Parr - August 1, 2000
Blair Witch: Graveyard Shift - September 28, 2000
Blair Witch: Book of Shadows - Dossier - November 1, 2000
Merchandise
The character of Rustin Parr was featured on t-shirts after the first film was released. Halloween masks of Parr were released by Cesar Masks, upon release of the second film.
See also
List of horror film villains
Michael Myers
Jason Voorhees
Freddy Krueger
Leatherface
References
Blair Witch
Fictional characters from Maryland
Fictional murderers of children
Fictional hermits
Fictional kidnappers
Film characters introduced in 1999
Male horror film characters
Fictional characters from the 20th century
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Thronar was a Dutch Viking metal/black metal band from the Netherlands. The band released a discography consisting of three demos, one split album, and two albums.
History
Thronar formed under the name "Cerberus" in 1998 by guitarists Otto van Beusekom and Reamon Bloem, with drummer Joost Westdijk (of Bolthorn). The band got serious when joined by Nathalia Hoogkamer (keyboards) and Marin (vocals). Under the name Cerberus they released two demos, A Journey Must Begin... and One Man's Faith. In 2002, they changed their name to Thronar because there were many bands called Cerberus, and because they started playing a different style, from black metal to Viking metal.
The band have commented on being influenced by the early Norwegian black metal scene; they claim to be atheistic, though they respect certain forms of Satanism. Ideologically, the band hearkens back to old myths and mysticism.
In 2003, Thronar recorded a promo consisting of four tracks, which led to the band getting signed to Seven Kingdoms Records. Shortly afterward, the band made a split with three other bands, Arnhem Trolleymetaal.
In 2005, Thronar's debut album, For Death and Glory, was released through Seven Kingdoms. The album received positive reviews and was reprinted several times. Shortly after in 2006 Reamon decided to fully concentrate on guitar and Koen was brought on for vocal duties. In this lineup the band toured with bands such as Eluveitie, Moonsorrow, Ensiferum, Arch Enemy, Korpiklaani, and In Extremo.
Thronar's second album, Unleash the Fire, was released in 2008 on Twilight Records.
In 2009, Thronar's vocalist, Reamon Bloem, left the band and a replacement was sought. However, following this, Thronar declared that they were split up.
Discography
As Cerberus
A Journey Must Begin... (demo, 1999)
One Man's Fate (demo, 2001)
As Thronar
Promo 2003 (demo, 2003)
Arnhem Trolleymetaal (split album, Seven Kingdoms, 2003)
For Death and Glory (full-length, Seven Kingdoms, 2005)
Unleash the Fire (full-length, Twilight, 2008)
Line-up
Final members
Otto van Beusekom - guitar, vocals (1998–2009)
Jarno Olinga - drums (2005–2009)
Kevin Olinga - guitar (2007–2009)
Nathalia Hoogkamer - keyboards (1999–2009)
Bouke Braun - bass (1999–2009)
Former members
Reamon Bloem - guitar (1998–2009), vocals (1998–2006, 2008–2009)
Joost Westdijk - drums (1999–2005)
Koen de Graaf - vocals (2006–2008)
Elwin Molenaar - drums (2005)
Nick - vocals
Marin - vocals
References
Viking metal musical groups
Dutch black metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1998
Dutch folk metal musical groups
Musical groups disestablished in 2009
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The Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (formerly known as Rocky Bay First Nation) is an Ojibway First Nation band government in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Their territory is located on the Rocky Bay 1 reserve in Greenstone, Ontario, bordering on the community of Macdiarmid. In October 2008, they had a total registered population of 678 people, of which 327 people lived on their own Indian reserve. The Nation is led by Chief Gladys Thompson. The council is a member of Nokiiwin Tribal Council, a Regional Chiefs' Council, and is member of Union of Ontario Indians, a Tribal Political Organization. The First Nation is also a member of Waaskiinaysay Ziibi Inc., an economic development corporation made up of five Lake Nipigon First Nations.
History
The first nation's television series Spirit Bay was filmed here in the 1980s. A modern school in Rocky Bay has been named the "Spirit Bay School" after the series.
In June 1994, the Chiefs at the Anishinabek Grand Council on the Rocky Bay First Nation, directed that the Education Directorate formally establish the Anishinabek Education Institute (AEI) in accordance with the post secondary education model that was submitted and ratified. (Res. 94/13)
References
External links
Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek First Nation
AANDC profile
FirstNations.ca profile
First Nations governments in Ontario
Ojibwe governments
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Faye Duchin (; born 1944) is an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("RPI"), where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2002. She worked in the fields of ecological economics and industrial ecology and employs Input-Output Analysis in her work. Her faculty page at RPI stated that she was "concerned with ways of achieving economic development while avoiding environmental disasters."
Biography
Faye Duchin was raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, attended Cornell University, and received a BA in Experimental Psychology in 1965. In 1973, she completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley with a dissertation on the newly passed Rent Control law in Berkeley.
From 1977–1996, Duchin was on the faculty at New York University, where she worked for Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief on input-output economics. In 1985, she became Director of the NYU Institute for Economic Analysis, a position she held until 1996 when she left to become Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2002, Duchin resigned as Dean.
Professional affiliations
Duchin served as president of the International Input-Output Association from 2004 to 2006, and is a former Vice President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). She is a member of the editorial boards of various journals, including the journal of Industrial Ecology, having held this position since the journal's founding in 1997. was one of the founders and a managing editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics,
Scholarly contributions
Duchin has stated that she examines factors that could "make a difference in satisfying major global imperatives." She has examined technological change, lifestyle change, quality of life, income distribution, consumption, international trade, natural resource use and environmental degradation using input-output models. She calls her work "problem-oriented rather than discipline- or technique-oriented" and has used an interdisciplinary approach to study sustainability. She claims to study physical realities and constraints, not just monetary values, by using process and engineering data to model technology and resource use.
Publications
1983: Military Spending: Facts and Figures, Worldwide Implications and Future Outlook with Wassily Leontief
1986: The Future Impact of Automation on Workers with Wassily Leontief
1994: The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change with Glenn-Marie Lange
1998: Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
Footnotes
External links
Faye Duchin homepage
Prof. Duchin personal website
1944 births
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Living people
Industrial ecology
Ecological economists
Cornell University alumni
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Martha Speaks is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Susan Meddaugh, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992. It is the first in a series of six books featuring a young girl's pet dog named Martha.
Plot
The book follows the adventures of the dog Martha, who could speak after being fed alphabet soup. The family complains about Martha being talkative, and she stops eating her soup. Then, when a burglar breaks into her house, Martha was unable to call for help. When the burglar gives her alphabet soup, Martha calls the police and the family appreciates her for speaking again.
Reception
The Horn Book Magazine said the book was "Good-natured and amusing, with cheerful illustrations" and Patricia Tauzer writing for Common Sense Media wrote in a four star (out of five) review that, "the story is clever."
In popular culture
Prior to an adaptation into a TV series of the same name in 2008, the book was featured on an episode of Reading Rainbow, and was also featured (but not read) on an episode of Kino's Storytime.
References
1992 children's books
American picture books
Children's books about dogs
Talking animals in fiction
Houghton Mifflin books
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Sig Libowitz (born March 1, 1968) is an American lawyer, actor, film executive, writer, producer, and professor. He is currently the director of the Graduate Film and Media program at Johns Hopkins, a prestigious university in Baltimore, Maryland.
Libowitz is notable for writing, producing, and acting in a film, The Response, which he wrote after reading the actual transcripts from the Guantanamo detainees' Combatant Status Review Tribunals.
Education
Libowitz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and politics from New York University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2007. One of Libowitz's professors at law school distributed Guantanamo transcripts to his class. Libowitz decided the transcript could be turned into a script.
Career
From 2007 to 2012, Libowitz worked for the law firm Venable LLP.
Libowitz was a vice president of acquisitions and co-productions at Paramount Pictures. Prior to that, he was an executive at Film4 and Good Machine, where he oversaw production of the Academy Award-nominated film, In The Bedroom, starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei. As an actor, Libowitz had recurring roles in The Sopranos and Law & Order.
The Response has screened at the Pentagon, United States Congress, United States Department of Justice, the United States Military Academy, and numerous universities including Harvard University, UCLA, and Columbia University. The Response was shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Award (Best Live Action Short) and won the 2009 ABA Award as Best of the Year in Drama and Literature. Previous ABA winners include To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, and Judgment at Nuremberg.
Peter Riegert, Kate Mulgrew star as the two other JAG officers on the Tribunal. Aasif Mandvi stars as the detainee.
Following the release of his film, The Response, Sig was invited to visit Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a legal observer.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
American lawyers
Living people
1968 births
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18th Joseph Plateau Awards
May 3, 2005
Best Film:
Steve + Sky
The 18th Joseph Plateau Awards were given on 3 May 2005 and honored the best Belgian filmmaking of 2004.
Winners and nominees
Best Belgian Actor
Benoît Poelvoorde - Aaltra and Podium
Titus De Voogdt - Steve + Sky
Joan Heldenbergh - Steve + Sky
Best Belgian Actress
Marie Vinck - The Kiss (De kus)
Viviane de Muynck - Sweet Jam (Confituur)
Yolande Moreau - When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte...)
Best Belgian Composer
Soulwax - Steve + Sky
Stef Kamil Carlens and Bert Joris - The Kiss (De kus)
Vincent D'Hondt - Gilles' Wife (La femme de Gilles)
Best Belgian Director
Frédéric Fonteyne - Gilles' Wife (La femme de Gilles)
Lieven Debrauwer - Sweet Jam (Confituur)
Felix Van Groeningen - Steve + Sky
Best Belgian Film
Steve + Sky
Aaltra
Gilles' Wife (La femme de Gilles)
Best Belgian Screenplay
Gilles' Wife (La femme de Gilles) - Philippe Blasband, Frédéric Fonteyne and Marion Hänsel
When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte...) - Yolande Moreau
Steve + Sky - Felix Van Groeningen
Best Belgian Short Film
Alice and I (Alice et moi)
Cologne
Flatlife
2004 film awards
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The Wedding is the first self-titled release from the American punk rock band, The Wedding. It was released February 15, 2005 on Rambler Records, and is the only album put out by the band to have four members. Two singles have been released from this album, "Move this City" and "Song for the Broken". No music videos have been released for this cd, single or otherwise. The album received mostly positive reviews and the band soon released a follow-up EP, Rumble in the South, with bonus songs and later a second album, Polarity. This album includes guest vocals from Matt Thiessen of Relient K in the song "But A Breath".
Sound
The Wedding's debut release is lighter than other albums; this is because of the band only having four members at the time of this release. The music relies on Kevin Kiehn's high vocals and piano and pushes the bass into the background. The band's then current drummer, Clint Robinson, plays lightly with more simple beats rather than "Polarity" which features fast drumming.
Track listing
"Morning Air"
"Move This City"
"This Time I'm Leaving"
"Wake the Regiment"
"One Eye Open"
"Price For Love"
"Death By Xanga"
"479HxC (Through the Night)"
"Joyride"
"But A Breath"
"Water Under the Bridge"
"Song for the Broken"
Credits
Kevin Keihn: Lead vocals, Piano, Synthesizer
Cody Driggers: Bass, Background vocals
Trevor Sarver: Guitar
Clint Robinson: Drums, piano
Mark Townsend: Producer, Engineer
References
The Wedding (band) albums
2005 debut albums
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Aglaodorum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The only species that is a member of this genus is Aglaodorum griffithii.
Aglaodorum is extremely similar to species in the genus Aglaonema. One main differences that distinguishes Aglaodorum from species in Aglaonema is that it produces green fruit whereas Aglaonema species produce red fruit. Also, Aglaodorum has a longer peduncle and produces only one whorl of flowers instead of many as in Aglaonema.
Aglaodorum are found growing in tidal mudflats in Borneo, Sumatra, southern Indochina, and Peninsula Malaysia. It is usually found growing alongside of Cryptocoryne ciliata and Nypa fruticans. An interesting feature of the plant is that the seeds germinate before it drops from the plant. The seeds themselves tend to be quite large.
References
Aroideae
Monotypic Araceae genera
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
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Tata Bojs is a Czech pop rock band, formed in 1988 by bass-player Mardoša and drummer/singer Milan Cais. The band plays electronic pop music. The band is famous for its creative lyrics and word play. The current line-up of the band includes guitarist Vladimír Bár, producer Dušan Neuwerth on guitar and Matěj Belko on piano and keyboards. The band won the award for Best Group at the 2004 Anděl Awards.
Discography
Albums
1991 Šagali Šagáli
1995 Ladovo album
1997 Jaro/Divnosti
1997 Ukončete nás
1998 Nekonečná stanice
2000 Futuretro
2001 Termixes
2002 Biorytmy
2002 Attention!
2003 Šagalí léta 89-97
2004 Nanoalbum
2007 Kluci kde ste?
2008 smetana (with Ahn Trio)
2011 Ležatá osmička (∞)
2013 Hity a city
2015 A/B
2017 Tata Bojs & SOČR Live
2020 Jedna nula
DVD
2005 Nanotour
2012 Ležatá Letná
Books
2004 Nanobook
Awards
Anděl Awards
2004 Best Group
References
External links
Czech rock music groups
1988 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Musical groups established in 1988
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Sepia Cinderella is a 1947 American musical race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard. The film is notable for musical numbers by vocalists Billy Daniels and Sheila Guyse, and for a brief guest appearance by former child star Freddie Bartholomew, who is onscreen as himself for five minutes, telling gags to recharge his post-war career.
It was the film debut of Sidney Poitier, who had an uncredited role.
Plot summary
The musical follows a young woman, Barbara (played by Guyse), in love with a good and kind bandleader, Bob (portrayed by Daniels), who seems oblivious to her love. Barbara helps Bob write a new song, "Cinderella", and it becomes an unexpected hit. Success and sudden fame lead Bob to abandon his former performing venue and lose touch with his friends. He becomes caught in the talons of a devious female club-owner who milks his success and tries to also seduce him, even though she is engaged, unbeknownst to Bob. As his career crumbles and the scales fall from his eyes, Bob's press agent finally finds a way for things to end happily: Bob will make a comeback and in doing so will choose a woman's shoe out of dozens entered, and the winner will sing with him and have her prince. Bob rightly picks Barbara's shoe, and the show goes out on yet another great musical number.
Cast
Soundtrack
Deek Watson and The Brown Dots - "Long Legged Lizzie" (Words and music by Herman Fairbanks and Deek Watson)
Deek Watson and The Brown Dots - "Is It Right" (Words and music by Deek Watson and William "Pat" Best)
Billy Daniels and Sheila Guyse - "Cinderella" (Words and music by Walter Fuller)
Billy Daniels - "Ring Around My Rosie" (Words and music by Walter Fuller)
Credited in the opening titles, may be used in the background - "Can't Find a Thing to Say" (Words and music by Milt Shaw)
Ruble Blakey - "Oh Ho! It's a Lovely Day" (Words and music by Eric Miller, Ruble Blakey and Rudy Toombs)
DVD release
Sepia Cinderella was released on Region 0 DVD by Alpha Video, as part of a double feature with Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A., on July 31, 2007.
See also
List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
External links
1947 films
1947 musical films
American black-and-white films
Race films
American musical films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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To Die For is a 1995 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman.
To Die For may also refer to:
To Die For (1989 film), also known as Dracula: The Love Story, a horror-romance film directed by Deran Sarafian
To Die For (1994 film), a British comedy-drama film directed by Peter Mackenzie Litten
To Die For (2022 film), a film from John Schneider Studios
Music
To/Die/For, a gothic metal band from the town of Kouvola in southeast of Finland
To Die For (Integrity album), by the American hardcore band Integrity and its title track
"To Die For" (Sam Smith song)
"To Die For" (Luke Galliana song)
To Die For (B.I album), 2023 studio album by South Korean musician B.I
Other
To Die For (novel), a 2004 American novel by Linda Howard
2 Die 4, a 2009 British novel by Nigel Hinton
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The Story of the Blues (1959) is an album by singer and actress Della Reese. It is a concept album about the history of the blues. Before each song, there is a small spoken narrative by Reese.
Track listing
"The Story of the Blues"
"Good Morning Blues"
"Empty Bed Blues"
"Squeeze Me"
"You've Been a Good Old Wagon"
"Sent for you Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)"
"St. James Infirmary"
"Lover Man"
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be"
"Stormy Weather"
"There's Always the Blues"
Release history
References
Della Reese albums
Big band albums
Jubilee Records albums
1959 albums
Blues albums by American artists
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The 109th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District encompasses all of Columbia County.
Representatives
References
Government of Columbia County, Pennsylvania
109
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American singer and songwriter Marc Anthony has released 13 studio albums, 15 music videos and 49 singles. Anthony has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide.
Albums
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Live albums
Singles
Solo
Notes
Promo singles/Radio airplay songs
As featured artist
Songwriting credits
Notes
C"Ride on the Rhythm" reached #1 on the Billboard Dance/Club charts.
D"Vieja Mesa" peaked at #7 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay charts.
E"Barco a la Deriva" peaked at #8 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay charts.
F"Amigo" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay charts.
G"Volando Entre Tus Brazos" peaked at #11 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay charts.
H"El Día de Mi Suerte" peaked at #28 on the Billboard Latin Tropical Airplay charts.
References
Discography
Discographies of American artists
Latin pop music discographies
Tropical music discographies
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88 Tauri, also known as d Tauri, is a multiple star system in the constellation Taurus. It has an apparent magnitude of about 4.25, meaning that it is visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made by the Hipparcos spacecraft, the star system is some from the Sun.
88 Tauri is a sextuple star system, meaning that it contains six stars in a hierarchical orbit. The brighter component, 88 Tauri A, is a quadruple system consisting of two spectroscopic binaries orbiting each other with an orbital period of 18 years. The fainter component, 88 Tauri B, is also a spectroscopic binary, and is about 69 arcseconds away, bringing up the total to six stars.
Orbit
Hierarchy of orbits in the 88 Tauri system
88 Tauri A is a fourth-magnitude star with two components, 88 Tauri Aa and 88 Tauri Ab. 88 Tauri Aa and Ab orbit each other once every 18 years and are separated by about 0.28 arcseconds. Those two components themselves are spectroscopic binaries: binary stars that are too close to be resolved but can be detected by periodic Doppler shifts in their spectrum. In this case, variability in the radial velocity has been recognized as early as 1907. The Aa pair has an orbital period of 3.57 days, the Ab pair has an orbital period of 7.89 days, and both have circular orbits with low orbital eccentricities.
88 Tauri B, 69.56 arcseconds away, is a seventh-magnitude star that is also a binary star system. It is another spectroscopic binary whose components (88 Tauri Ba and Bb) orbit each other every 3.69 years. The orbit of 88 Tauri B around 88 Tauri A likely takes about 70,000 years.
Properties
88 Tauri Aa has a spectral type of A6m, indicating that it is an A-type star. The "m" in its spectral type means that it is an Am star, also known as a metallic-line star. These types of stars have spectra indicating varying amounts of metals, like iron. The rest of the stars in 88 Tauri A have spectral types ranging from F5 to G2-3, meaning that they are regular F-type or G-type main-sequence stars. The spectral types for 88 Tauri Ab1 and Ab2 are less certain, because their spectral lines are weaker, hence the colon after G2. Aa1 does not appears to be rotating synchronously with its companion (nor does it have a convective atmosphere), unlike Aa2. (It is not known if the two stars of 88 Tauri Ab are in synchronous rotation with each other, because of the relatively high errors in their measurements.)
88 Tauri B consists of a F-type main sequence star, with another low-mass star. The mass of the smaller component is at least 0.15 solar masses, so it is most likely a red dwarf.
References
Taurus (constellation)
Tauri, 088
Spectroscopic binaries
6
Tauri, d
1458
029140
021402
Durchmusterung objects
Am stars
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Joe Palatsides (born 7 July 1965) is a Greek Australian soccer manager and former player. He is the head coach of the Melbourne Victory FC Youth.
Playing career
A defender, Palatsides began his senior football career with Brunswick Juventus where he quickly became a first team regular, his best season coming in their relegation year where he played in every home-and-away game, scoring 11 goals. He signed with Footscray JUST in 1989, but they would also be relegated, and he eventually made the move to South Melbourne when the National Soccer League moved to the summer format. After two seasons, he transferred to rivals Heidelberg United, where he spent a further three seasons in Australia's top flight competition.
At 29, and with a wealth of senior football experience in Australia behind him, he tried his luck abroad in the country of his origin, firstly with Apollon Kalamarias in the Greek Super League. where he scored 3 goals in 12 appearances.
Coaching career
Palatsides retired in 2000 in order to become the manager of Poseidon Neas Michanionias and he had three wins and five losses in eight games played. He then joined Kallikratida Chalkidiki club in which he stayed about five years as manager of the club. He joined in 2005 OF Ierapetra where he stayed about two months, from 4 October till 15 December, managing the team in Gamma Ethniki and winning nine out of nine matches. For personal causes he went back to Kallikratida Chalkidiki club until 2008 when he took charge at Zakynthians Olympic Champions Ground, Zakynthos. The club was promoted under his management to Gamma Ethniki for season 2008–09.
He is also a member of the Australian Professional Footballers' Association (APFA) and he is one of the members that have served on the APFA Executive (with international honours).
On 2 May 2019, the Football Association of Singapore unveiled Joe Palatsides as its new technical director. Palatsides extended his contract in 2021, but ended his stint by mutual agreement citing the COVID-19 pandemic as well as health and personal issues on 9 November the same year. A day later, Palatsides joined Melbourne Victory's Youth Academy as a coach.
References
External links
APFA Official Website
1965 births
Living people
Australian people of Greek descent
Australian men's soccer players
Greek men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Australia men's international soccer players
Australian soccer managers
Greek football managers
Apollon Pontou F.C. players
Brunswick Zebras Football Club players
South Melbourne FC players
A.P.S. Zakynthos managers
Olympiacos Volos F.C. players
Super League Greece players
Melbourne City FC non-playing staff
Australian expatriate men's soccer players
Greek expatriate men's footballers
Australian expatriate soccer managers
Greek expatriate football managers
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Lima Airport Partners S.R.L. is a Limited liability company that operates Peru's main airport: the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Callao, near Lima. It was founded in February 2001 and holds a 30-year concession to operate the airport. The company is 80.01% owned by Fraport AG of Germany.
History
On November 15, 2000, a joint venture consisting of German airport operator Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide, Bechtel Enterprises International Ltd. - a North American holding originally dedicated to construction - and Peruvian construction company Cosapi S.A. won the thirty-year concession from the Peruvian State to build, operate and transfer the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Callao, Peru.
In December 2001, Bechtel Enterprise Services, Ltd. transferred its LAP shares to Alterra Lima Holdings, Ltd., subsidiary of Alterra Partners, an airport operator whose shareholders are Bechtel and Singapore Changi Airport Enterprise (operator of the Singapore International Airport).
In September 2003, Cosapi S.A. sold its LAP shares to Alterra Holdings, Ltd. Consequently, the distribution of shares turned 57.25% for Alterra Lima Holdings, Ltd. and 42.75% for Fraport AG.
In August 2007, Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide acquired 57.25% of Alterra Lima Holdings and turned into the main shareholder of Lima Airport Partners.
In June 2008, the International Finance Corporation, member of the World Bank group, and Fund for Investment in Infrastructure, Public Services and Natural Resources, administered by AC Capitales SAFI, became partners of LAP. Therefore, the share distribution turned:
70.01%, Fraport AG
19.99%, International Finance Corporation
10.00%, Fund for Investment in Infrastructure, Public Services and Natural Resources
Tenth anniversary
On February 2, 2011, Fraport and Lima Airport Partners celebrated the 10th anniversary of the airport concession in an event attended by important Peruvian business and political leaders as well as by Peru's vice president Luis Giampietri. Stefan Schulte, Fraport's executive board chairman, took the occasion to point out the significant improvements in the quality of infrastructure and services provided as well as the increase in the number of passengers which reached more than 10 million by the end of 2010.
2019
In May 2019, Fraport AG purchased a further 10-percent stake in Lima Airport Partners S.R.L. (LAP) – operator consortium of Jorge Chavez International Airport Lima – from AC Capitales’ Infrastructure Fund, which held the stake for over 10 years. The resulting partnership structure of LAP was as follows: Fraport AG 80.01% and IFC 19.99%.
See also
Fraport AG
Jorge Chávez International Airport
Aeropuertos del Perú
CORPAC
References
External links
Official web site of Lima Airport and Lima Airport Partners S.R.L.
Airport operators
Transport companies of Peru
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Camilla Sparv (born 3 June 1943) is a Swedish actress, noted for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
Early life
Camilla Margareta Sparv was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 3 June 1943.
Career
She was a photographer's model in Stockholm.
Sparv appeared in such films as: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Murderers' Row (1966), The Trouble with Angels (1966), Assignment K (1968), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Downhill Racer (1969), The Greek Tycoon (1978), Caboblanco (1980), and Survival Zone (1983), as well as the television shows Airwolf, The Rockford Files (SE2EP19), The Love Boat, Hawaii Five-O and the miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981). In 1977, she appeared in "Never Con a Killer," the pilot for the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang.
Personal life
Sparv was briefly married to American film producer Robert Evans in 1965.
On 20 December 1969, Sparv married her second husband, Herbert W. 'Bunker' Hoover III, a Hoover vacuum heir, and had two children by him.
Sparv had one child with her third husband, Fred Kolber, later, a Madoff investor.
Recognition
Sparv was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer (female) in 1967 for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
References
External links
Camilla Sparv at RogerEbert.com
Camilla Sparv at Getty Images
1943 births
Living people
Actresses from Stockholm
Swedish film actresses
New Star of the Year (Actress) Golden Globe winners
Evans family (Paramount Pictures)
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Love or Bread () is a 2008 Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin. It was produced by Gala Television and directed by Lin He-long. This marks the third drama that Cheng and Lin have co-starred together, after It Started with a Kiss in 2005 and its sequel They Kiss Again in 2007.
It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television (CTV) from 16 November 2008 to 8 February 2009, every Sunday at 22:00 and cable TV GTV Variety Show/CH 28 on 22 November 2008 to 14 February 2009, every Saturday at 21:30.
This drama is broadcast on Hunan TV in China from February 11, 2009, every day at 22:00 (full version of this drama with 25 episodes). When broadcast in China, the drama is titled 我的爱情面包 (Wǒ de àiqíng miànbāo, My love bread) instead of 我的億萬麵包 (Wǒ de yì wàn miànbāo, My billion dollar bread) as when broadcast in Taiwan (the drama's English name is still Love or Bread). Many of Ariel Lin's scenes in China in this drama were cut out when broadcast in Taiwan, but were broadcast in full in China.
Synopsis
Frank (Joe Cheng) is a young man who wears designer labels and thinks he's suave when he is actually poor. He had a tragic past and both his parents died, he doesn't know how to handle money. His grandmother misunderstood that he had to steal to make money, so she chased him out of the countryside. Frank then went to Taipei to find a job and became a cleaning staff for a cleaning company with A Xing (Huang Wen-hsing). The money he earns every month goes to his grandmother. He borrowed money from the bank and loan sharks but ended up with a gang coming after him. He considers pawning his mother's gold ring, the only thing he had left of hers, but he can't do it.
Zeng Shanmei (Ariel Lin) is a poor but very loving, caring, and hard-working girl. She has a boyfriend (Jing Rong), but he moves to mainland China for university and promises that they will get married after he graduates. At that time, Shanmei worked as a bank employee during office hours and as a janitor at a shopping mall at night to earn money to send to her boyfriend Jing Rong in Hangzhou. Shanmei goes after him to China hoping they will finally get married. Shanmei's family is against her decision because they need her to support them, but her father holds off the rest of the family while yelling at Shanmei that she should go and be happy. Shanmei once saved Frank's life when Frank was drowned in a barrel of water in Frank's motel room by gangsters. She met Frank again while he was running from the gangsters who loaned him the money—in the ladies' bathroom. Thinking that he's a pervert, she reports him to the police and he gets arrested. The gold ring fell out of Frank's pocket in the girls' bathroom and the policeman stuck it into Shanmei's bag. He meets Shanmei once more, this time on the road. He tries to get his ring back from her but she has no idea what he's talking about and she still thinks that he's a pervert. He doesn't get his ring, but he does get to drive her to the airport.
When Shanmei reaches her destination in Hangzhou, she helps her boyfriend Jing Rong's two roommates put out the fire that was burning in the shared kitchen of the motel room. The two then treat her to food and tell her about Jing Rong (Wu Jianfei) and Xiao Bo. They said that the four of them lived in this motel room together. At that time, Shanmei thought that Xiao Bo was a boy like Jing Rong and these two roommates. She met her boyfriend Jing Rong at night and casually mentions "Xiao Bo". Shanmei then always cooked for Jing Rong and his two roommates and was taken around Hangzhou by Jing Rong. Shanmei found it strange that Xiao Bo didn't appear. Eventually, Jing Rong couldn't take the guilt and admitted to Shanmei that he betrayed her and fell for Xiao Bo, who is actually a girl. Seeing that Xiao Bo (Zhang Na) is seriously ill in need of surgery, Shanmei helped Jing Rong take care of Xiao Bo for a few days. Jing Rong returned the money Shanmei had sent to Jing Rong for the past 3 years, but Shanmei refused. Shanmei asked Jing Rong to keep the money to help Xiao Bo with surgery.
After that, Shanmei didn't have the money to fly back to Taiwan, so she decided to get a job in Hangzhou. She was recommended by two of Jing Rong's roommates to work as a maid in Jin Enhao's house in Hangzhou. Jin Enhao (Ray Chang) once asked the previous maids to finish their work and leave his house before he got home from work, otherwise they would be fired by him. Many previous maids had been fired like this, so Shanmei always tried to finish the housework quickly and avoid Jin Enhao. Jin Enhao enjoyed eating Taiwanese food cooked by Shanmei and wanted to meet Shanmei, but he couldn't meet Shanmei. Jin Enhao's foster father (Yue Yaoli) met Shanmei. He liked Shanmei and wanted Shanmei to marry Jin Enhao. But Shanmei misunderstood that Jin Enhao's foster father had bad intentions toward her, so after she received a salary as a maid, she bought a plane ticket to fly from Hangzhou to Taiwan.
After 1 month in Hangzhou, Shanmei returns to Taiwan with nowhere to go. She cannot go home because her mother said when she was leaving to China that if she went then she wouldn't be considered a member of the family anymore. Her best friend, Huang Linglong (Zhang Yuchen) was constantly nagging at her not to go and even said "don't come crying to me." Shanmei decides to rent a place by using Frank's gold ring that the policeman had found. Her neighbouring tenant just happens to be no-one other than Frank. Frank and Shanmei later discovered that the owner of the house they rented from was a fraud who took Frank's gold ring away. The real the owner of the house was in America.
When they both want money and they are complete opposites. Introduced by Lin Meiru, Frank went to work as an aircraft engineer but he wore a pilot's outfit on the first day and was ridiculed. He immediately quit his job. Shanmei was introduced by Lin Meiru to work as a manager of a clothing section in a shopping mall. While working, she discovered that her friend Huang Linglong also worked in the same clothing department as her, and she also quit her job. Frank and Shanmei were then introduced by Lin Meiru to learn how to make bread. Because Shamei was allergic to flour, he stopped working, and Frank also stopped working along with Shanmei. Then Frank and Shanmei registered to learn English to export labor abroad. However, both of them only worried about causing trouble with each other, did not focus on studying and in the end both of them dropped out of school. Then Frank worked as a car salesman. Time came that Shanmei thinks of ending her life because there is no hope of getting back her boyfriend. However, thanks to the advice of Frank and the fortune teller, Shanmei gave up the idea of committing suicide because of her failure in love with Jing Rong. Later, Shanmei worked part-time jobs such as wearing a mascot and handing out leaflets to shopping malls, selling magnolia at traffic lights, helping at a coffee shop, and selling beer at a roadside restaurant. Frank also worked part-time at the same cafe as Shanmei.
That's when Shanmei and Frank meet numerous times. But both of them are having money issues so they decide to continue living together in the house they were renting. Frank pretends to be Shanmei's rich husband to help Shanmei get forgiveness from her family about her leaving home to Hangzhou to find Jing Rong in the past. Little do they know that they both started falling in love with one another. However, they dared not say love to each other.
Jin Enhao in Hangzhou always remembers the dishes that Shanmei cooks, so he sent someone to investigate Shanmei. Jin Enhao's men went to Jing Rong's room to look for her, but couldn't find Shanmei. Jin Enhao then flew from Hangzhou to Taiwan to find Shanmei. Jin Enhao then stepped between Shanmei and Frank. Frank's childhood lover Ye Kena (owner of the coffee shop where Shanmei and Frank are working part-time, played by Lu Xiaolin) also appeared and influenced the relationship between Frank and Shanmei. Jin Enhao's foster father was ill, so Jin Enhao managed the shopping mall that Shanmei is working for part-time instead of him.
After being fired from his job selling cars, Frank turned to working as a magician at bars with his childhood friend Da Tou to earn money. Frank was conscious that he could not bring a good and happy life to Shanmei, so he had the intention of giving up and leaving Shanmei to Jin Enhao.
After that, Frank not only ignored Shanmei's use of his ring to rent a house, he also borrowed money from the gangsters to help Shanmei's mother with heart surgery. Frank was arrested by the gangsters because he did not have the money to pay his debt. Shanmei goes to save Frank and is also captured. Both are about to be killed by the gangsters when Huang Linglong and A Xing fail to deliver the money on time. Thanks to Chen Wancai (a retired gangster with a dead wife whose face resembles Shanmei, played by Zhao Shun), Frank and Shanmei are saved.
Shanmei then goes to Frank's hometown to help Frank and his grandmother reconcile. The two decided to leave the house they used to rent for more than 3 months. Frank then blessed Shanmei and Jin Enhao, and Shanmei blessed Frank and Ye Kena. The two bid each other farewell.
Since Ye Kena has switched to teaching dance to children, her coffee shop has closed. Shanmei had to return to being a bank employee like before. And Frank switched to working as a construction worker.
Several months passed, Shanmei met Ye Kena. Ye Kena telled that she hasn't seen Frank for a long time and that Frank had feelings for Shanmei. Frank is then informed by the police that the fake owner of the house from the past has been arrested. His mother's gold ring was given to him by the police. Frank returned to the house he once rented with Shanmei and learned that the real owner of the house had returned from America. Frank spent money to rent that house to live with memories of Shanmei.
Six months later, Shanmei was getting married to Jin Enhao when she ran out of the aisle looking for Frank. Wearing a bridal gown, Shanmei runs to the rented house she used to live with Frank and meets Frank again. The two looked at each other and called each other's names in happy tears.
Cast
Joe Cheng as Frank / Cai Jinlai
Ariel Lin as Zeng Shanmei
Ray Chang as Jin Enhao
Zhang Yuchen as Huang Linglong
Huang Wen-hsing as himself
Lu Xiaolin as Ye Kena
Wu Jianfei as Jing Rong
Zhang Na as Xiao Bo
Kuo Tzu-chien as Zeng Huo-shu
Lin Mei-hsiu as Zeng Huang Shuiliang
Wang Yuetang as Zeng Xiaobei
Yue Yaoli as Enhao's foster father
Zhao Shun as Wan Ye (Chen Wancai)
Production
In July 2008, GTV announced that lead actress Barbie Shu will be replaced by Ariel Lin. GTV stated that the drama, which was scheduled to start shooting in August, had originally cast Lin for the role of Zeng Shanmei, hence it has now returned to the actress for whom it was originally intended.
Music
Opening theme song: "億萬克拉的幸福" (Million Dollar Happiness) by Huang Wen-hsing
Ending theme song: "麵包的滋味" (The Taste of Bread) by Ariel Lin
Insert songs
"If I Could" by Babyface
"歐兜水" by Huang Wen-hsing
International broadcast
Hong Kong - TVB, from February 7, 2009, every day 22:00 (full version of this drama with 25 episodes).
China - Hunan TV, from February 11, 2009, every day 22:00 (full version of this drama with 25 episodes).
Philippines – ABS-CBN, from June 15, 2009, every Monday to Friday 17:15.
Japan – Television Kanagawa, Metele, Shizuoka Asahi Television, BS Japan
Thailand – Channel 7, from August 27, 2013, every Monday to Thursday 03:50.
References
External links
GTV Love or Bread official homepage
CTV Love or Bread official homepage
China Television original programming
Gala Television original programming
2008 Taiwanese television series debuts
2009 Taiwanese television series endings
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Terry Flew is an Australian media and communications scholar, and Professor of Digital Communication and Culture in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney, Australia. He was formerly the Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. He has produced award-winning research in creative industries, media and communications, and online journalism. He is primarily known for his publication, New Media: An Introduction, which is currently in its fourth edition (2002, 2005, 2008, 2014). His research interests include digital media, global media, media policy, creative industries, media economics, and the future of journalism.
Biography
Flew graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) in 1986 and a Master of Economics in 1991. Flew received his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Griffith University for his thesis titled "Culture, Citizenship and Content: Australian Broadcast Media Policy and the Regulation of Commercial Television, 1972-2000".
In 1990, Flew started his teaching career as a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1994, he moved to Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and worked as a lecturer in Media Studies. During his role as a lecturer in the School of Media and Journalism, Flew also served as the Director of the Centre for Media Policy and Practice. Flew was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2001, and later promoted as Associate Professor and Head of Postgraduate Study in 2006. Since 2009, Flew is the Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Professional and research experience
Flew is the founding editor of Communication Research and Practice, a journal sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), published by Taylor & Francis. In 2009, Flew commenced his role as the President of ANZCA, while partnering with Sensis in developing Digital Media Foresight analysis to study online user behavior in news consumption . Beginning 2011, Flew also served as the Advisor to Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) on communication science in several Australian universities. In the same year, he was appointed as the Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission, responsible of the National Classification Scheme Review, which focuses on technological and media policy in Australia. In 2012, Australian Research Council appointed Flew to be a member of Research Evaluation Committee. Flew is currently serving as the Chair of Global Communication and Social Change Division, in ICA Board.
Awards and grants
Flew has received numerous awards and grants for his research in media studies, and been involved in various projects with a cumulative total of $4.2 million. One of his notable project, titled Social Media in Times of Crisis: Learning from Recent Natural Disasters to Improve Future Strategies is made possible by the grants from Australian Research Council. The project is evaluating the usage of social media in crisis situations such as natural disaster, and exploring how such usage is utilized by government officials and citizen during emergencies. His latest grant, also from Australian Research Council, is titled Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere. The project focuses on political media and audience perception in Australia.
In 2019 Flew was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Works
Flew has authored eight books, including Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Key Concepts in Creative Industries (Sage, 2013), Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (Sage, 2012), Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2007), and New Media: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2014). He also edited two books, titled Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State (Palgrave, 2016, with Petros Iosifidis and Jeanette Steemers) and Creative Industries and Urban Development: Creative Cities in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2012), as well as authoring 50 book chapters. Flew has also written 81 academic journal articles and 14 research reports. He also has been the editor for 13 special issues academic journals.
New Media: An Introduction
In New Media: An Introduction, Flew explored the theories of new media, its development and the role of new media in networked society. The book examines how new media is socially, economically and politically impacting creative industries. In the first chapter, Flew tries to define “new media” as a media that combines three Cs: computing information technology, communication network, and content. One of Flew's biggest contribution in this book is in the second chapter, in which Flew explains 20 key concepts of new media, which includes collective intelligence, convergence, creative industries, cyberspace, digital capitalism, digital copyrights/creative commons, digital divide, globalization, hype, information overload, interactivity, knowledge economy, networks, participation, remediation, security and surveillance, speed, ubiquity, user-generated content/user-led innovation, and virtuality. Flew argues that new media is unable to be categorized as dualistic, as it is an inherent part of constructing the good and the bad for the society. Flew also argues that the significance and usage of new media has not only influenced what people think but also influenced the process of such thinking. In this book, Flew also explores some of the key elements of new media and its usages in globalization, such as the culture of participatory media, the technology of games, online news and the future of digital journalism. Furthermore, Flew also explored how new media is impacting creative industries and internet governance. First published in 2002, the book is currently in its fourth edition, last published in 2014. The latest edition includes additional chapters on Transforming Higher Education, and Online Activism and Networked Politics. It also includes a substantial revision on the chapter of Online News and the Future of Journalism. The Canadian Edition of the book is published in 2011, co-written by Flew and Richard Smith, and now is in its second edition, last published in 2014.
Games: Technology, Industry, Culture
In his book, Flew proposes that the new digital gaming trend works against the mainstream media's portrayal of players as isolated, socially-awkward adolescent boys, hidden away in darkened bedrooms. He draws on recent statistics showing that between 40-50% of those gamers are women, and that the average age of players is mid- to late-20s, rather than young teens. Flew also credits the advent of video games with popularizing innovative media technologies, allowing consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate media content. Consumers can use this media source as an alternative tool to gain access to information within their areas of interest, and to generate their own content and ideas.
Flew says that people are drifting away from the traditional mode of consumerism. He uses the term "pro-sumer" to describe the group of users who both consume and produce new media. These "pro-sumers" involve themselves in gaming communities in which online and offline spaces become merged and indistinguishable. Flew suggests that part of the appeal of MMORPGs lies in the idea of escapism, and the ability to assume the role of someone or something that is not possible in that individual's real life. To the player, his or her online identity may be more acceptable and desirable than their real-world identity. Flew refers to this form of hopping from one persona to another as "identity tourism". Players see their in-game personae as "theirs", whereas game publishers claim ownership of all in-game characters and property, leading to tensions between the two groups. In response to the perennial question of whether violent themes and action in video games correlate with real-life acts of violence, Flew argues that the research in this area is based mostly on a flawed cause-effect model of behaviour, and is often initiated in response to a moral panic.
See also
Video game culture
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
Video game culture
Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Academic staff of Queensland University of Technology
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Velvet Darkness is the first studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 1976 through producer Creed Taylor's CTI Records.
The tracks for the album were originally recorded by engineer Rudy Van Gelder at his Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. According to Holdsworth, this was done during a rehearsal session, after which the tapes were released by CTI without his or the other band members' consent. None of the musicians involved ever received royalties for their work. Holdsworth therefore considered the album an unauthorised release and not part of his discography.
Critical reception
John W. Patterson of AllMusic gave Velvet Darkness only 1.5 stars out of five, describing it as "an interesting snapshot of young stellar musicians doing their thing in a laid-back but energetic fusion-funk-rock groove", but more for completists and collectors. In his review of Holdsworth's 1982 album I.O.U., he also labelled Velvet Darkness as a "train-wreck disaster" and "infamous".
Reissues
Velvet Darkness was reissued on CD in 1990 through the Epic Associated division of CBS/Columbia Records as part of their "Contemporary Jazz Masters" series. This version was completely remixed and remastered from the original session tapes. The remixing process (which was not indicated within the CD packaging) significantly changed the sound of some instruments, especially the drums. Also included are five alternative takes as bonus tracks.
Track listing
Personnel
Allan Holdsworth – guitar, violin
Alan Pasqua – piano
Alphonso Johnson – bass guitar
Narada Michael Walden – drums
Production
Creed Taylor – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
Seiji Kaneko – mastering
Yoichi Nakao – producer (reissue)
References
Allan Holdsworth albums
1976 debut albums
CTI Records albums
Albums produced by Creed Taylor
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio
Unauthorized albums
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Damion Hall, also known as Damion "Crazy Legs" Hall is an American R&B singer. He is a member of the new jack swing group Guy and is the brother of Guy member, Aaron Hall. He has released one solo album, Straight to the Point in 1994, which spawned one single, "Satisfy You", featuring Chanté Moore. That song managed to reach No. 48 on the Billboard R&B charts. He is currently unsigned but managed by celebrity and sports manager Glenn Toby.
Discography
Straight to the Point (1994)
References
1968 births
Living people
American contemporary R&B singers
Musicians from the Bronx
20th-century African-American male singers
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Mohammed-Awal Issah (born 4 April 1986) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Issah began his career by Real Sportive before signing a two-year contract with AmaZulu in the South African PSL in August 2007.
On 10 October 2008, he went to Serbia for trials with Red Star Belgrade and in December 2008, he signed a 4.5-year contract with the club. In mid-May 2009, AmaZulu contacted FIFA stating they had not received the full transfer fee for Issah from Red Star Belgrade. Later that month, Issah, together with teammate and compatriot Bernard Parker sued Red Star Belgrade for failing to fulfil financial obligations. In January 2011, Issah was one of eight players told they were surplus to requirements.
In the 2011 summer transfer window, Issah signed for Norwegian club Rosenborg BK.
On 25 January 2013, Issah joined Greek Super League club Veria F.C. on a 1.5-year loan contract. After half a season, the loan was terminated.
On 1 August 2013, Issah re-joined AmaZulu after almost five years in European football while AmaZulu agreed a transfer deal with Rosenborg. In February 2014, the club reported him to the South African Football Association claiming he had disappeared. Two months later, Issah was fined $170,000 for going absent and received a four-month playing ban.
International career
Issah was a member of the Ghana national under-20 team at the 2007 Toulon Tournament.
Career statistics
Club
Honours
Red Star
Serbian Cup: 2010
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Accra
Men's association football midfielders
Ghanaian men's footballers
Super League Greece players
Serbian SuperLiga players
AmaZulu F.C. players
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Rosenborg BK players
Real Sportive players
Veria F.C. players
Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
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ψ Cygni, Latinised as Psi Cygni, is a triple star system in the constellation called Cygnus. With a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.92, it is visible to the naked eye. As of 2002, the inner pair, components Aa and Ab, had an angular separation of 0.10 arc seconds along a position angle of 77.6°. Their combined visual magnitude is 5.05. Relative to this pair, the third member of the system, magnitude 7.61 component B, had an angular separation of 2.87 arc seconds along a position angle of 175.6° as of 2010. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 11.59 mas, Psi Cygni is located around 281 light years from the Sun.
The brighter member of the system, presumably component Aa, displays the spectrum of an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A4 Vn, where the 'n' notation indicates "nebulous" absorption lines due to rapid rotation. It appears to be a spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 207. The component is radiating 62 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 7,971 K.
References
A-type main-sequence stars
F-type main-sequence stars
Triple star systems
Cygnus (constellation)
Cygni, Psi
Cygni, 24
189037
098055
7619
Durchmusterung objects
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Sol Friedman House Toyhill, was built in Pleasantville, New York in 1948. This was the first of the three Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in the "Usonia Homes" development north of New York City.
The Friedman House forms part of the post-war development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The Sol Friedman house in Pleasantville, N.Y., is roofed with mushroom-like concrete slabs; the two intersecting closed circles of the actual dwelling are balanced at the end of a straight terrace parapet by the mushroom-shaped carport. This house was completed in 1949 with battered (sloped) walls of almost Richardsonian random ashlar masonry below a strip of metal-framed windows.
Wright dubbed the house Toyhill because Sol Friedman was a retailer of books, records, and (in some stores) toys.
See also
List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
References
Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.316)
External links
Friedman House Pleasantville New York by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Houses in Westchester County, New York
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These Streets are Watching is a 50-minute video on police accountability in three communities in the United States; Denver, Cincinnati and Berkeley. The video documents incidents that its creators consider demonstrate the unnecessary use of force by the police. Independent filmmaker, Jacob Crawford, weaves the responses made in these three cities to police brutality into a single tale of community empowerment and direct action. The film conveys basic legal concepts that can provide practical help to groups and individuals seeking an understanding of their rights when dealing with police. The film is divided into sections that explain citizen's basic rights, tactics for documenting police activity and ideas for further action.
These Streets Are Watching has been screened across the United States and has played on television across the nation.
References
External links
These Streets Are Watching (By Jacobs Ladder Production via Google Video)
These Streets Are Watching (By Jacobs Ladder Production via YouTube)
These Streets Are Watching (By Jacobs Ladder Production via Current.com)
American documentary films
Police brutality in the United States
Documentary films about law enforcement in the United States
Law enforcement in Colorado
Law enforcement in Ohio
Law enforcement in California
Culture of Denver
Culture of Cincinnati
Culture of Berkeley, California
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History
NZ Performance Car TV was a free-to-air television program that ran for eight series, produced in-house by Parkside Media. It has had airtime on TV ONE, TV2, TV3, Prime and Sky Sports, often with several networks simultaneously which is unique in its genre. Each series consists of 13 episodes. Two series were screened per year. It was also available via TVNZ ondemand.
First airing in 2004 the series evolved to match the changing tastes of the import car scene. Series 8 had a large focus on drifting.
The show builds on the NZ Performance Car magazine brand, featuring similar content.
Show content
Drifting
Drag racing
Import car culture
Event coverage
Driver interviews
Modified car features
Tech and tuning tips
Competitions
The show's content reflects the seasonal nature of the scene in New Zealand. Series filmed in winter tend to feature more modified cars and less motorsport; series filmed in summer feature more motorsport and less modified cars.
Series overview
The series has endured much criticism because of its niche nature, including presenters and their ties to the scene, content choice and timeslots (each series had a different timeslot and sometimes a different channel or network).
Series 8
Series 8 saw a return to a regular timeslot within Sunday afternoon's Powerbuilt Tools Motorsport on TV ONE, with a longer more adult-themed show which aired late night on TV2.
Presenters Dan Gibson and Craig ‘Puka’ Linn.
Series 7
Series 7 featured Geoffrey Bell as the main presenter.
Series 6
Series 6 featured Geoffrey Bell as the main presenter.
Series 5
Series 5 featured well-known TV presenter Brooke Howard-Smith. As Howard-Smith is a TV3 presenter, when NZ Performance Car TV moved to TVNZ for Series 6, he was replaced.
Series 4
Frank Liew returned to present series 4
Series 3
Frank Liew, noted Auto Salon judge with deep involvement in the import car scene, presented series 3.
Series 2
Presented by Todd Wylie and Dan Philips
Series 1
Presented by Anna Jobsz and Danny Codling
Controversy
NZ Performance Car TV, like NZ Performance Car magazine has typically been criticised by groups not in favour of import car culture, or those concerned about ‘boy racer’ activity.
Series 8 focused much more on motorsport, covering the NZ Drift Series in New Zealand, drifting overseas, drag racing in New Zealand and Australia (e.g. Jamboree 18 from Willowbank Raceway and Super Lap from Taupo Motorsport Park), including interviews with and profiles of drivers such as Daniel Woolhouse and Carl Ruiterman. Feature cars and other event coverage were still present, but the increased focus on motorsport marked a divergence from NZ Performance Car magazine content.
Production and crew
Series 1-4 were produced and directed by Graham Ralphs. Series 5 onwards were produced by Iain Eggleton
External links
Performance Car TV forum
Performance Car TV website
References
Automotive television series
2004 New Zealand television series debuts
Prime (New Zealand TV channel) original programming
Three (TV channel) original programming
TVNZ 2 original programming
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The Pasteur Institute of Lille () is a research centre and member of the Pasteur Institute network.
It includes 14 research units and 1,150 employees including 626 researchers located in Lille, France. There are also 300 employees located outside the Pasteur site. Its revenues are above €70 million. Several neuroscience start-up companies have emerged from the Pasteur Institute of Lille.
Research
Since Louis Pasteur became the dean of the faculty of sciences in Lille in 1854, the research activities of the institute have been associated with University of Lille, CNRS, INSERM (Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France; Institute of Biology of Lille - IBL). It is in its premises that the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis was invented by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin.
Research areas include
Microbiology
Parasitology
Immunology
Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, Neurodegenerative diseases
Notable students
Patrick Francheterre, French ice hockey player, coach and manager.
See also
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
References
External links
Website of the Pasteur Institute of Lille
Educational buildings in Lille
Lille
University of Lille Nord de France
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The Moosalp (el. 2048 m.) is a high mountain pass across the western Pennine Alps, connecting Bürchen with Törbel in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
The pass lies north-east of Augstbordhorn.
See also
List of highest paved roads in Europe
List of mountain passes
References
Swissgeo.ch
Mountain passes of Valais
Mountain passes of the Alps
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Popular music began to replace folk music in Slovakia beginning in the 1950s, when Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia; American jazz, R&B, and rock and roll were popular, alongside waltzes, polkas, and czardas, among other folk forms. By the end of the 1950s, radios were common household items, though only state stations were legal. Slovak popular music began as a mix of bossa nova, cool jazz, and rock, with propagandistic lyrics. Dissenters listened to ORF (Austrian Radio), Radio Luxembourg, or Radio Free Europe, which played more rock. Czechoslovakia was more passive in the face of Soviet domination, and thus radio and the whole music industry toed the line more closely than other satellite states.
After the Velvet Revolution and the declaration of the Slovak state, domestic music greatly diversified as free enterprise allowed a great expansion in the number of bands and genres represented in the Slovak market. Soon, however, major label brought pop music to Slovakia and drove many of the small companies out of business. The 1990s, American grunge and alternative rock, and Britpop gain a wide following, as well as a newfound popularity in musicals.
John Dopyera and his brothers, the inventors of the resonator guitar (DOpjera BROthers-Dobro, were born in Slovakia.
Late 20th century's and today's musicians and music groups
Metal
Achsar
Algor
Apoplexy
April Weeps
Bestialit
Čad
Dementor
Depresy
Doomas
Editor
Mystic Death
King (SVK)
Galadriel
Laburnum Diver
Hardcore
Flow
Junk
Crossover Thrash
Kershik
Hard Rock
The Maybe
Dorian Grey
Jazz Rock
Fermata
Dežo Ursiny
Rock
Arzén
Bez Ladu a Skladu
Desmod
Atlantída
Elán
Good Fancy
Free Faces
HEX
Chiki Liki Tu-a
IMT Smile
Le Payaco
Metalinda
Neuropa
No Gravity (band)
Out of Control
TEAM
Tublatanka
Nocadeň
Para
Art Rock
Marián Varga
The Bridgeheads
Pop Rock
Peha
Good Fancy
Peoples
Abscondo
Rap
TCZY
Terapia
Drvivá menšina
Čistychov
Hanny
PravyOpak
Suchý pes
L.U.Z.A.
DK LUKY podzemie
Miky Mora
Názov Stavby
Vec
Zverina
Veta a Orbit
Rendezska SK
Strnastka
Druhá Strana
Severná Strana
Kontrafakt
Gramo Rokkaz
DMS
Elpe
BoyBand
Moja Reč
Rapuj Roger!
Punk Rock
Iné Kafe
Horkýže Slíže
Horská Chata
Plus Mínus
Punkreas
Zóna A
HT
Slobodná Európa
Odpad
Brickfield
EX-tip
DPH
Davová Psychóza
Prípad Ewy Burdovej
Dimenzia X
Konflikt
Zhoda Náhod
Dr.Pako
Sitňan
Mladé Rozlety
Kóta 22
Street Spirit
Toy Pištols
Pivnica
D Zmrds
Immunita
Načo Názov
Vandali
Hasiaci Prístroj
Kaktus
Lord Alex
Dissident
Poďme do práce
The Kľemones
Metamorfóza
Illegality
Karpina
Princovia
Decis
Bačova fujara
Nekultúra
Norton
Punkhart
Tri groše
Strata času
Začiatok konca
S.R.O
Živý plot
Železná Kolóna
Č.O.V.
S.N.P.
Ska
Polemic
Ska2tonics
Skaprašupina
Hudba z marsu
Lepayaco
Vedro
Bublifunk
Fuera Fondo
See also
Music of Slovakia
Slovak folk music
Slovakia in the Eurovision Song Contest
ZAI Awards
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
Samples
Lunatic Gods - alternative metal band, which plays also some folk music instruments, like fujara and drumbla.
References
Pop
Popular music by country
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Calaveras Hills High School (CHHS) is one of the two high schools of Milpitas, California. Calaveras Hills High School works with students who need an alternative form of education. Calaveras Hills High is referred to as "Cal Hills" by students and the community. Cal Hills is the most successful alternative school in the state. Test scores for the STAR test rose hundreds of points from 500+ to 714. Cal Hills often has a waiting list to get into the program.
Cal Hills has a very successful Resource Special Education program that has helped hundreds of under performing students achieve high school graduate. Students have won many local scholarships and awards while graduating from this program. Cal Hills has earned the highest WASC accreditation and is a Dist. School (Model school). Cal Hills has won many league championships against rivals Alta Vista and Robertson.
Past principals include Fleming Matson, Don Denton, Mike Madalinski, Paul Cauchi, Michael Hermosillo, Katie Martinez, and Alecia Myers. The Current superintendent is Cary Matsuoka.
References
Buildings and structures in Milpitas, California
Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
High schools in Santa Clara County, California
Continuation high schools in California
Public high schools in California
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Potentilla robbinsiana, the dwarf mountain cinquefoil or Robbins' cinquefoil, is a small, yellow-flowered, perennial found exclusively above the tree line in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The plant is nearly stemless and measures two to four centimeters in diameter.
History
The Crawford Path of Mount Washington, the oldest mountain hiking trail in America, was laid out in 1819 as a bridle path from Crawford Notch to the summit. There is some discrepancy as to who discovered Potentilla robbinsiana, which some sources giving credit to its discovery in 1824 by English botanist and zoologist Thomas Nuttall, five years after completion of the Crawford Path. The more likely case is its discovery in 1829 by James Robbins. After its discovery it was described by the botanist and explorer William Oakes. It was soon recognized as a rare plant and over 850 specimens were collected and occasionally sold commercially to collectors and herbariums. In the 1970s a "backpacker boom" led to significantly increased use of the Crawford Path, making the plant's limited habitat vulnerable to hikers picking the flowers and trampling the plant.
The decline of specimens of the plant was mitigated when it received protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1980, at which time the known population was a mere 3,700 plants. However, due to a very successful awareness program and an effort to reroute trails away from the plant's habitat along with enclosures for the main population, the plant has since then recovered to well over 14,000 plants and was delisted in August 2002. Additional efforts included public education, biological research, seed collection and transplant efforts.
The awareness program and repopulation efforts were successful in a large part due to a unique partnership between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the U.S. Forest Service, and the New England Wild Flower Society.
Distribution
The White Mountain National Forest contains 100% of this species' global population. The plant has four extant occurrences, with two being natural and two others from transplant efforts.
Habitat
Potentilla robbinsiana is generally placed in the dry/mesic heath meadow system of alpine communities, though it is also found on subalpine bare rock summits. The primary habitat is an exposed and barren fellfield habitat with high winds and low temperatures. While frost heaving is considered a requirement, too much causes mortality.
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robbinsiana
Flora of New Hampshire
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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Ben Offereins (born 12 March 1986) is an Australian track & field athlete. He became national 400 m champion and also represented Australia internationally.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Offereins' family moved to Perth in 1987. He has been running from a young age, starting out in little athletics and has progressed through to the senior ranks. His first National title came in winning the 200m at the 2003 Under 18 Australian Championships where he also won the silver medal in the 100m.
He had his first major 400m win the next year at the Under 20 Australian Championships, which earned him a position on the Australian team for the IAAF World Junior Championships, in Grosseto, Italy in July 2004. He participated in the individual 400m as well as the 4 × 400 m relay. In 2005 still as a junior he entered the open Australian National Championships for the 400m where he won the gold medal defeating 3 members of the Australian 4 × 400 m relay team which won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The next few seasons saw Offereins plagued by injuries until June 2009 when he set a new personal best for the 400m of 45.69s, a World Championships B qualifier, which earned him the final position on the Australian 4 × 400 m relay team for Berlin 2009. Running a sensational third leg during the heat (44.78s) Offereins forced his way into the team for the final where the Australian team of John Steffensen, Ben Offereins, Tristan Thomas, and Sean Wroe, won the bronze medal for Australia.
In 2010 Offereins started his season by winning the Australia Cup held in Canberra in a new PB of 45.32 sec, he then broke his PB again at the Sydney Track Classic running 44.86sec and becoming only the eighth Australian to break the 45.00 sec barrier and the seventh fastest Australian of all time. He continued his form, winning the IAAF Melbourne Track Classic in 45.73sec, and then the Australian National Championships in 45.17 sec. This gained him automatic selection for the individual 400m and the 4x400 relay at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. At the Athletics Australia annual end of season awards night he was named the Male athlete of the year for the 2010 Australian Domestic season.
He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, as part of the men's 4 x 400-metre relay team.
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1986 births
Living people
Australian male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Sportsmen from Western Australia
Track and field athletes from Western Australia
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Larry Hosch (born October 16, 1977) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 14B, which includes portions of Stearns County in the central part of the state. A Democrat, he was first elected in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2010. He previously served as the mayor of Saint Joseph from 2001 to 2005. He retired from the House after the 2012 elections.
Hosch was a member of the House Commerce and Labor Committee, and also served on the Finance subcommittees for the Agriculture, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs Finance Division, the Health Care and Human Services Finance Division, and the Public Safety Finance Division. He was an assistant majority leader. On November 16, 2010, incoming Minority Leader Paul Thissen announced that he will be one of four Minority Whips during the 2011-2012 legislative session.
Hosch has been the co-owner of Lamar Homes & Remodeling since 2003. He was previously a roofer with Granite City Roofing from 1998 to 2003, and Manager of Sal's Bar and Grill in St. Joseph from 1999 to 2001.
References
External links
Rep. Hosch's Web Page
Rep. Hosch's Campaign Web Site
Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: Larry Hosch Voting Record
Project Vote Smart - Rep. Larry Hosch Profile
Follow the Money - Larry Hosch Campaign Contributions
2008 2006 2004
1977 births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
People from Fridley, Minnesota
People from St. Joseph, Minnesota
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni
21st-century American politicians
Mayors of places in Minnesota
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Straight to the Point is the only solo studio album by American contemporary R&B singer Damion Hall. It was released in 1994 via Silas/MCA Records. Production was handled by Sean Hall, Tricky Stewart, Brian McKnight, Bryan Loren, Brandon Barnes, Donald Parks, Emanuel Officer, John Howcott, Jon Nettlesbey, Terry Coffey, and Damion Hall himself, who also served as executive producer together with Louil Silas Jr. and Ron Gillyard. It features guest appearances from Chanté Moore and Damion's brother and fellow Guy groupmate Aaron Hall. The album debuted at number 147 on the Billboard 200 and number 22 on the Top R&B Albums in the United States. It was supported with two singles: "Satisfy You", which reached No. 48 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, No. 62 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, No. 38 on the Adult R&B Airplay and No. 55 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales, and "Do Me Like You Wanna Be Done".
Track listing
Personnel
Damion "Crazy Legs" Hall – vocals, producer (tracks: 1, 3, 7, 13), co-producer (tracks: 4, 11), executive producer
Aaron Hall – vocals (track 5)
Chanté Moore – vocals (tracks: 6, 14)
Valerie Davis – backing vocals (tracks: 1, 11)
Tammy White – backing vocals (track 2)
Marc Nelson – backing vocals (track 7)
Brian McKnight – backing vocals (tracks: 9, 10), producer (tracks: 8-10)
Nick Dibenedetto – backing vocals (track 11)
Donnell Spencer Jr. – live drums (track 9)
Sean Hall – producer (tracks: 1, 4, 11, 12), co-producer (tracks: 3, 7, 13)
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart – producer (tracks: 1, 4, 11, 12), co-producer (tracks: 3, 7, 13)
Donald Parks – producer (track 2)
Emanuel Officer – producer (track 2)
John Howcott – producer (track 2)
Jon Nettlesbey – producer (track 5)
Terry Coffey – producer (track 5)
Bryan Loren – producer & mixing (tracks: 6, 14), re-mixing (track 14)
Brandon Barnes – producer (track 8)
Christopher M. Wood – recording (tracks: 1, 4, 7-13)
NHP Sound, Inc. – recording & mixing (track 2)
Michael Girgis – recording (track 3)
Michael Wells – recording (track 5)
John Schmit – recording assistant (track 5)
Manny Marroquin – recording assistant (track 5)
Bryan Carrigan – engineering (tracks: 6, 14)
Kevin Davis – mixing (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 11-13)
Alan Meyerson – mixing (track 5)
David Koenig – mixing (tracks: 8-10)
Rob Groome – mixing assistant (track 1)
John "Bernasky" Wall – mixing assistant (track 2)
Richard Huredia – mixing assistant (tracks: 3, 7-10, 12, 13)
Gabriel Sutter – mixing assistant (track 5)
Scott Blockland – re-mixing assistant (track 14)
Louil Silas Jr. – executive producer
Ronald R. Gillyard – executive producer
Charts
References
External links
1994 albums
Damion Hall albums
Silas Records albums
Albums produced by Brian McKnight
Albums produced by Tricky Stewart
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Slovakia has an enormous reservoir of folk music. The people of Slovakia tend to designate themselves as the "singing nation". Many musicological studies evidence that Slovak folk music is indigenous and has ancient origins, even in respect to neighbouring ethnic groups. Scientific designations defining Slovak folk music came from the late 19th century onward and set the foundations for Slovakia's modern history of musicological research. Slovakia's musicological research has its roots in Slovakia's national Renaissance from the 19th century, when many leading Slovakian personalities were beginning to devote themselves to studying folk traditions.
Composers such as Ján Levoslav Bella began to include Slovak folk music in their compositions, and Slovak music was collected and used by composers such as Béla Bartók, Ján Cikker and Eugen Suchoň.
In November 2005 the fujara (Slovak shepherds' pipe) and its music were named Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
See also
Music of Slovakia
Slovak popular music
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
Samples
"Ej lúčka, lúčka široká" Slovak song from the Library of Congress' Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections; performed by Lillian Jakubcin and Emily Mertán on July 31, 1939, in Slavia, Florida
Muzička - a band playing authentic Slovak folk music.
Folk
Folk music by country
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Flight Lieutenant James Anderson Slater (27 November 1896 – 26 November 1925) was a British First World War flying ace, credited with 24 aerial victories. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an instructor after the war until killed in a flying accident.
World War I service
Slater was born in Worthing, West Sussex on 29 November 1896. He was studying at a Seminary in August 1914 when the First World War broke out, with Slater quickly enlisting in the British Army's Royal Sussex Regiment as a private. He was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 29 September, briefly serving with the Royal Irish Rifles (where his father served with the rank of Major) before re-joining the Sussexes. In 1915 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and served in France with No. 18 Squadron RFC as an observer on the squadron's Vickers FB.5s from November 1915 to March 1916. He then trained as a pilot, and on 30 June 1916 was appointed a flying officer.
Slater was posted to No. 1 Squadron RFC in August 1916, to fly the Nieuport 17 single-seat fighter, and gained his first two aerial victories in February and March 1917. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1917. In May he returned to England to serve as an instructor until 27 July 1917, when he was appointed a flight commander with the acting-rank of captain in the newly formed No. 64 Squadron RFC. The squadron was based at Sedgeford, Norfolk, where Slater was reported to have "beat up Hunstanton at 8 a.m. on Sunday mornings, buzzing his girlfriend's house at chimney pot height", and to have been in the habit of flying his aircraft through the aerodrome's hangars.
Slater's squadron moved to France in October 1917, where on 30 November he shot down the squadron's first enemy aircraft, flying an Airco DH.5 fighter. On 4 February 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross, for several successful ground attack missions. His citation read:
Temporary Second Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) James Anderson Slater, General List and RFC.
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When returning from a patrol he attacked enemy infantry, silenced a field gun and fired on transport. On another occasion he silenced a battery in very difficult weather conditions, fired on ammunition wagons and enemy infantry, and brought back his patrol safely. He also led a patrol of twelve machines in very bad weather to attack a wood held by the enemy. His patrol dropped over thirty bombs, fired 3,000 rounds and drove the enemy from the wood with heavy casualties. In the course of this flight six enemy scouts were engaged and driven off. Later, he led a similar patrol with great success. He showed splendid courage and determination."
The squadron was then re-equipped with the S.E.5a fighter, in which Slater achieved the majority of his victories, being credited with 20 enemy aircraft shot down between 8 March and 31 May 1918.
Slater received a bar to his Military Cross, gazetted on 21 June 1918. His citation read:
Temporary Captain James Anderson Slater, MC, General List and RFC.
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On one occasion during the recent, operations he attacked a large formation of hostile scouts, one of which he drove down in flames. Later, during the same flight, he took part in a general engagement, in which he drove down another enemy machine completely out of control. Two days later he attacked two enemy scouts, causing one of them to crash to earth. In eighteen days he has engaged in twenty-five combats at close quarters, shooting down eight hostile machines. His great gallantry and fine offensive spirit have inspired all ranks to a very high degree."
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 28 June 1918 "in recognition of acts of gallantry and distinguished service". His citation read:
Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) James Anderson Slater, MC.
"This officer has led numerous offensive patrols with the utmost skill and determination, and it is entirely due to his fine leadership that many enemy aircraft have been destroyed with the minimum of casualties to his formation."
Slater returned to the Home Establishment in England in July 1918, to serve as an instructor until the end of the war. His final tally consisted of eleven enemy aircraft destroyed (one shared), and nine driven down "out of control" (three shared).
List of aerial victories
Post-war career
On 1 August 1919 Slater was granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of flight lieutenant. He served as an instructor at No. 5 Flying Training School (Inland Area) at RAF Shotwick until transferred to No. 4 Flying Training School (Middle East Area) at Abu Sueir, Egypt, on 8 March 1922, finally returning to Home Establishment on 18 October 1924, and being posted to the RAF Depot (Non-effective Pool).
On 1 April 1925 Slater was posted to No. 3 Squadron, based at RAF Upavon, home of the Central Flying School. On 26 November 1925 Slater and Pilot Officer W. J. R. Early were killed in a flying accident, when their dual control Sopwith Snipe trainer crashed at nearby Pewsey, soon after take-off. Both men are buried in the churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Upavon.
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The Bristol Troubadour Club was a short lived but influentialclub in the thriving contemporary folk music scene in Bristol in the late 1960s and early 1970s, It was located in Clifton village, the student quarter above the city centre. The club was considered by some as the liveliest and most creative outside London.
The club hosted some of the premier folk artists of the day including Al Jones, Fred Wedlock, Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, Ian Anderson, Mike Cooper, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, The Incredible String Band and Roy Harper. Al Stewart had a residency there, and mentions the club in his song "Clifton in the Rain".
History
The Troubadour was opened in Waterloo Street, Clifton, by a returning Australian emigree, Ray Willmott, on Friday 7 October 1966. The first act to play there was Anderson Jones Jackson (Ian Anderson, Al Jones and Elliott Jackson). Other regular performers included the Guyanese calypso singer Norman Beaton and the actor Chris Langham who performed as "Wizz" Langham (inspired, no doubt, by Wizz Jones). From 1967, the "Folk Blues Bristol and West" club, founded by Ian Anderson, met on the first Sunday of each month at the Troubadour but became so popular that it had to move to larger premises, firstly at The Old Duke in King Street and, later, to the Full Moon on Stokes Croft.
In 1967, Stewart mentioned the club in his track "Clifton in the Rain" from his first album "Bed Sitter Images":
And all along the way
Wanderers in overcoats with
Collars on parade
And steaming in the night
The listeners in the Troubadour
Guitar player weaves a willow strain
I took my love to Clifton in the rain
In 1971, the venue closed following the purchase of the premises by a Peter Bush, just after it advertised that it had gained a drinks licence (having been alcohol-free from its inception). Dave Berry wrote in Pre-View magazine that "the loss of the Troubadour can't just be assessed in terms of the weekly entertainment it provided. Above all, the club was a social centre - and an inspiration and springboard for countless young artists".
The club is held in such great affection by its former members and musicians that three Troubadour reunions have been held since 2000. The first took place at the QEH Theatre in Clifton on 9 November 2002 and featured many of the original artists. A double CD, Waterloo Street Revisited was issued the following year of recordings of the artists' performances. Because of its success, a similar concert was held on 6 March 2004 at the Redgrave Theatre, Clifton. The third reunion took place at St. George's Hall in Bristol on 8 October 2016, which marked the 50th anniversary of the club, which opened on 7 October, 1966. The following day, at midday, a blue plaque was unveiled in Waterloo Street commemorating both the club and the fact that the name Clifton Village was first used on publicity materials for the club.
Bibliography
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Folk music venues
Clubs and societies in based in Bristol
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Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday is a graphic novel from Gestalt Publishing written by Alex Cox and illustrated by Christopher Bones and Justin Randall. It is a sequel to the 1984 cult film Repo Man.
Publication history
The sequel to Repo Man was planned as far back as 1997 and filming started but was never completed. The making of it is featured in the documentary A Texas Tale of Treason. Cox afterward made another semi-sequel called Repo Chick but the original sequel remained as a script on Cox's website. Christopher Bones stumbled across it while working on another project and contacted Cox about adapting it, which Cox agreed to.
Plot
Otto, now using the name Waldo, has returned to Earth from Mars after ten years. Now nearly 30, he adjusts to life in mid-1990s, and gets a boring job as a telemarketer. When Waldo receives a call offering a free Hawaiian vacation, he makes taking the trip his goal, but his efforts are repeatedly thwarted by bureaucracy. It is eventually revealed that these difficulties are intentional, and that Los Angeles is actually an experimental self-maintaining prison constructed by Martians to contain humans. Waldo returns to his job and never goes on vacation.
Notes
References
External links
First Look: Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, Entertainment Weekly
2008 graphic novels
2008 comics debuts
2008 comics endings
American graphic novels
Comics based on films
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Hang Seng China Enterprises Index is a stock market index of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong for H share, red chip, and P chip.
H share is a class of ordinary share of the mainland China incorporated company that only traded outside the mainland China; all of these companies were majority owned by the central or regional Chinese government. In contrast, civilian-run enterprises of the mainland China listed their companies in Hong Kong using "foreign"-incorporated holding companies as P chip (either Bermuda, the Cayman Islands or Hong Kong); those using the same method but majority owned by the central or regional Chinese government, was known as red chip; red chip had their own separated index.
In August 2017, it was announced that the index would be reformed, which P chip and red chip would be added to the index in March 2018.
Some of the constituents of Hang Seng China Enterprises Index was also the constituents of Hang Seng Index.
Constituents
As of August 2022 there are 50 constituent stocks.
See also
Hang Seng Index - blue chip index of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index - index for Red chip of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
References
External links
Official website
Hang Seng Bank stock market indices
Hong Kong stock market indices
H shares
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SICOM Televisión (virtual channel 16) is the statewide public television network of the Mexican state of Puebla, with transmitters in Puebla City and Zacatlán. It is part of the (State Telecommunications System), which also provides public radio service in the state. Covering a little over 40% of the state (by population), it offers educational, cultural and alternative programming, much of which is locally generated content intended to address the needs, expectations and lives of Pueblan society.
The network has transmitters in Puebla City and Zacatlán.
History
XHPUE-TV channel 26 received its permit in 2003, preceded by four years by the Zacatlán transmitter, originally permitted in 1999 as XHPZL-TV on channel 4. The original five-year permit for the Zacatlán transmitter expired in 2004, but XHPBZC-TDT 11 was not authorized as its replacement until 2017.
XHPUE was licensed for digital and analog transmissions on the same channel 26 in 2014; this made it one of the first two stations with such intermittent authorization, alongside XHMNL-TV in Monterrey. After several tests, it flash-cut to digital in March 2015.
On August 18, 2021, due to the impending expiration of the XHPUE-TDT concession at the end of the year, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) authorized the modification of XHPBZC-TDT's statutory coverage area to include the entire state of Puebla, conditioned on the surrender of the Puebla City concession, which took effect December 3, 2021. At the same time, the recently renamed SET Televisión began using virtual channel 16.
In 2023, the original SICOM name was restored after a state government study found that eight out of ten residents surveyed across 21 municipalities continued to call the state network SICOM despite being out of use for twelve years.
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Television channels and stations established in 2003
Mass media in Puebla (city)
2003 establishments in Mexico
Television stations in Puebla
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The Faroe Islands, a self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark, is not part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties.
The relations of the Faroe Islands with the EU are governed by the accession treaty of Denmark to the EU, a Fisheries Agreement (1977) and a Free Trade Agreement (1991, revised 1998). The main reason for remaining outside the EU is disagreements about the Common Fisheries Policy.
EU relations
As explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties, the Faroe Islands are not part of the European Union. This means that free movement of goods, people, capital and services within the EU and other directives do not apply for the Faroe Islands. Denmark has the right to unilaterally include the Faroe Islands into EU.
A protocol to the treaty of accession of Denmark to the European Communities stipulates that Danish nationals residing in the Faroe Islands are not to be considered as Danish nationals within the meaning of the treaties (unless Faroe Islands joins the EU). Hence, Danish people living in the Faroes are not citizens of the European Union (other EU nationals living there remain EU citizens).
The Faroe Islands are not part of the Schengen Area. However, persons travelling between the Faroe Islands and the Schengen Area are not subject to border controls, although there may be identity checks when checking in for flights.
People needing a visa to Denmark will need a separate visa for the Faroe Islands, as for people with residence permits.
Charges for international services such as phone roaming and bank transfers are much higher than inside the EU.
The relations between EU and Faroe Islands were strained by the 2013 embargo, and remain tense even following the lifting of the embargo.
EU boycott against the Faroe Islands
In July 2013 the EU imposed sanctions on the Faroe Islands due to a dispute over the fishing quota of herring and mackerel. The boycott, which started on 28 August 2013, banned Faroese vessels carrying herring or mackerel from all EU ports, including Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The Faroe Islands could no longer export herring or mackerel to EU countries. The boycott was lifted on 20 August 2014 after a breakthrough in negotiations which saw the Faroese share of the total mackerel quota jump from 4.62% to 12.6%.
Euro adoption
The Faroe Islands utilize a special version of the Danish krone notes that have been printed with text in the Faroese language. It is not a separate currency and can be exchanged 1:1 with the Danish version. Monetary policy is controlled by the Danish Central Bank. If Denmark does adopt the euro, separate referendums would be required in the Faroe Islands and Greenland to decide whether they should follow suit. Both territories have voted not to be a part of the EU in the past, and their populations will not participate in the Danish euro referendum. On 5 November 2009 the Faroese Parliament approved a proposal to investigate the possibility for euro adoption, including an evaluation of the legal and economic impact of adopting the euro ahead of Denmark.
EU membership
There are politicians, mainly in the right-wing Union Party (Sambandsflokkurin), led by their chairman Kaj Leo Johannesen, who would like to see the Faroes as a member of the EU. However, the chairman of the left-wing Republic (Tjóðveldi), Høgni Hoydal, has expressed concerns that if the Faroes were to join the EU as is, they might vanish inside the EU, comparing this to the situation of Åland today, and wants the local government to solve the political situation between the Faroes and Denmark first.
A major concern is also fishing, which accounts for 90 percent of Faroese exports. As such a large part of their economy, the islands do not want decisions on it being made so far away as they would have so little say in the EU due to their small population. As an EU member, according to the Common Fisheries Policy they would have to give away large fish quotas in their own waters to other EU countries.
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Third-country relations of the European Union
Foreign relations of the Faroe Islands
Denmark and the European Union
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Count Frigyes Szapáry de Szapár, Muraszombat et Széchy-Sziget (15 November 1869 – 18 March 1935), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin serving as ambassador at St. Petersburg at the outbreak of World War I and who played a key role during the July Crisis of 1914.
Life
Born in Budapest on 15 November 1869 into a prominent Hungarian House of Szapáry, as the second son of Count László Szapáry (1831–1883), an Austro-Hungarian general who had played a leading role in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, and his wife, Countess Marianne von Grünne (1835-1906), great-granddaughter of Prince Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg. He was also a cousin of Count Gyula Szapáry, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1890 to 1892.
On 27 April 1908, he married Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz (1878–1918), daughter of Alfred Fürst zu Windisch-Grätz and Princess Marie Gabrielle Eleonore von Auersperg (1855–1933). Her father had been Minister President of Austria from 1893 to 1895 and served as President of the Upper Chamber. The couple had four children of which the daughter, Countess Marianne (1911–1988), was the mother of Princess Michael of Kent.
Following studies in law, Count Szapáry joined the Austro-Hungarian foreign service and began his diplomatic career in 1895 as an attaché in Rome, followed by postings in Berlin in 1899 and Munich in 1903. In 1907, he returned to Vienna to serve in the Foreign Ministry at the Ballhausplatz and made a rapid career. Considered a rising star he was appointed as chef de cabinet to Foreign Minister Count Lexa von Aehrenthal in December 1909, a post that allowed him to exercise considerable influence over policy-making. Considered a protégé of Aehrenthal, he belonged to a group of younger diplomats (together with Count von Hoyos and Count von Forgách) who believed that the Dual Monarchy could only be saved from disintegration by a more aggressive and dynamic foreign policy. During the Balkan crisis, he had favoured armed intervention against Serbia. In April 1912, he was appointed to Second Section Chief, which was equivalent to head of the Political Section, in a period of international turmoil. Described as "gifted, quick, hard-working, and a bit mysterious", Aehrenthal's successor Count Berchtold lauded him as for "his outstanding skill in handling political issues and his judgment which far exceeded the norm".
On 1 October 1913, Count Szapáry was appointed as ambassador at St. Petersburg which was significant in the sense that he was considered a Russophobe and was far less willing to accommodate the Russians than his predecessor had been. However, he did not arrive until early the following year and he presented his credentials to the Tsar first on 14 February 1914. Due to pressing family matters, he had to leave within two weeks and returned to St. Petersburg in mid-April, staying until late May. He returned only in mid-July which meant that the Dual Monarchy lacked its chief diplomat in the Russian capital during the Sarajevo crisis, daily business being conducted by Count Czernin as chargé d'affaires.
Once back to St. Petersburg on 17 July, Count Szapáry came to play a significant role. At a diplomatic reception on 21 July, he had a sharp exchange with the visiting French President Poincaré and he held several meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov over the following days. However, as war proved inevitable it eventually fell upon him to deliver the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Russia on 6 August, whereupon he left St. Petersburg.
In 1915, he became a member of the Upper House (Herrenhaus), but played no further major role during the war. He was the maternal grandfather of Princess Michael of Kent.
Count Szapáry died in Vienna on 18 March 1935.
Notes
Works
'Das Verhältnis österreich-Ungarns zu Russland' in Eduard Ritter von Steinitz (ed.), Rings um Sasonow, Berlin, Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1928.
'Aus den Krisenjahren 1908 bis 1913', in Eduard Ritter von Steinitz (ed.), Erinnerungen an Franz Joseph I, Berlin, Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1931.
References
External links
[www.oocities.org/veldes1/szecsen.html 'Friedrich Graf Szápáry von Muraszombat, Szechysziget, und Szápár', Solving Problems Through Force]
'Szapáry Frigyes, gróf', Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
1869 births
1935 deaths
Austro-Hungarian diplomats of World War I
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Austrian diplomats
Hungarian diplomats
Hungarian nobility
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Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Ambassadors of Austria-Hungary to Russia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigyes%20Szap%C3%A1ry
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